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Pirates in Konoha: Part II
At the top of the Hokage Monument, Nami had just finished setting up her measuring tools for her mapmaking. Kakashi and Nico Robin were standing over the edge, while Kakashi discussed each of the stone faces of the monument as the intrigued Nico Robin listened to every word.
"... The fifth face on the left there, is our current Hokage. So far she has been a very commanding leader, and the scariest. Not only is she a powerful Sannin, but she is also a Master Medic," lectured Kakashi.
"Why Mr. Ninja, you're knowledge of your own village's History is very acute," she complemented smoothly. Kakashi scratched his head nervously with a sheepish grin (oh, and what's this? Is he blushing?)
"Ha ha, Robin-san you're too kind," he said slightly embarassed.
"Kakashi-san!" called out Nami.
"This place is just perfect for my mapmaking, Arigatou!"
"Doo itashimashite, Nami-san!" he called back, before turning back to face the view of the entire village with Nico Robin.
"Oh look! There's Master Chef," said Nico Robin pointing down at the village. Kakashi followed her pointing, to find Sanji sprinting frantically around the Bookstore District. Kakashi's silver brow arched.
"So it is," he said. 'I guess he wants to know what happen's next.'
"And there's Chopper and Usopp, and one of your students," she said pointing to another direction, and sure enough, there was Chopper in reindeer form, carrying a heavy load of bags on his back. Usopp and Sakura, who weren't holding anything, were looking at the goods of a certain vendor.
'Hmm, I wonder where Naruto and Luffy-san could be?' thought Kakashi, with his sole eye scanning the view of the village.
'Probably in a restaraunt somewhere stuffing themselves silly.'
All of a sudden, a puff of smoke appeared behind him. Nami was startled out of her telescope, while Nico blinked in surprise.
"Hmm? murmured Kakashi, turning his head back to observe a very disgruntled ninja.
"Iruka-sensei?"
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A while ago...
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BANG! BANG! BANG!
"HOKAGE-SAMA!" shouted someone from outside the Hokage's office.
Tsunade groaned frustratedly as she slammed her paperwork back on the desk.
"What is it?" she barked.
"URGENT NEWS!" yelled the annoying speaker on the otherside. Tsunade sighed, as if she needed more things to worry about.
"Come in," she called out, resignedly.
Iruka bum-rushed through the door so hard, that the breeze caused by it's swinging sent the papers on the Hokage's desk flying. Tsunade inwardly seethed. All that time and patience to organize all that paperwork, wasted.
"Hokage-sama! You won't believe what has just happened! Kakashi...Kakashi did... Ka-ka-ka...P-Pir-"
Iruka wasn't able to finish his sentence, as he realized the contemptuos look in the Hokage's gaze aiming right at him. Slowly the door of The Hokage's Office, swung steadily to a close.
Muffled
"Hokage-Sama...? No...No, no, no, no!... Hokage-Sama, please don't!"
CRASH!
"Wait! Wait! Let me just-!"
BANG!
"No! Not the fist! Please Hokage-sama, I'm begging you!"
SMACK!
"AARGH! PIRATES! KAKASHI BOUGHT PIRATES IN THE VILLAAAAGE!"
There is a pause, as everything becomes still. Tsunade's desk was broken in half, her sake bottle shattered in pieces, and poor Iruka laid in a heap, half of his face was red and swollen from Tsunade's fist. However, Tsunade stood in the middle of her wrecked office, astonished at the news she just heard, and more irate than ever.
"Bring me... Kakashi," she managed to say as calmly as she could.
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"Iruka?" Kakashi asked again looking expectantly at the swollen headed young man with slight concern.
"What happened to your face?"
Iruka said nothing, as he just glared at silver-haired man in front to him, as he was the cause of his current suffering. Half of Iruka's face was now purple, and slightly pulsing. He inhaled sharply.
"Kakashi sensei," he prompted pompously with his remaining dignity.
"The Hokage summons you to her office."
"Oh, Iruka-sensei, I want you to meet some new friends of mine," said Kakashi, completely disregarding Iruka's authority.
"This here is Nico Robin..."
Nico Robin gave a sultry nod towards the fuming chuunin.
"And the young lady over there at the telescope is Nami-"
"THIS IS NO TIME FOR INTRODUCTIONS, YOU IDIOT! YOU MUST HEAD TO THE HOKAGE'S OFFICE IMMEDIATELY!" he exploded, with spit flying onto Kakashi's covered face, before disappearing within a ring of smoke. Then he instantly poofed right back.
"Nice to meet you both," he bowed, then he disappeared once again. Kakashi sighed as wiped the spit off his face with the back of his hand.
'Say it , don't spray it,' thought Kakashi.
"My, my. Isn't he an uptight one," said Nico Robin, crossing her arms.
"...And rude," said Nami huffily, before scribbling measurements in a notepad.
"Well, at least he's gone," said Kakashi non chalantly, leaning comfortably against the railing.
"But Master Ninja," asked Nico Robin, confused.
"Are you going to keep your Lady Hokage waiting, it sounded pretty urgent."
"Eh, she could wait a few hours," said Kakashi passively with a shrug, as he reached into his kunai pouch to take out his little orange book. He skimmed through some of the pages.
"Now onto my favorite part, hmm..."
Nico and Nami shared a glance with one another, then shrugged it off, and continued what they were doing.
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In the middle of town, Usopp and Chopper were resting on a bench under a tree, next to a mountain of shopping bags of thier previous purchases. Usopp took up the whole bench snoring loudly, while gaining some strange looks from the villagers. Chopper was lying on his stomach, pooped out from all the shopping and the heat.
"It's so hot," moaned the little reindeer.
"...Can't take...The heat..."
"Aww, you guys look like you could use a little refreshment," said a voice. Chopper wearily looked up to see where the voice came from, only to find that it was Sakura, smiling down at them and holding three blue popsicles, fresh off the freezer. With a sudden rush of energy, the little blue nose sprung up.
"Popsicles!" cried Chopper excitedly, causing Usopp to wake up.
"Huh?" he said blearily, then noticing the popsicles.
"Hey cool!"
The each grabbed one, and licked merrily.
"So sweet," said Chopper savoring the flavor. Sakura laughed at their reactions, before she was about to try hers.
"SAKURA-CHAN!" somebody yelled out. They all turned to see where the voice came from, which made Sakura gasp in horror.
"Oh no," she said, horrified.
"It's Lee-san!"
"Who?" asked Usopp, apparently he wasn't fully awake.
The green spandex-clad, fuzzy eybrowed teenager bolted through the crowd in hor pursuit towards Sakura and her new friends.
"Aaah!" cried a frightened Chopper, waving his little hooves frantically, dropping his popsicle.
"He's gonna kill us! HIDE ME!"
He "hid" next to Usopp's leg.
"Hey! Get your own popsicle," said the tired "Sea Adventurer" trying to shake the reindeer off his leg. Within a flash, Rock Lee appeared in between Sakura and the two bewildered pirates, with his arms outstretched to protect his favorite Sakura blossom.
"Don't worry Sakura, I'll protect you!" he said heroically, glaring down at Usopp and Chopper, as they both held onto eachother cowering in fear.
"Th-those eyeb-b-brows..." stuttered Chopper in fright.
"Th-they're so b-b-b-bushy..." said Usopp just as fearfully. Rock Lee's ego seemed to not have heard them, as he continued his so-called act of valor.
"I'll never forgive a person who would steal a beautiful woman's popsicles!"
Sakura's fist clenched, and her anger spiked. She lifted her leg high, and slammed her heel hard against the top of Lee's head, making him fall with great impact on the ground.
"You idiot!" she screamed irately, shaking her fist at the comatose boy.
"How dare you be rude to my new friends! I gave them those popsicles out of sheer kindness!"
Usopp and Chopper stared at the pink kunoichi in pure amazement.
"Wow, Sakura-san!" cried the two in unison with admiration.
"You saved us!"
"You're so strong!"
"B-But Sakura-chaan..." said Lee weakly, his body sprawled on the ground as a large bump emerged from the top of his head.
"Why are you protecting these villains?"
Sakura rolled her eyes and sighed.
"They aren't villains, Lee-san, they're my friends," she explained to him.
"That's right!" Usopp chimed in.
"Which makes you the villain, and us her protectors! State your name criminal!"
"Hiyah! Villain," called out Chopper bravely as he formed the battle stance of The Crane.
Within an instant the bowl-headed boy sprang back up on to his feet and into his nice-guy pose. Usopp and Chopper jumped.
"AAH! How did he get up that fast?" they both cried in fear.
"I am Rock Lee! And I accept your challenge! The winner get's to be Sakura's Protector for LIFE!"
Sakura slapped her hand against her forehead.
"Kami, help me!"
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Sanji walked through the streets of Konoha, engrossed in a certain orange book. As he walked, he didn't even notice the large number of beautiful women passing him by, giving him strange looks. He flipped to the next page, reading every syllable, hungrily.
"Hey, old man! I'm still hungry!" called a familiar voice. Knowing that sound, Sanji was finally able to tear himself away from his book to find Luffy helping that blonde kid from earlier, trying to rescuscitate an old man at a small noodle restaurant.
"Come on Grandpa, pull yourself together!" yelled Naruto, slapping the noodle chef in the face.
"Huh! What?" It seems that the old man had finally woken up, just then a young woman ran out of the restaurant in a panic.
"Papa! Papa are you okay?" cried the young women worriedly, as she bent down to help up the old man. Just then, Sanji appeared right next to them.
"Don't worry, my beautiful maiden, I'll carry him for you!" said Sanji, holding up the old noodle chef by the arm.
"I wouldn't want you to hurt yourself by carrying such a burden over your delicate shoulders."
"What the-" began the old man, glaring at the tall blonde. Ayame tried to speak for her dear father.
"Oh, he's really not a burden-"
"Ah, I see you're wearing an apron, are you a chef?" Sanji crooned at the young women with heart-shaped eyes.
"Well, me and my father own this Ramen Stand-"
"Yeah, they make the best ramen ever!" yelled Naruto enthusiastically.
"Baka! Never interrupt a Lady!" yelled Sanji at Naruto.
"Oi Sanji! Make something! I'm still hungry!" cried Luffy, banging his fists on the counter.
"Must you all be so noisy?" yelled Zoro, annoyed with all the yelling, as he tried to enjoy his tea in peace.
"Oh! The ramen!" cried Ayame, as she quickly ran back into the ramen stand, before the noodles would get overboiled. Once inside the restaurant, she turned off the burners, strained the noodles, and put them in the waiting broth filled bowls, and served them to Luffy and Naruto. The two enthusiastic ramen-lovers, clapped thier hands together, and gave thanks.
"Itadikimasu!"
And they both dug right in, slurping their noodles happily. Ayame sighed with relief.
"What is it you're cooking here, Chef-swaan? asked Sanji, appearing out of nowhere, making the young girl jump.
"Ayame..." wheezed the old Ramen chef, whom Sanji carefully placed on a nearby chair inside the restaurant.
"We're going to have to close soon, I can't go on... It's too much work to satisfy those two boys."
"Oi!" called a voice, that belonged to the chubbiest ninja in the village.
"Ee Chouji! You gonna eat with us?" asked Naruto, before slurping another helping of noodles.
"Certainly! One miso pork ramen, please!"
The old chef moaned lamentedly. Ayame grew worried.
"But we have so many customers," she said to herself.
"Hai! Miso pork, coming up!"
"Huh?"
Ayame turned to find the blonde stranger from earlier, expertly kneading the fresh noodle dough. She gasped.
"What are you doing?" she asked in alarm. Sanji, looked over at Ayame, and flashed her a shiny smile.
"What else? I'm feeding your customers."
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Meanwhile, back at the Hokage Tower, Tsunade sat behind her broken desk, with her arms crossed over her chest, while tapping her foot impatiently. She glanced at a nearby clock, and jumped up in a rage.
"SHIZUNE!"
Just at that moment, her apprentice burst into the office, with Tsunade's little pig in her arms.
"Tsunade-sama!" she addressed, standing at attention in front of the fuming Godaime.
"Kakashi is late," she explained.
"I want you to bring him here, and I want him to tell me why is he bringing trouble back with him, when he was supposed to deal with it during his mission?"
"Hai!"
"Puu! Puu!" puffed Tonto indignantly. Shizune quickly turned to leave.
"Wait!" called out Tsunade. Shizune stopped on her tracks, and turned to her mentor once again.
"Call the rest of Team 7 here as well," she commanded.
"Hai!"
Shizune quickly ran for the door.
"WAIT!" called out the Godaime once more. Shizune, reluctantly turned to face her one last time.
"...And while you're at it," she began, before settling back in her chair, with a look of scheming.
"... See if you can round up those Pirates, too."
She suddenly had a great idea.
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Sakura, Usopp, and Chopper were back to walking the streets again, but instead of Chopper holding all the shopping bags. Lee followed the group obediently carrying all their stuff.
"Sakura-chan, are you sure there isn't anything else for me to carry?" he asked through an empty space of the stacked supplies, he was carrying. Sakura tried to think.
"Chopper, is there anything else you need?"
The little reindeer, took out the long long list, and began to scan through it once more.
"...Anything...Exotic..." Chopper read slowly.
There is a pause, and the four give each other skeptical looks.
"Let me see that," said Sakura, taking the list from Chopper, and analyzed it.
"...Hey, the writing here is different from the rest," she concluded.
Another pause... Usopp shrugged.
"Oh well, I guess that's it then-"
"OH MY GOD!"
The four friends jumped at the sudden outburst, that Lee had amost dropped all the items. Fortunately, for hard-earned speed he was unable to drop a single parcel.
"THAT WAS THE BEST RAMEN I HAVE EVER TASTED IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!
The strange yelling continued. Sakura and the others looked to see that is came from a very ecstatic Konoha civilian.
"AND I USUALLY HATE RAMEN! THERE'S THIS NEW CHEF AT ICHIRAKU AND HIS NOODLES ARE FANTASTIC! COME ON EVERYBODY YOU GOT TO TRY IT!"
Suddenly, a crowd of people rushed out of their homes and ran towards the direction of the Ichiraku Ramen stand. The street emptied somewhat, leaving the foursome bewildered.
"...What's ramen?" asked Usopp curiously.
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Iruka walked back to HQ, with a miserable slump. His face was now back to normal, but he was still miffed about the fact that the Hokage had to be so forceful on him. He sighed, and continued walking down the path, until he noticed a strange commotion at the Ichiruka ramen stand. There was a large crowd surrounding the little noodle bar, crying out for ramen. Curious, Iruka walked up to the crowd, and as the customers clamored, he saw through an open space, to find Naruto, draining the broth from what seemed to be his twenty-fifth ramen bowl. A new record!
"Naruto!" called out Iruka from outside the crowd. Naruto's head shot up instantly, and looked out through the crowd. He made a wide foxy-grin, when he saw who it was.
"Iruka-sensei!" he waved enthusiastically. Iruka, pushed through the crowd to get to his former student, earning angry remarks from the waiting patrons.
"Hey, back of the line!"
"No cutting!"
"You don't have the right!"
"I'm next!"
Iruka managed to make it to Naruto in one piece.
"Naruto, what is going on?" he asked the blonde boy.
"Iruka sensei, I want you to meet somebody. Hey Luffy-niisan!" said Naruto, ignoring Iruka's question. Iruka turned to see he was about to be introduced to, and made a gasp of horror.
There was at least a hundred bowls piled up to the roof and continued to grow, as a balloon of a person wearing a straw hat gorged ceaselessly on ramen, until now. Luffy's small head turned to thier direction.
"Eh, Naruto-niisan?" said the balloonish person.
"Iruka-sensei, this is Luffy, Captain of the Straw Hat Pirates," said Naruto, before turning back to the counter. Iruka gawked at the balloon.
"Pirates! You're a pirate?" he asked astonishingly to Luffy.
"Yup," said Luffy grinning. "And so is he."
He pointed at the blonde man, smoking a cigarette behind the counter of the Ramen House.
"Oi, Sanji, another bowl of miso!" called out Naruto.
"Damn it, kid, haven't you had enough?" said Sanji, very annoyed. Iruka eyed the chef warily.
"Oh yeah, and he's with us too," continued Luffy, as he moved aside so Iruka could see the stoic green haired swordsman sitting next to him. Iruka gave the sordsman a suspicious stare. Suddenly, as if Zoro knew Iruka had been staring at him, he shot him a deadly glare.
"Hey Melon-head, since you're not eating anything, why don't you make some room will ya?" scolded Sanji, pointing his ladle spoon threateningly at him.
"...Fine," said the swordsman, taking his gaze away from Iruka, as he stood up from his seat.
"Hey Zoro, where you going?" asked Luffy.
"... Someplace quiet," he said, as he walked out of the restaurant. Luffy shrugged and went back to slurping his noodles.
"Hey! I asked for another bowl!" called out Naruto indignantly. Sanji glared at the whiskered boy.
"And I thought I told you, you've had enough," he growled.
"Now why don't you make some room for the other customers?"
The other customers erupted with agreement.
"Yeah, move it kid!"
"I hear this guy makes even better ramen than the old man!"
"Ooh! He's handsome too!"
Sanji was at the end of his rope.
"Ya see? They want to eat. Now beat it!" yelled Sanji.
"Then how come Luffy get's to eat all the ramen he wants?" whined Naruto, pointing at the gorging balloon.
"Oh, is that what's bothering you?"
Suddenly, the oblivious Captain of the Straw Hats recieved a strong kick to the face from over the counter, which made him fly off the stool and landed a few feet away from his seat, and his spot was quickly replaced by another customer.
"Hey! I was still eating," said Luffy, as he struggled to stand, but his weight refused to comply with his actions, as he wiggled on the ground like a helpless turtle. Naruto's eyes narrowed at the cook.
"What horrible treatment! I'm never eating here again," said Naruto crossing his arms. Sanji shrugged.
"Fine. Who's next?"
Naruto started to cry.
"Oh, come on! Just one more bowl of miso, please!" pleaded Naruto, making sad teary eyes, but all that gave him is a kick in the face off the stool as well. He landed on his bottom.
"Ite! Aww," pouted the the hungry kitsune. Iruka sighed.
"Naruto..." he muttered hoisting the boy up.
"Thanks Iruka-sensei. Hey can you help me with Luf-!"
Naruto turned to find that his former was teacher no longer beside him, instead he found Iruka sitting on the seat he was kicked off of earlier.
"One plain ramen please," Iruka ordered. Naruto's eyes bulged.
"TRAITOR!"
Then out of the blue, a squad of ANBU appeared out of nowhere, and surrounded the area. Naruto was at a loss for words.
"What the?" was all he could utter, until he saw a group of them grab Sanji and Luffy. Iruka jumped off his seat, he was surprised as well as the rest of the patrons at the ramen stand.
"Hey what's the big idea? I'm still cooking here!" shouted Sanji, as he struggled against the female ANBU's grip.
"Is there a mask party going on or something?" said Luffy, looking curiously at the three ANBU soldiers that held his obese body off the ground. Naruto, on the other hand became very incensed.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing to my new friends?" shouted Naruto, and before he knew it, one of the ANBU grabbed him as well.
"Let go of me!"
"Naruto!" yelled Iruka, before narrowing his eyes at the ANBU soldier.
"You! What is the meaning of this?"
The cat-masked soldier only looked at him.
"...Hokage's orders."
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Robin's blue eyes were fixed at small part of the town, where there was a large commotion going on.
"Master Ninja?" she asked Kakashi, her stare unmoving.
"Hm?" said Kakashi, who remained immersed to the words of his favorite book.
"There seems to be a disturbance down there."
Kakashi didn't move, as he kept on reading, but his hearing was able to hear the shouts and uproars from below.
"Hm, wonder what it could be," he said, without a care in either of his words.
"Kakashi-sempai!"
"Hmm?"
A strange hand appreared out of nowhere, over Kakashi's book, and pushed it down from his view, and he found himself face to face with Tsunade's former apprentice, Shizune.
"Oh, Shizune-san, didn't know you were here," said Kakashi, crinkling his eye to a smile.
"Aah!" came a yelp from Nami.
"Where the heck did she come from?"
'Strange,' thought Nico.
"She wasn't here at all, just a second ago.'
"Puu puu!"
Nami jumped when she noticed a little pig, rummaging through her tools inside her bag.
"Aaah! Get away from there you stupid animal!" she screeched, thwacking the little pig with a roll of graph paper.
"PUUU!" squealed Tonto after getting hit, yanking it's head out of the bag and ran back to Shizune's side. It made a piggy eyed glare at Nami.
"Puu puu mmmhh!" it seethed.
"Sorry to ruin your relaxation period, but Tsunade-sama requires your attention," ordered Shizune.
"And I am to escort all of you to her office, immediately."
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Sasuke arrived at the Hokage Tower late in the afternoon. He walked through the hallway slowly with his well known frown, muttering curses at the fact that an ANBU had knocked on his door during his nap to recieve more orders from Tsunade. He was still tired from last night's watch, and very cranky due to the lack of sleep, that almost anything will make him severely angry at this point.
CRASH!
"GIVE ME BACK MY SWORDS YOU CLOWNY ASS BASTARDS!"
Sasuke's dark eyes narrowed at the thrashing green-haired swordsman, being held down by four ANBU.
"LET GOO!"
'Dammit...' Sasuke thought bitterly with a clenched fist. 'Not him again...'
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The Godaime's office door bursted open, as the ANBU soldiers brought in the resisting Zoro, all tied up in regular rope, and is forcefully seated into a chair. He tried straining to get up, but the masked-face soldiers held him down by his shoulders, like planted two-ton weights.
"HEY! DIDN'T YOU HEAR WHAT I JUST SA-huh?" Zoro stopped thrashing when he noticed that everyone was here. The whole crew and the ninja team were all standing around the room, except for Luffy who was seated against the wall, apparently the balloonish boy still had trouble standing on his two feet.
"Hiya Zoro!" said Luffy waving at him, with a big smile on his stupid scarred face.
"What the heck is going on?" asked Zoro looking around the room.
"Hmph! That's what I like to know," said Sasuke, leaning against the doorway.
"Who asked you?" glared the swordsman.
"Glad of you to join us," said Kakashi with a hidden smile to the irate duo.
"Sasuke-teme, you're late!" said Naruto as he clenched his fist.
"Hi Sasuke-kun!" said the smiling Sakura, waving at him.
"Hmph!" Sasuke turned his head away from her. Sakura shoulders slumped.
"Aww, Sasuke-kun..."
Tsunade's throat cleared to get everyone's attention.
"That's enough. Now I don't know about you all, but I would like to get down to business," she said.
Kakashi's brow raised in question.
"Business? I thought you were going to punish us for bringing our new friends to Konoha," said Kakashi.
"...And that's what they are, OUR friends," Tsunade retorted with a grin.
"Does that mean I'm your friend too?" crooned Sanji, as the hearts in his eyes beated lovingly at the Fifth Hokage. Nami fumed at his actions, and had the sudden urge to slap him, but she didn't.
Tsunade ignored him as she continued her speech.
"Now, I have here in possession... A special mission," she began.
"A mission?" everyone said in unison.
"Yes, a mission overseas."
She took out a very old and dusty scroll.
"Recently, there have been reports of a strange island at least a thousand leagues from here."
"Oh yeah, what's so strange about it?" asked Naruto.
"...Well, it says here that it only reveals itself every few hundred years..."
Sakura tilted her head in confusion,
"But how can there be reports now, if it only shows up once every few centuries?"
"There have been some sightings... ghost sightings."
Naruto paled instantly.
"G-gh-Ghosts?" he whimpered. Sasuke smirked.
"Hmph... You afraid of ghosts, dobe?"
Naruto flashed a glare at the Uchiha.
"No I'm not!"
Kakashi's eye narrowed at the two boys.
"Cut it out, you two," chastised Kakashi.
"Now let's get back to the matter at hand."
Zoro snorted, and began to make himself comforable on the chair.
"Screw this, I'm going to sleep..." he muttered, before yawning, and instantly falling asleep. No one seemed to notice the swordsman doze off, as their attention remained focus on the current discussion.
"Tsunade-sama, what do you mean by "ghost sightings"?" asked Kakashi seriously. Tsunade looked back at the scroll.
"Says here that some sailors spotted this Island, and tried to land on it, but they kept going through it. They made some more attempts to land, but then it just disappeared."
Kakashi thoughtfully rubbed his chin.
"Hmm, ghost-like indeed."
Naruto pouted.
"Is that it? Aw man, I was hoping to go against a real ghost this time," said Naruto, pounding his fist with excitement. Sasuke scoffed.
"Weren't you scared a little while ago?" he drawled, which infuriated the blonde ninja.
"SHUT UP SASUKE!" he shouted.
"Fear not, comrades!" barged in Usopp.
"For I am not afraid of something as mere as Ghosts! Why, about three years ago, yours truly fought bravely against a ghost and came out victorious..."
Chopper and Naruto's eyes widened in admiration. "Whoooaa!"
"Really?" asked Chopper excitedly.
"How'd you do it? TELL ME!" asked Naruto with eagerness. Sasuke narrowed his cold eyes at the long-nosed pirate.
"Ghosts are transparent, you lying dobe," he said coolly.
"You can't land a punch on a ghost, unless it's fake."
Usopp glared at Sasuke.
"Oh yeah? Well...uh... You never fought a ghost before!" came back Usopp. Chopper laughed nervously as a drop of sweat came down his brow.
"Nice comeback, Usopp, heh heh."
"Yeah, Sasuke-teme, you never fought against a ghost!" growled Naruto in approval.
"And niether have any of you!" yelled an irritated Sasuke.
Usopp and Naruto slouched depressingly, as the both mumbled,
"You don't have to be so blunt."
Nami however remained skeptical with Tsunade's theory.
"Well, I've heard of Pirate Ghosts and Ghost Ships, but a "Ghost Island"?" said Nami. Tsunade nodded.
"I know it's hard to believe, but there is a reason I want you to find this Island," she said.
"It is rumored that there is a mysterious treasure..."
Luffy brightened. Nami immediately had dollar signs on her eyes.
"Treasure?" he exclaimed.
"Could it be One Piece?"
Tsunade looked at the obese boy quizzically.
"One Piece?" she asked. She looked to the rest of the group in her office.
"What on earth is that?"
"Hey Booby Lady!" intervened Luffy, waving his skinny arms at the suddenly peeved Godaime.
"Have you ever heard of Gold Roger?"
Tsunade's brows furrowed.
"Who?"
"Oh. Well anyway, Straw Hats," She addressed the pirate crew.
"You will help this Konoha's Team seven find the treasure, and you will also bring them back here safely. You will get ten percent of the treasure for your cooperation."
At this, Nami fumed. She walked up to the Godaime's new desk, and slammed down her fist on the hard wood. Tsunade remained calm, as if such a weak action alone would scare her.
"TEN PERCENT?" yelled Nami, glaring at the large-chested woman.
"There is no way, that I'll work for you for a measly ten percent. I demand fifty or no deal!"
Tsunade only looked at the young red-head with dismay.
"Fine." she said inertly. "You will get fifteen."
"No, I said fifty!"
"Twenty. Take it or leave it."
Nami growled. She didn't like not having the last word. She was about to ask for another raise of the percentage, but both Naruto and Luffy cut right in, sealing the deal.
"We'll do it!" they both yelled excitedly in unison. Nami was furious, as she made death glares at the two excited boys. Tsunade smirked.
"Great! You leave tomorrow morning. This scroll will tell you the rest. Dismissed!"
And soon the adventure begins.
A/N: FINALLY! AFTER ALL THESE CHAPTERS, THE PLOT NOW ARISES! SORRY FOR THE WAIT!