Sorry it took so long to update life got super busy super fast after I decided to start writing this, oh well.

AN - I don't own Naruto or One Piece

When one is as old as I am, you tend to look back and notice that it is the little things that truly make the biggest difference. What if I decided to become jaded instead of continuing to seek attention in my childhood? What if Obito had been buried completely? What if the Tyrant didn't love to travel or explore? What if he was content to live his life of nobility? What if he wasn't curious?

I can't tell the answer to these questions, but I can only assume that the world we live in today would be radically different. According to his father Daichi was a curious child. Always asking why and what comes next. Daichi was apparently focused on that question. What comes next?

That question fueled many of Daichi's decisions throughout his life. What comes after the mountains? What comes after the sea? What comes after people's decisions? What comes after peace? What comes after time?

Those questions fueled a young Daichi's mind, but again it seems that I am getting ahead of myself. I should start from the very beginning.

December 17th, 33 B.U. was the day that Daichi Newgate was born. He was born into the noble house of Newgate, who happened to be the rulers of a small section of land called Shida no Tochi, or Land of Ferns. Takusan no Tochi was still divided at the time, and so were the Elemental Nations. He was born the fourth son of Daiki Newgate and he was the fifth child in total.

Daiki Newgate was a large man with a powerful calming aura that seemed to surround him. He encouraged his children to pursue their interests as long as it didn't cause a burden to the land that he ruled or its people.

Daiki made sure that Daichi and all of his sibling got the education that those of a noble status needed, and he also made sure that they all were taught military tactics and skills as well. Unlike the daimyos of the Elemental Nations the nobility of Takusan no Tochi were expected to lead their men in any military conflicts. In that case they were much more similar to the kages of old than the daimyos.

As I have stated before as a child Daichi was obsessed with the question 'What comes next?' so in an attempt to answer that question Daichi began learning geography and gained an interest in travel, so at the age of 15 he left to travel the land of Shida no Tochi and beyond. He traveled all throughout the lands of Takusan no Tochi all the way up to the great peaks of the White Mountains and to the shores of we now know as the Great Line.

Daiki told me, many years after Daichi's death, that the little boy with short black hair and gray eyes that seemed to be filled to the brim with excitement and curiosity had died on the child's seven year journey around the countryside. The boy that came back from that trip was not the boy he had raised for ten years, but someone completely different.

The boy, no the man that had come back had long black hair that went down to his shoulders with bangs that covered his face. He had grown tall, incredibly so for his family, reaching a massive height of 6 foot 6 inches. He had grown lean during his trip and looked like quite the athlete, which was much different than the pudgy boy that left. His attire had changed too. No longer did he wear the noble seal of his family, and he had ditched the childish cape that he started off his journey with. He even forsaken his house's colors of dark blue and garnet, and instead wore a dark gray travelling cloak that he held tight to his body.

The most notable change in Daichi though wasn't his physical change or change in attire, those were somewhat expected given that he had grown from child to man, but the greatest change was Daichi's eyes. Before they were filled with wonder, curiosity, confidence, awe, and happiness, but upon his return his eyes were filled with doubt, questioning, worry, dread, and even a small amount of defeat.

For five months after he returned Daichi engaged his father and siblings in a series of philosophical debates and questions, and throughout those five months he seemed to regain his sense of confidence and pride.

In the third month after Daichi got back from his trip he met his future wife at a festival celebrating the end of yet another war. She was a beautiful girl of the tender age 15. She had long light brown hair that was tied off in two pigtails by pink bows. She had electrifying blue eyes that shined in mirth upon seeing anything that was funny or cute. She had a soft voice and an aura that just oozed elegance surrounding her. She had just as sweet a name too, Etsuko Yukimura.

When Daichi first met Etsuko he was in a meeting with her brother Hiroto Yukimura, the ruler of the small country called Gyūnyū no Tochi (Land of Milk), about plans for the future. At the time Daichi dismissed Etsuko as another pretty, but useless girl. Etsuko had similar thoughts that Daichi was indeed a looker, but still just a stuck up pretty boy noble.

Hiroto and Daichi became fast friends after the meeting, and Hiroto, a massive man who stood an impressive 7 feet tall with broad shoulders and a muscular build that would leave most body builders jealous, would play a large part in the legend of the Tyrant.

Two months after Daichi's and Hiroto's meeting Daichi began his unification of Takusan no Tochi. The ascendant of the Tyrant had finally begun.

The events before and after Daichi's journey are rather clear, but the details of his journey itself are clouded and scattered in the wind. The journey that Daichi made was what ultimately answered the question of 'What comes next?' for Daichi, and he was determined to make sure that the answer he saw was changed. During the five month period after his return and before his conquest he figured out what he needed to do now so that 'what comes next' was something worth living for.

In a balcony overlooking the busy city of Heiwa stood two people. The first was a man in his mid-thirties with a string jaw and raven colored hair that was tied in a ponytail that came down to his waist. He was dressed in a white kimono with a black sash around his waist. He wore traditional shinobi sandals on his feet and a katana was strapped to his waist as well. The other person on the balcony was a beautiful woman with long red hair dressed in a red kimono that had black flowers petals descending its length and a black sash to hold it in place.

Both the man and woman stood at the same height 5 foot 8 inches, but the presence the two have are completely different.

The woman is Red Ijin, the leader of the samurai, and she carried herself accordingly. Her presence commanded respect and attention and she had a charisma that gave confidence to those around her. Outgoing, boisterous, and sometimes loud she is a person that one could point out in a crowd and say that she is a leader, at least according to herself. Others could say that she is cocky, arrogant even, but there are very few out there that would like to test this theory. Along with her skill she possesses a certain kind of beauty and elegance. She isn't a super model, but she also isn't the girl next door. Probably the most noticeable feature a person would see upon meeting her for the first time is her eyes. Green eyes that demands the best from that person, but also are filled with care for that person as well.

The man that she is standing across from couldn't be more different than her. He was a quiet man, and when he did speak it is only a few words before silence yet again. While most people could tell that she is a leader or someone important, they would often mistake the man as a simple farmer. Instead of vibrant green eyes he had dull onyx eyes that almost always seem bored no matter what he sees. Instead of her beauty and elegance, he had a rather simple and plain appearance.

Yet, no matter how different he was from her, Red couldn't name a person who she was closer with than Jack Uchiha. Jack was the only samurai who could fight her to a draw, and the only man who had ever held her heart.

"It is a beautiful night isn't it Jack-kun?" asked Red as she leaned against the rail of the balcony.

"Hn."

"Come on don't be like that, you're always like that!" exclaimed a now irritated Red. Little is it known to the public, but in private Red Ijin was a much less patient person than she was in public, especially in dealing with her lover.

"Hn. Did you say something?" came the reply from Jack as he turned from looking out at the city to looking at her.

"Yes I did! And now that you finally gifted me with your attention I actually have something very important to tell you Jack!" Red snapped back with sarcasm dripping in her voice.

"Hmm."

"FUCKING BASTARD! PAY ATTENTION!" Red yelled before Jack could even finish turning his head back to view of the city. "Today the council has agreed on a decision to aid Uzumaki-sama in a quest that he will be debarking on soon."

"Naruto-sensei? The only quest he should have is the quest to find a quieter place to live" Jack replied with a snort. A widely known fact about Jack Uchiha is that he studied for quite some time under Naruto Uzumaki and is widely also regarded as the man's last student.

"He plans on ending slavery in the world, and has requested four ships and an air ship to help him. Each branch of the military is sending a ships worth of their best men to help him on his journey, and I want you to be the commander of the samurais and the captain of the ship Mifune." Finished Red in a commanding voice.

"So, he plans to fight a most dangerous foe, one that most people don't even believe in anymore. Tsk, I better help that senile old fool otherwise he'll go destroy an island somewhere." Jack replied with a smirk.

"Great! You leave in six weeks and I know exactly what we'll be doing in the meantime"

In Fort Oto

Sora Kengou was a man most would say had seen better days. His once rich brown hair is now tattered with patches of gray throughout. His face bore the wrinkles that came with the job of being the Kage, and had bags under his eyes because of all the work he inherited and all the work he still has to do.

He was sitting in a chair, it was more of a throne, in traditional kage clothes with the head ANBU kneeling in front of him. Mentally sighing about having to send a ship's worth of his best men to make sure that the shinobi didn't lose face with the other branches of the military and it was all because of his predecessor's fault.

"'Rise Hawk, we have much to discuss." said Sora as he mentally debated finding a successor. He just hoped that all those who could succeed him would come back from this errand with Uzumaki-sama alive.

At the pier

"So you want me to take me elite squadron of men and go on what could possibly be a suicide mission with a man who is as old as the dirt that we walk on?" asked Wani Nakazawa. Wani stood at an even 6 feet tall and had broad shoulders. He has muscular arms and a short brown beard. He is dressed in standard shinobi pants with the traditional green flak jacket with the symbol for the Uzumaki clan on the back. He has a cigarette in one hand as the other is hanging loosely by his side. He has a baseball cap with the MES logo on it covering his otherwise bare head.

The man he is asking the question to is Yamato Oiki the leader of the MES. Yamato Oiki was a rather short man standing at only 5 feet 2 inches and a ridiculous sense of fashion. Currently he was wearing a bright pink long sleeved mesh shirt with a plaid kilt. To top off his get up he had a large afro and sunglasses on.

"Yep! All the other branches are sending they're best too! So don't disappoint me!" Yamato replied with a chipper tone that almost hid the implied threat at the end.

"Ha ha! Disappoint you?! I'm shaking with excitement at being able to fight worthy opponents! It is time to show the world MES's strength!" Wani declared. "Now excuse me, I have to go tell my men the good news!"

Heiwa's Military HQ- Main Forces Commander Office

A man with blonde shaggy can be seen sleeping with his head down on his desk with a small puddle of drool forming around his mouth. This man is Kakashi Namikaze. Kakashi is dressed in his normal wear, that is a plain white t-shirt and a pair of baggy shorts, and is partaking of his favorite hobby, sleeping. The man had just completed his most daunting task of the day, writing a memo ordering his best air ship and his best men to join the legendary Naruto Uzumaki on a journey.

The memo that read "Ken Jo, men, travel, Uzumaki" that is slowly becoming drenched in drool. It is safe to say that Kakashi has never been the most proactive head of a military branch.

Hiruzen Airfield

The whirl of the air hips can be heard as crews set to work preparing, repairing, and creating air ships. It is among this chaos that we find Isame Yachou. He is a dark skinned skinny man who is a descendent of the Fourth Raikage, Ē, even though he has no talent for ninjutsu let alone the Raikage's famed lightning armor. He is wearing a white military uniform decorated with all of his different medals and ranks. He had black combat boots on and is walking towards a recently landed airship.

The modern airship is a beautiful and massive sight to behold. Over 400ft long and over 30ft high at its highest, the modern airship is truly massive. Constructed of the same material as charka absorbing armor the hull of the ship is practically immune to ninjutsu. The hull is nearly as strong as steel, making it more resist to any ground to air bombardment. The modern airship has over a hundred small hatches on the side of the hall so paratroopers, or nins with the capability to fly can leave the airship and begin an air to ground assault.

The airship is the perfect weapon to raze an unaware city or base simply because of the massive amount of weaponry that it has near the base of its hull. Cannons, guns, chakra fueled weapons, exploding tags, etc. The airship does have one large weakness, it runs mostly on seals created by an fūinjutsu master. This weakness is key because if the fūinjutsu master aboard is killed then repairs can't be done in battle and it takes years for someone to become an fūinjutsu master to replace the one that was lost.

Departing from this particular airship is non-other than Manami Hagiwara, the most celebrated female airship captain in the history of the United Nations air force. Manami was wearing the standard captain uniform, a brown jumpsuit. She also has her distinguishing skull and cannon necklace around neck and hanging on the outside of her jumpsuit. She has auburn brown hair tied into a single bun on the back of her head and that partly obscures her favorite pair of googles, a pair that happened to be bright orange.

It is this woman that has Isame hurrying across the airfield. "Manami-dono! Manami-dono! I need to talk to you!" exclaimed the normally stoic Isame trying to get her attention.

For Manami, the recent drill and test of the airship's functions went smoothly and she was glad it was over. As much as she loves being in the sky she hates going up and doing such mundane tasks in such incredible machines. It was a waste of time and effort when they could be doing something more productive with the airships like racing them. Manami was jolted out of her musings by the cry of one of the few people that could be called her superior, Isame Yachou.

"What do you want Mr. Skin and Bones?" she shouted even as she stopped and turned to face him.

"I want you to gather the best crew possible and get the class A airship Asuma ready for a long journey you and the crew you select are going to help Uzumaki-sama on a most noble journey of his by providing air support. Also you may want to have your affairs in order this is going down as an S-ranked mission so anything could happen." said Isame in a flat tone before he turned around and started walking back to his office on the other side of the airfield.

"Y-Yes sir!" Manami said as she snapped up into a salute before she left to take a relaxing bath, because no one would want to be part of a crew for an extended period of time if they thought the captain smelled.

Newgate Naval Yard

Ino Newgate is what most people will call a beautiful woman. She has dark black that just seems to flow to her waist and a smile that brightens up a room. That's not to mention her other rather large assets that always seem to draw the attention of the men that surround her. But right now the last thing on the minds of the men working in the shipyard was ogling their boss, their very angry boss.

Ino had just found out that the new line of battle ships that were supposed to be done in a month have gotten delayed to almost half a month! For some inexplicable reason the parts they ordered came in two weeks late and now they had to make up for lost time.

Normally she would have let bygones be bygones, but she had an ancestor to impress! As much as she teases and kids with Naruto-jiji, as she calls him in private, she absolutely adores and respects him. She was going to show off and give him four of the newest most elite battleships that the United Nations have ever produced to go off on his journey, but then this happened!

She was just going to have pay her shipwrights extra for all the overtime that they would be putting in during the next month to make sure the ships were ready and safe by time Naruto left.

On an island somewhere in the New World

A bar full of loud noises and sounds is at the center of the island. The sign outside of the bar reads 'Ye Olde Fish Bones', but everyone calls it the 'Bones' for short. The Bones has gained quite a reputation in the past decade or so. It and the island it rests on, called Brandy Isle, are right in the middle of White Beard territory. Yet, White Beards colors didn't fly above the island, in fact none of the Yonko's colors flew on the island. The colors that do fly is a flag with a giant middle finger on it.

The flag belongs to the local hero, and the local drunk, Madara Uchiha. Madara showed up one day on the island out of the blue a decade ago. After he took down White Beards flag, he claimed the island as his own and his home. Brandy Isle is a small island and after heated talks between White Beard and Madara Whitebeard allowed Madara to keep the island as his own, but should he ever lose the island and live to tell the tale then White Beard would kill him.

Since then any pirate or corrupt marine that landed at Brandy Isle has been taken care by Madara. Madara could always be found where the trouble usually starts, the Bones, and tonight is no exception. Sitting at the bar with a bottle of brandy on hand he stares at the wall uncaringly as he takes drink after drink after drink.

The bartender, Tom, hands him another before something strange happens. The bar's den den mushi went off. The bar's den den mushi never goes off.

"Hello?" asks Tom as he hesitantly picks up the mushi after the third ring. "Alright just a second." Tom turns to look at Madara and simply says "It's for you."

AN Okay I've been thinking about writing a couple different stories and I want to hear what you guys because they will (hopefully) have a different writing style than this story.

1. A Naruto and High School DXD crossover

This one would be told retrospectively as someone telling a story to someone else. It would have a little bit of a different twist than most of the current crossovers, but isn't too radically different.

This one would involve a lot of reader-writer involvement. It could work with no involvement but the way I want to try to write it would require lots of reader involvement.

This one would be told traditionally like most books are written from beginning to end with the mandatory flashback scenes so that stuff makes sense. This fic would involve ninjas in suits and ninjas in business, so a slightly different take on who runs the Naruto world.

This one has dinosaurs and would be written the same as #3 from start to finish.

5. None

Boo! You suck! This story made my eyes bleed!

Thanks for reading and let me know what I can do matter on ok:)?