A/N: Set between Water 7 and Thriller bark. Not too many spoilers. Read at your own discretion.

Nami just loved being alive, especially on days like this.

She would wake up peacefully, but the air seemed to be filled with something else, something that made the hair on the back of her neck stand up and the corner of her lips quirk into a permanent smile.

She was able to take a nice long soak in the tub without too much distraction, eat in relative peace (as much as one could get at their breakfast table) and she was still feeling self-satisfied from the large sum of gold stolen from another pirate ship the day before. However, days like these also had another turn to them, which Nami had come to anticipate and thoroughly enjoy.

She smiled and laughed and defended her plate, as per usual, humored Sanji and his over-the-top flirting and conversed with Robin while trying to ignore the man somewhat across the table from her who was now tickling the inner half of her calve with his toes. It was going to be a good day, she decided.

Nami pretended not to notice how his lips tugged into a smirk when he glanced her way – too subtle to tell apart from his usual grins when not actively looking for the change. The look in his eyes was making her stomach melt and spine tingle. He was hardly doing anything, and yet still driving her absolutely crazy.

"Navigator-san, something seems to be distracting you," Robin commented with an amused smile gracing her lips.

"Eh? Oh, it's nothing. Sorry, I missed what you said," Nami apologized, still fighting down the reddening in her face that accompanied the liquid heat settling in her lower stomach.

"Nami-swa~n! Robin-chwa~n! Drinks for the sparkling beauties," Sanji spouted, twirling and depositing the drinks beside the two that he served.

"Thank you, Sanji-kun," Nami chirped happily, voice only wavering slightly as the top of a foot rubbed the inside of her knee. Curse his rubber powers and their convenience …

"Whipped," she heard Zoro comment under his breath as he took a bite from his own breakfast.

"What was that, Marimo?!" Sanji snapped, from one extreme to the other. Soon enough both men were on their feet, spitting insults and bristling visibly. From her other side, Usopp heaved a sigh of exasperation while their captain just laughed it off.

Everyone dissipated at their own pace, some milling around longer than others to finish what was salvaged. Luffy, who had eaten at least half the food prepared, strolled out onto the deck with a huge (and somewhat smug) grin on his face. Chopper, Usopp and Franky were next, all three deciding to go below deck to work on a project (Chopper just wanted to watch). Nami and Robin followed right after them, still talking about what they had been while eating.

Zoro remained, sipping at a mug of coffee while watching the retreating backs of his Nakama. He hadn't missed the smaller things this morning. He swore that something was up, but it didn't seem as though it was a bad sort of thing. Just … unexpected?

"Oi, why the hell are you still here, shitty Marimo?" Sanji growled at him from inside the kitchen itself. The cook was now cleaning the dishes, thankful that none had been broken that morning.

"Did you notice?" Zoro replied, in one of his rare moments of insightfulness that let him put aside their rivalry, even if only temporarily.

"Notice what?" Sanji shook his head and scowled.

"Luffy and Nami, they were acting odd."

Nami's name caught Sanji's attention, and the blonde stopped himself before he said something to set the Swordsman off, "How?"

"I dunno. There's just something weird."

"… Your common sense didn't get lost, did it?"

The two were immediately at each other's throats.

"Nhg … Stop teasing me dammit!" Nami hissed, pulling on his hair.

"Stop being so loud!" he growled back and then bit down on her neck. The woman he had pinned to the wall squirmed and let out a soft noise as he gave the shallow wound a lick.

"I'll be quiet if you stop teasing me," she said with a smug grin and slipped her fingers past the waistband of his shorts. A sparkle gleamed in his eyes, now shadowed by his hat. That expression never ceased to amaze her with its ability to turn her on.

"Deal," he whispered huskily, slipping one hand up her shirt as she fiddled with the button.

Nami, on all accounts, was not shy. Those words should not be in a sentence together unless it was something along the lines of 'Nami is, was and will never be shy'. Normally, she wouldn't give a damn if anyone on the ship knew exactly what the two of them were doing. They could have watched for all she cared. However, there was one little setback that really put her on edge: Sanji.

The man was clearly borderline obsessed with her (and Robin). It bothered her to think of how was how he would react when he found out about her and their rubbery captain. One, Sanji would probably try to kill the poor guy, or at least maim him. Two, there would be passive aggression and the constant sulking. Nami hoped that she would never see him like that, it was too damn annoying. Oh, and she guessed there would be another thing; the teasing. She would hear no end to it from the other crew members.

Now, Nami knew well enough with a lover with such a loud mouth like Luffy, it was bound to get out eventually. But she enjoyed time with him without having the rest of the crew snickering behind their backs. She would not resign to her fate just yet. Besides, if it was to get out, she was planning to do it in the biggest, most embarrassing (for the person to stumble in on them … probably Usopp) way that she possible could. Just to get some laughs and to see everyone's dumbstruck expressions (she was thinking something along the lines of sex near her orange trees and have it set up so that someone would come looking for one of them.)

So, to sum it up, Nami liked peace and quiet and that's why Luffy had agreed to keep the secret. They'd made it into a game. In a way, it was kind of ironic, he being the one to tell her to be quiet and all, but she supposed that he just really liked her idea of scaring the crap out of everyone with the revelation. He had looked kind of evil laughing the way he did when she mentioned it.

For now they needed to be quick, and silent. Robin could walk in at nearly any moment (it being the women's quarters and all). Having this in mind, Luffy skipped a good portion of foreplay and just went straight to it. Her legs were lifted onto his waist, her arms circling his neck in hopes that she wouldn't fall. In all honestly, she really got a kick out of being pinned between the wall and his body, but she wouldn't ever say that out loud.

When Luffy was certain she wouldn't fall, he reached between their bodies and lifted her skirt up on to her stomach. His searching fingers found what they were looking for and stroked her without mercy. Very soon he had Nami a moaning, mewing mess clinging to him in hopes of staying upright.

"Ready, Nami?" he whispered against her neck, smirking so that she would feel it.

"Y-yeah," she panted back.

Within moments his pants were at his ankles and he was buried deep within her. She tried to moan, but couldn't when he was eating the insides of her mouth. He started moving, keeping them quiet with his mouth and muffling the sounds of skin on skin with their clothes. Her eyes slid shut. Pleasure filled her, overwhelmed her and threatened to spill out. It was a wonder that they could be so quiet in moments like these.

She also guessed that she took a little bit of guilty pleasure in the fact that their Nakama were completely unaware (although, there was a chance Robin knew … sneaky woman). Just to be able to look across the breakfast table and know exactly which thoughts were going through Luffy's mind as his eyes skimmed a little lower than they should be. To feel a sub-arousal and act completely normal while everyone else was totally unaware … it was sort of arousing in itself.

Nami managed to let a noise slip when they broke for air. Her breath immediately caught, but Luffy would not relent in his ministrations and instead fingered her clitoris to speed the process up. Any longer and the crew would start to notice their absence. With eight people on board, it was really hard to be alone together when it wasn't one in the morning. And even then there was a chance of discovery.

She fisted the fabric of his vest and cried out in silent helplessness. The pace sped up, and so she wouldn't cry out again he silenced her by pressing his soft lips against her own. A few more thrusts and they were both shuddering and holding each other and desperately trying not to shout.

When Nami came back to coherent thought, her back and tailbone were killing her, while her fingers could hardly move from clenching together so hard. She was still being held up to the wall, he buried deep inside her and head resting against her shoulder. A sigh and a bright smile, and her day had just gotten a little bit better.

Coincidentally, she glanced over at the door and was half surprised to find Sanji standing in the doorway, the door half open and the tea he had brought for her spilled all over him. There was blood running freely down his nose, and she could swear that there was a bulge in his pants too.

All she could do was smile warmly at him, and give a small wave with tired fingers. Well, she guessed this was as good of an opportunity as ever. It was a little sooner than expected, but the expression on Sanji's face was priceless.

Said cook fled with his tail between his legs.

Yeah, she really loved days like today.

To say that the others were shocked was an understatement. They were completely and utterly flabbergasted. Well, except maybe Robin (sneaky, sneaky woman), who just chuckled in amusement. She had told Luffy what had happened and the two of them got dressed and scurried out of the room. They then arrived to Sanji breathlessly telling everyone what he had seen.

"Luffy! Nami! Together!"

"Sanji, are you alright?" Chopper asked from next to Usopp. Everyone except Robin was giving Sanji weird looks due to his current state (trying to keep his nose from shooting blood all over everyone and quelling his own arousal).

"Spit it out Ero-cook," Zoro growled.

Nami and Luffy arrived on the scene right after Sanji growled at Zoro. As soon as they took in the scene, both of them started laughing hysterically, using each other as leaning posts so they wouldn't fall over because they were laughing so hard. The crew took notice and many eyebrows were raised.

Sanji, hearing the laughter, looked over at Nami with tears in his visible eye. "Nami-swan …"

"I'm sorry Sanji-kun, but your expression is just too great right now!" she laughed, clutching her stomach, which was now aching from the over-exertion.

"Ha-ha-ha! Sanji you look funny!" Luffy added, which did not help the situation at all.

There was a murderous glint in Sanji's eye, which Nami sort of expected. She gave her rubber captain a little nudge and he took that as the cue to start running. "I'll kill you! You shitty rubber perverted shithead!" Sanji shouted in pure frustration as he chased the laughing captain across the ship.

That was when everyone else caught on, Chopper being the first. The little reindeer looked back and forth between Sanji, Luffy and Nami, and came to a startling conclusion. "I see now! That's why they smelled like that …"

"What do you mean, Chopper?" Usopp asked. This whole fiasco started just before he, Chopper and Franky came up from below deck to get something to drink, and now he was royally confused.

"Nami and Luffy are mating!" the doctor exclaimed, not at all bothered.

"WHAT?!"

Nami could only laugh and smile as question after question, joined by the occasional 'congratulations' and 'are you having kids?' (which she said no to, thank god for birth control).

The only thing she could really think at that moment, amongst the hilarity and confusion was:

Well … at least we don't have to be quiet anymore!