Shinobi Gods of the Ocean

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Chapter 3: And So the Heavens Fall

Leaving Ohara behind him, Naruto watched the sun set with Saul, Robin, and Olvia. Saul sat at the middle of the raft, gently guiding the mass of wood with a makeshift paddle. Robin and Olvia sat more near the edge, catching up with one another after all the time they had been separate. Naruto, well, he didn't have much to do and wasn't really in the mood to bother the two ladies while they caught up. Talking with the giant was also off the list as said giant was just starting to come to terms with the real meaning behind what it meant to betray the marines (and would occasionally take glimpses at Robin).

It was becoming night and started to get chilly and there was no land in sight. So, Naruto decided it would probably be best if everyone retired for the night inside the Tree of Knowledge which he had hidden away inside his pocket dimension. Forming a Kamui, Naruto took the crew (raft and all) inside his pocket dimension.

Simplest way to put it, everyone was incredibly surprised when they first arrived in the pocket of space. Nico Olvia was moved to tears when she saw the Tree of Knowledge had survived the whole ordeal. Olvia had been knocked out for the majority of the battle at Ohara and had only seen the aftermath, that being the tree gone from where it stood before and the marine's ships gone. She had assumed that the tree had been uprooted and taken, along with the Poneglyph, but now she saw the tree was alive and well.

Nico Robin was happy to see the Tree of Knowledge doing well but was more surprised by the fact that they had just stepped through a wormhole into who-knows-where. The young archeologist inside her was almost taking over her and making her check all the random but obviously priceless items scattered about (almost). The only thing keeping the girl from running straight for the artifacts was her mother, who she refused to be separated from.

Jaguar D. Saul was stunned into silence, but mostly because his eyes were set on one item. There, about two hundred feet to his left, on top of a pile of what looked to be ancient giant's armor and weapons, was the Colossus Spatha. A unique giant weapon forged from the now lost Skyforge of Elbaf, the Colossus Spatha was said to be one out of twelve great weapons granted to the giants by the gods themselves.

Without noticing, Saul had already covered the distance between him and the giant sword and reached out for said blade. He half expected the sword to explode or disappear or maybe even crumple from the long years, but when he lifted the mighty weapon, the sword seemed to be intact. Nay, not intact, but in great condition as if it had been made the day before.

Leaving a clone behind to help Olvia and Robin settle in, Naruto shunshined onto Saul's shoulder, the giant not even noticing the added weight due to his marveling of said sword. "You know" Naruto said, startling the giant. Said giant looked at the blonde sheepishly before lowering the sword. "I never really decided what I was going to do with that thing. I got it as a gift long ago to use when I was in Expansion Jutsu mode but I prefer to use my other weapon. He then turned to look the giant in the eye. "You protected Robin, even though you had to go against your duty as a Vice-Admiral. Thus, you've earned my trust. I'll let you borrow the Spatha as long as you continue to protect Robin no matter what."

At this, the giant opened his eyes wide before turning his head back to the Spatha. After a minute, the giant turned back to Naruto. "I was planning to protect her no matter what. With this, I will become the greatest warrior Elbaf has ever known, even if I may not be from Elbaf. I swear, upon my honor, to protect Nico Robin and crush any who stand in our way."

With a nod, Naruto got off the giant's shoulder and walked away, the giant giving a short bow to the blonde. "Oh" Naruto said, "I almost forgot, you can borrow some of the armor too. Just don't break it, it's one of a kind."

"I swear" Saul replied behind Naruto, standing up to look at the pile of giant's armor.

When Naruto reached the treehouse, he say the clone waiting for him at the door. He removed the clone and walked right into the treehouse. In hindsight, it would have probably been a better idea to knock before entering. Luckily, when Naruto entered the building, the place was looking spick and span. Travelling through a Kamui could disrupt items and he had assumed books to be sprawled out everywhere. Instead, what he saw was that the room was completely cleaned out, with all the books placed back into their respective shelves and all the tables and chairs put away (except for one lone chair and table in a corner). The floorspace was now rather empty except for three sleeping bags. Two of those sleeping bags were already occupied by Robin and Olvia, cuddled into one another and already asleep. The third was probably supposed to be for him. So, he laid down in the sleeping bag and went to sleep.

Four hours passed before Naruto woke up. Being immortal, Naruto had learned that his healing capacity gifted him constant regeneration and thus did not have to sleep as much as regular people. Granted, he still slept every day as he didn't like feeling sleep deprived and some days he would sleep for longer periods of time just because he could.

Going outside, Naruto noticed Saul was asleep next to the pile of giant armor, snoring away like a wild lion (his mane definitely made the image stronger). So, Naruto decided to do some more island hopping.

Exiting his Kamui, Naruto stood on the water and noted that it was now pitch black outside. So, he decided that would be best to go somewhere with a bit of sun. Making a seal (as it was too early to start showing off), Naruto Hiraishin-ed to the other side of the world.

Standing in front of a beautiful mansion, Naruto stretched in front of the now morning sun. No one seemed to be awake yet so Naruto started his workout with some stretches. Here, at the top of the Red Line, the World Nobles lived out their days inside their mansions, oblivious to the real world. Naruto had made frequent visits here to rescue slaves here or there. So far, he had never been caught (since World Nobles rarely woke up before noon). He wasn't planning on conquering the world or anything so he decided to right the wrongs one step at a time.

As he started his morning jog around the town, he made sure to mark and remember which houses had how many slaves and where they would be at this time of day (either asleep, making breakfast, or doing chores. Nobody was allowed out before noon). After he was finished with that, he decided to work on his haki techniques. Moving to a nearby lawn about the size of the Hokage Monument, Naruto focused on sending chakra to his right arm. When enough chakra had made it there, he turned the chakra into elemental chakra. Naruto had found that elemental chakra didn't actually have to be an element like air or water. Instead, in it's pure, unaltered form, the elemental chakra on his right arm became black, made of the same composition as the Truth Seeking Balls.

With this, Naruto had learned that he would be able to hit Logia type devil fruit users, something that hadn't been an issue for him yet but could be helpful. Letting the chakra fade from his arm, he then poured some into his mind. By doing so, he was able to use Mind's Eye of the Kagura, a technique that Karin had (after much convincing) taught the blonde. He then changed the chakra to elemental chakra, but only in a very small dose. By doing this, his Mind's Eye of the Kagura became a bit blurry but allowed him to sense everything around him.

It was surreal, like being in Sage Mode and Kyubi form at the same time. He could tell where everybody was, what people were thinking around him, and could even perceive a bit into the future. Training this ability showed that he could raise his precognition to probably near infinite levels, but with a small backlash. Letting the chakra leave his mind, Naruto was hit by a wave of nausea and headache. It would take some time getting used to this ability, but he would continue to work on it.

'Last but not least' Naruto thought, gathering as much willpower as he could for this next part. Then, he released it. Sending out pure willpower, instead of killing intent which made people feel like they were going to be killed, he focused his energy on the Tenryuubito that owned this particular mansion (who he had sensed before with precognitive haki). After a minute, said Tenryuubito was seen running outside his door screaming like a loon down the street.

With that particular deal done, Naruto set about working on ninjutsu and genjutsu on the unsuspecting World Nobles. Naruto did not enjoy bothering people with pranks like he did as a kid, but it was still interesting to see these "Celestial Dragons" running around like a ghost had got to them.

A few hours later, Naruto was done with his practices and was about to head back to the others in his pocket dimension when he saw a fishman walking out of a Tenryuubito's home, his hands and feet bloody, his neck collar gone, wielding multiple weapons including a pistol, a portable cannon, and multiple swords. One of the swords in his hand were bloody.

Naruto quickly deduced that this fishman was a (former) slave who had just killed his master and was planning on running away. Approaching the fishman, whose was around twelve feet tall, had red skin color, and wore rags (like other slaves), Naruto quickly decided to save the individual.

Placing a hand on the fishman's arm, Naruto put a Hiraishin tag and asked his famous question. "Want to be free?"

Said fishman was so surprised that he elbowed Naruto out of instinct, who then flew across the street and into a wall, destroying part of one mansion. The fishman quickly shook himself out of his stupor and walked up to his fellow slave (as all beings on the Red Line who weren't officials, World Nobles, or Marines were slaves) to see if he was still alive. Naruto pulled himself up out of the rubble looking untouched.

In truth, Naruto had been in a world of pain upon being hit and smashing the wall but had healed over quickly, much to the blonde's relief. After dusting himself off, Naruto tried approaching the fishman again, a bit more cautiously this time.

After talking about what was going on, Fisher Tiger (which the fishman had introduced himself as) thanked the blonde for saving his fellow slaves. A rumor had been going around amongst the slaves that there was a hero who would appear out of nowhere to save someone before disappearing again. Upon meeting said hero, Fisher Tiger had been very grateful for what he did.

But Tiger wasn't ready to leave just yet. Even though Naruto was against it, Tiger was planning to wreak as much havoc to Mariejois as possible before they escaped. Naruto decided to let the fishman enact his revenge (he was still against it) and decided to get other slaves out of the way while the pandemonium ensued.

And sure enough, it was sheer pandemonium. The World Nobles, who thought nobody would touch them, had no defenses ready for such an attack. Naruto watched as most of this was happening and merely moved slaves out of the way of Tiger's rampage. He wanted to free them all but knew that if too many slaves went missing at once, the Nobles would think they were running away and try to send out bounties for them.

This was until one Noble raised a gun and fired it. Not at Fisher Tiger, but at a harmless slave girl no more than 12 who had been cheering Tiger on from the sidelines. Naruto had not expected something so evil to happen and had not accounted for it, freezing up when the action took place. The girl was hit in the chest and immediately collapsed.

In a blind rage, Naruto pulled a sword out via Kamui and charged at the World Noble, cutting him down where he stood. He then ran to another, and another, cutting them all down. By this point, most of the World Nobles had been evacuated by the Marines who had showed up and were trying to subdue Fisher Tiger. Thus, when Naruto had cut down his twelfth World Noble, he found he was surrounded by Marines.

Not batting an eye, Naruto ran towards the Marines who dared to get in his way, cutting them down as well with just his sword. In no time, he cleared out the area and was about to head to Fisher Tiger when he sensed someone entering his sensing range and coming in fast. He shunshined to the top of a mansion just as the ground he had been standing on previously exploded, as if an invisible rocket launcher had impacted.

Then, about a hundred feet away from him, a man appeared seemingly out of nowhere (although he had just been moving really fast). "Minato Namikaze" the new man said "what a pleasure to kill you." Then the new man ran towards Naruto at almost the speed of sound.

Jumping away to another roof, Naruto saw that the man was wearing a Marines Coat draped around his shoulders. The Marine was around 6 feet tall, muscular, and wore sunglasses. He was tan and had a scar running down the left side of his face all the way from his forehead, across his eye, to his bottom left lip.

"Impressive, to dodge my attacks like that" the Marine said. "Very well, I shall accept you as a worthy opponent. I am Admiral Sprint of the Marines. I ate the Speed Speed Fruit, which allows me to change the speed that I and anything I touch can move at. Even if you can see my moves with haki, it won't matter if I'm faster than you. One hit and it'll be my victory." With a condescending smirk, the Admiral picked up a discarded sword and again charged at the Marine.

Naruto was prepared this time, raising his own sword to block the attack. As the Admiral and he pushed against one another, neither able to overpower the other, the Admiral took a look at the sword. Then, the Admiral's eyes widened before flashing away a good distance from the blonde.

"No, it can't be! That sword, it's the mythical cursed sword Yatsufusa! How did you obtain this relic!" the Admiral yelled towards the blonde.

Looking down at his sword, Naruto saw that he had indeed pulled out the Yatsufusa when he had been reaching for Sasuke's Chidori Blade. He felt like the sword was laughing at him now, almost as if to mock him. Naruto had sworn never to use Yatsufusa ever again due to its evil abilities, but, after finding that the sword was indestructible, had stored it away in his pocket dimension in a far corner where no one would ever find it. And yet, here it was.

"Answer me you brat!" the Admiral yelled across the distance, still staying away as long as the blonde had the sword. The Marine knew that one wrong move could cost him his life and it was not one he was willing to freely give to the blonde to play with. The blonde was too much of an unknown variable to attack now, not until he could retrieve some more battle data.

Naruto, upon being called a brat, got a tick mark on his head before rushing back at the Admiral, forgetting that he was still wielding Yatsufusa. The battle was titanic, destroying nearly half of Mariejois. Countless Marines got caught up in their actions and were killed.

The two reasons it was so hard to beat the Admiral was Naruto was A) Tired from his morning practice. Plus, his chakra levels were tiny now at the level of his Academy days (which had been around the level of a Kage) and even those were too drained from his morning exercises and attacking the World Nobles and Marines for him to use any special attacks. B) This Admiral was good! He could literally speed up or slow down anything he touched, letting him pick up just about anything from a ten ton destroyed wall to a light discarded weapon and throw it at him at the speed of sound. Anything Naruto threw at him the Admiral would catch and make it not move at all! Naruto also couldn't engage in physical contact since the Admiral would touch him and make him unable to move like those objects he had thrown.

In short, he was stuck. The Admiral wouldn't let up, so gathering senjutsu chakra was out of the picture. He didn't have enough chakra to form his own water. The nearest source of water was thousands of feet down the mountain. In short, he had no idea what to do.

Then a revelation hit him. Using the tiny amount of chakra he had replenished during the fight, Naruto Kamui-ed a bucket of water on top of the Admiral. Not expecting that to happen, the Admiral didn't see it until the water spilled out all over him.

The Admiral fell to his knees coughing up water that had gotten into his lungs when he breathed it in. Looking up, the Admiral saw Naruto standing over him with Yatsufusa pointed at his throat. The Admiral then started cracking up and declared that Naruto could not win, before putting Armament Haki all over himself, making his skin turn black and impenetrable.

Naruto put haki on his own sword as well, which surprised the Admiral. "Stand. Down." Naruto said to the kneeling Admiral. In response, the Admiral punched the sword in an effort to knock it out of the blonde's hands.

Naruto simply raised the sword for but a moment before swinging it down, cutting the Admiral's arm.

"Argh!" The Admiral cried, clutching at the wound. He then gave a smirk. "It seems your willpower is greater than mine, Minato Namikaze. I will remember this day."

Naruto raised Yatsufusa to put it away, he had won the fight. He wasn't for killing and would let the Marine go, especially not with this cursed blade. Almost as if reading his thoughts, the sword suddenly became heavier, falling out of the blonde's grip and cutting down the Admiral in front of him. A look of shock passed through the Admiral's eyes before he slumped over, lifeless.

In rage, Naruto picked up the sword and threw it as far away as he could, before figuring that it probably wasn't a good idea to let that sword go free and do whatever it wanted. So, he Hiraishin-ed to it (luckily he had a tag on it) and put it away before going back to Mariejois.

There was nobody left now, and the city was in complete ruins, bodies of people he had cut down with the cursed blade scattered around. Naruto decided he needed to get rid of all evidence that this had ever happened, if not to save his own reputation than to save Robin. He sat down on a broken house and gather as much Sage Chakra as he could in five minutes. So that he would never be tempted to use the bodies as puppets, Naruto activated the Rinnegan and hovered over the Holy City.

"And so the Heavens fell" Naruto said as he raised one arm into the air. "Shinra Tensei!" A ripple of force came out from where the blonde floated, demolishing the city into even more pieces and destroying the majority of the bodies there. But Naruto wasn't done.

"Chibaku Tensei!" Naruto said as he moved his arm down so he extended his arm out in front of him.

At this, a black orb that looked like no light could ever escape it came into existence in front of said hand and moved out and away from the blonde. All the debris from the ground, basically the entire city of what was Mariejois, including a good portion of the mountain, came together on the orb, making an even bigger orb around 500 feet in diameter.

If one was going to show off, might as well give them the whole shebang, right? "Tengai Shinsei!" Naruto said as he lowered his arm further till it was at his side, making a meteorite appear from the sky, which collided with the Chibaku Tensei and crashed both into the Red Line and what was formerly the location of Mariejois, wiping out any and all evidence that there was a city here except for the thousand by thousand foot crater. It seemed almost like a valley cutting through a mountain from far away.

With that, Naruto gave a smirk and a mental jeer to the dark sword (which was safely put away into a far far corner of his pocket dimension) before making a Kamui and leaving the area.

Unbeknownst to him, a single Marine ship and its crew that had been waiting for the Admiral to come back at the base of the Red Line had watched the whole thing.

Fleet Admiral Thunder looked at the report that sat at his table and felt like the world was ending. The report stated something impossible, telling him that the entirety of the Holy Land Mariejois was gone. He just couldn't believe it. How could the Holy Land, which had been around for centuries, be destroyed in the course of a single day!

The report also stated that Admiral Sprint had not made it out of the ordeal. The man had been a thorn in the Fleet Admiral's side, always causing excessive property damage. But the man had still been a good man.

He then saw the pictures next to all the reports. It was unmistakably Minato Namikaze, floating thousands of feet in the air over the water, using his vortex fruit powers to summon a force that caused a giant ripple of air, then summoned a black orb that made the Holy Land into an orb, then summoned a meteor from space to smash down and destroy all evidence that the city had been there.

These vortex fruit powers, they were looking to be a real big problem. Thus, he raised Naruto's bounty significantly, from the original 37,000,000 beri he proposed a day ago to 400,000,000 beri, the biggest bounty hike to be given in centuries. The Tenryuubito would probably call for more, seeing as to how this blonde basically destroyed Mariejois. But no, it was better not to give the blonde too much attention.

Plus, this wasn't going to be his problem anymore. After Mariejois was attacked, the Tenryuubito demanded a scapegoat from the Marines, and he was going to have to take that burden and resign. His post would be taken over by Admiral Sengoku "The Buddha", who was the most level headed out of his Admirals.

There was the other report too, of course. It was of minor concern but it was still there, the issue of Fisher Tiger. He was a runaway slave who had killed a number of Tenryuubito, freed countless slaves, and was the ringleader for this whole ordeal. Thus, he would be getting a big bounty too. After some consideration, he chose 230,000,000 beri. It was a huge amount, the largest starting bounty ever, and, to the Fleet Admiral, still too high. But the Tenryuubito would be enraged otherwise.

The Marine on duty took the reports to publish them, along with the Marine's version of the story. 'Even though the Heavens fall, the Earth will continue to rise' the Admiral thought…; before taking out a notepad and writing that particular line down.

Hi everyone, this story is just soooo much fun to write for me I can't stop. (Still, no promises on release dates.)

I know a lot of people were annoyed that I misrepresented Naruto's power when I said he was at the level of an academy graduate. What I meant to say was that his chakra reserves were at the level when he was an academy graduate. Naruto's mental condition did not change. Naruto is nowhere near his dimension hopping bada**ery but he's still about the level of a low-Kage right now.

Admiral Sprint was not weak but he wasn't that strong either. He's around I would say Crocodile's level (in canon), or at least he was supposed to be.

Also, what do you guys think about Naruto's new bounty? I don't really want to but I could always change his bounty if people didn't like it. Sorry to those who don't like it rising so fast. I also still need a nickname for him and Olvia and Saul for their bounties!

Thanks for reading everyone and see you next chapter!