Don't really have anything to say except school sucks! Like really really sucks! We should only go to school like 3 and a half times a week with rests on the next day. I blame school that I got sick not to mention some of the teachers have absolutely no idea how intimidating they are.
Anyway, I won't be able to update soon (I'm predicting) so I hope you enjoy this chapter. Honestly I really want to skip to the part where the Whitebeard pirates come...
I like Shanks but I like Marco, Thatch, Izo, and Whitebeard too!
"So let me get this straight..." Reiki said with a very happy smile, completely aware of the black aura looming behind him.
"I left you alone for 20 minutes and you just happen to eat a devil fruit? And to make it more interesting, you called Akaigami-san (Shanks) a coward and is currently sulking over his own mistake?"
Luffy looked away with a small pout, he just couldn't argue with any of that. If he actually took the time to think about it, he couldn't argue with his big brother in anything.
Reiki pinched the bridge between his eyebrows with a sigh. He saw this coming. But if you're really in the world of One Piece, you should act like a normal character.
Which isn't hard since in Reiki's view what Luffy did was truly stupid.
But who can blame the little guy, he's only 5 and it is Luffy (and that explains a lot)
Reiki sighed and flicked Luffy's forehead with a hint of haki.
"Itai."Luffy put a hand to his forehead. "Why does it hurt? I'm rubber?" Not wanting Luffy to discover Haki to early, Reiki made up a lie on the spot.
"I was trying to find the secret behind Grandfather's 'Fist of Love' be careful Luffy, something tells me that Grandfather won't be happy when he finds out that you ate a devil fruit, and for some reason I don't think just because your rubber, it won't stop his 'Fist of Love.'"
Luffy paled and started shaking.
Reiki almost felt sorry. Almost.
"Ma, your still just a kid. You'll understand sooner or later." Reiki chuckled.
"I'M NOT A KID! YOUR JUST ONE YEAR OLDER THEN ME! JUST YOU WAIT, WHEN I'M 6 I'LL BE A GOWN-UP!"
"Its 'grown-up' Luffy, besides when your 6, I'll be 7."
Luffy blanked and Reiki allowed Luffy to have a few minutes to process what he said.
"AH! YOUR RIGHT!" Luffy despaired.
"Of course I am." Reiki said with a small hint of a smirk as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"THEN JUST YOU WAIT UNTIL I TURN 7!" Luffy pointed at me with a somewhat of a smug grin. Or as smug as Luffy can get.
"When you're 7? Oh yeah! Around that time I'll be turning 8, you're forever doomed little brother."
Luffy blanked again before having the same reaction from earlier.
Reiki smiled in the background. It's amazing that Luffy doesn't even have to try to be adorable.
"Why do I miss all the important part?!" Reiki, even though he was smiling (though his smile was twitching noticeably) he had irk marks all over his forehead.
Ever since Shanks came, Luffy would have someone to play (babysit) him, Reiki took this chance to go on more exploration trip/training trips (with the excuse of doing errands for Garp) around the island. Just now, he came back and this is the scene he came upon.
Reiki watched as Shanks was showing off to Luffy by totally owning Higuma. Reiki himself was itching to cut off Higuma's limbs for being a pathetic bastard, but then again, he is going to get eaten by a sea king later.
Now, Reiki needed to make the decision ASAP. Save Shanks arm, or not.
Honestly, Reiki was having a inner fight. He didn't want Shanks to lose a arm because Shanks became someone he really admired and a close friend, maybe a father, uncle, or older brother like figure. Reiki didn't know yet. And besides, losing an arm sucks. And it probably hurts like f*ck.
But Reiki didn't want anything in the story line to change, though he didn't really calculate exactly the consequences of Shanks having 2 arms, it still felt like a bad idea. But Reiki also felt kind of guilty if he knows the future and does nothing to stop this event...
Eiichiro Oda is a tricky and lose person, and since One Piece isn't complete yet, Shanks losing an arm might be causing some major event in the future.
'It's too soon. Luffy didn't even set off yet. I'm not going to take the risk!'Reiki's final decision was made.
As regretful and guilty he felt, he couldn't risk it, and if Shanks ever did find out, Reiki's sure that Shanks will understand being the secretly wise guy he is instead of a drunken idiot.
And Reiki made a side note that he definitely needs to make it up to Shanks somehow in the future along with an apology and a half-true explanation.
Reiki did some major training to suppress his haki aura so he's 99.9% certain that Shanks or the other pirates took notice of him yet. Deciding to make an entrance before being sensed he whipped out a bottle of slightly smelly water and sprayed it on himself, since his white traveler/really cool cloak was on, he would seem to just arrive at the scene all sweaty.
"WHY DOES LUFFY GET INTO DANGER EVERY SINGLE TIME I'M GONE?" Reiki, said loudly with a twitching left eye and trying to smile but obviously failing of irritation (my acting skills are top-notch if I do say so my self)
"REIKI! Its been a while! You take too many errands for your shitty grand- I mean grandfather." Shanks said happily at my appearance, while I would normally be touched that I'm so loved, I put on a 'realist' act.
"Save it for later Akagami, I'll happily talk to you after my brother is safe and out of the grasp of a pathetic mountain bandit."
"REIKI! REIKI! I'M OVER HERE!"
"Yes Luffy, I can see you perfectly well as the hostage of the pathetic mountain leader, now please be a good quiet little brother because I'm a bit angry at the moment." Reiki said with a sweet close-eyed smile that somehow screamed death, his voice was as sharp as a knife and full of hidden malice that sended shivers down even Benn Beckman's spine.
Luffy, who only seen Reiki angry once in his entire life quickly quieted down. Luffy's logic was simple. When Reiki is angry. Reiki is scary. (Which is quite cute. Though Reiki did wonder why Luffy told him.)
Higuma, who was momentarily blinded by this new brat's beauty glared at him for insulting him. Twice!
"OI! You better watch your mouth, brat!" Higuma shouted pointing his sword at the brat while glaring menacingly.
"Yes, yes, yes, we can all see that you're the one with a dull sword, didn't your mother ever teach you its rude to point dangerous and kind of useless objects at people? And a kid at that? And to make it more boring, you had to point it at me." Reiki said with a completely blank face with an equally blank tone.
Some of the Red hair pirates couldn't help but stifle a bout of laughter.
"HOW DARE-" Higuma started again, "Can you just hand my brother back already, if you know your going to lose might as well save your life and run for it." Reiki interrupted with the same bored tone. The pale blond haired child stared at a seagull the was innocently passing by, finding it much more interesting then the bandit playing sword in front of him.
"Hmph, famous last words, brat!" Higuma smirked with a slight insane look in his eyes. He dropped a smoke bomb and disappeared.
"DAMN! A SMOKEBOMB!"
"HEY! THAT'S JUST DIRTY."
"LUFFY!"
"Ah. Mr. Minestone's fishing boat is also gone." Reiki observed calmly.
"THAT'S WHAT YOUR CONCERNED ABOUT?!" The Red-haired pirates shouted in disbelief as Shanks literally dove into the water and swam at a impressive speed.
Reiki made his crystal ball appear in his hand and stared at it. Then he turned to Benn and purposely said out loud. "This is bad."
"What is?" Benn asked curiously, not that worried about his Captain, after all, he is a Yonko.
"Well, I had a bad feeling from the beginning so I decided to check my crystal ball, and low and behold, your captain's future isn't going to end with him with two arms." Reiki replied, tipping his fedora down to hide the slightly guilty look in his eyes.
"WHAT?!" Most of the Red-haired pirates yelled. "HEY, hey, calm down! It's just a kid! And besides, fortune-telling is all fake anyway, right?" One of the pirates shouted above all the panicking.
Reiki particularly took offence to that comment, though he didn't show it.
Instead, Reiki looked hard at the pirate who made that comment with sharp violet eyes that saw all. "If that's what you truly believe, then it shall be your own loss. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to get a boat since Shanks can't swim back to shore while holding a devil-fruit user child and only has one arm."
With that being said, Reiki jumped on a boat that magically appeared out of nowhere. A sharp whistle was heard from the violet-eyed child. From beneath the waves, a dolphin appeared on each side of the boat.
Without another word, the Red-hair pirates watched in silence as the dolphins moved the boat forward towards where they presumed Shanks and Luffy were in impressive speed.
It was then that everybody noticed the giant sea king appearing on the waters.
"The Lord of the Coast..." one of the villagers mumbled in awe.
Only the Red Hair pirates felt the wave of Conqueror's Haki unleashed by there captain as the Sea King instinctively swam away.
Unfortunately the Sea King swam toward the boat pushed along the currents by 2 dolphins and a boy who was sitting cross-legged on the boat with his fedora covering his face as if napping.
The Sea King, let out a ferocious roar, somewhat pleased on finding a easy pray.
Reiki slipped his fedora slightly to see the sea king. Narrowing his eyes, Reiki noticed the blood in the water where Luffy and Shanks were.
Reiki let natural older brother thoughts flood his head.'How dare this sea king go after adorable Luffy. How dare he eat Shanks arm... But you ate pathetic mountain bandit-san so I'll let you live.'
The Sea King lurched towards Reiki.
"When I'm in a bad mood I won't let anyone opposing me to look down at me from above. You have angered me. Know your place." Violet eyes glared at the sea king with clear fury.
The sea king trembled under Reiki's gaze. Natural survival instincts was telling the sea king. 'Piss him off and your sea food.Literally'
Wisely deciding to follow his instinct, the sea king bowed deeply before disappearing under the waves.
Benn's cigarette almost fell out of his mouth while Yasopp gaped. The other newbie pirates finally snapped out of it.
"WHAT THE F*CKING HELL, IN THIS (&*%^%%(& WORLD JUST HAPPENED!"
Shanks stared with widened eyes at the scene that just occurred in front of him. Luffy had passed out because he was too weak against the sea water.
And if Shanks was perfectly honest, that was a good thing. His little anchor was too little to know this kind of power yet.
Just what in the 4 blues was that?
Shanks sensed, knew that his two favourite brats had Conqueror's Haki. And he definitely not planning to tell them any time soon.
If Shanks didn't know any better, he would have concluded that the blond brat somehow, though he really wanted to know how, knew how to control Conqueror's Haki.
But Shanks was an expert of all three Haki's himself. And he knew that he didn't sense even a whiff of Haki besides his own.
No...there was something else...some damn f*cked up reason why the sea king fled, no, obeyed the violet eyed child.
And even if the whole world was against him, he was going to damn f*cking find out!
"I ate a Devil Fruit." Reiki said happily without any hint of suspicion or caution.
Shanks slumped, giving up on understanding the violet-eyed child. And he was so determined to find out too, figuring that Reiki would be suspicious and tried to hide why the sea king obeyed him.
"Which one?" Benn asked, not shocked any more. Reiki, who was cleaning Shanks wound, which shocked the ship's doctor that a 6 year old child knew such modern medical knowledge.
Reiki, wrapping bandages around Shanks stump where his arm use to be, stopped his hands for a moment. Then he looked up at them both with serious eyes.
"I don't know."
"..." Shanks and Benn were silent.
"Just kidding."
Shanks once again slumped and Benn face-palmed. Yep, they both definitely gave up understand the pale blond haired child.
"Well, I honestly rather not tell you. Partially if not mostly for my own entertainment. However, I do owe you an apology. To both of you I suppose, but mostly Shanks."
This got there attention.
Reiki sighed. "Perhaps, if I warned you about this sooner, you wouldn't be a one-armed man now. If you didn't know, I'm a fortune-teller, or someone in between the spirit world and the real world I suppose. I won't hide that I did foresee this event happening. However, this was necessary for the future."
A fortune-teller? Reiki? Why didn't Reiki tell him? Shanks mentally pouted.
But overall, he wasn't angry. After all he trusted Reiki. If Reiki believed what he did was right, then that's all Shanks needed to know.
Shanks smiled and ruffled Reiki's hair as Reiki gave a slightly confused look which Shanks thought was adorable, but he wasn't going to say that out loud.
"If you think what you did is right, then its fine. For you, or for Luffy, giving up an arm is nothing."
Reiki visibly widened his eyes ever so slightly then sighed tiredly with his head bowed as if in resignation.
"That's it. I give up trying to understand you adults, you guys just don't make any sense."
'That's what I should be saying..' Shanks thought.
"Oh? Aren't you going to be an adult in about 12 years or so?" Shanks teased.
"I shall always remain a kid at heart. Even if my life depends on it. And I shall mock adults even if the next day is the end of the world." Reiki put a hand to his chest and had a look of mock pride as if making an oath.
They laughed.
If someone was looking at this scene as a random outsider, that person would have immediately figured that it was a father laughing with his son.
And who knows? Blood doesn't matter family bonds. That's especially true in the world of One Piece.
Omake~ (If Reiki went for the sassy mode instead of the I'm-a-smiling-genius-that-smiles-even-when-angry-mode...)
"How dare you insult me brat! Just who do you think you are?!" Higuma shouted at the pale blond haired boy with anger.
"A sassy child male model who can send you flying to Impel down without lifting a finger. Uh, the thought of breaking a nail sends shivers down your spine doesn't it?"
"..."
Cue sassy hair flip.
I don't know exactly when the next update will be. I'm quite busy person (in my view).
I'm trying my best to speed up the story to the more interesting parts! Damn it! I really want the Whitebeard pirates or any other interesting character to show up. I'm a slow writer and I know it.
Anyway, please do review! It gives me motivation.
I also have an account on Wattpad under the same username which I wrote mores stories (I'm sorry for shamelessly advertising..)
Until next time~ *bow*
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7 hours later...
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Oh yeah, I forgot, sorry for any mistakes and errors. Though I rather you guys not comment about it since I'll see it eventually and smack myself in the head for it. And when I get the energy I will fix it!
Why you ask? Because I'm an author, it is my duty- blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah *6 more minutes of unnecessary speech which no one ever listens too.*
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HEY! I wasn't finished! How rude.