The Rising Tide

"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

*Actions or noises*

'Attacks'

I don't own One Piece

(Dawn island – Fuusha Village – East Blue)

"Ha that didn't hurt at all!" A little voice shouted

"Be quiet you were crying the whole time…" a more laid back voice replied

"Was not!" The miniature voice returned

"Was too"

"Was not!"

"Was too"

The immature people having this argument were a small 7 year old boy who had a black messy hair, shorts and a shirt which read 'anchor'. Next to him sat and older man with red hair and a straw hat. This was Monkey D Luffy and 'Red Haired' Shanks. They were sitting in Party's Bar along with Shanks's crew the Red Hair pirates. By now the whole bar was focused solely on them….and they found this quite amusing.

"Was not"

"Was too" they continued…

"You'd think being a captain he would be more mature…" said Benn Beckman, Shanks's first mate

"But this is quite amusing to watch though" replied Yassop the crew's Sniper

"Mmmhm" commented Lucky while eating his meat.

"QUIET" shouted and angry bartender called Makino hitting both Luffy and Shanks over the head.

"owww…" quietly mumbled both shanks and Luffy rubbing their heads. The whole bar just burst out laughing.

"STOP LAUGHING!" both Luffy and Shanks shouted, this only increased the laughter coming from the pirates.

Eventually the laughter died down and the crew returned to their usual din of talk, laughing, and drinking.

"Why not Shanks?" whined Luffy with a pout

"Well for a start you're too young and small and as an added bonus you can't swim anchor" said Shanks using Luffy's most hated nickname.

"Humph" the child crossed his arms and turned away, eyes closed and his nose in the air. He suddenly grew a mischievous grin. "Tomato hair…" Luffy's grin grew.

"Huh? What did you call me?" Shakes asked turning to Luffy

"I called you tomato hair or are you going deaf in your old age?" Luffy chuckled to himself

"Bwhahahahahahah" the crew somehow heard this line of conversation and started a new round of laughing.

"Hahahahahahahaha…Tomato hair never heard that one before, and from a 7 year old no less hahahahah!" exclaimed Benn. The crew heard this and just laughed harder.

"SHUT UP" shouted Shanks grumping in the corner of the bar while Luffy giggled maliciously, even Makino joined in this time.

"Heheheheh, I'm going tell this to the village!" and with that Luffy ran out the bar shouting things about Tomato haired pirates

"Ugh," sinking further into his seat "I'm never going to live this down am I?" Shanks asked no one in particular.

"NOPE" replied his crew bursting into laughter once more during the time.

"There, There Captain…" Makino said patting Shanks on the head lightly "If it's any use I like the colour of your hair, I think it's very nice…" For the record both Makino and Shanks blushed at this action.

*BAM* the door to the bar smashed open and in walked some mountain bandits walked in.

"So these are the pathetic pirates that docked here" the lead bandit said, obviously the leader.

"Wench" Looking at the bar, or specifically Makino. "Me and my men would like 5 barrels of sake. Give them to us and we won't destroy the place."

"Sorry I'm all out of sake" replied Makino her eyes fixed upon the Bandit leader.

"Well what are these pirates drinking then? Juice?" questioned the Bandit

"Sorry, looks like we drank all the booze."Cut in Shanks. He grabbed and unopened bottle and held it up to the Bandit. "Here you can have this it's not open."

The bandit, enraged, smashed the bottle with his sword sending glass and sake all over Shanks soaking him and the bar. The bandit then proceeded to swipe his sword along the counter scattering empty bottles, glasses and plates across the floor. "See this?" The bandit asked, holding his wanted poster up. 'WANTED – DEAD OR ALIVE – HIGUMA THE BEAR – 8,000,000 beri. "I'm a wanted man, I'm not gonna waste my time on a bunch of weaklings like you." An arrogant smirk plastered on his face. "Later losers" he said walking out of the bar his troupe following out laughing all the way.

Silence followed for and few seconds before the whole bar exploded in laughter again. You'd think some would be passed out by now the amount of laughing these guys did.

When the laughter died down they realized that Luffy had joined them and was sitting next to shanks again, he had just finished swallowing something and shuddered in what was obviously distaste. "What was that all about" he questioned Shanks after his shivering episode stopped.

"Oh some puny bandits wanted to pick a fight." Shanks replied after regaining his breath.

"Ah, did you win?" he questioned once more

"No we didn't bother they were too weak to put up a fight so there was no point. I have always found that you shouldn't fight every battle for the heck of it. There are some fights that there is no point."

"I see." Luffy said nodding his head. Understanding where Shanks was coming from, he wasn't as stupid as many people thought.

"CAPTAIN!" shouted Benn at Shanks

"mmm?" he turned lazily

"The devil fruit is gone!" he claimed holding up an empty treasure chest.

The entire bar froze as if time itself stopped to take in this news.

"WHAT!" The whole bar shouted as one. And as if a bomb went off they started running around looking for it.

"The Mizu Mizu no mi is MISSING!?" shouted Shanks at the top of his voice. Quickly he turned to Luffy who was looking around in confusion and looked at Shanks when he turned to him. Shanks tried to grab Luffy on shoulder to ask him if he saw the fruit. Keyword here being 'tried' his hands when straight through him. Somehow the whole crew saw this and skidded to a halt as time seemed to stop once more in the space of 30 seconds.

"UH OH" They thought as one.

"Luffy did you eat a strangely shaped blue fruit from a chest when you came back in?"

Luffy scrunched his face up in concentration trying to remember the past few minutes. He nodded once. I'm pretty sure Shanks's face palm could be heard in Marineford.

"LUFFY HAVE YOU ANY IDEA WHAT YOU JUST ATE!?" shouted Shanks making most of crew cringe and shrink away from their Captain.

"No? WAS IT POISENED?!" He shouted in return and started to panic.

"No it wasn't poisoned. It was what we call a devil fruit. A fruit that gives its consumer powers based on the fruit in return it take away their ability to swim. You at the Mizu Mizu no Mi. It gives you the ability to create, Control and become Water." Shanks explained staring at Luffy with an impassive face.

"COOL!" Luffy shouted at the top of his lungs. Eyes sparkling with anticipation. "Does this mean I can come with you now?" asked Luffy almost jumping out of his seat.

Shanks regarded his question seriously thinking about the pros and cons of this. He thought of a way around this problem. "Alright then Luffy" Making said boy perk up "You can come IF you can hit me off my seat with one of your super punches or whatever you call them." Shanks said to the 7 year old not know what he was getting himself into.

"ALRIGHT I'LL USE MY SUPER AWESOME PISTOL PUNCH AND YOU'LL HAVE TO TAKE ME ON YOUR JOURNEY!" Luffy shouted prepping himself. His eyes closed in what seemed like concentration. His fist shone black, the crew eyes widened to epic proportions, Luffy's eyes snapped open and he launched his fist forward at blinding speeds that made even Shanks's eyes widen. *BAM* Luffy's fist lodged into Shanks's stomach sending him to the opposing wall. The crew was shocked. A 7 year old just used armament haki, and proceeded to hit their Captain into the wall. Their Jaws dropped and went underground. This they didn't expect.

*Cough* "Luffy…H…How did you do that?" He questioned Luffy slumped against the way, hand on his stomach and eyes wide as dinner plates. "How do you know Haki?"

"Oh so that's what it is, I've been able to do it for just under 6 months, it was during one of Gramps' 'training sessions'." Luffy said

"What kind of training sessions?"

"Oh booted me into a forest." He said nonchalantly.

Flashback Start

"Stupid, Gramps throwing me in a forest. Training sessions my ass" Luffy mumbled to himself.

Walking along a trail he had found, trying to find he way of the infernal forest.

*GRRRRRRRRR* He stopped mid step. And slowly turned around to see 11 wolves walking up to him, teeth bared. They looked hungry. Slowly Luffy took a step backwards, and then another. The wolves continued their advance. Then he bolted. Luffy ran through the forest screaming bloody murder at the top of his lungs while his 11 pursuers gave chase. Running along the trail he decided to change course and see if he could lose them in the undergrowth. Hitting away leafs and stray braches while simultaneously jumping and sliding under tree trunks obscuring his path. Soon though his energy began to wear off and started to slow and his reactions become sluggish. Eventually he tripped over a fallen tree and the wolves appeared around him all 11 had been able to keep up with him. Crawling back his back hit a cliff face and the pack surrounded him. Suddenly a wolf lunged at him, possibly the alpha, mouth open and teeth shining in the dark. Luffy held his arm up in an attempt to defend himself unconsciously changeling haki to his arm, eyes scrunched closed awaiting the pain to come. It never did. Slowly opening his eyes, he was shocked to see the alpha hanging off his arm which was now black. Luffy was confused as hell. He shook the wolf off and it hit a tree and slumped against it. The other wolves witnessing their leader's downfall attacked as one. This time Luffy did something different. He channelled haki to his mind and shouted "BACK OF YOU FAT DOGS!" The wolves froze mid attack and slowly backed down and then turned tail and ran off leaving their leader behind to his fate. Worn out from using haki twice for the first time in the space of a minute he fell back unconscious, only to be found in the morning by his grandpa.

Flashback End

"So that's what happened." Half the crew had passed out from sock, the others were trying to dig their jaws from the ground.

"So you're telling me that you used 2 types of haki in 1 minute defending yourself from some wolves?" Shanks asked eyes wide.

"YUP" Luffy replied smiling broadly.

"Huh, hey Makino who is his grandfather?" Shanks turned to Makino whose eyes were equally wide after listening to the events which took place with Luffy.

"Hm?" Makino snapped out her shock and looked at the red haired pirate. "Oh it's Monkey D Garp" smirking as the other half of the crew passed out.

"Ah ok just ch- WHAT!" Shanks yelled as his mind caught up to his mouth.

"Well this means I can come with you guys now right?" Luffy asked his head tilted to the side.

Shanks looked over to Benn who had by now recovered and caught his glance. Have a whole conversation in the space of a second Benn nodded to Shanks. "Alright then Luffy we will take you with us. We'll train you for 5 years and then we'll drop you off back here. Well leave you with some money, supplies and books and you can build your own ship and gather your own crew. That sound good to you?"

"YES, YES, YES" Luffy yelled excitedly practically bouncing of the walls.

Shanks smirked "Alright we are leaving at the end of the week so get ready for a 5 year to the grand line!" The crew and Luffy cheered out loud for the coming adventures.

There we have it! The first chappy of The Rising Tides!

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Translations

Mizu Mizu no Mi: Water Water fruit