Our strands of Memories (One Piece Naruto Crossover)

Chapter 3: New Recruit. A New Strong Force.

Neji is standing together with other recruits right now, under the burning light of the sun. Everyone is wearing the same clothes, the traditional uniform for a seaman recruit. White sleeveless shirt, a hat with the word 'marine' and black pants. This makes Neji stand out specifically with his usual white kimono shirt with long sleeves and black pants. Not to mention his white purple tint eyes. They always have a special power that attracts people wherever he goes.

The instructor this time is a young man, a recently remoted captain. The marine white cape adorns his shoulders with the word 'Justice' on his back. Barking orders there and here, the recruits come to stand in line while Neji stands at the middle of the second line.

"Silent!" The entire training ground becomes soundless.

"As of today, you are all seaman recruits. However, the spot that you are standing right now is only temporary. We will have a battle between recruits together. The final winner will be accepted straight into Marineford! All the other losers will become boy chores! Do you understand?" Ah, this is not talking, this is yelling.

At the starting mark of the captain, all the recruits turn away, facing the others as their enemies. Neji gets into the fighting position too, carefully watching his opponents' movements. The young Hyuga falls back into the familiar stand that he has practiced over the past 2 weeks. He is ready for some action!

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"GARP!!!!!!!!! YOU BASTARD!!! THAT'S MY RICE CRACKERS!!!" For such a strong voice like this to appear at the Marineford Headquarter, there is only one and one. And that is Vice admiral Sengoku - a tall, fair skinned muscular man with a mustache along with a funny looking afro. His face is red to the point that you can even see smoke coming out of his nose and ears. He furiously walks toward Garp, looking ready to strangle him at any given opportunities. Vice admiral Garp, the man in mention, just continue to stand there, eating the stolen rice crackers with a stupid grin on his face.

"Bwahahahaha! Come on Sengoku, don't be stingy."

"Don't be my ass! Why don't you say that when I snatched away your favorite rice crackers!!!"

"Bwahahaha!!"

"Don't laugh, you bastard!!!" Too tired to keep up with Garp's stupidity, Sengoku sighs out loud, pressing his fingers to both sides of his head to ease the pent up tension. If it continues to go like this, he will definitely accidentally kill this fool someday. His high blood pressure is already enough to deal with!

"What are you doing here anyway? I thought you weren't interested in the new recruits?"

"There is a good seed among them this time!" Looking at the direction of Garp's finger, Sengoku sees a young handsome man with long black hair, ties back at the end. His clothes, apparently, is a white kimono shirt like no other. The young man is single handedly dealing with all the recruits at the same time. Half of them have already been dealt with. However, what catches his eyes is the strange fighting style that the man has. He seems to create a barrier of wind around him to protect himself as well as repels others out of his way. An unseen power field his every move. Each of his attacks is precise toward a weak point on the body. Knocking each of them out in one hit.

More importantly, his eyes. He has never seen white eyes like those before in his life. The concentrated white purple tint irises and the popping veins around the eye socket. They are astonished! Like his eyes can catch the tiniest movements and can see through a person's flesh.

"Garp, who is that kid?"

"Remember the case I told you about?"

"Yeah? Is that him? The drowned amnesia kid?" Using the distraction, Sengoku quickly snatchs the bag of rice crackers back, eating them all in one go.

"Oi!"

"They are mine from the start!!"

"Tch! Well, that's the kid. His name is Neji Hyuga."

"He is good!"

"Hey, that is mine!"

"Ha? What are you talking about? How can I leave such a good seed to your stupidity trashy disciplines?"

"I found him first!"

"Are you a kid?!"

"Aren't you both kids? Whose fight over rice crackers anyway?" A female voice suddenly chimes in between them, successfully startles both Sengoku and Garp who are too focused on their argument to notice her presence.

"Tsuru." They acknowledge.

"So this is the kid? Quite attractive indeed. Good combat sense and skills too. Hm, a good seed indeed."

"Ha? Not you too! He is mine, damnit!!" Garp goes to the window, trying to block the view knowing that it is insufficient.

"Do you think that I am an idiot like you two?" Tsuru insults, completely uninterested in talking the kid over. Her division is composed of only women anyway. What is the point of having him there?

"Hm." Garp grunts.

A whistle comes up, marking the end of the battle. All three of them glance down at the training ground, not surprised at the sight of the young black hair kid being the only one standing, surrounded by unconscious corpses. Except the instructor of course. His eyes are widened at the view, being the only one conscious enough to watch the whole battle up close. This guy is insane is the only thing that he has in his mind right now. He has seen a lot of weird things, absurd ones, even the monstrous strength of Vice admiral Garp or the abnormal appearance of the species of Fishermen. Hell, even Marineford has people with unusual looks here. But this guy! White popping vein eyes and the oddly strong fighting style?! It looks like a dance to him. Putting aside his attractive beauty, he doesn't know that human eyes' can get that white! He thought the kid is blind at first but he just brought hell to all the other recruits here!

"I think we are finished here." Neji speaks up, breaking the awkward silence filling the area. The fight was so conspicuous that other marines had gathered around at the scene, unable to take their eyes off the fight. Is that still the same slender young handsome man who had weakly walked around the main base and gently took care of the garden that they knew? It was a ruthless battle. He's totally overpowered them.

"So?" Neji turns to the instructor.

"You. . .passed." Says the young captain, too shocked to say anything else.