Chapter 54 : Logue town? More like clusterfuck town! (3)

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"Final-fucking-ley!" Naruto exclaimed loudly. After nearly an hour of being lost the tiger shark fishman finally found the Marine Base to turn in his bounties. It was a good thing too because Arlong's head was beginning to smell again.

Ignoring the surprised Marines the blonde barged through the front doors and went to the secretary's desk. Using his usual blunt tactics he dropped Krieg's tied form on the desk, "All right, I got two bounties that need to be turned in. Where's my cash, also I need to send a message as well."

"I don't do that." The old woman at the desk said dully. Wow, not even a muscle twitch, that was one steel-nerved crone. "I just stamp papers and make appointments. The bounty office is to the left of me, the gal's name is Emily, please try not to scare her. She's new and does not have my level of tolerance for your kind."

"My kind?" Naruto narrowed his eyes. Several Marine recruits and Seaman brought their hands to their respective weapons, violence was absolutely not allowed in the base. Not by them, and especially bounty hunters.

The woman however didn't bat an eyelash. "I mean no offense. Emily has had little experience with bounty hunters, let alone fishmen."

"Yea, yea, whatever." Naruto picked up Krieg and turned towards the left like instructed; much to the relief of the men and women present. It was a straight shot, not even he could screw this up. Hell he found the giant sign of 'Bounty Turn In's' to be more than quite helpful.

Opening the door the blonde walked into the room with the entire back wall filled with various wanted posters, but other than that it had several chairs and what looked like a ticket booth. The entire room was empty, so he headed towards the unoccupied, iron-barred booth near the back wall. Thankfully there was at least a service bell he could use.

"Hey! Come on I got two bounties that are in need of some cashing!" Naruto rung the bell loudly, and accidentally crushing it after the last ring.

"One second!"

Unfortunately it took ten more minutes for Naruto to be greeted by an average-looking brunette with an annoyed expression as she dropped a thick pile of freshly minted wanted posters on her desk. "Sorry for the wait, sir. Now what do you..." She opened her brown eyes for a second and froze when she saw the fishman stand in front of her.

"Oh for the love of Neptune. Yes, I'm a fishman. Get the fuck over it and take this asshole off my hands, he's actually beginning to be a nuisance." He would be a little surprised if he had some bruises on his back from Krieg's kicking, oh well it was a small inconvenience either way.

"Oh, right." Emily opened the gate and beckoned Naruto to show the face of the criminal. As soon as Krieg's semi-conscious ugly mug, she squeaked in surprise. "You captured Don Krieg!"

"No, I'm turning him in for the guy that defeated him."

"For the guy who...what?"

"Ugh, a guy traveling with me was the one who kicked his ass. Unfortunately he cannot come into the the town due to being poisoned by this bastard, so I'm doing it for him." Say what you want about him, but Naruto gave credit where credit was due. Plus he never took credit for something he never did himself, that was wrong on so many levels.

"Okay then?" Emily picked up a green Den Den Mushi with a yellow shell. "Guards, we got ourselves a live one. It's Don Krieg; bounty seventeen million beli."

"Hold it, I also got this." Pulling the burlap sack off his belted waist, Naruto dumped Arlong's severed head onto the floor. Emily squeaked in horror seeing the soulless dead eyes of the sawshark fishman. Well more like dead eye since his right eye was hollowed out, and his face bruised and cut up from the beating he got from his killer. Picking Arlong's head up by his tangled black hair, he said to the woman, "This one is mine, I killed "Saw-Tooth" Arlong and his entire crew."

Emily only squeaked again, damn was this woman part mouse or something? But to her credit she managed to keep he composure and talked into the Den Den Mushi again. "A-And we got a dead one. It's Arlong; bounty twenty million beli."

"Also, mind making a message for me?"

"What?"

"Please have it say, 'Dear Jinbe, I got Arlong and his entire crew for you. Yea I know I was only to get Arlong, but he sicced them on me, but we're square now, don't make me do it again! Signed- Uzumaki Naruto'. Got that?" Naruto asked the trembling woman.

"C-rystal." Emily nodded in response. Man was this guy intimidating.

To her relief though ten Marines marched into the room. Two were carrying metal brief cases full of money, and they handed them both off to the fishman. "Here you go, thirty-one million big ones." A gorilla-looking Marine congratulated the blond.

"What? Hold it buddy I'm supposed to get thirty-seven million combined out of these two." Naruto protested.

"If you brought Arlong in alive you would have. However, because you brought a dead one the bounty was deducted by thirty percent, thereby making Arlong's total bounty fourteen million beli. I don't make the rules kid, I just hand out the money." The gorilla-looking Marine apologized. "I would also give you the bounties of the rest of his crew...but we need proof, and sorry kid you don't got their heads either."

God dammit, in his anger towards Arlong he forgot that Kuroobi, Chew, and all the others probably had bounties themselves. What a missed opportunity, and as much as Naruto wanted to protest and beat the crap out of them, he knew they were right.

Quite honestly he was not really in it for the bounties, he wanted to get his mission done and over with. But now he had to take the long way home; however long that would take. Eh, he would live, after all it's not like thirty-one million beli was chump change. "All right you win, just take these guys off my hands."

Krieg tried once again to free himself, his body squirming like a worm nearing a hook. But the gorilla man beamed him in the head with his ham-sized fists and shouldered him with eight Marines surrounding him in a circle formation, their flintlock pistols aimed squarely at the unconscious pirate Captain.

They were not taking any chances with this guy. The one unfortunate bastard left in the group however had to hold in his breath when he placed Arlong's head back in the burlap sack and tied it shut, man did the dead fishman stink!

Gripping the suitcases in his hands Naruto departed from the room without another word. For once he was happy that things were finally looking up.

When everyone left, Emily sighed out in relief. Man that was scary, who knew that she would ever see the day a man...well fishman would bring in two high priced bounties.

Moving over to the wall that held the current wanted posters, she took out a red marker and drew a giant red X across Arlong's grinning visage before tearing it, and Don Krieg's poster-that she also crossed out with the marker off the wall and placed them in the empty captured/deceased pile.

"All right, now I have some space for all these new ones." Sighing she picked out a couple posters and tacked them on the wall. Emily repeated this process until she came across one that made her eyes widen.

The poster contained the face of a young man with wild sandy-blond hair and pale gray eyes with constricted pupils, seventy-five percent of his face was wet with blood, and he had an insane grin that showed his perfect white teeth.

Wanted Dead or Alive

"Blood-Soaked" Kotetsu

$65,000,000 Beli

"Oh my God, what a monster!" Emily exclaimed after reading the information that came with the posters that showed what he did to deserve such a bounty. Unfortunately the next one showed a picture of a tanned teenager with untamed black hair underneath a woven straw hat with a red band running across the bridge of it, and a two stitched scar under his left eye grinning joyfully.

Wanted Dead or Alive

"Straw Hat" Monkey D. Luffy

$25,000,000 Beli

While not as high as Kotetsu's, Luffy's bounty was abnormally high from defeating Buggy "The Clown", and Don Krieg the first time. But at least he didn't massacre an entire island full of civilians and killed four Marine units.

However the third, and last page she would be doing for the rest of the day caused her to become white as a sheet. The picture showed the face of a tanned-skinned, spiky blond haired tiger shark fishman with blue eyes. He had whisker-like markings upon his cheeks, three barely visible gills on his neck, and had a vicious shark-like grin that showed his sharp teeth.

Wanted Dead or Alive

"Sword of the Sea" Uzumaki Naruto

$45,000,000 Beli

"Oh that is it!" Emily exclaimed loudly. One high bounty that migrated into the East Blue she could handle, two were getting a little ridiculous, but a third one and the fact that he walked out of her office barely ten minutes ago was crossing the line; especially since he murdered an entire ship full of Marines.

She knew that there was an unspoken agreement to not arrest pirates in Loguetown if they weren't doing anything, but this was something she personally could not overlook. Lives of Marines were at stake here!

Picking up her Den Den Mushi, Emily pressed the button on top of the shell and spoke into it. "Captain Smoker, do you hear me?"

"What is it Emily? I'm a little busy here." A rough voice responded through the Den Den Mushi.

"I'm sorry to disturb you, but I just got the new batch of wanted posters. And I got one that you need to catch him before he leaves."

"Who's the perp?"

"It's Uzumaki Naruto, he's a tiger shark fishman. The kid killed "Saw-Tooth" Arlong, is accompanied by a man that defeated "Foul Play Krieg", and is responsible for killing Captain Nezumi and his entire crew-minus the cabin boy. He has a bounty of forty-five million beli."

"So this is a serious pirate, good. I'll alert the men, thank you Emily."

"You're welcome Captain Smoker. Oh, before I forget I believe there are two others that you need to know about." She quickly shuffled through some more papers before finding what she needed. "Along with their known accomplices."

"I'm all ears."

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