"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Jutsu/Kurama Talking"

Chapter 5 - Shikamaru

Naruto had arrived at Haru Island two days after talking to Smoker. Normally he could get to the Island within an hour if he wanted to, due to his Bijü cloak, Hiraishin and the fact that he can run on water. The reason he had not arrived the same day was because he happened to find another Island. He spent the two days on that Island drinking booze and passing out, mumbling about annoying brats in his sleep.

Now that he was on the island, it was easy for him to locate Shikamaru. That was due to Shikamaru having a much larger chakra source than any other human nearby. Shikamaru's chakra reserves where nothing special compared to other ninjas, however compared to a non ninja it was gigantic. After locating his chakra source, it didn't take Naruto more than a minute to actually get to Shikamaru. Once he arrived he took notice of two things of importance. One, there seemed to be a fight between both of Naruto's targets; Bonney and Itchyballs, and their pirate crews. Two, Shikamaru was asleep behind a tree, not participating in the fight, as Naruto had expected.

Since Shikamaru had chosen a spot that was a safe distance away from the pirate brawl, Naruto could safely talk to him without anyone noticing them. Naruto walked up to the sleeping ninja that looked exactly the same as he did in his wanted poster. He was around Naruto's age which had Naruto think that this Shikamaru was not the one from the previous world. It could be the Shikamaru from his own world or another alternative universe. He decided to play it safe by waking him up just like he would a friend.

Naruto grunted "I'm a fucking genius" as he kicked Shikamaru's feet as hard as he could, like a football player. Shikamaru immediately woke up, angry and surprised. The first thing he did was to grab a kunai to defend himself against whoever had attacked him. He he stared in front of him, he saw what looked like Uzumaki Naruto staring at him with a wide grin.

"You.. It can't be" Shikamaru said dramatically. This Shikamaru was the one from Naruto's original world. In that world three years had passed since Naruto disappeared. Shikamaru and the others had moved on with their lives and Naruto was assumed to be dead.

"Hmm..? You know me?" Naruto asked, still grinning.

Shikamaru had not traveled to any more worlds than this one so he didn't know about the possibility of their being more than one Naruto.

"Of course Naruto, it's me, Shikamaru!"

Naruto squinted his eyes at him staring at him suspiciously "If you are who you say you are, then riddle me this. What did I do during our third year in the academy which resulted in Iruka-sensei throwing me out of the classroom and suspend me for a week?"

"You presented a plan involving you transforming into your Sexy Technique, Naruko, to defeat the third Hokage and overthrow him. You then stood up in your chair and pissed on a picture on the third Hokage that you had put on your desk"

Naruto chuckled as he remembered that day, the old man had never been angrier. "Everyone knows that, but who did I defeat to save Konoha from Akatsuki's attack?"

"Pain, the Akatsuki leader" Shikamaru answered.

Naruto's eyebrows started twitching in annoyance "And which girl did I like when I was younger?"

Shikamaru sighed "Sakura wasn't it? Later you were yapping on on about Hinata if I recall correctly"

Naruto pointed at him accusingly, not liking that he knew so much about him "Who the hell are you!?" he yelled.

"It's me Shikamaru" Shikamaru asked with a confused expression "I should be asking you the questions, where did your disappear to for three years? Everyone thought you died!"

"I disappeared?" Naruto asked, just as suspicious as earlier.

Shikamaru nodded "After the war you disappeared without any traces"

Naruto couldn't believe what he was hearing. He stared at Shikamaru with an open mouth and an expression of disgust. He had met people from his original world before. Tayuya, the rest of the sound four, Zabuza, Haku and Kabuto, to name some of them. But he had never met a person from his original world that he didn't completely dislike, such as Shikamaru.

"You're saying you're the Shikamaru from my world?" Naruto asked.

Shikamaru tilted his head in confusion "Of course, there can't be more than one of the same person, troublesome idiot!"

"Oh really?" Naruto said with a crazy look on his face "Let me tell you about that, smart-ass!"

Ten minutes later

"So this is the fourth world you visit including ours?" Shikamaru asked after hearing Naruto's short version of his adventures in the previous worlds.

"Yeah, someone is messing with me"

"And you.." Shikamaru began trying hard not to smile "Fucked Granny Tsunade and your mom?" Shikamaru couldn't hold it in any longer and started laughing after asking his question. Naruto however was staring at him with an emotionless, straight face. "I forgot to mention that I tend to kill much easier than I did before" this had Shikamaru stop laughing immediately "You don't say?"

"Mmh" Naruto responded before turning to Shikamaru with a bug-eyed crazy look on his face "Speak of this to anyone and I'll show a Rasenshüriken down your throat!"

Shikamaru's eyebrows started twitching "You know Naruto, you changed a bit.."

Naruto nodded towards Shikamaru's goatee "So did you"

"Troublesome.."

"Yeah.." Naruto said dragging out the word.

'Hey brat, what about the pirates you came here to capture?' Kurama asked.

'Oh.. you're talking again?'

'Yes, as usual I have to remind you that you have a mission to complete. If I remember correctly that was to apprehend these pirates'

'Yeah and as usual I have to remind you that you are my pet. Now be quiet'

'You know Naruto, one day you're going to wish you didn't piss me off'

'You're all talk and no action, stupid fox.'

"Hello, Naruto?" Shikamaru said as he waved his hands in front of Naruto's eyes.

"What?"

"I've been talking to you for a minute, didn't you hear me?" Shikamaru asked with a yawn "Troublesome"

Naruto ignored Shikamaru's question as he spoke "I have a mission for you, Shikamaru"

With a tic mark on his forehead Shikamaru asked "Mission? Why should I do a mission for you?"

Naruto nodded "Anyway, see this picture" he said as he held up Jewelry Bonney's bounty poster "It really doesn't do her justice, does it?" Naruto said as he stared straight ahead where Bonney was in the middle of fighting the Kurosaki Itchyballs pirates.

"What's your point?" Shikamaru asked.

"My point?" Naruto began then pointed at her "Look at her, she's gorgeous!"

Shikamaru scrunched his nose "We grew up surrounded by beautiful girls and women, hell even the old hag that became our fifth Hokage was a beauty"

"What's your your point?" Naruto repeated Shikamaru's earlier question, mimicking the best he could.

Shikamaru snapped at him uncharacteristically "My point is; you don't have to drool over every good looking woman you see!"

Naruto turned his head towards him fast and glared at him "Don't give me that feminist crap, Shikamaru!"

They both glared at each other for a while. Shikamaru then chuckled as he asked "So what's this mission about?"

"Well that depends, just how tight are you with that Itchyballs pirate crew?" Naruto asked.

Shikamaru sighed "I barely know them, I fell asleep on their ship one day and never bothering leaving it since they gave me free food"

Naruto sweat dropped at that "I figured.."

"The mission?"

"Yeah, I'm gonna knock out every single person in front of us except the woman. Your mission is to bring those pirates in the Itchyballs crew and their captain to a marine captain named Hina"

Shikamaru didn't like the sound of that, he would be doing a lot of carrying around people then "Troublesome.."

"Oh yeah, put this on" Naruto said as he gave Shikamaru his toad anbu mask "It's important that you wear that when you hand over the pirates to the marines. If the captain asks about your name just tell them its either 'Ramen-san' or Naruto"

"Troublesome.." Shikamaru muttered again, this meant he would need to carry the pirates over to the marines.

"I will do it, but what will you do in the meantime?" Shikamaru asked.

Naruto pointed at Bonney "I have some business with her"

Shikamaru sighed "And how long will that 'business' take?"

Naruto looked Bonney up and down as he answered "Three days"

In the meantime with Bonney and Itchyballs

While their crew members were fighting in all out brawl, the two captains were staring each other down. They were playing a game of cat and mouse, avoiding each other due to the power of their respective devil fruits. Bonney had the ability to change the age of herself and anyone she touches, such as turning them into children or very old people, which would make that person useless in a battle. Itchyballs also had a very strong devil fruit. It is said that he can suck out the life force or the soul of the person who touches him. That's why they are avoiding each other since as soon as they touch, the one that is faster to use their devil fruit power will win.

Suddenly their standoff stare stopped as all they saw was flash of yellow moving from crew member to crew member, knocking everyone out. Not so surprisingly it turned out to be Naruto who had used the Hiraishin (Flying Thunder God Technique) to defeat their crew members. Naruto had then stepped in between the two captains, making the horrible mistake of putting his right hand on Itchyballs shoulder. Since he was now touching him, Itchyballs activated his devil fruit. Seemingly unaffected Naruto said "Sorry about this, but I need you to be captured so I can talk with the pink haired beauty behind me"

"Hahaha!" Itchyballs laughed with a crazy expression "You imbecile, you walked right into your death!"

Even Bonney was surprised by Naruto's actions since everyone knew not to fight against the mighty Itchyballs head on like this.

"Oh you mean this?" Naruto asked with a bored expression as he pretty much figured out how the devil fruit worked. It was similar to Füka's (AN: The filler girl) ability to suck out chakra, except this devil fruit user wasn't nearly as good of a sucker as Füka was as it would take more than a day for him to remove all of Naruto's chakra. If used against a human who didn't have a large chakra source, then it would be an extremely dangerous devil fruit, however.

"Dead or Alive" Naruto muttered grabbing a Shuriken before casually implanting it into Itchyballs skull. He then turned around and faced Bonney with a smile "Now then.."

"Huh?" Bonney responded threateningly, almost like a delinquent.

"Have you ever been fucked for three days straight?" Naruto asked with a grin which had Bonney blink, not believing what she had heard. She then let out an ear piercing screech as Naruto lifted her up from the ground, heading towards a building that looked like an inn.

"LET ME DOWN!" she yelled.

Meanwhile Shikamaru was staring at the scene, muttering about bad pick up lines. Moments later Shikamaru could hear Bonney and Naruto from the building.

"H-Hey, why did you take shirt off!" Bonney had stammered out while Naruto chuckled "Just wait, darling"

"GAH!" Bonney gasped "Keep your pants.." she then was silent for a second before exclaiming "Wow.."

One week later

Naruto and Shikamaru are currently walking on top of the sea water, not really caring where they are going.

"A week Naruto, A week" Shikamaru said with an angry frown.

"Yeah I know right, she didn't let me leave, but I had to get out of there because she was getting too attached." Naruto responded.

"That wasn't my point, you made me wait for a full week! You owe me big, troublesome"

"Hmm?" Naruto stared at Shikamaru with a bored expression "So what will it be, Pirate or Marine?"

"What do you mean?" Shikamaru asked, slightly confused since Naruto had not brought up this subject before.

"Well you are coming with me now, right?" Naruto asked which had Shikamaru nod lazily.

"Since I'm both a pirate and an undercover marine, you can pick where you want to go" Naruto explained.

"Troublesome.." Shikamaru muttered in between yawning "Why don't you pick?"

"Pirate then" Naruto stated without having to think on it.

"Mmh.." Shikamaru responded with disinterest "Speaking of pirates, I found out something interesting this week"

"How so?"

"I was bored waiting for you so I read every newspaper I could get my hands on, then I found this article on a certain pirate crew" Shikamaru said handing Naruto the newspaper with the article.

The first thing Naruto saw was a picture of the whole crew. The captain of the crew with a 1 billion bounty, Senju Tsunade stood at the front. In the background he immediately spotted his mother, raising her fist while smiling at the camera. Shikamaru pointed at his own mother Yoshino who was standing in the middle of the mass of kunoichi, along with a few others girls who wasn't known as ninja. One of them the ramen girl, Ayame. Other than them, he could see pretty much every single kunoichi that he had interacted with in one of the different worlds. Hinata, Sakura, Ino, Anko, Kurenai, Terumi Mei.. They were all there.

But that wasn't all, on the far left of the picture, every female of the Fairy Tail guild was present. Next to them was a bunch of girls Naruto had never seen before, some of them red heads.

After seeing the picture Naruto collapsed falling head fist into the water, holding his chest. After Shikamaru brought him to a doctor, they found out that Naruto had a heart attack and if weren't for his healing abilities, he would have died. He just couldn't handle being a world with so much red danger.

Laying in the hospital bed, drinking beer with Shikamaru sitting on a chair to the side of his bed, Naruto muttered "Kill me, Shikamaru.."

"Killing you would be too troublesome.."

Thanks for reading.