All right, I've got a new chapter for you all. Hopefully this will live up to people's expectations of this story. Also, since enough people have been hounding me about it, I'm going to dabble in a bit of Naruto/Nami, since I think that of all the OP characters, I think she would fit best with Naruto. Vivi might, but I might dabble in that in about…10 chapters or so.
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The Pirate King and the Kaizokukage
Don't Get Fooled Again
Naruto and Kiba stood across from each other, their swords in hand.
"Let me ask you something, about how good are you with that blade?" asked Naruto. Kiba narrowed his eyes and brandished his sword.
"My Byakko and I have never lost a battle. We were trained by Cabaji-sempai himself." Kiba bragged.
"Byakko huh?" said Naruto, resting his sword on his shoulder. "Must be strong to have that name; I'll honor it and its strength." Naruto tossed his sword into the air and went through hand signs. "Shadow Sword Jutsu!" A puff of smoke appeared over Naruto's head and out of it fell a pair of identical swords.
"What, how did you did that?" Kiba asked.
"I use to be a ninja." Naruto shrugged. "Now, less talk, more fight!" He charged at the Buggy pirate. Kiba just barely had enough time to raise Byakko and block the attack. Naruto kept up his assault, swinging his sword, while keeping the other behind his back. "Is that really all you've got?" Naruto demanded.
"Shut up!" Kiba shouted and swung his sword. The attack released a wave of energy. Naruto blocked the wave and was pushed back. His foxy smile appeared and he swung his other sword, shattering the energy wave.
"Now that's more like it!" he cheered and charged again. Naruto connected his swords together into a saber-staff. He swung the blades all around his body, once again putting Kiba on the defensive.
"How? How can you be this skilled?" demanded Kiba.
"Little bit of natural talent and a whole love of hard work." Naruto stated. "You said that guy on the unicycle trained you? He did a pretty pathetic job."
"How dare you!" Kiba shrieked and unleashed another wave of energy. Naruto leapt and separated this staff. He threw his blades at Kiba who deflected them easily. Naruto just smirked and started to maneuver the blades using chakra strings. He had remembered the fights he'd seen of Kankuro and Tenten. After a lot of trial and error, mostly error, he'd managed to replicate and combine the techniques. Naruto couldn't help but chuckle as he made his blades dance around Kiba, cutting him as he tried to defend himself from the dance blades.
"Enough!" Kiba shouted and swung his sword in a full circle.
"Shiiiiiiiiiiiiit!" Naruto shouted as he was blown away by the attack and his cloned sword went poof. Naruto landed on the other side of the buildings where Luffy and Buggy were having their fight, his sword clattering next to him.
"Ok, that was an impressive move." He admitted. He glanced over and saw his captain. "Hey Luffy, I hate to admit it but," he then noticed Luffy's hat was gone. Naruto glanced around and found it, his eyes widdened. Luffy's hat was sporting three hole, looked like it had been stomped on, and Naruto was pretty sure he saw spit on it.
"Captain!" Kiba said, bursting out standing by Buggy's side. "That fake pirate gave me a bit of trouble, but he was no match for me."
"Shut up kiss-ass." Naruto snapped. He looked at Luffy. "Luffy, did that Clown Bastard do that to your treasure." Luffy nodded and cracked his knuckles.
"He says he also trained with Shanks." Luffy said.
"That's right, that Red-Haired bastard." Buggy growled and launched into his story about how Shanks was the reason he ate the devil fruit.
"I swallowed a hundred million berries that day." Buggy finished, ending on how he fell into the water to try and get a treasure map he'd dropped. "And now I can't swim and get the treasure on the ocean floor."
"So Shanks saved your life." Luffy pointed out.
"You know the more I hear about that guy, the more I like him." Naruto said.
"That's not the point!" Buggy shouted.
"That's right; Shanks robbed Captain Buggy of greatness!" Kiba roared. "And if I ever see him, I'll kill him myself."
"Yeah right," Naruto said, his sword beginning to glow. "From what I hear, Shanks was a master swordsman, and you can't even beat me."
"What was that?" Kiba growled, his own sword glowing.
"Pirate Style, Slash!" Naruto shouted and unleashed the wave of energy just as Kiba unleashed his. Naruto's attack ripped through Kiba's and struck the pirate's chest, sending Byakko flying one way and Kiba the other.
"Tch, a disgrace to my crew," Buggy said. "And anyway, I'm going to get the entire world's treasure," Buggy stated as the upper half of his body started to float up. "And not have it taken from me!" Buggy flew over Luffy and Naruto and strait at Nami, who was trying to sneak away with a bag full of treasure.
"Damnit, why didn't she just leave when she had the chance?" Naruto said. Luffy meanwhile just approached the lower half of Buggy. "Captain?" Luffy kicked Buggy right between the legs. Naruto couldn't help but fall over laughing.
"Attacking my lower half," Buggy groaned as he tried to get up. "That's fighting dirty."
"Haha, fighting, ha, dirty," Naruto said, wiping away a tear. "You idiot, we're pirates, of course we fight dirty."
"And our fight's not over." Luffy said. "Naruto!"
"Aye aye Captain." Naruto said. He sealed his sword.
"Hey you, drop the treasure and run." Luffy called to Nami.
"Yeah, we'll keep him off your back." Naruto added.
"Leave the treasure?" Nami gasped. "I'm not leaving behind any of my treasure!"
"Your treasure?" Buggy questioned.
"That's right, I stole this treasure and that makes it mine!" Nami explained. "Mine, mine, mine!"
"What a greedy woman." Naruto said shaking his head.
"Ok," Luffy said like he understood it slamming his fist into his palm.
"You have no idea what she's going on about do you?" Naruto asked.
"Not a clue." Luffy admitted. Suddenly, Buggy's legs exploded into a dozen parts.
"Whoa, he's all over the place!" Luffy said.
"Not all of him." Naruto said, pointing at Buggy's feet. The two suddenly wore identical, evil grins. The quickly attacked Buggy's feet, tickling them, pinching them, and jamming the toes into the ground.
"Will you two cut that out?" Buggy demanded.
"Sure, just get over here and fight us." Naruto said. Nami tried and use the distraction to hit Buggy in the face with her bag of treasure. Unfortunately, he just grabbed the bag.
"Will you quit playing with her and fight us already?" Naruto shouted as he and Luffy charged at Buggy's head and kicked it.
"That was for the mayor." Luffy said.
"Thanks for the save." Nami said.
"Eh, it's what we do." Naruto shrugged.
"There's the map." Luffy said and grabbed it.
"My treasure's all over the place." Nami wined. Naruto shook his head.
"You've got priority issues lady." Naruto sighed.
"Not so fast you lot." Buggy said as his floated up.
"You're still alive?" Luffy asked.
"You're not getting away." Buggy declared. "I'll kill all of you! Come together! Chop-Chop," He stopped when all that came back to him, were his hands and feet. Naruto burst out laughing again.
"Where's the where's the rest of him/me?" Naruto laughed/Buggy shouted.
"Looking for these?" Nami asked, standing on Buggy's tied up body parts.
"Well done master thief." Luffy complimented, stretching his both arms back. "Goodbye Buggy." Luffy said.
"No, wait," Buggy pleaded.
"Gum-Gum Bazooka!" Luffy nailed Buggy flying until he was just a star in the sky.
"Nice shot." Naruto said, putting his hand over his eyes.
"We won!" Luffy shouted joyfully. "And now you'll join our crew right?" he asked Nami.
"For the time being. It looks like I'll make a fortune if I stick with you guys." Nami said, having already stuffed a bunch of treasure into a new bag and was hugging it like a stuffed animal. "You have got give Buggy credit though, this is first class treasure. There's got to be at least 10,000,000 berri in here." Naruto pinched the bridge of his nose.
"As an old friend of mine use to say, this is going to be troublesome." He said. He saw Luffy pick up his ruined hat. "I'm sorry Captain. I wasn't here to protect your treasure."
"That hat means a lot to you doesn't it?" asked Nami.
"Yeah," Luffy said, but started to smile. "It's ok though, I can still wear it." Nami blinked at him and Naruto started to laugh. While Luffy went to try and wake Zorro up, Naruto walked over to Byakko. He grasped the handle and went wide eyed.
You are the one that defeated my previous master. A growling voice said in Naruto's head.
Yeah that was me. Naruto thought back. You're a sentient weapon.
Indeed. Byakko confirmed. I have already looked into your heart and soul and in addition to defeating my previous wielder, I deem you worthy of wielding me.
I am honored Byakko. Naruto said. However, I probably won't use you in battle very often in favor of my usual weapons. If it is all right, I am going to seal you into a special area until I need you.
Thank you for your honesty Naruto, I look forward to fighting beside you in battle. Byakko said. Naruto nodded and pulled out the scroll he'd used to put that Dragon guy's dagger and armor. He quickly made a new storage seal and placed Byakko in it. With that done, Naruto tucked the storage scroll away and went to join the crew.
"How you doing Zoro?" Naruto asked.
"It's no good, I can't walk." Zorro said.
"Not surprising, considering how much blood you lost." Nami said. "I'm not even sure you guys are humans."
"Hey, don't lump me in with them." Luffy said, looking annoyed.
"You're even less human than they are!" Nami screamed.
"Hey we're human!" Naruto snapped. "We're just freakishly strong humans with abnormal powers."
"We should probably wake the mayor up now." Luffy said, glancing over at the still unconscious city leader.
"Hey you guys," shouted a voice. The pirates all turned to see a mob of villages armed with farm tool weapons. "We're the citizens of this town."
"The townspeople," Nami sighed in relief. "Good, I thought it would be more pirates."
"The mayor!" a townsperson said, seeing their leader. Everyone rushed to him asking if he was ok and if the pirates hurt him.
"The pirates didn't do that to him." Luffy said. "We did." The townspeople snapped towards him. If looks could kill, then Luffy wouldn't exist anymore.
"They didn't have to know that!" Nami and Naruto yelled at Luffy.
"But it's true." Luffy pointed out.
"Still," Naruto said. "Some things are best left unknown."
"Are you guys pirates?" the people demanded.
Ok, depending on how we answer will determine how we leave," Naruto thought. If we just say,
"We're pirates." Luffy blurted out. Nami stared at him, stunned that he would say that, Zoro burst out laughing, and Naruto just hung his head.
"You idiot!" Nami screamed.
"We are." Luffy said innocently.
"Guys, talk later," Naruto said grabbing Zoro, "for now, run!" the group took off running as the mob of villagers charged at them. Luffy laughed as he and Nami carried bags of treasure.
"Why do have to complicate things?" Nami demanded.
"These are good people." Luffy said.
"So?" Nami snapped.
"He means these people are getting all worked up because they love the mayor." Naruto said, catching on. "It wouldn't have mattered what we told them. But Luffy, from now on, let Nami or I do the talking." Luffy just laughed as they turned down an ally. As they got further down the, they heard barking and glanced behind them. Chou Chou was barking at the villagers. The villagers were yelling at him to get out of the way, but the little dog wouldn't budge.
"That is a good dog." Naruto said. "Wish he could come with us."
"Yeah, that little dog really saved us." Nami said. "What are we doing in this mess though?"
"It's all ok." Luffy insisted. "We got what we came for didn't we?"
"Yeah, I suppose." Nami admitted.
"Hey, is that your ship?" Luffy asked, seeing Nami's boat. "It's great!"
"It's ok." Nami said with a shrug. "I got it from some idiot pirates."
"We've been waiting for you girllie." Said a voice on Nami's boat. The three Buggy pirates Naruto and Zoro had come across rose out of the ship.
"You mean those idiot pirates." Naruto asked. The three noticed Naruto and saw him holding Zoro. The quickly remembered who they were and took off swimming.
"What was that about?" Luffy asked.
"We'll explain later." Naruto said, waving him off. "Let's just get out of here before those townspeople show up." Nami agreed with him and let Naruto climb into her ship with her.
"Let's go!" Luffy shouted and then noticed the mark of Nami's sail. "Hey, that's Buggy's mark."
"Well it was his ship." Nami said. Naruto and Luffy kicked off the deck and started to float away.
"Hey wait!" the mayor shouted, running up to the dock. "There's something I want to say to you." He dropped into a bow. "Thank you! I won't forget this!" the Straw Hats smiled at the old man.
"You're welcome Mayor!" Luffy called back. "Take it easy!" as they got farther out Luffy told Nami that he had left behind the treasure she'd given him. Her first reaction was to try and drown him. Zoro laughed at the pair and Naruto just sat there writing in his book.
"I think I'll call this story the Tale of Buggy the Clown." He said to himself.
When she was done trying to kill the captain, Nami started working on fixing his hat.
"Hey Naruto," Nami said.
"Hmm," he replied.
"You've been with Luffy the longest." She said. "What is it about this hat?" Naruto sighed and closed his notebook.
"Tell me something Nami, have you ever heard of a pirate named Red-Haired Shanks?" Naruto asked. Nami thought about it for a moment.
"I think I've heard of him." Nami said. "He was said to be a master swordsman, but at one point he lost his arm. After that he was next seen without his signature straw hat and headed into the Grand Line."
"So that's where he went." Naruto said. "Anyway, while Luffy was growing up, Shanks was like a father-figure to him. He taught Luffy how to be a man and gave him his dream. Luffy told me that Shanks gave Luffy the straw hat and told him to return it when he had become a great pirate."
"So that's why he called it his treasure." Nami said, examining the hat. Naruto nodded.
"That hat is the symbol of Luffy's promise to Shanks and the thing that will always keep him going." Naruto said. They two glanced at Luffy who was sitting cross legged against the mast of his and Zoro's ship with a smile on his face.
Nami finished her repairs of Luffy's hat to the Captain's extreme joy.
"It was full of holes before, but now you could never tell." Luffy said tapping his hat.
"It was no big deal, but don't be too rough with it." Nami advised. Just then Luffy poked a fresh hole in his hat. "What did I just say?" Nami screamed and jabbed Luffy with a needle.
"You stabbed me." Luffy accused, holding his bleeding forehead.
"It's the only way I can hurt you." Nami snapped back.
"She's got a point there Cap." Naruto said.
"Keep it down will you, I'm trying to sleep." Zoro groaned. "And besides that I'm hungry. Share some of your rations with us."
"That's no way to ask Zoro." Naruto said. He looked at Nami. "I don't suppose you'd be willing to share some food with us would you Nami."
"Sure Naruto, because you asked so nicely." She said and handed out some food. "But how have you guys lasted so long without respecting the sea?"
"We've managed." Zoro said.
"Personally, I think it's dumb luck." Naruto said. "Lots and lots of dumb luck."
"Hey, there's an island out there." Luffy said. "Maybe we can find someone to join our crew."
"It looks uninhabited." Nami said looking through a telescope.
"Uh, Nami," Naruto said tapping her shoulder. She looked at him. He was pointing towards Luffy and Zoro's ship. She followed his finger and saw Luffy was rowing towards the island.
"Get back here!" Nami screamed.
"Look at it this way Nami." Naruto said. "Maybe we can find some kind of food on that island." Nami sighed in defeat and followed the others. When they reached the island, Naruto stayed behind.
"I'm gonna stay back and keep an eye on the ships, and Zoro." Naruto said, pointing to the sleeping swordsman. "Nami, stay close to the Captain. If you run into anything crazy or dangerous in there, well, you've seen him fight." He smirked. Nami just gave a hesitant nod before following Luffy into the jungle.
When Naruto watched them walk into the jungle, he double checked that Zoro was sound asleep. He jumped onto shore and bit his thumb. He smeared the blood onto his right hand and started going through hand signs.
"Summoning Jutsu!" he cried and slammed his hand onto the ground. A large cloud of smoke appeared and when it cleared, an orange toad about the size of a pig was in front of him. "Hey Kichi." He said with a smile.
"Naruto!" Gamakichi said, jumping up and down. "It's good to see you bro. How have you been?"
"I've started my pirate journey with Captain Luffy." Naruto told him.
"So you're a pirate now?" Gamakichi asked.
"Yep, it's a small crew right now, just me, Luffy, that swordsman sleeping over there." Naruto said, jerking his thumb over his shoulder at Zoro. "And we've got this navigator who's more of an ally than a crewmate right now. It's complicated."
"Is she hot?" Gamakichi asked. Naruto sighed and shook his head.
"Not now Kichi," he sighed. "Anyway, what's going on back in Konoha?"
"Well, you know that sand kid from way back when?" Gamakichi said.
"Gaara?" asked Naruto.
"Yeah him." The orange toad said. "Well he's the Kazekage now but those Akatski guys got to him last I heard."
"What? What happened, is he ok?" Naruto asked.
"Not sure, these are just rumors going around the summoning dimension." Gamakichi said. "I'm sorry; I know you guys are tight having Biju sealed inside you." Naruto was thinking and rubbing his chin.
"All right, first off, I want you to get these to Baa-chan and the Pervy Sage." Naruto said, handing Gamakichi two scrolls. "And when you see Baa-chan, if she hasn't yet, have her send Team 8, 10 and Gai to find Garra and the ones who took him. Hopefully their skills have increased as much as I hope they have. Also, could you hand these to the Pervy-Sage." He handed Gamakichi a small notebook. "It's a copy of my adventures so far. Maybe it'll make his new best seller."
"You got it Naruto." He said, taking everything. "Don't be a stranger ok?"
"You got it Kichi." Naruto said. "And say hi to your dad for me." The little toad nodded and disappeared. Naruto sighed and looked up into the sky. "Garra, I hope you're ok."
"So, you can summon toads." Zoro said. Naruto jumped and spun around. Zoro was sitting up in his boat.
"How long have you been up?" Naruto asked.
"Somewhere around that toad telling you your friend was captured." The swordsman said. "You ok?"
"I've been better." Naruto shrugged. "Are you good enough to train?" Zoro shook his head.
"No, I'm just gonna go back to sleep." He said and did just that. Naruto chuckled, summoned a couple of clones and started training with himself. A little while later, Luffy, Nami, and some guy with an afro stuck in a box came out of the jungle with the most mismatched animals Naruto had ever seen.
"So," Naruto asked was Nami climbed onto their vessel, "how was your day?"
"Oh you know, met a shrub man, saw some freaky animals, and helped a man give up his life-long obsession." Nami said with a shrug. "You?"
"Oh nothing much just went over my log." Naruto shrugged. "Zoro just slept." Nami sighed and the group left the Island of Strange Creatures.
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"We're being rash." Nami said the next day.
"Why?" Luffy asked.
"Luffy, we've got two dingy ships and just some fruit to eat." Naruto said. "If we go to the Grand Line like this, we'd be dead in less than a second."
"Naruto's right." Nami said. "And if the Grand Line itself doesn't get to us, the most powerful pirates in the world are after One Piece too."
"And we need food too." Luffy cheered.
"And grog!" Zoro added.
"Those two are idiots." Nami sighed.
"Yeah, but they're our idiots." Naruto chuckled. "So, anywhere we can stock up?" Nami pulled out a map and studied it.
"It looks like there's an inhabited island just south of here." She said. "We can stalk up there."
"And eat meat!" Luffy shouted, much to Nami's annoyance. Naruto just laughed.
About a day later, the crew stopped on the shore of the island.
"Well what do you know, there is an island here." Luffy said, sounding surprised.
"Of course, it's on the map." Nami said.
"So there's a village around here?" asked Naruto.
"A small one but yeah," Nami confirmed.
"Damn it feels good to be back on solid ground." Zoro said, stretching.
"You slept the whole time." Luffy accused.
"So, what do you think is up," Zoro said, glancing up at the cliff, "with those guys." They heard a scream and watched three kids run away. All that was left was someone around their age standing on a hill.
"I am the notorious Captain Usopp! Feared pirate and ruler of this village!" the guy declared. "So you'd better think twice before invading this village! I have 80,000,000 men ready to fight you!"
"Liar!" Nami said.
"Darn, she saw right through me." Usopp said.
"See? I knew it." Nami said.
"Darn, she got me to admit it." Usopp cried. "She must me a master interrogator."
"Even if she is," Naruto said. "At this point, you're just an idiot."
"And you're funny." Luffy laughed.
"Hey, are you laughing at me?" Usopp demanded. "I'm a proud man! That's why they call me Proud Captain Usopp!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Naruto said. "You know any a place where we can get some food?"
Usopp lead the Straw Hats to the town inn where they explained their situation and got some food. Well, Nami explained the situation, the boys all ate. Usopp told them about the rich girl at the village mansion.
Apparently her parents had died about a year ago and left her everything. But for the past year she'd been bedridden with some kind of illness.
"She's rich and lives in luxury," Usopp said. "But no one's more unfortunate than her." Naruto thought about Usopp's story. From the sound of it, this girl had gotten all the luxuries of a certain teme, but felt all the misery that Naruto himself had known while growing up.
"Forget it." Nami said, pulling Naruto from his thoughts. "We're not gonna find a ship here. We'd better try another time."
"Yeah, I've got a belly full of meat now and time to spare." Luffy smiled. "Let's get some supplies and go."
"By the way, you said you were looking for people to join your crew right?" Usopp said. "I'm your man; I'll be your captain." Naruto grabbed Usopp by the front of his shirt and pulled him close.
"This crew has a captain." He growled. "Try and muscle in on that, and you will regret it."
"O-Ok," Usopp wimpered. He glanced at his watch. "Time to go." He muttered and took off.
"Was that really necessary?" Nami asked.
"Sorry, but Luffy's our captain, I'm not going to let anyone else try and do otherwise." Naruto said. "Let's just finish eating and then figure out our next move." Everyone seemed to agree to that so they finished their meals. It was around the time they finished that the door to the inn burst open and three young voices shouted. "Usopp's Pirates are here!" The Straw Hats looked at the newcomers; they were three kids one looking like a carrot, another like a pepper, and the third like an onion.
"Who're they?" Nami asked.
"Beats me," Luffy said taking a drink.
"They look kind of familiar though." Naruto said.
"Hey you pirates!" shouted the kid who looked like a carrot.
"What did you do with your captain?" demanded the kid that looked like a pepper.
"Give him back!" demanded the onion kid.
"That meat was delicious." Luffy said.
"Meat?" the kids gasped. "The Captain, he couldn't have," Nami giggled at the boys and Zoro got an evil smirk worthy of Naruto.
"If you're looking for the captain," he told the terrified children, "he just got gobbled up."
"Ogeress!" they yelled, looking at Nami.
"Why are you looking at me?" Nami screamed. The kids passed out and Naruto and Zoro were laughing.
"That was good Zoro." Naruto congratulated.
"It's not funny!" Nami snapped, but the boys kept laughing anyway.
"Anyway," Luffy said, ignoring his crew's antics. "Your captain just left, he said it was time to go."
"Time to go?" asked Pepper.
"That's what he said." Zoro confirmed as he finished laughing. "Then he left."
"It was probably time for him to go up to the mansion." Pepper said.
"The mansion where the sick girl lives?" asked Nami.
"Yeah," Carrot confirmed.
"Why would he go there?" Luffy asked.
"To tell lies," Carrot said.
"That's not very nice." Naruto said.
"No it is; it's very nice." Pepper said. "Right?"
"Yeah it's great!" Onion said.
"Anyone else lost here?" asked Naruto. The kids explained that the girl in the mansion, Kaya, was stuck in bed and Usopp would go there to tell her stories about his 'adventures at sea' to cheer her up.
"Hey!" Luffy cried. "He is a nice guy."
"So he's been making up stories to cheer her up for the past year?" asked Nami.
"Yep, that's what I like about the Captain." Carrot said. "He's a meddler."
"I like the Captain because he's so bossy." Pepper said.
"I like the Captain because he's so boastful." Onion said.
"Well, those are certainly good qualities." Zoro said and sweat-dropped.
"Then that girl's spirits must not be too low right now right?" Luffy asked. Naruto raised an eye brow.
"That's right, thanks to the Captain." Carrot said. Luffy started to smile, a smile Naruto knew pretty well.
"Here we go." He muttered.
"That settles it." Luffy said, jumping to his feet. "Let's go ask her to give us a ship."
"I thought we already agreed against that idea." Nami said.
"No you said it wouldn't happen," Naruto pointed out, "The Captain may have agreed with you at the time, but it looks like he changed his mind."
"Looks like Luffy and those kids and Luffy already took off for the mansion." Zoro said.
"Go on ahead Zoro." Naruto told the swordsman, whom Naruto was thinking of as the crew's second mate. "Nami and I will handle the bill." Zoro nodded and slid out. Nami tried sneaking out too, but Naruto grabbed her wrist. "I said we would cover the bill Miss Navigator."
"Why do I have to help pay?" Nami demanded.
"Because we're the only ones on this crew with money," Naruto pointed out. Nami then gave him a woman's secret weapon: the puppy-dog eyes. Naruto however, wasn't fazed. "Just help with the bill." He snapped. Nami pouted and placed down enough money for Naruto to pay the rest and left. When she was gone however, Naruto let out a low breath.
"Why do I find myself attracted to aggressive women." He muttered. "First Sakura and now Nami," He shook his head and ran to catch up with the rest of the crew. He finally caught up with them in front of the gates to a huge mansion.
"Hey, you in there!" shouted Luffy. "Give me a ship!"
"I don't think they heard you Luffy." Naruto chuckled.
"Well I know how to see them." Luffy said and launched his arms onto the top of the gate. "Gum-Gum,"
"Not again," Naruto groaned. "Everyone grab on and hang on for dear life." Everyone did as Naruto said.
"Rocket!" Luffy finished and shot into the air with the crew and kids clinging onto him. They flew through the air and crashed into a tree. Everyone crashed down until they were hanging from branches.
"Luffy, I hereby forbid you from using the Gum-Gum Rocket to launch yourself into the air." Naruto said, hanging upside-down like a bat. Luffy just laughed. Naruto looked up, er down, he was looking at the base of the tree lets go with that. He was looking at the base of the tree and found Usopp sitting there staring at them along with a blond girl inside the house. "Yo." He said with a smile. Usopp and the girl waved at them.
"Um, Usopp, where are they?" the girl asked.
"You must be the mistress of this mansion." Luffy said as he and Naruto dropped down, everyone else slowly following.
"Oh they've heard of my reputation and wanted to join my crew." Usopp said, throwing his arms around Luffy and Naruto's shoulders. "They're my newest crewmembers."
"No we're not." Naruto snapped, ducking under Usopp's arm. "Actually miss, Kaya, correct?" she nodded. "My captain was hoping to ask you for a favor." He gestured to Luffy.
"A favor?" she asked.
"Yeah!" Luffy said jumping forward. "We're looking for a big sturdy ship!" he said, throwing his arms out for emphasis.
"What is the meaning of this!" demanded a lout enraged voice. "You do realize your trespassing?" Naruto looked at the man who'd shouted. He wore a black suit, glasses, and appeared to have poop designs on his breasts. From Kaya's and Usopp's reactions, this guy was Kaya's butler, some guy named Klahadore.
"Klahadore, these people were just," Kaya started.
"Save your excuses for later!" Klahadore interrupted.
"Hey, let the lady speak." Naruto snapped, but the butler ignored him.
"You all must leave immediately." Klahadore declared. "Unless you have some business here,"
"I want a big sturdy ship." Luffy said.
"I can't help you." Kalhadore said.
"Then it's a good thing we're not asking you," Naruto said. "We're asking her." He gestured to Kaya.
"You! You're Usopp aren't you?" Klahadore said, again ignoring Naruto. "Your reputation precedes you. You're the talk of the village."
"Um, thank you. You can call me Captain Usopp if you'd like." Usopp said. "But there's no real need for flattery."
"The guards have seen you lurking around the estate." Klahadore continued. "Do you have business being here?"
"I saw a legendary mole enter the estate." Usopp said, lying through his teeth. "I'm trying to capture him."
"Hmph, you have a gift for deceit." Klahadore muttered.
"What?" Usopp asked, confused.
"I've also heard stories about your father. You're the son of a filthy pirate." Klahadore accused. "I won't put anything past you. Stay away from mistress Kaya."
"Wow, his dad's a pirate." Luffy said. Zorro was eyeing the situation indifferently but his grip was tightening on his katana. Nami was looking angry, probably because of her hatred of pirates, even though that butler was starting to anger her too. Naruto meanwhile was holding his hand, a Rasengan of red chakra slowly forming.
"A filthy pirate," Usopp growled.
"You and Miss Kaya are from completely different worlds." Klahadore went on. "If its money you're after, then how much do you want?" Kaya was greatly shocked by that.
"You've gone too far Klahadore!" she screamed. "Apologize to Usopp!"
"Why should I apologize? I'm only speaking the truth."" Klahadore stated. "But I do feel sorry for you, your treasure crazed, idiot father did abandon you."
"Klahadore!" Kaya screamed at him.
"Stop badmouthing my father!" Usopp roared.
"What are you getting so worked up about?" asked the butler, pushing up his glasses with the heel of his palm. "Why not just fabricate some of your outrageous lies about your father? Just say he's really a merchant or that he's not your real father, or perhaps," he stopped as Usopp charged, but Naruto himself blew past him and slammed his fist into his stomach, taking every ounce of will power not to make it a Rasengan.
"That's enough out of you." Naruto growled. "I know you're type, you think you're better than everyone else and look down your nose at them. But I also know Usopp's type. And he is 10 times the man you could ever dream to be." He pulled his fist out of Klahadore's stomach and walked back to the others. "Sorry for taking your punch, but I hate guys like him." Usopp nodded to him. He turned to glare at Klahadore.
"I'm proud that my father's a pirate, a brave warrior of the sea!" he declared. "You're right that I do make up stories. But there's one thing that I'll never lie about, and that's my pirate heritage! I'm the son of a pirate!"
"Captain," the kids said, impressed.
"A pirate, 'a brave warrior of the sea?' That's a deceitful twist of the truth." Klahadore mocked, coughing as he stood up from Naruto's punch. "But I know you're only kind to Miss Kaya because you're after her."
"What?" Usopp growled.
"I'm onto your scheme you scalawag!" Klahadore shouted. "You're trash, just like your pirate father!"
"That's enough!" Usopp shouted and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt.
"Stop Usopp! Please, no more violence!" Kaya pleaded. Usopp's fist shook with rage and some self-control. "Klahadore's not a bad person, he takes care of me. He only wants what's best for me. He just…went too far."
"There's going to far Miss Kaya." Naruto said. "And there's just being insulting. Your butler is the latter. And trust me when I say that sometimes the people you think you can trust the most and the least faithful ones." He grits his teeth as he remembered the damn civilian council.
"Leave the grounds." Klahadore ordered, slapping Usopp's hand away. "This is no place for ruffians like you! Leave these grounds and never return!"
"Fine, have it your way. I'm leaving," Usopp said, walking away. "And I'm never coming back!" Everyone watched his retreating back.
"Stupid smelly butt-ler!" Carrot shouted. "The captain's a great guy!"
"Yeah, fool!" Pepper added.
"Dumb fool!" Onion continued.
"Knuckle-Head!" Luffy shouted.
"You too Luffy?" Zoro said, slapping his captain in the back of the head. Luffy and the kids tried to charge at Klahadore, but Zoro and Nami held them back respectively.
"Get off this property at once!' Klahadore roared. Zoro and Nami dragged Luffy and the kids away. Nauro meanwhile just stood there, glaring at Klahadore. "Something you want to say?" Naruto kept the glare up before he gave a cunning smirk.
"Just that this isn't the last time you'll be seeing us butt-ler." He said. "And the next time we meet, it won't end well for you." With that he turned and followed his crewmates. He eventually found Zoro and Nami leaning against a fence with Pepper and Carrot.
"Yo, where's Luffy?" Naruto asked.
"Who know?" Zorro said with a shrug. "Maybe he went after the 'captain.'" He said that last part sarcastically.
"I know where the captain went." Carrot said.
"Yeah, to the beach!" added Pepper. "He always goes there when he's depressed."
"Want to see?" the kids asked in unison, freaking out the Straw Hats a bit.
"Uh, no thanks," Zoro said.
"Maybe later." added Naruto. "Anyway, weren't there one more of you? Onion I think?"
"He's always disappearing." Pepper said offhandedly.
"And then he always comes back screaming about something." Carrot added. And just like that, Onion came running screaming about a 'horrible backwards man!' No one believed him until they actually saw a tall, thin man walking backwards towards them.
"Well, that's different." Naruto said. Nami just nodded in agreement.
"Hey, who are you calling strange?" the man demanded when he reached the group. "I'm not strange."
"You're a little strange." Nami said.
"Don't be silly, I'm just your average, everyday traveling hypnotist." The man countered.
"Oh yeah, that's normal." Naruto said sarcastically rolling his eyes. The kids however were completely enthralled at the idea of the hypnotist. Although after the hypnotist went on about how he wouldn't preform his craft for strangers, he did just that and he ended up hypnotizing himself along with the kids, putting all four of them to sleep.
"Now that's strange!" Zoro declared.
"No kidding," Naruto agreed. "This guy's the biggest weirdo I've ever met, and I've known some real freaks." The hypnotist had been the first one to awaken and left on his way. The kids all woke up a little while later.
"So Naruto, what was your life like before you met Luffy?" asked Nami.
"If I had to describe it in one word, I'd say it was wasteful." Naruto said. "I spent the first dozen years of my life trying to gain recognition for a village that would only ever see me as a demon."
"Why would they see you as a demon?" asked Nami. Naruto bit his lip.
"I'm sorry Nami, but I don't think I'll be sharing that information just yet." He said. "It's sort of a personal subject." Nami blinked but nodded in understanding, she also had things in her past she wasn't ready to share. "Anyway, I tried my hardest to get them to recognize me for me, and a handful of them did, but the ones who had most of the power got me banished from the village."
"I'm sorry Naruto." Nami said. Naruto just chuckled and smiled at her.
"Don't worry about it Nami, it I hadn't gotten banished, I would never have met you guys." He said. "I think everything turned out for the best."
"Whoa, what's that?" Zoro asked. Everyone else followed his line of sight and saw a cloud of dust coming towards them.
"That would be a cloud of dust created by someone running very, very, fast." Naruto said. The person running shot past them without pausing.
"Was that the captain?" the kids asked.
"It was either him or Rock Lee." Naruto said.
"Who?" asked Nami.
"An old friend of mine," Naruto said. "He's trained his body with weights to be faster than the human eye."
"Strange, I thought Luffy would be with him." Zoro said.
"You think he's still upset about what the butler said about his family?" asked Nami.
"Who knows," Zoro shrugged but Naruto was shaking his head.
"His face was pale as a sheet, something happened." He said. "Hey kids, how do we get to the beach?"
"I smell trouble." Carrot said.
"That hypnotist was headed to the beach too." Pepper added.
"It's time for Usopp's Pirates to take action!" Onion declared.
"Yeah, sure, whatever," Zoro said, his voice a little harsher than Naruto's. "But how do we get to the beach?"
Life in Konoha, pt 1
Tsunade sat at her desk, depressed as usual. It had been three long years since the civilian council had gotten Naruto banished and she hated every second of it. Jiraya was beside her in her office. He'd just gotten word through his spy network that the new Kazekage, Garra, had gotten kidnapped by that Akataski. If Naruto was there, Tsunade would have sent him without a second's hesitation. The council wanted to send the Uchiha and his team to save the Kazekage, and it was looking like Tsunade would have to.
A puff of smoke in the middle of her office brought her out of her thoughts.
"Yo Jirata, Tsunade," said Gamakichi as the smoke cleared. "Good you're both here."
"Gamakichi, what are you doing here?" asked Jiraya.
"I've got news from Naruto." Gamakichi said. He handed Jiraya and Tsunade the papers Naruto had given him, including Naruto's log to Jiraya.
Jiraya opened up his letter and began to read:
Dear Pervy Sage,
I hope this reaches you at a time where you'll get busted by some women and get the ass whopping you deserve. If not, oh well, maybe next time. Anyway, I want to thank you for telling me where to go after I got kicked out of Konoha. The place you sent me to was the perfect place for me.
I've also gotten pretty good with the Rasengan, I only need one hand now. I've also gotten pretty good with other fighting styles; hopefully I'll get to show you someday. I think you'd really like Captain Luffy, he's a lot like us, except maybe a little crazier. Hard to believe right? Anyway, take care of Baa-chan and for Kami's sake, tell her you love her. I think she needs it now more than ever, you know?
Your loyal and grateful student,
Uzumaki "Gokai" Naruto.
"Even 3 years later and Kami knows where, the kid still doesn't respect me." Jiray said, but smiled and started flipping through Naruto's log. Tsunade was looking through the letter Naruto had written her.
Dear Baa-Chan,
I know you're still blaming yourself for my banishment. So let me tell you: STOP IT! I don't blame you, I never will blame you, so stop blaming yourself you old hag! If anything I blame that useless civilian council, may their souls forever burn in Hell for all eternity! I hope you've found a way to disband them by now.
Now that that's out of the way, I miss you Granny. I know you're doing your grandpa, grand-uncle, and teacher proud. I just wish I was there to take the hat and chair away from you. But all things said, I'm happy with my new life. I've made myself something of a new family. I hope you get the chance to meet them someday.
I've enclosed within this letter some seals with letters to some of my old friends. If you think they deserve to have them, please pass them along. And if you could, please tell Kakashi he was a useless baka of a teacher, Sasuke that he's never been able to beat me before and he never will, and Sakura that she was nothing but a loud-mouthed bitch.
I miss you Baa-chan. Say hi to Shizune for me and try to get the Pervy Sage to take you out to dinner or something. Put that porn-money he makes to good use.
Love,
Uzumaki "Gokai" Naruto
Tsunade lowered the letter, tears glistening in her eyes.
"That little brat," she said, crying slightly. Jiraya walked over and put his hand on her shoulder.
"Not to break up the moment, but have you sent out a team for the Kazekage yet?" Gamakichi asked. Tsunade shook her head. "Naruto suggested sending teams 8, 10, and Gai." Tsunade blinked at the idea before going wide-eyed in realization.
"Of course, Team Kurinai would be perfect for tracking down Garra, Team Gai can handle almost any opponent they come across, and Team Asuma would be perfect for extracting Gaara if necessary." Jiraya said and looked at Tsunade who was already on her feet.
"Shizune!" she shouted as her apprentice walked into the room.
"First off, Naruto says hi." Tsunade said getting Jiraya to shake his head and chuckle. "Second, get me teams Kurinai, Gai, and Asuma. I've got an S-ranked mission for them!"
All right, that's the end of this chapter. I think it's a bit better than my last chapter I've got a bit of a surprise for the next chapter's big fight scene. You'll just have to wait and see what happens. Aren't I evil?
Anyway, I'd like your opinions of the life in Konoha bit, it'll just be little looks into the life of the Konoha folks.
As always, read and review. Or else no more chapters.