I Do Not Own Naruto Or One Piece

"He started an entire Era?" How was something like that even possible? Jiraiya had always said it wasn't how someone lived that measured their life but how they died. "And starting an entire Era with just words seconds before your death." He couldn't even fathom how one person could do be able to do something like that.

"It's quite the accomplishment. Make my loss to him a little easier to swallow. No-shi-shi-shi!"

Naruto leaned back against the railing of the ship a wide grin on his face. To think the old guy who rescued him fought aginst someone like that. "He must be really strong."

Looking up at the sky he noticed the sun starting to set over the horizon. It was right above them when they began talking so it had to have been a couple hours. "I can't believe I lost track of time like that."

It wasn't his fault, Naguri kept talking and that this world was awesome. Pirates sailing the through the most dangerous and uncharted sea in the world all in the hope to be crowned the next Pirate King. It sounded like something out of a storybook. How was he supposed to pay attention to the time when he was being told about giant sea creatures and a mountain that stretched around the entire world?

"It's getting quite late isn't it?-Noshi." Naguri gripped his hammer using it to pull himself up from the floor. "There's still some other stuff you need to learn but we have around a week until we reach the next island. Plenty of time to get you caught up. All the rooms are the same so pick anyone you want to sleep in."

"Thank you," Naruto bowed quickly remembering Tsunade's lessons on manners. She wasn't around to hit him but Naguri might if their first altercation about him being rude was any indication.

"Hmm." Naguri raised his head looking over Naruto's shoulder. "What could they want?"

Naruto turned around catching sight of another ship coming into view. "Friends of yours?" He asked as the ship sped towards them.

His answer came in three cannon balls crashing into the sea beside the ship spraying the deck in a rain of salt water.

"Again really." Dragging a hand down his face Naruto wiped the water off spitting out what little bit managed to get in his mouth.

Tugging his t-shirt off he laid it over the rail next to his jacket pulling a special tri-tip kunai from his pouch. "I'll take care of this, old man." He called over the boom of cannon fire throwing his kunai towards the incoming ship.

"Wai,t Naruto-Kun-" Naguri reached out trying to stop Naruto only to have his hand pass through yellow light. "I recognize that flag."

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( Red Bird pirate ship)

"Captain, they threw a knife at us! Hahaha!"

"Can you believe it? A knife! What they don't have cannons?"

"RASENGAN!"

Appearing on the ship in a yellow flash, signature Jutsu in hand Naruto mouth twitched up in a slight smirk as the man who must have been holding his Hirashin Kunai flew backward smashing straight through the cabin door.

Looking around he met the eyes of each of the pirates forming a second Rasengan in his other hand. "I'm going to ask once, why did you attack my friend's ship?"

"Everyone get back!"

All the pirates on the ship looked to the crows nest where their captain stood tall arms crossed. "Captain Reddington!"

"This man is above your level, stay out of this fight!" Captain Reddington shouted to is crew. Wearing a dark red long sleeve button shirt with a black captain coat hanging off his shoulders and brown pants tucked into torn up boots Reddington looked just like the pirates Naruto saw in movies back home. The eye patch covering his left eye and scraggly brown beard on his chin only added to the cliche.

"You're gonna get it now fool."

"The captain is unbeatable!"

Naruto ignored the yelling around him focusing his sights on, Captain Reddington. The other pirates didn't matter. If they didn't have the strength to fight him then all their shouts and blustering was just noise. "Now time to see if the Captain is different."

Moving in a blur to the pirate's eyes Naruto drew four Shuriken and with a flick of his wrist sent them flying towards Reddington. None were aimed at vital points as killing was still a last option to him, and if the captain couldn't dodge simple kunai then he wasn't dangerous enough to warrant death.

"Those won't work on me boy!" Reddington shouted as the metal stars sank into his body. Only to come flying out his back without a drop of blood.

"What the hell?" Naruto frowned at the lack of damage his attack did. Not even a single cut in the captain's clothes. the only thing he had accomplished was scaring the red cardinal that was now flying around the deck chirping from its nest in the man's coat.
"The let's try this!"

Channeling Chakra to his legs and the bottom of his feet Naruto took off in a sprint straight up the ship's main mast a swirling ball of chakra once again sitting comfortably in his palm.

"Fool, that won't work either," Reddington said confidently not even bothering to try and dodge the attack.

"Rasengan!" Shoving his arm forward Naruto watched in shock as his Rasengan, like the Shuriken passed right through the man's body. "Is he like Tobi?"

No. Narrowing his eyes the knucklehead ninja saw the man's chest reform around his arm in a ball of white. Tobi became intangible but this guy. naruto's eyes widen as it hit. "He's not made of flesh and bone!"

"So you know my secret." Reddington's mouth twisted up in a maniacal grin his brown rotting teeth on display as he saw the realization form on Naruto's face. "Too, bad it's too late."

Grabbing Naruto's arm with one hand Captain Reddington held the blonde in place keeping the ninja's arm trapped in his chest while his other hand began to morph. "Cloud FIST!" He threw his free hand forward, his fist covered in a white as it smashed into Naruto's face carrying him all the way back down to the deck.

Naruto grunted rolling as he felt his back connect with the wooden deck. Kneeling he drew a kunai as Reddington retracted his fist the white arm growing smaller until it was the size of a regular arm and then it faded back to the regular red color his other arm was.

"You have a strange power."

Reddington jumped from the mast shifting his legs into clouds to soften his landing before back changing them back like he did his arm. "I ate the Cloud Cloud Fruit and became a cloud man. You won't be able to touch me, no matter how hard you try. Every attack will pass right through me! Ch-hahaha! Cha-hahaha!"

"Dammit, he's right." Naruto put his kunai away trying to figure out how the powers worked. With Tobi, it was his body being transported to another dimension and with the help of Kakashi-Sensei they could hit him, but this. The guy's body was made of clouds? It didn't make any sense!

"What now brat, are you going to attack again or are you frozen in fear? Ch-hahaha!"

"I wasn't planning on killing anyone, but..." Lifting his hand Naruto formed a Rasengan and began channeling wind Chakra into the Jutsu. He was going to have to destroy Reddington on a cellular level to beat him.

"Don't be so cocky.-Noshi!"

"Wha-!" Reddington's eyes bugged out the size of dinner plates as Naguri appeared behind him hammer raised above his head ready to come down any second.

Naruto released his control on his chakra letting the Rasengan in his hand dissolve. He couldn't use it now that Naguri was here. The old man would be caught in the blast.

"Didn't you see old timer!" Reddington yelled regaining his composure when he saw Naguri swing the hammer and not use a Devil Fruit power. "Attacks don't work on m-Arrgh!"

"Captain!"

"Holy crap." Naruto raised a very shocked eyebrow as Reddington was slammed into the floor his head bouncing off the wood before his body went limp and blood began to form a puddle around his head. "He hit him."

How was that possible? His Rasengan and Shuriken went right through the bastard, how was Naguri able to hit him? Did the old man have a special power as well? Naruto made a mental note to ask him about it but first. His gazed turned to the other pirates who were all pointing their swords and the other weird weapons they were holding at Naguri. he'd have to ask about those as well.

"Oi, old timer!" One of the pirates shouted holding his gun up. "Don't think you can hit the Captain and get away with it. Kill him, guys!"

"YEAH!"

"This fight is over.-Noshi." Naguri eyes shot open and Naruto could actually feel the power radiating around the old Pirate before it blasted outwards washing over everyone on the boat like a wave.

Naruto watched as all the other pirate's eyes rolled up into the back of their heads and they fell to the ground with a unified thud.
"Hey, what'd you do to them?" he asked staring at the bodies. he had felt the wave of whatever Naguri sent out as well and the only time he felt anything remotely close to that was when he fought Zabuza on his first C-Rank mission and when Orochimaru attacked in the Forest of Death during the Chunin Exams.

"This isn't the same though." He couldn't sense any malice or ill intent coming from the Naguri so he wasn't channeling K.I. But if that wasn't it, then what the hell did he do? Was he right when he guessed the old man had a weird power like Reddington? or was it something else?

"Come along Naruto, let's see if they have any treasure before they wake up," Naguri called out as he entered the cabin of the ship. Those pirates should be out for a while but it was never wise to take unnecessary chances.

"I'm not helping you loot the ship old man!" Naruto yelled back. "Well, actually."

He didn't have any of this world's currency and he was going to need some if he wanted to start a life here.

"Wait up Naguri!"

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(Hours later)

"Any sign of them Naruto-Kun?"

"We're still in the clear!" Naruto poked his head over the guard rail of the crows nest to look down at Naguri. "Like they would come after us anyway."

With their Captain, there was no way they would come after the guy who had taken down their entire crew without touching them. Unless one of them had a power like that cloud guy.

Sitting down he leaned up against the mast, his arms crossed behind him cushioning his head from the hardwood. Naguri had said he would explain all those weird powers before they reached the island he was sailing to, but how was he suppose to sleep with everything on his mind. Back home he was one of the strongest Shinobi alive, is power unmatched and the first thing that happens in this world is he fights a guy who negates all of his attacks. He didn't even know if the Rasenshuriken would work since Naguri had arrived.

And that was another question altogether. How did Naguri hit Reddington with a beat up old hammer when his Rasengan hadn't done a thing?

Closing his eyes he pushed the thoughts away trying to get his body to go to sleep. "No point staying up thinking about it if I'm not getting answers tonight."

(Next Day)

"Rise and shine, Naruto-Kun! Storm's coming in from the south."

Wiping the sleep from his eyes Naruto stood up gripping the rail o the crows nest as the wooden pole continued to vibrate. "I'm up! Stop hitting the pole with your hammer"

"I'm up. Stop hitting the pole with your hammer!" He yelled jumping down to the deck landing next to Naguri. "You trying to wreck your own ship or something?"

"It's not a pole, it the mast.-Noshi," Naguri said ignoring naruto's question. "Now I haven't found my old crew yet so it's just the two of us on this boat. Which means it will be up to you to keep her from wrecking in the storm. With a full crew, it would be easier but we'll have to work with what we've got."

Naruto smirked. "So the old man needed a crew." Crossing his index and middle fingers in a T, he channeled his chakra calling out the name of his signature Jutsu. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

In a silent puff, smoke exploded from Naruto's body covering the entire deck in a split second blinding both Naruto and Naguri.

Blowing the smoke away with a weak wind Jutsu naruto grinned spreading his arms wide. "One full crew at your service."

"How did you do that?" Naguri asked looking around at the dozen copies of the blonde littering his deck all grinning back at him. "You don't have a Devil Fruit. If you did you wouldn't have been floating when I found you."

"Devil Fruit?" Naruto rubbed his chin. "Reddington said he ate the 'Cloud Cloud fruit'. Would that be a Devil Fruit?"

"Yes," Naguri nodded. " The Red Bird pirates are what people consider Rookies on the Grand Line, but with te power of a Devil Fruit even a weak user like him is dangerous."

A cold shock washed over Naruto at those words. "Reddington was considered weak." How was someone you couldn't touch considered weak? Without whatever strange power naguri seemed to have you were screwed against a power like that. "He didn't seem weak."

"Very weak. He ate a Devil Fruit and whether it was luck or he knew what the fruit's power was, he got a Logia. Young Logia users die young like Reddington because they think they are invincible."

"Logia?"

Naguri reached into his robe pulling out a white curly apple that had a curly stem. "There are three types of devil Fruits in the world."

"Logia." Naguri held the fruit up. "The first and rarest class of the three types. Considered the most powerful of the Devil Fruits it is characterized by giving its user the ability to turn into a natural element or force of nature.

"Then we have the Paramecia, the second class of the three Devil Fruit types. These fruits give the users a power that can affect their body, manipulate the environment, or produce substances. They are the most commonly seen in the Grand Line due to the high amount of Fruits around the world.

"The last type of Fruit, Zoan, allows the user to transform into another species and inter-species hybrid forms at will. Zoan types are most dangerous in close combat but without the raw destructive power the other two types of Fruits are capable of it is widely considered as the weakest Devil Fruit."

"How would-" Naruto started to ask before Naguri cut him off.

"I will explain more when we reach the island. Until then focus on the storm."

Naruto reluctantly held his questions back. The Devil Fruits sounded cool and he wanted to learn more about them, as well as how to defeat them like Naguri did. But the old captain was right the incoming storm was a more pressing matter. Information about the weird fruits would be useless if he died in a shipwreck.
"How are we going to get away?"

"Get away?-No-shi-shi-shi." Naguri pointed at the sails with his hammer. "Why would we try to get away? We are right where we need to be to ride the storm."

"Ride the storm?" Naruto and his clones all shared a look the same thought running through their heads. "The old man had lost his marbles."

"Yes, all the way to Water 7!-Noshi!"

Next Chapter is up!

Leave a review with what you think and crew members for Naruto's fleet. Yes, he will have a fleet and yes characters from other animes our welcome. I already have a few ideas, mostly Fairy Tail character as their powers can be easily switched to devil fruit abilities and I like the Manga and their powers.