"Benny!"

"Yes captain?" a tall muscular man asked his shorter red headed captain.

"I want to go drink!" the captain whined. The first mate rolled his eyes.

"We to do the shopping since Roo's not feeling well." He simply said going back to his task at hand. Shanks pouted, she was so bored, and Ben had promised her rum! She looked at the fruits Ben was looking at.

"I don't like pears…" she muttered. Ben ignored her, she was only acting childish because she want her drinks. "I want rum…" she whined again.

"You're acting like Luffy." Ben shot. Shanks gave him a look.

"Kid knows what he wants." She shot back. She looked to her still healing arm, the one she had willing sacrificed for the boy.

"Shanks I'll be done in about twenty minutes can you wait that long?"

"I guess." Shanks pouted out her lips. She leaned against a stand watching her first mate continue the shopping.

'I want to drink.' She thought. Someone walking by her caught her attention. Turning to the person her eyes widened.

"Mihawk!" she shouted. Mihawk hesitantly turned to the voice, knowing he'll regret it in the near future.

"Red haired." He stated. Shanks tackled the man into a hug, knocking them both over.

"What are you doing here? Let's go drink! Wine, and rum just like always!" she told him.

"Shanks get off of me." Mihawk said trying to keep his emotions in check. Why did this woman put them out of whack? Shanks did as she was told sitting next to him, rather than on him. He looked the red head over, it's been more than a year since they had last seen each other. She had let her hair grown out, it now sat nicely passed her shoulders, and she wore dress, which surprised him, a sleeveless one to be exact, and a wrap around her missing arm.

"Shanks what are you doing?" Ben asked looking down at her. She smiled up at him.

"Benny look its Hawky!" she told the tall man. Ben nodded to Mihawk. "Can I go drinking now?" Shanks asked.

"With?" Ben asked knowing the answer.

"Hawky!"

"I didn't agre…"

"I guess." Ben answered. He didn't mind one but, it gets her out of his hair for a bit, plus he never cared for the necromancer.

"Yes! Let's go Hawky!" Shanks exclaimed pulling him to his feet. "I know this awesome place we can get drinks! Let's go! Let's go!" Mihawk sent a glare at the smirking Ben but let himself be dragged wherever. When they got to the bar Shanks ordered her drink, and Mihawk's. They sat in silence, Shanks was just waiting for the man to ask the question he could him dying to ask. "You can ask." She told him after their drinks arrived.

"How have it been since you lost it?" he asked wine glass press against his lips. Shanks took a huge gulp of her drink with a shrugged.

"Nothing really different… just need some time to get use to it."

"Is that so?" she nodded.

"Yeah… hey. Let's have a match today!" Mihawk only shook his head. "Why not?"

"I don't fight handicap." He told her. Shanks rolled her eyes.

"You don't fight handicap?" he nodded. "Bullshit. When we met you didn't fight girls, and I became a rival to you. I can fight perfectly with my right arm, and I'll prove it to you." Shanks challenged.

"No." Mihawk declined. Shanks finished her drink with a glare to the man in front of her.

"You're so stubborn." She muttered. Ordering a few more drinks Shanks thought about their first meeting.

"You know us meeting today is like when we first met." Mihawk nodded.

"Yes I do know." He had a feeling where this was going but kept quiet anyway.

"That same night I found about you being a necromancer." Another nod. "How have that been?"

"Good."

"Can I have a little more than that" she asked with a look.

"I haven't lost control of my powers since that time with you if that's what you want to know."

"That's good. So you're in complete control now?"

"Not completely but close. If I remember right that same night something happened between us…" he let it trail off. Shanks cheeks flushed.

"That was a long time ago…" it was true, since they had went separate way after they had met nothing like that time had happened between them again. Mihawk's hand reached over the table brushing the top of hers.

"It has…"

"Emotions." Shanks whispered pulling her hand away from his. Mihawk nodded retracting his hand.

"Your right, I don't know what was happening there." Shanks smiled at him trying to get the awkward mood away.

"You should stay on the ship with my crew, and we'll party, and drink more!" she told him. He nodded his head.

"I guess it should be ok." He said. Shanks smiled.

"Last one!" she shouted to the waiter. He nodded to her with a flirtatious grin. "When was the last time you had a party with us?"

"I'm not sure." Mihawk replied imagining the worst death for the waiter. When they got back to the ship Shanks had started shouting 'party' and 'drinks!' to her crew.

"Necromancer."

"First mate." Ben, and Mihawk addressed each other. When Shanks had introduced them she had let it slipped that Mihawk was a necromancer, and that a zombie had attacked her. Since that time Ben has been aware of the other to make sure his captain was safe.

"What's wrong Shanks?" Ben asked keeping his eyes on the red.

"Doesn't want to talk about the past." Shanks approached the men with three mugs in her hands.

"Here you two. Hawky you need some rum, I'll give you wine later." She told Mihawk already going for a refill. Mihawk drank keeping an eye on the red head's body. As the day turned to night, and quite a few of the crew drunk leaving the captain, her first mate, Mihawk, and a few other people talking on a quieting ship.

"Hawky!" a drunk Shanks sang getting closer to the man. Mihawk although wasn't drunk just a little past tipsy nodded to her. "Wanna go for a walk?" she asked pouting. Mihawk remembered that pout it was the same one she had used to get match out of him. He shook his head.
"I can't Shanks. I should be going in fact." He said getting up. Shanks blew her bangs out her face, arms crossed under her chest.

"Shanks what's wrong?" Ben asked having witness the whole thing.

"Hawky doesn't like me!" she whined watching Mihawk leave the ship.

"Shanks I think it's time he leaves to, we all need rest, we leave in the afternoon."
"Hasn't stopped us before." She mumbled getting comfortable on the deck. Mihawk went through the woods to get to where he had left his boat.

"Damn woman is always so confusing." He muttered. God he drank a bit more than normal now he was finding it hard to keep his emotions in check. He sat on the ground waiting for any form of noise that the dead makes when brought… forced back by him. After some time, and nothing he got off the ground to sleep on the beach. The next morning when Shanks woke up she was in her bed, and sporting a killer headache.

'Stupid pain…' she inwardly groaned. She slowly made her way to the kitchen where Ben normally was in the morning. "Hey Ben where's Mihawk?" she asked dropping herself half way on the table. Ben looked over his paper at her.

"Left last night remember?

"You know very well I don't remember a thing." She grumbled ignoring the snickers some of her crew made. "I'm gonna go look for him… right after the pain stops." She added putting the icepack Roo had handed her on her forehead. She had this very bad feeling in her gut that something was going to happen today. Damn why couldn't she have a normal day once? After finding out from Ben where Mihawk was seen docked, and her hung-over was gone Shanks went there first. "I hate the woods." She said to herself. "Last time I was in some I was almost eaten by bugs, and then there was that time with Hawky…" a groan echoed through the trees. She felt a shiver run up her spine. "That was stupid, that wouldn't happen again. Mihawk has control over it." Another groan but this time in the opposite direction. Shanks's hand rested on her sword. "Who's there?" she asked making her way slowly to a third groan that was closer than the other two. Pushing through the branches she found nothing. Searching for a minute or two she came to the decided that was she was being paranoid. She scoffed. "If Luffy was to see me right now I wouldn't hear the end of it." She laughed. Starting back down the not so noticeable path the red head thought about the little boy with her straw-hat.

'I hope he's ok… I'm sure he is, he's just like captain.' She thought happily. 'Mihawk's been… Mihawk why are you digging up old feelings? Isn't it better if…?'

"Hey! What the fuckin….!?" For the second time in her life Shanks looked into eyeless sockets, which belonged to a rotting corpse. Half of her was screaming, and wanting to cry out for Mihawk like that first time, but the other half, the one that won out reminded her that she was captain of the red haired pirates, that she was stronger than she was that first time. Taking out her sword she cut the zombie in half, and jumped back away from it. "Did Mihawk do this?" she asked herself watching the top half come at her. She kicked it a side, putting away her sword. "I need to tell Hawky." As she said this boning arms grabbed her around the shoulders dragging her down to the ground where two other zombies managed to tie her arm to her side.

'How the hell…?' the one that had grabbed her dragged her by her foot off to somewhere? She hissed every time her still healing arm banged against something hard.

"Where are you taking me?" she demanded.

Ok I'm gonna end it there cause I'm tired, and I was up till four in the morning with my little cousins, and the they woke me up not even three hours later. Yeah little brat. So let me know what you think, and the next part will be up tomorrow, and hopefully yesterday's chapter as well. So review. Oh and I made an AMV video call Boys Like Luffy so if you can go see that, and tell me what you think that be great! And I would love you guys so much! watch?v=L4nnVFuL_p4 here's a link. Thank you bye!