Zoro tugged at the marine jacket that he wore. It was a long sleeve zip jacket that he left open at the front to reveal a white undershirt that had the word 'Marines' emblazoned across the chest. The marine insignia was also on clear display at the back of the jacket.
Luffy sat at the prow of the boat, sea chart in one hand and a compass in another, his prominent Marine coat resting on his shoulders. A pencil wagged up and down between his teeth as Luffy tried to plot a course.
"So how's the route, Captain?" Zoro asked, one hand held firmly on the rudder to ensure they stayed on course.
Luffy sighed as he took out the pencil from his mouth and drew a small circle around the map, some ways away from a plot of land and a black dot that marked 'Orange Town'.
"Honestly, I know crap about navigating. Everyone was too focused on making me physically stronger and told me to leave these kinds of things to my crew…" Luffy sighed again. "I can only tell that we're around this area," Luffy pointed to the circle he drew. "At best, we're four to five hours away; at worse, probably another day."
Zoro rolled his eyes, "how were you expecting to survive in the sea if you can't even navigate?"
Luffy stuck out his tongue, "My orders were to patrol the sea, not to investigate specific islands… So I thought I would just let myself drift from place to place… hehe…"
Zoro facepalmed, "Remind me why I agreed to join you again?" Luffy just laughed it off.
"How's our food supply?" Luffy asked, mouth already watering while reaching for the barrels beside Zoro.
Zoro held his hand up to Luffy's face and pushed him back, "Hold it! You already ate enough for three people just barely two hours ago! At this rate we won't have enough to last the day!"
"Stingy…" Luffy pouted, rubbing his nose.
"Hey, do you think that kid will be alright?" Zoro sighed, making sure Luffy wasn't going to make a lunge for their already dwindling food supply.
"He'll be fine," Luffy waved his hand nonchalantly. "He's a good kid, he'll definitely be a good marine."
Zoro shrugged, after they locked up Morgan, the whole town was thrown into celebration. Commander Ripper had personally oversaw Coby's enlistment as well as Helmeppo's at Coby's insistence, claiming that it would serve as a good enough punishment for his previous attitude.
Though the town was rather disappointed that their saviours were not staying for the celebration, the Marine base immediately provided rations and Luffy's claimed bounty to be stowed away on their boat. With theoretically enough food to last for ten days and two and a half million berries richer, the two man Marine team set off for Orange town.
Zoro quickly found out that the initial estimation of ten days' worth of food was only four days' worth if you had to feed Luffy. To Luffy's annoyance, Zorro made himself the unofficial guard for the barrel of provisions and smacked his Captain whenever he tried to take any extra food from him.
Luffy's ears pricked up as he heard three 'voices' with his Observation Haki, the inhuman training that Garp had put him through had taught him to maintain his Haki at all times with minimal effort. He turned to the direction of the voice, spotting three small specks in the horizon trying their best to keep themselves afloat.
"Zorro! Take the oars! There's three guys drowning over there!" Luffy yelled, pointing in the direction.
"What? I don't see anything?" Zoro squinted his eyes.
"Just do it!" Luffy ordered, prompting Zoro to immediately make a grab for the oars and row as hard as he could.
The screaming could finally be heard a few moments later as the three men made a beeline for the approaching boat, begging them to let them on.
Zoro stopped his rowing and helped haul the three soaked sailors on board, grunting as he did so.
"Hey! Thanks for saving us!" One of them cried, wringing his shirt dry.
"Yeah, you guys are lifesavers!" A second one chimed in, emptying water out from his shoe.
"Now hand over your boat!" The third pulled out a knife which spurred the other two to do the same.
Zoro's and Luffy's eyebrows twitched.
The three introduced themselves as members of the 'Buggy Pirates' and apologized profusely on their knees. All three of them had welts and bruises on their face and their hands bound together as two of them are now rowing as hard as they could with their hands bound.
"Please accept our humblest apologies! We didn't know it was the 'Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro'! Nor did we expect to meet such an esteemed figure like a Marine Captain out here in these parts!" The last pirate had his hands held together in a prayer gesture as he repeatedly bowed his head towards the two seated, fuming figures.
"What the hell happened to you guys?" Zoro sighed.
"Oh! It was so horrible Zoro-sama!"
"A girl tricked us! She pretended to be in need of help in her little boat!"
"Then she lured us on to her boat before stealing ours and took all our treasure with it!"
"What made it worse was the sudden storm hit us and sunk the boat with us!"
"It was like she planned the whole thing!"
"It was really horrible! Zoro-sama!"
Luffy and Zoro stared at the three incredulously, wondering how they managed to synchronise their explanation with one another, then whether the girl could actually predict the storm to happen at that time. Both of them shaking their heads in disbelief.
"How far away are we from Orange town?" Luffy sighed, uninterested in their constant groveling.
"Oh! Not far at all, Captain Luffy-sama! It's only an hour away! In fact, you can actually see it on the horizon!" The pirate pointed at the speck of land in the horizon.
Luffy sighed again, "listen well then, once we reach the island, I will be apprehending this… er… Buggy captain of yours, so if you don't want to be involved, grab a boat and leave. Understand?"
"Oh yes, certainly, Captain Luffy-sama!"
In a little over an hour, their boat was securely tied to the harbour as they disembarked onto the deserted town. Luffy spots a huge pirate ship anchored nearby, a ridiculously huge circus tent was pitched below the main mast.
"That's Buggy's ship alright," Zoro nodded towards the ship. "I once thought of going after his head, but never actually found him."
"Where is he?" Luffy turned to the shaking pirates.
"We set up camp at the top of the bar over there…" the pirate pointed a finger at the barely visible circus top jutting out among the town buildings.
"Can we go now?" The pirates looked ready to piss their pants.
Zoro glanced at Luffy who gave him a nod. He unsheathed his blade and before the pirates could flinch, swiftly brought his blade down in three consecutive strikes, severing the ropes around their wrists.
Not waiting for another second, the three pirates took to their heels, screaming.
Zoro sheathed his blade and entered the ghost town alongside Luffy. Before they could take ten steps in, a ray of light flashed through the town, spewing dust and debris in all directions.
"What?" Both men gasped, watching as the dust cleared to reveal a large portion of the town has been flattened. The buildings looked like a giant boulder had bulldozed its way through the town in an attempt to reach the sea, flattening most of the town in the process.
"What happened?" Zoro gaped, jaws slack in confusion.
"I don't know… but the light came from over there…" Luffy pointed to the bar where the pirates supposedly were.
"It must be their doing then, we have no time to lose if we want to protect the rest of the town…" Zoro tied his bandana around his head, eyes serious.
"There's someone coming this way too… "Luffy turned, hearing footsteps coming from an alley.
"Hold it! You thief!" A woman burst through the alley and ran straight into them, knocking Zoro sprawling on to the floor.
"Watch it." Zoro growled, standing up and dusting off his jacket.
The woman cursed under her breath as she massaged her head, where she had hit Zoro. She was about to run again when three pirates ran out from the alley, swords drawn and panting.
"Stop right there you thieving cat! Don't make this harder than it has to be!"
The woman clutched the paper she held in her hands closer as she backed away, noticing the other two standing beside her for the first time.
"Hey, who are you guys?" One of the pirates pointed a sword at Zoro.
"Hey! These guys are Marines!" Another gasped, spotting the Marine insignia both of them wore.
The girl recollected her thoughts before giving the two Marines a grin, "Hey, thanks boss, I'll leave these guys to you!" She took to her heels before anyone else to react.
"No way! She's a Marine?"
"That explains everything…"
"We'll finish up these guys here then gut her later."
All three pirates snarled, advancing on the two stationary Marines.
"Allow me, Captain," Zoro unsheathed his swords. "Oni Giri!"
Zoro slashed through the three pirates, who immediately collapsed on the floor, each one bearing a single slash mark. Zoro swiped his blade to clean of the blood before sheathing each of his blades.
"Wow, you guys took them down easily!"
Both men looked up to spot the girl from before sitting at the edge of the roof.
"Are you guys Marines?"
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" Luffy demanded, clearly unhappy with the stunt she pulled on them.
The girl hopped off the roof to land in front of him, waving her hands in a placating gesture, "Sorry, sorry. It was just that those pirates have been chasing me for quite a while and I panicked."
She stretched out her hand to Luffy, "My name is Nami. I'm the best navigator you'll ever find!"
Luffy looked at the hand then at her, raising an eyebrow before shaking it, "Captain Monkey D. Luffy of the Marines. Are you the one that sent the distress call?"
Nami shook her head, "That would be the other villagers, I was only passing through."
"And by 'passing through' you mean stealing from pirates eh?" Zoro eyed the map that was clearly in Nami's hand.
"Er… Well… They're pirates anyway right? It's not so bad if you're stealing from criminals?" Nami tried, fidgeting under Zoro's stare.
"Two wrongs don't make a right," Zoro commented, unmoving.
Luffy stepped in between them, "alright, alright. We're only here for Buggy, nothing more. You can go if you wish."
"Hey wait, how about I help you guys?" Nami suggested, suddenly very enthusiastic.
"Help us? Capture Buggy?" Zoro sneered, eyeing the girl.
"Yeah, I can say that I mutinied on you guys and captured you as an offering to Buggy so that I can join his crew. Then when they're drunk celebrating, I can release you guys to capture the intoxicated pirates. Easy right?"
Luffy and Zoro looked at each other before turning back to her.
"There's something else you're after, spill it." Zoro growled.
Seeing that she can't fool the two Marines, she smiled sheepishly, "Well, I would prefer if you two wouldn't mind me… 'Liberating' some of their assets…"
"Still after money huh?" Zoro smirked.
Nami shrugged, "I can't say I don't love having more money than I can spend in my pockets."
"Did you trick three pirates at sea before you got here?" Luffy asked.
Nami tilted her head and pretended to think, "I may have, but what's it to you?"
"So you can predict the weather?" Luffy watched Nami carefully.
Nami shook her hands quickly, "Oh no. Not really at least, I can just tell the weather patterns more easily than others."
"Alright then, deal, but if you try anything…" Luffy held up a finger as a warning.
Zoro's eyes widened, "Captain, you can't be serious, we don't even need her help. We'll just plow right through them."
"True… But I'm hungry… And I don't want to fight while I'm hungry…" Luffy groaned, rubbing his belly.
Both Zoro and Nami stared at Luffy in disbelief.
The roof of the bar was in disarray, a few pirates were scurrying about the place in what seemed to be a celebration put on hold.
There were barrels of alcohol and tables of food strewn around the place. The tension in the air was so tight it could almost be cut.
Most of the pirates were gathered in front of the big tent that housed their captain, Buggy, now sitting on his throne and tapping his right hand on the armrest impatiently. In front of him stood the thief that his men had a ridiculous amount of trouble capturing and tied up beside her were her "boss and associate".
"Since I'm sick and tired of working for the Marines and not even getting a decent pay for all my work, I'd thought that becoming a pirate and joining you guys would be so much better!" Nami flashed her best 'I'm so totally telling the truth' smile.
"So you really turned against them eh?" Buggy looked at the two bound Marines with disdain.
One was nodding off to sleep while the other just glared at everyone that dared to make eye contact.
He stood up from his throne, advancing on the two Marines sitting cross-legged beside Nami, ignoring Zoro's glare.
"Heh, so you two idiots got betrayed eh? Gyahahahaha! What a bunch of fools!" Buggy laughed heartily as the rest of his crew joined in.
"Hey wait..." Buggy finally noticed Zoro's waist. "Three swords? You wouldn't happen to be 'pirate hunter Zoro, would you?" Buggy glared.
Zoro smirked, shrugging "I quit being a bounty hunter some time ago, I'm a Marine now."
Buggy growled, "Men! Take his swords away! And bring more rope to bind him!"
Zoro scowled at this, standing up suddenly, unfazed by the number of men around him. "You touch my swords and I'll make sure none of you touches anything again."
Nami smacked him hard on the head, yelling, "What the hell are you doing? Can't you see there's way more pirates than you? You don't stand a chance!"
Zoro glared at the girl while Buggy laughed again, "You truly are one of us now, girl!"
Zoro gritted his teeth, "I don't care, I already suffered the embarrassment of losing my swords a few days ago and I'm not going to let it happen again!"
"Why you..." Nami began to raise her hand again.
"Zoro," Luffy finally spoke up.
Everyone turned to regard the Marine Captain that had been silent all this while. He grinned at Zoro, "Do whatever you want"
Zoro grinned back, "with pleasure, Captain."
In a flash, the ropes that bound his upper body were severed and his swords were unsheathed. "Change of plans, Nami. We're taking them down now." Zoro smirked.
"So you lied to us..." Buggy glared pointedly at Nami, who was beginning to sweat.
She started to mouth an excuse but felt a reassuring hand on her shoulder. She turned to see Luffy standing beside her, bindings already undone.
"Relax Nami, we got this." Luffy smiled reassuringly. "Hey Zoro!"
"Yes Captain?"
"You handle these guys first, I'm going to take some of their food." Without waiting for a reply, he walked off towards the closest table piled with food.
Zoro only grinned at this as he glared down the pirates surrounding them, all with weapons drawn. "Of course, Captain."
Without any warning, he lunge towards the closest pirate, already cutting him and sending him sprawling on the ground.
In unison, the pirates shouted a battle cry and charged at Zoro, only to be mowed down in a furry of blades. A few of them went after Nami, now knowing she had no intention of joining them in the first place.
Nami muttered a curse under her breath as she assembled her staff that was hidden underneath her skirt, trying her best to fend off the furious pirates.
"Captain," a swordsman rolled out beside Buggy on a unicycle. He was wearing a chequered scarf and baggy pants with only a long overcoat to cover his torso. "I can handle these two by myself."
"Cabaji," Buggy regarded the swordsman. He nodded and jerked his head at Luffy who was busy shovelling food into his mouth. "But get him first, he's getting on my nerves."
Cabaji charged towards Luffy, his two sabres poised to strike at his back. When he as within striking distance, three swords flashed in front of him, parrying his attacks. Zoro stood in front of him, both their swords locked in position.
"Would you mind not disturbing my Captain while he's eating?" Zoro grunted.
Cabaji grinned, "It's an honour to cross swords with you, Roronoa!"
"I can't say the same to you, you circus freak." Zoro grunted, pushing Cabaji away from him.
"Leave him to me boys! I want to fight him!" Cabaji shouted, fully concentrating on Zoro now.
Zoro stuck both of his swords in the ground and tied his bandana around his head before picking his swords up again.
Both swordsman charged at each other, striking both of their swords at the same time. Before Zoro could push away, Cabaji pulled down his scarf and blew a gout of blame at him.
"Acrobat technique: Fire Trick!"
Zoro leaped backwards as he tried to avoid the flames, shielding his face with his left hand. Cabaji took the opportunity and delivered a right kick to Zoro's abdomen, pushing him onto the floor.
Cabaji charged at Zoro again, his swords lunging towards him. Zoro grunted as he got up from the ground, parrying his two sword lunges away and delivering a satisfying head-butt to Cabaji's face, sending him off his unicycle.
"You dirty bastard!" Cabaji screamed.
"Says the guy with the circus tricks," Zoro smirked, charging once again at Cabaji.
"Murder Mist Attack!" Cabaji cried, as he swung his sword on the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Zoro stopped at the edge of the cloud, swords held ready.
Without warning, Cabaji appeared from within the cloud, swords held on his right and slashing towards Zoro. Zoro blocked it with both his swords, planning to cut him with the sword in his mouth.
Cabaji let go of the sword in his left hand and threw a bunch of dirt that he had hid at Zoro's face.
"You asshole!" Zoro winced in pain as he stepped back, trying to get the dirt out from his eyes. Cabaji did not lose the opportunity to stab his sword towards Zoro, who barely managed to deflect it at the last second.
"I'm tired of this, you call yourself a swordsman and yet you resort to these petty tricks!" Zoro fumed, finally regaining his full sight.
"I'll do anything it takes to win, fool." Cabaji grinned.
"Come to my face and say it, I dare you." Zoro grunted, settling into a stance.
Cabaji charged one more time at him, swords held by his side prepared to slash. Just as he was reaching his target, Zoro lashed out with all three swords.
"Oni Giri!"
Three slashes marked itself on Cabaji as he passed by Zoro.
"Impossible… You're only Marines…" Cabaji gasped before collapsing on the floor.
"That's enough, Roronoa Zoro!" A man shouted, causing said swordsman to turn to face him.
A man with his hair styled to look like he had bear ears on top of his head was standing beside Nami, who was now tied up and kneeling on the floor. A huge lion stood behind her, a paw on top of her head, not allowing her to rise.
"Move another step and she gets it!" The man grinned victoriously.
"Gyahahahaha! Well done Mohji! Hold that bitch there!" Buggy laughed.
Zoro was about to move before the lion pushed Nami's head even lower, growling at Zoro.
Seeing that he had control over the situation again, Buggy laughed as his man brought in a cannon.
"Since you guys had pissed me off so much, I'll give you guys the honour of death with my best weapon! Men, load in the Buggy ball!"
A black cannon ball with their pirate Jolly Roger was loaded into the cannon, a pirate immediately lit the fuse and the cannon was pointed at the town.
"To demonstrate its power… Men! Fire the Buggy ball!"
Nami watched in horror a huge flash of white light emanated from the cannon towards the town. When the light finally dimmed, the buildings that once stood tall and proud were reduced to rubble within the cannon's aim.
"Gyahahahaha! Be proud you made me use this on you, you filthy Marines!" Buggy laughed as they redirected the cannon to point at the stationary Marines.
"So that's what you used to destroy the town earlier?" Zoro glared at Buggy.
"Gyahahahaha! Of course! And now, I'm going to use it on you!" Buggy laughed maniacally.
"Run you idiots! Why are you risking your lives for me?!" Nami cried, only for Mohji to smack her across her face to shut her up.
"Oi, oi. Captain, this doesn't look good…" Zoro sweated.
"Rewlwax Zwowwo," Luffy waved his hand nonchalantly, talking even with his mouth still full of food. "Jwust thwust mwe."
Zoro looked at him, unconvinced, "If you're so sure, Captain…"
"Fire the Buggy ball!" Buggy cried as the fuse was lit.
"No!" Nami cried as the cannon was fired. A blinding light flashed towards the two Marines, only to be abruptly dissipated. The smoke cleared to reveal a Strawhat Marine chomping down on some food as he held on to the cannon ball with his right hand.
Everyone's eyes popped out and their jaws reached the ground.
"WHHHAAATTT?!" Everyone screamed in unison.
Swallowing his food, Luffy let out a contented belch as he let the bomb drop on the floor, letting it smoulder.
"That was some good food," he grinned.
"Soru!"
He appeared in front of Mohji, his face impassive. "You dared to hit her…"
The air was cackling as Luffy delivered a punch to Mohji's face, sending him flying off the roof into the street below.
"How dare you, you filthy Marine! Richie!" Buggy called out to the lion. "Kill that thief!"
But Richie stayed still. In fact, he stayed so still people wondered if he was still alive. His sweat was pouring down his face like a waterfall as Luffy advanced on him.
"You will let her go." It wasn't a request, nor a demand. Luffy was commanding him to do as he said.
Richie slowly lifted his paw off Nami's head and stepped aside, all the while cowering in fear of this strawhat boy.
Luffy stuck his right index finger out pointed it at Nami's bindings.
"Shigan Rankyaku"
Jabbing his finger forward, a small bullet of air pressure sliced cleanly through the rope, not touching Nami at all. Nami just stared incredulously at Luffy as her bindings fell free beside her.
"I'll only say this once, Buggy the Clown, give up before you get hurt."
"Fat chance! I'll take you on myself you damn Marine!" Buggy cried, bringing out knives from under his cloak. Although rather uneasy about this Marine Captain's sudden display of power, Buggy refused to bow down to him.
'I'll have to take him seriously from the start' Buggy decided.
"Bara Bara Festival!"
Buggy's body separated into many different parts and started flying around the place. Nami and Zoro was shocked at this display but Luffy just smirked.
"So you ate a Devil fruit huh?"
"Indeed! I ate the Bara Bara fruit! I have the ability to split my body into different sections! I cannot be cut! Scared now, Marine?" Buggy laughed.
"Not at all, you look ridiculous, like your big nose." Luffy grinned.
Every Buggy pirate that heard that immediately went into a panic mode and backed off as far away as they could from Luffy.
"Eh? What's up with you guys?" Luffy looked at the pirates quizzically.
"You… What did you say about my nose?" Buggy's body was trembling.
"I said it was big?" Luffy raised an eyebrow.
"NOO! He hates people talking about his nose!" Every Buggy pirate screamed in unison.
"I'll kill you for that you confounded Marine!" Buggy's body began spinning wildly around Luffy like a miniature tornado.
Nami held on to Luffy's cloak, watching in fear as the tornado got smaller and smaller around them, closing in for the kill.
"Relax, Nami, I'll protect you. The Marines always protect the innocent." Luffy grinned, keeping his eyes on the tornado of body parts.
"Surprise stab!" A hand holding a knife flew towards Luffy from behind his head, only to be back handed away back into the tornado.
"It's not much of a surprise if you actually yell it out," Luffy grinned.
This time, another hand flew out without warning and went straight for Nami. She screamed but Luffy managed to kick that hand away as well.
"Targeting bystanders now? That's not very nice, Buggy." Luffy clucked his tongue at him.
"Shut up! I'm a pirate! I don't play nice!" Buggy yelled back.
At once, Buggy flung all of his airborne body parts at Luffy aiming to distract him while the hands that held his knives moved in for the kill.
With Observation Haki, Luffy noticed the trajectory of the knives were not headed for him. He grit his teeth in anger as he pulled Nami away from the knives and shielded her from the crashing body parts.
"Enough! Your fight is with me! Stop dragging her into it!" Luffy growled.
"Never! She stole my map and tried to trick me! I'm never forgiving her!" Buggy growled as he tried to stab her again.
"Hold your breath and close your eyes," Luffy whispered, gripping tighter on her.
Nami didn't hesitate and did as she was told.
"Soru!"
Luffy reappeared in front of Zoro with Nami, dodging through the knives and body parts. He deposited her beside him, Nami still slightly dazed from the sudden acceleration.
"Protect her," Luffy turned back to face the increasingly frustrated Buggy.
"Of course, Captain." Zoro grinned, gripping his swords.
"I won't forgive you for hurting the innocent, turn yourself in or I'll make you." Luffy glared hard at Buggy.
"Try me," Buggy floated a few feet away from Luffy.
"Shigan Rankyaku!"
Luffy punched his finger forward and sent a bullet of compressed air at Buggy without warning, piercing through one of his hands.
"ARRGGHH! YOU BASTARD!" Buggy screamed, clutching his hand.
"Last warning," Luffy glared, the shadow of his hat covering his eyes.
"Never! Bara Bara Party!"
Every single body part began flinging itself towards Luffy. Luffy held his hat with one hand and appeared in front of Buggy's floating head.
Before Buggy could even blink, a fist materialised in between his eyes, sending his head crashing back into his tent. The other body parts immediately slumped on to the floor as Buggy lost consciousness.
All the other pirates cowered in fear at the Marine Captain, flinching as he pointed a finger at them. "I want you guys to bag all the treasure you currently have and bring them here. Once you're done, I want all of you off the island within ten seconds, anyone still here by then will be arrested or beaten up. Probably both." All of them scurried off to obey.
Luffy grinned at the retreating pirates before turning to Zoro, his blades were already sheathed and his bandana tied to his arm. "Zoro! Help me tie Buggy up! We'll leave him for the transportation guys."
Luffy pulled out his den den mushi, dialling the number for HQ as Zoro found some rope and proceeded to gather up the body parts.
"Headquarters, Captain Monkey D. Luffy reporting in from Orange town."
"Receiving loud and clear, Captain. What's the situation there?"
"Pirate captain Buggy the Clown was found terrorizing the town but I already dealt with him, send in a transport team for pickup, over."
"Aye, sir. Thanks for the good work. HQ out."
Luffy pocketed the den den mushi just as the pirates returned with bags of gold before turning on their heels and ran back to their ship, carrying any passed out crew members with them.
Luffy grinned at Nami, who was staring at the bags of gold uneasily. "Hey, I'll give you those if you agree to become my navigator!"
"What?" Nami stared at him in disbelief.
"I'm gathering my own Marine crew to take on the New World criminals and we're sorely missing in the navigation department. We can use someone like you." Luffy smiled sheepishly.
Nami held her head down, "I… I'm flattered but… I can't… I still have some unfinished business I need to deal with at home…"
Luffy frowned, noticing her depression, "does it have something to do with how you're clamouring so much after money?"
Nami hesitated, but nodded in the end.
Luffy just sighed before tossing two bags of gold to her, leaving one last bag behind.
"Take these."
Nami looked at Luffy in shock, "are you sure? I… You don't have to."
"It's fine, just take it as an apology for getting you involved. I can already claim the fifteen million bounty from Buggy so I'm not in need of those." Luffy nodded towards the bags.
"What about that one?" Nami pointed at the last bag.
Luffy shrugged, "the town needs to be repaired, this will act as their funds for it, I guess."
Nami nodded understandingly, still staring at the two bags.
Zoro reappeared out of the tent with a satisfied smirk, "all done Captain, I wrote a note to tell the guys not to untie the body parts too."
Luffy peeked in the tent to see Buggy's head tied to the centre pole of the tent with his bundle of body parts below.
"Shishishishi, that should keep him there until the boys come, we should head out soon, I don't want to have to answer the locals when they find out half their town got destroyed by these pirates." Luffy laughed.
"Wait," Nami made a grab for Luffy, stopping him in his tracks.
"You see… These two bags are too heavy for me to carry by myself, so if you two gentlemen can help me carry them, I wouldn't mind following you guys for a while." Nami smiled sweetly.
"Tch, damn witch is only in it for the gold aren't you?" Zoro remarked, turning away to walk back to their boats.
Luffy grinned at her, "where's your hometown?"
"Conomi islands," She grinned back.
"Well, perfect, that's one of our stops too. We can escort you there! Maybe help you finish your business too so you can join us!" Luffy laughed.
Nami paled a little at this but kept her smile, "It's a deal then."
Luffy shook Nami's hands energetically, welcoming his temporary Navigator.