Sorry I haven't posted in so long! School, and work is taking over my life! Also all the sewing that I'm doing is too much! But I am trying really hard to get stories out. They may not be very long, but I'm trying! Thanks for sticking around through all this, or if you're new, thank you for reading this. Tell me what you guys of this so far so I know what I need to improve on for future stories! Thank you all once again~~

"Man...where are we?" asked Luffy rubbing his head.

"This is why I told you not to run off Luffy!" Said Nami trying to hold herself back from screaming at him. After taking deep breath, she says, "Well, com on, Luffy. We're not going to find our way just standing here. We have to keep moving." She walks ahead of him and he follows right behind her.

Luffy catches up and they start walking side by side. "Nami..." he said flatly looking very mature. "Can I ask you something?"

Nami looks at him, slightly blushing after seeing how msture he looked. "Wh-what is it, Luffy?"

"Nami" He looks at her with the slightest smile and grabs her wrist. "I-"

"Luffy?!" Said someone in a shocked voice.

Luffy turns to the side to see an old friend. His eyes got big. "Jinbei!" Luffy lets go of Nami's wrist and runs to Jinbei and hugs him.

"Jinbei!" said Luffy smiling. "I missed you so much!"

Luffy lets go of Jinbei still smiling happy to see him. "Luffy," said Jinbei. What are you even doing here?"

"Well, we're going to our friends wedding in Alabasta. But we decided to come back through here to avoid Mariejois. Plus, even if we could get through, our friend would get in trouble."

Jinbei looked confused. "Why? Why would your friend get in trouble?"

"Oh, that's because our friend is the princess of Alabasta!"

"What?!" said Jinbei shocked. "You guys made friends with a princess?!" He stopped for a moment realizing what he said. "Well, besides Shirahoshi."

"Well, it wasn't intentional. She was evil at first, we were going to help her and her partner get rid of the person who was head of their organization, but we ended up becoming friends along the way! We wanted her to join our crew, but she stayed behind to rule her country." Luffy looked a little sad remembering the day they had to leave behind their new friend. "But," said Luffy perked up. "we will always be friends! And nothing can ever change that!"

Nami looked at Luffy and smiled. She knows exactly how he feels. After all, she left behind the first friend that was a girl. It was hard on everyone, but it affected Nami a bit more than everyine else. She stpped up and broke the silence. "Luffy, come on. You wanted to go see Shirahoshi, right?"

"Yeah. We do." He turned to Jinbei, "Come on, Jimbei! Let's go!"

Jinbie lookes at Nami, then to the situation. "I think I'll meet up with you guys later. I'll be around, just find me later."

"But why, Jinbei? We're going to find Shirahoshi."

"You are more friends with Shirahoshi than I am. Just go without me. We'll find each other again soon. Don't worry Luffy."

Luffy looks at Jinbei a little upset that he wasn't going with them.

Jinbei walks over to Nami, grabs her arm, and walks her away from Luffy's ear shot. Luffy just stood there watching them walk away with Nami's worried look on her face. Jinbei leaned in toward Nami. "Listen, Nami, I owe you one for what happened a long time ago on your home island. So, I'm going to give you some alone time with Luffy right now since I can see that you want it. So, make sure you tell him whatever you need to. I feel like I interupted something before, so I ant to make sure he tells you what he was going to as well." He walked away and lightly pushed Luffy towards Nami, making Luffy hold onto his hat and look at Jinbei. Jinbei smiled and and said, "I'll see you guys later." And walked off into the bustling streets of Fishman Island.