"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Jutsu/Kurama Talking"

Chapter 2 - Ace's Little Brother

Naruto stayed back and listened in on the interaction between the person, who Naruto figured must be Ace's little brother, and the three fish men. Chew, Kuroobi and Hatchan are the names of the three fish men who all also happens to be officers of Arlong's pirate crew. Ace's little brother, walked passed them without a word, not the least intimidated by them.

Hatchan turned around and yelled "Hey wait!"

which had the straw hat wearing teenager turn around himself "Huh, were you calling me?"

"You! Who are you, and what are you doing on this island?" Hatchan asked in a demanding manner.

"What's it to you?"

"Well you got a point there.. Like you said" Hatchan responded, sounding a bit surprised.

"I'm Luffy, I'm talking a walk" Luffy said then turned around to continue walking.

"Taking a walk? Have a pleasant one!" The half octopus, half human merman spoke.

Meanwhile Naruto had taken to hiding up in a tree nearby. He was waiting for a chance to approach Luffy and ask him about Ace. Ever since arriving at this Island, more and more of Naruto's memories had returned to him. For example, he now knew that his name was Uzumaki Naruto and not Ramen. He also knew that he hated Natsu Dragneel.

About a minute later, Luffy had walked far enough for Naruto to approach him as the mermen were nowhere to be seen.

Naruto jumped out of the tree, then ran after Luffy "Oi! You with the straw hat!" he yelled.

Luffy turned around, thinking that more annoying mermen were approaching him "Huh?" when he saw a blonde man wearing a marine outfit running after him, he asked "What does the marines want with me?"

Naruto stopped in front of Luffy and said "The marines? Your stupid old man of a grampa forced me to join them".

Luffy's eyes widened "You know gramps?"

Naruto nodded, it seemed that he had found the right person. "But never mind the marines, what I am here for is to ask you about Ace"

"Ace?" Luffy said while his eyes blinked in confusion "What you mean Ace? I haven't seen him since he left our home village, three years ago"

Naruto sighed and started to get really annoyed for some reason "How long has it been since the war in Marineford?"

"Ehh?" Luffy responded tilting his head "Are you some kind of idiot? There's not been a war at the marines headquarters"

Suddenly a few more memories returned to Naruto who clenched his fist in anger "What did you call me, brat!?"

Luffy jumped in surprise due to Naruto's extremely loud yell, then faced him a fighting pose "You wanna go, marine bastard!?"

Naruto's eyebrows began to twitch unnaturally fast and at the same time all of his memories returned to him. Naruto first wanted to shove a rasengan into the disrespectful little brat's torso, but he changed his mind when he realized just how much fun he could have if he got on his good side.

"You are Ace's little brother, correct?" Naruto asked Luffy who was frowning at him, his fists still raised.

"How do you know this, stupid marine!"

That was it for Naruto as he pulled his own hair "I'm not a stupid marine, you stupid brat!" he yelled "I am Ace's friend!"

Luffy lowered his hands "A friend of Ace's?" he asked "Then why are you wearing marine clothes?"

Naruto's eyebrows began twitching again, although not as violently as earlier "Like I said, your grandfather made me join the marines"

"Shishishi" Luffy laughed while pointing at Naruto "Why didn't you tell him no, then run away!?"

Naruto ignored Luffy's question in favor of asking one of his own "You're a pirate? Dattebayo.."

"Dattebayo?" Luffy asked.

"Answer the question!" Naruto snapped.

"Pirate? Yeah! I'm Luffy, the one whose going to become the Pirate King!" Luffy said with a toothy grin.

"Then let me join you" Naruto said with a sigh.

"Huh, why?" Luffy asked in confusion.

"I'm a ninja, I can be of help to you" Naruto answered.

"Ninjaaah?" Luffy almost screeched "Nin nin!?" he asked which had Naruto roar "YES, NIN NIN!"

"Bu-hwahaha! Alright, it's decided!" Luffy said raising both of his arms "You can join my crew!"

"Eh?" Naruto exclaimed with wide eyes "Just like that?"

Naruto was ready to convince him by telling him how he could become a double agent. How he could give Luffy information about the marines and at the same time lead the marines away from him. Naruto still planned to be a double agent since that was most likely the quickest way to find Ace.

"Yeah, nin nin!" Luffy said excited "I'll introduce you to the others later, but right now we we're in the middle of something"

Naruto nodded "I have something to do as well" when Naruto had finished talking, Luffy had already began walking away "Oi!" Naruto snapped.

"Yeah?" Luffy asked in a bored tone.

"Don't tell the others about me yet, me being a part of your crew is top secret. You know ninja level secret" Naruto said which had Luffy's eyes shine in excitement "Shi Shi Shi! I like it! Sneaky like a ninja, I get it! I won't tell anyone!" Luffy then began walking off again.

Naruto stared at his back in disbelief 'By the time I get out of this village, he'll have told all of them about me, no doubt...'

Later that day...

Naruto was sitting in a large tree just outside of "Arlong Park". He had created a toad mask using Mokuton (Wood Style) that he covered his face with. He had also changed his shirt to a blue one, matching the navy blue pants that he decided to keep. With this change he pretty much wore the same thing as he did in the previous world. He was currently watching on as Luffy was being hoisted up in the air by cheering villagers. Luffy and his crew had just defeated the Arlong pirates that had terrorized this village for about a decade.

All of a sudden a marine captain with the most annoying whiskers Naruto had ever seen, appeared with his marine subordinates. His name was Nezumi, a crooked marine that had been making with deals with Arlong for his own benefit. He demanded that all of Arlong's treasures was to be given to him. This gave Nami the chance to hand out some payback to the weak marine captain for all the things he has done. Just recently he had shot Nami's sister, Nojiko, in the arm. Speaking of Nojiko, that was Naruto's next order of business.

He used a shunshin to get over to her and the windmill hat wearing guy. "Hello girl" he said surprising her enough to jump "Waah, who are you?".

Instead of doing his mission, Naruto had scooped out the girls of this village, coming to the conclusion that Nojiko was the hottest one of them not including Nami. Nami was kinda off limits. That was because Naruto didn't want to steal the girl from one of the other straw hats. Naruto wasn't sure which one of the straw hats, but it had to be either Luffy or Zoro that she was interested in.

"I've been looking for someone just like you" Naruto said with a wide grin. Naruto had gained everyone's attention now after Nami had finished dealing with Nezumi. Nami had told him to imprison the Arlong pirates. That pretty much meant that Naruto's job in this village was done.

"Someone like me?" Nojiko asked confused while the windmill hat guy, Genzo, yelled "Who are you! Get away from Nojiko-chan!"

Naruto nodded, his grin growing wider, not that anyone could see it "The most beautiful woman in the world"

This caused every villager and the straw hats to stare at Naruto and Nojiko with dropped jaws. Some even screamed "EEH!?" in surprised but it was probably Nami and Luffy that reacted the funniest. Luffy was laughing his ass off "Shi shi shi! It's the ninja!" while Nami was clenching her fist threateningly, approaching Naruto "Do you know him, Luffy?"

Nami wasn't about to let some shady character flirt with her precious older sister. Just as Nami was about to reach the masked man, she saw him lift his mask, only showing Nojiko his face, then whispered something into her ear. The masked man had then disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving a blushing Nojiko to stare at the smoke in confusion.

"What the hell!?" Genzo yelled "Where did he go!"

"Nojiko, Luffy! Who was that?" Nami yelled.

"I.. I don't know" Nojiko stammered, still blushing as her face was a deep red.

Luffy screamed out "He's the ninja! Our nakama!"

"WHAAAT!?" The straw hats all yelled in chorus.

Just a second later they saw about one hundred versions of that masked man, carrying the defeated arlong pirates and the fainted marine captain Nezumi and his marine soldiers. Naruto was gonna run with them back to Loguetown so he could hand them over to Smoker.

"I'll join up with you later, Ace's little brother" Naruto said before he and all his clones disappeared in a flash of yellow.

"That was.." Sanji spoke with his cigarette falling out of his mouth.

"So damn.." Zoro added.

"Cool" Ussup ended before all three of them and Luffy raised their hands up in the air "A NINJA!" they cheered while laughing. There was no boys who didn't like ninjas after all.

Meanwhile Nami was silently vowing that she would make sure to remind that perverted ninja not to mess with her sister the next time they meet.

A couple of hours later, Loguetown

Naruto and all of his clones had landed right in front of the marine base after jumping through the whole town. He was now surrounded by pretty much every single marine in Loguetown.

"Is that the Arlong pirates?"

"Look at all the marines!"

"Is he an enemy?"

"Or an ally?"

While the marine soldiers stared down Naruto suspiciously while asking questions, Smoker with a cigar in his mouth came walking towards them slowly.

"What's the meaning of this, Ramen-san!?"

Naruto's right eyebrow began twitching "The name is Uzumaki Naruto, make sure to remember that, shitty marine"

"What did you say!?" One of the marine soldiers asked threateningly while walking towards Naruto only to be stopped by Smoker who held him back by grabbing his shoulder with one hand.

"What happened?" Smoker asked.

Naruto then explained what he had seen while observing what happened in the village and how his secret pirate crew dealt with the Arlong pirates. Naruto had pretty much covered the whole story from when Arlong arrived at those islands about a decade ago, how Nezumi was working with Arlong for his own profit. And the last thing he said was who it was that defeated Arlong and left Nezumi in the state that he is now.

"The straw hat pirates, led by Ace's little brother" Naruto ended.

"Hmm?" Smoker exclaimed darkly "Then why didn't you apprehend them as well?"

Naruto chuckled "I tried but they kicked my ass"

"You're lying" Smoker stated simply. He had seen Naruto arrive with a hundred copies of himself carrying all the defeated men and mermen here. There was no way he had been defeated by a pirate crew then been able to do all that. He figured the clones was the result of some kind of devil fruit.

All of Naruto's clones disappeared which had the arlong pirates and the marines being thrown down on the ground for the marine soldiers to take care of.

Naruto began walking into the marine base with Smoker following after "I'll report what happened to old man Garp. The reason why I didn't fight them was because they are the ones that saved all those people that lives on that island."

Later at night..

Naruto had returned to the Conomi Islands after giving his story to both Smoker and Garp. He was now here for only one reason. To find Nojiko and do what he whispered into her ear earlier.

The next chapter the straw hats will be heading into the grand line. Thanks for reading!