Soul King Naruto Chapter 1, a Naruto + One Piece Crossover fanfic

Soul King Naruto

Chapter 1:

"Friends" now they were dead, he was alone again. That feeling was not very pleasant but he knew he couldn't change it; at least he was happy, happy by having met his friends. The bad thing of being someone so close to immortality was that he had to see how the rest of the people who met die and how the world continues with life. He now had to live hidden on The Forest of Death for hundreds of years. He hopes this change like the way it changed in the past. He could wait, he had waited before and he could still wait more to find someone to take him out of loneliness as Luffy did when the met a long time ago.

"What a disaster, I wasn't expecting this to happen" said an old man as he looks to see how a nine tail fox destroy his precious village.

"Sarutobi-sensei!" was the hurry call of the Yondaime Hokage

"What's the matter Minato? Why are you so hurry? Was the simple questioning of the old man to the person calling him in such a hurry way as a blond man appear in front of him with a baby on arms.

"Well as you can see the Kyuubi is attacking, and I have one last request to ask you Sarutobi-sensei" said the man name Minato.

"Talk that I hear you boy" the older man commanded.

"Can you make sure that Uzumaki Naruto, my son, will be considered by the village as the savior of the Hidden Leave Village?" asked the younger man.

"Why would you ask me that if…" but was interrupted by Minato, "To stop the nine tail beast I will use a forbidden jutsu that will seal the Kyuubi inside my son but as a result I will end up dying as a consequence, I then ask you if you could be the Sandaime Hokage again to take my place while the new kage is chosen and will you also look out for my son?", after analyzing the words of the blond man just said Sarutobi stared at him "I will boy, but what happen to her mother?" the old man asked.

"She died due to childbirth complications and also could you keep the secret that I'm his father, after all I have many enemies that might just want to do harm to him as a revenge of all what I did doing the war and I want him to be out of danger" commented the blond man.

"Do you need help in anything" was the questioning of Sarutobi

"yes after I'm done sealing the Kyuubi will you take Naruto to a save place" said Minato as a request.

"Of course I will" answer Sarutobi.

"Then I need to go and prepare myself" said the Yondaime as he left.

The fight with the Kyuubi was hard and he even had to summon the chief toad Gamabunta to help him with the fight. It was necessary to give up his life in order to save the people from his village, to save his son, he had to do it; it was his responsibility as the Yondaime Hokage, and as a father.

After his fight with the Kyuubi and being successful in seal in the beast inside his son, Minato decided to give his last word to the son that was never going to see again as he has being lower by his friend toad Gamabunta

"You are going to grow to be a great shinnobi and the Kyuubi's chakra is going to be yours to control, I love you my dear son and sorry for leaving you alone… I am very happy to have such a nice boy as a son… be a good boy and protect those who are dear to you…" Soon the Sandaime Hokage appear in front of him, and felt sorry to be observing the scene that was happening in front of his eyes. A young blonde, powerful shinnobi and a great leader was dying with his newborn baby on arms. He was young, too young to die, he decided to get near Minato, to reach for the man's baby, as he got the boy in his arms he did notice how alike they were, but his observation of the boy was interrupted when the large toad spoke

"I was nice meeting you Minato, But I have to go now I running low on chakra", "Don't…worry…Gama…It…was…a…pleasure…working…with…you" was Minato's response and soon after the chief toad disappear in a cloud of smoke, Minato soon returned his gaze on little Naruto and the Sandaime look at him back, Minato then gave the Sandaime a big smile as he died.

Not far away was a tall, skinny shadow looking at everything that had happen

"A good leader died with a smile on his face, it seems that the will of D is still burning, don't you agree Luffy-san…"

Eight years later

"So… Another full moon looms over the Forest of Death?" a very skinny, and very tall figure said from the canopy of one of the trees in the forest, looking up into the dark blue sky, the pale yellow light of the moon casting its eerie glow across the landscape.

"I wonder how many years have passed since way back then. A thousand? Two thousand? Five thousand? I've sort of lost count," he continued as he pulled out a violin and tuned the strings before quietly playing to himself. "Oh how I long for true companionship, but this life I lead is a truly lonely one. Except that I am already dead. Yohohohoho," he chuckled to himself in a hushed tone.

The next moment, a panicked cry rung through the air, causing him to get up from his perch and peer through the treeline to the ground just outside his home.

Upon the sight of a somewhat-familiar, whisker-marked blond running for his life from a mob of angry shinobi once again, his nonexistent eyebrows furrowed. His eyes then locked onto a shinobi standing by one of the forty four gates, almost as though he was waiting for the whisker-marked blond to follow.

"Come on. Through here. Those guys won't follow," the shinobi by the gate instructed as he opened the gate, letting the panicking blond through before a sickeningly-sweet smile stretched itself onto his face.

A moment later the mob from earlier followed the panic-stricken blond into the forest, the lone figure's bony hands tightening around his violin.

"So once again they threaten that poor boy's life," the figure said standing to full height, his clothes whipping in the wind that swept over the trees. "Tonight… things will be different," he said as he dropped down past the canopy and into the darkness.

Ten minutes later into the Forest of Death, one blond's hopeful treck of escape went south as soon as that "good samaritan" let him throught. These freaky plant-things tried to eat him, then there were giant squirrels with steak knife teeth, and then there was the mob behind him that threw broken bottles, steel pipes, shuriken, and kunai at him.

He'd been able to dodge most of them, since being chased by angry mobs wasn't anything new, but this time, they seemed especially determined to carry out their threats.

Then, after coming out into a clearing, he suddenly found himself herded into a veritable wall of trees and thorny bushes. No matter how he looked at it, trying to escape from there would get him cut up pretty badly. However, going back wasn't an option, because just as soon as he turned around, he came face to face with the angry mob. There were over a dozen this time around, and at least half of them were Konoha-nin.

"Looks like we've got you cornered," a villager sneered, a broken bottle in his hand.

"You've got nowhere to run," a Konoha-nin with a large scar over his left eye, discolored a milky white.

"Prepare to die demon spawn. Tonight, we finish what the Yondaime Hokage started," the red-eyed ninja said placing his hand on his sword.

Why… What did I do wrong? Naruto asked himself as he hugged his knees to his chest, just wanting this nightmare to end.

The next moment, a strange humming tune rung out through the air, those gathered oddly enough taking the time to listen. For some reason, it seemed as though the song were coming from every direction at once.

Yohohoho Yohohoho

"Who the hell's singing?" one of the ninja asked as the song rung through the air.

Yohohoho Yohohoho

Binks no sake wo

Todoke nin yuku yo

Yumi kaze kima kase namima kase

Shio no muou de yuuhi mo sawagu

Sora nia wawo kaku tori no uta

"Damn it! Show yourself already!" another ninja demanded, sending a kunai in a random direction, hoping to elicit some sort of reaction.

Yohohoho Yohohoho

The next moment, a tall, lanky figure wearing a top hat and suit with their hair styled in… an afro, walked past them from the shadow of a nearby tree, his face hidden by the overcast as he made his way past the lynch mob that had gathered to "finish the Yondaime's work". He appeared to be carrying a long sword with a curved handle like the end of a cane in his right hand, and what was probably the sheath in his right hand.

After walking past the group and stood right in front of the terrified blond, he then surprised the lynch mob by sheathing his sword, instead of using it against the "demon spawn".

"Hanauta Sancho:…" the shadowed figure intoned as he slid his sword further into the sheath, the low strum of its friction rubbing into the air. "Yahazu Giri!" he suddenly cried as he completely sheathed it after stopping it an inch away.

Clack

At the moment the clack of the sword being sheathed rung through the air, blood suddenly flew through wounds across the villager's and shinobi's stomachs, almost like they'd all been cut all at once.

"Ahhhhh!" the villagers cried as they fell to the ground.

"What the hell?" one of the ninja demanded as he got to his feet, leveling his gaze at the afro'd figure standing defensively in front of the "demon". "Who are you!"

"I could ask you that," the figure said as he turned back to those still alive, his face still hidden from the shadows. "Who are you to attack an innocent child like this? What did he ever do to him?"

"Innocent? Bah! That little brat killed half the village eight years ago, and tonight, I'm going to finish what the Yondaime started!" the red-eyed ninja cried as he rushed forward, his katana piercing through the figure's chest where his heart was and coming out the back, causing Naruto to gasp as the figure's head slumped forward. "Demon lover. You'll die just like him."

"I do not think so," the figure said as the cloud coverage overhead began to peel away from the moon, the darkness peeling away from the figure's face until it revealed… a skull!

"What? Is this some sort of genjutsu!" the figure demanded as the tomoe in his eyes spun madly, trying to break the "genjutsu" cast on him.

"This is no illusion," the figure, now revealed as nothing but a skeleton in a black suit with orange lining and a blue tie. "But this…" he said as he reeled back his sword. "Is real," he said sending it through the Uchiha's heart, his eyes widening before he was thrown back, a hole through his chest as he slowly bled to death.

"Who… Who are you…?" the dying Uchiha gasped.

"I need not explain myself to a dead man," the tall skeleton said after whipping his blade at the ground, dislodging the blood before he sheathed his blade. "Now then, are you okay?" he asked as he turned back to Naruto, who's jaw had dropped at the sight of the… skeleton who had saved him.

"Sugoi…" he awed at the sight. "Who are you?"

"My name is Brook. Also, do you know why those men were trying to hurt you?" the skeleton known as Brook asked.

"I don't know…" Naruto said leaning back against a tree, letting his heart rate drop. "This always happens. Especially on my birthday, but I don't know why."

"So this must be the Yondaime's child, the one that was suppost to be the hero of the village, I guess that he doesn't know about the Nine Tail Fox… how unfair" was the thinking process that went thru the afro'd skull head

"Well that doesn't seem fair," Brook said taking a seat next to him. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine. Hey… I have a question."

"Shoot the breeze."

"If you're a skeleton, then how come you have hair? Doesn't it fall out when you die?" the blond asked in curiosity.

"I have very deep roots," Brook said poofing his afro, causing the blond to laugh before he looked back up at him.

"Hey Brook. But why go so far to help me?" Naruto asked. "I mean… everyone else just walks by or ignores me when this stuff happens."

"Because like you, I know what it's like to lead a lonely existence," Brook replied. "However, I soon found Nakama that I thought the world of and would give my life for," he said solemly. "Except that I'm already dead! Yohohohoho! Skull joke! Oh hohohohoho!" he chuckled.

"Hahahaha! Skull joke! Hahahahaha!" Naruto cackled, this undead gentleman having broken through his emotional walls with a single joke. Even if it were true.

"So… What's your name?" Brook asked.

"Me? I'm Naruto. Naruto Uzumaki, the next Hokage," Naruto said puffing out his chest.

"Hokage eh? That reminds me of a friend of mine who wanted to be Pirate King a while back," the afro'd skeleton chuckled at the memories. This boy reminds me a bit of Luffy. Even down to that toothy smile. Yo hohohoho.

"Hey, do you think you could teach me to do that trick you did?" Naruto asked. "I didn't even see you do anything."

"And here I thought your next question would be why I'm a skeleton and can talk," Brook chuckled as he walked off into the forest, the blond following beside him.

"That too. But seriously, can you teach me?" the blond asked with gusto.

"Yohohohoho. I think I'm going to enjoy having you around," Brook chuckled. "Come with me. We'll begin your training in the morning."

"And I get to know more about you?" asked Naruto

"Yes, and I will tell you incredible stories that I have being thru with my friends, you will be a new man when we're done with your training"

"Seriously?" ask an impressed Naruto

"Yes, for I once was known as the Soul King! Yohohoho, and you Naruto, you are going to become the next Soul King and that is how you are going to achieve you goals…"