Disclaimer: I do not own anime/manga that you may see characters from.

It was a rare pleasant morning. The sun was shining, the sky was lined with drifting cumulus clouds. Thousand sunny sailed in The New World heading towards the island that Luffy wanted to go to.

They had just left the fishman island, had been chased around by the Neo Navy resulting in them having to take a long detour.

Nami sun-basked on the lawns of Thousand Sunny. It was the perfect weather after all.

Franky was at the wheel, Zoro was training by practicing forms, Brook was playing a slow tune and Usopp was harvesting Green stars from his monster plants.

Robin, Sanji and Luffy were the only ones not on the deck.

A caw from the messenger bird woke Nami up. She tossed a few beris into the money pouch and took a newspaper, an innocent newspaper that would change the Mugiwara crew's lives.

Just as Nami opened the newspaper Sanji burst out in his boisterous manner startling everyone.

"Nami-swann~nn! Here's your morning Latte, made with my Sanji secret ingredient, my lovve"

"It's not a secret if you tell it, baka-cook"

"What was that Marino?" As sparks flew between the two, Nami came in between them to break up the oncoming fight.

"Alright you two... Don't ruin this perfect day"

Something caught Sanji's interest, a wanted poster of worth 600,000,000 beri. Picking it up, he got a shock. A blond haired kid who looked even younger than Luffy was worth so much? What really shocked him was the foxy ear to ear grin that was too familiar for his own good.

Nami grabbed the poster curious. "Ehhhhh"

Her shock got the others on deck also curious

Soon all those on deck were gathered around throwing around questions "Who is that?" "Yohohoho... He's looks pretty young..." "Superrr...Wonder what he did to get such a huge bounty" "I hope Luffy doesn't go find him..." Everyone agreed about the last one.

"Doesn't remind you of Luffy a lot?"

"Oh man, he must be a monster like our captain too"

Away from all the chatter, Luffy slept peacefully, dreaming about a meat planet where everything was made of meat, yes, even trees. Almost as if the fates' magic was worked upon him, a slight tickle started at his nose. He woke up with a loud sneeze, making his rubbery head hit the ground painfully.

Groggily, he went up to the deck muttering "food".

Finding the whole crew hovering around the poster he ran to them with sudden energy... "Sanjii! I want fooood"

The time stood at a standstill as Luffy came face to face with Uzumaki Naruto's wanted poster

.

.

.

.

.

.

Luffy broke into a huge grin... "Hey! Naruto-kun has got bounty"

"You- you know him?"

"YEA! He's a super cool guy who helped me start my journey"

"REALLY?"

"Yea, he built my first boat"

"You mean the boat that got wrecked in the whirlpool in the first few days of your voyage?

"YEA!"

"Don't say that so happily, baka-captain" Nami bonked Luffy's head

"So...Is he a shipwright?"

"Nope" Luffy said nursing the head... "he's a shinobi"

"Shinobi?"

"YEA and he's gonna be our crewmate!"

"Superrr!"

AN: In India people believe that if someone is talking about you somewhere, then you tend to sneeze.

Also, just cause everyone is curious doesn't mean they should be out of character... some of the characters may be silent. I just dunno how to portray the silent but curious presence :p but they are there. That is also the reason I have omitted writing names for dialogues in this chapter.