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The scene goes to Luffy at the top of the ship still holding the knife with no cut whatsoever on his face. Luffy realized that it was happening all over and decided to go with the flow and stab himself again. Everybody was shocked at what they saw as they dove in the water to rescue Luffy.

Everybody is in the bar now laughing and cheering with rum in their hands as they were celebrating Luffy being fine after that commotion earlier.

"Hahaha , drink drink" shouted a pirate while holding two mugs of rum in his hands as he started to gulp one of them .

"hey that's my meat " shouted another pirate at his fellow pirate .

"did I ever tell you the story of how I got robbed by a couple of birds " said one pirate in a very drunk manner as he was clearly intoxicated ,not realizing how embarrassing the story he is about to say is.

"C'mon guys stop arguing, this celebration is for Luffy's safety. Don't be such shameful drunks" said Lucky Roo as he started to gulp some rum from a big barrel, drinking it all as if it was a small mug.

"It didn't …hurt at all "said Luffy with tears in his eyes while standing on a bar stool trying to show everybody he was fine.

"Liar!" shouted Shanks with sharp teeth. "Don't ever do that again!" he said as he grabbed a seat next to Luffy while opening a brand new bottle of rum.

"I'm not afraid of any pain Shanks, next time you can take me with you "said Luffy while grinning.

Shanks was staring at Luffy busy remembering what happened.

Flashback

Shanks was standing on top of the deck of his ship while he was shouting at the crew to bring a doctor and some stitches while the rest of the crew were sitting around Luffy pushing the water out of his lungs.

"Captain." Said his first mate while holding a rag with some blood on it

"Hmm? what is it Benn?"asked Shanks as he looked at Benn noticing the bloody rag and the small knife from earlier it was covering .

"Look!" said Ben as he held the knife in front of Shank's face in order to see it better.

"what? isn't that the knife that the idiot stabbed himself with?" asked Shanks as he still wasn't getting what Ben was trying to show him.

"Captain, the tip of the knife." Said Benn as he sighed to his captain's idiocy.

"Wha.." said Shanks as he gasped and grabbed the knife from Benn and started staring at it ,as if it would disappear at any moment.

The knife was a simple kitchen knife with a wooden handle , some dried blood was on it but nothing jaw dropping , until that is , you see the tip of the knife which was bent in a sharp angle , as if someone tried to stab a thick steel wall with it .

Flashback Ended

"Shanks! Shanks what are you doing ?"said Luffy who was getting impatient at the straw hat wearing pirate. SMACK! He kicked him in his shins as he was distracted by the earlier flashback. "C'mon say something!"

"You can't handle being a pirate. "said Shanks as he was now looking at Luffy "Not being able to swim is a pirate's greatest weakness!"

"As long as I stay onboard the ship I should be fine, besides I'm strong!" said Luffy who was getting agitated by the pirate's insults.

"Strong eh? "asked Shanks while giving a smile with a raised eyebrow .

"yeah! My punches are as strong as a pistol!" said Luffy as he punched the air.

"pfft! a pistol? What the hell man, I'm being serious you know?" Said Shanks as he made a bored expression on his face.

"shut up ! I'm not a kid anymore." Shouted Luffy.

"Fine, tell you what. I'll let you hit me once square on the face and we will see just how strong your punch is." said Shanks in a mocking manner while turning his left cheek to Luffy.

"You're on." Said Luffy as he punched Shanks as hard as he could.

Shanks was a pirate apprentice on Roger's ship, he knew very well that he should never let his guard down. As Luffy's fist was about to connect a millisecond before it was too late , Shanks noticed something was wrong which caused him to coat his left cheek with a shiny jet black color. BAM! a loud sound was produced as Luffy's fist connected, if it wasn't for the ruckus and chaos in the bar all the pirates would have heard it, however no one did .

Shanks face was in total shock. His eyes widened at what just happened. He even had grabbed the hilt of his sword instinctively.

'What just happened?' thought Shanks. 'My body screamed danger and forced me to use the best of my defense.' swallowed Shanks. 'But what's even scarier is when it connected, it broke through and I felt pain!' a cold sweat ran down Shank's neck 'Luffy what are you?' thought Shanks. Luffy's face turned white afraid that Shanks was mad at him because of his shocked face. Shanks noticed Luffy's face and immediately regained his composure. "what ,is that all your pistol punch can do?" said Shanks while smiling at Luffy "Baaaaga, your 20 years too early to make a scratch on me!" said Shanks as he was sticking his tongue out.

"Dammit Shanks I told you I'm not weak!" shouted Luffy as he seemed to have forgotten what happened a minute before .

"yeah yeah , here drink some juice while we talk more about his ." said Shanks with a sly smile while grabbing a glass of juice and placing it in front of Luffy .

"Oh boy juice!" said Luffy as he quickly grabbed the glass and starting drinking it.

"Gahaha!" burst out Shanks laughing with tears forming in his eye "You really are a kid!" said Shanks as he wiped a tear from his eyes, glad that his trick worked.

"Hey that was a dirty trick!" shouted Luffy who was now standing on his stool.

"Gahaha! Anchor boy" said Shanks as he was hysterically laughing while smacking the bar table.

"man I'm sick of this" complained Luffy ,as he got off the stool "I even cut myself today and he still wouldn't agree" said Luffy still whining as he could still hear Shanks laughing in the background.

"Luffy" said Benn. the first mate of Shanks ,as he was lighting a cigarette "you have to understand the captain's feelings" said Benn as he closed his fist on the match to blow the fire out, smoke was coming out of his fist ,yet he still acted like it was nothing .

"Shanks's feelings?" asked Luffy who was confused by the man's statement.

"Yes, every crew member has put his life on the line when being a pirate, but it all rests on his head. Do you know what that means?"said Benn as he blew out some smoke ,he then gave a serious stare at Luffy witch made Luffy stiffen "The captain of the ship has to protect every single member of his crew with his life ,do you understand the weight of those words I just said?" asked Benn who was still looking at Luffy .

Luffy swallowed and made a gulp then nodded "good, then you should know that a pirate's life is not just fun and adventure it is also a dangerous one "said Benn as he smiled at Luffy since he didn't want to scare the boy too much "and Shanks knows those dangers too well. To allow you on his crew would be a mistake on his part"said Ben.

Luffy just nodded at the man. While what he just heard was being engraved in his mind.

"Hey Luffy come get your fruit snack "said Makino the bar owner.

"Okay" said Luffy as he raced back to the bar table and started eating his plate of sliced apples, when suddenly a loud BOOM! was heard, as a very tall man had just kicked the bar's doors which caused them to fly off the hinges.

Cling, Cling, Cling. Were the sounds of his boots as he walked into the bar slowly approaching the main bar table where Makino stood on the other side.

"Hi there, we are mountain bandits" said the tall man as he placed a small bag of money on the table "we mean no harm as we just came in to grab ten barrels of rum" said the tall man who was still holding the bag of money.

After Makino explained that Shanks and his crew had drank the entire bar dry, the bandit became enraged and smashed the bottle of rum in Shanks face after it was offered to him. He then proceeded to smash all the bottles across the bar counter with his sword as he was pissed by Shanks not responding to his earlier act ,while taunting the pirates . After he left, Shank's entire crew burst out in laughter at what just happened.

"SHUT UUUUP!" shouted Luffy "why didn't you fight them back after they insulted you! You aren't a man or a real pirate" shouted Luffy who was now even angrier at what just happened to his role model.

Shanks stared at Luffy then placed his arm on Luffy's shoulder and said in a very calm and serious manner" listen Luffy, it's just spilled rum and some broken glass there is nothing worthy getting angry for."

"tch" said Luffy as he spun around and decided to leave the bar not happy with the reason he got .Shanks grabbed Luffy's arm not wanting him to go, but that didn't matter as Luffy continued to walk away when suddenly the entire pirate crew in the bar gasped and spat out their rum with eyes budging out in disbelieve as if they just saw a ghost.

Luffy turned around to see what they are looking at before screaming as loud as he could after realizing that his arm has stretched an entire 5 meters back from where Shanks had grabbed his arm!

"His arm stretched! Crap he couldn't have!" yelled out Shanks in disbelieve.

"Captain, the fruit is missing "yelled out Lucky Roo while holding an empty chest box "Luffy probably ate it!"

Shanks then held Luffy upside down with by his legs and shouted "hurry up and spitted it out you moron" when Luffy's feet stretched until his head hit the floor ,which earned round of gasps at what just happened.

'S-Shanks what's going on" said Luffy who was in shock.

"Luffy you just ate the fruit of the devil, it's one of the rarest treasures of the sea" shouted Shanks while grabbing Luffy's shoulders.

"W-What?" said Luffy still in shock.

"It means you can't swim ever again!" screamed Shanks in Luffy's face.

"WHAAAAAAAAT!" screamed Luffy with his eyes bulging out and his jaw dropping 2 feat in shock of what he just heard.

"You idioooooot" replied Shanks with just as loud of a scream.

It's been two days since the Red Hair Pirates set sail for a resupply trip, however Luffy wasn't happy about it as Shanks had told him that this will be their last trip before they leave and head north.

"You know, they are coming back one last time so you can still get to see them again" said Makino while cleaning one of the bar glasses in her hands .She was upset at the fact that the only person Luffy looked up to was leaving, knowing how hard Luffy is taking this, she tried to be as cheerful as possible.

"I don't care about them" said Luffy quietly as he was rolling his glass of juice in boredom ,not realizing that his body language was showing the exact opposite of what he said " I still can't forgive them for what happened with the mountain bandits."

Creak! The bar doors opened ,which caused Luffy's head to shoot up expecting to see Shanks and everyone else ,only to realize that it was that mountain bandit from back then.

Shanks was on his way to the bar with his crew to spend one last night at his favorite village, when he noticed a crowd of people gathering somewhere near the bar. "what's going on?" asked Shanks as he was trying to push his way through the crowd only to see the bandits from earlier minus the boss lying on the ground unconscious .

"Shanks! thank god you're back, it's terrible that mountain bandit from before has kidnapped Luffy " shouted Makino while grabbing her knees trying to catch her breath!

"wait! Luffy did this?" asked Shanks who seemed fairly surprised.

"No,the bandits just fainted on their own " said Makino as she shook her head not knowing what Shanks was implying "hurry though ,that bandit was talking about killing Luffy as punishment for standing up to you guys for earlier."

"Damn brat this is all your entire fault" shouted the bandit boss as he grabbed Luffy and threw him off the boat that he used to escape with.

"Well you're a coward for running away and abandoning your nakama" said Luffy while in the air falling towards the ocean.

"Just die! wha-what the hell is this!"said the bandit boss as his face went white as a sea king surfaced near the boat and chomped the boat and the bandit boss all together in one gulp!

"so-somebody help me" said Luffy as he was still struggling with the water barely keeping afloat.

The sea king turned to Luffy and attacked, Crack! A loud sound of bones smashing was heard only for the monster to see that it had missed its target. There floated Shanks with Luffy buried in his chest while grabbing him as hard as he can with tears and sobs coming out of Luffy.

"Be gone!" said Shanks while glaring at the sea king. The sea king eyes widened in fear and started breathing heavily before it immediately was in the air and the only sound audible is Luffy's sobs.

"C'mon Luffy stop crying, I thought you're not a kid anymore?" said Shanks as he slowly pat Luffy's head calming him.

"B-but Shanks ….UR ARM!" shouted Luffy as he looked at Shanks missing arm which was eaten by the sea king and all that was left was some bloody flesh four inches from his shoulder. Shanks gasped ,eyes wide at what had happened to the water when Luffy screamed .The ocean water all around them shot outwards in ripples just like the ones you see when throwing a rock into a still lake, except in this case all the waves disappeared in an instant.

"Luffy …just what are you " mumbled Shanks .

Luffy started to sob even more which caused Shanks to wrap his right arm around Luffy's head and hugging it while saying "Luffy…this is just an arm, it's nothing .A price that I would pay in a heartbeat in order to save a friend" .Luffy continued to sob only quieter now.

"You're really leaving this time?" asked Luffy while looking at Shanks who was staring at the horizon past his crew which were busy loading crates full of rum and supplies into the docked Red Haired Pirate's ship, The Red Force.

"Yup, we have stayed here long enough, are you upset?" asked Shanks who was still staring in the distance.

"yeah, but I won't ask to join your crew anymore" said Luffy while smiling and looking at the floor shading his eyes.

"Ha! I wouldn't have let you join anyways" said Shanks with his tongue sticking out, teasing Luffy was a real source of joy to him, in his eyes Luffy is like the little brother he always wanted but never had. "besides ,you don't have what it takes to be a pirate" continued Shanks in his teasement.

"Shutuuup" burst out Luffy .He took a deep breath and then shouted "One day I'm going to find a crew stronger than yours then I'll find the greatest treasure AND ILL BECOME THE PIRATE KING!"

Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Luffy admiring his declaration.

Benn just stood there and looked at Luffy remembering a talk earlier.

Flashback

During there last trip for supplies Shanks was sitting at the figure head of The Red Force remembering what happened at the bar.

"Was it really necessary for you to do that? I mean it's just a punch from a kid...or was it ?" said Beckman as he lit a cigarette with a match and eyed his captain sitting above him.

"Benn, you are my first mate and a person who I have sailed with for many years but.." paused Shanks thinking if it is really necessary to worry his first mate.

"But…?" asked Benn waiting for his captain to finish as this is not the usual carefree Shanks talking.

"Nothing! Don't worry about it, Oi! Yasopp give some of that rum" yelled Shanks as he hopped down and ran past Benn and towards Yassop who was about to drink some rum.

Benn took a deep drag on his cigarette and then crushed it in his palm 'if the captain says it's nothing ,then ill forget about it ' thought Benn, he had a lot of trust in his captain ,and that's all he needed to quell his worries.

End Flashback

"So you're going to be better than us?" asked Shanks while staring at Luffy's eyes .Luffy didn't move and stood still starring back at Shanks.

"Well then...this hat" said Shanks as he took off his straw hat and looked at it while he held it against the sun in admiration then placed it on Luffy's head "Is my gift to you," said Shanks in almost a whisper as he is trying to cherish this moment. "Take care of it ,it's my favorite hat. When you become a great pirate return it to me." said Shanks as he walked away not looking back.

Luffy's eyes where shadowed by the hat. He was silently sobbing sad that his greatest idol is leaving but there was something else that caused his tears to flow, something he didn't know but the tears coming out felt right ,they gave relief to himself ,after all he was already prepared for his depart .it was something he always sought from him but never realized it himself, these tears are tears of happiness and thankfulness as the man he looked up to and who saved his life …had finally acknowledged him.

-10 YEARS LATER-

"good luck Luffy, stay safe" shouted Makino as she was waving goodbye to an all grown up Luffy .

"That damn brat is going to ruin this town's reputation" said the mayor of the village while standing next to Makino.

"See ya guys, next time we meet I'm going to be the Pirate ki…..woah! I almost fell!" shouted Luffy while laughing as his little boat was rocked by the waves.

"Be careful you idiot!" shouted the mayor with shark teeth .

"So you do care!" said Makino with a smile while looking at the mayor.

"Well, Garp won't be happy if anything happened to that idiot" replied the mayor blushing a little bit.

"I swear he is just like those other two idiots" said the mayor mumbling to himself "the first wants to be the pirate king as well, while the other idiot wants to be the pirate queen. Now the same with this one ! Garp won't be happy with this" .

"Well the youth do have big dreams" replied Makino as she Looked at Luffy sailing away .

"Why can't they just be happy with being marines like Garp wants" said the mayor still pissed.

"Then that wouldn't be a proper rebellion now wouldn't it ,they are at that age after all" chuckled Makino as she joked with the mayor.

"Well whatever, I'm heading back" said the mayor as he turned and left.

"Take care Luffy" whispered Makino to her self before leaving as well.

" Yosh! This is the beginning of my adventures in the sea" said Luffy while adjusting his straw hat.

Boom! The water all around Luffy exploded as a sea monster came out , with its teeth out ready to eat.

"we meet again you stupid fish" said Luffy while smiling with his eyes shadowed by his straw hat "I'll have you know that I'm way stronger than before" said Luffy as he punched his hand back causing it to stretch.

"Gummo Gummo no PISTOL!" shouted Luffy as he smashed his fist into the seas Kings jaw.

"I'm sorry" came a voice out of nowhere

"hmm? Did I just hear something ? well whatever" said Luffy as his stretched arm returned back, he then threw both of his hands in the air declaring that he will start looking for crew members "Hmm? I want to have at least 10 crew members."

Well Shanks knows something Is up but doesn't know what himself! interesting….

Hopefully if things go right and I get enough motivation *cough* reviews *cough* I should get chapter 3 up in two or three days tops

In case I don't make it please tell my mother I love her!
Peace out!