THE YELLOW FLASH OF THE MARINES

Summary: Naruto after death is reborn in the One Piece world with all his memories intact as Jaguar. D. Naruto, who later joins the marines. I don't own One Piece or Naruto.

The pirate king, Gol D Roger had just been executed. Jaguar D Sora was making their way to Shell Town in East Blue. Jaguar D Sora was the younger brother of Jaguar D Saul, a Marine Vice-Admiral. Jaguar D Sora who was a Marine Rear Admiral himself had been gravely injured while fighting a pirate, which lead to his retirement. Sora decided to move to East Blue along with his pregnant wife Akeno. Unlike his brother, Sora wasn't a giant since he inherited his mother's genes.

He was just an hour away from Shell Town, when his wife's water broke. Fortunately they had an extremely skilled doctor on board to deal with any possible problems. Sora waited outside the hospital in anticipation. He had been waiting for this moment, at the same time like any other father, he was also dreading it. He hoped that his child wasn't a giant like his grandfather or uncle. Soon he heard the cry of a baby, the cry he had been longing to hear. Just then the boat started to shake heavily, the weather had taken a turn for the worse. He went up to the deck to enquire what was going on. They were on East Blue, one of the calmest of seas, not the Grand Line.

As he reached the deck, he noticed that the crew was running helter-skelter for cover. They had been caught up in a powerful maelstrom. Sora took over the command of the ship and using his experience and skills as a Marine Rear Admiral he steered the ship and its crew to safety.

He rushed back towards the doctor's room as fast as he could. As he reached the room, he saw the Doctor standing outside, holding a tiny blond baby. The doctor handed the baby to Sora as he said, "Sir, we have good news and bad news. The good news is that you are now the father of this healthy boy. The bad news is that we weren't able to save your wife. The maelstrom hit us when your wife was at her weakest."

Sora had tears in his eyes as he was crying for his wife. In his hands, he held his little son as he said, "Son, this is your father. I was hoping to raise you along with your mother. But it looks like I'll have to raise you as long as I can all by myself. Your cry brought about a maelstrom. I'm sure you'll be a maelstrom indeed. I'm going to name you Naruto. Jaguar D Naruto."

Naruto had died happily at the age of 155, because of his Uzumaki heritage having achieved all that he had set out to achieve. His great grandchild was the new Hokage of Konoha. He died still as the most powerful ninja in the World. The world was at peace. The ninja world had seen an era of peace that had lasted over 100 years. The only sad part was that he had seen all his friends die before him. He even had to bury his wife, Hinata which was a sad moment. Naruto thought he was dying, but all of a sudden he found himself waking up in the body of a baby. He then understood what had happened. He had been reborn in another dimension. For now, he had accepted it. Maybe, this is what happens to people after death. But he knew one thing, they won't retain their memories. Maybe it is because of all the power he attained. He had a creepy feeling that Kurama had something to do with that. He had afterall freed Kurama and also put up seals on all the Biju including Kurama so that they wouldn't ever be sealed again. Maybe this was their idea of rewarding him. He decided to accept it for now. He didn't even have his whisker marks this time.

Naruto was glad that despite being reborn, his name hadn't changed at all. It may have been a coincidence, but he was glad for that. The one thing he wanted was to become strong again. As he listened to his father, he couldn't help but feel both happy and sad. He was sad that he wouldn't get to experience a mother's love again. He only had a brief experience inside his seal in his previous life. He was happy that he would be able to experience a father's love, something he only felt when he met his father in his mindscape during the Pain invasion and later during the war, but even then they were busy fighting and didn't really have too much time to spend together.

Shell Town was just a regular town with regular average folk. They accepted the arrival of a former Marine Rear Admiral graciously. They were glad that there was someone around to keep the pirates at bay.

As the years went by, Naruto grew to be stronger and smarter. Naruto discovered soon after his birth that he couldn't use chakra the way he could in his previous life time. It was almost as if chakra didn't exist in anyone in his new world. Instead, he found something jet black in color in his body. He later noticed Sora's arm being coated with the same thing whenever he fought pirates. Naruto seeing no harm in it began doing the same. It was easier to coat on one's body parts than chakra, but it couldn't be controlled by doing any of the tree climbing exercises or water-walking exercises. Those were impossible. But they could strengthen him by several times. Like chakra, it could be used to enhance one's senses to great levels, be it sight, smell or hearing ability. It could even sense power-levels of different people and other creatures as well. He certainly enjoyed this new chakra like thing. He asked his father about it and understood that it was called Haki.

Both Sora and his gigantic uncle, Saul who used to visit at times, were incredibly surprised to see Naruto handle Haki so naturally at the age of 2. Sora always felt that Naruto was too mature for his age, sometimes even more matured than himself, which he found a bit weird at times, but at the same time, Naruto showed a weakness like none other towards Ramen and had his outright hilarious moments. Tragedy struck the family when they heard about Saul's death at Ohara.

Soon things took turn for the worse as Sora died when Naruto was just five. Sora had only begun training Naruto in how to use his Kenbonshoku Haki and Bushoushoku Haki, so that they won't spiral out of control. His injuries only worsened with time. Naruto was left with the townsfolk. Naruto took over from his where his father had left off and became the new protector of the village, always ready to stop pirates. Naruto was extremely strong and became the new hero of Shell Town. They accepted him and loved him deeply. Despite not having his parents, Naruto never felt alone as he was always welcome in any house at Shell Town.

One day, when he was 10, a new ship filled with Pirates appeared at Shell Town. The ship was none other than the Red Force filled with the Akagami Kaizoukudan lead by their captain, Akagami no Shanks.

Usually Naruto would be the first to run towards them and stop them by fighting them, but this time as he neared the ship, his instincts were screaming at him to stop and run away. The Townsfolk were wondering why Naruto had stopped in his tracks. The mayor walked up to Naruto and noticed that Naruto was actually shivering. He immediately became concerned as he asked, "Naruto-kun, why aren't you attacking these pirates? Aren't you feeling well?"

Naruto continued shivering as he replied, "Something's not right. My instincts are screaming at me to run away. My duty requires me to stay and fight. It's like two parts of my mind are fighting. Anyway, one thing is for sure, as I'm right now, I can't stop these pirates. If I'm lucky may be one or two, but the stronger ones are on a whole another level compared to me."

The mayor was about to lash out at Naruto for showing cowardice but just as he was about to speak, another voice intercepted him, "Well, aren't you a strong lad. It takes innate skill and lots of training to take your Haki up to that level, enough to sense our strength levels. The boy is right, Mayor. We aren't your regular pirates. We've come from the Grand Line to simply visit East Blue. I assure you, I don't intend to do any harm to your island. We won't be pillaging here- just restocking and don't worry, we won't be stealing anything, just buying. If you think that I'm simply bluffing and the kid is being cowardly, just check my wanted poster. My name is Shanks. I'm the captain of the Akagami Kaizoukudan. The kid is able to sense the difference between my level and his level and is still standing his ground. That isn't cowardice. That is sheer determination and bravery."

The mayor knew at once who the man was. Akagami no Shanks was a famous man afterall. The mayor was someone who read the News Coo. Shanks then walked up to Naruto and smiled as he asked him, "I'm impressed by your haki kid. Do you want to be part of my crew. As you are now, you'll make a good apprentice unlike Luffy. What more, you can make him jealous. He has been bugging me about including him in my crew."

Since Shanks had eased up his presence, Naruto was feeling a little more comfortable as he replied with a smile, "Sorry, but I can't. If I leave, there won't be anyone to protect this town that has been so kind to me from pirates."

Shanks sighed as he said, "I see. That's acceptable. This isn't the New World, so I can't really make this island my territory or something. Get stronger kid. I'm sure you'll be quite a force in the future. What is your name?"

"Jaguar D Naruto."

"Are you by any chance related to Jaguar D Saul and Jaguar D Sora?"

"Yup, they are my uncle and my dad. My dad died about five years ago. I heard that uncle died when I was two."

Shanks looked solemnly at the ground as he said, "Sorry to hear about your father, kid. I fought him a couple of times several years ago. He was a good man."

Just as Shanks had promised, his men didn't plunder or pillage like other pirates. If they wanted to, they could have easily done that. Naruto smiled as he understood that there were even good pirates in this world. He had heard from his father about bad people even among the marines. He came to the conclusion that maybe this world wasn't as different from his old world as he had thought. There were good and bad everywhere. There were good and bad pirates and there were good and bad marines.

A month later, a pirate crew once again attacked the Town. Naruto was stronger than them, but they had the numbers in their favor. Just then a marine ship with a dog symbol arrived, a marine ship belonging to Garp the Fist, Hero of the marines. Naruto was too focused on the pirates and didn't notice their arrival. Garp would have taken out the pirates with one on his Genkotsu Meteor, but chose not to as he was busy watching young Naruto take out the pirates one by one. He was shocked to see the amount of haki the boy had coated in his fist. He had a bright smile on his face as he and his men watched Naruto take out almost the crew members one by one. The captain of the pirates watched in anger as Naruto was destroying hiss men. He didn't notice Garp's ship within half a mile off his ship.

The first mate of the crew had eaten a devil fruit called the Invisible fruit and had managed to slip by into the town while Naruto was busy. The first mate, Bob found a beautiful bartender named Ririka walking in the street. Ririka was close to Naruto and she used to always offer free food to Naruto. Bob caught Ririka threw her over his shoulders and made a run for his ship.

As he neared the ship, he yelled out, "Captain, look at what I've caught. She is one fine piece of meat. Let's get out of here. That kid is too strong. Atleast we won't be leaving empty-handed. You can have her right now captain. Just leave me something for tonight."

As Naruto heard those words, he was shaking in anger. There were still several men in front of him and there was also a good distance for him to cover if he wanted to stop the ship. Garp was about to act, when Naruto suddenly yelled out, "No matter what, you're not leaving with her. LET HER GO."

As soon as Naruto yelled out his words, the pirates began falling down unconscious. Soon all the pirates were down except Bob and his captain, both of whom were on their knees and were struggling to stand up.

Garp who had found Naruto amusing till then was suddenly gaping in shock as he muttered, "Haoshoku no Haki!" Even several of his own marine force had fallen unconscious as did Ririka from the effects of the Haki. The only reason, Bob and his captain were still conscious was because of their distance from Naruto and their relatively better strength in comparison to Ririka and the rest of their crew.

Naruto who now had no one in his way, quickly covered the distance between him and Bob, while the latter was struggling to stand up and carry Ririka and punched him with a haki covered fist. Bob flew a great distance before landing in the water and drowning because of his devil fruit abilities.

The captain looked on in shock as his first mate flew away. Just then his ship was hit by a Cannon Ball that destroyed the entire ship and him with it. The Townsfolk and Naruto turned towards the source of the Cannon Ball and noticed a Marine ship belonging to the Vice Admiral Garp.

Garp landed on the Town before ordering his men to arrest all the pirates who had been rendered unconscious by Naruto's Haoushoku no Haki. Garp then walked up to Naruto who was trying to wake up the unconscious Ririka, "Don't worry, she'll wake up in a few minutes. What is your name, Gaki?"

Though Naruto hated being called 'Gaki', he didn't yell out because he was actually relieved to hear that Ririka would wake up. He turned towards Garp as he said, "My name is Jaguar D Naruto."

"Oh! Are you related to my former comrades, Jaguar D Saul and Jaguar D Sora?"

"Yup, they are my uncle and dad. Dad passed away about five years ago. I heard uncle died about 8 years ago."

"I see." Garp replied solemnly before getting straight to the point, "How would you like to join the marines? We could use some young blood like you. You are extremely strong for your age. You can already use haki at this young age, which is impressive. You'll have to be trained a bit to just roughen out the edges and taught Rokushiki as well, and then you'll be ready."

"Sorry, old man. But if I leave, there won't be anyone to protect this town that has done so much for me." Naruto replied.

"That's no problem. I can tell Sengoku to setup a Marine base on this Island. That alone will ensure that no pirate will attack this Island. I was hoping to do it in Goa Kingdom so that Luffy and Ace could become Marines, but this isn't a bad place either for a Marine base. Also, as you are now kid, you might also cause harm for the people of the Island. All those pirates and the girl in your arms were rendered unconscious by your untamed Haoshoku no Haki." Garp said.

"So that's Haoshoku no Haki. Tou-san told me that it was a haki that only one in several million can use." Naruto said.

"You can't train it here. Haoshoku no Haki can only be strengthened by strengthening your will. You can't do that here in East Blue dealing with regular no name pirates. At the Marine Ford and at the Grand Line, it can be done. So how about it? Do you want to join the marines?"

Naruto thought for a while. He knew that Garp like Shanks was on a whole another level compared to him. Here his untamed Haoshoku no Haki could affect civilians like Ririka. If he could control it, he'd be much more stronger. And being stronger was something Naruto was always wanted. Besides, he could sense that Garp, like Shanks was a good person and so far except Shanks, every pirate has been disgusted him. It might be fun to become part of yet another military setup again in this life, uch like his previous one afterall.

He smiled as he yelled, "Okay, old man. You got yourself a deal. But build the base first."

Garp smiled broadly before punching Naruto on his head, "Don't call me old man. I'm a Vice Admiral. Address me as such."

AUTHOR'S NOTES: I had this incredible idea in my head. Took nearly an entire night to pull this off. Really excited about this. The prologue may seem short, but I felt it right ending it this way. The second chapter will be up soon as well. As for pairings, I'm gonna have Naruto become a playboy of sorts. It's not a harem. He'll settle down eventually but only after lots of messing around with several women. Can't help it. Oda made nearly every girl hot. Only old Alvida, Lola, Big Mom, Sweet Pea and that female in Black beard's crew, I think her name was Catalina Devon or something have been ugly so far. Please review. I know there have been some Naruto as marine stories. This'll be different. I can guarantee that.