Chapter 28

Naruto and Luffy continued to struggle with their fists clashed together and stared each other down. Naruto broke the silence.

"I can see myself in you Luffy! Stop what you're doing right now! I don't want to have to fight you!" Naruto growled.

"You should understand more than anybody right now how I'm feeling! My friends need me, need us! And nobody wants to go save them!" Luffy retorted.

Naruto growled.

"Of course we want to save them you dumb ass!" Naruto yelled.

"Tsk!" Luffy sounded, clenching his teeth.

"Psycho is on another level! As a matter of fact, LEVELS higher than we could ever dream to reach! It's not in our best interest to fight him right now! We need to train and get stronger Luffy. If we go fight him right now…" Naruto stopped, and everyone watched the yellow haired-ninja.

Naruto looked up, his eyes still red.

"SOMEBODY IS GOING TO DIE!" Naruto yelled.

Luffy, along with everyone else but Sasuke, widened their eyes with shock. Sasuke knew Naruto was right.

"He's right Luffy. That's what I'm trying to tell you. I'm not trying to be a jerk, it's just the facts." Sasuke said.

"YOU PISS ME OFF!" Luffy yelled, pushing Naruto towards everyone. Naruto back flipped and landed in front of the crew. Sanji looked down at Naruto and up at Luffy.

"Luffy." Sanji said.

Luffy looked at Sanji.

"Sanji! Franky, Usopp, Nami, Brook, Chopper! Let's go save them! Come on!" Luffy said.

Sanji, Franky, Nami, Brook, and Chopper all hid their expressions behind the black in their eyes. Luffy took notice and stepped back, a worried expression on his face.

"Guys… what's wrong?" Luffy asked.

"He's right Luffy…" Usopp said.

Luffy clenched his fist.

"NO HE ISN'T! REMEMBER ENIES LOBBY!? WE SAVED ROBIN WHEN WE COULD'VE DIED!" Luffy yelled.

"That's true Luffy! But this is different…" Nami said.

"HOW'S IT DIFFERENT!? TELL ME!" Luffy yelled at Nami.

Sanji got angry.

"Luffy-san, as captain we should follow your orders, but we need to take it easy and think before we approach a foe like this!" Brook said.

"Right, straw-hat. Remember there's more to this guy than meets the eye. Like the fact that he's met every last one of us before we even met each other." Franky weighed in.

"You're all really going to just abandon Robin and Zoro like this…" Luffy said.

"NOBODY IS IGNORING ANYBODY!" Sanji yelled.

Everyone looked back at Sanji.

"LUFFY YOU'RE NOT LISTENING! Just a day ago you and Naruto almost died fighting this man and he wasn't even REMOTELY using his full power. And look at you, full of anger. You don't think he'll expound on that? What happened when that Whitebeard guy attacked when ang-."

Sanji was interrupted by Luffy throwing a gum gum pistol punch at him but Naruto caught it with his right hand. Luffy clenched his teeth, Sanji stared with shock.

"You're going to attack your own friends over this? Luffy!" Naruto yelled.

"FRIENDS WHO ABONDON EACH OTHER AREN'T FRIENDS!" Luffy yelled.

Naruto grit his teeth and clenched Luffy's fist. He pulled Luffy in, to Luffy's surprise and hit Luffy with a hard-left hand, sending Luffy flying into trees. Naruto cracked his knuckles.

"If you won't listen to reason. Then I'll beat the reason into you!" Naruto said.

MARINEFORD

Psycho's DEATH members held their ground against the marines, dropping heavy numbers of them every passing moment. The four DEATH generals Kaku, Lucci, Doflamingo, and Lucci were a big part of this. Vice Admiral Doberman held his own against DEATH members until Kaku showed up.

"Tempest kick!" Kaku yelled, sending a sharp airwave at Doberman, who dodged it.

Doberman looked up and Kaku landed down on him, Kaku's two swords clashed with Doberman's and the two engaged in an even sword fight. As they exchanged blades Kaku laughed.

"Vice Admirals are really tough!" Kaku said.

Doberman smiled.

"That's why we're Vice Admirals you fool. You won't defeat us, so what makes you think your boss can beat the fleet admiral?" Doberman taunted.

"Sounds like you didn't hear what happened with former admiral Kizaru!" Kaku laughed, "Psycho-san dominated him and took his abilities!"

Doberman stopped for a moment.

"Don't stop!" Kaku yelled, thrusting his sword into Doberman's body.

Blood spewed from the wound as Kaku stuck his blade completely through Doberman. Kaku kicked Doberman off the blade and then threw his other sword into the same wound. Doberman coughed up blood as Kaku ran towards the vice admiral and stuck his sword in the ground, using it as a catapult, and drop-kicking Doberman again. The second sword jumped out of Doberman's body as he hit the ground and Kaku caught it.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Uh oh, looks like I found a weakness." Kaku taunted.

Doberman looked up at Kaku with anger, holding his wound.

On the other side of the battle field, Cyclone and Smoker engaged in an intense sword fight.

"What's the point in having a sea stone rod against a non-devil fruit user?!" Cyclone asked.

Smoker and Cyclone clashed, and Smoker forced Cyclone away.

"That's why it doubles as just a standard weapon. One clean hit from this can break bones." Smoker said.

Cyclone smiled and put away his sword. Smoker was shocked a little.

"You don't even deserve me using my sword. I'll use my hands for the rest of my battle with you." Cyclone said.

Smoker turned his lower body into smoke and charged Cyclone. Cyclone braced himself as Smoker threw heavy attacks with his rod, Cyclone blocking them all with his forearms.

The hits were so intense that Smoker was pushing Cyclone back as he blocked attacks until Cyclone grabbed it with his left arm and slammed it into the ground. Cyclone attempted a jumping knee, but Smoker blocked it.

Cyclone used this opportunity to charge an energy beam at Smoker's face, but Smoker dodged it in the nick of time.

The blast fired a short range and exploded, blowing away DEATH and navy members. Smoker turned his body completely into smoke and engulfed Cyclone. He became solid holding Cyclone in a lock.

"Now I've got you. You're not going anywhere." Smoker said.

Cyclone smiled.

"Heh heh heh heh HA HA HA HA HA! I don't need to go anywhere!" Cyclone yelled.

WHAM!

Smoker was hit hard on the side of his head by his own sea stone rod. Smoker's pupils disappeared as he fell towards the ground. He let Cyclone go and Cyclone turned to the second Cyclone who stood over Smoker, holding his rod.

"Such a foolish object to have as a vice admiral with a devil fruit! Ha ha ha ha! No look at you. I can do whatever I want to you now… but…" Cyclone smiled and looked over at Tashigi, who fought with plenty of DEATH members.

"Lucci hasn't gotten to her yet. Hopefully he doesn't get too upset for me taking his prey." Cyclone said to himself, smiling. The shadow clone Cyclone disappeared and Cyclone ran through the crowd towards Tashigi.

Coby and Helmeppo were fighting with DEATH members, their backs together, with great chemistry.

"Helmeppo! You should go inside the Marineford palace and look for survivors! We'll handle things out here! We've got the fleet admiral to back us up. There's no way he'd lose to Psycho!" Coby said.

Helmeppo nodded and back flipped through the crowd towards the Marineford building. DEATH members noticed and yelled out.

"VICE ADMIRAL HELMEPPO IS RUNNING INTO THE PSYCHO-SAMA'S PALACE!" A DEATH member yelled.

Kuro turned towards the giant building and squinted.

"I'll handle it. You take care of things out here." Kuro ordered.

"Right!"

Coby suddenly couldn't move after seeing Helmeppo leave.

"What… what the hell? What's going on?" Coby asked.

Doflamingo landed down in front of Coby and chuckled.

"A little boy like you becoming fleet admiral? What the hell has gotten into the navy?" Doflamingo asked.

Coby's eyes filled with fear.

"Don't worry little boy. I'll kill you quick, and I'll do it with a smile!" Doflamingo said, chuckling sinisterly.

Akainu yelled as he through two hard punches at Psycho. Psycho parried them both and jumped to kick him. Akainu caught Psycho's leg, slammed him down, drug him through the rocky surface and threw him into the air. Psycho did a series of flips to recover and cocked back to blast a full power energy beam at Akainu who fired a lava attack of his own to counter the beam.

BOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM

The energy clash shook the battle field and covered some of it in smoke. After a few moments the smoke cleared, and Psycho came down with a light charged axe kick that Akainu blocked with magma covered arms.

BOOOOOOOMMMMM!

Another huge explosion sounded as Psycho's heel came into contact with Akainu's arms.

Smoke filled the area, all that could be seen was Akainu's silhouette looking around as Psycho's silhouette ran up and punched him in the stomach, back flip kicked him while conjuring a shadow clone to spin kick Akainu out the smoke.

"GRGH!" Akainu groaned as he spit up blood.

Suddenly something was about to emerge from the smoke. Akainu was ready.

"RRRAAHHHHHHH!!!" Akainu yelled, blasting a massive flame fist that exploded. Akainu breathed heavily in and out until he realized the burning body was a marine's!

"WHAT?! WHE-" Akainu stopped talking instantly, everything went silent as Psycho was already loading up a haki punch with viscous intent.

In Akainu's eye, Psycho's red eyes glowed as hs got closer and closer.

CRACK!!!!!!!!!!!

Psycho's fist slammed into Akainu's face, sending the fleet admiral down the battlefield.

BOOM! Crackle…crackle.

Smoke came up, and Akainu, along with some DEATH and navy soldiers, rest in a small crater. Psycho held his hands in a circle and light formed in the space in between his circled hands. Psycho's entire body turned into light.

"Yata no Kagami." Psycho said, as he turned into light and bounded off various soldiers backs until he appeared in front of the recovering Akainu, who sat on his butt and looked up when Psycho appeared in front of him.

As Akainu looked up at Psycho, Psycho stared down at him. Psycho stared down for a moment until he spun around and kicked Akainu in the face sending him flying even further down the battle field. Akainu slowly composed himself himself and crawled to his hands and knees. Psycho walked slowly up to him.

"What was that earlier about my power not being sufficient? I thought the navy didn't underestimate their opponents." Psycho taunted.

Akainu's eyes turned blood red. Psycho crossed his arms and continued to look down on the fleet admiral.

"Imagine coming out here with the intention of revenge to be dominated like this. It must be embarrassing… but." Psycho stopped and turned around. He looked back at Akainu and continued speaking, "Let me tell you something about revenge, fleet admiral Akainu." Psycho said.

BOOM! SPLAT!

Akainu punched a hole through Psycho's chest. Blood ran down the sides of Psycho's mouth. Akainu, his head down, smiled. Robin watched from the window in Psycho's throne room and stared with fear.

"Did he just?... Kill Psycho…" Robin asked herself.

"Now who's not paying attention? You damn bastard." Akainu said.

Psycho coughed up blood.

Navy officers looked on, as well as DEATH members. Doflamingo and Lucci looked at Psycho. Kaku, arms crossed, stopped looking down at Doberman and turned to look at what happened.

Akainu stood to his feet, fist still inside Psycho's body. He pushed his magma hand deeper through Psycho's body slowly. Psycho coughed up more blood and grabbed Akainu's arm.

"Where's all that tough talk now!? TALK NOW!" Akainu yelled, cocking his arm back.

Psycho looked up with concern at his followers. Kaku and Lucci stared with serious faces and Doflamingo looked at him with a smile. Akainu cocked his fist back as far as he could and launched it at Psycho. Psycho's look of concerned turned neutral as his head was blown off by Akainu's magma fist.

SAKURA KINGDOM

The island shook from the intense fight between former friends. Naruto and Luffy clashed together, their hand clasped against each other. The two stared at each other full of anger. The others watched the feud, not wanting it to happen, but knowing it had to.

"Why… why don't you just listen!" Naruto yelled.

"Shut up! You dumb ass!" Luffy yelled back, stretching his head far back.

Naruto looked with shock as Luffy stretched his head.

"GUM GUM BELL!" Luffy yelled as his head sprung forward.

Naruto yelled and cocked his own head back, slamming it into Luffy's at the same time. The ground beneath the two rumbled and the shockwave pushed their friends back.

"Ugh!" Nami strained.

Hinata covered her face to shield the wind and uncovered her face to look at Naruto, her face showing concern.

"Naruto-kun…" Hinata said to herself.

"Grgh! These guys are crazy strong!" Franky yelled.

Chopper jumped into Sakura's arms and started crying. Sakura pet the young reindeer and hugged him. Sasuke looked at them and then back at the battle. Kakashi watched the battle as well. Usopp was ducked, shielding himself from the fight.

"Please… stop!" Usopp yelled to himself.

Hancock's expression was hidden behind her hair. She bit her lip and clenched her fists until her nails cut into her palm. Underneath her hair tears ran down her face.

FLASHBACK

"You don't have to carry Ace's death on your shoulders anymore… you have a new brother now!" Hancock yelled.

""Do you understand? You didn't meet that man by accident. Those are all great people you've stumbled upon!"

END OF FLASHBACK

Naruto and Luffy's faces were covered with blood from the headbutt. Naruto threw Luffy into the air, who put his feet together and fired a gum gum spear at the ninja, who dodged it. Naruto held out his arm and a clone formed a rasengan. Luffy blew his arm up and solidified it, turning it into a giant metal fist. Naruto jumped towards Luffy and Luffy threw his punch at Naruto.

"HEY YOU TWO WILL DESTROY THE ISLAND! STOP!" Kakashi yelled, charging at the men.

"NARUTO PLEASE STOP!" Sakura yelled as Chopper continued to cry.

"LUFFY! DON'T DO THIS!" Nami yelled.

The two men slowly charged towards each other as Kakashi, Sanji, and Franky ran to stop them. Hancock continued to clench her already blood-soaked hands.

"Stop…" Hancock said softly.

Nobody heard her.

"Stop!" Hancock yelled.

Nobody heard her.

Hancock put her head down and shook violently.

"I SAID STOOOOOPPPPPPP!" Hancock screamed at the top of her lungs.

Kakashi, Sanji, and Franky all stopped in their tracks. Usopp and Chopper stared at the pirate empress with fear, Nami and Sakura did as well.

Sasuke looked at the pirate empress stone faced with surprise. Naruto's angry expression turned into shock. Luffy also reacted to the scream and looked over at Hancock, who was staring directly at him. Her eyes wide open, her pupils shaking rapidly, and her teeth clenched.

Naruto's eyes slowly closed, and he fell out of the air and into the snow. Sasuke fell on his knees and back into the snow. Nami, Sakura, Usopp, and Chopper all fell out as well. Sanji and Franky fell forward as they ran, passed out.

Kakashi fell to one knee and looked back at Hancock.

"What… what did you?..." Kakashi's eyes rolled into the back of his head and he passed out.

Luffy landed and looked around.

"Hancock?... What just happened?" Luffy asked.

Hancock walked over to Luffy, tears in her eyes.

"It's fine… Luffy. Let's go save your friends." Hancock said.

Luffy looked at everyone who passed out, then back up at Hancock and nodded. The two ran off.

MARINEFORD

The navy stared with excitement and some with fear at how Psycho was brutalized. Psycho's blood rest on Akainu's face. Akainu breathed heavily and he smiled.

"You're full of tricks… Psycho Uchiha…" Akainu said, staring at Psycho's lifeless body from behind. The body slowly leaned forward.

Marine soldiers' fear quickly turned into celebration. Robin covered her mouth and choked on her words.

"N… N… No way… he couldn't have just… he beat Naruto and Luffy so easily… he couldn't have lost just now…" Robin said to herself.

As Robin watched the fight, Helmeppo creeped behind her slowly, his sword in his hand.

On the battle field marine soldiers cheered.

"congratulations fleet admiral Akainu! You killed the world's most wanted man!"

"This war is as good as won!"

Akainu pushed Psycho's body of his arm and watched it fall to the ground. He stood over the body and continue to pant. He looked up at the men who celebrated.

"FOOLS! THERE ARE MORE WANTED MEN HERE! BEAT THEM FIRST AND THEN CELEBRATE!" Akainu yelled.

The men suddenly became serious, but not because of what the fleet admiral said. Some men dropped their guns and fell to their knees. Other's choked on their words. Akainu stared at the men angrily.

"WHAT!? DO AS YOUR TOLD!" Akainu yelled.

One of the marine soldiers pointed at Akainu.

"Fl….fl…fl…" The soldier stuttered.

"IF I HAVE TO ASK WHAT AGAIN YOU'RE GOING TO PAY FOR IT!" Akainu continued to yell.

All of a sudden a man rose behind Akainu.

"He's right navy soldiers… you've chosen to celebrate far too early…" Psycho said softly, his head hanging low.

"WH-WH-WHAT THE HELL?!?" A marine yelled.

"H-HIS HEAD WAS BLOWN OFF! H-HOW?" Another marine yelled.

Psycho lifted his head up slowly, his face hidden by black.

"DAMN YOU!" Akainu yelled, loading a hell hound.

Psycho shot two fingers up to his mouth.

"Rock trap jutsu." Psycho said, causing a rock trap to instantly trap Akainu around his body, leaving the top of his shoulders and up exposed.

"What!?" Akainu yelled, struggling to move.

"I-I CAN'T MOVE!" Akainu yelled.

Psycho smiled with killing intent in his eyes. His forehead leaked blood, as did his chest, the hole that was in the other body was no longer there as well and the head was no longer blown off, the body now being a random marine.

Akainu was shocked.

"I-IMPOSSIBLE!" Akainu angrily shouted, still trying to escape.

The bandage that covered Psycho's eye slowly fell off. Psycho's right eye was closed and his left one was wide open. Psycho released a blast of conqueror's haki.

Soldiers started to fall out and faint, others fell on their butts from fear. The left side of Psycho's face was covered with a weird pattern and his eye had a saw blade pattern surrounding his pupil. As Psycho smiled wider the saw blade began to spin.

"This fight… is just getting started." Psycho said, smiling with pure evil.