This is my first fanfiction so if there is anything that you can think can be improved please tell me via constructive criticism. In this story Naruto will be serious and slightly dark, so yeah…. pretty OC. This will all be explained in a later chapter.

The Grand Line. To some people Paradise, to others a nightmare. Before the Golden Age of Piracy, only the bravest dared to enter the Grand Line, however due to the death of Gol D. Roger's more and more amateur pirates have entered the treacherous sea in hopes of finding the greatest treasure known to man, the One Piece. The treasure left behind by the pirate king.

22 Years After the execution of Gol D. Roger

In the small Foosha Village in the East Blue, many of the villagers were gathered around the port, waving to two people in a fisherman's boat. The eldest of the two was standing proudly waving back to the people, while the younger one was sitting down leaning against the boat with a confident grin plastered on his face. The eldest one turned to look at the younger boy.

"Come on Naruto! Don't you wanna say goodbye to everyone?" The young man asked. The man was dressed in a sleeveless red vest, short blue trousers and a straw hat resting peacefully on his head. He had messy raven locks and scar under his left eye and a wide grin. The young boy now known as Naruto looked up at the man.

"Because this won't be the last time they see us Luffy, we're gonna be in plenty of newspapers soon." Naruto replied calmly. He wore fingerless opera-length black gloves with red-brown studded leather straps, baggy black pants that a pouch on the back pocket and a kunai holder on the left thigh, red-brown sandals and a baggy dark red shirt (1). He had untamed, blonde spikey hair, sky blue eyes and six whisker marks, three on each cheek giving him a feral-like appearence.

"Guess your right! Shishishishi!" Luffy chuckled while he continued waving back to the villagers.

"Goodbye Luffy and Naruto!" Shouted a woman with green hair pulled back into a hair band leaving the bangs and an apron.

"See ya Makino!" Luffy replied back.

"Don't go up causing trouble, you're already bringing shame to the village." Advised an elderly man with a simple yellow-collared shirt, khaki shorts and a fisherman's hat. He had a mustache and beard.

"Baka, Wood Slap." Naruto muttered silently.

"What did you say, brat!" Wood Slap shouted.

"That you're a baka!" Naruto shouted back, he turned to face Luffy, leaving a fuming Wood Slap behind them, "You ready to get going?"

"Yep!" Luffy answered with his grin still on his face. He was about to go to the oars when he noticed a shadow overcoming the boat. Luffy turned around to see the Lord of the Coast looming over them. Naruto looked over it lazily and then looked at Luffy.

"You got this?" Naruto asked. Luffy smirked.

"Do you have to ask?" Luffy answered with a rhetorical question, he then looked up at the sea king "You were the one that took Shanks arm." He declared. As the mighty sea king launched forward Luffy pulled his arm back, "Gomu Gomu no…" just before the Lord of the Coast made contact with the boat Luffy launched his fist forward and connected hard with the sea king's face "Pistol!" With that punch the sea king was sent a good 20 meters away.

The villagers cheered as Luffy managed to defeat a deadly sea king with single punch.

Somewhere in the East Blue

A large cruise ship was making its way throughout the East Blue. It currently held a large party with some of the richest people in the East Blue attending. The sailors weren't allowed inside the ballroom, but that didn't stop them from having a few drinks outside. One of the sailor's that was currently in the crow's nest was looking out for pirates or anything unusual. As he was looking around he noticed a barrel floating towards the ship.

"Oi! Get that barrel out of the water, hopefully there's something of value inside!" The sailor told the other crewmembers down below. Doing as they were told, they heaved the barrel out of the water and placed in on the ship.f

"Bloody hell, what's inside this thing, it weighs a lot!" One of the sailors carrying it said.

"Carry that to the…" The sailor started to say when he saw something in the corner of his eye, he turned to it and gaped at it when he saw it. It was a large pink ship, with four sails, one of them higher up than the other three. On each of the sails was a heart and the figurehead was a duck with hearts replacing the eyes. But the thing that scared him was the flag that was on the mainmast. It was the flag of the Alvida Pirates.

"Pirates!" The sailor shouted. The ship was immediately in a frenzy of panic. The crewmembers where desperately trying to calm down the passengers, but their efforts where in vain.

Alivda Pirates Ship

All of the pirates were lined up on the deck of the ship. With an extremely obese woman staring them down.

"Okay boys! This is a good haul I'm expecting so don't let me down, especially you Coby!" She shouted at the crew, at the end eyeballing a scrawny looking kid with pink hair, glasses and looked completely out of place "It's looting time!" And with that the raid began. The pirates were either jumping or zip lining across the gap.

While all of the others were out doing all of this, Coby was trying to hide from all of the chaos. In truth he didn't even want to be there. He wanted to be a marine but in a mix-up he became the chore boy for a horrible and extremely overweight pirate. He was looking around for something to take that wouldn't be risky. A barrel rolled past him and that's when he got the idea. He would take the barrel and then put it with the rest of the barrels of rum in the food and drinks storage in the ship and hide out there for the rest of the raid. Coby walked over to the barrel and attempted to lift it up, but couldn't even manage to pick it off the ground.

"What type of barrel of rum weighs this much?" Coby silently asked himself. As he knew that he couldn't lift it up, he settled for rolling it. Just before he got there three other members of the crew stopped him.

"Whatcha got there Coby?" The more muscular one in the group asked.

"J-Just a barrel of rum I-I was going to take t-to where we keep the drinks." Coby replied nervously and quietly.

"That's quite a big barrel of rum. I don't suppose you were going to keep it for yourself Coby?" The other members took this as a silent hint and started to make their way to the barrel slowly. Coby picked up on this.

"A-Are you s-sure you wanna do t-this, what if Alvida f-finds out?" Coby advised them.

"Oh, we know what she'll do, that's why she's never gonna find out. Isn't that right Coby?" He eyeballed Coby, his hand on his sword. Coby nodded quickly "Now lets get this bad boy open!" He raised his sword into the air and and just before the sword was able to smash open the barrel.

"What a great nap!" Luffy shouted as he smashed his way out of the barrel, knocking out the pirate in the process. Luffy looked at his surroundings, "He shouldn't sleep on the floor, he could catch a cold."

"You were the one that did it!" Everyone shouted at Luffy.

"I did? Shishishishi!" Luffy laughed at himself.

"Don't think your gonna get away with this!" One of the pirates shouted. They started to advance onto Luffy.

"Ahh! Run!" Coby screamed in panic. He closed his eyes so that he didn't have to see what happened to the man. He opened his eyes after a while to see a sight that he certainly didn't expect. Both men had been taken down by the straw hat wearing man who was standing casually as if nothing happened.

"Jeez, what are these guy's problems?" Luffy asked to seemingly no one, he looked around to see if there was anyone else, "Oi, Pinky is there any food around here?"

"Y-yea t-there's some in t-the f-food storage." Coby answered, too scared to tell him off about what he called him.

"Cool! Let's go!" Luffy shouted. They walked to the food storage. Luffy literally jumped at the crates of food, "Mmmm… I wonder how much meat they have…" he wondered to himself as he started to drool. He was slightly disappointed when it turned out that it was just apples.

"M-my name's C-coby, w-what's yours?" Coby asked nervously.

"The names Luffy, future King of the Pirates!" Luffy introduced himself.

"K-king of the Pirates!?" Coby repeated.

"Yep, that's my dream."

"I-impossible! The King of the Pirates controls the sea, he's the strongest pirate there is, they have to defeat every other pirate on the seas, they have to traverse through the Grand Line , you'll die-" He was interrupted by a hit across the back of the head from Luffy, "Ow! Why did you do that for?"

"Cause you were annoying me, look it's my dream. I promised a very important person that I would make my dream come true and if I die, then I die. It's alright if I die trying to achieve my dream," Luffy explained while twirling his hat on his finger, "you have a dream right?"

"Y-yea…I…I want to be a marine! I want to arrest bad pirates like Alvida!" Coby confessed. Then there was a crack in the floorboards above them, and then Alvida came falling down, creating a large cloud of dust doing so.

"COBY!" She screamed.

"Y-y-yes Alvida-sama" Coby addressed, hoping that she didn't hear what he said.

"Who are you going to arrest exactly?" Alvida asked.

"U-uh, w-w-well, I-I w-was j-just-" Coby stuttered.

"COBY!" Alvida shouted, causing Coby to stop immediately, "Who is the most beautiful woman in all of the seas?"

"W-well that w-would," Coby started, but then he remembered the talk that he had with Luffy about following their dreams, "definitely not be you! You fat whale!"

"Shishishi! Good one Coby!" Luffy congratulated.

"How dare you!" Alvida screamed as she brought her iron mace down on his head.

'Well, at least I was honest at the end' Coby thought to himself as he was preparing for death. What he didn't expect was to hear a thud before it connecting with his head. He looked up to see Luffy's head in-between him and the mace.

"Sorry, but that won't work on me!" Luffy told Alvida.

"What!?" Alvida couldn't believe that someone could be on the receiving end of one of her attacks and ive.

"I'm a rubber man!" Luffy proclaimed. He grabbed Coby and jumped out of the way of Alvida, "C'mon Coby!" He leaped onto the deck through the hole that Alvida created while holding onto Coby. When Luffy landed on the deck he thought that he would have to fight all of Alvida's men. But instead he saw all of the crewmembers bloody and beaten, some of them dead. He also saw a familiar face sitting on top of a pile of bodies.

"Naruto!" Luffy greeted his friend. Naruto opened one eye lazily.

"About time Luffy. Do you know how hard it was to try and find you after you went through that whirlpool? And then when I got here I had to deal with the cannon fodder." Naruto explained.

Flashback

"Wow! I never thought that our adventure would end so quickly!" Luffy exclaimed when he saw the giant whirlpool that was in their way.

"You can be such a baka sometimes Luffy," Naruto pointed out as he looked around for something to help them get out of this mess, "Luffy, get inside that barrel there."

"Good idea!" Luffy shouted as he jumped into the barrel, "Wait, what are you going to do? There's only one barrel."

"I'll figure it out." And with that Naruto jumped off the boat and onto the water. Not into the water. He was standing on top of the water, "shit! I forgot to take into account how rapid the waters would be around a whirlpool!" Naruto said to himself as he saw Luffy get sucked into the spiralling vortex. A lightbulb went off in his head. Naruto started concentrating more of his chakra to the soles of his feet, making him able to stick to the water easier. Naruto started running across the sea, with a lot of difficulty. Once he got out of the clutches of the whirlpool he was met with the next problem, locating Luffy. Naruto sat down on the water in a meditative position, searching for Luffy's chakra signature, "Damn, that whirlpool sent Luffy far!" Naruto exclaimed to himself. The whirlpool sent his captain around two and a half miles away, "Better start running, knowing Luffy he probably already caused trouble." Naruto sighed to himself.

10 Minutes Later

"What an ugly ship." Naruto told himself as he looked at the ship in front of him with a terrible figurehead. He could see a larger cruise ship next to it with the pirates raiding it. Naruto started to walk up the ship. When he got to the deck he had to deal with the grunts.

"Oi, what do ya think your doin' here!" One of the lowly grunts questioned as he started walking up to Naruto.

"I'm looking for a friend, he's got a straw hat and a scar under his left eye." Naruto described Luffy.

"Look kid, just cause you're weak doesn't mean I ain't gonna kill ya!" The grunt said when he got right in Naruto's face.

"Funny, that's what I'm thinking as well." Naruto said with a grin on his face.

"Wha-" He couldn't finish what he wanted to say before Naruto decapitated him with his kunai. The other pirates roared as they ran at the kid who killed one of their crewmembers. Naruto calmly walked over to them, keeping his grin on the whole time.

Naruto weaved around all of their strikes, while he was gracefully punching, stabbing and slicing them while taking no hits from any of them. Within minutes all of them were on the ground bleeding, moaning in pain.

"Jeez, I knew that you were weak but with your numbers I thought you would've been tougher."

Flashback End

"I'm gonna get you! You bastard!" They heard the screams of Alvida as she came up to the deck. She was horrified by the sight that she saw, "Straw hat, I'm gonna kill you!"

"I don't think so." Luffy told her as he pulled back his fist across the whole deck, "Gomu Gomu no…" he launched his fist right into Alvida's torso, sending her flying off the ship and into the sky, "Pistol!"

"Good job Luffy, now all you have to deal with is the three marine ships." Naruto pointed out. Coby looked around and saw that there were indeed three marine ships advancing on them.

"Ah! We gotta go!" exclaimed Coby.

"No shit." Naruto said blankly, he spotted a small boat near the cruise ship with an orange-haired girl in it, sailing away, "I think I got us a ride." Naruto ran up the edge of the deck and leaped towards the boat, Luffy followed suit by launching himself with a Gomu Gomu no Rocket while holding Coby. They rocked the boat significantly due to their sudden landing, shocking the girl.

"Ah! What're you doing!?" She exclaimed, she sported an orange mini-skirt with two white rings on each side and a short sleeved top with blue and white lines. She had orange hair and brown eyes.

"Sorry but do you think you give us a trip to the nearest island?" Naruto asked politely.

"What? No get off my boat!" The girl refused.

"Please." Luffy asked again.

"No!" The girl yet again refused.

"Pretty please!" Luffy pleaded.

"No-" The girl started.

"We have money." Naruto pointed out.

"Well of course you can come with me." Her personality took a 180-degree turn, creeping Naruto out in the process.

Several Hours Later

The group was sailing peacefully through calm waters, escaping the marines just hours before. During this time they had learnt that the girl's name is Nami.

"Nami, where are we going?" Luffy asked.

"We're going to Shells Town where you'll also be giving me my money." She answered, while looking at Naruto for the last part.

"Yea, yea I haven't forgotten." Naruto told her. Nami looked back at the young boy, lazily leaning against the side of the boat with his eyes closed.

"What's a kid like you doing on the seas like this?" Nami asked Naruto. Naruto was about to answer but Luffy got to it first.

"We're pirates! I'm the captain and he's my first mate. And Coby's gonna be a marine when we drop him off at a marine base." Luffy explained happily. The atmosphere of the boat became intense the second he finished speaking.

"You're pirates?" Nami asked for confirmation.

"Yep." Luffy replied with his grin on his face.

"How could you!?" Nami shouted at his face, "How could be a pirate, you steal and murder people's family and friends." She yelled with anger. Naruto opened an eye to look at her.

"You lost a precious person to pirates didn't you." Naruto stated, looking at Nami in a bored manner.

"Why would you think that?" Nami asked, not liking the fact that some kid was able to figure out that much about her in only a few hours.

"Because your outburst revealed a lot of angry emotion, you must experienced some form of trauma due to pirates when you were younger so you come to an unjustifiable judgement to every pirate you see." Naruto explained.

"Unjustifiable!? Pirates killed my mother! It's perfectly justifiable to hate pirates!" Nami yelled at Naruto, outraged that he would think that it's unjustifiable.

"So pirates did take a precious person from you," Naruto said, confirming his suspicions. Nami immediately covered her mouth, "and it's unjustifiable because you can't judge everything based on one experience. That's like saying that you found a worm in an apple, so think that every apple has a worm in it."

"Have you ever lost anyone!?" Nami questioned.

"No." Naruto answered.

"So you don't know how it feels!" Nami told him.

"Because I never had anyone to lose." Naruto told her. Everyone stopped talking after that, Nami even felt a little sad that she yelled at him like that. They spent the remainder of the trip in silence.

2 Hours Later

Shells Town

"Thanks for the ride." Thanked Naruto as he handed Nami a hundred beli. Nami took the money and walked off, she was going to haggle with him about only giving her a hundred beli, but after their talk she was less inclined to bargain with him.

"I'm starving! Let's go grab something to eat!" Luffy exclaimed to the crew. They went to a café to talk about their plans for what they were going to do.

"Well, this is it, thanks for taking care of me guys. Even if it was only for a short time." Coby expressed his gratitude towards them.

"It's alright Coby." Luffy told him in-between bites. While the Luffy and Coby were talking and eating, Naruto had finished his meal and was thinking.

'All of the civilians in town seemed…uneasy. There was something about them, they were fearful of something. But what was it?'

"Coby," Naruto said getting attention towards him, "what do you know about the marine base here?"

"Well, I know that the captain is Captain Morgan," when he said that, everybody in the café jumped slightly, "that's weird, why would they jump when they hear the name of a captain?"

'So I was right. If the people are afraid of the captain then the captain must be enforcing some law around. Or maybe he's a follower of the 'Absolute Justice' system. No, this island wouldn't need it, especially not in the East Blue. He's probably passing around an extreme tax. It's not unheard of.' Naruto concluded. Naruto put his money down on the table.

"I'm gonna go look at the marine base. Coby, you wanna come?" Naruto asked.

"Sure." With that he and Coby started walking down to the marine base, leaving Luffy to finish his meal. As they were walking they started to have a conversation.

"So Coby, why do you want to become a marine?" Naruto asked.

"Because I want to arrest bad guys and help innocents." Coby explained.

"When you were younger you were taught that marines are the good guys and pirates are the bad guys, right?' Naruto asked.

"Yea." Coby replied, not sure where it was going.

"Coby it's not that simple," Naruto sighed, seeing the confusion in Coby's eyes Naruto elaborated, "while there are some good marines whose intentions are good, and while majority of pirates are the bad, sleezy people that people make them out to be. There are also bad marines and good pirates. Bad marines are the marines that don't discriminate between the civilians and the pirate. Bad marines would destroy and entire town just to get one person. Coby, remember this. When you join the marines you'll be starting from the bottom, a chore boy. When you come up in the rankings make sure that you don't lose sight of your morals. Coby thought about what he said for a moment.

"Thanks Naruto, I'll remember that."

The duo continued their way towards the marine base. The marine base had a tall wall around the perimeter to keep invaders out.

"When I go through those doors I will start journey to accomplish my dream, thanks for all that you've done for me." Coby said as he started to make his way to the entrance.

"Coby who's that?" Naruto said as he sat on the wall looking inside.

"Naruto! You shouldn't do that! You could get in trouble!" Coby informed Naruto.

"I can take them," scoffed Naruto, "anyway, tell me who this guy is." Coby joined Naruto on the wall. They saw a lone man in a courtyard, tied to a post. The man wore black trousers that were tucked into his boots, a dirty white shirt and a green harmaki. He had green hair, three identical gold earrings on his left ear and on his head was a black bandanna that shadowed his eyes, making him look very intimidating.

"T-t-that black bandanna, i-it's the Pirate Hunter Zoro!" Coby exclaimed, Naruto raised his eyebrow, he hadn't heared of him before, "H-he's a v-very well known bounty hunter in the East Blue. He's known as the 'Demon of the East Blue'."

"A demon eh…" Naruto muttered to himself.

"Hey guys! What did I miss?" Luffy asked them as he joined them on the wall.

"Nothing much, just found out that the marines have captured the so called 'Demon of the East Blue'." Naruto informed.

"Is he strong?" Luffy asked.

"Of course he is!" Coby confirmed.

"I've decided, he's going to be our new crewmember." Luffy said with conviction. Naruto smirked at the decision. Coby gawked at him.

"Luffy! He's a pirate hunter! He'll kill-" Coby started listing off reasons why he shouldn't ask him to join.

"Shh!" They were silenced by a little girl who had silently placed a ladder against the wall. She climbed over the wall and ran to Zoro.

"Hey, what's that girl doing, Zoro could hurt her." Coby said to himself.

The girl went up to Zoro and presented him with some rice balls.

"I made some rice balls for you." The girl told Zoro.

"I don't want your rice balls, hurry up and get outta here if the marines catch you helping me you'll be in trouble." Zoro told the little girl.

"But I-"

"What's this? A little girl shouldn't be snooping around in a marine base," Proclaimed the new arrival. There were two marine officers walking behind a boy who was wearing a violet colored uniform with white shoes, he walked in an arrogant manner, "oh! Some rice balls, thank you." The man snatched the rice balls.

"Hey give them back!" The girl demanded. The arrogant boy took a bite out of one, and immediately spat it out and stomped on them.

"Gah! What is this, you seasoned it with sugar, you're meant to season it with salt!" The boy complained.

"But I like sweet foods so I thought…" the girl whimpered.

"Officers, throw this girl out." The man commanded. Both looked at each other.

"But sir, she's just a child." One of the officers told him. The man got in the officers face.

"Did you just disobey me? Do you want me to get my daddy on me?" The man asked, the officer went extremely pale. He walked over to the girl and threw her over to Luffy and his crew. Before she hit the ground Naruto jumped and caught her.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"Yea…" she answered, disappointed that she wasn't able to give Zoro the food she prepared.

"What's your name?" Naruto asked.

"Rika." She replied.

"Okay Rika, you should go back to your family, I'm sure they're worried," Naruto told her, "Coby, go with her and make sure she gets home safely." Coby nodded and went with Rika to her family. Naruto turned around to see that Luffy wasn't on the wall and was instead talking to Zoro.

"Join my crew." Luffy requested simply.

"Crew?" Zoro pondered, "That must mean you're a pirate."

"Yes I am," Luffy revealed, "if I untie those ropes you'll have to join me."

"I'd rather die than become a pirate, I'm going to survive the rest of the month." Zoro declared.

"Okay." Luffy started walking away.

"Wait," Luffy stopped and looked at Zoro, "can you…feed those rice balls to me?" He asked, feeling incredibly uncomfortable asking such a question.

"Are you sure? They're ruined." Luffy questioned.

"Yes I'm sure!" Zoro told him. Luffy fed Zoro the squashed and dirty rice balls, making Zoro almost tear up due to the sweetness of the dish, "T-tell the girl it was the best thing I've ever had."

Café

"And he said it was the best thing he ever tasted." Luffy told the events to Rika and the rest of the crew.

"Really!?" Rika questioned.

"Yep!" Luffy replied cheerfully.

"Zoro seems a lot nicer than the rumours make him out to be, he's doesn't seem evil at all." Coby pointed out.

"He's not evil!" Rika defended, "The whole reason he's tied to that post is because of me."

"How so?" Naruto asked.

"He defended me and the town from Helmeppo's mean dog, Zoro isn't a bad person, Captain Morgan is the real menace." Rika explained.

"Wait, who's Helmeppo?" Naruto asked.

"He was the mean one with the weird hair style." Rika described Helmeppo, Naruto nodded. It was at this time that Helmeppo walked into the café.

"Get me everything on the menu!" He commanded as he sat down in a booth, planting a foot up on the table, "You know what? I'm gonna execute Zoro in three days! I'm surprised he's even managed to survive this long."

"What did you say!?" Luffy yelled, marching up to Helmeppo, intimidating him and the marine officers around him.

"N-n-n-nothing." Helmeppo lied. Luffy, outraged by Helmeppo, punched him square in the face, shocking everyone in the café.

"Naruto, Coby. We're going." Luffy told them, they nodded and started to leave, "As soon as we've finished eating." He adds at the end. Naruto sighed and sat back down.

"Y-y-you better apologize, I-I'll get my f-father on you!" Helmeppo threatened while holding his bloody nose and crying.

"Hurry and up and do it then," Naruto said simply in-between slurps of his ramen, "When you make a threat you better go through with it." Helmeppo rushed out of the café angrily with the marine officers following him.

"N-now we have t-to deal with the captain." Coby told the group, he was obviously scared.

"Coby you remember what I told you about bad marines?" Naruto asked, Coby nodded, "Well Captain Morgan is one of the those marines, and as a future good marine you have to take care of him."

Marine Base

"Daddy!" Helmeppo screamed as he stormed into his father's quarters. "Someone hit me!" After a moment of silence Morgan spoke.

"Son do you know why I've never hit you?" Morgan asked.

"B-because I'm your son." Helmeppo replied, to which Morgan punched him across the face.

"No! Because your not worth hitting!" Morgan shouted. He wore a large, billowing coat and baggy blue pants. He had a metal jaw and the most identifiable thing about him was the huge steel axe replacing his right hand, "Now, I heard that there was an incident earlier this morning regarding a little girl breaking into the compound."

"Yes, I took care of her." Helmeppo told his father, hoping to get some praise.

"So you killed her." Morgan assumed.

"N-no, I c-couldn't order t-that. She's j-just a little girl." Helmeppo told his father, to which he punched him again.

"Baka! Just because she's a child doesn't mean she shouldn't die!" Morgan told his son, "The most important thing in this world is rank, this girl was defying rank therefore she must accept the consequences. Now I have to get to the statue." He said as he left his son.

Courtyard

"What do you want?" Zoro asked threateningly, looking at Luffy and Naruto.

"Join my crew." Luffy told him again.

"I already told y-"

"Helmeppo's gonna execute you in three days." Naruto said, getting right to the point.

"What! I should of known he would do something like this. That spoiled brat!" Zoro cursed the arrogant bastard.

"I'm gonna get you outta here!" Luffy said as he started to untie him.

"If I had my swords I could get outta here in seconds." Zoro said. This gave Luffy an idea.

"Okay, I'm gonna go get your swords, so you'll have to join me if you want them!" Luffy told Zoro to which he gaped at Luffy, "Naruto let's go!" Luffy shouted as he threw his arms up to the top of the marine base, "Gomu Gomu no Rocket!" He yelled as he launched himself up to the top. However he overshot his launch and accidently smashed into the statue of Captain Morgan, breaking it in half. He turned around to see a group of marines and Morgan, "Shishi, sorry." Luffy apologized while keeping his grin.

"How dare you!" Morgan shouted, "Men! Kill him! Now!" All of the marines charged at Luffy with guns and swords pointed at him. Luffy, however ignored them and went up to Helmeppo.

"Oi, where are Zoro's swords!?" Luffy demanded.

"I-i-i-i-in my r-room." Helmeppo told Luffy. Luffy grabbed Helmeppo and dragged him into the base.

With Naruto

'Luffy's probably already caused a commotion with the marines, I swear to god he knows nothing about stealth' Naruto thought to himself as he walked through the base, looking for the cafeteria where the officers would be eating lunch, 'he'll be able to find Zoro's swords by himself. I'm gonna go have some fun' He went into the cafeteria and true to his thoughts there was an entire hall full of marines, with guns and swords.

"I hope you guys are tougher than the Alvida pirates." Naruto told them as he rushed them.

With Luffy

"Which room is it!?" Luffy shouted at Helmeppo.

"You just past it." Helmeppo said weakly.

"Why didn't you say so before!?" Luffy yelled angrily. He ran back to the room they past. They entered Helmeppo's room; it was painted pink as was most of the furniture. In the corner of the room were three swords, "I found them!"

With Zoro

Coby, who had caught up later, was untying Zoro from the post when he was shot by a marine officer led by Captain Morgan.

"Ah!" Coby screamed in pain as he clutched his arm.

"Kid! Hurry up and get outta here!" Zoro shouted at Coby. Coby, however, got up and started to untie him again.

"I can't run away!" He yelled at Zoro, "Luffy and Naruto wouldn't run away! I want to be a marine, if I can't do this, I'm not worthy!"

"Men! Fire!" Captain Morgan commanded his officers. All of the officers with guns lined up in front of him and fired. Coby and Zoro closed their eyes, neither of them wanting it to end this way. They were both surprised when the bullets they were expecting didn't reach them. Then they realised that it was Luffy that was standing in front of them, guarding them.

"Straw hat!" Zoro shouted, unaware that he was alright.

"Sorry, that doesn't work on me!" Luffy yelled as he bounced the bullets back at the marines, injuring a few of them. He then turned to Zoro, showing him the swords that he had strapped to his waist, "So Zoro, are you gonna join now?"

"I'm already an enemy of the marines, so why not." Zoro said with a smirk on his face.

"Great!" Luffy cheered happily.

"Now untie me!" Zoro told his now captain. Luffy got right to it. Unfortunately he was having…some difficulty untying it.

"I think I just made it tighter…" Luffy said to himself as the marines started advancing on them. Seeing this, Zoro decided to take action.

"Quick! Just give me one of my swords!" Zoro commanded. Luffy gave on his swords. Just in time to, as Zoro was able to cut himself off the post, take his swords off Luffy's waist and block all of the incoming attacks just before they could touch Luffy.

"Thanks Zoro!" Luffy thanked Zoro.

"Luffy, I am part of your crew," Zoro reaffirmed, "however, I will become the World's Greatest Swordsman and if you get in the way of my dream I will kill you."

"Of course! The King of Pirates has to have a strong crew, if he doesn't it's just embarrassing!" Luffy replied cheerfully, "Zoro you better duck!" Luffy warned as he swung his leg back. Zoro took heed of his warnings and ducked, "Gomu Gomu no Muchi!" Luffy shouted as he swung his outstretched leg around him to whip all of the marines to the ground.

"How dare you!" Captain Morgan yelled, confronting Luffy, "The most important thing in the world is rank! Yet you are here, disobeying rank! You must pay!" Morgan brought his axe down on Luffy, who easily sidestepped the blow. The fight continued on like this, it was very one-sided. Luffy kept on hitting Morgan without taking a blow himself.

"Stop!" Helmeppo shouted, regaining the attention. He had a gun pointed against Coby's temple, "You make one more move and four-eyes gets it!" He threatened. Luffy looked at this impassively, he pulled his arm back and launched it right into his face.

"Gomu Gomu no Pistol!" Luffy shouted as sent Helmeppo through the air, knocking him out at the same time. While he was doing this Morgan raised his axe-hand into the air, preparing to bring it down on Luffy's head. Zoro was prepared to act, until someone beat him to it. The axe shattered into pieces and many cuts appeared leading form his wrist up to his left eye. Following up from the cuts, Naruto appeared in the air above Morgan.

"Akuma Doroppukira! (2.)" Naruto shouted as he landed a devastating drop kick to Morgan's head, knocking him out cold. Naruto landed on the ground, next to the unconscious Morgan.

"Good one Naruto!" Luffy congratulated Naruto. Naruto grinned.

"Where were you?" Zoro asked.

"In the cafeteria beating up some marines," Naruto replied, "c'mon let's get some food." Luffy cheered as he rushed to the café with Zoro slung over his shoulder as he had collapsed from exhaustion and Naruto carrying Coby as he was injured by the gunshot.

Café

Everybody was celebrating the return of the crew; they were free from the tyranny of Captain Morgan and by a pair of pirates nonetheless. As thanks they were given a free feast in honour of their victor.

"This is delicious!" Luffy exclaimed as he dug into the food set before him.

"That's some good grog!" Zoro yelled as he finished his meal, "How can you eat more than me, when I haven't eaten anything for nine days?"

"I've stopped asking myself that." Naruto told him as he slurped on his ramen.

"Thanks for patching me up." Coby thanked Rika's mother to which she just smiled as she gave them some more food. The party stopped as the door opened, to reveal the remaining marines from the base.

"Are you three the pirates that took down Captain Morgan?" The marine officer asked.

"Yes." Luffy answered.

"I'm sorry, but as marine officers we must ask to leave the island." At this all of the villagers in the café were in outrage.

"How could you, they are our saviours!" One of them shouted.

"However, we will not be reporting back to marine headquarters," The officer told them. Luffy got up and started leaving, followed by Zoro and then Naruto. But Coby stayed behind. The marine officer raised an eyebrow, "isn't he with you?" Luffy looked back at him.

"Oh him, he's just someone we picked up along the way," Luffy started explaining, Coby silently praying that he wouldn't mention his time with Alvida,"I found him when he was working as a cabin boy for Al-"

"Shut up!" Coby shouted before he socked Luffy in the jaw, leading to a small scuffle between the two.

"I get it, I get it! You two aren't together!" The officer told the two as he broke up the fight, then looked at Coby, "If you aren't with them, what are you here for."

"I-I want to be a marine!" He yelled at the officer.

"Are you sure we should accept him Lieutenant? Pirates have been known to plant spies within marine bases." An officer next to the lieutenant advised.

"No, I believe that this boy is speaking the truth, I see it in his eyes," the lieutenant replied, "you will start as a cabin boy, but if you are up to it you will rise through the ranks. Are you prepared?"

"Of course!" Coby answered. The lieutenant smiled at the young boys potential.

Docks

"Your acting sucks." Zoro told Luffy with a smile on his face.

"As long as Coby becomes a marine I'm fine with it." Luffy explained. They were all ready to sail off, and they were just about to when Coby and the rest of the marines at the docks stopped them.

"Thank you for everything! I promise that I will become a good, strong marine!" Coby yelled at them as he gave them a salute, the rest of the marines did so as well. Naruto smirked.

"I never would of thought I'd see marines saluting pirates." Naruto said. Luffy grinned widely.

"Thanks everyone!" He cheered as he spread the sails and started to drift away.

"Men for saluting pirates we will not eat for three days," The lieutenant told his men, "do you think you can handle it?" He asked Coby.

"Yes sir!" He answered with conviction.

"Good." The lieutenant replied.

That's it. I hoped you liked Chapter 1. Even though this is my first fanfiction don't go easy on me, but also don't hate. Saying that you hate it won't help me, please give me some constructive criticism so that I can improve in later chapters.

1. Its Menma's outfit from Road to Ninja with a red shirt on

2. Akuma Doroppukira = Demon Drop Killer

In terms of fighting ability Naruto and Luffy are relatively equal. Luffy is slightly stronger than Naruto and Naruto is faster than Luffy

In this fanfiction, yes, Naruto will have devil fruit ability, and yes, the Kyubi is still sealed within Naruto. Naruto's backstory will be revealed in later chapters, where his attitude comes from.