NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 117: CH 117
Nami slowly opened her eyes in a daze, feeling a little sore on her side before she looked around where she was.
"Where am I?" she asked herself before looking down at her makeshift bed of cash and treasure. She blinked a few times before her eyes turned to berry symbols and she shrieked in joy. "Now I remember! We won the race, ransacked Gasparde's ship, and walked away with...with...800,000,000 berries!" She laughed before she rolled around the loot for a moment, happy to have that much money in her possession.
"Glad you like the money." came a groggy voice.
"I do!" she said with a grin that could probably match Luffy's.
"You have any problem sleeping on it?"
"Not at all!" she said before she realized she was talking to someone else. She looked around to see Luffy sitting up next to the wall. His straw hat was covering his eyes and his head was hung low, hiding his face from her. "Luffy? What are you doing here?" she asked before she scowled. "If you're here to ask for money for food, then forget it. We have all the food that we raided off Gasparde's ship."
"It's not that." he said in that groggy voice. "The others kicked me out of the room so they could sleep." Nami was surprised by his explanation as Luffy sat there before she stood up and walked in front of him. "Why'd they kick you out?" she asked. "Talking in your sleep?" Luffy's hat moved up and down, telling her that he was nodding. She bent down and was now eye level with him with her arms across her knees. "Did you have another nightmare?" Luffy didn't say anything as he brought his hands up and held onto his hat.
"Yeah." he said. "I was shouting in my sleep."
"About us and...what happened to you last time?" she asked.
"Yes." he said, his voice heavy with emotion. Nami frowned as she moved to sit next to him.
'To see everyone you know and love killed before your eyes.' she thought as her mind wandered to the citizens in her village. How they all ran off to fight Arlong for stabbing her in the back, knowing that they would die. The thought of them all being killed by the one person she despised the most in the world scared her. She looked over at Luffy, who hadn't moved an inch from where he sat, and felt her heart clench. 'Not just his home and the people he grew up with, but all the friends he had. Everyone that he knew...' She reached her hand out and gently placed it on his shoulder. That seemed to be too much for Luffy as he threw himself on her, knocking her over and onto the floor. "Luffy?!"
"It's not fair!" he said in a sob. "Why'd they have to die?! They weren't evil! None of us were!" Nami laid there under Luffy as he cried before her eyes softened and she gently wrapped her arms around him in a comforting hug. They both slowly sat up as Luffy cried into her shoulder, the memories of his friends dying and the nightmares still haunting him. She was about to say something, but he spoke first. "He spared no one...Not even kids...I didn't," He inhaled as he stuttered, as if the next words were painful. "I didn't even know...that a friend from my hometown had a k- a kid...UNTIL THAT BASTARD BROUGHT BOTH HER AND HER BABY'S BODIES IN FRONT OF MY PRISON CELL!" Nami's body stiffened and her eyes flew open.
"A...baby?" she asked in a quiet voice.
"They said that they weren't going to take a chance that it could've been mine." Nami's eyes started to tear up as well as she held him close as he sobbed. That the World Government and Marines would do this was nothing but madness. They both stayed that way as Nami let Luffy cry for those he lost once before. It was a good twenty minutes before Luffy calmed down to just sniffling. "Feel better?" Nami asked.
"Yes." Luffy sniffled. "Thanks Nami."
"Luffy." Nami said as they both stood up and looked each other in the eye. "We won't disappear." she said with a smile. Luffy wiped his eyes before smiling back at her.
"Right. This time, we're all gonna make our dreams come true!" Luffy said before his stomach growled. "I'm hungry."
"When are you not hungry?" Nami asked with a laugh, glad to see Luffy being himself before her stomach growled, making her blush. "Guess I'm hungry too." she said, making them both laugh. "What time is it?"
"I don't know. It was still night when I came down here." Luffy replied before looking down at the treasure and money they had. "How do you sleep on treasure?"
"Very easily." she said with a smile before turning to look at it all with Berry symbols in her eyes. "Especially when it adds up to so much!"
"Isn't some of that Vivi and Valerie's from their bet?" Luffy asked.
"A little, but I don't think they'll mind if I hold onto it." she said, her eyes still berry symbols. "800,000,000 berries!" she said before she flung herself onto the pile of loot.
"Nami~swan!" came Sanji's call from up on deck, followed by his footsteps that grew louder before he entered the room with a hot meal. "You're Breakfast is ready~!" he said in love-mode. "Breakfast?" Nami asked. "It's morning?"
"It is." Sanji said while using his foot to keep Luffy from grabbing the food. "This is Nami's, so keep your rubber fingers off it!" he growled before he realized where they were. "Wait a minute? Why are you two down here anyway?"
"You and the others kicked me out of the room." Luffy said.
"I fell asleep after I counted how much money we have." Nami said from where she sat in the treasure before she got up and took the food. "Thank you, Sanji."
"Anytime, Nami my love~!" Sanji sang as he followed Nami out of the room. Luffy followed after them all the way to the inside of the cabin, where the crew were scattered about and comfortably eating. "You guys started eating and you didn't call me?!" Luffy asked.
"We thought you'd been here by now." Usopp said as he quickly shoveled his food into his mouth before Luffy had a chance to snatch it.
"And where were you?" Valerie asked Nami.
"Probably in a cash coma." Nojiko said with a grin.
"Can't blame her." Johnny whispered to Yosaku. "Even with all the bounties we turned in, we'd never have seen that much money in one place." Yosaku nodded with a mouth full of food as Luffy began to bring the normal chaos to the ship by snagging whatever food he could from around them all. "Would you quit that?!" Gin snarled as he smashed Luffy's rubbery hand with his fist as the others did whatever they could to keep Luffy away from their food. Even Carue was quacking in anger when Luffy tried to snag his food and attacked Luffy, causing them both to run out the door. Nami watched it all from where she sat next to Vivi and smiled before she noticed that Vivi had hardly touched her food.
"Something wrong?" Nami asked Vivi.
"Huh?" Vivi said as she looked at Nami before she forced a smile. "It's nothing. Don't worry about it." she said. Nami stared before she pulled on Vivi's cheek. "Ow!"
"You're a terrible liar." Nami said before she released Vivi's cheek. "Now spill. What's wrong?"
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