An Uzumaki in Arendelle
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Disney's Frozen or the Frozen video games by Nintendo.
Key:
"Speaking Japanese"
"Speaking some foreign language. Because I like running gags."
-Start Chapter-
Oh, the headache Elsa had. It had only been a few minutes but between Olaf's happy yelling and trying to coax Naruto down from the rafters it was getting hard to keep calm. As she had been approaching the blond behind the stairs to try to calm him down, Elsa made the mistake of taking her eyes off Naruto and turning towards Olaf and asked him to keep quiet while she calmed her other friend, who took the chance to disappear. Not like he did the other times where he would move to a new part of the room. This time he just vanished.
He had even stopped yelling making it even harder to tell where he was. The only time he was seen was if she caught sight of his hair or clothes when he moved from one rafter to another. So far Elsa had been able to see him in five different spots within two minutes.
Unfortunately with all the commotion that was being caused, it seemed that almost everyone in the castle was moving towards the entrance hall. This of course had to include Kai, Anna, Kristoff, and Sven, who came running to Olaf's excited shouts about the new "friend" he had just made and how fun he was. Apparently whatever had been done to the snowman to throw him had not hurt him enough to convince the snowman that Naruto was not exactly keen on being his friend at the moment. But that could be explained to him later.
A few minutes after everyone had gathered and had been given an explanation, an exasperated Elsa passed the ball she had been holding to Anna, who started spluttering about the fact that she was now holding her long lost ball. Elsa left her sister to explain to their friends about the ball, hoping the story would distract them, especially Olaf, while she calmed Naruto down. Or at least got him down from the rafters.
Getting to the far side of the room, away from everyone else, Elsa called out to her friend, hoping she could coax him down. Thankfully Naruto was willing to at least respond to her as he stuck his head out from behind a particularly high rafter when he heard her.
"Naruto come down here," Elsa called out in the calmest voice her stressed out state would allow.
Thankfully Olaf's loud happy talking, that would have caused Naruto to disappear again, was hard to hear from across the hall. Seemed her tactic of giving Anna the ball had worked. Unfortunately Naruto still couldn't understand her, and instead choose to look between her and the living snowman who was now ogling the ball that had been rescued earlier.
Not getting a response from Naruto caused a bit of worry for Elsa, but she continued on trying to easy her friend from his hiding spot. A few minutes later with no success Elsa decided to try another approach.
With a stomp of her foot that caused some frost to fly up behind her pulling Naruto's attention towards her, and away from Olaf. Looking directly into her friend's eyes, Elsa pointed a finger at the ground right beside her and called his name using the, as Anna called it, royal commanding voice. The same voice Anna herself used on Kristoff occasionally. Elsa chose not to compare her using the voice on Naruto with Anna using it on her boyfriend.
However the effects were identical. Where Kristoff would look dumbfounded for a few seconds before bursting into action, Naruto took a second to widen his eyes before he jumped off the rafter. A feat which caused some screams from the servants and Anna.
Of course Naruto landed with barely a sound next to the queen. Giving a smile to her friend to show she wasn't angry with him, Elsa took his hand and turned towards the rest of the room. Who had all taken Naruto's jump in different ways.
Kristoff had attempted a run forward to catch his fellow blond, but had only made it half-way across the room. Anna and Sven had taken to covering their eyes with hands and hooves respectively. Kai and Gerda had grabbed onto each other. Several other servants looked away or had taken steps back. And Olaf had gotten over what ever shock he suffered, and was now running towards Naruto, causing him to tense.
Elsa, not about to risk things degrading back to their previous state, tightened her grip on Naruto's hand, looked towards the snowman, and simply commanded Olaf to stop. Apparently she was still in the mindset of using the royal commanding voice from earlier causing Olaf skidded to a stop just before he passed Kristoff. After the snowman halted, Naruto relaxed immensely, and Elsa couldn't stop a sigh of relief from escaping her lips.
Unfortunately her rather loud command had caused all those present to stop hiding and notice that Naruto was fine. Which caused the others to take a few tentative steps towards him. This included a certain easily excitable animal who ignored Elsa's previous order completely and started charging towards the blond that resembled said animals best friend.
Kristoff hearing the thunder hoofs of his friend reacted on instinct and moved in front of the reindeer to prevent his advance. Sven slowed to prevent a crash as Kristoff grabbed his friend to help slow him and hold him in place.
Once the reindeer was stopped Kristoff started apologizing to his friend and even made a comment about not wanting to smell burnt reindeer, which caused the other occupants of the room snapped out of their shock and realized that Sven had been with Olaf for the past week. And both were unaware the danger from the seemingly innocent boy. Many of the servants ran forward to help the mountain man explain to Sven and Olaf about the superheated boy who didn't speak their language.
Meanwhile, as the others were distracted by the charging reindeer, Naruto had taken action, and grabbed Elsa in a princess carry, before he jumped towards a high window sill. While Elsa was amazed at the fact she was now being held on top of the tallest window sill in the room, she was pleased that she now knew how Naruto was getting into the rafters. While the fact he could jump so high was odd, it was much more reasonable than something else, like if he was switching places with a log or something.
But she needed to be put those thoughts on hold as she felt the small amount of heat, no warmer than a hug, that passed through Naruto's jacket start to melt her frozen dress. Again. It wasn't going to melt completely like before, she could feel parts of her dress break away where Naruto was holding her. Even though she knew her dress could hold up to even higher temperatures than Naruto was currently giving off, her dress just seemed to melt around him. If this kept up she'd need to make a suit of armor out of her ice so Naruto could hug her more often.
And upon realizing what she had just thought Elsa shoved that idea into the farthest reaches of her mind indefinitely. Instead she focused her thoughts on how she was going to get Naruto to take her back down, before her dress melted further. It wasn't like she could fix the damage while in his arms. Although he probably wouldn't even know what was going on if she did.
Though no matter how much Elsa thought she wanted to get out of Naruto's arms she couldn't stop herself from spending several seconds just quietly staring at his handsome face as his warm arms held her protectively. She actually spent so long looking at him that she almost missed her name being called by her sister.
Turning her head to look over the edge of the window sill, Elsa saw her friends and family looking around, presumably for her and Naruto. Olaf and Sven were helping everyone else look with concerned faces, so hopefully they were now aware of Naruto's problem. Which was good news for her since now she only had to convince Naruto, that the snowman and reindeer weren't going to hurt him. After she got him to take her down.
"We're up here," Elsa called out drawing everyone's attention to their queen being held in the window sill. She figured that the best way to keep everyone calm was to alert all of them to her and Naruto's location.
While many of the servants had started pointing and staring at the two of them, they had at least stopped moving so with any luck Naruto would be able to jump back down and land in a clear area.
"Naruto down," Elsa commanded as simply as possible while she pointed towards the floor, hoping that he not only understood her want, but also that he might have learned the word "down."
Thankfully he did seem to understand as after looking at her for a few seconds, before looking at everyone else. She felt Naruto tense before he gave a small push with his legs that sent them flying through the air. It felt like only a second passed before the two of them landed on the far side of the room from everyone else, and specifically Olaf and Sven if she had to guess.
Thankfully as soon as they landed Naruto lowered his arms so she could move out of his arms. And while disappointed at the loss of heat Elsa hurriedly put a foot on the ground, but kept a hand on Naruto at all times so he couldn't run away.
Once standing on both legs Elsa quickly waved her free hand behind her back, quickly fixing her dress. Thankfully they way Naruto had landed meant no one saw the melted back of her dress yet, so there shouldn't be any uncomfortable questions about it. Especially since if someone was melting the clothes of the queen, the people, her royal court, and the other nations would demand that she not associate with such a man.
The back of her dress fixed, Naruto not running any where, and Olaf and Sven standing well back meant that the continuous chaos had finally stopped, and allowed for a calm and rational introduction for Naruto, Olaf, and Sven. She hoped.
So projecting an image of cool composed confidence, Elsa took Naruto's hand in her own and walked with him towards the rest of the group. Taking measured steps to ensure nothing spooked her friend, or caused another out burst until they were only a few steps away from the rest of the group.
Standing with Naruto next to her cautiously watching everyone, but at least no longer looking like he would attack anything that moved towards him. Which was a good thing considering how strong he had to be to jump as high as he does. Giving a reassuring squeeze to Naruto's hand, Elsa calmly and softly called both Olaf and Sven to "walk" towards them.
"Naruto," Elsa called getting his attention on her while the two non humans moved towards them. "Sven," she said while pointing at the reindeer, who gave a low grunt in acknowledgment of his name being called. Elsa had specifically left all words except names out of her speech so as not to confuse the blonde.
Tightening her grip a little to draw Naruto's attention back to her, Elsa pointed at her other friend. "Olaf," she pointed towards the snowman standing in front of them, and waved slowly at Naruto, now that he was aware of how dangerous the blond was. Naruto waved back in acknowledgment of the living snowman, but still kept his distance.
Noticing Naruto's hesitation Elsa waved her free hand in the air to conjure a small blizzard that condensed into a non living likeness of Olaf, save for the carrot nose. Hopefully Naruto now understood what the living snowman was, and that she had created him. He must have understood something, because as he looked at the small snow statue he returned to his normal enthusiastic demeanor while saying something in his own language.
Giving another wave of her hand and a burst of magic Elsa turned the Olaf shaped pile of snow into a flurry that flew around the room, much to everyone's enjoyment, before dispersing into the air. The queen really didn't want to accidentally make another living snowman like she did with Olaf, by leaving the look alike just standing there, like she did with Olaf on the mountain. Even if she had no clue how Olaf came to life.
Hearing the sound of clapping, from those present, at her magical display, Elsa gave a small wave to the crowd hoping they would calm down and stop making such a big deal of her magic. She was about to say something to that effect when she felt a light squeeze on her arm from Naruto. Who did nothing afterward but smile at her. Whether he was aware of how she didn't like to show off her powers, or something more, Elsa decided to just enjoy the moment with her friends. Especially since no one was causing Naruto to jump away.
When the clapping had died down enough that Elsa could talk, she turned and addressed the servants, "Now, that we have had some fun for today, I think it's time that we all return to our duties."
With the servants leaving to perform their given tasks now that the excitement had passed, the only ones left were the queen, her sister, Naruto, Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf. Now alone with her friends and sister, Elsa looked towards the living snowman, "Olaf, where have you been for the past week?" she asked in a calm voice.
The living snowman was silent for a few seconds, until he pointed out the door towards the mountain in the far distance. "I was out in the countryside gathering flowers to give you guys. Sven was there with me too, but he didn't do anything besides follow me," the excited snowman said as he ran out side only to return with a huge bouquet of purple flowers. Which he started handing out to all present including Elsa, who got a slightly smaller bunch than Anna, Sven, who just ate his, Naruto, whose flowers didn't burst into flames because of his gloves, and Kristoff. Said ice harvester just gave his to his girlfriend, while Naruto seeing the act gave his flowers to Elsa, failing to see the soft red glow that now adorned her cheeks.
Using the flowers to hide her blush from view, she moved her hand so it was now holding Naruto's and proceeded to guide him towards the kitchens, stating that she and Naruto would grab dinner before she would take him back to his room.
Elsa only looked back for a few seconds when she heard her sister sneeze causing a shower of petals to fall over the entrance hall. Continuing on her quest to feed herself and her blond friend the queen missed the strange look her sister gave her. After Anna had sneezed into the flowers, she had looked at her sister's retreating back and noticed that the back of her dress was a lot more plain than it usually was. Almost like she had to dress quickly, instead of taking the time to form her dress correctly.
*break*
Returning Naruto to his room for the night before retiring to her own, Elsa stood before a full length mirror, looking at her shimmering dress made of ice and frost. Twice today her dress had melted slightly when Naruto held her. Having experimented with her powers she knew she could make her dress strong enough to withstand a burning fire, so she was pretty sure her dress could stand up to a hug by Naruto. Especially if he was wearing the special clothes she had made for him. But it didn't, and that worried her.
She feared that Naruto might not be getting better like she thought he was if his temperature was high enough to melt her ice, but another part of her subconscious knew that he was going to be just fine. With how energetic he was today she couldn't help but smile at the thought that Naruto would be healthy soon. Healthy enough that he might leave her.
The sadness that descended over her at that thought caused her to flash freeze her entire room. She really didn't know why, but she felt a chill at the thought of Naruto not being around. Her next thought probably wouldn't have occurred to her if the wind from an open window pushed her dress against her body, and caused her to shiver from the cold of her dress.
She was cold. A feeling that she hadn't felt in forever and caused her to break from her thoughts of Naruto leaving as she realized just how cold she was. She was freezing. Her icy dress felt cold to her because Naruto wasn't around to warm her up. She had grown so accustomed to having Naruto around her that when she was away from him the cold did bother her.
Forced to admit that her dress was cold, Elsa let the traitorous cloth melt away like it had been trying to all day. Left with nothing blocking the view of her pale skin in the mirror, Elsa for the first time in awhile looked at her body.
Elsa would admit that she had a nice figure, she had seen many men in the village turn to look at her as she past, and not just because she was the queen. Even a few of her suitors seemed more interested in her than her power or land. Those were her more genuine suitors, because at least they acknowledged her as more than a queen who had mystic powers.
But even then she was still known as the snow queen, and was said to be as pure as the freshly fallen snow of her title. So many people, from her own kingdom to those far away were very adamant that when she marry it must be to someone worthy of her status and powers. And if the other kingdoms have their say, it would be their princes that would woo her.
But she never thought of marriage. Mainly because from the time that she had accidentally hurt Anna and onward, Elsa had thought of herself as a monster. She was a danger to everyone that she was near so couldn't dare to think about getting close to anyone new. Let alone a boy when she was old enough. Throughout puberty Elsa couldn't stand herself. She found it difficult to wonder about boys, while she was trying to prevent herself from hurting anyone if she lost control.
Now that she was older and had her powers under control, not to mention being the queen her schedule was too full to worry about boys and husbands. In fact the only boy her age she spent any time around during the past year was Kristoff, and for as nice and caring as he was, Anna didn't need to worry about him being stolen from her. The reindeer man just didn't do it for the queen.
But then Naruto showed up. At first she spent so much time around the blond to keep an eye on him. Then it was to keep him company after he figured out he couldn't leave the bed. And even now she found herself making excuses to stay near him. The current one being that she was going to teach him to speak their language.
She could have just order one of the tutors to teach him, but he seems to learn better by doing, so she could be there to help him. Now that he's better a servant could take over watching him, while she worked in her study. Of course no one in the castle understood Naruto like she did. Naruto would of course worry about her if she disappeared after she spent so much time with him. And she didn't want to worry him. And there she was making more excuses to be around her friend.
In the confines of her room standing bare in front of her mirror with nothing to hide Elsa could let out the truth that the real reason that she was always around Naruto was because she felt he could relate to her on an emotional level. She had been isolated for years and now Naruto was alone in a land he knew nothing about and couldn't even say what he wanted to.
After the fiasco that had been her coronation was settled Elsa had silently vowed to herself that she didn't want anyone else to suffer the same loneliness that she did. So she would stick beside Naruto and the sole reward that she wanted was to see that dazzling smile he would give her.
That smile that caused her own body to heat up enough that she thought her dress would melt off her, even without being around Naruto. Her whole world seemed to become much brighter when he was smiling at her. His sapphire eyes would sparkle as his golden hair caught the rays from the sun.
Elsa's dream of Naruto was ruined when a loud moan sounded across her room, and pulling her from her thoughts as she noticed her own hands exploring her body on their own accord. Mildly horrified at what she was about to do Elsa pulled her hands away from her body. Night gown forgotten Elsa almost jumped into her bed, and hid beneath the confines of the covers telling herself that she was just under a lot of stress lately. And she shouldn't pull her friend into her perverted fantasies.
But as she laid in bed half asleep one final thought crossed her mind. That maybe on a subconscious level, she had wanted her dress to melt around Naruto. That would explain her dresses fragility, but why would she. Maybe it was to get closer to the heat of Naruto's body that her own craved, or possibly something even more primal. Whatever the answer was would remained a mystery for the night as the queen slipped off to the land of dreams. Forgetting the thoughts she had when she woke up the next morning.
*break*
The next Morning had been interesting for Elsa. After she had woken up and gotten ready for the day, she went to check on Naruto. And was greeted by the sight of a sweaty Naruto doing push ups without a shirt. From what Elsa could get from his gestures Naruto thought that since he had been let out of his bed yesterday he was now allowed to be out of his bed at any time, and as much as she wanted to argue he didn't seem to be over heating, so she allowed it for now.
For the next several hours Elsa sat at the desk she had in the room, while Naruto alternated between different stationary exercises. All of which he performed shirtless. And even though he hadn't worn a shirt for the entire week he had been bed ridden, Elsa found it difficult to concentrate on her paperwork. Thankfully one of the servants had come into the room, with a message that her head servant Kai needed her down at the docks were a merchant ship had some odd items. So pulling herself away from her work and the distracting sight of Naruto's work out, Elsa now found herself standing before the merchants Kai had insisted she meet.
"Alright Kai why did you need me," Elsa started of in the soft tone she used for diplomatic purposes, or while she was in front of sailing merchants.
"I'm sorry to bother you your majesty, but while I was down here at the docks, I mentioned our guests name and these fine men recognized it as a foreign word," The head servant said.
"Guest, Kai?" Elsa asked.
"Your man here said his name was Naruto, me lady," one of the merchants said as he gave a short bow to the queen before him.
"Oh, yes Naruto. He's around so much I almost forgot that he was a guest, and not a permanent resident of the castle," Elsa quickly replied, having actually forgotten that Naruto was just a guest for the time being.
"He certainly draws attention to himself my queen," Kai said as he tried to hid a smile at the memories of yesterdays events. "But these men claim that the word naruto actually means maelstrom in Japan of all places."
"Aye, your majesty, we just came back from the orient where we got a book to help us learn some words to help our sales."
"You have a book?" the queen asked in shock.
"That was the reason I asked for you to come your majesty. These men have a book on the Japanese language, which I believe Naruto speaks," Kai said.
Elsa saw one of the men hold up a book, that appeared to be well preserved for having been on a ship.
"Some linguist set up shop in Japan and makes a living by writing language books. We bought a set to help with trade, and we learned all we needed so we would be happy to sell them ," the sailor said, as he motioned to a few more books behind him.
Elsa almost couldn't believe how lucky the situation was. She had planned on teaching Naruto her native language just as one would a child, and still probably would have too. But if these books could tell her words to help Naruto learn faster, that could increase his learning exponentially. And all it would take was for Naruto to actually be speaking Japaneses and not something else.
"May I look at those books before we buy them?" Elsa asked, trying to keep the excitement out of her voice, "I would like to make sure that these will work for what we need them to."
Get an affirmative, Elsa picked up one of the books and began to leaf through the pages looking for any words that she knew from her time with Naruto. It only took a few seconds, before she found several words she thought sounded familiar, but not quite, as she continued to look. And then she found it.
Elsa didn't feel the need to continue looking as her eyes looked down towards the page, as the one word she had longed to know was now understood by her. Hime, the word Naruto called her and only her, was finally know by her to mean princess.
And that made it all the better. Naruto knew she was a princess and still treated her like just another girl. While she had resigned herself to the fact that as queen, when she walked down the street she would be given formal hellos and respectful bows, while her sister was given casual greetings like she was an old friend come to visit. It didn't bother Elsa a great deal, being that she was used to avoiding people. But now instead of her avoiding people for their protection, everyone else avoided her because she was queen. Not in the running away kind of avoiding, but in the way where the townspeople would never get close enough to know her for who she was.
But Naruto didn't. Elsa had felt he was aware she was important, but since he seemed to have learned that she was a princess yesterday he hadn't changed at all. He still smiled at her in that genuine way that only he could, he would poke her in the arm to get her attention, and even this morning while she was doing paperwork. She had let out a sigh of frustration from the mountain of work she had left and he came over to rub her shoulders. Nothing overly intimate he just rubbed her shoulders, to help ease her tension. His increased body heat helped immensely too, but she had to stop him before he melted her gown again.
Turning towards the sailors, and trying to hide the pure excitement that she could finally do something for Naruto besides keep him cool, and asked how much the books were.
"We haven't' really set a price yet your majesty," a sailor answered truthfully. "While we're thinking of a price would you care to browse the rest of our wares from Japan. Your guest would probably like something from his home," a sailor said as he tried to entice the queen into buying more items from them.
"Unfortunately I am too busy to brows today," Elsa replied, Having spent most of her life learning about politics, and how to deal with them meant that she saw right through the merchant. He wasn't a bad man, he just wanted to get the most money that he could. "But, my shrewd head servant Kai here will gladly strike a fair deal with you, and possibly buy any thing else he believes Naruto might need during his stay," Elsa finished as she gestured towards her loyal servant.
"Of course queen Elsa, I'll be sure to work out a suitable prince, and I'll see what else I can find for the young man. Maybe some foreign eating utensils, he seems so uncomfortable with a fork and knife," Kai said as he smiled at the thought of haggling with the merchants. Kai always did have a vindictive streak, that's why last year she let him deal with Hans and the Duke of Weselton.
Giving a smile to the now nervous merchants, Elsa turned and began walking back into town knowing that Kai would get the books for a fair price. He also had a fair point about the fact that Naruto was always uncomfortable with a fork and knife, so maybe they used something else over in Japan. If that was where he was from.
About halfway back to the castle Elsa heard a shout from one of the townspeople that made her heart stop. There was a fire in the village.
-End Chapter-
Sorry for the slow update. You can blame Disney if you want for making another great movie, and making me need to write another fic for it, but I'm glad I finally got this chapter out.
Olaf's disappearance and the bouquet of flowers are from the Nintendo DS and 3DS games Olaf's Quest. Where the main focus is just to collect flowers. It's an okay game but there's not a lot to it.
For the scene with Elsa alone in her room, I tried to keep it within the Teen rating I've put this story under. But what do you all of you think about it.
Thank you for reading and please review. And next chapter we'll see about getting some children into the castle. This isn't a joke but it's probably not what you're thinking.