Collection of One Piece Short Stories and One Shots

Feeling Generous

Summary: You struggle to sleep in the quiet and it's keeping Nami from sleep too.

Content: gender neutral reader (no pronouns or gendered terms but set in women's quarters and assumed reader sleeps in there), reader can't sleep with no noise, Nami giving "tough love" but really is just a big old snuggle bug, snuggles

Word Count: 970+

"I can hear your brain working," Nami spoke suddenly from where she slept in her bed. You blew a low breath from your lungs, turning your face to find Nami's back to you. "And you're tossing and turning." She gave a huff, "It's keeping me awake."

"Sorry." You grumbled, your irritation only growing at her complaints. An irritation that only grated at you further as you watched Nami snuggling deeper into her blankets and seemingly fall right back to sleep with no problems at all.

Silences engulfed the woman's quarters.

A silence that gnawed at the edges of your mind, just as it had hours ago when everyone had settled down for the night.

You'd been given a small reprieve from the silence when Robin pulled herself out of her bed, which lay between you and Nami's own. She'd seen you awake. Had smiled kindly down at you and let her fingertips brush comfortingly over your forehead before heading out of the room.

You'd listened to her near-quiet footfalls for as far as your ears would allow before that all-consuming silence came flooding back in.

The silence of the night had always kept you from sleep.

The nothingness of it.

Your mother had told you to toughen up. To just shut your eyes and go to sleep but you just couldn't. It's part of the reason why the life of a pirate had been so appealing to you. The promise of the constant sound of the sea roaring just outside.

You had been blessed to be accepted into a loud-sleeping crew. The thin wall between the men's and women's quarters back on the Going Merry hadn't stood a chance against it.

And it had been perfect. You hadn't slept that well ever.

But then the poor Merry passed and while you loved the Sunny, Franky had seemed to sound-proofed the walls, leaving you in this deep silence once more.

You debated going and joining Robin in whatever she was doing. Debated just staying awake but you were stubborn. Determined to find some sort of sleep, no matter how light or restless. You wouldn't survive the chaos of the day to come if you didn't.

So, you squeezed your eyes shut and prayed for sleep to find you as swiftly as it could.

Seconds ticked by.

Then minutes.

The silences around you began to ring through your ears.

You tried relaxing your face. Let your jaw go slack. Loosen the tenseness of your shoulders.

Your body began to ache from the position you had chosen last and you soon found yourself shuffling around in bed, losing any progress you had made.

"That's it." Nami huffed, the harsh ruffle of her sheets making you jump and glance over your shoulder at her.

"I'm trying--" You started snapping at her.

"Just shut up." She snapped back, shoving her sleeping mask up onto her forehead as she fumbled upwards. "I should charge you for the amount of sleep you've stolen from me." She gruffed as she began to crawl over her bed into Robin's. "But I won't because I'm feeling generous tonight." The way she all but growled the word made you feel like she was feeling quite the opposite emotion.

"What are you doing?" You gruffed right back as you pulled yourself upward.

"Lay down." She commanded, crawling over Robin's bed.

"No." You snapped only making her look even more displeased. "What are you doing?" You tried again. Nami didn't answer as she crossed the small space between Robin and your beds. "Nam--Oof!" Nami had shoved you back into the plush mattress beneath you. "Hey!" You tried to get back up once more but your body froze as Nami began to yank the blankets back enough to slip herself beneath them.

"I thought I told you to shut up." She huffed, shimming down next to you. And shut up you did as Nami tossed you around so that her chest was pressed flush against your back. She wrapped an arm around your waist and a leg over your own, locking you in place against her. "This okay?" She sounded so annoyed--but her thumb brushing over your stomach oh so soothingly and face nuzzling into your neck made you think drastically differently.

"Y-yeah." You managed to get out, Nami's breath huffing out against your skin making it spark.

"My..." Nami hesitated in what she was saying like she was nervous to continue telling you whatever was on her mind. "My sister used to snuggle with me when I was scared. You know...before he came." You gave a tiny nod in understanding. Before Arlong had invaded her home and forced her to work for him. "Thought it might work on you too."

Silence filtered back through the room. A silence that didn't seem all so vast with Nami's warm body pressed against yours. With the sound of her soft breath in your ear.

"I'm...not the biggest fan of the quiet and dark I think." You murmured so quietly it was hardly above a whisper.

The air fell still once more, Nami's arm tightening around your waist a bit more.

"I'll see what Usopp can make for you...maybe like a white noise machine? And a night light?" She whispered in your ear, sending an involuntary shiver down your spine.

"It's okay--"

"It's not. You've been sleeping like shit." She snapped softly. "Usopp will do it. Maybe I'll knock a few berries off his debt to me." You chuckled at her.

"Thank you...for this." Nami snuggled deeper against you and you found your body instantly relaxing against her.

"Like I said, I'm feeling generous tonight." Her nose nuzzled your jaw as she spoke.

Silence filled the space once more. Silences you hardly heard over Nami's comforting hold and breath. Silence you managed to find sleep in. Good, warm sleep.