Hello everyone! I am really SORRY that I haven't uploaded anything in a long long long time. I just didn't have any motivation to write. But I am finally back and rolling! And thank you for all the support you have given me. Anyways let's get on with the chapter.

Meeting Ace

"Hey Itachi! Will you join my crew?" Naruto asked, in hopes that such an amazing man would agree.

"That would be ideal Naruto." Itachi smiled as he walked to Naruto and extended his hand before saying "Please to meet you captain." "Then that mean, you accept my offer?" Naruto asked shocked. "Yes, do you mind if I bring my brother along." "Why would I care! The more the marrier!" Naruto said as he enthusiastically shakes Itachi's hand.

"That is nice and all but I gotta go ask my brother if he want to come along or not. See you around Naruto." Itachi said with a small wave as he got out of the restaurant. Leaving a happy Naruto.

"Alright two more member to the crew!" Naruto shouted rather excitingly.

(With Itachi)

"Sauske." Itachi said as he landed right behind Sauske, starling the young Uchiha.

"What do you want Ni-san?" Sauske asked, annoyed with his brother ability to sneak up on him.

"Well, you see I think I am going to have to leave this place." Itachi said with a slight sad tone.

"WHAT WHY! THIS IS OUR HOME!" Sauske was shocked at the news.

"I kind of told Naruto that I would join his crew." Said Itachi rubbing the back of his head.

"YOU DID WHAT! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!" Sauske shouted, rage and confusion evident in his voice.

"Suaske, staying here will do us no good. You want to get stronger don't you? Then why don't you follow Naruto on his adventures. He won't set off until the next 7 years or so and will keep sailing in the Red haired pirate ship. You can be trained by a Yonkon. " Itachi said. "And I want you to go have some fun." Itachi said that in his mind. "But…." "Sauske, make up your mind, even if you don't want to follow, I am going." Itachi said as he walk away, confident that Sauske would join the crew.

"FINE! BUT PROMISE ME YOU WOULD NEVER LEAVE ME!" Sauske shouted, getting a smile from his older brother.

"Of course." Itachi said as he poked Sauske's forehead with his middle and index finger causing Sauske to pout a little.

"Let's gather our stuff then. They are leaving today evening." Itachi said as he gestured Sauske to follow him.

"Already, I don't know isn't this kind of rushing things?" Sauske asked.

"Pirates can't be in one place for too long or the marine will find them. Why don't you pack your things and enjoy the pirate life." Itachi said as he walked away, with Sauske following behind him.

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Sauske asked unsure. "Yeah, I wouldn't do anything to hurt my little brother." Itachi said reassuring the young boy.

(6 hours later after Naruto and Sauske met)

"HEY DON'T YOU GET COCKY! I AM ONLY FOLLOWING MY BROTHER NOT YOU!" a certain voice was heard in the redhaired pirates ship.

"OH YEAH! I AM NOT THE ONE WHO INVITED YOU! YOU ARE JUST LUCKY THAT I LET YOU IN BECAUSE OF ITACHI!" shouted another voice.

"YOU SHOULD CONSIDER YOURSELF LUCKY THAT I….." There was a group of people watching the boys argue. "This is going to be a long journey." Itachi thought. "If that Sauske guy and Naruto-nisan are already arguing after meeting for like 1 hour, I don't want to imagine what it would be like in the future. Hopefully it gets better." Thought Konohamaru. "HAHAHA! It looks like Sauske is giving my nephew a run for his money. But It really bother me that, that is what I look like when arguing with someone." Laughed Shanks. "Will I be able to take naps after this." Thought Benn. "Man, I swear if those two break a part of the ship I am throwing them off." Yasopp thought. While Lucky Roo was just eating his meat.

(SUPER MEGA ULTRA TIMESKIP! 6 years later)

6 years has passed in a blink of an eye for our young adventurers. Everyone was excited, especially our blond hero, because his journey is going to start in the next 2 years. During this time, Konohamaru had trained under Yasopp. One would think that when a person is training under one of the best sniper in the world, that person would become a sniper, but that is not the case for young Konohamaru, he had became exponentially skilled at using a Bo Staff. In fact he had gotten a wanted poster now. It is as follow.

Monkey King Konohamaru

The picture is about Konohamaru swinging the Bo staff at a person. Konohamaru wears a regular blue T shirt and short pants. He also wears a bandana that said "Konohamaru" in it.

Wanted dead or alive

Bounty: 194 million beri.

Konohamaru had tried to stay a low key but he got a wanted poster eventually. His first ever bounty was 40 million beri.

Itachi had proven himself as the strongest in Naruto's crew. He is even stronger than Naruto, his captain. Overtime Itachi had sort of become a mentor for Naruto, Konohamaru and Sauske. He also had a wanted poster that said…..

Red Moon Itachi

The picture is about Itachi looking at the camera with his Sharigan and in the background, crows were flying all around him.

Bounty: 460 million Beri.

Itachi first got his bounty when he singlehandedly defeated 9 vice admirals, 3 rear admirals and over 100 marine soldiers. Most of the marines died in the battle against Itachi , but all the vice admirals and rear admirals were utterly broken only repeating the word "Red Moon" and thus the name red moon Itachi. The vice admirals earned a place in a medical hospital after that, never recovering. Due to his actions and his "Past ties" He was given a whopping 300 million beri for his first ever bounty and it increases over time.

Sauske had become much more open with people, and is no longer a stick in the mud, well for most of the time anyways. Sauske had developed a rivalry relationship with his captain Naruto. Those two would compete in anything they do. From Rock paper scissors to who can defeat the most marines.

Sauske had become an excellent swordsman and is now almost at the same level at Naruto. He also has a wanted poster.

Inferno Sauske

The picture is of Sauske spitting out a big fireball at a ship, and in the background was, … Naruto shouting?

Wanted dead or alive

Bounty: 355 million beries.

Sauske is the only one in the crew who deliberately tries to get his bounty to rise. He would usually find and kill wanted pirates, or go as far as sinking Marine's ships, he wanted to beat Naruto's bounty so badly that he would go around hunting down marines. Though Itachi suspects that Sauske also had "other reasons". Sauske's starting bounty is 100 million beris when he sunk a marine ship with a vice admiral.

Naruto had improved a lot in the past years, although he isn't quite at Itachi's level yet. Naruto saw Sauske as a brother who always competes with him in everything. Naruto had become the clown of the crew despite been a captain, he was always there to cheer people up. Naruto had also found out another ability of the clone clone fruit. The ability is that, he was able to clone not only himself but others as well. Well, in order to clone others, Naruto had to touch them directly. His bounty had improved as well.

One Man army Naruto

The picture was of about 100 Narutos … dancing? In the back ground was Sauske and his brother face palming.

Bounty: 500 million beries.

Naruto's bounty increases when the marine found him training with Shanks one day, The fight was so intense that the marine that was watching them trains, fainted because he could not handle their haki. And surprisingly the marine was a captain level. That was when his bounty raised from 400 million to 430 million. His bounty took another leap when he killed another three Celestial Dragon because he "felt like it". Kizaru arrives but couldn't stop Naruto from escaping because Naruto made so many clones that Kizaru didn't know where to target, while Kizaru was busy Naruto used Soru to get away. Naturally when someone got away with killing a celestial dragon their bounty rises. And in Naruto case, it raised to 500 million.

Now Naruto and the gang are heading somewhere.

"Where are we heading to now?" Naruto groaned as he looked at his uncle.

"No idea." Was the reply of the Yonkon Shanks, getting a tick mark from Naruto "I HAVE BEEN TRAVELING WITH YOU FOR 6 WHOLE YEARS AND YOU STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHERE WE ARE GOING! OH WAIT SORRY, I SHOULD BE THE ONE APPOLOGIZING FOR THINKING THAT YOU KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING!" Naruto snapped, this got a tick mark from Shanks as he snapped back. "Will there ever be a day when I can take a proper nap again." Groaned Benn from the crow nest.

"HEY STOP ARGUING!" Sauske shouted as he angry came out of his room and made his way to the two arguing.

"SHUT UP!" the two Uzumakis shouted only for Sauske to shout back, once again as always it become a big fight of words.

"Was there ever a day they didn't argue?" said Lucky Roo.

"How many time has it been." Sighed Benn.

"They argue, for about 13 times a day, for 6 years now. Meaning they had argued for over 28470 times now." Itachi said with a poker face, getting a blank look from the crew.

"WOW" was all the crew could say.

"Hey captain, it look like there is a big ice island ahead of us." Shouted Benn from the crow nest.

"Ohh really, let me see." Shanks said as he took out his binocular but before he could look at the island Naruto's voice rang out shouting "Whoever see the island first is the winner" then, quickly knocking the Binocular out of Shanks hand but before he was able to look at it, Sauske snatch it "GIVE THAT BACK!" Shanks shouted as he once again took the binocular out of Sauske's hand and once again there was a big brawl going on over the binocular. The crew could only sweat drop at the trio. They were focus on fighting that they didn't even know that the binocular flew right out of the brawl.

(1 minute later)

"ARE YOU FINISHED!" Yassop shouted as he stand before a heavily bruised Naruto, Sauske and Shanks who were sitting beside a broken floor of the ship.

"Yes." The trio said sadly and apologetically.

"Sometimes I wonder who the youngest people on the ship is." Konohamaru thought with a sweat drop.

(3 minutes later, the bruises on the trio magically disappear)

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Naruto and Sauske were shouting and staring at each other without stopping or blinking.

"What are those two doing?" asked Itachi with a blank face.

"They are seeing who can scream the longest and who can stay without blinking the longest." Said Konohamaru with a "-_-" face.

"Hey Naruto, Sauske we are landing soon on the ice island, so you better put on your sweater!" Itachi shouted while the duo just waved at Itachi, saying it was ok, only for Itachi to let out a big sign.

"AHHHHHHH…." Sauske soon stopped shouting and was now panting a lot but still didn't blink. Then Naruto stopped shouting as well and said "Aha 8662 to 8661" but right after he said that he blinked this time Sauske smirked and shouted "HA it is tie again!" only for Naruto to scowl.

"AHH IT IS FREEZINGGG!" they both shouted as the quickly ran in to their rooms and grabbed their sweaters. "Seriously, they sometimes remind me of me and my sister." Shanks thought with a small smile.

(3 hours later)

The Red haired pirates were climbing the ice mountain, and Naruto and Sauske were having another staring contest with Itachi and Konohamaru right behind them.

"HA I beat you again that is 8663 to 8662!" Sauske shouted with a victorious smirk, only for Naruto to point an accusing finger saying "THAT IS BECAUSE OF YOUR SHARIGAN!"

"I knew bringing you along was a good idea, Sauske." Itachi thought with a small smile.

"ALRIGHT CREW! WE ARE PARTYING IN THIS CAVE!" Shanks shouted pointing to a rather large cave.

"You should quiet down captain, or the cave might cave in." said Benn.

"Yeah, Yeah. EVERYONE PARTY TIME!" Shanks shouted.

"YOSHH!" Shanks crew shouted back.

"Why does no one listen to logic." Benn thought with a sigh, while Itachi gave him a look that said "I know how you feel bro."

(2 hours later)

"NOO! I AM NOT DRINKING SAKE!" Naruto shouted.

"Hey dobe, let's see who can drink the most Sake!" Sauske taunted Naruto.

"NO, That is something I can never beat you at." Naruto said calmly.

"And why is that?"

"Because if you put U S in the middle of Sake it become Sauske! HAHAHAH!" Naruto laughed at his own joke while the other looked unimpressed.

"Hahaha that is pretty funny kid." Came a voice from outside the cave.

"Huh, hey thanks man." Naruto shouted even though he didn't know who the voice belong to.

Then a man came in, he was wearing a cloak and had an orange hat that had 1 smiling face and one sad face. "So have a rookie of the sea came to claim my bounty?" Shanks asked as his one arm went to his sword. When that is happening all of the others in Shank's crew tried to look intimidating.

"Nah, it is nothing like that I just came to say thank you for what you did for my younger brother." The man said with a grin as about 10 men came in behind the man. "Your brother?" Shanks raised an eyebrow.

"Yup, his name is Luffy." Said the man.

"Luffy? WHAT You are Luffy's brother. HAHA kid never said he had one." Laughed Shanks.

"Who is Luffy?" asked a confused Naruto.

"Yeah, I am his brother, and I really want to thank you for saving my borther's life." Said the man as he bowed.

"Nah, don't worry about it, So what's your name?" Shanks asked.

"Ace, Portugas. ." the now said Ace said.

"Ace? Portugas. ?" Shanks looked surprised.

"Why? Is something wrong?" "Oh Nothing!" Shanks said but in his mind he was thinking "This kid is the captain's son. Interesting. I wonder if I will ever meet his twin sister." (Yes! Ace has a twin sister in this story)

"So Ace, how is Luffy?" asked Shanks. "Like always, shouting that he will become the pirate king." Ace laughed as he said that. "What is so funny?" "Nothing it is just that I will be the pirate king before him." Ace said. "Oh really, how do you plan to do that?" "First off, I will gather a strong crew after that go after the world's strongest man and take him on. This will make me well known throughout the seas." Ace said with determination. "Ohh, Whitebeard? How do you plan to find him?" "I will have to find Jimbe first." "AH I see it looks like you are well informed aren't you." Laughed Shanks. "Thanks." Ace said with a smile. "Wait, what is going on? Who is this guy?" Naruto asked pointing at Ace, only to get a frown from Ace and a laugh from Shanks. "Umm he is the brother of the kid I saved in the East blue." Said Shanks with a smile. "Oh I see, then hey dude, you seem strong do you want to join my crew?" asked Naruto with a big grin. "No thanks. I can't join the crew of someone weaker than me now can I?" Ace asked with a cocky smirk. "OH Yeah, do you want to see who is stronger?" "HAHAHAHa, I like you kid, you are on!" Ace said with a smile.

"Wait, how it turned into a fight did?" asked a confused Konohamaru.

"Don't you dare lose Naruto." Sauske shouted.

"Aren't we supposed to be partying?" asked a sad looking Shanks "Hey come on, it is rare to see your nephew fight someone with such a strong will." Benn said coolly. "HEY COME ON LET'S FIGHT!" Naruto shouted "JUST REMEMBER TO FORFIT IF I AM TOO MUCH FOR YOU!" Ace smirked as they both ready themselves for a fight.

TO BE CONTINUED

Preview: If Naruto keeps using that technique he is going to wear himself out. GO ACE CAPTAIN! You are pretty tough aren't you. FIRE FIST! AHH HOT!

Next time: Fire vs Wind

Hey guys, I hope you enjoy this chapter. It took me a long time to write this. And why did I gave Ace a twin sister? Well, you will find out as the story progresses.