A/N: Thanks for all your reviews. Now for the devil fruit members of the straw-hat pirates, I have a plan for them and devil fruits in general. You will just have to wait and find out.
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I do not own Naruto or any Naruto characters, nor do I own any one-piece references or characters that are mentioned in this story. I do own any OC's displayed unless I say otherwise.
BEGIN
Naruto woke up to the business and loud of the street, in 1 week the teachers will be handed out. Naruto hoped he didn't get someone who was lazy, was late to everything and didn't say much about themselves.
Kakashi sneezed 3 times loudly, this cause him to be spotted on the mission and the entire mercenary group attacked him.
"Dam, and things were going so well"
Naruto after getting dressed saw the special suit his substitute father figure gave him many years ago. He moved past it and picked his favourite orange jump suit. Placing it on he walked over to the scroll; opening it he looked at the moves and styles. He had completed every one of them. He may not be fast but his legs were strong, he could nearly break boulders but he can smash training posts.
Picking up the scroll and heading towards his usual training grounds he heard something… different.
Tenten was practicing using three swords, that scroll she opened the other day told a story, and has the most unusual sword stances she had ever seen. Being the weapons maniac she is decided to try them out.
She was a natural, deciding to push her luck she wrote her name in a blood pact, the strangest thing happened. Pushing her pondering aside she focused on the post ahead of her and using 3 wooden swords attacked it voraciously. She didn't want him to wake up yet.
Naruto saw this weird looking girl (naturally he thinks every girl except Sakura is weird) hitting a wooden training post with a sword. Turning away he decided to enter the training ground next over. Sitting down he practiced his stances and started kicking the post breaking each one he kicked, after a decent work out he started practicing the advanced moves. He did this by creating a battalion of Kage bunshin and telling them to attack him, it was the first time he fought superior numbers, it was doing this he learnt something.
"This style, the attacks do wide area damage" what could this mean? It means each attack instead of the usual attack of one ninja at a time, this style seems to be focused of fighting superior numbers, although the style does do wonders one on one it had the best effect against a larger amount of enemies. He liked that. Sitting he decided to explore the scroll again, studying the blood pact he remembered telling himself that once he became Genin he would sign it, well no better time than now. Cutting his thumb and writing his name in the slot provided he waited it was then that a blue like mist attacked him, he fell unconscious.
WITHIN NARUTO'S MIND:
The Kyuubi looked curiously at the figure in front of him, the figure looked at the 9 tailed fox and spoke
"9 tailed soup, cut the tender tails and random vegetables, after adding water leave to boil, the bones make for a nice flavour" the Kyuubi just sweat dropped
"you've never cooked a nine tailed fox have you?" The figure in black just laughed,
"I can always try shitty-fox"
ELSEWARE WITH IN MIND
Naruto walked around this sewer like place, he have never seen anything like it, looking at each of the corridors he went down it one in random. Following it he saw it was a memory, this one was the day he learnt about cooking.
MEMORY:
"What's a hobby?" Naruto asked as Iruka and Sarutobi where eating their ramen, Teuchi answered
"A hobby is something you do in your spare time, for example your pranks could be considered a hobby" The Sandaime and Iruka sputtered and glared at the Ramen Bar owner, if looks could burn he would a fried human ready for eating. So he tried to save himself,
"But pranking is not a good hobby" Naruto looked at him confused,
"How is pranking bad? What would a good hobby be?" Teuchi looked around, someone help him. His daughter Ayame was the one to save,
"Your pranking can hurt people, or disrespect the dead, some are just silly" she giggled the last bit. Naruto smile a wide and blinding grin. Iruka then made a suggestion,
"If you like eating Ramen, why don't you learn to cook it, I mean I'm sure Teuchi would love to help you, won't you (hint hint)" Teuchi smiled, truly he was afraid that if he taught him to make ramen, he would never come back to eat it, because he could just make his own. The only way he could think of saving himself was to force Naruto to use his new awesome Ramen making skills to work at the Bar… Well it's worth a shot.
"Sure, come by after the academy tomorrow, and I will teach you, but on one condition, you work here and use your ramen skills to help me make ramen."
END MEMORY:
Leaving the corridor he continued to walk towards the red light, as he got closer he heard voices
"I'll have you know I am not shitty, I don't shit" Naruto shivered, it was a voice full of malice, but at the same time kinda weird,
"Your shitty to me, although you couldn't talk last time we met, the only thing you could do was continuously growl and whine" Naruto smelt smoke, cigarette smoke flowing through the corridor up ahead, he also saw water rushing from the location. Getting closer he heard more,
"I was only a beast then, when a bijuu isn't with its host it after a while becomes nothing but a beast, no smarter than a sea king" the second voice spoke up again,
"Aaah, so that's why we nearly beat you, we would have won if one of you hadn't discovered he could use sand" A dark evil laugh echoed through the last corner before Naruto saw who was talking
"aaahh, yes good times, I remember them well" turning the corner what he saw caused him to gasp, a Two pairs of giant red eyes turned and looked at Naruto and the other individual turned as well, he had a scruffy beared and wore something like a black tuxedo, the most distinct this was the mans eye brows, they curved.
"What are you looking at you shitty-brat" Naruto's eyes twitched
"nothing old man" the man started to growl
"I'll have you know I am the most magnificent lady's man on the planet, I am not old" Naruto nodded,
"aaahh, so you're a perverted old man, ero-jiji" the man started to twitch,
"ero-jiji!? my name is Sanji, or my by alias Blackleg Sanji" Naruto stopped snickering when this man called Sanji claimed to be black-leg,
"You mean this old perverted geezer is blackleg?" Sanji perked up,
"Yes I am blackleg" Naruto laughed and laughed and laughed
"You expect me to believe I have found in a sewer someone who as been dead for about 500 years?"
"ENOUGH of your childish banter, brat he is blackleg. I should know about 500 years ago we fought" Naruto and Sanji just ignored the overgrown fox and continued to argue, that was until Sanji kicked the boy
"aahhh! Ok ok you are black leg, only he would use an attack like that" Sanji looked on curiously,
"Oh? Why would that be" Naruto took this time to smirk, putting himself into the basic blackleg stance he lifted one leg and made a mock kick, Sanji looked on impressed,
"Because, that's the style I'm training in" Sanji entered the blackleg stance as well,
"Well then, show me how much you have learnt, whiskers" they charged, Naruto kicked as hard as he could and as fast, only for Sanji to block and counterattack as though it was the slowest attack in the world, putting his foot on the ground he attacked furiously only for Sanji to either dodge or block all the attacks,
"not bad, better than I was at that age" Naruto renewed his efforts attacking even faster, Sanji picked up the pace and blocked each attack,
"good, now lets see your defence" Sanji attacked, Naruto had little time to prepare a block, Sanji attacked furiously and quickly, the attacks without Sanji even trying were easily double the strength of his, Naruto stood no chance.
"How?" Naruto asked when he lost, Sanji removed his shoes and handed them to Naruto, Naruto tried to pick them up, key word is tried. He failed miserably,
"What on earth? they have got to way a tone!" Sanji smirked
"10 tonnes actually" Naruto stood breathless and cried
"10 TONNES! THAT'S INHUMAN! YOU MONSTER! NO NORMAL PERSON COULD HANDLE THAT MUCH WITHOUT DIEING!" Sanji smirked,
"how would you know?" Naruto stopped in his rants,
"ha?" Sanji sat down and motioned for Naruto to do the same,
"Have you ever tried? Its an ability, you see its actually special shoes. The weight grows slowly, allowing your muscles to grow. What stopes the muscles from growing to quickly though and becoming too bulky is the stretches. Therefore we have extremely strong legs but no bulky muscles. So our leg muscles actually contain a lot more strength in less room than usual people." Naruto nodded, then asked a question that had been on his hind for a while,
"What are you doing here, and were is this anyway?" the evil voice from before answered
"This is your mind, Sanji was sent here when you signed that scroll" Naruto nodded then turned to the voice and said
"Who are you anyway?" the voice took a deep breath, Naruto didn't like the sound of that
"I am the great, the awesome, the all powerful, the greatest being to walk upon this planet, it was I who defeated the straw hat pirates" Sanji snorted
"I single-handedly defeated all the other bijuu in a fight to determine our leader I am the great KYUUBI!" Naruto looked at Sanji, leaned in and whispered,
"So this fur ball is Kyuubi? Talk about an ego problem"
At Sanji's agreeing nod Naruto spoke again
"Train me" Sanji looked at Naruto and smiled
"That was the point of the scroll" Naruto looked at Sanji confused
"Ha?" Sanji sighed and continued
"the whole purpose of the scrolls are to find people who fit a criteria and to train them as an apprentice" Naruto looked at Sanji and asked
"Did every strawhat do this?" Sanji shook his head
"No, only those without a devil fruit" Naruto looked at Sanji confused
"Devil fruit?" Sanji took another mouthful of smoke
"I'll tell you later" before they could say anything else the Kyuubi spoke again
"There is something I would like you to check" Naruto turned to the Kyuubi and motioned it to continue
"Have you seen that you can only remember a select percentage of things" Naruto looked at the Kyuubi confused
"What?" the Kyuubi sighed
"Just follow the sewer to the end, you will see your brain. Tell me how bad it is" Naruto just shrugged and told Sanji he can come if he wants, walking through the sewer he began to see a light. Getting closer he recognised it was the Hokage monument, getting closer he sees instead of the usual Hokage faces it was several figures.
Logic had a crack strait through the middle,
Memory had lost its head and planing was destroyed.
There were other figures that were destroyed, and a door sealed of, Sanji whistled,
"That's some brain damage, it's no wonder you're so shitty" Naruto's eyes twitched both at Sanji's comment and what had been done to his brain.
"What could have happened here?" Sanji shook his head and walked back to the cage. Once they arrived they told the Kyuubi what had happened and what they saw
"I thought so, it appears someone with skill in brains has used a technique to make you stupid. I'd say it sort of worked. If it wasn't for me you would be a lot dumber" Naruto was both grateful and pissed, angry he decided to leave his mind. Waving he left.
OUTSIDE NARUTO'S MIND
Waking up he turned to the scroll and wondered if it was all a dream
"Sorry brat it isn't" Was Kyuubi's sarcastic reply Naruto cursed, and started beating a poor old training post.
"Get some weights, continuously attacking like that won't do much." Naruto grumbled and walked over towards the shinobi store, approaching the store he saw the girl from earlier
"I smell Marimo"
Tenten was having a normal day, help the shop, train with team, do missions then train alone. And now she is helping the store again when a voice in the back of her head said
"My ero-cook senses are tingling" while wondering what the green haired swordsmen meant she saw a blonde haired boy enter the room, she looked at him and he looked at her, they both said the only think they could think of
"ero-cook?" Tenten asked, the boy's eyes widened
"Marimo?" they looked at each other for a few seconds, the temperature seemed to drop a few degrees. Tenten started to giggle, it eventually grew to full out laughter, and Naruto was the same,
"ero-cook" the boy started laughing,
"that's a good one, it completely depicts his personality" Tenten was laughing saying
"he has green hair, moss is green" eventually they calmed down, whipping a tear from his face Naruto turned to Tenten,
"so, got any weights" Tenten nodded and let him towards the weighted section of the store.
Naruto trying to strike up a conversation asked her,
"so, how did you get him?" Tenten put her hands into a thinking position.
"I got a sword and a scroll from work, when I got him I opened them. At first it was nothing but a few stances and stuff. I was a natural so I decided to sign the blood pact. Needless to say I was freaked out when I appeared in my mindscape and saw this menacing 3-sword warrior look at me. His introduction sentence was Do you have any onigiri?" both Naruto and Sanji (within his mind) laughed, Naruto told his story
"It was the same for me, only it took me a few years to open the scroll" Tenten agreed if she were still in the academy it would have been the same. Passing him the weights and getting the money she watched him leave.
Outside the store Shikamaru heard a voice in the back of his head say
"Zoro, Sanji. Amazing we have nearly all woke up now, something big must be coming" the lazy Nara agreed, and it was something big he didn't want to have anything to do with.
Getting home was hard, after adding the weight to the soles of the shoes like Sanji told him he felt his energy drain, Sanji explained that was the effect of the special weights, it took a percentage of his energy and made the weight via that, needless to say it was very heavy. Opening the door he dragged himself to his bed and hastily fell asleep.
END
A/N: ok, the mistakes should have been rectified and everything is go. I was in conflict wether I would have Tenten and Naruto become like Sanji and Zoro (in how they relate), I decided they would get along better but still be rivals. A hint for the purpose of devil fruits is that devil fruits and bloodlines are related.
NEXT TIME: Meet Kakashi, teammates and the final Genin test.
Please Review and honesty is appreciated. Thanks, The great David