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 1

Drizzt Do'Urden pulled his cloak tighter against the biting cold. He'd been here at the outskirts of Ten Towns of Icewind Dale for over a year now.

He'd made some friends, first with a human girl named Cattie-brie and then later with her adoptive dwarf father Bruenor Battlehammer. In fact the pair had just left to return to the dwarven tunnels after offering him shelter for the coming winter.

He would in fact be joining them tomorrow after he secured his cave. It was slowly becoming a home with help from Cattie-brie and Bruenor who would grumble and complain and then show up with supplies saying "Dang blasted orc for brains brought the wrong supplies. I can't take this back so ye might as well use it elf."

Drizzt smiled as he thought of the pair and how they had helped him, Cattie-brie at first a child who saw him for his heart and not the color of his skin or the deeds of his race.

Bruenor at first had put his foot down and forbade his daughter from ever seeing the dark elf again, but Cattie-brie as usual showed her heart and when Drizzt helped kill some of the creatures that roamed the snow covered tundra to save her Bruenor had kept his axe from taking the drows head off. It was a friendship that was built first on respect of skill and then over time their discussions. The one common factor had been Cattie-brie and Drizzt admitted that he had been amazed; by the young girl who showed no fear and had a good judge of character.

He was reaching for his travel pack to make sure it was ready when there was a flash of light in his darkening cave.

Years of experience had him spin about and his hands going for the hilts of his scimitars but staying from drawing them as his lavender eyes took in the appearance of his "guests".

The first was a woman with blood red hair with black tips. Her eyes caught him as they were red making him wonder if she could see in the dark like his kin with their infra-vision. He then noticed she didn't have ears and it took him a moment to spot the two fox ears atop of her head. As he looked closer she had nine fox tails it took him time to spot them as at first they were wrapped around her and the second person.

A young boy, no older than Cattie-brie he had the blondest hair he'd seen yet since he'd come to the surface. He saw even thru the blood and dirt that the young boy had whisker marks on his cheeks.

Judging from the condition of both they were in bad shape. He spotted bruises and cuts on the boys arm that he could see and when the woman's tails moved he saw she was wounded very badly.

He spoke softly so as not to spook them. "Let me help you."

The woman's eyes shot to him and he saw her studying him in a way that reminded him of Guenhwyvar when she first met him all those decades ago in the under dark.

He saw her trying to speak and when she did it was halting. "Safe…Naruto." She gasped out through bloodstained lips and moved her tails to show the boy who Drizzt's eye noted he was skin and bones, malnourished and he felt anger flare deep inside of him at any who would do this to a child.

"Safe…him." the fox woman said again and there was desperation in her eyes. Despite the wrong words the message was clear to the drow.

He caught the boy when she let him go and moved him to his cot then went to grab his medical supplies.

"Thank Mielikki that Bruenor brought me fresh supplies to restock with." He said.

He washed the wounds and used the salve to coat the wounds and wrap them.

He was shocked and appalled at the wounds the boy had not to mention some of the older looking scars.

(Someone had a serious hate for this child.) the ranger thought as he finished and turned to the woman who was slumped against the wall. He had not seen something like this except for his time in his homeland, Menzoberranzan.

"Thank…you." She said in her broken speech.

"The boy is cared for, now allow me to see to your wounds." He said and moved closer.

"Too…late…for me." the woman gave a chuckle. "Will…you…watch…him?" she shook her head as if that wasn't the word she wanted. "Protect…him?" the woman asked.

Drizzt wasn't sure how to respond. The woman showed no fear of him or what his kind could be.

She lashed out and gripped his wrist in her hand tightly and as weak as he thought she was, her grip was like iron when he didn't answer.

"Swear…swear on that." She pointed to the onyx statue that was peeking out of his pouch. "Raise…him." she continued.

"I am an outcast. Surely your own kind…" he started.

Here she laughed and it broke into a wet hacking cough. "They…did…to him. Swear!" He glanced at the boy he had just tended and he knew his own father Zaknafein would do no less. His decision made he looked the fox woman in the eyes and spoke.

"I will raise and teach Naruto?" he looked at the wounded blond boy then at the woman who nodded.

"I will raise and teach Naruto all I know. I will protect him and guide him as if he were my own. This I swear on my dearest friend." He held up the onyx figurine of the panther; who had been his friend since he'd run away from his homeland.

The woman relaxed a bit and she pulled a pouch out from where it had been amidst her tails. "All…" the next several words were lost to him and the woman was breathing heavy.

"Old…man…gave…for him." she handed Drizzt the pouch and he put it aside making a mental note to look later.

"Let…me…see…statue…please." The woman asked as her breathing was getting more and more ragged.

Drizzt pulled the panther statue and held it as she traced her hands over it.

"So…simple…so wondrous." The woman gave a soft smile. Handing back the statue of the panther, she then moved her hands in a series of strange patterns. Drizzt at first thought she using some unknown sign language then a spell of some kind.

"Tell…Naruto…I'm…sorry. Gift…ten…years. Read…scrolls…Old Man…explain." She said and Drizzt watched as she dissolved into a red mist and when it was done there was a statue of a fox with nine tails, it reminded him of some of the iron Bruenor had shown him in the forge, it glowed red. When he reached out to touch it there wasn't any heat.

While looking at the new figurine Drizzt didn't notice the red mist swirl around Naruto's head and slip into his mouth. The strange mark on the boys stomach had broken and faded away under the bandages and wouldn't be discovered until the drow changed the bandages later and he had no idea what it would mean until Naruto read the scrolls to him later.

Drizzt looked at the spot on his floor where the woman had been and the figurine now sat then he looked at the boy. (Naruto.) he thought. He would keep his vow, but he knew he would need help.

Grabbing his gear and after wrapping the new figurine and placing it in his pack along with the pouch, he wrapped Naruto up warmly in thick blankets he stepped out of his cave and into the fading light of day. He had some friends to see and hopefully answers when Naruto awoke.

XX

He awoke feeling surprisingly warm. Opening his blue eyes he saw he was in some sort of building, there was a fire nearby roaring and he noticed the walls, ceiling and floor were made of stone.

"Oh, you're awake!"

He turned and saw a red haired girl his age coming thru the door carrying a tray with rolls of bandages and a bowl he assumed held water.

But he remembered his recent encounters and backed across the bed, falling off and crab walked till his back was against the wall.

"Hey now, ye be openin' yer wounds." The girl said having a strange accent.

She put the tray down near the bed and came towards him, but stopped as she saw the fear in his eyes.

He watched as she backed towards the door and yelled for someone.

It wasn't long before he heard the pounding of boots and his hearing barely picked up a second set of steps and two figures entered the doorway.

One was short wearing a strange hat with a horns, one of them broken. He had a red beard and he had just managed to get his short stocky body in the doorway seconds behind the second figure.

It was the second figure that drew his eyes. He had dark skin, white hair pointy ears and lavender eyes. A slender build, but it was the eyes. They eyes he had seen only a few times in his life. Warmth.

"Naruto." The purple eyed man said. "Can you understand me?"

Naruto blinked unaware that he had been given one of several gifts to help him in his new world. He looked around, his head turning as he surveyed the room

"I didn't know the boy was en elf." The short bearded man said and Naruto flinched.

"Ease my friend."

Purple eyes crouched but still near the bed.

"Naruto, my name is Drizzt. The woman you were with brought you to me."

"Kyu-chan?" Naruto asked looking around for the woman.

"Is that her name?" Drizzt asked. "She didn't tell me before she…"

Naruto closed his eyes to hold back the tears. She told him before what could happen.

"Kyuubi." He said softly.

"Ye done keepin' him on the cold stone floor?" the girl asked in a tone that indicated she thought they were being stupid. "His bandages need ta be changed and ye can talk while doin' it."

The short bearded man looked at her. "Don't be scoldin' me in me own home girl. I not be needin' it from me own daughter!"

Drizzt ignored the two bickering as he had in the past, though amusing, it wasn't his priority right now.

"Kyuubi," he said testing the name, "asked me to watch over you and raise you." He said seeing the blue eyes lock on him. "She gave me these for you." Drizzt reached over and held up the large pouch.

He saw Naruto's eyes lock on the spiral design and his bottom lip trembled. "Jiji." He said as a tear slipped from his eyes and trailed down to the whisker marks on his cheeks.

(Jiji? Must mean the old man the woman mentioned.) the dark el ranger thought. He grabbed the pack and held it before him. "She left this as well." Drizzt said as he pulled out the figurine that now had the coloration of a normal fox.

"Kyu-chan!"

Drizzt watched as Naruto grabbed the figurine and inspected it carefully. A smile was on the boys face as he traced the statue, much like Drizzt did when inspecting Guenhwyver's.

"Don't be telln' me that we'll have a blasted fox ontop of the cat runnin' around."

Drizzt looked at his surely friend and shrugged.

"So she really left me."

Drizzt looked at Naruto. "I am sorry. I don't know what's happened to you, but the condition you both were in…"

Naruto clutched the little statue and pouch to him as he began to speak.

"I was out getting some food…"

AN: Next time I explain how Kyuubi and Naruto ended up in Faerun (Forgotten Realms). It might be a summary chapter. I managed to eek out a bit for a second chapter so I'm giving this its own story. It will be slow but I wanted to share with everyone.