Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or One Piece. Honestly folks, you should know me by now, I would be sending messages all over the world and like Hideo Kojima and make everyone watch as I swim in an Olympic pool full of money. I know you do that Kojima! You do it and laugh as you make us cry and feel over you games you sick, brilliant bastard!

"Talk" Talking

'Think' Thinking

I was six years old when I lost my parents. As you know a six year old did not know how to manage money, let alone know what an income was. I remember money being somewhat tight, but we lived happy lives. However, after losing them I lost my home and wound up in the Fishman District.

If you want to describe hell then this place was it. I learned at a young age that you either fight or die. I did...things that no one should ever had to do. I beat kids up and took what little belongings they had, I was a drug mule a times, and even was asked to do some enforcement duties. But the worst of all I was thrown into The Pit, a cage fighting arena where fishmen and mermen bet of who would beat the crap out of each other...I won, barely at times, but I got money and food. Just enough to survive.

I did that for two years, until Madame Shyarly; one of the nicest, and scariest mermaids you would ever meet saved me from that life. I just dropped off a 'package', and walked by the Mermaid Cove, a was 'abducted' by the playful mermaids. They treated me like I was a stuffed animal, hugging me and coddling me, all of them claiming how cute I was. Madame Shyarly soon joined in, and asked me where my parents were.

...So I told them my story, but left out many of the horrors I went through. Apparently my story touched them all profoundly and I was given a job at the Mermaid Cafe. To this day I have been the only fishman to ever work there. I was paid in money and food, and if a mermaid got playful enough a kiss on the cheek. Man, were those some good times.

I worked there for six months, but on a warm July morning, my life changed yet again. It was for the better...and the worst. I just did not know it yet.

The explosion from Mr. 5's booger bomb would have killed lesser people. Unlucky for him, the people they were dealing with were not your average people. Demonstrating extraordinary speed, Bashura grabbed the bound forms of Mr. 9, Miss Monday, and Igaram before leaping away from the area. Kotetsu, seeing the danger of a potential devil fruit-user drew upon the ability of the Flash-Flash Fruit, and fled from the area, leaving the afterimage of himself.

But for Zoro and Luffy, the Captain of the Straw Hat Pirates disregarding the danger of the situation attacked the First Mate of his crew. His gigantic size hit the green-haired swordsman square on, causing them both the fly through the wall of the building Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were standing on.

"Kyhaha! You missed them Mr. 5, are you getting rusty?" Miss Valentine laughed at her partner.

"Not in the least." Mr. 5 huffed in annoyance. With a single step he walked right off the roof of the building, landing square on his feet without and repercussions. "They are just rats scurrying away."

"Rats are we?!" Bashura's offended voice boomed over the area. Turning to the side, Mr. 5 saw the savage-looking man rise out of some rubble with his prisoners slung over his shoulder. "I will make you pay for that insult, and the attempted murder of your comrades!"

"Yea! What the hell Mr. 5?" Mr. 9 exclaimed indignantly. "We're on the same team!"

"No, you aren't." The dark-skinned man picked his nose with his pinkie finger, "Unlike me and my partner, you Frontier Agents are expendable." He aimed at them, his Booger Bomb placed in-between his thumb and index finger. Without another word, he flicked them at them with lightning fast speed.

Instead of hitting them, Kotetsu flashed in front of the deadly projectile, and cut it in half with Nidai Kitetsu. After being cut, the booger exploded, ruffling Kotetsu's tan hoodie, but leaving him relatively unharmed. "Try that again, I dare you!" The sandy-haired teen hissed out.

"'Blood-Soaked" Kotetsu, my, my, isn't this a surprise." Miss Valentine giggled. Jumping from the roof, the petite woman opened her umbrella, and literally floated down to her partner. "I never imagined to meet you here of all places."

"Believe it." The swordsman said, his pale gray eyes narrowed at the two devil fruit-users. Honestly, he would had to have been an idiot to not know they weren't. "Bashura, you should take those three and get out of here."

"What about you? You're not at one-hundred percent."

"I can handle it." Kotetsu said, ignoring the sweat falling from his body. The sleeping poison was starting to get to him, and no matter what he did, he found himself weakening by the second. "Just go!"

Before Bashura could do anything, or Kotetsu could attack, or even the Officer Agents could do anything. The form giant body of Monkey D. Luffy flew from the building he tackled Zoro in, collided into the backs of Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine. That caused a chain reaction of them flying into Kotetsu, which made him fly into Bashura carrying their prisoners, and all seven bodies flew into one direction all jumbled together.

Damn, who knew a fat Luffy could cause so much chaos?

(Meanwhile with Naruto and Vivi)

As the two walked out of the damaged house, the both of them were greeted with the tangled bodies of seven people colliding into the building next to them, completely collapsing it upon them, and causing the blonde Fishman to sweat-drop.

"What the hell was that?" He asked Vivi.

"I-I do not know," Vivi sweated lightly. She only saw the jumble of bodies for a second, but she could have sworn she saw her partner and Igaram in that pile. But that was impossible, there was no sense in that happening.

The first people to emerge from the pile was an unbounded Igaram, his suit torn, and his face bloodied from his fight and the crash. He coughed out harshly and looked over at Vivi. His eyes widened with relief seeing that she was okay, but alarmed that she was so close to Naruto. Before he could make his way towards them, he was harshly struck by a dainty fist, and sent crashing into another building.

Kotetsu came flying out with explosive force. The front end of him was torn up like he was hit with a stick of dynamite Naruto saw he lost no flesh or muscle, but his jacket and shirt were absolutely ruined with blackened soot and tattered to hell. He winced as the teenager slid on the hard ground leaving an impression before hitting a pole.

Three more people flew from the pile. But instead of flying out like the previous two, a royal-looking guy, and a muscular woman were clutched in the arms of Bashura. The giant man tumbled upon landing, huffing and panting in exhaustion before glaring at the pile of splintered rubble.

Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine soon emerged. Both were scuffed up from the tumble, and the woman lost her hat, but they were relatively unharmed. And they did not look even remotely happy.

"That was, unexpected." Mr. 5 pushed his sunglasses up his face in annoyance. He then looked over towards Vivi, his face soon twisting into a smirk. "But what luck. We found our target Miss Valentine."

"Kyhaha! You're right!" The yellow-clad woman brushed the dirt from her blonde hair, and pointed her umbrella at Vivi. "Your ticket is up Nefertari Vivi."

"What the fuck did you do!?" Naruto demanded from the princess. He felt his blood boiling in anger at seeing his two...crew mates injured. That single action brought back bad memories of his encounter with Saint Mjosgard, and his malicious behavior the day his ship crashed on Fishman Island.

"None of your business fish-boy." Mr. 5 picked two boogers out of his nose, and aimed them both at Vivi. "Dead men tell no tales." He flicked them at lightening fast speeds, the Double Booger Bombs aiming to turn the heiress of Alabasta into a dismembered corpse.

But in an unexpected event Naruto intervened, just like the day six years ago he stopped Vivi from getting struck by a bullet. But instead of kicking someone in the head, the tiger shark fishman jumped in front of her, crossed his arms to protect his face, and took the full brunt of the explosives with his body. The force of the impact caused him to bite down harshly on his sharp teeth, but he did not fly back, nor did he fall to his knees. He stayed defiant and stood on his own two feet despite getting blown up.

Mr. 5 only scoffed in reply to Naruto's bravery. Before he could dig for more exploding boogers, he was blindsided by a baseball bat of all things. The Officer Agent looked in disgust when he was Mr. 9 glaring at him. "You dare strike your superior?"

"You are not my superior!" Mr. 9 barked at the devil fruit-user. "After nearly killing me, consider this my resignation!" The royal-looking man screamed at his former superior as he swung his bat once again. Instead he was hit right in the stomach and launched through several building's by an explosive punch and out of sight.

"Heh, then I won't feel guilty about ending you then." Mr. 5 smirked before pulling out something completely unexpected from his coat. It turned out to be a flintlock .44 caliber six shot revolver, a new model pistol from the South Blue. Cracking it open, he breathed into the empty chambers with is breath before snapping it closed. "Be honored fools, I don't bring this baby out unless it's for a tough situation."

"I will not allow it! Igarappappa!" Igaram emerged from the building he crashed into and pulled on the strings to his necktie. Familiar gun barrels hidden in the curls of his hair, then pulling the loops of his necktie he fired the explosive bullets. They hit Mr. 5 with full force, but he was completely unaffected in the aftermath of the attack.

"You fool. I ate the Bomb-Bomb Fruit, explosions are useless on me!" He quickly aimed his pistol and fired three rapid shots into the Captain of the Royal Guard, sending him fully back into he house, and shooting three more times, the building collapsed onto them man.

"Igaram!" Vivi screamed in shock.

Miss Monday took advantage of Mr. 5 reloading to attack him with her Superhuman Brass Knuckles technique, but it was blocked by an umbrella of all things. The muscular woman's blood stopped cold when she saw the smiling face of Miss Valentine.

"Looks like you're a traitor as well." The blonde-haired woman smiled at the muscular woman. Drawing on the power of her devil fruit, she increased the weight of her legs and kicked the former Frontier Agent in-between the legs and sent her flying into the sky. When Mr. 5 reloaded his pistol he shot at the ground where his partner was, and she used the explosive force to activate her devil fruit to lighten her weight to one kilogram.

The blond agent flew upwards, past the ascending Miss Monday. Then getting at the right angle, the woman giggled and gradually increased her weight to ten-thousand kilograms as she fell towards the earth. She landed on Miss Monday's back, and with the heavy weight they both crashed into the earth, creating a minor earthquake in the process.

"Monsters, they're pure monsters." Naruto growled out. The way they devastated their comrades, it reminded him of the stories Hody told him. Of the World Nobles inflicting pain upon their kind for nothing more than their own amusement, or reasons that were so petty that it made him physically ill. The tiger shark fishman spat to the side and cracked his knuckles and began the process of walking over to the two standing agents.

"Naruto, wait! You cannot fight them." Vivi called out.

"Just watch me, no one pulls a fast one one me and gets away with it."

"But you're injured!"

"Tis is nothing more than a flesh would." Naruto scoffed as he looked at the state of his arms. The bandages for his right one were gone, and both forearms were covered in burns, blackened flesh, and bleeding from multiple places. They hurt like hell, but that would not stop him from opening a can of whoop-ass on them. (1)

Before the blond could continue further, a thick tattooed arm blocked him from proceeding. "Cap'n, let me deal with these two." Bashura said. Before Naruto could refuse, the giant man turned his head, and showed his glaring yellow eyes. Naruto knew that look, it was one of one that wished to deal out pain to those who dealt with injustice.

"All right, kick their asses Bashura." Naruto said, gesturing him to go all out.

"This guy?" Mr. 5 scoffed in response to Naruto's gesturing. "Sure, he looks scary but trash is just that. Trash! Just like those two worthless agents!"

Bashura only gave the two a feral grin, and in the blink of an eye, he drew on the power of his devil fruit. And then he morphed into the ten foot tall, black-furred, six-hundred pounds of raking claws, black panther! He let out a loud wild cat howl and falling on all fours sprinted at the Officer Agents.

Mr. 5's arrogant stance, and Miss Valentine's face faltered seeing something so terrifying. They themselves had dealt with Zoan devil fruit users before, but nothing to this extent.

Mr. 5 raised his pistol and fired off his remaining five shots. His hopes of hitting him were dashed when when the giant panther twisted and bent like a cat, and dodged every single one of his invisible exploding bullets. Miss Valentine got in the way, weighing her entire body to ten-thousand kilo's to stop the navigator in his tracks.

Bashura hit her head on. His meaty right hand hit her square in the right side of her body, and sent her to the side leaving Mr. 5 completely exposed to the Catman's rage. "Panther's King Claw!" Bashura hollered loudly. Crossing both his forearms, Bashura slashed across Mr. 5's body, leaving eight bloody cuts trailing down from his shoulders to his hips.

Mr. 5 cried out in agony as he felt flesh and muscle torn asunder. But that didn't stop him from lashing out with a kick that detonated upon impact to Bashura's ribs. That only caused the giant panther to grab his leg in response. One squeeze of his hand, he broke Mr. 5's right leg like a dry twig, and to add insult to injury he threw him into one of the remaining building's withing the area, collapsing it on top of him.

Bashura then turned towards Miss Valentine, looking worse for wear and trembling in her white high-heeled shoes. The Zoan-user snorted and strutted towards her, yellow eyes piercing her soul. They paralyzed the woman, she could have reduced her weight to one kilogram and ran. But he grabbed her by the front of her dress and lifted her up to eye level.

Hot breath hit her face, his claws were so close to her skin she could have sworn they could pierce her skin. "Your kind are scum." Bashura hissed out. "To treat comrades like pawns, is the lowest of the low. Leave this place, or I will not be as merciful as I was tonight."

Not merciful as he was tonight? Naruto could not believe that. Bashura practically tore some smock in half! And that was merciful? Well God damn it, even in a feral rage Bashura knew how to restrain himself. That granted him a bit more of respect in Naruto's eyes. And even a bigger one in Vivi's.

When Bashura dropped Miss Valentine today, and enraged yell escaped from the pile of rubble Mr. 5 was buried in. The deadlocked man stood on his own two feet despite his broken leg, his pistol in his hand the Officer Agent fired all six shots, hitting his navigator right in the back.

Naruto looked on in horror as the large man let out a loud cry of pain. The bullets tore through his vest and scorched him back, causing the giant black panther to collapse onto his knees. The next second he saw nothing but red. Leaving Vivi to herself, Naruto lunged at Mr. 5, catching him unaware and punched him right in the belly.

He drove the Frontier Agent to the ground, coughing up a mouthful of blood. But Naruto was not done with him, grabbing him by the front of his torn jacket, the tiger shark fishman began to viciously punch Mr. 5 in the face. Gone was his training in Fishman Karate to create kinetic force to turn his head into jelly, just raw, savage punches that were meant to deal out a lot of pain.

"You motherfucker!" Naruto pulled him up by hist torn pink cravat, and slugged him across his right cheek. "How dare you...how fucking dare you?!" He smashed his nose flat against his face. "I ought to kill you for attacking my navigator when his back was turned. And then I will send your head to your boss!" The third punch shattered the right lens to his sunglasses. In that single moment Naruto unleashed years of anger that built up in him upon the unconsciousness man. He punched him because he lost his parents to slavers. He punched him because a human murdered Queen Otohime. He punched him because of Vander Decken IX threatening Shirahoshi's life because she refused to marry him. He punched him because he broke his promise to Shirahoshi. He punched him for the causal dismissal of his comrades. He punched him for reminding him of the World Nobles. And then he just continued to punch him because he ran out of reasons.

Naruto would have beaten Mr. 5 to death if not for the intervention of Kotetsu who have been awake the entire time during the scuffle, and Vivi who could not stand to see such brutality coming from him. Naruto would have continued swinging if it wasn't for that sleeping poison taking in effect. His arms felt like dead weights, and his body felt like a ton of bricks.

"Dammit, Uzumaki that's enough." Kotetsu grunted through his Captain's struggling. Even when drugged and injured the blond was still a pain in his ass. "You won, and Bashura's okay!"

"He's right, look." Vivi pointed at Bashura, now back in his human form panting in pain, his back blackened and torn, but still among the living. The Princess of Alabasta placed her hands on his biceps, giving it a light squeeze. "Please, just stop."

The blond Captain of the motley crew continued to put up a fight, but soon enough he lost the will to continue the fight, his anger spent during those punches. He however did glare at Miss Valentine. "Get the hell out of here, and pray that we do not meet again."

Miss Valentine, well on the verge of having a panic attack could only look at Naruto in horror. The damage he dealt to her partner would have killed lesser men, Mr. 5 was tough, but even he could not withstand such bone shattering force, and nearly threw up when his swelled up face turned towards her. The damage was severe, teeth were missing, both eyes were swelled shut, his nose was broken in a dozen places, and there were lacerations from the furious punches.

"What are you waiting for, an invitation? Git!" Naruto snarled out.

The yellow-clad woman did not need to be told twice. Miss Valentine went over to her partner, and picking him up into a fireman's carry, she turned away and, using the power of her devil fruit, lowered her weight and ran like a bat out of hell away from the scene.

When the two were out of sight did both Kotetsu and Vivi let go of Naruto's arms. The blond fishman let out a sigh and wiped away the massive amount of sweat pouring from his face. He felt his body purging the poison from his system, but that was not what was making his body continue to shake.

He lost control. After the years of discipline that was literally beaten into him, he temporarily lost control on that explosion asshole. Naruto looked at his fists, the right one baring scars on his knuckles from his training accident all those years ago in the dojo, and his left one wet with the blood of Mr. 5.

Naruto clenched his trembling left hand, his fingernails digging into the palm of his hand until it bled. 'Son of a bitch!' He swore to himself, 'They saw it as well. I cannot even face them after that.' Dammit, not only did he lose face of a calm, composed fighter. But whatever dignity he had upon coming to the surface world. He might as well have been better going off on his own, risking of getting eternally lost in the ocean before getting back on that ship.

Vivi, however showed her true colors by placing a dainty hand on his broad shoulder, a smile forming on her face. "Naruto, thank you for protecting me from Mr. 5. That was really brave of you."

A handkerchief soon covered Naruto's trembling left hand, and a big tattooed hand wiped the blood from his fist. The savage-looking navigator gave him a big, toothy grin. "Thank you, Cap'n. Kuro would have not avenged me if I fell to those bullets. You're a better man than him."

"Yea," Kotetsu seconded, his hands patting down his ruined jacket. Thankfully he had a couple of extras thanks to Carmen's womanly foresight. "Listen, it's okay to lose control once and a while, as long as you acknowledge it. Any idiot can lose control and just walk away, but it takes a strong person to admit when they lost control and admit they have problems as opposed to hiding them." And this coming from a guy who had lost control four times, morphing into a complete psychopath, and not going insane himself from the atrocities he committed, that was possibly the best advise he could give given the situation.

Naruto soon found himself at a loss for words. He was expecting violent reprisals, but he was being showered with kindness instead of hate. 'But...but Captain Hody said that humans were unforgiving of fishman actions. No forgiveness, no toleration of lesser species...and yet-"

The surprisingly touching moment was destroyed by the two squabbling members of the Straw Hat Pirates as they, quite literally crashed in on their moment. Apparently both Zoro and a now thin Luffy were continuing to try and beat the living crap out of each other.

"Dammit, Luffy!" Zoro bellowed at his Captain with two swords in hand. "I told you, these guys were trying to capture us!"

"And I told you those guys are innocent and you beat them up for no reason Zoro!" Luffy screamed, his arms stretching three miles backwards into the ruined town. "Gum Gum Bazooka!"

Holding his swords in front of him pointing up, like rhinoceros horns, Zoro jumped into the air and began spinning quickly. "Rolling Rhino!"

Before the two attacks met head on, the two pirates found themselves eating dirt, all thanks to Naruto's fists hitting them in the back of their thick heads. "Dammit you two, take that shit elsewhere!"

It took thirty more minutes for everyone to calm down from their battle highs. Bashura managed to scrounge up some bandages from the rubble of the various houses that were demolished, and patched up those that needed fixing.

Resting against the last remaining building, Naruto crossed his bandaged forearms across his chest, peering at a bandaged up Igaram as Vivi finished her tale of woe. From what he managed to piece together, her country of Alabasta had been suffering from an extreme drought; except for Alubarna, the capital of the country. There was a scandal when a substance called Dance Powder was found in the palace and her father, Nefertari Cobra was accused of stealing what kept the country alive.

But what caught everyone's attention was that the perpetrator of the scandal was "Sir Crocodile" a member of the Shichibukai, who single-handedly started a rebellion to try and take down her father for reasons that were unknown at this point in time. And that the tender age of fourteen she and Igaram infiltrated the Baroque Works Organization to try and find proof to bring back to her country, and hopefully save it from the insuring civil war.

"That is horrible." Nami whispered out, her hand covering her mouth after hearing the story, and her shapely rear sitting on a bag full of treasure she scrounged up from the unconscious bounty hunters. Her mind however was going a thousand miles a minute, racking up a plan to exploit this for her benefit.

"Nami is right!" Luffy bellowed, his swelled head from Naruto's punch now on focused on a single-minded quest. "Vivi, we're going to help you bring down Crocodile!"

Vivi found herself taken back by the proclamation, she immediately protested against such actions. "I can't let you do that! Crocodile is practically untouchable in the country, and he has many supporters, some that I have never even seen."

"Ah, who cares?" Luffy placed one hand on his bicep and squeezed it. "That won't stop us from doing it anyways. Besides, it's on our way to our next destination right Nami?"

The orange-haired thief nearly balked at the thought, but agreed. She could draw up an agreement between the Princess and herself during the voyage there.

"Well, count us out." Naruto broke up the mood by standing up with little difficulty.

"What!?" Luffy bellowed in outrage. "Why not? You heard what she said, her country needs help. How can you be so heartless?"

Luffy's outrage was met with an outburst of anger from Naruto. Raising his right arm up, he punched the wall, and delivered kinetic energy through the structure, and leveled it entirely. "Shut your mouth Rubber-boy. You think I want to pussy out? But look at us, unlike your crew we're not fresh enough for his fight. Especially after we took most of the hits for you."

"Uzumaki is unfortunately right, it's just us being practical." Kotetsu was the next to stand up, his entire chest bandaged. "Listen, as much as this burns me, it's just not our fight. All of us are wounded, and we're just not up to fighting against a member of the Shichibukai."

"He is right," Bashura seconded, bending over to try and alleviate his back pain. "My back is out, Kotetsu's chest needs a looking into, Gin is still suffering from poison, and we know not of Carmen's fighting prowess. We're sorry, good day."

"But!" Luffy protested.

"I said good day." Bashura brushed Luffy off, and that was the end of that. (2)

"Naruto wait!" Vivi bit her bottom lip, a bad habit she had when was tense or nervous. When the blond fishman turned toward her, his blue eyes staring into her gray ones, she swallowed the lump in her throat and bowed deeply towards him. "Thank you for everything, and good luck with your journey."

That single action felt like he was stabbed through the heart with a dagger. But the only thing he could do was nod, and the three left them without another word, no words were said between the three of them. They felt like cowards for turning their tails and running, but their hearts just weren't into it. They could not fight like that, it would wind up getting them killed.

The three soon boarded the Bezan Black, their sails were hoisted, and then set off to leaving the island.

"So, we're really just leaving them?" Gin asked once they left port. He had possibly the best poker face imaginable, not showing any sort of emotion, but his body posture proved otherwise.

"We cannot go off to another country and fight for them," Naruto said between puffs of his cigar, bless whoever invented this invention, it certainly calmed his frenzy nerves. "Not only is it our problem, but it would also get us killed."

"Uzumaki, I never thought I would live to see thirty." The First Mate said dully. "But that never stopped me from doing what I wanted to do, especially now."

"Dammit Gin, you're not gonna die." Naruto winced when the older man violently coughed into his hand, his entire body wracking with agony. Way to go Naruto, open mouth, insert foot.

The crew of the Bezan Black soon passed by a giant ship on the southern end of the island, and both men couldn't help but appreciate the sheer size of the Galleon class ship. Gin narrowed his eyes when he saw a figure at the helm. "Hey, who the hell is that?"

"Huh?" Naruto looked towards where Gin was pointing. At first he thought it was Vivi, but then he realized that Vivi was not that tall, or wide...or ugly...or a man. "Hey, that's Mr. 8...or Igaram. Wonder what he's up to."

"Must be some sorta decoy." Gin muttered thoughtfully. He breathed through his nose to take in the sea air before he picked up something familiar. He took another long whiff, and then coughed in response. "Uzumaki, get of the ship and grab that drag queen!" He yelled in alarm.

"What's going on?" Naruto demanded.

"I smell gunpowder, lots of it! That ship is rigged to blow!" If there was one thing Gin knew about, it was gunpowder. He knew the smell anywhere, and the huge amount on that ship was enough to blow it, and them sky high!

'God damn it, can this day not get any worse!?' Naruto cursed inwardly. "Take the wheel and get us as far away as you can!" Spitting out half his cigar, the blonde fishman took a running start from the middle of the ship, and dived into the sea.

The blonde sliced through the water like a hot knife through butter. Blue eyes steeled ahead, he swam until he saw the bottom of the Galleon. Then diving downwards, Naruto delved deep until he reached the sand. Planting his feet onto the surface, he used his strong leg muscles to shoot straight up to the surface.

The water exploded outwards when he reached the surface, it would have been majestic if the situation wasn't so serious. Naruto flew over the guard rails, towards a surprised Igaram, pulling his arms out he wrapped the big man into a bear hug, and the duo hit the wooden guard rails on the other side; cracking through them. They would have hit the water if not for one thing: Hands, and lots of them sprouted out the side of the ship. They formed into a sort of slide that let Naruto and Igaram slide down all the way towards the dirt road where they tumbled on impact.

The giant ship soon exploded, sending both Naruto and Igaram what felt like a mile away from the blast zone. Both of them tumbled through building's, the streets, hell Igaram banged his head against a lamppost that knocked them him unconscious before they both harshly landed against the hard ground.

"Ouch..." Naruto coughed out painfully. "I've been punched, kicked, nearly set on fire, shot and slashed at, bitten, flown through far too many buildings, and now blown up. What a track record." He sarcastically said to himself before sitting up. The beautiful night sky was ruined by the rising flames of the ship, causing him to scowl distastefully. "I'm going to kill whoever did that."

"You're going to kill little old me? That's cute." A smooth, sophisticated voice called him to look up at one of the houses.

Sitting on the roof was a tall, light-skinned, slender, yet athletic woman with shoulder-length black hair. She had blue eyes, with dark, wide pupils, and she has a long, thin and defined nose. She wore a skimpy cowgirl outfit consisting of a purple cleavage-exposing corset and matching miniskirt that showed off her long shapely legs and narrow waist, both with white ornaments hanging from them, and a white fur-lined coat paired with a white cowboy hat and white high-heeled boots.

"And who the hell are you?" Naruto questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"My name is Miss All-Sunday, and I'm the second in command to the Baroque Works Organization." The woman revealed herself, or at least her code name. "That was some fast work you did there Mr. "Sword of the Sea", your reputation certainly precedes you."

"All right, What's with this Sword of the whatever?" Naruto demanded. "I've heard that several times already, and no one has bothered to explain it to me."

Miss All-Sunday giggled in response, and to Naruto's amazement, an arm grew out of her shoulder, and reaching into her cleavage, she pulled out a folded piece of paper. She tossed it, and watched in amusement when the blonde caught it, unfolded it, and flipped out seeing his face on a wanted poster.

"What kind of bullshit is this!?" He spat, violently pointing at his smiling mugshot. "How in the hell did I get a bounty on my head?"

"Well, wiping out "Saw-Tooth" Arlong and his entire crew, along with the Captain Nezumi of Unit Sixteen, and Captain Stark of Unit Thirteen. Not to mention a shipload of Marines of various ranks will give you somewhat of a reputation." Miss All-Sunday said with a smile.

"God dammit!" Naruto swore loudly, what in the deep blue seas did he do to deserve this? The blond took several deep deep breaths to compose himself. Getting mad would not do him any good now. "Why did you save us then? Aren't you supposed to be against traitors, and those that stand in your way?"

"Nope," Miss All-Sunday said, smiling as the arm went back into her shoulder. "In fact, I was planning on sparing Igaram, but you beat me to the punch...I just gave you a helping hand to show a gesture of good faith. And please excuse that pun." She then leaned forwards, resting her palm upon her chin. "I was also was the one who informed the Princess, through bits and pieces of information that Crocodile was the head of this organization."

"And why would you do that?" All this skull-skulduggery was giving him a headache. "What's your gain in all of this?"

"I'm doing this for my own reasons." The woman said before standing up. Then, an arm growing out of her waist, she used it to reach onto a pouch by her side and flung something at hm. Naruto caught it, and looked at the thing in surprise. "Consider it a welcome present for making it to the Grand Line."

Naruto looked up to respond, to question. But Miss All-Sunday was nowhere to be seen. He clutched the object in his right hand, a golden zippo lighter with the Baroque Works symbol etched onto it.

"Looks like we're heading the Alabasta after all." He should not have been happy, but deep down, Naruto found his reason to go Alabasta in Igaram. He may not have like humans all that much, but he was not the type of asshole who left someone stranded and nowhere to do. After all, he got a First Mate doing just that.

(On board the Bezan Black – The Next Day)

"All right, let me get this straight." Carmen said, her fingers holding the bridge of her nose to stem off a migraine. "Last night, we were attacked by a criminal organization of underworld bounty hunters. You three..." She pointed at the only bandaged members of the crew. "Along with that green-haired guy stopped them from turning us in."

"Yep." Kotetsu nodded.

"But then you were attacked by the Frontier Agents. Defeated them easily, but were soon attacked by two Officer Agents. But then you," She pointed at Bashura. "Defeated them with some difficulty. But after getting shot in the back, our Captain nearly beat him to death and made them run for their lives."

"Yep." Bashura scratched himself behind the ears.

"And now, you bring one of the Frontier Agents onto our ship dressed in drag. And you're telling me he is Captain of the Royal Guard of Alabasta, but another one if the Princess of that same country? And now we are traveling after The Straw Hat Pirates to not only bring him home, but try and stop the civil war that is brewing."

"That about explains it." Naruto said, crossing his arms.

"Ugh, you three are going to be the death of me." Carmen sighed. The chef of the dysfunctional crew soon got to her feet and smoothed out her pink flamingo dress. "Anything else you need of me before I start making breakfast?"

"Actually, yes." Naruto said getting to his feet. "I know you're a chef. A damn good one, but I have no idea what you can do fighting-wise."

"I can defend myself if that's what you're asking." She said, placing her hands on her hips.

"I would imagine so, but this is the Grand Line." Kotetsu said approaching her. His lazy expression was gone, replaced by a more serious one. "This place is merciless, if you think the East Blue was bad, I'll tell you right now it's tame compared to the people here. Pirates run amok here like rats, there are many devil fruit-users here, and more Marines as well. We'll be hunted thanks to mister forty-five million and ten million, and not to mention me on this ship. We need to know you can fight."

"So, tell us. Is all that flamboyant actions you do while cooking some sort of exercise, or are you just good with your fans?" Naruto said, continuing to interrogate her about her skills.

The pink-haired woman sighed and blew some strands of hair from her face. "Let me get my fans, and you guys set up some training dummies, or whatever needs to be set up. And I will show you what I can do."

When the chef went away, both Bashura and Kotetsu brought out odd objects. Empty wooden barrels, buckets, and rope. With Naruto's experience from the dojo, he set them up at different angles, situation area's, and ranges. The three waited for the only woman of the crew to approach the temporary training area.

Carmen approached the area a minute after they set everything up. Immediately, she leaped high into the air, somersaulting until her right heel hit the bucket head of the enemy, then she back flipped towards the one behind her and nailed it in the 'chest' area. Landing firmly on her feet, she soon slashed at the 'dummy', carving deep lacerations into it's 'chest' and turning around, she stabbed the bucket right in-between the 'eyes' with the one of the five sharp points on the end of it.

Then as an after thought she kicked the barrel in the 'groin' area, send it flying into the mast where it broke apart on impact. Then, flicking her fans closed, she threw both of them towards the third one and watched as they pierced the 'heart' and 'head' of the last dummy.

When she was done, Carmen gave the three men watching a saucy smile, giggling at their dumbstruck expressions. "Is that good enough, or so I need to demonstrate some more?"

"Nope I think we're good." Kotetsu said, blinking owlishly.

"Yea...good job." Naruto scratched his head. "Um, now you guys clean up this mess. I gotta go and see how the drag queen is doing."

Before any of them could retort, Naruto sprinted clear away from the scene, making them all curse him for sticking them with the dirty job.

After leaving those three suckers to clean up the mess, he soon arrived into the room where he dumped Igaram for the night. He had not moved an inch from where he dropped him on the bed, he was still dressed in Vivi's Baroque Works clothing, except his torso was painted, and he looked, well he was quite horrifying to look at. It certainly looked better on Vivi.

"That is quite possibly the worse thing I have ever seen in my life." Naruto said in disgust. Walking over to the end of the bed, her easily flipped it over, flinging Igaram onto the ground.

"Gah! Ouch who the-" Igaram turned up towards Naruto, his eyes widening in surprised. "What are you doing on the decoy ship!?"

"Your decoy ship blew up thanks to Miss All-Sunday." Naruto said, pulling out the zippo lighter she gave him. He idly thumbed over the etching of the logo before turning towards him. "I saved you from getting blown up."

"Oh...oh, thank you." The memory of seeing the ship explode, and the pain of getting his head knocked around was coming back to him. "What's to become of me then?"

"Well," Naruto took out a cigar and lit it with the zippo lighter. "I'm taking you home to Alabasta."

"What!?" The big man flew back in surprise. "But last night, you all said-"

"Things change." Naruto waved him off. "Listen, I know what I said before. Hell I was going to leave and not look back, but then I saved you. So that clearly changes things, got it?"

Realization dawning upon him, Igaram's eyes soon overflowed with tears and he wrapped the blond fishman in a tight hug. "Thank you, I cannot display how grateful I am for this!"

His grateful hug was greeted by finding himself lying on the ground, and three fresh lumps on his head from Naruto's right fists. "Show your gratefulness by putting on some damn pants." The blond said exhaling some smoke from his nostrils. "Please, do so asap." He then left the man alone, there was nothing else to see here. Absolutely nothing. Period.

Tens of thousands of miles away in a Marine base. Jinbe "The Knight of the Sea" was putting the finishing touches on some paperwork from his latest assignment the Marines assigned him. The mission was simple, track down and capture some up and coming pirates. He did just that without any complaints, and there were no casualties beyond some broken bones.

After putting the final period, the whale shark fishman let out a sigh of relief. "Paperwork, I rather be jailed than do it." He muttered to himself, oh the perks of being a member of the Shichibukai.

Leaning back against the giant chair specifically made for his size, the karate master soon began to think about his apprentice. Naruto was a strong lad, stronger than most fishmen his age. To reach level sixty at the age of seventeen was simply unheard of, Hoshigaki Kisame, Fisher Tiger, and even himself reached that level in their twenties, and they were considered prodigies of their times.

But despite his level, he was still worried about the boy. Arlong was ruthless, and so was a good lot of his crew. And if not Arlong, then it was the surface world. There were a lot of humans that would regard him as a lesser species. Then there was the Power of the Sea King, something that would cause him to act erratically, cause out of control anger, and who knew what else.

Not even Neptune knew the extent of that power. The only documented case was of a young fishman who grew up with the original Poseidon and becoming her protector, a guardian of sorts who tragically died protecting the Ancient Weapon. Any trace of how to control, or even understand the power Naruto held within him was lost during the The Void Century, leaving The Royal Family clueless, some even dismissed that it was nothing more than a legend until it manifested in his student.

A knock on the door broke him out if his train of thought. "Come in."

A Marine woman, small in stature and pretty-looking opened the door. Held in her hands was a a large box with a note taped to the top of it. "This arrived for you," She said, her nose wrinkling in disgust at the box. "Please take it." (3)

The whale shark fishman took the box, a confused expression forming on his face. Picking up the note, he slowly read it out loud. "Dear Jinbe, I got Arlong and his entire crew for you. Yea I know I was only to get Arlong, but he sicced them on me, but we're square now...don't make me do it again. Signed, Uzumaki Naruto. What in the blue seas?" Jinbe opened the box and immediately recoiled.

There was Arlong's decapitated head head right in the box. His mane of black hair was messed up and clumped with blood, one eye hollowed out, various cuts and bruises marred his face. "Who did this?" He demanded.

"It was Uzumaki Naruto, sir." The Marine said. Pausing in an after thought she reached into her jacket and pulled out several slips of paper. "This is the report that was written up for the incident, and witness testimonies from the residents of Cocoyashi Village."

With shaking fingers, he took the report and read through it. His eyes widened on the detailed accounts from the villagers, how he killed Chew, massacred the entire crew with a combination of Fishman Karate, Water Manipulation, and the use of his anchor ax. He read about how he threw Mohmoo a giant sea cow off the island, killed Kuroobi, and punched Hatchan into the sea. Jinbe then read about the fight between Arlong, how they went into the structure of Arlong Park, and how the sawshark fishman came flying out looking like he went through a meat grinder. Jinbe then almost cried out 'bullshit' when he read the report about Naruto picking up Arlong Park by its foundations and dropped the entire thing down on his former crew mate to finish him off.

After finishing the fight, he read how Naruto killed Captain Nezumi and all of Unit Sixteen; minus the Cabin Boy being the lone survivor. Then from the few survivors of Unit Thirteen about how he killed Captain Stark. Soon enough, he got to the end where Naruto cashed in the bounties of Arlong and Don Krieg, along with the testimony of Master Chief Petty Officer Tashigi of his student hooking up with "Blood-Soaked" Kotetsu, a former Ensign ranked Marine turned genocidal murderer worth sixty-five million beli(4). A savage-looking man that went by the name of Bashura. Gin "The Demon-Man", a pirate worth ten million beli. And "Five-Alarm" Carmen, a well renowned chef that was supposedly kidnapped by them.

At the end of the report, Jinbe saw Naruto's wanted poster, supporting his infamous shark-like grin. "'Sword of the Sea" Uzumaki Naruto." Jinbe felt the tears fall from his eyes, and watched as they hit the paper.

"Naruto, what have you done?"

Armageddon: Hello folks, been a while hasn't it?

Everyone, minus the defectors: Damn right it has!

Armageddon: Yea, sorry folks. I've been...well busy outside of this. Plus I was uninspired, and had a massive case of writers block, not to mention working two to three temporary jobs for now. It ain't a sob story, it's just something I gotta do for now, after all writing this out does not pay the bills...but man would it be awesome if it did.

Pvt. Liquor: *His face suddenly comes onto a large screen in the barracks* Arrgh me former superior officer, ye should just become a pirate! It's the best thing I ever did I my life! *Belches like Barney Gumble*

Pvt. VFSNAKE: He's right, do oyu know how may times I got laid last night? It was like...five times! You gotta join us!

Lt. Doom: I hope you used protection on your privates, Private. I do not want you carrying something on our ship, or leaving something at port.

Pvt. Killjoy: Haha I think we stole something just in case.

Armageddon: Dammit! I am going to break my foot off in your asses!

Pvt. Liquor: Good luck! *Ends the transmission*

Armageddon: That's it! *Tears off his Patton-style uniform for a badassed pirate outfit* Men, set up the ship, ready the big guns and get the god damn tanks ready. We're going after those deserters, and kicking some ass on the way!

Everyone, minus the defectors: *Tears off their military uniforms, and into awesome pirate outfits* Aye Aye Captain! We're ready to kick so ass and take some names!

Armageddon: Then lets go YEAAA!

(1) If you don't know what that's from, then I feel so sorry for you. Watch that movie dangit!

(2) If you know what this is from, then pat yourself on the back.

(3) Yes, I also went with another movie reference. If you know what it is from, then good for you.

(4) Remember, Kotetsu; while he did butcher a ton of Marines had his story blown out of proportion by the Marines to cover up what they did on Iron Island by framing Kotetsu and having him that the fall for every soul being butchered there.