9 Chapter 08

After leaving the town, it took no more than a few minutes for Zoro to fall asleep. He was tired from the fight and still hurt from that explosion. Those Buggy Balls are very destructive and yet he was still able to stand after being hit from one, he deserves the rest.

Unfortunately, my straw hat was damaged and it hurts more than I would like to admit. While I was sulking over it, Nami came up to me "Why did you do all that? You didn't have any relation with that town and yet you willing left half of Buggy's treasure there. You talked Buggy out of being a menace and you saved me twice, despite being a complete stranger, who you just met. You have to be the worst pirate I have ever seen."

That came out of nowhere, but I flashed her my signature grin and told her: "Well, I like to think that I am in fact a great pirate, it's just that everyone has his own way of understanding what a pirate is. And why wouldn't I save you, when you are apart of my crew and my precious nakama, shishishi.".

She hit me after that and said: "I never agreed to join your crew, we are only partners." I am sure I will be able to break her walls. "Tomato, tomato, you just said in a different way," I replied

I heard her silently mutter 'Idiot' and she walked away. I guess that wasn't the right answer. A moment later she came back with a sewing kit "Give me your straw hat, I will patch it for you." Maybe it was the correct answer, huh.

After fixing my hat, she even added a string so that I can tie her to my neck. The hat used to have one, however, was it damaged and it fell off at some point.

Nami was interested in my monkey transformation, as she remembered how I looked differently while saving her from Buggy's knives. I transformed and started explaining to her all that I know about Devil Fruits as I did with Zoro.

While I was explaining, she grabbed my tail and started stroking it. The second she caught it, I froze and my body became numb. The feeling is very strange, it's like I lose all of my senses when someone grabs my tail, however, it also kinda feels pleasant in a way.

I learned that the hard way, as Zoro was the first one to grab it. Boy, I never felt so weird in my life. After that experience I had to repeat to myself 'I like women, boobs and ass.' for at least a few hours and I still do from time to time.

This time the feeling was amazing though, considering it's a female hand that's grabbing and stroking my tail. Everything was perfect until I did some kind of weird moan sound and she immediately stopped what she was doing.

We were both seriously blushing after my weird sounding moan. I was honestly embarrassed after that, however, I had to do something to defuse the situation. I think I made it worse by saying "That was the first time someone stroked my tail, you have to take responsibility now!"

I suppose she did listen to my explanation regarding my Devil Fruits, as she started poking me with a needle, rather than punching me. After a few minutes of torture, she stormed off.

I was starving so I decided to eat something, sadly we forgot to bring any food with us after leaving Orange Town. This is a really bad spot to be in, I don't want to starve on the sea.

Luckily an hour or so later, I spotted some land. I asked Nami about it and she said it's some uninhabited island. Uninhabited or not, I should be able to gather some food from there. We turned the boat and made our way towards it.

We docked the boat on a beach and we went to explore it with Nami. Zoro was still sleeping, he could definitely use the rest.

We were able to spot quite a few animals and they all looked so strange. Snakes with rabbit ears, pigs with lion manes and various other animal combinations I guess.

There was a pink monkey with bird legs that greeted us as soon as we arrived on the island. He rushed to us and immediately jumped on my back and since then he has not left my shoulders.

A few minutes of exploration later, we heard someone that was trying to scare us away. He was acting like a spirit of the forest, but it was obvious the voice was coming from a chest that had a bush.

As soon as I saw that combination, I was sure exactly where we are. Nami pointed out that the voice is coming from there we made our way towards him. Once he noticed us going his way, he shot at us. I was easily able to get in the way of the bullet and it harmlessly bounced off me.

I heard Nami silently mutter 'Thank you' since the bullet was going in her direction. Once the chest-bush guy? saw that we were unharmed, he dashed off. Seconds later he slipped and fell over.

I couldn't stop myself from laughing, he was so fun, he looked like an upside down turtle. After having our laugh we helped him out. He was actually a pretty cool guy. We explained to him how we came here to find some food as we have none.

He was happy to help us out, as long as we promised not to hurt any of the animals here. I was kinda disappointed at that because I really wanted to eat meat, but I guess I will do with fruit until our next stop.

He introduced himself as Gaimon and told us his story. How he got stuck in that chest twenty years ago by trying to climb a cliff to search for treasure. How he fell unconscious after falling into a treasure chest and how his crew had already left the island when he woke up. Since then he has been stuck in that chest.

I offered him my help to go and check the treasure chests. He was so touched that we were willing to help.

There were five treasures chest on the cliff and unfortunately, all of them were empty. Surprisingly he got over that very quickly, saying how the animals have become his family and friends, and that is the best treasure he can ask for.

He didn't need the chest anymore so we filled them up with fruits from the island. All the fruit actually looked strange and I was checking each and everyone for swirls. I don't wanna repeat that experience again. I'm not sure I can survive eating another Devil Fruit.

I already brought four of the chests on the ship and we were left with only one. We bid our goodbyes to Gaimon and started going towards the ship. As we were walking, Nami hugged my free hand. I couldn't help myself when she did that "Ohhh so that's what you meant when you said, partners."

I probably should have cherished that moment, but I really couldn't help myself from teasing her. Surprisingly she didn't let go or even hit me. When I turned to look at her, she was as red as a tomato and I heard her say "Next time I will charge you for this, you dumbass."