Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or OnePiece they belong to Kishimoto and Oda respectively. if i did i would replace Jiraiya's perverted giggle with gigiddy
Chapter 2: The End is Just the Beginning
Its been 1 week since Naruto's 10 birthday and over the last year he has grown to 5ft1in and has polished his previous swordsmanship skills even more. He and his kaa-chan have been going around to "seedy" place were pirates were the dominate force, in order to give Naruto more experience in his all around life skills. They also did some bounty hunting, and did pretty well on that front, but do to kushina's wanted status Naruto was forced to hand over the bounties. The faces on the marines were priceless when ever Naruto brought in his haul.
Though he and his mother now stood amongst a crowd in Lougetown , and were facing a platform that looks to be use for execution. "Hey kaa-chan...why are we here again?" Kushina sighed "because naru-chan we have come to pay our respect to Gol D. Rodgers" "but he's not dead yet?" "yes I know… but we have also come to witness the death of a great man whose passing will affect the world for better or for worse." Naruto looks around and was amazed by the sheer amount of people that came. He didn't know if they came to to cheer for Rodgers death or to mourn it, but any guy that can fill a city with this amount of people must be as great as his kaa-chan believes him to be.
He was looking around when he noticed Rodgers being escorted to the platform, and soon everyone else does too and quiets down. It amazed him once more the effect this guy had on people as the entire city was quiet and you could hear each step the pirate king took echo out towards the crowd. Rodgers arrives to his execution site and started kneeling down in the place that will forever be immortalized as his death spot and kept his head down in acceptance of whats to come. The guard to his right ask Rodgers "any last words?" Rodgers asked "can you take off the shackles?" the guard shakes his head"no"
As the guards prepare to strike him down a random citizen in the crowd asked "Hey Pirate King where'd you leave your treasure!" and that sparked a flame inside everyone as the whole place became alive asking him about it too. Rodgers smiles at the site before him and says "My wealth and treasures? If you want it, I'll let you have it...search for it! I left all of it at that place!" and with that Rodgers died with a big shit eating grin at what he just accomplished…the start of a new age.
To say Naruto was stunned and incredibly impressed was an understatement. This mere pirate…no this KING in his last moments possibly inspired and effected the lives of millions all across the world, as he witnessed the town filled with thousands of people erupt into life and and rushed off as if that treasure was going to disappear.
In this moment Naruto knew what he wanted, to be like this man, to be as great…no to be even greater then this man and become a legend all his own. Naruto smiled at that thought and let out a wistful sigh.
Though he then regains his senses and noticed some thing wrong with his mother who had been silent for awhile now, and looked to her only to see her barely holding herself up as she was trying to hold back her tears but was failing miserably so at it. Naruto quickly grabbed his kaa-chans hand and lead her to a quite and secluded place where they can be alone. Kushina lifelessly followed her son's lead in walking but otherwise was totally unresponsive to the world.
They had been walking for about 20 minutes now and he had found a bench in a seclude alleyway an were finally alone. Naruto lead his mother to the bench sat her down and without any warning he hugged her as she had always done for him. He brought his hand up to her back and started rubbing in a circular motion in an attempt to calm her down all the while telling her everything was gonna be alright. Kushina couldn't hold the tears back anymore as she broke down into her son's embrace and her pent up emotions were pouring out like a broken dam.
Naruto didn't know why she was in this state. Was it the death of Rodgers that affected her so, or was it something else? He didn't know if his mother knew him or how she would as she never really talked about the past unless he asked and right now she looked like she was incapable of proper thought much less speech. So he waited until she was emotionally stable and rested to begin asking his questions.
Kushina felt miserable at this moment, one of her friends had just been executed in public for the world to see. She just stared at the site where her friend Gol had just died at and her brain just shut down in a attempt to rein in her emotions, she felt her eyes water up and paid no mind to the stray tears running down her cheeks, she just didn't care right now. She didn't know what was happening now she just felt someone gently sit her down and then hug her,she tensed but then took notice that it was her son who was trying to assure her. Then she just broke down in front of him and took comfort in his gentle embrace.
Naruto look stared into the sky, that at some point turn dark, and looked to the moon. He didn't know how long they had been there and he knew they still needed to find a place to stay, so he looked to his mother to see if she was ok now but found she had fallen asleep at some point . So he picked her up in his arms and left to find shelter for the night.
Kushina woke up to the sun in her eyes and birds chirping ever so happily with the smell of bacon in the air. A beautiful morning yes? No…because she felt like shit. she felt exhausted both physically and mentally due to the events yesterday. She didn't even know where she was, by the looks of it she was in an inn, the last she remembered was crying on her son. Who by the way just walked out from behind a door with a tray of food for her and him judging by the amount of food there presumably. "good morning kaa-san, I hope you feel better today and are up for some breakfast in bed with a side of coffee to start the day." Kushina mentally thanked Kami or whatever god out there for blessing her with such a kind, wonderful, and considerate son. "Yes naru-chan...i do feel much better. Thank you for asking, I just needed to get "that" out of my system yesterday." "no problem" he passed her some food and they began to eat.
Once they were done he gave her a look that was filled with unasked questions waiting to be unleashed on her, but he hadn't as he wasn't sure if she ready to answer them. Kushina seeing the look on his face, sighed and began speaking, wanting get this out now." I know your curious as to why I was in such a mood yesterday so i'll just come out and say it" she inhaled some air to ready herself for the coming onslaught that was her son. "During my years as a wondering swordswoman/"pirate"(she did't think of herself as one) I met Gol D. Rodgers and his crew by coincidence when the pirate shiki and his crew attacked the town that the Rodger pirates were using as a temporary home base, and by chance I had arrived earlier that day to resupply and rest. Shiki's Golden Lion Pirates attacked the town, whether they were the town folk or the Rodger Pirates they attacked indiscriminately.
Seeing them do this I joined the fray. I fought for a while slaying many of Shiki's crew until Shiki himself took notice of me, and challenged me to a one on one duel. I accepted hoping that I would defeat him like all the others before him and stop his crews attack on the town. As a practitioner of the sword I was his better, but he had devil fruit powers that allowed him to even out the playing field. After 20 minutes or so of fighting I forced him into defeat by disarming him and placing my blade's tip into the area where his heart was. I then gave him the option of death or retreat. He choose to retreat and left the town with his crew.
The Rodger pirates and their captain who had been watching my match along with Shiki's crew,who had already left with their captain in defeat, had started cheering for me during it. A giant party broke out to celebrate over their and my victory and we drank to our newfound friendship…and well the rest of the night is a blur, but after that I had stayed with them on that island for about half a year until I continued on my way and we met every now and then over the course of the rest of my years as a wonderer. But despite our occasional meetings Gol, Rey, and the rest of the crew and I stayed great friends." "especially ray and I" she mentally added not wanting her son to know that part of her story just yet.
"Although once I became pregnant with you, we never came across each other again. I hadn't heard of them until i heard stories about their reaching Raftel and Gol's new tittle of Pirate King.
Naruto was in awe and was starting to see his kaa-chan in a new light when she said she defeated Shiki "The Flying Pirate" in a duel and became friends with the Rodger Pirates."Wow kaa-chan I didn't know you were that strong(were being the operative word here)." she let out a hmmph "just because I've been busy raising you doesn't mean I'm any less strong then I was back then. If anything these years raising you have only given me the chance to increase some of my technique based skills and my haki. I just haven't come across a situation where I have needed to use them."
2 years later
Naruto and his mother went back to living away from civilization for the first year due to the drastic increase in pirates and the general thing that comes with pirating: pillaging, raping, and killing. rinse wipe repeat. It made trying to live in peace difficult when some pirate attacked the town you live in nearly everyday… and it really wears you down having to kick some pathetic wannabe pirate's ass every time he hits on your mother. Not that she's incapable of doing so her self but the last guy that hit on her and actually grabbed her ass, is now wishing she had killed him. He had never seen or thought it possible to push someones head up there own ass, but his kaa-chan proved him and everyone else there wrong, although that man was pretty long so he supposed that helped or was it the fact that she broke and possibly crushed that mans ribs hmmm o well, but back to the point he really didn't want to see that ever again so he took it upon himself to give pirates(himself really) mercy and kill them before they ended up finding out what there own rectum looks like.
Anyway since the increase in pirating, marines have been hard pressed to keep up with this New Pirate Age, as they were calling it, so many people suffered oneway or another. His kaa-chan got tired of it after a couple of months and took him to live on a mountain to get away form this pirate craze and wait for it to die down.
She had upped his training even more not that he was displeased with getting stronger but…she was a bit of a saddist now that he got to an age where he can wear weights safely without hampering his growth and she took full advantage of that. He also increased his swordsmanship skills to the point where he was capable of launching a wave like attack from his blade but he still needed to perfect that, but his kaa-chan was impressed that he was capable of that at his age. Now that the craze has died down they packed up and moved out to their next destination.
Kushina had taken him to west blue to introduce him to even harsher experiences, knowing that this side of the Grand Line was tougher then the other. Although they were surprised by what they saw on their first island they came to as before them a girl no older the 8 or 9 was being chased by townsfolk and some bounty hunters by the looks of it. The little girl happened to trip on some rocks and fell on her stomach scraping her knees a little. The people were about to tie her up with some rope, but were stopped by kushina stepping in front of the girl with her blade drawn thus effectively stopping them. While his mother dealt with the chasers he took care of the girl who didn't seem to keen on being to close to him." Its ok I'm not gonna hurt you I'm just gonna patch you up real quick k." He finished with a smile that showed no hostility or lies, just warmth. The girl seeing no deception nodded and let him get to work, while he was doing that she looked to where to the woman was found half the people on the ground knocked out or in some cases clutching their sweet spot and crying in pain(the guys who thought it a good idea to try and cope a feel).
She didn't know why these to people helped her out or what they wanted in return but she wasn't going to let her guard down like the last time, where that granny just gave her a sweet innocent smile as the bounty hunters came for her, no way was she going threw that again. When she looked to the woman and she found all the people previously chasing her on the ground with the woman no where in sight, she turned to find her only to come face to face with her. She promptly let out a startled scream and fell to her but."Kaa-chan be nice and don't scare her like that" "ahahaha sorry sorry, I was just wondering why those people were chasing her. Ne Ne tell me little girl why were they chasing you? Oh and by the way my name is Kushina Uzumaki, and this is my son Naruto Uzumaki. Whats your name?" Kushina asked. The little girl was a bit shocked to find out they didn't know who she was, as she had a wanted poster out for her everywhere. This made her a little happy to know these people weren't trying to get close to her just to sell her out, at least for now. She pessimistically thought.
"Hello...my name is Nico Robin, nice to meet you." she said with a fake and guarded smile that both Uzumaki's noticed and raised an eyebrow at.