Mar's Maelstrom

By The Obsidian Blade

Chapter seventeen-round one

Team Demon Shadow met with the imp at the courtyard once again in the morning. The way that they were woken up was not to awfully bad. He was expecting the imp to rudely wake them up but it was the princess who woke them up. She was not rude or angry. She was very soft spoken when she did. "Did everyone sleep well last night?" the imp asked as he stood in the center of the courtyard. Naruto just glared at the man evilly, thinking of ways torturing the little mp to death. "Now it's time to discuss the rules to the War Games. Each fight will be a team battle. The number of combatants will depend on the roll of the dice. The roll of the dice will also determine the battlefield, in the beginning." The imp man looked at Jack, shocking the poor farm boy. Uhm, you there, what is your name?" the referee asked.

"J-j-jack!" the boy shouted as he raised his hands.

The imp smiled. "For example, even if Jack were to lose his individual match, as long as his team wins overall, he'll be able to fight in the next battle. Unless, of course, he's dead. And even if Chess Piece three wins individually, but his team still lost, he will still be able to fight."

Naruto looked at Jack as he raised his hand. "So in other words, it will all be good as long as we win as a team? And even if we do loose, there will be a second chance for those who won individual matches?" the imp man smiled and nodded. "It would have been a lot easier if you just said that then wasting our time."

Snow nodded at the rules. "So, what it comes down to is that only the strong survive."

Alviss sighed. These rules were exactly the same as the last games. "So far, the rules are exactly the same as the last games," the dark haired teen stated. "Does that mean we have to choose a team captain?"

The imp man smiled and nodded. "Each team has to pick a captain. Even if the team wins overall, if the captain loses, the games are over. Last time, the captain of the Cross Guards was Boss. The Chess Pieces chose Knight one- Phantom. So then who do you choose?"

Naruto noticed all eyes on him, as if indicating something. "I have no choice but to do this do i?" Naruto asked as he looked at everyone.

Alviss sighed as he looked at the blonde teen. "Truthfully, I'd rather make it me or Alan. But right now Alan is inside a dog. And you have one big thing in common with Boss. You both came from a different world"

Naruto looked at his hand. "The fate of this world rests on my shoulders." The only male kitsune looked back up at the sky. "I feel thrilled." The words rolled off his tongue with sarcasm dripping off of every word.\

"Frankly, that scares me," Alviss voiced out.

Naruto looked at the dark haired with a twitching eyebrow. "If you're so concerned about me leading this then why don't you be team leader."

Naruto's ears twitched as he looked back at the bell tower. He saw the princess walk on to the balcony with two dice in her hands. She threw the dice onto the floor with a solemn look. The referee looked at the dice as the rolled across the courtyard. He smiled as they landed on three and a three. "Three verses three!! The arena will be right here in Reginlief field!"

With in milliseconds a large arena appeared inside the center of the courtyard with a loud smack on the tiled floor. Nanashi let out a low whistle as he looked at the thing. "Now that's clever!" he yelled out. "Must have been a lot of work!"

"Welcome the Chess Pieces' first team the Rodkin Family!" the referee yelled.

Three blurs appeared after he said the introductions. When the forms appeared they could be roughly made out. One of them was a weird man with a black and red mask with one eye opening. He wore mostly green. His boots seemed to be made out of medical tape. His hair was cyan blue, making the blonde wonder if he died his hair. The girl next to him seemed to be around sixteen with the same colour as the masked males. Her yes were golden in colour with red lines coming of the bottom of them. She wore a blue bra like top and grey pants with a blue belt. Hoisted over her shoulders was the large metallic hammer with a ball like head. The last one scared Naruto though. He was a large bald goliath of a man. He had tattoos running allover his body. He wore a red tunic with brown pants. Naruto sighed. He most likely was going to get the large man for himself.

The smaller male looked at them before laughing at them. "HA, the really is only six of them!"

This is going to be a snap, right dad?" the girl asked cheerfully. The large goliath just stared at Naruto, trying to gain some sort of insight on how strong the blonde was.

"Please choose your three players!" the referee commanded.

Naruto sighed as he looked at them. "Alright, this is how we are going to do it. I want to see how well Jack does in a fight so he will go and I want to see how strong this giant is so I am going. Since I honestly don't know you and how you fight you are going with me Alviss. Any complaints?"

Dorothy raised her hand. "Yeah, how come those two get to fight with you and not your mates?!" Snow nodded in agreement as she crossed her arms.

Naruto sighed as he rubbed his temples. "I will make it up to you two tonight. For now just go with this and next match is all you," the two vixens seemed to except this as Naruto walked off and they talked on what Naruto was going to do for them. "Alright, we're set."

The masked man sighed as he walked onto the arena. "Tsk, I wanted to fight a girl. All guys… so boring!"

Alviss sighed as he walked onto the platform. "I'll go first," he declared. He studied the man in front of him with a critical eye. There was nothing real special about him; he could be taken out easy. After all, he was a simple Rook.

"First match, commence!" the imp yelled as he jumped off the arena to a safer location.

The cyan haired man made a gesture with his hands, invoking the ring Arms on his fingers. Within seconds they flashed into two large katars, one each hand. He dashed after Alviss wit the intent to win. Alviss sighed as he turned his thirteen totem guardian into its rod version and started to block the strikes with ease. The man the dark haired teen was battling was way to predictable and lacked a certain flare to his strikes that Alviss had.

Having enough of the dark haired teen blocking his strokes, Leno jumped back. He smirked under his mask as he focused his magic. "Nature Arm, Flame Ball!! Catch these and burn to death!" several fire balls appeared around the masked man before shooting out towards Alviss. The dark haired teen sighed as he blurred out of sight, dodging the fire balls. Naruto sighed as he saw the things going after him and ran through a series of hand seals. "Doton-Doryuu-Heki-no jutsu!" A large wall of earth shot out of the ground, blocking the things path to him and Jack. Jack was bursting out into hysteria as he looked at the wall of earth. This day was full of surprises now wasn't it?

"Maybe I'll give you a choice," Alviss said as he looked at the man. His totem guardian flashed back into the chain that he kept near his pocket. "Between a defeat with pain and a defeat with out pain, which do you choose?"

"How about a third choice," the man asked. "Like you die!"

"I won't kill you," Alviss muttered. "I'd hate to become guys like you. I'm only out to get one person anyway."

Pano was pissed. This guy was talking like they weren't good enough for them. When she voiced her thoughts, she was shocked to hear what her own father said. "Stand down Leno, he's a bad opponent."

Leno didn't bother however. He looked at his father and then right at Alviss. The black haired Cross Guard was making fun of them and his father was telling him to stand down?! No way in hell was he going to let what Alviss tolled them go unpunished. "Stop talking garbage tou-san! Flames surround these blades!" Fire quickly erupted around the katars as he rushed towards Alviss.

Alviss sighed as he focused magic along the floor. It was pretty easy to home it in on the masked Chess Piece as he was too predictable. 'So you have chosen pain." A totem pole quickly shot out of the ground under Leno, hitting the man in the stomach and sending him to the ground. His katars turned back into the rings on his fingers. The referee clapped as he announced the winner of the match. Alviss sighed as he jumped off the arena. He listened to the people cheer for him as he walked off. This seemed right for some reason or another.

Pano walked onto the arena as Leno got up. "Stand down Leno," she ordered as her brother struggled to regain his balance. "It's my turn. I'll pay him back for you!" She swept the hammer above the ground quickly as she studied her opponents.

Naruto eyed her before looking at Jack. "Jack you go, I'll fight goliath over there." The farm boy looked at him as if hew was a go of sorts before running onto the stage.

Dorothy looked behind her as she was asked if the farm boy was strong. She smirked slightly. These people were in for one hell of a show. "Yes, he's strong."

Pano eyed Jack. The boy didn't seem strong at all. His handsome teammate put off hell of a lot of magic and had a hell of a lot of residual magic around his body. This boy looked more like a farm hand and probably didn't have a great supply of magic. He actually seemed pretty weak. She smiled slightly. "Now then, how will I torture you?"

"Second match, commence!" the imp yelled from the sidelines.

"You seem awfully weak," Pano informed. "Your handsome friend over there put out some real magic energy but you don't"

Jack growled at the remark and pulled out his battle shovel. The thing was that he tried to summon it while trying to pull off a move. He miscalculated where his foot was and managed to have the shovel stab his foot. He pulled up his foot and started hopping around, trying to sooth the pain of it and not to put to much wait on it. Naruto palmed his forehead as he looked at the scene. It was what the teen deserved for trying to show off he guessed. But it didn't help that Naruto chose to train him.

Pano looked at the farm boy as if he was psychotic. 'Is he trying to catch me off guard?' the cyan haired girl asked herself. 'I'm not falling for it!' She quickly rushed forward with her ball hammer ready to strike. Jack turned his attention quickly enough to see the incoming strike but not fast enough to block it. The head of the hammer hit his stomach and sent him to the ground. He got up quickly and was instantly sent on to the defensive. "Weapon Arm, Ball Hammer!"

Jack could see each strike with ease. This was nothing compared to what was throw at him in the training gates. What he got there was utter torture that he would rather not speak of at all. He noticed that he was also a lot faster than he was normally. Before he met Naruto, he most likely would not be able to dodge half of the shit that was being thrown at him right now. This was insane to be honest. There was no way that a normal human should be able to move at this speed. It just wasn't possible. And here he was, moving at the impossible speed while blocking all of the girl's blows.

Pano was getting agitated. The boy, whom she deemed as weak, was blocking all of her blows as if they were nothing. It took her years to move the way she was now but the teen was blocking her movements as if they were nothing! Was he trying to piss her off?! The girl smirked as an idea popped into her head as she jumped back to avoid a swing of the blade of the shovel. The thing drawn blood on her delicate skin but the cut would not leave a scar. That much she was grateful for ass she did not want a scar this early in her life. "You deflect better than I thought," she muttered as she held up her hammer slightly. "But how about this?" The heads of the hammer detached form the shaft and was sent flying towards Jack. The farm by shifted his weight to the side slightly, dodging the head. What he wasn't expecting was for it to come flying back at him and hitting him in the back of the head. Pano smirked as the head flew back to the shaft and reconnected with it. "This Ball Hammer can detach and reattach," she informed with a cocky smirk. "And it always homes in on a moving target. Face it, you already lost."

Alviss sighed. "She's right you know."

Naruto looked at him oddly. "No, she's not. I taught jack how to use that thing. I also taught him how to read an opponent. So far, that's all he has been doing. By the look on his face, I think he got all the information he needs." Alviss gave the blonde a questioning stare. The blonde kitsune smirked as he pointed to the stage. "Just watch."

Jack sighed as he pulled out a few sees. The way the girl fought was to inflict external damage. She had nothing to actually cut through anything and she did not have any hidden Arm. He checked her earlier for any pockets or opening inside her pants. He thanked Kami as there was none on her. All he needed to do was to immobilize her and she would be finished. He dropped the seeds onto the ground and slammed his shovel onto them. "Grow- Earth Beans!!!" Roots and vines traveled along the ground to Pano. The girl was petrified as she saw the vines come after her quickly. They wrapped around her and made sure that she could not move at all. Her body levitated a few inches in the air as the vines and roots wrapped around her with ease.

Jack smirked as he walked up to the struggling girl. "You don't have anything that could cut those so I wouldn't suggest struggling. Face it, you already lost."

Pano did not hear any of what Jack said as she struggled against her bindings. She looked at Jack as he walked towards her. "KEEP AWAY FROM ME PERVERT!!!" she screeched.

Jack looked at her before holding his head. "Pervert, please don't give me any ideas!" he shouted. The girl only struggled more before unconsciously drawing some of her magic and shooting the head of her hammer. The head of the hammer nailed Jack in the guy's most sensitive area. The poor farm boy didn't even get a chance to screech in pain as he fell unconscious from the blow.

Naruto looked at the scene with a comical expression on his face. That was a cheap way to win. Jack should have won that! He shrugged it off however as he saw the imp declare the match in Pano's favor. He stabbed Kubukiri in the ground and told Babbo to keep out of the match. The Arm complained of course but Naruto quickly shut him up with a glare that promised pain. He quickly slipped on his kitsune mask and jumped onto the arena. "Deciding match, Chess Piece Garon verses Cross Guard Naruto!!"

Naruto sighed as he looked at the imp. "It's Demon Shadow, get it right imp." The man nodded as he changed the name.

"That kid s the captain right?" one man asked Snow. The dark haired vixen watched as she wondered why Naruto wasn't using any Arms. "Then the fate of Marchen rests on his shoulders?' again Snow nodded at the question. The same man whirled her around and started to shake her shoulders. "But that kid has no Arms on him right now!! We're doomed if that kid fights!!"

Snow turned to the man with a glare. "You idiot, cheer him on!"

"Take him Naruto! You'd better not loose!" The crowd cheered.

Naruto sighed. "Yeah, thanks for the enthusiasm," the blonde thought dryly. He turned to the goliath of a man as he stared him down.

The man stared at Naruto. The kid seriously didn't seem all that like the rest of the Chess Pieces said about him. Sure, he had an enormous amount of residual energy buy his body was way weaker than his and the boy didn't even come to the fight with any arms. The packs on his belts could contain Arms but that was highly unlikely as there was no magical put off coming of the packs themselves. "Poor little boy," the giant commented. "Honestly, I feel sorry for you. A team of just six fighters, with a baby like you for a captain. The pressure for you must be terrible. And to top it all of, you came to fight me with no Arms what so ever."

Naruto sighed as he knelt down and pulled out a scroll. He quickly unfurled it, revealing four large sealing seals. He focused chakra through his right hand and pushed it into the seals, unsealing all the contents inside the seals, four large jugs filled with water. "If you are just going to talk trash then I might as well finish you off right here and now." His hand quickly formed a single hand seal. "Kage-Bunshin-no-jutsu." In a plume of smoke four other blonde kitsunes appeared in the battle field.

The large goliath was surprised by what the blonde just did. There was no way that he could pull of copying himself over four times with out an Arm's help. There was just no possible way for that to happen at all. Yet the blonde found a way to do it. He quickly got out of his shock and looked at the blonde. "I don't know how you pulled that off but I am going to kill you!" The man then rushed towards the team of blondes with his fist cocked back.

One of the foxy blondes smirked as he jumped forward and rushed to meet the man. He ducked under the fist and dodged to the right as another slammed down onto he ground. The blonde jumped up towards the man's shoulders with an outreached hand. When the hand made contact the blonde smirked under his mask. "Tag, you're it." the clone exploded, sending only smoke around the field. The large man coughed under the smoke. The initial explosion had no effect on him what so ever. It was as if it was meant just for show and not effect.

Naruto smirked slightly under his mask. The plan was going off accordingly. The large man stopped at the explosion, allowing him to send off his three other clones to run off with a jug of water and hide under a genjutsu. He ran threw several hand seals and brothe in deeply. "Futon-Daitoppa-no-jutsu." The blonde exhaled, sending the smoke out of the arena and clearing the line of vision for the man.

The large man looked at the blonde before smirking. It seemed like all the clones were just for show. Before he could do anything his hand was wrapped by some kind of whip. He felt it get pulled up along with his other hand. He felt another binding get wrapped his neck. He turned his attention to the sides and behind him slightly. There were the three blonde clones with some kind of water whips with the jugs of water by their feet, empty. "Mizu-no-Muchi." The blonde muttered slightly before uncorking the jug in front of him. "Mizukiri-no-Yaiba!" The water rose up from the jug and formed a sword. "Now, do you have anything else to say before I end your life?" His voice was calm and devoid of any emotions

Pano ran in front of her father quickly. "I DON'T CARE IF HE LOOSES! JUST DON'T KILL HIM!" she cried out as she held out her hands outstretched.

Naruto sighed as he looked at his sword of water. The blade dropped from his hands and splattered against the floor. Naruto turned his gaze to Pano with a hard look.

"You don't know how lucky you are right now" he muttered. The blonde raised his hand and snapped. The clones sighed slightly as and sent chakra through the whips of water. The man's eyes widened as he was shocked into unconsciousness.

The imp looked at the scene with disbelief. He rubbed his eyes again to see if they were playing tricks on him yet the scene remained the same. "First battle over with Naruto's victory, team Demon Shadow wins.

A/N There is the seventeenth chapter. I got a few ideas on how to eliminate Naruto's evil half per say but I am not sure if they are any good. So I am going to have you guys vote on these three options.

Option 1-he kills it at the end of the series with the orb going inside his mind

Option 2-he kills it by gaining an Arm akin to a dream catcher at Caldia

Option 3-he kills it in the training gate by fighting his shadow self

The option you choose will decide on how I end his life. So yeah, that's it. Review or i will send my pack of monkeys to your bed at night!