Welcome my followers to another chapter of 'Maelstrom Naruto'. Hope you guys (and girls) enjoy it.

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

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

NOTE: Margaret-viz dub Marguerite (will use viz).

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

Naruto characters are included in story.

Disclaimer:I do not own Naruto or One Piece

Chapter Four: Arlong Park Falls!

"Slash-Splash fruit?" Arlong said as he looked at Naruto and his reformed body. "I've never heard of a Devil Fruit like that before, or one that allows a person to turn into water."

"That shows how little you know about Devil Fruits." Naruto said with a smirk. "Devil Fruits are classified into three types: Paramecia, Zoan, Logia. Paramecia types would give superhuman powers that could affect a person's body, their environment, or produce some kind of substance. Luffy is an example of that. Zoan types give a person the ability to transform into a certain kind of animal, either real or mythical. And Logia types allow a person to turn into, and control a specific element."

"So i'm guessing that you're a Logia user then?" Arlong stated as Naruto nodded.

"That's right, I ate a Water-Type Logia fruit. Now I can create, manipulate, and become water at will. Perfect for someone like me, the enigma of all the Devil Fruits for an enigma of a person." Naruto said as he got into a fighting stance. "It would be useless to tell you to stay out of this, wouldn't it Luffy?"

"Damn right it is! Now let's do this!" Luffy shouted as he rushed at Arlong. "Gum-Gum Bell!"

Luffy stretched his head back before retracting it back and headbutting Arlong and sending him backwards. "Now, Whip!" he yelled as he stretched his leg and kick the fishman in the side. Arlong skidded until he was near the front of the building, before he could think about what to do next he saw a ring of water circle around his body, Naruto smirked as he saw Arlong stuck in his trap and did lifting motion with his index finger by pointing upwards.

"Waterspout." Naruto said as the water beneath Arlong shot up with him in it and sent him into the air. Naruto launched himself off the ground and into the air above Arlong and spun forward and sent the fishman back down with a heel kick.

Arlong landed with a loud CRASH! as he made a crater when he landed. The villagers look in awe at the powers the brothers possessed as Naruto landed on the ground and Luffy walked up next to him.

"You think he's dead?" Luffy asked his brother.

"Nah, those attack wouldn't have killed him. Besides, I want to make that same-teme pay for what he has done to both Nami and the villagers over the years." Naruto said as he cracked his knuckles.

"You are a pair of fools." Arlong's voice rung out as the people watched him rise up out of the crater. "You think you can beat me, let alone kill me. Your doing nothing but making me more angry!"

Arlong stood up and walked out of the crater, blood running out of his mouth as he wiped it away. "First you have the balls to come into my park and threaten me, then you make me watch as you crush my brothers like worms. I'll make you all pay."

"Big talk coming from someone who's already got his ass beaten!" Luffy said as he looked at Arlong's condition. It looked like he wouldn't last much longer in his shape.

"You brat! I'll show you, and you know why? It's because of what makes us different." Arlong growled out as Naruto and Luffy gained confused looks.

"What makes us different." Naruto said

"Do you mean our noses?" Luffy asked.

"No our jaws."

"..."

"..."

"No wait I got it! Webbing!" Luffy said pointing to his hand.

"SPECIES!" Arlong yelled as he tried to bit the two pirates, who quickly moved out of the way as not to get bitten. Arlong chased after the two brother before Naruto turned around and tried to punch him, but the fishman ducked under his punch and waved his hand at the blond and sent water into his stomach.

Naruto jolted in pain as he felt the water hit him. 'Sea water!?' he thought before Arlong pushed him out of the way and headed towards Luffy. The rubber teen quickly move backwards as to avoid the sharp teeth the Arlong possessed until the fishman launched his hand forward and pinned the teen's neck against a pillar behind him. Arlong tried to bite Luffy again but Luffy grabbed his head and pulled it to the side, having Arlong biting the pillar instead.

"That must be painful." Usopp said."His teeth must be stuc..." He stopped when the pillar Arlong bit started to crumble.

"He bit through that stone pillar!" Johnny exclaimed with his jaw-dropped.

"Scary!" Luffy said as he quickly moved away from the fishman.

'Holy crap! Those teeth must be as hard as steel to do that. If Luffy or Naruto get bitten by him they lose a part of their body.' Sanji thought as he looked at the fishman's strength. Nojiko and Genzo sat beside him as they had the same thoughts on their minds.

"This." Arlong said as he turned around. "Is the true power of the fishmen race. The heavens themselves made this distinction between us. You humans only have the strength to live beneath us. I should feel sorry for you humans. We're on a whole different level and have been since the dawn of time." Arlong grinned. "You're inferior, so it's only natural to bow before me." He started chuckling."You're weak, your mere presence is deplorable to the earth."

Arlong gave a bloodthirsty grin."Why don't I show you the difference between us?" He asked Luffy.

Luffy stood up and grinned at Arlong. "Sure. There's no way I'll lose to a fishman...Because I'm going to be King of the Pirates!" He exclaimed with a big toothy smile. Naruto smiled as he heard Luffy exclaim his dream like it was his catchphrase. He missed hearing him say stuff like that while he was journeying the seas.

"King of the Pirates?" Arlong said, picking up a big rock and proceeded to throw it up and catch it. "Don't be foolish, a human like you couldn't conquer the Grand Line. You can't even crush a pillar with your jaws."

"So what." Naruto spoke up. "You don't need teeth or jaw power to break stone…" He then walked over to a half destroyed pillar and punched it, breaking it even more leaving only a stump. "...we can easily break them with our fists!"

"Fools! That's not the point!" Arlong said getting angry with the humans in front of him "The whole human race is pathetic! What good are you if you can't even get yourself out of the water!" Arlong screamed dashing towards the brothers.

The two dodged Arlong's bite as they rolled to the side. Luffy stretched and grabbed a couple of swords some fishmen dropped. "That doesn't matter." He said bringing the swords up. "In fact I'm worthless without my friends." He just started to wildly swing them at Arlong who dodged everyone of them.

"What is this, a joke? All you're doing is just waving those things around." Arlong said as he used his nose to knock one of the swords out of Luffy's hand. "You should take this seriously." he said smirking down at Luffy. Luffy swung his other sword at Arlong's head but Arlong caught it in his mouth and broke it. "That's enough now die."

"Shut up!" Luffy said as he punched Arlong in his mouth, breaking his teeth as he hit the ground.

"He broke Arlong's teeth." A villager exclaimed in awe.

Luffy stared down at Arlong. "You're right, I don't know how to wield a sword you bastard!" He yelled.

"What the hell is he talking about?" Gin asked.

"I'm a terrible sailor, I definitely can't cook, I don't know how to use weapons, I can't even lie." "Hey!" Usopp yelled at Luffy's comment. "And I'm not as strong as Naruto." He said pointing at Arlong. "Without my friends I would've died a long time ago!" Luffy finished. Arlong started chuckling holding his mouth with his hands.

"So you finally admit how foolish you really are." He said sitting up. "I'll admit you're foolish, but you're honest. I wonder how your crew deals with your idiocy day in, and day out." He said staring at Luffy. "But that makes me wonder. Why do they fight for a dimwit of a leader like you?" Arlong asked.

"Someone like you doesn't even deserve a ship, or a crew." He said standing up. "What the hell can you do?" He asked Luffy.

Luffy just grinned. "I can kick your ass!"

All the villagers started cheering as Luffy cracked his fingers.

"Oi, Luffy. Don't go kicking his ass before I have a chance to." Naruto spoke up from behind Arlong.

"Can't promise you that."

"Why you-!"

"Cheer and bicker all you want, but it won't help!" Arlong yelled as his broken teeth fell out of his mouth and new one's took their place.

"H..He's got new teeth!" Luffy exclaimed wide eyed.

"I'm a shark." Arlong said with a grin. "New teeth will just grow, one after another, and each one stronger than the last." He said chuckling a little. He pulled his new set out. "Endlessly." He pulled the other set that just growed out in his other hand. "As many as it takes." Arlong said holding both sets of teeth in each hand. "This is one of the gifts fishmen have, now you see why we are superior?" He asked clacking his set of teeth.

"Tooth Attack!" He dashed and attacked Luffy with his two sets of teeth. Luffy moved backwards as Arlong continued to attack Luffy as the rubber boy until Luffy grabbed his arm in an attempt to flip Arlong over his shoulder, but the fishman used his position to send one of his teeth at Luffy as the rubber teen widened his eyes.

"BIG BRO LUFFY!" Johnny and Yosaku yelled as everyone watched as Arlong attacked the person in front of him while he was laughing like a maniac. As Arlong continued to attack the rubber man with his twin steel-like teeth he stopped when he felt what was blood spray across his eyes, he went to clean it away when he looked at his hand and widened his eyes at what he saw.

'Water?' He looked back towards the person he was attacking when he saw Naruto crouched in front of him protecting Luffy with several chunks and bite marks over his arms and head that he had transformed into water. "What?!"

Naruto quickly shot his leg up and kicked Arlong in the jaw, sending the fishman back a bit as his teeth fell out along with the ones he was holding, and sent him back a few feet. "I hate having chunks of my body being chewed out." Naruto said standing up as his wounds healed up.

"Huh? You've been eaten before?" Luffy asked.

"Can't say that I have, but it's a pain in the ass to transform." Naruto said as he picked up one of Arlong's teeth. "Impressive power for a set of dentures."

"Hmm…" Luffy looked at the teeth in thought.

"You fools." Arlong said sitting up eyes shadowed wiping a little blood off of his lip. "You really don't get it do you?" Arlong asked a new set of teeth in his mouth.

"All I understand is that you really need to shut your mouth. I'm getting really tired of hearing your voice already." Naruto said.

"U-Umm, Big Bro Luffy, that doesn't seem very sanitary." Naruto heard Yosaku spurt out as he turned around and went deadpan as he looked at Luffy...with Arlong's teeth in his mouth.

"Look! Now I have shark teeth!"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"...what the?"

"WILL YOU STOP FOOLING AROUND!" Arlong yelled as he looked at what Luffy was doing with his teeth and went to rush at him past Naruto, but the blond pirate raised his arm to clotheslined Arlong as the fishman hit his arm and flipped over onto the ground.

"Luffy! Get that out of your mouth you don't know where that's been!" Naruto shouted as he turned to face Luffy.

"But didn't it come from Arlong?"

"That's not the point! Get those things out of your mouth!" Naruto yelled at Luffy as he walked over to him and forcibly took them out of the boy's mouth. He heard the sound of water splashing behind him and turned around to see Arlong no where in sight.

"Where is he?" Luffy asked.

"Guys, he's in the ocean!" Usopp yelled out quickly as the brothers looked to see a fin sticking out of the water before it went under.

"Luffy, don't let your guard down. His abilities have doubled now that he's in the water." Naruto said seriously as Luffy nodded his head and focused on the water.

'What is he up to? He can't do that much while we are on dry land and he's under so what...' Naruto thought as he looked at the rippling water. 'What, he's moving!'

"Shark Darts!" They heard Arlong shout out before he shot out of the water at incredible speeds and crashed into the building behind the brothers. Luffy held his right side as the shark fishman had been able to hit him as he rocketed out of the water. Naruto on the other hand was completely unharmed as the fishman focussed his attack on Luffy leaving Naruto to look at his little brother in worry and shock.

Arlong walked out of the rubble of the hole created on the second story and smirked as he looked down at the two humans. "I'm surprised you managed to dodge that attack rubber boy, well, at least most of it anyway." he said mockingly as Luffy glared at him. "But this next attack will send you both to hell! Shark Darts!"

Arlong darted towards as the rubber teen dodged which let Arlong hit the edge of the ground and let a dust cloud cover his form.

"W-What the hell? What is that fishman's body made of? His nose crushed the ground!" Gin said in terror as the townspeople and crew looked at the destruction caused by Arlong, the fishman darted out of the dust and toward Naruto.

The blond quickly brought his arms up and caught Arlong's nose between his hands as he held them together as they turned black. Arlong struggled against the blond pirate as Naruto smirked at him.

"You must be very proud of this nose of yours to use it as your main weapon!" Naruto said as he pushed back against Arlong.

"Thank you. It's very handy for killing human filth like you!" Arlong pushed back.

"Then you won't mind if I break this nose of yours then?"

"If you think you can, you're welcome to TRY!" Arlong shouted as he push against Naruto before he felt a pain in his side and was sent flying into the building, Naruto turned left and saw Luffy standing next to him as the teen's leg stretched back to him.

"I can handle someone like Arlong you know?" Naruto said as Luffy shrugged.

"I still want to kick his ass." Luffy said before looking at Naruto. "Say why were your arms black before?"

"I'll tell you later, but first listen up." Naruto said as he started whispering in Luffy's ear. "You got it?" He asked as Luffy nodded before turning to where Arlong was and felt a lot of killing intent radiating off of that spot. 'Boy, he seems pissed.'

"You... you…" Along's voice rung out from the dust. "YOU INFERIOR HUMAN FILTH!" Arlong emerged from the dust cloud as his eyes changed into ones seen on Sea Kings when they get angry. In his hand was a giant saw-like sword with six teeth.

"Oh no! It's the Shark Saw!" Nami said wide eyed.

"DIE!" Arlong yelled as he rushed at the two brothers.

"Luffy move!" Naruto said as he and Luffy dodged Arlong's strike, making the fishman more angry. As he went to attack the blond that started all this mess, Naruto disappeared and reappeared on the upper level, with Arlong still trying to attack him with his weapon. Naruto disappeared again and made it to the top floor when he saw Arlong once again on his tail.

'He's faster than before.' Naruto observed as be tensed his body when Arlong slashed at him with the giant sword and sent Naruto through the window. 'And stronger too!' He slowly stood up before taking another look around.

"You've nowhere to go now human!" Arlong said as he walked through the broken window, saw blade in hand. "This is the end."

"What is this room?" Naruto said.

"You don't know? This is the room where Nami made all these wonderful maps." Arlong said as he looked around.

"Maps?" Naruto said as he looked around again and saw the piles of paper around the place before glaring at Arlong. "I see."

"These are all of the maps and charts nami has drawn in the past eight years. We fishmen can easily gather information about the ocean, but turning that information into a map is a difficult task. We needed a surveyor. That's where Nami comes in. That girl is truly a genius when it comes to creating charts." Arlong continued talking, but Naruto stopped listening as he stepped on something and looked down. He noticed a pen on the floor and crouched down to grab it before bringing it to his face. His eyes were shadowed by his hat as he stared at the pen.

"This pen…" He trailed off as he saw it stained with blood. Arlong held his weapon at Naruto, his neck between two of the blades. "Do you understand? She has her place in the world, and it's by my side. Do you think that you or that rubber bastard can ever use her as well as I can?"

Naruto, with his eyes still shadowed, felt rage stir within him as he placed the pen on the floor and held onto one of the blades with one hand, which wiped Arlong's smirk off his face. He tightened his grip on the blade before it shattered, startling Arlong.

"WHAT?!" Arlong shouted before Naruto looked up and glared at him.

"USE HER?!" Naruto yelled as he released a wave of Haki.

Outside

Everyone stared at the room Naruto and Arlong disappeared into. They wondered what was happening before they all froze in their tracks. A few people started passing out, scaring the others.

"Naruto." Nami said before a crash could be heard. Everyone looked to see a desk falling from the room, which was soon followed by other bits of furniture, slashes of air and thousands of maps. Everyone was staring at the scene as Nami remembered all of the horrible memories she had in that room and felt them all fade away as each piece of furniture crashed on the group and each piece of paper floated away in the wind or went into the ocean. Her hand went to her mouth as she cried at the sight. "Thank you."

Inside

"You... bastard!" Arlong grunted as he was now being held up by his neck by Naruto.

"I don't care about Nami's maps or your race's superiority." Naruto said before he brought Arlong closer to him. "I just care about my friends happiness, and your in the way!" he said as he threw Arlong across the room and into the wall. "I could have finished you off before this battle even started but I wanted to make you suffer like you have been making Nami and her village suffer for years, well no more. I'll destroy you."

"I'll start by destroying this room in Arlong Park. So long as this room exists, Nami can never be happy. So It's gotta go!" Naruto said with a serious face.

"Fool! I refuse to let Arlong Park be destroyed by some inferior human!" Arlong said before he started another attack.

"Oh, you're wrong. I'm not one one going to destroy it." Naruto said with a smirk as Arlong looked at him confused. He then heard someone shouting outside.

"Gum-Gum..."

"It can't be, impossible!" Arlong shouted.

"Get ready to be defeated Arlong!" Naruto said with a smirk.

"Never! SHARK TOOTH DRILL!" he shouted as he spun at a high speed toward Naruto. The blond waited until the fishman was close and quickly grabbed ahold of him and stopped him in his tracks.

"Battle Axe!" They heard Luffy screamed as they saw the rubber teen's foot crash through the ceiling and stomp right on Arlong. Luffy shouted as he sent Arlong through the floors of the building as it to collapse around Naruto. As Luffy was stretching his leg back Naruto took a hold of it and went up with it towards the teen.

The people below looked at the building with wide eyes as they saw the object of their pain and suffering being broken apart until it finally stopped and left nothing but a pile rubble in it's place. They watched as Naruto and Luffy landed on top of the rubble.

"Well that was fun." Naruto said as he sat down on a piece of rubble. "Don't you think so Luffy? Luffy?" he asked as he looked behind him and saw Luffy standing up and looking at the crowd of villagers and crew members. Luffy took a deep breath.

"NAMI!" Luffy yelled out. "NAMI, YOU'LL ALWAYS BE MY FRIEND!" Luffy yelled at the top of his lungs. Nami just stared at him with wide eyes before she started to tear up.

"Yeah." she said with a smile as the tears fell. Naruto and the other Straw Hats smiled as he heard what he said while the villagers started to let everything they've just seen sink in.

"He won?"

"He won!"

"We won!"

"BIG BRO WON!"

"ARLONG PARK HAS FALLEN!" someone yelled out. Soon the whole village cried out in joy as they cheered. Finally, after eight long years, they were all finally free.

"Isn't that great sis?" Sanji asked as he tried to hug Nojiko, but missed when she hugged Genzo.

"Nojiko, am I dreaming? To think this day has finally come." Genzo said as the villagers started tossing Luffy and Naruto into the air into the air, happy to be free at last.

"You guys did it! You deserve the praise!" Usopp shouted out. "I mean I could have done it better but who am I too steal the spotlight away from you two!"

"Jeez." Sanji said as he watched everyone. "You guys had us worried from time to time at least try to be quicker beating the bad guys next time." The cheering stopped for a second when everyone slipped and Luffy hit the ground. The good mood came back when Luffy started laughing, with everyone laughing as well.

"Huh?" Luffy said as he felt his straw hat being placed on his head. He looked back to see Nami smiling at him. Both stood up and gave each other a high-five. Everyone cheered and danced where they were.

"That's enough celebrating." came a voice. Everyone looked to see Captain Nezumi with some bandages on his hand and foot and a few dozen marines behind him aiming their guns at everyone. Everyone glared as Nezumi laughed.

"Chi chi chi chi. Well this is my lucky day. Never did I think that a bunch of puny pirates would defeat Arlong and his fishmen. But thanks to that, all of the money that I was supposed to give to Arlong now belongs to me along with all of the treasure in the park."

Everyone looked ready to kill Nezumi when he said that. "Now, everyone, drop your weapons. I, Captain Nezumi of the Marines, will be taking the credit for everything here~!" he said before he started screaming in terror.

"I see you try to rain on these people's parade. Now that's just rude." Zoro said as he had Nezumi's head in hand.

A moment later

"I'm a Captain in the marines." Nezumi mumbled in pain as he and all his marines were bleeding, broken, and crying with all the Straw Hat fighters and Naruto standing behind them. "I-If you lay one finger on me, I won't let you live..."

"Shut up." Naruto said as he kicked his head softly. Nami then came over with her staff in hand.

"This is for shooting Nojiko, and for messing with Bellemere's tangerine grove." she said as Nezumi looked at her confused before she smacked him with her staff sending him flying across the water before sinking.

"Captian!"

"Thanks Nami. I feel better already." Nojiko said.

"He deserves 1,000 more beatings were that came from!" Genzo said as Nezumi came back up to breathe. Nami walked over to him and started pulling the whiskers on his face.

"Listen very carefully, because I'm only going to say this once." she said in a calm voice. Behind her Naruto ginned as he cracked his knuckles.

"Okay. I'm listening." Nezumi squeaked out, fearful of what Nami or the man behind her might do.

"You are going to clean up this mess and take care of Arlong and his men, then you're going to rebuild Gosa village." she said. "And you're not to touch the money in Arlong Park, it's the islands money, got it?"

"Right. I understand, I'll do anything you say" Nezumi said.

"Good. Now get off our island!" she shouted as she let his whiskers go. He swam off a bit before turning around.

"You'll pay for this! All of you! You there, the one with the straw hat! You said your name is Monkey D. Luffy. Correct?!"

"That's right." Luffy said.

"You'll be big after messing with me! And you too 'Ocean Master'! Mark my words!" Nezumi shouted before he swam away.

"He said we're going to be famous." Sanji said.

"How'd he know I was gonna be the King of the Pirates?" Luffy asked.

"He wasn't talking about that, you numbskull!" Zoro yelled at him.

"What do we do now!? If we become notorious, what'll happen to us?" Usopp yelled as he pointed towards the retreating marines.

"We'll be hunted down most likely." Gin said.

"You're not helping!" As Luffy and his crew started talking, the doctor, Nako spoke up.

"What are you all waiting for?" he shouted. "We can't keep this to ourselves! Spread the word to the whole island! ARLONG PARK IS NO MORE!"

"YEEEEAAAAAH!" they all shouted before they took off to share the good news with everyone.

While this was going on Nojiko, Genzo and Nako all looked at the group of talking to Nami as they all laughed and smiled.

"To think that we would be saved by pirates, what is the world coming to?" Genzo said with a smile as he shook his head. 'Seems like you can finally rest in peace... Bellemere.'

Later that day

The party was in full swing. Dancing, singing, music, and everyone smiling and laughing their hearts out.

"AAAHHH!" Sanji, Gin and Usopp heard from the doctor's office.

"He's still at it." Usopp said from the table outside of the doctor's office as Sanji took a drag from his cigarette.

"Well...you saw how Zoro looked after his fight." He said looking over across the street.

"Yeah. A normal person would've died from those wounds. But that swordsman ain't normal" Gin said as they heard Zoro yell again.

Inside

Johnny and Yosaku were sleeping on beds as the doctor was working on Zoro."AHH!" The doctor looked at Zoro.

"You dumb-ass, did you think this would heal on it's own." He said sewing up Zoro's wound. "Seriously, I thought pirates were supposed to be smarter than this. Don't you guys have a doctor or something on your crew?" He finished holding down Zoro.

"Doctor?" they heard a voice say as Zoro looked up to the window above his bed.

"Luffy?" He asked seeing Luffy hanging on the window eating a piece of meat.

"That's a good idea, but I would like to get a musician first." Luffy said taking another bite out of his meat.

"Why?" Zoro asked a little painfully.

"Because Pirates like to sing." Luffy said plainly as Zoro sighed.

"Ok you have a point, but why a musician first?" He asked. Luffy ignoring him looked over to the doctor.

"Hey old man?" Luffy asked. "Do you know where Nami is? I haven't seen her all day."

The doctor looked away in thought. "Well, If Nami isn't here in the village then there's only one other place I know she'll be."

Bellemere's grave.

Nami was sitting cross-legged smiling in front of Bellemere's grave marker Genzo standing behind her arms behind his back.

"Nami what are you doing here?" Genzo turned around and saw Nojiko walking up."Your friends are looking everywhere for you." She said stopping beside Genzo.

"Hey Nojiko... Genzo..." Nami asked turning her head to look at them. "Do you think if Bellemere were still here, she would let me become a pirate?" Genzo and Nojiko gained a surprised look.

"A pirate? Are you kidding? Of course she wouldn't let her precious daughter go around with some treacherous pi..."

"She'd let you go." Nojiko interrupted Genzo.

"NOJIKO!"

"But if she said "no", that wouldn't stop you would it?" Nojiko asked with a smile.

Nami turned around and stuck her tongue out."That right, nope!" Nojiko giggled.

Genzo sighed "I see." he said before bursting out laughing.

"What's with you, Genzo?" Nojiko asked.

Genzo said pushing his hat down over his eyes. "You two really are Bellmere's kids." He said patting Nojiko on the shoulder ."Look's like you already made up your mind, Nami ." He said turning to walk away. "Live your lives it's what Bellemere would've wanted."

For the next 3 days, not just the village of Cocoyashi but the whole island celebrated the defeat of Arlong and his men. Cheering, music and laughter could be heard throughout the island as people danced and celebrated for finally being free of the fishmens wrath, except for the first day as Zoro's screams of pain could be heard as the good doctor stitched his scars up.

While the villagers were still celebrating, Zoro, now wearing a white shirt with three buttons at the top all unbuttoned, was drinking some beer in an ally as he listened to the people celebrating.

"Boy I'm stuffed." Zoro looked up and saw Sanji walking over and sat down in front of him."It's a nice change of pace not having to cook."

He looked over to Zoro. "How are you holding up?" He asked.

"I'll be okay I just need to rest for a bit." He said taking another swig from his beer. He looked over to the crowd. "How much longer can they keep this up? It's been three days now." He said as Sanji took out a cigarette.

"Well do you blame them?" Sanji asked lighting up his cigarette. "They've been under Arlong's rule for eight years now. I'd be partying too."

Suddenly Luffy came over mouth full of meat and holding a bunch more. "Sanji wheres that melon you had earlier go?" He asked mouth full. "I want to try it."

Zoro looked at Luffy. "It isn't polite to talk with your mouth full." He said.

"I don't know, it was Raw Ham Melon?" Sanji asked taking a long drag from his cigarette.

"Raw Ham Melon! Show me where you found it!" Luffy exclaimed.

"I can't" Sanji looked over to the crowd. "The whole town is a buffet good luck finding it, huh?" he looked back to see that Luffy was gone.

"He's ran off." Sanji put out his cigarette and threw it in a pouch."Three days of stuffing his face. That's three day I don't have to worry about the crew's food supply disappearing during the night." He said with a smile.

"Unless he sneaked away and ate that as well." Gin said as he made his way over with some more beer in hand. Sanji paled at the thought of it and shook it off. Luffy wouldn't do that, right?

"Well putting that off for later, it's time to dance..." Sanji started running towards a group of women with hearts above his head."WITH THE LADIES!" Zoro gained a tick mark. He tried to take another drink but notice his cup before Gin offered him one of his.

"Thanks."

"No problem." Gin said as he looked towards Usopp who was now standing on some stacked up table's was yelling out of a mega phone. "This is one crazy crew you have here."

"Well get used to it, because you are now one of these crazy crew members." Zoro said. Gin just sighed and sat down opposite of Zoro and chugged down his beer.

"Well, well I thought you'd be more depressed." Nojiko said with a smirk."What do you mean?" The boy asked."I thought you would be like 'Why didn't this happen before my daddy died? Why is life so unfair.'" She said head leaning on her hand.

The boy looked down in thought."Well...At first I was. But I've decided to think about the future."

Nojiko raised an eyebrow. "What about it?"

"Yeah! After tonight we can start anew, we have to make our own future. Whining about the past will get us nowhere." He finished. Nojiko smiled reached over and pinched his cheek. "Ow ow ow~!"

"It's no fun if I can't pick on you for being a kid." She said.

"So you decided to hurt me instead you old punk!." The boy yelled with a tick mark.

Nojiko laughed. "Punk? That's right."

Doctor Nako's Office

"Think you can remove it?" Nami asked him laying down on her stomach topless with a towel draped across her back.

"I'll do my best." The doctor said holding a cloth on her shoulder and dipping another an alcohol. "But this is a tattoo there's bound to be some scarring left." He said putting the alcohol on her shoulder.

"I should have known that I'll never truly be rid of it." She said. "Hey doc I think I would like a new tattoo, like this." She said handing him a piece of paper.

A distance away at the cliff, Genzo was standing before Bellemere's grave as he poured a bottle of sake onto it. "Bellemere." he said. "Your daughters have grown up to strong, wonderful women. You would be proud."

"I hope i'm not interrupting anything?" Genzo turned around, startled as he saw Naruto walking towards him with a gourd of Sake in hand. "I thought that you could use a drink."

"Oh. It's you boy." he said. "Yes, I would like one thank you."

"No problem." Naruto said as he pulled two cups out of his pocket on poured them both a cup before they looked out to the sea. "So, I take it this is were Bellemere is..."

"Yes, she rest here in peace now that Arlong and his men are no longer a threat to this island." Genzo said gazing at him. "And we can thank you and your brother for that."

"It was no problem. Like I said, I was keeping my promise to Nami." Naruto said before drinking some sake. "I would gladly do it all over again if I could… Maybe finish the fight a bit sooner actually, but Luffy and his crew really needed this experience if they want to sail to the Grand Line."

"As long as the outcome is the same, it's all fine. The Grand Line huh? I heard that's it's a dangerous place, is that true?" Genzo asked as he took a sip from his cup.

"It won't be an easy journey for them. Both sides of the Grand Line are dangerous in there own right, but with Luffy I think Nami will be okay, if that's what you are really asking." Naruto said.

"As long as she will be fine, then that's alright with me." Genzo said before looking towards the blond. "So what are you going to do now that you have kept your promise to Nami? I imagine you will keep sailing as you are a wanted man."

"Hmm, well I've actually been thinking about that. I've been talking with my brother about his crew and they seem to have an open position for a Helmsmen." Naruto said as Genzo looked at him in shock. "I was planing on going to the Grand Line sooner or later anyway, so why go with some friends." He finished with a laugh.

"RAW HAM MELON!"

"Well, speck of the devil." Naruto said as he and Genzo turned around to see Luffy standing a few feet away with meat in his mouth and hands. "Hey Luffy, we were just talking about you."

Luffy looked towards them and saw what they were standing in front of.

"Huh? A grave? Did someone die?" He asked.

"Yes, a long time ago." Genzo answered.

"I see. I give you my con...condo...um." Luffy said, trying to remember the words.

"Condolences." Naruto said correcting Luffy.

"Right." Luffy said.

"Listen." Genzo said as Luffy was about to leave. "Look I know Nami's going with you, she's dead set on becoming a pirate and that's dangerous business, but it's her choice. However, if any of you do anything to take her smile away, I'll find you and kill you myself." he said in a low tone.

"We won't take her smile away." Luffy said.

"DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!" Genzo said as he turned and glared at Luffy.

"I understand." Luffy said with a stern nod before turning away and leaving, looking for the Ham Melon once again.

"Can you promise me as well boy?" Genzo asked as Naruto looked at the man. He smirked as he raised his cup of sake.

"Sure thing. I'll make it my promise of a lifetime." Naruto said as they both drank.

Village

All the villagers were sleeping on the ground and Usopp was still singing with a dazed look in his eyes. "Yeah let's sing Captain Usopp the Great for the 300th..." He then fell on his back asleep.

Zoro and Gin were asleep in the alley they were in, Johnny, and Yosaku are asleep with bottles around them, and Sanji was asleep with women surrounding him.

Nami

Back at her house Nami just finished pulling the bag full of the money she collected into the kitchen. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and put a note onto the bag. She looked around and saw a picture of her, Nojiko, and Bellemere on the nightstand beside the bed. She smiled remembering all the good times she had.

She put the picture down and opened the drawer and pulled out a old map she rolled it up turned around and saw Bellemere sitting down at the table smiling. "Well we did it Bellemere." Nami said. "It only took eight years but we're finally free." She continued with a smile.

"Just like you told us when we were kids be brave and smile, and nothing can stop you, I'm finally going to sail around the world." She looked at Bellemere. "But don't worry I'm going with good, strong people like you." she wiped a tear from her eyes. "I just wanted to say goodbye, because I don't know if, or when I'll be back." She looked back only to see Bellemere was gone.

Nami closed her eyes as she stood in her house and took in a deep breath. "Feeling nostalgic already?" Naruto's voice spoke up from the doorway as Nami turned to see him leaning against it.

"Just about the past." Nami said. "So are you going soon as well?" she asked though Naruto could hear some sadness in her voice as she said that.

"You could say that. I'll be leaving in the carnival ship with the pirate flag on it." Naruto said pointing behind him. Nami widened her eyes as he said this.

"You're coming with us?"

"Of course! Someone has to look after Luffy if you're not around and I've dealt with him for far longer than you." Naruto said with a smile as Nami laughed and shook her head. "Come on, I'll help you with your bag." he then walked over and picked up Nami's bag for her and walked outside.

Nami started walking outside, when she stepped outside she felt someone push her, shocked she looked back only to see no ones there.

"Nami." Nami looked to see Naruto looking at her her. "Everything alright?" Naruto asked.

Nami back at the door for a moment before smiling. "Nope. Nothing at all." She said as she walked up to Naruto and told him the bend down. Doing as he was told Naruto bent down as Nami took Naruto's necklace that she still had on on out it back around his neck.

"I almost forgot about this thing, thanks Na-" He shut up went he felt something warm touch his right cheek and looked without turning to see that Nami had kissed it and continued walking past the blond.

Naruto brought his hand up to his cheek and felt were Nami had kissed it and smiled as he looked up at the sky. 'Maybe being with Luffy's crew wouldn't be so bad after all.' he thought before walking to catch up with Nami.

Morning

Everyone was gathering at the port to see the Straw Hats off. The crew were loading up supplies on the Going Merry as people were seeing them off and thanking them again for what they did. In front of the big crowd Naruto was talking with Genzo as he handed him a piece of paper.

"Here, this is the frequency to a Transponder Snail that I put on board the Merry. You'll be able to communicate with Nami using this." Naruto said as Genzo nodded his head.

"Thank you, this means a lot." Genzo said. Naruto nodded his head and jumped on board the Merry.

"We're almost ready Captain." Gin said as he stepped onto the deck of the Going Merry with the last create in hand.

"Alright." Luffy said.

"Big Bro!" Johnny and Yosaku's shouting caught the crew's attention as everyone looked to see them both with serious expressions on their faces.

"What's up you guys?" Luffy asked as Zoro noticed that each of them had a some bags next to them.

"We thought it over Big Bro." Johnny said.

"And we'll be glad to join your crew with you." Yosaku said as the Straw Hats looked at them in shock.

"Wait, when the hell did you ask them to join your crew? All I saw you do was eat meat and look for it" Naruto asked.

"I asked them while I was looking for the Raw Ham Melon, and I still couldn't find it Sanji." Luffy said with a pout. "But who cares! My crew just got bigger!" He began to laugh out loud around as Johnny and Yosaku grabbed their things and came aboard.

"I never would have thought that you guys would become pirates." Zoro said.

"I originally became a bounty hunter because one saved my village when I was a kid." Johnny said. "I did it because I wanted to help others like that bounty hunter did. But after seeing you guys fight for a village you owed nothing to, I thought 'Why not?'. Besides, you became one and you're okay."

"Yeah. Besides, being pirate sounds fun. There may be dangers every here and there, but it is still fun." Yosaku said.

"Alright then." Zoro said as went back to work.

"Well should we go?" Usopp asked putting the last of the supplies away.

"Wait Nami's not here yet." Sanji said.

Zoro looked out to the villagers. "Maybe she's not coming." Sanji got in Zoro's face.

"What do you mean? If you're trying to hit on her I'll break your freakin' neck." He yelled.

Usopp gained a thoughtful look."Maybe he's right." He said Sanji stopped yelling at Zoro and stared at him.

"What do you mean?" He asked lighting a cigarette.

"I mean the only reason she was traveling in the first place was to get a hundred million berries and free the village." He said to them."She's already done that, there's no reason for her to keep traveling." Usopp finished.

The villagers started whispering. "Where's Nami?" One asked. "I don't know I'd thought she would be here by now." Another said.

"WHAT!" Genzo yelled up to Nojiko ."A hundred million berries, she left all of it?" He asked. Nojiko shrugged.

"She left it all at our house." She replied.

"She doesn't want at least some of it?" Nako asked her.

"She'll steal more." Nojiko said.

"There she is!" Sanji yelled pointing over behind the villagers. Everyone looked and saw Nami looking down at the ground. Now wearing a skirt and a plain white t-shirt.

"Nami!" Everyone yelled.

"SET THE SAIL!" Nami shouted from down the road. Everyone looked to see her start running towards them all.

"What's she doing?" Gin asked.

"She said set the sails." Luffy said. "You heard her guys. Cast off!"

"Aye Captain!" they all said as they started unfurling the sails.

"Nami wait!" Genzo said as he shoved his way through the crowd. "You're leaving without saying goodbye?!" Nami ignored him as she kept on running.

"Let's go!" Luffy shouted as the sails caught the wind. Zoro pulled up the anchor and they began to pull away from the port.

"NAMI!" Genzo shouted as Nami was now weaving around everyone in town. Up, down, left, right, running past them all before making a running jump to the ship. She landed on the railing with all the villagers shocked that she would leave without saying goodbye. Nami just stood there before lifting her shirt a bit, letting wallets and coin purses fall around her feet.

"Huh?" some of the villagers said before they checked their pockets.

"Hey my money's gone." A villager said.

"Mine too." Another said.

Nami pulled berri note out of a wallet, kissed it, then winked at everyone. "Thanks a bunch everyone." she said.

"YOU LITTLE THIEF!" everyone shouted at her before tons of them demanded that she return their stuff.

"Hey. She hasn't changed at all" Usopp said.

"I have to watch my back from now on." Zoro said.

'I wonder if I should tell her about the money I have on board.' Naruto thought with a smile as he shook his head while Luffy laughed, Sanji gave her a thumbs up, Johnny and Yosaku just stared, and Gin looked ready to fall off the boat.

"YOU ROTTEN THIEF! WE'LL MISS YOU!" the townspeople shouted. Nami waved at them all.

"Goodbye everyone!" Nami shouted to them all.

"BOYS!" Genzo shouted, getting Luffy and Naruto's attention. "REMEMBER WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT!" Luffy smiled before giving him a thumbs up and Naruto a two fingered salute. Nami looked up to Bellemere's grave.

'Well I'm finally living my dream, see you later Bellemere.' Nami thought. She looked back to everyone. "Alright everyone. It's time to set sail to the Grand Line!" she said.

"YEAH!" everyone shouted.

There we go. Chapter 4 done and dusted.

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