Portgas D Naruto

Chapter 9

The Whirlpool Pirates had finally arrived at the great elephant that harboured the land of Zou. Since Naruto deduced that there was no way to keep the ship following the giant elephant in its tracks, the Water-man told Kiji, Russ, Gem, Yuri and Rose to stay behind on The Great Wave as Lucy flew both himself and Reeve up to the top of the elephant to meet with the Mink Tribe.

"Remind me again why we're here Naruto?" Lucy spoke walking hesitantly through the jungle, trying to avoid bugs.

Naruto, unlike Lucy, was looking forward to the journey to the Mink village and was leading the way proudly, "Well we're not here to see anyone in particular. I wanted to get a little more food for the voyage to Big Mom's territory and. . . well. . . see the Mink Village!"

"So you're telling me we're navigating a thick jungle just to go sight-seeing!?" Lucy exclaimed rather irritated

"D-don't forget about the food too Lucy." Responded Reeve, timidly

Lucy just grumbled after Reeve's words as they continued to navigate the intense and thick jungle. Eventually the small group came across a small clearing in the trees.

Naruto looked back at Lucy, "Hey Lucy!"

She grumpled, "What do you want you fool!"

"I would like you to fly up through that space in the tree leaves and take a look around if you don't mind." Naruto responded, unfazed by Lucy's insult

Without saying another word she transformed and flew up to take a look around. When looking around Lucy could see forest in each direction for as far as the eye could see. However, she then spotted a giant tree not very far away. Flying back down to her group she transformed back into her human form and began her report.

"So there's a giant tree about 1 and a half kilometres from here if that's what you're looking for Captain." She explained

Naruto thought for a second, "Not exactly but let's go check it out!"

Lucy just facepalmed as she saw her captain run off in the direction of the giant tree, Reeve following closely behind. Shrugging it off as normal she started to jog after her crew, unaware of the group that was watching them.

A few minutes later. . .

Lucy had been trying to catch up to her overly excited captain and Reeve but the two of them always seemed to be getting further away from her. Eventually she made her way through one final clearing and saw Naruto and Reeve at the base of the giant tree.

Panting, Lucy said, "Jheez, you guys need to slow down. . .just a little bit."

"Ah don't worry Lucy! It's because we ran that made such great time!" Naruto spoke patting Lucy on the back in an anime style

This lead Lucy to hit Naruto in the face in retaliation, however Naruto's head just exploded into drops of water and after a second, reformed into a laughing expression.

He laughed, "Ah don't worry Lucy I'm just messing around with you! Just be glad you don't have my younger brother Luffy as a captain. He acts very loud and obnoxious all the time."

"Wonder where he gets it from." Lucy spoke under her breath sarcastically

Naruto was about to say something else but Reeve interrupted him, "Hey guys! Look over here! There's an opening in the bottom of the tree!"

Naruto and Lucy ran over to Reeve and saw what he was referring to. The hole was giant in size, easily being able to fit an average sized boat through it, however, the group didn't know what lied in the cave.

"So what do we do?" Lucy asked to no one in particular

Naruto smiled, "We explore it of course. Come on!"