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(November, X787)
Somewhere in Fiore.
When Naruto groggily opened his eyes as he came out from his mindscape he was half expecting to see some dark and dreary deserts or just simply a large expanse of dry flat lands with flowing lavas as rivers. Just like the ones he had witnessed during his fight with Kaguya.
Instead, he was welcomed by the sight of a beautiful and clear blue sky, and from what he could feel as a sage— who was intimately connected with nature even without sage mode— whatever this world was, it was overflowing with natural energy. He took a deep breath of air through his mouth and let out a small smile as he could feel the freshness of the air.
"..."
"Am I laying down in a ditch?" Naruto wondered out loud and sighed when he realized that he was indeed laying down in a deep ditch or crater of some sort, which he assumed was formed by his landing.
'I guess that void dropped me here from a big height. No wonder my back is hurting so much.' He mused and then push his body into a sitting position and started to check on his condition. Thankfully, he found that no part of his body was missing; all of his arms, legs, fingers, and toes were intact. Though both of his sandals were missing and he was now barefoot.
His clothes were also completely ruined, his pant and shirt were in tatters with holes all over them. He touched his forehead to check whether his forehead protector was missing, and to his relief, it was still safely secured on his forehead. Though, he could feel some scratches on it.
He then slowly stood up while holding his aching back and started to climb his way out of the ditch. When he finally made his way out, he couldn't help but let out a "wow" from his mouth. Now he was sure that he was not imagining when he had felt the abundance of natural energy in this world. As he could now see that he was in a forest, a really big one at that.
Naruto then slowly walked towards a huge tree and sat under it. He let out a sigh of contentment from his mouth as he basks in the calming atmosphere of the forest. It reminded him of the forest in his home, Konoha. He then closed his eyes to meditate and started to absorb the natural energy from the surrounding area into him, to enter his sage mode.
After a few seconds, orange pigmentation started to form around his eyes, and as he slowly opened his eyes, his previous blue irises were now replaced by yellow toad-like pupils; signifying that he was now in his toad sage mode.
"Phew...that took longer than usual," Naruto let out a sigh of relief as he finally entered his sage mode. He was honestly a bit afraid that he might not be able to enter into his sage mode, as he was in a different world but it seems he was just worrying for nothing.
However, it had taken him a bit longer than usual to enter sage mode mostly because he had to stop the other energy which was also trying to enter into his chakra network, along with natural energy. So, he had to make sure that the strange energy- which he could sense was also quite in abundance in the atmosphere here- didn't get mixed with his chakra and the natural energy that he had absorbed.
As he didn't know what it was, it felt like the energy that he had sensed in the 'storm', –though the energy acted and felt a bit calmer than he had felt it in the storm–and he didn't want to know what would happen if he absorbed it along with the natural energy into his system as well. He was a curious person, but he wasn't THAT curious. He was already in a very fucked up position and he didn't want to add another problem to his list.
With that thought out of his mind, Naruto started to extend his senses to get a feel of his location to check for any other life forms, and to better understand the world that he was in. He could sense the various beings that resided in the forest; which he assumed were animals. However, he was a bit surprised to notice that these animals didn't even have an ounce of chakra in them. As in his world, every living thing had a little bit of chakra inside them as it was their life force.
Though, he didn't think much of it as he had already guessed that this world didn't have chakra, since he had felt and sensed that there was no chakra in the air, right from the moment he woke up. So, he speculated that instead of chakra this world had the strange energy which he could feel was abundant here, just like chakra in their world.
He could also sense a stream just about 500 meters from his location—which made him quite glad– he also sensed some animals in the forest that had the strange energy inside them just like chakra, and it made him a bit concerned when he sensed a quite a bit of negative emotions in those animals.
Naruto then extended his senses outside of the forest, which he now knew was quite dense and large. After a few moments, a huge smile formed on his face as he finally sensed something that made his heart fill with relief and happiness. Humans. However, he also noticed that they also didn't have any chakra(he wasn't surprised), though, just like the animals that he had sensed, some of the humans had the same energy in them.
Naruto was not sure but he was guessing that the area in which he had sensed the humans was either a village or a town, which means that he was just about 15 kilometers away from human civilization
He wanted to dash directly toward that area, but he stopped himself when he noticed that the sun was now beginning to set and he didn't really want to travel through an unknown jungle when the sun was down. He wasn't afraid or anything, as he was sure and confident that even without Kurama he would be able to easily handle anything by himself. However, that didn't mean that he was going to head on toward something that he knew could put him at a disadvantage; as he was hungry, tired, thirsty, and looked like someone who had fought with a pack of starving wolfs.
So, he decided to simply spend the night in the forest, more specifically, at the stream which he had sensed as he needed water quite badly, and if he was not wrong, there were some fishes in that stream as well.
But before that, he needed to check something.
With that in mind, he instantly entered his Six path sage mode. Now, the orange pigmentation around his eyes was gone and his pupils transformed into a cross shape consisting of vertical fox slits and horizontal toad slits, while his irises turned orange. Though, he didn't have Kurama's chakra cloak surrounding him like he often had when using the mode, as he had decided to not use it to conserve his friend's chakra.
After entering the mode, he closed his eyes in concentration and extended his sensory senses gifted to him by the mode to their max capabilities. And after a few seconds, his face split into a massive grin as he was able to sense his best friend's chakra, even well beyond multiple dimensions through the link that both of their chakras had with each other. He was also able to sense the 'thing' that would probably get him and Kurama back to their world...the tri-pronged kunai that was left in their world.
"Damn...Kurama wasn't exaggerating when he said that this world is very distant from our world." Naruto thought out loud as he finally sensed and realized that this world was very far from his own. He then opened his eyes and deactivated his Six path sage mode, happy and satisfied with his observations. Though, during his observations, he had also sensed something which made him quite concerned.
He had sensed a massive amount of negative emotions and negative energy just about 300 kilometers south of his current location, it even made him a bit on edge. However, he decided to just push that information to the back of his mind for later observations and to ignore it, for now, since he had other important things to take care of...like getting food and water.
"Damn it! I'm soo hungry." Naruto swore while holding his now growling stomach and stood up. He then started to slowly trek toward the stream that he had sensed before in his sage mode.
After a few minutes of walking through the forest, he finally found the stream, and he couldn't help but let out a cheer joyously; when he saw that the water in the stream was clean and even had some fishes, swimming in the stream.
"Thank the sage!"
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(The next morning)
Naruto groaned as the morning rays of sunlight hit his face. He groggily woke up from his sleep rubbing his eyes and wiping away the drool of saliva from his face. He was shirtless and was only in his orange boxer having sealed away the ruined clothes that he was wearing yesterday. He then let out a massive yawn and started to get himself out of his sleeping bag which he had unsealed from one of the seals that he has inscribed on his left arm.
While the seals he had inscribed on his left arm were to seal and keep his ninja equipment like shurikens, kunais, and his tri-pronged kunais. There were also some extra clothes, a sleeping bag, and even some chakra bars sealed away on those seals. He had learned that a shinobi had to be always ready and prepared as one didn't know when they would be called or needed for missions. And for that, he was quite pleased with himself for his forethought.
After washing his face in the stream, he ate the fish that he had caught and roasted from the stream last night, using a simple fire jutsu that he had learned some months ago. After finishing his breakfast, he sealed away the sleeping bag and unsealed an orange-colored T-shirt, black cargo pants, and his headband. After he got dressed he decided to head north, towards the 'town' he had sensed yesterday.
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It had been somewhere around 35 minutes since he had started his journey toward the town, by hopping on trees at a slow pace—as he was not really in a rush and he also wanted to serene atmosphere provided by the forest a bit longer— when he suddenly noticed something(or someone) that made him stopped on his trek. He then crouched on the tree branch that he was now standing on, just 50 meters away from the group, to get a better view.
As he finally got a much better view, he was thoroughly delighted to see that they were humans! In fact, there were four humans huddling in a small circle.
"Yes! Finally!" Naruto silently cheered not wanting to give away his location as he wanted to observe them a little bit, to make sure that those people weren't 'enemies' or at least didn't have any ill intentions.
He closely observed them and took in their odd appearances; one of them had black hair and was wearing a straw hat, the other person on the right had green hair and was wearing a bunch of earrings; while the person on the left of the straw hat wearing guy had blonde hair and was smoking a cigarette; finally, the guy at the front had black hair and the most prominent feature of this person was his long nose.
And much to his growing curiosity, all four of them had the same strange energy inside them.
"What an odd bunch..." Naruto couldn't help but comment on the odd group of people. A massive sweatdrop appeared on his forehead when he noticed that all four of them had matching stupid grins on their faces and he finally realized what they were doing huddling together...they were counting a bunch of papers which he guess were money. No. It was indeed money, judging by the expression on their faces.
Though, from his observation of the four odd people, he learned something that made him quite glad. He could clearly understand what they were saying to each other, which meant that the people in this world spoke the same language as him and he didn't have to worry about any language barrier.
From their conversations, he was able to deduce that the straw hat guy was named Duffy; the green-haired guy was named Zolo; the blonde that was smoking was named Ranji, and the guy with the long nose was named Yasopp. Along with their names, he also concluded that they were thieves.
"Sigh...Just my luck. Of all the people that I could have come across in this world, it had to be thieves." He sighed and jumped down from the tree, deciding to finally approach the thieves for more information about his world.
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(Five minutes ago)
Duffy, Zolo, Ranji, and Yasopp couldn't believe their luck! Last night they had broken into a house of a really stingy merchant—who hadn't paid them for transporting some of his goods —to steal the money that he had owed them. However, to their absolute surprise and giddiness, they had found stacks of money(jewels) hidden in one of the closets in the house.
So, naturally, they decided to steal half of the money as an act of revenge for being a jerk. They could have stolen all of the money, but they weren't that bad. Right? or were they? eh...they didn't really care.
They were now quickly counting the huge stacks of money that they had sto...uh..earned.
"Guys, with this money we could finally open the restaurant that we have been dreaming to open!" Yasopp exclaimed gleefully as the amount had crossed the 500,000 jewel mark.
"Indeed, we can finally stop doing those odd jobs or stealing from other people to get by." Ranji agreed enthusiastically with his friend as he put down the stack of money that he had finished counting and picked up another stack from the bloated duffle bag, where they had kept the money.
"Now, now...don't say that. I really enjoyed doing those odd jobs, ya know. It kinda gave us a sense of adventure!" Duffy grinned as he thought of the many odd jobs that they had done over the years. Those jobs were really fun! Though, he agreed with his friends that he was happy that they didn't have to steal again.
"Only someone like you would like collecting cow dungs adventurous, Duffy," Zolo stated without even looking at his grinning friend as he was giving all his attention to the money that he was counting. However, after 3 seconds he stopped counting the stack of money that he was holding and stared at the stacks with a blank expression.
"Guys..." Zolo called his friends nervously and gulped when he saw they were now looking at him curiously.
"What happened, Zolo?" Duffy asked curiously as they noticed the nervous expression on Zolo face.
"..."
"..."
"You damn! Moss head! You forgot the counting, didn't you!?" Ranji questioned angrily, pointing his finger accusingly at Zolo.
"Who are you calling Moss head? You damn ero-cook!" Zolo angrily exclaimed, dropping the stacks of money from his hand.
"I was calling you Moss head! You damn, Moss head!"
"Urg.." Both of them growled as they were now clenching each other shirts tightly with electricity shooting from their glaring eyes.
"Calm down guys, we still have a lot of jewels to count," Yasopp nervously said trying to calm them down.
"Zolo," Duffy called with a serious tone in his voice, prompting both Zolo, Sanji, and even Yasopp to look at him as they heard the seriousness in his voice.
"Hmm...Did you really forget the amount of jewels you had counted?"
"Uh...Yes," Zolo nodded his head a bit ashamed of his mistake, though he was still clenching Ranji's shirt tightly.
"I am really sorry for messing up my counting." He admitted and apologized for his mistake.
"Hmm...I expected more from you, Zolo. How can you make such childish mistakes? Though, I guess not everyone is perfect. So, it's okay. I forgive you, Zolo." Duffy said nodding his head sagely, not noticing the numerous veins that were now appearing on Zolo face.
"YOU DAMN...IDIOT!! It was because of you I made the mistake! If I hadn't commented on your dumb statement about our odd jobs, I wouldn't have made the mistake!" Zolo angrily screamed, grabbing Duffy's sleeveless red vest with his right hand; his left hand still holding on to Ranji's shirt. He then pulled both of them and started to beat them, which then turned into a fight between the three of them.
"You damn! Moss head!"
"Stop calling me that! Ero-cook!"
"Oi! Zolo! stop grabbing my straw hat!"
"Hey, guys! Stop fighting!" Yasopp yelled trying to stop the 'fight', but he was completely ignored by them. As he watched the smoke of dust where his friends were fighting, with a resigned expression, his face suddenly turned completely pale when he noticed someone slowly approaching them.
"GUYS! GUYS! STOP FIGHTING! SOMEONE IS COMING TOWARDS US!" He screamed anxiously to his friends and was relieved when his friends finally stopped their fight as they also noticed the person that was approaching them.
"Zolo! Ranji! Yasopp! Hide the money, quickly!" Duffy ordered his friends as they all hastily grabbed the money that was laying on the grass, due to their fight, and started to shove them inside the bloated duffle bag. They then quickly, carried the duffle bag towards a bush and hid it there.
"Why...Why do you guys think he is coming towards us?" Yasopp wheezed and questioned his friends.
"How...How would I know?" Zolo answered back and tried to calm down his racing heartbeat.
"Same here...I also don't have any idea." Ranji replied, lighting up a new cigarette.
"Hmm...Doesn't he look like the guy that we robbed last month at Hargeon town?"
"What! Are you sure Duffy??" The three of them exclaimed in surprise and stared at Duffy. They also remembered that they had to steal a camera from some guy in Hargeon town, as they didn't had any money and were starving.
"Yes... I'm one hundred percent sure, he is the guy." Duffy claimed, narrowing his eyes at the approaching man.
"How do you know he is the same person that we robbed last month? wasn't it too dark for anyone of us to have noticed that guy's appearance?" Ranji asked, still not sure about Duffy's assessment.
"Well, that guy had blonde hair, right?" Duffy asked and the three of them nodded together, as they had at least managed to get a glimpse of the guy's hair that they had stolen from.
"And this guy also has blonde hair, so yeah, he is the same guy." Duffy grinned and gave a thumbs up to his friends, happy with his own assessment.
"What kind of stupid logic is that!?" The three of them yelled and punched Duffy on the head, driving his face to the ground.
After a few seconds, the three of them took a deep breath and nervously stared at the man; who was now just about 20 meters away from them.
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"Zolo. Ranji. Duffy might be correct, right?" Yasopp asked getting a nod from both of them. As they were also now certain that he was the same guy that they had robbed and was probably approaching them to get some reparations or to catch them. After all, it was not every day that a guy with the same color of hair— same as the guy that they had robbed in the past—, would approach them.
"Just try to appear nonchalant, okay? And just deny that we were the ones that stole his camera." Ranji advised his friends getting a nod of agreement from them.
"Why did you guys hit me?" Duffy sniffed as he finally managed to pull himself off the ground and heard his friends agreeing with his assessment of the guy.
"Well, it just sounded stupid when you said it before. Though, now it seems pretty logical when we thought about it." Zolo told Duffy as both Yasopp and Ranji nodded their head in agreement.
"You guys are xooo mean."
"Stop being over dramatic, Duffy! Let us all put on our best smiles in front of that guy and just deny that we were the ones that stole his camera, okay?" Ranji scolded and advised their friend.
"sniff...Owkay."
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(Present)
As Naruto slowly walked toward the group, he was questioning his decision to ask them for information. Since he had seen them arguing among each other, which turned into full-on fighting just for a small reason.
A massive sweatdrop appeared on his face when he saw them stopping their fight and hurriedly scrambling to hide their money and he even facepalmed when he saw them hiding the money in a bush.
'Do they even realize that I can see them hiding the money?' he questioned himself, his pace getting slower and slower with every step. He sighed when he could now hear them clearly admitting to stealing a camera from some guy and assuming him to be that guy, just because he had blonde hair.
'Why are they even discussing their plan so loudly? Do they even realize that I can clearly hear them?' He again questioned himself and his decision to approach them.
'Nevermind, I don't have many options. They are my best bet, now.' Naruto sighed as he finally got close to the group who were now smiling awkwardly at him.
'Well, I don't have anything to lose.'
"Hello, guys. uh...My name is Naruto, and I wanted to ask you guys for some information."
"We weren't the one that stole your camera!"
"DUFFY!!"
Naruto sweatdropped as he now saw Duffy getting choked by his three friends, due to his sudden declaration.
"Ah...There might have been a misunderstanding, I'm not the guy that you all are thinking me to be. I just want to ask you guys some questions regarding...this place." Naruto told them trying to placate the situation.
"Hmm...What kind of questions?" Zolo asked curiously as the three of them stopped choking Duffy.
"Well, nothing much. I just want to..uh.. like to know the name of this place as well as some other basic information, like the year."
"What kind of idiot doesn't even know the year? Are you trying to waste our time?" Ranji questioned, narrowing his eyes a little, getting a nod of agreement from his friends.
Naruto's eyebrow twitched a little at the 'idiot' remark and took a deep breath to calm himself down.
"Look, uh...Ranji, It's not like that. I'm just new here and I don't know much about this place."
"AHH! How do you know Ranji's name? He hadn't even told his name to you yet." Yasopp exclaimed, shakingly pointing his finger at Naruto.
"Ah..shit." Naruto cursed himself for slipping away the name and raised his arms trying to calm them down.
"I told you! He is the same guy that we robbed last month!" Duffy exclaimed as he too was now pointing his fingers at Naruto.
"It seems so," Zolo said as he narrowed his eyes at Naruto.
The four of them were now fully convinced that Naruto was the same guy that they had robbed and he was here to either ask them for reparations or to catch them. After all, how would he know their name? he must have probably spied on them or must have asked the authorities or the rune knights for information on them.
"Wait...guys. It's nothing like that." Naruto nervously said as he could feel their misunderstanding gaining new heights due to their wild imaginations.
"Are you here to take back the camera that we stole?"
"What...? No!"
"Well, sorry. But we sold the camera for 80,000 jewels!"
"What...? Jewels?"
"Yes!"
"If not for the camera! Are you here to ask us to pay you reparations?"
"Look...You guys are clearly..."
"Or are you here to arrest us and hand us to the ruine knights?"
"What are you guys even talking about!?" Naruto exclaimed. He was now slowly getting annoyed and even a bit angry at the absurd questions that each of them was throwing at him. Heck, he didnt even understood half of those questions. What the hell were jewels? and ruine knights?
His patience with those four dumb asses was slowly reaching its breaking point. And so he decided to just head toward the town to get the information that he needed, instead of wasting his time with those idiots. If not, he was probably going to end up beating them.
"Are you here to steal the money that we have stolen last night?" Duffy questioned, glaring at him, prompting his friend's jaws to drop to the ground, and looked at him with wide eyes.
"DUFFY!!"
"What?...money?" Naruto blinked at the question and slightly glance at the bush where he knew that they had hidden the money. Which he would soon realize, was a grave mistake.
"AH! HA! I WAS RIGHT! You are here to steal our money isn't it?" Duffy exclaimed pointing at Naruto accusingly, as he along with his friends noticed Naruto slightly glance at the bush.
"No! I'm not here for your money!"
"Then how do you know where we hid our money?" Ranji glared at Naruto.
"I just saw you guys hiding it!"
"So, you were spying on us to steal our money!" Yasopp exclaimed in shock.
"Look.."
"We are not going to let you steal our money!!" Duffy declared as he took a stance and a big transparent red circle with some words—which Naruto couldn't understand— appeared on Duffy's right arm.
"Duffy! Wait!" Zolo, Ranji, and Yasopp tried to stop their friend from attacking, but they were too late.
Naruto was alarmed when he saw the big transparent red circle suddenly appear on Duffy's arm and felt the strange energy that he sensed inside Duffy before, slowly concentrating on Duffy's arm.
"Gomu Gomu Jet Pistol!"
His eyes widened a bit when he saw Duffy's right arm suddenly stretched like rubber and headed toward him at a rapid pace. Even though he was surprised by the attack, he was easily able to avoid it by tilting his head slightly to the right. He then noticed Duffy's arm getting retracted back to its original size.
"What! How did he avoid Duffy's attack so easily?" Yasopp exclaimed in shock as all four of them saw how easily Naruto had avoided Duffy's attack.
Naruto sweatdropped as he saw the shocked expression on their faces.
'Why are they so shocked? That attack was not even that fast or hard to avoid.'
"Urg! I'm not done yet! I'm not going to let you steal the money that we have stolen!" Duffy angrily yelled as his attack was so easily avoided and started to prepare for another attack.
"Stop attacking me, idiot! I'm not here for your money!"
"Gomu Gomu Grab!"
"What?" Naruto blinked when he saw another red circle appear on Duffy's arms and just like before Duffy's arms stretched like rubber and started heading toward him. Though instead of just one arm like before, both of his arms were stretched. However, the speed of the arms was even slower than before.
And just like last time, Naruto was easily able to avoid the arms which were now trying to grab him, instead of getting retracted.
"Idiot! Stop trying to attack me!" Naruto yelled as he simply sidestepped another attempt by Duffy's extended arm to grab him.
"Who are you calling an idiot? You dumb whiskered blonde!!"
Oh...That was it! These guys had finally done it! He had been trying so hard to appease them and solve the misunderstandings that they had about him. He was also gracious enough to not have attacked back when Duffy had suddenly attacked him! He had also acted so patiently with them! But, what did they give him in return? Nothing! They didn't even give him the information that he wanted and, one of them had the nerve to call him whiskered blonde! He had enough!
Naruto glared at Duffy's stretched arms that were trying to grab him and decided to teach that idiot a lesson. So, he let the arms grab his shoulder...
"Yeah! I finally caught you! " Duffy grinned and cheered along with Yasopp.
...he then grabbed both of the arms and yanked them hard. He grinned in satisfaction when he saw the shocked expression on all of their faces; when Duffy flew toward him at an immense speed.
Naruto then Kneed Duffy on the stomach, who gasped in pain and curled up on the ground while holding his stomach. Of course, he wasn't really trying to kill or injure the idiot, so he made sure he didn't use all his strength on that strike.
"DUFFY!!" Zolo, Ranji, and Yasopp screamed in concern when they saw their friend gasping in pain and holding his stomach in pain.
"Don't worry, he will be fine. And he was the one that attacked me first, ya know." Naruto told the concerned trio.
"How dare you hurt him! You bastard!" Ranji screamed angrily as a big yellow circle appeared on the ground where he was standing. Ranji then disappeared from his spot displaying an impressive amount of speed and appeared high above Naruto, his right leg positioned for an axe kick.
"Guillotine Kick!"
Naruto—though a bit surprised and impressed by the speed that Ranji has displayed—simply stopped the kick from hitting him by grabbing Ranji's leg and slamming him hard on the ground.
Ranji along with Zolo and Yasopp gasped in surprise when they saw his kick simply stopped by Naruto's hand and before he even knew he was slammed hard to the ground.
"Ranji! No!" Zolo and Yasopp screamed as they saw Ranji now wheezing on the ground.
"Damn you! I'm going to beat your ass!" Zolo exclaimed taking a stance and a green circle appeared on both of his hands and mouth.
"Requip: Sword magic— Three sword style!" Zolo announced.
Naruto watched Zolo curiously when he saw three different swords appear on Zolo's hands and mouth. He saw Zolo was now holding a sword in each of his hands and holding another sword in his mouth; well not actually holding...more like biting.
"What..?" Naruto muttered in confusion when he saw the odd and illogical style of sword stance. It kinda reminded him of Kirabi's sword style, though five swords less.
"I'mfanaphuckyouup!"
Naruto sweatdropped as he didn't understand what Zolo was trying to say, due to his voice being muffled by the sword in his mouth. Though, he guessed, Yasopp had understood everything, if his cheering was any indication.
Zolo charged at Naruto with a determined expression on his face and tried to slash at Naruto when he got near, with all three of his swords. Though his eyes widened when he completely missed his slash, as Naruto had suddenly disappeared from his view.
"Zolo! Above You!"
Hearing Yasopp yell he quickly looked up, but it was too late as a foot smashed him on the face, and his world exploded in pain.
Naruto sighed as he looked at the twitching body of Zolo on the ground after he had jumped to avoid the attempted slash by the green head and landed a hard kick on the said green head's face. . Though, to his astonishment, Zolo was still holding/biting his three swords.
Naruto then turned his attention toward the other jerk of the group and he couldn't help but sigh again; when he saw the terrified expression on Yasopp's face and shaking legs.
"Are you also going to attack me as well?" Naruto asked tiredly.
"Stay back! Otherwise, I'll show the power of the Great Yasopp!" Yasopp warned, pulling a small brown catapult from his pant pocket and aiming at Naruto. Though, his warning would have been a bit more impactful if he was not shaking like a leaf.
"Look...I don't want to hurt you guys, so just try to calm down. Okay?" Naruto told Yasopp and couldn't help but feel a bit amused as he saw Yasopp shaking in fear.
"You just hurt them! and you are saying that you don't want to hurt us?"
"Your friend was the one who attacked me first! I was just fighting in self-defense!"
"Yeah, right! Wait... Don't move! I have 1000 men surrounding this area and if you even...No! Wait!" Yasopp warned fearfully when he saw Naruto just ignore what he was saying and started to walk toward him.
"Gun magic: Star fire shot!" Yasopp screamed as an orange-colored circle appeared in front of his catapult and he released a yellow pellet/projectile from his
catapult at Naruto.
However, his attack didn't hit the intended target and was completely missed, as Naruto suddenly vanished in a puff of smoke. Seeing that, Yasopp fearfully shook and stared at the spot where Naruto was standing, just a second ago.
"He...He is behind me...isn't he?" Yasopp gulped as he saw his friends, who were laying on the ground, pointing at his back with a terrified look on their faces. His whole body turned pale when he saw them nod at him and he felt a strong grip on his right shoulder. Yasopp then crumbled to the ground screaming in pain, when Naruto applied pressure on his shoulder.
Naruto sighed tiredly as he looked at the groaning figures on the ground. He massaged his forehead with his hand, trying to stop the massive headache that he could feel was coming.
"Are you guys ready to finally hear me out or not?" Naruto asked tiredly, receiving four terrified nods in return.
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30 minutes later.
After the four idiots, as Naruto had now decided to call them, had finally managed to stop groaning in pain, Naruto was able to dispel the misunderstanding that they had of him and managed to get the information about this world from them.
Naruto made an excuse and lied to them, that he was from a very secluded island and he had just arrived yesterday and he even added that he suffers from a disease which causes memory loss, just for good measure.
Of course, they were a bit skeptical at first, but they slowly started to fill him up about this world.
At first, he had asked them about the year and they had told him that this year was X787. He thought that they were trying to pull his leg, but it seems the people here really counted their years with letters in them. Though, thankfully, the name of the months, weeks, and days was similar to his world. And apparently, today was Friday, dated 22, and the month was September.
After that, he asked them more about the place that they were in. At first, he had asked them about the basic information, like money but after a while, it somehow turned into a full-on history class as one of the four idiots got too much invested in it.
And the more they informed him about this world, the more he got confused and amazed by the world that he had now found himself in. Who would have thought that magic or mages were real? But those things were not just a fairy tale in this world, they were all real!
"Wow," Naruto said amazed by the information that Ranji had just given him about this world—which he now knew was called Earthland— not having any wars for the last 75 years! For someone like him, that originated from a world that had been constantly at war, he himself, playing a huge role in the recent war.
This world was like a paradise as it was way more peaceful compared to his world, and he wondered whether the Elemental Nations would ever be able to achieve the same peace as them if they continue to maintain the peace that they had acquired after the 4th shinobi war.
"Amazing right?" Ranji grinned as he finished explaining to Naruto about Earthland and Fiore history.
"Yes, it is indeed amazing!" Naruto replied with a similar grin on his face and stood up as they were all sitting cross-legged on the grass. He then looked at the sky and guessed that it was probably around 9 am.
"Guys, thank you so much, for helping me. But, I think I will have to start walking toward..uh, Hargeon town."
"So, soon?" Duffy frowned and asked as he had realized that Naruto was a pretty cool guy, just from the 30 minutes that they had spent together. Agreeing with his sentiments, all his other three friends nodded their heads in confirmation, as they also really found Naruto to be a cool guy. Even though, he had completely terrified them just moments ago.
"I am really sorry, Duffy. But I reall..."
*Growl...*
"Ah..." Naruto blushed when his stomach suddenly growled...loudly and he heard the other guys snickering at him.
"No wonder, you wanted to go to Hargeon, so soon. You were hungry, weren't you?" Yasopp quipped as he along with his group covered their mouth with their right hand to hide their snickering.
Naruto blushed even more at Yasopp comment and nodded his head. As it was indeed true. Well...along with trying to find a place to stay and to know more about this world.
"Um...Do you guys know ramen?" Naruto asked the four idiots, (who were still snickering at his predicament) as he really wanted to eat ramen and wondered whether it even exist in this world. God forbid if it didn't.
"What kind of question is that? Of course, we know about ramen." Ranji answered as they finally stopped snickering.
"Well...how much does a bowl of ramen cost here?" Naruto curiously asked as along with the cost of the ramen, he also wanted to get a rough value of the jewels; which he now knew was the name of this world currency.
"Hmm...If I'm not wrong, it cost around 200 jewels for a bowl of ramen." Zolo thought a bit and replied getting a nod of agreement from his friends.
"..."
"Uhh...You guys know that I don't have any jewels right?"
"Yeah, from what you have told us. You are kinda broke." Duffy stated, sadly nodding his head along with his friends, as they had also been in the same situation a lot of times.
"uh..so..can you guys lend me 500 jewels?" Naruto sheepishly asked them.
"..."
"You blonde whiskered idiot! You were after our money all along, weren't you!?" The four of them screamed pointing their fingers at Naruto...once again.
"Don't call me that! You dumbasses! And weren't we over that whole, me being after your money argument!?" Naruto exclaimed as twitch marks started appearing on his forehead. He would have beaten those idiots again for that whiskered comment, but he held back. After all, he was the one asking for help from them.
"Then why...AHHH!! GORIAN!!" Before Duffy could finish with his comeback against Naruto, he along with Zolo, Ranji, and Yasopp screamed in fear when they saw three huge hulking gorilla-like beasts jump down from the trees and walk towards their location.
"What are those things?" Naruto curiously asked the three screaming idiots— his previous anger at them completely forgotten— as he observed the three gorilla-like beasts.
The three beasts/animals had green-colored fur and their pectorals, abdominals, hands, ears, and facial features colored had a bright shade of purple. Their eyes lacked pupils and seemingly glowed pink. The lower half of their body had a darker shade of green and the decorative pattern on their arms consisted of five pink hearts on each arm.
"Thes...These animals are Gorian, a species of Vulcan. They are known to be quite aggressive to humans and like to take over the body of humans after they attack them." Yasopp gulped and informed Naruto, still completely terrified by the arrival of the three Gorian. He was now huddling and shaking together with his friends.
'So, these Gorians must be the animals that I had sensed yesterday.' Naruto thought as he recalled him sensing animals that had ethernano— which he now knew was the term for the strange energy in the atmosphere here— inside their body.
'And it looks like they really want to beat us to a pulp.'
"You guys. Come behind me and stay back. I'll handle this." Naruto advised the terrified four idiots, who didn't think twice and scrambled behind him.
"Are you sure you can handle them, Naruto? Even a mid-class mage has a hard time taking on a single Gorian." Yasopp asked concerned for their supposed savior. They knew that Naruto was no ordinary mage since he had beaten the four of them quite easily, but they were only low C-class mages; which, if he was honest, any A or even B-class mages could have done.
"Don't worry about me. I'm way stronger than I look." Naruto grinned and gave them a thumbs up confidently. He then turned his attention toward the three Gorians.
"Yo! Can you guys understand me?"
Zolo, Ranji, Duffy, and Yasopp's jaws dropped to the ground when they heard Naruto cheerfully greet the three Gorian.
"How many stupid questions can you even ask!? of course, they can't understand you!" They all yelled at Naruto for asking another dumb question, however, they again screamed in shock when the three Gorian actually nodded at Naruto's question.
"WHAT! THEY CAN UNDERSTAND HUMAN LANGUAGE??"
Naruto beamed ignoring the scream from the four idiots, as he saw the three Gorians nod their heads in understanding.
"That's great! Now can you please don't attack us and leave us alone?" Naruto asked, hoping that the Gorians would just leave them alone, as he really didn't want to fight now and wanted to just head to Hargeon Town; since he could feel his stomach demanding food. He again ignored the indignant scream from the four idiots.
The three Gorians looked at each other for a few seconds and shook their head negatively, "No, can't do."
Naruto's beaming smile twitched a little when he heard the Gorians reject his request.
"THEY CAN TALK AS WELL!?"
"Uh. Why not?" Naruto asked his beaming smile still in place and again ignoring the scream of the four idiots.
"We want human body." One of the Gorian replied its glowing pink eyes now glaring at Naruto.
"Why though?" Naruto curiously asked.
"No, question. Human. Fight now!" One of the Gorian roared as the three Gorian charged at Naruto, eliciting a scream of terror from Zolo, Ranji, Duffy, and Yasopp.
"Ah..shit." Naruto cursed as he saw the three Gorians charging at him and decided to just deal with them with his fist.
Naruto dodged a punch aimed at his head by one of the Gorian that had reached him first. He then punched the Gorian in the stomach, which made the Gorian stumble back a little and simultaneously made the other two Gorians stop their charge mid-way and looked at the Gorian that he had just punched.
The Gorian, whom he had punched just now, rubbed at its stomach with its hand a little and grinned at the other two Gorians who were looking at it.
"Human, punch weak." It declared and the other two Gorians nodded in agreement.
"You little shits!" Naruto gritted his teeth in anger when he heard the Gorian declare that his punch was weak. How dare they! He hadn't even used chakra to augment his punch as he didn't want to hurt them too much. Since he reasoned that they were just innocent animals, driven by their instinct. But they had the nerve to call his punch weak! Now he was going to seriously hurt them!
The four idiots shook in fear when they saw Naruto getting his teeth and saw his face going through various emotions. It reminded them of the moment when Naruto had trashed them.
"I feel bad for the Gorians now," Ranji gulped and whispered to his friend getting a nod of agreement from them.
Naruto gathered chakra into his fist and charged at the Gorians, and before the Gorians could even react he punched the middle Gorian on its face, releasing the chakra that he had gathered in his fist in a quick burst. Resulting in the Gorian flying back 50 meters away and crashing into a tree.
Naruto lunged at the other Gorian on the right and punched it in the face as well, using the same technique that he used before in his punch—which he learned by watching Sakura train. The force of the punch also made the Gorian fly and slammed on the other Gorian that had crashed into a tree.
He then dashed toward the final Gorian and punched it as well, but on the stomach. Which made the Gorian gasp a little and flew and crashed into the other two Gorians, completely knocked out. Just like the other two.
"That's what you get for being a jerk! You stupid gorillas!" Naruto exclaimed angrily pointing his fingers at the three knocked-out Gorians. He then took a deep breath to calm himself down and turned towards the four idiots, whose jaws were on the ground and were looking at the Gorians wide-eyed.
"See. I told you guys I can handle them." Naruto grinned, giving a nice guy pose.
"What..what was that?" Yasopp shakily asked pointing his finger at the Gorians. He along with his friends were completely shocked and terrified by the strength and speed that they had just witnessed. They had never seen someone knocked out a Gorian with just a single punch! and it was not even one Gorian, but three! And on top of that, it took Naruto only 3 seconds to do it! That means it only took him 1 second to knock down each of the Gorian! They were now so glad and thanking their stars, that Naruto hadn't used half of the strength that he had displayed now, against them. Otherwise, they would have surely died.
"Meh...it was nothing. They just annoyed me a little, that's it." Naruto shrugged as he glanced at the Gorians.
"Did you kill them?" Duffy asked cautiously.
"No, I didn't. I just use enough force to knock them out."
'That means, he could have easily killed them!' The four idiots gulped and thought simultaneously.
"Now.." Naruto narrowed his eyes at them, which made the four idiots shiver a little due to the intensity of Naruto's stare.
"Can you guys please lend me 500 jewels? I'm really hungry and I don't have any money to buy food. please!"
Naruto begged them holding his roaring stomach, with tears falling from his eyes like a literal, waterfall.
"Don't scare us like that!" The four idiots exclaimed and took a deep breath which they didn't know they were holding.
"And No! we.."
"Wait! we will think about it."
"What the heck Zolo! Why would we think about something so obvious??" Duffy yelled as all of them looked at Zolo in confusion. Naruto included.
Zolo sighed and motioned to his friends to huddle up to him; which made Naruto even more confused and curious.
"Look, I also don't want to give any of our money. But we might have to give away 500 jewels to Naruto, as I remembered something very important." Zolo confided to his friend.
"Why though?" Yasopp asked in confusion.
"From what I remember, Gorians tend to live and hunt with a group of at least 15 members in a given area, so there are high chances that there are still other 12 Gorians near us or in this area of the forest."
"What!?" The other three exclaimed in fear at the news.
"But, Zolo. Why do we have to give our money to Naruto? What's the relation between him and the Gorians?" Duffy questioned, confused with what Zolo was trying to say.
"I was getting to that, idiot!" Zolo scolded Duffy and began with his reasoning...
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(After a few minutes of discussion)
Zolo, Ranji, Yasopp, and Duffy grinned at each other after they had come to a decision, after hearing Zolo's reasoning; which they thought was quite ingenious.
They then broke their group huddle and turned toward Naruto, who was whistling...innocently.
"Naruto! We have agreed to lend you 500 jewels!" Duffy exclaimed and grinned along with his friends as they told Naruto the good news.
"Oh...really?" Naruto quirked one of his eyebrows, now looking at the four grinning idiots.
"Yes! That's great isn't it?"
"Hmm...no." Naruto blankly said with an unreadable expression on his face.
"Eh! Why? we thought you would be happy if we gave you our money." Duffy asked as the four of them sweated and stared at Naruto.
"Well... because I can sense a 'but' somewhere in your reason to pay me, that's why," Naruto stated his voice going up a pitch when he said 'but', which made the four idiots to sweat even more.
"How...how did you know that?"
"Hmm, I didn't know. I just guessed it."
"Oh, well then. You guessed it right." Yasopp nervously laughed and pushed Zolo a little to begin explaining what they had discussed to Naruto.
"Well, Naruto. Uh, we will lend you 500 jewels, but you will ha..."
"Have to go together with you guys to Hargeon town. Right?"
"How... How did you know that? " Zolo nervously asked Naruto, as he along with his friends could feel their clothes completely getting wet by the amount of sweat that they were sweating. When Naruto narrowed his eyes at them, hard.
"I just guess it as well." Naruto happily grinned.
"Don't scare us like that!" The four idiots excluding Zolo exclaimed at Naruto for almost giving them a heart attack.
"Goo...Good, guess. Uh, So will you go tog..."
"Together with you guys, while protecting you all from any Gorian attacks. Right?" Naruto completed Zolo's sentence again, with his grin now looking a bit menacing.
The four idiots' bodies completely turned cold as Naruto found out the real reasoning behind their agreement to give him the jewels.
"How did you know that? Don't tell us that it was also a guess." Ranji shakily inquired.
"Well, because you idiots discussed your plans so LOUDLY! I bet even the Gorians in the forest might have heard you guys!" Naruto exclaimed furiously, hitting all of them on the head with his fist. Resulting in their faces kissing the ground
The four idiots groaned in pain as large bumps appeared on their heads. They slowly stood up and then directly went down on their knees and bowed to Naruto.
"Please! Naruto! Protect us out of the forest! Please!" They all pleaded simultaneously at Naruto. Though, Naruto had another idea.
If it was any other situation, he would have readily helped them out of the forest even without asking them for money. But, he really needed some money right now, as he was practically broke in an unknown world and almost starving.
" I don't really mind getting out of the forest to Hargeon town, together with you guys," Naruto paused and glanced at the four idiots, who were now looking at him hopefully. "But, I need you guys to lend me a bit more jewels than 500, if you want me to protect you guys from any Gorian attack as well.
" Absolutely, not!" Duffy rejected Naruto's suggestion heatedly and quickly got back on his feet. But, he was quickly brought back to his knee by the other idiots.
"Shut up, Duffy! Let us first hear how many jewels Naruto wants!" The three of them yelled at Duffy and then looked up at Naruto with hope igniting in their heart. After all, Naruto was probably going to ask them for a raise of just some 100 jewels and they were willing to pay at least that much; if it means they could get out of the forest to Hargeon, without dying to Gorian attacks.
"How much do you want then, Naruto?" Ranji asked smiling along with his friends, though Naruto could see that their smiles were a bit strained.
"Hmm...I don't really know..." Naruto mulled over how much raise he wanted. Since, other than ramen, he was not sure of the prices of things that he wanted or were essential to his survival for at least a week or two. Like...
"How much does an inn cost per night?" Naruto inquired since he didn't want to sleep in the forest or on the street for weeks.
"Oh, an Inn!?" Duffy asked not noticing the wide-eyed looks and the shushing motion that his friends were giving him.
"It just cost around 3000 jewels per night!"
"Damn it! Duffy! Why did you tell him that? Now he is going to ask us to pay him 3500 jewels!" Zolo, Ranji, and Yasopp yelled at Duffy for his blunder.
"What!? Naruto are you really going to ask us to pay you 3500 jewels?" Duffy questioned Naruto, completely horrified as he realized his mistake.
"Oh, no. I'm not going to ask you 3500 jewels?" Naruto smiled and calmed them down. The four idiots let out a sigh of relief when they heard Naruto didn't wanted 3500 jewels from them. Or...so they thought.
"Instead of 3500 jewels, I want 25,000 jewels for my services."
"What! 25,000??" The four idiots screamed in shock at the amount and all of them quickly got back on their feet.
"Hell, no! We are never going to lend you 20,000 jewels!" Duffy and Yasopp exclaimed denying his request.
"And why do you even need 25,000 jewels for? Didn't Duffy just say that the cost of an inn per night is 3500?" Ranji asked completely taken aback by the increase in the amount that they thought Naruto had initially wanted.
"Well, I want to look for a job in Hargeon and it could probably take me around a week, so..." Naruto trailed off and grinned at the four idiots.
"So, you want us to pay for a week of your stay in an inn then?" Zolo asked, his eyebrows twitching a little.
"Yes." Naruto nodded happily.
"Absolutely, not!"
"Why not? it's not like you guys are actually paying me for my services! I'm asking you guys just to lend me your money! I'm going to pay you guys the money eventually!" Naruto exclaimed a bit annoyed at his request getting completely denied by them.
"We have only known each other for just an hour, heck! even less than an hour! How can we be sure that you will pay us back?" Yasopp questioned Naruto, getting a chorus of agreement from his three friends.
"I promised you, didn't I? And I never break my promises!"
"That's not a strong enough reason!!!!"
"Why are you guys being so stingy anyways? I know you guys have a bag full of money!"
"Because what you are asking for is nothing more than a daylight robbery!"
"Well, didn't you guys rob that money from someone, huh?" Naruto quirked his eyebrows and slightly chuckled when he saw Duffy getting slammed into the ground by his friends for his last comment.
"Look, Naruto..." Ranji took a deep breath and nodded at his friends, ignoring the groaning form of Duffy on the ground.
"...we will lend you only 5000 jewels, we won't lend you even a single jewel more than that."
They all looked at Naruto with a determined expression on their faces, after giving him their final offer. However, behind that mask of determination, their thoughts were anything but that. And Naruto, being able to sense people's emotions even without Kurama chakra, to an extent, knew what was actually going through their minds.
'Please, accept it!' 'Please, accept it!' 'Please, accept it!'
"Well, it's too bad we couldn't come to an agreement. I'll be going on my way, then. Take care, guys."
Naruto sighed sadly and started walking away from the group. Though, he was grinning internally.
"Wait...Wait...Naruto!"
'Hook, line and sinker.'
"Don't leave us here alone! We will lend you 20,000 jewels. Please take us along with you to Hargeon!" The four idiots yelled fearfully scrambling toward Naruto and giving him another offer.
"Come on, guys! why 5000 jewels less?"
"Uh... Instead of the 5000 jewels, how about we give you even more important information about Fiore?" Ranji nervously offered, praying that Naruto would agree.
"What kind of information?" Naruto asked raising his eyebrows a little, curious by the supposed information that Ranji was offering.
"Uh...like magic guilds and the magic council," Ranji replied, now praying even more and hoping Naruto didn't know anything about those two.
When Naruto heard the word 'council' he was completely sold. He didn't knew or really thought much about the magic guilds, even though, they sounded amazing to him. But, he knew that anything related to the word 'council' was of utmost importance if he wanted to learn more about this world.
"Hmm...Okay."
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(Hargeon town)
After walking through the forest for about 45 minutes, they had finally reached the gate of Hargeon town. They could have been here a bit earlier if Zolo hadn't somehow gotten lost from the group, three times.
Naruto still didn't know how it had happened or even possible for someone to get lost on a straight path. But, according to the other guys in the group, it happened quite often. So he had just shrugged and chalked it up to the group's oddness.
Though, during their journey through the forest, he gained a lot of valuable information about the guild system and the magic council, from Ranji and even the other guys.
Magic guilds in a simplified term were just like hidden villages and the magic council was an organization that controlled and oversee anything related to magic, including the magic guilds.
After, they had finished explaining about the magic guilds and the magic council to him. Naruto had asked them some simple questions about themselves, as he wanted to know about them a bit more. Since, he knew that those guys, even if they were thieves, weren't necessarily bad guys or even evil and he could sense no negative feelings or ill intentions from them.
The four idiots had told him that they were childhood friends, and they were from a small town called Raftel; which was the southernmost town in the kingdom of Fiore. They had left their home in search of adventure and opportunities when they were just 15.
Even though, they knew magic they had never wanted or intend to join a magic guild as they wished and planned to open a restaurant of their own, having fallen in love with the restaurant business; when they were working at a restaurant, as one of the many odd jobs that they had done over the past 4 years.
Which, they told him was possible now, as they had just gotten/stolen the required funds that they had needed to open their dream restaurant in a town called Magnolia. When he had asked why Magnolia? They had told him that it was the only town where they haven't stolen anything from someone.
And Naruto couldn't really fault them for that. Even he had stolen food from certain stores when he was hungry and made sure that he was never seen in front of those shops.
As they finally entered the town, Naruto was completely taken aback by the beauty of the town. Zolo, Duffy, Ranji, and Yasopp were apparently not exaggerating when they were describing the beauty of this town to him. He was surprised to notice that the architecture of the houses in this town, was completely different from the ones back in Konoha. Naruto could also see why they called this town a port town, as he saw the numerous ships and yachts lining up the docks.
"Well, Naruto. Thank you for agreeing to accompany us through the forest and protecting us from the Gorians." Duffy said while giving Naruto a stink eye as they hadn't really gotten attacked by any Gorian. And they had already paid Naruto 20,000 jewels!
"Stop it, Duffy." Ranji pulled Duffy's cheek for the comment and looked at Naruto with a smile on his face.
"Thank you, Naruto. Even though we didn't meet any Gorians on our way, we all felt safe because you were with us." Ranji thanked Naruto as all of them nodded in agreement. Though, Duffy's nod was a bit hesitant.
"No problem, guys. I would also like to thank you all for giving me information about this wor...place and of course, for the jewels as well. And I promise that I'll return it all, the next time that we meet again!" Naruto said as he was indeed really grateful to have met them and for the help that they had given him. Granted, he did saved them from three 8 feet tall magic gorillas, but that was neither here nor there.
"Okay, then we will be taking our leave then."
"You guys will be heading to uh, Magnolia town right?"
"Yes, do remember to meet us there in our restaurant!" Yasopp grinned at Naruto.
"Okay, sure. Take care guys, Bye!" Naruto waved goodbye at the four guys, who were about to head in the direction of the train station.
"Bye, Naruto!"
"Take care, Naruto!"
"Goodbye, Naruto!"
"Bye, blonde!"
They all said their goodbyes and started heading toward their destinations.
...
...
Naruto suddenly stopped on his track and turned towards the four retreating figures when he forgot something and cried out.
"Oh! wait, Ranji! What was the name of the restaurant which you said had the best ramen in this town was!?"
"It's 8-Island! The restaurant has a large chef's hat on its sign! Just go straight and turned right! You wouldn't miss it!"
"Okay, Thank you! and take care, guys!"
Before the four of them could even respond Naruto had dashed towards the direction that Ranji had provided.
"What a weird person," Duffy commented as they watched the small trail of dust left by Naruto.
"Indeed." Zolo agreed
"He is also quite scary," Yasopp added and they all had to agree with that statement. Naruto was quite scary.
The four of them then turned and started heading toward the train station, at a slow pace.
"Hmmm...Zolo?"
"yeah."
"I forgot to ask you this before, but from where did you remember that fact about Gorians?" Sanji asked curiously as he lighted another cigarette and all of them looked at Zolo, a bit curious as well.
"Hmm...I think I saw it in a cartoon show about a super Gorian when I was a kid." Zolo thought a bit and absently answered Ranji's question.
After a few seconds, Zolo looked at his sides in confusion when he noticed that he was the only one walking now. He turned back and blinked in confusion when he saw his friends were now behind him, simply standing still in the middle of the road and their eyes covered by their hairs, or in Duffy's case by the straw hat.
"Why are you guys standing like a statue?" Zolo asked both in curiosity and confusion.
"YOU DAMN, MOSS HEAD!"
"ZOLO, YOU MORON!"
"ZOLO, YOU IDIOT!"
He didn't even get to scream before he was tackled by his friends in the middle of the street and started beating him.
'What the heck did I do?'
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Naruto was sitting inside the restaurant that Ranji had recommended to him, and he was now staring at the menu that the nice waitress had provided him.
His eyes narrowed and scanned the menu from the top to the bottom. He held the menu even tighter than he was holding it before, as he realized something which filled him with dread.
'What the fuck? What are these weird letters?' Naruto thought worriedly as other than the numbers—which he assumed were the price— he couldn't understand a single word.
*End*
A/N: I have gotten some PM 's asking me why have i nerfed Naruto by taking away Kurama's chakra. So I would like to clarify that, i have not taken away Kurama's chakra permanently! Naruto is going to able to use it eventually, just not now.
As i don't see the need for it. Naruto is crazy strong even without Kurama! This Naruto is in his prime(Which i think was during the last movie) and i have given him the Hirashin! And Naruto in this Story is going to fully utilise the chakra given to him by the other tailed beast. Like, the boil release and lava release. And on top of that he still has safe mode and Sage of six path mode, as you can see in this chapter.
So, even without Kurama's chakra Naruto in this story is going to mope the floor with most of the S-class mages just in his base form! And with the SOSP mode, i don't think he will have much trouble with anything or anyone, other than the Dragon gods, Zeref, Acnologia and maybe some of the high rank Spirrigan(just because of hax).
And the OC's that I had introduced in this chapter are just a parody of Luffy, Sanji, Zoro and usopp. They won't play much part in the story, they might pop up here and there , but their only purpose in this story was to give Naruto the information that he needed about EarthLand.
Next chapter will meet the Fairy tail members.
thank you.