Chapter 9:
Naruto dried off his hair with a mild fire jutsu as the steam closely clouded the mirror. WIth a single swipe of his hand he cleared the image and saw himself staring back. His hair had been dyed red, it reminded Naruto that he was Kushina's son and that he was an Uzumaki, he still had his father's blue eyes to remind him he was a Namikaze as well.
The idea was actually Danzo's, fuck that old man. Naruto had been travelling with the old bastard for over three days under a Henge when Danzo informed him to would be fairly easily for any good ninja worth their headband would be able to see through a simple Henge. So Naruto had to rely on physically changes instead.
Quickly Naruto put on a face mask that came to his nose and wore a pair of dark sunglasses. Now he looked completely different from before, his iconic whisker marks were covered, his blonde hair is gone and his blue eyes were now covered.
Naruto then put on several chakra suppression seals which reduced his chakra output to chunin level, incase any sensory type ninja's were sent after him and Danzo. Nodding at his disguise Naruto put on the rest of his black armour and ninja gear and walked out of the bathroom.
In their hotel room Danzo sat on the bed cross legged, Naruto walked in and Danzo slowly opened his one eye. "That is a very good disguise master."
Naruto nodded, "thanks old man. Any flaws?"
"Your voice," Danzo said, "it's unique. If the Hokage sends anyone to bring you back he will send a ninja who was on your gaurd detail, or someone who knows how you look and sound. They will expect you to hide, the disguise will work, but you must change your voice."
Naruto nodded and grumbled, "better?" Naruto asked in a rougher voice.
"Better," Danzo said as the man got up, "apply some chakra to your throat and it should help reduce any irritation in that area."
"I can't if I do that then I will-" Naruto stopped at that and stared at Danzo hoping the man didn't guess why he hesitated.
"Ah I see. That's how you use your powers of persuasion."
Naruto glared at the man, "I should have ordered you to be less annoying. You are too good at this for your own good."
"I was the head of ROOT. I was the best, which is what you wanted."
"Well then, 'the best', tell me, do you have a solution to my problem?"
"Very well then, I'll teach you a jutsu later for adjusting your voice, you should watch what you speak, it will consume chakra equal to the amount of words you speak."
Naruto nodded, "Good enough. Do you have any suggestions for where we can go now? Obviously the Fire Nation is not safe, with all the leaf ninja's everywhere."
Danzo nodded, "the Land of Iron. It is a neutral land located across the sea to the east. The land of filled with samurais, and ninjas. We should be able to hide there for a year or so before needing to move on."
Naruto nodded, "very well, how long until we reach the coast?"
"Three days at our current speed," Danzo said, "if we start now we might be able to get a ship in time leave as we arrive."
Naruto nodded and quickly packed all his stuff. He summoned three clones and sent them outside to buy and carry food and other materials they might need for the boat journey. Once ready Naruto and Danzo left their room and walked up to the hotel main desk. At the desk was an attractive woman in her late thirties with bright orange hair.
"Did you enjoy your stay Master Naruto?" the woman asked with a smile.
"I did madam," Naruto said as he smiled and slowly channeled chakra into his voice, "once we leave you will forget we were ever here. You will think that the room was simply off limits because an important client, who you can't seem to remember, reserved it and now canceled. Is there anyone else who saw us here?"
"No Master."
"Good. Is there any proof that we were here?"
"There is the log of you using said room."
"Destroy it then. Goodbye," Naruto said as he turned and walked away. But before he walked out he stopped and turned. He walked back to the woman and handed her a wad of cash, "for your troubles."
The woman smiled brightly at him and quickly the two ninja's walked out of the hotel. Once they reached the city limits the clones Naruto sent returned with scrolls filled with food and ninja weapons, the weapons he needed to replace but did not do so in Konoha.
As Naruto and Danzo ran towards the coast Naruto spoke up, "so tell me about this Land of Iron."
"The leader if a man named Mifune, he is a swordsman like every chakra user there. He is however very calm and collected, similar to a Nara, he is also very very intelligent. He is a great leader and even better warrior, he once took on Hanzo himself."
Naruto raised an eyebrow, "Hanzo?"
"My apologize, I mean the Salamander, the same one that named the Sannin of Konoha. Though he lost the battle he managed to impress the man, something only the Sannin had managed to do before."
"So you mean to tell me that we are heading to a land which is ruled by a man a strong as the Sannin? Are you sure he will not kick us out if we are found?"
"No he will not. If by chance he does discover us, which is unlikely, then he will simply ignore us. samurai have a habit of ignoring ninjas."
Naruto nodded, "very well. I realise now that I have lack of knowledge in this department, from now on teach me all that you know, and everything you think I might need to know to live in this world."
"You wish to know everything?"
"Yes, everything you know," Naruto replied and just like that the days traveling to the port to take them to the Land of Iron went by in a flash. The oral lesson were mostly verbal, Danzo taught Naruto about history, edicate, proper manners and even how to blend into royalty, things that Naruto didn't have to know if he was going to be just a mindless drone of the ROOT.
They arrived four days later late in the afternoon to the port which was called Kuma and looked a lot smaller than Konoha with it barely being bigger than an ordinary fishing port. Once there Naruto and Danzo decided to split up, well Naruto decided anyway. After sending Danzo away to gather a map for the Land of Iron Naruto walked around the town in search of people he could control.
Naruto first went to the city center where the mayor of the town and the most important people worked. Naruto then snuck into everyone of their offices and made them all into his slaves/spies. They were given orders to be loyal to him and all that and also told to inform his clones, whenever Naruto sends them on informations gathering mission, any information they think he might find interesting.
After setting up his first spy network Naruto then searched for a bar to find a captain. He made his way to downtown where he spotted a small wooden building with several sailors coming out of it already drunk. Naruto then readied himself and walked in.
Inside the bar were several sailors, each cranky and almost in a state of frenzy, it looked like a fight was about to break out. Naruto quickly and silently walked up to the bartender, who was a tall black skinned man with a deep scar across his chin. The man saw NAruto and looked startled, "aren't you a little young to be in here?"
Naruto channeled chakra into his throat, "listen well, I have every right to be here you see nothing wrong with me being here."
The man nodded, "I see nothing wrong with you being here. So what can I get for you?"
"Information, tell me who has the fastest boat here."
The man pointed at a large crew of people at the end of the bar all celebrating with rum and meat, "those people there claim they have the fastest ship in the sea, the black something or the other. They do have a good time on delivering goods though so I think they might just be what you want."
The crew looked like they had just came from a long journey and looked experienced. Naruto walked over there and quickly the sailors noticed them.
"Yo redhaired brat, what do you want?!" one of the men slurred out, the man was short, a dwarf with round earrings and raggy clothes.
"Who is the captain here?" Naruto asked as he ignored the man.
"Who wants to know?" asked a voice from inside the large group of people. Naruto looked inside and slowly the group parted giving view to a man with a three point hath laid on his face as he laid back on his chair seemingly sleeping.
"Depends," Naruto replied, "are you the captain?"
"And if I am?"
"Then I have a business deal for you."
The man slowly stood up as he placed his hat back on his head. He had a goatee with beads braided into it and a look of absolute calm. The man was skinny and had tattoos all over and had a wide smile which showed all his teeth, "a little lad like you? Do you even have the money?"
Naruto had enough of the little boy comment as it really started to irritate him, "shut up," he said with a little bit of chakra in his voice, "listen well, you all work for me now. Do have a boat?"
All the men nodded as suddenly the door of the bar came crashing in. Insider ran several guards and at their head was a man in a Yukata and a sword, he looked around everywhere and stopped at he spotted the crew Naruto was talking to.
"There!" the man cried out, "they're the ones who stole my goods! And that man bedded my wife!" the man cried as he pointed at the captain Naruto had just seized control off.
The crew then all ran before Naruto could tell them to stop as they broke the window all running out into the town, "where are you all going!?" Naruto asked.
"Away boss! The boat is on the docks and will be waiting for you!" cried out the captain as he followed his men out.
"You are the boss?!" the man from before cried out, "then I'll have your head!"
'Shit!' Naruto thought, 'I can't get into trouble so soon!' Naruto then jumped out the same window the others did and he ran away.
"Hey somebody has to pay for all this!" the barkeeper called out.
Naruto turned back and saw the men chase him with the sword wielding mad man from before in the lead. Naruto quickly ran into the market district and climbed onto the clothed tops of the markets shops as he jumped from one roof to another making sure not to tear any holes.
Behind him some soldiers followed him but they didn't have the balance of a ninja and so they tore the cloth roof and fell into the shops below.
Naruto then jumped back down and landed directly on top of one of the men from before and the man fell down. Naruto then turned just in time to dodge one of the yukata man's sword swings. Naruto moved back again and again as the man kept swinging trying to cut Naruto.
"Why are you attacking me?!" Naruto cried out.
"You slept with my wife!"
"No I didn't!"
"Your subordinate did!"
"Then go after him!" Naruto knew he couldn't control him now, to many witnesses. He kicked the man back and just as the man charged again Naruto grabbed a handful of chilly powder from a nearby stall and threw it into the man's face.
"AHH!" The man cried as he rubbed his eyes furiously. Naruto then grabbed the man then threw him towards the oncoming men and they all fell down like dominos.
Naruto grinned at this and quickly ran out of the market. Quickly he formed a henge and transformed into a woman and slowly walked to the market district again just as the men from before ran past him looking for him.
Naruto sighed and once they were out of sight transformed back. He then quickly jumped onto the rooftops and made his way to the docks. There he found the crew from before readying a black ship. Quickly Naruto summoned a clone to find Danzo and bring him here as the original walked up to the crew from before.
There at the helm of the ship was the captain who grinned when NAruto walked in board the ship, "boss you're back!"
Naruto got ticked off at the man's laid back voice, "you idiots left me there!"
"Well you had things under control so we decided not to worry too much, though it is strange how we all decided unanimously that you are going to be the boss now. Almost like mind control."
"And why do you think that?"
"No reason, are you mind controling us?"
"No."
"That means yes."
"No, no means no."
"But you are mind controlling us."
"Why do you think so?"
"Because you are!"
Naruto sighed, "never mind that. Is the crew ready to seat sail captain?"
The man nodded and turned around to a fat elderly man with muttonchops, "oye Gibbs are the men ready?!"
The man saluted, "Aye they are captain. Where are we going though?"
The captain smiled at "nevermind that Gibbs I and the boss will tell you that when you need to know!"He then turned to Naruto, "where are we going boss?"
Just as Naruto was about to answer Danzo and the clone walked aboard the ship. The clone dispersed and Danzo walked up to Naruto, "this was the crew you found?"
Naruto ignored Danzo and turned to the captain, "we are going to the Land of Iron. Can you do that?"
The man nodded and turned to Gibbs who was now tieing up rope for the sails, "rails the sails Gibbs! We are going for the Land of Iron!"
"But captain we have never been to the Land of Iron!" Gibbs replied as the rest of the crew raised the anchor and released the sails.
"We're pirates Gibbs discovering new lands is what we do!" the man said as he walked to the ship's wheel, "now let's go!"
"You're pirates?!" Naruto asked aloud.
The man grinned back, "Aye!" Just then a black flag flew out on the top of the ship it was a skeleton with a scarf on it's head looking sideways at a red sparrow.
"What's your name?" Naruto asked.
"The names Jack Sparrow, Captain Jack Sparrow. And you boss are riding on the Black Pearl," the pirates captain said as he adjusted his hat and grinned at Naruto. The ship was then off as it slowly left the port.
Just then Naruto was pulled aside by Danzo and the man whispered, "putting aside we are now part of a pirate crew, there are bigger issues."
"Like what?" Naruto asked wondering what could possibly go wrong now.
"While I was sent on that pointless task of yours," Danzo said glaring, "I found that there were ninjas from Konoha inside the town. I think they were sent after us." Danzo then pointed at one of the streets of the town and there standing by the waterside talking among themselves were three men dressed like Konoha ninja's.
Naruto frowned, "were you followed?"
"No," Danzo replied, "but I think it is best me form a distraction of sorts in order to by the pirates enough time to escape, ninjas can after all walked on water."
Naruto nodded as he summoned 20 or so clones. The clones quickly performed a henge and then jumped onto the sea, landed and then took off into town where they started to cause a whole lot of mischief.
As the ship sailed away Jack came up to Naruto with a telescope, "wow didn't know you were a ninja boss."
"And what makes...oh never mind. Yeah I am a ninja what off it?"
"Nothing," Jack said, "I do feel better though. For a second there I thought I was being mind controlled by just a child, that would be a nightmare."
Naruto nodded as he understood Jack's fear, though he still couldn't understand how the man could remains calm knowing he was being mind controlled. NAruto then watched his clones as they set random fires throughout the town. Once the Konoha ninja's noticed the fire and the cries for help them moved immediately helping out the civilians and ignoring Naruto.
Naruto knew his clones would not harm any civilians, they were him after all. They would cause minor fires here and there and maybe even a cause a couple of riots with their mind control but nothing too damaging, just enough to distract the Konoha ninjas.
Naruto walked up to Jack by the wheel of the ship and watched the horizon as the sun slowly set. He then summoned several clones and sent them through the ship to ensure every crew member there was under his control and would never do anything to betray him. Afterwards the clones set out to help the crew with the ship while Naruto slept in the crow's nest, something he had always wanted to do.
The next day Naruto woke up and met Danzo for his training. "So what are we doing today?"
Danzo took out a ball of clay from his pocket and handed it to Naruto, "this is the next level of chakra control. You must infuse this clay with chakra and then move it using only your chakra."
"That doesn't sound too bad," Naruto said as he put the ball of clay in his hand and slowly pushed more and more chakra into the ball of clay. When it was filled with his chakra the clay glowed blue, he then tried to push the chakra to the left and waited for the clay to move along with it. Instead the clay stood absolutely still with nothing changing.
"What the hell?" asked Naruto bewildered, "why isn't it moving?"
"This exercise is to help you get a feel for the chakra you project outwards," Danzo said, "all ninjutsu involving chakra causes you to feel the chakra move around you. A henge causes you to be coated with your chakra, a fireball tells you how it feels to launch chakra through your mouth. Every chakra user over time learns to ignore this feeling, like the sound of your own heart beat. But with this training you will regain this feeling."
Danzo then took the clay and slowly the clay glowed blue again and this time it transformed into a kunai which Danzo threw and embedded into the ship, then slowly the clay grew soft again and the kunai bent downwards.
"This method of teaching will help you with Earth manipulation, which will be useful for defensive moves, and will help you better save you chakra when using moves like you're Uzumaki chains."
Naruto nodded as he slowly picked up the clay and molded it into a ball. He sat down on the ship floor and summoned several clones and they all began training with using the clay which Naruto divided into smaller pieces.
"After each clone finishes his clay make the clay bigger and bigger and slowly reduce the amount of clones you use. Then after you are successful in that jump of the ship and practise your clay manipulation will walking on water."
Naruto nodded again as slowly the clones got to work again. Naruto quickly managed to move the clay in his hand due to it being far smaller than before. Then the number of clones slowly reduced and the size of the clay grew.
Days quickly passed by as Naruto continued to practise his chakra control exercises until he could do it even while walking on the sea. Naruto also grew closer to the crew learning everything about them, eventually he became friends with them and they accepted him as one of them, they were still pissed that Naruto was mind controlling them though.
Naruto also contributed to the journey by using clones to man the ship while others took a break and even by using wind jutsu's to make to ship sail faster. Due to them leaving early supplies was in short so Naruto used his water jutsu's to give the crew fresh water for them the drink and used his clone to dive into the sea for fishes to eat.
Two weeks after their journey began Naruto found himself in the crow's nest again reading a scroll from the Uchiha library which he had his clones copy. Just then he heard Jack call, "oye Naruto! Come down here!"
Naruto put away the scroll and stood up, "why?"
"Because we have company!"
Naruto was slightly surprised and quickly jumped down. He walked up to Jack who was to the left of the ship holding up a telescope. "What's the matter Jack?"
"We have pirates up ahead," Jack said as he handed the telescope to Naruto.
Naruto looked thru it and saw a bright red boat approaching them with the black flag of pirates, "damn, I guess we do have company. So what's the plan of attack?"
"Attack?" Jack asked, "oh no no no boss. There will be no attack. We are going to run we might just make it, ordinarily we would easily be able to avoid them if we had someone on the crow's nest looking out, but since someone," Jack looked at him, "decided it was going to be their own personal quarters we are in trouble."
Naruto grinned, "we are not going to run Jack, we are going to fight."
Jack's eyes widened, "what?! Why should we fight them when we can avoid them? It will be easy just turn the ship around."
"I didn't take you for a coward Jack."
"I am not a coward, I am a pirate. And as a pirate I wish to live and not fight, so what say you boss?" Jack said smiling at Naruto and trying to convince him otherwise.
Naruto smiled back and quickly before Jack could move grabbed his sword and nicked his hat. Naruto jumped to the upper deck and raised the sword overhead, "set sail towards the pirates mates! We got a ship to pulder!"
The men yelled out, "AR!" While Jack yeld out, "GIVE BACK MY HAT!"
Naruto grinned and spun the ship wheel to the left changing the ship's direction to face the enemy ship directly. He tossed Jack his hat back, who looked like he was on the verge of tears, and summoned a light wind jutsu to speed the boat forward.
As they neared the ship everyone on board got their weapons ready and Naruto summoned several clone which either transformed into pieces of rope hiding on the ship or random crew members increasing the number of people fighting.
The ships were now a few feet away but Naruto could not wait, he jumped upwards, along with his crew disguised clones, and landed inside the enemy ship. The men definitely looked like pirates and when they saw him land in their ship most of them looked like they were going to give up, but Naruto had different ideas.
Naruto jumped towards the closest enemy, a pirate with a broken nose, and pushed the man in the gut. He grabbed the man's head with one hand and threw him like a ball towards several others who were walking towards him.
Naruto then quickly made several hand signs and summoned a great fireball jutsu and shot it towards the front of the ship where it burnt several people before flying off the edge. Naruto had aimes it in such a way that it didn't harm the ship to bad only setting on fire a rope or two.
Naruto then turned and saw his clones fight against the rest of the crew, with most of the members struggling to hold them back. Naruto ran threw all the crew members will his kunai out, blood flew from several necks and by the time Jack and his crew arrived on the ship half of the men were dead or dying.
Just then a huge body of chakra moved through the ship destroying clones of Naruto. The original moved just in time to avoid a blue blade that came for his head and jumped back and attached himself on the central mast of the ship.
The person who attacked him was a man dressed in a hot pink shirt with black pants with a long grey beard. He looked old, very old with wrinkles across his face, but the biggest feature of his was his smile which looked like the smile of a man who just found food after going threw a diet.
The man twirled two short grey blades on each hands as he approached Naruto. "Finally a battle!" the man cried out, "a battle with a child, but a battle none the less! Now face the wrath of the ronin of the sea, Garku!"
Naruto narrowed his eyes and kicked himself towards Garku with a kunai in each hand. He threw them both, which Garku blocked with ease. Naruto performed several hand seals, landed behind the man while he deflected the kunai and then out of his mouth was a giant gust of wind, "wind release: Great Breakthrough!"
The man turned and then smirked as the blast of wind hit him head on. He however was not blown back, he stood in the same spot and raised his small 5 inch swords in front of him which then expanded into a longer blue blade that cut through Naruto's wind.
Naruto jumped back the moment the blue blade came out, 'chakra swords,' Naruto thought recognizing the blade, 'he must be trained as a samurai.'
"Smart move brat," the man said, "stay too close and I'll cut you in half."
Naruto motioned for the clones and his pirates to move aside leaving a lot of room for the samurai and him to fight. Naruto looked at them man, analyzing him for weaknesses and then suddenly he disappeared.
Appearing in front of the man with a fist drawn back Naruto punched the man's stomach, but before it could make contact the samurai jumped back and sheathed his swords. Then suddenly the man charged forward and in a flash of silver he drew his blades from their sheets and cut Naruto across.
Naruto then burst into smoke revealing it was a clone. Garku turned around and looked just in time to see the real Naruto tie him up with chakra string and then he lit it on fire with fire chakra. Garku smirked and then a layer of blue chakra appeared around his body, he flexed his arms, cutting the wire and escaped before he got burnt.
Before Naruto could react to this Garku was already on him as he tried to cut Naruto over and over again. Naruto kept moving backwards and struggled to keep up as this pushed his reactions time to the very limits.
The samurai was faster than him, but he needed to out think him, not out move him. Naruto jumped up and landed on main mast again and quickly ran up the pole. Naruto was almost to the crow's nest when he turned around and saw Garku was not there, he was not any where on the ship deck. Naruto wiped his head forward and moved just in time to dodge a downward swing from Garku who was above him.
'Did he jump high enough to go above me?!' Naruto thought as he grabbed a loose rope and swung himself to the wooden frame of the sail. Naruto turned just in time and saw Garku already ready to rush him. 'How the hell did he get there already?!'
Naruto drew out the sword he took from Jack and leveled it in front of him. Garku saw this and laughed, "you want to sword fight a samurai?! You stupid boy!"
Naruto charged Graku with a swing to the side which he samuri blocked with one sword as he swung at Naruto with the other. Naruto jumped up, avoiding the swing and then kneed the man in the face.
Landing behind Garku Naruto got up just as the samurai blindly swung at Naruto while holding his now bleeding nose. Naruto smirked at the man's injury and quickly began performing the hand signs for a wind jutsu to blast the man away.
Garku drew back his swords into their sheaths, he charged Naruto and before the boy could finish his last seal swiped across his hands forcing NAruto to abandon his jutsu in order to save his hands.
Naruto grabbed two kunai and held it up as Garku re sheathed his swords. The man then glowed blue and suddenly the two swords disappeared and moved in flashes of blue light trying to strike Naruto's vital points. Naruto moved blocking some of the many attacks as best as he could with his kunai but Naruto tripped as he moved back and fell off the wooden beam they were fighting on.
The sea Ronin stopped his attack and looked down to see Naruto. He bent closer and searched the deck for the fallen boy, the redheaded boy was too strong to die from a fall like that. Just then Naruto's face appeared in front of the man, from under the beam where Naruto stood upside down, and the Uzumaki commanded, "stop."
Garku stopped moving, he even stopped breathing. Just then Naruto spoke again, "breath, but other than that don't move a muscle."
Garku then sighed and drew in a deep breath as Naruto continued, "listen well, you are now my slave. You will do everything I ask of you and you will always remain loyal to me. Do you understand?"
The man with the hot pink shirt nodded and slowly the two walked down where both pirate screws stopped fighting. Naruto then spent the rest of the day making Goku's crew, he was the captain, his slaves as well. Later as the sun seat Naruto sat with Danzo, Garku and Jack in the captain's quarters of the black pearl.
"What is a samurai doing in the ocean?" Danzo asked.
"I am a ronin," Garku replied, "a rogue samurai. I was banished from my land and so I took what skills I have and used them to become the best pirate around."
"Ah excuse me," Jack interrupted, "I do believe that I am the best pirate around."
"You?" Garku said studying the man up and down, "yeah, sure you are."
"Getting back on track," Naruto said interrupting the two captains staring contest, "why were you banished?"
"I tried to kill my master."
"Why?"
"I wanted to test my skills in battle. I failed however, my skills were not enough, I lost badly."
"Are you lying to me?" Naruto asked.
"No."
"Are you telling me the whole truth?"
"No," the man said with a sigh. The slave Naruto had, especially the strong one were finding loopholes to his commands, he needed to fix that before it came back to bite him in the back.
"Then what are you leaving out."
"I was also caught in bed with a married woman or more specifically my master's wife. Things did not go well."
"I'm surprised they didn't just kill you," Jack said with a grin.
"People of the Land of Iron are not that barbaric," Garku said, "exile is their worst punishment."
Naruto nodded to this "very well. Garku what is your goal in life?"
"To live as long as possible and fight as much as possible."
"Then you will travel with me and Danzo and while you do you will teach me how to fight like a samurai. Understood?"
Garku nodded, "understood master. But what off my ship?"
"Well technically it is my ship no, isn't it?"
"Yes master it is yours."
"Then for the time being Jack will be the captain for both his and your ship. After we reach the Land of Iron you and Jack will be given specific assignments for me, understood?"
Garku grumbled when hearing that JAck would be commanding his ship, "yes master."
"I must say you are a very smart master," Jack said with a grin, "I of course am a real pirate unlike pointed over here."
"I am a real pirate!" Garku said as he held his undrawn sword's handle
"A real pirate wouldn't have gotten caught when sleeping with a man's wife."
And just like that Jack and Garku began a fight they would wage over the two week it would take to reach the Land of Iron. The two crew worked perfectly in sync, mostly due to Naruto's absolute control over them in telling them to behave. There was no fights or break outs, soon the two crew started to even talk to each other, which Naruto found promising for the future.
Naruto on the other hand began training with Garku who while could teach Naruto the basics, who a bad teacher. He was horrible due to the fact the man poured with natural talent and relied on pure instinct rather than skill to fight.
Naruto first was told to make several gravity seals all over his body, a seal he had learned from ROOT. With his body weighed down with 20 pounds on each limb Naruto was then made to wear stronger chakra suppressors which made him have civilian like chakra levels.
But these chakra suppressors were special. They were from the Land of Iron and instead of simply blocking chakra flow they acted like shackles which absorbed chakra like a sponge. So in oder to move Naruto had to fully concentrate his chakra flow into the seals. This, according to Garku would help improve Naruto's chakra flow immensely in the future when the seals were taken off, but for now they stayed on.
Everyday Naruto would be made to push himself to his very limits as he struggled to perform very simple tasks like tying ropes to just walking around the deck of the ship. The biggest challenge to Naruto however was simply climbing up stairs without falling over.
But as the days progressed so did Naruto until he could move without to much of a struggle. Eventually he gained back his body's reflexes and movability, before Garku increased the weights again forcing Naruto to start from scratch.
Soon the day of docking came. Naruto now wore a heavy fur cloak over his normal black ninja gear and bandages all over his hands to cover up the gravity and suppression seals. Danzo wearing a similar cloak with his face covered with an ANBU mask stood next to Naruto as the boats readied the boats for landing by removing their pirate flags and replacing them with the flag of the fire nation, after all who would allow pirates to dock in their ports?
The Black pearl and the Fresh Wind docked side by side on port 4 and the ramps came down. Naruto and Danzo got down quickly followed by the two crews and their respective captains. Naruto looked at the port town, and so the building were all covered in snow. In fact everything was covered in snow. The town was called Tetsushi or New Iron town, it was filled with buildings all perfectly square each a different shade of grey and roads that was clear of garbage and pollution, so very unlike Konoha. Naruto didn't like it all that much, the scenery and the buildings all made the place look lifeless.
Naruto turned to the crew there and smiled, "from now on you two ship will be allies," he said as he release the chakra suppression seal just enough to command them, "your mission is to send all of the profit you find in your adventures to the Neo-Frost district in Konoha. Over there the Nagasaka family will provide you with homes to stay in and will make you part of Konoha. Simply tell them you are with me," Naruto then gave the crew a letter with instructions for the head of the yakuza, "give this to the head of the yakuza."
Jack accepted the letter with a nod, "will do boss. Anything else we need to do?"
"Yes, if you ever find anything you might think is interesting for me, keep it in mind. I'll probably finish in the Land of Iron in about a years time, hopefully. So in a year's time meet me in this port."
"You wish to learn the way of the samurai in a year's time?" Garku asked.
"Yes."
"HAHA!" the man laughed as he slowly walked back to his ship, "well then good luck boss. If anything else you are stubborn enough to do just that."
Naruto grinned, "yeah sure. Now the rest of you leave. We will see each other next year." Naruto then turned around as the pirates waved him goodbye. Soon the two ships were back into the sea and quickly separated to go plunder the sea for all it's worth.
Naruto smiled at the ship's leaving figure and turned to go into town. The place was surprisingly warm for a snowy area, must be something to do with the steam that came from the pipes attached to the side of each building.
As Naruto went further and further inside he and Danzo spotted several people looking at them with curiosity. Ignoring the stares the two made way to the center of the town where Naruto planned on mind controlling the people in charge. But before they reached the town hall suddenly samurais jumped out of the shadows. The samurai formed a tight circle around Naruto and Danzo as Naruto absolved the soldiers.
The men wore grey armor with long metal plates on their shoulders, chest and her tight white gauntlets and helmets with what looked like breathing masks. The drew their swords which were 5 inches long and then suddenly grew as a blue blade appeared over it. There were about 30 in total, much more than Naruto could handle on his own Garku alone almost killed him, and his training was incomplete. Who knew what fully trained samurais could do?
Just then then the men separated in front of Naruto and an old man walked towards them. He wore bandages over his hair and had grey hair that came down to his hip with a goatee and a thin mustache. The man wore a yukata with a sword at his side. The man looked at Naruto and then at Danzo as he analyzed the two with calm eyes. His face gave nothing away.
"So," he began almost deathly calm, "what bring the nine tailed jinchuuriki and the leader of the ROOT to the land of Iron?"
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