Lou-pie: thanks for the comments for those who reviewed. I don't know how much I'll be able to update in a month since I have a job now, but I'll do my best. Now I'll be starting on the actual first chapter of the story, I hope you enjoy and review!

Rating: PG-NC17

Pairing: SasuNaru

Disclaimer: does not belong to me, only the story line.


Chapter 1

May 17, 1860 Indian Ocean

Ah, the calm sea, the smell of salt, and the warm sun beating down on him, who could ask for a better life than this? Many have questioned him about his lifestyle, but he loved the sea; loved the change of colors when passing into the next ocean, the new sights, and the different cultures. A warm breeze caressed through his blond locks, blue eyes closing in pleasure while leaning against the railing on the left side of the poopdeck. A hand, however, pulled gently on the braid at the back of his head suddenly, bringing him back from his thoughts, glaring to the side when the person who had pulled his hair leaned on the railing beside him.

"Kiba," the blond greeted with a small frown.

"Naruto," the man greeted back while running a hand through his thick brown locks. "Ya seem rather happy today… until I showed up. If I had known my presence was unwanted, I would have stayed home." He chuckled at Naruto's snort.

"Don't pull my hair," was the blond's only answer, fingering the braid after throwing it over his shoulder. He liked his braid. Others wouldn't have noticed it unless they were facing his back or it was thrown over his shoulder like it was now because from the front, his hair looked like its normal spikey self. The braid looked more like a blond tail growing out from the back of his head.

Kiba growled lowly as he saddled himself behind the blond, pressing close against the other's back with each hand on either side of Naruto on the railing, keeping him captive. Naruto, however, smiled at the action, letting the brunette nuzzle against his hair like the dog everyone claimed him to be. Naruto spun around so he could face the taller man, leaning up to brush his lips against bright red ones', knowing that a few nosey men were watching them expectantly. When they kissed, the men whistled; living your life on a boat for so long around the same gender, you tend to forget about your previous sexual preference. And since Naruto was the best looking one out of them all besides Kiba, the blond got hit on a lot.

Unashamed by their actions, Naruto opened his mouth to let Kiba's tongue worm its way in, moaning as he ran his hands along the brunette's back and down to grab the taller man's ass beneath his pants. The two of them knew they were gathering an audience, but they needed some entertainment once in a while to stroke off too during the night. However, their captain, as perverted as he is, did not enjoy the two boys to bring his men away from their duties.

"All right, break it up and go back to work!" said captain yelled from his place at the wheel, although he did have quite a perverted smirk on his face even though you couldn't really see it because of that stupid scarf of his that he wears over his mouth all the time. "We still have crates to be put away before they can be soiled by the salt water!"

Naruto shrugged after he pulled away from his friend and went to go do his share of the work, hauling several barrels of ale into the bowls of the ship. Yup, nothing can be better than being part of a traders' ship where you can go anywhere for certain goods to bring back to America or England. You get to meet many people from different parts of the world, though you can't understand them most of the time, but that's what translators are for.

Back out on the deck with the warm sun, Naruto smiled and went to take hold of another barrel.

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"You'll catch a cold standing out her like this."

Naruto turned his head slightly from where he sat on top of the crow's nest. He smiled as his captain climbed the rest of the way up. "Mmm, that's highly unlikely and the night sky is beautiful tonight." Blue eyes gazed back towards the starry sky, almost breathless with awe at the sight. "Kakashi?"

"Yes?" The white haired captain turned his dark grey eyes towards his crew member; a small smile could be seen since the scarf was wrapped around his neck.

"Did your parents ever tell you strange stories that seemed so unreal and yet somehow you want to believe what they said was true?"

Kakashi chuckled at this before sighing as he thought back to his childhood years. "My parents never really told me stories since my father was mostly out at sea while my mother slept with other men while her husband was away. But my nursemaid did tell me folklores that she had heard from travelers at the tavern she used to work at. I knew they were fake, however, since no one else has ever seen these creatures or whatever that person said they claimed to have seen." Fingers ran into white hair, scratching the side of his head. "If you can't see it then it doesn't exist."

A small laugh left Naruto's lips, though he was upset about the parents' part. Kakashi was such a nice man that it was hard to tell that he had such hardships in life, yet the same went with the blond and his smiling behavior even though he had lost his parents in tragic ways. However, it might be better that they loved him even when they died than being neglected throughout your childhood. The captain must have learned to be kind through his nursemaid.

"My father used to tell me stories about washing up on an island where there were these half humans/half snake people, one of which was supposedly my mom," the blond said through a chuckle that soon turned into a sigh of sadness. "My father, however, suddenly stopped telling me them when I was around six and began telling me stories about his childhood."

Kakashi gave Naruto an odd, lifted eyebrow look. "That's one hell of a story your dad has made up."

Naruto chuckled at this. "But I would give anything to hear it one more time." He paused, looking down into the ocean with a sad look. "My father once told me when he still told me those outrageous stories that my mother's people, when they die, they don't truly pass on."

"What does that mean?"

"It meant that once either one of them dies, the one that died is still lurking about as a spirit, waiting for his or her mate to come join them. Once their mate dies as well, they both move on and pass over to wherever it is they go."

The captain thought this over in consideration, liking the thought of having someone he cared about waiting for him to travel with him to the other side. "That's rather romantic despite it being about death."

Naruto shrugged, sticking his tongue out and letting the tip tap against the point of his nose like he usually does when bored. Kakashi watched the long tongue for a moment before letting out a small snort and gazed out to the sea. In the distance, both could see a ship, but it didn't really concern them since there were many trader ships that liked to travel the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. However, the ship seemed to be heading straight towards them, which was rather odd since trader ships hardly, if ever, start a fight against one another.

The blond slipped his tongue back into his mouth and sat up straight when he noticed that the other ship was getting closer and was not changing its course. "Captain… do you think that the traders of that ship would like to exchange a few of their goods with ours?"

The white haired man could only shrug and take out his scope to get a better look at the larger ship before them. It seemed the ship was alright until he caught sight of the flag, paling considerably white as he took the scope away from his eye. Naruto gave his captain a questioning look at the face Kakashi was making, but soon found out when he took the scope away and had himself a look.

"Oh shit," was all the young blond could say as he dropped the scope and hurried down from the crow's nest to alert the other crewmen.

Kakashi followed after him with a low snarl 'bloody pirates.'

Down below, Naruto was yelling as loud as he could to get everyone up, earning a few angry shouts until he said that pirates were on their way over. The crew was immediately on their feet, grabbing their weapons and hurrying up to the deck, readying their cannons with the help of the powder monkeys carrying loads of gun powder and cannon balls to the gunners. Those who weren't operating a cannon had their muskets and pistols out, loading them up with gun powder and bullets, others pulling out their swords in case things get nasty.

Naruto had pulled out his musket and was getting it ready when Kakashi grabbed his forearm and pulled him below deck. The younger man gave a surprised shout that soon turned into a protest at being pulled away from his duties of protecting the ship. He glared at his captain when he was finally let go and crossed his arms.

"Naruto, I need you to hide for the time being," was all Kakashi was going to say and began to turn around, but Naruto's hand on his bicep stopped him and turned him back around.

"Why? I can fight as well as the others, maybe even better than them," Naruto growled, thinking that his captain was calling him weak.

The older man sighed. "That's not it. I know how well you can fight, but these pirates are ruthless. I know for sure this is going to be a losing battle. I would have suggested we run, but our ship is too slow."

"Then why am I hiding when I'm sure I can help out? I rather die while fighting than die a coward."

"No, Naruto, you don't get it! Once they see you and your looks, they'll make sure you live." Kakashi took in a deep breath and rubbed the bridge of his nose in frustration, trying to hurry up and see how fast the other ship was closing in. "These pirates aren't like others. They plunder, but only for good looking boys so they sell them to rich men that will pay a high price for them. They deal in human trafficking and I do not want you to become some sex toy to some old saggy man."

"How would I be any good to the rich men if I fight back? Surly they don't want toys that aren't obedient," Naruto scoffed, looking to the side and missing the small wince from Kakashi.

"… Naruto… these pirates," a sigh. "These pirates are well known by their ways of torturing their merchandise until they become empty sex dolls without having to touch them." The captain's hands began to shake as he pushed the blond deeper into the bowls of the ship, remembering a good hiding place for his good looking crew member.

"How do you know this?" Naruto glanced back once they were hold, giving his captain a scared yet hoping look; hoping that his thoughts were wrong about the silver haired man.

Kakashi paused from where he kneeled on the floor where he was about to pull up a few floor boards. He could not look at the blond, however, and kept his guilty filled gaze down at the floor. Taking in a deep, shaky breath, he began, "I know… because I was one of them… the pirates I mean. I saw their flag of blue with a bleeding red heart." He winced when Naruto gasped quietly at his thoughts being correct. "I didn't know, truly, I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I joined. I thought we were just going to plunder and pillage jewels and gold… how wrong was I. I can't even begin to explain what they did except say that they have the worst tactics on breaking a person's soul."

Naruto gulped at this, eyes wide in fright. The silver haired man had told him once that he was a pirate, but realized that that wasn't the life for him. When asked about it, Kakashi wouldn't talk about it and change the subject. The blond caught a glimpse of hurt in the grey eyes that wouldn't look at him and knew that his captain truly wanted him safe from the horrible ways of the pirates. Blue eyes watched as Kakashi pulled up a few floor boards to reveal a small storage space inside that only he alone knew, big enough for Naruto to lay down on his back.

"I had this made in case we had a stealer on bored and would put my expensive possessions in here," Kakashi explained as he helped the blond into the long storage space. "I'll make sure that the floor boards are far enough apart so you can breathe." One by one, Naruto disappeared behind each wooden plank.

A cannon sounded suddenly.

Kakashi was up in seconds, running back up on deck just in time to see the pirate ship just a few feet away with its occupants ready to board. He drew out his pistol, loaded it and aimed at the first pirate that was about to swing over once the ships were side by side and fired. All hell broke out after that. Planks were heaved over the pirate's ships so that other pirates could walk across, Kakashi's men meeting them on the other side. Blood spilled across the deck's floor, making it slippery and difficult to aim or stay up while sword or fist fighting.

Kiba was using the butt of his musket to defend himself once the evil men were too close to reload his weapon. The brunette was looking around the fray to find his blond hair friend, becoming terrified when he couldn't spot him. He did spot his captain, though, and made his way over while throwing a few men overboard and breaking a few men's noses. Once he was beside the older man, he asked, "Where's Naruto!" He had to yell over the shouting and gunfire.

"I hid him!" was the captain's reply, pushing away and shooting a man that tried to tackle him to the ground. "I'll explain later if we ever get the chance!"

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Down below, Naruto was shaking from all the yelling and gun fire he heard, though it was muffled from how far below he was. He could hear his own breathing and heartbeat from inside the hiding place, eyes closed since he couldn't see anyways since it was dark after Kakashi had blew out the lantern. He was worried about his captain and about Kiba, hoping that both his friends would live through this. But what would happen once the fight was over? Would Kakashi and Kiba be taken as slaves or sex toys even though they weren't as pretty looking as he? What would happen to him? Would Naruto be left on the ship by himself?

So many thoughts were whirling about in his head that he hadn't noticed that the yelling and gunfire had stopped. However, he did snap back to reality when a floorboard squeaked beneath a heavy foot and light could be seen through the cracks of his hiding place. Naruto was about to yell out when he remembered what Kakashi said, 'I know for sure this is going to be a losing battle.' The blond immediately shut his mouth and listened to the person up above walk around, moving things about in search for something; most likely anyone that was in hiding, much like Naruto.

Once the man was standing over him, Naruto held his breath, afraid that his breathing might be too loud and hoped that the man couldn't hear his fast beating heart. The man gave a snort as he moved a few barrels and crates around, upturning a few of them that seemed rather heavy. The blond took in a slow breath once he couldn't hold it anymore, moving his hands to his mouth to make sure he was quiet enough. Luckily, the man was making a loud enough racket when he coughed a little.

Done with the hold, the man began to walk away, walking over Naruto's hiding place again… accidentally slipping a little bit of dirt through the cracks and over the blond's nose. Naruto's eyes widened when he felt a sneeze coming on, trying to hold it in until the man was gone. Fate seemed to hate him today, though.

He sneezed into his hands.

The footsteps stopped about halfway across the room, the man turned around and came back to where the sneeze sounded like it came from. Naruto pulled out his knife from his boot just in case, readying himself if his hiding place was found. However, our little forgot about one little thing…

Once you sneeze, another one usually quickly follows.

Naruto sneezed again, this one sneaking up on him so it surprised him.

The man gave a chuckle and was above the blond's hiding place in seconds, pulling up the floorboards. He didn't expect a knife in the throat though once Naruto was free to move around properly. The man died quickly while drowning in his own blood, making gurgling noises as he fell to the floor with a heavy thud (the man sure was a chunky one… fatty). Pulling his knife free from the other's chubby neck, Naruto tiptoed his way out of the hold, making sure he wasn't seen by the other pirates that were searching through his and his crew's stuff.

He was just below deck when a group of men came running down the stairs, making Naruto hide behind a wall and wait for the pirates to pass by. Once the last one was gone, he turned the corner… and ran into a large chest, falling onto his ass. Blue eyes looked up, widening at the tallness of the man that was smirking down at him.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" the huge man asked himself with a smug grin, grabbing the blond by his hair and lifted him up to his feet. "I knew Kakashi had to be hiding someone." He began dragging Naruto by his hair up the stairs and up to the deck to where many men were standing around while a few of the blond's crew members (one's that were alive, anyway) were tied up against the middle mast.

The captain, or what appeared to be the captain of the pirates, turned on his heel when he heard one his men coming to him rather loudly, but quickly smirked at what his man was bringing him. He was a strange looking man, that's for sure. He was rather pale despite being out in the sun all the time and his eyes glowed yellow. His hair was short and… green, like that of a withering plant. The captain wore a black coat much like Kakashi's except it had eight buttons instead of four in the front and had a red cloud in the back. His black pants were similar to Kakashi's as well, but his black leather boots reached beneath his knees instead of mid-calf.

"Look what Kakashi was hiding," the man holding Naruto said as he threw the blond to the floor.

The captain pulled up close to the captured blond and licked his lips at the look of hatred he was receiving; Kakashi dropping his head in shame in the background. "My, my, such a beautiful find Kisame. Such bright blond hair and clear blue eyes, how I would love to see them clouded and broken. Tell me… are you German? You hair and the color of your eyes say so, but the shape of your eyes says otherwise."

Naruto kept silent while he continued to glare at his tormentor before he spat in the man's face. The captain closed his eyes when the blond did this before calmly pulling out a handkerchief from his coat to wipe his face. The handkerchief was put away and with the same hand, the man slapped Naruto across the face; but it didn't faze the blond. Naruto's head only flinched to the side, a smirk spreading on his face as he ignored the pain.

"You bitch!" Kiba yelled from where he was tied next to Kakashi, struggling to get out of his bonds to defend his friend.

"Is that all you got?" Naruto asked quietly, his smirk turning into a stuffy grin that did not bode well with the pirate captain. "You seem kind of weak for a captain." A kick to the gut by the man, Kisame, was all he received for his comment. He gasped and bent over with a cough, holding his stomach.

"Do not disrespect Captain Zetsu, you-"

"Enough, Kisame," Zetsu interrupted, a wild look in his eyes that Naruto thought might have been filled with lust and something that the blond couldn't describe. "Hm, you seem rather lively. This makes me want to train you into an obedient puppet even more. What a high price you'll make." He ran a gloved finger along the fine jaw and down his capture's neck. "Quite the skin tone you have, definitely a wonderful find; I wonder what it would look like covered in marks and bruises?"

Kakashi tensed at this and gave a heated glare towards his old captain. "What happened to the 'no touching' policy?"

Zetsu chuckled at this as he glanced towards the bound man. "It changed a few years ago. My human trafficking is booming and more people wish for more sex dolls, so I had to change my tactics. It takes months, even years depending on the person, to train a human being by harsh words, hard labor, and manipulating. But… beating and raping seems a lot more affective these days as long as the wounds have cleared up before they are sold. And I must say, taking one's innocence without their consent is rather inviting." A large, evil smile spread across his face as he gazed down at his old crew mate.

"You bastard," Kakashi growled, eyes glowing in the moonlight, teeth bared like a feral dog.

The deathly pale man shrugged. "True, I never knew who my father was, but I must be just like him to have my mother try to kill me before killing herself." A laugh escaped from between his lips, enjoying the look on Kakashi's face. "You aren't so bad yourself. I know for certain you are rather handsome and have a lovely body. Men aren't the only ones who want sex slaves, you know? Many women are becoming influenced in it too and wish for strong, able men with large dicks, which I'm sure you have one."

The white haired man growled and looked away, hating the thought of being trained by this man's hand at becoming what he hated the most. Zetsu enjoyed other people's pains, especially when it brings him pleasure and it angered the younger, bound captain. Yet, what angered Kakashi the most was Naruto becoming something that he had tried to protect him from, but he did his best in keeping the young blond safe. Zetsu knew this when Kakashi tried to hide the boy, meaning he had a close friendship with the boy and bringing pain to the blond would bring pain to the silver haired man as well.

Yellow eyes slid past Kakashi and onto the brunette next to him, glancing over his slightly bruised face. Dark brown eyes filled with hatred glanced back. A smile laced with malice replaced Zetsu's smirk as he remembered that he was the one who had called him a bitch… he didn't really like being called a woman of ill reputation. The pale captain made his way softly to them and examined Kiba's face and body build, thinking as moved to the boy next to the brunette. The boy, however, was not graced with good looks and a wonderful body, but with pimples and incomplete facial hair because of puberty.

With a jerk of his head, a couple of Zetsu's men untied the boy only to slit his throat and dump his body into the sea. The same was done with the rest of the men or boys except for Kiba, Kakashi, Naruto, and a long haired brunette named Neji, who was considered Naruto's competitor in looks… or what some of the pirates complemented. However, Neji was not as 'disobedient' as the blond, so Zetsu by passed him to play with his new favorite toy that was still on the ground, but with Kisame's foot between his shoulder blades to keep him down.

"I rather like this ship, and since you put a hole in mine, I think I'll take it for the moment," Zetsu said as he gave the boat a once over from what he could see from where he stood. He then ordered half of his men to board the larger boat to take back and get fixed while the other half stayed and help plunder for more boys that would be considered prized toys. "Now, today we'll start our first lesson and it will be of obedience." He glanced down at the blond who had stopped struggling and just laid there on the floor. "I think we'll start with you… and I'll make sure it's painful enough for that rude comment of yours and killing one of my men."

"Wha' 'bout this un, captain?" one of the crew members asked as he fingered Neji's soft brown hair. "Canz we have a go at 'em?" He licked his lips over his yellow teeth, slobbering a little which the long haired brunette drew his head to the side in disgust.

Zetsu rolled his eyes at the man's mispronunciations and shook his head. "We can't do all of them at once and they need to be trained properly or they'll certainly break in a way that won't be good." A smile was suddenly seen on his face as he glanced down at the blond. "I'll show you."

Naruto's eyes widened when he saw the evil captain walking towards him with a look of lust and madness in his eyes and began to struggle beneath the larger man's foot. The foot was removed, but Kisame had knelt down and was now holding him down with a few other men, stripping the blond of his loose blouse, leather pants, and leather boots. From the sidelines, the other pirates were smirking and cheering for their captain, who was now kneeling in front of the blond, while Kiba and Kakashi thrashed in their bindings, yelling obscenities at the crew; Neji too afraid to really say anything.

The blond was being pushed to the ground on his stomach with his ass in the air, a delicious sight to behold for Zetsu. He chuckled as he ran a hand around a tanned globe, smacking it and giving a satisfied groan when it rippled just a little. "Tanned everywhere, I see; very good indeed. And such a firm round ass that still ripples when smacked; how delectable. I'm sure I'll enjoy this."

The rustling of clothing alerted Naruto, making him tense. He felt something hot and hard squeeze between his cheeks, a pair of hands squeezing the globes together around that hard something. Naruto didn't need to look to know what it was and he clinched his eyes closed, preparing himself for the painful penetration… that never came. Zetsu's crown was just kissing the blond's entrance when something hit the side of the boat… hard.

Everyone yelled out in surprised when the ship tipped dangerously to the side and caused everyone, except for the bound men, to be tossed the side. This made the men holding Naruto down to let go to take care of themselves and the blond was quick to act once he had his footing. He grabbed a nearby sword that had been dropped and ran for his crew, cutting the ropes away from them. The blond grabbed Kiba before the brunette could lose his head and attack the pirates, who were just righting themselves, and made his way to one of the many life boats.

However, once Kiba, Kakashi, and Neji were on board, whatever had hit the boat hit again, causing Naruto to lose his footing on the railing and fall into the water below. Kiba cried out and tried to dive in after him, but was held back by Neji. The boat was quickly dropped into the water before their tormentors could re-catch them and they rowed away swiftly into the night, thankful that a small fog began to form, hiding them from the pirates and the whale (yeah, whale) for beating its head against the haul of the ship, thinking that it was some enemy (the whale was either blind or very dumb).

"Naruto!" Kiba yelled out into the fog, listening closely. When he didn't receive an answer, he shouted again, louder this time. "NARUTO!"

"Quiet, you idiot," Neji hissed. "I would like to keep my innocence from those brutes thank you very much, and I don't hear them being attacked by that whale anymore… is that normal, Kakashi?" He gave his captain, who seemed to be brooding while he rowed, a look of disbelief.

"No, it's not. That whale must have been possessed or it could have been a miracle that some god or goddess gave us," Kakashi snapped, rowing a little harder which caused the short haired brunette to row a little harder as well so that they don't get turned around.

Neji grimaced as he scooted back into the stern of the rowboat and looked out towards the water. "No need to snap…" he whispered under his breath, but he was worried about the blond as well even though he didn't know him very well. "What will happen now?"

"We'll either die of hunger, get eaten by sharks, or land on an island with cannibals," the silver haired man growled out, earning a smack to the back of his head by Kiba. Grey eyes turned to glare, but was not expecting brown eyes to glare heated right back.

"There is no need to bring yer anger out on Neji, captain," the short haired brunette stated with a hint of irritation. "I'm angry as 'ell too and yet I'm not yellin' at poor Neji 'ere or ya for that matter. So get a grip. Naruto might be dead for all we know."

The silver haired man grimaced at the thought of the loud, kind blond being gone. He also felt guilty by the way he acted towards Neji. "Sorry…" he mumbled, earning a small smile from the stronger brunette beside him.

"It's ok, just pray that we'll find land soon."


Lou-pie: so first actual chapter is up, what'cha think? Comment please and tell me what you think. I tried my best with the way some of the pirates speak, but I'm no good with that sort of thing. I think I might have gone a little fast, but I'm no good with fighting scenes and I tried to figure out other ways for them to escape, but the whale seemed like a funny idea, and now a plot for that is beginning to form for it. I hoped you enjoyed it!