onepieceyaoi100 | why hello there

Hello. ;A;)/ I am new and I bring a fic to go along with the theme. ;;; I hope it isn't too eye-gauging in quality.

Title: A Captain and His First Mate
Rating: PG (just to be on the safe side, nothing too bad)
Word Count: 299
Pairing: Hinted Shanks/Ben
Topic: Macho

Fiddling with his gun, a certain wavy-haired member of the Red-Haired pirate crew sits on a barrel with his ankle crossed on top of his thigh. Calloused fingers feeling the smoothed wood turning into metal before glancing up at his Captain.

"You know, you never told us about the time you and Beckman met, Cap'n."

Moving his head slowly, a tired-eye Captain just lowers his eyelids slowly and taking a large inhale before a scowl turns into a grin.

"You want to know, eh? Well ... I suppose that's fair enough."

The Captain turns to his men, another older-looking and more indifferent figure with his back to his crew. Eyes shut and navigating his way around his rifle while the man tells his tale.

"Actually, it's a little hard to believe, buuuuut~ ... he was the first person I met after I left the crew with Buggy. I was still young and foolish, you know. You all remember Luffy, right? It wasn't quite to that caliber of foolish, in comparison to something he did," there was a chuckle of his own and wrinkles forming along with a smile. "but he was much younger than I was, so maybe I'm the fool? Ah, but I'm digressing."

"Those three scars." were all the man with the indifference said aloud on the matter.

On that note, the red-haired fellow moved his fingers instinctively to the marks. "Ah ... yes, that would be correct. I found Ben weeping his eyes out-"

It would be at that moment a shot would be fired from the very same rifle the first mate of the Red-Haired pirates held. "Sorry, Captain. You know, just testing."

The crew never had heard the last four words from the Captain again.