CH 1: These guys are mercenaries?

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Naruto groaned as he sat up looking next to him to see a bluish grey skinned woman sleeping beside him. 'Seems I picked up a drow last night.' the blond thought to himself as he stood and stretched. He noticed he wasn't in his room at the inn so they must've gone to her home. He quietly put his clothes on making sure he had everything before sneaking out. As he walked back to the Inn he'd booked a room at for a few nights he thought about how he came to be in this strange but amazing world.



FLASHBACK



Naruto spit blood from his mouth as he stood back up grabbing his mother's sword and clenching the hilt in his hand. Across from him stood Satsuki Uchiha a manic grin on the black-haired woman's face as she stared into Naruto's eyes. His body was sparking with electricity from the attack she'd hit him with. A chunk of his arm was slowly healing itself from where she'd stabbed him with a chidori enhanced katana lunge. He was exhausted from sealing the remnents of the bijuu and the ten tails into his body along with Kaguya, fighting against his former friend was the last thing he wanted to do. "Come Naruto-kun, let's remake the world together my love!" she exclaimed as she licked her lips at him. Naruto scowled at her as he blocked one of her wild strikes with one hand, his other arm re-assembled finally as he created a rasengan in his left hand slamming it into her side. She screamed out in pain scowling at the man she called her beloved. Kakashi laying on the ground in a pool of his own blood knew the world was doomed. The damage that Madara and Kaguya had done to the landscape would never be repaired. Their world was destroyed beyond repair. Kakashi lifted his hand to his headband one last time and flashed his mangekyou sharingan, as he did so Naruto had activated his Sharinnegan and used the Shinra Tensei launching Satsuki back As Kakashi with his last breath said. "Kamui."



Flasback End



That was six years ago, Naruto had ended up in the kingdom of Tal'dorei in Exandria, he was found by a people called the Ashari. They helped heal his injuries and he'd become friends with the leader's daughter Keyleth. She had left a few months after he'd arrived for her Aramente which was a rite of passage she had to go through to become the leader of her people. After Naruto had learned all of the information that he could from the Ashari he left and began to go town to town heading to libraries or anywhere he could to learn everything he could. After a few weeks he'd become a mercenary, fighting monsters bandits and evil for coin. It was basically like being a shinobi. Protect the client on their way from point A to point B, retrieve something for a client, Deliver an item for a client. There wasn't much he hadn't done in his mercenary career. He had even found a few very powerful magic items he felt should be kept from those who would use them for evil purposes. Sealed in scrolls only someone from his world could open they'd never see the light of day unless he took them out. He yawned as he walked towards the inn to get his gear before heading to the palace for his meeting with the sovereign Uriel. Naruto entered the inn and as he got to his room a royal guard was knocking on his door, Naruto tapped a seal on his wrist and out popped a burnt orange fox mask he put over his face. "Yes, can I help you?" Naruto said as the guard turned surprised. "Ah Kitsune sir. I apologize on behalf of the Sovereign but he will not be able to see you until tomorrow morning. He has an emergency meeting with the council today and sincerely apologizes for making you wait." Naruto nodded and said softly as he unlocked the door to his room. "It's fine I have some other things I need to do today. Thank you very much for informing me." he handed a small bag of coins to the man before closing his door taking off his mask. As he turned, he heard a sad sigh. He turned his head to see the tavern keeper's daughter, a cute little thing with bubblegum pink skin and pointed ears. But he wouldn't try anything. Try as the girl might, Naruto knew never to screw the daughter of a tavern keeper in their own business. "I was asked to bring you breakfast Naruto." the girl said as Naruto took the tray she was holding and smiled warmly. "Thank you my dear, I appreciate it. Please tell your father I'll be staying another night." she nodded her head as she headed back downstairs. Naruto headed into his room setting the tray on the table as he looked in the mirror. Six years changed him slightly, now over six feet tall Naruto was no longer the shrimp he was as a child. The fusion of the different tailed beasts and Kaguya sealed inside of him changed his hair. His short blond hair before was spikey and shoulder length now with red along the sides. His whisker marks deepened over the years becoming more pronounced. His old blue eyes were a pale blue now. His sharinnegan was evolved now due to the juubi's remnants and Kaguya. He could now absorb most types of magic in this world due to whatever happened to him going through the portal. The other thing was.... he held his hands in a release seal and out popped ten fox tails and his human ears were replaced with fox ears. The reason he was really called kitsune. When he felt it was the only way to defeat a monster he'd go all out. Learning the magic of the kitsune of this world wasn't easy but he mastered it to a degree. He finished eating and made his tails and ears disappear before leaving his room to go talk to one of his informants about an issue he'd heard about in passing. Aside from that he had something for his informant as well, seeing as was the best with purveyor of goods in all of Emon maybe even Taldorei. Naruto walked into the building and heard his friend's sultry voice. "You have entered a realm of mystery, of magic, of marvel. Welcome to Gilmore's glorious goods! Oh, Naruto my handsome fox, what brings you to my shop today?" The whiskered mercenary smiled at the man's flirting and said. "A few reasons Gilmore. You're looking glorious as always." He walked up to the counter and set a scroll on the top and opened it unsealing a few items. One was a deck of cards. It looked just like any deck of cards but these were far more dangerous. Gilmore's eyes lit up. "My gods! You must love me to bring me this. The deck of many things! Do you know how much I can get for this?" The shop keeper was giddy with excitement before looking to the next item. The second item was a horn and Gilmore gawked. "This is a horn of Valhalla! Where did you find this!?" Naruto just smiled and said. "You know I find powerful objects and keep them out of the hands of those that might misuse it. I don't think either are too dangerous. I used a few cards from the deck. Must be my devil's luck because I was attacked by a red dragon and carried to its lair. I killed it and found three missing noble daughters that local kingdoms had been looking for and an entire horde full of interesting things including a vorpal blade." Gilmore's eyes sparkled and he grinned devilishly. "Oh, darling boy you do have the best luck. Now onto serious business. Our informants have finally gotten word from Whitestone." The two spoke in hushed whispers and Naruto smiled as they finished their meeting. "Okay once I get a chance, I'll head that way. Try to get word of my coming to the rebels. I don't like this feeling I'm having about Whitestone." Gilmore nodded his head before smiling. "Of course my sweet fox. Do come by again, I cherish your visits." With a bit of coin in his pocket from selling the items to Gilmore Naruto headed back to the tavern as he saw night had fallen. 'When Gilmore gets talking talking time seems to pass quickly.' He thought as he walked inside to see a few mercenary groups he recognized drinking and having a good time. He looked to the corner near the stairs and noticed a group of six, they were having a drinking contest and it looked like the Goliath was winning. That's when he noticed a familiar face among the unfamiliar group. "Keyleth?" He said softly his eyes widened in surprise under his mask at the sight of his old friend. He was going to go and say hello to her but decided not to. He went to his room noting that the owner's daughter hadn't come to ask him if he needed anything. He took his mask off and washed his face before heading downstairs for a drink and maybe a bite to eat. He saw the group Keyleth was with had gathered a crowd chanting them on. Naruto sat down near the bar and waved hello to the owner who was glaring at the group. "They're drinking me dry... Sake Naruto?" The red and blond haired merc nodded his head as he was given his drink before heading down to the basement to get more ale. Naruto heard cheers then heard. "Oh fuck me, why do we always play drinking games with a guy twice our size?" he turned and saw two half elves twins obviously sitting with Keyleth along with the goliath and a white-haired gnome with a white-haired human with glasses standing behind their table sipping a glass of wine. "Because it's the fastest way to get drunk, obviously." the sister said to which Keyleth responded slurring her words. "sss Who's drunk? Not me, I'm great I think we should go to another ba another barrrrf" the young Ashari then proceeded to vomit onto the floor. The gnome responded. "Didn't you only have one ale? Oh, it's so chunky." an ogre Naruto knew as Aegar stepped in the vomit. "Oi watch it bitch!" This made the goliath stand and shout before the gnome calmed him. Naruto chuckled at the comment she made. From his experience Aegar was a talking asshole along with his group. But Aegar did provide him with good information from time to time. The female twin stood shouted to the tavern keep. "Oi tavern keep! Another round for Vox Machina the greatest band of mercenaries in all the realm." This made Aegar chuckle. "The greatest? I heard you couldn't even rescue a cow from a burning barn. Vox Machina, what a fucking joke!" while they laughed at vox machina's expense Naruto noticed the looked the group was sharing and smiled. "This will be entertaining." he said as he sipped his drink. The male twin walked over spinning a dagger as he stabbed it into the table. "Let's keep things civil friend, we're not looking for trouble." Aegar stood and grabbing the elf he said. "Oh, I bet you ain't. Everyone knows you're a bunch of pathetic losers who can't get a fucking job. Look at your scrawny arse, too weak to tickle your own pickle." The Elf smiled and said flirtatiously. "Are you offering to help?" Blushing Aegar said. "Yeah." realizing what he said he blushed in embarrassment and said. "UH wait no I uh FUCK YOU!" The elf pout a bit and smiled as he said. "Aw I'm only asking you to give me a hand!" With that he grabbed Aegar by the hand as the goliath swung his axe chopping off Aegar's left hand. "Ya know Vax I think he's willing. Oh, can I keep this?" The goliath Grog said. Thus a fight broke out and Naruto began dodging chairs magic and arrows as he drank punching anyone that tried to attack him into the wall. He finished his sake and grabbed the asshole that smashed a glass over his head. He twitched and growled before throwing the drunk idiot out the hole in the window KEyleth had created after barfing in the beast man's mouth. 'Bet he enjoyed that. Seeing as dog's eat vomit.' Naruto thought with a chuckle as he grabbed a dwarf woman that was trying to attack the elven archer of Vox Machina. Then the female ogre of Aegar's group attacked her as she dodged and the elf summoned a bear from outside. A fucking bear! "Okay I have more respect for her now." the fighting grew worse as Grog was fighting the one-handed Aegar. The one called Percy was trying to aim his weapon that Naruto thought looked like a design his mother had made blueprints of. The one called Vax shouted. "Where the hell is Scanlan!" A blonde woman grabbed Percy and threw him through a door. "For goodness sakes! The hell man, Percy if you wanna join in ya gotta ask first!" Percy sighed as he stared up at the gnome bard's nude form. "Scanlan I should've known, could you put on some pants and help us?" Naruto let out a laugh as he noticed Scanlan's bed partner was the owner's daughter. Percy left the room to continue the fight but Naruto could hear moans coming from the room as he threw a kunai killing an attacker. He saw the trap door open and the owner come up confusion then fury on his face. He then transformed into a large minotaur and shouted. "STOP!!!" he then went on a rant about the group drinking him dry and destroying his tavern and was pissed to see his daughter being eaten out by the pervy bard. "Who's paying for all this?" Naruto was going to step forward and pay but the female twin stepped forward and said that vox machina would find the ones responsible. The owner wasn't buying it and held out his hand for money. Naruto saw that the twins had stolen a large bag of coins earlier during the fight Vax having handed it off his sister. The bag now smaller the sister had behind her back and Vax took it. She then said. "Well, you see we don't exactly have any money us per say, but if you give me five..." Then the entire band of mercenaries including a nude Scanlan were thrown out. Naruto approached the man and put a hand on his shoulder. "You know I'll pay for the damages most of it is my fault for letting it happen. The owner sighed and said. "You know you don't have to." Naruto laughed and said. "I know but I want to. Here let me help." he made shadow clones that cleaned the mess and he healed the wounds of the people. He left Aegar unconscious along with his friends and using Yin yang release created new furniture. "There all better. Now I am tired so I will see you in the morning." Naruto went up to his room which had been untouched by the fight and went to sleep. When he awoke in the morning, he ate a small breakfast washed up and headed to the palace as quick as he could. He arrived and was escorted inside. The council along with the sovereign were waiting for him. "Good morning old friend. I apologize for canceling on you yesterday. Thank you for a job well done, I've heard word of your deeds throughout the kingdom. Sadly, we may need your services again." Naruto smiled as he walked forward removing his mask in respect. "Sovereign Uriel, always a pleasure. Members of the council good to see you." He winked at Kima who rolled her eyes at him. The sovereign informed him of what was happening and let Naruto stand in on the meeting. They spoke of Whitestone which Naruto took to heart. Then a loud belch was heard. Naruto put his mask on as he turned his head to see Vox MAchina had arrived to take the job URiel was going to ask him to do. Sir Fince wasn't impressed with the group neither was the rest of the council. General Krieg told the group that more seasoned fighters were needed as Fince called them buffoons and ordered the guards to escort them out.Scanlan then said. "Buffoons? Clearly, you've never heard the legend of vox machina. Allow me to give you a proper introduction." He took a lute from the bag of holding Grog had on his belt as Vax muttered. "Oh gods here we go."

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