Ok, here's the second Challenge I accepted from the Challenger called Fox of the Sea. I hope you like it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or One Piece!

Normal talking: "Treasure!"

Thinking: Treasure!

Demonic talking: "Treasure!"

Demonic thinking: Treasure!

Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze watched from his hiding place as the man, Captain Kuro he believed, once again punched Luffy. At first he was interested in this lot. He had been passing through when he had heard the sounds of battle. He had made his way over in curiosity and saw a hypnotized youth tare off the front of a pirate ship before collapsing with it on top of him.

At first he had prayed to Kami for his soul as no normal person could've survived such weight smashing on top of him, but was surprised when he felt a heartbeat and the steady breathing of someone sound asleep. He had laughed. This world was sure interesting.

He was even more curious when he saw the boy, Luffy, extend his arm all the way up the cliff. They started talking about 'Devil Fruits' and he assumed that that's where his strange power came from as there were no Bloodlines outside of the Elemental Nations.

The battles between Zoro and those disturbing brothers kept him interested. His mother was an amazing swordsman and this man had the makings to be great as well. The three sword style…it was quite unique. True, he'd met someone who used eight swords, but he rarely saw someone who used two, let alone three.

All his interest went downhill when Captain Kuro came. He was just another scumbag that started to wipe the floor with Luffy. Yes, he felt sorry for the boy, but pain and experience was life's best teacher, not speculation or lectures. Don't pick fights you can't win.

Captain Kuro, or as the man clearly stated he didn't want to be 'Captain' anymore, was making a fool out of the Devil Fruit boy while complaining about reputation. Naruto had rolled his eyes. If you didn't want a reputation then don't do something that will give you one. It's as simple as that. The man was also talking about a 'perfect plan'. Nothing was perfect and certainly not plans. There's always a loophole and always that little bump in the road that seemed determined to make sure it's never completed.

Luffy stretched out behind him and grabbed a boulder as Kuro charged for him, causing the man to slam his claws into the rock. Naruto raised a golden eyebrow while Kuro just looked pissed.

"It seems you can do more than just stretch." growled the man in glasses.

"That's right!" Luffy exclaimed as he started crushing the large boulder, something that made Naruto blink at. He didn't expect the boy was that strong. "I've been getting stronger so I can be a pirate!"

Naruto smirked. That sounded a little like him when he was younger and wanted to be a ninja. Get stronger to be what you want. Get stronger. Kyuubi had always whispered those words to him.

Luffy jerked the boulder to the side, snapping off five of Kuro's blades or, as Naruto liked to put it, trimmed the bad kitty's claws.

"And you know what? If you don't want a reputation," Luffy started as he slammed the boulder into the ex-pirate. "Then don't be a pirate!"

Naruto grinned. So true. Then Luffy said something that sparked his interest.

"You're just greedy Kuro, but I have ambition!"

Naruto laughed. This boy…he intrigued him.

It had been ten years since Naruto had left Konoha, and during those ten years Naruto had gotten stronger than he could ever have hoped to have gotten inside of that horrid village. He still remembered those horrible beating and still had nightmares of them.

He remembered a particularly severe beating when he was three. He had gone into a state of near death, like many times before, but he had ended up in his mindscape. Of course, he didn't know what it was at the time but he remembered himself being oddly calm. He had hoped that he was dead and that it was all over. Instead, something else happened.

He met the Kyuubi.

He had wondered into Kyuubi's cage in a certain time when Kyuubi was cursing both the citizens of Konoha and the Yondaime. Yes, he had been scared, terrified in fact, but god forbid he was curious so he had neared the cage.

Kyuubi, upon sight of him, calmed down to an almost neutral level and they stared at each other for what seemed to be an eternity before he had jumped towards the startled demon with a multitude of questions and only stopped when Kyuubi covered his mouth with the tip of one of his tails.

After that, Kyuubi had gone into great detail about why he was attacked. He was hypnotized by a bastard called Uchiha Madara, founder of the Uchiha and co-founder of Konoha. Of course, he was confused as to why the man was alive but it was because of the Sharingan, that troublesome bloodline.

And the Kyuubi had given Madara the bloodline himself. The Sharingan was actually a mutated version of the Byakugan who came to Kyuubi crying and pleading to change the bloodline and the demon had taken pity on him only for Madara to stab him in the back and try and control him time and time again.

The two had talked for quite a while, he had learned of his parents, and the Kyuubi offered to make him a half demon. Taking up this offer would mean that Naruto's strength and abilities would be heightened and when Naruto becomes seventeen he'll completely absorb the Kyuubi and become the new Kyuubi. He'd stop aging when he reached the age of twenty and be one of the most powerful beings in existence.

At first, Naruto didn't know what to do. Become a demon? But that would just prove the villagers right and he didn't want to give them that satisfaction. But he'd also love to rub it in their faces when he turns into a Demon Lord. His decision made, he had accepted and became consumed in unmatched pain.

He awoke a week later in the hospital and immediately told Sarutobi who seemed intrigued, a little too much. Kyuubi warned him not to trust the old man, but Sarutobi cared for him and raised him, protected him from the mobs.

A few days later, he had overheard the Hokage talking with the elders. They wanted him killed and he came to the shocking truth "I allowed you to beat on him and make him submissive, but I won't have you kill our future weapon." and his trust went down the drain.

From then on the Hokage assigned him teachers, one of which was Hatake Kakashi who seemed to hate him the worse. He trained him severely and the blond ended up in the hospital more times than not. He learned his father and mother's techniques from the scrolls he snatched form under Sarutobi's nose.

He allowed the Hokage and village to believe he was still submissive to everyone as to not have a Loyalty Seal placed on him. If one was then he'd never be able to escape. He hid his true power and smarts, knowing that they'd come in handy for when the time to escape came.

When Naruto was six Kyuubi gave him a bloodline called Arashingan, the Storm Eye (or Eye of the Storm). Its powers made the Council and Sarutobi drool in greed as he had no choice but to tell them its abilities to keep under the radar. The Arashingan was by far the most powerful bloodline yet. He had complete control over water, wind and lightning and was able to use them without handsigns or saying the name out loud. It took less chakra to use them and he was immune to their strikes from enemies.

Some of its special uses were being able to pull water out of thin air and being able to use the Hiraishin no Jutsu (Flying Thunder God Jutsu) without the special kunai the Yondaime had to use. It allowed him to use Nature Chakra quite easily as if it was the natural chakra running through his coils. He's able to turn his whole body into either water, wind or lightning at a time to easily escape a jutsu or whatnot.

After he gained the Arashingan the Hokage and the Council started to take a greater initiative and train him in the more dangerous arts. Kyuubi trained him every night in his mindscape, slowly losing his power to Naruto every hour

Training in the Demon Arts was much harder than normal Jutsu. It required yokai not chakra and was harder to wield but much more powerful. With Kyuubi as his sensei, however, both the Demon Arts and the Ninja Arts were conquered much more easily than with those other teachers who stared at him with those eyes, the eyes that accused him of murdering hundreds of people the night he was born, the eyes that would make anyone else cry, the eyes that made you feel empty and useless.

By the age of eight he was at Anbu Captain level in the Ninja Arts thanks to the village's stupidity and want for a powerful weapon like the other villages. He had performed countless assassinations for the village and was still treated like mud. On the night after his birthday he snuck out of the village rather easily.

A week later he had become an S-Ranked Missing Nin with an order of capture alive. They still wanted their weapon and he was sure they had a Loyalty Seal waiting for him on a silver platter if he ever got dragged back.

"W-wait, did he just-"

Naruto snapped out of his musings and stared down at the pirate group before.

"H-he just broke Captain Kuro's Cat Claw!"

"Only five more." Luffy chuckled as he dropped the boulder and stared down at Kuro.

"D-don't worry! He can still fight and beat this midget! He still has his other claw!" a pirate shouted. Naruto rolled his eyes. Idiots. Despite what it looks like, he grinned, the battle has already been decided when he heard that Luffy had ambition.

"Rip him to shreds Captain Kuro!"

"Hey, he doesn't like that name, remember?"

"Isn't he called Clau-Ha-Something here." another pirate mused.

"Clau-Ha-Something?" another pirate muttered. Before all the crew started to break into shouts of that name causing Naruto to chuckle.

"Shut your mouths…ALL OF YOU!"

Naruto shook his head as Kuro started talking about killing off the crew. It reminded him of Danzo and the man's attempts to make him abandon emotions and kill everyone, even comrades.

It also reminded him somewhat of Kisame from the Seven Swordsmen of Kiri. He encountered them shortly after his departure from Konoha and he started traveling along with their group. They had abandoned Kiri after the Mizukage started the Bloodline wars.

After seeing his interesting style at swords fighting and found out that he was a member of the Uzumaki Clan, they practically forced him to learn from them. It seems that swordsmen have a deep admiration for the Uzumakis who were legendary swordsmen. His mother, Kushina the Red Death, only proved to them that it was true.

He was the closest to Kisame and Zabuza. After two years of training with the group, everyone separated while the two and he stayed together. Though Kisame was the type of guy to kill all who stand in his way, even Nakama, he would never hurt family and he saw Naruto as a little brother. Zabuza was just a tag-along.

After a year or so, they heard about a group called the Akatsuki that consisted of S-Class criminals that were hunting Jinchuuriki. Worried for his little brother, Kisame infiltrated the place and became a spy like how Itachi was one for Konoha.

Eventually, he and Zabuza spit as well after he picked up a boy named Haku and took him in.

Along the way, he encountered Hanzo who was lying in a pool of his own blood, knocking on death's gate. He had saved the man and he started to train Naruto, seeing the potential in the boy. The man never did like seeing Jinchuuriki used as weapons. They already had enough at being a jailer.

During his time with Hanzo, he learned that Jiraiya of the Sannin was tracking him down so the two started to keep a low-profile. They met Tsunade who was drinking at a bar. After telling her their names, she screamed bloody murder and embraced Naruto who was quite shocked and confused at the time.

Later he found out that she was his godmother who was told by Sarutobi that he had died during the sealing and had left out of grief of thinking she lost yet another person. When she heard about everything they had done the group had to hold her off from marching off to Konoha and destroying everything in her path.

At first when she heard that the Kyuubi was talking to him, she got worried and started sprouting question after question, well, mostly exclamations of "Don't listen to him" and "Take back control" and "Don't let him win" while the Kyuubi was laughing his ass off in the seal. After she found out the truth she calmed down, but she still threatened the Kyuubi which Naruto found both amusing and frightening.

The four then joined up together and started traveling, Tsunade teaching Naruto basic medical jutsu and her chakra control that gave her massive strength. Naruto had only grown madder at Konoha and Sarutobi when he saw everything he could've had in the beginning. A family, power, a mother.

Not long after they joined up, Hanzo decided to leave and scout out any allies that were still alive and pay respects to his fallen ones. At first Naruto was reluctant as Hanzo started to seem like a father to him but the man assured the boy that they would meet again.

Time flew bye. Dodging Jiraiya, avoiding Konoha, outsmarting Hunter Nins, training with Kyuubi, training with Tsunade, turning into a demon, yes, Naruto had his life pretty much booked. Naruto met Gaara and instantly became friends after fixing the boy's seal. The Ichibi was even doing the same thing to Gaara that Kyuubi was doing with him.

Then, when he was fifteen, Jiraiya showed up and was determined to take Naruto back to Konoha until Tsunade beat him to a bloody pulp and explained the real situation. Angered, Jiraiya decided to travel with them and lead the Hokage on elsewhere.

With Jiraiya around things were both easier and harder. The man was peeping a lot and therefore too hurt by Tsunade often to train him. When he was well enough he was quite the help, especially with his father's techniques and with Nature Chakra.

When he was sixteen he became an SS-Ranked Missing Nin.

"You guys are dumb." Luffy suddenly said. "You're the most uncool pirates I know."

"Uncool? Pirates are savages and nothing more! They're animals that aren't able to rise above their nature. Without my plans they wouldn't accomplish anything. Crews are simply a means to an end. They're just pawns in a game the Captain plays. I decide if they live or die. I say fight they fight, I say die they die. Disobedience means death."

"What a nutcase." Naruto muttered, crossing his legs as he moved to sit at the edge of a cliff, astonished that no one had noticed him yet.

Luffy simply stared at the man with a plank yet accusing gaze, one that Kuro found himself powerless under. Luffy didn't waver in his stare, and Naruto was truly impressed with it. Finally, Kuro snapped under it.

"This is how pirates are! Don't you dare look down to me!"

"You know, no matter how many hundreds or thousands of men follow you as their Captain," Luffy looked up with a grin. "You will never be as good as Usopp."

How interesting.

"Are you saying I'm not as good as a kid playing a pirate in a fantasy world?"

"Yep."

Kuro laughed. "You cocky brat! Just because you snapped off one of my claws doesn't mean you'll automatically win! How is he better? How!" Kuro shouted as he did a little dance with his feet and disappeared.

"Cause he's got heart." Luffy said as Kuro appeared behind him with wide eyes.

"What?"

"You will never know what a true pirate is!" Luffy shouted as he stretched his arm and did a complete three-sixty, slamming his fist into Kuro and sending him flying into the cliff.

Naruto's foxy grin widened, showing off unnaturally large canines. Yes, he liked this kid. He was a born leader, one that was destined for great things.

Naruto narrowed his eyes as he watched Kuro start to swing back and forth and the pirates panic. He knew something was wrong instantly from that hunched over stance. Luffy simply stood there unwisely, not analyzing the situation well. Naruto didn't blame him though. He wasn't as adept to battle as he was.

Suddenly, Kuro disappeared and purple smoke filled the cliff area. Naruto saw Kuro as clear as day as the man was moving rather slow compared to a shinobi, but he knew that to the others he was invisible.

He isn't… Naruto thought as Kuro neared his crew. His suspicions were confirmed when the man sliced a pirate causing Luffy to gape.

"H-how'd he get over there?"

Naruto watched as Luffy got more and more pissed. He wasn't going to interfere. He wanted to see for himself what the boy was going to do no matter how much he despised this situation. Luffy gained cut after cut but stood still and strong.

"DON'T YOU HAVE ANY HEART? THOSE MEN ARE YOUR NAKAMA!" Luffy screamed out angrily.

Suddenly, after receiving a few more cuts, Luffy grabbed onto Kuro and slammed him against the ground and a smile formed on his face.

"I found you."

"Bastard. Accept your fate to die here." Kuro growled out, sprouting out a few more sentences that Naruto found no meaning to. "You see, though you are going to die here I'm going to make you writhe first." He finally finished before starting to sway again.

Soon, Kuro declared what he did a warm up and Naruto didn't doubt it. Kuro was stronger than he let on, but that still didn't mean that he stood a chance against the boy. Grinning, he leaned back. Now, show me what you can do Luffy.

He watched, impressed as the boy grabbed onto Kuro and laughed when the pirates started to cheer on Luffy. Suddenly, Luffy's head shot back towards them after head-butting Kuro and screamed to the frightened crew "What right do you have to cheer me on!"

Naruto chuckled, remembering the Fourth Shinobi War. He and Gaara were the center of it after all. Some brat named Sasuke had caused most of this. Orochimaru was the first to attack the Nations, wanting to take complete control and gain eternal life. Of course, he went after him and Gaara being the last Jinchuuriki.

He had defeated the snake after nearly a day of intense battling, mostly him trying not to rely on half his abilities, aka Demon Arts. This, of course, caused him to be feared even more.

He had soon lost contact with Kisame and discovered from Jiraiya that he and Itachi were discovered, Kisame getting killed by Madara and Itachi by Sasuke. Naruto had gone into rage after that, destroying the whole forest he was in before stomping towards the battlefield of the Fourth War.

He had joined the village side and started killing off resurrected shinobi, Kabuto, and some of the Akatsuki members with the villages, including Konoha, cheering him on. Come to think of it he had said something very similar to them that Luffy had said to the pirates. It was truly remarkable how similar they were.

After Sasori had fallen to a girl named Sakura he confronted Madara. They battled for hours until he saw the dawn of his birthday and kept fighting through the pains of becoming a demon. Of course, Madara saw this as a chance and tried to control him.

Kyuubi saved him.

With the last of his strength, Kyuubi jumped out of the seal and tackled Madara, taking the weakness to the Sharingan with him, removing the bloodline from Madara's eyes.

"Get stronger to be what you want. Get stronger, kit. I'll be watching over you."

And with that the demon disappeared from the earth. Naruto, feeling a new strength, confronted Madara once again while Gaara kept everyone else at bay while fighting Hidan who just seemed to refuse to die.

It didn't take long after for Madara to lose his head, literally. The war was over, all was well. Sasuke, from what he heard, was brought back to Konoha and Gaara was made Kazekage. Sometimes he would find a shinobi who was trying to get him to return to Konoha to be a weapon. Otherwise life had gotten boring.

He had grown too strong for anybody to battle, much stronger than the former Kyuubi which had gained him SSS-Class Status and sent his bounty to the World Government outside of the barrier. They rarely associated with the outside world, only when it was emergencies did they.

He had been in this part of the world for a total of two months, mostly out at sea, and he'd already found something interesting.

"T-that guy beat Captain Kuro!"

Of course he did.

"N-not even the Marines could catch him!"

Of course not.

"J-just who are you!"

They finally ask the question? Naruto thought with a roll of his eyes.

"I'm Monkey D. Luffy. I'd never lose to one who betrays his Nakama, abandons his name, and hides from the sea. That's nothing but a coward."

"Luffy…? I haven't heard of him…"

"Remember it, because I'm gonna be King of the Pirates!"

Naruto's eyes widened before he chuckled. Oh yes, this boy was beyond intriguing. He was sure he'd hear much more about him soon.

Luffy picked up the knocked out Kuro and threw him into the mass of pirates. "Get out of here!" he shouted. "Never come back!"

The pirates ran away, screaming in fear.

Naruto watched as the orange haired girl, Nami he believed, ran up to her Captain with a bag of what he could only assume was treasure. He collapsed out into her arms and she smiled gently.

"You did good, Luffy. You did good."

Naruto focused back onto the pirates fleeing and falling into the ocean. It was a funny sight. He got ready to leave when he heard Nami speak as she sat next to Luffy who was laying on the ground.

"Why were you so mad?"

"I loathe people like that. That is not how friends should act."

"Of course not. Not every pirate is the honorable, brave, gentlemanly people you make them out to be, Luffy." She said while picking up his straw hat.

Luffy eyed her before he said. "I want some meat." which caused her to slam his hat down onto his face.

"You're unbelievable!" she shouted, causing him to laugh loudly.

The two looked towards Naruto who was clutching his side in mirth. It had been a while since he had seen such a sight. "You two are interesting." he said in his naturally raspy voice which caused Nami to blush for a moment.

Naruto knew he was attractive, he was told he was all the time. He had muscles built for speed, slitted eyes that were as blue as the ocean sky, sun-bleached blond hair and tan skin always attracted the ladies, though he had to admit he almost never noticed right away. He knew many were also attracted to his demon allure.

"Who are you?" Luffy asked suddenly, cocking his head to the side.

He grinned. "Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto."

"Who?" Luffy asked while Nami screamed in fright, crawling backwards. "N-Nami?"

"N-N-Namikaze U-Uzumaki N-Naruto!"

Naruto nodded, knowing exactly why she had such a reaction: she was afraid of him.

"W-what's wrong?" Luffy asked his crew member, looking completely perplexed.

"You idiot, you don't know who he is!" she screeched.

"No." he answered truthfully causing her to bop him on the head.

"Listen closely, you hear. You know about the Elemental Nations, right?"

"Yep! The only place not under the World Government's control and all who enter never return!" he answered happily, always having contemplating on having an adventure there.

"The Elemental Nations have never sent out any warnings or wanted posters of criminals past their borders but they have one time. It was telling of their most powerful worrier able to destroy mountains and create tsunamis without Devil Fruit powers! He's an actual demon, a demon and I'm not lying! His name was Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto!"

Luffy's eyes widened and he turned to look at a bored looking Naruto before his eyes lit up in stars. "A demon!" he shouted happily. "AWESOME!"

The blond's eyebrows rose at this, staring at the drooling and sparkling youth. "Can I help you?"

"Join my crew!"

"Eh?"

"WHAT!" Nami screeched. "Luffy, are you insane?"

"But wouldn't it be awesome?"

"No, it wouldn't!"

Naruto chuckled at them. "Perhaps I will…but first you have to do something."

"What?"

"Prove to me your strength. I only take orders from the strong. Prove to me you're worth being my commanding officer. Create a name for yourself, don't lose to anyone. Prove yourself, Monkey D. Luffy, and I'll join your ranks. Until then I'll give you the ship I've been using, it's called the Black Sun. It's yours for the taking. Good bye, Luffy."

"Just you wait! I'll prove to you I'm worth being King of the Pirates!"

Grinning, showing off his sharp teeth and fangs, he chuckled. "Then I can't wait." and he vanished with a ship appearing before them.

Luffy smiled happily as he stared at the ship in front of him. It was large, large enough for each crew member and a few more to have private sleeping quarters, yet looked like it was built for speed. Despite it being a black ship, it looked inviting and friendly. Its sails were both black and white with the watchtower being enclosed as a different room; its wood a deep nearly black color what shimmered like wood did after a polishing, the front had a snarling dragon carving that someone could easily sit atop of if they had excellent balance. Yes, Luffy liked this ship very much.

He'd prove himself not only to the demon but to the world, he swore it.

Rage: Was it a bad beginning? Good? Did I fail? Please review and no flames please! Some of the dialogue was taken off of the Funimation Dub with slight changes here and there.