After escaping from Killer Bee, Yamato and Naruto, Kisame stopped for a second to make a water clone before running away. While he was spying earlier, he heard Killer Bee say that the room they were in was made to contain a bijuu, so why not take advantage of that? The water clone closed the door before dispersing. Trapped in the room, the three tried everything they could think of to get out. None of their attacks could damage the gate, but the explosions from Bee's biju ball made a crack. The crack was not near the door, so the three decided to try tunneling their way out through the weak point.

"Damn, the crack is fixing itself!" Naruto yelled

"How can the door even withstand the attacks we used?" Asked Yamato while they were running toward the biggest part of the crack.

"When I was here before, I never closed the door. Ya fool. This aint' no room, It's a dimensional seal. Fo' real."

"What?" Asked a stressed out, glowing Naruto

"Bee, can you please stop rhyming. This is serious." Said Yamato "Ok, we're here. Let's break through this crack!" He said before growing a wooden beam from his arm and jamming it into the crack. Then he started widening it.

"Wait." Naruto said "What happens if we exit from somewhere the door isn't, but from a crack like this? Does being in a dimensional seal change anything?"

"I don't know fo' sho', but I'd guess we would just exit somewhere else."

"Oh, ok."

"I've made it wide enough to go through...there seems to be snow on the other side though. I'll go last."

"Right, do you think we're going to fall out in iron country?" Naruto asked "Never mind, I'm going in first!" He said and jumped through.

"Whee!"Killer bee mad a horn hand sign (think heavy metal concert), grabbed Yamato and jumped through the crack. It closed after him, crushing the wooden beam that was keeping it open.

The three landed knee deep in snow between mountains and the sea. To their left, there was a small seaside village and a large stone tower jutting out of the sea. Farther out there were many icebergs before the sea continued unbroken farther than the eye can see.

"What the hell? Brrr." Said Naruto

"This ain't my type of weather. We should leave, the sooner the better."

"I just wanted a goddamn vacation. ~Sigh~. Ok, Naruto, send some transformed clones in all directions for information." Naruto did so.

"Bee-san." "Yo." "How good are you at infiltration?" "I can sneak, stab and steal, but I cannot act fo' real." "Right." Yamato sighed again "That'll be my job then. Naruto, you're on scouting, Bee-san, please set up camp somewhere here."

That said the three split up to figure out where they are as soon as possible, so they could leave and inform the ninja alliance about Kisame's infiltration.

Killer Bee was feeling strange since coming to this place and it wasn't just the cold. So he visited his trusted partner Gyuuki. Gyuuki, however, was knocked out. Not injured in any way, just out of it, like someone cut his strings. Which explained Bee's unease. He set up camp from the sealed supplies all jounin and generally speaking intelligent ninja tended to have. He set up the tent between some of the icebergs. There was a small cave there. For a moment he wondered if he should have a few clones there for when the other two came by, but then remembered they are both sensors. Bee just went fishing then. On the way to the beach, he ran into a white bear.

Naruto was confused. He decided to use sage mode while the clones were sending him their memories. He also decided to hide. It was only common sense for the times you can't move. That's where things went weird. Using the stillness for sage mode he tried to draw in natural chakra but there was none. This confused him as there is at least some natural chakra you could find all over the world. Instead he found some other energy. Definitely not chakra, but he could draw some inside. It didn't mix with his chakra like nature chakra did. Naruto figured this made sense, as it wasn't chakra. When he tried to mix the two, he lost control of his chakra and the not-chakra left him. But not all of it. A little bit remained. He tried fiddling with it and managed to grab it with his chakra and draw it out. But that was more like flinging it out than using it in any meaningful way. Any further experimentation was cut short by his first popped clone here.

"AAAAAAH! Oh shit, ooohhh shit. That mountain is haunted by ghost ice snakes that fly! Fuck that mountain! So not going there..." then another did "Ok, to the right, there is a creepy town. Better not have any ghosts there... still, where the hell are we?"

Tenzo (Yamato) was having a bad day. The fourth war would soon be starting and the two biggest targets he was supposed to be keeping safe were lost with him. With the luck they were having so far, it was only a matter of minutes before Madara arrives with his whole army. With those cheery thoughts, he arrived at Winterhold.

'Can't read the sign. Great. Where the hell is this?' Tenzo spied at the place from a distance. He noticed a law enforcement of some sort, and very few people around. Some few were arguing at the entrance to the narrow bridge of the large tower structure. The whole place seemed to have suffered from some sort of attack or natural catastrophe. Ruined buildings made that much clear. After seeing enough he made a wood clone dressed in a combination of the furs the locals wore. The clone had a short walk through the village before turning in an alley and using shunshin to get back to the original. As he was not a shadow clone, he had to make a report.

"Uh..."

"Yes?" Tenzo said with a raised eyebrow. His clones did not usually behave like this.

"I couldn't understand their language, so I got out before anybody tried talking to me."

"You...what? WHAT?"

"Yeah. I don't get it either but wherever we are...I don't think getting back will be easy."

"..."

"I could try going back in, but invisible this time? My goal would be finding a map of some sort."

"... It feels wrong to steal from innocents, so report on it. We'll pay them back eventually. Besides that, keep an eye open."

"Hai" and with that the wood clone went in for round two.

Naruto's clone popped and he left his little hideout to meet Yamato on the way back. Since he couldn't use sage mode here, he couldn't sense where Bee made camp. Negative emotion sensing didn't work either, as Killer Bee was pretty cool. 'Not at all like an Uchiha. Damn those people had issues.'

"Yo, captain."

"Hey Naruto" Yamato looked drained

"What's got you down captain Yamato?"

"I'll tell you in a moment when we're all together."

With that the two walked down a sheer ice cliff to the camp. Inside a small cave they saw Bee had company.

"I made a new pal while I waited for 'yall." The white bear next to Bee roared half-assedly and continued munching on its fried fish.

Yamato made a strangled sob sound before double face palming.

"Hey man, don't frown. What's got you so down?"

"WE'RE LOST that's what." Yamato practically growled at the man. "I've seen the settlement to the left of the coast. They write and speak in a language I've never even heard of before. In a map I got, I don't recognize a single thing from the elemental nations and I've seen strange lights from that tower without even the slightest chakra pulse!"

Killer Bee seemed thoughtful for a moment before replying "On that note, I've got to say. Eight-oh is having a bad day. He's out like a light. Lost consciousness without a fight."

"Is it just me or is he getting better?"Naruto whispered behind a hand to Yamato. In return he got a growled out "No."

"Right, uh, I've also noticed some weird things. To the other side of the coast there is a creepy looking city. Built mostly from black stone. Much bigger than this village with the tower. Also there seem to be more than humans living there. At first I thought they were summons, but that seems off. They look like this."

With that said Naruto made a couple of clones that transformed into an Argonian and Dunmer.

"I have no idea what's up with that. Also the city has a port and beyond the city, it seems like the weather is improving. There were some farms and stuff. Over the mountains there are ghost flying ice snakes that creep me out, but some of my clones managed to kill a few. There was also some statue on a mountain top, but I don't recognize it. Some woman I guess. The weather made it difficult to see. Last, but not least, there is no nature chakra here."

""What?""

"Yeah, when I tried going into sage mode, I got something, but it wasn't chakra. I didn't really get the time to experiment with it, so I left a clone to do it before coming here."

"Now what?"

"Mrrrrgggggllll" the bear added his two cents.

"We figure out how to get home, ya fool."

After spending several days in their camp, it became obvious to the trio they were in another world. While they had a great many ideas for things to do here, the language barrier was stopping them from interacting properly with the locals. Any ninja worth the name knows that information is vital and that drawing attention to themselves while ignorant of the situation they are in is either a stupid idea or a desperate one. And they were not yet desperate.

Naruto was the one with the self appointed mission to learn the locals language. It seemed no one here could see through a transformation, so his clones transformed in various characters and listened in on conversations in bars and such. A few clones would play with the local children and try to learn the language from them. Yamato was teaching the original Naruto sealing since it was their best bet for figuring out a way home. Sadly he was only a journeyman in sealing as that was the required level for ANBU. They would have to figure the rest out somehow. Killer Bee spent a lot of time meditating and trying to wake up his partner Gyuuki. It did not help him with that but he managed to regain control of his transformation into a full tailed beast. Of course doing that outside was just asking to be spotted, so he went into the freezing cold waters to transform underwater. He did it slowly so that he didn't make too many waves. Both he and Yamato would occasionally go into the ancient city called Windhelm after Naruto taught them a few words to listen to the language themselves. And so the first week passed.

"Okay you two, our supplies are almost through. We have to find some more, or our ass is gonna be sore!"

"Right, while fish is good food, and I can grow some more, we really need some variety in our food. We should also check whether the local food besides fish suits us. Since we don't have any antidotes..."

"Have a clone do it?"

"Well...why not, but I was thinking you Naruto since you have great self healing abilities. You can go after the clones."

"But we don't have any money, all I can think of is seducing some honey."

"Bee, please...just no."

"I've got an idea about that. This morning a pair of carts went down the road from the city to the warmer areas and a clone of mine followed them from a distance. They were attacked by what seemed to be bandits. A few people died on both sides before one of the bandits did this weird kind of summoning and an ice thing appeared. Looked like a statue but it moved and everything. It killed the rest of the fighters and the last driver was shot with an arrow. Really weird techniques aside, I think we can take them. They didn't even notice my clone was there. He followed them and they are in a ruined old fort of some kind."

"Did you scout the place out?"

"No, I can do it while we're on the way there."

"So we have a mission. It's nice to be back in commission. I've been getting stir crazy here, let's show those bandits the meaning of fear. Though stealth sounds like a good idea till we know what they can do. Besides being all round awesome, I excel in fighting in the dark or when you need a spark!"

"Spark?" Naruto asked

"Lightning ya fool. Goes with my sword style."

"I suppose we should know these things about each other before going into a fight. I have my wood release, nearly all of my career was spent in Konoha's ANBU unit. Seeing the infamy of the wood release I had to learn to be very much a under the radar shinobi. Stealth will not be a problem. Also I am proficient with water and earth techniques."

"My turn? Well, Bee you might not know, but you're looking at Konoha's number one prankster. I painted the Hokage monument mountain in broad daylight without getting caught." Yamato groaned and face palmed "My specialty are my clones, the rasengan plus variations. I use the wind element, but don't know any techniques for it. My sage mode is currently out of order along with my summons, but I have the Kyuubi's chakra to use in a pinch."

"You can't use the Kyuubi's chakra outside emergencies Naruto. The last time you sprained your ankle because of poor control."

"I can later show you the ropes in tailed beast chakra control, but for now we gotta roll."

The trio packed their camp and left towards Morvunskar after a few hours they were close enough to see it. (AN: in case I wasn't clear so far, Skyrim is a lot bigger than the game. It was too much for the programmers to make the cities filled with thousands of people, despite this being the general idea. To that scale of a hundred times more, the rest of Skyrim is bigger. More wildlife and farms than extra places to have an adventure though.)

Morvunskar was a ruined fort that would only need a little work to be useful again. That made it a great hideout for all sorts of characters that frequently fought over ownership. Bandits, necromancers, warlocks, smugglers, poachers, daedra, giant spiders and some other wildlife frequently fought over ownership. Currently bandits were camping in here. While Naruto's clones were sneaking inside the fort, the original three have climbed a tower vertically bypassing the guard. In front of them they could see an argument. Despite not understanding the language it was obvious to them the bandits were arguing about whose the loot would be. A while later, most of Naruto's clones dispelled.

"Ok, I got the info. There's about three times the amount of people and other things in the fort as outside."

"Other things?"

"You know, the not-human people. Also there are a few cages with wolves."

"Any traps?" Asked Bee.

"Some, but they're amateurish. There was something written on the floor in one hallway. Since it looked like a seal, I left it alone."

"Did you leave any clones inside?"

"Yep, five of them."

"Good. Use them for alerting us if something happens inside that we should know about."

"Got it." he said and made and dispelled a clone so that the ones inside get the message.

"All right. Now that that's done, let's split up and deal with these bandits. I'll go around the fort and attack the four on the other side. One of you can have the five here, and the other can go and deal with the three archers on the walls."

"I'll take these fools in a flash. They'll be reduced to ash. Naruto, you can use your clones to break a few bones at the same time, so the fools on the walls don't have the chance to whine!"

"Right, I'll leave a clone with you for communication." Naruto said, made a pair of clones and ran down the wall with Yamato.

Naruto pressed himself against the wall so that none of the archers could see him sneak up on them. He heard them grumbling about something before making a dozen clones. Each took out a kunai and they climbed the wall. Those that were close to the targets took the chance to stab them in the back. Not a moment later, the three were thrown over the wall outside the fort. By the time Naruto climbed himself (he left a few clones to pick the pockets of the dead bandits) Killer Bee was true to his name. Only two bandits were still standing. One an orc with a green shield and sword dressed in furs, the other a warlock in black shooting lightning at Bee. Killer Bee seemed curious about the lightning, so he was just dodging. He had a burn on a shoulder, but nothing serious for a ninja, let alone a jinchuuriki.

One of Naruto's clones stabbed the orc from behind, killing him. The warlock seemed pissed and destroyed the clone with more lightning. Bee got bored and threw one of his swords through the warlock's head. Yamato jumped in from the other end of the ruin.

"Everything all right?"

"Yup!"

"It's fine yo, but that guy had some lightning show. That was no chakra lightning too. Trust me on that foo'. I've been hit by lightning techniques in training plenty of times. Some few outside of training because of my sweet rhymes."

"I believe you. Completely" Yamato deadpanned. Naruto just started laughing.

"This lightning feels natural, ya know." Bee continued as if he was not interrupted "After shooting it at me that guy had no control. It was faster than lighting techniques at the cost of control. I'm no chakra sensor, but I think he wasn't using any. Strong like a low B, rank technique."

"Hmm" Yamato mused "We have too little information. Best to just dodge and kill them from blind spots and such. For now at least."

"Dodging's easy, it flew straight." Naruto added.

"Right, what's going on inside?"

"None of my clones dispersed, so nothing's changed."

"In that case, have them do a little house cleaning. Start away from the doors so that we can sneak in without any fuss."

"Right." Naruto made around thirty clones of which one disappeared. "I figure they can be in front of us. They'll still try to be stealthy, but no need to depend on stealth."

Bee walked to the dead warlock and pulled out his short sword. "That's fine nine-oh, just be sure to leave a few here outside so we aren't caught off guard if someone drops by."

"Right, good idea." Naruto said and made fifty more. "Go find whatever might be useful, even if you're not sure. Others can keep guard."

With that the three went into the fort. In Yamato's mind it was as if the three of them were attacking genin. Some were capable, far more than bandits back home, but they had no teamwork, no strategy or tactic. Just keep attacking with everything they've got until they either win or die. Oddly enough none tried to run. Some of Naruto's clones deliberately stepped into traps, both the mechanical ones and the one that reminded them all of an exploding tag. In just twenty minutes they were done. They could have been done sooner, but deliberately let some bandits last as they were there for experience in dealing with the local form of combat. Naruto made another small army that found a great deal of resources in the keep. From gold they couldn't use at the moment to clothes and beddings that were fine after a wash.

After their raid on the bandits, the trio came back to the cold area they first set up camp in. Mostly this was so they could avoid dealing with people. No point letting anyone know about them. Naruto continued his various lessons and scouting, Killer Bee decided to learn blacksmithing and donated ink for sealing techniques. He could only work in Morvunskar where now a new group of outlaws took root. Before they did though, the trio managed to cave in the entrance to the room and add one through a hidden tunnel connected to the river. With Yamato's earth and water release techniques it was easy setting it up. Yamato himself was scouting far awayfrom their camp. He found a massive mountain a couple of days away. The area there had plenty of bandits that he regularly took out and robbed. What wildlife he found both amazed him and really sunk in the idea that they were in another world. He decided to avoid the animals and creatures for the time being.

They spent the next month like that before Naruto called them back together.

"Ok, I think I know enough of the language for now. I can hire one of the beggars with all the coin we collected to tech me the rest and not ask any questions. Of course I'll be using a transformation."

"That's grat news Naruto." Said Yamato.

"Yeah, and I was thinking we should all go to the lessons. In Windhelm there is a great deal of prejudice against everyone not a Nord. So I was thinking of learning from one of those Argonians. We ask and pay him or her to keep the lessons to him/herself and it becomes unlikely anyone will find out."

"Sounds good to me, I've had enough of those bandits."

"After this I'm getting lessons in smithing. My current work is... Well, let's not go there. Mostly I did it to keep myself from being bored to death." Bee sad "I'm all for it nine-oh."

Pajeen, their instructor was a little unnerved by the whole procedure of teaching three Nords how to speak and write. They clearly talked with one another if in a different language and knew Tamrielic to a small degree. But he was paid not to pry, so he would not. The lessons took place in different places, but usually in a rented room in some inn at night. It took the three about two and a half months to learn most of the language. Unlike other Nords who kept treating everyone not a Nord themselves in Windhelm like servants or worse, the three were fair. Very strange, especially the one that kept trying to rhyme, but fair. Pajeen didn't expect anything but the coin he got at the start. One thousand septims were more than generous of a payment for two and a half months work, but it seemed the three considered that only the first half! Pajeen decided to consider the whole thing a strange and fortunate situation he would do well to ignore. After all, being nosy was how Tilxi lost his tail.

Sometime through their lessons, several things became apparent to the three. First, they had no idea on how to get back to their world. Second, their situation was possibly not unique on this world seeing how several others were connected to it. The Oblivion crisis was the most obvious example of traveling between worlds yet far from the only one. If anything all of this only gave them ideas. Third, there were actual freaking gods in play here. Some measure of not pissing off any one of them would have to be implemented. Again it depended on information. Finally, the fourth revelation was the fact that they could learn to use these abilities. Naruto's fiddling with sage mode enabled him to learn the magelight spell by accident. Magic, alchemy, machinery left by the Dwemer, possibly dragon shouting and the creepy soul-using enchanting.

They agreed to split up with monthly meetings in Whiterun, specifically the Drunken Huntsman. For emergencies, they would have to improvise. Yamato would probably use his sensing abilities, Naruto his clones and Bee would...figure something out. Apparently being a guardian ninja does not translate to great tracking skills.

Naruto left for the College of Winterhold. To learn magic from the official sources. Mostly it was because Yamato intimidated him into doing it, since Naruto still had issues with being reckless. Yamato hoped official guidance would keep him from making a mess of things. Or at least help to survive the mess. Yamato would look into religious matters and the Graybeards. Bee went with his original idea of going to the bards college. He would teach them the wonders of rap, enka and enka rap. After that, he might go looking into the whole smithing business seriously.

***With Killer Bee.

'Traveling to Solitude along the caravan trails is for civilians.' Bee thought as he decided to wander off to a mountain. 'I'll have a better view from above anyway, might also get some inspiration for my rhymes.' His climb took him through a layer of mist, fighting against a troll and two ice wraiths. As per their now usual response, he sealed them away for the alchemical experimentation they were going to have Naruto do. Or more precisely Naruto's clones, who were under orders to write their procedures down and not repeat any procedure. Having a legion of grunts, even if they're a little dim, was really useful. Actually they were more reckless than dim, but whatever. Bee had to make a little detour for nature's call and continued. Once the snow he was standing on started crumbling and slipping away, he even tried avoiding snow. Not always possible on the mountains. It took him the most part of a day to reach his first mountain peak.

Once there he started writing down rhymes about the peak with fools who reek for a while. 'Well' he thought to himself 'better start looking for a place to spend the night. Man, the view is amazing here. I gotta see the sunset from here. Shame all the clouds are blocking my view of the valley.' And so he watched the sunset only to give up finding a campsite in the dark as a bad job. 'Whatever, with stars like these I don't want to sleep anyway. I'll sleep during the day and travel at night.'

The rest of his trip was like that. Bee found that some creepy pale things sometimes crawl out at night to hunt and scavenge. Later he would learn that they are called Falmer or Snow Elves. Their tragic tale would make him write at least twenty pages of rhymes. Another interesting bunch he saw were vampires. 'Yamato would kick their asses with his wood… That didn't sound as it should.' Some of the creatures and cursed humans were chunin level strength. None however had any real appreciation of strategy, very few tried stealth and his abilities always caught them off guard.

Bee traveled for two weeks before coming up to some kind of guard next to a decent sized house that was in front of a wooden wall and gate. No obstacle even to genin.

"Halt traveler. What business takes you to Morrowind?"

"Morrowhat? I'm going to Solitude." Bee could contain his rapping ways for a time. Usually he just didn't want to. He had less fun that way.

"..." the guard just stopped functioning for a few moments. Then he blinked a few times "Well you're going the wrong way. It's back the way you came from."

"...Shit."

***With Naruto

"Yo, my name's Uzumaki Naruto. I don't really know much about magic, but can I join anyway." Naruto was talking to the Altmer or High elf lady blocking the way to the college.

"Indeed? My name is Faralda. First, tell me why you wish to join the college."

"Well to learn about and how to use magic."

She scowled slightly "I do not recognize your accent, nevermind." She relaxed again "The college does have what you are looking for. Now I only need to see if you have the power and skill that we are looking for. Do you know the healing hands spell?"

"Uh, no. Only magelight."

"Once you know, show me. If it is good enough you can pass."

"But how am I supposed to learn it?" Naruto asked nervously, worrying about what he would do if they didn't let him in.

"If you'd like I can sell you the spell book for thirty septims."

"Sure, I'll take it." Naruto paid for the book and went to the only tavern in Winterhold. It took him a couple of days and the help of another Altmer mage who happened to be there by the name Nelacar. Now that he could do it he quickly went back and showed Faralda.

"Very well. It took you longer than I had hoped, but you pass."

"Thanks" Naruto said with a grin. He tilted his head in confusion before asking her "Hey Faralda, you don't always stay guard right? How come you were there exactly when I came."

She smiled "Of course not. One of the older enchantments of the tower lets us know when someone is coming. It helps us with guests and intruders alike. You'll find that the tower holds many things of great value. Since it's construction there were plenty reasons to fortify it from those who would steal from it or outright invade. But this isn't the time for a history lesson."

After that she showed him around the college and introduced him to everyone there. Naruto got a small but well equipped room to himself. There were no other apprentices in the tower at the moment, so he could find whatever teacher he wanted. Faralda recommended an old guy called Tolfdir.

***With Tenzo(Yamato)

While traveling to Whiterun for some general information about the nine divines and daedric princes beyond what they got from their language instructor, Tenzo sensed something. It happened at a place he had already passed through before, but now he was sensing something similar to his wood element. As curiosity got the best of him he followed his senses to a cave. It was close to a strange area that seemed to have some sort of natural hot springs. Tenzo stalked the entrance of the cave for a few hours before deciding to go in. As whatever he was sensing was affecting his wood release, he didn't want to risk not knowing about something that affected him like this.

Outside the cave the wilderness was remarkably beautiful, serene, surprisingly even completely untouched by people or other sentient races. Inside, Tenzo found hallowed ground. The whole cave was teeming with life and felt sacred to him. As the consummate professional he was, Tenzo didn't drop his guard. There was too much he didn't know about this world to let himself relax so easily. But just by looking around, all he could see were a few pilgrims. He decided to talk to one of them.

"Excuse me!" Tenzo said to one pilgrim that was preparing for a picnic.

"Yes?"

"I'm new here and I was wondering what this place is. Could you please tell me?"

"You mean you don't know? How did you even wind up here then?"

"Just by exploring. Even the area around this cave stands out somewhat."

"Aye, I suppose it does. Well, sure I'll tell ya about Eldergleam sanctuary. That's the name of this cave by the way. It got the name from that magnificent tree over there. The Eldergleam It was a gift from Kynareth herself to us..."

The man rambled on for a while, but Tenzo got the idea that the strange tree was the source of the feeling he got. It was also related to a goddess somehow. After the first five minutes it became difficult to pay attention to the rambling old fanatic, let alone tell the difference from his beliefs, actual information and genuine tales and legends.

Tenzo later couldn't really pinpoint why he thought touching the strange tree was a good idea, yet he did. As soon as he touched a root of the tree, some energy went right up his arm. Freaked out, he ran away till he couldn't feel any of it anymore. The energy dissipated inside him and his tests showed no problems with his health or abilities. In fact, using wood based techniques was a bit easier than before.

But just because it was easier didn't mean he would go back! No self respecting ANBU would fall for a mousetrap like that. Long term testing was required, and more information. Always more information. It's a pity these people + other sentient beings didn't have wood users that could try it themselves.

One foggy Tuesday the three met in the Drunken Huntsman. Slightly drunk before the other two even arrived, Bee was complaining to the two.

"Those fuckers at the gate wouldn't let me in! I think it's because of the color of my skin! Almost did the stupid one in."

"Hello Bee. It seems that unlike the villages, cities need us to have some sort of identification. You remember how Pajeen thought I was an imperial, you a redguard and Naruto a nord that one time we let him see our clones? Since then it seems no one asked Naruto anything about identification, and thank these gods for that small mercy, but as you and I are not recognized as locals, everyone is more suspicious of us."

"So why don't you two sneak in?" Naruto asked.

""We did.""

"Oh."

"Anyway, I've had some strange encounters so far, but I've reached Ivarstead and been living there as hired help for a while. I'm thinking about joining the graybeards."

"Oh! I've heard of them! The old people that shout at everyone!"

"No Naruto." Tenzo answered with a sigh and while ignoring Bee's chuckling he continued "They are capable of using some shouting based power, but they are actually not shouting at anyone! Kind of like monks. And while I'm interested in the shout-based power, I'm more interested in the knowledge they have. From what I've gathered, anyone can leave them, they just have to deal with the shame. Also no one would trust an oath breaker, and without trust in this land you only have the option of living like a criminal. Luckily I have the transformation technique! I'll just be using the appearance of a bandit I killed recently. Now, I can tell you about what else I've found out later. What happened with you two."

"Ok, I joined the college! It was tough learning that magic thing cause it's so different than chakra and with so many people around me I couldn't use clones. My clones can use magic easily by the way. Oh! That reminds me. I got a couple of books for you two. Basic magical theory and a few spells I had my clones copy. Plus I can heal wounds now! Isn't that awesome! I have a few clones practicing with spells and reading books all the time now. Most of the ones practicing go to abandoned places like the icebergs outside the College. There they can blow themselves up without problems."

"So, your magical education is going well?"

"Yeah, well I'm still a Novice at everything, but I feel like learning to use magic is easier now. Most of my clones that blow up are the ones trying to combine chakra and magic. I had some success with that. One clone made a magic based rasengan. It blew him up when he got excited, but for a second it worked. Not sure how good it is compared to the original. Oh, and there are magical barriers to places I'm not allowed to go to yet. They tend to destroy the clones."

"That all sounds good Naruto, and thanks for the books."

"Yeah." Bee grinned and gave Naruto a fist bump.

"What about you Bee?" asked Tenzo

"Been learning the lay of the land man. I'm fine, but not according to plan."

"What?"

"...I...uh...got lost."

"Bwahahahah!" Naruto nearly fell off his chair with how hard he was laughing and even Tenzo had to suppress a snort.

Killer bee didn't have much to share besides the kind of dangers he found around the land. He also marked a few interesting spots on their maps like the caves the Falmer could be found in. Once Tenzo was finished with histale, Bee left to sell the spoils of his wandering. Naruto and Tenzo wasted some time wandering the city while they waited for him to finish before all three finally left. Bee followed the road this time, Tenzo went directly towards the mountain, and Naruto let loose his clones to look for alchemy ingredients while slowly going back to the Colledge.