Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or One Piece. Be seriously cool if I did.
Chapter One
Naruto ran down the street, taking every turn and ducking into every alley he saw in the attempt at losing the large group of villagers that had gathered to chase him. It happened every year at this time. Usually the villagers treated him with scorn and disdain, but once every year they got together and chased him in the attempt to maim, or kill him.
October 10th, the Kyuubi festival. Also Naruto's birthday, not that anyone would care. Eight years ago, on this exact day, the Kyuubi no Yoko had attacked the village and would have destroyed it had the Yondaime not defeated it. Naruto always thought that this was why thy village disliked him. After all if you find a newborn child straight after the Kyuubi attack and nobody knows whose child it is anyone would think it to be the Kyuubi, but Naruto was sure the old geezer who ran the village knew more than he was telling.
Naruto finally made it back to the run down apartment complex he lived in. It had been vacant since the Kyuubi attack and apparently the Kyuubi's demonic presence still lingered, harming any who came near. To Naruto the building had an aura of comfort, plus none of the villagers would ever dare come near.
He made his way up to the top floor. He had picked out the apartment at the top because it was the only one remotely habitable, the rest falling apart or infested with all manner of things he didn't want to think about.
But Naruto didn't care about any of that.
He didn't care about the villagers hatred of him. He didn't care about the repeated calls for his death. He didn't even care that he had no money, clothes and that he rarely had enough food. Because Naruto had faith.
Faith that one day he would have friends. A family to call his own and a home no one could take from him. And he got through each day focusing on those thoughts. Nakama.
Deep within the depths of Naruto's mind, a part that he would never had the chance to see if it wasn't for the actions of a single man, a large crimson, slitted eye opened after eight long years and cast its gaze around itself. The eye belonged to a creature that was ancient and as it looked around its less than favourable lodgings its memories slowly returned to it. Memories of two men, one blonde and one in an orange masked wielding a pair of cursed eyes, and memories of a red haired woman. A tear welled up in this gargantuan eye as the creature remembered its part in the death of this woman, the first person to treat it like anything other than a demon.
The creature's gaze steeled as it remembered the promise it had made shortly before this woman's death. It would keep this promise, if it was the last thing it did.
Naruto was in the midst of scrounging up any food he could find when he suddenly felt a burning pain in his stomach. "W-what, what is this-AAAGGGHHH!"Naruto collapsed, clutching his stomach before his vision went black.
Naruto slowly awoke to find himself in a large sewer-like area. "What? How did I get here?" He looked around. It was dim, barely lit by flaming torches lining the walls in steel brackets. He looked down to see several inches of water covering his legs up to the knees. Yet, funnily enough, he wasn't wet at all. He stood up and seeing the dead end in front of him turned around.
The sight that greeted him was not what he was expecting. Instead of more sewer Naruto looked up at the reddish-orange fox with nine tails that towered over him.
"You know, I've been waiting a long time to meet you."
Naruto took a second to process that the Kyuubi, the gigantic demon fox that had almost demolished the village eight years ago and was supposedly dead was alive and towering over him. He then proceeded to break down and run back and forth screaming. "AHH ITS GONNA EAT ME!"
During Naruto's rant the Kyuubi just stared at him. Finally the amusement of watching Naruto run back and forth wore off. "Shut up and sit down!" Naruto promptly did just that in an attempt to evade any devilishly cruel fate he had been imagining. "If you'd looked you would have seen I'm incapable of eating you."
Naruto only now noticed the gates that completely separated him from the Kyuubi. The bars were wide enough for the Kyuubi's individual claws to fit through but only just. Halfway up the gates sat a small slip of paper with the kanji for seal on it.
"If you haven't figured it out yet I'm sealed in you and-"
"Ehh?! But how'd you fit?!" exclaimed Naruto.
"I JUST DO! Now if you'll listen I have a proposition for you." Pausing Kyuubi noticed the confused look on Naruto's face. "An offer. Now you're what is known as a jinchuriki a human with one of the nine Tailed Beasts sealed within you. The previous jinchuriki to me was Uzumaki Kushina-your mother. Before she died she coaxed a promise from me to protect you."
Naruto sat there dumbstruck. "M-my mother? She, she did that?" He asked through his tears. "She loved me."
Kyuubi couldn't help but feel slightly sorry for Naruto at this point. "Yes she did. And because of that promise I'm offering a chance to get away from Konoha, all the hatred and the glares. A chance to find that nakama you want."
Naruto didn't have to think long before he answered. "YES!" He then rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "Sorry. Yes. But how?" he questioned.
"I'm going to send you to a different world. You see you grandfather, Uzumaki D. Renji was from a different world. He was the member of a famous group of pirates known as the Roger Pirates and he ate what was known as an Akuma no Mi, a Devil Fruit."
"What's an Akuma no Mi?" Naruto interrupted.
"I was getting there. Akuma no Mi are rare fruits that grant the users different abilities. Renji ate one that made anything he touched disappear into a pocket dimension until he recalled it. Experimenting with it he sent himself here and encountered a clan with the same name as him. Through him you have a link to the world he came from and I can basically jumpstart the link sending you to what he called the world of Grand Line."
Naruto sat there facing downwards. His hair shadowing his face.
"Naruto?" Questioned the Kyuubi starting to grow worried-
"Sugoi! Pirates! When can we go?!" Naruto exclaimed as he jumped forwards through the bars of Kyuubi's cage. "What?! Just like that? Isn't there anyone you want to say goodbye to?"
Naruto's mood grew somber. "Nope. No one."
"Right. Sorry. I forgot."
"Its alright. Theres gonna be new people in this world we're going to. I'll find friends, a home. Its going to be a huge adventure. Lets go!" he cried.
"To Grand Line!"
Right, this is my first fanfic and its a Naruto/One Piece crossover. Naruto's going to be paired with Robin and while I'm fairly set on his Devil Fruit suggestions would be cool. Also for the name of his grandfather I let my brother pick and Renji is one of his favorite characters. Please review.