The Immortal Guardians

by LordSylph21

Naruto and Sasuke were the most powerful shinobi alive after earning the powers of Rikudou Sennin, but that made them unable to perish by the action of time and they lived every person they ever knew. Now, after the shinobi sistem's decadence and the curse being absolutely bored. The duo decided to get on board of a ship and head to the ocean with the hope of find an adventure.

5. Hunter's Nest

Chapter Five

Hunter's Nest

Hello readers here LordSylph with the update, finally, of the Immortal Guardians. I'm sorry for the late update and I hope you are eager to get more of this fic as I'm eager to continue with the adventures of Sasuke and Naruto on the Blues. I must say that the follows and favorites that this story gets surprise me and I thank you very much for the support.

"Let me get this straight, you want to take this perfectly looking and functional ship right through a dangerous stream that goes up to the peak of a mountain to later come down with more speed into the most dangerous sea in this whole world. Is that it?" Naruto asked the navigator of the crew that he and Sasuke were commanding. Nojiko, who was drinking a cup of tea, nodded at the question of the shinobi.

"That's the only "safe" way to get into the Grand Line Naruto-kun. Most of the pirate crews across the Blues use the path through Reverse Mountain because there is no other way." The girl said drinking a bit more of the content of her cup while seeing the blonde shinobi giving her a curious look.

"Are you positive and completely sure that this ship can't get there without going up to the peak of a mountain?" Naruto came closer to the navigator and she became a little red when the face of the shinobi was a few inches from her face.

"I guarantee that there is…" Nojiko was about to say no but the piercing blue eyes of one of the captains of the ship and her secret object of affection broke the brick wall of her resolute. "Another way to get into the Grand Line without using the mountain." The girl say while seeing how Naruto smiled at the information.

"I got to say you know how to keep information Noji-chan." Naruto said to his navigator and she looked at him with worry.

"You are not mad that I tried to keep information from you?" Naruto looked at worried face of Nojiko and he just hugged her and gave her a smile.

"You are lucky that there is only you and me in this place." The blonde said pointing that the navigation room of the ship was only occupied by the two of them because the duo of swordsmen was training under the harsh and unforgiving supervision of the second captain of the crew. "Sasuke would have caught you bluffing in a matter of seconds and demanded the information not very politely." Nojiko knew that Naruto was right and thanked all the saints above that the sword wielding shinobi was busy with Johnny and Yosaku.

"Sorry about that Naruto-kun, but there is a reason of why I didn't want you to know about the other path." Nojiko said and Naruto nodded at her answer saying that he understood. "Surrounding the Grand Line there are two sections of a sea called Calm Belt, that place doesn't have any wind currents for the ships to sail through it." The navigator explained to her captain. "The Calm Belt it's a dead sentence."

"But that can't be the entire reason to hide information from us. You know that Sasuke and I can create and use wind current like nothing and that would made sailing through that windless sea a possibility. There is more in there isn't?" Naruto asked and Nojiko nodded.

"Yes Naruto-kun, I know that you and Sasuke can create wind but there are huge nests of dangerous Sea Kings that attack all the ships that get stranded there. Dying by starvation or getting eaten by sea monsters are the only destinies for the ones that get into that sea." The shinobi now could understand why Nojiko would risk hiding information from both he and Sasuke.

"I understand the situation, but we can risk getting in there to continue our journey because you have two powerful individuals that can blast away any kind of beast that could wreck our ship." The words gave a small sense of relief to Nojiko but also a great sense of incoming threat.

"You are gonna take this ship through the Calm Belt aren't you?

" Yes, I am." Naruto said with a smile. Nojiko was about to throw a fit and express how badly she was against risk her life in that place when the shock violently making the two occupants in the room fall to the ground. Then, the door to the navigation room opened and a scared looking Johnny, with his face covered in sweat and his clothes a bit tattered due to the intense training with Sasuke came through.

"Naruto-aniki you need to come out on deck, we have…" The words of the glasses wearing swordsman died on his throat when he saw the blond shinobi on top of Nojiko and one of his hands was on her left breast while the lips of the two were sharing a kiss. "I will wait for you outside, I didn't see anything!" Johnny said while leaving in a hurry leaving the two in the floor of the room. The eyes of Naruto were wide opened after realizing the situation and he stood up with impressive speed and went outside while screaming things like "sorry" and "it was an accident" to a very shocked Nojiko. The navigator remained laying on the floor and she touched the place where Naruto's lips touched hers and the girl couldn't avoid smiling at the sudden outcome.

"I really need to have a very serious conversation with that silly blond." Nojiko said to herself while trying to get up and go outside and see what the hell what's happening out there.

(Main Deck)

"This completely feels like…" Sasuke was saying while looking over the edge of the ship at the waters under the hull and he saw how they were still and the ship couldn't move and inch even when the winds were pushing against the sails. The sharp onyx eyes of the Uchiha morphed into the Sharingan while making a ram seal with his hands.

"Sasuke what's wrong?" Naruto asked while approaching his friend and he saw the red eyes of the shinobi looking at the waters.

"Do you know what is happening Sasuke-aniki?" Yosaku, with a few cuts and bruises on his body, asked one of his captains. Sasuke remained silent and made a few gestures with his head to Naruto and he nodded at the indications.

"We have company, Yosaku go get Johnny and wait for instructions." The swordsman nodded at the orders from the blond and he was left alone with his partner. "This is Suiton (Water Release) isn't?" Naruto said to Sasuke and he nodded while looking a surge of chakra working in the water under the hull of the ship.

"Someone froze the movement of the water and stopped us here." The Uchiha said and he was moving his hand slowly to his back where his sword was strapped under the cloak.

"Can you see where the surge of chakra is coming from?" Naruto asked while looking around the sea the presence of enemies. He received a negative gesture from Sasuke and the Uzumaki tried something on his own. "Kurama, can you feel the ones holding our ship?" Naruto asked inside of his mind, he heard a gruff voice mumbling something and then someone answered.

"There are at least three idiots close to this ship of yours. One is just below the water and the other two are above you." The nine-tailed fox which was bonded with Naruto since his first day of life said to him. The blond shinobi remained silent without showing any signals of realizing the presence of his enemy and approached his friend. Sasuke looked at Naruto's hands and he could make up a simple message. "One below, two above." The Uchiha nodded and stayed at the edge of the ship pretending searching for the cause of the disturbed momentum. Naruto, on his behalf, saw how Nojiko came out of the Navigation Room and he approached her.

"Why isn't the ship moving?" The navigator asked a bit nervous after the awkward and pleasant moment they both shared a few minutes ago. "Don't tell me we ended up in the Calm Belt." Nojiko said and Naruto shock his head while laughing a little.

"Don't worry Noji-chan, we hit a sand bank or something that made us strand and now Sasuke and I were trying to get this ship moving again." The blond shinobi said and then he saw the duo of swordsmen approaching. "Johnny, Yosaku. I need the two of you up there in the masts securing the sails and wait for more orders."

"You got it, Naruto-aniki." Both of them answered at the same time before rushing to the main mast and started climbing it with an impressive agility obviously acquired due to Sasuke's training. While the sails were being secured, Naruto made Nojiko manning the helm and be ready to stir when he tells her to do it. Sasuke, seeing that all the occupants of the ship were in the designated places, he began making hand seals.

"Chidori, Nagashi (One Thousand Birds, Surge)!" Lightning started to emanate from the right hand of Sasuke and he shot the electricity right to the waters below the ship. Just two seconds passed when a scream of pain echoed from the deeps.

"What's happening?!" Nojiko asked after seeing what Sasuke did and the swordsmen were silent while looking around in alert. Two voices were heard above the ship and Naruto was waiting for that.

"Fuuton, Kantsu Saikuron (Wind Release, Piercing Cyclone)!" A furious wind started to blow around the ship and Nojiko watched with horror how a small tornado formed above the ship and this was coming down like a drill to split the ship in two. Fortunately, the blond knucklehead of her captain was just in the right place.

"Katon, Hono no Iki (Fire Release, Flame Breathe)!" Naruto said exhaling a huge and intense column of fire through his mouth, which collide with the cyclone that was above the ship. The aftermath of the collision resulted in the wind increasing the power of the fire technique and the ones who attacked the ship came down from their hiding place in the air to avoid getting burned and now they were standing in the middle of the deck.

Naruto and Sasuke watched the newcomers with interest while the rest of the crew was speechless. One of the attackers was a young woman with black hair and pale skin, she was clad in a dark blue top, black trousers, and sandals. The other was man with more years that the woman, he had blond hair, tanned skin, he was wearing a red jacket and a black shirt under, green pants, and white sandals.

"So the information was accurate, these guys are chakra users." The man said while the woman was looking at Sasuke with murder in her eyes.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked. The duo didn't answer. "Why did you leave the Elemental Nations? From which Village do you come from?" Those questions made the woman show a pissed off expression on her face while the man spitted on the wooden deck.

"I thought that you were taught to deal with your enemies first and then ask questions later if they have enough life in their bodies afterwards." The woman said brandishing a kunai in a quick movement to make a mad dash against Sasuke. "You killed my man you fucker, I am gonna gut you like a fish!" The man sighed and faced Naruto.

"I told her a thousand times that her emotions will be the death of her." The hands of the stranger made a short chain of hand seals. "Suiton, Kussaku (Water Release, Drilling Needle)!" The man spat a cylindrical and concentrated water attack with the sufficient power to cut through the most thick and solid metal. Naruto, far from being intimidated, just smiled and put his hand in front of the technique and the man thought that he got the blond but the water instead of piercing the body of Naruto it started to concentrate on his hand and finally evaporated. The man saw a red burning orb of raw power in the hand of his enemy and was terrified of it.

"Wind and Water releases, impressive control of both but you lack the power to face me." Naruto said with a serious expression on his face. The man was trying to think what he could do against an enemy with that kind of strength but his eyes widened when the blond made a movement and he appeared just a few inches from him. "Katon, Rasengan (Fire Release, Spiraling Sphere)!" The orb of fire was slammed against the abdomen of the unknown shinobi burning the clothes and patches of skin like nothing, instead of concentrating the power in the rotation of the technique to pulverize the body of his enemy Naruto let the fire contained in the orb penetrate the skin of his target and the result was terrifying. All the nerves on the body of the man were burned in just seconds and his body collapsed on the wooden deck incapable of perform any kind of movement, but he was still alive and feeling every burn on his torso.

Meanwhile, the woman that launched herself at Sasuke was quickly rolling on the floor of the deck with a broken wrist and a few cracked ribs. The Uchiha saw the woman's moves very slow and sloppy so he didn't even wanted to use chakra to deal with such a worthless enemy.

"You call yourself Kunoichi? You are a disgrace to that name." Sasuke said and the woman roared with fury and decided to show that guy what she got.

"Burn for me asshole!" The kunoichi said using just one hand to make seals and Sasuke was impressed of seeing someone do that, his memory was recalling a mist surrounded bridge with a Kirigakure-nin on it. "Katon, Moeru Ya (Fire Release, Flaming Arrows)!" The woman shot arrows made of fire chakra at Sasuke and he grabbed the on his back to counter the attack. "Your stupid sword will melt like nothing against my chakra!" The woman said while laughing hysterically. The Uchiha coated the blade of his weapon in fire and the woman stopped laughing when the arrows were absorbed by the flames of the weapon.

"You are weak." The woman screamed in pain when the ignited bladed pierced her back and came out of her abdomen while the flesh around the metal was being burnt and cauterized. In just seconds, the attackers were neutralized by the two captains of the ship.

Johnny and Yosaku were speechless after seeing the performance of their captains. Even when the swordsmen saw that the attackers were apparently from the same place of the shinobi and they could use the same powers of their superiors, they were defeated like nothing. The abyss of power was pretty evident. The glasses wearing swordsman was seeing at the waters surrounding the ship and he cloud have swear that a body was moving at high speed on the water and it was coming to the ship.

"Naruto-aniki, Sasuke-aniki. We have more company." Johnny screamed and both captains saw the new enemy approaching.

"Raise the sails now, and come down here quickly." Naruto said and he started to gather chakra for his next technique. Sasuke, finishing his opponent off and leaving her on the floor, looked at Nojiko holding the helm.

"Set course to the Calm Belt now, and don't lose your grip on that helm." Sasuke commanded to the navigator and she wanted to protest against the order of venturing to that sea but there was no other choice apparently. Nojiko turned the wheel and with the waters released the ship made a U-turn just before a voice screamed.

"Suiton, Attotekina Mizu (Water Release, Overwhelming Waters)!" Naruto could feel thanks to the chakra of Kurama a huge surge of chakra moving in the waters and then huge waves started to rise around the vessel. Nojiko paled at seeing those monstrous wawes that could flip and sink ships like nothing but her fear intensified when the masses of water didn't came down but instead they gathered around the vessel. Then the navigator saw a man standing at the top of the biggest wave and his voice was heard. "Kitsune no Akuma Naruto, Akuma no Me Sasuke. Surrender now or your ship and crew will fall to the deeps." The man threatened the captains and formed a ram seal with his hands. Nojiko was frozen in her place at seeing that individual able to gather and control the sea like nothing.

Johnny and Yosaku were scared like never before but they still were following the command of Naruto. The duo of shinobi watched the performance of the new enemy and they tried to guess from which place came from. The attire of the man was a simple blue sleeveless shirt, black shorts, and black open-toe sandals.

"These guys were with you?" Naruto asked the enemy while pointing the beaten forms on the deck. The man saw the bloodied body of the woman on the floor in a pool of her own blood, then the man with his broken and charred body on his knees but still alive.

"Ako and Uka." The man said showing a bit of anger on his face at seeing the bodies. "You are gonna pay for that, the mighty Godan it's going to make sure of that." Sasuke released his blade from the body of the woman whose name was Uka, and faced the shinobi.

"There was other idiot below our ship trying to hold us down he should have known that he was dead the moment he tried to attack us." The Uchiha said trying to taunt Godan but he only made him show an angry scowl.

"We thought that you were a couple of amateur chakra users that got cocky and decided to take the seas like common pirates. Now I can see that you are more skilled that the information we gathered and you will be delivered to the Marine so we can cash your bounties." Godan said while making the waves coming closer to the ship. "You got two choices, submission or sinking. What would you pick?" Naruto and Sasuke, instead of getting out of there were thinking about what that guy said. "He doesn't know who we are, so that means he doesn't come from home?" The duo thought and then they remembered that girl in Loguetown who could use chakra but didn't know a thing about the hidden villages. Then a revelation struck the minds of the captains but a voice made them concentrate in what was happening.

"The sails are up!" Johnny and Yosaku said and that was the cue for moving.

"Sorry pal but we have to say no." Naruto said while jumping high above the ship until he was just over the circle of waves. "Fuuton, Undo-ha (Wind Release, Kinetic Wave)!" The blond emitted a pulse of concentrated air around the ship that crashed against the water eliminating the mountains of water around the ship. Godan, before the air could reach him, made a high jump and tried to summon more water to crush the vessel when an electrical sound was heard. The eyes of the man saw how Sasuke accumulated electricity on his right hand. "Raiton, Den'atsu Yari (Lighting Release, Voltage Spear)!" A sharp spear of lightning formed in the hand of the Uchiha and he threw it at Godan. The man formed a shield of water around him in a desperate gamble to save his life, he succeeded in avoiding getting impaled by it but the nature of the chakra bypassed the defense and he was electrocuted and stunned.

"Noji-chan, get ready to sail!" Naruto said before using a weak wind technique on the sails to give the ship a huge boost of speed and now they were sailing out of the East Blue and getting inside of the Calm Belt. Sasuke felt how the wind currents around died in just a few minutes and the only thing that was making the ship move was the chakra of Naruto.

"How far is the Grand Line from here?" Sasuke asked to Nojiko, the girl was holding the helm with all she got to keep the ship going straight.

"Like forty miles. If Naruto-kun can keep pumping wind to the sails and keep us going at this pace we can get out of here in just thirty minutes!" The girl screamed from the helm and Sasuke nodded at that information. The Uchiha saw how his apprentices came down from the sails and where pretty nervous after all that happened.

"Pick up that guy from the floor and tie him to a chair." Sasuke pointed at the form of Ako and the swordsmen nodded at the order while the Uchiha looked at the body of Uka. "Maybe I can find something of interest." Sasuke thought while taking out a scroll from his clothes which he opened and put it over the body of the dead woman. Johnny and Yosaku were curious of what his sensei was doing but then they saw how the body disappeared in a puff of smoke. They were speechless while putting the broken but alive form of Ako in a chair and secured it with ropes.

"Get back here!" The crew members turned around at hearing that voice and saw Goran coming hot at them riding a wave. His clothes were burned due to the electricity of the lightning spear and he was very pissed.

"What a pest, I thought that guy will realize that he can't beat us." Sasuke complained and approached Naruto who was acting like an engine to keep the ship moving. "Keep this ship moving dobe, I will deal with this nuisance." The blond was about to tell Sasuke to fuck off when the ship rocked to the side when a side wave crashed against it.

"God dammit, do something because this guy it's going to break the hull." Nojiko screamed from the helm while trying to control the movement of the ship in a raging sea. Sasuke was feeling angry at Goran and decided to end the conflict. The Uchiha looked at the man surfing on the water and channeled chakra in his sword.

"Raitonryu, Inazuma (Lightning Release Style, Cutting Lightning)!" Sasuke slashed the air with his lightning coated sword sending an electric cutting attack towards Goran. The user of water saw the incoming threat and remembering what happened last time he jumped over it and retaliated with another technique.

"Suiton, Suiseiryu no Kiba (Water Release, Water Dragon's Fang)!" A huge amount of water turned into a circular stream and was shot against the ship. Sasuke smirked at the attack and came out with the perfect strategy.

"Katon, Moka no Ryu (Fire Release, Furious Flaming Dragon)!" The Uchiha met the water with a huge and powerful torrent of flames, when the two forces slammed with each other a thick cloud of steam formed obscuring the sight of Goran. The man was about to try another technique when the sound of something sharp cutting the air was heard and his instincts made him turn his body to the side and his eyes saw a giant shuriken with four blades pass a few inches from his face.

"That's it you bastards. You are gonna die now." Goran said in outrage gathering all the chakra in his body to perform a devastating technique but he froze when a cold voice talked behind him.

"You are the one dying." Before Goran could make a move, the sounds of thousands birds screaming was heard and an eruption of pain broke out of his chest in just a second. The eyes of the man looked down to find a lightning coated hand coming out of his body with a huge amount of blood flowing through the lethal wound.

"How did you..?" Goran started to say while spitting blood out of his mouth trying to talk, he looked back and saw Sasuke with his Sharingan and Rinnegan active which made the man paled at the vision. "Oh god, those eyes are…" His speech died on his mouth when Sasuke removed his hand from Goran and he fell right to the waters below. While Sasuke was still on the air, The Uchiha saw how a huge sea creature resembling a lion emerged from the deeps and swallowed the dead body just before touching the waters.

"So that's a Sea King." Sasuke said without being any impressed about the size of that thing. "I don't know why you and your kind are considered like monsters come out from nightmares." The sea lion jumped at Sasuke trying to get more food and when it his giant maw on the shinobi the body was replaced with the giant shuriken that Sasuke threw before.

(After Sasuke's Departure, Main Deck)

The rocking waters around the ship calm themselves when Sasuke disappeared and now the crew was sailing through calm waters with extreme speed. Nojiko was feeling more calmed after the sea stopped hitting against the sides of the vessel and she focused in keeping the helm tight in the current position it was while paying attention to the changes of atmosphere and wind currents. Naruto was keeping the wind blowing the sails without feeling a bit tired for the continuous use of chakra.

"How far we are from our destiny Noji-chan!?" Naruto asked the navigator while paying attention to the surroundings in case there were more enemies around. Nojiko saw up ahead the color of the water, the movement of the clouds and other patrons and gave the blond a smile.

"You can stop blowing wind against the sails Naruto-kun, we are entering the Grand Line!" After saying that, the blond cut the flow of chakra and the ship lost the momentum just before entering a zone with a weak wind current. "I can't believe I just sailed the most dangerous sea in this world without even see a Sea King. Any normal crew would have been eaten in a matter of seconds after entering that place!" Nojiko exclaimed collapsing against the helm and trying to relax after the experience. Johnny, holding the edge of the ship due to the ship´s rocking during the chase, was walking with shaking legs on the deck.

"That seriously is the only thing that you can't believe right now!?" The swordsman asked while he saw how Yosaku was with his head over the edge of the ship throwing up. "I have a long list of things that I can't come to terms since I decide to put a foot on this ship!" Naruto simply shock while laughing at the reaction of one of his crew members. "Naruto-aniki, who the hell were these guys?! I thought that you and Sasuke-aniki were the only ones around here that could fight using elements like that!" The question made Naruto drop the smile from his face and he was giving a serious look towards the prisoner tied to a chair in the middle of the deck.

"That's a question I would really like to find the answer for it Johnny, they have no headbands and no other thing that gives away their affiliation to any Hidden Village from my home. Sasuke and I will find out what's happening." Naruto said harshly and he walked to the place where Sasuke was fighting against Goran. "That guy went way overkill using that technique of his." The blond said making the duo of swordsmen looking at him curiously.

"What are you talking about Naruto-aniki? What did Sasuke-aniki did to the guy using water?" Johnny asked and Yosaku was about to say something when the form of his second captain appeared in the middle of the trio in just a blink of an eye.

"That's was I was referring to." Naruto said and he looked at the Uchiha. "You really needed to use the Amenotejikara (Power of the Celestial Hand) on that guy?" Sasuke sighed while walking by the deck of the ship until be in front of Ako.

"He was being annoying and I wanted to end the fight fast, so I used that to catch him off guard and finish him off." The shinobi said plainly and morphed his onyx eyes into the Sharingan to start the questioning on the beaten enemy in the Tsukuyomi realm. Naruto left his friend alone while gathering all the possible information about other chakra users outside of the Elemental Nations and if there were rogue shinobis wandering through the seas. The blond approached to the helm where Nojiko was looking at the weird compass known as Log Pose strapped on her wrist with a serious expression on her face.

"Even when she is serious her beauty it`s undeniable." Naruto thought and he blush a little remembering the brief kiss their shared before the conflict broke out. "Do you have a course Noji-chan?" The shinobi asked to the navigator and she nodded at him.

"Yes we have Naruto-kun." Nojiko said spinning the wheel of the helm a little in the direction that the compass was pointing at. "If this thing is right and I hope it's because if not we are seriously screwed." The girl said locking the helm on place and checking the weather conditions in the zone. "We got the magnetic reading of a nearby main island of the Grand Line and this ship should be docking in it in a couple of hours or a day." That information made Naruto smile and hugged the girl with happiness.

"That's great!" Nojiko felt her heart beating hard against her chest while being hold in Naruto's arms. "I am proud of you for keeping yourself focused and sharp during the battle, you deserve a break Noji-chan. Go rest and when you are ready come find me so we can begin your training regime." The happy moment of the navigator crumbled after hearing about a training regime for her.

"What kind of training would that be Naruto-kun? I don't have the physical strength to follow a training method like Johnny and Yosaku. So what would make me do?" Nojiko asked and Naruto remained silent while thinking about that. It was true that the navigator didn't have the endurance of the underlings/Sasuke's apprentices to be submitted to harsh training routine and she would end up being a broken mess if Naruto made her do a Kunoichi's standard training. Then, an idea popped out of the tick skull of the blond.

"I have an idea, I need to work it out a bit but in the end it will make you capable of defending yourself and even fight strong opponents if you must do it. Go to rest a bit first and don't worry about the course because I will keep the ship following the route." Nojiko was a bit uneasy about the idea the shinobi had involving training her but she really felt tired so she let that out of her mind for the time being and went to drink something inside of the crew's quarters. Naruto watched the girl go the interior of the ship and then saw the duo of swordsmen looking at him while snickering about the focus of his attention. "You two better start your workout routines because I know for sure Sasuke will put your asses to work extremely harsh after knowing of the existence of chakra users around here." Naruto said with a tick mark on his head and a menacing tone.

Johnny and Yosaku paled after realizing that possibility and went to do their routine around the deck.

Sasuke stopped staring at the broken gaze of Ako after ending the interrogation and he looked at Naruto seriously.

"We need to talk, now" Sasuke said.

(A Couple of Hours Later, Grand Line)

Naruto was showing a serious expression on his face while Johnny, Yosaku, and Nojiko were showing worried and scared looks after hearing what Sasuke had gathered after interrogating Ako. The crew was inside the Navigation Room which was now the official room for briefings and the crew was revising what was found inside the hunter's head.

"We are not only wanted by the Marine, one of the most powerful and vast military organization in the whole world by itself, but now we just realize that a dark and organized association of bounty hunters which it's members can use the same powers and techniques that you both can do?" Nojiko said to the duo of shinobi and both nodded. "How could be possible?" The navigator asked. The blond and Uchiha had they theories.

"They don't come from our home that's for sure." Sasuke began explaining to the rest of the crew. "Their tactics and gear were made in this region and their organization it's located in the very heart of the Underworld in the Shin Sekai (New World)." That information made the swordsmen confused and Nojiko was shocked.

"Shin Sekai? But that's beyond the Grand Line, the only ones who could be in that part of the world are monsters and people whose strength it's close or just a step below of the previous Pirate King!" Now Johnny and Yosaku were shaking and scared like never before after hearing the kind of monsters which were after their captains.

"They don't come from the Elemental Nations, but their founders sure they do." Naruto said making himself the focus of attention. "Way before the time when the several clans joined together and created the Hidden Villages the clans battled against one and other in the search for expansion of their territories. That was a dark time for the shinobi society and several clans perished in those conflicts, this organization of bounty hunters and mercenaries from which these guys that attacked us belong to was created by a bunch of shinobi groups and clans that sought for expansion or asylum outside of the continent and they sailed away and came here hundreds of years ago."

Once the information sank in the minds of every crew member of the room the reactions came in a heartbeat, Johnny and Yosaku were slacked jawed and shaking in fear thinking about what kind of monsters those hunters were and what kind of power they have to be so deep in the most dangerous place of the seas. Nojiko, in her particular case, was just standing still completely frozen without giving away any sign of the emotions roaming inside of her head. Naruto was nervous after seeing the state of the girl thinking that the information broke her so he came closer to the silent navigator and put a hand on one of her shoulders.

"Nojiko are you ok?" The blond asked and the girl didn't answer with words she just moved her eyes very slowly until her gaze was on the blue orbs of Naruto and then she put her forehead on Naruto's chest and started to hit him with her fists.

"You are a fucking magnet for crazy situations and every monster of a pirate or whatever that it's out there!" Naruto just laughed a bit nervously and scratched his head while giving comfort pats on the navigator's back to calm her down. The duo of swordsmen watched the scene and they gave out a sigh while adopting a cool pose.

"This is a dangerous situation but thanks to Sasuke-aniki's training, we feel stronger than ever and our minds are prepared to deal with anything that comes to destroy us." A confident Yosaku said with a determined look on his face.

"I have to agree with you bro, we can't be scared just for a stupid ancient secret group of element wielder fools hiding in the deepest part of the most powerful sea of the planet." Johnny said with his hand under her chin and looking brave. Their moment came to an end when Naruto, while suffering the punches of a nervous and desperate Nojiko, looked at his swordsmen with a blank face.

"Those words could have been awesome and you guys would have been seen like a duo of warriors but those shaking legs of you threw it all away." Naruto said and the swordsmen pretended that they didn't hear anything while keeping up with the cool set up even if their legs were shaking like crazy.

"I need to lay down a bit." Nojiko said after relaxing a little and step away from Naruto's chest with a blush on her cheeks, she hoped that Naruto didn't see it but her luck was nothing against the one from the blond.

"It's okay Nojiko, go to rest and we will talk about your training later." Naruto said with a smile to the girl. Nojiko nodded and she was about to leave the room when Naruto's voice was heard. "If you need it my chest it's available for your pretty forehead anytime you want." That last comment made the girl turn around with a shy expression and an intense color red on her cheeks and then she ran away to her quarters.

"I think you broke her Naruto-aniki." Yosaku said looking at the place where Nojiko disappeared.

"Maybe I was teasing a little too much." The blond shinobi said while letting out a nervous laugh. "By the way, where is the teme?" Naruto asked to the students of his friend.

"Sasuke-sensei said that he would be outside by the helm and he was going to establish a course for the ship." Naruto, with widened eyes on his face, ran out of the room to main deck and he found the Uchiha manning the wheel of the helm and the ship started to alter its course by the actions of Sasuke.

"What are you doing? We can't sail like that around here. Let me go find Nojiko so she can establish a proper course instead of you moving around and get us lost in this place." Naruto said approaching his friend but the black-haired shinobi locked the wheel on place and the blond saw the Sharingan active on Sasuke's eyes.

"We are following a course Dobe try to expand your range of your chakra sensor skill." Naruto did that after focus his senses a couple of meters around the ship and his eyes widened when his senses picked up a trail of dense and intense chakra trail coming from a long distance up to the North. "I can see that stream of chakra since we entered the Grand Line and the information we gathered from those rogue shinobi it seems that it leads to one of the first islands of the path through this sea." Sasuke explained to Naruto.

"So that explains why they didn't have a ship and knew how to move around without a Log Pose." Naruto said. "I think we don't need to tell Nojiko where we are heading don't' you think?" The blond shinobi said to Sasuke and he just shrugged.

"You want to tell her that we are taking this ship to a possible base full of bounty hunters and deadly assassins with chakra abilities?" The Uchiha asked rhetorically and Naruto nodded.

"You are right, she doesn't need to know."

"What don't I need to know?" The blond shinobi closed his eyes and turned around slowly until he found an angry looking Nojiko with her arms crossed in front of her chest and she was tapping the wooden deck with her foot. Naruto was about to address Sasuke but he didn't found the Uchiha.

"Fucking backstabber." Naruto said with a tick mark on his head and he faced the navigator. "Well Nojiko the thing is that we are heading to…"

Three Weeks Later- On Board of the Ship

Sounds of metal clashing were heard through the deck of the ship and the origin was the violent spar between Johnny and Yosaku against one Sasuke Uchiha, after knowing that the first destination of the crew was an island possibly hiding strange shinobi like fighters Sasuke decided to get his apprentices in proper shape and everyday made the duo of swordsmen spar against him. The deal was if they didn't manage to touch him even a little scratch to his clothes or draw a little blood from him they would do all the chores of the ship for the whole day, also if they receive a lot of damage from Sasuke and are unable to evade or counter all the attacks that the Uchiha throws at them the punishment consisted of perform heavy workout and exercises while doing the chores.

"Kazewokiru (Cutting Wind)!" Johnny unleashed a frenetic barrage of attacks using his superior speed granted by his slim body and the training method he choose. Sasuke was holding his ground without problem blocking the attacks of the swordsman with his sword. Johnny grunted in frustration while trying to break Sasuke's defense but he simply lacked the raw physical power to do it. Luckily, there was a way to help with that. Johnny tried to pierce the Uchiha's right side with a sudden and sloppy thrust, Sasuke parried the thin blade of the swordsman away and prepared his counter but he jumped in the air after seeing Johnny trying to break his balance with a kick to his legs. Far from being angry after failing his attack, a smirk appeared in Johnny's face and Sasuke immediately looked above to see his other student coming down from the sky.

"Ochiru Kuchibashi (Falling Beak)!" Yosaku was holding his sword with both of his hands and was coming fast against Sasuke with a piercing thrust of his weapon. The Uchiha remained calm even if he couldn't evade the attack in the middle of the air. Yosaku was showing a fierce expression on his face and he felt confident in breaking his sensei's guard with his strength. Sasuke put his blade in front of him to receive the thrust of Yosaku and a few inches of clash the blade of Sasuke parried the flat side of the heavy weapon of his opponent to the side with such force that the swordsman lost the grip of his weapon and the blade was thrown away. Yosaku was so shocked that he didn't register he was still in the air and he couldn't react in time to block a fist that hit him right in the face and threw him against the main mast of the ship. After getting rid of one of his opponents, the Uchiha faced Johnny who didn't seem shocked after Yosaku's defeat and attacked Sasuke with all of his might.

'Time to test this I guess'. Johnny thought running against his sensei with his sword in a reverse grip. Just a few inches to be in Sasuke's reach the swordsman started to spin and became a cutting tornado. "Senko Hagane no Kiba (Drilling Steel Fang)!" The tornado became a cutting drilling human bullet and Sasuke was forced to evade the attack and he attempted to cut Johnny when he passed by his side. The Uchiha was shocked when a knife came out of the tornado and tried to cut his face. Sasuke parried the blade away and he felt tiny shallow cut on his right side just before he could sense the blade coming. Johnny couldn't believe that he managed to cut his sensei and that felling made him oblivious of the sword coming down on his side and making a shallow cut and next a hard kick to his chest put him right on the hard wooden deck.

Sasuke watched the form of Johnny on the deck and saw that he was still conscious then he looked at Yosaku but he was knocked out. A small smirk appeared in the face of Sasuke after seeing how one of his students was starting to get better and better and his other student was not too shabby either. Obviously they need more training but things were looking pretty good by now. Johnny, even with a cut at his side and a sore face, felt very proud of his performance after achieving getting his sensei after weeks of training. The glasses of the swordsman looked at the form of his sensei and he saw how it went out in a cloud of smoke.

"A shadow clone?!" Johnny complained after realizing that he just only managed to catch a copy and no his real sensei.

"Very good Johnny, now that you surpassed the shadow clone you will train with me now." Johnny looked up and he saw Sasuke standing at the side of the main mast with a serious expression on his face. The eyes of the Uchiha landed on the unconscious form of his other student. "Meanwhile, Yosaku will keep on sparring and training against my clone until he manages to dispel it." After saying that, Sasuke landed on the deck and healed his student and helped him to stand up.

"But Sasuke-aniki, you said that teamwork was a vital aspect of fighting and if I and Yosaku don't train together we will not know how to help each other on the battlefield." Sasuke was satisfied after hearing the concern in Johnny's voice at the possibility of Yosaku falling behind him.

"Don't worry about that, even if it is true that you two will be doing different kinds of training you need to realize that your ways of fighting are very different and you need to work on them on your own." Johnny wanted to argue and start saying stupid things like always but after spending so much time around Sasuke and his ways on drilling knowledge about swordplay and strategy in him and Yosaku, Johnny realized that he was right and they needed to cultivate their ways of the sword on their own.

"I understand. You are right in that aspect Sasuke-sensei." Johnny said. "But he is not going to take well that I surpassed him in the trainings." Sasuke, instead of looking worried about the difference between his students, smirked.

"That will be useful in his training Johnny, sometimes you need a rival to make you surpass your limits and leave him behind." Johnny nodded after hearing that because his sensei was right. The both of them choose to come with the shinobi in order to become stronger and be equals to his brother Zoro but now Yosaku will be working double trying to catch up with Johnny.

"Hey, we have land on our sights!" The voice of Nojiko came from the helm and Sasuke and Johnny look that they were getting close to an island.

"Looks like we are going to be fighting in just minutes." Naruto said coming out of his quarters and approaching the unconscious Yosaku to jolt him awake using Raiton. Necessary? No, Funny? Yes. When Yosaku regained his senses he asked if he had won and they fought hard to keep the laughs inside.

"What are we going to do once we dock?" The navigator asked to the shinobi. Sasuke and Naruto gave that a thought and came with a plan.

"I will go to the shore and reach the town. The base of the bounty hunters is hidden in there so I am going to infiltrate and see what I can find. Sasuke said.

"Meanwhile, Johnny and Yosaku will escort Noji-chan to the town so we can buy supplies because we are running low in food. I will remain on the ship and if you guys are in trouble." Naruto looked inside of his coat and took three small radios like he and Sasuke used and gave them to his crewmates. "Use these radios and contact me, I will be there in a flash and take you to the ship." Nojiko, and the swordsmen eyed the devices and grabbed them to put them on.

"Ok. That sounds like a plan. Let's hope something bad doesn't happen." The navigator said and Yosaku sighed.

"With our luck Noji-aneue that will be the first thing to happen." Johnny nodded at that and they fell on the wooden deck after getting more weight on his limbs courtesy of Sasuke.

"Idiots." Sasuke said and Naruto laughed.

(Moments Later- Genesis Island, Silent Town)

Once the ship docked, the group of Nojiko went straight to the town to get their supplies. Meanwhile, Sasuke changed his appearance using a transformation technique to look like one of the hunters they killed on the Calm Belt and went to the designed spot that the bounty hunters used to get inside of their base. It was a book store pretty far off the town center and it looked like it didn't get many customers at all. Once the transformed Uchiha got inside, he saw a young woman at the desk and she looked at him with surprise.

"Goran! What a surprise to find you here so soon!" The woman said with a high voice that made the disguised Sasuke cringe. "I thought you and your group were at the entrance of the Grand Line to find out about the rumors of two unknown chakra wielders appearing on the East Blue. Did you find anything or was just a bluff and what are Ako and Uka?"

"We encountered the two targets and they were indeed chakra wielders." Sasuke said pretending to be Goran, 'So they don't call themselves shinobi but chakra wielders.' The Uchiha tought while he kept speaking. "I froze their ship with a Suiton technique and Ako and Uka were the first to engage the targets. Unfortunately, they fought with superior strength and mastery of chakra than my comrades and Ako and Uka perished under Uchiha and Uzumaki." The woman was impressed after hearing the news. "I saw that those two could be a problem for our operation so I sunk their ship at the bottom of the sea and they died after being hit by my waves." The woman was disappointed at that.

"Those guys were nothing important if you could beat them so easily. Your partners were a couple of weaklings so I am not surprised that they died." Sasuke saw how the woman stood up and touch the wall behind her, a sealing array came to live and a trap door opened up in the middle of the store. "Haka it's waiting for your report so don't let him wait." That was the shinobi's cue to get inside of the hunter's base. Sasuke came down to a narrow corridor lighted with several electric lights, after walking a few of meters from the entrance he arrived in a large giant space with three long tables and sits where several hunters were talking and drinking sake.

Sasuke didn't want to catch their attention so he tried to go to the office of Haka, using the memories he took from the real Goran. He went through of one of the multiple passages and arrived at one wooden door. Sasuke knocked and a voice from the inside told him to come in.

"Goran, I need to ask you something." A man sitting on a giant chair said. He was a tall white skinned man, short black hair on his head, athletic body dressed in an armored blue shirt, black short pants, and wearing red boots. His face was showing a serious semblance while looking at the disguised shinobi. "Did you get the eyes of the Uchiha?" That question made Sasuke picture a certain snake ninja over the figure of Haka.

"I tried Haka-sama." From the memories of Goran, if one of the members of the group didn't address their leader with respect this will kill you where you stood. "I got to drown them under my strongest Suiton because they killed my partners like nothing." After hearing that Haka punched his desk and it broke like a twig under his fist. Sasuke saw how the leader of the hunters approached him and his eyes widened. 'It can't be…' Sasuke thought.

"I send you to find that Uchiha for one reason." The black eyes of Haka morphed under the influence of his rage into the familiar red and black of the Sharingan. 'An Uchiha running a small time group of bounty hunters? What a waste of potential' Sasuke thought after the shock of finding a possible member of his clan. "The eyes of that brat could be sold by a huge amount of money in the black market! There are a lot of chakra users out there who would give anything for that and you sunk them on the sea!" Haka tried to punch 'Goran' with the intention to kill him but he was shocked when his subordinate vanished in a cloud of smoke and was replaced by the face of the guy he was looking for. Haka found himself been slammed against the ground by Sasuke with his Sharingan looked on Haka's face.

"You are a pathetic excuse of a Uchiha. Weak and hot-headed." Sasuke said with ice on his voice. His Sharingan perceived that his prisoner was trying to put him under a Genjutsu. Sasuke decided to show him the true power of his eyes. "Tsukuyomi (Moon Lecture)" Haka felt under the influence of the technique and Sasuke proceed to extract all the information he could from him. After a couple of seconds he cursed at an important piece of knowledge.

(Meanwhile, Nojiko's Group)

Nojiko, Johnny and Yosaku were coming out of a food store after spending a huge amount of Belli on food supplies and other things of extreme importance. (Clothes and other things for the lady of course). The navigator was very happy with her purchases, even more with the detail that all was being carried by the couple of pack mules that were the resident duo of swordsmen which was growling with fury. While the group was walking through the street they looked pretty calm and normal but the reality was that Nojiko was scared of the fact that the town was a secret base for bloodthirsty bounty hunters and Johnny and Yosaku were expecting an attack any minute.

Everything was going smoothly at the moment, they could buy the supplies and now they were going back to the ship but then everything shock and a huge cloud of black smoke appeared at the town center. The group of pirates thought that maybe Sasuke engaged the hunters on their lair and the fight caused that explosion.

"Guys, we need to get back to the ship!" Nojiko said to the swordsmen, they nodded and the trio started to run to the dock where they ship was anchored when two figures landed in front of the trio. They were dressed with black cloaks that made impossible for the pirates now their identities.

"You are not going anywhere." One of the figures said while branding a huge sword on his hand, the other also took out a weapon and this was a huge spear.

"We spotted your ship coming from the sea and it matches the description given by the Marines." The figure wielding the spear, it was definitely a girl due to his voice, said.

"We were ordered to bring your two captains to our base, so you are going to come with us." The man with the sword said and pointed Nojiko with it. "Or we will drag your broken bodies with us." That threat and the killing intent behind it made the navigator shake in fear at the possibility of being killed and both Johnny and Yosaku were about to face the couple of strangers when a voice was heard.

"Stay away from my friends!" An orange blur hit the strangers and both of them were thrown against one of the buildings of the street. Nojiko, letting out his hold breath, felt a sense of relief after seeing that Naruto came to save them.

"Naruto-kun, I thought you were on the ship." The navigator said and she hugged him. The blond returned the hug and addressed his other crewmates.

"Are you alright? I felt their presences coming at you so I send a clone to help you." The swordsmen grew confused after hearing that Naruto send a clone.

"Why you send a clone Naruto-aniki?" Johnny asked his captain.

"Well, a situation came up and it required my presence." The blond answered and that made his crew curious.

"What happened?" Yosaku asked and when Naruto was about to respond the building where the two figures crashed broke apart and the strangers came out of the wreckage.

"That hurt you bastard!" The strangers said at the same time and jumped straight at Naruto and Nojiko. The shinobi was about to retaliate when a bunch of bags landed on him and the sound of metal striking metal was heard. Johnny was holding the man with the great sword while Yosaku was blocking the spear from the girl.

"Naruto-aniki get Nojiko-aneue out of here!" Yosaku said pushing away his opponent and trying to cut him across the chest.

"We will handle these guys, just run and we will meet you back at the ship." Johnny said evading and parrying the thrusts of the woman's spear. Naruto nodded at the words of his crewmates, grabbed the bags with their supplies and flashed away from the place with Nojiko while the swordsmen fought the hunters.

(On Board of the Ship)

The clone of Naruto appeared with the navigator on the deck and Nojiko tried to gather his breath after the experience of being teleported. The shinobi sat on the deck in lotus position and closed his eyes while the navigator watched the cloud of black smoke moving like it was alive.

"What's happening out there?" Nojiko asked gathering the supplies sprawled over the place.

"That's the reason why boss left the ship but left me here in case you three needed immediate extraction." The clone of Naruto answered without looking at the blue haired girl.

"The real Naruto is in that mess? He was the one to start the fight?" The navigator asked with edge on her voice that promised pain if it was Naruto that made them run from the town.

"No Noji-chan, what happened was…"

(Silent Town, Center Area)

The area was covered in a thick black curtain of particles that made very difficult to see what was happening, Naruto arrived and found out that the cloud was formed of ash and it was being used to repel the advance of several members of the hunter's group that in the island. Using Fuuton, Naruto was able to keep the ash from stick to him and got to the middle of the square where he found a sight to behold.

A young man, not older than 16 was covered in wind like the very element itself coated his body and ash was being expelled from his body and it coated the man's fists, which were punching the body of a hunter until it collapsed. Naruto was pretty impressed with the way that the teenager was fighting against several enemies. His senses made him look behind the guy and one of the hunter's threw a Katon technique at the warrior. Naruto was about to step in but the teenager put his hand in front of the fire attack and the ash started to form some kind of wall in the way of the threat.

"Asshu Asshu no Shirudo (Ash Ash Shield)!" The ball of fire crashed against the defense of the boy and the hunters were shocked after seeing that it didn't broke under the attack. Naruto was impressed after seeing that and curious about the boy's powers.

'So this guy ate an Akuma no Mi, something dealing with Ash y presume.' The shinobi thought while the teenager made the element surrounding the place go up and covered the sky over the area. Naruto counted at least ten hunters still able to fight and five completely unconscious.

"Asshu Asshu no Oame (Ash Ash Heavy Rain)!" From the sky started to rain giant pieces of compact ash rocks like cannon balls and were aiming at the hunters. The chakra wielders tried to evade the projectiles but they found their legs covered with ash and glued to the ground. They couldn't escape from the attack in time and the rocks fell over them without mercy. Naruto whistled after seeing that.

"You trapped those guys while they were inside of your ash cloud without making them even notice until it was too late. That's really impressive." Naruto said to the teenager that looked at him with surprised because he didn't feel him arriving in the area.

"Who are you?" The warrior asked before noticing the forehead protector on the guy's head. The eyes of the teenager narrowed in rage. "You are one of them too aren't you?!" The wind surrounding his body became more wild like it was reacting to his emotion and he jumped straight to Naruto.

"Hey what are you doing?!" Naruto said upset and evaded the fists of the boy. "You got it wrong I am not with those assholes!" The shinobi said and then he felt a bunch of attacks connecting with his body and the attacker yelled.

"Ryusei Bassuto (Meteor Barrage)!" The teenager's punches became a blur and Naruto was send crashing against one of the multiple buildings in the area. "Take that bastard." The young said and then he felt a huge pressure coming from the building and his eyes saw the form of Naruto stepping out of the hole that his body made.

"Ha Ha Ha, that kid kicked your ass. He is good I got to give him that!" The voice of Kurama said inside of Naruto's head and the shinobi was showing an angry expression on his face.

"Yeah he is good fur-ball." That last part of the comment made the fox growl. "Let's see how long he lasts when the beating starts." The young man saw the body of Naruto vanished and then a strong pain shot through his face after receiving a hard kick to the cheek and he was thrown a couple of meters through the ground. "Come on bitch, it's on!"

The teenager stood up with blood coming out of his mouth and then he let out a scream while jumping against Naruto.

Well guys this is the update of The Immortal Guardians. Sorry for taking so long in doing it. If you want to leave comments about what are your thoughts regarding the plot and if you have suggestions for future chapters I will love to read them. Thank you for the support you gave me to keep up writing this adventure and see you in another time. LordSylph out