Thanks for all of the support on the first chapter! To those that want to know, I will not be accepting OCs. And as I said in the last chapter, Naruto does have a devil fruit and I will be revealing it around the Syrup Village Arc. I know present to you…Chapter 2!
Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece or any of the characters; all rights go to Eiichiro Oda
The Straw Hat crew was, in the simplest of terms, lost. Shortly after their departure from Shells Town their food supply had gone, courtesy of their straw hat-wearing captain. Unfortunately, none of them had any navigational skills, so getting to the next island would be harder than expected. They were lost and hungry, not a good combination.
"I'm so hungry…" Luffy complained, laying down gazing up at the sky.
"That wouldn't be a problem if you hadn't eaten all of our food!" Zoro yelled at Luffy, smacking him over the back of the head. Naruto was in his normal position, leaning against the side of the boat. Trying to ignore his stomach growling at him.
"Look at that bird," Luffy pointed at a pink bird flying in the sky above them, a light bulb went off in Luffy's head, "I think I found something to eat!" He stood up, grabbed the mast and starting walking back, "Gomu Gomu no…" He then launched himself off of the boat and headed straight at the bird, "Rocket!" Both Naruto and Zoro were happy that Luffy had found something to eat, however it was taking Luffy longer than they thought it would to get back down.
"Luffy! Hurry up and get down here!" Naruto shouted up at Luffy, hoping that he could hear him.
"The bird's bigger than I thought!" Luffy yelled back. After Naruto took a closer look he could see that the bird had Luffy in it's mouth and started to fly away, "Shit! Zoro start rowing!" Zoro immediately got to work, rowing as fast as he could to keep up with the bird, with Naruto keeping an eye on it.
"Help! Help!" They heard some pirates attempting to keep afloat in front of them.
"I can't stop! You guys are gonna have to try and jump on!" Zoro told them as he kept on rowing. The pirates paled at this, the boat was coming at them at a very fast speed. They were barely able to grab a hold of the boat before it crashed into them.
"Now, that that's out of the way." One of the pirates started to speak.
"If you try and steal our boat I will ripe out your throat and shove it up your ass," Naruto told them, already knowing what they would try and do. This scared them sufficiently, turns out they didn't have very strong wills, "Now get to work rowing." Naruto had intimidated them enough to get them to switch with Zoro to row.
"I'm gonna get revenge on that girl that tricked us!" One of the pirates told to the rest of the pirates.
"Stuff that, think about what Captain Buggy will do to us if we come back empty handed." All three of the pirates shuddered as they thought of what their captain would do to them. Zoro raised an eyebrow.
"Who's Buggy?" Zoro asked them to which they snorted.
"How do you not know the infamous Captain Buggy?"
"Stop being a smartass and answer the question," Naruto told them, "I don't know about you guys, but I'm the type of person that goes through with their threats." The pirates gulped.
"Captain Buggy is one of the top dogs of the East Blue with a bounty of 15,000,000 beli." The pirates explained.
'Interesting, I get to see what the top dogs of this sea is worth in a fight.' Naruto thought to himself, eagerly waiting to fight this 'Captain' Buggy.
With Luffy
"Wow! You really can see a lot from up here!" Luffy exclaimed, still being carried by the bird, "Land!" Luffy could finally see land; he started struggling to get out of the bird's grasp. On the ground, there was a pirate ship docked near the town. The pirates were alerted by Luffy's shouting. One of them grabbed a telescope and looked up and discovered that the bird was carrying someone.
"Captain there's a bird carrying someone over us, what should we do?" The pirate asked his captain who was sitting down on his throne.
"Meh, just shoot it down." He responded casually.
Somewhere Else In Town
Nami was running through the town as fast as she could, with three big, strong, angry pirates running after her.
"Give back our map!" They ordered.
"No, I stole it! It's mine!" Nami replied, confusing the pirates with her logic. An explosion in the sky halted the chase for a moment. Then something fell down from the sky and crashed in the middle of the four, creating a lot of dust. When the dust cleared, Nami was surprised, and at the same time relieved, at what she saw. It was one of the pirates who she had given a ride to Shells Town.
"What a landing!" Luffy exclaimed, dusting himself off and putting his straw hat back on his head. Nami took this moment to her advantage.
"Thanks for coming for me boss!" She told him, getting the pirates to direct their anger at him, "I'll let you take care of him!" She then ran off to hide from the pirates.
"Hm? What's Nami doing here?" Luffy asked himself silently.
"So you're her boss eh…" the pirates whispered ominously. The ominous feeling was ruined when one of the pirates threw a punch that hit Luffy square in the jaw. Luffy wasn't worried, he knew that being a rubber man he was invulnerable to physical attacks, but he was worried when he saw his treasure lift off his head and onto the ground due to the force of the attack. That worry turned into anger in a matter of seconds.
"Don't touch my hat!" Luffy yelled as he punched the offending pirate in the gut as hard as he could, sending him flying into the building behind him. He then turned to the two beside him, taking care of them with simple punches to the face. Luffy knocked them all out cold in a matter of seconds.
"Wow! You're tougher than I thought!" Nami proclaimed as she sat on the roof of a nearby house. She watched as he went to pick up his hat.
'I would ask if he would like to join up with me, but I remember him telling me that he was a pirate. But that kid said never to judge someone like that, he seems pretty nice so I might as well give him something to eat.' Nami thought.
"Hey Luffy, want some food?" Nami asked. Luffy's face lit up at her question.
"Yea!" Luffy answered. Nami jumped down and led Luffy inside the house she was standing on top of, "You live here?"
"No, the owners are out." Nami corrected, Luffy frowned.
"So you're stealing." Luffy told her blatantly.
"Everyone in town is in the shelter, they're practically giving me their valuables." Nami informed Luffy, who still had his frown on, until Nami gave him some food, to which he started chomping down on his fast than an admiral. Nami was slightly disgusted by the speed at which he was eating.
"Ah…" Luffy sighed as he patted his stomach; happy with the meal he had eaten, "why are you here?"
"Buggy had the map of the Grand Line. I've got it now, but Buggy still has a lot of treasure left that I want." Nami explained.
"If you've got a map of the Grand Line you must be good at navigation." Luffy reasoned.
"Yep. There aren't many people that know more about navigation than I do!" She replied.
"Join my crew! Be my navigator!" Luffy told her.
"No way! I'll never become a pirate!" Nami shouted at him.
"C'mom join my crew! It's fun!" Luffy pleaded, trying to convince her to join. Nami was about to yell at him again, but then thought of an idea.
"Okay, if you're so inclined to have me as your navigator I will." Nami lied.
"Yay!" Luffy exclaimed.
"But you have to do this one thing for me." Nami added, with an evil grin on her face.
Buggy's Crew
At the centre of the town there was a large party going on the roof of a bar. The pirates were eating, drinking, getting drunk. However, this all stopped when three pirates came up to the obvious leader that was sitting on a throne. The man donned a striped short sleeved white and red shirt, white gloves, a green sash around his waist, striped socks and pointy shoes, a scarf around his neck and hanging from his shoulders was an orange, fur-lined captain's coat. On his head was an orange hat that had his jolly roger on it and light green pants. He had a make-up all over his face, and the most ridiculous thing of his attire was his bright red nose.
"C-c-captain, we w-were g-g-gaining on her, b-but then t-this straw hat k-k-kid fell f-from the s-s-sky and p-protected the girl." One of the pirates explained.
"So, you're saying that a kid, who fell out of the sky, beat you guys up and protected the girl." The captain replied.
"Y-yes." Another pirate answered.
"Mohji," he said, getting attention from the man on his left, "kill these fools." Mohji nodded as he started walking to the pirates.
"Buggy!" They stopped as they turned towards the origin of the sound. It was Nami who had Luffy tied up in a rope and the map in her hand.
"C-captain! That's the girl a-and the kid!" One of the pirates informed the now identified Buggy.
"Buggy! I want to join your crew!" Nami proclaimed, surprising everyone, "I'm sick of working for an idiot!" She then threw Luffy on the ground in front of Buggy and then handed Buggy the map. The clown looked at Luffy for a moment, then turned to Nami.
"Everyone! Celebrate our new crew member Nami!" At his words everyone continued partying, except for Luffy who was locked up in a steel cage, attempting to bite his way out of it.
"How's it going boss?" Nami asked, slightly amused at the predicament Luffy was in.
"You're a mean girl, I'd never let you join my crew," Luffy pouted, "Can you at least get me some food," Nami sighed and handed him some of her food, "I guess I was wrong, you can join my crew."
"I won't join you're crew you baka!" Nami shouted at her former 'boss', "More importantly, don't you see the situation your in. You're likely to be sold by these pirates."
"I'll beat them up if they try that!" Luffy proclaimed. Nami giggled quietly at his confidence.
"Don't worry, if my plan works smoothly, I'll unlock this cage and you can run away."
"Open it now then." Luffy replied rudely. Nami was about to reply when she noticed Buggy next to her.
"Gyahahahaha! You've got yourself a pretty good follower! Thief Boss!" Buggy laughed while holding a large glass of rum.
"What're you talking about?" Luffy asked, confused as to what the clown was talking about.
"Yes, yes. Many people would try and lie out of a situation like this. Especially when they've just been betrayed," Buggy taunted, crouching down so that they were both at eye level, "even though I got my map back, it is still a terrible crime to steal from a man such as I. Your fate has been decided."
"You're gonna let me go?" Luffy asked.
"Baka!" Buggy shouted, as he stood up and made a pose, "Men! Prepare the 'Buggy Ball!" The whole crew turned into a frenzy of drunken hysteria.
"The 'Buggy Ball' is ready captain!" A random crewmember said as he put the cannonball into the cannon.
"Alright! Show them! Show them its power!" Buggy yelled in anticipation of what was to come. The cannon ball was released from the cannon, destroying everything in its path. It had crushed around a quarter of the town. Nami and Luffy both gaped at the power of the cannonball.
"A-all of those houses." Nami said to herself.
"Gyahahaha! The power is so great; it can wipe out the whole village in a matter of seconds! This and the powers I gained from the Akuma no Mi guarantee my success on the Grand Line!" Buggy boasted, "Now Nami! Shoot the cannon. Prove your loyalty and sincerity by killing your old boss, once and for all!" Luffy looked on passively.
"K-kill him…? M-me?" Nami asked, sweating madly, "I-I don't think that's necessary…m-more importantly…ah! Yes! D-drink! L-let's drink and party. Let's ignore him!" Nami tried to convince him to continue their party.
"Kill him." Buggy told the burglar, leaving no room for discussion. All of the crew started shouting, cheering for Nami to kill the straw hat-wearing boy.
"Shoot!" Many of them cheered.
"C'mon Nami! Kill him in one go!" Buggy yelled. Luffy continued to look on passively.
'Crap! I didn't think something like this would happen. If I don't shoot then I'll die for sure. Even though Luffy is a pirate. But if I do shoot then there's no difference between me and those rotten pirates.' Nami thought.
"Nami! Stop spoiling the fun! Hurry up and light the cannon!" Buggy commanded. Nami started shaking all over, Luffy noticed it.
"Your hand is shaking," Luffy said; quiet enough for only Nami to hear, "there's a strong oath that all true pirate has sworn to, you lack the strength of that oath."
"A strong oath? I wonder what that is…is it to kill innocent people like insects. Is that the pirates oath?" Nami asked, still shaking and sweating.
"No," Luffy grinned madly, "it's being strong enough to risk your life!" Nami stared at Luffy for a while, amazed that he could be grinning at a time like this.
"Oi, new kid, stop wasting time, let me do it." A pirate came up to Nami and took the match. As he went to light the match, Nami pulled out three sticks from a strap on her thigh, connected them together to form a staff and slammed it against the pirate.
'Dammit! What've I done!' Nami screamed at herself internally.
"Nami! What the hell do you think you're doing! I gave you the honour of lighting the fuse and this is how you repay me!" Buggy yelled, outraged at Nami's actions.
"Oh! You're saving me now?" Luffy asked.
"Shut up baka! I did it cause I didn't want to become anything like an evil pirate! Like I said before, pirates took the life of someone precious to me! I hate pirates more than anything!" Nami exclaimed.
"Ahh…now I remember," Luffy recalled Nami and Naruto's conversation on the boat. Then he noticed the fuse of the cannon burning, "Ah! I'm can't die here!" He started desperately biting the bars of the cage.
"You bitch! Kill her, painfully!" Buggy ordered his crew, barely able to contain his rage. Members of the crew ran at Nami, brandishing their knives.
"Someone put out the fuse!" Luffy yelled, continuing to try and bite his way out of the cage. Nami swung her staff at the men. But they were more acrobatically capable than she thought and were able to jump above her attack.
"Missed us!" They taunted. Nami ran away from the men to the cannon and held the fuse in her hand in an attempt to put out the fuse, burning her in the process.
"Ack!" Nami grimaced in pain.
"Behind you!" four of the crewmembers shouted as they jumped at Nami from behind. Nami was preparing her body for the attack, but she was surprised when none of the attacks met. She turned around, still holding the fuse. She gasped when she saw the attackers were lying on the ground with a kunai in all of their heads, they were dead.
"How…?" Nami asked to seemingly no one.
"Because of me." A voice said behind her. Nami turned around quickly to be met with the face of Naruto. He was crouching down on the cannon.
"Naruto!" Luffy yelled with joy, "Where's Zoro?"
"Right here." Zoro said as he walked up the stairs to the roof, "Naruto rushed off, saying something about fighting one of the top dogs of the East Blue."
"Zoro?" Members of the Buggy Pirates started talking amongst themselves.
"Nami are you alright?" Naruto asked, keeping his eyes on Buggy.
"Y-yea, I'm…I'm okay." Nami said, astounded that a kid was able to kill four men in seconds.
"Thank god you were able to find this place! Now can you get me out?" Luffy asked Zoro, at this he seemed to get angry. Zoro marched over to the cage.
"Baka! Is this your idea of fun!?" Zoro shouted, getting up in Luffy's face, "You get caught by a bird, fly away and now I find you in a cage!" Luffy just laughed at him.
"H-hey, that guy…Z-Zoro. D-did he j-just say Z-Zoro?" A pirate asked.
"T-That's the P-pirate Hunter Z-Zoro! W-why is he talking w-with the thief?" Another asked.
"L-look at the k-kid! H-he just k-killed them in the b-blink of an eye!" Another exclaimed.
"You're definitely Zoro. Have you come here for my head?" Buggy said as he walked towards him.
"No, I don't have any interest in that. But he does." Zoro pointed to Naruto, Buggy raised his eyebrow.
"I didn't think that they let kids become bounty hunters." Buggy said.
"I'm not a bounty hunter." Naruto told Buggy as he jumped down from the cannon and started walking to Buggy, an evil grin growing on his face.
"Then why do you want to take my head?" Buggy asked, genuinely confused.
"To see where I stand in the East Blue." Naruto answered. Buggy was about to retort, but he wasn't fast enough as Naruto rushed at him and slashed him across the torso, head and left leg. The remains of Buggy fell to the floor.
"Huh!? That guy's so weak!" Luffy exclaimed, not believing someone so weak was holding him captive.
"Jeez, that was easy." Zoro commented. Naruto however was not falling for Buggy's trick. He noticed the crew starting to laugh.
'The crew's laughing. That's…not the usual reaction they have, this must happen a lot. And on top of that there's no blood coming out of Buggy.' Naruto thought.
"Hey Zoro! Get me outta here!" Luffy yelled, wanting to get out of the cage as soon as he could.
"Okay," Zoro answered. He swung his sword as hard as he could, but to no avail, "These bar's won't break! This thing won't open without a key!" Zoro told his captain.
"Hahahaha!" The crew started crying because of how much they were laughing.
"What the hell's so funny!? Just give us the key! I don't wanna have to fight all of you!" Zoro shouted at them, annoyed at how much they were laughing. While Zoro was shouting, Naruto was looking at the remains of Buggy, like an eagle, looking for any subtle movements. The hand that still had a knife in it twitched and started floating. Naruto noticed this and stomped down on it as hard as he could.
"Aiyah!" Buggy screamed in pain. It was at this point that all of the laughter ceased.
"What the hell?" Zoro said.
"So he's not dead." Luffy commented.
"Get up Buggy." Naruto commanded, stepping back. The different sections of Buggy started floating and then connected together.
"Bara Bara no Mi," Buggy stated, to which Naruto raised an eyebrow, "That's the name of the Akuma no Mi I ate! No matter how much you slice me up I'll still come together again! With this power I will take the Grand Line by storm!"
"Akuma no Mi! I thought those were just myths!" Nami yelled.
"Jeez, that guy's a monster!" Luffy exclaimed.
"That's a bit hypocritical." Zoro replied.
"Hippo-what-ical?" Luffy was confused by the word.
"Nevermind." Zoro dismissed.
"So I can't slice you eh?" Naruto muttered, Buggy kept his smug look on his face, "So what? That's not gonna make a difference." He said as he threw one of his kunai straight for Buggy's neck.
"Bara Bara Kinkyu Dasshutsu!" Buggy yelled out his attack as he detached his head from the rest off his body, allowing the kunai to fly right past him, "I already told you baka! Knives don't work on me!" Naruto smirked.
"You're wrong," Naruto told him, figuring out Buggy's weakness, "it's true that I can't slice you, as when I tried your body automatically separated itself. However, when I threw that kunai at you, you had to make a conscious effort to dodge it. Slicing attacks don't work on you, but thrusting attacks do."
'Shit! How did he figure out my weakness! In just two attacks!' Buggy thought to himself as he attempted to keep his smug façade.
"Ha! You can't beat him! Big nose!" Luffy yelled, happy that his first mate was able to find a clear way to beat him. The second he finished speaking; the atmosphere became so tense you could cut through.
"D-d-did he j-just call c-captain…" Even the crewmembers were scared at the moment.
"WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME!?" Buggy shouted at the top of his face. He then threw his fist holding a knife straight at Luffy. It went to fast both Naruto and Zoro to stop. It went straight at Luffy's mouth.
"Luffy!" Naruto and Zoro shouted, hoping that Luffy was alright. Luffy looked straight at Buggy, he had caught the blade in his mouth.'
"You can't beat us! We'll take you down!" Luffy proclaimed. To this Buggy laughed hysterically.
"Gyahahahaha! You're gonna take me down!? You're hilarious! All four of you are gonna die right here, on the spot!" Buggy laughed, his crew following suit, "How are you going to take me down straw hat!?"
"Run away! Naruto! Zoro!" Luffy told them, not as a friend, but as the captain. Both glanced at Luffy for a second, before they were able to understand the underlying message and nodded. Nami however, wasn't able to understand it.
'God! Pirates are so hard to understand! I better think of a way to get out of here myself!' Nami thought.
"You think I'm gonna let you go! Bara Bara Ho!" Buggy shouted as he launched both fists holding knives at Zoro, who Buggy had wanted kill from the beginning. However before they met Zoro, Naruto got in-between him and the fists and fought them off. Zoro kept running…towards the cannon. He got underneath it and flipped it over.
"Khaaa! It's pointed at us!" The pirates were all in a frightened state.
"Aaaahck! That still has a 'Buggy Ball' in it!" Buggy screamed in panic.
"Oi! I need a light!" Zoro told Nami, who happened to have one.
"Stop it!" Buggy yelled, when he realised they wouldn't stop he shouted, "DUCK!" The 'Buggy Ball' went off on the roof, causing a large explosion.
"This…is a good time to go, who are you anyway?" Zoro asked Nami.
"This is Nami! Our navigator!" Luffy introduced Nami for her. Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"Didn't you say you hated pirates?" Naruto asked. Nami was slightly annoyed.
"You baka! You're still on about that! If you've got time to say things like that then try and figure out a way to get out of that cage!" Nami yelled.
"That's a good idea! I'll do that!" Luffy exclaimed.
"No, it's okay," Zoro told him, "you just stay in that cage." Zoro put his hands around the bars and mustered up enough strength to lift up the cage.
"Yea Zoro!" Luffy cheered from within the cage.
"Dammit! I'm not gonna let them escape!" Buggy shouted from within the dust the explosion accumulated.
'Why he is doing these things? Their just pirates.' Nami thought to herself. They then ran away as fast as they could, well not for Naruto as he had to stay back with Zoro to see if he needed help. Just in time to, as the dust cleared away, showing that Buggy and some of his crew survived the cannonball.
"Where'd they go!?" Buggy stared at the empty space that previously occupied the Straw Hat crew.
"They've gone captain!" A crewmember informed.
"Zoro! Nami! That kid! Even the cage! They're all gone!" Another pointed out.
"No way! That cage took five people to drag up here!" No one could believe that they ran away like that.
"Crap! It's been stolen!" Another member said.
"What's been stolen!?" Buggy demanded, not in the mood for more failure.
"The key to the cage, it's gone!" The same crewmember said.
"Those impudent fools! How dare they steal from me!" Buggy shouted in outrage, "Who am I!?" He asked his crew.
"The pirate 'Buggy the Clown', captain!" They answered immediately.
"That's right! I know they aren't common thieves! Men! We are now at war!" Buggy exclaimed, "Mohji!" A man whose hair that made him look like a teddy bear wearing blue pants and a yellow sash around his waist and white fur on his chest, while riding a giant lion came up to Buggy.
"You called, Captain Buggy." The man, now known as Mohji, stated. He had an air of superiority around him, and the cheers he was getting from the crew were filling his ego.
"Yes. I want you to kill the four fools who stole from us." Buggy ordered his vice-captain.
"May I have the honour of taking Roronoa Zoro's head?" Mohji asked.
"Do whatever you want." Buggy answered.
Elsewhere In Town
"We're pretty far from the bar now." Naruto told all of them.
"They won't be able to catch up with us soon." Zoro said as he continued to drag the cage, "Our escape was done well, but this cage is really starting to annoy me!"
"Yea. If this thing doesn't open up, I won't get to fight big nose!" Luffy replied. Zoro collapsed from exhaustion.
"This is it…I can't walk any longer." Zoro said to his captain.
"What's up with that dog?" Naruto asked. Zoro and Luffy turned their head and saw that they were right next to a white dog. Zoro moved to lean against a column supporting the house they were next to.
"Are you sure it's a dog? It's not moving." Luffy asked.
"Whatever, right now you've gotta think of a way to get out of that cage." Zoro told Luffy.
"I wonder if it's dead," Luffy wondered as he poked it, it responded by biting Luffy's face, "Ack!" This caused a small rumble between him and the dog, "Stupid dog! What the hell d'you think you're doing!?"
"Hahaha!" Naruto laughed at the fact that even during serious situations, Luffy was still able to get into the funniest situations.
"What on earth are you guys doing in the middle of the street, Buggy will find you for sure." Nami said as she caught up with the three.
"Hey, our navigator." Naruto greeted Nami, purposely trying to annoy her.
"Don't even think about it," Nami replied, trying to contain her anger, "I just came to repay my debt to you because you saved my life back there."
"Repay?" Luffy asked, Nami responded by throwing a key down, "The key! You stole the key!"
"Yea…even I thought it was stupid to get it." Nami said in hindsight.
"Yes! I thought I was gonna die from the headache it was giving me!" Luffy exclaimed.
"Phew…seems like the dangerous escape is paying off." Zoro said, happy that his efforts payed off. Their happy mood was cut off when the dog picked up the key and ate it. Naruto facepalmed.
"You stupid dog!" Luffy shouted as he started shaking the dog from the neck, "Spit it out! That's not food!"
"Get your hands off Chouchou!" The crew turned to see an elderly looking man wearing a yellow lined shirt and dark green shorts. He had brown armor chest-plate with gauntlets and shin guards. He had grey hair.
"Who're you?" Naruto asked.
"I'm this villages mayor, Boodle!" Boodle introduced himself.
"Okay." Luffy replied simply.
"What are you doing to Chouchou!?" He asked, his rage was clear.
"The stupid dog ate the key to this cage!" Luffy explained.
"I see…hey Chouchou's not stupid!" He replied.
"Why's the dog even here? Shouldn't he be back at the shelter?" Nami asked.
"He's guarding the store, I just came to give him some food." Boodle answered.
"Hey…ossan…before we keep talking is there anywhere I can sleep?" Zoro asked.
"Yes, right over there." Boodle pointed at a house on his right. Zoro attempted to get up but was too tired.
"I got ya." Naruto told him as he heaved him over his shoulder and carried him into the house.
"Why is he guarding this place anyway?" Luffy asked.
"The owner of this place was a friend of mine, ten years ago he opened this store with Chouchou. This precious store is filled with cherished memories for the two. I wished they could experience those memories. But just look at those wounds, they're definitely from fighting those pirates and protecting the store." Boodle explained.
"What kind of person leaves their dog to guard a store, especially when pirates are the enemy. The owner is at the shelter with the other people right?" Nami was disgusted that someone would leave their dog like that.
"No…the owner passed away some time ago." Boodle corrected.
"Couldn't the dog be-" Nami started.
"Waiting for its master?" Boodle finished her sentence, "That's what everyone else thinks. But I think its something else. Chouchou's a smart dog, he knows that his owner has passed away."
"Then why does it still guard the store?" Nami asked.
"This store is Chouchou's treasure. He loved his owner so much, and since this is the only thing he has left of him I think he'll continue to guard it. I've tried to take him to the shelter a few time, but he won't leave this place." Boodle explained. Nami smiled at the dog's courage. It was at this point when Naruto exited the house.
"Hey, what did I miss?" Naruto asked. Before Nami could answer they all heard a loud roar.
"Wh-what is that?" Nami asked her fright was clear.
"Th-that guy! Th-the b-beast trainer Mohji!" Boodle exclaimed.
"I hope he's strong." Naruto said as he slowly grew an evil grin.
"See? Now something's coming. Give me the key you…thing." Luffy said to the dog. Nami and the mayor ran away as fast as they could, while Naruto jumped on top of the pet store.
"Well, I found one guy…" Mohji stated as he and his lion stood proudly in front of Luffy, "I'm a member of Buggy's crew. Hohohoho. It seems that the people you were with have ditched you. So sad, and you tried so hard to escape, "Mohji and his lion stalked up to Luffy, "Captain Buggy's pretty mad at you, you committed a serious crime."
"What the hell are you supposed to be? Wearing a fur cap like that." Luffy wasn't paying any attention to Mohji's threats; instead he was focusing on his fur.
"Baka! Watch what your saying! This is my hair!" Mohji defended his hair.
"That just makes it weirder." Luffy said plainly.
"Sh-shut up! You're in a cage, so you don't fully understand how scary I am," Mohji reasoned, "there's no animal in the world that I cannot tame, including this dog," he pointed right at Chouchou, he jumped off of his lion and held out a hand to the dog, "shake," he commanded, but to no success as Chouchou bit his hand immediately, "you're just some nameless thief." He almost instantly appeared back on top of his lion.
"You just gave up." Luffy told him.
"I have no reason to kill you, just tell me where Roronoa Zoro is." Mohji demanded.
"I don't wanna." Luffy answered.
"Kill him Richie!" Mohji commanded his lion. Richie raised his paw into the air and smashed it down on the cage. Luffy used this as a way to escape the cage. He leapt out and landed on the ground.
"Yahoo! I'm free!" Luffy yelled gleefully. However he didn't have any time to celebrate as Mohji, proving that he had some strength, kicked him into a house.
"That was instantaneous, he talks back to me and that's what he gets. Now I have to go and find Roronoa Zoro, if I kill him I'll get an even better reputation." Mohji explained. Richie growled as he looked at the pet store ahead of him, "goodness Richie, hurry up and finish your meal." The lion started to approach the store. Chouchou stood his ground. Naruto jumped down from the roof and stared right into the lion's eyes.
'Guess this is a good time to test out my new attack.' Naruto thought.
"Lion…" Naruto said ominously as his eyes started turning from blue to red and his pupil became slit, like a fox. Richie stared straight into his eyes, "Akuma no Yoru (1.)" To everyone else nothing happened. But to Richie his entire world was in chaos. The sky was blood red and there was no sun. The town's houses were on fire, the ground was pitch black and the boy in front of him kept on twitching until a dark red, almost black layer of liquid overcame him. He had clear white eyes and a bloodthirsty grin. He had fox-like ears and four swaying tails behind him (2.).
"Richie?" Mohji didn't know what was going on with him. He was gazing right at the boy, whimpering every so often. Naruto smirked. It had worked perfectly. Naruto then pulled out a kunai and started to run up Richie's left arm, leaving light cuts on his skin. He ran all the way up to Mohji who was already panicking, but just before he cut him, he disappeared in a burst of speed and appeared behind him.
"Akuma Doroppukira!" Naruto shouted as he delivered his drop kick to Mohji, sending him all the way down the street, Naruto looked down at Richie, the lion was unconscious; his mind couldn't handle the chaos. Naruto smirked as he lay down on Richie's soft fur, "Your not all bad; your fur's pretty comfy."
With Luffy
Luffy pulled himself out of the wreckage unharmed and started to walk in the direction of the pet store, before he was stopped by Boodle and Nami.
"Your still alive!" Boodle exclaimed.
"Can't I be alive?" Luffy asked, not sure what they were worrying about.
"How'd you manage to survive!? You went through a house, but you seem perfectly fine!" Nami asked.
"He didn't kick that hard anyway." Luffy shrugged it off.
"What are you doing here? What's your goal?" Boodle asked.
"My goal is to get me a navigator! And the map of the Grand Line!" Luffy answered, "I'm gonna go see Zoro, that fur cap guy's looking for him."
"Baka! Don't! This time you'll really get eaten!" Boodle warned, but Luffy ignored him and kept walking on. Luffy turned the corner to see Mohji trying to get out of the ground.
"That blonde bastard! I'll show him!" He stated as he climbed out of the ground, he turned and saw Luffy behind him, "Your still alive?"
"I can't die that easily! I'm a rubberman!" Luffy exclaimed.
"Rubberman? I know you have the devil's luck, but I think you may have hit your head to start thinking like that." Mohji wasn't able to accept the fact that there might be someone else in the East Blue with an Akuma no Mi ability.
"Here! I'll show you!" He threw his arms forward while twisting them and gripped Mohji's head.
"H-his arms!" Mohji gasped. Luffy smirked as he untwisted his arms, rapidly spinning Mohji, he then brought his hands down on the ground, at the same time bringing Mohji's head down with it. Luffy smirked and continued walking to the house Zoro was sleeping in. He got to the pet store and saw Naruto, lying on the unconscious lion; both Boodle and Nami were watching him.
"Wow." Boodle said to himself.
"Naruto! Get off the lion!" Nami yelled.
"Nami. If you shout you might wake it up,"Naruto informed Nami, she covered both hands over her mouth to stop her from talking. Naruto then turned to Boodle; "I gathered supplies from the nearby houses and patched up Chouchou to the best of my ability. I'm no doctor, so after we're finished with Buggy your gonna have to give him another check." Nami and Boodle turned to Chouchou, who remained outside the pet store, however now he had bandages wrapped around the previously injured spots.
"Thank you!" Boodle thanked.
"It's alright. He was pretty brave during the fight, you should be proud." Naruto congratulated Chouchou on his bravery. Nami could only stare on.
'He did all that, just for the dog?' Nami wondered to herself while she kept looking at Naruto.
Bar
"Ah…you've returned Mohji." Buggy said as he heard steps coming up to the roof of the bar. He wasn't expecting to see a battered and bloody Mohji.
"I…I give my sincere apologies Captain Buggy." Mohji apologised weakly, "The…Straw…Hat beat me."
"What!? You were defeated by Straw Hat! Weren't you fighting Zoro!" Buggy yelled, unhappy with the failure.
"Yes…I…also…have…underestimate…at…the…guy…the truth is…that guy…is a ru…man." That was all Mohji could say before he fell unconscious.
"What the hell was he trying to say?" The crew started to talk amongst each other.
"Vice-captain Mohji said something."
"What was he trying to say?"
"All I could hear was 'Ru…man'"
"What in the world is 'Ru…man'?"
"Oh, does this mean he attacked so thoughtlessly?" Buggy asked himself, this got the attention of the crew.
"Oi! I think Captain Buggy knows."
"That baka! He's a rough man! It makes me so mad!" Buggy, thinking that he had uncovered what Mohji was trying to say, "Gah! I'm sick to death of this town! Men gather up all of the 'Buggy Balls'! We're gonna destroy this village! It'll all be dust!"
Pet Store
Naruto was still lying down on Richie, Luffy was sitting down in the street and Nami and Boodle were standing up. Boodle however was shaking with rage.
"I can't stand it anymore!" Boodle yelled, "It's pathetic! So pathetic! That Chouchou and you youngsters are fighting like this, but the village mayor can only watch as the village gets trampled on by pirates!"
"Wait, Boodle, calm down!" Nami tried to get Boodle to calm down from his outburst.
"To a real man there are some fights that cannot be avoided! Isn't that right Straw Hat!" Boodle shouted at Luffy.
"Damn right!" Luffy cheered.
"Don't encourage him!" Nami bonked Luffy over the head.
"This place has grown into a beautiful village harbour, it's a village made by the old people, and it's a village we made! This village and the villagers are my treasures! What kind of mayor doesn't protect his village! I'm going to fight!" Boodle proclaimed, he started marching for the bar, but didn't make it too far as a massive explosion took out the majority of the houses on his left.
"Ahck!" The force of the explosion threw them away.
"Even my house!" The mayor grimaced.
"Ah! Zoro was sleeping in there!" Naruto yelled as he got off Richie.
"Is he dead? That kid with the haramaki?" Boodle asked.
"Hey Zoro! Are you still alive!?" Luffy asked/yelled. Out of the dust and debris came Zoro.
"Yea…that was a terrible wake-up call though." Zoro answered to their calls.
"Your alive!" Luffy exclaimed, happy that his swordsman was still alive and kicking.
"Jeez, everyone is able to survive these things now…" Nami said to herself.
"It feels like my chest is being scraped out," The mayor clutched his chest as he said it, "Do you think I'll let pirates trample all over this town!? I'll never allow some punk to destroy forty years of hard work! I am the mayor! I won't leave and let the village be treated this way! I'm gonna go fight!" He started running off. Nami was holding on to him though.
"W-wait a minute." Nami tried to get him to stop.
"Get off me kid!" Boodle yelled at her.
"Those people are too dangerous! They'll kill you! It's too dangerous!" Nami tried to convince him to stay.
"I know it's dangerous!" Boodle shouted back, with tears in his eyes, seeing this Nami let go, "You just wait! Buggy the Clown!" He shouted as he ran as fast as he could to the bar.
"The mayor…was crying." Nami told them.
"Really I didn't see anything." Luffy replied. Naruto smirked.
"This is starting to feel a lot more fun." Naruto told the group.
"Shishi! I agree!" Luffy responded with vigour.
"How can you still be laughing!?" Nami yelled.
"Don't worry I like that ossan. I won't let him die." Luffy calmed down Nami.
"Where does your confidence come from?" Nami asked.
"We're going to the Grand Line, if we don't have confidence we won't make it." Naruto told her. Luffy nodded.
"Now we're gonna go take that map of the Grand Line from Buggy and beat him up!" Luffy told them his plan.
"Speaking of that. Naruto how do you plan on beating Buggy?" Zoro asked.
"I'm not gonna fight him." Naruto answered.
"You're not? Before we got here you seemed so excited to fight him." Zoro didn't understand Naruto's reasoning.
"The whole reason that I wanted to fight him was because I wanted to see where I stood against one of the top dogs of the East Blue." Naruto told him.
"I get to fight Buggy!" Luffy shouted before Zoro could say anything, he then turned to Nami, "Will you join us? You need the map, and the treasure." He held out his hand. Nami slapped it away.
"I'm not gonna be a pirate," Nami told him, causing Luffy to pout, "but I do want the treasure and the map, we'll cooperate."
"Yay! I've got a navigator!" Luffy cheered.
"We're just cooperating!" Nami fumed.
"Let's go." Naruto said as he started walking in the direction of the bar.
"What're you gonna be doing during the fight Naruto?" Zoro asked. Naruto shrugged.
"Dunno. I'm not gonna fight anymore grunts, Buggy probably has a swordsman for you to fight. I guess I'll help Nami get the treasure." Naruto answered, Nami raised an eyebrow.
"Are you sure? You're gonna have to be pretty stealthy." Nami informed Naruto just smirked back.
"Trust me." Naruto said.
"Are you sure?" Nami asked.
"Don't worry Nami! Naruto's really stealthy, and fast. When we were playing hide and seek as kids we could never find him. Even when he said where he was." Luffy explained.
"Fine." Nami sighed.
Bar
"Quick! Prepare the next 'Buggy Ball'!" Buggy ordered, wanting to destroy the village as soon as he could.
"Buggy the Clown! Get down here now and fight me!" Boodle yelled from the ground.
"Hmm? Did you call me?" Buggy asked as he looked down on him.
"I'm the village's mayor! Boodle! Now get down here and fight me!" Boodle shouted.
"Bwahahaha! Fight the captain!?" The crew laughed.
"Do you actually think you can win!?"
"Captain Buggy." Said a tall, slender man with a haircut that covered half of his face. He had a large blue and white scarf that covered the lower portion of his face, a sleeveless purple coat that went down to his knees; he wore white pants and white shoes. He wore a light blue sash on his waist. He was currently on a unicycle.
"What is it Cabaji?" Buggy asked the man known as Cabaji.
"Leave the small fish to me." He said as he drew a sword from his throat.
"Ohhh! It's Cabaji's acrobat show!" The crew got excited. He jumped through the air, whilst on the unicycle and landed in front of Boodle.
"Because I feel like my skills are beginning to rust." He said whilst spinning a top on the tip of his sword.
"Baka, it was me who he called for, let me handle it." Buggy said.
"Ah…I wanted to see Cabaji's acrobat show." The crew pouted.
"Hey, why are you challenging me?" Buggy asked, "Do want fame?"
"No! It's because I want to protect the village and its people! This is my treasure!" Boodle answered.
"Gyahahaha! What a baka! The word 'treasure' means gold, silver, and jewels! The village is your treasure! Gyahahaha!" Buggy laughed at the old man's ideals.
"Shut up and fight me down here!" Boodle yelled.
"Go down there? Nah." Buggy said as he launched his fist forward and started choking Boodle.
"M-monster!" Boodle wheezed out. He then started punching Buggy's fist, damaging his neck in the process.
"Ack! Why are you hurting your own neck!?" Buggy shouted, "How dare you do this! Let me tell you who I am! I am Buggy the Clown! And soon the Grand Line will be within reach! I'll have all the treasure in the world! I suppose that since this town is your treasure you would be honoured to become dust with it." Buggy got a cannon and set it up facing Boodle.
"What the hell bastard! Fight me!" Boodle yelled.
"Whatever…blow him apart!" Buggy commanded his crew. Buggy tried to get his hand to come back, but it wasn't working, He looked down and fumed at what he saw, "Straw Hat!" Buggy yelled. Luffy was holding Boodle and Buggy's hand.
"I've kept my promise. I'm gonna beat you." Luffy said as he released Buggy's hand.
"So you've come without fear and on your own will…you're all fools!" Buggy shouted as he looked down on the four.
"Naruto let's get going." Nami told Naruto, Naruto nodded and picked up Nami, put her over his shoulder and ran as fast as he could behind the bar.
"W-why are you here!? This is my fight! Don't interfere!" Boodle yelled, he was about to get up again but Luffy pushed his head into a nearby house.
"Huh?" Buggy gaped.
"Why'd you do that?" Zoro asked.
"Cause he would just get in the way." Luffy replied.
"Smart thinking, if we had left him alone he would of undoubtedly charged in, it's safer for him like this." Zoro said as he undid his bandanna and placed it over his head. Luffy nodded and turned to Buggy.
"Hey! Big Nose!" Luffy shouted.
"AH! FIRE THE 'BUGGY BALL'!" Buggy shouted with uncontrollable rage. The crew lit the fuse and let off the cannon, it soared through the air directly towards Luffy.
"Oi Luffy! Dodge it!" Zoro yelled.
"Do you think that just cause it's a cannonball I'll move a single inch?" Luffy asked as it came closer towards him, "Gomu Gomu no…" Luffy started to suck in air, "Fusen!" The cannonball connected with Luffy but instead of exploding, it bounced back at Buggy.
"You could've said something sooner." Zoro sighed as the bar exploded, "Aren't Nami and Naruto behind there?"
"Don't worry, Naruto's fast he probably got out of the way." Luffy said. The dust cleared to reveal Buggy holding up two of his crewmembers and Cabaji holding up Mohji.
"This is the biggest humiliation we've received under our flag captain." Cabaji said.
"I'm so mad words fail me," Buggy replied, "also next time try not to use Mohji, try and use someone…more expendable." Cabaji nodded. Mohji twitched and opened one of his eyes.
"C-captain…straw…rubberman…" Mohji muttered out. Buggy took notice of this.
"Rubberman?" Buggy asked.
"Yea, wanna see?" Luffy pulled both cheeks as far as he could.
"So that's how he was able to deflect the 'Buggy Ball'," Buggy reasoned, he then took a hold of Mohji and threw him at Luffy, "if you knew this why didn't you tell me before!"
"Get out of the way!" Luffy shouted as he gave Mohji a crescent kick into the house beside them, "The fight's begun!" They heard a unicycle coming at them from behind.
"Buggy's Pirate Fleet's Commander 'Cabaji the Acrobat'! I will avenge the pain you've caused the crew." Cabaji proclaimed as he thrusted his sword at Luffy, only to be blocked by Zoro.
"If it's swords I'm all for it." Zoro said.
"Roronoa Zoro, as a swordsman it's an honour to fight you," Cabaji told him. Cabaji took notice that they were currently stuck; Cabaji used that to his advantage, "Kyokugi! Kaji Oyaji!" He pulled down his scarf and blew fire onto Zoro's face.
"Ack!" Zoro grunted in pain as Cabaji followed up with a sidekick to the torso. Zoro stumbled back a few steps.
'Shit! I can't let him have the advantage!' Zoro thought to himself. Cabaji stuck his sword into the ground and then started to spin it, accumulating a lot of dust.
"Kyokugi! Yukemuri Satsujin Jiken!" Cabaji shouted.
"Some trick, it's just a cloud of dust." Zoro said to himself. Suddenly Cabaji came from the dust at an alarming rate. Zoro brought his swords up just in time to block his strike. Zoro saw that Cabaji was going for another kick to the torso. He was able to block the strike with his own leg and roll out of the cloud of dust.
"Come on Roronoa Zoro, I thought you would be more difficult!" Cabaji in a smug manner, "Even though you are the famed 'Pirate Hunter' making enemies with the Buggy Pirates was a massive mistake." Luffy watched on with a stone-face. Cabaji reeled back his sword, "Die! Roronoa Zoro!" Just before he was able to stab Zoro, he got up and smacked him across the face, causing him to fall off his unicycle.
"How annoying, do you like all of those tricks?" Zoro asked, "Lemme help you." He then did something no one thought he would do, he cut himself in the area that Cabaji kicked before, causing his blood to spill all over the ground.
"Aiyah!" Luffy yelled, not understanding what Zoro was doing.
"Is my condition satisfying you now? Let me teach you the difference in our levels." Zoro told him.
"Waah! So cool!" Luffy cheered.
"You fool." Cabaji stated, keeping his smug look on his face.
"Anyone that calls themselves a swordsman, I refuse to lose to them!" Zoro exclaimed, putting a sword in his mouth.
"You've got a strong determination. But with such a serious wound, how do you expect to beat me?" Cabaji asked.
"Don't worry, this type of injury can't stop me from beating the likes of you." Zoro told him.
"A-asshole," Cabaji muttered, "here! Taste my best trick!" He pulled out spinning tops and started spinning them on his arm, "Kyokugi! Kamikaze Hyakkoma Gekijō!" Cabaji threw all of his spinning tops, including the ones hidden beneath his clothing at Zoro, he then ran to a house beside him, "Kyokugi! Yama Noboro!" He then started started going up the side of the house on his unicycle. Zoro deflected all of the spinning tops easily.
"If that's your best, then you really need some work." Zoro taunted. Cabaji jumped off the house, high in the air.
"Kyokugi! Nōryō Uchiage Hanabi!" Cabaji shouted as he got high in the air and positioned himself in a stabbing position, "Ichirin Zashi!" He started to descend on Zoro then they heard Buggy yell.
"Chi wo Hau Bara Bara Ho!" Buggy's fist flew and travelled the ground to Zoro's feet, "Cabaji! I'll hold Zoro in place so you can end him!"
"Yes captain!" Cabaji yelled.
"Bastard!" Zoro shouted. Just before he was able to reach Zoro, Luffy stomped on the hand.
"Gaaaaahh!" Buggy screamed in pain.
"Don't interfere with Zoro's fight." Luffy said with a grin on his face, Zoro smirked.
"Even without the captain's help finishing you off will be a piece of cake!" Cabaji proclaimed. Zoro quickly dodged Cabaji's strike.
"Stop now…I'm tired." Zoro said as he got up.
"You're tired! Hahahahaha! You've finally given up!" Cabaji taunted, to which Zoro kicked him off his unicycle onto the ground.
"I meant I'm tired of being the opponent of someone who has such pitiful skills." Zoro corrected him in the most intimidating way possible.
"Then let me finish you off now, with my real sword skills!" Cabaji shouted as he got back on the unicycle.
"Oni…" Zoro said as he put one of his swords in his mouth and his arms across his chest, pointing his swords up.
"Die!" Cabaji raced forward.
"Giri!" Zoro appeared behind Cabaji, who now had three deep cuts on him.
"Cabaji!" Buggy shouted.
"The worlds best pirate commander…taken down by a common thief." Cabaji said as he fell to the ground.
"We aren't common thieves, we're pirates," Zoro said as he too fell to the ground. Not because of the damage Cabaji caused him, it was because of the blood loss he had sustained from cutting himself, "Luffy, I'm gonna take a nap."
"Yea you sleep. I'm gonna finish this off." Luffy told with while flexing his bicep.
With Nami and Naruto
Naruto and Nami were standing on the rubble of the bar. Naruto had been able to get Nami and take get her out of the blast radius just in time.
"So where's the treasure?" Naruto asked.
"Probably in the warehouse," Nami said, pointing to the warehouse south of the bar. Naruto picked Nami up and put her over his should again and jumped onto the roof of the warehouse, "can you stop doing that!?" Nami yelled.
"Stop doing what? Running or picking you up?" Naruto asked as he set her down.
"Both." Nami told him.
"C'mon. If I don't pick you up then I can't run. And carrying you in like that makes it easier for me." Naruto explained.
"Just don't do it!" Nami yelled back.
"Hey what's that?" They heard a voice say from below them. They both got down immediately; Naruto crawled forward and saw two people guarding the warehouse armed with swords looking up in their direction.
"Great now you've alerted the guards," Naruto sighed, "don't worry, I'll take care of them." Naruto dropped down to face the guards.
"What're you doing kid?" They asked.
"I'd like to join Buggy's pirate crew." Naruto lied.
"You're gonna have to go see the captain, but I think he's busy with Straw Hat guy and Zoro." They answered.
"Thank you." Naruto turned around and then back flipped over the two men and then stabbed them in the neck, while covering their mouth to keep them from making noise. He signalled for Nami to come down. She jumped down.
"That was…professional," Nami stated, "you must've done that before."
"Yea. I have," Naruto replied simply as he walked into the warehouse, "look I don't like talking about my past so can we not talk about it." Nami nodded, she didn't like talking about her past either. There was no one in the warehouse so they were able to steal the gold without any trouble. Once they had gathered up all the gold and put them into separate bags they noticed something.
"Hey! The Grand Line map isn't here!" Nami exclaimed.
"Are you sure?" Naruto asked.
"Yes I'm sure!" Nami responded.
"Well, hopefully it's on Buggy." Naruto sighed.
"It better be, or else this would've all been for nothing." Nami replied. Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"What'd you mean? You still got the treasure you were after." Naruto reminded her. Nami shook her head.
"I know that. It's just that the Grand Line holds much more treasures than the East Blue. With the map I would be able to find much more than this." Nami explained.
"I see," Naruto said, "well, we're done here, do you wanna go see the rest of the fight?"
"No, I'm getting outta here. It doesn't make a difference to me whether or not Luffy wins." Nami told him.
"Luffy's gonna win. Buggy's really weak." Naruto replied as he lifted up a bag of treasure.
"How can you be so sure?" Nami asked.
"I've known him since I was seven Nami, I know for a fact that Luffy is stronger than Buggy." Naruto replied. Nami shrugged.
"Whatever. C'mon, help me carry these bags." Nami told him.
"I've already got one." Naruto told her.
"But you're stronger than me, isn't it the heroes job to help the damsel in distress?" Nami asked him rhetorically.
"It's a knight that does that, plus I don't wanna be a hero." Naruto said as he started to walk out of the warehouse.
"Why not?" Nami asked, the conversation was starting to get interesting.
"Don't get me wrong, I like heroes and I respect them. But when you're a hero you have to take care of all these different people. Sure, I'll do my best to protect you and the rest of the crew, but not people I don't even know. If I see someone bullying someone I'll try and stop it. But if I hear that there's a war going on in another county, I won't go and try and stop it unless there's something I can gain from it." Naruto explained.
"Then why are you here?" Nami asked.
"Well for one Luffy flew away and we had to catch him, but I was able to gain experience." Naruto answered.
"Experience?" Nami questioned.
"Yep. I was able to have an encounter with one of the best in the East Blue. Because of this I know that I'll probably be able to beat any of the other top dogs if they come my way." Naruto replied. However, Nami knew that there was another person in the East Blue that she doubted anyone could beat.
With Luffy and Buggy
"You guys are pirates!" Buggy shouted.
"Yea! And the rest of my crew are stealing your Grand Line map!" Luffy informed him.
"So that's your goal…the Grand Line isn't somewhere that nameless pirates such as yourself can traverse. So what do you plan on doing there?" Buggy asked.
"I'm gonna be the Pirate King." Luffy said plainly. Buggy gawked. Unable to believe that someone like him could say something like that.
"Don't fool around! You become the Pirate King! Then I'm a god! The person who'll get his hands on the greatest treasure in the world is me!" Buggy shouted.
"Shut up! I don't wanna hear that! Let's fight!" Luffy yelled back.
"Watch your mouth, gomu gomu, seeing your straw hat reminds of a guy I knew a long time ago. The impudent red-hair." Buggy told Luffy.
"Red-haired!?" Luffy exclaimed, "Do you know Shanks!?"
"I'm not nice enough to tell you any information, even if it's the last thing you'll hear before your death." Buggy scoffed.
"Then I'll force it out!" Luffy proclaimed as he reeled back his fist.
"You'll be dead before you hear it," Buggy told him, "even though you're made of rubber, there are some things that won't bounce off you," he lifted up his left foot, to reveal a blade coming out of the tip, "Bara Bara Senbei!" He threw the lower part of his body at Luffy, while spinning and the blades showing. Like a buzz saw. Luffy simply jumped over it, Buggy took advantage of Luffy being in the air and threw several knives at Luffy.
"That ain't gonna work!" He stretched out to grab a pole and pulled him away from danger.
"Oho! You can do things like that! How interesting!" Buggy exclaimed as his lower body came back to him.
"Heh! Gomu Gomu no Pistol!" Luffy shouted as he threw his fist forward, straight at Buggy's head. However, the clown was able to sidestep it easily.
"That is quite an interesting ability however," Buggy pulled out a knife, "it's full of weakness'!'" he started to bring the knife down. Luffy was able to grab hold of a windowsill and launched his body forward.
"Gomu Gomu no Kama!" Luffy held his arm out aiming for Buggy's neck.
"Bara Bara Kinkyu Dasshutsu!" Buggy yelled as he detached his head, letting Luffy fly right past, "You're not much of a threat, gomu gomu."
"Damn, he's separating into different sections." Luffy said to himself.
"Bara Bara Ho!" Buggy launched his fist forward with knives in-between his fingers, Luffy caught it by the forearm but Buggy didn't let up, "Kirihanashi!" The fist detached from the forearm and flew forward; Luffy turned his head just into for it to only graze him.
"You bastard!" Luffy shouted out.
"You're pissed off that your face got hurt? That's what your gonna have to deal with when you fight." Buggy told him.
"How dare you mess up this hat!" Luffy said as he gripped his straw hat as tightly as he could, "This is my treasure! I'll never forgive anyone who messes up this hat!"
"Is the hat that precious to you?" Buggy asked with an evil smirk on his face as his fist that cut Luffy floated up in the air behind Luffy.
"Yea! You bastard!" Luffy answered. The hand threw a knife at Luffy's head, Luffy dodged easily but it left his hat wide open. The fist soared straight at it, with three more knives in-between its fingers.
"If its that precious to you then protect it properly!" Buggy yelled as the hand stabbed straight through the hat, "Gyahahaha! What kind of treasure is this!?" Luffy started shaking with uncontrollable rage. He rushed towards Buggy who was holding his hat.
"That's the hat that Shanks gave me!" Luffy shouted.
"What? This is Shanks' hat? I thought it looked familiar," Buggy said as he spat on the hat, "me and him used to be on the same ship when we were cabin boys."
"Shanks is a great man! You say you were on the same ship!" Luffy reeled back his fist.
"Bara Bara Kinkyu Dasshutsu!" Buggy detached his head as he prepared to dodge his punch. However it was all a feint as Luffy smashed him in the gut with his knee.
"DON'T YOU DARE COMPARE YOURSELF TO SHANKS!" Luffy screamed at the top of his lungs as he sent Buggy flying. Luffy didn't stop there and chased after him. When Buggy fell to the ground, Luffy wasted no time in punching him continuously, "How dare you treat my treasure like that! Shanks being your comrade! Don't you ever say that again!"
"Look I don't know what kind of relationship you two had but I can still speak about him however I want!" Buggy rebelled. To which Luffy punched him even more. After a couple minutes of pounding, Luffy got up and walked over to his hat and placed it back on his head after cleaning it. Buggy struggled to get up, "Throughout my whole life, even to today, there's been no one that has made me more furious than him! He took away an enormous amount of treasure from me! He made me eat the Akuma no Mi. He took away 100 million beli from me! Not only that he took away my ability to swim! It was then that I decided that if I can't get the treasure I want under the sea, I'd get everything above it! And anyone who takes my treasure will die!" Buggy proclaimed as he detached his upper body and started floating in the air, he then saw Nami and Naruto with treasure bags.
"Oh look who it is." Naruto said. Buggy flew straight for them.
"Put my treasure down!" Buggy ordered.
"Shit! He noticed us!" Nami exclaimed.
"You can't fool me!" Buggy said as he continued for them, Naruto just looked at him, prepared to attack him if he got too close.
"Aiyah!" Nami screamed in peril. Buggy got close, but then stopped suddenly and had a ridiculous look on his face. Naruto looked over to Luffy and laughed as hard as he could. Luffy had kicked him right in the family jewels.
"D-damn gomu gomu! How dare he kick my balls!" Buggy yelled in pain.
"Your opponent is still me!" Luffy reminded him, "Oi! Naruto! Take Nami somewhere safer!" Naruto nodded, he picked up Nami's treasure bag as well as his and place Nami over his shoulder.
"Hey!" Nami shouted.
"Sorry." Naruto apologized with a grin on his face as he fled the scene.
"Get back here!" Buggy shouted, "Bara Bara Festival!" Buggy yelled as his entire body split into different sections and floated around crazily, following Naruto who was weighed down with all the treasure and Nami.
"Damn it! There should be a limit to this!" Luffy said to himself, but then he noticed his feet were still on the ground, "His feet can't fly?" He asked himself. He reached down for them and caught them.
"Give me back my treasure!" Buggy yelled as he was gaining on them.
"Don't do it Naruto!" Nami ordered him.
"Wasn't planning to." Naruto told her. Luffy pulled out his newly caught foot from its shoe and started tickling it, causing Buggy to laugh hysterically.
"S-Stop!" Buggy shouted in-between laughs. Luffy then slammed the toes into the ground, "Ack! Stop you baka!" He shouted as he turned back to Luffy.
"Buggy," Naruto said to him, Buggy turned around to be met by a kick to the face, "focus!" Buggy was sent back to Luffy who grinned and kicked him into the ground, seemingly knocking him out.
"Thanks." Nami thanked both of them as she was being set back on the ground.
"No problem." Luffy replied.
"Luffy check to see if Buggy has the Grand Line map on him." Naruto told Luffy. Luffy nodded and started to check Buggy.
"Aha!" He yelled as he pulled out a map from Buggy's coat, "I've got it!" They all grinned at the good news.
"C'mon, we have no reason to stick here." Naruto said as he turned around and started walking back to the docks.
"Hold on." Buggy said as he got back up.
"Jeez, you're still alive?" Luffy asked.
"I'll kill you once and for all! Body parts gather!" Buggy shouted, preparing to kill Luffy. However when his body parts came together, he only had his hands and feet, "What!?"
"You wouldn't happen to be looking for these would you?" Nami asked triumphantly as he had his body parts tied up.
"Whoa, your pretty fast." Naruto told her.
"Aiyah! My body parts!" Buggy yelled.
"A thief has got some cool skills! Shishishi!" Luffy laughed as he sent his arms back, "Get lost Buggy!"
"N-no! Stop!" Buggy pleaded as Luffy launched his arms forward.
"Gomu Gomu no Bazooka!" Luffy yelled as he slammed his hands into Buggy open-palmed. Sending Buggy flying.
"Nice one." Naruto said as he watched Buggy fly away into the horizon.
"Victory! Now you're gonna become my crew member right?" Luffy asked Nami.
"I'm just cooperating with you! I'll go along with you for now cause it seems like I'll be able to earn a lot from you guys." Nami corrected. Luffy nodded as he rested his hands on his hat and pulled it in front of him, taking a look at the three cuts it sustained from the fight.
"That hat…is it that precious to you?" Nami asked.
"Yea. But it's alright. I feel better now that I've beaten Buggy," he replied as he walked over to Zoro, "oi Zoro! Get up we're going." Zoro got up, still tired.
"Did you finish the fight?" Zoro asked groggily.
"Yea. We also got the map and the treasure." Luffy told him.
"Ah…I don't think I can walk yet." Zoro told them while holding his head.
"I've got ya." Naruto sighed as he lifted Zoro on his shoulder.
"I'll go wake up the mayor." Luffy told them as he went over to the unconscious mayor.
"Hey." They heard someone say behind them, it was a large group of people, "we're the people of this village. Did the pirates start a fight among themselves? If you know anything could you please tell us?"
"I think that there are some more of the pirate crew still here. Other than that there isn't much to tell you." Nami informed them.
"Ah! Mayor!" They all noticed their unconscious mayor and ran to pick him up, "Goodness what happened here? It must've been the work of those pirates!"
"Um…sorry I did that to the mayor." Luffy confessed, getting dark looks from the villagers.
"Why would you say that!?" Nami yelled.
"Cause I did it." Luffy replied simply, unable to lie.
"How dare you do this to the mayor!"
"It doesn't matter what kind of excuse you give us!"
"Who the hell are you!? Are you pirates!?"
"We are pirates." Luffy answered them.
"Hahaha!" Zoro and Naruto laughed at the outcome of the conversation.
"Dammit Luffy why did you say that!?" Nami couldn't believe Luffy,
"Cause it's the truth." Luffy turned to her.
"Get them!" The villagers shouted, starting the chase. The Straw Hat pirates were running away from a bunch of weak villagers, what a sight.
"Why did you say that? You made the situation more complicated." Nami asked.
"This is a good village." Luffy replied simply.
"Huh?" Nami didn't understand.
"For their mayor, for just one reason, they all got mad. No matter what we say they'll still be mad." Luffy told her.
"They're going through the alley!" The villagers shouted as the Straw Hat crew turned into an alley. The villagers were about to go through until Chouchou stopped them.
"Chouchou!?" Nami exclaimed.
"That dog!" Luffy exclaimed.
"Chouchou move out of the way those guys are bad pirates!" The villagers asked.
"Why are you stopping us Chouchou!?"
"Move now!" Chouchou was able to hold off the villagers enough for the crew to get to the docks without being stopped.
"Phew. Thanks to Chouchou we were able to get away, I was almost worried.
"Who cares what they think? We did what we came to do," Luffy said, "Is this your boat? So cool!" Luffy exclaimed as he saw a boat that was much bigger than the boat that he, Naruto and Zoro were traveling in.
"No. I just stole it from a bunch of pirates." Nami replied.
"We've been waiting for you thief!" Some pirates said as they arose from the boat.
"We knew you'd come back if you stayed here."
"I never dreamed we would've seen this boat again in the very same harbour!"
"You can't possible say you've forgotten us!"
"You know them?" Luffy asked.
"Sort of…" Nami replied.
"Sort of? We have a long history! You gotta gang now? Guess I'll have to teach all you all a lesson." He was about to jump off the ship.
"Do you want me to go through with my threat?" Naruto asked. The pirates noticed the blonde boy now.
"Aiyah! N-n-n-n-n-no sir!" They answered.
"Get off the ship and leave." Naruto told them without room for argue. They all ran off crying.
"Jeez. What kind of threat did you give them?" Nami asked.
"Nothing much." Naruto grinned. They all got on their respective ship and set the sail.
"Let's go!" Luffy told them, "Hey that has the Buggy mark on it." Luffy noticed.
"Of course, I took it from Buggy pirates. I'll erase it later." Nami responded. They started to sail away.
"Stop right there!" They turned to see the mayor panting at the edge of the dock, the crew expected him to give them a lecture but instead, "I'm sorry! I owe you!"
"Shishishi! Don't worry! Just live good lives!" Luffy replied happily. After the crew were a few miles away from the island Nami noticed something.
"Hey Naruto where's the rest of the treasure?" Nami asked.
"Luffy told me to leave my bag at the docks." Naruto answered.
"What? You left the treasure behind!?" Nami started taking her anger out on Luffy.
"Yea but since the town was destroyed their gonna need some money to pay for repairs." Luffy explained. Nami started trying to push Luffy into the sea, "D-don't do that! I can't swim! I'll die!"
"That's why I'm doing it! Don't do it again!" Nami commanded.
"You're mean." Luffy pouted.
"Well I guess I won't fix your hat then will I." Nami teased.
"What!? You can fix my hat!" Luffy questioned. Nami nodded, "Please! Please! Please! Please!"
"Maybe I will, Maybe I won't." Nami continued to tease. Luffy kept on pleading.
"Hahahaha!" Naruto laughed at Luffy's misfortune.
'I wonder how long it is until we get to the next island. I hope I get to fight someone stronger than Buggy!' Naruto thought to himself. Excited about the next island.
Wow! That was a long ass chapter! 34 pages! The reason I made it this long was so that I could cover everything in the Orange Town Arc in one chapter, instead of having it span over several chapters.
1. Akuma no Yoru = Demon's Night. It's pretty much a genjutsu that causing hallucinations.
2. 4 Tails Naruto.
I now that a couple of you are probably wondering why I made Zoro's fight Cabaji longer than necessary, or the incident with Mohji longer than necessary. The reason I did that was so that these characters can get the recognition they deserved. I mean they aren't my favourite characters (in fact I don't really like them at all) but they are still pretty good. I also don't like fanfics when Luffy beats Buggy in one or two shots. Buggy was on Gold Rogers ship! I know he's not as strong as Shanks or Rayleigh, but still he must've had some skill to get on the ship. He also has more experience with his devil fruit than Luffy.
In terms of pairings I'm unsure. I'm thinking of pairing Luffy with Nami but if I do it'll be on the side. I also want to pair Naruto with someone but the only girl left would be Robin, cause I don't want to add any crewmembers (except for someone I have planned for in the Arabasta. EPIC FORESHADOWING!) and Naruto's gonna be 14 in this fic and Robin's 28! If I try hard enough I might be able to make it happen, but as of yet it isn't gonna happen.
Also the reason that I didn't have Naruto fight Buggy was because I don't want all the attention to be directed towards him. I don't want this to be a fic where Naruto is in EVERYTHING. But don't worry he'll be the one to fight Kuro! Anyway thanks for all the support on chapter one! See ya!