I do not own any ideas taken from One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, Dragon Ball, HunterXHunter, Yu Yu Hakusho or Rustage's One Piece D&D. Eiichiro Oda, Masashi Kishimoto, Tite Kubo, Akira Toriyama, Yoshihiro Togashi and Rustage are the brilliant minds behind those stories and I'm simply using them to set the stage for my story! It's all for fun so please enjoy!
Chapter 36: The Yorknew Auction Begins!
Renji, Mugen and Shuhei were with a hundred other bodyguards and the Ten Dons. They were three floors above the actual auction and Projector Snails showed the auction in real time on every wall.
It was half passed six, thirty minutes until the start of the auction. The trio all knew something was going to happen, but the when and what caused anxiety in each of them.
"There are a lot of bodyguards." Mugen stated.
"Even four of the Shadow Beasts are here." Shuhei said and nodded.
"Shadow Beasts?" Mugen raised an eyebrow.
"The Shadow Beasts are the Ten Dons personal bodyguards. The best of the best." Renji answered.
"Hm."
"The doors are locked, they don't want us leaving any time soon." Shuhei said as he scanned the room.
"Yeah, well, we'll find a way out." Renji said and smiled slightly.
Several days ago, Renji made his way across town in the dead of night. He came to the abandoned amusement park and kept his guard up as he moved around.
"Yo."
Renji turned his head to his left and sensed around.
"I'm glad you came."
Renji recognized the voice, "Hisoka?"
"Bingo." Hisoka said and chuckled.
"What do you want?" Renji asked.
"The Akatsuki will be gathered by the nineteenth." Hisoka stated.
Renji's blood ran cold, "What? What're you up to?"
"They should begin to arrive in ones and twos on the nineteenth. They'll make their move on the twentieth." Hisoka said and grinned.
"How do you know this?" Renji questioned.
"I'm the right pinky." Hisoka said slyly.
"The right pinky? So, they really do wear rings." Renji collected himself and asked, "How long have you been a member?"
"Only four years. I killed the former right pinky and joined the ranks of the Akatsuki." Hisoka said smugly.
"Then, I'm not hunting after you." Renji said quietly.
"I know that you seek vengeance for your clan." Hisoka said suddenly. He waited a moment and said, "Let's join forces."
"What? Why do you want to help me?" Renji questioned and took a step away from Hisoka.
"I want to fight the boss." Hisoka said and smiled wickedly.
"Are you listening?" Shuhei asked suddenly.
"Oh, no, sorry." Renji said and shook his thoughts from his mind.
Bulma, Zika and Hama sat atop a building next to the auction hall. Bulma and Zika scanned around the street and auction hall with binoculars as they waited for the auction to begin.
"Have you ever heard anything about the Akatsuki?" Zika asked suddenly.
Bulma thought for a moment and said, "I overheard some marines talk about them when I was 'under their protection'."
"Like?"
"Just that the leader is the son of an infamous pirate. He committed several taboos and the marines captured him but his son slipped through their fingers." Bulma said slowly.
"Taboos?" Zika questioned.
"I'm not sure. The Navy and World Government love to cover things up." Bulma said and nodded.
"Well I'm sure we'll learn more about them soon…" Zika said and sighed.
Asuka and Yasui sat in the back of the auction hall. Quiet murmurs rippled across the auction hall as everyone waited for the event to begin.
"You reckon the Akatsuki are in here with us?" Yasui asked.
"It's definitely possible." Asuka said as he looked around the auction hall.
"You really think they're gonna hit the auction tonight?"
"If Renji said so, then yeah. They're gonna attack the auction tonight." Asuka said and nodded.
The auction started and the auctioneer began to show items to the audience. A large Projector Snail on the ceiling projected images of the items up for auction as bids were thrown around for them. Murmurs and shouts echoed around the auction hall as bidders waged war to claim lost treasures and ancient jewels.
Haku and Raizen snuck around the back of the auction hall. As bidders fought to buy the treasures of the Yorknew Auction, they made their way toward the vault. The vault would have every item for each day of the auction and it would all be theirs..!
The duo avoided armed guards and made their way to the solid steel vault door. They made sure nobody was nearby and Haku began cracking the vault.
"How long will this take you?" Raizen whispered.
"This looks intricate but I can do it in, say, six minutes." Haku replied quietly.
"Six minutes? That'll take forever." Raizen complained.
"Just keep your eyes peeled and let me work." Haku scolded.
They listened as the auction continued and Haku eventually opened the safe. He slowly opened the large steel door and the duo looked at the empty insides of the vault.
"What the shit?" Raizen lifted an eyebrow and looked at Haku.
"They emptied it beforehand." Haku said and sighed.
"Send backup to the vault, we're being robbed!" A voice suddenly called out.
The duo turned and saw a guard talking into a Transponder Snail. He looked at them and said, "Nice try guys. But no-" His sentence was cut off as Raizen Shaved at the guard and slammed a Finger Pistol into his forehead!
The guard hit the ground dead and Raizen chuckled, "What an idiot."
A dozen armed guards rushed forward and fired rifles and machine guns at the duo. Raizen hardened his entire body with Armament Haki and the bullets deflected off of him. He Shaved forward and slammed crushing blows into the armed guards as Haku lobbed kunai at them.
Haku pulled out a Baby Transponder Snail and called Machi.
"I hear gunshots." Machi answered.
"The vault was empty, let's get out of here." Haku said and ended the call.
In the auction hall, Machi leapt out of her seat and swung her arms around swiftly as surrounding audience members were cut to pieces. "Plan B!" She shouted and shredded more audience members with razor sharp strings from her fingertips.
Gabriel stood up and aimed his arms forward at the audience and unloaded bullets from his fingertips, "Ambidextrous Machine-Gun Fingers!" He ripped through the audience with his machine gun fingers as the auction hall erupted into chaos.
Kitana leapt up onto Franklin's back as he charged through the audience and jumped onto the stage. The auctioneer stumbled back and Franklin slammed his left fist into his forehead. "Let's go!"
Yasui popped open three DynoCaps and tossed a handful of scentless smoke pellets that erupted on the stage. Asuka dashed off into the chaos and launched a Chop-Chop Rocket that struck the cyborg in the chin!
Asuka yanked his arm back to his body as he charged at the cyborg, he leapt forward and Gabriel backhanded him down to the floor. Gabriel aimed his left arm down at Asuka and an explosion rocked the cyborg back suddenly!
The man with wild red hair that Asuka bumped into at the pub stood above him with a grin on his face. He helped Asuka up to his feet and said, "This is no time to sit on your ass."
"Thanks." Asuka said and he raised his fists as Gabriel steadied himself.
The red haired man's right arm began swelling rapidly and he lunged forward at the cyborg and slammed his swollen fist into his chest, "Buster Cannon!" His swollen right arm ruptured and a fierce explosion blasted the cyborg through a row of seats.
Machi flipped through the air and sliced Asuka into pieces with her strings. He reassembled himself and launched a Chop-Chop Rocket that Machi dodged and she landed in the smoke that swallowed the stage. "Let's go, Gabriel!" She shouted.
Gabriel fired an intense flashbang that struck the entire auction hall and he Shaved over to the smoky stage. The Akatsuki dashed behind the curtain and to the back of the auction hall to meet up with Haku and Raizen.
"Asuka!" Yasui shouted as he rubbed his eyes.
"I can't see shit!" Asuka called out as he stumbled around.
Armed guards stood in front of each of the doors and kept everyone inside the room. "Calm down, we are fine up here."
"I wanna see some action!"
"Let us go kill those fucks!"
The hired bodyguards were shouting at the armed guards as the Projector Snails showed the chaos of the auction hall.
"They're here!" Mugen shouted.
"What's the move?" Shuhei asked.
"What did they do?" Renji asked at pointed at a screen showing the auction hall.
"They ran off through the stage." Mugen said quickly.
"There isn't a back entrance is there?" Shuhei asked.
Renji shook his head and said, "Nope. Unless they made one themselves."
"We're twenty-eight floors up." Mugen said.
"Which side of the building is the stage on?" Renji asked.
"Should be the west side of the building." Shuhei answered.
Renji turned and dashed to the west side of the room and placed his hand against the window. His Baby Transponder Snail began ringing and he answered it quickly, "Yeah?"
"Renji, it's Bulma. They have a hot air balloon attached to the outside of the building!"
"What?!"
"They're loading into it right now, on the west side of the building." Bulma said quickly.
The Akatsuki loaded into the basket of the hot air balloon and pushed away from the auction hall. They floated up into the air and the wind carried them southwest through Yorknew City. Haku, Raizen, Machi, Kitana, Gabriel, Franklin and an unconscious man occupied the basket as they floated away.
Raizen pulled out his Transponder Snail and called Volcier.
"Yes?" Volcier answered.
"The vault was empty." Raizen said grumpily.
"There was nothing there?"
"According to the auctioneer's personal log, everything was relocated a few hours ago… As if they expected this would happen all along." Raizen said slowly.
Raizen heard Volcier sip on a beverage, "Oh."
"Perhaps… There's a 'Judas' among us." Raizen stated.
"No. There isn't." Volcier responded quickly, "Besides, I don't consider Judas to be a traitor. The story says that Judas betrayed the Messiah for thirty silver coins. It's hard to imagine what the mafia would have to offer one of us to betray our own."
"Hm."
"Think of the merit. What would one of us seek to gain? Status? Fame? Wealth? Would any of us truly be satisfied with those?"
"None of us are like that." Raizen admitted.
"And there's something that doesn't add up." Volcier spoke coolly, "If there was an informant, then their response was pitifully inadequate. We're Class A bounties, security would have been heightened greatly if they knew we were coming."
"But what I don't get is, this weird frogman raised an alert that we were robbing the place. He didn't say we fell into a trap or anything. Why wouldn't they tell the staff or guests that the merchandise was moved?" Raizen questioned.
"They were likely just being overly cautious this year. Were you able to find out where the merchandise is?" Volcier asked.
"No. Franklin grabbed the auctioneer and questioned him as we made our escape. All he said was that the Shadow Beasts relocated them." Raizen explained.
"Shadow Beasts?"
"The Shadow Beasts are the Ten Dons personal bodyguards. The best of the best in their service make up the active task force." Raizen explained.
"Who are the Ten Dons?" Kitana asked.
"They are promoters of the mafias and Yorknew Auction. They were once feuding families until Inoue Wakaba brought them together." Gabriel explained.
"Since these Shadow Beasts weren't involved then it's safe to assume they didn't expect us to make an appearance." Volcier stated.
"Now that you mention it, the security was laughably poor." Raizen admitted.
"So then, how did they transport the merchandise?" Volcier asked.
"That's the thing. Apparently, one of these Shadow Beasts arrived by himself. Now this vault was twenty-five square meters, loaded from top to bottom. He walked in with nothing and out with nothing but the vault was cleared out. It was a tall guy who called himself Slug."
"Anything else to report?"
"Well, we did catch this bastard trying to sneak into the vault as we made our escape. He had an interesting ability so we captured him. The auctioneer confirmed that he isn't Slug and I believe him because he was a squealer." Raizen laughed.
"Just return to base and we'll go from there." Vocier said and ended the call.
The hired bodyguards of the Ten Dons flooded out of the auction hall building and into the streets. The Ten Dons ordered all of them to chase after the Akatsuki's hot air balloon after Renji pointed it out to everyone.
Mugen and Shuhei charged through the crowds of bodyguards as they made their way to the mafia stables. The bodyguards leapt into carriages and automobiles as they gave chase to the balloon in the sky. Mugen and Shuhei stole a horse and charged down the street.
"I can't believe he jumped out of the fucking window!" Shuhei called out as he controlled the reins.
"I can." Mugen said and laughed.
"I thought he was gonna die but he latched onto the basket with his chains." Shuhei said loudly as they moved southwest through the city.
"I can't see the balloon anywhere." Mugen said as he scanned the sky.
"It was heading this way so we'll just keep going!"
To Be Continued