"Hahaha... Jiji just makes it too easy." Landing on the ground in the middle of the forest, Naruto lay the forbidden scroll down on the ground and sat down near one of the tree's to rest.

"Perverted old man. The Oiroke No Jutsu (Sexy Jutsu) gets him everytime." He snickered. He even managed to get away from the anbu! If he could paint the faces of the every single Hokage face on the mountain wearing an orange jumpsuit in broad daylight AND lose any ninja coming after him other then Iruka, then he could escape four anbu in the hokage office. Hell even the old man once joined in one of the chase. After having a few minutes of rest, Naruto went up to scroll and opened it up with sparkles in his eyes.

"All right! Time to learn me a new jutsu and pass the secret graduation exam that Mizuki sensei told me about dattebayo!" He exclaimed going through the list of jutsu's in the scroll.

"Hmmm... The Kage Bunshin No Jutsu? (Shadow Clone Jutsu) Hell no! I already suck at the Bunshin No Jutsu (Clone Jutsu) enough. No need to waste time learning another lamer version of it!" He said sticking his tongue out as if he had just tasted something foul.

"The Rasengan? Sounds stupid. The Reanimation Jutsu? What the hell does that even mean? Konohagakure Hiden Taijutsu Ogi: Sanzen Goroshi? (Three Thousand years of Death) Now that sounds cool! Damn it you need to know the Kage Bunshin No Jutsu. Wait what's this?"

After going through a list of many Jutsu's, Naruto came across a strange seal. Now, he knew how seals worked. You smeared your blood across it and voila. He just hoped his blood was good enough for the seal.

Biting his thumb and performing the hand signs shown on the scroll, he slammed his hand on the seal and a poof of smoke was heard as a cloud of smoke got right in his face.

Coughing and waving the smoke away, when Naruto opened his eyes, he found a small wooden chest on the scroll. Curious, he opened the chest and found the most bizzare and exotic looking fruit he had ever seen in his life.

The fruit was as big as a cantelope and yet it looked as if it was decorated in flames and embers. Naruto looked at the fruit puzzled, turning it over many times and inspecting it. "What's a fruit suppose to be doing in a scroll for forbidden jutsu? Oh well. Bottoms up." And so Naruto took a bite out of it.

And almost spit it out in the process. "THIS IS THE MOST DISGUSTING THING I'VE EVER TASTED!" It tasted as if he was eating roasted piles of garbage.

But he kept on chewing. Who knows? Maybe Mizuki sensei was already testing him?

Tears leaking at the corner of his mouth due to the taste, Naruto did something that would forever change his entire life.

He swallowed.

At first, nothing seemed to happen, but then he clutched his head in pain, something seemingly attacking it before he was assaulted by a vision.

"Did you guys know? When men share drink together, they can become brothers."

In the forest, a little kid, even younger then Naruto currently was, poured Sake onto three red sake cups down on a tree stump. The kid had obsidian eyes and wavy black hair that refused to cover his forehead. A grin stretched upon his freckled face.

"Brothers? Really!?" A more high pitched voice asked excitedly. This kid seemed even younger then the freckled face boy. He too had obsidian eyes, a straw hat covering his short, messy black hair. On his face, he had a scar right under hid left eye. His grin seemed to stretch even wider then the older boy.

Beside him, a blonde haired boy looking the same age as freckles. He too had obsidian eyes and a wide grin on his face, showing he was missing one of his teeth. He was wearing a top hat with googles strapped on them.

"We may not be pirates on the same boat, but we'll be united by our bond of brotherhood!" The freckled face boy exclaimed as he picked up one of the cups.

"So this way no matter what we do or where we are, no one can break that bond!" He exclaimed as the other two boys picked up their cups.

"From now on..." He started as he reeled his arm back as did the other two with bright grins on their faces. "...We're brothers!" He yelled out as the three of them clinked cups with each other and yelled out in agreement.

It was as if the sun was smiling down on them as their drinks sparkled in the sunshine, drops of it bouncing into each others cup as they downed their drink.

He opened his eyes, panting heavily as the vision stopped. After catching his breath, Naruto just stared at the fruit. He felt as if something inside him was resonating with this fruit. Everything in his instincts telling him to eat it.

So once more he took a bite out of it.

More visons assaulted his head.

"I don't know how to say it... I was there at port watching the Celestial Dragons coming in... But as they got near, a small fishing boat set out from out of nowhere!"

Currently, the freckled face boy and the straw hat boy were watching someone dressed like a bandit explain what he saw. They were inside a little wooden hut along with other bandits dressed the same way the one talking was.

"A fishing boat? What's that got to do with anything?" An orange curly haired big woman asked. Although she wasn't dressed the same as the others, you could clearly see she was a bandit.

The other bandit answered her question by continuing his story, his face as pale as snow. "The Celestial Dragon's ship fired on it and killed the person on board. It was a child... " He said shaking his head, with a sorrowful and grim expression on his face. "IT WAS SABO! IT WAS HIM!" He yelled out.

The two kids widened their eyes in horror as the the rest of the bandits couldn't even believe what they were hearing. "SABO'S DEAD!" The bandit finished with his eyes shut and tears in the corner of his eyes.

"Sabo is..." The freckled face boy trailed. Off, not even daring to finish his sentence in disbelief before his face contorted into rage and he tackled the bandit down "You liar!" He accused.

"Don't even joke about that!" He raised his fist in the air, ready to punch the bandit, ignoring the protests from the others.

"It's not a lie nor a joke." The bandit managed to say. "It was so sudden, I barely realized it happened! I doubted my own eyes! I wondered if it was a dream or illusion!" He cried out.

After pushing the kid off him, he went on, this time not able to hold his tears. "Do you think he would've went out to sea if he was actually happy? Do you think he would raise a pirate flag and set out on his own!?"

As if they were all bound by imaginary shackles, everyone froze.

The youngest one, the straw hat boy finally stumbled forward. "Sabo..." He croaked out, bawling hard as if he had just come to a sickening realization. "...HE REALLY WASN'T HAPPY!" He sobbed as the tears kept falling.

The vision then abruptly changed.

The freckled face boy was walking through the woods, a piece of paper in hand. He seemed to be allowing his body to go on auto pilot as he read the letter. The letter that Sabo sent before he went out to sea and died.

"Ace, Luffy. Did you guys get hurt at the fire? I'm worried about you guys, but I know your alright. Unfortunately for you two by the time you get this letter... I'll already be out to sea. Alot of stuff happened, but I decided to set sail before you guys. My destination is anywhere but here. I'm going to be stronger so I can be a pirate. Pirates are freer then anyone in this world! We brothers should become pirates one of these days. Then we can meet again somewhere out there..."

By the time the freckled face boy was almost finished with the letter, his body lead him to the cliff. A cliff where you could see the...

"... Somewhere in this vast free ocean! We'll meet again someday! Another thing Ace, are you the older brother or am I? It might be weird to have two oldest brothers and one little brother, but the bond we share is the greatest treasure I have. Luffy may be weak and a crybaby, but he's still our little brother! Take care of him."

By the end of the letter, the boy's lower jaw trembled as he stared at the ocean, before he let it loose. And he cried. It wasn't the silent sob either. No.

It was just a scream of misery. Of agony. A desprate cry to the world.

As Naruto ate the fruit, he would get visions mostly of the freckled face boy. He watched as the boy grew up and became a strong pirate. He watched as he gathered his own crew and made a name for himself. He watched as he fought a fishman, Jimbei for 5 days and nights. He watched as he was defeated, and welcomed with warm arms in to the crew of a pirate named Whitebeard. Shoving what was left of the fruit in his mouth, Naruto had one last vision.

"Was it... Good that I was born?"

All sound from the battlefield as the now grown up freckled face boy asked that question aloud, dying in his little brother's arms with a fist shaped hole in his chest. "Nobody... Wanted me... It was natural of course..."

"I can't speak loud enough for everyone to hear, so please pass on what I'm about to say." The younger brother was now filled with dread and horror, realizing this was the last moment he was gonna spend with his brother.

"Everyone... Pops... And you, Luffy... Even though I was always a good for nothing... Even though I have the blood of a demon on me..." The older brother's eyes became misty as he tried with all his willpower to tighten the grip he had on his younger brother with his limp arm. "Thank you..."

Tears streaked down his face as he sobbed. "THANK YOU FOR LOVING ME!"

With that his lips, though with effort, quirked up into a smile. He closed his eyes, truly looking as if he was able to look back on his life with no refrets, and fell to the ground.

There, now dead on the ground lay, the son of the King Of The Pirates, the commander of the second division in Whitebeards crew, brother of Monkey D. Luffy and Sabo. There lay Portgas D. -

"Ace." Naruto muttered as he opened his eyes in astonishment. He had just looked through the life of the last man who had eaten this disgusting, yet apparently powerful Devil fruit.

He looked at his hand and stared at it for awhile. Now he had ended up eating the Mera Mera No Mi. Well damn he had alot to live up to if he even wanted to come close to Ace's level. He clenched his fists as fire covered his hand. He panicked at first, but after realizing the fire didn't burn him, he just stared at it, until he broke out into a large grin. He was sure he could pass the secret graduation exam now.

"So there you are." He heard a voice call out, he blinked before he quickly put out his flame and turn around to see Iruka looking extremely irritated.

Rubbing his head with a sheepish smile on his face, Naruto could only wonder how long he had spent looking through the visions of Ace. "Dang, you already found me? I didn't even get to practice yet!" He whined.

Iruka's face went from irritated to surprised. "Practice?"

Naruto only grinned in response. "Yeah! I swear when you see what I can do, I'll definitely pass this exam and finally become a ninja dattebayo!" 'And maybe I can go out and see the world!' He thought.

Iruka looked confused by his words. "Pass the exam? Naruto what are you talking about?" He questioned.

"You know. The exam! No need to pertend Iruka sensei. Mizuki sensei told me everything! He told me if I could learn something from this scroll, then I could graduate! He even told me about this place!"

Iruka looked on in disbelief as he started to put the pieces together. 'Mizuki? But... Then that means-' Turning back after hearing the sound of kunai flying through the air, he pushed Naruto out of the way and the kunai all dug into his skin as he was pushed back against the wall of wooden hut.

"I'm surprised you were able to find this place Iruka." There, standing on a tree branch with 2 giant shuriken on his back was Mizuki.

"I see... So that's how it is." Iruka managed to say after realizing Mizuki was the rumored traitor in the ranks.

Naruto could only look between the two in shock, clearly not understanding what's going on. "Naruto. Give me the scroll." He demanded coldly.

"Wait wait... What the heck's going on here?" Naruto asked in shock.

Panting heavily and pulling the kunai out of his leg, Iruka never took his eyes off Mizuki as he warned Naruto. "Naruto. Don't give Mizuki the scroll! That scroll contains forbidden jutsu in it. That's why it was sealed. Mizuki used you so he could have the scroll to himself!"

Naruto shifted down into a battle stance, looking like an angry predator as he glared at Mizuki. "What!?"

Mizuki only looked back at him with a smirk. "Naruto, Iruka is only afraid of you holding thag scroll."

Naruto released Mizuki from his glare as he became confused, turning his head to look at Iruka. That wasn't true right? Iruka wasn't the same as the everyone else who despised and feared him for no reason right!?

"What are you saying Mizuki! Don't let him fool you Naruto." Iruka denied.

Fool him? He didn't even know what to believe anymore! What was even going on!

But Mizuki only laughed at Iruka mockingly. "I'll tell you the truth Naruto." Hearing that, Iruka started to panic. "Idiot! Don't do it!" Mizuki merely ignore him.

"Twelve years ago a certain rule was made." He started. Naruto stared at Mizuki, more confused then ever. A rule? What did that have to do with anything? He already didn't follow over half the rules in the academy. "A rule?"

"That is a rule that everyone in the village but you knows Naruto."

Naruto looked hurt that yet again, he had been isolated. He had been left out while everyone else wasn't. He didn't care whether it was petty or not, the point was he was left alone again. "Everyone but me!? What is it!?" He demanded to know.

If anything, Mizuki's smirk only seemed to widen. "STOP IT MIZUKI!" Iruka begged desperately, but it was already too late to stop now. "That rule, forbids anyone from telling you that the Kyuubi didn't die twelve years ago, but was instead sealed in you. In other words, you are the Kyuubi who killed Iruka's parents and destroyed the village all those years ago!"

Naruto felt like he just had his whole world flipped upside down. He barely heard Mizuki point out the fact about how strange it was for everyone to hate him. He thought back to all these twelve years of hid life, everything he had to endure.

The beatings from everyone in the village, the insults and glares he always got, getting kicked out of the orphanage, crying because he was scared of the scary stories he heard and developing a phobia of ghosts because nobody was there to tell him they werern't real.

All that... Was because he was different. He finally understood now. Naruto Uzumaki never existed. All that ever did was the Kyuubi.

Gritting his teeth, a burst of fire escaped him and spun around him wildly as he closed his eyes and tried to deny it all. "No no no no no no no no!"

The two other ninja had to cover their eyes due to the brightness of the flames and the heat. "What the!? Don't tell me the blasted Kyuubi brat already went berserk!"

Taking one of the giant shurikens, Mizuki threw it right at Naruto which Iruka managed to notice from the corner of his eye.

Opening his eyes, Naruto noticed the giant shuriken coming at him and the flames died down as he panicked and tried to get away.

"Duck Naruto!" Following the advice, Naruto ducked his head down and heard the shuriken pierce through flesh... But not his flesh.

Naruto stared wide eyed at Iruka, who covered Naruto and let himself get hit by the shuriken.

But... "Why?"

Iruka could only look at Naruto with sadness and understanding.

"Because... We're the same... When my parents died, people stopped paying attention to me and stopped supporting me... So I ended up doing stupid stuff to make people notice me... It was so lonely..."

Much to Naruto's shock, Iruka started to cry. "It must of hurt huh Naruto... You've suffered alot on the inside haven't you." He choked out. "I'm sorry... If only I had been more responsible, maybe you wouln't have suffered so much."

He wanted to believe him. He really did...

"Don't make me laugh! Iruka has always hated you ever since you killed his parents! He's just saying these things to get the scroll!"

...But he didn't know what to believe anymore. Who to trust.

Getting up, Naruto ran as far into the woods as his legs could take him, ignoring Iruka's calls. All he did was run.

Timeskip

Naruto panted heavily as he rested by one of the trees. All the while pulling his hair in frustration.'Damn it damn it damn it DAMN IT!' He didn't know what to do anymore.

He just found out the Kyuubi, the monster that destroyed the village, the monster who killed so many innocents and taken away so many from the loved ones, was sealed inside him.

His arms fell limp as he just stared forward. He didn't look angry, he didn't look sad, he didn't look dead, he just looked...

Lost. He could see why everyone hated him, the cause of the villages destruction and the death of so many people. He didn't blame them. He even killed the parents of Iruka, the one man he thought actually cared for him. Now, he was sure Iruka was just like all the other villagers.

He always thought Iruka was different from the rest because everyone just hated him for no reason while Iruka seemed to act so kind and compassionate towards him. It made him feel so happy to know someone cared.

Now though, he knew Iruka had a reason to hate him. A reason to want him dead and act like all the other villages. Could he have been faking the kindness? Probably.

"Was it good that I was born?" He asked nobody as he looked up at the sky. He couldn't help but ask the same question Ace always did. He was sure Ace found his answer. There was no way he would die in the arms of his little brother with a smile on his face otherwise.

Now, he needed to find his answer. He needed to know.

"Gah!"

Hearing a cry of pain, Naruto tensed before looking passed the trees and saw Iruka laying down, looking exhausted by the injuries he got. Mizuki got up from his spot on the ground -where he had been tackled to- and turned towards Iruka.

"Iruka. Why are you helping the Demon who killed your family anyway?"

"I won't let you have the scroll." Iruka answered, causing Naruto to tighten his grip on the scroll as his eyes held rage in them. Was that all he was doing right now? Protecting the scroll? Loathe he admit it Naruto was actually starting to understand what Mizuki said. Iruka never cared. That didn't mean Naruto liked Mizuki any better either.

"Fool. Don't you know he's the same as me?" Iruka raised an eyebrow at that, clearly not understanding.

"The same?" The Chuunin instructor questioned as Mizuki smirked. "That's right. Anyone who has that scroll can do whatever they want with it. There's no way that monster won't take advantage of the scroll."

Naruto awaited what Iruka had to say. Whatever he said next would finally show Naruto what he really thought of him.

"Yeah... The Demon would do that wouldn't he." He asked rhetorically.

Naruto grimaced. He honestly was hoping he was wrong. That Iruka really did care. All that time, all that kindness Naruto was shown was nothing but a lie.

"But not Naruto. Naruto's different..."

Hearing those words, Naruto's eyes shot open in surprise. "He's... An exceptional student who I've acknowledged!" The man cried out proudly.

Naruto's hair shadowed his eyes and his lower lip started to tremble.

"He works hard, he's single minded and he's clumsy at times. Nobody ever accepts him, but he's knows about the suffering in their hearts! He's not the Demon fox... He's Konohagakure's Uzumaki Naruto!" Iruka declared with conviction.

Hot tears of joy streamed down Naruto's cheeks as he listened. He finally found someone who acknowledged him. Someone who acknowleged his existence.

He heard Mizuki talk about dealing with Iruka and his eyes darkened. Like hell he was gonna let that bastard touch him.

Coming out of his spot in the trees, Naruto rushed up to Mizuki and kneed him in the face, causing Mizuki to throw the giant shuriken that was meant for Iruka in an entirely different direction. "I won't let you lay a hand on Iruka sensei you bastard. I'll kill you." He stated with murder in his eyes.

"Shut up! I can take care of a brat like you in one blow." The traitor boasted arrogantly. In response, Naruto smirked and raised his hand up. "I'd like to see you try." Suddenly, his hand burst into flames, surprising Iruka and Mizuki greatly.

'No hand signs! And such Nature manipulation. Just what did Naruto learn from the scroll?' Iruka wondered in awe.

Once again, Naruto rushed at Mizuki, the latter getting into a defensive stance despite the flames on Naruto's hand.

'Sorry about this Ace. I'll be borrowing your signature move. The move that made you know all across the world! This is gonna be my first step forward.'

Reeling his fist back, the flames dimmed down and concentrated all around his fist.

"HIKEN! (Fire Fist)" Naruto, with all his might punched Mizuki, and all the flames concentrated in his fist burst out in front f him, effectively burning Mizuki to ashes as he screamed in agony.

Anyone and everyone from the village was able to see the bright, hot flames that almost made it seem like it was morning.

Panting, Naruto put his hands on his knees to try and regain his breath. When he looked at the direction of his attack he became shocked.

Anything in the direction of his attack was burnt to a crisp. Even the ground underneath the attack was burnt, leaving a long ditch that stretched out for at least dozens of meters.

He looked at his hand once again, and produced a small flame before it flickered out. 'So this is the power of the Mera Mera No Mi.' He thought in awe.

"Naruto..." He heard Iruka call out. Turning back, he saw Iruka with a shocked expression on his face, before he smiled gently at him. "That was something else. You've gotten alot stronger then before. We'll talk about your first kill with Hokage-sama. Come over here and close your eyes."

Although confused, he did as he was asked.

After a few minites went by, Naruto started to become impatient. "Iruka sensei, are you finished yet?"

He received no response at first, but then Iruka told him that he could open his eyes. After doing so, Naruto noticed that for some reason, Iruka was no longer wearing his headband, and he was holding onto Naruto googles. Actually, when did those come off?

"Naruto... Congratulations on graduating." At first, Naruto was lost. He graduated? Then where was his hitai... Ate... The gears in his slow, dense as bedrock brain finally started to comprehend what had just happen.

"Let's go celebrate your graduation at Ichiraku's after we talk with the hokage alright?" Iruka offered.

Naruto looked down, and he was so uncharacteristically quiet Iruka started to get worried. Just as he was about to make his concern known-

"IRUKA SENSEI!" Naruto pounced on him and hugged him tightly, further stressing out Iruka's injuries causing him to cry out in pain as he was hugged to death by the now blonde Gennin.

A.N. All right so there it is! This was an idea that came to me as if I was struck by lightning. This is shorter then what I usually write but I'm just experimenting with this idea right now. After this chalter, Naruto may undergo a tiny tiny bit of a personality change. Maybe.

Ace in Naruto's eyes is a figure he respects greatly. Naruto being the orphan he is and having nobody to look after him and nobody to care for him well... He get attached to figures he respects alot. Part of the reason he even wanted to be hokage is because he respected them. The other reason was to get acknowledged by the village.

You can't help but want to be like the person you respect so greatly. Especially in Naruto's situation. Now, he won't have a complete personality change if he even does, but the changes will be seen.

My last One Piece crossover with Fairy Tail sucked. Now that I look through it, I don't know what the hell I was thinking when I wrote it. So I really want to do a better one, since One Piece is one of my fav animoo and any other idea I have for another animoo just don't work out, or satisfy me.

Disclamer: I do not own One Piece or Naruto