Naruto swept his tails in the air, and watched as all of the fighting stopped. He narrowed his eyes on the shocked forms of Sengoku, Ace, and Garp. After a minute of shocked silence, the marines unleashed a savage battle cry and leapt back into the fray. Naruto stood his ground as a horde of bullets and cannons flew into him. 'I don't think that going into the Nine-Tail state was well thought out….there's no room to maneuver. Oh well, time to get some more sword practice!'
Naruto formed back into his humanoid state, and unsealed two huge swords. The first one was the one he unsealed earlier, his mom's zanbatou, the Red Tide. The second one was from an old enemy, Kisame, it was wrapped up and he held it in a reverse grip. It was the sentient sword Samaheda. He leapt towards the closest marines and started his dance of death.
The battle field was completely hectic, and eventually Naruto gave up on trying to defeat all the small fries, and wanted to pick a harder, and stronger, opponent. After a quick scan of the battlefield he found a good target. He picked the Admiral Kizaru. He saw that Kizaru was about to fire a kick at Luffy, and jumped in to intercept it. He swept Samaheda at where he calculated the beam would hit, and watched as Luffy was picked up by a gust of wind. When the beam hit the sword, an explosion shook the frozen bay, and a large cloud of steam rolled off the impact point. When the cloud cleared it showed Naruto standing stock still, gritting his teeth, with Samaheda glowing. 'I really shouldn't try that again….Samaheda was not made to absorb that much energy.' As Naruto looked back towards the Admiral he saw he was not there, and was then promptly kicked in the back. He was kicked straight up in the air, and was stopped by a drop-kick from Kizaru. It reminded Naruto of Rock Lee's and Gaara's fight in the Chunin Exams. Kizaru was relentless in his assault, his usually laid back, and carefree expression was absent from his face. With one final kick, Naruto was sent hurtling into the ice, and when he hit the frozen floor, it caused a massive cloud to rise up.
"Well it seems that the Fox Hunter wasn't so hard. I wonder where Straw Hat weeeeeennnnt?" As the Admiral turned to find another fight a yell behind him caused him to look back.
"WATER STYLE: TWIN WATER DRAGONS!" Two giant dragons burst from under the ice straight for Borsalino. When he jumped to escape the faster of the two, he was surprised to notice that he failed to track the second's movements, and it hit him full force.
Naruto walked towards the downed Marine and hooked him to some Sea stone shackles and said, "Maybe if you be good I'll let you out." His only answer was a groan of pain. As he started to walk away he was hit in the back by a flying body. When it hit it caused both of them to slide away until they hit the side of a frozen wave. Groaning, he was surprised to see it was Crocodile that hit him. Looking towards where his nakama came from he was surprised to see a huge fist of diamond coming at him followed by a cry of "BRILLIANT PUNK!" As Naruto braced for impact he was surprised to see the fist had stopped a few feet from his and Crocodile's unmoving bodies. Looking up he was surprised to see Donquixote Doflamingo, smiling down at him. Naruto smirked at the ever smiling face and said, "It has been a while hasn't it Doflamingo?"
"Hai, it has captain. The world hasn't been quite as funny since you left. Fuffuffufffuffuffuff….I was just going to ask Crocodile to join me for old times sake, but I see now that will no longer be needed. So I take it my membership as a Shichibukai is no longer needed?" at his captain's affirmation he smiled wider, "Finally! Those idiots could not take a joke!FUFFUFFUFF, so…what's the plan." He managed to smile even wider when he saw the smile on Naruto's face.
"One of our nakama is handling it as we speak…"
Hidan slowly walked up the execution platform holding some papers that held marine orders for the war. As he got higher he was able to spot all of those fighting in the war. He frowned, he wanted to be able to sacrifice all of these heathens for his god, but was unable to due to his role as an undercover agent. He prefered to be called that then a double-agent. Because you needed to be braver to go undercover, then to sell info from an organisation that first held your loyalty. This way he didn't really betray anyone, and could not be called a coward.
As he cleared all of the stairs he saw Fleet-Admiral Sengoku, Vice-Admiral Garp, and Fire-Fist Ace. He had no time for titles, but acknowledged them when they were deserved, even if they were enemies. He turned to Segoku's demanding gaze and handed the papers to him.
"Papers for you to sign sir." Sengoku narrowed his eyes, "Paperwork! At a time like this! Are you insane?" Hidan did not flinch and calmly replied, "Just following protocol, sir." Sengoku grunted and signed the paperwork. As he handed it back he nicked his finger on Hidans tri-bladed scythe. "OW DAMN IT! Will you watch that thing? You could poke someone's eye out!"
"Sorry sir, I would never do it on purpose!" Inside Hidan was smirking as he was walking away. When he got to the bottom steps of the execution platform, he passed his new subordinates, and whispered their instructions into their ears as he went beneath the platform.
"Guard the platform, let no marine or pirate get near. But also make sure to keep all eyes away from the bottom of the platform to the top of it." As he heard them acknowledge their orders he calmly walked underneath the platform and drew his ritual symbol. He then licked the blood off of his scythe to start the ritual. As soon as he felt the bond take hold he put on some Sea stone shackles.
Above Hidan on the platform, Sengoku's legs unexpectedly buckled. Garp ran to him and helped him back to his feet worriedly and said, "What is wrong Sengoku?" He grimaced in pain and replied. "I don't know Garp, I just feel as if…as if I am shackled to Sea stone…" Neither one of them noticed the faint chuckling that emanated from below them.
"You two stay together. I didn't train for twenty years, just for you two to die in our first renunion battle. I'll be back, I'm going to take out some more of the competition. You two play nice now!" As his captain left Crocodile eyed his old nakama and thought with distaste, 'It was always me that got stuck with the dirty jobs wasn't it?'
As if reading his thoughts Doflamingo turned to face him and said, "How about we make this interesting? Neither gets in the other's way, and the man who has the most kill, and collateral damage is declared the winner?" Crocodile eyed him warily and replied, "Wages?" Doflamingo smirked and replied, "Fifteen thousand berri." Crocodile smirked then turned and speared two attacking marines with his hook and stated, "Well…that's two."
Mihawk was just about to finish off Dragon's son, when Kokutou Yoru was intercepted by a sword that appeared to be made out of scales. He looked up into the face of a man he long thought dead. "So Uzumaki, you are back from the grave? Apparently, it was not Fate's descision to kill you. You would be wise not to interfere."
"You know what Mihawk? Even when you are living the life of luxury, you still spout that Fate shit. Do you remember what happened the last time we fought?" Mihawk narrowed his eyes and lashed out, "That was but a fluke! I have grown twice as stronger since then!" Naruto chuckled and unsealed the Red Tide. "I am glad to hear that…double the pride…twice the fall." With that their swords clashed, and an age old rivalry was reheated. For it is always in a students hopes and dreams to surpass the teacher.
"Come at me with everything you have Mihawk! Lets see how strong you actually are!"
