On a remote island in the new world…
Men talked happily over their drinks as they sat on the ground, rocks, wooden chairs, and tables… pretty much what ever was around that could be used. The sun was brightly shinning through the tropical trees as a red haired man took a huge gulp of the drink he had in his hand.
"Oi, captain, don't you think you've had enough?" A man with dreadlocks chuckled. "You're going to drink yourself into a comma Shanks."
Shanks laughed in a drunken daze. "Oh, come on Yasopp! I can take WAY more than this!" He handed Yasopp a bottle full of booze that the sniper refused. "Live a little! You haven't had any booze today mop head!!" Shanks insisted but Yasopp chuckled and shook his head.
"I already told you," The sniper pointed to a large white cast covering the lower section of his shattered right leg and the bandages over his bruised and broken ribs. "The doc said I can't have any booze with the medication he gave me for these. This is the fifth time I've told you!" Shanks tilted his head.
"Really?"
"Really."
"…Hm!… Don't remember."
"Of course you don't." The two stopped talking when a crewmember approached them.
"Captain, Yasopp, Ben and Lucky are back!" Shanks laughed happily.
"Awesome!!" The captain cheered as he told another man to bring two more drinks for his nakama. Shanks took one last drink when he noticed his mug was empty. He eyed Yasopp's full bottle but the sniper quickly took it from his captain's reach.
"No way. You've had PLENTY." Shanks looked over and saw Ben and Lucky approaching with smiles on their faces.
"There you guys are!! Welcome back!!" Shanks said as he raised his empty mug and Yasopp nodded in agreement.
"Sorry to make you guys go all that way just to tell me how a tournament went… but as you can see there is no way in hell I was going to get very far."
"Nah. That's all right Yasopp!" Lucky said happily. "Like we said, you're still lucky to be alive after that giant pretty much squashed you like a bug!"
"You had us worried damn bastard." Ben sighed as Yasopp laughed proudly.
"However, if I remember it correctly, if I hadn't gotten back up and shot the thing's weak spot you two would be pancakes right now!" Yasopp said as he gave a huge smile to Lucky and Ben. Ben turned up his nose.
"We would have been fine." Ben scoffed.
"Uh-huh." Yasopp said sarcastically.
"Well, Lucky would be fine!" Shanks laughed.
"Why's that?" Lucky asked.
"The giant would have bounced off of you like an airbag!!" The group laughed happily until Yasopp interjected.
"So, how'd the tournament go anyway? Shoujuu compete again?"
"Of course." Ben sighed but then he and Lucky smiled strangely at each other. Yasopp became slightly suspicious. "But… He lost!"
"No way! He lost again? That's great!!" Yasopp laughed. Lucky nodded.
"To a kid by the way."
"Really?! A kid's beating him now?! Man, he's really lost his 'touch'. Stupid gorilla." Yasopp laughed.
"I really hated that guy." Shanks chuckled.
"Remember when he would only call me mop head?" Yasopp asked his nakama.
"And he tried to kill you after. That was some great entertainment!" Shanks said happily as he suddenly pulled another bottle of booze from his jacket pocket and started to drink.
Yasopp stared at his captain with surprise when he noticed the bottle he had taken was gone. "How the hell--?"
"So! We have something to show you Yasopp!" Lucky said proudly as he and Ben snickered. Ben handed Yasopp a picture wrapped in paper.
The sniper analyzed it. "What is it?"
"A souvenir!" Lucky laughed.
"We got a picture of the winner for you. Shoujuu's not in it because he was disqualified for trying to shoot the kid right out in the open. But, it still works." Ben waited for a second as the sniper opened it. Ben and Lucky laughed quietly as Yasopp held the picture in his hands. The kid at the front of the picture looked like he had just fought a battle for his life. He had a huge cast around his right arm in a sling, bandages around his leg and around a fairly new gunshot wound. Yasopp focused intently on the teen. He was so familiar… Wait a second… Black hair… a face like mine… that NOSE… Shanks looked over his sniper's shoulder at the picture.
"…Who is this Ben, Lucky?!" Yasopp asked anxiously.
"Why? He look familiar?" Ben asked with a chuckle.
"… He looks… just like…" Yasopp shook his head. It couldn't be… COULD IT?!
"He was really something!" Lucky said with a tone filled with mischief. "Actually… he was a great sniper! A lot like you! Shoujuu busted his arm and the kid still beat him even when he used his opposite hand!"
"Really?" Shanks asked with interest.
"Yep. He shot Shoujuu's gun out of his hand instead of shooting the gorilla in the finals… What was his name Lucky?" Yasopp looked up at Ben and Lucky with curiosity and anxiousness.
"Hmm… I don't remember! It started with a… U… didn't it?" Lucky asked with a grin. Yasopp knew they were hiding something.
"That's right! And it ended with 'sopp… Right?"
"Right, right!" Yasopp couldn't take it anymore.
"What the heck are you guys trying to say?! Was his name?… Was he?… Was it USOPP?!?!" Yasopp prodded as Shanks looked at the picture again and noticed how it did look a lot like Yasopp's kid.
"Was that it?" Ben asked Lucky.
"I don't know! He was with a group of pirates… Oh well! We'll remember sometime!" Lucky and Ben laughed loudly as they started to walk away and Yasopp stammered.
"O-OI!!!!! GET BACK HERE!!!" Yasopp stood up against the pain and limped after his amused nakama. "TELL ME!!! WAS IT USOPP?!?!? OI!!! BEN!!! LUCKY!!!! DAMN BASTARDS!!!!! TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Shanks continued to sit on the ground as he studied the picture Yasopp had left lying next to the captain. He looked at the picture carefully when he noticed a boy standing in the background with a straw hat, seemingly cheering for the long nose holding his trophy up with his one good arm.
"… Luffy… and Usopp?… Nakama?" The captain thought about it for a second before standing to follow his injured nakama and taking another drink. "That's irony at its best!!"
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Back on the Thousand Sunny…Luffy and Usopp felt a cold shiver run down their backs before they looked curiously around the ship for the source. No one was doing anything unusual and everything was pretty quiet. Usopp looked at Luffy on the rail. "Did you feel that?"
"Yeah. That was weird!" Luffy said as he continued to hold the fishing pole.
"What wrong?" Chopper asked.
"Did you guys feel that?" Usopp asked as Chopper and Brook looked at each other with confusion and shook their heads.
"There was this weird cold feeling!!" Luffy said with curiosity.
"Perhaps someone was talking about you without you knowing Luffy-san, Usopp-san." Brook supposed.
"Oh! I've heard of that! But who would…" Usopp said thoughtfully.
"Or maybe we're hungry!!" Luffy said with a grin. "Oi Usopp!! Come help me break into the fridge!!"
"Heck no. I'm still hurt baka." He said pointing at the cast and the wounds on his shoulder and leg.
"Okay! I'll do it then!!!"
10 minutes later…
Luffy came limping out from the galley with a massive lump on his head and red marks on his body where the cook had kicked him senseless. The captain jumped back onto the railing and grabbed his fishing pole. Chopper and Brook looked back to their poles in the water with a sigh and Usopp shook his head.
"Told you baka."
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THAT'S IT!!!!! IT'S DONE!!!!! *party erupts behind me as I write the last few words*
HAHA!!! I am victorious just like the Great Captain Usopp!!!!
Phew… Like the way I ended it?????? I couldn't just let Ben and Lucky fall off the edge of the world could I? And I had to put Yasopp in there. Shanks two but mainly Yasopp. I love him even if he did leave Usopp… but he is a pirate and a pirate has to go when he's called!! And I tried to make Yasopp a lot like Usopp as far as character go. Like father like son right?
I also was just thinking of how Yasopp might figure out his kid is a pirate… does he already know??? I just wish they'd throw in a flashback for good old father and son!!! WHEN?!?! XD
But, I REALLY HOPE YOU LIKED THE STORY!!!! HOORAY FOR USOPP!!! HOORAY FOR KANJI!!!! HOORAY FOR THE STRAW HATS AND THE RED HAIRS!!!!!! BOO FOR SHOUJUU!!!!!! XD
Usopp: Damn gorilla.
SO!!! If you have any requests for stories or anything please blurt them out!! AND PLEASE REVIEW!!!! I WANT TO SEE WHAT YOU THOUGHT OF MY FIRST FULL CHAPTER STORY!!!! :D
Domo Arigatou mina. (Thank you so much everyone.) *bows to the readers* Cya!!
~Smudgeandfrank