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Part 3 of Smoke and Tangerines , Part 35 of Conversations and Scenes We Didn't Have in One Piece
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2024-07-16
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A Night Ashore

Summary:

Nami sweetly smiles. “I’m heading on shore for a bit.”

“Nami’s got a boyfriend,” Usopp teases in a sing-song voice as Nami passes by.

 

OR Sanji takes Nami out for their very first date. Based on the drabble prompt "tease" and inspired by Usopp's "Nami's got a boyfriend" dig when they meet Sanji for the first time at the Baratie in the live-action. Set post Wano.

Notes:

Disclaimer: These characters belong to Eiichiro Oda, and the Funimation English Dub series. Also, I just wanted it to be known that I watch the show in the English dub, so those are the voices I imagine for the characters. No monetary gain is being made from this drabble. Set sometime in a future world sometime soon after Luffy becomes King of the Pirates, whatever age the Straw Hats would be at that point in time. (My shipper heart can dream and this is the canon that I am imagining for the world when Luffy becomes King of the Pirates and the rest of the crew achieves their respective dreams as well!) Based on the drabble prompt “tease” and Usopp’s quote “Nami’s got a boyfriend” from the live-action because I just loved the way Jacob delivered that line.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Work Text:

            Nami currently stands in front of the mirror in the room she shares with Robin, smoothing a hand down her orange skirt to ensure there are no wrinkles in her clothes.

“What time are you expecting to be back?” Robin inquires, clasping a necklace around Nami’s neck, the pendant hanging just above Nami’s breasts.

“I’m not quite sure,” Nami admits, a smile appearing on her lips as she turns to face Robin, happiness shining in her chocolate eyes. “I know we’re going to dinner, but I’m not sure what else he has planned,” the navigator continues, opening the cabin door and stepping on the deck of the Thousand Sunny with the raven-haired archaeologist behind her.

To Nami’s horror, nearly the entire crew is waiting outside the women’s cabin in various stages of activity. Zoro, predictably, is sleeping underneath the mast, his hands tucked behind his neck with his famed swords and heavy weights beside him. Brook is tuning his violin beside Franky as the cyborg performs repairs on Nami’s waver. Luffy, Chopper, and Usopp are loudly playing a board game together, with Luffy and Usopp arguing about the rules as Chopper hunts through the instructions for official ruling. Jinbei relaxes in the further distance, stretched out in one of the Sunny’s lawn chairs in Nami’s tangerine grove. The only crew member missing is Sanji.

Of course, being that there can be no privacy amongst the Straw Hat Pirates due to the inquisitive nature of the crew, everyone’s eyes snap to Nami and Robin.

“Nami, you look so beautiful!” Chopper announces, a smile on the reindeer’s face.

“Thank you, Chopper,” Nami sweetly smiles. “I’m heading on shore for a bit.”

“Nami’s got a boyfriend,” Usopp teases in a sing-song voice as Nami passes by.

“And Nami’s going to kill Usopp if he breathes a word to anyone,” Nami threatens, causing a visible sweat to run down Usopp’s neck and spine.

As soon as Nami steps onto the shore from the Sunny, a pair of strong arms encircles her.

“Ready for dinner and a night of fun, Nami, my sweet?” Sanji questions in a slightly husky voice, kissing her soundly on the lips as soon as he has her wrapped in his arms.

“You bet I am,” Nami smiles, taking Sanji’s hand in her own and thinking to herself just how lucky she is that she decided to give Sanji a second chance once he returned to them from Whole Cake Island.

 

Notes:

As much as Nami acts frustrated with Sanji in the manga and anime, I do believe he would eventually wear her down and make her realize that he does actually, genuinely care for her. Sanji, despite being quite the ladies’ man does hold Nami in extremely high regard and manages to convince her to be his girlfriend and, later on down the line, his wife in my personal headcanon. Anyway, I definitely love the changing relationship between Nami and Sanji in the show from where they grew from Nami simply taking advantage of Sanji all the time to the point where they both equally rely on one another and can trust one another. (Also, you can’t convince me that in the alternate Boss Luffy world that they aren’t married when they run the restaurant together…) I hope you all enjoyed this little drabble. Kudos, likes, and comments are always appreciated. Until next time, dear readers! Have an amazing day, afternoon, or night!

Edit 5/19/2025: I changed the timeline around for this entire series, so I went back through all of the 17 posted stories I have written as of today and either edited small details (how many months it had been since Sanji and Nami first get together romantically, when they start having interactions together like this, etc.) or switched the order of a few of the stories. Nothing major is changing, so do not worry! I just want to create a more cohesive story since I have written these out of order and I am trying to create a big interconnected storyline between my ZoRobin, SaNami, Law/OC, and Gen stories.