Whitebeard Pirates, gotta love them. Though, I'll admit to being fairly terrible at writing group interactions. So, hope it works out.

:Oh, and I own neither One Piece nor Naruto, citations will be on the first chapter.

It was truly a dark day in the history of the Marines. Not only had a rookie infiltrated Impel Down and escaped, but Gol D. Ace(as the marines thought of him) had managed to avoid execution. Even Whitebeard had managed to continue living, leaving them with an unconscious Blackbeard to take care of.

Even though Blackbeard had looked like he was going to be able to end Newgate once and for all, and Admiral Akainu had nearly skewered Fire Fist and Straw Hat, they'd both missed at crucial times.

Akainu had slipped just a little and ended up missing the crucial parts of Ace and Luffy, leaving them injured badly but probably going to make it. Especially since someone had spotted Trafalgar Law in their area.

Teach, on the other hand, had frozen in the middle of the fight, allowing Edward Newgate to strike him down and the division commanders to get their captain out.

Two very small mistakes that had cost them any chance of counting the mess as a win.

No-one except for Whitebeard himself noticed the ice that had bound Teach for just a moment, and absolutely no one saw the slick layer of ice that had purposefully slipped up Akainu. A year from the War, when the two Admirals fought to decide the new Fleet Admiral, that simple fact would cause a very huge stir in the ranks of one of the greatest pirate crews in existence.

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The Whitebeard Pirates were celebrating. The two rookies, Trafalgar Law and Monkey D. Luffy had already left with Rayleigh, and now they were celebrating the freedom of their brother. Though, their oldest brother couldn't get one thing out of his head.

"Pops," Marco called out, "Why did Teach freeze up when he saw you in the battle?" Because even if they didn't say anything about it, Marco knew that his father had almost died that day. Every member of the crew turned to look at their father with a worried or pensive face, wondering the same thing.

"Gurarara," Their father, the strongest man in the world, laughed, "That's the interesting thing. It seems I owe Kuzan a favor."

"Kuzan?!" Jozu shouted, "You mean Admiral Aokiji, the guy so lazy it's a miracle he ever catches any criminal without Sengoku outright ordering him?! He saved you?" Honestly, besides the laziness and marine issue, the fact that none of them had even been able to tell he'd done anything was nearly as shocking.

"My sons," Whitebeard began, "I have no doubt that without his intervention I would have died."

And so the Whitebeard Pirates contemplated what would cause Aokiji to help them with his lazy nature along with being their sworn enemy, and swore to themselves that if they ever had the chance they'd repay Kuzan(because he had been shifted over to potential ally in their minds) for his help.

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One year later, Marco was sitting in his office doing the required paperwork while Ace tried to prevent him from being productive. In all honesty, Ace was succeeding because the fire-man was extremely annoying.

Just as Marco was about to give up on his paperwork in order to strangle the second division commander, Vista hurriedly opened the door.

"Guys, the paper, we have to show pops," the fifth division commander shouted before slamming the door and running off.

Marco and Ace looked at each other, before following their brother outside.

The paper must have had some important information to have whipped Vista into a frenzy and cause him to gather all the commanders in front of Pops to tell them about it.

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"Look," Vista proclaimed while brandishing the paper. And then everyone understood. You do not forget the guy that saves Whitebeard's life, and that guy was on the front page.

The paper, seemingly innocuous, had two very important pieces of information on it. That Admiral Akainu had become the Fleet Admiral.

And that former Admiral Aokiji had retired from the Marines.

"Aokiji lost to Akainu, and due to his injuries has decided to retire… ha, probably just didn't want to work for a mad dog like Akainu more like," Jozu muttered.

"Still, it is very likely that they both sustained some pretty bad injuries..." Marco said in contemplation.

Every single commander got a smile on their face as they realized where Marco was going, before Izo turned to their Pops and said, "Say, why don't we go and offer some medical help to Kuzan. After all, with him no longer being in the corps I doubt that they have given him any aid."

And with their father giving his amused assent, they set of in search of Kuzan, not realizing what they were getting into.

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Kuzan was finally catching up on his cloud watching, unaware of the group of crazy pirates searching for him. He was finally free, and in such a way that the government wouldn't blame him.

Losing your leg to a comrade was very traumatic, they probably thought. Though, considering that it was insanely easy to replace the flesh leg with ice, and that the ice seemed to be regenerating his flesh slowly but surely it was kind of a moot point.

So, Kuzan was taking advantage of his retirement to stay on a rather temperate(for an ice man, to anyone else it would be fairly chilly) island for some well deserved relaxation. Or, if you want to be technical, napping and cloud-watching.

Of course, that glorious feeling of not having to do very much at all didn't last. Mostly because Whitebeard pirates were fairly good at finding people when they put their minds to it, and it wasn't like Kuzan was moving location or even trying to hide.

So, several weeks after his fight with Sakazuki(which Kuzan was proud to say didn't show anyone abilities that they hadn't already known he could do; there was no doubt that if the former ninja had wanted to he could have beaten Akainu. However that would have taken too much effort.) a shadow fell over Kuzan. He ignored it, of course. The shadow began talking and other ones crept up also, blocking out even more of the sun. Kuzan continued to try to sleep, ignoring what the shadows were saying.

They didn't have a bad intent, so they were probably not going to do anything bad(From where they were standing next to each other, Ace sweatdropped while muttering to Marco, "How is he still sleeping?" The rest of the division commanders who were there, because Kuzan was a former admiral and they didn't know how he'd react, just nodded.).

He just grumbled a bit when they picked him up and started taking him to their ship, giving up on him actually reacting to them. It was only when Ace decided to drop him on the deck in front of Whitebeard that Kuzan actually bothered to open his eyes to glare at the fire man.

"Troublesome," he muttered, "Why did you bring me here?"

Ace looked at him for a moment before slowly answering, "Pops said that you saved his life by freezing that traitor at a crucial moment. It kind of got us thinking, and I realized that there should have been nothing able to cause Akainu to slip enough not to kill me, which means that you must have made him because he would have literally melted anything other than you directly making and strengthening the ice…"

"So," Izo said while every pirate on deck slowly gathered closer with curiosity and a hint of suspicion in their eyes, "We asked ourselves why the laziest marine, and an Admiral at that, would help us out, and none of us could figure it out."

Marco grinned at Kuzan with a sharpness that left no one in doubt(not that anyone in the would have much to begin with) why he was what amounted to Edward Newgate's First Mate, "When we heard that you retired we decided to track you down for some answers and to see if you needed any medical assistance, though you seem far less injured than the papers would lead one to believe."

Kuzan's head hit the deck with a thump, not even having to deal with the entire Konoha twelve's antics had been this headache inducing, and he'd had to deal with Lee teaming up with Naruto to 'defeat' Sasuke and Neji in a prank war with way too much collateral damage and mental scarring(He never wanted to see that much orange ever again. And the toads and sunset and… Yeah it was still scary).

Whitebeard was looking with curiosity at this insanely powerful marine that had helped him, curious as to his reasons. The old pirate was fairly certain it was going to be good, and if he was correct… well. He'd always enjoyed getting new sons through interesting circumstances.

"You want to know why I helped two pirates," Kuzan said with deliberation as he pushed himself up, "It was for two different reasons," Kuzan then looked at Ace, "For Fire Fist, it was to settle a debt, and for your Captain it was to prevent anarchy and war." Everyone was mildly unsettled by the sharp gave that assessed them, realizing that for all his laziness Kuzan had a ridiculous amount of intelligence.

"What type of debt," Ace said with a frown.

"One to a pair of Monkey D's," at the collective startlement of the Whitebeard Pirates, which included their father, Kuzan explained, "Garp saved my life when I was younger, and Luffy helped me to finally fulfill a promise and lay to rest the soul of my best friend, the least that I could do was to insure the survival of one so important to them. As to Whitebeard, It would have been too troublesome for him to die." And the former Admiral punctuated the sentence with a yawn, causing a mass twitch.

"Too troublesome…" Vista muttered confused.

"If Whitebeard died, likely his crew would have scattered. All of his territories would become up for grabs, fought over by anyone with a shred of power. Likely the marine corp would have pushed an advance into those areas creating more havok… and Fishman Island in particular would be put into a bad situation. War, uprisings, violence, all because of the death of one person," he looked at them(And the chaos he'd caused with his words), sighed, and closed his eyes while relaxing into the deck, "Now, I'll be taking a nap while you pull yourselves together."

And thus former Admiral Aokiji, also known as Kuzan, took a nap, leaving a hoard of confused and shocked pirates. They certainly weren't expecting that.

"Set sail for the next island," Whitebeard told his sons as he walked back to his cabin.

"Pops," Marco said as he began to walk alongside him, "What about Kuzan?" Because the guy almost certainly wasn't a threat regardless of how powerful he was. And some of the things that he'd said, well, beyond what they owed him for saving Ace and their father, Marco had recognized the way he'd talked and acted from some of his brothers. A way that said they'd seen and done terrible things, and hadn't been able to stop it. A tired look that had mostly given up.

"We should keep him," Ace said excitedly, "I mean, it's not like he has other places to go, and he's totally awesome!"

"Of course," Pops said with amusement, "But we'll have to convince him like we did with you. Not everyone just decides to stay immediately, some need time to decide(Read: use any means necessary to keep him here until he gives in). Ahh, I love gaining new family members."

And the collective gathering of pirates turned toward their soon-to-be new brother, and grinned predatorily. If Kuzan weren't asleep, well he probably would have been reminded of the look that Naruto had given people he wanted to be friends with.

Either way, he now had a group of highly determined pirates that wanted to assimilate him, and would hound him unto the end of the world in an effort to get him to become a son of their captain.

Life was about to become far more troublesome for Kuzan.

:I hope this makes people happy, there is kind of a lack of non-romance/harem fics in this crossover area. It makes me sad because I am more of a plot reader than anything. So this is my plot story, and is yet another reincarnation thing because having people show up in another universe is difficult without reincarnation.