I just looked at my notes to update them, and found I have not been following them, so if anyone want to use my Idea, please let me know first. I also failed to notice that I said 6 masts, when it was twice that, and I never said when in my request for entry points. So, I will choose after the Straw hates showed up by a few days.

I don't own Naruto/ or OnePiece. If I did, Naruto would have ended it already, and Luffy would have noticed girls already.

I may not fill in a some of details, because some readers need to use their imagination better, or use better research.

(authors comments)

'thoughts'

"speaking"

The first thing Naruto noticed after he came to, was that the only source of light in the Admin center ,which was where the Captain's quarters were normally, was the seal arrays, and the ceiling window. The back area of the room was covered with doors where the Kage offices and Private quarters were located, (It's not like his the only Kage on the ship and with that many people on board, he needs division leaders) each with a large window to the outside, of course.

He sat back up strait on his chair, large and plush, just like his Jiji's, and crocked out, "Status report."

A female Nara at the engineering station reported. "No hull damage, though the Sanbi seems to have clamped herself to the bottom of the ship," 'why would Isobu want or need to do that?' Thought Naruto. "Sensor seals along the hull also report that we've sunk more that the added weight would account for, we only have a five to ten floor clearance at moment, ballast tanks at half tank."

"Beacon Seals show that the whole fleet is present and accounted for" spoke a blue haired make.

A dark skinned young man at the Navigation added with a nervous and unsure voice, "Uh, Compass is not responding, and Barometer says were about 7 to 8 thousand kilometers above sea level. And the system can't find anything wrong with the equipment, Sir." 'That might do it' thought Naruto. "What of the other Biju?"

"Grumpy, to say the least, Shukaku and Son Goku detect very little land mass to use, Nibi is asking if she can taste the local fish, and Chomei wants to explore. The others are calmer, and resting near the center of the top deck, all have compacted to Nin-kin size." (How else do Biju bigger than most buildings hide?)

"In that case, prep a tank for Isobu to stay in till she wants out, an empty the Ballasts so see what we can do, fill with Helium or something as a last resort, I want at least the Hawk Bay's open to send out scouts, shunt visual from forecastle to nav room, and see if the doc's want to run tests on the local water. For that matter, give me a visual of outside." Spoke the semi-baka-Sage.

After a few minutes, small screen panels set near his chair show a field of white, in fact, if not for the ships in the corner of the screen, he would have thought the device was faulty. The water kind of reminded him of what Kumo looked like when looking over the…..

"Are we floating on clouds? Set a depth gauge with a camera to make sure, and tell the hanger bay to load for high altitude, and to pack a skiff, best to be prepped for anything, and add point-to-point Markers for recall.

"Those Hawk gliders might be put to the extreme test as it is. Inform the Akimichi Galley to pass out floatation devices to the crew that plan to go top side. While we're at it, move emergency boat scrolls to fourth position, and set up scout boats up to deploy from the Bird-eye rail launcher. A ninja is nothing if not adaptable."

A resounding call of confirmation echoed form around the room.

(Scene change, third person)

As the ship slowly rose from the water, an area between the masts rose up and then parted to allow a craft to raise from the hanger two floors below. The craft was interesting in that it had a folding frame of cloth and metal at the sides, and an array of wooden tail feathers inscribed with wind seals for propulsion on the back, the body itself was somewhat oval in shape with a rounded boat-like bottom and a semi-flat top with hollowed seating area for a Jonin pilot, and two passengers. Overall it looked like it was fashioned after a hawk. Even the front of the craft had a figure head of a bird, with glass eyes that gave a brief glow when the Jonin pushed some chakra though the control seals in the cockpit.

As a male Jonin wearing a thick coat, goggles, and a few pouches got in the bird-like craft, a long seal array set the length of the ship glowed before, with a puff of smoke, a ramp with a groove running the middle of it. When he got in the seat, a mechanism moved to spread the wings, which had a cloth over the metal from with a painting of bird feathers covering the bottom, and seals covering the top.

With a light cackle of energy running the length of the ramp, the craft was launched at extreme speeds, before another craft rose up to take its place.

This process was repeated several times with each craft going in a different direction each. Some had passengers, others had personal paint jobs, and all were out of sight within minutes of being launched.

A few teams with a huge length of rope and a weighted end with visual seals on them quickly checked the depth, after a few minutes, the team leaders, saw on a remotes tablet saw that the weight went through the bottom of the clouds, and saw a medium sized island below them covered in high walls with the letters G-8 written in the sides.

An hour after that, the ship was floating a decent fifteen floor's clearance, and the doc's found a compound in the water that seems to have caused the cloud the condense enough to support most crafts. As it was, if the Leviathan had been made entirely of metal, or if the armor plating hadn't been sealed away, they would have had too much mass, regardless of seals, to float.

Just before sundown, the markers were activated, and reverse summoned the Seahawks back to the ship. After a debriefing, and a compiling of reports, the Kages gathered for a meeting report.

(Scene change, floor under admin center, Gokage council chamber)

"Alright people, the council is now in session" responded Naruto, in his capacity as Sage, replacing Mifune, placing a Shakujo with sharpened outer edges and a leather wrapped center on the table. Arrayed around him were the first five division commanders. To his left was a red haired woman wearing a blue dress, and a sword at her waist, was Mei Terumi. She was in charge of ship functions, as her time as Mizukage gave her more experience in such matters. Next to her was the Kazekage, Garaa was wearing his long tan robes, and half vest. Since coming aboard, he added well sized gourds to his hips, as well as adding a series of straps over his torso to hold lots of smaller gourds. He kept his old gourd, but had Naruto add storage seals inside it to increase capacity to a small desert in itself. He has taken over the night watch because of his insomnia, but was also appointed ambassador, because out of everyone present, he was the best suited to make good impressions. On Naruto's right was the Hokage, with her bubblegum pink hair, was Sakura representing the scientific and medical corps. On her other side sat the Iwakage, a Stern looking man in standard Iwa jonin uniform, Kinsuchi. He represented the rest of the ninja forces, and the general moral of the ship. Across from Naruto was Danuai, the Kumokage, in charge of armament of the crew and ship, as well as quartermaster to put his worst case scenario thoughts to use and prep for them. No one's ever seen him happier than when he was told this. Although that was curbed a little when he was told that he had to account for ship size and cargo scroll space.

"Let's go with what we know first, then, Mei?"

"Thank you Naruto-dono, the ship is sound, although the main ship ports and armament ports are under the water line. The engines are now online, but we can't navigate without landmarks since normal compasses won't work right. A Sailor-nin told me that harnesses for those who try to suffice climb the hull might be best until we reach the waters below so as prevent falling to our deaths. As a side note, one chunin, in harness, tried to water walk the clouds….. He had to expend four times the normal amount just to stay half-way out of it. I recommend future water walking training be done at the ossen, until otherwise safe to do so. That is all."

"Sakura?"

"No one was adversely affected by the transition, other than momentary inabilities to breath properly do to the thinner air, the Scientists have confirmed multiple Magnetic fields, most likely the reason for the broken compass, however, each field has a unique signature, so we could sail using that, though we would have to lock on to each field one at a time, thou we can record each one once we find the source. They have also found that the clouds have a unique compound in them that is causing the condensing to almost water state. Extraction and then injection back into a cloud showed further condensing to the pint of solidifying. With this, they speculate, that land masses made of clouds might hold settlements up here, which might have adapted to the thinner climate. The Cloud-like nature of our environment also begs the question if the clouds above us can also support us, and how the people, if any, survive? Is there a relatively normal route up and down from here and can we use them? That is all."

"Danuai? Bare facts first, then ideas."

"Yes Sage-sama, production was halted until a steady supply of materials is found, stored weapon and armor will last a two week siege at moment, food will last three more months, but our supply of gases and Jellel stones are rather low, if we are to stay up here for longer than a month. Extraction of gasses from the clouds might give us a few more days, but not much more. A chakra converter or transfusing device might recharge the stones, the amount needed is unknown for either. Inari-san has draw up a new strike craft using the Hydro Pump system to propel them faster than most sail craft. A proper power system that would fit inside a small sail boat, or a seal amplifier to boost the power of the chakra feeding it might be needed, or a power source altogether. As a side note, some of the Tenshi tree seedlings that we planted onboard are sprouting on time, and will be ready for transplanting to a larger plot of land in two-and-a-half weeks .The Sage tree sapling on the rear castle has nine months before reaching full height (the sage tree is one that came from the fruit filled with Sage chakra, will look like a weeping willow, the thickness of a full grown redwood, but the height of an average pine tree, and acts like the Tenshi trees from the First Chapter) and another twelve before a steady supply of repair wood is freely available. We're doomed."

"Not if were carful, Danuai. So, on to Kinsuchi, please leave the scout report last, so we can discuss it fully without interruptions."

"Very well Leader-sama. The Academy is requesting that basic D-rank choirs, such as cleaning room and hallways, helping in the galleys and other cabin-boy-like duties be given to final year students. If allowed, Gennin would be given the prevue of gardening, basic touch-ups to the ship, and apprenticing to specific ship duties as well as their shinobi and kinuchi training. The rigging area is still classed as a low C-rank training duty. Some Jonin are wondering what kind of combat 'cloud people' would use.

On the matter of the Scouts: hawk division, two waterfall like structures were found, the closer of the two, to our aft-stern, looks like a river spiraling down, but was heavily damaged, one of the scouts went up to the top of the fall and found the ruins of a village, indicating that at one point, someone lived up there, and died fighting someone else. To our rear-aft, we found the gate three hour back, surrounded by what must count as raging currents up here, and land-like masses of cloud set to make approach difficult at best. The two forces make discovery of the gate almost impossible, by normal means at least. To our port-bow at six hour flight time, the second was found, looking more like a roller coaster ride, and very active usage, including a large, Caravel class-size, lobster carrying the ships up. The altitude of the second ocean is about ten thousand kilometers up. A second flyer, a Hyuga, Found an island, one that had real land mass was, ironically, lodged on this second sea, within sight of a Settlement-sized hole with no clear purpose or origin, though some signs of the locals trying to close it up indicate that it wasn't natural. The locals were spotted having white bird-like wings on their backs, though not all look big enough to truly support them. Some of their hair was also done up to look like antennae with balls at the end. Further observation was denied because some of them spotted the scouts. It was also reported that some were traveling on the clouds in unique crafts. Orders, Sir?"

As silence fell over the group, Naruto reviewed what he heard, and came to two decisions. "Give the Acadamy permission. We also need more information, have my ship, the Kohona ready with a full information gathering team, and inform Inari that he may get new inspiration if he joined us. And have a full evaluation team check out the ruins, nothing is useless or known. A relief ship is to follow us a week later with orders not to respond to us, let them think the two teams are unrelated. Messages are to be relayed thru message seals. Additional Scouting runs are to be made, use cardinal directions relative to the ship, and use full power of the Rail cannon for Long range mapping. Meeting adjourned."

(Scene change, a few days later, shores of Upper Yard)(naruto's POV)

*whistle* Now that's a forest! The ride up here was fun, even if the lobster deserved a shock for pinching the rails like that. That Old lady at the gate wasn't much better, wanting photos and this 'Extol' or whatever she wanted for payment.

But the people up here sure are nice, even if that one big guy with the long metal tube on his back kept glaring at me, and Garaa, or anyone really. I had Shika, Ino and the rest of the Info squad disperse into the crowd that gathered. They seemed to think we're friends with some fella with a straw hat called 'Luffy' or something, was willing to give us a gold pillar meant for them and everything. We turned it down, or at least shika said we did because we couldn't fit it on the ship, which was true, if we didn't seal it, that and we didn't know who this 'anchor' was.

Found some really cool birds when exploring the forest too, a mated pair of what the locals called 'South Birds' because they always pointed south, those are going straight to Udon to orient the ship. The other one was some red bird with a saddle the mean looking guy called Wiper said was named Freiza or something like that, and that his last master was dead from a recent conflict, and that no one wanted the bird. Well, what with Sasuke having access to a hawk summoning contract, I figured I could use him, after the locals give me a crash course on care and training to ride, fight, and truly fly on him. The first thing I'll do once I get him to his new home is give him a new name, but what? (Hint, Hint)

But what really got me interested was those "Dials" that they use for almost everything, and while it takes up more space than a seal, they most certainty took less room than the normal equivalent. And the idea of being able to recharge them was a great way to explain chakra away too, although we might have to find a way to recreate some the harder to find or extinct species of shellfish. Maybe we can have Isobu try to recreate them thru his coral ability or maybe make a farm in a that Battering Ram that Inari Thought of adding, of course with a ship the size of the Leviathan, that would be at least ten floors high and six rooms wide, and who know how long, not counting how it's to connect to the rest of the ship, so we could use some the space for resource farming. It would of course have to be reinforce four times as much as the hull to withstand the ramming, and not breach the rooms, but the plans for adding room in the form of the figurehead area, or inside the rigging for Jonin housing was also being considered.

Speaking of Inari, him and some local called Paguya talked shop about ships and dials, ideas that worked and didn't. Have to say, if he decides to come, his daughter might as well as come too. She was nice to talk to, not to mention that she showed me those "cannons" that the 'blue sea dwellers' use in ship to ship combat. I think sixty forty-eight pounders a row by ten rows a broadside and ten 'chase cannons' might be under kill for the Leviathan's size, but the twenty-four ship mortars might be enough to compensate. Those 'swivel guns' seem interesting, but placing seals on them might be more useful, so only three per side for even coverage sounds good. Of course, they didn't have that much there, maybe three cannons total, but the 'mapping drones' I had map the white sea, white white sea, and as much of the blue sea under us as we pass it to get an idea of where we could get that many of these 'guns' from. Tenten is almost squeaking at the prospect of new weapons. Dainui is lowering our survival until we get some of those too. I had a Yamanaka look into every technical person they could find just to make sure we learned as much as we could about how our new world worked, and what position we should take.

(General POV)(Several weeks later)

After some negations, the local shardonian and Skypeians agreed to let us set up a remote base of operation on the farthest northeast side of their 'Upper Yard' and plant three of their Tenshi trees, so long as we shared some of the tenshi wood with them. The base itself is built like a Edo period castle, using the local wood of course since it was so plentiful, reinforced with seals, to almost stone-like quality, with enough left over to build two juggernaut-class vessels, though the materials would result in a less resilient vessel, so it was decided that the wood would be saved for construction of other bases, such as the outpost at what was left of Berka.

At Berka, some more Dials were found, including some that Paguya identified as Jet Dials, a stronger version of air dials similar to how a reject dial was stronger to an Impact dial. This also meant that we had an example of how to make our own Birds fly without chakra; in fact, it could be used to help the Blimp-like airship from spring Country become a viable means of transport for long expeditions into the other Sky Islands.

When shown Clouds End, it was deemed to risky for the Leviathan to take, too, bulky. Gliders with a packet of Jellel stones and a reverse beacon were sent out to find a viable location to reverse summon the ship into the Blue sea, though a recon team was sent to the nearest Island to gather info as well.

Days ago a message from each team was sent, and the question of where to make their unveiling to the world at large, and where to get our supplies quickly, and with as little fuss as possible.

Now at Sundown, as all the crew and the various ships in the fleet gathered as close as they possible could, there was a Flash of Green light, and they were gone from the White Sea, but not forgotten, and not forever.

Cliffhanger no Jutsu

I'll put up a poll about where in general they should end up next.

Now Constructive comments are welcome, critics will be read and forgotten if argument is either invalid, or useless.

Were there any Ideas that I should pursue, what Kind of Figurehead should I use or be made to look like, Are there any styles for add-ons I should look into, or crafts I should adapt for my use?

Please Review,

Ryu no Kitsune.