Arriving in Havana a few days later they docked at Havana. As they walked through town to the inn, in which Stede had arranged to meet his trade partner, Edward pointed out the sights to Naruto now knowing from his story that much of what he saw for foreign to him.
In passing a weapon shop Naruto could tell that he would have to find a forge to make himself some kunai an a ninjato as all the shop seemed to sell was heavy long blades, that would either hamper his movement or cause him to overbalance himself swinging them.
The actual journey through town was uneventful, even though Stede's very being seemed to say victim, the presence of two clear warriors had warned away the pickpockets Naruto had spotted. When he spotted them it was in observing the disparity between the rich and poor of the town, like before when he noticed the difference in dress between Edward and his victim it was clear from only a glance, so few in this city had any money to spend on the luxury of warm clothes, something he had had even in his youth.
Once they reached the tavern however things did not stay that way, while Naruto was at the bar getting drinks with the reales that Stede had given him for his part in saving his life. A few roughens had taken that opportunity to start a fight with Edward, knowing he could take care of himself Naruto stood back holding the drinks waiting for Edward to finish up.
Naruto watched as Edward swiftly dodged and counted the half-drunk thugs, breaking their defences and then their faces. It seemed however that the local soldiers were waiting for just such an opportunity as ten of them stormed the area demanding everyone raise their hands. Edward threw a smoke bomb, which he had time to make on the ship, as a distraction for himself and fled the area.
Naruto however not truly knowing what he was going to do in this new world wanted to avoid upsetting the authorities if at all possible and followed their instruction with Stede, something he would regret when said authorities decided everyone at the tavern was a pirate.
A self-important man with a mildly fancy hat entered the tavern courtyard and instructed the troops to stand at ease. Quickly the man identified his targets, Stede and another man also wearing fine clothes.
"Well, well, well, what have we here?" the man said putting his hand inside Stede's sample wares box he had brought to facilitate his trade.
"Sample wares to sell?" Stede said happily not yet realising his situation.
"Did I ask you?" the man snapped back, slapping Stede for his effort.
"I think what we have here is stolen goods, pirated from a Spanish galleon sunk just two days ago." The man said, pacing in front of the lined up bar patrons.
"I assure you sir it is not I grew these on my own plantation." Stede said much to Naruto's consternation as the man slapped him again.
"I say they are stolen goods, so they are stolen goods. Here you are in possession of stolen goods trying to sell them off in a known pirate hangout, I'd say that makes you a pirate wouldn't you?" the man asked daring Stede to answer.
"Now see here." Steed was cut off with another slap.
"I wasn't asking you, pirate." Upon closer examination of the contence of the sample box the captain decided he wanted the sugar.
"I could of course be persuaded to look the other way, all it will cost you is the sugar in your hold, and you wouldn't want to be hung for piracy now would you?" he continued as if he was giving Stede a choice. Something similar happened with the other well-dressed man as the captain instructed his men to escort Stede back to his ship and take the sugar.
If this was happening every time a trader came to town Naruto thought it no wonder there was such a disparity between the rich and poor, it was like Gato and wave all over again. He hadn't stood for it there and he wasn't going to stand for it now, Stede was a good man and didn't deserve to have his livelihood stolen.
His shake down done the captain left without even bothering to arrest the thugs that had started the fight with Edward, it never having been the point to begin with. Naruto took the opportunity to create several clones, as a professional ninja he was more than adept at remaining undetected when he truly desired it so following what amounted to a trained civilian in his eyes was no challenge for his clones.
By the time Naruto had gotten back to the ship to meet up with Stede the Spanish troops had already confiscated his sugar and anything that looked valuable from the captain's office. Edward wasn't long in meeting up with the pair ether having led a few troops on a merry chase around the town before escaping himself.
It was collectively decided between Edward and Naruto that this crime wouldn't stand; Edward seemed especially interested in getting back his property stolen from the captain's cabin.
"I need that package back mate." Edward said to Naruto.
"What's so important about it?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know or care mate I just know the bloke I killed on that island seemed to think it was worth dying for and that according to the letter I took off him the governor here in Havana seems to think it's worth a fair price too." Edward reluctantly replied not wanting to share the potential reward.
"fair enough but we need to get Stede his sugar back and I'm going to kill that captain, I won't let him keep doing this to honest traders, you might have missed it with your escape but it was clear this wasn't the first time they'd done this. I wouldn't be surprised if the men in the bar weren't on the pay role to start fights when traders stop at the bar, for that matter Stede's trade partner never showed up either, that's fairly suspicious too." Naruto said making Edward wonder just how corrupt the Spanish navy in the area was.
At that moment the clone Naruto had made to follow the captain, who he had learned was called, Mendoza, dispelled informing him of the captain's final destination, the fort at the edge of town. He also learned that he intended to use the stolen goods to buy slaves from a captain passing through town, though he had no idea what the captain intended to use them for.
"Come on follow me I have a lead on our missing goods." Naruto said leading Edward to a dock near the fort with a clear view of the entrances, both water-side and land side.
"The troops took the sugar and valuables back there, while I can't be absolutely certain, I'm fairly sure they took the valuables to the office on the north side tower. Captain Mendoza is meeting with the slave ships captain; he will lightly bring him back here or have him bring his ship here to exchange goods once he is done, I would say that gives us about an hour before he returns." Naruto informed Edward.
"Good, that's plenty of time to get in and back out again without being noticed. I can see at least three good ways In. That tree over there over hangs the water pretty close to the fort could make for a good entry point. The water side dock only has one guard, at ground level. The north tower seems pretty climbable too those wooden supports for the joists seem eroded by the sea, should be a good point for climbing on." Edward explained, completely missing Naruto's face when he said he didn't intend to be noticed.
"That's not good enough Edward, I'm not going to let this stand, this whole operation is going down today. There is no way that the troops in that fort don't know their captain is ripping off the honest traders coming through this port, I'm not going to let it continue." Naruto passionately told Edward.
"You can't take on the entire fort with just two daggers strapped to your wrists mate. Hell if they call for reinforcements this is one of Spain's biggest military encampments in the Caribbean." Edward tried to explain to Naruto.
"They aren't going to have the chance to call for reinforcements, today you get to see how a ninja works." Naruto said stressing the word see with a gigantic smile on his face as if the whole thing was a joke.
Shortly after saying that Naruto took off running across the small patch of exposed ocean to the dock entrance, surprising both Edward and the guard at the door, though only Edward saw him the guard died to fast to know what hit him. Edward followed after hopping from mooring posts to the docking platform were Naruto had killed the guard.
Inside the building Naruto had already killed another guard in the store room, this time choosing to hide the body in a closet. Edward was at again surprised when two more Naruto's simply appeared and became the guards taking their positions, as if nothing had happened.
Naruto continued on clearing out the guards with the efficiency of a killer trained from childhood on the most lethal spots to strike at. The bodies continued to be disposed of in convenient ways, from hiding them behind crates, to hanging them out of windows on the seaside of the fort.
Edward had by now separated from Naruto and made his way to the captain's office by himself, only need to take out one guard that was clearly explicitly guarding the door.
Inside he found the captain's office to be a veritable treasure trove of stolen valuables, nothing as overt as piles of gold but the wall at least was decorated with expensive looking rapiers and an elaborate chair sat behind a huge dark wooden desk. All of it so far beyond the means of a captain's pay, that he concluded Naruto must have been right.
Not wanting to get caught, when Naruto inevitably altered a guard with his vendetta for the innocent traders that had been robbed, he searched the desk of the captain looking for his lost goods. Finding them and more he made sure to take what he could carry using every pocket available to him, it wouldn't be possible to take a chest, at least not past all the guards.
Exiting Mendoza's quarters he found a guard waiting for him, quickly snapping to his combat stance, he was surprised when the guard didn't reciprocate. It turned out in fact to be one of Naruto's clones in disguise; it became clear when it spoke with Naruto's voice directing him to the original, waiting in the cargo storage area.
"Are they all you now mate?" Edward asked both impressed and a little afraid, he hadn't been in the for more than two minutes and already Naruto appeared to have completely taken it over and it didn't even look as though anything had happened to the outside observer.
"yep, thirty six Naruto clones, henged, just waiting for Captain Mendoza to return now, then I can spring the trap and leave a message." Naruto said proudly.
"that's a ballsy plan mate, going' ta make some enemies like that you know." Edward said thinking of the scale of just what the Spanish would send after Naruto in revenge.
"Ah, but you see that would require them to know who did this, a ninja is never seen unless he wants to be, ninja rule number thirty four." Naruto said.
"Oh, I guess you're right if they are all dead who's going to know who did this." Edward said.
"Now grab a box and head off with those clones over there, take the goods back to Bonnet's ship I won't be too long. Oh and one more thing, you might want to make sure you and Stede have a good alibi." Naruto instructed Edward getting him out of the immediate area so that his escape would be easier.
Later when Mendoza arrived with the slave trader Naruto's clones showed them both into the court yard saluting as they did so. It wasn't until the door was closed, so that no one outside could see anything untoward, did Naruto spring the trap.
The captain was quickly dispatched with a dagger to the carotid artery, something he wasn't expecting from one of his own men who had held the door open for him. His companion didn't have time to scream at the horrific sight next to him as he was accosted from behind by another clone, he wasn't killed however just silenced by a hand.
Naruto had need of the slaver alive; he couldn't very well free the slaves without knowing witch ship they were on. The interrogation if it could be called such, was short. The slaver already scared out of his mind to see the mutiny of the Spanish troops in the fort, never knowing it was all Naruto, practically babbled the answered to his interrogator's questions in the hopes of living through it. It wasn't to be though, ninja rule thirty five a ninja leaves no witnesses.
He couldn't leave any more of a message than the dead bodies, any more would point blame squarely at Stede. The question now was what message was he sending, a declaration of war, from who, England? Rather than leave a mess he emptied several barrels of black powder around the fort and piled the others at the base of the towers, he would make this look like an accident, one fire jutsu from a clone would be all it took after he was long gone.
Once back at the docks Naruto mentally instructed his clone to destroy the fort, the explosion from that was head clear across Havana, the perfect distraction for freeing the slaves on his new ship. The sailors on the slave traders ship didn't fare any better than the soldiers at the fort except this time there was far fewer of them, the majority of the crew being in town spending their pay.
Naruto freed the slaves into town, most of them picking up weapons and some clothes from the dead sailors who had held them prisoner for the long journey from Africa. The remaining crew in town wouldn't live to see sunrise vengeance visiting them all in one form or another.
His newly acquired ship secure Naruto decided it was time to meet back up with Bonnet and Kenway and hope they had a decent alibi for the last hour. Upon finding them he learned that Edward had made sure Stede had visited a church for their alibi, the troops wouldn't question that if they came calling.
A.N. im less happy with this one than the first chapter it doesn't seem real enough, it seems too quick I don't know why or how to fix it, hence the request for a competent author to take the rains on a similar style story
