From Ninja To Pirate Till I See You Again

By: CaffineFreePepsi

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or One Piece

A/n: To all my fans. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thanks for putting up with my slow updates for so long and maybe with the new year I can up[date more. I try to update once a month and I'm sorry when it doesn't but my schedule has been totally packed lately. The days I had off from work, I had school and vice-versa. On the rare days off I tend to catch up on sleep. Because I'm on vacation though, meh... I'll update again before it's over most likely. Not making any promises though. Merry Christmas again.

Last time:

She laughed without amusement as she used the trailing ends of his trench coat to dry her tears. "Naruto... what would I ever do without you? You didn't even know me when you agreed to protect me. How am I going to go on without you?"

"What do you mean? Without me? I'm with ya till the end, Nami." he held her tighter to himself. "Unless... you don't want me here." He squeezed her once more before he let her go. The sudden cold after the warmth from Naruto left her shivering heavily but not as much as she the deep pain she saw in his eyes. "Do you want me to leave?"

Her tattoo, proclaiming her allegiance to Arlong's crew, had been removed hours before. She had packed her bags and left the money behind in the center of her room. She ha already said her goodbyes to Nojiko and Gen. When she came here tonight she came to say goodbye to two important people. Her mother and Naruto. She had no doubt he would be leaving with Tenten and Hinata come first light. Though he never said so to her, she knew it was a dream of his to return to his formal home and his friends. How can she compete with the love he had for his home?

Chapter Twelve: The Past

After Tsuande had sent the Hyuuga girl and Tenten after Naruto, Jiraya had left the village for a mission of his own. It was an almost impossible mission but one he knew he had to finish as soon as possible. Travelling non-stop for weeks, he eventually made it to a small town in the outskirts of the Tea Country. The town, if it could be called that, was made mostly up of shacks held together loosely. Mud, thick and slimy, dug into the base helping to hold the unstable structures up. Children, well-fed but covered head to foot in the same slime and mud that surrounded their homes, peeked out at him as he walked on by. He paid them no mind.

The house, or shack, he had searched for so long was set back away from the rest and was decorated a lot differently from the others. While most of the shacks carried little to no decorations save for the odd plucked bird or beast skin hanging out to dry this sake had herbs hanging down from every free space available. Wooden carvings, some older and rough and other new and polished, stood about the meager yard making it hard for anybody to walk about. An older man stood in the doorway brushing the stray mud from the small stoop that served as the door step.

"Excuse me," Jiraya called pleasantly as he walked towards the doorway. A hand raised in greeting. The man scowled at him and continued to sweep waiting for the sennin to meet him. When he did, the old man didn't say anything. For once Jiraya was at a loss at how to proceed with this. "Well... Will you please tell me... Is this were Hashimoto-shishō lives?"

"If it is...Who calls upon Hashimoto-sama?" This man, Jiraya decided looking him up and down, was loyal to his mistress to the point where it was beyond annoying. But, knowing Hashimoto, she enjoyed his company and crankiness. Didn't she take care of him after many of his own stupid accidents? She could easily handle a cranky old man like this.

"The toad Sennin, Jiraya." He bowed low to the man, watching his reaction from beneath his eyelids. The man, who he soon learned always looked like he was chewing a sour lemon, didn't react visibly to his name. Only giving a curt nod and disappearing around the doorway, closing the door with a soft thud behind him. Villagers walked by at a comfortable pace on their way to the fields or mines that lay nearby to the village, sending him curious looks as they strode past their head woman's house.

It was hard to believe how much time had gone by since he had last seen the old woman. More years than he cared to remember but he couldn't have been much older than Naruto would be now. She had been a top healer in their village during the Great Shinobi Wars. She had been taught the basics of healing alongside Tsunade but had branched out on her own in different decrees. She went on to study different, more impractical, types of medicine. She started to base the types of medicine or healing she dulled out on the patients birthdays and astrology, one time. Another time, she based the medication she gave out by chance. One day it would be this. The other day another. Surprisingly, it always seemed to work. She once told him, on a mission when she helped him over a fever caused by a rusted blade buried within his shoulder, that most injuries and illnesses are within the head, such as his fever at the time, and if a person believe they were being treated and were getting better they would. Mind over matter.

She had just disappeared one night without a word to him or Tsunade. Or any of their old friends. For years he believed the Third had sent her on a mission above her level and she had died. That is, till he heard the story days before he left the village himself. She had grown tired of the constant fights with the other shinobi villages. Tired of the constant healing and suffering as they died within her arms. in this way she had resembled Tsunade. So, she travelled far and dedicated to helping any one in need. Even though he wished greatly for it, never in his travels had he searched her out.

Until now that is.

"Jiraya." He hadn't heard the door open but there she was in front of him dressed in a simple white kimono with her long white hair piled lightly on top of her head. She had the figure of a woman who never had children of her own and had kept herself well fit. She was short and if she still had the dark blue hair that had been her crowning glory she could be mistaken for someone much younger. Her eyes were a piercing blue that shot through the very soul of any one looking within them. "It is nice to see you again. How many years has it been?" She did not bother asking how he had found her. they both knew he had his ways.

"Too many." He smiled as she ushered her within her home. Her home was even more cluttered than the outside. Bamboo plants, some almost going to the ceiling from where they rested on the floor and others barely an inch from the floor. Herbs hung on the rafters and on the small bed's posts that lay in a darkened corner. A fire burned brightly in the hearth over which she hung a kettle and prepared a tea for the two to drink. The man was gone, having disappeared through an invisible door. Unless he was her all along. "Last time I saw you didn't even have a grey hair let alone white."

"I wish I could say the same about you, Jiraya-kun." She laughed, reaching forward and twirling a lock of his hair around her fingers. "And how is Tsunade-chan? I had heard she had been made Hokage."

"Yes, about six years ago." He shrugged sinking down into the chair she pulled out for him with a grateful sigh. "Though she's still the same old Tsunade."

"Just like you are the same Jiraya?" He chuckled deep in his throat watching her from the corner of his eyes as she bustled about the one roomed house making the tea and pulling out a batch of fresh biscuits. "May I ask something, Jiraya?" He nodded, meeting her eyes as she placed the worn china cup in front of him. "Why is it that you want it so badly to come here?"

"I don't know how to put... where to start..." He sighed, bringing his hand up and rubbing his tired eyes. "it's... It's Naruto."

"The Kyuubi boy?"

"It's amazing how well you've kept so up to date on events in Konoha when you are so far away." He smirked at her, giving her a slightly knowing look.

"At the time, well, I was in the area. Other times..." She meet his smirk with a secretive smile. "Passerby's told me of." Her tone applied it was something more than passerby's but, by the look in her eyes, he knew better than to push her for answers she would rather keep to herself. They stared at each other, each trying to push the answers out of the others eyes. Even if it was impossible. "Same old Jiraya. Just as stubborn as the day we met."

"I can say the same about you Maya-chan."

With a soft smile she stood from her chair and padded over to an almost unnoticeable chest of drawers. "I should hear the reason you need it but... I trust you Jiraya-chan." She pulled open the first drawer and dumped it's contents on the ground, a small pile of scarves, and reached into the drawer. There was a small tearing sound and, when she pulled forth her had, she held a small box. "This was given to me by my Godmother as she lay on her death bed. She told me to care for it and give it to one of her own descendants, the one who would come to me with open arms. A bit of a prophetic she was. I shouldn't give it to you for it doesn't really belong to me but... when your done, take my job over for me." From the box she pulled forth a necklace with a frayed rawhide cord acting as it's chain. In the dim light the blocked windows let in, JIraya saw the light purple stone shine brightly. This one moment made the past few years live able. He could see his silly student again. Baka Naruto.

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"Tenten-chan?" Hinata called up lightly to the sulking brunette. She craned her head, trying to see past the shadows of the night and through the tall oak's branches to her partner. The girl grunted down to Hinata to show she was listening but did not pull her face into the slim strip of moonlight that shone softly down onto the ground. "What do we do from here?" As the senor jounin she had the right to decide their actions while out on a mission.

Hinata heard a soft sigh from above and several of the tree's branches creaked in the wind in answer. Tenten sifted her eyes from the moon and down to the girl at the base of the tree. "You can come up, you know, Hinata-chan."

"I thought you would like to be alone." Hinata placed her hand on the lowest branch and used it to help her onto the tree., She climber hand over hand till she reached the branch where Tenten sat. Tenten's eyes were closed but she shifted closer to the tree to make room for the other girl when she became closer. Sitting besides her, waiting for her to talk, Hinata reflected on what happened these past few hours. He had become a lot stronger than any of them had imagined in Konoha. The man he had become was as different as the child he was than was humanly possible. "Naruto-kun..."

"Hinata-chan," Tenten's voice cut through her musings and brought her back to their present problems, "What do you think Naruto will do now?"

"Hm..." She lifted her head to the sky, hoping to find the answers hidden somewhere in the stars above. "Naruto-kun is... essentially still Naruto-kun." Tenten nodded in agreement open her eyes and staring back into the moon. Imagining the faces of the past, how everyone had once been before being changed irreversibly by Naruto, she turned to Hinata, now a confident young woman, and saw the shy girl she once was. Had she, too, changed much in the three years since they had seen Naruto? Or would this mission be the one to change her? "He'll always do what he thinks best. Whether it's what we think he'll do or not."

"Hopefully," Tenten answered with a wry smile at the younger woman, "his decision doesn't include killing us."

Hinata couldn't help but giggle. "Yes, that's very true." Both stared pensively at the sky for several moments. They thought of their past, their present, and their clouded future. "M=Naruto-kun... Naruto-kun wouldn't abandoned any of his friends. He'll go out to sea with those pirates in the morning."

"Yes." Tenten's eyes closed again and see leaned her head back against the tree's bark, allowing the wind to play lightly across her face. "And to answer your earlier question, that's what we're going to do too." Their past... their present... their future. They're all connected, they're all one and the same, and it all depends on them. Their own fate. The fate of their home. And, most importantly, the fate of their friends.

"Hai. Tenten-chan..." Hinata pushed back her billowing hair and looked up at the sky with a renewed smile on her face. After a moment of deliberation, Tenten joined her. Together... they could handle whatever was thrown their way. Their laughter rang through the trees as they made their plans for the next day.

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"Report." Tsunade stood with her back to the doorway as her old friend and teammate stepped into the room. Her anger at not being informed of his decision to leave Konoha, no matter how short the trip out was, coursed their her veins and laced her words. "No, dammit!" She shouted before he had a chance to open his mouth and tell her what he had planned. "How could you do that Jiraya?! You could have easily been captured by Akatsuki or worse! You could have died! Did you not consider what your actions could have done to Konoha? You could have jeopardized everything we have been striving for!" She pushed angrily from the window and faced him with her anger full on in her face. "These past three years we've spent working hard on establishing trust with the villagers and Naruto, to bring our boy back. But your own silly,selfish move, almost wiped out all of that. The Elders saw your disappearance as the perfect opportunity to place their doubts within our allies minds. Do you know what you've done?"

"Yes." He cut in before she could continue her tirade. "I very well do realize what I may have caused. And I'm not sorry for it."

"Jiraya!" She stomped forward and slammed her fist down on the top of his head. As he fell down to the blow, his legs giving out beneath him, she grabbed him by the labels of his robe and jerked him to his feet and then into the air so that his feet barely grazed the floor with the tips of his toes. "If you can't repent your stupid mistakes on your own," she slowly pulled her fist back with her anger contorting her every feature, "I'll make you!" And she brought her fist forward and slammed it into his face, letting go of his lapels so he could fly back towards the wall.

With a loud bang he hit it and, with a small popping sound, disappeared. Lightly, he chuckled from behind her. Sitting on top of her desk, just out of immediate range of her, he wiped his bloody nose on the sleeve of his jacket. "Bloody damn good punch, Tsunade." She growled at him and took a menacing step towards him. "Now hold on, Tsunade. Can't you at least give me a chance to explain?"

Tsunade threw a hard glare his way but did not advance in her steps. "You have a minute, Jiraya, and counting." To prove her point, she slammed her fist down onto the desk. Its top, starting from where her fist had hit the center of the table, sent fissures of cracks scattering down the table. He gulped before laughing nervously at the damage the hokage had caused with one punch to the heavy oak desk. "59 seconds... 58... 57...5-"

"Not, Tsunade, you need to calm down and listen." Her eyes narrowed dangerously at the remark he made.

"I am calm." She growled at him from between clenched teeth. He nodded hastily and backed away from her again. "Are you going to explain or not Jiraya. Time is wasting away, you know."

"Well, I think I found away to prepare Naruto for the upcoming confrontation but it required me to move fast so the person with it would not move about again."

"Person? Jiraya... tell me you didn't visit someone who'll bring you into bad light again."

"No. It was Maya-chan."

"Maya-chan...?" Confused, Tsunade plopped down into her chair and placed a hand on her chin. "Maya is still alive? I thought she died many years ago."

"Nope, she's just hiding out in an obscure town. She send her greetings."

"Either way..." She swiped a hand in between them top signify they were getting back on to the topic on hand. "What could Maya have that could help us with Naruto?"

"Simple." She laughed as she saw the dangling jewel. "You and me are going to see if some old legends are true."

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"Heave-ho!" Zoro shouted as he threw the crate carrying several of their supplies up onto the ship. They were almost done and were going to leave minutes after the last box was loaded. The villagers of Cocoyashi were standing in idle circles around the deck, wishing to say final goodbye's and thank-you's to the Straw Hat Crew. And a big thank you to Naruto and Nami who, despite their wishes to be nakama with the Straw Hats, had yet to appear.

"Hey, Zoro! Watch what your doing!" Usopp leaned over the ship's railing to complain. "You could have killed me with that. Barely messed me by an inch!"

Zoro grunted and bent down and picked up the last box. "Watch out!" He tossed the heavier box up into the air and Sanji reached out and grabbed it as it reached it's peak a few feet over the deck. "Happy now, Usopp?" Usopp glowered down at him but moved away from the deck to continue taking the smaller boxes down below deck. Throwing the last box up, Zoro quickly climbed up the thrown down rope ladder. "That was the last box Luffy," he called to their captain as he sat on the head of Merry watching for their missing friends. "Should we prepare to leave?"

He was silent for a view minutes, watching the crest of the distant hill that led to the village. "I guess they aren't... Hey...!"

"It's Nami! Nami!" A villager from the crowd called, recognizing the figure before any of the others. His called caused the others to call out to Nami as she stood panting.

"Luffy!" Her voice rang clearly across the group to the ship's crew and captain despite the distance and the din that should have covered her words. "Everyone! Set sail!"

"What!"

"You can't be serious Nami?!"

"You can't just leave without letting us thank you."

Despite the villagers' protests, the Straw Hats finished getting the ship ready and set it off. Nami started down the hill at a steady jog, dodging around the villagers as they tried to stop or hinder her progress. She made her way slowly through the crowd with her head down and despite what they called out to her, despite when Gen or Nojiko called out to her, she didn't stop for them. "Are you sure it's all right to let her say goodbye this way?"

"If this is how she wants it to be, then it's fine I'm sure. Besides, this way is way more fun." Zoro grunted and turned to watch as Nami launched herself from the deck and came flying onto the ship.

"Now, we have to wonder where Naruto is." Even Zoro couldn't help but chuckle as the orange haired girl lifted up her shirt and the town's wallets came falling out. He found it strange that they hadn't notice the weight disappear. Then again, it wasn't like he ever carried much money to worry about and that might be the reason why he couldn't comprehend how they didn't notice it.

"Didn't you know Zoro?" Luffy yawned, crossing his arms behind his head and walking away. "He was up in the crow's nest all along."

"H-hey!" Sanji yelled running from the kitchen before Zoro could react to the news that Naruto had left him to do the hard labor all by himself. "You'll never guess what I just found." They others blinked at him before they continued to do what they were doing before. "Those two girls from yesterday are asleep in the kitchen."

"What!?" Nami screamed, stamping up the steps to see for herself. Zoro and Luffy looked at each other and laughed. It seems this would be a rather interesting journey to the Grand Line.

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The darkness was depressing weighing down on his lean and muscled body heavily as he opened up his eyes. The first thing he saw was... nothing. There was not a speck of light around anywhere in which to see his surroundings with. To find where he was. The last thing he had known he had been fast asleep in the crow's nest atop the Going Merry as he waited to set sail with his companions. The very thought that he was suddenly in an unknown place, put a deep fear in the depths of his heart.

"So," the voice, so familiar yet so different to him, called out in the darkness. It's direction unknown. "You've finally came." A light flared, seeming like miles and miles beyond his reach but what could be no more than a few meters, to his left. It was less than an inch in diameter and didn't light up even the ground below it. Or would it be above it? Before Naruto could think more on that thought the person, or at least he thought it was the person, took several steps towards him. His, or her he corrected himself, steps were heavy and slow and clicked each time the feet were placed back on the floor and snapped every time he, or she, picked them back up. It made an interesting sound, a mixture between a horse and... sandals. He knew he heard this somewhere before too. Where it was... well, it just wasn't coming to his mind where.

As the man, he was sure it was a man the closer he got for the chakra was more dominating than a woman's normally was, came closer he could feel his muscles tense as if for an upcoming battle. This man was taller than him by several hand lengths which was a feat in and of itself as Naruto was now a tad bit over six feet. He was, also, pure muscle while Naruto, though muscled as well, was leaner in his body than him. Even with the darkness pressing around him, even though he could not tell up from down, left from right, he could feel the chakra, almost see it, rolling off of him in waves and pressing in on him. Why was it so familiar? Why was it so different?

He had no doubts in his mind that it was a shinobi. Born and trained to kill. Like him.

"For some reason, I don't think I had much choice in the matter." If he could just see him, even if it was for only for a moment, he was sure he would know him. Almost like it was acting on his thoughts, several more flares of light sprang to life around them. Alighting just enough for him to see the rough outline of his companion.

"I guess you haven't changed much. Taller now, but... Trouble still follows you around like a forsaken lover." Laughter was evident in his voice as he looked down the few inches at the blond.

"And you changed? I think not. It's good to see you again, Ero-sennin." The dim lights had given enough light in which to see several of his features and combined with that cheesy line... no one but him would ever say a sentence like that. "How have you been? Wait a moment... why am I asking you this? It's just a crazy dream." Naruto chuckled lightly, hitting himself lightly on top of the head.

The lights finally went on all the way, showing Jiraya almost like he remembered. He was older looking than before, his eyes more heavily lined than Naruto remembered. But he still wore those same old clothes and his hair was styled the same way. If it weren't for the serious look within those old eyes, and that strange new chakra, he would have believed Jiraya was still the same old Jiraya he had once known. But... he wasn't. And they both seemed to know it.

"This is no dream Naruto." The smile he sent Naruto was sad and a little chilling but it was still oddly reassuring to the lonely blond man. "Come now, we have a lot of work to do and very little time to do it." Jiraya swept his arm out and a scene different from before printed itself into existence and a place he had never hoped to see filled his eye.

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"Oi! Naruto!" Zoro kicked his friends, and occasional sparring partner, in the side repeatedly as he tried to awaken the blond let out a deep groan, half from suppressed pain and the other half from annoyance at Zoro, and rolled over so that Zoro's would hit the small of his back. "We're needed below deck. Really now." Unsure if he should do it, but doing it any way, Zoro reached down and hooked his hand into the collar of Naruto's shirt and hefted him easily into the air, carrying him like he was made of feathers. "I'll give you to the count of five to answer me... One... Two... Three..." Zoro grunted a little as he placed Naruto on the ledge of the crow's nest, smiling wickedly down at the others on the deck. Quickly, the ones below scrambled away from the center of the deck. Tenten and Hinata pulled themselves onto the railing and Luffy laughed as he stretched his arms to sit atop Merry's head, the others sitting alongside Tenten and Hinata minus Nami and Sanji. "...Two...One... Bombs... Away!" And with a hard push from Zoro, Naruto did a free fall towards the deck.

The wood cracked with a horrible sound as Naruto hit the deck head on. He rolled, grunting all the way, and hit the railing at the base of Tenten's and Hinata's feet with a painful sounding thud. "Goddammit Zoro! That killed!" he jumped to his feet with a variety of scratches and bumps littering his body and pointed an accusing finger up at the laughing swordsman. Placing his own feet on the ledge of the crow's nest, Zoro jumped nimbly down besides the damaged part of the deck.

Smiling in amusement, Zoro crossed his arms over his chest and looked over the damage Naruto had caused from his impact with the wood. "Not too bad I guess. Better than I would have thought. And you're already healing Naruto." Not sounding at all surprised because of his and Luffy's own fast healing rates.

"Hey, Zoro! Why did you freaking do that!? Merry is our trusted nakama, too!" Usopp fretted around the gaping hole, as he worried on what to fix him up with and how to go about it.

"Naruto wouldn't wake up." He answered with an uncaring shrug as he casually leaned on the railing nearest to the laughing Luffy. "Captain here wanted to see us all." He explained his actions to the grumpy Usopp and the agitated Naruto.

"Captain," Nami muttered, coming out of the kitchen with a rolled up scroll tucked under an arm and was closely followed by Sanji carrying a tray full of drinks, "didn't call this meeting. I did." She sat down close to the dented boards, barely pausing in what she was doing to send it a scowl, and laid out the scroll. It was a completed map of East Blue, one of the few maps she was able to recover after Naruto and Luffy had destroyed Arlong's base, and showed a blank spot where the entrance to the Grand Line was supposed to be. "First off, I think we should get to know our two little tag alongs."

Luffy, who had started to get excited at the sight of the map, cocked his head and gave the ship's navigator a strange look. "But why? Naruto knows them and that's enough for me."

"Do you know their names then?" She asked, a vein popping out of her forehead as she pointed to Tenten and 's answer was an uncaring shrug. "Exactly. Well?" She pointedly looked at the duo. "Tell all of us your names and purpose here."

"Tenten, no family name. Why am I here?" She looked straight forward into Nami's eyes. "That's my business isn't it? Is that all?" She finished with a Shikamaru like yawn and stretched her arms up to the sky,

All Nami could do was glare at the older girl and turn to the other girl. "Hyuuga Hinata. I'm just with Tenten-chan." She gave the orange-haired girl an apologetic smile before turning her back on her and facing out towards the sea.

"Does it really matter why they're here, Nami?" Naruto intercepted before Nami could do or say something she would later regret. Or vice-versa with Tenten and Hinata. He was finally calmed down from his unplanned free fall with vows to make his "friend" Zoro pay for it later on. "They're here now and that's all that counts, right?"

"No!" She shouted, using his words to make hers have more impact. "They could be here to kill you... I mean all of us... in our sleep."

"They had plenty of chances already." Sanji pointed out, blowing a smoke ring up into the air after a long drag from his smoke. "If they were out to kill any of us." Despite his words, every one's eyes cut to Naruto who pretended to not know what they were talking about. "Numerous actually. All of us were out of it after the party finally ended last night, making us very easy targets."

"Personally, I don't care if you trust me or not." Tenten state, eyeing each of the Straw Hats in turn. "But know this as a simple fact; If I, or Hinata-chan, had aimed to kill any of you, you would be dead already. With or without any obvious opportunities. You would not have even known it was us." Tingling feelings ran up and down Nami's spine as she looked into Tenten's eyes and Naruto laughed. Both knew it was true in that one instant of their lives but each with their own reaction to that information.

"That's going a little too far Tenten-oneechan." Naruto pouted as he hastily wiped away the tears that had gathered at the corners' of his eyes because of his hard laughing. "I may not be the best at detection when we were younger, but I have improved. Didn't I notice when you two first landed in Shell City?"

Tenten sent him a soft, complying smile. Fake, of course. "And so have I, Naruto. So have I."

"Of that," he smiled back at her,genuine, "I have no doubt."

"But that doesn't solve anything!" Nami cried, throwing her hands up to the sky in defeat. "Nothing at all!"

"Do we ever?" The rest of the crew answered back with Tenten and Hinata watching on with amusement. Silence reigned over the ship for several moments, each of them judging the others' reactions. And, then, laughter exploded outwards. In this sense they had confirmed to themselves that they never truly finished anything.

"Moving on, then, I guess." Nami called across the laughter a few minutes later as they died down to light half-hearted chuckles. "Next is, sleeping arrangements."

"Nami-san and me!" Sanji perked up as he thought of him and Nami alone in a room all by themselves. He stood straight up from the hunched position he had had moments before with little hearts dancing in his eyes.

"As if!" Naruto strode across the deck and pounded the blond cook on the head. Sanji tumbled down but sprang back up within moments of his fall, fire now brimming in his eyes where the hearts had once stood and cursing up a storm at the other blond boy. "You'll never be allowed near her in such a way, you perverted cook!"

"Perverted cook?!" Sanji hooked a hand in the lapels of Naruto's coat and dragged him a couple inches closer to him. "Who are you calling a pervert, you blond monkey."

"Blond monkey? Is that the best you can do, pervert?" Naruto's smirk dared Sanji to hit him but just as he raised his fist to do just that when Nami appeared behind them and slammed a fist into both of their heads. There was a small giggle to the side and, then, a full blown laugh as the crew's silliness finally took their toll on Hinata.

"Ok, this is so enough now." Nami said, throwing a glare over her shoulder at the two boys as she walked away and sat back down in her seat. "I already finished the sleeping arrangements. I and, since there is no other place for them, those two," she jerked her head with a glower at Tenten and Hinata, "will share the lower room where I slept before and you all will continue to share the gallery. Moving on we have to decide on where to go next. There are three islands on the way to the Grand Line where we can stock up for the trip. Who knows when we can stock up afterwards. I suggest Logue Town, it's the closet but the down side is that it hosts a Marine Base and, if what Nezumi said was true, they'll be on the look out for us. It's up to you Captain."

"Logue Town sound s good to me. Any objections?"

"They're on the run and yet they're running straight into the net." Hinata whispered in shock to Tenten. "And Naruto-kun is going too."

"Hate to tell you this, Hinata-chan, but so are we. And it seems like we have our work cut out for us." She added as she listened to the continued plans between the group.

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Ok, that was the chapter. It's finally finished.

Neji:Go night, spring, flower and oriental !!
Lee: go day, spring, flower and......???
Sai: Go: day, autumn, ??? , cosplay!
Shino:Night, summer,???, cute
Shika: day,??? funny, cosplay
Kiba: go day, winter, lightmode, something cute
Chouji: Go day, Autumn, Funny, Funny
Kankuro: Night, Autumn, Funny, Funny
Gaara: ???,???,lightmode,???
Naruto: day, summer, lightmode, funny