Yo scorpions, this is where the story gets into the canon One Piece, I had more in mind but thought to save it for later plot points…anyways, hope you'll enjoy the third chapter of CFTFB, by the title of the chapter you should be able to guess at what happens.

"Regular speech"

"Extreme Emphasis on something"

'Regular Thought'

"DEMONIC or Really pissed off speaking"

'DEMONIC or Really pissed off Thought'

Weapons connecting or cannon/gun fire

Den Den Mushi response

Title or jutsu

WARNIN: language, violence, and fact differences (I'm basically taking a light bulb and making a lava lamp)

I own nothing, except my OC's…wish I did own at least ONE of the anime, game, movie, etc. I've/will put in here. On a side note if any of you find a mistake I overlooked please tell me about it in a P.M. (If you don't want to leave a review of something like that) and I'll fix it…Thank you.

Chapter three: A Rookie sets sail

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(Somewhere in the ocean)

A large cruise ship was sailing by a whirlpool, two of the ships sailors were resting on the railing of the ship looking out at it. The most surprising thing about the whole thing, that went unnoticed by the sailors, was the fact a teen was WALKING across the water towards the ship. This was surprising considering he had blonde, spikey hair, and was wearing a form fitting orange jumpsuit, with black color going from around the neck and shoulders, down the front and sleeves of the suit; it made a black T-like shape, if looking from a distance you couldn't see his most noticeable marks, three fox-like whisker marks on either side of his face. Oddly enough he had a black headband with a leaf symbol on it, and brown Shinobi sandals.

"I don't know how he did it!" The teen yelled. "I fell asleep!" There was a pause like he was listening to someone talk.

"No! I'm not gonna kill him! He's my brother!" After a moment his eye twitched in barley controlled rage. "Listen I don't care if were not blood related, he is still my brother." Another moment of silence.

"FUCK YO-"

"PIRATES ARE COMING!" He was interrupted by a terrified shout coming from the cruise ship.

The blonde looked up and saw a ship coming by with hearts on the sails. Boom, Boom, Boom, three cannon balls landed right in front of the ship kicking up small walls of water.

"Aw shit."

(On the cruise ship)

All of the passengers were freaking out, all but one that is a slender, orange haired, girl, who only smirked, joy showing through her brown eyes. She hid from the running passengers and ripped off her elegant dress revealing a blue t-shirt, purple pants, and wrist bands with the same color as her pants. She put on a blue bandanna.

In another section of the ship a barrel slammed into a wall then hit a doorway, spinning into the storage, and slamming in another group of barrels.

(With the blonde)

The cruise ship took a great deal of damage to its sails so it'd stop moving and the pirate ship moved to a docking position.

That didn't stop the blonde, who was now walking UP the side of the ship, opposite where the pirate ship was boarding the cruise ship. He hopped over the railing and landed on the ship with a crouch. 'I can sense that Baka's chakra, he's somewhere below deck.' He stood up and moved to a door a small, pink haired boy went in that was wearing sailor-like clothing, he figured it lead to the lower deck since the kid looked so terrified and was probably going to hide.

He got slightly distracted when he saw a girl with orange hair, dressed like a pirate, board the pirate's ship. He watched as she snuck to a door that led to its interior, the door opened and a pirate looked over, surprise etched on his face. The whiskered blonde was about to act when she shot her leg up right in-between the unsuspecting man's legs, causing him to drop like a rock unconscious.

The orange clothed man cringed and shook his head. 'Fuck! That's gotta hurt.' He watched her enter the ship and then turned around, his eye twitched in annoyance with what he saw.

"Who are you?" One of the many pirates surrounding the blonde asked they all had weapons drawn and aimed at him.

"No one important, just some guy looking for his brother." He said disarmingly they looked at each other.

"Well Mr. just some guy. Give us your cash." The blonde only sighed.

(Below deck)

The pink haired boy the blonde noticed earlier was pushing a heavy barrel along when three pirates came from around the corner.

The largest one smirked. "COBY!" The pink haired boy jumped. "Are you hiding again?"

"N-no i-I found th-this wine barrel for Alvida-sama." The three smirked and the largest one picked up the barrel.

"Well let's give it a taste!" the other two chuckled while horror was engraved on Coby's face.

"Y-you can't do that! Alvida-sama would g-get mad!" the others only laughed at him.

"If she doesn't know she won't." They threatened and the largest one cocked his fist back and was about to bust the barrel open when black-haired teen wearing a straw-hat, a red vest, blue shorts, and sandals, did so from inside said barrel yelling about how that was such a great nap, and knocking the large man out.

"What the?" He looked at the unconscious man, then the surrounding people. "Who are you?"

They ignored the man. "Y-you bastard! Don't you know were pirates!" They yelled, brandishing their swords.

He ignored the two. "Where am I?" He asked Coby, his question went unanswered as the rage of the other two boiled over.

"YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!" The two raised the swords and Coby looked away in fear.

The sound of metal snapping rang out and the glasses wearing boy looked back after a moment. The two pirates, who attacked the teen were on their asses, broken swords in hand and were shaking in fear.

"W-who are you?" One of the pirates asked.

"Me?" He crossed his arms. "I'm Monkey D. Luffy! Nice to meetcha." He smiled and the two ran out of the room dragging their friend behind while screaming. "What's with them?"

Coby got over his surprise. "Hurry up and run! When they come back you'll be killed!" Luffy shrugged it off.

"Even so, I'm hungry." He used his nose to sniff out some food, completely ignoring the pink haired boy trying to 'save' his life. "Wonder where bro is?"

(With the blonde)

He was walking by as two men came running by dragging a third screaming something along the lines of there's a monster.

'I must be getting close.' The whiskered blonde thought as he walked by. He followed his targets chakra signature to a closed door and sighed, opening the door.

(With Luffy)

The straw-hat wearing teen had just finished eating a crate of apples and was walking away after telling Coby of his dream to be the Pirate King not 'cause he could but 'cause he wanted to.

"Could I do it?" He asked himself causing Luffy to turn and look at the boy. "Not afraid to die, I could join the marines?" this is when the blonde walked it.

"Marines?" The new arrival asked with a raised eyebrow, causing Luffy to smile and look over.

"That's right!" He didn't really notice the blonde right now, or care for that matter. "It's been my dream to catch bad guys since my childhood! Can I do it!?" he asked. "No! I WILL do it!" He said before any one could say anything.

After Coby ranted about catching Alvida and joining the marines, Luffy looked at the blonde. "Hi Naruto, looks like you survived the whirl pool too bro!" Said blonde growled, but before he could berate Luffy, A very large woman busted through the upper deck.

"Who are you going to catch Coby!?" She roared as five blades penetrated the wall behind Luffy and Naruto. She moved her mace so it was resting on her shoulder. "Hmm, you're not the pirate hunter Zoro."

"Zoro?" The clueless duo asked.

"Coby! Who is the most beautiful woman in this ocean?"

"W-well that most definitely be-" Coby couldn't finish his answer

"Who's this fat ass?" Luffy asked causing everyone, except Naruto, to gape at the black-haired boy.

Alvida was livid at him and went to smash him with her massive club. "BRAT!" she yelled with rage as she brought the mace down the two brothers dodged with Luffy landing next to Coby.

"Let's go." He picked the pink-haired boy up and jumped on the top deck avoiding a sweep from the mace, meeting the blonde on the deck as well.

A pirate started attacking Luffy and Naruto with his blade they dodged easily and jumped back when four more lunged at the duo. From behind a pirate tried to cut Luffy in half but he just side-stepped the slash, while Naruto elbowed the man in the face and took his sword from his grasp.

Luffy grabbed the dazed man by his face. "It's not nice to attack someone from behind!" he threw the man into his other comrades knocking them all down. They looked over their shoulders when they sensed a presence; the straw-hat wearing teen ran away screaming as the whisker marked blonde jumped to the side.

"It's not nice to all attack at once either!" He sounded fearful, but grabbed on to the mast as he ran by, his arm stretching out as he ran causing the others to stop in surprise. They did a few double takes between the hand and where Luffy was, they looked up to see Luffy looking back at them with an evil grin. "Just kidding!" They yelped out in surprise and turned tail to get away but it was already too late.

At this time Alvida popped her head out of the hole she made earlier. Her eyes widened as she saw the teen stretching.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow clone Jutsu)!" The yell made her look over to Naruto, seeing smoke that died down after a few moments, revealing that there were now three copies of said blonde, and surprising her and her crew even further.

"Gomu Gomu no Rocket!" Straw-hat yelled as he lifted his feet up and shot across the deck, knocking many of the pirates down. The three Naruto's made short work of any of the pirates Luffy missed, it was frightening to the pirates on their Capitan's ship to say the least, and they met each other with grins.

Coby walked up to the two. "Luffy-san, Naruto-san, Wh-what are you?"

"Me? I'm a rubber man!" Luffy stated, while stretching his face to emphasize his point.

Naruto flicked the headband, also called a Hitai-ate, with a smirk. "I'm a Shinobi!" that got even more surprise from the group.

"R-rubber man…Sh-shinobi…That's-" Coby straightened a little and his eyes widened when he felt Alvida behind him. Quickly, he ran behind the two brothers for safety.

"You ate the devil's fruit right?" She asked the rubber man.

"Yea. I ate the rubber fruit." This elicited a hum out of Alvida .

The mace-wielding woman then looked over at the smirking blonde. "You're someone even more surprising, how'd you steel the marines secrete techniques?" Naruto's smile faded to a frown.

"I didn't." Was his growled out response. Ignoring that for the time being.

"You two have some moves. Are you bounty hunters?" she inquired the duo.

They chuckled. "No. we're pirates." They simultaneously stated.

"Just you two?" She laughed.

"It's just us right now, but I'll find us a crew." Luffy confidently stated.

Out of the corner of his eye Naruto saw the orange-haired girl from earlier sneak out of the pirates ship with a large bag over her shoulder, it brought a grin to his face. 'So she's a pirate loot thief?'

"I see, you really are pirates. That means were enemies then." Her voice had a threatening undertone to it.

"R-run." The brothers looked back at the fearful Coby. "You saw the power of her club? This person is the stron-"The words died in his throat as he looked at the uncaring expression on the duo's faces.

He remembered Luffy's words in the storage room. 'I've decided to become the pirate king, I don't care if I die fighting for it.'

"I'm the what?" Alvida mocked the small boy.

"You're the…the…the fattest, ugliest, oldest hag in the world." He closed his eyes in fear as the two brothers laughed.

"What did you say?"

"You herd me you fat bitch! I'll join the marines and fight pirates like you." He was undeterred as he continued to speak. "I'll join the marines and capture you!"

"YOU LITTLE SHIT!" She roared in an animalistic rage as she raised her club. Coby screamed, cried a little, and thought. 'No regrets, no regrets, nope none at all. I've fought for my beliefs." In his head as he waited for the finishing blow.

Luffy moved to intercept the hit. "Well said!" The mace came down hard, with Luffy only moving a little bit from the pressure. "Doesn't hurt."

"What!" Alvida didn't notice the blonde jump up till it was too late, he kicked the mace with his right foot, causing weapon to be thrown up, barely held in her grasp, and Alvida to lose her balance as well.

"It doesn't hurt because I'm rubber!" He yelled as he stretched his hand far back. "Gomu Gomu no Pistol!" The appendage snapped back and connected with the women's stomach. The air was forced out of her lungs as she, comically, soared through the sky and disappeared.

Naruto looked at the remaining pirates. "OI!" they fearfully looked over at the blonde.

"W-what?" They all asked.

"Give Coby a boat. He's gonna join the marines so leave him alone."

"R-right." They responded and shot off.

Just then three cannon balls landed around the ships, warning shots, for the pirates. "It's the marines. Isn't that great, you should go, I'm a pirate, so bye." Luffy quickly said then grabbed hold of his hat and hopped over the rail with Naruto in tow, they landed in the boat.

"They'd arrest me before I could!" With that he hopped in as well.

(Just below the ship)

The orange-haired girl, who was now without the bandanna, smiled as she thought how lucky she was. 'Thanks to those pirates I'm closer to my goal.' She looked up when she saw a shadow and yelped.

Another ship came down right next to hers, she ducked down to avoid getting soaked.

When the dingy landed Luffy and the thief locked eyes and he winked at her, a cannon ball landed in between the boats, shooting up a small wall of water and blocking her view. When the water settled the dingy was nowhere to be seen.

She shook her head at the odd teen's action towards her.

(Later)

"We got away! Nice going bro!" Luffy laughed. "That was fun!"

Naruto just shook his head and laid back. "Um, Luffy?" the two looked at Coby. "If One Piece is your goal, than your heading to the grand line, right? It's also called the pirates graveyard."

Luffy nodded in understanding. "Yea. That's why I need a strong crew."

That caused Naruto to remember what that fat woman said earlier. "What about that pirate hunter guy…Zoro?"

Coby looked at the whisker marked blonde. "Last I heard he was captured by the marines."

What, he's weak then?" Luffy questioned sounding disappointed.

"Not at all! He's a terrifying beast!" He looked between the two. "W-why are you asking?" he was almost afraid of the answer.

"Well I figured if we need a crew than bro could ask him." The Shinobi shrugged.

Luffy thought about it. "Well if he's a good guy I'll make him part of the crew." Surprise was etched on Coby's face. "Do you know where he is?"

Before he realized what he was doing he pointed out there was a marine base nearby and that's where the pirate hunter was…shit…

"Well, LET'S GO!" The future Capitan yelled as he pointed to where the island was. Naruto made two shadow clones that picked up the oars and began rowing to the island where they would hope fully gain Zoro as a crew member.

(On said island in the crucifix grounds)

A man wearing a white t-shirt, a green haramaki over his right hip, and black pants, he also wore a black bandanna on his head. He looked up and grinned slightly showing three gold earrings in his left ear. 'Only ten days left.'

(With the trio)

"That's an amazing ability Naruto-san!" Coby had stars in his eyes. "What devils fruit did you eat?"

"Well when I made those clones they weren't from a devils fruits power, there called jutsu and they come from something called chakra."

Coby had a hopeful look on his face. "C-could I learn to use it." Naruto smirked.

"Well the older you are the harder it is to learn to use it…so…yea you could." He laughed when he saw the stars in the pink-haired boy's eyes. "Yea you could use it, you could use it to make tsunamis, tornados, earthquakes, fire-balls, and even electric armor. By putting some chakra in your limbs you could punch a hole in concrete, or run on walls." By now Coby was drooling, Luffy already knew about this, but still had a similar reaction.

"SO COOL!" Coby exclaimed Naruto turned serious then.

"That's all possible and all, but if you learn this you HAVE to be extremely careful." He had the pink-haired boys' full attention now. "Most people don't experience this because they never really use it but, if you use too much chakra you could pass out, or even DIE!" Coby was slightly fearful, but Naruto's disarming smirk helped him get over it. "You might wanna have the marines help you out here kid, we got trained by people who have A LOT of expertise using it." Naruto sighed as the tied up the small boat when it got close enough to the dock.

"You'll probably have it easier than people like us." The group began moving to the town.

"People like you?" Coby asked with eyes narrowed in contemplation.

"Devil fruit users." Was his simple response, the surrounding civilians looked at the group with some fear.

"B-but I thought you said you didn't have a-"

"Oh no I do. It's one of the truly rare devil fruits." That was all he said on the subject as the group moved on, in relative silence till Luffy groaned.

"Where's Zoro?" The civilians jumped away from the three. "O-kay." Luffy said after looking at the people like they were crazy.

"Maybe his names taboo here?" Coby reasoned, quieter than before. "He's probably being held at their base." He pointed at the top of the island, where said base was located. "I think it's up there?" He thought about it then said. "I heard Capitan Morgan is in cha-" again the civilians jumped away in fear.

he was surprised at that but it didn't really matter to Luffy, he ran by, grabbing Coby by the collar of his shirt and running off to the way he pointed, with the whisker-marked blonde following after. "These people are odd." He mentioned as he thought about their reactions.

"LUFFY WAIT UP!" The blonde called out.

The trip was quick; Luffy made it and let Coby go who was out of breath using his knees as a rest, Naruto showed up last. He looked up and saw the two brothers sitting on the wall surrounding the base, before he could call out he was thrown up by a clone and caught by the straw-hat pirate who set him to his left.

"That's him?" Luffy pointed, causing Coby to look at the tied up individual.

His eyes widened. 'Black, bandanna, green haramaki, that's Zoro.' He swallowed. "Y-yea that's him."

Luffy was about to jump down but stopped when a ladder hit the wall, a little girl sat on the wall and used a rope to get down.

Coby was yelling at her telling her he was a demon while the two brothers shared a look, then hit Coby to get him to shut up so they could watch the show.

"What are you doing here?" The tied up individual asked.

"I brought you some food!" she exclaimed happily. "I made them myself." She revealed a wrapped up package she opened that had two rice balls in them.

"What you wanna get hurt, get outa here I'm not hungry." The small girl frowned and was going to insist he eat something when a laugh was heard.

Everyone looked over to see a tall, lanky man, wearing a purple suit, with pink cuffs and neck, he had an oval shaped head with blonde hair. He was standing between two marine escorts.

"What are you doing?" the blonde asked. "Don't you know who this is?" he laughed again and saw what she was holding.

"What are those?" he questioned the little girl who smiled.

"There rice balls, I made them myself." He raised an eyebrow and took one of them out of her hands. "H-hay those aren't for you!"

Laughed at her as he took a bite and began to chew, a moment later he spit the bite out. "What's in these?"

"Sugar." He looked at her angrily.

"You're not supposed to make these with sugar!" he smacked the other out of her hand and threw the one he held on the ground as well. "You're supposed to make them with salt!" he ignored her protests as he stomped on the rice balls. "Salt! Salt! Salt!" each time he said salt he stomped on the rice balls.

When he was satisfied with that he looked at the teary eyed little girl. "Don't you know helping a criminal is a crime?" he asked then looked at one of the marines. "Throw her out."

"W-what? She's only a little girl." He responded.

"Do you want me to tell my father you won't follow his laws!?" he threatened causing the marine to swallow nervously and grab the girl.

She struggled but stopped when he spoke in a whisper. "I'm sorry I have to do this, tuck yourself in a ball." With that he threw her over the wall.

The girl braced herself for the pain but none came as she was caught by Luffy then set down.

The blonde and his two escorts began walking back to the base, his laughter echoing out as they disappeared.

Luffy let the girl go and walked to the wall then jumped over it, landing right next to Naruto. The two made their way over to Zoro ignoring the protests Coby yelled out.

"You're bothering me. Leave." He didn't look up.

"Are you Zoro?" Naruto asked, getting the bandanna wearing swordsmen to look up. "I'll take that as a yes."

"So you wanna join my crew?" Luffy asked, Zoro quirked an eyebrow while Naruto tried not to slap his face.

"You two pirates?" he got a happy nod from the straw-hat wearing teen. "No. and plus I still have ten days before I'm free." He smirked, getting a sigh out of Naruto and a frown from Luffy who turned around and began walking away.

"Wait!" Luffy looked back with a smile. "Can you give me that?" he motioned to the dirt covered rice balls with his head.

Luffy chuckled. "They're all dirty." Zoro just gave him a 'I don't care look'

"Just give'em to me." Luffy shrugged and picked up the ruined rice balls, then gave them to Zoro.

There was a long pause after he swallowed then Zoro looked up with tears in his eyes. "There so good."

Luffy laughed and walked off. "We'll see ya later." Naruto said as he followed his brother.

Zoro didn't really hear what the blonde said, he was too happy with the food he just got.

(In a restaurant in town)

"Oh ya Rika Zoro loved your rice balls." She smiled at the blonde who spoke.

"Really?"

"Ate 'em in one bite." He responded with a smile.

"Why was Zoro-san tied up like that?" the pink-haired boy asked.

Rika's mom was the one to answer. "He was eating at the bar when Helmeppo came by with his new 'pet' Rika tried to get it out of here when the animal tried to attack her, Zoro-san saved my daughter's life." She sighed. "But Helmeppo threatened us and Zoro made a deal that he would take our place and be tied up for a month."

Rika spoke out next. "He beats him every day, and refuses to feed him."

The two brothers looked at one another, when their attention was diverted to the new arrival.

"Oi!" he yelled as he sat down and put his feet up. "Get me some free food!" Rika's mom complied with Helmeppo's request. "I think tomorrow I'll execute our prisoner." He bragged with a laugh.

Those present knew who he was talking about, and Luffy was pissed Naruto was as well but expected something like this so he only growled. The blonde would've continued bragging if it weren't for Luffy's fist hitting him in the face and knocking him against the wall.

It didn't take as long as one would think for the coward to recover. "D-do you know who I-"

"I don't care!" Luffy yelled when he saw the teary eyed Helmeppo it made him even angrier. "Your just gonna turn around and break Zoro's deal!?"

"I-I'm gonna t-tell my father y-you hit me!" he ran off from the pissed pirate.

Luffy calmed himself then walked out the door, Naruto following shortly after.

"Where you going?" Coby called to the duo.

"Ta get a new crewmember!" the Pirate King hopeful yelled back, the pink-haired boy ended up following after for whatever reason.

(Back at the crucifix grounds)

"You again? I thought I told yo-"

"You joining my crew." He was interrupted by an agitated sounding Luffy

The Pirate hunter narrowed his eyes. "You can't just-"

Naruto had enough. "He just did…It's either that or you can be killed by Helmeppo-teme tomorrow."

That got the reaction they were looking for. "What?"

Coby decided it was his turn. "We overheard him bragging about 'just killing his prisoner' tomorrow."

"So it's either join my crew or die like-" luffy made a jester at the bonds. "-this? Your choice."

"Hn. Like a deal from the devil." He said to himself with a smirk. "Fine then I'll join your crew Capitan as long as you get me my swords."

The pirate duo's smiles couldn't have been any larger.

"Right, where are they?" The rubber-man asked.

The swordsmen pointed to the base with his head. "Somewhere in there that blonde bastard probably has them in his quarters."

Luffy nodded and ran in the opposite direction, Zoro would've yelled at him if it weren't for the fact he was holding on to the post and his arm began to stretch.

"Gomu Gomu no Rocket!" he yelled and shot himself to the base.

Naruto shook his head and sat in front of the work-in-progress crew member. "So, sup?"

Zoro looked at the whiskered blonde for a moment. "Nothing much." He made a shrugging motion.

(With Luffy)

'Now where is that Helmeppo guy?' he thought to himself and heard a noise from the roof. "I'll just check up there."

(Up there)

"That statue is me!" a muscular blonde marine yelled at his subordinates, he had a metal face plate with a seagull on it and his right hand was an ax. "Anything that happens to that reflects on your vies about me." He said smugly. Just then Helmeppo came up to the roof whining.

"Dad! This guy in a straw-hat hit me and I want you to arrest him he has a crew-"he was going to retell the tale but his father interrupted.

"Do you know why I have never hit you?" he asked while tensing up.

The motion went unnoticed by his son. "Well that's because-" as he said that Morgan pulled his un-axed arm back.

"YOUR WORTHLESS!" his fist connected and threw Helmeppo all the way to the railing.

"D-dad?" Any attention on the scene was averted when a marine pulling on the statue yelled out and said stature fell hitting against the raised wall.

The statue broke in half and began falling to the ground below, in the opposite direction came a yelling straw-hat wearing teen with a red vest, blue shorts, and sandals.

When he landed he laughed lightly to himself. "What was with that statue?" he looked around the roof, ignoring the others reactions, when he saw the object he was seeking. "You!" he pointed to the cowering Helmeppo.

"M-me?" he only got the pirate rushing over to him, grabbing him, and jumping over the side of a building, the captive screaming.

(With Naruto, Coby, and Zoro)

"…and that's one of the reasons why I wanna go to the grand line." He had a smirk that slowly turned to a frown when he saw their reactions.

Coby was gaping like a fish trying to think of a response, while Zoro's eye was twitching.

"So you wanna go to the grand line because you want to test yourself with your 'Shinobi' skills."

"Yep!" Naruto seemed to cheer up instantly.

"Also anyone that joins has to complete a 'test' after a certain number has been reached?"

"Un-Hu." The trio looked to tower when someone screamed, only to see Luffy holding on to someone and using his free arm like a rope, he fell till he hit the glass and shattered it entering the base at the seventh floor from the sixteenth. "Looks like he's using a hostage."

He got dead pan looks from the other two. "I'm really re-thinking joining this crew." Zoro said off handedly.

Their attention was drawn to a group of marines and Capitan Morgan about five minutes later.

"For aiding a criminal you shall all be executed!" he yelled causing Coby to start freaking out, Zoro to become nervous, and Naruto to sigh.

'Five, four, three-'the blonde Shinobi started a countdown as the marines prepared to fire.

(With Luffy five minutes earlier.)

Luffy had just busted the glass to the seventh floor and was holding on to a terrified hostage.

"Where's your room?" the pirate asked cheerfully.

"Fi-fifth f-floor." Was his shaky response.

"Thanks." Luffy began to move while still holding Helmeppo, but abruptly stopped. "What floor are we on now?"

If he wasn't so terrified he would have smacked his kidnapper, before he could answer some marines barged in holding Luffy at gunpoint.

"Sir! We found them. They're on the seventh floor." One of the present marines said to a small snail on his wrist.

After a moment the snail responded. "Good keep him covered. I'm headed down to get rid of those lowly criminals with a squad. NOBADY CAN STAND AGGGAINST THE GREAT CAPITAN MORGAN!" was the final yell and the snail went dead.

The marines focused their attention back to the Straw-hat…only to see an empty space, which wasn't good considering who he held as a hostage.

Luffy had quickly made his way to the Capitan-son's lavish quarters where he tossed the dazed man to the side to look for Zoro's swords.

'Where is it?' he asked himself as he searched the room, he looked in the corner and saw three swords. "Hay which sword is-" the question died on his lips when he saw his 'guides' current state.

He looked back at the swords and shrugged. 'I'll just take them all the Zoro.' He picked up the blades and tied them to his back when the marines from before barged in.

(Back in the crucifix grounds)

'-three, two, one.' Just as he got to one the fifth floor window busted open with Luffy landing in front of the group behind him.

"FIRE!" the Capitan yelled causing Coby to look away and Zoro to go wide-eyed when Luffy took the hit…

"That doesn't work on me!" …and he shot them all back, causing Naruto to chuckle and the others to gape.

Luffy tuned around, pulling the swords off his back, and walked up to Zoro. "What the hell are you?" the green-haired man asked getting a chuckle out of the Straw-hat.

"I'm a rubber man!" he happily exclaimed then made a motion with the swords. "I didn't know which one was yours so I got all three."

"All of them are mine." He responded.

"Really?" he received a nod. "That's so cool!" he was about to snap but Naruto beat him to it.

"Come on bro. Let's get him untied already." This caused Luffy to snap out of his admiration mode and move to untie Zoro.

As they were talking the marines were getting over their shock. "He's a devil fruit user?!" one of the marines fearfully said.

"It doesn't matter!" Morgan yelled. "Just cut him then!" that got them out of their funk as the front group unsheathed their swords and began charging toward the small group.

"Are they getting tighter?" Luffy rhetorically asked.

Naruto only palmed his face and sighed as the marines got ever closer to cutting them up.

"Just give me a sword! Put it in my mouth!" he yelled as death got closer and closer.

The marines were now on top of the group bringing down their swords when the sound of metal hitting metal rang out.

"H-he stopped them all?" a stunned marine asked.

Zoro grunted. "I can't have you killing my Capitan now. Can I?" with that he forced the other sword wielding marines off of him and quickly cut them down.

Zoro looked at Luffy with a serious expression. "I will join your crew." He pointed at the rubber man with his sword. "but you're not gonna keep me from my ambition."

"Ambition?" the Capitan asked.

"I strive to be the greatest swordsman alive." He smiled. "Is that a problem?"

Luffy was silent for a moment, till he laughed. "That's great! I wouldn't expect less from my crew."

The remaining marines ignored this and were backing away in fear at the group. "We don't stand a chance now!"

"We can't even beat the rubber kid! Let alone Pirate Hunter!"

Morgan narrowed his eyes at his men. "All of you who think that, take your guns and shoot yourself in the head." That got everyone's attention brought on him. "I don't need cowards under my command, the least you could do is save some honor in yourselves."

Those currently present were pissed and were about to say something when a fist came through and almost hit Morgan had he not blocked it with the flat of his ax. Morgan then threw off his marine coat and prepared to fight.

"How can you act like that towards your nakama?" Luffy was pissed, even though they were marines you shouldn't act like that towards a comrade.

He was about to beat the shit out of the Capitan when a shaky voice called out. "S-stop r-right there." Their attention was drawn to Morgan's son Helmeppo.

He held Coby hostage. "Un-unless you w-want me to kill your f-friend." He threatened.

Luffy scoffed and rolled his eyes as he fully turned around; he didn't even answer as he reared his arm back and shot it out at the blonde holding a terrified Coby.

"Don't turn your back on me!" the Capitan yelled as he ran forth planning on cutting down the pirate.

Helmeppo got hit in the face and knocked out as Morgan was bringing his axed arm down, stopping suddenly.

"Thanks Zoro." Luffy said to the swordsman, who was now behind Morgan sheathing his blades.

"No problem. Capitan." The click rang out and blood shot from a chest wound Zoro gave to Morgan.

Zoro walked back to Naruto, who had an amused look on his face.

"Y-you can't beat me." Shakily the Capitan stood up prepared to fight some more.

Zoro sighed and was about to finish him off when a hand was placed on his shoulder. "Let Bro finish him."

Zoro looked at Naruto for a moment then relaxed. "Whatever."

"I'm the greatest person alive!" Seriously? If he wasn't about to kick his ass Luffy would've laughed.

Morgan ran forth, but Luffy brought both of his hands back stretching the whole way. "Gomu Gomu no-" As Morgan came close enough he shout his hands forward, connecting with 'the greatest man's' stomach. "-BAZOOKA!" The Capitan was launched back into the surrounding wall unconscious.

The marines were very quiet for a moment, causing the group to get ready for a fight, until they started cheering.

"Yea! He defeated Morgan!" okay so they were…happy about his defeat?"

"Maybe they didn't like how oppressive Morgan was?" Coby stated in a casual way.

"I guess so." Was the response he got from the two brothers.

(Later back in the restaurant)

"Whoo. That hit the spot." The recently freed swordsman happily sighed while patting his slightly bloated stomach in relief. The table they were at had a pile of plates and bowls littering it from their celebratory meal.

"So bro we finally got an actual nakama." The blond said causing Zoro to quark an green eyebrow.

"What do you mean, outsider?" the Pirate hunter asked.

The pink-haired marine hopeful laughed. "Well Luffy-san's only other crew member besides you is Naruto-san." Zoro's eyes looked like they'd pop out of his eyes any second.

"You want to go to the Grand Line and the three of us are the only crew you have!?" 'What the hell are these two thinking?'

"Well I'll get more, don't worry." Luffy's carefree way of speaking made Zoro think that he didn't have to worry.

The swordsmen sighed. "At least tell me you have a ship?" he asked that as a joke.

"Yea it's right there!" Naruto exclaimed and pointed at a…dingy…tied to the dock.

Now Zoro's eye was twitching slightly and he would've yelled had it not been for the arrival of the marines.

"You are the people that defeated ax-hand Morgan, correct?" the apparent leader asked.

Naruto and Zoro tensed. "Yep!" Luffy cheerfully answered.

"We are very grateful to you, so for that matter we'll give you a head start." He paused for a moment. "you are pirates after all….so we must ask you to leave." A few citizens that were watching the proceedings began to argue with the marines.

Said pirates only shrugged and began to leave, Luffy with a grin and a wave.

The marine leader looked at Coby. "Do you know these people?" the marine asked

Coby was about to refute it but the word died in his throat, causing the dark-skinned marine to look at Luffy.

"Pirates." The group stopped. "Do you know this kid.

Naruto turned around. "Yea we know him." He nonchalantly stated. "He was with this fat-ass-"

As Naruto was describing Coby's past his rage was increasing. 'why Naruto-san? Why are you doing this?'

"-her name was-" he was cut off when the object of his story hit him in the face, Naruto didn't move for a moment only had his head turned. "Oh you fucked up now kid."

With that he quickly began to beat the boy surprising those present, before it could go further Luffy spoke. "Naruto, enough."

That stopped the beating and caused Naruto to drop the bloody kid. "Tch. Ruin my fun." He mumbled as he followed his brother.

"Obviously after that he doesn't know them." Coby realized what they did for him as the left.

He shakily got up. "I would like to join the marines." He said with a bow.

The marines studied him for a moment till one leaned in. "I don't really like it. you know how the pirates are putting spies in our-"

"PLEASE!" the bowed kid yelled. "It's always been my dream to be a marine!"

The leader studied him for a moment longer. "Alright." Coby looked up happily. "But be prepared to work hard."

"Yes, Sir!" he said with a salute.

(With the Straw-hat trio)

"That was bad acting." Luffy said as they walked to the small boat.

Naruto grunted. "Ya think?" He sarcastically spoke.

Zoro chuckled. "I thought they'd see right through that."

"Were just lucky for plot." The blond stated getting Zoro and Luffy to stop.

"I don't think were supposed to do that." The Capitan stated and began walking with Zoro to catch up to the blonde.

"Do what?" Naruto questioned.

"Do what you just did."

As they were talking they got in the boat and untied as a Naruto pushed off.

"That is?" the blonde said starting to get aggravated.

Before a fight could continue Coby called out to them. "Luffy-san, Naruto-san, Thank you." He yelled with a salute.

"Men!" the yell caused Coby to stiffen. "Salute!" but he relaxed just as quickly.

Luffy and Naruto couldn't help but laugh, Zoro just shook his head. "Never thought I'd see the day marines would salute pirates."

As the Pirates sailed off the new marine leader spoke. "For this unlawful action we must all be reprimanded." A chorus of 'Yes, Sirs' rang out. "No food for three days." Another chorus of 'Yes, Sirs'

(With the pirates)

"Alright since your joining you should know a little bit about me." Zoro just grunted showing he was listening. "Obviously I'm his brother, not by blood but that's another story altogether." He sighed

"I have Shinobi skills and am a devils fruit user." That gained the swordsman's attention.

"You have a devils fruit too?" he received a nod.

"Mine is the truly rare kind though." He saw Zoro was looking at him with a raised eyebrow. "I ate the Kyuubi no kitsune's demon devil fruit." That got a very surprised reaction out of Zoro

"Those exist?" Zoro had herd from some of the many bounty's he collected said they were searching for a rare group of devils fruit called the true demon devils fruits but he thought those were just fish tales."

"Well every fruit actually contains a real demon…there's just ten that are the most powerful, the oddest, and are the only ones that allow the fruits demons to 'talk' to the user." Naruto thought about were to head this. "They're not all that different from regular devils fruit…these ones originate from a certain island on the grand line, which is one of the reasons I set sail with this dumbass, and there more adapt to Chakra users." He sighed. "I'm not really sure how they exist, not even the fuzz-but knows."

"Chakra users?" Zoro mumbled. "Wait who's the fuzz-but?"

Naruto grinned and jumped in the air with a backflip, with his trajectory he'd go in the water. Zoro went wide eyed and was about to jump in the water when he fell on his ass at what he saw.

"Just 'cause I'm a hammer don't mean I can't touch water." Naruto was standing atop the water like it was land. "And as for your second question." Naruto pointed to his head. "It's the demon in my fruit."

"H-how?" was the only thing he could ask.

As Naruto walked with the moving dingy Luffy could only smile at how well they were doing already. 'Today my crew finally sets sail. Won't be long now till we get to the Grand Line.' Today was the day a rookie crew set sail albeit it being not nearly complete yet.

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So there it is the third chapter of my first story. I hope my first explanation for the jinchuuriki is decent, I was gonna keep what they originally were but then thought this way was better, how devils fruits came to be will be explained throughout the Straw-hats travels… Hell there's not even any jinchuuriki in this fic...so yea there's that.

Anyways Read and review…(I expect some agitated people from the devils fruit Kyuubi but oh well)

Till next time: The Crew grows