"Hello." - Normal speech

'Hello.' - Normal thought

"Awaken..." - Angry speech/Attack move

'Awaken…' - Angry thought/Attack move

(Rejoice!) - Narration/Writer's Note

Disclaimer: One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda, Shueisha/Weekly Shōnen Jump, Viz Media, Toei Animation, Madman Entertainment and Funimation (and 4Kids Entertainment...I guess).

Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto, Shueisha/Weekly Shōnen Jump, Viz Media, Madman Entertainment, Studio Pierrot and TV Tokyo.

I do not own these or anything else that appears in this story.

The scourge of the seas….

The enemies of justice….

Sea dogs….

Throughout the years, pirates have been called many names similar to these. Brave people ventured out to the seas in search of treasure and adventure and the greatest adventure could be found only in one place…

The Grand Line!

A vast stretch of ocean is said to be the most dangerous place in the world and is commonly referred to as the "Pirates' Graveyard" by people from the four Blues because of this reputation. Where only the bravest of men and women sail in hopes of one day being able to say that they conquered this treacherous ocean and make it to the final island; Raftel!

But, it never happened….

In the hundreds of years of history, not one pirate has managed to voyage across the entirety of the Grand Line and come back alive to tell about this. The natural dangers of this ocean and the World Government's military sea force tasked with law enforcement, The Marines, made it difficult for any sailor to chart and sail this difficult sea. It seemed impossible.

….

Until one day,

A lone pirate crew, after sailing for years on the Grand Line, made it to the final island! Pirates, Marines, Government officials and civilians alike were shocked that someone was skilled enough to make it back from this ocean alive.

Word spread quickly, and the name of the captain who lead this mad group of pirates was known throughout the world.

Gold Roger!

The world was in awe as everyone wondered what the man would do. Would he stay at the top of the world? Will he rule all of the seas? And more importantly, what would the government do about this man?

The answer to these questions came a year after Roger and his crew conquered the Grand Line. When Roger shocked the world yet again, it was not well for the Pirate King.

"PIRATE KING, GOLD ROGER ARRESTED BY MARINE VICE-ADMIRAL GARP."

"SENTENCED TO EXECUTION AT LOGUETOWN"

Pirates everywhere were shocked. Civilians rejoiced. The Marines and the World Government held their heads up high as they managed to capture the most notorious pirate ever to sail the seas. Everyone thought that Roger's death would put an end to a short-lived era, however…

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The sun was high in the sky as people lined out in the streets and made a wide path as marine guards blocked their way. People held their breath as they eyed five figures walking down the main road.

Four of them were guards, walking at a steady pace as they turned now and then to the person in the middle of them. They were nervous.

In the middle of their little formation were a tall man with thick black hair that shadowed his eyes and a short, thick neck hidden beneath his long red captain's coat with a gold lining and shoulder pads. Beneath this, he wore a blue shirt and had a green sash around his waist. He wore a white cravat around his neck, dark blue pants, and black sea boots. His most prominent physical feature was his curved black moustache which made the man easy to identify.

The man who conquered the Grand Line, Gold Roger, was walking to his death.

Yet, he was not shaking in fear as lesser men would. No. Instead, he walked proud and tall, like he was being welcomed into his home town like a hero. A fierce grin adorned his face as he looked toward his final destination.

Built in the town square, towering above the large crowd that was gathered for the momentous occasion was a single platform that had two more guards standing upon it, however, unlike the others that held Roger's chains they held a long, bladed spear that was taller than either of them. The instruments of Roger's execution.

'It was quite the journey,' The Pirate King thought as he made his way up the stairs to the place of his demise. 'But, I have no regrets left in this world.'

He finally made his way up to the top of the platform and looked forward toward the town.

"Have you any last words? Roger." Looking to his left, the man who conquered the Grand Line looked at the executioner who asked him and held his shackled hands up.

"Do you think you can take these off? It's starting to chafe me quite a bit."

"I cannot do that!"

"Why would I run away now?" Roger said with humour in his voice as he chuckled at the man's reaction. "Hmm. That's a little saddening…" he trailed off as he took several steps forward before he knelt on the floor. The men took that as their cue and held the blades of their weapons in front of the smiling man.

'My life may end here, but my will won't.' Roger thought as he lowered his head a little. 'There are those out there whose actions will surely change the world.'

"HEY! PIRATE KING!" A voice in the crowd yelled out as Roger raised his head. "What did you do with your treasure? It's somewhere on the Grand Line, isn't it? You have it, don't you? The greatest treasure in the world!?"

"You there! Hold your tongue!"

"Your legendary treasure..." The people in the square held their breaths as they all knew what the man was talking about. "THE ONE PIECE!"

The people stayed silent as no one dared to say a word to listen to the Pirate King to see if he had anything to say about the matter.

They all flinched when they heard him start to chuckle before it turned into a loud, boisterous laugh that seemed to echo across the entire town. The man finally calmed down before directing his attention to the crowd. "My wealth and treasures? If you want it, I'll let you have it...search for it!"

"Be silent!" One of the executioners said as they both raised their weapons, ready to impale the man.

"I left everything in that one place!"

*squelch*

….

….

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The Pirate King, Gold Roger.

His death should have struck fear into pirates all over the globe, shattering their will to continue their lives as outlaws and to show the world the strength of the World Government and the Marines.

But that was not the case.

With his final words, Roger sparked the beginning of a new era on the seas. Pirates from all corners of the world set sail to the Grand Line to find the legendary treasure left behind by the greatest pirate that ever lived and claims the title of Pirate King.

This is The Golden Age of Piracy!

….

This story, however, starts twenty-two years after the start of this new age, in the weakest of the four seas. East Blue.

In the small Foosha Village in East Blue, many of the villagers were gathered around the port, waving to an excited teen in a fisherman's boat. He was standing proudly waving back to the people.

"Goodbye, Luffy!" Shouted a woman with green hair pulled back into a hair band leaving the bangs and an apron.

"See ya, Makino!" The young man chuckled while he continued waving back to the villagers. He had short, messy black hair underneath a simple straw hat with a red ribbon around the crown. He was dressed in a sleeveless red vest with short, blue trousers with cuffs, and sandals on his feet. He had a scar with two stitches under his left eye and a wide grin.

"Don't go up causing trouble, you're already bringing shame to the village." Advised an elderly man with a simple yellow-collared shirt, khaki shorts and a fisherman's hat. He had a moustache and beard.

"I'll try not to. Shishishishi!" Luffy answered with his grin still on his face. "Well, better get going." He was about to go to the oars when he noticed a shadow overcoming the boat. Luffy turned around to see the Lord of the Coast looming over the ship.

"Don't think I've forgotten about you," Luffy spoke without a hint of fear in his voice, he then looked up at the sea king. "You were the one that took Shanks' arm." He declared. As the mighty sea king launched forward Luffy pulled his arm back,

"Gum-Gum…" Just before the Lord of the Coast made contact with the boat Luffy launched his fist forward and connected hard with the sea king's face "Pistol!" With that punch, the sea king was sent a good 20 meters away.

"Alright! Here I come!" The straw hat teen shouted as he sailed off on his first pirate adventure.

The man with the Straw Hat and Ninja Appear!

A large cruise ship was making its way throughout the East Blue. It currently held a large party with some of the richest people in East Blue attending. The sailors weren't allowed inside the ballroom, but that didn't stop them from having a few drinks outside. One of the sailors that were currently in the crow's nest was looking out for pirates or anything unusual. As he was looking around he noticed a barrel floating toward the ship.

"Oi! Get that barrel out of the water, hopefully, there's something of value inside!" The sailor told the other crewmembers down below. Doing as they were told, they heaved the barrel out of the water and placed it on the ship.

"Bloody hell, what's inside this thing, it weighs a lot!" One of the sailors carrying it said.

"Carry that to the…" The sailor started to say when he saw something in the corner of his eye, he turned to it and gaped at it when he saw it. It was a large pink ship, with four sails, one of them higher up than the other three. On each of the sails was a heart and the figurehead was a duck with hearts replacing the eyes. But the thing that scared him was the flag that was on the mainmast. It was the flag of the Alvida Pirates.

"Pirates!" The sailor shouted. The ship was immediately in a frenzy of panic. The crew members were desperately trying to calm down the passengers, but their efforts were in vain.

Pirates Ship

All of the pirates were lined up on the deck of the ship. With an extremely obese woman staring them down. She had freckles on her cheeks, and long wavy black hair under a white cowgirl hat with a large red plume, a red neckerchief, a pink plaid shirt, and a blue captain's coat over it with the arms in the sleeves. She wore rings on her fingers and her long sharp fingernails had red polish. She had a purple sash with a flintlock pistol tucked in it and some jewels. She also wore grey pants and red shoes with gold buckles.

"Okay, boys! This is a good haul I'm expecting so don't let me down, especially you Koby!" She shouted at the crew, at the end eyeballing a scrawny-looking kid with pink hair and glasses who looked completely out of place "It's looting time!" She raised s heavy and spiked iron mace. And with that, the raid began. The pirates were either jumping or zip-lining across the gap.

While all of the others were out doing all of this, Koby was trying to hide from all of the chaos. He was looking around for something to take that wouldn't be risky. A barrel rolled past him and that's when he got the idea. He would take the barrel and then put it with the rest of the barrels of rum in the food and drinks storage on the ship and hide out there for the rest of the raid. Koby walked over to the barrel and attempted to lift it, but couldn't even manage to pick it off the ground.

"What type of barrel of rum weighs this much?" Koby silently asked himself. As he knew that he couldn't lift it, he settled for rolling it. Just before he got there three other members of the crew stopped him.

"Well looky here boys. It's our favourite little coward." One of them sneered. "You trying to duck out of all the action runt?"

"N-n-no. Just getting some p-provisions is all." Koby stammered as the three men looked at the barrel he was rolling.

"Whatcha got there Koby?" The more muscular one in the group asked.

"We'll take it off your hands, brat. Probably some booze."

"B-but if Lady Alvida finds out-" Koby started to shout.

"She won't as long as you keep your trap shut. Got it!" yelled another pirate, his hand on his sword, causing Koby to agree in fear as one of the men stood the barrel up on one end.

"Now let's get this bad boy open!" The muscular one cracked his knuckles in preparation and raised his fists into the air just before he was able to smash open the barrel.

"What a great nap!" Luffy shouted as he smashed his way out of the barrel, knocking out the pirate in the process. Luffy looked at his surroundings, "Who is that?" Luffy asked before he looked back at the other pirates gaping at him. "Who are you?"

"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!" they screamed.

"Your friend will catch a cold sleeping on the floor," Luffy said as he got out of the barrel.

"WHO DO YOU THINK PUT HIM THERE?!" they screamed again before pointing their swords at him. "Who do you think you are brat? We're the ruthless Alvida Pirates and-"

"I'm starving. You know where the food is kid?" he asked Koby, ignoring the other two pirates.

"DON'T IGNORE US!" the pirates screamed as they brought their swords down on Luffy, causing Koby to scream. Luffy didn't even flinch as the swords broke and flew up and got stuck to the ceiling. Both pirates fell back, looking scared.

"Jeez, what are these guys' problems?" Luffy asked seemingly to no one.

Both just stared in fright before they asked "W-who are you?"

Luffy just smiled as he crossed his arms together. "Me. I'm Monkey D. Luffy. Hello." he said before the pirates grabbed their unconscious shipmate and fled. "Shishishishi." Luffy laughed before looking at Koby. "Those guys are funny. Hey, Pinky is there any food around here?"

"Y-yea t-there's some in t-the f-food storage," Koby answered, too scared to tell him off about what he called him.

"Cool! Let's go!" Luffy shouted. They walked to the food storage. Luffy jumped at the crates of food, "Mmmm… I wonder how much meat they have…" he wondered to himself as he started to drool. He was slightly disappointed when it turned out that it was just apples. He then jumped in a started chowing down on apples as Koby walked into the room.

"M-my name's K-Koby, w-what's yours?" Koby asked nervously.

"The name's Luffy. Nice to meet you." Luffy introduced himself.

"You really should leave. Those pirates will be back with their friends to kill you."

"Who were they?" Luffy asked.

"Those guys were pirates under the command of the lady pirate Captain Alvida. She's ruthless with that iron mace, and she won't hesitate to shatter your skull with it." Koby said as he started shaking in fear.

"Are you one of them?" Luffy asked. He saw Koby look at him and explain that he had accidentally boarded a boat, thinking it was a fishing boat and had been brought on as a cabin boy for the last two years.

"Why not leave?" Luffy asked.

"No way. Impossible, impossible. I can't escape from Alvida. Just thinking of what Alvida would do to me scares me so much I could throw up. Nope, nope, nope, no-"

BAM!

Luffy's fist shot out, nailing Koby in the head as he fell back clutching it. "Why'd you hit me?"

"Felt like it," Luffy said smiling. Koby just sat back up as he rubbed his head.

"Heh. Well, I'm used to it anyway. All the other pirates on her ship smack me around for laughs."

"So you're a coward and a weakling huh?" Luffy said with a laugh. "I hate people like you." Koby just hung his head in shame.

"Way to state the obvious Luffy," he said before looking back at Luffy. "So what made you go out to sea?" he asked. Luffy smiled at him and answered without hesitation.

"To become King of the Pirates."

"What an ugly ship." A man told himself as he looked at the ship in front of him with a terrible figurehead. He could see a larger cruise ship next to it with the pirates raiding it.

He was a well-toned young man with lightly tanned skin, yellow-blond, spiky, tousled hair and blue eyes and three faint whisker markings on his cheeks. He wears an orange jacket with black short sleeves that he leaves open with mesh armour underneath, paired with grey pants and black boots that clasp together on the front of his shins along with black fingerless gloves with metal plates on the backhand.

Additionally, he wears a weapon holster strapped on his right thigh. He wears a band of black cloth loosely around his waist with a metal plate attached engraved with the kanji for shinobi (忍).

The man started to walk up the ship. When he got to the deck he had to deal with the grunts.

"Hey, what do ya think you're doin' here!" One of the lowly grunts questioned as he started walking up to the stranger.

"Oh, hello there. I was just sailing around when I saw this ship being under attack by pirates. You wouldn't happen to be part of the people pillaging this place, would you?" The man asked.

"That's right, so I would start with handing over all yer belonging you got on ya or we gonna have to kill ya!" The grunt said when he got right in the man's face and tapped the flat part of his cutlass on the man's shoulder, even though he was shorter than the man.

"You'll kill me, huh? That's mighty big talk coming from a low-level grunt like yourself." The man said with a grin on his face.

"Wha-" He couldn't finish what he wanted to say before his head met the ground. The other pirates looked at the man's outstretched fist and saw the body of their fallen comrade and roared as they ran at him. The man calmly walked over to them, keeping his grin on the whole time.

"Water Form: Flowing Palm." He instinctively weaved around all of their strikes, while gracefully palm-striking them with his bare hands and taking no hits from any of them. Within seconds all of them were on the ground, moaning in pain.

"Jeez, I knew that you were weak but with your numbers, I thought you would've been tougher."

Further down, a couple of the other crew members saw the one-sided fight before them and paled as they looked at the blond man.

"What is that guy? He just took down half the crew without even getting a scratch!" one of the men quietly whispered to the other three.

"I don't know, and I don't want to find out."

"Let's just get out of here." As the two pirates ran to tell their captain what transpired, the blond-haired man noticed them disappear and shrugged.

"Well, that was disappointing. But then again, this is the East Blue. Not really any challenges in this part of the sea except that fishman I've been hearing about. If it wasn't for that promise I made I would not even be here." He said before he started walking down the side of the ship. "Now then, where is the map room-"

CRASH!

"What the?"

[Minutes earlier]

"You're...a pirate?" Koby croaked out.

"Yep."

"Crew?"

"Just me. I just started." Luffy said as Koby froze like a statue. Luffy smiled again as he waved his hand in front of Koby's face. "You still there?" He waited until Koby stood up and found his voice.

"The King of the Pirates is the title given to one man who has it all. Wealth. Fame. Power. That means that you're aiming for the ultimate treasure. You're going after the One Piece!"

"Yeah," Luffy answered, smiling as Koby was freaking out once again.

"No way no way no way no way! Millions of other pirates are after that prize and you're only one person. It can't be done! Impossible, impossible, impo-"

BAM!

"Why'd you hit me?"

"Felt like it," Luffy said as he took his straw hat off his head to stare at it. "I made a promise to a great man one day be King of the Pirates. And if I die trying, then I'll die," he said, smiling without a hint of hesitation in his voice. He looked out of the corner of his eye to see Koby looking at him.

"Your...dream?" he said before he looked at the ground in thought. Luffy just waited for Koby to speak what he remembered him asking. "Luffy. Do you think...if I tried...that I could be a Marine?"

"A Marine?" Luffy asked with a look of surprise as Koby looked at him with determination.

"It's always been my dream to be a Marine and hunt down criminals! I know it would mean we'd be enemies, but do you think I could do it?"

"I don't know. You won't either if you don't get off this boat." Luffy answered back as he headed for the door.

"Then I'll do it. I'm not gonna be Alvida's cabin boy forever. I'm gonna join the Marines! And then I'm gonna catch Alvida first!" he screamed before the ceiling above him caved in, causing him to panic and run, his courage going out the window in spades.

"Who are you going to catch, Koby?" said a gruff woman's voice as the debris cleared, showing Alvida with her mace resting on her shoulder. She looked over at Luffy before grinning. "Who's this runt? He doesn't look like pirate hunter Zoro." Alvida said before she barked Koby's name, making the boy cower in fear and ask who is the most lovely woman on the seas.

"W-w-why that's y-you Lady Alvida?" Koby stammered. Luffy blinked a few times before he pointed at Alvida with a surprised look.

"That's a lady Koby?"

The pirates, Koby, and Alvida just gaped at Luffy as the pirates looked frightened. Alvida growled before snapping.

"BRAT!" she screamed as she brought her iron mace down towards Luffy, who quickly jumped out of the way.

"Let's go," he said to Koby before grabbing him by his shirt collar and jumping out of the hole Alvida made. When Luffy landed on the deck he thought that he would have to fight all of Alvida's men. But instead, he saw all of the crewmembers bloody and beaten.

"What happened here?" Luffy asked eyeing the fallen men.

"That was me getting a warm-up in." The two people looked behind them to see a blond-haired man walking up to him. "Yo."

"Huh, Who are you?" Luffy asked as he and Koby stood up on the deck.

"The name's Uzumaki D. Naruto. You better remember it!" The man introduced himself while punding one of his fists against his puffed-out chest. "Now who are you guys? And are you also with these weak ass crew?"

"Nah, I don't like guys like them. My name's Monkey D. Luffy and I'm gonna be King of the Pirates!"

"'D.'?... Wait, King of the Pirates!? Are you being serious right now?" Naruto looked at the straw hat-wearing teen in bewilderment as the pirate just continued to flash a toothy grin and started to laugh.

"I'm gonna get you! You bastard!" The three heard the screams of Alvida as she came up to the deck. She was horrified by the sight that she saw, "Straw hat, I'm gonna kill you!"

"Uh-oh." Luffy grabbed Koby and moved out of the way as Alvida swung her mace down at the unknown man.

"Look out!" Koby screamed as Alvida's mace hit the man head-on.

"Watch where you swing that thing will ya?" The man said as the mace slowly moved, showing that he was completely unharmed and holding the weapon off with one hand. "You could seriously hurt someone with this."

"What!?" Alvida screamed in shock as she tried to put more weight behind the attack. "Who the hell are you!?"

"Wow, so cool!" Luffy exclaimed as he saw the blond easily hold off Alvida's attack.

"I haven't even done anything that can be labelled as 'cool' yet. But I like your enthusiasm." Naruto said as he casually pushed the mace and woman back with enough force to send her stumbling back and falling on her behind.

"You look like you were able to hold it off without any issue, that is cool in my books," Luffy said as he made his way over to the blond-haired man. "Say, do you want to join my crew?."

"Huh!? Join your crew? Are you serious right now?'"

"Shishishishi!"

"Hold it, you straw hat bastard!" Some of Alvida's men crawled up from below deck and spotted the downed form of their captain and immediately set their sights on the young man.

"Uh, oh." The pirates charged him, but Luffy easily took them out without breaking a sweat until they all charged him at once. Luffy ran off, feigning fright before he grabbed the mast, stretching his arm out, causing the pirates to stare at Luffy who looked back with a smile. "Fooled ya," he said before they all freaked out and ran away.

"Gum Gum Rocket!" Luffy shouted before slamming into them all, scattering them all over the deck with Naruto batting some that flew his way.

Koby just stared at Luffy before asking "W-What are you Luffy?"

Luffy stretched his cheek out as he said. "I'm a rubber man."

"Rubber...man?" Koby asked before he looked behind him and shrieked at the sight of recovered Alvida.

"You've eaten a Devil Fruit, haven't you?" Alvida asked.

"Sure did," he replied as he let his cheek go.

"Are you a bounty hunter?"

"No. I'm a pirate."

"Is that so?" she said with a smirk. "Well if you're a pirate, that makes us enemies right?"

"Guess so," Luffy said with a smile. To the side, Naruto looked out of the corner of his eye to see a figure move alongside Alvida's ship. He quirked an eyebrow before Koby got his attention. "Luffy, Naruto, I'd run if I were you."

"Why?"

"Why? Because Alvida is..." his voice trailed off as he stared at Luffy, remembering what he said before. Luffy kept a blank face as Alvida smirked.

"I'm what Koby?" she asked. Koby looked back at her, determination on his face as he shouted.

"ALVIDA IS...THE UGLIEST SEA HAG I'VE EVER SEEN!"

Luffy just laughed and Naruto smirked as Alvida looked ready to explode in anger as she glared at Koby. "What was that runt?"

"That's right! You're ugly! And also, I'm through being your cabin boy. I'm getting out of here and joining the Marines!" Koby said as his courage soared.

"Do you have any idea what you're saying brat?!"

"I know what I'm saying! I'm gonna fight for my dreams from now on. I'm gonna join the Marines and catch criminals. AND I'M GONNA START WITH YOUR UGLY ASS FIRST!"

"ENOUGH!" Alvida shouted as she raised her iron mace. Koby screamed but stayed put.

'Well, at least I was honest at the end.' Koby thought to himself. He was gonna fight for his dreams, even if it meant death.

"Well said, kid," Naruto said as he stepped in front of Koby, taking the full force of the hit.

"OH NO!" Koby screamed, terrified at the thought of Naruto getting killed.

"Relax Koby," Luffy told him as he walk up beside him. "I don't know who that guy is, but I do know that he is really strong," Luffy said as he just smiled at the fight.

"Nice attack." Naruto's voice reached Koby and Alvida's ears.

"What!?" Alvida couldn't believe that someone could be on the receiving end of one of her attacks and live as before she tried to move her weapon back but could not. 'What! I can't move my arms. No. I can't move my whole body!'

"Finally noticed, did ya?" he said before he moved casually out of the way and showed everyone watching that he had his left arm raised and saw his hand forming a circle out of his index finger and thumb, pointing continuously at Alvida even as he moved.

"Ninpo: Paralysis Jutsu. You got some serious guts to fight an unknown opponent head-on. I can respect that." he pulled back his right fist back and missed the light blush that appeared on her cheeks. "Next time we meet, I hope you're a lot stronger and wiser!" He yelled, colliding his fist with Alvida's stomach and sending her flying off into the distance.

"Whoa! So awesome!" Luffy yelled in joy with stars in his eye at the mention of the ninja technique before he looked back at Alvida's men. "Bring Koby a boat. He's joining the Marines." Luffy said as he glared at them all.

"Uh...well." one of the pirates said, looking nervous.

"Well, what?" Luffy asked. He was still glaring, but inside he was confused as to what could be the problem.

"Looks like some of that iron mace struck the lifeboats," Naruto said as he pointed to the now useless boats.

"Oh," Luffy said before cannonballs started raining down around them.

"It's the Marines!" Koby shouted as three Marine vessels closed in on them. "If they find me on this boat, my dream will die before it starts!"

Naruto smiled as he put a hand on Koby's head and got his attention. "Don't worry squirt. You're joining the Marines for sure," he said before he jumped onto the railings. "Come on Luffy. I got a boat on the other end of the ship."

"Alright! I got my first crew member!"

"I HAVEN'T AGREED TO THAT YET!"

*BOOM!*

The sounds of cannon fire and slashing water rung out as Naruto ran up the edge of the deck and leapt towards his boat, Luffy followed suit by launching himself with his Devil Fruit powers while holding Koby.

"This is a nice ship. Do you think it will hold up in the Grand Line?" Luffy said as they landed and looked around the small vessel.

"I seriously doubt it, just grab an oar and let's get out of here," he said as he furled the sail and grabbed an oar for himself, rowing away as fast as they could. After about 5 minutes, Naruto and Luffy finally stopped rowing and looked back to Koby who had woken up after a while.

"Well, that was fun," Luffy said with a smile.

"No, it wasn't!" Koby screamed at him, causing the teen to laugh.

"If you are going to be a marine you'll have to get used to stuff like that, you know," Naruto said, before looking at his pirate teen. "So, I didn't have any place, in particular, I was sailing to. Is there any place you can think of going?" he asked. Luffy smiled at him before answering.

"Do you know where the closest Marine base is?"

Next Time: A town more scared of the Marine Captain and his son than the dangerous bounty hunter they captured. The Great Swordsman Appears! Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro