Chapter 53: Mighty Giant man
The East wind sailed forward, Shanks couldn't help the grin on his face and he realized that the marines would be shitting themselves. Shitting themselves because two of the most powerful pirates were meeting and there is nothing that they could do to stop Shanks from sailing towards that crew. Benn rolled his eyes next to Shanks and sighed.
"It's not a very nice prank to play."
"Who am I playing what on?" Shanks blinked wide grin still on his face, Benn stared before he sighed again.
"The government about two Yonkos meeting…" Benn stared at Shanks some more before he deadpanned… "You're pranking him too."
"Yep, rumours about my arm would have travelled to his ears, but it's only rumours, then there is little Luffy that we have kept hidden." Shanks said with a nod, Shanks watched as the other ships crew signalled that it was alright for them to board. "You know what to get…OI ANCHOR COME HERE."
Luffy skipped up to Shanks and he brushed his coat away from his back.
"Get inside and stay quiet and hidden, we are going to give the old timer a heart attack." Shanks said gleefully, Luffy grinned at Shanks in return and wrapped her arms around his body before Shanks put the coat on…there was a problem with Luffy's arms and legs…after a lot of trouble that shouldn't have been trouble, Shanks got his shirt off and this time Luffy was hugging his bear back. Yasopp helped Shanks but his white shirt back on, covering Luffy then fix the black coat around Shanks's shoulders.
"There, doesn't look like you are harbouring a twelve year old." Luffy giggled before they heard her take a deep breath and this time it's Shanks's turn to shift a laughter as he was the one that felt her keep the air locked into her lounges.
"Luffy you have to breathe." Shanks pointed out logically, a shiver ran up his spin when all the compressed air hit his skin.
"Thought I was going to die." She said breathing heavily, the two pirates laughed before Benn dumped a large bottle of rum in front of Shanks. He looked at it and with a grin lifted it up easily with one hand and walked across the ship Haki knocking out the weaker crew members of the Whitebeards.
A few minutes earlier on the Moby dick the watchman cried out that the Red haired pirates wanted to talk, Whitebeard had laughed and told them to signal that they could come aboard, it's not every day that a Yonko would see another Yonko.
"Pops are you sure you should let…"
"Gurarara it's fine." Marco the man with the scruff of blond hair at the top of his head sighed and started to get the weaker crew members back.
"What is he doing?" Thatch questioned leaning over the railing of the Moby dick to see what the red haired captain is doing, Marco walked up next to his best friend and watched as well. Their sniper looked like he was fluffing up the red haired captains cloak, they laughed and then Benn showed up. "It looks like his about to confess his love to someone."
"…" Marco didn't know what to say to that as they watched the other pirate captain stroll onto their ship, dragging behind a large bottle of rum. "Can you not knock out our crew members?"
"Ohhh Marco, I didn't see you there…" There's a pause were Shanks locked eyes with Marco before Shanks grinned, Thatch held his breath waiting for the confession. "Want to join my crew?"
"NO!" Marco growled then blinked as Shanks giggled in a very high and girly manner, Shanks's eyes widened in horror, his cheeks turned red and he moved on. Marco and Thatch stared at each other, turning their heads towards the red haired captain and watched as he said his greeting to their pops.
"Yo Whitebeard, how's it going!" He said as he put the bottle down, before sitting cross legged on the ground, fixing his cloak up…
"I had heard rumours about your arm, but I didn't think they were true…what kind of enemy did you lose it too?" Shanks ran his hand from his shoulder down and smirked up at Whitebeard.
"A trouble maker." He said, before he giggled again…this time everyone blinked at him and his face slowly turned red once more, reading their reactions.
"GURARARA, go to the East blue for a holiday and come back missing a limp, what kind of island did you go to." Whitebeard laughed disregarding the giggle that Shanks emitted every so often. Shanks put his hand on his belly and squizzed it… getting more odd looks.
"The island? Well, let's just say that it had huge animals on it that you could find in the New World and natives that could kill you if you hurt one of their own." His eyes become far away before his gaze snapped out of it. "It's the children that are the real monsters on that island, living in the trees and hanging around bars…they even have a gang that one of my smaller crewmembers joined for a brief period of time."
"Are you just going to talk about the island or are you going to crack that beauty open?" Whitebeard asked pointing towards the bottle; Shanks glanced at it, then turned back to Whitebeard with a grin.
"Hope you like it, it came from a lovely creature named Makino." Shanks got up and poured himself some before throwing the bottle at Whitebeard who caught it, he sniffed it eyes locking onto amused ones. Shanks sat back down and greedily drank it up while Whitebeard watched him, with a shrug Whitebeard drank deeply letting his nurses fuss about it.
"It's got a twist of some herb in it…" Shanks laughed and nodded his head.
"Tulsi hydrosol, good for stress and health, and adds the slight hint of spice to the mixture of it. I was weary of it but Makino instead that I drink some of it. There is no saying no to that woman…"
"How so?"
"Makino has this way with making you feel guilty with just a look on her face; it's wonderful but devastating and effective. She's the only one that has had complete control over my little monster…" Shanks's face turned red again when everyone gave him amused and disapproving looks. "NOT THAT LITTLE MONSTER, god…the trouble maker… it was amazing, one look at the trouble maker settled down right away. It took Benn years to get that look right and even then it's not as effective."
"You keep talking about a trouble maker…who?" Shanks giggled again. "Have there been any other rumours about me over the years?"
"…Thatch?"
"You're gay." Thatch said, Shanks turned his head to look at the man for a long time until he laughed.
"Wow, that's still traveling around? I'm going to kill that woman when I die." Shanks shook his head fondly, thinking of that devilish women, then turned to Marco…
"Well you have a new crew member that you are overly over protective of…" Shanks nodded his head to hear more. "That's it…"
"Really? Wow, first time that a secret has been so well kept…"
"Brat what the hell are you going on about?" Shanks looked back up at Whitebeard and stood up…Whitebeard thought he was going to attack and grabbed his huge weapon…
"Luffy." Shanks said making more people look at him like he was crazy or in pity because they have just worked out that he is crazy. The front of Shanks's shirt moved and soon feet appeared to dangle down below Shank's belt line, then the rest of the body dropped down on the ground; a small girl with black hair blinked up at them a huge smile on her face. "Luffy meet Whitebeard and his family, Whitebeard meet the trouble maker."
Luffy sat up and locked eyes with everyone until they rested on Whitebeard and her smile got bigger, eyes wide, she giggled… the crew blinked and looked at Shanks before they sighed…it wasn't him that was making the girly laughter after all.
"His huge…Shanks!" Luffy said craning her head up over dramatically before she looked at Shanks. "Can I keep him?"
"What did I say about that?" Luffy deflated a bit before she perked up and looked over at Marco and Thatch, her eyes turned black and they shifted their hands to the front of their bodies feeling like they were naked under her gaze, before they shivered as they realized that she was looking at everything. Her eyes did a swift look around over all the awake crew members then she blinked them away.
"Can I keep those two then?" Shanks looked at where she was pointed and he was about to say yes before he closed his mouth shut.
"No, you have three cats on the ship, no more pets." Luffy huffed turning back to Whitebeard who had been looking at her with interest.
"His grumpy because the lion we had ate his favourite pair of pants, and it wasn't like I told the snake that it should sleep in his showers and who could blame the monkey for leaving food scraps lying around?" Whitebeard looked at Shanks with amusement and he let go of his weapon.
"How come she didn't get knocked out by your Haki and why couldn't we feel her?"
"She's got her Haki from her mother's side of the family…"
"It's yours?"
"No, a friend of mine left Luffy in my care after her birth."
"Wait so you have been keeping her since she was a baby?" Marco questioned looking at Shanks like he was a new species of aliens, which has come to invade the earth.
"Yeah, how is that so hard to believe?" Shanks demanded, Luffy blankly looked at Shanks.
"Because you are irresponsible and childish, plus all you do is drink and party." Luffy said plainly, Shanks gaped at her before he glared.
"Who told you to say that?"
"It's the truth." Shanks kept glaring down at the girl before she grinned widely and hugged Shanks around the middle. "I'm sorry."
"It's fine." Shanks said melting into the hug; Luffy looked over her shoulder at the other pirate with a victory smirk. Obesely they have had this argument a few times for them to act like that; they are just a little shocked that Shanks could even remotely act in a none-cool type of way. Luffy moved away from Shanks and calmly walked up to Whitebeard, he eyed the small girl, as she climbed up his leg and sat on his knee facing the crew who had become slacked jawed at the sight.
"…" She didn't say anything as she got back up and climbed up Whitebeard arm and onto his shoulder, she looked out at the ship again before she was on top of Whitebeards head…
"LLLLLUUUUUFFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIII IIAAAAAAAA!" A rage filed screamed split the air as smoke come flooding out of the East Wind, Shanks snapped his head to the side and dashed over to the railing to see what has befallen his poor crew. Men with towels around their waists come out from below deck water dripping from their bodies, what got everyone was that their skin has been dyed a nice shade of blue.
"Worked better than I thought it would." Luffy said under her breath, nobody heard her, but being next to Whitebeards ear he heard the trouble making brat with no trouble.
"What did you do?" He whispered back to her, Luffy's eyes locked onto one of his and she grinned proudly.
"I got dried clumps of ink out of the work room and dunked them into oil, because water just slides off of oil, so once I had that done I sat them in the bottom of the bath and filed the tub with cold water. Once the water got hot enough the oil would start to remove itself from the dried ink and the water would have spread the ink around the bath and soaked into skin." Luffy looked thoughtful before she smiled evilly towards the East Wind. "They are going to check the bottom of the bath from now on, but if I put them into the pluming of the bath then it'll take longer for them to clean it up."
"Brat." Whitebeard laughed, Shanks turned his gaze away from his blue crew and looked at Luffy who was laughing with Whitebeard.
"Oi Luffy! What did you do to my crew this time?" Luffy looked down at Shanks looked at him with a confused face.
"What did I do? I didn't do anything; I've been with you the whole day." Luffy shouted back. "Are you sure it's not that new disease that's come out…what's cha-ma call it?"
"Blueno Death?" Thatch shouted up at her helpfully, Luffy's eyes glammed and she nodded her head.
"Yep that one, what did they say happened?"
"Skin turns blue, you'll end up with a high fever, rash will break out over your sweat glands, tongue will swell up, once you start to vomit, the blue areas will start to rot and you'll eventually die." Marco said leaning away from the other ship. "It's touch transmitted…"
Luffy couldn't believe that the Whitebeard pirates were playing along with her, Luffy noted that Thatch and Marco gave each other a small smirk as they looked up at Luffy with grins.
"…Is there a cure?" Luffy asked in a 'timid' voice, but Whitebeard heard the slight chuckle in her throat.
"Don't know." Marco said leaning on the railing of the Moby dick, everyone listened as the blue red haired pirates freaked out running around the ship, it would have went on longer if one of the people in charge of the work room didn't come out. The man looked pissed…
"WHERE THE FUCK IS THE BLUE INK THAT WAS IN THE WORK ROOM?" He screamed out, everyone just stopped what they were doing and stared at one enougher, unsure of what to think of what's going on, that is until Luffy's laughter flooded down on them and they all glared at the evil little girl.
"IT'S NOT FUNNY LUFFY!"
"I found it funny." Luffy shot back, the crew looked ready to kill the girl that is before Benn called order and told them to clean up and that he'll deal with Luffy later. Shanks looked far too exhausted for someone his age; he sighed and looked up at Luffy.
"Luffy stop with these kinds of pranks…"
"I'm only learning from the best…what were the pranks that you played today?" Luffy pretended to think while Shanks made noises and told her to shut it. "Oh that's right, you wanted to prank the government by making them worry too much, then it was the old man with your arm and wasn't I one of the pranks?"
Shanks spurted and glared childishly up at Luffy who were a smug grin…
"Get off of Whitebeard so that I can…"
"Why you scared of the old man?" Luffy asked picking her nose; Shanks growled and stared at the small girl.
"No, because it's disrespectful for people to climb on other people." Luffy stared at Shanks poking her tongue out at him.
"If the mighty giant old man wanted me off, he would have flicked me off by now." Luffy said sitting down on Whitebeards shoulder; Whitebeard laughed and leaned back in his chair while his children shifted giggles.
"What is it you came here for Shanks?" Whitebeard asked, the red haired captain shuffled a bit before sighing and sitting down in front of him.
"We need someone to look after Luffy for a while…"
