Okey Dokey! Here is the requested one-shot for ShanksXNami for Jess! I never had read anything about Shanks and Nami pairing, so I wasn't really sure what to write! I just went along with what I felt! Hope you like it!
"Captain!" Lucky Roo shouted to Shanks as he tossed a circular object at him.
Shanks held up his hand, catching it in the palm of his hand and looking down at it. A tangerine sat there in his hand. "Thanks!" He laughed back, seeing his crew laugh at his choice of food.
He didn't know why, but he had been craving the small fruits for awhile now. He sliced the skin, giving him enough space to start peeling it. Ah, that was the taste he missed. The sweet, yet tangy taste of a tangerine that seemed to linger even after it was done. He had jokingly told his crew how he wanted some while on the last island, and they must have gotten him the tangerines without him knowing.
He sipped at his sake as he leaned against the railing of the ship and let the wind blow by on his face. His hand automatically went up to touch the straw hat on his head, which was now gone. This lead him to start thinking about the small boy he had given it to, promising him that once he became a great pirate they'd find each other. He smiled at the memory of Luffy, wondering if he found a great crew of his own while out on the sea.
"Probably causing them trouble," He chuckled to himself, turning around and leaning on the railing with his arm.
"Talking about yourself?" Benn teased, walking up next to him by the railing.
"Nah, I was thinking about if Luffy was doing fine out there on the sea." He said, looking over the waters that seemed to go on forever with their blue hue.
"That kid huh?" Benn smiled, knowing Shanks had a soft spot for Luffy and how determined he was. "I'm sure he's doing fine."
"Thanks momma," Shanks teased, the small joke about how Benn was the mom on the ship making the tall man shake his head and sigh. "Eh?"
Shanks peered closer as he leaned forward, catching sight of something bright orange floating on the water. The tangerine popped into his mind, but it was too large to be that. His eyes widened as he threw off his jacket and dove into the water, swimming over to the young girl that was floating on a piece of wood.
"Captain!" Yasopp shouted, thinking his captain had lost his mind jumping into the water suddenly.
"Throw the ladder!" He told them, swimming back to the side of the ship.
Benn climbed down the ladder and grabbed the girl from him, allowing him to climb back up onto the ship. He laid her down on the ship, making sure she was breathing. He nodded to Shanks who gave him a questioning look, receiving a sigh of relief.
"Who is she?" Lucky Roo asked, taking a chunk of meat off of his turkey leg.
"More like what is she doing out here." Yasopp questioned, crouching down and looking at her in curiosity.
"Give her room to breathe!" Shanks told them, shooing his crew away from crowding so closely. "Let's get her in a bed. The questions will have to wait till she wakes up." Shanks told them with a smirk, hearing the whines and groans of the curious men.
"I wonder what happened for a young girl like her to be floating in the middle of the ocean alone." Benn questioned, placing a towel around her before laying her down and covering her up. "She looks familiar though."
Benn walked out of the room with Shanks following quickly behind, wondering if Benn knew who this girl was. Shanks couldn't help but feel like he should stay in there with her though. Benn walked into the small study room and rifled through the papers that were in a heap on the desk before he found what he was looking for.
"Here," He said, handing Shanks the wanted poster of the orange haired girl. "Cat Burglar Nami; part of the StrawHat crew."
"Nami eh?" He asked, finding the name easy and rolling off his tongue smoothly. "Strawhat….Luffy?!" He asked, jerking his head up to Benn who smirked and nodded his head.
"I wonder if she got separated from them." Benn questioned again, shrugging his shoulders in indifference, but knowing it was bringing up curiosity in the captain.
Nami cracked her eyes open, feeling her dry throat scratch against itself like sand paper. She sat up slowly and looked around, seeing a glass of water on the night stand. She grabbed it and chugged the water down, hardly even swallowing as it went down and quenched her thirst. She slammed the cup down, a sigh of relief coming from her.
"Where am I?" She asked herself, looking around the unknown room.
She remembered getting taken by some pirates and thrown on their ship. And then the marines came and started fighting and shooting at the pirates…that was when the ship exploded and she swam away. But she couldn't find any other ship around, so she waited….that's right….
She slipped out of the bed, making sure her footsteps didn't make a sound as she padded across the room. She slipped the door open slightly and peered out, checking to make sure no one was there. She squeezed out of the room and slid along the wall towards the side of the front of the ship where she heard laughing and talking.
"What are you doing?" Benn asked, suddenly behind her and making her scream. "Woah, I'm not going to hurt ya."
"Ah! Captain! The girls awake!" Lucky Roo shouted, spotting her as Benn nudged her out.
"Welcome! How are you feeling?" He asked, seeing the nervousness in her eyes. "You want a drink?"
Nami eyed the food that was laid out, along with the huge bottles of sake that everyone seemed to be drinking along with the full mugs of beer. She glanced to Shanks on her right who was smiling at her so goofily, it instantly reminded her of how Luffy acted.
"Thanks," She said, joining them in their small party.
"So you're part of the Strawhat pirates?" Shanks asked, watching her tense up in the middle of eating. He laughed at her worry, smiling at her reassuringly again. "How is Luffy doing? Causing all of you trouble?"
She looked at him in surprise, not expecting Luffy to know someone like Red Hair Shanks. Of course she knew the man the moment she spotted him. After all she had to look through the wanted poster while with Arlong, and saw him occasionally passing by when she traveled around. He wasn't like everyone said he was though. He was gentle and kind, and seemed to always have a smile on his face; it set her at ease even though she'd normally be paranoid.
"He's definitely someone who doesn't think about something before doing it." She sighed, hearing Shanks laugh loudly next to her.
"Do you hear that? Luffy is still acting like a kid!" He told his crew, making them all smile and laugh with him at the thought of the boy still acting the same though he's grown up.
Shanks smirked at Nami sideways, glancing at her with warm eyes. A shiver coursed down her back and heat flared along her cheeks as she turned away and focused on the food intently. It was how he was; the bad boy who was tough, yet kind at the same time….her type of guy.
"So how do you know Luffy?" She asked, feeling the sake warm her body.
"He was a kid I knew at a Village I frequented a lot. He was determined to be the Pirate King!" He laughed, hearing Luffy shout it in his mind as he said it.
"He still has that goal." She giggled, taking another sip.
Shanks looked down at her, her giggle sounding and echoing in his ears like bells. She was relaxed and smiling as she watched his crew joke and dance around without a care. It was obvious she was buzzed from the flush on her cheeks, and some of the sake was still wetting her lips as she smiled. Shanks scooted his hand out a bit, leaning on it as his face neared Nami's.
"Eh?" She asked, turning her head, just as he locked his lips with his own.
She sat with wide eyes as he licked the sake off of her lips, heat flaring inside of her. He pulled back and stared at her deeply, his brown eyes boring into her and transfixing her in place. She unintentionally reached out and grabbed his white, half unbuttoned shirt.
Shanks smiled, leaning forward again, but stopping a breath away from her lips. "Sweet," He commented, before taking her lips again.
Their breathes mingled as he slipped his tongue past her lips, licking the roof of her mouth and rubbing the right spots to make her moan quietly. His tongue wrapped around her own, wrestling with it and rubbing it to make it subordinate to him. He pulled back from her again and looked down at the deeper flush on her cheeks.
She was young, but her body was that of a womans, nothing like most girls her age were shaped. Her attitude wasn't that of a teenagers either, so he wasn't sure how old she was at all. He pushed that away from his thoughts; right then he didn't care about how old she was, as long as he could taste that sweet nectar on her again.
"Captain!" Yasopp laughed, throwing his arm around Shanks' shoulders and pulling him close to him. "You shouldn't hog her all to yourself! Let her come and dance with us!" He laughed loudly, clearly drunk as he slurred his words and rocked back and forth.
"Yasopp," Shanks said, pinching the man's cheek harshly and making him cry out in pain. "Your breath stinks." He teased, pushing his irritation into the pinch.
"Yasopp? Do you have a son named Usopp?" Nami asked, leaning forward and crawling over to Shanks to look at the marksman next to him.
"You know my son?" He asked happily, smiling down at her in excitement.
She nodded, "He's the marksman on our ship." She told him, seeing the pride radiate off of Yasopp's face.
"Of course! He takes after his father after all!" He said, nose seemingly to grow longer as he prided himself on his shooting capabilities.
"Yeah, yeah, go drink some more!" Shanks said, taking the chance of the momentary change in topic to shoo the man away. He smiled and shook his head, knowing his men were crazy.
"Y'know, from what I can gather. The straw hat Luffy wears was yours right?" Nami asked, leaning against his shoulder and putting her head lightly on it.
"Yeah, it was based off of our promise." Shanks smiled, feeling her hair lightly brush over his skin on his chest and shoulder.
"He treasures that think a lot." She giggled, making Shanks' heart skip a beat at the light sound.
Shanks stood up gently, making sure she wouldn't fall over when he did. Nami looked up at him in confusion, wondering if she said something wrong. He smiled down at her and held out his hand, offering to help her up off the floor.
"How about we get away from them?" He asked, taking a chance that he could either fail or win.
Her hand automatically reached out to his beyond her control. She couldn't help the attraction she felt for the red haired pirate, and somehow she was starting to think she didn't want it to stop. He pulled her up next to him and tugged her along with him towards the room she was in before.
"This was your room?" She asked, looking around.
"Yeah," he breathed, pushing her against the wall before she could speak again and pinned her there between him and the wall.
His lips crashed on her quickly, resuming where they were before and lighting up the fire that coursed through both of them. His tongue darted around, soaking in the sweet taste that came off of her. It was addicting and he didn't want to stop; he wanted to eat her. She pulled back for the desperate air her lungs need, but he didn't stop and instead took the chance to kiss down her neck and to her collar bone.
She gripped his arm tightly, nails digging into his fabric as he found her sweet spot. He smiled against her skin, brushing his scruffy beard along her smooth flesh. He licked at the sweet spot before latching onto the skin and sucking at it roughly, nipping it and causing the blood to rush to the surface. He pulled back and examined the hickeys he left around on her collarbone, visible for him to see, but easy enough to hide it when needed to.
His hands climbed up her back and under her shirt, pulling it up her body slowly until it was just below her chest. Her hand gripped his wrist and stopped him from taking it off any further, her eyes pleading with him in a worried manner.
"Wait," She breathed heavily, eyes glazed over from just the kiss.
Shanks smirked, her age issue appearing in his mind once again. That's right, she was a young woman, not used to being in such an intense act like this yet. He kissed her stomach with butterfly kisses before going back to her lips and giving her a small kiss.
"That's as far as we're going," He told her with a knowing smile.
She relaxed a bit in his hold, thankful for him understanding her concern at the fast pace they were in. She hardly knew him, and she couldn't just leave Luffy if they got into any sort of relationship. The attraction between them was strong and it was pulling them both in like a black hole, but she knew both of them had chances if they were to do something more.
"I don't mind kissing," She said, wrapping her arms around his neck and bringing him back down to her mouth.
He chuckled in his chest, the rumbling vibrating into her own chest and making her smile. His arm wrapped around her back, and his hand slipped under her shirt, rubbing circles in the dip of her back with his thumb.
Their lips mashed together in a frenzy as both reveled in the kiss and the friction between the two of them. Almost as if a fire would be created between them if they continued.
A few days had passed by as they neared the island ahead of them. Nami had gotten used to their crew and had sort of become a part of their family too. The crew seemed to realize she was off limits, almost like a sixth sense of who their captain had claimed.
But it may have also been because Shanks seemed to appear out of nowhere with his deathly smile any time they tried to hit on her or make a move towards her. It sent the message to them pretty quickly who she belonged to on the ship.
Benn chuckled and blew out smoke from his cigarette pipe, going through the papers on his desk. He looked up and spotted Shanks smiling down at Nami warmly before leaning down and kissing her gently. He had never seen his captain so enthralled with a woman before, and somehow he didn't worry about the two who were just vaguely knowing each other.
He let out a small grunt, also thinking about how they would part ways once they reached the island. Let alone her being a part of another pirate crew that was competing against their captain. It may be Luffy's crew, but both crews were serious about roaming the seas and getting what they wanted. But for all he knew the relationship between the captain and Nami could prove to be effective in stopping that feud if a fight were to ever come.
"Nami!" Yasopp shouted, skidding to a halt next to her. "Give this to my son when you see him, will you?"
He handed a letter out to her, hope in his eyes as he smiled and rubbed his neck in embarrassment. She smiled back to him and nodded, knowing Usopp would enjoy a letter from his father. She hated the thought of leaving the Red Haired Crew, but she longed greatly to return back to her own crew and make sure they were alright. After all she was their navigator; they'd be lost without her…..shit, they were probably lost.
She dropped her head, banging it on the railing as she thought about how hard it was going to be to find the directionally challenged crew that were sailing along the seas. It was going to take her forever to find them in the grand line! He let out a groan and a deep breath before hearing a deep laugh next to her.
"A Beli for your thoughts?" He asked, flicking a Beli at her and making her chuckle herself.
"Just thinking about how Luffy is probably lost in the middle of the sea right now." She said with a shake of her head. "he causes so many problems."
"He means well," Shanks laughed, patting her head and pulling it into his shoulder. "Make sure to tell Luffy to find me, ok?" He smiled down at her, the secret meaning in his message easy to find for her.
She nodded her head and kissed his lips, standing up on her toes slightly to push against him. He pushed against her and wrapped his arm around her waist, jerking her body against his so there was no room between. She could feel his hard chest against her and his strong arm around her; it made her feel safe and protected being there in his hold.
Nami pulled back away from him before kissing the three lines over his eye. "next time you see me, I'll be a full woman." She smirked teasingly at him.
He laughed loudly, putting his forehead on hers. "Then we'll continue where we left off," He promised, giving her a peck on her nose before pulling away and looking out at the sea with her in his arm still.
Nami jumped from the ship, landing on the dock lightly and waved at them with a bright smile. "Oh! And thanks for the treasure!"
The crew froze and looked at the bag she had with her which they thought was her stuff…..then they remembered she didn't have any things with her. She stuck her tongue out at them and waved again, racing off towards town so she could prepare her sailing back to her friends. The crew shouted in disbelief at the thief who easily robbed them and took off.
Shanks laughed behind them, making the crew smile that the captain was still in good moods enough to laugh. He leaned forward on the railing, feeling the ship pull back towards into the sea so they can sail to the next place they had on their journey.
"She's like a magnet to you," Benn commented, puffing on his cigarette and leaning against the railing with Shanks.
Shanks shook his head, "No," He told Benn, making the man look over at his captain that was still watching the island with a bright smile on his face. "She's like a tangerine. Sweet yet tangy, and something I'm completely addicted to."
Benn chuckled, finding it funny to see his captain so lovestruck by a girl with orange hair. He shrugged his shoulders, just happy to find his captain wasn't gay and actually cared about women.