Mar's Maelstrom

By The Obsidian Blade

Chapter two-Babbo and warnings

Dorothy and Naruto were standing at the mouth of the cave, listening to the screams of pain and explosions going off from the cave. Both of them were standing there with wide eyed expressions. There were so many explosions. It was amazing the place didn't collapse in on its self.

Dorothy looked over at Naruto. He had this blank expression on his face. It was unnerving. She saw him shake his head a little before grasping it in pain. This shocked her. Why would her blonde crush get hurt all of a sudden. Wait, did she say crush. Kami, what was wrong with her.

It took a few minutes to recover from the massive migraine he got fro m the clones dispelling one by one with little time in between. He shook his head before twitching his ears slightly and talking. "It's safe to go in. Most of the traps are set off."

How the hell does he know that? "How do you know that?"

Naruto sighed. "You know when I was quivering in pain right?" the pink haired teen nodded. "Well that was a sudden rush of info that my clones gained in their 'life time'. Problem is that there were no study intervals before they dispelled so I get a massive head ache." Naruto looked at the cave and then at Dorothy. A smile slowly crept on his face as he turned to the cave. "Come on, the sooner we reach the treasure the sooner you can have it." Naruto turned towards the mouth of the cave and walked towards it.

Dorothy's ears perked at the last statement. She looked at him as he walked back to the cave before chasing after him. Man, the blonde came in handy. That and he was delicious to look at. She rushed up in front of the blonde with her mad handy and started to point them in the right direction.

It wasn't long before they were at a large corridor. The large room had many entrances and exits. At the end was a large treasure chest sitting upon a wooden pedestal. Both of their eyes were not set on the pedestal but the floor below. It was riddled with broken Arms and bodies, signifying that they were not the first.

"Something doesn't feel right," Naruto muttered. He kept his gaze on the chest and the pedestal as he walked forward. He froze in as the jewel in the pedestal glowed. In an instant he jumped back as something appeared. The thing was huge. Its body made of stone. Its head was encased in a stone helmet. The thing seemed more like a stone robot.

Both Dorothy's and Naruto's were wide. The thing was so god damn big and it appeared out of thin air. The duo jumped to the side as the thing's fist came crashing onto the floor. The ground crumbled under the force of the fist. The blonde kitsune was the first to move. He took Kubukiri off his back and rushed the thing.

When Naruto got in range he jumped towards the thing's head for a slash. He did not expect to be backhanded to the floor. The blonde groaned in pain as he forced himself up. He looked over at Dorothy. "Got any ideas on how do beat the big guy over here?"

Dorothy's gaze was on the thing. She nodded at the blonde's question. "Yeah I got something that might work." The bracelet on her left started to glow. "Flying Leo! GO!" A blue lion with feathery wings appeared and let out a mighty roar before attacking the giant. Naruto ran through a string of hand seals.

"Suiton-Mizurappa-no-jutsu!" Naruto studied his aim and shot a jet of water from his mouth at the juggernaut. The stone beast robot like thing stumbled, allowing Naruto to jump at it with Kubukiri ready to strike. He made a slash at the left shoulder and landed behind the stone giant. On his left shoulder was a deep gash.

The gash did little to stop the thing. It still moved as if nothing was wrong with it. The blonde kitsune cursed. What did it take to bring this thing down? He looked at the chest. What ever the fuck was in there was powerful. Maybe it would be able to get him and Dorothy out of this place with the skin of their teeth. "Dorothy, cover me!"

"What do you mean cover you!" the pink haired teen yelled.

"I got an idea!" Naruto ran towards the chest. What ever Babbo hell was it was their only chance left at survival. This was their last shot. The blonde made it to the chest and opened it with ease. He looked behind him to see how Flying Leo was lasting. It didn't seem like it the flying Guardian was going to last long.

He looked back at the opened chest and inspected the contents of it. What was in it made him question his own sanity. In it was a ball attached to a small hammer by a long silver chain. The hammer was double side, had a single spike at the top and had a blue cross in the center of the hammer on each side with four whole surrounding each cross. What made Naruto question his sanity was the fact that the ball had a face. The nose was incredibly long. The mustache zigzagged. His eye brows were oddly shaped and his beard seemed like something off of a wannabe evil guy. The thing as Naruto kindly put it was soundly sleeping, with the bubble and all.

"You know, I was kinda expecting something more deadly," Naruto commented. His voice however woke Babbo up. The ball made a few collections of faces before completely waking up. He looked at the blonde.

"What are you looking at?" he rudely asked in a deep voice. Naruto started to really question his sanity. Weapons were not supposed to talk and have attitudes, were they? "Where am I? I can't remember a thing. How long was I asleep? And how did I get here?!"

Naruto cocked his head to the side slightly before raising his and. "Dorothy you're an Arm expert right?"

"Yeah what about it?" the girl asked in return.

"Have you ever came across a talking Arm?" the girl looked at him with a quizzical look.

"Don't be ridiculous!" she yelled "A talking Arm would be disgusting!"

That seemed to tick Babbo off. "Who's disgusting?! You take that back!"

Dorothy slowly turned her head to look at him. Her face shrunk at the bouncing ball and his angry face.

"So you're Babbo?" Naruto asked. The talking Arm looked at him as he stopped bouncing.

"Yes, I am Babbo. That is all I remember." Naruto looked at him strangely.

"Yeah you are definitely not what I was expecting," Naruto commented. Naruto lifted the Arm up in the air. "Well s can't be choosers so you're stuck with me and Dorothy over there."

"Keep your hands off of me you rude boy!" Babbo yelled in protest.

"Hey kid, if you got Babbo let's get out of here!" Dorothy yelled towards the blonde. "This guardian is too much to handle!"

Naruto smirked at the Arm. "Well you heard the lady, let's leave."

Babbo slipped out of the blonde's hands and clamped his mouth on the wood of the chest. "I wiw not! I am goig mack to fweep!" (I will not! I am going back to sleep!)

Naruto sighed. "Uhm Dorothy, we may have complications!" Naruto yelled.

'What do you mean complications!" she yelled back. Seriously, they did not have time for this hit.

Naruto turned around in time to see Leo revert back to a bracelet and shatter. The thing then went over to Dorothy and picked her up. The blonde growled in anger. "Let her go or you will see first hand what hell is like. He brought up Kubukiri in an offensive stance. Chakra started to spin around him in a chaotic patter. His left hand grabbed the hammer with his left and kicked Babbo as he kicked off the pedestal. He landed on the floor. "Demon's Hurricane!" His body spun around, creating a vortex of blue chakra. Kubukiri once again made a deep gash and Babbo made a deep dent in the giants back.

The stone giant stumbled, releasing Dorothy. Naruto's keen eyes caught her falling and he quickly sprang into action. Kubukiri was put onto his back and he blurred out of sight only appear right by Dorothy. His right arm wrapped around her. Naruto landed on the floor and let her go before looking at the juggernaut.

'Damn it, Babbo's too small for this and if I use Kubukiri to slash him again I might need to re-forge it. And the thing takes for ever to repair!' Babbo started to shake in his hand before it grew to the size of a small battle hammer instead of a little novelty toy. He smirked before he jumped p to the thing before it could regain balance and slammed Babbo onto its head, sending to the floor.

Naruto landed on the other side of the room. He looked at the hammer with a raised eyebrow. "Now that's something that you don't see that everyday." He looked over at Dorothy who had a wide eyed expression "You okay." he placed his hand on her forehead to check if she hand a fever. She blushed under the touch. He removed his hand. "You don't seem sick to me." Her face twisted in slight anger. "What ever, let's get out of here before we get caught by some kind of monster comes out of the ground and attack us." Dorothy nodded at that. This place was definitely not the safest place to be if the entrance was any indicator of that.

"I refuse, I refuse I ab-so-lute-ly refuse!" Babbo yelled in anger.

"What's wrong with you?!" Dorothy asked.

"You simply reek of evil magic!" he returned in the same voice. "I don't even want to be touched by you!"

"But I've searched so long, gone so far!" She couldn't complete her sentence as she fell face forward into the floor, dropping Babbo. "Wait a minute! Kid! You threw this heavy thing!"

Naruto nodded. "Yeah, surprisingly it's just a little heavier than Kubukiri." She looked shocked.

"But that sword of yours is huge!" she yelled.

"Yeah I am o the same boat as you. I was expecting him to be a lot lighter as well." Naruto looked at Babbo.

The sphere sneered at the two. "I can change my size indecently, but my weight is always the same."

She looked at him before sighing. She looked over at the blonde she developed a crush on. "What's your name anyway?"

Babbo thought the question as directed at him. "It's Babbo! That I can remember!"

"Not you, the blonde!" Dorothy yelled at the thing.

"Oh yeah, if forgot to introduce my self didn't I," Naruto said as he pointed at himself. "Well better get it out of the way. The name's Naruto Namikaze, ex shinobi of the hidden leaf."

Dorothy smiled and winked at the teen, making him blush slightly. "Naru-kun, I'll let you have the ugly brute."

"Hey I heard that!" Babbo yelled in anger. "How dare you speak of a gentleman like that?! Besides, I detest this one to!"

'Yeah you're some gentleman alright,' Naruto thought as he looked at the sphere in his hands.

"But," Dorothy started.

'Is it just me or is there always a 'but' to everything?' Naruto asked himself.

"If you're caring an Arm as rare as Babbo, then you'll be hounded down by many people who want to take it from you." Naruto shook his head. Just his fucking luck, the cost is having most of the world after his tailed ass.

"Just my fucking luck," the blonde said to the sky. Dorothy smiled and walked up to him.

"There is something that I have to do though." Naruto looked her in her red orbs with his blue fox like orbs giving her a questioning look. She smirked before glomping him. He blushed a deep crimson as she rubbed scratched behind his fox ears and rubbing her cheek against his whiskered cheek. He slowly closed his eyes and started to purr and his tail started to swish happily. 'Kawaii,' she thought as she heard him purr under her touch. She thought about taking him with her and showing him the world as he was a new comer but she had preparations to make and he couldn't be there. She smirked as she owed him for the bet that they made before they got here. Maybe she could give him something that would make him consider her as a possible love interest.

Naruto mewled as she stopped scratching his ears and looked at her with a curious gaze. She cupped his chin and had him look up at her. She smiled a little. "I believe I owe you for that little bet we made on the way over here." He started to wonder what she was thinking about before his eyes widened in shock. She leaned down and kissed him fully on the lips. Her tongue pried open his lips with and rushed inside his mouth and felt around the new territory. She mentally smirked as there was no opposition and she could explore with no trouble. She felt completely around his mouth. He had a taste that was uniquely his. She knew that the taste would be in her memories, haunting her for a long time or till she found a way for him to be hers.

Loosing breathe, she broke the kiss before leaving on her broom and a blushing Naruto on the ground. She looked at her wrist and smirked. 'Well he was not the only good thing to happen today now was he?' she asked herself before looking back. 'Now, how do I make him mine?'

Naruto had many questions buzzing around his head. Why the hell did she scratch behind his ears? Why the hell did she let him have Babbo? Why the fuck did she kiss him?! He brought his hands to his lips and lightly pressed them. Inside his gut a certain vixen was howling in laughter at the good fortune that happened to the blonde. Sure, she may have been a demon but it didn't mean that she was evil. In hers and Naruto's opinion, as she taught him a lot of things growing up, true evil was all in the mind and even then there is no definite line to cross. In her mind though she had slightly jealous as she could not be there to kiss him as well.

Naruto shook his head to clear him self of the questions buzzing around his head. Those could come at a later date. His fox ears twitched as he heard Babbo jump off to freedom. He quickly gripped the chain and had him dangling in front of his face. "Now, where do you think you're going buddy?" Naruto asked.

"Take your rude hands off me boy!" the strange Arm yelled in anger. I don't recall agreeing to be your Arm!" he stopped as he sniffed Naruto's arm. "What a peculiar smell you have… like nothing of this world."

Naruto smiled. "Well that would be because I am not from this world," Naruto said to the Arm. "But that doesn't mean I'm not glad to be here."

A/N Woot, it's done. This was something that really was hard as I am not really sure how Arms appear. I am following the manga and it's really not clear on some actions and color. That is why I confused Dorothy's eyes for being blue when they ware red. I am also considering on adding Kyuubi and some other character form Mar but I am not sure. I might I might not. So yea, don't forget to review or I will send the fat ninja man to rape you in the ass while you're asleep.