Chapter 3: The Pink Hair Pirates
A man sat down staring down at the brown sheet of paper on his table, Written on the paper is:
WANTED
DEAD OR ALIVE
MONKEY-D-LUFFY
150,000,000-
And a picture of his daughter staring right at his soul... it made him shiver just looking at it. But how did this happened? how did she die? how did he just let them go? As so many question began to fill his mind, the guilt became more heavier to carry...
"Dragon, V'hat should v'e do?" Asks Iva worriedly looking at his friend, Dragon gripped his hand and calmly gives his order "Find her, search for her, even if it takes Years... Find her and bring her here" Iva nodded at his boss and leaves to tell his group of the new mission.
When Dragon heard the door close, he let the silent tears fall while pressing on his forehead trying to calm himself...
How could he, as a father let this happen to his family?
Meanwhile...
An old man dropped his crackers, it wouldn't have mattered much if it weren't the fact that said man is The Marine Hero, Monkey D. Garp, A.K.A- 'Garp the fist', the man who captured the late pirate king, Gold Roger.
The old marine stared at the new wanted poster that his old friend had gave him, normally he wouldn't care about a new raising rookie pirate's new poster but this is... "Garp," Sengoku started, snapping the dazing marine out of his thoughts "I am sorry, but this must be done" The marine admiral says making Garp grip his hand "But she is just a child! A child Senguko!" Garp reasoned with his friend to remove the bounty but the old marine just sighs "I'm sorry Garp, but the higher-ups had decided" Sengoku said,
Garp stared at the picture of the emotionless girl with a helpless look, he may have never meet his granddaughter but... he knows he have to at least help her... but how?
2 years later...
Somewhere in the grandline, A pirate ship sailing the vast sea with its flag held high came to view.. but even so the aura of depression can be felt a mile away from the ship.
"Why Ben? WHY?!" shouted the depressed captain of the crew, making a man with his jet black pulled back in a pony tail sighs "Sorry captain, but you already removed all of our supply of sake" 'Ben' said but not at all feeling sorry for his captain, he couldn't believe that his captain who is almost 25 is acting like a five years old, all because of his precious sake.
The captain of the ship wore a straw-hat with a red ribbon around it, he worn a white shirt which is only half buttoned, leaving part of his chest exposed. A large red sash is tied around his waist and holds his sabre on the right side. The most notable on the man is his red-hair and the three scars across his left eye.
Pouting a bit Shanks continued to whine "But Ben~" making said man's eye-brow twitch, the red-haired man have been like this since he found out that there are no more sake
"Oi! I see something just up-ahead!" shouted a man wearing a headband, written on it is the name 'Yasopp', he was only peeking through his spyglasses when he saw this small dot in the distance... which is getting bigger by the passing second "What is it?!" Shanks shouts back trying to find the object his sniper saw.
A round man eating a chunk of meat suddenly points out a small dot in a distance, making the former whining captain narrow his eyes while covering the top with his hand to not get his eyes damaged by the sunlight, finally seeing the small dot the man became curious of it "What should we do captain?" asked one of the new members that Shanks had asked so kindly if he would want to join his crew *cough*kidnapped*cough*.
Shanks grinned and gives out his order "Let's head towards it!" pointing at the small dot like a child wanting a piece of candy "Aye, aye captain!" the crew started moving to catch the wind.
Grinning like an idiot, Shanks touched his straw-hat which was formerly from his old captain 'I wonder what kind of trouble you could have been causing...' Shanks thought making his smile flatter but went back to normal as soon as it appeared, after all he understand his old captain reasons.
Ben watched his captain as he gave his huge smile that would have rivaled a D's, His eyes went to the small dot that getting bigger by the moment but he just narrowed his eyes. waiting 'till it can finally be identify, it can be an enemy or an ally or a new *cough*victim*cough* crew-member.
When they finally got close enough to see what the small dot is, they all were shocked to see that it was actually a wrecked ship.
But as the shock finally wear up, the pirates finally decided to give their comments "Man, I can't believe someone would be so careless specially in the grandline" "Hmp, the idiot navigating this ship must be an amateur or just plainly stupid" "Must have been one of the cocky group that thinks they can conquer grandline so easily" and the comments continues.
Shanks who was also giving his comments on the wrecked ship, stopped when he heard a faint whimper "Hey you guys... did you hear something?" the red-haired man hesitantly asks, making the others look at him "Hahahah, the captain is starting to hear stuff!" "Maybe captain finally got it," "Must have been because he drink too much!" "Are you trying to scare us, captain? "Like what, with a little girl with white-hair with bloody red-eyes who is crying blood with her dress tainted by the blood she have spilled using her two tiny-hands?" everyone went quite after hearing the last comment.
"Dude, you read too much scary-stuff" one of their companions said, making the man just say "Oh, I'm sorry..."
Then someone whimpered again, the more alert ones like Ben, Yasopp and Lucky heard it now "Oi, oi, This isn't going to turn into a horror story... right?" Yasopp said making the others who haven't notice it turn to look at him "What are you talking about Yasopp-san?" a crew-member asks still not believing the noise the captain heard.
Shanks began to search for the noise that he keeps hearing, not caring at all for the fact his crew just called him insane.
Then something caught his eye, a small child barely floating on a piece of wood that must be apart of the wrecked ship. Not even giving a second thought of his instinct the young man dived into the sea when he saw the kid slipping "Captain!" was all the shout his crew gave but he didn't stop, rather than slowing down he swam faster than before. He will not let a child drown! not on his watch.
When he was finally near the kid he checked him... her. as the kid is a girl "Hey kid, are you alright?" The Yonkou asks in a concern voice while holding onto a much more sturdy piece of wood with his hand and the other holding onto the wet girl, The little girl gazing at him with her half-open bloody eyes making him shiver.
"I'm going to help you, okay?" he said making sure he sound in a comforting way and showing that he have a full-attention on helping her "Why..." the white-haired girl mutters when Shanks started swimming back, Shanks didn't pay too much attention on it.
When he returned to his ship, he started climbing the ladder that was let down by one of his crew-mates and someone was already there reaching his hand to help, Shanks gave the now unconscious girl to Ben "I can't believe you, suddenly diving into the sea like that. you made us worry too much" the crew started commenting on their captain behavior but immediately stops when they saw the small girl.
Doc the doctor of the red-hair pirate (Which is obvious) came running towards the unconscious girl kneeling down to check if she's alright, When he sighed in relief and ordered one of the new recruit to carry the girl to the infirmary after handing over the child to the order man, he turned around to meet the concern look of his crew "The girl is alright, just needs a lot of rest... good thing Boss found her sooner or else she would have drown" Doc said making the worried adults sigh in relief, Then Yassop suddenly wonders out-loud "Hey... Wouldn't the kid be wanting to see her parents? I mean she would be scared if she was with a bunch of strangers" making Shanks order his men to search for anyone near the wrecked ship.
A 3 years old girl stood in-front of the men sitting down while drinking, they were spilling their alcohol all over the place but that didn't matter to her... The toddler asked in a monotone voice "Hey, What do you think of Monkey D. Luffy?" that caught all of the men attentions "Monkey D. Luffy? The rising demon child? heh, The brat is better of dead! oh wait! The kid is dead!" the drunk man said, the other just agrees with him by either cheering or nodding their heads and adding more salt to the wound.
"The kid is probably in hell with her mother!"
"The person who found her must have been lucky to get money so high without doing anything!"
"She doesn't even deserve to live! She's just wasting space in this world!"
"She should be crying asking for forgiveness and calling her parents scum! after all, the child of a demon is a demon"
The white-haired girl gave out a dark and chilling smile, silencing the adults to look at her with fear evident in their eyes...
No...
They all stared at the dark red eyes of the white haired girl with her demonic smile that matched the description of 'demon'.
This never happened...
Not wasting time the girl lashed on the men not enough to kill them instantly but enough make them feel the pain like a bitch, They stared at her with horror, anger and hatred while keeping themselves together.
I didn't do this!
"Demon..."
"Monster..."
"Murderer..."
It keeps on repeating again and again in her little head, gripping on her head trying to get the words out of there... The men laying down on the ground turned black, everything turned black. But she could still smell the blood all over the place... she felt her tears fall as she closed her blank eyes.
STOP!
Luffy woke up with startled look on her face, "Hey Kid... are you alright?" The alerted child turned to face a red-haired man wearing a straw hat, she growls out like a wild animal depending itself from a predator while wearing a wary look on her face.
"Hey... I'm not gonna hurt you" the old man (At least to her) said while holding his hands up in a surrender sign... Luffy stared at him, studying him with a serious look on her face "And why should i believe in you?" the man smiles and speak in a very comforting voice "Because I won't hurt you" he said with a confident voice, not the annoying cocky attitude... but the kind type that the almost five years old child hadn't heard since it.
"I..." for some reason Luffy wanted to desperately trust this man, But what if he hurts you? what if his just using you? what if he doesn't like you? 'What if his saying the truth?' she counters back at the crazy voices that keeps getting her spirit down... Yes, But what is he died like she did?
And that was it, The young girl suddenly broke in tears "Waaaahhhhhhhhh!" making the only available adult on the moment panic "Hey, hey don't cry! what's wrong?" Shanks asked in middle of panic and worries of the kid. Then the unbelievable happened, the girl suddenly engrossed in golden flames and suddenly a two pair of fox-ears (which the man can't actually tell at the momment) and three very fluffy tails appeared, her red eyes shone brightly like the dark ruby diamond that anyone would want for themselves and her long white-hair turned blond as well as her ears and tails "What the..." Shanks suddenly remembered that he was with a child probably no older than five, The experienced pirate got his breath taken away from him just because of this beautiful little girl.
Shanks couldn't just stand there looking like an idiot, He rushed to the little fox on fire and hugs her tightly "Shh... no one's gonna hurt you. I'll protect you, ok? So stop crying..." The fearful pirate said to the fragile child who he is now hugging tightly, he made sure his voice was soft and comforting for the young girl to calm down.
Then after a few minutes, the flames surrounding the girl died down and the fox ears and tails disappeared from sight... Now the small child started to snore as she fell asleep because of exhaustion.
Shanks sighs 'I will never have a child of my own' he promised himself, children are too tough to deal with anyway. The only one in the crew who have a child is Yassop and from what he was told his kid was around five or so, The pirate captain gently laid the small girl down and made sure to cover her with a warm blanket, he stared at kid... watching her closely.
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"Boss!" one of his crewmates opened the door quite loudly "Shhh!" Shanks turned to his crewmate while putting his finger on his lips and pointing at the peacefully sleeping child, the man quietened and neared Shanks to whispers to him "We haven't found anyone yet, we even searched the sea below but got empty hands... also Ben wants to speak to you"
Shanks nodded at him, and was about to leave but stopped to tell the taller man "Keep an eye for the kid for me" and left the man to watch over the unconscious kid...
Shanks saw his first mate leaning on the railing while holding his cigarette to breath the smoke out, "Hey Ben!" Shanks shouted cheerfully while waving his hand, as if he haven't seen the smoking man in a very long time, he walked towards the first mate and leans on the railing just beside Ben "What do you want to talk about" the cheerful captain asks "It's about the kid" Ben puts his cigarette out to make his attention focus on the red-haired man "What about her?" Shanks asked seriously when the small girl was mentioned.
Ben calmly stared at his captain eyes while saying "Would you believe me if I tell you that the wrecked ship we are currently searching for any survivor is a slave ship" he said with all seriousness in his voice that shows no identification that he his lying or joking... (Not that Shanks would think that Ben could lie and/or joke about something like this)
But hey, that explains why the kid is so wary about everything...
Shanks shook his head to get rid of such thoughts and orders his most trustworthy nakama "Tell the others to stop the search" the raven haired man nodded his head knowing already what his captain have in mind.
Whether the brat and the others wants it or not, she'll be staying for a while.
Upon telling the others about the news of their new crewmate, their reaction was really not unexpected "WHAT?!" they asks/shouts with matching jaws on the floor and dinner plates eyes.
Ben sighs, while his captain was watching over the girl he have to deal with his crewmates about the news of their new guest "So wait, the kid is going to stay with us until we find her parents?" Yasopp asks while he put one of his hand, as if he was trying to solve a hard problem.
"Yes, but her parents is not anywhere near on the middle of the sea" Ben said, sighing for the hundredth time "Why's that?" "... actually we are currently searching for survivors on a slave ship" someone said, making the others turn their head to a red-hair captain carrying a white haired child that is clinging on said man, they look like a father and daughter duet... the only thing taking that apart is that fact they only met and they don't know each other much...
"Ok everyone, say hello to our new nakama... Luffy" Shanks said gesturing over the young girl, 'Luffy' turned to look at the shocked crew waving shyly and quickly hides her face on Shanks' chest... the crew just stared dumbly at pair... "Hey Boss... since when did you began to act so mature?" Lucky said for once not bitting on the piece of meat he is holding at the moment "HEY!" shanks shouts his protest.
Making the rest of the crew come back in reality and started to laugh at shanks, even Luffy is giggling at him... "Hey! Don't gang up on me!" Shanks gives out more protest.
Luffy got a thoughtful look on her face... Did i made the right choice? she looked around to look at the laughing pirates Maybe... she finally shook the thoughts out of her head and started to laugh with the other, not knowing two people were watching her expressions.
A few minutes ago...
Luffy slowly started to wake up... she had this dream of someone (one of the yonkou) told her that he would protect her and ensured her of the fact she is safe with him... what a weird dream, Luffy yawned feeling so comfy and warm in this.. big... fluffy... bed... "Oh your awake!" The young girl's eyes quickly glared at the man while growling like a small puppy.
The pirate sheepishly smiles and raise his hands in surrender "Hey, I mean no harm" he said, but once again she did not believe in him which is quite obvious by the look she gave him "You don't believe in me do you?" he said sighing, "Look, I'm not gonna hurt you" The pirate said to the young child "Hmp, as if i'll believe in words of a stranger... let alone a pirate" Luffy said stubbornly crossing her arms and turning her head away.
"Jeez, if i'm going to hurt you i should have done it while you were asleep" the red-hair man said leaning his chin on his hand while sitting cross-leg at a chair, The white haired girl went silent at his words... "Look kid, I want to help you, but i cant help you if you don't let me" he said calmly...
Luffy turned her head to look at him and thought for a moment...
"No" she flatly said making Shanks fall over over his chair, "Shishishi" Luffy giggled a bit before covering her mouth "What? you think its funny don't you?" The glaring man said while pouting, the intelligent girl nods "Yeah, you're very funny" she said trying to hold her giggles, The feared pirate grins "You know, you should smile more often" making Luffy realize what she's doing and turned her head away once again.
Shanks shook his head 'She is such a stubborn kid' he smiled once more "Come on~ cant you trust me? even just a little ditsy bit?" he said with a childish voice to make the girl a bit more comfortable with him, The stubborn child hided her smile by frowning at him "As I said, No" Shanks stared at her 'I guese we have to play it like eh?' he smirked "Ok then, tsundere-chan have it your way" the stubborn kid turned her head to look at him with two-wide eyes "T-tsundere?!"
Shanks almost laugh at her face but kept it in, His smirks just widened "Yeah~ you're such a tsundere~" he said making 'tsudere' glare at him "I am not a tsundere!" she denied making shanks say in a very playful voice "Oh~ Then what should I call you then?" Luffy not at all thinking this through shouts out angrily "By my name!" Shanks pretended to be thinking and wondering out-loud "But~ I don't know tsundere-chan's name" he said with a sing-song voice, making the girl more irritated "MY NAME IS LUFFY!" she shouted not at all thinking it through.
Shanks started laughing at loud "Gahahahahah!" realizing what she said, Luffy's face became flushed red "S-shut up!" she shouted at him, feeling embarrassed "...hahah! you should have... hahah seen your face!" he said between laughs and continues laughing "I said SHUT UP!" A blast of King's haki was suddenly felt
The shocked yonkou didn't wavered one bit but still felt it anyway, he stared wide eyes at the kid in front of him "..." Luffy's face went blank, staring at the only other person inside the room...
The awkward silence stayed like that for a few minutes... They both felt uncomfortable and wary/curious of the other.
"So... do you know what you just did?" he asked, trying to lighten the mood, he got a small nod from his small companion "Yeah... It's something called... haki" the girl said awkwardly and a bit forcefully "You know, not only you went aflame awhile ago... you also know what haki is... just what and who are you?" he stared at her with a serious face.
The white hair girl fidgeted at his look, now avoiding to look at him in anyway possible "..." Shanks studied the young child... 'She's still a toddler...' he thought sadly, thinking that she's being so wary about everything because of the slave ship...
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They stayed like that for awhile... the red-haired pirate sighed "Just tell me the name of your home island kid, i'll tell my navigator to head straight to it" he said with the most serious face he can muster, Luffy stayed quite 'cause:
1; she doesn't remember the name of the island she's from
2; she doesn't think she would be welcomed with warm arms even if she does remember the name
And 3; she don't know if the man could be trusted or not
"..." her face was as emotionless as a doll, Shanks kinda think Luffy would be a human-sized doll... especially she when she wear that blank and sort of creepy look on her face, don't get him wrong though, he don't think Luffy is creepy but dolls is on different stage especially when one of those huge doll that blinks...
yeah he was getting off topic...
"I don't have a home..." the girl suddenly broke his train of thought "Huh?" was his smart reply, a pair of red-eyes stared seriously at his eyes "I-I don't have anywhere else to go to..." she said, Shanks almost didn't hear the stutter and the slight hasitation "What do you mean?" he asked the little girl in front of him, she turned her head down and started avoiding his eyes once again "I'm an orphan..."
Then the realization hits Shanks on the head like a bunch of sea stones "I see..." he said sadly, now thinking of ways of how to deal with the station...
He could drop the kid off on a peaceful island... one under his protection but he have a feeling the kid wouldn't be staying there, "You can stay with us for awhile... and then we can find a place you would to live in, is that ok with you?" he thought out-loud of the plan not giving a second thought and asked her opinion, Luffy repeated the plan in her mind and found that it was a very good offer to take "Sure... as long as you keep your word" she said as an after-thought.
Shanks just grinned at her making the girl blink a few times and smiled back at him 'This gonna be interesting' they unknowingly thought at the same time.
It took Luffy a few months to finally be comfortable with the fearsome, blood-thirsty pirates. Seriously, the red-hair pirates were nothing like description others say they are... not that the 5 years old believe in them, the Shanks' crew is more of a party crew rather than a pirate crew...
"Hey tsudere-chan~ why don't you stop thinking and have a blast!" the annoying red-haired man drunkenly said with his face already red, making the only girl on the ship irritated "Damn you Shanks! I'm not a tsundere!" indeed, the man had already establish that Luffy's nickname would be 'Tsundere-chan' making the white-haired girl more annoyed at him, the man just laughed at her "Dahahahah!"
The others started laughing as well when they saw that the two are beginning one of their bickering, Ben just shook his head fondly "Hahahah Captain don't *hic* tease the poor girl! *hic*" one of their drunk crewmates said "Oi! someone get this sissy a juice!" then everyone started laughing at Yasopp who was already out for the night, Luffy walked up to Ben and sat next to him "Hey Ben" The said man just nodded in knowledge while breathing out the smoke from his cigarette "What is it kid?" The said girl just smiled fondly at the drinking men in front of her, not at all looking at the vice-captain "Thank you... for taking care of me"
The raven-haired man smiled at her "No, problem brat" two pair of ruby eyes went to look at the man holding a rifle, and her face cutely pouted at him "I am not a brat..." making the raven-haired man chuckles at the trait the girl was getting from hi-their captain.
He have to consciously remind himself that the girl apart of the crew now, that is the very reason they are celebrating right now anyway... even though they would be celebrating every time they got a chance because of Shanks' constantly needs of sake and party.
The two former and currently raven haired individual watched with amusement as their Nakama's drink their night away and having the time of their lives "Wanna make a bet?" Luffy smirked widely while still watching the crew make a fool out of themselves "What are you on about brat?" Ben tore his eyes to look at the youngest pirate on the ship (well technically she's the youngest pirate in the sea, but no one knows about that). She turned to look at him with her wide smirk and urged him to come closer, the man became curious and did as she wants, the white-haired girl whispers something to the older pirate making the man grin and nodded his head making the girl cheer.
"Damn, hell is going to break loose" someone said, seeing both the vice-captain and the newest and youngest recruit interacting with each other... and the ones sober enough nods in agreement...
Morning comes...
"ahhh... my head hurts..." The sharpshooter known as Yasopp complained and the others groaned in agreement, they were all in the dining room literally sprawled everywhere, Ben just watched everyone with a amused look on his face... Then the door opened, and came in the captain wearing a ridiculously huge amount of make up on his face and... "Hahahahahah!" the other started laughing their ass off by seeing Shanks...
"Wha? whats so funny?" Shanks confused about his crewmates, Ben shook his head while trying to stop his laughter "You might want to use a mirror... captain" Shanks dumbly stared at the chuckling man and turned to look for a mirror (which was the sea, cause cool pirates don't use mirror to look at themselves constantly), when he found one he stared horridly at his reflection... He wore a ton of make up making him look like a clown; the lipstick was put on in a mess, he even have one on his forehead! his face was white because of the... is that flour? 'It is!' he thought bitterly and the most noticeable thing on him was his former red-hair... Yes, former. he have a small but terrifying feeling that it isn't going to banish soon, And there was only one person who could have pull this out...
"LUFFY!"
Everyone in the kitchen was still laughing their asses and was almost dying because they were all out breath, but soon after they were reminded that they have punishment because of last night and they started groaning with pain.
Hidden away from view is the hiding five years old girl sitting just behind the second-in-command of the so, so big scary pirates, the girl was smiling one of her soon-to-be-famous grin "Well brat, Welcome to The Pink Hair Pirates" Ben said with a knowing look, 'Things are going to be more interesting on this ship...' he thought with a smile.
Yay! I finally finished this damn chapter!
This is actually the longest chapter of the story, well yet to exist.
Anyway time to say some stuff like answering some question; And yet once again the things that would or could happen should be revealed in the future.
I don't actually know what a betta reader is, will someone explain it to me? I can't understand the instruction and I might regret something in the future if i decide too soon.
And yes, I'm actually working on another story that I might upload sooner or later (Title has yet to be decided), I'll put the summary below:
Summary:One Piece is an online game made by Gol D. Roger, everyone can choose if they want to be one of the given role: Pirate, Marine, Revolutionary, and etc. Monkey D. Luffy or known as 'Strawhat' he's a new rising player that everyone acknowledge as one of the supernovas, a player in the worst generation.
The unknown fact (even to his online friends), is that 'he' is a she... The cheerful and powerful young player in the game is a quiet, shy, and sick little girl in reality. How would everyone react to this...
Yeah I know, I hate spoilers but I'm in need of annoying someone right now and to pull it off I need cliff-hangers and a little spoiler (Cliff-hanger more specially)...
But I must warn you guys about something... I might abandon this story, Yeah I'm a bitch to write and gain followers but in the end would just leave the story.
You see my dear readers, I don't watch Naruto. I mean, What the fuck? I'm writing this story about Luffy having the power to turn into a mystical creature named: Nine-Tails, and I don't watch the anime where the said creature is actually became well known of.
But no worries, I might still continue this story... I do actually know some of its ability since I studied it because of my curiousness of said creature and read some story of it, I told you all from the beginning, this is only inspired by other stories.
Well, sorry for my rant and for the long update, but I'm gonna tell you my dear reader that I might update... once in a few months? well, depends on the chapter or my mood.
All right everyone, Thank you for the favorites, follows, and reviews of the story.
I'll be reading your comments!
