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Chapter 26: 4 tails of Doom
Crocodile stared at the monster in front of him, he didn't know what was going on… That's when the sand storm dissipated revealing some sort of demonic fox made of energy.
"What's going on?" asked Crocodile.
Unlike Ms All Sunday he knew nothing about the Hidden Continent… of course f he did he would have known it was a bad idea to even alley himself with Orochimaru.
The strange fox shape lunched itself at him. Crocodile sent sand after him which did nothing. That's when the fox shape bit down on his shoulder.
Crocodile tried turning sand but couldn't. The fox stopped… and just glared at him.
That's when the fox shape launched a strange ball at him. Crocodile turned into sand and dodged.
That's when he remembered Orochimaru's tag. He wrapped it out his hook.
"This better work or Orochimaru will pay." Muttered Crocodile.
HE launched his hook at the fox shape, it penetrated the skin causing the thing pain.
"So this does work." Said Crocodile with an evil smile.
Meanwhile at the hidden part of Rain Dinners where the Sound Ninja and Baroque Works members were getting ready. Satoshi on the other hand was looking for someone.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?" asked Ms. Double Finger stumbling upon his frantic search.
"I can't seem to find Ms. Golden Week." Said Satoshi.
"Is that even a problem?" asked Ms. Double Finger.
"It is… because she's a natural enemy of Orochimaru." Explained Satoshi, "If we don't find her soon then we'll going have to label her as a traitor."
"Oh really… what has she done?" asked Ms. Double Finger.
"I'll explain later… only that I have feeling that she would help the reincarnations." Said Satoshi.
Back in the fight with Crocodile, the fox shape was growling in pain when it stopped and glared at Crocodile.
The Fox shape lunged at Crocodile creating a strange energy then launching it at Crocodile. Crocodile once gain managed to dodge… however the energy from the blast did indeed hit him, causing him great pain. He managed to create another sand storm.
"What is this thing!" he yelled out.
"I'm afraid it's straw hat." Said Ms. All Sunday.
"What?" asked Crocodile.
"You see whenever the 6th Hokage's rage slipped away from him, he would become what you see right now." Explained Ms All Sunday, "Obviously this trait was passed down into this life."
"So wait…" said Crocodile.
"This is one of reasons why I tried telling you back down from your deal with Orochimaru." Said Ms All Sunday, "The 6th Hokage was said to be one of the strongest ninja in the world, if not the strongest."
"What because of this?" asked Crocodile.
"Yes and no." said Ms All Sunday who noticed that the sand storm was beginning to break apart, "I'll explain later."
She calmly once again went to the safe distance.
Crocodile looked at the tag on his hook… this was going to hard a fight indeed.
Within Luffy mind… Luffy just stood there.
"So you're not controlling me?" asked Luffy.
"For the last time! No!" shouted Kyubi getting an angry vein.
"So what's going on exactly?" asked Luffy.
Kyubi sighed and knew it was being a hard explanation.
"Okay you know how Minato separated my chakra into two halves, Yin and Yang." Said Kyubi.
"Yeah…" said Luffy.
"Well it turns out my Yang chakra slowly became no longer evil resulting in me, the quirky yet lovable prankster guide character you see before you." Said Kyubi.
"Wait… I should you a big a Perv." Said Luffy.
"No… that's a different story…" said Kyubi.
"Oh… right." Said Luffy.
"Anyways… the yang's evil chakra… it developed it own consciousness and is well let's just say floats around your body and waits until you get really angry and takes over your body." Explained Kyubi.
"Oh… so where it is?" asked Luffy.
"Don't know…" said Kyubi, "You could search or wait for that ass hole to beat you into a bloody pulp…"
"How can he do that?" asked Luffy remembering the chakra shell is imponderable.
"I can sense that Orochimaru gave him something that allows him to injure you, after all Orochimaru knows a lot about you." Said Kyubi.
"Oh right…" said Luffy, "Well I'm going to go find where that thing is that's controlling my body."
Luffy ran out of the room in search of the mass of Charka he needed to beat up.
"This isn't going to end well…" muttered Kyubi.
On the outside the Fox Chakra Being that used Luffy as a skeleton managed to escape from the sand storm. Crocodile gritted his teeth at it lunged at him… that's when he sunk his hook into the side of the chakra being impaling it. The Chakra Fox screamed in pain as the chakra vanished leaving a Luffy who's skin was practically burned off, the skin quickly re-grew as he tossed the rubber boy to the side.
"So it looks like you won." Said Ms All Sunday with a smirk.
That's when Crocodile began to cough up blood, "No... it was a draw."
Crocodile began to walk away… that's when Akumi appeared.
"So looks like the Fox Demon didn't kill you." Said Akumi, "That's good."
"Why didn't Orochimaru tell me?" asked Crocodile.
"Because… he wasn't sure if you would piss him off that much." Said Akumi.
She grabbed his hand, "You might feel some dizziness when we land." Said Akumi.
Akumi looked at Ms. All Sunday and smiled evilly, before she and Crocodile literally disappeared.
Ms All Sunday looked at Luffy who had sense regained consciousness. She picked up his hat using her Devil Fruit powers and tossed it to him.
"I admired you past life. He never gave up even if the odds were against him. It's too bad we're on opposing sides during this fight, you made an interesting alley." She said with a sly smile.
That's when she heard something. She turned around and saw it was Ms Golden Week.
"What are you doing here?" asked Ms. All Sunday.
"I want to help the reincarnations… because it's what my grandfather would have wanted." Said Ms. Golden Week.
Ms All Sunday glared at Ms Golden Week, "What do you mean by that?"
"Because… my grandfather was the 13th Member of the leaf 12.: said Ms. Golden Week.
Had Ms. All Sunday not been the historian that she was, she wouldn't have believed her… however she knew who she was talking about… the lone ninja that Naruto didn't let into the final battle with Orochimaru… Sai the artist and one of Naruto's best friends in life.
Next Time: Ms. Golden Week joins the Reincarnation after telling them her story. Plus the pictures she has of her grandfather helps too. However things get problematic when Orochimaru declares himself the new co-leader of Baroque Works... What will happen find out next time!
