I do not own Naruto or One piece, I'm just a 16 year old girl with a passion for anime.
I do not own Naruto or One piece, I'm just a 16 year old girl with a passion for anime.
"Com'on, hurry! We're going to be late" Blond hair held up in a ponytail by a purple elastic band swooped in the air. "Take this on fast."
The man grumbled as the blonde with the purple dress disappeared behind the door. What a troublesome day.
Soon later they were in the room. He walked to the other side of the room. People gathered around him chattering. The man stood there tense. He had never done anything like this before.
This is his first time, and hopefully last.
People quieted down as the music traveled through the room. The man fiddled with his tie nervously. His heart throbbed hard and fast.
Three women walked in a line, throwing flowers to the side. Flashes from cameras blinding him momentarily.
He blinked, and as soon as his vision cleared he saw her. Dressed in a beautiful white dress, walking towardshim.
Any bad feeling and thoughts of how troublesome thiswas,vanished. A smile made its way on his face. No matter how troublesome this day had been, he would do it all again for thissight. It was perfect. She was perfect.
"Temari"
Jume woke up. She had fallen asleep while watching the clouds outside the bar on a hill.
She could pick up hear brother's voice from the bar. He was hanging around Shanks and the crew. They had been docked here for almost a half year. Leaving only for few days once in a while. In the beginning, Jume was caution around them, but she learned to know them. It took a while, longer than most would have taken. But she had this trust issue. She always expected that everyone was hiding something. She had to look underneath the underneath.
"Did you have a nice dream?" Jume turned around to see Yasopp stand on the bottom of the hill she was on with a cigarette in his hand. she just nodded and turned her head toward the sky. The clouds had shifted and appeared to move quite fast, which meant they were closer to the ground.
Jume stood up and positioned herself with her back to the wind. She looked at her left hand to confirm her suspicions. She sighed, bad weather was coming. "It's going to rain soon."
Yasopp gazed up to the sky with a frown. "How do ya know that? Are you some kind of navigator?"
"No, I'm not. But if you stand with the wind from behind and the clouds seem to come from your left hand, then the chances are that the weather will worsen because a low pressure moves in. This is called the Buy-Ballot law as the lower you are, the more the wind will go toward the center of a low pressure, instead of turning counter-clockwise."
"What if the clouds look like it comes from yer right?" Yasopp tilted his head confusion.
"Then it's high pressure.," Jume stated simply before lazily moving down the hill. "Which means good weather."
Yasopp whistled as he noticed dark clouds floating in their direction. "How d'ye know that?"
"I read," Jume was now right beside Yasopp. "I think the title of the book was 'Comptes Rendus de l'Académie dessciencies'."
"What gibberish is that." Jume fumed and a vein popped up on her temple.
"That gibberishwas one of the dominant languages of the world before the world government took control and enforced their own language that, on that time, almost no one spoke. Because of that, one of the biggest culture that is known is close to extinct."
"Oh, sorry for that gal. Didn't mean to offend ya." Yasopp scratched the back of his head as a raindrop hit his head. "I think we should go in."
"I'm not mad at you. I'm just annoyed how the world government tried to erase something so important because they weren't part of it."
Yasopp was about to ruffle her hair but stopped as her hair was in a bun. "Yer is really fond of that bun, ain't ya?"
"I guess so, it's just feel better and is more practical."
By now it was pouring rain. Yasopp and Jume ran toward the bar and entered it.
"Oy, Jume!" Luffy yelled as he spotted his sister. "Come here! Makino have made meat to us!"
"You mean prepared it," Jume said as she approached him. "She can't just make meat." She used her pointing and middle fingers to make a quotations mark in the air. Luffy just stuck out his tongue in response.
"Listen to your sister, anchor!" Shanks howled out teasingly. "After all she smarter than you and can actually swim!"
"Bahhhh, shut up Shanks! I'm stronger than her! TAKE ME WITH YOU ON ADVENTURE" Jume sighed and hitted her brother on the head to quiet him down. 'Fist of love' as her grandpa said. "Itai!"
The pirates around laughed and began to yell teasing words at Luffy. Luffy's face was beat red now and kept threatening them with his fist. Jume just smiled at the exchange and began to eat the meat Makino had placed in front of her and Luffy. As soon as Luffy noticed the meat he forgot the teasing and ate like a man who had been starved for months.
"How was the cloud gazing, sweety?" Makino asked with a gentle smile, her eyes twinkling as she looked at the twins. "Luffy, be careful not to swallow anything wrong."
"It was utterly satisfying and relaxing." Jume responded. "Thou, I fell asleep. Was out for two hours. Had a peculiar dream."
"What did you dream about, Jume? Being Pirate? Sailing the seas and fighting sea kings and marines?" Luffy asked excitedly between bites.
"Nah, nothing like that. I think I was getting married." Jume lazily said while resting her head beside the now empty plate. The picture of the white dressed woman popped into her head. Was she gay? Wasn't this something teens go through and not a six year old like her? Jume just shooked her head, clearing her head. "I don't want to be a pirate or fight some troublesome sea kings, that's you."
"Married? hmmmh, really now, Jume-chan?" Shanks teasingly rumbled out. "To whom? Me? I know that you secretly admire me. And I understand your choice. I would have wanted to marry me too!"
"No, not you, osso-san (1)" Jume cheekily replied with a smirk. "You are probably too old to marry anyway. The pirate life is no longer for you, just retire, osso-san."
Shanks dramatically grabbed his heart while gasping. "Me? Old? What? How could you say something so gruesome? I thought you liked me!"
"In your dream, osso-san."
The crew, Luffy and Makino laughed. Shouts that sounded like "Denied" and "unwanted" filled the room.
Jume smiled happily at this. Her attention turned to the wall beside her. Nothing interesting was there, only her shadow. She had unconsciously pushed a little of the warmth from the inside of her out, making her shadow ticker. She frowned. Nothing she had read could tell her what the warmth was. Or why she could make stuff happen with it. Like, move her shadow even though she stood still or how she was able to stick her feet to surfaces that no one should be able to walk on, water.
She had secretly been exploring the warmth. She had figured out, or more like dreamed, that she could walk on water if she practiced enough. Scary enough, her dream was right. Which meant the dreams had more meaning to it than she thought.
She had been careful not tell anyone about this, as this should not be possible. She had debated with herself about telling Shanks, but she had a feeling he suspected her a little. But he had made no moves to figure out, and neither did she make any move to tell him.
Months passed, and it had been close to a year since the red hair pirates had first arrived in this little quiet village. Jume must admit that she fully enjoyed their company. It was nice having the village filled with laughter and seeing her brother being able to release his energy on someone that wasn't her. She could laze around all day, though she made sure to train her water walking. She had made progress and could now walk and run for 1-2 hours without losing control. She found out she could walk on walls too! It felt fantastic to do things that no one would find possible. But as enjoyable as this was she could feel that something is going to happen, and she was wholly afraid that her brother would be the center of this soon to be chaos.
Her lip had suffered through nervous gnawing of her teeth for days now. She knew that her brother would be safe with Shanks, but she can't stop herself from worrying.
"I will learn to swim by then!" Luffy exclaimed cheerfully to Shanks, snapping Jume out of her thoughts.
"That's great. Work hard." Shanks said nodding his head without glancing at Luffy.
Suddenly, the door was kicked open by a slender man with shabby clothes. "Excuse us." Everyone in the room was silent, Luffy stopped in the midst of eating a strange purple fruit. Jume was about to comment about that but decided to not do, as the lanky man stood in the doorway.
"Ohoho, So these guys are pirates?" The lanky man commented while rubbing his black beard that was shaped as a 'W'. "It's the first time I've seen them. Look at their stupid face." The room was tense as the crew kept quiet as the slender man stamped in with his followers right behind him.
He stopped with the bar, right beside Shanks and peered at Makino with a big grin. "We are Mountain bandits. nuugh. But we did not come to mess up the establishment. We want some sake. Ten barrels."
'Nothing says creepy thenanosso-san grinning at a woman half his age.'thought Jume grimly.
"Sorry, but we just ran out of sake." Makino answered with an apologizing gaze.
His grin disappeared and a frown took over that long face. "That's weird. It seems the pirates are drinking something. What is it, water?"
"As I said, the sake left now was all we had."
"What an unfortunate situation. It seems we drank all the sake in the bar. Apologies! If you want, you can have this." Shanks offered a bottle of sake. "It's not even opened yet."
The lanky man huffed and sent his arm straight at the bottle, breaking it and making the liquid fall over shanks, soaking him in sake he had previously offered. Makino gasped out in surprise. Jume and Luffy looked horrified at the situation. How could that stupid Mountain bandit do something like that to shanks who offered his last sake to him?
"Hey, bastard! Who the hell do you think I'm? Don't you dare try to make a fool of me. One bottle of sake can't satisfy my thirst." Shanks just sighed
"What a mess, the floor is wet."
"Have a look! There's a bounty of 8,000,000 Berries on my head. I'm quite a big shot. I've killed 56 people. Guys like you, you're just trash." The lanky man sneered down at him. He turned around to leave. "Get the message, better be careful from now on. But since you are at sea and we were in the mountains, I don't think we'll meet again."
Shanks picked up the broken bottle. "Sorry, Makino. Do you have a mop?" The lanky man turned around and unleashed a sword. He cut up the bottles and plates on the cupboard right over Shanks, making everything messier. Shanks didn't react and just held his strawhat on his head. The lanky man shouted an insult at Shanks.
Jume felt anger build up. Normally she was a calm and lazy person, but this man had stepped too far. "Oyy, you asshole! You think you are so big with that bounty of yours? But guess what, you are nothing but a big jerk!"
The lanky man sneered at her and raised his hand to strike down at her with the sword. "Don't think I'm above killing children, I'm not."
Before he could strike down or Shanks could stop him, Jume used the warmth and pushed it to the shadow in an all too familiar way. A shadow moved over to him on the floor and connected to his shadow. The man found himself stuck. Jume crossed her arms and so did he, only he had a sword in his hand which on the way to crossing cut him on the shoulder. Making him cry out in pain.
"Oh, not so tough man now, are you?" Jume taunting voice filling the room. "I can do anything to you, anything." The other Mountain bandits made a move to save their boss but halted when the sword was pointed to their boss throat.
"ahhah, don't try anything funny now boys. You will find your boss is kind of tangled with his own sword." Jume said, her body in the same position as their boss, just without a sword in it. Her face twisting into a mad grin as she continued to talk. "Do you know how much blood you can lose before you die? An adult 2.24 liters. But don't worry, slitting your throat won't only make you lose a lot of blood, but also serving the trachea, your windpipe, generally below the larynx which prevents screaming and yelling. Secondly, it serves the carotid artery preventing new oxygenated blood from reaching the brain. Lastly, it serves the jugular vein allowing blood to easily flow from the brain."
Shanks stood there with goosebumps all over him. Forget the powers. The way she talked about such a dark theme as that. He had to stop her before that 7 year old killed that man. She is too young to commit such crime.
Luffy looked lost at his sister. He knew she could be scary, but this was much worse. He will make sure that he won't wake her too early again. The troubled boy wasn't that scared of his sister, he was more awestruck at what she could do and the same time annoyed at himself of not being stronger than his little sister. They might be twins, but he is older! He is the one that is going to be the pirate king!
"Oy, Jume-chan. Take it easy, no one is harmed right?" Shanks tried to calm her down. Laid his hand on her shoulder and squeezed it. Jume looked at him and sighed.
"Bandit! Listen here! I will let you go alive if you promise to leave and never come back again!" Jume scowled at him. The slender man eyes showed fear.
"We will leave, I promise! Just let me go! I beg you!" The man begged. Jume just nodded and let him go. He fell to the floor and scrambled to his feet. He turned his back to them, signaling to his nakama (2) to follow him as he walked/ran out with what was left of his pride.
"Jume! That was awesome! Teach me how to do that" Luffy exclaimed and threw his hands up in the air. His arms stretched more than humanly possible, making the silent bar not so silent again. "Ehhhh, my arms! They are stretching! Gahhh!"
"Luuuuffffy!" Shark screamed. "Did you eat the devil fruit!"
Jume smiled, her brother and her wasn't normal, and she loved it.
Yeah, so I didn't want Shanks to lose his arm. SO I changed it! FEM!Shika is a sadist sometimes. 7 and already trying to kill someone.
(1) - osso-san - Old man (slang)
(2) - Nakama – comrade
Thanks for commenting: StorytellerD132; nice to know you want more ;3
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