Hey guys, guess what, that's right, I started yet another story, but this time, it's a One Piece/Naruto crossover instead. Hopefully, I can get a significant portion wrote down before a new idea mind rapes my head. Anyways, I don't really have a pairing. I don't know; let me know what you think because I always appreciate the reviews. Now then, onwards, to victory, to glory, and most importantly, to pie!

A Brotherhood?

Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. His heart was beating loudly in his ears and the blood seemed to be rushing to his head as the temperature seemed to rise drastically, his head lolling forwards for a second before snapping back up as he kept his eyes on the prize, his first prey of the week, heck, the only prey of the week.

He braced his feet against the branch, then with a tremendous release of tension, he pounced on the innocent boar beneath him, only for the boar to run away at a loud noise, just as a group of three kids entered the clearing, one with a dirty straw hat, another with a mangled top hat, and the final one, most likely the leader, had no hat, but scruffy black hair.

He couldn't stop himself as he bowled the Strawhat over, the other two jumping back in surprise at the sudden appearance of an enemy.

"Sorry, I was aiming for that boar you scared away with your loud noises." Was his gruff apology, pushing himself to his feet as he left the Strawhat sprawled on the floor. Walking a short distance away, he turned to face the trio.

"Yep, 25 feet, I can work with this, the Strawhat doesn't look like much, and Tophat doesn't look like the brawler type, its Black hair that I need to watch out for." He thought as Tophat helped Strawhat to his feet.

"And what were you planning on killing it with, your bare hands?" Black hair asked, his arms crossed in a defensive stance, Strawhat smiling as if we were best friends.

"Well, if you must know," He started, bending at the knee to pull my weapon free from my boot, rising with a small dagger in hand, the blade portion shining brightly, not a speck of blood to tarnish it, a darn shame.

Flipping the dagger between his fingers, Strawhat seemed to lose any remaining tension as he stuck his hand out. "Hey, my name is Luffy, do you want to be my friend?"

"Luffy, what have I told you about asking random strangers to be your friend, for all we know, he could be a member of Bluejam's crew!" Black hair admonished as Strawhat sulked, looking bewildered.

"Bu-But Ace, he couldn't be much older than you, and besides, if he was a Bluejam Pirate, wouldn't he have already tried to kill us." Luffy asked, his tone low, just in case this earned him yet another disciplined lesson.

"Luffy has a point Ace, and besides, who cares, there's another kid in the forest to join our crew, now we have four!" Tophat said, his tone excited as Ace seemed to deflate some more, that is, until the boy cut them off.

"Wait a minute, who said I want to be your friend, a crybaby Strawhat, a excitable Tophat, and a rude Black hair, you three go together perfectly, because no one else would want you. My name is, well, my name isn't important, what is important is that I get some lunch, which you so loudly interrupted!" The boy shouted as he turned on his heel, running into the forest.

"You think we should go after him Ace?" Tophat asked as Ace nodded, the trip perking up. Luffy cracked his knuckles, and Tophat smirked, while Ace held his grim look before his face split in a wide grin.

"Of course, I want to beat the crap out of him, Sabo, no one snubs Portgas D. Ace and gets away with it, catch that midget." Ace said, leading the group as they broke out into a run. Pulling a staff out of nowhere, Ace smashed the tree as they passed, leaving a deep indent in the trunk.

Meanwhile, the boy ran through the forest, using his dagger to cut any offending brush out of the way. Suddenly, he took a sharp right, swinging his blade at a seemingly unimportant vine, severing the hanging green appendage; however, as the two halves separated, a large piece of the tree in front of the boy fell down like a drawbridge, the boy sprinting up the wood before grabbing yet another vine, hauling the wood back up, closing the opening.

Now safe inside his personal fortress, the boy began climbing up the inside, heading for a small opening higher up which opened out on to an overhanging branch. Sitting low on the branch, his body submerged in shadows, he saw Ace, Luffy, and Sabo run underneath him, not noticing him. Snickering, he jumped down, running off into the forest to try and salvage his hunting trip by catching something, anything.

After a short while, the sun was beginning to set, and his arms were still empty, his stomach long since announced its displeasure with the current conditions. The boy was starting to lose his temper, yelling at his gut to "Shut the heck up", until he heard a rustling in the bushes, he raised his nose to the air and took three short sniffs.

"I know that smell, its cow, and by the sounds, it's a big one too. Oh, thank you, oh higher entity than I, for supplying me with sustenance today." The boy said, keeping his voice to a quiet whisper so as not to scare away his only potential meal. Holding his dagger to the side, he ran at the bushes, jumping over them to land on the cow and slit its throat without any trouble, except it wasn't a cow, well there was a cow, it was just clutched in the jaws of a truly massive spider that easily matched a ship in size.

Letting loose a girlish scream, the boy turned tail and took off running, raising hell all through the forest as the spider finished its meal, and gave chase, after all, what creature passes up a free meal. The boy used every bit of his memory of the forest to try and escape, but it seemed the spider had traversed even bigger distances than him, since it always seemed to be on his tail. In fact, the only reasons he wasn't currently encased in silk was because its size prevented it from following him directly, instead running across the treetops as it shot long, sticky streams of silk at his fleeing boy.

Diving forwards to dodge another shot, he went over a cliff, rolling down the side into a clearing surrounded by rock, not too high to climb out, but too high to do so quickly, the spider seemed to realize this as it dove off the side after him, using its string to rappel down the side before landing with a mighty Whump!

The boy inhaled deeply, his fear taking over as he pointed the puny in comparison dagger at the giant arachnid, vaguely noting that the dagger was about the size of the spider's pupils. Gathering what little courage he had left, the boy focused on his enemy, intending to go down fighting after all, he would die either way, at least this way would be remembered as the one who tried to kill Mr. Fearsome.

The spider decided to start things off with a shot, which the boy swatted aside, the string sticking to a boulder as the spider swung it around, forcing the boy to duck under the massive rock. Taking a deep breath, the boy charged the spider, dodging to the side of two more shots before tripping on a patch covered a third shot, holding him in place before he cut himself free, but not before being knocked away by the spider.

H is back exploded in white hot pain against the rough stones, several stabbing into his back which didn't have much more protection than a thin cloth shirt. Feeling the warmth, he felt where the wounds were and traced the bloody lines clawed into his back. Pushing himself up, he swung at a swinging leg, the blade barely entering the tough skin as it threw him back against the wall, pinning him as the sharp hairs on the leg pierced his skin, more blood joining the growing pool on the floor as he sawed at the leg, finally managing to sever the tip before he fell to the ground, promptly followed by a heavy weight lancing through his shoulder as another leg sunk in, then a fang as venom flooded his system.

He tried to scream louder, only for his body to lack much needed oxygen as the leg began crushing his lungs. Accepting his fate, he closed his eyes, his final breath leaving his body,…until he heard a cry of "Gomu Gomu no Pistol!" followed by the fang sinking deeper before falling back as the spider switched targets, attacking Luffy for it was his voice the boy heard shouting the attack.

What followed, he attributed to the venom reeking havoc in his veins. He saw Luffy's arm stretch out, followed by Ace swinging down the Cliffside, his trusty pole catching on branches and handholds, allowing him to slowly descend. Sabo didn't seem to have that luxury as he was the first victim, a stray shot of string catching his left elbow, pulling him off the cliff as he plummeted, Luffy jumping after him to catch him.

The boy forced his arm to move, a futile gesture to tell them to go away and save themselves. Seeing that it didn't work, he tried words, only for a dry, racking cough to erupt from his throat as oxygen lead the charge down his windpipe, furiously integrating itself in his body as he spit, licked his lips and tried once again for words.

"Go… away…Ru…Run f…Run for… your…your lives." The boy gasped out, his voice barely reaching his own ears, much less theirs, especially over the ensuing fight noises. Pushing himself to his feet, he lifts an arm, only for his bitten shoulder to erupt in white pain, sending the boy back to the ground.

"Dang…it!" He hissed through clenched teeth, rising once again. "Give me the power, so I won't be a burden ever again, so that I won't have to be saved. Give me the power to be the one who saves!" The boy yelled as he forced his legs to move, slowly at first until he gathered speed, running headlong at the fight, his treasured dagger clutched tightly in his right hand.

Stumbling more than swerving, he weaved passed the shots of string as he swung the small blade with every ounce of his strength left, digging into and slicing off a leg as he went with the momentum and tumbled to the ground, barely avoiding a falling hairy leg.

Looking up, he saw Ace slam his pipe into the head of the spider, green slime spouting out, coating the Cliffside in goo, as Luffy wrapped his arms around the legs, pulling the together and tripping the spider as it fell, Sabo descending like a vulture as he kicked its eyes; the spider letting out a muffled roar as it broke free, shooting a line of string to a tree on the cliff top, pulling itself up and away from danger even as the three boys pelted it with rocks.

The boy tried to smile, until his vision went dark and the ground met his head.

His eyes fluttered open to see three faces over his, Luffy, Sabo, and Ace, one worried, one happy, and one stern, respectively. Seeing he was awake, Ace offered his hand to help the boy to his feet, the boy choosing to sit on the edge of the makeshift bed he found himself laying on.

"Where am I?" The boy asked, running a hand through his messy yellow hair. He blinked a few time to clear his vision, although it didn't help at all, and when he exhaled, his breath rotted his eyebrows.

"Oh, you're at Dadan's. Don't worry, she's nice, she'll take care of you and make sure you don't die." Luffy said, before Ace planted his fist in Luffy's head.

"Don't just answer something when asked, just ignore them or ask something before answering!" Ace yelled, as Sabo watched his two 'brothers' fighting yet again.

"Honestly, dying is the least of my worries; I just need to get back to my home in the forest." The boy said, the two fighting brothers ignoring or not hearing him, Sabo however did, and answered in place of Luffy.

"Oh, you have a home in the forest too huh? If you tell me where it is, I'll carry you back while these two sort out there problems." Sabo said, extending his hand to the boy.

"Hmm, 'fraid I can't do that, a pirate has to have his secrets after all, you might be a government spy?" The boy said, giving a small smile to show that he was teasing.

"Oh, oh, oh, you hear that guys; Wild Boy over here is going to be a pirate too!" Sabo said excitedly, the statement making both brawlers freeze, Luffy pulling Ace's hair while Ace force fed Luffy his hat.

"Really, then, then, maybe you could be our friend, after all, we did fight together, that's the first step to being friends." Luffy said, also extending his hand, the other one still holding Ace's hair.

"Wait, we have to put it too a vote, Ace, how do you plead?" Luffy added, letting the black-haired boy as he rose as well.

"It's vote, you idiot, and I suppose we could let him in, as long as he says I'm stronger than him." Ace said, raising his hand like he was going to punch Luffy, only for the boy to grab his fist, surprising Sabo and Luffy, angering Ace.

"Never, a pirate has no better than himself, and no shipmate is lower than any other, that is my number one rule as a pirate!" The boy said, throwing a punch back, which Ace caught effortlessly, his anger lightening at the words.

"And a good rule it is, if you had admitted defeat that easily, I would've never accepted you as a member of my crew. Welcome to the club." Ace said, actually smiling as he said the words.

"Your crew? If I'm going to serve under anyone, it's Strawhat over here; he seems like the most fun to be around." The boy said, pointing a thumb at Luffy, who blushed and hid behind his hat, speechless for once. "Just don't ask me how I know that when he can't even accept a compliment, skewed as it was." He added, tilting his head, and smiling good naturedly.

"I vote yes, I want him for my crew!" Sabo added, Luffy shoving his friend as everyone turned to Luffy.

"Well, Strawhat, I don't have all day. Tell you what, if you vote yes, I'll give you a present." The boy said coaxingly.

"Fine, yes, I vote yes." Luffy said before adding, "Now where's my gift?" Making everyone break out in laughs as the boy climbed to the window, jumping out as he headed for the forest and his home tree.

Vaguely hearing three echoes behind him, the boy ran to his tree, opening the door the manual way. Entering the room, he looked around before finding what he was looking for. Grabbing it, he exited the tree, making sure to lock it after himself.

Seeing the three boys outside, he tossed the object to Luffy who caught it, it was a slightly larger version the boy's dagger, Luffy held it up by the tip.

"Here Ace, you can have it, I have a punch as strong as a pistol, I don't need a blade to win a fight." Luffy said, handing the 'gift' to Ace, who shrugged before pocketing the knife.

"Now then, we have a drink, to welcome our new brother to the crew!" Sabo cheered, the two other mirroring him.

Pulling a bottle of alcohol, and four saucers from no where, Sabo poured everyone a drink before they all toasted the cups, gulping the burning liquid down in one gulp.

"Now then, I suppose I should introduce myself, my name is.. well, you can call my Foxy." Foxy said, smiling before leaning back to avoid three timed swings that would've sent him back into unconsciousness. "Fine, fine, name's Naruto, don't like, well guess what, you can take your opinions and shove them up your pretentious butts, kids nowadays." Naruto said, looking up into the sky.

Well, there you have it, so let me know what you think, also, did you like my mass upload for my stories. If things work out right, I may do that again for New Years, anyways, I don't have much to say other than, please bear with my choices soon, since it was hard for me to try and work them out. Also, the idea of a Naruto growing up with Luffy and Ace, but joins the Marines is in my head. That won't happen this time, maybe another one is needed. Since I'm about 80 words short of 3,000, I'm going to keep talking so as to keep it even, okay? Also, I've made a general outline up to Loguetown, so after that, it may take a little longer to get done, but just bare with it. I have a start to Naruto's pirate crew, and so far have only 4 OCs to 3 canon, including Naruto.