A/N: Good news and Bad News:

Good News: I'm back, I had a fire a month ago and I had writer's block because of it, but I'm back.

Bad News: I'm back for only a week, as I'm taking another break for three weeks and this one is planned. I'm going to Japan again in couple weeks... so yeah. But I will probably update this one twice this week... so yeah.

Anyways, enjoy!

Chapter 246: Letting Out Some Steam

This was probably the stupidest fight Zoro had ever been in…

First he was fighting a giraffe man, now's he got handcuffed to Sogeking, and unlike Naruto, Luffy and Chopper he knows it was really Usopp.

Of course the two started bickering about this….

And it didn't help that Jabra and Kaku didn't want to work together thankfully, they had keys.

"Hey, what's the number on your handcuffs." Said Kaku.

"Number?" asked Sogeking.

"There's a number on each handcuff, and there's a key to it…" explained Kaku.

Sogeking looked for the number, which was 2.

"Nope." Said Jabra looking at his key.

"Not mine either." Said Kaku.

"Thanks for getting our hopes up!" yelled Zoro.

"You mean one of the other members of the CP9 has the key?" asked Sogeking.

"Looks like we have no choice." Said Jabra, "Whoever kills their target first wins."

"It appears we have no choice." Said Kaku.

Yep… it was one of those days…

Sakura looked at Kisame. Her smirked had yet to go away.

"What's with you?" asked Kisame.

Sakura ran up to him and gave him an uppercut.

Kisame flew up high but then landed with a thud.

Kisame managed to get up, he stared at her.

"How were you able to do that?" asked Kisame.

"I'd rather not say." Said Sakura.

"But you're not strong enough to take me out." Said Kisame.

"Oh that…" said Sakura, "That was me going easy."

"Yeah right." Muttered Kisame.

"I've knocked over a half fishman." Said Sakura.

"So." Said Kisame, "That's nothing."

"It was a Wotan…" said Sakura.

"So you knocked over a half fishman, half giant…" said Kisame.

He stared at Sakura…

There was an awkward silence, even if a was half breed, even he had to admit that half breed would be something to brag about…

With Chopper, he was the only who had yet to encounter someone to fight, as he searched for whatever he came across a stair way that was cut in half thanks to the fight with Kaku. Afterwards he came to the doorway of Jabra's room and the two handcuffed together running from their opponents.

"Oh! Zoro! Sogeking!" said Chopper.

"Chopper! Go get key 2!" yelled both Zoro and Sogeking.

"That looks like fun." Said Chopper unsure what was going on…

Chopper had yet to fully grasp the situation the two were in.

Back with Sakura, Kisame realized something.

"I doubt you're that strong." He said.

"Why? Is because I did nothing against Arlong?" asked Sakura.

"That's right." Mocked Kisame.

"I hate to break it to you, but I helped Nami steal from pirates after my parents died." Said Sakura.

"Oh really?" asked Kisame.

That was when Sakura punched him in the face knocking him into a wall, when he did it made several cracks.

"That felt really good." Said Sakura.

Kisame began to get up.

"You weren't holding back that time." He said.

"I wasn't." said Sakura.

"You're going to give it your all, aren't you?" he asked.

"I will." Said Sakura.

"I see." Said Kisame.

That was when he began to form clones.

"Water clones right?" asked Sakura.

"That's right." Said Kisame, "Made from the water in the air."

"No big deal." Said Sakura.

She punched one of the clones, which turned into water.

"I travel with a clone user." Said Sakura, "I know that Water Clones are much weaker."

One of the clones tried to attack her from behind however turned around and flicked it in the forehead and it turned back to water.

"Did you just flick it?" asked Kisame.

"Yeah…" answered Sakura.

Kisame stared at Sakura.

Sakura glared at Kisame, "Do you know what you and the rest of your crew did to me?"

"We kill your parents you just admitted that." Said one of the Kisame clones.

"You turned my life." Mitered Sakura who then decoyed the clone, "Do you know the type of trouble I had to go through just to help Nami! What's worse is that my grandfather didn't know what was happening to me! He didn't know if I was dead or alive…"

Sakura sighed, "Even if good things came out of it… I never ever forgive you!"

She grabbed one of the clone's legs and used it as a club to kill another one.

Kisame began to sweat.

"What is she?" he thought.

Back with Zoro, Sogeking and Chopper, Chopper began to run along side them.

"I'll fight them for you!" said Chopper.

"There's two of them." Said Zoro, "IF anything happens to you then we all die."

"He's right." Said Sogeking, "Help us Tony Tony Chopper, you're are only hope."

"I'm your hope… aw...you should say that." Blushed Chopper.

The two handcuffed saps went to face their opponent…

"Go find one of those others and see if they have the key." Said Zoro.

"What about the decoys?" asked Chopper.

"Figure that one our later." Said Zoro.

Chopper went to find the others and realized that Sakura might be the first one to check due to her strength.

Back with Sakura, Kisame took a breath to calm down. He knew he had to defeat her.

After all if one of the others failed in catching both Naruto and Gaara they would just have to fight her again… granted she could easily be defeated by someone else but she was a nuisance.

Kisame looked to see that Sakura had already defeated all of the clones.

"How?" asked Kisame.

"You weren't paying attention." Said Sakura.

Kisame gaped.

"All right!" said Sakura with an evil grin, "Time to fight…"

"Wait… is your fighting style Chi Based?" asked Kisame.

"Niota at all." Said Sakura punching her fist.

Kisame gulped, he had to fight back, he was a fishman and a powerful one she was just a little girl with pink hair and massive strength, and a deep seeded grudge.

'Why couldn't I be fighting one of the Jinchuriki?" thought Kisame with his eye twitching.

That was when Chopper showed up.

"Hey Sakura!" said Chopper, "Do you have on of the keys."

"Sorry but I'm fighting one of the decoys." Said Sakura.

"Oh…" said Chopper.

"By the way, if you run into Nami can you give her the message that Kisame is one of the decoys." Said Sakura, "And I'm the one fighting him."

"Okay…" said Chopper running off.

Kisame looked at Chopper then at Sakura…

"Great…" thought Kisame.

Sakura laughed evilly… she was going to enjoy this.

However for Sakura it wasn't going to be as easy as she thought was.

Meanwhile with Luffy, he was at where the path to the gates of Justice were… at least he thought they would be…

He saw there was water and very choppy waves.

"Oh… I thought there was a bridge." Said Luffy, "I wonder if a regular boat can cross."

Elsewhere Hinata began to fight her opponent.

She struck her opponent that was when she got the shock of her life… the woman dissolved into my paper crane.

"What?" asked Hinata.

"A logia devil fruit." Said the woman reforming.

Hinata looked at the woman.

She knew how to turn off the powers but it was still a difficult fight…

And so Hinata's fight was about to begin…

Next Time: Hinata must face off against her opponent, but can she over come the powers? Meanwhile Sanji is having a very hard time against Kalifa... why? Because she's a woman! What else will happen? Find out next time!