One Piece: It's always been you

Chapter 53 Red-Haired Gentleman

"Okay, okay, don't be angry."

"Shanks, you're such a child! When are you going to grow up and stop being so immature?!"

"How am I childish!"

"That's childish! If you're not going to answer properly, don't come up here!"

Yuu had spoken, and the remaining three were unwilling to stay at sea with the captain. The captain wasn't important; they just needed to get aboard.

"The captain is on the coast near the windmill village."

"To save a child who had been captured by bandits."

"My arm was bitten by a near-shore overlord."

You looked at the three of them with great satisfaction. "Not bad, not bad, they are teachable."

"Come on up, come on up." Shanks followed, trying to get on as well. "You, stay put!"

“Hey, they’ve all gone up. How can I, the captain, be left adrift at sea? Don’t I have any dignity?”

"How dare you say that? You still have some sense of pride."

"Give me the honor of going up."

"No."

You closed her eyes and turned her head away; there was no room for discussion.

Shanks was trying to figure out how to get Yu to agree to let him go up, but the next second, he sensed something was wrong. He leaped onto the deck, pulled Yu behind him, and looked on warily.

The same goes for Beckman and others around him.

"An enemy is coming?" The people on the ship suddenly looked serious. With such a large formation, You sensed that something was wrong.

"Be careful, Yu, they're after you."

"what?"

Yuko was confused. How could they have come for her? In this area of ​​the sea, besides Shanks' ship, there was only one other ship in the distance, and she couldn't make out what it looked like. What if it was just a chance encounter?

"Do you remember the people who kidnapped you when you were a child? They disappeared suddenly. I tried to find clues afterward, but to no avail."

Shanks thought of what happened when Yu was a child, that island that disappeared without a trace, or more precisely, that appeared out of thin air and disappeared out of thin air.

The ship in the distance gradually became clearer. Not only Yu could see it clearly, but Shanks and the others could too.

All Yu wants to do right now is find a hole to crawl into.

Oh no, how did he find her? Oh no, oh no, oh no, someone please save her.

Katakuri searched the entire ship but couldn't find Yu. He realized that she seemed to have gone out for training last night and hadn't returned. That was when she left.

Katakuri felt a moment of panic. Why was she leaving?

Is it because he knows she's a member of the Navy? But so what if she was in the Navy before? So what if her grandfather was in the Navy? Now Yu is his!

We absolutely cannot let her leave like this.

But so much time had passed, and he didn't know how to find her anymore. Yu had said that Observation Haki wouldn't work on her, so Katakuri ruled out using Observation Haki to sense her. Besides, so much time had passed; she should have run far away by now.

Katakuri has always believed that the three colors are useless against Yu. He has never used the three colors on Yu in front of him.

He believed everything she said.

A faint blue light shimmered from under the scarf—it was the crystal necklace Yu had given him. Taking the necklace off, he saw the blue light around the crystal converge and point in one direction.

Could it tell him where Yu is?

There's no other way now, Katakuri can only choose to trust the crystal.

"Don't worry, Yu. They can't take you away," Beckman reassured Yu, noticing her anxiety and assuming it was due to childhood trauma.

"No, I..." I'm sure he'll take me away, willingly. Waaah, what should I do? He's definitely angry.

"Brothers, get ready to stretch your arms and legs!"

"it is good!"

The two ships were getting closer and closer, and Shanks was ready to make his move.

Yu suddenly blurted out, "Actually... I know them..."

"???" Four faces full of question marks.

Yu explained, "Some of the details in between aren't important. In short, I'm sailing with them now; they're not here to capture me."

"Then why are you panicking?"

"I ran away without telling him... I was scared that he was bullying me, and I couldn't beat him."

Shanks got excited, and Yu was actually scared? This little girl has never known fear since she was little, there's something wrong with her. "You can't beat me either, so why aren't you afraid?"

"..." Okay, he started again, "Are you thinking of going down again?" How come the two of them are so in agreement about her not being able to beat them? Is it something to be proud of that she can't beat them?

"Don't keep telling me to go to sea," Shanks complained a little. "Don't worry, we're here, we'll make sure he doesn't bully you."

Yu slapped Shanks on the back of the head with such force that Shanks' eyes almost popped out. "It's because of you guys that I'll be in even worse shape."

Based on his years of experience, Beckman gave Yu a meaningful look. "Yu and he have a special relationship." Beckman could see that the man on the opposite ship hadn't taken his eyes off Yu even from a distance.

As Beckman said, Katakuri's gaze remained fixed on Yu. He watched her amidst a group of grown men, especially Shanks, the red-haired one, the two of them even joking and playing around. Very well, she saw the news and condemned them in front of him, and now she's on their ship, huh! She came to the East Blue just for him, isn't she!

Not a single word from that little liar's mouth is true.

It was getting closer and closer, and Yuu couldn't wait any longer. She was convinced that Katakuri was the most important person in the world, and that she would be following him from now on. Leaving Shanks, who was still pondering Beckman's words, she ran to Katakuri's ship, behaving very obediently. "I had something urgent to discuss with him, but I forgot to mention it," Yuu said respectfully, standing aside awaiting Katakuri's judgment.

"Sister Yu, why did you run off without a word? Pudding thought you didn't want me anymore." Goodness, little Pudding's been bribed again. Yu suspected that Katakuri was using Pudding to say what he was too embarrassed to say himself.

"No, no, I would never abandon you."

Katakuri remained silent. They'd found the person; thankfully, Yu had some self-awareness and knew to come back. Katakuri sat down, waiting for Yu to explain. "Is this the red-haired female pirate friend you mentioned?"

With a serious face and a sarcastic tone, he spoke sarcastic words. Yu pondered how to explain himself, while Shanks' crew burst into laughter, showing no sign of stopping.

"Hahaha, the captain is actually a woman!"

"Captain, you've really embarrassed yourself in Yuna. Hahaha."

Shanks burst into laughter, but he wasn't laughing at the fact that Yu was a woman. He was laughing because someone could actually subdue Yu. "Yu, you actually have such an obedient side, hahaha, why don't you just throw him into the sea?"

Shanks added fuel to the fire, as if he was afraid things weren't bad enough and Yu's situation wasn't bad enough.

Beneath You's well-behaved exterior were clenched fists and a squinting smile, but the smile didn't seem genuine at all.

"Sister Yu would never throw Brother into the sea, and Sister Yu has always been like this!"

"Oh? She was about your age when she first met me, but she was way worse than you. Hahaha." The comment, seemingly harmless enough, actually caught on to the fact that Yu had known him since he was very young.

We've known each other since we were six... six years old...

With a "plop," Shanks successfully angered Yu, who then promptly and decisively threw him back into the sea.

“Ka2, ignore him.” The world is so much quieter without him. “Everything I said before, except for his gender, was true. I’m here to ask him something important. I suspect that the cel I met before is connected to the person who kidnapped me when I was a child.”

(I hope I didn't portray Yu as a complete tantrum. Yu gets along well with Shanks and the others, and Yu himself is quite mischievous. Plus, Shanks always treats Yu like a child, so the two of them often playfully fight.)