Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or One Piece.
A/N: OK, I hope you like this mass update of all of my stories. Remember I got a new poll with the top 20 so pick 5 of the ones you want me to do next.
And also updating this and Naruto on Board for the 20th Anniversary of One Piece back in July, and it reaching 800 episodes recently.
ALSO, I'll be focusing on Hero Ring to finish out season 2 while we're waiting on season 3 as we're in the last ten episodes and it may still be a year away from it premiering.
Beta: Memodo Shiki.
Chapter XV.
Last Time.
Later, Naruto was standing on top of the sail before looking to see a giant frog with yellow-brown skin and black hair worn in a chomage. He has many scars on his belly and fanged teeth.
"What the hell?" Naruto asked before flipping off to the deck. "I see a large frog... Doing the Front Crawl!"
"After him!" Luffy yelled as he, Chopper, and Usopp saw the frog. Zoro helped steer the Merry to follow the frog who was swimming to a small lighthouse island with a white house and a staircase/bridge connecting it to another small island.
They went to it, and suddenly hit something that sent them forward. Naruto created several clones to catch the women. "What the hell did we hit!?"
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
They blinked hearing a railroad crossing bell before Naruto looked to see railroad tracks just under the water. "Holy shit!" He glanced to see a crossing light before looking down to see a train riding on the water to them.
"TRAIN!"
Now.
S.H.C. Lighthouse.
"GET THE MERRY AWAY!" Nami yelled as the others tried their best to get off the train tracks. And narrowly missed getting hit by the train.
"What the hell is a train doing on the water?" Naruto asked sitting down on the deck.
"You know what the hell that is?" Gina asked pointing as the train cars went by.
"Yeah, it's called a train. In my world they're on land. Not on the freaking water!"
"Get out of there!"
Naruto looked to see Yokozuna try to stop the train, only to get hit, and sent to the side, bending the guard on the front of the train as it left.
"Obaa-chan! (Granny!) Obaa-chan! (Granny!) Pirates!"
The Crew looked to the house and saw an old woman, a girl, and a blue rabbit coming out.
The woman she is perpetually smiling regardless of her actual emotions. She has an obese body shape that, along with her smile, makes her look like a frog. She has blonde hair pulled into pigtails under a large conductor's hat, a pink jacket draped over her shoulders, and a white dress shirt under a purple vest with yellow buttons.
She has a red tie with yellow polka dots, khaki pant with a red flow on each legs, and boots.
The girl has long green hair in pigtails that stands up, and are puffy at the end, along with sandals and a short white shirt over a striped dress, of orange and red stripes.
Naruto, Luffy, Nami, and Usopp dropped down as the women explained their names are Kokoro, and Chimney and how the Sea-Train works by going to the islands around them, carrying passengers, and supplies to each. And how Yokozuna tests his strength by trying and stop the train when it passes.
"Oh... I thought he was just stupid." Luffy said with a grin.
Kokoro explained the next island is called Water 7, a place world famous for its Shipwrights, and techniques for building and fixing ships before giving Luffy a folded note for a man named Iceberg that'll help them get their ship fixed before they left.
Later, they came up to Water 7, which looked like a large fountain with canals and waterways to travel on. There's a large stone wall around the edge with numbers on each door.
"Hey!"
They looked to see a fisherman near them waving. "Pirates shouldn't just sail to the front! Use the back street entrance there!" He pointed to a canal in a small neighborhood.
As they sailed, they saw more canals to traverse through the city before several people actually gave them directions to dock their ship where it would be hidden.
"I guess pirates are just customers here." Naruto said steering the Merry through the canals up to a small rocky, and green cove. Once docking, Zoro pulled up the sail.
Crack!
And had the mast bend as he pulled the rope.
"Hey! Watch it!" Usopp yelled as the women walked out.
Nami is wearing a blue button shirt, light blue tie with black spots at the end, white skirt,and dark blue high heels.
Gina was wearing black jeans, red tennis shoes, and a red shirt with black claw marks on the front.
Naruto went with Nami, Luffy, Gina, and Usopp to trade the gold, and find Iceburg to fix the Merry. Missing Robin leave with Chopper
She's now wearing a short, black, cleavage-revealing leather dress with long sleeves over what looked like a lighter, white polka-dotted under dress. She also has black thigh high-heeled boots.
Sanji waved as he wore a black vest over an orange, pinstriped shirt.
Naruto, Nami, Gina, Luffy, And Usopp.
Luffy pulled a cart with the gold as Nami, and Usopp joked about Luffy losing it, after he forgot it on the Merry. They walked up to a building that had 'Rental Bullshop' sign above the door.
"What's a rental Bullshop?" Nami asked looking at the sign.'
"Maybe it's what they use to get around." Naruto said, putting his hands in his pockets. "You saw the city streets were flooded, they would need something to get around faster and carry large supplies."
"Hey! We want to rent some Bulls!" Luffy yelled walking inside.
"Find out what the hell they are first!" The other yelled at him.
They walked inside where they saw a man with black hair, goatee, and small glasses reading a paper.
"What's that? You want to rent a Bull? How many people?"
"We got five." Luffy said holding out five fingers.
"For your group, we'll get three Yagara." He led them over to see a pen of horse like fish with their heads sticking out of the water.
He then picked up three two people boats that he put on three of them. "That'll be 3,000 Berries."
Naruto shrugged before pulling out a frog wallet and handed the man the money before picking up the bag of gold and put it in the back seat of one before getting in the front.
"I'll protect the bag." The women pouted at first until Naruto said that before nodded.
"OK, makes sense." Nami said getting in one boat with Gina getting in the back. Luffy and Usopp got in the third before Nami spoke up. "Where can we go to cash in gold.
"Best ones are downtown at the shipbuilding island."
Later, they rode the Yagara in the canals and down a waterway to the shopping district before riding up to a water elevator. They floated up to the top as the door closed and saw Shipwright's Island with ports around the area with several cranes.
They went up to a shipyard with a large crowd and a large door that had a '1' on it.
"Something must be going on." Gina said before hearing the people speak.
"Look! It's Lucci! He's so handsome!"
Lucci is a very tall and slim, yet muscular man with arched eyebrows and a close-shaved goatee. He has shoulder length wavy hair that is tied in a ponytail. He has a pigeon perched quietly on his right shoulder. He has a tattoo of a crossed-out square on each upper arm.
He's wearing a large black top hat, brown trousers with caramel suspenders over a white tank-top and shoes with black toe-cap.
"Lulu! Now there's a real man!"
Lulu is a muscular man with black hair and a mustache and is wearing sunglasses. He has a part of his hair sticking up.
His upper body is covered with intricate tattoos, green on his chest, and red on his arms. He's wearing pants that have lighter colored stripes around his waist and on the top of the legs, and standard shoes.
"Whatever! No one's manlier than Tilestone!"
Tilestone is a very large man. He has brown hair tied in a ponytail on the back, and a light-brown beard. He has a tattoo going from his chest near his shoulder to his arm with the kanji for "Shipwright".
He's wearing a pair of crimson elbow-pads, knee-long pants and standard shoes.
"Hey Mister!" Luffy said to a man with balding grey hair and black mustache.
"What's going on?" Luffy asked as Naruto added chakra to his arms and legs to lift the large bag of gold.
"Some boneheaded pirates trying to pick a fight with the shipwrights. Happens all the time. But our guys took care of them."
"The Shipwrights can beat up pirates?" Luffy asked as Naruto walked up.
"I guess that explains why everyone is so lax when pirates are here."
Robin, and Chopper.
Robin and Chopper walked down the streets, him in his reindeer form. They noticed people wearing costumes and masks before Robin explained there's a nearby island that holds a costume carnival everyday before Chopper went ahead to a bookshop as a masked person past Robin.
"CP-9."
He whispered getting her to widen her eyes as Chopper went inside, and then disappeared into the crowd.
The Going Merry.
"Hey! Marimo! (Moss Head!)" Sanji yelled to Zoro who was sleeping against the railing.
He opened his eyes and saw Sanji smoking. "Nani? (What?)"
"Where's Robin-chan?"
"She went shopping with Chopper." Zoro replied getting a frustrated sigh from the blonde haired cook.
"OK. I need to get our groceries anyway. Protect the ship while I'm gone."
Later.
Clang!
Zoro unsheathed Kitetsu to block a strike from a sword and opened his eyes to see a bunch of men surrounding him. All wearing black overalls with a red star on the chest.
"Temes (Bastards.) sure have a lot of nerve. Who are you?" Zoro asked pushing the sword away as he put his other hand on Yubashiri.
"You don't know who we are, really? Because we know who you are Pirate Hunter!" One man with messy black hair said as Zoro glanced around.
"Babies cry at the mention of our name! We are the most feared bounty hunters. We are the Furankī Ikka! (Franky Family!) And we're here for your bounty!"
Zoro easily blocked another attack as he pulled Yubashiri out. He punched the man away as the others attacked.
Zoro holds his swords in front of him pointing up, like rhinoceros horns, and spins around quickly. "Nintoryu: Sai Kuru! (Two Sword Style: Rhino Revolver!)"
The Franky Family were thrown into the ocean, having Zoro go back to sleep, sheathing his swords.
Naruto, Nami, Gina, Luffy, And Usopp. Gold Cashing Building.
The Crew walked in and Naruto went to a teller.
"What do you want? We're busy."
"We need to cash in this gold." Naruto said hefting up the bag.
The man just went off screaming having Naruto blink.
A man with black slicked back hair and a mustache he pointing up took them to a V.I.P. room and examined their gold.
Nami, Usopp, and Luffy sat on a couch as her eyebrow twitched while they bounced on the seat. Though the reason for her twitching eyebrows because Naruto sat in a seat by her with Gina sitting in his lap.
After a minute, Usopp spoke up. "Hey, you're not saying anything. Don't tell me you think it's fake."
"No far from it! This treasure, I valued at..."
"100 MILLION BERRIES?!" Luffy yelled out as Nami narrowed her eyes.
Right before Luffy signed the contract, Nami slammed her foot on the table.
"Before we sign, there are a few things I want to say. First: They have a combined bounty of 200 million berry. Second: I don't accept the appraisal. Third: If you try and lie to us again. It'll be the last thing you ever do again."
"Please forgive me!"
Later, all but Naruto played in a pile of 300 million berries as he sighed before getting three suitcases.
Later, they went back to the shipyard as Nami, Usopp, and Luffy each held a suitcase and talk on how to find Iceburg.
And Luffy tried to go over the small wooden fence.
"Hold it right there."
A man who has big black eyes with 3 eyelashes on top of his eye, and a long nose similar to Usopp's, only rectangular in shape, stopped Luffy from going over the fence.
He's wearing a white cap, a high-collared orange shirt with blue sleeves, jeans and white sneakers.
"You got a lot of gumption just walking in."
"Gumption?" Naruto raised an eyebrow at elderly lingo the man used.
The man came over the fence and put his hands on his hips. "Alright champ. What brings you to the docks today?"
"Come on Usopp. Quit messing around." Luffy said as Usopp stood beside him.
"I'm right beside you baka! (Idiot!)"
"His nose is square." Gina said looking at the man's nose.
Nami sighed and explained they're looking for Iceberg and handed him the letter from Kokoro.
"Wow that's nifty. Not every day youngsters come here with a letter from Kokoro-Baachan. (Granny.)"
"How old are you?" Luffy asked looking at the man.
"23, why do you ask?"
"For someone who's not that older than us, you talk like an old man." Usopp said having the man chuckle.
"I get that a lot."
"Do you know him?" Nami asked the man, getting him to nod
"Yeah, he's the Mayor of the city."
"Wow, Ice-Pop's an important guy, huh?" Luffy asked amazed.
"Darn skippy he is. He's also the president of our Galley-La Company. And manager of the Sea Train as well."
Naruto heard swooning before looking back, and saw some women blush, looking at his bare chest as the wind pushed his jean shirt back.
He looked back to see the man take off his tool belt and started stretching before running to the water elevator and jumped down.
"Huh. Must be one of those free running guys." Naruto said before turning back to the others.
"OK, let's look for that Iceberg fellow." Gina said turning around.
"That's me."
They looked to see a man with a woman standing just behind them.
The man is a tall man with blue hair and similarly colored lips. He's wearing a red and orange striped jacket over an unbuttoned orange shirt with a wide collar, black suit pants and black shoes. In the left pocket of the jacket, is a white mouse.
The woman is a slim woman with blue eyes and glasses. Her strawberry blonde hair is tied up in a bun.
She has small studded earrings and is wearing a yellow long-sleeved jacket, and high-heel boots.
"By the way Kalifa..." Iceberg said turning to the woman.
"I've already done a background check. The one in the middle is Straw Hat. His crew includes Elemental Sage Naruto on the end, Pirate Hunter Zoro, and Nico Robin."
Iceburg's eyes widened at that before Kalifa continued. "Their combined bounty is 317 million berries. They have five other members without bounties, and they formed in the East Blue. Named after their captain, they're simply known as the Straw Hat Pirates."
"I see. Welcome, my name is Iceburg. I'm the boss here."
(Squeak, squeak)
"And this is a mouse I just picked up." Iceberg said petting the mouse. "His name is... Let's see... Tyrannosaurus. I'll need some food and a cage."
"I've already taken care of that sir." Kalifa said pushing up her glasses.
"Well, amazing work Kalifa." Iceberg said turning to his secretary.
"Just doing my job. Speaking of which... You're due at a hotel for lunch, with a glassware factory executive. After that, you're set to give a speech at the square, and after that you're scheduled to meet with the mayor of Pucie, Mr. Bimine. Their local newspaper are scheduled to do an interview as well."
"Oh! And when you return to the office, there's a folder full of documents that need your signature as well."
"I don't wanna!" Iceberg yelled childishly.
"Very well. I'll cancel them."
"Hold on, you're not serious?!" Usopp yelled as Iceberg turned his attention to them.
"What's the point of having power if I don't get to do what I want?"
"If that's how you run thing. You've got to be the worst mayor in the world!" Usopp said having Luffy nod.
"Yeah Pops, that's pretty lazy. You sure this is the guy the old woman was talking abou-!"
Luffy stopped as Naruto appeared in front of him and grabbed Kalifa's outstretched leg. Naruto noticed her eyes widened at that before looking to Iceburg.
"Gets a little excited, doesn't she? You should tell her that attacking people will lead you to trouble. I mean, what if she attacked some royalty?" Naruto asked before dropping her leg.
"That's sexual harassment!" Kalifa said getting Naruto to sweat-drop.
After handing Iceberg the letter, which he tore after seeing lipstick marks on it. He yawned before picking his nose.
"Let me show you around."
They walked with him, only to stop hearing Usopp yell.
"The money's gone!"
"There!" Gina pointed to two Franky Family members on a Yagara looking inside one of their suitcase's in the middle of the canal.
Naruto jumped over to them, getting surprised looks from the crowd as he landed on the Yagara as it came to another. The men tried to attack, only to get thrown off by Naruto as a man landed on the other bull, using ropes to throw the men off.
He has a cigar in his mouth. He's wearing a denim jacket that has a flame detail, many cigars strapped to it, and a big "1" printed on its back.
His hair is blond and slicked back, and is wearing a pair of orange goggles on top. He is quite muscular, and his attire is completed by a yellow T-shirt, with white concentric circles in the middle of it, a belt around his waist with a little bag attached to it, and a pair of loose trousers tucked inside his boots.
"Hey can you give me my suit-!" Naruto was interrupted by Usopp yelling they have money in the suitcases.
The man grinned and tried to run away, only for a kunai to be at his throat.
"I'll make you famous."
Naruto took the suitcase and turned around, grabbed the man's arm as he tried to attack, and twists it. "Don't do that." Naruto said as Lucci dropped in the Yagara Naruto was on, and twist the man's ear.
Sanji.
Sanji was walking the streets with several bags of food before coming to a dead end. "Oh don't tell me Zoro is rubbing off of me." He said before turning back.
And saw Robin walking down the street, eye shadow following a masked person.
"ROBIN-CHAN!"
He ran over just as they went past a building, and when he got there, they were nowhere to be seen.
The Going Merry.
Kaku dropped near the Merry and walked over to the ship. "That must be the one." He jumped up and saw Zoro sleeping before walking to the lower deck.
'Oh it's just Usopp.' Zoro thought opening one eye before going back to sleep. 'Wait that's not right.' He thought as he realized Kaku's nose is square. "Hey! I see you! Don't move! You hear me?!" He yelled holding his swords.
"Oh, pardon me. I didn't mean to disturb your nap. I'm with Galley-La, a shipwright company."
Zoro just stared at Kaku who went to the bottom of the boat. He looked at the holes that was patched up before stepping on a board that creaked. Zoro looked down just as Kaku looked at the keel, and his eyes widen at what he saw.
Dock 1.
"Ow, ow, ow! OK! Take it easy, jeez!" Paulie yelled out as Lucci twisted his ear harder before the pigeon spoke to Naruto.
"Sorry for that. Paulie has a bad habit of gambling." He said and Naruto saw Lucci's lips mouth slightly showing he's throwing his voice to the pigeon.
They made it back to the others where Kalifa explained the Franky Family are bounty hunters who also dismantle pirate ships to cash the parts.
Usopp took the suitcases as Lucci forced Paulie to apologize who tried to get a reward, only for Lucci to hit him over the head with a hammer.
"I'm tired of you Lucci..." Paulie trailed off as rope came out of his sleeves. "Rōpu Akushon: Bōrain Notto (Rope Action: Boline Knot.)" He threw a rope that wrapped around Lucci's wrist before pulling him over his head, and into the ground, head first, creating a dust cloud. "Oshioki: Ippon Dzuri! (Punishment: Gone Fishing!)"
Once the dust cleared, it showed Lucci doing a handstand with his fingers in the concrete sidewalk. Naruto narrowed his eyes as he thought Lucci's hand shine for a second.
After Iceberg explained that the shipwrights 'spar' from time to time, he stopped Paulie from continuing his attack.
Paulie looked to Nami, and dashed to her.
"Have you no decency woman?! Cover up!"
"Enough Paulie! Let's start the tour already." Iceberg said getting Paulie to frown before he, and Lucci pushed the large door open. They walked inside having the shipwrights greet Iceberg enthusiastically.
"By the way, Kalifa mentioned that Nico Robin is apart of your crew. Is this correct?" Iceberg asked getting Luffy to nod.
"Yeah. She's fun to have around because she's so smart."
"That's not a problem is it?" Naruto asked looking to Iceburg.
"No, just curious is all." He said as Luffy and Usopp went to check out the ships, and cannons.
Kaku came back as a man walked over and handed Luffy the two suitcases Usopp had before they turned to Iceburg and the others.
Kaku sighed before looking to them. "Your ship... Will not sail again."
"So that means the Keel is damage, right?" Paulie asked taking a drag from his cigar.
"That's correct. The probability of your ship making it to the next island... Is zero." Kaku said getting the others to stare at him.
"You can't fix the Going Merry?!" Luffy yelled out before patting each suitcase. "If money's the problem, don't worry! We have plenty!"
"It's not a matter of money son," Kaku said getting Luffy's attention. "No matter how much you pay, that ship can't be repaired. To be honest. I'm impressed you even made it here. Considering the condition she's in."
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Nami asked raising her hands.
"It means the Merry should have already sunk." Naruto said getting their attention. "The Keel is the spine of a ship, if it's damaged then the only left to do is build a new ship as that's the only thing left to do."
"Then build another merry!" Luffy said before Lucci spoke through his pigeon.
"It'll still be a new ship. No tree grows the same and you all would feel it's not the same ship!"
Before anything else could be said, Lulu came up and explained there's a group of people to see Iceburg.
"You got a serious case of bed hair Lulu." Iceberg said getting Lulu to push his point down. And had it come up on the other side of his head.
"You are here Iceberg." They looked to see three men in black suits walk to them.
"Hey, you four better hide, those are Government officials." Paulie said getting the Crew to hide behind the pile of logs.
Iceberg left with the officials before Luffy spoke. "These bags are light."
Nami chuckled at that. Don't be silly. There's 100 million berries in there." She said before they opened the two suitcases.
"AAAHHH!"
They screamed seeing it was empty. Naruto, who was looking ahead to make sure no one watched them, turned around, and got a nosebleed as Nami sat against the logs, legs slightly spread, flashing him her white panties.
"N-no, it can't be." Naruto raised an eyebrow before glancing down, and his eyes widen when he saw the two suitcases were different, and empty.
"Shit!" He cursed as the Galley-La ran to them as Lulu looked to Kaku.
"By the way Kaku. I thought you were with the Franky Family."
"No, I wasn't near anyone in the Franky Family today."
"That musty have been Usopp! That family must have taken him and the money!" Gina yelled out having Luffy take off to look for them.
Nami sighed before looking to Paulie. "Where can we find the Franky Family?"
"They're just Northeast from where you docked, they're by themselves in a house called, Franky's House." Naruto picked up Gina as a clone picked up Nami and they jumped high in the air and off of the water elevator.
"I thought I was the only one who could do that." Kaku said as he saw Naruto traverse like he does.
Naruto jumped across the rooftops, focused in front of him and missed Nami have the clone stop at a bridge. He made it to the Merry as Sanji and Chopper made it back, and explained Robin went missing with some guy in a mask before Nami dropped down with her clone.
She explained that they found Usopp beaten up and left him to come and get the others.
"OK, you two stay here for when Luffy or Robin-chan comes here." Naruto said before putting a hand on the railing and jumped down.
Later, they made it to the street where Usopp was, and saw it was empty.
"Well, this is the spot." Naruto said, breeze blowing his shirt back.
"Look at this." Chopper said looking at a tail of dried blood.
"He must have went after them." Naruto said before hearing a faint yelling.
They looked up, and saw Luffy fall to them, and into the canal.
"Not it." Naruto said having Sanji jump in and pull him out. "What the hell were you thinking?
"I was (Cough.) trying to jump around like that Carpenter guy." Luffy said coughing up water.
Franky Family Hideout.
The Crew looked down at the badly beaten and heavily bleeding Usopp. As Chopper, in his human form was treating him, Naruto looked up at the house with 'Franky's House' in gold with two robotic arms on it before he glanced to the others.
"Let's go."
Sanji lit his cigarette as Luffy cracked his knuckles, Chopper snorted, and Zoro put his bandanna on. Each remembering times spent with Usopp. They stopped at the door just as it opened to show a very tall man.
"Gomu Gomu no... Pistoru! (Gum Gum Pistol!)" Luffy punched the man as another tall man putting on armor walked up smiling.
"You won't get past m-!"
"Rasengan! (Spiraling Sphere!)" Naruto hit the man, breaking the armor, and shot him through the other side of the house, and out to the sea.
Hold on a sec guys! Let's talk about this first!" Zambai said before moving to show five cannons pointed at them.
Boom!
They shot cannon balls at them, having Zoro jump ahead, all three swords out. "Santoryu: Karasuma Gari! (Three Sword Style: Crow Demon Hunting!)" Zoro jumps up, and slashes around him multiple times. Cutting each ball in half, having them hit behind the others.
Zoro then cuts each cannon in half scaring the Franky Family.
"Those were steel!"
"These guys are bad news!"
"Everyone head for the back door!"
Sanji landed on one man in a handstand before speaking. "You guys started this fight. It's kind of pathetic to run from it. Pāteī Tēburu Kikku Kōsu! (Party Table Kick Course!)" Sanji spins around kicking everyone in range in the face.
"Ranburu! (Rumble!)" Chopper ate one of his Rumble Balls and went into his Hōn Pointo. (Horn Point.) mode as the group tried to go through the windows. "Hōn Pointo! (Horn Point!)" He then charged the group and threw them up in the air where clones attacked, knocking them out. "Rozeo Koronēdo! (Cherry Blossom Colonnade!)"
"Matte! (Wait!) It's the money you want rig-!" Zambai stopped as he was turned around, and was hit in the head by Naruto's staff, sending him into a large chair in the middle of the room, out cold.
"The money doesn't matter anymore." Naruto said twirling his staff before resting it on his shoulder as Zoro did the same with Wado.
"Damn straight! It's too late for that." Zoro said as the others looked around.
"Not even your bones will be left when we're done!" Luffy said before the Family attacked, shooting various weapons out of cannons.
Naruto unhook his staff and used each end like escrima sticks and hit each man who got near him.
One Beating Later.
The Crew stood on the ruins of the house as Luffy looked to the sea as Chopper tended to Usopp. "I've made my decision... The Going Merry. It's time to part ways here."
The Going Merry.
Later Chopper came running out of the kitchen.
"He's awake."
Everyone but Naruto went in right away. "I really don't want to be there when he hears the news." He said as the door closed before looking at the city.
He heard Luffy, and Usopp yelling before walking inside to see Luffy push Usopp to the ground.
"If you don't agree with your Captain's order then get off-!" Luffy was suddenly kicked by Sanji.
"Idiot watch what you say, apologize." Naruto put a hand on his shoulder.
"Calm down Sanji. Luffy's right." Nami looked to him in shock.
"How can you sa-!" Naruto interrupted her.
"Because like it or not Luffy's the captain. We're not just sailing for the fun of it. We're a pirate crew. And Luffy has final say in what we do, and go." He said eye's shadowed by his hair.
"We can bitch, and moan about it all we want, but at the end of the day we follow his orders." He finished before turning to Usopp who stood up. "And don't think this was an easy decision for us, Luffy fought tooth and nail for Merry." Usopp just walked to the door after saying he's leaving the crew.
"Luffy say something." Nami said tearfully to the quiet Luffy.
"Why should he? Usopp has the right to leave the crew, he just has to ask Luffy." Naruto said as Nami glared at him and left with the others minus Luffy and Zoro.
They walked out as they heard Usopp yell. "I know I can't tell you what to do with your ship, so I challenge you to a fight if I win the Merry's mine." Everyone's but Luffy's Naruto's, and Zoro's eyes widened at that. "I'll be back at ten." He finished walking away.
Ten O'clock.
The clock tower strike's ten as the wind picked up blowing dust. Luffy took a deep breath and looked back to the Merry. "No matter what don't get off the ship."
Suddenly, Usopp walked through the dust. "So you showed up after all." He asked Usopp who nodded.
"Yes, don't go easy on me, because I've found a way to beat you." He said before Luffy ran to him.
Usopp suddenly coughed blood, and fell to one knee. Luffy faltered as Usopp smirked. "Ketchup Boshi. (Ketchup Star.)"
Luffy tried punching him, but Usopp pulled a dial out, and flashed him. Running back a few feet Usopp hit's Luffy with multiple rotten egg's. "Tamago Boshi! (Egg Star!)" Luffy started gagging.
"Come on, take this seriously." Luffy said wiping his eye's.
"I am this is how I fight." Usopp replied getting a red ball out of his bag, and shooting it in Luffy's mouth.
"Tokusei Tabasco Boshi! (Special Tabasco Star!)" Luffy screamed as his mouth was on fire from the ball. "I wouldn't move around too much, because the battlefield's Makibishi Jigoku. (Caltrop Hell.)"
Luffy fell on a bunch of caltrops before jumping back up into another ball Usopp shot.
"Kosho Boshi! (Pepper Star!)" Sneezing, Luffy kept falling on the caltrops over, and over again.
"Shuriken Ryuusei-gun! (Shuriken Shooting Star!)" Usopp shot a string of shuriken at Luffy, followed by more. Luffy after dodging, notice smoke in the air.
"I'm using a breath dial putting gas in the air." Usopp explained before getting another ball out, and shot it at Luffy.
"Kaen Boshi! (Flaming Star!)" The gas exploded making waves rocking the Merry.
"Damn that one's going to sting." Zoro said covering his eye's from the blast.
"Luffy, Usopp!" Nami screamed as the smoke cleared.
"Gomu Gomu no... Gataringu! (Gum Gum Gatling!)" Before Luffy's attacked connected Usopp shot a ball at him.
"Sakuretsu Saboten Boshi! (Blasting Cactus Star!)" A bunch of needles came out hitting Luffy, cutting him up.
Usopp picked up three balls and shot them at Luffy. "Sanren Kayaku Boshi! (Triple Exploding Star!)" Luffy dodged the explosions before sending his fist at Usopp.
"Gomu Gomu no Pistoru! (Gum Gum Pistol!)" Luffy ran at him stretching his arms back. "Gomu Gomu no... Bazuuka! (Gum Gum Bazooka!)" Luffy hit's Usopp in the stomach but he didn't move.
Lifting his hand, he showed an impact dial. "I bet the bazooka move hurt, let's find out." Usopp said putting the dial to Luffy's face hitting him, and hurting his arm.
A moment later Luffy walked over, and stretched his arm back.
'I'm Captain Usopp leader of eight thousand men!'
Luffy remembered when they met, and the star of them journeying together before bringing his fist back hitting Usopp in the stomach.
"Gomu Gomu no... Buretto! (Gum Gum Bullet!)"
Walking over, Luffy picked up his hat.
"Do what you want with the Merry." He told Usopp hat shadowing his eyes. "I won't let anything slow us down." He finished walking over to the Merry as Chopper was arguing with Sanji.
"It's heavy right?" Naruto, who was sitting on the railing arm resting on his leg asked. "The burden of being Captain."
Luffy sniffed. "It's too much."
Zoro, arm's crossed finally spoke up. "This is what it means to be Captain. Don't doubt yourself, if you falter, who would we have faith in?" He asked before turning to everyone. "Pack up our things, this is the last time we'll be on the Merry."
He finished as Chopper ran to Usopp and left medicine for him.
They all left after getting their stuff from Merry.
Morning.
"Did you hear? Iceburg's been shot." Someone said outside the hotel the S.H.C. is staying in. Naruto who was sitting by the opened window of his room sighed. "I guess we'll have to keep a low profile."
He walked out of his room, putting on his shirt and walked up to the roof with Gina following, now wearing faded blue jeans and a blue shirt.
Nami caught up in a violet shirt with a '3' on it to let everyone know about Iceberg.
A Few Miles Away.
A clone of Naruto stopped at a table in front of a café.
"There you are Robin."
Robin, wearing a hooded cloak, tensed before Naruto sat down.
"Don't worry, I've put up a... Illusion so it looks like you're just reading the paper."
"I'm not going back. This is where we part ways."
Naruto sighed at that. "If that's what you want, I won't drag you back. But you need to get Luffy's permission to leave. For now, let's just talk."
"Trying to get me to come back?" Robin asked, eyes shadowed by her hood.
"Nope. Like I said, if you want off the crew it's your choice."
"Then what do you want to talk about?"
"Let's just talk... Look Robin, I know what you went through. I was despised by my village for almost 15 years. I never had parents. Don't even know who took care of me before I was five and I got my own shitty apartment."
"But eventually, people stopped hating you." Robin said getting Naruto to nod.
"Like me and the Straw Hat's don't hate, nor fear you. I've heard the Marines talk about how you've always been betrayed once they found out about your bounty. You really think we care about that? No, we care about you. I even went up against that Admiral guy for you."
"You didn't beat Aokiji."
"I wasn't trying to beat him. I wanted to buy you guys time to leave. Just so you know, I haven't used my strongest techniques yet. Everything I've shown, is me in my weakest state, and the next level up from that, I've got.. I think three more levels. It's been about a year since I've had to use them."
"Plus that one technique is like this, Haki thing I heard Aokiji say." Naruto placed his hand on hers before getting up. "You need to let me help you Robin-chan."
He got up, and was stopped as she grabbed his sleeve. "I can't take that risk Naruto." She stood up ad looked him in the eyes.
"(Sigh.) I'll miss looking at those blue eyes-HUMPH!" He stopped as she pulled him in for a kiss.
Eyes widening, Naruto mentally shrugged before closing his eyes, wrapped his arms around her waist, and leaned into the kiss. As the kissing duo started to heat up, Robin pushed Naruto away before turning around.
"Since I'm leaving, I wanted to do that before I left."
Naruto and Nami.
The two Straw Hats were each on a Yagara going to Dock 1 before she looked up and saw Luffy running over a bridge.
"Luffy! Down here!"
Luffy jumped down and landed on Nami's Yagara, getting her wet.
"Right! Move it Yagara!" Luffy yelled, only to get hit on the head by Nami.
"I'm so sorry, are you OK?" Nami asked her Yagara who shook his head and smiled.
Nami handed Luffy a newspaper before they sailed down the canal. "Take a look. It's all about Iceberg."
"So I guess the rumors are true. He was attacked." Luffy said looking at the paper.
"Yeah, so if we go to the shipyard, it's likely we won't be able to meet him." She replied as They continued to sail.
"Then let's just go to his house." Luffy said without looking up from the paper.
"I think he lives inside the main office." Nami replied coming to a bridge. And froze as they came up to the spot where she found Usopp.
Dried blood in the spot as well as a trail from when he walked to get the Franky Family
"Something wrong, Nami?" Luffy asked getting her to shake her head.
Suddenly, an alarm went off. "Your attentions please, your attention please! This is the Water 7 Weather Forecast Center. As of now, an Agua Laguna severe weather warning is issued for the entire island. it's time is estimated between midnight to 12:30."
"Excuse me, what was that?" Naruto asked a man in another Yagara.
"Oh, you must be visitors. Well, it's an annually bad storm and high tide. Better get to the high ground as the city will be under water."
Before they could ask where the office was when they got to Dock 1, they heard music.
Everyone looked around panicked.
"Oh no don't tell me he's here." One man asked as another yelled out over the music.
"Hey guys! Question: Did someone say my name?"
The people shook their heads before another yelled out.
"No! We didn't! Go away!"
"Where is he?!"
"Where's it coming from?!"
"Look he's up there."
On top of the bridge behind a sheet is three people, a man and two women dancing.
OW! OW!
Come on everybody, say my name!
The man yelled as the people started yelling at them to leave Water 7 and accused him of attacking Iceberg.
The man pulled the sheet away showing them. The man a powerfully built man standing at 7' tall. His forearms are relatively enormous while his biceps are comparably small with a metal nose.
He has brightly colored blue hair and blue star tattoos on his forearms. He's wearing a speedo, sunglasses, and an open red Hawaiian 'Aloha' shirt with a lime green palm tree design, and a large golden chain necklace around his neck, and hairy legs.
The two women look like twins with black hair. They both have long, pointed noses and a unique hairstyle shaped in large squares.
The one on the man's left has straight-edged hair, a white fur collar, yellow goggles, bikini-top, slacks, and high-heels.
The other has curly edged hair, a lilac pearl necklace, pink cropped top, pink bikini-bottom, gloves, and high-heels.
The man started singing.
I'm Water Seven's number one super guy.
The face of the underworld and you know why.
The man with the plan, the power, and fame.
And people everywhere call out my name.
Whoa!
He bent down, and started to spin his arm's before striking a pose. He's leaning to the left side and bends his left knee while the right leg is straight. He throws his head back and his arms go over his head and lock together wrist-to-wrist.
The two separate star tattoos are pushed together to make one star.
The women did the pose too as an explosion went off in the background.
"FRANKY!"
Naruto just stared slack jawed. "The hell?"
Franky pulls his glasses up to his forehead, and glared down as the crowd ran away. "Come out and show yourself Straw Hat!"
Luffy looked confused before turning too Nami. "How does that weirdo know my name?"
Nami turned to him. "Didn't you hear? I think that guy might be Franky."
Luffy glared at him 'He's the one who beat up Usopp. If it wasn't for him...' He thought before yelling up. "Hey! Bikini-Guy! That's me, I'm Straw Hat."
"I've got a bone to pick with you kid! It seems like you had a little party at my place while I was gone." Franky said cracking his neck before he started dancing as he sang again.
When I came home, now what did I see?
My house is ripped to shreds and my gang's was on its knees.
And it's all thanks to Luffy!
I'll make this as plain as can be.
When you mess with my boys, you mess with Franky!
He brought his hands up in an 'X', showing a closed hole in his left palm. "I'd hate to be you now. I've been on one hell of a roll, and ain't nobody going to stop me! Now you can cry if you like, But either way I'm going to pound you so hard, your own mother won't recognize you!"
"SHUT UP!" Nami yelled up at him. "You jerk! Give us back the 200 hundred million berries you stole!"
Franky puts a hand to his ear."What's that? You want your money back you say? Well that's too damn bad I spent it all already."
Luffy suddenly yelled up to him. "The money doesn't matter, I'll make you pay!"
Franky raised an eye-brow. "You're stealing my line's you teme! (Bastard!) Are you trying to make me angry?"
Luffy just glared at him. "Whatever, just get down here and fight."
The small crowd started running away as Franky took a deep breath
And spit's fire at them as the Yagara started swimming away.
"What the... He just spit out fire." Luffy said as Franky smirked.
"Damn that can't be a Akuma no Mi. (Devil Fruit.)" Naruto said bringing his boat over to the street.
Franky jumped into the water, and came up attacking Luffy's, and Nami's boat sending them in the air.
Naruto jumped over, and grabbed Nami bridal style before she hits the water.
Luffy pulled his fist back, but Franky attacked first.
"Sutorongu Raito! (Strong Right!)" He sends his fist after it detaches over to hit Luffy in the stomach sending him into a wall cracking it.
"The hell?" Naruto asked seeing Franky's arm detached, connected by a chain.
Franky brought his arm back, and Luffy fell down.
"What are you?" Nami asked hiding behind Naruto. Franky got on the sidewalk and smiled.
"I'm a cyborg."
Luffy, and Franky continued fighting, going in to Dock One destroying some equipment.
"You're stronger than I thought, but I'll still beat you Bikini-guy." Luffy said getting Franky to laugh.
Franky put his left arm up facing Luffy, the palm having a closed hole in it. His arm then rotates in and his wrist opens like a door hinge. The hole in his hand opens up to show a gun sight.
"Weponzu Refuto! (Weapon's Left!)" Franky shot a small cannon ball at Luffy who dodged.
Naruto noticed Franky's hairdo start to drop after using his attacks before quickly creating clones that grabbed Paulie and Tilestones fists from hitting the two who stopped fighting to see why the shipwrights would attack.
"What the hell's your problem." Naruto asked as the people gasped seeing Paulie and Tilestone grimace as Naruto squeezed their fists.
"You lot shot Iceberg!" Paulie yelled getting gasps from the people.
"Then why are we here?! I'm guessing you're just pinning it on us." Naruto said before pushing them back and easily dodged attacks from Lulu and Lucci. "You're pissing me off!"
Naruto yelled kicking Lulu into the building, jumped over Lucci and punched him in the back, sending him into the rubble Luffy and Franky made. He quickly turned to have Paulie's rope wrap around his wrist and pulled him over.
Naruto jumped up and hit Paulie in the face with his knee, breaking his nose, and goggles.
"Rasengan! (Spiraling Sphere!)"
Naruto hit Tilestone sending him through the building before grabbing Kaku's arm, twists it and kneed him in the stomach before adding chakra to his arms and punched him in the air. He jumped up, and hit Kaku to the ground, creating a crater.
"Why would we shoot Iceberg?"
"Someone broke into his room last night. It was a man in a mask, and your crew mate Nico Robin!"
On the other side of the shipyard, a man was handing out a paper with Luffy's, Zoro's, Naruto's, and Nico Robin's poster of her as an eight year old looking over her shoulder.
Naruto dropped a large smoke bomb that covered the area and grabbed Nami before bolting with Luffy who struggled.
"Wait Luffy! We need to clear our name." Naruto said jumping over the rooftops. and dropped by the Galley-La company building. "OK Luffy before barging in there, sneak around to see where Iceberg is first. It'll be easier if you don't have the city running after you."
Naruto said before Luffy stretched his arms over to the building and shot himself over there. "(Sigh.) I should have seen that coming." He created a clone before following after Luffy. "I'll get him out of trouble."
Naruto followed after the men that chased after Luffy, before seeing Luffy walking with Kalifa before disappearing and reappeared inside the room she let Luffy inside.
"Judging by the mob, you didn't come here to kill me." Iceberg said, bandages around him.
"All I want is to hear your side of the story." Luffy said as Naruto looked down.
"And I'd drop that pistol." Iceberg looked to him before Naruto continued. That bulge is in a flintlock shape."
"I need a favor. I want to see Robin again." Iceberg said getting Naruto to raise a eyebrow.
"She's been missing since we docked. Last she was seen was with a masked man before disappearing."
BANG!
Iceberg shot at them having Naruto grab Luffy and jump out of the window. And explain what happened to Nami.
Naruto grabbed Nami and jumped down to the elevator and off of it, getting her to scream as her skirt flew up. They landed on a building at the bottom before going back to their hotel.
Unknown Location.
Robin, without her hooded cloak walked in a darkened room where a man sat at a table in a black suit, the top half hidden in shadowed.
Beside him is another man, whose top half is also hidden.
"Impressive work. The assignment we had to do yesterday went very well. Excellent job, Nico Robin." The man sitting down said as Robin st down, and crossed her legs and arms.
"Thanks, it was a cake walk."
"Naturally, you're being pursued by everyone in the city." The man said dropping the paper with hers and the others bounties.
"Indeed I am."
"Merely a temporary setback. Tonight is what's important. Understand? You'll infiltrate Iceberg's mansion again. If it becomes a worst case scenario, feel free to burn all the evidence." The man explained crossing his arms.
"Out of all of Tom's apprentices, Iceberg is the only one left alive to still have it. And how much he denies having it, in the name of CP-9, we will take it tonight. Never forget, this is a mission of justice."
Naruto, Nami, Gina, And Zoro.
"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT ZORO!" Nami yelled at Zoro while they were chased by a mob.
"We're wanted by the city. This was bound to happen sooner or later!"
"This way!" Naruto yelled out dropping several smoke bombs and created several clones that went through each alley near them.
"Damn it! which way did they go?!"
Naruto hid them behind a Genjutsu. (Illusion Technique.) before seeing Chopper in his human form.
They went up to the roof were Chopper explained that Robin told the she was leaving and that she had a darkness that would consume them. And that Sanji is out looking for where she went.
"We were prepared for this, right?" Zoro said before putting Wado in front of them. "Robin was our enemy first. We should use this time to find out the truth once and for all. We shouldn't let his get away. There are still a lot of things we don't know about Robin. Now it's time to decide is she a friend, or enemy."
"'The situation will get worse, from this day forward, we will never see each other again.' That's what she said." Chopper said as Zoro looked down at him.
"That's all she said? You're sure Chopper?"
Chopper nodded at that.
"She said she won't see us after today, and things will get worse. Maybe that attack on Iceberg was just a warm-up." Zoro explained as the sun started to set. "And she has something even bigger planned for tonight. I don't know why she's doing any of this, so it's hard to make a guess as what she's planning."
"But there's only one way to make it worse."
"Murdering him." Naruto said looking at the shipyards.
"And since she told Chopper that she's going to pin this on us. This could be a trap to lure us out to the crime scene so we'd get caught." Zoro said as Gina looked to him
"Think so?" She asked getting a nod from the swordsman.
"If that is her plan. It would be convenient to show up there when she does it."
"You say that you don't know what she's thinking but you're saying she's our enemy!" Nami yelled at Zoro.
"He's only thinking up possibilities." Naruto said sitting on the edge of the roof. "As people being framed for attacking Iceberg, we need to think of the worst case scenario."
"If I get locked into a single way of thinking, it'll only slow me down." Zoro said picking up after Naruto. "If she's my friend. I need to be ready to forgive. If she's my enemy. I need to be ready to fight. Our best chance to settle this, is tonight. Are we going?"
"Of course." Luffy said as he stood up.
"It's not that I'm objecting to the plan. But we're forgetting something: Sanji said he saw her with a masked man. Obviously that wasn't one of us, but Iceberg said the same thing." Nami said getting the others attention. "So he could be making her do this."
"Or he could be a friend of hers." Naruto said looking to the group.
"Problem is we don't have much to go on other than a big man in a mask." Nami continued having Gina nod.
"Chances are, he'll be with her tonight."
"Then we capture Robin." Luffy said looking down.
"That's the only thing to do, she doesn't consider herself apart of the crew now." Naruto said walking over.
"Won't be easy, the World Government has tried for 20 years." Zoro said rubbing his head.
Later, they made their way back to the Galley-La Company and hid in a tree, waiting for Robin to show up.
On a roof beside the Company, Robin in her cloak stood on the edge before they dropped down.
Later, with the Straw Hats. they were still watching the company, Naruto glancing to where Robin was at.
BOOM!
Suddenly, a large explosion rocketed the area in front of the company getting the others to gasp. Naruto looked to see a person in a mask attack with thorn who before looking to the others.
"What's our... And he's gone." Naruto said seeing Luffy was missing again.
"WHAAAA... THAT BAKA! (IDIOT!) WHAT ABOUT THE PLAN?! I THOUGHT WE WEREN'T GOING TO RUSH INTO ANYTHING?!" Zoro, Nami, and Gina yelled out after looking at the spot Luffy was at.
Naruto, meanwhile looked ahead before sighing.
Iceburg's Room.
Iceberg looked ahead and saw a human shaped door appear on the wall. Robin walked in, pushing the masked man like a door before he closed the door himself.
"Incredible. I had a feeling you'd come back for me. But I can't believe my eyes. Is this how'd you came in last night? How is that possible?!" Iceberg asked as the two stopped at his bed.
"It's the power of the Doa Doa no Mi. (Door Door Fruit.) Where a normal man sees a wall. I see another entryway." The man said as he looked down at Iceberg. "No matter how thick it may be, I simply touch it, and it opens for me." He finished before pulling out a flintlock.
Bang!
And shot Iceberg in the shoulder.
"Hold on. It's not time yet." Robin said glancing to the man.
"Relax, it's not a fatal shot. He'll still be able to talk. I'm just giving him a taste of what's yet to come. An appetizer of pain. Once more, after that. I don't think he'll be running off after that." The man explained as Iceberg looked up at them.
"I see... So that's how CP-9 handle things, huh?"
Robin removed her mask as the man looked down.
"As a matter of fact. That is how we do it."
"So, that Straw Hat boy... Had nothing to do wit this?" Iceberg said moving to lean against his bed.
"Don't beat yourself up over it. You told the truth. I was here last night." Robin said closing her eyes with a sigh.
"That was the plan all along, right?"
"Right. You're failed attempt was for two reasons. First: So you'd tell the others about it. implicating a member of the Straw Hat Crew at the scene of the crime. Second: We were trying to ferret out an important document. the blueprints of a certain ship. One that has been passed down, from shipwright, to apprentice for generations."
The man explained before continuing. "We knew if you were in danger, you'd pass that document onto someone you trusted. You made that choice earlier tonight. To your Foreman, Paulie. Our associates are with him, this very moment."
"All according to you plan, right? You must be very damn proud of yourselves." Iceberg said glaring up at him.
"I want you to see this to its end." The man said to Robin who nodded.
"Of course."
"I'll take care of the guards outside the door. When the blueprints are secured. Our associates will contact you. At said time, dispose of Iceburg. Do so at once. Make sure he dies without fail. After that, the only remaining loose end will be Paulie, and he dies tonight. As well as the truth of tonight."
The man said leaving out of the door. "The blame will stay with the Straw Hats. And no one's the wiser."
Luffy.
Luffy was stuck between two buildings that were close together. "I gotta get out... Gotta... Get... Robin!"
To Be Continued.
A/N: Thanks for reading and let me know of any mistakes.
Beta: Memodo Shiki.
I'll be focusing on Hero Rising to finish out season 2 while we're waiting on season 3 as we're in the last ten episodes and it may still be a year away from it premiering.
ALSO, make sure to vote in the new poll that has the top 20!
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Talk To You Later,
Lone Wolf Out.