Into the Great Ocean
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
AN: It was either this or the bleach xover… I was leaning more to this one because I wanted to try writing a Naruko character; aside from Luck Naruko I haven't really had much experience typing her character as well as feeling the lack of strong and I mean really strong female chars like Admiral level in OP verse. I know Big Mam is strong and all as a yonkou but she's still only one character. So yeah this is a OP x Naruto I mean Naruko xover. Oh and this was inspired by Jiraiya's dying quote of the frog in the bottom of the lake returning to the great ocean.
ANN: This is an AU for Narutoverse as well where Minato and Kushina are alive, and because of that the Massacre is averted. There are some more changes in Narutoverse that will be mentioned throughout the story in either the actual plot or ANS before the chapter starts.
ANNN: Pictures are at my profile.
Tags: AU [Emphasis], Violence, Gore, Gender Bender
Pairings: None So Far
Unbeta'd
-Into the Great Ocean-
Story Starts
Chapter 1: Run Away Princess
It all started with a fruit, an atypical fruit that was being sold in one of the many stands in the merchant district of a certain village hidden in the leaves. The fruit itself was what could be described as out of this world, it looked rather rough, with a large bundle of berry-like fruits tightly compressed together while forming the shape of clashing spirals, its colour was purple with a dash of red and blue along the sides of the fruit.
It was certainly unique, and in its uniqueness the fruit managed to grab the attention of a certain girl that was passing by. The girl's cerulean blue eyes looked at the fruit curiously, her small stature standing in front of a rather shady looking stall where the fruit was being sold. She broke her look on the fruit as her gaze slowly shifted to the owner of the stall.
It was a man, an old man with pale white skin and a gruff looking beard. The man was sitting behind his stall garbed in a black cloak hiding most of his body.
"Umm mister?" the girl asked as the wind gently blew making her golden blonde hair flow along with the wind.
"Yes gaki?" the old man asked as he looked at his customer, a girl wearing a plain black shirt that has a red spiral symbol emblazoned on its chest along with light brown pants. The girl also has cerulean blue eyes and slightly tanned skin along with her golden blonde hair styled in pigtail.
"Neh, mister what is this?" the girl asked as she pointed at the strange fruit on top of the man's stall.
"Ahhhh" the man said smirking as he played with his white beard with his free hand "That is just a fruit I picked up in my travels."
"Travels?"
"Yes" the man cleared his throat "I have travelled to places beyond this nation of the elements. I have traversed all four seas; I have been through the new world and back. I am the-" he looked at the girl and noticed she wasn't paying attention her eyes still fixed on the fruit. The man smiled "I guess I'm not important." He cleared his throat once more to get the girl's attention. "Do you want to take the fruit?" he asked.
The girl shook her head "No, I'm not supposed to take things from people I don't know"
"Did your father say to not take things from strangers?" the merchant joked.
"Hai" the girl admitted nodding her head as she did so.
"Why?"
"Because he said that some people are bad and they might want to hurt me"
"Ahh but I am not one of those people, I am but a kind and humble merchant" the man said as he stood up slowly and took the strange fruit in hand before tossing it at the girl.
"Whoa~" the girl cutely said as she caught the strange fruit.
"Take it gaki I have a feeling that you'll need this in the future."
"Thank you for the fruit mister" the girl said as she bowed her head.
"It's not a problem gaki, but can you answer a simple question"
"Hai? What do you want to ask jii-san?"
"What's your name?" the man asked.
"Namikaze D. Naruko" the girl answered.
The man paused for a moment before breaking out in a fit of chuckles "Hahahaha, this truly was a destined meeting" the man said laughing while hitting his leg with one hand while the other rested on his stomach.
"Muuhhh~ are you making fun of me?" the girl asked puffing her cheeks cutely as she hugged the fruit.
"No. I am just laughing at how fickle fate is" the man said as he recovered from his small laughing fit. "Why don't you try eating the fruit gaki"
"Mhmm~" the girl looked hesitant for a second before taking a bite out of the fruit. Three bites later the girl ate the entire fruit and safe to say the girl found it as the most disgusting thing she has ever tasted. "Blergh! It tasted so bad Jii-chan" the girl complained as she stuck out her tongue.
"Hahaha I know it tastes bad but trust me from here on out things will just get better for you." the man said proudly. He then looked at the horizon and noticed that it was almost sunset
"I think it's about time for you to go home gaki. It's getting late"
"Oh yeah, thank you for reminding me Jii-chan I don't want Okaa-san and Otou-san to get mad at me" Naruko said as she quickly left the stall and started running to her house.
"Goodbye gaki" the man whispered as he watched the girl's back disappearing along with the sun in the horizon. "May you continue to carry on the will of D" the merchant said as he began fixing his stall before leaving the area, never to be seen or heard of again.
That night the girl had trouble sleeping because she felt both hot and cold at the same time.
-Into the Great Ocean-
A few years later
In the midst of a flood plain along a great river within Mizu no Kuni stood two figures one, or at least one of them stood while the other was on their knees coughing in the ground. "Muuu… This is stupid" the girl now aged ten complained as she breathed heavily on top of dry land, her simple orange shirt and dark blue pants were now soaked in freezing cold water. Why is she wet and exhausted you ask? Because the young Namikaze spent the entire day learning(read screwing up) the ninja art of water walking from none other than her father figure through the recent years the one and only super self-proclaimed super pervert Jiraiya.
"That's strange gaki… your chakra control is good for your age…" the toad sage man rubbed the back of his head "You can tree walk perfectly and use Shosen Jutsu (Mystical Palm Technique) to a certain extent, so why can't you water walk?"
Naruko glared at her teacher as she finally regained her breath "I'm doing it right. I know I'm doing it right but for some reason my chakra destabilizes the moment I step on water… it's as if it dissolves…"
"Hmmm that's strange" the older man said as he sat down a nearby rock and began scribbling down notes in an orange notebook.
"Ero-jiji?" the girl called out as she stood up and shook her body, despite the freezing temperature of the water she felt rather warm and unaffected by it. She doesn't know how but for some reason she developed a high tolerance towards the hottest or coldest temperatures. Add to the fact that a few years ago she also discovered that she has the ability to create both the hottest of fire and coldest of ice in the palm of her hands. Again she didn't really know how she could perform such a feat but it was awesome.
The sage asked as he stopped scribbling down notes for a moment and looked at his student's daughter. Truth be told, he also felt like the girl was his own daughter or at least granddaughter, since he basically raised the girl for the last few years together with his wife Tsunade. Heck he was sure Tsunade considered the girl in front of him as her own daughter. Why else would she teach the girl how to gambler, use healing jutsu, or even her super strength? For some reason that thought of the girl in front of him growing into a second Tsunade sent shivers down his spine. "What is it gaki?"
"Um... why can't I be back in Konoha with my family?" the girl asked making the older man sigh. IT wasn't the first time the girl asked the question and it probably won't be the last. "I already told you before Naruko, you can't go back to Konoha right now because it's a dangerous time. Your family is currently spear heading operations against a group called Akatsuki"
"Why can't I fight with them then?"
"Because your still too young gaki" the man said as he patted the head of the girl, as much as he'd like to grant the girls wish and bring her back to Konoha where her friends and family were he couldn't. With the attack of the masked man a few years ago Minato found out that the village's defences have been compromised. He really didn't want to risk the safety of his daughter so he decided to send her to possibly the safest place in the world which was under the guidance of two of the three Sannin.
"I miss them Ero-Jiji…" the girl said as she looked at the ground. She really missed everyone, her family, her friends, and her best friend. She sighed and tried to think of something else less she further want to depress herself "Neh Ero-jii" the girl called out once more as her gaze shifted from the ground and into the nearby river where she almost drowned in a few times this day.
"What is it gaki?"
"Ano where does this lead too?" the girl asked as she pointed at the large body of water nearby while looking at the older man beside her.
"That leads to the Ocean Gaki"
"Ocean?"
"Yeah" the man said as he looked at the river with a serene look on his face as if he was reminiscing something.
"Naruko, do you want to hear a secret?"
"Umm if it's not perverted then sure otherwise I'll tell Obaa-san"
The older man immediately shook his head and hands in front of the girl "No no no this is definitely not perverted." He said to the girl who nodded to him "Why don't you take a seat this might take a while."
"Hai~" Naruko cheerfully replied while sitting on the ground legs crossed.
"You know I travel a lot right?"
"Yeah"
"Well when I was a bit younger I once grabbed a ride on this ship and travelled across the ocean. I was on that ship for months until it docked in a land across the seas. Would you believe me if I tell you it was a land without ninjas?"
"No ninjas how is that even possible?"
"Well I don't really know I only really spent a while there before going back. I did meet this one man and even without chakra he was quite strong, called himself a pirate or something." the sage then laughed "We became good friends, I even joined his crew and sailed the seas for months, it was really fun but I had to leave."
"Why did you leave from what you're saying it seemed like you were enjoying yourself?" the girl asked she was certainly entrance with the older man's tale.
"Well I had to return to Konoha because the toads told me of another war occurring in the horizon"
"Hmmm... I wonder if I can see that place one day" she said as she looked at the waves.
"You know one of these days I'd like to travel those oceans once more. Who knows if you're strong enough I'd bring you along"
"Muuhh" the girl grumbled out as she crossed her arms on her chest and puffed her cheeks "You know one day I'll be stronger than you"
"Hehehe~ you're not bad Gaki" the man said as he rubbed the girl's head. "You know you're the only person I told this wish to." Jiraiya chuckled "It's really funny I always told my previous students about my wish for peace but it never occurred to me to tell them about my wish to travel the seas."
The old sage looked at the sky taking note of the dark clouds approaching "I'm just a frog in the bottom of a well that wishes to reach the great ocean once more" he said with a hint of sadness in his voice.
"Don't worry Ero-ji, If you can't go back there I'll make sure to travel in your place. That's a promise." The girl said snapping the older man out of his melancholic daze.
The older man smiled kindly as he looked at the girl, she was still sitting on the ground with a large grin on her face that reminded the old sage of the girl's mother "Hahaha, I'd like that… my wish for peace is already being carried on my previous students, so I guess my wish to return to the ocean can be carried on by you." he then smiled mischievously deciding to tease the girl. The oceans are a rough place gaki, lots of strong creatures out there so someone like you who can't even water walk or swim is basically asking for a death sentence."
"It'll work out in the end!" the girl shouted as she continued pouting.
"And what about your dream of becoming the Hokage?" the older sage asked.
"Otou-san can keep that seat for a while and, there are a lot of people better for the Hokage seat before me heck Itachi-nii and Inu-san will probably be the next ones in line to be Hokage."
"Oh? What about him then, don't you think he's a Kage Candidate?"
"Nope because Itachi-nii can kick his ass"
"Hahaha don't put him down just for that, the two of them only fought once and both were holding back."
"Muuuhhh" the girl pouted again making the older sage sigh it seems that he stepped on a landmine here since the girl for some reason never got along with him. "You know what gaki, why don't you show me one of those techniques that you've been developing"
"Why should I? Secrecy is part of being a shinobi an-"
"I'll teach you the Rasengan (Spiralling Sphere) if you impress me"
"And it's not wise to show your… wait you'll teach me the Rasengan?" the girls eyes widened as she shot out from her sitting position. "Really Ero-jiji?"
"Yeah"
The girl smiled brightly "Well then get ready to be impressed Ero-jiji" she said as she stood up straight feet apart hands up horizontally palms facing the heaves.
"What are you supposed to b-" the toad sage was about to ask only to stop half way through his eyes widening at the sight he saw. The girls left hand was covered with fire while her right hand was covered in what looked like a coat of crystalline ice. He saw her smirk as she clapped both of her hands together he had to close his eyes as a bright light surrounded the area. When the old man opened his eyes he was given the sight of two large craters one filled with flames the other with ice, standing in between the two crates was a smirking blonde pigtailed girl.
Safe to say that day marked the day Naruko's Rasengan training started.
-Into the Great Ocean-
The girl now twelve made her way towards her parents' house. For the past few months she has been allowed back in Konoha in order to participate for the Genin graduation exam. She smiled while running in her hand was a certificate indicating her title as rookie a year, a title she shared with her best friend. Channeling as much chakra as he could on her legs the girl ran through the newly constructed Namikaze-Uzumiaki compound. It wasn't as big as the Uchiha's or the Hyuuga's but it was still pretty huge.
"Oh look it's Namikaze-sama"
"Good evening Namikaze-sama"
"Hello Namikaze-sama"
The girl slowed her running as she smiled and waved at the blonde haired or red haired people greeting her. Most of the residents of the compound were members of the Namikaze clan as well as the survivors of the Uzumaki Clan that her mother Kushina searched for and convinced to join Konoha.
"Oi, Why the fuck are you in such a rush gaki?" Naruko heard making her stop on her tracks and look immediately towards the direction of the voice. Sitting down on a nearby stall that sold dango was none other than one of her friends. She has long red hair that went pass her shoulder, porcelain white skin that stood in contrast with her black sleeveless shirt and black jonin pants.
"Hello Tayuya-nee" the girl said as she cheerfully waved at the girl, a kind gesture that Tayuya returned.
"So where's the fire Naru-chan?" the red-haired Uzumaki asked.
"Well I just wanted to go home to show everyone this" Naruko said proudly as she showed a certificate to Tayuya who let out a low whistle.
"Wow rookie of the year, not bad Naru-chan" the foul-mouthed kunoichi said as she patted the younger girl's hair. "I'm sure your family will be proud of you"
"Thank you Nee-chan"
"No problem Naru-chan" the girl said before pinching the girl's cheeks "But what did I tell you to call me the last time?"
"Ughh… do I really have too?" the girl asked as she looked at Tayuya who was smiling slyly as she nodded.
"Anego" the girl whispered making Tayuya smile as she let go of the girl's cheek. "Good, well I wouldn't like to keep you here any longer"
"Thank you Angeo" said Naruko as she waved goodbye at the older kunoichi before running her home.
After a few more minutes of running Naruko reached a simple looking three-story house that stood in the middle of the entire compound. The girl smiled and excitedly opened the door before running inside.
"Everyone!" the girl shouted her eyes closed while she smiled "I graduated top of the class. I'm rookie of the year" the girl said proudly expecting praise and the kind embrace of her family in response.
Instead she got silence, dulling silence along with the sight of a dark and empty house when the girl opened her eyes. There was no one inside, just like always.
She sighed while taking a few steps towards the kitchen opening the lights as she did so. The girl looked around and frowned when she spotted a note on top of the kitchen table.
We discovered another Akatsuki base, went with Otou-san to investigate.
If you need anything just go to Miko-chan's house tonight already told her you were coming.
xox,
Kushina
The girl visibly deflated as she crumpled the piece of paper before burning it in her hand. She dropped the certificate and placed it on top the table where she found the note. Naruko then walked towards the fridge and opened it only to find that there wasn't anything inside except for carton upon cartons of expired milk.
"I wonder if he's here." The girl said as she closed the fridge and made her way to the second floor of the house. The house itself was simple, a living room, dining room, bathroom/onsen, and kitchen on the first floor, one master bed room along with a few smaller rooms in the second floor, and finally one huge jutsu library along with the office/ study in the third floor.
The girl kept walking as she reached a room in the middle of the hall in second floor. Before she could even knock or enter the room the girl found a note sticking in its wooden frame. "
Not here on a mission" she read before sighing once more, Jiraiya and Tsunade were going to pick her up tomorrow to resume her training under them, she really wanted to see her family once more but it didn't look like it was going to be possible. Shaking her head the girl left her house and made her way to the Uchiha Compound.
-Into the Great Ocean-
"Yohho Miko-chan~" Naruko greeted after opening a sliding door leading to the house of the one and only Uchiha Mikoto and her family.
"Hello Naru-chan" said a beautiful raven haired woman as she walked out from the kitchen to greet her lively visitor. "Kushi told me that you'd be coming tonight for dinner."
"Hai~"
"Dinner will be ready in a while, oh and congratulations on becoming rookie of the year"
"Ah thank you Miko-chan" the girl said as she scratched the back of her head a habit she seemingly inherited from her sensei "But you know I tied with-" the young Namikaze stopped as she heard the sound of light footsteps approaching. She didn't even need to look to know who it belonged to. Channeling chakra into her feet Naruko kicked off the ground and before suddenly glomping the newcomer a girl her age with porcelain white skin and raven black hair tied into a long ponytail.
"Yohoo~ Sayu-chan~" Naruko told the girl as she hugged the new comer, her co rookie of the year ,best friend, and only daughter of Mikoto, Uchiha Sayuri.
"Ugghh… get off Naru-chan" the girl said as she looked at the girl who was crushing her in a hug.
"Don't wanna bleh~" the girl said as she stuck her tongue out making Mikoto giggle in the side as she recalled the same scene happening in the past only involving her and a certain red hair hot headed kunoichi.
Sayuri sighed "You really are a handful sometime" she said as she patted the blonde hair of her friend.
"Just like Kushi-chan and me when we were younger"
"Huh? You're still pretty young Miko-chan" said Naruko.
"Ahh thank you Naru-chan for that you'll get a bigger serving tonight."
"Yatta! Thank you Miko-chan" the girl said as she released her friend from the glomp before pumping her fist in the air.
"Okaa-san don't you think you should go back to the kitchen? I think dinner might be burning" Sayuri said as she rubbed her shoulders. Seriously Naruko just didn't know her own strength from time to time.
"Ahh. Yes well I'll see you two later" Mikoto said as she walked back to the kitchen to prepare the night's meal.
"So what do you wanna do Sayu-chan?" asked the ever so cheerful Naruko.
Sayuri just stared at the girl for a while before gesturing her to follow. The two walked silently towards the veranda overlooking a small courtyard connected to the house's living room. The Uchiha gracefully took a sat down on the wooden floor of the veranda before patting on the side gesturing Naruko to join her. The blonde nodded and sat down beside her friend as the two looked at the early night sky, the sun was just setting as an orange twilight covered the sky.
There was a moment of silence as the two just kept their eyes locked on the beauty that nature presented to them. "So what's troubling you?" Sayuri asked as she decided to break the silence.
"Huh what are you talking about?"
"Naru-chan I've been your best friend for a long time now. I've been your friend since we were kids. I know when something is bothering you."
"Oh, how did you find out then?"
"I won't tell you, otherwise you'll fix that troublesome habit of your making it even more troublesome to notice if something is disturbing you"
"You've been hanging around Shikamaru-san too much." Naruko said noting the other girls use of the word troublesome.
"Well you've been hanging around Itachi-nii too much" said Sayuri as she looked at Naruko before smirking "Don't tell me you have a crush on Itachi-nii"
"What are you talking about?" Naruko shouted out as she shot out of her seat. "I-I don't have a crush on your brother." The girl shook her head in complete denial "Don't you mean that you have a crush on him?"
"Hn"
"Ghaaa why must you always grunt like that when you're loosing and argument you Brocon"
"I am not losing an argument Naru-chan and I don't know what a Brocon is"
"It's a term Jiraiya sensei came up with for younger sisters that have the hots for their brother i.e you!" Naruko said with a smug look on her face as she pointed at Sayuri.
"What did you say Dobe?" Sayuri asked feeling that the blonde has overstepped her bounds.
"I said you're a Brocon Teme!" shouted Naruko.
The two glared at each other as sparks flew from their visions. From the living room walked in Sayuri's dad Fugaku who saw the two girls glaring at each other. Being the wise man that he was Fugaku immediately turned around and left to go to the kitchen to see how Mikoto was doing.
"Grrr" Naruko growled out.
"Grrr" Sayuri matched the growl with hers.
The two kept growling and glaring at each other before smirking and breaking out into a fit of giggling that turned into full brunt laughter.
"I… needed… that…. Thanks…. Sayu…." Naruko said in between her laughter as she held on tightly to her stomach.
"No problem" Sayuri said as she finally stopped laughing. "It's okay if you don't want to tell me what's bothering you but know that I'm here for you"
"It's my family" Naruko said deciding to share her troubles with her friend.
"Your family?" asked at ravenette.
"Yeah… I barely see them…" Naruko said sadly as she looked back up on the early night sky. "Even for the past month that I've been here I only saw them once…" the girl deflated as she decided to lie down on the wooden floor, her eyes never leaving the sky.
"Ero-jiji and Tsunade-baachan are more of a family to me than my real one. Sometimes I think they don't care about me anymore" the girl complained not noticing Sayuri inching towards her hand raised up in the sky.
*Bonk*
"Ouch what was that for?" Naruko said as she held on her head forehead.
"They care about you baka don't think otherwise…"
"I know but…"
"Your family will always be there for you no matter what remember that Naru-chan"
Naruko smiled this was probably the most her friend had tried to actually comfort someone since she was rather cold to others. "Thanks for being my friend Sayu-chan"
"Don't worry I'll always be your friend Naruko" the Uchiha said as she looked at the night skies.
Naruko looked at the skies as well; the sun was now fully set and in its place stood the moon, shining ever so dimly in the night sky amidst a sea of clouds. "Thank you Sayuri"
-Into the Great Ocean-
It has been five years since that night spent sitting on the veranda beside her friend while looking at the skies. Not much has changed for the girl in terms of her relationship with Sayuri. The two remained best of friends even after the young blonde left for few years' worth of training under Tsunade and Jiraiya. Aside from that Naruko's life had been rather normal, she trained, she studied, and she did missions, made more friends, made even more enemies. Her relationship with her family remained relatively the same with her still barely seeing them even after five years. It was plain, it was repetitive and a bit boring but it was okay.
However today was different. It was dark and cloudy, as the heavens roared in intervals threatening to rain.
Today she was just given the news of an event that happened months ago.
Her father figure Jiraiya died, killed by his very own student who was the leader of the very same organization that her parents hunted down.
So the girl now a young woman stood in front of a stone memorial her hand tracing at one name engraved upon the stone of heroes. She was wearing an opened zip up jacket with its neck and shoulder and sleeves coloured black while the other parts were coloured orange. Beneath he opened jacket the girl was wearing a black sports bra and a mesh shirt that covered her well tone flat stomach. The girl was also wearing an orange skirt on top of a pair of black shorts along with black stockings that went just above her knees to finish of her attire she was also wearing a pair of white shinobi sandals. She also still had the same twin tailed hair styled hair tied up by red ribbons that she had when she was younger- albeit it was now longer stopping just above her hips.
"Baka-jiji… don't you know Tsunade baa-chan got pregnant?" the girl asked tears streaming down the side of her face. "Who knew you still had it inside you huh?" she chuckled closing her eyes as she recalled the apparent fate of the man who stood against a self-proclaimed god. They said his body fell deep into the ocean. "You always did say you want to go back to the ocean one day…" Naruko said smiling as she sensed another presence arriving in the area.
Turning her head around the girl saw a very familiar young woman with porcelain white skin and long raven black hair tied to a high pony tail. She was wearing a lavender coloured long-sleeved shirt that was open at the torso showing of white bandages that were wrapped around her breasts. She was also wearing dark blue pants with a purple rope like belt around her waist tied up in a bow, where her sheathed chokuto rested. "Hello Sayu-chan"
"Hello Naru-chan" Sayuri replied her voice low and solemn.
"Hey no need for you to be gloomy too" said Naruko as she smiled at her friend. "If I know Ero-jiji he'd rather not have beautiful girls like us looking sad over his death." She joked as she walked towards her friend and patted her back.
"Are you okay Naru-chan you know-"
"It's fine now Sayu, there's no use on staying here any longer and crying about. I don't want to be like Kakashi sensei you know."
"Yeah, you wouldn't want to openly read those smut you have in public right?"
"B-baka Sayu!" the girl blushed "Don't say that" she said covering her friend's mouth with her hands.
"Hai hai" replied Sayuri
"So why are you here Sayu? I thought you were in a mission" Naruko asked as she walked back towards the monument.
"I just got back actually." She crossed her arms in front of her chest as her eyes landed on the memorial stone "I met Itachi-nii on the village gates before he left on a mission. He told me you were in the village" she took a few steps towards the monument.
"So you didn't tell me why you're here?"
The Uchiha smiled "Well I'm here to check up on a friend"
"Thank you" Naruko said as her eyes landed on her sensei's name recalling the moments she spent with him in the past, all the good times and the bad times. She smiled sadly "Baka-jiji" she said before recalling a certain memory of the past. A promise made beside a river in Mizu no Kuni.
"You know Sayu" Naruko started grabbing the attention of her close friend. "Jiraiya-jiji told me one of his dreams."
"Is it the dream of peace that Hokage-sama talked about during Jiraiya-sama's obituary?"
"No a different dream" Naruko said as she shook her head before turning towards Sayuri. "A dream to travel across the oceans, to travel in the lands far beyond the elemental nations, to return to the place without ninjas"
"That certainly sounds like a unique place"
"Neh Sayuri-chan?"
"Yeah?"
"Would you like to go on an adventure with me?" the pigtailed blonde asked with a bright smile on her face.
-Into the Great Ocean-
A week later inside the Hokage's office, one Namikaze D. Minato, Yondaime Hokage of Konoha, currently acknowledge as the most powerful Kage among the Elemental Nations sat behind his desk, eye brows twitching as he read over the note in front of him.
He didn't really know how much time has already passed since this note was placed in front of his desk nor did he know how it was placed without anyone noticing, as for the notes content it held the heart-felt message from his daughter. A daughter that he admits he spent little to no time with because of current war effort against Akatsuki.
Hey Hokage-sama
Going on an adventure to the lands beyond the ocean
I dragged Sayuri along
Don't know when we'll be back
See you when I see you
Ciao,
Naruko
The Yondaime sighed as he started rubbing his temples. He expected Naruko to react negatively to the new of Jiraiya's death but he didn't expect her to react like this. Not in his wildest dreams. Shaking his head he pressed a button on his desk. Why did this have to happen now when the war against Akatsuki was almost at its end? Why couldn't she have waited after they defeated the last few remaining members of the group Pain, Konan, Kisame, and Sasori.
The door then opened as a bespectacled woman carrying a clip board walked in "Yes Hokage-sama?"
"Could you call Kakashi for me, tell him to be here in five minutes and if he's even late for a second he'll be demoted to genin immediately" he told his secretary who nodded and left the room.
Three minutes later a man with gravity defying white hair wearing a black mask covering the bottom part of his face as well as the Konoha forehead protector covering his left eye. Along with that he wore the standard Konoha Jounin outfit appeared in a puff of smoke. "Hakate Kakashi reporting for duty Hokage-sama"
"Kakashi I've got a mission for you S-rank" Minato said as he handed Kakashi the very same note he held in hand.
Kakashi took the note "What is th-" the man sweatdropped "Really? She left and dragged along my student just like that?"
"Yeah, she's really like her mother sometimes"
"I'm guessing you want me to go after her?"
Minato smiled as he placed his elbows on the desk his hands folding over each other "Yes, and take a team with you"
"Um sensei, where exactly is this land beyond the ocean?"
"Well, Kakashi did you ever really think that the elemental nations was the only place that existed within this wide world?" Minato asked as his student unsurprisingly nodded to his question.
"Well I'm sorry to tell you Kakashi were not there are other islands out there over the seas. Jiraiya- sensei told me briefly about them in the past. I'm sure he told Naruko the same thing and that probably where she's heading."
"Mhmm" Kakashi said while nodding "I guess I'll go look for a team. I'll be sure to bring her back soon" the copy-nin said eye smiling before disappearing in a puff of white smoke leaving behind Minato alone in his office.
"Out of all the times why now Naruko?" he asked as he deflated in his chair. He was really lucky that they were in a month long mission raiding akatsuki bases right now or else he'd have to deal with the fury of the girl's mothers and brothers.
-Into the Great Ocean-
A few months later onboard a ship that sailed gently in the middle of the calm waters of a little known part of the world called East Blue. Sitting in the bow of this huge ship was none other than a certain blonde girl smiling along as she enjoyed the cool breeze of the ocean.
"Bwahahaha" Naruko laughed out as she stretched her hands tempted to cry out she was the queen of the world. "The world is such a wide place" she said as her eyes gazed on the waters of the seas. She really was lucky that it only took her and Sayu a few days to find one ship in Mizu no Kuni that apparently sailed to the land beyond the Elemental Nations, speaking of Sayuri…
"Yeah the world is such a wide place… filled with water" said the ravenette who was walking towards the bow. Really at first Sayuri was adamant in not joining Naruko in her insane escapade but the Uzumaki literally begged her to come along with those pleading puppy dog eyes. Damn puppy dog eyes that made her sharingan pale in comparison, it was as if those eyes caught her in some form of genjutsu that took away her ability to say no to the blonde.
"I can't believe you convinced me to come with you. I mean we're basically missing nins now… what will Itachi-nii say."
"Hmm Ero-jiji did have a term for criminal of the sea" she dead panned.
"Oh and what was that?"
"He called them pirates" Naruko cupped her chin "Should we start calling ourselves pirates as well?"
"I don't know why but for some reason I feel like I'd rather be called a ninja than a pirate" said Sayuri.
"You know for some reason I agree with you…" the girl scratched the back of her head and chuckled "Something about ninjas being cooler than pirates"
Sayuri nodded "Hey Naru do you think we'll reach land soon? I mean I'm, getting sick in seeing nothing but the East Blue Seas"
"What the hell is an East Blue?" Naruko asked.
Sayuri found herself palming her face while she sighed "You spaced out when the captain told us about this world didn't you?"
"Yep~" Naruko cheerfully said as eye smiling as she looked at her friend.
"Naruko the world in made mostly of water and right now were in the East Blue since the Elemental Nations is apparently located far within the seas." The girl said still palming her face before paused and taking in a deep breath. "The Sea is divided into five oceans called East, North, South, West Blues, and the Grand line. They are divided by a gigantic continent that stretches around the world from north to south and the calm belts where gigantic monsters called" she paused and gestured her fingers into quotation marks. "Sea Kings which I still don't believe by the way nest" she then looked at her friend and froze as tick mark appeared on the back of her head.
Apparently during her lecture her friend decided it was better to just fall asleep.
*Bonk*
The loud sound of Sayuri's fist hitting Naruko's head echoed throughout the area, by now the crew of the ship were already familiar with the sound.
"Huh? Yeah what about those sea ponies?" Naruko randomly muttered out her brain still half asleep.
"Naruko I swear you're going to get yourself killed because of your carelessness one of these days"
"Mah mah, as long as you look out for me everything will be fine"
"I think I really just subconsciously joined you because someone needs to get you out of trouble."
"Hohohoho you two really are lively" a voice said coming from the konoha-nin's said making them turn their heads towards the speaker, it was the captain of the ship, an old man with a long scruffy white beard wearing a blue coat over a black shirt. He has a pipe on his mouth containing some form of tobacco that he constantly smoked.
"Hello Jii-jii"
"Hello captain-san"
"Ladies" the man bowed lightly as he took a puff from his pipe. "We're about to reach dock in about thirty minutes or so"
"Really?" Naruko and Sayuri said in unison shocking the old man. Despite her rather nonchalant attitude Naruko was actually like Sayuri in the sense of that she was in desperate need to return to land sometime soon.
"Hohohoho" the man chuckled "Yes were docking in a place called Orange Town"
"Cool!" cheered Naruko as she pumped her fists in the air.
"Actually if you look closely you can see it from here" the old man said as he pulled out a small telescope from his pocket before handing it to Naruko who immediately looked in it.
"So what do you see?" asked Sayuri.
"Hey jiji"
"Yes?"
"Why do I see this one ship with a strange mast with the symbol of skull and crossbones with the skull having something like a red nose on it?"
"What?" Sayuri and the captain asked for different reasons. Sayuri was generally confused but the captain on the other hand was already paling.
"Yeah and it's like pointing one of those canon thingies at us."
"Pirates…" the old captain said as he dropped his pipe.
"Huh so that's a pirate ship? I didn't expect it to look so weird" Naruko said as she handed the telescope to Sayuri who looked through it.
"Huh it fired something" the Uchiha said.
"What?" the captain asked in shock as a huge red ball with the mark of the ship's Jolly Roger sailed through the air. Having no idea what it was Naruko and Sayuri just stared at it curiously as the round object hit their ship on the upper deck.
"No!" the captain shouted out as the ship was suddenly covered in bright light coming from the ball.
*Boom*
The ball exploded devastating a good part of the ship. There was fire everywhere as the people on board screamed and panicked.
"What the heck!" Naruko shouted in shock as she jumped off her seat and looked at the damage caused to the ship.
"Another one is coming" Sayuri said as she saw another ball heading towards the ship, this time she didn't even bother to wait for it to make contact. The ravenette jumped to the bow of the ship her left hand already encased in blue chirping lightning. The girl's eyes changed revealing two red orbs with three tomoes in each as she trusted her left hand to the sky.
"Sayuri"
"I know"
"Chidori Eiso! (One Thousand Birds Sharp Spear)" the girl said as the current in her hand changed into the form of a long spear that shot out from her hand hitting the explosive ball as it sailed just above their ship.
*Boom*
The second ball exploded rocking the entire ship.
"Jiji do we have any escape boats?" asked Naruko.
"Yes we have a few of them enough for everyone on the ship…"
The girl nodded as she crossed her fingers creating six Kage Bunshin (Shadow Clone) around her "Gather everyone, get them on the escape boat then escape"
"Hai" the clones said as they ran towards the other parts of the ship.
"Jiji" she looked at the wide eyed captain who had his jaw open "Get everyone to safety" she said as the sound of another explosion covered the ship.
"What are you two?" the captain asked as he looked at the two girls even though he often sailed to the elemental nations he never did see what those shinobi were capable off. "Are you devil fruit users?" he asked.
"Devil fruit what the heck is that?" Naruko asked as she turned her attention to Sayuri who was busy firing waves upon waves of sharp electric senbons at the balls. "I don't know what that is but we're Shinobi" she said as she waved her hand creating her own version of her friend's attack unknowingly using the powers of a fruit she ate ages ago. "Shimobashira (Ice Needles)" the girl said as she sent a volley of ice needles at another approaching cannonball making it explode.
"Unbelievable" the captain said in shock as he felt a hand on his back. Turning around he saw a perfect replica of the blonde girl.
"Jiji you're the only one left we need to go" she said as she pointed to a nearby life boat.
"What about those two?" the captain asked while pointing at the two kunoichi.
"Don't worry about them Jiji" the clone said as the man reluctantly followed her to the life boat. The moment the captain reached the small life boat was released to the see the clone dispelled. Soon enough the sound of a loud explosion echoed in the air as the front of the ship got hit by one of the cannon balls covering it blaze in fire.
The captain looked in shock as his ship slowly burned and sank to the sea wondering of the fate of the two that remained on the ship.
-Into the Great Ocean-
From within the ship that shot out the volley of cannon balls towards the innocent ship a slim yet muscular man with blue hair donning the appearance of a clown while wearing an orange pirate hat and coat laughed loudly. "You see that's the power of the Buggy Balls" he boasted out as he and his crew laughed loudly.
"Orange Town stood no chance. That ship stood no chance. I'm telling you guys that with these balls and my Bara Bara no Mi (Chop-Chop Fruit) we shall conquer the whole East Blue Gyahahahaha" the man turned to his crew. "Our men have already finished setting up our temporary base in that town right?"
"Yes captain we just need to put the canon in town like you said" one of the
"Good then grab it along with the balls." He smirked "Let's go!" Buggy said before he started laughing out loudly as he walked towards the edge of his ship while his men dragged along the cannon and the balls.
The poor bastard really had no idea that he picked the wrong ship to sink that day.
-Into the Great Ocean-
Elsewhere
"Ugh I'm so hungry…" a teen with black hair wearing a straw hat along with a red vest and blue shorts and sandals said as he looked up at the sky while lying on the hard wood floor of his small boat.
"Ughh… I'm starving as well" a man with cropped green hair wearing a plain white shirt, a green haramaki, and black pants said as he held on to his three swords while lying on the floor much like the teen.
"Oh a bird" the green haired man said as he saw the shadow of a bird flying in the sky.
"Zoro, lets' go eat the bird"
"How are you going to eat it Luffy?"
"Just watch" Luffy said as he extended his hands and grabbed the mast of the small ship. "This is my specialty. Gomu-Gomu Rocket!" the boy shouted out as he flung himself off the boat towards the wide sky towards the bird.
"Can't believe he thought of doing that" Zoro said sweat dropping as he looked at his captain the boy who has eaten the Devil Fruit Gomu-Gomu no Mi and became a rubber man.
*Chomp*
"Ahh!" Luffy shouted out as the bird he has planned on eating –which was apparently three times his size opened its beak and snapped it shut at the boy's head.
"Huh?" Zoro said in shocked not believing what he just saw.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HEEELLLPPPPPPP!" screamed Luffy
"YOU IDIOT!" Zoro shouted back as he grabbed the paddles of the ship and began rowing furiously as he chased after the bird in flight. "What the heck are you doing?" Zoro asked as he kept on rowing.
-Into the Great Ocean-
From beneath the waves of the calm blue sea a familiar ravenette shot out breathing heavily as she slowly stood on top of the very seas itself.
"You're really lucky that I'm with you" she said as she placed her hand within the sea and pulled out her blonde friend.
"Sorry *Cough* For *Cough* not being able to *Cough* swim *cough* or water walk" Naruko said as she kept coughing out more sea water.
The Uchiha just shook her head while looking towards the direction of the pirate ship "Let me guess were going there next to pay them back aren't we?"
"What gave you that idea Sayu?"
"Because I know you and the fact that I'm a mad as well"
"Why are you mad? Is it because they attacked us out of nowhere? Or is it because they sunk our ship? Or is it because I almost drowned and died?" asked the curious blonde between her coughing fits.
"Because they got my hair wet" Sayuri answered as she started walking towards the port of Orange Town.
"What?" Naruko asked shocked that her friend cared more about her hair than her.
"And almost killed you" Sayuri she added as she watched her friend pouting on the side. It really was fun to tease her from time to time.
"I'm so going to kick the ass of whoever blew up our ship" declared Naruko.
"Hai hai, but first let's get to dry land first" said Sayuri as she placed Naruko on her back piggybacking her as she walked towards Orange Town.
If the two paid more attention they would have noticed a huge bird flying above the sky with a certain teen in its beak.
-Into the Great Ocean END-
EN: Passed on these devil fruits Kaze Kaze no Mi [wind] (over used) and Toki Toki no Mi [time] (too haxed) so in the end I just gave her the paramecia type fruit. Ondo Ondo no Mi [temperature] to give her a wide array of abilities when looking at the overall application of the fruit, the full extent of its abilities will be seen in the future and do note it is going to be frigging awesome!
EN2: The reason I also made Sasuke a girl was to create a sort of Kushina Mikoto relationship between the two characters with one acting as the head strong hot head while the other being the calm rational one while being snark. I could have left Sasuke as a guy but I found that it was almost impossible for me to make their interactions w/o having sasuke eventually falling in love with Naruko so how do I solve that? I made Sasuke into Sayuri. Wait what?
EN3: Anyone know if there is such a thing as a One Piece wanted poster generator? If so please tell me about it.
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