6 year old Luffy was sitting at her usual spot in the bar when those noisy guys showed up. They came in and laughed and danced and sung. ALL DAY LONG! Luffy could barely sleep. She lived right above the bar, and the same group was there every night. Luffy couldn't stand it anymore. She walked down the stairs in her red pajamas.
"SHUT UP!" She shouted. The bar was silent.
"Luffy!" Makino ran up to the young girl.
"No! Makino! I can't sleep! I'm tired! I'm hungry! And I want food or rest! And I don't think you want me to eat all the food again!" Luffy threatened.
Makino motioned for Luffy to keep her voice down.
"Who's the kid?" A straw hatted man asked.
"This is Luffy, she's staying upstairs." Makino said.
"Where's her parents?" Another asked.
"I ain't got any parents! Just a power freak of a grand father." Luffy shot angrily. Then, she walked down the stairs and sat in her usual chair. "Meat!" She demanded. Makino sighed and brought her a plate of meat, which she downed in seconds. "More please!" Luffy said, a bit more nicely. And was presented with another plate. She downed the next plate, and the next.
"You eat a lot for a little girl." A voice came. Luffy looked to the side. The seat next to her was occupied by the straw hatted man. Luffy looked away.
"You look stupid." Luffy said, biting into another piece of meat.
"SO BLUNT!" The group yelled. The man fell over. He got back up on his seat.
"I'm Shanks! I'll have you know, I'm a great pirate girly!" Shanks shot. Suddenly. The small girls attitude changed.
Luffy stared at the man in fascination.
"You're a pirate!?" She smiled. "So cool! I'm a pirate too!" Luffy grinned, spinning in her chair, drinking some milk.
"You? You're a pirate?" Shanks broke out laughing. Luffy glared at him.
"Yeah!" She stated.
"Luffy! I swear, if your grand father heard you..." Makino lectured the small black haired girl. Luffy looked up at Makino.
"It's not my fault Grandpa left me here!" She glared. Then she chewed on another piece of meat. "Freakin' Marines." She muttered.
"Luffy!" Makino gasped. The pirates laughed.
"I'm liking this kid!" Shanks grinned. "Your grandpa's a marine?" He asked.
"Yeah. Grandpa Garp." Luffy said. The bar was silent.
"GARP!?" They yelled. Luffy nodded.
"I'm Monkey .D. Luffy, he's Monkey .D. Garp." She shrugged. "I don't got a dad, but he said he's my grandpa."
The next day, Luffy came down, and sure enough.
"Oh! Luffy!" Shanks waved. Luffy, in a red vest and blue shorts, hopped down the stairs. She jumped into the seat next to Shanks.
"Hiya!" She smiled. "Hey Shanks! Are you staying long?" Luffy asked. Shanks shrugged.
"Not sure. There's not really anything interesting around here." he said.
"What do you mean? Haven't you met the dangerous animals? Haven't you seen all the treasures?" Luffy asked. Shanks stared at her.
"How would you know that?" He asked.
"I told you! I'm a pirate!" Luffy grinned. Shanks flicked her forehead.
"Yep. Now, tell the truth." He laughed.
"Fine! My grandpa used to desert me on different islands around here. There's some really dangerous places around ya' know." Luffy said. Shanks smiled.
"Hm, we might stay longer than I thought." He said.
"Yay!" Luffy smiled.
Shanks was gone the next day. But he came back the the day after.
"How was your trip?" Luffy smiled.
"Great! Wanna see the ship? We found tons of cool stuff!" Shanks told her. Luffy smiled.
"Really!" Luffy cheered.
"Yeah!" Shanks said. Luffy grabbed his hand and they walked off to the ship.
The crew was happy.
"Hey! It's Luffy!" they cheered. Luffy smiled.
"Hey! Shanks! You should take me with you!" She said as he carried her onto the ship.
"Bring you where?" Shanks said.
"Out to sea!" Luffy smiled.
"Can you even swim?" Shanks asked. Luffy looked to the side. "You can't can you!?" Shanks laughed. Luffy glared.
"Can too!" She said. She kicked off her shoes and stood on the ship's railing. "Watch!" She jumped off the ship. Shanks ran over to the side.
"Hey! Are you insane!?" He yelled. Luffy was flailing in the water below.
"Help!" She cried, going under.
"Shit! Luffy!" Shanks yelled diving in after her.
Luffy and Shanks sat at the bar. Shanks was laughing.
"HAHA! YOU SUNK LIKE A HAMMER!" Shanks laughed. Luffy glared.
"Shut up! It's not my fault!" She yelled.
"HAMMER!" Shanks pointed and laughed. Luffy jumped down from her chair and stomped to the other side of the room. She was hoisted up by her dress collar and set down on someone's lap. She looked up to see Shanks's first mate.
"Oh it's you." Luffy said.
"You seem down." he said.
"Yeah well! Shanks keeps making fun of me!"
"Well, Luffy-chan, you have to see it from his perspective. You're to young to be a pirate right now. He just want's what's best for you." Luffy looked over at Shanks, who turned around.
"ANCHOR-GIRL!" He pointed and laughed again. Luffy glared.
"SEE!" She shouted. Shanks's first mate laughed.
"Or he's just having fun." Shanks looked back.
"Aw! I'm sorry! Luffy! Come on! Don't be mad!" Shanks whined. Luffy jumped down and ran over to him.
"You're such a jerk Shanks!" She said, finishing her milk.
"Yeah, but you love me!" Shanks said, rubbing her hair.
The next day was just like any other. Luffy got to go on the ship again. But this time, she stood on the ships head, a knife in hand.
"Now I'll show you I can be a pirate!" Luffy shouted down at Shanks.
"Oh yeah? What're you gonna do?" Shanks smiled. Then he laughed. "You gonna sink again? Anchor-girl?!" He laughed harder. Luffy glared, then she held up the knife. Shanks watched curiously. Luffy held the knife to her face and sliced a deep cut under her right eye. Shanks's eyes widened when it started bleeding heavily.
"OW OW OW!" Luffy stared crying, dropping the bloody knife on the deck. Shanks grabbed the crying girl off the head and half ran back to the bar.
"Geez! You idiot!" he shouted. Luffy was still crying.
The whole crew joined Shanks after Luffy got her eye patched up. She was sitting next to Shanks with tears in her eyes.
"That didn't hurt one bit." She sniffled. Shanks laughed.
"You really are just a kid!" He laughed.
"Am not!" Luffy shouted. "My punch is as painful as a knife!" Shanks rubbed her hair.
"Fine fine, here, drink your juice." Shanks said to the small girl. Luffy smiled.
"Haaa! Thank you!" She said, spinning around and chugging her juice. Shanks started laughing.
"HAHA! See!? You are a kid!" He laughed. Luffy spun away from him. Then, three of Shanks's crew members smiled down at Luffy.
"Aw! Cheer up Lu-chan!" One cheered, handing her a large piece of meat.
"Yeah! You'll be a pirate someday!" The other smiled.
"And it's the best!" The third one grinned. Luffy smiled at them.
"Yeah!" She grinned, biting out a big chunk of the meat.
"Don't encourage her!" Shanks joked.
"Were just telling the truth!" The men laughed. Then, the door was kicked open. Everyone got quiet.
A mean looking bandit and his friends walked into the bar. Makino edged Luffy up to her room. Luffy grabbed a box off the counter, it looked like something important. But, when she opened it in her room, it was just a fruit. And a nasty tasting one at that.
"We want ten barrels of sake!" the leader said. Makino smiled nicely at them.
"We're out of sake, sorry sir." she said politely.
"Out of sake? Then what are these pirates drinking? Water?" The bandit said in disgust. Shanks sighed.
"I guess that is too bad. We seem to have drunken all the sake. But you can have this. Here, it's not even open." Shanks held up a bottle. The Bandit sliced it, spilling the bottle all over Shanks and the floor.
"Listen! I'm a mountain bandit with a 8,000,000$ bounty on my head! You're nothing but a low-down pirate!" The bandit said, then he began walking away.
"I'm sorry Makino." Shanks said. "Do you have a broom?"
"No no! I'll get it!" Makino said. The bandit stopped and turned, using his sword he sliced every bottle on the shelf behind Makino.
"There! If you like to clean so much, clean up that!" he laughed before walking out.
The bar was silent.
"Are you okay? Mr. Captain?" Makino asked.
"No, I'm fine." He started laughing, so did all the others.
"Wow he got you good captain!" someone laughed.
"Why didn't you fight back?" everyone turned and saw Luffy, sitting on the stairs. She spoke in a small, low voice.
"Well, spilled sake is nothing to fight over." Shanks smiled. Luffy shook her head.
"But he made fun of you, he messed up Makino's bar." Luffy said.
"But, no one got hurt did they?" Shanks said. Luffy looked angrily at him.
"Your a pirate! Why didn't you fight back!? Why didn't you do something!"
"Luffy-"
"I was wrong! You're no real pirate!" Luffy said, starting back upstairs.
"Luffy wait," Shanks said, grabbing her arm. Except, it wasn't an arm, it was a red paw. Shanks looked at the girl and saw two red fox ears sticking from her head. The bar screamed. Luffy looked back, she saw a big red fluffy tail swishing in annoyance. Then, it puffed out in fear.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!?" Luffy screamed.
The bar was in a panic. Luffy's tail was swishing in fear. She pawed at her new ears.
"How do I change back!? Shanks!" Luffy cried, Shanks noticed her eyes were red and catlike now, she had fangs too.
"Captain! The box is gone!" Someone said. Shanks looked around.
"Luffy! Did you eat a strange fruit in a box!?" He asked.
"Yeah! It was gross!" Luffy said, sticking out her tongue, which seemed longer now. Shanks held Luffy upside down, he started shaking her.
"SPIT IT OUT!" He shouted. When it was clear the fruit was a good way inside Luffy, Shanks flipped her over. "That was the Fox-Fox fruit! It makes any human a half breed fox! You're a devils fruit user now! You'll never swim ever!" Shanks explained. Luffy started crying.
"I wanna swim!" She whined. "I wanna change back!" She yelled again. Suddenly, her ears shrunk into her head, her paws turned into hands, her tail shrunk back into her backside, her eyes went back to their usual brown, and her teeth went back to normal. Luffy kept crying. Shanks stared in amazement.
"Well, you're back to normal but you still can't swim. I'm really sorry Luffy, we shouldn't have left the fruit out like that." Shanks said.
The next day, Shanks was gone. Luffy was sitting at the bar alone, she had her fox ears and tail out, she enjoyed them, the tail helped her sit, and it was comfy when she slept. The ears, well, Makino said they made her look cute, so she kept them up to amuse her.
"Do you miss Shanks?" Makino asked when Luffy spooned her frosting sadly.
"No!" Luffy said defensively. "I'm still mad! He didn't even try to stop him! Now your bars wrecked!" Luffy said, pointing at the damp counter tops. "I thought he was cool too! What a let down..." Luffy sighed, eating another spoon full of frosting.
"I think it was cool he was able to laugh at it." Makino tried to convince the small girl not to be angry with the pirate.
"You don't get it! You're not a pirate! Sometimes, you need to fight!" Luffy shot.
"I guess I wouldn't understand that." Makino smiled as Luffy spooned the last bit of frosting into her mouth.
Then the door flew open.
Makino looked up and saw the bandits entering. They were laughing about something. Luffy looked back at them, then looked away, tail swishing in annoyance.
"Looks like those pirates aren't here today! No wonder it was so quite!" the leader laughed. Another bandit laughed along.
"You got them good yesterday!"
"Yeah! Who would've know the guy was such a coward!" Another said, the bandits laughed. Then, they continued to bash Shanks's crew. Luffy angrily bent her spoon until it snapped.
"Such morons!" The leader laughed. Luffy couldn't take it anymore. She willed her claws out and pounced on the bandit leader, giving him a nasty scratch across his face. The bandit winced in pain.
"DON'T TALK ABOUT SHANKS LIKE THAT!" Luffy spat. She banged the bandits head on the ground.
"Luffy stop!" Makino tried to pull the girl up, But Luffy just scratched the bandits face again, then Makino pulled her away.
"DON'T TALK ABOUT SHANKS LIKE HE'S AN IDIOT!" Luffy screamed, wrenching herself from Makino and facing the bandit.
Later on, Makino ran to the mayor.
"It's Luffy!" Makino breathed. "Those bandits! They took her!"