One Piece One Shots

Greeting Death as an Old Friend [Shanks x Reader] (NR)

Your captain flirting with you was no news, even less when he was drunk, but that day something seemed different. He had been acting strangely around you since the previous night when, after he confessed his love for you for the hundredth time, you had told him that the feeling was mutual.

You expected him to be surprised, even glad that you finally loved him back, or maybe something else, but what you never expected was for him to kick you out of the ship. Actually, he didn't technically kick you out of the ship, because he never told you to leave. They just left without you.

You had gone out to buy some things you would need for the long travel. Your captain had told you that you would meet back at the inn where you all would be staying, and so you did. But he wasn't there, nor was the ship at shore.

Confused, you kept looking for the ship around the island.

'Maybe they had hid it from the marines.'

How innocent.

'They'll come back when they see I'm gone. Right?'

Stupid.

And they never came back. Even though you waited, and waited... and waited. And so you were stuck in that island for God knew how long. Just waiting for your captain to come back. Because he loved you, or so had he said.

'You'll come back, right, Shanks?'

But he did not. And, oh, you were angry at him.

And, although you were expecting someone to come pick you up, you would have never imagine that it would be the person that knocked on your door months later.

"Portgas D. Ace, to what do I owe the pleasure?"

The freckled boy flashed you a sided smile before lifting his hat with one finger.

"Nice to see you too, (Y/N)."

You led him to the living room of your small and old house.

It had been the only one you had been able afford with the money you had earned from working here and there. Fortunately for you, there wasn't a poster with your face and a reward. Not because you didn't deserve it, but because you had made sure that the marines never saw your face.

"I wasn't expecting you of all the people I know to come and pay me a visit." You commented as you plopped down on your old armchair. Ace sat down on the couch in front of you.