A New Path - Chapter 204

Countless bodies were dropping dead all around the island because Kizaru had arrived. His light-based powers made sure even massive groups of people died on the spot without the chance of fighting back. As one of the most powerful people in the world, these pirate rookies were comparable to babies in his eyes.

Naruto and Sasuke were moving across the land like two bullets. They got confirmation that the Straw hats except for Luffy had gotten intercepted by Marines and Rayleigh wasn’t with them, so Naruto and Sasuke went after them while Itachi stayed by Luffy. Rayleigh and the Straw hats had separated because he told them where he lived and then took Hachi and sped off with him. He was faster than them and Hachi needed immediate care so he left them by themselves, a big mistake as they were now surrounded by countless marines. The Marines themselves weren’t the danger, it was how they slowed down the crew that was worrying.

“Nami, Usopp, Chopper, Robin and Brook make a break for it. Run to where Rayleigh said to meet him! Sanji, Franky and me we’ll stay here and delay them. We have to split up to survive. You three being here will slow us down.” Zoro was thinking clearly and he made the most rational decision he could think off. Sanji and he had no problem here, but it was who these marines were waiting for that worried him. When the Admiral arrives, the weaker members couldn’t be here or else they were all gonna die. Zoro knew the crew had a better chance of survival this way.

“Got it!” Brook and Robin said in sync and forcefully dragged the others with them and escaped.

“Nico Robin is escaping with the rest! Stop them!” The marine captain in charge yelled loudly and sent a squadron after them. Sanji immediately jumped into action and lept into the middle of them and started a brutal beating on the rookie marines. The fact that Robin was Amell’s granddaughter hadn’t been released to any other marine yet. Only Garp, Sengoku and Momonga knew about that.

“Hold out until Admiral Kizaru arrives! Don’t give them any headway!” The captain of the marines yelled loudly. He saw how his forces were diminishing at an astounding rate, and that was mostly done by two men. Zoro and Sanji. Failure in this would put a huge setback on his career so he tried desperately to restrain the Straw hats.

In the distance, explosions were heard, massive explosions, and they were getting closer and closer. But, no one noticed them since they were busy trying not to be killed by who they were fighting. Zoro and Sanji were busy mowing down marines so they barely paid attention to anything else. The first one to notice among them was Franky. He felt the shockwave from one of the explosions and looked for Zoro in this giant mess. “Zoro! SOMETHING BIG IS COMING!” He yelled hoping Zoro would hear it.

“What?!” Zoro answered in frustration. He couldn’t handle another thousand marines. He could beat them, but these huge numbers were exhausting him quickly. “What’s coming?!” He didn’t connect it to the explosions. Not until a huge explosion went off right at his location, claiming multiple marines as well.

“That’s one down,” Said Kizaru as he casually stood beside the marine captain.

“Admiral Kizaru! You made it!”

“Of course, I thought I better take care of his little crew before I go after Straw hat himself. That way this will be less of an annoyance.” Kizaru’s tone hadn’t changed in years. He still spoke slowly and with what appeared to be little care for anything or anyone.

“Then you need to do a better job!” Zoro said as he wasn’t dead. His location had changed from inside the cluster of marines to outside it. Kizaru showed some surprise at this as even he hadn’t seen this boy dodge his attack.

“How did you dodge that, Roronoa Zoro?”

“Wouldn’t you like to know!” Zoro said. Even he had no idea what just happened. One second he felt the heat from Kizaru’s attack hitting the ground, but before it could do damage, he had appeared here.

“Well, no matter. I just have to kill you again.” Kizaru raised a finger and shot a light beam at Zoro. The swordsman jumped to the side just in time to only receive minimal damage from the impact. He was still flung across the ground and his exhaustion kicked in again. Sanji and Franky ran up to him with worried expressions.

“Zoro, we have to escape! Somehow, we just have to!” Sanji said while observing Kizaru. The Admiral stood there leisurely and without care that his attack was dodged. This time he could see that Zoro was the one dodging it and he could see Zoro’s reaction time.

‘The boy had help! But who? He had no idea my previous attack came for him. So I have to flush out the one who helped him.’ Kizaru said to himself and his leg started glowing.

“I can keep this up all day long.” Kizaru disappeared and reappeared above them. He kicked towards them, but the three straw hats disappeared again like before.

“Okay, how about you tell me who’s helping you?” Kizaru couldn’t see anyone moving them. Nor could he sense anything with his Haki. Whoever was helping him was very skilled in stealth and was an experienced fighter. The fact that he couldn’t detect anything worried him a little, but they also didn’t attack him. This either meant that they didn’t need to directly intervene, or they were apprehensive of his strength. So, from all of this, Kizaru figured that the one helping them was only skilled in stealth and had access to strange teleportation powers.

“No one!”

“This is getting troublesome.” Kizaru shot another beam at them, but this time, a massive bright yelled hand came out of the ground and stopped the beam. The shockwave caused the three to get blown back a slight distance from the hand.

“Admiral’s are so annoying! We have no choice here, moron!” A black-haired youth appeared behind Zoro with a hand on his sheathed short-blade.

“You’re right, Sasuke. This is annoying, and we have no choice.” The hand transformed from a hand to another youth, this one hand dirty blonde hair and a sweet smile even though an Admiral was behind him.

“Look here, the culprits shows themselves finally. Now, I don’t recognize you two. Who are you?” Kizaru said very slowly, almost apathetically.

“Isn’t that a rather stupid question, Borsalino. Why would I, an enemy to you, reveal who I am?” Sasuke said in annoyance. He knew Kizaru was stronger than him and Naruto. He didn’t know by how much, but he speculated that they had a slight chance of beating him together.

“Sorry, sorry, I got a little carried away.” Kizaru wasn’t bothered by the use of his real name. Or that’s what he showed to them. Not many knew his name. Kizaru was a codename for him as Admiral. Borsalino was his real name, and he had no idea how these two that looked younger then Zoro could know that name.

“Sasuke, we should leave!” Naruto said quickly. Sasuke nodded and both of them placed one hand each one, Zoro, Franky and Sanji. Then Sasuke’s eyes started to change and his conquerors haki revealed itself and his chakra spiked very high very quickly.

“Haki?! Shit!” Kizaru panicked a little for the first time. He shot a beam the fastest he could at the boys, but before it could connect, they disappeared in a flash. Kizaru sighed out worriedly after seeing their successful escape.

“Well, that’s not good. Sengoku’s going to yell at me again, how annoying!”

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