A/n: Yeah I have a new story out. In my defense, I got drawn in by the music and then the anime. Personally I enjoyed it. So yeah, If you see similarities with the story written by the writer greyblueflames98, yes I have taken some ideas of the story from his story, The Typhoon Fleet. And before someone says it, I have both him/her helping with the story, and I got permission to use some things from him. Now I hope you enjoy and yes I do already have the Harem planned, I will reveal part of it at the end of the chapter. Now, please enjoy the story.
P.S: This story will also contain some things to do with Azur Lane seeing as I have been enjoying the game heavily.
"Speech"
'Thought'
(Start)
Far out in the ocean, a young blood teen was floating in the ocean, holding onto a large plank of wood. Blood ran down his face and what remained of his left arm. His left side was littered with bloody pieces of concrete. As he drifted on the ocean, the boy had to use most of his energy to look out for any sharks that decided to try and take an easy meal. Seeing that it was safe, the boy laid on his back and floated calmly. Laying the remnants of his left arm and his head laying on the wood as he gazed into the sky with his one good azure colored eye.
'What did I do to deserve this?' The boy thought to himself as he reflected on his life.
'Was I just born a nuisance? All I've done is play pranks on others, I've spouted lies that I believed deep down.' He thought as a image reflected in his mind.
"A hero always comes at the last second. No matter what, I'll show these people that they have a Hero!"
The boy was smiling, no injuries on his person as apposed to how he was now.
'A hero huh? Guess every hero, has an end.' The boy thought to himself as he continued to stare into the sky. "Shikamaru was right. It is relaxing to watch the clouds float by." The boy whispered to himself as his vision faded slightly. 'I wish I was a cloud right now...to have no problems...and just float...on...by.' The boy thought to himself, his remaining eye started closing, due to the amount of blood he's lost. The boy was on the verge of passing out.
He started to slip into the ocean, his body unable to keep himself afloat anymore. But he was stopped by a feminine hand. The boy looked towards the owner of the hand, only to be enraptured by two things. The long black hair, and the piercing red eyes. With those looks in mind, the boy passed out completely as the woman pick him up in a bridal carry.
'What's a human like you doing all the way out here? And with all these injuries?' The woman thought to herself as she returned to where she glided over towards him. 'Perhaps, you could be the one to lead us.' She thought as she stared at the blonde in her arms.
(Days Later)
The beeping of a heart monitor could be heard all throughout the medical bay. There was a girl with long black hair wearing a sailor dress over a long sleeved zippered shirt and a blue pleated skirt. Her blue eyes, hidden behind circular rimed glasses, were going over the information of the patient laying in the bed.
"Multiple wounds covering the left side of his body. Reasoning, shrapnel from an explosion. Left eye has been destroyed due to the same reasoning. Analysis, remarkable. For him to still be alive." She said to herself as she looked towards the blonde in bed.
Placing the clipboard down, she walked towards the door only to hear a groan of pain. Turning back, she saw the blonde try to sit up in the bed only to grab his left side in pain. Walking back over to him, she gently laid him down.
"You need to rest. You lost too much blood." She said as the blonde stared at her.
"Where am I?" He asked as the girl looked out the window.
"In the medical bay of our home base." She said as the blonde looked out the window as well.
"And who are you?" He asked as the girl turned her stare to him.
"Ooyodo Class Light Cruiser, but you can just call me Ooyodo." The now named Ooyodo said as she bowed.
"Nice to meet you Ooyodo-san. The name is Naruto Uzumaki." He said as he sat up and grunted.
"Uzumaki-san please rest." Ooyodo urged as Naruto shook his head.
"I can't be a bother to you." He said before he felt someone hit him in the head.
Turning his head to the right, he found himself staring right into the same red eyes he saw when he was saved. The woman who saved him was wearing a black and white Japanese-style shirt which exposes her midriff with yellow trimming, black finger less elbow gloves (again with yellow trimming) and a short white pleated skirt with a black stripe along the brim. She also wears a metallic garter belt which holds in place her black and maroon thigh highs.
"A bother is something we need right now." She said as Naruto looked confused at her words.
"What do you mean?" He asked as the woman closed her eyes.
"All the people here are in low spirits due to us losing our admiral long ago. Most of them have started believing that we've just been abandoned. Thrown to the waves, like you were." She said as Naruto turned his head down to his lap and noticed his bandages.
"Who did this?" He asked as he looked over his body. His entire torso had been wrapped up, and he noticed multiple blood patches over his stomach. His left arm was a bloody stump at the elbow wrapped in bandages.
"I did. When Nagato-san brought you in, you were losing a lot of blood." Ooyodo said as Naruto turned his attention to the black haired Nagato.
He raised a hand to his eye and felt the bandages there. Breathing out, he noticed something was off. Looking around, he tried to find one of the few important things he ever returned. His savior noticed this and reached behind her back.
"Are you looking for this?" She asked as she pulled out a blue head band with a metal plate in the centre. "I'm guessing it was important to you." She said as Naruto reached over and barely missed grabbing it.
"Due to the fact your now missing an eye, your depth perception will be slightly off." Ooyodo said as Nagato placed the headband in Naruto's lap.
"So tell me, how is it I came to find you, a drifting corpse in the ocean." Nagato said as she folded her arms over her generous sized bust.
"I was on a mission with a group, to protect a bridge. At the end of the mission, I tried to kill a man who was threatening the bridge builders home. But what I didn't realize was that he had set up a trap. When I got halfway across the bridge, he blew it up." Naruto explained simply as Nagato stood still, her surprise only shown in her eyes.
"How close were you to the explosion?" Ooyodo asked, her surprise and horror only shown by the shaking of her hands.
"A few meters give or take. I don't really know. The most I can remember is a loud sound, pain and the cold." He said as Nagato closed her eyes.
"You were lucky that I managed to get to you first." She said as Naruto gave a bitter chuckle.
"I'm happy that you were the one that saved me and not the sharks." He said jokingly as Nagato shook her head.
"I wasn't referring to the sharks." She said seriously as Naruto turned to her, his lone eye showing confusion.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"Within those waters are a bunch of people like ourselves. The Abyssal fleet. They've been destroying ships that go out to sea. They easily could've taken you and you might've suffered a fate worse than death." She said as Naruto looked down to his lap.
"But what if you guys managed to get along?" Naruto asked as Nagato shook her head.
"The Abyssal fleet wants nothing to do with us. In fact, whenever we come face to face with an Abyssal, they always try to kills us." She said as she stared at Naruto with a gleam hidden within her red eyes.
"There has to be another reason. Hate isn't something everyone naturally has. It's something the is born from envy, and yet, at the same time..." Naruto said trailing off as Nagato raised a brow.
"That's a unique way of seeing things. But hate is something everyone has. Whether it's deep down, or always shown on the surface, hate is prominent." She said as Naruto looked out the window once more.
"There has to be a way to come to terms with them." He said as a small smile graced both Ooyodo's face and Nagato's own.
"Why do you seem to want to help us?" She asked as Naruto shook his head.
"I just want to get home. If that means sorting out your problems, then I'll help." He said as Nagato shook her head.
"That's not gonna happen anytime soon. When I found you, you were drifting far out. I wouldn't have a clue how far you were carried by the currents." Nagato said as she shook her head as Naruto's fist gripped tightly.
"So I'm in an unknown place, missing one of my eyes and my arm, with no known way of returning home." He said as Nagato nodded, almost regretfully.
"Someone at your age, shouldn't experience things like this." She said as Naruto sighed.
"The moment I placed on this headband, I gave up the normal life of someone my age." He said as Ooyodo nodded at Nagato.
"Well then I want to ask you something." Nagato said as Naruto gave her all of his attention.
"What is it?" He asked.
"What do you dream of?" She asked as Naruto blinked. Of all the things he was prepared to answer, that was not one of them.
"I wanted to be the greatest Hokage." He said sadly, knowing his dream is lost due to not having a way to return home.
"This Hokage...it's your leader right?" She asked as she laid a hand on the blonde's current bed.
"Yeah." He said as Nagato smiled.
"Well, we might not be able to make you a Hokage here, but we can give you a rank just like it." She said as Naruto raised a brow.
"There's a catch to this. There's no reason that you'd just make me something like a leader after just meeting me." He said as Nagato nodded.
"As you know, the fleet here hasn't had an admiral for a while now. We keep practicing just in case we can be of use later. But even then, the overall moral of our fleet is low. We need someone to be our leader, to help us." She said as Naruto looked down.
"I'm just a reckless fool. I'm not fit to be an admiral, or even a Hokage for that matter." He said as Ooyodo pushed her glasses up with her middle finger.
"In fact, a reckless fool would be better for us. With both Nagato-san and myself, we can help you plan out movements." She said as Nagato nodded.
"Even then, a leader is someone who will ease the pain of those around them and help others when they can. They are someone, who doesn't walk over the corpses of those they command over. A leader is someone, who will lead the charge, ignoring danger as long as those they command can stay safe. A reckless fool that charges head on, is a noble one." Nagato gave her own opinion as Naruto smiled lightly.
"Well if your gonna give me a speech like that, it's almost impossible for me to say no. But if I do take this job as your admiral. I need the two of you to both do me one thing." He said as his gaze stayed on his lap.
"What's that Uzumaki-san?" Ooyodo asked as Nagato raised a brow.
"Don't leave me...I'll need you by my side. To help me through things." He said, sounding like the preteen he was meant to be.
"On the honor I hold as Nagato, I promise to stay by your side as your secretary ship. I will aid you in anyway possible." Nagato said smiling as Ooyodo nodded.
"I too will help you in anyway possible." Ooyodo said smiling.
"Well then, I guess you girls have yourself an admiral then. I'll try my hardest." Naruto said with a small smile on his face.
(END)
Welcome to the end, if your reading this, then holy hell you actually give a damn about what I have to say. It's good to know I'm liked enough, the few flames I get from...unsavory people are annoying and I will admit, tend to kill the mood of my writing. But whatever, fuck em as I say. If they have a problem then they can have a problem, not like it matters due to the fact this is Fanfiction. But anyway, I hope you enjoyed and Harem list down below.
Harem List.
Nagato
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I have four girls already chosen, I might add more but that depends. But for a couple characters within the Harem I will be using the Azur Lane version of them as I just love the Azur Lane version more. Anyway see you later. Next update will probably be Testament Of A Hero (THE STORY THAT GETS THE MOST SHIT!)