The moon was high up in the night sky as the two small boats bobbed up and down in the dark water. On one ship, Luffy, Y/N, and Zoro were all asleep on the deck, but on the other ship, which was still flying the flag of Buggy the Clown, Nami's eyes snapped opened. She got up and used the cool night breeze to carefully guide her ship up alongside the other one. When her boat bumped the side of the ship the guys were sleeping in, Nami dropped the anchor again to keep her boat from drifting too far.
There was something she was curious about and wanted to do for a while now. This seemed like the perfect time to do it, while they were sleeping, or to be more specific, while he was sleeping. Nami held her breath and drew on all her experience as a sneaky thief as she climbed out of her boat and into the other one. She carefully stepped over Zoro who was sprawled out in the middle of the boat and silently walked over to her target. She let out the breath she had been holding then took a new one as she carefully knelt down beside him.
She reached out for her target. Finally the questions that had been eating at her since she had met him would be answered. Her fingers curled as she grabbed onto it without touching him, but then she found out what curiosity did to the cat.
WHAP! A hand grabbed her wrist and another grabbed her shoulder and Nami suddenly found herself on her back underneath him, WHAM! Nami stared up at him and saw a look in his eye that she never wanted to see again. It slowly faded and Y/N released her and backed away.
Nami sat up and held a hand over her heart, and quickly converted any fear she was feeling into anger. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!" she demanded.
"I could ask you the same question," Y/N growled, he seemed just as angry as she was, but was restraining it.
"I just wanted to see what was under your eye patch!" Nami snapped, "you didn't have to attack me!"
"While you're on this crew," Y/N said. "The last thing you want to do, aside from damaging Luffy's straw hat, is touch my eye patch. As you just found out, I'm a light sleeper."
"No duh," Nami grumbled.
"You never want to see what's under my eye patch," Y/N assured her, "it still disgusts me."
"Maybe I should be the judge of that!" Nami argued
"You're gonna have to take my word for it," Y/N told her. "I'd never hurt you, you're Nakama. Hurting our Nakama goes against everything Luffy and I stand for, the same thing probably goes for Zoro. Just stay away from me when you think I'm sleeping."
Nami got up and climbed back to her boat, "I wouldn't want to sleep near a smelly pirate anyway!"
Nami watched as he stood up and silently climbed the mast of the boat he was in then reclaimed his spot on top of the sail and stared up at the night sky. Nami still wondered how he managed to balance on that thin wooden rigging, but decided she'd figure that out some other time. She went inside her boat and went to sleep, but silently vowed that she would find out what was under that eye patch of his.
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Luffy, Y/N, Zoro, and Nami continued on their way, sailing side-by-side in their two boats. Zoro was sleeping as usual while Y/N was once again lying on top of the sail while staring up at the sky. Luffy was wide awake and was currently overjoyed due to the actions of their new navigator.
"YOU FIXED IT!" Luffy cheered as he held up the straw hat that Nami had repaired for him like she said she would.
"It's just temporary," Nami reminded Luffy, "I just sewed up the holes. It'll be fine if you aren't too rough with it."
But of course Luffy wasn't listening, and instead was poking the spot on the hat where one of the holes had been. "Thanks, the hat was full of holes, now you can't even tell!" But suddenly the weak stitching gave way to Luffy's finger, causing him to poke right through the hat.
