One Piece: From Ninja To Pirates Chapter 1: First Encounter

"These Hidden Mist Village bastards really know how to pick their timing," iser grumbled.

On the way to the mission site, they had encountered a small skirmish.

Although he had eliminated the ninjas from the Land of Water, his boat had been destroyed in the fight, leaving him no choice but to run the rest of the way.

Fortunately, as a hybrid of the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan, his Chakra reserves were absurdly vast. Running all the way to the destination wasn't a problem.

"If I get through this fog, it shouldn't be much farther."

"Hm?"

Hearing a faint noise, iser stopped in his tracks and turned to look behind him.

The fog obscured everything, making it impossible to see clearly. All he could hear was a strange... sound.

"Why does that sound like a train?"

"And those two lights..."

Could there really be a train running on the sea? That's impossible!

In the world of Naruto, technology hadn't advanced that far.

Still, to avoid any potential danger, iser chose to retreat, putting so distance between himself and whatever was coming.

Soon, a gust of wind swept through, dispersing the fog and revealing what lay beyond.

With his Sharingan active, iser finally saw it clearly.

"It really is a train running on the sea?!" iser said in disbelief. "Since when can trains run on water?!"

"BOOM!"

A massive Sea Train surged forward from the distance, sending huge waves splashing as it sped across the water at an astonishing speed!

"What the—did I transmigrate again?!"

Wait...

Why did he say "again"?

...

"Chimney, are you okay?" Nami asked worriedly, looking at the little girl.

The kid had been clinging to the outside of the Sea Train earlier and nearly got thrown off to her death.

If she hadn't landed near the Franky Family, the consequences would have been unthinkable.

"I... I thought I was gonna die," Chimney said, sticking out her tongue alongside Luffy.

"Yeah..."

"You two..." Zoro didn't even know what to say.

Luffy was one thing—he was always doing reckless stuff like this.

But what was up with this little girl?

Not only had she snuck aboard, but she'd climbed onto the roof of the train?!

"Whatever, she's here now," Nami said, rubbing her temples.

There was no turning back now that they were on the Sea Train.

All they could do was try their best to keep her safe from here on out.

"Enough talk, let's eat."

With that, Luffy imdiately started stuffing his face, leaving Paulie and the others speechless.

After nearly dying outside, he still had the appetite to eat? Talk about nerves of steel.

Guess that's the Straw Hat Boy for you.

"Huh?"

"Wait a second..."

"Hey, look outside—is that soone running on the sea?!" Paulie stood up, pointing out the window.

Zoro, who had been about to complain, froze. Instinctively, he got up and followed Paulie's finger, his pupils shrinking.

"There really is soone!"

Without thinking, Zoro's hand went to the hilt of his sword.

He had no idea how soone could run on water—or why they were here.

But at this mont, the appearance of a stranger wasn't necessarily a good thing.

Who knew if this guy was an enemy?

"Where is he?"

"Where is he?"

Luffy, gnawing on a large at leg, stood up and leaned over Paulie to look out at the sea, imdiately spotting the figure running across the water.

His eyes instantly lit up.

"That's so cool! He can actually run on the sea!" Luffy exclaid.

"Could it be those guys?" Nami said with a grave expression.

She rembered that those previous guys could fly, so running on water probably wasn't anything strange for them.

The figure was already quite close to them now—they needed to figure out who it was as soon as possible.

Suddenly, the figure vanished in an instant, as if it had never been there at all.

This sight turned Nami's face pale with fright.

Soone appearing was one thing, but suddenly disappearing? What did that an?

Could it be... a ghost?!

If she rembered correctly, there had been so mist outside earlier.

"Everyone, be careful!"

Zoro's gaze instantly sharpened, his muscles tensing up.

Just then, a man opened the window and said, "Yo, hello there~"

The mont he spoke, everyone turned to look in shock.

Zoro imdiately shifted into a combat stance, ready to strike at any mont.

"Who are you?" Zoro demanded.

Zoro studied iser, noticing his bizarre attire.

A green... vest?

He also wore a strange forehead protector with a leaf symbol on it, and a long sword hung at his waist.

What kind of weird outfit was this?

A swordsman?

"?" iser hopped in through the window, stroking his chin. "I'm just a passing ninja."

"Mind if I hitch a ride?"

As he spoke, iser glanced around at everyone in the room.

Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Chopper... Though the others were unfamiliar faces, this was enough for iser to realize where he was now.

This was the world of One Piece!!!

'Did I really get transported again?'

This was sothing iser hadn't expected—who knew there could be a second transmigration?

But he had only watched up to the part where they needed to find a place to repair the Going rry in One Piece. He had no idea how the story developed after that.

Thinking about this, iser felt a headache coming on.

If only he had finished watching One Piece first.

"You're a ninja?!" Luffy exclaid excitedly.

Even Chopper, who had been lying on the floor, imdiately sprang up.

A real ninja!

"Yeah, a ninja," iser nodded.

Seeing Luffy and Chopper's reactions, iser was puzzled. Were they really this excited?

"Was running on the sea just now also because you're a ninja?" Paulie asked.

"Yep, it's a special ninja ability."

"A ninja..." Kokoro erged from the cockpit, eyeing iser up and down. "I've heard so rumors about ninjas."

She just wasn't sure if this strangely dressed young man matched what she had in mind.

"Kokoro knows about them?"

"Mhm. I've heard that in the Land of Wano in the New World, there are ninjas." Kokoro paused, then hesitantly added, "You... are you from the Land of Wano?"

After all, she was an elderly woman who had lived in Water 7 for many years and had t nurous remarkable figures like Roger, so it wasn't strange that she knew so things about the New World.

"Although I don't know what place you're referring to, unfortunately, I'm not from there," iser said with a shrug.

iser hadn't expected that this world would also have ninjas. It was truly... an intriguing matter.

Was he a Devil Fruit user?

Or did this world possess so other special powers?

Given that even sothing as unscientific as Devil Fruits existed, it wasn't impossible for other extraordinary things to appear.

"Then... can you use the clone technique?!" Luffy asked.

"And can you breathe fire?" Chopper chid in excitedly, waving his arms.

"And also—"

"Hold on, hold on," iser raised his hand to stop them. "I can do everything you ntioned, but the problem is, aside from cloning, I can't demonstrate the rest here."

"The space is too cramped."

If he were to use Fire Release inside this train carriage, the others would be in serious trouble—Fire Release could genuinely burn people to death!

During the Second Ninja World War, he had taken out plenty of people with his Fire Release.

"Then just do the clone!" Luffy said eagerly, staring at iser.

As he spoke, he took another bite of the at in his hand, making iser's eye twitch. Typical Luffy.

"Clone!"

"Clone!"

"Wait a second!" Zoro suddenly interjected.

"What's up?"

iser, who had been about to demonstrate the Shadow Clone Technique to Luffy, paused and looked at Zoro in confusion.

Zoro ignored iser and turned to Luffy instead. "Hey, Luffy, don't you think it's suspicious that soone just suddenly shows up during such a sensitive ti?"

"We don't even know his na."

Rather than watching the guy's ninjutsu, he wanted to know who this person really was. The word "ninja" wasn't enough to convince him.

Luffy blinked and looked at iser. "What's your na?"

"I'm iser."

"Are you gonna hurt us?"

"No."

Luffy nodded, then turned back to Zoro with a big, toothy grin, as if saying, "See? No problem."

Zoro: "..."

Wasn't this a bit too casual?

"Let's go, let's go!" Luffy urged.

"Alright."

"Shadow Clone Technique!"

"Poof~"

A puff of white smoke appeared, and an identical clone materialized beside iser.

"It's actually real..."

Nami stared at iser in shock. He could really use this kind of ninjutsu?

"So... those stories in the books are true?"

"The evidence is right here."

"Then I guess they are."

"It's really a clone!" Chopper stepped forward and pinched iser's thigh, confirming that both were solid. He was beyond excited.

Unbeknownst to him, his actions had put Zoro on high alert.

"Relax, I an you no harm," iser said to Zoro. "If I really wanted to attack, you'd be dead before you even saw ."

Zoro didn't buy it. Who did this guy think he was underestimating?

iser didn't mind. If the opportunity arose, he could always let Zoro witness his ninjutsu firsthand.

"So cool!"

Luffy gobbled down the at in his hand and stepped forward, groping iser all over, startling iser's shadow clone into imdiately forming hand seals to dispel itself.

"Poof~"

As the shadow clone vanished, iser's expression changed.

"What are you doing?" iser took a step back.

"Why'd you dispel it?" Luffy scratched his head. "Oh well."

"iser, beco my nakama!"

Ninjas are just too cool, okay?!

"Huh?!"

"Hey, there's no way soone would agree so easily..."

"Sure."

"He actually agreed?!!"