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Sorry it's taken so long to have this out guys, I had made a different version of this chapter but I couldn't figure out where to take it with the duel between Joey and Mai with having Naruto spice it up a little so I scrapped it.

Thank you to you guys for being patient with me even though I took forever to get this out, and I don't deserve it. I hope you all like the chapter, please leave review or PM me, it really gives me motivation to keep going.

And I recently turned 17 as of February 5th so yay me, again I'm very sorry!

Chapter 6: The aquatic duel and The Final Test pt.1

(The duel between Joey and Mai happened the same as in the show, sorry couldn't think of anything to make it interesting)

The group was walking away from the duel arena with Joey looking at his dueling gauntlet in wonder and pride for having beat Mai in the duel. It hadn't been easy but with a little bit of his patented "Joey-skill" he had pulled it off- somehow. Naruto was behind everyone else observing them, but inside he was deep in thought. He had to figure out whether he should duel Yugi in the tournament or just be an observer to it all. He knew that the rules said that as long as you have star chips you can stay on the island. It also says that you need to have ten of said star chips to enter his father's castle and duel, but there are ways he could get in even without the ten needed star chips to open the dial lock on the main entrance.

But that isn't important, what is important is seeing if Yugi truly is the one that Kami sent him here to watch, and help complete his destiny to save the world. Naruto had seen Yugi duel once and heard how he had beaten Kaiba, but still even if he had done relatively well it still confirmed nothing. He decided that he would have to observe Yugi further to decide, and maybe give him a little...test to confirm it once and for all.

"Naruto, let me and my deck duel him, we'll show him who's boss and help you figure out if he is legit," Shukaku said from one of the nine deck boxes he had attached to his waist. Naruto started to think about it, true Shukaku was the weakest BIjuu in terms of raw power but he was still a Bijuu, and opponent that anyone would think twice about going up against.

'Alright Shukaku I think that'll be good test, we'll do it soon but for now let's continue to observe Yugi and his friends,' Naruto thought back to the one-tailed tanuki. Now some of you may be wondering why Naruto is only using Shukaku the weakest instead of Kurama the strongest against Yugi. And the reason is that the Naruto had wanted to utterly destroy Weevil in the Regional Championships, so he used Kurama. But with Yugi he only wants to test him and see if he really is the chosen one he is supposed to protect.

Naruto and the rest continued on their way walking at an easy pace when suddenly a deafening roar sounded through the forest, "ROOOOAAARR," everyone looked around the forest to see what made the fear inducing sound, when they all noticed that Joey was the only one not looking around. No, Joey was looking down trying to hide a blush, while rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment. "Heh, guess I'm hungry. Oi, Naruto did Pegasus set up any food joints here on the island," Joey asked looking at his fellow blonde.

Naruto looked at Joey with a sideways glance but just shook his head and then responded, "no, he was expecting all the duelists to have some common sense and bring their own food."

"Well we didn't bring any food, and all this dueling can really take it out of someone so do you have any food Naruto," Yugi asked.

The group had started to walk again, and when Yugi asked the question everyone but Naruto stopped and looked at him while he continued to walk down the path. Of course he had food with him but it was in a seal, and he wanted to see if Yugi and his group could get through this with nothing but their wits. Of course if things got too bad he would step in and give them food but for now he wanted to see what they did. So with that decided he shook his head, he could literally feel everyone behind him droop in hunger and sadness at him not having any food.

As soon as everyone had gotten out of their funk they had jogged to catch up with Naruto so they could look for food and maybe another duel. Just as they were all coming out of the thick woods that they had been walking through to get to… well they didn't really know where they were heading they were really just going wherever the trail they were on led them. Just as they were exiting the forest Joey stopped.

"Hey, guys you smell that? It smells like food," he said with a bit of drool coming out. He started to smell around in different directions rapidly trying to find the source of the heavenly aroma. Soon he stopped and did a classic dog point towards a small area where the forest thinned out. With that he took off towards the direction that his nose had smelt the heavenly scent.

Tristan took a second and smelled the air himself to see if Joey was right, or if he had finally lost it. "SNIFF SNIFF, guys I smell FOOD!" he shouted out in joy. With that he grabbed Yugi and started to haul-ass towards the smell of food. Standing there in a dust cloud Naruto looked over at Tea and saw that she had an annoyed expression and a growing tic mark on her forehead.

"Those idiots," she yelled as she grabbed Naruto's hand and started to race off after them. If she had been a little more aware and a lot less angry she would have been blushing like crazy from holding Naruto's hand. But since Naruto himself had no such inability he was able to blush freely at Tea holding his hand, quite tightly, as they ran after Joey, Tristan, and a kidnapped Yugi.

Tea with Naruto soon caught up with Joey, Tristan, and a, from the trip, dizzy Yugi. They found Joey and Tristan sitting in front of a fire about to dig into some fish that had been cooking over said fire. Off to the side they saw Yugi trying to talk them out of eating some fish that they had found on a cliff , saying that it wasn't theirs to take and whoever's it was, was probably going to be mad about them taking their lunch. Despite his protests and reasoning on the subject they could both see that Joey and Tristan were about to start eating, that is until Naruto came over and smacked them both upside the back of the head. As soon as they felt the hit they both dropped the fish that they were about to eat, reacting quicker than most thought possible he quickly leaned over them and caught the fish.

"Phew, you guys are idiots. There is only one person I know that could catch this many fish on this island in such little time, and you both don't have the skill to fight him for the fish nor duel him for them," Naruto said as he walked around the two idiots and placed the fish back in between the rocks that were holding them up as they cooked by the fire. Just as he put back the fish they heard a yell and looked over at the cliff face and saw a man about their age, maybe older wearing only swim trunks, a snorkel mask, and… a squid? The man was relatively normal height with dark black hair that jutted up everywhere despite it being wet from the sea, a deep tan with a six pack and lithe figure that if they had to guess he had gained from swimming in the ocean.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing with my fish," yelled out the man to them. As he was about to walk over to them to give them a piece of his mind about them taking his fish, a massive wave rose up from the ocean dragged him back down into the water. Everyone stood there with a sweat-drop at the fact that someone who seemed to love the sea so much could get swept up in a wave when he wasn't paying attention.

They all waited a few minutes to see if he was ok and had survived the plunge back into the ocean from the top of the cliff. Just as they were all about to run to the edge of the cliff to see if they did actually need to rescue him they saw a tanned hand grab onto the cliff's edge. With a dig of his fingers and straining of his muscles to a slight degree Mako Tsunami hoisted himself back up onto the cliff.

"Now as I was saying what do you land-lubbers think you're doing with my fish," he yelled. As he panned over the group that he thought was trying to steal his hard earned catch of the day he stopped on Naruto. When Naruto noticed that Mako had stopped on him he smiled dopily and waved, "hey, do I know you from somewhere? You look kinda familiar," Mako said.

"Hmm, maybe… wait I remember you now you're Mako Tsunami we battled in the Regional championship," Naruto replied to Mako's question. Mako stared at him for a minute trying to figure out who he could be when he noticed Mako's eyes widen.

From Mako's point of view he was looking Naruto over trying to remember if what he had said could be true. He decided to visualize Naruto with the hood of his jacket up and covering the top part of his head, leaving only a few stray locks of blonde and red hair uncovered. When he had done that Mako's eyes widened to almost impossibly large sizes that it was impossible for it to not be considered comedic in nature.

"Y-you-you're… The Hooded Bijuu Tamer!?" Mako yelled out in surprise and slight horror, remembering the defeat that Naruto had dealt to him in the tournament. It hadn't been pretty for him or his beloved monsters of the deep.

Naruto nodded in confirmation, then smiled and waved again. With this Mako's brain overloaded and he passed out, falling back into the ocean. Naruto sighed and walked over to the cliff face, while the rest of the group had freaked out and ran over to it to see if Mako was ok. Once he reached the cliff face he jumped over the edge and landed on the water. He used his chakra to stay atop the water and walked over to where Mako was floating belly down, and picked him up and threw him over his shoulder and walked back over to the cliff face and started to scale that with chakra as well. Now the group knew he could walk on water and hadn't really cared to question it much considering he had saved Joey and Yugi's cards from the ocean. But now that he was scaling cliff faces as well they could only gape in wonder at the sight before them.

Finally reaching the top Naruto dropped Mako on the ground, after a second of looking down at an unconscious Mako with an amused look Naruto swung his foot back and kicked Mako in the head. Shooting up like a rocket after being kicked Mako started to look around for the one that had kicked him and his eyes landed on the legs that were right by his head. Following them up to the body they held up Mako's eyes widened again, too surprised to yell at Naruto for the fact that he was seeing The Hooded Bijuu Tamer, without his hood!

"Hey Mako, how you been since I beat you," Naruto inquired from one of the few duelists that had his total respect. Mako just continued to stare, but did nod his head in confirmation that he had heard Naruto.

"Well, how have you been… um I don't know your name," Mako replied to Naruto after he had picked himself up off the ground. Naruto nodded his head in way to indicate that he had been good. While this little bonding and reacquainting had been going on the rest of the group after seeing that Mako was fine had gone back to the fire with Joey and Tristan trying to get to the fish again with Tea and Yugi trying to talk them out of eating the fish, again.

"I've been good, and my name is Naruto Pegasus Uzumaki-Namikaze," Naruto said to Mako. Finally officially introducing themselves to each other they shook hands and walked over to the group that was over by the campfire and joined them. "Guys this is Mako Tsunami, one of the best duelists I've ever met in the pro. dueling circuit. He's is also one of the few duelists to have my respect," Naruto said as he introduced Mako to the group of friends.

"It's nice to meet you all, I caught a lot of fish so far today so please help yourself and enjoy," with that said and done Joey and Tristan turned to look at their friends that were holding them back from enjoying the fish with a superior look, once they let go Joey and Tristan dug in. Everyone, even Naruto the World(s) Ramen Eating champion, was amazed at how fast they ate the fish. Naruto watched as they all started to eat with Mako and wished that he could unseal some ramen from his storage seals and enjoy. But alas it was not to be, so he picked up a fish and started eating.

After they had all had their fill of fish they started to get ready to leave and start looking for another duel. Just as they were all heading off a harpoon was thrown from behind them and landed in front of… Naruto.

"Naruto, I challenge you to a rematch," Mako yelled at him. Naruto turned around and faced Mako, his demeanor had completely changed, instead of smiling or at least having a friendly aura around him, Naruto now had a serious and flat look on his face along with an aura of seriousness that rivaled Kiba's.

"Alright Mako, I agree to your challenge but if we're doing this we're gonna do tournament rules: all of nothing. Deal," Naruto declared to his challenger. Mako had a thoughtful look on his face for a few seconds before he nodded his head agreeing to the battle rules. "Alright, then let's duel."

With that a duel arena rose from the ocean and started to begin the process of configuring itself for a duel. When it finished the two duelist walked over to their respective dueling platforms and were lifted up to the dueling arena.

"Well Mako, since you're a water duelist how about I fight fire with fire," Naruto said as he opened one of the dueling boxes that were on his belt. This box was a turquoise-ish color and had the number three printed on it. With that he pulled out the deck of the Sanbi No Isobu- Isobu of the Three-tails. "I hope you're ready for this Mako, because this isn't gonna be easy for you."

With that the battle began, 'Yugi, as soon as I win it'll be time for our battle and for your test- to see if you really are The One Kami wanted me to protect,' with that the battle began for Naruto and Mako.

And there we go, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. I know I took forever to get this out, and I'm sorry.

I'll try and have the next chapter out sooner than I had this one out but I hope you enjoy this one.

Until then, don't forget to tip your waitresses and goodnight.

Also I'm putting up a poll on what new crossover story I'm gonna start. It's either gonna be Naruto x Pokemon or Naruto x Digimon.

Ja-Ne!