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Luffy, Always Bounces Back: Pirate King's Pleasure.

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Chapter 9:

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The sun was setting and the sky had lit itself up with a beautiful golden orange colour. And two members of the strawhat crew were lying down on the lawn of the Thousand Sunny while the rest of the crew were elsewhere. Some idiot might have thought these two were having a romantic talk on the grassy deck looking up at the wispy clouds, but others would instantly say otherwise.

"Oooooo, Nami what about that one?" Luffy said pointing up at the clouds above him.

"I don't know, it doesn't really look like anything to me."

"It looks like a fishman flying."

Nami sighed tired with brain exhaustion. She couldn't take much more of this from an adult even if it was Luffy. She sat up and Luffy followed suit. "I don't understand it Luffy. Why wouldn't you want the other four around for this? We need to find the others as soon as possible. I have a bad feeling about this place and it's not subsiding." Nami swallowed down her worry and looked back up at her captain for his reply.

Luffy unexpectedly to her dismay laughed his whole-hearted laugh and fell back down into the grass of the deck clutching his belly.

"Luffy! This isn't a joke. I think you need to go look for them, Sanji and Robin." She stepped forward and grabbed him by the collar of his red shirt.

"You worry too much Nami." he smiled back up at her, seemingly unworried about being throttled by his navigator. "They are probably just all having a lot of fun right now. They will be back in the morning."

"But then if you didn't want to talk to me about the others then why did you ask to meet me here?"

"Well," he took his strawhat off his head and threw it up into the damp, salty-smelling air and caught it again. "I wanted to just talk to you. I haven't done that in a long time right? Not just the two of us."

"Okay," Nami frowned trying to find a reason as to why her captain would want to just talk. He never just talked. He had the attention span of a 4 year old. She sighed at the irony. "So what did you want to talk about?"

Luffy stopped throwing his hat around for a moment and focused on Nami brandishing his childlike smile at her. "I want to see how much of your dream you have accomplished." He reached out and fixed his hat on her head and tugged her towards him until he knocked noses with her.

"What? But you don't like reading maps."

"I know, but it was your dream right? I want to see how much maps you did draw."

"It's how many maps you have drawn... Actually." she pushed him back a bit regaining some form of reasonable personal space.

Luffy gave her his blank stare and then came his thoughtful face and then his confused face as he tried to work out what she had just said.

"Don't worry about it." Nami sighed and then made her way across the deck to the room entrances that lead into her drawing room. He hopped off after her and followed her closely to her navigation room. She opened up the door and brought her captain into the data cluttered space. She had already gathered up a lot of materials and instruments from many different islands and places that aided in matching up records and measuring up data.

Luffy grinned as he entered. "Wow Nami! I didn't know you had done so much! I thought you were always spending too much time with your Orange trees and Sanji's drinks up on deck, but this is so cool!" He picked up one sheet of paper with lots of unusual swirling patterns on it. "What is this one?"

"That was a drawing of the sky Island that I was thrown to when we got separated, remember."

"What do these swirls mean?" He asked, She grinned stupidly at his simplicity.

"Well, this drawing is just one of the weather patterns that I drew of the island. I did an entire months worth of documentation." She stopped and pointed at another stack of paper. "The rest of it is there."

He walked over and carefully picked up the sheets of paper and started flicking through them. Nami felt a twinge of nervousness rush through her. What if he thought her work was rubbish? Shut up! He wouldn't know bad work from good work even if he tried too. What if he smashes a table by accident and ruins one of the maps again?

"These are really good Nami." He beamed back at her. His smile was obviously contagious as Nami reflected back at him almost instantly.

"I still have so much more to do." She turned around and looked back at what she considered to be a minuscule amount. So much more to do.

"Don't worry. You have plenty of time to do it." Luffy came up from behind and hugged her wrapping his arms around her waist. She pulled his arms away from her body with difficulty and took his hat back off her head and dumped it back onto his own. Walking over to a pile of papers Nami gathered a collection together that her captain might like to see.

To her surprise her heart was beating three times as fast as it normally was supposed to. What the hell was happening to me? She shook her head. Why am I feeling intimidated by Luffy? What is he doing that is making me feel so uneasy? I never feel uneasy around Luffy. She shook her herself again trying to clear her mind of this unnecessary worry. This was Luffy and she had no need to be worried or concerned about him. He was doing this for her. He was just worried about her. That was why he was here.

Yes, she should be enjoying this moment. This was nice. Luffy had never asked her to show him her maps before. In fact she remembered that after spilling a bottle of ink over her work that one time she had practically kicked Luffy out of the room demanding that he was never to come back in. And yet here he was now.

She turned back around to find Luffy sitting on her chair and really looking very at home in her room. It's like he owns the place. Oh, well I suppose he is the captain. He is supposed to or does sort of own this entire ship.

"And these Maps are of the Islands in the East Blue." She said handing them over to her Captain.

He took them from her hands and spent a long time just flicking through them.

"This is my Island!" He exclaimed at one drawing.

She felt alarms blaring in the back of her mind when he reached for a pen and ink pot. "Luffy?" She growled out a warning.

"Don't worry. I'm only doing a minor adjustment."

"What is that?"

"This Island needs a Windmill... right... here." and with that he scribbled on a windmill onto her map.

"Okay," Nami reached down and took the ink away from her Captain and pulled the maps out of his dangerous reach. " … I think that's enough for now."

"No! But I was going to draw my tree-hideout as well." Luffy whined.

"No."

"It used to have treasure in it."

"Don't be silly." Nami scoffed. "What sort of treasure did you value when you were small? A hive of bugs and beetles?"

"No! It was real treasure!" Luffy declared.

"Yeah right." Nami laughed. "I seem to remember that you don't really value the cost of real treasure at all. Don't you remember what you did when you first met me?" Her perfect scowl was coming back onto her face. "You just gave an entire fortune away to a village that we had never met before and will never meet again. And you expect me to agree with you that you know how to guard and hide treasure?"

"No, I don't hid my treasure. When I find treasure I will yell it out so everyone can hear me and be jealous." He chuckled in delight at the idea of such a thing happening.

"And that is why the Catastrophe at Water Seven happened." Nami sighed in painful memory.

"But we made friends with Franky and saved Robin so that made it okay. Not all treasure is gold Nami."

"Maybe, but something has to be worth a lot before it can be classified as treasure." Nami said rolling her eyes at Luffy's ignorance.

"You're worth a lot Nami." He said, his dusty, dark, brown eyes locking onto her colourful brown ones. He pushed his hat back off his head and ran his fingers through his jet black hair.

"So what? You're saying I'm some kind of treasure? You are so possessive." she shook her head in mock surprise.

Luffy raised his eyebrows. "Of course I am. I'm going to be the Pirate King."

She flicked her flaming orange hair back over her shoulders. "So tell me my young Pirate King. How exactly do you act possessively over someone who is your treasure when they aren't in need of being rescued? Because you don't show any possessiveness to anything other than food from what I've seen."

Before she knew what had hit her, she found herself up against the wall of her make shift sea-chart library being held up above the ground by none other than Luffy himself.

"I'm glad you asked." He said and then leaned his body into hers and kissed her.

Her mind went into shock mode momentarily, but then kicked itself back into action and she pushed him away from her with her feet causing him to lower her back down to his level. "What the Hell Luffy!" Her breath was catching in her throat. "What do you think you were doing?"

"Kissing you." he shrugged his shoulders and put his hat back on his head.

"I know. But why?!" Nami stepped back from him feeling slightly freaked out. This was not her free-spirited captain that didn't know anything about love, was He?

"Because I felt like it." Luffy answered.

She felt furious. So clueless! "You have to ask permission first! Haven't you read anything decent about how you ask a woman out properly!? You should ask Sanji when he gets back he will give you some pointers about what men should do before just kissing a girl out of the blue like that." She scowled at him and crossed her arms.

"Maybe I should." He took another step back and sat back down in the chair he had just vacated and yawned as if bored. "But I don't really think any of Sanji's tricks and gift thingy's work right?" His dark eyes looked her up and down. Nami's jaw would have dropped to the ground if she had been the one to have eaten the gum gum fruit. Wait a minute is Luffy checking me out? Does he really think that I might...? She unfolded her arms when she realized that having them folded made her boobs lift up and put her hands on her hips instead. I should have worn a bit more than a bikini tonight.

Nami shook her head in mock amusement. "Either you've eaten the devil fruit of sexual awareness and maturity or you are suffering from some sort of sun stroke." She pointed to the door. "Come on. Get out. You're being weird today." Luffy nodded slowly as if they had come to some kind of understanding, stood up and made his way to the door. Just before going through he paused and looked up at his tall, beautiful navigator from underneath his hat.

He grinned. "I know you love surprises. I've got a big one in store for you."

Nami laughed off his comment and shut the door in his face seemingly impervious of his effect on her. As soon as the door was shut though she melted down its surface. What was going on?! Luffy was never like this. She place a cold white hand over her beating heart and wondered why the hell she was getting so worked up. It was just Luffy. I don't love Luffy. I couldn't like an idiot like Luffy he was just not intelligent enough.

But try as she might she couldn't get rid of the memory, the feeling of blissful helplessness that had come over her when he had pinned her up against the wall, and the pumping of her blood that had instinctively gone to warm up certain areas of her body that she never even thought about when she was with her idiot Captain.

She shook her head yet again. This was stupid she wasn't falling for Luffy. She wasn't falling for Luffy. She was just a little flustered. That was all.

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Yay! I love Chapter 9. I can't believe I've finally done it. YAY!

Tell me what you think guys. Can you work out the mysterious happenings?

What is going on?