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Here is the forth chapter! I hope you'll like it! :) Reviews are welcome as always! :)

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Secrets

It was around ten o'clock when Luffy got home which was a bit earlier than the usual. His day didn't turn out the way he wanted to. He wanted to forget about that certain morning incident by cancelling all his meetings and spending the day with his girlfriend. But then Zoro came and confused him with that little speech. All he could think about was Nami. He was really confused. How the hell did she end up on top of him in the morning? The only thing he remembered that he felt something on him and when he opened his eyes she was there. Then she looked at him with her beautiful brown eyes. For a few moments he was completely lost in them. At that moment he didn't care about the position they were in and that he was holding the woman he didn't even want to touch at all. For a few moments everything felt so right. He never felt this before and this totally confused him.

He thought that Hancock would be able to distract him a bit, but that wasn't the case. So he decided to go home earlier and maybe if she would be still awake and they met each other, then he would ask her about the morning. But only in case if they met.

Luffy was in front of the door of his house. He was about to enter but the door was closed. The door was only closed when neither of them was at home. So this meant that Nami was away which was really strange at that time. For a few seconds Luffy felt a little bit of uneasiness but he didn't care about it and went into the house.

An hour passed… and still nothing…

Luffy was sitting in the kitchen. He had already finished his dinner and he was just sitting and … waiting? He didn't even know why he was still in the kitchen. He should enjoy that he is alone in the house again. But somehow he couldn't. The only thing in his mind was that where Nami could be. It was 11 o'clock. She was always at home at this time.

Ok! This is enough. I should just go back to my room to sleep. Tomorrow I'll have a hard day because I have to catch up with the meetings I cancelled today. I have no time to sitting here waiting for her to come home. I mean I'm not specifically waiting for her. I'm just sitting in the kitchen. It's not like I really want to wait for her, right?

"AAArrghhhhh! Enough! I'm going to sleep!" cried out Luffy in frustration.

When he stood up and headed out the kitchen, he heard the entrance door opening and closing. He didn't know why but he sighed when he heard it. He was about to sit back to wait Nami to go back to her room. But the only thing he could hear was someone slid down to the ground and started crying silently. Luffy silently walked to the kitchen door and carefully peeked out.

What he saw caused an unknown pain in his chest. Nami was sitting on the floor crying her heart out. Luffy couldn't help but walked to her…

"Oi! Are you ok?" asked quietly not wanting to scare her.

Nami gasped when she heard Luffy's voice. She looked up at him and quickly started to wipe away the tears from her face.

"Oh, Luffy! I-I'm sorry.. I-I thought that you are still not at home… I-I'm sorry…" said Nami and was about to run to her room. But Luffy instinctively grabbed her arm and stopped her. But when he grabbed her arm she winced in pain which was strange as Luffy didn't grab her too strongly. With that he pulled Nami close to him and pulled up the sleeve of her coat revealing a huge bruise on her arm. Nami's eyes widened and she pulled away her arm. Luffy felt some anger starting boiling up inside him. He knew very well that that bruise wasn't there in the morning. Nami was about to run away again.

"Nami! Wait!" said Luffy. Nami froze. He never called her by her name. Luffy used this moment to grab her wrist this time since it wasn't bruised.

"Tell me what happened!" demanded Luffy.

"N-Nothing… I just fell!" said Nami looking to the floor.

"Both of us know that this is not true." said Luffy this time more gently.

Nami felt some tears in her eyes and she was still looking to the floor.

"Nami! Look at me." said Luffy again and he put is other hand under her chin to lift up her head making her to look at him. "Nami! Tell me who did this to you. Don't tell me that you just fell!" said Luffy.

Nami couldn't stop the tears from falling.

"Why? Why should I tell you? Does it matter anything to you whether I just fell or not? Look! I said that for me it doesn't matter if you just ignore me. I know that you hate me for stealing your wonderful life. So you don't have to pretend that you care for me." cried out Nami.

Luffy was totally taken aback. His grip loosen on Nami's wrist and she freed herself immediately and ran upstairs to her room. Luffy stayed in complete shock for a few moments. In his head he heard Nami's words again and again.

I'm not pretending! Dammit! I want to know who did this no matter what!

He took out his phone from his pocket!

"Robin! I need to talk to you! Could you come to my office tomorrow morning?" said Luffy.

"Yeah! Sure. What happened?"

"I'll tell you everything tomorrow. Good night!" said Luffy and hung up his phone then he also went upstairs to his room.

The following day Luffy woke up early in the morning although he didn't get too much sleep. When he stepped out of his room he smelled coffee. He made his way down to the kitchen where he found Nami with two cups of coffee.

"I'm sorry for yesterday. I didn't mean to be rude." said Nami and with that she gave one of the cups to Luffy.

"It's ok." said Luffy taking a sip from his coffee. Neither of them spoke while they drinking .

"Thanks for the coffee." said Luffy when he finished and he went out of the kitchen. He was about to step out of the house when he saw Nami coming out of the kitchen.

"By the way, I'll call my personal doctor to examine your arm. That bruise seems serious. Next time be more careful." said Luffy and turned to the door to leave the house.

"Wait, I…" Nami wanted to protest but Luffy interrupted her.

"One more thing! Just to make things clear, I never said that I hate you." said Luffy and with that he left the house and closed the door behind him. Nami didn't have any chance to answer. She was just staring the door for a few minutes in complete shock.

When Luffy arrived at his office, Robin had been already waiting for him.

"Thanks Robin that you could come here." said Luffy sitting down in his chair.

"No problem. But what happened I could hear in your voice that something is not ok with you." said Robin.

"Well, it's not me. It's Nami." said Luffy.

"What about her?" asked Robin.

"Something is not ok with her. She is keeping something from me." said Luffy.

"You know, Zoro told about your relationship with Nami. And I'm not surprised at all. If you didn't speak with her you can't expect her to tell you everything about herself." said Robin.

"I know. But this is not that simple. I wouldn't mind if she keeps secrets from me until she won't come home with bruises on her arm."

Robin's eyes widened.

"What?"

"Yesterday she came home late. I was in the kitchen when I heard her entering the house. When I left the kitchen I found her on the floor crying. You know that I'm not a cold hearted bastard so I went to her to find out what happened. That was when I noticed the bruise on her arm."

"Did you ask her how she got it? Maybe she just fell." said Robin.

"Yeah and she told that exactly. But I'm not stupid. I know what the difference between a bruise caused by a simple fall and a bruise caused by someone who grip your arms too strongly." said Luffy in a serious tone.

Robin was speechless for a few seconds.

"I see. Then you should call Chopper. I don't understand why you called me instead of him."

"Of course I called Chopper too. I called you here because I would like you to tell me everything you know about her." said Luffy.

"I can tell you a few more things. But I don't understand why you want to know more about her. I don't think this could help you to end this marriage." said Robin.

Luffy looked at Robin with confused eyes.

"Who said that I want to use this information to end the marriage?" asked Luffy a bit nervously.

"I can't see any other reason." said Robin with a slight smile on her face which was hardly noticeable.

Luffy thought about it for a few seconds. Robin's question was absolutely legit.

"Honestly, I don't know. I know only one thing and that is to know who did this to her." said Luffy.

Robin just smiled.

"Alright, I'll help you." said Robin.

Luffy's face lit up a bit.

"Thanks Robin!" said Luffy gratefully.

"What do you know about her?" asked Robin.

"I only know that she is the adopted daughter of a man called Arlong who is the head of a security company and she is a year older than me. That is all." said Luffy.

"I see. Well, of course your father asked me to do some research about her. What you know is true. Nami is an orphan adopted by Arlong. She never knew her real parents; she was a baby when they died. However her first adoptive parent was a woman called Bellemere. She had a mikan growth in Cocoyashi. Nami was raised by her until she was eight. She has an adoptive sister called Nojiko who still lives in Cocoyashi."

"What happened to Bellemere?"

"She died."

"How?"

"Well, this is a mystery for me. Officially she died in an accident, but I found some documents which said that she was killed. Someone shot her. But I couldn't find any witness who could confirm it. Someone said that the only ones who were there when Bellemere died are Nami and her adoptive sister, Nojiko. I went to ask Nojiko about it, but she wasn't willing to answer. She said that I'd better not getting involved in this story. However, she said something else…" here Robin stopped for a few seconds falling deep in thoughts.

"What? What did Nojiko say?" asked Luffy to wake up Robin.

"She said that she hoped you would take care of Nami better than him." said Robin.

Luffy thought about this sentence a bit.

"That is all I know. I don't know if this can help you. But I hope you won't misuse it." said Robin.

Luffy looked at Robin with a serious expression on his face.

"Of course I won't. I just want to find out what happened." said Luffy.

"Alright, now if you excuse me I have to go because I'll have a meeting with your father."

"Yeah, thanks for everything." said Luffy.

As soon as Robin left the office Luffy's phone started ringing.

"Hey, Chopper. Did you managed to go to my place?" asked Luffy.

"Yes. I was there." said Chopper.

"And did you managed to examine Nami's arm?" asked Luffy.

"Well, first she didn't want me to check it but I managed to convince her. You were right. This wasn't caused by a fall. Fortunately nothing serious, so don't worry. It will heal easily." said Chopper.

"Thanks! Chopper I owe you." said Luffy then he said good bye to Chopper and hung up the phone.

That day Luffy went home really late as always. But this time he had really a lot of work to do. It was around midnight when he made it home. The house was dark when he entered but the entrance door was opened so Nami was at home. He quietly went upstairs, but before he would have turned to go to his bedroom, he had stopped. He looked at Nami's door. Then before he could have realised it he was in front of her door and put his hands on the doorknob. Silently pushed it and opened the door. Fortunately she was already asleep. He silently went to her bed and looked at her sleeping form.

Her face was calm and she breathed smoothly. She was beautiful, probably the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his life, but he quickly chased away that thought. That was the moment when he realised where he was.

Dammit! What the hell am I doing here? And what is more important when did I get here? I should get out of here before she wakes up.

Luffy slowly turned to leave when he heard her moving. He looked back at her only to realise that her face turned into a painful one. The next moment he was already back by her side. She started mumble something. He hardly could understand a word, he could make out only one and that was enough for Luffy to know how he should find out more things about Nami's so-called accident.

He instinctively reached for her hand and grabbed it gently. A few seconds passed and Nami's face started to calm down and finally became peaceful again.

Luffy couldn't help but smiled at her. He stayed for a few more minutes then he let her hand and quietly went out of Nami's room.

When he was in his room he grabbed his phone.

"Oh my god, Luffy! What happened? Why are you calling me in the middle of the night?" asked a pissed off voice.

"Sorry dad. Anyway you didn't sleep, did you?" asked Luffy.

"I didn't. But still it's midnight." said Dragon.

"Do you still want that big family dinner with you, me, Nami and Arlong?" asked Luffy.

"Of course. Why? I hope you called me because you agree with it." said Dragon.

"Yeah. I want that dinner! Tomorrow!" said Luffy giving his last word a bit more emphasis.

"Finally!" said Dragon. "Wait… what? Tomorrow? What's this hurry?" asked Dragon in disbelief.

"It's nothing. I just thought it over and now I agree with the fact that we should get to know each other more. I never had the chance to have a proper talk with Arlong. That's all. I want it tomorrow, can you arrange it?" said Luffy.

"Fine. I'll call him tomorrow morning." said Dragon.

After Luffy hung up the phone he lied down in his bed and watched the ceiling.

Tomorrow I'll find out everything…