What If Monster Naruto Got Harem | Part 1

hi welcome back guys this is your Sensei back with another fin fiction this is the first part of what if monster Naruto got harim now before starting please give this video a like And subscribe to the channel if you want more videos like this now let's get into the fanfi Charlotte linlin considered herself a fine woman abnormal perhaps but there wasn't a pirate on the four blues or the grand line that could look at her and not feel a modum of appreciation for her uniquely stunning visit at the age of 20 she stood at a positively monstrous 12T in height with an hourglass figure that turned many heads at a glass her face held a sultry Beauty to it large orange eyes were accented with long delicate eyelashes a pointed nose and large pouting lips painted a Sumptuous red that stood out prominently from her creamy skin Lin's long pink hair tumbled down to the small of her back in a waterfall of rose-colored Tresses gathered under a wide brimmed black fedora that sported a white band and pink PKA dots needless to say she was one refined young woman well as refined as a pirate with a bounty 1 b643 million Berry could be linlin wore a white short sleeve blouse worn open exposed in her PKA do BR clad cleavage her lower body was enveloped in an underbust corset and tight fitting shorts made of a dark pink leather her long and well ton legs were clad in matching thigh high heeled boots made of a shiny maroon leather that accentuated her already extreme height lastly a white Captain's coat with pink cuffs and gold epilates hung from her shoulders like a cape a large heart on the back despite her positively pretty appearance lyan's face was set into a deep scowl as she appraised the island through the telescope held in her hands fishcake Island was like many of the Islands located in the large arip Lego surrounding her home base on hul cake island in the process of being terraformed to her needs she traced the hills and forests that ring the island using the telescope and noticed that the progress in transforming it from hram terrafirma to a more culinary appearance had come to a grinding halt for one reason or another it was for this reason that had drawn her out to this outlying island in her territory when she had much more important things on her mind and the primary contributor to her foul mood collapsing the telescope before roughly pushing it into the hands of a chess Soldier linlin stalked down the spiraling staircase of the tar ship with a mean look on her face paying no mind to the soldiers and homies that did their best to stay out of big mom's way big mom alinin thought her scowl softening AUM as she mentally tested out the title that so many had taken to calling her as of late she hardly thought that having five children by the age of 20 was something to evoke great fear but it was a fair bit more flattering than country Destroyer linlin I'm more in the business of building countries right now she mused as she made her way out onto the deck to oversee the Final Approach to fishcake Island it had been 14 years since her friends and mother caramel had vanished and L Lin had been left alone too young to understand just why she was despised and terrified those who saw her 14 years since she had conceived of the nation of tto and committed to seeing it come to fruition by any means necessary sadly for linlin nation building was a long and timeconsuming process that required money labor and above all time it was why small hiccups like this drove her up the wall so yesterday she had been standing in the center of sweet Town watching the scores of workers homies and hired contractors put the finishing touches on hul cake Shadow the tower and Cake themed stronghold that would serve as the seat of power for her and all Races would look to as a sign of Utopia she should have felt happy that the work to build her dream nation was starting to bear fruit and indeed she had she had cracked a wonderful smile and sat down to have tea with those many thousand that had slowly but surely immigrated to Toto land after hearing of the promise of a better life however about 20 minutes into tea pleasantries and Sumptuous food struin had whispered a rather ominous report into her ear while hul cake was mostly finished todal land contained 36 Islands Each of which was needed to be terraformed to her tastes and made able this process required constant work and there were a squad of approximately 200 homies working away at each island at all times According To struin None of the homies or workers on fish cake Island had checked in for the past 5 days while initially she had simply assumed it was a breakdown in Communications none of the homies from adjacent that her first and now ex-husband had ordered go investigate had returned this left big mom with a sour realization there was something unwanted in her territory and it was too strong for her subordinates to remove setting out in a tart ship at dawn the following day it had taken linlin a grueling 5 hours to sail the distance between hul cake Island and fish cake Island by which time she was in a foul mood to end all foul moods as the tart slowly pulled into the small Port of the fishing oriented Island linlin had wasted no time in disembarking using her inhuman strength to jump the intervening 20000 Metter between the ship and land with her personal homies floating after her a cursory investigation of the settlement revealed nothing but a ghost town filled with nothing but the smashed remnants of what must have been 300 homies in total all bearing slightly different wounds upon their empty cartoon punish faces some had been smashed others diced into pieces While others had been burned to a crisp or rendered to splinters by hook or by crook who could have done this mama Zeus drawled in an unsure voice the horse-sized cloud looking more like a sensient ball of cotton than a concentration of water vapor someone who's going to get a piece of my mind Zeus lenlin replied scanning The Horizon for anything out of the ordinary she slowly let her observation hacky come to life and was pleased when she sensed a single life form at the center of the island there you are Zeus Prometheus come to pinkette barked drawing startled noises of ascent from her two personal homies she did not rush as she made her way Inland her heeled boots crunching gravel underfoot following the central river that snaked from the port all the way to the center of the island where the lone life form on this island dwelt half an hour later linlin caught a scent on the air and sniffed softly recognizing the scent of wood smoke and omega-3 Rich oil running freely she snorted in Ry Amusement looks like our little Vandal has decided to help himself to some of our fish without asking if I wasn't going to punish them before then I certainly am now Prometheus and Zeus giggled in harmony whizzing around land's head as they discussed what they were going to do to this Intruder maybe you can throw him in the lake and I'll boil him alive Mama Prometheus suggested the cartoonish miniature Sun practically bouncing up and down on non-existent feet Zeus nodded enthusiastically before his mouth formed into a small ow of realization oh oh oh how about we do that but every time their heart stops I jump start it that way we get to make it last longer ly Lin's bloodthirsty grin told the pair of Elemental homies that their suggestions were pleasing to her they pred at knowing what ideas would get their mama in a good mood it was only right after all they were her personal homies formed from fragments of her soul she shook her head with a small smile much as I like the idea boys I at least want to get some answers from whoever it is after all it's not every day an interloper can cut down 300 homies plus I think they are waiting for us lenlin explained she assumed that she was expected after all she had made no effort to hide her presence yet she could sense through her observation hacky that the interloper had made no move to run so either they knew she was coming and waiting for her or they lack observation hacky themselves which opened up a whole other realm of questions following the the statuesque woman eventually made it to the large circular Lake in the center of the island and slowly approached the distant campfire on the other side and once she was within shouting distance she made herself known who the hell are you sat beside a small campfire with two spits roasting fish over it was a young man with spiky blonde hair and bright blue eyes the thin whisker marks that lined his face briefly made her consider that he might have mink ancestry but she quickly discarded that idea he had a light tan and was of average height which is to say a full six feet shorter than linlin but there were two things that stood out to the young superhuman the first was just how young he was he couldn't have been more than two or 3 years younger than her which while not entirely out of the ordinary classed with the way he was sitting cooking his fish the second was that he was dressed in rags torn black pants and a Scorch two-tone orange and black jacket was worn over a bare chest and black sandals that were barely holding themselves together the blonde looked up at her slowly raising a blonde eyebrow at her massive height while turning over the fish on the end of a spit nean Naruto yiz umaki Naruto he answered glibly confusion swimming in his eyes as he regarded linlin linlin bristled at the the nonchalant response didn't he know who he was speaking to do you mind telling me what the hell you are doing on my Island eating my fish she inquired getting a slight look of embarrassment from the blonde your Island Naruto questioned in turn taking in the gold epilates on her Captain's coat realization dawned on him that it was a sign of leadership he winced when linlin gave a sharp nod H sorry I sort of washed in a few days ago and well I needed to catch a bit of rest I thought I'd camp out here for a few days until I was back in good shape the food is really good by the way he tacked on with a chuckle hoping to alleviate the literal storm Cloud hovering in front of the sun narudo blinked he thought he had been imagining things when he had first seen the cartoonish forms of Zeus and Prometheus floating on either side of Lin Lin's head but low and behold they were not dispelled by a blink of the eye orange pigment briefly appeared around each of Naruto's eyes before he made a murmur of intrigue as he regarded the pair of homies huh that's a neat trick big lady he uttered Zeus and Prometheus stilled for a moment something about Naruto's presence giving them pause linlin ignored it Crossing her arms under her bust I see and how does that factor into you scrapping 300 of my homies down in town she questioned watching Naruto stiffen slightly seems your vandalism slipped your mind in favor of poaching my fish and squatting on my land oh those creepy cartoon people were yours H he asked big mom answering with a glacial nod crr app look I'm sorry but they attacked me first as for squatting on your land how was I supposed to know there's no sign or anything Lara looked at his two roast fish spits before sighing slowly he got to his feet and dusted himself down while meeting Lenin's piercing stare he noted that her eyes were a wonderful shade of orange I'd offer to pay for the fish but I don't have anything to pay as for squatting well tonight was going to be my last night before going on my way nothing wrong with starting a little early I guess arudo said kicking some dirt into the campfire to Slough it before turning to leave sorry for the inconvenience big lady I'll be on my way arudo moved past linlin passing through the large Shadow she cast and began to walk towards the edge of the lake from which the river would take him back to the port fully intending on leaving the island behind the bark of a pistol stopped him in his tracks a small chunk of ground to the right of his foot erupting into a small poof of dirt and grit Aro slowly looked over his shoulder seeing linlin leveling the smoking barrel of a flint locked pistol at the ground that had just been shot and where do you think you're going whiskers linlin asked internally taken aback and a little affronted that this little blonde pissant didn't seem to realize the danger he was in aoto slowly turned on his heel to face linlin fully there was a Readiness to his stance that set off alarm Bells at the back of her head but she ignored them as the blonde replied I was leaving big lady tank eyebrows knit together in frustration and linlin gave a menacing smirk it's big mom and you aren't going going anywhere whiskers you don't just break into someone's Island destroy all of its workers squat for a few days and leave without a slap on the wrist there is punishment to bead nuto stayed standing there as linlin slowly crossed the distance between them stowing her flint lock safely in its holster on her tailbone now face to face with the blonde with her back to the lake Naruto was really treated to just how tall linlin was even at 6 feet tall he barely came up to her crotch Naruto flexed his fingers a few times as the statuesque woman loomed over him he would be lying if he said he didn't enjoy the view but his mind was on on much more practical matters and what might that be he asked his eyes cooling until they were chips of blue ice big mom grinned twirling a lock of her long pink hands between her fingers before she spoke in an overly sugary voice we're going to play a game a deal really to decide what you're going to do to make up for your crimes couldn't you just put up a flag or something so this doesn't happen to anyone else Naruto said in just only for big mom to continue to grin at him her twin homies peing ominous over each shoulder she pouted for a moment her dark red lipstick forming a perfect Cupid's bow maybe afterwards but I still need to make you pay for what you did whiskers now linlin called upon the power of the Soros Sor nay and let her contract be spoken life or pet Naruto eyes went wide as a pale magenta Ora surrounded him outlining his entire body and warming its way into his soul lenlin tilted her head to the side and began to explain you must be at least somewhat entertaining if you could smash 300 homies and those whiskers are awfully cute so here is the deal I have a fondness for rare speciment you agree to be my play thing for she thumbed her chin and thought let's say 10 no 15 years and I'll consider your crimes paid for or I take four times it out of your remaining lifespan so life or pet linlin expected a range of reactions from confused demands of wanting to know what was going on to blubbering bartering for a reduced sentence or even sad denial despite the fear that crept from the existential dread of feeling your soul move entailed what she got was a searing and righteous Fury that burned those blue eyes slid it and red the last thing Charlotte linlin saw before everything went to hell was the magenta light of her soul pokus guttering like a Candle in the Wind Clen your teeth was his only warning chambering a fist then there was pain Naruto's fist slammed into lyan's jaw in a blur of motion a subtable wump was heard before reality caught up with what had occurred lyan's eyes bugged out entire body going briefly limp as the impact of the vicious uppercut lifted her off the ground then with a shock wave of pressure she was launched spinning across the lake in a Thunderclap of sound a kilometer of distance covered in an instant grimacing deeply Naruto dropped back down to the floor as linlin collided with the distant Tree Line carving a trench of Destruction through the forest as she went on ons slowed from the Herculean punch that had shot her like a ball Lo from Canon bit of a violent reaction there Kurama rumbled at the back of Naruto's mind the plumes of debris in the distance finally beginning to settle down Naruto snorted in reply you felt it as much as I did kirama she took hold of my soul and the last few people who tried to do that were intending to rip you out of me kirama harped in agreement before his eyes narrowed you know that didn't take her down if anything it feels like you just made angrier nut's sarcastic response was cut off when Instinct roared at him to move and loed was he to not listen to his instincts in a Strange New World aoku sovereignty no sooner did Naruto hear those words that a crescent of magenta energy burst out of the far tree line and streak towards where he had just been standing a moment ago it sced into the ground like a hot knife through butter carving a long line deep into the ground as it moved smashing into what had been his campsite a few minutes before and kept going to demolish hundreds of meters worth of forest behind just wine pressure Naruto realized he looked across the lake and saw the tall figure of big mom stomping From The Trenches punch had put her in the smoking length of a cutless clutched in her hand her face was set in an angry scowl and her clothes were a little scuffed but apart from a small red wealth on her chin she was otherwise unscathed you damn brat now you've done it they're going to be finding pieces of you scattered across the island for years by the time I'm through with you linlin pointed the end of her sword across the lake her voice echoing off the woods that ringed the water Naruto squinted in confusion hey brat lady you're like only two years older than me there is no way in hell I'm a brat Lenin's teeth ground together loudly at his blatant disrespect GNN HHH AG has got nothing to do with it you've got all the manners of a three-year-old throwing a tantrum when he's been caught red-handed Oh by me a crazy bent try putting up a sign next time and maybe it won't happen again Naruto shouted in response thoroughly annoyed at Lin Lin's words squaring her shoulders the tall pinket fists tightened until her nucks sha white through the skin the handle of her cutless giving an ominous Creek in strain this guy had an attitude it seemed it wasn't the first time that big mom had dealt with a man running his mouth and she was always open to dealing out retribution but this felt strangely personal and thus dictated her response Zeus Prometheus yes Mom of the twin Elemental homies answered in unison positively vibrating at the prospect of a good scrap unfortunately Lin Lin's words would disappoint them you two hang back I'm going to beat some manners into this guy with my bare hands she exclaimed with palpable excitement lightly bending her knees and dropping into a ready stance the flat of her cutless resting on her shoulder both homies gave a disappointed o before dropping back arudo tensed feeling Lenin's intent wash over the surrounding area in a miasma of Vermilion waves lapping against his senses he watched her closely taking in every aspect of the delicate minui that might Herald oncoming movement the dilation of the eyes the flaring of the nordal or twitch of muscle that meant an attack was coming then she came surging forth in a lightning fast leap that cratered the ground where she had been standing and soared across the lake as if in Flight set to bring down her cutless in an overhead slash that would have split a normal man in two the duto was no normal man kicking off the ground to meet his statuesque opponent Naruto made a grab for the descending sword and locked onto Lin Lin's wrists before crashing both his feet into her unprotected chest in a drop kick lenlin gave a small grunt of annoyance while Naruto's eyes widened in Surprise it's like kicking a slab of solid iron he thought feeling reverberations Rumble through his legs unpleasantly making a snap decision Naruto twisted his body throwing his weight backwards while bracing his feet against linlin sternum and levered her sword wielding arms with the Y of his body big moms gave a frustrated yelp when Naruto flipped her and with a Twist sent her careening into the forest once again Great Oaks and pine trees snapping like Twigs as she crashed through them swearing big mom attempted to write herself amid her flight only for Naruto to blur in front of her still in motion with fist reared back jumping off a nearby broken tree stump that the Superhuman had just felt narudo lashed out with a vicious straight punch to her sternum propelling linlin backwards yet again he bounded from tree to tree within human Grace changing direction like a whirling dervish and continuing to hammer away at her his targets vary but always consistently aimed for Center Mass linlin was knocked in all directions like a pinball Naruto's constant flood of strike propelling them across the island in a single continuous performance of violence accompanied by the soundtracks of shock waves and shattered trees he bounded off the ground after his latest Hammer blow to the solar plexus sent linlin into a boulder that splintered on contact finding himself above her with the intent of drilling a viscous hook to her thigh however linlin sword struck out in a blistering Arc towards him sending another of those lilac colored flying slashes at the blonde acting fast the Uzumaki twisted his body under the Ark of the sword his left foot whipping up and catching big mom in the cheek though this time he was not able to escape totally unscathed gritting her teeth is the tip of Naruto's foot ground into her jaw Lyn made another swipe at him with her cutless the rink covered fingers of her sword wielding hand Landing a glancing blow to the temple both of them were sent spinning away from one another spiraling through the underbrush of the forest and creating a new clearing in the process springing up quickly Naruto touched his hand to his Temple and winced there was definitely going to be a bruise there tomorrow he watched linlin pull herself to her feet and stretch her great height towering over the ocean of Fallen trees that their conflict had created concerningly aside from numerous red wels across her chest and face from where he had landed his hits she seemed no worse for wear oh well not the first time we've dealt with a tough nut to crack if at first you don't succeed his hands flashed into a familiar cross-shaped hand sign try try again a large cloud of smoke poofed into existence on either side of Naruto pulling away to reveal a two dozen clones AR raid around him a big mom grunted in confusion raising an eyebrow at the sudden appearance of so many duplicates of the trouble some usumaki you are a devil fruit user then a that explains a few things lyan said cracking her neck and taking up a wide stance come on then show me what you got whiskers I'll beat you into the dust all the same what the hell is a devil fruit big mom blinked allish at the Gen genuine confusion in the blond's voice surely he couldn't be that dense what Backwater hole did you crawl out of to ruin my day she asked rhetorically before rushing at the blonde and his duplicates once again confident that her hacky would see her through anything these obvious Illusions could do to throw her off her game so it was with great surprise that her observation warned her that what she thought were Illusions were planning to attack her hrk too late half of the Clones grabbed one of their fellows and easily tossed them in a fastball special to meet big mom human missiles streaking towards her with an intense speed linlin swung her sword in a flurry of horizontal and diagonal slashes that caught the vast number of the multitude up in a hail of death dispelling them with their characteristic pop and a poof of smoke that served to obscure her vision for a beat sadly for her a lone clone had slipped past in the hail of smoke and now bore down on her back with a racing in in each hand driving them home into her back a GH h h h h h h HH linlin cried out in pain as the pair of spiraling chakra speres tore holes in her Captain's coat grinding against her back and opposite spinning directions before detonating plowing her straight into the ground with enough Force to bounce back 5 ft into the air the onslaught did not cease as the Dozen remaining clones sprinted at linlin from all sides each one Landing their own chakra enhanced Punch or kick to her body one at a time with such frequency that she could not settle bounced in the air between the assault of so many attackers like a common volleyball she felt strong hands take hold of her ankles as the first clone that had hit her landed and began to spin the calamitous woman around by her ankles a terrible gust being kicked up by the motion until they were surrounded in a small but potent tornado of dust and debris feeling dizzy but no less angry at how a country Bumpkin was manhandling her linlin managed to wrestle her ankle free and kick the Clone in the neck with enough Force to break it its head Laing at an odd angle for a frax of an instant before popping into smoke that was torn Away by her personal tornado God damn it you little [ __ ] I'll break all your bones for this she screamed as the storm of dust tossed her free like a kite in the wind the real Naruto set upon her almost too quickly to react burying a chakra enhanced fist deeply into liyin's gut knocking the wind from her lungs the warning of her observation had forced linlin to guard her stomach in Armament now glistening a met black but it only served to take the edge off of the checkra enhanced punch fighting down the urge to vomit as she doubled over in midair linlin crossed her Armament clad arms in front of her chest in the hopes of weathering the rain of follow-ups that carried her further and further into the air Naruto finished the sequence with a flip kick that collided with Lyn's jaw with a wet Crunch and a sour pop lenlin grunted in pain but did not let Naruto continue to Lavish his assault upon her digging her heels into the ground and skidding to a stop some 50 ft away nut's hits were different that they were before stronger and faster to the point that even when guarding herself with hacky Lin Lin's Bones still rattled unpleasantly she fixed Naruto with a venomous glare in her orange eyes before channeling Armament into her extremities before the blond's eyes he saw the tall woman's arms and legs Flash before becoming covered in the shiny black vulcanized Sheen of hardening hacki crawling up the surface of her cutless and turning it a dark purple lenlin seeed to think I have to exert myself against a Backwater fool who doesn't even know he has a devil fruit Naruto on the other hand assessed the situation with a Keen Eye his mind going a mile a minute you're the one who picked a fight big pink it's not my fault if you can't keep up Naruto shouted in provocation sending lenlin into a rage that had them Clash yet again they were dragged into a continuous cycle of Marshal brutality that slowly but surely reduced the forest that covered most of the island to a dust cloud of splinters that could be seen for miles around far be it from Naruto to be bemon people for punching above their weight but linlin proved to be a Troublesome opponent despite her incredible size being by far in a ways the tallest woman he had ever seen linlin had an astonishing level of agility and swiftness and her confoundingly tough body when paired with the reinforcement of armament hacky meant that she could endure a mind-numbing amount of force without seemingly any visible damage save for the odd exploitive or pained Yelp still Naro had always been good at thinking on his feet and turning the opponent's advantages against them and this was no different his blows became targeted punches and kicks aimed at Lin Lin's elbows and kneecaps in the hopes of grinding away at her until something gave and she was no longer able to move with the speed that she did he plowed racing in into her hands hoping to break her fingers at clones detonate in front of her eyes to Blind her long enough for others to kick out her shin and sent an endless tide of stamps down upon her thighs with the hope of breaking her femurs he was not always successful more than once he took a Blow To The Head that made Stars burst before his eyes or Savage knees to the stomach that had him gasping for breath but what was clear by the time their dance of fist kicks and steel came to lull again was they were both attrition Fighters panting slightly despite the persistent ache in her arms legs and chest Lyin managed a violent grin spitting out a small globule of blood how long had it been since she had got into a fight that lasted this long she could count on one hand the number of other Pirates and marines that could actually manage to muscle through her defenses to make her hurt it was not as if she enjoyed the feeling of being hurt she was no masochist by any measure but it was a nice change of pace to be able to cut loose you got some skill whiskers shame I got to kill you a beat of sweat ran down the back of Naruto's head that is not how you compliment someone you crazy woman Mama linlin cackled tossing aside her now thoroughly ruined sword and cracking her Armament clad knuckles uncaring for the blond's words what can I say I'm a refined woman who can appreciate the irony of having to kill what I enjoy I hope you survive but if you don't it's no skin off my back now come at me she yelled her eyes wild and full of passion kicking off the ground she zoomed towards Naruto with her right arm pulled back faint traces of Black Lightning jumping from her fingers Naruto watched the Keening pirate coming towards him as if in slow motion letting out a small sigh of exasperation before balling his right hand into a fist golden fire burst into life around his right Fist and he punched meeting the much taller Lin Lin's fist with a cataclysmic bang the world darkened around the pair as their fists grounded against against one another black and golden lightning sparking from the point of contact and a tempestous storm roaring away from the epicenter of the Clash shattering and uprooting the remaining trees on the island the ground began the crater beneath their feet as a column of chakra and hacki slowly took form in the air above them Lenin's orange eyes slowly began to widen in disbelief as Naruto held her back at Ground Zero his arms steady and his eyes slid at Gold no matter how hard she tried to physically overpower him she could not get that flaming Golden Arm to so much as move an inch backwards actually the opposite was true he was pushing her back Battle Cry carrying over the wind big mom mustered her Armament and conqueror hacky into the clash and slowed Naruto's advance but could not stop it Mama the shrill voices of Zeus and Prometheus called Over The Den mama you have to stop the island can't take much more of this Al linin looked over her shoulder at the two cartoonish homies looking at her with abject Terror etched into their simple faces looking around the Blasted Heath of a battlefield with wide eyes following their gaze linlin took in the black sky and the lights Lancing through it unlike a clash between two conquerors hacky users her and Naruto's Clash had an entirely different KnockOn effect on the environment instead of splitting the sky it roiled like an inverted volcanic eruption a plume of tar black cloud roiling down from on high towards the island with bolts of gold and purple lightning slashed down and left large craters with each explosive strike how how was he doing this what manner of man was this that continued to push her back as the very World itself convulsed at the monstrosity of their Clash she had to win if only so she could ask him why Zeus Prometheus to me giving a loud affirmative the pair of homies suddenly changed going from caricature sprung from a child's mind to very real and quite scary appearances Zeus grew larger and darker until he was a Bonafide Thundercloud crackling with arcs of heliotropic lightning his easygoing smile morphing to a Sinister grin Prometheus on the other hand ignited becoming a globe of dark orange and yellow with the yawning Spectre of a face at at heart Jagged toothed and glowing red eyes looking at big mom they flew towards her pushing against the wall of everpresent air pressure that The Clash produced and slowly made it through to touch lyan's outstretched hand prometheus's fire went up lyan's shoulders and into her her hair setting it a blaze and having it float behind her in a Halo of monstrous fire topped by her resilient PKA do Fedora Zoo snaked across her shoulders like a flowing liquid and ran up her arm before settling around her wrist like a bracelet with a renewed Roar of effort linlin willed the duo to join the effort lightning and fire coiling around her fist finally bringing Naruto's glowing fist to a stop the heat around them began to slowly rise as the storm above grew stronger still tearing swaths of fish cake Island from the land and tossing them out to sea as if they weighed nothing nuto narrowed his eyes Dangerously their pupils now bar shaped like a toad he could sense it now the wine in nature from the island as their struggle slowly but surely made the world come undone the ground beneath their feet shook terribly while the distant Lake where all this had begun slowly boiled away from the omnipresent heat that roared from lyan's new Corona of light and fire she's strong but we fought stronger aama he asked his partner maintaining eye contact with the woman's orange orbs you know when she's not sneering and is actually enjoying herself she has a really pretty smile you know hirama scoffed at the Cent leave it to his partner to see the Silver Linings and someone currently trying to kill him as linlin watched Naruto's entire body was immersed in that same golden fire and light and in that moment feeling the fragments of her soul and manifestation of her will grind against the oric Brilliance of Naruto's power Charlotte linlin grasped for a brief moment the totality of the Soul she was locked in combat against and was stunned it was not big nor was it huge no those were too small a series of words to define the size of Naruto's Soul rate against her it was Titanic gargantuan gigantic bigger than all the souls on T land combined it's monstrous she breathed before in a single soundless tide of brilliant gold power she was overpowered and sent into Blissful unconsciousness struin bit his lip for what must have been the thousandth time in the last 5 hours when he had taken linlan aside yesterday and told her about the communications breakdown from fish cake Island he had tried to caution a measured response of making their way to the Aaron Island and force with a series of Tarts to cut off in potential Escape of whatever interloper had trespassed into their land alas linlin had never been one for patience when it came to sading her desires and had jumped on a lone tart ship at first light when most of hul cake had still been asleep he hadn't found out about her bold Journey until a maid had come to his quarters and roused him from his sleep quickly springing into action and mustering five Tarts full to the brim with chess piece homies and set out to follow but much as he wished it he could not expedite the journey across Tod land he was not like linlin who could simply fly on her two homies he was beholden to the winds and Tide Dam it linlin you're getting too hard to control the short pirate thought cutting a slice from the tart's deck and using his devil fruit to turn it into a genuine piece of cake that he greedily stuffed into his mouth now in his early 40 seconds the diminutive co-founder of Toto land showed signs of his age his once curly black hair was stre with gray and sported a pronounced mole on his large nose deep lines marred his forehead that spoke of many years of dealing with stress caused by the walking Calamity that had been his onetime Ward and partner initially it had seemed so simple after witnessing that monstrous young girl due that atrocity nearly 15 years ago he had a simple goal in mind guide the unbridled force of nature that she represented towards the goal that he had harbored creation of a land where he and those likeminded could call home without persecution for their nature and for a long time he had got just that traveling with the girl and guiding her on the path to piracy with the knowledge that so long as he kept her fed and happy that the ideal Pirates Paradise would be born but as she grew up she got smart smart enough to realize that there was nothing stopping her from doing what she wanted because she truly is a Monster strus stuffed another piece of cake into his mouth licking the frosting from his fingers and barking in order to the Crow's Nest the pawn responded that fish cake Island was now in view drawing a sigh of relief from the pirate The Waiting had been killing him haer in a small childlike voice spoke from behind him causing struin to look over his shoulder Mama close he cracked a small half smile yes perospero your mama's close we'll be seeing her soon the precocious 2-year-old's eyes lit up with happiness at stren's words sticking his long tongue out and giggling merily to himself before sauntering over to his siblings on unsteady feet the sight was enough to make struin puff up his chest in fatherly Pride almost but the sight of the burbling compot and gently resting triplets made his mood darken oh peraro was his he had been keenly awake of the beautiful young woman that linlin had grown into and when she had turned 18 curious to explore her wants and needs as a woman he had been on hand to enjoy the fruits of his labors that had been the last time he had any semblance of real control over linlin the two lovers she had taken after him a sure sign that while he was an honored adviser he was not the leader of this fledgling nation and in many ways the sight of the younger four of Lenin's progeny filled him with bile not that he'd ever say this out loud his costic Ry was interrupted when the door to the cabin burst open a nightm chess Soldier snapping a sharp salute before speaking speaking in a panicked voice sir struin you have to come up on Deck now the piece said trying not to Fumble his words his face was drawn and panicked making stru and frown nodding briskly the short pirate trotted quickly through the corridor and small flight of stairs between his cabin and the deck his short legs carrying him as fast as they could the Knight opened the door to the deck for him letting him briskly walk out onto the midship right what's the situation have you spotted linlin or [ __ ] he asked the assembled crew and soldiers no one answered him instead looking over the Frosted railings ringing the cake themed mes a gape and eyes bugged struin poked one of the crew mates in the leg in the hopes of getting his attention but they remained slack jawed and unresponsive eyes welded to the Horizon what the hell is everybody looking as stru and stopped struck d by the sight visible from the bow fishcake Island had been devastated what had once been a half terraformed island in the process of being turned from an Alpine Island into a fish themed stronghold through the combined power of His and Linn's devil fruits was Barren and dead the once Lush forests and Rolling Hills had been scoured clean rented down to grayish bedrock and glassy surfaces is kissed by superheated energy kilometer wide gashes and parabolic craters hundreds of feet deep pitted the island like the battle scars on some ancient beast from a picture book most alarmingly of all was the center of the island had been hollowed out by some cataclysmic explosion that even now sparked with random discharges of lightning a thousand thoughts passed through the pirate Kung cook at a mile a minute attacking his waking mind as a swarm of hornets what had happened here a battle but against who and if linlin had been involved where was she slightly more concerningly who could possibly have pushed linlin to the point where this was was the end result he took a deep breath before beginning to bark orders to the crews of the five Tarts Helmsman take us in with two Tarts break out a search party while the two remaining Tarts Circle the island try and find lyan's ship move he yelled startling the crews of the five ships into action dozens of crew and homies manned rigging and made preparations to make landfall on the island and search for the missing queen of Toto Advanced teams were already embarking on rowboats Bound for the cracked and scorched beach with search teams and first aid kit strapped about their person while the Tarts got as close to the island as they could without beaching they worked as a well-oiled machine genuine worry for their leader and in many cases Creator spurring them into action soon enough they were swarming across the island as fast as their legs could carry them those with observation hacki sorted themselves into orienteering parties coordinated the searches via transponder snails and relayed all the information to streusen from a simple operations base formed from the shattered remnants of the poor town he listened to reports of glass prairies and Hills shaved away to a near mirror of smoothness by some ungodly wind while those without devil fruits dredg the scant remaining waters on the Island for the pink-haired superhuman turning up nothing for 2 hours this continued unabated and all that time a quiet dread began to grow in the middle-aged pirate he had seen linlin wreak havoc like this before but never had he walked in on the aftermath and found it so horrifying he had seen her do something utterly disgusting at the age of six and it had done little more than make him chuckle but there was something deeply unsettling about this she can't be dead if she had died then surely the homies would have conked out too he reasoned sweat beating down his brow that he dabbed it with his Chief's apron he couldn't be sure of that after all the circum cumstances of how the soru soru N my had passed to linlin wasn't of itself atypical but it was something else that set all of struan's hackles rising if linlin is dead or gone does that mean I have to take over while he didn't like that linlin was more independent than him the grying pirate had to admit that it was her power Beauty and personality that kept todal land running and without her he was but an aging pirate with a twisted sense for humor and appreciation for food I I still have the children if they are monsters like their mother then perhaps this could work he thought nearly jumping out of his skin when the transponder snail bleeded a eor Discovery we found her m in the remnants of her tart on the north side of the island the snail communed causing struin to get moving instantly ordering all teams to make their way to the North Shore the chef hopped back onto the lead tart and engaged its paddles making full speed out of the port and around the island to where the other two Tarts had discovered the smashed remnants of lyan's own it had been beached and smashed against the rocks with some force and had seemingly lost all hands if the crumpled remnants of homies buried in the walls was anything to go by but linlin herself was very much there and more importantly still alive linlin was spayed out on the deck unconscious her back propped up against the main super structure of the tart looking like she had been thrown face first into a blender she was covered in cuts and bruises that while not deep was completely new for most of the troops that had never seen their leader ever bleed her blouse had been torn to shreds just a few white threads hanging over the sides of her underbust corset while her coat was missing checking her pulse and placing his hand in front of her nose struin confirmed that she was still breathing and quickly said about bringing her around he barged past a rook carrying a first aid kid who skitted back while the first member of the crew drew a short cutless and sliced a large chunk of the torn sails from the snapped Mast start a fire he ordered the troops mustering to do his ordered while struin let the power of His devil fruit permeate the bundle of canvas Before Their Eyes the troops watched as a dark pink light enveloped the scraps of sail and began to shift it darkened fainting a shift of dark red and pink colors as its texture departed from cloth to a recognizable meat once done struin secured the newly created slices of kizo on the end of his sword and held them above the fire that the troops had created soon enough the meat began to sizzle and cook Hamber colored juices and oils emerging from the spice Rich pork derivative that popped when they dropped into the Flames the scent of cooking food filled the nostrils of all present drawing growls from their stomachs as they salivated Lenin's nose twitched senting the air like a haunting hound before she began to stir roused by the Heavenly scent of the fragranced meat slowly roasting to Perfection she groaned in her sleep and began to open her eyes blly the glare of the sun instantly forcing her to screw them back shut then the pain hit her a fresh groan tearing itself from her lungs as she sat up and braced herself against her knees e her mind was fogged with pain and hunger Bing her to find somewhere warm and dark to sleep off the aches and pains that thundered through her body confusion prickled at her half awake mind not understanding the reason for the pain the memory of the last few hours was a fog of aching bones howling winds and Shining gold her orange eyes snapped open Memory burning itself to the front of her mind like a hot poker pressed against her forehead shooting up linlin looked around feverishly at the assembled crew who all instinctively took several steps back in fear her towering form a head taller than even the tallest of the king soldiers breathing deeply she slowly recognized each of their faces and settled on streusen looking up at her with guarded worry sword-bearing food slowly dipping into the fire wordlessly she stomped towards the cook before dropping to the floor and Crossing her legs she plucked the proportionately small sword from his ANS and began to gnaw at the chunks of roasted chizo linlin was ravenous taking little time to chew the rich meat and tossing the small Cutlass back at struin when she had licked it clean Lyin what the hell happened here strus and asked candidly gesturing with both arms at the remnants of fish cake Island he was about to ask more questions when he heard Lin Lin's stomach give another loud growl and thought better of it he pointed at the assembled crew with the tip of his sword everyone grab as much food and drink from the pantries of all the ships as you can and bring it here no the pieces snapped fearful salutes before scarpering off in the direction of the other ships tearing open containers of rations sweets and preserved meats and brining it back to their leader who continued to satiate her hunger the graying middle-aged pirate watched on nodding to himself it would prove difficult getting answers out of linlin when she was hungry she was likely to eat them alive if her hunger pain got bad enough linlin gulped down canens of sweet teas and sugary milkshakes slaking a thirst that had built up over her forced rest and while she took the edge off the pain she came to think about what had brought her here she had never ever received a threshing so Extreme as the one given to her by the whisker marked Warrior it went beyond simple physical injury which even now made her bones quake and rattle in phantom pain no it was the spiritual pain the feeling that she had rallied the Vitality of her soul against Naruto and with a single thought he had smashed through it like a comet falling to Earth it was utterly knew a violation and brutality delivered with such callous yet sincere intent that that I want to see him again she whispered setting down the small wedding cak she had been about to toss in her mouth and using the back of her wrist to wipe her face hey who linlin struin asked in confusion running over the number of people that could possibly render big mom into unconsciousness was it GARP zepher sangoku or that brat Nate he asked feeling fear stab at his heart at the prospect of those monsters being loose in Toto land were the Bound for H cake even now to appro their work while the fleet was away no it was someone else a blonde with whiskers on his cheeks one with weird powers linlin remarked with a frown before looking up into the now clear sky a far cry from the Terry mstom that their battle had turned it into we're going to hunt him down as soon as we get back to hul cake what no we can't do that we have to see what we can salvage from this mess and fortify our borders after that we have more pressing things to worry about stuen yelped waving his hands in a show of complaint plus there's that invitation from hatchin know to worry about are you giving me orders stru and linlin ground out looking down at the diminutive pirate imperiously her narrowing dangerously but his words did serve to remind her of part of the reason she had initially been so annoyed to have to come out to fish cake several weeks ago an invitation had arrived from the so-called Pirates Paradise Island of hatcho sent by one rocks DC it was a simple Proclamation an invitation to the strongest pirates of the new world to join under one Banner in the hopes of achieving all they had ever wanted while Lyin may have thought of rocks as a good for nothing snake she couldn't deny his strength and had been intending to venture to hatchin no after the completion of Hulk cake Shadow to further her own interests but now thoughts of getting her own back on the spiky-haired blonde was at the Forefront of her mind and itch that needed to be scratched we set out to find that whisker faed Vagabond as soon as we can and yusen she fixed a baleful glare on her first mate if you think for even a moment that you can order me around like a child anymore I'll make my displeasure known she uttered vital all but wafting from her mouth he opened his mouth to try and argue his point but felt the scorching gaze of Lenin's orange eyes boring down on him he lowered his head in defeat conceding the point yes linlan but where do we even start looking for him Tod land is a big place and he could be anywhere linlin hummed in thought templ her fingers until she caught a glimpse of something poking from underneath the heavy rings on her right hand gently she pinched the object between forefinger and thumb and Drew it out from under the ring to inspect it her face breaking into a wide predatory grin I have my ways M mama she giggled letting the single thread of spiky Golden Hair glint in the afternoon sun meeting the Gaze of the man in front of him Naruto felt a single eyebrow raay in befuddlement he was currently perched on a stool in front of a counter its long surface is paddled in rich dark woods with a collection of beer pumps affixed to one side in brass it was quite clearly a Tavern of some kind its appointment's warm and homey with a roaring fire set in the Hearth and the booths upholstered in exotic fur pelts to help enhance the sense of warmth it had been a few weeks since his rather bombastic departure from the N rashed fish cake Island and a combination of water walking and flight had put him clear beyond the burgeoning archipelago of T land after a while he had grown bored with the seemingly endless mix of sky and sea and had endeavored to call on isu's gifted powers to swim at intense speed as far east as he could could at least he had assumed it was East many years of Shinobi life had indelibly burnt the fact that East was the direction of the Rising Sun but who knew anymore when he was quite obviously in a new world entirely the stars in the night sky were different and he was sure there was nowhere near as much ocean back home let alone these so-called sea Kings some Kings they were swam back to the depths with one punch to the head he thought glibly so many things have been trying to eat him for so long now that it didn't exactly phas him in more instead he was more overcome by the weirdness of his current local despite being sure beyond all doubt that he had at East his present Island was stuck in Perpetual winter ukuu Island the bartender had called it was appropriately named given that the snow covered rock formations made it look like a great icy worm perched at top frigid Waters was East actually north here then ah perspective Naruto keep your mind on the present weirdness particularly the bartend currently having a heated conversation with the third biggest gastropod he had ever seen BDA BDA burbled the transponder snail its creepily animated eyes locked on the bartender as he lifted the receiver to his mouth catek a beat passed before the snail's face morphed into a cartoonish approximation of the bartender's brother-in-law hey ganto it's me I'll be back with the wood in about half an hour is that mink face blonde still catching for a drink said a Gruff voice causing a tick mark to appear at Naruto's Temple the bartender rolled his eyes before shooting Naruto an apologetic look on behalf of his brother open snail you dumbass just get back with the wood before Sundown he informed the snail before putting the receiver down he turned to Naruto fully pulling a glass from behind the bar and set it down on the counter sorry about that it's not every day yuku gets visitors let alone one that walks on the water that's all good Naruto drawled still studying the gently breathing snail intently sorry I got nothing to pay for a drink though the bartender waved dismissively nah you'll make for a good story to my wife and on account of my brother running his mouth I say you deserve one on the house Naruto grinned ordering a glass of orange juice and ice when the tumbler of Vermon colored juice was placed before him he sipped at it slowly letting the sharp Citrus sweet EAS his mind and let him finally have the time to consider the series of events that had brought him to This Strange New World it had been mere moments after they had been returned from kaguya's Dimension to the foot of the Divine tree at the hands of hagoromo in the return cage when Sask had done the unthinkable declared his a faded Rebellion yet as Naruto and the rest of Team seven had debated the ethics of what the last AA had envisioned Naruto more than ever could see the darkness in his spiritual brother's heart the honest to God belief that what he had planned was right and that the previous two days of ab Carnage had taught him nothing choosing to cage up the freshly released viu in front of their own Creator had been the final STW for Naruto the brother's Feud would end once and for all and thus it was that he and sasuka journeyed to the place where it all began that Naruto had deceived him a single clone remained at the battlefield with Sakira and Kakashi until the original and Sasuke halfway to the land of fire before making its way to the freshly made chacu tensei that sasu had trapped Yong kirama within stowing away within the fu Celestial body until just the right moment chipping away though its insides until at last he laid his hand upon his captured partner in truth it was this success that had propelled him to this new plane of existence absorbing y kirama the Clone had dispelled seconds before he and sasukes final attacks had collided supercharging Naruto's racing in with the totality of the nine-tailed Fox's chakra he grimaced once remembering the image of his golden racing and ripping through sasukes lightning shrouded fire warping space and tearing the AA to shreds don't weep for fools he made his bed and now he sleeps in it with the rest of his clan shirama grouched from the back of his mind Vero swallowed thickly he had washed his hands of sasuki he died screaming he deserved some dignity no he really did Kurama replied an edge of Steel to his voice I felt his soul and mind as he drew in my chakra to power that Arrow of his he would have enslaved me and my siblings for the rest of time using us to beget misery out of some deranged belief that if everyone hated him then they would be United you showed me humans have worth he reminded me that you're one in a billion knocking back more of his drink Naruto smirked without mirth one in a billion a guess that makes me some kind of Monster Ham did not reply thinking on his words Naruto accepted the pleasant silence reflecting that kirama did have a point after all sasukes failed dying Gambit to use some kind of SpaceTime Ninjutsu one that Naruto's attack had apparently hypercharged to leave him here right up to facing linlin hope I never have to see her again the door to the tavern slammed open and gant's brother came barreling in dropping his logs on the floor as he panted h do dot do do dot do do do do PP he stammered ganta threw down his bar rag what in the name of St Elmo is wrong with you he grumbled rounding the bar take the back entrance PP Pirates the brother finally yelled causing the blood to drain from gant's face Naruto looked up feeling a bead of sweat roll down the back of his neck there was no way G closed the door shutting out the cold wind before walking to the window and pulling a spy glass from his pocket looking through it Naruto watched as the older man slowly turned as white as a sheet of paper oh Gods no it's her flag the country Destroyer that sounds familiar aruto adopted a constipated look before making his way to the window in the distance slowly cutting through the sheets of thick white snowflakes that gusted down from on high was a single smudge of hot pink I mean maybe someone else uses a pink ship his senses in tune with the flow of nature even without Sage Mode slowly expanded over the intervening distance feeling the emotions of every living thing on ukuu island the brothers to his side were hysterical with fear while the tiny Hamlet at the Island's heart sounded the alarm yet it was not with the men and women of the island that the most concise feeling was given but the animals from the smallest insect to the most giant bear all looked in the direction of the oncoming ship with a unanimous agreement a storm was on its way Naruto's eyes narrowed a glimpse of movement snatched amidst the snow something blurred from the front of the ship into the skies above the island and was rapidly approaching in a loping parabolic arch a streak of pink lit the sky and Naruto could say this was the angriest of them all he lifted his glass and finished his orange juice before quietly thanking the two brothers and stepping outside his feet crunched against freshly fallen snow as he looked up at the approaching human Comet hearing a loud shrill all too familiar voice locked in a battlecry whiskers Naruto tensed his legs watching her like a hawk as she grew closer before with a grunt of exertion he leapt taking to the air with a crack of thunder and a shock wave emanating from where he had once stood rocketing through the air gravity all but an afterthought Naruto kept his aim firmly on linlin face set in an annoyed scowl Lyn's head snapped to look at him her observation hacky clocking his approach yielding a Savage Grin While falling to reach his rise she reared back her fist to chamber of punch it flashed once before being covered in the black Sheen of armorment hacki not taking any chances this time Naruto accepted the challenge and answered and kind albe it with a Twist pulling back his own fist he flooded the limb with Earth style chakra causing the forearm to slowly darken to an earn Brown that was almost black hardening as he had once seen kakuzu of the akitsuki do throwing their hands forward in some unsaid signal the pirate and ninja Collide in the air their fists slamming into one another with extraordinary force their Collective strengths kept them Airborne for a few moments his golden checkra pushing against the purple energies of the sorosoro N my yet in that time Naruto was able to look up into the attractive face of Charlotte linlin he was twisted by rage and passion yet as her eyes burned with the anger of the scorned her plump lips split into a Savage and selfin and grin one that despite Naruto's better judgment he returned the two AAS gold and purple thickened around the pair shock waves buffeting the island below and creating an empty space in the snow that had now been kicked up into a blizzard as before this was no Clash of conquerors hacky the sky did not split but instead the storm above the island seemed to grow more intense until finally with a shared yell of exertion their power struggle broke each one blasting backwards towards one of the serpentine rock formations that gave the island its name as he fell Naruto performed in uky to gracefully touch down upon the gra Stone while linlin landed hard the heels of her maroon thigh high boots biting deeply into the Rock eyeing her the blonde noted she was mostly the same as she had been on fish cake island save for a few minor cosmetic differences she had changed her blouse to one with an a Scot warn fully button closed while her Captain's coat had gained a fur lining to deal with the cold aruto suddenly felt self-conscious of his own ragged clothing that he had not had time to change who dot dot dot high he said slowly his breath coming in great clouds of steam please leave hey you can't talk to Mama Like That Prometheus growled popping up on L's right shoulder yeah pared Zeus emerging from the left their eyes sparked with each of their respective elements you messed up her Island and then ran away theut pouted not my fault if you didn't want to wreck your own Island why fight me there I mean people call me dumb but I don't [ __ ] where I eat he chuckled enjoying the mix of fire and lightning that shot from the annoyed homies linlin however didn't speak keeping her eyes locked on Naruto while slowly drawing her cutless he noticed that the cracks he had put into it during their last fight were still there don't tell me you own this one too still no flag he gestured around linlin finished drawing her sword tapping her foot in anticipation no this one isn't mine there's not much call for it but who knows maybe after I kill you I'll take it as my territory and use your head as a sign Naruto's eyes narrowed I don't die so easily when Nature chakra began to swirl around him both arms darkening with Earth chakra linlin took her sword in both hands and raised it beside her face her glowing orange eyes reflected in the steel neither do I but it seems you grasped hacky quick enough Nudo looked down in his arms tilting his head in curiosity the hex hacky again caused his sh hell isn't it take this seriously linlin raged surging forward with sword held high jumping into the air for extra Force Naruto crossed his arms and took the blade on his hardened forearms hissing in annoyance at the pain he may have her beat in physical Firepower but it didn't change the fact he only weighed 112 lbs and she was struck with several hundred tons of force I can't there are people around he pushed her away with a shoulder bash hitting her in the stomach due to the height difference she went skidding backwards and in that moment Naruto formed a cross-and sign a dozen clones popped into existence and a puff of smoke before jumping off the side of the rocks to the island below plus I have no reason to kill you grabbing Zeus big mom squeezed him tightly until he began to discharge large bolts of violet colored electricity that concentrated into a slowly lengthening Lance of lightning I am trying to murder you you little Brett Naruto flashed through three hand signs before grabbing his right wrist blue Sparks starting to jump from his hand linlin stamped a foot forwards catering the stone beneath her for foot before bending at the knee Levering herself forwards for maximum Force the Lance grew three times in size before at last she let it fly vager the purple lightning sped forward leaving Burn ozone in its wake less an electrical attack but rather a thick stream of pure energy sent barreling right towards Naruto she cackled in the joy of battle but a different sound also filled the air a thousand flapping wings Naruto tracked the lightning bolt it was nowhere near the first time he had been forced to dodge lightning but he had no intention to not when it could take a chunk out of the populated island they stood upon he took his hand surrounded in a potent Haze of blue lighting and thrust forward to meet the vadra headon a name ripping itself from from his throat Riri the front of the lightning bolt appeared to deform on contact with his Sensei jetsu before the piercing power of lighting style did as it was baade giving the technique its name nuto split the purple lightning bolt right down the middle the two remaining halves sent in either direction harmlessly dissipating Over the Sea linlin paused in that instant transfixed The Sight and Sound the fury and serenity this whiskered blonde who she intended to kill taking her attacks and responding and kind was he always that dashing her heart skipped a beat she laughed here the distant boom of Thunder out over the sea Backwater idiot you might be whiskers but you've made my day this time she allowed Prometheus to roll up her arm and cover her sword show me a good time whiskers context lady G's Naruto barked in reprisal before leaping forwards once again yuku Island was soon swallowed in a blizzard of thunder and by the log my name is Naruto yuzaki Naruto the ship pitched and Y in the water its crew doing its level best to pull in the sails lest the tremendous Tempest being kicked up by the feuding monsters did not tear them from the masts and leave them crippled they had thought they had made the perfect preparations for this in stren's opinion foolish Endeavor to the point where the pink pad them ship had been equipped with an ice Ram to navigate the icy waters surrounding the winter Island strulson dug his short cutless into the Frosted deck of the ship for support the overburst from the latest class shaking his thoroughly Frozen bones I knew this was Madness what was I thinking letting linlin lead us here he shouted over the tumult standing as two streaks of purple lighting streak overhead detonating amidst the snow into potent Thunder I should have just accepted ze's invitation on lenland behalf and had him meet us halfway to say this small contingent of the burgeoning big mom Pirates were having a bad time was an understatement since her defeat at the hands of the whiskered blonde she had a single-minded focus to hunt him down and make an example of him and in that respect they had made mistakes for the sake of speed they had been forced to take a single reasonably large ship as opposed to mustering part of their Fleet this meant that they were disconnected from their supply lines and for someone apparently lacking a ship the interloping Uzumaki could certainly cover distance with Supernatural speed he grimaced turning the collar of his winter coat up against The Frigid winds what bothered him was the fact that linlin seemed so dead set on chasing the blonde down while she had been murderous with fervor her focus on the matter was Aros straight and backed by a will harder than sea prism stone with the exception of food drink at attending to her infant children linlin had spent every waking moment standing at the prow of the ship eyes practically welded to The Horizon the very moment she had clocked the blond's presence on the currently blizzard trapped Island she had used her Herculean strength to LEAP kilometers of distance in a single bound her intent clear that strulson real ized for the 12th time these past weeks was a problem lenlin was many things to strulson his wart his Apprentice his captain his former lover and mother of his son but her abnormal power and overly naive end goal had been a boon for him it kept her focused on their shared desire of Toto land and her more destructive impulses could be channeled into creative projects that benefited them all especially him but this apparent mink hybrid the cook had never seen the blonde for himself only knowing he had whiskers from Lenin's descriptions he had Lyn's undivided attention and the strength to match her the longer this pursue continued the more progress would be lost and the more his hold over the pink-haired 20-year-old would begin to slip God damn it all he grunted under his breath the chess Soldier ran up the stairs towards him snapping off a hered salute as Frost gathered along the blade of his pole arm we have a report sir stron The Rook themed crew mate said loudly keeping a respectful tone despite the evident discomfort the cook gestured for him to get on with it we have confirmed that Mama has engaged her prey on the island and has broken into a vicious battle no [ __ ] unaware of the short man's thoughts the soldier continued the m is preventing us from making landfall on the island but our reconnaissance teams have got a look at what's going on the rest of the island anything of note the curly-haired man replied wondering if any plunder might be had to make this trip somewhat worthwhile nodding The Rook said there is a modest Hamlet located in the center of the island mostly villagers living off the game in the forests at least we might be able to restock on Rich Meats ly he coughed catching himself Mama puts a real dent in our stores is far away from resupply ships turning to sweep back along the deck he was brought up short when he added there is one other thing sir what Mama's prey he's evacuating the Hamlet to the far Coast pausing stolon looked over his shoulder at the crew member with a dead pan expression before looking at the blooms of distant fire and lightning rumbling from a top the stone pillars of the very much still in battle Naruto and linlin he looked back at the soldier who sweated profusely H there are reports of clones of the blonde moving through the island to evacuate the citizens from their homes and avoid collateral damage perhaps it's some kind of devil fruit oh that's just perfect sto and drawled sarcasm dripping from his words birs like poison order the Recon teams to take anything not nailed down from the empty houses he added ever the opportunist hoping he could spin this in their favor far above them perched to top the yard arm with his arms crossed one of Naruto's clones looked down at the crew totally oblivious to his presence he clicked his tongue and maintained his silent vigil While most of the other clones had been drafted to evacuate the Hamlet from the rampant Destruction has clashed with the Fedor Ador pinkette was already producing he had been sent to spy on the pirate ship to ensure they didn't pull anything underhanded much to a Chagrin these Pirates seemed to be reverting to type it was a good thing they wouldn't get far with the sabotage he had unknowingly wreaked on their ship under the cover of the storm it would take them at least half an hour before they released that their dropped anchor had been welded to its Port the gunpowder was all wet and he'd used sain's corrosive ooze to dissolve the rudder chain his ears perked up something carrying over the blizzard the unmistakable sound of a child's cry Crouch walking along the yard tips of the Cross Tre masts he spied the door to the interior had been opened and now clattered back and forth in the wind but much to his horror the children he could see four infant children crawling out on the deck towards the ship's Edge three of them were very young triplet boys of only a year each while the fourth was slightly older a cute little toddler with aquamarine hair she was the sole female of the group of children and the one who was crying drawing the attention of the Scarlet zero haired member of the triplets while the others looked around bewildered why on Earth were there babies on a pirate ship unguarded on the deck in the middle of a blizzard despite the fact that it risked revealing him he could not allow the innocent to come to harm by the negligence of the chess and food themed crew so without a second thought he he stepped off the yard and gracefully fell landing on the snow covered Deck with the nearest crunch instantaneously the maroon haired babe saw him and Naruto got his first proper look at the triplets the smallest one was a young boy with vibrant orange hair and a broad face thick with baby fat while the other had closely cropped blonde hair the third of the triplets the crimson-haired baby was slightly taller than his two brothers nearly as tall as his crying sister hello Naruto said gently flashing the four children a bright grin what are you all doing out here he asked unsure if the children so young could even understand them a quiet observation told him what he needed to know a Hailstone the size of a brick had shattered the nearby window of the cabin the children had been staying in suddenly they were woken from their nap covered in broken glass and hit by the freezing Gale coming in through the window the confused children had left the room looking for help after all one of them had been hurt eyeing the crying girl Naruto saw she was hurt her pudgy little hand was bleeding slowly and a bloodstained fragment of Glass by the door must have cut her as they crawled over the glass to escape the freezing room Naruto stepped forward and to his surprise saw the boy's cloth rang around their sister the scarletti had one pride of place his pudgy face set in a childish albeat emphatic frown but it was his eyes they were strong they held a drive and fire to them that no baby should have their intent clear as a cloudless blue sky Naruto's grin changed to a small smile you're a protector aren't you little guy he asked the babe could not and did not respond but he held Naruto's gaze and kept himself between the blonde and his elder sister I'm not going to hurt you in fact I'm here to help Naruto molded fire chakra within him then slowly released it from his pores an aura of warmth rolling over the cold children kot's tears immediately slowed while oven and Deku based in the warmth melting away the cold but the eldest of the triplets Charlotte katakuri kept his siblings behind him never once breaking Naruto's gaze I'm going to help your sister okay Naruto said goodn holding out a hand to the little boy Palm up in a show of plation katakuri looked between the hand and his siblings before moving minutely to the side slowly theot shuffled forward her hand shaking in fear and pain but katakuri's presence and Naruto's Bright Smile assuaged her childish concerns and she lifted her small bleeding hand to rest in Naruto's much bigger Palm Naruto CED it with his other hand and soon they were covered in a translucent sheen of mint green healing chakra compot made a confused baletta odd feeling that pleasantly rustled against her skin but it was better than the pain when Naruto opened his hands the eldest daughter of big mom opened her mouth in a little o greeted by her hand now totally healed a peel of melodic Giggles coming from the tat ofat is see all good Naruto uttered happily giving katakuri a lengthwise smile katakuri looked unsure for a second before finally opening his mouth his face splitting into a bright grin of needle shark pointed teeth luto was overcome with the urge to Swoon in cuteness but suppressed it as his negative emotion senses blared in warning he stood and threw himself in front of the four babes Intruder he has Mama's children shouted a chess Soldier desperately only now noticing the mysterious blonde standing on the upper decks a bell soon rang out and in a few moments a crowd of big mom's crew stampeded up the stairs with weapons in hand stopping about 10 ft away from Naruto and the children strulson pushed past the much taller henchmen to stand at the head and finally lay eyes on Naruto and more importantly the four infants huddled behind him get away from the children the cook with a large nose shouted pointing his cutless at Naruto who looked thoroughly unimpressed and not at all intimidated don't worry I'd never heard a kid this young but do you mind lowering your weapons I got bad memories of trigger happy mobs and snowstorms nuto replied the memories of waves seeing like a lifetime ago the Pirates exchanged uneasy looks before slowly lowering their weapons not willing to risk a negligent discharge when three princes and one Crown Princess of their burgeoning Nation could be caught in the crossfire Naruto let out a sigh of relief before addressing the scowling first mate I'm guessing that big knows there is the boss around here stron gritted his teeth at the Barb thumbing his nose and tightening the grip on his sword yes now what do you want Naruto hummed and thought not much I've done what I came here to do and Beyond watching to make sure you guys didn't attack the villagers while the boss battles thigh high over there he jerked his thumb to the concussive shock waves ripping out from the island referring to the somewhat provocative Footwear the 20-year-old Captain had taken to wearing as a matter of fact the only reason I'm here is caused this little one hurt her hand compot burbled in confusion looking between her brothers the man who had helped her in the crew unaware of what was happening stren's brow knitted together in confusion not understanding the altruism from an enemy was he another sof and head monster like linlin he was happy that perospero had been safely sent back to H cake Island weeks ago so you'll leave then Naruto nodded before seeming to think better of it actually there are two things you could do for me the crew mates bristled shouting obscenities at the interloper for holding the children hostage in exchange for services but a stern look from Naruto and they felt An Almighty weight Slamm down on them within reason strulson ground out between gritted teeth sheathing his sword great you got some brains the first thing I'm going to need is a blanket the fluffier the better the blue-eyed team requested banley and the first mate gave the order to acques soon a fluffy pink and red polka dot blanket was tossed At His Feet Naruto bent down and retrieved the blanket before wrapping it around the four children who snuggled into its warmth he spared a glance to katakuri the Babe looking up at him in Fascination keep your siblings safe little man you're a protector I can see it he said before getting back to his feet and the second thing Theo scratched the back of his head in embarrassment cringing as the nearby Island shook I really don't want to M up this island when people live here but I know thigh high won't stop till I beat her again so can you tell me where the nearest uninhabited island is that's it Naruto nodded and strulson looked down at his wrist where his log pose was strapped after a few moments of thought he pointed out over the sea there's an abandon Island about 40 nautical miles Southeast of here will you leave now nuto nodded and thanks while chuckling I was never hear in the first place just like that the Clone popped Vanishing in a puff of smoke media eyes looked around wildly as he gone he demanded to know the observation hacky users amongst the crew shaking their heads while other members of the crew carried the children back inside a flicker of Golden Light caught his attention and looking out towards ukuu he saw an orb of brilliant gold rocket away from the island flying in a southeasterly direction at high speeds linlin followed riding a top Zeus as if he were her Chariot follow them he ordered waving his arms around wildly for emphasis and sending the crew running to their stations alas Naruto's parting gift made itself known sir he's disabled the rudder chain Dam echoed out over the icy waters as the retreating forms of Naruto and linlin vanished Over the Horizon the chase over the ocean had persisted for several minutes until they eventually arrived at the deserted island and linlin could honestly say she preferred it that way the whisker faac Menace could fight her with so much more ferocity that she felt her bloodlust singing chorus with the storm that inevitably followed them to the island turning the icy surface and Rocky landscape into volcanic glass before a volley of G gantic racing Gans had once again introduced her to the dirt by the time she had regained her bearings he had once again vanished into the wind little more than a speck of gold light disappearing Over the Horizon slipping through her grasp once again she followed on Zeus as best she could discarding her no destroyed cutas but the blond's aerial speed was not a gap she could easily cover and to her immense displeasure she was forced to return to her ship for food and drink letting out a blast of her conqueror hacky upon discovering he had thoroughly disabled it and by the time of replacement ship had been able to relive them it seemed that their target had van Ed Into The Ether for good but despite what few thought and even fewer would speak aloud linlin was not an idiot beautiful certainly set in her ways with a temper that could boil an ocean without a doubt let an idiot know sir Charlotte linlin when not strung between her projects and vices like a blood Runk Sea King could display it unsettling level of critical thought she had the means to track Naruto at any time and the passion to learn from her myep so that when their final Clash eventually came she would be able to quite handily pound him into the ground and force him to lick the dust from her heels it was a month before she found him again word of a curious golden Fox having sunk a marine near the red line sent linlin on the warpath discovering Naruto once again on the jungle packed island of punk Hazard she arrived with a flotilla of 12 ships at her beck and call bombarding the Island Shores with cannon fire to keep the duo hand in by a ring of fire the battle has always began a storm of biblical proportions and as before ended with Lin Lin's defeat Nudo had conjured a dragon from each element and left her temporarily submerged in water robbing her of her strength long enough for him to smash her blockade and escape again and again this process repeated Aruda would slip away to explore part of the new world but eventually linlin would track him down resulting in a blood spilling battle that more often than not resulted in ly Lin's defeat this was not to say that she did not make progress her temperament with regard to the blonde had slowly but surely cooled from its burning hatred to a rivalry that prickled with emotions that she could not truly identify she enjoyed fighting him enjoyed the Thunder of blood in her ears with each Fantastical display of strength and plethora of questions he opened up well was he definitely not a devil fruit user given how Adept he was at swimming an offshoot lunarian she had thought once as they danced across the lava fields of pero Naruto summoning up great eruptions of magma that he shaped into Fox Moss to snarl at her oh wouldn't that be a treat the only race not present on T land being a conquered ancient race no he doesn't have anything other than that golden energy of his as Naruto's form was once again wreathed in Golden Light linlin felt her spirit sore for every battle that they had had the appearance of the golden cloak had been the sign that he began to take her seriously and that acknowledgement the thrill of being able to make someone she was coming to see as an equal try I want him to acknowledge me she had thought wrapping herself in Prometheus like a cloak of fiery armor electrified fists trading blows with a volley of chakra arms jackhammering down on her I the Ethereal arms moved with blinding speed each rocking her to the core as he pummeled her into the blacken lava field the air hummed with their passage as they danced like golden serpents delivering a barrage of blows with pinpoint accuracy the very ground quaked beneath their ferocity until once again Naruto rendered her unable to move he stood there the cloak bleeding away and panted lightly resting his hands on his hips while she glowered weakly up at him he gave a cheesy grin before turning on his heel and leaving as he began the Trek to the coast he called out to linlin over his shoulder say hi to the kids for me Lenin eased herself into a sitting position watching as he went her glower lowering to a smile and cheeks flushed with red I want him tagari Island stuck out like a sore thumb amidst the lapping blue Waves of the new world though not for what you might expect while all islands in the second half of the grand line were weird to the point where the first half had long been dubbed Paradise by comparison tagari was the odd one out it lacked the grand scale of the closed off wano the submerged Intrigue of Fishman Island and certainly not the constant violent lightning storms that had mysteriously intensified over raan Island these last few months no tanari was for lack of a better word normal it had no odd shape to it no strange weather or rampant Sea King problem just 20 km of mild weather green trees and a seab breeze if one were to not count the Colossal Red and White Tower in the center of the island situated in the center of the island was a Tower made from a four-legged base sunk into a parabolic dish before rising up a thinning neck cross braced with red and white striped metal lades the very Apex topping out at 333 M on the dot with its color and shape one might think of it as a colossal striped wind sock jutting into the sky kind of looks like a metal Shinju nuto observed his blue eyes reflecting the odd vertigo juicing phenomena that all tall buildings seem to produce against the sky as if in motion while knowing it was still ham aroused from his nap shivering unpleasantly don't bring up that thing so early if I never hear the word again it will be too soon the fox breathed out slowly Roo sent a wave of apologetic feelings to the fox cringing lightly as he put his hands behind his head in Whimsy the air rustled his clothes as it passed him the US Maki no longer wore burnt and shredded scraps of cloth for clothes having been able to Cobble together an outfit he was somewhat fond of Nudo was dressed in an offered long Captain's coat with cobalt blue lapels in Gold militar style that pletes on each shoulder his lower body was clad in a pair of somewhat baggy green pants with the bottoms taped tight to his ankles by a roll of white bandages his feet tucked into black soft sold shoes with a notable point to their tips he accented this with a blue sash at his waist a matching scarf over his male undershirt and his conoa headband worn around one arm he liked the outfit even though he thought the leopard print coat lining was a little much are you listening to a word I'm saying boy said a woman's voice causing Naro to quickly look down at the woman in front of him the Whizz anded old Crone and a lab coat sat at the controls of some kind of computer Naruto blinked several times before shuffling in embarrassment he ran a hand through his hair sorry Grandma I Was A Million Miles Away the old woman growled in annoyance that he wasn't taking taking this seriously so are the celestial bodies you're asking me to look at keep your mind on the present and you might just learn something Naruto nodded as the woman pointed to the screen displaying seven planetoids of varying sizes as I was saying before you zoned out our world's mesosphere that is the part of the atmosphere with air in it extends far further beyond what you would think maintaining a breathable atmosphere in the Blackness of space within this super mesosphere are seven moons that orbit the planet the biggest of which is what most call the moon as it is the one that reflects the most light at night the sky slenders from Burk call it fairy birth nuto absorbed the information like a sponge adding it to his growing stock of knowledge about this world that had become his home for the last year yes a year almost 12 months to the day he had crash landed on the outskirts of Tod land the now 18-year-old shobai felt no real rush to get back for two reasons the first reason was that there was no real need about a month after his arrival in between his frequent travels between the islands of the new world nuto had felt a familiar yank at the back of his Consciousness and was dragged into the orange ahued psychic Dreamscape shared by the tailed in their ginu called there by the ever rhyming air parent of the WAP Throne of Kumo and his ginu brother killerby the reunion fleeting and incorporeal as it had been was a joyous thing indeed and Naruto would be lying if he said he hadn't shed a tear a fact that he would fervently rebuke Kama whenever he brought it up the two had exchanged words and stories about what Naruto had been doing while stranded and how be had managed to break out of the infinite suomi as it turned out Kakashi had been The Mastermind behind the freedom of the world he had initially thought it impossible to undo the fruit of project Suki Nomi with him stranded given that hego had specified that the chakra of all nine Buu and a renan is needed to break the Jutsu but his Sensei had proved a resourceful one indeed he had had secure transplant a renan from madara's Corpse into his head before using the chakra of the Apu and the remnants of kurama's chakra in the kohaku no joy to break the global scale jinjutsu he'd even been crowned the sixth hackage after tunate had stepped down in the aftermath of the war the lucky bastard nuto had been practically waiting for be to break into a heartfelt verse about how soon he would be home but all he was greeted with was an ominous silence the second reason he didn't go home was well he couldn't whatever sasuka done to send him here the dimensional distance was so great that while the BIDU could telepathically contact him he could not be reverse summoned back home it had been a pretty desperate few minutes after that grasping at straws before he came to a conclusion and smiled so what so what if he couldn't go home right now the world was at peace the bidy were free and he knew his people would work towards some kind of way of bringing him home and in the meantime he could always talk to them via the telepathic link but what to do in the meantime why travel the world of course his Jia had done before him in the last 12 months he had been traveling from Island to island people to people learning all he could about this land and its peoples it was a long process given there were over 50 million Islands on this planet but he wanted to see all it had to offer and if he found wrongs maybe put them right and this one here is called Oda it's the furthest away from the planet and has its own minor satellite called nafuu the old scientist said tapping a button on her command console with a sound of hundreds of tons of scraping metal the red and white Tower slowly tilted pointing to towards a different area of the sky grimacing at the sound Naruto shot the old woman in a scans look doesn't the sound bother you he asked unsurely the scientist shot him an amused look before reaching towards her ear where a black shell earpiece protruded pulling it from her ear Naruto raised an eyebrow seeing that it was a tiny snail a smaller breed than the transponder snail I went legally deaf 10 years ago Sunny been on hearing snides ever since he pulled a face watching the slippery gastropod disappear back into her ear doesn't that feel weird nah got used to it and he eats my ear wax so it's a good trade plus if it means I can keep using the most powerful radio telescope in the world then it's worth it she infused putting her hands on her hips those stuffy old BS on O'Hara can look into history as much as they want all I care about is the world beyond the stars Naruto nodded sagely at the words masterfully hiding his incredulousness then again was he not the same one that had been chased by and was probably still being chased by big mom oh on that account he was definitely the strange one it did not matter how far he went or how fast he ran nor how severely he buried her in the dirt Charlotte linlin queen of toddle land always found him I still don't know how she's managed to catch us so many times that hacky crap so cheating he Amed quietly curious as to how she consistently achieve the feat the longest he had ever had before she tracked him down was 2 months he had last seen her about a month ago on Ragan Island where she had been consumed by a Kieran he had called down channeling the entire Island's lighting discharge into a singular animated beast hakama barked from within drawing Naruto's ey the irony that you are being stalked by a pinked girl who wants to jump your bones is not lost on me Naruto gritted his teeth at the comment break my bones not jump in your fuzz butt same difference it's really not then your human courting rituals are truly Beyond me sarcasm boiled from the words breathing deeply to calm the nerve Kurama was enjoying poking nuto reflected that maybe something was there he was unsure when it had happened but after so many battles Lyn's bloodthirsty grin had morphed into something disquietingly more innocent enjoyment her thunderous battle cries had transformed into whoops of Jubilation as she did battle with him exchanging small talk as much as Promises of pain she had even much to to his immense surprise actually started putting up territory markers he was oddly proud for some reason the hair on the back of Naruto's neck suddenly stood to attention his six sense for all things intangible roused and awareness of something incoming the professor was in the middle of her speech describing the Exodus of the sky peoples from the outlying celestial bodies down to the white white Seas when suddenly a wave of conquerors hacky washed over the entire Island invisible to the naked eye but appearing to Naruto as a pink purple haze the professor was cut off mid-sentence eyes turning blank and rolling back in her head before slumping back limply in her chair unconscious the wave of hacky dissipated shortly and Naruto could not help but pinch the bridge of his nose in annoyance well at least she has the manners to announce herself without cannon fire now he said finding a silver lining before turning on his heel and making his way out of the complex passing dozens of similarly passed out residents of tagari along the way in a spear off them- moment decision Naruto took the time to prop up every Fallen person and ensure they were okay he knew she'd wait progress walking through the forest that surrounded the radio telescope complex Naruto eventually alighted on a Sandy Beach and saw her totally unsurprised by her appearance now 21 linlin looked more or less the same as she had a year ago in terms of appearance save for the fact her Captain's coat had gained a yellow lining and her Fedora had a long pheasant feather sticking out of the fabric band she sat at top of Zeus in a relaxed Repose Prometheus hovered at her right shoulder linlin he greeted borly Zeus Prometheus Naruto Zeus greeted excitedly a far cry from their first meeting Prometheus glowed at his brother homie being so informal with their enemy hey whiskers nice Island you got here far less stormy than ragen you put me in traction for a week you little bastard she complained with a small smile before rising from Zeus to her full height again Naruto could say she was the tallest human woman he had ever met she slowly walked towards him her homies floating either side of her did you at least get treats for my boys Naruto smirked and slowly raised both hands channeling Checker into them he conjured an elemental microcosm in each hand loled Lighting in his left hand and matatabi blew fire in his right before flicking his wrists to Second them at the two homies Zeus slept up with a cheer opening his mouth wide to gobble up the high yield electricity and Munch on it like succulent candy Prometheus was far more reserved about nibbling on the globe of azure fire but it was clear by his cartoonish blush that he was enjoying it thanks for using hacky to knock everyone out rather than just barging in with the intent to kill you've come a long way Naruto smiled linlin cocked an eyebrow and what's it supposed to mean it's only right that a queen and a conqueror uses her power to prevent an audience of prying eyes keep telling yourself that Nora chuckled a dusting of red flushing on big mom's cheeks at the tinkling sound where's your ship by the way you usually have one tart to glower impotently at me from the sidelines the statuesque woman walked along the Waterfront dismissively looking out at the Cerulean Waters they were taking too long to resupply so I came by myself more than enough to deal with a Backwater little half mink how many times do I have to tell everyone I'm not a mink I've been to zoo and even they think I'm part mink Naruto complained remembering the Duke him on the back of an elephant wandering the Seas she looked over his face searchingly you just have a creatin vulpine charm to you Naruto are you of his name so casually caught Naruto flat footed causing him to sputter to Big mom's Amusement I take that you won't give me the fight I want with those people on the island but where in luck she raised her arm twirling her finger in a show of theatrics before pointing North there just so happens to be an abandoned Island 40 kilomet that way looking at linlin Naruto considered her unsure of what her in game was anymore but it was fine to acquas if it got people out of danger approaching the lapping waves he casually stepped onto the water and began walking across it in the direction she had pointed as she mounted up on Zeus the is shook violently a tempest of invisible wind shaking the forest to its foundations once again the queen of T and the last Uzumaki met one another in battle Sparks of clashing weapons flowing across the Treetops like a water of ephemeral fire stay down Naruto yelled over the scratch of a slowly expanding race in shuen carving a smooth crater in a plateau his opponent in the center silence rained for a solitary moment before the beautiful woman's laughter echoed a you're strong whiskers much to his Chagrin the young woman clawed her way upright again shrugging off the sting of the RAC and shuriken no one gives me a thrill like you not like Nate or Shiki not even that Wildman rocks can knock me for six with such style more I want more she yelled launching an ikoku sovereignty at Naruto she swept low under it before raising his own weapon a black boss staff slightly shorter than him and caught the magenta-colored flying slash it seemed to curl around the staff before condensing into a glowing Maul on the end of his bow and he ran forward twirling it in one hand before launching it like a javelin back at linlin she predicted the move via her observation hacky and leapt to the side but was caught blindsided when The Rock she had been St standing beside vanished in a poof of smoke revealing it had been no more than a transformed Shadow clone who caught the pipe and turned into the momentum bringing the bow around like it was a mace and crashing the captured sovereignty into her hip she let out a grunt pain burning up her side as her own attack detonated against her and sent her skipping back smashing through the forest and Splitters as she was sent through trees by the shock wave nuto extended his hand tapping into magnet style and recalling the bow staff to his hand it may have looked metallic and black but in actuality the material was so densely covered in shukaku's curse marked that it appeared black he twirled it idly from hand to hand as he waited for linlin to come again what the [ __ ] was that big mom came stomping out of the forest face set in a happy grin felt like I got smacked by the Sea itself just a little something I picked up from some guy with a panda mask in strumia it's apparently made of some kind of C prissy Stone he answered tossing the bow like it was a conductor's baton before catching it all I know is it's hard as hell and perfect for smacking people with weird powers like yours C prism stone dot dot dot he had a stick made out of C prism stone linlin tilted her head slack jot had explained why her homies were currently knocked out but still this was impossible inconceivable it was just so so Mama that so you linlin guod drawing her cutless and rushing Nudo she brought down her sword and he blocked with his staff sparks flying between them I think I just fell in love neck caught him off guard she capitalized kneeing him in the solar plexus Naruto skitted back before performing a back handspring to get distance and regain his balance a beat of sweat ran down his brow what the hell are you he shouted confused at the sudden declaration she grinned taking up a power stance a woman who knows what she wants now fight me her hacky enveloped her entire body growing thicker around her sword her eyes hiding area lie there is no person on these oceans like you no one so unique no one so Carefree you simply do as you want and face power with power so I must of you you will be my g g g the sound echoed over the clearing with a sour note Lin Lin's face drained of color and her eyes swam with pain the shroud of hacky around her guttering like a Candle in the Wind not now she hissed under her breath placing a hand on her stomach and clenching her fist in dismay not when I'm so close G A she screamed her sword falling from her fingers to clatter against the ground doubling over in pain it took a superhuman effort to keep herself from falling over as her midsection caught fire it had been some time since she had felt this Agony her body asserting its will with such ferocity that conscious thought nearly evaporated from her mind like water on the skillet now she would not lose to a hunger Pang she was a queen she ruled she was not ruled over she was not a monster what's wrong thigh eyes orange eyes widened lenlin slowly looked up into the tanned face of Naruto his features set in a concerned expression another groan came from her stomach but this time it did not seem to hurt so much why why did he look at her with concern when her hunger pangs had only inspired dread and fear in her crew Naruto seemed to consider her for a long time before he sighed sealing away his bow staff with a poof of smoke before a larger poof of smoke revealed a box of supplies and Bs how about we call this quits till we get something to eat it was music to her ears the sun had set by the time the two had prepared dinner and big mom's two cartoonish meteorological phenomena slept soundly by the fire Naruto and linlin could be seen slurping from giant bowls of ramen animatedly linlin ate like a ravenous Beast spilling the broth down her front as her hunger slowly receded and while Naruto was slightly more controlled in his consumption of the comically large portion he was able to keep Pace with the tall woman light and shadows danced over each of them the Warm Glow of the fire and the crackling of logs provided a pleasant Ambience and in the darkness you could almost forget they had nearly trashed the island in their battle Naruto was the first to finish and covered his mouth to hide his belch having enjoyed the break in the fighting for his favorite meal you're looking better so it seems you just needed some grub lucky I picked up a catering pack of ramen though I didn't expect that I'd have to share it linlin finished tipping the last of the broth into her mouth before putting her Bowl aside how much better she huffed in contentment wiping her mouth with the back of her hand she narrowed her eyes at Naruto conspiratorially food is meant to be shared not hoarded by one person but it seems your manners have won out over your bad upbringing whiskers Naruto snorted leaning back against the fallen tree he was using as a seat big mom smiled slipping into a contented silence the silence slowly grew awkward neither really knowing how to broach the subject of conversation without Mortal Kombat at play the older woman eventually broke the silence if you're going to stare whiskers then take a picture it will last longer aruto rolled his eyes but it was a good enough easing of tensions he supposed you're the one who's been chasing me for a year thigh high if anyone has obsessive issues it's you the difference between an obsession and a quest is the chance of success and it seems you and I are breaking bread over a campfire that's a win in my mind she rationalized removing her Fedora and resting it on her lap her long pink hair free to flow down her back had she always been that pretty Naruto beat the Stray thought into submission but let his curiosity eventually win so are we going to talk about what you said or just go back to trying to kill each other Lama mama she giggled at his banal breakdown of their Dynamic my declaration has you hot under the call are good There's Hope for your common sense yet there's nothing strange about the truth I I think I love you nuto rested his chin on the back of his fist and pouted linlin in my short life I have seen a lot of weird things and let me say this the truth is never normal and always strange a thought occurred to him and he lent forwards speaking of weird [ __ ] I've always wondered how you were always able to track me down linlin glowed with mirth tapping her Fedora knowingly seeing Naruto's lack of comprehension she slipped a finger into the fabric band of the hat and withdrew a small square of blank yellow paper that she lay on the palm of her hand nuda watched as the piece of paper began to slowly without prompting hedge itself closer to Naruto by minute increments his eyes bugged out when it was a vior card a standard method of navigating used in the new world to bypass its wacky magnetics taking a nail or a hair of someone and combining it with special paper created a link to the life force of the target monitoring their life and moving in their Direction whenever not acted upon she returned the scrap of paper to her Fedora end of our first Clash last year you left a few of your hairs in my rings nuto face bombed it seemed so obvious in hindsight from what he had learned of this sea in the last year as for my love for you I don't see a problem unless I'm too much woman for you she trailed her fingers down the line of her waist corset to her wide hips and enjoyed the blushing incurred in the fire light no it's not that it's just I'm finding it very hard to see how we can go from enemies to loved ones without so much as a kiss oh my God this is like one of sensei's books it's actually freaking happening pervy Sage you old Lech Naruto muttered flashing to a thousand yard stair born of three years of proofreading smut manuscripts for Jura thumbing her chin linlin pushed on with her explanation I know the pleasures of the flesh sex is fun but I've never felt anything like what I do for you like an attraction that calls over the sea you are so strong yet you don't flaunt it why find the unique attractive and what is Love An unexplainable force that attracts two things together for no given reason other than itself big mom offered sincerely you'll make a fine addition to my crew Naruto pouted in confusion weirded out and flattered by the words he had hardly expected things to get so philosophical with the socalled country Destroyer but who sat before him right now it was a far cry from The Legend of Charlotte Lyin who annihilated countries on a whim whose Bounty numbered in the billions she looked so relaxed humano not human an innocent monster who despite the way the world viewed her had a mind feelings and viewpoints all of her own curiosity teased words from him I'm not even a pirate and I hardly want those seagull heads running after me it may be a bit too late for that linlin replied she began to rumage through the pockets of her Captain's coat causing her bust to jiggle a little to Naruto's watching eyes he averted his eyes a few seconds after he should have she made a triumphant sound and withdrew a roll it up sheet of brown paper and tossed it to him you've made a name for yourself whiskers a pit of dread formed at the base of Naruto's stomach and with trepidation he slowly unrolled the part M revealing a familiar whisker marked face set in a fierce snarl Wanted Dead or Alive u z a Ki t y p h o n n a r u t b99 million a vain in Naruto's forehead all but exploded throbbing visibly eyes bugging from their sockets wanted for crimes including but not limited to vandalism theft thuggery disrupting the peace multiple counts of Island Demolition and sinking of a marine Battleship carrying Celestial Dragon tribute to God Valley what the hell linlin roared with laughter her orange eyes running with tears of Mirth while Naruto did a stunning imp impression of a fish and how he sightlessly looked between her and his Bounty poster it's a good starting Bounty whiskers I think sinking that Battleship really pushed it over the edge Naruto had never really stayed long enough on one Island to pay attention to the goings on of the world but that did not mean the world had not paid attention to him linlin informed him that the blonde had slowly but surely earned a reputation as a Herald of Destruction as every time he showed up on an island linlin would inevitably find her way there and their Clash would scare the population to death by the time the explanation was over he simply stared at the poster in confusion seizing on random elements of it does someone at the Marines not know how to spell typhoon he asked glibly it's probably a reference to an old Legend Typhon the storm giant who laid the continent puller ORS low probably because of the storms our battles have kicked up over the new world linlin hypothesized great that's just great Naruto scal gesturing at linlin using the roll it up poster last thing I needed was getting slapped with the pirate label now I got to worry about Marines everywhere I go lindland term pensive not all Pirates are bad sure you've got rough ones like John Wang XI and that hood rocks but some of us have noble goals Naruto sent her a searching look really the last year tells otherwise he snapped before getting a Coller on his annoyance he took a deep breath and asked linlin for her side of the story what do you want linlin what I want linlin began closing her eyes and letting passion fill her voice is a place where everyone of all Races colors and Creeds can sit around the same table and enjoy dinner in peace a Utopia where people no longer have to know hunger Prejudice persecution or hate where a little girl doesn't have to wonder where her mother and siblings went nuto remains silent letting her talk no listening he listened to what she was saying not simply allowing the words to flow over him as many of her crew did honestly part of her would have preferred it that way being listened to a not feared was it made very old insecurities sit up in the back of her mind is that so wrong of me to desire the answering Naruto thought about her words and actions and perceived and believed nature it's not wrong but I've seen before how Noble intentions are Insidious traps that can lead good men down bad paths there's nothing as scary as the evil of a good man caused Demons Run when a good man goes to work War he said firmly something inside linlin broke shattering like glass a veil lifted itself from her eyes to see the world a new truths long hidden no truth she had refused to see began to wriggle from the dark what about you what is it that you desire she asked begging to slowly move closer nuto hummed and thought his obvious answer was somewhat untenable at the moment and the thought of a future in this world was something that had never evolved Beyond Idol fancy but now after such a heartfelt bearing of the Soul he had to answer in kind I I didn't have a very good childhood it wasn't the worst but it wasn't good either but I can say that the cause was something out of my control being seen as a monster the words seemed to catch in his throat but he gathered himself I wondered at times was I a monster what even is a monster some moldering thing that crawls from a wet and cold place a ghost from a book no a monster is something that does not fall in line with common sense and to blame a child for that how could I do anything that is not for the children in this world who suffer for no other reason than the world says they should he finished staring into a pair of beautiful orange eyes lenlin had crossed the distance to him as he had spoken his words growing more impass until now she was just a few inches away they looked into one another's eyes feeling the tickle of their breaths on one another's face Frozen In a Moment In Time by a campfire in the middle of nowhere slowly as if testing the waters linlin leaned in and captured Naruto's lips in a kiss his eyes going wide he did not respond at first but eventually he began to respond sucked into the hypnotic rhythm of a kiss lips dancing to the beat of their hearts getting over the initial awkwardness he returned the affections and linlin let out a pleased moan her painted red lips melting with his until finally they were forced to break for air both panted lightly Hearts thumping in their ears at the enjoyment of the touch of tantric tetatet mastering herself linlin sat up and looked deep into Naruto's eyes a delicate hand slowly tracing the neck of her blouse and unhooking a button so then another button popped the top of her cleavage emerging from the Shadows together we might just make a country for those children to know only peace nuto swallowed thickly before finally he decided to try it was mad insane monstrous even after all he'd try anything once once he said for Naruto how little he knew the grand line was an unbroken band of turquoise that stretched uninterrupted to the Horizon sunlight beat down from on high a mids scant cumulous clouds that added to the picturesque quality of the moment a chyo reflection between sky and sea A Pair of Hands overlapping that matched up perfectly yet when inspected independently showed their difference water emanated a calming suurus that served as backing for the assembled choir of Ambience the wind was its tenor and the distant Cry of seabirds the accompaniment however there was something a Miss in the otherwise idilic setting a shadow beneath the waves that cruise through the depths confiscated by the refraction of the Waves stray fish sensed its passage and throng towards it hoping to play pyot Fish to a bigger beast in search of good eating they grew closer until stopping dead a primeval and basic animal precence telling them that it was not a good idea to approach the thing thus they turned tail and swam off Into the Depths the shadow grew larger as it Rose from the darkness the surface of the sea bulging as it was disturbed by the displacement effect of something exceedingly large moving with great speed was it a sea king no the serpentine beasts coiled through the depths unless they were hunting the objects path was linear in its ascent and uniform in its direction churning the water up into foam a great Mass finally breached the surface heaving itself onto the sea with a mighty bang as water sloughed off a perfectly round Locust bearing the iridescent Sheen of a soap bubble scant moments later did the bubble's Integrity compromise and popped into tens of thousands of smaller bubbles that were carried away on the seab breeze what remained was a ship of immense size and bizarre architecture a I'm a ship the ship was massive in scope a bark by rigging but a gallion in design bearing a trio of square rigged mass that stretched near near 500 M into the air and even longer from bow a Stern it was more accurate to call her a floating Mountain than a ship her otherwise Avent guard design notwithstanding the hole was split into four distinct colorations modeled after different types of confectioner the topmost gold lining held a melted effect to it as if it had been heated and rivulets of metal drip down the sides of the cannon deck like frosting on a cake the cakes continued for and after of the midship with dual super structures modeled on different puddings a tall trifle at the stern and a great white birthday cake at the bow looking closer one could see giant candy canes and FL sticking out from behind the lit candles and Technicolor ice cream cones hanging from the cross trees from which a gigantic pattern sail billowed in the wind the white skull adorned in a maroon bit horn with a gold band at its Rim plump red lips and a Friz of rose-colored hair bifurcated by a pair of cartoon lollipops it was unmistakably the heraldry of the big mom Pirates this was the queen Mama chanter pride of Tod land in the flagship of Charlotte lyan's Fleet she cut through the waves with surprising amounts of clip given her size seeming to wallow from one side to another as if she was skipping along to the song of of the ocean after a few minutes a few dozen Shadows appeared in the sky and flew towards the chanter circling her from above before diving down to greet the hundreds of crew that she needed to run properly each was a large white bird wearing a peak cap and a messenger bag stuffed with newspapers stuffed in it the flock of news CS picked their targets and pounds some alighting on the railings next to waiting crew mates While others either perched on the rigging or continued their circling of the chanter looking for someone that was likely to buy their Wares one such entrepreneurial Aven flew a wide circuit towards the bow where it spotted a figure sat upon the figure head appropriately sized sponge colored round face adorned in a crown its wide mouth yawning wide and a gormless smile Naruto looked up at the news coup as it came down to land beside him raising a wing in a theatrical bow before offering its bag of newspapers amused at the showing he pulled out one of the rolled out papers and fished out his beted frog wallet from his coat and gave the bird a few notes one for the paper and one for the trouble unwrapping the paper he began to quietly hum to himself as he read over its contents it had been several weeks since his and Lin Lin's latest Clash and subsequent horizontal negotiations near tagari Island and a lot had happened in a comparatively short time when lyan's ship had caught up to them the crew had been confused and concerned at the fact that linlin looked satisfied yet Naruto was very clearly still alive and equally as glowing they had all but voided their pants when she had proclaimed his new status as her husband and when Naruto had tried to argue the point on the side of the crew that this was just an alliance she had proudly stated that they had already consummated it over a vow he had only hoped that that was where it stopped looking at the front cover of the world Economic Journal a sizable tick mark appeared at Naruto Temple as he read the title country destroyer and Typhon Alliance start of the big family Pirates how the hell does this stuff leak out so quickly does the crew have loose lips or do we need to buy more white transponder snails he questioned irately rifling through the pages to read whatever slander was being spread about him slander is spoken if it's in print then it's liable Hama rumbled from the back of his mind causing narudo to mentally glower at the mightiest BIDU since when have you become an expert in literary defamation rules fbat Naruto asked skimming through the words before settling on the actual detail of the so-called big family Alliance kirama chuckled ever enjoying a verbal spar with his partner because I actually read these articles all the way through instead of just screaming at a headline and ranting Into The Ether believe it or not you can learn much more if you read the important details rather than tuning out context Naruto growed at the snark usually he was the more quippy of the duo but linlin had been keeping him rather busy these last few weeks and not just in the bedroom she had taken him back to Toto land and giving him a proper tour scaring the pants off her subjects in the process unused to seeing their Queen in such a good mood whole cake Island had been a sight to behold and had cemented something in Naruto linlin was a child at heart but a woman in mind her methods could be brutal but it came from a noble goal and he would see their shared project become a bit more productive a fairy tale Kingdom made reality he caught movement out his periphery and saw a pair of crewmen and chess soldiers watching him uncertainly he cast a glance their way and they retreated back inside to resume their Duty darn he wished they wouldn't be so nervous around him but he was still new and someone that defied the very logic of this world still it would not been the first time he had won over people and in that respect this winter celebration was good after making their Alliance in his tcid kingship of Toto Lyin had decided that a proper celebration was in order and they had left Toto Bound for Paradise apparently to meet up with some of her Allied crews in the first half of the grand line for a winter celebration that came around once a year not that he could tell given the grandline schizophrenic weather fronts he paused his train of thought when a small pudgy hand reached up from his lap to point at an illustration of Naruto in the paper Papa Naruto turned before his face softened looking at the bundle of spiky Crimson hair looking up at him Charlotte katakuri now 3 years old sat in his lap with wide eyes and a toothy grin Lenin's jeans were definitely kicking in with a Vengeance for despite being just out of toddler range he was already the size of a normal 8-year-old ambled a comfortable sit beside the young man he ruffled the boy's hair goodat Le and chuckled as the little boy cheered to laugh before returning to nibbling on a donut despite his misgivings with how quickly linlin was rushing into things with him Naruto could not deny that he found her children unspeakably adorable the feeling had been mutual as the children had gravitated towards the spiky-haired blonde due to the everpresent vibe of warmth and safety they felt in his presence most of the crew either treated the princes and princesses of their Nation as sick offence or like they were made of glass not getting close it was something that Naruto couldn't stand to see separation based on traits they had no control over so whenever he could during this trip into Paradise he had made sure to spend time with them and made sure they had fun and felt safe in his presence he he I'm a ship returning to the newspaper he glanced at the Bounty section and scanned for his name wondering if his marriage had caused the price to rise but became sidetracked when he saw a different kind of bounty his smile faded replaced with an ugly frown don't frown it doesn't look good on you whiskers a tall Shadow was cast Over Naruto and katakuri and linlin hopped down from the top of the birthday cake to stand next to her lover and second son seeing something you don't like she asked feeling his discontent rolling off him as an almost visible Cloud silence was her answer forcing her to lean over and look at the newspaper her nose wrinkling and disgust Dan poacher poacher yes that was an adequate term for what the Bounty involved a standard Fe to report sightings and reward the capture and turning over of two particular races to the hands of the world government the lunarians and the Buccaneers persecuting someone for something so stupid as the race they were born into Celestial dragons more like crap covered worms nuto said watching his language due to katakuri's presence he he I'm a ship linlin tipped her new bitcorn hat to shade her eyes it was an ugly truth that the Scramble for this world's people and creatures made Monsters of Men and perhaps if she had taken a different path she might have reduced these persecuted peoples to specimens to be collected he I'm a ship vains pulsed in Naruto's temples while the chanter was a fine ship its nature as a hommade it semi- sensient nature annoying at times how many do you think are left Len inside the talk was heavy for what should have been a time of Celebration my sources tell me that some Buccaneers made an exodus into the South blue as for the lunarians I don't know something drove them from their Sky Islands during the void century and what couldn't slip between the cracks of the world were executed by the world Nobles on site that advert in the paper has been there for the better part of 300 years I'm a having enough of the homie's prattle Naruto's hand whipped to his sea Stone bow staff strapped to his back unlash it and whipping it down against the Figure Head in one smooth motion an invisible Tremor burst from the point of impact and caused the entire ship to shudder slightly but left no Mark the figurehead falling silent ly Lin's eybrow twitched at him don't break our ship I didn't leave a mark Naruto argued grinning up at her and true to his word there was not a single Mark where he had struck big mom considered for a moment that this might be some analog for hacky Naruto using his own internal energy or chakra to push the essence of the the sea Stone into her homie to temporarily render it silent her Pride however prevented her from complimenting him instead huffing and looking away from him with a blush silence rain between The Odd Couple for about a minute before something odd happened linlin sensed it in a flash a premonition of something bad but by the time she had turned to look at her lover and Son it was already too late in her premonition she had seen something horrid katakuri attempting to stuff too much Donuts into his mouth and in an effort to open his mouth wider splitting his cheeks into a horrid glasgo smile she whipped around hearing a cry in SA nuta looked down at katakuri with a winse a wat of fried dnut gathered in his palm while katakuri shook it took a moment for it to become apparent why katakuri's Rose of needle sharp shark-like teeth were buried to the gums in Naruto's right forearm blood bubbling to the surface katakuri linlin cried dropping to one knee to help her child who looked horrified at what he had done but what exactly had he done nuto had never taken his Focus off the three-year-old so the moment he had seen the rounded baby fat of his cheeks pull far tougher than it ever should he had quickly snatched the offending substance from katakuri's mouth in hindsight he should have predicted what would happen a child no older than three deprived of his beloved food with his Jaws open to maximum extension the result had been instant prompted by an animalistic nature he had yet to develop an ability to suppress katakuri had lurched forwards and sank his fangs into the first thing he could which in this case had been Naruto's right arm when the red Haze had cleared the young boy had realized what he had done and let out a whale of Sorrow gleaning that he had unintentionally hurt someone who cared for him blue eyes met orange and an empathetic look stopped linlin in her tracks as steel was under the blue request for trust dropping the doughnut material Naruto gently slid the fingers of his left hand over katakuri's gums and massaged them gently encouraging the young boy to slowly clenched his jaw and gently draw the teeth from his flesh the blonde made a soothing noise as he drew his herd arm away so katakuri didn't have to see it and was quick to pull out a cloth to wipe his blood from the second son's mouth steam began to rise from the bite mark and linlin watched transfixed as the Grievous wound sealed itself shut in a matter of moments but the whole time Naruto was focused on making sure katakuri was okay Softly smiling at the crimson-haired boy his face now clean of any blood Naruto spoke in a quiet voice hey now it's okay y know he didn't mean to do it and it's over now so let's just see that cute little smile again hey after all linlin tells me that it's getting near Christmas a time for family and sharing can you give me a smile little protector katakiri sniffed his eyes still glimmering with unshed tears but managed a small smile one nuto returned with gusto linlin put an arm around the pair yes she had picked well with this one he was strong but kind and hopefully the country they plann to make would be like that tattoo the sky above curana Island was fittingly gloomy a slate gray Bank of low hanging clouds that hung over the forested island like a lead weight the atmosphere was tepid and cold dancing on the knife edge between snow and rain but managing to be neither as the bank sat squatly in place from the deck of his ship vice admiral Monkey D GARP scalled up a storm glaring bafully out at the dark Waters that surrounded him a tall man in the prime of his life at 33 GARP could quite easily fall within the Realms of what most colloquially called superhumans standing in at ninf he had a broad and muscular build with a barrel chest thick strong arms and a Thicket of messy hair that jostled in the wind GARP wore the standard Garb of a vice admiral a crisp white double breasted suit with a matching shirt and black tie the emblematic Justice coat slung over his shoulders with gold utters and two Tom red and black cuffs that billowed as his HQ ship continued its lethargic Circuit of the island despite his age garp's face held a few lines from smiling too much and a shallow scar on his left temple despite the clear evidence that he was used to lay back cheer the Declan member's current demeanor was anything but Sunny Crossing his arm arms over his chest garp's black eyes scan the Horizon spotting several other ships trailing a loose parameter if the island each one a battleship like his though lacking his Bulldog heraldry why do we have to do this crap Bogart he said Brusly a shorter Marine in a gray suit and wide brimmed hat stepping into his peripheral vision orders from Fleet Admiral Kong you know that as well as I do sir Bogard answered his eyes hidden by the shadows of his hat while his voice was level it was clear by the way that he groped the katana sheath at his side that he was just as disquieted by this position as his leader barking a laugh of of derision GARP swept his hand out at the collection of battleships with them four Vice Admirals to play babysitter to one of them is not how I wanted to spend Christmas Bogard I could be back in go right now kicking back to relax and getting a workout in gry terminal Bogard fixed his Superior with a sideways look is that really the way you want to be spending your Christmas sir why not they just dumped a fresh set of scrap runoffs from their steel Works in there and there's nothing that gets the blood pumping more than punching metal so hard it turns back into liquid GARP set slamming his fist into an open Palm at the thought some of the life turning to his posture what about your 8-year-old son I have one of those the 33-year-old blinks slowly before releasing a snort of laughter Oh [ __ ] yeah I do that reminds me that I need to start him on his training there's this wonderful tiger infested gorge in the mountains that he can train in whatever you say Sir Bogard wondered how the East blue could be considered the weakest sea when monsters like GARP and Roger called the place home they must cause the average level of strength in the entire sea to go up a few notches by their very existence another Battleship approached garp's hq3 slowly sailing into the wind as it was but even and then you could make out the letters G5 proudly emblazened on the main sail a tall figure stood at top the starboard rotary turret watching the approaching bulldog and leapt from one ship to another as they passed ignoring the calls of confusion from their own crew as he walked towards Bogard and GARP the man was a few years garp's Junior but of a similar build and bore the Hallmarks of a vice admiral he had a strong face with small but intelligent eyes his hair clo cropped in purple upon seeing the arrival of the younger man GARP mustered a grin before chambering a punch and launching it at the newcomer he was pleased when the tall 29y y- old sent up a hand to catch his fist stopping it dead in its tracks getting better at that Zephyr been heading the shipyards to get some training in vice admiral Zephyr smirked shoving gar playfully in the shoulder stubborn bastard you took most of the good scrap for yourself I had to make do with a pair of mountains last month I'm surprised you haven't created a perfectly flat country yet Zephyr was one of the rising stars in the Marines like GARP and while he didn't have a well touted rival yet like Roger or rocks he was tapped to potentially take up an admiral position in a few years time once he mastered his hacky he was one of the only Marines in history to turn down the chance to eat a devil fruit any time it had been offered to him GARP nodded slipping his hands into his pockets as the Bulldog came around the curve of the island where the fun in that be flat country would have nothing to punch but the ground and I don't like the idea of digging holes when we aren't getting paid for it Black Fist rolled his eyes GARP was always the Wild Card of the Marines what lie did Kong tell you to bring you out here he asked the humor falling away from his words laughter dying out seriousness once more fell over GARP looking out at the Rolling Hills of the island he could spot what appeared be packs of large bipedal Apes watching the ships from the shore before ducking back into the trees probably the same horse crap he told you watching over noted dignitaries in need of protection the black-haired Marine sarcastically made quotation marks with his fingers Zephyr nodded grimly confirming garp's suspicions ca he knew that if he told us the truth we'd have said no I'd have told him to stick it up his ass in fact Bogard he said to the shortest man of the trio fetch the transponder snail I think I'm going to call up Kong and tell him that right now Bogard sighed before turning to leave whether to to get the transponder snail or just leave the two Vice Admirals to talk was left unclear silence passed between both of the tall men as the ship finally circled around to the front of the island the source of their iron mored in the port arrogantly it was a ship of similar proportions to the Bulldog but with fewer cannons and lacking the marinees favor dark green paint a proud gilded lion Figure Head was attached to the prow of the ship that seemed to turn its nose up at the Port as if offended by its existence their eyes were drawn to the sails noting the absence of the Marine seagull heraldry for what was there instead the five-pointed cross of the world government and above it the red hoof of the Flying Dragon World Nobles Zephyr ground out his hands tensing into fists there's nothing Noble about those [ __ ] GARP added sending a scathing look at the ship when he had originally gotten the call from Kong about this operation GARP had been mostly ambivalent much more concerned with his upcoming chance to go home for the holidays but there had been something that stank about what Kong had said to him that piqu his interest kuana Island was home to the shikaro kingdom a nation not part of the world government so the fact that they were being asked to escort dignitary to the island was suspicious whenever an island or Kingdom made the request to join the WG a general PSA about it was put out in marineford encouraging local Marine task forces to step up their operations in the area to make the transition smoother not only had the shikaro kingdom not been reported as wanting to join it was a nation that in the past had routinely declined membership preferring to stay in the hands of their mysterious and aloof Monarch the shift in rhetoric had been too big of an audity to not investigate but upon getting to the island GARP had been disgusted at just who he was being asked to protect spotting another Marine battleship mored in the small Harbor Zephyr read off the identification number and groaned in annoyance they called in John for this one we want Sparks not to fly but we have that status quo siant on call with us there were four Vice Admirals that had been called in to assist this diplomatic Venture GARP Zephyr John Giant and sangoku with four of the biggest names in the Marines and a small flotilla of battleships circling the island it was obvious that this was no protection detail this was a blockade b b b both men turned to see Bogard approaching them with a burbling transponder snail in his arms his face Grim setting it down on the edge of the deck he took a step back and waited GARP and Zephyr exchanged a look each wondering who should pick up before GARP finally lifted the brass receiver from its mounting this is GARP he said figting a normal voice before their eyes the three men watched as the psychic snail began to morph a bushy black afro springing from its head and a mustache appearing at its top lip mimicking the appearance of the one on the other end this is sangoku he tapped the brass fittings of the receiver to his forehead in frustration before speaking again what is it sangoku got some new tea for me to try because I can guarantee that it's a damn sight more entertaining than playing babysitter to an imic the afro sporting snail blinks slowly weathering the hot words mind your tongue GARP like it or not we work for the world government and thus the celestial dragons have you seen Zephyr I'm here go ahead vice admiral the Black Fist of the Marines commented seeing no point in hiding his presence good this means that I only have to make two calls instead of three John has already been informed informed of what GARP asked a KN of dread building in the pit of his stomach before sangoku could replace rep L distant sounds began to Echo out from the center of the island screams of Terror punctuated by sharp cracks of gunfire their observation hacky clicked on with a mental switch and even at this distance they could practically see hundreds of men women and children cowering in fear with the mandrels as armor-clad Knights stomped through the streets driving their tall lances into legs and arms GARP was ready to LEAP Into The Fray when the snail spoke again in sangoku's voice none of you are to interfere with the actions of St jmac we are to maintain the blockade until either he is satisfied or the count of the island returns glaring down the snail GARP let out a roar of righteous anger [ __ ] you sangok Kuai did not sign up to the Marines to play toy to the dragons as they kill innocent people sangoku paused it was clear that despite his business-like tone that he too was having his misgivings about their current course of action it is regrettable but St jamac has promised that he will not explicitly kill any of the residents merely wound that's besides the point and you know it sangoku hary posted the Marines running about the deck taking a step back in fear Zephyr closed his eyes his knuckles white he knew there was Injustice in the Marines he just hoped he could rise high enough to make a change this is in order GARP maintain the blockade do that and no one has to die that's an order direct from the gorosi sangoku proclaimed before the snail went dormant the line going dead GARP leted out a wrathful cry picking up the transponder snail and tossing it overboard meanwhile in the heart of the island St jck of the celestial dragons watched the man in front of him cower in fear as if he was some kind of insect pinned beneath a Looking Glass most everything had that effect given the glass box he wore over his head where is your king commoner he asked looking away from the crying form of the man's wife the people of this country all wore black cloaks in blazing with the Sigil of a red bat skull it disgusted the world Noble that these clouds of mud had the gall to Bear Herald re not of the world government CCC the8 stammered unable to tear his eyes away from the broken Visage of a man that JC wrote a top like a horse is that what was to become of his people sea count red is away from the island I don't know when he will be back this was such a tedious Endeavor reflected the saint shooting the aid in the kneecap ignoring him as he fell to the ground and calling bloody murder what a Despicable showing of tardiness from a so-called Monarch he should have been on hand to greet us when we arrived looking up at the space suit clad Aristocrat the aid was able to choke out but we were never told you were coming of course not what business does an ant have knowing that their God will be visiting their dung Hill you should have been ready as a matter of principle he checked his watch before recocking his ornate flint lock pistol this time pointing it at another Resident fine for each hour I am forced to wait I will shoot 10 of your people starting with your wife the gun cracked again splintering a kneecap he wouldn't kill any of them after all that was part of the coming game and he would not spoil that as screams of man and monkey alike filled the air jmac had no idea the hell he had just called down on himself thundering across the sea one who lived above the clouds could never know that a storm was on its way dropping anchor in a nondescript section of the ocean that was just as seemingly idilic as the rest of Paradise The Queen Mama chanter sat squat upon the surface as the Thousand strong crew needed to man her ran about for their assigned duties although that was not strictly true as a homie animated by big mom Sor Sor noai the majority of the chanter functions were essentially automated with one one having to Simply ask an assigned section of the ship to do a particular action it was more accurate to call the chanter a colony of homies because beyond the individual sections of animated wood and steel that had been hammered together into a bark there were hundreds of other sension items and beings made manifest by big mom's power some were simple articles of furniture that bore eyes and a mouth cheerfully telling those that passed of their function others were more intelligent shaped into simulacrums of life it was only Lin Lin's personal homies that had complex thought hurry hurry we have to get the Christmas decorations up Zo warbled unsurely floating over the workforce his usual baseball cap had been tossed out in favor of a Santa hat with a smaller Cloud at its end Lama wants everything ready before the guests get here nuda walked through the mess the crew compliment giving him a wide birth out of respect and fear the crew were setting up all manner of Christmas decorations along the deck and hanging from the rigging a pair of night chest soldiers struggling to lift a long table towards the stern seeing their plight the blonde quickly formed a t-shaped hand sign and a dozen clones popped into existence trooping over to help the Valiant custodians lift the table towards the rear superstructure thanks whiskers Prometheus called from the Crow's Nest grudgingly his opinion of the blonde hadn't gone up by much in the last few weeks but he appreciated when Naruto chipped in about the crew he spotted linlin standing one the railings of the ship and hopped up to stand beside her looking out towards the distant Horizon this is all a bit much he said scratching the back of his head in embarrassment lenlin looked down at her lover with a toothy grin relishing his embarrassment it was one of the few victories she could get over him it's far smaller than what we usually do this time of year the Christmas celebration at whole cake Shadow has everyone in all of tto land invited this is a far smaller Affair for your benefit Naruto she explained pinching the bridge of his nose at Lin Lin's definition of smaller set to the sound of over a thousand people building decorating and cooking like their lives depended on it Naruto decided to instead satiate his curiosity so who are these Alli Crews of yours he asked only two are coming today due to the invitations going out on such short notice Lin's face gained a predatory Glenn usually I'd have been sure to prompt all invitees to it andou she felt a sharp pain in in her side Naruto having jabbed her in the side none of that you don't get a good reputation if you kill or torture anyone that doesn't come to your parties Naruto scolded wagging a finger at his girlfriend a spark of electricity jumping from the fingertip the pette rolled her eyes at the rebuke but found that her mood did not sour it felt strangely good being told not to do something for once the way Naruto talked to her was different from how streusen or even mother caramel had once talked to her struin could be sned and buttery all at once while mother caramel had honeyed words that overrode any arguments she might have had nuto though he simply talked to her gave her a direction and outside perspective but still let her come to her own decision these two are chalk and ches Polar Opposites in their own way but still good one's a huge slab of beef with mly crew and a heart of gold while the other is an aloof count that claims he has no crew at all linlin said recalling her allies humming in curiosity Naruto decided to probe the ladder claims what do you mean he's always been fiercely independent but that doesn't mean he hasn't acquired followers even after becoming the count of his Nation down here in Paradise he calls them as AIDS and Entourage never his crew despite the fact they fight for him and sail him from place to place with those words did Naruto finally see a pair of ships Crest over the distant Horizon slowly sailing over the calm Waters towards the much bigger chanter the first was a Darkly colored frig with a golden W as its Figure Head its sailes bore the Jolly Roger consisting a skull and bones wearing a spiked helmet and that same gold W as a mustache the second ship was much smaller a red Sloop with yellow and black checkered sails and heraldry of a red bat skull satisfied that her two allies were close at hand Lyin hopped down onto the deck with a thumb come on let's get seated and wait for them to be properly introduced sparing the twin ships one more look Naruto shook his head before following behind linlin cringing at the number of salutes and Bows he received due to Lenin's closeness 10 minutes later they were seated at a long table in the trifle themed super structure at the ship Stern which turned out to be a dining hall of ridiculous size it had been appointed for the occasion with candy canes and decorations streaming from the overhanging observation platforms a tall and healthy Pine three had been decorated with a standard of a Serene nun in place of the Star All In all it was exceedingly cozy despite Lin Lin's claims that this was a small Affair the hall was packed every island in Toto land had sent at least two dignitaries and higher ranking officers in the fleet had been afforded invitations as thank yous for a Year's hard work while the dignitaries and crew members were clustered around dozens of satellite tables the main long table was reserved for the royal family and her as yet uned allies nuto sat besides his gargantuan lover while the first five of her children were arranged around them already snaking on child-friendly Foods pulling at the collar of his coat Naruto felt felt a little out of place being the center of so much Pomp and Circumstance which was ironic given he had spent much of his early life wanting to be the center of attention the lights in the hall dimmed and a hush fell over the tables the burble of happy holiday conversation falling silent a spotlight clicked on with a sharp pop and highlighted a king Chess Soldier his usual blue cape and yellow tunic traded out in favor of a red and green Ensemble he withdrew a rolled bit of parchment from a satchel at his side and held it in front of himself clearing his throat to speak the king peace began introducing the first of Mama's honored guests for this wondrous Christmas celebration I hereby present the captain of the world pirates with a bounty of 500 million Barry World Destroyer B Andy world and his crew the arched white doors to the hall swung open on crystalline hinges revealing a large shadow in the door a second Spotlight clicked on Illuminating the newcomers and Naruto watched on in Surprise a mountain of a man stepped forwards a foot taller than linlin but by far in a way thicker set his physique was Rippling with muscle with thick arms and an iron hard body he had a full beard and a comically large w-shaped mustache scar covering his left eye and a thick chain bandolier going across his bare chest he also wore a pair of green pants and a horned helmet with one of the horns notably broken off despite his intimidating appearance his face was set in a jovial grin beady eyes glittering happily upon seeing linlin Mama World boomed holding his arms wide as he entered the room it's been far too long Baro he laughed his crew walked in behind him an Eclectic bunch to be sure but they all looked just as happy as their Captain to be there a short sickly looking man leaning on a cane with a matching helmet to world a pretty young woman with purple hair in a bun a short pink kipo and a doctor's coat they were joined by an eccentric man in suspenders with cube-shaped hair extensions and a muscled Fishman with a pair of sunglasses and a novelty bow tie that spanned by itself world so good of you to come I know it was short notice but I just had to have you here for Christmas linlin exclaimed rising from her seat and embracing the broader man as her came to the table I'd love to introduce you to my new partner Naruto she said after breaking from the hug and gesturing to Naruto who got up nice to meet you big guy Naruto greeted totally unintimidated by the massive muscle before him World grinned smacking Naruto on the back good-naturedly in greeting his smile broadened even further when Naruto did not stumble at the hit that would have sent most men reeling hello to you Naruto the So-Cal Typhon you're much shorter than I expected but you have a rod of iron up your spine you'll need it to handle linlin here don't I know it Naruto chuckled drawing another peel of laughter from the captain as he and his crew seated themselves around the table world and the smaller man revealed to be his elder brother biack removed their helmets and quickly launched into Pleasant small talk with Naruto and linlin they were the pure definition of a mly crew but they had a charm to them world was bombastic with a Lust For Life and sense of adventure who wanted to hear all about the year-long chase that had culminated several weeks ago B Jack was far more timid but Naruto could sense a genuine happiness in the sickly man expressing it through a soft smile jiren the cube themed shipright had stars in his eyes combing over the chanter while the ship doctor Knight and CED over the children hey Captain it's Christmas ain't it Sebastian the Fishman asked gesturing at the odd family unit that were their hosts so bring out the presents already slapping his face if forgetting something so basic World began to rummage around in the pockets of his oversized Captain's coat you're in luck I found something perfect for your crew though I don't know if you're new hubby herk Naruto spluttered thumping his chest at his drink going down his windpipe we want it suppose your crew could grab it if one of them has a like for this sort of thing ah here finding what he was looking for World Drew out a wrapped present that fit in his oversized hand and slid it down the table as gently as he could he had meant to pass it to linlin but it came to a stop in front of K curri who eyed it with Intrigue katakuri looked between the box and linlin before looking to Naruto who nodded in encouragement the young boy pulled the ribbon and tore the present open revealing a simple cardboard box that Naruto Lent over and opened looking into the box Naruto raised an eyebrow a bit early for New Year's isn't it World linlin raised an eyebrow before her eyes widened as katakuri Drew out A peculiar looking white fruit covered in swirling patterns and a curly green stem that's not a kagami Macha you dumass that's a devil fruit the lights dimmed again snuffing the excitement as the king piece made to introduce the next guest hailing from the grand line I hereby present the count of the shikaro Kingdom a pirate with a bounty of 848 million Berry Patrick Redfield the aloof the doors opened again and another tall figure entered causing Naruto to realize that next to Bia jaek he was now officially the shortest person at the table Redfield was tall and thin with an elephant face pale skin and curled eyebrows he had Rich red hair that he wore in a pair of braids that trailed down to his shoulders the count wore a magenta silk shirt and red slacks a red escot at his throat and a large Blue Carnation at his leg left lapel over all of it he wore a red mantle with a popped collar in yellow and black checkered lining he held a Batwing themed umbrella in one hand that he used as a cane walking gracefully into the room Redfield offered linlin a theatrical bow before approaching the table a seat being pulled out for him by a similarly attired Aid linlin always a pleasure he greeted before taking Naruto's measure and the man of the hour I must say your first Bounty was a surprise to be sure it's rare for someone to nearly get Triple digits as a first showing and earn the attention of our dear Mama he spoke in a rich voice with eloquent intonation on each word something moved within his cloak and Naruto was surprised when a small tanaki popped its head out of the Count's mantle to look over the assembled guests causing the children to coup nice Tanuki he's more polite than the last one I met Naruto mentioned thoughts of a homicidal sand raccoon playing across his mind smiling at the Critter warmly Redfield pattered the Tanuki fondly I poto is as special to me as Lin Lin's homies but where are my manners T Christmas no and8 approached with a richly wrapped package that Redfield slid over to the blonde and pink Duo a Merry Christmas to your burgeoning family I hope I get an invite to the wedding he snarked condescension in his voice but Naruto could sense it was surface level only a put on air of hotess to hide the fact that it was genuine nuto took the time to open this one revealing a large transponder snail modeled in the style of the vampiric co count uh you know I've never actually own one of these despite running around for a year that's your own fault for never staying on one Island for too long linlin gred earning her a side eye from narudo it's almost like someone was hunting me with the intent to either kill or enslave and yet here we are at a Christmas party I won I can quite easily feed you your own thigh high again if you want to spar linlin but then you complain that I broke another one of your swords Naruto challenged causing the crud to laugh at the banter Redfield tapped his umbrella to the floor a far more refined form of ascent it's a direct line from cureh to T land should you ever need to get a hold of me for whatever reason it was a thoughtful yet practical gift for those in Alliance and all would have gone well for the rest of the Christmas celebration had something not happened one tiny innocuous thing bet the snail began to ring nuto shared a with linlin silence falling over the table while redfield's brows knitted together in concern swallowing thickly Naruto picked up the receiver and the transponder snail exploded into life its face morphed into one of pain Terror as the screams of those fearing for their lives came over the receiver oh God help us save us count please you must return at once the snail bleeded before the sound of a gunshot rang out the snail jostled before taking on an apathetic look to whom do I speak now the voice was Dripping with arrogance and apathetic spite Nudo offered Redfield a look the Count's demeanor was Stone Gathering his thoughts handing the older man the receiver Naruto watched as the aloof took a breath before responding this is Count Patrick Redfield of the shikaro kingdom and I am going to have to ask what in the name of God's Blue Marble that we live upon are you doing to my home the words were conversational but silenced by the murderous glint in Red's eye sniffing derisively the snail replied how dare you a commoner use the name of God I am a God not you I am St jamac of the celestial dragons and here is the reality of the situation I am currently in this dung Heap you call a kingdom you are not you're presence is required immediately for every hour you delay your arrival 10 of your subjects will be maimed do not waste my time a line went dead and silence filled the room no one had anything to offer as the day of gracious giving had just been perverted to something darker but then it began a presence that bore down on all those present as if gravity was slowly but surely being dialed up within the glasses around the room wine began to come to a boil and those of weak Constitution simply passed out it did not come from Redfield for while he was angry for his people he maintained aloof control worthy of his namesake it not come from world even as he bald his fists in Outrage nor linlin her mood shifting ways far above to an angry black cloud no it was Naruto an AA of golden chakra began to radiate out from the blonde like a Corona of fire the wood of the table blistering under its touch as the blonde got to his feet and began to speak his voice a whisper that held the voice of a hurricane today is supposed to be forgiving to look back on the year and bring those we care about close dot dot dot show just how big your family is wine bottles around the room began to detonate one by one a wind radiating from Naruto's body as his eyes narrowed to slits and blood red but now someone that has given me a gift is being slighted those under his protection persecuted for no fault of his own that will not stand this world is Du a Christmas miracle and all I ask is you join me in giving it by removing a stain upon it linlin worlded and redeal grin with predatory Glee Let's go kill a Celestial Dragon unfurl the main sail and raise the anchor move like you've got a purpose you checkered cretans if we aren't underway in the next 5 minutes then it's no dinner for any of you the orders were barked at a mips by a tertiary deck officer who looked just as harried as as the rest of the queen mamama chanter crew while the majority of them stepped to their jobs with gusto there were a few attired in their Sunday Best who floundered at the call to Battle Stations slipping on the deck that was polished a bit too brightly before running off to their muster stations to hand out weapons hundreds of counterweights each one weighing north of half a ton were unlashed to allow the Colossal canvas of the main sails to Billow in the sudden mistal that had picked up in the aftermath of Naruto's proclamation of murder and despite their initial reticence at taking orders from the so-called newcomer a bloody Euphoria had soon settled over the chant the Colossal gallion soon scything through the water the winds and waves seeming to match and give their blessing to the course of action Nudo was perched on one of the Cross trees of the main Mast overseeing the entire spectacle with narrow eyes and unfamiliar bloodlust swelling in his chest it was a Curious Thing the simple knowledge that you were setting out with the intent to kill so much more than any little Maxim that Kakashi had said to him and his teammates what seemed like a lifetime ago he was oddly familiar though not the stealing of self that had come when he had to kill sasu but something further back something he felt the exact same way when you confronted nagato kirama informed him from the back of his mind watching the goings on with a keen interest ah right nuto replied and thought recalling the sound of blood thundering in his ears as he tore the faux tree that he and Conan had been hiding in when I found out where he was I was sure that I was going to kill him you growling in my ears to do it didn't help tiam rolled his shoulders and grumbled and you blame me I had just nearly gotten out of this annoying 16-year-old when the ghost of a man I hated the time stopped me and then I saw Neato staring at us with my old man's eyes claiming the world needed V violence and pain it was like a bad Father's Day reunion for both of us and I didn't have the luxury of being able to sink my fist into his gut nodding and understanding Naruto allowed himself to slip off the cross Tre and fall towards the deck Landing silently between a pair of crewmen who squealed in Fright before running off likely thinking he was about to punish them for slacking off the blonde smirked at Ry Amusement while the crew mix of fear and reverence graded on him it did have its moments and served to blunt his steadily Rising ey no dot dot dot not blunt quite the opposite it sharpened it to a laser focus on the so-called Celestial dragons that they were on their way to kill I never got why you didn't just off Nago leaving him alive in such a state would hardly have been Mercy descending a flight of stairs the Uzumaki went to the ship's Edge and peaked over spotting two World crew members the square theme gam and blind fisherman Sebastian quickly affixing metal plates to the front of the chanter he initially thought they were creating some kind of ram but something about its shape was wrong because for whatever he did he was born and stepping off the path jury walked before us the evil he did and it was evil had good intent of as much as we an excuse as that is these dragons they have no such excuse Naruto thought fingers twitching and eyes a pair of cool blue fires that would have chilled any that looked upon them when you treat the suffering of others as nothing more than filling the time till you get like you want like a kid burning ants with a magnifying glass then you've succeeded and burning through most of my capacity for Second Chances hmph Kurama sniffed stretching out within the mindscape knowing that he may just be in for a chance to stretch his legs that other you the dark one he's still in there he mused remembering the black and reded Doppel ganger revealed by the waterfall of Truth it was Naruto's turn to sniff at that before he said Noah I just don't shun my negative emotions anymore seeing and living in this world has shown me that there are times when it's okay to feel anger and it seemed he wasn't the only one feeling anger Redfield was the image of cold fury on the top of the front cake-shaped super structure his cloak billowed in the wind and his elongated fangs poked from his top lip in a predatory Rus but his eyes glowed with wrath that his Alo Persona could not hide while the count of shikaru Kingdom claimed that he stood alone he was chomping at the bit to run those who would D to slight those under his protection the sound of sharp heels clicking upon the deck alerted Naruto to the arrival of lyet and he turned to see his statuesque Paramore tucking a fresh flint lock pistol into her belt as she came to stand beside him everything good up here she asked Naruto nonchalantly his words having turned him into the chanters unofficial executive officer twitching at the brusk opening Naruto faced forward alongside linlin to see the crew all moving to their posts well I didn't know much about sailing but the Sails are all out the anchors raised and the winds with us I guess that means we're good and the people Bellow she asked in reply cocking her by corn head to look down at her shorter partner my clones helped all the non-combat dignitaries to the Panic rooms with the kids Naruto said simply the memories having filtered back to him shortly before Lin Lin's arrival but I think everyone's spoiling for a fight she nodded at that Crossing her arms beneath her blouse covered chest and causing something else at her belt to glint in the sun looking closer Naruto was confused to see the cracked handle of a cutless its blade having snapped off almost the whole way but still held to her side by a loop in her sword belt did they run out of decent swords in the Armory he asked jokingly linlin cuffed him upside the head while he chuckled placing her left hand on the end of the red fabri covered sword handle the unide of her rings clicking against the pommel if they ever ran out of weapons then I'd have them hung by their feet off the Mast for an hour till they remembered tardiness no I'm just ticked off that whenever I fight with you my swords get dinged or broken and your solution to this was using an already broken sword he questioned in confusion causing linlin to laugh the mama God no I'm going to fix the issue before we head into battle and need some sentimental item to bring out the best results from my devil fruit long thin fingers extended and ran through Naruto's spiky gold hair fondly a pleased smile on Lin Lin's Rosy Cheeks I'm going to have to ask you for some more of your hair though once we finish with that stupid world Noble jailb or whatever North filled Naruto and he couldn't be bothered to correct the name then he squinted at the sword his face positively vulpine as he looked closer at the Broken Sword wait is that the sword I broke the first time we fought the rest of what she had said registered with him well well why do you need my there auror came a boisterous laugh and the pair turned to see World landing on the deck with a thump his brother perched on his shoulder a mama you have some crew here you would need it to man a ship this big he blustered enthusiastically scratching at his beard and thought I want to have a ship this big and fast one day that would be a sight to see yes a sight indeed World said by a jack As He adjusted his horned helmet feverously checking a stopwatch in his hand despite the sudden start they are running as well as we can towards cirana he trailed off intimidated by linlin and Naruto's presence seeing that he was afraid to speak by himself Nar nuto broached the subject everything okay biack bck swallowed thickly oh no of course not but well World patted a trash consed hand to his brother's back tenderly coaxing him to speak as Naruto and linlin waited finally he spoke even with the ship running at Peak efficiently and the tailin keeps a Stern our time frame for arrival is still at least 48 hours and for every hour that passes he trailed off casting a glance to where Redfield stood at the front of the ship hands clasped around his Bat themed umbrella Naruto's smile thinned keenly aware of the cost of time for every hour that passed St jmac had threatened to shoot a number of Redfield subjects while Naruto was confident he could make the distance he didn't know where the island was which left them reliant on sea travel and was slow even at the best of times we'll find a way Naruto said with determination only to be entirely caught off guard when World began to laugh with gusto there he laughed thumping a hand against the chain Bandelier around his chest Ah that's the spirit kid no wonder mama has you as a trusted Ally to be a pirate is to spit in the face of the impossible as the large pirate had been talking linlin had made it to the starboard railing and peaked over to look at the small commotion that was building at the bow her eyes widened and she shot World in annoyed glare oi world what are those dumb asses of yours doing to the front of my ship indeed it now appeared that the cartoonish figure had attached to the prow of the chanter now wore some form of protective steel helmet oh that whir replied scratching his nose nonchalantly garam didn't want the seafoam getting in the figureheads mouth once I get us up to flank speed aruto hied the sails at full Billow with a heavy wind and while they were pushing a bow wave the ship was so damn big that it barely Rose a tenth of the way to the figure head but he could see the excitement in world's eye what are you up to Lora just you wait everyone the Allied man shouted bringing a pause to the crew who all looked at them with baited breath World cracked his knuckles before raising both hands in the air best hold on to something as it's about to be a bumpy ride do as he says linlin ordered a mix of annoyance and excitement in her eyes knowing what world was about to do she also placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder to ensure he wouldn't fall the blonde who had adhered himself to the deck using chakra felt his cheeks warm at the gesture even if it wasn't necessary World gave one last grin before his hands flashed dark with Armament hacky the blackened Palms having a note of green to their Sheen before swinging them down against the deck more more 100-fold Speedy yelled a pulse of energy vibrating out over all of them at first nothing happened and many of the crew who had grabbed lengths of thick rope were held onto the rigging blinked in confusion then they were moving moving fast very fast exceedingly fast the mistel at their back was forgotten in the face of the wash of intense wind that washed over the front of the ship as it blasted forwards churning the waters as it passed into a fine Vapor as the many thousands of tons of wood thundered through the waves with unnatural speed a light laugh tore out of him despite his shock as he clung on for dear life Wei squealed the Chan's homey figurehead as almost the entire Mighty ship lifted out of the water only its ke remaining submerged to HR plane along the water's surface the speed stabilizing to a blistering 200 knots nuto squinted in the face of the oncoming gust of wind taking a step forward to Peak at the front and notice that Redfield was still standing proud at the pr linlin held her big horn to her head making sure it didn't fly off world ate the more more fruit it lets him multiply the speed and size of anything he touches up to 100 times over while Naruto wasn't the best at maths he got the message their travel time had just gotten 100 times shorter with what world had done we're not going to have much time to prepare before we arrive now he said sobering Lin Lin's enthusiasm he expected her to make a snide remark about how it meant they could just get to cruising the dragon quicker but instead she slowly removed her bitcorn hat and Drew the broken Cutlass using the ladder to skewer through the former whiskers she began all this is still kind of weird to me not the battle but going to save a country rather than destroy it even if we're still about to kill a lot of people I want to do it with you grinding people into the dirt because they attacked what we're building not just because because I got hungry Theo knew she wasn't referring to the hunger pangs she meant the endless desire for more violence so I think the first step for that is going to be making a weapon that doesn't just snap when I run into battle with you either by your side or to keep each other sharp lastly she slipped her hand into her coat and gently withdrew the gold vior card gently pinning it to the edge of the blade where it stuck she looked at world and jabbed the ram shle object at him boy world where do you get off upstaging me at my own holiday party the big man had the decency to look sheepish which made the young woman grin her long pink hair billowing in the wind if you want a show I'll give you a show the hairs on the back of Naruto's neck began to stand on end as he felt a familiar unearthly tinge to the air forcing him to take a step back spotting movement out of the corner of his eye he spotted Zeus and Prometheus popping their heads up from the deck to watch each having seemingly felt the presence building around linlin Hama creaked an eye open in his mind oh what have we here thumping a palm against her chest a purple AA emerged from the linlin like Mo fire roiling off her in coils of pure cionic energy she gritted her teeth slowly pulled her hands away from her chest and brought something with her a ball of brilliant white light hued in purple he recognized the sight of it that Telltale shape could only be one thing a piece of her soul come oh peace of my soul come and be born a new she intoned lifting both arms above her before she drove the ball of pure spiritual energy into The Eclectic collection of items become a weapon of War become a weapon of Peace become my rment become my homie as he looked on the edges of the born hat began to vibrate violently and the shattered remnants of the cutless grew red hot and then the vior card glinting gold even amidst the Squall ignited a plume of pure golden fire at the heart of the tumult using the fire of what Naruto realized to be his chakra Lyin thrust the object heavenward and let out a roar of exaltation a pillar of purple and gold light exploding Skyward with a keen whale of life when the pillar cleared having rendered more than one crew member temporarily blind linlin held a sword one that was a marriage of a hat and a serrated blade proportionate to her size a gold Blade with a Fain face and wicked blue eyes come Napoleon the weather over curana Island had grown progressively worse in the hours since St jalc began his perverse method of marking the hour he paid it little mind content in the fact that the only thing of loss was that he could not reclaim the bullets he had used to send their putrid souls to the next life they were after all peasants subhuman trash whose blood suied the holy Medals of lead and blessed powder of his pistol this was the ambivalent work of a petty God that the rest of the world was forced to deal with but the world did not stand idly by the sky above the gloomy Alpine Retreat churned itself into the blury eye of a beast that glared down bafully at them all nature itself scolded them for standing by and letting this happen when it was their charge duty to protect the people of this world that was the way it was supposed to work the Marines were the Guardians and Protectors of those beneath the umbrella of the world government but what do we do when the world government itself commits this [ __ ] GARP thought his teeth clenched hard enough to grind down mountains tapping one finger on his suit's white sleeve as his ship once again came into dock beside sangoku's auster looking Battleship stand around with our thumbs up our assess and build a nice little picket fence to let the worms paint the town red the broad chested Marine had been in a foul mood when he had first arrived for this gig and the past few hours had succeeded in dwindling what little patience he still had now here he was again about to check in with his old comrade and brother in arms and say with a straight face that nothing was wrong the gang blank between both ships to admit his passage not that he needed it after all he could probably jump from here to the island in a single bound but for the sake of niceties he stepped up onto the wide wooden board and crossed over to sangoku's ship his footsteps were joined by the creek and Clack of two more sets of footfalls falling into to step behind him and GARP felt his mood improve a modum that he was not alone in his dissatisfaction of the four Vice Admirals that Fleet Admiral Kong had sent to this shiil of a mission he had either made the mistake or good decision in asking for Zephyr the Black Fist followed GARP on to sangoku's ship with Bogard bringing up the rear their expressions much more guarded than garp's clear scowl but still obviously disliking what their orders were being made accessory to unable to help due to the Blasted rule from the gorosi of maintaining the blockade at all costs or at least that was the look that they were putting on for sangoku's crew who watched them all with baited breath GARP suppressed the urge to let his scal morph into a Grimace as he recalled his somewhat out of the box solution to the issue at hand unwilling to admit that it had been bogard's quick thinking that had turned it into something somewhat feasible while he couldn't directly stop JX malignance he could at least sty the steadily growing number of dead and wounded his attention shifted to the upper gang and cross trees that crisscrossed the blue and green super structure that most marine battleships sported spotting figures sticking to the shadows and some pathetic attempt at being menacing they went trying to hide and even if they had they wouldn't have been able to slip past his observation Cipher Paul he thought in annoyance recognizing their tacky black suits sunglasses and fedoras even without the Gold World Government brooch they all wore at their left lapel they were probably here to act as the eyes and ears of the government but he was perplexed at the lack of any of their white clothed colleagues e just zero isn't here and they sure as [ __ ] aren't with jmac something stinks about all this while not exactly the sharpest sword on the rack monkey degar was a shade more shrewd than all save a select few ever saw and while he didn't know the particulars of the situation he knew enough to say that something was up and hopefully he'd be able to ask sangoku about it soon enough there was a tension in the air that was electric having nothing to do with the storm building above their heads it wasn't something that you should feel walking onto the ship of your so-called allies he continued walking uninterrupted until he passed a line of Marines standing at parade rest saluting him as he passed with with no warning GARP Whirled to face them headon and stuck his fingers into his mouth pulling his cheeks wide and sticking out his tongue at the Marines BL la la la la la la la he yelled rolling his eyes for comedic effect the group of young marines squealed in Fright stumbling backwards and dropping their weapons While others fell flat on their rears as the very tall and very imposing vice admiral continued to pull faces at them from beside him Zephyr snorted in amusement at the attempt to break the Bleak atmosphere and shook his head cut that out GARP if one of them craps themselves then sangoku will make you mop it up seriously zepher it's called the poop deck for a reason GARP reasoned causing Bogard to tilt the wide brim of his hat to Shield himself from the cringe he felt at the sincerity and his Leader's voice while he knew he was trying to lighten the mood it was highly likely that GARP genuinely believed that or that Bogard had personal experience of it neither was a particularly Pleasant reality a vein popped in the purple-haired man's Temple that's not what it means it's never been what it means or God forbid what it's for oh yeah then why is it called the poop deck GARP said sound self-satisfied that he obviously was right on this rightfully silly AR argument now selling the energetic response the younger vice admiral slipped his hands into his pockets it comes from La poop the word for the back of a ship in the frost Kingdom in the East blue he explained not missing a beat hug rap blinked owlishly bogard's hat dipped further opening his mouth to continue zephyr's eye narrowed before shutting his mouth whatever line of thought he had been on being violently derailed into a screech of indignant confusion wait aren't you from East blue how is it that I know that and you don't scratching his cheek in embarrassment GARP mustered a shrug sounds kind of boring to be honest I prefer using ship as punching bags so they're usually scrap and Splitters by the time I can see what part of the ship I'm pounding he offered honestly bogard's lips curled upwards in Amusement before thinning to a thin line Vice Admirals sers he said causing both inhumanly tall men to turn and look at him we best not keep your fellow Vice Admirals waiting any longer both men schooled their features hearing that turning on their heels and silently marching with the EXO bringing up the rear once again it was not long before they found both sangoku and John giant by the ship Central Mast they were not exactly difficult to miss at 36 years old vice admiral sangoku was a man in the prime of his life and the picture perfect model of what it meant to be a marine but as with any Marine of above a certain rank he had a level of eccentricity to his appearance that set him apart from the rank and file Marines under his command like GARP and Zephyr sangoku fell within the Realms of a superhuman and boasted an imposing height of Nyon with a broad chest and heavily muscled arms that sha through the dark blue double breasted suit he wore paired with a white button- down shirt and perfectly tied blue tie his face was wide and serious with a thick black mustache and a prominent black afro a pair of round rimmed glasses was perched on his nose glinting in the light finally he sported the characteristic jce coat clipped to his shoulders as a cape you are late he said sharply his voice cold if I could beat you two here with my size then you two should be ashamed Vice John giant added hotly tapping his foot on the deck with enough Force to make nearby lanterns quiver as his name would imply John giant was a Giant and while that statement may have been redundant seeing him in the flesh Force the affirmation of his size from all who looked at him the first ever member of his species to join the Marines though not the last he was a massive figure that made even the three superhumans present seem like small rodents by comparison he was sat on the next deck up with his legs hanging over the edge to rest beside where the trio now conversed tall and Rippling with muscle John giant had a broad and sour looking face that was deeply lined with frown lines and somewhat beady eyes his hair was a curly brown that fell to the nape of his neck and two bushy sideburns either side of his face an orange button-down shirt with gold buttons was worn about his cheat while his lower body was adorned in a pair of blue Buccaneer breaches tucked into knee high black boots and appropriately sized Katana sheath at his left hip different from the others or most other Marines in general JN wore his Justice coat as an actual coat with his arms and the sleeves and had it richly decorated in Gold filigree and metals waving off their annoyance GARP addressed them with a flippant disregard for their rank yeah well we're here we have nothing to report and now we going to go have fun playing babysitter to an [ __ ] with a fishbowl on his head he Jered before turning on his heel how dare you refer to the celestial dragons with such disrespect John grows jabbing a finger at the short black-haired man's back you forget yourself GARP oh blow it out your ass John GARP shot back bluntly looking over his shoulder at the Colossal vice admiral and jerking his chin towards the island we're the same rank so you have no right to tell me what to do least of all give that subhuman sludge and a stand-up condom anything more than a fart in his general direction monkey dear was many things blunt Brave loyal to a fault and a sworn believer in moral justice but he had never nor would he ever expressly C out a people who kept him proliferated slavery he would never become an admiral and forfeit his freedom of choice to become a glorified lap dog for the worst of humanity so while he may follow his words to the letter he was very loose with what he viewed as the letter of the law one of the perks of being a marine was the notion of emergency Powers the ability to tell established law that it was suspended until such a time as normality was restored a long-winded way of saying that he wouldn't even piss on a Celestial Dragon even if they were on fire silence fell over the battleship an uneasy and tension-filled silence at the borderline sacrilege that had just passed from garp's lips no one said a word in the microcosm of shuffles uneasy looks and thick swallows was deafened by the rising wind as the muggy Sky transitioned to the beginnings of a storm garp's coat fluttered in the wind it's just as on proud display to the giant vice admiral as if Dearing the much older vice admiral to test him Jon's jaw locked tight and his hand came to rest on the handle of his Katana its clover-shaped Hilt begging to be parted from the sheath before things could erupt into a true incident sangoku finally spoke enough John calm down John whipped his head around to look at sangoku I'm the one that needs to calm down he's goting you into a fight that Zephyr and I would have to inter seed on meaning that all four present Vice Admirals would be unable to intercede and all Focus would be here he turned his Gaze on GARP eyes turning to chips of glacial Onyx meaning no one would notice the men he dispatched to the island to help Evacuate the citizenry of the shukria Kingdom a murmur of surprise permeated the air and GARP smirk dropped to a strained Rus Jon's righteous anger bled away in favor of confusion what did you really think I wouldn't notice that there were less life signatures on your ship with every pass sangoku asked GARP totally ignoring Jon he stepped forwards towards GARP who walked to meet him stopping when they were eye to eye from within his pocket GARP tensed his hand three times not taking his Focus away from sangoku he saw Bogard shift imperceptibly in his peripheral vision and felt relief sweep over him when GARP and Bogard had collaborated on this plan his EXO had made sure to acquire a horn transponder snail from storage and hid it within the folds of his coat that tiny tilt of the head bereft of any emotion that could be picked up with observation hacky every single transponder or snail on the ship be they recording communication or anything in between had just gone dead meaning he was free to speak his mind and no one would be able to prove it God bless you Bogard what I think vice admiral sangoku he punctuated each word with force is that it is the duty of every Marine to help those who require help and if a large population of Clueless bystanders were to unintentionally walk to the boundaries of the island well then it is my duty to take them into protective custody upon my ship until the blockade is over sangoku scalled fixing his anger-filled eyes squarely on the other vice admiral standing before him what you're doing could land you with a court Marshal GARP or even treason if the gorosi find out where are you talking about GARP replied his smirk vicious the scar on his face contouring into a grin of its own I'm simply being flexible with how I enforce the blockade if it's anyone's fault it's yours for not being clear enough gritting his teeth sangoku felt his hands clenched into fists you don't want this fight GARP oh I think I do you could hear a pin drop in that Stitch of time where a clash of ideologies danced on the knife edge of becoming a brawl of fist regardless of which side you supported all in that moment wished for a miracle to avert this catastrophe a miracle that fate was all too eager to deliver the sky rumbled with thunder and a tempestuous crash and a presence suddenly manifested on the edge of their senses a large and looming threat that bore down of them with a wrath that shattered the current argument darp and sangoku whipped around in a Flash blitzing to the port side bow of sangoku's Battleship Zephyr quickly joining them to stand at top one of the Dome Cannon turrets while Jon got to his feet as one every single hacky capable Marine on every Battleship taking part in the blockade fixed their attention on the horizon something's coming sangoku said grimly before barking orders for the rest of the non-hacky used to make ready whatever it is is coming fast a large drop of sweat beaded at Jon's Temple his eyes slowly widening this presence is unreal he muttered the image taking form in his Mind's Eye forming something terrifying GARP tamped down on his surprise and expanded the range of his observation until a DOT appeared on the horizon not yet clear even through a telescope but GARP knew that hacky crap of all the times and all the people why did it have to be her Zephyr clenched his fist and let it flash black with hacki look not for war GARP but be ready when she comes this is no war Zephyr grap grimaced before his face split into a predatory grin excitement and adrenaline pouring into his arms and legs attention attention all blockade crew to Battle Stations this is a code read a harried voice stammered over the Paw system as one by one each ship began to emit its Clacks and cry outbound Scouts have confirmed the presence of a ship that matches the profile of the queen Mama chanter Charlotte big mom linlin and Uzumaki tyon Naruto are on a direct Collision Course for curana Island this was not war two monsters had clawed their way from the abyss of night and now Came Upon them with wings of storm with the the wind is their feet and the beat of their hearts the Thunder The Tempest was about to break upon them and all collectively noted that their ships the Pinnacle of size on the Seas suddenly felt like rafts in the path of a tsunami the chanter deceleration was far more smooth than its initial devil fruit induced burst of speed the great bulk of the food themed ship slipping back into the late gray Waters with a boom of surf she coasted for a few moments before tilting lightly in the wound now floating approximately one nautical mile out from the gloomy Islands forested Shoreline the crew got to their feet on shaky legs before gaining their bearings the exhilaration and exhaustion at such a prolonged charge needing a moment to clear from their systems more than one of the crew men and women staggered to the railings and vomited over the side of the ship emptying the contents of their stomachs with wet squelches to their credit the disorientation didn't last all that long for they were a new world pirate crew to whom the Fantastical was as annoying as in Clement weather after all they had much greater bastions of power and Terror in their midst and at their heads AR Odo let out a low appreciative whistle at the timing job the issue with utilizing world's more more fruit was that he needed to reapply 100-fold speed every 10 minutes or so to keep them on track and there had been a small chance that the last of such applications would have sent the chant pening into redfield's Island as a shower of brightly colored splinters alas the speed had Abad in just a nick of time and the bigger of the burndy brothers was rockus in his laughter at the fact whatever mirth the blonde felt stilled into a zen-like cal as he made his way up onto the Figure Head where Redfield maintained the vigil aloof as ever but whatever visible Cal the count of curana put off did nothing to Abate the palpable anger and bloodlust that rolled off him in waves tangible to even those without an empathetic sense like Naruto but the blonde Shob by turn pirate did possess such a sense and it felt every stab of righteous anger and a Clarity that could have been their own but it was not something he could not overcome not something he had not already overcome his wrath was his own and on this day in this place it was about to be Unleashed narrowing his blue eyes at the flotilla of marine battleships currently Meandering around to ready position narudo had to know how imposing the force must be to most people while the chanter was darn near half a kilometer tall the Marine battleships were still bigger than almost any other commercial or pirate ships that he had seen since his arrival in this world they were all so dreadfully similar though almost impossible to tell apart save for one someone must really like dogs Naruto said Redfield did not dignify the words with a response but did shift his Focus to the dog themed hq3 Battleship which unlike any of the other ships present save the chanter bore a figurehead of a hound dog happily chomping on a bone linlin joined her Paramore on the figure head with World bringing up the rear the pink-haired woman's new sensient pink born hat sat jauntily on her head I'd recognize that floating dog H anywhere that's garp's ship and where GARP is sangoku is usually never far behind GARP hanaro mused having heard the name once or twice before but never more than in passing silently he began to expand his own enhanced senses taking in the Bountiful Natural Energy of the sea to Usher him into sage mode though even without it fully active yet he could sense a pressure on the air that told him a beast lay ahead that's the name of a powerful Marine W one of the strongest as much as it pains me to say it he's a pain in the ass and more tenacious than a used ship salesman acts a hell of a right hook to linlin grunted remembering the few times she had crossed fists with the brawler vice admiral Brash hard-headed surprisingly intelligent and a heart of gold despite the [ __ ] the world government makes him walk in honestly I think that's why he wears a white suit just to spite them a beat passed before she smirked and bumped her hip against Naruto's shoulder he's kind of like you dot dot dot just Dumber the unsaid backhanded insult did not bother Naruto but it did give Naruto pause in considering what would make someone similar to himself be an accomplice to this travesty orange pigment appeared over his eyes as they became gold with the toadlike bars of sage mode his senses expanding in concert with the observation hacky of his three allies to paint a picture that went beyond sight sound or any sinesia between there were seven battleships to their immediate four each one carrying at least a thousand Souls aboard while an eighth was attempting to make a circuit of the island to join up with the rest of the blockade flaxin bled loudly as thousands of footfalls sprit in this way and that grabbling swords and muskets and clumsily attempting to bring their cannons to bear on the chanter compared with the legions of panicked enlisted men Naruto zoomed in on a handful of much more powerful signatures with their four most powerful members standing as strike one another on the deck of one ship in particular there's a giant with them Naruto pointed out noting the sheer difference from the normally happy Titans the mention of a giant made linlin Square her shoulders as she recalled a haze of memory from long ago elu there's a few of them in the Marines they don't like me much given my history with them joining in on the assessment she quickly picked out what she recognized as the austere presence of sangoku and Zephyr gathered in the same area but of all the emotions they felt from their foes it was not them not even garp's bestial excitement that they felt deep in the heart of the island far distant and unaware of the Calamity bearing down on them the hundreds of Redfield subjects still suffered beneath the cruelty of gel's cruel time wasting executed at the hand of the world Noble or his clan of sycophantic Knights and other assorted servants their cries of pain and pleas for help l a fire in all of their hearts but none more potently than the count himself his fingers gripping the Batwing handle of his umbrella with such force that his hands began to bleed the first of the battleships had finally managed to bring their guns to bear on the chanter and launch an initial Salvo of high explosive ordinance right at the quartet the three large cannonballs sent whistling through the air in a parabolic Arc incoming a midshipman called to the grunts under his control and several of the newer big mom crew braced for impact while more advanced chess soldiers sprinted to the front of the ship in a suicidal attempt to throw themselves in front of their captain and her allies Naruto began to weave hand signs to call up a water dragon and devour the cannonballs using the ample ocean water as fuel but was blindsided when a swirl of purple and red blurred at his side taking hold of the shaft of his umbrella Redfield Twisted the handle with a sharp click and they watched as its tip extended to a long handle while a great Edge blade in the shape of a bat's Wing folded from the other end now wielding a stylized sidethe the count instantly proved it to be more than just for show sweeping it diagonally to send a Vermilion colored slash flying out bisecting the cannonballs and causing them to explode harmlessly a few hundred feet off the bow resting the sidethe on his shoulder Redfield finally spoke in a glacial tone that would scare most men to death I want to kill these marines I want to gut and Bone them and hang their entrails from Stakes till the Ravens have their fill he said I is not leaving the distant Treetops but that would waste too much time while my subjects suffer and Injustice I will not permit so tell me tyon Naruto perked up will you hold to your promise to kill a Celestial Dragon do you even have to ask Naruto replied his eyes serious accepting the answer Redfield took a step backwards then prove it help clear the path for our arrival as your Captain's Ally and count of this Kingdom I ask you to remove this unwanted stain from my doorstep before we arrive it was a very flowery way of saying that Redfield wanted to save his anger for jaac and his Knights rather than wasting it on the four Vice Admirals ready to fight them even if caught on the back foot thinking it over for a second Naruto gave a short nod before approaching the front of the figure head unsurprised when linlin was beside him I can do this by myself Yano Naruto told his significant other reaching up a hand to the tip of his bow staff and pulling it from its strap then Mama linlin shorted grinning that bloodthirsty grin that the smaller of the two could call nothing else but primally attractive if you think I would miss the chance to ride into battle with you then you're not beating the dumb blonde allegations whiskers h nuto snorted drawing the bow and taking a ready position if you think you can hang with me thigh high then you clearly don't remember all the times I pounded you into the dirt linlin smirked resisting the urge to comment on his phrasing instead she raised her hand above her head ready to show them what you can do Napoleon the cartoonish skull's blue eyes opened wide on the born before setting into an air of happy determination yubeta Mama the newborn Napoleon yelled jumping from Linn's head and letting her long curtain of pink hair Billow in the wind the Hat turned in midair and both its handle and long-faced gold cutless blade appeared from both ends the owner quickly snatching it from the air and taking up a ready stance of her own nuto LED his chakra thrum to the surface gold and blue energies boiling to life from every pore and sending his clothes fluttering a strong wind beginning to flow outwards from his body with a moment's thought he sent Mass amounts of wind natured and S jetsu infused chakir into his bow staff it SE Stone construction the perfect conduit and amplifier for the energies of nature every single sailor on the chanter felt an inhuman chill prickle at their senses the old warning of a storm in its early stages taking form and bubbling up from Naruto and his weapon he was a typhoon in human form that any self-respecting sailor would bow to the Majesty of but linlin would not be outdone tensing her whole body the rich purple eldrich energies of the soul soul fruit permeated the air and Infused her every cell joined with her endless flow of hacky her body was covered in an aura of hacki so dark and thick that even those with no sensitivity would have been able to see a warp in the air around her Aruda was a torrent of wind and Will linlin was the fury and the fire of the soul and black and gold lighting began to crackle between them but it was not like any of their prior clashes it was as if two choirs were working to draw their voices into a single powerful concert Naruto's voice was one deep and old a power of nature will that had breached worlds to find a truth linlin was sharp and new full of power and seeking new understanding of itself the powers did not want to fight they wished to be as one but did not know how gritting her teeth linlin shouted sink up with Me Whiskers she was still new to this it was difficult even if her mind and body were willing balance it out linlin let it be what you want it to be your power and mind nuto offered a white Hue falling over his boat as the Natural Energy began to grow into a self-sustaining Loop far distant aboard the deck of sangoku's Flagship the but's eyes widened behind their glasses scarcely believing what was unfolding before him be ready he called his form beginning to Glow gold linlin growled trying to Coral the power until finally her eyes snatched upon the disturbance between them itself the black and gold lightning was starting to coil around one another into a helix and with a subtle change in perspective they were as one black lighting of the Conqueror sheath in the golden luster of the Typhon power flowed through Naruto a gold and C colored tide of concentrated energy that flowed along the length of his sea prism stone bow and into the Gathering melstrom between him and linlin world had to Shield his eyes as tendrils of cloud thick with every weather phenomena imaginable were drawn down from the heavens and used to fuel the Helix of power that was an expression of two Powers as one two mines as one and in that moment the pair knew the attack's name and found it fitting it built and built until finally they both swung unleashing the pent up power across the sea with a wrathful cry storm sovereignty and thus with a swish of wind the world came undone sounded self was rent as the proud Calamity of power was Unleashed towards the waiting ships a lance of iridescent power that drilled forwards like the searching finger of a tornado growing wider and wider as it picked up speed the ocean beneath them boiled as the attic passed a single heartbeat stretching out into an Epoch as each and every Marine saw their lives Flash before their eyes it was then and only then did GARP leap into action quite literally crouching low he built superhuman power within his legs and took to the skies in a bound that reduced a section of the deck he was standing on to splinters the entirety of sangoku's ship Di dipping 10 m deeper into the waterline he flew forwards like an arrow loosed from a bow a mock cone forming around him before shattering as he left the sound barrier in the dust Zephyr sangoku he called his smile massive leave it to me on it both Vice Admirals answered Zephyr propelled himself into the air with a similar burst of speed his body blurred in an out of existence with sudden bursts of shave poofs of condensed air booming from his kicking legs as he supplemented his passage with two of the six powers of rokushiki soon catching up with GARP sangoku meanwhile was suffused with golden light growing larger and wider his suit jacket falling away when the light finally abated he was a man transformed his skin and clothes of heavenly gold and while still a few meters shorter than John giant who had drawn his sword and Infused it with the black Sheen of Armor man hacki was the impossibly large figure of a great Deb butsu the trio had recognized the threat of Storm's sovereignty long before the two Pirates had loosed it into the wind and the moment GARP had moved all knew that they would have to counter with a combination attack of their own sangoku raised a huge Golden Palm and pulled it backwards a menace of purest Golden Light Halo the appendage as he gritted his teeth Summit black hair flying around his face messily as he flew into the path of the Roaring Beast GARP chambered a fist and Let It Bleed black of everyone in the Marines there was perhaps no one as Adept with hacky as Monkey D GARP his hand was wrapped in a blue white Halo of his will made manifest his solemn vow his challenge we will stop this attack in its tracks he declared mentally blooded a boil at the sheer exhilaration of it all Galaxy he was not alone for mirroring his action was none other than Zephyr his entire left arm darker than a moonless knight while he was not a true master of armor as GARP was he was a genius of the Fist using what he had in ways that none had ever considered from within the confines of his Black Fist shafts of yellow and orange light began to emerge smash n l g HT n m n t i m PCT b u s t e r senku's arm struck out like a Viper unleashing the gathered power and translucent golden shock wave that rang with the Cry of a bell catching up and passing GARP and Zephyr who were sucked into its wake going that much faster flying in the vacuum that it had created GARP swung forwards and unleashed the gathered hacky VI a mission one of the most Advanced disciplines of armament hacky a deluge of dark blue hacky had enough compressed air pressure to level a city was Unleashed in a bubble of pure destructive pressure that filled the concave shape of sangoku's shock wave Zephyr chambered his fist further glowing with more shafts of light he had learned some time ago that a mission was currently Beyond his level of finesse with hacki but it didn't mean that he hadn't worked to find a work around most people simply armored the outside of their limbs with hardening but the Black Fist learned that the division between outside and it could be used to great effect smash Buster worked by armoring his Lim and hacky before or flooding the inside of his arm with as much hacky as he could pressurizing it until it could no longer be contained within the limb so at any moment usually on contact with an enemy every single hit could receive a bomb of hacky a poor man's Omission perhaps but it was effective with his Roar joining the others Zephyr swung and his fist detonated a flood of orange and yellow hacky flowing out of him with the boom of a cannon filling in behind the double layers of the others attacks and serving as the propellant to drive one combination attack into another meeting in the middle the two prium of diametrically opposed power collided with Biblical reverberations That Shook the teeth of everyone within a dozen miles they drilled against each other for dominance with neither giving an inch until finally at some unsaid signal only the heavens could fathom both attacks detonated into a dome of rainbow gold and black energy that was nearly a kilometer across sound briefly bled away from the world as if reality was so shocked by the meeting of the elements that it had to take a moment before cause and effect were permitted to resume and in that time a paradox have come and Chaos played out to both sides the sky was the Sea and the sea was the sky both Cloud bank and ocean imped into concave cavitations that were totally still with fish clearly able to be seen swimming from one sphere to another weightlessness fell over the nearby ships while static crackled with such ferocity that every single light bulb on the Marine ship shorted out simultaneously eventually something had to give a wump of infrasound heralded the end to the minor break in reality the merged attacks pulling in on themselves to a singular point of light before finally exploding releasing all the pent up noise and pressure in a singular unfathomably loud and cataclysmic k r a k a a k ko M for one un lucky Marine Battleship that had been too close to the initial Clash the shock wave that fell upon it from the cloud burst was as if it had been struck by the hammer of an angry war god in a mere moment every single surface on the ship from the sheets to the iron hole plating and even the mighty Keel was pulped to splinters that were sent flying across the bay a shrapnel flew from a grenade GARP and Zephyr caught the shock wave in the chest and were sent reeling backwards crashing back down onto the deck of garp's ship that the churning Waters had pushed into their path Marudo was forced to stick his feet to the figure head with chakra and had to look perplexed at the damage he had rot but soon enough he looked to linlin and saw her face was one of shock as well but from her feelings he sensed only pleasant surprise now you see what you can do when you master yourself he thought please by both her State and the hole that had been punched in the blockade and wouldn't you look at that a path cleared as promised what was that Saint jmac demanded picking himself up from the floor with the assistance of his Knights and other servants moments ago the entire Island had been rocked by an Unholy shock wave that had shattered nearly every single pane of Glass on the island unknown to him battle had commenced between the forces of his block and the rightfully pissed off forces of Naruto big mom and their allies WWE don't know sir one of his servants a night clad in catract silver armor with an ellipsoid shaped helmet replied amidst the pandemonium caused by the shock wave a series of much smaller booms began to Echo out from the edge of the island ones that the Knight was able to recognize as cannon fire the island is under attack jalc snarled clenching his hand around his gilded pistol as his breath and spittle fogged up the inside of his cube-shaped plastic helmet who would even dare when he did not get an immediate reply he grabbed one of the Knights by a pauldron and shoved him harshly sending the loyal servant stumbling back find out you worm guys St jalc the Knight answered snapping off a sharp salute before running off to the many other servants that were Manning the communications equipment wiping shards of glass and dust from his usually Immaculate protective clothing St jamac of the Celestial Dragon stroe to one of the shattered windows and looked out over the heart of this dead end Backwater he had found himself in after taking control of the island he had taken up temporary residence in the castle of the Kingdom's absent ruler count Patrick red field it was a large Gothic Affair that was the Jewel of the Island's characteristically creepy architecture but to jch it was little more than a toddy Shack when compared to the lofty Heights of Pangia castle looking in the direction of where the shock wave had come from the SPAC suit sporting Dragon could see little more than the Mist heavy forests that covered most of the island blocking any view of the sea but there was evidence of the proclaimed attack flashes of orange and yellow light plumed into being along the side of the Horizon poking through the trees as distant Marine turrets and kades tried desperately to hold back whatever it was that was approaching the Island the catract stumbled back into the room his face hidden by his helmet but had jmac been able to see it it would have been grave its Pirates my Lord the big mom Pirates under Charlotte linlin that name rang oddly familiar to jmck for some reason but it didn't stand out especially well what is the point of learning the names of people who never have nor never will affect your life he wondered but knew the fact that this was a new world pirate crew did Poe some concern contact sangoku and tell him to eradicate the Pirates spare none and if any do happen to survive see them branded with the hoof by Nightfall jmeck ordered we we cannot sir replied the catract earning him a sour face and a demand to explain we don't know why but there's something blocking our transponder snail signal to sangoku's ship and the rest of the ships are locked in combat with the big mom Pirates and her allies allies who El dares he said cocking his pistol and fully intending on blowing the knight's brains from his skull if he found the answer wanting according to the blockade it is the world Pirates as well as read the aloof count of kuana an evil smirk spread across jal's bearded face there was one other enough of that that he shouted cutting the night off that ker who thinks himself royalty attacks a place where I have come so he can enjoy seeing his people suffer for it send word to our forces across the island kill everyone and start with the children shock permeated big mom's crew after what they had just witnessed the power displayed by their captain and her Paramore was something that many of them had heard of but even after all this time had been skeptical of the truth yet now it was beyond doubt Naruto was indeed someone strong enough to stand beside their Queen trepidation and distrust began to quickly shift within their chests metamorphosizing to excitement and fervor weapons were drawn from sheetss and held a loft lances swords axes rifles and clubs from the highest ranked chess Soldier to the lowliest swabi all roared their approval for their queen and the person who for the first time had shown them he was worthy of the title of King there aora Aurora what a stupendous attack World laughed his approval thumping a meaty fist to his chest as his crew silently agreed he turned to face the throng of people below him a Sea of Faces that massed on the deck primarily formed of the chanter massive crew but interspersed with his own men and women and the sparse littering of Redfield servant in their magenta cloaks pirates of the new world your king and queen set an example are you going to let them down no the Pirates thundered stamping their feet and discharging their firearms into the air from their place at the Figure Head Naruto and linlin looked in the direction of the huge pirate as he worked the crowd a meaty finger was jabbed at Redfield our friend has had his land attacked and these Marine slimes want to keep him from taking his home back we won't let that stand yeah screw the Navy let's kick their teeth in he's quite good at that Naruto observed as the ship began to move again bringing its broadside cannons to to bear on the remaining battleships the mighty guns belching super heated iron and high explosive shot the blonde eyed the Gap in the flotilla I'm going to have to get going soon enough linlin nodded her orange eyes trained on one of the ships where a glow of gold and a large figure could be seen sangoku and John giant were firmly in her sight so she gave Naruto a playful smack on the back go have your fun whiskers and make sure the worm dies in pain she may be changing but lylan was still a bloodthirsty woman Naruto gave the simplest of mental pokes and felt kirama respond his body shrouded in the golden check of the mightiest Buu he remained on the figure head for a moment more nodding to all those looking his way then blasted into the air streaking forwards at Great speeds with a trail of flaming gold in his wake linlin watched him go before bringing her fingers to her mouth and whistling calling Zeus and Prometheus who emerged from the cross trees to stay by her side she snapped her fingers and Zeus expanded his Toleration darkening to a thundercloud and allowing linlin to step up onto him before beginning their own flight towards the Marine ships Redfield and World remained aboard the ship watching the two Monsters make their way towards the given quaries wanting to join in on the fun world made to jump over the edge and down onto one of the tar ships that were deploying on mass a moment of your time Mr world world paused looking up at Redfield who looked at him searchingly H Redfield twirled his side in one hand while coming to stand in front of the Burly pirate looking up into his face as sure as I am that the Typhon will slay the dragon I would quite like to get in there and kill those who are hurting my subjects I would not ask this in the presence of others and ask that you never repeat what I am about to say to you but he pointed the side at the Flying Naruto throw me me world cocked his head to one side looking at the count as if he had grown a second head before nodding and holding out one of his exceptionally well muscled arms red Fields long thin legs bent at the knees and hopped into the air turning in midair and landing at top the other man's arm in a light Crouch stamping one leg forwards the younger burndy brother tensed his leg and amassed his strength the deck creaking in protest beneath him ready a cool determined nod was his reply right then more and more World in toned the invisible influence taking hold over red field as he became the projectile 100 fold toss he threw Redfield with all of his strength and sent the red count streaking across the sky as a magenta and Checker dark falling catching up with Naruto as both landed on the coast line and set off into the forest making for the center of the island pay smarted through garp's body as he pulled himself to his feet copious detritus falling from his thoroughly rumpled suit before he cracked his neck rolling his shoulders to loosen the stiffness that had built up in them from his rough Landing the pressure wave from that monstrous air burst earlier had sent both him and zepher crashing into a ship and by the time he had gotten back up the big mom continued had already begun their Ingress into the theater of battle the chanter may have been outnumbered but she was hardly outgunned her massive broadside cannons unleashing Salos and mortar stons into the Marine battleships that maneuvered to keep out of the lines of fire that Typhon spoke Zephyr as he got to his feet looking worse for where than the older man has a hell of a way of introducing himself GARP shook his head ruly only proper way to say hello is a punch so I'd say he's greeted us and ready to talk the only way I know how he punched fist to Palm before searching for any sign of the bounty head spotting the streak of gold Mak Vanishing into the forest with a speck of magenta thp set his mind on following them because if his hacki was telling him anything then it was the uzimaki despite having the lowest Bounty that was of the greatest threat and would provide the funnest scrap he began to jog along the length of the ship picking up speed as he broke into a run and found Zephyr at his side again he shot the purple-haired vice admiral llow the hell are you doing following me Zephyr frowned keeping Pace despite being visibly winded you aren't going to fight that monster alone or you you'll need me probably GARP conceited but turned to look towards sangoku's distance ship but i' wager those two are going to need you more he said causing Zephyr to direct his observation to the strong life forces of sangoku and John giant Charlotte linlin rote a top her homies in the skies above the bay looking like a god of old loosing Forks of powerful purple lightning that crackled against the iron holes of the battleships superheating them and electrifying any poror sap that happened to be nearby her intent was plain to see drawn towards the two other Vice Admirals like a moth drawn to a flame her statuesque form leapt from the cient Thundercloud and soared towards the ship Like an Eagle at the Zenith of its dive as she fell she held out a hand that the Flaming son of Prometheus flew into and squeezed kneading the plasma construct into a fiery broadsword that served as partner to the grinning gold cutless there was Napoleon no further which John giant boomed swinging his hacky infused Katana up to meet linlin the pinkette did not move to avoid the slash but instead flipped in midair adding the coil of centrifugal energy to her passage and bringing down both gold and flaming swords onto Jon's Katana a shower of Sparks and gold blue energy exploded out from the point of contact shaking the nearby Waters and and Zephyr had to Shield his eyes but could not cover his ears back them up Zephyr I can handle myself darar ordered you know you can't give me orders right Zephyr pointed out noting garp's own earlier words to John the smile he received in response could be called [ __ ] eating carrying with it the unsaid words that the difference was that these orders made sense he nodded I'm on it just give the Typhon a punch from me he called before leaping off the side of the ship and using the several ships between them and the angry country Destroyer to Leap Frog his way there zepher my friend you'll make a better ad Admiral than I ever could the last vice admiral remarked aloud before jumping in the direction of the island hoping to cut off Naruto before he could do any more damage two figures sprinted through the forest with their feet barely touching the ground blurs of movement that were like leaves caught in a strong gust of wind nuto had dropped from his chakra cloak to maintain it at least some level of stealth and also in the hope of reducing collateral damage Redfield meanwhile was keeping Pace admirably after his sudden World induced arriv Ral had scared the crap out of the blonde used to rolling with the punches of unusual situations Naruto had simply kept up the pace and continued to run towards where he sents life signatures the shikaro kingdom was mostly forested areas that were populated by the native mandrels sensient monkeys that could copy skills they had observed and the humans that serve there as Redfield subjects I'm sensing the most negative emotions in the center of the island but there's a few pockets of others scattered around the island Naruto said as they continue their sustained Sprint Redfield took the information in nodded then said most of the citizens live in the Central City but there are a number of smaller hamlets around the island the mandrels act as go twns realizing the fact that this was a situation that required his particular set of skills the last Uzumaki formed a familiar cross-shaped hands seal and two dozen clones popped into existence and began to run alongside him he expected Redfield to make some kind of exclamation of surprise but was meant only with an amused half smile the older man swept out his scythe and cleaved a nearby tree branch sending it falling into their path poto at the call of his master and friend the little brown Tanuki emerged from the folds of redfield's clothes and jumped onto the branch quickly stripping it of its leaves and stacking them neatly in a pile that it passed back to Redfield then much to Naruto's own surprise the little raccoon dog was enveloped in a white puff of smoke and replaced with a smart wooden fountain pen transformation jetsu Naruto wandered as Redfield feverishly began to write onto the stack of leaves no I sense no chakra so it's probably another devil fruit power kirama said analyzing the feelings he was receiving from Redfield and his off companion swinging his side again the stack of marked leaves was sent spiraling into the wind before each of them was enveloped in a familiar plume of white smoke that cleared to reveal dozens of doppelgangers of the aloof count Naruto was utterly perplexed but settled for a chuffed affirmation you are full of surprises R I aim to amaz and will take no consolation prizes at that point the two agreed to dispatch their Mutual clones to Fan out over the island while the two Originals continued towards the center of the island the two spent several more minutes running in relative silence until Naruto felt his danger sense Blair warning a white shape bolted from the thick forest and tackled Naruto with such speed that he had already been smashed through six ancient pine trees by the time he had had been able to Crane his neck around to see just what the hell had its arms around him a shock of close cropped black hair and a scared forehead greeted him and Naruto knew this had to be Monkey D GARP Naruto threw an elbow backwards and smashed it into garp's face having little more effect than making the vice admiral grenad wider he repeated the Mover a number of times before realizing that GARP had him in an awkward position and Chang intact forming a clone that appeared in midair above him when one formed a shadow clone they possessed the mental option to either spawn the Clone static and unmoving or maintain the same amount of momentum that their own had much like this one knowing its purpose the moment of its creation the Clone extended its arms to its boss who grabbed it by the hand and swung it down between his legs the downward and lateral kinetic energy was instantaneously transformed into a vector of reverse inertia drilling both heels into garp's crotch half GARP gasped eyes bugging from their sockets his white hot pain shot up his spine from the below the belt blow his grip loosening just enough for Naruto to wriggle free now out of the arms Naruto and the Clone continued their collaboration grabbing garp's wrists and performing a front flip while while the Clone kept its feet buried in garp's crotch leaving its legs up with Naruto dragging down and his clone pushing up they levered the vice admiral between them and tossed him at speed away from themselves crashing through a cops of trees and sending him rolling into a clearing rolling several more times GARP mastered his pain and dug his fingers into the ground and reoriented dragging small lines in the ground as he gradually came to a stop when Naruto appeared in the clearing he had been knocked into nuto didn't take his eyes off GARP even as red field joined him pointing his purple bat side at GARP as he got to his feet hey jackass shoulder checking someone from behind ain't exactly very nice Naruto told the tall vice admiral as he finally got back up neither's kicking them in the balls GARP winced eying both of them who's your friend a Vampire cosplayer eyes narrowing dangerously Redfield slammed the bottom of his staff to the floor of the clearing cracking it I am count Patrick Redfield Le Lord and count of the shikaro Kingdom which you people are in the process of ruining now get out of my way vice admiral or I will cut you stem to stern GARP smile wilted at that his shoulders slumping slightly as he searched their faces for truth the count huh he said slowly brows knitting together in thought none of them moved for a time a stray wind of the storm blowing through the clearing and fluttering all their clothes it began to rain then drop after drop of slow thick raindrops that pelted the trio a single L raindrop struck GARP about the scar on his face rolling down it with a cool slowness that ushered the vice admiral into his conclusion he took a half step back and turned his body to the side allowing unrestricted view of the path behind him go Redfield made a surprised noise and Naruto narrowed his eyes in suspicion you're letting us go what for you [ __ ] stupid GARP shot back squinting at the to him at least short blonde you're a known pirate and I'm a marine I'm going to kick the crap out of you and make you beg for your mama him on the other hand he gestured flippantly to Redfield is the leader of your Island returning to your people I'm maintaining the blockade in my own way and if the gutless worm in the castle can't take it when an angry vampire cosplayer with a farming implement comes to him then that's his problem I'm just doing my job exchanging an unsaid conversation the two allies met each other's eyes before Redfield set off again jogging past GARP and into the forest Beyond Bound for the center of the island the Marine remained true to his word his eyes never leaving Naruto until he was sure that Redfield was gone and not planning an attack of convenience you're a lot shorter than I expected he finally said his face once more becoming full of battle fueled mirth that comment sent Naruto's eye twitching in annoyance never quite being able to forget that he had been the shortest boy of his graduating class it's not my fault most of the people I seem to be bumping into a vertically Undisputed Naruto griped pointing an accusatory finger at the N9 ft of Vice ad Al standing before him well then maybe you shouldn't have taken the name of a storm giant then I had no say in that the bickering went back and forth until a lull fell over them the sounds of the storm intensifying with booms of cannon fire mixing with the Rumble of Thunder Hama perked up from within narudo and paid GARP close attention both men falling into ready stances bringing up their fists and squaring their shoulders careful with this one narudo he feels like a tough one aren't they always Naruto said but despite his levity he found his heart thumping in his ears that pressure before a good fight welling up from Deep inside and despite his better judgment he found himself smiling linlin says you're kind of like me yes it makes you pretty cool vice admiral did she now well you look like a pipsqueak but I'm sure you can dance GARP snorted his muscles tensing and my name is GARP Typhon what should I call you nam's Naruto remember it both men vanished reappearing in the middle of the field with their fists drawn back and dark with Earth chakra and Armament hacky darp sent a brutal Haymaker down at Naruto while the blonde leapt up with an uppercut that rent the air Naruto's hardened fist collided with garp's jaw and garp's hand hand thundered into Naruto's forehead shock waves detonating from each both were suspended in chronostasis for a moment before being launched away from one another each skiting to a stop darp licked his lips a thin line of blood rolling from the edge of his mouth that he wiped aside nuto hissed at the bruise that would mark his forehead tomorrow both smiled and launched themselves into The Fray again I'll beat you down Naruto Bring It On GARP running across the deck linlin brought Napoleon onto sangoku's armored Palm Levering her greater height against him until he formed a golden shock wave that sent her away from him the but had been forced to transition to his human form once again against big mom due to its ungainly size being a hindrance against an opponent as mobile as linlin while his ability to produce shock waves was reduced compared to his dutu and hybrid forms he could still conjure them when he needed supplementing his strength and endurance as she flew away from him linlin displayed profound agility and acrobatics petting in the air and Swinging her gold Cutlass with one hand ikoku Sovereign she launched the purple crescent moon of energized air pressure at the vice admiral while kneading Prometheus into a new shape with her left hand the flame sing homy transformed into a spear with a grinning arrow-shaped spear tossing it in pursuit of the but surria sangoku stepped in towards the attack and sent a straight punch at the Crescent grinding against it for a moment before sending it into Prometheus who was returned to his globe of flame that continued to Harry the vice admiral still in Flight linlin strengthened her legs and made to drop kick John giant when she was intercepted by Zephyr who launched a smash Buster into her feet the explosion of hacki causing her boots to smoke and causing her to be blown into the air above the ship mamus called seeing his creator being pinballed called he flew into her path and broke her flight providing the perfect platform for her to kick off and launch herself back into the fight to her surprise Napoleon's serrated mouth bit down on one of Zeus's stray electrical discharges his entire length becoming shrouded in lightning it seemed that whatever life force had been in Naruto's vior card had imbued the homie with some of the blond's intuitive element manipulation taking the blade in both hands she lifted Napoleon High as she ran down upon Zephyr sweeping him down in a brutal electrified Helm breaker slash seeing the threat and unable to dodge Zephyr armored up his forearms and protected himself with a cross guard tanking the blow with a metallic Chim horrible vibrations resonated up his arms as his body was numbed with the violet colored lightning ravaged him before he was sent into the deck of the ship crashing through several floors and deep into the hold lenland landed with a thud and lifted Napoleon to inspect him fondly Napoleon you little Scamp look at you pulling off combination so easily she could absent-mindedly kicking the head off of a lieutenant who had been dumb enough to try and rush her she flicked her boot to rid it of the blood and cranial fluid did you learn that from your Papa the sword's blue eyes closed in and I smile as it pred its Jagged gold teeth chattering animatedly you bet mama papa can mix the elements into his bow so why can't I she whipped The Sword Down catching the necks of three cp7 agents in its mouth and letting the sword take a deep meaty Chomp as their heads rolled onto the deck hat still in place linlin was sure to flick the blood off and Pat the sword's guard that's a good sword and let's keep at it and see what you can really do big mom a rage filled voice screamed a massive shape swapping down on her visible and her hacky she sidestepped John Giants m massive Katana that dug into the deck and hopped on the blunt side of the blade she ran forwards and leapt slamming Napoleon's pommel into his nose with enough Force to break it with a wet crunch she sneered at the giant piss off you overgrown brown nose I'm having fun reaching up to his face Jon took hold of his nose and snapped it back into the correct position with a wet crunch grimacing as he did so how can you be so calm as you raise an island cing over a sword that eats men whole linlin flashed a happy smile chuckling sardonically raising it we're here to save it from the worm with a fishbowl head you're the ones trying to let that happen and we're here to stop you as for my sword well she rolled the sword in one hand I was raised to think that all children should be nurtured no matter where they came from the giant vice admiral tighten the grip on his sword you are a monster a country Destroyer big mom John shouted channeling hacky into his sword and the metallic length turning black mother caramel should have strangled you at Birth linlin smile dropped what did you just say to me John giant bristled puffing his chest up and strengthening his body to its utmost limit ready to unleash everything he had in a single blow mother caramel raised me as well sent me to to the Marines made me a Bastion of justice but you laid waste to albath and made mother caramel disappear stole her devil fruit I bet you killed her yourself Lin's long pink hair shadowed her eyes seeing the lapse in judgment Jon pounced bringing his sword in a mighty overhead cleave hoping to split the woman stem to stern die monster Napoleon flashed in an arc of purple and gold arresting the movement with a sonic boom and when Charlotte linlin looked up into the face of John giant her eyes were Whited out with abject wrath her moment of mania was derailed however when a voice cut through the air a familiar voice that had suddenly lost its bloody Joy replaced with an empathetic note no mama do not give into wrath he doesn't deserve it Lenin's pupils returned and she looked around her to wonder where the voice had come from before looking up at the golden blade of Napoleon its blue eye locking on her Napoleon pushing up with the sword she sent Jon stumbling backwards into the Mast and held the sword up before her the Mania and joyful Slaughter that had been in Napoleon just a moment before was gone replaced with an knowing and empathetic look that permeated the metal she felt the sword's emotions in her soul more than she could see it in the expressive ble you're my mama I won't let you fall into an anger not your own the sword said earnestly linlin looked at it for a long time before seeing her own face in the golden reflection her face turned font leave it to the whiskered brat to make sure she had an arbitrating conscience in her hand at all times taking a sword in both hands she ran into battle with a focused cry she would make the giant pay for his words but she would do so in a state where she could remember it all across the island men women and children cowered in fear it was a terrible day in every sense of the word accosted by a deranged World Noble while their beloved count was away held hostage by the Marines and now the knights had made it clear that everyone was to suffer a summary execution the knights and Squires numbered approximately 400 in total all well trained and broken of any morality that would give them compunctions for killing the young sick or elderly within a blacksmith's forge on the edge of the main settlement a group of three residents cowered in fear at the corner of the Smithy an elderly grandfather and Simeon mandrel put themselves between the man's granddaughter and the two knights that stood near the doorway Pikes drawn and advancing on the trio the old man had armed himself with a a blocky forging Hammer while the mandrel who served as the blacksmith's assistant had a poker and a rot iron bar hand over the girl old man and we'll make this quick the knights ordered thrusting their Pikes and nicking the chest of the mandrel who was able to swat one of them away the large primate let out a cry of pain and dropped his poker the little girl running to its side Miss charcoal the little girl bleeded for the Apparently female mandrel mandrels were an interesting primate fishlyn but limited to copying the skills of those they witnessed they had long since learned to live alongside the residents of the kingdom and helping everyone with their problems from carpentry to blacksmithing if the skill was physical then the mandrel could learn it and so long as they were treated well they would continue to peacefully help one of the knights wretched spitting from the slit in his helmet you show concern for such subhuman trash no wonder St jalc insists we kill the children first the grandfather gritted his teeth his green eyes twin pools of balefire that could have melted the knights to slag Ed the power you Chrome plated bastards what did we ever do to you the knights exchange looks nothing St jelm says you are repugnant thus you are repugnant St jmac says You must die so you must die St jmac says the children must die first so the parents May learn to hate their leader who could not be here to meet him s the second night gurgled a tide of blood suddenly bubbling at the back of his throat he felt cold and numb and wondered why looking down to see what was wrong he was morbidly interested in the large blood slick blade poking through his quass at the abdomen the metal a deep purple and styled into a bat swing the blade was suddenly wrenched upwards the Silver Plate offering as much resistance as paper as the knight's entire upper body was bifurcated from Naval to CR ium while the first Knight didn't get a chance to even Scream the bladed tip of a size shaft was sent through the slit in his visor and into his eye before bursting from the back of his skull the body twitched a few times as the nervous system struggled to gather that it was dead then went limp and slid off the blooded point the blacksmithing Trio looked wearily at what remained of the nights before a tall imposing figure stepped from the shadows will you three be able to get to safety on your own the little girl's eyes lit up count Redfield redfield's face was its usual glacially amused self but he looked over the three people to make sure they were okay getting over his shock the grandfather helped Miss charcoal to stand taking off his smithing apron to use as a tourniquet we dot dot dot will be fine count now that you're here God bless you sir thank you the old man had tears in his eyes the count offered them a Curt nod before making for the door flashes of lighting silhouetting him in the frame what are you going to do sir the little girl asked Redfield said nothing and did not directly answer the little girl perhaps wishing to spare her from the reality instead he directed his words to the blacksmith please come to my castle to sharpen draculina he said referring to his scthe once this storm blows over I fear she is about to grow dull from threshing too much iron without any further Ado he stepped out into the storm and set to his Grizzly work all across the island scores of silver Knights found copies of the lanky count falling upon them to butcher them into awful and giblets their armor and training offering no protection from the wicked blade of red the aloof a cohort of the knights chasing after a fleeing family deep in the woods stumbled upon 20 of their comrades impaled on iron spikes still living enough to moan but not enough to warn them of the red and checkered Menace falling down on them from above a Cavalry Detachment galloped through the forest trying to beat a retreat from the big mom forces led by world now landing on the beach only for their leader to ridf face first into draculina hanging from the end of a chain that poto had conjured with a leaf the impaled Knight was lifted into the tree canopy and one by one every single Knight fell to the same fate the slide Mist fell over the main settlement combined with the Gloom of the storm made visibility near impossible and one by one house by house family by family every night was scourged from curana Island never to return not a single drop of blood ever Tarn red suit or mantle and he never accepted the thanks of his subjects but deep down he felt good through the center of town a single figure could be seen walking their golden blonde hair cutting through the Mist this Naruto was one of the initial clones that he had spawned before GARP had tackled him into a fight and a few pop clones had kept him a breast of the situation rafield was cleaning house and was content to let Naruto or at least his clone do as he had promised stepping up the hill out of the Mist he laid eyes upon the castle where St gelac waited with Steely eyes Naruto approached the thick wooden doors and sent a of searing wind at it reducing it to splinters along with the last Detachment of knights guarding the door the cata fract was halfway up the stairs A fist-sized Shard of wood buried in his jugular ascending the stairs Naruto looked down at the night and felt his emotions seeing no regret in what he had done so Naruto simply placed a hand upon his chest and discharged a minute amount of lighting style Checker into his chest stopping his heart and ending him peacefully reaching the throne room he pushed the door open and laid his eyes on St jmac luded member of the celestial dragons he was not impressed come to Gra for forgiveness Jal mjed not looking at Naruto who simply appeared as a shadow in the corner of the room I Shan give it tell me count have you any children or relatives your death alone will not satiate this Deb of boredom so I ask that you tell me so that your sins may be passed to them and they be tortured after I have finished with you Theo did not respond but nearly stepped into the room a flash of lightning revealing his face jalc self-satisfied look faltered before recognition lit on his face you you're the one the reason for this infernal side trip jelc squealed pointing a gloved finger at Naruto as he advanced on the world Noble you spoiled our fun Naruto stopped eyes turning dangerous what Jac backpedal hands searching for his Fallen pistol God Valley was to be our playground but you you took away our chance to play so I had to come here instead it clicked in Naruto's mind and brought him up short before with no warning he stormed forwards and smashed his bow down on jx's leg his protective suit doing nothing to prevent the splintering of his kneecaps AOG you explain Naruto demanded Jal M winced propping himself against the chair hbh do do do Huff do do dot fuff dot dot dot every few years we Celestial dragons have a game the native hunting competition we hunt you lesser life forms like sport though we don't defecate where we eat gelme sneered disgust reared itself in Naruto like a Viper and he stamped on gel's already broken knee why you [ __ ] nuto did not permit the backis jabbing the tip of the bow into jmac's chest with enough Force to wind him explain jalc gasped again in pain and discomfort his superiority wilting in the face of the first true pain he had ever felt in his life we play where it is Justified on lands we say have slighted us for we are the gods of this world he raved hands flopping to the side of the throne but sometimes the slight is not enough for the gorosi so we must engineer a slight God Valley was not Allied to the world government so a tribute ship was sent there to demand its tribute the situation began to unfold in Naruto's mind it was the ultimate final incarnation of the Shakedown racket demand money for the sake of the protection of the world government then when they say no use it as grounds to invade and play their perverted game but he had stop that prevent the tribute ship from ever reaching the unallied nation but a question remained what did they do to slight you in the first place jmac even amidst the pain looked at him as if he were the world's greatest idiot because they dared to call their land the Valley of the Gods Why Else Something broke in Naruto at those words his restraint had shattered into a fine powder as he ruminated on the reality that all of this all this misery blood and pain was because a bunch of snoody [ __ ] didn't like the name of an island J M struck lifting his pistol hidden in the throne and pointing it at Naruto's face he pulled the trigger discharging a gout of smoke and Flame aha you witless savage you blasphemer he fired again and again emptying his flint lock into Naruto's face covering his upper body in Smoke we are the celestial dragons rulers of the world Gods by the grace of the Elder Stars We Rule from the heavens over the four blues and the grand line and you or nothing his gun ran dry and he clicked it impotently several times stupid Savage doesn't even know how to fall over Ry Naruto's fist plowed into the plastic box over jael's head and seized him around the mouth the smoke slowly cleared and the world Noble began to to squirm and scream at what he saw his bullets had done nothing more than bring up a few mild wels on Naruto's forehead but that did not frighten him no it was the blond's eyes no longer were they blue but an angry Scarlet with black slit pupils his teeth extending into fangs and his whiskers darkening upon his face using his other hand Naruto dug a clawed nail into the plastic box and tore it from the dragon's head forcing him to breathe the real world's air the anger was apoplectic nuto had met pure evil before met people who did atrocities based on good intent but this this this you were planning to murder thousands because you didn't like a godam name he howled in the Noble's face jalc was struggling to breathe the sheer killing intent that Naruto was putting off was driving his heart into arhythmia and in that state he answered truthfully wouldn't you do the same thing he asked in a muffled voice Naruto dropped jch and was forced to take a step back physically repulsed by the man he felt diseased a cancer of cognition the likes of which should be never allowed to speak again but speak he did Naruto's bestial appearance and actions had scared some level of sense into jmac though not the good kind if you spare my life I'll make it worth your while he tried to bargain a foul smell begging to emerge from his space suit indicative of what he had likely done please I'm a God I can do whatever it takes just please don't kill me Naruto's eyes grew shadowed and he began to walk towards jalc please I can give you an island a kingdom money power women men children whatever your Vice Naruto grabbed jelc by the throat and picked him up as if he weighed nothing holding him up and off the floor he began to walk him over to the balcony yet still he just kept talking please I can make you a warl Lord a member of my household guard the Marines can never touch you he begged Naruto's fingers now drawing blood from his neck arrange a marriage into a lesser Noble household make you a Gods Knight nuto stood on the balcony overlooking the entire Island the fires of combat in the distance and schooled his features then with put a thought he was enshrined in Golden Light darp was panting blood streaming from a cut under his eye he derisively spat a tooth from his mouth that Naruto had managed to dislodge with a combination of a knee to the chin and a donkey punch oof going to need some milk for this one he winced before blurring towards Naruto again tell you what kid you'd have made a hell of a marine his fist was caught by one of the several golden chakra arms emerging from the blond's back the other began to rain blow after blow on garp's chest and abdomen the vi ice Admiral was a tricky opponent even his passive strength was comparable to a Shinobi with at least six of the gates open and it only scaled up from there in addition to that he was fast durable and had three full feet on him in height but Naruto was used to sparring with linlin at this point and knew how to overcome the difference while staying a regular size he had pushed Naruto to enter the first stage of kurama's chakra cloak and utilize chakra arms to overcome the difference Naruto held garp's arms still using two of the arms before the remaining four and his two physical arms to hammer everything within reach soft tissue bone joints nerve clusters he was a whirling dervish hitting GARP from all angles and particularly working the chest with steam style enhanced strength but the man just wouldn't go down he gave as good as he got rupturing several of his internal organs and cracking his tibia clean through from a particularly brutal grapple and despite this Naruto couldn't bring himself self to dislike GARP there was no ill intent behind his attacks No Malice any annoyance or anger was the kind found in a really good fight when Naro had not been able to have for a while Naruto Yaki liked Monkey D GARP don't think I could ever work for your bosses Naruto said with a grunt driving a massive racing in into GARP that drilled him into the ground only for garp's a mission hacky to clap him into the sky as an exchange if it's any a [ __ ] broke another rib he complained holding his side before making ready to go another round I can't stand him either bosses they universally suck so TR now eat my fist of love you golden dildo phrasing Naruto rolled his eyes racing in flaw a plume of distant golden chakra at the heart of the island bright them both to a standstill Zephyr dodged a fork of lighting with shave and was forced to play hot foot with the deck of the ship Lenin's damn new sword had the canny neck of being able to manipulate the elements and the psychopathic Queen had called up a wave of water to soak the deck and was Now using Zeus to Electrify the water scanning the field he saw Jon had been crucified to the ship's mast alive but unable to move his discarded Katana was buried into the ship now mama you know all these years we fought sangoku big mom called Drawing Prometheus into her hair and breathing herself in flam a toop Zeus you always pissed me off but I'm starting to see the fun side of a good fight after some coup's counseling maybe you and GARP can work out whatever issues you have going on shut it and fight linlin sangoku growled batting aside a lighting bolt grabbing Jon's dropped Katana he hefted it over his shoulder and launched it at big mom propelling it with a Shockwave it sorted her with impossible speed seeming strange that something so big could move so fast linlin merely smirked and flicked Napoleon the great sword split in two like a blow orch through butter without hacky to armor it the weapon may as well have been a blunt butter knife sangoku curse to himself and once more glowed gold ready to enter his hybrid form Zephyr pulled a pair of sunglasses from his breast pocket only to curse when he found that they had been broken in the combat somehow sangoku was growing brighter even after taking his hybrid form no that wasn't right the light wasn't coming from the afro haired vice admiral at all one by one all battles and clashes of pirate and Marine began to cycle down to nothingness as they stopped turned and looked in the direction of the Island from which a pillar of golden Power was taking form linlin looked at the light and initially felt a thrill in Twist of arousal at the power she recognized as Naruto's but then the feelings hit her anger fathomless and endless anger whiskers she asked in concern the golden Power grew and grew forming a massive pillar over the castle that made all step out and look the storm above swirling and intensifying a profane choir announcing the arrival of the moment this had all been building to it began to contract then forming into a golden giant with six arms and three faces the Mazza Fox was all set in angry snars it was a totally unnecessary showing of power but it served to help Naruto get a reain on his anger because in one of the Giants palms no bigger than a grain of rice was St jalc the Celestial Dragon looked around himself the sight of the great Beast that Naruto had become finally leaving up to the title the government had forced upon him tyon the storm giant please please please he repeated again and again from within the energetic heart of kurama's battle Avatar Naruto looked down at jalc and began to speak his voice like a hurricane carrying out to the Sea you said that it is your right to rule and commit atrocities for you are Celestial dragons yet there you stand unable to escape my palm even after so much pointless Blood please please don't kill me the slaves it's it's all their fault J MC babbled ruling over the four sees by the grace of the Elder stars from your little Heaven the battle Avatar's arms began to arrange themselves around with the one holding jail Mech in the middle and then you asked me if I would do the same thing he took a deep breath and began to speak no I shun I will make something not break it this island its ruler and people are under the protection of the big family Pirates and will remain that way as more people need a place to live away from the likes of you people please please we do as we please Naruto closed his eyes so be it but if you test us and bring violence to our door persecute monsters whose only crime is that they aren't you then this is what I will do the last hand was raised High into the air for all to see let the Seas boil let the Elder stars fall though it takes the last drop of my blood I will see these oceans free of your filth Celestial dragons he let jalc drop and closed all six of C Ra's hands into fists and if I cannot then let the heavens burn please all six fists slammed home with a Thunderclap and St jmac was reduced to nothing but a puff of Red Mist silence filled the bay no one spoke the storm had come to a lull after that final mey Splat carried on the wind for all to hear a Celestial Dragon murdered right in front of them there were protocols to follow an admiral to be summoned and yet nothing no one dared move linlin lowered herself to the deck of sangoku's destroyed ship seeing the reflection of Naruto's Titanic battle Avatar reflected in his glasses the rage had passed now back into Serenity and in a rare moment of restraint Lyin sheathed her sword she held sangoku's look silently for a full minute until the six arm kuram dissolved what are you going to do sangoku cried to Kong for an admiral keep fighting after seeing that she asked without a hint of sarcasm or snark curious what the vice admiral an Ardent follower of absolute Justice would do when faced with this he considered her words for a few moments before turning to where leaving yet the word out that the operation has been a total failure and to retreat a cry of shock went up from the Marines we can't just leave the fight is left undone St gelch enough sangoku roared silencing the naysayers we were sent to this island to maintain a blockade around St jelc while he conducted his business on this island the blockade is broken and St jmck is no longer here if we remain here and fight these Pirates then we are violating our Mandate of non-interference with the Affairs of foreign Nations that is the business of count Patrick Redfield and no one else are we clear yes sir they all answered sangoku looked at linlin can I trust you to honor our safe passage she raised a single pink eyebrow is this a parlay it's a business agreement I know you think of yourself as a Savvy businesswoman flater she chortled before turning serious your offer the six damaged Navy battleships in the world Noble ship they are damaged but salvageable by a skilled ship while remains of the world government Force here will embark on garp's hq3 and zephyr's G5 Zephyr gave a grunt of affirmation though part of him clearly still wanted to fight humming to herself as she molded over linlin came to her decision deal you'd have an hour and a half to pack your things and leave and as rare as it is that I get to say this to a member of the world World Government she grinned get out of my territory soku offered a single businesslike bow before turning and leaving his men falling into step the Pirates were much more rockus in Victory whooping and hollering and lenland she knew this was the start of something big so you're telling me that milk fix his teeth just straight up Naruto asked sitting on one side of a rock as GARP guzzled down a carton of milk that the Fedora wearing Bogard had bought upon finding them their battle had petered off after the violent death of jaac GARP wiped his top lip and gave a toothy grin the missing teeth reforming before Naruto's eyes sure does weird mine just grow back weird I'm the weird one B GARP chuckled before seeing Bogard tap his watch he got to his feet and strengthened his tie well I can't say I appreciate you killing the worm in that way but I won't weep for his passing Naruto frowned thoughtfully people needed to see they bleed as red as the rest of us GARP nodded then turned serious and gave Naruto a sideways look this won't be the end of it you know that right while I feel that the goros I sent jck out here to die your little display is going to make a big name for yourself not all of it good hell every time I hear your name I'll be there to test a new move on you I've already got a whole mountain range lined up to get back at you for cup checking me let them come Naruto Rose and offered garpa away farewell and bring rice crackers or something the broad vice admiral grinned and left the clearing I'll take it under advisement see you later you pissant pirate as he walked in the direction of his ship GARP knew that Naruto Uzumaki was a monster but not all monsters were worth slaying okay sadly the chapter is over and if you enjoyed just leave a like And subscribe with post notification so when the next chapter is ready you will be notified okay see you in the next video bye

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Published: Sat May 04 2024