~~Authors Note~~

Now I don't know if it is obvious or not, but I am following the movie's storyline when concerned with this story. It's been a long time since I've read the book, and I'm reading other books currently so I don't want to stop those to catch up, but I might read the book again, and that might make me revise some things, but shouldn't change the story as a whole.

Now I want Naruto to hide in the shadows, because I plan on taking this to Lotr, but I can't see him sitting in half the scenes and some of the things he will do will start to diverge into AU, so I'm going to try my best to see what I can do :) taking the reins from the movie/book and try to use my imagination to make this story worthy for you is a new thing for me to do, so I'm trying to walk before I run because not everyone can be Iron Man (sorry just thought of Jarvis trying to tell Tony that they should do tests).

Chapter 4

After the speech made by the Hobbit, and Naruto must admit that it was a pretty good speech too, he heard wargs howl in the distance. It just seems this company won't get a break. Well, it's time to see if he can truly help out in the shadow it seems, hold up to his new title. He can't be exposed unless it was the absolute last resort.

Blending in the shadows of the trees, moving slower than the company as they ran away from the orcs so that the wargs would pass and try to take the stragglers out, knowing orcs they won't even noticed if their slowest died or wouldn't notice if one that strayed got "lost" (read dead).

After a bit of manoeuvring, and extra chakra on his feet to make sure that the wargs' ears won't pick him up, he silently killed 3 of the hunting party before the ones being chased was led to a ledge. Back home, this wouldn't stop the chase, shinobi would just jump down it, use chakra to soften the fall or run down the cliff if it was too steep, but Naruto was reminded again this place is nothing like the elemental nations. Instead, the company fled up the trees to avoid being swallowed by those giant wolves.

Everybody was out in the open now, except for him of course, but that means if he tries to make any other move, it would be easier for him to be discovered. So right now is the kind of situation where Naruto is forced to wait for an opportunity, and where he REALLY wishes that someone else was in his shoes than him, simply because ever since he landed in this realm he has been forced to wait a lot – and that is simply not the Uzumaki way.

After a few seconds he got a distraction he needed, the hunting party were staring intently at the company while the wolves were trying to get them, and then the trees started falling from the giant wolves' weight. There just so happened to be a few straggling goblins under him, it would be rude of a shinobi to not take advantage of an opportunity like that.

When the trees finally stopped falling, and the distraction is no longer usable, 4 orcs of the hunting party disappeared and none of the living is the wiser. When it looks like he will have to come out of the shadows for this encounter, the wizard in their group starts bombing the wargs' with acorns on fire, which set the fur on fire faster than normal wolves. Good to know, fire is the wargs' weakness.

The downside is that now everything is catching on fire, which thinking about is right because it has been a dry spout the last week, but that means he needs to relocate soon. After a bit of manoeuvring, and using nature chakra to help make the ground around him fire resistant, he found a good vantage point.

Even though years of trying to make himself into a serious shinobi, he still falls into his habits he did as a kid. Things like being loud, pranking, can't stay in one place for too long, and things like being distracted from what he was focusing on WAY too easily, so when he looked back up he apparently missed that the last tree the company was in had fallen over, and half their members were a pinky away from falling to their death – almost looked like literally a pinky.

Naruto forms his hands in his favorite jutsu, the shadow clone jutsu. After making 6 clones, he stumbles forwards and into a crouch to avoid falling. One thing he learned is that the energies of this place do not cooperate with jutsu, making any chakra he pulls outside of his body harder to control, and uses a lot more energy than normal because he is pushing that energy back. In his body he still has normal control of his chakra, can still stick to surfaces, augment his strength and speed but as soon as it leaves his body, this is what he has to deal with. The dark elves assume that it is because he is not from this realm and that the realms rely on different kinds of power.

After Naruto caught his breath, he growled through his brief exhaustion and looked at the situation. His clones already got the dwarves back on solid ground and charging weapons first where their king and Halfling was. His clones jumped over both parties to get on the backs of the orcs to take long-range shots at them. The only ones who noticed the clones were the company, and the only one to continue to notice them after the rescue seemed to be the old geezer. Great, all the old people Naruto knew were both meddlers and had very extreme personalities, he just hopes this one isn't that bad.

He looked back towards the orcs, some of them seemed like they were just dropping, his clones at work, and the Halfling and the dwarf king were picked up by giant eagles. With half the things he's seen already he would think this is where all the summons is kept, but luckily he does know better. More eagles came out of nowhere to pluck the company and wizard up and away from harm. Naruto blended back into the shadows the flames were providing, trying to decide to decide what the best thing would be to do right now.

After a bit of consideration, he started in the direction they all came from, making sure the orcs cannot hear him and whistle. After a couple of seconds of waiting, a messenger eagle came swooping down aiming for his should her and offered its leg. On the leg was a small container that had a small slip of paper and a small pencil. He wrote a message in a code he created (basically Naruto's native language, which he taught his intel division because no one here knew it), put it back in the container, and let the bird go off back to base. He can let his underlings take care of the company, he wanted to eavesdrop on these orcs.

Kionwin just finished the logistics of the evacuation of Lake Town, should there be one. He was feeling good about himself and was just about to move on the next agenda on his list of planting stores of food and weapons where the evacuees might end up.

Moving to the table with the detailed map of the area, he was already thinking of the best places to hide them, most obvious would be in Dale, but they had backup routes just in case their route to Dale was cut off, thus he needed to make sure those destinations were supplied as well.

He just got done putting his third numbered pin, the numbers correlating with parchment that listed what supplies were to be placed there when the person running the pigeon coop today walked in. He was the same height as Kionwin, had black straight hair that was shoulder height, and wore clothing that was just small enough to fit but otherwise baggy on his frame. He just looked at Kionwin, through the tiny scrolls that the pigeons carried, and then walked off.

Used of Raoul's antics (*cough* being as lazy as him), Kionwin opened the scroll then soundly cursed. He just knew Naruto just came here to torment him and just simply pile him with work. He picked up a blank pigeon scroll form the desk in the room, quickly wrote some commands on it that boiled town to "Tail was Diverted, Target Lost, Locate and Tail" because Naruto had to not only completely lose the company but get distracted with shiny things like action.

Knowing that he should have expected this to happen, he went to the coop and sent the pigeon to the team that was closest to the Mirkwood forests, hoping they would be able to pick up the tail. If not, they would have to wait for the company to arrive, hope the company makes it to Lake Town, and that they haven't done anything too crazy. This is why they tailed them in the first place, it gave them peace of mind instead of the foreboding feeling that was slowly growing.

Trying to get rid of this foreboding feeling that he has, he went back to the map and completed putting pins in the best locations for the stashes. He then wrote up orders for his men and posted it on the board for when they come in. It was time for him to go home and just forget the world for the night.

~~Author's Note~~

Soo sorry for the delay, but I had major writer's block. It took me getting another story out of my mind for me to continue this one, but even then, this story I'm having the worst time trying to put together (You can tell by the size, I tried to make it longer, I really did). There's just so much in the LOTR universe, and so many possibilities that Naruto can do, I already have the plot I want him to do, but the small details and the technical details are snagging me up a bit when I'm writing and I'm losing my interest in writing this. I'm trying to be accurate but also give a good plot, and I'm still new to writing, all that combined with the responsibilities I'm gaining in real life, this story has been a roller coaster for me. I will still try my best to transform my imagination into words that you will enjoy and try to do it in a timely manner.

Thank you so much for reading my story! Review! I live off of them, you can tell me anything that relates to the story, your thoughts on it, how it makes you feel, or that I need to better in writing! (Nicely though, like in my other story someone suggested that I should add more dialogue because it was getting a bit dry, now in this chapter there weren't many chances for it, but I didn't realize was skimping so much on dialogue, so nicely tell me because I might not have realized it! It helps!)