Naruto of the Marines
Chapter 1
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"Vice Admiral Garp, why are you so persistent about this. If you showed this much drive when it came to your work then you'd already make Admiral… hell maybe even take my job." Grumbled Fleet Admiral Kong, a muscular man with slightly graying dark hair that was arranged in a spiked Mohawk as he sat in his office at Marineford, the HQ of the Marines.
Garp, a tall, broad chested man with dark hair and a matching goatee, shrugged while picking his nose absently. "I'm just fine where I am, Fleet Admiral seems like too much hassle to tell the truth, besides where's the fun in being locked up in here all the time?" he exclaimed making his superior grumble about him being right, "And I want to take the kid and train him personally, he's already gonna be one hell of a marine, I wanna make him better."
Kong couldn't argue with that, anyone that was trained seriously by someone like Garp would be a force to be reckoned with… that it if they survived the training. Looking down at the file on his desk, he looked at the name. It was a Marine Officers Academy file holding the information on one of their cadets and like Garp said, the boy had some promise.
His name was Naruto Uzumaki, the youngest cadet in Marine history entering at the age of thirteen. The boy was now fourteen and a model student from what the instructors wrote in their notes.
And by youngest, they meant it. When enlisting with the Marines, most waited until they were older, usually around the age of sixteen to eighteen. But this boy signed up three years earlier, something that would've held him back had it not been for Garp backing the boy. When asked, Garp admitted that he didn't even know who the boy was, but that he did it because of a fire he'd seen in the kids eyes.
Of course, it caused quite a stir when a thirteen year old arrived for basic training, they actually didn't even have his size and they had to have some special made. Most didn't expect the boy to last long, after all, the others had three or more years on him but he surprised them.
Like with all new recruits, they split them into units just like they'd be in out in the real world and sent them to hell and back. Physical training was nothing to him, he breezed through it like he'd been training for years. The blond was even at the top of his unit when it came to unarmed combat that they were taught, usually ending with quite a few bruised egos when the older recruits were beaten by the younger man. The same with swords too, but they noted that he was much better with knives. But when it came to guns, he could only do just enough to pass, which was fine seeing as there were many others who favored melee over long ranged weapons due to similar reasons.
Another surprise was his leadership skills. During teamwork exercises, their unit was usually broken into four squads with one squad leader each. Naruto showed natural leadership abilities, often leading his squad to victory when it came to competitions. The boy had impressed them, so much so that he'd been offered a place in the Officers Academy here in Marineford after finishing basic training, where most were usually assigned to a ship or base.
Kong leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms, "I've seen kids like him, so driven… you know that his drive could be his downfall. There's a point where motivation can go too far and push him to the breaking point…" he mused before looking at Garp with a 'don't fuck with me' frown, "I know that you've talked to him, you wouldn't consider apprenticing him otherwise… why does he want to be a marine?"
Garp turned serious, something rare for Kong to see from the man, "He hasn't told anyone else… but years ago, his village was destroyed by pirates. Everything that he had was taken from him, friends, family, his home, everything, leaving him the only survivor. No one knows who did it… well, no one but him and he refuses to say. I think it's because he wants to be the one to bring those responsible to justice."
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In the gym of the Academy, Naruto Uzumaki passed the time by punching a punching bag that hung from chains on the ceiling next to the wall. Those around him, working out or just hanging out, ignored him as best they could while grimacing at the sight of the extremely heavy bag swinging as much as it did.
Many of the females would call him cute, with his sun-kissed blond hair and sky blue eyes, especially the three scars on each side of his face that looked like whiskers. But they could see that he'd be an attractive man when he finished growing, and from the way he trained, he'd be built! When others used one, the thing would move a fraction of an inch while compressing in as not to break their hands but he had the bottom of it hitting the wall every few punches.
Naruto himself barely paid attention to what was going on around him, thinking back to that day when he lost it all…
He once lived on a small island town that had been called Konoha… had been… all it was now is a mere husk, a broken shell and the place where his family died. All he remembered was the sound of screaming and the voice of the man that had been his grandfather telling him to run, all before the deafening sound of a gunshot.
It had all been as clear as day, the old grey haired man known as Hiruzen Sarutobi looking at him, yelling to run… and then his body jerked. Naruto remembered screaming as the old man spat up blood, his eyes rolling back before falling to the ground with a pirate standing behind him.
A face he'd never forget, one that'd forever be burned into his memory.
"Cadet Uzumaki!"
He stopped in mid swing, letting the punching bag fall to meet his fist before looking over to see one of the instructors, dressed in a standard uniform of white and blue "Yes?" he replied before grinning, as if he'd never been thinking those dark thoughts from before.
"You are needed outside,"
Naruto raised an eyebrow at that and went into the locker room to don his own uniform. It was a standard white short sleeved shirt with the Marine emblem, a simplified seagull with 'MARINE' underneath it on the back with a blue neckerchief. His pants were simple dark blue trousers and on his head he had a hat with 'MARINE' across the front.
He exited the gym and walked out onto the grounds of the academy only to find himself alone before everything went dark.
Waking up a few seconds later, Naruto found himself laying in the grass and sat up while rubbing his head, where a giant knot was forming. "What the… what hit me?" he groaned before seeing a cannon ball a few feet away.
"That was lesson one!" a voice said from behind him, making him turn his head while still sitting on the ground, only to see Garp standing there with a grin and his arms behind his back, "Always be alert and how to dodge! But it looks like you need more training in that so…"
Seeing the move his arms out from behind him, Naruto paled at the sight of him carrying two more while a large crate full of them were strapped to his back.
"Time for a retest! Oh and I almost forgot to tell you, you've been assigned to me as my new apprentice and given the rank of Petty Officer, congratulations."
Naruto blinked, "Ah… cool, thanks… I think."
Garp's grin turned dark and Naruto paled.
An hour later, Naruto found himself panting while Garp laughed thunderously and pat him on the back, each hit nearly knocking the air out of him, "You did good today kid!" the man told him loudly while ignoring the angry looks of those around him thanks to the cannonballs stuck in everything from homes to trees and roads.
Looking at the out of breath teen, Garp couldn't help but smirk, 'You'll be one hell of a marine kid… one hell of a marine.'
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Two years later, Garp found himself asleep on his ship, snoring loudly underneath a cannon on the deck with a snot bubble expanding and contracting with each breath. They were stationed in Lougetown for the time being, not that it was an official order or anything, he just felt like stopping there for now.
"VICE ADMIRAL!" Screamed one of his men as he ran out onto the deck, actually waking the man up and causing him to hit his head on the cannon above them, denting the cannon.
"Huh?" he yawned out while rubbing his eye.
"Sir, it's Ensign Uzumaki!" Hearing the name of his apprentice, he became fully aware and looked at the man sharply, giving him his complete attention, "He's fighting someone sir, no, he's killing him!"
"What!"
"I don't know why but we were patrolling and he suddenly tackled someone, sir on one can stop him, he's already knocked out five men that tried to pull him off of whoever that is!"
That was all Garp had to hear before he ran, jumping off the ship and to find Naruto. He did easily by following the sound of screaming people and found three squads of marines trying to stop the blond and pull him away from the person he'd been beating with little success.
Pushing his way through the mob, he reared his fist back and slammed it into the back of the blonds head, making him fall to the ground like a puppet without it's strings. When he pulled the sixteen year old up off the ground, he nearly dropped him in shock.
The man Naruto had been beating was torn up pretty badly, his eyes swelling, nose broken and bleeding, lips busted and also swollen. But despite the blood, bruises, and swelling he recognized the face of a man he'd fought several times in the past but seemed to always fail at catching.
He knew that Naruto would be great but…
"Alert HQ…" he called out to the marines, never taking his eyes off the man below him, "Gol D. Roger has been taken into custody."
To be continued…
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Review and tell me what you think!
Should Naruto eat a Devil Fruit?
If so what kind? Here are a couple of examples…
1. Kaze Kaze no Mi. A Logia type considered to be rarest of the rare. Gives user ability to turn into and control wind. Would give him ability to possibly use things from the Naruto Universe like Wind Clones, the Rasengan, that wind sword thing that can cut almost anything.
2. ? (Kyuubi but I'm not sure how to list it) no Mi. Zoan type. Can transform into a nine tailed fox of various sizes.
Please submit some for me to use!