Title: They say Captain Naruto Uzumaki...
Characters / Pairing : Naruto. Slight NaruHina
Rating: M
Summary: Captain Naruto and the myths and truths there of.
Notes: This is the first part of a drabble series, of a sort of Pirates of the Caribbean take on Naruto. No character's as you know them from the PotC will appear, but you will get Naruto versions of the characters, as well as Naruto version events, and back stories. I am stating this obviously now, before anyone yells at me for being a thief. If you would like to request anything, I suggest you go over to my lj while my muse is still hot. Unless stated otherwise, these aren't all connected, they are just as they appear beginning to end.
standard disclaimer applies.


The drunkards laughed that when Captain Naruto Uzumaki was born, the rum flowed freely in Tortuga and the wenches were extra pretty, just for that day.

(But that was according to Jiraiya, and Jiraiya stories always featured thus, not to mention the wenches who, in such a jovial spirit of things, were also extra cheap. But that was according to Jiraiya.)

The story tellers boasted that his first heroic act was the defending of the good maiden Sakura when her ship was attacked on her crossing to the Caribbean, at the tender age of 14.

(Sakura however maintained that it was more like the first time he had gotten drunk, and when the attack happened, she'd just picked up the pistol and cutlass that was supposed to be Naruto's and defended her own damn honour, whilst Naruto slept off his hangover, only to stop a particular shot aiming for her at the end of battle, and it was to her chagrin that it was the moment everyone remembered).

It was sung that he could ensnare a mermaid with his pure heart, that she had received her greatest gift, the softest and coldest of kisses that meant he would never drown, that for one day a year, she would endure the pain of land on her unsteady legs to be with him.

(The mermaid in question, did in fact love him, she did come to find him in human form one day a year - but he never knew it was her, or of her love. She had never kissed him, thus the reason he never drowned was that she never left his ship, swimming close by it and every time he fell overboard for whatever reason - battle, foolish antics or piss drunk - she would swim him back to the ship, or find the closest piece of drift wood. His crew knew, but she insisted they never mention herself).

But the one thing that was never mentioned except in close whispers by fire light - was the betrayal of Sasuke Uchiha, who mutinied Naruto, leaving him to die on a desert island, while Sasuke took his ship, the fastest ship in the Caribbean, the Kyuubi, to find his brother. That those cold days on the beach changed Naruto, who was now driven in single pursuit to take back what was his, the ship that had been the his fathers legacy.