Betrayal and a Choice

Luffy was in town.

Yes he used Haki to break out.

He was still grinning about it.

Did Luffy care that he missed out on Nami's past.

Not really.

He stuck around long enough to hear about Nami's mother and that was it.

But since Nami already told him once that she lost someone close to her, he just guess that Belle Mere was that person.

At that moment, Genzo was with Nezumi and his men, heading to Nami's place.

"What do you want with Nami?" Genzo asked.

"Just take us to her. Don't ask anything," Nezumi replied.

Luffy watched as they walked toward Nami's place.

"Why does that man have a pinwheel on his head?" Luffy asked obviously oblivious to what was actually going on.

…

Nami leaved her house.

"One more round and I can get a hundred million berries," Nami said.

Suddenly Genzo Nezumi and the marines arrived.

"Genzo and the marines?" Nami thought.

"I am Major Nezumi of the 16th unit," Nezumi greeted, "You're the outlaw named Nami, right?"

"Well, I'm a pirate of the Arlong Pirates, so I guess that means I'm an outlaw," Nami responded, "You're a Marine Major, so you should understand. If you do something to me, Along won't let you go. So What do you want with me?"

"A pirate, huh? That's not what I heard," Nezumi said, "I heard you're a pirate thief."

"Huh?" Nami responded.

"As I have heard. It seems that you stole from pirates. Because of that, I decided not to hurt you. However, a thief is still a thief and a sin is still a sin," Nezumi explained, "Do you understand? If those treasure are stolen from the outlaws, the government will take care of those treasures and give them back to their owners."

"What did you say?" Nami asked in shock.

Even Genzo was shock to hear this.

"I said that you should give us all the treasures you stole," Nezumi replied and then ordered his men, "Search for the treasure!"

"Yes sir!" the men responded as they started rummaging through Nami's house.

"Wait! Don't go into my house with out permission!" Nami yelled as she took out her staff and hit a marine, "Stop!"

However it didn't seem to work out as she hoped.

"Why? The work that the marines should be doing now. There are many things that you have to take care of. Don't you know that Arlong has killed many people and destroyed many villages?" Nami asked, "Under his control, everyone was treated as a slave and you did not do a single thing about that! And now you just want to find the treasure of one thief? Is this a real government?"

"You are an outlaw, so you better shut up," Nezumi said, "Don't worry about her and continue the search."

The marines continued to search.

"Sir! There's something in the orange farm!" A marine reported.

"Just dig it up!" Nezumi ordered.

"Don't touch Belle Mere's oranges!" Nami yelled as she hit the Marine with her staff, "I won't give that money to you. That money is…"

"Her money is the money that could help Kokoyashi village! What right do you have to take that money away Marine?" Genzo yelled.

"What? Are those words that you are suppose to say to a Marine Major?" Nezumi asked.

"Genzo… How do you know that?" Nami asked.

"I've known it for a long time," Genzo replied, "I never believed that you could betray us. So we made Nojiko tell us everything. So everyone in the village knew this. But we didn't want our hope to prevent you from leaving the island. That's why we pretended we didn't know."

"What?" Nami responded.

"What are you talking about? Are you saying that everyone in the villages is a thief?" Nezumi asked with an evil smirk.

'We're saying that we cannot expect anything from the government! So, we have to fight by ourselves!" someone yelled.

They turned to see it was Nojiko.

"If you didn't come to help us, you better get out of here! If you don't hurry, Arlong will sink your ship!" Nojiko warned.

"Arlong? Do you think he will sink my ship?" Nezumi asked.

"Sir! We still can't find it!" a marine reported.

"I didn't order you to find a small seed! Why can't you find 100 million berries?" Nezumi asked.

"Hey! How can you know the amount of money?" Genzo asked.

"Huh? Oh! I just thought it would be that amount," Nexumi responded.

"Liar! Arlong told you to come here!" Nami yelled.

"So what? We're only using the identity of the government's personels to do what was supposed to be done to the thieves."

"What did you say?" Genzo yelled.

"You;'re a marine but you have become a pirates pet!" Nojiko yelled.

"Take care of them!" Nezumi yelled.

The Marines aimed their guns and wer e about to fire.

"NO!" Nami yelled with all her might.

Suddenly there was a force of Haki that send the Marines into the ground.

"Who did that?" Nezumi yelled.

"I did!" someone said.

They turned to see it was Luffy.

"Unless you want to feel my full power, get out of here!" Luffy ordered.

Nezumi growled at Luffy.

"Men! Retreat for now!" Nezumi ordered, "But we'll be back!"

The marines retreated as ordered.

"Luffy…" Nami responded.

"I don't know what was going on, but it's a good thing I got here!" Luffy laughed.

Nami grabbed Luffy by the collar of his shirt.

"Get out of here Luffy! This is none of your business!" Nami yelled.

The villagers arrived just as Nami threw Luffy into the ground and started running to Arlong Park.

…

Nami arrived at Arlong Park.

"Arlong! You send the marines after my treasure didn't you?" Nami demanded.

"What are you talking about?" Arlong asked.

"Don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about! The Marines were just at my house searching for my treasure!" Nami yelled, "You did it didn't you!"

Arlong grabbed Nami by the head.

"Tell me! When have I been known to break my promises," Arlong said.

Most of the fishmen laughed.

"Nami," Hachi responded.

"If you lost your money you can just search all over again!" Arlong laughed.

Nami cried, which she haven't done in a long time.

"If you escape this island, I will kill everyone in Kokoyashi Village," Arlong warned.

"No! It can't be!" Nami thought feeling a swelling power in her, "NO!"

Nami send a wave of Haki that caught the fishmen off guard.

Nami slapped Arlong's hand and ran off.

…

Genzo had gathered the adult villagers of Kokoyashi.

"Everyone! Arlong has broken his promise to Nami in allowing her to buy back her village! Now we must fight for our freedom!" Genzo yelled.

"Yeah!" the villagers yelled.

"Wait!" someone yelled.

They turned to see it was Nami.

"It's okay! I'll just re-hide the treasure and search for some more!" Nami told them, "There's no need for you to fight."

Genzo walked up to Nami and hugged her.

"That's enough! You know nothing you do will work anymore. I promised Belle Mere That I would be yours and Nojiko's father figure after her death, but instead I let you fight our battles," Genzo said, "You fought a good fight! Now let us fight for you."

"Nojiko…" Nami responded.

"You're a very smart person and you always have your dream to accomplish, right?" Nojiko asked.

"Everyone! Don't go! I don't want to see anyone get hurt by them!" Nami yelled.

"We know! Now get out of our way!" Genzo yelled.

And so Genzo and the villagers left, leaving Nami there.

Nami remembered Arlong's evil laugh.

She took a knife and stab her shoulder with the tattoo.

"Arlong!" Nami cried as she removed the knife to stab herself again.

However, someone stopped her by grabbing the knife.

She turned to see it was Luffy.

"Luffy? What is it now? I told you to get off this island!" Nami cried.

Luffy didn't say anything, but stood there.

"Luffy… help me…" Nami cried.

Luffy grabbed his straw hat and placed it on Nami's head.

He walk a few feet and stopped before yelling, "Sure I'll help you!"

Nami touch the straw hat remembering how much it meant to Luffy.

…Flashback…

"I got this hat from a friend of mine, and it been with me through all the good and bad times I gone through. Especially when Ace Sabo and I made a pack to be brothers no matter what happened to us, even after becoming pirates," Luffy replied, "Most importantly. I made a pack on this hat that I would gather the greatest crew I can gather, become the greatest Haki User ever, and become king of the pirates."

…End of Flashback…

"Luffy…" Nami said as she looked at Luffy.

Luffy walked up to his crew members that was there the whole time.

"Zoro! Usopp! Sanji! Gin! Let's go!" Luffy ordered, "We got some fishmen to beat!"

"Yeah!" all three responded.

…

The villagers weren't able to enter Arlong Park because standing in their way, or rather sitting in their way, was Johnny and Yosaku.

"Get out of our way!" Genzo yelled.

"Sorry, but we can't do that," Yosaku said.

"The only ones whose going to pass through these doors is the Straw Hat Crew," Johnny said.

"Lead by the man who will take Arlong down!" both said at the same time.