#one piece chapter 1054

[fallinblossoms]

ONE PIECE CHAPTER 1054 COLOR SPREAD

[ichigoginchan]

wohooo!!! finally shanks crumbs from today's chapter update!!

[saiyef]

Shanks having phantom limb pains while keeping a nostalgic smile on his face from reminiscing his time with Luffy

[chenziee]

Okay but it would have been so funny if Robin actually told Crocodile that Pluton was in Wano. It would just be like

Robin: Uhm it’s not here, it’s in the Land of Wano...

Crocodile:

Crocodile: Are you telling me I’ve spent like 10 years taking over the wrong country

Crocodile: And the right country is one that a Yonko already called dibs on more than 20 years ago

Robin:

Cobra:

Luffy:

Crocodile:

Crocodile:

Crocodile: I’m going to break something

[lovemizumikan]

Yassop Isn't ready to see Usopp yet

[saaazune]

ONE PIECE SPOILERS!!!!!! CHAPTER 1054

we’re baaacck

eyo look 

more fights!! that’s what we’re here for

look at his power though. is he growing life? yknow that’s pretty advantageous for barren areas in wano. could use some trees

OOOOOOOOH DOPE ASS DEVIL FRUIT. INDEED IT RIVALS THE SEAS

i thought it would be a paramecia though. didn’t expect it to be a logia

i like how yamato’s just declaring that he’s kaido’s child. normally, someone with that upbringing would usually be disgusted of themselves because they shared the blood of their father, therefore not wanting to acknowledge that fact. yamato hates kaido but she sure is proud to say that she’s kaido’s son  

LETS GO MOMO GOTTA FIGHT NO MATTER HOW HARD (even though you stood no chance against an admiral)

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OMMMMMMFFFFGGGGGGG I WANTED TO SEE THIS CREW

SHAAAANKKKKSSSSS

LOOK AT HIS HAIR. LOOK AT HIM LOOKIN PROUD

WAIT OMFG ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT THE TIME HE STOLE THE FRUIT?

WHAAAAAAAT (what’s the fat guy’s name again? because i relate to him so much. he wanted to meet luffy badly too)

AND OMFG ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT THAT ONE TIME BARTOLOMEO CARELESSLY FREAKING BURNED DOWN THEIR FLAG AND REPLACED IT WITH LUFFY?????

I KNEW THAT WOULD HAVE REPERCUSSIONS 

YOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW WTF 

FINALLY WE GETTING AN UPDATE ON SABO THE FLAME EMPEROR. SHEESH WHAT A NAME. ACE WOULD BE PROUD

AND IT AINT GOOD NEWS AT ALL 

NOOOOOO COBRAAAAA (we need actual confirmation if he truly is dead cuz i aint believin this news 100% yet)

NEWS. SO MANY IS GOING ON. SO MUCH NEWS

WELL AT LEAST THERE’S A LIL BIT OF GOOD NEWS. KUMA (my boi) IS FREE 

kinda forgot about vivi lol. i figured she’s with sabo rn

DAAAAAAAMN SABO BECOMING NOTORIOUS. IF ACE IS HERE SEEING HIS BROTHERS BECOMING POPULAR AND GROWING EVER SO POWERFUL HE’D BE PROUD AS FUCK. I MEAN LOOK AT EM! LUFFY IS PART OF THE YONKO NOW, SABO’S INFLUENCE IS GREATER THAN THAT OF DRAGON? SHEESH

poor akainu. lmaoooo 

gotta admit, props to him for being so determined despite the fact that everything’s going so awry for them. gonna wish him goodluck cuz thing’s about to go downhill for them again. things are just getting started

[missmungoe]

As much as I loved seeing the crew in the latest chapter, there was something missing, or rather, someone. And because a lot of my stories feature her going out to sea, have some Shanks x Makino and the Red-Hair Pirates! Or if you will, the Shanties version of chapter 1054<3

Times they are a-changin’

“Isn’t it about time to go and claim it?” he asked, his musing tone touched with the barest hint of an edge, as his eyes lifted from the cup. “The One Piece.”

A gentle snort shattered the weighty quiet, dragging all their eyes up the steps leading from the main deck, to the little figure that had emerged, standing with her hands on her hips, her laugh bubbling out of her with the words, “What was that?”

Cup still held to his lips, “What?” Shanks pouted. “I was trying to be cool!”

Walking down the steps, her graceful gait didn’t stutter, despite the churning waters pulling on his ship. She was handling the choppy sea with admirable fortitude, although Shanks noted the direction she’d come from, and wondered if she’d just finished puking.

He bit back the glib urge to ask, as she came up to the table where he was sitting with Ben. Bare-footed in rolled-up breeches and one of his oversized shirts under her flower-embroidered bodice, he had a mind to point out how much like a pirate she looked. Or at the very least, a very cute vagabond.

“Look at you,” Makino tutted, as a small hand lifted to card through his hair, pushing it back from his brow. The humidity was doing wonders to it. “You’d think there were cameras around, the way you’re strutting. And what is going on with your hair today?”

“Right?” His grin delighted in hers. “I don’t know what it is, but I look like I should be modelling for a shampoo brand. As for the strutting, you know what I say: you should always act as though there’s at least one paparazzi watching. That way you’re guaranteed there’ll never be any unflattering pictures of you in the paper.” Grinning, he chirped, “And if there aren’t any cameras, at least you look good. Honestly, i’s a win-win.”

“What wisdom you possess,” Makino mused, her laughter soft as he turned his head to kiss her wrist, a tender grin pressed to her pulse, before she reached down to pick up the newspaper he’d been reading, shifting so that she was leaning on the table in front of his chair, her legs brushing against his.

Shanks watched her skim the article, her dark eyes softening as they moved over the wanted poster he’d been considering earlier.

“Emperor, huh?” she murmured, her mouth curved up at the corners.

“Kid looks different,” Yasopp said, arms crossed where he leaned against the railing, before he added, this time with a different inflection, “’Course, he’s not a kid anymore.”

“He still looks like Luffy,” Makino said, without looking up from the wanted poster.

Shanks just smiled, but then there were few who knew the now-infamous rookie as well as she did. Then again, few others had seen him in diapers.

Smiling, “I look forward to seeing him again,” Makino said.

“Boss just announced we’re not stopping by Wano,” Lucky said, with obvious disappointment, and murmurs of agreement from most of their crew, having gathered around where they were sitting.

Makino’s smile said this wasn’t news to her, but her look didn’t divulge the reason behind his chosen course, as brown eyes lifted to meet his, watching her where she half-sat on the table, his legs parted to give her room.

Instead, “And good for Buggy,” she said, considering his photograph on the front page, predictably over the top. Shanks wondered if he’d personally requested they use that one.

“I hope you know he’s going to be insufferable,” Shanks said.

“More than you were?” Ben asked, and grinned around his toothpick when Shanks stuck his tongue out.

Shifting in her seat, his hand lifted to rest on her hip. “So, Emperor Red-Hair,” Makino said, with a gently arched brow. “You’re going to claim the One Piece? You’ve sure been taking your sweet time.”

His grin held no shame. “What can I say? I prefer a pirate’s life of leisure,” Shanks said. “Should probably get going soon though, or the kid’ll beat me to it.” His eyes danced. “If he wants it, he’ll have to go through me first. It’s only right. And he’s already defeated two Emperors; I’d be offended if he didn’t challenge me for it.”

“And what’s the plan?” she asked, reaching for the bottle to pour him another drink; a tender exchange rather than a habit left over from her former profession. Shanks only watched her, a broad hand skimming the length of her thigh where she sat, steady despite the gentle swaying of his ship.

Holding out the refilled cup to him, the smile dancing in her eyes said she was well aware of what he planned, but then Garp could blame him for a whole lot of things, but making her a good liar was not one of them. “He’ll reach the fabled island at the end of the world and find you waiting?”

“With drinks,” Shanks quipped, reaching to take the offered cup, his thumb sweeping the arch of her knuckles, startling a grin across her lips as he lifted his brows.

“We could barbecue if the weather is good,” Limejuice suggested, to hollering agreement from the rest of their crew.

“Let’s show these rookies how to party!!”

“And that we don’t take lightly to upstarts burning down our flag in our own territory!!”

“In that order, obviously,” Shanks said, tipping his drink back, and grinned when she laughed.

The roar of their cheers nearly drowned out the wind, leaving her grin helpless, although her look understood there was more than a party waiting, even as she told him, prim, “You better be prepared to face him then.”

His empty cup paused at his lips, “I’m sorry,” Shanks chuckled. “Are you saying I need to prepare?”

She gave a delicate shrug, holding up the newspaper. “You said it yourself: he’s already taken out two Emperors. Just because he adores you doesn’t mean he’ll go easy on you.”

“Hey, I’m featured on there, too!” Shanks protested, pointing to the four photographs gracing the front page.

“So is Buggy,” Yasopp pointed out. “What’s your point?”

Their laughter earned them all a middle finger, although hearing hers rising above the sea wind, wild as anything, his grin couldn’t have been helped if he’d tried his hardest.

She was considering his own photograph now, smoothing her thumb across the printed ink. One of his better pictures, if you asked him, and she wasn’t being subtle in her admiration, although the soft look in her eyes seized his teasing remark before it could leave him, as Shanks hid his smile behind the rim of his cup.

He watched her eyes shifting to the fourth photograph on the page, her soft mouth losing its smile, and the gentle look vanished from her eyes. And she never had been able to hide what she was feeling, Shanks thought, as he found it written across her face now, her delicate features furrowed with a rare seriousness.

But she didn’t invoke Blackbeard’s name, only folded up the newspaper to put it down, although when she reached for the cup he was holding, Shanks pulled it out of reach. “Hey!” He met her innocent look with a furrowed one. “You’re not drinking in your condition!”

“One tiny sip isn’t going to do anything,” Makino countered, but still complied, although, “I watched him take his first steps,” she said, gesturing to the paper, and Luffy’s wanted poster where she’d placed it atop it. “I just want to take part in the celebration.”

“We’ll do a jig later,” Shanks said, downing the last drops in the cup, just in case. “I can’t believe what I’m seeing,” he chided, putting it back on the table. “Most sensible girl I know, but a few weeks at sea with us and you’ve gone full rogue.”

“Hmm, well I learned from the best,” Makino said.

Sliding from the table, she leaned in to kiss him, and shrieked when he hooked his arm around her waist to pull her into his lap, her tiny frame shaking with laughter, softening as she supported herself against his chest.

His fingers skimmed her waist, the slight curve hidden by her bodice. One thing they were keeping from the papers, even if the evidence was there for those who knew how to look: his first mate’s missing cigarettes, and the way they’d all taken to hovering, especially whenever she wandered a bit too close to the railing. If she’d noticed, Makino hadn’t let on.

Running her fingers through his beard to cup his cheek, “I’ll behave,” she promised, kissing his lips softly as she withdrew from under his arm.

“Captain’s orders,” Shanks said. “But I could always discipline you a bit if that would give you more incentive.” Snapping his teeth at her playfully, his grin chased her laughter as she crossed the deck to where Bonk Punch was standing with their son on his arm, oblivious to the eyes tracking her passage, and the twitching hands ready to reach for her every time the ship gave even the smallest lurching movement.

Turning back found Ben watching him. “You’re an embarrassment,” he deadpanned.

Gesturing to his ear, “I’m sorry, what? I can’t hear you over all this wind!” Shanks shouted.

As though on cue, the rigging gave a warning creak as a strong gale sent the sails billowing out. But he knew these waters, and his ship, and knew the difference between a little rough weather and truly dangerous sailing conditions. Had it been the latter, he wouldn’t have risked coming here, their precious cargo taken into consideration.

The reminder drew his eyes across the deck to Makino, surrounded by his crew. The wind tugged at her loose braid, pulling rogue wisps free of her kerchief like thieving fingers. The overcast sky hid the sea glass in it, the sable colour stark against her salt-kissed cheeks.

“Won’t be long until he reaches it,” Ben said then, dragging his eyes back. His first mate’s look said more than his words, although he didn’t mince them, or beat around the bush. “Unless Teach beats him to it.”

Shanks said nothing, only poured himself another drink, his eyes on Luffy’s wanted poster. The way she’d placed it atop the paper left Blackbeard’s face obscured, but the reminder was ever-present, like a growing stain on his mind. His recent visit to Mariejois hadn’t helped; had only underscored that the World Government didn’t understand what they were up against.

Shanks understood. And soon, Luffy would, too. But then like he’d told Ben, it was time.

“You’re sure about how you want to play this?” Ben asked.

Shanks downed the cup, before putting it down. “I’m sure.”

Makino’s laughter drifted back, drawing his eyes across the deck, along with the rest of their crew. They were all watching her, the wind having dragged her hair completely free of its braid, but she didn’t seem to mind the weather, or the uneasy sea, her arms thrown out to the dancing waves, and her laughter carrying over the salt wind.

And as far as the world’s greatest treasure was concerned, at least among his crew, there was no question of what it was.

“So, uh,” Lucky said, after a beat.

“Someone mentioned a barbecue?”

[icedmochasi]

Benn’s face here really concerns me. This looks like concern. And resignation. This does not look like someone who is happy going on this adventure. Seeing his captain go after a life goal should make him happy. And excited. 

Not look like this. 

Couple this with the fact that members of Shanks’ crew who have been with him for decades seem genuinely surprised and don’t seem to understand why Shanks doesn’t want to meet with Luffy yet. 

Makes me concerned. 

(Disclaimer: I’m not saying Shanks is a villain or is going to turn out to be evil or anything, but I do think Shanks is much more morally gray than some people anticipate him to be. And it seems like he has kept vital information from most of his crew, which could very well cause massive tension down the line. And Benn Beckman does seem to know something we don’t.)