31 "Red Haired" Shanks….
Chapter 31
Title: "Red Haired" Shanks….
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-General POV-
One year passes and many things happen during it, the Warlords of the Sea system is put in place to help the Marines have a balance in power, and help them manage the Four Emperors of the Sea: Big Mom, Kaido, Whitebeard, and Sea Monster Jaw. Each of them is dangerous to the extreme and even the newcomer Jaw has been creating many waves in the new world.
Now officially, Fishman Island is officially associated with the Yonko Jaw. Though Whitebeard too has some influence on it. But still, Jaw is the major player on the island, and he seems to have some type of friendship/alliance with Whitebeard too.
Jaw has also started to have the Fishman and Merpeople under him to go and mine the untouched resources at the bottom of the ocean floor. This brought him an unimaginable amount of wealth, plus together with his power, he was able to form alliances with many countries who are part of the World Government.
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Of course, quite a bit of these deals were made behind closed doors. He is still officially a pirate, but at the same time, he now has the backing of many Kings and Queens who will join the Reverie.
His power is off-putting many World Government officials so they raised his bounty to 2,260,000,000 ß… though officially he did nothing wrong during the time his bounty was raised and his army isn't truly as big or skilled as some of the other Yonko. But Jaw represents the same threat as all of them, he could be considered even more dangerous due to his ability to influence even a part of the world… just like the world Government.
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During this time a certain red-haired pirate was traveling to the East Blue, going towards a certain village. He is on his ship as he browses through the newspaper while sitting at the edge of his ship.
"Damn… seems like Jaw is really putting in the work here. There seem to be some rumors of him collaborating with some political figures in order to slow down Marine Raids at his bases in the New World." Says Shanks out loudly as Ben Beckman walks next to him with a cigarette in his mouth.
"Well Cap'n, I must say. I could have never thought of the strategies that he used. He did a fast climb up the stairs and now he is officially a Yonko. His bounty keeps rising too, so he definitely isn't slowing down any time soon. Also, he doesn't currently have any hostile interactions with any of the Yonko, he and Big Mom are now at a ceasefire, Whitebeard and he are kinda working together, with Kaido and him being indifferent… though it's likely that Kaido will go and challenge him for a fight soon." Explains Ben Beckman, already having figured the secret relationships between the Yonko just by taking a glimpse of the Newspaper. He wasn't known as the smartest man in East Blue for nothing.
Shanks shakes his head at this and lies down on the deck of his ship. "Wahhhh… that is kinda amazing for him to do all of that and he is still only twenty. Also, his crew isn't exactly strong too, so he really did it all alone."
"But that will come to bite him in the asś one day." Says Ben Beckman with a cold tone. Shanks looks at him questionably, his 2nd in command just shakes his head and continues. "Without a strong crew to manage his territories and protect them, sooner or later, someone like Big Mom will most likely come to fight him once again."
Shanks shrugs at this. "Welp, if that happens, I will help him. Hahahahaha…"
Ben Beckman looks at his captain strangely. "You do know that we already have had a couple of skirmishes with Kaido, this could spell a big problem for us if another Yonko comes hunting for us."
Shanks laughs out loud again. "Hahahaha… well me and him are friends, you know that friends must help each other too. Plus even if one Yonko comes after us, we will at the same time gain the alliance of another one."
Ben Beckman shakes his head again at his captain. But he still had a smirk on his face as Shanks said that. He knows that his Captain isn't someone who abandons his friends.
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A couple of hours later, the crew arrives at a place called Foosha Village. They plan for this to be their temporary base as the men relax a little after all of the recent battles in the New World… and also the whole thing with Mihawk… the Swordsman was persistent that is for sure. Mihawk and Shanks had already clashed numerous times in the New World.
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As they dock on the shore of the Foosha Village. Seeing the ship the villagers were scared because they thought that this might be a pirate attack.
Some of them even have pitchforks and other tools that aren't usually used for fighting. But they weren't gonna give up so easily.
As Shanks walks down from his ship's board, he looks at the villagers and when he sees their aggressive demeanor. He smiles at them politely and says. "Sorry about the inconvenience, we are just here for a drink. I promise that we won't cause any havoc or anything like that.
The villagers just looked at him strangely, but a black-haired kid with short blue pants and a white shirt with an anchor figure in it. Tries to run towards Shanks, but another dark-haired kid, he is handsome and even though he seems to only be around eight years old, the kid already shows signs of great appearance. He is wearing dark pants and a white shirt as he says to the other kid. "Stop struggling Luffy, you are being annoying right now."
"Itachi let me go, I will beat the sh*t out of that tomato haired pirate!!" Screams Luffy out loud, and the scream attracts the attention of the villagers who look at Luffy with annoyance in their eyes. There is no need to try and offend a pirate to his face like this.
They look at Shanks and the mayor of the village comes forward shakingly and says. "Captain, please forgive Luffy, he is but a child."
Shanks' straw hat covers his eyes and makes him seem intimidating, at least that is until…
"HAHAHAHAH…" Laughs Shanks out loud and his crew as they come out one by one laugh too. Shanks looks at one of his crew members, he is an overweight man and his name is Lucky Roo. "Roo did ya hear that… ahahahaha… the kid called me tomato hair…"
Roo takes a bite out of a piece of meat on his hand and looks at Shank's hair. "They kinda do look like the top of a tomato…"
The Roo starts laughing too. "Hahahahaha… I see it now. The kid was right Captain."
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It didn't take long for the villagers to get comfortable with the surprisingly merry pirates.
Soon enough and Shanks was buying everyone in the village drinks. They too were partying as if they have known each other for a lifetime. Luffy too warmed to them and asked Shanks. As the man sat on the bar, talking with Makino.
"So Shanks, have you been in any adventure lately?" Asks Luffy, excited at the prospect of meeting a pirate.
Shanks looks at Luffy and is about to answer, but suddenly a drunk Yasopp comes out of nowhere and puts an arm around Luffy. "S -So…*hiccup* Luffy, did you know that I have a son?"
Immediately Shanks cringes as he sees Yasopp do that. Whenever the man gets drunk he always starts telling stories of his son… stories that Shanks has heard hundreds of times already…
Shanks slides away as Yasopp starts telling Luffy his story.
'Welp, hopefully, the kid will keep him occupied and listen to Yasopp's hour-long stories about his son.' Thinks Shanks hopefully as he looks and smiles at Makino again.
That is when he notices a kid helping Makino. The kid had dark eyes and his hair was tied in a long ponytail behind his back. The kid is helping Makino with different things but seems to be mostly helping her Cook.
As Makino gets close to Shanks, she has a mischievous smile on her face. But the former can't help but ask. "Who is that kid?"
Makino comes out of her stupor and looks towards Itachi. She has a sad look on her eyes as she looks at him, Shanks notices this and is ready to stop the subject but Makino starts telling him. "Well… he is Itachi… and he…"
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AUTHOR NOTE:
We see that Itachi is currently in Foosha Village, why is he here? And what is his 'background'?
Also currently the world doesn't really know that Jaw even has kids. Only Whitebeard and some Fishman know too, but they don't sell any information about one of their own to the outside world.
P.S: The MC is using Fishmen to mine untouched resources at the bottom of the ocean. This will make him the richest Emperor of the Sea, and he also used these resources and sold them to different countries at different prices. He did this because he wants to have influence in the world and he can sway quite a bit of things to his favour this way.
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