Chapter 51: Sad News and Gifts
Sort of changed what I had in mind with Shanks and Luffy's mum being raised together, sorry for anyone that's confused, but I changed it so Shanks meets Rosella when his a brat on Rogers ship.
They are now back in the new world lounging around on the deck, it's one of those rare calm days that they are sometimes given, when a news crow finds them. It hands over the newspaper to Benn before flying off. Beckman grinned as he flipped the paper over and stared at the front page news, he read what the government have said about what happened and read between the lines. The first mate stood up and went into the gallery were he found a drunk Shanks.
"Oi captain." Benn said, Shanks's head turned to him with little surprised to see the man there before a huge grin spread across his face.
"Benny, drink with me." Benn glared for a split second before grabbing Shanks's ear and dragging him out of the room into the captain's quarters.
"Ow Benny, ouch. Let go, ow ow ow…" Shanks cried grabbing at Benn's wrist in hope of him letting go of his ear. Benn didn't let go until Shanks was sitting in his chair and the newspaper in his lap. "What's so important that you had to hurt my ear like that?"
"Read the paper." Shanks glared childishly at Benn and turned his head to the side, Benn slammed his hands down onto the arm rest masking Shanks jump and look at him, the red haired captain sighed and picked up the paper. He stared at it not reading anything on it until his eyes zoomed in on the name, the more he read the more anger he felt before he got to the end and threw the paper across the room. He put a hand over his eyes and leaned back, the perfect picture of grief.
"God damn it…shit." Shanks said before getting pissed again. "FUCKING HELL, WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING? GOD DAMN YOU!"
Shanks screamed down at the newspaper, tears running down his face, Benn didn't move, Shanks being too unpredictable. He jumped when the door creaked opened and the dark haired ten years old peered into the room, worry in her eyes. She looked at Benn before her eyes landed on Shanks's trembling form.
"Shanks…?" Luffy asked ever so quietly, the red haired man's eyes snapped to her face that could be seen from behind the door. Benn knows that it's the emotions that Shanks is feeling, and Shanks knows that it's not Luffy's fault, none of it is, but he can't stop himself from pushing the blame and anger onto the child. Doesn't even think about it, as the words flood out of his mouth with no restrain; in a tone full of venom and disgust, mix with pain and grief. Doesn't care that his telling her everything that was in the newspaper and somehow managing to push the death onto Luffy… It's only after Luffy has slammed the door closed and ran off and he had taken a couple of breaths did the picture of Luffy's hurt, broken, weak, agonized, intimidated and crushed face come and slap him in the face.
Shanks sat down on the edge of his bed, shame radiating off him in waves, he knew that it wasn't the girls fault, none of it was, and he also knew that he shouldn't blame the child for the death, and he differently knew that it wasn't any kind of way for anyone to find out that their mother has just died.
The crew watched as Luffy ran past them, they had been standing on the deck door looking down into the hall after Benn had dragged Shanks off and they had voted Luffy to ask what's wrong. After all Shanks loves and adores the girl to bits, so they were flabbergasted when she brushed by them with her face grief stricken, then she was gone and they were left standing there feeling dumb and confused. They were still standing there when the screaming picked up inside Shanks's room again, Benn yelling at Shanks…not that he doesn't do that anyways but this wasn't playful.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING SHANKS? YOU NEED TO GET OFF YOUR FAT ASS AND GO AFTER LUFFY AND FIX THIS." Benn took a breath and next thing the crew knew Shanks was flying towards them holding his ass, he crashed into the railing and all eyes turned towards the demon. Benn stormed out of the room after Shanks, they have never seen this side of Benn, his normally laid back and relaxed, or pissed off, worried, happy…never have they seen Benn so hostile before, leaving even the crew feeling threatened. They could see everything around Benn turn a dark shade of black, his eyes hooded and in the shadows and as they stepped aside to let the first mate pass they shivered as even the air felt cold.
Shanks stood up waiting but Benn only stood in front of him, breathing heavily, before pointing to the back of the ship were he knew they could find Luffy if anything happened that has upset her. The two of them had blank looks on their faces but Benns aura was still admitting dark waves around them. Shanks turned on his feet and walked towards the back of the boat, as he walked over he found Luffy curled in on herself as she looked out at the ocean, her white and black wings wrapped around her; even her tail was curling in around her.
As Shanks got closer he found that Luffy had her arms over his drawn up knees resting her head on them as she looked out at the crashing waves not seeing them. Luffy didn't look up, she knew that he was there, felt him sit down next to her, when he reaches his hand out Luffy curled up tighter.
"I'm sorry Luffy." Shanks said after a sigh, he pulled Luffy onto his lap…really for how much she eats she's really light…Shanks shook that thought out of his head as he rested his chin on her black locks. "I didn't mean to yell at you like that, I was just upset and I took it out on you."
Luffy didn't move and Shanks took his time in musing over the feeling of one freezing cold wing and the other warm wing, it's an odd sensation. The two of them sat like that for a long time before Luffy's wings started too slid under her skin of her back, Shanks watched as her tail retreated.
"Is…is my mum…"
"It's true." Luffy's breath hitched at those words and she turned around and buried her head into Shanks's chest and cried. Shanks rocked her as he looked up at the sky…
Benn turned to the crew and they stared wide eyed at him, fear admitting from them all, Yasopp was the unlucky one that asked what happened.
"The government got their hands on Bloody Thorn Rose or Rosella, Dragons wife. They have killed her during the questioning that happened…but what they are saying is that she took a poison and killed herself. Shanks was furies about it and when Luffy peeked into the room he snapped at her." Benn said looking older then he should as he leaned on the railing of the ship and looked up at the sky. The crew turned eyes to the back of the ship before dealing with the news in their own ways.
Luffy sobbed into Shanks's chest her hands balling up his shirt, Shanks was holding tightly to Luffy like she'll just vanish if he didn't and his thoughts wounded off to when he first ever met Rosella…
Shanks snorted as he waited for Buggy to catch up; the captain had already run off into town in search for a bar, booze and food. As they walked through the market place Buggy was already complaining about everything, Shanks had his hands tucked into his pockets in a lazy manner as he looked around making a comment here and there about what the red nosed pirate was saying, as they left the busy streets a woman with wavy dark blue shoulder length hair, brushed by, bumping into Buggy who toppled over into Shanks.
"WHAT THE FUCK?" Buggy screeched rounding on the women with dark red eyes, she has a childish face and a smirk on her lips, she's in jeans with one of the legs torn off, a blue singlet and a black leather jacket. On her hip is a sword and in her belt loop was a gun, her feet were covered by traditional Japanese wooden clogs. She looked annoyed at the fact that Buggy had stopped her, Shanks moved so that he was leaning on the building watching with interest as to what will happen.
"Sorry." She said turning around and heading off again, Buggy stepped in front of her, face flushed the same red as his nose.
"SORRY? YOU FLASHLY BUMPED INTO THE GREAT BUGGY AND ALL YOU CAN SAY IS SORRY?" The women looked bored as she once again turned from Buggy and walked the other way. Buggy was having none of that he grabbed her arm and pulled her back still screaming about how rude she is and what she was doing. By now bystanders have gathered and Shanks could spot his captain, the first mate, Doc, half the crew mingling in with the crowed watching. Shanks was going to step in because Buggy had pulled his little daggers out and were threatening the women.
"Said I was sorry little big nose." Shanks held his breath as a smile curled onto his face, and he could hear Roger laughing loudly along with chuckling from the crew. Buggy meanwhile had his bottom jaw on the ground and a look of pissed disbelief was on his face. When the girl turned her back on Buggy for the third time the red nosed pirate jumped ready to slice her into itty bitty bits, but before the blade could land a single scratch she stepped the side and lifted her foot up, tripping Buggy over onto his face, he couldn't get up because she had smoothly placed the sword at Buggy's throat. "Little red nose, it's extremely cowardly to attack from behind and at a defenceless girl."
Shanks chocked on air as she said the last sentence, she was clearly anything but defenceless, and her own actions made out her bluff. Buggy growled and if she hadn't seen it coming he would be headless…or bodiless, as he rolled over and threw one of his daggers at her. The women twisted her upper torso back, feet still were they were as the blade flew past her face were her head had been moments ago.
"That's better…Little big nose. But if you attack recklessly like that you leave a few openings…" The girl said tripping Buggy up as he charged at her again, and again his face ended up hitting the ground. "It's been fun little big nose but I must go, and remember not everyone shows mercy."
Shanks walked up to Buggy and patted his head a wicked grin on his face.
"Huh, the great pirate Buggy got flashily beaten by a girl." Shanks grinned as he rubbed his head. "Maybe next time the little big nose won't get flashily owned."
"SHUT UP!" Buggy stood up and flung his daggers at the back of the girl, when she spun around to catch the blades her eyes flushed red. She glared at Buggy who cowered under her gaze, she strolled up to him and slammed her knee into a HELL NO zone, letting him crumble to the ground in a heap as vomit threw out of his mouth and a strangled gasp escaped his lips. Shanks found that uncalled for and drew his blades out.
"Did you really have to go that far?" He asked getting into a balanced stance; the women cooling looked Shanks over before she snorted.
"What could a brat do?" She mocked; Shanks gritted his teeth but otherwise didn't say anything. She watched him her eyes a vibrant red now.
"Miss!" A cry from the side of the crowed drew everyone attention as a small person dashed forward. "Miss! Miss! Miss, miss, miss, miss!"
"What?" She snapped turning to the small man, he gulped in air before glaring at her.
"You're late, late, late, late, late…" He stopped talking to look around at what he had just stopped and he turned disapproving eyes onto the girl. "Miss, you were fighting."
"They started it." She threw back crossing her arms over her chest as she puffed her cheeks up. "I only walked by then little big nose attacked me."
"…Naughty, naughty, naughty, naughty, miss. He won't like it, not at all…" The girl deflated and turned pleading eyes onto the little man. The little man lost his glare and his face flushed red before he spun around. "Fine, fine, fine finish your fight but not, not, not my fault you get in trouble."
She snorted as she looked down at the smaller man before thrusting her chin towards the two boys.
"It's not my fight; they are the ones that asked for it."
"Isn't that the answer for, for, for, for all the fights you get into?" She lightly glared at him.
"Go wait at the side; I'll be there in a bit." The little guy sighed and Shanks watched as he walked towards the place he had come from and stood there watching impatiently.
"Aren't you too over-confident?" Shanks questioned making himself known again, the older girl by what looked like only five years, straightened up and…poked her tongue out at him. Shanks being who he is poked his out right back at her.
"Now that's just childish…" She said amusedly.
"YOU DID IT FIRST!" Shanks raged, for the first time snapping in anger at her, the girl only rolled her eyes and huffed.
"Are you just going to stand there or are you going to attack already?" She asked impatiently tapping her fingers on her sword hilt. Shanks glared at her before charging, the girl did quick work with grabbing his sword from his right hand and holding it in a battle ready stance.
"I'm not going to let you use my own sword against me." Shanks said standing up and switching his left sword to his right.
"For a guy that uses two swords you sure favour your right hand." She started to pull her own sword out…
"MISS, MISS, MISS, MISS, YOU DON'T HAVE TIME TO PLAY, PLAY, PLAY!" The little man shouted halting her actions, she pouted before dashing forward taking Shanks by surprise and she got his grip to let go of that sword too. She had both his swords in her hands before she spun around and slammed them into the ground, all the way down until only the handles were poking out of the dirt.
"If someone who can't use swords propyl they shouldn't use them at all…pull them out yourself and then I'll have a real battle with you. Name's Yucca D. Rosella." With that said she bowed before bouncing over to the waiting short man and they both walked off leaving a stunned crowed, Rayleigh walked over to the two boys with a laughing Roger behind him. Rayleigh bent down over the two handles of the swords and reached for them only for Shanks's hands to block his…
"She challenged me…" Shanks said looking into the Dark Kings eyes, Rayleigh sighed and stood up walking off. Roger stopped laughing long enough to touch one of the swords before laughing out harder and clapping Shanks on the back.
"Hahaha, she trapped them good…hahaha." He walked over to the still down Buggy and sobered up patting him on the shoulder. "It's alright lad, I'll still let you on the ship if you turn into a girl…bahahaha!"
Shanks grabbed one of his swords and pulled thinking that because they looked like they just sunk into the ground it should be easy to pull them out, but it didn't even budge, he grabbed the sword with both his hands and pulled and strained but nothing. He did the same with his other sword but nothing worked leaving him frustrated and panting on the ground.
"What did she do to them?" He cried with frustration, he had been pulling at them all day with the crew watching him, taking bets on when he'll either give up or pull them out of the ground and how long it'll take.
It's two days later when Rosella shows up, she looks surprised to see Shanks still there tugging and pulling at his swords. She stood to the side watching as sweat poured from his face in droplets...Roger spotted her standing there looking amused and impressed, he wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
"You have my trainee doing the impossible…"
"What working?" He laughed at this and glanced down at the girl that wasn't imitated by him in the least, reminding him of a little flower that he left on an island in one of the blues.
"No, he does plenty of work; it's the other one that slacks off."
"Ahh, little big nose." Roger chuckled and nodded his head glancing over at Shanks who was back to pulling at them from above, feet braces apart and face turning redder. "Where is little big nose?"
"The infirmary."
"I see…Name's Yucca D. Rosella."
"Gol D. Roger, captain of the Jolly pirates." She looked up amused before going back to watching Shanks stain.
"He looks like he'll pop."
"You'll have to get me a new one." Rosella laughed eyes dancing with mischief.
"But none of them would be as good as red hair over there." Roger hummed in agreement.
"So Bloody Rose Thorn what brings you to this island?" Rosella laughed as he used her allies that the government has gifted her with.
"Business…" She said with a dismissive wave of her hand, Roger was going to ask her more when she spotted the signs of one of Shanks's swords slowly lifting out of the ground. "It would seem that his catching on to how to break them free."
"Really?" Roger's eyes tuned in to his apprentice and he couldn't help but grin as he found it true…before it got sucked back into the earth.
"Your Haki is…odd."
"Really? It could be doing that because I'm still connected to it."
"No…it feels odd." Roger dropped his arm off the women and gave her a once over… "It's interesting…what can you do with it?"
"Why should I tell you?"
"Because you are picking on my crew!" He said looking smug; Rosella blew a raspberry and glared at Roger.
"Isn't it his problem that his getting picked on?"
"…true…but I'm the captain so what happens to my crew…" Rosella ignored him and walked over to a dead looking Shanks, he glared up at her.
"Wow, they haven't moved at all…have you just been sitting on your hands all this time?" She asked poking one of them before helping Shanks to his feet. "Come with me…no don't worry about your swords, they're not going anywhere. You my friend need to relax a bit, lets get some good booze, I'm buying."
"OI! WHAT ABOUT US?" His crew cried out putting hands in the air and looking like kids that have gotten their lolly pops stolen.
"Buy it yourself." She shot at them dragging Shanks with her towards one of her favoured bars on the island. The crew ended up following her anyways and sitting themselves in the bar filling it up. "OI EDDY GIVE ME AND…umm."
She gave a questioning look towards Shanks who looked ready to tell her his name but she bet it to him.
"EDDY, LITTLE RED AND I ARE IN A PARTY MOOD!" Rosella cried leaning over the bar to yell in Eddy's face. Eddy eyed her before his eyes roamed around the bar. "I'm not paying for them, just little red here."
"Oi, I have a name!" Shanks snapped glaring at Rosella, she looked at him sceptical for a moment before grinning.
"I know, everyone has a name." She said as Eddy placed two large mugs down in front of Rosella…
"Hey! Barkeeper, shouldn't you like, asks about Shanks's age before you give him alcohol?" Someone from the crew questioned, Eddy looked at the speaker and snorted.
"Rosella isn't drinking anything alcoholic." He said, Shanks stared shocked eyes at the girl sitting next to him.
"What type of person are you?"
"One that doesn't do stupid things?" She questioned picking her nose, Shanks's eyes widened at the sight before she pulled her finger out of her nose with a lump on it, she looked at it before whipping it onto the person sitting on the other side of her. She stared at Shanks who stared right back before grinning and drowning the drink back. "So how are you going with getting your swords back?"
Shanks growled and chugged the mug back, his eyes widened as it burned his throat, he eyed Rosella and Eddy who were smirking at him.
"What's wrong boy? Apple juice too much for you?" Eddy asked placing another two in front of Rosella and Shanks before doing the rounds of everyone in the bar. Shanks gave a questioning look towards Rosella who was grinning a grin like his captain…She saw the look from the corner of her eye and her smile widened.
"It's a mix…"
"A mix of what?"
"Ahh don't worry, by the time it take effect everyone would be too drunk to remember you being drunk and a plus…no hangover." She said dreamily before shouting over to Eddy. "GIVE ROGER THE SAME THING! HE WAS PICKING ON ME BEFORE!"
"What?" Every pirate asked, Eddy eyed Rosella before shrugging and taking the drink from Rogers hand and replacing it with one that Rosella and Shanks was drinking.
"I'll pay for his drinks too, until I feel like I don't wanna anymore then he can go back to drinking rum or sake or whatever he wants." She said with a wave as Roger sniffed at the drink and eyed it, with every possible sense it was apple juice but when he chugged it his eyes widened much like Shanks's had and he nearly spat the drink from his mouth.
"Best apple juice I've ever had." He said with a laugh once he had slammed the drink down onto the table and asked for another. The crew stared at him like he was off his rocker. Rosella laughed so hard she was slapping the bar tops with the flat of her hand. And the night went on, everyone got drunk fast and soon after that Roger showed signs of being drunk along with Rosella and Shanks who were all laughing their heads off and sitting with each other at the front of the bar.
"Haha, so I tell my grandmother…haha to go suck a dick. Oh her face! You should have seen how red it got because of her rage. Mother looked like she was having a heart attack. So I ran out of their dragging my bag behind me and got onto his ship."
"His?"
"Yeah my future husband…" She stopped talking and her face flushed a brilliant red that had Shanks and Roger laughing at her.
"Well I hope we get an invite to the wedding." Roger said with all seriousness that a drunk could pull off, before bursting into gut popping laughter again.
"You'll get one when you tell that lass that you love her." This time it was Roger's turn to become embarrassed much to Shanks's delight, there wasn't many; in fact none that could make his captain flush like that.
"How old are you to be talking about love like this?" Rosella stared at Roger for a full minute before grinning.
"Never ask a women how old they are, it's rude." She said taking a drink from her mug, Roger and Shanks both looked shocked before Roger's face turned into one of the beginning of an apology. "I'm 20 years old."
"WHY DID YOU TELL US YOUR AGE IF IT'S RUDE?!"
"I only said it's rude to ask a girl about their age, it's all up to the female if she answers or not." Roger laughed while Shanks slapped his forehead.
"Can you give me a hint with the swords?" He asks, Rosella stopped short of her laughter and stared at Shanks for a long time before smirking.
"The skill you need to use to get your swords out of the ground starts with the letter H." Roger laughed harder and Shanks glared at Rosella.
"That's not helpful."
"You only asked for a hint." Shanks looked like he was about to burst a blood vessel. "Oh fine, Roger, Rayleigh, and a few others on your crew can use it, they use it for a few things I'm sure…it makes them look stronger and cooler I bet."
Shanks sat back looking thoughtful, while Roger and Rosella traded amused glances.
"You don't have any trouble with me unlocking it for him are you? After all he is your student." Roger chuckled.
"If you didn't do it Ray would have knocked it into him, but this way he'll learn something." Rosella laughed and called for Eddy to fill up their glasses again.
"You guys are picking on me." Shanks whined when he heard the last of the conversation, causing the older two to laugh at him. Eddy came over looking embarrassed and much to their shock he bowed down at them.
"I'm so sorry Rosy but you have drunk it all…" Rosellas eyes had grown wide when he had bowed but they seemed to grow even wider when he said all that.
"Gone?" She questioned, Eddy nodded his head and Rosella stood up, Shanks and Roger both thought that she was going to attack him but she ended up hugging the barkeeper and crying her eyes out. "GONE! ALL GONE!"
"Umm…" The two of them questioned as Rosella turned into a sobbing and pathetic lump hanging from Eddy's chest. Eddy looked over at the two of them, both half raised out of their chairs.
"Ahh don't worry, she gets like this every time we run out, it took me a while to work out that you gotta be polite and bow as well as apologize to her so that she doesn't become furies."
"Huh?"
"She gets overly emotional when she can't drink anymore." Roger and Shanks nodded before they both ordered sake and rum. Eddy chuckled and placed Rosella back into her chair with much difficulty before going back behind the counter coming back with what they had ordered.
"Why doesn't she drink sake or rum or any other kind of drink then? She can still drink…"
"It's the hang over in the mornings that she fears."
"Really?"
"Last time she had a hangover it was lucky that this island survived."
"Wow…" Eddy walked off and the two pirates drank leaving Rosella to cry herself to sleep.
Shanks glared down at the swords in front of him, the hints haven't been helpful at all and they had to leave the island soon, no way was he going to leave his swords behind. Tenpu and Ikeda are his swords, his weapons and no way was he going to let them be left in the ground to rust and vanish, or for some stranger to pick them up. Shanks had both hands wrapped around his swords and he was glaring at the ground, blaming the ground for holding his swords, keeping his swords from him.
"LET GO!" He screamed in rage at the ground, pulling at his swords and something unlocked in his body, he felt the shift and next thing he knew he was flying backwards, with both his swords in his hands, he laid their on his back panting and clutching onto his swords. He chuckled as he lifted his swords in front of his face, he got them back…clapping could be heard and he sat up when he saw the navy uniform.
"Looks like the reports were true; a pirate was on the island all by themself." Shanks rolled over and glared at the surrounding marines. "Red Haired Shanks, cabin boy on the Jolly ship, bounty 120,000,000 beli. We will be capturing you."
The marines attack and dealt with Shanks swiftly, he growled when they went to grab his swords from his lax form but when he looked up to see who it was his eyes turned impossibly wide as they met with blood red.
"Rose…" He said, Rosella didn't show any signs of hearing him, but grabbed his weapons from his lax form and put them at her hip next to her own sword, Shanks slowly slipped into unconsciousness. When he woke up he was tired to a chair and there were marines in front of him, he tested the bonds and found that he wouldn't be able to break free of them.
"His awake…looks like he really did wear himself out." One of them said pointing towards him, Shanks's breathing picked up when their eyes landed on him.
"I was a bit iffy about the new recruit but it seems she's good."
"Yes…but she did turn up late…remember, her very first day here and she turned up late." Shanks struggled some more glaring at them.
"What do you want?" The red haired boy snapped eyes flashing darkly, the one with blond hair chuckled and picked up what looked like pliers.
"It's simple; we need to get your captain to come here without anyone, and no weapons. But first we get to play with you." Shanks growled deep in his throat making the marines chuckle.
"How scary." The one with the huge nose comments sneering, the blond came closer with the pliers and was about to put them in his mouth when there was a knock at the door. The brown haired guy turned around and opened it, Rosella stood there, she saluted and mentioned for the three marines to follow her out of the room.
"Boss wants to speak with you." The three marines whined and followed her out, Rosella didn't even glance at Shanks; damn that woman she played him, played him very well too. Shanks screamed insults at the girl and she didn't flinch or take any note of them, she waited for the jailers to walk in front of her before Rose took step behind them. Now if anyone had been paying attention they should have noticed that Rose was ment to show the jailers the way to the bosses office but instead she was behind the three jailers. Shanks didn't know how long the time past but the door slid open again, much to his dismay and joy, he was bored. His eyes darkened when Rosella stepped into the room insulting words flew past his lips easily. Rosella calmly walked over to the angered teen with a smirk on her face…
"You smell like blood." Shanks commented when Rose bent over his cuffed hands, he took better note of her and noticed she was covered in blood and slightly out of breath.
"Mmm, got into a bit more trouble then what I was expecting." She chuckled and the cuff popped off. "And it wasn't me that ratted you out, someone else did, someone that I was very fond of."
"Was?"
"Yes, was, let's get you back to your powerful captain before he destroys the island." She said stepping away from him, Shanks slowly stood up and accepted the swords from her hands, they screamed with joy when he touched them. "You did a good job with unlocking your Haki."
"Th-thanks." Shanks stumered when he realized what she had been trying to get him to do, for the past few days and it made him proud. He had seen a few members of the crew doing Haki, Rose ruffled his hair and opened the door, what Shanks saw made him pale…the halls were littered with bodies of people in marine uniforms…
"Don't worry about that, I've been undercover for a long time on this island, my real boss had asked me to look into this islands marines and get the secret documents… the problem with the documents was that it was in the higher marines offices and I didn't know how to get to the office. When I did he knew what had happened and pressed the red button alerting every marine here that there had been a spy in their mists."
"Oh…then why was I caught?" Rosella threw her head back and laughed, her voice echoing from the walls back at them.
"Because they wanted to get to Roger, jeez, there wasn't any reason at all from you being caught in my plans."
"That means you saved me…without having to."
"Yep, you owe me one." Shanks looked at the huge grin on Rosellas face and he became very worried about what would happen to him.
"Joy." Rosella laughed harder and they walked out of there.
Shanks frowned and stared up at the sky disapprovingly…he just realized that it was all Rosellas fault to begin with that he got caught by the marines, if he hadn't had his swords stuck in the ground in the first place…but then he unlocked his Haki…but someone from the crew would have been able to help him anyways…
"God damn that con-women." He whispered and the air that blew into him seemed to laugh. Luffy gave Shanks a questioning look but he hugged her tighter. "Just thinking about your mother…you remind me a lot of her."
"How?"
"Your personality, cheeky, rude, loud…the list goes on." Luffy sniffed one last time before poking her tongue out at him, Shanks grinned and tickled the little brat that's sitting in his lap. From the deck everyone's head snapped up to the squeals of laughter that came and they grinned to themselves, those two idioits would be alright.
Shanks stared at the box on the his deck that's wailing, Luffy holding his hand…every pirate was their listening to the horror of what that box is making.
"Oh god please not another one." Yasopp prays tears in his eyes, Shanks bent down and opened up one of the side flaps and stared into the box. Luffy peered in too and grabbed out something wrapped in blankets that wiggled. Most of the crew fainted at what they saw and those that still stood were in tears.
Luffy unwrapped the thing and she giggled at the brown teddy bear that was waving its arms and legs around, a note clenched in its mouth. Luffy handed the teddy to Shanks who tore the letter open, Luffy went back to looking into the box and pulled out a small box.
'Hello little red head,
I do hope you are looking after my daughter just fine, don't worry I'm dead. I know dead can you believe that? Anyway I have a gift for you. No it's not the noisy teddy, what my gift to you is, it is my sword, shocking, but I thought that you would look after it well and use it without damaging it…
Lots of love Rosella
P.S. You never owed me anything'
Shanks glared down at the letter and threw the noisy teddy over the side of the ship, he looked into the box and saw the dark red scabbard, with light red thorns wrapping around it before it got to the mouth of the scabbard and two cords fell down at the side of it, at the end of the black cords was two flowers a Yucca and a Rose both a mix of reds. The handle of the sword was designed of that of a black and red dragon, and the top of the sword looked like a red and black flaming egg and the dragon looked like it was reaching for it, Shanks bent down and picked up the sword and pulled the blade out. The sword gave a clear ringing sound and he looked at the silver sword with a red tint to it, at the end of the sword was an exotic looking D symbol. Shanks felt it pulse in his hand and a laugh slipped past his lips.
"You got a new sword?" Benn asked, Shanks looked at his first mate in amusement and shock his head.
"It's not mine, never has been and never will be…"
"Then who…" All eyes landed on Luffy who was holding up a small box. Benn picked up the note and skimmed it before frowning.
"She wrote that you would look after it well and use it without damaging it."
"Yep, but her true feelings are in the sword on what she really wanted done with it." Shanks put the sword back into the scabbard, before turning his gaze down to where Luffy was tugging at his pants. "What is it?"
"Can I open it?" She asked holding up the small box towards his face, arm stretched right out, Shanks couldn't help but let the fond chuckle out.
"Sure." Luffy's eyes sparkled with glee and she opened the small box and stared down at the silver chain, the pendent was that of an anchor, it was the same reddish colour as the egg on the sword, most likely made from the same stone. Luffy looked on the inside the lid of the small box and read something out that had Shanks flushing red.
"Nice nickname." Luffy looked up at Shanks questioningly, he crouched down and put the necklace on her.
"Don't worry about it Anchor…see what else is in the box." Luffy nodded and pulled out another small box, opening it up to reveal an anklet, she stared at it. "Another necklace?"
"No, no, Anchor it's for your foot." Luffy looked down at her feet with a frown turning the red chain around, it had black pendants hanging from it…a dragon, a rose, a skull with three scars running along it's right eye socket, a top hat, an ace card, a cigarette, a bullet, a spotted head band, a windmill, a bead with curls engraved in it and a few other things that symbolize people who Luffy has befriended like an orange, three swords, a wheelchair, and a pot with a swirls in the middle of it, a long sword…there were still lots of blanks spots on it, and Shanks guessed it would be for the people that she has yet to meet and befriend, he bent down and took her sandals off and clasping the jewelry around her left ankle.
Oh oh oh oh can you guess for what charm represents what person whoever guesses the right and most amount is the winner and the winner gets to pull me finger XD
I'll be adding more of Yucca D. Rosellas past into the story…even I'm finding it interesting and I'm writing it.
