Hey guys, I'm going to be doing this story as a response to the challenge issued by NeoAmon678. This is a NarutoxOnePiece crossover. It will be hard to juggle multiple stories at a time, but I will try my best. I am saying this so the fans of my The Return of Naruto Namikaze Uzumaki don't think that I am abandoning it. If I do forget about it and you want more of it, don't hesitate to flick me a message reminding me of it. Thank you and I hope that you enjoy this story. Here it is!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or One Piece!

Running, running was all he could think about. Every night he had to run from the villagers, every time he thought of leaving, but then he would be even worse off, those nice people at the ramen stand wouldn't be able to feed him. So he suffered through it every day of his life. His white shirt was a mix between crimson, brown and white. His pants were in of this was even worse on his birthday, they would do it in broad daylight.

Run, run, running for something, protection from these monsters. They say he is a monster, a demon, they do not realise that they are the real monsters, abusing and beating a five year old child. Judging him for something he didn't even know about. 'Demon' they called him, 'Fox brat' as well, what did it all mean? He wasn't a demon or a fox either. Not even the old man would tell him, why?

"Come on! Up here!" An unknown voice said as a rope dropped down from the roof.

Naruto scaled the rope and looked for his saviour. He saw a flash of pale skin and red jumping across the rooftops. He chased it and saw it jump through a hole into an abandoned building near the Hokage's Tower. He followed through it and found himself looking at a living space akin to his own apartment. He saw the person who helped him, it was a girl about his age with jet black hair and red eyes, she wore a red long sleeved shirt and had bandages around her hands and arms. She had a white wrap going around her down to her waist with a single black line with little spikes coming out of it in the middle of it. She wore short red form fitting pants and black sandals.

"Who are you? Why did you help me?" Naruto asked warily.

"My name is Kurenai Yuhi. Why wouldn't I help you?" The newly named Kurenai asked, confused.

"Oh, you aren't going to hurt me are you?" Naruto asked, still wary of this miraculous saviour.

"No, why would I?" Kurenai asked, really confused now.

"Ok… I'm Naruto Uzumaki. Thanks for the save!" Naruto said with a grin.

"That's okay, you can stay here if you want, I've got plenty of space." Kurenai said, gesturing to the space.

"Nah, I've got my own place. You can stay with me if you want. It's warmer there, you can bring your stuff if you want." Naruto said with a smile.

"Okay, I guess." Kurenai said.

"Alright let's grab your stuff and follow me." Naruto said as he started grabbing Kurenai's belongings.

Two Months Later

"-ruto, Naruto, wake uuuup. Wake up Naruto. WAKE UP!" Naruto shot up in his bed wide-eyed before he realised that it was Kurenai trying to wake him up.

He looked to his right and saw that Kurenai was lying in bed next to him with something bright wrapped in a bow, a present. For his sixth birthday. That was today. That he had been looking forward to for weeks. That he forgot about the day before. Oh.

"Oh, that's right! It's my birthday isn't it?" Naruto said with a grin.

Kurenai then face palmed before giving him his present.

"Yeah it is, happy birthday Naruto." Kurenai said with a smile before she hugged him.

Naruto ripped into the wrapping of his present, revealing new clothes. A black hoodie with red strings and red pocket insides, an orange shirt, dark blue cargo pants, white ankle length socks and orange sneakers.

"Ohmygodohmygodohmygod! These are so cool! Thanks Kurenai!" Naruto said before hugging her back fiercely.

"No problem. Now go try them on idiot!" Kurenai said, pushing Naruto out of the bed and whacking him on the head.

Naruto then ran to the bathroom and changed into his new clothes before rushing back to Kurenai.

"Nice, looks like I chose right." Kurenai said, biting her lip while smiling.

"How did you get these? These must have cost money!" Naruto asked, curious as to how Kurenai must have got the clothes.

"Oh, I begged for money and bought them, took me about a week." Kurenai said with a smile.

"A week! You did all that for me? Thank you so much!" Naruto said, jumping on the bed and hugging Kurenai.

"When's your birthday?" Naruto asked Kurenai as he pulled away from the hug.

"Um… I think the 25th of November."

"Ok, cool! Now I know! I'm gonna get something cool for you too!" Naruto said with a grin.

Naruto then took Kurenai's hand and walked out of the apartment, forgetting that the treatment he gets on his birthday.

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Naruto was walking around the markets with Kurenai as he asked her what she liked. She pointed out a necklace with a golden chain and a pendant of a crimson heart with a silver outline. Naruto walked up to the store owner to ask how much it was,

"Demon! Ahhhhh! The demon is here!" The store owner screamed.

Naruto remembered that he got beaten in broad daylight on his birthday, and so told Kurenai to go back to the apartment.

"Kurenai, get back to the apartment now! If they see you with me, they will try to hurt you too. Go! Now!" Naruto said as Kurenai nodded and ran back to the apartment.

Naruto then looked around and saw some villagers and shinobi closing in on him with blunt and sharp weapons alike. He sped off down a back alley as the huge mob started chasing after him. He jumped over boxes, ducked under clotheslines, dodged animals and people as he ran down the alley trying to escape from them. He kept running until he came face to face with a dead end and knew he was boned. He turned around and saw that the mob was already there, he backed up against the wall trying to get as far away from them as he could.

'Why the hell can I get away from the ninja that chase me after doing pranks but I cant get away from a freaking mob?! Seriously!' Naruto thought to himself. 'Anyway, I don't need to poke plot holes in this story right now.'

"Look what we have here boys! A little demon who thinks so highly of himself that he can actually buy things from the stores. Ha! Like you could you little turd." One of the villagers said to him with a sneer.

"What is he wearing, it looks new. He must have stolen it." Another one of the villagers said.

"Did he now? Well you know we don't tolerate stealing. You know what the punishment for that is, right? Time to die, you little shit." One of the shinobi said.

Then started the process of beating and abusing the six year old child. He was slashed, stabbed, burnt, kicked, punched, beaten with blunt weapons and other worse things over and over again until it got dark. The villagers and shinobi then got bored and left the broken and bleeding child on the ground unconscious.

Two Hours Later

Naruto woke up to find that there were still cuts healing up, although it seemed like the worst injuries had been healed. He always did wonder how he healed so fast. He looked at his clothes and found them covered in his blood, ripped, cut and burnt. He then felt bad that his new clothes were ruined. He then sensed that someone was behind him and turned around to see a very big man standing behind him. He had a very large torso, I mean very large. He had legs that were quite small compared to the rest of his body, he wore black gloves, a black zip up, long sleeved shirt with a white circle and four thick white stripes coming from the top, sides and bottom, one on each side with white paw prints along the bottom of the shirt. It sort of looked like a crosshair, he was also wearing long grey pants with what looked like black paint splatter on them, with brown boots and a bucket hat that looked like his pants, except they also had brown bear ears on the sides. He wore what seemed to be glasses with reflective lenses, but then again, they could be his eyes

"Hello young one, I see you are in quite a predicament in this village of yours. I am willing to send you far, far away from here." The man said.

"Really? But the old man and the ramen people will be sad." Naruto replied with a sad tone in his voice.

"Don't worry, I will explain everything to them after you leave. You have two hours to get everything you need before you go. Now go, I will be waiting here." The man said.

"Ok, I'll be back!" Naruto replied as he ran off.

One Hour Later

Naruto had just returned from the Hokage's Tower where he had found a really big scroll with really cool stuff in it. He only had time to copy down three jutsu, the Shadow Clone Jutsu (Kage Bunshin), Great Clone Explosion (Bunshin Daibakuha) and the Fire Style: Cataclysm Jutsu. Those were the coolest sounding ones there, there was one where you could bring dead people back to life, but it required you to kill someone else and that was kind of creepy. He wrote the three down and then exited the building like a ninja. Naruto was curreently on his way back to the apartment to tell Kurenai what was happening. He landed in front of the apartment and entered. Kurenai was there waiting for him.

"Naruto! Are you alright?" Kurenai asked worriedly.

"I'm fine. Do you wanna get out of the village? This guy said that in an hour he will get us out of here and he will explain everything to the ramen people and the old man! Do you want to?" Naruto asked.

"I-I guess so, let's start packing!" Kurenai replied with a small smile.

One Hour Later (Meeting Place)

"Alright, we're ready to go mister!" Naruto said with a grin.

"Both of you? Alright, boy, go behind the girl and grab her really tightly from behind, like you are hugging her." This cause both children to start blushing as Naruto grabbed Kurenai from behind really tightly. (Wow, that sounds wrong in so many ways.) As Naruto had a backpack on and Kurenai was holding one with one hand as the other grabbed one of Naruto's arms, the man took off his glove and was about to slap Naruto's back when Naruto asked him something,

"Hey, mister, what's your name?" Naruto asked.

"Bartholomew Kuma." The man replied, before slapping Naruto's back, which caused Naruto and Kurenai to disappear.

Three Days Later

Naruto awoke below Kurenai, still holding onto her tightly and he slowly rolled her off of him and laid her on the ground, he then saw a dark haired boy that looked a couple of years younger than him. Naruto looked around and saw he was in a paw shaped crater. The dark haired boy then asked Naruto a question.

"Who are you?"

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki and this girl is Kurenai Yuhi, who are you?" Naruto replied.

"Me? I'm Monkey D. Luffy!"

Hey guys, here is NeoAmon678's challenge story. He's a cool dude, he helped me out with some jutsu for The Return of Naruto Namikaze Uzumaki. Hope you guys enjoy this story, I hope I can go further with it. I have the pairings for this one, so there will be no poll. Anyway, see you guys next time! EliteThrasher98 out.