Chapter Twenty: Party's Bar

Once the red haired pirates had snapped out of their stupefied shock they made their way towards the bar, the villagers greeted them in cheery voices and even pointed out were to go it creeped the hell out of the crew, because they had seen the way the village acted not so long ago with the weapons and… they looked up at the sing of Party's Bar, it's painted in green and curved around the veranda, as they walked up the two steps they found that the wood under their feet only creaked a little under their weight, saying that it's old but not too old. They opened the swinging saloon doors into a spaces opened area, the place gives off the homely feel, besides for the bounty poster bored and the lined up stock of alcohol. The crew found seats while Shanks walked up to the counter to where Luffy is eating happily. Shanks wacked her over the head, making her spit the food out from her mouth and turn to Shanks with a glare.

"What was that for?"

"For getting off the ship…why are you eating?" Luffy looked up at Shanks like his stupid before turning back to her food.

"I'm hungry."

"That's not what I meant!" Makino came out at that moment from the back room smiled at Shanks as well as the rest of the crew.

"What can I get you, captain?" She said captain playfully and from the glint in her eyes Shanks knew that Luffy had been talking about them.

"Rum, along with the rest of…wait, we can't afford to drink and re-supple and feed Luffy!" Shanks said deflating, Makino laughed as she placed a few glasses on the bench and started to fill them.

"Miss Luffy has already told me about the money troubles, and we have come to an agreement." With that she placed a glass of golden orange liquid in front of Shanks and put the others of and tray and walked around the bar handing out drinks.

"What kind of agreement?"

"Hehe, just that she's got a tab here." Shanks grumbled under his breath but wasn't going to push his luck, after all he hasn't had any kind of alcohol to drink in 23 days, 7 hours, 25 minutes and something seconds and counting, with that Shanks put the glass to his lips and tipped it back letting the drink run down his throat smoothly. Makino really knew how to do her job, she joked around, chattered and even talked to the crew along with Shanks, kept Luffy fed and happy. Shanks ruffled Luffy black locks, she pouted at him and fixed her hair up…not like it looked any different than before. The crew relaxed in the friendly place and slowly let the effect of the alcohol set in. They got louder and wilder, like they normally do at a bar when they dock. They started to slowly forget that they had one more person with them then what normally goes with them to the bars. After all they had made sure that Luffy stayed on the ship, not come with them. It's not Luffy's first time to see her family drunk, they do so out in open waters but to see them even more rowdy to what she's used to she felt a little left out. The Mayor sat next to Luffy on the other side and Makino gave him a glass of water, he looked around the room at all the pirates then at the setting sun.

"They are not bad people." The women said with a soft smile, the old man's eyes bore into the honest women.

"Still pirates." He grumbled but didn't disagree with her, with a frown he looked down towards his right to see the black eyes look up at him, Luffy and Woop Slap stared at each other before the small girl grinned.

"I'm Luffy!"

"What's a child doing with a bunch of pirates?" Luffy's grin didn't flatter but her closed eyes opened, and the old man took a deep breath at the much older eyes of the child.

"Shanks and Benn and Yasopp and Roo and Doc and the rest of the crew are my family…"

"What they do kill your…"

"Nope, my father and mother gave me to them…Benn and Shanks never tell me why and everyone else acts like they are ordered not to tell." Luffy's eyes lit up, she grabbed the man's hand and dragged him out of the bar towards the dock. She pulled him up onto the ship and towards the door, then down a few halls and stopped at a bright red door. She opened it and pushed the man inside, he looked around and the huge room, toys and pictures as well as wall drawings where everywhere, she had a bed, a wardrobe, desk, bookcase, toy box and other things that a normal child would have in their room.

"This is my room, because they like to give me stuff Yasopp had to make my room bigger than the others." Woop Slap walked over to one of the pinned up wall and he felt a smile tug at his face as he looked at it, a bunch of coloured blobs with names over the top of them. Luffy grew bored and dragged him off the ship and back onto the docks, her eyes zoomed in on the small and she ran off a huge grin on her face, the Mayor could do nothing to stop the child from going he just hoped that she would get back before the deadly pirates found her missing. Luffy was making a steady walk to the out skirts of the village and closer to the trees, she frowned at them for a little, wondering how she was going to get to the cliff through that mass of trees, but soon the smile was back. "ALRIGHT ADVENTURE TIME!"

Shanks looked at the black sky and stared, he should be getting to the ship soon if he wanted Luffy to get any kind of sleep, that girl knew how to stay awake. Standing up a bit wobbly he stumbled out from bar and towards the ship, the village had grown quite, villagers sleeping. He climbed the gang plank and opened the deck door coming to a hallway, but not before he tripped and rolled down the stairs.

"Ouch…"He rubbed his head and put his straw hat back on and crawled to Luffy's red door, to dizzy to stand up. Once he reached the girls room and opened the door and crashed into the room, again he crawled over to Luffy's bed and pulled himself up with both arms and stared down at the empty bed…strange, Shanks's drunken mind told him that she's on the toilet and to wait for her, and that's just what he did, he rolled on his back and waited soon going into a deep passed out sleep.

Shanks woke up with a pounding head with a cry he sat up letting the room spin around before slowly standing up and leaning heavily on the wall.

"How much did I drink?" He looked around, Luffy's room…she must be eating. He walked towards the gallery and Roo placed a glass of something in front of him, without a thought he drank it and made a disgusted face at the taste before looking around for his little trouble maker. If she's not here then she's with Benn or Yasopp…no his sitting there and she's not with Roo, but be at Party's Bar. Once he had eaten something and felt better he left the ship and headed towards the bar, taking note that his crew are re-supplying the ship along the way. He opened the door and walked to the seat that he was in the night before and glanced to the side hoping to see the person that's not sitting there.

"Wheres Luffy?" He asked Makino when she came out from the back room; Makino gave Shanks a funny look.

"She left last night and that's the last time I saw her."

"That's right she came with us…SHE CAME WITH US!" Shanks looked at the women with a funny expression; he shot up from his chair and ran towards the ship, asking crew member that he met is they had seen Luffy. When he got to the ship he rushed up to Benn and demanded to know is he knew where Luffy was.

"She came back to the ship last night, she might be in the village having fun." Shanks turned around and dashed off the ship, tripping over ropes and stones and he looked around the village, he couldn't find her.

"HAS ANYONE SEEN LUFFY?" Shanks shouted out, the villagers stopped what they were doing giving the man a strange look before turning away.

Luffy slowly opened her eyes and stared into blue and dark brown eyes looking down on her, she blinked slowly and glanced to the side then back up at the eyes before sitting up nearly colliding heads, she stared at the ocean before last night hit her, she went to the cliff to see the run rise soon after that she fell asleep, she turned around to stare at the boys and put a finger up her nose.

"Who the hell are you?"