A/N: Yes I know, Skyrim doesn't have an Adventurers Guild, I know. It's just more fit to this story than the companions because it is non-aligned. They're just adventurers, mercenaries completing quests given by locals or nearby people, no werewolf thing, no anti-magic mentality…they're not the equivalent of Nords.
From now on I'll try to describe the team's equipment a little better, especially Astra's who I haven't described at all in chapter 1. The facial features are a bit like a fifteen year-old Haku with brown hair, because it's a fan fiction and I don't need to make my self-insert have the same beard issue as myself (when you don't want to look like a man, having black beard quickly becomes annoying, screw beard).
Here's an official map of the Narutoverse for visual reference since I'll start talking about geopolitics and economical interests since, you know, there's a war going on between the Kumo pseudo-Nords and the Empire made of Suna, Kusa, Oto, Konoha and Kiri: wiki/Geography?so=search
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Chapter 2
While Naruto had been improving his enchanting, Sasuke and I had been doing delivery missions in order to continue earning money. At the end of the month, I got enough money to rent a spell scroll to learn the alteration spell Restraining vines, a wood spell that grows thick vines to restrict someone or something.
Let's describe what we were looking like. Sasuke was wearing his white gambeson – a thick cloth armor that looks like a warm coat and is hard to cut through due to multiple layers of linen cloth – with a gray wolf skin around his waist secured by a leather belt and a black battle skirt with fur boots. Naruto was covered by his black gambeson under his chainmail shirt that extended down to half thighs. It was covered by a thick red shirt to mitigate the noise of the mail rings. His black trousers were caught in his fur boots. As for myself, I was wearing the same top as Naruto but with a dark blue shirt instead of red. Like Sasuke, I was wearing a wolf skin around the waist and a black battle skirt. Instead of fur boots, I was wearing leather boots with a metal protection at the extremity for safety. I had a bad habit of hitting my toes on anything that could be painful and I didn't want to get some blade or claw planted in my feet. My wooden shield was hanging on my back when I was not in danger. It was a round shield with iron circling.
When I was in Konoha, I only wore a black tunic with red patterns and a black sarouel with skin boots. Underneath the tunic was a linen bra stuffed enough to give me a feminine breast. Sometimes I traded my black tunic for a white one with a black half corset over it to underline the breast or a full one to give a feminine upper body shape – medieval outer corsets are not as tight as Victorian corsets and they're made of soft materials.
After Sasuke received his magical weapon from Naruto, we took a quest asking to escort a wealthy landlord to secure a contract for iron ingots. The plump man owned several mines in the castellany of the Jarl of Suna. Both castellanies were allied under the Empire, but they were independent from each other. Suna was neutral in the war because it had no common border with the castellany of Kumo. It was surrounded by the neutral castellanies of Ishi in the North, Kusa in the North-East, Ame below Kusa and Tani in the East, separating it from Iwa in the North and Konoha in the East.
The party had to go to the border of the territory of Tani to meet the client and ensure his safety until he reached Konoha, then they would have to escort him back to the border after the negotiations were over.
The first part was easy, nothing happened. The landlord was a little annoying, treating his servants like cattle, but there wasn't any event on the way. The negotiations were successful. On the way back, when they met the Tani escort party, they noticed something was off. There were too many crows flying in circles over the meeting place. The Tani adventurers were weird…
Sasuke: "It's an illusion! They're already dead! Don't move any further!"
Me: "Shit, a conjuration specialist! He must specialize in necromancy or something like that!"
Naruto: "That's disgusting! Can't they let the dead rest in peace?"
Me: "It's very useful though, especially during war. The more corpses the more weapons to use, on top of the emotional impact over the enemies. It also costs much less chakra than summoning."
We spread around, Sasuke shooting an Ember spell at the reanimated corpses. The illusion faded and the dislocated undead engaged the fight. The Chilling Swordsman used his magical sword to freeze his opponent's arms by infusing chakra into the weapon and broke them to get a better shot at the thing's neck.
That's when Naruto came with a war cry and slammed his maul horizontally at the undead in front of the black haired boy, crushing its skull.
Naruto, excited: "STRIKE! I'm amazing!"
Sasuke, annoyed at the blond's recklessness: "Behind you dumbass!"
He froze the incoming reanimated corpse's arms to stop it from swinging a battleaxe towards them, swiftly passed under the immobilized arms and tried a decapitation, but his sword didn't cut well enough and he lacked the strength and momentum to get through, so the sword was locked halfway through. This time, Naruto's swing send the head rolling several meters away from its body. The corpse fell to the ground.
I used my new spell, Restraining vines, to stop the third from reaching our client long enough for the duo of fighters to get to us and crush it. Thanks to my insight, I had enough time to react when the one who had been controlling the bodies appeared behind the client. Before he could press his knife to his target's throat, my vines caught his forearm and pulled it down. I disarmed it and prepared a Rock throw.
Me: "Who do you work for?"
The necromancer, now restrained on the ground: "Why should I tell you?"
Sasuke: "Because whoever employed you is not here while we are, and we will break your fingers and then your limbs if you don't answer."
The necromancer: "I've been contracted by an intermediary. There's no trace of the paymaster but if I were you I'd bet on Kumo or Iwa."
Me: "This I would have done myself. If you can't give us more information, you're useless to us."
Naruto crushed the man's right hand, the one with which he was gonna kill the landlord, before I let the man loose. He fled while crying about his hand.
Me: "Why did you do that? It's not like you."
Naruto: "He disrespected the dead and tried to kill our client by using them as a decoy! That's foul play!"
Sasuke: "That's smart, you dumbass. He even covered them with an illusion to trap us. He's not a genius, but he's okay."
Me: "Now we'll have to charge more to escort you to Tani, dear client."
The landlord: "I will ask Tani to give me back what I've paid for the escort up to there! How incompetent are their adventurers? Not even able to face a single opponent!"
Sasuke: "He laid a trap here and captured them. I can see traces on the ground. Then he killed them without damaging their bodies too much and ambushed us with his new playthings."
Me: "Let's go before encountering more undesirable company. We have even more distance to go before the end of this quest."
Naruto put the corpses out of the path and the servants lifted their master's chair back up to resume the journey. In Tani, we got a tensed reception, but the client complained about their adventurers' incompetency again and they understood the situation. We didn't relax until we crossed the border with the Konoha castellany.
This quest gave us enough money to buy Naruto a better weapon. He chose a battleaxe with a small hammer opposite to the moonblade. This could prove useful like in the last two quests. With his new weapon, he was grinning from one ear to the other.
The Adventurers Guild congratulated us for our last two successful quests and told us that we wouldn't have to do fetch quests anymore due to having proven our worth. It would be a waste to send us do these small jobs when we could take much harder quests.
We had a little party at the news, getting drunk and doing stupid things. The hangover that followed was not as funny though and we learnt the hard way that we shouldn't drink more than we could handle.
