Stormy Seas

Author's Note: Since Obito x Kakashi was my most commonly requested pairing on my poll, but I'm going to give it a shot. In this story Obito was born female and her name is Otoko. There also might be some supernatural elements added to this pirate story later on. If any of that bothers you, you might want to turn back now. For those of you still, here, I hope you enjoy this story and reviews are always appreciated.

Special Thanks to MadaraUchiha-Chan for inspiring me to write this pairing. If you are looking for short and silly Naruto stories, I highly recommend checking her out.

Disclaimer: I own nothing and make no profit off of any of my stories.

Chapter 1

To say the least, Captain Otoko Uchiha was not amused. It was almost time to sail and two of her crew weren't back in the ship yet. She was half ready to sail without them, but she couldn't quite bring herself to do so.

"They're late again." Her eyes narrow at the thought.

Obviously, she would have to punish them for their transgression. Hidan's foul mouth and Kakuzu's obsession with treasure she could overlook. They were pirates after all, but causing them to miss the tide well that was a bridge too far.

Konan shakes her head. "Captain, forgive me, but you know how this crew is." Yes, Otoko most certainly did because she was the one who had selected them all to join the Akatsuki!

Her crew was the finest (well most infamous) crew to ever sail the Seven Seas. They were all master swordsmen and swordswomen, amongst other things. Together, there was almost nothing they couldn't accomplish. Except getting all of them to read a watch, it seemed!

"I know and that's why I'm going to make those Scallywags regret defying my direct orders!" Honestly, she was Captain. "I've been too lax in enforcing the rules around here or mayphap they both got distracted by some barmaid." It wouldn't be the first time. "Either way, I can't tolerate such insubordination!"

She shakes her head as she runs her fingers through her long, unruly raven locks that reached all the way to the small of her back. It was a nervous habit. Though she also had a habit of drawing her sword after doing that. So few people realized the motion for what it was. A nervous tic.

This port might be friendly to pirates, but it wasn't smart to stay in one place for too long. "I know you can't, but they always come through in the end." The urge to move was strong and Otoko knew that Konan felt it too.

The blue haired woman was her First Mate. The men of the Akatsuki found great amusement in that fact, but Konan was easily the most sensible of the lot and that was that!

That and those eyes of hers. "True. That doesn't mean that I'm gonna be going easy on these dogs either!" Konan's eyes were orange as any fire's glow and seemed to pierce into your very soul. Striking terror and awe into the hearts of even the bravest of men! (The only exception being Nagato)!

"You really shouldn't call them dogs." Konan smiles slyly. "Dogs are generally better trained and far more pleasing to look upon."

Otoko couldn't help, but laugh at that. True enough. "ARGH! What that supposed mean?!" Though it seemed that some of their crew had been ease dropping and wanted to protest Konan's very accurate assessment.

It was Sasori. The red headed pirate was quite skilled with a blade, but his specialty was poison and antidotes for them. The man made a small fortune off of selling both to private buyers and it was rather useful way to help kill off their enemies or make a quick getaway.

Unfortunately, half the time he acted like he had a pole stuck up his shapely arse. He was far too serious for Otoko's tastes, but she could acknowledge a nice backside when she saw one!

"It means exactly what you think it means." Otoko shrugs as she peers out over to the docks.

Hidan's and Kakuzu's sorry backsides had better on their way or else, she'd punish them somehow. The Uchiha woman hadn't figured out how precisely, but she would ensure it was properly traumatizing.

Kisame shakes his head. "My bet is Kakuzu got caught up playing cards and lost half his booty from our last heist." That was likely true. "And Hidan is probably getting slapped by some wench." Otoko twitches at that.

She didn't particularly care for the word wench, but it was just too ingrained in the men at this point. So the Captain had settled on a compromise of sorts. They could call anyone who wasn't a member of their crew whatever they liked, but if they called her or Konan that…they were walking the plank!

"You know it's true!" Deidara grins at her as he walks over to the Captain. "Aye?"

Otoko was never quite sure what to make of Deidara in all honesty. The first time she saw the blonde, the Uchiha had sincerely thought he was a woman wearing pants! Which was why she had approached 'her' in the first place.

It took a very brave or a very foolish woman to wear pants for the most part. Otoko didn't know why, but women just were supposed to wear dresses and skirts apparently. Now, she loved dressing up and acting like a pretty princess as much as the next woman, but pants did seem more practical.

Was it really her fault though? The eccentric pirate's luxurious blonde locks fell to the middle of his back and he had really large sky blue eyes that just seemed feminine to her! "It might be true, but that doesn't mean I won't wash out his foul mouth with soap for saying such things!" That and Deidara had always been on the slimmer side.

"You'd wash out our mouths with soap anyway!" She hears a man call out from across the peer.

It was Hidan. The man was certainly not afraid to display which ship he sailed on with his massive leather, silver studded hat and his long sleeved matching shirt with the red clouds. "Hidan, get your sorry arse aboard this vessel right now or we will sail without ye!" Not to mention the crimson red pants that were underneath that elaborate belt and that buttoned shirt.

Nothing screamed Akatsuki like black and red. Those were their crews colors and the red clouds were their signature! Everybody knew it was best not to be messin' with anyone with red clouds on their clothes!

"Quit your shrieking, woman!" Oh aye, this man was going to be walking the plank today!

His only saving grace was the fact that Kakuzu came running behind him carrying a large sack over his shoulder. A sack that was jingling. Gold! He must have won (or cheated) in his preferred game of chance. Cards!

Kakuzu rolls his eyes. "Don't pay him any mind." Otoko usually didn't. "He be drunker than Queen Kaguya's consorts!" If that was true, then it was a miracle Hidan was even walking because those consorts were kept very well hydrated with all sorts of expensive wines and champagnes.

"He's still walking the plank." Otoko shakes her head.

Nagato looks at her with concern. "Isn't that a little excessive, Captain?" He smiles at her. "We all know that Hidan just has an exceptionally foul mouth."

Okoto smirks at the question. It might have seemed excessive, but she didn't say where she was walking the plank. So she immediately drags Hidan onto the ship and pushes him onto the plank with her sword out.

"Just your blessings that I'm making ye do it in shallow waters instead of out in the middle of the ocean where the sharks can get ye!" The Captain doubted that she would ever actually kill a member of her crew, but she did have to ensure they all respected her authority.

Humiliation could work just as well, if not better than violence sometimes! "Awe, come on!" No, Otokyo would not come on. "This is ridiculous. You're gonna get me all wet for nothing!" He was wrong about that. There was a method to her madness, she thinks to herself as she withdraws her sword.

"Walk the plank or I will run ye through, ye scabby sea bass!" She smirks, feeling rather pleased with her insult of choice as she waves her sword menacingly at the man to make her point.

Zetsu shakes his head as he watches Hidan. It was clear as day what the man was thinking. He was thinking that Hidan was a fool to argue with her and the exotic looking man was very much correct about that!

He sighs as he walks the plank. "Fine!" Hidan grumbles every step of the way as the Captain continues poking him with her sharp blade before he finally jumps off the edge of it and into the chilly waters.

Fall had just begun to embrace this land. The water wouldn't turn to ice here for a few months time, but the temperature difference was quite noticeable at this point. Something that Hidan had just discovered much to his displeasure!

"It be colder than Kisame's bed in here!" To which Konan laughs lightly as a ladder is placed over the edge of the ship for Hidan to climb back up on.

Kisame was less than pleased though. "Ye is a pox faced scoundrel who doesn't notice things!" He glares at him. "I take plenty wenches to my bedchambers. Just because I have blue skin doesn't negate the fact I have a far bigger sword than you and I know how to use it better too! Ask any of the lasses!"

Otoko rolls her own eyes. "Hidan, you're swabbing the entire deck tonight." She'd had quite enough of their nonsense for the day. "And Kisame, I don't want to hear another word about your sword lest you volunteer to wash all our clothes for the next fortnight." Predictably that results in both men groaning and wisely deciding to shut up.


At that same moment, Kaguya sighs within the grand gray walls of her massive palace. "And you believe the people actually think these rumors to be true?" Normally, merely being here brought her pleasure. This was especially true when she was seated inside her grand throne room. (Even more so when her "King" wasn't around).

Rasa bows to her. "Yes, My Queen." The Nobleman winces. "I believe those Spanish Dogs are responsible. They're trying to sow discord!"

That was likely true, she thinks to herself as she sits upon the red velvet cushion of her golden throne. "Unfortunately, it may be working." The Queen didn't like to admit that, but it was time to face the reality of the situation. "This is likely retaliation for attacking their ships."

She never would have though they'd be this creative. It seemed that she had truly underestimated them. If they could turn the public against her, a rebellion might break out.

The country was already plagued by religious strife and the bad harvest least season didn't help matters. Kaguya was only able to maintain power by having pirates plunder as many ships as possible. They were quite simply importing food from other countries to make up for the shortage.

"The peasants love their tall tales." The man shakes his head. "After awhile, it will die down. The princes are dead." That was true. "Not even the Spanish can revive the dead. Their Armada on the other hand is something to be feared."

Oh yes, she knew of the Spanish Armada. It was the glory of Spain and that was why she had her pirates attack their other ships. Britain simply couldn't compete with Spain an official Navel Battles, but their merchant ships were another matter.

"You're right." Of course, Rasa was correct. The Spanish were just looking for any weakness they could exploit. "We'll continue as we have been then." Slowly, their efforts were beginning to have an effect.

It would be difficult for Spain to maintain their fleet with empty coffers. She smirks at that thought. It wasn't always the strongest who won the fight. Sometimes, cunning was enough to win the day.

The Uchihas had certainly been stronger than her, but Kaguya had driven that family to extinction with her plotting. The Uchiha Royal Family had ruled for centuries and yet, she had ended all that on her own without launching a single arrow, thrusting a sword, or firing off any shots on her own.

All it had taken was a rumor and an outbreak of the Plague. "Yes, My Queen." Rasa bows. "Will that be all that you require of me?" And that had been that.

The Plague had somehow reached the castles of the Nobility. Kaguya spread a rumor that it was the Uchihas' doing and the Nobles had believed her. In the end, they had cut the Uchihas all down and sworn never to speak of it again.

The peasants would have mounted a revolt, if they knew that their beloved rulers were killed off by their own nobles and thus, the peasants had dreams that somehow the Uchiha Line would come back into existence and the Nobles shivered in fear that it would.

"Yes, that will be all." She nods as the man leaves her chambers and she smoothes out her luxurious golden gown.

There was always a fear amongst the Nobles. The fear that maybe, they had missed one. Just one. That was all that it would take in their minds to wreck vengeance on them.

To Kaguya, it was a silly notion. One Uchiha couldn't stand against all of the Nobility. Many of whom had their own armies. To them though, well it haunted their dreams. She had heard the whispers here and there.

She shakes her head at the thought. "The time of the Uchihas is over now though." Now, her family was the ruling family.

The Ōtsutsukis now reigned supreme over all of England and Kaguya was going to do her best to ensure that it stayed that way! She would never allow mere rumors and nightmares to steal her crown. No! The crown was hers!

It was unfortunate, that she had to share it with Danzo. That was fine though. They had an agreement. The two of them appeared in public together as was proper, but in private they were allowed to do as they pleased.

For her, that was enjoying the comfort of her consorts and for him, well Kaguya wasn't really sure what the old fool did when left to his own devices. She didn't care what he did as long as he wasn't plotting against her. Which luckily for him, it didn't appear the old codger was foolish enough to do so!


Finally, they were setting sail. Otoko sighs in relief at that knowledge. They hadn't missed the tide, though it had been close. Far too close in her opinion.

"So where are we heading?" Konan smiles as she and Otoko were taking turns steering the ship.

The men had gone off to accomplish their assigned tasks. So it was just her and her trusty First Mate now. Which meant at least in this section of the ship, things were much more quiet than usual.

She returns the smile as she glances down at the map briefly. "We sail for the coast of Spain!" Noting that she was still in her 'disguise.'

A short sleeved gown that was blue on the top, but faded to a green color around her waist and eventually ended up being brown. "You do like to live dangerously." It was something that a relatively well off barmaid or fisher's wife might wear.

The color schemed pleased her, even if it was designed to looks as though it had gotten stained and the fabric flattered her feminine curves just enough to be pleasing. Though not enough to attract too much unwanted attention.

In short, it was just upscale enough not to be mistaken for a beggar, but not too wealthy looking. So most pickpockets and bandits would probably pass her over in favor of either better or softer targets.

"Aye, tis a pirate's life for me and thee!" She smiles at her. "There's no other way to live, but dangerously when you're an Akatsuki!"

Konan nods in agreement. "Aye, that's true!" She was also dressed to in her disguise.

The woman was wearing an emerald green jacket and a simple, though elegant purple dress underneath it. "Tis very true! Onward!" Konan apparently wanted to look as though she was a relatively well off merchant's wife and well, that was a good as disguise as any in Otoko's mind so she didn't argue with the choice.


On another ship, Kakashi watches in amusement. Itachi just couldn't resist teasing his little brother. It was both sweet and ridiculously entertaining at times.

"You've gotten really good at swabbing the deck, Sasuke." Itachi chuckles at him.

To which the young prince rolls his eyes as he continues blitzing around. "Kakashi said that if I do a good job, they might let me do more exciting things." The seven year old was certainly ambitious, Kakashi had to give him that.

That and well, he just couldn't say no to those bubble eyes. Damn Brat, he chuckles to himself. Sasuke was apparently very well aware of that fact and used those Bubble Eyes of his to his advantage. Constantly.

Itachi smiles and pokes his brother in the forehead. "Don't be in such a hurry to grow up." It was something that the older boy often did to his brother.

Kakashi didn't entirely understand it himself, but it apparently annoyed Sasuke to no end. A fact that the thirteen year old was more than happy to exploit, he notes with amusement.

It was hard to believe that Itachi was only six when it happened and Sasuke had been a mere babe. My how time flies. Now, Itachi was rapidly becoming a man and Sasuke was well still Sasuke.

"Hmpf!" Sasuke grumbles.

He had manage to get them this far, but there was still quite a ways to go. Itachi was not yet old enough to rule in his own right and a reagent would not work.

At best, the reagent would try to manipulate Itachi and at worst, they might try to kill the Uchiha Brothers in order to claim the throne for themselves. No, the eldest prince needed to reach manhood if the Uchihas were ever going to rule in their own right again.

Itachi shakes his head and shows Sasuke the 'proper way' to handle the mop. "This will make it much faster, you know?" He smiles at his brother.

He would be an excellent King, one day. Kakashi knew it. Though the problem was somehow, Itachi needed to survive long enough to claim his birthright.

"Alright." Sasuke briefly looked like he was about to protest his older brother's advice, but as in most things he eventually follows Itachi's lead.

Kakashi had always said that he would never marry and thus, he had never expected to father any children. So in a way, the princes enough were ironically closest things to sons that he had. Though at least Itachi was too old to be his son and Sasuke well, it was debatable.

At 22, Kakashi should have been married a few years back. He was fortunate though. The man was the last of his line and thus free to do as he pleased. What had originally pleased him was joining the Royal Guard like his father had before him and his father before him and so on.

The Hatakes had served honorably in the military for centuries and were often members of the Royal Guard. They were nobles in their own right, but a lower class of Nobles. Enough to have some property, but not enough to have their own army.

Itachi smiles at him. "There. That's much better." The strokes were far more efficient, but that was Itachi for you.

Itachi was constantly coming up with ways to save time or do things with less effort. He was an effort one while Sasuke was an adorable, eager to please bundle of energy.

Really, it might be a good thing that Itachi was the elder Brother. Kakashi sometimes worried that people would take advantage of the boy's eagerness to please. Though that might just be a trait of his childhood more than anything else.

"Aye!" Sasuke smiles at him.

The poor boy was a prince, but he had grown up around sailors and pirates. The bubble eyed lad wasn't even aware of his status as a prince. He and Itachi had thought it was safer, if he didn't know.

A child might blurt something out in the heat of the moment. Something as innocent as introducing himself as Prince Sasuke and that could have easily been the end of him. It was a possibility that Kakashi truly didn't want to entertain.

"So where we be sailing this time?" Gai strides over to Kakashi. "Captain!"

Gai was his First Mate. The man might be eccentric, but he was also unfailingly loyal and other than Itachi and himself, he was the only one who know of Itachi's and Sasuke's true identities. He trusted the bushy browed man that much.

His bushy brows were perhaps Gai's most distinctive trait. Well that and his love of green and obsession with youth. Kakashi still didn't understand the last part, but he had long since given up doing so. Sometimes it was easier just to accept people's quirks and let sleeping dogs be!

Kakashi smiles at him. "Towards Spain." Itachi and Sasuke would one day rule England and Spain was that country's greatest rival. So that meant that the Usurper would never look for them there.

He called her that in his mind. The Usurper. Kaguya would never be Queen to Kakashi. He suspected that she was the one who had spread the rumors amongst the nobility that the Uchihas were deliberately allowing the Plague to spread amongst the upper classes of society in a bid to confiscate more of their land.

It was a lie. They would never do such things and only the likes of that bitch Kaguya and that snake Danzo would ever think of saying such a thing. That and the fact they now sat on the throne made the silver haired man truly believe that they had spread the rumors.

"Alright." He grins at Kakashi. "I'll tell the rest of the crew." Gai smiles as he glances at the brothers. "They're growing so fast."

That was true, but it wasn't fast enough. Could they run out the clock? Could they get the eldest prince to adulthood before tragedy struck (or Sasuke)?

Kakashi didn't really know the answer to that question, but he was damn well going to try. Even if he had to lie. To most of the world, Itachi and Sasuke were his younger brothers and that suited his purposes just fine.

Better to live a lie than die for the sake of your last name! "Thank you, Gai." He smiles at his friend and mentally grimaces at his previous thought.

There were so many ways this could all go wrong, but he had to try. They were almost there. A few more years and Itachi would be ready. He would be ready to reclaim the crown and that Usurper and her lapdog would pay for all their transgressions.

Kakashi wasn't exactly sure how he would make sure that happened, but he would. For now though, he was perfectly content to go where the ocean took him.

"Oh and be on the look out." Gai shakes his head. "There were rumors in the last port that the Akatsuki are lurking about."

That makes Kakashi's eyes narrow at the thought. "We'll be careful." The Akatsuki was the most feared pirate ship out there and for good reason. He definitely didn't want to run into them on the stormy seas. "We always are." That would likely only end in disaster.