Straw Hat Naruto

by SmoK1ngP4pers

3 long peaceful years has passed since the Fourth Great Shinobi war and since Sasuke returned back to the village. After a heartbreaking conversation with Sakura, Naruto acted rashly on a mission costing him being sent to another universe. Waking up on the Straw Hat ship, what adventures awaits Naruto and can someone in this universe fix his broken heart? NarutoxNami? ZoroxRobin

17. Angels and Demons

AN/ Firstly, I apologise that this chapter took so long to be released, exams and uni got in the way. As a treat, this chapter is twice as long as most of my chapters so I hope you enjoy. If you think its too long then don't worry, it's only a one time thing. Secondly, as a disclaimer, I do not own the songs from The Egoist and all rights goes to the band.

"Kira! What are you doing breaking into someone's house?! Vice Admiral Kizaru ordered for all Marine personnel to return to the ships!"

"Oh would you relax, Andou! I'm celebrating here! We just saved this town from hundreds of vicious pirates, the least these towns folk can do is give me another drink."

"Another drink?! Don't you think you've had enough?"

"Psshh! Please."

"You have a serious problem dude. Is stealing booze from someone's home absolutely necessary?"

"I wouldn't be doing this if that damn bartender didn't cut me off. Besides, this place looks empty anyways, no one's going to find out so just shut up and help me find the good stuff."

xxx

"Sshhh, burglars have broken into the house. Serena, stay here with Angel-chan, I'll take care of this."

"O-okay, please be careful honey."

"Daddy, no, please don't go! Let's just hide here where we're all safe."

"I can't baby, if these burglars are pirates then none of us are safe. Be a good girl and stay here with mommy, I promise I'll be back as soon as I can."

Xxx

"Nope, not here, it's so dark in here, where the hell do they keep all their alcohol?!"

"Can we hurry up, I'm getting a bad feeling about this place."

"What, are you scared, Andou? Scared of being in a dark empty hous- What was that?! Who's there?!"

"Someone's here, it's probably the residents, we need to go!"

"Ahhhh! Get out of here you dirty pirates!"

[Gun shot]

Xxx

"Oh no! Angel honey, stay here okay don't move, don't leave this room. I'm going to see if your father's alright."

xxx

"Kira! What the fuck! He thought we were pirates, why did you shot him?!"

"It's dark, he came running at us with a bat, and I don't know! I panicked!"

"Shit! He's looking pretty bad, let's get out of here before anyone sees us!"

"Dan? No! No! Dan! You're going to be okay honey, we're going to get you help right away! Marines? You two are Marines?! Why did you hurt him! He was innocent!"

"It's too late, she seen us. Do you have any idea what would happen if she talked about what we done."

"We?! Kira, this was all you!"

"It doesn't matter who killed who! You were here too so you'll partially responsible for what happened!"

"What are you trying to say?"

[Gun shot]

"Y-yo-you shot her, wh-why did you do that?"

"We can't afford to leave any witnesses behind, believe me Andou, I did you and I a favour. Now let's get out of here."

"Mommy… daddy…"

A breath taking gasp launched a sleeping Angel to sit up on the bed. Small beads of sweat tickled down her skin while her breath was heavily fatigued.

Another body lying beside her begun to fidget and regain consciousness. Nami recognised the shock and awe written all over Angel's face and worryingly sat up and placed her hands on the red hairs shoulders.

"Angel, are you okay? What's wrong?"

"It-it's nothing, just a nightmare."

"Nightmare? About what?" Nami squeezed her shoulder reassuringly.

"I, I don't know, I can't remember."

Main Deck

After receiving her fill from breakfast, Angel relocated the wooden railings on the side of the ship. It was her usual morning spot to watch Naruto far away from the ship to train on his new jutsu. She found his determination and the grunting of his shadow clones somehow relaxing and peaceful. It's something that she needed especially with today's abrupt awakening.

Angel had decided to forget about her nightmare instead of uselessly dwelling about it. As an alternative, she happily thought about her short time spent with the Straw Hat pirates.

Nearly three weeks has passed since she decided to take a ride with them to the next island and in all honesty, she loved every second of the experience.

A marine ship here, a pirate ship there, freak weather storms, even a coup de burst kept things a little lively around the ship. Every hurdle they faced, they survived because they were together.

This ship has everything Angel ever wanted, trust, companionship, and friends. Then why can't she shake this tiny frown on her brow. Why can't she feel completely content?

Her moment of thought was ended by an explosion a good distance away.

It was another one of Naruto's shadow clones failing on his new jutsu.

'He's been working on this jutsu for weeks and still no signs of progress. Don't give up Naruto, I know you can do it.'

An hour later.

"Okay, you go first."

Luffy hummed in deep thought. "My nakamas."

"That was an easy one." Naruto smiled. "It's my turn now so I would say… Kurama."

"Sanji's food." Luffy replied.

"Ninjutsu." Naruto added.

"What are you two talking about?" Nami questioned the two males laying on grass and staring at the clear blue sky. The navigator took a seat on the swing nearby.

"Are you playing a game?" Angel asked as she joined the two males on the floor.

With his fingers locked behind the back of his head, Naruto answered, "Yup, we're bored so we made up a game. We take turns to make a list of all the things we can't live without."

"And you can't say an answer the other player has already said." The captain included.

"Sounds like fun?" Angel replied with energy.

Naruto tilted his head back and looked up to see the top of Angel's head. "Okay, what about you Angel, what can you not live without?"

The red head pinched her chin and hummed. "Adventures, definitely."

"Ohh! That was going to be my next answer!" Luffy whined with a pout.

"Nami? What about you?" Naruto asked softly.

"That's easy, my maps of course!" She smiled widely.

"Of course-" The blond replied. "For me, it's got to be ramen, there's no way I can live without ramen."

"Meat!" Luffy exploded and punched the air. "There's always got to be meat!"

"The taste of Ichiraku's miso pork ramen with extra pork."

"The smell of newly cooked meat."

"Instant ramen."

"Chewing meat."

"Seven bowls of ramen."

"Meat."

"YOU TWO ARE JUST NAMING FOOD!" Nami screamed and delivered a fist to their heads.

"Oh, I think I get how this game works now." Angel spoke as Naruto and Luffy rubbed the comical sized lumps on their heads.

"Cute girls, a cute girl's smile, a cute girl's laugh, a cute girl's legs…"

Nami dropped her head and sighed in defeat. "Angel, not you too."

Another hour later

'I need to be careful with my next move. I don't have many pieces left and she still has most of hers.'

Angel pinched her last knight piece and nervously lifted it off the chess board. She took an anxious glance at Robin who held an innocent smirk.

Angel scoffed at the archaeologist's confidence.

She hovered the knight to an appropriate place but failed to place it down. In the end, she returned the piece to its original spot and paused to think once again.

Robin giggled at her indecisiveness. "Take your time, there's no need to rush in chess."

Angel fumed in frustration. "I know, I get it! Just let me think."

The red head burned her gaze on to the chess table until she made up her mind. She eventually relocated her last rook with confidence.

"Phew, I thought you had me there for a sec-"

"Checkmate."

Robins newly placed bishop did indeed made it check mate.

"Ahhh! How do you keep doing that?!" Angel quickly rose to her feet and marched away like the sore loser she is.

The older women giggled once again at her opponent's childlike behaviour.

Before she left, Angel faced Robin one last time with squinted eyes. "I know you cheated somehow Robin-chan. I don't know how but I'm going to find out. So watch out-"She pointed to her eyes then at Robins. "Because I'm watching you."

As Angel marched away, Robin spotted Zoro sleeping in his usual spot. He had his legs crossed and arms behind his head that acted as pillows.

The mere sight forced a warm smile on her lips. 'I can't believe I haven't noticed it before but he looks rather adorable when he sleeps.'

Two hours later

Hugging Chopper like teddy bear and with Nami by her side, Angel pushed past the kitchen doors to find Naruto, Luffy and Usopp talking and eating around the dining table. In one hand, the boys carried chopsticks for their bowls of ramen, the other held on to the bone of a large piece of meat.

"Did that game we played earlier built up your appetites or something?" Angel asked with a giggle as they approached the boys.

"No? It's just lunch time." Luffy murmured mid-chew.

Angel placed Chopper on a seat as she sat next to Usopp while Nami sat next to Naruto.

"Meat and Ramen-" Nami said and leaned closer. "Who came up with this great idea?" She asked sarcastically.

"Hey, it's actually not that bad." Naruto smiled and playfully nudged her shoulder with his.

"Here, have some." He placed the meat near her lips.

An instant shade of red filled Nami's cheeks. "O-okay." Her stomach fluttered wildly but she mentally cursed herself for stuttering.

She leaned forward and attempted to take a bite, however Naruto had cheekier ideas. He swayed the piece of meat at the last second to make her miss. Frowning, she leaned in again but he kept on swaying again and again until Nami's frustration made her face the blond.

"That's getting old you know."

Naruto chuckled with a big grin. "Really? I thought it was fun?"

"Well I don't, I'm actually a little hungry here so give me some already!" Nami whined like a kid and reached for Naruto's hand holding the meat but like before, Naruto denied her by continuously moving his hand to evade her grip.

"You're going to have to work for it if you really want it." He teased playfully.

The navigators and former shinobi's little flirty play fight had incredibly ceased Luffy's chewing. The rubber man silently watched his energetic nakamas in great joy. Most importantly however, the captain couldn't have been any happier for Naruto.

Seeing him so comfortable around Nami, so playful and happy only reassured him that one day soon, his friend's broken heart will be mended, he will move on and learn to reopen his heart to love another. And deep down Luffy knows he wants it to be Nami.

She may be his secret ex and he may no longer have intimate feelings towards her but Luffy does care who Nami ends up with in the future.

Naruto would treat her right and protect her with his life if need be, Luffy knows that well. He also believes that it'll be difficult for Nami to find a guy as good or compatible as the jinjuriki.

"Come on, Naruto give it!"

"What? I'm not doing anything, it's right here see?"

But despite Naruto and Nami's closeness, Luffy, like the rest guys are on the ship wouldn't even begin to think that they liked each other romantically because on the outside, they look like couple of regular friends. They talk together, eat together and laugh together like any normal nakamas would, nothing looked out of the ordinary at face value. That and Luffy's well aware of Naruto's complicated feelings towards his old teammate, Sakura.

It's no secret that the guys aren't the most intuitive group when it comes to romance. The males just lacks the ability to spot the subtle signs of mutual attraction that any girl could identify in a heartbeat.

On the other side of the table, Angel was also taking pleasure from watching her friends little play fight.

The smirk on her lips was soon replaced with a yawn, she slowly stood from her seat and said, "I hate to have to interrupt your little flirting session, but I think it's time for my nap. Wake me up when dinners ready 'kay?" She threw the peace sign with a wink.

Nami's blush deepened but she continued fight for her food. "No one's flirting here, Angel. Naruto is just being an idiot!"

Sometime later.

Slowly waking from her slumber, Angel wiped a little excess salvia drooping from the side of her mouth with the back of her hand as she gradually regained full consciousness. The first thing she noticed was the girl's room was illuminated by the light orange rays of the sun.

'What time is it? Did I sleep till morning?'

Without thinking about it, the beautiful red head left Nami's bed with a long yawn. She scrunched her hair to fix her bed head look, scratched an itch on her ass then removed the small weggie caused by her white, skin tight, flower patterned panties. She then re-strapped one of her loose, matching bra straps on her shoulder before heading to the kitchen. Since it was early in the morning she expected everyone to be asleep.

Opening the kitchen doors, Angel was greeted with a pleasant surprise. The whole crew were half way through a meal.

"Oh? Morning everyone! You guys are up surprisingly early huh. So what's for breakfast?" Angel smiled energetically.

No one could respond.

All eyes landed on the near naked girl with full, curvy breast and perfect figure causing a wide range of reactions.

Luffy and Usopp choked on their food from the shock, Robin giggled with a hand covering her mouth, Chopper was completely normal and wondered why everyone's making a fuss, Naruto, Zoro, Franky and Nami developed a fraction of a blush but completely speechless nonetheless and finally, Sanji and Brook screamed like idiots and exploded with love hearts and nose bleeds.

Oblivious to her friend's reactions, Angel made a move towards a free seat in-between Nami and Robin. "I can't believe I slept till morning, why didn't you guys wake me up a dinner like I asked?"

Robin was the only one cognitively prepared to speak. "Angel-san, I believe there seems to be a misunderstanding. It's not actually morning, this is dinner." The archaeologist giggled. "We tried waking you up earlier but you seem to be an incredibly heavy sleeper."

All the males couldn't take her eyes off Angel in disbelieve as she pulled her chair back to sit.

"Oh? That's a relief, I thought I slept throughout the whole day!"

Finally overcoming the shock, Nami addressed her friend before she could sit. "Um, Angel, w-why are you wearing that?" She asked gingerly and carefully.

The girl looked down to view her current attire. "You mean this? It's cute right?" She cupped her boobs, lifted them up, released her hold and let them bounce freely causing Sanji and Brook to squeal in excitement and fly of their chairs from a burst of nose bleeds.

"You can burrow it if you like Nami-chan, our boobs are the same size right? Remember when me you and Robin were comparing them the other day?"

The remaining females in the room flustered instantly. The male population couldn't be more speechless if they tried.

Reaching levels of embarrassment she never thought possible, Nami shot from her seat, grabbed Angel by the wrist and dragged her near naked body towards their room. "You didn't need to say that out loud, idiot!" She sighed heavily. "Come on let's get you dressed."

"Huh? But why? Nami-chan I'm hungry!"

The Next Morning. 8:47am

Panting, beaten and painted with minor flesh wounds with his hands on knees, Naruto straightened up and addressed his new partner clone in the midst of his hundreds of clones. "Nearly two hours we've been out here… and still nothing." He took one big breath straighten his breathing.

"Don't you mean two weeks? It's been two weeks since we've tried completing this jutsu but we've made close to zero progress." Said his frustrated clone. "I think we might have to think realistically here, maybe combining the Rasengan and Raikiri is just impossible?"

Just as the original was about to reply, multiple explosions in the far of distance caused all eyes to follow the general direction the commotion.

"See what I mean?" The clone questioned.

Naruto shrugged to stretch his shoulders and prepared his right hand. "No, I don't accept that, I can't accept that! We will master this jutsu one way or another!" He form a single Rasengan in quick session.

Fired up by his creator's determination, the clone smirked and charged his hand with black lightning. "You're right, what was I thinking? Let's do this!"

Prepared with both jutsu, Naruto and his partner exchanged a firm nod before the clone took a step closer. Slowly, and cautiously, he hovered his Raikiri hand above Naruto's rasengan.

"You ready?" The original asked, preparing himself for the usual, expected outcome.

The clone gulped involuntarily. "Sure, why not."

Sparks of black lightning immediately began to fly like a small firework at initial contact of the two techniques. The process was gruesome and beyond frustrating, both Narutos had to continuously force the two jutsu together since contact only causes them to clash and repel one another.

"Come on! Just a little more!" The original struggled.

"We got this!"

Both clone and Naruto applied as much pressure as they could with a throaty groan.

But then it snapped.

The barrier between both jutsu broke due to too much force.

An instant explosion disintegrated Naruto's partner clone and the small group of clones in the immediate area. The original was sent flying and bouncing in the ocean surface hundreds of meters from the epicentre, taking out several of his own shadow clones on the way.

Finding his equilibrium mid-flight, Naruto back flipped into position and applied chakra to his feet to skid on the liquid floor.

His clothes were shredded even more than before, his breath was fatigued once again from the constant mass shadow clones, Rasengans, Raikiris and explosions. But worst of all, his right arm had took significant damage and was badly beaten. The limb shook in the wind like a dead autumn leaf.

However, Naruto was far too focused at the task to even mentally process the condition that his body was in. The hunger to master this jutsu had consumed him.

He took a moment to observe his hundreds of clones failing at the process. Explosions after explosions, the sight of it all had his teeth grinding.

'Damn it! This is how I mastered the Rasenshuriken so what am I doing wrong now?! It's almost like I'm going backwards or something-'

An eye opening idea forced a small gasp through Naruto's lips.

"Backwards! That's it!"

An Hour Later

Humming the rhythm of a slow, gentle, peaceful song behind the constant rain of her shower tempo, Nami reached behind her back and pulled on a single thread to slide out of her bra.

She casually let the piece of clothing slip down her arm and hit them floor before unbuttoning her jeans and tugged on her zipper.

Steam begun to wrap around the orange haired beauty as she gripped the helm of her jeans and underwear. She wiggled her hips a couple times before bending forward and gradually drag her remaining cover down in lip biting fashion to expose her perfectly shaped legs.

Stripped naked and still humming her song, Nami took a step towards her artificial rain cloud. However, without warning, the entire ship just rocked ferociously from side to side. It felt as if the ship was struck by several huge waves. Stumbling, the Cat Burglar had leaned on the nearest wall to prevent herself from falling.

It took a few moments before the ship stopped its swaying and returned to normal.

"What was the heck was that? I didn't sense anything strange outside?" She questioned sceptically.

"Was it Naruto? No, it can't be, he's too far away from the ship to cause it move like that?"

Since the dilemma was only momentarily and the ship seemed to be fine, Nami elected to ignore the bizarre occurrence for now and focus on her shower.

She took another step towards her shower tempo but was interrupted again by a small electric shock on her arm.

She winched from the pain and massaged her shocked arm. "Static electricity… in here? Maybe I should talk to Franky to see what's wrong in here after I'm done?"

15 minutes later

"Can you stop your idiotic grinning already? It's somehow getting on my nerves."

Naruto kept his cheeky grin, he didn't want to stop. Well, he couldn't stop, even with his scratched up, beaten body and shredded clothes.

'Kurama, buddy, what I think you're supposed to say is well done and congratulations?' He teased as he climbed up the ladder towards the bathhouse with a towel over his shoulder.

Kurama rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah congratulations. Don't let it get to your head too much, you've still got a long way to go."

With his sense of accomplishment and his ear to ear grin still intact, Naruto stood on the landing of the bathhouse.

'I know that Kurama but just this one time, can't we just celebrate?'

His sense of overwhelming joy and his conversation with the spirit inside him made Naruto completely oblivious to the outside world. Doing so forced him to fail to hear the sound of rain, the sound of someone's voice or notice that the bathroom door was already slightly open.

As soon as Naruto pushed the door further, he came to an immediate stop. It was as if all his senses returned in one fell swoop and he quickly realised the graveness of his situation.

However, knowing well of the consequences of being caught, Naruto couldn't find the will to move his legs.

Right there, right before his eyes, Nami, soaking wet from head to toe in her most natural and most beautiful form. The sight was absolutely mesmerising. Her small hands running through the top of her sopping orange hair that reach below her lower back, her creamy, flawless skin looked even more softer than usual and her fine, petite legs never looked more inviting.

But, much to his disappointment, patches of steam covered everything he wanted to see the most.

Still, Naruto had to gulp as he traced the water droplets running from her angelic face, down to her neck, her smooth, defined belly and long legs.

His eyes refocused on her gorgeous face once again as his ears detected something else beyond the sound of rain on marble.

"Hanasanaide gyutto"

~Please say you won't let go of me-~

"Sou omoikkiri"

~And tightly hold me so-~

'Nami can sing? Wow… her voice is amazing.'

"Anata no ude no naka ni itai"

~I want to be in your arms-~

"Futari De Odeko o awasenagara"

~Together, with our foreheads touching-~

"Nemuru no"

~We'll fall asleep.~

As he stood there, awe-struck by the beauty of her body and voice, in that little moment, Naruto was completely and utterly hypnotised by the girl.

His body was rendered useless, he couldn't move a muscle even if he tried. It was as if his sole purpose in life was to now watch this beautiful navigator and listen to her wonderful singing.

"Watashi wo okorasete saigo ni nakasunda"

~You made me cry so many times but that never did change~

"Dakedo ato ni natte"

~But looking back I'm glad I cried even though it still hurts~

"Gomen ne tte iu"

~Because when you apologised~

"Sono kao suki dat-"

~You'll make the sweetest face, and you'll pull me into your embrac-~

The beautiful singing came to an abrupt ending. Naruto twitched and snapped out from his captivated state.

Nami peek an eye to see her stunned visitor at the doorway. "Oh? I didn't think you were that kind of guy to watch a defenceless young lady take a shower, Naruto."

The blood boiling anger in her voice caused shivers down the blonde's spine as he twitched into attention.

"N-n-n-n- Nami! I-I- I wasn't doing anything I promise! I-I didn't see anything I swear!" He panicked but somehow still can't move his legs.

Fear was the only thing in Naruto's veins. The last time he got caught peeping at Sakura at one of Konoha's hot springs, he was unconscious and hospitalised for a couple of days. And since he can't deny certain resemblances between Nami's and Sakura's personalities, Naruto feared what damage Nami could do in the same situation.

As he shook in his boots, the rain cloud above Nami's head begun to darken and elicit an electrical charge.

"I suggest you start running for it, Kit." Kurama smirked mischievously.

The rain clouds colour and charge was looking less friendly by the second. Nami gritted her teeth as she and her cloud was ready to fire.

"Oh, no." Naruto whispered and nervously made a one handed seal.

"BAKA! GET OUT OF HERE!"

Nami's thunderous attack fired with unbelievable wrath, causing the entire ship to rattle from its power.

Her rain cloud regained its original colour and continued to pour warm droplets of water.

To her surprise and relief, Naruto wasn't faced down on the floor burning his ass off.

"Hmph, seems like he got away."

Nami took a second to remember his spellbound expression as he stared at her naked form. A slight blush and a small smirk blessed her face as she looked down to view her voluptuous assets and shrugged.

"Well, at least he likes what he sees."

Kitchen/Dining room

In a flash of black lightning, Naruto reappeared with a guilty smile and a hand behind his head. "Phew, that was a close one."

"What was close, Naruto-san?" Robin questioned.

Out of interest, Sanji, Luffy, Usopp and Brook all viewed the former Leaf shinobi.

"Aha, um, you see-" Naruto smirked awkwardly. He was unsure whether to tell the truth and look like a pervert or, lie until Nami eventually exposes the truth and be labelled as a lair as well as a pervert.

Since one bad label is better than two, Naruto opted to tell the truth.

"I-ah, kinda accidentally walked in on Nami showering…" He winched and waited for his judgement.

He opened his eyes to see a furious Sanji and Brook inches away from his face.

"YOU WATCHED NAMI-SAN SHOWERING WITHOUT US!?"

As his two angry nakamas screamed at him for his act of betrayal, Naruto noticed that his remaining nakamas were all either laughing or giggling. He smiled warmly and wondered why he even considered he'd be judged by his second family.

"Wait a minute-" Sanji paused to question. "You saw Nami-san in the shower and came out unscathed?"

"Well, yeah?" Naruto dropped a sweat.

Brook and Sanji shared a glance before gawking at the blond.

"YOU GOTTA TELL US HOW YOU DID THAT!?"

Later that evening - Library.

"Robin! Come downstairs we're all about to- hey what's that?" The captain of the Straw Hats asked as he approached the archaeologist sitting on the long green sofa at the back of the room.

With a neat smile on her lips, she flicked to the next page of the big book on her lap.

"It's our photo album, Senchou-san." Robin replied as Luffy took a seat beside her.

"Photo album? I didn't know we had one?"

"You didn't? Then where did you think we kept all the pictures we've taken so far?"

Luffy shrugged his shoulders. "I dunno? I didn't really think about it before?" his plain reply caused the older women to giggle.

A moment of silence passed to allow the two pirates to process the pictures. There was a distinct pattern in the photos that only Robin noticed. It would start by silly pictures taken on the ship when the crew's travelling from one island to another. The next set of images are all of the crew battle worn from their major fights but celebrating with islanders. Then, it's all casual photos of them relaxing and exploring the island before heading back to the ship to move on to the next island.

"Nami was the one to start this photo album, every picture we've ever taken since Alabasta is in this book. But me, I started helping out a little later. With my passion of history, I was actually excited about filling this book with memories." Robin flicked to the next page.

"Mmm, I see." Luffy said lazily as he was too interested in the pictures. "I've never noticed it before but looking at all these pictures, we've all been through a lot together haven't we."

All the wonderful memories she gained since she met Luffy flashed in an instant. "We sure have." She smiled widely.

As Robin moved on to the next page, she froze unexpectedly, though it went unnoticed by Luffy.

It was their pictures taken on Water 7.

Robin's heart held a special place for these photos. Being rescued by her nakama from the World Government, it was the first time since she was a child where she was truly happy, accepted and felt like she belonged somewhere.

That and a certain memory including Zoro and Zoro alone.

Luffy and Robin chatted about their time in Water 7 as the older women flicked through the pages. Soon enough, they reached the pictures from Thriller Bark.

These set of pictures also held great significance to Robin, but the memories of her time in Thriller Bark wasn't stored in her heart, it was somewhere a little further south. Just that mere thought caused the women to smirk. In fact, she couldn't look through these photos without her lips curving to a smile.

Flicking to the next page, Robin noticed something peculiar, something she never noticed before, and for something to go under Robin's nose is incredible enough.

It seems that in a lot of photos, and by no means was it planned or deliberate, Zoro and she are always next to one another. It didn't bother her in any way, in fact she found it quite interesting. But is it just a coincidence or was it a sign from her unconscious of wanting to be by Zoro's side?

One by one these photos have trigger something within Robin. Her new discovery within these pictures is the last straw, she's officially done with thinking and wants to take action to identify her true feelings.

Determined, she handed the photo album to Luffy and stood from her seat. "I'm sorry, Senchou-san. You're going to have to excuse me, there's something I must take care of that's long overdue."

An hour later – Girl's Room

"Come in." Nami voiced with minimal attention and effort.

Naruto, with a face full of guilt and fear, creeped the upper half of his body through the door. "Heeyy, Nami." He said nervously to the back of her orange head.

"Hey?" She replied simply as she worked on her map.

He questioned his hearing as he didn't detect any anger in her voice. He's been purposely ignoring her since their little encounter in the bathhouse to allow Nami to cool off so hopefully he'd avoid an ass kicking.

"I wanted to say sorry about earlier, I wasn't trying to peep on you or anything, it was an accident I swear." He pushed his way through the door frame and into the room.

"You're still worrying about that?" Nami raised her pencil wielding hand and waved. "Don't be, I'll just add it your overall fine to me." She grinned cheekily.

Naruto dropped an awkward sweat drop and chuckled. "Like I have any money." He whispered to himself.

The blond was a little shocked though. This conversation wasn't going the way he thought it would, he actually expected to receive more shouting and punches. But knowing how comfortable and confident Nami is with her body, it shouldn't really surprise him that she's completely over the whole experience.

"I didn't know you can sing?" Naruto asked as he approach the navigators work desk.

Nami laughed sarcastically. "I wouldn't exactly call it singing? Besides, doesn't everyone sing in the shower?"

"I guess? But don't sell yourself short, you've got an amazing voice you know-"Naruto replied, causing Nami to flush and stop her drawing momentarily. "And that song you was singing, it was beautiful." He sat and leaned on the map covered work desk beside her and folded his arms.

Nami casually continued her drawing. "The song is called Departures, by Egoist, they've been my favourite band for as long as I can remember-"

Naruto smiled, thrilled to learn something new about one of his closest friend.

"And if you think my voice is good, you haven't heard anything yet when you hear the bands lead singer, Inori-chan." Nami lined up her pencil to the ruler.

Naruto remained quiet to retreat to his thoughts. He realised that despite how close he and Nami are as friends, there's still a lot of things he doesn't know about her. Nevertheless, he was excited to learn more about his friend as their journey through the New World continues.

He made a quick observation of his environment. "We've been next door neighbours for a while now, I can't believe this is the first time I've been in here."

Nami didn't reply and just made a fraction of a smile, she was far too concentrated on work to reply with words.

The focus written on her facial features peaked Naruto's interest on her work. He's been told by others and by Nami herself about her maps and of her dream to draw the map of the world but he has never seen her work first hand.

Without a second thought, Naruto stood and casually rested one hand on the back of Nami's chair and the other on edge of the work desk.

Instinctively, Nami leaned back and stopped to allow him to view her map in detail.

He's closer now, a lot closer and near to entering Nami's private space. It's not like she disliked it, it was just so sudden. His distinct, sweet but manly smell was now free for her nose to indulge in as the grip on her pencil gradually tightened and the butterflies in her stomach begun flutter.

"Wow, these are good… really good." Naruto complimented as he continued to analyse her work.

"T-thanks." She smiled with flushed cheeks as her eyes begun to wonder.

"I mean it, you have an amazing talent, the quality and the-" Naruto added to the compliments, but his words were now mere echoes to Nami.

Because before she knew it, her gaze was somehow focused on his defined facial features. His eyes, his lips, nose, hair, she didn't mean to stare but she also couldn't stop, just looking at him provided so much warmth and protection. It's almost hard to believe that for someone who always acts so cheerful and who is constantly bursting with life is as strong as he is.

All of a sudden, Nami flinched and released an inaudible gasp. 'Wait a minute, Naruto coming to my room, looking over my maps, this scene feels very familiar?'

Memories of her supremely erotic dream exploded in Nami's like the flash of a cannon.

The words he spoke, his gentle touch on her skin, the way his lips caressed her own as they kissed, every sinful moan she released, every toe curling lick he gave to her womanhood, everything in splendid detail as if it actually happened.

"You're amazing, Nami. I could never do anything like this." Naruto ended his stream of compliments with one of his trademark grins.

That grin however was quickly replaced by a look of questioning as he couldn't tell why her face was as bright as a tomato. She wore a crocked smile but her lips were twitching and she looked overall shocked.

"Uhh, Nami, your face is all red, are you feeling alright? Do you feel like you're getting a fever?" Naruto asked worryingly. He gently placed a hand on her forehead. "It doesn't feel like a fever, want me to get Chopper to look at you?"

Now with an ever deeper blush, Nami quickly scrambled off her seat and headed towards her bed. "N-no, I'm fine, really, you don't need to get Chopper, it's just hot in here that's all." She lied with a questionable giggle as she dropped to her knees and reached for the nightstand between her and Robin's bed.

Nami pulled on the only draw and grabbed a single item.

Before Naruto could even question her strange behaviour or for the fact that it's not actually hot in the room, Nami returned to his side and offered him the item she collected.

"A transponder snail?" He asked uncertainly.

"No, it's not a transponder snail, well it sort of is but it isn't used for communication. It's called an album snail and it holds every song by The Egoist."

Naruto reached and received the item, still questioning why the sudden change in subject. Taking a closer look, it appeared to be just like any other transponder snail with a white and pink shell but with the exception of a microphone.

Nami needed him out of the room, she's in no state to be making conversation now, especially after she made a fool of herself already.

"I want to concentrate on finishing my map right now so why don't you go and listen to the whole thing then give me your review of it tonight. I'm on watch later so I'll be at the crow's nest, Angel will be there too so you can keep us company."

Realising she just wanted to be left alone to carry on with her work but she's too nice to tell him directly, Naruto smiled understandingly. "Okay, yeah, I'll listen to it, see you tonight."

Zoro's room

The three sword style master entered his dark, moon lighten room. A desk to his left, his double bed at the back of the room, a book shelf and wardrobe beside it and a small kotatsu to his right. He walked towards the kotatsu and one by one, placed his katana's on its surface. Preparing to clean his weapons, Zoro placed his second sword on the table.

Before he could remove his final sword, Zoro quickly grab the hilt of Shusui and unsheathed the blade by an inch.

"Easy, Zoro-san, it's just me." A feminine voice called out within the shadows.

"Robin? What are doing sneaking up on me? "Zoro asked, sheathing and placing his final katana on the kotatsu.

Robin, in a navy blue, short cut dress that exposed much of her legs and cleavage stepped out the shadowy corner on the left side of the door.

"Would it be alright if I spoke to you in private?"

Zoro took a step towards her. "You could have just knocked on the door you know."

The older women smiled but only just. Something serious was on her mind, that Zoro was sure of.

"So what do you want to talk to me about?"

Robin took a moment before meeting him in the eyes. "I was looking through our photo album earlier today, and it got me thinking, do you still remember how this whole thing between us started?"

Zoro folded his arms. "You wanted to speak to me to take a trip down memory lane?"

Robin replied with an identical smile as before. "Not exactly, that's only partially as to why I'm here. So, do you?"

Unable to see the point in this, Zoro closed his lone eye and sighed. "Of course I do, it started after we got you back at Water 7."

FLASHBACK

It was time of celebration on the island named Water 7. CP9 was defeated and Robin is back where she belongs. Speaking of Robin, several hours had passed since she had her through-the-wall talk with Admiral Aokiji.

The clocks stuck midnight as pirates and citizens alike continued with their party jam-packed with food, music and drinks.

By now, everyone in attendance was pretty wasted. Drinks were going down people's mouths faster than you could say World Government.

In the midst of all the carnage, two figures on opposite ends of the celebration stood still as they observed and drank.

Feeling rather lightheaded and definitely intoxicated beyond sober, Robin quietly stood by as her nakamas enjoyed themselves with idiotic dances or by simply arguing with one another. She was eternally grateful to all of them, they risked their lives in order to safe her from enemies no one would dare to cross. Her love for them was undeniable.

But then she spotted Zoro through the crowd, and a whole new feeling was now running in her veins. A feeling, a longing that she hasn't felt in so long. This desire came out of nowhere, but it was growing by the second. A heat started to develop from within her, it started in her chest but it's now quickly heading down south.

She couldn't understand nor explain what's causing this sudden physical need, everyone fought just as hard as one another in order to save her, so why is she only feeling this way towards Zoro?

Instinctively, she slowly ran a finger over her bottom lip with the hand holding her glass, she followed it with a gentle nibble on said lip.

Now smirking, Robin swirled the contents of her glass and took another sip of her champagne. There it went, her previous questions as to why she suddenly wants to rip Zoro's shirt off went away faster than her drink.

Likewise, Zoro took another swig of his drink then surveyed the area. Through the moving crowd he managed to pinpoint the dark haired archaeologist standing on her own, looking elsewhere and giggling at probably something Luffy's doing.

Zoro isn't exactly the type of person to stare, but right now, he knows that's exactly what he's doing, and he doesn't want to stop. Unnoticed by Robin, Zoro has also developed a strong physical urge when he looks at her. This sense of urgency and want is only intensified when he admires her perfect figure.

Since the alcohol has taken its effect, Zoro has begun to see Robin in a new light. In his eyes, she was becoming less of a nakama and more as a attractive, beautiful women. He doesn't know whether the alcohol or the fact that they almost lost her to the World Government had something to do with this new development but he didn't care, all he wanted at this point was her.

As if she knew he was looking, Robin turn her gaze away from Luffy and onto Zoro. It shocked her at first as to why he was staring with such a serious expression when they're supposed to be celebrating, but he didn't stop. Then she noticed that look he was giving, it's the same look she's been using when she looks at him, the same look she's using right now.

Their staring was intense, heart racing and full of sinful intentions. Neither of the two could explain this bizarre but hot phenomenon, it's almost like they could read each other's mind and knew their deepest desires.

It was Robin who broke the passionate eye sex with a small mischievous smirk.

That smirk confirmed it, everything he wanted, she wanted too.

Zoro immediately threw his cup at a random direction and marched straight towards the beautiful archaeologist.

Robin's smirk grew as she knew what her night now had in store. As soon as she placed her champagne glass on a table beside her, Zoro was already inches away.

"You want to go to somewhere a little less crowded?" He asked in his deep, manly voice.

"I thought you'd never ask."

END OF FLASHBACK

Robin smiled as the memories of that night played in her head. "That night was the first time we kissed."

Zoro grew a face of playful annoyance and a little disappointment. "It was supposed to be more than that but someone had a change of heart at the last second."

FLASHBACK

Robin found herself leaning on the same wall she used with her talk with Aokiji, but on the other side surrounded by trees and away from sight, kissing Zoro with so much hunger like there was no tomorrow.

With the wall to his back, Robin's arms around his neck and his hands on her waist, Zoro intensified their adrenaline pumping kiss by caressing her bottom lip with his tongue.

Almost instantly, Robin responded by opening her mouth and stroke his tongue with her own.

Their hearts pounded with excitement and lust, this wonderful sensation was everything they wanted, or so one of them thought.

As Zoro withdrew his tongue and begun to focus on her neck with wet, open mouthed kisses, a small itch in the back of Robin's mind was beginning to have doubts about what they're doing.

Small whimpered moans started to leak from her lips. As much as she enjoyed Zoro's skilful lips, her sense of logic and reason was taking over.

Reluctantly, Robin took hold of Zoro's head and pulled him away to stop.

"Wait, wait-" She protested with breathless whispers. "I don't think that we should be doing this."

Curious with the change of pace, Zoro slid his hands away from her and took a step back. "Why? What's wrong with it?"

"No it's not you-"She took a quick moment to regain her breath and composure. "I just don't think its right for us to do something that can change the chemistry of our friendship based on an alcohol induced whim. I apologise for causing so much trouble." She told him sincerely.

Zoro scratched the back of his, obviously frustrated but understanding of her feelings. Of course he wasn't going to force her into something she doesn't want to do.

"No, it's fine, you don't need to apologies, you're probably right anyway." The sexual frustration in his voice was clear as day, but Robin's determined tone of voice confirmed that nothing he can say would change her mind.

Robin smiled apologetically and mentally thanked him for accepting her wishes. "Can we pretend that the last five minutes never happened?" She asked almost cheekily.

"Sure." Zoro nodded back, accepting that his relationship with Robin will never more than friends. He turned his head to the side to view the ongoing party. "Let's head back before everyone notices we're missing."

END OF FLASHBACK

Robin folded her arms and giggled. "I wasn't sure if things would be the same between me and you after that night."

"But they were-"Zoro added, slightly surprised and impressed. "Easier than I thought it would actually."

"Yeah-" She agreed quietly.

Zoro's memory fast forwarded to the point when everything changed. "Everything was normal… until we left Thriller Bark."

FLASHBACK

Crows Nest

"Is it really okay for you to be on watch tonight-"Robin questioned the back of Zoros head as she climbed up to the highest room on the ship. "Your injuries have only just healed a few days ago?"

Zoro didn't turn around to stay on watch. "As long as I can still stand, I won't let this injury stop me from doing my part." His voice was solid and full of resolve.

With a smile, Robin approached the bandaged covered man. "I knew you would say something like that."

Hearing her footsteps, Zoro turned around to greet her. His eyes immediately focused on the bottle and cups in her hands. "That's-"

"I know Chopper-san said no alcohol until your wounds fully recover but-" She offered him a one of the two cups. "I'm sure we can make an exception for tonight."

Surprised Robin would go against Choppers word, Zoro accepted her offer by receiving the saucer shaped cup. "Thanks?"

The two relocated at the back of the room to sit on long sofa, and for the next half an hour, the two pirates engaged in some random small talk.

How their day was, how they felt about their new nakama, their own individual experience in Thriller Bark.

As they exchanged stories, Robin ensured no cup was ever empty. Soon as either of them downed their drink, she would always refill the cup almost instantly. Zoro was suspicious of her behaviour at first as it was very unlike her to do so, but after the 9th or 10th cup, he totally forgot what he was suspicious about in the first place.

Remembering and talking about Thriller Bark without flinching from pain was difficult for the Straw Hat first mate. That mind breaking agony he experience in order to save his captains life… Zoro downed his God knows nth cup to banish the memory from his head.

"I know what you did, Zoro-san." Robin purred in her drunken state with a slight blush.

Zoro's eyes widen from shock. "Kn-know what?" He asked carefully, scared someone figured out his valuable secret.

Robin met him in the eyes with a heartfelt, tender expression. "What you did for Senchou-san, taking his pain in exchange for his life."

His mouth opened only to express incoherent parts of words. "Wh-H-how do you know about that?"

"I have my ways." She whispered softly, almost teasingly.

"Don't worry, Zoro-san. I know why you did it and why you're keeping it a secret from Luffy and the rest. I won't tell a soul, I promise."

Zoro sighed in relief as Robin refilled their cups.

"Thanks for keeping it to yourself for all this time." He told her sincerely, sipping his drink with a flick of a wrist.

Feeling bold, Robin inched closer till their shoulders touched. "You know, every time I think about you doing something so courageous and manly like that… I get really… hot." She whispered seductively and placed a teasing hand on his chest.

Her lustful tone made Zoro extremely suspicious, he may be beyond sober but he still remembered what they agreed on in Water 7.

"What are you doing? You know what happened last time." He slithered away from her reach by moving down the sofa.

Robin found his angered and confused face somehow enticing, she bit her bottom lip before she said, "Let's just say your act of unselfishness has caused me to change my mind yet again-" She slid towards him to close the distance. "And this time I promise I won't stop you until we're both satisfied."

Suspicious, anxious, excited, opportunistic, Zoro weighed all his option to decide whether doing this with Robin was a good idea.

She leaned in even closer to whisper in his ear. "But don't misunderstand Zoro-san, I'm not looking for a significant relationship. I'm only suggesting we do it because we're drunk and I have physical needs I want fulfil. By sunrise, everything will be back to normal and we shall never speak of this night again… until the next celebration that is."

Zoro had to gulp as she continued to whisper.

"I think this could be a very profitable arrangement for the both of us. So what do you say, think you can satisfy me?"

END OF FLASHBACK

"How was I supposed to say no to that?" Zoro groaned playfully, believing he was manipulated somehow.

Robin gave a half-hearted giggle, causing the male in the room to frown. "Why are you really here, Robin? What's the point in remembering all of this?"

Robin bit the inside of her bottom lip before responding. "I've been doing a lot of thinking lately, about me and you, about us. I've weigh all the options and tried to follow my heart, and in the end, I'm still unsure-"

Zoro nodded seriously, he felt exactly the same way though he remained quiet.

"When I was going through our photo album earlier, that's when I realised that I could have all the time in the world to think about it but I still won't be able to think my way to the right answer. So, instead of thinking, I'm want to take action."

"Action?" Zoro frowned in confusion.

A quick blush lingering in her checks as she solidified her resolve. "Has it never occurred to you that perhaps the reason why we're so uncertain about our feelings towards one another is because every time we've had sex is when we've had a drink? We know close to nothing about how truly compatible we are as a real couple."

His eyes expanded from the implication of her statement. "S-so you're saying that we should have sex sober?"

"It will only be for tonight, a onetime thing. Tomorrow we'll pretend like nothing ever happened and never talk about it again, just like we normally do." Robin spoke with unwavering confidence. "So what do you say? Do you want to do it? Now?"

Zoro froze on his spot with no words to say, how could he? He couldn't even think at the moment. It's all happening too fast for him to respond with a genuine, thoroughly thought out reply.

Robin's expression drop from a lack of answer. "I see." She whispered with a little disappointment. "I understand if you don't want to or think it's a bad idea. I'm sorry for taking your time." She turned around and begun to open the door.

Zoro's arms shot past Robin's shoulder like a bullet to slam the door shut. Her heart jumped from the shock as she hastily spun around to see his serious, almost animalistic eyes.

"I never said I didn't want to."

Their faces were now inches away, his gaze alone forced Robin to lean her back on the door. "I assumed from your reaction-"

"It was just too sudden for me that's all." His voice begun to show signs of sexual hunger and need. "You know if we do this, there's no turning back."

His confident expression elevated her resolve once again. "I want us to do this, we need to do this. To help us make the right decision."

Zoro couldn't have agreed more.

They shared one final stare and saw nothing but determination with a dash of excitement in each other's eyes. Zoro was the first to close his eye and leaned in for her lips. As soon as he did, Robin held onto his shirt and leaned in for what it felt like their very first kiss.

Naruto's room

The blond pirate's moonlit bedroom was enchanted with songs from the album snail he recently received. Naruto normally isn't the musical type but even he had to admit that these songs and the lead singer's voice was incredible.

Laying on his bed with his hands behind his head, the jinjuriki closed his eyes and allowed the music sooth through him. The Egoist, Nami's favourite band, wrote songs mostly about the highs and lows of love. The feelings of first love, the break ups, the make ups, all you'd expect out of a relationship.

As much as he enjoyed their music, Naruto's mind begun to wonder, leaving the beautiful voice of Inori in the background.

Naruto started to think about what a great day today has been. He made a ground breaking achievement, had plenty of laughs with his nakamas and got to know a whole new side of Nami he's never seen before. In all honesty, Naruto's rather thankful for Nami. Their little food play fights, making him listen to her favourite band, even the shower incident, it gave him something else to think about when he's alone.

Because recently, every night, there's only one person Naruto can ever think about.

'Sakura-chan.'

After learning of his true feelings, curtsey of Angel's devil fruit powers, Naruto has constantly been thinking about his childhood teammate and his own emotional state towards her. What is she doing now? Is she okay? Is she thinking about him at all? How does she feel with him randomly disappearing with no explanation?

The last question reminded Naruto of his last memory he shared with Sakura, the images and horrible words he used came flooding back causing him to frown in anger. But by no means was he angry at her, he was furious and ashamed at himself.

"If it's a threat then I have the right to destroy it. If you don't like it, take it to Sasuke!"

Naruto gritted his teeth in self-disgust.

'Why did I do that? Why did I shout at Sakura-chan like that?'

The feeling of regret felt like it was eating him alive from the inside out.

'If I knew that was the last time I'd ever see her again, I never would have said something so spiteful… I just… want to see her face again… for one last time.'

"You can." The fox spirit blurted out of nowhere.

Naruto was snapped out of his bubble of thoughts in a rush. 'Kurama! Cut it out with the eavesdropping!'

"It's not like I can help it, our mind and body are linked remember?"

"Still… um, what did you mean by 'you can'?'

Kurama then said something that shocked Naruto down to his very core.

"Present."

Wide eyed Naruto instantly shot up from his bed, pressed his back against the headboard and quickly ripped the bandages off his wrist seal.

A puff of smoke signalled the arrival of a light, rectangular object.

Naruto's lips curved to a twitching smile as he couldn't contain the overwhelming happiness in his heart. 'The early birthday present I was planning to give to Sakura-chan.'

In his hand, laid a wooden picture frame of the entire team seven squad.

Kakashi and Yamato stood at the back of the photo, the grey haired jounin had an arm over the wood style user shoulder with an unseen smile while Yamato held the back of his head and smiling awkwardly. In front of them was Sasuke to the left, Naruto himself in the middle and Sai on the right. Naruto wore his toothy grin as he had his arms over their shoulders, it looked like he was pulling them down towards the middle in order to make the picture look a little friendlier. Because of this, Sasuke had an annoyed expression as he glared at Naruto and Sai wore his usual, a little too formal smile. Finally, crouching down at the front of the picture was Sakura Haruno. She wore one of her heart-warming smiles that Naruto's a sucker for as she threw a cheeky peace sign.

The picture was taken only days before Naruto entered the world of the pirates. Because of high quantity of demands, the photographer said that he was so busy that he could only process and deliver the picture until after the month of March. Sakura was saddened by this news as she wanted to display the photo in her room as soon as possible. Naruto, being the considerate person that he is, found the photographer and bribed him to with all the money he had to process the picture in a couple of days. The plan was to give her the picture frame as an earlier birthday present if his confession to her was successful. Since he was rejected and sent to another universe, Naruto totally forgot about the present until now.

Despite its historical background, the picture frame meant the whole world to Naruto. He thought he was ready to never see his teammate's faces ever again but judging that he's fighting to keep his tears from falling, he guessed he couldn't be more wrong.

After a couple of minutes revelling in the joy of seeing old faces, the only thing Naruto's eyes were focused on was Sakura.

It may have been because he hasn't seen her face in a couple of months but, to Naruto, he couldn't think of a time when he'd seen her as beautiful as she is in the picture.

However, when Naruto thinks about Sakura, it usually doesn't take long for him to think about Sasuke. Seeing his two teammates together in a single photo only reminded him of his failed confession. In some messed up way, this picture was a constant reminder of how he was never good enough for Sakura. How she would always pick Sasuke even when he was the one that's always been by her side, the one that made her laugh, the one that never betrayed or hurt her.

But surprisingly, looking at Sasuke and Sakura now, no longer can he feel the anger he initially felt. Considering the turn of events leading from that sadness and frustration he felt after his rejection, being angry at what happened and at his two closest friends seemed completely pointless to Naruto.

Despite this first step of progress of getting over Sakura, Naruto would be lying to himself if he said there was no longer any jealousy in his heart.

He ran one of his thumb across the glass with Sakura's face on it in deep contemplation.

He knows he doesn't want to feel jealous anymore and he knows it's not healthy to continue loving someone who made it perfectly clear that she doesn't love him back. But deep down, there's still a special place for Sakura in his heart.

Naruto wants to move on and let Sakura live her life and be happy with the man she wants, but no matter how hard he tries, when he pictures her with another man other than himself, he can't deny a small but sharp pain in his chest.

In an attempt to relief this pain, every day, he tries force himself to get over her by aggressively telling himself, a million times over that she doesn't love him; that they are only friends, and that even by some divine miracle that he could go back to Konoha, he will still be only her friend and second to Sasuke.

He knows he has to get over this, he knows he will never be able to fully commit himself to his new life as a pirate until he sees Sakura the way she sees him, a friend.

Meanwhile, exactly the same time in Konoha

"Ahhh! It's almost 2am, I'm so tired!" Sakura moaned as she crashed face first on to her bed. "Work was so stressful today, I don't even have the energy in me to eat." She sighed exhaustedly.

She turn her head to the side and saw the one of the only few things in her life right now that can lift her spirit.

She sat up, reached for the new team seven picture frame on her nightstand and leaned her back on the beds headboard.

Sakura took a moment to appreciate the value of the photo her entire team, safe, happy, and complete. The medic remembers the day they took that picture like it was yesterday. With the war over and the shinobi alliance still intact, Sakura always assumed that her team would remain happy and complete, who could have ever guessed things would turn out like this.

She then focused on the only blond in the picture with a sad smile.

"Please come home you idiot, I need you back. I would do anything just to be with you again, even if that means leaving the village and finding you myself because…"

Simultaneously, Naruto leaned on his back on his headboard to look up at the ceiling.

"I love you, Sakura-chan."

Sakura leaned her head back on the headboard and closed her eyes with a hopeful smile. "I love you, Naruto."

Naruto's world was consumed by darkness as his eyes closed to rest. A single tear ran down his face before he solemnly whispered,

"Goodbye."

Zoro's room (Start of lemon)

With their soft, saliva coated lips connected, the green haired swordsman gently enforced his body onto Robin's, pressing her back on to his bedroom door. The pressure of his muscular body and the door was by no means painful to Robin, it was actually a pleasantly suffocating sensation. It was the fact her well-endowed beasts were tightly pressed against his rock hard chest which made her a little short of breath.

One of Zoro's hand remained on the closed door above her shoulder, the other resided on her hip patiently waiting until the time was right to explore his partner's delicate assets. Robin held on to his shirt as she focused on their slow, passionate and heart-warming kiss.

She assumed this being the first time they've kissed without the influence of alcohol that things would be stiff and awkward at first, it turned out that she was gravely mistaken. Since their lips first met, a spark was ignited that only enhanced their excitement and confidence as the seconds flew by.

They've only just started and Robin couldn't believe how aroused she's become simply from kissing. She could tell Zoro was feeling it too, he hasn't said anything but his eager body was telling her all she needed to know.

However, there was no more denying it, both pirates couldn't refute that whatever they were currently feeling is nothing like they've ever felt before. It didn't feel wrong, inappropriate or awkward, but it was far too early to tell if it was right.

At this point, neither of them wanted to think or be controlled by their inhibitions, they just wanted to enjoy this moment as it could be their last.

Their enthusiastic yet controlled lips continued to slowly tangle and massage one another in a skilful and deliberate fashion. In their heated kiss, the two exchanged turns on who's lips dominated who's, generously allowing one the other to set the pace.

'I can't believe how quickly I'm getting into this, we haven't even used our tongues yet and I'm already a little wet.' Robin naughtily thought to herself, enjoying Zoro's erotic pressure.

It was then she realised she spoke too soon as his lip began to part, wanting to use his tongue to heighten their pleasure. Zoro never even had the chance to stroke her lip to ask for permission since Robin had already keenly met him half way.

The archaeologist accidently released a moan more girlish than she hoped as their wet muscles beautifully intertwined. As she allowed herself to be consumed by her sexual urges, her delicate hands released his shirt and found the back of his head, locking his green locks in between her fingers.

Zoro surprisingly withdrew his tongue away from her mouth to momentarily allow their lips to connect. Though it wasn't long, a couple of heated kisses later, the tips of their tongues were happily reunited and continuing their sensual dance.

Satisfied with the level of intimacy they've created, Zoro's hands begun to explore her body with a firm, confident grip. Both hands now groping her delicious form through the thin layer of her low skirted dress. He started by caressing the side of her torso then gliding his hands down her lower back. But now he's travelling lower and lower, beyond the cover of her dress. And soon enough, Zoro's hands slipped underneath the soft fabric above her black thong and greedily digging his fingers into her flesh.

Robin instantly broke their kiss and leaked a sinful groan from the painfully pleasurable shock on her behind.

Loving and longing to hear more of her whimpering sounds, Zoro kissed the edge of her lips, her cheek and continued to leave a trail of kisses until he reached the area where her neck and collar bone met, an extremely sensitive weakness Robin has that only Zoro knows.

And there it was, another set of shivering sighs escaped her full, rosy lips. Her head instinctively shot back to lean on the door while her hands rested helpless on the back of his neck. Zoro's erotic onslaught didn't stop there, licking, kissing, and sucking the soft tissue of her neck. To add to his sexual assault, Zoro reluctantly removed his hands from the comfort of her ass and created some space between their chests. His left hand slowly glided up her flat stomach to caress her left breast while separating her legs with his own. With more space below, Zoro's free hand cupped her thong covered pussy with his fingers and teasingly traced the outlines of her folds.

Robin's body quivered from mind blowing pleasure as her body's trying to adjust to Zoro's skilful ministration. The soft and delicate kisses on her neck, in contrast to the firm massage on her breast and slow, rhythmic strokes on her damp, throbbing slit, Robin had to bite her lip in order to stop herself from screaming his name.

Noticing her struggle from her shaky and laboured breathes, Zoro mercifully stopped kissing her neck with a final upward lick that nearly reach her ear which made her hiss in approval. The hand pleasuring her breast was now holding the side of her face with his thumb rubbing her left cheek. He pulled her closer to his face to the point their foreheads nearly touched, even with his fingers teasing and dampening her womanhood, the two shared a sincere, heartfelt stare before locking lips once again.

As their kiss deepened and intensified by the second, Zoro's newly slippery fingers picked up the pace. Her thong and juices only made the process that much easier. There was nothing Robin could do except wrap her arms around his neck and released helpless moans and whisper incoherent parts of his name in his mouth.

By now Robin's thongs were ruined by her own lubricant and Zoro was sure that there wasn't a single dry spot on his fingers. This was a pleasant surprised to both Robin and Zoro, neither of them can remember a time where she's ever been this wet so early before.

But that didn't bother Robin, she's been feeling something long, thick, hard and twitched on her thigh for a long time now. Her mouth suddenly filled with an extra coat of saliva just thinking about what she's going to do with it soon.

Though that's for later, right now her focus is kissing Zoro and his fingers exchanging attention from her erect clit and dripping wet slit.

"Stop, teasing, me. Take them off." She whispered almost desperately during their slow paced kiss.

Without stopping, Zoro smirked for one moment. "Someone's impatient." He whispered huskily, stroking the entrance of her wet pussy.

Robin chuckled lightly, secretly quivered with lust. "So what if I am." She replied with no shame.

The two ended their kiss and looked at each with small, anticipating smiles.

"That's fine, I was getting a little impatient myself anyway." Zoro admitted before hooking the helm of her black thong and pulling it down half way down her thigh. If Robin's dress wasn't blocking the view, Zoro would have saw the thin line of her juice connected with her thong stretching as he removed the clothing. With a couple of wiggle of the hips, Robin slipped one of her legs but kept the thong dangling around the ankle of remaining leg, she found it more erotic like that.

"I like it." Zoro told her with a small grin, admiring her style. Though as he looked at her ankles, he found something else to admire, her perfectly sculpted ankles, long feminine legs and hairless sex glistening from her own fluids.

Eventually he looked up to Robin' face where she gave a satisfied smirk, proud of her self that she can make him want her so much. She reached for the helm of her dress to remove the piece of clothing but Zoro grabbed her wrist to stop her.

"Let me do it." He commanded with a manly, husky edge.

A very faint shade of pink rushed to Robin's cheeks as her she raised her arms and allowed Zoro the lead. The room was much quieter than usual and felt like there was a shift in atmosphere somehow. As one undid the other, it felt like whatever that's already happen felt like a formality and that this is the moment where their one time agreement begins.

The way Zoro slipped her dress up her body, it was calm and serious, but yet sensual and passionate in a way. Her dress eventually passed her hands and Zoro let the useless fabric through his fingers to hit the floor. The swordsman had to stop in order to appreciate her mouth-watering, hourglass figure.

Her skin was radiate and glowed spectacularly against the moonlight, her black laced bra was tight on her skin and looked inadequate to support her amazing breasts as they looked like they could reveal themselves with the slightest touch.

The two shared another intense episode of eye contact before Zoro leaned closer to her face and reached behind her back. Robin knew his intentions clearly but she was more than willing to accept his gesture.

With a light skilful pinch, Robin's bra was undone. Zoro leaned back in order for her to do the rest. With the small blush still on her cheeks, Robin and Zoro never broke eye contact until her bra strap was over her shoulders and the bra itself was on the floor.

Zoro actually had to supress a groan from seeing how beautiful her large breast and perky pink nipples were. They were so perfectly round and so painfully inviting.

Her fully nude form was doing wonders to his rock hard cock, involuntarily throbbing to the point it hurt. It took the swordsman everything he ounce of will power to prevent him from rushing in and taking her right there.

Being penetrated by his hungry gaze was surprisingly difficult for Robin. She felt her breath labouring and her heart pounding harder and faster than any other moment she experienced tonight. She never felt so exhilarate and he wasn't even touching her.

Zoro calmly reach for her chest to remind himself how soft they are on his skin. But Robin's small hand on his chest stopped him from his tracks.

Robin grew a mischievous smirk as she playfully drew random lines on his bare chest.

"I think you've paid enough attention on me for the time being, Zoro-san." Her words oozing with dirty intentions. "I'm going to take it from here."

Zoro gulped in nervousness, excitement and anticipation.

Robin leaned forward as Zoro took an unconscious step back. She grabbed the red sash around his waist slowly untie it until loose. Zoro couldn't deny the sense of an ego boost from having a beautiful, naked women stripping his clothes while he did nothing but watch.

Soon enough, Zoro was feeling the cool air on his skin as he stood in only his black boxers containing his twitching length.

"Much better don't you think?" She whispered, examining his broad chest with her hands.

She dragged one of her hands down his muscular body in mind numbing pace until she grabbed the centre of her desires. Wrapping her fingers around his solid shaft, Robin watched as Zoro shut his eyes and produced a raspy moan.

"It's my turn to make you feel good." She told his semi clenched face while slowly rubbing his cock.

Dropping to her knees whilst dragging her remaining hands down his abs, Robin ventured inside his boxers and gripped the base of his dick and pulled on the last piece of clothing down to his ankles.

His male appendix instantly sprung out his cage, revealing all its glory to the stun the busty archaeologist. Her eyes immediately widened from the sight of the throbbing piece of meat. A hint of fear was mixed with her raging excitement as it looked so hard, smooth and delicious all at the same time, all the while her sense of smell was intoxicated by the husky smell of manliness. Robin wrapped both of her hands around it and stroked his cock slowly with a warm grip. She still couldn't believe how big and thick it was, she couldn't remember a time when it was this excited or how it ever fit inside her. Even with both hands one top of the other, the head was still popping out waiting to be sucked.

Zoro could feel his legs weakening from all the blood rushing to his sex as Robin's hands worked a little faster. All he could do was close his eyes, lean his head back and continuously hum and groan in approval.

Robin's grip on his thick length tightened, feeling the urge to abandon her plan to tease and remember his taste. Eagerly licking her lips, Robin gracefully placed the tip in her mouth, producing both parties to moan in the process. She forced her mouth to open widely in order to accommodate his girth as her hands and head moved in perfect synch. Her hands pumped with a twisting motion while her saliva coated tongue continuously wrapped around the head.

The hands nearest her lips unwrapped itself and softly cradled his twin sacks. With more of his shaft, she thrust her head forward, fitting as much as she could. Over and over again, she amazingly fitted over half of his length in her mouth, endlessly teasing the entrance to her throat. Her remaining hand stopped stroking and focused on keeping his cock still as her head repeatedly swung back and forth.

Every part of Zoro's body was tensing with burning pleasure, his eyes tight shut, his jaw and fists clenched like a vice, all thanks of her Robin's amazing mouth.

'Is she- putting more effort than usual? Or was she always this good and I never noticed it before?' he managed to think to himself.

Robin's technique was flawless, the grip she had on his cock and balls was firm and tender, her lips never stopped massaging his long shaft and her tongue was always active. The warmth and saliva in her mouth was perfect and never once did she touched him with her teeth, it felt so good Zoro could of sworn it felt like he had his sex in her actual vagina.

His low, primal grunts was a pleasing encouragement for Robin, it only made her want to suck him even harder. Still slobbering on his cock, she looked up to see his clenched, lust induced face. It made her proud that she could make an expression on such a powerful man. She absolutely loved his expression but she wanted more, so she quickly placed both hands on his well-toned ass and engulfed his entire cock from tip to base in one fist clenching thrust. Her nose now buried in his nicely trimmed pubic hair with his thick manhood lodged down her throat. Keeping him there was difficult to maintain but her mouth never felt so wonderfully full.

Zoro's eye widened wider than ever before as his was stunned by a new, mind blowing sensation. There's nothing like feeling the bend of her tight, convulsing throat on the upper half of his penis. Though his first instincts was to leaned away but Robin's hands forcing him into her mouth stopped that from happening, as a result his body arched over her and his hands gripped the back of her head.

Tears started welling in the corners of her eyes as the time of his sex down in her throat was to expire, her mouth felt impossibly tight as she couldn't take anymore. She gagged loudly and released all of him in one smooth motion.

Zoro's lifeless arms returned to his side while Robin's hands found themselves massaging his saliva smeared cock. She continued to pump his raging sex with twisting strokes as she regained her breath. With the extra lubricant on its entire length, her hands moved more smoothly, simulating the feeling of a convulsing pussy. Zoro released a throaty grunt as Robin placed him in in between her lips once again, her tongue circled his manhood in a clockwise rotation while sucking him harder than ever before.

The pleasure was all too much for Zoro, he could feel the distinct tightness in his balls that signalled his release.

"R-robin, s-stop." He ordered a little too desperately, just able to open his lone to watch her pleased, sex crazed expression.

Though Robin didn't stop, if anything it encouraged her to stroke faster and suck harder in order to receive his creamy climax. The swordsman teeth grinded with great force, he was so close yet he didn't want to be the first to reach oblivion. He grabbed both her wrist with commanding pressure and called her name so authoritative it made her stop her enjoyable work. Zoro pulled her up to make her stand. Though robin didn't see it, she left a small pool of her own juice laying on the floor.

Standing tall, Robin and Zoro met eye to eye. He looked rather frustrated while she had a smug smirk on her lips.

"Was you about to…?" She teased victoriously with soft, innocent eyes.

Zoro scoffed in irritation. "You're going to regret that." He warned dangerously, though it secretly excited Robin even more.

He held her by one of her wrist and dragged her further into the room without a single word. Robin assumed he was taking her to the bed but she was pleasantly mistaken when she found her cheek and breasts pressing against the surface of his work desk with her ass out in the open waiting to be penetrated.

She looked back at him positioning himself behind her, loving the hunger and need in his features. "So this is how you're going make me 'regret'… you're being a little rough but I think I like it." She whispered teasingly with confidence.

However, that confidence shattered almost instantly as Zoro's hard, saliva glazed cock started playing with her pussy with agonisingly slow strokes from clit to slit. Her moans begun to leak as her hands clenched on to the edge of the table to look for support while his hands clamped on to her waist, pleasingly digging into her skin.

"Not so tough now are you?" Zoro taunted with a devilish smirk, thrusting smaller strokes that focused only on her throbbing clit.

She wanted to respond with something tough and composed but all her energy was to stop herself from releasing anymore helpless moans that'll certify Zoro's dominance.

"Can't speak?" his dirty taunting continued. "You're so wet, Robin. Have you been waiting for me to put it in all this time?" He whispered as the tip of his manhood repeatedly caressed her excited clit.

Robin had to bite her bottom lip to stop herself from freeing lustful whimpers, but the burning need in between her legs was insane, it's the first time in her life that she felt she could die from not getting what she wanted. At the same time, Robin was clinging onto the only sliver of control over her body, she didn't want him to think he had so much power over her just from a little teasing, though she also couldn't deny how amazingly arousing it was to be dominated by him.

Robin released a shaky breath, finally accepting her fate.

"Yes…" Her reply melted off her lips. "I want it… I want you… oh I want it so bad, please don't make me wait anymore, put it in." She closed her eyes in submission and waited for his reply.

Zoro's satisfied smirk grew by a fraction. "I don't think I understand what you mean? Put what in, Robin?"

"Your cock! Please put your cock inside my tight little pussy Zoro-san!"

His raging sex twitched uncontrollable and if possible harden even more from her pleading words.

"Well said…" He praised, lining his tip to her soaking wet entrance.

Zoro slowly pushed inside her slippery folds, inch by inch, spreading her pulsing walls as they tightly coiled around his cock. Robin could feel her mouth unconsciously open as Zoro pleasingly parted her lips with his thick length. She was being expanded to the absolute max, but he just kept pushing more of himself inside her. Every inch was more wonderful than the last and it felt like an eternity until he was completely inside.

Robin could no longer supress a wild moan when she felt his pelvis pressed on her ass. His twin sacks were now touching her folds and his grip on her waist grew even tighter.

Zoro's clenched face looked at the side of Robin's painfully pleasured expression. "S-so tight- Robin." He managed to stutter.

She couldn't voice a reply as she was too focused on evening her breathing, she had to as her insides never felt so perfectly stretched and she could swear the tip of his cock was kissing the entrance to her womb. Feeling Zoro retreating from her throbbing sheath, Robin braced herself by lifting her face off the surface off the table and replacing it with her forearms for support. Now facing the wall, all Robin could do was hold on and enjoy Zoro's long and slow strokes.

Despite all his dominating talk, Zoro's stroke was easy and controlled, could even be mistaken as passionate. He wanted both of them to savour this moment, wanted to relish in the sensation of her body tightly squeezing and embracing his erected member from tip to base.

Robin was quite surprised by his calm, laidback start, she was sure from all his bravado that she was going to be fucked into oblivion. Though she was thankful that wasn't the case, she wanted to get accustomed to his size before things took a step further.

For the second time tonight Robin felt as if she thought too soon, Zoro's strokes were becoming stronger and faster, his pelvis were crashing into her ass more frequently and the sound of his balls slapping her folds were increasing by the decimal.

Stroke by stroke, Robin was quickly losing her ability to think. She was being consumed by the indescribable pleasure in between her legs. She could feel her breasts swaying in perfect timing with speedy Zoro's thrusts and her lips losing their strength, leaking sinful moans she desperately tried to supress. At this point she found it near impossible to keep her mouth shout, all her energy was concentrated on keeping her legs standing from Zoro's sexual onslaught.

He applied more strength into his hip to increase his pace, his ears were satisfied with the sounds of her fluids squishing against his member. The noise was encouraging, almost addictive, he wanted more, and he wanted to hear more from her.

The unbearably pleasant tightness of her pussy was so intoxicating that Zoro lost all rational thoughts and began to smash his hips into her behind with every ounce of strength, showing no mercy to her. He gazed down at the sight of Robin's round ass shaking with each collision of his repeated pounding and clenched his jaw in satisfaction. He was immensely entranced by how fast and smooth his juice covered manhood was sliding back and forth through her folds.

Robin no longer cared about anything else apart from the penis inside her and the man it belonged to. Her moans were louder and dirtier with each stroke, she even started to push her hips backwards in order to deepen the penetration.

"It's so deep, Zoro-san… your big cock's - so deep inside me, I feel - so good." Her voice breaking irregularly from his thrusting.

Her compliment somehow empowered Zoro to pump hard and faster, the new speed and intensity caused Robin to roar a magnificent moan, a moan louder than anything ever before.

This rang alarm bells for Zoro, without stopping, he turned his attention to the back of her raven coloured hair.

"Oi, you're being too loud, everyone's gonna hear us." He whispered as loud as he could, though not entirely worried as he knows Franky's superior building skills made these walls near soundproof.

Robin turned her head around to meet him in the eye, her head and body still rocking back and worth. "I'm sorry – ahh – it's just – mm – I'm so close."

Her sex driven face and encouraging words triggered something inside Zoro, he now couldn't give two shits about how loud she was, all he wanted was to make her experience the ultimate form of pleasure.

Before Robin knew what happened, her left cheek was pressed against the desk surface once again with her arms being pulled behind her back. Though the method was a little rough, she found their new position much more erotic and far more stimulating.

Pulling on both her wrists and slamming away into her wet womanhood, Zoro sensed a whole new level of dominance. This new position seemed to be doing wonders for the both of them, his sex never felt harder and her vagina has reached a whole new level of wetness.

His pounding has also reached a new level of intensity, his vigorous strokes have made her breathless, sex crazed and ready to release. She can feel herself racing towards orgasm, all was needed was a couple of well positioned thrusts.

"Zoro-san, I'm gonna – I'm gonna-"She cried desperately.

Zoro collected all his strength into a handful of brutal strokes.

Robin's eyes shut themselves impossibly tight as the intensity of her orgasm consumed her.

"I'm cumming!"

Zoro crashed into her ass for the final time with a particularly brutal stroke as her inner walls wrapped around his member like a clenched fist, contracting, convulsion, pulsing, milking his length even when stationary. Her orgasm was so powerful it was close to being painful, yet it was so perfectly pleasant. It hit her like a tidal wave, shaking her very core like an earthquake.

Zoro slowly released her wrists and watched them lifelessly fall to her side. Robin's weak legs shook and shivered endlessly, they looked like they could cave in at any moment. Zoro noticed and grabbed her waist to prevent her from falling.

It took the chesty archaeologist several moments to come down from her erotic high, and by the time she could finally assemble her thoughts once again and regained her motor skills, Zoro slowly slipped his member out of her sheath. She mentally moaned in disappointment at the sudden feeling of emptiness within her. Regardless, Robin shakily found herself on her feet and facing the man who gave her possibly one of the best orgasms in her life. Though Robin grew a blush at how Zoro had a smug smirk on his face as she knew what he was going to say.

"Did you…?" He taunted playfully, "You don't need to answer, I know you did."

Robin looked away from a sliver of embarrassment. "It's not like I can help it." She resisted the urge to pout.

Robin then notice the standing organ twitching between his legs. "Wait, you didn't finish?" She asked, unable to hide to surprise in her voice.

Zoro stepped closer into her private space. "Close, but not yet. If this is the last time we're ever going to have sex then I'm going to make the most of it." He smiled with bad intentions. "Jump."

"Jump?" Robin didn't even have the time think about what he said.

Feeling his hands grabbing the back of her thighs, the busty woman shrieked out a surprised squeal as the next thing she knew was being carried towards the bed with her legs were wrapped around his waist and her arms over his shoulder.

"You really are making the most of it." She giggled impishly, bouncing with every step.

Zoro gently laid her down on her back, comforting her head with a pillow. Robin's fingers remained interlocked behind his head while her legs loosened up a little but were still around his waist. Zoro supported himself with his knees to keep his weight off her, he also placed his forearms beside her breasts and hooked his hands behind her back to hold her shoulders.

Chest to chest, Zoro gazed into Robin's eyes and Robin into his. As they remained in this beautiful stalemate, accepting the person in their arms for who they are, neither of them could deny a change in mood. The exchange of witty comments and sexual taunts were out the window, the sense of who dominated who wasn't relevant anymore and their lust driven bodies craved for something more than raw, animalistic sex.

It was a weird and foreign feeling for the both of them, neither of them have felt anything like this before nor could they describe it. All they had to work with in order to decipher this sensation was this ache deep within their chests, a serene aching that told them to protect this special person no matter what, to keep them safe from any harm and to never let them go even if it killed them.

It was an intense feeling indeed, but Robin was the one who broke their intimate stare by noticing the twitching cock rubbing against her slit.

"Are you okay?" She whispered gently.

Zoro involuntarily gulp, snapping out of his captivated state. "Y-yeah, I'm okay, I just… never mind."

"O-okay." She stuttered passively, still trying to control the ache in her chest.

"I'm going to put it in now okay, you ready?" He asked delicately, Robin was quick to notice the softness in his voice but she didn't question it.

She reply with a self-assured nod.

Glad to receive permission, Zoro slowly leaned down for a gentle kiss as he aimed the tip of his manhood towards the entrance of her sheath. It was clear from the beginning that this kiss was nothing like they've ever shared before. It was slow and tamed, but somehow overflowing with passion, their lips were only caressing one another but their hearts were working overtime while their need for each other's touch intensified with ever heartbeat.

However, Robin broke their intimate kiss with a lengthy, raspy moan as Zoro sex penetrated her folds and delivered long and thorough strokes from tip to base. Her hands immediately scrunched the hair behind his head and her legs tightened their grip around his waist. Zoros hands squeezed her shoulders with an overwhelming sense to never let her go, he rested his forehead on hers while staring deeply into each other's eyes once again, they instantly felt the familiar aching in their chests but only this time it was much stronger, being connected like they were only heightened their need for one another.

This feeling was mind numbingly fierce, it was skin tingling, adrenaline pumping and it showed quite clearly in their sex.

Even though Zoro's strokes were gentle and controlled, the irony was that he had no control. His breath was shaky and unusually heavier than it was in their previous bout. His length was a lot harder than it should be considering the tamed pace and the swordsman has never felt the urge of climaxing so fast nor intense before. While on Robin's part she felt everything, every physical contact between their bodies more so than usual. Every inch and vein of his cock, the contracting of her walls, squeezing his length, desperately wanting his creamy load, Zoros pleasant strokes pleasingly caressing her G-spot before the tip knocked on the opening of her womb,

They shouldn't be feeling like this, their current pace was nowhere near as rough or as intense as their previous session but they're reaching climax faster than ever before.

Locked onto each other's eyes, exchanging shaky breathes into each other's mouths, the signs of their imminent orgasm started to leak. Zoro's jaw was clenching and the fight to keep it in was obvious in his face, Robin's erotic moans were rolling off her lips while her chest felt incredibly tight from breathlessness.

"Robin, I can't hold it anymore, I'm going to cum soon." He struggled to tell her.

"It's okay, Zoro-san. I'm almost there too, you know what to do." Robin whispered diligently, feeling her walls clamping onto his throbbing sex with immense force as she unknotted her legs around his waist and spread them wide.

Zoro gave her a little nod before releasing his hands on her shoulders, leaned back and sit up on his knees, never ceasing his strokes. He wrapped his arms around her thighs and held them with a strong grip. This new position allowed him greater access and he was using the most of it, slamming away his pelvis into her ass with a newfound, quicker pace.

For the first time in a while, Zoro broke eye contact and gazed down to where they were connected. He was captivated by the sight of his glistening member smoothly thrusting in and out and by her pink lips perfectly wrapping around him. He was surprised when he saw one of her hand entering his field of vision, said hand reached its fingers for her clit started to rub the bundle of nerves with a quick circular motion.

Zoro extracted his eyes from the pleasant sight and followed the arm to find Robin, rubbing her breast with her remaining hand, looking back at him with soft, tender eyes while on the brink of climax.

Robin was so damn close, with this new position, Zoro's member was continuously massaging against her G-spot, the stimulation of her clit was making her lose her mind and kneading of her own nipple was insatiable.

The sight before Zoro was the last straw, the unbearable tightness in his balls was signalling his release and he couldn't fight it anymore. He quicken his pace and pushed deeper and deeper with every stroke, instantly being rewarded by the feeling of Robins contracting walls.

Robin lost all thoughts and inhibitions, her eyes were shut tight and her head dug into the pillow, delightfully moaning and groaning his name over and over again while hardening the grip on her breast and accelerating the rubbing on her clit.

"Robin, I'm gonna cum!" He groaned huskily.

"Cum, Zoro-san! I want you to cum!" She moaned desperately.

Zoro gritted his teeth and delivered one final ruthless thrust, crashing his member towards the entrance of her womb. This violent stroke trigger Robin's enormous orgasm throughout her body and sending her into oblivion.

Unable to resist the pleasures of her climaxing walls, Zoro quickly pulled out of her sheath, pumped his cock with his hand and sprayed Robin's delicious body with his hot, creamy liquids.

Both unleashed their distinct moans as they rode the ecstasy of their individual orgasms, though Robin's ending was heighten since she was still climaxing when Zoro's cum rained down upon her.

Breathless, the swordsman continued to jerk his softened member with slow, gentle strokes, extracting any remaining drops. He looked down to view his work and he couldn't think of a better word to describe the sight other than beautiful. The combination of her sweat and his cum mixed together made her skin shine brighter than he's ever seen it, and there was a strange beauty in the lack of pattern on where his liquids landed, but none of that compared to the perfectly combined mixture of ecstasy and serenity on her face as she came down from her high.

With one last stroke, Zoro lifted one of Robin's leg over his head and crashed his muscular body beside her. First looking at the ceiling then at the naked archaeologist, the two pirates shared a silent stare as their lungs worked to refill themselves with air.

Their stare was peaceful and calming, both knew no words needed to be spoken, not yet anyway. They remained locked in this wordless moment until they regained their breaths.

It was Zoro who broke eye contact to be amazed by his almost artistic work yet again. Robin followed his eye sight and led her to the small pool of cum coating her erected nipple. That's when she first noticed the extent of Zoro's orgasm. Amazed would be an understatement, the quantity was eye opening, she was decorated from hip to neck and the pools of cum on her arms, stomach and breasts and the temperature still warmed her skin.

Feeling a little naughty, Robin grazed her index finger over her cum layered nipple to scoop the sticky fluid. Zoro's lone eye widened as he followed the finger till it reached the edge of her lips.

Initiating eye contact again, Robin gracefully inserted her finger in her mouth and wrapped the finger with her lips. Zoro was beyond surprised, he couldn't decide where to look, her teasing eyes or her lips that contained his creamy climax.

Robin really didn't mind the taste, it wasn't delicious per say, it was sticky and a little salty, but it was his individual flavour, and that fact alone commenced a craving for more. She slowly withdrew the finger from her mouth, never removing her lips nor breaking eye contact.

How she loved the astounded look on his face, it made her feel powerful and incredibly sexy at the same time. Remaining in their wordless little world, Robin gazed below yet again, and one by one, she gathered all the small pools of cum on her body into her index and middle finger and gladly swallowing the liquid content, savouring the warmth, loving the taste with every serving, even moaning in enjoyment as the cream travels down her throat.

Speechless Zoro couldn't find the will to take his eye off her, seeing the pleasure written on her face as she relishes his cum was one of the most erotic thing he's ever seen.

Robin finished her meal with a satisfied sigh, she looked at the silent man beside her and noticed the raging sex that should be sleeping, standing tall with no sign of fatigue.

She gave her innocent giggle before sweetly asking, "Round two?"

Several Hours Later – Girls room (End of lemon)

Zoro gently placed the sleeping Robin on her bed and covered her with her blanket. The girl had a cheerful smile carved on her lips, making Zoro shake his head with a chuckle.

The swordsman looked around the room and thanked his luck that Nami and Angel were out on watch, but he also knew he had to leave soon since it was almost morning and the ladies could return in any minute.

Before he left, he wanted to take a final glance at the women who gave him one night he would never forget. The whole experience was nothing short of magical, every second felt better than the last, feelings and emotions Zoro never even thought he had erupted within him like a violent volcano that's been dormant for far too long.

Images of her whimpering face, the sound of her sensual moans, the touch of her tender lips on his skin, all came flooding back like a powerful tsunami, overflowing his mind with no way of stopping it.

An amazing night it was, never has Zoro felt his mind and body so perfectly synchronised with another human being before. However, as incredible tonight had been, Zoro couldn't seem to replicate the same smile on Robin's lips, unable to copy the content expression on her face. Instead he just stood beside Robin's bed with clenched fists, wearing an uneasy frown.

'Why now? Why her? I can't believe this is happening to me… shit.'

Morning

Flickering her eyes open, gradually sensing her awakening, Robin's first sight was the untouched bed belonging to Nami. After an eye popping gasp, she quickly sat up on her bed to organise her thoughts and remember the memories of her recent events.

Then it all came flashing back, her amazing night with Zoro. Hours of nonstop pleasure in a couple of seconds in shaped of one beautiful memory. The memory however seemed too perfect, she almost passed it of as a dream. But then she felt it, the aches and soreness lingering in her body, proof that her recollections are in fact reality.

'He carried me back to my own bed so that Nami and Angel wouldn't notice I was missing, it would have been bad if they began to suspect something odd. I need to thank him for his quick thinking.'

Her eyes widened a second time. 'I can't thank him, we promised to not talk about last night and act normal.'

Feeling her body ease, she gracefully laid herself down on the bed yet again. An automatic smile forced itself on her mouth as she could feel butterflies fluttering away in her chest, looking like a giddy teenage girl who's just experienced her first kiss by her long time crush.

A few hours later

"Sanji! More meat!" Luffy yelled loudly.

"Desert too!" Chopper and Usopp added just as loud, hanging their arms over their captain's shoulders.

"A bowl of miso ramen too, Sanji!" Naruto joined in and slung his arm over Usopp's shoulder.

Sanji looked down at his four demanding nakamas who were accompanied by the rest of the crew on the main deck.

"Would asking a little more politely kill the four of you!?" He yelled back in response.

Nami looked up from her loge pose. "We just ate you guys, how are you still hungry?"

"You all should know by now that my sole purpose is to serve beautiful ladies!" Sanji puffed a cloud of smoke to dismiss Naruto and co.

The four hungry pirates gathered around in a huddle.

"Should I do it?" Naruto whispered impishly.

Luffy, Usopp and Chopper all had the same evil glee in their eyes.

"Yeah, yeah, do it, Naruto" Luffy grinned evilly as the Chopper nodded aggressively.

"He always falls for it." Usopp added.

Breaking their little huddle with a cheeky nod, Naruto focused on the smoking cook. "Oh, Sanji." He extended the last syllables' of his name in a teasing tone before making a single hand seal.

Sanji opened his eyes to the sight of a beautiful, naked blonde haired women with a layer of mist covering her private areas right were Naruto was standing. Exploding with love hearts and nosebleeds, Sanji waved frantically at the girl.

"Naruko-chwan! There you are beautiful! Where have you been?! I haven't seen you in while!"

Luffy, Usopp and Chopper rolled on the floor laughing as Naruko winked at her fellow blond. "Hi, Sanji-kun." She blew him a kiss before gave him a helpless, pleading stare. "Cooking us some ramen, meat and desert shouldn't be a problem for the most handsome cook in the Grandline is it?"

Sanji roared another excited screamed. "Of course not, Naruko-chwan! Anything for you-" The cook suddenly snapped out of his erotic state. "No. No! I know it's you Naruto! I won't fall for it this time you bastard!"

Naruko played innocently and seductively bit her bottom lip as the layer of mist hiding her intimate parts dissipated. "Are you sure about that, Sanji-kun." She crossed her arms underneath her boobs and lifted them up to highlight her breast.

Sanji's switch instantly trigger and his nose bleed sent him flying like a deflating balloon.

The remaining members of the crew all shared a laugh at comical scene, everyone except an enraged navigator.

With a twitching vein on her forehead, Nami marched up being the naked Naruko and delivered a devastating fist to the head.

"WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THAT PERVERTED JUTSU OF YOURS!?"

Face first on the grassy surface with a smoking bulge on his head, Naruto replied with dead, rolling eyes. "Hai, Hai, I'll never use it again, I promise, Nami."

The laughter and giggles around the ship doubled while Nami folded her arms in frustration.

"Baka, giving people nosebleeds for no reason."

The navigator snapped out of her angered state when she and she alone felt a small vibration coming from below.

'Oh no! This feeling… it can only mean one thing!'

A panicking Nami quickly turned around to face her nakamas. "Everyone! Get ready! It's coming! A seak-"

The whole ship suddenly thrashed from side to side while droplets of sea water sprinkled the main deck. An ear bursting roar snapped all eyes and ears into attention as Naruto and Sanji finally stood on their two feet.

"A-a-a SEAKING!?" Angel screamed with horrified eyes.

The stunned straw hats quickly gathered around Luffy while Sanji remained by the kitchen door. Reactions differed widely amongst the pirates, fear, excitement, threatened, and for Robin's part, intrigued.

The archaeologist analysed the massive beast in great detail. "Interesting, a two headed serpent."

"He's a super scary looking one isn't he." Franky leaned his head back to meet the beast in the eyes.

The serpent's body was decorated with black, thick scales that glimmered against the light, the heads of the snake however differed from the rest of the body. The left head was covered in red scales while the right had blue. The seaking was colossal in size, though it wasn't the biggest the crew has ever since, it was definitely looked one of the most menacing.

The monster gave the Straw Hats a violet look before both heads of the seaking roared another mind rattling roar, making everyone wince from the sheer power of its voice.

Out of pure fear, Nami, Angel, Chopper, Usopp and Brook all hugged one another in a tight embrace. Luffy was far too awestruck by the sight of a two headed snake to give commands, it as Zoro who broke the silence.

"Alright, so how are we going to decide who deals with big snaky up there?" He asked too casually, approaching Naruto and Luffy.

The captain stopped admiring the angry beast to focus on his nakamas. "Do we have to deal with it? He looks cool, can't we just keep him instead?"

"He looks like he wants to eat us alive, captain, I don't think he'll want to be our pet." Naruto advised with no concern in his voice.

"I guess…" Luffy crossed his arms and pouted childishly.

"Oi!" Sanji yelled from the upper deck, gaining Zoro's, Luffy's and Naruto's attention. "Let's play Rock Paper Scissors to decide who gets to have a little fun before the next island!"

Luffy grinned and chuckled. "Sounds good to me."

"WOULD YOU FOUR STOP PLAYING AROUND?! IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO DEALS WITH IT JUST DEAL WITH IT!" Nami, Usopp, Chopper and Brook all screamed with blazing fury.

Robin gave one of her usual smiles in silence.

Almost knowing it was being underestimated, the two headed serpent narrowed their eyes in rage. They raised their heads towards the sky and opened their mouths.

The Straw Hats watched the new development in absolute silence. All eyes expanded at the sight of the left head spewing raging fire and the right head emitting a powerful cloud of ice. The two elements filled the blue sky with its vast size and intensity, reaching thousands of feet into the air as if it's attempting to destroy the heavens themselves.

"No way." Nami whispered quietly, too scared and overwhelmed to raise her voice.

"It-it-it can breathe fire and ice?!" Usopp cried in terror.

"How is it doing that? Normal seakings can't do that." Angel questioned, obviously scared but somewhat composed.

"We're all going to die!" Chopper screamed from the top of his lungs.

"I was already dead, yohoho."

Franky gulped nervously. "If we get hit by any one of those, we'll be done for."

Robin observed the sheer magnitude of the serpents attack as it begins to die down. 'A two headed serpent seaking that can breathe fire and ice, I've never heard of such a thing before. Could seakings be evolving somehow?'

The serpent ended his arrogant display of power and gave the Straw Hats an almost smug look.

Luffy casually turned to Zoro and Naruto. "Yosh, Rock Paper Scissors it is."

"YOU'RE STILL PLANNING TO PLAY THAT GAME!?" Nami's terrified group screamed once again, furious at how they can be so calm in the face of threat.

Naruto faced Sanji on the upper deck while Zoro face his captain, they all clenched their fists in preparation.

"You guys ready?" Naruto question, gaining nods from the three males.

"Rock, Paper, Scissors!"

The captain and former Leaf shinobi grinned as they claimed victory.

"Scissors beats paper, Sanji." Naruto smiled to the cook.

"Better luck next time, Zoro" Luffy kept his grin at the disappointed swordsman.

Sanji placed another cigarette between his lips. "Ha! I knew you would lose, Marimo."

"You lost too, perverted cook!"

A vein popped on the foreheads of the gigantic seaking, showing its frustration from the lack of fear his threatening attacked had produced from the pirates.

"Luffy, hurry! The seakings looks really angry!" Usopp screamed with teary eyes.

Naruto and the captain casually faced another.

"How does this sound Luffy, since the seaking has two heads, how about we both deal with it but the person who wins leads the way?"

Luffy's grin widened as he shrugged his shoulders. "Sure, why not?"

The two males grinned and nodded. "Rock…"

The serpents temper reached boiling point, it withdrew its left, red scaled head and opened its mouth.

"Paper…"

Nami gasped severely, knowing exactly what's going to happen. "Luffy, Naruto! It's planning to burn us live, do something!"

A flame ignited inside the serpent's mouth.

"Scissors."

The jinjuriki and Luffy's eyes darkened in seriousness, knowing the outcome of their game and the incoming threat.

"Naruto, go." Luffy whispered with a venomous tone, pumping his arm to enter second gear.

"I got it…" Naruto replied using the same voice as his captain.

Their bodies vanished from their spots, leaving only a puff of steam and streaks of black lightning in their place.

Naruto reappeared standing on the white wooden rails on the port side of the ship, the enormous stream of merciless fire already closing in at a rapid pace.

He performed several of hands signs at dazzling speeds.

"Water style – Tsunami Wall jutsu!"

The Sunny thrashed violently once again as Naruto used the water beside the ship to erect an immense wall of water, a water wall nearly matching the height of the seaking itself.

Fire clashed with water, an eternal battle between two elements. The serpent's flames and Naruto's wall seemed evenly matched, thus protecting the Straw Hats from an early demise.

As steam began to build from Naruto's thick liquid wall, Luffy reappeared high above the two headed snake, looking like a tiny dot in the distance. No longer in second gear, the captain hit the apex of his flight and begun his downward drop.

Hissing viciously, the second head of the seaking spotted Luffy high in the air. It withdrew its neck and opened its mouth, frozen steam oozed from its opening as it aimed for the rubber captain.

Luffy's eyes widened at the sight of hundreds of human sized ice shards quickly heading his way.

Even with the wind rushing towards his face, Luffy's observation haki made evading the shards a simple task. Shifting his body weight, anticipating correctly to use the shards as platforms.

In the midst of all the icy chaos, Luffy spotted something intriguing from the corner of his eye. Over the horizon, a round shaped object twinkling like a distorted mirage. Luffy guessed whatever it was must have been huge since it was visible from so far away.

An ice shard that was centimetres away from grazing his shoulder brought the captains attention to task at hand. Realising he was within striking distance, Luffy loosened and extended his right arm, using the wind to stretch the limb further. He took a huge breath that inflated his body like a balloon.

"Gear, Third!"

The serpent ceased its attack, cautious of that gigantic fist attached to the tiny man above that's darkening in colour. This sudden change of tactics had the fire breathing head to stop its assault and look high above.

"Armament Haki!"

Luffy clenched his extended, haki encased fist.

"Gumo gumo no…"

The eyes of the seaking expanded in fear.

"Elephant Gun!"

Luffy's giant sized fist rocketed past his body to deliver an earth shattering punch to both heads of the seaking.

Naruto gazed up to see the tremendous connection between Luffy's fist and the monsters face's with a smirk. 'So that's gear third, huh? With the way he eats and the way he fights, I think Luffy and Choji would get along really well.'

The Thousand Sunny rocked violently for a third and final time, all due to Luffy's punch flattening the two headed snake on the ocean surface. The beaten seaking cried like a frightening little baby before diving down as far as it could from the pirates.

The remaining Straw Hat crew released a small sigh of relief as Luffy deflated and safely landed on the grassy deck.

"Good work, Senchou-san." Robin complimented with a small smile.

"Yeah, Luffy! You really showed that snake whose boss!" Usopp expressed loudly as him and Chopper ran towards their captain.

Still embracing Angel in her arms, Nami stared at the back of Naruto in peaceful silence. His enormous water wall was crumbling down to where it belongs but he remained where he stood, probably just to take a couple breathes of fresh ocean air.

He wore his usual black shinobi sandals, black trousers, kunai holster strapped across his right thigh, two shinobi pouches, bandages wrapped on both forearms, a black loose fit vest with orange flames all around the bottom of the vest and a thin, silver chained necklace attached to the Uzumaki emblem that reached just below his chest.

After running his hands through his golden locks, Naruto hopped off the wooden rails and walked towards the hugging girls. Nami had an expressionless face while Angel, judging by the love hearts in her eyes seemed to be loving the position she was in.

Grinning at the girl in jeans and pink bikini, Naruto ruffled Nami's hair in a petting fashion. "You don't have to be scared of anything Nami, me and Luffy may play around a bit but we would never do anything that could hurt any one of our nakamas."

Nami instantly blushed though she hid it under an irritated expression as she released Angel from their hug and ripped his hand off her head. "I know that but that was still a little too close for comfort." She complained while fixing her disorganised hair.

Knowing she had a point, Naruto chuckled guiltily until he saw Sanji from the corner of his eye. "Hey! Sanji! What about that ramen?!" He marched towards the cook, leaving the two ladies alone.

Finally fixing her hair to its original state, a blushing Nami felt the sensation of someone's gaze digging into her skin. That sensation led her to a smirking Angel with narrowed, teasing eyes.

Nami's blush deepened at the red heads implying look. "W-what?! Why are you looking at me like that?!"

Angel simply closed her eyes, teasingly shrugged and walked away. "Oh, nothing."

Nami's anger spiked. "Hey! Get back over here!"

"Franky! Steer Sunny that way!" Luffy's order vibrated loudly through the air causing the navigator's anger to simmer.

"Aye, captain!" The cyborg saluted then quickly ran towards the wheel.

"Wait a minute Luffy!" Nami warned anxiously, running towards the grinning captain pointing north east. "What's going through your head to make us change our route?"

"I saw something weird in that direction so I want us to check it out." He answered plainly, following it with his signature laugh.

Nami pinched the bridge of her nose. "Luffy, we've been sailing nonstop for weeks and we're nearly out of food and supplies. What we need right now is an island to restock, not a wild goose chase on some weird thing you saw."

The captain studied the loge pose attached to his navigator's wrist. "But that arrow is pointing towards the weird thing?"

Nami dropped her arm down to take a second look. "Oh, yeah, that one. It's true it's pointing the way you want to go but the needle itself has been acting a little strange. I was actually trying to avoid that route."

Luffy grinned from ear to ear. "Even more reason for us to go there!" He punched the air in excitement and casually walked away.

"H-hey Luffy! Did you hear what I just said!" She screamed at the back of the rubber captain.

Gaining no response, Nami sighed in defeat. "Well I guess that's that, there's nothing we can do when he makes up his mind."

20 minutes north east from the Straw Hats position.

A man lowered his binoculars and opened the hatch on his transponder snail watch.

"Lord Commander Stark, this is Toshiro reporting on the northern post, do you hear me?"

"Crystal. Any disturbances?"

"Not disturbances per say, I think it's in your best interest to come up here, sir."

"Why? What's going on up there?"

"It's the Straw Hat pirates, they're here, they've arrived, just like you predicted."

A small moment of silence passed, the transponder snail on Toshiro's watch grew a wide smirk.

"It's about time."

20 minutes later.

Nami stood behind Luffy and Naruto on the head of the Thousand Sunny, about fifty meters away from a mirage looking wall.

"Sugoi!" Luffy yelled with twinkling stars in his eyes.

"What do you guys think it is?" Naruto asked, obviously puzzled by the sight.

Nami took a moment to analyse the phenomenon.

"It's massive, that we can be sure off." She stated sarcastically. "In the two years we were apart, I studied everything we could possibly run into when it comes to whether and freak occurrences, but this, I've never seen anything like it."

"Before we do something rash, let's list of the things we know by just looking at it." Naruto said using his serious, jounin voice.

Nami nodded in agreement. "Okay, well, let's get the obvious out the way first, it's shaped like a huge dome."

Naruto looked up. "Approximately a thousand feet high."

Nami looked to the side. "Miles across, reminds me of Doflamingo's birdcage but even bigger?"

"We can't see anything inside it because of its weird, moving wall?" Naruto added unsurely.

"But it's almost transparent and doesn't look like a wall, its looks more like heated air or a larger version of my mirage tempo." Nami pinched her chin in wonder.

"Nami-san! Would you let me see your panties?!"

"WHY WOULD I?!" She furiously looked back at the upper deck where all the remaining Straw hats have gathered.

"Oi! Have you guys decided what to do?" Franky yelled out loud, gripping the wooden wheel.

"Not yet, we're still deciding!" Nami responded.

Luffy snapped out of his fascinated state. "I'm going to touch it." He grinned and withdrew his arm.

Nami instantly panicked as Naruto quickly placed a hand on his captain's shoulder. "Luffy wait, I'm having a bad feeling about this." He reached inside one of his pouches behind his back and took out a single kunai.

He skilfully spun the weapon around his index finger before throwing it at the surface of the dome shaped phenomenon. Yellow sparks ignited on the point of impact, exploding and reducing the weapon into nothing but dust.

The results of Naruto's actions left Nami and Luffy with wide eyes.

"I thought as much-" The jinjuriki placed his hands in his pockets. "It's a force field, a giant, dome shaped force field."

"A force field? But why? Why here in the middle of nowhere?" Nami asked, more confused than ever.

"I'm not sure exactly, whatever the reason, building a force field only means two things. One, you're trying to either protect what's inside, or two-"

"Trying to keep people from getting in." The navigator finished.

Naruto nodded silently, he glanced to his side to view his unusually quiet captain. "Luffy, what do you want to-"

The blond couldn't finish his sentence due to the crying captain looking and holding his hand. "I can't believe I almost lost you! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

Naruto smiled sympathetically for his friend while Nami shook her head in irritation.

All heads immediately shot towards the dome as it started to move.

"What's it doing now?" Naruto questioned out loud.

In front of the Straw Hats was now a huge, rectangular shaped whole on the dome's surface.

"It looks like someone made some sort of entrance for us." Nami told the two males.

The three pirates examined the interior of the dome, at first glance it looked like just the continuation of the sea, no buildings or mountains that suspected anything of an island. Though what was strange, the interior wall of the dome was completely see through, nothing similar to the mirage like outer wall.

However, a closer, deeper inspection, the three Straw Hats could see the distinct shapes of ships in the distance.

Naruto's eyes harden, sceptical of this new development. "This could all be a trap, we should stop and think about what the bes-"

"Franky! Raise the anchor! We're going in!" An excited Luffy yelled to his shipwright, completely oblivious to Naruto's suggestion.

The blond sage sighed with a small smile. "I thought that might happen."

10 minutes later

As Franky steered and sailed deeper into the dome, the rest of the crew stood together by the side of the ship. Though words suddenly became hard to come by as the first and most noticeable thing they saw had completely blew their minds away.

"A-are you guys seeing what I'm seeing?" Usopp stuttered with awe, wonder and to an extent, fear.

"I'm seeing it, still working on believing." Nami managed to murmur to the crew.

Ahead, laid what couldn't be better described as a gigantic circular whole in the middle of ocean. A massive opening spreading for miles and miles with thick stone walls coming up from the sea with waves crashing on the grey walls but never strong enough to enter the opening. The Straw Hats couldn't see what inside from their current position, but what they could see was also hard to believe.

"Look at all those ships-" Franky stated in amazement. "There's so many I've already lost count."

Attached to the circular stone wall were countless concrete docks stemming out, most of which were occupied with ships all widely varying in size and colour.

Taking a closer look, Nami spotted something all ships had in common.

"Look at all their Jolly Roger's-" She pointed. "Those ships aren't just any normal ships, they're all pirate ships!"

As the crew acted their own individual reactions towards their new situation, some fearful, others cautious, a small handful bursting with excitement, Robin stayed silent and simply watched the stationary pirate ships.

"This place, could it be…"

Her eyes narrowed as she spotted the shapes of what seemed to be two figures in the distance, standing on the wall next to a free docking spot.

"Nami, look."

The navigator moved to next to her best friend to see what she's seeing, then, she nodded in understanding

"Franky! Keep heading forward, there's a free dock up ahead!"

Minutes later

Docking safely and hopping off the Sunny in minutes, the Straw Hats marched the long concrete dock to be greeted by two individuals.

The man on the left was young, had grey hair and dark eyes and wore black and maroon coloured clothes which looked more like a uniform and attached to his hip was a holster holding a silver hand gun.

Next to him was a taller, older fellow that looked to be in his late 50's with long, brown hair shaped up in a ponytail. He wore black boots, navy blue trousers, a half buttoned, maroon coloured shirt with rolled up sleeves and a chained necklace attached to indigo coloured ring. Similarly to his shorter companion, this older man with a powerful aura had two holsters attached to both sides of his hip, each carrying a silver hand gun.

The two males carried a small smile on their faces, somewhat relaxing the Straw Hat crew, though most were still cautious about their new environment.

"I can tell by your expressions that some of you are a little on edge being here-" The older man spoke. "Well don't be, you're all safe here."

The Straw Hats remained quiet, unsure what to say.

The older, smiling man focused on the Straw Hat wearing captain. "Monkey D. Luffy."

The man shocked the entire crew by giving a sincere bow to their rubber leader.

The man stood once again with even a bigger smile. "I've been waiting for you for quite some time now. Though I've never lost hope, I knew you'll make it here someday."

Luffy smiled and awkwardly chuckled. "Ahh, thanks I guess? But can I ask, who are you exactly?"

The taller man laughed to himself. "Oh right, I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce ourselves." He gestured to his shorter, grey haired companion. "This is Toshiro."

"A pleasure." Toshiro nodded to the crew.

"And my name is Ariel Stark, Lord Commander of the Neo-Pirates and former sniper and gunsmith of the Roger pirates."

Complete and utter silence from the Mugiwara pirates, eyes round as saucers with jaws hitting the floor.

"Y-you're a member of the Pirate King's crew." Luffy just about managed to stutter in awe.

The man who goes by the name of Ariel Stark grew a thinner, leaner smirk, knowing the Straw Hats reactions would be to his impressive title. He raised both his arms to his sides with open hands and spoke.

"Straw Hat pirates, welcome, to The Devil's Pit."

AN/ If you didn't notice already, the song Nami was singing is an actual song sung by an actual band using the same names and everything. The song itself is featured in the anime Guilty Crown which I'm a fan of, it's one of my favourite songs from an anime and I would recommend watching it if you have't already. I know putting a song in from another anime seems out of place but i thought, to hell with it, this story is already a crossover anyways. If you're interested on how the song sounds like please take the time to listen to it, and also try the English cover sung by amalee on youtube, big fan of hers. I used multiple sources to find the translations so it won't be the same in any one subbed version of the song.

This was the first time I wrote a full on lemon scene so I apologise if it was bad.

Updates should come quicker since I'm in my summer holiday, see you in chapter 18!