A/N: Here's the next chapter... sorry it took longer than expected but hey... at least it's an arc I like... it's just that I'm having so much fun with the New Lives R (if your reading this story and you like Sailor Moon and gender bending I recommend you reading it... it involved both One Piece and Naruto)... anyways! First off! Yay over 50,000 hits! All right! Also there's going to be an appearance from another Naruto character and you'll probably guess who... and he won't appear until next chapter... well anyways enjoy...
Chapter 28: The Fishmen
It had been several hours since Luffy, Naruto, Sakura, Sanji, Ino and Yosaku had left the Baratie… things were calm and everything was fine… almost.
"You're still crying…" said Naruto.
Yosaku said something but no one could understand it…
"Did anyone understand that?" asked Ino with a sweat drop.
"No clue…" said Sanji.
"I can't wait to get Nami back! Then we can go to the Grand Line!" said Luffy.
"Even if we do get Nami back there's only 10 of us… well 12 if you count the dog and Naruto's demon…" said Sanji.
"13… there's that thing that appears next to Sakura…" said Luffy.
Inner Sakura looked around "He can see me?" she asked.
"I think you're just seeing things…" said Ino but she was really thinking "Luffy can see inner selves… don't see that everyday…"
"I didn't know your brother could see inner selves…" said Kyubi.
"Inner selves?" asked Naruto.
"Uh… never mind…" said Kyubi.
"But I'm not worried…" said Luffy, "Chef Zeff said that the Grand Line is Paradise for some people…"
"Are you kidding it's the pirates Graveyard!" yelled Yosaku.
"If the crap geezer said that..." said Sanji who began to get thoughts about girls… in face the smoke from his cigarette formed hearts.
"How is he able to do that?" asked Naruto.
"I don't know… and I've known him for a long time…" said Ino.
"You're taking it too lightly!" said Yosaku, "You don't know what the Grand Line is like!"
"Hey… I do…" said Kyubi.
"We can't trust the perspective of a demon fox that roamed the lands creating chaos now can we?" thought Naruto.
"Shutting up…" said Kyubi.
"If Brother Zoro and Brother Sasuke knew who it was like even they would be intimidated…" said Yosaku, "Sister Nami is on a Collision course with one scary guy… mark my words…"
"Time to eat…" said Sanji.
"Yay!" cheered the D Brothers.
This caused the girls to sweat drop and say "Boys…" in unison.
"Wait!" said Yosaku, "We need to know what we're sailing into…"
"What do you mean?" asked Naruto.
"There's a reason why they call the Grand Line the Pirates Grave Yard…" said Yosaku.
"Because Sanbi no Idiot hasn't been sealed yet?" asked Kyubi.
"He can't hear you…" thought Naruto, "Wait Sanbi no Idiot?"
"That's the nick name we other Biju call him… Sanbi's not smart… he's basically an animal… then again you could liken him to a Sea King… but it's all in good fun… I think… he can't talk" said Kyubi.
"You know he can't hear you…" thought Naruto.
"I know…" said Kyubi.
"It's because of the three great powers that rule that water… one of them is the 7 Warlords of the Sea!" said Yosaku.
"Who?" asked everyone but Sakura.
"The 7 Government recognized pirate leaders…" said Sakura.
"Wait why would the government recognize pirates…" said Ino.
"Don't make any sense if you ask me…" said Sanji.
"They target unlicensed pirates and the government get a cut of their haul… it's smart if you ask me…" said Sakura.
"Wow you know a lot about it…" said Yosaku.
"Well I've heard things…" said Sakura who then sighed.
"But anyways even though other pirates call them government dogs they're very tough…" said Yosaku, "The guy who beat Brother Zoro… Mihawk… he's one of the 7…"
"There's others like that guy!" yelled Luffy.
"No way!" said Naruto.
"The problem here is Jimbei the leader of the Fishman pirates…" said Yosaku.
"Fishman?" asked Naruto raising an eyebrow.
"Fishman… huh? I heard Fishman island is famous…" said Sanji who began to think of the mermaids there and began to smoke pink hearts again.
"Seriously… how does he do that?" said Naruto.
"I still have no idea…" said Ino.
"In order to become one of the 7 War Lords of the Sea… he released an unholy terror onto the East Blue…" said Yosaku.
However Luffy was a little busy with a sketch pad…
"Like this?" asked Luffy holding up a picture of a really ugly fish with legs… making Sanji and Naruto laugh.
"Honestly…" said Sakura.
"Can't you stay serious for a few seconds!" yelled Yosaku.
"He's right… we need to talk about this…" said Sakura.
"Fine we'll skip the history lesion…" said Yosaku, "But anyways Nami is headed to Arlong Park… Arlong's a fish man that used to be Jimbei's equal…"
"This is his territory… he's a very powerful pirate… even more than Don Kreig…" said Sakura with her voice shaking a little.
"Sakura… what's wrong…" said Ino.
"Nothing…" said Sakura, "Nothing really…"
"But you turned back half way… she could have gone somewhere else…" said Naruto.
"Johnny and I have a hunch…" said Yosaku.
"Your right… she is heading there…" said Sakura, "And that's all I know…"
"What happened between you and Nami…" said Naruto.
"After all whatever got you upset made you hit the cake… hard…" said Ino.
"I don't know why she left or anything else! All I know… is that she left…" said Sakura with a sigh.
"Tell them!" yelled Inner Sakura.
"Shut up…" thought Sakura.
"Just tell them! I'm sure Luffy or Naruto could kick his ass easy!" yelled Inner Sakura.
"Shut up…" thought Sakura.
"Sakura what's wrong?" asked Luffy.
"It's nothing…" said Sakura, "I'm going to sit over there… and if you're going to make something I'm not hungry…"
"After all that cake you ate it's no wonder…" said Ino with a snort.
"Just up Miss Piggy…" said Sakura.
"At least I don't eat like one…" said Ino.
"You see how upset Sister Sakura is… she's probably scared out her mind…" said Yosaku, "After all a Fishmen are stronger than a human…"
"I doubt it… you haven't seen her strength…" said Luffy.
"He's really, really strong…" said Naruto.
"She scares me…" said Kyubi.
"So…" said Sanji, "What do you want to eat!"
"Meat on a bone!" said Luffy.
"Miso ramen!" yelled Naruto.
"Stir-fried bean sprouts!" said Yosaku.
"Odd tastes…" said Ino.
"I'd rather be cooking for Nami…" muttered Sanji.
"Yeah… I'd rather be cooking for Sasuke…" said Ino.
No too far away with Zoro, Usopp, Sasuke, Kiba, Johnny and Akamaru. They were righting in front of Arlong Park.
"So that's the place…" said Usopp shaking.
"Doesn't seem that scary to me…" said Kiba with Akamaru nodding in agreement.
"That's the place…" said Johnny, "Now all we have to is find where Sister Nami docked the ship…" said Johnny.
"So we hack our way in?" asked Zoro.
Sasuke shook his head while the two older ones yelled at him.
"We don't know anything about that place!" yelled Usopp.
"We can't just barge in!" yelled Yosaku.
"I thought they were concerned about his health…" said Kiba.
"I did too…" said Sasuke.
5 minutes later they found the Going Merry docked in an odd place and also managed to tie up Zoro.
"Untie right now and I mean it!" yelled Zoro.
"No can do Zoro…" said Sasuke, "You're still recuperating from your fight…"
"I bet that you'll do worse with your fight with Itachi when you find him…" said Zoro.
"I'm untying you… then we're going to fight!" said Sasuke.
"Oh no you're not!" said Kiba who grabbed Sasuke from behind while Akamaru became his clone and blocked Sasuke from the front, "You know he's still injured…"
"And he almost untied me too…" said Zoro.
"I hate you so much…" muttered Sasuke as Kiba let him go.
"Don't worry I'll find Nami!" said Usopp.
"You certainly become brave once we found it's not at Arlong park…" said Johnny.
"Of course! I'm intrepid adventurer about to set foot on explored land!" said Usopp.
"Translation: It's safe here so of course I'm brave!" translated Kiba.
"I shall call this adventure: The Great Adventure of Usopp the Man!" said Usopp.
"Translation: I'm really delusional and a liar and make sure people will think I'm brave I'm giving this adventure a cool title to make it about me" translated Kiba.
"Will you stop doing that?" asked Usopp.
"No…" said Kiba.
As they sailed towards the ship… they saw three Fishmen near it…
"Ah… crap…" said Kiba.
"Full steam ahead…" said Usopp.
"We're sailing right past it!" yelled Zoro.
Usopp and Johnny shushed him.
"Did you see them!" yelled Usopp, "I don't want to die that so bad!"
"So I guess your life is more important than the ship…" said Kiba, "Interesting… I'll take note of that…"
"It's no use… these water's are Arlong's lake…" said Johnny.
"It's no use! We'll have to turn back and tell Luffy that we couldn't find her…" said Usopp.
"Untie me you idiot!" yelled Zoro.
"Hello! That won't work!" yelled Kiba.
"And besides I don't think Luffy left you in charge…" said Sasuke.
Of course this wasn't heard.
"Hello!" yelled the three.
That's when some Fishmen showed up.
"Oh no!" yelled Johnny.
"Abandon Ship!" yelled Usopp.
Kiba and Sasuke decided to untie Zoro but Usopp and Johnny grabbed them and jumped ship before they could do it…
"Hey!" yelled Zoro, "I can't believe you left me here!"
In the water nearby.
"Oh Zoro… I'll tell Luffy that you died with bravery" cried Usopp.
"Brother Zoro… it's sad we had to part this way!" cried Johnny.
"When we see Luffy we're telling him the truth…" said Sasuke.
"Oh yeah…" said Kiba.
"Bark!" barked Akamaru nodding.
All of them managed to swim to dry land… to find a town that was nearly destroyed…
"What happened here!" yelled Kiba.
"This must be Gosa!" said Johnny, "Arlong went on a rampage a few weeks ago…"
"The houses have been flipped over…" said Sasuke, "Unbelievable…"
"Fishmen are strong…" said Johnny, "They have 10 times the strength of humans…"
"I can see that…" said Sasuke.
"This is the kind of power you can find on the grand line…"said Johnny, "And this is the fate of a village that deifies Arlong"
"I can't believe it…" said Kiba.
"Well I think…" said Sasuke.
All them saw that Johnny ran away…
"I'm going to kill him…" muttered Sasuke.
"Why did he run?" asked Usopp.
That's when a Fishmen appeared behind them.
"Refugees… I didn't think there were any left…" he said.
All three of them ran away with Akamaru on Kiba's head ran away.
"Why are we running?" asked Sasuke.
"Because that thing is 10 times stronger than any man!" yelled Usopp, "And as sense I'm older than you… you have to listen to me!"
"So that's why we are…" said Sasuke
"Let's just wait until Luffy's here…" said Kiba.
"Or at least Naruto…" said Sasuke.
That's when a boy holding a sword appeared in front of them and tripped Usopp causing both Sasuke and Kiba to stop.
"Take for Fishman! This is for my father…" said the boy.
"Wait!" said Kiba.
Fortunately a woman with periwinkle hair and many tattoos hit the kid in the head.
"Look carefully he may look like Arlong but he's human…" said the woman "Sort of…"
"Sort of!" yelled Usopp.
Kiba began to laugh, "That's a good one!"
"He's gaining on us…" said Sasuke.
"A Fishman!" said the kid.
"A real one…" said the woman.
"Stay back I won't let him harm a woman and child!" said Usopp, "I think I can take him!"
"So what you think will happen?" asked Kiba.
"The fishman will come close and he'll run away…" said Sasuke.
Usopp prepared his sling shot but before he could fire the woman took out a small hammer and hit Usopp in the head with it.
"Didn't see that coming…" said Sasuke.
"You knocked out my brother!" said Kiba.
"Sorry…" said the woman.
"Nice work! Do you know how many times I've always wanted to do that?" said Kiba.
This made the woman, the boy and Sasuke sweat drop.
Sometime later they at the woman's house, the woman's name was Nojiko and the boy's name was Chabo… that's when Usopp began to wake up.
"And if he claims he's captain don't believe him… he's full of it…" said Kiba.
"I see…" said Nojiko.
"Hey where am I?" yelled Usopp.
"So you're awake…" said Sasuke.
"Who's she?" asked Usopp.
"Her name's Nojiko, she grows tangerines…" said Kiba.
"That's right…" said Nojiko.
"What about the fishman?" asked Usopp.
"I ditched him…" said Nojiko.
"So everything's fine… for now…" said Kiba.
"Hey… wait a second she hit me!" yelled Usopp.
"I know… that's something I always wanted to do to you…" said Kiba.
"Hey!" yelled Usopp, "Don't you know she was protecting the fishman!"
"I saved your life, you outsiders don't understand…" said Nojiko, "Except for you two…"
"We're more mature than my brother…" said Kiba.
"He thinks just because he's older than us thinks he can boss us around…" said Sasuke.
"Hey!" yelled Usopp.
"Anyways…" said Nojiko turning to Chabo, "You're from Gosa right… if you laid one fingers on a fishman, they'd kill you… and you should know that all too well…"
"I know… but those fish heads kill my father…" said Chabo, "I have to get back at them… even if it kills me…"
"So I take it something horrible happened to make you like this…" said Sasuke.
"They sicced huge monsters on us… destroyed the village, stole almost everything and kill a lot of people..." said Chabo, "I gotta make them pay!"
"Huge monsters…" said Kiba.
"Then those strange grooves on the ground…" said Usopp.
"The monsters made them… they're gigantic…" said Chabo.
"There's monster here too!" yelled Usopp.
"I just hope theiy're not unsealed Biju… they're the most dangerous of all…" said Kiba.
"I went to Arlong Park…" said Chabo, "But this lady stopped me… she's a witch… I wanna kill her too!"
"Fine get yourself killed…" said Nojiko.
"What?" said Kiba as Usopp who took a drink of tea spit it out.
"Fine then go your revenge… go get yourself killed… if you don't care than neither do it…" said Nojiko.
"How could you…" said Kiba.
"But remember, I and the "witch" at Arlong park both stopped you…" said Nojiko, "We saved your lives twice…"
Sasuke only smirked… she knew where she was going.
"Drink your tea and shove off…" said Nojiko, "I can't stand ungrateful brats…"
"Hey! He's just a kid! Aren't you being a little hard on him…" said Usopp.
"Hey, kid or not anyone so determined to die like a dog should have his way!" said Nojiko.
"She has a point… This kid is a lost cause…" said Sasuke.
"Sasuke!" yelled Kiba.
"I once knew a child who had a life worse than death… and she chose to live… anyways" said Nojiko, "So when I see a kid like him it makes me sick! To see someone so cowardly to die like that!"
Chabo began to cry…"What… should I do?" he cried, "I'll endure…"
"Got a mother…" said Nojiko.
"Yeah…" he cried.
"She must be worried… go him to her…" said Nojiko.
And so Chabo left back home to his mother…
"You're not so bad… even with the tattoos…" said Usopp.
"Why should I care what you think… I barely even know you… despite the fact I know you're liar whoes full of himself…" responded Nojiko.
Kiba and Akamaru laughed.
"Thanks for telling her that…" muttered Usopp.
"We're looking for a woman named Nami… you know her?" asked Sasuke.
"Yes I do…" said Nojiko.
That's when laid down a big bombshell…
"She's a member of Arlong crew!" yelled Usopp, Kiba and Sasuke.
"That's right, she's famous in these parts" said Nojiko, "Remember what that boy said about the woman who was like a witch… that was her…"
"It figures…" muttered Sasuke.
"Well this is the house where she grew up… Nami is my step sister…" said Nojiko.
"What!" yelled all three again.
With these interesting turn of events who knows what would happen… all that was known was that Nami might have been playing with another team the whole time…
Next Time: Zoro had been captured by the Fishmen and finds out first hand that Nami is a member of Arlong's crew. Meanwhile Usopp makes a bad move... what is it? Also the ones heading there eat their lunch... and there's an uninvited guest... a giant monster! What will happen? That's not... Sasuke, Usopp, Kiba and Akamaru find out what are Sakura's ties to Nami... what are they? Find out next time!