I do not own either One Piece or Naruto.

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The sun had peaked its head over the horizon and was illuminating the morning sky, people had started getting out to work and the desert creatures were starting their day. On the outskirts of Nanohana town was a shirtless man with an orange hat. He was walking with a wanted poster in his hand, looking for the man in question.

As he walked into the city limits, his stomach made a growling noise indicating that the man was hungry. He gazed upon a restaurant, its name was Spice Bean, and he decided to eat there.

He entered pushing aside the saloon doors, the chattering in the eatery seemed to come to a standstill, and then after a second had passed it began again, having measured up the newcomer.

Ace walked over to the counter and took a seat, only one other patron was sitting on the counter, slurping on ramen, which was quite odd because ramen was a rare dish in this type of desert country. The man had finished at least four bowls and now was finishing the fifth.

Ace ordered food and told the owner to keep the dishes coming. As the owner was leaving for the kitchen as called his attention and putting the poster on the table he asked, "Have you seen this pirate? I'm looking for him."

"I can't say I have, sorry" the owner apologized.

"It's okay, didn't expect you to know, thanks anyways." Ace told the owner.

After a moment, the food arrived and he started to dig in.

While he was busy eating, he noticed that the man next to him was looking at the poster intently.

"Do you know him?" Ace asked with a little bit of excitement in his voice.

"The answer might depend on who you are." the blonde man said coldly.

It was at this moment Ace took the time to take in the man's appearance. He had sun-kissed wavy blonde hair, had whisker like marks on his face and had a forehead protector with a leaf symbol on his forehead. He was wearing a pale yellow T-shirt with blue cotton pants. He was wearing a white overcoat. All in all he was not generic looking, he looked 'special'. Like he was someone important.

"I'm his brother."

XxX

Naruto had gotten up early, before sun even rose and had went to explore the town. He got into his clothes sans the marine cap, he had lost it on Luffy's ship the time he visited them. After a while he had gotten hungry and went into the only restaurant that was open, it was called Spice Bean.

It was just his good luck that the restaurant was one of the few ones that served ramen in this country. He was on the fifth bowl when a man entered the eatery. He sat next to him, ordered his food and asked the Yoshimoto, the owner about a pirate. Naruto wasn't paying attention but when he went to take his sixth bowl, he noticed the wanted poster. It was Luffy's poster with the 20 million Beli bounty.

The man had noticed him looking at the poster and asked him whether he knew Luffy. Naruto just icily replied that depending on who he was, the answer may vary.

Naruto took this time to observe the man. He activated his sensory technique that allowed him to sense emotions and took his appearance in. He had an orange hat on his head and was topless, was wearing shots and had a tattoo on his left bicep. He had freckles that seemed out of place on his mature face. But the odd thing was this man was giving off power in waves, his chakra was of the charts, and he could easily give an elite ANBU squad a run for their money and maybe even come out on top.

"I'm his brother" replied the man.

Naruto remained calm at that statement, he could sense that the man was not lying or had malicious intentions. Naruto also had a good feeling about this man so he decided to trust him.

"I know of him, he should be here sometime today." He coolly said, gone was the icy tone.'

"That's great! How do you know that?" the man curiously asked.

"Well they were on their way to Alabasta with the princess the last time I checked and Nami said it would take 14 days to reach here so…" Naruto drawled out.

"Oh! Thanks man, I've been looking for him for weeks, I'm Ace by the way." Ace told him.

"Naruto Uzumaki, nice to meet you. I didn't know that Luffy had a brother and he never mentioned it either." Naruto casually said.

"Ah! You see I was adopted into the family. We're not bound by blood but by a much stronger bond, brotherhood." Ace told him passionately, "Though he makes me worry sometimes that idiot brother of mine. Do you have a brother?" he asked him.

"I had one, he was my older than me and the best one any one could ever hope for." Naruto said, his voice breaking a little as he remembered Kakashi.

"I'm sorry for your loss." Ace sympathized

"No-No it's okay, it's in the past now anyways." Naruto told him.

"So how do you know Luffy anyways?!" Ace asked.

"He's my nakama. We met before he and his crew entered grand-line and I separated from them willingly though I've promised them that I would join the crew once I know enough of this world." Naruto confessed.

"Oh, well when you join them please take care of my otouto for me, and I'll owe you one. God knows he needs it. I feel like I can trust you for some reason." Ace told him.

"The feeling is mutual Ace-san" Naruto confessed.

Just then, he saloon doors opened and in walked Smoker.

"What is the Commander of Second Division of Whitebeard Pirates doing in this country?" Smoker asked rhetorically

Just as Smoker identified Ace, the people in the restaurant started filing out in a panic, sure that there would be fight.

"I'm looking for my younger brother." Ace replied coolly.

"Since I'm looking for another pirate, I'm not interested in you." Smoker said

"Then will you let me go?!" Ace inquired.

"Unfortunately as long as you are a pirate and I'm a marine I can't let you do that." Smoker said as he readied to fight, "Uzumaki, get away from him. Your attacks won't work on him. Go and get backup." Smoker ordered Naruto.

Throwing one last glance towards Ace, Naruto left the eatery.

Ace for his part was dumbstruck, the guy he just asked to take care of his brother was a marine?

But he didn't get to think ahead because at that moment an object came flying through the window and sent him and Smoker crashing through the walls.

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Naruto was halfway towards the inns where the marines were, when Luffy shot into the restaurant with is rocket technique. Knowing that this would get the marines' attention, he quickly thought on his feet and Henge'd into a generic native of the country with turban and clothes. He sent out a clone to ask for backup, he thought Ace could handle himself. He quickly went back to the inn and heard

"-I'm here to beat Crocodile" Luffy was telling Smoker. Just then Ace got up shot a fireball towards Smoker, ready to start the fight.

In the commotion that ensued he dragged Luffy into an ally.

Dispelling the Henge, he drew out blood from his thumb by biting it, he quickly went through a set of summoning seals, and whispered "Kuchiyose no Jutsu".

There was a pop noise and burst of smoke later, there was a large desert toad in front of them, it could've easily been mistaken for a frog if not for the glands along its eyes and the horizontal slit eyes.

"Naruto-sama, where were you?! We've been worried. If you hadn't summoned us, Ma and Pa would've summoned you sooner more than later. Don't go missing out on us, you're our only summoner."

"A talking frog!" Luffy exclaimed.

"I'm not a frog, I'm a toad. We are noble creatures than those dastardly frogs." Gamabaku snapped at Luffy.

"I wonder if it's tasty?!" Luffy thought out loud with drool dropping out of his mouth.

"I'm sorry Gamabaku, I didn't wanted to be alone for some time after the Hachibi fiasco. I'm here now, please help me out quickly here. We're going to use Gamagakure jutsu (Hiding in a toad technique) to get out of here, how many can you fit?" Naruto asked quickly before Gamabaku could argue with Luffy more.

"About ten, then the dimension gets packed." The toad answered Naruto.

"Great that's way more than I need but nice to know! Let's begin, but first" he said as he started going through hand-seals, he again whispered, Rinne Hansha (Rinnegan reflection) and touched Gamabaku's head. In that moment the toad's eyes shifted from golden horizontal slits to purple concentric rings. Now that his Rinnegan was reflected on Gamabaku's eyes they had synchronized vision and could also communicate mentally.

Then he sensed the Straw-Hats position and mentally said 'THERE'.

Grabbing Luffy by his head, he stuffed him inside Gamabaku's open mouth and then later slid down in himself.

It was quite roomy in his stomach, Naruto saw the outside world with his Rinnegan and mentally asked Gamabaku to move towards Straw-Hats.

Inside the stomach of Gamabaku, Luffy asked Naruto, "You can transform too! Awesome, we met a guy on the sea who could transform too but turned out he is with the mysterious evil organization"

"Is that so….hmm." Naruto knew what a capable person could do with Henge, if there was a person here who could do Henge then God knows what kind of damage he could do to the image of the king

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Vivi was waiting for Luffy with the others, the marines had noticed Zoro and were giving them a chase, and thankfully they had found a place to hide, now they were just waiting for their captain to come back. Carue was getting restless so Vivi ran her hands across her head. Fortunately the shopping for the journey ahead had been done by Nami and Sanji and now they just had to wait for Luffy.

Zoro and Sanji were bickering over something calling each other names like baka cook and marimo head while Chopper was down on the ground, resting due to heat. Usopp and Nami were talking about something-something weapon for Nami.

Just then a loud croak like voice came from amidst them and they noticed there was a large toad sitting in the middle of the ground.

Usopp who was on the edge said through quivering legs, "It's just a desert toad."

Chopper was up and looking at the weird creature. They didn't have amphibians on Drum Island.

"At least this one didn't call me a frog." the toad croaked out.

"Wha-"before anybody could comment on the talking toad, it mouth opened and out shot a hand like someone reaching from out of a grave. Usopp and Chopper were shaking in their pants, frightened.

But their worries were laid to rest when out came Naruto al slick and slimy.

"Wha! The toad ate Naruto!" Chopper called out afraid of the toad and hid behind Zoro.

Naruto only grinned and started pulling out something from the toad's the mouth. It was Luffy.

"Ahh! The toad ate Luffy too!" Usopp cried out.

"Settle down you idiots, you'll attract attention, your captain has attracted more than enough." Naruto reprimanded them.

"How did you do that Naruto?!" "-Naruto-san" Nami and Vivi asked amazed.

"Perks of being a toad sage" he said like it was a usual thing to say.

"Anyways, Luffy the person you crashed into was Smoker-taichou, the man who almost caught you and other one was Ace. Yes before you ask we just met and he's looking for you. But now's not the time. Get running, I'll distract them, Ace will probably find you by the end of this mission. Now GO!" Naruto all but shouted the last part.

"H-hai, thanks Naruto." Nami said, surprised by Naruto's commanding tone of voice.

Gamabaku disappeared in a puff of smoke leaving the non-ninja folks scratching their heads. Just as they started running away, a big ball of fire and smoke arose in the direction behind them.

Naruto for his part didn't get distracted and created total eight shadow clones and had them Henge into Luffy and his friends and made them run in a different direction.

Then he went back to ground zero of the fire ball and found Smoker there standing amidst small patched of fire surrounded by marines. Seemed like backup had reached him in time but they were of no use.

Spotting Naruto, he walked over to him.

"What were you doing with Fire-fist Ace?" Smoker suspiciously asked.

"Sir, I was eating and minding my own business when that guy came into the restaurant. He was asking around about Straw hat Luffy. I didn't know he was a pirate though, that's why I was talking with him, I thought he was a bounty hunter." Naruto said in one go.

Smoker. Rubbing his temples said, "Uzumaki, how can you not know who he was! He is the commander of 2nd division of Whitebeard pirates, were you living under a rock? Anyways it wasn't like you would've been a match for him anyways, he was a logia type and unless you can use Bushoshuko Haki (Armament Haki) which even I don't you wouldn't be able to hit him." Smoker said to him suspiciously like he was expecting him to disagree.

"You should get a Kairōseki encased weapon if you want to fight people like them next time." Smoker advised.

"I'll keep that in mind next time taichou." Naruto acknowledged.

"Smoker taichou! The Straw-Hats have been spotted." A random marine who entered the clearing told Smoker.

"Where?! Follow them, I'll be with there with you shortly." Smoker told them.

"Uzumaki, take quarter of our forces and lead them towards Alubarna, I and Tashigi will take the rest to Rain Base, there is something fishy going on here and I've got a hunch that Crocodile is in the center of it. " Smoker commanded Naruto.

"Will quarter of the forces be enough if civil war breaks out?" Naruto asked.

"No- they won't be enough but we'll have to make sure that it doesn't come to that. I'll come to back you up in a day's time." Smoker answered

After that Smoker went ahead to capture Straw-Hats leaving Naruto alone in the clearing.

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It had taken a day but Naruto had led the men under his command to Alubarna, oddly enough the very few captains and commodores under G-3 base had chosen to stay back, so most of the marines who had travelled to Alabasta were only infantry units.

Naruto had requested a meeting with the King. Cobra was his name. They had been allowed to stay in the barracks, ever since more than half of the royal army had left to join the rebels the barracks were mostly empty.

For the meantime he was now sitting in one of the balconies in the palace's lower level waiting for the confirmation of his meeting. He was wondering how the Straw-Hats were faring against the desert and the marines.

He thought back on how he had decided to hide his powers in this world. He had only used summoning and Henge in front of people here. Only that little girl knew his other power, his Kurama Chakra Mode.

Now that he thought back on the girl, he wondered how she might be now, did he make a difference in her life, and he sure didn't preach anything to her. He wondered if she membered him because he sure as hell did but for the life of him he couldn't remember her name and now her face was hazy too. She was one of the reason he came to this world, he would look for her sooner or later, because he thought of her as his responsibility for some reason, he couldn't argue that they had formed an inkling of a bond when he had saved her, the same as Nami but on a whole another level. Though he was sure if he saw her photo as a kid he would recognize her, as an adult…not so much.

Just as he was lost in his thoughts a man came to him, he was a tall imposing dark skinned man with medium length hair and a long broad nose, he resembled a jackal.

"The king has asked for you marine-san." The man told Naruto

"Finally! Lead the way." Naruto asked of the man, "By the way, my name is Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki."

"Chaka, I'm the acting chief of Royal guards as of now." Chaka informed Naruto.

"So what kind of man is the king?" Naruto inquired as they walked

"He is kind and loyal to his family and kingdom, the claims that we used dance powder to make it rain here are baseless!" Chaka spoke with a fierce loyalty.

Tashigi had explained to him the reason for the upcoming civil war, it was the rumors that King Cobra had used dance powder, a powder that would make it rain in an area at the cost of drought in other neighboring regions. But now that he knew that Baroque Works had staged all of this, he didn't find it hard to believe that the king was innocent in all this.

They reached a set of decorated large doors, Chaka left him there, entering through the doors Naruto found himself face to face with a regal man. His forehead was wrinkled, he had a tied off beard and long black curly hair. He was wearing a green robe with a purple coat on.

"Cobra-sama, I have been sent here by my Captain to support your troops in case the civil war breaks out. My captain has gone to follow one of the leads that might lead to apprehension of the Baroque Works leader. He suspects the shichibukai Crocodile to be involved somehow." Naruto informed him assuming he was the king, and he was right.

"Yes, I wanted to inform you of just about that, my daughter sent me a letter that details that the leader of the organization is in fact Crocodile. But we can't do anything about that, if we announce this to public, they will think we are trying to put the blame on Crocodile, one who they think is their savior from pirates. Unless we have solid proof, we can't do anything about this information." Cobra told him.

"That indeed is a problem, what we need to do is placate the rebels, one wrong move and the country will be on the brink of civil war, even whatever I say against the organization will be seen as the World Government taking sides with one of their founding members. We're in quite a pickle." Naruto confessed, "Tell me what is your policy towards the rebels? Do you arrest them, execute them? Imprison them?" Naruto asked.

"You dare think I would kill the people of my country for opposing my rule marine!" he said with justifiable anger, "The children of this country are doing what they think is right but doing that doesn't justify me executing them. I'm not like one of those of my peers on Mariejois who think that they are better than the people they serve, it's my duty to serve and look after my kingdom and I won't be doing that by executing people who have been misled." Cobra ended his statement.

Naruto found a newfound respect within himself for this man. When most rulers would've taken the anger of their incompetence on the rebels, this king wanted to save them. Very few people were inherently loyal to their duties like this, he had the Will of Fire burning within him.

"I'm sorry Cobra-sama if you're offended but that's what other kings would've done. But fret not because we have bigger matters to worry about. My undercover marine source in Katorea said that the rebels are preparing to attack Alubarna tomorrow, they'll reach here by early morning. They mean to take the palace." He informed the king.

In actuality the undercover source was a Moku Bunshin henge'd into a rebel soldier, they were talking via a small wireless communication device he had lying around in his spare sage coat pocket. The bunshin kept him updated, giving him latest information regarding the movements' of the rebel army.

"Don't do anything that might provoke them, don't give them a reason to attack you so that means no attacking them first. Be ready to deploy a flag of peace, because it's your own people who are going to get slaughtered. Surrender because by this time my captain would have captured the culprit and will bring him to justice. If not then I'm here to keep you people safe, I trust that the rebel army won't pillage this town as they still love the country only hate the means the ruler used to run it." Naruto assured them,

"But there is one problem in this plan, the organization has a person capable of transforming into others, let's hope he can't transform into you or there'll be a war. I'll see if I can do something about that transforming man." Naruto told them.

"Thank you marine-san, we asked the world government for help but the celestial dragons pressured them as they consider my family second-class for not leaving Alabasta and living in Mariejois to not send any help, your base is the only one that responded. They think we deserve this." The king said gratefully.

"Please, its Uzumaki Naruto, and I didn't know about that, seems like the celestial dragons are a bastard bunch." Naruto said and at that moment Naruto got an idea.

"Cobra-sama, I need some information, do you know anything about a place called Tequila Wolf?" Naruto slyly asked, "By asking you this, I'm risking my freedom so I would appreciate it if you didn't tell anyone that I asked you this, but I can't just sit still knowing that people were transported to that place for some reason in cages."

"I-I don't know how you know about that fact and I'm not going to ask but know this, you can't tell anyone besides people you trust that you know about that, it's a top class secret for a reason, a secret I'm about to divulge." Cobra said solemnly.

"Do you truly wish to know this, because after this you won't look at the government the same way." Cobra cryptically said.

"Yes, I want to know the truth, I don't want to remain blind to the workings of this world." Naruto answered

"It's deplorable really, how people in high positions abuse their power. This is an example of that, 700 hundred years ago after the World Government was established, the nobles commissioned the building of a bridge that would connect the islands, Tequila Wolf is the current island to which the bridge had been recently connected and thus the now base of operations for them. The people who build the bridge aren't workers but slaves, people who might have pissed off a Celestial Dragon or people who were not part of the countries that formed the government. Nowadays nobles send the slaves that they have been grown bored of to the bridge. Children have been born, lived their whole lives there as slaves and died on the bridge. I know this might be too much for a young marine like you to take in but you asked and I answered. Such is the way of the world, the weak suffer under the cruelty of strong. This all I can tell you, even I know only this much since the records don't say much and my father refused to tell me more. I would love to say that my family was one of the few that opposed it, but alas my ancestors were of the same mindset as other nobles, it was with my great grandfather did the line of people like me became common in my family." Cobra told him.

"Doesn't the government do anything? Isn't slavery a criminal offense in the eyes of the government? "

"You must understand Naruto-kun that the noble are protected, they can't be tried for any crime they commit, they can murder a person in front of you and you won't have the power to apprehend them. A person who commits an action against a world noble has to face the might of an admiral, may it be marine or a pirate. As they are the descendants of the founding families, you can't do anything against them. My family was one of the founding family but left to rule our nation." Cobra informed him.

"If that is all?" Cobra asked him.

"Y-yeah." Was all Naruto could say as he aimlessly walked away.

In his aimless state, he didn't sense two people with malicious intent entering the room as he left it.

He walked away from the room, his mind heavy with thoughts. His enemy was the whole government, even though it maintained peace, the peace was just a farce, it would leave one of its member nation to fend for itself, it enslaved countries who didn't see it their way. Under this farce of peace was enslavement, the cages he had seen had transported people to the ends of their lives.

What if what Dragon told him was true, what if thy really had destroyed an island and killed all of its inhabitants to keep their secret, just how much did he not know? Was he helping their cause by being a marine? Should he be helping the revolutionaries instead of the marines? Were the marines even the good guys if they helped in this injustice? Then he remembered his own words that he had told Tashigi. Not all marines were good guys but that didn't mean all marines were bad. Maybe only the people at top were like that. He decided he would stay a marine a little while longer, at least until this whole Alabasta incident was over.

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It was early morning time when the sun hadn't even risen when Naruto noticed the commotion in the palace, the soldiers were running seemingly searching for something. He grabbed one of the royal guards and asked him what the matter was.

"The king is not in the palace, he's disappeared!" the soldier said and went about his way searching for his liege lord.

Just as he was processing that piece of information, the radio piece in his ear crackled to life, his bunshin speaking through, "Boss, the king has appeared here, he is flaunting around saying that he used dance powder in Alubarna, I think he's an impostor, I'm low on chakra too, maintaining the Henge for two days took a lot out of my reserves. I'm about to dispel, what should I do?"

"Use Sōshinki (Wood Transmission), use it near the leader of the rebel army. You did well by the way." Naruto replied.

Sōshinki was a technique that was used in conjunction with Moku Bunshin, turning the bunshin into tracking seeds and planting them on a person allowed user to track said person. His clone would use them on the leader of the rebel army and he would thus be able to keep track of enemy's movements.

Even though the damage was done, he still needed to find the king. He expanded his sensory technique to locate the king but couldn't find him, which meant he was out of his sensory area limit, which was 2 kilometers.

Closing his eyes, he entered sage mode and started sensing for the king, 'There!' he thought, he quickly began moving in his direction.

Even if the rebels weren't going to attack then, they sure as hell were going to now after the impostor had did that in Katorea. No way was the king in two places at once.

Naruto went roof hopping above the empty city, seemed like king had evacuated the city if worse came to worse, this was good. Now he would only need to hold back enough to not destroy any buildings.

He reached an area by the walls, it was a desert clearing. He could sense Cobra beneath him, using Doton: Dochū Senkō (Earth Release: Subterranean Voyage) he swam underground and pulled Cobra out of a underground cavity. There was no one nearby, seemed like his captors had left him there and went to do something else, in his sage mode he could sense two figures approaching this position, he didn't want a confrontation now so he took Cobra and went towards the palace.

He could sense Straw-Hats approaching the city, they were not far off. He could also sense the rebel army approaching, at this rate the Straw-Hats would reach here first by a small margin. In the midst of this, he could sense Tashigi approaching with a small unit of soldiers with her, why was Smoker not with her though? Where were the rest of the marines?

But he had no time to worry about that, dropping Cobra at the palace with Chaka to guard him, Naruto went to the battle front, there men were ready to fight with no peace flag in sight.

"You were supposed to surrender, didn't the king tell you?!" he grabbed one of the royal soldiers and asked.

"He did, but last evening he said to prepare for battle and give the rebels everything we had got."

Rubbing his temples, Naruto thought 'of course the impostor, but when? I didn't feel anyone using chakra yesterday, I was specifically looking for the phenomenon…. unless, unless it was a devil fruit.'

Naruto had thought that someone had figured out how to use Henge in this world but he had ignored the simplest explanation, devil fruits. Shit! This was all going down the perpetual drain.

"Cease your preparations, you are not to fire, raise the peace flag." Naruto commanded them.

Some seemed to comply by dropping their guns but that effect soon vanished when one of the generals of the battalion said, "You're just a marine, we listen to king." And like that the dropped guns were picked up.

Naruto thought on his feet and went away.

King Cobra came out from an ally and looked at the general who had resisted Naruto's order and,

"The man who ordered you to fight was an impostor, raise the flag and do not fire, relay this message to all fronts." King Cobra commanded

"Ha-hai Cobra-sama" the general replied.

Cobra passed through a building, in went Cobra and out came Naruto.

Naruto was outside the city walls patrolling for any Baroque Works agent when he spotted a great dust cloud forming in the distance, seemed like the rebels had arrived. The white flag of peace had been raised and they would see it in the meantime. His sage mode was fading as the five minutes were nearly over but on the brink of fading he sensed Vivi, heading towards the dust cloud.

Seemed like she was intending to stop the rebels by confronting her friend, the rebel leader. That seemed like a good plan for her, maybe she could pull it off. The rebels were halfway to city walls and Vivi had gotten down off Carue with her hands spread wide. He could hear her screaming to stop, pleading. The rebels were slowing down, seemed like they had spotted the flag.

Just then, there was sound of a canon firing and the shell landed amidst the rebel army. And then two more shots landed from other canons before the generals of the army stopped them, but the damage was done. The rebels would be now screaming for blood and they were charging straight towards the city gates and Vivi was in their line of charge.

A sandstorm had started blowing and was probably obscuring the vision of rebels of Vivi.

'All the precautions, all the planning, all for naught!' Naruto thought solemnly, He had been overconfident in his abilities, thought he could save he country and now this country was in the midst of a civil war, even after everything he had done. He didn't want to lose one of his friends again like he did in the war, he activated the power he wanted to conserve for future, the power that had made him the fastest man alive, and the power that would allow him to save one of his friends now.

He was clad in yellow flames, his clothes now an open jacket like golden cloak with six magatama markings around his neck like a necklace with Uzumaki swirl symbols on his outer shoulders and navel, he had a silhouette of two horns on his forehead as that of Rikudo Sennin. His air and headband ends were flowing as if they were underwater and his eyes were red with vertical slit like pupils. He had been forced to use this Kurama Chakra mode because if he hadn't then Vivi would most certainly die.

Running with speed that would be impossible for anyone to attain in this world no matter how much they worked on it every day he was with Vivi, who had seemingly accepted the fact that she would die, grabbing her and Carue under his shoulders he bolted away from there just as the rebel's horsed stomped the ground where they were standing and appeared deep within the city, all in the span of time it would take one to blink one's eye.

Vivi slowly opened her eyes and couldn't comprehend what had just happened, one moment she and Carue were about to die under the feet of the rebels and now they were inside the city? What happened and who was this person standing there holding her? Voicing her suspicions she asked,

"K-Kami-sama?!"

"Idiot it's me, Naruto" he said deactivating the cloak.

Vivi was dumbfounded, was Naruto even human?

"What happened back there, how did you save me?"

"Well, our plan was working well, then some idiots fired off the cannon." Naruto answered her, "Anyways, your father is in the palace with Chaka, go there you'll be safe. I'll handle this."

"O-okay" she said and Carue and her went towards the palace.

'Time to end this' he thought grimly.

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Whelp that's it. Enjoy the story and kindly read and review. In this story, Alabasta is one of the founding nations of the WG but chose not to live on Mariejois. So don't kill me for that cannon inconsistency. I'm thinking of Tashigi having feelings for Naruto, thought that doesn't mean that she will be in his romance interest list, unless someone convinces me to with a really good reason. Next chapter might end the Alabasta arc.