Dragon's claw (Shanks X Reader)

4- what goes around comes around

“Hey (Y/n)!” Shanks had his hand cupped around his mouth. “(Y/n) I got plans for us, where are you!?” Shanks rested his hand off to his side for he had given up. He's spent the better part of an hour searching for you but alas no luck. No hi nor hair of your existence. Maybe you were still in bed? He hasn't bothered with your room but he has too much respect to just barge in-

“I'm here!” Shanks heard your cute soothing voice as well as a sharp thud like a knock on wood at his backside. He turned around and found a red fox sitting upon the top of the stairs railing leading to the upper parts of the ship.

“Well look at that,” Shanks hummed kneeling down before you with a sparkle in his chestnut eyes. “I had no idea you could get any cuter than you already were,” your Captain lied his hand gently upon your head for he couldn’t hold himself back from indulging into your cuteness.

“Awe,” you grinned the best you could despite how difficult it was. “Quit flattering me.”

“I can’t help myself (Y/n), you’re just too cute in this form,” Shanks kneaded your left ear with his thumb. You were eating up the attention, but enough was enough. You pawed at Shanks’ hand as a silent begging mechanism to have the man stop, before sitting back on your hind legs. You grew in size, the more you grew, the less fur that covered your entire body. To the subtraction of your canine ears and bushy tail, you were finally human again.

“And that is the exact reason why I heavily dislike going Full Fox Mode, nobody can take me seriously…” You didn’t help your position out in the slightest with the childish pout to overtake your features with puffy cheeks.

“Sorry, you're just too cute even for me,” he repeated.

“I'm 30, not 13... Stop treating me like a kid Red Hair,” you huffed.

“Sorry,” Shanks finally realized his mistakes. “New island, there's somebody I want you to meet while we're here (Y/n).” You heard Shanks start up a new conversation and peered out upon the town of nice looking townspeople and cute rows of houses. There was a whole bunch of cute animals that you've never seen before floating about the air. Sheep with wings? That was mighty weird but all so cute. And since you're a fox, foxes being a sheep's natural predator, staying in human form was probably for the best.

“You have a friend here?” You questioned unable to peel your eyes off of the floating sheep.

“Oh yeah,” Shanks replied. Laying a hand upon your back. “You may want to get back into fox form… This city is home to one of the largest marine bases around before Whitebeard blew up Marineford. I don't doubt you former owner has some beef with me,” you huffed, understanding the circumstances and shrunk before Shanks’ eyes into full fox form. You scratched the back of your ear with your back paw and jumped to sit upon Shanks’ shoulder much like a parrot. “Ready to go (Y/n)?”

“When aren't I?” You snickered and Shanks left his boat to enter the bustling town. You loved the perspective of sitting up your captain's shoulder while he roamed. Especially since he were taller than you, it was like sitting upon a throne. Shanks took a detour, and entered a small bar. “Hey!” You pawed at his cheek. “Now isn't the time to drink. I want to explore!”

“I understand (Y/n),” Shanks chuckled. “But this is where we're supposed to meet up with-”

“That's quite full of yourself Red Hair,” a deep, sophisticated voice had talked over your captain. “I thought you weren't one to make an image but here you are. Red Haired Shanks now has a red fox,” a man pushed out from his seat at the counter of the bar and stood to face you both. His eyes were golden and could kill with a simple glance.