Nami's Little Dark Secret

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Author's note: Hi peeps! This is a Repost of Nami's Dark Little Secret. I took the story down since I recently published a novel where I ended up stealing some of my own ideas lol! So now I decided to put it back up and I'll check it for errors too. So enjoy!!

Chapter 1: Captain Blood

Lightning streaked through the dark clouds that swirled overhead. Nami knew long before the sounds of booming thunder hit their ears that a storm had been approaching. The wind roughly blew her orange locks into disarray and she tried in vain to tuck a few errant strands behind her ear.

Nami bit her lip as she wondered how the hell they had gotten themselves into this mess. Here they were on the deck of none other than Captain Blood's ship. No - they weren't VIP guests and no Luffy had not managed to beat the shit out of the guy yet. They were in an entirely different sort of situation this time. Nami hated to admit it but Luffy had bit off more than he could chew this time and that was saying a lot.

This time, they were prisoners.

His prisoners.

It had been a battle that sent shivers down Nami's spine to remember: Luffy, Zorro, Sanji, and Ussop had all fallen to Captain Blood's sword or in some cases his claws. Captain Blood was no ordinary man, and Nami had a feeling it had nothing to do with the Devil's Fruit he claimed to have eaten...no, it was something else, some sort of other curse that gave Captain Blood his superhuman powers. Looking at him during this calm before the storm, Nami would have to say he was almost bat-like in appearance. His skin was extremely pale, ghostly white, and his eyes were blood-red. His incisors were longer than a normal human being's, and when he smiled a cruel, vicious sort of smile they showed peaking out of his mouth.

There was something very, very wrong about him. Nami couldn't quite put her finger on it but she sure as hell didn't really want to find out.

One by one they had fallen until she was the only one left. There was only one thing left she could do. One last trump card she could play…but…

Nami hesitated, biting her lip so hard that she tasted blood in her mouth as she looked over at the fallen forms of her nakama, her comrades.

They were tied up on Blood's deck to a few posts – their bodies limp, bloodied, and barely recognizable as her usually powerful, nearly invincible comrades. She hated seeing them like that. After Captain Blood had managed to defeat them he hadn't stopped there. He had them tortured. No one who ever dared to defy Blood or go up against him ever got off easy. Nami prided herself that she had been the smart one. After having watched the last of her comrades fall she had dropped her bo staff without a second thought, knelt before Blood and pledged her allegiance to him.

She remembered his chilling laugh...how she hated his laugh. It bubbled up from deep within him filled with hate, happiness, superiority. It was a hard laugh to describe but one that signaled her utter defeat. Of course, her nakama had all been in wide-eyed disbelief at her betrayal. How could she do this to them? How could she turn her back on them when they needed her, in their most desperate hour? How they hated her...she knew.

She almost wished 'he' had looked at her the way the others had - eyes filled with hate, betrayal. But no her captain Monkey D. Luffy had only looked at her with sadness in his eyes. And not a sadness against his own fate but against her own, that he had failed to protect her. Although he was unable to talk Luffy had been able to mouth the words 'I'm sorry' to her. This of course had made her feel even more guilty than she had already been feeling.

But if anything Nami knew she just had to buy some time. Let the others think she had betrayed them. It didn't really matter. All she needed was more time. Maybe...just maybe she could find some sort of a weakness of the invincible Captain Blood and be able to exploit it, after all this was her forte.

So while her crewmates were being tortured, she had been subjecting to being able to hear their pained screams echoing up from below deck. Nami on the other hand had been treated like a princess. Captain Blood had an eye for pretty things and deemed Nami one of them. He had gifted her with silk dresses and gold jewelry that was easily worth a few thousand beli. But she in her opinion she had been tortured too. Trying to smile at Blood while she could hear the screams of her friends in pain had been one of the hardest things she had ever had to do. She had suffered too, right along with them. She suffered even as she gazed back at her reflection in the dressing mirror Blood had put in her temporary chamber. It was the reflection of a beautiful ice queen, a witch.

But maybe that was her true nature.

Captain Blood apparently had many more plans for his dear Nami-chan however. She wasn't going to get off scott free, no sir, since she had been a part of the Straw Hat Pirates who had claimed they would free South Blue from his evil clutches.

It was on the third day that he brought her another 'present'.

Nami remembered having a sick feeling in her stomach as she unwrapped this one. She had known something bad to be expected...from the looks Captain Blood had been giving her. The way he licked his lips and eyed her like prey, or fresh meat were sort of a clue.

Nami gasped in shock.

It was a collar.

Blood planned to own her. She would become Blood's slave. Nami was truly going to be nothing more than a tool to be used by this tyrannical Captain. Freedom, the freedom that Luffy had gained for her so selflessly through his hard battle with Arlong, was short lived after all. The caged bird who had tasted glorious freedom would now be forced to return to living in a cage once more only with a new Master.

And so Nami laughed.

She placed the collar obediantly around her neck and watched her reflection in the mirror as she laughed in a somewhat hysterical manner. She suddenly felt something wet on her cheek...was it raining inside? No...she realized, she was crying. Didn't she promise herself she would never cry again?

"Now, my little pet, you belong to me." Captain Blood was saying as he traced a clawed finger along her jaw line. "I have so much fun planned for the two of us, my dear. So much fun indeed."

Nami shivered with revulsion at his touch, knowing...knowing deep down what he planned for her.

She had almost been able to forget what it felt like being treated as if you weren't a human being. Like an object, a tool, to be used, controlled. Now she remembered...Arlong had been the same. Arlong had...No! She shook her head vigorously she would not allow herself to remember those dark days. New nightmares would be born soon enough. Captain Blood would see to that.

At first it seemed as though Blood were just teasing her, testing her. What were his plans for her really? Would he eventually kill her?

But one night he revealed to her his true intentions.

"My pet, it seems I have grown quite fond of you. You really are an incredible woman. I can't think of losing you...to that petty thing you humans have to deal with known as mortality. As you may have already suspected I am not like other men. My appetite for the flesh is a bit less carnal and more bestial. Blood is what I crave Nami. And your sweet blood has been the sweetest I have ever had the pleasure of tasting." Blood licked his lips as he eyed Nami's neck hungrily. He leaned over and lapped his tongue over the sensitive skin there and Nami felt sick. Blood then sunk his teeth into her, paralyzing her, and began to drink her blood. This had happened many times before already but Nami realized that this time she could feel herself growing weaker and weaker.

Captain Blood licked his lips and faced her. "My pet, I will make you just like me, soon very soon." And with that he left her, blood trailing down her neck.

'Why?! Why must they always want to change me into something I am not?! What is so wrong with being human anyways? Sure humans have their flaws...war, murder, theft, rape, prostitution, but they do have their good points too right? Yes, they do. My crew, my nakama, has shown me that. 'He' has shown me that. Humans can save, survive, live and love...Love. Will I ever know love? If I let myself be turned into some sort of freak I am sure I never will know love. Not if I allow myself to become...a blood sucking monster!' Nami's fists clenched at her sides.

She would not allow this to happen - not again.

She had wasted enough time...she didn't know for sure if Captain Blood had a weakness or not but if she couldn't use his weakness against him then she would just have to use her hidden strength against him instead!

...So there Nami was up on the deck of Blood's ship with a collar around her neck, and a chain attached to it which was held by a man she had come to hate. He had dressed her in a special little outfit just for the occasion. A sequined red bra for a top and a long flowing red silk skirt – the silk of the skirt was so sheen however it was practically see-through. She looked like a whore...she could tell that much from the disgusted look Zoro was giving her. And perhaps he was right. Perhaps that's what she really was.

So be it! But this whore would try her best to save them anyways. Captain Blood had decided it was high time to execute the prisoners. Time had run out. Blood was to make them walk the plank this stormy moonlit night.

But not if Nami had anything to do with it.

Captain Blood walked over to her restrained crewmates and smirked at their current half-dead conditions. "Now...who should we make walk the plank first...perhaps this long-nosed freak...or the swordsman who's look of death in his eyes is still strong...or maybe, yes, the rubber man...the one who looks so sad at seeing you dressed up as my little pet."

Captain Blood had his sword pointed at Luffy's throat and Nami, who had bit her lip, steeled herself for what she was about to do.

"Blood!" She cried so her voice would carry over the thunder that boomed around them. "Get away from him!"

Blood turned to stare at her incredulously...they all did. Luffy's eyes had never been so big.

"I challenge you to a duel, a fight to the death and by the Pirate Code I know you must accept!" Nami smirked, her hands on her hips. And finally she was feeling a little bit more like her old self – at least the one that Luffy had somehow managed to discover within her. She was his Navigator and now it was her turn to save him.

Nami turned and pointed to the churning sea, the waves which were crashing into the ship. "In the sea!"

Captain Blood raised a single pale eyebrow at her before saying, "So be it."

To be continued....

Hope you all enjoyed the re-edited ver of Chapter 1.

~*~*~Sophia Hughlette~*~*

Author of the anime-style novel, Shinigami Boy. Add me – Facebook, Twitter.