Portgas D Naruto

Chapter 2

Naruto had been out on his journey for a couple weeks now, passing through majority of the east blue without any issues, except one. After killing the Celestial Dragon the World Government had no choice but to assign him a bounty, a big one at that.

WANTED

Alive Only

Portgas D. Naruto

207,000,000 belli

The bounty came as no surprise to Naruto. However, the number did, the amount they wanted for him seemed very large, but then he remembered that the Celestial Dragons were probably the ones offering the reward, and they can throw around money like it's garbage. His bounty didn't take long to circulate through the world and now majority of the Marine's were looking for him, expecting to take him down once they found him. Naruto however welcomed them to try, not willing to let anyone stand in the way of his freedom.

The teenager had now set his eyes on Lougetown. He needed to set a new ship, preferably a smaller vessel that could work in conjunction with his Devil-Fruit abilities. He needed it to be light-weight, and he also needed it to be coated with Seastone on the bottom. His mother had told him before he left that his best bet on getting to Sabaody quickly was to sail along the Calmbelt, and to do this he needed the Seastone on the bottom of his vessel to avoid being an easy snack for Seakings. He also came for one more thing, to visit his late father's grave.

It took a day or two but he had finally arrived at Lougetown. The settlement looked amazing to say the least; it was clean, organized, and a lack of pirates, which Naruto raised his eyebrow over.

'Why aren't there any pirates in the town that started the great pirate era? This place started it all and yet no one wants to see it? It doesn't make any sense.' Naruto thought as he docked his boat

He got out of his boat, grabbed a small bag of his money and walked into the settlement. Walking through he noticed that not many people were out, most chose to stay inside and close their window shutters as he went by. As he walked further into the town he noticed that the Marine presence began to rise; lots of them could be seen travelling in squads, surveying the surrounding area and looking for pirates. Naruto used this as a queue to stay in the alleys and smaller streets to avoid detection by the Marines, the last thing he needed was for half an army of them to be on his ass as he entered the Grandline.

Naruto saw a squad of Marines heading his way and he quickly retreated into the alley way, away from sight and hid. It didn't take long for the squad to pass him. Once they passed he continued through the alley way to the town square, where the execution platform had been every since Roger's death all those years ago.

His path to the town square was anything but easy. Naruto had encountered numerous Marine patrols and groups in his way, each group getting bigger and bigger as he approached his destination. Eventually as he came within 50 meters of the execution platform and grave of the late Pirate King, security had lay off on the area. The monument had looked unguarded and Naruto took full advantage of the opportunity and jumped out of the ally way and walked towards the platform. When he was close enough he saw what the gravestone read.

Here lies Gol D. Roger

A criminal

A madman

A fool

Let this grave and execution platform serve as a reminder to all

The text made the teenagers blood boil, they had disgraced his fathers memory by plaguing it with lies. In his mind Roger was a free man, he did what he wanted without anyone telling him what to do. Unlike so many before him he was not bound by laws, he was what Naruto inspired to be like.