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 8: He who would be Hokage!
(End Flashback!)
Uzumaki compound
"Ooof!"
"Hissss!"
"Well maybe if you helped, I wouldn't have to bump into the walls to get to the kitchen!"
"Hiss!"
"I'm hungry, you're hungry, let's agree on that much!"
"Do you think we should get Hancock to call off Salome now?" Marigold whispered to Sandersonia as they watch of from around the corner as their younger brother bickered with the snake.
"She's still reminiscing," the green haired teen replied as she quietly munched on a bag of chips.
"I knew I should've gotten the toad!"
A smirk played in unison on both sisters' lips. "Do you remember the day he met Salome for the first time..."
"The only thing missing that particular time was dinner for that show."
(Flashback!)
(Celestial Dragon HQ) Warehouse, Josu
Fingers whitened to that of snow, faces paled to the bone that was underneath it, hearts thundered ominously, and what hoped quailed in silence of its own passing. It was out... any fool that even lived underneath a rock knew the implication of being a slave of the Celestial Dragons. Live, die, escape, become a nun... the rumored experiments of the greatest villain that ever came from the Hidden Leaf village are at least reasonably abhorred when so little of their robbed humanity remained if they were in his eyes a failure...
Yet a slave of the Celestial Dragons were the freaks that were avoided.
"Slaves?" On their own respective accords, their heads bowed...
"Yes! Slaves!" He pointed the sisters in an all too eager, scornful smile. "They are our property which was on loan to that pathetic commoner who claimed himself to be a lord, and we came to reclaim them now that they got free!"
A hand slowly drfted from the bars to the floor of the cage... in quiet mourning, it became an unclenched fist.
"Just who the hell do you think you are?!" All three heads snapped up at the demand to find Naruto snarling, or at least they assumed he was with his back to them given the slight hunch forward, at the now trembling but sneering Celestial. "Do you honestly think you guys are better than everyone else that you have to treat them like trash? People are not slaves you bastard!" He hunched over to a more noticeable degree. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
POOF!
What color there was to be had in a pasty individual who avoided the sun as best he could and even went so far as to try to keep himself from actually touching the world be it the air or the dirt, it fell from his face far faster than his practically unhinged jaw when he came to recognize not one but over eighty of the orange clad blondes now giving him the evil eye...
"GET HIM!"
As a tidal wave would a unset rock, the man was consumed by the angered torrent of yellow and orange that swarmed him in a flurry of raised fists and swinging feet.
"NOT THE FACE! NOT THE FACE!"
"Ugh... wha-?" It took a full moment for the downed Celestial to come to realize his bubble of a helmet was shattered, a fact to which he gasped to in absolute horror as he came to realize he was breathing ordinary air. It was unacceptable! He leapt to his feet to find the one who had the gall to ruin his protection from the world's filthy air and found his gaze settling upon the massive pile of Narutos trying to get at something undoubtedly underneath their numbers.
"You little-..." A kunai was drawn from its holster. "I'll make you pay you insigni-"
THWUMP!
And down he went, courtesy of a nonchalant Kakashi landing atop of him with an open copy of his favored book in one hand. "Well, I suppose I made the right call in keeping an eye on Naruto..." he mused as he watched the blocked off mauling of the other Celestial who managed to get a scream loose here and there in between the shifting numbers. "Not sure that it was neccesary," he further commented as he looked to the defeated Celestial underneath him...
He shrugged and resumed his reading.
(End Flashback!)
Within her room, Hancock at long last closed her eyes and sighed a pleasant sigh as she finally laid the tarnished garment atop her bed. She moaned slightly as she stretched her arms and then her back to work out the kinks that found themselves there before she rose up from her seat to make for the door.
She stopped a good inch away from the need to reach out to grab the doorknob when her eyes skimmed across and settled upon a portrait that brought a dearer smile to her lips. It was of their time in Juso by some food stand a photographer had set up next to. She couldn't bring herself to remember what that stand hocked to the crowds... There she was towards the left of the photo, next to a somewhat nervous and paled Naruto eying a newborn Salome nervously while he coiled around her right arm in his own curiosity. Even blind men could see the amused smirk garnered from his dread of the snake at the time that was shared amongst the sister as the other two leaned and tilted towards the paranoid genin. She touched it affectionately in her passing.
(Flashback!)
The once proud Celestial now simply laid on the ground as a bloodied heap sporting more than enough bumps to accentuate the result of his one sided skirmish with an army of clones. It was cold comfort at worst at least... the future, and likewise people, had a bad habit of surprising people for better or worse. The latter of which often being more... memorable...
Before the sullen sisters at a small distance was the genin of Konoha listening to a brief description of who it was he just faced... and their vested into the three sisters with but few details left out as an omission. None of them could tell if he was just trying to be merciful or cruel on his part. Not that they cared...
Had the door not lay in a path that would've ensured some contact between the two of them, they would've left long beforehand...
When the sound of sandals gently padding towards them did they officially focus their attention to the cause of it. It was the Naruto, still clutching the large egg to his chest, his face unreadable as he made his way to and stopped in front of them.
Then he smiled. An unprovoked smile that they couldn't quite comprehend... but enjoyed regardless to a curious extent.
"Truce?" He offered the egg to them with an ear splitting, toothy grin.
Crick!
"Hm?" The egg began to jostle and crack along the top.
Crick! Crick-crick!
CRACK!
"Hsssss!" For the span of two seconds one Naruto Uzumaki came to have a staring contest with a newborn snake...
Before freaking out.
"SNAKE!" he cried as he mindlessly tossed it forward, jumped back over a crate, trip on said crate when his heel made contact with it as oppose to its counterpart's rest on the floor, and cracked his head on the floor before rising up with a shaky kunai as his defense.
"My, Naruto, I didn't know you were afraid of snakes," Kakashi remarked with a raised brow.
"You try being swallowed up by one in your very first encounter and targeted by them ever since!"
An honest chuckle interjected at its own accord, and both shinobi turned to Hancock as she gently petted the snake with a sincere smile. A peaceful one. One that took a slightly darker edge when the eyes they belong to gained a puckish quality as they settled on a gulping blond.
"So," she started as her grin became a bit more evil, "you're not a fan of snakes are you?" She took a step forward, snake in tow by right of it curling around her hand, and observe the genin take an immediate two steps back...
He was already out the door by the time she came to a sudden sprint.
"COME BACK NARUTO! I DON'T THINK YOU'VE BEEN PROPERLY INTRODUCED TO SALOME!"
"KEEP THAT SNAKE AWAY FROM ME!"
Kakashi only shook his head in mild exasperation when the two remaining sisters joined in the chase that left him alone with the unconscious Celestials. "Kids," he rumbled as he grabbed the nearest piece of rope and snapped it to test its strength. "Well, this should do..."
A/N: To be honest I couldn't find a way to introduce this into the story nor do I believe myself capable of properly doing so in future chapters, so here it is in a spoiler-esque fashion in regards of Boa Hancock and her sisters and their powers/status:
Genetic alteration to produce Kekkai Genkai-like abilities such as (namely in this case) Hancock's prettification ability. Orochimaru doesn't have a monopoly in experimentation. If anything he's more interested in particular traits than anything else (in my point of view at least). Combine that with a little breaking of wills, some mental degradation from years of abuse and viola, you have the bases of others of similar standing giving the others a bad name and alienating them from help via attempting to please their masters and such.
For what it's worth I hope this goes towards satisfying your curiosity and answers at least a few of your questions.
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