Disclaimer: If I had a nickel for every time I owned Naruto and World of Warcraft I'd have a piece of lint, a grocery store receipt and a mechanical pencil without any lead.

I changed the rating as some may have noticed, mostly out of fear, but the violence level will also go up as the story progresses, as will the erm…sensuality.

Thanks for the reviews, people, and here's yet another installment of The Legend of Uzumaki Naruto

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Since his encounters with the creatures, Naruto hadn't stopped in his journey along the dusty forest path that leads to Stormwind. He bounded from tree to tree, eyes set dead ahead, searching for any sign of civilization. The blonde was glad of his incredible stamina, as it allowed him to travel for long periods without stopping to rest.

YOU CAN THANK ME FOR THAT, BRAT. The Kyuubi rumbled from the depths of Naruto's mind. The fox rarely spoke to Naruto anymore, only speaking up if he had something to insult or berate Naruto about. The blonde found it increasingly annoying, but had eventually settled to just ignore the creature, unless it had some sound advice, though it rarely did.

Naruto finally did stop, around noon, near a large tree. Sitting down in the shade, he took out some meat that had been packed, and a canteen of water. He began to eat, staring up through the trees absent-mindedly. His mind began to wander, and instinctively, he began to think of Konoha. He wondered if Ero-sennin had returned yet, to inform Obaa-chan of his disappearance, and he wondered what the woman's reaction would be.

She'll probably beat the crap outta' him for losing me, he thought, grinning a bit. Thoughts of the buxom Hokage led to thoughts of Sakura, and he wondered how she would take the news.

Would she be sad? Or maybe happy that I'm gone so I'm not in the way of Sasuke anymore? He shook that thought away, and settled on her being sad. His thoughts began to drift away from her, (thought they were never very far from the pink-haired kunoichi anyways) and he thought of the other members of the Rookie Nine, and Team Gai.

They are all getting stronger…he thought. He had to get home quick, so he could finish his training to fulfill his promise to Sakura.

Naruto finished his meager meal, and wondered briefly if ramen existed in this world.

If it doesn't, then these people are savages… he thought. He hadn't had a decent bowl of ramen since he had left Konoha. Anything that wasn't Ichiraku ramen wasn't, as far as Naruto was concerned, real ramen. This had earned him quite a few enemies in the form of ramen chefs who took great offence to their ramen being compared to instant ramen. Ero-sennin had begun refusing to take him to ramen restaurants because one way or another, Naruto pissed off the chef when he found out the ramen sucked.

Packing his canteen away he got up and made to leave, when he heard a familiar sound reach his ears.

It was the giggling laughter that had accompanied the creatures from earlier that morning.

He drew a kunai, and looked around, trying to locate the source. But the laughter seemed to come from all sides, and Naruto sniffed the air. The scent of the creatures, a musky smell was blended with blood and the smell of a wet dog was everywhere. He backed up until he was standing in the middle of the road, and then he spotted them.

They emerged from both sides of the road, all clutching small weapons, daggers, clubs, broken tree branches, anything that could be used as a weapon. All of them had shit-eating grins on their spotted faces, some drooled, others grinned and all of them were giggling.

Naruto fell into a ready stance, smirking a little.

"Back again, freaks?" he said, brandishing his kunai. One of the creatures howled and the others answered with laughing barks. Naruto didn't understand it, but from what he could tell, one had insulted him.

He would be the one to go down first.

He rushed the creature, and dodged its dagger-thrust, slashing it across the face with his kunai, and then kicking it in the chest. It flew backwards, smashing into a tree and falling limp.

The others immediately swarmed Naruto, thrusting with daggers, swinging clubs, and slashing with small axes. Naruto's teeth clenched as he felt a few stinging blows fall on him, but he was able to avoid most, slashing, kicking and punching at any of the creatures that came within his field of vision.

Naruto grunted as he received another cut to his left arm, and realized that standing in the middle of the crowd of hostile creatures wasn't the bet of ideas. He gathered chakra into his legs, and leapt high into the air. He whipped out four shuriken, and hurtled them downwards, while performing several seals and shouted,

"Shuriken Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" The four shuriken suddenly became several dozen and they plowed into the mass of monsters, cutting down several and wounding many. He landed on the edge of a branch and began to perform the seals of Goukakyuu no jutsu, when he felt a blinding pain in his left shoulder, causing his sealing to be interrupted. He looked and saw a small, wooden shaft had been imbedded in his shoulder. A crossbow bolt.

He grimaced, and ripped the shaft out, seeking out the one that had fired it. He spotted it near the back of the mass, shadowed by the very same tree he had been resting under just minutes earlier. He leapt from his branch, speeding towards the creature, which was busy trying to reload the crossbow.

Naruto didn't give him the chance.

He drove a kunai into the creature's stomach, then, still gripping it tightly, wrenched it sideways, slicing through the creature's abdominal muscles and stomach. The kunai popped out from the side, and the monster's entrails spilled out onto the ground, the rest of the creature quickly joining them.

Naruto spun as the group of creatures rushed to meet him, then, to his surprise, stop. They backed away slightly, before they began to laugh again.

Naruto was puzzled. Are they afraid of me? Or are they just stupid? He would have thought more, but suddenly he felt a presence behind him.

And smelled it too.

And boy did it smell.

He whipped around, only to narrowly avoid being chopped in half by a large, rusty-looking axe. He backed away, but froze when he saw the axe's owner.

It stood, much larger than any of the other creatures, and much uglier looking as well. It's face was a mess of scars, and part of its nose looked like it had been shorn off, making the front of it flat, like a pig's snout. Its teeth were yellow and dagger-sharp, and its large body rippled with the muscles of a large predator. It wore ripped leather trousers, but had a pair of metal, armored boots. Its left arm and paw were covered in armor as well. Its right hand gripped the massive, double-bladed axe that had nearly killed Naruto.

It grinned, it's hog-like nose sniffling, as if it could smell Naruto's fear.

Naruto broke out of his paralysis, growling lowly.

He wasn't going to let some pig-nosed dog monster scare him!

The creature moved again, quite quick for its size, and swung the axe down at Naruto again. The boy dodged, and slashed at it with his kunai. "Hog-nose" took the cut on the armored left arm, surprising Naruto once again. His earlier dealings with these creatures had led him to believe that they weren't smart enough to truly defend themselves against any sort of attack, other than dodge. This thing was most certainly a hell of a lot smarter.

Dancing away from another chop, Naruto created a clone, causing the creature to stare dumbly at the newly created clone. Naruto took advantage, and both he and the clone attacked as one. The creature recovered, and struck at the clone first. The clone took the hit in the side, but with a burst of chakra from Naruto gave it the time needed to grab the axe handle, and keep Hog-nose from pulling it away. Naruto immediately rushed under the creature's guard and struck out as fast as he could. He launched a dozen thrusts into Hog-nose's midsection, and then punched it in the face, causing it to fall back, letting go of the axe. The clone holding the axe disappeared, and the axe imbedded itself in the ground.

Naruto hung back; breathing heavily, as he waited to the see if the creature would get up again.

It did.

Hog-nose growled as it got up, no longer laughing. It looked past Naruto, and then barked several times, before shifting its beady gaze back to the blonde shinobi. The creatures behind Naruto began to howl, and as they did, Hog-nose charged.

Naruto threw the kunai in his hand at Hog-nose, and it struck the thing in the chest, causing it to stumble a bit. Naruto immediately began to gather chakra into his palm, making it swirl in all directions and concentrating it into a small ball.

With the Rasengan fully formed, Naruto charged Hog-nose, who had recovered and was almost upon the blonde.

The creature swung its clawed hand down at Naruto, who shifted his weight to the left, and pivoted out of the way of the claw. He then thrust the glowing ball of chakra right into the monster's stomach.

The blast exploded through bone and cartilage, impacted the soft innards beneath Hog-nose's ribcage. The Rasengan threw the large beast backwards, and it struck a tree. The trunk splintered from the force of the blast, and Hog-nose was carried straight through it, flying backwards several more yards, before striking the ground, and rolling to a stop.

Hog-nose didn't get up again.

Naruto reveled in the victory for a choice few seconds, before realizing the fight wasn't over yet. He turned to meet the howling group of creatures, who hadn't stopped howling throughout the entire exchange between Naruto and hog-nose.

They suddenly stopped.

And everything fell silent, save for Naruto's soft panting.

Then the howling began anew.

Though the howls weren't from the group of creatures in front of him.

They were from the rest of the forest.

Uh-oh.

YOU'D BEST START RUNNING.

Naruto refrained from saying good idea, because he was already running.

He ran as fast as he could, weaving through the trees.

He could hear the sounds of the creatures' pursuit. The barking laughs, which now seemed to come from the forest itself.

As he leapt, he was suddenly assaulted with a new smell, one that he new well.

People!

He increased his speed, leaping off a tree and onto the path, never breaking stride. The path began to lead upwards, and as it did, Naruto chanced a glance back at the pursuing group of creatures.

What once was a group, was now a veritable army. They charge along the road, and Naruto could see some moving in the forest, weaving through the trees and causing the bushes to begin to shake.

He finally reached the crest of a hill, and as he turned back forwards, he saw something amazing.

At the bottom of the hill, he could see two massive, wooden gates. On either side were large, white stone towers, with blue steeples. In the distance, over the stop of the large stone archway that housed the gates, Naruto could see a large towering castle.

This was Stormwind.

He tore down the hill, making his way towards the gates with frightening speed. He could see two men, covered from head to foot in metal armor, both bearing swords and shields, waving at him to stop.

He didn't.

The men looked like they would bar Naruto's path, but both froze, when, he guessed, they spotted the small army of monsters charging after him.

One of the guards began motioning upwards to someone in one of the towers, obviously to open the gate. As Naruto passed them, he gave them a thumbs-up, before leaping up onto the archway, just landing as he heard the whistling of arrows and the battle cries of the two warriors.

He grabbed his last two kunai, and attached explosive notes to them. He aimed both and threw them into the center of the army of the dog-like beings.

The accompanying explosions tore the group in half, causing half to begin retreating, while the other charged towards the gates.

Naruto saw arrows shooting from the small windows of the two towers, while the two guards cut into the group, slicing down monster after monster.

It was over quickly. Demoralized, what remained of the attacking force fled back into the trees, howling all the way. Dozens of bodies littered the ground, and when Naruto was sure it was over, he sat down, breathing heavily.

He thought about passing out, but he heard someone shouting, causing him to look down at the two guards, who were clutching bloodied swords and dented shields, but otherwise looked unharmed.

"Hey kid, come down!" one of them shouted, sheathing his sword as he did. Naruto took a deep breath, still very winded from running, hopping off the arch and landing with a soft thump on the ground.

The same guard who had addressed him walked up lifting of his helmet, allowing Naruto to see his face.

He was young, probably a little older than Iruka, with sandy-blonde hair, and soft grey eyes. His face was slightly chubby, making him seem less threatening, and he had a big grin on his face.

"Wow, that was an impressive jump," he whistled.

Naruto could only grin.

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Naruto was dead tired by the time the guards let him in to the actual city, having badgered him with questions for hours. He found out that the creatures were called gnolls and frequently attacked travelers who were unprepared along the road. He also found out that Hog-nose (whose actual name was "Hogger"), the big gnoll with the axe, actually had had a price on his head. The guard who had first spoken to Naruto, whose name was Rictor, sent a few guards back a ways, to see if Naruto had actually done as he said. They had returned about an hour later, with Hog-nose's head in a bag. The men confessed they had never seen any type of weapon do the damage that Naruto's Rasengan had done. While they were curious, Naruto didn't feel like showing them. They were also quite amazed that a boy just barely past his thirteenth year had been able to defeat Rictor sympathized, and sent the men back to their posts, before handing Naruto a small bag filled with silver.

"Your reward," he had said.

Rictor then led him into the actually city of Stormwind, saying that he visit the guard's station any time, as it got quite boring.

Naruto was happy that he had made another friend, so he decided that if he had time, he'd do just that.

But right now…sleep.

He entered a small inn nearest the gates and got a room for a good price. He entered, shucked off his clothes, and fell asleep almost instantly.

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High up in the castle, Archbishop Benedictus smiled crookedly, and thought,

Your story is about to begin, Kira, so be prepared.

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It's slightly shorter than the last one, but its action packed, isn't it?

I didn't know I had it in me!

I hope you enjoyed the chapter; I as of now, I will try to churn out a chapter every couple of days, because I feel bad for leaving all of you hanging for so long, and the story is just beginning to pick up.

As for the threesome pairing, it is going to be a threesome, not a love triangle. It's a bit unrealistic, but I will try to make it as real as possible. For example, Kira and Sakura won't just suddenly decide to share him, so it may start out as a love triangle. I won't say any more, because that would be giving away the rest of the story.

Next up: Naruto tries to sneak into the castle, and we get a glimpse of the threats that loom over Azeroth.

Bestiary:

Gnoll (Humanoid): Small, hyena-like monsters that inhabit Elwynn Forest, they attack in large numbers to compensate for their lack of intelligence.

Hogger (Humanoid) (Elite): Quest monster, a large, axe-wielding gnoll that has caused a lot of trouble for the Stormwind Army. Smarter than most gnolls, and larger. It's "Elite" status shows that it is much stronger than most gnolls, and hence requires much more power to destroy.

Stormwind City Guard: Protectors of the city of Stormwind.