The moment that he was finished shouting about Kay being indecently dressed, Luffy rested his back against the door of the cabin feeling more than a little bit rattled. Though he didn't understand exactly why he was feeling so. He wasn't in a battle. No one's lives were in danger, and yet he felt that weird fluttering in the pit of his stomach again.

And on top of that, he kept having to wipe at his mouth with a slightly shaky hand. For some weird reason that he couldn't figure out, he kept trying to drool. Which was more than just weird, despite the fact that he hadn't really ate much of anything in the past few days, he wasn't burning up so many calories that he should be drooling like a starved mutt.

Closing his eyes for a moment, he tried to think of what had set him off like this.

Going over everything in his head, step by step, he figured out that the source of his current...uh...distress? Was none other than his captain. But more than that, after taking a moment to really analyze what he was feeling fully, he was able to pinpoint the sensation's in his stomach, the shaking in his hands, even the drool slipping from between his lips for what it was.

It was want.

Very, very strong want.

Like the kind of want that tended to leg shackle a man to a woman. Well in his opinion anyways. How the hell could he be reduced to this from just seeing a little bit of bare skin? He wondered as he slowly tired taking deep breaths as he tried to think. When was the last time he had completely sated himself with a willing body? He couldn't recall. But he knew it had to have been around the time he had gotten Nami to join his crew. Which was...longer than he either cared to remember or longer than he could remember due to the lot of concussions he'd suffered at that particular time.

Groaning he mentally berated himself for not keeping a better check on such things since devil fruit eaters usually had super human powers but usually had super human libido's as well. Gods, how was he supposed to serve the woman as her subordinate if he was panting after her like she were a bitch in heat?

Maybe he should see if he could contact Ace and Shanks and see if they could give him some advice?

Pushing himself away from the door, he turned and started making his way to Nami's room where they kept their communication's snail. Last he checked, both his older brother and red haired Shanks were somewhere out past the grand line so he might be able to reach them easily and then again maybe not, depending on various things like the magnetic patters underneath the sea, violent storms and such.

Finally reaching Nami's room, he knocked just in case she was in there doing something important and heaved a small sigh of relief when he heard her voice reach his ears from somewhere out on the deck of the Merry. Which meant that he would have the privacy that he needed.

Pushing the door open, he stepped inside and quickly scanned the chaotic mess that the woman called her room and made a mental note to ask her to clean it up before she lost a map or something that they might need later on as he walked across the room and seated himself at the small desk and then reached up and took his hat off of his head and set it aside and then reached for the snail and began his newest task to see if he could get some decent advice.

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Shanks was snoring softly on his bed, enjoying the first real night of sleep in a long while when his communicator snail began to ring. Eliciting a small groan of irritation from the red haired man as he vaguely wondered if he could get away with dumping the damned thing over board like all of it's past predecessors without getting any grief from his first mate.

But then as soon as he was out of bed and on his way to do just that, he thought better of it.

After all, the last one that had been destroyed had been accidentally destroyed when he and some of his men had wound up being caught up in a bad storm in a small boat and lost at sea for days.

If it wasn't for the little snail that his first mate had been carrying on him at the time, they all likely would have died. So he should really be more respectful of the little devices. Especially since he owed his life and lives of three of his men to the damned things.

Grabbing up the ringing annoyance, he picked up the mouth piece and muttered, "Someone had better be dying." And for a moment was greeted by silence before he heard an all too familiar sounding,

"Shanks? Is that you? Cause if so I really need to speak to you or Ace!"

"Luffy? Is that you lad?" Shanks said a little more happily, he'd missed the boy something fierce and practically itched for any and all opportunity to hear any news of him and his little crew. And with the shit that he'd heard about the Straw Hat's attacking a marine base and destroying the whole place just a few days ago, coupled with not knowing if he was alright- Shanks was damn near kissing the communication's snail- he was just so glad to hear form the lad.

"Yeah. Sorry to call so...uh...late. I really didn't mean to bother you if you were busy." Luffy said awkwardly from the other end of the line.

"I'm never to busy for you Luffy-boy. Now, tell Shanks what has you so...upset. It isn't what happened at the marine base several days ago, is it lad?"

"Wha? No, no, no. They deserved every little bit of what happened there. No I'm calling because I need some...uh... advice. But before I can tell you about what I need advice on, I guess a little bit of a backstory would be necessary. You're sitting down right now right?"

Feeling a little bit of dread settle into the pit of his stomach he replied to the lad's question and then waited patiently as he launched into the tale of what had led him up to this point. The whole marine base, play by play was nice. Knowing the details of why that shit had happened was good too for future reference.

But it was when he began to mention the 'girl' that Shanks well and truly began to panic. Not because he thought that the lad would hurt her or anything, Shanks and Ace would both skin him alive if either of them ever heard of him hurting a lady.

But it was what he told him about her as well as his sudden and rather puzzling reaction to her that had his heart aching a bit.

The silly lad didn't know what was wrong with him, but Shanks did. And his older brother Ace would likely know some of it too since pirates were usually a superstitious lot. But those that had sailed long enough knew that many of those superstitions weren't as groundless as others may think or believe.

And from the sound of things, the lad had just found his soulmate and didn't realize it.

Finally Luffy had fallen silent and Shanks took a moment to simply say, "Tell me your current location. I'll contact your brother and we'll all meet up at a local island and have ourselves a nice chat."

Luffy thanked him and then said goodbye after telling him his current location. Leaving Shanks sitting in the semi darkness of his room, staring out his window at the sea before muttering, "A soulmate," And then chuckled quietly between muttering, "I'll be damned." As he quickly set the snail back down on his desk and then grabbed his jacket and walked over to his cabin door and jerked it open.

He needed to wake the crew and set sail if he was going to find Ace and then meet up with the boy.