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It was quiet on the deck of the Moby dick, or as calm as it could be when it was the ship belonging to the whitebeard pirates, who was also known as the largest crew on the sea. So, it being quiet meant that the over 1600 pirates aboard the Moby, hadn’t done anything to cause to much chaos.
“Ahhh!!!!!!!!” Thatch could be heard screaming, while he was being chased down by Izou, after getting caught after a prank that ended with Izou’s hair products going missing. The prank was Thatch’s stupid attempt to cheer Izou up after a prank the week before, that had ended with multiple holes in Izou’s clothes, but the prank went extremely wrong, when both Thatch’s hair, and Izou’s favourite kimono caught on fire.
Either way it all ended with Thatch now running away from a very angry Izou.
“I better make sure Izou doesn’t actually kill Thatch - yoi” Marco said, jumping down from the captains, aka pop’s shoulder.
But just as he was making his way over to somehow convince Izou that killing Thatch wasn’t the best solution, and hopefully help him find a different way to punish Thatch for everything he had done in the past month.
“Ship sighted!!” Was yelled from the crow’s nest.
Marco turned, and indeed a ship was heading in their direction, it only took Marco taking a closer look, before he was dragging his hand down his face.
“It’s Red Haired!!”
The statement was followed by multiple different exclamations, such as “PARTY!” “ALCOHOL!!!” and “Fuck...”
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Shortly after, Red Haired Shanks made his entrance, walking toward their captain with a giant flask being dragged behind him.
The closer Shanks got, the more of Marco’s siblings started to fall unconscious, but Marco let it be, since it was a normal occurrence, however he didn’t keep entirely quiet.
“Really – yoi?”
Shanks only smirked, before looking at whitebeard “You up for a drink, old man?”
“Gurararara!!” Whitebeard laughed, as he accepted the drink, under the disapproving glares of his daughters.
The talking and drinking continued for a few minutes, before something began wiggling under Shanks’s cloak.
“Uhhh...” Thatch began “Did you get a pet or something?”
Marco really wanted to hit his brother right now, but instead he just lifted the bottle in his hand to his lips.
The Red Haired pirates grew quiet, and some began looking around ready for an attack.
But after seemingly thinking his answer over, Shanks moved the part of his coat that was covering his missing arm (how the marines haven’t realised anything yet, Marco had no idea).
But instead of only covering his missing arm, the cloak now also covered a small child, a small child who couldn’t be older than 8, who was clinging to Shanks with stretched out limps, clearly showing he had eaten some kind of devil fruit.
Whitebeard looked down at the small child, clinging onto Shanks like he was scared to let go.
“Brat” Shanks looked up from the kid, and instead looked into the other captains’ eyes.
He let out a sigh before answering the unasked question.
“This is Luffy” He started “Him and his brothers had quite a rough night last night, so we let them sleep in” He didn’t elaborate, but the commanders got the picture, a ‘rough night’ could generally mean many things, like getting attacked by sea kings, other pirate crews, marines or even just grand line weather, it was hard for adults, they couldn’t imagine how it would be for a small child, or more given Shanks mentioning the kid having brothers.
Shanks only answered a few more questions on the matter, never going into too much detail, though he seemed content to have the kid clinging to him.
Apparently, Shanks had met Luffy almost a year ago on an island in the East blue, everything was fine until nearly 2 months ago, when the kids’ grandfather had come to ask Shanks for help.
(Shanks wouldn’t elaborate on who their grandfather was, but it was clear he knew him well, as did they apparently)
The kids had gotten into some trouble with the nobles on the island, and their grandfather had decided to contact Shanks, hoping he could get them away from the island before things escalated.
Through the entire explanation Luffy hadn’t woken once, but he had moved around a little.
Now, with Shanks sitting with whitebeard and drinking, Luffy had been laid on Shanks’s lap instead of clinging to his side.
It was only when the food started being served, that he started to wake up, the conversations happening around the captains dimming, as pirates turned to look at the slowly waking child.
Even Marco could admit that Luffy was quite cute.
Luffy slowly sat up, rubbing one hand over his eye, while the other continued to cling onto Shanks.
None of the red haired pirates reacted to the sight, at least not more than subtly keeping an eye or ear out. The only one who moved was Lucky Roux, who had grabbed another large piece of meat on his way over, but instead of eating it, he instead began dangling it in front of Luffy.
“What...?” Was the reaction of many whitebeard pirates.
But the red haired pirates just looked either resigned or were laughing, like Shanks was, or taking pictures like Yasopp was, by their reactions you could guess that this situation had happened quite a few times.
Just as Luffy set his eyes on the giant piece of meat in front of him, there was a giant crash from the red force, a few of the pirates, from the said ship even looking over.
Luffy snatched the meat right out of Lucky Roux hand, bone and all, and started quickly tearing into it, with a ferocity that amazed all the surrounding pirates.
Two slightly older kids came running onto the ship from the red force, both looking very dishevelled, as they looked around in a hurry.
They finally spotted Luffy, happily asking Lucky Roux for a fourth piece of meat.
They both stomped over, and punched Luffy on the top of his head at the same time, while yelling at him.
“WHERE WERE YOU!!??”
Which then made Luffy get slightly teary eyed.
“WHY DID YOU HIT ME!!!??”
The raven haired kid seemed ready to continue yelling, but the blond haired one stopped him.
“We were worried Luffy” He began “When we woke up, we couldn’t find you, and we were already worried after last night” That had the added effect of making the surrounding pirates gain a concerned look.
That made the raven haired kid noticed and began yelling at them instead.
“Ace and Sabo were worried about me?” A small voice asked, in the middle of the yelling, he suddenly got even more tears in his eyes “i’M sOrRY!!!” He yelled, with a face full of snot.
“It’s fine” Responded the raven haired kid, crossing his arms “Just stop crying!”
The Blond only laughed, while Luffy slowly stopped crying, before tackling who must have been one of his brothers to the ground with a laugh.
“Shishishishi”
The pirates surrounding them quickly started acting like they weren’t watching, not wanting to cause the kid, who clearly already had a mouth worse than a sailor, to start yelling again.
“Luffy” The raven haired kid asked, after they had all settled down again, and begun eating and drinking nearly as vigorously as before, now very aware of the kids eating like starved men.
“Why did you leave without us?”
“I don’t know” Was all Luffy responded.
“You don’t know?” Asked Thatch, and despite his older brothers clear hostility to the unknown pirates, Luffy responded with a smile on his face.
“Yeah! I woke up out here” Luffy pointed in the direction of Shanks, who was drinking with Whitebeard, while the latter attempted to grill the former on the kids he had picked up.
The older brothers gained a dark look.
Though thankfully (for shanks), Benn Beckman quickly explained what had happened.
“The captain went into check on you three before we got too close to the Moby, though when he got to close Luffy latched on, and wouldn’t let go” He explained.
The explanation seeming to have calmed the older brothers down for now.
Apparently Luffy was just very clingy.