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 3: Sisters Boa, part 2

Iceberg island

"Slow down damn it!" hissed his agitated injured passenger who had made no effort to hide her disdain for him, his gender, and his ability in carrying her and her injured leg around in a stretcher made out of henged clones assisted by another while the real one lead the stretcher.

"It's not my fault this place is so jagged!" Naruto grouched to himself. "I heard that! You're just making excuses!"

If she could, he would've heard the twitching of an eyebrow in growing annoyance as the thought of leaving her steadily became a very handsome idea. But there was his nindo... and he gave his word to help Boa Hancock as she was named as well as find her missing sisters. Sometimes it sucked to be a good guy as it would seem.

Overall their trek could be going better, but with a broken leg or at least an injured one Naruto had little choice but to walk slowly as the terrain would permit. Uphill too no less amongst other things.

All things considering, the slope was rather gentle yet had its challenges with unexpected pitfalls and cracks that lay hidden in the icy hill, but they continued nonetheless if they were to have some chance to find Naruto's teammates or Hancock's sisters.

Almost mercifully for the beleaguered genin, they had reached the top and both the original and the clone position themselves to allow Hancock a view of the valley below. Her attention was drawn to the blond haired boy when his head turned to eye her. She saw his jaw open to say something, but the voice was not his own. "Naruto's home!"

(End Flashback!)

XVX

Naruto's room, Uzumaki compound

Hancock shook in startled fright and swiveled her head to view Sandersonia peeking inside from the doorway, her eyes bulged to find a remnant of the army's worth of orange jumpsuits Naruto all but refused to get rid of... by choice. The eldest of the sisters stiffened as she heard the faint creaking of the front door being opened and a greeting from their younger brother to announce his arrival.

Acting on a hunch and a small bit of fright of being caught in his room, Hancock brought a pair of fingers to her lips and lets forth a shrill whistle.

The results were instantaneous.

With a thud, Naruto's complaint soon echoed into his room. "Come on Salome, get off me!"

"Hancock, Salome won't get off of me!" Naruto complained from the foyer. The two found in his room merely snuck out, quietly shut the door, and snuck off to another to leave Naruto none the wiser about their presence in the house. "Hancock? Sandersonia? Marigold? Anybody?!"

They infiltrated and closed the door of Hancock's room with an inaudible click, yet Sandersonia clasped both hands around her mouth to mute the giggle emanating from it. It quickly died when Hancock took to her bed as a chair with the jumpsuit in question. At first it died down out of aggravation to find one of Naruto's jumpsuits surviving the purge but slowly turned to an unspoken worry as she noticed the details she missed on the first glance. The suit had seen better days, that was for certain.

The bittersweet smile of Hancock did nothing to quell the dread suspicion in her.

"Say, do you remember the day you actually met Naruto?"

"Huh?" Sandersonia intelligently said as she tilted her head in confusion.

The smile never left the eldest's face as she turned to the younger before resuming the conversation. "Remember? When we actually met him rather than watched him?" As if to emphasize her question, the jumpsuit's holes were brandished more broadly in the light of the room.

Sandersonia's head tilted as her puzzlement only grew as the cogs of her mind whirred and meshed together... till the results were manifested.

XVX

(Flashback!)

Cavern

"Hold still you little punk!" bellowed a rogue shinobi of Yuki as he pursued Naruto. A Naruto at least given that there was a number or close to the number of twenty of the orange wearing genin jumping around. His attention was too focused on a single one, possibly the one, to notice a pair of the blonds behind him with one of them helping form a ball of swirling blue energy in the palm of the other.

All the while two sisters got reacquainted over the heat of the battle behind an outcropping of ice. "Thank the gods you're alive! Are you hurt? Is it a sprained ankle?" Sandersonia spouted amongst other worried questions.

"I'm fine. The only thing that truly bothers me at this point is that knuckleheaded brute," Hancock gave out as a union of a growl and a moan of pain.

"RASENGAN!"

"GAH!"

The resounding crash into the side of the cavern did little to help Naruto's case in the eyes of the two Boa sisters.

"Ha ha! That's what you get for messing with Naruto Uzumaki! Believe it!"

"Please tell me he isn't this energetic..." Sandersonia crooned.

"Unfortunately he is..."

XVX

Ice/snow field

"Chidori!" A lightning coated hand pierced through a wall of ice, but the real target wasn't there.

"Ice Release: Dread Spear!" With a swivel of the head, Sasuke's Sharingan witnessed the javelin seeking his life to which he flipped away from and landed in a crouch, only to roll forward to avoid the arm-blade of another shinobi trying to slay him.

He "humphed" as he cracked his neck at the new arrival to his skirmish.

XVX

"Where is everyone?" Sakura mumbled to herself as she started to climb the side of a hill with a gentle slope.

XVX

For Kakashi, he could breath a little easier knowing that the rogue team sent against him is now at half strength.

However that was cold comfort. So far none of his opponents showed any real skill as a shinobi; they relied on their armor too much for a jutsu offensive where other skills could be useful. They were especially weak in the department of taijutsu. However there is still a sizable chance that the others were their superiors in some function, and anything can and most likely will happen f given a chance.

So far he only encountered a total of six shinobi originating Yuki but no one else. Not his team. Not the ship's crew. Not any of the other passengers of the ship. Not even a bird.

Smack!

Mosquitoes, somehow alive despite the temperature, notwithstanding.

"Ow..."

XVX

Yuki base camp

"Oof!" A sailor grunted as he was shoved into a carved pit with a number of his companions and some of the passengers of the wrecked ship.

"Excuse me sir, but what's the point in-"

The shinobi in question never finished his sentence when ice encased his body long before he knew his end had come.

The only other member of the group of rogues, aside from the one sitting on block of ice in a long billowing cloak of dark purple regality, kept his own distance and choose not to speak a work as the hands of the cloaked one balled into fists.

"Bleeding hearts like theirs will ultimately lure them here," the cloaked man answered heatedly as he glared at a figure only perceivable to him.

XVX

Mountainside

"Can you be any rougher?" Sandersonia chided as the pair of blonds ferried her sister along the rough pathway leading to the valley below.

"Hey! Its not easy with all this jagged ice and stuff! Not to mention we could be attacked at any given moment!" a Naruto rebuked.

"Then wouldn't it be easier to defend against an attack from higher ground?" Sandersonia stated more than questioned in a half heated growl, joined in by the grunt of approval from Hancock.

Both Naruto's twitched at that, with enough force to even jerk their heads to the side.

"Yeah..." he shakily replied. "But!" he suddenly added, "this path we're one only leads to that cave I was fighting in earlier!"

It was the sisters' turn to twitch at being bested by who they deemed dimwitted.

It was then things got hectic: Naruto, with eyes closed as he laughed in victory, stubbed his toe on an outlying and unyielding piece of ice. Overwhelmed by the sudden onrush of pain, he let go of the stretcher to grab at his rising foot in an immediate attempt to alleviate the pain. Upon realizing what he just down in onset horror, he twists about in the same spot and lurches downward to grab the falling end of the stretcher only for gravity to take him and have him slide down the icy walkway. In a bid to stop the potential crash of the stretcher, his hands were brought up in a t shaped hand seal as he slide away which conjured another Naruto into existence which did grab the stretcher.

"Hey, watch it you bonehead!" yelled Hancock in an enraged yet frightened fashion.

"Sorry, I just-"

Gravity ensnared the clone too... followed by both Hancock and the only other clone if the 'stretcher' was to be excluded.

"AAAAAAAH!"

During which, the real Naruto groaned as he managed to climb out of a bank of snow. Unfortunately it was the same time he realized his clones and his passenger were also coming at him at inhumane speeds.

"Aw crap..."

Crash!

"You idiot!"

Bonk!

"Ow!"

Sandersonia, standing aloof, gazed on a one sided fight between her older sister and the orange wearing blond with an unhinged jaw. "He's suppose to be protecting us?" she deadpanned.