Chapter 36: WHAT?!

Luffy hummed as she wrote a letter, a letter for Shanks, she would giggle every time the straw hat on her head would cover her eyes and she had to push it back up. She had snuck into Shanks's room, took his straw hat from the hook that it was resting on and put it on her own head. Luffy grinned when she tapped the letter to the hook and walked out of the room and onto the deck, the crew grinned at her when they saw she had Shanks's hat on her head and none of them tried to take it from her. Luffy waved at them and said goodbye before she hopped from the ship and went to the mayors house.

Shanks looked around the ship before waving to the villagers that had come to see them off, they waved back and he chuckled, this would be the last time they saw Foosha village. He would miss them…

Shanks turned around on his heels when he couldn't make out anyone's faces and went to his cabin. He flopped down on the bed and sighed closing his eyes…before he sat up, something was off…he eyes scanned around the room three times before they rested on the hook where his straw hat is meant to be. He slowly got up not believing his eyes that the familiar yellow hat with the red band was not resting to the hook. Shanks pulled the envelope from the hook and knew it was from Luffy by the messy head writing of his name on the front of it. Shanks opened the letter and read it…

'Shanks ive taken yuR hat! Dont Go loking foR me, im not on the ship…im GoinG to stay in Fuosha villige foR a wile…until u come pick me up afteR u vsit eveRy eyeland in the east blue, im GoinG to tRain with Ace and Sabo and GaRp…the cRazy old Guy

Lov u, Luffy.'

Shanks re-read it just to make sure he didn't miss anything, he rushed out of the room and crashed into Benn.

"Luffy's gone!" Shanks cried out, Beckman looked down at the mess of his captain and then the letter before he sighed.

"I know, Luffy told me she planned this out. Wanted to work on her devil fruit power some more." Shanks looked up into Benn's eyes with a glare before pulling away and ruffling his red hair.

"My hat…" He sulked.

"Luffy are you sure about this?" Luffy grinned and nodded her head at the mayor, he sighed and nodded. "Alright, but your grandfather doesn't live here, you'll be staying with a friend of his."

"That's okay…" Luffy said and she followed the mayor out from his home; the villagers were all watching the ship as it sailed away so they didn't see her. The mayor led her to the cliff, the place where she first met Ace and Sabo.

"The two trouble making boys like to come here every day, you should wait here and they will come pick you up."

"Thank you."

Sabo huffed as he dragged Ace out of the hut and towards the cliff.

"Wake up you idiot, Luffy's setting sail today and won't be coming back." Ace didn't as much as twitch at this, Sabo sighed in frustration before he smirked. "G-Garp? What are you doing here?"

"Garp?" Ace asked sitting up and looking around, when his eyes didn't land on any crazy grinning old man he turned his glare onto a laughing Sabo.

"That's not funny."

"Yes it was, now get up and run, we don't want to miss seeing Luffy goodbye?" Ace frowned deeply before getting up and the two of them raced towards the cliff, eyes locked on the ocean ahead of them and not the grass. "Damn were too late…this is your fault."

"How's it mine?"

"You were sleeping."

"So, it's not like I can help it when I go to sleep randomly."

"But if you didn't go to sleep I wouldn't have had to drag you and…"

"What cha fighting about?" Luffy asked.

"Nothing, just that Ace fell asleep and I had to drag him here, and we missed saying goodbye to Luffy."

"It's not my fault you…" Both boys turned to look at a grinning dark haired girl; they stared at her then at each other before pulling away. "What are you doing here? Weren't you sailing today?"

"Yep they have already left, I'm staying and living with you, until they come and pick me up." She said with an eyes closed grin, Sabo rubbed his head while Ace hit the girl over the head.

"Don't do stupid things." He shouted, Luffy rubbed the bump on her head with tears in her eyes.

"What did I do?"