Naruto & the Drow
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto as he his property of Kishimoto even if we wonder if he's been compromised and I certainly don't own Drizzt he belongs to the awesome writer RA Salvatore and TSR. I am not making any money of this and its only for entertainment, don't preach to me about how it is or was or this happened. This is fanfiction. We can change things to do what WE WANT!
XX
I remember those early days with Naruto clearly and I found that I could hate and not feel regret. Naruto had told of how he had been thrown onto the streets when he was two and a half. TWO AND A HALF! I felt my hands tighten around the grips of my scimitars and I knew if I met any of these people they would find out what justice could be like and I always believe when it comes to cruelty and justice going hand in hand no one could match what my people did to one another, much less the other races. It was one of the few times I could recall my life before the surface and feel justified in what my race could do.
When he spoke of his first year on the streets even gruff Bruenor had a tear in his eye.
When Naruto told us about his third birthday we were ready to find a mage and speak with these people.
The smile on Naruto's face as he described his first meeting with Kyuubi or Kyu-chan as he called her I was grateful to hear how the fox woman had defended him and then forced the village leader the Hokage which I later learnt meant Fire Shadow as I learned more of Naruto's village as he worked from the scrolls growing up under my watchful eye.
Kyuubi had forced Hiruzen Sarutobi to be responsible and tell Naruto of the day she had been sealed inside, about his birth parents and the burden of being a human sacrifice.
Naruto spoke fondly of the fox woman who gave him a connection to his birth mother and told him stories and would help him learn.
Naruto's tale of growing up with the Hokage seemed to get better, the attacks stopped and Naruto had gotten a semi-normal life. I couldn't really think of teaching a child how to fight as the second boy of House Do'Urden I had learned first to be everyone's servant and the first ten years of my life I was to only look at the floor. The next part of my life I had fondly spent under the tutelage of the Weapons Master of our house and it wasn't until the end when I learned he was my father.
I remember Naruto telling me how Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly fell ill and died within a day of falling sick. It was an old practice I'd seen often in Menzoberranzan. Poisoning one's rival or enemy was a daily practice amongst my people the Drow and as Naruto told me more and more of what a ninja was I thought how similar they were to my people and I was often relieved in those days when I checked on him at night, thanking Kyuubi for brining him to me.
Naruto told how not even a day had passed after the Hokage's passing, he was out getting food when he found himself surrounded by a mob calling for his death.
His tone had become flat as he said Kyuubi appeared and fought off ninja and civilians, killing many and finally grabbing him and running.
They'd managed to get several miles from the village walls when they were surrounded by a group of ninja.
"Jiji warned me of them while I was growing up. He called them Root and they were the personal army of a council member called Danzo Shimura." He had said in that same flat voice.
Apparently they had been ordered to capture Naruto and Kyuubi and bring them to Danzo. For what Naruto had been uncertain and I could only guess, but it would not have been good.
Naruto told how he passed out from his wounds and Kyuubi had kept fighting.
I remember Cattie-brie moving and engulfing the blond in a hug and I knew right then and there Naruto had a defender that would not abandon him.
I look back on that moment and I can't think of a time now when the words Naruto and Cattie-brie weren't said in the same sentence when looking for them or the trouble they got into.
I could almost pity the people who had hurt the blond and those that would try, but then that would be lying and that's something I try not to do. I after all became a father that day long ago and I try to be a good role model. And truthfully Cattie-brie could do a whole lot more than I could. And as I learned to be a father, I had no idea what lay ahead of me, and I was okay with that. – Drizzt Do'Urden
XX
Chapter 2
A year had passed since Naruto's arrival and Drizzt had to admit that he saw a lot of himself in the whisker marked blond in several ways.
The early weeks with the blond had made Drizzt tell him of his own life growing up and the drow had to admit that the sparkling blue eyes eager to hear him speak was something the drow had experienced only a few times in his life. It made him think of his time with Montolio DeBrouchee or Mooshie, the blind ranger who had taught Drizzt what it meant to be a ranger and the common language of the surface.
So it was that as Drizzt started to teach Naruto just as Montolio had taught him the ways of the ranger and as his father Zaknafein had taught him as well the way of the sword.
Drizzt had smiled as the whisker marked blond took to using two scimitars like him. He had raided Bruenor's armory and Naruto hadn't even given the axes or pole-arms a look. Drizzt had felt his heart clench watching Naruto spin the long swords as an image of his father Zaknafein had interposed itself temporarily over Naruto. But it was when the blond had touched the scimitars the smile on the boys' face he had to wonder if this was how his father had felt watching him.
Now nearly a year later and Drizzt would say that the nine-year-old child was better equipped than most people. Add in the "ninja" training from the scrolls and Drizzt knew that with time Naruto would be even a better fighter than him someday.
XX
Drizzt paused as he looked over the tundra. He was coming back from scouting and the gathering of the barbarian tribes had been a concern. He was anxious to see Naruto again, knowing the blond was safe with Bruenor and his people but having spent a year with the boy the drow had discovered that living with someone was totally different than living alone. He never thought he'd feel that way after Mooshie had died.
He heard muffled laughter and the hood of his cloak hid his smile. He kept climbing the path when he reached out and pulled Naruto from his concealment.
The blond dropped the white and gray cloth that made him blending in with the mountainside and smiled. "DAD!"
That was something that had been new in the past month. The first time it slipped out was during sword practice and had stopped them both in their tracks.
"You're getting better. But laughing gives away your position." Drizzt said as he hugged the nine year old to him.
"Your finally back." Naruto said accepting the hug and giving one of his own.
"Told ye he'd be back."
The adopted father and son looked up the path to see the red head of Cattie-brie peeking over her own cover.
Drizzt smiled. "Does Bruenor know your both out here?" he asked after making sure that both children were dressed for the cold.
"As long as we can see the door." Naruto grumbled. "But I've been further when…"
"When I'm around. It's for your safety that the rules are in place. I know you can handle yourself, but did you think how Bruenor would feel if either of you got hurt?"
Twin guilty looks gave him the answer and he nodded knowing they would be more careful.
"Are ye done running out there?" Cattie-brie asked. Bruenor's adopted human daughter asked.
"I am for now. I need to speak with Bruenor and Regis."
Naruto grinned. He had taken a liking to the halfling when they met a couple of months after his arrival when he'd gone with Bruenor and his father into Ten Towns where they'd met the halfling.
"So how many yeti did ye kill this time?" Cattie-brie asked.
"Enough." Drizzt answered. He looked at Naruto. "How is your training going?"
The answering grin told the drow that their next sparring session would be interesting to say the least.
"I've got a few new tricks." Naruto said proudly. Drizzt had helped him learning to meditate and focus his mind.
Cattie-brie had spent some time with the blond. "Jus' be grateful ye didn't bring down the chamber."
At this Drizzt arched an eyebrow at his adopted son who looked sheepish. "It wasn't that big of a deal." He said as they continued to climb the path. "And Bruenor said the wall needed to come down anyways."
Drizzt shook his head. "I thought we agreed that you'd test any of those jutsu's outside. The scroll you translated warned of backlash of chakra."
Naruto had spent many nights translating the scrolls for Drizzt after he'd spent weeks explaining hand seals. It helped that the scrolls held numerous books and Naruto had used the time as a refresher course, explaining the basics to Drizzt and Cattie-brie on what the Hokage and Kyuubi had shown him growing up.
"'Bout damn time yeh came back." A gruff voice greeted them and all three turned to see Bruenor sitting just inside the entrance.
"I thought you said you could handle them." Drizzt said with a straight face.
"Bah, I can. I don't know if the mountain can." Bruenor said in mock defense of losing track of the two children.
Both nine year olds did the adult thing. They rolled their eyes and stuck out their tongues.
"I need you and Regis to call a council meeting." Drizzt said as the two kids raced ahead into the mines.
"What did ye find?" Bruenor asked.
"Trouble. An army." Drizzt said pulling his hood back and letting his hair free as his lavender eyes scanned the tunnels.
"Of what, yeti?" Bruenor asked with disdain.
"No. The barbarian tribes have gathered together. I'll explain more when we talk to Regis."
Bruenor grunted. "Yeh know what that means, don't you?"
Drizzt grinned in response.
XX
Further in the tunnels a young boy and girl laughed.
"I can't wait." Naruto was saying while the red haired girl walked next to him. She bumped his shoulder with her own. "Ye know that the two of ye are daft right."
Naruto chuckled. "So I take it you won't be watching dad kick my ass then."
Cattie-brie snorted. "At least ye got that part right."
The two friends made their way through numerous tunnels with practiced ease. Cattie-brie noticed how her friend moved more and more like his adoptive father and his footsteps weren't making a sound and she envied him a bit at his stealth.
"So when are we gonna work on that jutsu?" she asked. Naruto had found a very willing study and training partner in the red haired girl. She had taken to the taijutsu training like a dwarf to ale.
While her weapon skills were nowhere near Drizzt or Naruto's, she felt confident in handling a blade a woe be to anyone trying to harm nine-year-old Cattie-brie. It was the jutsu's that she like Naruto had taken to training with chakra and while she was nowhere near the power level of the blond, she had developed a small arsenal of her own.
"So you think the news yer da' has is bad?" she asked.
Naruto shrugged. "He's never one to joke about a bad situation. He looked very concerned when he said he wanted to talk with Regis, so that means talking with the council of Ten Towns."
"Small minded bigots." Cattie-brie muttered."
Naruto nudged her and with a grin the two of them were off, their mischievious laughter echoing off the tunnel walls.
XX
Naruto sat with Cattie-brie looking at the council doors. Drizzt and Bruenor had suggested leaving the pair in the tunnels, but after consideration it would be best (safer) to bring them with.
"Not in the council chambers, those dang fools will…" Bruenor's rant had been cut off as Drizzt had pulled the pair aside and talked with them, getting them to agree to wait here.
"Boring." Naruto muttered as he toed the floor.
Cattie-brie had to agree with her friend and the pair of dwarves as their protectors looked the same.
"Let's go." Naruto said standing and grabbing her hand.
"Yer da' said ta stay here!" Cattie-brie said but physically she didn't protest as her friend led her away from the council chamber.
"I just want to look around." Naruto said and Cattie-brie just knew that they were going to get into some kind of trouble.
Inside the council chamber while Regis used his hypnotic gem to get the more stubborn members of the council to agree to aid in the upcoming invasion Drizzt's keen senses and his developing parent-senses told him that his adopted son was no longer outside the chambers or in the building. He looked from the shadows at Bruenor and the dwarf was in the argument-planning of the upcoming barbarian invasion.
(I'll have to see for myself. Bruenor is here and Regis is needed.) Drizzt slipped from the room and sure enough the spot where they had left Cattie-brie and Naruto was empty and the guard looked bored, and Drizzt from experience knew he'd be no help. (I should have left Guenhwyvar to watch over them.) he thought pulling his hood up tighter and setting off in search of the two children who he knew were capable of taking care of themselves but as he was new to this whole parenting thing he couldn't help but worry and not for the first time wondered how his people could be so cold and uncaring.
AN: Here's a second attempt in the awesome world that RA Salvatore created what…eighteen years ago…man I'm dating myself. Anyway I managed to get this one so I decided to give it its own section. I'm still chipping away on other stories. So don't expect fast on this as the first chapter took me a long time. Next time is the invasion of the barbarians and we introduce another fan favorite character in the FR-verse. Again this will be slow.