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"So, it says here the herb is silver colored with gold accents."

Megumin read from a piece of paper while being carried by Naruto's legs, while he used his arms to climb up the side of a cliff. Kazuma was hanging on his back, since his arms had gave out 30 minutes previously, and Aqua was climbing up on her own.

Quest: Find the Ancient Herb

"It's on this mountain?"

"It only grows on the second tallest tree, on the second tallest mountain in the area, and only in a shady spot on the tree. Apparently, this herbs is very picky about where it can grow." Megumin read off the stuff that they needed to know. "This herb is loved by Giant Frogs though, but only when they are young." Megumin explained the situation to them for why they would be getting paid such a high amount of money.

1,000,000 Eris per complete herb.

"I need that money!" Aqua called out. "Hey, you just threw a rock at me!" Aqua shouted at Naruto when he pulled a rock off of the cliff and tossed it at her head. "Kazuma, hit him in the head for me!" Aqua demanded in anger.

A second rock hit her.

"Kazumaaaaaaa-"

Naruto sighed in annoyance with Kazuma when Megumin extended her weapon, and Aqua grabbed onto it. As it were, Naruto was sure Aqua could have survived the fall to the bottom for sure.

'With Aqua's Luck stat of 0, and Naruto's luck stat of negative... we really didn't need her low intelligence messing this quest up for us.' Kazuma would have just liked to avoid any trouble with the quest. Naruto kept climbing up the side of the mountain with his bare hands, only now he was technically carrying the entire party. "Thanks big guy, this really-" Kazuma pat Naruto's shoulder.

"Ah... that wasn't part of the cliff." Naruto's hands were both knocked off of the side of the cliff when two paws came from the earth. His hands were pushed, and now the entire party was free falling down towards the ground.

Very fast.

Naruto grabbed Megumin and Kazuma, before he flung them the rest of the way up the cliff and onto the top of the mountain.

"I leave the rest of the quest to yooooo-"

"Fuuuuuuuck!"

"Are they going to be okay?" Megumin looked over the side from where they landed, with concern on her face. She knew that Naruto could regenerate, but she didn't know how far that skill went. They have been climbing so high that even though the two had yet to hit the bottom, they were no longer visible as anything more than tiny dots in their vision. "Will Aqua be okay?" Megumin asked Kazuma.

He dusted the grass from his tracksuit.

"If she lands on top of Naruto, she will be just fine, she's got some insane durability... and even if she doesn't land on top of him, she should be fine... I guess." Kazuma scratched his cheek.

-At the Bottom of the Mountain (2 Hours Later)-

"That looks like it really hurts."

"It really does."

"... How long do you think it will take to heal?"

"Another 45 minutes." Naruto stated as he looked down at his mostly regenerated body. When he had hit the ground, he had gone splat pretty hard. Only a little of him had remained, but from what remained he started to regenerate. Aqua had landed right on top of him, so he hit the ground with twice as much force as he should have. If he had JUST fallen, he would have gotten broken bones, but hope.

Aqua landed on top of him instantly, and he went from broken bones to a bloody smear from the double impact.

"Do you want me to speed things along?"

"... No, I'm fine." Naruto deadpanned at Aqua's actual offer. Considering the lower half of her body was covered in his dried blood, he would rather not get her help right now.

"You're not going to Meat Puppet me for this... because I didn't do it on purpose."

"Do not speak of this to anyone, and you avoid the Meat Puppet... speak of it to a single soul, and I'm going to make you do the Cha Cha Slide with my hand up your ass."

"I like that dance, it's fun." Aqua smiled and laughed, before she shivered when she imagined being forced to do that dance by a guy with his fist in her ass. She glared at Naruto, and with both of her hands started to beat on his skull. "It's not my fault, stop punishing me for your own shitty luck-"

Aqua got a punch for that.

"You convinced me to come to this world, so anything that happens to me here is your fault... it's too bad that my parents weren't here... you know... the reason I came here."

"... Yeah, sorry about that bro... I didn't know they died until after you came here. I think that was just really bad luck. I did offer them a chance to come back, but I was so shocked by seeing them I just... didn't know how to mention you." Aqua looked up. "... Man, it sure is taking them a long time to come back down."

...

"Grab my pants, and tie my intestines around your waist. They don't have a way to come back down without me." Naruto deadpanned.

"No, that's gross!"

"Meat Puppet."

"Yessir, I've got your pants right here!" Aqua instantly agreed to help when she realized what the other alternative was.

-5 Hours Later-

"Phew, that was a challenging quest! But look at these herbs we got!"

...

Naruto looked at the herbs, and then he looked at Megumin and Kazuma.

"... Out of the entire bag, you only got 2 of the right herbs... the rest are grey with yellow accents, not silver with gold ones." Naruto stated as he looked at their spoils. They fucked up most of what they were suppose to get, but they were going to be able to score a large 2 million from it.

"How, how about we split it up evenly."

"Hell no, I did all the climbing pretty much, so I'm taking 70%, and you can divide the rest of the 30% amongst yourselves!" Naruto shouted at Aqua, their foreheads pressing against each other.

"10% isn't fair!"

"It's more than fair when I did all the work!"

"I'm actually okay with 10%..." Kazuma deadpanned, since Naruto was right, he did most of the work. They could never have even gone on this quest in the first place were it not for him being able to climb them up there.

"Same, it's still a good chunk of cash for practically no work on my part." Megumin agreed to the way things were split up among them. "... I didn't get to explode though..." Megumin pouted about that more than anything.

Another quest cleared.

Aqua also learned something that day.

Naruto was surprisingly docile when over half of his body was destroyed and he was regenerating from the damage. Not to mention that she didn't even need to see a chunk of flesh from him for him to start regenerating.

The worst part?

Naruto and Kazuma seemed to get along.

Bad news for her.

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