Fallen Prince

by 4waterdragon27

"They weren't sealed, so they can't be released. They weren't broken, so they can't be fixed. That which is lost, cannot be recovered, but through every struggle there is always a key. If there's a key, then there must be a door. What happens when you open it? Will this world, the world I know as 'real' be nothing more than an illusion? Just a cruel dream..." - Uzumaki D. Naruto.

3. Chapter 3: Setting Off

Yo!

Yeah. I'm terrible at updates. I told myself I wouldn't update until I have two chapters done, but I only wrote this chapter and half of the next chapter before not caring anymore. But on the other hand...I've planned out the entire Past Section of the story. All of the sections are in one story, I'm not going to make it into separate stories.

The Fallen Prince Trinity

Past (Seven Arcs)

Present (No clue)

Time-Skip (Again. No fucking clue.)

I should probably tell you now that this story is going to be long, I'm looking at over 1000k...If I decide to finish it anyways (I'm betting against myself. Just food for thought.)

Yay~

Thanks for all the reviews and favorites from the last chapter and welcome to the third chapter of this story! Let's try to breach 100 reviews with this chapter!

Before we start there are a few things I'd like to note which has been a frequent topic in the reviews. I suggest reading them!

Flashbacks

Firstly, some people seem to dislike my use of flashbacks while others seems to like it. Well, allow me to explain exactly why I use flashbacks. I use Flashbacks to highlight a certain event that I don't want to write a chapter about since it would only contain one thing that is related to the story. For example, (This contains a small spoiler of this chapter, nothing major) in this chapter two weeks have passed with Naruto training. I skipped to the end of the two weeks showing how much he improved with a single flashback highlighting an important piece of information. If I didn't use a flashback then there would be extra chapters of useless information and training that would be completely pointless to the story as a whole, not to mention boring for you readers. Anyways, I find it amusing that people find flashbacks to be pointless information when it is actually saving you from a chapter-ton of useless shit. If you can understand this and you still don't like it, that's fine. Everyone has there own opinions, and you should be happy to hear that flashbacks won't be in every single chapter after this one. I think this is going to be the last flashback in a long run of chapters (Not of the past, but of flashbacks)

Naruto joining the Spade Pirates

Next thing to note is Naruto joining the Spade Pirates and, surprisingly, a lot of you seem to hate the idea? While most Naruto stories have him forming his own crew or joining the Straw Hats, I don't want to join the flow, but that doesn't mean he won't have his own crew later on. Whether he stays with the Spade Pirates, joins the Whitebeard Pirates, or forms his own crew, you'll simply have to do one thing to find out. Read. I've never once stated that he would stay in that crew forever or join the Whitebeard Pirates, the only way you can figure that out is if you keep reading. And another another fact that I think is alluding most of you is that Naruto has Amnesia. Do you actually think a man with only the basic understanding of himself and the world around him will go off by himself? Do you know how hard amnesia is for people?

Devil Fruit

Next thing to move onto is Naruto's Devil Fruit and, thankfully, most of you love it, but a few of you find it OP as fuck which, I suppose, it is. I don't have a problem with that, but I do have a problem with you all acting as if i didn't know that when I put it in. I hate overpowered Naruto stories so, of course, there's going to be a weakness that he'll physically or mentally have to bring him down to everyone else's level. Not to mention the already obvious weakened the fruit has. Also his abilities are based on an anime I watched (And Recently Finished) but you'll find that out later on or maybe you'll put the pieces together and figure it out? There's a HUGE subtle hint in this chapter. Extremely subtle. I doubt any of you will figure it out, but I'm pretty sure early/late 90s kids will have the best chance of figuring it out.

Anyways, enough with that.

Enjoy~

Fallen Prince

Chapter Three

Setting Off

Strength is such a fragile thing.

Like glass it can easily shatter, but with heat it can be molded into something greater.

That heat, that flame, It can be easily gained and easily lost. Shattering isn't something you can avoid, the moment you acquire strength you will break, you will change. The length until your strength shatters depends on one simple concept: drive.

Drive is the heat that makes you stronger, but just because glass is strengthened, it doesn't mean that it can't shatter. That drive, your resolve, which pushes you to gain your strength makes the difference between the Heavens and the Earth. Would your strength be crushed when your pride is in shambles, would your strength be lost when you, yourself, are lost, would you forget your strength when you forgot yourself?

So many questions, but all of them so relevant to the concept of strength. Even if all the glass in the world was gathered and hardened by the strongest flame into one object, it would still have a crack, a doubt, it can be influenced and changed.

It can still shatter.

How many hits can you take before it happens? How many hits can you endure before you're molded into a different shape? When is your breaking point? When do you shatter?

But all of this points to a single question.

If you can shatter, then you must have something that can break.

"What...Is my drive?"

"Hisen!"

The blonde opened his eyes, his thoughts picked up by the wind and dispersing throughout the world as a shower of fireballs sped towards him like a bullet, but Naruto didn't even break a sweat. His blonde hair flowed lazily across his forehead and his hands laid in the pockets of his open blue shirt. An amused smile made its way on his face, days ago he would've been worried on how he would dodge this attack and would've probably ended up burned or even dead.

But now?

Now it was different. He felt a familiar warmth flowing through his body giving him energy, life, and power. He grasped it. A smirk crept on his lips...He would win today!

The fireballs were only a couple feet away when his body began sparking and green electricity started to dance around his body. He squeezed his fists and watched, entranced as if this was the first time he was witnessing this, as the electricity around him became more concentrated until his whole fist became lightning. Feeling a strange sensation bubble through his body, he quickly embraced it and let it envelope him. He remembered with a fond smile how he first reacted when he tried this originally. Ace wouldn't stop laughing when he yelped-like a girl-as his body started to glow a much brighter green than before. He remembered closing his eyes from the brightness, which he did out of instinct rather than it actually hurting him.

Now his eyes were wide open, unharmed by the brightness that was exuding out of him. Feeling the familiar sensation of 'changing' he let a small smile creep onto his face, "That was a lot faster than last time." He looked down at his new body and grinned, if anyone saw him now they would probably piss their pants.

He was lightning.

His body was lightning. Not just one part, his entire body was lightning. A bolt of electricity that was simply sitting there in that one spot. He looked towards his opponent, Ace, and the shower of fireballs that were now only a few feet away, but now it seemed like they were moving in slow motion.

"I'll get it right this time. I will not hit a tree. I will not hit a tree. I will not hit a tree...or a lake and end up drowning again." He remembered those particular memories with distaste, all of those situations happened after he failed this new technique. Of course, he wouldn't fail again! This was the last day he gave himself to learn it and he refused to fail.

He 'stepped' forward.

And completely blitzed the fireballs and Ace; he ended up straight behind Ace with a grin on his face. To everyone else's eyes it looked like it was instantaneous. Like he teleported from one spot to another, but that wasn't the truth. It wasn't far from the truth, but it still didn't make it the truth.

A ⅕ of the second later thunder roared across the sky.

What happened was that he moved extremely fucking fast. To be exact, he was moving at 3,700 miles per second which was the average speed of a lightning bolt...That was fast. His old speed didn't even compare to the speed he had now...Of course, controlling it is a bitch, but that's a story for another day.

"Success!"

They stood back to back as Naruto stomped his left foot into the ground and raised his right leg in the air before sending it flying towards Ace in a backwards roundhouse kick.

Naruto shouted, "Raiton!"

Instantly his right leg disappeared under the glow of white/green electricity that covered his entire leg like an electric plating. Raiton was a move that would plate any of his body parts with lightning so it would increase in speed, bulk, power, and, most importantly, heat. Naruto threw his thoughts away as his kick picked up speed and moved in the speed of a lightning bolt; unfortunately for Naruto, Ace wasn't simply standing still.

The moment he heard the booming sound of thunder, flames were already rippling across his body and the word was already out of his lips the moment Naruto's leg glowed green, "Kagero!"

Naruto cursed when Ace exploded into flames like a volcano and instantly shot backwards to put some space in-between them or get burned. He kept forgetting that Ace could burn him even when he was made out of lightning.

"Stupid technicalities."

Unfortunately, Naruto didn't even get a chance to remember why that was because Ace wasn't sitting still any longer, and decided that he would reflect on the reason why once the fight was over.

Ace brought his fist back before throwing it back out like a punch with a shout of, "Hiken!" A huge fist of flames sped towards Naruto, but he simply smirked, Ace had his signature move and Naruto had his.

Before he would run from this attack.

Similarly to Ace, Naruto brought his glowing arm back and it began to dance with electricity in erratic patterns. His fist was slowly consumed and encircled by a deathly green glow and an excited grin fell on his face, out of all the moves he created these past two weeks, this one was easily his favorite. His entire arm finally glowed an electric green with white electricity dancing around it before a deadly hum began to sound throughout the air.

Now he would meet it head on.

Naruto roared, "Raijin!"

He punched forward, the sound of thunder booming out, and his arm exploded with electricity in the form of a gigantic dragon head, easily bigger than the surrounding trees and rivaling the size of Ace's Hiken. It launched off of his arm and extended into the form of a dragon without wings. It flew across the clearing, swerving from side to side uncontrollably and looking very much like a snake with a dragon's head.

It met Ace's attack with the booming sound of thunder and a huge shockwave erupted from the contact of the two titan-sized attacks. They struggled against each other for dominance and all the while, Naruto and Ace were pushing their fists forward in hopes of winning the power struggle.

Sweat started to slide down Naruto's neck as he struggled to keep the battle on. He gritted his teeth and pushed even more energy into his attack with the hopes of a huge final push, but Ace seemed to have the same idea and it remained at a stand still.

The clearing grew thick with heat, a boiling pressure that neither of them could feel due to them being even hotter than the heat itself. Naruto gave one last push and watched as the two attacks started to get sucked into each other and create a huge orb of unstable white energy. It bubbled unevenly and energy seemed to be seeping out of it and flowing across the entire field.

Naruto spotted motion across the field and quickly smashed his fists together, whispering, "Raiton!" Both of his arms glowed an electric green and was covered in a plating before he sped across the field towards Ace. Naruto blurred towards him, his eyes catching sight of Ace once again, his fists burning red with fire. They closed the distance between each other quickly and engaged in a heated fist fight. Their arms were nothing more than blurs as blow after blow rained down upon each other with no signs of giving out. For every punch Naruto landed, Ace gave it back just as quick with a cocky smirk.

Naruto's eyebrow twitched in annoyance, he never was a patient man, before hopping backwards and throwing his hand forward. As it moved forward his hand began to get plated with electricity before Naruto finally found it sufficient and shouted, "Raiton: Vari!"

His palm exploded with energy, electricity beaming out like a ray of light and shooting towards Ace. Raiton was the first technique he created, but it wasn't just a plating of electricity, it was the building block for all his techniques! From this technique, Naruto was capable of creating a couple extremely useful techniques, Vari and Raijin being two of them.

Unfortunately, he wasn't capable of continuing his thoughts as Ace shouted, "Kagero!" A wave of flames met Naruto's ray of energy with a booming shock that sent both of them flying backwards.

Naruto quickly twisted in midair and landed on his feet before taking off in a burst of speed towards his opponent. He saw Ace across the field and followed him as he jumped into the air, a couple feet above the orb of energy. They felt the pull of gravity as they flowed through the air and shot their respective elements out of their feet to resist the force.

For a moment everything was still, they were frozen above the orb, simply staring at each other. The moment quickly ended and they brought their fists back as if they were about to throw a punch. Flames covered Ace's entire fists while Naruto's arm began to spark with white electricity running down his arm and through the air.

The electricity plating Naruto's arm focused and glowed a deathly electric green, a deadly hum sounding through the air like the moment before lightning struck the earth.

Unlike Naruto's, whose element was focused inside of his arm, Ace's fist rippled with flames as if it was about to unleash widespread destruction. The fire rippled dangerously on his fists, growing brighter and larger, while Naruto's glowed a brighter green and the hum in the air grew even more deadly.

They threw their fists forward, their respective elements just inches before hitting each other.

"Hi-"

"Rai-"

Their fists were just a centimeter away from each other as their voices shouted out towards the world in unison, "Hiken/Raiken!"

Ace unleashed his widespread, destructive, fist made out of orange flames while Naruto's fist stayed the same, more focused and precise to the point.

Two glowing fists came into contact with each other and, for a moment, everything was still. Nothing moved, there was no wind or sound of any kind. The moment ended and a shockwave eradicated the area around them from the pure power the two Logia users were emissing. Unfortunately for them, the orb created from their powers laid beneath them and glowed in instability as lights started shooting out of it.

It was about to explode.

But neither of the two fighters cared.

Naruto's much smaller elemental fist easily pierced through Ace's Hiken, looking very much like a miniature lightning bolt. Unfortunately, he only pierced through a small point and the huge fist of flames came within inches of his face while Naruto's thunderbolt fist came within inches of Ace's stomach. Naruto simply smirked, it didn't matter if his attack was small...His lightning never hits the same spot twice.

The orb exploded like a volcano and drowned the entire area in a blinding white light. Their attacks were lost in the brightness of the explosion that was caused by their god like powers. Huge shockwaves sounded out around the clearing and the white light reached the end of the area, the orb was about to bring destruction upon their poor, poor, forest.

Then everything disappeared like it wasn't there the first place.

The orb disappeared.

The shockwaves disappeared.

The smoke from their attacks disappeared.

The clearing was back to normal with two groggy looking teenagers lying flat on their backs next to each other in the middle of the clearing. They blinked up at the sky in confusion, they didn't have a clue as to what just happened. Naruto and Ace slowly got off of their backs and sat up with their backs straight before looking at each other. Neither of them had any injuries from their last attack, which didn't make sense since even if the explosion didn't hurt them, their final attacks most definitely would've injured each other. Their eyes moved off of each other and then turned towards the clearing and found that it didn't get destroyed by that giant explosion. No trees were knocked down, no craters were born, the grass didn't even get turned to ash!

After a few moments of silence, Naruto groaned loudly, "Ain-chan!" He whined, "I was about to win! Why did you have to stop us!"

Ace scoffed at him, "Don't be ridiculous! My flames were about to turn you into fried chicken!"

"Would that be before or after I turned you into ash?" Naruto replied with a tick mark growing on his forehead.

"Boys!" A soft, yet commanding voice spoke, "Enough. You're both idiots. You could've destroyed the entire island with that final attack! Stop underestimating the powers of the Logia fruits!"

Naruto turned his head to meet the girl who was scolding him, which he just muted out, and gave her a once-over for the first time today. She was beautiful. That much was obvious with a single glance. She was capable of captivating every boy in town every time she walked through without doing a single thing. She was a slender, yet curvaceous young woman with long dark blue hair framing her face. She wore a blue hooded cape over a sleeveless white collar purple top that exposed her stomach, and had on grey shorts, black high heels, and a gun holster on her right leg. Looking closely, Naruto could see an X shaped scar on her right leg from, what he imagined, a tough battle. She had beautiful piercing reddish-brown eyes that drilled into your person and, finally, she was sweating, probably from the amount of effort it took to revert all of their attacks.

He rolled his eyes as she began to scold them and remembered the time he first met her. She used to be so quiet...Well, she was still quite, but now she scolded him. Actually, the first time he met here was actually pretty similar to right now.

She actually taught then something very important...

XxFallen-PrincexX

Flashback: Week and a half ago

"It's not that hard! Just imagine yourself as lightning, damn it!" Ace said with a hand placed on his temples, rubbing it as he repeated the same sentence over and over again.

Naruto snapped back, "It's harder than you think!" Blood flowed down his forehead, bruises were placed all over his body, his breathing was erratic and heavy as his eyes burned in a comical fashion, "Have you ever smashed through tree after tree at over 3,000 miles per second. No, you haven't! Well let me tell you something...IT HURTS!"

"Don't be such a pussy."

"You are what you eat, dick." Naruto bit out childishly before flipping him off.

Ace's eyebrow twitched and he gritted his hands so he didn't 'accidentally' set his friend on fire. He took a deep breath before replying, "How am I supposed to help you if you don't do what I say?"

"If I didn't get it right after like 50 tries, it's obviously your fault." Naruto studied his fingernails in disinterest, "Why don't you learn how to give better directions?"

Ace growled out, "I'd like to see things from your point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my ass."

Naruto glared at him, "How about I throw you into a tree at 3,700 miles per second?"

Ace looked at him with fake shock, "You mean you can actually move that fast? Sorry, I was too busy watching you smash into tree after tree to actually notice that small detail."

"If you're trying to be a smartass, first you have to be smart. Otherwise you're just an ass."

Ace grew a tick mark as he stepped towards him, "I'll kill you!"

Naruto stepped forward, his arms glowing an electric green, "Just try it!"

They glared at each other for a few moments before sighing and looking into the forest. This was like the thirtieth time they fought today, they were so similar, but at the same time they were so different.

It's why they got along so well...or terribly depending on how you looked at it.

Ace groaned, "Just try it one more time." He ignored the call of 'pussy', but did send a glare his way, "If you can't get it this time we can just go eat some food and try tomorrow. We have another week and a half, after all, to get you decent with your powers."

Naruto cracked his neck before removing his shirt, revealing his rather unique features-his chiseled abs and chest, and his scar running down his chest alongside his tattoo that took up his left arm-before stretching slightly.

He looked towards Ace, "Can you explain how to transform one more time?"

Ace nodded, "By now you should be able to always feel that warmth, that energy, flowing inside of you since you are that energy. It is a part of your being." Ace continued, "You can't think of it as some type of inner power or adrenaline. It's you. It's the same as using an arm or a leg, it's a part of your body. Command your body to will yourself to change, to become intangible, as if you were telling your arm to move."

Naruto nodded in understanding.

He really did understand it, it was simply disorientating to actually do it. Picturing some strange energy as an arm...It was such a weird feeling to actually act upon.

But, nonetheless, he shut his eyes and stood still. He steadied his breathing and placed his hands in his pants pockets. He felt the fabric under his fingers as he pulled upon the warmth inside of his body. This question always popped up in his mind every single time he transformed.

Where did his clothes go when he transformed?

Everytime he became his element, they disappeared, but when he turned back-usually after hitting a couple trees-his clothes were always back on his body. Did anything touching his body get turned into an element too?

He felt his grasp on the warmth flowing inside of his body 'loosen' and slapped himself mentally. He couldn't get distracted! He would not hit another row of trees because of a last minute thought! He wouldn't fail again...He wouldn't give Ace another reason to fall on his ass laughing.

His thoughts vanished as he willed the warmth to envelop his body like he was telling an arm to raise. He could understand where Ace was coming from, it certainly felt like he was moving an arm, but it was just so...illogical. Naruto didn't know why he thought that way, like it was ludicrous, but, nonetheless, he accepted it as the truth no matter how much his mind told it was impossible.

Afterall, all he had to do was open his eyes and see that it was the truth. His eyes...Actually, did he have eyes when he was an element? He threw the thought away, he observed the sight that was before his eyes. His entire body was glowing an electric green in the element of lightning.

He was a breathing lightning bolt.

Well, actually, now that he thought about it, lightning bolts didn't need to breath to exist so, technically, he wasn't breathing since he didn't need air. A smirk took place on his face...on his lightning bolt at the thought.

Electricity danced around his body as he stood there, not moving a muscle or even twitching for he knew that even the slightest movement would send him flying in some direction.

He looked at his body in amazement, he was a living lightningbolt. He felt the power flowing through his entire body, power so great that he could probably wipe out the entire forest-what was left of the forest, anyways-with a cough. His body shone brightly, but his eyes weren't bothered by it. He was brighter than anything else right now, he was faster than anything else right now, he had more power than anything else right now…

He was lightning.

And this time he wouldn't mess up.

He gazed at his target, a small path between two lanes of trees hundreds of meters away. He'd get through that, he wouldn't be sent in a completely different direction, and he would stop!

Unfortunately, that was hopeful thinking.

He willed himself forward and was sent flying forward at a rate that exhilarated him everytime he did this. Everything seemed to move in slow motion, no, it was like the entire world was frozen besides him.

It was beautiful.

He danced across the clearing and made it through the path he was targeting. Unfortunately, his leg, almost unnoticeably, twitched...And he was immediately sent flying towards his right and smashed into his first tree.

"Fuck me!"

He easily ripped through that tree and every other tree that followed. Of course, it didn't hurt. It couldn't hurt him, he was lightning. Nothing could injure him.

He felt his grasp on the technique loosen.

Of course, it did hurt when he turned back into his physical body and plowed through tree after tree in the speed of lightning.

It hurt like a bitch.

He desperately grasped at the energy buzzing in his body as the lightning started to disperse and leave his tangible body behind.

And then, without a single noise, his human body was back, skin and bones and everything else. Luckily for him he only smashed into one more tree before flying across what he assumed was another clearing judging by the lack of trees he was smashing through. His hearing, enhanced by his devil fruit, gave him a radar-like-sense of the entire island. It was disorientating, but, as he made his way through the air, he heard the sound of pouring water before his sense of hearing was overwhelmed by the entire island.

Noises invaded his head, whispers, coughs, casual conversations, children playing, people walking through the streets, the sound of hearts beating. It was overwhelming and he quickly stopped taking in the waves that flowed through the air. He still wasn't good with his hearing...At all.

His thoughts vanished as he flew through the air and smashed into an ice cold liquid. His mind immediately guessed what it was while his eyes widened in horror. Water! He landed in a lake of all places! Thoughts raced across his mind to figure out a way out of this current predicament, but he couldn't think of one! He couldn't swim anymore! Damn it! He was going to drown!

He started pulling on the energy in his body, maybe he could vaporize this entire lake with a huge blast of lightning? Electricity danced across his skin, but before he could test out his idea, his luck pulled through once again and he skipped off the water like a skipping stone. He grimaced, his back was going to be sore tomorrow. It was like a belly flop, but a hundred times worse!

His stomach churned as his body flipped through the air like a ragdoll, he placed a hand over his mouth hoping that it would placate his uneasy stomach. As the seconds passed by, he felt the feeling in stomach increase, but, thankfully, he started to slow down and, assumingly, shot off the lake judging by the way he wasn't hitting the water any longer. A victorious smile barely made its way on his face before his head smashed into yet another object, but this time he wasn't able to keep moving.

In fact, his motion was completely stopped.

He would've opened his mouth if it weren't for the fact that he knew he would throw up his stomach once it found an opening; so, instead, he decided to wait and get his bearings. His head was spinning to the point that he couldn't tell what direction he was facing and he couldn't order his thoughts in a way that sounded coherent.

He exhaled through his nose before placing his head on the ground, feeling the world spin around him in the black depths of his eyes. His head shook groggily and he pulled on the grass that laid across the ground to keep his sense of direction. Grass is down. Opposite of down is up. He felt the sensation of spinning disappear from his body and let out a relieved sigh.

He noted curiously that the object was still holding him down to the ground on his head before opening his eyes and saying the first thing that came to his mind at the sight before him.

"Bear panties."

It was indeed a pair of bear panties worn by smooth, creamy, long legs that could run for miles with the said leg holding his face to the ground. Which also meant that she was the one who stopped his motion when he was previously moving extremely fast; although, he didn't linger on the thought as he continued to take in the woman's appearance. She was a slender, yet curvaceous young woman with long dark blue hair framing her face. She wore a blue hooded cape over a sleeveless white collar purple top, and had on a dark purple skirt, black high heels, and black leggings that ran from mid thigh to her heels. She had beautiful piercing reddish-brown eyes that drilled into the blonde's head and he easily understood that she was gorgeous.

Of course, he couldn't linger on those thoughts as she lifted up her foot and slammed it back into his face with a dusting of red covering her cheeks, her lips opening to allow a soft voice to make its entrance, "Pervert."

"Wait! You're wro-"

"Shut up, pervert." Her voice was emotionless, but her eyes seemed to be angry...Although, he couldn't quite tell. She was a really good Kuudere...Tsundere?

"Ouch! Damn i-Don't hit me again!" Naruto protested as he flipped out from under her before she could slam her heel into his face, "It was the first thing I saw and I just said it!"

"That's exactly what a pervert would say. Pervert."

"It takes one to know one!" Naruto bit back, his arms crossed across his chest.

"You just admitted you were a pervert." The blue haired girl stated bluntly, "You're disgusting."

Naruto groaned, "I am not a pervert! Would you just listen to me!"

She looked at him for a moment and Naruto almost sighed in relief...Only to choke on his sigh as she pulled out the gun resting on her thigh and pointed it at him, "Die."

And promptly pulled the trigger.

And Naruto promptly jumped to the side so he wouldn't die, "You're insane! Guns can really hurt people you know!"

She blinked at him in mock amazement, Naruto almost clapped at the sheer level of sarcasm in that single movement, "Really? I was shooting you because I wanted to heal all the bruises on your body. Pervert."

Naruto's eyebrow twitched, "I could do without the sarcasm."

"And I could do without you being a pervert, but, alas, neither of us can get what we want. Pervert. Disappear." She spoke bluntly, her voice never losing that cool touch and calm that has been apparent this entire conversation.

"Kuudere confirmed," Naruto thought to himself.

Naruto's eyebrow twitched yet again before shouting out, his finger pointing towards her, "It's your own fault for showing it to me, you exhibitinost! Why would you stand over a person like that? It's obvious you wanted to show it to me!"

For the first time today, her face flushed red as she opened for mouth, only to close it again. Naruto hid a triumphant grin as she failed to come up with a response or, perhaps, she realized she was wrong, but, nonetheless, he would continue his strike, "You're not even blonde either! Bakaaaa!"

Naruto simply grinned as her eyebrow twitched before her soft voice came out as cool and icy as ever, "You say it as if blondes are stupid? If you, a blonde, say that blondes are stupid that means you're calling yourself stupid, stupid. Pervert. Go drown in your own stupidity."

Naruto gaped at her, "Who says that to people!"

"Obviously I do." She tilted her head to the side, "You really are blonde, aren't you."

He tilted his head to the side and mocked her, "Obviously I am. You really can see, can't you."

Cold red eyes clashed with defiant blue eyes and an almost "peaceful" calm came between the two of them...Until she spoke once more just for the record apparently, "Pervert."

Naruto groaned, "Stop that! It was an accident! I'm sorry! I won't look at your bear panties ever again." Naruto blinked and looked at her, "Bear panties? Are you five?"

Her creamy cheeks dusted red and he couldn't help the swelling of pride that bursted in his chest in result, his pride in himself running so deep that he almost missed her cool words, but he definitely heard embarrassment mixed within them, "...They were a present." Seeing his unimpressed his eyes, her blush increased and she stated, "They really were. I'm not lying."

Naruto rolled his eyes before an amused smile made its way on his face, "Hai. Hai. I believe you. That means you should believe me when I said it was an accident!" He held his hand towards her, "Truce?"

She stared at him for a moment before sighing and reaching towards his hand as Naruto looked towards her closely. He couldn't help, but find her familiar for some reason and spoke again, "Hey...Have we met befo-"

He cut himself off as he saw the familiar red glow of fire rippling through the air and shooting towards him...And the woman's back...Meaning she was completely unaware that she was about to become Fried Human. Ace probably thought that was him...Dumbass. Naruto immediately reacted, cursing Ace in his mind for he was the only one who could manipulate fire like that. He grabbed the woman's wrist, ignoring her cute 'meep' of surprise, before pulling her towards him and shooting off to the side as the stream of fire shot towards him.

When he said shot off, he really meant it, he jumped like a rocket, but that meant hitting the ground was that much worse. He spun around so he would take on most of the impact before they hit the ground and began rolling on the ground, closing their eyes all the while.

His back finally hit the grass and he slid across the ground, picking up dirt all the while, before he finally spun to a stop. His head was spinning, but he could tell that the woman was under him, and groaned in annoyance.

He placed his hands on something and pushed himself off, his eyebrow raising at the texture of the object he was holding with his right hand. He felt something soft under his right hand and gave it an experimental squeeze. He raised an eyebrow. Soft and big. He gave it another squeeze and noted that it was extremely warm as well. Letting his curiosity take him, he slowly opened his eyes in a disgruntled manner and stared down at the object below him. His eyes widened while blood rushed to his cheeks as the sound of thunder boomed across the sky as he looked at the object below him.

It turned out it wasn't an object.

It was a person.

A young woman in fact.

An extremely attractive woman.

An extremely attractive, awake woman.

An extremely attractive, awake, familiar, blue haired woman.

An extremely attractive, awake, familiar, and angry woman who was looking at him with something that didn't look like love.

Naruto let out a nervous laugh, "It was an accident..."

Unfortunately, she didn't believe him.

And nailed him in the balls with her knees with an embarrassed yelp, "Pervert!"

Naruto grasped at his precious jewels and stumbled backwards, "I...Said...it...was...an ACCIDENT!"

"You said that last time too! You disgusting excuse for a human being! Filthy piece of flesh!"

Naruto knew she was just angry and probably didn't mean it; hell, anyone would be angry for being groped, even if it was an accident.

"Besides," Naruto thought to himself, "You know the saying: Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt m-"

The blue haired girl continued, "Filthy bottom-feeding scum of the earth that should just crawl under a stone and die."

Naruto looked at her in pained shock, "O-okay...That actually hurt my feelings a little."

She didn't pay any attention to his antics and quickly shot off from the ground, his eyes following her chest as it jiggled when she hit the ground as he kneeled on the ground before her. He shrugged, even if he was kicked in the balls he was still a man. And the woman in front of him was sexy. He felt a bump on his lower regions and let out a shaky grin, "You're still okay, buddy. You took the hit and you're still a man. A monster of a man. You're a god among your kind."

She sped towards him.

And Naruto knew fear for the first time in his life...What he assumed it was the first time of his life, anyways.

He lost his memories after all.

She looked like the devil, himself, as she ran towards him with the speed of a bullet. He quickly shot off of his feet and jumped backwards, waving his hands in front of him, "Wait! I'm sorry, I'm sorry! But you shouldn't be so embarrassed! It was a accident…And you have very nice boobs!"

"I wish I never saved you, you pervert!"

He didn't, or more like he couldn't, linger on those words as her arm became enveloped in a strange pink hue. It took the shape of a small sphere surrounding her entire fist and Naruto took this as his time to leave. He really didn't want to find out what that did...

She sped towards him as Naruto's body turned an exotic green. Green electricity rippled off his body until green/white flames surrounded his body in some type of aura while black electricity pulsed around his body dangerously.

(A.N. - Imagine Super Saiyan 2, but green (Ulquiorra's Green Energy from bleach) or just think of the Raikage's Lightning Cloak)

He grinned, he got it faster this time...Not to mention it looks a lot different from before. He looked towards the girl who was now moving in slow motion like the rest of this world. She wouldn't even know what happened until he disappeared, but he'd be on the other side of the island before that happens. He winked at her before shooting off backwards, a lightning bolt dancing across the forest. He didn't bother trying to dodge the trees, he wasn't good at maneuvering his body yet, hell, he ate shit every time he even transformed into lightning. So, yes, he didn't bother dodging the trees, but, instead, plowed through every single tree in his path with a grin on his face.

He was doing it!

He was controlling his body while he was in lightning...And he wasn't eating shit! Maybe it was the emergency he was facing that made him capable of moving as lightning or maybe he just had a lucky break, but, either way, he was thrilled, even Ace was going to be happy.

Speaking of Ace, "Naruto! Where are yo-" He never got out any more as Naruto's head-Made out of lightning-smashed into Ace's stomach. Naruto watched Ace's face change from confusion, to disbelief, to horror as spit came flying out of his mouth. Naruto cursed as he instantly lost control of his body and turned into a human once more, their bodies shooting off towards the clearing as their bodies tangled up with one another.

They ended up back where they started in the clearing, except, this time, they were bruised and tangled up together on the forest floor. He didn't know how long he was lying there, but it felt like a while. Naruto groaned in pain before opening his eyes groggily, "Damn it, Ace…I had it down too!" His vision cleared and he saw that he was on top of Ace in the same fashion as he was on the chick from before. His hand was placed on Ace's chest while the said man was glaring at him in righteous anger.

Before Naruto could even say 'sorry', he was interrupted by a very familiar voice, "I came here to continue hitting you, but, after seeing this, I think I believe that it was an accident." Naruto and Ace tilted their heads to look at the girl who was approaching them, a girl that Ace seemed to recognize by the widening of his eyes. Naruto sighed in relief, thankfully she didn't seem to be angry anymore. But he never got to say anything as the girl continued, "That or you're bisexual since you groped me and the man you're lying on top of."

It was silent in the clearing for a moment as Naruto looked down at Ace. It did, in fact, look like he was groping Ace, his hand was placed right on top of his chest and his hand was clenched. It could be seen as a sensual, or forceful, scene to any viewer, but that was obviously not the situation, Naruto was straight, that was plain as day. Ace isn't that stu-

His thoughts were interrupted by the increasing look of horror on Ace's face before he pushed him off of his body and jumped into the air, at least 10 feet away from him, and yelled, "Get away from me, pervert!"

Naruto glared at him in annoyance as he got up himself, "First of all, I'm straight." He pointed at Ace, "Secondly, you could make a gay man straight."

Ace glared right back at him, "And your presence makes women become lesbians."

"Bitch."

"Ass."

"Whore."

"Slut."

They heard a cough, interrupting their exchange of loving words, and turned to the girl who was looking at them coolly...Although, Naruto swore he saw amusement dancing in her eyes, "I hate to interrupt this...Lover's spat?" Seeing the glares directed in her direction, she stifled a small laugh, before her face returned to her serious persona. Her face was completely emotionless as she turned to Naruto, "You."

Naruto waved, "Me."

"Don't you have anything to say?"

Naruto looked at her strangely and thought, "I already said I'm sorry, I said it was an accident...what more does she want?"

Naruto looked at her in a bemused fashion, "...Thank you?"

The pink sphere around her hand returned as her eye twitched, but, before she could say a word, Ace spoke, "You ate a Devil Fruit!"

Naruto turned to Ace before looking back at the girl in front of him, he stepped closer and observed the strange pink hue surrounding her hand. He mouthed an 'O' before grinning, "That's cool! We did too!"

The girl nodded, "That's actually what I'm here to talk about. I'm assuming," She waved her hand at the wide spread of destruction around the clearing, "That you're the one who did this."

Naruto grinned sheepishly, "I'm...Having a bit," He heard Ace cough and his eyebrow twitched, "Of trouble controlling it." He pointed at Ace, "Of course he's a noob too, he just ate his a couple weeks before I ate mine."

"I'm using my fruit efficiently, which means you're the only noob here." Ace responded with an amused smile, but, before Naruto could give a retort, he turned to the girl with a grin on his face, "You're the girl who saved Naruto, right?"

"If you're talking about the blonde then yes."

Naruto's eyes whipped back towards the girl in shock, "You're the one who saved me?" Seeing her nod in confirmation, he sent her a grateful smile and bowed his head, "...Thank you very much."

"Please raise your head..." Naruto looked up and looked at the girl before him, her cheeks had a small, tiny beyond belief, blush that lit up her face and she looked...embarrassed.

"It seems she can't handle gratitude very well. How cute." Naruto thought with a small smile on his face.

He walked forward a step and grinned at her, "My name is Naruto!" He gave an extravagant, exaggerated, bow before coming back up, "Uzumaki D. Naruto!" He pointed behind him, "That's Ace!" He whispered loudly, "He's a bit strange."

"You know a whisper is something that's supposed to be quiet," Ace 'whispered' at them before approaching the duo. He smiled at the girl and gave a wave, "Hey! I'm Porcus D. Ace! Feel free to call me Ace though!"

"Or Piglet. I'd call him Piglet." Naruto chirped from behind him.

"My name is Ain."

The blue haired girl gave them a small smile, it would be usually seen as insignificant or not something big, but her smile...seemed so real. Naruto didn't know how to explain it...It was almost like it was her first time smiling in a long time. He was instantly at a lost of words, he didn't know what to say. But the smile disappeared within a second, almost like it wasn't there in the first place, and her serious persona returned strongly, almost as if scolding her for showing a smile...Naruto frowned slightly, he didn't like that. At all. It was almost like she wasn't allowed to show her emotions...

He nodded his head as if he was confirming something, which, in a way, he was. He'd change that. He'd break her mask.

Before he could respond to her introduction, Ain spoke again, "What kind of fruits did you eat?"

Naruto raised an eyebrow at her before grinning at Ace, "Logia." She widened her eyes in surprise, Naruto gave himself points for getting another emotion out of her, before the area was washed with mind boggling heat. Sparks started to dance across the floor before his body erupted with electricity and flowed into the sky. The electricity continued to come in quicker and quicker bursts until it combined around him, looking very much like a green cloak of flames rippling around him body, the same cloak that appeared on his body before. Similarly to Naruto, Ace's body bursted into red hot flames, running across his entire body and streaming into the air. Flames rippled on top of his body as he pushed his orange hat up with a finger made out of flames.

She looked at them in amazement and continued to watch them in awe even as their respective elements died out. Ace looked to Naruto strangely, "That was different. You made your lightning cloak around you."

Naruto grinned at him and rubbed the back of his head, "Yeah. When I was running away from Ain," Seeing Ace's confused look, he simply shook his head, indicating 'dont ask' before continuing, "This happened. Pretty cool, right?"

Ace nodded in agreement before looking at Ain, who was struggling to speak, so Ace decided to help her, "What devil fruit did you eat?"

She managed to grasp her calm again as a pink sphere of energy circled her fist, "I ate the Modo Modo no Mi. It lets me return things 12 years to the past. Nothing more, nothing less."

Naruto and Ace looked at her in awe, "That's Amazing!" Naruto spoke in excitement, "What kind of fruit lets you do that?"

"It's a Paramecia type," Ain responded. "Although it depletes your stamina rather quickly and I have to touch someone to actually use it...At the moment anyways." She added as an afterthought before continuing, "Like you, I've only had it for a short time. I believe it's been a bit less than two months, so, I haven't perfected it yet, but I do know a lot about devil fruits. You do know Logia types are rare right?"

They nodded and she continued, "What kind of Logia did you eat?"

"I ate the Mera Mera no Mi. I'm fire." Ace said before pointing at him, "He ate the Sora Sora no Mi. He's a living storm…Although, we still don't quite understand his fruit...It's really weird."

Ain's eyes glinted in interest before speaking, "What do you mean by weird?"

"That's the most interest she showed yet…" Naruto thought to himself, watching the girl carefully.

Ace looked at Naruto, and the blonde just shrugged and said, "I don't see a reason not to tell her, besides she said she knows a lot about Devil Fruits, she could help us."

Ace nodded at him and turned towards Ain, "Well. We know that he ate a Logia fruit, but there are two things that are bothering us. First, he's a storm. He can control lightning and the such, but when I attack him...Well, watch." Ace looked at him and Naruto nodded in confirmation. Ace smashed his fist into his stomach, but he just passed right through. That wasn't what he was trying to show and Ain immediately understood. Naruto looked down his body, entranced as if this was the first time he was seeing this, and saw black and gold flames rippling out of his stomach. It reformed his stomach and rippled across his body.

Ace pointed at Naruto, "When someone attacks me, I turn into flames. When someone attacks Naruto, he should turn into lightning or wind or black storm clouds, but he doesn't. Instead, he turns into those flames, they don't burn or anything, but that's why I don't really understand what the are. Do you have any idea?"

Ain walked up to him and asked, "Can you bring up the flames again." Naruto nodded and closed his eyes. He willed the warmth to come out again and...they did. Those black and gold flames rippled across his body, flames that couldn't do anything. They can't burn, they were simply there to reshape my body. They were...out of place. But, for some reason, they were so important.

Ain watched the flames closely, even dragging her hand through his body to get a closer look and feel. She observed him for a few moments before bending down to observe his lower body...Her face was basically face-to-face with his sexual organ.

Naruto was a seventeen year old, healthy male so no one could hold it against him as a small blush made its way on his face; he had no doubt that it would look like they were participating in a rather...oral activity. He looked towards Ace, but he was whistling, rather terribly, to the side with an amused smile on his face.

"Um...Ain, are you done yet?" Naruto spoke, attempting, albeit, failing terribly, to control his embarrassment.

"Shh," She was making the perfect face of concentration as she coolly responded, "Stop moving or I won't be able to do it properly."

Naruto face turned redder as Ace grabbed his mouth, his cheeks widening from suppressed laughter. As she turned her hand brushed against his most sacred tool and Naruto closed his eyes and chanted in his mind, "Naked old men! Naked old men, naked old men, naked old men, naked old men, naked old men...Banging!"

He sighed in relief, feeling a certain part of him die out, and opened his eyes, only to see Ain staring at him with an entranced look dancing in her eyes. He stood there for a moment, his eyes, rippling with gold and black flames, meeting her beautiful red eyes.

Then the moment ended.

And he jumped away with a, thankfully, strangled girl-like shriek. Ace couldn't hold it anymore and bursted out into laughter, slamming his fists into the ground as he held his stomach. Tears seemed to be pouring out his eyes while Naruto grew redder and redder before pointing his finger at Ace. Sparks danced across it before the tip of his finger bursted with electricity, a miniature lightning bolt made it across the field and tased Ace in the ass.

Naruto glared at him as Ace rubbed his butt in annoyance, stifling his laughter, "Not a word."

"There won't be anything coming out or in this mouth," Ace replied, doing his best to hold a professional face, which broke after a few seconds.

Naruto was about to jump at him when Ain tapped him on the shoulder. Her head was tilted to the side and, oh god, was that an almost unidentifiable pout in her lips? She spoke, "What's wrong? I wasn't done yet…"

Naruto's eyebrow twitched as he heard Ace slapping the ground, laughing uproariously, "Stop it! Stop it! Oh, God! I'm going to die! Hahahaha!"

The black and gold flames started dancing around his body as he turned around, "Yes...You are going to die today…"

But before he could pounce on Ace, Ain stopped him, again, and spoke, "But I guess it would've been useless even if I observed you for a longer time." That got both Ace's and Naruto's attention as Ain continued, "I don't have a clue about those black and gold flames. In fact, I've never even heard about a case like this." Disappointment danced in her eyes, "I'm sorry," Her eyes sparked with a rare flash of determination, "But I'd like to figure it out!"

Naruto just waved his hand, completely unconcerned, "Don't worry about it! It's a strange ability, I doubt many people could've given me the answer." Seeing that she looked rather disappointed in herself, Naruto continued, "How about this! I won't ask anyone else about my power, I'll wait until you figure it out."

Ain looked at him, bemused, "But don't you want to learn about your power?"

Naruto shrugged before glancing down at the markings running down his arm, "There's a lot of other things I can learn about too. Besides," He grinned at her, "I think you'll find the answer before anyone else."

Ain looked at him for a moment...and then gave him another small smile which shocked him just as much the first time; although, it was gone a second later and then she asked, "What was the second question?"

Ace answered, "This question is more about all Logia fruits in general." Ace looked at him, "Naruto, if you'd be so kind…"

Naruto rolled his eyes, "Hai, Hai." He gripped his fist tightly and slammed it into his left palm, "Raiton!" His right arm glowed an exotic green as it got plated by electricity, "Ain-chan," He called out, "Just watch, you'll understand after."

Red flames rippled across of Ace's body as Naruto held his arms in front of him. He hopped on his toes before dashing forward, his right arm leaving a trail of green energy. He quickly closed the distance between them and slammed his electric fist into Ace's intangible body. His body that was supposed to be intangible, but wasn't. His fist hit solid flesh and Ace was lifted off of his feet, but he flipped in mid-air and landed on the ground.

"My turn…" Ace said with a grin, flames rippling off of his right fist, and took off in a burst of speed towards him. Naruto willed his body to become intangible, but when Ace's fist slammed into his body...It didn't go through. It hit flesh. Similarly to Ace, he was sent off of his feet and into the air, but he caught himself and landed on the ground.

He rubbed his belly, "You hit hard."

Ace smiled, "Same to you." He turned to Ain and told her of their question, "As you can see, we were intangible, but our attacks still hit each other. Why is that? I thought Logias were capable of avoiding all physical attacks?"

Ain hummed in thought before questioning, "Before I answer that, Ace, I have a question. Has Naruto ever hit you with anything besides lightning?" Naruto and Ace looked towards each other, and Ace shrugged.

Naruto rubbed the back of his head, "Actually, I haven't even tried manipulating anything else. I'm having a hard enough time just using lightning. So, we don't really know."

Ain nodded, "Would you mind trying right now?"

Naruto looked at her for a moment before shrugging, "Sure, why not."

"Wait! You've never learned how to use it, right? We can wait a bit. That was a silly question on my part." She stopped when a hand was placed on her shoulder.

She turned around to see Ace, he shook his head at her, "Don't worry about that...Naruto isn't your average person. Just watch." Naruto went out of earshot as he made it to the middle of the clearing, his back facing them.

He closed his eyes and let out a breath.

He inhaled.

"What is lightning?"

Lightning is powerful, precise. Fast and deadly, using lightning means to never strike the same spot twice. You strike to kill. The thunder doesn't announce where it will attack, but its judgment is absolute, and death always the punishment of he who defies the storm. Lightning is the king of all kings, the one that no one should defy without being prepared to pay the ultimate price. Only those who are ready to be killed should have the right to take a life. Power is the essence of lightning, the sword of heaven.

Lightning danced around him in erratic bursts.

"What is lightning? Lightning is energy."

He exhaled.

The lightning disappeared.

He inhaled.

"What is wind?"

Wind is speed, wild and uncontrollable. He who commands the wind must be evasive and unrelenting, and attack all the time. The gust is always blowing, and its constant assault can make even the greatest mountain bow before the skies. The wind will always surprise, and its blows are numerous. He must use its power to continue to strike, until its enemy falls. If it wants to protect himself, the wind avoids and evades, staying untouchable but never backing down, even before stronger than itself. More importantly the wind believes in freedom above all else. It is the lone beast, the one that no one should try to restrain. Only those who are ready to be stripped of their free will should have the right to enslave others. Freedom is the essence of the wind, the state of the skies.

"What is wind? Wind is freedom."

He exhaled.

He opened his eyes, his hands in his pockets as wind swirled around him wildly and quickly like a tornado. He raised his right hand and watched as the wind increased its pace and power, the wind rose up and surrounded him. It took over the field, its power roaring across the entire sky. The wind blowed wildly as Naruto raised his left hand and grasped his right shoulder. His eyes hardened and he willed the winds to surround his right arm.

And it did.

It focused around his right arm, all of the wind that swirled around him came to his right arm and swirled around it faster and faster until it looked like there was a mini tornado covering his entire arm. The shrill shriek of the wind roared across the clearing and the wind blowed wildly around him.

(A.N. - Imagine Jin's tornado fist from Yu Yu Hakusho)

He grinned at Ace, "You ready?"

Ace simply ignited, flames rippling across his body and burning brighter and brighter in an uncontrollable rate. He glanced at Ain, but she was already on the other side of the clearing, watching the scene carefully.

"Let's show em' what you can do."

Naruto took off in a burst of speed, moving through the air in a wild manner. He disappeared and reappeared all over the place before finally making it in front of ace. Naruto reared his fist back before throwing it forward with all of his might, roaring the name he thought of just a moment before.

"Futon: Shiroima (Wind Release: White Current)!"

His fist smashed into Ace's stomach.

And exploded in that direction in the form of a tornado! A horizontal tornado shredded everything in his fist's direction, tearing through tree after tree. It destroyed the earth where it passed, shredding everything it touched. Finally the wind died down leaving Naruto, who was gaping at the destruction he caused with a single punch.

"This must be how Ace feels with his Hiken...Awesome…"

Speaking of Ace, "That was...Awesome!" He stood perfectly fine in front of him, his flames returning his body to its normal shape, "You literally threw a tornado out of your fist!" Then he realized it was over and patted his body before grinning, "Looks like I'm just fine too!"

Before Naruto could respond, Ain came over with an awed look on her face, "I keep forgetting how powerful Logia users are...And to think I found two of you in the same place." She gave a shaky laugh, "You two could become terrifying enemies." Shaking her head, she continued, "Anyways, I can answer your second question." Almost immediately, their attention were completely on her, "First of all, let me tell you something. Logia users can be hit by sea stone or by their weaknesses, so saying it's impossible to hit a Logia user is wrong. Devil fruits are really strange objects which is why it's hard to tell how different users could fare against each other. Some fruits that people would say are superior could be defeated by a fruit that is seen as weak. As you can see, Wind didn't affect Ace at all, he was perfectly fine, but Lightning did. Now let me tell you something else, their is a superiority ranking between similar types of devil fruits. For example, between Naruto's lightning and Ace's fire, there's the similarity of heat. Lightning is hotter than fire which is why Naruto can hit you with his lightning. If something is hotter than fire, Ace, then that means they can hit you. Other things that can be factors of this is weight, coldness, hardness, etc."

Ace nodded in understanding, it was rather overwhelming, but he understood it, "Then why can I hit Naruto if he's hotter than me?"

"Damn right, I am."

"Shut up."

Ain interrupted them before they could continue, "The next thing you should know is that most devil fruits have something you could call a 'weakness'. Now, in Naruto's case, he is a storm. The combination of wind, lightning, rain, etc, which means he can be hit by anything that is strong against any of the elements in a storm. In this case it is wind. Ace, you probably noticed when Naruto started using his wind that your flames started getting brighter, stronger, and bigger. This is because wind makes fire stronger. If wind were to fight fire, wind would lose because it is strengthening fire. That's why you can hit Naruto because wind is weak to fire. Since he is a storm, he is always wind. That means you'll always be able to hit him. On the other hand, Naruto, you can only hit Ace when you're using lightning. That's why you both are capable of hitting each other, I would keep this in mind if I were you. It's good to know your weaknesses…"

(A.N. - Incorporated the element cycle from the Naruto World.)

XxFallen-PrincexX

Flashback Over

"Good morning, Ain!" Ace chirped happily, successfully knocking Naruto out of his thoughts, "What brings you to our humble abode?"

"Do you realize what time it is?"

Her voice was calm, collected, without any sign of emotion or hesitance. A few words carried more power than most people had in their bodies. She had the perfect mask, for there was no way that was her true face, and that is why Ace wants her in his crew. Of course, he still didn't ask her yet...

Ace glanced at Naruto who shrugged in response, "Sevenish?"

Ace nodded and turned to Ain, "It is Sevenish. You woke up pretty early today!"

He thought he saw her eyebrow twitch slightly, almost unnoticeably, but it was over as fast as it started, leaving only the imagination of what could've possibly happened in that brief moment.

But whatever sort of annoyance that took over her a few moments ago vanished, replaced by the mask once more, "Do you know why I woke up early?"

"Because the love you have for me was burning ever-so-bright last night so you couldn't just wait to see me and woke up early to tell me that you love me." Naruto responded, his eyes eagerly waiting for her love confession.

Ace chuckled, this time clearly seeing her eyebrow twitching and watched as a pink hue started to appear and disappear around his body. She attempted to maintain her calm as Naruto spoke, but he seemed to have a way to get under her skin. Naruto landed the finishing blow, "But you don't have to tell me, really it's fine. I could hear your screams of adoration from the village...Although, you should've been a bit considerate to the other people residing in the village. You probably woke them all up."

Ace shook his head in a disappointed fashion and watched as Ain glared at them, her mask slowly crumbling as she spoke coldly, a trembling in her voice telling him that she was barely restraining herself from screaming her head off, "No! You idiots! You," She pointed at Naruto, "And you!" She pointed at Ace and continued coolly, but even though she didn't raise her voice, it was rather terrifying, "You two are absolutely moronic. You woke up the entire village with your fight. The shockwaves had so much force you almost destroyed entire houses! You woke up everyone, and they almost died of fear! And, more importantly, you woke me up!"

Ace looked at Ain, curious as to what she wanted them to say, before speaking, "...Wait, wait, wait...You're more upset with us waking you up rather than waking the whole village up...How selfish."

Naruto let a laugh escape his lips before jumping into the sky, his eyes popping out as a pink hand touched the ground, instantly reverting the ground to 12 years ago. The ground was now uneven, a small part of it lower than the other. Naruto shouted, his eyes wide, "Why are you attacking me? He's the one who said it!"

"Shut up and die, pervert!"

"I told you that was an accident!"

Ace watched this all in amusement, a laugh building up in his throat as Naruto popped from one side of the field to the other, dodging her blows at the last moment. His amusement slowly died out as Ace watched Naruto carefully, looking for any mistakes in his manipulation of his Logia fruit. He nodded in confirmation, Naruto has gotten much stronger these past two weeks. Sure, he wasn't even close to perfecting his fruit, but he was capable of manipulating it as effectively as Ace was. He managed to create a few techniques, most for his lightning manipulation but there was one for the wind. His eyes went to the flash of light and saw Naruto appear on the other side of the field. He was certainly a lot faster now. He was capable of transforming and reforming into his element at will now, and also capable of turning intangible whenever a physical attack hits him. It only took him two weeks to get to that level, which was extremely impressive. The amount of raw potential he had reminded him of his brothers and himself.

Ace looked up at the sun, he supposed there wasn't any reason to stay here anymore. He was going to stay here until Naruto had a good grasp on his fruit and, after two weeks, he finally was. Flames flickered off of his body as his excitement took ahold of him. It was time to leave, it was time to start his journey as a pirate…

It was time to find a reason to exist.

His eyes moved to the laughing blonde, a person who had already managed to become his friend in less than two weeks. How would he respond to knowing the identity of his father? His thoughts moved back to all those times he asked people,

"If Gol D. Roger had a kid? That little bastard would be killed myself after I torture him a little bit."

"He'd be nothing but scum like his father."

"He should die a dog's death."

"His existence would be meaningless."

Ace's eyes hardened in rage, a cold anger that consumed his very being. Yes, it wouldn't do to tell Naruto. His mind flashed to Luffy, his happy-go-lucky little brother, and Sabo, his deceased fellow older brother, and a warm smile embraced his lips. Not everyone was like Luffy and Sabo, who could accept him without batting an eye. Brothers so amazing, they burned brighter than he did even after Ace consumed the Mera Mera no Mi.

He was ripped out of his thoughts as a hand grabbed his shoulder…And threw him flying across the field like a bullet. Ace didn't even manage to let his voice escape his lips before he smashed into Ain, which meant the one who threw him was Naruto. They tumbled across the ground and ended up lying next to each other as laughter echoed across the entire field.

"Ahahahaha! Ace I could've easily kicked your ass right now if I wanted to! And Ain...You can never touch this!" Naruto teased, waving his arms down his body is a sexual fashion.

Their eyebrows twitched simultaneously.

A few moments later found Naruto lying on the ground, a smirk on his face and a bump on his head, while Ace and Ain sat beside him, annoyance flickering in their eyes. They sat like that for a few moments before Ain spoke, "I apologize...For my violent display."

Naruto glanced at the tiny blush that tinted her cheeks red and spoke, "Don't worry about it. I know you're just covering your lust for me with cruelty and violence."

Her eyebrow twitched.

A few moments later found Naruto lying on the floor with a second bump on his head and a satisfied grin on his face. Ain stood beside him, the color on her face, which was either from anger or embarrassment, was rather impressive, while Ace watched the scene in amusement.

Ain coughed in an attempt to regain her composure, which took a bit longer than it usually did, before speaking, her voice calm and emotionless once more, "Anyways. I came here to warn you of something."

Ace glanced upwards, curiosity dancing in his eyes, "Hmm. What is it?"

"You've caused a...huge commotion here. You annihilated a Marine base-"

"Hey! That wasn't me! That was Naruto!" Ace complained, pointing at the blonde beside him.

Naruto glared at him and replied, his voice high and squeaky as he imitated Ace's voice, "I'm your captain, your problems are my problems. We'll figure it out together!"

Ain interrupted their dispute, knowing if she let them go on they would continue forever, although she was curious about what he meant by 'captain'. She continued, "You destroyed half of the village's forest." Ace looked like he wanted to say something, but then he nodded in consent, he did destroy a lot of this area. She continued, "And, finally, you've been waking them up in the middle of the night with screams. They think you're monsters and has requested new Marines to be stationed here and to kill you animals. Luckily, they don't really know how you look like, so if you leave here soon you'll be fine. Hurry, the Marines will be here soon."

Ace took this all in easily and nodded, "Well, we were going to leave soon anyways, might as well leave being chased by Marines." Before he could say anything, he saw Naruto's ear twitch before speaking, "Yeah...They're already here, actually. They're running over to the forest, there's like a hundred of them. Four marine ships has pulled in as well! We should probably leave...Like now."

Ace looked towards Ain and smiled, "Thank you for the information!"

"Thanks, Ain-chan!"

Ain replied, looking oddly excited as she spoke, "I have a suggestion. You can come with me! I doubt you wanted to be chased by Marines so yo-"

She was cut off as Naruto waved her off with an amused smile on his face, "Thank you for the offer, but we were going to be chased by the Marines eventually. Might as well happen in the beginning instead of the end, makes it more interesting that way." He looked into the sky, "We are Pirates after all."

Ace grinned at Naruto, "Couldn't have said it better myself, Vice Captain Fishcake."

"I prefer Maelstrom."

If someone dropped a coin right now, you could probably hear it hit the ground. The wind itself seemed to have stopped, there was no noise anywhere. It was absolutely silent like the calm before the storm. Ace looked towards Naruto, but he looked just as confused as he did. He watched as Naruto's face paled a bit as he turned behind him. Ace rose an eyebrow and turned around, immediately understanding what was happening.

It was Ain.

A cold rage burned in her eyes as she stared at the two of them and her hair seemed to swirl angrily behind her. Pink energy appeared and disappeared around her body, swirling forebodingly around her fists as she glared coldly at them. Ace nodded in understanding, this is what Naruto said she looked like when he was kicked in the balls. Thankfully, he wasn't too distracted with his thoughts and managed to catch her next words, "...Pirates? You two are Pirates."

Naruto chirped, "Just starting, but, yeah, we're pirates."

The air seemed to freeze as her eyes stared straight through them, "Why? Why would you ever become pirates. Why would you ever choose to become the scum of the earth."

Why? Ace felt a smile slowly creep on his face, this question brought up pleasant memories of when he lived with Luffy and Sabo. They were asked so many times as to why they would want to be Pirates and not Marines. They were asked that every day.

And his answer never changed once.

"So we can be free."

He saw Naruto glance at him from the corner of his eyes, and saw the approving and impressed glint that danced within those blue orbs. His eyes immediately shot towards Ain, "And we won't let anyone take our freedom away."

Ain's eyes, that were looking towards the ground, shot up and met his. Her red eyes burned with...righteousness? She spoke, "I apologize. But I will not just be taking away your freedom, but your lives as well. I thought we could be friends, I thought that you could join us...But it seems I was wrong."

Ace heard Naruto speak, "Could be friends?" He chuckled, amusement dancing his eyes, "Don't be foolish. We've been friends since you've entered our lives."

He swore he saw a flash of hesitance, pain, remorse, but it was all taken away by that emotionless mask that has been crafted, implemented, and implanted into her personality. Her hands glowed a deep pink, "...I'm sorry." Even her usual emotionless eyes, held more sorrow than he was used to, but they hardened as she whispered, "Modo Modo Hakudo!"

Her hands glowed a bright pink and she shot forward, her hands reaching towards Naruto, but missed as he disappeared from sight. Reappearing behind her with the sound of thunder striking, his hand held out as he touched her neck with two fingers,"Raiton: Hyakuman Vari."

Green electricity shocked her body before disappearing immediately making her seem like she had a seizure, but it only lasted for a single moment before her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she crumpled towards the ground. She hit the floor, laying there twitching slightly with smoke coming off of her entire body.

Ace rose an eyebrow at Naruto, "You do know that even if she touched you, it wouldn't affect you. And even if she could touch you, you're lightning. You can't run out of lightning, you're always producing it, so it doesn't matter how many times she reverts you twelve years to the past."

Naruto rubbed the back of his sheepishly, "Yeah...I panicked. But I didn't hurt her too badly!"

Ace sighed before smiling slightly, "Doesn't matter! Pick her up and let's go!"

Naruto rose an eyebrow, "She's coming with us?" As he said this, he was picking her up, making it obvious that he was going to bring her even if Ace said not to.

"Of course! She's a part of our crew now!" Ace chirped with a happy grin on his face.

"She seems to hate pirates," Naruto replied, a slightly amused smile on his face.

"She'll be fine. We're friends! All friends start off with shaky starts! None of us really know each other at all, hell, we've only met two weeks ago! This is a start of an adventure! A start where we become the best of friends! A Nakama!" Ace said with a grin as he walked forward with Naruto following, carrying Ain in his arms bridal style.

"Shouldn't you ask her at least?" Naruto tried again, but he should've realized it was futile.

"Good idea!" He spun on the heels of his feet and looked down at Ain, "Would you like to join my pirate crew. We're going to be the best crew out on the sea."

He waited a moment, as if he expected a response, before grinning at Naruto, "She didn't say no! Let's get going!"

Naruto watched him walk away, whistling a happy tune all the while, before bursting out into laughter, "So that's what happened to me, eh." He looked down at Ain, smiling warmly, "Looks like we got caught up with some strange guy…Don't worry though, we'll help you too. I promise."

He walked forward, barely noticing how she snuggled into his chest unconsciously.

They walked in silence for a few moments before Naruto began, "So...How about you let me become Captain?"

Ace didn't even need a second to respond, "Nope."

Naruto pouted, "But...I like being the leader!"

"Too bad."

Naruto sighed, "Fine." His voice lost it's playful attitude as his eyes glinted in a serious fashion, "Anyways, it's been two weeks. We should talk about my conditions of joining your crew."

Ace raised an eyebrow, but motioned for him to continue, "First, if I ever have a chance to learn something about my life, I'm taking it and you won't be able to stop me."

Ace nodded with an easy smile, "That's completely fine."

Naruto continued, raising two fingers, "Second, if you ever join another crew and give up your position as Captain, I'm leaving."

Ace smirked, "I won't be joining any other crews; so, this condition is rather useless, but I accept nonetheless."

Naruto rose a third finger, "Third...You're letting me recruit members from now on!"

Ace protested immediately, "What! Why?"

Naruto deadpanned at him, "You have a certain way of recruiting people that makes them want to kick you in the balls."

Ace paled, "What the hell! Even you?"

Naruto nodded, "Would you like me to give you an example?"

Ace immediately shook his head before responding, aghast, "What do I do?"

"You blackmail people, you don't give anyone a choice...You're pretty much a kidnapper," Naruto replied bluntly, "What am I missing? Oh, you're a smug asshole too."

Ace pouted, "Fine...Any other conditions?"

"I want to kick you in the balls before officially joining your crew!" Naruto replied, a foxy grin on his face.

"Screw off."

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"So...How are we getting out of this one, Captain?" Naruto questioned, waving his hand at the purpose of his question. They were at the shore where the four Marines ships were docked. The entire dock were filled with Marines...A lot of Marines. It was impossible to count them all...Since, you know, he actually had a life and he wasn't going to waste it by counting Marines.

Ace looked at him strangely, "I thought you were the one coming up with the plan?"

They continued to walk forward, even after hearing the Marines cock their guns at them. They were walking straight up to them as if they expected the hundreds of Marines to just leave; of course, the Marines didn't.

The Pirate duo were simply walking through them all.

Naruto rose an eyebrow, "You're the captain, aren't you supposed to be the one who develops the plans?"

Ace shrugged, "I don't know. Anyone can make the plan as long as it's a good plan."

Naruto nodded, "I get it. So how about we just kick all of their asses and then get on your ship."

Ace grinned under the shadow produced by his orange hat, "I like that. But one problem."

Naruto glanced at him, "Yeah?"

"We can't all fit in my ship." Ace pointed at his boat on the shore, "I have a dingey...It could barely fit me."

Naruto deadpanned, "You're not striking me as a very good Pirate."

"Since when are Pirates good?"

"Touché. Let's just take one of theirs then?" Naruto responded lazily, his head nodding at the ship they were walking towards.

Ace nodded, "Sounds good to me."

Naruto continued, "You secure the ship and I'll play with the guys out here."

Ace complained, a frown taking place on his place, "What? No fair! I want to fight too!"

Naruto grinned, "Too bad! I called them first!"

Ace crossed his arms, "I'm fighting too."

Sighing in annoyance, Naruto relented, "Fine. Whoever finishes first can secure the ship."

"Stop moving and surrender!" Their eyes turned towards the Marine who called them out; he was in the middle of all the Marines, "Put down the girl and surrender."

"Surrender?" Naruto laughed, "You obviously don't know what a pirate is about." He looked towards the sky thoughtfully before humming to himself, "I suppose I don't really know either." A fox-like smirk slowly made its way onto his face as he brought his gaze back down at the marines, "Which is why I'll just carve my own definition of what a Pirate is!"

Naruto threw Ain high into the air before dashing forward, "Let's separate."

The Marines gawked at the audacious move of the blonde...Who the hell throws girls in the air like that? Meanwhile, Ace simply smirked, "She's going to kill you if she realises what you just did, you know."

"What she doesn't know won't hurt her!" Naruto replied cheekily as he started taking down Marine after Marine.

Naruto tilted his head a hair's length to the right just before a sword cut where he was just positioned and immediately jabbed his elbow into the man's side, sending him flying with a strangled scream. Hopping into the air as two men attempted to decapitate his body, not that it would work, he gripped their heads with his hands and slamming them into the ground. He heard footsteps approaching him, five or six men were surrounding him with their swords about to be swung down, but Naruto simply sighed in boredom. He spun his hands on the men's head and windmilled kicked every man around him, sending them flying away.

He held his hands out and caught Ain with his arms before immediately tossing her back into the air, ignoring the disbelief from the other Marines.

Naruto groaned in annoyance, "This is so boring. Why are you guys so weak?" He placed his hands in his pockets as he looked down at the mass group of people he defeated with ease. At least thirty people laid around him and he rolled his eyes, "Capture me my ass."

He heard the sound of guns cocking and raised his head in interest. Marines surrounded him from every side, their guns cocked and ready to fire. He saw the captain bring his hand down and bullets made its way towards him. The Marines cheered as his body was filled with holes, glad that the monster who could take down a hundred Marines without breaking a sweat was finally dead.

He almost let out a laugh as their eyes widened in terror and stumbled backwards as his body reformed, looking as if nothing has happened to it. He supposed he shouldn't be shocked, devil fruits are rare in the East Blue, not like in the Grand Line...Which is where they were heading next.

"Those who shoot," Naruto brought his fingers up, "Must be prepared to get SHOT!" Their eyes closed in fear...Only to open again as they heard the blonde sigh, "I forgot...I don't have a gun attack. Damn it! That would've been so badass. Oh, well. I'll just blow them away."

He rose his palm into the sky and wind began to dance around it before slamming it into the ground, "Futon: Seikara (Wind Release: Gale Palm)!"Almost immediately, a gust of wind bursted around his palm and out towards the Marines surrounding him. They weren't strong enough to put up a guard strong enough to withstand the powerful gusts and were immediately blown into the sky.

Naruto held out his arms once again and caught Ain softly in his arms, tucking a stray hair that fell on her forehead behind her ear while he looked down at her to check if she was hurt or not. Sighing in relief, he looked around him and noted that all the Marines he was in charge of were taken care of and there was no one else to deal with. Seeing this, he looked towards the port and saw Marines guarding the ships at the shore.

Naruto rolled his eyes, it didn't matter what they did, he would still get through. He closed his eyes and took a breath, holding Ain's body tightly against his chest. Electricity danced off of his body before he opened his eyes, his body bursting into a green aura that rippled off of his body. Before the Marines could even shoot, Naruto was gone. He shot through all of the Marines in his way, sending all of them flying, and reappeared on the top of the boat.

He called back towards Ace, "Don't take too long." He turned to the Marines that remained on the ship, their eyes wide as they gawked at him. A smirk crept on his face as he looked at them, his blue eyes glowing with power, "Well, boys. Shall we dance?"

He blurred out of the way as bullets tore through the air and sped towards him. He easily made it in between four marines, who were in the midst of drawing their blades, while he held Ain tightly in his arms, "I don't even need my arms to deal with you."

All the Marines saw was his leg flicker and then the men surrounding him were sent flying off the ship. His amused blue eyes followed the Marines as they hesitantly took a step backwards, but there was no mercy in those blue eyes. He blurred across the deck, dancing in between bullets and men, easily destroying any figure that dared to stand against. A storm of fists, uncontrollable and deadly.

At least fifty Marines were knocked out within a minute and his cold blue eyes bored down on the rest of their group, "If you hate me," He raised his hand, electricity dancing across his arm, "Hate yourself for making an enemy out of me."

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A blinding flash of light covered the shore, followed by the sound of the sky rumbling. Ace glared at the ship in annoyance, "Damn it, Naruto! Don't destroy the ship!"

He quickly finished the Marine leftovers before jumping into the air, pushing flames out of his feet for a boost, easily making it towards the Ship's deck to where he met the sight of Naruto throwing the bodies of the Marines back onto the island.

"That was boring," Ace complained causing Naruto to grin at him.

"Agreed, but they were just cannon fodder anyways, it'll be more interesting when we fight stronger people." Naruto spoke as he dumped the last body over the ship before looking at Ace questioningly, "We are going to have better fights...right?"

Ace simply smirked, "Of course."

"Where to now?"

Ace looked towards the ocean and he felt excitement build up in his body, "We're going to where every great journey starts...The Grand Line."

"What are we going to do there," Naruto asked, leaning against the ship as he stared at Ace who met his eyes with excitement.

"We're going to shake this entire world."

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And, finally, the third chapter has finished indicating not just the end of the Introduction Arc, but also the start of the New Beginnings Arc! Get pumped, get hyped because it all begins in the next chapter!

Anyways, there's really not much to say this chapter except for the usual! This chapter was necessary even if it was a bit slow, but the plot finally begins next chapter! Look forward to it!

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Devil Fruits

Sora Sora no Mi

Raiton (Lightning Release)

First technique ever created by Naruto and is the building block for every technique Naruto has used so far. It can be used for various things such as electricity manipulation, but, most commonly, it is used to plate Naruto's body with electricity to increase his speed, power, and heat held within an attack.

Raiton: Vari (Lightning Release: Discharge)

Vari is a technique that sends out various levels of electric charges, capable of a simple taze or as powerful as destroying an entire forest. It can be used by touch or blasts of energy. Naruto used this to knock out Ain and also used this to counter Ace's Kagero.

Ration: Hyakuman Vari (Lightning Release: One Million Voltage Discharge)

Raiton: Raiken (Lightning Release: Lightning fist)

Raiken is a technique that seals high voltage energy within Naruto's arm and contains it there. Unlike Ace's Hiken which covers a huge distance, Naruto's attack is skinny, as skinny as his arm, and comes out as an extremely powerful lightning bolt with the shape of a fist. While small, it is capable of piercing near anything and one strike is enough to kill any opponent through the destruction of their nervous system and charge it unleashes within them.

Futon: Shiroima (Wind Release: White Current)

Wind is willed to swirl around Naruto's arm in high speeds, looking like a miniature twister. When Naruto releases it, it shreds everything in its past and is capable of destroying even the ground in the form of a horizontal twister.

Futon: Seikara (Wind Release: Gale Palm)

Releases a powerful gust of wind that blows away everything that gets hit by the blast. Naruto was seen using this by slamming it into the ground and releasing a circular gust around him, successfully blowing away the Marines surrounding him.

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