A/N: I was told to stagger my updates, but I wanted to get this much more lighthearted second chapter out quickly to offset the non-con in the first chapter. I hope that will give new readers a proper glimpse at the emotional range of this story.

Chapter II: Wind Sprint

Location: Orange Town, Organ Islands, East Blue

Treasure… pants… treasure… pants…

Nami found herself caught in a compromising position as a crowd of townsfolk approached her and Luffy.

The ten million berries worth of treasure that she stole from Buggy was in a big, heavy sack that required two hands to hold.

The extra baggy clown pants that she also stole from Buggy to replace the clothes he stole from her wouldn't stay up without at least one hand holding them up.

Hold her treasure? Hold her pants?

Treasure… or pants…?

Money… or modesty…?

Nami knew what her priority was, which was why she continued to stand there like an idiot with her stolen pants bunched around the bottom of her bare legs as she hugged her precious stolen loot to her chest. At least the striped t-shirt she was wearing like a dress was long enough to cover her snatch.

Her best solution was to awkwardly shuffle to the side, ensuring she was fully behind Luffy, and avoid drawing any extra attention to herself as the crowd drew closer.

It appeared that the townies formed a mob to posthumously fight for their town. "We're the citizens of this town. What happened here?"

"Okay…" Nami quietly whispered to Luffy, "they came here for a fight… so try not to rile them up…"

"It's the mayor!" someone pointed out the old man that Luffy knocked out before the battle.

"Did the pirates get him?"

"No, I knocked the old man out!" Luffy answered honestly. Doing exactly what she'd just warned him NOT TO do

"Idiot!" Nami hissed as the mob's ire was turned towards the pirate in front of her. "Don't tell them that!"

"But it's true…" Luffy said.

"You did it? Who are you guys?" the villagers asked as they readied their weapons.

"Don't say pirates… don't say pirates…" Nami quietly urged Luffy.

"WE'RE PIRATES!" the moronic rubber man blurted out.

"PIRATES! GET 'EM!" the mob charged.

FUUUUCCK!

"YOU MORON! RUN FOR IT!" Nami roared at him. She turned to do that but stumbled with the baggy clown pants bunched around her boots.

Keep the money… or keep the pants? The answer was obvious.

Nami flailed her legs and struggled for a few frantic seconds to kick off the extra baggy clown pants while Luffy scooped up the unconscious Zoro and threw the shirtless and bleeding swordsman over his shoulder, then the two of them bolted for the harbor.

"LOOK! THEY'RE BOTH EXPOSING THEMSELVES TO US!"

"PANTLESS PERVERTS!"

"DISGUSTING DEGENERATES!"

"PERVERTED PIRATES!"

Nami's eyes shifted down to the bare ass of the pirate running ahead of her. He was still wearing Zoro's shirt around his waist like an apron after tearing his shorts when he inflated himself. It was kind of cute watching the skinny rubber pirate's butt bounce as he ran.

But she also felt the lack of dress on her own bare ass. The red and white striped t-shirt that she'd also stolen from the six foot three and a half inch Buggy might've been long enough to function as a skimpy dress when she was standing still, however, when she started running, the shirt rode up and exposed her buns to the crowd behind her.

And now the mob of townies was EVEN MORE incensed by what they no doubt saw as a blatant taunt in the form of a dual full moon from two half-naked perverts.

Luffy laughed like he was having the time of his life and it was all some great big lark. "Shishishishi!"

"At least it's only my ass…" Nami resolved. If the townies had shown up during the fight, they would've seen a whole lot more.

But then Nami realized she was falling behind. The cause was the big bag of Buggy's booty. Ten million berries was the biggest and heaviest score of her pirate thief career. The assorted wads of paper bills didn't weigh much and were the main source of the treasure's value aside from the gems and jewelry. But the main bulk of the treasure came from the metal coins. For all his many, many, many, many faults… the ONE good thing she could say about Buggy was that he had a real eye for treasure. A crazy treasure fiend like Buggy the Clown didn't deal in chump change. Almost all the coins in Buggy's treasure were gold coins which meant they were either 1.25 inch diameter gold 100 berri coins or even bigger 1.73 inch 500 berri coins. Maybe if she dug through it, she might find a handful of silver .95 inch 50 berri coins. But Buggy wouldn't water down his treasure by putting in tiny cheap pieces of silver and copper. Gold 100 and 500 berri coins were the biggest, heaviest, and FLASHIEST coins and all those big coins added up in both value and weight and then combined with the assorted gems, jewelry, and cash boxes… and Nami found herself hugging a haul that weighed over sixty pounds.

Meanwhile, Luffy was outpacing her while carrying a grown man over his shoulder who weighed at least three times as much as her treasure.

"GOTCHA!" one of the faster townies caught her and snagged her by the back of her shirt-dress.

"KYAA!" Nami yelped as the man started to pull her backwards. She knew what she had to do to get away and avoid a beating. She didn't like it. But she did it anyway. She lowered her treasure and swung her leg up to PUNT IT down the road. With her hands free, she did a hasty spinning twist and slipped her head and arms right out of Buggy's large t-shirt. Her eyes flicked down to see a notable tent in the man's pants which told her what his TRUE motivation for running so fast was. Her eyes then flicked up to his face as he stopped in his tracks and gaped like a fish when she slipped right out of her shirt and then spun back around and shot up to her feet in one smooth movement. She sprinted away, at least glad that her lone remaining article of 'clothing' was her running boots.

The naked thief ducked down to scoop up her rolling sack of treasure when she caught up with it then hugged it to her chest while taking special care to cover her tattoo with her right hand.

"NAKED PIRATE SLUT!" came the shout from behind her.

"SHAMELESS SCALLYWAGS!"

"DEPRAVED DEVIANTS!"

It seemed lost on the townies that she only stripped to avoid being caught.

It wasn't her first time pulling that maneuver. She used it once before. But it wasn't to escape a pirate that she'd robbed. No. It was on Genzo when she was ten years old. When the sheriff/mayor of Cocoyashi Village caught her stealing a navigation book from the book store.

He grabbed her by the back of her green hand-me-down dress and started to lift her so he could scold her like a naughty cat. But Nami slipped right out of her dress, grabbed her book, and ran through Cocoyashi with it clutched to her chest wearing nothing but her panties and sandals. Genzo had been too shocked and flustered to chase her.

Of course, he knew where she lived. She escaped for the time, but even at ten years old, she knew she'd be caught eventually, so she hid out in the mikan grove and resolved to read as much of the stolen book as she could manage before they found her and made her give it back.

Eight years later, and it wasn't the nearly naked run through the village that she remembered, but the sequence of events that transpired once they found her.

Location: Bellemere's Mikan Grove, Conomi Islands, East Blue - Eight Years Ago

TRIGGER WARNING: NON-SEXUAL UNDERAGE NUDITY

"THERE SHE IS! THE NAKED THIEF!"

Nami looked up from her hiding spot under the mikan tree and found Genzo and Bellemere towering over her. Well, Bellemere did most of the towering. She was six-foot-one, toned and full figured, with a badass fuchsia Chelsea hawk on top. The five-foot-eight Genzo didn't look all that intimidating in comparison. Especially when the added effects of his brown sheriff uniform and dark mustache were completely undermined by the silly yellow pinwheel on his hat. Nami always smiled when she saw it - rather than being intimidated - even when he was yelling at her.

A twelve-year-old Nojiko was there too and immediately started laughing. "Busted again, Nami!"

Nami hugged the open book to her for cover. Four chapters. She got further than she expected.

"Hello Nami," Bellemere smiled around the cigarette in her mouth and held up her lost dress. "Lose something?"

"What are you teaching these girls!?" Genzo berated Bellemere. "It's bad enough that I caught her stealing AGAIN, but now she's running naked through the streets like some deviant!"

"I wasn't naked!" Nami protested as she raised her book to show her simple plain white panties. "I had panties on!"

"THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT BETTER!" Genzo yelled at her.

"How much was the book?" Bellemere asked as she undid the top two buttons on her shirt.

"Wh-wha?" Genzo stammered as his face flushed at the sight of Bellemere's cleavage.

"If that book is important enough that she was willing to strip naked to get away with it… then I'll pay for it."

"I wasn't naked!" Nami insisted. Yes, the fact that she was wearing panties and therefore wasn't naked was the hill she was prepared to die on.

Bellemere fished her hand into her navy-blue bra and pulled out two 1,000 berri bills. This was probably why Nami frequently used her bra to store her money once she developed enough to wear one. But at ten years old, she was flat as a board, a fact that she made sure to hide behind her book. "Will this cover it?"

"That book cost nearly twice this much!" Genzo insisted.

"Oh," Bellemere said as she began undoing more buttons on her shirt, revealing the rest of her bra and how well she filled it, and her firm stomach, which was nicely toned thanks to the workout regime she still followed from her days as a marine. "I guess I'll have to pay you the rest… with my body."

Genzo went beet-red and fled the grove. "YOU'RE THE REASON SHE'S LIKE THIS!"

Nami and Nojiko both giggled at how flustered he was.

"Laugh it up… you little thief…" Said thief's laughter quickly died when the six-foot-one former marine knelt down and smacked her on the forehead.

"OOOOWWWW!" Nami cried out, dropping her book to hold her head.

"I would've never gotten caught," Nojiko taunted her as she gave Nami's exposed nipples an over-the-top leer. "Especially not naked!" That remark earned her a smack too. "OOOOWWWW! I WAS ONLY JOKING!" No she wasn't.

"NO STEALING!" Bellemere scolded them. She took a drag from her cigarette and turned her attention back to Nami. "If you wanted that book so bad then you should've told me. I would've bought it for you."

"I knew you couldn't afford it!" Nami argued.

"I managed, didn't I?" Bellemere replied. "I guess this means you owe me. Give me the rest."

"What?"

"Since you've shown that book is more important than your clothes… then give me the rest," she instructed. "It's both a punishment and a way to pay me back."

"And I get to keep the book?" Nami asked hopefully.

Bellemere nodded, "But not your clothes. We'll see which of those is more important to you."

Nojiko covered her mouth with her hands and giggled with delight.

They lived together in a one-room house. They'd seen her naked numerous times before during bath time. She'd seen them just as frequently and knew that, compared to a grown woman like Bellemere and a developing teenager like Nojiko, she didn't have much to see. It wasn't like she was going to be running down the main street of the village where everyone could see her. She was safe in the shelter of the grove. Staying naked around two people who had already seen her naked AND getting to keep her book? It sounded like she was coming out ahead.

Nami removed her sandals and handed them to Bellemere one at a time then slipped off her plain white panties.

Nojiko didn't waste a second, "Now you really are a naked thief! Nice coin slot!"

Nami clamped her hand over her kitty then squeezed her legs together and bent her knees up for cover. The nudity she figured she could handle… but enduring her sister's teasing... that was the real punishment.

Bellemere gave her a long look. But unlike Nojiko, her eyes were focused on Nami's face. Nami tried to hide a shiver, even under the mikan tree, she felt the air around every inch of her bare body. There was something different about this enforced nudity as opposed to voluntary nudity when she chose to undress. Nami felt her face heating up. Despite all her protests from earlier... now she really was naked.

"Give up yet?" Bellemere's eyes probed into hers and seemed to lock onto Nami's sudden nervousness.

Nami broke eye contact and stared down at the navigation book in her lap. Navigation. A fascinating subject that she could spend her whole life reading about. If anyone wanted to get anywhere in this island-filled world... they'd need a skilled navigator to chart their course and guide them across the seas. The world was a big place filled with amazing things. If she ever wanted to travel and see those amazing things, she would need to know how to navigate. And now here she was with a book on her lap that she could never afford which would begin teaching her how to do that.

Nudity and embarrassment in the present... in exchange for a glorious future where she was free to travel wherever she wanted.

Nami looked back up and met her adoptive mother's probing eyes again. She gave a firm nod. This was important. She wasn't backing down.

Bellemere smiled and nodded back, "Very well. You can wear clothes again once I've decided that you've fully paid me back." She bundled up Nami's clothing and then tucked it under her arm as she stood up. "Until then… enjoy your book. You can come inside when you get cold. But don't track dirt in the house. And while you're sitting out here - naked in the dirt - I want you to ask yourself: was it worth it?"

Bellemere turned and headed back to the house, but Nojiko stayed right where she was. Nami could tell from the gleam in her sister's eyes that she was going to have a field day with Nami's punishment.

"Next time don't get caught," Nojiko taunted her then smiled and added, "Naked Nami."

Indeed, it was her sister Nojiko who coined the nickname 'Naked' Nami. Her ire from earlier was from hearing the embarrassing nickname's resurrection.

"Knock it off," Nami complained, "We see each other naked in the bathtub all the time."

"Ah, but that's when you're choosing to be naked so you can get clean," Nojiko pointed out with a grin, "Now you have to be…" She reached out and poked Nami on the forehead with each new syllable, "Na… ked… Na… mi…"

Nami's temper sparked at the repeated taunting and poking. Also from the fact that her sister had locked on to the part of her nudity that bothered her the most. She finally lashed out in retaliation. "You're only making fun of me because you're shy, Late Bloomer."

The bluenette brat blushed and took a couple of steps back. Despite being two years older, Nojiko was only a few inches taller than Nami and her small budding breasts had only just started developing. A fact that Nami knew her sister was extra self-conscious about.

"Ooo… looks like the naked kitty still has claws," Nojiko remarked. She backed further away but still didn't leave. Instead, she dropped down and sat under the mikan tree across from her.

Nami resolved to ignore her sister and went back to her book. She suppressed a shiver as she finally registered the sudden drop in temperature. Did Bellemere know it was going to get cold or was that just because she was naked? Hadn't she recently read something about temperature drops in her book?

"You're boring for a naked girl," Nojiko sniped at her, unhappy at being ignored, which was why Nami kept doing it and didn't respond as she continued to page through her navigation book.

There it was…

A navigator's job isn't only to chart a ship's course but also to gauge the weather. Storms on the sea are the indiscriminate killer that will sink pirate ships, marine vessels, and everything in between. There are several signs that will foretell an approaching storm: large, puffy cumulus clouds, darkening sky and clouds, abrupt changes in wind direction, sudden drops in temperature, and drops in atmospheric pressure.

Nami glanced up above her… the sky was bright and clear. Which was odd, she remembered seeing some clouds floating overhead and took a minute to confirm that they weren't cumulus clouds. Were they blown away? Did that count as an abrupt change in wind direction?

"What's so interesting about navigation that you'd strip naked to read about it?" Nojiko inquired as she peered over Nami's shoulder. At some point, while Nami was ignoring her, the older girl came over and sat beside her.

"Hm," Nami huffed and continued to ignore her sister as she turned the page and looked for the section on gauging atmospheric pressure. She remembered there was a special device that was needed for that called a barometer.

But then Nami stopped reading and realized that, while Nojiko was looking over her shoulder, she wasn't looking at the book. Nami turned and sent the grinning older girl her best glare.

"How 'bout a deal?" Nojiko offered. "You do something fun… and I'll let you borrow my dress."

"What?" Nami asked.

"Oh, that got your attention," Nojiko realized as she flipped the hem of her yellow sundress, "If you do something fun for me… like a naked dare… I promise to let you borrow my dress. Remember, you have to stay naked. I can go inside and put clothes on anytime I want."

Nami blinked. She could have the book and clothing? With Nojiko's dress keeping her warm… she could stay out reading until it got dark - provided there wasn't actually a storm coming - and then she'd just have to slip it off again before she went inside to keep from getting in trouble.

But it was Nojiko…

"What's the dare?" Nami inquired suspiciously.

"Oh… I don't know," Nojiko replied with a coy tap of her chin, which told Nami she did have something in mind when she made the offer. "How about you run to the village and back?"

"I don't want people to see me!" Nami objected. One of the main reasons she accepted her loss of clothes punishment was the fact that she was safely hidden within the mikan grove. People would have to be actively looking for her to see her.

"You won't have to go into the village," Nojiko reassured her. "You just need to run down the hill, touch the road… and then you can run right back. You already did half of that already in your panties."

She had already done it. But that was with the book for cover. Speaking of…

"And let me guess… no covering?"

"Ooo, good idea!" Nojiko agreed as if she wasn't planning on springing that condition on her at the last minute. "Now that sounds like a fun dare!"

"Fine, but you're not allowed to shout and make noise to draw extra attention to me!" That condition needed to be said because Nojiko would do something like that while she was streaking. Now she needed to set her terms so she'd get something out of the exchange. "And just so we're clear… if I do it… you PROMISE right here and right now that I get to borrow your dress… whenever I want. Even when you're wearing it."

"Whenever you want?" her sister repeated.

"I don't know when Bellemere will let me wear clothes again," Nami reminded her, "It could be tomorrow, it could be two days from now, it could be next week. If that dress is going to be the one thing I can wear in all that time… then I'll need it available whenever I want. And I don't want you hogging it and wearing it so I can't."

Nojiko smiled and nodded, and Nami instantly knew that there was a hidden catch to her sister's side of the deal too. "Okay. You've got a deal," Nojiko agreed. "If you complete my dare… I promise I'll let you borrow this dress… whenever you want."

"Even when you're wearing it," Nami prompted.

"Even when I'm wearing it," Nojiko amended.

Nami nodded, "Okay, you've got a deal."

They shook on it. An ironclad deal that had to be honored to the letter. Both girls were smiling, which meant they each worked in a hidden catch that the other wasn't yet aware of and planned to exploit it to the fullest.

Nami closed her book and walked over to the house so she could set it on the porch and grab it when she was done with her dare. She met Nojiko at the top of the dirt trail that led down into Cocoyashi Village. There was no one on the path and there was no one on the road. Bellemere's house was on the outskirts of the village, so people didn't come up this way unless they were specifically visiting Bellemere. And that usually only happened when Nami or Nojiko were in trouble. She'd already been in trouble today, so she liked her chances.

"Are you ready?" Nojiko asked with an eager smile on her face. Nami nodded as she took her ready stance. She didn't expect the bare butt SMACK that the older girl gave her. "GO!"

Nami yelped before tearing down the trail. Her bare feet pounded the dirt as she sprinted toward the village. It was downhill so she had gravity on her side for the first leg of her run.

There was something odd about running completely naked. The earlier chill she noticed from the sudden drop in temperature was still there, but now it was AMPLIFIED as her entire body was exposed to the elements. And at that moment, the main element was AIR. She felt the breeze blowing against her face and rushing through her hair as she raced down the hill. Her heart was already pounding from the exertion of her run but the extra rush from doing it NAKED meant her heart was hammering in her chest. She never felt so ALIVE!

Nami glanced up and saw a big puffy cumulus cloud blowing in from overhead. That meant she was running into the wind and that it had changed direction again.

The naked ten-year-old veered to the side as she approached the road into Cocoyashi and hugged the tree line running along the dirt path so she could use it for cover. She reached the end of the dirt trail, ducked down and tapped the road, then spun and pushed off in the opposite direction to start the uphill portion of her run.

Nami nearly stopped when she saw what was waiting at the top of the hill. There was Nojiko with a wide million berri smile... and behind her stood the tall, unmistakable form of Bellemere.

That sneaky bitch. That was Nojiko's hidden catch. Even if Nami completed her dare… she wouldn't be able to claim and wear Nojiko's dress because it undermined Bellemere's punishment, and Nojiko had personally ensured that Bellemere was now there to supervise.

But… Nami still had HER catch to fallback plan. And Bellemere's presence would actually work in her favor when she turned things around on her scheming sister. Bellemere was the one who insisted they should always honor a deal sealed with a handshake. Nami was already halfway through completing her end and once she did, Bellemere would ensure that Nojiko lived up to her end of the bargain whether she liked it or not.

Nami let out a shriek and PUSHED as she raced back up the hill. Normally, uphill would be slower, but now Nami was running WITH the wind. It felt like the wind was wrapping around her naked body like a cloak and giving her a helpful push as she sprinted up the dirt trail back toward home. Nami grinned. Her bare feet were filthy.

Her heart was still hammering, her breath was coming and going in short gasps, her skinny ten-year-old arms and legs were pumping frantically, every nerve in her body was on end as the wind brushed around her.

Before she knew it, she was bent over and panting in front of Nojiko and Bellemere.

"Not bad, Nami," Bellemere remarked. "You're a speedy little thing. I thought you'd lose some speed coming back up the hill, but you practically flew up it." No reprimand for the streaking. Bellemere was the reason she was naked, and she didn't raise them to hide and cower in a corner when things got hard.

"Thanks…" Nami gasped and beamed at the praise, but also realized that if Bellemere saw her when she was going downhill, that meant Nojiko immediately went and retrieved her.

Nojiko gave her a smug smile, "I didn't shout or make any extra noise. I went to the house, opened the door, waved a bunch until she saw me… then I left. She came to investigate on her own."

Nami sent her a nasty glare, which was a bluff because she still wanted her sister to think she had her on the backfoot.

As soon as she got her breathing under control and stood back upright, everything felt different. At first, she thought it was the rush from her run wearing off but after another few seconds she realized that the difference was the lack of wind. The air that had just been cloaked around her was gone… and the little that was left felt extra thin.

Drop in temperature… puffy cumulus clouds… sudden changes in wind direction… drops in atmosphere pressure…

Four out of five.

All that was missing was the dark sky and clouds, which she figured were only minutes away based on the presence of the other four.

"Are you sure you didn't enjoy that, Naked Nami?" Nojiko teased her as she flicked her nipple. Both pink nubs were sticking out. The fact that her chest was flat as a board made her stiff nipples even more prominent.

"Maybe a little," Nami admitted. More like a lot. "But I completed your dare. That means I can borrow your dress." She held out her hands. "GIMME!"

Bellemere's eyes narrowed, but she elected to stay quiet until she knew the whole context. It was far from the first time Nami and Nojiko had made an underhanded deal.

Nojiko blinked in surprise at the fact that Nami, who was being punished with nudity, asked for clothing right in front of Bellemere, the one who punished her. But the surprise was quickly hidden behind mirthful taunting. "Sorry, Nami, you know you're not allowed to wear clothes! But a promise is a promise, I'll let you borrow my dress once you're allowed to wear clothes again. Although… since you like running around naked so much… it might be a while before you can wear it. Who knows? It might fit you properly by then! We all know how much you love wearing my hand-me-downs!"

Was that the best she had? Pretty sloppy, sis!

Nami shook her head and smirked, "I never said anything about wearing it." She'd thought about it and she knew that was what Nojiko wanted her to think when she made the offer. But once she saw Bellemere standing on the hill, Nami knew she'd need to enact her backup plan. "You promised that if I did your dare… I could borrow your dress whenever I want… even when you're wearing it. I want to borrow it now."

Bellemere folded her arms across her chest, "Did you shake on it?"

Nami nodded firmly while Nojiko nodded more reluctantly.

"She lived up to her end," their motherly mediator pointed out. "I didn't raise dealbreakers."

Once again, Nami held out her hands to Nojiko, "Gimme!"

The bluenette blushed before breathing a sigh of resignation and pulled off her yellow sundress. She held one arm across her budding chest and held the dress out to Nami with the other. Nami snagged the dress and left Nojiko standing in her simple yellow panties and sandals. Nami was still naked. But now Nojiko was the one who was embarrassed.

Bellemere shook her head, "You girls do realize that you wouldn't have to resort to hidden contingency plans if you actually honored the spirit of your deals, right?"

She might have had a point. But months later, and in the hard eight years that followed, Nami would be extremely grateful for all the practice she had in exploiting and outmaneuvering the underhanded deals she enacted with her sister. It prepared her for when she had to make an even more important deal with an even more dangerous monstrous devil of an opponent where the stakes riding on it were the lives of everyone she cared about.

"But then I wouldn't get to do this," Nami replied as she practically skipped over to the house. She briefly stopped to retrieve her navigation book then threw Nojiko's dress down in front of the door and proceeded to wipe her dirty feet on it while smirking at her topless sister and sticking her tongue out. Nojiko looked like she'd just sucked on a lemon. Then Nami pulled her tongue in as she turned to Bellemere and gave her most angelic smile, "You said not to track dirt in the house. And I wanna go inside before the storm comes and it starts raining."

"Rain?" Bellemere repeated as she glanced up at the sky. "There's not a storm cloud in sight."

"There will be!" Nami assured them as she gave her very first weather forecast. She scooped up Nojiko's dress, opened the door, and went inside.

Ten minutes later, the heavy patter of rain echoed on the roof of their tiny house, occasionally accompanied by the rolling boom of thunder.

Nami was curled up in the corner reading her book while sitting on Nojiko's yellow dress like it was a blanket. Bellemere and Nojiko - who rushed inside shortly after her to put on the blue t-shirt she was now wearing - were gawking out the window at the sudden storm that appeared 'out of nowhere'.

Lightning flashed as Bellemere turned to stare at Nami, "How'd you do that?"

"I read it," Nami proudly replied as she held up her book.

She thought back to what Bellemere said when she enacted her punishment.

Was it worth it?

Running through town in her panties, sacrificing her clothes, all the teasing from Nojiko, and doing a naked dare… all so she could read a book on a subject she discovered she had a natural affinity for.

HELL YES! It was worth it!

Nojiko didn't buy Nami's book explanation and jumped to her own conclusion.

"SHE'S A WITCH!"

And so, her sister coined another nickname and became the first of many, many, many, many people to call Nami a witch over the years.

Location: Orange Town, Organ Islands, East Blue - Present

Suddenly, she was back in the present. Stark naked and being chased by an angry mob.

"NAKED SLUT!"

"DIRTY PIRATES!"

"THESE PERVERTED BASTARDS TOOK OVER OUR TOWN SO THEY COULD RUN AROUND NAKED!"

"YOU'RE the reason I'm naked!" Nami yelled back.

To make matters worse, Zoro started groaning as all the yelling and jostling from Luffy's running woke him up.

The green-haired swordsman's eyes flickered open and then bugged out comically at the sight of Nami running behind him wearing only her boots while hugging her big bag of loot to her chest.

A crowd of townies behind her… and a swordsman in front of her.

Nami knew which side she would prefer them all to be on. She felt the breeze blowing at her back and brushing around her bare body.

"KYAAAH!" Nami shrieked and PUSHED just like she did when she was running up that hill eight years ago. Just like she did every time she went streaking since.

The wind wrapped around her like a cloak, and she clenched her eyes shut as she ran like the wind and blew right by Luffy and Zoro. Now all anyone could see was a view of her rapidly shrinking ass from behind.

"WHOA! THERE GOES NAKED NAMI!"

She would've reprimanded Luffy for using the damn nickname again, as well as shouting her name within earshot of the mob chasing them, but the precious air in her lungs was much too valuable while she was in a wind sprint.

"DAMN, THAT NAKED WITCH IS FAST!"

"DON'T LET HIM GET AWAY! HE'S THE ONE THAT ATTACKED THE MAYOR!"

The voices faded behind her as she kept running. She hugged Buggy's stolen treasure to her chest as Bellemere's words from eight years ago echoed in her head. "Was it worth it?"

Getting sexually assaulted, being blasted in the face with a load of clown cum, getting stripped naked, being dangled upside down in midair wearing nothing but her boots, getting fucked by Buggy's spinning severed cock, having a load of clown cum shot inside of her, and then being seen naked by an angry mob as she was chased out of town.

Was it worth it?

She survived all that shit. She was still alive. And now Buggy was the one who was fucked. She currently had that damn clown's dick in a box. And her revenge would be vicious, sweet, and long-lasting. They also had his map to the Grand Line, and she robbed him of ten million berries worth of treasure with the promise of more to come thanks to her new alliance with Luffy.

Ten million berries. Her single biggest score. A full ten percent of her one hundred million berri grand total. Just that alone would bring her from the eight-six million berries she had buried in the grove at home to ninety-six million.

Familiar faces from home flashed through her mind. Nojiko. Genzo. Dr. Nako. Mummy Mee and Daddy Dee who ran the local orphanage and had to sell their fancy clothes to pay Arlong's tribute for their charges. Mr. Teru the carpenter. Sam the village drunk. The local quartet of musicians who put on monthly performances to keep spirits up. All her other neighbors in Cocoyashi. Their lives were constantly in danger, and they'd die the day they failed to pay Arlong's monthly tribute. Those were the lives riding on her shoulders.

Would she do it the same way if she could go back and do it again? HELL NO! With the benefit of hindsight and knowing how disgusting and depraved Buggy was, she would've gladly disengaged from the tug-a-war and left Luffy to fight Buggy and save her treasure while she ran off and saved his hat.

But she knew full well that she couldn't change the past no matter how unfair it was. She had to push down her trauma, leap over this latest hurdle that life threw in her way, and keep sprinting toward that looming one hundred million berri finish line.

Was it worth it?

HELL YES!

To Be Continued…

The heart of this chapter is the flashback scene, which started off following the familiar beats of Nami's original flashback with the young thief getting caught stealing the navigation book by Genzo, Bellemere dealing with him before reprimanding her adopted daughter, and Nojiko teasing her younger sister for getting caught. However, THIS version of the aspiring navigator altered course by slipping out of her dress to AVOID being caught and, thanks to Bellemere's unconventional parenting, learned an important life lesson that sometimes she'll have to sacrifice her comfort and dignity to get what she wants and achieve her goals. A lesson that will be INVALUABLE for her survival in this story.

NEW ABILITY UNLOCKED! As seen in the flashback where she was running up the hill, Nojiko's dare inadvertently helped Nami gain a new special ability where she, quite literally, harnesses her natural affinity for sensing the wind and bends the air around her, using it to propel herself forward at an increased speed that is twice her normal running speed. The perverted catch - which is something that will come with most of the navigator's new abilities - is that it only works for a short, straight sprint while she's NAKED and able to wrap the wind fully around her body. Much like with Buggy, whose feet remain planted on the ground while the rest of him is flying around… feet don't count so neither do shoes. I've decided to call this new air bending ability that allows Nami to harness the air and run like the wind… WIND SPRINT.

I went full D&D Nerd and explained the technical mechanics of it on AO3. But to summarize: it's a 2x speed boost, but it can only be activated in the following three conditions: 1. When Nami's streaking aka naked bar her shoes and accessories. 2. When the wind is blowing in Nami's favor (from behind her). 3. When Nami's running in a straight line. Luffy and Sanji could still outrun her, but it's useful in a pinch.

WIND SPRINT is just one of the new abilities I'm giving Nami to help her turn the tide back in her favor with all the extra crap I'll be throwing at her.