Chapter 6: Butler's Conspiracy

Disclaimer: - I own neither one piece nor Naruto

They brought Naruto to a sloped path surrounded by cliffs by the shore that they had coated with oil so that the attacking pirates couldn't climb. It was dangerous because the others could slip down it, but Naruto wasn't concerned about himself, if he used the water-walking exercise or just levitate above and he could operate just fine, "And you're all sure that this is where they're attacking from?"

Usopp nodded, "This is main path to the village, if they want to get there this is the path they have to take."

Naruto looked around as the sun began to rise, "I'm going to lay low for the time being. If you all need help, I'll jump in, but for now too many of us crowding the pass could be a bad thing."

Usopp laughed, "Sure, leave the crazy ideas and the shooting to me!" pointing a finger at himself with a proud smile

Naruto laughed to himself and jump up a tree to get some quality time himself along the foliage of the sides of the pass to wait it out. After a while he wondered where they were until he heard Nami say that she had heard something from the north. They all cursed to themselves and took off through the woods to reach the other side of the island.

Somehow Usopp beat all of them to the other slope but he chalked it up to the adrenaline and the fact that he was the local, "This is your last chance! If you don't give up now my crew of a billion will destroy you all!"

Naruto just sun-shined to the tree nearby their location to observe.

Naruto then heard the enemy pirates grumbling about what a stupid lie that was and smirked to himself, making his favorite cross hand-seal while he hid and subtly flooded the area with Kage Bunshin.

Usopp tried to bribe them with the 5 million beli that was inside Nami's ship but eventually they simply attacked. Naruto watched as Nami showed up and attempted to assist Usopp who attempted to snipe them off at a distance with his slingshot until he was felled from a shot with a hammer. Naruto cursed to himself as he watched Nami get injured trying to defend him, "Enough of this crap!"

He didn't know what happen inside him but he did not like seeing Nami get hurt, he felt rage bubble inside of him but he subsides it and humped down towards them and decided to mess a little with them

The pirates turned to Naruto who was standing on the ledge, "Hey Usopp, sorry I'm late, I had a little trouble getting your army together!" Naruto snapped his fingers as his identical copies poured out of the forest and began attacking the shocked Black Cat Pirates.

Naruto picked Usopp up off of the ground and wiped him off as the long-range fighter was stunned by what he was seeing, "What is that? Are you that strong?"

Naruto grinned at him, "You bet. Now clean yourself up, we're just getting started, my clones vanish after one good hit to them so whoever else is left standing will actually be competent." Naruto walked over to Nami and helped her to her feet as well, "Are you alright Nami-chan?"

Nami nodded gratefully and steadied herself on her own legs, "Why were you so late Naruto?"

Naruto scratch the back of the head and said, "Well since you were fighting the 'Black Cat Pirates' I figured that I should take a short nap" everyone got a huge sweat dropped.

Luffy and Zoro arrived at that moment with angry looks on their faces. Luffy pointed at Usopp, "Usopp! Why didn't you tell me which way north was?"

Usopp sweatdropped, "You took off running first, I thought you knew."

Zoro pointed his sword at Nami, "Thanks a lot Nami for leaving me at the bottom of the oily hill! You stepped on my head damn it!"

Nami waved it off, "Someone had to get out of there didn't they?"

The other two fighters noticed that there were a half dozen Narutos currently beating the daylights out of the invading pirates while there was one standing by Nami making sure she was able to stand by herself. Luffy pointed at the display, "Wow! You have a lot of twin brothers Naruto!"

Naruto laughed, "They're not brothers Luffy, this is another of my techniques, Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Jutsu). It lets me split that energy of mine that I told you about, chakra, evenly between them and lets them become fully tangible and real entities. They can do stuff like think and fight and all kinds of things." Naruto stopped talking and narrowed his eyes as he felt the last of his clones dispel.

Turning around he saw Jango swinging his ring on the rope that Naruto could now identify as a blade. Was he hypnotizing his crew? Just as he thought that the men that Naruto had pummeled jumped right back to their feet, invigorated.

Nami yelled in surprise, "What? Naruto-kun just beat them all senseless a second ago and now they look as good as new!"

One of the pirates punched the cliffside and crumbled it. Zoro was in disbelief, "They can destroy the entire cliff with one punch!"

Naruto sighed, "Great, now instead of fighting weaklings I have to fight a bunch of berserk weaklings. Usopp, Nami, get back."

Zoro nodded, "Right, you guys get back. Me, Naruto, and Luffy will handle all of them. Right Luffy? Luffy?"

Luffy let out a loud yell forcing Naruto and Zoro to palm their foreheads, "Oh great. He's hypnotized too."

Luffy stormed down the hill at the mass of attacking pirates, "Gomu Gomu no Gatling (Gum-Gum Gatling Gun)!" Luffy blasted his arms out in a flurry of rapid fire fists that pounded away at the Black Cat Pirates, knocking them all back, if not out, effortlessly. He then ran past their fallen bodies and grabbed their ship's helm.

Naruto let out a high-pitched scream as he realized what was going to happen, "Wait! Luffy, no! Don't destroy the ship! No!"

Luffy ripped off the helm of the ship and held it threateningly at the enemy pirates.

"He's going to use that thing to hit us? Captain, do something!"

Jango quickly pulled up his ring, "One, two, Jango and you will be asleep! One! Two! Jango!"

Luffy fell asleep while holding the helm and fell backwards, dropping the helm on himself and a lot of the pirates. Nami sighed in relief with a smile, "It looks like he finished all of them."

Naruto let out tears of anguish, "Damn it Luffy don't destroy it! I was going to use that after we were done kicking these guys' asses! That's just great, I can't fix that, I'm not that good. Now I'm stuck on that other boat with the rest of you! I want a ship! I want open space! I want room!"

"Hey Buchi, the ship's stern is gone!"

"You're right, I wonder what happened to it."

Heads turned at the sound of more people on the ship as two guys in cat themed costumes jumped out and landed on the ground. One was a fat guy with a cat half mask covering his head and no shirt, the other was a skinny guy. Both had cat claws with blades on their fingers.

Jango pointed at the group, "Buchi, Shamu, no matter what we have to get out of here, as you can see there are some people blocking our exit from this slope. Can you take care of them for us?"

The two newcomers acted cowardly at fighting them all, namely Zoro who was out ahead of the rest. However, when the skinny one trotted out hopelessly and got close enough to Zoro he turned his killer instinct on and began to fight him head to head. In their initial clash Zoro ended up getting his swords taken by the skinny cat fighter Shamu.

"Give me my swords back." Zoro demanded.

Shamu chuckled, "Oh, these. Before we fight, I have to say, that they're really obstructive!" He threw the swords aside, leaving Zoro with one.

Zoro lunged out swiftly and reached his swords before the skinny warrior drove his claws into his back when he grabbed for them. Upon pinning Zoro on the ground the fat brother, Buchi, jumped high into the air, "Killing technique… Cat Pounce!" Almost succeeding in driving both of his feet into Zoro's spine or skull he cracked the ground with his landing.

Zoro was actually terrible at one sword techniques, thus the two brothers were able to overwhelm him and drive him back. Nami tried to get Zoro his sword but was stopped by Jango who cut her shoulder. This was noticed by Naruto and he growled darkly and narrowed his eyes at Jango as killing intent filled the area.

Naruto stopped growling as he realized that there was another presence at their location and was also leaking minute amount of KI, He then turned to look who it was.

Jango was basically quivering, "Ah! That feeling is…"

Captain Kuro/Klahadore was standing at the top of the pass, "It has passed dawn and my plan is still not complete! What the hell are you doing? Don't tell me you've be stopped by these rats! Say something Jango!"

Jango backed off slightly, "Well you said that the Usopp kid wouldn't cause us any trouble."

Kuro laughed, "Yes I did, but the fact is that you all are simply weak."

The brothers took offense to this and questioned Kuro's strength as he hadn't fought in three years, "You're not our captain anymore! Before you kill us, we'd better kill you first!" They both attacked Kuro with their claws but hit nothing but an afterimage.

Kuro stood behind them with an extremely long pair of cat claws on his hands, "You said you would kill who?"

As they turned to face him, he had vanished again, hanging off of their shoulders like an old friend, however he had a blade at both of their throats, terrorizing them both, "I feel my body resisting me a little bit. You're right, I'm not your captain anymore, I'm just someone who paid you to do a job, and if you find yourselves unable to accomplish it, I'll finish you myself. I find that these last three years have lowered my temper so I'll give you 5 minutes to kill these people and if you cannot… I will kill you all myself."

Nami took advantage of the confusion and kicked Zoro his swords. The newly inspired Nyaban Brothers attacked Zoro once more who simply crossed his swords in a particular movement, "Tora Gari (Tiger Hunt)!" Zoro's attack finished them in one move. He stood up and pointed at the Kuro, "Don't worry I'll beat the rest of you in just 5 minutes."

Jango hypnotized the still living Buchi who had a cross scar across his belly and chest where Zoro cut him. Upon being hypnotized, the large cat themed killer went berserk.

Kuro tapped his foot impatiently, "3 minutes… and I will kill all of you."

Naruto glared at him and finally moved towards him, "You know what? That might be more threatening to me if you weren't a damned butler and if you weren't so pathetically weak. What did I tell you yesterday? I guess it's time for me to really show you your place." Naruto's hands were sunk into his pockets as he strode away from protecting Usopp and started walking towards Kuro.

"Klahadore, stop everything!" Kaya screamed from the top of the pass, "I heard everything from Merry."

Kuro pushed his glasses up on his face, "So he's still alive? I thought I'd already finished him."

Kaya pleaded with him and tried to bribe him to leave the village as long as she gave him all of her money, but the man simply laughed at her proposal, "You misunderstand Kaya-ojousama. I want your money but I also want a peaceful life. The villagers trusted me for three years, it became a part of my peaceful life. My plan will only succeed when I obtain your money and peace."

Kaya pulled out a pistol upon understanding that he was here to kill her no matter what. And Kuro began to appeal to her sympathetic side, "Do you remember that for the last three years we've been together every day? We went to town together, I took care of you while you were sick, we were happy and sad together. I've spent 3 years doing these inane things, everything I've done until today, is to kill you!"

Usopp launched himself at Kuro to deliver a punch but he was clocked coming in and was about to be shredded with his claws until Kuro's got cut across his face.

His crew had their jaws dropped, "The captain's been hit!"

Naruto stood with three more shuriken spinning around his fingers, "I've had enough of hearing you talk. Get up so I can kill you on your feet dead man. You're not in my league…"

Kuro calmly stood up with blood coming down his face, "So you're another of these ruffian pirates just like the other fools here. Jango! I will kill this boy. You take care of Kaya-ojousama. After you're done, kill her."

Zoro tried to stop the hypnotist from getting past but the berserk Buchi attacked him once more. Zoro ended up blocking him with his sword and foot, "I already beat you once, I won't lose to you!" He yelled, kicking him off.

Naruto motioned to Usopp who was still on the ground as he kept his eyes on Kuro, "Usopp. That guy is going to harm Kaya. Get up and stop him."

Usopp tried moving but was still too wounded to do much, in his place he ordered the kids he had been playing with to take Kaya and get her somewhere safe. Naruto nodded, "I guess that will do for now, but you still need to get up. I can beat Kuro, but this is your village, you need to defend it with your own two hands too."

Usopp nodded from the ground and fired a shot at the departing Jango from his slingshot, knocking him to the ground. It didn't keep him down as he got right back up and continued to chase. Usopp eventually staggered to his feet before he was attacked by Buchi. Buchi however was intercepted by Zoro and defeated for the final time. Zoro hoisted Usopp up on his shoulders, "I'll take you to find them, you can't walk and I can't find my way around without getting lost."

Kuro moved in front of them, "And who says I'll let you leave?" his monologue was interrupted when a foot planted itself in the side of his head, knocking him to the ground.

Naruto landed on his feet with his arms crossed and a scowl on his face, "Who the fuck cares what you say? I called you a dead man, and no one gives a rat's ass about what a dead fool like you has to say." Zoro took the opportunity to take off into the forest with Usopp.

Naruto said sticking his hands in the pocket "Try your best shot at me, if you even manage to even draw a single drop of blood from me, I'll give you the victory and serve you" causing the fake butler to gain a smug look and he stood back up and seemingly vanished again, reappearing right behind Naruto and taking a swing at him with his claws. Naruto without turning around just caught the blade over his shoulder, "You should quit now and leave. Maybe then I won't kill you in the most humiliating way I can conjure."

Naruto released the blade causing Kuro to back off from the clash, "I want to know why you would risk your life protecting this pathetic village."

Naruto chuckled, "Trust me, my life isn't in the least bit of jeopardy from you or your loser crew. I could kill you all in one move but that would be overkill, and besides, Usopp wants this little battle here to remain a secret from the rest of the village and who am I to go against such a simple request. However, I'm here to fight for two real reasons; one, Luffy, Zoro, and Nami-Chan are here, and I'm getting rather attached to these guys." Naruto pointed down at Nami who was trying to wake up Luffy and winked at her, "Reason number two… I just don't fucking like your face."

Kuro lunged at Naruto with his claws, "Die boy!"

Naruto started dodging the slashes of the claws effortlessly, "sigh Dude you're not as fast as you think you are. Why are you even doing this? She offered you the money, you could have taken it and left and I probably would have let you leave since it was her choice."

Kuro kept attacking, "That's not good enough. This scheme is meant to erase Captain Kuro from the world once and for all. I am sick and tired of taking care of my idiot crew. Even though I achieved every pirate's dream of fame it only brought me trouble I didn't want! That is why I killed my name three years ago!"

"If erasing captain Kuro is your ultimate goal then I have no problem obliging to it" replied Naruto further infuriating the said captain.

Kuro was completely frustrated and was red with anger but Naruto shook his head and socked Kuro in the face, knocking him backwards again. He gave Kuro a sickened glare, "You know something you are a damned coward. You wanted an easy way in life and when it started getting tough and bothersome you took a cheap way out. But that wasn't enough, no… You got away, and you're still trying to turn tricks! You're scum!"

Kuro pulled himself to his feet, "I have waited three years for this chance to happen and a low-class pirate brat like you cannot stop me!" He vanished from sight before reappearing on Naruto's left side to thrust his claws out at him.

Naruto simply placed his hand out and caught his claws in one hand. "First of all, I can stop you because like I told you from the start, you're weak and not even anywhere near my league. Second of all I'm not a brat, not in way shape or form. And third of all… I'M NOT A GODDAMN PIRATE!" Naruto broke the claws on Kuro's hand with nothing but closing his fist and backhanded him across the face sending him flying down the hill.

Nami stopped trying to wake Luffy in order to watch Naruto effortlessly dissect Kuro with not even an ounce of effort on his face, "Naruto-kun who or what are you? Where does a guy like you even come from?"

Kuro stood up with blood dripping from his head as his crew tried to encourage him to keep fighting, "Shut up… I thought I said that I would kill you all, including Jango, when my plan is complete." The crew tried reasoning with him, "I never thought of letting you leave in the first place. If anyone knew that I was truly alive I would be in trouble soon thereafter."

Naruto shook his head once more in disgust, "You really are an asshole, scum of worst kind using your men like disposable pawns… and disposing them when you see fit, what kind of leader are you? Your kind disgust it"

Kuro laughed, "That's what these pirates are! A kid like you doesn't know anything!" He choked on his words when Naruto started emanating a dark aura around him, his mere presence was starting to feel intoxicating which causes him to take an involuntarily step back and was sweating and then all of a sudden got his face smashed onto the ground.

Naruto spoke coldly as Kuro was hunched over his knee, "You're absolutely nothing." He picked up Kuro by his collar and threw him aside, "Get up. Get up and do your worst so that I can break you at your absolute best. I want to see the look on your face when you realize that you had no chance of winning here today."

Kuro stood shakily and hunched his body somewhat, "You want to see the power of a pirate that has fought in many battles and has survived and thrived?

"He's going to use the Shakushi? We're in the direct path, he'll kill us all!" panicked the crew members.

Naruto's lips quirked as he heard the crew begin to panic, "Well now you've got me interested. You may have fought and survived many battles but I was literally born for combat and was raised around it."

Nami had pulled Luffy's unconscious body onto the boat and she had attempted to loot the Black Cat Pirates' ship, "What? Did everyone stop?"

Suddenly crew members began appearing with slash marks on their bodies. Men were being eviscerated, having limbs cut off, all kinds of grievous slashing wounds. Even the walls were slashed. Naruto didn't blink as the sounds of the carnage rang out around him, while men were dropping around him left and right.

Nami blinked in horror as she watched the blood fly across the pass, "How could someone do this to their own comrades?"

A low growl began to rip from Naruto's throat as he heard the cries of agony. Naruto shut his eyes and thrust his arm in a random direction as a shockwave passed by his body. In his grasp was the throat of Captain Kuro with his claws at his side. Naruto could feel the man's neck giving out under the pressure of his grip, "You couldn't see a damn thing and yet you massacred your own men just to get a decent shot at me? And the real kicker is… you're not even that fast. I've fought guys faster than you, I'm faster than you."

"Now I will show you what true fear is, you should have taken whatever you could when you had a chance" said Naruto in a menacing tone that left Captain Kuro completely petrified

Naruto brought Kuro close to his eyes and then his cold cerulean blue orbs changed to spinning blood red with tomoes spinning which further changed into something resembling an 8-sided blade with 3-sided blade inside and mouthed a word "Tsukuyomi" next thing Kuro knew that he was in a word which was completely red and black and was tied up.

Next, he heard Naruto's voice ringing round as if it was coming from everywhere "Welcome to the world of the Tsukuyomi here I control everything, here you will feel your worst fear for as long as I want you too and the best part is there will barely anytime pass in the outside world, so let's start" last part was said in a dark tone.

The torture began, he was envisioning the worst fears and also was physically tortured using several blades cutting him limb by limb, back in the real-world Kuro screamed in agony as Naruto kept the hold on his next, he waited until Kuro passed out and threw him at his crew, eyes shifting back to its original shade and said "Take this piece of shit and leave this place. I don't want your ship. I don't want anything to do with that pathetic bastard whatsoever. Get off of this island or I will destroy you all." He finished in a warped and dark tone as traces of red flickered into his eyes.

The crew scooped Kuro up and hightailed it back onto the boat to hastily escape. Naruto waited until the boat was sailing off into the distance before sitting down on the ground. Nami sat down next to them with a bag, "So Luffy's still asleep huh? Heh, you steal some more stuff?"

Nami smiled at him and nodded, "You must be exhausted after all of that."

Naruto shook his head, "Not really Nami-Chan that was too easy for me to get tired. I'm just trying to calm down. I almost lost it listening to that idiot talk. Is your shoulder okay? Jango cut your kind of badly."

"Yes, I'm fine it was just a flesh wound really. "Nami's smile dropped as she sat down next to him on the ground, "I've never seen anyone fight like that in my entire life. It was almost scary, you didn't even do that clone thing that you tried at first."

Naruto shrugged, "He was weak. I've fought people that would have taken him apart like a mannequin. As fast as he thought he was, he was moving in slow motion to me. I don't use my Jutsu on weak people."

Nami sweatdropped, "That was Captain Kuro. One of the most notorious and famous pirates in the East Blue."

Naruto scratched his head, "Really? Well this region of the world is really weak then. Other than being fast that guy didn't have anything. Luffy could have smashed that guy if he didn't smash himself after getting hypnotized."

Nami looked skeptical but accepted it as one of the strange boy's quirks, "Why did you let all of the pirates go if you could have beaten them?"

Naruto sighed, "They were all just idiots that couldn't pick a decent leader. They were misled by a man that was willing to sacrifice all of them for his own selfish gain."

Nami adjusted the bag in her lap, "What are you talking about Naruto-kun? That's the way all pirates are."

Naruto noticed that she called him 'Naruto-kun' and filed that away for later thought, but for the time being he gave her a dry look and simply pointed down at the boat where Luffy was sleeping. Nami laughed sheepishly, "Well I guess you and Luffy are the anomalies."

Naruto smiled at her before a tick mark showed on his head, "Maybe so Nami-Chan… but I'm not a damn pirate. What will it take to get my point across?"

One day after the battle with the Black Cat Pirates they were found in the tavern that they had been frequenting by Kaya who led them to the shore where they had just fought the day before. There happened to be a very pleasant surprise waiting for them.

Nami clasped her hands together in a pleased fashion, "It's a caravel!"

Naruto was much more vocal with his excitement however as he ran up and hugged the side of the ship, sticking to it with chakra like a spider, "Oh thank Kami! Finally, elbow room! I spoiled myself when I started this little journey of mine. Oh, how I've missed having a proper ship!"

The sight of the grown man hugging the ship like a lost family member caused sweat drops all around. Merry coughed into his hand and launched into an explanation, "This ship was designed by me, it may look a little old. Its name is the Going Merry, it's a caravel ship with a rudder in the middle." He looked at the four people of whom he was speaking to, "Aren't you the people who defeated the Black Cat Pirates? I thought there would be more of you."

Luffy threw his hands into the air in celebration, "Yes! You'll give this ship to us?" Kaya laughed in amusement and nodded.

The group began to pale as Merry tried explaining to Luffy how to steer the ship until Nami interjected, "He doesn't understand that. You'd better explain it to me."

Naruto appeared at her side with a sly look on his face, "Well, well now. I thought you weren't a member of the crew Nami. Why would you want to know how to run the ship?"

Nami stuttered for a moment before turning to Naruto, "I just don't feel like being lost at sea! W-What about you? You're still coming on the ship, too aren't you?"

Naruto waved it off, "Yeah, but that's because this is the only ride out of here. I'm not going to actively take an interest in what's going on unless I want to, or whatever is happening is directly my problem. I'm just along for the ride so to speak." He turned towards the ship to get a better look on it as a smirk crossed his face, "Though the company is quite pleasurable I should say."

Nami sputtered and blushed at how blunt he was being but before she could call him on anything as shout caught everyone's attention, "Somebody stop me!"

Usopp was rolling down the hill with an oversized pack on his back heading right for the ship.

Luffy looked at him in interest, "What's he doing?"

Naruto let out an unmanly shriek, "Luffy! Stop him before he destroys the ship! I want my elbow room!"

Luffy stuck out his foot and planted it on Usopp's face to stop his momentum, much to the long-nosed teen's relief, "Thanks."

Usopp turned to Luffy and said with his chest puffed out "The great captain Usopp decided to join your crew as your humble captain"

Unfortunately, he was utterly ignored

And now the long story short, Usopp decided to go out and join the crew, thus leading to raucous celebration on board that led to Usopp painting the crew's emblem on the sail. Eventually upon finding out Usopp's skill at using a cannon as well as a slingshot Luffy drank down what was in his mug with a massive grin, "Alright! The crew has a captain, a swordsman, a navigator, a sharpshooter, and… whatever the hell Naruto is!"

Naruto had taken up a spot in the common room away from the table where everyone else was to lay about in the couch to relax a bit, "I'm not on your crew Luffy! I'm just here for the free ride and I help you out sometimes because I'm not a freeloader. That does not a crew member make. I'm just some guy, like a drifter or something."

Luffy pointed at Naruto, "You're the crew's vagabond then!"

Naruto irritably snapped at Luffy, "That's not a real crew position dumbass!"

Luffy looked confused, "Would resident ship's hobo be better then?" Luffy didn't notice the killing intent starting to radiate from Naruto while Zoro and Nami laughed at him.

Like the Crew and our protagonist was once again to a new destination only time will tell what it will bring and what lies ahead.

Author's Note

Sorry for the late readers, I have finished my story quite early but for some unforeseen circumstances it had delayed, so once again sorry for the inconvenience hope you could forgive

Now onto the story, the Syrup village arc is over and I am thinking of using a short brief to summarize sanji's addition and also have planned a swordplay with a famous swordsman so watch out for next chapter

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