Hello everybody and welcome back to The Immortal Guardians. I need to say sorry because I couldn't update this adventure; my life it's a bit complicated so I had to deal with some complications. I am back now so it's time for this crew to keep the action rolling.
By the way, some of you asked why Naruto didn't use the Ying-Yang release to create a ship like he did with the ramen. Well the reason it's quite simple: He knows any kind of ramen that the Earth has to offer and if you don't know that then it's for sure you never paid attention to the story. He doesn't know how a ship works and all the parts of the same, so here is your answer.
Chapter Fourth
Close Encounter with the Devil
"Come on guys, you need to focus! Grasp anything you can get out of your insides!" A harsh Naruto yelled to the swordsmen of his crew which were sitting on the deck of their recently acquired ship while making a simple ram seal in front of them. "Can you see anything teme?" Naruto asked to Sasuke. The Uchiha was looking at Johnny and Yosaku with his Sharingan activated making a negative gesture with his head.
"They have chakra that's for sure but the lack of a functional Tenketsu neutralizes everything to harness it. We reached a dead end here." Sasuke said closing his eyes to reopen them with his normal pupils. Naruto sighed with deception and asked his subordinates to stop what they were doing. Johnny and Yosaku released their ram seals while Nojiko, who was watching the so called "training" of her crewmates, looked at one of the captains of the ship and asked.
"They are unable to use that strange kind of energy you guys use to perform all the crazy and strong techniques of yours?" The blonde gave the blue haired girl a straight answer.
"Not exactly, chakra is inside of anything that lives. If you have it you can use it in some way." Naruto explained to the navigator of the crew and also the other rookies of the ship. "Now, if your chakra paths or Tenketsu are not fully developed it will be impossible to perform even the most basic techniques of a shinobi without the proper training." The blond gave the duo a wide grin. "So that means I and your other sensei will put your asses in gear until you can feel the energy running inside of your bodies." Johnny and Yosaku felt an intense feeling of dread creeping up through their backs and they tried to get away of Naruto's reach but an iron grip felt upon their shoulders and the duo found Sasuke with a cold glare.
"You belong to me now." The Uchiha said while dragging them away ignoring the whimpers of Johnny and Yosaku. Nojiko felt sorry for his crewmates and then he found the blonde staring at her.
"What? Do I have something on my face?" Nojiko asked to Naruto and the shinobi laughed.
"Well, you have a remarkable good looking face." The cheeks of the tan girl got a little pink after that comment. "But I was thinking what kind of training should give you." The word "training" made the girl shiver and pale while putting her hands in front of her chest making a negative gesture.
"No way in hell! If you think that I will be doing whatever you two psychos consider as training like the idiot brothers over there to me you are serious mistaken!" The navigator protested and the before mentioned let out a loud protest about the comment but they kept running when Sasuke throw a handful of shurikens in their direction.
"Relax Nojiko. Believe it or not women can get an early control of their chakra before men due to the low reserves in their systems. You only need to perform a minor workout until you can't keep going and then try feeling your energy moving inside of you." Naruto explained to the scared girl trying to calm her and make her participate in the combat aspect of the crew. Unfortunately, Nojiko refused the offer.
"Thanks but no thanks, I know that to get the kind of power you two monsters have I need the body of a freak of nature and I am comfortable in my regular body." Naruto sighed at the denial of his navigator and tried to find a silver lining in this issue.
"You need something to deal with the army of enemies we are gonna deal with when our asses enter the Grand Line." The shinobi said and hope to make the blue haired girl understand the general situation. "Do you have a way to fight or know something else except of getting behind your enemies and smack them in the head with a metal bat?" The girl responded with a swift movement of her hand and Naruto found the cannon of a flintlock pistol in front of his face. The blonde saw a smile in Nojiko's face.
"What do you think?" Nojiko asked after showing her speed at drawing her weapon. Naruto remained silent while his eyes were focused in the girl only to move them downside a few seconds later of the demonstration. The bluenette look down to her abdomen where a kunai was a few millimeters of puncturing her skin right through the liver if the shinobi wanted to.
"I see where you strength is Nojiko but if you think that your current speed will be enough from here to the end then we just leave you in the next island before going any further." The girl saw the serious expression on Naruto's face with the fade but present cold sensation of a murderer in his intentions before all of that vanished to show the regular and cheerful blond teen that she met a few weeks before.
"I couldn't even see him move a muscle. My eyes didn't catch any twitch or swift reflex movement from his body and he wasn't even trying to kill me" Nojiko thought while seeing Naruto writing something in a notebook while checking the deck of their ship that was "rescued" from the Marines. While thinking about it, the bluenette was astonished of the many changes that the shinobi duo did to their method of transport. For starters they removed the sail with the Marine's logo and put a new one painted with a black moon on one side and a white sun on the other. The fresh crew members of the newly pirate crew were curious about the symbol used by the captains and asked them for the significance. Sasuke only showed them the same moon branded on his left palm and Naruto the sun on his right palm.
"It is an old remnant from our land. Just that basically" Naruto said with a grin on his face while Sasuke just gave his characteristic neutral face. That was just a week ago and now the crew was approaching an island with an amazing speed thanks to the seals that Naruto painted at the back of the sails for regulated increases of speed in case of a battle or windless navigation.
"Nojiko, there is an island up ahead!" Naruto screamed from the crow nest where he was supervising the training session of Johnny and Yosaku that Sasuke made them do. The two swordsmen were doing push-ups while wearing a set of weights in their arms and legs to increase their stamina and strength. The duo was holding grunts of pain due to the harsh method of training that will put a sane man to scream because when they started with the training regime two weeks ago a few complains escaped from the mouths of the swordsmen and Sasuke gave them a harsh punishment for that. Naruto felt sorry for their new friends when his comrade increased the weight of Johnny and Yosaku and he told them that every time they complain twenty pounds will be added to their bodies. "Poor suckers." The blond shinobi thought while watching the scene.
"We are here already? This ship is really fast!" Nojiko said coming from the main room of the ship to check what was happening outside. The navigator observed the island and she looked up where Naruto was sitting. "We reach the end of the East Blue! That island is the place where Loguetown is."
Naruto looked back to the horizon and let out a low sigh. "Finally, I was going stir crazy after a couple of days after sailing from Conomi Islands." The shinobi said before jumping from the top of the mast to land in front of Nojiko. The bluenette was startled after the stunt made by one of her captains.
"Stop doing that! You are gonna drive me crazy with all of your insane moves!" Nojiko said punching Naruto slightly on his chest while the ninja showed a smile and apologized. Sasuke, who had been inside of his quarters, came outside while he was sharpening his sword and looked at his new disciples training.
"We are gonna need to keep a low profile in this place." Sasuke said putting away his sword to sheathe it and looking at the landmass a couple of miles from their position. "There is a Marine base located in that island with a captain specialized in prevent the upstart pirates to reach the entrance to the Grand Line. I heard that a couple of years had passed since anybody exit Loguetown without getting caught and throw to jail." The information given by Sasuke caused a dreadful feeling inside of Nojiko and that wasn't unseen by Naruto.
"Do you know anything in particular about this captain? If he ate a devil fruit or specializes in any kind of combat?" The blond ninja asked to the black-haired one. Naruto put his arm around Nojiko shoulders in a placating manner, action that earned a blush and a smile from the navigator.
"I don't know exactly what kind of methods he uses to fight and capture his adversaries. The only thing I know is he receives the title of The White Hunter." Johnny and Yosaku fell face-faulted against the wooden deck of the ship during one of their push-ups. The captains and navigators looked at the swordsmen with confused expressions due to their reactions. Sasuke, whose face morphed once again in his sensei's glare, was addressed by his students.
"The White Hunter!? That guy is serious business Sasuke-sensei!" Johnny said using all of his remaining energy to pull up and stand on the deck. "We were in Loguetown once to deliver a criminal and reclaim his bounty and we were ambushed by a local band of bandits a couple of miles from town." Johnny said to his crewmates while trying to regain his breath after the extenuating session of training.
"Those bastards came out of nowhere and took advantage of our fucked up state after beating that low-life sucker and almost killed us if it wasn't for that guy." Yosaku said standing up and watch how his and Johnny's weights come off of their bodies meaning that their training was complete. "We really thought that that was it for us." Yosaku said holding his fist in front of him while they were shaking of fury. "But then we saw a big guy with white hair, a white sleeveless vest, black trousers and black boots approaching from behind the thugs and that guy used a jutte to kick the shit-out of those fuckers." Naruto and Sasuke were showing neutral expressions while they were thinking about the description of the White Hunter character.
"It seems that he is a heavy fighter and he can reduce and get rid of small opponents with ease. If he needn't use his power then we must assume a great strength and a lot of experience in battles." Sasuke said making notes in his head to come up with some measures about the possibility of face that adversary.
"Now I know why you were adamant about the low-profile thing." Naruto said without showing any concern about the situation. On the contrary, Nojiko with Johnny and Yosaku were shocked that the captains weren't even preoccupied or hesitant of approaching that place. "We have to be grateful that only the two of us have bounties and the others are off of the Marine's radar of dangerous pirates, with a simple transformation we can change our looks and get inside of town without raising any alarms." That information provided by Naruto made the scared members of the crew relax a little and keep the hope that nothing could go wrong.
"You are right, I can't believe that I agreed with you on something but you have a point." Sasuke said. "Now, we need to purchase some provisions for a long journey because I think we could be on water for a long time after leave Loguetown. Then we must to get a Log Pose." Nojiko heard about the last thing and got in front of the raven-haired shinobi.
"You must take me to town then, only I know what to do about the navigational stuff in this ship and you wouldn´t be able to know where to go." The words of Nojiko earned her a glare from Sasuke but she didn't flinch a bit; she knew how to defend her position.
"I agree with you, I will take you to the commercial district of the town and we will purchase all the necessary things for you and the journey." Naruto said making the bluenette smile to him and she went to her quarters to get ready for the "purchase trip". Sasuke, no content with the tone of the girl, turn around to his disciples and they were a little scared of his sensei's glare.
"I have one question for each of you." Sasuke said closing his eyes and then opening them with a red flash coming from them. "Why didn't you say a thing about this White Hunter character when we were told that that island was our next destination?" Johnny and Yosaku were frozen in their places under the eyes of the shinobi and they were unable to control the nervous shakes of their bodies.
"Am…we forgot?" The duo of swordsmen said at the same time. Before vessel was seeing from the shoreline of the port high screams could be heard from the distance.
(Loguetown)
Nojiko came down from the ship alongside a young teenager with blond hair tied in a ponytail and wearing a hawaian red t-shirt and green shorts with a sandals in his feet. Then a young raven haired man came down with a backpack, he was wearing a blue t-shirt with white shorts and blue open sandals. Nojiko and the blond teen were looking at the man with concerned looks.
"Did you have to punish them so hard for only a simple error? Come on those guys weren't meant to screw up our arrival?" The young teen said earning a nod from Nojiko.
"Naruto-kun its right Sasuke, they were sorry for that and they kept repeating that when you were beating them up." The navigator said to the man. Sasuke didn't say a thing he just gave them a glare and walked past them to go to the town. Naruto just sighed and looked up to the ship's deck were the beaten forms of Johnny and Yosaku were sprawled over the floor with no signs of movement.
"Poor bastards, well we have received different training from different teachers and his was one of the craziest SOB that I had seen in my life. They will just have to adapt to their new life from now on and pray for survive." Naruto said leaving the fallen swordsmen behind to guard the ship and walking by the port to enter the town.
"Naruto?" the shinobi turned around to face Nojiko. "Your teacher was as harsh as Sasuke's was?" The navigator asked thinking about the insane training that the raven-haired shinobi was giving to Johnny and Yosaku and fearing that something similar was waiting for her if Naruto was going to train her. Naruto thought about Jiraiya and all the crazy thing he made him do in order to increase his stamina, his chakra control, the great amount of beating he received for the purposes of upgrade his hand to hand and weapon combat, and all the things he had to endure about the "research" of his teacher.
"Well I received a harsh training from him and I was beaten up a lot during my time learning and training with him. But don't worry that was all shinobi training and all the harsh parts of the regimen will be left behind." Nojiko felt a little relieved about that but Naruto wasn't finished. "But don't get too calm Nojiko, I am gonna make you the most lethal woman with a gun in this earth and that it's a promise, believe it!" Nojiko was about to cry of anguish for her future but the last phrase of Naruto make her giggle a little. "And you will forget about that!" The blond teen said with a crimson blush on his cheeks. "God stupid verbal tick making me look stupid and losing my vibe." Naruto thought.
(With Sasuke)
Loguetown have a lot of tall buildings built with white rocks and their roofs were made with wood covered in black paint. The streets were wide and full of people walking to shops, talking about the recent news, doing their business and other kind of things while Sasuke was walking completely disguised using a transformation technique. "If the pirates learn about this way of blend in the Marines will have a lot of troubles finding criminals and the anarchy will spread like a forest fire." The raven-haired shinobi thought. His objective in his exploration was to find an armory shop to purchase cannon ammunition and gunpowder for the ships artillery by petition of Nojiko. Sasuke remembered how he argued with her about those things because he didn't see any use for those weapons when he could jump to any enemy ship and practically blow it up with a fire jutsu or summon a lighting to strike the distant enemies. But Nojiko said that even if he could do that, what will happen if Naruto or he weren't aboard the ship and they need to defend themselves? That's what convince him of go shopping for weapons.
"Were in this place is the weapons shop?" Sasuke asked himself walking by a crowded street full of shops that sell clothes. He saw a lot of women coming in and coming out of the shops carrying a lot of bags full of expensive dresses and other articles which were labeled as the latest fashion according. "I can't understand why women lose their time thinking about purchasing all of that and expending money instead of doing something more productive." Sasuke said in a whisper to not be heard by anybody.
"I cannot disagree with you they certainly need to do another thing with their lives." The raven-haired shinobi turned around in a swift move and found a young woman by his side looking at the shops. "Girls like that give the rest of us a bad rep." The woman said to smile at Sasuke, she had long white hair braided in a long ponytail, her clothes were a red tank top which hugged her impressive breasts, black trousers decorated with a familiar draw that Sasuke couldn't remember where he had seen before and black sandals.
"Where did you come from?" The disguised shinobi asked with genuine curiosity. "I couldn't even felt her presence approaching from behind."
"My my, you need to introduce yourself before asking any kind of questions." Sasuke narrowed his eyes at the girl. He noticed that she wanted to gather info about him with her approach.
"Suigetsu, that's my name." Sasuke lied giving the name of his ex-teammate of his Hebi group. The shinobi didn't know if the news about him or Naruto spread to this city so he chosen to use another identity. The white-haired girl gave a coy smile to Sasuke and answered.
"Thank you Suigetsu-kun, my name is Ami and I was walking by the street looking for something to do and I saw you looking for something and that caught my interest, plus you are a cutie." Sasuke felt annoyed with the attitude of the girl, he remembered the fangirls back in his village which only followed him for his status and looks.
"Well unless you know where I can find a weapons shop around here you can keep doing your things while I do mine." Sasuke said trying to keep looking for his destination. Then he felt the hands of Ami in his left arm.
"Actually I know where you can buy weapons so you can relax and enjoy my company while I escort you to your destination, Suigetsu-kun." The woman said holding Sasuke in a grip and guiding him to his destination.
"Great, I enjoy been left alone by fangirls for a long time and know I find a woman with the same behavior. I hope the dobe is suffering in his own hell right know." The raven-haired shinobi thought while walking/been dragged by Ami.
(With Naruto and Nojiko)
"I can't deal with this anymore." Naruto thought while sitting in a couch inside of a clothing shop and waited for Nojiko to appear with another set of clothes, they were now for the eleventh of twenty. "It was fun at first but know it is killing me." Naruto, like Sasuke, didn't understand the need of having a huge amount of clothes. He thought that you only need the necessary to have clean set of clothes for a week and that's it not for all of every moment of the day or if it was the latest fashion. He was thinking about leaving a clone behind and take all of the things that they had purchased to the ship and then do some reckon of the area by himself.
"How do I look Naruto-kun?" A voice said and Naruto turned around to find Nojiko doing a sexy pose while wearing a blue top with a V-neck that showed a great amount of her breasts, a red skirt with a leather belt decorated with a sea star in the middle and black heeled boots. Naruto looked up and down the new attire of the navigator and gave her a smile.
"That look great on you Nojiko, I think you need to make that set your regular one." Naruto said making the blue-haired girl blush and she showed a smile. After that last opinion Nojiko decided that it was enough and paid a great amount of money for the set of clothes making Naruto grimacing for the heavy blow to his wallet. Before going to shopping Sasuke said to him that everything that Nojiko expend it was going to come from her teacher's money. In other words she was burning Naruto's money.
After the purchase of clothes and all the materials needed for the navigation in the Grand Line, including a Log Pose which was in Nojiko's wrist like a decoration, and the provisions for a long journey in the high sea Naruto and the navigator were walking a little through the town enjoying being in land after the long journey from Conomi Islands. The duo was eating ice-cream while sitting on a bench in a park in the middle of the shopping district.
"We should have bought some ice-cream for Johnny and Yosaku." Nojiko said enjoying her strawberry dessert, Naruto got a vanilla flavor and he rejected the idea of the girl.
"Sasuke will kill you if you show any mercy for his disciples when they are being disciplined. Trust me you don't want to get on his bad side. It's really impossible to deal with that guy sometimes." Naruto said while watching some kids playing in the middle of the park near a beautiful fountain. Nojiko paled thinking about furious Sasuke using his eyes techniques on her. "Maybe they need some harsh training after all." The navigator thought.
"I can't believe you managed to put all of our purchases inside of that little seal." Nojiko said to Naruto talking about the storage seal that he painted on his clothes. The blond shinobi grinned and kept eating his ice-cream.
"Seals are awesome, that's why my clan was so respected and feared all across the continent when they were around." Naruto said feeling proud of his ancestral legacy. "In the hands of an expert seals can be a miraculous solution for your problems and the worst weapon across the world for your enemies. Nothing can escape of a barrier seal if it's made by a high level shinobi and you can power up anything with them. Seals are magical." Nojiko had to agree with her captain because thanks to the wind seals painted on the seals of the ship they could short the amount of days needed to get to a far way island. Something really useful if they are gonna travel in the Grand Line.
"What are your plans Naruto-kun? You and Sasuke want to find One Piece or what are you guys trying to accomplish?" Nojiko asked, at first she was content to travel and see the world like Nami sure was gonna do travelling with Luffy, but now she wanted to know what their captains are planning to do.
"Well at first Sasuke and I felt really bored at the Elemental Nations because there was nothing to do around there except for keeping the peace and travelling, we were slowly going insane about the dull rhythm of our lives so we just decide that a change of scenery was required and I heard interesting things about this place called the East Blue." Naruto explained to his curious navigator and she was hearing all of his words. "When we got a crew to take us here we met those bastards underlings of Arlong and they killed every single one aboard of our ship, let me tell you that that was the last thing they before taking a painful trip to hell." A dark shadow appeared on Naruto's face after remember Frosh and his fishmen. "Then we went to your island to find the owner of the rabid dog that we putted down and found something better. A corrupt organization making deals with that piece of shit of Arlong and I enjoyed sending that prick of Nezumi to hell. I cannot stand while they are bullies and corrupted soldiers making civilian's lives miserable." Nojiko felt a warm feeling in her chest after knowing that side of his blond captain and couldn't avoid thinking about her lucky stars for finding such a great man. "Now I think my goal around here is to find any Marines and higher ups that enjoy using his power for his own benefit and kick their asses." Naruto said with a serious expression on his face while looking straight to the people around the town. "I don't care if that puts me on their radar and I become a public enemy. They will pay." Nojiko was shocked about that bold statement made by Naruto but something inside of her made her realized that this man and his partner were about to bring a huge change on the world, and she was going to be by his side helping him to accomplish that.
"I guess we need to get going then." Nojiko said finishing her ice-cream and standing up in front of her captain. "If we are gonna kick some government asses then we need to hurry and start our path in the Grand Line." The blue-haired girl said holding a hand to Naruto who smirked and took it.
"That's the way my navigator." The blond shinobi said throwing away his dessert and standing up to get to the ship when he felt a huge wind starting to blow and he and Nojiko looked up to find a sudden gathering of clouds above the town. "What's happening? It was cleared five minutes ago!" Naruto yelled due to the intense wind blowing and deafening all the other sounds.
"It doesn't make sense! The atmospheric pressure was normal and now it just morphed in a huge cyclone!" Nojiko said holding onto Naruto who felt a sudden rise of something he couldn't believe that it was there: Chakra. His blue eyes focused in a giant black cloud sparking with electricity and in an instant released a powerful lightning a few blocks from his position.
"That was a Raiton (Lightning Release) technique!" Naruto thought and he put one hand to his neck and activated the hidden he had brought from his home. "Sasuke, this is Naruto come in, over!"
(Few moments Earlier- Sasuke)
Sasuke and his new acquaintance Ami were standing in front of a weapons shop after a few minutes of walking through a few crowds of people and one particular guy which the raven-haired shinobi recognized in an instant. Sasuke was dealing with a couple of life stories from the girl when his attention was caught by a tall white-haired man dressed with a white sleeveless vest with multiple cigars strapped to it, blue trousers and black boots kneeling in front of a little girl and giving her a coin for an ice-cream. The shinobi saw the jutte at the back of the White Hunter and the captain rank in his vest, he realized that if that guy find a clue that he or even Naruto were in town he would scout every rock in that island to find them. Unfortunately for Sasuke, Ami saw the concerned expression of his new friend while looking at the Marine captain and she smiled.
"My, are you a wanted man Suigetsu-Kun?" Sasuke looked at the girl with a bit of hesitation thinking that his identity could be in danger but that thought vanished when the girl kept speaking. "Relax silly, I was only joking, and don't mind old captain smoker, everybody is scared of him here due to his harsh treatment to criminals and his scaring looks." Sasuke didn't say a thing while thinking about that guy. "Smoker huh?" The raven-haired shinobi thought. "He looks like a problematic opponent, better watch out."
When the duo came inside the store they found a very nervous shop keeper with a normal height and a quite slim body wearing a plain white shirt and black dress pants looking at them with a shocked expression on his face. "What's with this person?" was the thought of the two costumers in that shop while they were approaching to the owner.
"Please tell me that you guys are here to buy something and that you didn't get lost looking for a clothing shop." The owner said with a bit of hope in his voice.
"The business it's not so well I presume." Sasuke said with a sweat drop on his head while looking at the guns placed in exhibition on the walls of the shop and a couple of glass cases showing flintlock pistols with their respective ammo. The little man behind the counter cried a little after hearing the words of the potential new costumer and answered.
"You have no idea kid." Sasuke got a tick mark on his head after being called a kid but he let it slide for the sake of his cover. "When I first opened this shop in this island I received a lot of costumers, lots of them pirates of course, wanting a huge amount of weapons and other goods to heading straight to the Grand Line for the promise of treasures and the distant chance of getting their hands on the legendary One Piece and become King of the Pirates." Sasuke and Ami could see a look of awe in the owner's face while talking about his good old days, then this was replaced for one of sadness. "But now, thanks to that accursed White Hunter now all the potential clients that I could don't dare to step foot on this island and get their sorry asses to the Grand Line due to that demon's reputation. You have no idea how it's like to be here and look at that door expecting to receive brave and crazy full of cash pirates to spend their treasures in gunpowder and weapons. The only thing this place gets is couples of young ones looking for restaurants or groups of girls looking for clothing shops." The man started to cry while smashing his fist against the counter while cursing the name of Smoker.
"This guy it's about to kill himself one of this days." Sasuke thought with a huge sweat drop on his head while looking for something in his clothes. "Well I got good news for you." The man raised up his head to look at a shopping list handed by the raven-haired shinobi. "You have a customer right here." If the shop used to be a shinobi Sasuke didn't know for sure because when he grabbed the list he disappeared so fast that the Uchiha thought the owner could use the Shunshin no Jutsu (Body-Flicker Technique).
"Wow, that guy really was suffering to hide his desperation." Ami said feeling sorry for that poor guy. "It's true that far less pirates had been around here since the reputation of Captain Smoker spread like a forest fire but I didn't know that it was that bad." The girl said while giving Sasuke a long stare. "You don't look very concerned about getting caught buying weapons and I am pretty sure that you are not scared about facing that monster if he comes looking for you. You are pretty strong are you Suigetsu-kun?" Sasuke let out a silent sigh and faced Ami
"I am not concerned at all because I am pretty good making myself invisible and I could get wherever I need from this place and find myself out of his reach in a heartbeat, so I am pretty calm about that." Sasuke answered giving all the façade of being just a simple pirate with a knack of vanishing when the troubles begin. The raven-haired was a bit weary of this girl due to his instincts telling him that something fishy was about that girl. "I have to ask you. Why are you still with me? Your services are no longer required you can go now that you brought me to my destination." Sasuke said trying to get rid of his guide and avoid her presence and prevent her from follow him to his ship.
Before the girl could give the disguised shinobi an answer they could hear a ruckus at the back of the shop, Sasuke could swear that a new shinobi war was happening inside of that place due to the amount of falling objects and the curses coming from the owner. When the noises died down the two occupants of the place were about to call out the owner to make sure the guy was still alive but then he appeared holding two huge crates with a lot of ammunition for rifles, shotguns, pistols, cannons, and several barrels full of gunpowder.
"There you have kid, all the equipment you need to a long trip to Paradise. I assure you that none of those bullets or cannonballs will fail you on your journey." A very tired owner said with pride after carrying what looked like half of his store to the counter. Sasuke looked with a raised eyebrow all the goods he ordered and examined them very carefully. Ami and the owner where a bit nervous about the exhaustive way that the raven-haired shinobi was looking the products; they could feel their heartbeats while the Uchiha was completely focused on his task.
"I take it all." Sasuke said while he looked for his money to pay for the products. The owner had to use all of his self-control to not jump like a five year-old in his birthday after receiving the amount of 1 million Berries for all and then he showed a shock expression alongside Ami when Sasuke make all of his newly acquired weapons disappear inside of a scroll that he took from his backpack. "Thank you for services and have a nice day." Sasuke left behind a two shocked people after his little sealing demonstration and was preparing to Shunshin back to the ship when an annoying voice stopped him.
"Wow that was a neat trick Suigetsu-kun! How did you do it? Where the ammo and guns went?" Ami asked coming outside of the shop and showing an excited face that made Sasuke more upset about the girl. The Uchiha was about to send the girl off and disappear when she said something else. "Or should I say Uchiha Sasuke-kun?" The raven-haired shinobi turned around in a swift motion while unsealing his sword to strike the one who unmasked him, but he saw how Ami put her hand over the draw of her trousers and to the incredulity of Sasuke the girl unsealed a sword with a red-colored blade and the guard had a triangular form right before the handle. Both swords collided in front of the shop and a shower of sparks was produced from the clash of metal against metal
"Who are you?" Sasuke asked in a cold menacing voice with his piercing black eyes looking the face of the girl who was showing an excited expression on her face.
"You really are strong and can use chakra like me. I couldn't find anyone who could stop this sword once I bring it out of the seal, you really are something else."
"What are you talking about use chakra like me? You are a kunoichi aren't you? Why are you so far away from the Elemental Nations?" Sasuke asked with genuine curiosity of finding someone with ninja skills in that part of the world then a thought came to him. "I bet you are nuke-nin. Am I wrong?" The Uchiha asked putting more strength behind his sword to apart himself from Ami. The girl showed a confused expression on her face about Sasuke's questions and before she could give an answer a powerful wind started to blow and a great black cloud was above them obscuring the bright blue sky.
"What the hell is happening now?!" Sasuke yelled enduring the strength of the wind and Ami was a bit mortified.
"Oh my god that's the signal! Sorry Sasuke-kun we are gonna have to postpone this chat for the next occasion!" The girl said to the Uchiha and he saw the ram hand-seal in front of the girl. "Until next time then bye-bye!" After Ami said that she disappeared in a quick Shunshin leaving behind a confused Sasuke. He was about to chase and get some of answers of that girl when he felt a huge spike of chakra right above him and he activated his Sharingan to see a concentration of that energy gathering inside of the clouds before it was released in a powerful lightning that fell at the center of the town.
"That was just like my Kirin (Giraffe)!" Sasuke said to himself looking with wide-eyed at the sky. "But I can only feel Raiton (Lightning Release) chakra there is no Katon (Fire Release) chakra for the gathering of clouds, so how did they manage to create this storm?" The Uchiha thought leaving the street in a jump to land in a roof and make his way to the strike zone.
"Sasuke, this is Naruto come in, over!" Sasuke brought his hand to the radio on his neck to answer the call from Naruto.
"This is Sasuke, I read you Naruto. Did you see what happened just now?" The raven-haired shinobi asked while jumping through the roofs of Loguetown.
"Yeah, Nojiko and I we saw that huge lightning. Did you "Kirined" somebody? Because that looked like your technique and if you did I think that was just way overkill" Naruto said and made Sasuke sigh in exasperation.
"No dobe, I certainly didn't engage anybody and that wasn't me!" The Uchiha could hear something like a shocked breath from the other side of the radio and kept talking. "Something strange is going on here, we need to meet and search for the source of that chakra! Take Nojiko with a Kage Bunshin (Shadow Clone) to the ship and follow me to the town center!" Sasuke said and Naruto agreed with his indications before cutting the call.
(With Johnny and Yosaku, Loguetown's Pier)
The duo of swordsmen was doing some spar fights on the deck of their ship while waiting for their captains and navigator to come back from the town. They had to endure the pain of their sensei's beating from an hour ago for forgetting some important information but they just ignored it; both of them were not strangers from feeling pain. Johnny and Yosaku were really impressed about their performance during their spars, at first they were shocked to find out about the improved speed of their movements, the strength of their sword strikes and their accurate reflexes at the time of evading and counter the attacks of their opponent. Johnny and Yosaku were tortured day and night by the harsh training of Sasuke but they had to recognize that it worth every painful second of it.
"We are gonna surpass Zoro-aniki in no time if we keep up improving like this!" Yosaku said while parrying all the swift attacks from the speed style of Johnny. The glasses-wearing swordsman was approached by Sasuke and he told him that his body was excellent for a speedster style were the lack of physical strength was sacrificed for quick movements and precise strikes to neutralize the enemy in a short time. Yosaku, on the contrary, was given a style were his heavy body would canalize all of his muscle strength in powerful blows that could spilt buildings and even ships in two in the future if he didn't slack on his training. He agreed at the very second of hearing the idea of his sensei.
"You bet it pal!" Johnny said while trying a move from his newly acquired style. The speed swordsman ran to his friend who was ready to parry any attempt from his partner but Yosaku was shocked when Johnny became a blue blur and vanished from his sight. Then he heard the wooden floor of the deck cringed under the weight of somebody and he turned around while taking distance from the noise to find Johnny with the tip of his sword a few centimeters of his face and a frustrated expression on his face.
"You almost got me there bro!" Yosaku said delivering a strong punch to Johnny's face throwing him against one of the mast of the ship due to Yosaku's strength. The glasses-wearing swordsman put a hand around his jaw feeling it a bit loose after receiving that hit. "I bet that you had to keep your presence hidden for me when you get behind my back to attack. Too bad that your feet are heavy." The heavy swordsman mocked to his friend while getting ready for practicing a move from his own style. Johnny was getting up to shut up his friend when his eyes focused on something above him.
"Yosaku turn around and look up" Johnny said making his friend confused but he complied and when his eyes saw what was happening in the sky his jaw fell to the floor. Both swordsmen were seeing the storm of the century happening right above the very center of Loguetown.
"I bet that Sasuke-sensei, or Naruto-aniki, is the one that is causing what it's happening over there." Yosaku said to his partner and before Johnny could even say something a huge intense flash illuminated the sky and the occupants of the ship saw how a great lightning fell inside of the town.
"What the fuck just happened?!" Johnny screamed after witnessing the event. "Now I agree with you that Sasuke-sensei was the one that did that!" The swordsman said with a sweat-drop on his head while thinking about that overkill attack. "If Sasuke-sensei can do that move with ease I would felt sorry for the poor bastard that attempts of fighting him." Johnny said and earning a nod from Yosaku. The duo was so focused in the sight of the end of the world that they didn't perceived how Naruto and Nojiko appeared via Hiraishin no Jutsu (Flying Thunder God Technique) at their backs.
"Guys!" Naruto yelled to his subordinates making them jump in reflex and drawing their swords against him with terrified expression on their faces. Johnny and Yosaku looked a sickly looking Nojiko, surely for his first time travelling via transportation, and a very serious Naruto looking at the storm. "Gather all the equipment here and put it in the storage room!" Naruto ordered while unsealing the provisions in front of them. "Then I want you to get ready this ship for sail ASAP and don't worry about waiting for us! We will catch up!" The blond shinobi said to his shocked swordsmen at seeing all of the food coming from that slim scroll before vanishing in a red flash.
"I am still having difficulties to adjust to the life aboard this ship." Yosaku said looking at the spot where his captain was two seconds ago. The duo looked at Nojiko and they saw how she was trying to remain calm.
"You heard the man! Pack all of this and let's get ready to move!" The navigator said in authoritative voice.
"YES MAAM!" Johnny and Yosaku said at the same time before starting to put away all of his provisions.
(With Naruto and Sasuke, Loguetown)
The duo of shinobi met just before arriving to the plaza where the execution stage used to be before been eradicated by the lightning that fell just a few minutes ago. Naruto was shocked after being informed by Sasuke that chakra users were in town and that they could be the ones that threw that lightning attack. Now the two immortals were looking at a strange scene happening at the center of the plaza: A lot of pirates were held prisoners in a gigantic cloud of white smoke and they were trying with all of their might to set free but a lot of Marine soldiers came with some kind of weapons that threw huge nets made of metal that caught all of the criminals in a blink of an eye.
"So you said that you were approached by this hot girl Ami, who got charmed by your looks, and she took you to the weapons shop where you two were received by a depressed shop keeper who cried tears of joy after you bought like half of the store, and then she found out who you were and unsealed a sword before saying something about a signal and vanished in a Shunshin. I left something without saying?" Naruto asked revising all the details given by Sasuke about what happened.
"No, you got everything right which is really disturbing for me." The Uchiha said while using his Sharingan to scan all of the roofs of that area to catch the source of chakra that caused the lightning. If they found a trail they could find Ami and if Ami was find they would get answers about what the hell what's going on. Unfortunately for them, the trail was lost due to the heavy amount of a strange raw chakra that was all over the plaza. "Shit! The smoke doesn't let me see clearly the trail of chakra" Sasuke said grinding his teeth in frustration.
"The smoke you say?" Naruto asked and he focused his sight in the white cloud and noted that it grew smaller going out of the plaza until it took the form of a men wearing a Marine captain vest and a jutte in his back. "I guess I found the cause of your blindness." Naruto pointed with his finger at the form of Smoker and the Uchiha also saw the figures of a familiar group that were being chased by him.
"Naruto you may want to look over there." The blond shinobi watched the scene and he wanted to know how Luffy and his crew managed to be here, in the middle of all of this but then Naruto remembered the knack of the straw-hatted boy and sighed.
"All right, let's kick some Marine's asses." Naruto said leaving the search of the mysterious chakra user to rescue his friend of the clutches of that dangerous fellow. The duo of shinobi watched how the man got on a bike powered by his smoke powers to cut the distance between his new preys. Naruto wouldn't allow that Luffy get captured before reaching the Grand Line. Taking one kunai from his weapon's pouch on his right leg, the blond shinobi tied a paper bomb to the handle with ninja wire before throwing it just right in the path of the smoking motorcycle. The fiery explosion caused by the volatile seal made Smoker stop his chase and he looked up to find to young guys on a rooftop that right before him with a calm expression on their faces.
"If you interfere with my pursuit of that straw-hat guy you are criminals at my eyes." Smoker said with a cold rough voice while climbing down from his bike. "You fellows are going to spend some time in jail for interfering on Marine's activities." The duo of strangers shared a mocked expression before being engulfed in a cloud of smoke. The captain was startled about that but then his glare intensified at seeing the new appearance of those guys.
"Well you need to realize something, captain." Naruto said now showing his real look alongside Sasuke.
"We have already screwed up some Marine's operations." Sasuke said while holding his sword in front of him. "And we are just getting started." Smoker, who was smoking a huge cigar, had an angry look on his face at recognized the faces of the recent wanted posters that arrived that day alongside of the one with the picture of Luffy.
"Devil's Eyes and Demon Fox. You two are the most dangerous of all the small fry that gathered in that plaza back there." Smoker said grabbing the handle of his jutte to point it against the duo of shinobi. "Straw-hat Luffy can get to the Grand Line and get captured later, but you two shall no remain any other second free to terrorized the defenseless people of this world and kill other Marines." After saying that Smoker's arms morphed in two plumbs of smoke with only his hands remaining and then the captain aimed to the two shinobi. "Howaito Buro (White Blow)!" Smoker yelled throwing his left arm in a dense cloud of smoke with his fist aiming to Naruto's body.
"Too slow." The captain turned around with a shocked expression to find his target right above him in a blink of an eye and with his red arm ready to strike him. Then Smoker caught the figure of Sasuke by his blind side with his sword aiming for his torso. Naruto and Sasuke landed their attacks at the same time, a punch to the face and a slash to the abdomen, only to widen their eyes when their strikes turn the body of their opponent in smoke and they didn't cause him any harm.
"God try but that would not be enough!" Smoker said in an angry snarl morphing his torso and head back to their previous state and catching the attackers in smoke. Auto Howaito (White Out)!" The shinobi were distracted to realize their situation when the captain pinned them against the walls of the nearby buildings and hold them there to wait for reinforcements. Naruto tried to use brute force to escape from the grip but the smoke was to strong, Sasuke tried to cut it but it grew back as fast as it was cut.
"Change of plans then." Sasuke thought coating his sword in Raiton chakra before throwing it right at Smoker's head, the captain raised an eyebrow at seen the weapon covered in lightning but he let it get through his smoke body. That didn't let him see the chain of hand-seals that the shinobi did during the little diversion.
"Fuuton: Renkudan (Wind Release: Air Drilling Bullet)!" Naruto and Sasuke spilled their own wind bullets at each other and they collided right were smoker was standing between them and his body was blown away by the strong wind of the collision of the wind techniques. The duo of shinobi was free now and they were looking for signs of Smoker, they were none for now.
"Damn, that guy surprised me!" Naruto said panting a little after being released from the smoke prison. "Now I can see why so many pirates can't get through this town, his invincible to physical attacks and that guy can use his smoke to capture anyone." Sasuke had to agree with his partner, Luffy was lucky that they were around to stall the captain.
"I could see his body covered in a strange raw chakra that hided his solid body in a strong barrier." Sasuke said picking up his weapon from a nearby building while remembering what he saw while Smoker was holding him. "I bet that the devil fruit he ate was a different kind from Luffy's because that kind of energy didn't surround his body like Luffy. There is something really intriguing about this Devil's Fruits." The raven-haired shinobi said while making a mental note to study that subject in other time.
"Well we get our asses in move and get back to the ship so we can keep on moving and avoid getting arrested." Naruto said while Sasuke nodded and approached his friend to grab his shoulder and teleport back to their crew.
"Freeze, don't move a muscle and surrender yourselves!" A feminine but authoritative voice said to the shinobi while a lot of guns were heard getting ready to fire. Naruto and Sasuke turned around to find a slim but good looking glasses-wearing woman wearing a violet shirt, jeans, and sandals. They could note that she was an officer because a troop of Marines followed her instructions.
"Sorry darling but we need to catch our ride." Naruto said getting ready to flash away when the officer was about to order her men to open fire.
"Don't think so." Sasuke said coating his sword in lightning and stabbed it to the ground. The electric current, using the rain water all over the place, moved like fire on gasoline straight to the Marines. The women raised her eyebrows in alarm and tried to order evasive tactics but it was too late. "Chidori: Nagashi (One Thousand Birds: Current)!" The Raiton technique engulfed the Marines and the properties of the chakra paralyzed them in just a second. All of the soldiers were out the only person conscious was the woman.
"I won't let you escape!" The officer yelled using her sword to keep on feet while enduring the numb sensation in her body.
"You are strong I'll give you that." Sasuke said before putting away his sword. "But you need to get stronger and your captain too if you want to imprison us." The final words of Sasuke put a dent in the woman's pride as a swordswoman and she saw how the two criminals vanished in a red flash leaving her with a defeated troop in the streets of Loguetown.
"Something tells me that Smoker-san will be angry when he comes back and we are gonna make a long journey." The officer said while thinking about how those guys created two huge wind attacks that blow away the smoke body of her captain and they could finish with her troop in just a move. "If my pride is hurt I can't think how his is right now."
(A Few Miles from Loguetown)
Johnny and Yosaku were manning the sails and running the ship by instructions of Nojiko while the navigator of the crew was checking if they were on the right course to the mass of land known as the Red Line were the path to the Grand Line opened. While Nojiko was doing that she couldn't avoid feel a bit worried about her captains and what was happening in that place. Johnny and Yosaku were also worried too but they were too occupied following Nojiko's instructions to show it. The crew so centered on their task that they were shocked when Naruto and Sasuke came back from the town. The duo of swordsmen who was up of the main mast fell from the shock and landed on the wooden dock in front of the captains.
"Well this is a welcome." Naruto said laughing a little of the antics of Sasuke's disciples. The latter gave them a harsh glare that made them realized that they fucked up their next few months thanks to that little mistake.
"You have ten seconds to put your weights back on and star the next stage of training right now." The cold tone used by Sasuke made Johnny and Yosaku say a quick "HAI MASTER" and vanish in a second. Sasuke then looked back at his friend. "Check on them from time to time and don't let them slack or getting injured too much. I am gonna go to my quarters and lay down a bit. There was too many action and mysteries for my sake today." The raven-haired shinobi said before climbing up to upper deck where the steering wheel was to get inside of the ship.
"This day was weird that's for sure." Naruto thought while thinking about the mysterious chakra user and why did she attacked the plaza to save Luffy. Yeah, he found out about that a strange clown that Luffy beaten before they knew him tried to execute him only to be saved by the lightning of that Ami girl thanks to leaving a few clones behind to catch up with the rubber boy and ask him why he was at the plaza. Naruto smiled while remembering the impressed expression on Luffy's face after telling him that he and Sasuke managed to defeat Smoker.
"At last you two are here!" Nojiko said coming down from the steering wheel to hug the blond shinobi and check if he was okay. "We saw from the shore some kind of small typhoon that appeared inside of the town and we didn't know if you two were okay." The navigator said with genuine concern in her voice. Naruto put an arm around her shoulders in a comforting way to ease the worry of the girl.
"Relax Nojiko, we just find out that Luffy and his crew were at the town at the time we arrived and they were in the middle of a chaos." Before Nojiko could ask an obvious question, Naruto answered it for her. "No, Nami wasn't in the town only Zoro, Sanji and Luffy. I told a clone to meet with them and check if everything was okay. Nothing to worry about except for a Marine captain with a smoke body that got the drop on Sasuke and me but we managed to blow that bastard away with a wind jutsu." Naruto said like all that happened back there was just like a walk at the park for him. Nojiko looked incredulously at the blond shinobi and she grabbed him by the collar of his shirt to make direct eye contact with his blue eyes.
"You better start telling me all of what happened there with more details because I can feel that something is coming to bite us right at our asses when the news of your presence there reach the higher ups in the Navy." The blue-haired girl ordered and Naruto felt a chill feeling at his back.
"Yes Mam." Was all that Naruto said while the ship kept sailing away from Loguetown and advanced to their next stage of their journey: The Grand Line.
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