Pirate Thief and the Clown Pirate

Naruto and Sasuke were on a boat traveling to the unknown.

"So you're the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tail Fox, who calls himself Kurama," Sasuke said.

"Yep," Naruto said.

"And you have control over it's power because you ate the Kyubi-Kyubi fruit?" Sasuke asked.

"Yep," Naruto said.

"But you can't ask him for navigational advice," Sasuke said.

"Our connection is mutual, as long as I don't bother him for dumb reasons, he said he'll teach me something new," Naruto said, "Although now that I'm a pirate, he seems more distance."

"Uh huh, so can you actually transform into the Nine-Tails?" Sasuke asked.

"Sort of, I can't transform into its full size form alone, but I can transform into human size version of him," Naruto said.

"Great," Sasuke responded, "So do you have anyone in mind of asking?"

"Well I do have two people in mind of finding and asking," Naruto said.

"Really?" Sasuke asked.

"One of them is a son of a pirate I knew once, I never met the guy, but according to his father he seems to be the type that might want to become a pirate," Naruto said, "The other one I grew up with until her family moved away from my home village."

"You know where to find them?" Sasuke asked.

"Well I think that guy I heard about lives in a place called Syrup Village," Naruto said, "and my old friend lives in Rogue town."

"Syrup Village and Rogue Town, huh?" Sasuke said, "Those places aren't close to where we're at, so if we're going to find them, we're going to need a navigator."

"Yeah," Naruto agreed.

Soon Naruto and Sasuke found themselves starving.

"I could use a big bowl of ramen," Naruto complained.

"Talking about food isn't helping," Sasuke said.

Naruto saw a bird flying above their head.

"Hey, that give me an idea," Naruto said.

"What are you up to?" Sasuke asked.

"Just watch! I'm going to catch us a bird for food," Naruto said.

Naruto transformed into Jinchuriki form and aimed his hand at the bird.

"Kyuubi-Kyuubi Chakra Claw!" Naruto shouted.

Naruto summoned a chakra claw that grab onto the bird's leg and pull himself up.

However the moment Naruto grabbed onto the bird's leg, the bird decided to now freak out and started flying away.

"And he's suppose to be the captain?" Sasuke asked.

"Sasuke, help!" Naruto shouted.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm coming," Sasuke said and started rowing as fast as he could.

"Hey stop!" someone shouted.

Sasuke look to see three men were stuck in the ocean.

"I don't have time to stop! You guys get on yourselves!" Sasuke shouted.

"What did you say?" the three men asked.

Sasuke rowed pass them as the three men manage to get on. One of the men had hair sticking out to the sides wearing a stripe shirt. The other was wearing a hat with bones and skull with a clown nose on it. The third one was a big guy with a short short cut.

"Your climbing skills aren't bad," Sasuke said.

"Thank you, but now stop the boat, you're in Pirate Buggy's territory," the one wearing the hat said.

"Huh?" Sasuke responded.

Sasuke ended up stopping and beat up the men. Now the three men were rowing instead of Sasuke.

"We didn't know you were the pirate hunter Sasuke Uchiha," the one wearing the hat said, "We're really sorry."

"Well thanks you three, I lost my friend," Sasuke said, "Now put your back into it!"

"Yes sir!" the men responded.

"By the way, why were you out in the ocean alone?" Sasuke asked.

"It was that girl," the guy with the stripe shirt said.

"Yeah! That bad girl!" the one with the hat said.

"But she's really cute too," the big one said.

Flashback…

The three men just finish robbing a ship and had their treasure.

"Who would have thought that such a small ship would carry so much loot," the one with the hat said.

"Maybe Captain Buggy will greatly reward us," the stripe shirt one said.

The one in the hat saw a small boat.

"What's that little boat doing here?" he asked and saw someone with pink hair leaning over the edge, "There's someone fainted at the side of that boat."

They check the boat out and found a girl with pink hair wearing a red shirt, red skirt, blue shoes, with a red cloth headband tied to the top of her hair.

"Oh, it's a girl," the stripe shirt guy said.

"Hey! What's wrong with you? Are you almost dead?" The hat wearing pirate asked.

The girl look up and saw them.

"Ahh…am I dreaming…? I actually found someone in this vast ocean," the girl said, "I don't know…who you guys are…but…please…give me a cup of water and a piece of bread…I…I was in a shipwreak…I'll give you all my money…if you save me…"

"Sure, but can we see that treasure chest first," the one wearing the hat asked.

"Sure…please take whatever you want…but give me water first…" the girl said.

The pirates got on the girl's boat to look at the treasure chest. However, the girl snuck onto the pirate's boat and sailed off with the treasure on it away from them.

"Since you guys seem to like it so much…I'll give you the boat too as a bonus," the girl said.

"She took our boat and treasure!" the pirate in the hat said.

"Hey, this chest is empty," the stripe shirt pirate shouted.

Suddenly small but dark storm clouds gathered.

"There's a bit of dark storm clouds towards the south…with it the wind will pick up and your ship will sink," the girl shouted.

Sure enough in the storm the ship couldn't take the strain and sunk.

End of Flashback…

"By the sounds of it that girl is clever and smart," Sasuke said thinking, "Naruto would probably ask her to join the crew."

The crew started talking about killing the girl and mention Buggy.

"Whose Buggy?" Sasuke asked.

"You probably heard of him, Buggy the Clown Pirate captain," the pirate in the hat said, "He's dangerous man who ate one of the devil's fruit."

"One of the devil fruit huh?" Sasuke responded, "Things just got interesting."

At an island with a deserted town, a huge pirate ship with a top-tent that had a cross bones and a skull with a clown nose on it was docked. The ship look as if it was a circus on a ship.

In the town, the pink hair girl appeared running from some of the pirate crew.

"Stop! You can't run from us!" One shouted.

"Thief! Give back our navigation map!" the other said.

"No way, I now have the map of the grand line," Sakura thought.

The rest of the crew was focus on a bird coming their way. They shot at the bird.

Naruto was hanging onto the bird trying to find away to get down.

"Well I'm above land, so I guess I should let go soon," Naruto said.

Before he could let go of the bird something hit it causing an explosion.

The girl was running for her life when someone crash landed in front of it.

"What?" the girl responded.

"Well that wasn't what I was hopping," someone said.

Naruto appeared from the smoke in human form standing up.

"Well at least I landed," Naruto said.

"He's still alive?" the crew responded.

The girl got an idea of how to use Naruto.

"Oh boss! You're finally here," the girl said, "I've been waiting for you to save me!"

"Huh?" Naruto responded.

"I'll leave everything to you!" she shouted running away.

"Well that's odd," Naruto said.

"So, you're her boss," one of the pirates said as he and the other two surrounded Naruto.

One of them strike Naruto in the head causing his headband to fly off. Naruto hit the man with force.

"No one knocks my headband off me," Naruto said picking up his headband.

The other two attack as Naruto tied his headband back on. Then, Naruto quickly made some handsigns.

"Wind Technique: Vortex Shield!" Naruto shouted. Naruto summoned a vortex of wind that repel off the men.

"Wow, you're really strong," someone said.

Naruto turned to see the girl that ran away earlier was on a top deck of a house.

"You must be a Wind Nature User to take them down like that," the girl said.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked.

"My name is Sakura Haruno, I'm a thief who only steals from pirates," Sakura said.

"So basically you're a Pirate thief," Naruto said.

"You could say that," Sakura said, "So how about the two of us be partners? If we're partners we can steal a lot of money."

"Sorry but I'm not interested," Naruto said walking off.

"Hang on a second," Sakura said jumping down, "Why did you react to that guy for just knocking that headband off?"

"Oh, well you see it's my treasure," Naruto said.

"Treasure, what you keep money or a map in it or something?" Sakura asked.

"No, and treasure doesn't have to be that?" Naruto asked.

A clown like Pirate captain was dealing with his crew.

"You still can not catch the thief?" the clown pirate asked.

"W-we were in the middle of searching," a crewmember said.

"How on earth did it get stolen so easily, you're talking about the Grand Line Map," the captain shouted, 'We were going into the Grand Line soon!"

"Well, you see Captain Buggy, we lost it through a bit of a mistake. The cabinet where the map was in still had the key in it's lock," the man said, "And when this idiot guy left it on like that, the key got lost…"

"What did you say?" Buggy shouted.

"I said when this idiot guy left it on like that the key got lost…" the man said.

"What do you mean by round nose?" Buggy shouted throwing things around.

Buggy choke his man without moving from his spot.

"Prepare the cannon!" Buggy shouted.

The crew fired the cannon on the man.

"Recover the map, and make sure you take all the village's treasure too!" Buggy shouted.

Sakura treated Naruto to food as he explain how he got there.

"So you got separated from your crew," Sakura said and asked, "How many people are there on your crew?"

"Only one, but I'm still looking for more people," Naruto said, "So is this your house?"

"No, the owners along with everyone else that lives here is in a shelter outside of town trying to avoid Buggy's Pirate fleet," Sakura responded.

"Buggy, who is he?" Naruto asked.

"He's a famous pirate, known for his love of cannons, they say he use a cannon to destroy his own village, just because some kids made fun of his nose," Sakura explained, "They also say that he has a strange power."

"Hey wait, is it really okay for us to use this house with everyone gone?" Naruto asked.

"I don't know," Sakura responded.

"Then aren't we technically breaking in and entering?" Naruto asked, "I thought you're a pirate thief."

"I am! And it's not like I'm stealing from this place like a thief," Sakura responded, "Can we get back on subject."

"I guess so," Naruto said, "So why are you stealing from pirates?"

"My goal is to gain a hundred million beli so I can buy a certain village," Sakura said.

"How are you going to do that?" Naruto asked.

"By using this map of the grand line and steal from greater pirates," Sakura responded.

"Wait, do you know how to navigate?" Naruto asked.

"Of course, there's two things I know a lot about, medical stuff, and Navigation," Sakura responded.

"And you're going to the grand line?" Naruto asked.

"I just told you I am!" Sakura responded.

"Great because I'm going to the grand line after I find a few more crew members, and we need a navigator," Naruto said, "So how about you join my Pirate Crew?"

"No way!" Sakura responded.

"Huh?" Naruto responded.

"If you're a pirate, then forget about this conversation, I don't want to team up with a pirate like you," Sakura responded, "So you're going to use that map behind that headband to get some treasure."

"I told you, it's not that kind of treasure," Naruto said.

"Then what kind is it?" Sakura asked.

"This headband was given to me by a close friend of mine when I told him that I would become a the greatest Kage over all as a Pirate," Naruto said, "And since then, this headband been special to me. That's the kind of treasure it is to me."

Sakura understood but kept a cool face.

"This era of pirates is really pathetic," Sakura responded, "The things I hate the most in this world are pirates! I only like money!"

"Not all pirates are that bad," Naruto said.

"What would you know?" Sakura shouted.

Just then, Sakura got an idea.

"Alright, I'll join you, if you do something for me," Sakura said.

"Well I'm still waiting for my first mate, but okay," Naruto said.

"Good, I need you to go with me to where Buggy is at, that's all," Sakura responded.

"That's all! Sure, just show me where to go," Naruto said getting up.

"Hold on, there's something we need to do before we go," Sakura said.

"Huh?" Naruto responded.

...

Sakura tied up Naruto with a rope that led to her hands.

"I'm not so sure about this," Naruto said.

"Oh don't worry," Sakura said thinking, "As if I ever become a pirate."

…Buggy and his crew…

The three men Naruto beat up arrived.

"What! You lost track of that map thief?" Buggy shouted, "You three strong men chase after one thief and end up like this?"

"Sorry captain," the first one apologized.

"But there was this guy with a headband that she called her boss," the other one explained.

"Die a painful death!" Buggy shouted.

"Captain buggy!" a crewmember shouted.

"What?" Buggy responded.

"The thief we just saw…she returned here herself…" the member explained.

"Then bring her in!" Buggy shouted.

...

Sakura came in with Naruto tied up.

"It's him, the guy that fell from the sky," the crew members that were chasing Sakura shouted.

Sakura kicked Naruto into the ground.

"I captured the thief, Buggy the clown, leader of this pirate fleet," Sakura said and held out the map, "I will return your map too!"

"So this was a trick?" Naruto responded.

"I see you're obediently returning the map to me," Buggy said, "But why are you doing this?"

"Well, I came into an argument with my boss, and I got tired of him," Sakura explained, "Please let me join the Buggy Pirate crew!"

Buggy was confuse at first but started laughing.

"SO you're tired of this guy huh? You're pretty amusing girl!" Buggy laughed, "Okay! I'll let you join as part of my crew!"

"He fell for it," Sakura thought.

In her mind an outline of her inner self appeared.

"Now I can steal his loot," the inner Sakura shouted.

The crew locked Naruto into a cage.

…With Sasuke…

The three members dropped Sasuke a shore of the town Buggy was at.

"Okay, now that I'm here, maybe I can find Naruto," Sasuke responded.

…Buggy's crew…

Buggy and his crew were at the bar celebrating for getting the map back and having a new crew member. Sakura got along with the crew in an act.

Naruto was watching with irritation.

"How is it going boss?" someone asked.

Naruto turned to see Sakura.

"Why do you care? You tricked me into being locked up," Naruto said.

"Oh come on, don't be like that," Sakura said, "I was thinking of freeing you after getting these pirate's gold."

"So you're just doing this for the treasure," Naruto said, "How do I know you won't just leave me?"

"I may hate pirates and steal from them, but I do have a heart," Sakura responded.

Someone started laughing and Naruto and Sakura turned to see it was Buggy who walked up to them.

"You've got yourself a pretty good follower there! Thief boss!" Buggy laughed.

"Sakura isn't my follower," Naruto said.

"I figure you would say that considering she betrayed you," Buggy said, "I have decided to punish you for your terrible crime."

"Oh yeah what's that?" Naruto asked.

"Boys! Prepare the Buggy cannon ball!" Buggy shouted.

The crew cheered in response. They got the cannon and the cannonball with the Buggy's crew symbol on it.

"Show them it's power!" Buggy shouted.

They loaded the cannonball into the cannon, and then fire the cannon. The cannonball travel through several buildings destroying them.

"With the power of this cannon and the devil's fruit I ate, my success at the grand line will be assured!" Buggy shouted, "Now shoot the cannon at your old boss and sworn your loyalty to me Sakura."

"No, let's drink and…" Sakura said.

"Just do it Sakura," Naruto said.

"Huh?" Sakura responded turning to Naruto.

She saw a face on Naruto that told her 'if you want to get my trust then do what he says'. Sakura shook trying but a crew member took the matches and lit the fuse. Sakura turned and knock the guy out.

"Sakura, what are you doing?" Buggy shouted.

Naruto heard something burning and saw that the match had hit the fuse after being lit.

"Crew, kill her!" Buggy ordered.

The crew attack Sakura as she stop the fuse with her hand.

"Fire Technique: Fireball!" someone shouted.

Suddenly flames shot from the sky and hit the crew.

Sasuke jumped in front of Sakura.

"Who are you?" Sakura asked.

"Hey Sasuke!" Naruto shouted.

Sasuke turned to see Naruto tied up and locked up.

"Why are you lock up Naruto?" Sasuke asked, "Especially when you could of break out using your Jinchuriki form."

"Haha, yeah I was just waiting for the right moment to use it," Naruto said.

"This is the legendary Pirate hunter Sasuke Uchiha," Sakura thought, "Why would he be here…unless he's that's guy's first mate."

"Well well, Sasuke Uchiha, are you after my bounty?" Buggy asked.

"Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm no longer a bounty hunter," Sasuke said.

"Doesn't matter because I'll kill you!" Buggy shouted taking out some small swords.

"If you insist!" Sasuke said.

Naruto focus on his power as chakra surrounded him as Naruto transformed into Jinchuriki form. Naruto use his strength to break the ropes.

"Kyuubi-Kyuubi Chakra claw!" Naruto shouted as he aimed his hand at the top of the cage. Naruto summoned a chakra claw that broke through the bars.

At the time Naruto broke out, Sasuke took out his katana and cut Buggy's body into pieces.

Sakura look at Sasuke and Naruto confuse.

The crew started laughing about something.

"What is going on?" Sasuke asked.

Buggy's hand started moving and came at Sasuke.

"Wind technique: Vortex Shield!" Naruto shouted.

A vortex of wind surrounded Naruto and Sasuke protecting them from the attack.

"How did that hand came at us?" Naruto asked.

"Because I ate the Cut-Cut fruit," someone answered.

Sasuke and Naruto turned to see Buggy as his body came together.

"That's the name of the Devil Fruit I ate!" Buggy shouted, "No matter how much a body is sliced up I can put myself together."

"I thought the devil Fruit was just a myth," Sakura responded.

"I see," Buggy said looking at Naruto, "You must be wind user and ate devils fruit of the tail beast."

"Yeah and I'm going to use it to take you down," Naruto said.

"And how do you plan to take me down," Buggy said.

"With this," Naruto said making the hand sign, "Shadow Clone Technique!"

Naruto summoned multiple shadow clones.

"Sasuke, let's move," Naruto said.

Sasuke look and knew it was the real Naruto.

"Yeah," Sasuke said.

Buggy tried to attack them but the clones got in the way. The clones were stab and disappeared in a puff of smoke. A clone use his strength to pull the cannon toward Buggy.

"Sasuke," the clone said.

Sasuke lit the fuse and the cannon fired.

"Let's go," Naruto said.

"Wait I'm coming with you," Sakura responded.

"Fine," Naruto said.

Naruto Sakura and Sasuke left in a hurry.