A/N: Dragonborn!

Now that I have your- wait, I already did this. Well this time, it's legit, 'cause I'm doing Skyrim. Love that game, now I love it more because I've fallen down the rabbit hole known as the mod community, so this story will feature a bunch of mods, like new areas, new people, new... whatever, since there's probably a mod for everything.. I was originally gonna have Naruto replace the Dragonborn, but after talking it over with a friend of mine who's a fan of both series like me, I decided to change it to him working alongside the Dragonborn, who will, of course, be my own Dragonborn I made. I also originally wrote this with the vanilla opening, but decided to go for, surprise surprise, a mod; Alternate Start: Live Another Life, to be exact.

Also, fun fact: my friend is playing Skyrim right now and made a Khajiit character and named it something he just thought up but, after looking up on the culture of Khajiit, the prefix to his character (the completely RANDOM one) perfectly matched his character: 'thief; clever.' We had a good laugh at that. And, based on that same principle, I named my guy with an appropriate prefix (but with foreknowledge, so not as awesomely coincidental)

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or the Elder Scrolls series

"Human speech"

'Human thought'

"Jutsu/Demon/Daedra/Dragon speech"

'Demon/Daedra/Dragon thought'

Let's begin

"Ugh... my head." A young adult with spiky, blonde hair sat up from the bed he sure as hell didn't remember being on before. Cradling his face, he looked around wherever he was, finding it was a dark stone-built cell, a lot bigger and more homey than normal prison cells back home; for one, it had a legitimate bed instead of a mat on the floor, and it even had a table and shelf against the wall. Fancy. "Where the hell am I?" Naruto asked, getting to his feet and walking around, idly noticing a chill in the air. Looking down, he found he was shirtless and barefoot, his pants torn up something fierce, but allowing him to maintain his decency. "Madara, you fucking asshole..."

Last he remembered was blasting the revived, god-like Uchiha with his and Sasuke's combined attacks, powered by their halves of the Rikudou Sennin's power. There was a big explosion, a lot of pain - for both sides - and... he woke up here. Wherever here was.

"Help! Is there anyone there?! Please help Khajiit!" A voice outside his cell door reached his ears before he could think on it further, baring a strange accent. As you would expect, Naruto was never one to ignore a cry for help, and he could already here the clashing of metal, so he got to steppin'. Unlocking the door the practical way - with fists - Naruto walked outside of the cell, finding himself in a larger room with six other cells in it, three on either side, none of them as 'lavish' as his own. In one of them, he saw... a cat man with dreads fighting a ghost.

Oooooooh, this is gonna get weird, isn't it?

Normally, Naruto would be heading the other direction if ghosts were involved - even at 17 years of age, assuming it had been more than a few days after that final clash, he was still afraid of ghosts - the mere fact he could see the cat man blocking the ghosts attacks and even returning some showed that his actual fear of ghosts - that you couldn't touch them but they could you - was a non-factor, so he could help!

"Hey ghost!" Naruto shouted, getting its attention, immediately charging into the cell and blasting it with a Rasengan to the stomach, sending it flying through two more sets of bars until it slammed into a stone wall, splattering into a pile of ectoplasmic goo on impact. "Gross, but effective! Naruto, 1; Ghost... probably a lot more... But not this one!" He announced, mostly to himself, before turning around to the cat man. "So, Cat Guy... can you explain what the hell is going on?" He asked with a smile.

"Do'Jhan thanks you for coming to his aid; the specter was more than he expected, but you took care of him quite easily. If this one may ask, who are you?" The cat man asked with a slightly sinister, but possible natural tone of voice and accent and manner of speaking; probably a culture thing. Naruto noticed he had markings that appeared to be a cross between tiger stripes and leopard spots that were darker than his grey fur, and amber eyes with slit pupils, his dreads he noticed earlier reaching between his shoulder blades.

"Uh... I'm Uzumaki Naruto. Hey, can you explain why I was able to hit that ghost? I thought you weren't supposed to be able to touch them?" Naruto asked.

"Well, thank you again, Uzumaki, but that-"

"Oh, no, my name's Naruto. Uzumaki is my surname." Naruto corrected.

"...Then why did you say Uzumaki first? Is that a custom of your people? Where do you hail from; this one does not recognize you as Nord, Redguard, or Imperial, and most definitely not Mer." Do'Jhan asked of him, tilting his head quizzically.

"That's how we introduce ourselves where I'm from, the Elemental Nations. And I've never heard of any of those kinds of people. Where am I, anyway?" Naruto asked in return.

"...That is a strange custom, and Khajiit has never heard of these 'Elemental Nations'; are you familiar with Skyrim, of Tamriel? That is where we are." Do'Jhan explained.

"Nope, never heard of it. It's possible that this place could be a different continent to my own; we've never really sailed beyond our own waters. Well, unless I can find some way home, I'm stuck here. Question is, how'd I get specifically in here? I woke up in a jail cell." Naruto pointed out.

"Ah yes, Do'Jhan believes he can explain. This one was attempting to enter Skyrim for a better life, as many of his kinsmen left for the north for the same reason. However, Khajiit ran into an Imperial blockade, just as you fell out of a tear in the air. The Imperials took both of us in and brought us here. They put you in the higher-security cell, and Do'Jhan out here. This one woke up not five minutes ago, and he noticed the cells were already empty, save for the three ghosts out here, but the one you attacked killed the other two, and attempted to strike this one down. Again, Do'Jhan thanks you for coming to his aid." The feline-human thanked again.

"No problem; I always try to help when I can. Plus, I got a personal beef with ghosts, so that's a plus. Say, since neither of us are criminals - I fell out of the sky and you came here just to make a better living - we should get out of here, right?" Naruto offered, stretching his hand out.

Do'Jhan smiled and nodded. "Yes, Do'Jhan agrees with you." The rags-wearing beast-man shook the blondes hand, and they proceeded to search for a exit.

On the walkway between the cells, they found a letter on the ground next to a skeleton with a shield Do'Jhan recognized as Imperial-make.

The storm is coming, I can tell. The water leaking in has become stronger. There's no better time than now. When the storm hits, the guards will be assembling to figure out what to do with us. Amidst the confusion, we need to overpower the few that will be standing guard outside our cells and hold off the cell block entrance. We need only hold off until I can get one of their swords and break open the drainage grate in the corner of my cell. That's where we'll make our escape. Everyone move down rider and we'll try to find shelter there until the storm passes.

It appeared to be a letter one of the prisoners made for a mass escape. By the skeleton and ghosts, it both succeeded and failed, so they weren't going to use this 'drainage grate' in the left cell closest to Naruto's. Instead, they went through the hole in the wall of the one on the right, breaking into a small cell block, with another ghost patrolling.

Cursing his destroyed kunai pouch, Naruto formed a plan for both of them to take it down. Running towards it when its back was to them, Do'Jhan quickly kicked the back of its knee to bring it down to them, allowing Naruto to take its head off with a Rasengan. Going up the stairs it came down from, they found a small armory the guards had, though a passage forward passed it had collapsed. Usually never one for armor, Naruto made an exception just so he could have a shirt-proxy and some footwear, going for a cuirass and boots of rough leather, Do'Jhan putting on a full set of some spare light Imperial armor, sans helmet due to his ears.

Whilst doing that, they found a second letter, probably left by the guards.

We can't let the prisoners out, so either kill them or let them drown. Either way, all guards must evacuate as soon as possible. The storm is about to wash this whole fort into the river and I'll be damned if I have to report one Legion death while under my watch. You have your orders!

Oh, Naruto had a feeling he was going to love these Imperials... Although... "Hey Do'Jhan, what's this 'Legion' this guy mentioned?" He asked his temporary comrade.

"The Imperial Legion, army of the Mede Empire, based in Cyrodiil, the Imperial capital. Currently the plaything of the Aldmeri Dominion as of the White-Gold Concordat, if you ever asked a Nord." Do'Jhan explained.

"...I followed none of that." Naruto responded plainly.

"...This is going to be a long talk, isn't it?" Do'Jhan observed. He then proceeded to give a crash-course on Skyrim, its people, and recent events. Thankfully he mentioned his people, Khajiit, so Naruto wouldn't have to awkwardly ask and feel like a jerk with his blunt personality. 'Hey Do'Jhan, what are you?' Bullet dodged. Other than that, Naruto learned about Mer, Beast-men, both sides of the current civil war - Do'Jhan expressing his hatred of these 'Stormcloaks' for their blatant racism against anyone not a Nord and the Aldmeri Dominion for technically being at fault for the war for outlawing the worship of a man-turned-god, Talos, which spurred the Stormcloak rebellion. Plus, the High Elves were all stuck-up assholes, anyway. With that, Naruto felt he knew enough to not immediately piss people off... at least on purpose.

Do'Jhan took a pair of Imperial swords and a bow, not able to find any arrows immediately but he was confident they'd come across some, Naruto taking a dagger for a kunai-proxy, though it didn't seem useful for throwing, so he'd have to do something about that. He and Naruto decided to stick together in their adventures across the land, Naruto because he thought it'd be fun and that it would be nice to have a friend so soon in a new place, and Do'Jhan so he could have a comrade as he sought a living in this land.

"Naruto, Do'Jhan wonders how you came to this place, what that tear was that dropped you here. Do you know how you came to be here?" The Khajiit wondered.

"Hmm... I'm not sure. Last I remember, me and Sasuke were about to hit Madara-teme with our attack, then pain, then I was here. Maybe he tried to pull something, and I ended up here." Naruto pondered on that, not sure what Madara could do that might result in him appearing in another place, or even maybe another dimension; he had the Rikudou Sennin's power, who knew what he could do?

"And who are these Sasuke and Madara-teme?" Do'Jhan asked, causing Naruto to chuckle hearing his unique accent use the honorific.

"Sasuke is my best friend, and an Uchiha like Madara..." Naruto made a point to correct the Khajiit, Do'Jhan understanding this was another of Naruto's quirks, these honorifics. "...Sasuke and I got some crazy-awesome power, but so did Madara-teme, and I guess when we clashed, something happened and I ended up here." He explained.

"I believe I can shed some light on the situation." A familiar rumbling voice intoned in Naruto's mind.

'Kurama! I was worried for a second you didn't come with me! You know what happened, then?' Naruto asked his tenant and literally closest friend, genuinely happy to have even one 'person' from his home with him.

"Yes. I'll admit I was out of commission for the past week, by the way, when we first got here; Black Zetsu's interference did some damage, and I was forced to compensate. I only just now woke up." Kurama explained, sounding a bit tired.

'Wow, something tired you out? But how did Black Zetsu interfere?' Naruto asked, wondering about the slippery bastard who had control of Obito's body.

"He used the Uchiha's blasted Kamui on you just as you were attacking Madara, and it mingled with the chakra's of the three of you. In the end, Madara was atomized, and you were blasted across dimensions." Kurama said.

'Awesome; Madara-teme's dead?! That means we won the war! What about Sasuke?' Naruto asked, cheering for their victory.

At this question, Kurama went silent for a while.

'...Kurama?'

"Your friend... Sasuke... he died, Naruto. He died with Madara." Kurama broke the silence. Normally, if it related to the death of an Uchiha, he'd be happy, but this was the best friend of his container and friend, so he couldn't afford to show his normal amusement.

'No...'

"Naruto, I'm so-"

'NO! SHUT UP; YOU'RE LYING!'

"I AM NOT LYING! YOU KNOW I WOULDN'T LIE ABOUT THIS!" Kurama roared in rebuttal, not intending to stand for Naruto turning on him in this situation.

'But... but he couldn't have died! We were going to win the war together! This... this is all Zetsu's fault! If he hadn't interfered, Sasuke would still be alive!'

"And so would Madara."

'I don't care! We had the old man's power; we were going to beat him, anyway!'

"There's something else. Naruto, look at your hands."

'What abou-'

"Just look at them."

Acquiescing, Naruto looked at his hands, finding he still had the sun symbol from the Rikudou Sennin in his right hand. But his left... held the moon. That was Sasuke's part... "Do'Jhan, how does my left eye look?" He asked, just to make sure.

Just about to start waving his hand in the blondes face to see if he was still conscious, Do'Jhan jumped a little in surprise. "Ah, Do'Jhan was going to ask about that, but he assumed it was something about your culture where having two different eyes was normal." He responded, unknowingly causing a cold mass to form in Naruto's stomach.

"What does it look like?" Naruto asked, fearing the worse.

"It is... purple, with circles, and commas on two rings. Does it mean anything?" Do'Jhan asked innocently, wondering about the weird design.

'No... no no no! This is some kind of sick joke!' Naruto mentally raged, Kurama silent as he let him vent.

"This... this is Sasuke's eye. That power I told you about that would have let us beat Madara? It gave Sasuke this eye. I just found out how I got here, and it killed Madara and Sasuke. His power moved to me, like a parasite, and now I'm stuck with this. It was meant to seal Madara and stop the Mugen Tsukuyomi when he used it, but now that it never happened, and he died, I'm stuck with it." Naruto explained, grief-stricken at the idea of baring one last reminding of his dead friend.

"Oh... Do'Jhan apologizes. He does so again in asking what is the significance of the eye? And exactly what does this 'power' you received entail? From how you speak of this Madara, he seemed powerful, so you must have been able to surpass him." The Khajiit commented.

Gladly taking the opportunity to take his mind off Sasuke's death, Naruto acquiesced. "In the Elemental Nations, there are three sets of eyes that gift the bearer great power, and my friend Sasuke already had one of them: the Sharingan. It let him see his opponents movements, cast illusions, and copy techniques, and when it became stronger, he was able to cast the strongest illusion in the lands, three days of torture squeezed into a single second, create black flames wherever he looked that could last for an entire week, and summon a giant spectral warrior that could act as the ultimate attack and defense. When he got his half of the power, his left eye turned into another of the three special eyes, the Rinnegan. I fought someone who had mastered the Rinnegan, but Sasuke already knew how to use a couple techniques shortly after getting it. He used its ability to control gravity, and I know about the other five powers; it can absorb chakra, turn the user into a machine full of weapons, summon any animal to attack, read people's minds by tearing out their souls, and heal any injury by summoning the King of Hell. I guess, with his death, the power moved to me. And my half let me do this." With nary but a thought, Naruto had taken the opportunity to absorb natural energy, even through the forts walls, while he was talking, and entered his Rikudou Sennin Modo. "My Sage Mode got upgraded by the Rikudou Sennin's chakra, and combined it with by Kyuubi Chakura Modo." He explained somberly, undoing the transformation, not caring about the sudden exhaustion, knowing it would pass.

"...Amazing. Do'Jhan would have never thought eyes would give this sort of power. But he has to ask, how did you come by this information, finding out your friend... passed, and what is 'chakra'?" Do'Jhan asked, interested in Naruto's world.

Nodding, Naruto had to give his comrade a payback crash course in the history of shinobi, bringing up the Rikudou Sennin and the bijuu, coming to a head on the night of his birth and the interference of a Madara-imposter resulting in the strongest bijuu being sealed in him, then fast-forwarding to the Fourth Shinobi World War and the other bijuu gifting him with fragments of their chakra, explaining it was his friend Kurama that told him this.

"...That... was an interesting story. Normally, Do'Jhan wouldn't believe you, but after you mentioned the abilities of these eyes, he is inclined to do so." The Khajiit said.

"Damn right he better believe!"

'...Oh Kami no.' Naruto dreaded that unfortunately familiar voice, and what it could mean.

"Hello Naruto-san."

'Hi Matatabi...' Naruto mentally groaned a greeting.

"Oh yes, I forgot to mention that, with Madara's death, the forms of the other bijuu were dispersed, much like Isobu did when his jinchuriki died, and until they reform, their consciousnesses will take root in here due to the fragments they left you; Gyuuki isn't here because the fragment he left with Kirabi acted as a stronger node than the one in you, so he returned there.. While you won't exactly have access to their chakra - frankly, I believe I'm enough, thank you very much - but you still have access to their abilities like before. For such an empty head, it's getting surprisingly crowded in here." Kurama commented as if talking about the weather.

'Love you too, Kurama...' Naruto mentally weeped; the last thing he needed was eight voices in his head, only thankful that Gyuuki wasn't there. He didn't need the two strongest bijuu butting heads every two seconds. "Great, now I have the other seven in my head." He commented aloud.

"...Do'Jhan expresses his condolences. It isn't enviable to have voices in one's head, especially if you aren't insane." The Khajiit said.

"That's debatable." Kurama piped in.

'Hey!'

"Ugh, let's just get out of here..." Naruto said, walking with Do'Jhan out of the room.

"Yes, lets." His comrade agreed, glancing at a map on the wall that showed them the exit.

They managed to find it, walking outside to find the fort had partially collapsed into the river before them, the skies grey as rain sprinkled the land.

"Well... fuck." Naruto commented intelligently, paling when the fort rumbled beneath them. "Okay, let's go!"

"Agreed." Do'Jhan simply said before they began hopping the rocks in the river to cross it, the prison conveniently breaking off from the mountain it was in the side of and falling into the waters.

They scrambled across the river bank, happening upon a small fishing lodge that had a tree crashed into it, taking the owner out by his head.

"Yeesh... poor guy." Naruto commented with a grimace, looking around for anything, happening upon a carving as if made by the owner. "Huh... not so lucky now, huh Lorenz?" He asked with a bit of dark humor. He hummed quizzically at a book by the dead man's side. "Hey Do'Jhan, what's the 'Lusty Argonian Maid' about?" He asked his comrade.

Turning to the blonde almost robotically, Do'Jhan took the offered book and threw it into the river. "Do'Jhan will tell you when you are older." Was all he said.

Deciding not the ask questions, Naruto just rolled with it. "What's with this statue, then?" He asked, thumbing towards a golden statuette of a woman with her hair wrapped around and down her form and holding a flower above her head.

"Ah, that is a Statue of Dibella, the goddess of beauty and love. Do'Jhan has heard there are many... groups devoted to her within Skyrim. He has also heard that the statues themselves fetched for a hefty price." Do'Jhan answered.

"Hmm... well, Lucky Lorenz isn't gonna need it, and we will need money in Skyrim... hold on." Naruto grabbed the letter by Lorenz's side, turning to the back of it and taking the discarded quill to create a rudimentary sealing matrix, something Ero-Sennin taught him during their trip away from Konoha, bless his perverted soul. Taking the statue and putting it on the paper, Naruto pushed chakra into it and the statue disappeared in a puff of smoke. "Awesome! Now we can carry it without weighing ourselves down. I can do this with our other stuff, too." He offered, pocketing the letter.

"...Is this another ability of your chakra?" Do'Jhan asked flatly, disbelieving what he witnessed.

"Yep, that was Fuinjutsu, or Sealing Techniques. My second teacher taught me it when we left my village for a couple years; he said it was an art my parents mastered, so I wanted to follow in their footsteps. I'll probably have to invest in some ink wells and quills, though, to keep this up." Naruto explained with a shrug. If push came to shove, he could use his blood and bits of his clothing if they lacked the materials, though he wouldn't prefer it.

"The more Khajiit hears of this chakra, the more he is surprised. Was that sphere attack you used in the prison also a chakra technique?" Do'Jhan asked as they climbed up the steps from the shack and took to the main road.

"The Rasengan? Yep, Ero-Sennin - that's Jiraiya, my second teacher - taught me it when I was 12. I learned later it was a technique my father made, so I was almost obligated to learn it, even if I didn't know it." The blonde explained.

"You mention your parents as if you did not know them; Khajiit assumes this means you were an orphan. Did no one tell you?" Do'Jhan asked.

Naruto's smile took a somber tone. "No, not really... for one thing, it was a village secret that nobody know I was my father's son, since he had enemies inside and outside of the village, so they'd come after me. And even though the same wasn't true for my mother, no one told me about her either. I wasn't well liked in my village because I held Kurama; in fact, my only friends were the leader, the Hokage, and a pair of ramen chefs. I was either overpriced or not welcome at any other place; not until I went to Hell and back saving the village." He explained, not holding a grudge against the villagers. Even though he didn't agree with Nagato's methods, he understand that there was some truth to it; not understanding someone or something lead to fear, and fear lead to hate.

"...Do'Jhan is sorry for bringing this up. That is a cruelty beyond measure, but this one senses you don't hate them for it, so he will respect your decision and let it go. Perhaps you wish to talk about something good from your life instead?" The Khajiit asked, changing the subject.

"Maybe some other time; we're coming up on a tower and that lady right there is giving off a lot of negative emotions." Naruto responded seriously.

"Ah, perhaps a Highwayman? Bandits that charge a toll to use the road. Usually there's never just one, so the rest must be in the towers; this one can even see one on the walkway between them." Do'Jhan observed as they approached a pair of towers joined by a bridge over the raging river, a dark-skinned woman in furs approaching them from a cooking pot by the entrance.

"Hold up; this here's a toll road. You wanna get by, pay up, say, 200 gold, and I won't have to 'convince' you, okay?" The woman demanded with an arrogant smirk.

"...Yeah, no." Naruto answered, before a quick uppercut knocked her right out. Or killed her; that loud crack might've said the latter. More than once, Naruto forgot how strong he had gotten over the years. Normally, he'd feel bad about killing someone without meaning to, but this was a bandit, one of many people who thrived on lording their strength over others, and he was sure man a passerby denied her, and met their end.

"Do'Jhan believes we should wipe out these bandits; we were not, and will never be, the last of their victims if we do not." His Khajiit comrade spoke up.

"Yeah... I think you're right. These sort of people disgust me; the world will be a better place without them. I'll take this tower, you take the other; I'll cover you while you cross the bridge." Naruto said, putting his feet to the wall and walking up it, smirking lightning at Do'Jhan's gobsmacked expression as he defied physics, and popped his head over the top of the tower, finding one crossbow-wielding bandit sitting in a chair in a makeshift lookout post, and one on the second floor of the tower, messing with some stone table on a table surrounded by beakers and giving off a green glow. The bandit had green skin, large muscles, and Naruto could see his dangerous underbite from up here. 'Must be those Orsimer Do'Jhan mentioned.' He commented. Shrugging, Naruto went over the edge and went inside, using chakra to silence his landing, and creeped up the stairs to the lookout bandit, slitting his throat silently, and taking his crossbow to look over the bridge and rock outcropping next to the other tower, finding one guard on each. Steadying his hand, he took them both out in quick succession, hesitating in discarding the long-range weapon. "Huh... maybe I should keep this until I can make some sort of throwing knife, or maybe Do'Jhan'd like it." With a shrug, Naruto pilfered the corpse at his feet for extra bolts and the strap, securing both to his back and waist, crouching near the edge to watch his friend sneaking across the bridge successfully. Using chakra channeled to his ears, Naruto heard the telltale sound of blade meeting flesh twice, waiting for a third, only to hear him shuffle around normally; guess there were two in there, too. With a shrug, Naruto redirected the chakra to his legs and took a leap between the towers, grabbing the edge of the more legitimate lookout tower at the top and vaulting himself right into the chair at the table, making an effort to kick his feet up and appear as if he were lazing about, waiting for Do'Jhan. When the Khajiit's head popped up at the bottom of the stairs, he waved at him. "'Bout time you got here; I was getting bored." Naruto commented with a grin.

"...You used chakra again, didn't you?" Do'Jhan asked lamely, receiving a cheeky nod. With a sigh, he went up to join the blonde. "What is with the crossbow?" He asked, noticing it.

"I was thinking of either taking it for myself until I make throwing knives, so I can have a kunai-proxy, or for you to replace your bow since you haven't found arrows yet." Naruto answered honestly.

"No need; the one found arrows on his victims. Besides, there is a sort of charm of bows over crossbows. You can keep it." Do'Jhan commented, 'holstering' the bow on his torso, showing the quiver of arrows with iron heads he pilfered from the bandits.

Naruto shrugged. "Okay; cool. I'll have to find a blacksmith for the throwing knives, though, unless this thing grows on me." He commented, getting up from the chair, before noticing the bow on the table behind him. "Hey, why's this one glowing?" He asked, picking it up.

"Ah, that bow is enchanted; a use of magic sealed to an item for a desire effect. The same can be done with armor, though only weapons have a limited use before they require recharging with soul gems." Do'Jhan provided.

"...There was a lot in that crash course you left out, huh?" Naruto responded flatly.

"Just as this one is sure there was in yours." Do'Jhan responded with a chuckle, which Naruto shared soon enough.

"True enough; wanna take it, see if it's better than yours?" Naruto offered the bow to his comrade.

"Hmm, yes and no. We should take it, but to learn the enchantment. It's the same material as Khajiit's, also untempered, and this one does not know the enchantment, so the effect may not be desired. Can that 'seal' you used on the Statue of Dibella hold is as well, or do you require another set of paper and quill? Because Khajiit found a set for you down below." Do'Jhan said, taking out an ink well, rolled up piece of parchment, and quill.

"Oh cool; thanks. But no, the seal can hold more. Considering the material and size of the matrix itself, it can hold about 200 pounds of stuff, so we can 185 left; this bow doesn't weigh that much, so we're okay." Naruto took the offered equipment and sealed it and the bow in the letter he used.

"Very well; shall we continue on our previous journey? This one can see a large town from up here, perhaps even a Hold. The terrain appears to be between the tundra and forestry of Skyrim, Khajiit believes it may be Whiterun, the center Hold of the land." Do'Jhan observed.

"That's cool, no better place to start than the center." Naruto commented, following Do'Jhan down the tower, finding there was another set of beakers and a stone mini-table. "Hey Do'Jhan, what's that? It was over in the other tower, too." Naruto asked, pointing towards it.

Do'Jhan turned to look at what he meant. "Ah, that is an Alchemy Table; it lets you brew potions and poisons with various ingredients you can find across Skyrim, both from vendors and by the road, such as certain plants and fungi, as well as more... interesting ingredients." He explained.

"Oh, cool. Sounds like something Sakura-chan would like." Naruto commented with a warm smile.

Do'Jhan gave him a look.

"Th-that's another friend." Naruto explained sheepishly.

The Khajiit merely sighed. "You have a lot of friends, don't you?" He asked rhetorically.

Naruto, being Naruto, didn't understand rhetoric. "Damn right I do! By the end of the war, I think every shinobi in the five Great Villages were my friends, including the Kage and the bijuu!" He proclaimed with a beaming smile.

"I'm not your friend! I'm just stuck in here with the rest of these idiots!" Shukaku denied.

"Yes you are, Shukaku." Kurama rebutted lazily.

"Shut up!"

'Oh the love, I can feel it, really...' Naruto responded with a wanting sigh. Turning his attention back to reality, he noticed something off the beaten path. "Hey Do'Jhan, what's that?" He pointed to a human-sized monolith on a hill, a woman in a robe studying it while referencing a book in her hands.

"Hmm? Oh, that must be the Ritual Stone, one of the 13 Standing Stones of Skyrim this one read about before coming here. Pledging yourself to it allows you the ability to raise the dead around you to fight for you once a day. That mage appears to be doing that very thing." Do'Jhan explained after looking and comparing it to his mental list of the Standing Stones and their locations, finding the one east of Whiterun.

"That sounds a bit creepy. I knew a pair of real snakes that made a habit of raising the dead; heck, the second one raised an entire army of the dead for his side of the war! Then Sasuke revived the first guy and had him raise the four Hokage, including my dad, to fight for us. It was really weird." Naruto brought up, his memories of Orochimaru and Kabuto not fond ones.

"These shinobi are capable of amazing and dangerous things, the more you speak of them." Do'Jhan commented.

"Eh, I guess it'd be amazing to normal people." Naruto responded with a shrug. "So, you sure that's Whiterun, now that we're closer?" He asked as they walked down the road, a hand over his eyes to look at the town in the distance.

"Yes, Khajiit believes that to be Whiterun most assuredly. From what I read of it, there will be two blacksmiths for your needs, and the Companions Guild is stationed there. They are a group of warriors that appear to be similar to the Fighter's Guild in Cyrodiil; they came here an Era or two ago. They are essentially mercenaries for higher; there are even rumors that members of the Circle are werewolves." Do'Jhan parroted what he read about the Companions.

"Whooooaaa, werewolves?! I want a piece of that!" Naruto responded with child-like exuberance.

"This one believed you would..." Do'Jhan said lamentably as they crossed the bridge near the farms around Whiterun, before his ears picked up something. "What was that?" He suddenly asked, running forward.

"What was what?" Naruto asked, following and channeling chakra to his ears to pick up what his friend heard, eventually happening upon growling, yelling, and sword-clashing. Finally breaking over a hill, they spied four armored men and women fighting a Giant; literally, it was at least twice as tall as any of them, garbed in furs and swinging around a giant bone. "Come on, let's help them!" He said, already reaching for his crossbow.

Saying nothing, Do'Jhan reached for his bow, both of them taking aim. Naruto, however, tapped into a bit of Son Goku's chakra, coating the bolt in fire chakra, and they both fired. Do'Jhan's arrow embedded itself in the Giant's elbow, stopping its attacks due to the pain of moving that joint, and Naruto's bolt stabbed into its pectoral, going up in a burst of flame and causing it to roar and grown as its beard and lower face caught on fire, patting at it haphazardly.

"Put those swords to use!" Naruto yelled, getting to a knee and cupping his hands, Do'Jhan hesitating for only a split second before planting his foot in them, letting Naruto send him flying towards the writhing giant, swords sinking into its stomach. Planting his feet on its thighs, Do'Jhan pushed himself free, letting the Giant's blood and a bit of intestine spill. Just as it reached to cover the wound, Naruto appeared before it with a pair of head-sized orbs of chakra. "Tsuin Oodama Rasengan!" (Twin Big Ball Spiraling Spheres) Burying them in its stomach, Naruto almost immediately sheared off its hand from the force of them, tearing a chunk out of its stomach before the force of them sent it tumbling back, tripping it over the stone wall around the nearby garden as it finally died.

"Well... that was interesting." Do'Jhan commented after everyone else was struck silent.

"What the hell?! That was amazing! How long have you two been working on that combination, working together to just know how each other would move?!" The red-head with a bow raved/questioned.

"Uh... Do'Jhan, how long was it between seeing them fighting and me actually saying something?" Naruto asked.

"This one believes five seconds."

"'Bout five seconds." Naruto answered the woman with face paint, a cheeky grin on his face.

"...What? You just came up with that maneuver? Oh, you two need to join the Companions; we could use men like you!" The woman insisted.

"Oh, you guys are the Companions?! We wanted to join!" Naruto responded, stars in his eyes.

"Do'Jhan never said that." The Khajiit said over Naruto's shoulder.

"I wanted to join!" Naruto corrected himself.

Leaning back at the invasion of her personal space, the red head blinked in surprise. "Uh, well, it's not my place to say; you need to talk to Kodlak, our Harbinger, about that. If you really want to join, head into Whiterun and look for the building with a giant boat for a roof. Wait about twenty minutes for us to warn everyone ahead so you can just head inside without someone thinking you're thieves. Just head downstairs and go to the end of the hall; he'll be waiting there." She explained, backing away and heading back to Whiterun with the other Companions.

"This is awesome! We can join the Companions already!" Naruto cheered.

"Do'Jhan never said he would... ahh, why not? Killing things for money sounds right up this one's alley. We can probably get some new equipment while we wait for her to warn them." Do'Jhan suggested with a shrug.

"Sounds like a plan, cat man!" Naruto agreed, heading towards Whiterun with a skip in his step, Do'Jhan following him with his face in his hand.

(Whiterun)

"Hey wouldja look at that? A blacksmith right through the door." Naruto noticed. "Oh, also, this place is fuckin' pretty." He added.

and it was. Whiterun, and probably a majority of Skyrim's Holds, had that rustic charm that gave you a down-to-earth feel, wood-built houses, a miniature market districts with merchants yelling their wares at passersby, the waft of food in the air, the sound of chatter filling the streets, it was like a touch of home right in front of him.

"Yes, it reminds Do'Jhan of Elsweyr, but without the trees and thin pools of crystal-clear water or tropical crabs nipping at your heels." Do'Jhan reminisced.

"Well, before we can start spending, we need to turn in that Statue of Dibella for some spending money." Naruto decided, heading towards the market stalls at the end of the street with Do'Jhan.

Circling the well, they asked around until they found someone who dealt with items such as the statue, an old woman dealing in jewelry and gems. She gave them 2,000 'Septims', which they split, heading back to the blacksmith near the entrance of the town, Do'Jhan heading inside to re-equip himself and get some more, or better, arrows, Naruto staying outside to talk with the blacksmith, a dark-skinned woman with her brown hair pulled back and a leather apron over her red clothes.

"I'm Adrianne Avenicci, how can I help you?" She asked in a professional tone, taking a moment away from the scrap of metal she was hammering to address the blonde.

"Hey, do you think you can help me forge some throwing knives?" Naruto asked.

"Throwing knives? Hmm, don't get asked much about those, but I got a blueprint laying around, unless you have a specific design in mind." She offered.

"Oh, if that's okay! You got any paper?" Naruto requested.

"Hold on." Adrianne headed inside, finding her husband bartering with a Khajiit over a full set of leather armor, like the blondes outside. Getting some paper, an inkwell and quill, she headed back outside, setting it on the workbench for Naruto to draw up his design.

Gleefully, Naruto sketched out the design of the kunai he was familiar with, writing an estimation of its weight that he vaguely remembered.

"Hmm... this design is pretty ingenious. Sleek enough for throwing, but bulky enough for hand-to-hand, cloth for better grip, and a ring for alternate holding or even wires to set up traps. Its overall design can create two from a single Iron Ingot, with just a length of leather strips for the handle. But this name, 'Ku-nai'; how'd you come across this design?" Adrianne asked, blacksmith-fangirling all over the design.

"It was the norm where I come from, standard regulation. Literally everyone kept a supply of them on hand." Naruto answered with a shrug.

"Hmm... well like I said, they're pretty economical in terms of making them, so it should be easy enough. If you want, I can teach you how to do it yourself?" She offered.

"That'd be great." Naruto accepted with a smile.

"Then let's get to work."

(Thirty minutes later)

After a bit of fudging on physical making the kunai, they finally got the process down to perfectly shape the metal with hammer strikes, making a set of thirty for Naruto, which he paid for, spending about 10 Septims each, leaving him with 1700 left; maybe he should go for a change of armor like Do'Jhan. Perhaps a set of bracers just to go with what he was already wearing, maybe some more ammo for his crossbow.

"Well that takes care of your weapon problem, but now we have the issue of how you're going to actually hold them." Adrianne observed as the set the final kunai on the workbench.

"That's easy enough; I just need a pouch to hold 'em and I'll take care of the rest; can you show me how to make that, too?" Naruto asked, receiving a nod and taking another five minutes to learn how to tan hides into leather and make a pouch out of it. "Hold on." He said, stalling the final step of knitting the sides together into the actual pouch shape, taking the ink and quill to draw some gibberish - to Adrianne - on what would be the bottom of the inside. After that, he folded it up and knit the edges together. "Now, watch and be amazed." He said, finding amusement in what he was about to do, picking up five kunai and stuffing them inside. Before she could comment about not being amazed, he took another handful, and put it inside, unhindered. Handful after handful he stuffed into the pouch, not tearing the thread or shearing his hand up from attempting to stuff them inside. When the last was inside, he turned it over and let five fall out. Just five.

"H-how? Wh-what?!" Adrianne marveled in shock, thoroughly 'amazed.'

"Where I come from, my people have these techniques we call Fuinjutsu that let us seal things, from physical objects to stuff like the elements and even concepts like time and space. I wrote a basic seal in the bottom that can store up to 200 pounds of stuff, just like this." Naruto took out the letter he used to hold the Statue of Dibella and writing equipment Do'Jhan got him at the Valtheim Towers, a location Naruto learned the name of from Adrianne as he asked about places in Skyrim. "Oh, guess I don't need this, then." He realized, unsealing the writing stuff, crumpling up the later, and throwing it into the fire of the forge.

"Wait, is there any way you can teach me how to make these seals?" Adiranne asked, beaming at the prospect; if people caught wind that her equipment came with seals to hold whatever they wanted, her business would boom, and she'd finally show up Eorlund Gray-Mane and his stupid Skyforge...

"Uh... I'm not sure. Fuinjutsu needs chakra, and as far as I know, no one in Skyrim has chakra." Naruto answered, unsure.

"Oh..." Adrianne moped, looking like a kicked puppy, before perking up as she thought of something. "Will magic suffice? I've dabbled a little!" She said, hoping against hope.

"...I'm not sure. How does magic work? If it's close enough to chakra, it might be possible." Naruto answered honestly.

"Magic is the manipulation of magicka into a physical force. Magicka itself is often believed to be either the ambient energy left behind by Magnus' death as he created this plane of existence, or a repercussion of creating it, tearing a hole in the Aetherious, his lesser deities escaping and opening smaller holes, creating what we know as the sun and stars, or it is the ambient energy let off by the dead." Adrianne explained, going into as much detail as she remembered from her childhood classes in the subject in hopes that it would increase the chances of this young man teaching her about seals.

"Ambient energy, huh? Sounds a lot like natural energy. It may not be exact, but maybe, just maybe, it might work. Let's try it out and see." Naruto relented, drawing a seal on an empty space of the blueprint for the kunai, putting one of them on it. "Try channeling magicka into it, in different patterns and flows to see what works if this really can." He advised, feeling a little like a teacher, which was weird considering her was the younger of the two.

Merely nodding, Adrianne put her hands on the seal just like Naruto did to unseal his writing equipment, and channeled magicka in a fairly straightforward way. As she subconsciously expected, it didn't work, so she went for a different route, trying pattern after pattern of channeling magicka, sweat forming on her brow.

Finally, she got something; a twitch, a little fizzle of smoke. It wasn't much, but it was something. With renewed fervor, she attacked the array with her magicka, capitalizing on what she thought would work. On a whim, she tried a spiral pattern for the magicka flow, and it worked. Constantly rotating the magicka worked, and she was able to seal the kunai.

Not even caring how it made her look, she jumped it placed, clapped, and giggled in success. Next came unsealing it; putting her hands back, she used the spiral pattern to unseal it.

Then came a bump; it didn't work.

'Maybe...' She wondered, reversing the rotation. Triumphantly, the seal poofed with smoke, and the kunai appeared. "It worked! I did it!" She cheered.

Smiling, Naruto nodded off to the side. "You sure did." He commented simply, just basking in the feeling of a proud sensei, ignoring the oddness of their age difference; one was never too old to learn, or too young to teach.

"This is amazing! For teaching me this, you can get a 10% discount here at War Maiden's, and I'll give you 20% of the profits for everything with a seal I sell!" Adrianne offered with a broad smile.

"Oh! Uh, sure I guess; that sounds nice. I could sure use the money here in Skyrim. Thanks!" Naruto responded, surprised but pleased, shaking her offered hand. Taking the kunai they used as an example, he bid her farewell and headed inside the shop for a quick stretch, buying a set of leather bracers for 130 Septims and 40 bolts for the crossbow for another 400, leaving him with 770. Just before he left, Adrianne's husband Ulfberth told him Do'Jhan headed to the Bannered Mare, the inn passed the market stalls. Thanking him, Naruto headed that way, enjoying the familiar weight of a kunai pouch on his hip and acclimating to the armor on his arms; a foreign sensation, but probably useful in the future.

Entering the Bannered Mare, Naruto was struck with the sounds of merriment and music. Across the fire pit he saw a man singing and drumming, to his right Do'Jhan was laughing with a man in a robe much like the woman at the Ritual Stone, while the possible owner chatter amicably with the man at the counter. With a shrug, Naruto walked over to his friend and his new friend. "What's goin' on Do'Jhan?" He asked, taking a seat.

"Naruto, friend! Meet this one's new friend; he is very funny!" Do'Jhan introduced, already sounding a little drunk-happy.

"Cool; what's your name, guy?" Naruto asked with a chuckle.

The man grinned. "Call me Sam."

End Ch. 1

Is it weird that I made Adrianne sort of adorable? 'Cause I feel it should be. And I can't find myself to care. Anyway, as I previously mentioned, I initially wrote this as following the vanilla opening, the cart ride, beheading, Alduin; all that jazz. But then I hit a block, and decided, on a whim, to go the Alternate Start route, and lo and behold I have a finished chapter just a day after starting it! Tell me what that says about my writing ability...

Anyway, for those of you who play PC Skyrim, and thus use mods (you'd be doing it wrong not to, I'm sorry) you'll recognize the opening as the "I want to get out of this cell" choice if the Mara statue was there. It obviously wasn't, since it'd be pointless as Naruto knew nothing about Skyrim, so I chose the obvious option.

And like I mentioned, Do'Jhan is my character for Skyrim (when I'm not using my intentionally OP one that's a fucking Uchiha because... mods) and thus, he is the Dragonborn instead of Naruto, since that friend I mentioned talk me out of it. And in retrospect of the Naruto-timeline, Naruto left just before Madara was about to use the Infinite Tsukuyomi, so there's no fucked up world left behind, and Madara is definitely dead, I'm not pulling some shit where he followed Naruto here, the same for Sasuke, since Naruto has his half of the Sage's power. Naruto will train in the Sharingan and Rinnegan, so don't worry, but he won't use them except for serious shit like... dragons, probably. And whatever mod I might use that has really big enemies, I don't have a complete list of what mods I chose, just a rough estimate. So far, that includes:

Alternate Start, obviously.

Jaggersfeld

Falskaar

Wyrmstooth (gonna have to look up a playthrough of these two since my Skyrim keeps CTDing when I get into them so I can't do it personally)

Thieves Guild shortcut

Breezehome Fully Upgradable

Immersive Creatures and Armors

Masters of Death, Rise of the Dark Brotherhood

Roderick Redbeard (fuckin' love this guy XD)

Enhanced Skyrim Factions, The Companions Guild (mostly just the extra dialogue)

Technically Naruto Ultimate Overhaul 'cause... y'know, Naruto's here XD

Water, Wind, and Earth Destruction Magic (mostly for Do'Jhan)

Thunderchild

World Eater Beater

Aldmeri Domain (when I finally get to doing it... I've literally never played it since I downloaded it 'cause I keep restarting. I'll do it this time!)

Auriels Crossbow and Swords

Orcish and Ebony Weapons Replacer

Crossbows Basic collection

Immersive Weapons

And Stalhrim Extra Crafting

Pitch your own ideas for mods to include and I'll think it over. As always, tell me what you think.

Ja ne!