"Wealth, fame, power. Gol D. Roger had attained all of these once he became King of the Pirates. Before he was executed, however, his dying words drove countless to the seas. 'You want my treasure?' he asked the crowd at his execution, 'You can have it. I left everything I own in One Piece. Now all you have to do is find it.' Ever since, pirates from every corner of the world set sail for the Grand Line in search of the treasure that would make their dreams into a reality."
Demon Of The Grand Line
The sun was high over the seas of the East Blue. A lone Schooner class ship sailed along the lonely waters. However, the peace and quiet was short-lived when, from behind a bank of large rocks, came a slightly larger ship that flew a black flag with the skull and crossbones, signifying a crew of pirates.
The pirate ship fired a pair of cannon shots on both ends of the Schooner. Both missed, but they did their intended purpose of stopping the ship. The enemy ship pulled up next to the Schooner before throwing a set of grappling hooks and securing a hold of their target. The crew secured the lines after pulling the ship in close, allowing anyone who was on board the Schooner a look at the pirates as they jumped onto the ship.
However, the second the pirates got onto the ship, all they found was a young man in a yellow tank top, blue pants, with black slip-on shoes lounging on the deck under an umbrella. He had tan skin with slicked back black hair done in a pompadour style.
"What's going on?" Came a voice from behind the crew of pirates. "Why did you all stop?"
The crew then made a part to form a path to show a short, imp-like man with almost green skin and rotten-looking teeth.
"Captain Jyaki, sir, there only seems to be one person on this ship," Said one of the pirates as the ugly man walked up through the create path and looked down at the resting young man, creating a shadow over him.
"Do you mind moving a bit?" Said the young man all of a sudden in an uncaring tone, "You're blocking the view with your ugly face."
This made the crew of pirates gasp in surprise at the boy's words as well as a tic mark to form on the captain's forehead.
"You dare to insult me?! Captain Jyaki?!" The captain yelled as he drew a cutlass from the scabbard on his hip. "Who the hell do you think you are, runt?!"
The young man, after figuring that there was no way to relax until this guy got off his ship, decided to give Jyaki the benefit of at least having having him stand up and give his name before giving this pirate an ass-kicking.
"Names Yusuke D. Urameshi," The young boy now named Yusuke introduced with a smirk before it slowly faded. "Now if you don't mind, get the hell off my ship," He ordered, his smirk now a frown.
The crew of pirates were, for lack of a better word, gobsmacked by how arrogant this kid, who didn't look any older than sixteen, was being at this moment. "He did know that he was surrounded by dangerous pirates, right?" Was the thought going through these men's minds at this moment.
"Listen here, you little runt! I'm gonna-!" Captain Jyaki started before Yusuke pointed his index finger at him.
"Sorry, I'm not much of a listener. Think it has something to do with my short attention span. Anyway, I'm gonna give you five seconds to beat it before I make you leave myself," He said, his smirk now returned to his face. "Five," He started counting.
"Please, you think you can intimidate me, kid?" Jyaki asked with a smirk of his own.
"Four," Yusuke continued to count.
"I'm infamous on these waters! You don't scare me!" Jyaki continued.
"Three," Yusuke continued still. However, the second he said that, his index finger was now glowing a dull red, as if light were emitting from it. This did not go unnoticed by the captain though.
"Huh? Hey, why's your finger glowing?" He asked.
"Two," Yusuke counted, his finger growing even brighter now.
"Hey! What are you pulling here, huh!?" Jyaki exclaimed, now in slight panic. His question went unanswered though as Yusuke finished his countdown.
"One… DEMON GUN!" He shouted as the light from his finger grew brighter before what seemed to be a fist-sized ball of red energy was fired from his fingertip, followed quickly by a loud bang like that of a gun going off. Fast as an eyeblink, the ball of energy collided with Jyaki's chest, knocking the wind out of his lungs before sending him flying backwards, off his feet and crashing into the guardrail of the pirates' ship, smashing it to splinters before Jyaki landed on the pirate ship's deck, completely knocked out cold.
Needless to say, the members of Jyaki's crew were scared completely shitless by what had just happened. Jyaki, their captain and one of the toughest pirates that the crew knew, was easily defeated by some random teenager with a weird power! Turning around, the pirates, with their mouths agape, stared back at the young man.
"Bye," Was all Yusuke said before the crew of pirates screamed in sheer terror and started making a run back to their ship, casting off the grapple lines and hooks before sailing away as fast as they possibly could.
Yusuke couldn't help but chuckle at what had just happened. Not even out on the sea for two days and he was already kicking some wannabe-pirate's ass all by himself. He didn't even need to use a full power shot of his Demon Gun, just the bare minimum amount of power. Despite not being able to swim, he had to admit that these powers he got from the Demon-Demon Fruit were really handy.
Suddenly, the door to the sleeping quarters of the ship slammed open and out came a tall young man with frizzy orange hair styled into a pompadour. The young man seemed to be in a bit of a panic as he came out onto the deck, carrying a sheathed longsword with him as he was pulling on a pair of blue pants.
"What's going on!? I heard noises and a bang! Are we under attack!? If so, everybody man the battlestations!" He yelled out hysterically before tripping on his pants legs and face-planting into the deck of the ship, "... Ow."
"Relax, Kuwabara. The fight's over," Yusuke said simply with a wave of his hand before going over and helping his friend up off the ground.
"You know, Urameshi, you might've at least told me we were under attack," Kuwabara said, rubbing his bruised face before pulling on and securing his pants and then strapping the longsword onto his back, "Honestly, we just left port yesterday. What if those guys were too much for just you?"
"I told you to relax already. The guys that attacked us were nothing but a bunch of loser rookie pirates. Probably didn't even have a bounty yet. Nothing to worry about."
"Kuwabara is right, Yusuke," Came a gravely new voice from above them. Looking in the direction it came from, they were met with an old woman with shoulder length grayish-pink hair standing on a guardrail on the bridge of the ship in front of the steering wheel.
"Hey there, ya old hag," Yusuke said with a toothy grin with his arms behind his head. "How long have you been standing there?"
"Since the pirates were here," The old woman replied. Before jumping from her perch and landing before the two boys, showing the difference in stature between the three of them with Kuwabara being the tallest and her, the shortest.
"Um, good morning, Master Genkai," Kuwabara said, sheepishly rubbing the back of his head.
"It's 12:30 in the afternoon, dimwit," She said in a condescending tone, making the much taller boy lower his head in shame.
"As I was saying, Kuwabara is right, Yusuke. If you both wish to be great pirates, then you must learn to work together as a team; and you won't be able to do that if one of you SLEEPS ALL DAY!" Genkai yelled, jumping high enough to punch Kuwabara on the crown of his head, sending him face-first into the deck before a massive welt grew from where he had been hit. "Or while the other thinks he's HOT SHIT!" She yelled again, doing the same with Yusuke, this time making the young man fall onto his ass from the force, a welt growing from his head too.
"Message received," Both boys groaned in pain before Genkai landed, turned about on her heel, and headed back to the bridge.
"Now get yourselves ready. We'll be landing in a couple of hours," She said in a level tone as she took the wheel.
"Yes ma'am, Master Genkai!" Kuwabara said with a salute as he went back into the sleeping quarters to get properly dressed and ready.
"Whatever you say, you old bat," Yusuke said with a mocking salute he prepared in his own way by grabbing an apple from a barrel and started doing one-handed handstand push-ups.
And there you all have it! The first chapter of The Demon Of The Grand Line! This is actually an adopted story by the author Shi-oon Yi that was originally titled "demon and a straw hat", so I give much credit to him for making the story that this one is based on and for helping me come up with ideas for this story.
This fic will be an epic tale of Team Urameshi's (Now known as The Akuma Pirates) travels/adventures on The Grand Line and in the One Piece world. I hope to hear your thoughts and opinions on this story, and I will see you all later!
Akuma Pirates crew members:
Yusuke D. Urameshi: Captain of the crew and wielder of the Yoki-Yoki no Mi (Demon-Demon Fruit).
Kazuma Kuwabara: First Mate and Shipwright.
Genkai: Yusuke and Kuwabara's teacher and the crew's voice of reason.