Yay its chapter two. It truly is a miracle that I am writing this right now seeing as I'm so lazy and stuff so I hope you enjoy what I have prepared for you. I promise that even if it is a bit slow in the beginning it will get better and I will try to speed it up as much as possible, but I don't want to ruin the story by doing so.

So anyways on with the story!!!

The Ninja Pirate Chronicles

Chapter 2

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When Naruto awoke from his meditation it was still dark outside, if he had to guess around 3 or 4 in the morning. Changing and repacking his stuff he set off to leave the town before he was found. He found the streets maily empty except for being patrolled by small groups of marines, but that was no real problem as he used Sunshin no Jutsu (Body Flicker Technique) to get out of the town. From under his cloak he pulled a map that he had stolen in his search for money and scanned it looking for the nearest port. He soon found it too and it was not far away (in ninja terms) just about a half day journey in the direction he was currently going.

As he thought it didn't take long for him to reach the port city and he was soon inside the bustling city. There was a minor annoyance of the streets being filled with groups of marines wandering around the stalls of the market, but they were easily avoided. Moving through the streets he made his way to the piers looking for a large boat in good condition, not that it really mattered he could always put some seals to make it impossible to damage even in disrepair.

After a quick scan of the ships he dismissed them as most of them were ether complete junk or were to small for his likings, even if the small ones were well made it would be impossible to take them out in to heavy weather. Eventually he came to the marine ships, these were in much better condition, and started to inspect them. He was thoroughly disappointed. Although the ships were in good condition they were in no way to properly fight in them. The ship had a large armory filled with guns and swords of ok quality, but they had absolutely no cannons. True, he wasn't counting the ones on the main deck but other than that they had only had four others putting their cannon count to 10. The normal ships all had 15 cannons…a side and that was not counting the ones on the main deck. He figured that they mainly used maneuverability rather than power so that they could board the offending ship and overwhelm the crew into submission. He shook his head and continued on.

He was running out of ships that he could use, but at the last of the piers he found just what he was looking for. There was a ship that was twice to three times the size of the other ships. Silently he snuck onto what he could only guess as a warship. It was in perfect condition barely used and had only 5 guards who were soon under a genjutsu so he could inspect in peace. It was huge it had 3 decks not including the main deck with an armory, a small jail cell with sea stone, and sea stone implements like swords and cuffs, and most importantly it had 35 cannons each side no including the ones on the main deck making a grand total of 68 cannons. It was perfect and looked to be boarded any day so he had to act fast. He checked the food and water supply and found that he had enough food to feed himself for years, seeing as it was stocked to feed at least 100 marines.

Going back up to the main deck he redid the genjutsu making the men guarding the ship think that their replacements had arrived. They left fairly quickly heading to the nearest inns. When they were gone he started his work of preparing for launch. Heading down to the bottom of the ship he opened a trap door that led to the bilge and looked inside. As he expected they were filled with stinking water so he started the pump and soon enough they were clear of water and he headed in.

It was a tight fit, but he had to start here. First he started carving the seal that made the ship water tight so that he wouldn't have to worry about water seeping into the bilge again. Then next to that seal he made several more like self cleaning and other things of the sort. Finally he made carved in a seal that made the ship indestructible, as it wouldn't be good to have his adventure end before it started. With that finished he left the bilge and made 20 Kage Bushin start launching.

By the time he had made it to the main deck every thing was almost ready to go and the anchor was already being pulled up. A few minutes later every thing was set and one of his clones jumped off on to the pier and pushed the boat back in to the marina before jumping back on. It was surprisingly easy to make it out of harbor and into the sea, but Naruto had to wonder who this ship had been for…

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Several hours later

"Sir!" a marine stood in front of a small hospital bed saluting to the man laying in it. "What is it now!" came his reply "Commodore Smoker, we have received notice from the port that your new Warship that came with you promotion has been stolen." "WHAT!" "yes it is quite the talk of the town, some how 5 men got hold of marine outfits and convinced the guard that they were the next shift, they even knew the pass word." At the moment Smoker was not listening and was feeling the distinct need to hurt something. 5 seconds late the marine was seen flying out of the window, the 4th floor window.

Who ever did this was going to pay, and it wouldn't be pretty. This was going to delay his persute of the Straw Hat Pirates making him wait weeks for another ship to come in from where ever they are made. ohhh, yes who ever did this is going to be in pain, right next to the cloaked man who beat him with his own weapon. He pulled out a piece of paper and looked at it. On it was a picture of the man who beat him, it was a sketching of him but it was fairly easy to do so he had no worries of identification. The man had been named 'The Black Lightning Swordsman' for his movements and how familiar he seemed to be with swords. His bounty was instantly 10 thousand for having injured a high ranking officer, but was to be brought in alive.

Well, he couldn't have that could he? The man would just put up a bit too much resistance and would be killed in action, by accident of course…

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Yay chapter 2 is done!!!!

Just to inform you I have started up school again and that is going to change some things. Consequently I will probably be updating faster than normal seeing that I finish my work really quickly so I have nothing to do when im sitting in the middle of class other than write and draw. BTW I have drawn what naruto's sword looks like (I don't know if it is 'Hiken no Ryuu' or 'Ryuu no Hiken' so ill just write it what ever you guys tell me it is) and ill try to get it on to the internet, but im not promising anything cuz I don't have a scanner so ill have to find some other way. Suggestions would be helpful. You know you want to, just click on the little button in the left hand corner and every thing will be ok. I don't care if you flame or not just review, but let it be known that if I think your flame is unjust I shall rant at you the next time I update.

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