Captain of the Fox and Vixen Pirates, a Naruto and One Piece Crossover
Author's Note: I just want to say, wow. In five hours the number of people that have read my story doubled after I posted that last chapter, so once again wow and thank you, hope you like it.
Ok so first up I have started on a second story, a Naruto and Fairy Tail Crossover. I am trying to make this be my main story for the time being though so no worries about slower updates. I want to try many different styles of writing to find what I am good at and what you the readers want to read. So anyway you know the drill read, review, and I am still looking for a beta reader.
One more thing I may stop for a while after they enter the Grandline, but that would just be for a week or two until I get the in between stories of the other islands thought out more.
And now to respond to the reviews
Voidprince: I was not entirely sure what you meant I think that your spell check was messing with your message or something, also I assume that you asked about Homaru… no … although in the future (hehe)
MarTinez9: I thought about her but decided that she did not have the sort of fighting style that I wanted, however I am planning on having her in a story that I have thought of but it will be awhile
Raidentensho: You are right although that will not be her nickname it will be similar, you know just too kinda stick with what the original character had
Eniox27: No worries about her one of my favorites, hate what happens to her in the manga and thank you I was worried how the fight scene came out
Insanemaelstorm: Sorry but I have already picked out the girls that I want to be in this story, but I may use them in a different one. Truth be told I have never watched To Love Ru or Fate Stay Night, but I plan to
Guest: Sorry to say but the first mate (vice-captain) will not be making an appearance for a while, but at the end of the last chapter I do have a list of the shows that the girls are from and their positions on the ship as well as a basic outline of the order that they will appear
I Do Not Own: Naruto, One Piece, Dog and Scissors, Bleach, Fairy Tail, Kenichi the World's Mightiest Disciple, Soul Eater, Berserk, Princess Resurrection, Outlaw Star, Sekirei, Dragonball Z or Tenchi Muyo. These are the products of other people's hard work and I am not trying to steal it, just borrow it to use in my story.
Chapter 2 Aiming for a Sniper
Slowly and groggily Naruto began to rouse himself from his sleep, looking at the roof he noticed that there was light coming in through the cracks in the ceiling.
*Yawn* "How long have I been asleep?" Naruto stood up and began to stretch out his slightly sore muscles, while noting that someone had been cleaned and bandaged him up during the night. "Huh, guess the good doc has already seen to me."
Looking around the room he saw that his shirt, coat and black sandals were folded and set on a chair in the corner of the room. He also saw that there was a small sink and mirror on the far side of the room, now he is not vain in any sense of the word but he did want to make sure that he did not have a broken nose or any new scars. He did think that this was unlikely because he, as far as he could remember only got hit once during the fight and that was simply because Mizuki did not play fair.
"How sad do I sound, blaming my injuries on the fact that a pirate, shockingly enough, did not play by the rules?" Naruto then made his way towards the mirror and upon inspecting himself he got a bit of a shock, for there upon his forehead was the unmistakable mark of a lipstick kiss mark directly in the center of his forehead.
… "What the hell?" Naruto may not have been in the most appropriate state of mind to try and solve this mystery but he was sure of three things. One during the fight none of the pirates wore lipstick nor got anywhere close to being able to kiss his head without him noticing. Two he did not think that a crew with this many men would have a female doctor to take care of them all, he truthfully did not think that a female doctor could stand being around this rough and horny sailors for more than a week before wanting to leave. And the last thing that he was sure of was that he had been sexually assaulted during his nap.
"What kind of monster would do this to me while I was sleeping, I mean really. Well the good news is that all of my suspects are on this ship and that they more than likely did not do anything other than that for fear of being caught."
Naruto was going to contemplate on this issue more but at that moment a loud rumble broke the overall silence of his temporary room. Remembering that he never actually got his ramen the other day he decided to put the 'Mysterious Kiss from No One' on hold for a while longer. Taking a rag and dipping it in water that he got from the sink and rubbing around the mark until it was no longer visible. He then got dressed and proceeded to exit the room, looking for someone that he could ask for direction to the kitchen.
Back tracking from the way that he was led down into the lower deck, from what he assumed was earlier that day, he soon found himself standing on the deck once more. Looking around he saw that the sun was just starting to hit its highest point in the sky.
"So it is about midday now. Well that explains why I am so hungry I haven't eaten in… let's see… six hours." As if to congratulate his mathematical achievement, or maybe to boo him for the answer that he came up with, his stomach gave another loud rumble that reminded him that he was on a quest. "Right food now and math later… or never."
So walking around the ship he soon found a group of sailors who were sitting around discussing something it loud, excited voices.
"-and the way that he-"
"-with those knives-"
"- how he took on those two big guys-"
"-loved how he tricked hem into beating their own crew-"
"-saving that girl-"
Oh so that is what they are talking about, well then they probably will help him find the kitchen no problem. Walking up behind them, he almost snickered as all of them except the two he was standing behind saw him and grew quiet.
"Ahem," deciding to announce himself so that he can hurry and get to the ramen that he has been craving for over a week. "Hey, can one of you direct me to the kitchen, I am pretty hungry."
The two sailors who had not seen him standing behind them turned so quickly that they actually slammed into one another. Again having to stifle the snickering that he was trying to not show he waited patiently for one of them to answer him.
"The kitchen? Oh right the kitchen, um, Jones why don't you take him to the kitchen and I will go tell Ole' Natie that he is awake now, shall I?"
A man stood up, so Naruto assumed that he was the one called Jones, and beckoned for Naruto to follow him as he began walking back the way that Naruto had come from. Following behind the man Naruto hear the other sailors start their conversation back up again.
"So… I guess I have become a popular topic on the ship now huh?"
"Yes you have, most of these people are nobles or at the least are wealthy enough to catch the eyes of some nobles, so you can imagine that they have never seen a fight like that before. I am curious… how did you cut that mast in half?"
The man had turned his head slightly where he was able to look at Naruto while they walked, Naruto, who up to this point was trying to have a polite conversation, now was looking at him curiously.
"If you are asking if there is some secret to how I did that, then I am sorry to disappoint you all I did was cut it."
Jones kept staring for a while but finally turned fully back around and just kept walking until they came to a door. Opening the door Jones started to descend the stairs into the dimly lit hallway, following behind him Naruto was careful to make sure he did not go tumbling into Jones. After all if he did that, he would ruin the badass image he had apparently created for himself. A moment later they arrived at the bottom of the stairs and were in front of a door that had the word 'Kitchen' on a plague above it.
"Well here you are sir, just step inside and tell the chefs what you want and they will have it prepared as quick as possible." After saying his bit Jones then turned and began to climb the stairs once more. Naruto then faced the door and knocked twice on the metal, resulting in a dull ringing that filled the hall.
A moment later a short pudgy man opened the door and was looking at Naruto through inch thick glasses.
"May I help you ma'am?"
Naruto slightly taken aback by being called the wrong gender, stood there for a moment then he decided that it did not matter and that he just wanted some food.
"Yea, I was told by Nate that I could come here and ask for some food an-"
"Well of course you can," the man had lost the little bit of pleasantness that he had, now his face was hard and cold. "And now that you have, go away so that me and my colleges may get back to work, honestly that fool trying to give away free food again. That food is for our high paying clients not some dirty peasant that washes up on the ship."
Naruto stared at the man who had not only insulted him, but also the captain of the ship. It's true that it is not his place to correct the attitude or behavior of another man's crew. That being said he had to handle this as mature and disciplined as he could, for his title of captain was on the line.
*POW*
Naruto delivered a powerful right hook to the face of the pudgy man sending him flying into the room and startling the other chefs and waiters. Stepping in after the annoying man Naruto looked around and waved giving the remaining people a friendly eye smile, as if he had not just sent someone flying on the end of his fist.
"Hey, Nate said that if I came here I could get some ramen made for me."
The chefs were confused, do they feed the man that sent their, admittedly annoying, head chef flying or do they refuse and risk receiving the same treatment. Before any of them could decide the decision was taken out of their hands and made perfectly clear to all of them.
"What are you waitin' on, a written request, make the man's food already." Captain Nate had just entered the room and was giving a look at his kitchen crew as if daring them to deny the hero of their ship some food. After seeing the men begin to fix the noodle dish that Naruto had requested, he sent a silent look to the head chef knocked out on the ground. "And remind me that we need to hire a new head chef at the next island."
If there was a man in that kitchen that had not started working, hearing the head chef was being fired changed their mind and made them start fixing any dish that they could think of, in order to look busy. Seeing that the order was being followed Nate turned to Naruto, and after leading him to a table, began to start a conversation to help pass the time.
"So you're already up and walking around, I figured that you would be out of it until we made it to Gator Island. Still because of the medicine that the doc gave you, you were still out for eighteen hours or so."
"WHAT! Eighteen hours, no wonder I was so hungry. That means that I haven't eaten in… over twenty-four hours. Aw man… oh right, so how close are we to that gator place?"
"We are a little ahead of schedule because of the good head wind that we have been getting. I would say that we are less than two hours away from being within viewing distance. Overall if the wind keeps up, three hours tops."
"Oh ok, so when we get there I will untie my boat and w-"
"Kid I hate to tell you this but, your ship has been destroyed."
"Wh-what do you mean destroyed?"
"Yep, we think it happened when you cut the mast in half, the part that Raijin wasn't holding fell overboard and landed on your ship."
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"Well, that sucks. What am I supposed to do for a ship now?"
"You are in luck then kid-"
"Doesn't feel like it."
"As I was saying, while you were unconscious my men went and searched the pirate ship-"
"Oh yeah, what did you do with the pirates?"
…
"Sorry please continue, I won't interrupt anymore."
"Whatever, to answer your question, we left them on their ship; we couldn't keep them onboard and their ship was wrecked so there is no chance of them following us. Now back to what I was saying, my men searched the pirate ship and discovered 2 million beri on board. And after all the stuff that you have done for us we felt that you should have it, to help you replace your ship."
As he said this he pulled a bag from under the table and handed it to Naruto. Naruto opened the bag and to no great shock saw that Nate was correct there was approximately 2 million beri in the bag. As Naruto set the bag back on the floor a man came to their table holding a steaming bowl in his hands, after setting the bowl down he bowed to Nate and Naruto then went back to making more food.
Digging into the food that was provided for him, Naruto could not say that it was the best ramen he had ever had, but it was fairly good. After finishing the first bowl he waited for a minute for the next bowl, and in a few minutes he had consumed close to five bowls. Finally after a few minutes to finish the last couple of bowls, and waiting for the food to digest for a bit he decided to go to the casino area before they arrived at Gator Island.
"So Nate you still gonna show me where the casino is, I feel like losing all this cash before we land."
Time Skip 2 ½ Hours Later
Naruto was now sitting at a table in the ship's casino with a pile of chips in front of him, he had played only four games in the casino and had increased his money by nearly six times. At blackjack he had earned 2.5 million, at poker 4 million, roulette 2 million and he was now on the dice game and his overall amount was at 11,845,630 beri. He was trying to earn 12 million before it was time to leave the ship but it looked like he was not going to make it.
Nate had just arrived and told him that they were ten minutes away from docking on Gator Island, and instead of trying to earn the last bit of money he decided to just pack up and get his money exchanged.
And that gets us to where we are now, Naruto is standing on the deck of the ship, waiting until the ship has docked so that he could get started on his journey. He was wearing the same outfit as before except that he now was actually wearing his coat, so that he could button it up and hide the hole in his shirt left from Mizuki. Next to him was a small metal case which was now carrying his newly made fortune.
"Finally," the ship had docked and he could not have been happier, sure he liked the people aboard, but that was not where his destiny was. Walking down the stairs that serve as the means of boarding the ship he was on his way to first check out the ships this island has for sale. After that he is going to head to a local bar and see what news he can pick up on anything that has happened recently.
"Hey you," turning around Naruto saw two marines walking, more like swaggering, up to him, "we warned you last week that if you did not pay your taxes that we will have to place you under arrest."
Naruto stared at the men confused, surely they could not actually think that he was someone else. Come on how many people, first have blonde hair, whisker marks, and a bright orange coat that has 'Foxy Captain' written on it, could be on this island.
"I think that you have me confused with someone else," not wanting to be rude he tried to be reasonable. He knew immediately that this was not a case of mistaken identity. The way their faces lit up, it was like they were at their favorite sporting event and it had just gone into overtime. "…Or maybe not."
"I love when they catch on," one of them said to the other, "so here is the deal, you give us your money and we don't tell our captain that you are resisting arrest."
Naruto at that point was trying not to deal with any marine trouble until later but at the same time he needed the money for a ship. Thinking quickly he decided that the best thing to do would be to let the marines have the money and if need be he could just steal a ship. But to do that he would need at least another crew member, hopefully one who can navigate a ship better than him.
"Fine here ya go," and with that Naruto handed them the money from the casino, and turned to walk away.
"Hold it!"
Now he was annoyed, they had the money and not a single punch was delivered, what more do they want.
"The coat says that you are a captain, so where is your ship and crew?"
"I have just started my journey, and I just lost my ship during a pirate raid on that cruise ship."
"Wow, so you are literally a captain of nothing! Hahahahaha! That is the funniest thing, so what pirates attacked yall?"
"The 'Silver Haired' Pirates."
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"What the 'Silver Haired' Pirates captained by Mizuki the 'Silver Hair' under the rule of Orochimaru?"
"Yea them."
"And you say that after they attacked you, you were somehow able to keep this much money hidden?"
"No I used my 2 million beri to gamble with and won the rest in the casino on the boat."
"Wait, so the 'Silver Haired' Pirates attacked and yet they did not take all of the money on your little cruise ship?"
"No, they tried to take the money, valuables and women, but I kicked their asses and we left them on the remains of their ship."
The two marines stared at Naruto before looking at one another, and Naruto could almost hear the internal debate that was going on in their heads. They were trying to decide if he was telling the truth, and if he was then they just stolen from the man who had, from the sound of his story, taken down the 'Silver Haired' Pirates all by himself.
"Yes, *cough* well then… you can go then." The marines were apparently going to leave him alone and so long as they got the money without a fight, then they were not going to risk the chance that they might push him too far and cause a fight that they might lose.
Naruto not wanting to stay on this island any longer then absolutely necessary decided to still look and see how much the ships on this island cost and then earn the money to buy one. He remembered hearing that the marines on this island were the most corrupt in the whole of the South Blue, but still to steal and not even try and pretend that they have a reason for doing so.
As he was walking down the dusty dirt road he saw a flyer on one of the buildings, and he instantly saw the words "Best Sniper in the South Blue". So being curious as to who would claim to have that title, he walked over and read the full flyer. Once he got closer he noticed that the flyer had some small rips all over itself, and the date that he read in the lower corner of the page made it clear that it was over a month old.
"Attention"
This Coming Month is the 52nd Annual Sniping Contest
All Participants are Required to Pay a Fee of 50,000 beri to Enter
Da|||| 5|||| a|||||
Prize is 1 Million Beri and the Title of the Best Sniper in the South Blue
Naruto stared at the poster and other than the date being the main area that had rips all over it, the thing that bothered him was the fact that there was no location on it. Now it would make since to have the town unknown, but this flyer does not even tell which island the contest is on. If this contest will determine the 'Best Sniper in the South Blue' then these flyers are probably spread all along the South Blue.
Well if he does not even know which island it is supposed to be on then there is no point worrying about a month old event. While he would like to have had the chance to meet the person who holds the title of 'South Blue's Best Sniper', it is not worth looking into with the amount of information that he had.
On the other hand he may meet the person later on as an enemy, it would be better if at least knew who the sniper was just to be safe. So looking around he saw a couple of men that were hanging around outside of some building, more than likely they were thrown out of the pub and decided that this was a good hang out. Not really having any other choice he decides to take the chance and see if either of them know anything.
"Hey," called out Naruto as he walked over to them, and they both turned to look at him, "do either of you know who won the sniping contest that that poster was talking about?" As he said this he pointed over his shoulder with his thumb.
One of the men was just staring at Naruto as if he had never heard such a stupid question, while the other man let out a laugh.
"You're new to the island huh?" upon receiving Naruto's nodding affirmative he continued, "Everyone around here knows that the winner, for the past three years, has been Hilda."
Upon hearing the name the already quiet street seemed to get even quieter, maybe not so much become quieter, more along the lines of everything in the area became tense.
"So the best sniper in the South Blue is a woman. I am not surprised, but do you have any more information about her? Like where she is now or what she looks like, in case I run into her, you know I don't want to piss her off."
"…You don't know, she is here on this island."
"Really, how long ago was that contest?"
"Hahahaha, no it's not what you think." The man laughed as he had seen the look on Naruto's face as he gave a deadpan look at the old man. "She likes to drift in through these parts fairly often, a lot of pirates and mercenaries do because of the… you know." At this he gave Naruto a meaningful look, one that caused the other man to stare at his friend in fear and apprehension.
"Quiet don't you know what will happen if one of those marine dogs hear you talking about that place?" Yes, it seems that whatever these two guys were talking about it was some kind of secret from Marines that are not posted on the island.
"Sorry, but I don't know what you are talking about, and if it will get you in trouble then don't tell me. But I do have a question about the marines in this place, how long have they been acting like this and why does none of the inspection crews that come by see it?"
The second man still had a fearful look on his face while the first man gave Naruto a determined look square in his eyes.
"It all started when that damned 'Silver Marine' came to this island five years ago, one by one he replaced all the good marines that we had here and then began passing laws to make it impossible not to be taxed."
"And what about the inspection crews?" Naruto was sure of the answer from the disbelieving look he got from the man as he asked it.
"Hah, inspection crews there hasn't been one in two years, all that bigot needs to do is call in on his den den mushi and say everything is fine. And anytime that an unexpected marine ship arrives on the island he simple tells the people to not cause a scene or he will kill their families."
Naruto, after hearing all of this was now enraged at the horrible crimes that this Sterling has committed against these people. What kind of monster would do this to innocent people, especially one who declared that they were fighting for the good of the people?
"He moved in here and started to take over everything, some people say that this is the strongest base the marines have in the South Blue, that is a lie. This is not a marine base this is a marine dictatorship that is being run by that bastard Sterling!" The man apparently had been waiting a long time to vent his frustration on the marines of this island for a long time, and from what he was saying, with good reason. "So from your reaction you don't know what else is on this island?"
As he said this his friend gained a fearful look that spoke volumes to Naruto about how unwise the man was being right now, maybe he was venting a little too much.
"Shh, don't tell him that you know what will happen to you and your children if any of them were to find out that you told an outsider that particular secret."
"At this moment in time I do not give a damn, anything that will cause those government pigs a headache is fine in my book." The man then turned away from his friend and back towards Naruto, "The secret is that somewhere on this island there is an unofficial town, and in this town only outlaws, bandits, pirates and mercenaries are allowed. Sterling has made a deal to not report any of the pirates as long as he receives 80% of the profit made in 'Lawless Town'."
"A lawless town," this was something that Naruto was not expecting when he set foot off that ship. "So if I were to guess I would say that Hilda is in that lawless town, and if that is the case I would really like to know which direction I would need to head to reach it."
All three of the men stared at one another, while one of them had a fearful look on his face, the other two men were showing a determination that very few could match. They sat there judging one another to see how far the other's conviction dwelled in their heart and mind.
"Well now, if I were looking for a hidden town on this island I would go down this road and keep walking for a quarter mile, and then when I come upon a dirt trail to the right of this road out in the woods I would take it. After walking down that dirt road it is eventually going to end and at that point keep going straight until you see a large tree with a letter 'L' carved into it. Under that 'L' is an arrow, ignore it, look at the angle of the 'L' and that is the actual direction that you need to go. If you follow all of those directions you should be at the town within a half hour or so."
Naruto thanked the man and turned to head off down the road, all the while running through the instructions that the man had given him. Within the first fifteen minutes of walking he found the dirt path and only one hundred feet into the woods he had reached the end of it. Continuing on until he saw the tree he turned the opposite direction of the arrow and began trekking through the last remnants of the woods. Just as he thought that he had heard the sound of music coming from ahead of him, his senses told him to quickly get out of the way.
As he turned around he came face to face with a thirty foot long banana gator, he had never seen one before but just from looking at it he could tell that this one was smaller than normal. Not only that but the color was a softer green than what he had seen in books, maybe it had to do with the fact that it was living in the woods.
His observations were cut off however, when the gator opened its mouth and launched itself at Naruto trying to take a bite out of him. Naruto rolled to the side and jumped back when a swinging tail came hurtling towards him. After dodging a few more wild attacks from the apparently hungry gator, Naruto drew both of his knives and got into his stance.
"I will warn you, if you attack me I will defend myself," Naruto was not a saint, but he did feel slightly bad for the animal, the poor animal did not know that he was attacking a stronger predator.
The gator ignored his warning and gave a swift charge towards him with its mouth open and waiting for the fresh blood and bone to be crushed between its powerful jaws. Not feeling anything in its mouth it turned its head from side to side, looking for the easy meal that it had just run across. Hearing a noise from behind its back, the unmistakable sound of footsteps, turning it saw its meal walking away. Just as it began to start up for another attack its legs collapsed and it felt multiple cuts open along the side and top of its back.
"Kitsune Iron Rush" "I warned you what would happen if you attacked me, yet you did any way, let those scars on your back and sides remind you what happens to one so young and foolish." "Yea foolish, like a guy giving a speech about why they sliced up their enemy, when that enemy is a banana gator." Now that the fight, the very one sided fight, was over Naruto continued on his way towards this 'lawless' town.
"There it is," Naruto had to admit for a town without morals and no official law enforcement, this place seemed to be holding it up fairly well. While true that the streets have an abundance of garbage scattered throughout them, and he could see many drunkards walking around but that was the extent of the lawless behavior that he could see.
Oh well he couldn't stand around here all day he came here to find out more about this Hilda woman, and to see if maybe he could convince her to join his crew. The only problem came when he tried to figure out where she would be, the only buildings that he could see in this town were: bars, hotels and a bunch of other buildings that look condemned.
"Well if I was looking for a mercenary that had the bragging rights of all of the South Blue then I would be…"*BOOM*
A sudden bang filled the somewhat peaceful air and Naruto looked over and saw that one of the bars had now gotten a hole in the side of the building and a man laying out cold in the dirt road. A few seconds passed and Naruto watched as a second man was thrown out the window and landed next to the first man.
"Never mind, I am going to check out the place where all the violence is coming from."
Walking down the street to the bar, he paused to glance at the two unconscious men and from the bruises on their faces it was clear that they received a rather harsh beating before being tossed out. Upon entering the bar, he saw that most of the people inside were standing up and if not fighting right then were looking around waiting for the fight to reach them.
However the main fight that everyone was watching seemed to be in the middle of the bar between some overturned tables. It featured a group of three men trying to gang up on one woman, who if by the look on her face was enjoying the scuffle. She was doing very well against her opponents, every time one got close to her she would grab them and throw them at one of the other two, and while those two were occupied she then would assault the last one.
As he continued watching he saw how beautiful the woman was, and at the same time could see how strong she was. She was wearing a pair of combat boots, along with some black skin tight pants, and for a shirt she wore a purple shirt with puffy shoulder pads. When she turned around he could see that her right eye was covered in a red eyepatch, which for the most part was hidden by her short cropped messy blue hair.
She was doing very well in the fight, always keeping the number of opponents low and making sure that she never got blocked in. This did not please Naruto however, first he was against violence towards women, not that he wouldn't fight a woman, but he did not like it. Second he hated those that had to gang up on a person in order to beat them, sometimes it may be needed, but not against an unarmed person. And lastly, now Naruto was boiling with rage, he hated when someone would draw a weapon on an opponent when they are unaware.
Naruto decided to step in when one of the men drew a knife while the woman had her back to him, he did not want to interrupt the fight and yet his own rage forced him to move. Not even bothering to draw his knives he simply pulled back and let a punch fly, slamming into the man's face and causing a crunch to be heard around the bar from his nose and maybe even his jaw breaking.
Naruto saw the woman turn quickly at the sound with her hands raised and her eye scanning for the source of the noise, but when she saw what it was her eye widened slightly then narrowed and hardened. She turned her back to Naruto and was once again facing the remaining two men who were looking at the third man; by the way they were looking scared now it seemed that he was the leader of the group. After a moment of considering they backed down and grabbed their leader by the shoulders and walked him out of the bar.
Once they were gone Naruto focused his attention back on the mystery woman who was still starring at the door, as if expecting for the men to rush back in. After a moment she then turned around and went to one of the over turned tables and flipped it back upright, and waving to the bartender for service she sat down.
Feeling the need to apologize to the woman, for interrupting her fight and inadvertently making her appear as if she needed rescuing, he approached her table. He did not sit down because it is rude to add yourself to the company of another without their permission, so he stood next to the table and opened his mouth to speak when she beat him to the punch.
"I hope that you aren't here to get a 'thank you', if so you can get the hell out of my face."
Well that is not how he wanted to start this conversation, although it is understandable as to why she was being so hostile towards him. Not wanting to be rude he simple let her harsh comments slide and once again opened his mouth to talk.
"Actually, I was wanting to apologize for interfering in your fight. I just did not like what that guy was trying to pull. Pulling a knife on a person in unarmed combat, after already ganging up on them and then trying to attack them from behind. It is a shameful thing to do. And so was what I did and for that I am sorry."
When he finished his statement he bowed his head and lowered his gaze to the floor waiting for the woman to say something. After a minute of silence he was beginning to get a little irritated, but he remained in his submissive posture wanting to prove that he was sincere with his apology.
*Sigh* "Sit down."
The simple statem- no command was barely audible, but he heard it never the less and was grateful that he could move from the embarrassing pose. Pulling a chair from the table he sat down and for the first time he stared into her eye, and they had a stare down trying to determine all that they could about one another through that eye contact.
"So you came to apologize for interfering in my fight. Even though you probably saved me from getting a knife in the back, and you don't care if I thank you or not. You are a strange kid, you know that?" Hilda know had a smile on her face as she spoke.
"Yea that is probably true, but at the same time I would rather be a rude, strange kid instead of a man that would feel the need to stab his opponent from behind."
"So what brings a kid like you to this place?"
"Funny story really, I set out to see about a week ago and got lost," the way he admitted to the fact that he got lost with a smile on his face, seemed to amuse her even more than the fact that he got lost. "So I hitched a ride with a passing cruise ship and wound up here."
"Let me rephrase, when I said 'brings you here', I meant the lawless town not this island. A kid like you should not be running around a town like this."
Now Naruto was a little miffed at this, he admits that he is young and is not the most experienced when it comes to sailing and other things of the like, but at the same time he does not enjoy being made fun of.
"Well that may be but I think that I will be ok. And as for the reason that I came here I heard that a woman named Hilda was here. She is supposed to be a champion sniper, the best in the South Blue."
"Oh and what do you want with Hilda?"
"I want to ask her if she would join my pirate's crew."
A silence suddenly over took the bar, it appeared as if everyone in the bar was listening to the conversation that Naruto and the woman was having. This silence lasted all of three seconds before the woman in front of Naruto burst out laughing followed quickly by the rest of the bar.
"And *ha ha* why would I want to join your pirate crew."
Naruto stared at the woman for a moment, until a look of shock took hold of his face.
"Wah Wha Wah," Naruto then calmed down and took a deep breath before continuing, "your Hilda huh?"
"That's my name, although a lot of people around here call me 'Hot Eye' Hilda."
"Well, this is embarrassing. *cough* So what do you say, want to join my crew?"
Hilda stared at Naruto again and he could see that she was trying to figure out if he was serious, so he set himself and looked in her eye and gave her his most determined look.
"You're serious aren't you, kid?"
"Dead serious, as the best captain in the South Blue, I need to have the best sniper in the South Blue."
Hilda stared at Naruto, and he could tell that she was trying to figure out if he was truly wanting for her to join the crew or if he was simply trying to trick her for whatever reason. Hilda, after a moment, then closed her eye and Naruto assumed that she was contemplating his offer; she then opened her eye and gave him a sweet smile.
"Alright, I will join your crew," all around the bar any of the remaining people that were laughing ceased in that instant. Everyone in the bar was staring at Hilda in shock; even Naruto was shocked at the fact that she just accepted him as capt-"on one condition." Oh now it makes sense, she was going to make him prove himself to her. "In order for me to accept you as my captain I need to know that you are stronger than me. So, in order to prove that, you need to beat my record of banana collecting. "
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"Banana collecting?"
Throughout the bar a chorus of laughter broke out once more, the men around the bar all had fierce gleeful looks on their faces. The bartender, who was trying to keep out of the conversation by cleaning a mug, suddenly stopped and looked up for the first time of the whole conversation.
"Ah… right, you are new to the island, so you would not know what the sniping contest consist of. Well on this island we do not shoot targets, we do something much more interesting.
"As you know this island, is known as Gator Island because of its abundance of banana gators, well what most people do not know is what we use the gators for. Almost a hundred years ago this island was over populated by the banana gators, and they kept attacking our towns and killing our people. Well the mayor of the time called a meeting to discuss what needed to be one to save the people of the island.
"After the tragic loss of the mayor's daughter he sent out this message:
"Hunters Wanted"
100,000 Beri for each Banana Gator
Bring Banana as Trophy
"You can imagine what the turn out might have been, over a hundred hunters came to hunt the gators to earn their fortune. However the mayor did not tell anyone his secret, the town was almost broke and could not afford for all of the gator killings.
"What is the man to do tell the hunters that he does not have their money, no he couldn't do that, not without risking his own neck. He suddenly had inspiration, the bananas, he would refuse to pay if the bananas were damaged. He claimed that it was to make sure that no one cut one in half and called it two.
"That is what caused all of the issues, after so many refusals to be paid because of a scratch or other minor damage to the banana, the hunters got together and hatched a plan. They would use their snipers to shoot the stems that the bananas were hooked to, and after the gator left someone would retrieve the banana.
"By doing this they avoided most of the danger, mainly by making platforms in trees and shooting at the gators that surfaced. And they also left the gators alive to keep causing trouble for the stingy mayor. Well after the mayor spent all of the town's money and the problem was still not solved, let's just say he was removed from office.
"Well years later, we no longer have the gator problem, at least not as bad as before, and one of the grandsons of the first mayor has turned his grandfather's failure into a yearly event. That is the sniping contest; the objective is to shoot as many bananas off the gators without damaging the bananas.
"So, the challenge that I have laid out before you, can you collect more than 23 bananas in the three hours that the normal competition last. You must not let any of the bananas be harmed and you cannot kill the gators. So kid, now that you know what 'banana collecting' means, what do you say?"
"Are we starting now?"
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Everyone in the bar was now staring in shock or surprise at Naruto, he is willing to go out and face over 23 banana gators and retrieve the bananas from atop their heads. All so that he can have this one woman join his crew, even if the woman is reported as the best sniper in all of the South Blue.
Hilda herself was looking at him in mild surprise, she half expected him to turn down her challenge simply from fear of the gators. Oh well it doesn't matter she had already planned for a situation like this, so he accepted the challenge that does not mean that he will succeed first, and she had a secret weapon.
"Sure we can start now, but you do know that the only real law in the 'lawless town' is that you may not use guns in the lawless town, right. That means that you will have to get in the water and cut the bananas off the gators head, so you still want to start right away?"
After hearing this, the men and women of the bar lost their shocked looks and gained their sadist smiles back, no way a kid who looked like he just reached the age of drinking would want to go out and wrestle a banana gator. Not only would he have to wrestle it to the ground, but having to remove the banana from the top of its head, and do this without killing the gator or damaging the banana.
"Yea let's get it over with, besides I didn't bring any guns with me anyway."
This response floored the entire bar, that meant that from the beginning he had planned to get in the water and wrestle the gators into submission and then take the banana, without damaging it or killing the gator. Naruto stood from his seat and headed to the door, only turning around to tell Hilda to start the time and wait till he returns in the next three hours.
Naruto was out in the swamps behind the lawless town, apparently it was put there to keep the gators from the publicly owned town, that and it gives the residents of the lawless town sport on boring days. By doing this it keeps the gator attacks from being known to the public and keeps the pirates, mercenaries and bandits from running wild, thus ruining or revealing the secret town,
Back to Naruto, he was in the water waiting for a gator to show up, he had both knives on his hands, and he was slowly spinning the knives from and upright position to a downwards position. He noticed bubbles coming up from in front of him and took a step back to make sure that if something were to launch at him, he would have some form of solid footing.
*Splash*
Suddenly on his right a large set of jaws appeared and started to descend on him, with a quick jump backwards he was clear of the sneak attack and in position to launch a counter attack.
"Kitsune Swift Iron Swipe"
In an instant Naruto was behind the gator and both were still until the banana, on top of the gator's head, fell and landed in the water. The gator did not hesitate and swiftly dove back into the water, to get away from this new type of prey that strikes back. (An: It's the Empire)
Naruto bent down and picked up the banana from the water and inspected it, over than its dark green coloring and the fact that it was covered in scales, it was exactly like a banana! He then put the banana safely in a bag, which he was smart enough to pick up from one of the knocked out men, outside the bar.
Before he could really celebrate however another 'splash' and a second set of jaws appeared trying to close around him. Not giving it the chance, he jumped above the jaws and when they snapped shut, he landed on top of the snout, eye to eye with the gator.
"Kitsune Iron Howl"
Once more the banana fell from the top of the gators head into the water, and the gator retreated shortly after.
"Well at this rate this is not going to take long."
Time Skip 2 hours
Naruto had gathered over twenty of the bananas he only needs four more and he had completed the challenge without a doubt. The problem was that he continued to be attacked by gators that he had already defeated, thus he was now trying to sort through the ones without bananas while needing the ones with bananas. He was not that worried however, if worse came to worse he would dive into the water and search the old fashion way, but he did not like the idea of swimming in the same water as gators. Not because he was afraid, no he was not afraid, he just knew how gators eat and the thought of having to swim though the remains of one of their meals disgusted him.
Now he is trying to decide if he wants to get undressed and be prepared for the, apparently, inevitable swim or just wait until there is no doubt that he is going to have to swim.
"Halt!"
Just as Naruto had begun taking off his jacket a loud voice from behind him startled him, causing him to turn around and trip on a root, making him land in the water. The platoon of marines that had just arrived watched the comedic scene in front of them and began to laugh and jeer. The man at the front of the platoon, who had been the one to yell, was one of the ones laughing the hardest, in fact he was laughing so hard that he did not notice Naruto slowly rising from the water.
"Kitsune Sturdy Paw"
The rest of the marines stopped laughing as their commanding officer was sent soaring pass them on the end of a strong right fist to the face. They all turned to look at Naruto who was staring down at the jacket in his arms, which was now soaked in mud and pond scum.
"You" Naruto's voice was low and barely above a whisper, but it seemed to be magnified to where everyone in the vicinity heard him clearly. "You caused my jacket to get dirty, this is the jacket that was given to me by my mother before she died. And then you have the nerve to laugh."
Now the marines were terrified, to them the oppressive aura that Naruto was releasing had solidified behind him in the shape of a fox with nine tails. The fox's eyes were burning with an unquenchable desire to see them all in agony, and when Naruto lifted his head, his own eyes seemed to have shifted to a red and slitted eye.
"For laughing at my jacket's misfortune you are all going to pay."
After that it was chaos, the marines were running around trying to avoid their fellows, who were either being thrown or launched off of a fist at them. Over the noise of their screams would come the occasional sound of Naruto's screaming voice:
"Kitsune Sturdy Paw"
"Kitsune Twin Paw Barrage"
"Kitsune Lashing Tails"
"Kitsune Iron Howl"
"Kitsune Crush"
"Kitsune Iron Canine"
At some point during the fighting Naruto had started using his knives to dish out more punishment, all the while Naruto's laughter could be heard. When the marines had pulled themselves together, they discovered that of the forty or so marines that they started with, they had been reduced to eight marines left.
"Now are you going to apologize to my jacket?" Naruto was slowly advancing on the eight cowering marines, and from the look of them if they could have formed any words it would have been 'Help'. "Tell me why did you come all the way out here, other than to ruin my jacket and to get your asses beat by me?"
The marines, although relieved that he was not going to attack them yet, were still worried that once he found out the charge he would fly into a rage again. This is the reason that they stayed quiet, ironic that by staying quiet they caused Naruto to become annoyed. Deciding to fix this problem the easiest way that he knew how, Naruto walked up to one of the men and punched him in the face, thus knocking him out.
"Are you going to answer my question now, or do I need to continue the 'interrogation'?"
After seeing one of their few remaining people taken out with a single hit, they again began to become fearful of Naruto. However this time one of them decided to respond so as to make sure that it was not him that was 'questioned' next.
"Poaching," a man's slightly gruff voice called from the small group, "We received word that there was a young man out in the swamps poaching banana gators."
Naruto looked to where the man's voice came from and then down at the bag of banana gator bananas that he had been collecting.
"Poaching, you mean that there is a time when you can and can't hunt these things?"
"Obviously, you think that we just ship the gators in and out?" the man was looking at Naruto as though he were an idiot, seems that his memory is bad and he forgot the last couple of minutes. "Once a year we let these 'snipers' have their fun, but did you think that the banana gators grew their bananas back over night? We only hold it once a year for two reasons, first to help keep it a secret and second to let the gators regrow their bananas."
Naruto was now dumbfounded, of course that did make sense and considering the fact that Hilda was the sniping champion she should have known that he would be in trouble for poaching.
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"Who is the one who told you that someone was out here?"
The marines were confused at this point, this kid who took out a whole platoon by himself and did not know that he was poaching. Why did he want to know who had ratted him out, was he going to go and start a fight with the one who snitched.
"I-it was 'Hot Eye'. 'Hot Eye' Hilda, the South Blue sniping champion. She is the one who sent the message to the marines."
"I see then, well if that is the case I suggest that you leave, I still need to find four more bananas if I want Hilda to join my pirate crew."
Whether it was the way that Naruto proudly proclaimed that he was a pirate, or the fact that he tried to get Hilda to join his crew, and that he still wanted her to join even after she tried to get him arrested. One of these factors was the cause for the dumbfounded looks that the marines had as they watched Naruto wade back out into the water and start looking around for anymore banana gators. They all looked at one another and through an internal discussion; they all decided that they were no match for him, and that they need to call in for backup. Slowly so as not to draw any unnecessary attention to themselves they began to slowly back in to trees and head back to the marine base to get help.
Time Skip 10 Minutes
Naruto had lucked out and found two more gators and had gotten nervous because of the lack of time remaining, so he broke down and finally counted how many were in the bag.
23
He had the same number of bananas as Hilda, but the rules of the challenge was that he had to retrieve more than her number to best her. So here he was contemplating his next move, he had already dived down and looked for any remaining gators with their bananas still attached, and that is how he go number 23 but he could not see any other gators that had not been 'de-naner'.
Because he had no luck he was heading back into town to see if maybe someone there could tell him where he might could find more gators to scalp.
"Shiny Javelin"
Naruto heard the voice and then a whistling noise shortly after, not wasting a second he jump up into the air and landed on a branch from one of the trees. Looking down he saw a long silver spear stuck in the ground, where he had been not two seconds before.
Looking towards where the spear had been thrown from, Naruto saw a man in a marine coat, standing there with his hand outstretched, showing that he was the one to throw the weapon. He had a handsome face, with bright blue eyes curly blonde hair and from the way his teeth seemed to catch even the smallest rays of sunlight, a great smile.
"You there are you the one who has been harassing my men, speak up now villain or my next strike will hit you and leave you dazzled." His voice was, much like the rest of him appeared to be, rich and booming. He had to be rich if he was throwing around a twenty or so pound rod of metal made entirely of silver. "Speak, if a peasant such as you is able, and tell me are you the one who assaulted my men and kept them from their duties?"
"Yeah I am the one who was poaching the gators; sorry about that but I need the bananas to get someone to join my crew."
"I do not care why you broke the law all I care about is you being put behind my dazzling bars of punishing justice. Now stand there quietly and just let me kill you. And go to the other world happy knowing that you were sent there by me the Dazzling Silver Marine Sterling!"
Hearing that the man in front of him was the same man that was causing the whole island to suffer, actually made Naruto stop and look at the man more closely. He did not look like he was as strong as people were making him out to be, little to no muscle definition on his body.
"Shiny Javelin"
Before he could continue to examine Sterling another silver spear was hurled through the air directly at him. This time however was different, this time he watched Sterling as he made the spear and, did not throw it, but launched it from the palm of his hand. This time Naruto simple dropped to the ground and let the spear pass harmlessly through the trees until it was out of sight, and a second later there was a dull *thunk* from where the projectile had been stopped by a tree.
"So that is the reason that you are called the 'Silver Marine', you ate the silver devil fruit, didn't you?"
"Yes and with the fruit's power and my natural fighting abilities, there is no one in the South Blue that can stand up against me. Now stop talking and DIE!"
"Shiny Sabre"
From the tips of his fingers a gleaming blade began to emerge, and once three feet had appeared it disconnected with his hand and the final ten inches formed a guard and hilt. Sterling then charged forward and attempted to slice Naruto in half with the newly formed blade.
Naruto began dodging the blade, he would weave between slashes and duck under stabs, he just continued to avoid the blade at every turn. Finally he drew one of his knives and parried a blow that was meant to remove his head, and he in turn swung his weapon and clashed with the silver blade of the marine.
"You are not bad, for a lowly peasant."
"You think too highly of yourself, if this is the extent of your power, you should give up now." As Naruto finished speaking Sterling's face contorted in rage and he watched as a vein began pulsing on the man's head.
"You dare take that tone of voice with me, you will now suffer and die then peasant." Sterling released the hilt with his left hand and raised it to where it was eye level with Naruto. He curled that hand into a fist and as Naruto watched he saw bits of silver begin to cover the hand, soon it took the shape of a cube and Sterling drew his fist back…
"Shiny Silver Cubed"
Naruto dodged by tilting his head to the left and as Sterling drew back for a second punch he drew his second knife and they met in the middle. Naruto had stopped the cube with the iron knuckles on the knife and was still holding back the blade with the other.
"Stop struggling and let me show you the dazzling lights that only my silver can." They stayed locked for a moment longer; they disengaged from one another and jumped apart. Sterling then threw the sword at Naruto, and while he dodged the blade, the cube grew larger and a handle appear from the bottom.
"Shiny Cubed Hammer"
The cube of silver, which at one time resembled a boxing glove, now looked like a bizarre sledgehammer trophy thing. All it needed to really look like a trophy was a plate across the side where an engraving would go, and he also saw something that interested him greatly.
Sterling was again on the attack, however this time there was no technique to the swings, Sterling had forsaken all skill and gone for just strength it seems.
"Or maybe he is trying to trick me."
The reason that Naruto thought this is because, right as Sterling went for a sideways swing with the hammer, the cube part of the hammer flew off and he barely avoided it. Now all that Sterling was holding was a silver staff, but he definitely had skill with a staff, it may be his preferred weapon on the battlefield.
"Shiny Trick Stick"
"Trick stick? I wonder why he named it something weird like that for."
He did not need to wonder for long, the first minute of the fight was normal enough, and then all of a sudden the end of Sterling's staff sharpened and extended towards Naruto's head, just missing him and leaving a small cut on the side of his face.
"How do you like it, my special shooting stick, it is pretty tough to defend against isn't it? I will ask you once more to surrender and if so I will make your execution a dazzling event that the whole island will see."
"I already told you that you should give up, but I will admit that the sudden attack from that weapon did catch me off guard. And can you please stop putting the word dazzling in front of everything?"
"I am simply trying to brighten up the lives of those less fortunate than I am, by allowing them to meet their end in a flashy way."
The two stood a couple of meters apart from one another, then Sterling charged and forced Naruto back. Because he did not know when the sharp tip was coming for him, he continued to dodge and retreat until they got in a more open area.
"There is nowhere to run, stand here and die!"
Before he knew it the two of them were back in the town, and a crowd had gathered around to watch what was happening. Naruto saw that some of the crowd was taking up arms against the marines that were attempting to interfere with the fight. He even saw the old man who had given him directions to the lawless town in the middle of the fighting.
"Just give up, you have no chance of beating me so die and spread my dazzling name throughout the world."
Naruto hit his limit, after seeing the people of this town fight against the marines that were supposed to protect them, and he made sure that everyone in the vicinity knew it.
"Kitsune Snapping Jaws"
Naruto sliced through the staff and also cut into Sterling's chest causing him to cry out in pain, and while he was screaming Naruto bent down and picked up the staff and held it between his hands. He then exerted some force in his arms and bent the metal rod; see this he dropped the now scrap metal and turned back to Sterling.
"I have got you figured out, you did not eat the silver devil fruit did you?" The question caught everyone off guard, as even the marines and townsfolk stopped their bickering to listen.
"I don't know what you are talking about, everyone knows that I ate a devil fruit," he had finally stopped screaming and was now staring at Naruto with something akin to fear.
"You know what I am talking about, this metal you make isn't silver, it's aluminum."
The people that were all around the two sweat dropped at the sudden reveal, the strongest marine in the South Blue has been lying about the type of devil fruit that he ate.
"That's ridiculous, I ate the Glitter Glitter Fruit and I am the 'Silver Marine', and besides no one here will believe a word of what you say, especially after I shut you up." As he said this Sterling pulled out a flintlock pistol and held it in a relaxed grip near his chest. He then took the hand not holding the gun and formed a circle with the fingers, and as Naruto watched he saw more silvery metal form in the circle that he had made. Sterling then slid the barrel of the gun into the metal, (An: Pretty much think of how one would apply a condom) and after about two inches was covered in the metal he pulled his hand back leaving the metal on the gun.
"Shiny Cap Gun"
The coated gun fired and a shower of metal shrapnel flew at Naruto, who covered his face with his arms. Once the metal stopped flying Naruto lowered his arms and saw Sterling about to cover the gun again.
"Kitsune Crush"
Naruto sent Sterling's head to the ground with a resounding *crack*, and every marine that was in the area took one look at their down captain and turned tail and ran. Naruto, who was bleeding from the injuries to his arms sat down and let out a long *sigh*.
All this just because he had been hunting some dumb banana gators out of season, and just so that he could get Hilda to join his crew.
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"Dammit, I forgot about the challenge, I have to get back." Naruto jumped up and ran heading for the lawless town not even stopping when the people of the town got in the way, he just jumped and began to dodge and dive out of their way. He had made it to the dirt road when he remembered that he did not have enough bananas to beat Hilda, and he check the sun, it seems like he has less than ten minutes left.
He had just spotted the tree with the 'L' on it when he heard a familiar noise, turning around he saw the first banana gator that he had encountered, easily spotted by the scars on its back, that were still fresh. It seemed that lady luck was smiling down on Naruto today, so rushing forwards he drew one of his knives and with a quick movement he severed the 'stem' and picked the last banana that he needed.
"Yes! That means that I win and now all I have to do is to get to Hilda before the time runs out." With that being the case Naruto began to run once more and was in the town within a minute. And it was just when he pass the first building that he heard something that made him stop.
"-and the boss is super pissed at Hilda. I hear that after she and that kid made him look bad he is going to take care of her for sure this time. You know he was already tired of getting second place to her, but that kid is what pushed him over the limit."
When Naruto heard this he had a sudden sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach, because of his interfering someone is trying to kill Hilda. That feeling was erased the next instant though when he made his decision about what to do. Walking over to the two gossiping men he grabbed one of them and slammed him head first into the side of the building, knocking him out, and then he turned to the other one.
"Where is your boss?" Once again as the man looked at Naruto there was an overlap of a growling kitsune with red eyes that matched Naruto's rage filled eyes. "I said where is your boss?"
The man, after nearly wetting himself then proceeded to explain that the boss was hiding on top of one of the buildings and that the other two men were going to lure Hilda outside and when he got the shot the boss was going to kill Hilda with a rifle. Not waiting for anymore, Naruto kick the man in the face, sending him through a window, and he then turned around and ran off in search of Hilda or the men that were going to lead her into the trap.
Naruto spotted Hilda in the middle of a fight, she was engaged against the two men who she had previously thrown out of the bar and was doing well against them again. She was already outside though and that meant that the boss was around somewhere and was waiting for a good shot. Naruto quickly scanned the rooftops in hopes that he may see the man in question, and he was about to give up when out of the corner of his eye he saw something shining in the sunlight.
Turning to get a better look Naruto saw the man, now having bandages on his face and a rifle against his shoulder taking aim at Hilda. Naruto ran to the building and in two jumps he had made it to the top, he was on the man's left side and as he rushed forwards the man noticed him. In slow motion the man turned and aimed the gun at Naruto, and Naruto drew back his fist. There was a gunshot and then the sound of flesh hitting flesh, and a body fell off the roof and hit the ground in a heap.
Naruto, who was still atop the building, was looking down at his side in horror; the bag that had contained all of the bananas in it, now had a hole going straight through it. He couldn't believe this after all of his hard work, he had just lost his only chance of having Hilda on his crew.
*sigh* "Oh well, guess I ought to go and look for a ship, but I don't have any money now. It will work out somehow I am sure of it." He dropped the bag next to the man on the ground and headed out for the other town to see what he can do for money.
Time Skip 1 hour
Naruto had spent the last hour wandering around, looking for anything that might get him some quick cash; he was so far disappointed. He had glanced at some of the ships that the island had to offer and they were not going to be cheap, and at the same time he still needed someone to pilot the thing. It seemed that lady luck had finally forsaken him, and was leaving him to pick the scraps of garbage that no one else wants.
"Hey kid, I was wondering why you never came back." Naruto stopped and spun on his heel to see Hilda, she was standing right behind him with that half smile half glare on her face. "So, why did you not come back and tell all of us how you did?"
"Well I didn't do so well and when I last saw you, let's just say that you were busy with a couple of old friends at the time. Besides I recently lost all my money to the marines and I need to earn some more so I can buy a ship. Of course I also need someone to navigate for me. So I just never stopped in or-"
"Yea that's great and all, so where are we going?" At this Naruto looked at her in surprise.
"What do you mean by, 'where are we going'?"
"Exactly what I said captain, where are we setting sail to? Oh and by the way I made a stop off at the marine base and retrieved a few things for you." Saying this she held out her hands which hand a briefcase, that looked familiar, and a piece of paper on top of it. Taking the paper and glancing at it, he saw that it had a picture of him on it under the words:
Wanted
(picture)
Dead or Alive
Naruto Uzumaki
35,000,000 Beri
aka 'Naruto the Fox'
Underneath that was a list of all of Naruto's crimes and details of his fighting styles along with other minor things, such as identifying markings, unique traits and the like.
"What the hell is this?!"
"That my dear captain is what we adults call, a b-o-u-n-t-y, you get one when you do something that the government does not like or approve of."
"Why is it that you call me captain and yet I can feel less sarcasm when you call me kid? And now that I think about it why are you calling me captain anyways?"
Hilda looked up and Naruto could practically see that she was lost in her memories, and for a second he was afraid that she had forgotten about him.
"I had just finished beating those two idiots up, when one of my friends came to me and told me how he found their leader beaten unconscious with a cracked jaw, broken nose, bruised ribs and a fractured leg. Well I was indeed curious especially when I was told about what had been found next to him. They found a rifle and a sack of banana gator bananas that had a hole in them, and after a little persuading the men finally told me what happened and I figured out the rest. I do keep my word and when I told you that you would be my captain I meant it."
Naruto stared at her for a moment and then he just accepted it, who was he to be upset that he got the person he wanted on his crew. Now the only problem was the fact that they did not have a ship or any supplies, and they still needed a navigator.
"Oh and I also happen to have a ship that we can use until we can find a better one if you want captain, and I have skills in navigating, but if you are planning on going to the Grandline then you will need to find a different navigator. I have heard the things that some of the pirates say when they return from that place and there is no way that I will be able to navigate it."
"It's back, lady luck has returned to me and has blessed me with a sniper that comes with a ship and navigator training."
So as they continued to discuss the whereabouts of their next stop Hilda led him to the ship that they would be using unless they decide to get another one. The two of them arrive at one of the lower end docks that the town has, the type that you look at and think 'are they open'. And there was only one ship there, a moderately sized ship, around fifty feet long and thirty feet wide, it was definitely a big enough ship for the two of them.
"So what do you think captain, can I pick a good ship or what?"
Naruto had to agree this was indeed a fine ship, and the fact that it was all his to command and use, unless he decides to get rid of it…
"Hey Hilda won't you miss this ship if we have to sell her?"
"No, why would you think that, captain?"
"Well I just figured that you had some kind of memories on this ship that you don't want to forget or something like th-" before he could finish Hilda began laughing at some joke that he either missed or did not understand. "Why are you laughing, did I say something funny?"
"In a way captain, I never said that I own a ship, I said that I happen to have a ship that we could use, and it just so happens that this ship was… donated by those nice young men that used to harass me in the bars and what not. After their leader broke his leg it was decided that he no longer needed a ship."
For a moment there was silence, and then Naruto and Hilda both burst out laughing. Oh yes, this is the start of a great friendship with the foxy captain and his first crew member.
End
I finished it, I said two weeks and I guess I meant two weeks, it would have been sooner, but I had a family emergency to come up at the last second and it caused me to lose interest in my story for a time.
I do not know when the next chapter will be out, I have been working on two new story ideas and I need to fine tune the next chapter also. But I will try to get a post out within the first week of Naovember.
Naruto's moves
Kitsune Swift Iron Swipe
This move is a simple one, he draws a knife and runs forward and deals one strong stroke(was inspired by Asuma's flying sparrow move)
Kitsune Twin Paw Barrage
This is the same as Kitsune Iron Barrage, just without the knuckle knives
Well that is it from me, so I hope that you read and review and most importantly I hope you enjoy the story.