THE HELLFIRE FOX

Chapter 2

10 years later

If one were to look into the horizon we could see a small raft swaying into the ocean and from the looks of it to an unknown destination. Sleeping in it was a young man who looked about 18 years old. He is very lean and muscular, his skin is tanned, he has wild blond hair that falls passed his shoulders, clam sky blue eyes, on his face are faint whisker marks that along with his wild hair gave him a very feral look. He wears an open black vest revealing his muscled chest, over his shoulders he wore a black cloak, he also wears navy blue shorts that reached his knees, on his feet he wore black sandals, also on his waist is a small pouch to carry things in.

This man was none other than Hawk D. Naruto.

In the past 10 years he has done nothing but train in not only his devil fruits but some other things such as weaponry and hand to hand combat, with the mindset being that he always can't rely in his devil fruit powers. Another thing he realised was that he can control the intensity of his flames changing their colour and also unlocked some new forms which he named after reading different book. He of course didn't tell Luffy not wanting his baby brother to step out of his naivety and destroy his innocence. Just wanting his baby brother to enjoying his childhood.

He also told Luffy to keep his devil fruit being a logia a secret, with the thought that it might come handy later on. Luffy agreed almost instantly.

Now its been two months when he left his home on his great adventure to become the pirate king and he has yet to find someone for his crew. In the past two months he has fought many small timer pirates some of whom were devil fruit users, though he thinks they were not worthy for them and killed them instantly. During his little skirmish with other devil fruit users he found a very dangerous fact about his devil fruit that being that his black flames were able to nullify other devil fruit powers. Anyone who bathed in those flames lost their powers for a little amount of time. He of course killed them so as to keep the fact a secret.

Now we find him heading towards the Uchiha island where he had heard resides a powerful monster said to have the power over illusions and is said to be able to fight back all the pirates that go towards the place.

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Some miles away on the Uchiha island

On the island near the coast a young man sat meditating. Suddenly he snapped open his eyes and if one were to look carefully we could see a bead of sweat trailing down his face. This was Uchiha Itachi, the heir of the Uchiha clan that ruled the island. Itachi had onyx eyes under which were long, pronounced tear-troughs. He had jet-black hair that was pulled back in a low ponytail and his face was framed with centre-parted bangs that extended to his chin; the ponytail and bangs grew longer over the years. His clothes consisted of a black shirt with the Uchiha clan symbol on the back, bandages around his ankles, and black sandals. He wore tan pants with a weapons pouch strapped to his back.

"Someone's coming and he is strong, I can feel it. Maybe I can finally test myself." He thought as he stood up and walked towards the sea to greet the powerful stranger.

As he reached the there he saw a young man with blonde hair and whisker marks walking towards him.

"Oi, do you know where I can find this illusion monster? I heard he is on this island." Naruto asked.

"Oh, and do you want with this monster? He killed everyone who dare go near him." Itachi said with a raised eyebrow.

"I wanna fight him, and if he is strong I will make him join my crew. Now tell me if you know about him." Naruto said with a confident grin.

"is that so, well than you are looking at him, now we shall introduce ourselves shall we? My name is Uchiha Itachi, and you are?" Itachi trailed off.

"I am Hawk D. Naruto, and your future captain Itachi. Enough of this get ready no, here I come." Naruto said as he ignited his hands and made a sword out of it. Itachi seeing this raised an eyebrow.

"A Devil fruit?" Itachi asked.

'"Yea, I ate the heru heru no mi. Normally I won't use it this early but I have a feeling that I might need it here, you are strong." Naruto said calmly. Itachi closed his eyes at this.

"Very well than if that's the case, than I might show you my real power." Itachi said respectfully as he slowly opened his eyes. His eyes were now red with black pupil and three black commas circling it. Seeing Naruto raise an eyebrow Itachi explained, "I too ate a devil fruit, the tomeo tomeo no mi."

Accepting the answer Naruto suddenly lept forward and swung his sword at Itachi. "Hono no ken" Naruto shouted. Itachi dodged it easily. This continued a few more times before Naruto thought of changing his technique but suddenly found himself unable to move. Looking around he saw that he was stuck in tree. "Magen: Jubaku satsu", he heard Itachi's voice but couldn't find him anywhere. Itachi suddenly grew above him out of the tree about to slit his throat. Thinking quickly he used his logia powers to escape, and burn Itachi, who too quickly withdrew and escaped.

"A logia? It just got more…." But before he could have thought more a yell distracted him. "Enshin no ya renden" when he looked up his blood froze at the sight in front him. Coming towards him form the sky was a sea of black fire arrows and above them was Naruto with two black wings coming out of his back. Looking closely he saw that they were made of fire. Seeing as he could do nothing but dodge he strained his eyes and started dodging. After a few minutes when all the disappeared he was surrounded with nothing but black flames. Although he dodged almost all the arrows some still grazed him and just that hurt like hell.

Naruto thinking he had won slowly began to descend when suddenly Itachi disappeared in a flock of crows. "Kokuangyo no jutsu" Itachi exclaimed and this time Naruto found himself in Naruto found himself surrounded by nothing but darkness. He could hear nothing, see nothing or feel anything. Thinking how he was able to come out last time, he began to raise his power and with a loud yell of "Enshin Burosto" released a powerful wave of flames in all sides dispelling the illusion. Though by now even he was starting to pant a little.

When he looked forward he saw Itachi was in on the ground, his breathing hard.

"This fight of ours must have been noticed by the others of my clan, how about we finish this with a last attack." Itachi said between his breaths.

"Very well, Itachi." "Those illusions of his our powerful and create enough opening for him to attack me, looks like I have to use it after all." Naruto thought as he prepared last attack.

Suddenly he heard the voice of birds chirping and looking forward he saw Itachi running towards him with a greater speed than before. Though what shocked him was the spear of lightning in his hand that was making the sound.

"What the…" Naruto was interrupted by his thoughts when Itachi rammed the spear in his chest with a yell of "Raikiri". Naruto quickly let the attack pass his body and thrust his hand towards Itachi's chest and shouted "Hell's punishment", with his hands glowing black with his flames. When he touched Itachi there was a loud explosion and Itachi was tossed around like a rag doll, his eyes wide with what he felt. Near him was a kunai knife which was what he actually used to hit Naruto, lying in the ground.

He slowly sat down and was about to ask Naruto about the feeling when he saw his whole clan coming towards the two, his eyes instantly filled with a controlled rage.

The Uchiha clan in a group walked towards the battlefield, the group lead by the clan head Uchiha Fugaku and his son Uchiha Sasuke. (Their appearance is same as in the cannon and Sasuke is wearing is post time skip clothes.) they saw that was place was destroyed and the only one present were Itachi and some stranger.

"What the hell is going on here? Who dare destroy the sacred Uchiha land." Fugaku said and was about to attack the stranger when Itachi blocked his way.

"This is none of your concern father, the fight is over besides, I cant let you attack my captain now can I." Itachi said with a stoic expression, though you could see a small grin on his face. This shocked everyone present their besides Naruto who saw all this with a giant smile.

"Captain, what is the meaning of this Itachi." Roared both Fugaku and Sasuke. "You are not going anywhere ni-san." Sasuke added.

"Just as it seems father, I have decided to join Naruto's pirate crew here. No longer I will be used by you to show the superiority of this foolishly weak clan. Now if you will excuse me I have some work to do." Itachi said calmly and began to walk away.

Though just as he was about to go, Sasuke attacked him with a sword in his hand. "Foolish little brother." Itachi sighed as he dodged and back handed Sasuke causing the blade to slip out of his hands. Itachi caught the blade and said "Magen: Narakumi no Jutsu". Suddenly Sasuke fell down and started screaming in fright, and Itachi used the blade to behead him.

Everyone was silent with what just happened right now. Fugaku was the first one to come out of shock and asked "why did he scream, Itachi?" anger clearly evident in his voice.

"I just showed him the future, nothing else." Itachi said.

But before anyone could ask anything else, Naruto shouted "You can see future, SOOOO COOOOOOOL" with stars in his eyes.

Ignoring the boy Fugaku said " what did you show him?"

"Your death along with everyone present here. That will be the end of Uchiha clan." Itachi still stoic said.

Fugaku no longer able to contain his anger charged along with everyone with the clear intent of killing Itachi, though their way was suddenly blocked by a black firewall. Everyone turned towards the direction where it came from and saw Naruto with his hands raised up.

"Hey Itachi, you already look tired and there are a lot of them so you don't mind me taking them do you." Naruto asked with excitement.

"Very well captain, as you wish." Replied Itachi.

No one was able to say anything before Naruto flew into the air with his black wings and attacked with a "Enshin no ya renden" but on an even larger scale. Everyone and everything was turned to ash besides Itachi.

"Now with that taken care of, lets get going shall we.." Naruto said as he came down.

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3 days later

During the days, with Itachi still recovering form the fight and the civilians and some Uchiha women celebrating with Itachi's mother being one of them, Naruto learned that the Uchiha men were tyrants supressing and ruling the people with iron fists. Those who opposed were killed as an example. So they were happy with their deaths.

Itachi also told Naruto about the Suna island where he had heard his father talking with someone about a man said to be able to control the deserts themselves, though it was said that he was insane and killed everyone that dare attack him without mercy.

Naruto hearing this started grinning like an idiot and told him that, that is where they are going to go next then. But that idea was dropped when Mikoto, Itachi's mother started yelling at them. Something about Itachi being injured and needing some more days to get going.

"Captain, why don't you go there alone then. We could meet up the conomi island. It will come on the way to the Louge town too." Itachi said.

Naruto reluctantly agreed before he started preparing to leave.

Now we find Naruto in a small dinghy along with some food ready to leave and find his new crew mate.

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