A/N: Suspend your disbelief and get ready to smile.

You can think of this Naruto as a contrast to Card!Naruto, because he lives life purely for the thrill of it.

And the daily updates role on!

Here we are, another bit for the collection!

So lets clarify a few things.

In A Most Unlikely Drifter I mentioned that a few Alternate!Naruto's would show up, right? Allow me to list two of them.

Brawler!Naruto.

Explorer!Naruto.

I'll list the others later.

Still, these two have been revealed in this Collection. So here's the latter's backstory.

Despite this persnickety illness, I'm in a pretty good mood considering FGO's been good to me.

On my second day playing the game I wound up getting Mozart, Hassan of the Cursed Arm, Saint George, Kotaro, Sasaki, and Mata Hari.

Then, on my last two summonings of the night, one I did purely on a whim...

...I got Nero Claudius and Kiyohime.

0_0

Well!

If I wasn't addicted to this game before, I am now. I wasn't even trying to get her! I didn't even know that was possible! I haven't spent a single CENT on this game and by some blind bloody struck of luck I keep getting good luck! I swear to god if I keep getting good fortune like this I'm going to lose my mind! I usually don't play mobile games at all, yet this one's caught my eye.

As of now, I've just cleared the Fuyuki Singularity.

So I'm sorry if this introduction is short.

But I'm off to work again.

Hope ya enjoy~!

"Prepare to be boarded!

~?

A Most Unlikely Explorer

Men rely on tools.

Its simply what we do.

It is our nature, you see.

From one thing to another; first came fire, then stone. Iron. Steel. We learned to invent, to create, to make what we did not have. What we could not surpass with simple brute strength we soon sought to outwit. What we cannot understand, we instead seek to destroy. Pitiful, isn't it? I think we care too much. That's the problem with mankind, I've found. We ask so many questions and when we don't like the answers, or a bit of knowledge that we regard as "unsightly" we toss them aside as if they were trash.

Yet we hunt, we seek, we search for answers. We explore.

Me?

I'm not much for fighting.

Ah, but treasure! Thar be a different story. Taking! Stealing! Raiding! That's where the action is.

Life's so much better when you just stop caring about others, don'tcha think? Its certainly better for me, at any rate. I learned that lesson when I turned twelve.

Hokage? Shinobi? Bah!

Give me the wind in my sails and the salty spray of the sea on my face any-day. Simpler that way.

And all this came about from me blundering with the Scroll of Sealing. What?! I thought it was a test! Nobody told me there was a person living inside the damn thing! Well, two people, but still! How was I to know what I would find in there?! In recompense for my temerity I got knocked right on my ass and had a pistol to my head in a minute. They asked who I was, how I'd released them, what I wanted.

Their names were Anne Bonney and Mary Read.

Servants, legendary beings who were both brought into this world and summarily sealed away by the Fourth Hokage. How do you trap a living person in a scroll, I wonder? How does that even work? Does time just...stop for them inside there?

Regardless, in freeing them, I became bound to them.

Or perhaps they were bound to me?

Was it the other way around?

Meh, semantics.

Never quite understood the concept of that. But they couldn't stay in this world without me there to anchor them. The moment I "released" them they began to fade away within minutes. Without an anchor they were little more than an old wreck of a ship, drifting on the tides. Lost. Adrift. They needed someone to stabilize them.

So I did.

Why?

Because they were the first to talk to me, really talk to me as if I were somebody.They named me their first mate. As if that was something to be proud of. We didn't even have a ship back then. I was little more than an idiot kid; one who barely knew his way around his first shadow clone jutsu.

Yet when Mizuki came waltzing in?

Hehehe. He had a bad time.

A demon, am I?

Well! This demon killed the mouthy-chunin who tricked him, took the Scroll of Sealing, left the village and never looked back. Ha! Did you really think I would return something that valuable! No! Never! The secrets locked away inside this thing made me a force to be feared; because I learned every one of them. I discovered the truth of what "Servants" where and what "mages" used to be. It was only a matter of time before I learned just where they came from. Anne and Mary called it the Throne as best they could. After that? We just had to break reality. So I did.

I explored the countryside with them gathered up my brothers and sister jinchuuriki, stole them away from each of their villages, and convinced them to join me. Oh, the stories I could tell! The years that went by! It was glorious! We made our way to Wave, took apart a nasty old businessman calling himself Gatou, and stole a ship.

Together at sea, we joined forces.

We pooled our powers.

And then reality.

Juuuuust.

Broke.

Only for a moment, but it was enough. I felt it. I saw it. I managed to touch the "Root" without being drawn in and was changed for it. So much energy. So much...information. Knowledge. Power, the likes of which I can't even begin to describe in this diary. I could tell you exactly how many versions of myself exist in the multiverse. I could tell you the name of the True Threat...but I won't. I sealed all that knowledge off and locked it away, keeping only what I needed. Even then

Now? The world was never the same.

We took more ships, built what we didn't have.

Mist learned that the hard way. We sacked them and took all they had.

Then we decided the sea wasn't enough and went inland. We were explorers and thieves to be sure, but we wanted adventure. Excitement! Glory!

Once you understand the theory behind it, its easy to summon a Servant. If you've got an abundance of energy? All the more. Now, most shinobi have a fixed amount of chakra. Sure, you can increase your reserves, but once your reach a certain point? That's it. Jinchuuriki have all their chakra, in addition to those of their...guests.

Of course, once I learned how to do it, I had to teach others. Fair share in the crew and what not.

Now tell me, what happens when Nine jinchuuriki share their powers? Ohohoho. That's a lot of energy for a lot of Servants.

We drowned the Akatsuki in sheer numbers and every threat that came after them. I still stayed with my girls. Didn't have eyes for anyone but them. Even figured out how to reincarnate them as human beings with all of their power intact. Sure their were some hiccups along the way, some rebellions, a bunch of stray enemies to put down, but in the end? Our merry little band-quite large now-ruled through sheer strength of arms. Anyone who stepped out of line or tried a coup'detat-looking at you, Mephistopheles!-was swiftly put down.

When you can give a Servant a second life and all they've ever wanted, they're pretty damn loyal to you.

Now I've got a whole fleet of powerhouses sailing under my command. Life is good.

I don't like to fight, but I will.

Eh? What's that? I'm a faker? Not the real Naruto? Just a scoundrel who got lucky? Yup. You figured it out. I'm just a branch, one of many paths Fate could take. Think of me as a conduit. A terminal. I am, and both and am not, Naruto Uzumaki. I tip my hat to you. But this "Faker" aims to have the time of his life. I've got all I need here; me ship, me crew, me girls, and a horde of treasure that would make even Fafnir the dragon turn green with envy. I'm the scourge of land and sea alike, a wastrel with no regard for his own life save to live it for as long as I can. But life grows boring when you've raided and ruled everything from the land to the sea.

Eh? What's this, now? An invitation? challenge you say? A gathering of True Heroes? Hmm?!

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...why the hell not? Not like I'm getting any younger! Draw your cutlasses and drink up, me hearties~!

Emiya, my boy! We'll be needing an extra large breakfast for everyone this morning~!

Karna! Go find your brother. If he isn't still brooding, put the slacker to work~!

Bee, check n' see if Fu's still hungover. We're going to need a gust~!

Blackbeard! Get my coat! Drake! Turn the fleet about~!

Somebody pry Cu and Fergus out of their tankards~!

Anne! Mary! Take the wheel and set a heading~!

Alright lads! Lets all raise a glass~!

Its time for another party~!

A/N: Clarification!

Explorer!Naruto answers the summons while alive.

ALIVE. Think of that for a moment. And he doesn't arrive alone.

That's all I'm going to say. *Grins madly* Make of that what you will.

Well, I'm off to work again, expect an update for "A Most Unlikely Hero" sometime tomorrow.

And there we have it.

The other contestants might well surprise you.

Sorry, not feeling very well at the moment, think I've come down with something.

So In the Immortal Words of Atlas...Review Would You Kindly? Every word helps. Even a single word like "nice" means the world to me.

Sorry, no previews this time around. As I said before, I'm sick, and any that I do have would give away some CRUCIAL plot details that are coming.

Until tomorrow, then~!

~Nz.