CHAPTER 39
LONG RING LONG ISLAND
Arlong the fishman in his new six armed, three faced form, stared at the two men who stood against him.
Naruto Uzumaki, shinobi of the hidden leaf in his new Crystal fox form and "Black leg" Sanji of the Straw Hat pirates using his Ifrit Jambe.
Arlong stared at the two from a far distance, his eyes rolled in the back of his head and a demonic smile were on his face.
Saliva from bloodlust trickled down out his mouth. Naruto and Sanji's friends commented on their new abilities.
"Naruto! When did you have time to develop something like that?!" Sakura asked.
Kakashi and Sasuke stared with surprise, wondering the same thing. Naruto turned and smiled.
"After the great war… I had to come up with a new form to ensure that no one man could ever be a threat to our world ever again." Naruto explained, "Every day, even with my wounds, we got up and worked with Kurama to master our shared chakra. With Hinata's help, we figured out something incredible…"
Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi all gasped. Hinata smiled.
FLASHBACK
"I've been training for a while now… I just don't see what else I can do to make Kurama and I more compatible…" Naruto said.
Hinata massaged Naruto's bandaged back as the two sat in the empty training field in the middle of the night.
"We've been out here every day since the war ended… I just know Kurama and I are airtight. What else can I do to make my bijuu chakra mode more powerful?" Naruto asked.
Hinata stopped. Naruto looked back.
"Everything okay Hinata? Why'd you stop?" Naruto asked.
Hinata slowly ran her hand down his back.
"Naruto-kun… I think I know a way for you and Kurama to get more powerful." Hinata said.
Naruto turned around with excitement.
"Really!? Hinata you're amazing! What do I have to do!? I can start now." Naruto said.
"Well, we know that you and Kurama have shared chakra and are connected right? But how much of your respective chakra have either of you mastered?" Hinata asked.
Naruto became confused.
"How much… have we mastered?" Naruto asked.
Hinata nodded.
"I noticed a while ago that both of your chakras are incredibly powerful enough as is, but it's still wild. Your chakra mode is just a bunch of wild energy… well as with all chakra… I want to see if it's possible to slow chakra down and actually control it." Hinata suggested.
Naruto was still confused.
"Is that even possible?" Naruto asked.
Hinata looked to the side.
"Well, we won't know until we try Naruto-kun… my theory is that if you can completely control your chakra then you can use it to it's full potential! Just like standard meditation which clears your mind and allows you to have complete control over your body so to speak… it won't hurt to try." Hinata said.
Naruto looked down at his bandaged left hand.
"But it won't be easy… you and Kurama will have to do this… can you get him to?" Hinata asked.
Naruto put his bandaged hand on his seal and smiled.
"Yeah. Yeah that won't be a problem!" Naruto said with a smile.
END OF FLASHBACK
"Hinata-chan, Kurama, and I worked really hard to master true chakra flow and developed the ultimate bijuu chakra mode!" Naruto said with a thumbs up.
Sakura, Sasuke, and Kakashi all stared at Naruto, still in shock.
"I suppose that makes sense… even if it was a deeper explanation it's the only one we have. This is the only time in recorded ninja history that someone was able to be at one with the wild energy in us that's been called chakra." Kakashi thought to himself.
Sakura looked over at Sanji, who's leg was surrounded in blue flames.
"OOOOOOWWWW what a SUPER move you've developed!" Franky yelled.
"I agree! Both have truly turned the tide of this battle! Yo ho ho ho." Brook said happily.
"You guys are amazing!" Chopper yelled.
Arlong continued to stare at them all then began to laugh.
"AHHH HA HA HA HA HA! DON'T YOU DARE GET COCKY! DO YOU REALLY THINK SUCH FEEBLE ABILITIES ARE ENOUGH TO DEFEAT OUR BOSS!? DO YOU REALLY!?" Arlong taunted.
Sasuke and Sakura's expressions were hidden by shadow.
"DIDN'T OUR BOSS ALREADY TEACH YOU A LESSON ABOUT INTERFERRING WITH US!? FOOLS! YOUR DOCTOR FRIEND ALMOST DIED AND THE CYBORG WASN'T MUCH HELP!" Arlong yelled.
Chopper and Franky's expressions were hidden by shadow.
"CYCLONE SINGLE HANDEDLY DEFEATED YOUR SKELETON FRIEND AND SCARED NAMI HALF TO DEATH! AH HA HA HA!" Arlong gloated.
Brook and Nami's expressions were hidden by shadow.
"I'M SURPRISED YOUR LONG-NOSED SNIPER SHOWED UP AFTER BEING IMPRINTED INTO OUR WALL! HA HA HA HA AH HA HA HA!" Arlong teased.
Usopp grunted and gritted his teeth his expression was hidden by shadow.
"YOU MUST FEEL HORRIBLE BEING SO SHOOK IN YOUR BOOTS OLD MAN! YOU COULDN'T EVEN SAVE THEM FROM EMBARASSMENT! AND AFTER I KILL YOU ALL DON'T THINK I FORGOT ABOUT YOU LAW!" Arlong noted.
Kakashi and Law's expressions were hidden by shadow.
"PSYCHO IS THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW AND YOU WILL ALL BOW TO HIS WORD! THIS WORLD WILL BE HIS! IT'S MY JOB…" Arlong paused.
Sasuke and Sakura slowly stood up and walked next to Naruto and Sanji.
"AS A DEATH GENERAL FOR HIS DREAM TO COME TRUE!" Arlong finished.
Slowly, one by one, the straw hats, Kakashi and Hinata all stood and walked next to Sanji and Naruto. Arlong winced. The straw hat shinobi all stared at the fishman.
"Luffy…" Naruto started, "Let us take this guy out… we'll defeat him here and now!" Naruto yelled, "Because we're…"
Everyone looked at each other, smiled, and back at Arlong.
"THE STRAW HAT SHINOBI!" They yelled in unison.
Arlong became enraged.
"RAHHHHHHHHH BEAT ME!? IN YOUR DREAMS! GET READY TO DIE!" Arlong yelled.
Arlong forced his foot into the ground and burst towards them in an incredible burst of speed.
Naruto, arms still crossed, spoke to everyone.
"His brute strength is enough to end us in one punch if he wanted to. The plan is to keep him away and beat him with long ranged attacks!" Naruto yelled.
Sanji stepped up.
"I've got just a move for that." Sanji said, squatting. Arlong still running towards them.
"Skyyyyyy wallllllk!" Sanji yelled.
Sanji began to jump and run on the air gaining incredible height.
"While Sanji does that, Usopp! Franky! Nami! You'll be our long-range strikers!" Kakashi ordered, "Sakura, Hinata, and Chopper you'll provide us with healing and defense! Sasuke, Naruto, Brook, and I will be our close-range fighters!"
"The girls can handle the medicine… I want to fight too! I need to make up for being sloppy in the sand!" Chopper announced.
Kakashi looked at the reindeer with surprise.
Chopper ate three rumble balls and slowly grew to a great size. Eventually towering over everyone.
"MONSTER POINT!" Chopper yelled in a deep voice.
Kakashi, Sakura, Hinata, and Sasuke looked up with surprise. Naruto saw the shadow and turned to see Chopper.
"Woah! Is that the doctor!" Naruto yelled.
Sasuke chuckled and lowered his head. A purple rib cage surrounding him and then slowly shaping itself to form a giant purple samurai warrior in armor.
"SUSANO!" Sasuke yelled.
The straw hats looked up with surprise.
"So much power… we still hadn't seen from them… I'm so amazed." Nami noted.
Sakura smiled.
"OW! A truly SUPER transformation!" Franky yelled.
"Yo ho ho ho ho! What a surprise Sasuke-san!" Brook said.
Chopper looked over at Sasuke who stood at the same height as himself and smiled, cracked his knuckles and took a stance.
Sanji, finally gaining enough height, got ready to attack.
"Finally high enough… now! IFRIT JAMBE: HELL SPECTRE!" Sanji yelled.
Arlong looked up at Sanji with confusion as he ran towards the others.
"They think those forms will be enough to stop me!? Foolishness! If those are the forms that will beat me then strike me down now!" Arlong yelled to himself while running, but as he looked up giant blue balls of fire were raining down on him as Sanji kicked the air.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
Giant blue explosions shook the island as Arlong narrowly dodged the fire balls that attempted to stop him in his tracks.
He dodged another and jumped into the air, one coming straight for him. Arlong cocked his six arms back and forced them at the fireball.
"ROKOUGON!" Arlong yelled.
The fireball was pushed back towards Sanji from a giant burst of air.
"Grgh!" Sanji choked.
Sanji flipped out the way and sky walked towards Arlong.
"Collier Shoot!" Sanji yelled attempting to kick arlong in the neck, but was blocked.
Arlong attempted to punch Sanji, but Sanji ever so nimble, back flipped out the way and sky walked away a little. Usopp stepped up.
"Special attack: Fly trap star!" Usopp yelled, firing a seed towards Sanji.
The seed exploded into a giant venus fly trap head and attempted to eat Sanji, but Sanji read the move and spun to dodge it.
Knowing Arlong saw it coming a mile away, Sanji kicked the fly trap at the fishman at great speed. Arlong was caught by surprise but smiled.
"FOOL!" Arlong yelled.
Arlong caught the fly trap and threw it back down at Usopp. The fly trap opened its mouth to eat him, but was sliced in half by Sasuke's susano sword.
"Damn! Thanks guys!" Usopp said.
Sanji, distracted by the fly trap trying to eat Usopp, was blindsided by Arlong.
WHAM!
Arlong landed a huge blow that cut Sanji open. Before Sanji could fly away, Arlong grabbed Sanji's waist with his middle set of arms and gave Sanji two more hooks while in his grasp.
Sanji leaked blood and spit out a little as well.
"FRANKY! NAMI!" Kakashi yelled.
"OW!" Franky yelled, charging up a radical beam.
Nami took her staff apart and circled it around throwing warm and cold bubbles into the atmosphere.
As Arlong toyed with Sanji he looked up at the thunder cloud above him. Franky's radical beam was finished.
"Nami you ready?" Franky asked.
"Yeah!" Nami confirmed.
Together they shouted:
"RADICAL THUNDER!"
A giant yellow beam and lightning attempted to strike Arlong at one time. Arlong smiled knowing he had Sanji in his grasp.
"Shambles." Law said.
Arlong felt something different in his grasp and yelled when he saw he was holding a dead fishman. Sanji appeared next to Law and the others. Hinata ran over to him.
"Sanji-kun! Are you okay?" Hinata asked.
Sanji shook his head and looked up.
"HAIII YES I AM MY DARLING!" Sanji yelled, hearts in his eyes.
Arlong watched as the lightning came down and the radical beam came closer and his eyes widened.
CRACKLE BOOM!
A huge explosion in the air filled the sky with smoke. After a moment a ball of smoke shot towards the ground and exploded. Arlong appeared and smiled, burns on his body.
"Grgh! I knew it was a long shot but at least we did some damage!" Franky said.
Arlong started dashing towards them again as Usopp shot pop green at him. The seeds turned into man eating plants that Arlong easily disposed of. As Arlong started to get close Sanji jumped back up.
"EVERYONE GET DOWN!" Sanjj yelled activating diable bleu.
Sanji stood on his hands and begun spinning around.
"Party tableeeeeeee….. HELL COURSE!" Sanji yelled.
A giant ring of blue fire launched towards Arlong who couldn't do anything but watch with anger as it got closer.
"RRRRRRAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Arlong yelled as the attack seemingly hit him.
The blue fire scorched the battle grounds as Sanji hopped back on two feet.
"Did that get him?" Nami asked.
Naruto had his eyes closed. The more he waited he could feel vibrations in the ground and then he could see Arlong drilling through the ground and attempting to drill upwards towards…
"LONG NOSE!" Naruto yelled, stretching out his hand and a large hollow crystal fox arm emerged to grab Usopp and pull him out the way.
"Ahhhh what's this!?" Usopp asked.
As Usopp was dragged away Arlong burst from the ground spinning rapidly.
Sanji looked at Naruto who still had Usopp in his grasp.
"Was that? Observation haki?" Sanji asked himself.
As Arlong flew into the air again Sasuke's susano wings started flapping and he jumped into the air to meet the fishman.
The susano swung its giant sword to hit Arlong, but he blocked it. It still wasn't enough to stop the force of the attack and Arlong was forced back towards the ground.
He fell to fast to move, but he could see monster Chopper loading up a punch. As Arlong fell closer to the ground Chopper threw the punch but was caught.
Arlong landed on the ground and with all his might threw the monster Chopper at Sasuke who was in the air!
"WHAT STRENGTH!" Sakura noted.
Sasuke caught the monster Chopper but was knocked out of the air in the process. Arlong, now right where he wanted to be, got into a stance.
"IMPRESSIVE ATTACKS, BUT WHICH ONE OF YOU THINKS YOU CAN BEAT ME IN HAND TO HAND COMBAT!?" Arlong hissed.
Kakashi pulled out a kunai, and Law his sword. Brook also pulled out his sword and they charged the six armed fishman. Arlong smiled.
Brook took a few swings and missed. Arlong brought up his foot and stepped on the sword and threw a back hand that Brook dodged, but another arm uppercut Brook and Then Brook was hit and sent flying when all three arms on one side hit him.
Naruto sent out a giant arm to catch the skeleton and spring him back to the fight.
"ROOM!" Law yelled.
Arlong looked back.
"Injection shot!" Law yelled again dashing at Arlong.
Arlong wasn't quick enough and was pierced through the body by Law's sword and through the neck by Brook's sword. Arlong coughed up a little blood but smiled.
"IT'LL TAKE A LOT MORE THAN THAT TO BEAT ME!" Arlong noted.
Arlong kicked Law in the chin and up into the air and caught him by the leg, then grabbed Brook's sword and snapped it.
When Brook dropped to the Ground Arlong slammed Law on top of the skeleton man. The room disappeared afterwards. Kakashi attempted to stab Arlong with his kunai but it bounced off Arlong's hard skin.
Arlong tried to punch Kakashi, but the ninja was too quick and back flipped away. Kakashi did a series of hand signs and slammed his hands to the ground.
A giant cylinder of rock swallowed Arlong. Kakashi stood up to catch his breath expecting Arlong to burst from the trap, but a crackle got his attention. Kakashi looked down to see the ground breaking beneath him.
"KAKASHI SENSEI!" Naruto yelled.
Naruto wasn't fast enough this time and Arlong burst from the ground and drilled Kakashi.
Blood squirted everywhere as Kakashi's body was penetrated by Arlong's three saw noses.
Everyone stared with shock. Naruto became angry and sent a giant hand that grabbed Arlong and stopped him in his tracks.
As Kakashi fell out the air Franky launched his arm and caught the elder ninja. Arlong was shocked he couldn't move.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Naruto yelled slamming Arlong into the ground.
A giant cloud of dust showed up. In the dust cloud Arlong stood up but was forced out of the dust cloud into a giant mountain. When the dust cleared Naruto was standing in a punch position.
"Sorry guys. But I'm in the fight now. With this form… I'll end this guy!" Naruto said.
Law stood to his feet as well as Brook. Sasuke and Chopper made their way back to the front lines to get treated.
"Quick get Kakashi sensei to me!" Sakura yelled.
Franky ran Kakashi over to her so she could patch him up. The mountain Arlong was sent into exploded and Arlong was flying towards Naruto. Naruto kept a straight face as Arlong charged him.
Arlong tried to punch Naruto but was hit into the air. Arlong wiped his mouth and charged Naruto again.
This time he was hit with a combo and then slammed into the ground, lifted, and forced away, all while Naruto didn't move a muscle.
Everyone stared with shock. Arlong, on his hands and knees, wiped his mouth and slammed his hands into the ground.
"THIS PLAYGROUND OBVIOUSLY ISN'T FOR ME! I'LL BRING YOU INTO MY WORLD!" Arlong yelled.
Slowly Arlong began to pull the ground apart and tear it in half.
The entire island shook as he attempted to literally break an island in half. Eventually Arlong succeeded and forced the two halves away from each other.
As everyone fell Usopp yelled. Arlong dived into the water.
"Naruto we've got devil fruit users! What are we going to do!?" Usopp asked.
"Don't worry! Sasuke and I will deal with him! You keep your guys on land!" Naruto said, forming a giant hand grabbing all the straw hats, Sakura, Kakashi, and Hinata and throwing them onto a half of the island.
"What are they going to do?" Franky asked.
Sakura smiled.
"We ninja have developed a technique for fighting on water terrain!" Sakura boasted.
Naruto and Sasuke landed on the water and stood on it.
"HOW ARE THEY DOING THAT!?" Usopp asked.
"They're focusing chakra to their feet, giving them the ability to walk on water." Hinata answered.
Naruto and Sasuke had their backs together waiting on Arlong to show up. Eventually the water under them shook and three Arlongs appeared.
"DIDN'T EXPECT THIS DID YOU!? I CAN COMBINE AND SEPARATE FROM THESE BODIES AS I NEED!" One of the Arlongs said, "MEANING…" Arlong said, looking up at the pirates.
One of the Arlongs jumped up towards them. Naruto attempted to grab him, but was punched across the water by another Arlong.
"Naruto!" Sasuke yelled, before the last Arlong attempted to punch him, but was blocked by Sasuke's sword.
The Arlong who jumped towards everyone else attempted to slam into them with his saw nose, but missed. He brought his head up and smiled.
"WHO'S FIRST!?" Arlong asked.
Sanji kicked Arlong in the face with his blue flaming leg.
"JOUE SHOT!" Sanji yelled.
As Arlong felt his body about to take off he grabbed Hinata by the hair.
"AHHHHH!" Hinata yelled as she and Arlong flew all the way to the other half of the island.
"Hinata!" Sakura yelled.
"Damn! This is bad!" Franky said.
"Shit! I didn't expect him to do that!" Sanji said.
On the water Naruto and Sasuke fought the separated Arlongs.
Naruto threw punches and kicks that Arlong was able to block and dodge while throwing his own punches.
Naruto caught Arlong's hands and a crystal hand came out of Naruto's abdomen and uppercut Arlong, then another Naruto also came out of his abdomen and kicked Arlong away.
Naruto then sent a giant hand to grab the flying Arlong and pull him back. Naruto loaded up a bijuu rasengan and slammed it into the Arlong clone.
Naruto conjured another crystal arm to force Arlong away so he wouldn't blow off his arm and the Arlong clone blew up.
Sasuke and his Arlong clone clashed sword and fist again.
"AH HA HA HA! WHAT CAN THAT THIN SWORD DO TO ME? Arlong gloated.
Sasuke smiled.
"Amaterasu: Flame control!" Sasuke yelled.
Sasuke's sword became covered in black flames covering Arlong's arm.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Arlong yelled.
Sasuke back flipped away and charged an onyx chidori.
"Naruto! Get ready to jump!" Sasuke said.
Naruto looked back and nodded. Arlong continued yelling as he dove into the water.
Sasuke raised his arm in the air and slammed it on the surface of the water.
"NOW NARUTO!" Sasuke commanded.
Naruto jumped into the air and Sasuke yelled.
"ONYX CHIDORI!"
In an instant, not only the surface of the water, but underneath the water as well, dark electricity scattered for miles.
Arlong continued to dive in constant pain from the still burning Amaterasu. Arlong looked back to see the electricity coming towards him but couldn't outswim it and was shocked violently.
Sasuke then closed his eyes and jumped in the air. He took out a few pieces of hair and threw them in front of himself and opened his rinnegan.
Arlong was switched with the strands of hair. Sasuke then streamed lightning to his sword.
"Naruto!" Sasuke said.
"Right!" Naruto confirmed.
Naruto grabbed Sasuke with an extened arm and whipped him around then slammed him into Arlong's body.
When the sword pierced Arlong a giant burst of electricity shot out the fishman's back. Arlong's last clone fell into the water, burned and beaten.
Sasuke and Naruto landed back on the water.
"Good stuff!" Naruto said.
Sasuke looked up and saw everyone telling them to come back up.
"Naruto." Sasuke said.
Naruto looked at Sasuke then up to everyone else, who looked concerned. Naruto launched Sasuke and himself back to everyone else.
"What's going on?" Naruto asked.
"He's got Hinata!" Sakura yelled.
Naruto became surprised and turned around. Arlong had Hinata by the hair.
"AHHHH HA HA HA HA! IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER YOU BEAT MY CLONES! I'LL ENJOY KILLING THIS WOMAN MORE! WHEN YOU SPIRITS ARE CRUSHED… I CAN KILL YOU WITH EVEN MORE SATISCACTION!" Arlong taunted.
Naruto grit his teeth and became enraged.
"LET HER GO NOW!" Naruto yelled.
"LET HER GO? SURE!" Arlong yelled.
Arlong threw Hinata into a rock and ran over to her body. He picked her back up by the neck and gave her a liver punch then punched her in the face.
Afterwards he choke slammed her and drug her through the ground and slammed her body into another rock.
"GOD DAMN IT STOP RIGHT NOW!" Naruto yelled.
"STOP!? FINE IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT! I'LL KILL HER FOR YOU RIGHT NOW! YOU'RE FAST BUT NOT FAST ENOUGH TO STOP ME!" Arlong yelled.
Arlong took out his teeth, where another set grew in, and went to chomp Hinata's jugular. He looked over to see Sanji sky walking towards him.
"HMPH! WATER BULLET!" Arlong yelled.
Arlong's arm became water and shot a high pressure burst at Sanji blowing up his chest in a burst of blood.
"GUUUAGGG!" Sanji coughed before falling into the water below.
"SANJIIIIII!" Usopp and Chopper yelled.
"I've got him!" Franky yelled jumping off the island into the water to save Sanji.
Naruto, full of blood boiling anger held out his hand and different colors of chakra started to form in his hand.
The chakra ended up flooding in and came in so fast and heavy that the ground around him broke and shook. Everyone had their faces covered. Arlong looked over in confusion.
"I. SAID. STOP!" Naruto yelled, dashing towards Arlong with god speed.
"LIKE I SAID! TOO SLOW!" Arlong yelled.
Arlong again tried to rip out Hinata's throat.
"HE WON'T MAKE IT IN TIME!" NAMI YELLED.
Law weakly stood up.
"R….Room!" Law yelled.
A giant transparent room appeared but wasn't even close enough to help Naruto.
"No….no! I'm too weak!... I have to… help!" Law choked out, "R….ROOM!" Law yelled with more force.
The room expanded a little further. Time slowed as Naruto still made his way towards Arlong, but Arlong was almost at Hinata's throat.
Law knew it was now or never. He closed his eyes and focused.
"If it wasn't for these guys coming here in the first place… I'd probably be dead! I have to fight through this! I have to help them!" Law yelled to himself.
Law thought back to his crews last words to him.
"Captain… we're so sorry." Penguin said.
"C….C…Captain… am I gonna die?" Bepo choked out.
Law's eyes became filled with rage.
"I CAN'T LET THEM FAIL HERE! FOR MY CREW! ROOM!" Law yelled to himself.
Suddenly, Law's room expanded all the way till the other half of the island.. and then some! Law noticed immediately.
"AND SHAMBLES!" Law yelled.
Naruto disappeared as well as Hinata. Arlong laughed with closed eyes and when he opened them Naruto was in his grasp, the purple starry rasengan in his hand.
Arlong gasped. Naruto, with pure rage in his eyes cocked back his arm.
"GALAXY! RASEENNNNGGGAANNNNNN!" Naruto yelled, slamming the ball of energy into Arlong's body.
Arlong coughed up blood and groaned. His eyes rolled into the back of his head.
Naruto stared with anger as he pushed Arlong away and into the middle area between the islands.
A small explosion happened but was then sucked into itself and then blew up again with even greater force pushing the island halves even further away from each other!
Everyone stared with shock at the move Naruto just used. Law smiled and passed out. When everything was clear, Arlong's body floated over the water, bloody and bruised, eyes rolled in the back of his head, and mouth agape.
His body slowly fell into the water. Naruto breathed in and out heavily as he turned back to normal. Naruto punched the sky and yelled.
"IT'S FINISHED! LUFFYYYYYYYYY! KICK PSYCHO'S ASS AND COME BACK TO US!"