@wishmcker ( @castaris ) sent:
❛ you’re the first friend i ever had. ❜ throwing at luffy and RUNNING | nami. 🧡
hit ‘em where it hurts -> [meme]
While the crew would quite literally die for one another, it wasn’t a daily occurrence for them to confess and express deeper feelings of the heart. They were an actions over words type of crowd, and Luffy was perfectly okay with that. Luffy was all action and preferred it that way.
Nami’s confession stunned him a little. It wasn’t like her to open up in this way-- most often resorting to expressing herself with Luffy through roughhousing. It made Luffy pause all the more, and acknowledge just how meaningful and important it was for her to let him know this.
In some ways, Luffy couldn’t understand it. Who wouldn’t want to be friends with Nami? She was incredibly smart and loving, and it hurt his heart to know that Nami had spent so many years hardening herself to survive. As her captain, and friend, he would ensure that it’d never happen again and to keep his promise of protecting her smile.
“Shishishi...” He chuckled as a rubbery arm looped around Nami’s shoulders twice, pulling her in to a hug. A flushed cheek squished against the top of her head, failing at containing the mushiness, “Namiiiii, why’re you saying this all of the sudden~?”
While Nami may not have been his first friend, their bond was a unique and special one to him. She wasn’t like his brothers, and she wasn’t like the guys on the crew, and it was different than with Robin too.