Chapter 14
"What the hell is going on here? I need answers! Onawagi that's an order!" Nami said.
"Still trying to keep up the fake DEATH member act? Is it because you thought I couldn't figure out you were faking without having to see you? Underestimating me… is so disrespectful." Onawagi said.
"Nami try not to take advantage of his blindess! He gets very upset about that." Kureha said, "He's dangerous when he's upset."
"But who wouldn't take advantage of it? Especially if he's an enemy!" Nami asked.
"I don't know his thought process, but… a lot of men have died underestimating his abilities!" Kureha explained.
Onawagi looked down towards his mother and then back up at Nami.
"That's right. I don't have to see to be deadly. If my blindness hindered me that much, would I be apart of a group such as this?" Onawagi asked, holding his arms out to show his attire, a DEATH armband on his left arm and the logo on his chest, "This organization saw that I was still just like everyone else when it came to battle and took me in."
"But what were you looking to gain by joining them? By being feared by your own people?" Nami asked.
"As I said, I joined this organization because its leader saw my potential. Something that my own people didn't. So, I don't care what his goals are or how he achieves them, I'm going to help him achieve them by any means necessary." Onawagi explained.
Chopper stared with sweat coming down his head.
FLASHBACK
"So why did you join?" Chopper asked Zoro, as they walked through the desert.
"It was so that I, as well as the others, could have a way to achieve our goals, but now…" Zoro stopped and waited for Luffy to catch up, "After being together for so long, a new goal we all share has risen."
"A new goal?" Chopper asked.
"I can't explain it. But you'll know it when the time comes." Zoro said.
END OF FLASHBACK
"Is that the goal, Zoro? The goal we share?" Chopper asked himself.
"But this…" Onawagi said.
The entire room looked up.
"This is personal."
Onawagi grabbed the second machete from his leg pouch and swung it at Kureha who dodged it.
"Dodging won't do you any good old woman." Onawagi said.
Kureha's hand trembled and she started to shake.
"Who do you think you've become?" Kureha asked, looking down.
Kureha grabbed the machete that kept her pinned to the ground, snatched it out, and swung it up at Onawagi, who blocked it with his machete.
"Calling me old?!" Kureha asked.
"Man, she really hates being called old huh?" Kakashi asked himself.
"So, if we keep calling her old she'll be strong enough to beat him?" Sanji asked himself, smiling.
"Old, old, old, old!" Sanji yelled.
Kureha jumped across the room and smacked him down.
"Who's old you fool?!" Kureha asked.
Onawagi stared in their direction.
"Enough games. I appreciate you bringing me here Iman, but you've fallen right into our trap." Onawagi said.
"Uhm my name's Nami by the way!" Nami corrected, "And what trap? You knew we were coming here even before I told you?"
"I knew I was coming here, look outside." Onawagi said.
Sure, enough when the crew looked outside a giant DEATH organization boat sat.
"When you came to me on the beach to ask me to go with you, I agreed only because I was going to be coming here anyway." Onawagi said.
"Come here for what? DEATH need a doctor?" Kureha asked.
"Foolish woman. I'm their doctor. I already infected their hairy friend with a disease, he should be on day three right now." Onawagi said.
Kureha smiled.
"If we're thinking of the same hairy friend, then that friend is standing right next to us healthy as can be!" Kureha shouted.
"What?!" Onawagi asked nervously.
"That's right. The Five-Day Disease wasn't it? You fool, that ancient disease was never going to work! Especially with me being alive." Kureha said.
Onawagi looked down.
"All the more reason to.. kill you…right?" Onawagi asked, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a transponder snail."
The crew all wore confused faces, wondering who he was calling.
"Who are you calling?" Kureha asked.
"You all can die up here, so what my disease didn't work? You said you brought injured here right? Good luck helping them with a destroyed operation room." Onawagi said.
"DAMN YOU!" Kureha said, firing a bullet at Onawagi, who disappeared.
The entire crew looked around the room.
"Quick! Somebody grab some liquid! That's the only way to-."
Kureha was interrupted by getting choked by the invisible Onawagi.
"No more distractions. I'm going to kill you right now!" Onawagi yelled.
Before he could slit the doctor's throat, Chopper hit him with a bucket of powdered medicine and exposed his outline.
"Why you little-!" Onawagi started.
Onawagi listened and heard footsteps coming towards him, he turned to intercept the blow but it was too late. Sakura hit Onawagi as hard as she could in the stomach with her strength enhanced fist.
"GUUUUAHHHHHGAAA!" Onawagi coughed up blood and spit as he hit the wall of the doctor's castle and burst through it.
Back at the docks the men saw Onawagi burst through the wall.
"He jumped out sir! That's the signal.
Eneru smiled.
"Well alright then! Let's get this party started. Time to claim the land of medicine as part of DEATH." Eneru said.
Storm clouds loomed over the snowy island as Eneru raised his hand into the air.
"Thanks for knocking that lunatic out of here pink hair!" Kureha said.
"It's nothing I-." Sakura was interrupted.
"I'll have to charge you for the wall though." Kureha said, pulling out a calculator.
"WHAT! I JUST SAVED YOU!" Sakura said.
"How are you even standing? I thought Zoro cut you down?" Nami asked.
"HAIIIIII YOU'RE AMAZING SAKURA-CWWWANNN!" Sanji celebrated.
"I'm a lot tougher than I look!" Sakura said with a smile.
"Excuse me Miss Doctor we have some fatally injured people here if you could please work on them!" Kakashi asked.
"Right! Chopper! Take then to-."
ZZZZZZZZ BOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!
An entire half of the castle was destroyed by a giant bolt of lightning. The shock sent any of the heroes standing slamming into walls, the unconscious ones were also launched towards the walls but caught, except Franky who burst through a wall.
"FRANKY!" Nami yelled.
"I've got him!" Robin said as she crossed her arms and a giant hand sprouted from the castle wall to catch the cyborg man.
"Good job Robin-chan!" Sanji said.
"These kids have some tremendous powers… there's still so much more to learn about them." Kakashi said to himself, "But we need to get the injured medical attention now!"
"Hurry and pull him back inside! We need to get these guys some medical attention before this attack gets worse!" Kakashi ordered.
"Doctorine!" Chopper yelled, "Where did you want me to take them?"
"That's right! Take them to my old tree hideout! The lightning destroyed my labs here!" Kureha said.
"O…okay! Nami, Robin, old guy, pink hair! All of you grab them and let's go!" Chopper said.
"But who will fight with the doctor?" Robin asked.
"You all go. This is my fight." Kureha said.
The entire room stared with wide eyes.
"You know we can't just-." Nami tried to speak.
"THIS IS MY SON! I'LL BE THE ONE TO FIGHT HIM." Kureha yelled, "That attack you did was a strong one, but Onawagi is truly a devil at this point in his life… if anyone is to fight him… it will be me." Kureha explained.
"If you fight him you'll die, you know that don't you?" Kakashi asked.
Kureha stared towards the hole in the wall with remorse.
"I can only hold him off so long… I want you guys to get where you're going safe and sound. Chopper can tend to your wounds there." Kureha said.
"We're not letting you fight alone!" Sakura said.
Kureha and Kakashi looked back.
"These DEATH guys are really annoying! I'm done sitting on the sidelines." Sakura said, walking up pulling her glove down.
"Sakura-chwan is so cool!" Sanji said with heart eyes.
Nami rolled her eyes.
"I'm fighting too!" Nami said.
Sanji's face became serious.
"Nami-san…" Sanji thought.
"I appreciate the help. But if you all fight, who will help Chopper take your friends to get treated?" Kureha asked.
Franky the cyborg man started to slowly get up around this point.
"Ughhhh… where the hell am I? What is this place?" Franky asked.
"Franky!" Chopper yelled happily.
"Aye! Chopper!" Franky said smiling, until he looked down at the injured pirates and ninja, "What the hell happened to them? To me?!" Franky said, noticing his arm was torn off.
"We'll explain later! Right now, DEATH is attacking us again! We need to get those guys and follow Chopper to a safe place so we can treat them!" Nami said.
Franky looked out the hole and out towards the villages.
"I see." Franky said, closing his eyes, "I'M FIGHTING TOO! YEAHH OWWW YOWWW!" Franky said, striking his pose.
"WE CAN'T ALL FIGHT!" Nami and Sakura screeched.
Brook got up as well.
"As much as I'd like to fight with you all, I'll help take the injured with Chopper-san." Brook volunteered.
Nami smiled.
"Okay! That leaves us with Robin, Kakashi, Franky, Doctorine, and me!" Nami said.
"I'm right here too ya know?" Sakura asked annoyed.
"You've got me too." A voice said.
Hancock walked into the room where the rest were.
"Hancock! But aren't you a DEATH member?" Nami asked.
"NOBODY WHO HARMS LUFFY IS A FRIEND OF MINE! I DON'T CARE IF IT'S DEATH OR THE WORLD GOVERNMENT! I'LL FIGHT AGAINST THEM FOR HIM!" Hancock yelled back.
"A DEATH member?! You bastard!" Franky yelled, "FRANKYYYYYYY BEEEA-!"
"If you blast her away I'll cut you up and use you as replacement parts!" Sanji yelled.
"Cut me up? Are you serious!? Without me, your famed shipwright how will your ship get fixed?!" Franky argued
"WE'LL GO FIND ANOTHER ONE AT WATER 7 AGAIN!" Sanji yelled.
"HA! GOOD LUCK SHOWING YOUR FACES AROUND THERE AGAIN!" Franky yelled back.
"SHUT UP!" Chopper yelled, "IS THIS REALLY THE TIME TO BE ARGUING?! OUR NEW FRIEND AND OUR CAPTAIN ARE DYING! WE NEED TO SAVE THEM! I'M LEAVING RIGHT NOW, SO IF YOU'RE COMING WITH ME COME NOW OR DON'T!"
The room stared at the usually quiet reindeer. Kakashi looked at him and remembered what Sanji told him in the desert.
FLASHBACK
"There's probably some sort of physical altercation every day but it's never with the REAL intent to hurt someone." Sanji explained, "We all love each other at the end of the day, and I'd die for every last one of them, as they would for me. We're a family."
END OF FLASHBACK
Kakashi stood up.
"Chopper, Robin, and Brook. You take the injured to the other operation place. Everyone else here will fight with everything we have. Do you think Luffy would care who wants to help as long as that's what they want to do? Our Naruto is the same way." Kakashi said.
The entire room focused their attention on the elder shinobi.
"Vivi told us all the time that Naruto reminded her of Luffy… I couldn't believe it honestly, I didn't think there was anyone who could match Naruto in charisma and how much he cared for people even if they weren't his friends, but this Luffy kid… he's a special case, the thing that keeps you all together. That's why we need to do what we can to save him and Naruto. So, let's do some protecting." Kakashi continued.
The entire room continued to stare in amazement while Chopper and Sakura smiled. Sabo entered the room through the hole in the wall.
"Hit the nail right on the head Kakashi." Sabo said, "Even though you still barely know my brother your analysis of him is perfect. He truly has a heart of gold, and anyone who wants to help him achieve his goals is a friend of mine."
"Hey. Don't forget about me I'll fight to-." Sanji tried to join but passed out from his injuries.
"SANJI!" Chopper yelled.
"I had a feeling that would happen." Nami sighed.
Chopper, Brook, and Robin all grabbed their share of the injured and headed downstairs. Kakashi, Franky, Nami, Sakura, Kureha, Sabo, and Hancock all stood at the opening in the castle.
"All right! Let's do this!" Sabo said.
"Franky, Sabo, and I will fight through the village and get to the boat, Nami and Sakura you all do what you can IN the village, check for wounded and fight back however you can, and Kureha…" Kakashi stopped and looked at the doctor, "I leave your son to you."
Kureha nodded and all the fighters jumped from the window.
ARLONG PARK 2.0 PYSCHO'S ROOM
Psycho looked over some WANTED posters and stumbled across the Straw-Hat Pirate's posters.
Psycho stared at each of them for a moment.
"..." Psycho continued to stare as he sat alone in his room.
DRUM KINGDOM
The fighters lept from the castle to head to their assigned destinations. When they landed Kakashi gave them one more rundown on what exactly would be happening, and they all went separate ways.
Kureha looked around at the base of the castle and Onawagi was nowhere to be found.
"Did he run off again? Damn it!" Kureha said.
Suddenly she was grabbed from behind. Onawagi slowly appeared.
"I'm not going anywhere until you die, mother." Onawagi said.
Nami and Sakura entered the burning village.
"Alright let's start looking for any injured and get them out of here!" Sakura said.
"Yeah I know let's move!" Nami snapped back.
Sakura stared at the orange haired women for a moment then split, meanwhile Franky, Sabo, and Kakashi got further to the ship in the water.
"Most likely the leader behind this attack is on that ship!" Sabo said.
"What kind of leader are we dealing with?" Franky asked.
"It should be Eneru, he's a thunder god, he's in charge of capturing islands for DEATH members to hideout in usually. It's no surprise he attacked this place, their medicinal practices here are legendary, DEATH wouldn't have to worry about the sick or injured ever again if they secured this place!" Sabo explained.
Kakashi looked at the boat.
"You said he's a lightning god right?" Kakashi asked.
"Yes sir! He ate the rumble-rumble fruit! He's literally a lightning man so he can't be harmed by physical attacks." Sabo said.
Kakashi thought about Garra fighting Crocodile.
"I understand you're not from here so here! Take these rubber gloves! You'll be able to touch him then!" Sabo said.
Kakashi looked awkwardly at the gloves.
"Um, actually I think I'll be fine Mr. Sabo! I want to test something anyway.." Kakashi said.
Sabo was confused.
"This is hardly the time for testing things out but I trust your judgment Kakashi!" Sabo said.
"Franky, you fight the soldiers that are sure to be on board while Kakashi and I take out Eneru! Taking him out here would be a huge blow to DEATH's takeover." Sabo said.
"Roger!" Franky confirmed.
"YAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!" Eneru laughed, "If you even make it to me."
Eneru lifted his arm in the air to charge another lightning attack, Kakashi and Sabo looked up to see it coming.
"Kakashi!" Sabo yelled out.
"I know! Franky get us on board!" Kakashi said.
"Roger!" Franky said.
Sabo and Kakashi jumped on Franky's fists and Franky launched them on to the boat. As Kakashi and Sabo landed a giant blue streak of lightning came down where they were.
"Franky!" Sabo yelled.
Kakashi also stared back in shock but was quickly cheered up when he saw Franky flying towards the boat.
"What are you guys looking at? Go get him!" Franky yelled.
Kakashi and Sabo nodded happily and kept running, DEATH members blocked their path.
"Where the hell do you think you guys are going?!" One of them asked.
Kakashi and Sabo looked at each other and nodded, they jumped to the sides and Franky ran through the entire blockade. Kakashi and Sabo ran behind Franky as he charged through the giant group of members until Franky burst through the door to the captain's quarters. Eneru stared at them as he sat.
"YA HA HA HA HA!" Eneru laughed, "So you've made it to me. Now what?"
"Now you get your ass kicked off this island." Sabo answered.
"Kick my ass off this island? YAAAA HA HA HA HA HA I doubt that very much." Eneru said while standing.
"Hey guys I got you here! I'm going back outside to fight guys on the ship to keep them from interfering." Franky said as he ran back outside.
Eneru smiled and looked at the two men.
"What gives you the right to speak to God with such disrespect?" Eneru asked, extending his arm, "One million volts."
Lightning shot from Eneru's hand at Sabo and Kakashi who dodged easily, Eneru pointed his staff at them and pressed a button on it, the end of the staff shot out and was attached to a chain, it wrapped around Sabo.
"AGH DAMN IT!" Sabo grunted.
Eneru laughed and squeezed his staff sending an electric current up to the top hat wearing man.
"AHHHHHHH!" Sabo screamed as he was electrocuted.
"YA HA HA HA HA HA! Not only have I gotten stronger, but my staff has had modifications as well!" Eneru said, "Courtesy of Cyclone's genius."
Kakashi landed on the ground and Sabo eventually recovered himself.
"Alright…I guess this is gonna be pretty tough." Sabo said.
DRUM KINGDOM FOREST
Chopper, Robin, and Brook ran through the forest carrying the hurt straw hats and leaf shinobi.
"How far are we, Chopper-san?" Brook asked.
"It's just up here!" Chopper said.
The three came to a large tree with a giant X on it and a small door.
"This is where Doctorine used to care for me before we moved into Walpol's castle. Let's get them inside!" Chopper ordered.
Naruto, Zoro, Usopp, Sanji, and Luffy were all laid on beds and tucked in.
"Okay! Usopp is the easiest case with just some broken bones! Sanji, Luffy, Zoro, and the new guy all have major injuries! Brook you wrap up Usopp while Robin and I operate on the others!" Chopper ordered.
Everyone started moving about frantically to get their patients taken care of.
"To be honest Robin, you can work on stitching up Sanji and Zoro! I'll take care of Luffy and the new guy! They've suffered the most fatal blows!" Chopper said, "Just stitch them up and give them some blood and they should be okay!
Robin nodded and went to grab stitching material, once she found it she got to work on Sanji, she removed his shirt to get a look at the cuts on his back, five of them, they weren't that deep thought so it shouldn't be too bad. Brook wrapped up Usopp on the other end of the room. Chopper hooked Luffy, and Naruto up to machines to check their heart rates, and give them the appropriate blood, he then got to work himself.
"Alright Luffy, you first." Chopper thought to himself as he operated.
As he examined the wound it ended up not looking as fatal as he thought.
"Whoever did this… did they even try to kill him? They shot completely through his body yes.. but… through the top right… compared to what Luffy's been through this is child's play, it's mainly the loss of blood that would be killing him. Maybe I should check out the other patient." Chopper thought.
Chopper squeaked all the way over to Naruto who had the exact same injury.
"I knew it! The same injury! The loss of blood is the real problem here, they could've still died if they never came here, seeing as they were shot through the body and all… but…" Chopper looked up and smiled.
"They'll be okay!" Chopper said with tears in his eyes.
Robin looked back at Chopper and smiled.
"Thank you, Robin-chan." Sanji said weakly.
Robin smiled at him.
"No problem, Mr. Cook." Robin said softly.
While Brook and Chopper continued to work, Robin walked over to Zoro's bed to patch him up. She had finally gotten a close up look at the damage done to him and it looked almost as bad as Luffy and Naruto's injuries. Robin stared in shock and her hands trembled. Zoro's toro was cut perfectly down his old scar he had gotten years ago from Hawk Eye Mihak, she wasn't there for that bout, but she had heard about it during a story night with the rest of the crew. From the damages it looked like there was no way Zoro could possibly survive this kind of wound, especially it being a reopened scar.
Robin shakily attempted to stitch up Zoro's body, biting her bottom lip, to stop any tears from falling.
"Why am I crying so much lately? Especially when it comes to him? Why are my feelings for him attacking me NOW of all times? I already told him how I feel, this should be easy…" Robin said.
Chopper noticed the woman struggling.
FLASHBACK
"What's wrong Usopp?" Chopper asked.
Usopp looked down at chopper then knelt to put his arm over his shoulder.
"I'm going to tell you a big secret. You can't tell ANYONE! Okay best buddy?" Usopp said, "Robin likes Zoro."
END OF FLASHBACK
"Is it hard seeing him like that, Robin? Since developing these feelings for him?" Chopper said to himself.
Tears fell on Zoro's body.
Robin couldn't take seeing Zoro like this anymore, so she got up and ran out of the room.
"Chopper-san, you take care of Zoro, I'll go talk to Robin." Brook said.
Chopper nodded.
Brook walked outside to see Robin sitting down, arms crossed on her knees, her head buried in her arms.
"Tough seeing him like that, Robin-san?" Brook asked.
"Mr. Musician… that's one thing… but it's so much harder feeling about him how I do… it's like I've liked him for much longer than I have, I know he'll survive his wounds because he's who he is, but I don't want to see him in that state ever again." Robin said, wiping tears from her eyes.
"Robin-san… do you know what this sounds like to me?" Brook asked.
Robin looked up at the skeleton man.
"The way you've been acting with him, the tears you've shed for him, not wanting to see him beaten up like that and you know for a fact he'll survive. It doesn't sound like you like him at all." Brook said.
Robin continued to stare, her eyes widened when she felt she knew where Brook was going with this.
"No no no. You aren't crying because he's hurt, you're not crying because you're confused, you're crying because… you're lying to yourself." Brook continued.
Tears developed in Robin's eyes again as she stared blankly at Brook.
"You say you just like him. But I think the truth, Robin-san…" Brook paused.
"Is that you're in love with him." Brook said smiling.
OUTSIDE OF DRUM CASTLE
Onawagi continued to choke out Kureha from behind.
"Now you die!" Onawagi said, attempting to stab his mother.
"I knew this would happen. I'm no match for him or his abilities, but… at least I can die here… knowing I helped someone… is that how you felt? Hiriluk? You idiot…" Kureha thought, tears running down her face.
CLINK!
A sword intercepted the path between Kureha's neck and Onawagi's machete. Sasuke and Hancock stood at Kureha's side.