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we'll always be a crew. with or without a ship. all of us — usopp, luffy, and zoro, too.
but you can't hurt yourself for my dream. i did that with zeff. with the baratie. i never would've left if not for luffy, because i needed to make sure the old shitbag's dream was protected at all times.
my dream was never to be his sous chef, or even anyone's head chef. i cook because i love it. i want to be your cook, because i love feeding people, and i always will. i love cooking for you.
but my dream is to find the all blue. and when i do, you're going to put it on that map you make of the whole world.

nothing changes between us. it's been you from the moment i laid eyes on you.
it'll always be you.

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i mean. i also wanted to wear cute hostess outfits.
it's not hurting me. we're just stuck here and have to make the most of it. the all blue has literally never been further away.
obviously we're going to get there eventually, just like i'm going to get my map eventually. but right now we're here. this is what we have

( each other. this restaurant. nami isn't like him — she needs some glue holding them together, some reason, some ship. if not, she'll scurry at the first sign of trouble, like a fish at the break of water.

sometimes, sanji's earnestness is a little unsettling to nami — in that way that feelings, raw and unfiltered, and love, unapologetic and unconditional, make her uncomfortable. not because she doesn't have feelings, but because she's used to biting them back, the way that sanji is used to wordvomitting them out. so it's weird, for a second, that she isn't uncomfortable — for no particular reason that nami can name, it feels different now. at least insomuch as the words it'll always be you manage to coddle some marrow deep insecurity she's always accidentally feeding, feeling like an outsider or dangling thread on her own life. it's not the first time she's realized she loves him, but it is the first time she's wanted to tell him.

she'll have to sit and think on that. probably for a long time — definitely after he proves the truth of what he's saying. if sanji ever wanted something easy, he probably should've it'll always be you'd to someone else. )

fine. okay.
nothing changes.