Chapter 1
The Departure
Disclaimer: Naruto and One Piece don't belong to me they are property of their respective authors.
Hello, before this story begins I have to give you certain pieces of information. First of all, I am from Argentina and my mother tongue it is not English so I apologize in advance if I make several mistakes involving grammar or spelling. Second, I started this story in Spanish but now I am trying to practice my English and make this plot accessible for everyone who doesn't understand my mother tongue. I hope you enjoy it and if you have critics about my work, positive or negative or to make a constructive critic, don't hesitate to do it. I am looking forward to hear your opinions. LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!
The Elemental Nations were long dealing with an unquestionable and long termed peace. There were nobody, civil or shinobi, who could remember those ancient days when every nation tried to overcome the others with some kind strategy or sabotage their operations in order to jeopardize their interests. The military system of shinobi was now in decadence, the Kages (Shadows) were still in charge of the Hidden Villages but only as guardians of order inside the respective frontiers of their lands they were now incapable of gather an army to start a conflict like in the old days.
The mighty Bijuu (Tailed Beasts) were long gone because of the reason that triggered the Fourth Great Shinobi War, which almost led to all the people in the world inside of a powerful Genjutsu (Illusionary Techniques). The beasts disappeared at the end of the war to prevent the threat of being sealed inside a host to be used as weapons again.
However, the peace in the shinobi world it didn't happen and keep it for its own. Right now, in modern times, we found the last remnants of that conflict travelling across the Elemental Nations to make sure the balance doesn't change. Those were Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke.
Both shinobi received fatal wounds during the war take them to a step closer of meeting the Shinigami, then they met the legendary Rikudou Sennin (Sage of the Six Paths) Hagoromo Otsusuki face to face. The sage put both warriors to test asking them the reasons which keep them fighting and the choice to be take about the eternal struggle between their descendants involving their lives. The answers of the boys were enough to make Hagoromo give some of his strength to the shinobi and their convictions. Naruto, already counting with the chakra of all the Bijuu inside him, was able to transform his Bijuu Modo (Tailed Beast Mode) into the Ashura Modo making his chakra cloak infuse with sage energy also he got to control the Goudama (Seeking True Spheres) thanks to the acquisition of the Ying-Yang Release. Sasuke was capable of awakening the Rinnegan (Samsara´s Eye) in his left eye which it fused with his Sharingan along with being able to use the power of the Six Paths.
The two members of Konohagakure (Village Hidden in the Leaves) become really powerful but also they surpassed the limit of their mortal lives. The powers that they got from Hagoromo made them immortal. Naruto and Sasuke stayed young watching as time took every person they ever know, Kakashi, their ex-teammate Sakura, and all the members of the village. Now they didn't belong to any country because none single one of the shinobi villages wanted to get near them due to the magnitude of their combine strength. So they keep traveling and wandering trying to keep the peace gained by a lot of sacrifices and sadness.
(Land of Waves, Shores)
"Sasuke" Said short-blond haired boy with tanned skin and a Konoha bandanna in his forehead crossed off. His attire consisted of a white t-shirt branded with a red whirlpool symbol at the front, black trousers and a pair of white open ninja sandals. At his side was black haired and pail skinned boy with an emotionless face he was wearing a black body suit and blue sandals.
"What do you want dobe?" Asked the Uchiha to his partner while he was looking at the far sunset starting to sink in the ocean, Naruto took a moment to organize his ideas and then he said.
"I am leaving" Answered Naruto lying in the sand of the beach and looking at the black sky. "I am tired of being in this place without doing nothing, it is absolutely boring and there is not a reason for me to keep staying here" Sasuke turned to look at his blond friend and sighed after hearing his words.
"And I presume you want me to come along wherever you go, right?" Said Sasuke knowing the thoughts of his friend who gives a smile in return of that affirmation they known each other far too long and guessing the other´s thoughts was very easy.
"I was going to ask if you wanted to come because I know your ass is bored as mine, there is nobody to fight here, the Elemental Nations are in peace, and the only threats here are only bandits or poor bastards who don't in what kind of shit they are getting in when they start to cause trouble" Said the Uzumaki trying to explain the reasons to get the hell out of that boring place. He didn't hate the Nations but he was sick of being wandering and not doing anything interesting or a bit thrilling. The words of the blond make his partner smile a little.
"Ok where do you plan to go?" asked Sasuke and Naruto showing an excited smile stood up and point out to the sun.
"While I was walking by Nami no Kuni (Land of Waves) I heard some merchants at the harbor talking about a place called East Blue. They said that place was crowded with people extremely powerful and dangerous bastards with an eager desire of fuck up the world and every poor bastard who stands in their way" explained Naruto trying to sell the journey to his friend. "I suppose it is worth the trouble of get a ship and figure out what lies beyond this" say the blond gesturing towards the grand mass of water. Sasuke took a moment to meditate the information given by his friend and looking at the horizon thinking if there was anything out there to kill the boredom in his life and give his existence a purpose once again.
"Alright dobe, count me in this. Let's go to the harbor" said Sasuke standing close to Naruto and both teens walked straight to the ships.
(Land of Waves Harbor)
The sun was long gone of the sky and the moon replaced it with his pale silvering shinning. The shinobi duo was walking by the noisy dock which was the heart of trade of all the Elemental Nations. After looking among the several merchant ships while the sailors were unloading their cargo the teen found a ride ready to sail.
"Excuse me do you have some room in your ship to take both us?" Asked Naruto to one of the members that ship's crew as the man was losing the ropes of the dock. The sailor was a middle-aged man with rough tanned skin and a muscular complexion wearing a dirty shirt, short black pants, and brown sandals.
"Sorry kids we are not going inland from here, this ships it is about to get back to East Blue" said the sailor making both shinobi a bit upset by being considered kids. They were probably five times that guy's age for fuck sake.
"Much better in that case" answered Sasuke getting the attention of the man. "We are travellers and we had already too much of this place for our taste. We want to head out to the sea." Said the Uchiha making the sailor think about the request of the two teens and a voice behind him spoke for him.
"If you two work in my ship during the duration of the journey I will grant you free pass and even I give you a salary" Sasuke and Naruto saw that it was a giant and muscular man wearing a brown captain hat over his head, he was wearing a red coat and a white shirt under it, black leather pants, boots with the same color, and a sword strapped in his left hip.
Sasuke was not very happy about the condition to begin the journey, so he was about to activate his Sharingan and sink every poor bastard in that crew in a powerful Genjutsu but Naruto stepped in knowing his friend intentions.
"Thank you, we appreciate your suggestion. I have to tell you something about my partner before we say yes" said Naruto to the captain earning a confusion gesture by the sailor and an irritated one courtesy of Sasuke. "My friend here suffers a strange disease that makes him incapable of perform any kind of physical work. If it's okay with you I will take his part of the duties in the ship and you will earn the workforce of two at the price of one" said Naruto and that excuse made the captain take a look and Sasuke and his body condition.
"Well, by the looks of his pale skin, the lack of musculature in his limbs, and that slim-skinny body I don't think you are bluffing with that. Very well get your asses on board and you blondie report to me once your settle in the ship" said the sailor leaving the shinobi duo in their search of one room for the two of them. Once the teens found a place where they could stay during the voyage, Sasuke whack the blond in the head with a pissed off expression in his face and giving Naruto a giant bum in his head while he was leaking anime tears.
"Ow, what a fuck it's wrong with you!?" asked the blond shinobi resting his hand in the place where his head hurt.
"Strange disease that makes me useless to perform physical labors" said Sasuke with a remarkable angry tone in his voice while he took one of the beds in the room. "I want to beat the crap out of you right now" Naruto only stared at his friend with a "are you kidding me now?" look.
"You were about to cast a Genjutsu on these poor suckers because the idea of work for the travel it's too much to you. So I made things easier and took your share of the work, it will be a piece of cake" said Naruto smiling while thinking in one of the best techniques ever made in the great world of jutsus.
"I can't believe you are going to waste chakra making shadow clones to perform useless chores" said Sasuke earning a childish gesture of his partner causing him to look for his sword and that was enough to made Naruto flee. On the deck of the ship were many sailors performing their assigned chores to keep the ship in top condition and Naruto walk to the captain to receive his instructions.
"Uzumaki Naruto ready for duty, sir!" said the shinobi standing firm and giving a military salute in front of the man causing a sweet drop to form in his head. The captain gave the teen simple instructions like cleaning the deck and managing the sails, Naruto nodded and form a cross hand-seal with his fingers earning a confused look of the sailor before been amazed when a cloud smoke appeared next to the blond revealing a copy of the same kid.
"Akuma no Mi (Devil Fruit)" said the captain surprised after seeing the power of the blond.
"Akuma no what" asked Naruto without a single clue of the meaning of that thing. "What it's that?" The captain looked at his passenger like he grew a second head because he couldn't conceive a person who didn't know anything about the great treasures of the ocean and their unbelievable properties.
"Well, an Akuma no Mi it's a strange fruit which gives extraordinary powers to anyone who take a bite of it. From the power to spit fire and cause earthquakes to the ability of changing your body composition" explained the sailor to Naruto and his clone, both of them had their eyes big as bugs after learnt that information.
"Really?! That it's so cool, I want one right now!" said the two blonds thinking about how cool or absolutely ass-kicking ability will gain after eating one of those fruits.
"But, aren't you a user?" asked the captain to the teen and he stopped his delusionary train to look at the captain strangely. "Well, you can make copies of yourself god dammit!" say the man and the dreams of Naruto where shattered in two seconds.
"Boo, what a rip off man! I learnt how to do this thing when I was twelve and without eating a stupid fruit!" complained the blond about learning that simple things like making a clone were one thing that those fruits could give. "Fuck off I'm going to work, you start to clean this floor until you can see and eat ramen on it. Understood?" Naruto said to his clone earning a nod from the copy and the original went to attend the sails.
(Two Months Later, Waters of East Blue)
Sasuke was lying on his bed inside the room that he shared with Naruto while sharpening his sword and thinking about all the things he learnt thanks to the sailors about the place where they were heading. It was all in silence until the door opened and certain hyperactive and irritating blond walked inside the room disrupting the peace of the black haired boy.
"Kami's sake I'm done!" said Naruto throwing himself on his bed and look at the roof. "I tell you sailing it's not easy" Sasuke remain in silence while his friend rolled in the bed and look at him with a bored expression. The Uchiha was a bit pissed off because of the disturbance of the peace.
"Tell me" started to say Sasuke putting his sword away and catching a bunch of Belli bills threw by Naruto. That was the payment that Naruto gain for that week's work. "Do you think you can sail on your own without any help?" asked the Uchiha to his friend.
"Who do you think you are talking to?" said an offended Naruto after hearing that question. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto, in only two months I have learnt all the necessary aspects of sailing on these waters and how to run a ship. Deal with it teme, I'm fucking awesome" a thick mark appeared in Sasuke's forehead while looking at the arrogant smile in his friend's face showing off his remarkable acquisition of experience thanks to the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Technique). But Sasuke wanted to erase that smile and he knew how to do it.
"Ok mister Awesome I got a question for you" said the Uchiha with sarcasm in his voice. Naruto look at him saying "bring it on" with his face. "Do you know how to travel on the Grand Line without getting your sorry ass lost in two seconds? Are you aware of what lies beyond the great continent known as the Red Line or what will happen to us if we end up in the Calm Belt?" Those questions made Naruto show the reaction that Sasuke wanted to see, he didn't have a fucking clue of anything he heard and that was obvious by looking at his blank face and the familiar expression of "I am really stupid and I don't know a thing". That was priceless.
"Well, hahahaha. I think I will let you to take care of those details." Said Naruto scratching his head nervously and a little pissed off. "After all, we need a navigator and you are perfect for that job" Sasuke looked at his friend while he was thinking about that and he was ok with that. If both of them were going to be in charge of a ship travelling by strange tides the black haired teen preferred to have the control of their destination from the beginning.
(Midnight, Merchant Ship's Deck)
The pale light of the moon was glimmering over the calm waters of the East Blue, the crew of the merchant ship was having a heavy night of sleep inside of the many rooms under the deck and our main characters were enjoying their dreams in a private room on the deck thanks to the hard work of Naruto. The only person awake in that ship was a lonely volunteer sailor staying in the crow's nest to keep guard and prevent any kind of pirate ambush.
"I really don't know why they bother to put a watcher if this is the weakest sea of all Blues" the man said for himself while he was shivering under a blanket to deal with the frozen air of the night. It was true that the East Blue wasn't the home of the most powerful or dangerous pirates in the world, but the captain wanted someone to stay up there to keep an eye on the ocean in order to being prepare in case of a fight. He wanted to prevent and not be careless in trusting his confidence. The sailor was about to go down and look something to eat inside the storeroom when he felt a light tremor and almost fall of the mast.
Nervous, the sailor looked at the horizon thinking that they were attacked by an enemy ship but he didn't see another vessel. Then he realized that they were not moving even when the wind was pushing the sails. Nothing good could happen after that and the watcher tried to ring the alarm bell to wake up the crew.
"Your luck run out tonight" said a voice behind the sailor and he turned around shaking to found a large and imposing fish-man with blue skin, a muscular bared torso and black trousers. Holding his breath, the man tried to take the gun in his pants to put the enemy down. Unfortunately, the intruder was faster than the man and he grabbed the watcher by the throat to end up breaking the poor man's neck like a twig.
Under crow's nest, a large group of fish-men came out of the water and started to aboard the ship quietly while their partner enjoyed getting the first kill. The deck was now crowed by twenty blood-thirsty and sadistic fishmans ready to follow orders from their leader, who was coming down from the main mast to end up in the middle of the deck surrounded by his men.
"My brothers, today we shall prove our worth by killing every single one of these weak fucking humans on board of this ship" started to say the blue fish-man to his men and every one of them cheered to that. "For far too long we have dreamed to become part of the pirate crew of our hero and, after waiting many years, finally we have a change to make that possible" the words of the fish-man were well received by a war howl from the invaders, who don't event waste a second to go down by the stairs to the inferior quarters.
The cries of surprise, terror, and fury were heard after few seconds from all the ship while the pirates satisfied their blood lust and flooded the floor with blood of all the men that they killed. The leader of the group wore a sharp-teethed smile with saw like appearance while thinking about the profits they could receive when the ship appears in their base. The thoughts of the fish-man were interrupted when he heard the sound of a door opening behind his back and he turned around quickly to face the threat.
"WHAT THE FUCK IT'S GOING ON!? IT'S PAST MIDNIGHT FOR KAMI'SAKE, LET A SHINOBI SLEEP!" yelled Naruto after coming out of his room into the frozen air of night to see what was happening and his annoyed expression changed to one of surprise after seeing the fish-man standing in front of his door.
"Who the hell are you?" asked the leader of the pirates to Naruto ready to rip his head off without caring about his answer but Naruto had other plans.
"Yo, Sasuke!" yelled the shinobi turning around to see the interior of his room. "Wake up, you got to see this! I have found the lost twin brother of Kisame!" said the blonde holding up his laugh at the funny situation.
"Who the hell is that and why do I give a shit? Dumb blond" said the fish-man earning a furious look from Naruto while he stood outside the door to face the one who insulted him.
"Say that again you fucking prick, I dare you" said Naruto letting out some killing intent and the pirate felt like a prey in front of the most dangerous predator in the world. The moment last a few seconds until the other fish-men climbed up through the stairs to the deck completely stained in blood and holding the heads of every sailor that Naruto knew during the journey.
"These humans were only pieces of thrash Frosh-aniki, if all are like these we will conquer this sea very easily gahgahgahgah" said one of the murders with a crazy laugh. The other members of the group wore grotesque smiles in their faces after enjoying the killing spree that happened below deck and the fish-men saw Naruto standing in front of them completely frozen and with his face towards the floor.
"If you are still hungry for action, there is another head over there which needs to be chopped off" said Frosh pointing to the figure of Naruto. His companions roared of excitement before start running at the blonde to continue the massacre and bathe the deck with his blood.
"Bad move" said Naruto with an emotionless voice before starting to make a quick chain of hand-seals with an impressive speed making the fish-men confused. "Fuuton: Ken no Arashi (Wind Release: Sword Storm)!" after the scream of the shinobi a powerful wind started to blow making the enemies back off while they were cut in multiple places causing them to bleed due to the cutting properties of the wind chakra. Some of the fish-men watched with horror at Naruto while they grabbed their guns to open fire at the blond before he could do something else.
"Chidori: Senbon (One Thousand Birds: Needles)!" A quick barrage of electric projectiles burst out the inside of the room behind Naruto and several enemies fell to the floor dead after being pierce in the head or other vital points.
"What happened!?" asked Frosh with rage and terror in his voice at the sight of his fellow brothers getting eradicated by the actions of Naruto and a new guy coming out of the room behind the blonde holding a few sparks in his right arm. Dam you all user of Akuma no Mi, I will tear your fucking heads off!" yelled Frosh with all of his anger and getting completely crazy while he tried to fall back to the ocean to escape of the teens.
"You are staying here" In a split of a second, Naruto was in front of Frosh and he strike his face with an old fashioned punch and delivered a quick but powerful kick in his stomach sending the fish-man straight to Sasuke. The Uchiha grabbed the fish-man by the neck to smash him in the floor of the deck making him cough a large amount of blood.
"LET ME GO YOU PUNNY HUMAN TRASH, YOU CAN BE STRONGER THAN ME!" screamed Frosh with a hurt voice trying to escape of the iron grip but it was useless. "YOUR WORTHLESS BODIES ARE NOT STRONG LIKE OUR, YOU CAN BREATHE UNDER THE WATER. WE FISH-MAN ARE THE SUPERIOR RACE!" before Frosh could continue his crazy never ending speech Sasuke activated his Sharingan and looked inside the eyes of the fish-man.
"Welcome to my realm, Tsukuyomi (Moon Lecture)"
(Tsukuyomi Realm)
Frosh was tied to a wooden cross standing in the middle of a giant lake of red water with nothing more than a red sky and a great white full moon in the center of it. In front of the fish-man was an emotionless Sasuke standing in the water with a cold glare in his eyes.
"This is my realm here the time flows in a different way than in the outside. I control it and change it with my will, down here I'm god" said the Uchiha to Frosh, who was completely shocked and couldn't believe what was happening, while Sasuke materialized a sword in his hand and stabbed the pirate in his belly.
"Let me go motherfucker! I will fucking kill you!" screamed Frosh feeling an intense pain in his body while a sickening sense of terror was controlling his thoughts.
"Not until you answer some questions, it doesn't matter how long it takes. We have seventy-two hours in this place" said the black haired boy while several copies of him appeared surrounding the cross and holding different kinds of weapons.
(Minutes Later, Merchant Ship's Deck)
Standing aside of the fish-man leader, who was showing an agonizing expression, were Naruto and Sasuke watching the aftermath of the fish-men invasion. The massacre didn't leave any single member of the crew that the shinobi knew when they started the journey. The teens took all the bodies off their respective rooms to offer them respect in a funerary ritual. Naruto had a dark look on his face due to the impact of seeing again the consequences of the violence.
Sasuke, on his way, showed a serious face while analyzing everything that he could get by torturing the one he caused all that suffering in his Tsukuyomi before rip apart his mind.
"Naruto, the base of this piece of thrash its close by in a chain of islands called Conomi Islands. I know how to get there and break into their turf" said Sasuke
"Perfect, time to visit the death son of bitch responsible of unleashing that fucker and his animals" said Naruto before dedicate a last look at the dead sailors and jump off the ship with his partner to land a few yards of the ship over the water. "Sasuke, they deserve a proper goodbye" said the blond to the Uchiha who nodded and faced the ship.
"Katon: Goukakyu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)!" From the mouth of the black haired teen came out a powerful stream of fire taking the form of a giant sphere which hit the ship and started to burning and consuming everything while the shinobi turned their backs and run with an impressive speed towards their new destiny.
(Next Day, Conomi Islands)
An orange-haired teenager carrying a backpack on his shoulder was walking by an isolated road to the outskirts of a town; she was wearing a green top, black trousers, and brown shoes. She had a dull look and her brown eyes were irritated while looking at a great tower in the far corner of the island with a pirate flag at the top. The teen arrived at a steel door with a mark saying "Arlong Park".
"Arlong, I will kill you and take revenge for my family!" The girl turned around to find a boy holding a sword in his shaking hands while he was running straight to the complex with an angered looking in his face. Before the kid could come any closer, the orange-haired girl took some wooden pieces in his clothes to form a great staff which used to strike the boy and throwing him to the ground.
"Don't be an idiot" said the teen sticking his hand inside her backpack and grabbed a bunch of bellis to threw it at the furious and crying kid. "Use that to live comfortably the little life that you have" after that the girl kept walking to the doors and knocked a few times.
"Who do you think you are, why don't you let me seek justice!?" yelled the boy with all his anger and impotence. The great metal doors opened and the girl walked through them before giving the kid a last glance.
"Just go you moron and hold tight to your miserable life" then she came through the entrance of Arlong Park.
Inside the walled perimeter there were a large number of fish-men gathered in a yard with a huge pool, which ended at the sea. The more distinguish members of the band were a red-skinned, and six-armed octopus man with pointy white hair and a red sun marked in his forehead, a stingray fish-man dressed with a black karate attire, and a blonde long-haired fish-man with a long mouth. But the most impressive of all of them was a shark fish-man whose nose looked like a sharp saw blade he had a wild black long hair and threating eyes. He was wearing a yellow t-shirt, brown shorts, and beach like sandals.
"Look who is coming after so long, our dear sister Nami returns shashasha" laughed at seeing the orange-haired girl walking to him. The rest of the fish-men were roaring of joy except for the one wearing the karate outfit, who was giving the girl a hard glare.
"I just got here after stealing a lot of treasure from a bunch of idiot pirates, even I could take their ship while they were distracted and it's waiting outside Arlong" said Nami showing a smile to the shark.
(Meanwhile, Goosa Village)
"Are sure about this Usopp-aniki, don't we need to wait for Luffy-aniki to get here?" asked a swordsman wearing dark sun glasses with a kanji tattoo in his face. He was clothed with a blue opened coat, dark-blue shorts, a sword strapped to his hip, and a pair of sandals. The one referred as Usopp, who had a really long nose, pointed at him-self trying to look cool and stop the shaking in his legs while showing a smile. He was wearing a brown overall with a cap was on top of his head trying to control his wild dark curly hair, and green boots.
"Trust me Johnny when I say that I got this, I am the brave Captain Usopp and we will get Nami back in no time" said the teen with a confident voice even when he was shaking in the inside.
"Johnny" said a green short haired man wearing a blue shirt that covered his chest with a bandage wrapped around it, dark-greened pants, and black boots. In his right hip was carrying a katana inside of a white sheath. The man known as Johnny looked at the man nervously. "Take these fucking ropes off of me before I cut the two of you into shreds" In a matter of fact, the man with green hair was tied up with strong ropes to the mast of the tiny boat they used to get to the islands.
"I'm sorry Zoro-aniki" said Johnny looking at the swordsman with fear. "If we let you go you will start to fight with every possible enemy and your wounds would open and bleed to death" Zoro was about to complaint and start to throwing every kind of threats when Usopp let about a girlish-shriek at looking with the binoculars to the coast. Both swordsmen took notice of that and saw a town completely in ruins without any signal of life in that place.
"What the hell happened there?" asked Johnny with worry in his voice and before Usopp could think about any possible answer he saw a couple of fish-men by the shore of the island jumping in the water and heading straight to them. Both men jumped off the boat in a cowardly way of acting and swam with all the might they could with anime tears in their eyes while screaming apologies to Zoro for leaving him behind.
"When these ropes come off I swear to god your lives will end" Thought the swordsman with an angered smile in his face and saw the fish-man pirates get on board the raft and giving him mocking stares at his situation.
"Well looks like your comrades run like a couple of pussies, bad choice of companions I would say" said one of the fish-men to Zoro. The swordsman kept his mouth shut while looking at the idiots in front of him.
"Not a very talky fellow here right? What we should do with you, maybe kill you and take your raft or take both with us? Suggested the other one to his partner, then one of the pirates fell to the floor of the deck with a strange tri-ponged knife stuck in the back side of his head. "What the…" started to wonder the remaining fish-man before the appearance of a yellow flash and the bastard found his end by being decapitated with a quick and precise slash.
Zoro was shocked when he saw two teens appearing of thin air and kill those guys without hesitation.
"God dammit Sasuke, you could leave that one alive to get safe passage inside their base" said Naruto taking back the knife from the dead pirate, which was one of his father's Hiraishin no Jutsu (Flying Thunder God Technique) kunais.
"It's your fault for not aiming right, you are supposed to get the first objective of the ambush incapacitated and the second ones dispatched taking advantage of the opening given by the first move. You really don't learned shit at the Academy even failing three times in a row" The mention of that shameful event caused Naruto to flare a red aura while showing his shaking fist to the Uchiha.
"You wanna go prick? Because I'm ready to kick your Uchiha ass all cross this island" Sasuke grabbed his sword ready to fight when the shinobi duo heard an irritated voice.
"Am could you please duo of idiots cut these ropes for me?" said Zoro gaining the attention of the teens. The insult was enough to give out their killer intentions to each other and the duo turned toward the tied swordsman, who started to sweat bullets due to the hard pressure of their glares.
"Sasuke, let's call a truce and vent some steam" said Naruto cracking his fingers.
"If you two let me go of these bloody ropes I will tell you how to get to Arlong's lair" said Zoro making the shinobi change their minds and Sasuke did a quick move with his sword and the ropes fell to the ground completely cut. "Thanks for that, it was about time to escape of that fucking torture" said the green-haired swordsman spinning his arms while taking a look at the two immortals.
"It's okay we glad to help" said Naruto showing a smile before whacking Zoro hard in his head leaving a giant bump. "That was for calling us idiots. Now where we can find that piece of shit of Arlong" asked the blonde shinobi with a great impatience of deliver justice. Zoro pointed out towards the coast of the island.
"Our navigator Nami it's part of that guy's crew. We followed to this island that it could be his base of operations and I suppose that it's hidden in an isolated part of this place" said the swordsman. Sasuke and Naruto took a look to the devastated village of Goosa and they remembered the things Frosh showed during his days of being a member of the Arlong pirates. That scene was only a proof or the fish-men power thanks to the presence of a giant sea monster to keep the control over the other villages.
"Track time it's then" concluded Naruto taking his special kunai and making it spin between his fingers while looking at Zoro. "Will you like we give you a lift?" asked the blond to the swordsman before Sasuke grabbed his shoulder.
"Sure, why not?" said Zoro and the Uchiha grabbed him by the arm and Naruto threw the blade using his chakra to increase the distance. When his eyes saw the knife stabbed in the sand of the beach the trio vanished in a flash to arrive at the place where the weapon landed. The shinobi and the swordsman were in the entrance of the wrecked village and Zoro started to experiment the effects of his first time-space travel causing him to throw up.
"Yes, sorry about that it takes time to get used to this kind of ride. The first time it always hurts" said Naruto laughing while letting Zoro to put himself together.
"The Akuma no Mi had a real cool powers but the drawbacks are the hell" said the green-haired teen after started to feel better.
"I didn't eat of those cheap fruits. It was all old-fashioned and reliable chakra doing my friend" Before Zoro could ask what the hell than thing was, while Naruto was putting the knife inside of one of the pouches on his pants, he heard a few yells of joy at the distance and he found Usopp with Johnny running towards him.
"Zoro, we glad you are alive!" said the long-noised teen only to receive a punch straight to his face together with the swordsman wearing glasses. "Alright, I deserved that".
"At least you can admit it, well now that these two morons are here we can…" Said Zoro turning around to find the two shinobi were already gone when he was distracted. "Sneaky bastards" complained the teen.
"Zoro-aniki, who are you talking to, or your wounds started to make you see things?" asked Johnny only to get sugar-punched in his idiotic face.
(Cocoyashi Village)
Naruto and Sasuke took advantage of Zoro's distraction to disappear in a Shunshin to avoid any waste of time like giving introductions to those guys or giving explanations about their abilities. They know could focus in the matter at hand which was finding Arlong and kicking his scaled ass. The duo was now hidden between the houses of a village were Arlong had decided to pay a visit and make act of presence with his followers. Naruto observed with rage how the fish-man grabbed an old guy, who looked like the major of the village, by the neck and slammed him against the ground where he started to beat him.
"Sasuke, I'm gonna stab that fucker with a Hiraishin kunai to get there and rip off the heads of every remaining bastard. I encourage you to put the giant bastard in the most horrible, traumatizing, mind-breaking, and fucked up Tsukuyomi you could manage to create" said Naruto with an angered face while his partner sighed and prepared for the action. The blond was about to throw his blade when a blue-haired girl appeared behind the teens and hit Naruto in the head with a bat, she tried to do the same to Sasuke but the Uchiha cut his weapon in two before pinned her to one of the walls of the alley with his sword against her throat.
"Any last words?" said Sasuke ready to slit the attacker's neck. It was a girl with long blue hair with a small red ribbon on top of her head. She was wearing a green top, black pants, and brown sandals.
"Wait Sasuke, we don't need to spill any innocent blood" said Naruto massaging the place where the girl got him. "Who are you and why you tried to stopped us?" asked the blonde after separate the blade from her skin.
"My name is Nojiko and I do that to prevent you morons to start a massacre, which will conclude with you and the rest of the people on this island dead"
"Don't you worry about us sweetie, do it for those stupid bastards that we are going to fuck up" said Naruto with a friendly smile while Sasuke sighed at the attitude of his friend. Before Nojiko could complain, she widened her eyes and run towards Arlong while the shinobi saw how the two of them had a conversation which ended with the fish-man releasing a mocking laugh while tried to grab the poor girl.
"Ok, time to release the chaos" Naruto took his kunai and was about to pierce Arlong's face with it when a projectile impacted with the fish-man head causing an explosion. Arlong let Nojiko go to exchange looks with Usopp, who was on the roof of one house with his legs shaking while pointing his finger at Arlong and shouting things like "I am a mighty captain, I got thousands of followers". All the fish-men went out to chase the one who dared to strike at their boss and the two shinobi took the shot and came out of their hiding to approach the villagers surrounding Nojiko.
"Who are you!?" asked the old guy that Arlong attacked first after seeing the teens walking towards them and Naruto raised his hands to make them know that they will not harm anybody.
"Relax old man, we are just two simple travellers chasing the fish-men to finish some unpleasant business" explained Naruto kneeling close to Nojiko to put his hand on the girl's neck where a nasty bruise started to form, Using his chakra, the shinobi managed to heal Nojiko and the girl started to feel better after Naruto finished.
"How did you do that? You must be a fruit user" said one of the villagers at the actions of the blond.
"No, I'm just awesome when it's about treating wounds" said Naruto smiling before helping the blue-haired girl to get on her feet. "Now, why don't you guide us to your house and explain to us what it's happening between those pricks and these village?" Nojiko gave both shinobi a hesitating look. Right, they appeared out of nowhere in the village and almost caused a major incident for trying to mess with one of the most crazy ass and stronger guy that they ever knew like it was something daily. The girl tried to knock out those guys only to end against with a sword at his throat and looking at the eyes of a cold-blooded killer, but the blonde save her life by stopping his friend and now he helped her to recover after being hurt by Arlong for trying to save Gen-san.
"Ok, follow me and try not to make a mess" said Nojiko guiding Sasuke and Naruto outside the village.
(Meanwhile, Miles Away from Conomi Island)
"Yeah Ushi-san, all speed ahead towards Nami" yelled a teen wearing a straw hat, a red vest, blue shorts, and simple sandals while standing in the middle of the deck of a tiny ship looking how a great cow-fish with a giant bump in his head was pulling the vessel through the calm waters. "Hey Sanji, prepare something to eat I'm starving!" said the kid to a blond-haired teen wearing a black dress-jacket, black formal pants, and black shoes.
"You already had eaten all the meat existence on this boat you bottom-less freak!" yelled the cook delivering a kick to Luffy's head. By the side of the two Mugiwara (Straw Hat) was a swordsman wearing a green jacket, blue shoes, brown sandals, and a headgear on his head.
"Luffy-aniki I'm getting dizzy with all of these movements" said the swordsman putting one hand against his mouth to avoid throwing up the food that Sanji made a few hours ago for them.
"Deal with it Yosaku, we must reach Nami and take her back together with the Going Merry!" said Luffy laughing, the other two crew passengers knew that it was pointless to argue with the rubber boy because when he made a decision it was certainly impossible to change his mind. So they had to endure the rest of the journey while dealing with the rocking movement of the ship, then they could see the form of Conomi Islands in the distance but the cow-fish stopped pulling and the ship was threw through the sky towards the island. The boat crashed against the ground and kept moving due to the momentum, the pirates were travelling inside of a forest while Yosaku was screaming completely terrified and Sanji crouched to hold the mast of the ship as he was complaining for joining that crew.
(Outskirts of Cocoyashi Village)
The ship crashed against a palm tree and it stopped his movement while throwing away it is occupants to Nami's village road at the part of the island where no one dared to go. When the trio recovered from the harsh ride they saw three figures walking in the distance, one girl with blue hair and two boys wearing strange pieces of cloth.
"Oh a beautiful lady at the sight" said Sanji with an idiotic expression in his face with hearts as eyes due to see a pretty face while he run to Nojiko. "Pardon me miss, but you didn't see a beautiful navigator named Nami?" asked the cook making the girl along with Naruto to look at him like he was a complete idiot while Sasuke was getting angered.
"Are you talking about my sister? So you are the last ones that she ripped off. I didn't imagine that you will follow her to here" said the girl ignoring the attitude of Sanji and turned around to face the shinobi. "I better explain everything here so these guys here can know too and I don't have to repeat myself" Naruto accepted that suggestion and took sit on the ground. Sasuke remain on feet while giving Luffy a serious look.
"That guy has a strange chakra surrounding him, like he had something inside him altering it" thought the Uchiha after get a feeling of the kid's chakra.
"Luffy about time you get your ass here!" said Zoro walking at the distance with a beaten Johnny. "Oh, so you two are here. Thanks by the way for helping me out" said the swordsman after seeing Naruto and Sasuke.
"No problem man, just make sure that you don't ended up tied up to a mast where fish-men killers can kill you" joke Naruto and his friend punched him in his head for making stupid jokes.
"Zoro, do you now these guys?" asked Luffy coming closer to Naruto in order to take a look at him.
"Yeah, they helped me out when that coward of Usopp and this guy here left me to escape" said the swordsman making Johnny feel a bit uneasy about that issue.
"Ahem" coughed Nojiko to gain the attention of the group. "If you are ready I will start the explanation of the situation" said Nojiko.
"I'm gonna take a walk" said Luffy leaving the group while he earned a few confused looks of his crew because of his refusal to hear the issue with Nami, Nojiko sighed at the antics of the straw hat captain and began to tell everything involving Nami's past and her past, she mentioned the one who were their mother. Then she told the group about the arrival of Arlong and his crew including the payment of taxes that he forced every villager to pay, which led to the tragic fate of Nami's mother, and finally the kidnap of the orange-haired navigator where she was forced to join that pirate crew in order to save the villages and she was forced to draw maps for that scumbag. After telling everything they needed to know, Nojiko left the road to go back to her home.
"That son of a bitch of Arlong!" yelled Johnny and Yosaku feeling a great sentiment of anger on their insides. "We won't let that our sister Nami suffers any other second, time to smash some heads" Taking their swords, the duo run away toward s the fish-men hideout.
"Stop those imbeciles, they are going to end up dead!" said Nojiko seeing the swordsmen going to begin a fight.
"Let them go, they wouldn't kill them. A beating it's all they will get and it will be good for them to understand what happens when you start something that you couldn't finish" said Zoro, Naruto sighed at the problematic situation and looked at the sky imitating his long death friend Shikamaru.
"Sasuke, let's take a walk" said the blonde shinobi followed by the black-haired one.
"So, what are we going to do know dobe?" I would rather go there and get this stupid thing done and get the fuck out of here" said Sasuke with a pissed off expression.
"I know that, I also want to go there and show every single one of those racist pricks the true meaning of fear. But now it isn't the time to act, we have to wait until this blows up" said Naruto walking straight to the village.
"What do we do now?" asked Sanji lighting up a cigarette while looking at Zoro, who took his katana to put it on his shoulder took a seat in a nearby bench."
"We wait." After that the duo heard a couple a footsteps coming quickly and the screams of a very familiar voice.
"Guys, this is bad!" The teens saw a terrified Usopp coming to them and when he stopped he took a time to catch his breath. "The navy its working with Arlong and they are stealing from Nami!"
(Cocoyashi Village)
An hour had passed since Nojiko left the group at the road to head back home. Naruto and Sasuke came back to the village and found the people gathered inside the clinic. The shinobi approached the place to know the reason of the gathering and saw a wounded Nojiko getting treatment due to taking a bullet by a corrupt navy soldier. Then the immortals knew that a corrupt marine captain robbed the treasure of Nami by Arlong's orders to prevent the orange-haired girl from buy the village freedom.
"This has to end once and for all, it doesn't matter if we die trying but we must fight for our home and Nami's happiness." said Gen delivering several weapons to the villagers who shared his anger. Naruto and Sasuke observed how every man and women marched towards the fish-men hideout but they stopped when Nami stood on their way holding a knife.
"Don't move" said the girl shaking with tears in her eyes. " I will kill you if you try to come through me" the threat was responded by the villagers walking past Nami while Gen came close to her to say that everybody knew what she was trying to accomplish and now it war their turn to defend what they loved.
"Dobe, I think it's time" said Sasuke stepping aside the scene while the blonde followed him.
"Teme, time to make this place shake and make a name for ourselves" said Naruto with a smile on his face and running like a thunder with Sasuke at his side towards a future war zone.
(Arlong Park)
"They are too strong" said a wounded Johnny.
"We couldn't do shit against them, even the shitty pirates we come into daily basis can kick our asses. We are worthless" said Yosaku while lying alongside Johnny in front of the steel doors of Arlong's lair. The swordsmen couldn't move because of the wounds and bruises on their bodies caused by the fish-men before threw them out of the complex with broken bodies and spirits.
"Wow, you really are lame" the sound of a new voice made the duo raise their sight to find a curious Naruto alongside a poker-faced Sasuke watching them.
"You shouldn't have tried to do something that you weaklings were impossible to accomplish, even they didn't find necessary to kill you two because your attempt was really stupid" said the Uchiha passing by the side of the fallen swordsmen. Those words were a heavy blow to their egos.
"Hey teme stop being a cold-hearted bastard! You and I used to be weak back in the day, suffering humiliating defeats and similar kind of things but we learned from our failures" complained Naruto getting a sigh from his partner. "Don't you worry at least you did your best efforts. Just keep training and improving your abilities, breaking the limits of the body and raised your potential. Now it's our time to interfere, if you want to help us just keep everyone else out of our way, or their safety would be something that we can't assure" said Naruto before channeling his chakra in the hands to transmit it through the bodies of Johnny and Yosaku reestablishing their energies and healing the wounds.
"Wow how did you do that? I feel awesome" said Johnny while standing up and helping his partner.
"Chakra, my friend, and you two are about to see some more of it" said the blonde looking at the doors of Arlong Park. "Sasuke, can you cut through those gates?" the doubt was responded with the Uchiha wielding his sword and channeling his Raiton (Lightning Release) chakra in the blade.
"Chidorigatana (One Thousand Birds Sword)!" the black-haired teen strike at the door and it looked like he didn't do anything, but at putting his sword in rest the swordsmen widened their eyes at the sight of flaming cuts in the steel doors before it crumbled by weight and revealed the interior of the lair.
"Who the hell are you?" asked Arlong sat in a chair while he and three other fish-men were looking straight to the immortal duo. The rest of the crew exhibited shocked expressions at the raw power of the teens.
"Good afternoons to all of you murderous bastards and others pieces of trash. My name is the awesome, impressive, and original Naruto Uzumaki shinobi of Konohagakure in the Elemental Nation. The one who cut your cheap doors like wet bread was my friend and teammate, the humorless but ruthless killer with eyes as cold as the most dangerous animal in the world Sasuke Uchiha. Nice to meet you" after that introduction, Naruto get whacked in the head by Sasuke.
"What the fuck was that? I mean it you should have been a circus clown instead of a shinobi you blonde moron" said the Uchiha.
"Hey, I got my style and you have yours. If you will start bitching about that you can get back home and bored another one-hundred years" threated Naruto.
"What you two fucking idiots want here?" asked a fish-man of a large group that started to surround the shinobi. "If you got a death wish, we are more than able to grant it like we did with those two worthless swordsmen" said while wearing a mocking smile in his face and his partners laughed. Naruto, being a person who took other people efforts to help somebody cared seriously, stepped away from Sasuke to face his opponents.
"The reason of our presence here it's finding Arlong a kick hiss worthless, racist, scaled fucking ass to free every single one under the rule of his stupid ambitions" the words of Naruto caused a burst of laughs from the shark fish-man. It wasn't the first time that he heard something like that.
"I got to say, you two have balls to come here and start showing off to scare us. But you are only a couple of weak puny humans with a few tricks under the sleeves, my men will be enough to take care of you" said Arlong giving the green light to his man for the attack.
"Sasuke, let's go with the Ranton (Storm Release) to even the odds" said the blond getting at his partner side.
"It's a waste of chakra using that technique for trash like this" complained the Uchiha but it was pointless to argue with his friend. "But it will separate the useless from the strong" said with a smile while starting a chain of seals along with Naruto confusing the fish-men
"Ranton: Reiza Sakasu (Storm Release: Laser Circus)!" said both shinobi at the same time. The fish-men burst in laughs after hearing the name of the technique.
"Do you really think that you can command a storm with those weird signs?" asked the enemies and the laughs stopped when a few electric projectiles form in front of the shinobi and they started to move like water with an impressive speed towards the fish-men. The electrical bullets pierced the bodies of the foes and by the time the assault finished almost every fish-men was lying dead in the ground. The only remember members were the higher ups which dodged the attack getting a bit wounded.
"In…incredible" said a shocked Johnny after saw the raw power of the shinobi. Yosaku was speechless while looking at the aftermath of the attack.
"Those are in a totally different level, they can take care of this without sweating" dared to say the swordsman. Their instincts made them turn around and they saw the Mugiwara pirates with the people of Cocoyashi Village.
"Johnny, Yosaku. I thought you will be too beaten and broken to remain standing by the time we get here" said Zoro and Luffy didn't say a word while he walked past them and stopped at the sight of the destroyed door of Arlong Park and the many bodies inside.
"Woo, what happened here? The fish-men are getting their butts kicked" said the straw hat captain and then he was dragged by the swordsmen duo.
"Sorry Luffy-aniki but you can't participate in that" said the two men at the same time earning confused looks from the pirates and the villagers.
"What are you saying, are you idiots or what? We need to take that bastard down" said Gen with the support of his people. But the complaint stopped when the swordsmen took out their swords to point them straight to the ones fighting.
"That guy named Naruto, who healed us after taking a brutal beating, asked us to keep anyone from the zone. Those guys had unfinished business with the fish-men and it would be really dangerous if you put a foot in there. So we must let them fight and hope that they can free this people" said the duo before turning around to watch the fight while the others did the same.
"What the fuck was that!?" yelled Arlong after seeing his brother dead in the ground and finally he spotted the group of villagers outside his door. "So you decided to raise up in arms at seeing we are being attacked, well then get ready to die right now! Chuu!" the fish-man with a long mouth moved to the pool with high speed to start absorbing the water and then face the crow.
"Die, you puny humans!" said the fish-man firing several high-speeded water projectiles towards the people.
The Mugiwara prepared to defend the civilians but it wasn't necessary thanks to a great wall of water appearing in front of them absorbing the shots.
"Suiton: Suijinheki (Water Release: Water Wall)" said Naruto while performing a new chain of seals.
"He can control the water, none Akuma no Mi should be able to do that!" said Chuu with alarm in his voice at looking at the liquid construction being bended by the will of the human in front of him.
"This is chakra bitch, and now I'm gonna give you a taste of your own medicine" said the blonde after finishing the seals. "The water it's your weapon, huh? Well look how the pros do. Suiton: Suigadan (Water Release: Water Fang)!" from the water wall surged several drills of water and they went straight to the fish-man. Chuu tried to bomb the projectiles with his water bullets but it was useless. Arlong and his officers saw how the water went through the body of their partner killing it in an instant.
"Kuroobi, Hacchi" said Arlong. The stingray fish-man adopted a Karate stance while the octopus one got inside of a barrel and came out holding swords in each of his hands.
"Get ready to die, bloody humans!" said Hacchi wielding his tentacles arms making the swords slashing out of control.
"You are going to experiment the power of a 100th grade master of Fish-man Karate" said Kuroobi getting ready to attack.
"Sasuke, what would you like to eat? Today we have stingray or octopus" said Naruto cracking his knuckles, Sasuke took a look at the enemies and made his decision.
"I take the octopus, it looks like he is a capable swordsman and I wish to try some moves that I had designed some time ago" said Sasuke taking his sword in a quick move to stand in front of the octopus. Hacchi felt his blood descending a couple of grades at exchanging looks with the black-haired teen, he could even swear that a flash of the future came through his mind where his body was chopped off in pieces.
"Br…bring it on kid, I'm the great Hatchan from Arlong's crew, user of the Rokutoryuu (Six Sword Style)." said the fish-man trying to ignore that vision.
"Alright Karate Kisame, I will show how fucking bad luck you have for being paired against a killer machine like me" said Naruto smiling.
"Prepare to be crush by the might of the strongest art in the world" said Kuroobi jumping at the blonde.
WELL THAT'S UP FOR THIS CHAPTER, SORRY AGAIN FOR ANY GRAMMAR MISTAKE THAT I COMMITED. I HOPE YOU ENJOYED READING THIS CHAPTER AND I WILL BE POSTING MORE OF IT BY THE NEXT MONTH. THE SPANISH VERSION HAVES SIX CHAPTERS SO IF YOU CAN READ SPANISH GO AND READ IT. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME AND SEND ME YOUR OPINIONS OR SUGGESTIONS FOR THIS STORY, LORDSYLPH OUT.