Naruto of the Marines

Chapter 5

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I own nothing!

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"I can't believe we got through all that without any more problems." Tashigi muttered loudly as they exited the Calm Belt and headed back towards Marineford with a bunch of chests, bags, and crates full of treasure safely stored away in the ships cargo hold.

Kyu, still the size of a new born kit, grumbled about not being able to fight those snakes from her place in Tashigi's hair while Naruto looked around, seeing a few sailors here and there doing what they were suppose to do without being told.

"Well…" the blond exclaimed before turning from the stack of treasure and towards the young woman, "Time to head on back and take the kids home!" he exclaimed, jokingly referring to the crew as his children.

"You do realize that some of the crew is just as old as you right?" she deadpanned before squeaking when he wrapped his arms around her and mock cried.

"They grow up so fast!

Face blushing, she spun around so that he wouldn't she her blushing once he let go.

He smirked, "I'm going to head on up and check to make sure that were on course, Tashigi-chan, be a dear and finish taking an inventory of what we got,"

She nodded, "Y-yes, sir," her face still burning red.

Kyu hopped off the girls head and ran after Naruto as he walked away, snickering the whole way.

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Upon returning to Marineford, Naruto had his crew take all the treasure from Hancock and, under guard, had it taken to the appropriate place for processing and storage. But something was missing, in one of the chests, there had been a even smaller chest which was now gone, not that anyone noticed.

Kyu grinned to herself while pushing the miniature chest under Naruto's bunk with her head, "I hope you like it Naruto-kun!" she said happily while laughing to herself.

Ever since he saved her from that torturous existence on that island, she wanted nothing more than to make him happy and keep him safe. Now, with him being who he is, she knew that the last part would be a challenge since he'd always do something potentially dangerous, like shoot at that Snake woman and attack a Sea King head on. So she figured, if she couldn't always be there to try and protect him, why not help him get stronger?

When they were looking over the treasure, she smelled something familiar but decided not to say anything at the time, opting to wait until the night to check it out herself. Sneaking through to the cargo hold had been easy for her due to her size changing ability so she made it and sniffed out the object.

With her tail, she had opened the correct chest and found another half buried underneath some gold and paper money. But it had been locked and she wasn't able to open it.

The smell was strong to her, reminding her of the fruit that had given her these powers. She wanted Naruto to have it but wasn't sure of what he'd say or do if he knew that she basically stole it from the marines to give to him. So she took it and hid it, carefully moving it each night until she managed to get it into his room.

He didn't really have many places to hide it though, he had a desk, one of those standing closets, a dresser, some chairs here and there, and lastly his bed. But luckily for her, he had bought her one of those pet beds which she had pulled under his bed a year or so ago and pretty much forgot about since she took to sleeping with him every night where it was much warmer.

So, pushing the small chest as far as she could, she pulled the small pet bed in front of it and started crawling back out. Now that she had it, all she had to do was find a way to give it to him without causing a problem.

The door to the room swung open loudly, making her jump, hitting her head on the wooden slats below the bed and curse.

"Kyu?" Naruto asked while seeing the fox's rear end poking out from below his bed and hearing her curse, "What's wrong?"

"N-Nothing!" she replied, scurrying out and rubbing a bump on her head, "Just hit my head is all."

He looked at her for a minute and shrugged, "As long as your ok I guess," he mused before looking around and picking up his wallet from the top of his dresser, "We're heading out again in the morning and I'm about to go pick some stuff up, you want to come?"

She shook her head, "No, no, I'm fine with staying here," she laughed weakly, "But will you pick me up some of my favorite snacks again?"

The blond looked at her for a second, "You know… your acting weird…" he told her making her sweat, "Did you do something… you got another fox in here?"

She sweat dropped, "Of course not, no garden-verity fox could ever hope to measure up to this vixen!"

He smirked, "Yeah, yeah… don't get a kink in your tail, I'm just messing with you."

She waited until he left and gave a sigh of relief. She doubted that he would be mad with her about stealing that chest for him but if he did find it, she hoped that they were already out to sea. His first thought would be to give it to that weird man Dr. Vegapunk if they were here at Marineford, at least if they were out at sea, he'd listen to her reasons and hopefully she'd talk him into it.

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"How'd you ever convince me into coming shopping with you?" Sighed Tashigi as she walked with him through the marketplace close by the civilian docks of Marineford.

There were three military docks on the island, the first was the main one directly in front of the tower which connected with the base while the other two were behind the tower. Looking at it from a map, if one were to draw a line connecting them together, they'd see that the docks were strategically built so that they could deploy and aid another dock, forming a near perfect triangle of defense.

But there was another harbor build for the civilians, where fishermen could dock and offload their catch and merchant ships could do the same.

"Because you love shopping," Naruto hummed while nodding to the people around him, his capture of Gol D. Roger all those years ago had made him a hero to many people, even now marine families would wave and nod to him, even some children tried to act like him. "Besides Tashigi-chan, I said I'd buy you something nice,"

He rubbed his chin in thought, "So what would you like? A new sword… clothes… shoes?" seeing her looking around and not paying him much attention, he smirked, "How about a new bathing suit or maybe even some sexy new lingerie?"

"Well I…" she caught what he said and blushed, "This isn't the place for joking like that!"

He laughed, "So you admit that you like the idea, maybe when we get back to the ship we can… hey what are you doing with that?" the blond questioned while she held her sword up and brought it down on his head, cracking the case but not bothering the blond at all. "Oww, Tashigi-chan, what'd you hit me for?"

She turned away, "For being perverted," the girl simpered, trying to sound angry while blushing at the thought of them returning to his ship, booting Kyu out of his room, and locking the door to his quarters before showing him her underwear and doing so much more.

When she came back from her own perverted daydream, she noticed that the case to her sword was cracked, almost making her feel bad for hitting him so hard before remembering that he could handle worse, "Ah, Naruto-sama, my case is cracked, can we stop by the… Naruto-sama?" looking around she saw him walking away and ran up to catch him.

After they dropped her sword off to have the case repaired and to have the blade sharpened while it was there, they continued their shopping, picking up anything that they might need for their next trip. Naturally, they placed an order for a whole crate of ramen as he usually did seeing as the base didn't offer it in the usual rations they supplied them with.

So to fix that, he used his own money to buy a supply of ramen to last him, much like how Garp bought tons of doughnuts and other snacks. He also allowed his crew to do the same, if they wanted to spend the money, they were more than welcome to bring their own food if they didn't want what the ships cook was serving.

That was what she liked about him, for all his strength, he was a kind man and-

"Hey Tashigi-chan, don't you need some new training sweats?" he called out, breaking her train of thought while holding up a pair of seemingly normal grey sweatpants.

She nodded, "Yes, thank you Naruto-sama,"

He smiled at her and folded them up, she didn't need to know that they had the words 'Foxy Girl' printed across the rear right over her ass, not yet anyway.

As they paid for them, she accepted the bag with a smile, matching his own before leaving, "So, what are we doing this time, another assignment like last time?"

He shook his head at her question, "Not this time actually, I've heard some rumors about a friend of mine getting into some trouble, something about being corrupt and stealing money from the base he commanded," he told her while losing his smile and turning serious, "I don't believe it for one minute, he's not that kind of person, I'm going there to question him myself and find out what's going on."

"Where?"

"A Marine base out in the East Blue, stationed by a small town on Shell Island."

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Arriving to Shell Island some days later, having had the crew work in shifts to sail night and day, Naruto jumped off the ship and onto the harbor before his marines even got a hold of the gangplank for them to disembark.

Following his lead, Kyu jumped and landed gracefully on the wooden dock right next to him before stretching out and yawning while Tashigi walked down the gangplank once it was up.

"So this is Shell Island huh?" she questioned lightly while adjusting her glasses. Naruto glanced at her and hummed at her choice of clothing, which were strangely more… sexy than usual. Her jeans were hugging her rear and thighs as always but they were much lower than usual. If it wasn't for her floral shirt, he had no doubt that he'd see her panties. Lastly, she had on her jean coat with the fur collar.

He nodded to her question before turning to the marines exiting the ship and lining up to await their orders, "Half of you stay with the ship, the other half will come with us. No wondering around the town until I give the ok… got it?"

They saluted.

"Good, now I'm sure that I don't have to warn you but I will anyway, if I catch you screwing around, you'll end up like those two idiots tied up in the crows nest…"

They sweat dropped. He still hadn't forgave those two for trying to give his ramen away and after a day or two, he had them tied to the bow of the ship like figure heads due to their stench, giving them a day long shower of salt water to clean them up. He then informed them that their punishment would continue for the next two weeks and that they were to sit there and think about their mistakes, having to be fed by a fellow crew mate everyday.

"Speaking of which, you can let them loose now, it's been long enough," the blond mused before turning and heading down the wooden dock towards the aptly named Shell village, which stood between the them and the Marine base.

Towards the end, he noticed a small boat with a single mast and sail, which made him raise an eyebrow, surely someone didn't sail around in that little thing?

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"Achoo!" sneezed a dark haired teen as he walked down the street in Shell village, he was a thin young man with a scar under one eye wearing a red vest and blue jean shorts with a pair of simple flip-flops on his feet and a straw hat on his head.

His partner, a younger kid with round glasses and pink hair, looked at him, "Luffy, are you ok?"

Luffy rubbed his nose, "Yeah, just a sneeze!" he grinned while looking down at the boy half his height, "Nothing to worry about Coby, now lets go talk to Zoro again!"

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Walking through Shell village with half of the Marines under his direct command following him, Naruto looked around with a frown on his face, "Tashigi-chan, am I ugly or scary looking?"

"N-no, why would you ask that?" she asked back, confused by the question that came up out of nowhere.

"Look at the villagers,"

Looking around, she saw that while there were people out and about, they were looking at them in fear and terror, "I see, but, why are they afraid of us?"

"Just leave us alone!" cried a little girl as she glared at them from a sidewalk.

The little girls mother paled and grabbed her daughter by the arm, "Honey no, don't do that you'll get in trouble!" she told the girl before bowing to them, "Please sir, I'm so sorry for what she said to you, please forgive us!"

Naruto turned, "Tashigi-chan, I have a pretty good idea of what's going on," he muttered darkly before setting off towards the base, his cape billowing behind him, "Come along, if I'm right then we got some ass to kick."

Heading deeper into the island, he got into the middle of the village and heard a woman scream, followed by a growl and more panicked voices. "Move, move!" laughed an annoying voice from around a corner, "Clear the way for my cute pet!"

Turning the corner, he came to a stop as he saw what was going on and frowned, villagers were running out of the way as a full grown wolf growled and snapped at anyone that got close, scaring children and frightening anyone that got too close.

But behind it he saw a blond man wearing a black suit with an orange shirt strolling along with a sword slung over his shoulder smirking arrogantly while a few marines followed him.

"Move!" the man laughed as he looked at the fearful people, "Anyone in the way of my pet will be executed by my father, Captain Morgan!"

Seeing the wolf pounce on a man, snarling at the screaming person, Naruto glared, "Ok, I've seen enough, Kyu, take care of it,"

The vixen chuckled, "With pleasure,"

Growling, the small fox grew to the size of a miniature horse and sped towards the menacing wolf, tackling it much to the shock of the younger blond man and the marines stationed at the island. Kyu's claws cut through the wolf with ease as her jaws closed around the wolf's throat, making it yelp and try to escape from the pain as blood spilled onto the ground.

The whole thing only lasted a few seconds, ending with a loud crunch before the wolf went limp, it's neck crushed in the large vixens powerful jaws.

"W-w-what the hell is that thing!" the blond with the strange hairstyle cried out in fear, watching as Kyu mangled the wolf by ripping it's throat out in a spray of blood, "M-men, shoot it!"

"I wouldn't do that if I were you, daddy's boy,"

Despite what he just saw, the man turned to the voice, "Who thinks that they can talk to me like that?" he yelled before seeing Naruto and his crew standing there, "You marines, who do you think you are!" Naruto chuckled, as did the men that came with him while Kyu trotted over, licking the blood on her snout. "You dare have your… your thing kill my pet! I'll have you killed, just you wait until my father hears about this!"

The man ran away, off towards the base.

"Come on, lets not keep daddy waiting," he mocked before heading towards the base.

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Upon reaching the base, he cocked his head to the side when he noticed that the alarm was going off, "Ok, something is seriously fucked up around here," he muttered before looking to Tashigi, "Tashigi-chan, take the men and find out what the hell is going on here,"

She nodded, "What about you?"

"I'm going to find my friend, I trust you to do the right thing,"

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Getting into the base was simple enough, there wasn't even any guards around to ask him who he was or anything, so he made his way down to the prison area and went to the holding cells, all of which were empty besides one.

"N-Naruto?"

The blond smiled and walked up to the cell, "Hey Iruka-sensei, never thought I'd see you behind bars,"

To be continued…

-X-

Still trying to decide on if Naruto should eat a devil fruit or not, maybe one that will allow him to clone himself like the Shadow Clone jutsu.