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Chapter 7: Piracy and Reunions
Because of our disobedience during the fight with Zabuza, Ali and I went out and patrolled the little water village after depositing Kakashi-sensei at Tazuna's house. The next day we would begin an intensive training regime, no doubt planned as further punishment, on top of our patrolling duties.
The sun had set only a few minuets ago and Ali and I had had a full day. We were on our way back to Tazuna's house, after a long day of wandering aimlessly through the village. We had, of course, managed to amuse ourselves. We traded secrets with pickpockets, chased frogs, had a long and deep conversation with various inanimate household items, and we had conducted our own parade. But now the sun was sinking into the sea and it was time for some dinner.
We were on our way back, and happened to be passing the docks when we heard it.
"Just give us the Fricken' Fraeken Boat you mangey son of an arthritic toad!"
Upon hearing these words I felt the blood drain from my face. I hadn't heard that voice, or those words since... no, it couldn't be! I grabbed Ali, who had also paused at the long unheard disembodied voice, and raced to the source, down in the docks.
"Anita!" I shouted, seeing my Companion Master and the source of all the ruckus. I hugged the lady in the skin tight body suit, who was currently threatening someone with a lightsaber, tears in my eyes, "Is it really you? Oh it's been so long!" Yes, Companion reunions are always this dramatic.
Anita hugged me tight, sobbing as well, "Oh my God! It's been ages!"
"A whole week!" I said, my voice muffed by her shoulder.
Eventually we could bare to be separated and I managed to look around. Not only was Anita present, but Rosie and Michael were standing just off to the side as well.
The tearful reunion continued, with Ali joining in, though keeping a good distance from Michael, as he is the only thing that she fears.
We were almost done when the guy that Anita had been threatening started to slide away, thinking to escape. Unfortunately Rosie spotted him and nabbed him before he managed to get very far. I spared a second to look at him, taking in his blue eyes, blond hair done Kakashi style, and green and black vest with black pants also Kakashi style. He seemed vaguely familiar...
"So, what are you guys doing here?" I asked, unable to pinpoint exactly why that guy looked so familiar.
"We're kidnaping that guy's boat." Michael said, "We'll name it the Toad and then sail around acting Piratey, even if a sloop is a tad small. But from there we will capture other boats, and soon we shall have the most feared fleet of pirates in the world! I, of course, will resume my post as the dread Captain Morgan, Anita will assume her post as the Busty Blond Pirate Wench, and Rosie shall don the title of The Sexy Spaz."
"Hey! That sounds cool! Can we go too? Please Dani!"
"Well, I suppose, if it's alright with Michael"
"Yay!!!"
"Alrighty then!" Anita said, resuming her threatening pirate stance, "Now, give us your booty! I mean your lovely tush! No! I mean your Boat. Yes, that's the one! Give us your boat!"
"Hang on a touch Anita!" I said, stopping her before she tried to attack the stranger, "That's Arashi from RasenganRendan's story! How'd you get here? This isn't your story!"
"I was out sailing on day and a storm blew me out here, and how do you know who I am?" He replied, looking completely confused.
"The 42sers told me." I replied simply.
"The who?" Arashi asked, trying to remember if he had ever met anyone by such a peculiar name.
"The forty two-sers, that's just something that they say when they can't or won't explain stuff." Michael explained. He wasn't a companion, but he was the dread pirate Captain Morgan as well as the infamous Urban Dart Ninja, and as such he knew many things.
"Okay..." Arashi said, absorbing such strange information, "So, you're not going to try to take my boat are you?"
"Wrong!" Rosie said in a singsong voice, attempting to push him into the water. Unfortunately for Rosie, Arashi was very strong and didn't fancy taking a dip at the moment. Fortunately for her, he was also a good guy and just knocked her feet out from under her rather than hurting her or throwing her off the pier.
"Well, I suppose you can come along then." Anita said, noticing his strength and deciding on the passive approach as she bounced onto his boat. Rosie, Michael, Ali, and I followed suit, trusting Anita's Companion instincts. We would have been in trouble, had Arashi not possessed a highly developed moral center, which is normally an advantageous thing for someone to have. Unless they are dealing with Companions, the insane, and the Ali. Yes, she is so insane she has officially been declared a state of mind.
"Raise Anchor!" Michael shouted, assuming his self-appointed role as Captain.
"What are you doing! You can't just take my ship!" Arashi said, ever so slightly amused by Ali's attempts to raise the anchor by shouting 'You heard him! Raise the anchor you mangey dog!'at a cannon, despite himself.
"Too late!" Michael shouted, jumping from his former post beside the tiller and showing Ali how to raise the anchor.
"Don't worry, despite all the talk, they probably couldn't defeat a tortoise, let alone cause any serious trouble." I told Arashi, seeing that he was about ready to throw us all over board.
"Why isn't the boat moving?" Rosie asked, looking around confusedly.
"Because we need to put up the sails." Michael said, rolling his eyes at our nautical skill.
"Here! I found the Sales!" Ali shouted, holding up a newspaper advertisement, "Fly my pretties fly fly Muahahahah!!!"
"...very good Ali." Michael said, looking like he would just love to lock her in a trunk again.
"I'll help you." I said, trying to disrupt Michael's train of thought before he began to recall the merits of keel hauling.
After quite a lot of cussing and some minor threats, the sails were finally raised and we were on our way. At first, Arashi had made quite a strong protest to our taking his ship, until I played the peace maker and promised that we wouldn't seriously maim anyone on our pirate excursion. That and the mention of Naruto dearest did wonders to his outlook, and soon enough he was joining in on the raunchy sea shanties that we composed while raising the sails.
We were all singing our new theme song, entitled 'Grandma got thrown up by a Cougar', with Rosie coming in with a random 'Si si si' every now and again, when we all realized our hunger. "WE KNOW THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS PANDAS!"
"Si si si!"
"I'm hungry. She Beast, go get me some eggs or somethin'" Michael shouted, throwing a very piratey knife at Ali. Everyone was shocked when it hit her forehead with a resounding thump. What shocked us even more, was when Ali started to cackle, completely unharmed.
"What? Still trying to shank people with plastic knifes Michael?" I asked, with an amused smirk.
"Damnit! I thought that was the Buick!" Michael shouted, completely disappointed.
"The Buick?" Arashi asked, laughing along with the rest of us, though not completely in on the joke.
"Well, it's really a Buck knife, but Michael thought that it was called the Buick, and because he is never wrong it is now named the Buick." Anita said, putting sarcastic stress on the 'never wrong' bit.
"Whatever. Go! Bring me eggs and other nautical food stuffs!" Michael shouted, now threatening Ali with a plastic spoon.
"Alright, alright." Ali muttered, rumbling down to the galley in search of food.
"While you're at it feed us all." Rosie said, hanging upside down from the rigging and making faces with Anita.
"So, how is everyone back at Kohona?" Arashi asked Dani, seeing as how everyone else was absorbed in the growing face making competition between Rosie and Anita.
"Oh. Everyone's doin' good I guess." Dani said, really not terribly interested in the competition either, "Naruto seems like he misses you though. When do you plan on coming back to Kohona?"
"Actually, I was planning on starting back when I met up with you guys. I was going to sell the boat and then walk back." Arashi said, leaning against the railing and only half watching as Rosie stuck a pickle up her nose and tried to chew on her ear.
Just then Ali burst form the galley, carrying a mountain of food.
"This food is delicious. Because there is rum. And loon tablets! You may all now oooh and aaah over my culinary superiority!" She shouted, spreading the food out right on the deck.
"It looks delicious!" Rosie said, launching herself at the bananas, which were sitting right next to the beef and the jell-O.
The next week was a mess of nonsense and garbled nautical terms. Everyone was in high good humor, even after Ali found the gun powder and mixed it with the coco mix. That put an end to the late night coco parties. It didn't help that Michael was the one to discover the explosive properties of the new mix. Once he had been convinced to let Ali out of the brig the sailing was smooth. That is, until Anita decided that it was high time we pillaged some villages. Then things went down hill fast, especially when Michael taught Ali and Rosie to load the cannons. Then there was little could be done to stop them.
We had been sailing around randomly for a week, so of course we had no real crystal clear picture of where we were, so it was eventually decided that we would just sail in a Western direction, and we would eventually reach land. From there we could make a real plan. Of course, Arashi and I had no intention of letting our companions pillage any villages any time soon. We had both agreed to herd everyone home as soon as we reached land.
"HOIST THE PLANK!" Michael shouted, pointing to the main mast.
"That's not how it works!" Anita said from her position at the front end of the boat.
"No back seat driving! I'll not stand for mutiny among my crew!" Michael shouted back, pointing an accusing finger.
"I'm not in the back seat so I can't very well take part in any supposed 'backseat driving'." Anita said, sticking her tongue out at him.
"Dani agrees with me. Anita is being mutinous, isn't she Dani?" Michael stated more than asked me.
"Actually I kinda agree with her." I said, smiling as Michael grew blue.
"WHAT! That's simply preposterous! I give the orders on this boat, I am the Feared Captain Morgan!"
"With all due respect, O' Feared Captain Morgan, You might want to turn before we hit that bridge." Arashi said, dropping from the rigging of the little sloop.
"What? I see no bridge!" Michael said, squinting through the eerie fog that had surrounded the ship unannounced.
"There!" Anita shouted, leaning over the rail and pointing to the gray mass looming before us.
Luckily Michael had a better idea of how to sail than the rest of us, excluding Arashi of course, and just managed to miss it.
"What a cheeky little nose ring!" Rosie shouted, glaring at the bridge, "We should attack it."
"YES, WE'LL SHOW THAT BRIDGE WHO'S BOSS!" Anita shouted, already loading a cannon.
"Very well then, prepare to open fire!" Michael said, looking at the bridge in a menacing way he normally reserved for Ali after she had done something particularly annoying.
"Are you sure you want to do that?" Arashi asked, we had been hoping to avoid confrontation.
"Yeah, I mean, what if we come across a Spanish treasure galley and don't have any ammo left?" I added, hoping to distract them.
"Then we shall over power them with brute strength!" Rosie shouted, completely set on attacking the bridge.
"The cannons are all loaded!" Ali said, skipping lightly across the deck.
"Prepare to fire!" Michael said, assuming his menacing pirate stance.
"Ahh . . . I thought that I heard you guys. Where have you been?" A currently disembodied voice said through the mist surrounding the bridge.
"A Possessed bridge!" Michael shouted, "Fire!"
Ali and Rosie sent off a salvo of about three cannonballs, and shouting could be heard coming from the bridge.
"Ha! We wounded it! Prepare the next round!" Michael said, even as Ali and Rosie were reloading.
That was when Kakashi poofed onto the deck.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Ali shouted, dropping a cannonball and glomping him, "I missed you! You didn't forget me did you?"
"I'm afraid that forgetting you is quite impossible, as you are both mentally scarring and my responsibility." Kakashi said, completely taken aback by Ali's newfound friendliness.
"There you guys are!" Naruto shouted down at us, hanging dangerously over the edge of the bridge.
"Hey-ya Whiskers!" Ali shouted, letting go of Kakashi and waving frantically at Naruto.
"So, is anyone going to tell me why we let this guy on our boat?" Michael asked, still trying to look like a dangerous pirate.
"We press ganged him." I said quickly, trying to keep Michael form picking a fight with the much stronger ninja.
"Oh, well, what about them?" Anita asked, looking towards the rest of the team, which had joined Naruto at the side of the bridge.
"Ummm . . ." I said, completely at a loss for a respectable pirate role for the rest of them.
"Hah! You can't fool me Dani, they're the enemy!" Anita shouted, jumping up and down in an enraged two year old sorta way.
"Arm yourselves! We've been boarded!" Michael shouted, himself grabbing a rabbit and aiming for Kakashi. How rabbits got on the boat I will never know.
"YOU'LL NEVER SINK MY CHEERIO!" Rosie shouted, grabbing a rabbit herself and beating Kakashi about the head with it.
Normally, none of us would have a snowballs chance in hell of hitting Kakashi, but one mustn't underestimate the element of surprise. One moment we were all chummy, and the next we were attacking him with rabbits. It must have been quite a shock to him. But, to his credit, our advantage didn't last long. In a matter of minuets he had us all tied to the mast, even Ali, Arashi, and I. Which was probably a wise move because Ali had gotten swept up in the whole 'let's-hit-Kakashi-with-a-rabbit-until-he-cries' movement.
"Traitor!" Michael snarled, trying to shank we with his plastic knife, we had thrown the 'Buick' overboard after he threatened to carve obscene words on Ali's forehead with it.
"What is all this? Who are these people?" Kakashi sighed more than asked, already preparing himself for a ridiculous answer.
"Well, this is Anita, my Jedi master, that's Rosie, the-one-with-the-crazy-long-name-who-is-simply-called-Rosie, that's Michael, the brains of the operation, that's Arashi, the undisputed owner of this boat, that's Ali, whom you seem to recall, and I am Dani the Magnificent." I said, trying to point to everyone in their turn, but not having much luck due to the fact that I was tied to the mast.
"Is there any explanation as to why you're attacking that bridge?" Kakashi asked, again prepared for an unusual reply.
"Well . . .it insulted us?" Rosie said hesitantly, looking around for confirmation.
"Yes. It was exceedingly rude." Michael said, striking a dignified pose.
"Right." Kakashi said, half wishing that Dani had answered, as she might have made more sense.
"Are we going home now?" Ali asked, noticing the pack that Kakashi was carrying.
"Well, yes. The plan was to find you two and then go back to Kohona." Kakashi said, hoping that he wouldn't have to convince them to come back.
"Yay!" Ali said, poofing out of the ropes and again glomping Kakashi.
"Well, I guess we need to head back too." Anita said, escaping the ropes as well, "We still need to complete our mission."
"What were you doing?" I asked, surprised that they hadn't first completed their mission.
"Well, Rosie and I were sent to find the Banana King and get a treaty signed. When we ran into Michael though we decided to take a break." Anita said, spinning in circles now that she was free.
"Good luck." Kakashi said, deciding just to go along with it all, "So, Arashi, is there any chance you would head back to Kohona with us?"
"Yeah, I was planning on going back when I bumped into these guys." Arashi said.
"Wonderful, see ya guys later!" Ali said, poofing onto the bridge, and by the sounds of it, on top of Sasuke.
"Bye!" I said, grabbing a hold of Arashi's sleeve and poofing away once Kakashi was safely off the boat, you never know when Michael would decide to take hostages.
We appeared on the bridge, and had to help pry Ali out of Sasuke's hair.
"Arashi!" Naruto shouted, giving his friend a hug. Unfortunately this sent Ali into a glomping fit, and she would not be appeased until she had hugged everyone again. Even Sasuke, but only because she knew that he hated it more than her. And then she spent the next ten minuets hugging all of the villagers too.
"Well, let's be off then." I said, releasing the last terrified villager form Ali's death grip.
"Well, what are you going to do now that you've returned?" The Hokage asked Arashi, examening his fingers.
"I had been hoping to join up with a team and then go on to the Chuunin exams." Arashi said, standing completely at ease.
We had decided to bring Arashi along with us to make our report to the Hokage, because that would just make things easier according to Kakashi.
"Well, you can join Dani and Ali's team, as long as that's alright with them of course." Sarutobi said, smiling in a cunning old man sort of way.
"That'd be great." I said, really relieved that we at least had someone on our team who wasn't completely incompetent.
"Very good. Oh, before you go Arashi, I'm afraid that the land lady sold your apartment after all." The Hokage said, already shuffling through his papers.
"No problem, I pretty much knew that would happen." Arashi said, "It won't be a problem finding somewhere to stay."
"You can stay with us." Ali said, skipping out the door and making a face at the ANBU guarding it.
"Umm . . .I'm not sure that we have enough room." I said, trying to slow Ali down before someone decided to feed her drugged cookies again.
"He can stay in the basement. There's plenty of room down there." Ali said, moving on to glaring at pigeons.
"Ooh yeah, I forgot about the basement. So, it looks like we really do have room for you." I said cheerfully to Arashi.
"Actually, that would be great." Arashi said, glad to have avoided the problems associated with finding an apartment building that allowed ninjas and wasn't full or over priced.
"Bwuahahahahaha!" Ali cackled, cartwheeling off down the street.
Well, I finally got this chappy done! I hope everyone liked it, and I really would like to get at least five reviews, that means you Rosie! Suggestions, criticism, incoherent babbling, pretty much anything in review form would make my day all happy and what-not.
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