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--Several Weeks Later--

It had been six weeks since they had left England, five days since they've had a breeze. The voyage across the large ocean had turned slow, and the results could be seen on the deck of the ship. The sailors had at first a hopeful mood but after the third day their attitudes were weak and lazy. They spent most of the time sulking around, waiting for wind. Many of the passengers had taken an interest in the workings of the ship, since there was little else to do. The crew, having little to do as well in this bad breeze took the free time to entertain the youngest of the passengers. Among these young people was a young, hyperactive blond.

Naruto had specially taken an interest in sailor's lifestyles. Whenever he wasn't helping out with simple chores, sleeping, or eating, he was talking to some of the senior members of the crew, listening to their old stories. These were men who had spent most of their lives at sea and had no family, so having an interested young boy asking them so many questions was refreshing for them. The one that seemed to take the most liking to young Naruto was the captain of the ship, a man called Sarutobi.

Sarutobi was an older man, in his 60's. He, like most of his crew had spent their careers dedicated to the sea. He would tell Naruto tales of his younger days, adventures he had lived through, though some seemed a little exaggerated to Naruto, but he kept quiet just to finish listening to them. Besides stories the other half of the time they spent together was something Naruto enjoyed even more: swordplay. Sarutobi had agreed to teach him, if only the basics after Naruto approached him the second week they had known each other.

--Three Weeks Earlier--

It was past dinner time. Naruto was on deck, sitting on a crate staring at the sea. His mind still drifted on his mother and how she had been forced to stay behind. He had been sitting here alone whenever he could to let out a few tears which he couldn't hide no matter how much he tried. What made this night different was that Captain Sarutobi had walked up to the boy. It was his gentle nature that had drawn him to check on the young blond.

"Hello there young man, mind if I join you out here tonight?" Sarutobi spoke with a smile and a gentle voice.

"No…" Naruto put away his mother's last gift, the medallion as he whipped the tears away.

"Do you miss your home?" A pipe was pulled from the old captain's coat and calmly light.

"No, I miss my mother. She stayed behind so I could live a better life; at least, that's what she told me."

Sarutobi looked at this young boy with a straight and thoughtful look. Taking a few puffs from his pipe he pulled up a barrel and sat beside Naruto looked at the stars. In his youth Sarutobi had been separated from his family as well so he understood the feelings that were upsetting Naruto so much. He took one more puff before turning to the boy.

"I think I understand what you are feeling."

Naruto curiously looked up at the captain. Silence was his answer, as he waited for Sarutobi to continue talking.

"It sounds like your mother's a great person to make such a sacrifice for you. And the best way for you to remember her is not by mopping around here, but doing what she wanted of you."

Naruto turned fully to the captain. "What, right here? We haven't reached land yet."

"That's no excuse. There are plenty of useful skills that you can learn on a ship; in fact I think I'll teach you."

Sarutobi smiled at Naruto, and he excitedly smiled back, then jumped off the barrel and stood in front of the captain. From now on there would be no more mopping for him, only dedication and hard work to make a better life for himself.

"I'll do my best, believe it!"

Not far from the ship that carried Naruto to the New World, another ship was slowly closing in. It was a distinctive ship, with symbols anyone could have recognized. The many cannons on the sides, the scars of battle on the hull, and the unorganized crew on the deck all pointed to one fact, a pirate ship. The most impacting aspect of the ship by far though, was its black sails, meaning that it was no ones ally. Even other pirates knew better than to mess with a ship with black sails. It was a symbol of bad luck, so however sailed in those colors was either brave or as dumb as they come. The name of the ship was the Black Pearl. Its crew was an odd bunch. They all came from different places and had different tastes in how to spend their stolen fortune, and how to attack their pray.

Many on the crew where simply on deck drinking rum and other things bored pirates do. What mostly caught these bored pirates's attention were three members of the crew. Two of them were brothers. They were both raven haired men with rather white skin. They dressed mostly in baggy black and gray robes and both wore unique masks to cover their face. They went by the name demon brothers. The third pirate causing the ruckus was a white haired man, with skin a little lighter than the Demon Brothers. His name was Mizuki. It looked like they were fighting and the other pirates wanted to see a good brawl.

"Alright you two, I had enough of this!" yelled the white haired pirate.

"Cry baby! Cry baby!" yelled back one of the two brothers while the other added insult to injury by faking a lot of crying noises, which made the crew laugh.

"I don't care if you two think you are the captain's favorites, you don't get more rum than anyone else!" Mizuki pulled out a knife to make his point.

"Hey, we beat up bad the last opponents we had, and we'll gladly do the same to you!"

The Demon Brothers pulled out their cutlasses (a medium range sword with a bent blade) and took up a fighting position. Mizuki did the same. Two other pirates joined Mizuki since they also wanted to hit the stash of rum hard. These two were the odd couple of the ship. One was round and bald while the other was thin and had brown hair. They were called Mackenzie and Lee.

"We want that rum too!" screamed out the fat Mackenzie.

"Yeah, we ain't pushovers!" added Lee.

"That's the spirit!" Mizuki patted Mackenzie on the back hard, which caused him to trip, since he was a klutz. He crashed into Lee and knocked out his wooden eyeball. The whole crew laughed as Mackenzie and Leetried to grab it.

Suddenly, the entire crew heard a noise which seemed too good to be true. They all stood quiet, wondering if they had all dreamt it, but after a few seconds of desperate anticipation, they heard it again.

"Ship ahead!!" the lookout on the crow's nest yelled at the top of his lungs.

The entire crew cheered at the news. Mizuki and the Demon brothers among them, completely forgetting moments ago they were ready to beat each other up to a bloody pulp. As the pirates laughed, knowing they soon would be attacking another helpless ship, the doors to the main cabin opened and the captain of the ship walked out.

He was a tall man of a muscular built, or at least that's the impression most people got when they first came up to him. His face was covered in bandages but no one knew why he preferred it. His skin was much more pale than any member of his crew, an obvious result of spending much of his time in his quarters and only tending to ship's business at night. On his hip rested an eye catching weapon. It was a sword, but not a normal cutlass. It was wider and longer, about 3 feet long. To top it off, on the captain's right shoulder stood a monkey in a tan colored pirate shirt eating an apple.

"Captain Zabuza, ship ahead" informed one of his crew.

Captain Zabuza pulled out his spyglass (a small telescope) from his dark coat's pocket and took a better look of their target. From what he could make out it was a medium sized ship, so it wasn't a warship, not that it mattered. He also spotted the colors of a flag on the tail of the ship. It was from England.

Zabuza put down his telescope and chuckled fiendishly.

"It looks like we have ourselves some nice prey! Prepare the cannons, get your weapons ready! We strike swift!"

The crew was running left and right, following his orders as closer and closer.

It wasn't long before Captain Sarutobi became aware of the danger closing in on his ship. It had been a cold day with moderate mist but it wasn't everywhere. As soon as they where far enough from one of those misty spots he was barely able to spot black sales moving in his direction. Quickly he rang the bell on the deck, calling the attention of his entire crew.

"All hands to deck, move, move, move!" the Captain yelled to his crew.

They all complied and ran to deck to figure out what was going on. Among the running sailors was Naruto, who was just as curious, if not more.

"Alright, listen up. It seems we have been targeted by pirates."

Quickly the whole crew was mumbling concerns, while the passengers almost formed a panic after hearing the news.

"Now calm down!" Sarutobi called out getting mostly everyone's attention. "This is not the way to go about this. Control yourselves and we can make it through this. Now, I want the women and children below deck, everyone else that can fight, will fight."

Sarutobi looked as his orders were followed as quickly as possible. All in his crew had weapons, but there were very few men besides the crew who could fight. His face fell into a frown. "This is not good…" was his only thought at the moment.

Naruto walked up to Sarutobi, looking determined. "I know I'm ready!"

"Ready for what my boy?" Sarutobi calmly answered.

"What else, for the fight! I'll make those guys sorry they picked this ship!"

Sarutobi frowned at the boy and kneeled down to talk face to face with the blond. "No, I can't let you fight."

"Is it because you think I can't fight?? I survived on the streets before, and I can do it here too!" Naruto was now serious and mad, ready to fight to the end.

"It's not that. I don't doubt that you could teach a few of them a thing or two, but you aren't thinking about your mother's wish are you. I am not letting you do something this foolish. Now go hide with the others."

Sarutobi placed his hand on Naruto's head and smiled before sending him off. When Naruto was gone, Sarutobi once again focused on the ship closing in.

The two ships played a game of cat and mouse for the next ten minutes until finally the cat, the Black Pearl caught enough wind to reach the pray ship. Captain Zabuza was on the right side of the ship, with a pistol in one hand and a rope in the other. His ship would come up on the left and shoot it's cannons, then they would board the ship and steal as much as they could, while killing as many as they could. It was how they operated, and they were good at it. Zabuza breathed slowly, focusing on the moment. It was now that he felt most alive, as was the same for the two beside him, the Demon Brothers.

Finally the moment came and the Black Pearl's right side guns fired. Out of the four right side cannons, only one missed. The other three shattered through the hull of the passenger ship easily. The pirates roared in celebration. Many of them followed their captain's lead and took rope's in their hands ready to board the other ship. The rest of the pirates took out rifles and began firing to open up the deck. On the other ship, Captain Sarutobi's crew did the same. Those who had rifles were using them to defend the deck. The others were alongside the captain, ready to fight till the death if necessary.

Zabuza suddenly leaped as high could and swung to the other deck, avoiding a few bullets along the way with ease. He could tell the ones shooting at him weren't trained soldiers or fighters. As he let go of the rope to land, he took aim and shot the man directly in front of him in the forehead. Zabuza landed in a knelt position next to the now dead man. Another crewman tried to kill the pirate captain with a shot to the back, but Zabuza became aware of this and hit him with impressive speed in his gut with the back of his elbow and tossed him overboard.

Having cleared a small landing spot for the other pirates, the Demon Brothers leaped forward and led the others on the attack. Mackenzie and Lee were arming another cannon shot when they saw the flurry of pirates swinging to the other ship.

"That's always the fun part. Why are we stuck doing this?!" argued the skinny man.

"Well someone has to do this." was his friend's response.

"Yeah it stinks! We never get to kill anyone…" Lee was now almost weeping.

"Quit your blubbering you big baby." Mackenzie snorted and lit the cannon.

The cannon shot blasted away another large hole on the hull of the cargo ship. The passengers hiding below deck screamed in fear as the cannonball went in through one wall and went out the other wall. Naruto was no exception and was ducking with some other children behind barrels worried that the next shot would hit them. He never thought real battle could be so violent and out of control. The fear almost left him frozen right there.

Back on deck, Captain Zabuza was leading the killing count among his crew. In the time his men had boarded the ship, he had already killed four men. He laughed out loud as if having the time of his life. As soon as the Demon Brothers were by his side, he started to push forward, to get to the cargo the pirates were after. Without warning, one of the pirates landed right in front of the captain's feet. When Zabuza looked up to notice the source, he found an old man with a sword dripping with blood looking down at him. The hot headed Mizuki saw this as well and yelled out his intentions to kill Sarutobi. Zabuza watched as Mizuki took out his cutlass and aimed a forward strike at the old man. Sarutobi sidestepped and sliced into Mizuki's arm, causing him to let go of the sword. Sarutobi then kicked Mizuki in the face and knocked him down cold.

Three other pirates that had just finished killing of their opponents were ready to fight this old man, but Zabuza motioned them to stop.

"Stand down mates. Head on down and take it all. Kill anyone else down there as well." were Zabuza's cold words.

His crew obeyed and headed for the cargo. Sarutobi took another sword and leaped down, ready to kill on of the pirates when he found Zabuza intercepting both his blades with his. The two captains then became locked in a battle of swords.

"You're pretty good, for an old geezer who's about to be dead." taunted Captain Zabuza.

"You shouldn't assume that you've already won!" Yelled Sarutobi and swung both his swords horizontally aimed at Zabuza's chest.

Zabuza quickly jumped to his side and landed on the ledge of the deck. He was now two feet above Sarutobi, though he had the disadvantage of having to balance himself, at least that's what Sarutobi thought. He took both swords again and aimed with each blade a slash to each one of Zabuza's legs. Zabuza saw right though his attack and jumped once again, this time over his opponent, landing a blow to back of the old man's head in the process. Zabuza landed behind the momentarily stunned older captain and stabbed him in his left shoulder.

"Had enough old man, or do you want to die the hard way?" Zabuza almost chuckled as he spoke.

"You are not very good captain are you? A captain goes down with his ship, and I will be no different." Sarutobi regained his balance and took up a defensive position with just one sword in his right hand.

Zabuza grinned wide in a devilish manner and got his sword ready. "Suit yourself."

Both captains began exchanging a flurry of blade strikes, neither one hitting the other. Two more cannon shots came from the Black Pearl, aimed at the deck this time. They hit and easily destroyed the main sail of the ship. The large wooden post fell right beside the two captains, but they continued fighting as if nothing had happened. Zabuza and Sarutobi began moving to the stairs, Sarutobi always one step above is opponent. Zabuza being younger however had more stamina and strength, which he was using to his favor. Sarutobi managed to land a blow to Zabuza's right hand, cutting it slightlyand causing Zabuza to drop his sword. Unfazed, Zabuza slammed his left fist into Sarutobi's face, knocking him off his feet. Captain Zabuza laughed as he looked at the blood then grabbed his sword and Sarutobi's sword.

"Well that was fun…but now it's time to die you old fool."

Sarutobi did not beg for his life in the short time he had left. He simply closed his eyes, understanding that fact that he had failed his final challenge in life. Zabuza crossed both blades and aimed them at the old captain's neck, cutting it in a scissor-like motion. Blood splattered on the floor next to the helm (the wheel used to steer the ship) as Zabuza slowly walked away and back down to the ravaged deck.

Meanwhile, below deck, the injured Mizuki and the demon Brothers had reached the cargo hold. There they found all of the passengers starring them down, some with a look of fear, other with anger.

Mizuki grinned and looked at his fellow pirates. "You heard the Captain's orders."

One of the two masked pirates laughed. 'Yeah, just don't get beat up this time."

His brother then let out a loud laugh and mocked Mizuki by holding his left arm as if it was in pain.

"Shut up! I'll kill everyone here myself!" Mizuki launched forward and began slashing at everyone he found in the room, starting with the women in front of him. The one's who had the time yelled from the panic. The other women and children seeing this mad silver haired pirate kill without guilt jumped forward and tried to take Mizuki down. What Mizuki didn't count on happened, they were all ganging up on him and taking him down. The Demon Brothers had to step in and begin stabbing everyone.

Naruto, who had been hiding behind the barrels, joined in the attack on Mizuki. When the other two pirates came to his aide, Naruto got grabbed by the neck and was thrown to the side rather then being killed right then and there. The Demon Brothers were busy hacking so Naruto happened to slip by. Naruto tried to get up but the increasingly hard movement of the ship caused a rope that had been holding a crate to break apart and let the crate loose. It moved fast and hit Naruto hard. The crate broke through the weakened wall and took Naruto down with it into the sea. Naruto barely managed to grab hold of it to keep from sinking, since the crate was made of wood, it could float.

A pirate who had gone down with a group to take their loot saw the crate go down.

"Hey, one got away!"

"So? There are more here." answered another pirate who began grabbing as much as he could.

The pirates all got to work on the cargo hold, taking everything that wasn't bolted down, except for Mizuki who was tending to his wounds, not just physical, but his pride as well. Once they had everything onboard the Black Pearl, Captain Zabuza ordered the ship to be put on fire. A couple of barrels full of gun powder were left on the deck next to the broken mast. As soon as the Pearl set sail, Zabuza took a rifle and shot the barrels igniting what was left of the ship in flames. The pirates yelled in celebration as their captain, with his pet monkey on his shoulder pulled down the bandages that covered his face and took bite of an apple.

Among the wreckage of the ship, a half conscious Naruto felt alone as he drifted on the water till he fully faded away.

A British naval vessel happened to be sailing in the nearby area. At the most forward position of the ship stood a young pink haired girl starring out into the sea as she sang quietly to herself. She wore what appeared to be an expensive dress and had her hair adorned with a red ribbon with gold trim. She was clearly of high class. The girl's name was Sakura Haruno, daughter of Port Royal's Governor Haruno. Her father had just received the position and they were now on their way to reach her new home.

The mist in the area was high so she couldn't see too far out into the sea. She began singing to keep herself entertained. A large older man with an amazing amount of hair walked towards her. She stared at all that white hair till she noticed she was being rude and turned around. The man noticed and chuckled before standing next to the obviously bored girl.

"There's nothing out there to see missy." calmly exclaimed the man.

"But this is my first ocean voyage. I want to enjoy it fully." The young girl spoke with proper tone.

"Well, we're still days away from shore lady. You won't be finding anything that's even half interesting, except for pirates!"

Sakura opened her eyes wide, now curious by what the old man had just said. "But there are no pirates in this part of the world."

"Oh you couldn't be more wrong. We have the worst kind here." The white haired man began making some mean faces when he was stopped by a voice from behind.

"Stop that right now Mr. Jiraiya, there is no need to scare the young miss."

The voice came from a young lieutenant member of the crew, Itachi Uchiha. He was a fast rising member of the British fleet. At just sixteen, he had reached the position of lieutenant. As a result he was greatly admired.

"Aye sir, I was just keeping her entertained." Jiraiya exclaimed and excused himself, but not before encountering a young raven haired boy who stood behind Lieutenant Itachi, his older brother.

"Pirates are no match for my brother, no matter were they are from." exclaimed the younger Uchiha.

"Quite right Sasuke. They are a cowardly lot and they all deserve to be hung." Itachi exclaimed calmly.

Behind them both, Mr. Jiraiya made a face pretending to be hung which got the young pink haired girl slightly nervous. She turned around to go back to her quiet thoughts. Some of them involved her new home, some involved her old home and some involved that boy she had met on the trip, Sasuke. So far he had completely ignored her but still she found him cute.

Suddenly from behind the cover of the mist, a burning pile of wood came out, followed by another and another. Just as she was about to speak out, she saw the outline of a blond boy in the water floating on a half destroyed crate.

"There's a boy in the water!" she yelled out.

Lieutenant Uchiha rushed over to observe. He spotted the remains of a burning ship now escaping the mist.

"Man overboard. Get out the rowboats to search the wreckage!" lieutenant Itachi quickly ordered.

Quickly the crew reacted and the young blond boy was rescued. Itachi, alongside Governor Haruno, who had become quite curious, took the boy inside a cabin, where Sasuke and Sakura were ordered to wait.

"Tend to him till he wakes up." Sakura's father told his daughter.

"If he wakes up and happens to mention anything about the attack, I want to be notified." Itachi told his younger brother, who faintly nodded. He wasn't happy about having to wait beside Sakura.

Sakura took a step closer to the blond. His clothes were completely soaked in sea water. His face and arms had a few cuts, but nothing that couldn't be cured, except for three on each cheek that were rather deep. They had been caused when the crate slammed into Naruto and drove him through the hull of the cheek. She guessed that they must have hurt and felt sorry for the boy. Around the blonde's neck she spotted a piece of rope attached to a medallion. She slipped it off his neck for a better look.

"What are you doing?' asked the young Uchiha.

"I'm just taking a better look." she defended her actions.

"Whatever…" Sasuke sighed and looked towards the boy. "Think we should wake him up?"

"Maybe…" Sakura slowly got closer to the boy. His hair had gone over his forehead and eyes, covering half of his face. She lifted the hair to get a better look. Despite the cut cheeks, she found the boy cute, in a different manner than Sasuke. Her hand moved down to stroke the scarred cheek when suddenly Naruto woke up and grabbed her by the hand. Sakura hid the medallion she had in her other hand behind her back.

"Calm down. You were just rescued." Sasuke calmly spoke up.

Naruto noticed Sakura and the fact that he was holding her hand and let go, feeling confused.

"Where…am I?" he asked still looking around.

"You're on a British ship headed for Port Royal. What's your name?" Sakura asked more calm now that Naruto had let go of her hand.

"Oh…Naruto Uzumaki…"

Before he could say anything else his head fell back as he feel sleep. Sasuke quickly went to get his older brother. Sakura got Naruto's head on her lap so she could slip on the boy's necklace. She stopped to stare at the boy's head and was startled right then by her father, who walked in with Itachi.

"How is the boy?" asked the Governor, ignoring the fact that Sakura had the boy resting on her lap as nothing more than her daughter being kind.

"He will be fine. I am worried however father about these cuts on his face." she honestly answered.

"They look pretty deep." added Sasuke.

"At least he will live. I'll see what I can do about the cuts." Said Sakura's father as he took the boy in his arms and got him up on a table in the room for better light. Before politics, he was a well known doctor, which made him the most qualified person to tend to the boy now.

Sakura looked at the medallion in her hand then towards Sasuke, who was leaving with his brother. He quietly shrugged and walked out. Sakura hid the medallion in her dress, simply thinking that she would wait for the best opportunity to give it back to him later on.

Cast Commentary: Third and Forth Hokages

Yondaime (4th): Greetings everyone! My that was an action packed chapter! You didn't even get to see that in the movies! Don't you think so Hokage-sama?

Sandaime (3rd): That's the second time I've died...

Yondaime: Yeah, that has to be harsh, and this time it was by Zabuza...oops, I mean Captain Zabuza. Argh!! (laughs)

Sandaime: No comment...

Yoidaime: Well at least Barbosa's part wasn't played by Orochimaru. (weak laugh)

Sandaime: ...

Yondaime: (clears throat) If you think about it...I died for a second time is this story as well.

Sandaime: True. But I would sacrafice myself a dozen times for any of my villagers. (smokes from the pipe)

Yondaime: (nods) Same here.

Sandaime: So...I suppose I should say something about the chapter?

Yondaime: Sure. Comments, thoughts, opinions...anything you'd like to.

Sandaime: Hmmm. (smokes) I hope people enjoy the more they read this.

Yondaime: Couldn't have said it better myself! Enjoy the story folks!