I Do Not Own Naruto Or One Piece


Chapter 21

"Argh!"

"Is trying it again?" Adelle sighed watching her brother fly over the railing of the ship splashing into the ocean. She couldn't understand what was driving her brother to keep attacking their savior. If it wasn't for Captain Naruto they would all be either dead or still be being tortured by Gasparde. Shuraiya should be saying thank not trying to 'collect a bounty' which despite what her brother thought she knew meant that he was trying to kill the man who saved them.

"Bwahaha!"

Setting down his weights Naruto watched as the feared 'pirate executioner' slunk back onto the boat like a drowned cat.

"What's does that make Shuraiya? Thirty-five attempts in six days? Bwahaha!" Naruto laughed as Shuraiya glared at him. Maybe it would have been more threatening if the bounty hunter was soaking wet. "When are you going to give up and join my crew?"

"I'm not becoming a pirate!" Shuraiya stormed away disappearing inside the ship slamming the door behind him.

Adelle's head fell embarrassed by how her brother was acting. "I'm sorry about him."

"Ah, don't worry about it, Adelle-chan. He's not doing any harm." Naruto smiled at the young girl who had been following him around since he beat Gasparde. Thanks to Kobato and Muret looking after her and Valentine's cooking she was on her way to a speedy recovering and was looking much healthier.

"Only because you're so strong, big bro." Adelle jumped down from her seat on the railing of the ship landing bare foot on the deck. Kobato-san had been able to make her new clothes by hemming the older girl's clothes down to a size that fit but shoes were out of the picture until they reached St. Poplar.

Lifting his weights back up Naruto hefted the massive bar over his head a dozen times before setting it down again.

"Yes?" He asked looking at Adelle who looked away blushing at being caught staring.

"Why didn't you humor like you usually do?"

"Humor?" Naruto tilted his head not understanding the question. He was usually good at figuring out what Adelle was trying to say despite her still being a child but he this time he was stumped. Was she trying to ask why he didn't mock Shuraiya?

No, that couldn't be right. He was her older brother why would she ask something like that.

Adelle nodded. "It's what Miss Valentine say you do when you let my brother attack you and not beat him right away like you did today. Why didn't you do that today?"

"I'm not humoring him, Adelle-chan. I'm training him. Every time we fight I push him a little farther past his limit forcing him to move faster, fight harder." Naruto explained which only confused poor Adelle even more.

"But why?" She asked. "He keeps saying he is not going to join your crew, so why bother?"

"You're a good kid, Adelle," Naruto said seriously losing his smile.

Adelle's face flushed at the compliment but Naruto continued with his speech.

"Most kids your age are kind of annoying, to be honest. Or at least the ones I've met. You're not and I like you, so even if you guys don't sail with me, I still want to protect you." Naruto looked to the cabin of the ship where Shuraiya was somewhere inside. "If I can't be there to keep you and Biera safe, Shuraiya will have to do it in my place. And for that, he needs to be stronger. The world is filled with monsters that have superhuman abilities at their fingertips. As he is now your brother doesn't stand a chance."

Maybe he was being a little harsh with her but Adelle wasn't someone who needed to be coddled. She had been through too much, was too mature for her age.

Sure she acted like a normal child would playing and laughing but he had noticed when conversations between her and Biera or Shuraiya turned serious she scoffed at being told everything would be alright and not to worry.

"Train me too!"

"Ehh? Now way," Naruto shook his head. "You're too young."

Adelle folded her arms over her chest puffing her cheeks out. She hated being looped in with other kids her age. Couldn't Naruto see that she was different?"

"I can fight. Back at the pirate lounge, I got into a lot of fights."

"Did you win any?" Naruto asked genuinely surprised by the information. No one had mentioned Adelle fighting before. He had thought she was just Biera's assistant on Gasparde's ship.

"A lot...some..." Adelle looked away when Naruto raised a brow. "Only a few. But, that doesn't mean I can't fight."

"Ok."

"And I- Did you say ok?"

Naruto nodded spinning her around by her shoulder and gently shoving her towards the cabin. There are a practice swords in the training room. Go get a pair of them and come back."

XxX

(Hours later)

"Smack!"

"Ow!

"Smack!"

"Ow!"

"Always stay behind your blade, Adelle." Naruto swung his practice kendo again smacking Adelle in the back as she stumbled past him.

Adelle who had taken off the shortened white coat Kobato had made for her pulled at the collar of her red jumper pulling the cloth away from her sticky skin.

"Right."

Naruto watched her raise her sword despite the shaking in her arms. She was covered in sweat and small bruises from where he had landed hits and he was sure Kobato and Muret would give him hell about later he was more interested in the wide smile on her face.

"Uzumaki Naruto! What the hell do you think you are doing?"

Naruto held his hands up smiling nervously as Valentine stormed across the deck to his and Adelle's make shift training area. "Just doing a little training with Adelle, Valentine-chan."

"Don't Valentine-chan me," Miss Valentine mocked knocking the wooden sword practice sword from her captain's hand and pointed over his shoulder. "Are you blind?"

Naruto turned around and saw a bunch of people gathered together on the docks glaring at him. "What's wrong with them? I know people don't like pirates but the islands connected to the sea train are under Galley La's protection."

"The problem is they saw you knocking around a child." Valentine snapped at Naruto and snatched Adelle's weapon away from her. "Really, what were you thinking continuing her training after I told you we were nearing the island?"

"I was thinking that Adelle-chan wanted to learn how to fight and that it wasn't that bad of an idea."

"It's not a bad idea, Adelle should know how to defend herself," Valentine rubbed her forehead feeling a headache coming on. Why couldn't Naruto understand that some things weren't acceptable to the public?

Naruto shrugged and bent down to pick his sword back up. "Then I don't see the problem."

"The problem is that we have a perfectly good dojo with training gear inside the ship. But instead of using that you trained her out here where the people we have to spend the next four days with saw you. Maybe longer if the stories about Aqua Laguna are true."

"Then I will just tell them I asked to be trained if they ask," Adelle said shrugging the same way the blonde next to her had.

Miss Valentine would have thought it was kind of cute the way she was trying to model herself after the captain if the situation hadn't been so serious. "It's not that simple Adelle."

"Okay, then we promise to use train inside when near islands with other people," Adelle promised looking up to Naruto for approval of her plan.

Naruto gave her a thumbs up. He was just about to suggest that himself. "Good idea, Adelle-chan."

"Fine since neither of you want to take this seriously, here!" Miss Valentine shoved a piece of paper into Naruto chest. "It's a list of what we need to buy before we set sail again. You two can do the shopping."

Naruto held the list up and read through what was written down. It wasn't a very long list and he doubted it would so much as dent anyone's treasure pile.

He tucked it into his pocket once he was done and smiled down at his new protégée. "Come on, Adelle. We can get you some new clothes and shoes while we're out."

"Is that alright. Valentine gave you a list, we should stick to it don't you think. That's what Biera's does when he goes shopping."

"We are sticking to it, 'New clothes for Adelle' was the first thing written. We should be able to get everything before it gets dark and be back in time for a little more training."

"Ahh!" Adelle screamed as Naruto scooped her up and dashed from the ship using his Shave technique. "You idiot, warn me next time!"

"Bwahaha! You should see your face!"


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"Adelle-chan, head back to the ship," Naruto ordered pushing the young girl behind him is eyes locked onto the bounty hunter who had attacked them.

A middle-aged man with a drop-shaped, rotund body with thin arms and legs. What got Naruto was the man's hair. It was shaped into two cube-shaped ponytails, an obvious nod to his Devil Fruit power.

"But I want to stay and watch you fight." Adelle pulled on Naruto's pant legs. "I've seen plenty of battle before on Gasparde's ship. I can handle it."

Naruto shoved her a little farther away from him but he didn't take his eyes off Gairam. "I know you can but this guy is dangerous and you just began training yesterday."

Anyone a part of 'World destroyer' Byrnndi world's crew was someone Naruto wouldn't take lightly. You didn't get a name like that without superhuman power.

"Fine, but you better come back. I need you to train me to get stronger so I can fight guys like that." Adelle said before turning and running.

"Oh, is she leaving? The fun just began." Gairam held out his arms like he was hugging the air. "Air cube booster!"

Naruto watched as a giant see-through light blue cube formed in front of Gairam and began to shrink but he couldn't move from his spot. He could only wait for the attack to come and take it head-on.

"Frozen in fear, Oathbreaker? I can't say I'm surprised," Gairam laugh as he finished compressing the air into a cube half the size of his body.

"Air Cube Booster!"

"After all." Naruto reached out with his observation Haki. "I finally have something to protect."

XxX

(Naruto's ship)

"Shuraiya! Biera! Valentine!" Adelle shouted as she bounded up the gangplank connecting their ship to the docks. "Where is-"

Freezing when she reached the deck she ran into something hard and would have fallen right back down the gangplank if a gloved hand hadn't reached out and grabbed her.

"You should be more careful."

"Adelle, what's wrong? I thought you were with Naruto?"

Adelle raced around the weird long-nosed man and saw Kobato kneeling on the deck beside a curly haired guy who looked like he had lost a fight.

"Where's my brother? Or that Bellamy guy?" She asked frantically whipping her head around trying to see if either of them were also on the deck but her view was blocked by the people dress in black.

"Adelle, I need you to calm down,"

"Naruto is fighting a really strong guy who turned a village into cubes! How am I supposed to be calm?"

"Where?" The long-nosed man asked and Adelle was about to tell him to mind his own business before Kobato spoke.

"It's ok, Adelle." Kobato looked up from her patient. "You can trust him, he's a friend from Naruto's days as a marine.

Long nose spoke again this time harsher. "Where are they fighting?"

"A small village not far from here, five minutes outside of the town," Adelle answered and the scary guys just vanished leaving her staring at an empty space. "He's just like Naruto."


Next chapter is going to have a few surprises and I'll be diving into another part of Naruto's Chakra Chakra No Mi. I got a few complaints about the fruit being too boring and not that creative but what happens next should change that.

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