AN: Yes! Views! My last story either Sucked (probably) Or the evil monkey in my closet told everyone not to look at it. Don't fear, it is no longer polluting the website, just my computer. And I'm not going to beg for reviews... just do it. If you don't have anything to say than post your favorite family guy quote. Seriously. I think I'll enjoy it. Any if you don't know family guy (shame on you) than post your favorite TED quote. Really, you have to at least know the thunder chant right?
Disclaimer: I don't own one piece or naruto... I don't own anything! Just leave me alone, OK. Wawawa. I don't wanna talk right now. Boohoohoohooooooo
He wouldn't. He couldn't. No never. Nothing so childish. He would never crack, never show weakness even in the most daunting situations. He had to be strong. Hadn't he wised over the years? Had he not grown strong to weather the terrible the worse, even the worst? He wouldn't give in to suck emotions even when they were bursting to break free even if-
"Are we there yet?"Naruto blurted, quickly realizing what he had said and covering his mouth. He hung his head in shame. He had done it after all. All of that determination for nothing. Sasuke groaned.
"A grown man shouldn't be saying suck things." Sasuke scolded but at the downed Naruto, he sweat dropped. "It's not that terrible..."
"Yes it is. I'm a failure as a human being." Naruto mumbled, to downed to speak any louder. Another sweat drop joined the first on Sasuke's head.
"Oh! Look! Land!" Sasuke said almost as grateful as naruto. He was starting to feel a little motion sick
"Really!? Yes!" Naruto yelled instantly perking up. Yet another sweat drop formed on Sasuke's head, seeing Naruto's reaction. There was indeed an island. It seem pretty small, especially at a distance, but it seemed to be large enough to have a town on it. With luck, they would be able to stay the night and eat some.
"AAALLLLRIGHT. Kage bunshin no jutsu!" Naruto yelled, as eight other Narutos poofed into the world to join the two already there. All somehow equipped with paddles, and at Naruto's yelled command, they started paddling at a furious pace. Sasuke was hanging out of the speeding boat Hanging on for dear life.
"Damn you Naruto! Damn you!" Sasuke's cursing, unfortunately for him, didn't reach Naruto's ears.
Suddenly, they were flying towards two massive doors standing in the water in front of an equally large castle. It was the troubling situation for Naruto. So, he did what came to mind first. He screamed. Sasuke also screamed. Great minds think alike, he supposed.
BOOM!
"Ugh, my head. Headache." Naruto moaned, holding his throbbing head. It feat as if a black smith was trying to make a sword out of his head.
"It's your own damn fault. When will you stop acting like a ten year old?" Sasuke groaned at Naruto.
"Hey! I don't like the implication of that!" Naruto said, offended. He wasn't that bad, was he?
Arlong was having a nice day. The deal with the marines was going without a hitch, the beach chair he was sitting on didn't have any bugs on it,Nami back and was working on maps, and the taxes had come in and everyone had payed. That was the way he like it best. Contrary to popular belief, he rather not kill people. They were a good source of money. But he did when he had to. He wouldn't be much of a pirate other wise, would he? Oh yeah, and this margarita was pretty good too, He thought, sipping the mentioned drink. Before something broke the glass with a big BOOM! That something was a large metal do- Wait, What!? Those don't break glass cups by themselves.
He slowly turned around, to see two men, one blonde wearing a orange cloak with what looked like black flames licking the bottom, the other in a black cloak with what seemed to be red lightning patterns across it. The one in the black had a bigger than average chokuto strapped to his back. He stared wide eyed, slack jawed with his fellow fishmen, at the two people, now bickering, that had broken down their door and even gotten through the wall behind Arlong. Eventually the surprise faded.
"You... YOU"LL PAY FOR THIS!" he yelled at the duo. And much to his surprise, both turned to him and... aplogized.
"Gomenasai." And for the second time that day, Arlong stared at the two. What?
"Huh?" Arlong said.
Frowning Naruto said, rather loudly, "Gomenasai!"
Arlong growled. Who were these two to smash his fortress and apologize? Arlong yelled in rage and charged the two men, who were caught unawares, were smashed into the wall, making cracks appear all along the outlines of the two. While both were dazed, Arlong picked them up by their necks, and promptly punted them out of the vicinity of his fortress.
"Hehehe, damn weaklings. For all their boldness, they couldn't do jack." Alrong chuckled, in a sinister manner. "They were humans anyway."
"heh, no one could beat you, Arlong. Especially not those fools." Hachi, an octopus man said, phrasing his captain.
"Yeah... of course not."
Naruto... kit... HEY WAKE UP!
Naruto jumped awake at the kyuubi's shouting, and ended up pushing the still unconscious Sasuke off his back and onto the dirt road that they had landed in. How did he know? Well, common sense. There usually aren't craters in the middle of roads.
It took you long enough.
Yeah, how long? Naruto replied.
It had to be at least two hours.
I'm kinda surprised no one came down the road. The eight tails said, making Naruto aware of his "presence"
Yeah you sure can sleep a lot, I never can. A whining, bummed voice said, soundling slightly distant. That was Shukaku, the Ichibi. He was always kind of bummed or complaining, or whining. To put it simply, he was a wet blanket.
Well, it's not like I wanted to. Naruto thought at him, and went over to the groaning Sasuke. Naruto shook his limp body, and eventually, Sasuke came around to the world of the awake.
"nnnnn... What happened?" Sasuke grumbled, seeming relativly ok.
"Well, this big, blue guy kinda kicked us... like half a kilometer. Ahh, damn that hurt." Naruto sighed, as he cracked his protesting back. "Man, it's been a while since I was hit that hard."
"Alright, still, we have to get food and some place to sleep. I'm not staying outside." Sasuke said, getting up and shaking the grogginess off.
"Let's go then." Naruto said, pointing down the road. And starting to limp down it. Naruto sighed. This was going to be a long walk.
A few hours later, they finally made it into a village. It seemed small, with houses hapazarly placed in a general line along a main, brick paved road. Venders were selling goods on the street and women were buying things, like groceries. It seemed like it should be a normal happy town, but the atmosphere was heavy, and felt like it was pushing you down.
Seemingly oblivious, Naruto sauntered down the street to a circular bench, and sat down and sighed.
"Oh man, I'm pooped. I hope this place has a hotel or something." Naruto said, with and exhausted face.
"Yeah me too." Sasuke said, sitting down next to Naruto. Noticing another man, a man in a camoflauge green military looking clothes and a pinwheel stuck in his hat, with what looked like scars criss crossing all over his body (Sasuke assumed), he asked him, "Hey, we're travelers, is there an inn or something of the sort around here?"
The man turned and looked at Sasuke with a scrutinizing eye. "Can say there is son," but upon seeing the duo's sad faces, he continued, "But there is someone that might let you stay for some money."
Hmm. That would work. They had some money from selling his fish (Naruto never caught any) so, they should be fine. "Sure."
The man nodded and started walking gesturing for the two to follow. "How'd you get here, anyway? And why?"
"We came by row boat and came here for food and shelter." Naruto replied, walking lazily with his fingers laced behind his head.
"What?" The man said, not believing, "row boat?"
"Yeah," the blonde continued, "We had to catch fish and eat those on the way here."
"You mean I caught the fish." Sasuke interupted.
"Yeah, Yeah, whatever." Naruto said, waving his partner in crime off.
"Anyway it took us like-"
"Wait, you know that they're pirates in the area that probably don't want you here, right?" The scarred man blurted, before realizing his mistake.
"But they stay away from here, they don't bother us... hehe." He said, nervously. Sasuke narrowed his eyes. Something was going on here.
"Really? What's their name? It would be bad not to know their name." Sasuke inquired, trying to pry further.
"Ok..." Gen didn't see any harm in that. "The Arlong Pirates."
Bingo. Sasuke thought. It was subtle, but it was there. Hatred. Sasuke could read it loud and clear. A glance at his friend told him that he could too.
"Here we are." The man said, before knocking on the door. The door slowly creaked open, revealing a blue haired, rather attractive women with tattoos all over her body.
"Gen-san! What brings you here?" The woman asked to the now identified Gen-san.
"These two are travelers, and needed a place to stay. I thought you might let them stay the night with some money." Gen said, gesturing to the two behind him. Naruto smiled and waved, and Sasuke stood there. The woman inspected the duo for a long minute before finally nodding.
"Just one night, boys, just one night." she said, quite harshly, before letting them in to the small one room house. It had a bed in the corner, a sink and a stove in the other, with a table somewhere in the middle. "The price will be... hmm... One Million Berry!" the blunette exclaimed.
"What! We don't have that kind of money." Naruto whined.
The girl laughed. "Well, I thought if you were rich enough that you could easily give money like that, I would take advantage of it. Can't blame a woman for trying!" She explained. Nami was Rubbing off on her way too much! She thought, scared of how stingy and money needy she had become.
"Whew. I was scared we have to sleep outside for a bit. So how much?" He asked.
"I'll let you stay for 500 berries tonight. I'm Nojiko, by the way." She said, sticking her hand out to shake. Naruto shook it. Naruto handled all of their social interactions. Well, the friendly kind. He actually handled most of the shady stuff too. Sasuke just did intimidation when the need arose. Really! It's a miracle that he actually ever lost his virginity, and even that was just because he looked good.
Suddenly remembering, Naruto asked "I've heard news about pirates in the area. Do you know anything?" Naruto inspected the girl closely, and was rewarded with seeing a small twitch, and her muscles tense.
"Apparently. But they haven't done anything to us, they leave us alone. I don't know much." The two signs mentioned before were the only signs Naruto saw. Nojiko was good at this. Not good enough to fool him, and nowhere near enough to fool Sasuke. But she was definitely good enough to make a normal civilian believe her without doubt.
"Well," Naruto said, looking at his wrist, "It's late so I'm going to hit the sack. Where should I sleep?"
"On the floor. I have a few blankets it you want them." Nojiko offered, but Naruto turned it down.
"It's fine, we broght our own blan-" He froze midsentence. Just realizing his mistake.
"Hmm? Did something happen?" Nojiko asked, concerned. Her brow furred and it made her look even prettier, but Naruto was too preoccupied to notice.
"N-n-no nothing." Naruto said, roboticly. Sasuke dashed over to Naruto and pulled him down into a huddle.
"What were you thinking!" Sasuke whispered. "Our stuff is in sealing scrolls. We can't show her!" Sasuke yelled quietly.
Naruto started thinking of something he could do to get out of this situation. He thought long and hard for some ingenious idea to come to him. He could almost hear the gears turning. Then it came to him. "I got it!" He said.
"Got what?" Sasuke asked, understandably confused.
"The way to get our stuff without her noticing." Naruto whispered excitedly, "Just follow my lead." Sasuke had a bad feeling about this.
"Hey Nojiko. Wait, is that a flying Steinway piano with airplane wings with a pterodactyl playing it while drinking sweet dollar ice tea from McDonald, while Watching Hitler Vs Darth Vader Epic rap battles of history and looking at vine at the same time, while signing a poster with his foot for a fellow pterodactyl because he's a celebrity in the pterodactyl community and might be annoying, while breaking the world record speed and distance for butterfly?" Naruto... said.
"What where? Nojiko said looking out the window that he was pointing at. "There's nothing there..." Mean while, Naruto and sasuke were hurriedly unpacking their stuff.
"Dammit Naruto! What kind of plan is that?" Sasuke deadpanned, rushing to get his stuff out.
"It's a good plan! It's a great plan! What were you going to say? Our stuff is on our boat so we have to get it? oh. Damn." Naruto said, before whispering to Sasuke again, "I've got a new plan!"
"No you don't! This is fine we're both done."Sasuke said, just before the blue haired girl turned back around.
"Naruto, What are you talking about, I didn't see anything." Nojiko complained.
"Maybe it was just a trick of the light?" Naruto nervously suggested, obviously hiding something.
"Hmm... whatever." Nojiko said, letting it go. Naruto sighed in relief.
"Well, I'm sleeping." Naruto said, lying down on his recently unsealed blankets, and fell asleep.
AN: Since I finished this in a day, I figured I would put this up ASAP. Remember... Review or post your favorite FG quote. It's about time I "relieve myself" if you know what I mean.