To Aru Shinobu no RPG Sekai Monogatari. (The Tale of a certain Shinobi in an RPG World)

The core material comes from both RE: Monster and Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken (Especially the former whose start and the main character I am using to 'Shape' Naruto in this Fic), but I will then follow "Generic" RPG Rules.

The setting as well as all "Original" coming from me bar few details here and there I'll take from those two Light Novels and others like "TOARU OSSAN NO VRMMO KATSUDOUKI".

Crackish? Maybe (I don't know) it won't be always a serious angst-fest that's for sure, you others should know me by now, Dammit!

I'll change the blond's "Mannerism" a little if you don't mind, just to warn you since I don't want to write him as the "canon" goofball he is. Sorry! XD

Pairing: Naru/ Mi (From Re: Monster) / Albedo (from Overlord) and third (AND LAST): 'Readers Choice' as long as she comes from an RPG/(VR)MMO-related Manga/Light Novel/Anime/.

" You bastard" - demon talking / jutsu

"Let's finish this" - dialogue

" Can it get any worse? " - during flashback/thoughts

His companions ('Guild') will contain "Rimuru Tempest" (Pretty much identical to the one in Tensei shitara slime Datta ken LN/Manga, only modified to fit in this story) and then mostly OCs of the various species of RPG Settings I hope to manage to keep in tone with their "Canon" counterparts...sorry if I make a few mistakes, I won't do it on purpose. This time.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or whatever I will use here in this fic.

A certain blond in an RPG World Chap 1: The first Chapters are always an Info-Dumps, so let's be strong and pretend we both care about how things work so to then reach the fun parts.

Konoha – ruins of the Valley of the end -

"CLOSE! CLOSE DAMMIT!" a pink-haired girl was screaming while crying as her glowing hands kept rhythmically pressing down on a young man's chest to make the giant hole in his chest close.

"Hey, Sakura-chan...sorry for Sasuke's face...and the left half of his head." the young blond man said with a weak smile.

"Don't talk! Please, at least you stay alive!" Sakura pleaded while pumping as much chakra she could on her old friend's wound.

"...I blew half his head away. Sorry."

"It was inevitable, but he fought for his ideals until the end." another man, this one with silver hair, said while still cradling the blond man's head on his legs to help Sakura.

"I-I-I Can't close the wound, Kakashi-sensei! WHY CAN'T I CLOSE IT?!" Sakura asked with a hysteric tone.

"Naruto's body is at its limits, I can't feel Kurama either so the Biju too must be too exhausted to help." Kakashi Hatake answered with a void tone as his eyes were unblinkingly locked on Naruto's unfocused ones as if to commit to memory every detail of the blond.

"The Jutsu was supposed to just knock him out...But his and mine reacted badly." Naruto muttered weakly.

"He was too much into his own grief-filled madness to stop, you did your best for years to save him, it was way more than what others would have done in your place; in the end, he was a lost cause," Kakashi answered.

"So I'll never be Hokage?" Naruto asked making the other two chuckle despite their sadness.

"Even now you talk about it. Please never change, baka." Sakura muttered as by now she was relying on her memory about where the wound was as the stream of tears had become too intense for her to clearly see him.

Inside Naruto's mind – in the Meantime -

"So I am dying?" the blond thought as he felt too weak to even talk.

"So it seems, but I'll follow you soon after, we won't be alone in there at least, it's still something." another voice replied equally weakly.

"Can't you heal me?" Naruto asked.

"I can't...The Uchiha bastard forced us to use every last drop of chakra you had and I am still recovering from the fight with Madara and Kaguya to do something."

"Never thought I would have missed your healing powers..."

-Configuration accepted! Skill (Regeneration LV1) Acquired! -

"I should have been stronger..." Naruto said sadly while watching the dead body of his old friend lying next to him with his head reduced to a burned lump only half its original size.

"Stronger? Huhuhu! More than what you were?" Kurama answered amused.

"More and more!...If only I could get stronger by eating Ramen..."

"You can't get stronger by eating, You fool." the Biju said with a sad smile as the feeling of Naruto's life slowly fading away was breaking his heart.

- Configuration accepted! Skill (Consume) Acquired! -

"Okay now, what the hell is happening!? I know I heard someone talk just now! WHO'S THERE?!" Kurama bellowed into the void.

"Whatever, I don't care anymore..." he said with his face scrunching up.

"What's wrong?"

"My chest burns! it hurts! It burns! It's too hot!"

- Confirmed. Establishing (heat resistance). Success -

"You have a hole the size of a watermelon in your chest...That kind of things is lethal."

- Confirmed. Establishing Pierce Resistance. Success. -

LEVEL UP! Pierce Resistance evolved into Physical attack Resistance. -

"STAY WITH ME, NARUTO! YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DIE ON ME!" Sakura's horrified voice was now barely cutting through the fog forming around the blond's mind.

"I...I...Gah..." The blond valiantly tried to speak, but no words came out except for gurgling sounds as blood kept filling his mouth.

"Naruto?" Kurama asked as he too slumped down on the floor of the Seal to drag himself closer to the young man's body.

"I no longer feel neither pain nor the burning. But it's cold. So cold..."

"It means that the time has come, you won't feel cold anymore soon, don't worry." the Biju said with a reassuring smile.

- Confirmed. Establishing Cold Resistance. Success!-

- LEVEL UP! Heat Resistance and Cold Resistance have successfully evolved into Thermal Fluctuation Resistance EX -

"You Know? It may be that we both are just hallucinating and hearing voices...But all this talking about Resistances makes me wonder...Should there really be a reality next life, try to learn to be immune to Lightning...Just in case another lightning-spamming asshole shows-up." The Biju said with a weak laugh.

"If that happens, I'll try to have a diet rich of rubber, I promise," Naruto answered chuckling.

- Establishing Electricity Resistance. Success. -

- As a result, Paralysis Resistance has been also acquired-

"What will await us?" the dying blond asked.

"I do not know. But wherever we are going, I hope we'll be together, without my Great Wisdom you would die in a matter of minutes if I am not there helping you!" The Biju answered laughing.

"Fuck you, Fur-ball..." Naruto said with a sad smile as both his Life and Kurama's finally faded away leaving behind two desperate ninjas silently sending their prayers to both dead warriors as they freely left their tears to flow down.

-Configuration accepted! Unique Minor Blessing (Great Wisdom of the Trickster God) Acquired! -

The voice said faintly, barely heard by the two dying souls as everything got covered by endless darkness.

An unknown amount of Time later – somewhere -

"Aaaah! This one looks promising!" an old-sounding voice said elatedly.

"Eh?" Naruto thought sleepy, feeling as if his body was made of lead while his brain seemed to have troubles rebooting.

"Yes, yes! Breath in! That's how it's done." the old voice said in approval.

"Where am I?"

When he finally managed to crack open an eye against the protests of his heavy eyelids the blond shinobi saw a woman with green skin and an ugly face look down at him in satisfaction.

"This, this is a strong one...Good. Very, very good." the old woman said nodding while Naruto rapidly fell back into slumber.

The next Day – Cave -

It was a cave, that much the now awake Naruto could tell, he was in the barely-lit depths of a damp cave, surrounded by half a dozen ugly babies with green skin; and he was apparently one of them if his own small and green-skinned hands were any indications.

"W-Wha?!" still too young to speak the former blond could only mentally gape at what he was seeing as he flexed his tiny fingers.

"What are those...Things?" he thought half curious and half worried while watching the babies around him.

[They are Goblins] a far-away echo reached his ears weakly in an answer.

"Goblins? Who's talking?"

No answer came this time, but in exchange the other babies started stirring awake themselves, some wailing loudly and others simply trying to crawl forward driven by their curiosity.

"So I am a baby?... Okay...WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?!" once again unable to talk, Naruto simply opted to scream mentally; although he screamed out loud as well, but as he was just reborn (Apparently) he didn't sound out of place in the general cacophony of voices.

"Strong and with good lungs as well, HAHAHAHA!" he heard the old goblin woman say from outside with her laugh soon followed by other adults laughing as well.

"From a strong badass shinobi to an ugly baby...I must have pissed-off someone up there, there is no other explanation!" the former blond muttered sighing, there wasn't even the solace of being a baby mentally as well since he could clearly remember who and what he was before...before whatever happened happened.

The true surprise was what he discovered the day after that, he and the others had apparently grow-up overnight at an astounding rate and he was now matching in sizes his old body of around his first Academy Days back in Konoha...But there was a difference that was separating him from the other goblins of his age group.

"Uh! No way..." the young goblin muttered as he felt the build-up sensation of chakra flowing through his body as soon as he had tried calling upon it by reflex.

The trigger? He had been 'Testing' his body for a couple hours by running, punching and kicking in mock fights when one of the older Goblins had thought that grabbing Naruto by the legs to lift him would have been a nice idea for a prank; the former blond's answer had been as natural as breathing as soon as he went upside-down: Turn around to deliver a Chakra-Empowered punch to the balls of the guy making the adult Goblin fall on the ground spasming and shrieking in a high-pitched voice while cupping his treasure.

"KYYYYYAAAAAAAAH!" the scream reverberated in the cave loud enough to have dust fall from the ceiling making every other noise die-down for an instant, THEN the laughs started along fingers being pointed towards the downed adult.

"BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Goblin-Sa got his nuts smashed! AH! This is rich!" a near-adult said in great amusement.

"We have the youngest Goblin with a title ever! 'The Balls Smasher'! Bwahahahaha!" another said making a new round of laughs bloom in the cave.

"Not as strong as I was when I died, but definitely stronger than when I was an Academy Student...At least I have not completely returned to square one." Naruto muttered to himself while using some rags to create a crude-looking loincloth to cover himself and then walking outside the cave ignoring the others.

(They had also decided to name him Goblin-Nori...Thanks but no thanks! His father called him Naruto Namikaze and he will use THAT name instead of the shitty goblin one, thank you very much!).

Sigh! "Eeh! Let's see if I remember the training I did with Kakashi-sensei and Ero-sennin, at least I will have a chance of survival here." Naruto said sighing, steeling his resolve and running against a tree to walk on it only to slid down after three steps.

"...This will take a while..." the young goblin muttered from his laying on the ground.

Several weeks later – forest -

It had took almost a month to Naruto to recover his old Chakra control, even if all things considered he was still not perfect he was satisfied with the results he had gained in his secret training.

Goblins, he discovered, had no concept of 'training', to them one either survived or not; it was a harsh rule about the survival of the strongest as the weak where weeded-out by natural selection.

The old Goblin woman, the Elder of the tribe, said that he was one of the few 'good ones' as out of the two dozen goblins born only five or six survived the delivery like him, and with how things were going even less were expected to fully reach adult-hood; their own 'tribe' was a small one counting ten or so individuals of a race with low birth-rate, with those numbers and the numerous raids of beasts it was a wonder their group had yet to be wiped out completely.

Naruto had not exactly bonded with any of the other males nor with the sole female that was born with him though, he tried to mind you, but those seemed to have ingrained in their mind the concept of walking over each other to survive; and while it was an acceptable mindset in their environment, the former blond instead had spent all his previous life following the ideals of 'Friends help each other' and 'Teamwork for the Win' so it was not easy for him to confirm.

Dying once had also helped him learn that it was useless to help the ones that truly didn't want to be helped, the attack to his life by two other Goblins for his rations of bugs because they were still hungry was more than enough to help him decide to leave all of them to themselves.

"It is not like hunting these bunnies is actually hard either! Compared to catching Tora this is easy." Naruto thought to himself as he was standing immobile on a tree branch to observe his prey under him.

Today it was a fluffy rabbit-like creature with a long drill-shaped horn sprouting from its forehead that was peacefully eating grass under the shadows of the same tree he was standing on.

The critter was cute and adorable with a puffy tail and the cutest long ears imaginable; that's why the young goblin felt kinda bad when he jumped down with a big rock held high above his head to smash the little Hornet Rabbit's skull to pieces splattering its grey matter everywhere.

"Lunch is served!" Naruto said smiling as he sat down to eat the thing raw with big bites.

[Skill 'Easy Escape' Learned!] a voice echoed in Naruto's head.

"Eh! That should be the last thing these pets have to 'teach' me, I guess." the young Goblin muttered pleased between mouthfuls while still scanning his surroundings.

He was forced to eat outside away from the others to stop attacks from the lazy bastards he shared a Race with; Goblin, in the end, could be either easy-going and kinda dumb or violent and easy to anger; his whole year-group pretty much fell solely on the latter group: they called them "Naturally-born Warriors", but Naruto preferred "Hot-blooded Morons" since to him the term suited them better.

[Obtained "Medium Animal Horn"!]

"Another?" he said chuckling while checking the horn in his hands he took from the dead rabbit.

"[A medium-sized Horn took from a Horned Rabbit – not the best weapon, but better than using your own fists: ATK +2]...Yes, every time you kill one and take their horn you get that message and I have to repeat all that stuff when you ask what is it." a very well-known voice replied huffing in annoyance.

It had happened a week after he had started training his ninja arts, as soon as he had Mastered (Again) tree-walking a metallic voice had said with a dull tone:

[Skill ? Acquired!]

When he had wondered what that voice was and what it meant with that message, Kurama's voice had rung inside his head detailing the name "Tree-Walking" along a short description about it being an out-worldly ability making him walk on trees; curiously the message re-appeared, but this time showing the correct name on it.

It seemed that whatever had Naruto be reborn had taken Kurama along the ride, but in exchange turning the Biju into something called 'a Minor Blessing' going by the name (Great Wisdom of the Trickster God) represented by a small red orb the size of a cherry embedded on Naruto's forehead (third eye area) that gifted the reborn shinobi with greater-than-normal appraisal ability.

Other abilities included raised thought processing speed by a thousand times, the ability to analyze and make judgments regarding a target faster than normal, the possibility to detach thoughts and analysis of phenomenon (Parallel Processing) and the ability to comprehend any non-concealed phenomenon.

The only thing Kurama didn't like was his being forced to repeat over and over the same explanation when asked AND being defined a "MINOR" Blessing, the latter because of his pride.

"Well, better change zone then, I wanna see if there are more prey around," Naruto said getting up and dusting himself.

"You are adapting well."

"Is not like I have any other choice! I have to thank my will to train if I had not snapped immediately. As soon as I have recovered my abilities as a Ninja I am leaving this place."

"Leaving?"

"I want to see this world and how different it is! I may not be able to be Hokage anymore, but I am sure as Hell that I want to make a name for myself all the same."

"You mean becoming a Hero?"

"I don't think people see Goblins as heroes, the only humans I have seen had been the adventurers that had ambushed some of the older Goblins to keep the roads safe for the merchants...At best I can become a well-respected mercenary if I show a bit more intelligence than the others."

"Like no attacking your clients?"

"Yep! Let's hope it will be enough to have them give me a chance." the young goblin answered as he spotted a near river and rapidly developing a craving for fish as soon as a particularly fat one jumped-out of the water for an instant.

Horn in one hand and a song in his heart the reborn shinobi hummed his way towards the water with his stomach grumbling on time with the tune.

Several helpings of fish later -

"Say...How long before I reach LV 100?" he asked while lazily watching his reflexion in the water, other than three birth-marks resembling his old whiskers his face was that of a normal (Bald!) male goblin but with sharper canines protruding out from his mouth and slightly-pointed eyelids.

"What? Anxious about becoming a Hobgoblin?" Kurama asked amused.

He had learned thanks to Kurama that in that world "Levels" existed, once reached 100 he could choose to evolve into a new species called Hobgoblin, and from there other 'Branches' of Evolution would then open to him; the Elder Goblin added more info through her speeches to the newborns whenever one asked about Pros and Cons of each Evolution.

"Hopefully I won't be as ugly once evolved...so?" Naruto asked annoyed.

"Meh! Almost there, it will be a matter of days at worst, depending on the next thing you kill and eat."

"I gain the abilities of what I eat if I consume a large enough number of them...I told you I would have found a way to get stronger by eating!" the young Goblin said smirking.

"Tche! You were just lucky! And you meant Ramen, not eating EVERYTHING objects and harmful stuff comprised! YESTERDAY YOU HAVE EATEN A DAGGER FOR FUCK'S SAKE!" the Blessing answered snarling.

"And got a bit more Exp for my [Slash Damage Resistance ] Sub-Stat because of it, but those are details! It doesn't change the fact that I did it!" the other replied smugly.

"...I hate you."

No matter how hard, dangerous, inedible, foul, potentially Toxic or such, there was ANYTHING Naruto could not eat; and as soon as he did give it a bite it all became harmless (in some cases even delicious to contrast the taste) and the reborn blond could immediately absorb whatever "Power", "Skill" or "Ability" He/she/it possessed that he could then make stronger with repetitive use, although for living beings eating their Heart and Brain had the best chances of absorbing one or more abilities...

Was he broken then? Overpowered?

FUCK YEAH! FINALLY, IT WAS HIS TURN TO BE LIKE THAT, DATTEBAYO!

A month later – Woods near the cave -

Still not Level 100, it seemed that the higher the level was the more EXP he needed to absorb to Level Up, it was very troublesome for someone like Naruto that never liked to wait.

"And now is starting to rain too. Better return to the cave." he muttered sighing as fat drops of rain kept obscuring his vision.

He had left the cave as soon as the sunsets and now was almost night with the first stars popping out slowly in the sky.

But as soon as he finally reached the small entrance of the cave the young Goblin was forced to dive in the near bushes to not be seen, right in front of the entrance leading deep underground there was a fat monster with a pig head mounting guard while patting a mean-looking club on his open palm.

"What the..."

"That's an Orc." Kurama supplied.

"What are they doing here?"

As if to answer Naruto another Orc came out dragging behind himself a dead Goblin so to throw it in a neat pile of bodies the reborn shinobi had not noticed when he arrived, that one was soon followed by a third one dragging outside two human women by their ankle, though while they were alive both of them were also unresponsive and catatonic.

"What have they done to them?" he dared to ask.

"Is it possible they already were like that, Naruto." the Biju-turned-Skill answered with a dead tone.

"W-What do you mean?"

TWACK! CRUNCH! With an uncaring hit of his club One of the Orcs had in the meantime slammed his weapon on one of the women's chest making her let out a suffocated gurgle along spitting a thick mouthful of blood before dropping her head to the side, dead.

"Uff!" the Orc mounting guard just gave a displeased grunt before kicking the dead human closer to the pile of Goblin corpses.

"How do you think Goblin reproduce?"

"W-W-With female Goblins?" Naruto said with a horrified tone, clearly already knowing the answer but hoping to be wrong.

"Too low birth-rate like that, human women are more fertile...Being willing is not an issue." Kurama answered.

It was like an out-of-body experience for the reborn Shinobi, an instant he was looking at the dead eyes of the human girl that was probably the one that gave birth to him, and the next he had distractingly grabbed a near viper snake trying to sneak on him to behead it with a bite.

[Skill 'Poison Creation' Acquired – 'Poison Resistance' Acquired] came the answer he was waiting for.

As soon as the two Orcs had returned inside leaving the guard alone the still dazed Naruto had sneaked behind the pig-like monster to throw a rock near it to distract the thing, as soon as he had been sure the Orc was too engrossed in looking for the source of the noise to notice him the reborn shinobi grabbed the rabbit horn with both hands immediately coating it in a thick purple liquid.

"GUOH!?" the Orc barely could growl-out as he felt something jump on his back, turning around he could see an arm circle his neck and a hand covering his mouth before all turned black.

"Be quiet." the young Goblin hissed using his free hand to plunge as hard as he could the poisoned horn in the monster's eye-socket until he felt the squishy sensation of the tip reaching and piercing the brain, twisting the thing around in a bout of merciless anger to be sure the beast could not retaliate.

Although the Orc could still throw Naruto away with a powerful shove and stagger few steps towards him, the poison along the heavy damage to his head was still too much, making it fall on its knees with a grunt as it still tried to reach the Goblin.

"Persistent bastard..." Naruto muttered as he grabbed the heavy club the monster had dropped to test if he could swing it well enough.

"Don't worry, the others will join you soon enough." he then said with a monotone as he lifted the thing above his head.

CRUNCH! SPLAT! In a veritable explosion of gore, the Orc's head got shattered to pieces drenching the front of the Goblin's face and body.

"...We are no longer in Konoha, right?"

"No." Kurama answered stiffly.

"I am no longer human, eh?"

"Neither..."

"So I no longer have the luxury of being shown mercy?"

"Humans have the freedom of choice and can decide to help each other, everywhere else is all about the survival of the strongest: if you are weak you get killed and eaten, but if you are strong you eat and get respect. In the end, it is still like back in the Elemental Countries, only this time you are seeing things from the other side."

"So?"

"You already destroyed the brain, so eat that thing's heart and...and both from those Goblins and the Human girls."

"What?!"

"They are dead and you may need whatever Skill and Abilities those possessed to survive and grow stronger, those Orcs are probably here to settle in the caves so they just removed the Goblins inside. Eat the dead and leave before they notice us, you don't know how many there are in there." Kurama explained sighing.

"...Okay." the other answered with a defeated tone.

Dragging the various corpses away he moved in a more hidden alcove to watch an Orc drag out a new dead Goblin, look around for his missing companion and then return inside with an almost-human shrug of his shoulders.

Later that night -

One human girl had been a Ranger, meaning she had a decent ability with a bow and throwing weapons along Perks making her footing remain unchanged no matter the instability of the terrain.

The other was a beginner in Blacksmithing and had some wood-working and potion-crafting knowledge rounding her edges, that one was almost grateful to be killed by Naruto, actually smiling at him in pure gratitude as soon as her broken mind understood what he was about to do.

"They were a young adventurer and a crafting student...both my age when I returned from my training with Ero-sennin..." he muttered while making his way underground following the loud snoring of the sleeping Orcs, he was barely keeping his impulse of vomiting in check the whole time.

"Naruto..." Kurama muttered sadly.

Seeing how 'inexperienced' he still was and how far he still was in recovering his ninja training, the young Goblin had decided to wait until night came to sneak inside and deliver his own justice on the Orcs; all the snakes he had eaten gifted him to something akin to Heat Vision, like that he could check who was around and so discovering that most of the monsters were in fact asleep.

"Where is he?" one of the few awake asked grunting.

"Don't care, more food for us!" the other Orc answered laughing as he gave a new bite to what looked like being a Goblin's femur.

Eating one of them gave Naruto basic knowledge of their language along giving him the [Vigor] Skill: in exchange of doubling the usage of Stamina for an attack, the Attack Power of said it would also get double for a short period of time; along the [Big Orc Club] weapon he had pilfered would hopefully be enough to fight should the need arise.

Soon he had found what he was looking for, the sleeping area of the Orcs, carefully walking between them he watched as a solitary drop of bluish liquid dripped from his finger to their open mouths as they snored, even should it not kill them, that poison should weaken them enough.

Passed them it was rapid pillage of whatever junk the Goblins had amassed in their 'Storage Room' inside a worn-out [Bag of Holding] he took from the dead Goblin Elder able to contain everything like a Sealing Scroll to then walk back outside towards the two awake guards.

"No other humans though." one of them said annoyed.

"No fun if they don't struggle, can we eat the dead one?" the other answered.

"Can't find it, the others already took it."

"Pfeh! Not fair."

At hearing that, Naruto could once again feel the blood pump hard in his ears along the throbbing of his jaw as he clenched his teeth hard, focusing Chakra in his arms and pumping almost half his Stamina in the [Vigor] Skill he swung the club horizontally catching the Orc on the temple before jumping the other without checking if the first was dead or just dazed.

"WHO ARE- GUACK!" the second guard squealed-out as both he and Naruto tumbled on the floor.

"DIE!" the reborn Shinobi roared hitting the Orc's head with the club again and again until its skull turned to splinters of bone loss between a goo of pounded flesh.

"GRAAAH!" in the meantime the other guard had recovered enough to charge Naruto in a blind rage for his turning the Orc's face into minced meat.

Dodging the furious charge making the monster slam against the cave's wall, the young Goblin jumped on the Orc's back to repetitively stab it with the dagger he took from the storage until the blade got stuck in the back of the beast's neck breaking in half from the force behind the attack.

"Dead?" Naruto asked aloud panting while letting the guard fall down limp on the floor.

"Yes, and the others will be awake by now, so let's just go," Kurama answered as angry voices had started reaching them, apparently of the ten Orcs in there, more than half (the weakest of the crop) had succumbed to the poison, the ones still alive were now furious about the surprise attack and were looking for revenge.

"So be it," he answered hurrying away before they could reach him, taking away a small part of the two guards' meat to try and see if they had more to give him.

"It's time to leave the forest then, is not like there is anything else keeping you here,"

"Yeah."

Sometime later -

Without having the faintest idea about where he was and where to go, Naruto opted to follow the small river flowing near the cave he had been born into downwards to see where it would take him, he still possessed the Stamina he had in his previous life, so keeping running and tree-jumping at night as well instead of sleeping was not an issue either.

It was after three long days of endless wandering that he stumbled upon another Goblin, a female dressed in rags, sitting down on the floor with her back pressed against a tree wildly flying around a stick to keep a Horned Rabbit at bay while crying for help.

"...Really?" Naruto muttered in disbelief as the girl kept shrieking every time the rabbit moved too close.

With the Goblin Girl -

She was scared, she had hurt her leg while hunting by herself and was now trying to keep away the rabbit to stop it from impaling her on its horn; the Elder had told her she was too weak and to stick to berries and nuts, but she had heard about rabbit's meat tasting good so she wanted to try!

Kriiiii!

In the end, the Horned Rabbit had grown annoyed enough to just charge forward horn-first to kill the Goblin that had disturbed its eating making her let out an ear-piercing "Kyaaaah!" scream of fear.

Before the tip could reach her through another Goblin had dropped from the tree branch above her to hit the animal with a big sturdy club slamming the rabbit's head down on the grass with a sickening Crunch! Noise killing it instantly.

"...Are you okay?" Naruto asked kneeling down to look at the girl.

"Uh?" she muttered, slowly opening her eyes to see who was her savior.

"I asked if you are okay,"

Her answer to the question was pouncing on him to hug him as tightly as she could.

"Eeeh! It was nothing, instead of hugging me, do you want to eat with me?" the reborn shinobi asked chuckling while holding the dead rabbit up by its horn.

"You...You are giving it to me?" she asked faintly.

"Sharing more likely," he said smiling.

Splitting the small thing between them the two began eating with the female Goblin munching down with gusto while moaning in bliss.

"...It's amazing..." she finally muttered once they finished eating.

"Uh?"

"You can hunt Horned Rabbits by yourself! It's amazing!" she replied with starry eyes.

"By myself?"

"Other Goblins usually get killed by their horns if they are not careful, so it takes two to hunt them! You must be really strong!"

"Considering the standard IQ of the Goblins we saw in your cave while you grew-up...Dying at the hands of those small things is not so unbelievable, I bet they usually blindly charge them without a strategy, that's why they get killed so easily." Kurama answered in disbelief.

"Why were you hunting alone then?" Naruto asked curiously.

"I was hungry and the older Goblins told me I had to hunt by myself, so I tried to see if I could catch something different from berries, but the one hunting with me got scared by the rabbit and ran leaving me alone; I have hurt my leg trying to escape and was about to die when you arrived!" she answered.

"You hurt your leg? Let me see," he asked.

"Thank you..."

Said that the girl simply presented her feet to him, and he felt his cheeks burn while he caressed her leg to check for injuries; contrary to other female Goblins this one had more delicate features and wild hair on her head, along a smooth skin he had been surprised to find on such a being (not that he had interacted with other Female Goblins so to make comparisons, to begin with).

"Nothing serious, let me fix it a little and in a couple of days you'll be fine," Naruto said as he took a part out of the loincloth he was wearing to bandage her ankle.

"What are you-WHOA!" she asked before he took her in his arms to carry her.

"I'll take you back to your tribe, to where?"

"Uhm...Uhm..." the girl muttered looking at him in discomfort.

"Even Goblin can be cute..." he thought absently.

"Yes?"

"C-Can I stay with you?" she asked whispering.

"Why?"

"In my cave, the others ignore me because I am weak, but you are strong and cool...please let me stay!"

"Cool?!"

"Yes! You can hunt, you helped me and gave me Rabbit's meat...You are cool! More than every other Goblin I have ever seen." she answered honestly.

Sigh! "Want me to help you become stronger?" Naruto asked sighing.

"You can do that?!" she said shocked.

"I am leaving the woods to see the world, but I can help you get stronger before that."

"Can I come with you then?"

"You would leave this place with me?"

"Yes!"

"Ookay! Let's first fix your leg, then we'll start training. I am Naruto, nice to meet you." the reborn shinobi said smiling.

"Naruto? Hihihi! It's a silly name!" the girl answered giggling.

"Hey!" he said pouting.

"But I like it too, I am Goblin Mi!" Mi answered.

"Can I call you Mi then?"

"Of course you can!"

"Very well! Let's go find someplace quiet to stay so I'll start teaching you the theory, then we will start on the practical side as soon as you have recovered."

"Okay!" she answered hugging him tightly making him flush in embarrassment.

"She sure is grateful for my help..."

"Oh for fuck sake! He is hopeless in matters of Heart!" Kurama thought sighing in defeat.

Omake – Deleted Skill Absorption Scene -

[Skill 'Blood Suction' Learned!]

[Skill 'Soul Devouring' Learned!]

[Skill 'Life Destroying Touch' Learned!]

[Skill 'Merciless Pursuit' Learned!]

[Skill 'Endless Greed' Learned!]

[Skill...

"...Wow! Lawyers are a bunch of bastards here as well." Naruto muttered grimacing as he looked at the dead human man under him dressed in an expensive business suit still clutching his briefcase to his chest.

"Yep!" Kurama answered surprised as always nastier Skills kept popping-up.

Okay, mean jab at Lawyers aside, this is the first chapter done.

I don't actually have high hopes about this one, but I was inspired after getting into a binge of reading Light Novels.

I am open to suggestions if they are presented in a manner befitting the civilized parts of Human Society instead of the Animal Kingdom, as always.

Tr230.