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The Legend of Zelda: Interloper of Time

-Chapter 10-

-Inside Jabu Jabu's Belly-

"Oh man, that was aweful." Naruto groaned as he picked himself off the squishy floor, Saria a little over to his left doing the same while wiping off the copious amounts of saliva she'd been covered with. "Navi-chan, Elia-chan, are you two okay?" He called while looking towards the only source of light in the room. Navi fluttered in the air weakly, Elia carried in her arms unconscious. "We're fine, but Elia's out cold." Wiping off his hands, Naruto held them out to Navi who gingerly placed the knocked-out fairy in them before fluttering into his hair and making herself glow as brightly as possible.

Hearing an odd noise, Naruto switched to cradling Elia with one hand while drawing is sword and turned around. "A bubble? Ha, guess I'm getting a bit jumpy." Naruto laughed as he looked at the large bouncing bubble. "Careful, that bubble is likely full of-*Pop*" "Gah!" "…highly acidic gas." Navi finished as Naruto jabbed the bubble with his sword only to drop it when the influx of corrosive air burned his hand and arm. "Thank the goddesses that stuff dissipated fast, otherwise you would have just killed us all." She deadpanned causing Naruto to laughed nervously.

Muttering to herself about thoughtless idiots, Navi floated down to patch him up while Saria walked over. Seeing the condition her guardian fairy was in caused her to flinch, but pushed it aside as she took out her slingshot. Aiming at the other bubbles that bounced into the area, Saria carefully sniped them off before they got close. "C-come on, I only have a few shots left." She said in a slightly shaky voice, leading the way.

They walked through the dark tunnel with caution, careful not to step in one of the lingering puddles of stomach acid. Saria popped a few more of those bubbles along the way but she soon ran out of ammo forcing them to avoid them altogether. Elia thankfully woke up not much later as the smell of the place forced her to consciousness. With her and Navi acting as lights atop their heads, the managed to find a section of wall that opened and closed like a door.

Stepping through, all four blinked in surprise. Standing before them, while digging through a pile of unidentifiable fish goop, was a young zora girl who looked about their age. She had light blue skin, a slightly bulbous head with small fish eyes on the sides, a small glowing charm hanging from her wrist, and an angry sneer across her face. "Huh, that was fast." Naruto commented, causing the girl to look up in surprise.

"What the! Who the heck are you wierdos? What are you doing in here?" She asked in a demanding tone as she marched up to them and got right up in Naruto's face. "Hey! Who do you think you are calling us wierdos?" Naruto growled while shoving her back. Clearly surprised at his reaction, the zora girl growled back slightly before adopting a smug, arrogant look. "I am Ruto, princess of the Zora." Going back to her irritated expression she asked. "Now what are you…" She pauses to look at the fairies on Saria and Naruto's heads, "… four doing here? No-one is allowed near Lord Jabu Jabu but me as his care taker."

Practically seeing the sparks flying between them, Saria stepped between Naruto and Ruto and said, "We found a message in a bottle with your name on it saying you were in trapped in here, and so we came to help." She said, trying to placate the upset princess. "I sent no such thing." Ruto said before turning away with a huff. "I've been coming into here for years without a problem, and besides I certainly don't need help from a bunch of losers like you. I can take perfectly good care of myself."

Having enough of her attitude, Naruto surprised everyone by walking up to the girl and throwing her over his shoulder. "There, we have her, let's go." He said while ignoring Ruto's indignant yelling to put her down. Walking back towards the way they came with the princess kicking and screaming, they were just about to the door when the tissue beneath them suddenly gave out and caused them to fall.

Naruto hit the fleshy ground with a grunt, that quickly turned into a pained cry as Ruto and Saria landed on top of him. "Sorry Naruto," Saria apologized as she climbed off him while Ruto just huffed and stomped off a little ways. "See, you two are useless," She said causing both Naruto and Saria's eyebrow to twitch. Once they were both up, Navi and Elia perched back onto their heads and Ruto made sure to keep a fair distance between them and herself.

"Don't even think of trying that little stunt again, I am not leaving here until I find what I am looking for." She turned to leave only to freeze at the sight of several small jellyfish floating through the air. "What the?" In her surprise, she wasn't able to react fast enough when one of them swooped down and electrocuted her. "KYYYAAAHH!"

She fell to the ground, slightly smoking and with bits of static jolting off her, as Naruto rushed over and pulled her away. "Saria!" "On it!" Firing her last few shots, Saria groaned as three more swooped down to replace the two she killed. Looking around for anything to shoot, her eyes caught something glinting in the wall. Reaching over, she pulled out whatever it was and smiled once it came free and into view.

Naruto flinched as he sliced a jellyfish in half while receiving a nasty shock. He stood protectively over the barely conscious princess as Navi tried to heal her. Just as the other two were swooping down on him, a brownish yellow blur curved by and sliced through them. Following said blur, he turned around just in time to see Saria catch it. In her hand was a fancily carved wooden boomerang with a red gem imbedded in the middle and two yellow bands holding it in place.

"How is she?" She asked while kneeling next to the injured zora. "She's stable, but that shock did a lot of damage given her aquatic nature." Navi said as Elia floated down to help. It took several minutes before Ruto was able to sit up but she quickly started to freak out afterwards. "I can't move my legs! Why can't I move my legs?!"

"Relax, its only temporary," Navi said getting the princess to relax a little, "They should be up and working again in a few hours." "Few hours!? I don't have a few hours! More of those things could show up any minute!" Ruto screeched causing the four to cover their ears. Turning to Naruto, she narrowed her eyes before pointing at him. "You! Carry me!" "What? No way you spoiled brat! I ain't some personal servant for you to boss around!"

"You will carry me, especially since this is your fault I'm like this." "My fault?!" "Yes, your fault!" The two were quite literally butting heads at this point while Saria, Navi, and Elia just face palmed in the background. Ruto jabbed a finger into his chest while saying, "If you hadn't come along, I wouldn't have fallen down here and gotten zapped in the first place! Now, since I can't walk, you will carry me and help me find my mother's necklace!"

"FINE! If it will get you to stop complaining like a big baby!" Naruto said, roughly picking up the girl and basically throwing her onto his back into a piggyback carry. "Ow! Hey, be careful you idiot!" Ruto growled while swatting him upside the head. "Now what the heck does this stupid necklace look like any way." He asked, earning himself another swat as they left the area.

"My mother's necklace isn't stupid." She huffed, "It has three blue gems held in a gold molding with a silver chain." Naruto paused while his companions facepalmed again. Of course, she just had to describe the exact thing they came here to get in the first place. "It wouldn't happen to also be called the Zora's Sapphire, would it?" Saria asked in a dull tone getting Ruto to look at them in surprise.

"Yes actually," Her eyes narrowed as she looked them all suspiciously. "How do you know that?" "Cause Zelda-chan sent us to go get it and two other." Naruto said reaching into his pouch and holding up the Goron Ruby and Kokiri Emerald for her to see. Seeing them, Ruto started nodding slowly before turning her head with a huff. "Whatever, I am not giving the necklace to you though."

"You're going to have to, we were sent by the royal family to get them." Saria said ignoring the dirty look Ruto sent her as she killed two more of those jellyfish that attacked. With Ruto pointing the way, they explored all over the giant fishes surprisingly well laid out stomach. It had walkways, fleshy doors opened by pustule like switches, and even floating platforms that took them back up to the top area.

When asked, Ruto just shrugged, saying that it had always been this way and that she'd never really thought about it before. Eventually after several hours or so, they stumbled into a large open room with a raised platform in the middle. "There it is!" Ruto cried happily as she spotted the jeweled necklace laying in the middle of the platform. Hopping off Naruto's back, she shakily walked over and climbed up the platform. Stumbling a bit, she managed to reach the middle and picked it up.

Turning around, she hugged the necklace to her chest as a tear slid down her eye. Wiping it away, she started walking back to them when the whole platform shook causing her to fall. The Zora's Sapphire slipped from her grasp and bounced away, landing next to Naruto. "Ruto!" He called as he and Saria tried to reach her only for the whole platform to rise into the ceiling. "What the shell! How did you-AAHHHH!"

The platform lowered again, but this time instead of the Zora princess, a giant Octorok with a spikey shell stood in her place. "What did you do to Ruto!?" Naruto yelled. The Octorok didn't answer for obvious reasons, instead it hopped off the platform and stared at them before charging. Without thinking, Naruto charged right back at it and jumped onto its face.

"Graahh! Grahh!" It roared as it tried to shake off its unwanted passenger. Using chakra to cling on, Naruto drew his sword and started slashing. "Where is she?!" He demanded. Seemingly forgetting that the Octorok can't talk, he continued to hack and slash at it while demanding where she was. Eventually his concentration slipped and it managed to fling him off.

Colliding with the wall, Naruto was quite thankful for how soft it was right then and there, Naruto stood back up as he glared at the beast. This seemed to actually scare it as it immediately turned around to run away. That or it was the various cuts oozing black blood littering its face he'd inflicted. Unfortunately, for it that is, the only way to run lead in a big circle right back to Naruto and Saria.

"Hey, miss me?" Naruto asked with a glare as he held a lit bomb in his hand. Before the Octorok could react, he threw it straight into it's suction like mouth and dove to cover with Saria. "GRAAA-" *Boom* The room was painted black with the inky blood of the Octorok as bits and pieces clung to the walls and ceiling.

Naruto didn't care as he scooped up Ruto's necklace and slipped it around his neck before he climbed onto the platform. "Hang on Ruto, we're coming!" He yelled as he and Saria were lifted to a new area, a long corridor with a single door. Rushing down the only path available, they pushed through the door only for it to completely seal up as soon as they passed.

They now stood inside a large room with light filtering in from a hole above them. "There she is!" Elia said, pointing to a section of the wall where Ruto was being held by fleshy tendrils that shocked her mildly whenever she struggled. "And there's the thing that took her." Navi said, pointing to the large bulge of pulsating muscle that the tendrils originated from.

"Naruto, give me your sword, I'll distract it while you help Ruto." Nodding, Naruto handed her the sword and rushed for Ruto while Saria pulled out her new boomerang and threw it causing it to cut off some of the tendrils attaching it to both Ruto and Jabu Jabu. Flashing repeatedly, the thing started spinning rapidly as large jellyfish spewed from its body.

Naruto slid to a stop next to Ruto and pulled the remaining tendrils off. Scooping her into his arms, Naruto carefully moved her as far from the fight as he could. Her head weakly rose as she looked at him, "You… came for me?" She asked while looking at the necklace around his neck. "But… you already, ow, got what you wanted. I thought you hated me?" Naruto laughed slightly as he shook his head. "I may have been really annoyed by your attitude Ruto-chan, but I certainly don't hate you. Besides there is no way I was just going to abandon you like that just for a stupid necklace, especially one that's not mine."

Gently leaning her against the wall, Naruto took the necklace off and put it around her neck before he ran off to go help Saria while Navi and Elia healed Ruto. Ruto watched as he ran back to fight the beast that attacked her as a soft smile crossed her face. "…My …hero,"

Saria was panting heavily as she ducked under another blast of electricity. She'd just managed to kill the large jellyfish it had made with her boomerang before stabbing the thing itself several times. This only seemed to piss it off though as it had pointed three large tendrils on its top at her and shooting bursts of electricity at her.

Dodging once again, her reprieve came as Naruto ran up behind it and hit it with a bomb. Stunned by the blast, it was completely helpless when Saria ran up and sliced off all three main tendrils in one stroke. Defenseless now, it tried to run away to no avail as she stabbed and slashed at it till it collapsed to the ground. Wiping the blood and sweat from her forehead, Saria fell onto her butt as she and Naruto watched the creature dissolve away into a puddle of goo upon its death.

"Well," Naruto said as he looked to the ceiling, "At least we have an easy way out." He said pointing to the large hole above them. "I'll get Ruto."

-20 minutes later Zora's Fountain-

Climbing out of Lord Jabu Jabu's blowhole, Naruto, Saria, and Ruto carefully slid down the great fishes back and into the shallow water below. While Saria, Navi, and Elia were busy washing themselves off, Naruto carried Ruto to the shore and set her down. "There, how are you feeling?" He asked her as she idly splashed her toes in the water.

"Much better," Naruto smiled at this as he plonked down next to her. "I want to thank you, you didn't have to come save me, yet you did." Ruto said as she sighed sadly, looking down at the water. "Going over how I was acting, I honestly wouldn't have blamed you if you had left me." Feeling a weight on her shoulders, Ruto turned to see Naruto pulling her into a hug. "You weren't so bad, just a little snooty. Besides, I wasn't much help on that end either."

The smile on his face was infectious it would seem as one slowly spread across her face as well. Grabbing the necklace around her neck, Ruto slowly pulled it off and placed it around his. "Here, I want you to have this, as a reward for saving me." Blinking in surprise, Naruto looked down at the jewel then back to her. "A-are you sure? You said it was you mothers." It honestly surprised him that she was willing to give it up.

"Yep, that necklace is also basically the engagement ring for the Zora's royal family, so I would eventually have to give it to someone, and I choose you to be that one." Naruto smiled though looking slightly confused, "Thanks, I'll be sure to take good care of it." With that he stood up and waded into the water to wash off. Ruto just stayed on the shore, a look of absolute joy across her face as she held her chest.

-30 minutes later Zora Throne Room-

"Oh my darling Ruto! Daddy was so worried about you!" Our group of heroes could be found sweatdropping awkwardly as they saw the obese king squeeze his daughter in a hug. "Ow, dad, still hurt here…" Ruto groaned out getting the king to snap out of it and set her down. "Oh my, uh sorry, so sorry my little guppy, anyway. Thank you young ones ever so much, how can I ever thank you for saving my daughter?" The king asked after sputtering an apology as Ruto covered her face in embarrassment.

"No worries, we got what we came for already." Naruto said as he held up the necklace around his neck. "… … …WHAT?!" The king bellowed out at the sight of said necklace before looking to Ruto. "My dear sweet baby Ruto, tell me it isn't so." He begged only to see her nod happily. "Oh ho, No! How could it be?! My little girl, already getting married!" At those words, Naruto and Saria froze before turning their heads very slowly towards Ruto. "…what?"

Seeing their confusion, Ruto giggled loudly. "I can't wait for the wedding, you better not make me wait too long Naruto." At this time, Naruto did what any rational person does when suddenly finding themselves in such a situation.

*Thud*

He fainted.

-Chapter end-

AN: So now Naruto and Saria have all three stones, Saria kicked butt against the final boss mostly solo, and Naruto's accidently accepted a marriage proposal. I never understood why Ruto forced you to carry her around other than for game mechanic so I gave her a more reasonable… reason this time. I'll admit, I've always hated the mini-boss in this area as it was more tedious that challenging, seriously all he does is run in circles. I'm not very good with romance bits so sorry if this chapter was a bit cruddy there. Thank you for reading and please review.