Hello, my name is James and I have decided to post a small beginning to a story I am writing. Every chapter after this will be much longer then this, and this one was mainly written just as a test to see if anyone would like it and to see if I could get some feedback to make improvements for the rest of what I am going to write.

"Kurama" Giant creatures Tailed beast/summoned creatures talking

"Kurama" humans talking

'Kurama' humans thinking

'Kurama' Giant creatures Tailed beast/summoned creatures thinking

DISCLAIMER: One Piece/ Naruto are owned by its respective owners of whom I am not. This story is completely for fun and I claim to own none of the content of this story.

"Dang it! There has to be something here that can make them notice me." A 7 year old blond boy with short spiky hair yelled as he walked through a cave with only a flashlight. Having long abandoned his black shirt in the sweltering heat during the 7 mile trek through the woods, he only had a pair of tan cargo shorts keeping him from freezing in the cold cave.

This boy is named Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, and he is the child of the legendary 'red death' Kushina Uzumaki and the 'yellow flash' Minato Namikaze. He is also related to his twin sister Mito Uzumaki Namikaze.

Despite his heritage he is barely acknowledged by his home village Konoha and when remembered is always compared to his twin sister Mito. Naruto always has tried to make people acknowledge him, and so despite having no training from his parents, strives to become the strongest no matter what.

Ever since Naruto was five and his parents started to train his sister in the family Taijutsu styles and refused to let him join he has been heading out to the forest behind his house and working his body to the bone. Punching the trees until he can't move his arms, kicking them until he can't raise his legs, little Naruto has done all he can. If this pattern would continue Naruto would graduate bottom of his class and would after 20 years become chunin and retire after 5 more years and live out the rest of his life until he died of old age, but its a good thing something was about to change, because that would have been boring.

As Naruto was about to give up finding anything inside the cold cave, the entire cave started to shake, the ground underneath him started to crack as the floor collapsed inward bringing Naruto along for the ride. "CRAAAAP" He yelled as flailed his arms trying to grab the wall with all of his strength.

It seemed to drag on forever for Naruto as he fell downward in the pitch black hole that had been opened up by the earthquake. Until finally Naruto landed with a giant splash in a big pool of water just deep enough to keep Naruto safe. Surfacing in the water Naruto tried to reach around to check where he was only to see his still on flashlight land on the edge of the pool of water.

"Perfect!" Naruto exclaimed as he waded his way through the water to the light and pulled himself onto the floor of the giant cavern and reached down to pick up his flashlight. Checking for damage to the device he grinned in relief when he found but a few scratches. So he pointed away from himself and swept his light around the cavern, mouth open in awe as he saw the size of the cavern, only to freeze in place as his light landed on the remains of the front half of a giant pirate ship located in the middle of the cavern.

"SO COOL!" Naruto yelled as his voice range loudly through the cave and even carried it out of the entrance to cave, making the surrounding birds and animals scatter. 'I bet theirs treasure in there! And when I find it they will have to acknowledge me!' He thought and began walking to the ship with a shit eating grin on his face.

Approaching the ship Naruto began to see the remains of what must have been the rest of the ship strewn about the cavern floor surrounding the ship. 'Dang I wonder what could of done this.' Naruto thought as he saw craters littered with wooden planks. Finally he reached the ship and climbed aboard the remains looking for anything cool. Using his light he began opening anything and everything in sight aboard and around the remains. Until finally all that remained was one final room.

'Come on, please Kami-sama please be something amazing.' He thought as he turned the handle to the wooden door and pushed it open. Looking forward he spotted a 2 foot tall wooden chest framed by some sort of black metal and covered in a thick dust lying on the ground.

"Thank you Kami-sama!" Naruto cheered as he threw his fists in the air in victory and raced towards the chest. His body shaking in excitement Naruto quickly knelt in front of the chest and pushed the lid open with no hesitation.

"HELLO!" A smooth voice yelled as a floating skull with an black Afro yelled as it surged from the chest and floated in front of Naruto's face. Let it be said that while Naruto is certainly no coward by any definition of the word. He does have a few certain fears that sorta make him loose all reasoning and it just so happens that one of them was...

"GHOOOOOOST! Naruto yelled as his body turned ash white and his eyes rolled backed into his head.

"YOHOHO my lungs are hurting! Although I have no lungs. YOHOHOHO skull joke!" The skull's voice echoed through the cavern as it gazed down on the unconscious Naruto.

(3 hours later)

"Ugh! My head hurts!" Naruto hissed out as he sat up gripping his head in hands covering his eyes.

"Do you need me to sing for you boyo?" a smooth voice echoed from behind Naruto as the boy froze in terror as he sprang up and faced the skull.

"Your REAL!" Naruto said as his teeth clattered together in a combination of cold and fear as he backed into the wall.

"Yes boyo, now tell me how you ended up here, will you?" The skull asked its voice seemed to echo through the room.

"Um do I really have to mister floating skull?" Naruto asked as he looked to the ground sad as remembered why he was out here.

"Yeah you do boyo, in my time children like you weren't supposed to be in places like these and I'm sure that hasn't changed in however long I have been in that chest." The skull replied as it faced toward the wooden chest still lying open in the middle of the room.

"Alright I'll tell you. It all started on my fifth birthday..." Naruto began, as his eye began to tear up.

(Flashback 2 years ago October 10th Naruto's Birthday.)

Naruto stood to the side as his parents finished singing happy birthday to his twin sister Mito who was born 3 minutes after he was. As she blew out the candles to the cake which only read Happy birthday Mito! and didn't even have his name anywhere on it. Naruto wondered if his parents would remember him today, as ever since they turned three years old his parents had steadily begun to forget he existed.

When Mito was taught to read and write he was only taught because she would always mention his name once or twice which would cause them to remember him and include him in the lessons. But even that eventually stopped as even his sister began to stop paying attention to him. As it was he was lucky he managed to prefect his reading and writing skills before the lessons had stopped for him. Hearing his father begin to talk, Naruto snapped to attention and listened.

"Now Mito-chan since your now five, how would you like it if me and your mother began your training!" Minato proclaimed as he and Kushina smiled proudly at their daughter.

Mito started to cheer loudly."Yes! I'll be the strongest kunoichi there ever was and I will take that hat from you one day Tou-san!" Mito cheered as she beamed at her parents and got up and hugged them.

"Ano Tou-san, Kaa-san? When can we start my training?" Naruto asked as he looked at his parents with wide sapphire blue eyes. Only to see his parents to frown at him and sigh.

Minato walked over to Naruto and knelt in front of him. "I'm sorry Naruto-kun, but we need to concentrate on Mito-chan's training more, you will be fine when you enter the academy."

(Flashback end.)

"Ever since then I swore to myself that I will become strong, so that they will have to finally acknowledge my worth! No more would I play second fiddle to my own sister! But even now she is so far ahead that every day I start to lose more and more of my hope." Naruto said as he was on his hands and knees crying his eyes out.

"Buck up Naru-chan, I have just the thing to help you out!" The skull said as it floated toward the chest as Naruto looked up, rubbing the tears from his face as he began to get up and approached the chest.

"Inside the chest are a lot of things but right now this is the only thing usable." The skull said as a simple glass vial with a cork keeping a red liquid inside floated upwards coming to a rest in front of Naruto's face.

"Take Naru-chan and when it is all over ill be able to help get as strong as you need YOHOHO!" The skull stated as it chuckled to itself as it watched the child.

'Its my only option if I want to get stronger.' Naruto thought as he reached out and grabbed the vial bringing closer to himself and uncorking it. "Try not to smell it, it will only make it worse YOHOHO!" The skull chuckled as it watched in anticipation.

"Hey skull-san do you have a name?" Naruto asked before tipping the liquid into his mouth, his face scrunching up as he swallowed.

"YOHOHO you can call me Brook, Naru-chan." He said, before watching as the boy collapsed to the ground as he slowly black out over the course of five minutes. 'Hmm he seemed to last longer then chopper and Franky said he would. Now what to do until Franky arrives.' Brook thought as he bobbed up an down in thought as he gazed at a small blinking red dot on a metal device inside the chest.

(5 hours later)

"Brook!" A deep voice yelled out as an 7 foot tall man with two Grey metal arms yelled as he entered the room. The man was built like a body builder and had two vertical stitches running down his chest out on display as his unbuttoned red Hawaiian shirt and black swim shorts covered nothing.

"Franky! How are you, and where are your huge blue arms?" Brook asked as he rotated towards the man.

"Ever since that dam tree appeared it was impossible to get anymore of the rarer materials for my upkeep. So I ended up having to scrap them and downgraded to what I could safely upkeep." Franky said as he look at his arms and frowned remembering his amazing arms. "But anyways is this the one you chose, brook?" He asked as walked over to Naruto's prone figure. Naruto's body was currently midway through what looked like a painful transformation as his body was a light red and steam was rising from his body. Every now and then a crack or a pop would be heard as a part of his skeleton would brake and realign itself. Even his hair was changing as it gradually darkened to a soon to be midnight black.

"Yes he is, but is it not weird, that his power would be this strong. Heh it makes my skin crawl, but wait I don't have skin, YOHOHO skull joke!" Brook said as he laughed.

"Heh I see that your seclusion has not dulled your intelligence or your bad joke skills Brook." Franky deadpanned as he bent down next to the unconscious child. His eyes narrowed in though as he looked over the boy for any irregularities.

"It seems brook, that we have hit the jackpot when it comes to potential heirs." He said as black ink set into a spiral pattern with kanji surrounding it, appeared over the boys stomach. Smirking in satisfaction he stood up and picked up the child over his shoulder and went over to the chest before closing it and placing it over his other shoulder. "Now lets go Brook, I wanna be in The land of snow by the time the boy wakes up." He said as began to sprint out of the room with the skull speeding behind along behind him.

Thank you for reading! James signing off for now.