It was a foggy day in Port Konoha, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki was now sitting under a roofed open area in the corner of the fort. She was writing a letter to the king of Iwa, a letter of progress. It had been one year since her eldest son, Hashirama had died. She was upset that the foul ghastly woman had got to him, the same woman who was to bear Hashirama's child. Kaguya would not forgive nor forget what Madara Uchiha had done.
In the middle of the fort, people were being lined up with shackles to their feet and cuffs to their hands, the line was to the gallows.
Lieutenant Gai was in his uniform, he spoke up as he read from a piece of paper, "In order to affect a timely halt to deteriorating conditions and to ensure the common good, a state of emergency is declared for these territories by decree of Lady Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, duly appointed representative of Her Majesty, the king. By decree, according to martial law, the following statutes are temporarily amended: Right to assembly, suspended." While he spoke the men and women who reached the gallows had nooses wrapped around their necks and an executioner pulled a lever, the trap door underneath them was opened, thus snapping their necks or suffocating them.
Gai continued, "Rights to habeas corpus, suspended." Another group was hung.
"Rights to legal counsel, suspended." And another.
"Right to verdict by a jury of peers, suspended." And another...
It had gotten so bad that lieutenant Gai had to look away as people were hanged, dragged off, stripped of their boots and the boots thrown into a pile, and their corpses hauled off on wagons.
But Gai persevered, "By decree, all persons found guilty of piracy, or aiding a person convicted of piracy, or associating with a person convicted of piracy... shall be sentenced to hang by the neck until dead."
The next group of people to be hung included a boy, no older than eight. The boy wasn't tall enough to be hung by the noose, the boy looked up knowing what a noose was and what it symbolized. The boy looked at a coin he had in his hands. The boy began to sing, "The king and his men stole the queen from her bed.
And bound her in her bones.
The seas be ours and by the powers.
Where we will, we'll roam."
The executioner placed a barrel in front of the boy and lifted him onto it, then tied the noose around his neck. The man next to the boy saw that the boy was fearless and brought up some of his courage, he started singing, "Yo ho. All hands.
Hoist the colors high."
But then it wasn't just him and the boy singing, everyone who had shackles and cuffs started singing. "Heave-ho.
Thieves and beggars. Never shall we die.
Yo ho.
Haul together.
Hoist the colors high."
The guards began getting uneasy due to the singing, lieutenant Itachi ran up to Kaguya, "Lady Ōtsutsuki! They've started to sing, milady."
Kaguya smirked, "Finally." She wanted to crush piracy once and for all, but she had to crush their hope first.
"Heave-ho, thieves and beggars. Never shall we die."
The boy clutched onto his silver coin before the executioner pulled the lever, killing the boy and his group.