AN: I took my time and I am sorry... Really T-T In two weeks I write my final exams for my A level and I am stressed out... Just sleeping, learning, eating and repeating... It is soooo hard to write when your brain says ' You are fucked if you don't start to learn right now...' So pls... don't be too hard on me and my grammar, I try my best!
Still looking for a Beta.

I don't own One Piece or Naruto btw.

Here you go!

Previously

"ASUKA!" Luffy bellowed and Asuka looked in the direction of the cry. She could see the small figure of her brother.

"LUFFY!" She shouted back and Sengoku had enough.

"Again one of your grandsons, Garp!" He barked and Garp was shocked to see Luffy here.

Back on the Moby Dick Luffy took off, running straight into the Marines, followed by some of the Konoha Crew and the prisoners of Impel Down.
Sasuke and Shikamaru stayed back and informed Whitebeard about their plan. The older man approved it and nodded to the first mate of the Konoha Crew. Sasuke called on his devil fruit power and rose to a giant purple warrior. Marines shrieked in panic and fled from the Moby Dick, fearing a direct hit by the warrior out of pure power. A bow appeared in the hands of the Susanoo and as soon as the warrior pulled the string an arrow formed itself. Sasuke commanded the warrior to target the one man that caused them a lot of grief.

He targeted Fleet Admiral Sengoku.

A plan in motion

Moments earlier – Moby Dick

Shikamaru stand next to Whitebeard and looked straight to the platform that kept his captain chained up. He waited for Sasuke to join him because the young Uchiha took his time fighting a Commodore off. Seconds later the fellow raven haired man stood next to the tactician.

"Captain, we would like to discuss a short war-plan with you. Asuka's brother Straw Hat Luffy is already set in motion but we would like to fill our role in the whole thing." Shikamaru said rather emotionless and Newgate gave the navigator a short nod, his eyes never met those of the Konoha navigator. Both men knew better than getting distracted with reading the emotion in the other's eyes for a plan that could go havoc.

"At the moment our kind and the queen are in the worst kind of situation, not able to move but our generals are moving fast. We hope that the gold-general is able to break through the enemy lines and free the king. He is able to turn the whole event." Shikamaru started to explain, using shogi codes and hoping the old pirate understood him.

"You want your already hurt king to fight?" Newgate asked surprised and Shikamaru held the one paper to Newgate that he kept on him ever since he lost his captain to the Marines. Only a tiny bit of the paper was white, smaller than the pinky-fingernail of a newborn child. The whole rest was blood red in color. It already started to burn again, slowly but steady.

"That is the Vivre Card of the very man who wanted to give up his life for your daughter, Newgate. Until some days ago it nearly vanished but suddenly it returned a good bit of its former size. I came up with the theory that he had enough time with the curse of his family to form his own plan in case we would come and free them."

"Gurararara! Not only has the brat a devil fruit that could be more powerful than my own when trained correctly, but one of the nine curses? What kind of monster are you growing there?" Newgate said impressed and nodded, signalizing the navigator to continue his plan.

"We think in a full out fight our captain is going to last 2 hours max with that power before he is on his own again. It seemed to have healed him but we don't know what happens when the curse takes its power back after everything. Jinbe told us that he was in a really bad shape and on deaths door most of the time in Impel Down. We plan to let him ran lose giving us enough time to get the queen and injuring the enemy enough for us to retreat and get some time to recover. The first sign of him starting to lose energy and we leave." Shikamaru explained and the old captain nodded again. Whitebeard casually deflected a cannonball coming their way.

"So you're setting your cards fully on that brat, Asuka's brother? That's hardly to believe."

"No, that would be rather foolish. We put some failsaves in our plan. At the moment Straw Hat is accompanied by four of your fighters, Inuzuka Kiba and Abarume Shino, Hyuuga Neji and Akimichi Choji. Their plan is to give Luffy enough room to reach our goal. Should they fall back Sasuke is going to jump in. Until then it is his task to distract the Admirals and Vice-Admirals as good as possible, using his devil fruit."

"And should your man fail?" Newgate asked.

"Then the Konoha Pirates are going to slaughter everything in their way, uncontrolled like savage beasts, doing everything in their might to get what we want. We have many wild-cards out there starting with Mugiwara Luffy and ending with the Shichibukai. We also have a hidden card and I certainly hope they reach us in time." Shikamaru said and signaled Sasuke that he could start his distraction.

"You are switching from Shogi to cards, brat. What is our hidden card?" Whitebeard asked, interested in the spirit the young crew showed. He should have known that these brats wouldn't give up, not with a man like Arashi no Namikaze as captain.

"Two of your fellow Yonkos, Newgate. At the moment Yellow Flash Minato and Red Hair Shanks are on their way. Both met up six hours ago and entered the Tarai Current by Sabaody. It takes them maybe another hour to be in reach of Marineford." Shikamaru told Newgate who whistled silently in surprise. But on the other hand… their nephew and son was in danger.

"You are shitting me, right? Shanks and Minato? The Marines are going down today." Whitebeard chuckled and Shikamaru snorted. The tactician turned around and saw Sasuke towering over them, his Susanoo even taller than Whitebeard, aiming an energy arrow directly to the execution platform. The Nara gave a nod and the arrow flew.
Pirates awed when the pure purple arrow soared over their head and seemed to be unstoppable. Admiral Kizaru saw the attack incoming and used his devil fruit's power to try to deflect it. The energy arrow hurt the admiral as soon as it connected with his foot when he tried to kick it away and only changed its direction. Marines cried in panic when the arrow exploded directly within their rows. Even worse was the following shower of these energy arrows.

The pirates stormed forward, cheering on Luffy and the Konoha pirates, challenging the Vice-Admirals. The Marines tried to stop them, a bazooka unit even tried to attack Whitebeard himself who just deflected the attack with a slash of his bisento.

Execution platform

Naruto cheered with his crew inwardly. He smirked at Sasuke who shoot arrow after arrow in the rows of the Marines, distracting the big shoots. Kizaru and Aokiji had a hard time to defend Sengoku and the execution platform. Both prisoners heard the shouts of their names again and again, Asuka's name more often than Naruto's but the Konoha Crew made sure he would remember that they were their too. The blond also saw that Asuka took it hard. He could understand why she felt guilty and that she didn't feel like she was worth it. She sobbed after every cry of her name more, even harder whenever Sengoku tried to order his men to attack them full force.

"You are idiots, Luffy, and Oyaji." She sobbed.

"What's wrong?" Garp asked, trying to get an answer over the obvious things.

"You know… I accepted my destiny. I gave up. I am going to accept the sword that is going to judge me. I am not going to put up resistance." She said, looking to her old captain and comrades. Naruto gritted his teeth, not wanting to hear how the girl that he loved gave up living. What was it worth? He did all this for her and now she threw their bond away. It hurt deep down his heart and again he felt helpless. Would his crew die for someone who didn't want to be rescued? He was a captain and he sentenced his crew to death over something as stupid as love.

"Please, let my friends go." She said in a calm and final tone, still staring to the ongoing war.

The Fleet-Admiral and Garp ignored her plea and watched the pirate crews ganging up against their outer defiance, trying to destroy the war-ships.

"Clever plan." Garp commented and Sengoku agreed but said that it had no use because the Marines would win.

The blond watched out by himself, not with as much energy as before thanks to Asuka, who took the wind in his sails, how Mugiwara passed the first Shichibukai, leaving him with Jinbe who challenged Moriah. Boa Hancook took out the next enemy of Monkey D. Luffy's way.

Battlefield

"Straw Hat we need to get going!" Kiba barked, Akamaru agreeing with him. Luffy left Ivankov behind to fight against Doflamingo and Bartholomew Kuma. Doflamingo soon left for another target but the okama had still to fight hard.

"Hawkeye!" Luffy shouted surprised when his next enemy appeared, activating his Gear 2. Other pirates tried to give Luffy some room in attacking Hawkeye Mihawk directly but the swordsman just shrugged them off and went for the Straw Hat Captain. He slashed a power beam of his sword after the rubber-man who barley evaded the slash. The attack splitted the Konoha-Crew members that escorted Mugiwara in half, letting Choji and Shino fall back.

Shichibukai Jinbe, who had just finished his own fight, interrupted Mihawk's next attack, telling the fellow Shichibukai that he would do everything for Luffy to reach Ace and hopefully win this war. Mihawk attacked and the remaining Konoha escort helped Luffy out of the wall.
Jinbe was thrown into the sea by the swordsman who attacked Luffy, forcing Kiba and Neji to scatter from their position next to Mugiwara. They saw how Straw Hat gave up one of his attack, fearing for his arms against the sword. Luffy had to open his big mouth, letting Mihawk attacking again which the rubber-man barley dodged. An icy wave-wall was slashed by the swordsman, just like that.

Moby Dick

"Sasuke." Shikamaru called and his fellow crewmate held in his attack.

"What is, Nara?" The deep voice of the first mate of the Konoha Crew growled and he shot a cannonball that headed their way.

"You polished your swordsman-ship, didn't you?" Shikamaru, who still stood next to Whitebeard, now with the first mate of the Whitebeard pirates Marco next to him.

"You want me to fight against Hawkeye?" The Uchiha asked, his voice nearly trembling in anticipation. That was something Sasuke really wanted to do.

"Yes. Don't hold back. And kill some of the Marines on the way to them." Shikamaru said, now growling, seeing Shino and Choji under heavy attack. The Susanoo marched forward, jumping of the Moby Dick and slicing its way to the Shichibukai.

Whitebeard arched a brow and glanced down to the now smoking Nara.

"Why sending him out now?" Marco asked the question instead of Newgate.

"Other than your crew we don't have that much people that have enough strength to fight all day long. The first of our crew are tired out or injured and Naruto wouldn't want one of us dying out here. Sasuke is the only one next to our captain that could go toe on toe with a Shichibukai or an Admiral in a full out fight." Shikamaru said calmly, not letting his anger getting a better on him.

"How were you able to manage such a big ship as the Hi no Ishi with just the twelve of you, yoi?" The first mate of the Whitebeard Pirates asked in disbelieves. Such a small crew with a reputation as high as the Konoha Crew not strong, already tiring out?

"Normally we are formed in teams of three. It is like your divisions, just ways smaller. Every team has a special task in a fight, totally different than these of our tasks on the ship. Our heavy hitter team is Naruto and Sasuke with Sakura backing them up all the time. With our captain gone the team lost a lot of strength and that is why we are trying to get him as fast as possible. Normally I wouldn't have sent Choji directly into a fight, holding him back and using him as a hidden card. My team is for capturing, tactics and information gathering. We have another hitting team with Neji, Lee and Tenten but they are too splitted up, filling spots they are needed in at the moment. The others are scattered on the battlefield, getting the attention of the Vice Admirals away from Asuka's brother." Shikamaru said, gritting his teeth after yet another explosion going down somewhere.

"Your team structure is what makes you strong?" Asked Whitebeard this time.

"That and that once we fight together as a unit we aren't stopped in nearly all cases. Only bad things happened to us whenever our group splitted up." The Nara sighed, stomping out his cigarette only to light up the next. Sometimes he hated that he picked up that habit from his old mentor. He really hoped that Asuma was with the Senkou Pirates. He needed the advice of the man more than ever.

Battlefield

Marines cried in panic when the giant warrior out of pure energy made its way through the battlefield, unflinching to cannonballs and shots due its ability to let these things phase through it, only shielding the diamond pattern up in the warriors head where Sasuke sat.
As soon as Sasuke reached Mihawk he let his powers vanish and only the Kusanagi shimmered in a purple hue, much like Mihawk's black sword gave off a blue aura. Both swordsmen engaged in their attacks and gave Luffy the chance to run off, crying a "Thanks buddy, I have to go" to Sasuke.

Kiba and Neji soon were back on Luffy's side, blocking attacks from Marines that would have reached the Straw Hat. Luffy cried again the name of his sister and these of the Konoha Crew did the same for their King and Queen like they referred to them thanks to Shikamaru. ^

Kizaru seemed to have recovered from the attack of the Konoha pirate because he sent Luffy back with a kick. Jinbe caught the Straw Hat and Kizaru sneered at that weak display of power. The Whitebeard Pirates and Konoha Pirates had gathered to back up Luffy who was surprised that so many people would help him.

Execution Platform

"End the recording of all video Den Den Mushis right now!" Sengoku ordered, "In the name of justice, that the world government and we, the Marines, stand for with all our might, this war must be won! Nothing shall stop us to get what we want. Some might question us and don't want to trust us anymore and that's why the world doesn't need to know what is going on here."

Four executioners stepped forward, crossing their blades directly in front of the two prisoners. Naruto sighed; his fighting-spirit slowly leaving him, seeing how there was no chance that his friends would make it in time. His head dropped back on his chest, hair shadowing his face. He wanted to remember all these happy days he had with his family, Shanks, Otou-san, Okaa-chan, his time as a marine… it wasn't that bad and he might never had become a pirate without them… his fallen comrades of the Silent Hunter, the song he hummed for them again and again, his new friends who finally gave him a purpose in life, even the Straw Hats, he only met them once and just for a short time, and the Whitebeards who had watched him fighting against their Oyaji who gave up his daughter so she could feel alive on another ship, and Asuka…

He wouldn't cry. He had lived a good life even if it looked like it had no real sense since he couldn't keep his promise to the old man Sarutobi who still waited for new families to come to their small hidden island. He would never beat the Marines up so they would never dare to attack their own again. Justice… the world government would bend that world as much as they liked it.

Explosions were heard all over the place, Pacifista attacked the pirate ships and slaughtered every pirated in their way.

"As soon as the recording is cut of, activate the siege-walls, execute the prisoners and destroy the enemy!" Sengoku ordered again and one marine cried a positive response.

It seemed like not everything worked according to the plan because one of the video snails was stolen by pirates who still kept up the live coverage of the war. Sengoku was furious and ordered to them to find that thing

Moby Dick

That betrayal ran deep, even within the Crews that Whitebeard united under him, shocked a lot of people. It seemed like a small chat between old allies until the traitor Squard tried to stab Newgate with his longsword. It was Shikamaru's fast reaction that the strongest man on earth got impaled by one of his allies.

"What?" Squard simply replied, surprised that his attack didn't work how he planned. The shouts of the commanders on the battlefield were carried to them but Whitebeard ordered them to keep fighting.

"People say that devil fruit abilities cannot be passed down to the next generation without the fruit but that's wrong. The ability might not be as strong as the first user, or doesn't show up at all, but with the right training and honing the skills someone has… Centuries ago my family was in the possession of the Kage Kage no Mi and we still have some of the original skillsets." Shikamaru explained calmly and walked away from Whitebeard, Squard unwillingly following him.

"Wait." Whitebeard ordered and Shikamaru looked up to him, wrinkling his forehead in question.
Suddenly someone stroke Squard down and Shikamaru stumbled forward, releasing the man in the last second before he would get down too. Marco the Pheonix pressed Squard down to the deck, questioning him why he would turn against them. The captain told them he was forced to do it because of their actions.

"Return to the fight, idiots!" Sasuke's shout was heard on the battlefield because the Whitebeard pirates had their focus on the wrong person. Marco even let go of Squard to fret over his captain's health but Whitebeard stopped him, to finally hear Squard's accusation. He told them that everything was a trap of the Marines, that it was their fate to die to rescue a single woman, the daughter of the cursed Roger himself, that the Pacifista would destroy them one by one.

Faint explosions went off, destroying allied ships and killing pirate after pirate, just to mark Squard's point. Marco grabbed the man by his shirt and questioned his loyalty and how he could fall for that trap…

"Not only do you dare to say that we cannot win this war, but you say that we do everything just for Asuka. Yeah, we are allied to Whitebeard too, but our focus lays on our captain and our nakama, not on family ties. Do you know someone who has the power to weaken every devil fruit user on the field? I do and that man is chained up there." The shadow user growled, standing next to Marco who was surprised by the levelheaded response to Squard's ranting.

"These people down there decided to take the risk. They all knew that they could die today. The Konoha Crew takes the risk and we would die with a smile on our faces. If you are afraid of dying out here… The being a pirate isn't something you should do…" Shikamaru continued and went back to Whitebeard, gazing down the battlefield and waiting for the next move.
He didn't care that Newgate hugged his lost son and still cared about him. Whitebeard explained the whole child of the sea thing again and that he would never let one of his sons or daughters suffer because of who he or she was and where they are from. He would accept them all the same.

"It's time to join the battlefield." Whitebeard informed the young Konoha Pirate next to him who nodded. The pirates were happy that now one of their cards game into play, cheering for the man that united them.

"In the words of my captain, I'll be off, old man." Shikamaru said and vanished in the crowd of pirates, leading them into the battle. Whitebeard gave the navigator a last glance and then gave his full attention to what was going on.

He had a war to win.