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Title: Death: The Next Great Adventure
Rating: Gish
Word Count: 356 - FAIL!
Characters: Shanks & Luffy
Topic: kids
A/N: Oh Shanks...How I love the way you corrupt today's youth.

 

Shanks would have loved to sink into the darkness and away from the pain that was shooting up the arm that was no longer there, but the loud wailing sounding in his ear and the insistent shaking of his collar forced him to open his eyes and focus on the boy who refused to leave his side even as his crew were running about in a panic, trying to find the town's best doctor.

"Luffy..." Shanks took a moment to groan. The light hurt and his vision swam. "Why the hell are you crying? I already told you not to worry about it."

"But you're going to die!" the young boy howled.

This statement caused all signs of delirium to disappear as the red haired captain sat up, eyes shining with clarity as he looked down at his young charge. "Now, Luffy, I want you to listen to me."

Startled by the sudden change in the man who couldn't even hold his head straight from the blood loss mere seconds before, Luffy instantly quieted his sobs to small sniffles and nodded, showing Shanks that he had his full attention.

"People don't die."

"...What?"

"People don't die," Shanks repeated, brows furrowed in an attempt to press the importance of what he was saying to the seven year old.

"They don't?"

"No."

"Then what happens to them?"

Shanks' mouth was left hanging open. Damn. He hadn't thought ahead this far. "They...uh...theyyyy....turn into monkeys!"

"...Monkeys?" Luffy repeated dubiously

"Yes, monkeys. And not just any monkeys, but FLYING monkeys."

The look Luffy was now sporting disturbed Shanks greatly. "Don't be so quick to kill me off!" he called out as his first mate came to pick the small boy up and leave the room so the doctor could work in peace. "It's really not as fun as it sounds! That's why I'm going to get better, you hear me!!"

The door clicked shut with a tone of finality...but the sparkles in Luffy's eyes had still been there. Crap. He was going to have to find a way to kill that fantasy as soon as the doctor was done with him…

Comments

[maldoror-gw.livejournal.com]

*headdesk* That's so...Shanks. And so, so, so Luffy. Shanks is just lucky Luffy loves him so much or he'd have been clonked over the head asap. That was hilarious in a keyboard-to-head-contusion way ^__^ Flying monkeys, OY VEY! I'm gonna have that pop into my head at random intervals throughout this week and people are gonna think I'm crazy for grinning at nothing...

[irrelevant.livejournal.com]

Oh, Luffy. And Shanks. *shakes head* That is so them.

[dark-kaomi.livejournal.com]

How the hell is he going to fix this one?

[harmonde.livejournal.com]

Well, Shanks certainly did a nice job of digging himself into a hole, didn't he?

But that's why we love him. :D

[travellyr.livejournal.com]

....oh my God, somebody had to have straightened that one out RIGHT QUICK or Luffy would've gone about a murder-suicide. XD

[vomit-bunny.livejournal.com]

I can visualize the look Luffy has... and it's terrifying!

I love it, though I'm a little worried on Shanks behalf.

[saiyako.livejournal.com]

Flying monkeys?! OMG. Shanks really is just as much of an idiot as Luffy, sometimes... XD

[beanchan.livejournal.com]

Oh Shanks....XD

[pinkmoocow.livejournal.com]

It's so beautiful! I love this. XD Poor Shanks!!