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!
Chapter 3
"Where did you find them?" Regis asked coming out looking anxious.
The two children were standing on the halflings front porch with a smirking Drizzt with his arms crossed.
"An' what happened to there clothes?" Bruenor said as he exited the halflings home.
Naruto and Cattie-brie looked at one another, their clothes tattered and in Naruto's case wet.
"Yes, tell Bruenor where the two of you scampered off to." Drizzt said with a nudge to his adopted son. "Tell our good friends what mischief you got into."
Naruto shot his adoptive father a look and got a smile.
Cattie-brie huffed. "We didn't start it."
"Start what?" Bruenor asked as he saw the scuffmarks on the face of his daughter. "Who hit me girl?" Bruenor roared and it took Cattie-brie herself putting a hand on his shoulder to stop him from grabbing his axe.
"Oh I think those responsible have been suitably punished." Drizzt said nearly laughing.
Naruto huffed. "As Cat said, they started it."
"And you finished it, but the in between story should be entertaining." Drizzt said.
"Well boy?" Bruenor prompted.
"We were walking around while you were all in the meeting, we didn't do anything and we saw some of those idiots from Kent harassing some of the Lonelywood fisherman." Naruto said.
"And well we weren't doing more than yell and trade insults for a bit." Cattie-brie interjected into the story.
"Anyways we were cheering as the Lonelywood fishermen seemed to be winning the argument when another boat from Kent showed up."
Cattie-brie scoffed. "They weren't fisherman, they were armed."
"Anyways." Naruto said. "They started to attack the boat and I couldn't let them get away with it."
"Knucklehead here decided to try his water walking skills and made it to the Lonelywood boat."
"Yeah, you should have seen their faces." Naruto said with a chuckle.
"Naruto here used one his fire jutsu's, they couldn't put the fire out and the Kent boats went up as if they were soaked in oil." Cattie-brie said pushing her bangs away from her face.
"So the smudges?" Regis prompted.
"Well on of the men from Kent swam to the shore and tried to use Cat as leverage. You should have seen it. I told you taijutsu was useful." Naruto said the last to Bruenor who made a face. "Fancy gyrating around. Nuthin' a good headbutt can't fix."
"Anyway Cat here puts the first one down and I used the others as stepping stones to get back to shore."
"The last one wasn't steady and Naruto fell in. He came up spittin' somethin' fierce." Cattie-brie added and the two stuck their tongues out at the same time at one another.
"The two darlings of Lonelywood forget to mention that once all the men from Kent were on dry land they took part in a battle royal." Drizzt added. "Very impressive you two, not even drawing weapons."
Naruto looked at his adoptive father and saw pride there. Along with a teasing smile in which he knew he wouldn't hear the end of his falling in the water.
"Bah, get 'em inside and cleaned up." Bruenor said.
"I'll make sure there's something to eat." Regis said as Drizzt escorted the pair of children inside. Regis kept things there for them to wear on the off chance they needed to change when they were in town. His idea was "They are children after all."
What Regis didn't tell them was he had things for Drizzt and Bruenor as well, after all best be prepared.
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"So what are we going to do?" Naruto asked.
"Ye be goin' back ta the tunnels." Bruenor said as they sat around eating. "An' Rumblebelly be goin' with us."
"Aren't we going to fight?" Naruto asked looking at his father.
"The council is still fighting over defenses. It looks like each town is going to focus on itself."
Naruto looked at his adoptive father pleadingly. "They've been warned. I'll be scouting and you will be with the dwarves in the tunnels."
Naruto huffed. "I can fight."
"Sure yeh can lad." Bruenor agreed. "An' I need ye an' my girl in the tunnels ta make sure those curvey dogs don't get in."
Naruto was going to argue but Cattie-brie put a hand on his shoulder. The pair exchanged a look and let the matter rest.
XX
Later in the tunnels Naruto slipped around a group of dwarves who had been preparing traps and joined Cattie-brie in a side alcove.
"This sucks."
She grunted in agreement. "I can't believe we're hiding in the tunnels."
They saw a group of dwarves finish the tunnel trap and head back towards them.
"Girl, boy get your scrawny asses back here." Gellum called and they had no choice.
"But we can't see anything from back here." Naruto said.
Gellum grunted. "That's the idea. I ain't gonna be the one ta tell the elf an' Bruenor we let ya get squished or stabbed."
The pair shared a look and went to sit, knowing there was no way they were getting thru the battalion of dwarves to the entrance to the tunnel entrance to watch the battle.
"Got any cards?" Naruto asked.
XX
"Ah can't believe they tried ta enter the tunnels." Cattie-brie said as she watched the dwarves working on clearing out the collapsed tunnel.
Naruto was anxious. It was nearly an hour after the barbarians had entered the tunnel and the watchers from other tunnels told them it look like the battle was over and the barbarians were retreating.
"Any word about Bruenor or Drizzt?" Naruto asked. He was worried about the Dark Elf who had become his father.
Cattie-brie grabbed the nearest dwarf and sent him off to find out about their fathers.
"Can we go outside?" Naruto asked.
A couple of dwarves shared looks. "Aye. Gimli and Balin will go with yeh."
The two youngsters rushed to the nearest open tunnel with the dwarf warriors following at a slower pace.
They shot into the sun and both children found their gaze going towards Ten Towns.
Smoke rose from dozens of fires and they could see the dead littering the field.
The cold wind blew and Cattie-brie huddled against Naruto as they watched the path.
The sun had set when Naruto spotted the familiar horned helm. Bruenor was stomping up the path and he was cursing the stupidity of humans.
He spotted the children and his mouth formed a thin line.
"Where's dad?" Naruto asked.
"Spendin' the night at Rumblebelly's. Dang fool blasted elf cracked a few ribs takin' down the chieftain." He saw the concern in the blue eyes. "He's fine. Take more than a tundra yeti humpin' barbarian ta take the elf."
He spotted Balin. "Tomorrow yeh take the wagon, I got somethin' ta pick up."
Cattie-brie hugged her father and noted another dent in his horned helm.
"What did ye find that would require a wagon?" she asked.
Bruenor gave a chuckle. "I might have picked up a stray after the battle."
Cattie-brie folded her arms and gave her father a look.
Naruto wasn't paying attention, his mind was on plans to go with to collect his Dark Elf father.
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AN: Still plugging away. Slow going with numb hands. My laptop doesn't accept voice programs. Found that out recently. Next chapter is going to be mostly flashbacks and time skips.