Sup minna-san, NinGo here. I know, I know, why am I starting another fic? Well, I can't think of what to do next for A Soul In Chains, I currently have no desire to write Get Your Game On, Dattebayo! at the moment, and Ambitions Revived- well I'll still be updating that- besides, I can write what I want! Ever since I bought One Piece Pirate Warriors a week ago, I've been coming up with this fic; and this time, I'm a man with a plan! I've done so much planning with this fic- I've planned the way the story's going to go- twice- the enemies and their abilities, as well as how it will end. Basically, since this is an adventure, I've planned the beginning, the end, and I have ideas for the middle, but not many, as I want it to feel like an adventure- spontaneous. Though I have planned the first arc already.

This story starts ten years before canon when Naruto is 13, so he was born 23 years before canon started, and one year before the Great Age began. Also, can I say what a pain it is figuring out when things happen on the One Piece World Timeline? It's a headache I tell ya.

Anyway, if you haven't played Pirate Warriors, I definitely recommend it. My best character is Zoro, who I swear is an S rank machine! Everyone uses Whitebeard on the challenges, so I want to do well with Zoro- he's like a samurai, and samurai are epic. Oddly enough, my second best character is Usopp of all people.

Chapter 1

"I'll say it again, Naruto; you are an idiot, and I won't get dragged into your crazy scheme."

"Yeah, well why the heck are you here then?"

"…Shut up." A young boy, around thirteen years old with black spiky, said with a glare. The boy's black eyes drilled into the grinning blonde boy before him, annoyed coal meeting gleeful cerulean. The boy moved his glare from his friend to the door before them. "What the hell are we even doing breaking into the Chief's room anyway?" Naruto pouted angrily with a glare.

"That old man is hiding something from me, Sasuke, I just know it!" he yelled, pointing at the closed door "Gramps has something hidden in there, and I want to know what it is!" he crossed his arms and glared down at the floor. "Stupid old man, being all like "Now, Naruto, don't go in there-blah blah blah!" that jerk!" he stomped his foot childishly, and Sasuke's eye brow twitched.

"You know, the Chief doesn't even have to let you live here. You should be grateful he even keeps you around." Naruto glared at him.

"Geez, who's side are you on?" Sasuke sweatdropped.

"Let's see, how about the side of the guy who can turn into an ape and hit harder than a cannon ball?" Sasuke suddenly smirked at his friend. "You know, when Chief Sarutobi finds out that you've been sneaking around his room while he's not here, he's going to aim one of those monkey fists right at you." Naruto scoffed.

"Che, that damn monkey geezer will be useless if I run into the ocean. He can't get me then!" and with that, he turned to the closed door. "Enough stalling! Let's get this door open!" Sasuke sighed and walked up next to him.

"Don't even know why I'm here…stupid blonde moron…" he grumbled, before the two of them grabbed hold of the door handle. Giving each other a nod to show their readiness, they began to pull on the door as hard as they could, but to no avail. They put their feet on the door to aid with their pulling, and their faces twisted in effort, veins comically bulging along their necks. Finally, with simultaneous grunts, the two let go, collapsing to the floor. "I-I'm guessing t-that the door is locked." Sasuke panted with a deadpan. Naruto groaned and stood up, his hands fisting his hair.

"Ah damn it, I really wanted to get in!" he whined. With a sigh he lent against the door, before yelping as he fell backwards. Sasuke stared in stupefaction as the door swung open.

"…The damn door opens inwards…" he muttered, bangs covering his eyes as he shook in irritation. As Naruto rubbed the back of his head, he was startled as a shadow fell over him. Slowly, he looked up to see Sasuke standing over him, with a visible dark aura around him.

"Umm, Sasuke-"

"IDIOT!"

SMACK

"GAH! The hell Sasuke?!" Naruto cried, holding his head in pain. Sasuke shook in annoyance, getting right up in Naruto's face.

"Why the hell were you pulling it, you moron!" he yelled, his mouth stretching to ridiculous lengths as he did so. He was knocked back as Naruto returned the favour.

"Screw you Sasuke! You were pulling it as well!" Sasuke flinched back, before pushing against Naruto's forehead.

"I just did what you were; I thought you knew what you were doing! Well I'm never going to make that mistake again!" Naruto growled and pushed back.

"Well it's not like I've ever opened that door before, Sasuke!"

"Everyone knows doors open inwards, dumb ass!"

"No, secret doors always open outwards to trick people; and I'll say it again- YOU WERE PULLING IT TOO!"

"IDIOT!"

"BASTARD!" the two growled, before turning away with their arms crossed. Sasuke stormed off towards the front door.

"Whatever, I'm done with this. I helped you get the door open so I'm not needed here- not like I ever was! But then again, you've already proven you're too stupid to even open a door properly." Naruto ran after him.

"YOU WERE PULLING IT TOO, BASTARD!" he screamed from the doorway, and receiving a middle finger for his trouble. With one last growl he slammed the door shut and stomped back to the Chiefs room. "Stupid bastard…thinks he's so smart; yeah well he was pulling it too." He grumbled, before looking around his caretaker's room curiously. "Wow, this room sucks. Not even a spot of orange!" Chief Sarutobi's room was a moderate size of twelve feet by twelve feet, with a queen sized bed in the middle. On the right hand side of the bed was a medium sized wardrobe, and on the left was a small nightstand. On the nightstand was an antique lock box, gilded with a thin gold plate coating.

Naturally the box caught Naruto's attention, considering that it was rather shiny, as well being as the only interesting thing in the room. He slinked his way over to the box, before picking it up. He held it to his ear and shook it, grinning when he heard something rattle about inside. "Sweet, this must be what the old man's hiding!" holding the box at arm's length, he noticed the small padlock on the front of the box. He frowned "How the heck am I supposed to open this? It's like someone doesn't want it opened…I'm glad Sasuke isn't here- that was pretty stupid." Sweatdropping at his less than intelligent thought, he sat on the bed and cradled the padlock in his right hand. He fiddled with the shackle, and to his surprise it popped right out of the locking mechanism. "Huh, that was easy. It's almost as if the old man thought I wouldn't try and open it…or he thought I was so stupid that I'd just give up when I saw the padlock. Well screw you old man! Uzumaki D. Naruto never gives up!" Not realising how little sense his 'deduction' into the Chief's thoughts actually made, he removed the padlock and opened the box. "What the hell? Why does the old man have fruit in a box? That's just weird!"

Sitting in the box was the strangest fruit Naruto had ever seen. It reminded him of a pinecone, with what looked like seed scales lying flat and pointed downwards from the top. On a closer inspection of the fruit, he could see thin veins running down each 'scale'. The fruit was a multitude of colours, red, brown and orange, which made it awesome in Naruto's book. On the end, on a stalk, was a leaf.

"Ah man!" Naruto whined, dropping the fruit back in the box "This is what the old man was hiding? Some dumb fruit! Bleh, screw this." Putting the padlock back on, Naruto put the box back on the nightstand and walked to the door. "I'm going to get some Ramen." He slammed the door shut and went out to the local ramen stand.

"I can't believe this day!" Naruto complained as he entered his home, once again slamming the front door shut. "First I find that dumb fruit instead of treasure or something else cool, and then Ichikaru Ramen's closed early!" he went to the kitchen and opened all the cupboards, becoming further depressed when he found them empty. "Damn it! There's nothing to eat!" he slumped down against the kitchen counter in defeat. "Gah, I'd even eat fruit or vegetables I'm so hung-" he sat up, a look of realisation dawning on his face. "Of course, that fruit in gramps's room!" scrabbling to his feet, he ran to the Chief's room and flung open the door. Grabbing the box of the nightstand, he pulled of the padlock and removed the fruit from within. He stared at it, getting a strange feeling from the weird fruit. "Hmm, gramps would be pretty pissed if I ate this, he's probably been saving this…meh, I'll just get him another one." Opening his mouth wide, he took a large bite out of it, and his eyes bulged in disgust. "Ewuh! Whu da fuf?" he forced the fruit down his throat, before sticking his tongue out at the taste. "Eww! This tastes like ass!" despite his complaints of the taste, he subconsciously brought the fruit back up to his mouth, before shoving it back in and swallowing the rest of it.

He gagged as the flavour of the fruit hit his taste buds once again, but still he swallowed it, his instincts warning him against spitting it out. Once he had swallowed it, he ran out of the room back into the kitchen. Almost tearing off the tap while doing so, he turned the water faucet on full blast and stuck his open mouth under it. Once he felt he had destroyed any remains of the disgusting flavour, he pulled away and turned the tap off. As well as having his mouth clear of the taste of the fruit, he felt oddly invigorated. "Yosh! I'm feeling full of energy!" running out into the back garden, he stopped as he felt the sunlight hit his skin. "Woah…" he whispered in awe, feeling great all of a sudden. Shaking his head he ran over to a training post and began punching it. "I'll do one hundred punches, then one hundred kicks! Yaah!"

For several minutes Naruto continued to punch the post, bathed in the late afternoon sunlight. Even though it was late- about seven o'clock in the evening, the sun was still strong. This is because that the island where Naruto lived, Konoha Island, had 18 hours of sunlight a day. It was because of this that the island had its name sake- hundreds of trees with a multitude of different species of leaves. The strangest thing about Konoha Island was that although there were hundreds of species of leaves, there was only one type of tree on the island. A single tree could have about 30 different species of leaves on them, a mystery that was of interest to many botanists from all four corners of the sea. Even the legendary botanist Noland was unable to figure out how this happened- although that could be one of his equally legendary lies.

As for the reason Naruto was punching a post, it was a part of his dream- to become a pirate. Ever since they were young, he and Sasuke had been enamoured by the stories that Chief Sarutobi had regaled to them of his life as a pirate. In his youth, the old man had been a member of the Senju Pirates- a pirate crew with an ancient history. 100 years ago, the Senju Pirates and their long time enemies the Uchiha Pirates formed an alliance, and had built Konoha no Sato- the Village of the Tree Leaves. They did so in order to house the many refugees they had picked up- people who had lost their homes thanks to the World Government. Just as it happens, some of those refugees were the Uzumaki Clan, and Captain Hashirama of the Senju Pirates fell in love with the head of the clan; Uzumaki Mito. After setting up the village, many of the Senju and Uchiha Pirates left their crews to settle in the village and they were the first members of the Senju and Uchiha clans respectively. The two pirate crews then set sail for further adventure, although the Senju Pirates left without Hashirama, who decided to stay to protect and rule the village. His younger brother, Tobirama, took over his position of Captain.

The stories that Sarutobi told the pair were both those of his own adventures, and those of his fathers, Sarutobi Sasuke, who had been a member of the Senju Pirates at the time of Konoha no Sato's founding. He had amazed the young boys with tales such as the Island of giant animals, the awe inspiring yet terrifying sight of the Aqua Laguna, and the Senju Pirate's battle with the Kinkaku Pirates, which led to the death of Senju Tobirama, who died after 40 years of captaincy. It was after that battle that Sarutobi was made the new Captain of the Senju Pirates, as he was Tobirama's apprentice. For a further thirty years, Sarutobi led the Senju Pirates, before Sarutobi retired and left the Senju Pirates to a man called Namikaze Minato. With his successor chosen, he went back to Konoha, and eventually became the new chief.

As Naruto continued to punch the post, what he didn't notice was that it was starting to crack, so lost in thought was he about his own past. Just over 13 years ago, his mother- Uzumaki D. Kushina, a member of the Senju Pirates, returned to the village. Heavy with both pregnancy and tragedy, she revealed that the Senju Pirates had been wiped out, leaving her as the sole survivor. She was unable to reveal just who had destroyed the crew; only that upon the enemy's sails was a red cloud. Since she had been pregnant, the rest of the crew gave their lives so that she alone could escape. Months later, she gave birth to Naruto, only to die a year later. Since she was perfectly healthy at the time of her death, the doctors could only guess that she died of a broken heart, the sacrifice of her old crew wearing too heavily upon her. However, this theory was debatable, seeing as she died smiling.

CRACK

Naruto stopped punching, alarmed by the fact that he no longer had anything to punch. He had smashed the training post in half. The other half of the post was lodged into the garden fence, and Naruto looked at his uninjured hand in awe. Slowly, a grin crept onto his face, and he leapt into the air in joy. "Yahoo! I'm getting stronger!" a chuckle from behind him caused him to turn around.

"That you are, Naruto-kun." Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Chief of Konoha said with a warm smile. Naruto grinned and held up his thumb.

"Damn straight gramps! At this rate I'll even surpass you!" this caused the elderly man to laugh heartily at his young charges words.

"Ha ha, I have no doubt you will my boy." He chuckled, shaking his head slightly, before turning back to the house. "To celebrate you rising strength, I'll make you some ramen." Naruto blinked, before his grin spread across his face.

"Awesome!" he cheered, running past Sarutobi and into the house. Sarutobi chuckled, before looking back at the training post with narrowed eyes. A small smirk rose on his face, and with a shake of his head he followed Naruto inside.

"Ah, that was great old man! Not as good as Ichiraku's, but pretty damn good!" Naruto said as he finished off his fourth bowl of ramen. Sarutobi chuckled at the boy's bluntness.

"Yes, that was an enjoyable meal if I do say so myself." He smirked, before continuing. "I think I'll have some fruit for dessert." Naruto froze and his head turned in horror as Sarutobi made his way to his room. "I've been saving a delicious and rare piece of fruit for some time now." Naruto's mouth slowly opened, before he jumped from his chair and ran in front of the man. "Is something wrong, Naruto-kun?" Sarutobi asked innocently. Naruto swallowed nervously.

"Er…well, kinda- I mean…" he stuttered, much to the old man's amusement. "Er…that is to say…ikindabrokeintoyourroomandatethefruitintheboxbutit'snotmyfaultitwasopenandifyoudidn'twantsomeone
openingitthenyoushouldhavelockeditandSasukewastheretoosoreallyit'salsokindahisfaultbutyouwouldn'toflikeditanywayittastedlikeasssoreallyididyouafavour!" he breathed in a large gulp of air, and Sarutobi was impressed by how much he could fit into one breath.

"So you broke into my room, opened my lock box and ate the fruit inside?" Sarutobi summed up, and Naruto nodded sheepishly. He chuckled, before patting him on the head. "It took you long enough." Naruto looked up with wide eyes, and the old man smirked again. "I was expecting you to go in there weeks ago. Think about it, if I really didn't want you going into my room, don't you think I would have locked it?" Naruto blinked in confusion.

"Wait…you mean you were waiting for me to sneak into your room?" Naruto asked, and Sarutobi nodded.

"Of course; what kind of pirate would you be if you listened to authority? I was also expecting you eating the fruit…which, from the look on your face, I'm guessing you have no idea what it was?" he asked, and sighed when Naruto shook his head negatively. "Naruto, did you not listen when I told you of the Devil Fruits?" he groaned when he saw Naruto's blank face. "Of course not; if it has nothing to do with Pirates then you won't listen." He muttered. "Listen this time, Naruto-kun. The Devil Fruits are mystical fruits that grant the eater incredible powers. That's how I can turn into a Monkey Human; I ate the Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Saru. It is a Zoan type, which allows the possessor to transform into a hybrid of a certain animal." Naruto nodded, a semi-confused expression plastered his face. "There are three types of Devil Fruit in total. There is Zoan, Paramecia- which allows someone to produce something, control the environment, or alter their body structure- and last but most certainly not least, Logia." Naruto's eyes widened as Sarutobi rose his fist, and he flinched as the fist flew towards his face.

However, he was shocked when instead of the fist colliding with his face, his head exploded into leaves. He could only describe what he was feeling as an out of body experience. He looked in awe at his headless body, before the floating leaves in the air reconvened back into the form of his head. He back peddled away from Sarutobi, a freaked out expression on his face. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" he screamed in terror. Sarutobi laughed.

"That, Naruto-kun, is the power of Logia type fruits. It turns the devourer's body into an element, or in your case, leaves." Naruto's mouth was agape at this point, and Sarutobi couldn't help but chuckle again. "The Devil Fruit you ate was the Zawa Zawa no Mi, which allows you to create, control and turn into leaves." Naruto blinked, before screwing up his face.

"What good are leaves? That sound like a wussy power!" he whined, and Sarutobi sighed.

"Not at all, Naruto-kun; there are much worse Devil Fruits that people have been able to use effectively in combat. Why, I once fought someone who could turn into bubbles, and that was one of the hardest fights of my life!" Well, not really, but that guy was no push over. The small white lie did have an effect on Naruto, however, as the young boy looked thoughtful. "Now, Naruto-kun, although Devil Fruit powers can be valuable assets, they do come with their downsides. Not only can you never swim again, but you can still be injured and restrained by a material called Seastone, which negates Devil Fruit powers. Also, Logia types are weak to elements that are deadly to their own. For example, you would have a hard time fighting anyone who could use fire." Naruto's eyes had widened (again) at one part of the explanation.

"WHAT! I can't swim now? What kind of pirate can't swim?!"

"Many pirates have eaten Devil Fruits, including me if you've forgotten." Sarutobi corrected him. Naruto still looked upset though. "Don't worry Naruto-kun, even though you can't swim, that's what friends and crew mates are for." Naruto nodded slowly, before a grin grew on his face.

"Ha, just wait 'til Sasuke sees this! He's going to be so jealous!" Naruto cheered. Sarutobi shook his head in amusement.

"Well, Naruto-kun, how would you like my help to train your new power?" Naruto grinned and gave the Chief a thumbs up.

"Sure, let's do it!"

4 years later

Naruto looked at the small boat that Sarutobi gave him for his 17th birthday last year. It was a fine vessel, with enough room for around five people to live on comfortably. Naruto was wearing an orange shirt with a knee length red coat over the top of it. Along the bottom of the cloak were black flames. It had been a farewell gift from the Ichiraku Ramen stand, who though sad to see their best customer go, wished him all the best. He also wore black trousers with orange cuffs, as well as wooden sandels. He grinned as his eyes caught sight of the swirl on the ships sail- his own personal pirate emblem.

"What the hell is that eye sore supposed to be?" a drawling voice asked from behind him. Turning around, he saw his best friend, Uchiha Sasuke. Sasuke was wearing a long sleeved white shirt, which was open halfway down his torso, showing of his chest to the world. He also wore white cargo trousers that were tucked into black combat boots, and diagonally on his lower back was a sword- a chokutō to be exact- which was held in place by a red rope. He was eyeing the sail with distaste. Naruto grinned and pointed at the emblem.

"That's our Jolly Roger!" Sasuke's eye twitched slightly.

"How is that a Jolly Roger?" he asked, incredulity lacing his voice "It's just a swirl, it doesn't even have a cross bones on it!" Naruto growled and took a few steps towards him.

"Every pirate has a cross bones on it, if our emblem had one then it wouldn't be unique." He rubbed under his nose, looking to the left slightly. "Also it looks stupid with the swirl." Sasuke's eye twitched again, but before he could say anything else, he was hit in the back of the head. A yelp of pain confirmed that Naruto had been hit as well. He glared at the person who hit him.

"Damn it, what the hell Sakura?!"

The woman in question was an attractive, pink haired girl the same age as her two friends. She wore a red top with black gloves, boots, shorts, a short grey apron skirt, and grey elbow protectors. Her pretty face was screwed up in anger as she glared at the two men before her. "I don't want you two fighting before we even set off! I'm the one who has to fix you up, Sasuke-kun." He twitched at the reminder that he could never touch Naruto in their fights lately.

'Damn Devil Fruit.'

"Geez, Sakura-chan, did you have to punch me that hard?" Naruto whined as he clutched the back of his head. "I couldn't even avoid that one!" Sakura humphed.

"Well you should train your reflexes more then. What if I was an enemy, I could have killed you just then, Devil Fruit or not." Naruto grumbled something, and she raised an eye brow. "What was that?"

"Nothing!" he said quickly, sweating slightly. Sasuke sighed as he glanced at Sakura- he almost preferred her when she fawned over him constantly when they were younger- almost. But, ever since she started fixing them up after their fights for medical practice- which was practically every day- she quickly became frustrated with how often she had to tend to them. He shook his head, before turning to Naruto.

"Anyway, my point is why the heck is the Uzumaki Clan symbol on that sail? It's almost like you think you're the Captain or something." He smirked when Naruto glared at him.

"Well, if you want we can fight for the Captain position, but we all know you can't touch me." Naruto said with a grin. Sasuke's eyes narrowed.

"Hn, it's not like you can actually touch me that often." They continued to glare at each other, and Sakura began to feel nervous.

'Please, for the love of Gold Roger don't let these two fight right now! Those monsters could destroy the ship!' suddenly, the two threw their hands at each other, and she sweatdropped when she saw their fingers.

"Ha, paper beats rock! Take that you bastard!" Naruto cheered, while Sasuke slumped slightly. Sakura's sweatdrop grew.

'They decided such an important issue with Rock-Paper-Scissors?'

Naruto jumped on to the back of the boat, and turned to them with a grin. "Right! Today, the Uzumaki Pirates set off for adventure and riches!" Sakura and Sasuke looked at each other, before smiling (or smirking in Sasuke's case) at their captain.

"Right!"

"Hn."

Naruto's grin grew, and he turned around to look at the calm waves of the North Blue Sea; his face grew sombre as he remembered his real reason for becoming a pirate. 'Even if it kills me, I'll find out what happened to the Senju Pirates!'

Sarutobi watched from a nearby cliff as the Uzumaki Pirates cast of and set sail for their very own adventure. 'Good luck, Naruto-kun, Sasuke-kun, Sakura-kun. I hope that all of your dreams come true.' He thought with a large grin. 'Ah, reminds me of when I first set sail on the Mokuton with Captain Tobirama.' His face fell into a frown. 'I just hope that they don't suffer the same fate as the Senju Pirates.' He smiled again as he turned to a grave stone that overlooked the sea. "I'm sure you would be proud of him, Kushina-san." He said, before leaving for home. "It's going to be quiet around here without you, Naruto-kun."

Chapter End

Translations

Zawa Zawa- the onomatopoeia used as a sound effect in Japanese manga for the sound of rustling tree leaves.

Mi- Fruit

Hito- Human

Saru- Monkey

Uzumaki Pirates

Captain- Uzumaki D. Naruto

First Mate- Uchiha Sasuke

Doctor- Haruno Sakura

Well there we go, tell me what you guys think, if you're interested, and whether or not you'd like to see more. Even if you don't I have big plans for this fic, and I can only hope I can accomplish them.