They say how you treat others tell your personality

And there will never be respect without humility

Good manners and politeness will define you differently

Because a person's a person, no matter how small they may be.

Speak up nicely when you have smart and valuable ideas

Have a broad mind to embrace our differences and uniqueness

Because a person's feeling could never be a solid rock

That you can throw over and over again, and never gets hurt.

The golden rule always tells its important lesson

Teaching us to value each and every creature

Because in the eyes of god, we are all His treasures

No one is perfect, but we are all valuable to the nation.

Respect is earned, and it will never be given

So treat others the way you want to be treated

You can always say it nicely, politely and humbly

Believe me, blessings will come your way indefinitely!

-Alje Lomuntad

Natsuki watched as her ship left, slowly shrinking until it was swallowed by the horizon. Wiping away the last of her tears, she turned to Luffy, who had been there to send Shanks off, and noticed the straw hat on his head.

"Natsuki!? They forgot you behind!" In total shock, he stood there gaping like a fish.

"Luffy, I've decided to stay with you guys. Would you allow me to live with you guys?" She put his straw hat on his head, rather than hang it on his back, smiling fondly at him.

"You're staying with us!? Yay!!!" He immediately leapt onto her torso, wrapping his lengthy rubber arms around her waist, crushing her if it weren't for her years of training.

"Lu, tight... Crushing... Can't... Breathe..." After being released, she kissed his head in the middle of his obsidian tufts and promised to get stronger to one day protect him from harm as well.

"Let's go Natsu!" He ran off, a bright smile on his face, leaving her to run after him, the same smile on her face too.

"I thought you left with them." Ace said when he found her and Luffy in the treehouse, chatting about their dreams.

"Nope! Here to stay until I'm eighteen!"

"Eighteen? I'll be leaving when I'm seventeen you know! One year earlier than you!" Sabo said, somewhat happy that he was older. Or that was what he thought.

"Haha, you think I'm your age? You two are eleven, right?"

"You're saying you're older?"

"Yeah. I'm twelve." The two looked at her sceptically,

"No you're not."

"Yes I am!"

"Then why are you the same height as us?" She rolled her eyes.

"You know my dad, Shanks? And Yasopp? Did you meet him?" Ace and Sabo shook their heads and she groaned. She then had an idea.

"What I'll show to you now is a secret that you mustn't tell anybody okay? If you do, many people will target me to try and get a hold of this power. So I may die at one point if you tell this secret okay? Especially you Luffy. I know how loose your lips are." Luffy covered his mouth and all three of them nodded simultaneously. She didn't sound like she was joking.

"I'm a kunoichi." Luffy's and Sabo's eyes sparkled with stars taking over their pupils.

"Can you ninja stuff!? Show us! Show us!!!" She smiled and disappeared, but with a cloud of smoke, in her place was her father, towering over the boys. She then changed into a lanky man with a slightly tall nose and blond dreadlock, tight in a bandana.

"This is Yasopp." Ace looked at her in a form of a man doubtfully. The man was quite shorter than Shanks but was still taller than the children. "He's older than dad." Ace stayed silent. So that was what she wanted to prove.

"So you're trying to say that just because we're tall, or you're short doesn't mean that we're the same age?" Ace looked at the man who transformed into a girl again, her cheeks puffed up. Slightly angry that he called her short.

She had met other girls in the village by accident, some around her age, and some older, but they were all shorter than her. Well, she did have a tall mother and father... Ace and Sabo were her height!

"What else can you do!?" Luffy asked, and Natsuki continued to show him the rasengan and some flame jutsus. Though when he asked her to make shadow clones after she told them about how she pranked her family by using the technique secretly, she could only make four kagebunshin.

She was slightly sad about it, as she was able to make so many before. Though that was the problem. In the world so different to her last life, she could do things Naruto couldn't, but things Naruto could do, she could not do as well as he could, though she was able to do some simple stuff which she used to be able to do, such as water-walking and tree-walking.

She looked at Luffy's disappointed face and began her story.

"I wasn't always bad at this technique you know. When I was older, I could make much more. You see, I wasn't always a girl. -" She started, and a few hours later, -Luffy kept interrupting- various screams were heard. Three from the treehouse, another fifty from her family, a couple of hundred kilometres away. It seemed as though Benn just finished her story as well.

"Wow. So your name used to be Naruto? What did you look like?" She cast a henge on herself, and she found herself in a nostalgic body a few moments later. Her blonde hair spiky, her light blue eyes blazing, three whisker marks on each cheek. A metal plate proudly on her forehead.

"You look dumb." Ace muttered.

"I do, don't I? Maybe that's why they hated me..." She actually considered as she returned to her body. Sabo nudged him.

"What!?"

"That was rude."

"I'm just saying what I see."

"Well, that's why we have things called thoughts don't we? So we can keep those things private. If you really think so, then you don't have to hurt other people with your opinion." He said. Ace looked down and begrudgingly apologised.

"Oh no, it's fine. I know how dumb I was, so you were stating the truth."

"Just because it's the truth doesn't mean you should hurt someone with it." Sabo insisted, and Natsuki couldn't stop a tear from rolling down. All three boys began to panic. Garp had thoroughly taught them that making a girl cry was treason, punishable by death.

Their panic stopped when Natsuki smiled, her face still damp, but a purely happy face beamed at them, and they all smiled alongside her, looking up to the sky without a single cloud.

A week later, it was a common thing to find Natsuki with the boys, whether it was teaching them combat, or how to load a gun, or the boys telling her where the best spots were for certain things such as sunbathing and eating.

Natsuki had taken it upon herself to teach the boy's some manners with the help of Makino.

"Ace, Luffy, get it together please! Sabo's the only one who knows his manners, and he will not be the only one leaving this island with it, even if my life depends on it!" She one day exclaimed. This whole thing started when they were nearly caught in town because Luffy demanded that he get something from the stores, and the owner got angry.

"Why do we need it!? We're going to be pirates! Not officials in the marines!" Luffy pouted.

"For example: in the future, you become a successful pirate, with lots of land under your power. One day, when you're not there, another pirate comes along, saying that they want that island under their command. If they like you, because you were kind, and had good manners, they would say no. Though if you were awful, with absolutely no manners like Ace, then they would say yes to the pirates, and you will lose power. Understand?" Ace growled, and Natsuki laughed heartily.

"I still don't understand!" Natsuki sighed.

"Well, let's put it like this. When dad came, did you like him?"

"Yeah! He was really cool!"

"What if some really nasty pirate came along instead. Would you be happy?"

"No!"

"So let's try to be more like dad rather than those invading bad pirates, eh?"

"Okay." He bounced back up, and started learning how to use words such as please and thank you in certain places.

"Hmph, how dumb." Ace left, and Natsuki decided to do something to change his mind. She smirked as an idea popped to her head.

She made two kagebunshin. Then disguised them both to look fairly similar to each other, like brothers.

She made one go to Ace.

"Hey! Sorry to disturb you, but have you seen my brother? He has a similar hair cut to mine and same eye colour, but he disappeared earlier, and I can't find him. Can you please tell me if you've seen him? He's incredibly important to me." She said through her kagebunshin.

"No, I haven't seen him." Ace replied simply.

"Oh, then sorry to take up your time. Please if you see him, can you tell him that his brother was looking for him?"

"Okay." Ace couldn't help but want to help for the boy who was so sincere and worried.

"Thank you very much" She made him walk away, then dispersed the bunshin. Then, she made the 'brother' walk to Ace.

Ace recognised the boy who was similar to the one who was looking for him.

"Oi, you there with the brown hair and blue eyes, your brother was looking for you." Ace yelled at the boy.

"Huh!? What do you care about! I don't care whether he searches for me for days, I will not! Go back! Home!" Ace didn't understand why anger boiled inside him. Was it because he had a home but didn't want to go back? Was it because he was so rude? Was it because he had no care for his brother who cared so much for him?

"Look here brat. Your brother has been searching for you for hours, and that's all you've got to say? Why not spout an apology or two before you whine!"

"Why should I be ordered around by you!? You little beggar! I bet you don't even have someone who cares about you!" Natsuki thought she went too far, but there was no going back now. Though something in Ace's eyes changed.

"Would you go back to your brother please? He's been looking for you for hours, and I really feel bad for him. Don't you think the same way too?" Ace suddenly said, his voice softer.

"B-but, he keeps getting praised by mother and father, so I th-thought if I disappeared, they wouldn't care..."

"Of course they would! You are family, aren't you? Family protect each other." Ace heard himself say, the image of Sabo, Luffy and Natsuki coming to his head.

"Okay... I'll go look for brother as well. Thank you. Sorry for calling you beggar. I'm sure you have family who care about you too!" Her kagebunshin smiled at its own will, and ran off, and Natsuki dispersed it as well.

Ace thought about it for a while. When he was yelling at the boy, the boy was insincere, very annoying, and frankly made him want to punch him in the face, whilst his brother made him slightly happy, that he showed such nice manners to him, the son of the devil.

Perhaps what Natsuki said was valid after all.