Sorry for not posting another chapter in like a while now, ha. ha. I should probably give you guys some answers that were not explain properly in the last chapter. I am so excited for this, are you? Great.
So, the Nama Nama no mi is a Life Life fruit which means it can give life to anyone and anything, it's also an extremely rare logia type. Since it gives life Luffy can heal himself, or anyone when he wants to, BUT! He can NOT replace limbs or missing body parts, that he could only do to himself. I'm going to let Luffy explain further in this chapter for you guys to fully understand his devil fruit. Or, I'll be a jackass and explain everything in the future chapters. I'll still tell you bits and pieces about his devil fruit. It's a lot of work but I am tooo excited to worry about grammar on this note.
On to the next one, why was there a random devil fruit out in the open with no one guarding it? Well that is what I am here for! To tell you, of course. So, the guy who Luffy killed and the one to first notice the devil fruit was gone was a traitor in the Hot Sauce Pirates, imagine that guy as another Teach or Black Beard. He found that fruit on a different island but wanted to keep it to himself knowing that if his captain figures out he'd be furious. Why? Because his captain would kill him if he ate it early and still wouldn't know how to use it. So he hid it downstairs in that jail place knowing that no one would go down there unless they resumed the torture. What that guy didn't know was Luffy still had strength to reach for it and eat it.Why didn't he put it far away from Luffy? Well he was about to when someone called him up for something, he didn't want to look suspicious so he quickly placed the devil fruit down and rushed up. Welp, let's start this chapter! (That entire backstory about the traitor...I didn't know how to say it in the last chapter).
Warning 1: I don't own One Piece if I did the show would've gone into the toilet already.
Warning 2: I only post/write this story when I feel like it, so don't feel like I've abandoned this story. I just write when I feel motivated.
Beta Reader: TheRampagingWriter on ao3
Chapter 2: The Unexpected Dream
When Shanks exited the bar, he was greeted by a young girl about the size of Luffy and she has 2 swords strapped on her back like a 'X'. They have a criss-cross pattern and a dangerous aura radiating that warned Shanks not to mess with this girl. The girl herself had strong eyes, determined and fit for another D if she was. She is wearing a black and white kimono with red patterns on the bottom. Her eyes are dark brown fitting for her black hair. She is also wearing a straw Coolie hat* with a strange pattern on it.
"Who are you kid? Are ya lost?" asked Shanks as he looked around trying to find the kids parents.
The kid lowered her Coolie hat so she was shadowing her eyes leaving an ominous feel to the older man.
"If you ever hurt that straw hatted boy in any way..." The kid said slowly with a low voice "You don't want to know what happens next." Then a gust of wind came, blowing dust everywhere... The girl has disappeared.
Shanks stood there with a face meaning 'The hell was that? Who was the kid?' Shanks thought 'Hurting Luffy? what was that all about?' He dismissed the thoughts when he thought it was just a prank and this was all too weird.
Shanks wondered around the town for a bit trying to find where Luffy ran off to. He went around a corner of what it looks like a house and spotted Luffy in front of the forest clearly seeing the lake behind that. Luffy, who was tapping his foot with an annoyed expression.
"What took you so long?" Luffy asked with mild disappointment to the older man.
"I couldn't find you, seriously you were like a torpedo when you rushed out the bar," Shanks said while smiling.
"That was an hour ago." Luffy narrowed his brows and said with a deadpanned voice.
"Oh, really? That sure was fast! Come on, start fishing, less talking, lets go!" Shanks exclaimed, did a one eighty straight to the lake. Luffy sighed and grabbed two fishing rods and a toolbox and slowly walked over to the dock thinking 'Seriously? is this Drunkard hyper now? who gave him sugar?'.
Once they settled on the dock and got everything ready, Luffy was the first to throw his rod, then Shanks. They waited... and waited... and waited... Until suddenly Shanks got a bite!
"I got big one!" he shouted
"No, you didn't. what you will catch is a shoe" Luffy said as Shanks kept pulling and reeling in his rod.
As if telling the future Shanks caught a shoe instead of what he was hoping for.
"Dammit" Shanks cussed "How did you know?" he asked with interest on how the boy predicted the shoe.
"I can feel Life itself" Luffy explained then took a huge breath, "It's like every living being has their own life force no matter who they are, they need their life force to live. By concentrating on a single point, I can feel their life forces. It tells me if they're sick, injured, their feelings, age, and how long they can live. When you injure someone it depends on how serious it is to change their life force, making it weaker by shrinking it. That shoe does not radiate life force so it does not count as a living. This ability is part of my devil fruit and how strong your observation haki is. When my observation haki gets stronger I have a wider and more clearer range of what's living and what's not." Luffy took a few breaths before standing up and placed his palm on the surface of the water. Closing his eyes he found a fish nearby his palm, successfully pulling the fish out of the water. "Do you get it now?"
When Shanks finished processing what felt like 5 minutes of explaining, he asks "If you can feel life and can catch them anytime, why do you still have fishing rods and a toolbox?"
"I had the toolbox before I got my devil fruit. I took it off of as a muscle memory thing, and end up grabbing it every time I go fishing. As for the fishing rods, I thought it'll be boring for both you and I to have only me catch the fishies, correct? So to not be bored easily, I brought my old fishing rods." Luffy said with a tint of sadness in his voice.
"Oh." Shanks answered before suddenly realizing "OH! How about we compete in a Fishing Competition, eh? Like, 'WHO CAN CATCH THE BIGGEST FISH WINS!' Sound good?" Shanks exclaiming excitingly, clearly challenging the young boy. Hopefully this will lift up the boys mood.
"But, what about-" before Luffy could finish, Shanks interrupted.
"We will use fishing rods, no sensing the fishies, just by pure luck and skill." Shanks said with a chuckle.
"Alright then, let's do this." Luffy accepts his challenge and they started after a 3. 2. 1. Go!
There was just a little montage where Luffy kept catching frogs, crabs, and everything but a big fat fish. With Shanks he catches boots, seaweeds, garbage and everything but a living fat fish. Luffy seeing that he couldn't get anywhere without sensing the fishies, he decided to use THAT.
It was dawn when they finally found their winning prize. Looking at Shanks' fish, it was about 10 ft. While Luffy has one about 20 ft.
"Awww man! How'd I lose?! And... How did you get a giant ass fish when there is barely any fishies in the lake, in the first place?!" Shanks pouted like a sore loser.
"Heh. I beat you! what do I win?" questioned Luffy with a little sass in his voice as he looks around "a sour pirate that's what!"
"Hey!... wait a minute" Shanks ran up to the fish Luffy caught "This... This is an oversized MAGIKAR-I mean *ahem* GOLD FISH!"Shanks exclaimed.
"Did you just say Magikarp?" Luffy asked in a deadpanned voice "You're like 20 years old and still watches Pokemon!?"
"Hey! Everyone likes Pokemon! Don't you?" Shanks said half offended and half defending his favourite show.
"You sound like a little kid." Luffy said very annoyingly "Plus do pirates even have TV on their ships to even watch it? How did you even know about Pokemon in the first place?"
"I am NOT a little kid!" Shanks yelled back stomping his foot, like a little kid having his tantrums, "Have you ever gotten sooo drunk that you bugged your friends to the POINT where they kick your ass across the F*ING ship and into what felt like glass! Broke it, then fly out of someones TV, into their living room, and having them screaming like a MAD HOUSE?!" Shanks' face is now red from raging too hard "CAUSE I HAVE!"
Luffy just stood there not understanding what he just raged about.
After a couple of breathes, Shanks finally calmed down. When he did he cleared up his throat and said "If It'll make more sense to tell you that people there were pretty nice and actually explained something about a "Fourth Wall"? And they were kind enough for me to stay for a while, 'till my nakama's can get me back...You still don't get it, do you?" Luffy shook his head. Shanks sighed "I guess it doesn't matter anymore does it?"
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"By the way, back to my first question, how did you get a fish so freaking huge?" Shanks questioned. Since they have trailed off before.
"Um.. it's just that big?" Luffy answered nervously.
"Hey...Did you cheat?" Shanks narrowed his brows at the suspicious sweating child.
"N-no, why would you think that?!" Luffy responded while trying not to make eye contact.
They stare a each other, each minute intensifies.
"OKAY! I cheated! So, stop staring at me like a walking wine bottle!" Shouted Luffy as he gave in.
"Ha! I knew it! Why the hell would you cheat?" Shanks questions
"Because we weren't getting any fishies at all." That's honestly true, all they were getting was anything but fishes.
"But, you didn't have to cheat! It'll more fun if we played things fair and squared!" Shanks argued.
"Heh. Spoilsport"
"YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S A SPOILSPORT!"
"Pffftt, Hahahaha, your so stupid, Drunkard!"
"SHUT UP"
The sun had set with Luffy laughing his ass off, while Shanks continued to rant about other things.
"It's getting late don't you think?" Shanks asked when they could barely see the sun. "Hey, I got an idea, me and my buds would be staying here for...about a year or so. How about camping? There will be tons of pirate stories if you're interested."
"Sure! I would love to see you in your intoxicated state!" With a bright smile, Luffy continued to laugh.
"Alright let's-HEY!"
Later that night
Shanks and his crew were partying away beside a camp fire, singing what Luffy just learned the song called Bink's Sake. Oh, and most of them were already drunk, some are still in the process...whatever that meant. Luffy was gulping down chunks of meat, since they were also having a banquet along side camping. Luffy started to notice the words in the song that the Drunkard and his fellow minions of alcohol. The song was telling a story about a pirates life, but it sounds so good, so..friendly.
"Ahhhhh, Luuuuuffffyyy *hic* Cappppptaiiin wooulda loooooved ta meeeeeet youuuuu~ *hic*" Shanks said while slurring his words.
"Captain? Aren't you the captain? WAIT, you HAD a captain?!" Luffy yelled in surprise.
"Yuuuuuuup, he waaaaaaz captaiiin Gol D. Roger *hic* I waz da cabiiin booooooiiiiiii~*hic*" Shanks promptly fell over with a thud.
"Who's Gol D. Roger?" Luffy asked
"Heeee waaaaaaz theeee Piiiiraaate Kiiing! *hic*" Shanks said toward the ground, making his words even more muffled.
"Pirate King?"
"Yuuuuup, heeeee wazzzz daaaa kiiing oooof aaaaalllll piiiirates! *hic*"
"Luffy," a voice behind him called "Do you want to hear some stories about the pirate king?"
Luffy turned around to see Ben, the first mate of the red haired pirates.
"Sure!" was all the words they needed to start off their first story about the one called Pirate King.
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"And THAT"S how Gol D. Roger became the Pirate king!" Ben exclaimed.
"Wow" That was an amazing story that has left Luffy speechless, seriously the one about him fighting Whitebeard was crazy! Who knew that would happen?!
"You should get some sleep kid, its getting pretty late." Luffy nodded, then found a place to sleep among all these Drunkards.
The Next day, Luffy woke up with a note beside him, it says "Hey Luffy! Just so you know we are at another island by now! Don't worry we're just going to travel around East Blue, we are coming back in about a week or so. Don't try anything stupid while we're away okay? Alright, see ya! -Yassop"
'A week eh? Fine by me, What am I going to do now?' Luffy tries his best to think of a schedule for the next week...'OF COURSE! I could use this time to hone more of my haki! Hmm, what other haki's are there in total? Observation Haki-...is that all I know?! Hmm...ehh, that's fine for now, I guess.'
It has been a week since Shanks and his crew left Dawn Island. Luffy is currently at the party bar all bandaged up, why? Well...Luffy has been training hard this past week, Concentrating his observation with a wider radius then before hoping at some point he could sense everything that goes around the island. If only he could somehow improve his mind more, what can he do? Reading? That may work, however Luffy still needs to have better control of his powers. Yes, he has better control then that time he fought with the Hot Pot Pirates, but he his still weaker then some of the weak pirates in Shanks' crew!
Oh, and one time during his training, there was a forest fire and for some reason the fire never hurt him. That was strange until Luffy spotted some black shiny prints on his palm. Was it haki? It felt similar to his observation, so maybe they're connected?
Moving on, Luffy was sitting on his favourite stool at his favourite place to stay, the Party Bar. Everything was going merrily, Makino got him meat and his juice and-
BANG!
The doors to the bar swung open. Several men walked in wearing old ragged clothes, Their leader walked up and demanded, "Me and my men are thirsty, bring us some sake, now."
"I'm sorry," Makino says defensively, "We are out of sake, our supply will restock by tomorrow, but we have a bottle left, sir."
The man examined the bottle of sake, then suddenly smashing it on the counter, breaking it and spilling it everywhere.
"Is this is a joke to you?! My name is Higuma, I am a bandit and has 8 million berry on my head. One bottle of sake won't satisfy me and my men. You will get us sake and you will do that now."
At this point, Makino was panicking. What should she do? What can she do? The only bottle of sake was now smashed by angry bandits! What can she-
"SHUT UP!" This drew the previous attention from the bandits to Luffy.
"'Is this a joke to you?' Joke my ass! You're the one who walked up here, smashed a free bottle of sake, used his bounty as a business card, and still thinks this is a joke?! You are dumber then an overweight Magikarp! And you dare to threaten Makino?! You jerks have another thing coming!" Luffy yelled, obviously angry. Took a breath and said very calmly, "If you don't leave this island in the next minute, I will personally guide you to the end of my fists" Luffy threatened.
"Oh? Is that so, listen brat, I have killed 49 adults in the past. A kid would be no different." Higuma looked at Luffy with a smug look, "Besides, you are as threatening as my bunny slippers at home-" Bunny slippers? "And...The hell is a Magikarp?"
"You don't even know what a Magikarp is, wow, now you're not even a comparison to dog crap" Luffy said sighed while shaking his head.
A tick formed on the bandits head, he is fuming with anger, by this time Luffy could hear Makino pleading him to be quiet. Like he was about to stop there.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY, BRAT?! ARE YOU INSULTING ME?! TAKE BACK WHAT YOU SAID OR DIE RIGHT HERE" Higuma pointed the now unsheathed sword at Luffy, who wasn't fazed by this at all. In fact, this was amusing to say the least, being insulted by a kid who's about to kick his ass across the whole Grand Line.
"Yeah, I'll take back what I said. Hello, you are now classified as a glorious walking, talking pig who dipped himself in dog sh*t"
There was a pregnant pause where everyone took in Luffy's words.
Words can't express the look on Higuma's face, it was priceless!
"...you are so dead" Higuma said as rage filled his systems.
Higuma swung his sword at Luffy, good thing he was a logia or else that slash wound would've killed him, "Tch, a devil fruit? I could make a fortune if I sell you."
Flashback
'ugh, how can I make my powers work like before? This won't work...What if I swing it like- OH GOD, AHHHHHHHH! Oof! ouch that hurt.' Luffy's arm suddenly turned into a vine, grabbed a tree branch, the launched Luffy straight into a boulder. 'Well that didn't work, WAIT! What if I aim like this then throw it like this...' The boulder Luffy crashed into was now in pieces, (A/N: you could also say the boulders feelings were 'crushed' no? ok, I'll stop). That worked! Alright If I practice this more I could get the hang of this, YES!'
Flashback End
"Nama Nama no...SPEAR!" Luffy's arm transformed into a green vine, the end was extremely sharp too and it stabbed right through Higuma's abdomen, (A/N: What's with all the stomach stabbing repeats?) Higuma quickly fell to limp as he bled all over the floor. All of Higuma's goons ran out the door terrified. So is the look on everybody's face fight now.
Just then Shanks and his crew has returned, and the First thing they saw was a dead man on the floor of the Party Bar, still bleeding. Blood splattered all over Luffy's clothes, and horrific looks on everyone's faces.
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"What" Shanks said with a dumbfound face with his jaws hanging down a little, "Happened here."
"A...Bar fight" Answered Luffy
"A bar fight?"
1 hour of explaining later
"DAHAHA, is that so? Wow, really? He didn't even know what a Magikarp is? Lame. OH. MY. GOD. You really said that? Dahahahaha, I wished I could have seen his face! The bloody body?...W-what body, t-there's no body I could see right now"
"So, you are finally going to leave right? For good?" Luffy asks
"Yeah-" before Shanks could finish what he was going to say, Luffy cuts him off.
"But, it's fine. Because someday, I will gather my own crew. Stronger than yours, stronger than everyone and become the Pirate King!" Shanks smiled at that, Luffy reminds him of his old captain, in fact,
"Here," Shanks took off his straw hat, then placed it on Luffy's, "Return this to me once you become the Pirate King, this is very important to me, but I trust that you could keep it safe."
Luffy felt proud and happy, he wanted to cry, but out of happiness.
"And that's a promise."
Ahhh, Finally finished! Shout out to TheRampagingWriter on ao3 for doing the beta in this story! Also, check out their stories, they have better and funnier stories then I do. I read though their Boku no Hero Academia and it was hilarious. Oh! I am also starting another story (don't know why) and that story is just made of random ideas I have that I couldn't turn into stories, so it will just be crossover one-shots. You can Request stories by reviewing, but only the anime/cartoon/movie that I know. Check out my profile to know what I know. Ben knew about Gol D. Roger is simply because Shanks told him stories about him, and yes they kept Roger as Shanks' captain a secret, but couldn't Shanks trust Ben? His first mate? Of course he can! That's why Ben toke over telling the stories instead of the drunk idiot captain.
*Coolie Hat is an Asian conical hat, commonly known as an Asian rice hat, or farmer's hat, it can be use as as protection from the sun and rain. When made of straw or matting, it can be dipped in water and worn as a cooling device.
I was laughing a lot from this chapter! Seriously, the 1st chapter was crap compared to this one.
Remembered the part where Luffy said he was going to use THAT? Well, he actually created his on fish, as in to give life to it. Since he did a mistake or something under pressure. The fish he was going for turned into a Magikarp. Which was really funny.
Is it Berry? Berri? Beri? Belly? Tell me which you think I should use, 'cause I have no idea.