Welcome my followers to chapter two of 'Maelstrom Naruto'!

Warnings: Admiral-level, Devil Fruit, Haki-using, Swordsman, Weapon Specialist, Mature, Intelligent, OC, Older (30-31) Naruto.

Pairings: Naruto/Harem - Nami, Tashigi, Vivi, Miss Valentine, Robin, Hina, Jewelry Bonney, Margaret, Boa Hancock.

-Note: Save girls like Monet, Rebecca, Violet until the story comes to the time skip, thank you. As for the harem the girls you pick won't definitely go in it, I will only consider them. I will have the final call.

Will follow the canon timeline heavily. Will also do some filter arcs and maybe a movie as well. More crew members in it as well, will need help later with the people they should fight.

Naruto characters are included in story.

Disclaimer:I do not own Naruto or One Piece

Chapter Two: Betrayal and Tears, The Battle at Arlong Park Begins!

Arlong Park

"Man, what's taking so long?" Zoro said as he sat in Arlong's seat. "When are you going to get here Luffy? Five more minutes of this and i'll kneel over from boredom!" He closed his eyes and tried to relax until he heard the sound of splashing water and someone talking to himself. He walked over and hung off the wall to see an octopus fishman with three fishing rods in his hands. He had eight appendages, six arms and two legs, and an octopus-like face. He has pink skin and grey hair styled with five spikes. He has a muscular build and has suction cups on his six arms, which he can use to cling on to walls. He also has a tattoo in the shape of a sun on his forehead. "What on earth are you doing?"

The octopus turned around and pointed at Zoro when he spotted him. "Huh? Who the heck are you? I'm Hatchan, but you can call me Hachi." The octopus merman said quickly.

"Are you a fishman too?" Zoro asked.

"Of course! I'm an amazing octopus fishman, and it looks to me that you are a human. Are you a guest?" Hachi asked as he danced around and waved his arms about.

"A guest?" Zoro said as he looked at the cut up fishmen on the ground. "Yeah, i'm a guest."

"Arlong isn't here right now. Apparently there's some long-nosed guy running around the island causing trouble, but Arlong locked up one of his friends here and went to Cocoyashi Village to hunt him down." Hachi explained as he went back to fishing.

"Usopp, huh?" 'I guess I better go save him.' Zoro thought before he jumped down towards Hachi. "This Cocoyashi Village, how do I get there?"

"Get in." Hachi said as he pointed at a pot floating in the water. "You're a guest so i'll take you there, swordsman."

"All right." Zoro said as he jumped into the pot. Hachi then jumped into the sea and began to swim with it to Cocoyashi Village.

A couple of minutes later Arlong and his men returned to the park and found all of the men knocked out with cuts all over their bodies. "What the hell happened here?!" Arlong screamed as he walked towards one of his men. "Who did this to you? TELL ME MY BROTHERS!"

"Roronoa…" The fishman in Arlong's arms gasped out.

"What? What did you say?" Arlong asked as he leaned in closer to the fishman.

"Roronoa...Zoro." He breathed out as Arlong widened his eyes.

"The Pirate Hunter? Here? Has he come to collect my head?"

"No." the fishman said with as much strength as he could. "W-We had him...That man we caught, that was Zoro."

"What?" Arlong said before another fishman named Chew came in dragging Usopp by his nose. He was a muscular fishman, with thick lips and blond hair. An Arlong Pirates tattoo on his right shoulder. He wears a necklace, a striped blue vest, dark-brown leather pants, and sandals.

"Chu. I found him Arlong, he...What happened here?" Chew asked as he saw his brethren on the ground.

"Took you long enough Chu." Arlong said as Usopp opened his eyes and looked around.

'Don't tell me that Zoro...' Whatever Usopp was going to think next died when he saw Arlong glaring at him with rage in his eyes. Chu walked over to Arlong and dropped Usopp in front of him.

"Catching this scum isn't enough to satisfy my hunger." Arlong said as he stood on Usopp's back making the marksman scream in pain. Usopp then tried to lie to the fishman by say that it was a way he greeted people back home but was meet with a dagger placed into the ground almost cutting his long nose.

"You're one of Zoro's men aren't you? It's natural for pirates like me to be hunted by bounty hunters like you." Arlong said as he moved the dagger ever so closer to Usopp's nose. While Usopp was cowering in fear at being gutted by the fishman in front of him another fishman was checking out Zoro prison cell. He was wearing a blue gi with a black belt, his hair is tied into a straight ponytail, a sun tattoo on his right chest and fins on his elbows.

Usopp tried his best to lie his way out of the fishmen killing him but was failing to do so if all of them sweat dropping and giving him deadpan looks were anything to go by. "What I want to know is how did Zoro escape?" The fishman who was checking out Zoro's cell asked.

"What do you mean Kuroobi?" Arlong asked.

"What I mean is someone let him escape." Kuroobi said as he showed a piece of rope to Arlong. "It could be possible that Nami betrayed us and brought him here to go after you. She is cunning like that." The other fishmen started agreeing with him until Nami spoke up.

"Enough!" Nami shouted. "Don't jump to some silly conclusions without all the details. I swore I was a member of your crew eight years ago, my loyalty is shown with this tattoo." she said as her grip her left arm.

"Heh. Sorry Nami, it only natural for you to be upset." Arlong said. "We're just a little on edge right now because of Roronoa Zoro and his gang of bounty hunters." he said as he looked at Usopp who was cowering before the fishman's gaze.

"Nami…" Usopp said as Nami looked at him with a neutral look on her face face, unaware of what was going to happen next.

Off the shore of Arlong Park

"I can see it! Arlong Park!" Luffy exclaimed as he stood at the front of the ship while the sea-cow continued to pull the boat along.

"It's about time." Naruto said as he stood up with Yuuki on his left shoulder and his bag on his right.

"Come on cow don't slow down now!" Luffy screamed as they began to lose speed.

"It has to be. Big Bro Sanji's kicks must be taking its toll on it." Yosaku said while Sanji smirked in the background. The cow started to move it's way to the right while Luffy yelled at it to go the other way.

"Where in the world is it going?" Gin asked as he saw the cow start swimming straight for the shore line.

"It's not slowing down." Sanji said nervously as it continued on a crash course for a large rock formation and they all started to panic, except for Luffy and Naruto.

CRASH!

The next thing they all knew the ship was sent flying through the air as Naruto and Gin held on to the railing of the boat, Sanji had his body pressed up against the wall of the kitchen and Luffy and Yosaku were at the front of the ship.

"IT'S ALMOST LIKE WE'RE FLYING!" Luffy shouted.

"WE ARE FLYING YOU MORON!" Sanji yelled as everyone held on for dear life.

"Is this what you meant by waiting for his plan to backfire?" Gin asked Naruto as the blond nodded his head while Yuuki clung around his neck.

"Incoming Coconut!"

"Incoming wha-!?" Naruto shouted before he was hit in the head by a stray Coconut and felt over the ledge.

"Oh no, MAN OVERBOARD!" Gin shouted.

"We're all about to go overboard WE'RE FALLING!" Yosaku yelled as they dropped below the treeline and hit the ground, but kept plowing through trees.

"What is that sound?" Zoro asked himself as he stopped running towards Arlong park in search for Usopp when he felt the ground shaking and the sound of trees breaking.

"HEY ZORO!" Looking to his left Zoro saw a boat heading straight for him with Luffy on the front of it. His mouth fell open before the boat ran him over and continued until it crashed into some wetlands.

"Awesome, we're here guys." Luffy said as he dusted his hat off.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" Zoro yelled as he got out of what remained of the ship.

"What do you mean? We're here to pick up Nami." Luffy said with a smile. "Oh yeah, where are Usopp and Johnny?"

"Usopp?" Zoro said as he stood up. "That's right, we have to hurry. He was caught by Arlong, we have to hurry before they kill him!"

"He's already dead." A voice spoke up as they all looked towards the source of it. Standing there was an average-sized man with somewhat tanned skin. He was wearing a pair of sunglasses and has a black tattoo on his left cheek that was the kanji for "sea". He had short, black hair and is usually seen carrying his sword. His eyebrows seem to be pointing down to make a scowl.

"What...did you say Johnny?" Zoro asked, questioning if he heard him right.

"Big Bro Usopp is dead, I saw the whole thing." Johnny said with tears in his eyes. "He was killed by Big Sis Nami!"

With Naruto

"Damn rubber bastard…" Naruto said as he tried to clear some dirt from his eyes. "If that boat crash didn't kill him then I will." He said as the top half of his body was currently underground. Yuuki was in a similar state next to him as she yipped in agreement, or that's what he thought he heard. He wiggled around for a minute or so before he burst out of the ground with a victorious look on his face and sighed.

He got out of the hold he had made and grabbed Yuuki by the end of her tail and yanked her out, causing her to yip in pain and bit Naruto's hand forcing him to let go. "Easy girl, I was just helping you." Naruto said as Yuuki growled at him slightly before licking herself clean. Naruto looked around and saw his bag not far from him and picked it up and checked the contents inside. Everything was fine. He then looked around frantically searching for his hat when he felt Yuuki rub against his leg with his hat in her mouth.

"Thank you Yuuki." Naruto said as he patted the fox on the head as she gave him his hat back. He then started to make his way through the jungle with Yuuki following. After walking for half an hour Naruto thought he heard the sound of a cannon firing but shrugged it off and kept walking until he made his way towards the wreckage of the ship. "Man, what a sight. This has Luffy written all over it." the blond commented as he observed the wreckage closely.

"Hey you there!" Someone called out as Naruto looked behind him to see Hachi, Chew and Kuroobi standing there.

"Hello there, nice day for a stroll isn't it?" Naruto smiled as he greeted the fishmen.

"Hmm? Oh yes it is a nice day." Hachi said as the other two fishmen rolled their eyes at the octopus and glared at the blond.

"Enough of that, who are you and where are you heading?" Kuroobi demanded as Naruto scratched the back of his head.

"Well my name's Naruto, and as for where i'm heading...I don't know." Naruto said as the fishmen sweatdropped. "You there what's your name?" Naruto asked as he pointed at Hachi.

"Who, me?" Hachi pointed to himself as Naruto nodded. "My name's Hatchan, but everyone calls me Hachi."

"I thought it was you, don't you recognize me Hachi? Your friend from Sabaody Archipelago?" Naruto asked as Hachi looked at him funny before gaining wide eyes.

"No way! Naruto is that you?" Hachi asked as Naruto nodded. Hachi then walked up to him and started shaking his hands. "It's been so long, how have you been holding up?"

"Good, at things considered. You?" Naruto asked as they continued to talk like old pals.

"Hey Hachi, chu. You know this human?" Chew asked as he didn't like the way the octopus fishman was interacting with the blond.

"Huh, oh yeah. I met him when we were kids and we hung out together before he had to leave. He's not a bad guy, he's fun."

"Fun or not he's still not welcome here." Kuroobi said.

"Well don't mind me, I was just going for a walk. See you later Hachi!" Naruto said as he walked off and waved to his old friend.

"Okay then, see you later!" Hachi said as he pulled out six hankies and waved them at Naruto.

"That's strange. He's the second human today who isn't intimidated by us." Kuroobi said as Chew nodded in agreement. Meanwhile Naruto was having thoughts about those fishmen.

'So those must be some of Arlong's officers that Nami told me about. I can believe Hachi is one of them, I don't want to fight him but if he get in the way I will.' Naruto thought as he continued to walk down the road and straight into the town as Yuuki jumped onto his shoulder. While he was entering the town he saw Luffy ahead of him and shouted at him. Luffy stopped in his tracks and turned around to see his big brother safe and sound.

"Oh Naruto, there you are. Are you okay?" Luffy asked before screaming in pain as Naruto gripped the top of his head and dug his fingers into his scalp.

"You're lucky that i'm not going to kill you right now for that little plan of yours. The fact that we're here on this island puts me good mood too, so i'm just giving you the Iron Claw and leave it at that." Naruto said as he let go of Luffy's head and the rubber boy grabbed it in pain.

"That hurt~ How can you hurt me like that?" Luffy asked as Naruto ignored him and kept walking. As Naruto, Luffy and Yuuki made their way through the village they stopped momentarily when they saw Genzo leading a bunch of Marines through town as well as the leader. The marine was wearing a police uniform that resembled that of a rat as he had whiskers on his cheeks, and rat ears attached to his marine cap. He also had brown hair. Unlike the other maines though he had a grayish-blue button up coat that went all the way down to his feet, with a black belt and blue shoulder pads.

"Crap!" Naruto whispered as he quickly hid behind a building as Luffy looked at Genzo as the group passed him.

'That pinwheel...' Luffy thought with a big grin. 'It's so cool!' He thought as he stared at Naruto who had poked his head out to see of the coast was clear. "What are you doing Naruto? Why didn't you want them to see you?"

"You Baka! Those were Marines from a nearby base, and i'm a wanted pirate. If they saw me they would have tried to take me in." Naruto said as he pointed towards the retreating group.

"What do you mean, they're not that strong?" Luffy questioned his brother.

"No they're not but I would hate to damage this town and the people in it." Naruto explained as he stood by Luffy and looked around.

"You're a wanted pirate?"

"Damn you're slow!" Naruto yelled. "Anyway, I need to look around and ask people some questions about this place. Are you going to be okay on your own?"

"Yeah, I'll be fine. See you later." Luffy said as he started to walk away. Naruto just looked at Luffy's retreating form and went into a nearby cafe in order to get some more information on Arlong and his men.

Crash site

"So you see." Nojiko said as she finished telling the crew the real reason Nami had betrayed them and worked for Arlong and gave them all a stern look. "As long as you all stay here, and say that you are Nami's friends, you'll only make this worse around here. So please leave."

"Sorry, no can do." Zoro said.

"What! Why not?" Nojiko yelled.

"Captain's orders. Luffy said we're not leaving here without Nami and that's final." Zoro said as he relaxed against the tree he was sleeping on and drifted off into slumber. Nojiko couldn't believe the nerves of these people and just walked away with a huff.

As she left Sanji kick Zoro to wake him up and started planning everything out with Nami's situation, and the cook commenting on Nojiko's hotness.

Tangerine Grove

Just outside of Cocoyashi Village was a small house, with a large tangerine grove outside of it, with Nami exiting said house with a bandages on her right hand as she looked up to the sky with a small smile on her face. 'Only 7 million berris to go. One more trip and Cocoyashi village will be free again, and I will be free.' she thought happily before she heard footsteps, looking to her right she sees Genzo and some marines walking towards her. 'What are the Marines doing here?'

"Are you the pirate thief known as Nami?" The 'rat' marine asked as Nami had a blank look on her face. "I am Captain Nezumi of the Marines 16th Branch. Our sources tell us you've acquired a lot of stolen money from pirates. According to the law all of that money is now Government property." Nezumi finished with a cruel grin as Nami and Genzo widened their eyes.

"SEIZE IT MEN! Search everywhere!" Nezumi order as his men went to work.

Cocoyashi Village

With Naruto

In the village Naruto was currently sitting down in a local cafe and was talking to a old woman about the situation with Nami. "So you mean to tell me that Nami doesn't know that you know why she joined Arlong's crew?" Naruto said, surprised at hearing what the woman had to say.

"Yes, it's true. Nami is a sweet girl for doing that but no one should have gone what she went through. I can't imagine what she must have gone through." The old woman said as she wiped away a tear that made it's way down her face. Naruto had his hat shadowing his eyes as he thought over what the woman said before looking up at her.

"Do you know where she lives?" Naruto asked. "I came to this island to help with this Arlong problem and I want her to know that i'm here. I just want to make sure that she is okay." He said worriedly.

"Sure, she live just outside of the village. Just follow the road until you come up to a tangerine grove, she lives right there." The old woman said kindly as she pointed in the direction. Naruto narrowed his eyes when he heard that.

"That's where those Marines were heading." He whispered as he thanked the woman and left, wanting to know what was going on.

With Nami

"Sir, there was nothing in the house, but these orchards look suspicious." one of the marines said as Nezumi had an irritated look on his face.

"Well, what are you waiting for, dig up the grove!" Nezumi ordered.

As the soldiers started walking towards the orchards Nami pulled out a three piece bo staff and hit one of the Marines over the head. "DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH BELLEMERE'S TANGERINE TREES!" She shouted as she started to attack more of the marines with her staff. "Is this what the navy has come to? Dealing with a petty thief when a who group of pirate has been harassing this island for year?! That money is...is…"

"That money is the salvation of everybody in Cocoyashi village! Do you Marines seriously think you have any right to steal that money?!" Genzo finished for Nami as he looked at the Marines with rage while Nami looked at him in shock.

"Genzo...you knew?" she asked.

"We all knew Nami, everyone in the village does. We all wanted to help you but we couldn't. If you ever knew that the villagers were placing their hopes on you, you might never leave his gang for fear of letting us down, so we all kept our mouths shut."

"Genzo." Nami said in a quiet voice.

"Do you people have any idea about what you are saying?" Nezumi asked. His answer came from right behind him.

"We're saying that the Government can't be depended on!" Nojiko said as she walk up to them. "If you have no intentions of help us, then get the hell out of here!"

"That's big talk coming from you, girly." Nezumi said as he turned to his men. "What's taking so long? It 100,000,000 berris we're looking for, not a grain of rice!" He said shocking Nami, Genzo and Nojiko.

"You rat-bastard! How did you know how much there was?!" Genzo shouted.

"How much you say? I just had a feeling is all." Nezumi said.

"It can't be…" Nami whispered out as Arlong's laugh came into her mind. "Arlong sent you here, didn't he?!" she shouted out.

"Who knows? We're just doing our duty as honored Marines." Nezumi said with a sinister grin.

"YOU CORRUPT MARINE SCUMBAG!" Genzo screamed.

"Since when were the Marines led around by pirates?!" Nojiko shouted. Nami clenched her fists as she listened to Genzo and Nojiko yelling at Nezumi.

"Sir I've found it!" a marine yelled as he dug up an old looking create. Nami, Genzo and Nojiko widened their eyes as Nezumi made his way over to it and looked inside. He grinned with absolute glee as he laid his eyes on the goods.

"Incredible! I must say i'm impressed that you've managed to gather this much treasure." 'And 30% of this is all mine!' Nezumi finished in his head as picked up a stack of old, bloody bills.

"Don't touch that…" Nami said softly as she slowly made her way over to him. "Don't touch that, don't touch that, DON'T TOUCH THAT!" She yelled and started running towards him.

"Nami!" Nojiko yelled as she and Genzo rushed over to her, Nezumi stood up and pulled out a flintlock pistol out of his pocket and aimed it at Nami. Just as Genzo grabbed her arm and Nojiko stood in front of her Nezumi smirked and pulled the trigger…

BANG!

"AHHHHH!" The three of looked back to see Nezumi yell out in pain as a fox was crewing his arm like a buzz-saw and a blond haired man wearing a striped bucket hat and had a bokken strapped to his left side was standing behind Nojiko with his right arm outstretched like he was catching something.

"You vermin filth! Get off of me!" Nezumi yelled as the fox jumped off of the man and growled at him. He went to kick the fox when it backfired and it bit him threw his boot, making him scream again. After the fox stopped it quickly made it's way towards the small group and jumped into Nami's arms, while the orange haired girl was startled she looked closer at the fox kit and widened her eyes in recognition.

"Y-Yuuki?" Nami said in shock as Yuuki yipped happily and snuggled into her chest. "But that means…" she trailed off as she stared at the blond haired man as he slowly turned his head and smiled at Nami.

"Yo, Nami!" Naruto said.

"N-Naruto...is that you?" Nami asked, not believing that the blond was standing right in front of her.

"Yeah, sorry I'm late. I got lost on the vast ocean that is life." Naruto chuckled to himself as Nami felt relieved, only he could say something stupid like that.

"Who the hell are you?!" Nezumi asked as he glared at the blond and the fox.

"Uzumaki D. Naruto, pirate extraordinaire! Nice to meet you." Naruto introduced himself as Nezumi and his men took a step back in fear.

"No way! 'Ocean Master' Naruto, the pirate that defeated a Vice-Admiral?" Nezumi asked.

"Former Vice-Admiral. He was corrupt just like you." Naruto corrected the rat marine. He then brought his his up and held up his index and middle finger and showed everyone what he was holding and shocked them. It was the bullet that Nezumi fired.

"This is your bullet, no?" Naruto asked as Nezumi stepped back from the blond. "Well you can have it back." Naruto as his arm became a blur. Nezumi felt something warm running down his cheek and raised his hand to it and found out it was blood.

"Sir what should we do? This guy has a 85,000,000 berri bounty on his head, we can't beat him." one of the marines panicked as the rest of the men nodded in agreement. Nezumi gritted his teeth and made a decision.

"I don't care if he's worth 850,000,000! Just arrest him and keep him away from me!" He ordered his men as the all reluctantly rushed at the blond. Naruto just held his hat as it shadowed his eyes and stood there as the marines brought out their swords and got closer.

"Pathetic." Naruto whispered as a translucent blue wave of energy washed over the area. All of the marines except Nezumi suddenly dropped to the ground, knocked out cold as Nezumi was now sweating like a pig.

"Wh-What happ-Ugh" Nezumi stuttered out before Naruto hit him in the face with his bokken and sent the marine to the other side of the grove.

"If I ever see you or your men here again, you'll be sorry." Naruto said dangerously as the marine captain and his now awake troops ran as if death was after them. Naruto sighed before he turned towards the three shocked people and smiled. "Hi Nami, long time no see."

"Naruto, what are you doing here?" Nami asked as she was the first to break out of her shock.

"What do you mean? I made a promise with you remember?" Naruto said as if it he was answering the most obvious question in the world. "Did you not think that I would come?" he said in mock pain.

"N-No that's not it! It' just that…" Nami trailed off as she hugged Yuuki tighter and Naruto laughed.

"Guhahahaha! I'm just messing with you Nami." Naruto said as Nami pouted and handed Yuuki over to him as the fox jumped onto his shoulder. "Anyway, aren't you going to introduce me to your friends?"

Nami blinked a twice before she remembered Genzo and Nojiko were still in the grove and turned to see them stunned. After Nami snapped them out of their shock she introduced them to the blond.

"Naruto this man is Genzo, he helped look after me and my sister." Nami said as Genzo nodded at Naruto and he nodded back. "And this is my sister Nojiko. Guys this is Naruto, he's someone I met while I was out at sea."

"Nice to finally meet you all, Nami's told me all about you guys." Naruto said as Yuuki yipped in agreement.

"Nice to meet you to, but what are you doing here?" Nojiko asked as Naruto looked at Nami with a raised eyebrow.

"You haven't told them about me?" Naruto asked as Nami looked down and whispered something. "What was that?"

"I said I didn't tell them because I didn't think that you were coming." Nami said in a low voice that made Naruto look at her in surprise before she walked right past him and out of the tangerine grove. Naruto looked at Nami's retreating form with sadness before he turned back to Genzo and Nojiko and told them he would talk to them more at Cocoyashi village.

As Nami was leaving she felt guilty that she had said that about Naruto and felt that she could never look him in the eye again. Her guilt turned into rage as she remember what made Naruto come here in the first place and what almost took the money away from her to save her village.

'Arlong! Arlong! ARLONG!'

Arlong Park

"ARLONG!" Nami yelled out as she made her way over to Arlong Park and stormed right in.

"Well if it isn't my trusted navigator, what's with that look Nami?" Arlong asked.

"The Marines you bribed just come to my house and tried to steal my money! How could you!?" She said as she walked up to him.

"The Marines huh? My that's a shame."

"Cut the crap!" Nami yelled as she grabbed Arlong's shirt. "You promised that you would never break a promise over money!"

"And I haven't broken that promise, have I?" he asked.

"Don't lie to me! I know you teamed up with the Marines to-" Nami said before Arlong grabbed her face, covering her mouth so she wouldn't talk and glared at her with a grin.

"When did I ever break our promise? Tell me, Nami! Shahahahaha!" Arlong started laughing as Nami had tears in her eyes.

'Damn you!' Nami thought as Arlong looked at her.

"To bad, so what if the Marines stole your stolen money, a deal is a deal. If you can't give me 100,000,000 berris then Cocoyashi village is still mine."

"You bastard!" Nami shouted as she push herself out of Arlong's grasp and started walking away.

"What's the matter? You're not thinking of running away are you?" Arlong asked as Nami stopped in her tracks and remembered Genzo's words from earlier. "You can if you want, but just remember, if you do then I will kill every single person in that village. Shahahahaha!" Nami just stood there with tears in her eyes as she ran off out of the hideout.

"Shouldn't we go after her?" Hachi asked.

"There's no need. Nami won't go anywhere." Arlong said as he stood up. "She care to much about that village to even try to do anything stupid. She is an excellent navigator, we can't just let her go just like that."

"You really are heartless, chu." Chew said as Arlong laughed.

"I may be, but I will still keep my promise. Once she finishes making maps of the entire world, then she can have her freedom!" Arlong replied before all of the fishmen started laughing.

"To bad for her, it'll take decades to finish it!" a random fishman shouted as they started laughing harder.

Cocoyashi Village

"So that's why I'm here." Naruto said as he finished talking to the whole village. "I made a promise to Nami to help her get rid of Arlong and his men and I intend to keep it."

"I can't believe it."

"Nami actually asked for help."

Naruto heard several of the villagers talking amongst each other sending questioning looks his way. Naruto sighed as he stood up and put Yuuki on his shoulder, who was being held by Nojiko while he was talking.

"Now if you excuse me, I must be on my way to visit Arlong." Naruto said as he started walking away.

"Wait!" Genzo shouted as Naruto stopped and looked at him. "You can't face Arlong and his men alone, it's suicide! They will kill you." he shouted and Naruto smiled at him and turn his head forward.

"Don't worry about me, I can handle them, besides…" he started walking as the next thing he said shocked them all to their cores. "I didn't get a 85,000,000 berri bounty on my head for nothing." he then walked away without looking back at them.

"85,000,000 berris?" the town doctor said.

"That's more than three time larger than Arlong's bounty!" Nojiko exclaimed as she looked at the blond's retreating form. 'Just who are you?'

Naruto kept walking towards Arlong Park as he now had two bokken strapped to his side and Yuuki walk beside him and his eyes were shadowed by his hat. As he was walking he heard footsteps approaching and Nami running towards him with tears in her eyes and didn't see that she was going to collide with him.

Nami could believe what Arlong had done and knew that once the villagers found out what he did with the marines they would fight for her and most likely die in the process. She knew she had to stop them as soon as she got there, she knew that it might not work but she had to try. She then hit something hard as she was running and stumbled backward before something caught her and pulled her back up. She looked up to see a familiar looking face with whisker marks and buried her face in his chest.

"N-Naruto." Nami whispered out as Naruto stood there, not saying a word. "He lied to me." Naruto looked down at Nami she cried into his chest.

"He lied to me, right to my face, and I believed him. Why, why did I believe him!" Nami continued to cry. She then felt something drop around her neck and pulled back to see Naruto only wearing his tomoe necklace and his gem one around her neck.

"Keep that safe for me, Nami." Naruto said as he leaned forward and planted a kiss on her forehead and walked past her, straight for Arlong Park. Nami stood there for a minute and brought her hand up to her neck and and touched the stone as she remembered when Naruto first told her about it.

(Flashback)

Nami looked at Naruto as she was currently standing on a boat at a dock as the blond looked at her with smile as he sat on a poll of the dock and Yuuki was trying to catch a butterfly beside him. The sun was currently setting as the sound of the waves was the only thing that could be heard at the moment.

"I must say, I didn't expect the plan to go like it did." Nami said as she finished counting the gold she had 'collected' from a recent raid.

"What are you talking about? The plan went perfectly!" Naruto said happily.

"You call destroying a whole ship and almost sinking the treasure 'perfectly'?" Nami asked as Naruto scratched his head. Nami noticed one of Naruto's necklaces flowing in the wind. "I've been meaning to ask you something."

Naruto stopped scratching and looked at Nami for her to continue. "All this time you've been protective of the green necklace that you have, why is that?" she asked as Naruto held the necklace in question and smiled.

"This necklace once belonged to my father, it's been in his family for generations and was passed down to him by his mother, my grandmother and he wore it until his death. My grandmother then gave it to me when I first unlocked my Haki and I've had it ever since. It's worth to me is priceless." Naruto said with a sad smile.

Nami looked down as she realized that she had brung up some bad memories for the blond but stopped when she heard what he said next.

"It's actually worth however is about three gold mines and the mountains on top of them, according to my grandmother anyway." Naruto said as Nami gain berri signs in her eyes.

(Flashback end)

"Naruto…" She whispered as she clenched the necklace started running towards the village.

Arlong Park

"Wow, you two look like shit." Naruto commented as he looked at a beaten up Johnny and Yosaku as they were trying to stand up in pain.

"N-Not funny Big Bro." Yosaku said as Johnny looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

"You know this guy Yosaku?"

"Yeah, he's Big Bro Luffy's Big Bro." Yosaku said while Johnny looked wide eyed.

"Really?" Naruto nodded. "Then what are you doing here?"

"I made a promise to Nami that I'll deal with Arlong and put an end to his reign of terror. And now it's time I keep it." Naruto said as he walked up to the giant gates of the park. Yosaku and Johnny watched as Naruto started to turn blue and his body begin to tremor before a they dropped their jaws in shock as his body started to change shape.

Inside Arlong Park

"Shahahahaha! What weak humans, do you think that they are a part of Zoro's gang?" Arlong asked Kuroobi who stood beside him.

"No way, they were far too weak. They weren't even worth killing." Kuroobi answered.

"That's for sure! Shahahaha!"

"Well if they weren't enough for you." A voice rung out as Arlong and his men turned towards the gates to see Naruto walking towards them. "The why don't you try fighting me." he finished as he took out one of his bokken.

"And just who are you?" Arlong asked.

"Hey Hachi, isn't that the human you said was your friend?" Chew said.

"Is this true Hachi?" Arlong asked as he looked towards the octopus fishman.

"Yeah it is, but I don't know why he's here. Whats going on Naruto?" Hachi asked as he walked towards the blond.

"Did you not just hear him Hachi, he said that that he was here to fight us. Isn't that what you said human." Kuroobi said.

"What!? That can't be true, is it?" Hachi asked in shock as Naruto walked up to him with a blank look on his face.

"I don't wanna have to hurt ya Hachi, so please move." Naruto said calmly. Arlong laughed from his seat and looked at Naruto with a bored look.

"Hurt Hachi? I thought that he was your friend?"

"He is, but I will fight him to get you, Arlong." Naruto said as he pointed a bokken at Arlong as the fishman laughed even more.

"You think that you can beat me, is that it? Pathetic. No mere human could even hope to beat the likes of-" Arlong stopped talking when he felt his cheek begin to sting and saw blood running down his face as Naruto standing by Hachi like he was about to draw a sword before he stood up and glared at Arlong.

"Shut up ya shark bastard!" Naruto said as Arlong looked at him with bloodshot eyes.

"You!" Arlong said in a dangerous tone.

"I seriously can't believe that you were a part of Fisher Tiger's crew. He would be ashamed of you."

"YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME OR BROTHER TIGER! SHUT YOUR MOUTH!" Arlong shouted as he stood up from his seat, angry at the human in front of him.

"Oh~ You're angry? Good, I want you to fight me with everything you've got." Naruto said with a grin as he pulled out both his swords.

BANG!

"Huh?" Naruto and the fishmen said as they saw dents appear on the gates of Arlong Park.

BANG! BANG! CRASH!

With the final bang the gates of the park came crumbling down. When the dust cleared they all saw Luffy standing there with an arm stretched out in front of him and Naruto noticed that he wasn't wearing his hat which surprised him as Luffy never took it off.

"Which one of you is Arlong?" Luffy asked.

"What is with these pests today? DO YOU ALL WANT TO DIE!" Arlong shouted.

"Oi Luffy, you're late." Naruto said as he rested one of the bokken in his shoulder.

"Hey! That's the guy we met earlier, the one who likes to take walks." Hachi said as he was now over by the other fishmen when the gates went down. Luffy walked down towards Naruto and past him and went straight towards Arlong.

"Where do you think you're going?" A fishman said as he blocked Luffy's path.

"Yeah, if you want to talk to the boss you got to talk to us first." another fishman said as he put his hands on Luffy's shoulders. "Let's talk…"

"Move it." Luffy said as he smashed both of their heads together and walked towards Arlong. Arlong and his men all widened their eyes, surprised that a human could knock out two fishmen with ease.

"And just who might you be?" Arlong asked as he was getting pissed off by the even increasing amount of humans annoying him today.

"You can call me Luffy." Luffy said as he stopped near Arlong.

"Luffy? And just what the hell are you supposed to be?" he asked.

"A pirate."

"So what does a pirate want with me?" Arlong asked, looking at the at the teen with a bored look on his face. Luffy stood there for a moment before he pulled his fist back, and punched Arlong straight in the face so hard that it sent the fishman flying to the wall on the other side of the park. The villagers and the fishmen gasped at the scene as Luffy snorted.

"THAT'S FOR MAKING OUR NAVIGATOR CRY!" Luffy shouted angrily.

Cliffhanger! Sorry to finish the story like this but this helps build suspense for the next chapter when it is ready. Tell me what you think and review. No flames please.

Next time the Straw hat's battle against Arlong's men and Naruto showcases his powers for the first time, so please be patient.

See you all next time.

M.S OUT! :)