I honestly wasn't expecting the positive feedback from my weird little experiment. Thank you! I guess I can keep it up then? Or would it be better to make it into a separate thing? I mean, I just don't want to put people off with my weird writing ideas or anything like that.

But I did it! The next chapter. Eh. I still think it's crap, all things considering. But I did the best that I could with it! In the next chapter, Hinata will definitely interact more with the crew, especially Usopp. As for her interactions with Robin, they won't really get that close until after Water 7 (there's a reason for that).

And so, it is with great hesitance (so much hesitance) that I introduce to you the next chapter. Hope you enjoy it! Please let me know if there are any flaws, or ways I can improve on it. Thank you!

Disclaimer: I own neither One Piece nor Naruto, including the characters within either franchise. All for entertainment, no profit—you've heard this before.

The Straw Hats I.

When Hinata opens her eyes, she finds herself in a bed and room that's not her own—a place that seems to sway underneath. She blinks and then slowly sits up in the bed, rubbing her head. She looks around wearily, humming in confusion.

"W-what happened? Where am I—ah," her eyes widen as she remembers everything before she fainted. Hinata gasps, and then glares intently at the door, lifting her right hand and poising her index and middle finger near her lips—Byakugan!

As veins around her eyes pulse, Hinata manages to see through the walls of the room and beyond. From the outlines of people moving around, as well as the nearby ocean, she concludes that she is indeed on a ship. Her eyes narrow and focus on the people moving outside of her room—some figures she recognizes (especially Luffy's), but the other three are unfamiliar. She wonders if she'll get to meet them soon.

One of the figures, a much smaller one compared to everyone else that has odd formations on either side of his head (Antlers?), walks towards her door and reaches for the door knob. Hinata quickly deactivates her Byakugan and sits back against the pillow behind her, waiting for the door to open. When it does, in walks a...

"T-tanuki?" Hinata finds herself saying, her head tilting to one side.

The "tanuki" balks and, despite the previous smile on his face, he glares at her comically. "R-reindeer! I'm a reindeer! Why does this always happen...?"

Hinata stares at him for a moment, and then she smiles.

"Ah, a reindeer. I see." Looking at him now, it's so obvious. Wait a minute—"Wait, are you Luffy-san's pet or something?"

The reindeer suddenly shifts from being fluffy and adorable to being as large and muscular as a more than average man.

"I'M NOT A PET!" He lifts up the black bag he was holding. "I'M A DOCTOR!"

Hinata blinks once, and then her eyes widen, making her look rather comical.

"E-E-EH?!" She jumps a little. "A doctor? What—how—who—a doctor?!"

Usopp peeks his head in and narrows his eyes. "That's what shocks you about Chopper...?"

"Yes, I'm the crew's doctor," the reindeer—Chopper says, still affronted. He quickly shifts back to his smaller form. "Now, sit back and let me check on you."

Hinata blinks, but sits back against her pillow as the reindeer-human (because what else could she call him?) gets out a stethoscope from his bag. Once he plugs in his ears, he jumps onto the chair close to the bed and places the cool metal disc against Hinata's chest. He hums as he listens to her heartbeat.

"Well, your heartbeat seems normal." Chopper looks into her eyes and moves his hooves back and forth in front of them, watching as her white pupils follow the movement. Then he frowns (pouts). "You don't seem to have a concussion...but it's a little hard to tell."

"Sorry about that," Hinata says, her shoulders hunched.

"It's fine. Overall, you seem all right," Chopper smiles. "But you should probably eat something soon. Food might make you feel less faint."

Growl~

Blushing brightly, Hinata grasps her stomach and realizes just how empty her stomach is. When was the last time she truly ate a full meal?

"U-um?"

He giggles and hops back to the floor. "I'll go let Sanji know," Chopper says before opening the door. "SANJI! She's awake, and hungry!"

There's a pause for a few moments—and then, with the passionate fury of a hurricane, a tall blonde man in a suit leaps and practically twirls into the room, a tray of food gracefully balanced in his hands. With a smile and a twinkle in the one blue eye that showed from behind his bangs, the man named Sanji goes to Hinata's side and sets the tray down in front of her. Then he kneels by the side of the bed and gently grasps her hand. Hinata flushes at the gesture and leans slightly away from him, eyes wide.

"Good evening, my dear," he croons. "I have heard much about you from my captain, and I feel absolutely horrible that he made you go through such an experience. Taking you from your home, thrusting you into this dangerous, filthy, unworthy world, and just expecting you to accept this life from here on out—"

"Uh, a-actually, he just asked—"

"Ssh, my dear Snow Bunny," Sanji continues, gently pressing an index finger to her lips. (S-Snow Bunny? Hinata feels her left eyebrow twitch.) "It's all right, you don't need to cover for that shithead anymore. I have already taken care of him for you..."

Tied to the Merry's mast in a tangle of his own limbs, a bruised and beaten Luffy is throwing his head back and nearly crying (and being ignored by a majority of the crew):

"Sanji! I don't know what I did, but I'm sorry, just please please give me food too! I'm starving! HEY—"

"...so you no longer have anything to fear," Sanji smiles, making sure to put into it what he feels is jelly-leg inducing charm. "I shall be here to protect you. I only ask that you tell me your name."

"...H-H-Hinata Hyuga," she answers, not knowing what else to do. She's never really had such attention flourished on her person before. It would be flattering, if Sanji wasn't so—whatever he is right now.

Hinata...Hinata! Sanji grasps his heart and sighs, a pulsing heart in his eye. Such a lovely name! Warm like the sun, and just as beautiful...!

While he daydreams about hearing love confessions from a bashful, stammering, but sweet voice, Hinata sweatdrops and casts a worried look at Chopper, who is face palming (hooving?) with a frustrated sigh.

"I-is he always—?"

"Yep."

"...Oh." She looks to Sanji again, biting her lip nervously, before speaking up, "Um, Sanji-san?"

She knows my name?! Ah, Mellorine~

However, as one who always keeps his cool in front of women, Sanji turns and graces her with a charming smile, his right hand raking through his hair—perfectly playing the part of Prince, as per the norm.

"Yes, dear Hinata-chwan?"

"N-not that I'm not flattered, but...you realize I'm still fifteen right?"

Suddenly, everything just stops.

"...What."

"I'm fifteen, and you—well, you seem a little old for me," Hinata says with an embarrassed flush, nervously twiddling her index fingers. "If I'm going to be a part of this crew, I'd feel more comfortable if we retained just a friendship, or at least something close to professional. I-is that all right...?"

I hope I didn't hurt his feelings, she thinks before looking up to see Sanji on his knees, prostrate in a far corner of the room.

"I'm the worst," he keeps murmuring to himself, a dark cloud over his head. "The dirtiest of dirty old men...!"

Hinata blinks and stares at him. ...Is this guy even real?

She takes a breath to sigh, but then catches a whiff of something that makes her empty stomach cry with longing. She glances down at her plate of food and her eyes widen at the sight of roast chicken glazed with gravy and mushrooms, with some potatoes and vegetables on the side. Licking her lips, Hinata quickly picks up the fork laid out for her and takes a bite from her dinner. She immediately beams, nearly purring with delight.

But at least he can cook! I wonder if he's as good with cinnamon buns...

Once full and given the okay to roam around, Hinata steps out onto the deck to see the orange haired woman from before glaring up at the mast, her hands on her hips.

"Okay, now loosen up the left arm—I said the left arm!" Nami lets out a frustrated yell. "Damn it, Zoro! Bad enough you're shit at directions, now you can't even untie a knot?"

"Oh, yeah?" A man with green hair yells back while trying to get Luffy down from his rather odd predicament. "I'd like to see you trying to keep your balance and trying to untangle what's basically a living rubber band, bitch!"

"Food!"

"Shut up, you idiot!" They both yell at Luffy, who just pouts.

"Jerks, all of you," he mutters. Then he finally sees Hinata and beams. "Hey, you're awake!"

Hinata smiles back at him and gives him a small wave, though she is a little confused over how he got that way. In fact, how can Luffy even stretch like that? Perhaps he's part demon? But that just sounds even stranger. As far as she can tell, there is no demon that's made of rubber. I should ask...

As if on cue, Luffy's limbs manage to automatically untangle and spring back to his body like a released rubber band. Luffy grasps his straw hat and braces himself before landing feet first on the deck. Then he runs straight for Hinata.

Nami stares after him, her mouth gaping open, and then she growls. "Oh, you've gotta be kidding me!"

Zoro lands next to her and joins in her rage. "You tellin' me you could have gotten out of that thing any time?"

Luffy pauses on the stairs and hums thoughtfully. Then he looks back at them with a somewhat bashful grin, one hand rubbing the back of his neck.

"I guess so—OW!"

"YOU IDIOT!" Nami stands over him, fist raised and ready to hit some more.

Zoro shakes his head and pinches the bridge of his nose. "Stupid captain..."

"...Captain?"

Shit, that's right. As one hand slowly goes to a sword, Zoro raises narrowed and wary eyes up the one Luffy claimed to be a Shinobi—a brand of people he's very familiar with, enough to know that they aren't trustworthy—only to have his eyes widen. That girl standing outside the unofficial infirmary looks just like that: a girl.

Now, Zoro obviously isn't one to underestimate women. He's a strong believer that women can be just as troublesome as men, perhaps even more so. This goes true even for women as young as this Shinobi is.

However, Luffy brought her on with the intention of making her a part of their crew—a crew that causes trouble as much as finishes it. A crew that has shed its own share of blood, tears, and had such dealt upon them. Takes a certain brand of person to become a pirate, especially one like them.

He thinks back to the debate he and Nami were having after Luffy brought the Shinobi girl back to the ship: Could they trust Hinata to fight and defend herself in battle, no matter what the cost?

"...Wait, wait, hang on." Hinata narrows her white eyes and gives Luffy a look. "You're the captain?"

Luffy grins and proudly puffs his chest out. "Hell yeah, I am!"

"So...when you talked to me before about 'your crew', you actually meant your crew...because you're captain."

"Yep!"

"..."

"...What?"

"N-nothing, nothing," she protests a little too quickly. "It's just...well."

He raises an eyebrow. "Yeah?"

"You...you really don't look the type."

A beat.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN I DON'T LOOK THE TYPE?!"

Hinata flinches slightly at coming face to face with a rather pissed off Luffy, but doesn't back down. Her expression is not one of anger, but firm.

"Well, I actually thought one of those two was the captain," she says, giving a pointed look to Zoro and Nami—both of whom now have wide eyes and blank expressions replacing their wary ones—and then shrugs at Luffy. "You seem more like a cabin boy to me."

"...Cabin boy?" Luffy sneers, his hands clenched and shaking. "Cabin boy?! Oh, that's it!" He turns back to his crewmates and barks out, "Nami, turn the Merry around, we're taking this one ba—"

—Only to be shoved into a wall as Nami runs over to Hinata, a big smile on her face and her arms spread wide.

"Oh, I always knew it was a good decision to bring you aboard, Hinata-chan," she gushes as she pulls a stunned and flushed Hinata into an embrace. "I can tell you're going to be good for this crew!"

Hinata opens her mouth, closes it, then sends a rather desperate look at Zoro, who shrugs and attempts to hide his smirk.

"Eh, I'm still gonna keep my eye on you," he says. "But it's clear you have decent judgment, and I respect you for that. Just don't bother me when I'm sleeping, and we'll be cool," he adds before heading up to the Crow's Nest.

"U-uh, thanks. I think."

"C'mon, I'll show you the ship," Nami smiles, taking her hand and wanting to lead her around. "We'll go visit Usopp in his invention room!"

Hinata brightens. "Inventions?"

"Yeah, he makes a bunch, c'mon—"

Groaning, Luffy sits up from his hole in the wall and then shakes his head. He sees Nami practically dragging Hinata away, and he pouts, still feeling a little peeved. Then he jumps up and follows.

"Hey, wait up—!"

Soon, the members of the Straw Hat crew is off doing their own thing. While Luffy and Nami are properly introducing Hinata and Usopp (who is still wary of her, it seems), Sanji is back in the kitchen, cooking up more food for the crew and keeping his morale in check—I shall do the gentlemanly thing and wait for young Hinata to properly blossom...Oh, and what a sight that'll be, I bet (Mellorine~)—Chopper is still in his "office", his eyes roving the pages of a book; and Zoro is settling down for a nap.

However, from out of the shadows behind the staircase, a tall woman with olive skin, black hair, and blue eyes that took in everything about the Straw Hats' new crewmate—especially those too familiar eyes.

Eyes that once looked up at her with the fear typical of a child, especially one being kidnapped from her family's estate.

Once she's back inside the room she and Nami (and likely Hinata now, too) share, Nico Robin softly bangs her head back against a wall. First Aokiji, and now the Hyuga girl. Why are so many skeletons escaping her closet lately?

What's this? Hints of a shared past, a past connection with Konoha? GASP. (I know, I'm, like, so original gaiz.)

But anyway, that's a wrap for this chapter. It's a bit short, but mostly because I want to create a basis for Hinata's future interactions with the crew. How they're acting might be a little strange-I mean, usually when there's a new crew member, the Straw Hats flock to them instantly-but Hinata isn't from their world. She has no real connection to their world, and no records to speak of her existence within that world. So, it might be a bit difficult to establish trust towards someone who you literally know nothing about.

In other words, I'm being meta as all hell about this whole crossover idea, because it's a little impossible not to be.

So, I guess for now, I can address some of the common questions that I've been getting so far from reviewers:

1. Luffy/Hinata?

Truth time: Originally, I wasn't going to pair Hinata up with anyone. If you've explored the Naruto archive as much as I have, you would know, she's paired with so many people already; she's nearly as much of a fandom bicycle as Naruto and Sakura (both of whom, again, are paired with everyone).

To pair her with someone in One Piece, while interesting, was not what I intended. Especially Luffy, who has no romantic bone in his body-except for maybe Nami. (Let's be honest, if a pairing in One Piece is going to be canon, LuNa will definitely be it.)

So, when some reviewers were talking about Luffy/Hinata, I was at first like: "That could be cute, I guess. But how would it work? How would they interact? Would they even have that sort of chemistry?" Eventually, my thought process became: "How could I write this...?"

So, yeah, it might happen? I don't want to overwhelm the plot with romance, though.

I might do a separate series of one-shots dedicated to this pairing though? They would all be in different universes-some canon, most AU-but feature the same characters and some similar themes. I have so many ideas concerning this pairing, it's a little sad. I even came up with a Hogwarts AU idea. I know, I know: Why would you even go that far? I don't know. I just don't. I was given a pairing, and I'm basically just doing wacky experiments with it. I'm so sorry.

2. Rest of the Naruto World?

Trust me, people will start to notice that Hinata is gone. And they will come looking for her. Hilarity and chaos will ensue. Maybe. I'm still working on the kinks.

3. Naruto/Suerto/Harem fics?

Just wanted to let you all know that it personally weirds me out that there are so many Naruto Harems in this archive. I mean, within the Naruto archive on its own, it's understandable. He's the main character; of course he's going to have many women paired with him; of course he's going to be OP, or "smarter," or "cooler" (rolls eyes).

But this is a Crossover archive...with One Piece. Where are the One Piece fans? All I really see are Naruto fans just coming in, inserting Naruto into One Piece in some way or another (some fics turn him into such an asshole too), and having him get all the vagina. Some writers even genderbend male characters just to add to Naruto's Harem...which wouldn't be so bad, if it wasn't so unnecessary. (You're already pairing him with a lot of women, why go another step further? Like, you don't even have the guy experiment with his sexuality, you just change their sex and gender to make him seem more straight than he already is, and it just makes no sense to me. It just doesn't.)

And what happens to Luffy and the rest of the Straw Hats? Most of the time, they just seem shoved into the background...of their own story! Sometimes, Luffy stands on common ground with Naruto, which is pretty damn cool, but Naruto is still almost always the main character. What?

As for Hinata...it's the same as in the Naruto fandom. Like, they all claim to love her, but they always change her personality in writing. They make her "bitchy" because that makes her stronger. They make her stutter all the damn time, when she only really does that when she's nervous. They make her into this "pure madonna, good girl" type of girl, as if this makes her better than the rest of the characters, especially the female characters.

I dunno. Overall, it's all just annoying and lazy writing. It was annoying when I was reading OOC Hinata (or any Naruto characters really) fics in high school, it's annoying now.

4. That Guest Reviewer:

This is a reference to another story of mine-one that also features Hinata and Naruto, and my attempt at an angsty little High School AU-where a Guest Reviewer has left reviews concerning my past Hetalia fics. Especially the one with fem!England and four versions of America. I just want to address that here:

If you're reading this, I was planning on posting those stories onto my AO3 account. Yes, I have one. The url is on my profile. You'll have to copy/paste it, but it's there. I feel that it would be best to post the few Hetalia fics that I've written there, because the site is very liberal when it comes to Mature content. So, yeah. That's that. Sorry that my Naruto story offended you.

But yeah, that's that! Leave comments, reviews, perhaps some suggestions in the little box below. If you don't want to, that's cool too. See you next time!