WARNINGS: YOAI (boyXboy) Shanks X Luffy, and wide age differences between people in a relationship.
Don't like, don't read. You've been warned.
'…' what they are thinking
"…" what they are saying
Disclaimer: Oda owns One Piece, and he does an amazing job with it.
Author's Note: Thanks for everyone who reviewed the last chapter! Oh and be warned, there's a small lime/almost-lemon in this chapter.
Being a Girl
Chapter 12: Taking the Next Step
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--On the island Love Reborn--
"BWHAHAHAHA," Tanya laughed evilly, her eyes twinkling as she imagined her victory, "I will be promoted for sure, and every one will bow down to ME! Only ME!"
"You know," One Marine officer whispered to his fellow officer, "When I first met her, I thought she was a sweet, cute girl."
"Same here," The other whispered back as the two stood in attention waiting for an order, "Were we wrong."
"Definitely, but it works when she's trying to trick pirates. They'd never guess that she was actually 63 years old, or a Marine Captain."
"Or a bitch."
Tanya suddenly wiped around, "I HEARD THAT!" She spitted, "But I'm in such a good mood, I'll let you off this one time. Because today we are capturing one of the most feared pirates of the sea! Red-Haired Shanks!"
"But isn't he dangerously strong?" One of the other many Marines standing around questioned.
"FOOL!" Tanya screamed, "You think I don't have a PLAN?"
The Marine officers were silent.
"Let me explain, idiots," Tanya said, "I've met that man in person, and he doesn't seem that strong. He must have somehow build up a reputation so that the other Marines would be too afraid to catch him. He isn't actually strong!"
"Then why didn't you just arrest him right away?" A Marine officer voiced.
The girl shouted, "IMPUDENT FOOLS!" Then taking a breath she regained herself and called, "Dracula come here!"
"Yes ma'am," Doctor Dracula, with his spring-like hair and tight jumpsuit appeared beside her.
"Tell them who I am, Dracula." Tanya smirked.
"The smartest woman in the world," The man sang.
"Correct! Now listen up, idiots. Thanks to an amazing plan of mine, me and Dracula made contact with them and assessed their skills. Their not that strong! Right, Dracula?"
"Well ma'am… that punch the kid gave me knocked me out for quite some time…" the man said wavering.
"…" The girls fists shook, "ARE YOU AN IDIOT TOO?" She shouted before regaining her composure again, "Anyway," Tanya calmed down as she pushed her bangs out of her face. "We're going to attack them tonight while they're still tired from the possession. A few cannonballs and they'll be gone!"
"Great plan, ma'am!" Dracula said, but he was the only on that agreed.
One of the others spoke up, "Didn't you say that some of them know you're a Marine Captain?"
"So what if they know my status?" Tanya said, annoyed. "Your questions are only delaying my victory! And the only reason they know is because of your impudence. When we were on the last island, MY OWN BASE, you guys messed up and couldn't even catch that fat man Lucky."
"But you remember what happened." A man defended, "He moved so fast! He had all of our guns in his hands in a flash."
"Don't make excuses," The girl stomped up to the officer, glaring up at the man who was almost twice her height, "Because of you idiots I had to tell some of Shanks' crew members everything, show them that Luffy was coming to Love Reborn, and then play along some more; even helping them get to this island! You know how HARD it is pretending to be nice?!" The girl raised her fist and smashed it into the low ranking officer's face. The man got knocked off his feet and fell on the ground as Tanya walked away smirking. "Now," She venomously said into the den den mushi in her hand, "Fire!"
"But," said the Marine on the other end of the phone, "If you believe in your plan so much, why aren't you on the ship as well?"
"SHUT UP AND JUST FIRE!" The girl howled.
"Yes ma'am! " And the marine battle ship that had quietly sneaked up on the Red-Haired Pirate ship fired its cannons toward the enemy.
-- Earlier -- On The Red-Haired Pirate Ship--
The ship's floorboards creaked from Luffy's weight. He had snuck onto Shanks' ship in hopes of finding its captain, but the problem was that he had no idea which cabin was Shanks'. That and the fact it was so dark he couldn't see where he was going.
A smack was heard as Luffy ran into a wall, again.
"Ugh…" Luffy, determined, felt around for a door which he hoped would lead into Shanks' room. 'I can't give up and get caught now,' Luffy padded his way across the wall in what he thought was a ninja-like manner, 'I haven't even made that much noise.'
"Oi," A hand grabbed his shoulder and Luffy jumped, "You're keeping everyone awake, stop making so much noise."
"E-eh? B-Ben?" Luffy turned around slowly, trying to see the man in the darkness.
It was indeed Ben, "Ah… It's you Luffy. Some of the crew were complaining that someone was walking around out here running into stuff, so they forced me up here to tell you to quite down."
"Oh… um…"
"Hm?" Ben said yawning.
"Where is Shanks' room?"
Ben gave a short, quiet laugh. He then calmly took Luffy's arm and led him across the deck and in front of a door. He made a small shhh sound and opened the door without making so much as a small creak. Ben motioned Luffy inside, then once the boy was in, he smoothly closed the door and walked away chucking to himself.
Luffy gave a silent 'Yosh!' when he realized he had made it into Shanks' room. The boy tiptoed across the small space to where he could make out the other man's figure lying on a bed facing away from him.
Now of course Shanks was awake, and by the tell-tale flop of sandals and shuffling of feet, he knew it was Luffy in the room. He decided to fake sleep.
Shanks felt Luffy lean over him, and the man briefly wondered what the boy would do. Only briefly, because the next second Luffy jumped him.
The boy dropped his weight onto Shanks, and then laughed as the surprised man turned onto his back with a pile of Luffy on his stomach.
"Luffy," Shanks began as the boy curled up against his chest.
"Shanks!" Luffy grinned. "Are you going to ask me what I'm doing here?"
Shanks thought for a moment before saying, "Nope," he lifted up the covers, "Just going to tell you to get underneath this blanket if your planning on staying."
"Yay!" Luffy punched the air in success as he jumped underneath and felt the soft blanket fall over him.
They lay in silence for a moment before Shanks said, "Your friend, Zoro…" It had been bothering Shanks for a while now, "He really likes you." he could still remember the image of the two kissing.
"Yeah… but it's ok; because one of my other friends likes him a lot!"
"Really?" Shanks turned his body so that he was facing Luffy, his arm propping up his head.
"Yup, I can tell." Luffy smiled and mimicked Shanks' position so they lay facing each other, sharing the small space of the bed.
It was at that moment that Shanks realized how grown up Luffy really was. Even though Luffy acted like a child, he really did take his position as captain seriously. He watched over his crew, but didn't let on that he could think about more than food and becoming pirate king. Luffy had grown up since all those years ago. Finally knowing for sure that was true, a wave of relief washed over Shanks. No longer did he believe that he had fallen for a little kid.
"?" Luffy blinked at the wide eyes he could see because of their closeness. "Shanks?"
"Yes?"
"You seemed kind of surprised. Do you think no one could like Zoro or something?" The boy laughed at his own remark.
"I wasn't thinking about that." Shanks said dryly, but he was smiling never the less.
"Then what were--" Luffy suddenly stopped talking as he sat up in realization. "Shanks! I almost forgot the reason I came here!"
The red-haired man pushed himself up so he was sitting as well, "What is it?"
"We haven't kissed yet!"
"Huh?" The man almost fell over. Blushing he said, "We did…"
"I mean, as ourselves. Because there was the one time with the ghosts, and then when I was dressed up as a girl…" Luffy stopped talking; he remembered how he had betrayed Shanks, and now he was feeling bad again because he brought it back up.
Shanks, on the other hand, thought Luffy had just remembered how he told the boy he couldn't love him.
"I'm sorry." They both hurriedly tired to get forgiveness from the other, saying the words at the same time.
They looked at each other for a moment before Shanks said, "I'm the one who should be apologizing, Luffy. I said some horrible things to you."
"No," Luffy shook his head, being his rarely serious self, "I should have told you sooner."
"That would have been impossible to do: To just come out and say you're a boy… It's not like you planned to meet me, or make me think you're a girl… You were just acting like yourself."
At the man's forgiving words happiness swelled up in Luffy, "Shanks!" The boy short forward and hugged the other man tightly.
Shanks wrapped an arm around the other's back, "Hey now, don't start getting teary-eyed on me." He joked, but inside he knew how Luffy felt. He was also glad to know he was forgiven.
"Now then, what were you saying before?" Shanks grinned pulling back from the younger man's hug.
"Um… meat?" Luffy had turned back into his usual, comical self.
Shanks sweat dropped. He had hoped they could continue along the lines of kissing, because Shanks had to admit he had a desire for Luffy. But he could control himself if Luffy didn't want to go that far. 'Though we are alone, on a bed…' Shanks shook the dirty images from his mind.
"Shanks?" Luffy asked.
"Hm?
"I'm 19, you know."
"Yeah."
"…." The boy was silent for a moment, trying to put into words what he had in mind.
"What's wrong, Luffy?"
"Well… you know… most people have done it by 19."
Shanks spluttered, "W-Wh-What?" Luffy couldn't have been thinking the same thing as him, could he? But then again, Luffy was right. And the boy wasn't always as innocent as he pretended to be.
"Will you kiss me?" Luffy asked quietly; he was nervous, and he could practically hear his heard beat. Shanks was so close…
The older man stared at Luffy for a moment, then decided that if Luffy wanted a kiss, then he would be more than happy to give it to him.
Almost painfully slow Shanks leaned in, the bed creaking as he shifted his weight towards the younger man.
Luffy drew closer as well, his hands moved to rest on Shanks' chest, folding as their bodies drew closer. He slipped his eyes closed when he felt Shanks' caressing hand at his cheek.
It was almost as if a magnetic force was pulling them together when their lips finally touched. Luffy exhaled the breath he didn't know he had been holding, and the air rolled across Shanks' lips. It was a soft kiss, and when Shanks pulled away Luffy found himself wanting more. The boy pushed himself up to his knees and leaned over Shanks, putting his hands on either side of the man's shoulders for balance while he leaned down and pressed his lips to the other's.
Shanks was more than happy as he wrapped his arm around Luffy's waist and kissed back.
A few moments later and they pulled apart. But it still wasn't enough, and tender lips came back in a moment later.
Again they pulled apart from their kiss, only to come back in at different angles.
"Mmm" Luffy ran his lips over Shanks, loving the friction that he got even more than the time they kissed when they fell through the hole in the park grounds. His arms wrapped around Shanks' neck as he pressed his lips deeper to the other's. Being on his knees Luffy was taller, and he used his advantage to shuffle closer without breaking the kiss. Their bodies pressed together, and Shanks had to tilt his head up to reach Luffy's lips.
Luffy pushed his weight against Shanks' body, and the older man felt himself falling back on the bed.
Luffy was now on top of him, straddling him. Shanks felt his body heat rising. Luffy was just so tempting with his soft, wanting lips, and finally it was too much to bare and the older man threw all caution to the wind as he gave into his secret lust. Shanks more than passionately kissed Luffy back. Not breaking his heated kiss, Shanks flipped them over so he was on top, his knees between Luffy's legs. The man's tongue then slid across Luffy's lips, and after a moment the boy uncertainly opened his mouth for Shanks to invade. And he did, teaching Luffy that there was an even better way to kiss. He pushed his tongue across the sides of Luffy's mouth, and then slowly over the other's tongue, trying to get the unsure Luffy to play along. Any small thoughts left in Shanks' mind about scaring Luffy away were pushed out as the boy moaned, clearly enjoying the contact as his tongue moved back in motion against Shanks'.
They broke apart for air, panting. It was getting hot, and neither of them wanted to stop. Shanks leaned down and captured Luffy's lips again, his tongue and Luffy's battling each other.
Luffy tangled his figures into Shanks' fire-red hair, pushing the man's head down more so their lips were hard-pressed against each other. Saliva rolled down the side of Luffy's mouth.
A few moments later and they pulled away again, their tongues separating last as a string of saliva connected them.
Shanks' head moved down to nibble on the other's neck. Luffy moaned and pulled his head back to expose more skin for the older man.
Shanks licked and sucked on a spot until it was bright red, then he kissed his way up Luffy's neck to nibbled on his ear.
The younger man's breath quickened at the pleasure, and he felt his body heat move downwards. The air was getting thick as their kissing progressed. Luffy could practically hear his heart beating in anticipation, as Shanks lay against him. On either side of the older man's body, Luffy shifted his legs slowly and his feet pulled across the sheets. "Ahhh," Luffy gasped when he felt Shanks lick along his jaw line. Luffy moved his head to seal his lips over the other's again. One of his hands drifted down from Shanks' hair to the man's shirt. He tugged on it, hoping Shanks got the notion that he wanted it off. The older man complied, and leaned back up onto his knee so that he could use his arm to pull the fabric over his head.
Luffy watched in eagerness, absorbing the way Shanks' muscles moved with every motion. And as soon as Shanks' shirt was off Luffy pulled the more than willing man back down.
Somewhere in their next kiss Luffy's shirt was unbuttoned, taken off, and thrown to the side. Hot skin came in contact with hot skin, sending a shiver up Luffy's spine. Both men moaned.
Slowly, Shanks reached for Luffy's waist with shaking fingers -- when suddenly the ship lurched violently to the side; almost throwing the two off the bed.
"Wa!" Luffy yelped, and would have slid across the room if he wasn't pinned down by Shanks.
Distant cannon fire was heard, and the ship rocked again, moved by waves created from missed cannonballs.
The mood disappeared when the two came to the realization that the ship was under attack. Shanks growled and pushed himself off of Luffy. He jumped from the bed, grabbed his sword that was leaning against the wall, and stomped out of the cabin ready to kill whatever sorry bastard had ruined his moment with Luffy and attacked his ship.
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Author's Note: Wow that was a long chapter, but I had fun writing it. Especially the Shanks and Luffy scene, which I had been wanting to write for a while now. I hope it wasn't too much for a T rated fic. But they didn't really doooo anything. And they probably never will in this fic. Unless you guys review wanting differently? Or saying the rating should be moved up to M? Or just hating me all together for ruining your innocent minds? (Haha)
In the next chapter: Oh no, there's an attack on the Red-Haired pirate ship! But Shanks will be able to take them, right? Find out in Chapter 13.