Here we go with another chapter of Naruto: The Fairy Tail Shadow! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Naruto is owned by Masashi Kishimoto and Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima. Anything written is purely my own thoughts.

"Well... That was unexpected... The winner is Fairy Tail. Could someone please got me and Yajima a tissue to clean up our blood."

Naruto: The Fairy Tail Shadow: Part 3: Chapter 26: The Grand Magic Games Arc Part 21: Round 1 (Doubles) Part 2

Naruto was holding onto Erza as she slowly woke up from Hiruzen's genjutsu. "How are you feeling?"

"I still feel a bit woosey. I'm guessing we lost?"

"Nope Naruto here knocked the kid out with..." Laxus was then cut off by a panicking Naruto.

"It was just a simple jutsu nothing more hehehe." Erza decided not to push for any answers at the moment due to Naruto's nervous tone.

"Next up we have Minerva and Rufus of Sabertooth vs Jager and Semmes of Quatro Cerberus! Could all contestants please make there way to the arena floor."

"After you m'lady." Rufus bowed to Minerva as she walked into the arena floor first.

"I'll deal with them first. You come in and finish them off." Minerva gave her orders to Rufus who simply nodded back as a reply.

"LET'S GET WILD!"

"Let the match begin!"

Suddenly Minerva and the two members of Quatro Cerberus disappeared from the arena leaving Rufus there standing on his own. After a few moments of confusion from the crowd and other wizards inside the Domus Flau Arena They reappeared.

The two mages looked worse for wear as they were covered in bruises and barely able to stand.

"I'll never get surprised by your magic m'lady. I will finish this match. MEMORY MAKE!" The stance Rufus then took brought a tick mark on the foreheads of Naruto and Jellal who were both watching.

"I swear he's trying to mock me and Jellal."

"Naruto uses this magic to it's fullest and he respect it's power but this bastard is simply using it as a tool. He doesn't even realize that in the state those two are in right now. If either myself or Naruto would use that move right now we'd kill them."

"TRUE HEAVENLY BODY MAGIC: SEMA!" From the clouds circling the arena a giant meteor fell and crashed into the two members of Quatro Cerberus.

With the impact of the meteor causing dust to fly into the air no one could see the results of Rufus' attack until the dust cleared. Once cleared the crowd could see the two members of Quatro Cerberus out cold but breathing.

"And it appears both mages are out cold Quatro Cerberus are out cold! Sabertooth win 10 pts."

"That was one sided to say at the least. Although.." Something then caught Naruto's attention.

"What's wrong?" Erza asked with a concerned tone.

"I need to find Jellal fast." In a bright flash of orange light Naruto vanished and re-appeared beside Jellal. "

"We have a problem."

"Is it Zeref?"

"Yeah but.. There's two of them."

"What!? Two of them!"

"Yeah that's got me more concerned. We need to move quickly. It seems they are leaving the arena."

Jellal nodded in agreement as they both ran after the two signatures of Zeref. "One's ran off that way. You go after that one, I'll take the other one." They both then split apart to continue chasing.

"Wait!" Naruto shouted at a hooded figure. The hooded figure turned and seen Naruto run after him. The figure then quickly turned and ran as fast as he could away from Naruto. "Bastard."

Naruto chased him out of the arena and into the streets of Crocus. Suddenly a puff of smoke appeared around the hooded figure and several more appeared, they each scattered in different directions. "Shadow clones! Shit I lost him! I hope Jellal had better luck than me."

Meanwhile in the arena the other hooded figure was still being chased down by Jellal. He was about to grab a hand on the hooded figure when a hand grabbed his shoulder instead. He looked around and found Lahar of the magic council behind him. 'Shit I've been found out.' Jellal panicked as he thought to himself.

"I'd like to know why you suddenly ran off Jellal?" Lahar asked with a not so quite subtle hint of suspicion.

"I'm sorry I'm afraid I can't answer that I must go now."

Lahar once more got in Jellal way but this time he was joined by Doranbolt. "We're gonna have to ask you to step aside." Jellal tried to run away but Dornabolt quickly grabbed his mask and pulled it away.

"It's.."

"Jellal!?"

With his face no exposed Jellal was expecting the worst to happen and possibly Fairy Tail. But soon found himself saved.

"Hey Mystogan did you find that food stand i was telling you about. Man I can't believe you've never had ramen before. What's up with you guys." Naruto shouted at Jellal and as he got closer he asked the rune knight what they were doing.

"Naruto, Why are you defending the criminal Jellal!?" Lahar shouted demanding an answer.

"Defending a criminal? I would never defend Jellal. But I will explain a bit to you about Mystogan. Have you ever heard of Edolas?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah it's our parallel world. I heard about it while in your guild seven years ago." Dornabolt answered, the reason for his answer raised an eyebrow from Naruto.

"Well our Mystogan here is the Edolas version of Jellal. It's also why he hides his face in public."

"I'm sorry but I'm not the same Jellal you are searching for." Jellal bowed as if he was apologizing to the rune knights.

Lahar wasn't buying it and was about to raise his voice to protest but was stopped before he could speak by Naruto. "But over the whole me defending a criminal thing. Let me point one thing out to you. After what Jellal but my Erza through. I will never forgive him!" Naruto eyes became crimson red showing his anger towards Jellal. Lahar felt the blood lust Naruto had over Jellal and finally bought his story over Mystogan.

"I'm sorry if I offended you. We'll leave you be now." Lahar and Doranbolt apologized before they left both Jellal and Naruto on their own.

"Thank you." Jellal softly spoke to Naruto.

"You got sloppy and let you guard down. But it's not like i'm one to talk about being sloppy. Mine got away."

"Well Lahar and Doranbolt got in my way and i've lost track of them. Do you think you can sense them again?"

"Nope. I can't feel a simple thing. But I think the person I was chasing uses chakra."

"What makes you think that?"

"He used the shadow clone jutsu to escape."

"Do you think it could be Madara?"

"No, he ran away from what I know Madara is after me why would he run away and use clones so he could escape? Either way it doesn't matter. We have to get back to the arena."

"By the way. Did you really mean what you said to Lahar?"

"Every word of it." Naruto responded without hesitation. "I'll never forgive you but if Erza trusts you then i'll bit my tongue for the time being but Don't get caught again. I won't save your ass next time." Jellal knew Naruto was serious as he said nothing more as they walked back to the arena.

"Just one question. If this guy used shadows clones to escape. Why didn't you do the same?" Jellal asked.

Naruto stood still for a moment, not knowing how to answer Jellal's question. "I'm an idiot."

When Naruto arrived he just missed the final fight of the first round. He looked at the arena floor and found Kagura standing over Kibiki and Ren. "Well I'd lie if I said I didn't expect that result."

"About time you got back." Laxus commented with a smile.

"What took you so long! We're next!" Natsu shouted at Naruto.

"What do you mean we're next?"

"He's right. After we each get a thirty minute break the next fight is Naruto and Natsu vs Rufus and Orga of Sabertooth." Erza informed Naruto. "They're just about to show the scores now."

"What was the other result?"

"Jura more or less one hit KO the two idiots from Twilight Orge." Laxus commented.

1st - Sabertooth - 52pts (+10)
2nd - Lamia Scale - 46pts (+10)
3rd - Fairy Tail - 38pts (+10)
4th - Hidden Beasts - 34pts
5th - Mermaid Heel - 25pts (+10)
6th - Quatro Cerberus - 25pts
7th - Blue Pegasus - 13pts
8th - Twilight Orge - 6pts

"Looks like we still have a bit of a mountain to climb doesn't it." Naruto dryly commented on the scoreboard.

"You think it's still possible Shadow?" Gajeel asked.

"We're still in there with two days left but it's between the top four as to who can win it."

"I don't care. I just get to hit something! Ahh man I've been waiting on this for a long while!" Natsu shouted into the air with excitement his fist and tongue coated in his flames.

"Natsu." Erza spoke with a commanding tone causing Natsu to freeze in fear. "You wouldn't be planning on destroying the arena by any chance would you?"

"Nope." Natsu answered Erza with a squeak.

"Good... And as for you." Erza then turned to face Naruto.

"Y... Yes dear?" Sweat quickly started to flow from Naruto's forehead.

"You're coming with me." Erza then started to drag Nartuo away.

"Wait what did I do?" Naruto asked in protest.

"Levy's mother, Lucy told me you used that jutsu again." Erza eyes started to glow a bright crimson color as she looked at Naruto while answering his question.

"SAAAAAAAAVE MEEEEEE!" Naruto screamed for help but found none. "At least tell my wife and son I love them!"

"Your wife's the one who about to beat the ever living crap out of you and I'm going to watch." Laxus dryly replied.

"TRAITOR!"

"You get what you deserve Naruto. You've used that jutsu on me in the past I'm taking this as my revenge."

Meanwhile with the Sabertooth guild, Sting was pissed off not getting to fight Natsu. His guildmates decided to ignore him as he huffed like a child.

After Erza's beatdown to Naruto, both he and Natsu were waiting to enter the arena. Suddenly a familar voice called out. "I just done what you asked."

"What the hell are doing here!?" Natsu asked with a demanding tone.

"Natsu... Take care of little Lucy for the moment." Naruto then placed his right hand on Natsu's shoulder.

"Wait!" Natsu shouted out before he disappeared. Once gone Naruto held a kunai.

"Think he'll be mad?"

Naruto slowly responded as he put the kunai to his mouth and bit. With his hands free he re-quipped a sword in reverse grip. "Not my concern. I'll take the God Slayer. You take Rufus, Gray."

And Cut! Well folks that's our first chapter of 2016 finished and out of the way so here's hoping you all had a great holiday period with your family and friends! I know I did but I do have my first funny story of 2016. Tbh I'm still feeling a sore today as it was the first training session back after the holidays on Sunday. And my legs last night decided to simply stop working. Thankfully it was upstairs outside my room but i fell down like a bag of spuds lol. Anyway here is this chapter's Q&A!

1) What is your favorite Naruto opening theme song? Oh Favorite song... I have 3 that I could listen too all day Opening 1, 13 and 17. Endings however are not so simple as that. short list would be 6, 15, 17, 21, 24, 29, 32, 33 and 34.

2) Who do you think is stronger Naruto or Sasuke? Personally by a mile it's Naruto. If you've caught up to the manga and full know what's gonna happen then I think you can understand when you know that Sasuke was trying to kill when Naruto was holding back because he didn't want to.

3) Don't you mean Levy McGarden instead of Lucy? Nope. I was correct. Lucy McGarden is Levy's mother. She's an OC character introduced in part 1.

So that's all for this chapter folks. Like always if you have a question do feel free to post a review or PM myself. If I don't answer your question on next chapter's Q&A I will try to reply via PM. Thank you for reading this chapter. I hope you've all enjoyed it. Till next time!