What's Beyond (English version)

It had been a month since he joined Whitebeard's pirates and truth be told, he was enjoying this experience, thanks to that he learned many more things about the world without having to crash into them, in fact he was extremely surprised by what he learned, but if he had to list them they would be

In this world there are a variety of powers and energies, each one different from the other, but in a certain way similar The world was bigger than I expected and the elemental nations compared to larger territories, which were like a mare island There are different types of governments, although the world government is the largest, it is far from the most powerful And his fourth and last lesson, in this world he is just a little fish, who has to avoid predators

But what is our hero doing? 

*five* You could see how Naruto was slammed against the ground hard.

-*Toss Toss* Shit *those* believe… *Moan* I think you're enjoying this - I would tell Marco, who was the one who stamped it. 

- What do you think? I'm just teaching you to fight, like a good commander - He would say it with a serious tone, but it didn't leave the smug smile plastered on his face.

- I already know how to fight -

- Is that what you call fighting, boy? You have no combat style, you just throw punches like crazy. Use your clones? They are of no use to you if your opponent outnumbers you by a lot and don't get me started on how you have bad footwork and timing, if you were to fight a pirate or marine decent, if it were your enemy, believe me, you would be dead - 

- Bah, I just need jutsus of a better level and you will see how I can defeat you - I would say it with confidence 

Marco had to calm down, he was about to burn the boy for his stupidity - Well, let's say that you're right, that you're not right, it's worth clarifying - Naruto frowned at the latter - What will you do when a person appears with even stronger techniques than you? yours? Will you give up and let yourself be murdered? Because if you continue with that thought it will be the same

- What? -

- Naruto, Marco is right, take me as an example, when I attacked your village I was the strongest creature, with more destructive techniques, I lost against your father, because he had a better technique - It was advice that she herself had to learn to the bad ones

- Bah, but if what defines a battle is not which technique is better or which is more powerful, what defines it then? - It was a question he asked Kyubi, but as he said it out loud Marco was the one who answered him 

- Whoever uses it and how they use it, boy, many times the victory does not go to the most powerful, nor the most prepared, but rather the most skilled because they can adapt and get used to combat - He knew that from his own experiences.

- Because not the most prepared? -

- *Sigh* I'm going to explain it to you this way, if you and I get into a direct fight, who wins? -

- You -

- Well, at least you're not stubborn... Well, not so much - When Naruto was about to inflate his chest, he had to stop, due to the culmination of the sentence - Well, now if you enter the fight knowing everything about me, even if I like to eat Who would win a fight? -

- ¿They?- 

- Error, I would still win, because you came in with information, but the information is of no use if you can't use it, the information is of no use to you if you can't hurt me -

- I don't understand, you tell me that the most powerful doesn't always win, but then you tell me yes -

- *Sigh* What I want to get at boy is, the one who always obtains the victory and listens well, always takes it, is more skillful, no matter the strength, intelligence or plans of your opponents, if you have enough skill you will be able to adapt and obtain the victory. victory, even if it is escaping -

- Wait, if I escape I won't lose the fight? -

- That's the thinking of the stupid guys, as long as you can get out alive and fight another day, it can be considered a victory, remember this, winning a battle is not the same as winning the war. Do you understand me? -

Naruto nodded - A little, I still don't understand who wins then, but what I did understand is that it not only helps me to be powerful, I also have to be skillful - 

- What a miracle, you learned something by listening and not suffering serious damage, it is already progress -

(¡¡¡Calllate Kyubi!!!)

- Well, at least you understood that and the break is over, get up to continue training -

Naruto just nodded and jumped, standing and resuming his training with Marco.

_ 15 days later _

53 days had passed since he left Konoha and despite missing his friends, he was happy.

Because for the first time since he has consciousness, he does not have a burden, his first burden was resisting the hatred of the village, his second burden was his desire to become Hokage and his third burden was finding out that he had the Kyubi sealed inside him, He had had smaller burdens, but the previous three were the ones that weighed the most on him in his life.

But now free of those burdens, even that of the Kyubi, since he left Konoha was actually helpful, but there was only one thing that kept bothering him since he left Konoha and that was...

*five* who was still being treated like Marco's favorite punching bag - Again against the floor - the red-haired man would say a little irritated.

- At the rate we are going, you should marry the floor hahahahaha - Marco would say it with mockery towards Naruto - But you are improving boy, you learn quickly, very quickly I would say - It would start happy to end seriously, his words are true, if you compare the first training sessions that had with Naruto, with those of now you would see a big difference

- Yes, so much so that I gave you a solid blow and despite that it didn't do anything - I would say it frustrated, I had hit him directly in the solar plexus and it didn't even make him flinch, I didn't know if it had really hurt him and Could he endure the pain or was it useless and did nothing?

- Hmm, you still have a lot to learn boy, but we are going to give you a lesson. Do you remember that I taught you that in this world there are many types of energy? -

- Yes, it was when I presented my clones to you and you were not surprised, you just acted as if it were the most common thing - He commented with a pout.

- Well, now I am going to explain to you the main energy that all beings have, unlike your chakra, magic, alchemy or other forms of energy, which you have to have a certain degree of affinity to learn it, this is a skill that even the gods use - Naruto had little stars in his eyes amazed by this incredible power 

- What is it? What is it? What is it? - The redhead would ask more and more excitedly.

- Haki - Naruto miro raro a Marco

- Willpower? Oh really? The amazing power used by the gods is the will... -

- *Sigh* Yes boy the will, but your problem is that you took the word literally -

- What? -

- Haki is one of those powers that exist in this world, its name derives from the fact that the people who possess it are normally warriors and only those who show enough will can use it -

- Wait a moment, in my home there were many warriors and they never awakened the Haki, explain that to me -

- Because they didn't know Haki and yes boy I know it sounds stupid, believe me I think so too, but that's how it works the best way I can explain it to you is the following. Imagine that you live in a giant forest and on the other side there is a river. What happens if you never explore the forest? -

- I will never find the river and if I do it will be by mere chance... oh-

- Yes oh, believe me, I know it sounds like stupid reasoning, but even we do not know how Haki originated or who began to keep its teachings, we only know them, now there are 3 types of Haki and they are-

Observation Haki , which grants users a hidden instinct or sixth sense of the world around them and unlimited precognitive ability.

Weaponry Haki, which allows the user to use their spirit as unbreakable armor to defend themselves from attacks, or to perform their own more powerful attacks.

King's Haki, a rare type of right that only one in a million can use and that grants the user the ability to dominate the will of others. 

- Now to awaken and improve Haki there is only one thing left to do: fight 

- Huh? -

- Haki is not like any small energy, it is only awakened in high-level combat and trying to feel it, and after awakening it you can start training and perfecting it - 

- So how do I wake him up in training? -

- You can't -

- Uh -

- To awaken the Haki you have to have real confrontations, of life and death, where your will to win is highlight immensely - This is how he would finish his explanation - And without anything more than teaching, return to training -

- Shit -

_ Naruto Camerino _ 

Naruto was in his private room, it turns out that despite not having too many luxurious things on the ship, each person had a personal room, which really made him happy.

Since he arrived on the ship he had been studying the scrolls that Jiraiya had given him, in them there were many techniques, skills and even information for shinobi learning and he had been taking advantage of the

But I was still a little stuck in the Fuinjutsu, I wanted to do the Hiraishin no Jutsu but I hadn't been able to adapt or understand the seal in the slightest.

 - Calm down boy, Fuinjutsu is not just arriving and doodling, you need concentration and understanding what you are doing -

(-I know, Kyubi, but I still don't understand why, if the fuinjutsu is easy for me, why don't I learn this jutsu just as quickly? -)

- You're starting to act like a spoiled kid, having the ease of learning something doesn't mean you're going to do everything right the first time, you don't want to sound like those boastful "prodigies", right? -

(-What? Of course not-)

- Then control yourself, you're starting to sound like them -

(- *Sigh* Okay, I understand... but I really want to learn Hiraishin -)

- Better rest for today, it's getting late. Also, when do you plan to get clothes for yourself and not just take anything? -

(- I still can't find clothes that I like, that's all -)

- Good, but I hope that new outfit isn't all orange or I swear I'll come out of the seal and burn the clothes and then burn you.

Naruto could only sweat because of Kyubi's threat, surely, and he was joking, right?... Shit, he better think twice before buying the clothes.

_Next morning_

Naruto was on the deck, sitting on Whitebeard's shoulder watching the horizon, while the latter was drinking with a smile on his face.

Edward Newgate was having a wonderful morning, he woke up with more energy than ever, he was having a good beer and his grandson was accompanying him, if he couldn't ask for anything more to be happy, despite being a Yonkou he was content with little and nothing , that's why even when he was with the rocks he was considered a weirdo

But that didn't matter to him, he was happy and that was the only thing that was really worth it.

While those were Edward's thoughts, Naruto was thinking about something else entirely.

(-I've been on the ship for almost two months... and I still feel empty... Why?-)

- Maybe you're not happy -

(Naruto frowned, thinking about those words - No... I'm not going to say that I have perpetual joy, but I'm happier than in Konoha, that's for sure -)

 - The guilt then, of abandoning your companions -

(-Maybe... but I'm not convinced. If it were that I would feel bad, but it's not that... I just... I don't know how to explain it apart from emptiness-)

- What's bothering you brat? -

- ¿Eh?-

- You've been sitting watching the horizon with me for a while and that's fine, I really feel like I'm spending time with my grandson, but you've also been frowning for a while, so I ask you again, what's bothering you?

- I don't know the truth, since I ran away from my home I feel free from many things, but at the same time I feel a great weight -

- Free, huh?... Tell me boy, for you, what is freedom? -

- Live without ties and without obligations that stop you -

Edward just shook his head - Boy, without a doubt that is the crudest and most basic explanation of freedom you can find -

- That? Because? -

- Let me tell you something boy, I have lived 71 years in this world and I was always tied -

- That? But you are a Yonkou, one of the strongest pirates, you are supposed to represent true freedom -

- Guararararara True freedom? Let me tell you this, that doesn't exist - Naruto opened his eyes in amazement at his grandfather's words - We will always be chained to something small, regardless of your status -

- Because? -

- Because we are human boy no matter how much we want to deny it, we will always be chained, whether physically, spiritually or mentally, because we need to eat, rest, dream, learn, etc. Even something as basic as breathing chains us, because we cannot live without oxygen -

- So I can never be free? -

- That is not a message that I want to leave you boy, I want you to understand that there is no such thing as "true freedom" but we can always be free like the birds of the sky, which travel around the world and enjoy it -

Naruto nodded understanding what his grandfather meant, but this talk did not fill that void, but there was a part of the message that really interested him - (Traveling around the world... Doesn't sound so bad, right?)