The Defection

The Straw Hats where cruising on board the Thousand Sunny sailing the New World. Despite the New World having a reputation of being a sea which as described by an experienced pirate, the Warlord Gecko Moriah as a true nightmare, it seemed fairly calm. The navigator believed this to be one of the calmer parts of the New World as the weather was fair with only a few clouds. The sun was shining brightly and the weather was all around good. Indeed it was perfect day for relaxation. Even better yet, the crew was approaching an island which they heard was known as a major shopping center. This made most of the Straw Hats happy for different reasons. Nami to go shopping for more clothes, Robin for more books though she rarely ever was in a sour mood, Chopper for more medical books and supplies, Ussop and Franky for their own supplies, Sanji for more food and of course going accompanying his lovely ladies. Only Luffy, Zoro and Brooke didn't seem too enthusiastic about the island. Luffy because the island is boring and the absence of adventure, Zoro because he wanted to sleep and Brooke simply didn't care.

"I can't wait to go shopping here. I heard it was a hotspot for shopping and I can't wait to get some new clothes along with ink and paper for my maps," said an enthusiastic Nami.

"Indeed. I would like to accompany you Nami-san. And I could use some new books as well as some gardening supplies," replied a cool collected but obviously happy Robin with her trademark smile.

"I could get some supplies and spices," said Sanji.

"And then I could see some fine ladies while I'm at it. Mellorines," Sanji said now with hearts in his eyes and a perverted look on his face. Typical love cook.

"Che, like any mellorine would ever fall for that curly eye dork," Zoro answered Sanji n his typical sarcastic tone when dealing with the dartboard.

"What was that you moss-head," Sanji replied immediately leaving his love mode typical of anything related to the bane of his existence, the marimo.

"Nothing. Go back to fantasizing," answered Zoro in a bored voice.

Sanji face was morphed into a comical angry one.

"Dork," finished Zoro.

"Argg, che forget it. After all what are the chances of any woman falling for that grass stain. His ugly mug would just scare them away and he only knows about fighting and swords, neither of which ladies like," Sanji countered in a condescending tone.

That's it. The dork cook was really going to get it now. Instantly Zoro leaped at Sanji with his two swords out and Sanji naturally answered back with his legs and the typical Zoro Sanji brawl started.

"Um guys cut it out," asked Chopper timidly.

While it was true that the reindeer doctor become much more confident and sure of himself after the 2 year time skip, he was still afraid to get in the way of the monsters Zoro and Sanji.

"Come on Chopper let them be. You know how they are. Besides what could you do against those two of all people," Ussop said to the little reindeer in an assuring voice.

"Oh yoy're right Ussop," replied Chopper.

"And you really become cool," continued Chopper in an admiring voice.

Ussop feeling his ego sky rocket thanks to Chopper's praise instantly went into captain Ussop mode.

"Of course. What do think I was doing over the last two years? Certainly not wasting time. In fact being on an island where everything tries to eat you certainly does wonders for you. And that isn't a lie," said Ussop in a proud voice.

"You were on an island that tried to eat you. Amazing Ussop. Wait you were lieing about all those stories haven't you," answered Chopper first in an amazed voice and then in an accusing one.

Ussop instantly catching on tried to deflect the blame with more outrageous and obviously untrue stories.

"But we can get some really good supplies here. I could use some lumber and other stuff to help maintain my Super ship," said Franky doing his usual silly pose.

"I honestly have no interest in buying anything," said Brooke.

"Okay then Brooke then how about you stay and watch the ship then," replied Nami.

"Yohohohoho I could but I wish to go out there and see if any ladies would let me see their panties," Brooke retorted with blood beginning to drip from his nose.

"Honestly, I should have thought," Nami shouted in an angry voice complimented by angry eyes and and shark teeth.

"This is boring. I wanna go on an adventure," whined an obviously irritated Luffy who thrilled on adventuring and danger.

"We can't go on adventure all the time Straw Hat. We need to get out supplies to remain Super," said Franky.

"Oh well I guess it can't be helped. Besides I can still buy some meat," stated the straw hat wearing rubber man with his usual goofy grin.

"Typical. It's all about the meat," the crew all thought together with sweat drops.

"Well guys the log doesn't set until a few days later but let's all still be back soon. We don't want to leave the ship alone for too long and we all have bounties," stated Nami.

"Okay," the crew all thought together.

A few hours later the crew all reunited after their individual errands. It was a pretty successful shopping day but since they were going to be here for a few days there was no need to rush or else they wouldn't get to enjoy it. Of course they made sure to buy enough should the marines, pirates, bounty hunters or any obstacles force them to leave immediately. Currently they were all onboard the ship eating dinner. And as usual it was the typical Straw Hat chaos. In other words, Luffy stealing food from everyone else, Sanji trying and unsuccessfully trying to woo Nami and Robin with love themed foods made specially for them.

"Oye Luffy give back my meat," shouted Ussop.

"Yeah Straw Hat, I need to have my food in order to be super as usual. Having you take my food is totally not super," Franky also shouted in protest.

Everyone who Luffy stole from was also arguing with Luffy who was laughing as usual totally oblivious to everything except food.

All of a sudden a piece of meat went flying from Luffy's mouth and into Nami dirtying the new outfit she bought and was wearing and got a big discount on.

"What the hell Luffy," Nami shouted in a huge angry voice.

Instantly the crew knew to watch themselves as despite Luffy being on the receiving end of the feisty navigator's wrath, it wasn't wise to bring attention onto themselves for she might just turn her wrath onto them. Even Sanji made sure to be quiet. Robin as usual had her usual gracious smile ever present as usual.

"Luffy you are so dead," said Nami in a deadly voice.

Luffy gulped in response. He did not fear anything, not the admirals, not the world government, nothing with the exception of Nami.

"So so dead. Even being a rubber man wouldn't help you one bit," continued Nami in the same deadly voice.

Luffy began to sweat buckets of sweat when Nami continued.

"I mean this was expensive clothes. Do you know how hard I had to fight in order to get this discount," said Nami.

Sanji was silent at first but upon hearing that Nami had her dress which she had to fight so hard for ruined instantly put him in his beat the shit up of anyone who makes Nami-swan mad mode.

"Luffy how could you do that to my beautiful Nami-swan. After she worked so hard to get that discount. I'll kill you shitty rubber man," said Sanji while comically choking Luffy.

"But Nami, Sanji was the one who kicked me and made the meat fly out," answered Luffy.

"Don't you dare blame Sanji-kun for this. Sanji-kun would never do anything to hurt me. He loves women," countered Nami.

"Of course I would never do anything to beautiful Nami-swan you shitty gomu. So don't blame me for your faults," Sanji said siding with Nami and because in his mind he believed it to be true.

The two continued to beat up on Luffy.

"Geez you always do this. You eat all the food. You drag us on dangerous journeys all for adventure, you damage the ship, make loud noise and worse of all, you make me use up my money," shouted Nami in an angry tone.

"I wonder why the hell I decided to follow such an irresponsible captain," Nami said in an irrated voice.

"And you eat all the special food I make for my beloved Nami-swan and Robin-chwan. How could you do that to my beautiful ladies. And you make all sorts of noise distracting my Nami-swan from her map making and Robin-chwan from her reading," Sanji said adding his part into it.

"It's no trouble at all cook-san," answered Robin.

"Don't say that Robin-chan. You don't need to hide your frustrations of this crappy captain. I shall punish him for interrupting your reading," said Sanji in his knight in shining armour mood.

The two continued to beat up and pulverize Luffy while continuing their ranting.

Meanwhile Luffy didn't know why but their accusations where really getting to him. Normally this would never bother him because he knew they didn't mean it and did it all the time but this time was different. He didn't know why it was different, but it was very different from other times. And that made all those insults begin to get to him.

"Is that so," said Luffy with a serious voice.

Zoro and Robin instantly picked up on the change in Luffy's tone and mood and wondered what got into him. Well whatever it was, it clearly wasn't good at all. Nami and Sanji where stuck in their anger tantrums and the rest of the crew didn't pick up on anything since what is happening is a typical occurrence.

"Yes" both Sanji and Nami said together.

"Then maybe I should leave the crew," Luffy finally said with his hat over his eyes.

The crew grew deathly silent. All traces of chaos, fun and life left immediately. Those words did not come out of Luffy's mouth. Those words would never come out of any member of the crew's mouth much less Luffy's. He's the one who fought the hardest to keep the crew together. When Nami stole the ship, he followed and believed she did not betray the crew. When Robin was taken by the World Government, he followed going as far as declaring war on the world for her. When Ussop left, Luffy welcomed him back with open arms after a true apology. There was no way that the one who did those things would now be the one to leave. And for something so trivial.

"Luffy, what did you just say?," said Nami in a shocked voice.

"You heard me, if I'm such a bad captain who brings so much problems, then maybe I should leave. That would solve all of our problems wouldn't it," said Luffy in a dark voice.

Sanji too was equally shocked. Since when did a little argument go so out of control that one of their own would leave. And that person would be the captain. While he loved his beautiful ladies and didn't care so much for the rest of the idiots, they were still nakama, and to have one of them leave, even suggest it was unthinkable.

"Oye, listen here you shithead, I don't know what kind of game your playing but you better stop saying such stupid things," said Sanji in a serious voice.

"Hey Luffy nothing good would come out of being so hostile and nothing good would especially come from leaving the crew," said Zoro trying to calm the situation down sensing early on how Luffy was not reacting the way he usually does.

"Luffy please don't go," cried a panicking Chopper.

"Luffy," said Ussop.

"Straw Hat" said Franky removing his shades.

"Luffy-san," said Brooke

Robin however remained silent however she along with Nami where the ones most shocked at the words that Luffy said. Both of them suffered great misery during their lives and Luffy was their shining beacon, their savior who freed them both from their pasts and gave back their family and their dream. It is for this reason along with his love for his nakama, his strong sense of right and wrong, his willingness to help even strangers and many other reasons that both of them have strong feelings for him beyond that of the other nakama.

Robin maintained her composure but inwardly she was afraid of what Luffy might do. Nami however didn't really get what Luffy was doing and despite her hidden feelings for him, still was angry at him. First for the clothes and now her anger took on a new level.

"You say I cause a lot of problems, well if I'm gone there wouldn't be an problems. You say I make you spend a lot of money on meat. But if I'm gone you wouldn't have to spend any more of your precious money on meat. If I'm gone, then you wouldn't have to go on any more dangerous adventuers. If I'm gone you get the peace and quiet you want so much, if I'm gone. All the things wrong here would be fixed if I leave," Luffy finished explaining his reasoning.

Nami could not believe what she just heard. It was unusual for Luffy to give any sort of logical explanation and argument. Normally she would be impressed for Luffy to have done such a thing if he hadn't done it for the wrong reasons. No matter what reasons there were, no matter how logical the argument is, no nakama should ever leave. And she didn't want to lose any of her precious nakama especially her captain.

Luffy then turned to Sanji and Sanji made sure to pay close attention to what he was about to say for what he would say would define the future of the crew.

"And you Sanji," said Luffy.

"I am the cause of your beautiful Nami-swan and Robin-chwan not getting any of their special food full of your love. Well if I'm gone, then you could give it all to them. And if I'm gone, Nami can draw her maps while Robin can read her books in peace in quiet, just like they wanted." Luffy explains his reasoning to Sanji.

Sanji just like Nami was shocked and impressed by the argument. He would have complimented the boy captain had it not been for the worst cause.

"Luffy what's wrong with you? How could you even suggest that?" Nami desperately asked.

"You're always complaining about me being a bad captain. Well you would have nothing to complain about should I be gone," Luffy said in the same serious voice.

"And so far you have yet to give me a reason as to why I should stay. So why should I stay when I cause so much problems and I'm such a bad captain?," asked Luffy seriously.

"Because we're nakama. What other reason do you need other than that? And your not a bad captain Luffy. Yes your loud, make a lot of noise, drag us on dangerous adventures, make me spend a lot of money on meat but your definitely not a bad captain." Nami answered desperately hoping to calm Luffy down and make him reconsider.

"Chopper go give this idiot a check up. He's giving reasoning that's stupid even for him and he's talking crazy," Sanji asked the doctor.

Unfortunately for the cook the little reindeer doctor was crying at the thought of Luffy leaving.

Zoro remained impassive but he too was hurting inside.

"I can't believe this is happening," said Ussop in a sad voice.

"Me too bro," replied Franky also in a sad voice.

"I can't believe what I'm seeing," said Brooke also in a sad voice and with no skull joke attached.

Robin continued to watch silently as not only was her family started falling apart, but the boy she loved was the cause of it. She would hate and kill anyone who tries to split her nakama up but she can't do that to Luffy.

"You have yet to give me a good enough reason to stay and being nakama this time isn't good enough," said Luffy.

Silence, there was only silence as the weight of what Luffy said sank in. Nakama something that meant the world to him now isn't good enough.

"Well if you're not going to give me a reason to stay, here Nami," placing his prized Straw Hat on her head.

Nami took some time to adjust to better to see Luffy.

"That hat is a symbol of a promise I made to Shanks that I would one day give it back to him as Pirate King. But in order to be Pirata King I must have a strong crew. And since I no longer have that, I can never be Pirate King. That dream is dead."

"Luffy," Nami said in a hurt voice as tears were beginning to form.

"Get yourself a new captain. A better one than me. One who isn't an idiot or makes you spend money or makes noise or leads you on dangerous adventures," Luffy continued.

"Luffy I," Nami said but she could say what she wanted to say.

Luffy then turned to his crew

"This is it everyone. Sorry for all the trouble I've caused you but you wouldn't have to worry about it anymore," said Luffy as he looked at his crew for perhaps the final time.

"See you all," the last words that came out of his mouth as Luffy left the ship and his crew forever.

The crew all followed him in hopes to stop him of making the decision that would ruin the crew forever.

"Luffy get back here. Turn around," shouted Nami.

"Oye get back here Luffy," shouted Ussop.

"Please come back, Luffy," cried and shouted Chopper.

"Straw Hat don't do this," shouted Franky this time not making any use of the word Super.

"Luffy-san," Brooke also cried.

Only Zoro and Robin maintained their composures but closer inspection you could see Zoro's hand twitching and see moisture forming in Robin's eyes. However both did a good job in hiding it.

Despite all this happening, Luffy never turned around. The crew could only watch silently as their beloved captain, savior and friend disappeared before their very eyes. All the Straw Hats thought one thing.

"Luffy," thought all members of the Straw Hat crew together.

Luffy leaving I know it's not the best reason but it's tough making Luffy leave for anything. The only good reason I could think off was the one used in my other fic One Piece: Shippuden. You're just going to have to go with it.

There is logic in what Luffy is saying. If he is the cause of all the problems, then him leaving would solve it.

I put a little extra emphasis on the RobinxLuffyxNami for now but it would reach Harem.

Also a quick SPOILER. DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED

Ever thought the ancestor of the D was a good charismatic hero like Luffy. As a result, hehad many wives. It would explain why there are so many D's in the world. Luffy being similar to that man would also have many wives and produce many D's