Chapter 11

PUNCH!

"One…"

KNEE TO THE CROTCH!

"Two…"

KICK!

"Three…"

PUNCH!

"Four! Ha beat that Cockatoo-teme!" Naruto yelled as another man fell unconscious in front of him. He was kickin' ass out here!

"I'm already up to ten." Sasuke stated and smirked when Naruto pouted and looked jealous. The blond could obviously see the hoard of men lying by Sasuke's feet. Damn! How does he do that!? Oh well, back to the fighting.

"Come on you guys. We better see what's happening up on deck." Chouji advised. They all nodded and ran out of the kitchen and towards the stairs. Naruto was following behind, since he still didn't know his way around…

Okay you guys are probably wondering what's going on… well lets back track a little…. After Konohamaru interrupted the guy's 'friendly' game of "Bullshit".

Two Hours Earlier

"Are you sure it's the Akatsuki. Nobody has heard of them for a while now. You can't be serious!" Kiba argued and glared at Konohamaru as if the boy was the source of the problem. The boy shrank back from the hard glare given to him and moved towards Sakura, who patted him on the head encouragingly.

"That's exactly what Captain Kakashi said…" Konohamaru admitted and the whole room grew deathly quiet. Naruto fidgeted in his seat as the awkward silence continued.

"Ummm…. W-who are the Akatsuki…?" Naruto asked once he found his voice again. Everyone automatically turned to stare at him with a 'You're-kidding-right?' look on their faces.

Naruto, getting sick of all the staring, yelled in frustration and slammed his hands on the tabletop.

"Who are they!? Are they seriously that strong that they would freak all of you out?!" Naruto's face started turning red to express how angry he was getting.

Long silence… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …

"Take a chill pill pipsqueak. We just didn't seriously think that you hadn't heard of the Akatsuki." Kiba said while patting Naruto on the shoulder to try and calm him down. Naruto clenched his fist in frustration when Kiba called him 'pipsqueak'.

Don't make fun of his size!! Ever!

Naruto swiftly turned to Kiba and shot out his fist, knocking the older boy in the face. Kiba fell backwards and hit the floor. Naruto visibly relaxed after that, seeming to have taken out all his anger on the poor teen that was currently nursing a bruising cheek and a bleeding nose.

Naruto gave the rest of the group a 'I'm-Gonna-Kill-Someone-If-I-Don't-Get-Some-Answers!' glare and everyone just thought he was cute when he did that. Shikamaru decided to humor the boy, so he cleared his throat to get Naruto's attention and started explaining.

"The Akatsuki are a group of Marines. They're one of the most well known Marines ever. They're known for their crewmembers and their cruelty towards pirates." Shikamaru explained and Naruto sat back down, listening intently. He nodded for Shikamaru to continue and explain more. Shikamaru sighed and was about to continue when Sakura cut him off.

"Basically the Akatsuki are bad news and we, as pirates, would rather not get into anything with them." She said while glaring at her cards that she had placed onto the table while ago.

Naruto nodded again. "Well that makes sense, but how do you guys know so much about them? I haven't even heard of them. And do you know any of the crewmember names?" Naruto asked enthusiastically. He was really curious now. Sai looked at Naruto exasperatingly and decided to quench Naruto's thirst for knowledge.

"Captain Kakashi said that he used to be a spy on the Akatsuki's ship. He was a member of another group of marines called 'ANBU'. He never told us why he was spying on them, but it must've been important… He was doing well for a while, but one crewmember found out about him. His name was… I think it was Sasori… Anyway, after that he got into a huge fight. He came out of it alive, thankfully, but he lost his eye in the process, hence the eye patch. He ended up quitting the ANBU and decided to become a pirate. Personally I think he became one just because he got to wear an eye patch… But that's just me. Other than that we don't know about any names of the Akatsuki crew or stuff like that." Sai finished and he looked up to see mischievous blue eyes looking back at him. Naruto leaned back in his chair thoughtfully and closed his eyes as he let the information sink in.

Everyone watched him for a while, wondering what his reaction would be. They didn't have to wait a while until they saw Naruto's eyes pop open and then he jumped to his feet and started bounding towards the door. He turned around before opening the door to face everyone. His face exploded into a large grin.

"Come on you guys! I don't know about you. But I'm thinking that I want to kick some Akatsuki ass! Dattebayo!" He yelled happily while pumping his fist into the air.

Everyone was shocked. Did the boy not hear what they just told him? Was he completely stupid or just really brave? Well everyone was leaning towards 'stupid'… But the way he looked so confident made them all feel a little more comfortable and they gained a bit more confidence of their own.

"Well if Naruto's going I guess I'll go too…" Sai said as he stood up from the round table and walked over to stand next to Naruto. The smaller boy looked up at Sai and beamed at him. The dark haired boy looked away to hide the faint blush on his cheeks from Naruto.

"Me too, me too!" Konohamaru yelled while running to stand next to Naruto as well.

"Count me in also!" Kiba shouted and ran up to Naruto while patting his blond locks playfully.

"…" Shino got up silently and walked over to stand behind the others.

"May the youth be with us all!" Lee shouted and skipped over to Naruto, giving him a friendly hug and taking his place with the others.

"Ugh… You guys are gonna get us in trouble. I just know it." Sakura complained but joined them as well.

"Booyeah!" Chouji shouted while taking out a butcher knife and bag of chips.

"You guys are so troublesome…" Shikamaru said with a bored expression on his face while he lazily made his way to the growing crowd standing near the hyper blond. Naruto and the others turned their attention to the last one left at the table. Neji. He just sat there crossing his arms over his chest stubbornly. Naruto pouted sadly at the brooding brunette. (A/N: Hee hee that rhymes… kinda.)

"You comin' Neji-kun?!" Naruto asked cutely while giving Neji the 'Ultimate-Uzumaki-Uke-ish-Pout.' Naruto had been saving that one for the perfect time. He knew how much affect it had on everyone especially Neji, for some odd reason.

Neji's spine tingled as he saw the look Naruto was giving him. The kid was just too cute…

"I guess I have no choice…" Neji grumbled as he got up stiffly and made his way towards the blond. Naruto beamed triumphantly and turned towards everyone, letting his eyes fall upon each person's face.

"You guys are the best! Now come on! For all we know, everyone could be under attack by now! Dattebayo!" He yelled while rushing out of the room. Everyone looked at the door as it closed behind Naruto, and they all laughed softly at Naruto's enthusiasm. Sai and everyone else left the room and made their way towards the stairs that led to the deck.

MeanWhle

"Sir, un. The ship is now in sight, we're almost upon them, and they don't even suspect us, un." A blond man informed as he entered the Captain's cabin. It was a large cabin, larger than that cabin that the rest of the crew all had to sleep in. It was painted deep red and black, just the way the captain liked it. The blond man by the door walked further into the room so that he was standing beside a dark figure in the middle of the room.

"Sir, what would you like us to do now, un?" The blond man asked, looking hopefully at the person towering in front of him.

"Continue after them and move abreast the ship on the port side. Do not fail me this time Deidara-kun." The dark figure said while flashing his red eyes towards the blond man.

"Of course Itachi-sama." The shorter man said while bowing lowly, until his longish blonde hair touch the floor.

"Before you are dismissed I want you to send Kisame down here. I wish to speak to him before we make our move." Itachi sad in his emotionless voice.

"Planning on getting some today before we have to talk to our unsuspecting guests?" Deidara giggled at Itachi's glare before leaving the room swiftly. It was fun to annoy the Uchiha once in a while but you shouldn't stay in the same room for too long when he got irritated.

BackToOurMainCharacter…

"Okay now… Which way to the deck again? And where the Hell did everybody go!?" Naruto huffed and put his hands on his hips, trying to figure out what went wrong. They were supposed to stick with him! And they were supposed to be up top, kicking ass! Now he was completely lost and alone! God… this was just—

Naruto was interrupted in his inner turmoil by a loud thud noise. It came from the room a couple steps in front of him.

The blond jumped again when he heard another loud noise coming from inside, he also heard a painful groan this time. Naruto listened closely and heard a lot of foot steps and it sounded like there was a fight going on in there.

Curiosity overtook him and he quickly swung the door open to see three men he never saw before, and they were fighting a boy he has seen before. Sasuke. The raven haired boy seemed completely calm and focused until he caught sight of Naruto in the doorway. Naruto looked at the other men and saw that they had multiple cuts on them and their faces looked bloodied and beaten. Naruto quickly looked at Sasuke's knuckles and saw that they were a little red and he had blood staining his shirt, but it wasn't his blood.

Still confused, Naruto was about to ask what was going on when all of a sudden he felt something wrap around his chest tightly, pinning his arms to his sides and something cold pressed against his neck. Naruto slowly turned his head so that he could see that a sword was pressing dangerously close to his neck and an arm was wrapped around his torso so that he couldn't move. He was close to panicking but he forced himself to calm down. If he was to get out of this situation alive he was going to have to pay close attention and calm down. There was no need to get riled up now.

Yes, Naruto has common sense like that. Of course he had to learn the hard way. He had been taken hostage a couple of times before, but once the attacker realized that the others wouldn't give a shit if they killed the blond then he quickly bolted away. Naruto didn't think this time would be any different.

"You're Sasuke Uchiha right?" The man holding Naruto asked. Sasuke looked at Naruto and then glared at the man while nodding to confirm the man's assumption. Naruto looked into Sasuke's ebony eyes and he saw something akin to anger in them but his eyes went back to being emotionless too quickly to be seen by the others in the room. But Naruto saw it and he didn't know what to think.

'Is he angry at me because I'm being annoying and an idiot for being caught? Is Sasuke mad because he has to come save me now? Yes… that's probably it. I'm always in the way…' Naruto thought to himself and he looked away from Sasuke, trying to avoid his gaze.

"Well Sasuke, you're going to come with us. I heard that you're the younger brother of Itachi Uchiha. You'll make a good hostage against him." One of the other men said as he wiped away some blood on his lips and Naruto saw the man smiling to himself, probably congratulating himself for such a good plan.

Everyone in the room, including Naruto, gaped and looked confused as Sasuke started chuckling amusedly. "You really think you're so smart to come up with that you moron? You know… There's one little flaw in your plan. Itachi doesn't give a shit about me. And I'm on quest to kill him. So you'd do best to just leave now and leave him here. He is of no use to you. I'm not going with you, like it or not." Sasuke said while pointing to Naruto and glaring at the man holding him, clearly wanting him to drop the boy.

The man holding Naruto growled menacingly, but instead of letting the boy go he just held on tighter. The sword on Naruto's throat started to hurt and blood seeped out as the sword slowly dug into his skin. Naruto winced at the sting but he ignored it.

"Oh well. I guess we won't have a good hostage against Itachi but… I don't think I'm gonna let this little one go. He'd make up well for the loss, especially since he's so cute." The man said but he whispered the last part into Naruto's ear. The blond shivered in disgust as the man breathed on his neck and licked it slowly.

Sasuke's glare turned murderous as he watched what the man was doing to Naruto. And the look of disgust on the blonde's face, only brought out Sasuke's anger more. The raven haired teen's eyes turned a deep crimson and he glared at each enemy in the room.

The man holding onto Naruto took his mouth away from Naruto's neck to look up at the scary Uchiha, who looked about ready to kill. He didn't even get to blink before Sasuke disappeared from his sight. He looked around the small cabin room frantically. The man felt a horrible pain shoot through his whole back and he dropped the sword he was holding against the blonde's neck out of reflex and fell to the floor.

Naruto scrambled away from the man and once he was far enough away he turned around, only to see everyone lying on the floor, bleeding and groaning in pure agony. Naruto lifted his head up to lock his eyes with crimson ones. Naruto cringed, they were the same color and held the same malice as Kyuubi's. This couldn't be Sasuke, because Sasuke wouldn't do something this cruel. Would he?

Naruto flinched when a hand went towards him. The hand hesitated before grabbing Naruto's arm and pulling him to his feet. Sasuke calmed himself enough to let his eyes return to normal and he saw that Naruto felt relieved when he did so. Sasuke glared at Naruto for idiocy. How could he let himself get caught like that? If he wasn't there then Naruto would've been dragged back onto those pedophile's ship and get molested, even rapped! God, Shikamaru was right, Naruto was troublesome…

"Why can't you be a little more careful you baka! If you would've been taken, you know how worried me and everyone else would be?! You have to watch out for yourself from now on! I'm not always gonna be here to save your little ass!" Sasuke yelled while tightening his grip on Naruto's arm, but the blond didn't notice. He just stared at Sasuke and tears started to form at the corner of his eyes. Sasuke's eyes softened, he didn't mean to upset him.

"Naruto… I—" But Sasuke couldn't finish because Naruto leapt onto Sasuke and gripped at the back of his shirt, sobbing lightly.

"I'm….. sorry…. if I made you upset. Naruto you don't have to cry." Sasuke whispered. It was hard for him to apologize, since he doesn't do it too often. Naruto looked up at Sasuke and smiled brightly at him.

"I'm not upset Sasuke. I'm happy! You guys actually care about me?" Naruto asked carefully.

"Of course baka." Sasuke said, and honestly Sasuke wouldn't really admit it, but ever since Naruto came on board, things seemed a lot happier and exciting, even to Sasuke. He has seen the change in everyone since Naruto came. Even Sai was showing some emotions every now and then he didn't even know existed.

"Hey, Sasuke. I bet I can beat up more guys than you can by the end of the day!" Naruto said while pulling out of the Uchiha's arms. (And Sasuke was starting to like the contact too…)

"Hn… I highly doubt that dobe…" Sasuke said smugly while smirking to himself.

"Don't' look down on me teme! Watch, I'll surpass you one day! I may even become captain before you and I'll have you swabbing the decks all day! Ha!" Naruto said while trying to laugh menacingly but it only caused Sasuke to smirk I amusement.

"Okay… let's make a deal… Whoever defeats more men by the end of the day wins, and the looser has to swab the whole deck tomorrow. But you can't use a mop." Sasuke said and Naruto immediately stopped laughing to huff at Sasuke.

"Ha! I'll make sure that your on your knees cleaning until your hands fall off tomorrow!" Naruto shouted and ran to the door before Sasuke could protest or make a come-back.

They both ran into the kitchen to see Chouji swinging a butcher knife at a bunch of guys. There seemed to be at least 14 men, and they were all trying to steal the food. Chouji was putting up a good fight though.

"Okay let's get started teme!" Naruto said while rolling his shoulders and stretching his sides. Sasuke nodded in agreement and they went for the men.

(And this is where we started ladies and germs-WithExtraCoodies.)

Okay review and tell me what you think. You know it's kind of upsetting when people don't review or comment to tell me what they think, because it's the writer's duty to please the readers, so if you're not telling me if you don't or do like it then I don't see a point in continuing... well ja!