A/N: Sorry... I meant update yesterday... but something happened Fanfic wise and had to update a different one... all I'm going to say, you truly are a fan of my fics, read the reviews of New Lives C and tell me what you think of PEJP Bengtzone... I would honestly like to know what all my readers think of that person...
Anyways it's also the last chapter of the East Blue Saga... enjoy!
Chapter 40: The Beginning of an Adventure
Naruto and Hinata stared up at Luffy… both sweat dropped.
"I don't think Luffy knows why kind of danger he's in…" said Hinata.
"I guess your right…" said Naruto, "We should help him!"
"You're not going to help him…" said a member of Buggy's crew pointing guns at the two.
"Not if…" said Naruto.
"Wait!" said Hinata, "I would like to show what I can do…"
"Okay… sure!" said Naruto.
Hinata lightly slapped the arms of the pirate… who then yelled in pain, dropping his guns.
"What did you do to me?" asked the pirate.
"I'm a user of the Gentle Fist… a fighting style that uses Chi to hurt internal organs and muscles by driving into the opponents body." explained Hinata.
"And she's gotten a lot better since I've last saw her!" said Naruto.
"But Neji… is a lot better…" said Hinata sadly.
That's when four of Buggy's pirates grabbed the two, with two of them each…
"Did you really think that we would let you stop this? Even if you have your little girlfriend…" said Cabaji.
"Girlfriend…" said Naruto blushing while Hinata was a bright as tomato.
Meanwhile Nami, Ino, Usopp, Kiba and Akamaru headed back to the ship.
"Nami? What going on?" Why are we headed back to the ship?" asked Ino.
"Yeah shouldn't we be helping Luffy?" asked Usopp.
"That's what I want to do… but no… you had to drag me to help carry your fish…" said Kiba.
"It's Sanji's…" corrected Ino.
"Whatever." Said Kiba.
"A storm's coming!" said Nami.
"What?" said everyone else.
"The temperature and air pressure have been steadily dropping… this the calm before the storm… and if there's a commotion in the town square will be a ton of solders... then what will happen if we try to escape and there's no ship?" asked Nami.
"What! That's would be a really bad!" yelled Usopp running away causing everyone to sweat drop.
"I'm not surprised he ran away like that…" sighed Kiba.
And everyone else followed.
Meanwhile with the Marines watching.
"So do we attack?" asked a Marine.
"What's the hurry?" asked Smoker.
"One of the hostages appears to be Hinata…" said one of the Marines.
"What?" asked Neji grabbing a pair of binoculars?
He looked though them and saw indeed his cousin was being held hostage… and right next to her was Naruto… he scoffed at the site.
"Neji…" said Smoker
"I'm not going to rescue her…" said Neji, "but I will need to talk to her later about something…"
Smoker looked at the younger officer then shook his head.
"When Luffy's head rolls… surrounded Buggy, Alvida, Naruto and the rest." Said Smoker.
"Hinata… what are you doing?" thought Neji.
Back at the execution scaffolding… both Naruto and Hinata struggled against their captors.
"That's enough kid…" said one of Buggy's men, "We're some of the strongest in his crew…"
"What am I going to do?" thought Naruto.
"You know what do… it something I came up with…" said Kyubi.
"Oh… god… not in front of Hinata…" said Naruto.
"It's your choice… your brother's life or your dignity in front of your girlfriend…" said Kyubi, "I'm sure Luffy has chosen is last words…"
Luffy yelled out "I am going to be King of the Pirates!" yelled Luffy.
"Luffy…" said Hinata sadly.
"I'll blame it on you…" thought Naruto.
There was a puff of smoke… and Naruto disappeared… in his place was Naruto's naked girl form.
"Please can you please let me go…" said Girl Naruto.
Both pirates holding Naruto… and the ones holding Hinata all suffered from blood loss from the nose and passed out… Hinata stared at Naruto for a second then giggled when Naruto came back.
"That was pretty funny…" said Hinata.
"You're okay with it?" asked Naruto blushing.
"You are a prankster…" said Hinata.
"I'll tell you why I transformed later…" said Naruto, "We have to help Luffy!"
"Right!" said Hinata.
"Stop this execution!" yelled a voice.
Naruto and Hinata turned around and saw Zoro, Sanji, Sakura and Sasuke.
"Zoro! Sasuke! Sakura! Sanji!" said Luffy.
"So you three have come!" said Buggy, "But a second too late!"
Back with the Marines…
"It's the Demonic Duo!" said one of the Marines.
"The two pirate hunters?" asked Smoker.
"But there's been reports that the two have been working with that Monkey guy and his pirates!" said the marine.
"How did they get pirate hunters to join…" thought Neji.
Tashigi was looking though the binoculars and saw who the Demonic Duo were.
"No way! It's them!" yelled Tashigi.
Back at the Square, the four that were there to help Luffy ran towards the platform.
"Get them men!" said Alvida.
The pirates broke into two groups, most of them went to attack the rescue party while a rather big member of the crew went over to Naruto and Hinata, picked up the two and managed to throw them at the rescue party which the four mange to dodge.
"Naruto!" yelled Sakura, "Why haven't you tried to help Luffy!"
"I don't know… maybe because I was being held hostage then thrown over here!" yelled Naruto.
"We need to fight though them as fast as we can!" said Hinata.
"Who is she?" asked Zoro slicing though some opponents.
Rather large group began to fight their way through the opponents... everyone had on thought on their mind "If only I can get to that platform."
That's when Naruto got an idea, "Sakura I need you to throw me over there!" yelled Naruto.
"What? That crazy!" yelled Sakura.
"It's the only way!" yelled Naruto.
"Naruto! Sanji! Sakura! Zoro! Sasuke! Nami! Ino! Usopp! Kiba! Akamaru! Hinata!" yelled Luffy with a big smile, "Sorry but I'm a goner!"
"No!" yelled Zoro.
"Don't talk crazy!" yelled Sanji.
"You idiot!" yelled Sasuke.
"You can't!" yelled Sakura.
"No…" whispered Hinata.
"Luffy! No!" yelled Naruto.
That's when it began to rain… it's also when a bolt of lightning hit the platform… lighting it and Buggy on fire and sending it toppling… Luffy's hat fell to the ground… which he managed to pick up… unscathed… causing all of Buggy's crew to gape at what happened.
"Luffy!" said Naruto happily going into hug his brother.
"What… the… hell…" said Sasuke.
"That was lucky!" said Sakura.
"Does anyone believe in a higher power?" asked Sanji.
"Now's not the time for jokes!" yelled Zoro.
"We have to get to the port!" said Hinata, "I know for a fact that Smoker will chase us down no matter what!"
"Who is she again?" asked Sanji.
"Our newest crewmate!" said Naruto breaking his hug with Luffy.
"Here they come!" said Sanji.
The Marines began to chase the pirate crew…
"Can't we just stop and fight them?" asked Luffy.
"Can't… there's a storm coming…" said Sakura.
"how do you know?" asked Zoro.
"I can just tell by Nami's behavior…" said Sakura.
"Be careful…" said Hinata, "The Marines here are relentless when it comes to casing down pirates…"
"How do you know that?" asked Sasuke.
"My cousin is an officer here…" said Hinata.
"Don't lump Hinata with her cousin… he's nothing but a bastard…" said Naruto, "Believe me… his high and might attitude… the way he thinks he's better than everyone else… him calling me a demon… and the worst… him stealing Mr. Fuzzy Bottom!"
"Okay… I'm officially lost…" said Sanji.
"Mr. Fuzzy Bottom?" asked Sasuke with a sweat drop.
"Uh… Naruto…" said Hinata with a sweat drop.
"Who's that?" asked Sakura.
"Damn it!" yelled Naruto, "It's Neji!"
It was true, Neji was waiting for them up ahead in the road.
"My cousin!" said Hinata.
"Hinata! Stop right now!" yelled Neji, "You're acting foolish!"
Hinata stopped… so did Naruto.
"Go ahead, we'll catch up!" said Naruto.
Luffy nodded and the others ran ahead.
"Luffy!" yelled Sakura.
"This is Naruto's fight…" said Luffy, "It was bound to happen… he'll be fine…"
Back with Naruto, he glared at his childhood nemesis… the Marines knew Neji would handle it and ran ahead to capture the other pirates.
"So Naruto it's only fitting that meet like this…" said Neji.
"It has come to this…" said Naruto.
"I have mastered the Style of gentle fist… I should warn you." Said Neji.
"Well I have mastered two forms of clones…" said Naruto.
"Well that's good to know…" said Neji running towards Naruto. Back with the group that was heading back to the ship, they saw that there was someone with a Lion there (readers should remember Mohji and Ritchie)… fortunately when he saw Usopp, Kiba and Akamaru he got up and the wind knocked him into the ship.
"Look out there's a lion…" said Nami.
"Don't worry! I got it!" said Usopp, which made Kiba snort, "You got something to say?"
"No… no… not at all…" said Kiba.
Usopp shot an egg star at it… and missed
"That what you thought would stop a lion…" said Kiba.
Ritchie who as a little hungry went over to the egg.
"That was lucky…" said Usopp.
"Quickly while it's distracted!" said Ino.
With the 5 that were running back to the boat they saw another person standing in front of them… this time Tashigi.
"Hey who's that?" asked Sanji.
"Sergeant Tashigi!" yelled one of the Marines.
"Sergeant?" asked Sasuke with his eye twitching.
"Roronoa Zoro! Uchiha Sasuke! You are going to pay!" yelled Tashigi, "You're the demonic duo and pirates… you didn't tell and you even made fun of me!"
"What did you two do to her?" yelled Sanji.
"Well you didn't tell us that you were Marine…" said Zoro.
"I'm going to take Wado Ichimonji and Umi no Hikari from you two…" said Tashigi.
""Let's see you try!" said Zoro who drew one of his swords as the two began to fight, "Luffy! Go on ahead!"
Sasuke stopped…
"You go on ahead too Sasuke! I know how she looks makes you feel uncomfortable…" said Zoro.
Sasuke only nodded as the two continued to fight… and ran to join Luffy, Sanji and Sakura…
"Let me at him!" yelled Sanji, "He's fighting a woman!"
"No!" said Sakura who was dragging him.
Back with Naruto, Hinata and Neji…
"Let's go!" said Naruto.
He summoned many clones... Neji began to hit many of the clones, some of them disappeared in puffs of smoke while others just turned to water…
"Which one is the real one?" thought Neji.
He then noticed that one seemed to be hiding from the others…
"There he is." Said Neji with a smirk.
He hit the one that was keeping the most distance … however that one was just a clone as well…
"Which on the real on?" asked Neji.
"That's the problem with fight a clone user!" said one of the Narutos.
"You can never which one is the real one." said another.
Neji only smirked… that's when he began to spin extremely fast… his Chi created a dome around that knocked out all of the Naruto clones and knocked the real Naruto away.
"The Eight Trigrams Palm Heavenly Spin…" whispered Hinata.
"You can't win you fool…" said Neji with a smirk.
"I will…" said Naruto.
"Fate is against you… As I've said before I have mastered the Gentle Fist!" said Neji.
"No Neji! Not that!" said Hinata.
"Eight Trigrams Sixty four palms!" said Neji.
Neji began to move at an extremely fast speed… first he hit Naruto twice, then 4 times, then 8 times, then 16 times, then 32 times and finally 64 times! Naruto collapsed onto the ground coughing up blood…
"Such is the fate of Pirates…" said Neji, "Now Hinata go home… I might be able to say you were their captive…"
"No…" said Hinata, "I'm not going home! I'm your opponent…"
Neji chuckled, "You really think you can defeat me… you barely can handle basics of the Gentle Fist…" he said, "You really want to fight against me?"
"Neji… what do you know about me?" asked Hinata, "What do you know of my dream?"
"What are you talking about?" asked Neji.
"My dream is to master the Gentle Fist and finally defeat you!" said Hinata.
"Is that so…" said Neji with a smirk, "Maybe you should work on the first half before you work on the 2nd half…"
The two headed towards each other about to attack.
"Hinata! Stop!" said Naruto getting up and wiping away the blood from his cheek.
"But Naruto!" said Hinata.
"I'm fine…" said Naruto, "You forgot to factor in my healing rate…"
"Even though right now you're barely healed… it's time to run…" said Kyubi.
"Don't need to tell me twice…" said Naruto, "Hinata we're leaving…"
Naruto managed to create multiple clones… then disguised half of them as Hinata they all ran in random directions extremely quickly… Neji growled knowing that he had no idea which was the real one…
"Naruto… Hinata… I'm coming for you!" he growled.
Meanwhile with Luffy, Sanji, Sakura and Sasuke.
"Great there's another person up ahead!" said Sakura.
"Who are you!" yelled Luffy.
"I'm Captain Smoker of the Marines!" said Smoker, "And I'm not going to let you get away!"
Smoker's arms turned to smoke and he grabbed Luffy.
"What the!" yelled Sanji.
"Let's get him together!" said Sakura.
Sanji nodded while Sasuke just sighed and said "Whatever…"
All three of them went in for a kick however his body just turned to smoke when that happened.
"I have no time for you three!" said Smoker, "White fist!"
He arm minus his hand turned to smoke he used to punch Sanji… who was slammed into Sakura and Sasuke then into the wall…
"Sanji! Sasuke! Sakura!" yelled Luffy, "Why you! Gum Gum Pistol!"
Smoker's midsection turned to smoke, followed by his entire body.
"What the!" yelled Luffy.
Smoker reformed himself and reappeared behind Luffy, grabbing his head and forcing him to the ground where he sat on Luffy.
"Look like your luck had run out kid!" said Smoker.
"Who's luck?" asked a voice.
Smoker turned around and saw a mysterious figure behind him.
Meanwhile with Naruto and Hinata.
"Are you sure you're okay?" asked Hinata.
"I'm fine… just an hour or two and I'll be in tip top shape!" said Naruto.
"Sorry…" said Hinata.
"It' not your fault that he hates all pirates for his dad's death… and it's not your fault that he's a bastard…" said Naruto.
Hinata gave a small smile…
"Zoro!" yelled Naruto.
The two mange to catch up with Zoro, "You got into a fight or something?"
"I don't' want to talk about it!" said Zoro.
"We have to hurry…" said Hinata, "We have to make sure that Luffy doesn't' run into Smoker…"
"What's wrong with Smoker?" asked Naruto.
"He ate a Devil Fruit… but it's much more powerful than yours and Luffy's…" said Hinata.
"How do you know this?" asked Zoro.
"I know Smoker and he's been to my house many times for get-togethers…" said Hinata.
This made both Zoro and Naruto sweat drop.
That's when there was a rather huge gust of wind that knocked all of them down.
"This storm is too powerful! We have to get on to the ship now!" yelled Kyubi.
"I know… and so does everyone else!" thought Naruto.
They got to where Luffy was who was still on the ground… but Smoker was blown away. Sasuke, Sakura and Sanji were getting up after the punched and dusted themselves off.
"Come on Luffy! We have to leave the island!" said Zoro as he dragged Luffy.
"This must have been what Nami was talking about!" said Sanji.
"Of course it was!" said Sakura.
They managed to get back to the ship.
"Hey it's about time you made it!" yelled Usopp.
"Get on! The rope won't hold on for much longer!" said Ino.
The 7 bored the ship and they set sail though the storm.
Meanwhile in the Marine's base, Smoker had decided to fallow Luffy into the Grand Line… while Tashigi as well.
"I'm going too…" said Neji.
"Oh man…" said a Marine.
"There is no way! That I'm letting them get away! I can't believe that Hinata… had always intended on becoming a pirate…" he growled.
"What?" asked most of the Marines surprised.
"It's always the quest ones…" mumbled one nameless Marine.
"But none of you can go into the Grand Line… what will HQ say?" asked a Marine
"You can't tell me what do to do!" Tell them that!" said Smoker.
Back on the Going Merry…
"This ship is about to capsize!" said Usopp.
"Hey there's a light!" said Naruto.
"It's the island's light house…" said Sasuke.
"It's the Guiding Light!" said Nami, "Beyond that light is the entrance to the Grand Line."
"Awesome!" said Naruto.
"Okay!" said Sanji who got a barrel of grog, "Let's launch this ship in the great ocean!"
"Do we have to that in them idle of the storm?" asked Usopp.
"How can we related?" asked Kiba.
And so all 11 of them placed their foot on the barrel and said their dream.
"I'm going to find the All Blue!" said Sanji.
"I'm going to find my past!" said Ino.
"I'm going to be King of the Pirates!" said Luffy.
"I'm going to be a Kage!" said Naruto.
"I'm going to Master the Gentle Fist then defeat my cousin." Said Hinata.
"I'm going to become the World's Greatest Swordsman!" said Zoro.
"I'm going to find a certain someone!" said Sasuke.
"I'm going to become a great doctor!" said Sakura.
"I'm going to draw a map of the whole world!" said Nami.
"I'm going to finally meet my father!" said Kiba.
"I'm going to become a brave warrior of the sea!" said Usopp.
And so the adventure truly began…
Next Time: The crew heads to the Grand Line... but as usual the journey is fraught with peril... add in a ton of Sea Kings, A Biju, climbing a mountain and maybe a giant whale... who know what will happen...