One Piece (Love Story) [Part One]

Chapter One Hundred and Seventeen [Rewritten]

-Chapter One Hundred and Seventeen-

"Five?" Usopp questioned, quick to look to Robin for confirmation on whether his answer was right or not.

"80,000,000,000 extols is 80,000,000 belis, genius" Robin corrected, causing the cigarette in Sanji's mouth to fall out the minute his jaw dropped open in shock.

"Get real! Do you realize how expensive that is?!" Sanji snapped. "After risking our lives coming to this place, why should we have to pay a stupid fee just to enter your precious city? We can't agree to that!" he angrily sneered.

"You brought this on yourselves—if you had just paid the 800 belis in the first place, we wouldn't be having this talk" McKinley scowled, not really understanding why the blond was getting so upset.

"That's still way too expensive!" Sanji snapped.

"This is your first warning! The White Berets serve under the vassals of almighty Eneru—arguing with us will only raise the level of your crime!" McKinley warned.

"Oh whatever, man..." Sanji bitterly grumbled. "Let's forget these idiots, we need to start looking for Nami—I'm getting worried. She may need my tender affection right about now" he said, a look of love and adoration now crossing his face the minute he started to think about how much tender, love, and care he was going to give the ginger the minute we found her.

"Yeah, she's probably just dying to be wrapped up in your arms..." I sweat dropped.

"Is she in trouble?" Chopper asked.

"I doubt it" Luffy responded. "Soon as the wind changes direction, we can head out for another adventure—I mean look for Nami!" he quickly corrected as if wanting to keep up the illusion that his whole reason for wanting to go to the Upper Yard was because of Nami and not because he wanted to go on an exciting adventure.

"Nice save" I snorted.

"Listen to me!" Usopp frowned as he harshly grabbed Luffy's shoulders.

"Usopp...are you doing okay?" Luffy worriedly asked.

"You know, captain" Usopp suddenly said as he now attempted to calm himself. "If Nami's just taking a joyride around the island, she may be back any minute" he pointed out in sudden realization. "If we leave now, we could miss her—we wouldn't want that now, would we?" he tried to reason.

"You think so?" Luffy asked with the tilt of his head.

"Nothing you say is going to work, Usopp" I said, crossing my arms as I listened to the sharpshooter's pathetic attempts in trying to dissuade Luffy from wanting to go to the Upper Yard.

"She's taking way too long" Chopper worriedly pointed out.

"Shut up!" Usopp hissed as he quickly covered the reindeer's mouth. "The reason Luffy's here in the first place is to prove he can go to where he can't go—not to chase after Nami, stupid!" he harshly whispered.

"That's true" Robin nodded.

"It was rather obvious from the start" I sighed.

"Let's just go" Zoro said, clearly not caring one way or the other if we get in trouble or not.

"Yeah, guys, Conis warned us about that—remember?" Usopp asked. "If we go, we'll encounter Eneru's wrath—who knows how much trouble we'll be in?" he stressed, clearly not wanting to suffer the wrath of this land's God.

"So what now?" Chopper curiously asked.

"Our best bet is to wait for Nami and try not to upset the White Berets" Usopp said. "I mean, it's Nami we're talking about, she's got to have a secret stash of a few trillion belis somewhere. I mean, she can pay up and then we're out of here" he reasoned.