He hissed before opening his eyes, feeling ever part of him hurt as he struggled to sit up. He rubbed over his chest and made a grueling sigh as he felt she healed hole pulse pain through his torso. He felt exhausted, completely out of it, maybe a little loopy. But as he set his arms at his sides he felt something warm. Looking down at his hand he saw another hand, looking to the edge of his bed, finding Nami, sleeping soundlessly as she sat beside the bed, her arms and head resting on the soft blankets he was under. He was not very surprised to see her, being more surprised over the fact she must've been here a while to fall asleep in such a way.

He reached out to her, gently putting his hand to her head, before softly combing through her hair with his fingers. He smiled and laid close to her, groaning in pain but feeling it fade as he laid on his side. It had been a whole week since they've done anything intimate together, he had almost forgotten just how good it felt. He looked over her face, admiring how pretty she was even while asleep. He just wanted to hug her and kiss her, cuddle and lay down like they did before they made it here. So much shit happened and he almost died, he could imagine how pissed she'd be.

He held her hand, slowly intertwining his digits with hers, feeling them slowly fit in with his. She made a little whimper, shifting her arms and head before yawning and opening her eyes.

"Hiya."

He said way to casually, given what he just considered about how pissed she'd be. But he didn't think she'd be angry immediately, they had all night to talk about it so what he expected to happen surprised him the most.

"You!"

She snapped getting up and tackling him, pinning him to the bed. He grunted as a huge sensation of pain shot though his chest like a shotgun blast. He seethed in pain but looked up seeing drops fall onto his face, he stills. What had first seemed like rage he found to be a painful sadness.

"You idiot…"

"Nami…"

"I know you didn't promise but you could've at least done better to not fucking die!"

"I was overconfident."

"No shit…"

That hurt him a little.

"God…"

She sniffles wiping away her tears off on her shirt.

"I…"

She let out a heavy sigh.

"I thought… you'd care more… after we talked… but apparently not… and even got overconfident…"

He couldn't utter a word, his vocal cords seemingly vanished on him. He felt his heart rip itself apart just seeing how much pain she was in. He expected her to be angry, not disappointed.

"Don't you ever. Ever. Go kill yourself like that."

She said slowly turning into a sobbing mess of tears and whimpers. He could look up at her with exhausted and pained eyes. After all his wins he didn't think Crocodile would be any different. But he got knocked on his ass, and paid the price. He fucked up.

"Don't… you… ever…"

She cried before he sat up hugging her tightly in his arms. She returns the embrace almost desperately and cries into his shoulder. He couldn't bring himself to come up with anymore excuses. He stuttered for a second, trying to talk.

"I'm sorry."

He uttered quietly, she immediately pulled away and gripped the collar of his shirt tightly. Glaring at him with watery somber eyes.

"If your sorry… you'll never… never… do that again… are you… sorry?"

He nodded.

"Yes."

Upon this she held his head and pushed him onto the bed as she pushed her lips into his. He was startled at her kiss, a bit messy and worrying at first but she slowed down. He started to tear up as he hugged her waist returning the now passionate and loving kiss. He felt her hands dig into his hair, he could hear her little saddened moans turn to joyful one's as he returned the love. He brought his hands up her back to her head, pulling her to him eager to kiss her longer. As disappointed and sad she was he could feel just how worried she was, and he felt horrible for making her feel like that. After a long kiss, they slowly pulled apart, she pulled on his lip and let it go with a moan as she felt his hands retreat from her head and down her back again. He needed to speak first and took a short breath.

"I really am sorry. I messed up and… I hurt myself, and you."

She sniffled and gave a short little kiss on his nose.

"As much confidence as I have in you… I need you to take care of yourself too. I can't be only one treating your body right…"

He nods, feeling like the worst human being in the world. He looked away with a sigh, feeling sapped of everything as all of her claims came crashing down on him. He felt her sit back up, glancing toward her seeing her pull up his shirt.

"Nami…?"

She carefully pressed her hand over the wound and let out a shaky breath before pull his shirt back down.

"Just… checking on it."

"It only hurts a little."

She got off him and laid beside him, getting up his blanket and tossing it over him. She got under his arm and cuddled against his side.

"I'm gonna sleep here."

He felt his heart pump happily but shrunk back feeling dejected.

"Hey."

He looked back to her, seeing her look up at him.

"Tomorrow at noon. You and I are going on a date. We're gonna eat, shop, and have a good time."

She said demandingly. He recalled they talked about this, but after everything, and her rant, he just didn't feel deserving of it.

"Luffy."

He rubbed his face with a sigh.

"I… don't think… I should."

"Don't say that."

"Nami I… I let you down… just take Sanji or…"

"Luffy."

She turned his face to her, meeting his eyes.

"I've gone too long without you, 3 days of you sleeping, not even mentioning the lack of anything we've done together since we got here. I want to see you have fun, I need it. I was mad, cause you scared me, tonight, is your punishment, doing nothing but laying down. Tomorrow, we celebrate, a date in the town, cause regardless of my fears, you still beat him. And that deserves to be rewarded."

She stretched up to give him a soft breathless kiss.

"Ok?"

"Yea."

She gave him a small smile and laid her head on his shoulder, caressing his torso with her hand.

"You sure you wanna sleep here?"

He asked anxiously.

"I hadn't left you side since you were brought to this bed, I'm not leaving till you get up."

He let out a relaxed breath of air as he closed his eyes. Feeing her warm body against him, her hand on his body and her leg over his. He curled his arm, holding her side, keeping her close.

"Love you, goodnight."

She whispered before yawning.

"Love you…"

He yawned soon afterword, feeling sleep overcome him. The warmth easing the bruise from earlier, he really hopes tomorrow will be just as fun as he's dreamed of.

I'm back from the dead, at least for today. Yes this is a shorter chapter, cause I'm have hard time depicting their current situation in Alabasta. It takes place after Crocodiles defeat and if I recall Luffy was asleep for 3 days, but I don't know how long they stayed there so I just went for a week. Anyway, I had an initial draft that was a bit more spicy, but I thought it'd be too soon so I just made this one more emotional. Sorry it's short, just having a hard time with this one.

and to the one person who asked Guys Night 7 or whatever part I was on, there are currently no plans for another Guys Night. Don't expect it anytime soon. Sorry.

PS thank you to everyone who's supporting my story, I know it's rough and there are better stories out there (don't read any of my other works) but again, thanks, you guys are the only reason I'm still even doing any of this.