Pirates in Konoha: Part 1

"Whoooaaa . . ."

Came the jaw dropping response of the entire Straw Hat crew as they all stood in front of the huge green wooden door that held within a great village that trained the best ninjas in the world and is also the home of the members of Team Seven.

"That's it?" yelled out Luffy, infuriated.

"It's just a big ugly door! Where's the restaurants? Where's the people? Where's the shops? Where's the meat-Ite!"

A sock to the head was recieved from the pink haired kunoichi, who looked as if she had hit her last nerve.

"Have you ever heard of a thing called patience?" yelled Sakura, shaking her fist at the older youth.

"Hey, usually Nami hits me," he said with a pout as he rubbed the sore bump forming on his head. Nami walked up beside Sakura, and put her hand on her shoulder and smiled like a proud big sister.

"Well, at least I won't be the only one keeping all you guys on your toes for now," she winked at the wounded captain. That statement made every man in the group shiver with fear, except for Sanji and Kakashi. Sanji still had his heart-filled eyes on the two young women. While Kakashi was still engrossed in his book as he waited patiently for his comrades from the other side of the wall to open the door. Sanji managed to pull his eyes away from Nami, to peer curiously at the book that the silver-haired man liked reading so much.

"What is so interesting about that book anyway?" he asked the masked man. Kakashi looked at the curious blonde for a second, and his eye crinkled into a smile.

"You want to see?" he asked, holding the book out towards him with the open pages facing Sanji. The cook's brow raised at the sudden gesture, but then dismissed it as his eye read over a couple of the lines. Soon after his nose started to bleed, and that's when Kakashi suddenly turned the book back towards him.

"Hey! It was getting to the best part!" cried Sanji, taken aback by Kakashi's aloofness, as he was oblivious to the blood dripping from his nose.

"And that's where I left off," said Kakashi as his eyes roamed over the pages.

"Don't want you spoiling the rest of it now."

"What?" Sanji's disappointment didn't concern Kakashi, as the door started to open. Sanji gave the adult ninja a look of vehemence.

'I got to get my hands on that book,' he vowed as if it were a quest to obtain a great treasure. At this moment the All Blue was second on his list of lifetime goals.

Everyone entered the village. Luffy ran straight ahead of everyone to find the nearest restaurant, as did Sanji to find the nearest adult bookstore. Nami sighed disappointedly at their negligence of the more important reason for why they were here: Supplies and charting.

"Ok, Chopper and Usopp, you two will be getting our supplies, and here's the list of what we need," she said handing the list to Usopp. Chopper and Usopp scanned the list of items.

And Zoro, you will be-! Hey! Where do you think you're going?" She yelled, when she saw Zoro heading out to a different direction. The swordsman looked back at the irate girl.

"I'm going to find a weapon shop," he said, annoyed with her always giving commands.

"Since this place looks interesting, they might as well have some interesting weaponry."

"Can't do that," said Kakashi simply as he stood right next to him with his arms crossed. Zoro jumped, he wasn't there before.

"What? Why not?" asked Zoro, immediately vexed.

"You have to be a full-fledged shinobi in order to buy weapons," he instructed as if he were a student.

"And you my friend are not a shinobi."

Zoro glared angrily at the laid back ninja.

"Fine," he spat. "You probably don't have strong weapons anyway."

"That's right, we don't," said Kakashi cheerfully.

"The shinobi of the leaf mostly use weapons for diversions."

Sakura made a nervous laugh.

"Erm, Kakashi-sensei aren't you being a little bit too arrogant?"

"Course not," he said patting his student on the head.

"In due time, Sakura, with Tsunade-sama's teachings your own strength and body will grow, and even you won't really need weapons."

Sakura beamed at her teacher.

"Yeah Sakura," chirped Naruto. "Granny Tsunade is really strong, she beat me up with one finger!"

He held up his index finger to show her. Zoro couldn't believe what he was hearing.

'How can an old granny beat someone up with just one finger?' he thought with bewilderment, as he imagined a stereotypical old woman with grey hair and a little pink dress slapping Naruto around with her wrinkly index finger.

"Zoro!" called Nami, snapping Zoro out of his daydream. "I need you to keep an eye on Luffy!"

Zoro was taken aback at being given such an absurd task.

"What? Why?" he shouted .

"You know why! Now just do it!" Nami shouted back. Zoro grumbled angrily as he walked to the direction their Captain went. Nami walked up to Kakashi and bowed before him in respect.

"Thank you so much for taking us to your village," she said politely. Kakashi amiably scratched the back of his head, as his visible eye crinkled with a smile.

"It's no problem, but might I ask, if it's not too personal, where your group is heading?" he asked. Nami stood up to answer.

"We're traveling the Grand Line in search of the One Piece," she replied. Kakashi's silver brow raised.

"One Piece?" he mused, holding his chin in thought. "Never heard of it."

"Really?" she questioned. "But how can that be? This entire continent is right on the Grand Line. You should know about it."

"Hmm," said Kakashi scratching his chin in thought, but he was interrupted when Naruto had tugged on his sleeve. Kakashi looked to his disgruntled team mates.

"Kaka-sensei," Naruto groaned holding his growling stomach. "Can we go now, please? I'm starving."

"Oh sorry," he apologized with a small chuckle. "Naruto and Sakura you two are dismissed, and Sasuke, I need you to turn these in to Iruka-sensei," he said taking out a stack of papers from his pack and handing it to Sasuke. Sasuke looked through the papers.

"This is the mission report?" he asked.

"Precisely," said Kakashi with a nod. "And when you're done with that, you're automatically dismissed."

Sasuke nodded and left for HQ.

"Yay freedom! And now RAMEN!" yelled Naruto with joy as he ran along the usual route to the Ichiruka Ramen shop. Sakura sighed after watching the boys leave.

"Well, I guess I should get going" she said nonchalantly to herself.

"Wait!" called Usopp suddenly. Sakura looked up at him and the reindeer in question.

"Erm, Chopper wants to ask you something."

The little reindeer shot him an angry look.

"Why me, baka?" he shouted vehemently.

"Because you like her."

"What? No I don't!"

"Yeah you do."

"Don't!"

"Do."

"Don't"

"Do!"

"Don't!"

"DO!"

"DON'T!

"SHUT THE HELL UP, BOTH OF YOU!" shouted Nami at the top of her lungs. Chopper and Usopp froze with horrified looks at Nami, as she composed herself and cleared her throat.

"Oh Sakura-chan," she asked in her sweetest voice. "It looks like that Usopp and Chopper need help searching for the items that we need, do you mind helping them out?"

"Oh no, not at all," said Sakura with a nervous laugh. "I have nothing better to do anyway."

"Thank you so much Sakura-chan," she said pleasantly. Sakura looked to where Usopp and Chopper stood, still frozen with fear.

"Well, come on guys," she said with a weak smile. "We don't want to keep Nami-san waiting, do we?"

The fearful two shook their heads vigorously, before walking quickly ahead of her. Sakura quickly followed suite, until all that was left was Nami and Kakashi.

"And you, do you mind helping me out with something?" asked Nami pleasantly.

"Hmm?" said Kakashi.

"I'm going to need a good view of this place in order to chart it," she said, showing him her mapping tools. Kakashi rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

"Hmm, If a view is what you're looking for, I suggest you try over there," said Kakashi, pointing at the mountainous sculptured faces of all five of the Hokages. Nami's eyes widened at such a sight.

"Wow," she whispered in awe.

'I'm sure Nico Robin would've loved to see this,' she thought.

"A magnificent structure," a voice said behind them.

"There's history written all over those faces."

"Nico Robin?" said Nami, dumbfounded at her unexpected presence.

The dark haired woman gave her slyest smirk at the both of them.

"Weren't you supposed to be watching the Going Merry?" asked Nami.

"I was, but the sailors in the last village were very grateful for our help of defeating a certain pirate, that they wanted to guard our ship with their lives until we came back," she said nonchalantly.

"Oh, well, ok," said Nami, not sure what to say for such generosity. Kakashi quickly took note of this.

"I believe the words you are searching for are: Thank you?" he chimed in.

"Uh, yeah sure, anyway how about I get this done, huh? You want to come Robin?" asked Nami as she gathered her charting equipment

"Of course, as long as Master Ninja will tell me the story about this amazing piece of work," she said, eyeing the five stone faces with keen interest.

Kakashi's eye crinkled into a smile.

"Why not?" he said, as he put both his arms out, for each of the female pirates to link to.

"In return, maybe you can tell me about this One Piece."

"Alright," said Nami and Nico in unison.

The women each grabbed an arm, as they walked towards the great Hokage monument in educated discussion.

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Sasuke walked into HQ, to find Iruka-sensei to be the only one in the room, and it seems that he had fallen asleep. His head was being supported by his hand as he snored aloud. The young boy's brow raised at the sight of him like this.

"Hmph, sleeping on the job," he muttered skeptically. Sasuke walked towards his sleeping former sensei, and poked his shoulder. Iruka woke with a start.

"Huh? what? Oh it's you Sasuke," he said with a sheepish smile.

Sasuke mutely handed the report papers to Iruka-sensei.

"Oh, the first report of the day, good," he said taking the papers.

"Thank you Sasuke, you're free to go." The stoic boy nodded silently and turned to leave.

"Oh and Sasuke," said Iruka. Sasuke paused, but he did not turn to look at him.

"Please don't tell Tsunade that I was sleeping on the job, she'll wring my neck for it," he half-pleaded.

Sasuke just stood there for a moment. Iruka could never know what goes on in his former student's head. Then Sasuke continued walking to the door. Iruka watched as he left the room, hoping that he wasn't going to tell anyone. The young man sighed as he leaned back in his hard wooden chair, he wished that they have given him something more comfortable to sit on, but alas a ninja's life is not all about comfort, but work. Iruka looked at the papers in front of him. Knowing that it would be a while before another report comes along.

'Hmm, I might as well give it a read,' he thought as he picked up the papers and started reading.

About a few minutes of reading the report, Iruka's hands along with the report dropped back onto the desk, as his faced was covered in shock.

"Pirates? In Konoha?" he shouted aloud. "What is Kakashi-sensei thinking?"

Iruka immediately got up from his chair, ran out of HQ with Kakashi's report still in hand.

"Tsunade-sama must know!"

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Naruto skipped merrily towards the Ichiruka Ramen house, humming his little ramen song.

"Oi!" but his humming was interrupted when he noticed a pair of legs dangling over his favorite spot in the small noodle house. His happy mood slightly deteriorating, he marched huffily towards the culprit who sat on his seat. Moving the restaurant's curtains aside, he was surprised to find who it was.

"Eh, Luffy-niichan?"

The older boy with the straw hat and a mouthful of noodles dangling from his mouth, turned to see Naruto. He quickly slurped the remaining noodles and smiled at the blonde boy.

"Oi Naruto-niichan! You gotta try this stringy stuff, it's great!" he said scooping another bunch of noodles and slurpping away. Luffy wasn't the only one their, sitting next to him was the green haired swordsman, his face covered in a frown as he sipped on a cup of tea. He turn to glance at the blonde boy.

"Yo," he said curtly, and returned to his tea. Naruto sat on the stool next to Luffy, and noticed that he was three ramen bowls ahead of him. A competitive spark had risen within him.

"One miso ramen, please," Naruto ordered.

"Hai!" said the old man, as he was kneading the noodle dough.

"Miso? I haven't tried that one yet," said Luffy excitedly.

"Hey I want miso too!"

"Hai!"

Zoro sighed. "I'm not paying for that you know," he said, but Luffy ignored him as pounded his fists on the table, bouncing excitedly chanting for miso ramen.

"Miso! Miso! Miso! Miso!"

TBC

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Sorry for the long wait. This semester is kicking my ass, and I have also written another story. Check it out, of you're a kakasaku fan. You might get disappointed.