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: I don't make money from writing this. Also, Oda owns One Piece, not me.
Author's Note: Thank you to the two people who reviewed the last chapter!
Being a Girl
Chapter 14: Just Talking and Teasing
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-- On the Red-Haired Pirate Ship --
The paper airplane flew swiftly across the span between the Marines and pirates before softly hitting Luffy on the side of the head.
"Eh?" Luffy caught the plane as it fell. "Cool! A plane! I wonder if it flies well?" He straitened out the edge that had bent from the collision with his head and threw the plane back in the direction it came. It landed strait into the sea, where it's message was engulfed by the water.
"What was that?" Shanks asked, not quite seeing the plane before Luffy threw it.
"Eh, just a paper airplane," Luffy shrugged, slightly disappointed that the fun had ended with one throw. "Oh wait…" realization suddenly dawned on him.
"What is it?" Shanks asked.
"That plane…" began Luffy.
"Yeah?"
"That plane… made me think of a plate of food! And now I'm really hungry! Shanks, do you have anything to eat around here?" Luffy looked at the man with hungry, hopeful eyes.
Shanks laughed, "I'll see if the cook will make you something."
After Shanks's crew had finished teasing their captain they either mingled around or slowly made their way back to bed. Shanks, with Luffy in tow, weeded through the remaining people and headed over to the kitchen where the cook would most likely be found trying to protect the ship's food from hungry men seeking midnight snacks. For the captain though, the cook must make an exception.
Shanks and Luffy didn't think twice about the airplane, because since when did anyone communicate important messages through paper airplanes? Tanya and the other Marines, on the other hand, began retreating into the woods as soon as they saw the plane hit Luffy, thinking for sure that the pirates would see the note.
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As the cloaked Marine group carrying Nami walked through the woods to the mansion, Doctor Dracula asked his commanding officer a question, "Ma'am, do you think they read the letter?"
"Oh course!" Tanya looked at him fiercely from under her hood, "You know perfectly well I didn't have anything else I could have sent the message with, because our damn base isn't on this island! Unless you wanted to take a small boat and go yourself?" The girl hissed, "Actually, on second thought, that would have been a pretty good idea."
"Please ma'am," Doctor Dracula hurriedly said, "You misunderstand me; your plan is perfect. They have definitely read the message by now and are probably already heading over to Love's Peak, in search of their navigator." He paused for a moment and then began to recite the note that had been written on the airplane, "'We are Bandits, and we have one of your friends: If you want Nami then you will go to Love's Peak, the tower located in the middle of the forest. We will be waiting for you at the top.'" He chuckled wickedly and gave his version of the events to come, "When they get there they will try to go up those spiraling stairs to the top of that outrageously tall tower, but they will not know until they are halfway up that the stairs slide into the wall as spikes appear in every possible space, including the bottom. Even if they could survive the fall they will be impaled."
The two shared a laugh, which was cut short when Nami stirred slightly from under her cloak.
"Knock her out if she wakes up before we get there," Tanya ordered, receiving a "Yes Ma'am" in reply.
The Marines continued to make their way through the darkness and to their hideout; a mansion located on the outskirts of the town. Little did they know that Nami was long since awake and faking unconsciousness as she listened to the Marine's conversation.
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"Shanks," Luffy said as he finished his meal almost instantly after it was set down in front of him, "Can we go for a walk?"
"Sure," Shanks, who had been sitting beside Luffy, said as he got up from his seat. Looking around he saw quite a few of his crew lounging about the kitchen and galley hoping the cook would spare them a meal as well. Shanks wondered if Luffy had something important he wanted to tell him without the crew overhearing.
The two walked out of the galley and across the deck to the ladder leading off the ship. Shanks grabbed two of the many capes hanging against railing and handed one to Luffy. After putting them on they made their way down the ladder. Because of years of practice, Shanks, despite his missing arm, found little difficulty climbing down. As soon as both of them had planted their feet safely on the ground a happy Luffy wrapped his arm around Shanks's. The two then walked leisurely away from the ship, enjoying each other's presence. Slowly, Luffy moved his hand lower along Shanks's arm to carefully entwine his fingers with the other man's.
Shanks chuckled as he looked down at their clasped hands and then at Luffy's slightly blushing face.
They walked in silence for a while before Luffy spoke up with what he'd been wanting to tell Shanks for a while now, but had been unable to because he didn't want anyone else to hear. "Um… Shanks, I…" Luffy uncharacteristically mumbled before trailing off.
"Hm?" Shanks prompted him to continue.
"Well, you know, with was happened in your cabin... on the bed…" Luffy looked at Shanks hoping the man would understand what he was referring too.
And as much as Shanks would have liked to tease Luffy and say he didn't know what the other was hinting too, he decided the subject wasn't something to take lightly. "Yeah…?"
"I… I didn't mean for it to lead up to that when I asked you to k-kiss me, but I kind of… liked it." Luffy looked away, face reddening.
Shanks blinked down at the young man for a moment before laughing, "Well, maybe again when you're older," he teased.
"E-Eh!? No fair! I am 19! That's old enough!" Luffy pouted before his attention was suddenly caught by something in front of him, causing him to stop walking. They had reached the tree line. Any further and they'd be in the deep, dark forest that took up much of the island.
"Ah," Shanks said, also stopping. While talking with Luffy he didn't realize how fast they had neared the forest. "We should head back. It'd be dangerous heading in there at night." The man moved to turn around but found that Luffy's hand, currently in his, didn't budge. "Luffy?" He looked at younger man's face. 'Oh no..' Shanks thought, because from under Luffy's hood he could make out a grin. A grin for adventure.
"Lets go in, Shanks!" Luffy exclaimed as he tired to pull the older man into the looming forest. Inside the thicket of giant trees it was pitch black and deadly silent.
"Lets not," said Shanks, because as appealing as it sounded to go blindly through a forest in the dark, the man was to worn out to explore the whole night away. He tried to quickly think of something that would distract the other from going in. Then suddenly he thought of the prefect way.
"Then what else could we d-" Luffy was cut of when a pair of familiar warm lips pressed against his. He immediately closed his eyes and wrapped his arm, which didn't have its fingers laced with Shanks's, around the older man's neck. Well that was always something they could occupy themselves with…
"Do you always kiss him when you want him to not do something? Because maybe I should try that out on Romeo," A sweet female voice whispered from right beside the two.
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Author's Note: Anyway, between the next few chapters I'm going to start another story. It's going to be a Zoro X Luffy story called The Wrong Side. It's a sort of prelude to the next Shanks X Luffy story I'm doing after that, titled A Piece of Me.
The reason I'm starting The Wrong Side (the ZoLu one) while I'm still writing this story is so that I can get right to A Piece of Me (the Shanks X Luffy one) after it's done. And don't worry, updates will not come later because I'm working on another story.
Anyway, you don't have to read The Wrong Side to be able to understand A Piece of Me, or vise-versa. The Wrong Side just helps set up the mood and character situations for the other one (along with a good storyline I wanted to include). But you should read them both! Because they are going be awesome! It's about Luffy and his crewmembers (it's AU) as "the bad kids." Kind of like gangsters. They all have their different situations and roles they play. Also, it will have some mature content here and there (not as in like the whole story will be about it) but it'll have things such as guns, alcohol, a yaoi lemon(smex), violence, ect. So if you really can't stand reading those kinds of things I would probably skip both stories. Though I really hope you don't.
…And that's all. I pray I didn't just confuse anyone.
In the next chapter: Who is this new woman? What is she planning? And who is Oemor? (Can you guess? Hint: Look at the spelling of Oemor in a slightly different way. If you get it then you can also guess the name of the mysterious woman and maybe, if you've been reading closely, who she is.) Find out the answers in Chapter 15!