The smoke clears, and Naruto is gone. In her place is a single piece of paper. Only one sentence was written on it. 'I attack in one hour; catch me if you can.'

After reading the note over Marco's shoulder, Ace bursts into laughter, drawing all attention to him "yall are so screwed."

Thatch frowns at the fire user. "Why do you say that?"

Ace walks away to lay down on the figurehead. "Because you've already lost, and you don't know it." Laughing again, he looks at them upside down, "You will never find her. If Naruto doesn't want to be found, she won't be."

Marco takes a deep breath, "what can you tell us about her abilities so that we can be more prepared to win this so-called game. "

Ace flips over and glares at Marco, his own fire licking at his shoulders. "Are you serious? You really expect me, of all people, to tell you anything about my girlfriend?" Ace shakes his head, "Wow, and now I really want you to lose."

Marco scowled, his mood not exactly the best after his interactions with Naruto, "why is that?"

"I don't do well with traitors, and neither does Naruto. And what you just asked me to do was to betray her trust in me." Ace scowled back at Marco, who flinches at the implication. "SO kindly fuck off."

Haruta pokes ace in the back only to have his hand burned on contact. "Ouch, please turn off the fire." Ace glares at the shorter male and covers his body in more fire. Haruta backs away with his hands up. "We can't exactly leave you alone, you know."

"And why is that?"

"Because of the fact that your one of her targets in the game, silly. "Thatch says, grinning like an idiot. "We have to protect you from the kitty..." A red mark finds its way around Thatch's throat, and a piece of paper was taped to his forehead with the word 'DEAD' written on it.

Ace blinks at Thatch and starts to laugh. "Protect me? Looks like you are the one in need of protecting"

Izo looks at Thatch and the red mark on his neck. If this had been real, the chef would be dead right now. This girl is not normal. "How did she get past us to kill Thatch" The feminine man frowns. "I didn't even sense her." Looking around, shocked looks comes over his face. "I still don't."

Ace Laughs again, "I told you if she doesn't want to be found, she won't be." The Pyro takes three steps before he collapses and smacks his face hard against the deck with his butt in the air

The commander's stair at the downed male was shocked when Naruto appears on Aces Back with her marker and an evil smile. "You are making this too easy, boys" Naruto begins to molest Ace's body by squeezing the man's firm ass. "I got Ace now I'm going after your captain."

Haruta scowls and points at Naruto with his sword. "You said you were gonna attack in an hour; it has only been a few minutes, and you've already Killed Thatch."

As for Thatch, he was in a corner with a storm cloud over his head and growing mushrooms.

Naruto smiles, and her tails wave behind her. She tosses another red marker at Haruta at bullet speed, hitting the tiny male right in the heart. A paper with the word 'DEAD' appears on Haruta's head. "That was to throw you off. what kind of assassin do you know actually tells you when they will strike?" Naruto tosses a ball at Izo, who deflects it with his fan. "The element of surprise is key." Naruto disappears again. "I'm On the hunt, and you are all my prey."

Haruta had joined Thatch in the pity party while the rest of the commanders sighed. "Marco, that girl is..." Izo starts but was unable to finish as screams rang out over the entire ship

The commanders disperse to see if they could save their family, completely forgetting about their objective Protect Whitebeard. Naruto appears on Whitebeareds shoulder, watching the chaos she caused. "And here I thought this was supposed to be the strongest crew in the world."

Whitebeard raises his eyebrow as he watches various crew members run past him with Dead stickers on their faces. "Why can they not find you?"

"I guess just because your the strongest crew in the world, it doesn't make you the smartest. " A red mark appears on WHitebeared, and a Dead paper finds its way onto his head. "You need to learn to look underneath the underneath. I never said you couldn't use your devil fruit powers, and I also never said that you couldn't defend yourself from me. The whole point of the game was to catch me before I kill you."

"How are they supposed to catch you if they cannot find you?"

Naruto shrugs. "That's their problem, not mine. I'm not the one who told them no devil fruits. Had they used their heads, they would have noticed that Marco seems to feel me without his Haki. His little birdy knows a predator when it sees one."

Naruto hops off of WHite beards led and sits in the now awake Ace's lap. "So game over?" Ace asks, burying his face in her hair.

"Yep. I win" NAruto shifts so that she was straddling him and grinds into his lap, making Ace groan. "Do I get a prize?"

Still, Whitebeard looks down at the young couple with a smile with the death mark on his head. It was rare that he got to see a couple with such love for each other. The last time he saw love, this strong was with Roger and his wife.

This was the late Pirate king's son it would make since he would love as fiercely as his father. But these are thoughts Whitebeard would never say out loud. The animosity Ace has for his biological father was strong.

With a sigh, Whitebeard flairs his haki as a signal to his family to meet at his chair. They all looked up in shock at the 'Dead ' mark on his head. While Whitebeard looked on in disappointment that most of his crew had the same marker on themselves. Even the commanders had them. Only Marco and Izo were spared.

Marco was clenching his fists as he looked up at the sign of his failure on his crew, his family, and his Pop's. He glares at Naruto; if it wasn't for her, this wouldn't be happening. She's the one that has his Phoenix acting weird. He storms up to the couple. "You! This is all your doing!"

Naruto looks at Marco, boredom evident on her face. It was as if his anger meant nothing to her. If she was frank, it didn't. "Aye, little birdy, this is all my doing" the sarcastic drawl escapes her lips. "It's all my fault that the so-called strongest crew in the world couldn't handle a single seventeen-year-old girl." Wham there was the hit to the pride. Naruto stood so that she could look at him clearly. "A seventeen-year-old girl who has been engaging in vigorous activities for the past five days and hasn't eaten a thing." Bam, the pride, took another hit.

"What!" Thatch yells and takes off to the kitchens, supposedly to make her some food. Bout damn time her stomach was about to eat itself. not her fault her boyfriend had a black hole for a stomach and needed way more food than she did just to stay a healthy weight.

Marco had never wanted to hit someone as much as he did now. And the worst part was that he didn't really understand why. Is it because if this had been real life, most of his family would be dead right now, his Pops included? What was it about this girl that set him off so? Who was she? What is she? Where did she come from? ANd How the hell did she get on the ship!?

Naruto could see the questions and frustration rolling off of Marco and sighs. "You know Marco, I actually kinda respect you and Izo, of course."

No one asked how she knew Izo's name. "What?" Marco asks

Naruto crosses her arms over her chest, causing a few noses to start bleeding in the background. Those poor saps were burned and thrown overboard by Ace. "Yea, you were the only one who went out of your way to try and gather information on me. " Naruto smirks, "even if your source was uncooperative."

"Not my secret to tell!" Ace yells out

"I knew Ace wouldn't say anything but the fact that you went looking for information made me very proud."

Marco felt the Phoenix settle down at the girl's words and couldn't help but to ask his next question, "What are you?"

Naruto's grin nearly splits her face, and everyone could see the terrifyingly sharp teeth that filled her mouth. "I'm a vixen. I would have thought my tails would have given it away."

Eyes land on the furry appendages " two tails...Devil fruit?" Izo asks, gaining a weird look from the tiny female

"Could be could be not that's for me to know and you to find out."

Izo smirks. "So it's not a devil fruit you were born like this."

Naruto pouts. "I guess that one was easy to figure out. Everyone automatically assumes that anything different is devil fruit-related no one can be different just for being different."

Izo nods. "I understand most don't know how to react with the fact that I prefer to dress as a woman, but I refuse to be insulted by being compared to an okama." Izo puts his fan under Naruto's chin so that he could get a better look at her eyes. "Such Lovely eyes you have; they remind me of the ocean." Naruto lets her eyes bleed red as she smirks at Izo. "I see... an ocean of blood. You are full of surprises."

Naruto throws her head back with a laugh. "You know what, Izo, out of everyone on this crew, you are the one I like." Naruto grabs the plate of food out of Thatch's hands, sending him a smile and a wink. She takes a bite of the sandwich, humming at finally getting some food, "Not bad bread head."

Thatch is once again found in a corner with a rain cloud growing mushrooms. He makes it too easy. Izo raises a perfectly arched eyebrow. "You aren't afraid that we could have poisoned the food?"

Naruto shakes her head. "Nah, Thatch isn't the type."

The eyebrow raises higher. "And how would you know that ?"

"Thatch is the type who wears his heart on his sleeve. That's how he was able to get Ace to care about him." Naruto takes a sip of water. "It also will get him killed one day." Naruto eyes a man on the edge ship before moving her eyes to look past Izo at Whitebeard. "sometimes your enemy is not the one hiding in the shadows. He is in the light waiting for his opportunity to sink back into the darknesses sweet embrace."

Izo frowns and drags Naruto off into a secluded corner. "What are you implying?"

Naruto frowns. "I have an ability that not even Ace knows about. He has little knowledge about it but not the full story."

Izo's eyes narrow " Then why are you telling me?"

"Because I know you will keep it to yourself until the time is right." Naruto sighs and looks up at Izo. "One of my abilities is to since the negative emotions or dark thoughts and evil intentions of the people around me." Naruto's tails stop moving. "It is not something that I can control. though I am working on it. It's almost like an instinct."

"Are you telling me that there is someone on this crew like that?"

Naruto smiles brightly, and she waves to someone behind Izo. The man turns to see Teach. Marshall D. Teach is an extremely tall man, being exactly twice Luffy's height. Not that Izo knew who Luffy was. He has a massive build as his body is round with relatively thin limbs. He has a big mouth with several broken or missing teeth: a pronounced crooked nose and an enormous and hairy chest and torso. Long, thick, woolly black hair falls down the back of his neck, underneath a black bandana, and a small scruffy black beard grows around his jawline. Teach wore an open buttoned white shirt with rolled-up sleeves, green trousers with black line patterns, a yellow sash around his waist, and classic black swashbuckler boots complete with large bronze buckles.

Now that he was looking for it, Izo could see what Naruto saw. Teach was eyeing Naruto with something that could only be described as hunger. This man who had been on the crew for twenty years was clearly not who they all thought he was. One thing was obvious he wanted Naruto.

Izo, ever the actor, smiled at Teach and was disgusted by the man's snaggle-toothed smile for the first time. But even then, Teach never took his eyes off of Naruto. Izo leans against the railing waving his fan in front of his face. "What does he want with you?"

Naruto shrugs, and her eyes drift over to Ace, who was in a wrestling match with Haruta. "This was my first time meeting him, so I can only guess. He just saw me kill over half of the crew, including the captain. So clearly, I'm strong. If I had to guess, he wants to use me and my strength to further his goals." Naruto sips some more water. "You know classic villain stuff."

Izo slumps his mind was racing; he knew he couldn't react to Teach right now. The large man hadn't done anything yet. He couldn't act differently around the man because it might make him cautious or, worse, take action faster. What that action as he had no idea, but he was not looking forward to finding out. "Still, why did you tell me any of this?"

"I was gonna tell Marco, but he doesn't like me very much, and his bird is scared of me. Because of all that, he wouldn't take my words seriously and would likely get angry at me for accusing someone from the crew of treason."

Izo nods. That was pretty spot on. Marco was currently sitting next to Pops and glaring at Naruto out of the corner of his eye. "I can see that, but why bring it up in the first place?"

Naruto looks at Ace again and sees the cheeky grin on his freckled face. "He doesn't know it yet, but Ace will join you" At Izo's shocked look, Naruto laughs, "Why do you think I'm here? It wasn't just for the toe-curling mind-numbing hot ass sex. Though that was an extremely BIG plus."

Izo shakes his head and adjusted himself so that his half erection was hidden. He clearly didn't know about Naruto's sense of smell. "Please stop talking about your sex life," he begs with a groan. "It's been hard enough this past week with everyone's libidos increasing and being too far from any island to do anything about it."

Naruto blinks, and then a blush takes over her face as she rubs the back of her head sheepishly. "That was my fault."

Izo snaps his head at her so fast he nearly got whiplash. "What?"

Naruto takes a page from Hinata's book and starts poking her fingers together. "Well, you see, I was in heat this past week, and my sent affects any one of the opposite genders within a three-mile radius. I was at the end of my heat when Ace called me, and well, I just couldn't hold back anymore."

Izo rubs a hand over his eyes. "So all of the sexual tension was unintentionally your fault?" At Naruto's nod, he sighs before something she said dawned on him. "You said Ace called you?" Naruto nods again. "Then how did you get here? there weren't any ships small or not for miles, and we haven't been to an island in weeks."

The sneaky smile takes over Naruto's face again, and she puts a finger to her lips. "Secret." With a giggle, Naruto takes off running.

Izo stares at the blond redhead blankly before Naruto turns around, waving his pistols in the air with her tongue sticking out. Izo quickly pats himself down to find his pistols were indeed missing. "NARUTOOO! GET BACK HERE WITH MY PISTOLS!"

Naruto jumps over various members of the crew. "GOTTA CATCH ME FIRST IZO!

Whitebeard and Marco watched this all go down with different expressions. Whitebeard was amused and thought the whole thing funny, and he longed once again to make the girl his daughter. Having her on the crew will keep him entertained for the rest of his life. His eyes drop to look at the tubes attached to his body. However long or short that may be.

He silently cursed the man...or woman who had snagged her first. He did have to wonder, though, what kind of person was it that she was willing to follow? Naruto seemed too much like a leader herself to follow anyone. Whoever they are, he can't wait to meet them someday.

Marco scowled; he wasn't sure what to feel right now. He had gone through so many different emotions in a short period of time that his head was spinning. From lust to rage to fear and confusion, frustration horror, and finally, with only a few words from a girl that barely reaches his chin, calm. How is she able to pull so many emotions out of him? Why does his Phoenix respect her so much? Is it because she's a Fox? But foxes don't have two tails. IS she a mythical zone like himself? It would make sense if she was. Her being a predator and him being a more or less prey in comparison.

Marco shakes his head; he was so confused. He looked up to see Naruto hop on Ace's back and make him run from Izo. He honestly had never seen Izo let loose like that. How did she do it? As for Ace...Marco knows he kinda fucked up with him by asking about Naruto. Hopefully, that won't stop Ace from joining. Naruto forgave him and even agreed with his methods of gathering information. She said it made her respect him. Maybe her opinion will transfer over to Ace. Both of them would make perfect members of the crew.

Though Naruto said that she was already promised to another crew. Whos the captain, and why isn't she with them now? What kind of man...or woman is good enough for her to turn down an invitation from Whitebeard? Now he's curious; he needs to find out more about her mysterious captain.

Kye kye- ok, so here is chapter 12 I want to thank everyone for the favorites and the follows I Love seeing them light up my email. I would also love to hear your thoughts. Is there anything you would like me to add to the story, or is there something you don't like? Please let me know.