Chapter 2: Bethany's training and fleeing lothering

The moment that the Hawke family returned Naruto placed polished and sharpened daggers in Bethany's hands. "I'm gonna be teaching you how to act like and fight like a rogue." said the red eyed boy seriously.

The girl looked confused and annoyed. "Don't i get a say in this? I mean i am the one you're handing these weapons too. Where did you even get these from anyway?"

Naruto sighed. "In order no and off of the corpse of a thief who was hired to steal from y'all and had planned to pass you around."

The young female mage didn't understand but both of her brothers and her parents did and were glad they were dead. (The two brothers even snarled a little)

Naruto decided to continue on with the conversation. "I got information from one of the thieves before killing him, apparently they had been hired to rob y'all, and seeing as there's not much here of monetary value there is only one reason to send people like this and it was confirmed by the description of the armor worn by the employer being a high ranking templars armor."

All of the pieces started to click together in each of their minds with Malcolm being the one to speak. "The templars are beginning to suspect us of magic. Bethany, take his lessons so we can hide your magic easier."

Bethany sighed and nodded before being led inside where they went down to the basement. Naruto turned to the girl and started speaking. "Before the actual training starts i need to see what I'm working with, come at me with the intention to kill."

At the girls incredulous look Naruto chuckled. "Yes you heard me right, use all your knowledge of how to use a blade and go for the kill. And don't hold back, I'll be fine."

She nodded and moved, quickly going for a dual overhead strike that the slightly older of the two dodged by taking a step back calmly. "Too clumsy and too much weight put into the strikes, not to mention how you overextended yourself which left you open to a dagger in the heart, throat, or skull."

In her annoyance at being belittled Bethany lost control of her anger and ran at the former blond and sliced at him wildly which he once again dodged and blocked without batting an eye.

Naruto sighed as he looked down at the heavily breathing girl. "Note to self: add endurance, speed, strength, and emotional control training to the list for the regime."

Bethany growled. "I don't need emotional control."

The redhead shook his head. "I beg to differ, you'll need the training not only to pass as a rogue but to keep your magic in check, whether you want to believe me or not as a mage every emotion that goes unchecked could turn you into a walking mana bomb waiting to explode. Especially anger, if you lose control of your anger you'll release destructive amounts of mana and potentially kill an innocent civilian or even your family on accident… and that's if you're lucky, you could also be swayed easier by demons to become their hosts and then be an abomination if you don't control yourself."

At the sad look on the girl's face Naruto sighed. "I don't say this to hurt you but to help, over these last few years I've come to see you guys as the closest thing to a family that i ever had and don't want to see any of you hurt so I'll do anything to keep y'all safe."

The girl looked up as she noticed a hand reached out towards her. "Now come on, we have a lot of work to do if we're going to make people believe that you're not a mage."

(3 years later)

It was a rough 3 years, what with all of the work, training, and the occasional thief or bandit it had been rough on them all but especially on ol' Malcolm who had fallen ill and passed in his sleep. They had his funeral at the farm where his will was read out and surprisingly enough Naruto was mentioned in the will. 'And finally to the best damn farm hand i could have ever hired, Naruto i give you my 'walking stick', use it well and often.'

Not all had been tough though, over the last 3 years Naruto and Bethany had gotten closer and even started dating after a year.

Bethany's training had gone far enough to be able to learn a little about the use of a bow but she still preferred the daggers, and Naruto had finally gotten to using his abilities as a dreamer and went into the fade one night while asleep with the staff in hand.

The experience had been odd but he had quickly gotten used to it, while there he worked on learning a lot more about the fade and got experience with the use of his abilities which led to him making a pocket dimension but he learned that it would take hours to get a physical object to be put into the pocket dimension for the first time and he'd need to train to shorten the amount of time needed to put something in or take it out.

Naruto had spent most of his time training to be able to bring his staff out of the dimension whenever he placed it there until it was almost instantaneous.

Now Naruto and Daniel were in town gathering supplies when the redheaded 21 year old looked over to his girlfriend's older brother and smiled nervously. "Hey Daniel, if i were to hypothetically be planning to propose to Bethany would i have to worry about getting a sharp and very deadly weapon shoved into my vital organs?"

The eldest of the Hawke children snorted. "Not at all, mostly because my little sister would use her training to torture me and lop off my family jewels and feed them to me."

Naruto shuddered. "Smart man then, well the reason i asked is because i have a custom made engagement ring to go pick up from the local blacksmith to bring home to present to her."

Daniel patted Naruto on the shoulder and chuckled. "Good luck Naruto, i really hope you know what you're getting yourself into."

After picking up all of the materials and groceries needed they headed to the forge where the large blacksmith tossed him the ring in a box along with two sheathed daggers, the blades were made of a black metal with a crimson edge. Naruto tossed the man a small bag of sixty-two silvers before strapping the daggers to his waists and pocketed the ring.

Daniel and Naruto nodded to each other with matching smirks and moved quickly towards the farm where they quickly put the materials (metal, wood, and animal feed) where they belonged and brought the food inside.

Daniel quickly went and got Carver from the basement and his mother from her room before leading them to the kitchen where they found Naruto with Bethany.

The young adult looked to them and put his thumbs up. He reached in his pocket and pulled out the small box, got down onto one knee (which caused Bethany to ghasp) and opened the box towards the girl. The ring was made of pure silverite with a small diamond on the top. "Bethany Leandra Hawke, would you make me the happiest man in thedas and marry me?"

The hope in his eyes spoke volumes about his honesty. Bethany was speechless because of the warring emotions of happiness, shock, worry, and suspicion that this was another of Naruto's many jokes that he'd use to cheer her up but happiness and shock won out when she saw his eyes she nodded excitedly.

Naruto stood up, put the ring on her finger, picked her up in a hug, and spun while laughing merrily. "She said yes!"

The rest of the day was spent in merriment as they celebrate the occasion. Naruto had been relocated to Bethany's room so they would get used to sleeping in the same bed and they planned to turn the shed into his own personal forge as soon as possible.

(1 week later)

After a week all three boys had been drafted into the king's army and sent off to ostagar. They were trained for a year then put on the front lines.

A few times Naruto saw a male elf in the robes of the circle of magi either doing some assignment or training his magical skills and he had to admit that the guy was strong for a circle mage, he had also met a redheaded woman by the name of Aveline who he became fast friends with while swapping stories about the people who matted most to each of them.

When it was time they stood ready to fight and fought they did, they had fought in sync together in such a way that they seemed to be a spirits of vengeance, though no matter what they knew that they would be overrun if the reinforcements didn't get there soon. Naruto saw general Loghain through the hordes of darkspawn as he walked away with his men so he called out to his future in laws and all three made a mad dash out of their, stripping down to the light armor they had under the bulkier sets of armor.

They ran as fast as they could until they were far away. The three spent a whole year running, barely taking the time to rest until they got back to lothering where they quickly got Bethany and Leandra to carry light. They grabbed the absolute necessities like preserved food, weapons, and water in canteens.

Naruto wore a padded black long-sleeved shirt under his black Light leather armor with red cloth on his shoulders, black padded pants with a few choice pieces of armor to protect his legs but keep his mobility, black arm bracers, and black greaves, he had his daggers on his waists, his bow and arrows on his back, and 'Malcolm's honor' (what he named the staff) in his personal pocket dimension along with a few small bags of silvers.

Bethany wore her blue battle robes, blue padded pants, and padded boots, she had her daggers on her waists and her staff on her back.

Daniel and Carver wore large black heavy armors with red cloth hanging from their necks, Carver had a large blade on his back while Daniel had a shield on his left arm and a sheathed sword on his waist.

The five of them left quickly and moved even quicker, for weeks they ran with little to no rest.

(Scene change: beginning of game)

Leandra fell to her knees in exhaustion and was about to be attacked by a genlock when Naruto put an arrow through its eye and through the brain before making a wall of blue flames appear in front of the other three, blocking them.

Bethany and Carver helped Leandra stand as she spoke. "Everything your father and i built is gone."

Daniel spoke up this time while keeping an eye on the spawn. "I know how much Lothering meant to you mother but we really need to keep moving or else these things we'll get to us and kill us."

The woman nodded. "You're right."

Bethany looked both fearful and angry. "We should have run sooner! Why did we wait so long?" asked the girl while looking to the three guys.

Carver sent her an angry look. "Why are you looking at us, we've been running almost nonstop since ostagar!"

Naruto decided to step in and stop anything unforgivable from being said. "Enough, we're all tired and on edge, we're being chased by the spawn, and we're all hungry. What we need to do is get out of here, find a ship, and get to a safe place."

Leandra nodded. "Yea, you're right." With their mothers agreement both Bethany and Carver backed off.

Naruto nodded before turning to the genlocks behind the firewall. "Now, to get rid of these three." Naruto made the flames encircle the darkspawn and burn them to ash.

They moved forward but were stopped by two genlock that Carver took out without any trouble. The three stopped and thought about there situation. "Where should we even go?" asked Bethany.

Her mother was the one to come up with an idea. "We could go to Kirkwall."

Naruto thought about it and shrugged. "The only mages here are me and Bethany and both of us have the training to pass as rogues so we're good on that, better idea than just roaming around for the rest of our lives."

And so it was decided that they would head to Gwarren and board a ship heading to Kirkwall. They started down the road when they heard and saw a battle between two people and eight genlocks. Naruto aimed his bow at the one he saw fighting the guy in big shiny armor and fired.

(Wesley's POV)

I just knew that we'd die this time, we'd been running with sleep being few and far in between and food being scarce, and now we're outnumbered by these savage creatures.

I saw a sword coming down towards me and blocked it with my shield but it knocked the large piece of metal out of my hand and dislocated my shoulder from the power behind the strike.

I watched in horror as the spawn raised the blade to finish me off. 'Avaline… I'm sorry.'

I was forced to watch as the sword made its arch down towards me but was surprised when a black arrow was embedded into the creature's head and it fell dead. I looked over to see as four people charged over and help kill the creatures.

One of them had a bow and arrows on his back but was cutting down the genlocks with daggers. 'So he's the one who saved me, i must thank him when I get the chance.'

(Normal POV)

Naruto killed the last of the genlock with a dagger in the chest before flicking the blood off and sheathing them.

He watched as the redheaded woman helped the guy in armor stand and get his sword and shield. The young Fire-bird walked over to the two and smirked when he saw the girl. "Well I'll be damned, if it isn't Aveline 'the bloody blade' Vallen! Glad to see that a fellow soldier survived such a heartless betrayal."

The now known Aveline gave a slight smile. "Hello Naruto, it's good to see you again."

Bethany came from behind with an obviously jealous face. "Who's this Naruto?"

Noting the jealousy for a later discussion Naruto shrugged. "She was a soldier in King Caillens army, third company like me and your brothers though she led a different group among our company. Me and her met and became good friends during a break from training and spoke, we'd swap stories and laugh."

Confusion was written on both Bethany and Wesley's faces. "What stories?"

Both Aveline and Naruto smirked before shrugging nonchalantly. "Oh nothing much… just about our favorite goofy people."

Their looks went from confusion to thinking to realization to dawning horror. "NARUTO ORION FIRE-BIRD! HOW COULD YOU TELL ANYONE STORIES ABOUT ME!!!!"

Wesley was muttering about mean wives and not being happy while Leandra giggled behind her hands, Daniel and Carver were chuckling, and Aveline was snickering.

Naruto pulled Bethany into a hug while snickering. "Oh come on Bethany, you know i wouldn't tell anyone anything too embarrassing. Besides, it was all in good fun."

The twenty-two year old held the female mage out and looked her in the eyes with the thrice damned puppy eyes/pout! "Are you mad at me?"

Bethany tried to be mad, really she did but he would not let up with the combined use if the eyes and that evil pout.

"Damn it… fine I'm not mad at you, now can you please stop using that look?"

Naruto grinned as he hugged her. "No promises."

The young Fire-bird took one look at Wesley's arm and had Aveline take his armor off of his arm. When she was done he set the arm in place, tore a sleeve off of his shirt and used it as a makeshift cast.

Bethany cursed under her breath. She stood beside Wesley as they continued down the road. "I swear, the chantry should make that look forbidden, it has to be some kind of evil spell or something."

The hurt templar snickered. "I agree, Aveline would use that against me whenever she really wanted something to go her way so i learned to watch for the signs that she wanted something so badly she'd use it on me."

Bethany sighed. "I just know my mother taught him how to do that just to get back at me for something i must have done when I was younger i just don't know what it was."

The group moved along with Naruto, Carver, and Daniel having a competition of who kills more darkspawn until they were attacked by a ogre.

After everyone was accounted for Naruto grinned and looked to his future brother in laws. "Whoever kills it gets double points and the other two buy the winner drinks when we get to

Kirkwall."

The two nodded. "Deal."

The three made quick work of it with Naruto getting the kill by climbing while it was disoriented and stabbed it in the back of the head repeatedly until it fell. "WOOOHOOOO! Drinks on you two!!"

Daniel chuckled. "Keep it cheap and few enough where we still have money."

Naruto looked at him as if it was obvious. "I'll only get my usual four, one from both of y'all and i'm gonna by the last two myself."

After the three stopped laughing Naruto looked down at his kill for a moment. "Do you think we should bring the head with us, as a way to show those kirkwallers we have our uses in battle at the least?" asked Naruto as he ran his fingers through his crimson hair.

Carver shook his head in the negative. "No, too much weight and we don't need it to prove our usefulness."

Before Naruto could respond the group was surrounded by darkspawn. Naruto took charge quickly. "Defend the others, stand together and watch each other's backs!"

For a total of ten minutes they fought off everything that got close enough to cut, stab, or chop. A few times Naruto and Bethany would subtly use magic to take out the opposition or defend someone.

They had all become worn out and barely were standing anymore, backed into the wall when a large purple dragon came flying above them and sent a torrent of red-orange fire down on the surrounding darkspawn as it flew by before grabbing a genlock in its claws and flying up before letting go to which the dragon landed, swiped away the spawn behind it with its tail while grabbing the only one in front of it with its paw.

With a roar fire surrounded the fire breathing creature as its form got smaller and more humanoid. Once the fire dissipated they saw a woman in skin tight dragon leather.

Naruto gasped "Asha'bellanar!" said the redheaded boy in a different language. All of the humans looked at Naruto in confusion.

Bethany was the first to speak. "What was that Naruto? I couldn't understand it."

Naruto nodded. "I just spoke in my people's language, i just called her 'the woman of many years', it's the title given to her by the dalish people, you would know her as Flemeth or even 'the witch of the wilds'.

The woman seemed pleased by Naruto's explanation. "Ah, one of the people and one so smart too. Such a refreshing sight to see one who both respects my name and doesn't bow immediately."

Naruto took a step to stand in between his group and the woman. 'If this turns violent i refuse to allow her to harm any of them.'

The redheaded elf decided to speak in elvhen. "What is it that you have come for?"

Flemeth chuckled. "I noticed a most odd thing. An ogre slain, who could perform such a miraculous feat? So i came here and sated my curiosity, in doing so i saved you and your group. It makes sense to me now though as to how such a beast could be slain when the one to do the deed is the chosen of the maker and had been imprinted on by the dread wolf himself."

Naruto was shocked, so that's what the wolf was for, with him being so focused on training and his relationship with Bethany he didn't think to ask the spirits of the fade about it.

"What does the imprintment mean exactly?" asked the elf.

A far away look came to Asha'bellanar's face. "When the wolf comes learn from him, when the wolf sets his gaze upon you gaze back without fear, when the wolf is upon you his mark shall let you know."

Naruto was shaking slightly at the tone that sound eerily like a prophecy. "I must ask you for a way of transportation Asha'bellanar."

The woman nodded as she pulled out a necklace and placed it in Naruto's hands. "Of course but I'll need you to do me a favor in return, on Sundermount you will find a clan of dalish elves, i want you to bring this necklace to their keeper Marethari and do as she says with it. The thing will grow warm when it is time to do as told child."

Naruto nodded and placed the necklace around his neck before turning to the others and plastered a smile to his face. "Hey, good news everyone! Flemeth has agreed to bring us as far as Gwarren where we can get to Kirkwall."

Everyone smiled and started following the woman on the road.

XXXAN: Hello everyone and welcome back to a new world, same shit.I'll keep this one short, i was asked why Naruto wanted a bow since he was a short range fighter in the anime and manga and I'll answer that right now.1: i thought of it as this, i made him a mage and they usually like to stay as far away from the enemy as possible but as you can see in this chapter he'll get close when need be.2: he was an idiot in cannon so i gave him knowledge and that pretty much stopped his whole 'be a tank' mindset.And 3: i just really like bowsAnyway please enjoy and as always MCL homies