Kye kye- so we have reached chapter 10. I honestly wasn't sure we would get this far, but here we are. Here is a little info about Naruto's abilities: She has wood release, She can do shadow clones, Medical Jutsu not on the level of Sakura and Tsunade but still really good. I wanted to do something different with the wood release. If any of you have ever watched YuYu Hakusho, think about how Kurama uses plants. That will be how Naruto will be using them. If there are any questions, please asks, and I will do my best to answer.

It's been months since she had set out independently, and honestly, Naruto was rather bored. After all these years of having the boys around, always not having even one of them, there was kind of lonely. She was also very frustrated its been almost a year since she's seen Ace, and she had to suffer through her first Heat on her own. Not fun. She was so sexually frustrated; it wasn't even funny. It took all of her will power not to flash to him and fuck his brains out.

Naruto shook her head no need to go down that road. she had other things to think about. That did not include Ace's large rough hands and rock hard... NO! Bad Naruto! She had received a gift from the Snake Sannin, the first one she had ever gotten from him, her, whatever body he's in now. And she didn't know how to feel about it. The Reanimation technique. The same one that allowed her to meet her father. The same one that brought Madara back to life and so many others. This one technique had caused so much pain was now in her hands. Could she use it to bring some joy? or will it only bring more pain?

Naruto, against her better judgment, read the scroll and learned everything about it. Would she ever use it? She had no idea. She hoped she never felt the need to. It wasn't the price you had to pay that made her hesitate. A life for a life. She had killed before it was them or her; she chose herself. Killing for someone she cares about is an easy choice.

Leaning back, Naruto stares at the sky with a sigh. How she has changed in her past life, she might have burned this scroll the moment her eyes had landed on it. But now, here she is, thinking of times she might have to use it. Guess that proves it. Just because she was reborn doesn't mean she was the same person.

That thought was freeing. Sure no one here knew who she was in that life, so they didn't expect anything from her to be like someone else. But just the thought of having to try to live up to... well herself was kinda sad. But now she knows she doesn't have to. The person she was in a past life is not who she is now. So what if her morals are a bit off this time around? She's happy. Finally, happy it feels so wonderful to say that and mean it.

Naruto's boat finally makes it to an island its a large island covered in palm trees, very tropical. She hops off the ship and heads to the town. The townspeople were staring at her. No surprise, she looks like a poor person, and everyone here looks like they are more or less well off. With a shrug, she walks into a nearby bar.

The bar goes quiet as she enters. With a smirk, she sits at the counter. "Hey bartender, can I get some warm sake its cold out this time of year." it was true December had just started, and it was not kind.

The bartender scowls down at her. He easily towers over her small frame by like a lot, "You got money?"

Naruto pulls out a few bills from her pocket and pushes them over to him; his harsh attitude does not faze her in the slightest. "Some Dango as well, if you have it, please."

The man grunts and gathers the money and filling her order. "I aint never seen you round these parts before."

Naruto nods her head and takes a sip of her drink. "I just got here."

"You a pirate or a marine?"

"Neither just a traveler at the moment." Taking another sip of her drink, she smiles. "I just wanted to see a bit of the world before I chose my path in life."

The bartender nods his head and narrows his eyes at the men approaching her from behind. Of course, she knew about them, and she also knew what they wanted. Naruto wrinkles her nose as they come closer. Honestly, what is it with bandits and not thinking they have to bathe? Do they believe smelling like that makes them more fear-inducing? Great, now she's missing Dadan. At least she kept her bandits clean. Although referring to Dadan as a woman still didn't sit right with her.

"Hey, you girl." The bandit leans on the counter next to her, his beady eyes looking her up and down greedily. "You know you are kinda cute. how about you and I go somewhere and have some fun."

Naruto pops one of her Dango into her mouth. "No thanks, it was very kind of you to offer, though."

Tha bandit scowls, "It wasn't an offer. It was a demand."

Naruto finally turns to look at him with a pout on her face, and the bandit couldn't stop the blush from taking over his face. "Now you see here I don't do well with people who make demands of me. could you please leave me in peace?"

The rest of the bandits stand up to surround her "listen here, you, you are coming with us whether you like it or not"

Naruto rolls her eyes, and she finishes off her Dango "hey bartender, do you have insurance?" The bartender looks at her confused but nods. "Great!" Naruto smiles. "And don't worry, I always clean up after myself."

"Hey, girl, don't you know who I am?" The leader of this bandit crew asks

"Can't say I do. Why are you someone important?"

The bandit smirks and pats himself on the chest, "I'm the leader of the beach bandits Socks with a bounty of 50 thousand berries."

Naruto claps her hands slowly in awe. "Congratulations, I am impressed." And indeed she was. She did not expect the marines to even care about these small-time bandits. Much less see them as enough of a threat that they earned a bounty, as small as it is.

The men had no idea they were being mocked as they puffed their chests out with pride. "Well, now that you know, how about we go have some fun?"

Naruto rests her head on her hand and looks down at her empty bottle sadly. "Again, I must decline. Because I believe that our ideas of fun are vastly different from each other."

One foolish man in the group thought to grab her shoulder. "You don't have a choice, bi..."

The hand swiftly vanished from Naruto's shoulder and from the foolish male's body. all that was left was a bloody stump. "Ah, ah, we mustn't touch. Bad things tend to happen when you touch something that doesn't belong to you."

The bandit leader Socks pulls out his gun and points it at Naruto's head. "You bitch, your gonna pay for that!"

Suddenly SOcks and his mean we're on the floor as fear clung to their hearts. They could see it. They could see their deaths flashing before their eyes in the most gruesome way possible. They could taste and smell the coppery scent of their own blood. Socks looks at his men; some had killed themselves and were bleeding out on the floor others looked like they were about to follow suit.

He looks up at the bartender to see he was unaffected by whatever was ailing him and his men. But the large man was looking at them in horror as another of his bandits slit his own throat. The bartender's eyes travel to the woman who was supposed to be sucking on his cock. How did it go so wrong? Sock's eyes widen when he looks at her and sees her smiling at him. Her once blue eyes are now blood red.

"What's the matter, Socks? I thought you wanted to have some FUN!" Her smile widens, and everyone left alive could see her sharp canines. "Don't you like my game?"

In horror, the bartender watches as SOcks finally succumbs to his fear and kills himself with a bullet to his head. Turning back to the blond woman who he was sure did this. "How did you do that?"

Naruto taps her finger on the counter and smiles sweetly. "If I tell you, I'll have to kill you."

The bartender just shakes his head and pushes another bottle of warm sake towards her. "Keep your secrets." He looks at the bodies littering his floor. "You said you would clean up after yourself."

Naruto pouts and looks at the mess. She wishes she hadn't said that because those bandits couldn't just die cleanly, blood and feces and urine were everywhere. The smell alone was almost overwhelming, and it took everything in her not to gag at the stench.

With a sigh, Naruto hops off of her seat "before I do this, is there somewhere on the island I can turn in his bounty? A little extra pocket change never hurt anyone" The bartender nods. "Cool, now close your eyes. You don't want to see this. I can't stop the smell, though."

The Bartender raises his eyebrow, "will you kill me if I don't?"

Naruto shakes her head. "Nah, This isn't a secret; it is just not for those with a weak stomach, and I will not be cleaning up your puke if you can't keep it down."

The bartender says nothing, and Naruto pulls a seed out of her hair before throwing it into the pile of corpses. The seed immediately sprouts into a mutated looking venus fly trap. It was purple with green vines that looked like veins all over its head. It had no eyes, but its teeth were razor-sharp and bright yellow. A long purple tongue hung out of its mouth, and acid green drool dripped out onto the bodies. The saliva sizzled as it hit the bodies giving off a putrid odor. Because that's precisely what it was, the plant monster used its tongue and started pulling the bodies into its mouth one by one.

He understood now why she told him to cover his eyes. It only lasted a few moments until all that was left was the Body of Socks and bloodstains on the floor. "Just what was that thing?"

Naruto turns the plant back into a seed and places it back into her hair. "That was a venus fly trap."

"Bull shit that aint like any venus fly trap that I have ever seen!"

Naruto wraps up Socks in one of the table cloths and turns to the bartender again with a smile. "Of course, it is not. I genetically modified it to make it deadly."

"Did you eat one of the devil fruits? Is that how you can do the things you do?"

Naruto placed a hand under her chin and hummed. "If I tell you..."

The bartender raises a hand and cuts her off. "You'll have to kill me. I get it."

Naruto nods."I'm glad you understand it would be a shame to kill you because I kinda like you. Your tough." Naruto winks at him. "By the way, what's the name of this island? Anyway, I never found out."

The bartender shakes his head with a smirk and starts to clean the counter. "Baterilla."

Naruto's eyes widen. "Baterilla?! Really I made it here of all places?"

The bartender nods. "Yeah, why is that a surprise?"

"I have a debt to repay to a family that lives on this island. tell me, have you ever heard the family name Portgas?"

The bartender freezes and lets out a long sigh. "It's been about twenty years since someone has come asking about a Portgas. what did they ever do to you?"

Naruto smiles, "they saved the life of someone dear to me." Naruto locks in on the seal on Ace's necklace with a fond look on her face. "I didn't know for years until my grandpa told me that someone with the name Portgas saved someone close to me."

"I see... well, sorry to tell you this, but the last Portgas on the island died almost twenty years ago." He points out of a window. "There's a house on the cliff behind the lighthouse that she used to live in." A sad look takes over the man's face. "She was buried a few miles south of her house."

"She was buried alone?"

The Bartender nods, "She wasn't very well-liked here. Her kindness to outlaws left a bad taste in the mouths of the people here."

Naruto smiles sadly. "She sounds like my kinda woman."

The bartender nods and starts to close the bar. "She was something special. Do you have somewhere to stay?"

Naruto shakes her head. "Don't worry about me. I'm gonna turn in this bounty, and then I'll head to the woods."

A brow raises. "The woods? These woods aren't the safest."

Naruto smiles and throws Sock's body over her shoulder. "I'm not worried. I feel the most at home in the woods anyway." with that, Naruto bid the bartender goodbye and left to turn in the bounty. It was a quick trip to the marine base and even faster to collect the bounty, and she was on her way.

The next morning Naruto went shopping with the money she got last night and bought herself some clothes. This never changed about her; she could pack for every situation, have food, water weapons, but the one thing she always forgets clothes. After she finished shopping, she headed towards the lighthouse. Once she arrived, it took no time at all to find the old Portgas house.

It certainly was abandoned. The wood had rotted and died. The house was one good storm away from falling over. Naruto entered the place; it was small, it had only one bedroom, and the kitchen and living room were the same.

Naruto wandered around, kicking up dust and scaring away the mice and other insects that made this place their home. She doesn't blame them even-aged and worn down as it is the house was very cozy. Naruto noticed many faded pictures hanging on the walls and on the mantel of the fireplace. One image stuck out to her; it was a woman with strawberry blond wavy hair and warm honey brown eyes, and very familiar freckles on her cheeks.

It didn't take a genius to figure out that this was Ace's mother. Naruto then went into the bedroom, and her eyes fell on the single bed. It was still unmade, and a pile of bloody sheets rested in the corner. On the pillow was another picture. It was Rogue again, but this time she was holding a small baby Ace. Cause who else could the little black-haired baby be? She was smiling, crying, and kissing the baby's head all in one.

Naruto looks around, noticing a space in the wall there was a box. Taking the container out, she opens it. It was full of random things, jewelry letters, and multiple locks of black hair tied together with ribbons. one lock had a wad of gum in it. There were also many pictures of Gol. D Roger and his crew. One of Roger kissing Rogue's belly as she holds a sonogram in her hands. There were newspaper clippings of all of Roger's adventures and a full newspaper with his execution.

It didn't take a wise man to see how much she loved the pirate king, and a blind man could see that the Pirate king loved her right back. Both of them looked very happy with each other, and they really loved Ace. Naruto took one of Rogers's hair locks with a sigh and placed it in the reanimation scroll. Looking around, she found some of Rouge's hair brushes. Thankfully they still had her hair in them. Sealing both locks of hair into the reanimation scroll, Naruto begins to gather everything in the house and seal it away into a blank scroll.

Naruto walks out of the house and heads south. It didn't take her long to find the lone grave. She hated to say it, but it was a sad-looking grave. No one has done any type of care for the tombstone, so you couldn't even read the name on it. The area was a wasteland; everything was dead.

With a determined look, Naruto got to work cleaning the grave. It took up almost the rest of the day to complete. But once she was done, the tombstone was shining, and Rogue's name was shown clearly. Naruto looks around the clearing with a frown; it was still so dead. Thinking back to the pictures she had sealed away, she remembered that Rouge was never seen without a pink hibiscus in her hair. So that had to be her favorite flower.

Sadly, Naruto didn't have any of those seeds on her, so she walked back into town with a nod to the grave. It took no time for her to make it back to the village, and like when she arrived, she had all eyes on her. It had gotten out that she was the reason for the bandits' death. That and she was covered in dirt and dust from rummaging through the Portgas house.

Walking into a flower shop, she ignored the eyes on her and found the flowers she was looking for. "Hey, how much is this?"

The woman at the counter scowled; how dare this dirty blond bimbo to come into her shop and try to get some of her carefully grown flowers. "Not for sale."

Naruto could feel the animosity coming from the lady and shook her head. Civilians were so stupid sometimes. Naruto examined the plant and was able to pull a few seeds out of one of the buds without anyone seeing. Placing the plant down, she turned to the woman at the counter. "very well." Naruto turns to leave the store but couldn't help looking over her shoulder again. "By the way, you should really get your jealousy under control. If I was anyone else, I would have taken your head off." Naruto licks her lips and allows her eyes to turn red "and liked it"

The woman drops to the floor in terror as she finally realizes her mistake. "T...take the flower please j...just don't hurt me."

Naruto smiles sweetly, her eyes back to a there typical blue hue. "Don't worry so much. I'm not here to hurt anyone. It was just a little bit of advice from one woman to another. Goodbye now."

It was starting to get dark again, and Naruto debated on going back to the bar. She shook her head. The old bartender didn't need to deal with her crazy two days in a row. After she finished paying her respects to Rogue, she was leaving the island anyway.

The next morning found our favorite fox at Rouge's grave again. This time she was placing seeds everywhere. With a quick surge of chakra, the clearing was filled to the brim with pink hibiscus bushes in full bloom.

Smiling at her handy work Naruto kneels at the grave. "Hi. You don't know me, but I'm really close to your son. In fact, I'm in love with him. I hope I have your approval of our relationship. but even if I don't, I have no plans of breaking up with him."

Naruto pauses cause it feels like someone was touching her shoulder, but she knew no one was there. "If that's you touching me, I just want you to know you are freaking me out." With a shake, she looks at the grave again. "Ace has a lot of problems that I'm sure you already know if you have been looking over him like I think you have.

But don't worry, I'm working on them. I think he really needs to hear from you just how much he is loved. " Naruto thinks back to the reanimation scroll. "Maybe one day you'll get that chance. Anyway, it was nice talking to you. I'll bring Ace to visit one day." With a final bow, Naruto left.

Kye kye: Hi all, so being stuck in my house is not fun. I am still testing positive for COVID-19, and I have a lot of the symptoms. Thankfully my husband is now testing negative, so he has taken my son so that both won't get sick with me again.

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Happy New Year I hope 2021 is better for us all.