Combining Powers
The North Port of the Hidden Water Village had been in chaos. Sailors and fisherman were being beaten, cargo was being taken, nearby homes were being looted and burned, as well as a few scattered "dead" within the area. More than a hundred pirates, wearing potato sacks over thier heads, were having a grand time as they spread bedlam all over the port. Amongst these masked gang of sea thieves, was our very own Team 7 fighting within the masses. Once they had arrived, Kakashi, Naruto and Sasuke immediately began defending the port with all they had, while Sakura tried her best evacuate the civilians to a safer area in the port, and tend to their injuries. They had been there for almost more than a half hour, and they haven't even made a dent on the number of bandits around the area.
Kakashi figured there was something strange about the numbers against them. The fact that the morale of these pirates wasn't at all weakened since a half hour ago, was highly suspicious. They were fairly easy to knock out, but it seemed that every time he would eliminate any of the thieves, he would always feel that he was being attacked by the same ones. Another strange giveaway was that they all kept saying the same thing as they attacked;
"Fire, loot, kill . . . fire, loot, kill . . . fire, loot, kill . . ."
It was like the only three words they know in their language. He took a quick look to see how his students were progressing. Naruto, was starting to become weary as he fought continuously. He noticed this, because the production of his shadow clones decreased every time he conjured up a new batch. Sasuke was getting exhausted too, but he didn't seem to show it. He had been using the same fireball jutsu for a while now, but then he went back to tai-jutsu to save the little chakra he had left. Sakura was with the workers, healing thier injuries in a safe spot behind a stack of fishing boats where they cannot be seen. But Kakashi knew where they were, because he could sense her chakra from there.
The fight went on endlessly as Naruto began to feel the fatigue wash over him, for he was almost near his limit.
"There's . . . too . . . many," he panted. More of the pirates were coming his way, but he managed to put them out with his flawless tai-jutsu skill, but all the fighting was eating his chakra, and it got harder and harder to keep going.
'What are we gonna do?' he thought weakly, as he collapsed onto his back. 'Will I ever have ramen with Iruka-sensei, after this?'
he thought weakly, as he collapsed onto his back."GOBU GOBU GO!"
As if on cue, Luffy projected himself as a human slingshot, and wiped out a whole line of the potato sack headed pirates, driving them into the ocean. After the attack, Luffy sprang back into his normal form, and gave an encouraging wink to the astounded blonde chuunin.
"Holy crap! Where the hell did you come from," he shouted pointing a shaky finger at Luffy.
"I flew," said Luffy cheerfully.
"No way! You can fly too?" Naruto shouted excitedly, this person was more amazing than he thought.
"No, I can't."
Naruto became confused. "But wait . . . didn't you just say . . .?"
"FIRE, LOOT, KILL!"
Naruto's question was interrupted when another group of potato-sack headed pirates came charging towards them with swords above their heads.
"Horn Point!"
All of a sudden, a giant reindeer with humongous antlers charged into the group, sending them flying into the giant pirate ship they came on. Naruto jumped up, even more amazed than ever at the sight of that monstrosity.
"Wow! Good job, Choppa!" Luffy called out.
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Sasuke got distracted when he caught sight of Choppa's ability.
'What . . . is that thing?' he thought.
"Hey kid," said a voice from behind him. Sasuke turned to see who the owner of the voice was. A tall man with green hair stood beside him, with all three swords out. Sasuke thought he looked ridiculous with that sword in his mouth.
"You should know to keep your guard up in a situation like this," he advised. Sasuke looked annoyed.
"Tch. You think I didn't know that?" said Sasuke coldly.
"Heads up!"
At the same time, Zoro and Sasuke caught the pirate's anticipated attack with both kunai and sword, and easily pushed him off.
"You see?"
"I know!" growled Sasuke.
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Sakura was went to and fro to each of the injured persons, until she heard something that struck fear among them.
"Fire, loot, KILL!"
The enemy had found them. Sakura saw it coming towards their refuge. She went out of the hiding place and held her kunai in front of her.
"Stay where you are!" she warned.
"Fire, loot, kill . . ."
The covered pirate brandished his weapon and ran towards her.
"Cheek Shoot!"
The man in the suit from before had aimed a flying kick right on the pirate's cheek. The impact was so strong that the potato sack on his head flew right off. That's when they saw that the pirate had no face. All he had was a blank area of flesh, and no ears or hair. Sakura gasped when she saw it, and Sanji came to her rescue.
"My flower," he proclaimed happily, as he was on his knees again with his arms outstretched.
"Do not fret my little cherry blossom, for I will protect you!"
Sakura became angry, for she did not like to be looked upon as weak or frail. So she punched him in the face, making him fall sideways to the ground.
"I don't need protecting!" she barked at the dazed blonde man. As she turned to go back to where she left the injured workers, she panicked when she saw more of those faceless pirates about to attack them behind the fish boats. She quickly went back to Sanji, who was already up and rubbing his sore cheek affectionately. She grabbed his arm and dragged him with her back to the fish boats. Sanji looked at her, bewildered and dreamy.
"Why, my flower. I thought you didn't need protection," he said fondly.
"I don't," she spat as she kept on running.
"But my patients do."
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While the Team 7 and the Straw Hats fought together against the enemy. The Captain of the potato sack pirates looked on with horror from the safe confines of his ship. The number of his henchman were falling drastically ever since those "Wanted Pirates" joined the fray. His frightened eyes turned back to the wanted posters in his hands of Zoro and Luffy, as he nervously rubbed his shiny bald head.
'Why,' thought the anxious captain. 'Why here? Of all the places, why did they have to come here?'
thought the anxious captain. 'He peered through the small window again to see something that he couldn't believe. The dark haired boy that was blowing fire everywhere on his henchman, had done it once more. Only this time, the Wanted swordsman had combined his powerful slash attack with along with the boy's fire technique, leaving no one on the port, except the captain and his boat.
"Victory!" yelled Naruto, jumping up and down enthusiastically.
"Yeah-hooo" Luffy cried out, as ecstatic as Naruto and they both did a little victory dance.
"Well done, everyone!" cheered Nami from behind a bush.
"Nami-swaan! You're praises make my heart scream!" cried out Sanji, his cigarete blowing off pink hearts instead of smoke.
"I agree with Nami," said Usopp emerging from the fishboats all bandaged up (In case you didn't know, Usopp was scared to fight so he played dead, and Sakura assumed he was an injured sailor, and took care of his "wounds").
"This battle is truly one of the best one's I've fought in."
"YOU TWO WERE HIDING THIS WHOLE TIME?" shouted Zoro irately to Nami and Usopp.
"Don't exaggerate Zoro," said Nami dismissing his accusation with a wave.
Sasuke had dropped to his knees panting. Kakashi walked up beside him, book in hand.
"Nice teamwork, Sasuke," he said casually.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura called out running to him.
"You're wounded!"
"It's just a few scratches," he said trying to get up, but he failed. Sakura rushed beside him.
"Nonsense, those scratches could be lethal. I don't want you to get any scars."
"Oi, Sakura-chan, I have scratches too," said Naruto pointing at the small scratches on his face with a smile. Sakura gave him a sour look.
"You're fine," she said simply, before attending to Sasuke's wounds. Naruto pouted as he watched.
"Sasuke always gets the attention," he mumbled. However, his bitterness ended when he saw a little deer-like creature staring at him intently, his little blue nose twitched.
"Meh, What's with you?" he asked, giving it an annoyed look.
"AAAHHH!" the miniature reindeer screamed waving his little arms in a panic. Naruto flinched at his sudden outburst.
"This poor boy is hurt! Somebody get a doctor. Quick!"
"But Choppa," inquired Luffy. "You are a doctor."
Choppa calmed and looked at Luffy confused, and then it dawned on him.
"Oh, yeah."
Ignoring all the hubbub, Kakashi had his curious eye looking at the "empty" pirate ship.
"You notice it too?" asked Zoro, his eyes were also fixed onto the boat.
"Won't hurt to check it out," said Kakashi as he put his book away. They both walked towards the boat.
The man hiding inside the ship made a frightened yelp, as he quickly backed away from the window. They were coming for him.
'Oh no, oh no, oh no, no, no, no, no, NO!' he thought in a panic. 'What am I gonna do now? Gotta think fast!'
he thought in a panic.The terrified captain looked around his quarters for something that might help him get out of this situation. After about a minute, he spotted another empty potatoe sack, and a can of white paint. He may be like them and Baki the Clown and Alvida-Sama, but he was such a big coward, and he really didn't want to face the wrath of Straw Hat Pirates after what happened to those two.
"I surrender!" he cried out waving the white potato sack out the window.
"Please, I give up! Don't hurt me!"
Kakashi and Zoro stopped in their tracks and looked curiously at the white "flag". The rest of the straw hat pirates and Team 7 looked up as well.
"Who are you?" called out Zoro, with his hand on the hilt of his sword.
"Show yourself!"
Zoro took out his sword. The sound of unsheathing metal seemed to have frightened the pirate even more, when they heard something squeal in terror and a shuffle of hurried footsteps. The door opened and a man with the same average body size of his henchman, stepped outside with the flag clutched in his right hand. He put both his arms up for surrender.
Kakashi stepped forward. "Are you the Captain?" he asked.
"Aye," said the man with wary eyes.
"Captain, navigator, helmsman, cook, and henchman. I am all of those, sir."
Everyone in the group looked at each other in confusion.
"What do you mean by that?" interrogated Zoro, as he sheathed his sword back in it's scabbard.
"What I mean is . . ." the captain paused, "-That I am the only person in my crew."
The baffled looks remained. Naruto started picking out wax in his ear. Luffy scratched his head. Zoro became irritated.
"If you're the only person in your crew, then how did you-Wait a minute! You ate the demon fruit, didn't you?"
Zoro pointed at him with an accusing finger. The Straw hat's pirate gasped in surprise, but the ninjas were still surrounded by question marks.
"Demon . . . fruit?" muttered the confused ninjas in unison.
The bald Captain, sighed. "Yes, I ate the Clone Fruit."
DUN! DUN! DUN!
"What's your name?" asked Luffy innocently.
"Mark Wahlberg," quickly replied the Captain. Everyone glared at him. He got the point, and panicked again.
"Okay, I lied!"
Kakashi sighed and shook his head in disappointment.
"Naruto, Sasuke!" he called.
"Arrest this lying, no-name, unpopular scum of a pirate. Our work here is done."
A/N: Yay, I did it. That "Mark Wahlberg" thing actually came out at random. If you don't get it, and think it's stupid then sue me! I don't get it either, but like I said, it just came out of the blue! Ch. 5 coming soon.