I own not either Naruto nor One Piece though I wish I do... Oh well have fun reading the story while I mope in the corner!
My warning is still in effect.
Snake Sisters
Chapter 2: Sisters Boa, part 1
(Flashback!)
One year ago, coast of the Land of Spring
Sleep heavy eyes groggily opened at the insistence of the morning sun. The sun was given a half-hearted glare before being yawned at and ignored by its victim when said victim turned around and covered her head with the blanket. Though she would admit the sun had no fault in all this, but one, there was a warm bed to lay on and two, this was the greatest luxury she has had in years.
"Can someone please cover the window?" a teenage girl's voice groaned out.
"You do it, you're closer," replied another voice just as weary as the first.
"Leave it be. The heat's a nice change of things," a third half-stated. Mild groans of approval were uttered before the sheets of the bed were rumpled.
Outside someone shouted out what may have been a name or an adjective followed by the sudden shock made the ship lurch forward; all three girls were rolled out of their beds into a pile.
"It's too early for this sort of thing!"
"What was that?!"
"I think it was that bonehead again..."
With the same eagerness associated with every rude awakening, the trio soon stormed out the door to investigate thus revealing themselves to the world. Each one was dressed in near exact copies of closed toe sandals, scruffy shorts, and tank tops that were once shirts, the former being white while the latter was reddish-brown in color; both articles of clothing were a on the side of being oversized for them. The first was the tallest of the trio, dwarfing them both by a head in both size and in literal size of her own head. Other than height and a block shaped head, her most distinctive feature was her sea green hair, not to mention matching eyes, that reached to her shoulders.
The second was the second tallest, though by a centimeter or so to the third member, at best she reached the first's chin. Her own hair was similar in length though a fiery orange, and her eyes were black.
The third was, as said, shorter by at least a centimeter or more than the second figure. Her own jet black hair was long as the others and her own eyes were a dark blue.
"I think it at least involved the bonehead," the first intoned.
From above they observed a pink haired in a red dress with white circles and borders being chewed out by a sailor while both were being ignored by a black haired boy in blue as he leaned over the railing to brood. But what was most interesting of all was a new addition to the ship. A sizable hole that could easily granted passage between the deck and the confines below.
Emerging from the darkness below came a gloved yet plated hand, quickly followed by an arm, and subsequently the body of a white haired man in a green vest and blue clothing underneath who hoisted up a blond haired boy in a orange jumpsuit who they knew seen better days.
"Yep. He was involved," the second intoned.
"Not that I don't enjoy a man being put in his place, I have to draw the line when the ship has to be fixed." Both the first and second nodded their heads in quiet unison.
The third however only stared at the boy as the man who dragged him up tried to coax him into the conscious realm. Ultimately none of the girls really communicated at length with anyone on the ship save for the pinked haired girl, a Leaf kunoichi named Sakura Haruno, but something nagged at her mind when she spotted the boy known as Naruto Uzumaki. It was his voice really that rung some bells, but she couldn't put her finger on where she heard it for the dear life of her.
Regardless, sleep wasn't coming back to them any time soon.
XVX
Galley
"Damn brat," a sailor growled as he viciously ate the morning gruel that was breakfast. Accidents were one thing, stupidity was another. They were just lucky that kid didn't go through the hull or else they were quite literally dead in the water given the temperatures outside. The Land of Snow, now Spring, have radically changed but the sea bowed to no master short of a god. That and no one liked to freeze to death. At least no one sane that is.
Nonetheless it was a moot point and someone, probably him, was going to have to patch up that hole.
Another ship rocking crash rippled through the ship.
Correction, he was going to patch up the holes. With any luck the damn brat responsible would either be hogtied to the mast, somehow, or forced to help in the repairs provided that even more patches needed to be made.
Shouts, screams, and even wood being crunched all but pierced through the walls of the galley. The entire felt as if it was being tipped over.
"Crap."
XVX
Deck
"You really think you can escape retribution?!"
"Who are these guys?!" Naruto heatedly asked as he drawn a kunai alongside his teammates in a diamond formation. Just moments before an iceberg emerged from the ocean and skewered the ship as it forced it to run aground as the glacial behemoth rose up from the depths. Now standing above the crashed ship was twelve shinobi on a makeshift mountain of ice.
"Does it even matter?" Sakura growled.
"It looks like... Snow shinobi?" Kakashi said. His lone eye narrowed as he spotted a detail he missed, the headbands were slashed. "Rogue shinobi," he corrected himself.
Every non-shinobi vacated the deck with due haste while the iceberg was turning into a island.
"Please tell me they're not wearing that armor thing," Naruto groaned.
"For once I agree with the idiot," Sasuke muttered.
"I hope so too!" Sakura cheerily shouted.
"Sorry to dash your hopes but they are. Otherwise I would have to guess that this island is a group effort." The sore groans of his students assailed Kakashi's ears.
As if on cue, the shinobi descended, a couple by leaps while the rest either made snowboards from ice or deployed it from some kind of chute from their backs or arms. Each of the boarders drew out a kunai with a tag attached, and launched them at the ship; the ones up above let loose their own kunai by the dozen with their own payloads much to Kakashi's wide eyed horror. "Abandon ship!" he cried.
Every sailor savvy with fights between shinobi heeded his warning at the drop of a hat, dragging any more novice crewmembers amongst other civilians with them as they jumped overboard to escape the scene. The shinobi soon followed the sailor's example as the first wave landed with very audible "thunks," and their payload erupting with enough force to obliterate chunks of the ship's haul by themselves as opposed to groups.
Unfortunately the shockwaves caused by them, amplified further as the second group landed on the ship's deck, scattered the leaf shinobi team before they found purchase on the iced ground below.
XVX
Snow/ice field
Naruto groaned as he groggily got up from the small indent that was his landing. "To think Sakura's punches packed a punch..." Bones popped, indicated how long he didn't move, with another groan and a grunt he pops the cricks of his body to a greater extent as he got onto his feet. "Where am I?" he asked himself as he looked around for something, anything, other than ice. So far the closest thing to company, friendly or non, was a hefty chunk of what may have been the ship.
With another groan, and a small set of bones that had yet to be popped, he got up and stretched some more while looking about.
It was more than obvious that he had no idea where he was, and it was closing in on noon if the sun's position was anything to go by.
He sighed. "I suppose there's only way to find everyone." His hands were brought together in a cross shaped symbol. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Dozens upon dozens of Naruto clones were called into existance.
"Alright guys, let's go find everyone!" the original yelled while pumping a fist in the air.
"Yeah!"
"Let's do it!"
In groups ranging three-to-five, they all departed in their own direction.
XVX
Elsewhere
"Gah!"
A third body joined a set of two more, each one from Yuki- the Village Hidden in the Snow. Formerly of Yuki to be exact given their status as rogues, not to mention the village was possibly going to be renamed much like the land itself.
A mixed blessing of sorts to Kakashi. Not only did it mean that there isn't a village after them, but given Yuki's apparent heavy used of chakra armor they weren't particularly strong by themselves. Then again he only took out a fourth of the group after them, there was no real way to tell the capacity of the others despite handling them. Combine that to the fact his Genin were scattered, it was trouble with a capital t.
A strange, almost universal fact about rogue shinobi is that at minimum they were Chunin level shinobi when they leave their village. Then again a extreme few rogue Genin class shinobi live long enough or become dangerous enough to ever be put into the Bingo books.
Regardless, Sasuke was skilled but he was no Chunin. Sakura... he had the decency to cough and scratched his head while look away even though he wasn't talking to anyone. And Naruto... well his arsenal was limited to virtually the shadow clone technique...
His eye twitched. Now that he thought about it...
"Please tell me I'm not being punished for my teaching methods..." The roll of thunder from a cloudless sky was not helpful in the least...
XVX
Elsewhere, again
Between a cell and being trapped under one of many remains of the ship, the real difference was the lack of company.
Company...
That was a light way to put the presence of loathsome men, and the occasional woman, that she had to deal with over the years with her sisters.
Unfortunately it sounded like she would have company soon with the sound of a group approaching her.
An orange blur sped past her line of sight, then another, followed yet another. A fourth came by only to slip up; her brow twitched as she recognized who it was. Bonehead.
Otherwise known as Naruto Uzumaki...
"Ow..." he groaned as he got up. The a careless eye glanced upon the wreckage decorating the landscape, but it focused as it caught sight of the trapped girl, the third of the trio that had boarded the ship with them, pinned by the very edge of what may have been a part the ship's aft (middle section), amongst other things that left only her upper body visible.
He swiveled his head to shout for his comrades, only to find they had already ran off without noticing his absence. "Jerks," he mumbled as he brought up his hands in a seal.
The ship's prisoner gawked as half a dozen boneheads "poofed" into existence. Her awe turned into confusion, then slightly irritation when they congregated around her, or rather the ship if she was to be precise, and were doing something. What it was, she couldn't tell, tour into the ship piece by piece after whatever tool or jutsu was employed and empowered out of her sight.
The ship's remains creaked and groaned as more of its abused integrity was demolished by something, something that when slammed into it produced a grinding noise let alone had a distinct whine to it before its use. "Rasengan!"
A hand curled around a swirling ball of blue light obliterated the deck that was holding her in place, the hand itself emerging but four feet away from her left shoulder; four feet too close.
"There we go! Alright, push!"
How he did such work so fast she couldn't figure out, but the results were undeniable in which she was able to scuttle away from the wreckage that was her prison, although proven temporary. She moved to stand but collapsed onto the iced ground below in a pained hiss when her leg all but screamed in her ears that it wouldn't stand for her.
"Hey are you alri-"
A hand outstretched to help her was slapped away with vehement poison in both action and in the look she gave the startled Genin. "I don't need anyone's help, especially if it's a man's help," she snarled.
She glanced at her own leg. It appeared to be fine... till she tried to move it. She couldn't hide the grimace of agony from anyone let alone hide it from herself.
"Hey-"
"Just leave me alone!" she snarled again.
Before she knew it, he was crouching low and scowling in her face. "Look here. I don't know what you're problem is and frankly I don't care. You're injured and I am not going to run off knowing that there is somebody injured back here." He leaned in closer till their eyes threatened to touch. "Like it or not I am not going to leave you here to die."
Her own eyes widened at the mild rebuke.
She wanted to snarl back but she held back. "Damn it..." she cursed inwardly.
He was determined not to leave her be, reasoning be damned. Regardless of the fact he helped her out from the wreckage he was, for all intents and purposes, a man. A boy actually but a man nonetheless. Who was there to say he couldn't betray her or abandon his ideals when push comes to shove? Yet her bum leg...
Then there was her sisters to think about. Were they alright? Are they captured by some crook looking for a pretty penny if nothing else? The icy hand of fear clutched at her heart.
She had no choice if nothing else...