Naruto: Shinobi Hunters
Digi-Destined saga
Battle of Uzushio arc
Kurama no Kyubi: Well, now the battle is finally about to start, so let's get this chapter over with.
Bakuto Masaki: Man this is going to be awesome. The new season kicking off with a War of Mages and Ninjas vs. Samurai!
Kurama no Kyubi: Yup. Though you forgot that there's also medieval soldiers, mercenaries, and Marines in the mix.
Rales Mckoy: This chapter was most excellent! We've waited for a while and I can say this chapter doesn't disappoint at all. I can't wait to see this epic battle take place. So until the next chapter!
Kurama no Kyubi: And it's just going to get better from here on. At least, that's how it is in my mind.
"Digivolution." Normal speech
'Digivolution.' Normal thought
"Digivolution." Biju, Digital God, Legendary, and transformed Laguz speech
'Digivolution.' Biju, Digital God, Legendary, and transformed Laguz thought
Zorro: Kurama no Kyubi doesn't own anything other than his OCs and the plot.
Chapter 20: Pupil vs. Master; Zolo vs. Dopai!
The water which had been cut through, forming two large walls fell back down over the ocean floor, filling the "trench" with the water that used to be there. In one move, the Samurai Emperor, Zorro had cut straight through the ocean, a feat which caused many of the defenders of Uzushio's eyes to widen.
"He… he cut straight through the ocean?" Dorumon exclaimed, surprise evident in his voice.
"I know I've said it before. That there's only one person I know of that can cut the land in two. I was referring to my father." Zolo said.
"Still… that's some power." Fu said.
"Yeah… but we cannot let it scare us." Naruto said before looking down on his partner "You ready, Dorumon?"
"You betcha!" Dorumon said and Naruto nodded before holding up his Xros-Loader.
"Dorumon! ChibiKamemon! Digi-Xros!" He called out.
ChibiKamemon then jumped up from where he was standing before dissolving into light data and said data then impacted with Dorumon's body, engulfing it before a turtle shell appeared on Dorumon's back and ChibiKamemon's helmet appeared on Dorumon's head.
"DoruKamemon!"
DoruKamemon then leapt into the air and dived into the water as Naruto jumped forward and landed on the small dragon's shell.
"All right, everyone! Let's show these guys what happens when you mess with shinobi on their home-turf! Dattebayo!" He said and everyone let out battle-cries as the Crimean ship and the Marine Warship started to move towards the Samurai Armada.
Crimean ship
"Everyone, get into position! Don't let the samurai hit the beach!" Geoffrey said as all of the Crimean soldiers scurried around to get to their posts.
"It's a larger force than I had imagined." He said as he walked up to the ship's bow to standf beside Ike and Soren.
"Yes, but if we follow my plan to the letter, then we should manage to win this in the end." Soren said.
Marine Warship
"People, man the cannons! Make sure to aim for the weak points of their ships!" Kira commanded before turning to her sister "Mira, go and show the enemy what you've got!"
"Alrighty, nee-chan!" Mira said cheerfully as she gave a salute before jumping off the edge of the ship before diving into the water below.
'We weren't here to defend the island or the village the last time, so we must work extra hard this time.' Kira thought.
Beach
"All right! Time for me to transform!" A girl with long blond hair and pointy ears said before she was suddenly engulfed in a flower-bud and as the petals vanished, she had the appearance of a dragon that seemed to be made out of some kind of crystal.
"Let's get going!" Natsu said before he, Gajeel, and Wendy jumped up on the "dragon's" back before said "dragon" flew off towards the enemy.
"Guess it's time for me to get going too." Hitomi said before forming a hand sign and vanishing into thin air "Those samurai will never know what hit 'em!"
"Hey, Suigetsu." Zolo said as he landed next to the Hozuki.
"What?" Suigetsu asked as he looked at his fellow swordsman, who simply held out one of his hands.
"Mind if I borrow the Kiba?" He asked.
"Heh. Sure thing." Suigetsu said as he pulled out the two blades from their respective sheathes and casually threw them over to Zolo who caught them in his hand "If you can use them, that is."
"Heh. Did you forget who I am? Of course I can use these things." Zolo said as he put one of the swords in his right hand while the other remained in his left "Well, good luck." He then ran off across the water, the only things keeping him from falling in being the water-walking shoes made by Vegapunk.
"Sheesh. I'm not the one here who needs luck." Suigetsu said with a sigh.
Sekai Senshi
Zorro was looking out over the approaching enemies, not impressed in the slightest.
"Do they really think that they can beat us with those puny numbers? I could probably take them all out by myself." He muttered to himself before throwing out his arm and yelling "All ships, move in! Leave no survivors, and take no prisoners!"
All of the samurai ships then started moving towards Uzushio again, none intent on stopping.
Naruto
Naruto – having taken a ride on DoruKamemon – was the first to reach one of the samurai ships as he jumped up off the shell and landed on the ship's deck as DoruKamemon dived deeper into the water.
From the information they had gotten from Zolo, the samurai had three main types of battle-ships; first was the Fighter-class which were small quick ships that were best suited for guerilla-tactics. Then were the Warship-class that were roughly the same size as a Marine Warship. And finally were the Dreadnaught-class; these were massive ships that were known to be able to crush whole islands, though there were only a total of ten of them, two usually stationed in each sea. There were also the flagships of each of the Samurai Generals, each of which had similar power to that of the Dreadnaughts. And then there was also Sekai Senshi, Zorro's own flagship which was said to hold power which would make the Dreadnaughts seem like child's-play by comparison.
"Reload! Drimogemon!" Naruto called out and the large mole-like Digimon appeared out of the Xros-Loader. The ship that Naruto had landed on was one of the Dreadnaughts, and the plan was to use Drimogemon's great power to destroying the ship, thereby lowering the morale of the samurai.
"Now Drimogemon, attack!" The blond Uzumaki yelled.
"Iron Drill Spin!" Drimogemon called out as his drill started spinning and he rammed it into several samurai. As Naruto seemed to be too caught up with watching his Digimon tearing through the samurai, several samurai charged at him, with their blades at the ready.
However, then Jugo appeared and knocked all of them away with a left hook as his left arm had turned into its more demonic shape and he landed to Naruto's left.
"You shouldn't let your guard down." Jugo said.
"Hey, you came and saved me, didn't you?" Naruto questioned before looking around and asking "So… where's Tayuya?"
He got his answer, however, when Tayuya's three Doki burst up straight through the floor from below deck.
"She jumped in at a lower level of the ship." Jugo stated.
Of course, just Drimogemon by himself wouldn't be enough, so both Jugo and Tayuya had been assigned to help out. All the while, DoruKamemon would attack the ship from below where it was the most defenseless.
"All right, then. Let's hurry up and destroy this thing! Dattebayo!" Naruto exclaimed.
Akagami
Akagami ran towards a Warship-class ship before jumping into the air as he formed a ball of scorching heat near his foot and kicked it towards the middle of the ship.
"Shakuton: Sakka Shakunetsu!" He called out before landing on the bow "Huh. Looks like the Samurai Warships are tougher than the Marine Warships."
"Th-that's "Red-Skin" Akagami of the Youkai Pirates!" One of the samurai yelled.
"Nani? Then what's he doing here?" Another samurai asked.
"They say that he destroyed a hundred Marine Warships all by himself!" Another samurai yelled.
'Seriously… It was only ten. Plus, Kori-chan was there as well.' Akagami thought with a sweat-drop as he had a dumbfounded expression on his face.
"Hey, what are you morons waiting for? He's just a kid, so go and kill him!" The one who was apparently the captain of the ship yelled, and the other samurai gulped before charging at the red-head.
Akagami then weaved a series of hand signs before inhaling deeply.
"Shakuton: Idai Netsu-Hado!" He called out as he fired a giant wave of burning heat from his mouth, melting everyone that was caught in it. He then charged forward, through the heat-wave and jumped up before punching a guy in the face and putting his hand on the guys shoulder, he used it to propel himself forward with the feet first, hitting another one in the face with the soles of his feet. He then landed on the floor, only to find that he was surrounded on all sides.
"We've got him now!" One of the samurai said.
"There's nowhere he can go." Another one said.
"You guys seriously think you can beat me?" Akagami asked before holding his right arm out to the side "Let me show you a little something." The samurai then gulped before some kind of ripples appeared in the air around the red-head's wrist, almost as if he was sticking his hand into a pool of water. Then everyone's eyes widened when he seemed to grab onto something and suddenly pulled out a large broad-sword with a scorching red blade.
"He must have some kind of ability!" One of the samurai realized.
"Bingo! I've eaten of the Space-Space Fruit, giving me the ability to store whatever I want into a never-ending space within me. Of course, I can also take things out. But inanimate objects aren't the only things I can take into this space." Akagami said before holding out his left arm as the same ripple pattern appeared in the air, but then he did something unexpected and jumped in, vanishing.
"I can also pull myself in, as well as any other person." Akagami said as he was now amongst several of the samurai in a crouched position, ready to swing his sword, and he did, cutting down all the samurai that were standing around him.
"Now then, who's next?" He asked.
Hitomi
"Wh-what just happened? The captain just fell down!" A samurai said as the captain of their Fighter-class ship had just fallen as though someone had killed him.
"H-his throat has been slit!" Another one yelled.
"How? There weren't anyone by him!" Another one yelled.
"Don't look at me, I didn't do it!" Another one yelled.
What none of them noticed, however, was that while they were all by the captain, the wheel started turning seemingly all by itself, setting the ship on a collision course with the closest Warship.
"Guys, look up!" One of the samurai yelled as he noticed that the Warship was getting closer, and everyone looked to see the same.
"Hey, who's steering this thing?" Another one yelled before turning to the wheel, only to see it broken off and he and another one ran up to it.
"Who could have done this?" The other one asked before looking up just in time for their ship to ram into the Warship, neither seeing the invisible form of Hitomi jumping off the railing behind them.
Crimean ship
"Looks like Hitomi's started on her part of the plan." Soren noted as he saw the Fighter-class ship ram into the Warship-class, causing said ship to start taking on water and begin sinking.
"I'd hate to have her as an enemy. With that power of hers, I wouldn't be able to see her, much less fight her." Ike commented.
"Yes. It is an annoying ability to fight against." Soren said.
"Heads up, guys. We're approaching our objective." Geoffrey said and they looked up to see that they were approaching one of the Dreadnaughts.
"Already, huh?" Soren said as he looked at the towering ship.
"So, how were we going to get into that thing, again?" Ike asked as he looked up.
"Pull the ship up next to the Dreadnaught. We'll blast our way into it from the side." Soren said as he looked at Geoffrey – more or less ignoring Ike's question – and Geoffrey then relayed the order to his men.
The ship then pulled up next to the Dreadnaught before all of the cannons concentrated at one single spot before firing, Soren aiding it by throwing his ArcFire spell. Eventually they managed to blow a hole big enough for them to get in and they put down a plank to serve as a walkway over to the enemy ship as the Greil Mercenaries and the soldiers ran through the hole before the plank fell down due to the Dreadnaught constantly moving ahead.
Once inside, they quickly disposed of any samurai that were in the area before gathering together.
"All right. Our objectives are to stop this ship from reaching the Land of Whirlpool coast and to take down the ship's captain which is most likely of the Battosai rank. I suggest we split into two teams, one to stop the ship's engines, and another to take down the enemy captain." Soren said.
"Very well. I'll take the soldiers and we'll move up to the ship's deck to take down the captain." Geoffrey said before turning to Ike "That all right with you?"
"Yeah. But call us if you need any help." Ike said.
"I will." Geoffrey said as he and Ike shook hands before both of them turned around and walked off, Geoffrey taking the soldiers along with him while Ike took the Greil Mercenaries and Queen Nailah with him.
Zolo
Zolo ran towards a Warship before noticing something, and he stopped before turning towards a samurai who was standing on the water as well. The samurai had brown hair, and he wore a red jacket, red gloves, blue pants, red boots, and on the back of his left hand was some kind of blue stone attached. He was also holding two katana swords, one in each hand.
"And you are…?" Zolo asked as he looked at the samurai.
"I'm Lloyd Irving." The brown-haired samurai, now identified as Lloyd said as he pointed his right sword at Zolo.
"Never heard of you." Zolo said.
"Maybe not, but I know a great deal about you, Zolo-san. Dopai-sensei told me a lot." Lloyd said.
"Dopai?" Zolo asked.
"Yes. I'm a Battosai who recently started training directly under Dopai so that I may replace him as Samurai General of East Blue when the time eventually comes, but first, I have to defeat his former star pupil." Lloyd said.
"Heh. Sorry, but I won't go down easily." Zolo said.
"Didn't think so." Lloyd said before the two charged at each other.
Lloyd swung his sword at Zolo, but the Santoryu-user blocked it with his own sword before swinging his other sword at Lloyd, but the brown-haired teen blocked it with his second sword. They then both jumped back before Lloyd held his right sword up high and swung it in a downward slash.
"Demon Fang!" He called out and a wave of blue energy traveled along the water towards Zolo, who simply jumped out of the way to avoid it.
Zolo then ran towards Lloyd as he held up his swords and lightning came down, striking the swords as if they were lightning rods.
"Nitoryu: Hiraishin!" He called out before streaks of lightning came out of the swords and hit Lloyd head-on. Zolo then stopped running, knowing that Lloyd wasn't down for the count, and sure enough…
"Sonic Thrust!" Lloyd called out a short while after having been hit as he shot towards Zolo, attempting to stab him with his right sword.
Zolo crossed his swords, blocking the attack before swinging his swords, forcing Lloyd to jump back, but the Battosai then jumped up into the air.
"Rising Falcon!" He called out as he came charging down at Zolo, but the green-haired man jumped out of the way just before Lloyd landed where he had just been. Lloyd then ran towards him before thrusting his right sword at Zolo and quickly following up with a thrust from his left sword before thrusting his right sword forward again a final time, but Zolo expertly managed to block every attack.
"Sword Rain!" Lloyd called out as he then started a series of consecutive thrusts with his right sword. While Zolo managed to block the first few, he failed to block the next three before he managed to jump away, luckily none of his vital spots had been hit.
'He's better than I expected. Heh.' Zolo thought before pulling his bandanna off his arm and tying it around his forehead and he then pulled out the Wado before putting it in his mouth.
"So you finally decided to get serious, huh?" Lloyd said before they both charged at each other again.
Kine'mon's ship
The Battosai, Kine'mon was standing on the middle of the deck on his ship as he looked at the person that stood before him, Lucy Heartfillia.
'You've got to kidding me… I'm the first one here?' She thought, shaking from fright. Seeing as Kine'mon was said to use some kind of fire technique in accordance with his sword skills, the plan was for Mira, Suigetsu, Gray, Juvia, and Lucy to deal with him as Mira, Suigetsu, and Juvia were water users, Gray was an ice user, and Lucy could summon a water spirit. However, they were all to take different paths to get there, and it seems that Lucy was the first one to arrive.
"This isn't even worth my time." Kine'mon said before turning around and walking away.
"You're just gonna walk away?" Lucy yelled, not believing this.
"Of course, there's no use fighting against an unarmed opponent." Kine'mon said.
"If you don't wanna take her on? Then how about me?" Kine'mon turned around just in time to draw his sword and block Suigetsu's attack before swinging his sword, sending the silver-haired boy backwards, towards Lucy.
"Sorry, but I don't fight against children." Kine'mon said.
"What was that?!" Suigetsu yelled.
"Ice-Make: Lance!" Suddenly several lances made of ice shot towards Kine'mon, but he simply just cut through all of them with his sword, adding fire to the sword strikes.
Everyone then looked towards where the ice lances had come from to see Gray standing there.
"GRAY!" Lucy exclaimed.
"You keep away from Gray-sama." Everyone then turned towards the voice to see Juvia standing there, glaring daggers at Lucy.
"Okay. He's all yours." Lucy while sweating heavily and backing off a little due to the intimidating stare. And as this was going on, Kine'mon looked over the foursome, Gray standing off to his left, Suigetsu and Lucy in front of him, and Juvia to his right.
"They're really underestimating me to send such children to fight me." Kine'mon muttered to himself. For a samurai, honor was everything, and to be underestimated, even the slightest was an insult.
"By the way. Where are all the soldiers?" Juvia asked as she looked around.
"Huh? You're right. Now that I think about it, I haven't seen anyone other than Kine'mon-san since I got here." Lucy said.
"Yeah. What's up with that?" Gray asked as he looked at Kine'mon.
"I figured that I might be targeted early on in the battle, so thinking that I would be met with a worthy opponent, I sent everyone else to other ships so that they wouldn't get caught in the cross-fire." Kine'mon explained, causing everyone to sweat-drop.
"Well, that should make our job easier." Suigetsu said before charging at Kine'mon as he swung his large sword, but the samurai simply blocked every strike before slashing his sword straight through Suigetsu's torso, causing it to temporarily turn into water as Kine'mon raised an eyebrow.
"Hey, did his body just…?" Lucy started.
"Yes. It's just like my ability." Juvia said.
Suigetsu then held his sword over his head before swinging downwards, however, Kine'mon blocked it with his own sword before pushing the silver-haired boy away and following up with a quick stab through his chest as Kine'mon's sword was engulfed in flames. While Suigetsu's body just turned into water as the sword passed through him, the thrust came with such force that it sent him flying backwards.
The former Kirigakure shinobi landed safely on his feet before skidding backwards and coming to a halt.
"Man, this guy's stronger than he looks." He said.
"Hey, wait a minute. Aren't we missing someone?" Lucy asked as she looked around "Where's Mira-san?"
"Now that you mention it, I haven't seen her." Gray said.
"Either way, we've got to defeat him with or without her." Juvia said as she stepped forward.
"Yeah." Gray said as he also stepped forward.
"Wait, guys. Can't we rather talk about this?" Lucy asked as she was still shaking.
Sekai Senshi
Zorro looked over the battle, seemingly impressed that the ninja were putting up such a good resistance. They must have a pretty good strategist. But either way, it was still useless in the end; they were only delaying the inevitable.
Something then caught Zorro's eyes as he looked up to see a green-blue blur speeding through the air towards him. The green-blue blur, Fu flew towards Zorro as fast as she could as she drew her sword. The sword had the blade of a katana and the handle of a saber, said handle being green in color. Fu also had the Nanabi's cloak around her body.
"You're going down, Zorro!" She yelled.
Of course, her attacking Zorro wasn't a part of the plan, but she just had to get him back for what he almost did to Naruto.
As she approached him, she swung her sword, but he simply just leaned back to avoid it before thrusting his right pinky finger into her gut and sending her flying backwards. Luckily for her, Naruto had seen what she was trying to do and jumped off of the Dreadnaught he was on and caught her before landing on the water and skidding backwards.
"Fu-chan, what were you thinking?" The blond asked.
"Sorry, Naruto-kun. But I had to get back at him for him almost killing you." Fu replied before Naruto looked up towards the ship's deck.
"Hey, Jugo! I'll take Fu-chan to the shore so she can get some medical attention!" He shouted.
"All right. Me and Tayuya will finish things up here." Jugo said and Naruto ran off with the barely conscious Fu in his arms.
Sekai Senshi, below deck
Below the deck of the Samurai Emperor's flagship were Takeda and the man who had saved him sneaking around. The man had short black hair, blue eyes, and black clothes. (Kurama no Kyubi: Imagine Kirito's clothes from Sword Art Online.)
"Where are we going?" Takeda asked as they walked through the corridors.
"This should take us to the ship's engine room; there we must destroy the engines and stop the ship from moving forward." The blue-eyed man said.
"Engines? But the ship's got sails doesn't it? Why would it have an engine?" Takeda asked.
"All of the samurai ships have engines despite having sails as well. The sails' only function is really to trick the samurai's enemies into thinking that their ships are only as fast as the winds will allow them." The blue-eyed man said.
"Well, it does explain how we got here so fast. Normally it'd take several months to get to the Elemental Nations from Shikei Toride, but we got her in just a few weeks." Takeda said before they stopped in front of a door.
"It should be in here." The blue-eyed man said before opening the door and they walked through to find themselves on a gallery over-looking the engine room.
Zolo vs. Lloyd
"Beast!" Lloyd called out as he hit Zolo with his shoulder before the image of a lion's head appeared and Zolo was sent into the air, though he flipped around in mid-air before landing on the water as he got into the Oni-Giri stance.
"Raiton: Oni-Giri!" He called out as he charged forward and slashed through Lloyd, and as he came to a halt, Lloyd was suddenly hit by a bolt of lightning before falling onto the water.
"Seems I wasn't able to win, after all." He said.
"You should get yourself onboard one of the samurai ships and get some medical attention." Zolo said before walking away, leaving Lloyd who was currently struggling to get back up on his feet.
As Zolo was walking, he noticed a ship that looked different from the others, and he quickly recognized it as his former master's ship.
'Sensei…' He thought before running towards it.
Sekai Senshi, engine room
Takeda jumped down and cut through several samurai as he landed, and not giving the samurai any time to retaliate, he quickly moved past all of them as he cut through them.
In the meantime, the blue-eyed man was standing at the upper gallery in the room and looked down at what was going on before drawing his sword, revealing it to be a katana which had a pitch black edge while the dull side was silver.
He then shunshined down in a burst of darkness before appearing in the middle of the room and cut down everyone that were standing around him before their brains could even register that he was there.
Takeda then reached the large engine which was easily the size of a small ship before he leapt into the air, clutched his left hand into a fist, and thrusted said fist at the engine. The moment the gauntlet-covered fist impacted with the engine, said engine suddenly blew up from the force of the impact, and Takeda was pushed back through the air before he landed and skidded to a halt next to his partner-in-crime.
"Whoa. I never realized I had that kind of power." Takeda said.
"Time for us to abandon ship." The blue-eyed man said before grabbing Takeda's arm and bolted for the closest wall as he closed his eyes.
"You do realize that we're heading towards a wall, right?" Takeda asked before he noticed that the blue-eyed man opened his eyes.
'Kagutsuchi!' Suddenly purple flames appeared on the wall and burned a hole in it big enough for the two to get through before vanishing. As they came into a corridor, they just kept on running straight, the blue-eyed man burning holes in every wall in their path. Of course they also had to ascend a few levels as the engine was below the ocean surface.
Dopai's ship
Zolo landed on the ship's deck and all of the samurai instantly looked towards him.
"Zolo-san…" One of the samurai said.
"Hey, Zolo-san! Did you decide to come back to us?" Another one of the samurai asked.
Zolo didn't pay attention to all of the people calling out to him, however, as he looked across the deck to see if he could find his old teacher.
"Where's Dopai-sensei?" He asked after a while, silencing all of the samurai, but when he didn't get a reply, he yelled "I asked where is he!?"
"Calm down, Zolo. I'm right here." Dopai said as he came out of the crowd before saying "It's been a while, hasn't it Zolo?"
"Sensei…" Zolo muttered before pointing his right sword at Dopai "Why didn't you stop my father from attacking the village? Doesn't he trust you?"
"I'm afraid Zorro-sama stopped trusting me after I let you leave. Which appears to have been a mistake on my part." Dopai said as he put his hand on the hilt of his sword.
"So you're trying to force me to come back?" Zolo asked.
"If you won't come quietly…" Dopai started as he drew his sword before finishing "… then, yes."
They then glared at each other before Zolo charged towards his former teacher and swung his right sword towards him as it was covered in lightning. Dopai blocked it with his own sword, however, before sending Zolo into the air, but the green-haired teen righted himself in mid-air before landing on the ship's railing and drew the Wado Ichimonji before putting it in his mouth.
He then leaped down on the deck as he charged towards Dopai, though unlike an ordinary charge, he moved all over the place, making it nearly impossible to hit him. As he got close to Dopai, said samurai swung his sword at Zolo, but the Santoryu-user blocked it with the swords in his hands before twisting his body around and aimed to cut at Dopai's stomach.
"Toro Nagashi!" Zolo called out, however, Dopai jumped back, effectively avoiding the attack.
"Tell me, Zolo. Why are you following a ninja?" Dopai asked.
"Hmph. Naruto isn't like how my father thinks all ninja are. He's a kind, hard-working individual who always thinks of others before himself. He's nindo is to never go back on his word, and when faced with a challenge, he never gives up, even if the odds are stacked against him. I never even once saw any doubt that we'd win in his eyes as we prepared for this battle. He doesn't know a thing about leading a village, so that's why he needs people like me and Fu to be there to support him. And for him I would fight any opponent, even you, sensei." Zolo said with a determined look in his eyes as a smile crept onto Dopai's face.
"Good." He simply said, the smile never leaving his face "Then, let's test your determination in a final clash to end this fight."
They both then got into battle stances, Zolo in the Sanzen Sekai stance, and Dopai simply held out his right hand as his sword pointed towards the sky.
"Santoryu/Ittoryu!" They then charged at each other as they called out "Ougi!" And then as they passed each other, they said the last part of the name of their respective technique "Sanzen Sekai/Saigo Shuseki!"
As they both came to a halt, Zolo was standing in the same position he's always in after using the Sanzen Sekai while Dopai was now crouching holding his sword at a downward angle.
Suddenly, a deep cut appeared across Zolo's body as blood splattered out, the cut going from his left shoulder to his right hip. Dopai then rose to his feet a sheathed his sword as Zolo collapsed down on the deck.
"Someone make sure that Zolo gets medical attention. We don't want to give him back to Naruto half-dead, now do we?" Dopai said.
"Dopai-sensei…?" One of the fodder samurai asked.
"We're just gonna give him back to the ninja?" Another one asked, but when Dopai turned around, they all gasped in surprise. The Samurai General had a cut on his right cheek with blood trailing down from it.
'If your determination to support Naruto is strong enough to make you able to cut me, then not even I can convince you otherwise.' Dopai thought before looking out over battle, unknowingly looking in the direction that Naruto was in 'This Naruto must really be something for you to put so much faith in him.'
Sekai Senshi
"Zorro-sama, it seems that Takeda along with someone else had managed to sneak aboard this ship and they destroyed the main engine." Jodai said as he walked up to the Samurai Emperor.
"That explains why we stopped moving." Zorro said just before a samurai who had been sitting on his rear up till now rose to his feet.
"This one will go after them." He said, causing Zorro to smile as the samurai vanished in a blur of speed.
"You sure about him going alone? He's up against two opponents, one in which we don't even know anything about." Jodai said.
"Heh. Who do you think gave me this scar, Jodai?" Zorro asked as he held his right hand over the scar as he smiled "Do you think it was a wound I received from my battle with Whitebeard? That it was given to me by the Shape-Shifter of Death? No. The one who gave me this scar was that man, Hitokiri Battosai."
Chapter preview
Random samurai "Zorro-sama! It's the Gambling Patty, the ship of the Yonko, "Gambler" Patty!"
Patty "All right mates, it's time to pay Naruto-kun back for allowing us to stay here!"
Kira "Patty."
Mira "Sorry I'm late, guys. But I got lost on my way here."
Seifer "Next time on Naruto: Shinobi Hunters: Arrival of the Gambling Pirates!"
Random samurai (the Gambling Patty uses one of the whirlpools like a spring-board and jumps at one of the samurai ships) "Th-they're crazy!"
Character status
Zolo: Level: 40
Chakra Level: Divine.
Techniques: Oni Giri, Raiton: Oni Giri (when using the Kiba), Tora Gari, Santoryu Ougi: Sanzen Sekai, Nitoryu: Hiraishin (when using the Kiba), Toro Nagashi.
Weapons: Wado Ichimonji, Kiba.
Lloyd: Level: 39
Mana Level: Jonin.
Techniques: Demon Fang, Sonic Thrust, Sword Rain, Beast, Rising Falcon.
Weapons: katana.
Dopai: Level: 328
Chakra Level: none
Techniques: Ittoryu Ougi: Saigo Shuseki.
Weapons: katana.
Character information
Name: Hozuki Suigetsu.
Age: 14
Affiliation: Kirigakure (former), Uzushiogakure.
Affinity: Water.
Likes: Cutting things.
Dislikes: Orochimaru.
Info: Suigetsu grew up in Kirigakure as the younger brother of the strongest to have ever been amongst the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, Hozuki Mangetsu. Because of this, Suigetsu took a quick liking to swords, and wanted to become one of the swordsmen himself. However, about a year after finally becoming a Genin, Suigetsu was found and captured by Orochimaru. Two years later, he was finally found and saved by Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto and became part of Uzushiogakure. Since then, he's also gotten his hands on the Kubikiribocho and the Kiba, two of Kiri's lost blades.
Kurama no Kyubi: This is the first ever war arc that I've written without any reference material, so please tell me how I did. Also – aside from Fu and Zolo's recklessness – it seems that Soren's plan is going smoothly, and with Patty arriving in the next chapter, Uzushio may still have a chance of winning this. Now then, until next time, please review.