Piracy Of The Last Jinchuriki

by R8handman

Black Zetsu refused that his work all these centuries was for nothing and decided to destroy the shinobi world he influenced, and in doing so Naruto found himself in a Land eerily familiar to his home. Finding this Land is troubled and wanting a place to belong. Naruto decides to use the ruins of his past to help this country. His future is unknown in this pirates infested world.

6. Party

Disclaimer: Like everybody else in fanfiction, I own nothing. Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto, and One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda.

"Standard" - Normal Speaking

"Italics" - Thoughts

"Bold" Tailed Beasts Speaking and Techniques

-Bold- - Places and timeline -

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-Onigashima: Live Hall-

There was a buzz of excitement in the air, a sense of euphoria emanating literally from everyone around them. Most Beast Pirates members and Wano officials were having drinks and enjoying the festive mood.

The Beasts Pirates members were dressed scantily, going with a theme of darkish colors. Their fashion was a blend of barbarian and gangster. The male members are bare-chested, and most female ones wear brassieres and panties. The members were dressed in various assortments; open leather jackets, gloves, bracelets, pants often knee-padded, and made of leather with spikes and studs. In addition, they had leather belts and straps tied especially around their torsos, furred shoulder-padded cloaks, and capes connected to their fur-lined pauldrons.

Naruto trails behind Kyoshiro and Komurasaki, scanning the interior structure of the skull dome as they head to the middle of the island. "Man, either the Sharingan or the Byakugan could be useful right now." Naruto thought with a bit of jealousy at those who wielded those Doujutsu.

They were now in an enormous banquet hall that was large enough to fit multiple armies. They could even provide the entire tailed beasts a sleeping place, and there was still more room to spare. The hall had many multi-level towers with private rooms and probably the entrance to the most prominent building on this island.

"This is the live floor, Kaido's mansion," Kyoshiro told Komurasaki and her bodyguard, indicating at the castle, "Kaido and his direct subordinates live there. Some capable pirates subordinates that have earned Kaido respect may be allowed to live here,"

Kyoshiro walked on as he explained the structure of the island he visited numerous times. "Every year they keep adding ne-" A loud voice interrupted Kyoshiro, calling him over.

"Kyoshiro, there you are. I was getting worried you will miss out on the banquet."

Naruto turned to the source of the voice and saw a man with an oversized balding head, as the dark purple hair mainly was seen on the sides and back of his head, pulled up in a long topknot in the back. The man also had a thin mustache that sticks upward over his puffed lips. His two upper canine teeth are longer than his other teeth and are blunt. He wore a gold kimono with a fan-shaped pattern, a blue robe with flowers, and a crown on his head.

Next to Orochi stood the old biwa player that Naruto met a week ago, Semimaru. He would have killed Semimaru if it wasn't for Komurasaki stopping him.

Gazing at the Shinobi and Samurai, who were here as Orochi's entourage of warriors. Naruto knew that even if he was the sole chakra user in this world. The term shinobi was given to those people, and gazing at them, Naruto knew it was no fluke. Most of them showed traces of a shinobi hidden behind their excited expressions.

Naruto then returned his focus to Kyoshiro, who began to bow to the ruler of Wano. "Orochi-sama," Kyoshiro uttered with reverence, and Komurasaki copied her caretaker's actions. Swallowing his pride, Naruto did the same as he bowed down to Orochi.

"Good, very good, Kyoshiro, this is what I like about you," Orochi said, nodding in appreciation. Orochi's eyes caught

in feigned interest, "I see you have bought new people I haven't met yet."

Naruto then felt Orochi's gaze turn to Komurasaki. Already glancing at Komurasaki, Orochi was already ensnared by her beauty.

She is so…" stutters Orochi.

"This is Komurasaki, my best source of income," Kyoshiro told him. "Naruto-maki is guarding her. He is capable."

"Yes, yes..." interrupted Orochi, "What about her, Komurasiki? Is she… is very…"

Orochi was now incapable of stringing words into sentences as he gave a lustful gaze at the blue-haired geisha. His advisor Semimaru scowled at Orochi's state and whispered at the Shogun's ears, shaking him out of his lustful daze.

"Komurasiki, I will remember that name," muttered Orochi greedily before yelling out an order as he called someone over, "Jack! Take me to where Kaido is!"

Naruto looked at the towering man he recently fought, already looking like he had recovered from wounds. Jack frowned at the order from the Shogun but obliged it with a restrained frown and grudging voice. "Follow me."

He led them up to a staircase tower with rows of private rooms filled with officials from the land of want and high-ranking pirates in the beast pirates.

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Kaido looked at Yamato with Ulti and Page One. They have dressed appropriately for the banquet, but not with something that will make them stand out.

Yamato was not dressed as a shrine maiden with a white robbin obi like Oden for the first time in years. Instead, his child was dressed in a kimono garb and happily talking to the pair of teenage siblings he brought in. His child has not been this happy in a long time. Her smile reminded him of himself in his young days.

Kaido takes a long sip from his bottle gourd, still eyeing his child's smiling expression that he kind of missed. "Maybe I have been too harsh on Yamato… But it's for the best not to have her as an enemy," thought Kaido with a conflicted expression before settling to a sad smile as he accepted the current reality.

His right-hand man King noticed his peculiar mood and expression as he looked mystified at his captain's face.

Kaido lets out a soft chuckle. "Worororo, so you did notice King," asked Kaido, to which King nodded. "You know me the best after Queen."

"Speaking of Queen, where is he? Why is he late?" Kaido asks with a frown.

"He is getting ready for the festival," King replied, "Between the time taken for making new cyborg augmentations for himself and him composing a new song of his that announces the new ranks in the crew," King quietly mutters to his captain.

"Call him over."

King brought out a Tanishi snail and connected it with Queen's one.

Queen's voice came through the snail's mouth in an exasperated tone. "I am kinda busy at the moment making this show awe- NO NO YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG, IT'S LIKE THIS, NOT LIKE THIS…. NO YOU ARE BREAKING THE FLOW, HOW HARD CAN THIS BE?! YOU DAMN IDIOTS." Queen yells echoed throughout the room.

Apologies from the queen helpers were barely heard between the snail as Queen yelled at their incompetence.

Queen just sighed in annoyance. "Sorry for that, if you have anything important to tell me, do it NOW!"

King then mutters coldly, "Queen, I am just calling to inform you that this is the last tub of sweet red-bean soup on Onigashima for tonight, and I will eat it."

Immediately, the tanishi snail was cut off. Literally, seconds later, Queen burst into the room, nearly ripping its door off, and faced King and began to whisper with a contorted face, "Where is it?... King, you bastard…. Where is my red bean soup?"

"They still haven't even served sweet red-bean soup yet. Get your act together, Queen." King deadpanned before muttering, "It's unfitting for an All Star to be acting like this."

"Oh, that is good," Queen sighs in relief before his eyes pop out behind his sunglasses. "EHHHHH, I HAVE BEEN PLAYED!''

Queen's yell grabbed the room's attention. Its occupant's double-take as they saw Queen's face redden in anger. His blood vessels erupted all over his face, twitching in indignation.

"You will pay for that," Queen growled threateningly.

"Like that scares me..." King said with disinterest at threat.

Queen's right hand began to twitch and hover over his two dao swords on his side, but then his mechanical left arm gears and wheels began to grind and send out sparks as Queen's wrath hit new ceilings.

King just stared silently at his fuming colleague, who made a threatening step toward him. Then, narrowing his eyes at Queen's advance, King's upper back flames began to burn more threateningly.

Both men locked eyes, and the tension between them was rising. The people in the room stared at them with bated breaths, except for Kaido, without a care in the world, ignored them outright by happily gulping down his alcohol.

Before the All-Stars restarted, the never-ending squabbles between them, Orochi interrupted them, prancing happily, followed by his advisors, Semimaru and Fukurokuju. They made their entrance through the ajar door. Calmed down by the distraction, King and Queen just frowned at each other before the anger dissipated from Queen's face as he sighed. "If you had eaten that last red bean soup..."

"It was just a way to call you out here," King said with a dismissive hand, "Kaido-san just wanted to talk to you."

"You could just have told me that." Queen said in an annoyed tone before asking his captain, "What is Kaido-san?"

Kaido drops his sake gourd and asks his subordinate, "Can you not fall behind the schedule like last time, Queen?"

"Don't worry, Kaido-san." Queen assured. "Everything is going to be fine this year."

"It's better be, Queen." King admonished as he remembered the previous festival, "Last year was a disaster after Kaido-san got drunk. The combined light shows and his drunkenness made him think the light shows were enemies. It took me a while to calm him down."

Kaido just looked away from his subordinates, hiding an embarrassed blush, "The light show better be off by the time I get drunk." Kaido warned Queen.

Queen nods and leaves in a hurry to start the show.

King then opened his mouth to say something, but before he could speak, Orochi interrupted him. "It's a good day to celebrate, isn't it, Kaido?" Orochi says with a gleeful cackle, "We had a successful year."

Tiny traces of annoyance flashed across Kaido's face before he wiped his mouth from the remaining sake and grinned.

"Worororo, you are right, Orochi." Kaido agreed with Shogun, "We finally got enough surplus weapons from the factories to begin selling them overseas."

"And there were no incidents, unlike the year before." Orochi said happily at the missing threat to his rule over the country. "The menace of that masked individual is nowhere to be seen!"

Jack's eyes narrowed dangerously at these statements and said quietly, "He was only seen once, when he fought all those men. After that, there haven't been any new sightings of him."

"Is that so?" Kaido said in disappointment as he heard Jack, "Somebody that strong would be perfect to lead the new group."

King glared suspiciously at Jack, who pretended to be interested in getting out of the room. Then, slowly backed away from his brother's figures to avoid any ire from them.

Jack then turned around and silently kept his mouth shut to not reveal that the masked man popped up last week.

"Kaido-san will be informed about the appearance of the masked man after the golden festival," thought Jack with deep agitation, unaware of his surroundings. "That man had the worst timing to attack. Spoiling Kaido-san's current mood won't go well."

Suddenly he felt something bump against his knees. Looking down, Jack realized it was the blonde man with Kyoshiro. The man glanced warily at him, muttered his apologies, and tried to make his way in Kyoshiro's direction. There was something….

"Excuse me, did we ever meet before?"

Those words uttered by Jack stopped the blonde in his tracks before turning around and mirroring Jack's confused expression. "I don't think so?" Said the blonde Samurai, "Why do you ask?"

"Just a feeling," Jack thought, "There is something familiar about this guy…

"It's probably nothing." Jack told him before telling him, "Enjoy your stay at Onigashima."

"I have to be ready for the announcement," thought Jack entering Kaido's mansion.

---

Kaido was no joke. Just looking at the guy Naruto felt and knew that he was a considerable challenge to overcome. In fact, Kaido was so strong that he would have beaten the Fourth Raikage and Third Raikage simultaneously and then called it warmups and used their bodies as dumbbells. Even Naruto's current strength won't be enough to beat this guy. Kurama, and the other Tailed Beasts chakra, would be required to face this guy.

In the middle of all this, Jack, the guy he fought last week, began to ask if they had met. Naruto controlled his breathing and emotions before lying and adopted a quizzical look at Jack's expression.

Once Jack left, Naruto let out a sigh of relief as he walked over to the corner of the room and took a deep breath of relief as he leaned on the wall, "That was nerve-wracking." Naruto, though, as his shoulders sagged with colossal ease, before steadying himself and muttering, "I thought he recognized me there for a moment-GAH."

Naruto had turned around, only to nearly walk into someone as tall as him. Naruto immediately mutters his apologies before feeling a tug on his Kimono. Then, whirling around, Naruto tugged his kimono out of the woman's hand. He faced a disgusted look from her that immediately turned into a surprised one.

Sparkling golden hoop earrings jingled from both ears. Large orange eyes with prominent eyelashes blinked in surprise as the gorgeous woman tilted her head in confusion. Its long white hair bonded between orange rods faded into the colors of aqua green and blue, which trailed into rectangular locks. The only feature that stood out was the red horns on the top of her head that were more flesh-covered at the base. The horned female wore a midnight-blue silk kimono imprinted with patterns of cherry blossom trees. In addition, she wore a pair of wooden sandals.

Naruto felt like he was being read an open book by the woman and reacted accordingly to the ANBU's infiltration method. Taking a step back and putting distance from her, Naruto just thinks of his saddest memory.

The memory plays in his mind, distant and close simultaneously. Naruto remembered Sasuke's final words as he crumbled into ash, the moment realizing that without Sasuke that undoing the Infinite Tsukuyomi and what happened during the two years that Naruto came to regret.

The sadness turned into anger, and the anger then turned into nothing.

Naruto looks at the woman staring back as if she couldn't figure out what kind of person he was and begins to clutch her head in frustration. Naruto then hears the woman mutter in a strained voice, "Observation Haki is not working with this guy… Maybe I am not as good as I thought… But I swear I felt something."

She then started to peer at him and push his personal boundaries as she walked around him like she was inspecting something.

A tick mark pulsed at Naruto's forehead due to the lack of manners from the horned woman. Then, Naruto starts letting growls at the woman who flinched when he says, "Did someone ever teach you the importance of personal space and manners?"

"I am so sorry!" said the woman, giving him an apologetic smile.

"What do you want?" Naruto tells her coldly in an attempt to

The woman's following words surprise him, "Are you alright? You just felt negative for a moment."

Naruto's eyes widened in surprise as the woman said, "You are different from nearly every Wano official I met. They are happy while you are the opposite."

Naruto felt a growing dread grow in the pit of his stomach as the woman began to ask more questions. Naruto inching away from the questions, Naruto. "I don't need someone prying into my past right now or my true allegiance," thought Naruto in frustration.

The woman seemingly wanted to say something else, but a colossal shadow extended over them before she could. Then, Naruto heard a voice with its interest piqued, "Well, this is a surprise, Young Master Yamato. Are you finally becoming interested in men!?"

The voice belonged to a youthful and stunning woman of incredible size, slightly taller than Kaido. Her long blonde hair is styled like a geisha's, with two swords notably part of its arrangement. Her eyes are sky blue, and a strand of hair tends to dangle in front of her left eye. She has a pair of long, slightly curved red horns atop her head, wears prominent lipstick, and carries a long smoking pipe.

She wears a low-cut, black kimono that leaves her right shoulder exposed and a turquoise obi around her waist, with blue and yellow floral patterns. Her footwear is two black zōri with red hanao straps and white tabi socks.

Yamato just smiled at the large woman and said, "Big Sis Maria-"

"Yamato, you aren't allowed to address me like that anymore." The woman cut off before letting out a sigh. "Call me Black Maria like Kaido-sama ordered you,"

"I know…" Yamato said dejectedly with a slumping body.

"But if you prefer to call me Big Sis, do it in secret. Just not in front of everyone. By the way, the Kimino I chose for you tonight looks lovely on you. Anyway, how are those teenagers?" asked Black Maria.

Yamato scowled and said bitterly, "I am surprised you care, I thought you were like him!"

A frown formed on Black Maria's face, "Yamato!" snapped the courtesan in annoyance and frustration. "You may think your father is a monster, but even he has a code of honor and lines that he won't cross." admonished Black Maria.

Silence fell on the two conversing females before the older woman sighed, "You know… I have a soft spot for children, I would do what I can to help them."

"Really, thank you!" Yamato gushed with gratitude at her elder sister figure, "I think they are great."

"Yamato…" muttered Black Maria. She took a puff from her smoking pipe and then focused her eyes on the pair of teenage siblings who were keeping to themselves.

"I have keen eyes, I can tell that those two in the future have the potential to enter the new group being introduced tonight. There they have the best chance of survival."

"The new group?" Yamato asked. "What do you mean by that?"

Black Maria's sky-blue eyes closed in exhaustion before opening and bore into Yamato's orange eyes.

"Yamato, you should focus more on your surroundings. Sometimes important and good stuff escapes your notice if you are not careful." Black Maria drawls as she beckons towards Naruto, who had slowly backed away from them during their conversation. "Like this man."

Yamato then whirled around and locked eyes with Naruto, who just sighed and looked around for a way out before walking over to them. Yamato attempts to say something, but Black Maria has already hijacked the conversation.

"Usually men and boys can't stay away from me, so tell me why are you keeping your distance." Black Maria smiled slyly.

Naruto gave her, "Well, to me, everything could become beautiful." He said with a sly smile.

"What do you mean by that?" asked the younger of the woman.

"All stars are like the sun, aren't they?!" Naruto told Yamato, "Get too close to them, you are burnt by the light and heat they make," Naruto says, relaying the knowledge he learned from Hiruzen. "But when you look at them in the sky, you only see how beautiful they are."

Black Maria laughed, "We got a smart samurai here!" chuckled the courtesan. "You are educated, handsome… and you look strong," hummed Black Maria before suggesting, "And I think you will make a cute pet…What do you say?"

Naruto grimaces inwardly and just lets out a shaky smile and scratches the back of his head, "I am flattered, but I think I am overqualified for that position."

"Awww, you are no fun," said Black Maria with a disappointed pout. "Want me to pour you a drink?"

"This woman is dangerous… dangerous." thought Naruto, looking at the playful courtesan warily. Before he could accept her offer to pour him a drink, rambunctious laughter echoed through the hall.

"WORORORO. Come on, Kid. Drink! Drink!" A boisterous laugh echoed throughout the banquet hall,

"Your father, Silver Axe, was the only one who could compete with Newgate and me in drinking games at my old crew." Kaido hiccuped cheerfully, "The others weren't good drinking partners. Linlin preferred sweets, so she didn't join often. Shiki was high on whatever he smoked. The Captain was-"

Kaido stopped, before taking a sip from his cup again, before slamming it down. Then, with a smug grin, he declared, "Page One, let's see if you inherited your father's taste for alcohol."

"Hey, I think Pay-Pay is a bit too yo-" a feminine voice yelled out before being drowned out by other shouts and cheers.

"A kid getting brick-faced, this is interesting!" fired up a man waving a stack of bills, "10,000 berries on him chugging it down in one go."

"Don't be stupid… Everyone struggles with their first taste of alcohol." One pirate snorted among the crowd.

"Maybe for you, because you are the wimpy one one." snapped the pirate back.

"Hey, is it OK to bet with Wano currency?" asked a pirate subordinate, "I don't have any berries on me."

Naruto just sweatdropped and muttered, "Am I seeing gambling and betting on underage drinking here?"

Black Maria looked across the room and frowned at the sight of a drunken Kaido, who encouraged Page One to drink a sake cup with drunken bluster. Ulti looked around for help, which surprisingly came from King, trying to calm Kaido's drunken enthusiasm down.

Both women headed to the crowd direction, which parted to make way for Kaido. Naruto just stealthily followed them unnoticed by the crowd.

"Kaido-san, he is just a kid, barely in his teens." King whispered to Kaido, who just gave a tired sigh, "Give it a year or two for him before you start drinking with him."

"Fine." Kaido grudgingly said before retorting, "I am doing this only because you asked me to do it, King."

King turned to Page One and warned him, "Kid, I advise you to get yourself out of this party before it descends into madness like it usually does."

"Sometimes I am glad King is around to reign Daddy in," whispered Yamato in relief, "King is the only one my father would listen to."

"Hmm." Naruto said in deep thought as he swirled the sake cup, and then the words Yamato caught up to him.

"DADDY? MY FATHER," thought Naruto as his eyes widened in surprise, "You are Kaido's daughter?!"

Yamato scowled, "If I had my way, I would not be his child... I would be someone else entirely. I wanna be someone... No, I am already him."

Naruto's eyebrows shot up at those words, "What do you mean by that?" asked Naruto. "Who do you mean by him?"

Yamato was happy that someone asked her those questions and took a deep breath.

"Young Mas-"

Ignoring Black Maria's warning, Yamato took a kabuki pose similar to the ones Jiraiya did atop his summoned toads. Yamato then yelled at the top of her lungs, "I AM NONE OTHER THAN KOZUKI ODEN!" before clamping her hands over her mouth as she realized her mistake.

Immediately, Black Maria brought her hand into a facepalm and muttered in a sympathetic voice, "You always have the worst timing, Yamato..."

"This is an unexpected surprise…" thought an intrigued Naruto as he felt every pair of eyes in the banquet hall stare at Yamato.

King and Jack glanced at Kaido, who was staring at Yamato with a dumbfounded expression, blinking as he slowly processed the words due to being a bit drunk.

Orochi had whirled at Yamato's outburst in panic. He thought his worst nightmares had come true before his panic eased down and let out a sigh of relief as no Kozuki Oden was here.

"That thing is still going on?" muttered Orochi with a disgusted frown before exclaiming at Kaido, "Straighten your child, Kaido!" The yells from the current Shogun echo in the silent room, "It's embarrassing that this act lasted this long."

Kaido peered at Orochi, unsure what to do now. Then suddenly, the king of the beasts sobers as his anger boils up and his eyes narrow in disapproval and anger.

Growling in frustration, Kaido grabs his Kanabo, "You just had to ruin the banquet mood, Yamato!" The angry growl was accompanied by a tremendous blast of weird supernatural energy that was undoubtedly not chakra or nature energy. The energy attacked Naruto's will. It was a testament to Kaido's power that he managed to make a dent in it, as Naruto felt unease at the power displayed by Kaido.

"What the hell?!" Naruto thought as he blinked out the spots in his eyes. "What just happened?"

Naruto saw that half of the people in the room had collapsed. The weakest, like Orochi, was unconscious, and their mouths were foaming. Some were feeling a bit unsteady on their feet, like Black Maria and Komurasaki. In contrast, others like King and Kyoshiro were unfazed by what had just happened.

Kaido's eyes filled with rage as he looked at his child's frozen body. He warned Yamato many times not to do a stunt like this, "Over and over again!" Kaido grabbed his spiked Kanabo and twirled it in his meaty hands.

Yamato's eyes were now darting around for an escape route from her eminent father's punishment. Her pleading face asked forgiveness from her father, which she knew she would never get, as the club twirled menacingly within Kaido's hands.

Naruto felt a sense of guilt and pity as he saw silent tears trickling in Yamato.

"You can't help her! She brought this on herself..." Naruto thought in forced callousness as he averted his eyes and ignored his gut's ever-growing sense of guilt. "She is the enemy daughter!"

Suddenly Naruto felt something impossible since Kurama and his chakra remained dormant with him and the other tailed beast. Kurama chakra is necessary for this ability, so why did he sense negative emotions?

Self-loathing. Before he knew it, his hands were weaving hand signs faster and more skillful than Kakashi.

"Untested just like this..." Naruto thought as he recalled the details. He only practiced it on animals who were hungry and willing to eat him. The results were a mixture of success and failure.

The invention of this jutsu was a secret project by the Uchiha and the Yamanaka. Still, it was shut down due to Kurama's forced rampage on his birthday, and the Uchiha Clan was segregated and then went extinct thanks to Danzo. The Uchiha's Sharingan abilities to read and alter memories, and the Yamanaka expertise on the mind. They developed and tested a theoretical jutsu that was never completed. This Justu's purpose was to short-circuit the short-term memory function. They designed it to cover up information leaks and make it accessible to Konoha's higher-ranked shinobi.

"The last report said there are risks and severe side effects. It has not been perfected before being abandoned," thought Naruto, as he recalled reading the report in the mental library. "The Sharingan negates these effects and risks on the user by using its visual prowess to circuit the process."

Reaching the end of the sequence of hand signs, Naruto felt a building pressure in his brain as he prepared to unleash the jutsu.

"Ninja Art: Broken Recollection," Naruto whispered. His blue eyes flashed eerily as the subtle Yin Chakra exploded from him and went across the room, hidden by Kaido's energy blast as a cover. The pulse was weaving a net of connection that linked minds except him and Yamato.

With a hand sign and a hand motion, Naruto immediately felt his sight darken for a moment before he regained clearance. Then, he focused on the words of the memory, "I AM NONE OTHER THAN KOZUKI ODEN!"

Immediately, the jutsu forced Naruto to hear these words echoing in everyone's recollection. Naruto omitted the memories of Yamato's outburst and their reaction to it through his will.

People winced all across the room as they were briefly blinded by a sudden reverberation in their mental activities.

Immediately Naruto felt his brain explode in pain, and blood trickled down from his nostrils and dripped into his open palm. Naruto felt the throb's pulse in his skull as he covered his nose to avoid suspicion. Suddenly, his healing factor kicked in and began to heal the brain hemorrhage.

"I am never doing this justu again," thought Naruto, as he repeatedly felt the pain in his skull throb.

---

Kaido felt dizzy. He had no idea why he had his Kanabo in his hands and felt like threatening his only heir, who looked shaken. He was confused, "I can't remember..."

Shaking off the confusion, Kaido snorts out loud and then asks his daughter with a grin, "I have a feeling I should be mad at you. But I am not getting mad today. So don't worry."

Yamato's nervous look was replaced by a blank look of pure confusion, "But... I thought..."

Kaido laughs as he places a firm hand on his heir's shoulder. "Worororor, just enjoy the festival Yamato," Kaido chuckles, "This year you have free reign to do anything you want in this banquet."

"Can I kill Orochi?" Yamato asked in an innocent voice. Immediately, her father gave her a forbidden look that told her the answer.

"That's a no, is it?" says Yamato glumly, before Kaido pats her back.

"In the distant future, you become the Shogun… I will kill that idiot for you." Kaido thought with a smile as he faced the cackling Orochi.

"Come with me Yamato, I want you to be next to me when I make the announcement."

"The announcement, what is it about?" asked Yamato.

"You will find out when I make it." Kaido said stubbornly before yelling out, "Bao-Haung, alter the schedule a bit. I want some alone time with Yamato."

Bao-Haung popped up from the crowd and gave a thumbs-up as before modified Kaido's schedule.

---

King just stared at his captain talking to Yamato and decided to spend some alone time together before leaving the VIP room to enter the castle.

"Aww, this is so cute..." Black Maria whispered next to him.

"Kaido-San is in a good mood tonight… it's rare to see him interact with Yamato like that." King tells Black Maria in a wistful tone.

"You took care of her during his absences, Yamato herself told me."

The words sent a shiver through King's stoic body. The memories still haunted him. "Never again," thought King as he tried to delete the memories.

Babysitting Yamato was a nightmare when she was a toddler. Changing her diapers was worse when Kaido was unavailable, forcing him and Queen to play rock paper scissors. Then, of course, the loser had to change the diaper. But that's not all. In the past, Yamato was a lively baby and a child.

A good example is when Yamato, as a toddler, wandered into Queen's lab by accident and set off an artificial virus by playing around with the equipment. The brat was lucky to only get a cold. And the rest of Onigashima wasn't so fortunate, so they had to lock down the ports and initiate a lockdown that lasted two months to avoid a pandemic spreading across the new world.

He was snapped out of his contemplation when he was offered a cup of sake by the new geisha Kyoshiro brought in.

"Here, let me fill this," said the masked geisha as she filled the cup.

Indulging her offer, King gave her a thankful nod and muttered, "Thanks." before taking a sip from the cup.

Black Maria was impressed with the masked geisha, "You are new here, what's your name?" asked Black Maira.

A man with whiskers and blonde hair emerged from the crowd of the drinking people. "Komurasaki-chan, there you are." The man mutters in relief before saying in a frustrated tone, "I am supposed to keep an eye on you!".

"It's alright," the masked geisha said to him as she unmasked herself, revealing her beautiful face. Komurasak then filled a sake cup and handed it to Naruto-maki, "Take your time to enjoy the banquet." requested Komurasaki.

Before expressing a stormy expression, "I am not helpless Naruto-maki, I can take care of myself."

"All right fine, but any sign of troub-"

Suddenly all the lights went off. Looking out the large balcony, all occupants saw that the crowd on the live floor held their breaths in anticipation as a giant screen projected a broadcast all across the room.

The broadcast opening projected a video of the skull, some with the words: PRESENTED BY ONIGASHIMA.

The words faded away into a Jolly Roger of a skull and bones with the bold words Queen. Before fading away to reveal Queen's silhouette covered by the smoke machine.

"HEY ONIGASHIMA ARE YOU READY!"

A huge cheer erupted from the crowd outside the room as Queen and his dancers burst into the stage.

Suddenly music blared across the room. Flashing light showered the crowd with a myriad of colors, and a disco ball glistened as it was lowered above the crowd's head.

"THANK YOU FOR WAITING, YOU ALL," Queen yelled into his microphone, "IT'S THE ANNUAL GOLDEN FESTIVAL AND YOUR MAN. THE PLAGUE, QUEEN IS HERE!"

The crowd yelled back even harder as they were left in a dark, silent atmosphere. Then, finally, Queen reappeared in a dazzling spectacle of a thousand shades of lights and choreographed dancers copying his movements flawlessly. Queen began to dance and shake his pumping arms into the air and sing the words of his best hit.

"Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom," Chanted Queen and his dancers.

Taking a pose, Queen began to sing and dance to the crowd's excitement. "If I get thinner, I'll be too popular, so I don't get thinner, that's my kind of…" sang Queen as he held an ear to the crowd.

"FUNK!" shouted the crowd before chanting the words along with Queen in excitement, "Zoom, Zoom, Zoom."

Queen sang to the microphone, "I may look chubby, but it's all muscle. I can sing and dance. That's my kind of..."

"FUNK!" screamed Queen and the crowd.

King just stared in distaste as the live floor occupants danced and sang. "This is annoying and repetitive. It's exactly the same song being sung every year," King thought with an annoyed look, and he noticed he wasn't alone. Looks like someone had similar thoughts.

---

Naruto just stared at the dancing crowd, who were in synergy with the dancing and singing man. This was worse than the aneurysm he gave himself a while ago when he attempted the short memory-erasing jutsu.

"I prefer Killer Bee rapping…. And that's saying something." thought Naruto as the song/rap continued.

"This is stupid and annoying," Naruto mutters to himself.

"I agree, his performance tendencies are annoying," a voice said behind Naruto.

King had made his way over to him, giving him an unreadable expression as he agreed with Naruto's words.

"But still an All-Star is an All-Star, which means Queen is a capable individual," King admits, "but still, I find this yearly occurrence irritating."

"And the crowd below loves it?" deadpanned Naruto as he took another sip

"I have been asking why for a long time,"

"Well, they're idiots. I prefer something else..." Naruto says with an irritated tone as the concert goes an octave higher.

King gave him an appraising eye before asking Naruto, "Like what?"

"Are there any options that could be played now?" Naruto said, thinking of when he switched radio channels back at his destroyed apartment in Konoha.

"Sadly no…" King mutters.

"If I had to pick, it would be someone playing a tune on a shamisen." Naruto says before taking a gulp from the sake cup.

"That sounds adequate…. I should ask Black Maria to play something next time, she is. Her songs are much better than this," King says.

Silence fell over them as the crowd whipped into a bigger frenzy as Queen hit a new tune."

King let out an amused chuckle before saying to Naruto, "Naruto-maki, you are impressive as Kyoshiro just said."

Naruto then chuckles out, "Kyoshiro-oyabun has been talking about me?"

"Beating up a reigning Yokozuna on the street barehanded is an impressive feat for a citizen."

King then departs, warning Naruto, "Kaido-san will make an announcement soon, so be careful not to be caught up with any of the fights."

"What the hell did he mean by that?" thought Naruto as he looked around warily and his hand hovered at his sword.

Naruto then heard Kyoshiro's voice calling out, "Naruto-maki, I want to introduce you to someone. Where are you?"

Naruto then headed to where Kyoshiro was. A look of relief came at Kyoshiro as he sighted his face.

"There you are, Naruto-maki." Kyoshiro said in a very formal manner. "I want you to meet a good drinking partner of mine, meet Overflowing Sasaki."

"Hic. There is no need -hic- to introduce me by my epitaph. We are friends, Kyoshiro, so act like it." grins a man with a sake bottle in hand.

Sasaki is a tall man, just shy of 3.2 meters, with a stocky build and light skin. He has sharp, blue eyes, a hooked nose, and sharp fangs. He has shaggy greenish-yellow hair that reaches down to his middle back, and both his ears are pierced with gold hoop earrings.

The man wore a black and white cap and had a visor, a crown, and a split seam. A double-cross shape is depicted on a golden badge on a black band above the black bottom edge. Below, front and center them, are a pair of slender, golden horns that curve upward. Otherwise, the man wore a cloak that's like a sailor's. It hangs on his shoulders, with the sleeves hanging back. And he wears a simpler version of the hat's badge on each side of his collar. The coat has a solid-white coloration over its upper half, which ends around waist level with a downward-facing flame motif, contrasting against the orange-colored rest of the skin. Below the cloak, Sasaki's torso is bare, partly showing off a black tattoo that covered his shoulders, chest, and back, with many vane-like shapes bringing on a resemblance to wings. He also wore a flame-patterned hakama-like cloth, closed by eight gray buttons and held up by a golden, buckled belt.

Sasaki gives him a look before taking long gulps from his sake, and then tells him, "So you are Naruto-maki, you picked a hell of a night to visit Onigashima."

---

-First Floor: Live Floor-

Queen was having the time of his life as he took a drag from his big cigar. He was drunk on the excitement, as nothing could stop him from dancing and singing. The crowd loved him. Even catching King's disapproval glares from the VIP room didn't sour his mood.

He felt like he would dance to the end of the earth. "I am Queen and no one can stop me. I am on a roll. I am invincible."

Suddenly familiar loud steps came from behind him. Queen immediately cut off the concert in surprise and beckoned in submission for his boss, who took the stage and said, "Oh, Kaido-sama, you are here."

Immediately all in the crowd did a spit-take at what they saw on the live floor; the King of Beasts, the Oni Princess, and the Three Calamities menacingly presented on the stage.

"Kaido-sama is here!"

"And he is not alone. Look at all of them, what do you think is going on?"

"One day, I will become an All-Star and serve Kaido as his right-hand man."

"Like that will happen-"

"Yamato-sama is looking pretty hot tonight. The young master in my bed-" a slurred voice yelled out was cut off as he realized their implications.

Immediately silence reigned over the room as these words echoed across the hall. Tension rose and nervousness.

"Yep, that guy is definitely dead," most people thought as they placed distance between the man who yelled those words and pointed at him.

Kaido just stood with an astonished expression at those words. Yamato's face flushed into the color of a tomato, and she was disgusted at the words.

King's hands ignited to flames threateningly. Jack just grabbed his sickle sheaths. Queen's mechanical left arm extended into a cable that reached the crowd and caught the man in his mechanical grasp.

The pirate began to panic as he realized his fate was sealed. Queen mutters very eerily to him while pinning him down to a pillar with his mechanical claws, "You made the biggest mistake in your worthless life, you trash."

"Let him go." Kaido said with an unreadable expression.

Queen unclenches his hand, releasing the man. The pirate thought he found a ray of hope that he would survive the night. Instead, the man fell to his knees, prostrated to Kaido, and began muttering apologies and thanks for his supposed mercy.

"Thank you, Kaido-Sama. I don't deserve this mercy."

The Governor-General of the Beasts cuts him off, his orange eyes narrowing in anger, "Repeat what you just said out loud. What you just said about Yamato, my only child, an heir." Kaido growled at

"There is no need for me to say it," the man babbled in panic before muttering an excuse, "I was a bit drunk."

"REPEAT IT, NOW!" Kaido yelled unforgivingly. The yell sent everyone in the crowd below, reeling away in terror.

"Please don't kill me…" whimpers out the pirate.

Kaido then just made a motion to grab his Kanabo.

"Okay! Okay! Fine, I will say it." The man then sputtered out the words he echoed previously, and the looks of creeped out disgust from Yamato made his insides die.

"Are you fucking serious?" Kaido growls out before yelling out in a mad fury, "DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT YOU ARE WORTHY OF MY CHILD?!"

Kaido's enraged yell shakes the entire hall. Many of his subordinates' minds flashed to last year's golden festival.

Tossing his spiked Kanabo to the side, which Yamato caught by surprise, Kaido grabbed the struggling man in his grasp and brought him face to face with him.

"I would rather make my daughter marry one of Linlin's children, which is something that I refuse to happen even if we ally with her!" Kaido angrily hissed at the man in his grasp.

Yamato blanched at the thought of an arranged marriage with one of Big Mom's children before clearing her mind.

Looks conveyed a silent agreement between all those on the balcony.

Simultaneously, Kaido and Yamato went opposite directions, reaching the opposite end of the balcony on the live stage.

In Yamato's hands was her father spiked Kanabo, and in Kaido's was the struggling pirate. Kaido then looks at his three right-hand men, "You know what to do,"

"Yes, Kaido-san!" All three All-Star said with conviction as Jack drew out his shotel-blades, while Queen's mechanical arm popped out a cannon that glowed with dark light, and King ignited his hand with white-hot flames.

"Do you need your own Kanabo?" Kaido asked as he watched Yamato test his Kanabo with a bit of difficulty. Her father's Kanabou was too big for her to fight with, but she was capable of swinging it.

"I can manage with this. I am your child after all,' Yamato growled out as she lifted the oversized Kanabo and took a few practice swings as she swung through the empty air.

"Good, that's what I like to hear from you!" Kaido grunted in approval.

Kaido stepped forward and raised his hand. He threw the screaming man at Yamato with tremendous momentum, who prepped up the spiked Kanabo and took a swing.

SMASH

CRACK

The sounds of broken bones told everyone Yamato scored a direct hit on the man's spinal cord, bringing the swing to a close;

Managed to send the man flying straight to the roof of the skull dome.

The man crashed into the roof and rebounded with a downward descent, still alive but in a world of hurt.

"Evening Tusks," yelled Jack as he swung down, generating the sound of compressed air that filled the hall as flying slashes were directed at the man by Jack's shotel blades. The flying slashes hacked off the man's legs and arms, creating a shower of blood. The dying man's painful screams echoed in the halls.

Deciding to put their former subordinate out of his misery, Queen and King prepared their attacks to finish him.

"Ignite: Kingdom Ashs," King says coldly as he controls a fire ring to converge at the falling man.

"Black Coffee Beam." Queen yelled out. A dark beam of light exploded from his left hand, directly aimed at his target.

The light and flame collided, forming a searing explosion. The heat and force from the blast disintegrated the man's body into ash and soot. A shell-shocked crowd of pirates just watched in silence as they watched the merciless execution of the biggest idiot out of them.

"That feels much better," Kaido said as he cracked his stiff neck before warning the silent crowd, "Anyone else wants to try to take their chance with Yamato!"

A shared quick head shake confirmed the notion of all in the crowd.

"Moving on," says Kaido, acting like nothing big just happened, "I have an announcement to make." The declaration from Kaido sent shivers in the spine of his crew and the officials of Wano. "Some of you may have heard of the news from last week that Red-Hair Shanks has become an emperor of the sea," Kaido said. His voice grows louder to drown out the murmuring in the crowd.

"The World Government has decided to anoint us the Beast Pirates, along with the Whitebeard Pirates, Big Mom Pirates, and Red-Hair Shanks, as the Four Emperor crews who reign supremacy in the new world!"

Immediately, the mummers have turned into an uproar of cheers and yells of surprise. Kaido ignored their actions and continued to speak.

"So to counter the growing threats from those willing to challenge our supremacy in the new world," Kaido said seriously. "This crew would require a change. Those who prove themselves to me will be given the new rank as a Headliner and serve me as officers of the Beast Pirate."

All eyes were on Kaido's face, listening attentively for the promotion. "Furthermore, the six strongest headliners will be given the second-highest rank below me as the designated Tobiroppo."

"All you need is to prove your strength by reigning dominance over your crew members and making them your subordinates." Kaido told them.

King then calls out to the crowd below him, "Those who don't want to fight or know they are outmatched, it's best for you to leave the live floor." King then draws out his sword to rule out the cowards, "Because it will become a battlefield for those willing to become officers,"

Immediately, the Wano officials left the live floor heading to the private rooms. They were followed by pirates who felt overshadowed by their comrade's strength. There were only five hundred people left on the live floor, each glaring at one another.

Most fighters freeze as they hear the deadly calm voice of a former assassin who joined the crew as a captain of his own crew.

"So can we start already? There are some who have wronged me in this crowd," Who-Who said as he bent his masked head in a glare at some of them, "I am inclined to treat them to a living hell."

Kaido just lets out a large grin, "Excellent attitude, Who-Who. I guess you can all start now." Kaido says as he begins to drink again, "But don't kill each other too much. Just prune off the weaklings."

Immediately chaos explodes across the hall as duels are initiated, blades and guns are drawn.

---

A clone watched over Komurasaki while talking and drinking with Kyoshiro and Sasaki in the VIP room. The original Naruto lets out an impressed whistle as he watches from the shadows of the corner of the roof skull dome by standing upside down. Thanks to sending chakra to the soles of his feet, Naruto was able to defy gravity by standing upside down and seeing the aerial execution committed.

Naruto was honestly impressed and felt a chill in his back at the capabilities shown by the powerful people.

"One against this many monsters is basically suicide. None of them did exert any effort to kill that guy," thought Naruto.

If this was a younger Naruto, like during the Fourth Shinobi War, the actions would disgust him. However, Naruto can be loving and protective to the people he cares about and those who didn't do no wrong, like innocent men, women, and children.

But his indifference to the death of the pirate just surprised him. After all, he killed people before in rage and battles, and they still left a bitter taste in his mouth. But, maybe because of the suffering Black Zetsu put him through, he did not care about the man's death.

"That man was a bigger idiot than I ever was," thought Naruto as he stared at the shocked crowd.

But still, that man had a point. Looking at Yamato objectively, she was a worthy woman with a combination of Beauty, Strength, and Pride. However, he didn't know that Kaido being her father was a plus or minus. From what he heard and saw, they seemed to have a strained relationship. Still, things looked amicable thanks to the Jutsu Ninja Art: Broken Recollection to erase Yamato's mistake that sparked her father's ire.

Naruto's thoughts then focused on Kaido.

Kaido, the Head-Honcho of Onigashima, the King of the Beasts.

Kaido's actions told Naruto a lot about him, as actions spoke louder than words. The man had pride and ambition. Arrogance and respect for power and strength. If Kaido didn't ally himself with Orochi or his crew starving the citizens of the land of Wano. Naruto would have joined hands with him and maybe joined the crew.

Kaido then gave an impassioned speech, a treasure trove of information and unfamiliar terms, "Other Pirate crews, the World Government. The rise of the Four Emperors. Those were terms he never heard inside in the Land of Wano thanks to its isolation policy."

Then Kaido dropped a bombshell, and it was the Chunin exam's forest of death situation. Brawls and fights started over who was more worthy of a promotion. Several fighters stood from the crowd.

Black Maria's upper body remained fully human, while her legs seemingly transformed into a whole spider body. Although the spider's body has its own face, it seems alive and humanlike, with a toothed, drooling mouth and a tongue sticking out. She produced spider silk from her fingers, covering the battlefield with traps and defensive barricades. Once her opposition was trapped in the webs, Black Maria attacked them by using a pair of knuckle dusters. Occasionally, she struck at her opponents with her poison-tipped spider legs poisoning them with her deadly poison. Or torched her own webs with flames through the fire-breathing spider face in her abdomen, condemning those trapped within the webs to a fiery death.

Sasaki had abandoned the drinking with Kyoshiro and the clone Naruto left behind. He jumped from the VIP room fray and transformed mid-air into a gigantic scaly lizard with hard skin and tri-pronged horns. Two of them were the golden horns that prorupted from his hat, now enlarged by the transformation, while the third sat on his nostril. Flattening a portion of the crowd during his landing, Sasaki began to trample and mow down the people with his giant size and strength by charging at them. The only thing that piqued his interest was that Sasaki transformed into a type of dinosaur he had never seen before. They had dinosaurs back in his world, but they were extinct, and some of their skeletal remains were extracted from the soil. A talk for another time.

A giant cat hybrid man bit with his elongated fangs and swiped at his opponents. He was disappearing at accelerated speeds when he kicked off the ground at least ten times in the blink of an eye and reappeared to stab others with his pointed claw finger. He also used his furry legs to kick and push himself off the air, allowing him to travel through the air and remain midair for extended periods.

The others that stood out were a gigantic dark snake throttling a group of pirates' lives by crushing their bodies with his coiling body. An enormous centipede hybrid man-creature took hits from his surroundings with no visible damage due to its scales bouncing and deflecting attacks. Its many numerous legs crawled around and punctured his opponents.

The free for all battle below was fierce, and many used the method of overpowering the weak ones through sheer force.

Many littered the floor, either knocked out, dead, or bleeding out to the afterlife or bleeding out to the afterlife. The remaining fighters stared at each other warily before beginning to fight anew, more tactically.

Not caring about the outcome of the brawling fight, Naruto presses the ANBU mask onto his face and enters the top floor of Kaido's mansion.

---

- A corridor on the First Floor-

It took a while to find something that interested him. He opened room after room with his shadow clones, assisted, and kept a lookout. Finally, they worked their way down, avoiding the guards and watches from the fifth floor to the first floor, finding nothing interesting.

Naruto was now on the first floor, careful not to attract unwanted attention due to the live floor.

He found a massive steel door on the first floor that felt out of place in the castle. However, most of the mansion's interior resembles a traditional court, with sliding doors, paper lanterns, and even bonsai tree arrangements. Thick walls made of steel-reinforced concrete and a large door vault stood out clearly from the rest of the mansion. It was impossible to knock down without bringing the monsters on his ass, who literally stepped down the hall watching the fights that would choose the Tobiroppo and the Headliners.

Naruto touched the wall, sent a chakra pulse, and banged his head in frustration. "Damn it, the walls are at least 4 feet thick!"

Naruto then focused his attention on the door and smiled. Naruto came across this type of door many times when he was the sole survivor of the Shinobi side in the 4 Ninja war. In Kumo, knowledge, and technology are heavily fortified by these vaults. However, the most surprising thing he found in one of Kumo's vaults was compartments and pieces of a giant chakra cannon ready to be built.

And just like anything that interested him back then. He took it as he was the only human being in that world. The weapon pieces were sealed away in one of the scrolls he could summon.

Anyway, the vault may take time to open. Naruto then sent another pulse of chakra to learn the inner workings of the vault and sighed, "This is going to be difficult,"

It was not that difficult, and 10 minutes later, he was in. Inside the vault was a dusty place that looked like it had been abandoned for a while. It reminded him of Orochimaru's lab, but it was more technologically advanced.

All over the room, DNA machines and computers flashed in the dark. All looked more advanced than the ones back in Konoha. Like the ones in the operating rooms at Konoha hospitals or Konoha Cryptanalysis Team headquarters.

Naruto then looks at carefully detailed sketches of what looked like advanced weaponry being integrated into someone's body. "This is different. It's not puppets that replace the body like Sasori puppet bodies," Naruto thought before concluding, "It's literally reinforcing the body with technology to make it more dangerous."

Starting to take notes, Naruto observed the room experiments

Naruto found a sketch stamped abandoned, a note stuck on it. (Kaido-san forbids it.)

Next, he looked at dozens of sealed test tubes and had a hazardous sign. Naruto then looked at other blueprints that included explosive collars and handcuffs, and advanced technology beyond his understanding. Finally, he found a huge notebook titled M.A.D.S and the lineage factor with a sticky note (Note to self, Toss it away, I memorized it).

Naruto took a thorough scan of the book and realized this was not what he wanted. Still, he just struck a huge goldmine, "This book and Orochimaru's notes and research are compatible." thought Naruto in a giddy tone.

Naruto then clamps his left hand on the book. It was sealed away into the mental library, where his archives of Jutsu scrolls and books, elemental nations historical data, and Orochimaru research.

Noticing a door, Naruto found it unlocked. He pulled down the handle before opening it to reveal a more advanced room before a loud wailing sound echoed through the entire laboratory.

Immediately, Naruto bolted out of the room, leaving no traces of his activity, and scurried to the nearest of the second basement floor right. Unfortunately, a clone dispels his memory returning to the original.

Naruto, processing the memory, groans to himself as he realizes the implications of the alarm going off and mutters to himself, "Oh fuck me sideways." He turned around the corner, only to hear voices approaching fast.

"Check the entire floor Jack" came a voice that definitely belonged to Queen.

"Yes, brother," Jack mumbled.

"Whoever entered the lab isn't that far." Queen said in a ticked-off voice.

---

-3 minutes ago- / -First Floor: Live Floor-

Queen frowned as he saw the flashing light on his mechanical wrist before realizing its importance. "Somebody just entered my lab," before his mind yelled, "WHO!"

Immediately, his thoughts accuse Yamato of the break-in because she had attempted multiple break-ins in the past. All in an attempt to find the explosive handcuff schematics and use them to disarm the bombs on her.

Even before the cuffs were on her, Yamato once released one of his early virus weapons when she was six in Onigashima.

To avoid any recurrence of the disaster. Queen had created a secret entrance to his lab, locked down the main entrance with a vault door. And replaced the wooden walls and floors with 7 feet of concrete reinforced steel wall and floor to stop Yamato from breaking it down. The alarm will kick in if Yamato does, and Kaido will deal with her.

Now here comes the big question.

"Why is Yamato here next to Kaido? The young master is the only one willing to enter my lab with my permission." Queen thought in confusion before the terror set in, "It's someone else then!" hollered Queen in surprise, drawing everyone's attention to him.

"What the hell are you talking about?" King asked in surprise.

Queen pointed at his bleeping mechanical arm and whispered in a stricken voice, "Someone just entered my lab without any authorization."

Kaido's drunken face paled at the implication and grabbed Yamato to check if she was here. Before becoming even paler and letting out a panicked choke, "If Yamato is here, then who the hell just entered your laboratory?"

"That's what I am asking about Kaido-san," whispered Queen to his leader.

Kaido's head slumped before it was raised, "THEN WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING! THE MOMENT YOUR LAB IS BREACHED QUEEN-" Kaido shouts stop as he sobers up from his anger. Kaido then lets out an exhausted sob and moans in deep frustration, "I forgot what I was going to say..."

"Father?!" Yamato asked in a tense voice

"Not now, Yamato." Kaido snaps at his only

"I was just asking if you are alright," Yamato asked

"And I just wanted to get drunk tonight and have a time to bond with you." Kaido says in a depressed voice.

King interjected in the conservation taking charge, "Queen, you should have immediately ordered a lockdown on Onigashima by using your authority as an All-Star and-"

"You are right, I have much better things to do than watch idiots fight for a position that I outrank." Queen mutters before informing his fellow All-Star and Kaido by saying, "I am going to catch the idiot who broke into my lab,"

"I will help you, Brother Queen," Jack asks to be helpful to his All-Star.

"Fine by me," says Queen.

They left for the laboratory, unaware that a disguised clone was dispelled among the guests, relaying a warning to his original.

---

-First Floor: Queen's Lab-

Jack was stumped, and so was Queen. They both had searched every crook and nanny in this lab to find an intruder, but to no avail, they did not find any clues or hints that someone had just entered and set off the alarm of Queen's lab.

"Brother Queen, when was the last time you were here? " Jack asked.

"I haven't been here for two weeks," Queen answers before explaining why. "The festival preparations take time, especially finding a hype and dance squad that can do choreography in this pirate crew."

"I see…" Jack said absent-mindedly, as he did not get his fellow All-Star priorities.

After a while of more searching, Queen just waves his hands in frustration and snarls, "I should have added a visual tanashi for more security. I mean nothing is missing… So where is the M.A.D notebook?" Queen trails off while scratching his head in confusion before scoffing, "Bah, I must have thrown it away without noticing it. It's not like I need it anymore. I have the whole thing memorized down to the margins."

Queen then brings out his Tanashi snail and mutters to King, who is on the other end of the snail, "It's probably just a false alarm. But we will keep looking."

"Anything suspicious is reported to me or Kaido-san, immediately." King tells them.

"Of course, King," accepted Jack with a nervous tone.

"You don't need to give me orders," Queen mutters in annoyance, "I should have created the marys already."

---

-Second Basement Floor-

Naruto just stood on the basement floor, looking upwards as he heard the voices of Jack and Queen searching for the intruder. Once they were out of his surroundings, he entered the basement floor. The basement below this one is heavily guarded by gigantic beings that even towered above Jack and Kaido. Those giants spoke in intangible words and probably drank enough to make a nation dry of alcohol.

Naruto decided to walk around the second basement floor and found a massive blue cubic stone. The wall behind it had been cut in the shape of the massive blue cube, fitting it perfectly.

Walking towards it, Naruto takes a closer look. The bluestone seemingly had a script written on them. "This must be important if it's here in Onigashima."

Taking a thorough look at the script, "This is… something I can't read at all," Naruto told himself, "It's not Kanji or any code or sealing array that I know of."

In fact, Naruto feels it's ancient. "Must be a dead language,"

Naruto took out a scroll along with a brush and began to write the script slowly. Once the scroll was done, Naruto stared at the scroll. He didn't know where to start deciphering it.

"Like do you read this vertically or horizontally, from right to left or the other way around?" Naruto asked himself.

He then rolled up the scroll, "Maybe the Cryptanalysis section can help me decipher this piece of blue brick. Can anyone even read this to confirm what it says? "

---

-Grandline: Paradise-

A dark-haired woman suddenly sneezed before hiding her face from her fellow passengers.

"I probably have a cold," thought the dark-haired woman, staring at the vast ocean with jaded blue eyes.

It had been a long 13 years for her since she left her home, and now she had left West Blue behind through the Red Line and currently in the Grand Line. It took her years of betrayals and dirty work to enter the Grandline.

A Poneglyph she found in her teenage years clued her in about the whereabouts of another. Currently, she follows in the clue by taking the voyage ship to the desert kingdom, Alabasta.

Nico Robin suddenly felt like giving a sympathetic weep for an individual trying to figure out what was written on a Poneglyph without knowing what a Poneglyph is.

---

-First Floor: Live Floor-

Yamato liked only a few people in her father's crew. Black Maria was one of them, but the others she never bothered with their names. Instead, her orange eyes glared at the number of battles below that were diminishing in numbers but becoming more ferocious as it got more competitive to stay in.

"Oh the pig just finished that guy off."

Kaido stares at her with a deep frown and lectures her for the umpteenth time, "It's not a pig, it's Jo-Jotte, brat! You should show some respect to people's names, Yamato!" Then, finally, he says to her, "Jo-Jotte ate an Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit. The Boar-Boar Fruit Model: Entelodon to be exact."

"It's not as impressive as the other ones I know of," Yamato rebukes her father, ignoring the impressive, "and she still sucks-"

"Yamato, I have seen Jo-Jotte crush skulls and rip limbs reinforced with Armament Haki with her jaws when transformed." Kaido said, "You just don't like her, because Jo-Jotte was the only one who made you shut up about Oden for a week."

Yamato ignored her father's comment and continued, "The centipede guy is far more impressive than her. He took most explosions unscathed."

Kaido just lets out a frustrated sigh, "Yamato, if you are going to inherit the crew, being a leader requires you to respect your subordinates, and that includes addressing them by their names,"

Still sensing some stubbornness from Yamato, Kaido then hits where it hurts by saying, "Oden was loved by his retainers because he cared and understood them. If you act like that, you can't be Kozuki Oden."

Yamato glared at her father with an annoyed look.

"King?" asked Kaido for affirmation and advice on choosing the officers.

King, who has been analyzing the fights and brawls between his communications with Queen and Jack, who were searching for a possible intruder in Queen's lab, decided to give his opinion.

"Klondike has my recommendation to become a Tobiroppo. He is among the veterans of the crew." spoke King as he stared at the ancient-looking centipede hybrid man's armored body that took attacks with no sign of damage.

"The Ancient Zoans users are tough. But Klondike's Devil Fruit, the Insect-Insect Fruit Model: Arthropleura defense is in another league." King said as he looked at the diminishing crowd.

"I also recommend Scopone. He is crafty and powerful. His specialty lies in observation haki. The Snake Snake Model: Titanoboa fruit he has eaten melds well with his personality and observation Haki.

"Anyone else worthy of joining the Tobiroppo?" came the question.

"Sasaki, Who-Who, Black Maria and Jo-Jotte." King counted off, "Those six are the best and only worthy ones to join the Tobiroppo and become officers of the crew."

"So you think the Tobiroppo should be those guys with Ancient Zoan Devil Fruits? I agree they proved their worth," Kaido responds to King's analysis.

"What about the Headliners?" asked Kaido.

"As for the Headliners," King said with a sniffly voice. "Apart from those six, the others were annihilated. So if I were you, Kaido-san, I will choose the ones who are alive or still standing after being in a fight with these six."

Kaido stared and saw those six staring at each other in anticipation before they would move to attack each other. Finally, Kaido yells out, "THAT'S ENOUGH!" The yell draws their attention to Kaido, "You have proven your merits to me. You six are worthy of being the Tobiroppo."

Immediately, the six calmed down and straightened up to look at Kaido, who told them, "Clean yourself up and take the night off. Congratulations on your new positions."

Immediately smiles and grins exploded across their faces, and Sasaki said, "We won't disappoint you Kaido-san."

Green eyes locked with orange eyes. Jo-Jotte then pulled down her lower eyelid, stuck her tongue out at the heir of the beast pirates, and mouths out to Yamato, "See you later, Not-Oden."

Yamato's face contoured into one of anger, and she began to yell, "You ugly-"

King cut off Yamato's yells by clamping her mouth with his gloved hand, "Shut it, now is not the time, Yamato."

In return, Yamato bit her teeth into the leathered gloves. Unfazed by the bite, King pulls Yamato into a headlock and holds her there before she taps out to his Lunarian strength, Kaido just staring at them with a chuckle.

Kaido then signals at the fighters still standing. "The rest of you who are still standing, we will allow you to join the ranks of the headliners after we review you."

A sense of relief filled the room, and immediately medics filled the room, treating the injured and collecting the dozen dead bodies of arrogant and overconfident people.

Yamato frees herself from King's headlock and stands up to leave. Before Yamato could, she felt Kaido's hand atop her head and tousle her hair with warmth, "It's nice for us to be together like this without arguing, Yama-chan!" Kaido says to Yamato while giving her a sincere smile.

Yamato blushed furiously at Kaido's childhood nickname, "I forgot about that nickname."

Kaido has a burst of drunken laughter, "Yamato, I will never forget the times when I called you Yama-chan!" Kaido stares at the clear liquor, "You were on the best behavior and didn't act like a brat and never called yourself Oden."

A flustered Yamato fled from the live balcony and away from her father's side out of pure embarrassment and mixed feelings.

Looking at his child, Kaido is reminded of someone, "I don't know who Yamato takes after more, you or me?" With that thought, memories came, and Kaido began to drink and drink until he passed out with a drunk sigh.

Immediately King dials up to his fellow All-Stars, "Did you find anyone?"

Queen's frustrated tone, which was full of cursing and insults, came from the other side of the call.

King rolls his eyes, then tells him, "Forget about that for a moment. Let Jack handle it. You have enough drugs to help the medical team that will treat the 500 who fought for the new positions."

"Just give them Painkillers. Isn't that usually enough?" Queen asks.

"It's Kaido-san orders." King lied as he stared at Kaido, who was snoring.

"Fine, I will bring out the drugs, they are not perfect," Queen says before explaining the side effects. "There may be side effects like twitches, and the bodies might become numb for a couple of weeks after they healed all wounds."

"Hey, Big Brothers..." Jack's sweeping voice said, "I think I know who was here… but if it is him, then he must be long gone already!"

"What the hell are you talking about?" asked Queen in confusion.

"Use your observation Haki." Jack tells him, "There is something flickering inside the walls!"

Queen squints in concentration as he uses his observation Haki to sense what's in the wall.

What he felt raised his inquisitive science side out. "Ohh, this is interesting. I have never seen before energy like essence!"

"Isn't just what Haki is," King deadpanned.

"No, this is different. As a Haki user myself and a scientist, I know this is different." Queen states in a voice full of superiority.

King just sighed, "Just stay where you are. I am heading right there right now!" King then heads to where his fellow All-Stars were.

---

-VIP ROOM-

"Hey sis, I think we are screwed…" says Page One, his eyes wide in shock.

"Page One, you are too young to use that language," Ulti snapped before biting her thumb in deep thought. "still, all those people who lost were monsters. The ones who became a Tobiroppo are even bigger monsters than them."

"Hey, can we survive a crew like this…" "I mean Kaido-sama said the crew is competitive,"

"It's alright. We have the protection from Yamato for five years. We just have to get stronger than most of those people in that time."

Page One just lets out a burp and whispers queasily, "I feel sick, I think I drank too much."

Ulti, in a flash, begins to yell at her brother, ignoring the looks she was getting from the guests and pirates.

"What the hell PAY-PAY! I said you can only have a sip..."

"I know, I know," Page One before muttering, "I just saw a bloodbath I don't want to remember, and alcohol was available..."

"You should have focused on the fights instead of drinking," Ulti growls at her sibling as she grabs his collar and lifts him to her level.

"Hey, your breath reeks of alcohol too," realizes the brother before snapping at his sister. "So don't get all high and mighty one me, Sis."

"I am fifteen, and you are thirteen, and you should show some respect to your elder sister," says Ulti, and tugged Page One ear to punish him, who began to yelp in pain.

Ulti then lets go of her brother's ears before sighing, "At least you are not drunk..."

Page One quickly pulls himself away from his sister and looks at her thoughtfully. "The ones who became Tobiroppo had Devil Fruits and could use Haki well."

Ulti let out a sad sigh and slouched in a defeated manner. "The old man did not teach us how to use Haki and said we were too young to even learn how to use it." Ulti whispers to herself

"If we can just find a good devil fruit and figure out how to use Haki."

Suddenly Yamato's voice came behind them, "If you want to learn how to use Haki, I can help..."

Page and Ulti stared at Yamato in a huge surprise before they gave her a thankful look and mumbled, "Thank you!"

Yamato then gave them a conflicted look, "It takes years to learn Haki, and before that- did you guys drink!

Page One nods whole Ulti just gives a hiccup and, before letting out a giggle, "I just wanted to know what beer tastes like…"

Yamato just sighs and tells them, "Look, the feast is drawing to an end. It's almost three in the morning," said Yamato before looking at them. "I will sleep before Orochi gives the ending speech before he leaves. You should come with me to avoid it."

"Why?"

"Because it's an awful speech, the guy is so full of himself," Yamato answers with a growl.

Page One attempts to stand up but stumbles on his feet. "I feel like I am going to puke," he mutters.

Knowing what to do, Yamato advises Ulti, "Take him to the lavatory. He is bound to throw up and after that give him lots of water,"

Page One then slumps on his sister's shoulder as Ulti drags him to the nearest men's bathroom. Yamato then looked at the food laid out and began to eat her fill. Days like this were rare when she could eat.

Yamato began to eat without a care in the world and occasionally gave the leaving Orochi a stink eye. Unaware of the group of pirates, they had decided to follow the siblings.

---

-Second Floor-

Ten minutes later and a flight of stairs, Ulti stood outside the men's room, waiting for her brother to stop itching. She began to hum a tune and play with her hair as she waited for Page One to finish his business.

The past two weeks have been a bit chaotic for her. Their little group had raided kitchens to feed themselves. The pirates on the island had turned a blind eye to them due to Kaido's request and that they were under Yamato's protection. It was better than she expected. She and Page One had goals to aim for. Survive and then rise through the ranks.

Suddenly, an outraged voice interrupted her tune, "Well, little birdie. We have been waiting for you and your brother."

Ulti frowns at the voice, "Who the hell are you..."

"You should remember us. We have to pay back what you did to us..."

"I don't remember hurting anyone on this island," Ulti yelled at them defiantly. "I think?"

"Step out and don't be cowards, you wimps."

A group of men emerged, seemingly led by two leaders.

One had an eye covered by a considerable gauze bandage and patches, while the other had a few missing fingers in his left arm. Ulti's eyes widen in recognition.

"You are that guy that talked shit about Yamato." Ulti said in a wary tone.

"And you are that guy who tried to feel up, sis," Page One growled out as he came out of the toilet, donning his black and white mask covering his lower face.

"And you are the kid that stabbed my eye out before the festival," snarled the man before letting out a shrill whistle, and fifty more men came into the hall.

"You brats are outnumbered. There are only two of you and sixty of us."

"Hey, are you underestimating us?" Ulti snarled.

"I am not. You can't fight this many people armed without any weapons." chuckled the one-eyed pirate.

The sounds of guns and rifles loaded made the siblings narrow their eyes.

"Are you sure you should do this, Sawbuck?" asked a pirate with a hesitant voice, "They are just children. We could just give them a scare, that's enough."

"Shut up Hamlet, the loss of my pride and my eye needs to be paid in blood."

"I am not willing to participate in killing a child," said Hamlet before he left, not wanting anything to do with the fight.

"Well, things got easier for us, don't you think sis?" Page One said with a cocky grin.

Suddenly a bazooka was cocked and aimed at the siblings and was fired. An explosion shook the hallway as debris of smoke and wood enveloped the corridor.

"Riddle them with bullets, now!" came the command from Sawbuck.

Numerous rifles and firearms were unloaded into the smoky cover until all rounds were over.

"Seriously, our old man overtrained us on one thing only," said a voice behind them.

Whirling around, the group looked to see the siblings no worse off from the explosion and rounds of bullets. The only thing marring on them was the sibling's sooty clothes.

"Yeah, I think I understand why Pops trained us in one thing the most," mutters Page One.

"Dodging," Ulti and Page One said with a shaking voice,

"There were bullets, cannonballs, throwing us at each other." Ulti says as she listed with her fingers the things their father trained them with before letting out a shudder, "I swear we thought we were going to die when he threw a house on us." "We only survived that because he never intended the house to hit us."

"You are lucky, he pulled his punches and blows with you because you were a girl," Page One said with a

"Excuse me I was older than you, and Dad was much easier on you, because while I was headbutting my skull on rocks," argued Ulti, "You were studying navigation -"

A Katana aimed for Ulti's neck cut off her words. She ducked it with ease and continued speaking to her sibling, who attempted to wrestle an axe he grabbed mid-swing from his attacker.

Page One successfully wrestles the axe. But, before he could swing it at the disarmed pirate, Page One was caught unaware from his back by a huge pirate who then suplexed him to the hard wooden floor, caving it in instantly.

Ulti lets out an enraged shriek at her precious brother being attacked like that and headbutts the Katana-wielding pirate, hitting the bridge of the guy's nose.

CRACK

Ulti pushed them aside through her speed and attempted to free her struggling brother.

The previous suplex had knocked the air out of Page One lungs. Now he was struggling to free himself from another impending suplex, with one certain thought racing in his mind as he was lifted into the air.

"Shit. This will hurt…" dreaded Page One before his upper back was delivered to the floor. This suplex was more devastating than the previous, as Page One began to hack out blood and was on the verge of unconsciousness. Then, suddenly, the man lifts Page One's body for another throw.

But Ulti was much faster as she lashed out her left foot at the ribcage of the bastard, who was suplexing her brother. The blow to the ribs caused the oversized man to drop Page One and send flying away into a wall. The resulting kick caused Ulti to yelp and clasp her foot in pain.

"Pay-Pay it hurts. I stubbed my toe when I kicked that big guy away." wailed Ulti while hopping on one foot and holding the other in pain.

Still dazed from the two suplexes he received, Page One gets on his feet unsteadily, and his eyes widen in horror at the sight he was seeing. His doubled vision informed him that his sister was in danger of a huge incoming fist that she was currently unaware of to protect herself from.

SMASH

The blow directly connected to her head, and her lithe body flew through the air and landed broken on the wooden floor. Page One lets out a brutal scream from his throat and rushes over to his sister's limp body, forgetting his injuries.

Reaching his sister, Page One saw that her hair was matted with blood, and the blood slowly trickled and dripped to the wooden floor around her. "No. No. NO. NO. This can't be happening," Page One mentally screamed before he furiously whirled to face the men responsible for this ambush.

Suddenly he felt his sister grab his hand. "She is still breathing..." Page One thought with relief before his green eyes hardened again in anger.

An amused black eye stared into enraged green eyes. The green eyes then noticed a dropped axe just in reach to use.

A thin dagger appeared in Sawbuck's hands, "An eye for an eye." Sawbuck declares threateningly as he waves the blade, "I will take one of your bitchy sister's eyes for you, stabbing my eye."

"Hey, I am the one who took your eye, not Ulti." protested Page One. "Leave her out of this."

"Shut up, brat winners choose the price." snarled Sawbuck before letting out a sadistic chuckle and asking the guy with missing fingers, "What will you take from them, Muren?"

The group of thirty pirates giggles as Page One seemingly hangs his head in defeat.

"Maybe I will have the girl if she lives, I like damaged go-"

SWISH

In one fluid movement, Page One had grabbed the axe that lay on the floor and swung it upwards, cleaving through the flesh of Muren's right forearm. It landed with a splat on the wooden floor, creating a pool of blood. Not stopping at sight or the sound of the spraying blood came from the man clutching his arm in agony. Next, Page One brought the Axen Blade straight down at Sawbuck's skull with all his might. Sawbuck was dead before he knew it, and his body was cut in half vertically. Each separate side slumped into opposing directions, spewing a large pool of blood and innards of organs.

Ulti sprang to her feet with blood pouring down her head and dripping into her jaw. She jumped high in the air and delivered a flying stomp to Muren's neck, snapping it with a resounding crack, instantly killing him.

"BIG BROTHERS!" worriedly yelled out the group of pirates at Sawbuck's corpse and

Muren's dead body and missing arm and

"This was our first real fight in the pirate world, my first real fight..." Ulti whispered in a weary voice as she attempted to walk to her brother's side.

And with that, she fell to her side, her breaths becoming more shallow and rapid as she felt her life drain through her head wound. Ulti could barely hear her brother's frantic whispers of panic before the darkness she blacked out.

---

Page One's hand was matted with his sister's blood. Ulti was losing consciousness fast, and his upper back was a mess due to the

Even though they were their father's children and had a great potential in many higher ups' eyes. Page One knew that he and Ulti were untrained kids compared to members of the Beast Pirates, who had years of experience battling in the seas of the new world.

Page One could not offer to lose his last living family member. He was still surrounded by a wary group of 30 pirates intending to harm or kill him and Ulti.

With Ulti's life practically bleeding out and no medical doctor to help them around, Page One thought of all the events that led to this. Page One chopped off a couple of Muren's fingers with a small knife after the man attempted to feel his sister's body when they arrived at Onigashima. He also did throw a kitchen knife into Sawbuck's left eye after threatening his sister.

A voice ran through his head, "Your fault! This is your fault! These guys would have not come after you and Ulti for revenge after what you have done!"

Ignoring the heavy thoughts, Page One bared his fangs at the group, and with an enraged yell, he charged his axe wildly.

As he took his first couple steps, the last innocence of his childhood disappeared with a silent prayer, "I don't care if it is God or the Devil himself. But, someone, please just save my sister from dying due to my stupidity. I beg you, ANYONE!"

Suddenly he felt a calming palm on his shoulder. He froze in his tracks as an unrecognizable cloaked individual stepped in front of him.

But the pirates seemingly recognized this fellow, as some became ashen pale, while others stared at the man with profound shock. "Hey, check the poster. Is it the same as this guy?" asks a pirate.

One of the pirates unfurled a sketch poster, "Shit. It's definitely him, but why now and here?" asked the pirate as he clutched his head in fear. "He hasn't been seen since his first appearance, and that was last year. The next time we see him is the golden festival,"

"I see." The cloaked man mutters, "So Jack has not informed anyone of the run-in he had with me. I am particularly thankful to him right now for being an idiot."

"You are the masked warrior," asserted a pirate before questioning the man in a hesitant voice. "What the hell are you doing here?"

The cloaked man ignored the question and turned to face Page One and Ulti's prone form. Page One saw a familiar kitsune mask plastered across Onigashima. The only difference was the mask had holes showing the eerily blue eyes underneath them, instead of the thin slits that obscured the eye's color in the poster.

Page One did not know if he just made a trade with a devil or accepted a blessing from God as he stared at the cold blue eyes behind the mask.

---

Naruto had returned to the first floor and was about to shed his disguise and rejoin Kyoshiro and Komurasiki in the VIP room. He heard a crash above him. Naruto immediately heads to the source of the impact. He just reaches in time to see a lone teenager fending a group of pirates and protecting a knocked-out older girl.

His intervention freezes both parties with shock, and Naruto looks at the pair of teenagers who look like they had seen better days. The girl was bleeding to death at a rapid rate. While the boy looked like he was rag-dolled by one of them. While the other side suffered more as two dead bodies were on the floor. One missing an arm, while the other was cut in half.

Now staring at the teenage boy, Naruto asks him a question. "Do you want to save her?"

Immediately, the boy responds with tears, "Of course, my sister is the only one I have left."

"So they are siblings." Naruto thought before his hand grabbed a katana aimed for his back. The pirate who thrust the blade at his back dropped it and scrambled back in fear.

Instead of decking him, Naruto ignored the group of pirates as he walked over to the unconscious girl. First, Naruto flooded his hand with yang chakra. Then, Naruto made his hand glow green with the Mystical Palm Jutsu, with the utmost difficulty and immense chakra control he could muster.

"This shit is tough… How on earth did Sakura-chan master this jutsu in three months!" thought Naruto with a strained face, "It took me a year with hundreds of shadow clones to even do this jutsu without killing the fish,"

His respect for his deceased pink-haired comrade grew even more.

His glowing hand recreated the sight he saw many times. The wound closed at accelerated speed until there was no sign of the injury. Not even a scar remained. Immediately gasps of surprise and shock flooded the hallway.

"A devil fruit user," A Pirate yelled out, "Are you a healing man?!"

Naruto ignored the confusing words, and his chakra flipped in nature, Yin chakra flooding the shadow in the room. Then, Naruto began to weave one of the signs weave a Nara clan jutsu he invented after extinction with all the other clans.

He had created and worked on this for three years with his clones until he perfected it, but he still had not mastered it. The Nara's ability to manipulate shadows to ensnare and trap their enemies' movement by binding them with their shadows and high tactical thinking was amazing and was enough for them. But Naruto could never think like Nara, just like he completed the Rasengan to a Rasenshuriken. He took their jutsu a step further with his enormous chakra reserves by flooding it.

Ninja Art: Shadow Possession Jutsu and its variants, along with using materialized shadows to attack and bind, like Ninja Art: Shadow Stitching Jutsu, the user can stretch shadows however they wish, but their shadow's surface area limits them.

Naruto bypassed this weakness by forcing an enormous amount of yin chakra into his shadow to create and extend more shadows. As a result, Naruto's shadow grew, morphed, and flooded the floor, binding all his targets, who yelped in surprise before staring at him in horror.

"Ninja Art: Shadow Binding Field Jutsu is a success." thought Naruto with a hidden grin.

One of the pirates yelled, "HOW ON EAR-" Naruto silenced him with a hand sign that created a shadowy hand that emerged from his enlarged shadow and muffled the man's yells. Then, taking no chances, Naruto did the rest for the other pirates.

"Don't force my hand, idiots." Naruto snarled at them before thinking the only weakness he could never bypass. "The further you are from the base of the shadow, the weaker the shadowy bond is. This technique is useless against monsters, but useful for fodders."

Focusing on the pale girl teenager, her blue and pink hair reminded him of Sakura. But what worried him was the amount of blood she lost.

"Are you sure Ulti would be alright?" asked the teenage boy to Naruto.

"She lost too much blood from the head wound. So anemia is possible, but it's treatable by Blood Transfusion." Naruto thought.

"What is your name?" Naruto asked the teenager.

"Page One," came the reply.

"Turn around, then I will heal your back."

Page One turns his back on Naruto, who held his glowing green palm to heal the bruises that formed on Page One's back.

Your sister's wound is closed. So she is not in danger of dying."

"Do you and your sister share a blood type?" Naruto asked as he healed Page One back

"My blood type is X, while Ulti is XF," Page One replied hopefully.

"What the fuck is blood type X and XF?! These blood types were not in any medical books!" Thought a confused Naruto before giving himself a mental slap, "Remember, Naruto, this is an alternate dimension, definitions and terms may be different."

Closing his eyes, Naruto muttered, "So XF is AB, X is A, and F is B. This could be the most logical explanation for this difference."

"Both of us are eligible to give her a blood transfusion. Your sister may need it if she feels weak," Naruto told him.

"Pay-Pay, who is this guy?" came a weak voice from the awakened Ulti. Her violet stared at Naruto's porcelain mask before letting out a confused shriek.

"You are-"

"Shut up, sis." hissed Page One as he looked around frantically before whispering to her, "We owe us his lives. If he did not help us, we could have been killed."

"But Pay-Pay, he is-" protested Ulti.

"I know!" snaps Page One

Naruto peered down at the now calmed down girl, and, like Kakashi-sensei, her lower face up to the nose is covered by a pink mask with a scalloped edge, trimmed with a white strip. Naruto then looked at her brother and noticed Page One was the same but had a different mask, split down the middle into a white and black half.

Naruto felt great sadness and a bit of happiness at the masks, "Kakashi-Sensei, your fashion sense is still following me around even after your death."

"I am glad you are doing better. The wound on your head was nasty," Naruto told her, "I bound those guys who were after you."

"I am feeling fine, already. You must be an amazing doctor to make me heal this quickly."

"No way, the amount of blood loss should make you feel weak for a while," Naruto warns her.

Ulti then easily jumped into the air and began disproving Naruto's diagnosis. She did that by running to the men bound with Naruto's shadow and repeatedly slapping and punching them with a mixture of sadistic glee and anger until they had puffed. Bruised faces and Ulti was smiling proudly.

"Ok, maybe you are right, just take a blood transfusion to be on the safe side," Naruto advised her.

Ulti just gave a quick nod to Naruto's words.

"Her resilience is too high," thought Naruto with a surprise. "Maybe some people in this world are different. I mean experienced shinobi ignore punctured lungs and limbs and still can fight."

"How can we repay you back?" asked Page One, his face full of earnest.

"Yeah, you seem a cool guy, and it's bad manners to not pay you back a debt," Ulti says as she rubbed the back of her head and then gives him a thankful look. "Thank you for saving Pay-Pay and me."

"There is no need," Naruto told them warmly, "Because nothing really happened here. We will have no witnesses here."

"Why did you help us?"

A hesitant voice came from Naruto. "In all honesty, I don't know…. Maybe I felt grownups ganging up on anybody isn't fair." Naruto trails off as he thinks, "No, it just hits too close home."

Naruto then stood up to face his captives, "Poor Bastards," muttered Naruto, "Ganging up on those teenagers, because of that you will never see the light of the sun again."

"You are going to kill them, aren't you?" asked Ulti.

"No."

"Won't other people notice?" Page One

"Those bastards are smart," Naruto revealed to the siblings, "They decided to use tonight's battles to cover your planned deaths. But they failed and never considered it could be used against them."

"So you are saying..." Ulti, her thoughts being confirmed.

"That no one will notice a small group of weaklings disappear after the duel brawl for Tobiroppo positions happened tonight," Naruto confirmed her thought.

Naruto then faced his prisoners and began weaving signs discreetly so none of the siblings could see them. The hand signs he weaved were a jutsu that he was proud of.

"Ninja Art: Merging Shadow Palace." Naruto muttered.

Immediately, the trapped pirates felt numerous shadowy hands arise and pin them down into the shadowy ground. To their surprise, they began to sink within the shadow. They began to thrash even harder, but to no avail, one by one, they were absorbed into the shadowy floor. Finally, only the biggest of them was left. He was flailing around the hardest despite being pinned down by half of the shadowy hands.

Suddenly, the pirate's hands seemingly hardened and blackened. The hands then tugged at the shadow tendrils, ripping them apart and interrupting the pr. The pirate then grins and cries at Naruto triumphantly, "Just as I thought, it works."

"That black energy is troubling," Naruto thought with a frown. "Ashura can also let flow into his blade, I should ask him what is it?"

Naruto reached for the Uzu-Uchiwa, and before he could unsheathe the blade. Ulti and Page One took action to finish the guy off. Page One's stolen axe shattered as it met the hardened arm, but Ulti delivered a massive headbutt. The impact sends the pirate drowning in the shadows.

Naruto recalls his enlarged shadow back to its original size and immediately felt heaviness across his body. Those trapped in the shadow had their body weight added to his own. Naruto sent more chakra across his body to momentarily gain body strength to handle the extra weight.

Naruto felt his chakra levels shrink faster than he thought despite his chakra reserves and control, making him not expend more than he should. However, keeping those pirates trapped within his shadows and using chakra enhanced strength will make his chakra diminish to dangerous levels after a while.

"Oh yeah, my chakra reserves are half due to the clone watching over Komurasaki," Naruto muttered.

Naruto then disappears gracefully into the shadows, and Naruto discarded the disguise of the masked man.

He could hear the siblings arguing, but he did not care. Instead, he should rejoin Kyoshiro and Komuraski.

On his way, he ran up to Yamato, who was panicking and holding a large portion of food as she ran up the stairs Naruto used to come down. Naruto ordered the clone to dispel without anyone noticing as he headed to the VIP Room. The clone did precisely that, and its memories and chakra reserves returned to the original. Making Naruto capable of keeping the group of pirates trapped within his shadow for a more extended period before succumbing to chakra exhaustion.

Naruto entered the VIP Room and saw most guests looking at Komurasaki in admiration as they listened to Moon Princess. Komurasaki was wearing the kitsune mask he gave her to hide her tears and the inability to smile when strumming the song.

"She is doing great, is she?" Kyoshiro said to Naruto as he joined his side.

Naruto just gave him a chuckle, "I am not surprised. She is amazing."

"Well, the festival will be cut shorter than usual," said Kyoshiro before looking at Naruto's confused face.

"Due to the new positions in the Beast Pirates causing havoc in its ranks, Kaido's assistant, Boa-Hung, advised us to leave early." Kyoshiro explained, "Also Orochi had left in a bad mood after Kaido knocked him out with his ability, and the All-Stars are in a meeting."

Naruto mentally grimaced at the mention of the meeting. They probably talked about the intruder breaking inside that lab.

---

"Can you confirm it was him, Jack?" King says in a harsh voice.

"Yes, it was him, big brother." Jack nods with complete certainty.

"And how are you so sure about that?" King asked with his eyes narrowed.

"There was weird energy dissipating inside the walls, I sensed a lot of the energy left in the-"

"The Battle Of The Bloody Ramen Broth." Queen says.

King rolled his eyes at the battle title, "What were you saying about the weird energy?"

"You can feel its presence with Observation Haki," Jack told him.

King's red eyes flashed brightly into a darker shade of red momentarily. He sensed out the wall with his Observation Haki, "I don't sense anything," King says with a glare that scared Jack as King's bright red eyes faded into his standard red color.

"Well, it faded away by the time you came." Jack protested weakly.

"Jack is right. It was already dissipating when I felt it too." Queen says before asking Jack, "What makes you think he already left Onigashima?"

"From what we heard of his actions, I guess he is more of a hit and run tactics guy. He led his enemies, hit them where it hurts, and then left."

"When was the first sighting, exactly." Queen says in confusion as

"A year and six months ago, when you guys were on an expedition with Kaido-san, and I was forced to babysit Yamato and guard the mansion."

"Speaking of the devil, here comes the young master," Queen mutters. He sees Yamato running across the hallway carrying large food portions and calling out, "Ulti! Page One!"

"They must be good friends already if they are acting like that." Jack muttered with Yamato's frantic looks.

King then noticed Boa-hung running up to him and was panting as she said to him, "The…huh… guests are ready… huh… to leave!"

Nodding at her word, King then turns towards his fellow All-Stars with a severe expression.

"We will continue this meeting later with Kaido-san when he wakes up." says King, before issuing commands to the other All-Stars.

"Jack, you and your men escort the important guests back to their ships." Jack nodded silently and then left to escort the guest to their boats.

"Queen, you go and help the doctors treat the injured ones."

Queen frowned at King and asked him, "What are you doing?"

"I will go and talk to the Tobbiroppo." King says as he leaves the room.

---

"What do we do?" Ulti groaned in frustration as she paced the hallway where the fight happened.

"We don't speak about it. It's that simple," Page One told her.

"You know he is an enemy to this crew." Ulti whispered to her brother.

"Still, he saved our lives." countered Page One.

"He was the first thing we were warned about," Ulti said, before making a frustrated cry, "Why did that guy have to make things complicated?!"

Ulti then sat next to her brother and began to rock herself, still

"Ulti…" Page One mumbles as he sees his sister continue to blab, ignoring the real issue they have right now.

"I mean, he was so nice to us, and we even thanked him." Ulti says as

"If we tell Kaido-sama that he was in Onigashima, I will feel terrible for betraying the man who saved us."

"Ulti"

"And if I don't tell Kaido-sama, I will be deceiving the man who took us in. It-"

"I KNOW ULTI!" Page One yells out, shocking his sister into silence.

"Pay-Pay…"

"These bastards nearly killed us both. Why don't you react to that? "

"I was not scared..." Ulti denied her eyes, brimming with tears.

"Cut it out, Sis." Page One whispered as he choked back a sob as tears streamed down his face, "It's okay to cry."

And with that, Ulti let out a sniffle and broke down with a wail, "Waaah, I was so scared Pay-Pay!" Ulti bawled.

Page One just gave a quiet nod and wiped the tears and snot off his face. Then, he grabbed Ulti for dear life, buried his tear-stained face into his sister's chest, and trembled as sobs racked through each sibling's body.

"I thought I lost you there for a moment," Page One whispered, "I can't lose you, sis."

"I thought we were going to die," Ulti said in a shaky voice, "It was a close call. But, it's all thanks to him. We are alive and well."

A silence ensued between them as they sat in the silence of the corridor, each of them thinking. Finally, both siblings sat next to each just thinking about tonight's events.

Page One was the first to break the silence, "It was kind of scary and beautiful simultaneously," before getting confused looks from Ulti. He elaborated further, "The masked man's actions, and you know the answer he told us was a lie, why would he help us and get rid of those pirates?"

"I felt like he did everything on a whim," Ulti answers with a mumble as she presses her chin to her knees. "All the threats those bastards and the kind words he gave - Forget it? What are we going to do about the fact that he came here and saved us?"

Page One just "I think we should ask Yamato about this?"

"THERE YOU ARE!" Both teenagers yelped and saw Yamato's panicked face turn into relief as she ran up to them carrying large portions of food. "Thank goodness both of you are alright. I was in the middle of eating when my haki told me-" Yamato then skidded and stopped as she saw the remains of the fight that happened here.

"What happened here?" Yamato asked as she surveyed the splintered wooden floors. She then focused on the blood-covered siblings and the two dead bodies next to a lone parchment. Picking it up, Yamato unfurled the parchment to see its sketch. Yamato's body shook in anger as she scowled at the wanted sketch of the masked warrior.

"Tell me what happened here?" Yamato growled out, "Did this guy do this to you?"

Page One lets a nervous laugh before he says, "Uhhhh…. It's hard to explain."

"It's the opposite of what you think."

Yamato just backs down in surprise, and the siblings begin to recount the fight to Yamato. Once they were done, Yamato gave a deep, thoughtful look before she warned them, "This remains between us. Don't tell anyone else, especially my dad."

"Because we will have a target on our back," Ulti says glumly.

"No, Father, I will flip this island and Wano upside down if you recounted this." Yamato said nervously while glancing around, "I mean, I never heard of someone having eaten two devil fruits, and he used two separate abilities. So what were they again?"

"A healing ability he used to heal me," Ulti muttered

"And shadows he controlled his shadow to bind and."

Immediately Yamato turned one of confusion before giving the siblings a smile and thanking them.

"Thank you, this will help," Yamato says before ordering them, "Go back to the hidden camp, take a bath, and rest."

"Where are you going?" Both siblings said.

"To confirm something." Yamato told them as she disappeared from your view.

---

Naruto stood on the shore of Onigashima and was about to join the queue and return to the Land of Wano. At that time, he realized he had a problem. A big problem.

Looking at his feet, Naruto noticed tiny fissures created on the rocky ground he stepped on. "These guys trapped in my shadow, their weight," Naruto panicked thoughts were racing, "our combined weight in one person will snap any of these ships in half." These Wano Ships weren't made for combat or carrying this amount of dense weight he had on him.

Naruto mentally cursed himself for not thinking that far ahead. But, unfortunately, he could not release them out in the open. "Calm down, just think, think."

Naruto could not just release his prisoners from the shadows in the open. His cover would be blown, and he would either be captured or forced to flee the Land of Wano entirely or die fighting. So instead, Naruto's eyes focused on the large fleet of ships that belonged to the fleet of vessels seemingly used for internal affairs within their home territory of Wano. Large enough to dwarf every Wano Vessels ship, these ships featured a figurehead of the crew's Jolly Roger and sails marked with Kanji hundred.

"These ships could handle my current weight," Naruto thought as he scanned at the Beast Pirates ships, "but getting on them and sailing them is practically impossible."

Naruto's thoughts then focused on Jack, who stood at the gates of the skull dome, speaking through a tanishi snail.

Naruto took a risky chance and used the Substitution Jutsu with a shadow clone. He freed himself from the line. He secretly crouched on the giant katana hilt driven on the ground. He saw the clone enter Kyoshiro's ship with no problem.

Naruto stayed there until all the ships heading back to Wano were gone, and Jack and his subordinates entered Onigashima. Naruto knows he can't walk water himself through the wild currents around Onigashima, with people weighing him down.

He would need to dispose of some of these idiots trapped in his shadows.

Naruto then began to scale the skull dome to its rooftop, using chakra to stick his hand and feet into the wall.

---

Kaido woke up to Yamato's voice calling him. He immediately woke up with a grunt, his head jerking in confusion. He looked around the empty live floor, realizing the Golden Festival was over.

"Dad, you are such a heavy sleeper," Yamato said, "I was trying to wake you up for a while."

"What do you want?" Kaido snapped in an irritated mood.

"I want to ask you something."

Kaido's irritated mood fades as he sees his child's questioning eyes and allows it, "Go on."

"I remembered you saying when I was a kid, didn't you fight a pirate who invaded Wano and clashed in Ringo?" Yamato asked seriously, "I heard their captain ate a devil fruit that allowed him to control shadows. Is it true?"

"The Gecko Pirates attack Ringo?" asked Kaido. He blinked in confusion before frowning at her and growling at his daughter warningly, "I swear it, Yamato. You better not start calling yourself Moria n-"

"No. Ew No. No, it's not like that!" Yamato said, shaking her head vehemently before speaking with a hesitant voice, "I am just asking about the battle. How did it go?"

"Oh, I just crushed that crew after holding myself back in the clash for fun," Kaido said, "The eater of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit is still alive."

"And will he-,"

Kaido just gave Yamato a snort, "Last I heard of him, he became one of the seven warlords of the seas and refuses to enter the new world."

Yamato then nods in thanks before blurting out, "Can people eat more than one devil fruit?"

"No, that's impossible," Kaido tells her. "Any attempt to gain a second Devil Fruit power will cause the body to be destroyed, so that little trace is left of it, resulting in their death."

"Oh… I see then," Yamato whispered.

"You usually don't ask questions to me," Kaido said before asking Yamato, "Do you want to eat a devil fruit?"

"I don't know!?" muttered Yamato, before her orange eyes gave a red trail, before staring attentively upward to the roof.

"Well, it's not like you can eat one right now." Kaido said with a yawn and disinterested voice, "We don't have any spare Devil Fruits right now."

"May I be dismissed?" Yamato asked.

"Sure if it lets me go back to sleep,"

And with that, Yamato leaves the room thinking, "Either Ulti or Page One were lying, or there is something nobody knows about the Masked Warrior." Yamato thought wearily as she grasped her Kanabo. "It's best to ask the person himself directly."

Heading towards the highest point of Onigashima, her Observation Haki told her there was a voice of someone on the rooftop. That voice belonged to the person next to the siblings when she sensed they were in danger.

---

Naruto was atop the rooftop marveling at the stars and the moon itself. They were enough sources of light for his shadow to be extended.

He couldn't store infinite things in his shadow. It depends on the shadow surface area. The volume of items stored within it affects its size and chakra consumption.

Orochimaru's writing echoed in his mind, "The more complex or powerful the jutsu is, the more someone struggles with it."

And with that, Naruto weaved the signs to expand his shadow size and expelled all those from it.

Immediately coughs and sobs came from them. All seemed to have lost the will to fight.

One of them was begging, "Never again."

While another lets a gasp and shell-shocked whisper, "That was horrible," the others agreed with a nod.

"How did it feel?" Naruto asked them politely, "Being in there?"

"You are asking us this shit?" "Why should we listen to you?"

"It seems we have a volunteer," Naruto said with a sardonic laugh.

Immediately Naruto's shadow dragged him back to the prison, and his yells were cut short as the shadow submerged.

"Any others?" Naruto asked them, which promptly shuts up all of them in terror. Naruto mused at their expressions, "You guys only stayed there for an hour, and you came out like this. I wonder how long you guys could have lasted before your minds broke?"

"Why are you doing this?!"

Naruto frowned at him and muttered, "I will let this one pass," before expelling the guy he absorbed from his shadow and held him by his throat. "I planned to dump you back in Wano and extract information from you there, then send you to hell," Naruto growled at the choking man before letting him go. Naruto then dropped the man to the floor, making him gasp for life.

Naruto stared down at the man, "First question. You called me a devil fruit user, tell me what do you mean by that?"

"You don't know, and you ate o-'' said one of them, appalled before they interrupted as Naruto cracked his knuckles threateningly.

"Well, he must be from Wano…" glared one of them at the guy who just spoke. "They call them sorcery or either ninjutsu here, idiot."

"Right, my bad. You ate a fruit that tasted bad, didn't you, and then you got those powers?" asked one of them.

Naruto's eyes shot up in horror as the question nearly triggered a memory in his mind. Immediately, the air shifted around them as Naruto tried to calm down his nerves. "What did the fruit look like?" asked Naruto.

"They are all unique and look different in shapes and colors, but they resemble fruits with distinct spiral patterns and a curly stem."

Immediately Naruto sighed with relief and muttered, "No. I have never even seen or heard about a weird fruit like that."

"You must have eaten two, which is impossible, because you are a healing human and a ruler of the shadows like Gecko Moria was."

"Man, you know Gecko Moria is alive and well, he is still one of the warlords of the sea."

"What do you mean by that? He must have eaten the shadow-shadow fruit - AGH, stop that hurts." yelped the man as Naruto flicked the guy's ears.

"Can you swim?" asked another pirate.

"I can do that easily." Naruto told them with a deadpan.

He was met with disbelieving eyes from every pirate he captured.

Naruto then turned to the guy who was the last to enter, "You there." Naruto said straightforwardly, "That energy you used to turn your hands black… What the hell is that?"

The man was about to answer before he let out a smirk, and relief reached his eyes, "Why don't you ask that to the young master?"

Naruto whirled around in surprise to see a giant Kanabo club that is slim and studded at being swung with the intention to the back of his head. Naruto drew the Uzu-Uchiwa in a reverse grip to meet the Kanabo club.

The clash of weapons brought forward a tremendous clang that echoed across the rooftops. Surprisingly, Naruto was overpowered by the immense physical strength of the woman attacking him. The Kanabo touched his mask despite being held back by his own blade.

Not wanting to be hit with the club, Naruto kicked off from the ground, then somersaulted over Kaido's child. Grasping her shoulder as he balanced on top of it, and then landed on the other side. Naruto then swung his arm around with chakra enhanced strength and threw Yamato across the rooftop of the skull dome.

Yamato tumbled across the rooftop before rolling onto her feet, not hurt but dirty and disoriented. Calming herself, Yamato activated her Observation Haki as a red trail appeared in her eye. Then, sensing her attacker's immediate future intent, she blocked the kick with her Kanabo.

Naruto then attempted to use his foot on the Kanabo to drive it down by stepping it down. But Yamato had realized the plan and used her Kanabo to send him high into the air by lifting it upwards. Yamato then jumped after him, thinking he was trapped mid-air, unable to change direction.

Forming one hand sign, Naruto created a shadow clone to pull him to the side, much to Yamato's shock and the others bellowing, "There is no way he ate three!"

Yamato swung at the clone, but it disappeared in a puff of smoke once she hit it. Then, looking at the real Naruto disguised as the Masked Warrior, she yelled out, "Who the hell are you?"

Naruto yelled back, his voice full of mirth, "I am the Masked Warrior."

Yamato's face twitched in anger, and steam bellowed through her ears. Laughing at her reaction, Naruto unsheathed his blade and created dozens of clones to attack Yamato so he could observe her fighting style.

In response, Yamato sent a tremendous blast of that weird supernatural energy precisely like her father, forcing numerous clones to dispel, leaving one clone left.

"Hey, what the hell was that?" Naruto growled out, not happy that one of his signature jutsu was quickly taken care of.

"Haki, I just used Conqueror Haki to dispel your body doubles," stated Yamato. She felt the irritation in his voice and then began taunting him gleefully, "I have located you using Observation Haki, and this is Armament Haki."

An aura of energy blackens and covers Yamato's right hand. It extends across her club, making it harder and blacker.

"I see that's what Ashura Doji was using," Naruto realized as he thought of the duel he had with him.

Naruto channeled his chakra into his blade, covering it with flickering blue energy.

Yamato's orange eyes widened in surprise before they flashed red momentarily. She attempted to sense any signs of haki within the masked warrior's body. Instead, she was met with an enormous quantity of not-Haki but something else.

The clone looked at the original and shared thoughts on what to do. Naruto's eyes hardened as Yamato rushed at him, and he did the same. The clone weaved signs before slamming his hands into the rocky skull and muttering, "Earth Release: Moving Earth Core."

As soon as the original Naruto and Yamato were closing in for the clashes, the rocky earth under their feet raised upwards, creating an elevation that threw Yamato off her balance. Still, Naruto remained stable as he used Chakra Adhesion to reinforce his footing on the elevating ground.

Seeing his opportunity to end the fight, Naruto swung his sword down as he stared at Yamato's unwavering face. The sword missed Yamato on purpose. It cut the elevated ground before Naruto sheathed the blade with a sigh.

Yamato blinked in surprise at the sign of mercy from her opponent. She could have easily dodged that strike but felt no killing intent from him at that moment. She

Suddenly, a crack appeared on his kitsune mask. Naruto froze as he heard and felt the mask cracks spread before it crumbled away. The mask porcelain shards hit the rocky ground, revealing Naruto's eyes and face. Coincidentally, at the exact moment, his face was revealed to Yamato, a strong gust of wind brought his hooded cloak down, showing his spiky blonde hair.

Immediately, the remaining clone of Naruto proceeds to knock out the captives below the new elevated pillar of earth on

Yamato's face became one of astonishment as she recognized the face she had just met tonight.

"No way," gasped Yamato with a widened eye before becoming utterly confused, "But how…. You were in the VIP room the entire time."

Naruto was too shocked to say anything as he grasped at the shards of his broken mask. "I messed up… again."

The clone chooses this as the moment to dispel himself, snapping the original Naruto out of his stupor. Immediately Naruto made a hand seal make the rocky pillar return to the ground.

"Four- no five separate abilities and that weird energy," stated Yamato as she looked at him warily, "What are you?"

Naruto looks at Yamato and says, "If you want to know… Wait until I finish with them."

Naruto walks and covers the mouth of a knocked-out pirate and then jammed the blade straight into the pirate's skull. With a jolt and then a slump, the pirate was dead. Naruto pulled the kunai from the skull, blood and gray matter dripped from the blade, and Naruto proceeded to kill the captives in the same manner as Yamato watched silently. Then Naruto summoned a dozen shadow clones who looked at the corpses before groaning.

"We did not do this in a while," muttered a clone, "I mean burying people. The last was the guy killed when one of us ate the place that served ramen."

"Give them a sea burial," Naruto said as he looked at those who died by his hand.

Following the original order, the clones grabbed the bodies and jumped off the skull dome.

Naruto lets out a deep sigh and removes his bloody combat gloves before looking at Yamato. "You said you have questions?"

---

Yamato sat down, still suspicious of the blonde man she recognized earlier at the festival. But she couldn't remember the name.

Naruto seemingly had brought out a cup of green tea from nowhere and was drinking it in a relaxed manner as he stared at the full moon.

"I never expected the masked warrior to be someone who came to the Golden Festival tonight." Yamato muttered in a surprised voice, "Let alone a guy who works for a yakuza that is the Shogun dog. Especially you, you never looked like the type to do something like this."

Naruto places the cup on his side, looks at her with his blue eyes, and asks her, "Why? Am I that shockingly handsome?"

Yamato felt her cheeks turn rosy and gave Naruto a slight nod as she fiddled with her thumbs. "When Big Sis Maria said you are handsome, she wasn't lying," whispered Yamato as she brought out a book.

"Well, of course I have my father's features and my mother's face," the blonde man chuckles before saying fondly, "Wish I had her hair color, though I would have looked a bit wilder with that red hair?"

"If you ask me, I don't blame the guy who said he wanted you in his bed," Naruto says, continuing the one-sided banter.

Yamato's rosy cheeks turned even redder as she blushed harder, and she began to stutter as she thought of words to counter his before saying, "Shut up… I don't need to be reminded by that."

Naruto was now having the time of his life, as when he tried this on Komurasaki, her quick thinking shut down it. But with Yamato, who seemed inexperienced with socializing or speaking at people around her age, she was an easy target to pick. Moreover, his snickers seemed to piss off Yamato even more.

"It's not funny!" Yamato growled before grabbing her Kanabo.

"Woah, whoa, is that a way to thank someone after getting you out of trouble with your dad?" said Naruto defensively.

"What?!" came the dumbfounded mutter from Yamato, her grip slacking on her Kanabo.

"Why do you think no one remembers that proclamation of you being Kozuki Oden in the VIP room?" Naruto explained to her, "I had to remove everyone's memory of that event and their reactions."

Yamato confused look

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto," Naruto introduced himself to Yamato, "But I go around these days as Naruto-maki."

"Yamato. My name is Yamato." Yamato tells him before asking Naruto, "How old are you?"

"I am 21 years old and I will be turning 22 this October," Naruto answered nonchalantly.

"Well, I am 21 too, and my birthday is on November 3rd," Yamato stated before letting out a sigh, "You and Jack are the only ones I met who were born the same year as me."

Naruto snorts before telling her, "Speaking of Jack, he was a much better challenge than you, when I fought him last week."

Yamato felt a bit peeved by that remark and growled out, "Hey, just you know I was holding back against you."

"Me too," Naruto told her with a smile.

"Jack used to be my training partner before he ate an Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit," Yamato told him bitterly.

Naruto was about to ask more about Devil Fruits when Yamato started to look at his whiskers' birthmarks and began pinching them. "Are those real?" she asked wonderingly.

A ticked-off Naruto grabs one of her horns and tugs it upwards, "And I suppose these are fake horns glued on your head?!" Naruto snarled at her with a tick mark appearing on his head.

"Ow, ow, I was born with these horns!?" yelped Yamato, quietly asking him, "Please let them go."

Naruto lets go of her. "Same, I was born with these whiskers," said Naruto as he gave Yamato an angry pout.

Yamato felt a bit guilty and ashamed at her actions, clasped her hands, and muttered, "That was rude of me. I am sorry, Naruto."

"I am sorry too for pulling your horn, and please call me Naruto." Naruto requested before whispering, "It feels nice for someone to call me by my given name, not my Wano name." Naruto told her with a forlorn expression as he stared at the starry sky.

"Wano name?" Yamato thought in confusion.

"Hey Yamato, do you trust me?" asked Naruto.

Yamato gave him a conflicted look before nodding hesitantly. In response, Naruto grinned at her. "Then tell me about your life,"

---

"So let me get this straight." Naruto said, "You witnessed Kozuki Oden's execution in the legendary hour and admired his heroic ideals and deeds before he was killed by your father."

Yamato gave him a nod.

"Found his logbook that detailed him traveling the world, after your father burnt down Oden Castle." Naruto said as he held at the logbook Yamato gave him.

"Yes." came a whisper from Yamato.

"You decided to emulate Kozuki Oden. Fulfill his desire to open the borders of The Land of Wano," Naruto says as he recounted her words, "Head out to the sea to be free like him, and this makes Kaido hate this."

"Yeah, my father hates this side of me a lot." Yamato said somberly.

Naruto burst in uncontrollable laughter that echoed across the empty rooftop, "Man, I feel sorry for your dad, Kaido. His only child and daughter admire the only enemy who wounded him so much that she wants to be the enemy."

Yamato gave him a smirk, "You shouldn't feel sorry for my dad."

"But Yamato, this is the equivalent of Oden saying to Kaido (Suck it Bitch) from beyond the grave." Naruto howled in laughter while holding his sides as Yamato began to giggle and join in the laughter.

"Oh man, I wish I had met Oden when he was alive," Naruto chuckled. He wiped tears of laughter from his eyes before looking at the explosive cuffs on Yamato's wrists, and his laughter faded away.

"Man, your dad is an asshole for doing this to you," Naruto whispered, looking at the cuffs.

"I think he is bluffing, but I don't want to risk it." Yamato said in a nervous voice before asking Naruto, "I told you my story. Now tell me your story." demanded Yamato childishly.

Naruto froze at those words and felt the painful memories rush around him as he felt his breathing becoming labored. Naruto could barely hear Yamato's voice right now, as he felt guilt and pain clawing over him. His mind flashed through the blurry years and events of guilt and destruction. Among them, a memory stood out. The words of his most hated enemy, "Uzumaki Naruto. I promised you that I will make renter the hell of your childhood for the rest of your life. Now you are all alone, and it's all your fault."

Naruto then remembered yelling back at the enemy, "SHUT UP. I STILL HAVE KURAMA, SHUKAKU, MATATABI..." Then he collapsed, sobbing, "Forgive me, everyone… I didn't mean this to happen."

Suddenly, the memory fades away to be replaced by a man Naruto recognized immediately. The man looked elegant and handsome, with the pale skin that adorned his face. A bandana covered the man's eyes that Naruto had gifted him, and his shaggy white hair reached his shoulders. Six magatamas tattoos were on his collarbones. He wore a white, high-collared kimono with a black obi. Over it was a pale green sash tied at the right shoulder. a yellow crest depicting a sun enclosed in a crescent moon. Beneath his robes, he wore black fingerless gloves and long black pants.

The man was lying on a medical cot. He said in a hoarse voice, "It's sad that we are the last of our descendants from Kaguya's children, and it's even sadder that you outlasted me, Naruto. Even if I was heartbroken over her death, the last six months with you were the best parts of my life." The man began to hack as he struggled to breathe due to heart failure. The man continued to say the following words with a great struggle, "You made my childhood dream and my father's request come true, to leave the moon and make friends from the world the sage of six paths created. Stay strong, Naruto, and end this madness, because if you don't, he will move on to other work."

Naruto held back a sob as he relived the death of the last descendant of Hamura, and his mind whispered, "Toneri… You died of heartbreak due to Hinata's death. I hope your soul can rest with the others in the pure land. As for me, I am banished from death until I can kill him. He is still looking for me, even if I am in another world."

Suddenly, the world came back into focus as he felt Yamato shake him out of his memories. Naruto's vision focused on Yamato's concerned eyes and thought in a daze, "Orange is my favorite color."

"Are you okay?" Yamato said in a concerned voice before telling him, "You went pale there and just sat there frozen for a minute."

Naruto felt a tear trickle down his face before telling Yamato, "It was just a bad memory." Naruto then hid his face from her as he felt her concern grow even more profound.

"I am sorry, Yamato." Naruto whispered to her, "But I prefer not to share my past until I can get over it."

"Ok, I can understand," Yamato said in a disappointed but understanding voice.

Naruto then looked at her sad expression before forcing himself to grin, "Don't be sad. I will tell you what I am willing to share."

"Really?!" a delighted Yamato said.

"First of all, my origins are not from the Land of Wano," Naruto told her.

Yamato squealed like an excited child, "Where are you from then?"

"I am from a land far away," Naruto said as he stared at Yamato's excited face. "The place I came from was called Konogakure of the Land of Fire."

"This place isn't mentioned in Oden logbook. Tell me more!" Yamato's eyes shined with wonder, not noticing the past tense.

"The Land of Wano and The Land of Fire have a similar culture," Naruto informed. "Only different shinobi clans outnumbered the samurai who worked for the feudal lord."

"I want to go there…." Yamato said with wonderment, "I mean, ninjas are cool, just like the kunoichi Shinobu."

Naruto winced. "Maybe one day, I will take you there."

Naruto then tells her tales of legends, like the sage of six paths and the tailed beasts, who were currently in a deep coma inside him.

For the first time in a while, Naruto spoke passionately about his home. He was reminded that he is still a shinobi of Konoha, and his will of fire is still burning within him.

---

-Naruto's Orignal Dimension: Moon Surface-

A desolate wasteland is full of craters sprawled as far as one can see. Yet, above them was the sky blazing, with thousands of stars shining brighter than earth.

White figures littered across the moon wasteland and chattered as they seemingly searched for something below the moon's surface. Leading them was a mass of darkness shaped into a humanoid being. It had beady yellow eyes, which lacked visible sclera, pupils, hair, or any visible orifices. The black creature had a frustrated face.

"Are you sure you should be out here?" A chattering voice came from the underneath ground, "I mean body and your mother arm is the most powerful weapon you have, I don't think you should be out of it for too long Black Zetsu?"

"There is no need to wear it. The only threat is Uzumaki Naruto, and he isn't in this world anymore as you know. So I sent him away." Black Zetsu snarled before growling in frustration, "He has a lot of things I want."

"Then why did you send him away?" asked his voice as a White Zetsu with a swirly face emerged from the moon's surface.

"He was detrimental to my plans," Black Zetsu snarled, "I couldn't move you guys before he wiped us out. I had to send him away to random coordinates. Wait, why are you here?" asked Black Zetsu.

"Oh I just want to tell you that we dug the guy out from the Nara forest, we are currently putting his body back together."

"Oh good another ally," "He is useful, let him partner with the other guy."

"You think they will work together?" said the swirly mask Tobi,

"Uzumaki Naruto, I thought everything was for naught after my mother died. But just like you, I always never go back on my word." Black Zetsu screeched gleefully to himself.

"Black Zetsu, I have bad news." said Tobi as he received a message from a White Zetsu clone, "The Tenseigan and the puppets are gone too. "

Black Zetsu went into a frenzied rage as he muttered venomously, "That greedy bastard took everything from the world I created, the Uchiha Stone Tablet. Every book, records, scrolls and archives from every nation," Black Zetsu muttered as he continued to list everything Naruto took. "Orochimaru labs were emptied along with everything that remained from the Mountian Graveyard, which Uchiha Sasuke destroyed before joining the Fourth Shinobi War. And he even took the most important part of my plan, and now the Tensingan energy vessel is no longer there along with the puppets."

"Hamura decree was to use the Tenseigan energy vessel for earth residents, so Toneri might have given Naruto everything to stall your movement." Tobi muttered. "I wonder if Uzumaki Naruto went to a place where people poop."

"Shut up, Tobi. that poop jokes is getting old." Black Zetsu growled.

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A/N: Hey, R8HANDMAN is here. This is the longest chapter I have written so far in the story. I mean 22k words. The hardest part to write was Page One and Ulti. Lots of Queen and King rivalry here. I decided to show Kaido's nice side to Yamato. Kaido obviously cares about Yamato as he cares about Jack. I gave you guys a Nico Robin scene as Naruto tried to figure out the poneglyph. There are OC Tobiroppo and the Tobiroppo Selection was shown at the golden festival. Shanks just became a Yonko.

As for Naruto, learning Haki will be harder than everyone else to learn and control as he is not a native human from the one-piece world.

Naruto still has PTSD from Black Zetsu. Black Zetsu is going to be very important to the story. Naruto is more brutal and harsh on people, but traces of his original personality are still there. Naruto's isolated years will be expanded on later. The time skip is here, and the next chapter will come. The ship will probably be Naruto x Yamato.

AKA TOBI IS NOT OBITO; HE IS THE SWIRLY-FACED WHITE ZETSU WHO TALKS A LOT ABOUT POOP.

EDIT: I messed up with Yamato nickname it's Yama-chan. Not Yammy.