Sup Scorps? Tombs456 here and I was thinking about this for a while now…I definitely don't have the greatest knowledge on all of the anime, games, movies, etc. so if any of you have an idea, any at all for something I could put in this lill' fic o mine put it in a review or P.M. me 'bout it and I'll look into it…side note: there are some things even some one as insane as me can't use for this story…

FUN FACT – HOLY SHIT! Did you know there are almost two-thousand different species of you motherfuckers out there (scorpions…incase ya didn't know…) AND y'all live in every continent but one? Bet'cha can't guess which one…

"Regular speech"

"EXTREAM EMPHASIS ON SOMETING"

'Regular Thought'

"DEMONIC or Really pissed off speaking"

'DEMONIC or Really pissed off Thought'

Weapons connecting or cannon/gun fire

Title or Jutsu

To Naosj – Thank you for the input, I truly hope to surprise you and future readers alike further down the storyline by avoiding said fuck-ups and really showing off my true awesomeness…

To Everyone Else – thank you for reading, I hope you enjoy this chapter and my upcoming chapters as well.

WARNING: language, violence, and thievery…not much else for warnings besides the normal I don't own this, that, or the roof over my head.

Without further ado…I really like that word ado, Ado, ADO, (ado)…I present to you the fourth chapter of The Crew From the Four Blues

Chapter four: The Crew Grows

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Naruto was following next to the dinghy as he explained what chakra was. "Chakra is both our physical and spiritual energies used to make powerful attacks or defenses." He sounded like it was no big deal.

"Not everyone must use it then." Stated the still stunned swordsman.

"Everybody has it…if they didn't they would be dead." The blonde paused for a moment. "Certain people have higher amounts. Civilians are the weakest, and can't use it like I, or others can…to use even the simplest of jutsu without becoming completely exhausted they'd need level…" Naruto hummed in thought. "Level two, that being the weakest before civilian."

Naruto decided to elaborate about the levels. "Level one are civilians…if I remember correctly level twelve chakra users are the admirals."

Zoro nodded dumbly. "But how are you doing THAT!" Exclaimed the moss-headed Santoryu (three sword style) user.

"By pushing chakra through my feet, I make a platform on the water's surface that I can walk on, it was a pain to learn 'cause you have to change the flow constantly." Naruto said with a grin, due to Zoro's reaction. 'Oh. This is gonna break him!' "I'm not good enough at this stuff though…I've heard people actually walking on AIR!" Silence remained throughout the featureless ocean, Zoro trying to contemplate that…walking on air.

After a few moments Naruto decided to stop showing off and get back in the small boat that they confiscated from Alvida's ship. A comfortable silence lasted, after he got back on, till Luffy groaned that is.

"I'm hungry." The Capitan complained, causing Zoro to gape slightly and Naruto's eye to twitch.

"You JUST ate on that cruise ship." His brother deadpanned.

Luffy only moaned. "But I'm still hunger." He perked up after a moment when he looked up. "Hay look! A bird." And indeed there was a bird in the sky.

To the smartest members of the crew…it didn't seem…as small as it looked, they felt as if it was MUCH larger than it actually looked.

Luffy stretched his hand towards the bird and his hand kept stretching and stretching, till he finally grabbed hold. The others looked at each other wide-eyed, but before they could call out to him, Luffy shot up to the bird because it was indeed much larger than he originally thought.

Naruto acted immediately, by creating two clones to row after the bird taking his brother for an unwanted ride…

"WAAAAAAAAAHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" …Maybe not that unwanted.

"Kami! He's so fucking…AGH not even five minutes after we get outta one situation, he throws us in another!" Naruto ranted slightly. "*Sigh* hopefully he'll land at Orange Town."

"Orange Town?" Zoro mumbled in thought.

"Yea, some people built it like fifty years ago to get away from pirates…or something like that." He finished with a shrug. "I REALLY have to thank Ero-Sennin for making me read all those stupid books." He added to himself, slightly confusing the swordsmen.

'Who the hell is Ero-Sennin?'

(Elsewhere)

"YOU LOST HER!" A shadowed man yelled to the person trembling in front of him. "She took MY map of the grand line and you lost her!?" He questioned this time not yelling but his voice had a threatening tone to it, the man had what looked like a Capitan's hat with tassels on either side of it.

"W-well she was really f-fast Ca-capitan." He stuttered out. "I-I'm so-sorr-ACK!"

Before he could say it he was cut off like someone was choking him. "No you're not." He stated matter-of-factly. "If you were sorry then you wouldn't have of come back without my map." And audible crack resounded from the roof the pirates were camped at, and the choking man went limp.

His body fell down and there was silence. "Oi You!" The shadowed man's head could be seen nodding towards another crew member.

"Y-yes Capitan B-Buggy?" The man stuttered, trying to hide his fear.

Buggy sighed. "Take a group out and flashily find her…do try and bring her back alive please, I'm gonna go take a nap." The man waved him off and turned back to his tent.

"H-Hai!" The crewmember saluted to the retreating shadow.

(With Luffy)

Currently Luffy was sitting on the large bird, scratching his head, in deep thought on his current situation. "Now how do you land this thing?" he mumbled to himself.

The longer he thought the closer he got to the island in the distance, then the proverbial light bulb went off and he acted his plan. By stretching his limbs around the bird, tying its wings to stop it from flying. His plan worked…then he realized he was dropping REALLY fast and was going to crash in the ground.

(On ground level)

The orange haired thief was currently running away from a small group of pirates that had the mark of Buggy the clown, the reason they were chasing her you ask?

Well…"Give us Buggy's map back you bitch!"…she sort of stole Buggy's map of the grand line.

The thief turned and stuck her tongue out at her pursuers, infuriating them even more then they currently were. The group was just about to say 'fuck it' and take her out…Buggy probably wouldn't mind a cold corps…

However, before they could take any action against her, a massive object crashed in the ground, crushing teen's pursuers, she faulted in her step slightly but continued running, at least until she realized she wasn't being followed anymore. When she looked back her eyes widened at what she saw.

The odd teen from earlier was standing tall in the dust cloud patting the dirt off his vest and shorts. "Whew! That was fun!" he exclaimed then looked around. "Now where am I?" he questioned to himself.

The thief slowly walked to the oblivious pirate. "Hay!" she said, gaining his attention.

Luffy smiled. "Hi!" He happily exclaimed, he was going to introduce himself when another group of pirates showed up.

"There she is!" Her eyes widened but she smirked slightly when she caught sight of the clueless raven-haired teen.

"Help me boss! These pirates are after that map you had me steel!" Luffy looked up at his self-proclaimed subordinate with a confused expression.

"Wha-" His question died in his throat as the orange-haired girl ran by, but the other pirates stopped and looked at Luffy with hateful glares.

"So you're that thief's boss." The apparent leader accused, when he caught sight of his crushed allies, he saw red.

The hopeful Pirate King was about to refute the accusation when a gunshot rang out, hitting Luffy center mass.

The girl, now hiding on a roof, was horrified at the fact the pirate had just KILLED her 'boss', she just caused him to-

Everyone gaped at the Straw-hat wearing teen when the bullet continued to move, his skin stretching back till it got to the point it shot back towards the pirates just as fast, if not faster, than when fired from the gun. The bullet blew past the leaders face, so Luffy cocked his arm back and shot it forward, knocking out the group's leader as soon as his fist connected.

"Now that was just rude." Luffy stated with a small frown, after his arm retracted, the other pirates were slightly weary of the teen now and were about to go after him with blades but they were quickly subdued by the rubber-man.

Luffy looked around. "Oi! Thief girl!" He called out. "What was that about?" his question went unanswered for a few moments and Luffy was about to shrug and move along till the 'thief girl' slowly made her way out of hiding to Luffy.

"Who are you?" She shot off a question of her own causing Luffy to smile, not taken back by her not answering his question.

"I'm Monkey D. Luffy! And I'm gonna be the Pirate King!" He didn't notice the person he was talking to frown. "Now what's yours?"

It took her a few moments to realize Luffy wanted her name. "Nami." Was her short reply.

"So…Nami." Luffy began. "Why'd you throw those guys at me?"

She shrugged. "I probably could've gotten away from them on my own, but I thought you would have of made my job a lot easier, and you did." She thought about just HOW he survived. "How did you do that?"

He cocked his head to the side. "Do what?"

"Survive a gunshot!?" She hotly replied.

"Oh…it's one of my ability's." Was all he said.

Nami sighed at that response, after a moment she realized they were pretty exposed out in the open, so she decided to find some shelter. "Follow me Luffy."

He did so with no resistance.

(A few minutes later)

Nami stopped in front of a locked house, she kneeled down and pulled out lock picking supplies. With them she unlocked the door.

"Why you breaking into this house, someone lives here." That comment from Luffy made her laugh.

She looked back at him with an amused expression. "You're a pirate, don't act all high and mighty. It doesn't matter anyways."

"Wha'd you mean?" He asked as Nami had him help her fix a spot to sit down at.

"Well, after a pirate, Buggy The Clown, and his crew took this place over, all the citizens went to the outskirts of town. So no one lives here." She sat at the table across from Luffy. "Pirates have no remorse for all the people they hurt."

She made the statement to take a notch out of the pirate's ego, but that went completely ignored.

"So Nami…What are you doing here?"

"Well…" she said, not really sure if telling this pirate in front of her, her current goal. "…I heard Buggy recently got a map of the grand line, so I was planning on taking it so I could navigate the grand line."

Luffy seemed to perk up at that. "You're a navigator?"

The self-proclaimed navigator couldn't help herself, she smiled. "Yea, I've known the seas for a long time." She looked at Luffy. "Why?"

The pirate looked up, and he laughed. "This is perfect!"

"Wha?-"

"I need a navigator for the grand line!" He looked at Nami. "So you're gonna join my crew, then I'll just have a few more people left."

"Wait, wait, wait." She stood from her chair and looked at the teen across from her. "There's no way I'd become a pirate."

But Luffy went on, completely ignoring her demands for him NOT to just make her his navigator against her will.

(With Naruto and Zoro)

"Hahahahaha...whew! I can't believe you let a GIRL take your boat like that." Naruto was currently laughing his ass off at the three pirates' plight, that were beaten up and rowing their dinghy to Orange Town. They had been picked up after Zoro ran them over and thought to take over the duo's boat...they quickly found out that wasn't such a good plan.

Zoro just grunted in amusement with his eyes closed.

"Y-yes we sh-should've b-been more o-o-observant." the one in the middle stuttered in embarrassment, as the other two quickly rowed in the islands direction, where Naruto and Zoro would hopefully find their dim-whited Capitan.

"Na, ya just should've not underestimated anyone…especially someone on the seas." Naruto finished with a amused look.

There was silence on the small boat until they reached the dock of Orange Town Island, where they had the three 'escorts' tie off and began to explore the deserted town.

"I wonder where everyone is?" The blonde asked himself.

Zoro only shrugged.

The orange-clad blonde was about to suggest splitting up but he sensed someone watching them. "Hay Zoro, go on ahead."

The swordsmen looked back at his Capitan's brother, and tensed slightly at his look, but relaxed when Naruto shook his head slightly. "There's something I want to check out." Zoro hesitated for a moment then nodded and walked towards the town center.

Naruto watched the ex-pirate hunter, turned pirate, till he was out of his line of sight. "So…" He began to seemingly no one. "…you wanna come out? I don't like people spying on me…it makes me…twitchy."

Naruto's attention was drawn to the right when a blur went by in his peripheral vision; he instantly went on guard at the show of speed. He looked at the figure, which turned out to be a woman.

She was blonde with her hair in four unique pony tails; her eyes were a bright green and had a certain intensity to them.

Naruto couldn't help himself, he just had to look the woman over. Her skin was a bronze tone from being out in the sun, she was wearing a black, short-sleeved t-shirt that showed off a fair amount of her well-developed chest, short-shorts that went to mid-thigh, Shinobi sandals completed her outfit.

He also noticed she had a tattoo on her right forearm; it looked like someone posing with a large battle fan, about to strike. 'What an interesting tattoo.' The blonde contemplated what it meant or what its true purpose was.

She looked the orange-clad blonde over as well. From his sun blonde hair, Leaf designed headband, and curiosity-peeking whisker marks, to his Shinobi sandals. 'So he's either a diehard wannabe or he's got some skills to back it up.' She was referring to his headband, identifying him as someone with Shinobi skills.

She was leaning towards wannabe due to the bright, flashy, clothing he wore.

After the initial looking over there was silence between the two, and Naruto couldn't Handle first meeting silences, or awkward/tense silences in general, so he decided to break the ice. "Hello I'm Namikaze U. Naruto, who are you?" He greeted with a small bow.

The girl paused for a moment, debating whether or not to tell the stranger her name, after a moment she decided no harm could come from it. "Sabaku no Temari." 'Why does that name sound so familiar though?'

The whisked-marked blonde nodded. "Alright, Temari, what brings you here?" He asked after deciding she meant him no harm, subsequently distracting her from his name.

Narrowing her eyes she spoke with heat in her voice. "Nothing that would concern you." She spat out, even if she was gonna talk it didn't mean she had to be friendly or volunteer information.

Naruto held up his hands defensively. "Easy there, if it's not my business that's fine by me." She just looked at him so he sighed. "I'm not one that likes to make enemies, even though it can't be helped." He mumbled the end to himself. 'My brother on the other hand, thinks it's FUN to get in so many fights.'

(Elsewhere)

While getting tied up, Luffy sneezed, causing Nami to tighten the ropes tighter then she originally meant to.

"Hold still!" she scolded.

The Capitan sniffled. "Gomen."

(Back with Naruto)

After a moment's pause she smirked and began walking towards her fellow blonde. "If you want me to tell you what I'm doing, you have to tell me what you're doing here first." She was a lot closer to the Namikaze now.

Said Namikaze smirked. "Happy to."

(With Luffy)

"Why do I need to be tied up again?" Currently Luffy was being dragged by the pirate loot thief named Nami, and he was indeed tied up tighter than a virgin nuns… (You get the idea).

"Because, doing this will get me on their good side and then I'll be able to rob them blind." She smiled at her own cleverness.

Luffy huffed. "At least I get to meet another Capitan."

The rest of the trip went by in silence till they heard a man yelling.

"YOU LOST HER?" Nami paused to listen to the conversation.

"W-we g-got attacked by s-someone li-like y-you." The response was almost too quiet to hear.

"THAT DOSENT MATTER SHE GOT Away with my map…did you just say someone like me?" the man seemed to calm down immensely after what he heard from the report.

"H-hai." Was the response.

Nami decided to make her presence known so she didn't look suspicious. She 'dragged' Luffy in sight.

Buggy was average looking in height, yet that was the only thing that was average about him. He wore an orange Capitan's jacket with green shoulder guards that had yellow tassels and was resting on his shoulders. It had lime green wrist cuffs, a blue interior, and was lined with fur.

He donned a orange Capitan's hat with a clown skull and crossbones in the center, blue hair, in a tassel like design, hung off on either side of the hat

He had a purple scarf wrapped around his neck, red and white striped shirt, a blue sash, and black pants; brown jester shoes and a pair of white gloves completed his outfit. What was most noticeable about the Capitan was the fact that he had white cross-bones painted on his forehead, a large, round, red nose, and wore red lipstick.

"And who are you?" The clown-like Capitan asked.

Before she could answer a pirate did so. "T-that's her, that's the thief!" This caused Buggy's eyes to narrow in a threatening manner.

To save face Nami made a motion to the tied up Capitan. "This is my old boss, HE told me to take your map…but I'm tired of him so I brought him…" Nami chose that moment to reach in her shirt, making some of the males drool and Nami to roll her eyes, "…and this as an offering…" she pulled out the map and offered it to Buggy who smiled. "…to join your crew."

"Welcome aboard!" He happily exclaimed causing most of his crew to face fault slightly.

One of the non-face faulting crew members walked up to Nami and leaned forward. "Just a hint of advice." He whispered as a bead of sweat rolled down his forehead. "Whatever you do NEVER say ANYTHING about Buggy's nose…EVER!"

"Last time someone mumbled something about big and red he killed them." With that the man walked to his Capitan to see what his orders were to do about the tied up Straw-hat wearing teen.

Nami was absolutely disgusted at that. 'Pirate bastard's, even after a man does that to his own crew they're still loyal to him!?'

(With Naruto)

"…and that's how we ended up here." Naruto finished telling the gob smacked Temari his story, the blonde then sighed, realizing he couldn't talk to the beautiful woman in front of him for much longer. "Well…good luck on your search. Maybe we'll meet each other again?" Naruto asked while holding out his hand.

Temari hesitantly took it and shook it once. "Yea it's been…interesting speaking to you." Naruto chuckled at that.

"I try." With that he ran off in the direction Zoro originally walked off in.

"What an odd guy." Temari absently said allowed. 'The only thing I tell him is me and my brothers are looking for something important, and he tells me…all of THAT.' She shook her head. 'I better get going.'

(With Luffy and Nami)

After Nami had turned her 'boss' in to Capitan Buggy, as he was called, he had his crew throw a feast in honor of not losing his map, 'capturing' the true 'culprit', and gaining a new ally.

Nami was currently sitting at the feast table next to Buggy waiting for her chance to rob the un-expecting pirate's blind. Her mind however, was currently on other things, do to her 'captive' current actions, even tied up and caged he was being troublesome.

Luffy had somehow freed his right hand and was stretching it closer and closer to the table the map he needed was on. This went unnoticed by everyone except Nami"…closer…closer, almost…GOT IT!" the map was not what he was going for however, because as soon as he got grasp of his true target his stretched out arm snapped back holding…a chicken leg…

"This has got to be the DUMBEST Person in the world!" She was sweating slightly, worried the absent minded Capitan would end up hurt because of anything she did, she couldn't stand pirates true, but she wouldn't be able to live with herself if she caused harm to anyone that didn't need it.

"So, Nami, what do you think we should do with your old boss?" Buggy asked with a dangerous glint in his eyes.

Nami looked at Buggy from her seat and thought about her reply, she then looked over to Luffy who was joyfully stacking bones from the meat he kept taking. "Well he's not strong, so he's no threat to someone like you." She said with a fake smile, hoping to get the blue-haired Capitan to let her 'boss' go.

One of the pirates who got beat was about to refute that but Buggy ignored him. "Is that so…humm…" A vicious grin slowly made its way to his face. "BRING A BUGGY BOMB!" He yelled causing his crew to cheer, Nami to look at Luffy worriedly, and said caged Capitan to…continue eating uncaringly.

As the pirate crew began scurrying around, preparing a cannon, Nami looked over Buggy. "What's a Buggy Bomb?"

Said Capitan just looked over with that vicious grin across his face. "You'll see."

"I'm looking for a Straw-hat wearing, dimwitted guy, he's got black hair-"

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!?" everyone's attention was drawn to a green haired man with three swords sheathed to his waist.

"Oh there you are. OI! Luffy!" He was completely oblivious to everyone watching him as he strolled over to his imprisoned Capitan.

"Hay Zoro." Said Capitan waved with a chicken bone in hands. "Where's Naruto?" He threw the bone in the growing pile.

Zoro shrugged in response. "Ran off to 'check something out' he said."

As the two continued conversing a crewmember loaded up the slightly larger than average cannon and stepped up to his Capitan. "What are we gonna do about them." He said and nodded his head towards the two conversing oddities.

The Capitan was infuriated at being ignored; he looked over at a gawking Nami and pulled her to the cannon.

"If they don't want to pay attention to their surroundings then they can suffer the consequences." Buggy mumbled this as he lit a match then handed it to Nami. She held the match in her hands, she, of course she was unable to light it.

Buggy just looked at the frozen thief and sighed; he took the match out of her hands and did what she couldn't. "Well I guess you can't be a fighter…maybe a cook." He added the end to himself as the wick burned.

Nami looked on in horror as Luffy and Zoro conversed unawares as to their impending death. The wick got smaller and smaller till Nami couldn't hold herself back she jumped forward and grabbed the wick with both hands.

"MOVE YOU IDIOTS!" Nami screamed with a few tears falling from the painful burns she was receiving while trying to save the two pirates.

After her scream the two looked over to the cannon, they saw a desperate looking Nami with her hands grasped around the smoldering wick. And an infuriate Buggy about to stab the orange-haired thief with a dagger for saving his enemy.

Zoro moved quickly, he zipped in-between Nami and Buggy, stopping the dagger with his sword while cutting the wick with his white hilted blade between his teeth; he used his free hand and grabbed Nami then jumped back to Luffy.

After setting the orange-haired thief down, he unsheathed his third and final sword.

"Sorry about that." Even though Zoro had a hilt in his mouth he could still speak clearly. Zoro began moving closer to the Capitan. "I hate people who attack a defenseless person."

"I am not defenseless!" Nami's shout of rage went ignored.

Zoro grinned slightly. "Your fights with me." Unfortunately no one on Luffy's side noticed that Buggy's left hand was missing till it was too late.

"ZORO! BEHIND YOU!" The shout from his Capitan saved his life, when he turned the daggers only hit the swordsmen in the side, missing his vital organs.

Buggy laughed as his blades came out of the wound and his hand levitated back to the clown-like Capitan.

"You cheating bastard!" Luff growled out, as he tried to loosen his bonds. 'If only I can get my other hand free.'

"Cheating? I'm only using the powers bestowed upon me of the Barra Barra (Chop Chop) fruit." The others were surprised by this.

"You're a Devils Fruit user?" Nami inquired.

"Yes, yes I am…and your about to be dead." Buggy had a victorious look in his eyes causing the others to look at the cannon.

Buggy had used his ability and lit the already small fuse on the cannon, everyone's eye's widened, Nami ran to the left immediately while Zoro grabbed the cage, gritting his teeth through the pain, and jumped off the roof. Now this wouldn't have of mattered considering the range the blast had however, at that moment a certain whisker marked blonde landed on the roof looking at where Zoro jumped off the roof and onto the ledge below.

"Where's the fi-" BOOOOOOOOOOOM! He couldn't finish his sentence because at that moment Buggy's cannon went off.

Naruto saw the cannon blast coming at him so he crossed his arms and put them in front of his face, as to not die from the blast he used his chakra to make a cloak and shield himself from the blast.

When said blast hit him, it veered up instead of going straight, and it also, subsequently, carried the blonde with him.

Zoro continued running despite the pain he was in. "was that… your brother?" he asked through grit teeth.

Luffy shrugged, not that his companion could see though. "He'll be fine."

"I…hope so." Was all Zoro could say on the subject.

Nami didn't see the new arrival so she, obviously, didn't worry for him 'Why do they try so hard…there only pirates.' The orange haired thief thought as she watched Zoro struggle to carry his Capitan, she shook her head and moved along.

(Elsewhere)

Temari was making her way to a small ship she had tied up, until she heard a loud explosion in the background and quickly took cover in an ally.

She stayed there, waiting for someone to come after her, but after a few minutes she decided to move out. She was tense the whole time she walked to her ship, waiting for someone to attack her for what her goal was, or WHO she was.

(With Naruto)

Naruto didn't know where he was at the moment but he knew he was wet, in pain, and pissed right the fuck off. He slowly got up an noticed he was on a boat or a small ship…well that wasn't entirely right he was on a now destroyed boat or ship…whatever.

As he looked at the island from the docks a red cloak began to form around Naruto. "Whoever blew me up, I'm going to kill them." By the end of his sentence his voice sounded demonic.

A puff of smoke later and Naruto was on his way, a clone of his standing there.

The clone shook its head and pulled out a piece of paper and a pencil, he spoke as he wrote.

"Dear to whomever it may concern…"

(With Luffy and Zoro)

Zoro was in intense pain right now and Luffy was worried about him, not that he could do anything about it. He was now dragging the heavy cage along the ground breathing heavily, drifting in and out of consciousness.

"Just rest Damnit!" Luffy growled slightly.

"Not…until we find…your brother." Zoro coughed up a little blood. "I can't…cut this cage with…with my swords."

Stubbornly Zoro continued moving onward ignoring his own condition; unfortunately he lost too much blood and fell down, completely out of it, in front of a scruffy looking small dog, guarding a pet store.

Thankfully Nami arrived at this time with an older man, with his white hair in a style similar to that of a poodle, was in just as old looking armor. The man also wore small glasses, a yellow lined shirt under his armor, dark green pants, a pair of wooden bottomed sandals completed his outfit.

The Capitan looked at Nami and the new arrival. "Help Zoro." The way he said it was slightly pleading yet it held the depth of a command.

The older man looked at Zoro and clicked his teeth. "Damn Buggy that bastard." He looked up at Nami. "Help bring him into my house."

Nami nodded and helped the still unnamed old man carry the knocked out swordsmen away.

After they got in the house there was silence in the street the only companion Luffy had was the small dog do he just looked at the dog and said dog just stared right back.

"So…" The Pirate King hopeful began. "…What's up?" the dog tilted its head slightly and gave a short bark in response.

(With Buggy)

Buggy was currently sitting in his chair on top of the roof, he was leaning to the right, his left arm lazily in his lap, while his right was in a fist resting under his chin. He had a bored expression on his face.

"it looks like they got away Buggy-Sama." A non-descript underling reported to their Capitan. "But that baka in the orange that showed is definitely dead."

Buggy looked at the crew member for a moment before calling out to a higher up of his. "Mohji!"

Loud footsteps followed Buggy's shout. "Yes Capitan?" A very large creature walked up, that creature was a massive lion with golden fur and a pink mane, riding the lion was a man, who had teddy bear-like hair, and was wearing what looked like a vest of white hair, blue pants and a yellow Haramaki completed his outfit.

"Roronoa Zoro is injured, probably dead from blood loss…find him and bring him here. Alive if possible" He looked at his underling.

"Hai." Mohji paused in thought. "What about the other one? Do you want me to let Richie have him?"

The lion seemed to purr at the thought of fighting someone strong.

Buggy hummed in thought before he smirked viscously. "Let him starve to death in that cage."

Mohji nodded and began moving out, riding the lion with no problem.

(With Luffy)

A few minutes later the old man came out with Nami, both looked slightly frustrated.

Luffy had finally gotten out of his bindings and looked at the duo, hopeful that Zoro was okay.

"I told your friend I could get him a doctor." The old man sighed. "He said all he needed was some sleep and he'd be fine." There was a moment of silence till Luffy spoke.

"So what's with the dog, old man?" Luffy asked now that there wasn't any need to worry for his crewmate. "He won't move from there." The caged pirate elaborated with a nod.

"Shushu? He's a dog a friend of mine had since he was a pup." The man went into the shop. "I'm the Mayor of this town, have been since we started it." He came back out with a bowel of dog food he set in front of the dog who began to eat happily.

"I'm taking care of him in place of my friend." The Mayor finished.

Nami looked at the Mayor. "What happened?"

The armored Mayor gave a sad smile. "His owner passed away from a sickness a while ago."

"Is the dog waiting for his master to return?" Nami asked, slightly saddened that the dog lost his owner recently.

He sat on the pet shop's porch "A lot of people think that too, but I don't…this is his treasure." The old man stated motioning to the pet shop. "He's protecting it."

Luffy chuckled. "I like that, you're a good dog."

The others missed Nami roll her eyes. She didn't believe his statement to her it sounded like he was mocking the little dog.

The dog finished its food as loud steps could be herd coming from Buggy's HQ causing the Mayor to pale slightly.

"It's Beast Tamer Mohji!" The Mayor began running back and forth, ignoring all of Nami's questions. "We have to move." The Mayor said grabbing Nami and dragging her off.

In the old man's haste he left the caged Capitan there so Luffy decided to lay down and wait to see who this 'Beast Tamer' was.

So there Luffy was, lying down as a shadow crept behind him, slowly covering his form. "It seems that you've been abandoned."

"I'm not really worried about it." the Pirate King hopeful shrugged.

Mohji chuckled as he got off of Richie. "You should be, considering I can tame any and all beasts I come across." To demonstrate this he kneeled in front of Shushu and put out his hand. "Shake!" Mohji commanded.

In response Shushu leaned forward and chomped down on his arm, Mohji winced and shook the dog off. "…it won't matter anyway…you'll be dead soon." Mohji sounded a lot calmer than he really was.

The Bear-haired pirate looked at Richie then pointed to the caged Luffy. "Richie. Kill him!"

The pink-maned lion roared then stomped the cage, breaking it and allowing Luffy to get free. Richie immediately smacked Luffy down the street and into a house, obliterating it, before the Straw-hat wearing teen could counter.

The bear-haired pirate got back on his beast. "Let's find the pirate hunter then we'll become famous for beating such a legend."

Richie growled in response then looked towards the pet shop. "You want a snack first?" he asked receiving an agreement roar. "Fine then…the dog needs to be put in his place anyways.

(With Luffy…again)

"That hurt." Luffy groaned out as he sat up.

"How are you still alive!?" Nami questioned, surprised he was still alive after getting smacked by a LION of all things.

Luffy just laughed. "That didn't even hurt." He swiped some dust off of his vest then looked to where he was swatted from. "I've gotta go." And with that he ran off, ignoring the Navigator's protest.

(With Naruto)

Naruto was currently standing by a blazing fire, with an old scruffy looking dog howling in sorrow at the burning building.

'What the hell happened here?' The ruffed up blond thought to himself, most of his anger forgotten by now. 'From the blood and broken cage I would bet this is where Zoro and Luffy were before…whatever this is happened.' Naruto let out a small sigh. 'Hope Zoro's okay, that wound looked pretty bad.'

He was brought out of his musings from the sound of footsteps coming from the distance, he turned ready for anything, but it wasn't necessary considering it was his brother.

"Naruto! where've you…been?" He trailed off when he saw the scene. "I'll be right back, 'k bro?" he didn't let the blonde answer as he ran off.

"…son of a bitch." Naruto sighed; watching as his brother ran off to where ever it was he was running off to.

(Elsewhere)

Mohji was currently walking next to Richie, who had a bag of food in his mouth from the pet shop they destroyed. "You're alive!?" The Beast Tamer was shocked when he saw Luffy standing on the road.

"Something like that wouldn't hurt me." The pirate narrowed his eyes when Mohji laughed the statement off.

"Take care of him Richie." Said lion roared and charged at the lone pirate.

Luffy shot his hands forward and twisted them like a screw as the lion charged, his hands stretched right into the charging lion.

"Gomu Gomu…" He lifted the lion up causing his arms to spin with the lion; the arc he made went high in the air. "…SCREW!" The raven-haired pirate Capitan yelled as Richie smashed into the ground.

Mohji was gaping in surprise and was a little afraid of the kid he was now facing. "Wh-what the hell are you?"

Luffy smirked. "I ate the Rubber Devils Fruit." He replied.

"Devil's fruit…your like Buggy then." The Tamer of most beasts put his hands up in surrender. "I know what this is about, I'm sorry we attacked you. I'll be on my way now."

Luffy frowned. "You took away that dogs treasure." Mohji looked confused. "For that I'm going to kick your ass." Luffy stretched his arm forward and grabbed the pleading pirate.

"Wait!" he tried to get out of the rubber-man's grasp. "I can make it u-" The words died in his throat as Luffy hit him, full force, knocking him into the street and next to his pet.

(With the others)

From Nami's ranting Naruto gathered what had happened so far, and he was not surprised in the least. His brother had recruited her, unwillingly, as the crew's navigator; she apparently had a grudge against pirates for how most were. Also the dog's past was sad since his treasure was now a wreck.-

Naruto's musings were cut short when his brother showed back up carrying a bag of…dog food in his hands.

"See all this destruction." Nami looked at Luffy. "That's all your worth, that's why I won't join your crew."

Luffy ignored her as he walked to Shushu. "I'll kill you!" she ran up prepared to do just that, but was stopped by the Mayor.

To Naruto it was kinda funny, sure she probably took those three lackeys of Buggy's on but those were fodder not a Devils Fruit user and definitely NOT Luffy.

"You don't have the power to kill me." Luffy stated matter-of-factly. He sat down next to Shushu, and set the bag of food down. "This was all I could get from that lion guy."

The others just looked at the scene two of the three in wonder the other slight annoyance. "Not gone for ten minutes and he's already started some shit." Naruto mumbled, hoping that 'lion guy' wasn't a Devils Fruit user, they were always a pain.

Nami's thoughts were more on what Luffy did for a dog. 'He fought that lion for the dog…maybe all pirates aren't the same.' She shook the thought from her head.

Luffy sighed. "I'm sorry you lost your treasure." He patted the dog's head. "I got 'em good though." The dog barked a sad replied.

(At Buggy's HQ)

"Even you were defeated Mohji? That's a flashy surprise." He let out a sigh of frustration. "Even injured Pirate Hunter Zoro is a foe to be weary of."

"I-it wasn't Z-Zoro, I w-was defeated by t-the Straw-hat." Buggy's eyes widened. "H-he ate the-" Mohji couldn't finish his sentence 'cause he passed out at that moment.

"THAT'S IT!" Buggy roared. "We're wiping this town out get the buggy bombs ready."

With a cheer his crew began the preparations

(Mayor's House)

"Alright, after Zoro gets up we can deal with Buggy and his crew." Naruto stated to the group, they were about to agree until. Boooom! The Mayors house blew up.

"ZORO!" Luffy yelled, worried Zoro was hurt, or worse.

Nami and Naruto gaped at the destroyed building, both thinking the worst.

"Even…my house?" Whispered the owner of the blown up house, not at all concerned about the swordsmen he bandaged up not that long ago.

"Agh…What a rude way to be awoken." Zoro groaned as he stood from the wreckage of the Mayor's house.

Everyone was relieved that Zoro was okay, Nami was amazed for what felt like the thirtieth time since she met Luffy and his small crew.

The Mayor however, had a completely different reaction on the matter; after running to the debris that used to be his house and digging through it for something. He jumped out, wielded a spear and was marching towards Buggy's HQ.

"For fifty years we've been here, living away from pirates, and that bastard Buggy thinks he can waltz on our home and ruin them!" he was just about to start running when Nami grabbed him in a hug-like grasp. "LET GO OF ME!"

She grit her teeth at how the old man was acting. "You're insane! You'd die before you could get close to him."

"I can't just sit back and let them do whatever they want to my home." He grunted as Nami's hold tightened.

Luffy laughed at the scene. "Alright old man! Tell 'em who's boss!"

Nami glared at Luffy. "DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM!" She took a breath. "Your being reckless."

The old man looked at Nami with tears in his eyes causing her grip to falter. "I KNOW IT'S RECKLESS!" He pushed off of his 'restraint' and ran down the road yelling a war cry the whole way.

For a moment there was silence in the area till the navigator spoke. "He was crying."

"Really?" Naruto asked.

"Yea, I didn't see him crying." Luffy added.

Nami looked at Luffy. "The Mayor's gonna get himself hurt."

Said Capitan began walking up to her. "Don't worry I like that old man. I won't let him die." He put out his hand when he was in front of her. "Are you gonna join my crew?"

She looked at his hand before smacking it away. "I'm not going to become a pirate." She then smiled. "But since our interests are in common you can help me out." Luffy smiled back.

It was at this moment Naruto decided to get a move on so they weren't late to the party. "Well let's go kick some ass!"

(At Buggy's HQ)

"LOAD ANOTHER!" Buggy shouted to his crew, a frown on his face; he had expected at least ONE of the thieves to come back by now.

"BUUUUUUUUUUGGYYYYYYY!" The shout had all of the Buggy crew, Capitan included, look where it came from. "BUGGY THE CLOWN!" The Mayor stopped just below the HQ. "Come down and fight me!"

The Capitan held back a laugh. "An old geezer like you thinks he can beat ME! What a flashy bastard you are." He couldn't hold his laugh back when the old man glared up at him.

"Don't be a coward, fight me Bugg-gah" His taunt died in his throat, Buggy's detached hand choking the old man.

"You dare call me a coward?" He flexed his arm causing the hands grip to tighten. "I would've let you watch me burn your town down but now…I think I'll just kill you!"

Just as he was about to crush the old man's wind pipe till another hand pried Buggy's off and gently set the Mayor down, who was greedily gulping air down.

"Brats!" He coughed. "Why won't you mind your own business?" The old warrior gasped between breaths.

Luffy smirked and let the struggling Capitan's hand go. "This is our business now."

"These flashy bastards are coming out of the woodworks now!" Buggy continued his rant about how 'they had the audacity to attack such a great man like him' while the Mayor shakily stood up, still ready to fight.

"We can handle this now, go back to your people." Nami tried to get the old man out of the cross fire. He, of course, refused.

Luffy, ignoring everyone, walked up to the Mayor and grabbed him by the head then proceeded to…smash his face into a concrete wall, knocking him out instantly.

Everyone, even Naruto, was surprised at this.

"WHAT THE HELL'S WRONG WITH YOU!?" A certain navigator roared.

Naruto and Zoro lost their surprised looks when they realized what he had done. "That's actually pretty smart. Now we don't have to worry about him getting hurt." The latter informed for everyone that didn't yet figure it out on their own.

Luffy began walking forward, a glint in his eyes that made Naruto pale slightly; Naruto paled further when he saw his brother take a large inhale of air.

"I'M GONNA KICK YOUR ASS BIG NOSE!" Naruto face palmed, all the color coming back after that shout.

"That's it?" he asked himself, unaware how sensitive Buggy was about his nose and how he'd react.

Nami, Buggy and his crew gaped, Luffy only chuckled.

"You can't say that." Nami whimpered slightly.

Buggy pointed a finger at the group, slightly shaking in rage. "FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!" The crew quickly aimed the Buggy Bomb cannon while Nami and Zoro started to take cover.

Naruto quirked an eyebrow at that. "Really? Over your nose?" He mumbled.

A pirate lit the fuse while Luffy took another large breath. "Gomu Gomu no Fuusen (Balloon)." He finished by putting his right thumb in his mouth and blowing, like he was blowing a balloon up, only HE started to blow up.

The Buggy Bomb made its way to Luffy in a slow motion-like state; it hit Luffy, causing the balloon-like counter to suck in slightly, the raven haired Capitan then thrust his body up at Buggy and his crew.

Said people gaped at the scene then yelled (see screamed) in fear, whilst Zoro and Nami had blank expressions. The bomb hit the building the Buggy Pirates were using as an HQ and a massive fireball consumed said HQ.

After a moment Zoro glanced at his Capitan. "You could have warned us." He deadpanned.

Luffy chuckled. "But where'd be the fun in it then?" The Capitan rhetorically questioned as the dust began to settle.

"That was a flashy trick you pulled off." The sound of Buggy's voice caught everyone's surprise.

When all the dust settled it revealed Buggy behind two of his underlings, using them as shields, his detached hands were holding them up.

Everyone below the now destroyed HQ was disgusted in the Capitan while said Capitan was pissed off. "How dare you use my own bomb against me."

"How dare us?" Naruto asked. "You're pathetic, using you own comrades as shields." Buggy only smiled, ignoring the pathetic comment.

More movement from under some of the debris, letting everyone know there were more survivors. "What happened?" It was Mohji climbing his way out of the destruction.

It took the Beast Tamer a moment to gain his thoughts and when his eyes caught sight of the one that beat him and Richie he gasped. "Capitan Buggy!" The man ran to his Capitan and pointed to Luffy. "He's not normal; he's a devil fruit eater like you!"

Buggy looked at Luffy. "Is that so, which one did you eat?"

The straw-hat wearing teen rubbed his nose with his thumb. "I ate the rubber fruit, I'm a rubber man." To prove what he said he stretched out his face, far further than any 'normal' person could.

Nami looked at Luffy realization spreading across her face. "That explains a lot."

Buggy nodded his head in thought as the man who warned him had a frown on his face. "So that's how you bounced that bomb back at us." Buggy said more to himself than anyone else.

After Buggy spoke more rubble was moved, gaining the attention of those present, revealing Richie being held by a tall and slender man with long, dark green hair, a long blue and white checkered scarf covering the lower half of his face.

He wore a long, purple coat that was sleeveless and went a little past his knees, white pants, and shoes to match. The pants were held up by a light blue sash.

"This is our greatest humiliation." After this was said he dropped Richie without so much as a blink and the man looked over showing the other side of his face, his hair had a unique style to it, it was sort and had a parallel shaved design to it.

"Capitan." The new arrival finished looking towards Buggy for an order.

"Oh Cabaji." Buggy looked from the scene back to the 'thieves' in front of him. "Glad you're up, I can't suppress my anger anymore." Buggy said this like he was talking about the weather, not like he was enraged.

"RICHIE!" Mohji had a horrified look on his face as he ran to his downed Lion. "What did you do?" The Beast Tamer's question had a threatening undertone to it.

"To that cat? I didn't want to get my clothes dirty, so I used it as a shield." Just as the man with the bear-like hair style was about to strike Cabaji, Richie began making pain-filled gasps for air.

"Richie! Get a hold of yourself! Are you okay?" Mohji sounded worried for his poor, hurt lion.

Richie calmed down and made eye contact with the person who used him as a shield, instead of lashing out, the lion hid behind some large debris from the explosion.

"Richie…" Mohji narrowed his eyes and turned towards Cabaji, he ran forward ready to beat his own comrade for hurting his pet. "You bastard!"

In his weakened state his swing missed by at least a mile, after Cabaji dodged the rage filled punch he kicked the Beast Tamer in Luffy's direction.

As Mohji sailed, like a missile, to the Straw-hat wearing Capitan, and subsequently Nami (who moved out of the way), Luffy got ready to counter.

When he almost collided with Luffy, he countered by kicking the 'missile' into a wall causing spider-web like cracks to form.

Cabaji looked at Buggy. "Capitan Buggy." He began and at Buggy's questioning hum he continued. "Let me handle this." The scarf wearing Pirate had an air of confidence around him.

Buggy's grin grew. "Alright then show them your acrobatics." This caused Cabaji to give a victorious smirk, like he had already won the battle.

Cabaji jumped high into the air and when he came down it showed he held a sword in his right hand and was on a…unicycle…with this unique method of transportation he raced towards Luffy.

"The chief of staff!" Called the unicyclist. "Cabaji the acrobat, Capitan Buggy's rage has been transferred to me!" He arched his arm back, just as he lunged his blade at the rapidly approaching Luffy, Zoro ran in-between the two and blocked the strike.

"Since you're a swordsman I'll be your opponent." The Santoryu user stated his hand on one of the two sheathed blades.

The acrobat hummed as if in thought. "That seems fair…Roronoa Zoro. To fight you as a swordsman." His eyes widened slightly when he saw Zoro's bandaged wound then went back to normal.

Luffy was about to say something when a hand on his shoulder stopped him. "Com'on bro, you should know not to interfere when someone like Zoro sets his sights on an opponent." Luffy hesitantly nodded as the two swordsmen stared each other down one serious the other with an evil looking smirk, that held a promise of pain for his opponent.

The reason the Acrobat was smirking so evilly was due to his opponent's injury. 'He was stabbed by Capitan, yet he still fights.' Cabaji almost laughed. 'What a moron.' He straightened slightly. "Kyokugi! Kaji Oyaji! (Acrobatic special, Old Man's Flame!)" Cabaji lowered his scarf with his free hand and blew out a stream of fire.

Zoro dodged the flames by leaning back and guarding his face. Using the distraction to his advantage he lashed out with his right leg.

Zoro couldn't see the attack to counter so the kick connected with his side, the pain causing Zoro to scream out and fall on his back.

"What's the matter?" He asked the agony filled man below him. "I didn't kick you that hard."

Luffy wanted to do something, and he could tell Naruto did as well from the increase in pressure on his shoulder.

Nami moved left of Luffy, opposite of Naruto. "That's dirty. He aimed for the wound!"

Naruto let go of Luffy's shoulder and looked to Nami. "That might be so but in our world there's no such thing as dirty, unfair, or cheap." She was staring at Naruto, slightly shocked by what he was saying. "We'll meet many more people like this on our journey." He looked back to the battle. "So get used to it…and be prepared to defend yourself from people much worse than him. Especially if you're gonna be joining us on our journey Nami."

Nami looked away after that to see Cabaji begin another attack.

He stabbed the tip of his blade in the concrete ground and called out his move. "Kyokugi! Yukemuri Satsujin Jiken! (Acrobatic special, Murder under a cloud of smoke!)" The swords men kicked up a cloud of dust by spinning his blade in a fast circle.

"What Acrobatics, it's just dust!" Zoro was starting to get ticked off at this man; just after he stood he was forced to deflect a slash that came out of the smoke-screen.

Cabaji's kick came just as quickly and hit Zoro in his wounded side again, this time causing the swordsmen to roll away.

"What is this!" The unicyclist grunted and rested his sword on his shoulder. "I expected more from a legend like you…perhaps that's why you've stooped this low?" nobody really noticed what he said for they were too focused on Zoro's condition.

Cabaji moved his blade to a more readied position. "So have you realized…it's foolish to go against the Buggy crew?"

"How can he beat him with a wound like that, he's lucky he's still alive." Nami looked over to the two brothers. "WHY AREN'T YOU DOING SOMETHING! HE'LL DIE IF THIS KEEPS UP!" She yelled at them in an infuriated tone, but went completely ignored, the two were focused on Zoro's battle.

Zoro slowly got up as Cabaji began to speak. "Roronoa Zoro." He leaned forward and began another charge. "Time to die!" He called out as Zoro stood fully.

"Annoying bastard." The swordsmen said. "Is hitting my wound that much fun?" He asked as he stood completely relaxed as Cabaji's blade pierced the Bounty hunters flesh.

Everyone was surprised he took a hit like that without even flinching.

"Why didn't he dodge it?" She asked, not understanding why someone would do something like that.

Cabaji however, was slightly taken aback by his last action and had yet to turn to face Zoro.

"Well I hope you had fun." Zoro spoke as he turned to face his opponent. "'Cause I'm gonna show you the difference between you and me." With that he lifted his left blade in a defensive position.

"WOO! So cool!" This came from Luffy.

The acrobat turned, some sweat rolling down his brow. "So this is the real you…I underestimated you due to your wound." He swallowed some of the saliva that was building up. "I'll have to take you more serious if I am to beat you."

That caused Zoro to chuckle. "My goal is to be the greatest swordsmen in the world. I can't lose in a fight, not even once." He stepped a foot forward, ready for Cabaji's next attack.

"So you're showing me your resolve?" He rhetorically asked. "You can't win with that, so you can use that as an excuse when you fall before my blade." He then pointed said blade at the swordsmen opposing him.

"A wound like this won't cause me to lose to someone like you, if it did what future would I have in this world." Naruto chuckled at that giving Zoro a point for the insult.

He took out his third blade a beautiful katana with a white hilt, he then put the hilt in his mouth and clenched down.

It was at this moment, due to the lack of him being in battle, that Naruto noticed that third blade and it caused his eyes to narrow in thought. 'Where have I seen that blade before?'

Nami looked between Zoro and Cabaji a little worried for the swordsmen…until she realized there were no other pirates awake.

She looked at the excited rubber man and spoke. "Do whatever you want, I don't care whether you win or lose…it doesn't affect me any." She waved at Luffy and Naruto. "I'll find the treasure then we can part ways, if fate will have it we could work together again." She turned and began running. "See ya! And good luck with the fight!"

"Yea, Thanks!" The Raven-haired Capitan replied.

When she disappeared Naruto looked at Luffy and sighed. "You're not gonna let her go that easily are you?"

Luffy turned his attention back to the fight but still answered his brother. "She'll come back…I already made her our navigator." He then laughed for no apparent reason.

Naruto just shook his head and decided to just watch the fight, without looking at his brother he made a claim. "Next Capitan we fight I call dibs." Luffy nodded his answer and Naruto smiled at that.

The unicycling swordsmen tensed. "Now for my greatest attack!" He held out his hand revealing three spinning tops. "Kyokugi! Kamikaze Hyakkoma Gekijo! (Acrobatic special! One-hundred spinning tops of wind attack!)" Then the tops flew towards Zoro at a surprisingly high speed, if Zoro wasn't as skilled as he was he'd be cut up right about now.

He caught a small glint from the spinning tops showing they were, in fact, bladed. So he dodged and deflected the mini buzz-saws of death.

(With Nami)

As the battle continued Nami ran around the buildings to sneak in Buggy's treasure stash. 'Zoro, Luffy, Naruto, none of them are normal! Nothing good would come out of being around them.' Were her thoughts on the group she was contemplating weather or not to ditch.

When she made it to the entrance of the stash, she put those thoughts to the back of her mind and used her thievery skills and broke into the basement.

The next door she came across had a heavy padlock on the latch, passing a passed out drunk pirate along the way, she decided to use her staff to break the lock instead of fiddling with it.

(Back at the fight)

As this was happening, Zoro was cutting top after top; Cabaji turned to the building and cycled to it. " Kyokugi! Yama Noboro! (Acrobatic special! Climbing the mountain!)" He then did as he said and rolled up the building, when he got to the top he yelled out a second 'Acrobatic special' then a third.

With this 'Acrobatic special' he pointed his blade downward and dropped at a high velocity with the intent of impaling opponent.

"Barra Barra Crawling hand cannon!" The announcement came from Capitan Buggy who was launching his hands at the newest member of Luffy's crew. "I'll hold him down!"

The two brothers frowned at this, Luffy acted first, by running past his Nakama and stepping on the Capitan's hand. "Don't interrupt their fight."

Since Zoro didn't have to worry about Buggy he was able to dodge the acrobat before said acrobat impaled the Santoryu user.

(I bring you more boobs)

Nami stared at all the treasure in front of her with stars in her eyes and a greedy smile on her face. She squealed happily and kneeled in front of it. "So much…and it's all mine." As she gloated over her 'winnings' a cutlass blade rested itself on her shoulder, causing the thief to freeze up.

"What are you doing with our treasure?" The man inquired as Nami stood, her hands raised in surrender. When Nami stood fully she turned to face the man that had her at sword point.

She saw who caught her. 'Shit! He woke up.' Sweat was beginning to roll down her face at being caught, no one around to help her, and caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

"Capitan Buggy said that anyone who comes near the treasure-" He took a swig of his empty bottle then looked at it with one eye. "-Huh? Whys Sake-Chan outa Sake?" With all his attention now completely on the 'mysteriously' missing booze, Nami was able to come up with an escape plan.

She kneeled down and grabbed her chest as if in great pain. "It hurts!" She cried out gaining the drunken man's attention. "MY chest suddenly hurts!" She clarified when he asked what hurt.

When he caught sight of her chest his drunken blush increased into a perverted one and he began to drool.

The orange-haired burglar used this distraction to extend her staff and whack the drunken pirate over the head, thus taking care of her barricade. As her luck would have it the man was the guard to the more private treasures and had the keys on him, so she took the liberty to liberate Buggy of his map and other private goodies.

(Now for blood…yay!)

Buggy had a scowl of rage aimed at Luffy whom had the clown-like man's hand pinned under his foot; Zoro used this opportunity to catch his breath.

"I don't need the Capitan's help, to defeat someone like you." Cabaji stated, slightly aggravated their normally fatal move didn't work.

"That's enough, I'm tired." Zoro's reply caused the acrobat to laugh and rest his hand on the shaved side of his face.

"I'm glad the 'great' Pirate Hunter Zoro knows his own limits." He sighed. "I'm amazed you lasted this long with a wound like that."

This time it was Zoro's turn to laugh; he stood up he spoke to his opponent. "I thought I already told you. I won't be defeated, especially by someone like you." To add salt to the metaphorical wound. "A man that uses useless 'acrobatics'."

Cabaji snarled. "I'll end you with one blow! Using my…true sword technique!" He charged forward blade aimed at the Santoryu user's heart.

Zoro hunched slightly then crossed his blades in a 'self-hug' like stance, with his blades pointing straight up "Oni Giri! (Demon Strike!)" He struck with all three blades at an extremely fast speed.

Cabaji arched his back as blood splurted from his wounds. "CABAJI!" Buggy yelled, actually sounding genuinely worried for his crewmembers health.

"The Buggy crew…was defeated by a group of thieves." The acrobat grunted as he fell onto the street and into unconsciousness.

Zoro took a moment to catch his breath, so to speak. "Not thieves…" Zoro said as he sheathed his blades "…pirates" With that he promptly collapsed on the street as well. "Luffy, Naruto…I'm gonna take a nap."

"Ah!" Luffy smiled and put a hand on his arm. "I'll handle the rest." His statement caused Naruto to cry anime tears.

"I didn't get to fight ANYONE! I jus' got blown up!" He went ignored causing a storm cloud of depression to appear. "They don't even care."

(Boobs again)

Nami was currently dragging a large bag of treasure behind her, actually managing to work up a sweat. "I expected a Devil fruit user would have this much treasure!" She rested on said treasure and patted the tied bag. "With this much I'll just have a little left." She frowned in thought. 'I hope their okay.' She got back up and started dragging the treasure again. "Well I better get off this island as quickly as I can." Even though she told herself this she still stopped and looked to where the next battle was about to begin.

'Why do I care! All pirates are the same!' But then the memory of Luffy going out of his way to get a dog a simple bag of food back from a LION caused her to make a decision.

(Blood round two)

"YOU'RE pirates?" the clown questioned.

"Yea, we're headed to the grand line." Naruto depressingly mumbled, still in an audible voice for the others to hear though.

"That's not a place you can just go." Buggy scoffed then smirked. "Even if you made it what would you do, site see." He laughed at the teens in front of him.

With a serious look Luffy spoke. "I'm going to become the Pirate King."

Buggy's laughter instantly halted and he looked at Luffy. "That's not something you can just say." When Luffy just looked at him he became enraged. "You're going to become Pirate King!? THEN I'M KAMI! The one who will own all the world's treasures and become the king is ME!"

Luffy spread his legs slightly and looked at his opponent. "You talk too much, bring it on."

It was around this time a certain thief showed up, hiding behind some rubble, to watch the fight, why she was there and not running for her boat, not even she could say.

Buggy growled slightly and revealed his balled fists. "That hat reminds me of someone that annoyed me just as much as you." He flicked his wrists and four daggers came out for each hand. "It reminds me of that red-headed bastard."

"Red-headed?" Naruto mumbled to himself in thought, his depression dissipating. "You know Shank's?" Naruto called out, his brother not at all bothered he was now holding up his battle because of his own curiosity.

"Do you know where he is?" Luffy asked a little hopeful at the prospect of meeting the man that saved his life when he was younger.

Buggy just chuckled. "Maybe I do and maybe I don't, wouldn't tell you anyways."

The black-haired teen narrowed his eyes but his smirk returned. "Then I'll just have to beat it out of ya."

The clown laughed again and kicked his feet on the ground revealing a shoe-knife. "You'll be dead before then, rubber can't bounce back blades."

"Yep, not possible!" He cheerfully replied.

Buggy then launched the lower half of his body like a saw blade while yelling. "Bara Bara Japanese Cracker!" Luffy dodged by jumping high in the air, but Buggy expected this so he launched his blades at his airborne target.

Seeing the blades sailing towards him he stretched out his arm and grabbed a lamp post, using it to maneuver out of harm's way.

The Capitan of the Buggy Pirate's nodded his head. "So it seems you have some skill after all, that was interesting." His legs came back to him after he said this.

"Your powers cool too." Luffy pulled back his arm. "Gomu Gomu no Pistol!" He launched it forward aimed at the opposing Capitan's head, but the attack was easily side-stepped.

"That is an interesting ability." He pulled out two short swords. "But it left you wide open." He went to cut the offending arm off but failed to notice the rubber-man held onto the tree behind him, so it came to a surprise when the Pirate launched himself at Buggy.

"Gomu Gomu no Sickle!" just before Luffy hit his target, the clown-like Capitan used his ability to 'pop' his head off and dodge.

He laughed as his head floated around his body. "Your just a naïve little brat." It reattached as Luffy jumped out of the rubble he created from missing the clown-like pirate.

"So he can split more than just his arms and legs."

Buggy quickly sheathed his swords and released four more blades from each wrist and aimed them at Luffy. "Bara Bara Cannon!" His hand shot fourth and almost hit his mark, but the 'mark' grabbed Buggy's hand before it could kill him. "Release." After this statement his hand blasted at Luffy, yet again he dodged, but not without cutting his raven-haired opponent, and knocking his hat off with a nick on the rim.

Buggy laughed at the successful hit, blood was dripping down Luffy's face to prove it. "How'd ya like that brat?"

"Ah, shit." Naruto stated when he noticed his brother slowly pick up the straw hat.

Luffy looked over. "You bastard!" Buggy's grin grew.

"Was it wrong of me to cut you face? Pretty boy." Buggy chuckled.

"You dare…YOU DARE TO CUT THIS HAT!?" Now Buggy was confused. "This hat is my treasure!"

"…" Buggy just looked at Luffy, then lost it. "Ahahhahaha! That hat's treasure? Only gold, money, riches, and the like are treasures."

Luffy ignored him and tossed his hat to Naruto, who caught it, maybe that would've been the best decision in the beginning. He then launched another Gomu Gomu no Pistol that Buggy dodged with ease; as Luffy flew towards Buggy the Capitan put his daggers in his path, thinking the teen's momentum would cause his own demise.

Luffy however, stopped just before he passed the Capitan and shot his foot forward and hit Buggy in the gut causing him to slide back and keel over pain.

Buggy returned his previously launched hand trying to hit Luffy with it as he did so, but the teen dodged and retaliated by spinning around, one arm out-stretched, to hit Buggy in the side.

Buggy split, dodging the strike, as to do something to his opponent Luffy snapped his arm and did indeed hit the splitting pirate with his waving arm.

Luffy's hand came back to him a few seconds after Buggy reconnected, slightly bent over from the pain.

"You're doing this over a hat?" Buggy growled out lowly, the orange-haired thief had similar thoughts.

'Maybe he is different from the others…' She shook her head from such thoughts. 'No! All pirates are the same.' Even though she thought with such conviction, she still had her doubts.

"It's not just ANY hat." Luffy cracked his knuckles. "It's Shanks' hat." That caused Buggy's eyes to widen slightly, then narrow in rage.

"I knew I recognized that damn hat, I couldn't stand being near it when I was younger."

Luffy was stunned at the implication. "Y-you knew Shanks that long ago."

Buggy scoffed a little . "It wasn't that long ago…and yes we were Nakama." Buggy chuckled at calling Shanks and himself that, till Naruto interrupted him.

"Bullshit, I doubt Shanks would call someone like YOU a friend."

Buggy looked between the non-believing duo. "Don't believe me…Let me tell you why I'll never forgive THAT man then."

"When I was your age, maybe even younger, me and that flashy Shanks were on the same crew." Buggy began his story. "He's the reason I lost many of my dreams and aspirations, HE CURSED ME!"

(Flashback sequence initiated)

We find the Oro Jackson's crew about a year from reaching the Grand Lines last island (not that Luffy and the others know this fact)

"North is colder!" A younger Buggy yelled, a crowd currently circling him and the equally as young Shanks.

"No the South Pole is colder!" Shanks yelled back.

"North!"

"South!" With each yell the two's heads got closer and closer to one another, till they were grinding together.

"NORTH!"

"Do you WANT me to kick your ass baka! IT'S SOUTH!" Buggy grit out, they were just about to come to blades when good ol' Rayleigh stepped in, bashing the arguing duo on their heads, immediately ending the debacle.

"You two are Nakama…when will you act like it!?" He questioned, not expecting an answer, but getting an unexpected one from a crewmate in the crow's nest.

"PIRATE SHIP COMING AT US!" The crewmember called out.

The reaction was almost instantaneous. "GET READY FOR BATTLE MEN!" Silvers called out.

There was indeed a battle an intense battle, after knocking an pirate out from the opposing crew, Buggy had found a map on his fallen opponent, leading to a massive treasure deep below the sea.

His only thoughts on the map not yet being completely thought out, so he stashed it on his person to figure out what this meant for him after the fight was over.

After the battle was over and night settled over the seas, with the Roger Pirates being victorious, the crew began to celebrate, only one person snuck off and was sitting above the kitchen looking over his newly acquired map.

"OI! BUGGY!" The teen pirate jumped and jammed the map down his shirt.

"THATWASN'TAMAPOFTREASUR!" Buggy looked to where the voice came from, to see a confused looking Shanks, who was also slightly drunk.

"Um…Okay, I jus' came up 'ere to tell ya." He paused for a second to take a drink. "We're splittin' up the loot and we found somin' intrestin'."

Buggy took a moment to relax his racing heart then nodded. "Thanks but I'm good." He gave off a nervous chuckle that his friend luckily didn't notice.

"What're doing up 'ere by 'urself." Buggy stiffened slightly, but still answered as to not raise suspicion.

"Just thinking." Was his short reply.

"Wha'd about?" He asked.

Buggy looked up at the starry night sky. "What I'm gonna do after this, I want to get my own ship and a crew." In the back of his mind he was dancing, that step was closer than anyone thought.

Shanks laughed lightly at that, pissing Buggy off till he spoke. "Ya can jus' join my crew, when I get one Buggy."

The clown-like pirate just looked at Shanks, and started to chuckle, it soon turned into full blown laughter. It took him a few moments but when he calmed down, the clown explained himself to his red-headed friend.

"That's a nice thought…it truly is, but….we're too different, our thoughts differ too much." Buggy chuckled again. "We would be at each other's throats the whole time…I think this is even the longest we've ever talked without arguing."

A comfortable silence remained until Buggy thought back to shanks offer on the treasure. "So what was that about interesting treasure?" He looked over to see Shanks just looking at him for a moment, till a light of realization hit him.

"Oh yea! One of the crew found a Devils Fruit!"

Buggy was confused for two reasons, one, why was Shanks so excited, and two. "What the hell is a DEVILS FRUIT?"

"It's a fruit thad'll give whoever eats it amazing powers, but it'll take their ability to swim away." Buggy was interested until that came up.

"Gain power, but lose the ability to swim? That's stupid!" Buggy scoffed before he could continue though, Shanks did.

"The fruit's s'posed to be worth a lot a Beli…half a billion's what the cheapest went for I heard." Again silence, with the blue-haired pirate trying to understand what Shanks said.

"THE CHEAPEST'S HALF A BILLION!?" He yelled after it finally hit him.

"Yep!" Shanks' reply caused Buggy to make a plan, a plan that would change his life forever and not how he thought it would.

(The next day)

So there Buggy was, standing where he made an improvement to his plan the other night, holding the Devils Fruit. "And now I'll eat this fruit, gaining the power it holds!" He said with a grin.

Most of the crew watched on in slight interest. "Young people these days have no thoughts on the consequences of their actions." One of the crewmen laughed out.

Buggy only devoured the fruit. 'That's what you all think…well tonight my life changes for the better!' were Buggy's thoughts as he swallowed the last of the "Devils Fruit".

He put on a face of confusion when someone called out. "Do you feel any different?" he only shook his head.

(Later that night)

Buggy was preparing a dinghy to abandon the crew he was a part of, he stopped to check on the real Devils Fruit and his map, he was nervous about what he was going to do. Just as he was about to put the items away an unwanted guest arrived.

"Oi! Buggy?" At Shanks' voice Buggy jammed the large fruit in his mouth and looked at Shanks with a blank, as blank as someone can get while hiding a large object in their mouth, stare. "Don't give me that look I was just wondering what you're doing." When Buggy didn't answer Shanks shook his head and walked off. "I see what you mean from last night."

When the redhead was out of sight Buggy spit the fruit out. "Whew! He sighed. "That was cl-"

"I almost forgot." Shanks popped out of nowhere, and on instinct the clown jammed the fruit in his mouth, Shanks patted his shoulder, causing Buggy to swallow it, to his horror. "The Capitan wa-"

"You…you…" Buggy let go of the map and grabbed Shanks by the collar of his shirt. "Y-y-y-YOU DUMBASS! ALL OF THAT WORK AND YOU…YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!"

Shanks was confused but caught sight of paper floating in the air, down to the sea. "Hay Buggy, wasn't that yours?" He pointed causing the clown to look at his map.

"NO!" Buggy yelled as he jumped overboard to save his treasure map, unfortunately for him, as soon as he hit the water his body seized up. 'I-I can't move…is this it, is this how I die?'

(Flashback sequence ended)

"-Were my thoughts as I slowly sunk to the sea." Buggy was almost done telling the story but Luffy interrupted.

"What happened? Did you live?" his question was met with stares and silence, till a clone of Naruto showed up and smacked Luffy in the back of the head then disappeared.

"Dumbass, he's right here for one, so I'd assume Shanks saved him."

Naruto's reply caused a growled to escape the Splitting Pirates throat. "Yea that bastard saved my life, BUT IT'S HIS FAULT I'M LIKE THIS!" Buggy took a calming breath. "So now, since I can't have the treasure in the ocean, I'll steel all of the treasure on land and kill anyone that tries to take it from me."

With that the upper half of his body split and he charged past Luffy, who prepared to counter but, was unnecessary because Buggy was aimed at the fleeing thief.

When Luffy turned he noticed Nami running from the charging Buggy, who was gaining on her. "Oi! Nami leave the treasure and get out of here."

"No, this is my treasure!" She whined while running.

Naruto rolled his eyes and was about to use a Kawarimi (Replacement) Jutsu and take Buggy out, but he noticed his brother get a glint in his eyes and turn, looking at Buggy's lower half…'Oh I'd pity that splittin' bastard if he didn't cut bro's hat.' His thought had good merit to it, fore Luffy kicked the clown right between the legs.

The look of absolute anguish on Buggy's face, made the blonde cringe. 'that was kind of harsh bro.' He thought but then shrugged it off. 'Guess he shouldn't've went after Nami then.'

"M-my my b-b-balls." He collapsed on the floor, as he tried to collected himself, would be the best way to put it, Nami turned still holding the treasure.

Naruto saw something that caught his eyes at that moment, and he almost drooled at the sight, he quickly calmed himself though. 'I'll wait…but when this is over…' He let the thought slip…for now that is.

"See I don't have to drop MY treasure." That seemed to sober the blue-haired Pirate Capitan up.

Buggy looked up with a threatening glint in his eyes. "Whose treasure is that?"

Nami stuck her tong out at the downed Capitan, then explained. "I stole this from you so now it's mine, if a pirate as "great" as you can't even hold onto a little treasure, then you don't deserve to own it."

The clown chuckled after a moment then abruptly stopped. "Is that how it is?" at Nami's reply of yes, he subtly moved his hand towards the thief in front of him. "Well then you can just…DIE!" He simultaneously 'jumped' up, grabbing the bag, and launched his bladed fist at a horrified Nami.

Just before the blades ended her life Luffy showed up behind her and punched the bag of treasure she held and smashed it in Buggy and his bladed fist, taking the pirate Capitan out.

The bag ripped, spilling treasure all over the street, but that didn't bother her too much, considering she was now alive.

A majority of Buggy's parts were now scattered around the town square, his head glaring at the remaining pirates. "That's it! you all going to DIE!" it was at that moment Nami noticed something and ran off, picking up a rope as she ran by.

Not that Buggy cared, all of his attention was mainly on his opponent. Luffy prepared to counter the clown's next move, but that wasn't necessary, because when Buggy re-gathered himself some…important parts were missing. Specifically everything but his head, hands, and feet.

Buggy looked at himself. "W-what the hell's going on!?" When Nami whistled everyone looked to see why she did that, only to get varied reactions.

Luffy and Naruto laughed, Buggy gaped in shock, and Zoro…well he was still sleeping so he snored, the reason for these reactions you ask…well…

"YOU FUCKING BITCH! YOU TIED MY PARTS UP!" There's you answer.

Luffy collected himself and got a grin on his face. "This has been fun but, I've gotta say by big nose."

"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME!?" After the initial enraged shout he caught on to what the straw hat-wearing teen was doing and remember what he said about bye. "Wait!"

Luffy only launched both hands backwards at an extreme distance and shouted. "GOMU GOMU NO BAZOOKA!" as he shot them at a chibied Buggy the clown.

"NonononoNONONONOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" When Luffy hit the clown, he was launched out of sight from the force of the blow.

"Whew, that was fun." Luffy commented after a moment.

Naruto regained his depression though. "It wasn't fun for me." But just as quickly it disappeared and he smiled. "I call next Capitan bro!"

Naruto walked up to his brother and handed him his hat back. "Already told you that's fine bro, and thanks"

"No prob bro."

Nami walked up to the two conversing brothers, alongside another Naruto, setting the two bags she was carrying down. "I figured you'd need this for the trip." She stated as she handed Luffy a rolled up piece of parchment.

He unrolled it and jumped for joy. "I got my map of the Grand Line!" He looked to Nami.

With his brother being distracted, Naruto decided to collect the item he saw shortly after Luffy dropped him. Naruto cringed at the thought. 'I hope Buggy forgets this, in case we meet again.'

With that he reached down and swung the item over his shoulder and began to walk back to his brother.

"So how's your hat?"

Luffy took the hat off and sighed a little. "It's not that bad…only a little cut." He shrugged and put it back on. "I'll just have to be more careful with it from now on."

"It'll be better if I just sew it." The Greedy girl mumbled to herself.

"What was that?" the Capitan asked curiously.

"Nothing." She said quickly, then changed the subject. "So you two can carry the treasure then, it's heavy."

"Look what I got bro!" The two's attention was drawn to the blonde, striding up to them, and holding…Buggy's orange coat up.

Luffy cocked his head. "What is it."

"Buggy's Captains coat." Nami informed, just as confused as he was.

"The Straw-hat wearing teen found slightly. "You know I don't like orange bro, red's the way to go."

"Orange is the color of the gods!" The blonde exclaimed.

"Red symbolizes power and strength!" the raven-haired pirate refuted.

Naruto was about to say orange symbolized power and intelligence which Luffy clearly lacked however, he took a calming breath.

"Alright, look. The coat's not for you I'M going to wear it." Luffy nodded, but narrowed his eyes.

"You're not the Capitan though, and that's a Capitan's coat." Naruto groaned at that.

"Luffy-Sencho you, and only you, are my Capitan. I only wish to wear this coat because of its color, NOT its meaning." Naruto replied in an extremely respectful tone.

Luffy nodded at that. "That's fine bro, you can wear it."

Nami looked between the two, for a moment she didn't recognize who was in front of her, but now that the moment was over…

"So are you gonna carry my treasure or not…I might just change my mind…" She let the threat hang.

That turned the brothers back from serious to their normal self. "So does that mean you're joining our crew?" the orange-clad blonde hopefully inquired.

Nami only scoffed. "I'm not becoming a pirate…think of it more as a business proposition, I'll help navigate, and you give me a portion of the treasure you get on the journey to do whatever I want with."

Luffy cheered and looked at Zoro. "OI ZORO!" said swordsmen groaned as he woke.

"Did ya win already?" He answered his own question when he looked around. "Never mind."

"We got our navigator!" Luffy happily exclaimed.

The moss-headed Swordsmen gave a blank stare at said navigator, that started to unnerve said navigator. "Alright then…I feel like I'm gonna faint." Zoro clutched his head with his right hand as Nami exploded.

"YOU DUMBASS! YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN BE MOVING YET, LET ALONE BE AIVE!" she calmed down when she noticed not a single one of them seemed to care.

"What are we gonna do about the old man?" The newly instated navigator asked after a moment of silence.

Naruto was going to answer, however, a large crowd of what appeared to be citizens of Orange Town showed up and looked around. "Hay, do you know what happened here?" One of the apparent citizens asked the group.

Luffy answered before anyone else. "Yea we do."

For some reason this made Naruto pale and start to back up, picking up the treasure bags as he passed by.

"What are you doing." Nami asked in a hushed tone, for some reason she felt compelled to speak like that.

Naruto nervously chuckled and cryptically replied. "You'll see, just be ready."

Zoro and Nami shared a look that said 'ready for what?'

The new arrivals noticed their Mayor collapsed on the street and they rushed over to check on his condition.

Another man looked up. "Do you know what happened to our Mayor?"

"Yep!" Luffy said a little too cheerfully, and he replied with the most logical response available. "I had to knock him out."

Every citizen glared at the straw hat-wearing teen and slowly got up, the newest members of Luffy's crew gaped in shock.

Why would you say that!?" Nami hissed.

Luffy scratched his head. "What? It's the truth."

"You did this to our Mayor? Who are you anyways?"

Nami was about to explain and HOPEFULLY get the current escalating situation under control, alas it was not to be.

"Pirates." Was Luffy's short, truthful response.

Nami would've berated him but the group was forced to run from an angry mob of villagers.

As they were being chased Nami glared at her "partner" "Why would you tell them that!?" she growled slightly. "Of all the things you could've said-"

"It wouldn't've mattered anyways." Luffy interrupted Nami. "They still would've been mad and they probably wouldn't of believed us anyways."

Luffy noticed an ally coming up and cut his newest recruit off. "This way!"

Nami almost passed it up; she still made the turn though, followed by Zoro, who was trailed by a treasure carrying Naruto.

"GODDAMNIT BRO! FOR ONCE I'D LIKE TO LEAVE A TOWN WITHOUT SOME SHIT LIKE THIS GOING DOWN!" Luffy only laughed at his brothers enraged shouting.

He turned again and had to immediately jump over a new obstacle, that being Shushu, the little white dog from the pet store.

The quadruplet looked back at the scene that was now arising.

Shushu was barking at the citizens, stopping them from going after the Pirates that caused their Mayor to be in the current condition that he was.

"Shushu, what are you doing?" A random villager asked.

Another tried to walk past the dog, only to be stopped by said four-legged k-nine. "Shushu, they're getting away!"

The straw hat-wearing teen let out another laugh. "THANKS DOG-SAN!" And the dog barked back a replied.

The group ran for a few more moments, till they were just about at the docks when they stopped to see if they were still being followed.

"Well, looks like they gave up." The blonde Namikaze sighed and set the treasure he carried down. "I wish you weren't so honest bro…like seriously, did you HAVE to tell them you knocked him out… OR that we were pirates?"

With all the excitement from the most recent battle still fresh in their minds, their senses were dulled slightly, so they didn't notice the new presence till it was too late.

Luffy just gave his brother a blank look. "Fine, you're carrying the treasure though." Naruto stated matter-of-factly and began to walk towards Alvida's confiscated dinghy. "So where's your dinghy Na-OOF!"

He was interrupted by a large, metallic, rectangular object, slamming into his gut causing him to keel over; everyone's attention was drawn to a woman at the end of the previously described project.

The woman holding the rectangular object quickly spun around while crouching and knocked the blonde's feet from under him, making him painfully slam into the ground.

She set the club-like object on her right shoulder and set her right foot in the middle of Naruto's chest.

Zoro and Luffy were about to attack her, up until she spoke. "Hello Naruto…would you mind telling me why THIS-" She held a small sheet of paper in front of the downed blonde. "-was on the wreckage of my boat?"

Naruto looked up and groaned. "Hi Temari, how've you been?" You could tell he was in pain by the sound of his voice. "Sorry 'bout your boat, it wasn't my fault honest."

Luffy scratched the side of his head. "Hay bro, what's up with her?"

Temari answered for Luffy's brother. "Well, apparently you brother was 'blown up' into my ship-"

"So that's where you landed?" the raven-haired Capitan chuckled. "Nice aim!"

"-and he wrote this I.O.U to me for said ship." She continued ignore Luffy's comment. "So you now owe me a ride and this little letter of yours told me where you were so here I am."

Naruto took a moment to collect himself then answered her. "Well that'd be up to my brother." He grunted out.

She looked at the Capitan. "Well, you gonna give me that lift?" The way it was stated was more of a demand than question."

Luffy gave this bright smile, like they'd been friends that haven't seen one another for a long time and not that she was currently assaulting his brother. "Sure…ah…Tari-girl." He looked at his brother with a victorious grin. "And you thought it'd be hard to pick up a crew." With that said he walked to the dinghy, picking up a bag of loot as he passed.

Temari let her foot off of Naruto and stepped back. "My name's Temari no Sabaku, pleasure making your acquaintance." She stated with a small bow, deciding to greet the swordsmen and the only other girl there. Considering they'd be sailing together shortly…it was a smart idea.

Nami looked to Zoro, who only shrugged and gave his name, after a moment the orange-haired navigator strode up to the 'club' wielding woman with a sympathetic expression on her face.

"My name's Nami…and I hope you know, once he sets his sights on you…he doesn't give up."

With that she began a light jog along the docks.

'What the hell does that mean?' After a moment she put that thought at the back of her mind and decided to put her weapon away using the tattoo, which was in fact a sealing tat; Temari then walked to the small boat.

"You can ride with Nami Fishcake-Kun!" She called back as Naruto picked himself up. She decided to screw with the orange-clad blonde as much as possible, considering he was the cause for the current predicament.

"Whatever Mari-Chan!" He called back after he took a moment to collect himself. 'Two can play at that game.'

After Nami came back with the dinghy she "acquired" from a group of Buggy's men, the group set out with Naruto riding with Nami and Luffy with Temari and Zoro.

(Later, back at the mostly destroyed town square)

The elderly Mayor sat up with a small grunt of pain.

"He's awake!" someone close to him called out, causing the recently awoken Mayor to jump. "Are you alright Boodle-san?"

The recently named mayor looked around, all of the towns people were there, and it brought a tear of joy to his face that everyone was there; he however, didn't see the group of brats that he recently met.

"Where are the pirates?"

The nearest citizen gave a small smile of victory. "We ran 'em off." His statement caused those around to become a little happier.

"Thank the lord you're okay." One of the females there said. "We were worried you were hurt by those other pirates." She spit the label with such venom a king cobra would be proud.

"Where are they?" His question was met with confused looks. "The brats that were here." He was trying not to show his emotions, but it was being difficult. 'Those brats, doing that for me.'

The group looked at each other than an Orange Town resident answered. "We ran them off, just like the other pirates."

"Yea, we showed 'em not to mess with us again." Another piped up.

That's how it went, all the citizens mocking or talking down about Luffy and the others, not that they knew about the situation that occurred recently, proud that they defended their town from more pirates.

Boodle listened to this for a moment, his anger increasing as time went on till he couldn't take it anymore. He jumped up, silencing all those around.

"I won't stand for anyone talking bad about them!" This outburst really confused the recently liberated group.

"What do you mean Boodle-san?" One of the confused residents asked.

"The only one that can talk bad about them is me!" He began running to the main docks, slipping his armor off as he moved. "After all those brats did they think they can just leave like that?" he angrily asked himself.

He continued on, ignoring the others shouts to stay there so they could check him out for any other or more severe injuries. 'Those brats think they can do that to me and leave without being berated by me!'

(With the group currently on their way)

"So where exactly are we headed Temari-san." Nami asked politely.

The fan user looked over. "It's an island not too far from here called Dorely (Doorley)" Luffy gave a laugh.

"Sounds fun!"

"OI!" The shout had the group look back to the docks at the huffing Mayor. 'Those brats…' a few tears began to rolled down his cheeks. "THANK YOU! YOU'RE WELCOME BACK ANY TIME BRATS!" he happily yelled.

There was a moment of silence, till it was broken by the two brothers' laughter. "NO PROBLEM OLD MAN!" Luffy yelled back causing Boodle's grin to grow.

Zoro just shook his head at his Capitan's actions and closed his eyes to get some rest.

The mayor chuckled, but stopped when he noticed a large bag left at the docks. "What's this?" The old man thought as he kneeled down and began to open said bag. When he did he had a look of absolute shock on his face.

(With the two dinghy's)

"YOU WHAT!" An enraged navigator yelled as she held Luffy by his collar from the adjacent boat. "That was at least five million Beli!" She ground out, as if it would matter to the pirate.

"B-but they would need it to rebuild-" She interrupted him by trying to dunk him in the water, he grabbed onto the other boat for leverage. "N-Nami I can't swim!"

Zoro cracked an eye to see what was going on and laughed at the scene in front of him, Temari just watched with an uninterested expression, on the inside however, she was worried.

'This is the group I have to trust to take me to my brothers.' Her attention was drawn to Naruto sighing, who was leaning over a map.

"Nami!" He called out, getting her to cease her attempts at murdering her 'partner' "Can you come here for a minute?"

She glared at Luffy and slowly let go. "You owe me five million Beli." She growled slightly, as she went to see what the male blonde wanted. "What?"

Naruto pointed to the island Temari wanted to go then made a line to two more islands and finally Orange Town. "We'll have to make two extra stops, so?" Nami sounded ticked.

Naruto just looked up. "What's the name of the Island?" He pointed at the second island.

She looked down and angrily answered. "Mill Ville, why does it matter?"

"Am I the only one that did ANY research on the surrounding islands before setting sail?" He mumbled more to himself than the others. "It's a ghost town."

"There are ghosts there?" Luffy asked energetically. "So cool!"

"Not real ghosts bro, it's an abandoned town that we'll have to stop at." Nami took over at that point.

"Abandoned towns are a haven for pirates, bandits, and other criminals." She worriedly filled in the gaps.

The group seemed contemplative, till all the males grinned. "I can't wait!" Naruto chuckled with his brother.

"It'll give me some practice before we go to the grand line." Temari and Nami looked at the happy males of the group then each other.

"Their absolute dumbasses." The blonde deadpanned.

The navigating thief nodded in agreement.

(A few hours later at the Orange Town docks)

Two individuals were sitting on the side of the dock; one was fishing, the other holding a large picture of the group that currently left.

The one holding the picture was wearing a black tank top and dark green shorts and tan sandals to finish the outfit, from the tightness of the outfit one could tell he was a muscular individual. His spikey, green hair seemed to shine in the setting sun, along with his similarly colored eyes. He rubbed his thick beard, cigarette in-between his lips.

"What you thinking Mike?" The green-haired man looked to his fishing companion then back at the picture. Said companion was a relatively short individual, about four feet six inches, a foot and two inches shorter than Mike; Mike's companion had long black hair tied in a pony-tail, he wore similar clothes as Mike only the coloring was a dark blue instead.

The unnamed individual was extremely scrawny, he looked malnourished, about to keel over from hunger, he couldn't've been more than eighty pounds.

Slowly a perverted grin spread across Mikes face, not that his companion could see it. "Well Jack, I'm thinking the two chicks are very fuckable."

The now titled Jack rolled his red eyes at that comment. "You know what I meant fuck-head." Mike frowned but continued looking at the image he held.

"Well…they saved the town, even though they knocked the old man out, they got the job done. The little some'in, some'in that Straw-hat brat gave 'em to fix this place up was cool." He paused. "They seem legit, gotta wait and see if they fuck up later on down the sea though." He finished giving his thoughts on the group. "What about you?"

Jack only shrugged. "Couldn't quite say yet…" After he said that a Giant Eel-like fish jumped in the distance, it had the body structure of a pike with yellow and black scales in a cheetah-like pattern.

"You hooked a decent sized Sea King this time." Mike said, still examining the picture he held.

The raven-haired fisher silently stood up as his line began to tighten. "Maybe this one'll fight better than the bait I've been catching."

Right after he stated this, he was jerked off the dock and into the deep, endless sea.

Mike grinned perversely at the image again. "I could just see those two hotties in a sauna rubbing up on each other, coming closer and closer to kissing…" The perverted green-haired man trailed off as the Sea King jumped again, trailed by a small dot.

'I hope that idiot doesn't fuck around too long…we only have our vacation time for two weeks before we've gotta go back.'

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I went back and changed this chapter three or four times before I found something that worked out and I liked. So I do hope it's to all your likings, this is also my longest chapter to date so I hope it was worth the wait.

This is going to be the official layout of my story from now on…most of the 'jutsu' used, like rocket, pistol, cannon, etc., are self-explanatory. I'll probably go back at a later time and fix my earlier chapters layouts as well.

On a side note I am STILL trying to figure out a better summary than what I currently have…I should have something in a couple of days…or weeks *Shrugs* We'll see what come first.

As always Read, Review (it really does help out) or P.M. me with a suggestion, or criticism if you don't want to review.

Till next time. The Warrior, The Sniper, and The liar.