"It was really hard" said Haruta to Marco. The tiny brunette has taken upon himself to help the two kids to getting used to being in a family that didn´t want them to fight.

"Should have known, yoi" the Phoenix rolled his eyes. Since their arrival the little ones kept everybody at bay or plainly away, only accompanying themselves with the other. They talked between them of weapons, eyes and techniques they could use, or the new lives they planned on getting once they got to an island. "We haven´t made any progress in convincing them about staying"

"Once they got to the island, they would realize that they need to stay, nobody gave employment to children and that this is better than the orphanages, where the World Government can find them easily"

"I don´t think the World Government it´s looking for them, just the local authorities of their country yoi"

"They didn´t seem to want to join us"

"Let them be, with time they will join. Everybody does after Pops is through with them" the First Division commander walked to the kids and ordered them to help wash the floor. They did without arguing, like if they were used to thing like this. Both of them didn´t talk to the others in duty, as most of the crew did. Shirohigr noticed that too and went to help. He approached the brunette one, he seemed to be the most prone to talk.

"Are you enjoying your stay here?" asked him in an understanding voice.

"I do" he said with a smile, but then his face dropped. "I wasn´t suppose to be talking to you"

"Oh, did your friend said that?"

"Yes… he is not bad, he only have trust problems. At first he didn´t trust me either, but after a few times of skipping stoned in the river… I shouldn´t be telling you this" he quickly realized, a cloud of depression hovering over him. "He is going to be so mad at me…"

"I will not tell him"

"Thank you, Mustache-san!" he said suddenly very happy.

"You surely are a special one" smiled the old captain. "I can´t believe you don´t even have names to begin with…"

"Oh, we used to have, but they were taken away from us" said the brunette, looking into the sea. "How peaceful, I always wanted something like this, no more fighting, no more death… and he too, but nobody will listen to us"

"That´s a mistake"

"Sure it is!" he laughed. They continued talking until the little raven arrived after finishing his work. He glared at the big man for a moment before turning to his friend and asking him if he was okay. The other nodded enthusiastically and started telling him what they were talking about.

"Guraguraguraguragura, you sure are a spirited one!" the man approved, putting his hand in the head of the kid and caressing it. The kid jumped a bit, surely his father never did that. The other one looked at the affection display as if it was something totally alien. "Hey, why don´t we make it your name? Spirit, I think it´s good"

"Do you like it?" he asked his friend.

"And you can be Raven, for your hair as black as a raven´s wing" he tried to caress his head, but the little one backed away.

"I don´t like it, but I suppose I would work until I find a better one" said the little kid and walked away, with the other on toe.

"You did it better than any in the crew, Oyayi" said Izo, arriving with a smile on his face. "So our new crew members are Spirit and Raven, how appropriate"

"Yeah, I think they might stay"

-A few weeks later-

They finally reached an island, but in the end the two shinobi kids were so used to the Moby Dick that even Raven didn´t want to leave. Even with his fortified walls, Raven managed to become attached to the crew, now even smiling after the older members told him jokes and told him stories of the sea. His friend was much more expressive, showing blazing smiles at everyone. The Second division commander, Kingsley, specially was close to them.

"Are you going to leave us on the island?" asked said man, sitting near them. Both kids were watching the sky, feeling peaceful for the first time in their lives.

"I don´t see why" answered Spirit, then looked at Raven. This one shook his head, the live on board he has grown accustomed to was far too good to leave. "Then we will stay!"

"Awesome, I´m going to tell Oyayi" Kingsley got up and leave. There was a party after and the next day both kids were taken to the training spot. But they didn´t get the chance to train, another crew wanting fame attacked them. Their teacher told them to get away and hide. Raven and Spirit looked at each other.

"It´s better than to fight a war for something we don´t even know" commented the brunette. "At least we are doing this to protect our family"

"Agreed" the dark haired kid made some hand seals and inhaled deeply. "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" the fireball incinerated instantly some of the enemies.

"Is that the only one you can do?" joked Spirit, making his own hand seals. "Look at me! Mokuton: Dai Jurin no jutsu!" trees sprouted from the ground towards the enemy, who was unable to dock them.

"Good" the spend the rest of the attack competing with each other, being amazingly natural at fight, much to the commanders surprise. Kingsley bite his lip, it was just as Oyayi said, this kids were soldiers that fought a war were the only thing that mattered was to exterminate the enemy. When the attack finished, he walked up to them.

"That was good" he congratulated them. "Do you know Haki?"

"Haki? What´s haki?" asked Spirit, but then realize that there were some injured people from his crew. He ran towards the ones closest to him and put a hand over the cut on his head, a green glow covering it and healing him.

"You have healing powers?" said a confused Haruta.

"Um-hum" answered the kid, continuing with his work. They have to say, the boy was truly amazing. It was as if the injuries never existed in the first place.

-Two years later-

Spirit and Raven were now full fledged members of the Pirate Crew, with their own wanted posters and everything. They have a very good live, better than the one they were destined to have in the shinobi lands. As members of the second division, it was their mission to protect some of the islands under Pops control. One day some of the members, including the commander went to the town to drink and have fun. As minors, they were left with other crew members. It was a mistake. The marines ambushed the ones in land.

"Kingsley-san!" yelled Spirit when he arrived at the place where his surrogate older brother was. He had an open gash in the stomach and was laying in a pool of blood. His hands glow green the moment he reached the place, with Raven by his side. "Hang on! I will heal you!"

"It´s too late… and you know it" it was true, the man had three fatal injuries, it was a miracle he was even able to talk. The dying commander smiled to them one last time and died. The marines tried to surround the other crew members, but they didn´t last long.

"Susanoo!" yelled Raven, using his new Sharingan to crush them with his big soldier, feeling rage and hate over the commander´s death. It was as if he was seeing his brothers dying again. Spirit just stand there, broken and crying, trying not to think

"Kingsley-san…"

"Raven, Spirit yoi!" Marco came to save the kids only to find a mess of blood and dead marines. He approached carefully to the dark haired one, trying to sound soothing. "It´s okay, yoi"

"He… didn´t deserve this" muttered the young teen without breath.

"Yes, but life could be unfair yoi. Let´s go back to the ship, we need to burry him"

-More years later-

Raven and Spirit were sixteen and receiving a new brother on board. Portgas D. Ace. Raven couldn´t understand why did they want to make him a part of the crew, he was openly hostile when he came here. But then again, he has been too.

"Cheer up! It´s a party!" said his friend, bringing some food for the darkest haired one. "Don´t worry, he will make it good. And he won´t try to kill Pops again"

"I hope so, but I won´t mind burning him a little bit"

"How can you burn him? He is fire!"

"My fire is better" stated the former Uchiha, crossing his arms and sighing. "Somehow I think… I heard Pops saying that he wanted to probe him… to be second division commander. He wants him to take Kingsley-san´s place"

"Nobody can take Kingsley-san´s place" smiled the brunette, sitting next to him. "But we can make new friends and brothers. Like we became friends in the riverbank, don´t you remember?"

"Bad old times" Spirit managed to get a smile from the stoic pirate and then got up, dragging the other to the celebration. Raven was fire, as was the new member of the crew. Surely they can get along just fine. In the middle of the meal, Ace started to talk about his younger brother, Luffy, the one he raised. The two of them lose their happiness instantly, being reminded of bad moments of the past.

"Are you okay?" asked Tatch worried while the other pirates laughed at one of Ace´s stories.

"Yeah, fine, we only need… some time alone" after this, the unusual lack of cheerfulness of the easy going pirate and the sad face of the quiet one frightened the rest of the crew. Was there something they were hiding from them? The shinobi sat on the deck, staring at the sea.

"I miss Tobi-chan"

"I miss Izu-chan"

-Some time later-

Working under Ace have proved to be easier than they thought. The man was loyal and very good making friends, even with the silent dark haired male that apparently used the brunette most of the time as a mouth. Now they even spar a bit together, even if the clash of their fire put the ship in danger.

"Where did you learn that?" asked the narcoleptic division commander, smiling after a particularly heated encounter.

"In my land" was his only answer. Raven cleaned his face with the towel Spirit gave him and smiled at the wood boy.

"And… are your little brothers there? Mine should be setting sail really soon, are yours too?" asked Ace without thinking before he talked. This dragged the attention of all the members of the crew. They didn´t know anything about this boy´s past, just that they were raised in a war period and that their families tried to turn them into killing machines.

"What… makes you think we have little brothers?" asked the brunette, amazed that someone found out one of their secrets.

"Well, I´m a big brother and I know how I act, how much I worry about my kid brother… maybe I exaggerate a lot, because he is an idiot, but the thing is that you always seem to be so melancholic, as if you were longing to see someone…"

"Dead" whispered Spirit. It was a half truth, after all Itama and Kawarama were dead by the time he left.

"What?" Ace was confused.

"What didn´t you understand? Our little brothers are dead… since we were children" they walked away to leave, but the commander, a little bit guilty stopped them and showed the S in his tattoo with a finger.

"In that you are not alone… you know? This S… is for my brother Sabo. He was a little bit younger than me and… a Tenryuubito killed him. The day he died… was the worst of my entire life. We didn´t even recovered his body…"

"Sometimes that happens" answered the raven, remembering that it was his case too. "But we have live on and don´t let that keep us down."

"Sure!" After that talk both ninjas were close friends with Ace, so much that they accompanied him nearly everywhere…

One day the Fourth was returning to the Moby Dick and the shinobi got the chance to look at something they haven´t seen in their lives, a devil´s fruit. At first they were curious, but then the feeling that something bad was going to happen began to appear. And that night it did…

"I smell blood" was the first thing Spirit said after waking up in the middle of the night. He ran towards the place and found Tatch barely alive with a knife on his back. He immediately began healing the injury, while a newly arriving Raven searched the place.

"It was Teach" he said with a growl. "This is a true traitor, not us"

"Yeah… go inform the commanders, I need to seal this wound as soon as I can"

-Later-

"He tarnished his father´s name! I will hunt him down!" screamed Ace, jumping into his striker and sailing off, both of them looked at the scene with worry, knowing that away from the crew they were vulnerable to the World Government.

"We have to do something" Spirit said, seeing the commander disappear along with his friend. "You and I know how war is and…"

"Even if there is no doubt that there will be war" begin Raven. "We also have to trust him to keep himself safe… and prepare. Let´s go to train"

"Yeah, let´s do that"

-In the Marine headquarters-

"So the Shirohige are moving, hum" Sengoku wondered for a moment, taking his mug of tea and a cracker. He needed to keep calm, it was obvious that the Yonkou was after something or he wouldn´t have sent a commander away from the Moby Dick.

"Yes, Fleet Admiral"

"And how is the plan for conquering that new continent in the New World, the Elemental Nations? Are the damnyo any easier to trait after seeing our power?" the Buddha wanted to end that as soon as he can, without a conflict. He was more worried about the Whitebeard Fleet than anything those idiots could do.

"No, they hired shinobi to protect themselves" sighed the young marine that was informing him. "Really, they are being a big stone in our path, more the Senju and the Uchiha… and talking about them, you should see something."

"What?" his subordinate showed him a few videos of fights with said clans and Sengoku´s gaze grew stern. "I see. Good job, soldier, you can go now"t

"Thank you, sir" Garp entered that moment and saw his friends lowered gaze.

"What´s the matter?"

"Garp, you fought in the Elemental Nations against the Senju and the Uchiha, no?"

"Yeah, they are some tough sons of a bitch" answered the Vice Admiral. "Why are you asking?"

"They are from there… Senju Spirit and Uchiha Raven, I can see it in the eyes and the fighting style"

"Then this war has just turned interesting…"

New chapter, hope you like it. And if you ask, I was bored. Review!