In the world of tommorow...is not today.
Title Page: Naruto outstretches his hands to the sides. One half of his body is in his ghost form. The other half is frozen ice. Above him, a effeminate boy hold his sword up like an executionor.
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Cipher Pol Mini-Arc
It was inspection day. The members of the infamous CP9 all stood lined up. Spandam stood by them, scanning them with a critical eye.
He walked by each of them. The collar looks good. No signs of sickness. Thats good as well. He wouldn't been worried for their health if it weren't for that doctor Fadon leaving.
But then one member stopped him. This one has a problem. He narrows his eyes at the long nosed man.
Is that...a wrinkle?
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Some time ago
"Whew...took a while for those kids to go." The blonde whiskered boy sighed in relief as he sees the kids boat go the other way.
Naruto felt a bit guilty for having those kids go through about a day alone on the boat, but at least they have each other. He felt a bit chilly for some reason. "Yeesh. The weather really changes nowadays, but this is riduculous!"
When he talked, he sees a bit of coldness in his breath. He closed his eyes and thought, 'God it sucks being alone.'
"You still have me kit." 'Okay. I'd rather be alone then.' "Oh come on kid. That's cold!"
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"Pft. Pft ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! That was so lame! Ha ha please don't do that ever again!" "Ha! I made you laugh! I am getting through to your cold shell, aren't I?"
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"Shut up."
"Um? Excuse me, sir?" Naruto blinked. That did not sound like a demon. That did not sounded like a male either.
The blonde looked to where the voice came from and sees a girl. The girl has long brown and brown eyes. She has a icy feel to her, but her eyes seem to be filled with warmth. Add to the fact she is the prettiest girl Naruto has ever seen in his life, perverted thoughts begin to develop.
The whisker boy looked left to right and then to the girl. "Umm? Who are you?"
The girl smiled, creating butterflies in Narutos stomach. "My name is Haku. And before you ask, I'm a boy."
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"LIES!" Naruto pointed at her-erm him. His mouth was agape and his eyes were popping out. "No way you can't be a girl! I call foul!"
The gi-damnit guy sweatdropped. "What?"
Naruto crossed his arms to form an X. "I refuse to adknowledge you as a guy! Never!"
Haku raised an eyebrow. "So. Want to fight?
This caused a smile on the blondes face. "Yeah boy! Wait. What!?" Now that he thought about it, the guy is wearing a standard marine uniform. Also, the boy has a sword on his hip.
Haku put his hand on his sword. "I know who you are." He unsheathed his sword. "Uzumaki Naruto." And pointed his sword at said boy.
The blonde raised an eyebrow. "Wait. How do you know my name? And how are you even on this boat?"
The marine reached into her pocket and took out a paper. She showed the paper to Naruto. "This is your wanted poster. Cipher Pol Ghost. And how I got on is the boat right next to yours? Courtesy of Aokiji-sama."
Naruto raised an eyebrow at his poster. His picture shows him scowling and his eyes glowed pearl in the picture. 'Hey! That's my fight with Kojiro! How'd they get that picture?'
He narrowed his eyes. 'Nevermind about that. What do I do about him? And Aokiji. He's an Admiral. Fack!"
The boy scratched behind his head in annoyance. "Cipher Pol Ghost? That's a lame name."
Haku nodded agreement. "Nobody picks the names they get. Mine is the Cold Harbinger."
"What are you taking about? That's pretty cool."
The female looking boy blinked. "Really?"
"No. Jougan!"
Haku felt a powerful force push him back and into some wood. Haku realized that he landed in his captian's boat, as he hears his captain, Hina-sama, calling to him. The effeminate boy held his head and stood up.
He then hears a couple of words that freezes even his blood cold. "Fuuton: Tatsumaki! (Wind Style:Tornado)"
Haku ran to the hole he made in the wall and looked at the blondes boat, burst away. He muttered in disbelief. "He...can use jutsus?"
Unintentionally ignoring his captains orders, he looks down with a glazed look. "Uzumaki Naruto." A small smile graced his lips. "I will hunt you down to the ends of the earth. For you...interest me."
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Now - Grove 12
"How long has it been, Haku-chan? Years? Centuries?"
"Actually Naruto-san. It's been two days ago."
"...oh."
Naruto shook his head, ridding the sweatdrop on his head. He stares hard at Haku. "So I guess you're here to capture me?"
Haku smiled his same smile. "Yes. But I have taken an interest in you. Only you have caught this interest."
The blonde assassin smirked. "Really? What have I done to earn this interest?"
The boy in front of him did not answer. Naruto opened his mouth to ask again, but his jaw dropped at what happened in front of him. The girly boy was doing handseals!
Haku stared at Naruto without any warmth. Only the ice is shown in his eyes. "Hyoton: Hyouga! (Ice Style: Glacier)"
Naruto feels something really cold beneath him and he looks down to see an mini-ice glacier hitting him in the face, sending him spiraling back.
Naruto closed his eyes. 'He can freaking use jutsu!? Ice jutsu nontheless. Facker!' He flipped in midair and then floated. Then, pearlish energy covered his body and he bended his knees. He crossed his arms and whispered, "Rei Rei no..."
He then outretched his limbs and the energy sparkled away, revealing Naruto with his chakra wings. "Angel."
His enemy got startled by the boys angelic appearance. His first instinct was to bow down to the holy human in front of him, but steeled himself and settled into another set of handseals.
Naruto narrowed his eyes. He flapped his wings and flew across to stop the boy. The faster he got the more velocity he brings. 'Wait velocity? Hmm...'
His pearl wings soon became light greenish and his whole body became the same. Soon, he went at the speed of a bullet and devestated Hakus chest.
The snow white boy, flew all the way back and then to the ground. Naruto had to hold his head to stop this ringing noise nagging at his brain. As soon, as things were under control they fell under of chaos.
"ZORO!!!"
The blonde turned to the noise and sees a man with a coat raising his leg over the green haired swordsman. He hears his other crewmates yelling and trying to save Zoro.
Naruto senses danger and turns to the incoming Haku, sword poised to strike. The blonde narrowed his eyes and raised his arms. "Tekkai!"
The sword struck, but shattered on impact. Pearl eyes met brown chocolate ones. "I'm sorry Haku-chan. But it seems my nakama is in danger."
Haku had to flinch back her head as the memory struck her in the face.
Haku caught the hand of the pink-haired kunoichi. "I'm sorry. But I cannot die just yet." He created a mirror, intending to die for his precious person.
Naruto whispered, "Soru." And disappeared leaving the boy to his memories.
The blonde reappeared in front of the man. The boy knew who he was. Kizaru. Another of the admirals.
The man stared at the boy in slight suprise. "Oh? The Ghost appears? How admiral, to save your nakama."
Zoro gritted his teeth. Using his humungous strength he grabbed Narutos leg and threw him back. Everything went slow motion from there.
Kizaru sent his leg to Zoro his leg, growing brighter and brighter. Everyone in the Strawhats yelled,
"ZORO!"
In one motion, time continued normally. But something was wrong. Zoro didn't get harmed. What is in front of Zoro, is Kizaru about to kill him, only for another leg to intercept. This leg belongs to a simple old man.
"Now now, Kizaru. I think you should leave the kids alone. Besides..." Rayleigh smirked. "They ain't gonna be ny people there for the new age if you're just going to kill them all?"
Kizaru matched Rayleighs smirk and brought his leg back. "My my. 'Dark King' Rayleigh. What a suprise..."
As these two men converse and begin to fight, Luffy comically cried, "Ossan!"
Naruto fell on the ground and was looking at the sky. 'Why must everyone sacrifice themselves to save me?' He sighed. 'I'm perfectly able to handle things on my own.'
He sees a hand extending to him, but he couldn't see due to the sun. "Thanks." He grabbed the hand, but when he stood up, he immediately jumped back and got into a fighting stance.
The one who pulled him up was none other than Haku. The boy looked at Naruto with glazed eyes. "Why?" Naruto raised an eyebrow. "Why did you sacrifice yourself for your nakama?"
The blonde thought about that, and then smirked. "Because that is what a nakama is." He put up a thumbs up. "A precious person."
Haku jolted back in shock as another memory stung her.
The girl scratched her pink hair. "Precious people?"
The effeminate boy nodded. "Yes. When a person has something important to protect, that's when they truly become strong."
Naruto blinked at the boy. This is the second time the marine flinched. He heard the boy mumble, "A precious person."
Haku looked up and smiled. "I always held to my belief, that precious people have made you strong. For another person to uphold those beliefs..."
He opened his eyes and took out her broken sword. The boy made hand seals and then ice formed to form a sword, replacing the other one.
"This is rather rare for me. But..." His eyes neither held any coldness or warmth. It was the look of a warrior. "I want to fight you. Uzumaki Naruto. Truly fight you. Not as a marine, and not fighting a pirate."
"But fighting...as a ninja!"
Narutos eyes widened, but smirked. "Very well. Haku...I don't know your last name. I too will fight, not as a marine nor a pirate. But as a ninja!"
He begun to make handseals, "Katon-" "Everyone! Run! We can't take these guys!"
He stopped for a second, listening to Luffy. He gritted his teeth. 'Damnit. I'm sorry...minna.'
Naruto raised his arm to his mouth. "Gyokakyu no Justu!" A fireball went straight towards Haku. The marine disappeared and reappeared behind Naruto, handseals three-quarters done.
"Hyoton: Thousand Needles of Death!"
Needles appeared above Naruto, which he looked up. He crossed his arms and yelled, "Reikkai!" The needles broke upon contanct and he raised his leg and then swung back to kick Haku.
When Naruto turned to Haku, he heard a huge roar. He tilts his head as sees off in the distance, a huge monster roaring. The monster had brown fur and a pink hat. Naruto recognizing the hat widened his eyes, 'Eh!? Is that tanuki!?'
When he sees his opponent making another set of handseals, he made his own. 'Time for an original!
Both finished thier respective handsealing.
"Hyoton...!" "Fuuton...!"
"Howaido Doragon Shimo! (White Dragon Frost!)"
"Kami Sasayaki! (Gods Whisper!)"
Besides Haku came two snow white, dragon-shaped ice. The circled around each other, while heading towards Naruto. They then conjointed each other making a two head, bigger version.
Naruto took in alot of air as he breathed heavily. Then, he just let out a small exhale, lighter than a whisper. Nothing really happened until the congoined dragons hit the ground, near Naruto. The blonde raised an eyebrow, 'He missed?'
But then when the dragon came into contact with the ground, ice shards flew at rapid speeds in every direction. Naruto couldn't respond in time and got struck by a lot. But no blood came out, which set off some thinking for Haku.
The ice shards then were scliced into little tiny pieces to reveal an unharmed Naruto. Haku couldn't believe his eyes. The blonde explained, "Kami Sasayaki isn't an offensive jutsu, if you were thinking that. It's actually one of my best defense jutsu, one that I came up with. It makes a second skin, out of wind chakra, which slices anything it touches."
Haku just cocked her head. "Was there any reason to explain that one jutsu extensively, in the middle of battle?"
Naruto looked around, like a deer in headlights. "Uhh...I thought it was in my character to say that. Believe it?"
Both marine and pirate, were about to square off again, when a voice cracked all across the forest.
"ZORO!!!"
Naruto muttered. "Again?" He looked far into the distance again, only to find that the man can not be seen. "Where is he?"
He widens his eyes as he sees another Kuma, this one holding a book.
"Naruto-san. I really think you should pay attention." Naruto turns around to see Haku stabbing him with his ice sword. Naruto spits out blood as he stared with wide eyes into Hakus.
Haku narrowed his own, seeing the blonde smirk again and speak, "Kami Sasayaki:Kai!" The effeminate boy suddenly was blown away by a huge gust of wind by Naruto.
The blonde smirked. "Sorry, Haku-chan. But I seemed to have lied. My jutsu is also an offensive one if you think about it."
"Brooke! Broooke!" Two yells came to Narutos attention. He turned around to see Brook gone. "What the hell? First Zoro. Now Brooke!? What's going on here!?"
He looked at the Kuma with the book. "Ever since he arrived...it has to do something with him!"
He turned back to Haku, who's on the ground. "Sorry Haku-chan. But I have to save them. I hope to continue our battle in the near future."
When he left the boy on the ground, he missed the small smile on the effeminate boys face.
"Alright guys. Lay it down." Naruto said as he arrived at the scene.
Nami turned to him with tears in her eyes. "This guy can send people to the sky for three days and three nights. He already taken Zoro, Brooke, Sanji, and Usopp."
"Damn." Naruto exclaimed. He turned to Luffy, who was standing still. "Captain! We have to stop him from getting the others!"
The Strawhat looked at him and nodded. "Yeah. This guy...will pay!!!" He turned to Kuma. He put his finger into his mouth. "Gear Third!"
He grew his arm to the size of a giant. "KUMA!!!" The pressure in his arms went to both his legs. Then, went straight back to both his arms, rocketing him to Kuma.
But, Sentoumaru interfered and stood in front of the Mugiwara and stopped his attack. The man got pushed back a little, but stood stock still.
Naruto looked off to where Rayleigh is. 'He's off fighting the Admiral. So he can't do anything. Just when I got to the Strawhats, this happens? Fuck!!!'
When he turned back, he sees Franky heading towards Kuma. "Wait! Franky!" He yelled out to. But it was too late, Franky vanished in a puff of light. "Damn it!"
He sees Luffy pinned down by Sentoumaru and Nami becoming another victim of Kumas attacks. Naruto grits his teeth. "Grr...Fuck it! Rei Rei..."
Immediately he summoned most of his chakra to swallow him whole. Then as it turned into a ball, it leashed out to everwhere, giving a sense of feeling to everyone. To his allies, like the crew and Rayleigh, they felt more powerful. To his enemies, they felt their morale dropping like a waterfall.
When everything calmed down, Naruto appeared, but this time, he has four wings on his back, two on each side. There is also pearlish armor on him, covering about fifty percent of his body.
"Archangel."
This new Naruto form, vanished, without any form of Soru. He appeared in front of monster Chopper, who about to vanish, and said, "Archangelic Reigan!"
He pointed his finger out to Kuma, and out came a huge beam(Think Kamehameha from DBZ) Consuming the the Shichibukai with condense chakra that is actuall physical. But as a regular Reigan heightens the fatigue of its target, this Reigan heightens the fatigue of the user, Naruto.
The blonde panted as clutches his stomach from the stab wound Haku gave him. "Did I...get him?"
His answer was a PEW sound. Wide eyed, Naruto turned around to see Kuma, but not Chopper and Robin. 'No...'
He yelled out at Kuma. "NOOOOO!!!" He kicked out to Kuma. "Reikakyu!" Vanished. "Soru!"
Appeared by Kuma again. "Jougan!" But Kuma kept dodging all these attacks appearing behind him, due to some form of teleportation.
Kuma just asked, "Now.... 'Ghost.' Where would you like to go?" He puts his palm in the back of Narutos head.
The blonde gritted his teeth and thought with closed eyes. 'I failed everyone...'
'Again...'
PEW
"NARUTOOOOOOO!!!"
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Three Days Later
A little squirrel sniffed around. The smell was near...
It ran through the bushes as to where the smell came from. When it got through, a sight nearly killed the squirrel in suprise.
There lays a boy in a white, though torn, tuxedo. He's laid down, eyes open with complete boredom, as he stares off to the sky. Underneath him, is a huge pawprint imprinted in the ground.
A sigh came from the blondes mouth. "Finally..."
He got up, scaring away the little squirrel. He looks around, seeing that he is surrounded by trees. "Damn...Guess I need to see where I am."
He trekked through the forest for some time. Not seeing hide nor hair of anyone or anything. 'Damn. Did he send me somewhere or did he kill me?'
"Not likely." 'Why not? "I'm still with you. The Shinigami would never have passed up a chance to take my soul. If your were dead, I would be dead too, in that bastards waiting hands."
'Why not take your soul when the Yondiame sealed you?' "Because of the seal that Yondiame made. It limits to the act of sealing me inside something, which happened to be you at the time."
'Fuck my luck like a duck.' "Words cannot be expressed more beautifully, I think." 'Thank you.'
"Halt!"
'Swear to kami, this keeps happening for some reason.' "Yes?" Naruto turns to see who the person is, only to freeze in shock. He freezed not at who the person was, but at what the person is wearing.
'I-Is that...' "I think it is kit. Like you said, fuck your luck."
On the persons forehead, is a headband. A headband with a metal thin slab on it. The slab has a symbol. A symbol that Naruto recognizes throught the earlier years of his life.
It is the symbol...of Konoha. His home.
Which means...
...He's home.
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Yes. I finally reached this part. The part that I thought of when the first arc was near its end.
Naruto is back on the continent of Janapre, land of the ninjas. What will happen to our yellow-bellied hero? What has been home been up to the past years?
All will be explained...later on. Will Naruto return to Strawhats? Of course. This arc isn't called Strawhat for nothing.
Next time: Kizaru!? Konoha!? Homecoming, Kuma Style!