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----5 years ago----

"You're telling me... you want to go out to sea for a couple of years?" Nami asked me. I had been expecting a more exciting reaction from her, but she hadn't seemed too happy about what I had just told her. With a huge smile on my face, hopefully changing the mood, I nodded my head.

"Yeah!" I said, "Usopp, Franky, Chopper, and Brook all agreed to come with me, as well as Dad and Sabo. Please come with us, Nami! And maybe try convincing the others to come along, too. We've graduated already, so we don't have to worry about school or anything. We'll be setting sail next week, so you better make up your mind now!" Nami sat there in utter silence, staring down at her lap.

"I can't go with you," Nami sighed, "Just stay here with me, okay?" Nami looked back up at me and squeezed my hand tightly. Why did she seem so sad about this?

"But I've always wanted to do this," I laughed, "Just think about it, okay? We can be with each other every day for multiple years and go to different islands! We can even get married if you really wanted!" Nami giggled a bit, sadly, then let go of my hand.

"I can't," Nami said, "Just don't leave me here, okay? Stay here. After I learn how to navigate, okay, then maybe we can set sail as long as you'd like. But for now... Let's wait a bit, okay? With you out in the middle of the sea and me on land, it wouldn't work out with us, would it? So just stay here, okay?"

"But Nami," I laughed, "Sabo and Dad already got a boat and we've mapped out all of the places we wanted to go! And I've already packed up everything in my room, and it would be a pain putting all of that back, wouldn't it?"

"So that's it?" Nami laughed, "You're just going to leave, correct? No matter what I say? There is no going back and changing your mind?" I just nodded my head slowly and stared into Nami's beautiful eyes. 

"What do you say?" I asked, grabbing Nami's hand and squeezing it once again, "Come with me. We won't be able to speak for a while if I'm out on the sea without you and all of my friends. There will be no internet or anything. We can be pirates like last year for my birthday! I want to relive those moments, but for more than one week."

Nami shook her head. "Luffy." Nami stood up, and I could see that her eyes started watering. "We can't continue this if you go out to sea, you realize that, right?" I stood up quickly.

"What do you mean?" I asked, "We can't continue what?" She had been scaring me a bit, I'll be honest. Nami then threw her arms around me and hugged me tightly. Suddenly, I felt my shoulder become wet, and I hear Nami sniffling. She was crying.

"Why are you crying?" I asked, feeling my voice get a bit shaky. Nami then let go of me and wiped her tears away. "No crying, okay, Nami? There's nothing to cry about. You're going to come with me, okay? And then, we'll live a great life together as pirates for a couple of years, right?"

Nami shook her head. "As I said, I can't go with you," she cried, "Luffy, we need to break up." My heart completely stopped for a second. My head started spinning, and I fell back into the couch. My eyes filled up with tears.

"You're being serious?" I said, "Wait, no, Nami." Nami started crying even more.

"You should... go and live your dream out on the sea, okay?" Nami said, "But we can't continue a relationship while you're out in the middle of the ocean, with no access to speak to me at all. Trust me, Luffy. I love you with all my heart but..." 

"Just come with me!" I laughed, "Please! Nami, we can go start packing your things right now, okay? Then, we can set sail with everyone else next week! Go get Robin and Zoro and Sanji and then we can... we can live life as the Straw Hat pirates again for more than a week this time."

"I can't go with you!" Nami shouted. She looked startled as if she had tried processing how loud she had been. She then took a deep breath and looked down at the ground. "I've never wanted to set sail out to sea as a 'pirate', okay?  I planned to learn how to navigate for a couple of years, and if I did go out to sea, to use the skills I learned to use at one point. But then eventually, I want to get a job, get married, and start a family. Setting out to sea isn't what I want to do, especially not for a couple of years."

This was ridiculous. I thought she wanted to be with me? At this point, both of us had sounded completely selfish: I wanted to force her to come out to sea with me when she doesn't want to, and she wanted to stay on land because becoming a pirate, or more like a sailor, I guess, wasn't necessarily something she wanted to do for a couple of years, even if it was with somebody she loved.

"Fine," I mumbled. I walked towards the front door and looked back at Nami. "But, just try thinking about it, okay? Please." Nami shrugged and stared down at the floor with tears streaming down her face. 

That was the last time I had spoken to her for five years.

----Present Time----

"Shishishi, hey, Nami!" I greeted. The orange-haired girl stared at me in amazement, but she looked a bit confused too. Her brown eyes looked straight into mine as we both stood there in utter silence.

"Who is it?" I heard someone call from inside. It was Sanji's voice.

"Oi, Sanji!" I laughed. Nami moved out of the way and I ran inside, to see Robin sitting on the couch with Zoro laying on her lap, and Sanji sitting on a chair, lighting himself a cigarette. It was them. I haven't seen them in five years, just like I haven't seen Nami in five years!

"Luffy?!" Sanji said in amazement. Zoro awoke from his nap and looked at me with a smirk. Sanji stood up from his chair, and I ran to him to give him a huge hug.

"Hey there, idiot," Zoro laughed, standing up from the couch. I let go of Sanji and walked towards him, hugging him, also. Robin smiled at me as I let go of Zoro, and waved.

"What a surprise," Robin laughed, "It's nice to see you again. You haven't changed one bit, now have you?"

I shook my head. "Nope, not really. I'm a bit taller, does that count?" Robin shook her head and laughed. This was like a little reunion, without Usopp and Brook and Franky and Chopper, though. It was nice to see everyone again, and I was craving Sanji's cooking. "Sanji, make me some meat, will you?" I demanded. Sanji rolled his eyes and walked to the kitchen and started pulling out cooking supplies. I've missed everyone here, but the one who was still shocked that I was here was Nami.

"Happy birthday, Luffy," Nami muttered as she walked into the living room. She leaned against the wall and crossed her arms, but avoided meeting my eyes. I smiled widely and laughed.

"Shishishi, thank you!" I tried to sound as enthusiastic as I could. When I had called Nami yesterday, it was super awkward, so maybe my happy attitude will change the mood between her and me!

"Oh, right, happy birthday," both Zoro and Sanji said. they both then gave each other a death glare. Well, seems like nothing has changed between those two. 

"Happy birthday, Luffy," Robin said. I smiled at everyone and said, "Thank you." It was nice to see everybody once again. 

"Can I talk to you?" Nami asked me. I looked at her and shrugged, then we both walked into this small, empty room in her house. As she closed the door, she threw her arms around me and squeezed me tightly. I've been wanting to feel her hugs once again, and now here I am. I hugged her back, tighter than I've ever hugged anyone before.

"I'm so glad to see you," Nami said. Her voice had been shaky, and she sounded like she was about to cry. She then pulled away from me and put her hand on my cheek. As much as I wanted to kiss her lips once again, I couldn't do that. Not after what situation I'm in. I grabbed her hand and pulled it away from my face, and sighed.

"There's something I need to tell you," I sighed. She nodded her head and met her eyes with mine. She wiped the tears out of her eyes that were about to come falling. I was hoping they were happy tears and not sad tears. Before she could say anything, I took a deep breath and started: "Last year, I had gotten off of the ship I was on and came back to land. So did everyone else. Trust me, I was going to call you right away, but something wasn't letting me. I was too scared to, I guess. Anyways, Hammock-"

"You still call her Hammock?" Nami laughed. I laughed sadly, and then everything became silent again. I sighed and looked at the ground.

"I guess so. Well, when I had gotten back, she was the first person to contact me. She's become even richer than she was before. Hammock has the power to arrange marriages. She's kept the feelings she's had for me for all that time... so her family agreed to arrange a marriage between her and me because she's spoiled and could get anything she really wanted. So, yeah. I'll be getting married to her in one year." I scratched the back of my unitchy neck. 

Nami fidgeted with her hands. "Oh. And, well, I'm dating Oliver now." She looked up at me and smiled. "I'm happy for you, Luffy." My heart stopped. Oliver?! Really?! She's dating that dick?!

"Why are you dating him?!" I laughed, "Out of all people?!" Nami put her index finger in front of my mouth. 

"You cannot get mad at me," she said, "You left for five years, and you're now getting married soon, aren't you?" I became completely silent.

"But... why couldn't you find someone better for you?" I asked, "And... I don't even want to get married to Hammock. I had no choice but to marry her. Just find someone better for you, okay? Like Sanji or something."

Nami started laughing historically. "Sanji?! Are you serious?!" she laughed, "The relationship wouldn't even last, you idiot, knowing how perverted he is with every woman he meets. He couldn't even keep the relationship he had with Pudding for too long!" I laughed a bit, knowing that was true.

"Okay, okay. But still." I grabbed Nami's hand and squeezed it tightly. "Just... find someone else who actually deserves you, okay?"

Nami shook her head. "Luffy, he's changed. Trust me. Things are going great, alright?" There had been some doubt in her voice when she said that. She pulled her hands away from mine and smiled. "It's glad to have you back." Nami then walked out of the room back with everyone else. I don't believe Olly's changed. At all.

Later on, Sanji had finished creating this delicious, meat feast. While we had been eating together for the first time in five years, I learned some new things today: Apparently, both Zoro and Robin are engaged, and they'll be getting married at one point, which is crazy! I'm glad that they both have lasted this long. Then Sanji hasn't had a girlfriend since both he and Pudding broke up, but he had his eyes on this girl named Viola, who I actually remember. He wants to contact her as soon as possible. Nami has been working at that one cafe we straw hats used to go to when we were in high school, but before that, she took some navigating lessons. Sanji is now working at a restaurant called the Baratie with his old man. Robin is a historian, while Zoro is continuing to train as a swordsman. His skills had become way more advanced, and there's actually a swordsman competition coming up (not with actual swords, though. That would be dangerous.)

After a while of drinking wine and eating meat, Zoro had fallen asleep on robin's lap again, while Sanji had cleaned up everything. Nami had been a bit drunk since she drank too much wine. It's been a while since I've seen drunk Nami, and I've missed it.

"You're so boring, Luffy," drunk Nami pouted, "Come onnn, have some more wine! There's plenty here for the both of us!"

"Wine is gross," I laughed, "Well, actually, I kind of like drinking it, but still. I don't need any right now. I'm pretty full from Sanji's dinner, shishishi."

Nami plopped down onto the couch as she took a sip of her wine and rolled her eyes. "Fine," she said, "Sanji! Get me some more wine, please!"

"Anything for you, Nami-San," Sanji said, walking towards Nami with a wine bottle, and he poured more into Nami's wine glass. She immediately chugged the wine as quickly as she could, then wiped her mouth with her arm.

"More-"

"No," I interrupted, walking towards Nami, grabbing the wine glass out of her hand, "You've had enough." Sanji walked away with the wine bottle and headed towards the kitchen. Robin had giggled a little, which immediately turned all of my attention towards her. "Why are you laughing?" I asked.

"It's just good seeing you two together again," she explained, "I missed seeing you care for her when she drinks too much. Why don't you two get back together?"

As Nami curled up in a ball under the blankets and pouted, I sighed and sat down next to Robin. "We can't. She's with Oliver now and... I didn't tell any of you this but, Hammock has arranged a marriage for her and me. It would be considered cheating if I went off with Nami, right? Plus, she's crazy rich, and has the power to ruin my life."

"You mean Hancock?" Robin giggled, "Anyways, I'm sorry about that. Handling her will be a huge pain. At least you and Nami can manage to stay friends for now though, right?" I nodded my head and looked at Nami, who had been in the middle of a yawn. I couldn't help but smile a bit.

"Yeah, right," I sighed, "Well, I guess I should bring her to bed, shouldn't I? Uh, where's her room?" 

Robin pointed upstairs. "Go upstairs, and her room is the second room on the left." I nodded and walked towards Nami and threw her over my shoulder. 

"Hey!" she yelled. Nami started kicking and hitting me as she wined. "Put me down, Luffy!" 

"Someone's cranky," I laughed, "You've drunk too much tonight." As Nami continuously tried fighting me and wined and wined, I managed to get her up to her room. Her walls had been white, and she had this one wall with a bunch of different photos of her and her friends. There had even been some old photos of her and me up on her wall, which I couldn't help but examine. She had this bookshelf with books and a dresser with a mirror above it and makeup stuff placed on the dresser. It was completely different from the room she had back in high school.

"Put me down!" Nami demanded, interrupting me from my thoughts. I set her down onto her bed, where she immediately pulled blankets over her and squeezed this teddy bear she had. It had seemed extremely familiar, but I couldn't put my finger on it. "Do you remember this bear?" she asked me, playing with its ears. 

"Kind of," I said, "It looks very familiar." Nami threw it at me, and luckily I had been able to catch it. I examined it a bit more until I found this little tag attached to it. It had said, "Happy 17th Birthday, Nami! I love you so, so, so, so, so... I can't even explain how much I love you, shishishi. But, here's my gift for you! I put a lot of thought into it, so make sure you take good care of it! I love you!" I'm surprised I managed to fit all of that onto a little tag. So, I gave this to Nami, and she kept it for five years? 

"I don't know why I kept that stupid thing," she sighed, "It reminds me too much of you. Maybe that's why I've never been able to let go: I thought of you too much because of that stupid teddy bear... Actually, no, the teddy bear has nothing to do with it."

Slowly, I sat down next to Nami on the bed and handed her back her teddy bear with a smile. "It's good to hear you never forgot about me, shishishi!" Nami rolled her eyes and shivered a bit.

"It's freezing in here," she complained, "Do you mind staying with me?" Nami pushed out her bottom lip and gave me puppy dog eyes.

"No," I said, "I need to go home to my new home since I'm moving back."

"You're moving back here?!" Nami exclaimed, "Wait, actually?!"

"Yeah? I told you that when we were eating dinner, shishishi." I looked at Nami, who's cheeks had been bright pink and her brown eyes were staring at me. Her long orange hair was all messy, and she had this tattoo on her left bicep. She had been wearing a tight, bright pink tank top and grey sweatpants, and her hair was up in a pony tail. She seemed even more beautiful than the last time I saw her, even though she'd just been in pajamas.

Nami then pushed the blankets off of her and moved closer to me and rested her head on my shoulder, startling me a bit. She then wrapped her hands around my body and let out a huge sigh. "I've missed you," she said. Her voice had been a bit shaky as she said that. As much as I wanted to be like this forever and forever, I knew it wasn't right. I pulled away from Nami and got off of her bed. I took the straw hat on my head and placed it onto hers, and smiled.

"Goodnight, Nami," I said, "Maybe I'll see you tomorrow, okay?" Nami sighed and got under the blankets again, and curled up into a ball. I missed everything about her. Why the hell did Hammock have to ruin everything?! right now, Nami could be in my arms while watching a movie with me, if Hammock hadn't arranged a marriage for her and me and if Oliver didn't get with Nami. Everything could be perfect again! 

Before Nami did anything to keep me from leaving the room, I went downstairs, where Sanji had been sitting at the kitchen counter, smoking a cigarette. Robin was just scrolling through stuff on her phone, while Zoro had still been napping.

"You didn't touch her, did you?" Sanij sneered. I laughed and shook my head.

"Of course not, shishishi," I laughed, "We both technically are in a relationship. I couldn't do that." I sat down at the kitchen counter with Sanji and pulled the cigarette out of Sanji's mouth, examining it. "How do you use this thing?" I asked.

Sanji grabbed the cigarette away from me and shook his head as he made this "tsk" sound.

"You've never even tried a cigarette?" he asked me, "Idiot." He then pulled this little box out of his front pocket where there had been a bunch of cigarettes sitting inside. He grabbed one out and told me to put one end into my mouth. He then lit the other end for me.

"Breath in," he said, "Then take it out of your mouth and breath out." I did what he did, but I ended up having a coughing fit.

"That thing is trying to kill me!" I coughed, "What the hell?! How do you use these thingies?!" Sanji laughed and me and blew out cigarette smoke like no big deal at all.

"I'm more experienced, I guess," he said, "Good thing Chopper isn't here."

I titled my head to the side. "What does Chopper have to do with anything?"

"Smoking isn't good for your lungs," Sanji explained, "At all. When I was just a teenager and I smoked once in a while, you have no clue how mad Chopper used to get. Speaking of Chopper, how come he and the others aren't back as well?"

"They all had some specific job they wanted to do," I said, "Chopper got invited to work at this special hospital, Brook started going up on stage and singing for people, Franky had found this place for shipwrights to work at, and Usopp, I don't know about him, honestly. Actually, wait, I think he said he was going back to his hometown where he was originally born. Yeah, that's where Usopp is."

Sanji nodded his head. "Ah, okay," he said. He then looked at his watch that had been on his wrist and stood up. "Well, it's getting pretty late. I'm going to head out. It was nice seeing you, Luffy." I hugged Sanji then he walked towards the front door, where he waved to Robin. Then, he left. I walked towards Robin and sat on the chair that had been sitting next to the couch she was on.

The door slam had awoken Zoro. "What the hell is going on?!" he mumbled, slowly getting up from Robin's lap.

"Sanji left," Robin explained, "Is that okay?"

Zoro smirked and nodded his head. "Of course." 

"You two still hate each other, huh?" I laughed. Zoro shrugged and then stretched.

"I guess so," he said. Zoro then got up from the couch and walked towards the kitchen, and grabbed a can of beer out of the refrigerator.

"Zoro, that's Nami's," Robin said. Zoro opened the can anyways and walked back to the couch.

"She will never notice," he laughed, "Plus, she made me pay extra at the cafe yesterday because of my 'attitude.' I think I deserve this, don't I?" Robin giggled and just shrugged.

"I'm going to go home," I yawned, "Thanks for letting me come over. I'll see you guys tomorrow maybe. My twenty-third birthday has been great, thank you." Both Robin and Zoro said their goodbyes, and I left Nami's house.

On the drive home, I couldn't stop thinking about how Nami kept that teddy bear I gave her after all of these years. I thought maybe she would throw it away or something, but no. She even kept the tag that had been attached to it. I guess I also kept that one picture board of Ace and me from my seventeenth birthday from Nami, but I didn't think she would keep that teddy bear.

When I had gotten home, Hammock had been sitting on the couch with her legs crossed in a tight, black dress. It was pretty short, and her hair had been let down. She had been wearing a pearl necklace and pearl earrings. 

"Luffy dear!" she announced as I walked through the door, "You're home! Where have you been all day? You didn't exactly let me know where you were." I sighed and put my car keys on the coffee table.

"I was visiting Nami, Robin, Zoro, and Sanji-"

"Nami?!" Hammock immediately stood up and gave me a terrified look. "Y-You... Isn't she your highschool girlfriend?" 

I nodded my head. "She's with somebody now. And so am I. Don't worry."

Hammock then let out a huge sigh of relief and walked towards me. She grabbed my hands and kissed my cheek. "Thank goodness," she laughed, "I knew I wouldn't have to worry."

I pushed Hammock away from me and yawned. "I'm going to bed." I walked into my bedroom and slammed my door shut, locking it. Both Hammock and I have separate rooms because, well, I really didn't want to share a room with her until I was comfortable around her, which I wasn't yet.

But I've finally been able to see Nami after all of these years.