"speech"
'Thoughts'
"Demon speech"
'Demon thoughts'
Jutsu/Attacks
I don't Own Naruto or One Piece
*Flashback*
Chapter 3
Naruto and Luffy had been flying through the sky for the last three days not knowing when they'd land or where they'd land. Naruto looked over towards Luffy to make sure he was okay only to see he was fast asleep mumbling about his crew worried about them.
"I knew it was a good choice to join his crew since he values his friends more than anything else. It reminds me of home. Don't you think so, Kurama?" Naruto asked out loud.
"He certainly does. He's a lot dumber than you were as a kid, but has a good heart made of gold. It's quite the crew that you had joined, especially those two vixens. You should go after them and claim them if you see them again." Kurama said.
"Oi! You perverted fox! I don't know them that well yet!" Naruto yelled trying to fight down his growing blush.
Before more of their conversation could continue, their three day ride had finally ended with them crashing into an island.
"Damn that's one hell of a landing, that's for sure." Naruto said to himself.
"Hey Luffy. Wake up." Naruto said as he slapped him.
"Uhh what? Where are we?" Luffy asked, looking around with a yawn.
"Not sure. We should take a look around though. See what kind of food we find, since we haven't been able to eat in three days." Naruto said.
Cue stomach grumble.
"Meat! I need meat!" Luffy shouted running into the forest leaving a dumbstruck Naruto with a laughing Kurama at the kind of captain that Naruto has signed up with.
"Better go after him to make sure he doesn't do anything stupid. Seriously, sometimes I wonder about what goes on in his head." Naruto sighed.
When he catches up to him, he finds him knocked out by some food he had eaten and had swollen up to cover his face so he wasn't recognizable…. Well mostly anyway, Naruto knew who it was since he had the same clothes.
That's all it took for Kurama to finally lose it.
'HAHAHA! Oh god. How dumb is this kid!? I thought you were dumb back in the day, but this kid takes the cake!" Kurama said in laughter rolling around on the ground.
'Oh shut up Kurama! I know how stupid he is and I can't help but agree with you. I didn't eat whatever I saw at least. Jeez.' Naruto facepalming at this.
He would've kept talking to him, until he saw an arrow get shot at him causing Naruto to jump back along with carrying Luffy.
"No point in hiding, I know you're hiding…. There!" Naruto shouted, throwing a kunai where someone was.
"Three young women come out of the trees holding bows while wearing strange clothing even by his standards. One had brown hair wearing a cowgirl hat, another was a brunette as well, but wider like, and lastly a blonde who had gotten Naruto to drop his jaw at seeing her.
'She's beautiful.' Naruto said mentally.
'Oh another one to add eh Naruto?' Kurama grinned at his partner.
'Not now Kurama!' Naruto said.
"Hi. You think you could help us out? We're kind of lost and…." Naruto was trying to explain, but didn't get the chance to finish with more arrows heading towards him.
Naruto takes his sword out and deflects the arrows with more difficulty than he expected.
'What the hell?' Naruto asked.
"Oi! I'm only asking where the hell we are?! Could you not shoot at us?" Naruto asked while evading arrows while carrying Luffy.
"Who are you and what are you doing on this island?" The blonde asked.
"That's what I'm trying to figure out!" Naruto shouted, still evading arrows.
"How do you not know what island this is?" She asked, narrowing her eyes at him.
"Damn it! I won't be able to run forever if I'm worrying about Luffy. Not only that, but I need to get rid of the mushrooms on him." Naruto said as he got away enough to put him down and approach the three women.
"Can we just talk about this or are you going to keep firing arrows at me and my friend?" Naruto asked, hoping that they will listen to him.
"What do you think?" The blonde asked.
"I'm not sure. I've never seen either of them before, but they don't look like anything I've seen before." The taller woman said when others showed up surrounding Naruto even more, charging their bows at him.
"Oh come on! Is there no way we can talk about this?" Naruto asked, frustrated about the whole thing.
The leader of the group narrowed her eyes at him. "No. Why would we talk about it, especially to a man." She said.
"Oi. What do you mean?" Naruto asked. "Where are we exactly?"
"You're currently on Amazon Lily and you will be coming with us since you're a trespasser man." The leader said.
"Well I hate to break it to you, but we aren't going anywhere with you. Later." Naruto said using the body flicker to somewhere nearby where they can rest a bit.
"He disappeared."
"Find them!" The leader said, getting nods from the others.
Naruto and Luffy
Naruto had been able to get Luffy to safety from the women that had wanted to hurt them for some reason. Before he could deal with them, Naruto needed to get rid of the mushrooms that were all over Luffy.
"Now that's taken care of. He should be fine now and will have to wait for him to wake up before I can go looking for food." Naruto said to himself.
While Naruto was looking after Luffy, he never noticed someone approach him from behind and when Naruto sensed him, it was too late when she knocked him out.
A few hours later
Groans could be heard coming from Naruto as he was starting to wake up after being knocked out by someone.
"Damn my head. What the hell hit me?" Naruto asked out loud.
He heard people talking and he turned around to see a bunch of women wearing similar clothing as the others from before. He also noticed he was behind bars.
"What the hell? Where am I?" Naruto quickly asked.
"You're in our city and will be until the empress comes back." The same blonde woman from earlier said.
"You! You're the one who knocked me out aren't you?" Naruto asked.
"Yes I was. It was hard to find you, but once I saw you hadn't noticed me, I knew I had to knock you out." She said.
"Can I at least know your name? It's not often that people can get the drop on me like that ya know?" Naruto asked.
"Marguerite is my name man." The now named Marguerite said.
"I'm not just a man. Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze is my name." Naruto told her.
"You're a strange looking man. What's with those whisker marks on your face? Do all men have them?" Marguerite asked.
Naruto chuckled. "No, I've had them since the day I was born. It's due to special circumstances, but that's beside the point. Why are we in cells?" Naruto asked.
"You trespassed on our island. Men aren't allowed here and you'll stay here." Marguerite said.
"Great. Just great." Naruto said when he noticed Luffy was waking up. "And looks like he's finally waking up. I'm assuming you're the ones who pulled the mushrooms off of him?" Naruto asked, receiving a nod from her. "Thank you. I didn't touch them because I didn't know what would happen."
"That makes sense. It was unknown to you so what you did was smart to do." Marguerite said.
Luffy finally starts to wake up.
"Ugh. What happened?" Luffy asked.
"Welcome back Luffy. You've been out for hours. You ate something that you shouldn't have and caused you to go unconscious. We're now currently in prison so that's happening." Naruto explained.
"Huh. That's interesting." Luffy said as if not worried.
"That's all you have to say!?" Naruto shouted.
"Enough! Now that he's awake. We don't need to show any sympathy towards you!" The leader said as they lined up bows ready to shoot them.
"Well what do you say Luffy, wanna get out of here?" Naruto smirked which Luffy returned as he stretched his foot into the ceiling as they shot their arrows at them, but they escaped before anything could happen.
"Come on Luffy! Let's go." Naruto said.
"I'm right behind you." Luffy replied.
"Get them!" One of them shouted as they continued shooting arrows at them.
Naruto and Luffy were jumping rooftop to rooftop hoping to escape them so they could find a way off the island. They were moving around when Naruto noticed that Marguerite was chasing them as well, but was not as ambitious about it as the others.
"Luffy, follow me. We're gonna have a guest join us, so grab my shoulder. I want some answers from her." Naruto told him.
He nodded and grabbed onto his shoulder as they disappeared using a body flicker in front of the blonde who raised her weapon, but wasn't fast enough to fire with Naruto grabbing her wrist with the three of them disappearing again.
Line Break
They reappeared about 10 miles away from the city with Luffy dropping to the ground in exhaustion with Naruto and Marguerite landing more gracefully, but was struggling to break free of his grasp.
"Let me go!" She yelled trying to punch and kick him to let go of her.
"I'll put you down if you stop fighting me. I just want some answers then I'll let you go." Naruto said.
She sighs and glares at him, but stops fighting.
"Thank you. Now I just want some basic information on the island as to why you all seem to hate us for no reason?" Naruto asked.
"It's because men are disgusting pigs who only care about themselves." She answered.
"I can understand that, but you just assume that me and Luffy are?" Naruto asked.
"Well you two are the first men I've seen I have to say, but I've heard things." She said.
"Understandable, but if I was nearly as bad as the men you've heard about, my mother would kill me and she would kill those types of people as well. I could tell stories about what she'd do to perverts and the like. You'd get along with her I'd say." Naruto said.
Now that got her attention. This man's mother would get along with her and probably the others on the island?
Naruto seeing her curious expression can't help but chuckle. "Yes she would beat anyone who did something she didn't approve of. She was a strong and prideful person, but also kind and compassionate when she wanted to be." Naruto explained.
"She sounds like a wonderful woman, but that doesn't change anything about you. You could be like other men." She said still not trusting him.
"You'd be right if I was like that. Have I ever done anything to make you suspicious of me though? We just want to get off the island and get back to Archipelago to meet up with our friends. Is there nothing you can do to help us out? We'll be out of your hair and be gone." Naruto said not noticing how Marguerite was starting to feel something.
"I mean. You'd have to talk to our empress before anything could happen, but she's gone and won't be back for a little while." She told him while she's holding her chest.
'What's happening to me?' She asked herself.
"Thank you-.." Naruto would've kept going, but was stopped when he saw an arrow heading towards him.
"Woah! They found us." Naruto said before looking back at Marguerite. "Thank you for the chat. It was nice talking to you." He said.
Naruto ran towards Luffy who was avoiding the arrows.
"Let's go. I know where we need to go now!" Naruto shouted at his captain.
"Alright. I'm following you." Luffy said as they ran off back towards the village.
Marguerite was left there with many questions and confusion with how she was feeling right now about Naruto.
Naruto and Luffy continued dodging their arrows which was noticed by the blonde that they were infused with some form of energy that he was unfamiliar with. They ran across building to building when they passed by one building that had someone who was reading a newspaper which had a picture of Naruto and Luffy on it.
She sees them and widens her eyes and then looks back at the newspaper as she recognizes them as they were the ones who crashed the auction in Archipelago.
"It can't be." She muttered to herself.
The two had jumped onto a mansion looking building when Naruto crashed through the floor beneath him into what looked like a bath where he saw someone was in it who was naked, but could only see her back with some strange symbol on it, but not the first time he'd seen it before.
Boa turns around to see Naruto there and glares at him.
"Who are you and how'd you get on my island?!" She shouted at him.
"We were sent here by someone named Kuma." He responded when he noticed the mark on her back. "Wait, where have I seen that mark before?" He asked himself not realizing he asked out loud..
Boa got angry since he may have recognized the mark on her back and that she also didn't believe him though since he's a man.
"Liar!" She shouted accusingly at him.
The doors burst open with two women running in.
"Sister!" They called out before they saw Naruto there.
"Get him!" Hancock ordered them.
Naruto then jumps out of the window to avoid getting attacked again as he was getting frustrated at being constantly attacked in this village.
Naruto again uses Body Flicker technique to get away from the group when they don't see someone who kicks the both of them into the wall catching them by surprise. When they get out of the rubble, they find themselves surrounded by the Amazon warriors.
Line Break
Naruto and Luffy are bound in the middle of an arena where the stands were filled with Amazons with Boa using her snake as a throne with her sisters in front of the two.
"Ladies! We are to witness this execution of the two men who trespassed on our island." Boa announced.
There were cheers and agreements going on when someone approached the stage with Naruto turning around to see Marguerite along with her two friends from earlier.
"Please Empress let them go. They haven't done anything wrong. All they want is to leave the island and go back to where they came from." Marguerite tried reasoning with her.
Boa stood up and walked towards the stage. "Is that so? I can't let them go. Even if I do this, everyone will forgive me because I'm beautiful." Boa said as she formed a heart with her fingers.
"Love Love Beam." Hancock said, turning the three of them into stone making Naruto and Luffy angry at her.
"Why'd you do that?! They did nothing wrong!" Naruto shouted getting boos from the crowd.
"They were defending you. It doesn't matter though since I'll be forgiven because I'm beautiful." Hancock said.
The crowd cheered even more with some gaining hearts in their eyes with Naruto sweat dropping at this.
'Are you hearing this Kurama?' Naruto asked through their link.
'I am and it's hilarious to me that she's thinking that. It must be due to her devil fruit that she does this.' Kurama said snickering about the whole thing.
'That's true. Hold on. I think something is about to happen.' Naruto said, ending the link.
"Sonia, Marigold. Dispose of these two now." Hancock ordered.
"Right away sister." They replied in unison.
They change their forms which results in them having a more snake like appearance now.
Sonia moves to attack Naruto, but changes directions towards the statues when Naruto appears between them with Naruto kicking her tail away from them.
"You will not harm them." Naruto growls at her.
Naruto creates three clones to carry them away from the arena out of harm's way.
Naruto jumps towards Sonia with a kick to the side, but she is able to catch kick and she throws him towards the edge hoping to end it quickly.
"Not bad. Gonna have to take this up a notch." Naruto said.
Naruto then changes into his KCM cloak surrounding his body in a familiar golden aura with black markings surrounding him with a haori forming as well.
"What is this? It reminds me of one of the admirals, but it seems different." Boa said.
"Shall we dance?" Naruto asked with a smirk.
"How dare he!"
"Saying something like that to one of the sisters!"
"Kill him!"
"Make that man suffer!"
They rush each other with Sonia using her tail to capture him, but Naruto avoids it by going to the right with Naruto disappearing in a blur and appears behind her kicking her in the back sending her crashing into her sister who had been slicing at Luffy and spitting out some purple liquid out.
"You alright Luffy?" He asked.
"I'm fine. She's strong, that's for sure." Luffy said.
"They are pretty good. I can agree with that."" Naruto agreed.
They start to falter feeling weird all of a sudden with the two snake sisters smirking.
"What's wrong, men? Having trouble standing up?" Marigold taunted them.
"You look like you're about to pass out. Why not let us help you with that?" Sonia taunted.
"No!" Naruto shouted before jumping up and going through two hand signs. "Wind Style" Great Breakthrough!" A gust of wind escapes from his mouth blowing the mist away.
"Well that was close. Another minute and it wouldn't have looked good for us, but now we can get back to the fight. Luffy you take a breather, you're not looking so good." Naruto said, getting a frown from him.
"You sure Naruto? I can still fight." Luffy asked.
"I know, but I want to make sure they don't try anything tricky." Naruto said, getting a hesitant nod from him.
"You really think you can take us both? Marigold scowled at him.
"Sister. Let's show him what we can do together." Sonia said with Marigold agreeing with her.
They charge and Naruto with him doing the same as Marigold swipes with her weapon and Sonia using her tail to catch him when he avoids her strike, but doesn't expect Naruto to not only dodge the strike, but to also grab her tail in time where he throws her towards her sister.
"Sonia, Marigold. Stop fooling around already." Hancock ordered them.
"You heard her sister. Let's stop fooling around." Marigold smirked before she started covering herself in flames that weren't hurting her.
"I agree with you there." Sonia agreed, smirking with her hair turning into snakes.
"Oh. Well that's something. Bring it on!" Naruto shouted.
Sonia then uses her snakes to attack him, but Naruto disappears, avoiding the strikes that are destroying the arena when they make contact with them.
While they were attacking him with Luffy in awe at Naruto's strength, he never noticed Sonia getting behind him using her tail to grab one of the statue. Luffy noticed too late when one of the statues was grabbed and brought onto the arena when Naruto was about to punch Marigold when the statue was placed right in front of him making him stop his assault on her. He sees who the statue is, which was Marguerite, the one he had spoken to the most.
"How dare you bring her into this! She's one of your own isn't she!?" Naruto growled seeing them smirk at the turn of events.
"She stood against our empress and defended you." Sonia said.
"You. Will. Let. Her. Go." Naruto and Luffy growled out.
"Suddenly Luffy releases his Haki unknowingly with Naruto raising his KI causing many people in the crowd to lose consciousness along with Sonia and Marigold to stumble back a bit releasing Marguerite which gave Naruto the chance to grab her and put her back away from danger.
Boa is surprised by this, not expecting these two to have Conqueror's Haki not knowing that Naruto was using KI instead.
"These are not normal boys are they?" She asked herself.
They charge the two distracted women while Naruto goes after Sonia and Luffy goes after Marigold where Luffy grabs her tail with Naruto following suit and tying their tails together so they'd be stuck.
Marigold is pushed towards Sonia causing some flames to land on her making them panic about it when Sonia falls off the arena towards the stands when she grabs the edge of the stands keeping her from falling to the bottom where the spikes are.
Naruto sees her cape about to dissolve and makes a jump to her back covering it from everyone. This caught everyone by surprise not expecting a man to protect them like this. Especially Boa who was wide-eyed at this turn of events.
"Why are you doing this man?" Sonia asked.
"You have your reasons for wanting to hide it and I will respect that." Naruto smiled at her.
Boa looks at the crowd.
"Clear out! Everyone leave us before you get exposed to the Gorgon eyes." She ordered.
Everyone left, leaving Luffy, Naruto, Hancock, Sonia, Marigold and Marguerite still a statue.
"Why did you do that for her man?" Boa asked.
"It's important to you all for a reason to keep it hidden and you'd rather die than let others see it. It was the right thing to do. It's as simple as that." Naruto said with a smile when he turns serious again.
"Now that the matches are over, please return her back to normal." Naruto said with Luffy nodding in agreement.
'Perhaps there are still decent men in the world still.' She said to herself when she got an idea.
"I can return her back to normal, but you've also stated that you're wanting a ship off of the island. I can only grant one of the requests. Which one will you choose?" Boa asked with a neutral expression.
"What, that's not fair!" Luffy shouted, but Naruto grabbed his shoulder to calm him down.
"Indeed it isn't fair, but Luffy life isn't always fair. Sometimes we gotta choose and I think we both know the right choice to make, right?" Naruto asked, getting a nod from him frowning slightly still.
"Please return her back to normal." Naruto said bowing getting on his hands and knees with Luffy following suit.
The three sisters were surprised and amazed at what they were seeing.
'These two are strong individuals and yet are so humble in putting others before themselves. Perhaps there are men out there that are kind.' Hancock thought before looking at Naruto.
"Meet with me later when we're finished here man." Boa said with Naruto nodding as she returned her back to normal.
"Love Love Beam."
She looked around confused about the whole thing since the last thing she remembered was trying to get Hancock to let the men go when she was approached by Naruto who had a grin on his face.
"I'm glad you're okay and I also wanted to thank you for standing up for me and my friend." Naruto said to her bowing.
"Marguerite, can you leave us for the time being?" Hancock asked, getting a nod as she walked away from them.
Line Break
Naruto was seated in a room with Sonia and Marigold waiting for Hancock to let him know when she's ready.
"I want to thank you for what you did. We would've been forced to leave the island if anyone had seen it." Sonia said with gratitude, smiling at Naruto.
"It was nothing. It's my nature to help someone when they need it. I would've done it for anyone who I consider a friend." Naruto said with a grin.
"Man, you can come in now." Hancock said from behind the curtains.
Naruto did as she said and got up to go talk to her, but what he saw was her exposed top showing everything which made Naruto blush severely trying not to stare. Kurama had other ideas.
'Damn look at those orbs! You should get a feel of them."' Kurama said through their link.
'Not in your life Kurama. I'm not a pervert like Jiraya was. Besides, she'd kill me anyway.' Naruto said cutting the link off.
"Thank you for not staring at me, but I want to show you something that I never show or want to show anyone." Hancock said as she turned around to show her back which showed the same mark that he saw earlier.
"This is the mark you saw earlier. You said you've seen it before right?" Hancock asked nervously, not wanting to reveal herself to him like this.
"I have seen something similar. It was a friend of mine who was trying to save his friend from becoming a slave herself If they're similar then that means….." He started to say until he started growling and letting his KI leak out making Hancock gasp at what she was feeling from him.
'It's like I'm suffocating from it, but it doesn't hurt or anything of the sort. I'm not sure what it is, but it makes me feel different.' She thought to herself.
Naruto realized he was releasing his KI and stopped when he saw her react to it.
"I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to let my killer intent out like that. I just got angry when I realized what had happened to you, Sonia, and Marigold." Naruto apologized with a small bow.
"I appreciate the apology, but why did you get so angry?" She asked hoping he would give an answer that she was feeling he would say.
"Why wouldn't I get angry? People who go into slavery are the worst kind of scum there is." Naruto growled.
"You should tell him. He won't judge you for what you want to share." Naruto heard someone say.
Naruto turned around to see the old woman that kicked him and Luffy into the wall that caused them to get captured.
"Granny Nyon!" Hancock shouted.
"He is a tolerant man from what we've seen and not only that." Nyon said, looking at Naruto. "You're also the one named Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze who caused quite the ruckus at Archipelago with Monkey D. Luffy, but you caused a lot of panic and pissed off some people too.
"Yes I am, but how do you know about me and what did I do exactly to get such attention?" Naruto asked.
"How can you act so casually and calmly about the whole thing? Do you not realize that what you did that caused a grave incident in the Archipelago? It's all here in the newspaper where it said you killed a Celestial Dragon. Nyon said as she showed him his picture and a bounty.
Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze
Dead or Alive
Bounty: 450,000,000 berries
Shocked expressions were shown from the other women in the room who looked at Naruto seeing him not even caring about it, but having a bounty did make him smirk.
"It's a miracle that he was able to get away and then not long after he arrived here." Nyon said.
"W-Who are you?" Marigold asked.
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze and I tried explaining once already how we got here." Naruto said before looking back at Hancock. "I don't even feel bad about getting rid of that scum. He deserved it for what he did and was doing to others. I couldn't just not do something about it. The bastard is lucky I didn't make him suffer before I killed him. I can't stand slavers like that." Naruto angrily said remembering the Celestial Dragons.
"T-Then it is true you killed him. To think there were people still like you out there in this world." Hancock said, having some tears fall down her cheeks. "The ones who put their lives on the line against the Celestials… like him.
"Who are you referring to?" Naruto asked not liking seeing her cry like this.
"I'll tell you everything. Including what this mark is. It's an emblem of the Celestial Dragons." Boa revealed a mark on her back indicating she was a slave sometime in her life.
Hancock than explained everything of her and her sisters past when they had been kidnapped by men and branded as slaves causing them to have a deeper hatred for men than anyone else. By the end of the story, Boa was crying at the memories that she had to relive along with them being forced to eat the love-love fruit while her sisters ate snake devil fruits. She suddenly tensed when she felt something wrap around her like a blanket of sorts and when she looked up. It was Naruto wrapping his arms around her which made her flinch and struggle to escape his grasp.
"Let go of me." She repeated over and over again until she finally relaxed in the embrace.
"I can't let go. You needed some comfort reliving something as horrible as that as like your sisters must've been hard for you and I would be damned if I let you continue to cry like that." Naruto whispered.
This went on for several minutes with Naruto giving comforting words to her until she relaxed enough for him to release the hug and go back to where he was sitting.
"If you hadn't covered up Sonia's back when you did, it would've been impossible for us to stay on the island." Boa said as more tears started falling again. "I don't want anyone to know of our past. I won't stop at deceiving the whole nation!" She cried. : We won't open ourselves up to anyone at any price! We don't want to be taken advantage of ever again! I'm scared of being caught off guard. It terrifies me to think about where I can't handle it.
"I never thought I'd see the day when the Snake Princess who had a heart of ice would have opened up like this." Nyon said.
Before anything else could be said they turned to see Naruto coughing to get their attention.
"Thank you for telling me this. I can't imagine how hard it must've been to relive all that with what you three went through." Naruto said.
"You truly are different aren't you?" Hancock asked. "I will provide a ship for you and your friend tomorrow. She said.
"Thank you for your help. You won't have to worry about us bothering you anymore. I'll be out of your hair" Naruto said, leaving them alone not realizing the effect he left on Hancock.
'I'll be out of your hair.' Hancock thought. 'For some reason I don't like that thought.' She said.
Line Break
A banquet had been ordered by Hancock that Naruto and Luffy would attend as guests. Things were going well at the party with Luffy eating a mountain of food with Naruto not eating like he was or as much since he wanted to be respectful to them. Luffy's stomach grew to the size of an exercise ball as he started to sing and dance making movements with his body making everyone who was there laughing before one person approached Naruto tapping his shoulder to get his attention, he turned to see Marguerite who smiled at him with him returning it.
"It's good to see you again Marguerite. How are you enjoying the banquet?" He asked.
"It's good to see you as well Naruto. The banquet is great so far. I'm having a lot of fun, but Luffy's singing isn't the best. Do you sing?" She asked.
"Not really. I haven't sung in some time along with playing the piano." Naruto said seeing her grin at this made him not like that grin she has.
"Why not play a song then? I mean I'm curious to see how good you are." She said.
"Nope. I haven't played for anyone in months. Plus I don't see a piano, so won't be happening this time. Sorry." He said not noticing a piano was out in the open.
"Are you sure about that? Why not turn around real quick?" She asked mischievously.
He sighed, having an idea of what's behind him, but did what she asked. "Great. It didn't take long for you to bring it huh? You're one sneaky amazon you know that? I don't really have a choice in this do I?" Naruto asked, getting a nod from her making him sigh.
He walks up to the piano as he goes through some keys for a warm up getting everyone's attention even Hancock and her sisters had heard the piano and became curious about who would be playing to hear it's Naruto on stage growing curious about what he would play from Hancock's balcony..
I don't own the song "I Can Only Imagine" By MercyMe
I can only imagine what it will be like
When I walk by Your side
I can only imagine what my eyes will see
When Your face is before me
I can only imagine, yeah
Surrounded by Your glory
What will my heart feel?
Will I dance for You, Jesus
Or in awe of You be still?
Will I stand in Your presence
Or to my knees will I fall?
Will I sing hallelujah?
Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine
I can only imagine
I can only imagine when that day comes
And I find myself standing in the sun/son
I can only imagine when all I will do
Is forever—forever worship You
I can only imagine, yeah
I can only imagine
Surrounded by Your glory
What will my heart feel?
Will I dance for You, Jesus
Or in awe of You be still?
Will I stand in Your presence
Or to my knees will I fall?
Will I sing hallelujah?
Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine, yeah
I can only imagine
Surrounded by Your glory
What will my heart feel?
Will I dance for You, Jesus
Or in awe of You be still?
Will I stand in Your presence
Or to my knees will I fall?
Will I sing hallelujah?
Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine, yeah
I can only imagine
I can only imagine
I can only imagine
I can only imagine
I can only imagine
I can only imagine
When all I will do
Is forever—forever worship You
I can only imagine
No one said anything as everyone was surprised with how well he could sing and play. No one wanted to ruin the moment, but once someone started clapping and cheering everyone else followed suit. The banquet resumed with Amazons chasing us the two out wanting to do who knew what to them. They were saved by Marguerite as she pulled them up to one of the rooftops where the Amazons passed by them wondering where they went.
"Did anyone see where they went?"
"No, but they shouldn't have gone far."
"They're around here somewhere I know it."
Naruto turns to see it was Marguerite who saved them by going to Nyon's house.
"Thank you for the save there. I wasn't ready to go down just yet." Naruto said being dramatic.
Marguerite giggled at his dramatics. "It's my pleasure. That was quite the song you played Naruto. You were a lot better than you had led on to be." She said. 'I don't know what this feeling is in my heart right now towards this man. If only there was someone who could help me understand this feeling.' Marguerite thought.
"Thank you. It was nice to be playing again after a long time." Naruto told her. "And thank you for the tea Nyon." He said to her.
"You're welcome and it's a pleasure to have you three here as well. I don't get many visitors so this is a change for me." Nyon said.
She's reading the paper which was talking about Ace getting executed when it was brought to Luffy's attention.
"What?!" Luffy shouted getting Naruto and Marguerite's attention.
"It said that Ace is getting executed. He's my brother! I can't let that happen. We need to go save him." Luffy said with Naruto in agreement.
"If he's getting executed then there's no chance of him escaping. What should I do? Do you know where they're going to be executed?" Luffy asked.
"It'll take place in Marinford's town square, where the Navy stands. It says, "In one week" which means 6 days from today." Nyon said.
"That soon!? How long would it take to get to Sabaody Archipelago from here?" Luffy asked.
"It will take more than a week to get there." Nyon said.
"If it takes that long to get there, we'll be too late to save Ace before meeting with my crew. What about where Ace is?"
"Impel Down is where he's locked up, and it'll take a week by pirate ship and 4 days by a navy ship." Nyon said.
"They're that fast?" Luffy asked getting a whistle from Naruto.
"There's a current used exclusively by the World Government. She then goes on to explain the whirlpool connecting to the three different locations and the Gates of Justice.
"What do I do?" Luffy asked when he pulled out a piece of paper that was burnt.
Naruto put a hand on his shoulder getting his attention. "We'll find a way to save him, Captain. The others will understand how important this is. The short time I've known everyone in the crew, they'd want you to go after your brother and meet with them afterwards." Naruto said finalizing Luffy's decision.
"We're going to save Ace!" Luffy said.
"We will Luffy." Naruto said, turning towards Nyon. "Is there anything that Boa could do to help us?" Naruto asked.
"There is. Hancock was asked to come to Marineford to assemble with the other Seven Warlords of the Sea, but she refused to go. She can take advantage of this and let you on their ship." Nyon said.
"There's a navy ship nearby?" Naruto asked.
"Yes there is." Nyon said when they had made it to the front of the palace when all four were approached by an Amazon explaining how Boa had fallen sick to an unknown illness.
"What?!" They asked as Naruto was now even more worried since she was fine awhile ago when he last saw her.
They are escorted to where she is who's surrounded by her sisters and one of their doctors.
"How'd she get sick? Do either of you know how this happened?" Naruto asked, seeing them shake their heads from them.
"No we don't. She was in her room when she just collapsed all of a sudden when we didn't hear from her. We went to check on her and found her on the ground and have been trying to figure out what's wrong ever since." Sonia explained.
"Would you like me and Luffy to wait outside?" Naruto asked getting a nod from Nyon.
"If you could please." Nyon said.
"But we can't wait–" Luffy was interrupted by Naruto.
"Luffy, we should respect their wishes. This is a personal matter and something they need to do. Also this isn't the time to ask something when she's sick." Naruto said as Luffy sighed but nodded and left.
"I'm sorry for my Captain's actions. We'll wait outside. Please get better soon, your highness." Naruto said bowing at her and leaving.
"I can't breathe." Hancock said, breathing hard.
"The way she's holding her chest, I think there's something wrong with her heart. But I can't figure out what it is and don't know what to give her to help since I've never seen symptoms like these." The doctor said.
"The Snake Empress seems to be in a lot of pain. She didn't eat anything." The one who brought them to her.
Nyon's eyes widened at this having an idea of what is wrong with her, but decides to test something to make sure she's right.
"Tomorrow morning… Nyon said, getting a reaction from her in pain. 'This can't be happening!' She thought. "Na. ." She said each syllable of his name getting the same reaction every time from her.
"Snake Princess!" The doctor said.
"Granny Nyon! Stop hurting her and messing around like this." Sonia said.
"She's in pain." Marigold said.
"I'm not hurting her or messing around." Nyon said, calming everyone down.
"Am I going to die?" Hancock asked.
"Yes you are." Nyon said. "The last empress and the one before died from the same illness that you have now." She said. :I had it too, but left the country and survived the illness."
"Snake Princess, Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze came with me and is outside with Luffy who'd like to make a request. Can you listen to them?" Nyon asked.
"Granny Nyon! Big sister is suffering! What are you thinking?!" Sonia asked.
She all of sudden rose from her bed looking fine as if nothing happened.
"I'll hear what he wants to ask me." Hancock said, getting a nod from Nyon.
We find Naruto and Luffy waiting outside with Luffy pacing back and forth when the door opened to reveal Hancock, but looked at Naruto.
"Did you two need to ask me something?" Boa asked.
"Yes we did, but how are you feeling? Shouldn't you be resting in bed?" Naruto asked concerned.
"I-I'm fine now Naruto. Thank you, but ask me what you need." Hancock said when Naruto nodded and looked over at Luffy.
"It's more of what he wants to ask, but I only ask that you listen if you can help us out." Naruto said.
"Speak then." Hancock ordered.
"There's a Whitebeard pirate named Ace who's waiting to be executed. He's my brother. I want to go rescue him, but I heard that a pirate ship can't make it in time. Is it possible for you to go to the Navy ship so we can get there faster?" Luffy asked in desperation.
"Now hold on Straw Hat Luffy! How self-centered can you be?" Sonia asked angrily.
"Sonia. Marigold." Naruto said, getting their attention. "It's okay. We're not going to force her to do anything of the sort. I understand not wanting to go back and if it's too painful for her to do that and she says no, then we'll find another way. I'm sorry for bringing up old wounds and memories." Naruto said bowing at the two sisters.
"Thank you for your concern Naruto, but I'll help you both out with this." Hancock said with a small blush forming.
"Thank you Snake Princess for your help. I'll be in your debt as I know this mustn't be easy for you." Naruto said, smiling at her.
"Thank you! We can make it before the execution now!" Luffy said in relief.
The two sisters and Nyon are surprised by this from her as she had said no to the order to join the other Warlords of the Sea.
"S-She's decided to go to the World Government HQ!" Nyon shouted.
"What happened to her Granny Nyon!?" Sonia and Marigold asked at the same time.
"The Snake Princess is suffering from Love Sickness." Nyon said. "There's an old saying in East Blue. "That love… Is like a hurricane!" Nyon shouted being dramatic with Sonia and Marigold reacting in surprise.
While that was going with Luffy being excited with Naruto smiling at his friend not seeing how Hancock was looking at him with a smile with a blush on her face.
'Looks like she's taken a liking to the brat I see. Hehe. He deserves to be happy for everything he's been through in his life.' Kurama said to himself, closing his eyes to sleep.
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"What's happening to me? I said I'd go without a second thought when he asked me. It's like I can't say no to Naruto when he asks me something." Hancock said while blushing. "But I don't have any regrets for doing this.
"It's something called love." Nyon told her.
"Love?" Hancock asked.
"It's the pain of not being with the person that you can't see. The pain becomes so much it will eventually lead to your death." She told Hancock. "Going with them will save you though. If you answer the World Government's call, this will allow you to keep your title of Warlord of the Sea and protect the island from invaders and be able to help them at the same time."
"Fate is certainly interesting that is being brought with them." Nyon said.
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One of the vice admirals was still on his ship still when he heard his den den mushi going off answering it when he heard a familiar voice.
"Boa Hancock?" He asked.
"Yes. I plan on accepting the invitation, but on one condition that you must agree otherwise I won't go." boa said.
"Tell me. What is it you want me to do?" He asked.
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Naruto and Luffy are leaving the island with the Amazons cheering them on giving their goodbyes with Marguerite riding with them to see them off since she had grown closer to Naruto and would want to see them off. They leave the island and head over to the Marine ship with Luffy going under Hancock's cape with Naruto using his camouflage technique to make him invisible to everyone.
"Thank you for choosing to accept the invitation. We'll need your help with what's to come." Momonga said.
"I'm doing this to protect Amazon Lily from anyone attempting to do wrong to us. Nothing more.
"You're going to have to return my crew back to normal so we can get a move on." He said, getting a nod from her.
"Love Love Beam." Hancock chanted using her devil fruit powers to change all the marines from stone to normal when they saw Boa they had hearts in their eyes not noticing her anger rising until she felt a hand grab hers which made her calm down knowing it was Naruto who did this.
I'll be in my room for the trip and will want a large amount of food with no one entering without my permission.." Boa said as she walked into her room.
"Get back to work! We're heading out now!" Vice - Admiral Momonga ordered.
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Naruto, Hancock, and Luffy are in their room with Luffy eating the mountain of food with Naruto and Boa eating a smaller amount and talking to get to know each other more.
"Now that we have some time. What kind of Devil Fruit do you have? The golden form you had earlier seemed similar to one of the admirals of the Navy.
"Are you referring to the man who wears suits and not the usual Marine uniform?" Naruto asked getting a nod from him, making Naruto growl.
" I remember the bastard. I fought him, but didn't take him as seriously as I should've. I didn't use that form on him when I should've. I could've kept up with him then since I didn't want to reveal anything else against him." Naruto said.
"You fought an Admiral and lived to tell about it?" Hancock asked, impressed with her new love interest in Naruto.
"I guess so. To answer your question though. I don't have a Devil Fruit. I just am unique, you could say. I have the ability to use a source called Chakra that allows me to do many things along with being able to use multiple elements among other things which you'll probably see in time. I'll try to help Luffy as much as possible, but also to make sure you're safe too. You're someone who's important to me in the time we've gotten to know each other. I also want to thank you again for doing this for us. I know how dangerous it is for you as it could cost you your title as a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea." Naruto said.
Hancock then gained hearts in her eyes and started swooning over Naruto making him chuckle at her antics, but loving it nonetheless finding it cute.
'Jeez she's like a fangirl for the kit, but is still one of the strongest people I've met so I can respect her. She'd make a great vixen for Naruto.' Kurama said to himself.
"We'll have the next four days to get to know each other more and I look forward to it until we get to our destination." Naruto said getting a loving smile from her, making Naruto blush a bit seeing it, remembering again how beautiful she is as one of the most beautiful women he's ever seen.
And that's the end of chapter 3. I hope you enjoyed it with the meeting of Naruto and Boa. It was fun to write and will get even better since we're coming up to Impel Down and the Marineford war. I'll try to get chapter 4 out sooner than this one did. I don't want to make it a big harem, maybe two more to add and that'll be it. See you next time. KillerSSGRed out!
Naruto's Harem: Nami, Robin, Marguerite and Hancock.
