So, I had to split this chapter into two. The part where Trafalgar explains his alliance to Luffy and end goal of destroying Doflamingo will be next chapter. Get prepared for highly upset everyone at what happened to kid Law and his father figure-Doflamingo's brother- Rocinante.

Um, and as for Tashigi and Zoro, just assume that they're in the background glaring threateningly at each other... while occasionally trying to include Vista in their glares for being a fellow swordsman. That isn't fighting with them. And probably has a legendary or named blade. And Vista is just wondering how he got these two bloodthirsty(I think Tashigi has it in her) swordsmen to decide that because he didn't automatically fight them that means he needs to be... persuaded.

Actually, pretty much assume that everyone not mentioned is in the background reacting exactly how you'd expect them to react. There is way too many characters for me to write them all reacting, if I were drawing that would be an entirely different story.

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

Chapter 5

At first, watching the grumbly young marine corner Kuzan had both amused and confused everyone else(including the other Marines, because that was their leader confronting a former Admiral about being a pirate. In front of his new crew The Whitebeard Pirates. I mean, they definitely weren't the smartest but even they knew that probably wasn't the most intelligent of ideas.), amused because the Whitebeard Pirates were pretty sure that someone Kuzan cared enough about to mention wouldn't hurt the ice guy or vice versa and thus it was considered a friendly confrontation, and confused because White Chase teamed up with pirates to do so.

Not only that, but pirates that had technically betrayed the World Government, declared war on the World Government, and/or had been the object of his hunt for the past several years.

The most confusing(but also pretty sad) thing happened during this moment at the victory party. Kuzan was just being amusedly lazy, messing with them by not reacting(and it was even getting to Law- the most level headed of them), when it seemed Smoker had enough of the Ice Man's evasions.

"I know what that means, Kuzan," And hurt seemed to flash through the seeming anger for just one moment as Smoker growled out the words, "I knew you weren't the Government's biggest fan, but…" Smoker faltered at that moment before sighing. Gently reaching into his pocket he took out a headband almost exactly like Kuzan's but blank.

"I don't understand," Smoker continued in a far softer tone of voice, "You never seemed one to choose pirates. I never believed that you'd join the Revolutionaries, or any specific island, especially not anything relating to the World Government, but Pirates… "

Kuzan gave a wry smile at the younger man that he'd once taught, being both the only other logia nearby, and the only one that didn't look down on a former street rat from the East Blue, "You know better than that."

"I suppose, then, that all those rumors about the Whitebeard Pirates that the World Government tries to discredit are true?"

"Most of them, Yeah."

And Smoker nodded once, put the headband back into his jacket, and hesitated only for a moment before saying, "I'm glad."

It was then that the two noticed the large group of people watching them with interest. And they might not have said any more, except…

"If that headband is so important to you, then what exactly does it mean?" Because Law really wanted to know about it.

"Is it like how Ace has a really cool tattoo on his back?" Because Luffy thought of little else besides food, fighting, and nakama.

And then Kuzan got visibly upset, "It's armor, a hitai-ate."

And Smoker grumbled about, "It's not quite the same, Straw Hat. But pretty much, yeah."

So Marco, who just wanted the conversation over so that they could get onto more pressing matters, like what they were going to do about Doflamingo and Kaido-because of course the rookies had made both of them very, very angry with their stunt, said, "Story time."

And when everyone basically gathered around Smoker and Kuzan intently, with Whitebeard just looking amusedly happy, and Law smugly smiling, with half of the Straw Hat Pirates cheering-including their captain- along with most of the Marines(who had pretty much decided to treat all the pirates like friends because Vice Admiral Smoker and Captain Tashigi had said they were okay, and they knew both of them would never lead them wrong or betray them like Vergo), Marco put a stop to that too.

"Yeah, it's not just story time for them, but I want to know why Law decided to go after Doflamingo and Kaido, and what happened at Fishman Island with Luffy, and, if I'm satisfied with the answers I'll even throw in a cool story of my own."

Every member of the Whitebeard Pirates besides Kuzan and Newgate began to beg all three of them to talk, spurring on the assembled groups at the victory party. It wasn't very well known, but, besides being a doctor, Whitebeard's unofficial official first mate, and the most responsible older brother figure of the crew, Marco the Phoenix was a really good story teller when he decided to be.

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Luffy started talking first, without even waiting for a prompt or doing anything to indicate he was uncomfortable with the situation. In fact, the rubber man tangled his arms around a glaring Law(he didn't want anyone telling him what to do. Nor did he want to tell anyone but his ally anything about his plan. Especially not a Yonko.) and a stiffly standing Smoker(He was going to have to tell pirates something very personal in front of the guy who had taught him it in the first place), and dragged them down onto the bench Kuzan was leaning up against in an apparent doze before starting his story.

It… didn't make very much sense to most of the people there. In fact, only Whitebeard, Marco, Ace, Smoker, Law, and Luffy's crewmates fully understood the point he was trying to make(Whitebeard and Marco being familiar enough with Garp and Roger to get Luffy-speak, Law being a fellow D that-while seeming entirely rational-was still very much a D, and Smoker having way too much familiarity with Luffy's methods because of his manhunt of the rubber guy-and also Law making zero sense in his Warlord reports and having to be the one too decipher them. Why the Marines thought Smoker should be the go to guy on anything concerning the Eleven Supernovas but especially Law and Luffy he would never understand.).

(Far away, relaxing in an office very close to Sakazuki's-close enough he could pester the man with ease in fact- a supremely satisfied and mostly retired Sengoku sneezed and remembered one of his greatest paperwork foists in recent years. One of his friends little proteges had risen high enough in the ranks that he could foist all of the paperwork concerning the Eleven Supernovas onto him-and with two of those being D's and one of those D's a Warlord it was the best way of getting rid of paperwork he'd managed in years. But that was all Sakazuki's problem now. No more paperwork for Sengoku.)

From what little the average person could understand, Luffy's crew had met a Kraken, some random Cabbage pirate and the Flying Dutchman on the way to Fishman Island. The Kraken, however, became his friend and… barfed(?) another friend up who is a shark. The shark belongs to a very big mermaid named Weakhoshi(particularly discerning people would realize he was speaking about Princess Shirahoshi) that also became Luffy's friend. Somewhere along the way, they meet up with Jinbe, who saves Sanji's life(they think…) and end up fighting a lot of people being mean to the various friends Luffy made while on Fishman Island. A lot of sea kings were involved, and then they ate a lot of food and were gifted with some of the famed saltwater taffy before leaving.

Anyone who had read the 'report' of the incident(As Whitebeard's territory, they regularly submitted reports to him so that he'd know what was going on. In truth, it was mostly a way for King Neptune to catch up with his long time friend Newgate.) and knew the true story thought that it was hilarious.

The thing that made most of the people there laugh, however, was how Ace was alternating between being proud of Luffy, and being extremely overprotective of him and threatening basically everyone that the rubber man had had to fight on Fishman Island.

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At the commiserating looks Law and Smoker were giving each other as Luffy's story began winding down, and the fact that Kuzan wasn't taking a nap but seemed to be thinking up escape plans, Marco immediately told them, "If you were hoping we would be too distracted by Luffy and Ace to notice you not giving us your story, it's not going to happen. And don't think I don't notice you over there Kuzan. You and Smoker can go next, because I get the feeling that Trafalgar over there is going to need a bit more time."

And everyone started to pay attention again, resulting in Kuzan standing up next to Smoker with a grumble before loudly proclaiming, "He was my student for a bit."

Everyone stared at them with confusion.

Smoker seemed almost a little embarrassed or disgruntled by what Kuzan was saying, but didn't refute it. Kuzan rolled his eyes at everyone.

"Is it that hard to believe that I'd have been the one to teach him? Kid was some punk recruit from the East that had found a Devil Fruit, and of course it had to be a logia. And, except for Garp, most tend to look down on the East for being the weakest sea," and here Kuzan grinned at Ace and Luffy and all the East Bluers, "I was the only one with both the ability and inclination to teach him, and my CO at the time took quite a bit of shine to him. Maybe they only said to teach him enough to not be a liability, but he fit right in with the Tactics Division. The best at predicting a person's actions that I've ever seen, could chase down a man to the ends of the world without even really trying."

Smoker crossed his arms and scowled with his ever present cigars hanging out of his mouth, "That's not exactly how it went and you know it. This guy tried every trick in the book to avoid me, unless Vice Admiral Tsuru herself forced him to teach me. And even then, getting information out of Kuzan was like pulling teeth. It took me getting fed up with everyone ignoring me, finding your next sleeping spot, and then putting a knife to your throat and threatening you to get you to like me enough to actually teach me."

"Wait a minute," Ace said with amusement as all of the rookies(Including Law) practically fell to the ground laughing and the Marines(especially a Tashigi that finally looked away from her glaring contest) stared at their commanding officer in astonishment, "You, who chased a group of relatively peaceful pirates all the way to the New World with more tenacity than I've seen from pretty much anyone in the Marines who isn't Garp, started out your career by threatening one of your commanding officers. And how did threatening Kuzan even work to get him to like you, anyway?"

Kuzan answered that one with a smile, "He was a street kid that joined the Marines to not end up in jail, but most of those try to separate their past from themselves too hard and end up being far more strict with the law than the average bunch. I just wanted to see if he'd be a waste of my time and end up being another follower of Sakazuki's particular brand of justice, or if the kid with the smoke logia would still remember and acknowledge his past. And for all that Smoker has a, shall we say, resting angry face, he has never been unfair or needlessly cruel."

"I'm not Sakazuki," Smoker growled out into the silence.

"Of course not," Kuzan said kindly, "But you know how you can come across, especially when meeting others for the first time."

Whitebeard nodded slowly, before saying, "But that does not truly explain the headband."

Kuzan twitched a bit, "It ties into loyalty. To wear it shows other people what you give your allegiance to, and making it easier to tell friend from foe. I wear this because my loyalty is with you guys, and if someone were to ever take it then it would be mark of dishonor that only reclaiming it would rectify."

"And," Smoker said softly, "If you ever see it with a diagonal mark slashing through it, and he doesn't immediately try and fix it, that means he has turned his back on you and declared disloyalty." At Kuzan's frown toward him he added, "They have the right to know."

"You know I would never do that once I have chosen to give my loyalty."

"But, just in case you have no choice. You know that she still has a favor of yours to call in. Not that she'd probably make you do anything like that, but still."

And Kuzan nodded before turning his attention back to the assembled group of misfits, and saying in dismissal, "I believe that should answer your questions quite nicely."

"In that case," A smirk appeared on Marco the Phoenix's face, "We should hear Law's story. When it's done I'll give everyone gathered a story that will undoubtedly be even more interesting with what we've just heard."

And Trafalgar Law just glared at his fellow doctor.

:I wonder, can anyone guess which famous Marine Smoker is the 'grandson' of. I gave you a few hints...

Oh, and for anyone who is worrying about my other stories, I will finish all of them. I've just been really busy this summer...