A/N: Hey guys! Long time no see, I wanted to update this as soon as possible, but I couldn't due to some complicated reasons and I apologize but I don't wanna rant about it here.
So, just sit back, relax and enjoy.
CHAPTER 10: THE NASCENT HAKI MASTER- 1
"YESSSSS! I have finally found All Blue!" Sanji shouted as he landed on the Amazon Lily.
"Sometimes your lack of determination really surprises me" Nami said with a sweat drop.
"LUUUFFYYYYY!" all the Kuja warriors waiting to receive them shouted as soon as the ship neared the shore, and of course why wouldn't they, after all their favorite man on the planet (not that they haven't seen any other) had come to visit them after quite a while and this time with all of his friends (not to mention how they looked like the weirdest bunch of freaks).
"Hey, you guys!" Luffy shouted on top of his lungs while waving frantically especially at marigold and others.
As soon as the ship docked one of the women put up a board which said "ONE PINCH- 100 BERRIES"
"Waaah! You are the one who made a business out of me the last time as well!" Luffy shouted.
"Look Chopper, just one pinch of Luffy is equivalent to your worth in the World Government's eyes" Zoro said with a straight face but was actually smiling inside and as expected, Chopper started crying when he got reminded of his petty bounty.
"Don't tease him!" Nami smacked Zoro on his head.
Everyone jumped down as they de-boarded the Sunny.
"Luffy, let's head towards the royal palace, I had already ordered for grand feast" Hancock said stammering while facing the other side due to her inability to see directly into his eyes.
"FEAST? WHOAA!" Luffy screamed with stars in eyes and drool in his mouth.
"Will there be sake?" Zoro said rubbing his chin and with a smile.
"The finest you can find on this island" said Sandersonia with a hint of pride in her voice.
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As the party kept on raging each 'Straw hat' was busy with different things, mostly groups of women who complemented them in the perfect way.
Luffy was goofing around and dancing on tables with his insanely swelled up stomach with a face drawn on it by permanent marker which made weird expressions as Luffy's stomach rolled and flattened and jiggled while he danced with two chopsticks stuck between his nostrils and mouth. The girls around him imitated him and inserted chopsticks in their nostrils and danced and laughed around like crazy.
Ussop had found a group which consisted of mostly kids but had some grown ups as well who quite easily believed all his bluffs about him being the leader of a grand fleet with over 10,000 men and his crazy strength which was unparalleled. Surprisingly they even believed that he was hiding his true strength and was actually even stronger than Luffy, just so that he won't feel bad and depressed (of course as told by Ussop). He further went on about his adventures (which he never had) about how they landed on an island which they later found out to be just a big piece of solidified poop of a giant and how he then accidently defeated that said giant with just a sneeze.
Needless to say Sanji was in pure heaven as he was surrounded by women who were enticed and fascinated by his extraordinary and flashy cooking skills(which was actually quite pointless as they were already at a feast). The love cook showed them different recipes which were foreign to them and as he went on teaching, he would drop his utensils by 'mistake' and take a chance to peek at their panties.
While Franky was busy discussing about the mechanics of Thousand Sunny with the shipwright of the Kuja Pirates, completely oblivious the starry eyes of the kids who were in complete awe of his robotic body.
Chopper had a huge crowd practically all over him. The women were cuddling him and pulling his cheeks totally not getting enough of his cuteness. Of course first they thought that it was a Tanuki and was their pet but were surprised to find that he could speak and was actually a doctor and a very capable one at that.
Nami and Robin were busy with their girly talk with the Amazon Lily women with Nami blabblering about how stupid all the other members of the crew were, now and then.
But the real star of the party was actually Brook. He had the biggest horde of women all around him wanting to check out his skeletal body. They even requested him to strip so that they could see him from every angle and all of his parts to which Brook actually shied away from.
"Ahem, my dear lovely ladies will you be kind enough to show me your…"Brook paused and adjusted his bow tie "…panties?"
"I don't understand the appeal of panties, really I don't know why men always want to see them. One of the pirates once requested me the same thing before getting turned into stone. But if you want then here ya go" with these words, the women lifted up her skirt and flashed her panties at Brook.
With a fountain of blood spurting out of his nose (quite mysterious 'coz he doesn't have blood really…SKULL JOKE!).
"DON'T SHOW HIM THAT!" from a distance came the voice of angry Nami.
"Ah! Now that I complied with your request will be kind enough to show me that Mushroom thing which men have between their legs? I once saw Luffy's and oh! He had those family jewels as well"
By now Brook was huddled in a corner quite depressed and hysterically sobbing "If only it was a bone too…SKULL JOKE! *sob*"
"Hey, by the way has anyone seen Zoro kun?" Robin asked.
"Yeah, come to think of it, where has he gone?" Nami asked "Last I saw him, he was having a drinking competition with someone"
"Oh, he went to take a leak" Franky butted in "about an hour ago"
"Don't tell me he lost again" Nami sweat dropped.
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"Did they shift the location of the feast or what? I can swear it was here" Zoro scratched the back of his head as he stood in the middle of a dense forest gazing at trees "These guys always get lost"
As Zoro started going in the opposite direction of the feast in search of it, he heard hustles in bushes a few meters away, instantly, his hand grabbed the handle of one of the swords strapped on his waist.
"Who are you?" came a feminine but deep and authoritative voice from the direction of the hustle.
A girl looking like 15 or 16 emerged from behind the trees with katanas in both her hands and another one strapped on her waist. She had jet black hair which was tied in a long pony tail behind her head. Her black eyes were that of a warrior, her expression clearly gave away her sour and serious mood. She was voluptuous but not too much, her upper body was wrapped in bandages with a short open jacket. She wore just a pair of trousers on her lower body and her feet were bare. Even though scratched and bruised, she was quite attractive. As she came into the moon light in the clearing of the woods, it shone brightly on her face highlighting her pink lipstick. And now that she clearly saw Zoro's face her eyes widened in surprise.
"Are you Roronoa Zoro?" she asked.
"Yes, who are you?"
"I am Maria, the next to be princess of Amazon Lily personally chosen by her majesty Snake Princess"
"I see, then can you please tell me where the feast is going on? The whole straw hat crew is there"
"What feast? Don't lie to me. No men are allowed on this island, anyone who dares trespass this place gets immediately terminated and you are no exception"
"You don't need to get so worked up. Your own princess gave permission for our crew to come here"
"Bullshit. She will never allow any man to come on this island except Luffy sama"
"Yeah, and I am in his crew. You know my name so you must have seen my bounty poster as well"
"Yes, I have but there was no news of you people coming here this evening before I came here to train. You are an illegal male trespasser and must be put down immediately"
Maria clutched one of her swords in her mouth and took out the other one from its sheath.
"Santoryu(Three sword style)?" Zoro asked surprised.
"Yes, I admit that you are my inspiration for this technique but that still doesn't put you above the law of Amazon Lily" Maria said with a glare.
"Heh! This should be fun" Zoro smirked as he took out two swords.
"Why aren't you using the third one?" Maria asked with an angered tone.
"I don't need it" Zoro's smugness was really getting on her nerves.
"You are underestimating me far too much. I am the second strongest on the whole island despite being this young. My armament haki isn't something to be trifled with. Even the snake princess herself said that at this rate I will one day surpass her in every aspect…..instead of beauty" Maria said with an uneasy gulp.
"Then I shall test you" Zoro ran forward with every intention to strike lethally.
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"Is Zoro compensating for the worth of a year or what?" Ussop joked.
"Just leave him be, why do we need to waste our time to go and search for that guy?" Sanji said while lying in a pool of his blood (nosebleed) and with hearts in his eyes, and it took quite the effort.
"Luf…Luffy I heard that you defeated that despicable man Doflamingo?" Hancock tried initiating conversation while nervously smacking her index fingers together "And I saw that your bounty increased to 500 million berries"
"Yeah, we all kynow that. You pasted a giant bounty poster of him outside the palace walls" said lady Nyon.
"Oh yeah! Though I had some help from Tra guy as well" Luffy grinned.
"Ah! I see, it must have been tough to defeat him, I really wish I was there to help you" the snake princess sighed.
"Naah! It was nothing, shishishishi"
"Hey Luffy! Check this scarf I had made for you" said one of the Kuja pirates.
"Ah? Thanks, shishishishi" just as Luffy took the scarf from the, she fainted and fell down.
"Hey! Are you okay?" Luffy panicked.
Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.
Almost more than half the women fainted then and there including Ussop, Nami and Chopper as well with Robin almost losing consciousness as well.
"Hey! What's wrong everyone?!" Luffy screamed.
"Someone used the conqueror's haki Luffy" Hancock said with a serious face.
"But I thought only the two of us could use it!"
"Yes….maybe there is some invader, he must be nearby!" Hancock said as she frantically scanned her surroundings and with her observation haki found him, 'them' actually.
Two men came out of hiding. One of them had white hair and was wielding a three bladed weapon, while the other was barehanded but had his half face covered.
"I swear if you do that senseless religious prayers of yours again, I will kill you" one of the men said while still looking towards the straw hat pirates and the remaining women warriors.
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Pirates either just avoid the immediate Yonko territories or are brave enough to get in and get destroyed. These are the times when the pirates recall the first half of the grand line as a 'paradise' when they used to call it a 'Pirate's grave' a while back before coming to the New World. Meeting the Yonkos and their crew remind them just how weak and outclassed they really are. Most of them either lose hope and take shelter under the symbols of the Yonkos or run away, and then there are these idiots-
NAME- GOLD GLASSES (BOOK PIRATES) BOUNTY- 200 MILLION BERRIES
NAME- MESSIAH (THE APPLE PIRATES) BOUNTY- 250 MILLION BERRIES
NAME- MARY (BLOOD PIRATES) BOUNTY- 310 MILLION BERRIES
(A/N: As mentioned in chapter 1)
The new rookies who had taken the first half of the Grand Line by storm had formed an alliance imitating Scratchman Apoo, Basil Hawkins and Eustass Kidd. They too had planned to take down a yonko and make a name for themselves and the funny thing was that they too had planned to on the same target- "Red Hair Shanks"
"I am telling you, I will kick that weak guy's ass and send him flying back to the West Blue where he belongs. Or even better I will hang his head as a trophy in my room" the female pirate 'Mary' guffawed "Today is the last day of Red Hair Shanks's life"
Mary, the absolute terror of South Blue who later went to Grand Line and rained down hell wherever she went was worth 310 million berries. She wasn't your typical ugly stereotyped female pirate. She was the beauty for which every man lusted…err, well at least till he wasn't roasted alive on a bon fire by her. The reason her crew was called 'Blood Pirates' was because she would crush her target's body so much that it would leak out all the blood painting the environment, probably the most ruthless and cruel pirate to have ever lived.
"Don't you think you are underestimating the abilities of that man a little bit too much? I know you are strong but it will still take all three of us to gang up on him" said the man adjusting his golden spectacles with his right middle finger.
'Gold Glasses', he was born in a minor island of Grand Line and was worth 200 million. This man always claimed that 'Gold Glasses' was his real name making everyone wonder what kind of mother names her child like this. He was a talented fighter and a pure genius, without any devil fruit and by just his average Haki and absolute genius tactics he had worked up his way here, in the process defeating great pirates with terrifying devil fruit powers with just his brains and his average haki but sharp fighting skills.
'Why stop the sea train with strength when you can just stop it with a small pencil by placing it between the closing doors and blocking them?' was what he would say.
He had a twin who was also a pirate going by the name 'Pollard' and was even better than him in every aspect.
"No, it is just as she says. Yonkos are all just overhyped, I bet that Shanks is just a pussy" said the pirate 'Messiah' worth 250 million berries, a terrifying savage who would kill in the name of god and eventually developed the 'god complex' and thus named himself as the savior of humanity.
"We are wrist deep in the cunt of Shanks territory" Messiah said.
"Mind your language" Gold glasses said calmly.
"I am God! I can do and say whatever I want!" yelled the savage.
"Fine" Glasses sighed in defeat.
"What is that? A grand fleet warship?" Mary said pointing out an incoming ship from the front.
"Looks like it, no problem! I will demolish that blasphemous person since he tried to get in God's way!"
"Who is onboard?" Mary asked trying to squeeze her eyes as if trying to zoom in her vision.
"It looks like it Ben Beckman, the right hand man of Shanks" said Glasses.
"Sweet! I will kill him right away!" Yelled Messiah jumped from his ship to Ben Beckman's.
"NO WAIT!" was all what Glasses was able to shout before Beckman took out his revolver and pulled the trigger.
The normal bullet was imbued in Haki so strong that passed right through Messiah who was still in mid air, creating a hole bigger than too footballs kept together and landed on the warship on which Mary and Glasses were aboard. While everyone was afraid to death on the alliance pirate ship, no one noticed Glasses secretly smirking.
It was incredible how just one normal bullet when hit the warship it destroyed to its very core. One small bullet pulverized the ship into shards and killing everybody on it in the process as the ship exploded.
Ben Beckman still busy smoking sensed another ship coming towards them as he reloaded his revolver with just a single bullet once again.
The ship was quite small compared to the one before and it looked like there were only five to six people aboard. But three of them stood out who were standing in front not looking even a bit scared, well there was no shortage of fools.
The right hand man of Shanks aimed the revolver at the ship and shot again with the same strength of haki.
One of the three people who looked the youngest of all of them jumped into the mid air with lightning speed, he was glowing all yellow as if his body was on fire and as if it was not. His eyes pupil was a horizontal bar with a fox like slit in between.
"GIANT RASENSHURIKEN"
A huge sphere of air was created which looked like it was being penetrated by the haki bullet and then there was a huge explosion creating a deafening sound. The force of the explosion was so huge that it made every single individual take some cover.
Naruto landed on water standing on top of the surface as he looked straight into Ben Beckman's eyes with a serious and hard expression in his eyes but with a complete lack of threat or hate.
"We are not here to fight" shouted the man from the deck who had half his face covered with a mask.
"I am Kakashi Hatake, the leader of the konohagakure and the man beside me is the leader of Kumogakure, we have come here to meet Red Hair Shanks with a proposition for a secret alliance"
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"Did he just use Conqueror's haki? How?" Hancock asked clearly shocked.
"Because I have the heart of 'The Dark King- Silvers Rayliegh'" replied Kakuzu.
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A/N: Remember that this is the present day, while the stuff happening on the isolated island where Naruto found the head of Rayleigh and Jiraiya is happening 3 days ahead in the future.
Since, I have completed 10 chapters, I wanna ask what has been your favorite moment yet in this fic? Any moment which made you hyped? Or made you smile? Even a bit? Then share it here, I would really love to know your opinions and experience.
See you next time.