Mahō
Chapter 4
WARNING: Lamely done chapter... Spelling, writing skills, OOC-ness, grammar, swears
Thank you guys for waiting so long for this chapter! Sorry it's short.
Standing up straight he walked closer to the confused black haired girl and said leaning in close, "I still won't give up on you."
Luffy blinked a few times and laughed. "So we're keeping the promise?"
Shanks blinked a few times and sighed, either from frustration or relief he didn't care: It was best he didn't start hitting on his own 'apprentice' so early in his/her gender bend. Beaming he said, "Sure! But lets go eat some food, I'm starvin'."
"Yay!" Luffy cheered, bouncing up and down, chest bouncing along with her. Shanks had to force his eyes away. feeling very ashamed of himself at the moment.
'So much for not hitting on her...' he thought with a grumble, following after the bouncing female. He smiled though, eyes soft on Luffy. This made things so much more easier for him. Everything would feel natural in his teasing and not trying to figure someone he 'didn't know' while messing up his advances on her in a more serious relationship.
He didn't know how to explain his sudden feeling of posseivness of the kid. All he could think now was bundling up the girl in his arms, sharing their warmth with one another. Maybe have a few rounds in the bed too... or a lot of 'em that is... No, no. No thinking like that yet, he needed to rise up those chances to even get there. All Luffy saw him as was her Hero and idol not her lover... wait. Now that he thought about it, was she even in a relationship?
He did not like the idea at all. Not a bit. Not an once. Not a single little tinny wincie-incie bit. "Hey, Luffy!" He said, catching up to the small female, "Just curious... are you like in a... uh... you know..." How the hell was he suppose to say this without sounding like a creep?
"'You a know' what,?" repeated Luffy, eyes wide in bright curosity.
'Shit...' Looking to the side, he grumbled, "Do you have a... a person that kisses you a lot or stalks you around? That kinda person." Shanks blurted out, trying hard to stop the reddening comming to his cheeks.
Luffy simply laughed. "Hell no! Though... I think Nami tried to kiss me yesterday. Haha."
Shanks wasn't sure to either sigh in relief or tense up at the mention of the orange-haired 'sister' trying to kiss Luffy so recently... and as a female. He. Did. Not. Like. It. Noticing that he had stopped and Luffy was around twenty feet away and too merry to notice that Shanks had stopped, the red-haired jogged over to Luffy saying, "Oi-Oi! Wait up! Luffy!"
Luffy was back on the disguised Going Merry in no time. And in high spirits. She was immediately greeted by Nami and Usopp, both questioning her with worried faces whether or not she found Shanks and what his reaction was.
"Did you freak out," Usopp demanded, clutching his head while he freaked out.
"Tell us, Luffy!" Nami nearly screamed, clutching Luffy's arms in an iron grip.
The black-haired captain simply laughed. "Nothing happened. I told him and then we went out and ate and played around like the old times."
Nami simply looked at Luffy with wide eyes. Her jaw slightly slack in disbelief. "Are you kidding me? That's all? No hugs? Kisses? Lovey-dovey action going on? Do I get no romance advise here? No 'Hey Nami~! Do you think he'll like this?' or 'Nami, i'm so excited to meet him again,' or 'We're expecting, Nami! You'll be the Aunt!"
Luffy blinked a few times. "Eh? What'cha talking about?"
"N-never mind."
The small girl tapped her index finger on her chin thoughtfully and said, "Now that I think about it... he did carry me on his shoulders a lot, and tickled me too, a whole load, and actually hugged me a lot. But that's normal," Luffy laughed, walking off in bright spirits. Nami's mouth just repeatly opened and closed as she stared in disbelief at Luffy's retreating back.
". . . She's so. . ."
"Stupid?" Usopp suggested.
"Y-yeah."
The next morning, Sanji and Luffy went out to go get supplied, all the while being cautious since Luffy told them (at last minute actually before the set out) that she saw Smoker who was coming towards her after they docked. So Nami placed strict orders on her childish captain that if she dare separate herself from Sanji, Luffy would be forced to dress up in even more GIRLY CUTE TO THE EXTREME PINK FRILLY clothes for the next month, no matter the situation. And no meat for two days, too.
Luffy looked around with eager brown eyes at the stores, looking for the meat one obviously. Sanji wasn't paying too much attention to his bouncy female captain as he looked at the list in his hands, occasionally looking up to see if there was good store to pay visit to.
"Sanji," Luffy cheered, waving her arms in front of his face suddenly, forcing him to halt suddenly. Sanji's one visible eye looked at Luffy with a questioning look, his cigarette still clenched in his slightly loose jaw.
"What?"
"Let's go to that market over there!" Luffy pointed a smooth hand over to a large looking store were a decent sized crowd was. "I bet they have a lot of meat!"
The blonde looked thoughtfully at the market, then shrugged, walking towards the market as Luffy cheered and started bouncing all over again around him as she cheered. "Fine, Lu-chwan. we'll probably find a good majority of the needed supply there, too."
"YAY!"
Both Straw-hat pirates walked into the large market side by side, but what they hadn't expected (much to Sanji's anger) was a large crowd of men come forward at the sight of a pretty and really cute girl (that being Luffy), forcing the separation of the two friends. Sanji could be heard screaming and yelling at the men for being perverts and to leave Luffy alone, but to everyone's dismay, said girl and vanished, slipping away during the chaos.
With Luffy~ however. . .
When the mob had came, she was surprised and confused. Sanji had been pushed out of the way as men tried to talk to her, but when Sanji exploded, she lost interest in the fight when she caught sight of an interesting cat walking off. She looked over her shoulder, seeing Sanji distracted as he fought with the men, and bolted off.
He looked like he was having fun, she she didn't want to bother him! Luffy walked past some bakeries and was tempted to go into the meat shop: so she bargained with going into the ice-cream shop instead.
Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. -Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. -Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Shanks. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. -Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Shanks Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream. Ice-Cream.
'Ah! Cherry Ice-cream and strawberry, I want!' Luffy thought with a squeal, rushing inside and ordering her ice-cream with shining eyes. The old-lady served her the ice-cream of choice with extra scoops (Luffy liked this lady) with a bright smile and complemented Luffy's appearance.
"Thanks, Baa-chan!" Luffy said, licking away at her ice-cream and out the shop, bumping into a large, muscular, clothed chest. Luckily, her ice-cream was safe without smearing herself or the person's clothing (she'd make him pay for another ice-cream if her ice-cream was messed up). "Ah! 'Cuse me-"
"Luffy!"
Luffy blinked and looked up (too tall of guy), "Shanks! Wassup?"
The red-haired man grinned down at her, beaming his joy of seeing Luffy. Off in the distance (well they use to be right behind Shanks, the guy had felt like having ice-cream but when he said Luffy's name, they took it was the card to 'Get-the-hell-away-from-me-and-Luffy-or-you'll-mess-up-my-chance-and-I'll-kill-you-slowly-and-painfully-with-no-mercy-and-I-do-not-care-if-you're-my-nakama-at-the-moment'). "Nothhin' much, Lu! How about you?"
The girl simply grinned and showed him her ice-cream. "Ice-cream, so I'm good. Sanji is playing around with those guys at the entrance. He looks like he's having fun!"
Yasopp, who heard Luffy's cheerful claim, sweat-drop as he thought about the blonde-haired fellow beating the shit out of the guys there, claiming them as perverts. Sure. . . he looked like he was having fun: he looked murderous.
"I was coming here for ice-cream, too. Just wait a moment and we can go for a walk," Shanks cheered, turning to look over his shoulder and glared at his crew who all sweated (except Benn who just raised an eyebrow with his arms crossed as he smoked, unimpressed). Benn sighed and pushed everyone off somewhere else to give his captain and Luffy some 'alone time'.
Shanks was just too weird.
After getting his ice-cream, Shanks dragged Luffy off somewhere else, out the market and to somewhere more greeny and interesting looking. All the while, they both chatted and joked around, both feeling completely at ease in one another's presence.
As they walked through the plaza, Shanks asked, trying to be not too interested in their conversation as he looked over at the sea, "So how much longer are you all staying here?"
Luffy tapped her chin thoughtfully and smiled. "Just a few more days, three I think. Nami said she wants to have a few more days of 'vacation' before we set out. Zoro doesn't care much, he's too busy either training, sleeping or drinking up the sake."
Shanks's ears pricked when he heard the mention of someone else drinking loads of sake. A glint flashed in his eyes. "Have I met this Zoro guy before?"
"Nope."
"I'd like to meet him- a worthy drinking contest opponent."
Luffy laughed. "You should have a competition with Nami, too! She's pretty good!"
The yonko grabbed Luffy's wrist, and grinned down at her. "Let's go! I wanna have a drinking contest with these friends of yours!"
The beginning of the drinking competion took place after some of the crew got over the fact a YONKO was here of all places, on their ship, standing (towering over) Luffy. Nami at first had a hard time believing this was guy that inspired Luffy to be a pirate until the guy started talking and she was in his presence more. Two peas in the same pod alright: they acted too much the same.
So when Shanks said he heard from Luffy that she had two crewmates that could last very long in drinking competetions, Nami was sure she was going to cry. That was until he offered a bet. She was burning to win now: BELI~!
Usopp kept track of the bottles, sweat-dropping the entire time as the pile got bigger and bigger and bigger. At one point he grumbled, "There is something wrong here. . . really wrong. . . wronger than Luffy singing about Romeo and Juliet and actually even knowing a love story. . .But. . . that's wronger now that I think about it: too weird."
Chopper, too, agreed with the sharpshooter.
Robin chuckled as she watched the three drink, Luffy standing next to her and cheering on (or more like debating on who to cheer one) the three drinkers.
Nami and Zoro both passed out at the same time, both extremely drunk beyond belief. Luffy laughed, clutching her stomach as Robin shook her head as she smiled, walking out the door to make some coffee for very drunk and victorious Shanks. Chopper fussed over the passed out straw-hat pirates as Usopp recounted all the empty containers of sake.
"Monsters. . ."
Luffy giggled at Usopp's statement and walked over to Shanks, squealing. "Amazing Shanks! That's. . . uh. . . well it's a big number of sake jugs you drank!"
Shanks chuckled, still in drunk stupor, lifting a finger he said, "No way. . . would I lose in front. . . of Luffy-chan!" He hiccupped. "A real man. Does not lose. . . in front of his love." Another hiccup.
"Whatever Shanks!" Luffy giggled, helping the drunk idol of hers sit up. He clutched her arms with a strong grip, refusing to loosen his hold. "Okay Shanks. . . I think you had too much~!"
Usopp and Chopper, deciding that their oblivious captain needed aid, were about to help free Luffy when their mouths were suddenly clasped over with hands and their struggling halted by more hands popping all over and dragging them and the snoring Zoro and Nami out the room.
Shanks hiccuped again, looking at Luffy with a flushed face and slightly glazed eyes. "Luffy. . ."
Said girl titled her head to the side in confusion.
"Luffy. . . " Luffy was really confused now. Shanks eyes were bright and fierce, like when he spoke with passion about his love for the sea and his adventures. Shanks grip on her forearm was even tighter now. "Luffy. . . I love you. . ." And Luffy was yanked towards the man.
Usopp, Chopper, a just now arriving Sanji, followed by a grey-haired pirate smoking (Benn), and Robin had decided to enter the room when they were all greeted by Shanks confession followed by Shanks kissing Luffy.
Usopp and Chopper jaw dropped while Sanji started to set on fire. Robin decided, once more, the two needed privacy so she knocked out the three men and dragged them out the room followed by a chuckling Beckman.
Robin sighed, smiling that her captain probably just now found love in a peculiar form.
I got the repeated ice-cream then with insertion of character name inside from Problematic Kids by Fifth-of-Fourth, it's a cute and hilarious AcexLuffy and MarcoxSanji fiction. I absolutely love it. Actually, it was thanks to that story I was able to continue on with this chapter!
Thank for waiting so long for this chapter! I appreciate your support a whole load!
A surprise pairing will be seen in the next chapter (I promise) and I just wonder how Luffy will react to this confession and kiss: if she even understood it that is~
I'll be making a fem!LuffyxMihawk One-shot (A popular request a few months back) and fem!LuffyxAce One-Shot! The MihawkxfemLuffy is nearly done~ and I have yet to start the AcexfemLuffy one~!