A/N: Ok so, I know it's been really long since I last updated. But I have my reasons which I don't want to bother you with so all I'm going to say is that I've been really, but what I mean REALLY busy lately. So at last I had this little time to write.

Thanks for the reviews, I really appreciate them.

Chapter 9.

Somewhere in the One Piece world:

"So, are you going to help or not"…Said Madara.

"Tch, I already told you, I am. But you have to do your part of the deal"…Said the anonymous person.

"Yea, I will"…Said Madara. He left transporting himself to the Naruto World.

"Damn Straw-Hats, you're going to pay"…The anonymous person growled.

Back with Naruto:

He stood in front of the six Pains that were all once again moving. He suddenly saw that Tsunade stood up barely. "I'll-I'll be the one to protect the village, if I don't then why am I the Hokage"…Tsunade said standing in front of Naruto.

"Old lady (I don't remember how Naruto directs himself to Tsunade)"…Naruto said surprised.

Then at a really high speed, one of the Pain attacked Tsunade who could barely stand. She couldn't move, she was about to receive the hit when Naruto leapt and hit from above the pain, shattering it to pieces.

"Hey, didn't I kill it (well, they were already dead but you know what I mean) once and then Kakashi too?"…Zoro asked surprised. He was with Crocodile and the rest at a considerable distance.

"Hmm, you're right. The one that looks like a girl, I had already dried her up, that's strange"…Crocodile said.

"Well, let's just see what happens"…Zoro said with a smirk, and Crocodile just grunted. "This looks like it's going to be interesting"…Zoro thought.

The remaining Pain moved into a weird formation, most probably for combat. The main Pain was in the middle while the rest surrounded him; four were in front and one in the back.

"Kuchiyose no jutsu"…Said the girl and raised her hand towards the sky and then slammed it against the ground, making a symbol appear in the same. Smoke arose and a huge rhino appeared charging against Naruto.

Naruto just stood there calmly and waited for the rhino to come close enough. When it was in arm's reach, he grabbed it by the horn, lifted it and with half a spin threw it in the air.

Everyone looked at him surprised, except Zoro and Crocodile.

"Hmmm, that guy looks stronger than the rest. I'd like to fight him later on"…Zoro said more to himself than anyone. Crocodile just saw him with a look of 'weirdo'.

The fight continued on and Zoro watched intently at how Naruto fought. He was impressed by the amount of power and strength he had. He noticed his eyes but thought that those eyes were just some other type of eyes that they explained him early on.

He watched how he summoned the frogs and all, how he used different ways of attacking; whether he used some kunais or just his body. He saw the battle between the frogs and the other animals. He was amazed by the ability of the frogs. It was practically a one-sided battle in favor of the frogs.

When it looked like they had already won he saw that they were having some trouble with the dog from earlier, it seemed that no matter how much they tried to defeat it, it just kept multiplying so he decided to do something about it. All three dogs that resulted by the multiplying were in the air ready to strike back down the frogs.

"Santoryu…108 POUND CANNON!"…Zoro said creating a circular-like blue wave of air that went towards the three dogs that couldn't do anything since they were in mid-air. The circular-like blue wave of air hit the three dogs making sending them flying and later on disappearing in a 'puff'.

Everyone looked at him and he just shrugged. "They were starting to annoy me anyways"…Zoro said. Then everyone looked back at Naruto.

"Tch, you didn't have to do that, you should've just let them deal with it alone"…Crocodile said with a bothered expression.

"Yea, well, who cares"…Was the response of Zoro. They both turned to look at Naruto.

After a while of fighting Naruto lost his Sennin Mode and returned to normal, this didn't pass unnoticed by Zoro and Crocodile. Then they saw how he was struggling more than before to keep up with the rest of the Pains that were left.

Naruto was trying to unroll the scroll he had in his back but he couldn't because of the Pain that was attacking him.

"I'll do it"…Said the old frog that came with Naruto.

Naruto handled the scroll to him so that he could do it. Meanwhile one of the frogs was trying to hit the Pain and gain some time for the thing that Naruto and the old frog had prepared. But as much as he tried, he couldn't land a blow on him.

"Tch, sneaky bastard"…Zoro said. He was starting to get annoyed and bored so he got frustrated how they couldn't even hit him once. Crocodile was just tapping his foot on the ground.

Naruto was about to impaled with one of the sticks that the Pain seemed to come out from his sleeve, but the old frog was able to summon one of the clones of Naruto and made it disappear going back to Naruto and putting him back on Sennin Mode. With that done, Naruto managed to break the stick and continue fighting with the Pain.

After some time, Naruto was defeating one by one the remaining Pain. But the thing is that, the Pain that was all the way to the rear was summoning some type of face/door that seemed to eat the ones defeated and revive them.

"SO THAT'S WHY"…Zoro and Crocodile said at the same time. They both looked at each other for some seconds before they both turned their heads the opposite way and with a tint of pink in their cheeks from embarrassment of having the same thoughts and saying them at the same time.

"Well, what a fine fight huh"…Zoro said trying to change subject.

"Y-yea, sure. Know what, I'm bores so I'm gonna go…somewhere"…Crocodile said.

"Sure"…Zoro said awkwardly.

Crocodile walked off to somewhere and Zoro didn't even bother to look where he was heading. Crocodile might even know where he was going; he just left because of the awkward moment.

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Pain was beating Naruto; he impaled those strange rods on Naruto's feet and hands. Zoro was about to interfere when Hinata approached him.

"Please…let me help him"…She asked Zoro shyly.

"She's too weak for him, she won't even stand a chance against him"…Zoro thought. But after seeing those pleading eyes of Hinata, he relented. "Fine, but you won't st…"…Zoro was about to tell her that she wouldn't be able to defeat him but, saw those worrying eyes but with determination.

"What?"…She asked because Zoro didn't finish his sentence.

"Never mind, just be careful"…Zoro said.

She went down and prevented Pain from killing Naruto. Zoro watched as Hinata did her best to fight Pain but she just wasn't able to do much to him, there was too much difference in power, but Zoro didn't even move. Not even when she was being tossed from one place to another like a rag doll…and impaled with one of those rods on her, he just watched frowning.

The blood was slowly, almost painfully slow, spreading on the ground. That pulled the trigger on Naruto. He suddenly lost all control of himself. The transformation had begun. A sudden powerful gust of wind flew from Naruto's direction and a great light-laser thing came from a bubble that was covering Naruto's body.

"Such power!"…Zoro said surprised.

"Isn't that…?"…Sakura said with a little bit of panic.

"Isn't what?"…Zoro asked her.

"The-the Kyuubi"…She said wide-eyed.

"Huh?"…Zoro said not knowing what that was.

"It's a demon like thing that lives in Naruto, Naruto must've gotten too mad and the Kyuubi well somehow gained control over Naruto"…She said, now looking at Zoro at the eyes. "It's one of the most powerful, if not the most, creature in the world"…She said.

"Demon huh…"…Zoro mumbled to himself. He then saw how the red liquid-like thing suddenly began to cover all the body of Naruto. He could feel the immense power it had. "Well, looks like things have gotten I bit more interesting"…He said with a sadistic grin.

"Ehem! Ehem!"…Sakura said trying to gain Zoro's attention (which she did).

"What?"…Zoro said a little bit irritated for being interrupted in his thoughts of fighting such being.

"Just to warn you, 'cause it looks like you're having some crazy ideas, Naruto in that state has no control over his body, he will attack to kill anyone, either you're a friend or foe"…She said looking sternly.

"Tch, I just wanted to have an interesting fight. Ever since I'm here, everyone's been taking all the good fights except me. It get's kind of boring you know"…Zoro said.

"He's crazy if he thinks to go one on one against the Kyuubi. He sure is some crazy fight lover"…Sakura thought.

Naruto meanwhile had finished his transformation and had begun to attack non-stop Pain. Pain barely had time to defend himself. As the battle progressed, the battle between the two got more and more aggressive. Pain would now and then manage to attack Naruto/Kyuubi, but it didn't do much. But Naruto/Kyuubi was already starting to get the upper hand in the fight.

The fight had left the initial fighting ground and was now a high speed fight. They had caused a lot of damage to their surroundings and had left the village behind. Zoro of course, followed them, he didn't want to miss the action (though he preferred being in it and not just a spectator).

Suddenly they stopped, more like Pain stopped and the ground began to shake. Huge boulders were starting to rise up to the sky towards a huge black sphere that was in the air. Even the Kyuubi began to go up on a boulder. It shot some powerful blasts against the huge sphere that was starting to get covered in rocks.

Zoro was being lifted towards it to but managed to get down jumping down by using the rocks as foothold. He grabbed on to something that was big enough to stay on the ground. "What a crazy attack, to think that he could make stuff like these, but I'm not that surprised since I've heard of worse"…Zoro said, struggling to not let go.

Naruto/Kyuubi suddenly was lay flat on the surface of the huge sphere and was covered by huge rocks that crashed against it at a high speed (that had to hurt). And for quite the while there was suddenly silence. It seemed that Naruto/Kyuubi was finally defeated. But Zoro could still feel some huge power coming from Naruto, but it just wasn't released.

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A/N: I'm not going to write what happens inside of Naruto since you probably already know it (and I just wanted to skip that part)

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Zoro had already settled down because the magnetic force that was once pulling him up was gone. He was just waiting for the moment in which Naruto will probably go all out, or more like the Kyuubi will go all out and resume the fighting. He could feel that Pain was already really tired or more like the quantity of the chakra that he had was at a really low level.

After sitting there for a while, he was starting to get impatient so he stood up and paced around, but never looked away from the huge sphere. But then, a 'puff' was heard and a huge-but what I mean HUGE- fox like creature (just that it didn't have any hair). Zoro watched the creature roar so load that he thought he would be deaf after the monster stopped roaring. It even spat fire out of its mouth (he had some sweet memories from Punk Hazard).

After the monster stopped roaring, all he could hear was the ringing sound in his ears. After some seconds all of a sudden, the monster disappeared with a 'puff' and all he could see was smoke, lots of smoke. But even without seeing, he could feel that the presence of Naruto had returned and recovered control.

The smoke dispersed after some seconds and he could see Naruto standing upside down on the huge rock-covered sphere. He had once again his cloth that was initially their and not the red liquid-like thing that was covering Naruto's body when the Kyuubi had taken control over Naruto. The huge sphere began to shatter and huge boulders fell to the ground at a strangely slow pace.

"So he's finally regained control huh. Well seems he would be a fine dueling partner at least"…Zoro said with a smirk.

After some small talk between Naruto and Pain they both began to fight. It was clear that even though Pain was almost depleted of Chakra he could still win. But Naruto still had the Sage Mode so there was more possibility that Naruto would win.

The battle was short after that. Naruto did some clones, and some Rasengans , then a lot of clones; and then after Pain used one of his techniques to push away all the clones and Naruto, Naruto used his clones to absorb the impact and stop him from getting to far away. Pain fell on his knees because of the exhaustion. But Naruto didn't leave any time for Pain to recover as he quickly did one more Rasengan with one of his two remaining clones; after it was done the two clones tossed him towards Pain which couldn't do anything to avoid the hit.'

"RASENGAN!"…Naruto shouted while hitting Pain with his Rasengan.

"Arghhhhhh"…Pain screamed of ^pain^ as he was being hit by the Rasengan.

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Zoro followed Naruto to where the real Pain was, but without Naruto noticing. He even watched and heard all the conversation that they had. Naruto somehow reminded him of Luffy in a way. They both wanted to help the others if they were his friends, and would do anything in their power to do it.

After Nagato understood that Naruto was the man that Jiraiya was talking about he did a jutsu that revived every person that died in battle and those who died because they couldn't go to a safe place. Zoro just watched in awe from afar how lots of green lights were flying out of the mouth of some sort of statue that was in the village. He could feel with his haki that people were starting to revive.

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Back at the village (or what's left of it):

They were all gathered around Naruto (except for Crocodile, Zoro and a few ninjas) cheering on him, praising him for doing a great job in defeating Pain. Sakura ran and hugged him but not before smacking him. After that, they lifted him and started to toss him up and down. That somehow brought a smile to Zoro's face; it kind of reminded him of Luffy.

"So the brat actually won huh"…Crocodile said to Zoro approaching him from behind.

"Seems he finally comes out"…Zoro thought. "Yea, he surprised me a bit with that demon thing that he had, if he didn't have that, he would've lost the fight"…Zoro said. He wasn't much of a talkative person, much less with enemies, but since that awkward moment some time before, he just talked to ease the tension.

"Hmmm, interesting"…Crocodile said. Not that he was much of a talkative person either.

After that they just stayed in silence, they didn't need to say more than what they had already said. So they just watched how everyone was cheering on Naruto.

"He seemed surprised when they received him with open arms its like if he wasn't used to being treated well by them. Maybe he was once hated or something like that by them that just now that he saved the village, they now like him. Or maybe…ugh, too much thinking is giving me a headache"…Zoro thought. But decided to stop thinking too much of it. He would just let things go however they were going to go.

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After the entire ruckus had died down:

Zoro was carrying some wooden plank for the reconstruction of the village (the whole village was completely obliterated, after all), so he decided that he was going to help out in the reconstruction of the village. He saw how everyone, even if they were happy to be alive and survived the attack, they still lamented the loss of their homes and belongings. And even though they were sad about that, they tried their best and with gladness to rebuild the village.

He worked hard and fast so that the village would be rebuilt as fast as possible. He would often see that even kids and old men were helping out; everyone was putting their all to it. That kind of made him glad to fall on this village instead of any other; he didn't show it of course, always with his serious face.

It was already getting obscure so all activity ceased, people stayed at some refuges that were built by Yamato so that people that weren't finished with their houses spent the night there.

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Zoro was sitting, resting his back on a tree that somehow managed to stay standing even after that devastating attack. The night was clear, the stars shone brightly all over the sky, and the moon, well, it was just magnificent, the splendorous body was so close Zoro could almost touch it.

Zoro remembered about Luffy and his crew, he didn't think it would come to this but, he already missed them. Yes even that ero-cook.

"Luffy, everyone; I hope you guys are all right…Ha, what am I thinking, of course they're all right. They're really strong after all. Wonder what they're doing. Maybe they are looking for me or waiting for me. Or maybe they thought I was already dead and left me…Nah they believe in me as I in them."…Zoro said to himself while the calm of the night invited him to close his eyes. "Crap, I'm getting to soft"…Zoro thought as he drifted to sleep.

A/N: Hope you enjoyed it. Please don't forget to review, favorite and follow. O and if you see anything wrong, tell me.