A/N: Hello and welcome to my other Naruto/One piece crossover this one will be centered in the Naruto world. hopefully you enjoy and want to read more. Nothing else to say so lets begin.

Disclaimer: I have no ownership rights to either Naruto or One Piece and the characters from them I only claim the ownership of my OC's and original content.

Demon Speak- used for the biju or their containers in demon mode (also giant summon animals Gamabunta but not gamakichi)

Demon Thoughts- used for the biju's private thoughts

Normal speech- used by humans and small sized summons

Normal thoughts-used for humans and small summons private thoughts

Chapter 1: Discovery

We begin our story the day after the Graduation Exam and Naruto's wonderful but also horrible night. He had passed even though he almost helped a traitor escaped the village with the Forbidden Scroll. But he had learned the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu and had defeated the traitor. But not before finding out that he held the Kyubi the creature that nearly destroyed his village the night of his birth. But Iruka had recognized him as him and believed in him, although he almost died from fighting Mizuki. Because of those injuries Team Placements had been put off for a week while Iruka healed. It is with these thoughts swirling in his head that we find our young protagonist heading towards the training grounds to partake in his favorite pass time scavenging for used Kunai and Shuriken.

Yes Naruto Scavenged for weapons and anything else he could find to use or sell. He started doing this when he started the Academy, and when he went to buy his first set of Kunai and Shuriken he had been turned away or Overcharged. Not knowing what to do he had headed to a training ground to vent his frustrations by training, but when he got to the field he found a bunch of thrown and discarded Kunai's and Shuriken's. He was excited to have found what he needed and immediately began collecting the discarded weapons. After collecting them all he found that only five kunai and ten shuriken were actually useable. However this caused an Idea to form in young Naruto's mind go to the other training grounds and collect more until he had enough to make a full set. See while Naruto wasn't book or school smart he was street smart and didn't take anything for granted. He had lived alone for year with only the intermit ant company of his Hokage-Jiji, as well as the friendship of the Ichiraku Ramen stand.

Thus began Naruto scavenging the training fields for useful items He kept the useful Kunai and Shuriken in his pouch and the damaged ones in a box in his apartment, thinking he could use them for something someday. That day came when while searching training field eight he found a scroll and not just any scroll but a Jutsu scroll. Excited about learning a Jutsu he had ran straight to His Jiji in the hopes of learning the Jutsu.

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Flashback Meeting with Jiji.

"Hey Jiji look what i found can you teach me PLEASE!" Naruto shouted as he burst through the Hokage's door much to the Hokages amusement.

"Calm down Naruto now what is it that you want me to teach you?" Hiruzen spoke to the exuberant boy with a small chuckle.

The boy was literally bouncing with excitement handed over the scroll to his Jiji with a rushed and loud "THIS!"

Sarutobi took the scroll and unrolled surprised to see a basic water jutsu written on here. He turned away from the scroll and looked at Naruto and asked "Where did you get this from Naruto?"

Naruto then explained what he had been doing for the last couple of months after what happened at the stores. Hiruzen was saddened to hear this as well as angry but he hid it behind and neutral mask listening to Naruto's story. At the end of it Hiruzen had several questions.

"Naruto do all the stores you go to treat you like that? And why didn't you come to me sooner about it i would have helped you."

"Every place that I've been to besides Ichiraku's and i didn't want to bother you, i have to be able to take care of myself especially if I'm going to be a Ninja." Naruto responded with conviction at the second part. "Can i learn the Jutsu Jiji please?"

Hiruzen sat and thought for a moment while the jutsu he had found wasn't a very strong one it would still raise questions about how an orphan like Naruto had gotten his hands on it. As the Ninja library barred access to any Jutsu except the Academy three to students. And while it was acceptable for a clan member to know and be able to perform other jutsu, that was because they were in a clan and had other to teach them. Naruto didn't have that and he couldn't teach him because that would cause the Civilian Council to try to remove him from power and possibly hurt the young boy. Thinking things through he had come up with an idea that should work.

"Unfortunately Naruto i can't let you learn this Jutsu. However i will let you keep it and once you become a Genin then you may learn it. I will also allow you to continue your scavenging but if you find anymore scrolls you are to bring them to me first and i will determine if they are safe enough for you to learn, if they are then you may keep them and again learn them once you reach Genin. Now i had an idea for all of those broken and useless weapons. First we will pick up your supply of them and then i will take you to a place that will be willing to buy them from you."

While Naruto wasn't happy he couldn't learn the Jutsu he was happy to know his Jiji was allowing him to keep it and learn when he reached Genin. He became excited again at the idea of finding more scrolls, and then ecstatic at the thought of someone being able to buy the damaged weapons. "All Right Jiji lets GO!"

End Flashback

That was the day that Naruto found two stores that allowed him to shop and gave him normal prices. The first one was Higurashi's Armory a weapon shop run by an retired ninja named Shini-Cho Higurashi his wife Cana Higurashi who also worked part time at the Hospital and their Daughter Tenten an aspiring kunoichi a year ahead of him at the academy. Him and Tenten became good friends during his repeat visits to their store. They agreed to pay for the scrap metal Naruto provided and even taught him how to make basic storage scrolls to make transport easier. Naruto took to the seals like a fish to water and asked his Jiji if he could learn more but was told that he would have to wait till Genin again but promised to give him the beginner scrolls when he did. He also learned how to throw Kunai and Shuriken Properly from Tenten, who didn't like to see his former atrocious form. Shini-Cho even showed him how to sharpen and maintain his weapons, so that he could maintain the good shuriken and Kunai he found.

The other was a Grocery store/small restaurant owned and run by the Akimichi clan where he could buy food products at normal prices and also eat somewhere other then Ichiraku's although they still retained most of his business. But the Female owner named Gina; who was actually Choji's mother he later found out; taught him how to cook so he could make delicious healthy meals. Because of her efforts at the time of graduation Naruto wasn't a shrimp but instead was slightly above average height. He stood slightly taller then Kiba and Sasuke but shorter then Shikamaru and Shino.

And that leads us back to current Naruto was excited to be a Genin now as he could finally learn the Jutsus he had recovered over the years and his Jiji was going to stop by tomorrow with the beginner Sealing scrolls. Which is why Naruto was out scavenging today as tomorrow and the rest of the week he was going to spend learning as many of the jutsus he could, and working on his seals afterwards. He also decided to head to a training ground he had heard rumors about Training ground 44. He had heard that a stage of the Chunin Exams was held there and thought that there could be a lot of cool stuff to find in there. So reaching his destination and hopping over the fence with only a glance at the sign to verify that it was the right one, he began his search.

The last half an hour had been pretty calm for Naruto finding a good supply a kunai and shuriken although all of them were to damaged and aged to be used, but they could easily be sold to Higurashi's. But things were starting to get interesting he had just stumbled across a large centipede that was in a clearing with him. Not wanting to take any chances he immediately pulled out a kunai and hurled it at the Centipedes head piercing it at killing it instantly. He then discovered why the Centipede was here there was a duo of skeletons hidden under a tree in the clearing. This freaked Naruto out but after seeing Iruka nearly die and the memory of beating Mizuki to a pulp he was able to pull himself together. He decided to sure the skeletons for anything useful and crawled into the opening. He reached the skeletons and saw that they wore headbands from The Land of Water. He searched them for anything of use, their weapons had rusted away and weren't worth even salvage. He did find however that the one skeleton had a fairly well preserved scroll, he took it out and checked it and saw that it was another water Jutsu. Happy to have found something he pocketed the scroll and started to crawl out of the hole, but before he could the ground gave out beneath him and he and the skeletons fell down the hole. He hit the ground hard and was knocked out.

Sometime later he awoke to find himself in deep cave with very little light. Pulling out his small pack of supplies he brings with him when scavenging he took out a small flashlight and started to look for a way out. He began following the cave as he had no other way to go, eventually he noticed that the walls changed from a natural cave formation look to those of walls made by man. As he walked farther in he eventually came to what looked like an apartment room but underground. There was a desk to the one side with an open book, a bed on the other side with a small piano and a violin sitting on top of it. But the strangest things were the glowing tree sitting in the center of the room with one fruit on it, along with the skeleton with an afro sitting under a chair beneath it. Curious Naruto headed over to the desk hoping to find answers, looking at the Journal first he read the faded but still readable.

To whomever finds this my name is Brook and i am the handsome skeleton with the amazing Afro and musician of the Straw Hat Pirates YoHoHo. This is my final resting place and final mission. But I am getting to far ahead of myself so allow me to explain a bit. I was and forever shall be a member of the Straw hat Crew. A Pirate crew of misfits and outcasts that took over the sailing world and achieved our dreams. We were lead by a funny man named Monkey D. Luffy who's dream was to become King of the Pirates, a dream he achieved with the help of his crew and Nakama including myself YoHoHo. In this Journal tells his and his crews story as told to me by himself and the crew before me and then told by me after i had joined them. Now how does that lead to be being here and all that well the answer to that is what Luffy was after. To become King of the Pirates you had to find the previous kings treasure One Piece and through his journeys and the many fights between we eventually found it. But along with the treasure which i will not reveal what it was YoHoHo was a seed. The seed that grew into the tree before you. We did not know what it would grow into or if it even mattered but we held on to it through out adventures. Eventually there was only me left thanks to my Revive Revive Fruit and being a skeleton i was basically immortal except for death by damage. So after the rest of the crew was gone i sailed away from the seas i knew and ended up here, a place undiscovered by the Marines and pirates a like. It is here that i buried the seed and watched as it grew hidden away from the world in this cave underneath the forest. It took a long time but eventually the tree bore a single fruit, that I'm certain still hangs from it to this day. Why am i certain because it is a Devil Fruit a fruit that gives the eater immense power, although i have no idea about what the fruit does. After achieving my goal of growing the fruit i decided to use the final technique of my devil fruit, Soul Release and with it i passed away to rejoin my Nakama in the after life. I leave everything in this cave to its finder and the fruit is yours to do with as you wish. In here you will find books written by all of my Nakama telling their individual stories, as well their training regiments and books on techniques. Although for mine and my friends Zoro's you might have to find some blades YoHoHo. Finally to get out of here behind me and the tree there is a ladder built into the wall that will lead to the forest outside, although you probably knew that already seeing as you are down here reading this YoHoHo.

Best of luck to you YoHoHo

Brook.

Naruto was shocked and awed, He found a pirate he didn't even know someone like that existed and he had obviously been down here a long time if no one knew about it before. A little sad that he would never get to meet these amazing people he decided that he would use what they left behind to achieve his own dreams of becoming Hokage. Making two shadow clones with instructions to seal up everything in this room except for the fruit and Brook he headed over towards the looked closely at the fruit and saw that it was unlike any fruit he had seen before. It was the shape of Peach but it wasn't the color of one, instead it was changing colors from a shiny silver to a dull iron to a gray iron and then to a bright gold. But that didn't stop Naruto he had made up his mind Brook wrote that it would give him a power something he could use to protect his friends and village and make him strong enough eventually to become Hokage. So with his mind set he plucked the fruit and ate it whole. Before he could even comment on the terrible taste that of rusty copper he blacked out to the surprise of his clones. If only he had flipped over the page of Brooks Journal and seen his hidden Note.

P.S. Just so you know if you eat the fruit you will lose your ability to swim as the sea will be angry with you for taking its power.

P.P.S. Also the fruit will taste terrible and you don't have to eat all of it to receive the power. YoHoHoHo.

A/N: Well that is all for the first chapter sorry to leave you with out know ing what the fruit did to Naruto of why he passed out but that will be explained in the next chapter. Hopefully you liked what i wrote and if you did please leave a review if you want. Next im going to be reworking TWHM and hopefully have that out by the end of the month but if not i will have a new chapter out of something by that time. Until then peace.