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Chapter 5

Snowpoint Island was widely known as the coldest island in the entire South Blue. Covered on all sides with snow that fell year-round and a tall mountain at its center. Snowpoint seemed no different than any other winter island you would find in the first half of the Grandline. What separated this island from the rest was that Snowpoint was the mecca for all Mercenaries in the South Blue. This fact made Snowpoint Island a perfect destination for people searching for powerful individuals to perform hits or in Naruto's case, join his newly formed pirate crew. Which brings us to the present where we find both Ideo and Naruto on this particular island sporting winter coats and being surrounded by the unconscious bodies of several local mercs.

"Well, that was a waste of time." Naruto stated with a frown annoyed by how weak all the mercenaries he has met so far have been.

'Granted I wasn't expecting to find someone who could handle both myself and Ideo at the same time, but come on these guys went down like a sack of potatoes.' He thought angrily.

The plan when they disembarked was fairly easy. Naruto would carry around a fat stack of 10,000,000 Beri and challenge any mercenary to take it from him. Unfortunately, the few men that had been able to accept his challenge all ended up the same.

"So any other bright ideas Captain?" Ideo asked casually sitting on the beaten body of one of the mercenaries.

"Wanna go to the nearest bar and get drunk?"

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"Yo barkeep! Another round over here!" Yelled a red-faced and slightly drunk Ideo who was holding up his fifth empty mug of beer.

Naruto, on the other hand, was still finishing off his second drink while staring at his crewmate in amusement, wondering how much more alcohol the Longarmed boxer could consume before passing out.

"Hey old man." Naruto said to the bartender who was refilling Ideo's drink; he was a short man with silver hair that looked to be around 60 years old.

"What is it, kid?" Asked the barkeep.

"Listen we're looking to hire the best mercenary possible for a job. You look like you've been around here for awhile now so do you have any clue as to who the top dog is around here?"

The barkeep scratched his chin for a second before responding, "Well out of all the killers in Snowpoint the best and most well known has to be the twins."

"The Twins?" Ideo asked ignoring his beer now that the conversation was about possible strong fighters.

"Yes, two brothers that are hired killers. They are mysterious, all we know about them is that they always kill their targets and no one who has ever seen their faces has lived to tell about them." The bartender explained in obvious fear, not wanting anything to do with the two well-known assassins.

"Great they sound strong. Have you heard anything about where they might be now?" Naruto asked happily, hoping the twins would prove worthy additions to his crew.

"Well, last I heard they were headed to Snowbelle Town to deal with a target. It's a big town near the center of the island on the side of a mountain."

"Gotcha thanks for the tips Gramps." Naruto said leaving a few Beri on the counter as compensation, putting on his coat, and heading towards the door with Ideo following his lead.

"Wait, kid, you should be careful. Snowbelle Town is home to a Marine base and word on the street is that the Captain there runs it with an iron fist and will kill any unwelcome visitors on sight!"

Naruto gave no indication that he heard the old man's words of warning, the duo already leaving out of the front door.

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"Are we there yet?" Ideo asked in an irritated tone with his arms wrapped around himself due to the cold, apparently, the island's mountain chose this very moment to entangle them in a blizzard.

"No!" Said Naruto, also shivering slightly from the cold.

"Well how long until we get there? Also, how do you even know where this town is?" Ideo asked remembering that the old man had not given them a map.

"My Voice Fruit makes me a walking sonar so stop worrying, I know we're heading in the right direction." Naruto explained to Ideo who just nodded, still not fully understanding his captain's strange powers.

"Don't worry, if we hurry we should be able to make it to Snowbelle Town in around..." Naruto said, not completing his sentence as he stared into space.

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"Hey, are you okay?" Ideo asked his captain before the blonde suddenly took off in a seemingly random direction, ordering Ideo to follow, and yelling something about how he could hear the sound of gunshots coming from the outskirts of the town they were heading to.

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((?'s POV))

This week seemed to have started so normally for me. It was just another day on the island for me and my brother with the both of us counting our Beri from our last assassination.

Then we got the call on our personal Transponder Snail about another job. Apparently, our new client was a representative of a group of civilians from Snowbelle Town.

According to the voice, the rumors about the dictator-like marine captain that was stationed in that area were very true. The Captain treated the town as his own personal kingdom. Demanding offerings of money and food from the townsfolk for their continued protection from the despicable and seedy hired killers that made this island their home; completely ignoring the fact that any real mercenary wouldn't waste their time hurting civilians like them unless there was a big payday in it for them.

The civilians knew they lacked the strength to take on the corrupt marines that took over their town. However not many of them where willing to leave the place many of them grew up in, so they decided to haul their money together and hire me and my brother to deal with the Captain personally.

With our understanding of the island's terrain, my brother and I were able to make good time as we reached Snowbelle in just a few hours. After we arrived my brother and I found a nice secluded location just outside the town's gates where we spent an entire day scoping out the entire town, specifically the marine base it held. From marine patrols, guard duty, and even sleep schedules we factored in everything.

The next day we decided to put our plan into action. It was high noon when the marine captain finally left the base to address/threaten the civilians in the town square.

With practiced ease both my brother and I took out our rifles and took aim at the tyrant Captain before we simultaneously pulled our triggers.

The resulting explosion was fairly large but due to our aim, we made it sure that no one else was caught up in the blast.

When the smoked cleared we both expected to see either the smoldering corpse or just burnt chunks of our target.

Imagine our surprise when the Marine we thought should have dead appeared from the smoke without a scratch on him.

Knowing that even a master of Tekkai, one of the Marine Six Styles, wouldn't have been able to withstand that explosion with zero physical damage, making one fact abundantly clear to us at that moment.

Our target, this seemingly corrupt but ordinary marine captain was a devil fruit eater.

He quickly proved our hypothesis when he nonchalantly turned and stared in our direction. Seemingly ignoring the fact that we were several yards away and no normal person should have been able to spot us at that range.

His counteract to me was unreadable. All I saw him do was extend his hand and the next minute my brother was holding his bloody stomach in pain. Somehow he had launched an extremely fast and seemingly invisible long range attack that was able to run through my brother from yards away.

I rushed to my brother's side, trying my best to apply pressure to his wound so that he wouldn't bleed out. I was so focused on his condition that I failed to notice that we were surrounded by marines with guns pointed at us. That marine captain had somehow found us out and had set a trap for us this whole time.

Knowing there was a slim chance that we could both escape given his injury my brother gave me a wordless order to leave without him before he began firing at the gathered marines to give me a chance to flee. It hurt me having to leave him behind but we both knew from experience they likely wouldn't have orders to kill him, most dictators preferring to capture would be assassins and torture them for information about who hired them.

Even with my brother's distraction, a large group of marines was still on my heels. A firefight broke out between me and the marines and even though I was able to blow away over a dozen of them a few of their bullets were able to hit home and I found myself in an uphill battle trying to fight off the marines and stop myself from bleeding to death.

'What a way to go, dying in the snow while fighting some no name marines. So uncool.' I thought ready to accept my dead before two strange men interrupted the battle and made quick work of the remaining soldiers.

Then one of the men approached me, asking me my name and whether or not I was okay.

"My name is Rock." I responded before I passed out from blood loss, the last thing I saw was the face of a blonde man with whisker-like scars on his face.

Chapter 5 End

Alright, the mystery twin assassins have been revealed as the Yeti Cool Brothers. Personally, I loved their appearance in the manga and I couldn't resist having them show up in the story.

[Reviewer Responses]

gamelover41592- I wanted Ideo to join bc I really like his character design, wanted a Longarm or Longleg tribe member for the crew, and since I decided earlier Naruto would go to Karate Island it was easy for me to have Naruto meet him early on.

Peroronchino- Your question confused me. Did you mean you wanted Naruto to beat up Doflamingo? If so then I don't think so I want Naruto to do his own thing and while I'm not opposed to him interacting with Luffy I don't want him to interact with the Strawhats too long.

Pete's Sake- Your right I messed up the naming (Last, First). I'll try to remember that in future chapters. Also yes after they make it to the New World there will be a time skip.

[Question to Reviewers]

How many of you honestly expected Pudding to do that heel turn in Chapter 850?

Call me naive if you want but I really didn't expect her to change her personality like that. I was torn at first but I have to give Oda credit for making that decision which I feel actually made Pudding more interesting as a character now that she is a villain.

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