Oh. Um. Hi. Well... Hrm... It's been quite a while, hasn't it. I don't blame you for giving up on me. What's my excuse? Life, School, Band. Not to mention, FF Net hasn't been letting me upload any documents. Still won't actually, had to take a little back road to get this up. Would had this up months ago, otherwise.

Well, this is just short and sweet. Just kind of a "Hey, I'm not dead" kind of thing.

Another reason I haven't written anything is that I have kind of forgotten what has happened. I could go back and read it, yes, but I don't think that's quite a good idea. The more I read over anything I read, the more I don't like it. The more I don't like it, I want to change it. If I want to change it, that will take me a while and nothing will happen. I get in that "Ugh, I suck" and that's never productive at all.

Solution: if one of you COMPLETELY AWESOME PEOPLE wants to help out, I would totally LOVE it if anyone could provide me with a summary of my story, and a list of Zoro's symptoms... I'd be much obliged. God, I'm lazy.

You're all amazing for reading this and reviewing! Kudos to crazylatinachick for being a pain in the ass. (JK! I LOVE YOU GURL).

Chopper stood at the front of the hull, just to the right of the figure head. His hoofs strained to lift his head higher than the railing, but he managed to get his eyes above the wood. Barely. Maybe he could talk Usopp into making him a footstool. He gazed out onto the ocean, watching the waves roll out in front of them. In the distance, he could see the island.

He couldn't really describe it; the feeling that the place gave him. Everytime he looked, chills ran down his spine and his fur: cold and foreboding. He frowned. He trusted his animal instincts and currently they were telling them that the island bad news.

The creak of the wooden floorboards behind Chopper made him jump. His head whipped around, clenching his fist, ready to face an unknown threat and-

"Nami?" he squeaked, and immediately blushed at the pitch of his voice.

She gave him a weary smile and knelt down to his height. Her normally radiant red hair stuck up in odd places, as if she had been constantly rubbing her hand through it. She probably had been. She sighed and scratched his ear.

"Jumpy?" she asked.

"Lost in thought," he defended, sticking his tongue out childishly.

She watched him, and her smile slowly faded to be replaces with furrowed brows of concern.

"Thinking about Zoro?"

Eyes downcast, he confirmed, "Yeah..."

"Me too."

They shared a knowing look.

"Strange island, huh?" she asked him.

He gave a murmur of agreement.

"You look worried about it."

"No!" he snapped a little to quickly, "Nothing can scare me!"

Her eyes softened at his repeated protests.

"I'm scared, too," she said, and Chopper didn't need to ask to know that she wasn't talking about the mysterious island anymore.

Chopper lifted his warm hazel eyes to meet Nami's. They quickly became glossy with unshed tears. His chin began to wobble, his hooves anxiously rubbed together, and his ears dropped. With a hitch of his breath, he folded into Nami's arms, and she held him easily. His dam broke, and he immediately began to bawl, fat tears rolling down his cheeks.

"Why?" he cried helplessly in Nami's quickly dampening shoulder, "Why is this happening to us? To Zoro? I c-can't handle it! I just don't know what to do..."

The navigator rubbed soothing circles into his quivering back. She hugged him tighter, drawing him closer to her heart.

"I don't know," she replied, "I don't know. But I know for sure that you will never give up, Chopper, because you love Zoro as much as the rest of us. You're the best doctor that we know, and if there's an answer to all this, which there better be or I'll kick Zoro's ass," Chopper let out a small hiccuping chuckle, "you'll find it."

And she kissed the top of his pink hat.

Yup. No plot-ness. Just Nakamashipping. Get the gears going.

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Lots of love!

-Santoryuu-Zoro

POLL!: Marry/Shag/Throw of a cliff. Yup. That game. Your options: Zoro, Brooke, Sanji