Nami was looking up at Usopp flying in the sky. I gotta say, he looked awesome! Obviously, my idea was the best. Not that I'm surprised. As captain, I gotta be the best, right? At least, that's what Zoro told me.

Anyways, Nami was all like 'Wow!' and 'That's so cool!' and I was all like, 'I know!' and 'Can I have my present now?'. What? I was getting impatient… Anyways, Usopp landed in a big blast of cola foam, which was probably gonna make the deck all sticky later. Eh. I'm not the one who has to clean it. Nami ran over to him screaming

"How was it, Usopp?" he was all breathless and stuff, so he replied

"It huff was huff amazing pant huff pant!"

I stuck out my bottom lip. 'We get it already!' I started thinking, 'Now what about my gift?'

"Luffy!" Nami called me, "This is yours!"

She handed me a tiny package, wrapped with red paper, about the size of my hand. I frowned a little on the inside. Man, all the small packages are the worst! Look at Sanji and Zoro! They both got stupid gifts. But then I thought about for a little. One of my nakama got this for me. Obviously it wouldn't be bad. They cared for me. But still, what was it? It was too small to be meat? Or food in general. Argh! Too much thinking makes my head hurt! I decided to just see what it was, and was tearing open the paper when Nami stopped me.

"Oi! What do you think you're doing?"

"I'm opening my present," I replied, "Duh."

"Not here, Idiot!" she said, pointing to the kitchen. "Go"

I started thinking of all the yummy food in the kitchen. I couldn't concentrate on anything when I was near so much meat!

"And if you're thinking about snacking," Nami started, "Sanji already locked everything up."

I pouted and pleaded with her to give me the passwords, but she refused and drop-kicked me into the kitchen

OOOOO

I sat at the dining table, all by myself. It felt kinda lonely. I sighed and started opening my gift. Inside was a tiny tone dial. It was purple, and had a bunch of yellow swirls on it. It looked pretty cool! I pressed the tip of the shell, and was immediately overwhelmed with the voices of my Nakama. There was a simultaneous 'Luffy!' and then I heard a piano. It was Bink's Sake.

I heard Brook sing the first few verses, then Zoro, then Usopp, and so on, until Nami finished with a "Yo ho ho ho, Yo ho ho ho…" and the piano slowed to an end.

The recording finished, and I heard them say all together: "You will never be alone!"

I couldn't help myself. Those two years with Rayleigh, and at the end just me, were so lonely. I missed all of them so much, and I remembered wanting to hear all their voices so bad. I didn't even know if they were ok, I just had to trust. Until that one fateful day we came back together, my heart felt as if it were missing something. They were all I had left. Both Sabo and Ace were gone. But these little pieces of all of them meant I would never be alone again.

I cupped the dial in my hands, tears dripping down my face onto the tip of the dial. It was really small. I would ask Nami to sew it into my hat later, but for now, I'd have to keep it in it's box. I was afraid at first I would crush it, but it was strong, just like us, and I knew it would endure.

A.N.:Do you like the line above this paragraph? I just figured out how to use it... Anyways, yeah. Pretty short. 3rd last chapter though. Finale is tomorrow, Epilogue is a day after. Please, I implore you, tell everyone you know who is on Fanfiction about this story. I'm very proud of it, considering it's my first Multi-Chap, so it would mean so much to me. There will be a recognition page at the end which will list everyone who had Reviewed, Followed, or Favourited this story, so I can thank all of you personally for keeping up with this fic. You guys are amazing, and I want to thank you all for supporting me. I'll see you in the next chapter.