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~([Re: Naruto])~

~([Day 1])~

Naruto opened an eye lazily before glancing around. His life was difficult to remember, strangely foggy. The basics, such as chakra control and chakra manipulation, were of course drilled into his brain. But most, if not all, of his techniques seemed to be missing.

""Is this hell? As Hokage, I did end up killing a lot of people. And... that would explain the ugly baby-things.""

Combining his spiritual and physical energies, Naruto froze.

This was not Yin exuding from his soul, nor Yang from his body.

~Goburou has Merged their Vital Essence or 'hit points', as the common monster refers to it, and their Mana into 'Unknown'. Error?~

~Scanning.~

~Unknown has all of the qualities of both HP and MP: Strengthening the body, protecting the body, healing the body, and various magical applications for Attack, Defense, Healing, and Utility. The power requires 50% less cost when used for any ability, including those that ordinarily take both HP and MP to cast. However, both HP and MP go down at once: leading to greater amounts of exhaustion as levels drop below half.~

~Due to discovering a new method of power, please name: Unknown.~

""Uh... sure. How about... Chakra?""

~The Divine System registers that an energy with that already exists amongst other worlds. Please select another name.~

""On... other worlds? Oh...""

Naruto grimaced as he thought ""On other worlds... as in not this one.""

""Huh... ok... How about Blood Mana: The power that combines one's own life essence with Magic. BM for short.""

~Blood Mana has been Registered within the system.~

~For creating a new power you have been granted a gift of knowledge in the form of techniques as close as possible to those used most by you while within your original world. First, 'Energy Transfer'. Second, 'Transformation-Solid'. Third, 'Clone-Solid'. Fourth, 'Energy Shroud'. Fifth, 'Wind Affinity'. And finally, 'Energy Bolt'.~

~Goburou has been granted status 'Demigod of Blood Mana'~

~Goburou has been granted 'Dark Orange Skin' as a gift and 'Golden eyes' to signify his Divine Status.~

~Inferior Demigod of Blood Mana: Though not immortal, nor even ageless, the user produces and stores tiny amounts of divine energy which naturally empowers their Blood Mana: this grants them greater Overall-Power than normal mortals.~

~As a Demigod, you can gain power to 'rank up' on a 'Divine' Scale and gain Divine powers. The level one trait 'All-Speech', which replaces your 'Gobubabble', is the universal level-one power. Future power selection options will depend upon your prior powers.~

~As a Demigod, you have access to 'Jobs' and may gain jobs through repetitive action. Jobs can be gained faster through a teacher. All jobs can increase in power through continued use and may even rank-up to a new job with similar but stronger abilities. Due to your mother, you start with the 'Craftsmen' job.~

~Official Title: Goburou: Goblin Demigod of Blood Mana.~

His eyebrow twitched ""Right... this isn't weird at all. Not... one... bit. I'm digging the orange skin thing though. Even if it is a bit dark for my tastes I can totally see how that'd be useful if trying to hide. My old clothes from when I was a teen were always a bit bright. Like a beacon in the night.""

Naruto channeled the power to saturate his body and carefully sat up.

They were currently inside of a room with several abused-looking women in rags and a child who thankfully seemed untouched so far.

Around them, the carcasses of rabbits lay. Almost all of them were next to the mouth of a 'ugly baby' whom seemed to chew on them instinctively in their sleep. Some of them had apparently been gnawed on by the women in an obviously reluctant fashion whilst one or two had been ravaged by something to the bone.

""Maybe an adult version of us.""

The Shinobi found that he could tell each of Human and Goblin had a certain combat power through a method unknown to him. His mind registered them as 'levels' whilst another registered that the humans had 'classes' of a sort. Though, it seemed the ability to distinguish what those classes actually were or did was beyond him.

""Perhaps due to my lack of knowledge about this world.""

Making a show of sniffing around purposefully louder than necessary, Naruto was able to find his 'mother'. Surprisingly, the child seemed to actually be his sister.

The group stiffened as he got up before eyeing him with wear yet tired and hopeful eyes. As if afraid he would attack them, but almost hoping for he would just so what they were going through would stop.

""That won't do... I need to start integrating. I'll take care of whoever did this later on once mother trusts me more.""

With a cry of, "Sis!" he wrapped his tiny arms around the larger child as best as he could and leaned into his mother.

Slowly, they relaxed and stared at him in shock.

Then, his mother's features softened and she wrapped an arm around him with a forlorn look. After a moment, the woman gave off a resigned sigh and closed her eyes again.

~([Scene End])~

Naruto spent the next hour examining his surroundings carefully.

Already, the rabbit-like carcasses were almost gone; his own had been pulled over after a few minutes of snuggling and was now bones.

Being a Shinobi had taught the Uzumaki that sometimes you had to eat gross things to survive. Sometimes simply for lack of better food, other times when cooking food wasn't an option due to enemy chakra-sensors and chakra enhanced senses to detect smoke.

Footsteps.

Tired breathing.

The sound of something dragging.

""I get the feeling our... 'father'... has returned. Or uncle perhaps.""

The women were awake again, staring at the room's opening with a resigned horror.

"Hum? How did you get over there? And why are you orange? It can't be a divine blessing, those should only occur after a "

Naruto narrowed his eyes at the elderly goblin, "Who are you? You sort of smell like me but very faintly."

"I am the Elite Goblin Gobujii. It is possible I am your ancestor; I honestly do not know. As I was unable to evolve after nearly fifteen years, I was deemed to weak to battle any longer and left behind to care for the newest generation over the next few weeks. Eventually, I'll join the other ancients after I hit eighteen. Nineteen if I'm lucky enough to still have the energy to walk for more than a few minutes. Perhaps, seventeen if I've no luck at all."

He paused and eyed him, "Though, I must admit my surprise. I've barely had time to organize your brothers and sisters into moving bowls of caterpillars from the farm cavern; much less move you there. The fact that, before the third day, you can move on your own... is impressive. That you can talk before the fifth day is simply amazing. Are you having any difficulty in understanding what I say?"

"I understand. You're the only adult goblin in the caves. There is a caterpillar farm somewhere in the caves that we can eat from and gain strength. And we're not supposed to be developed enough to walk until the third day or talk until the fifth day. So that means I'm special, unique in some way that is unknown to you."

"Good, good... yes. Since you're awake, why don't you try helping me; you may already be strong enough to move the other goblins. If not, that's fine. I've done this job more than once now and I still have some kick left in these bones. Even old, I'm still level one hundred."

Naruto glared at him "I don't think I will."

"Oh? Rebellious type eh? Perhaps a potential leader once Hobuken grows older. Assuming he lives through the raids. Still... I'd better get going, I'm starting to feel a bit fired up. Hum, maybe once I'm done I'll finally get time to take a crack at that sword-girl who so foolishly tried to save her mother the other day. Luckily, I find her before she found any of your brothers and sisters from the last birthing, they're still to young to really stand against someone like her. I barely managed it myself despite ambushing her."

"You don't get it do you?"

Gobujii tilted his head with interest, "Hum? What don't I get?"

"I said I was unique in a way unknown to you. I am Uzumaki Naruto, newborn Goblin Demigod of Blood Mana. I may be an inferior Demigod... but, in addition to a slowly growing understanding of common knowledge, that means I have all-speak. And I just told my mother and aunts that they, who I can feel are each slightly stronger than you even when you aren't tired, are only guarded by you. A tired, pathetic, old goblin... who is only armed with a staff for killing rabbits."

The goblin's eyes slowly widened as his captives began blinking rapidly and looking at each other with rising hope.

"I may be to weak to save them. But with a few simple words, I can rip away the fear that binds my mother and aunts to this place."

They began to advance upon him, clearly tired from the recent birth but also desperate for a way out.

Naruto sent his energy into them; bolstering weakened bodies closer to their true strength.

As they leapt on him, he turned to his sister and grabbed her chin; forcing her gaze away from the approaching violence.

"I know you've probably already seen this sort of thing. Worse than this sort of thing. But that doesn't mean you need to see more."

She nodded shakily and plugged her ears to block out the screaming.

It seemed to carry on far longer than necessary.

~([Scene End])~

Naruto sat next to his sister as the older women first scouted out the next room, then spent a few hours sifting through massive piles of junk to find anything they could use. A priest began using a holy-symbol to instill courage an dispel fear in her companions.

They managed to recover enough for Mother, the only craftsmen of them, to begin closing up holes in the armor and shields with bits of metal heated by the magicians and hammered into place.

"It isn't pretty, but I it will function well enough. These two shields, this breastplate, and this gauntlet are enchanted with Protection. How many of us are Shielders or some other tank?"

Two women held up their hands.

A large woman nodded thoughtfully, "Alright we can put the stronger of you two with the gauntlet and a shield, and the weaker with the breastplate and shield. That'll hopefully even things out. How many of us are melee? See if you can find a decent weapon."

Several came forward, the two tanks acquiring an iron battle axe and a reforged longsword. The three Estocs were taken by a trio of duelists. Four hunting knives were split between two assassins. A berserker picked up an Iron battle axe and a steel axe refitted with a handle from a chipped axe. Finally, three light-swordsmen acquired reforged shortswords and shields while a knight picked up a shortsword, a shield, and an Iron Lance with a broken off tip. Despite being slightly shorter than normal, the weapon was metal wrapped around a wooden core; this allowed Naruto's mother to to fit the broken blade of a sword into the wood and then melt two more into the metal. Careful heating and hammering grafted them into a single tip that, while weaker than it should be, was sharp enough to pierce through platemail armor given enough speed.

"Hey boss! Your druid's staff is here. Seems like the mistletoe is intact."

A shy woman squeaked with disbelief and joy; quickly rushing forwards, "Oh thank you, thank you."

The large woman from earlier blinked and came over; adjusting a few stones to reignite a staff, "Boss? What's a quiet lady like yourself doing leading a group? It's hard to imagine someone like you barking orders."

She blushed, "If you talk firmly, train with your group regularly, and keep a strict code, you don't have to shout."

"Ya... whatever. All my eggheads never listen unless there is a fight, isn't that right?"

Sheepish chuckles came from a woman performing maintenance on a crossbow as one of the shielders threw a rude gesture.

"Heck, poor Jack was the only one who listened most of the time; and he still barely kept in line. Always running off to look at market stalls with strange bits and bobs or to bless or heal some random person who looked down on their luck."

The group turned somber; remembering the various male party members whom had simply been slaughtered and eaten.

After several moments, the large woman stuck out a hand, "Smythchild Susan. I'm just a commoner who happened to be in the right spot at the right time to save a drunken wizard from getting his head bashed by a mugger. Turned out I had a knack for projecting my magic, so he taught me enough to get through Beginner Magician and become a Novice. Few years later, now I'm a journeyman magician, upgraded to blacksmith, started beginner spirit-smith... that's the reason I'm out here actually, and recently promoted from novice up to Journeyman Leader. I'm stronger than some of those Lazy Nobles now. Go figure."

Chuckling nervously as she shook hands with Susan, the shy woman nodded, "Akasakura Anzu. I'm actually no one special either. There was a dryad on our farmland, we left her alone and made sure she got water during the dry seasons. In return, she left the male members of my family alone and helped grow our crops. I grew up listening to her stories and saw her as an older sister so... I asked her to teach me magic and ended up becoming a druid. That's all though... just the two jobs for me. I'm not very talented."

Susan lifted an eyebrow, "Not very talented? You're a healer, that's hard enough. But you also learned from someone who can't understand how human magic works. That means you had to adjust and work around a species barrier for a difficult Job."

She paused before teasingly raising an eyebrow, "And what's this about me not being special? I'll have you know, I'm very special; look at these muscles... imagine what they were like before the last few weeks of atrophy."

"No, no." the shy woman verbally back peddled as she waved her hands frantically "I didn't mean you weren't special... I'm sure you are... I just meant neither of us are nobles or something like that."

"Ah relax, relax... I'm... eh? Are those healing potions?"

Naruto blinked and looked over to see a strange set of red vials being carried over ""Healing potions? Those are real here?""

"Yes, from our group. We couldn't find a healer. The preservation charms haven't been refreshed in almost four weeks though. Can you tell if they're still good? And can you re-charm the vials? I'm Rillia by the way. The two beginner magicians and the archer are mine, I don't suppose you could fix up my girl's staff once you're done with yours? She's got a nasty ice spike spell. Not quite as powerful as her sister's lightning burst, but more lasting affects."

Susan nodded, "Sounds good. I'll work on the potions as soon as my staff is realigned enough to actually be considered a focus again. Did you happen to see any vials of Mana potion laying around? Maybe in a backpack? I had three of them."

"Not yet, but my girls had two each and the priest over there is looking for her two. Though she said one felt like it smashed when she was trying to drink it and got tackled from behind."

The pair grimaced before looking over to Anzu with hope.

She blushed, "S-sorry. I used mine trying to keep my party alive."

"Damn... can't blame you though. When outnumbered so heavily against four hobgoblins and an entire raid group of goblins you've got to try everything you can to pull out a win."

Susan paused thoughtfully before looking at Naruto, "Hey you... you said you were a demigod? Considering the whole granting energy thing, I'm inclined to believe you. What of? And how does that work considering you've got both... eh... parents... accounted for?"

""Hum... might as well tell them a bit of truth. It's easier to lie that way.""

Rubbing his head sheepishly, Naruto sighed, "I... sort of discovered how to fuse Hit Points with Mana by accident. The Divine System activated; giving me enough smarts to understand what I had done and what it wanted. Then I named it Blood Mana and now I'm the first divine force behind it. Blood Mana basically acts as both HP and MP, but it requires half the cost for spells. That means you can cast twice as many, true, but you could also use it to take more damage instead. It allows someone to be stronger, better protected, and heal faster than normal at first but also hits you with exhaustion faster once you start dropping below half energy."

There was silence in the cave as everyone, previously listening with half an ear, stopped and looked back at him in shock.

His mother stopped hammering and came forward, "Naruto... was it? I'm very proud of you already. With the despair and fear inside of us from weeks of being in darkness and... erm... tortured... even the strongest of us could barely keep sane; let alone plan an escape. Even with a priest buffing us and inspiring courage it's a bit hard to breath when thinking about the last few weeks. But... do you think you would be able to do one more thing? Can you try to bless us with the ability to use this Blood Mana without you lending it to us?"

Naruto nodded, having expected something along those lines, "... I... think so? I have power, but I don't fully understand it. I think I will as time goes on... but not yet. It isn't common knowledge, but it is my domain; so I should gain some understanding of it."

He placed his hand against her head. Then, slowly but surely, her hair began to grow slightly and golden rings formed around her eyes as unfamiliar golden lines expanded across her arms, legs, and torso. As it grew, his mother's hair gain a hint of dark red. Meanwhile, her pupils slowly transitioned to orange.

She stepped back once he removed his hand.

"W-wow... I feel... amazing. Is this what a fully-buffed fighter-type feels? I mean... I don't think the blessing itself was very potent... but the effect of combining Mana into the body's energy makes it seem like I've been buffed up in preparation for trying to craft with upper-mid level resources."

Murmurs went through the crowd, "Huh... I can feel your power has increased but I can't get a read on your HP or MP anymore. I sort of expected a new type of energy bar to appear on my senses. But... it's just gone."

His mother nodded at Anzu's words, "Yes, that is weird... I can sense both parts of my energy and all the surrounding energies; but I can also feel that they're completely different to normal. If I didn't have it, I don't think I'd know for what to look."

She paused before turning sheepish and scratching her head, "I'm Rachel by the way. Bloodborne Rachel."

Naruto spoke up with hesitation; no acting required, "Would you mind, if I added your name to mine? Uzumaki-Bloodborne Naruto? I mean... I know I'm a demigod, and I don't really need it... but..." he trailed off with a frown.

Even with foggy memories of a few decades, Parents were still a slightly sore thought. Now that he had a second mother, Naruto felt the urge to get to know and connect with the woman before there was a chance for something to happen to her.

Rachel's eyes widened, "Oh! Of course... that's... a perfectly natural request. I... this is your sister, Tresa." she frowned "Look, Naruto... I... I am still having problems connecting you with my mental image of 'family'... but I promise I will do my best to get over that. You're barely more than half-a-day old and you've already more than earned the right. That's impressive even for a precocious species such as goblin."

Her expression softened; then turned teasing, "My little demigod. You'd best get strong over the next few years though, I doubt your sister will tolerate a weak sibling ruining her 'mighty Light-swordsman reputation'. Already a second-tier class at her age. I'm so proud of my two little geniuses."

Tresa blanched before whining, "Mother!"

Suddenly his mother's eyes turned grim, "Also, that reminds me, Tresa. Once we're well and truly safe... you and I will be having a chat, young lady. And don't you argue... you were nearly..."

Her body starting to shake, Rachel's eyes watered and her fists clenched, "Coming here to try and save us... that was very foolish."

The older-teen grit her teeth, "I told you yesterday... none of the nobles cared enough to send help with me. And I couldn't just leave you here to rot... I had to try."

Closing her eyes, Rachel sighed and turned back towards the improvised crafting area, "We will discuss this later."

Silence permeated the cave for several moments as she went to sit back down.

The Craftsman turned to magician holding up a one-way silencing ward, "Are you still able to continue?"

At her nod, Naruto's mother raised her hammer once more.

Susan glared at the ground for a moment before calling out and jerking a finger towards herself, "Oi! Frosty-girl. Finish gathering up anything focus related and get over here. I hate to say it, but we're gonna use you as a test-rat to see if spell casters can still use spells with this 'Blood Mana'."

"W-what? Me? Why me?"

"Because you're the weakest caster out of those we have that aren't healers."

Naruto suppressed a sigh ""I can see the nervousness in their eyes increase when they look at me. One part of them says he saved me, the other part is saying 'he's a goblin'. Somehow, I don't think that is just because of what happened to them. The priest seems to be doing a decent job of at least temporarily suppressing the trauma of what's happened. No... this feels like a deep-rooted species-version of the blood line stigma from Yagura's Mist-country.""

Blessing this girl as well, the Uzumaki continued both observing his surroundings and attempting to recover the lost knowledge from his previous world ""Seriously... how can basically every technique be gone. I remember the people, and the battles fairly well. So it's not like I'm completely dead in the water memory-wise. Heck, I even remember how to fly.""

He blinked as the corners of his mouth twitched. Slowly he floated up, bit by bit; trying to see how far he could get without anyone saying anything.

His concentration faltered slightly as a giant rail-road spike of ice shot out from the girl and slammed into the wall.

Susan blanched and some of the goblin babies tossed and turned, "Oi! Rillia I thought you said your kid was a beginner and knew ice spike? That looks more like ice spear."

However, it was the girl whom answered, "That was an almost max-tier Ice-spike. Just... like... double power."

The magician/blacksmith's eyes lit up, "Oh... I bet you forced it to require maximum cost since you put the amount you could control into the spell. But the brat here said the spell should only cost half the normal amount with Blood Mana. That means the actual effect of the Blood Mana could be seen as doubling the potency of whatever effect for which it's used."

Grinning, she ruffled Naruto's hair; then paused, "Eh... weren't you shorter a second ago? Are you floating?"

"Flying. I just learned how from my demigod knowledge."

The large woman tilted her head, "Damn. I knew human demigods got strong fast... but flying on the first day of life? I don't think I've ever heard that one before. Then again, you're the goblin version... Goblins grow crazy fast."

Scratching her chin, Susan smirked, "Hah... flying. Unless it works different for other races, that means your a magical type. Looks like you and I will be spending some time together kid. I've got Earth and Wind Affinity along with some novice spells from Necromancy and Demonology, and some beginner spells from most of the other types. I should be able to teach you a thing or two no matter what element you prefer."

"Eh?! Necromancy? N-no way... ghosts are scary!" Naruto squeaked out as his face paled.

She rolled her eyes as chuckles came from around them, "Then learn necromancy to control them brat. Once you can control them, you can either send their souls to the after-life... or use them as servants. Then their scary, will work for you. Personally, I prefer to just send the souls to the after-life and use the bodies to wreak havoc. I'll teach you how to make undead that absorb negative energy from their surroundings instead of pulling it from the dead world. That way clerics and priests won't get all up in your face over it."

Naruto blinked, "Er... negative energy?"

Susan nodded, "Negative energy and positive energy have these little streams that transition through the opposite world. Negative energy streams into the living and flows back out with dead souls. Usually dead souls are pulled towards these streams, but a necromancer can create a font of negative energy which binds the soul to life: creating a ghost. That can also be used to animate skeletons and, given a large enough font, even give them sentience without a soul. But fonts are really bad for the world; the energy is supposed to flow in... and then straight back out."

Grimacing, she shook her head, "When it sits around like that things start dying. Little things at first like bugs and grass... then bigger things like bushes and rabbits. Given a large enough negative energy source, like a really powerful undead or an undead army, and bigger things start dying... like humans. Usually heroes are called in as soon as signs start showing."

"That's kind of the problem though with using Undead that absorb negative energy from our world. They're only useful in areas with lots of negative energy. Great against other undead, but not so good in areas without them. So necromancy should only ever be a secondary focus at best. I'll probably neglect it a bit now that it's at novice. Maybe just let it naturally turn into a mid-level if I ever get high enough for my lowest level spells to start taking effect."

Naruto frowned, "Couldn't you just create two undead in one body? Like... create a skeleton body that's bound and scrunched up inside the Rib-cage of a bigger skeleton?"

"Eh? What? Why?"

He tilted his head, "The scrunched up skeleton acts as the font: bringing negative energy into the world. The bigger skeleton acts as the absorber; either using up the energy or sending it back to the negative world... whichever it does."

Susan's eyes slowly widened, "W-What? T-That's... I mean... wow."

She scratched her head for several seconds before pausing as she finished readjusting the staff in her hands, "Heh... maybe not a skeleton scrunched up inside another skeleton... but you just had a marvelous idea kid."

The woman proceeded to tap each of the healing potions one after the other; causing the internal liquid's glow to dull.

"There, see how it stopped glowing but it's still bright crimson? That means it's sealed and not losing energy; but it's still good. These are the 'cheap' ones... but, for low levels like us, they'll still restore a pretty decent portion of our Vital Essence and thus increasing our skin's hardness back up and speed up the rate at which our body recovers wounds. We'll also of course not die from reaching zero vital essence reserve if we're almost out. We've got six of those so we'll probably give three each to the shielders."

"By the way, since we know the Blood Mana works with spell casters. You should go ahead and buff me, then both of the healers, both shielders and then starting in on everyone else."

Naruto nodded and promptly blessed her... then went off to others.

"Huh... this two-toned hair thing is kind interesting. Just like, six inches of brown then suddenly... Boom two inches of Auburn. Might keep it till my hair gets to long for comfort."

Turning to the ice mage, Susan eyed her, "Alright, what all did you manage to get Frosty? I might be able to upgrade it into something that actually boosts Cold spells."

The girl's eyebrow twitched at 'frosty'; however excitement quickly replaced her annoyance, "Really? That'd be awesome! I thought only novice staves could have boosts?" her voice suddenly turned deadpan "Also, my name is Irmina... not Frosty. And my sister is Kuonrada before you start calling her zappy or whatever."

"Ooo, Zappy. I like that." she tilted her hand back and forth "Technically, they can... it's just not usually efficient price-wise. However, what' I'll be doing is making something that can be used by someone as far down as level 80 Beginner magician... but it'll be able to handle as far as about 40 or 50 into Novice Magician. A sort of transition staff. It usually isn't worth the money... but I'm not charging you anyway since we're kinda focused on preparing to get past all the Goblins from three weeks ago."

Naruto blanched as he darted back over from blessing Rillia; the berserker, "Eh? W-what do you mean? I thought you were preparing for when the Goblin raiding party returned with more captives in a few weeks? Can't I just try talking to them? I mean... they're my brothers and sisters just like these are. And your children. I wasn't born evil, and I can't imagine they were either. We were just born hungry for knowledge, ready to be shaped by the actions of whomever our parents were... Gobujii might not have even had time to indoctrinate them in anything more than teaching them how to hunt and gather."

The room went still again before murmurs started up.

"He's right... the hobgoblins should be returning with captives. We can't just abandon them to the same fate."

"I'm not gonna just walk out on someone like that. We've got numbers. I know I can handle at least one Hobgoblin by myself and two or three Goblins, maybe even four."

"And they are our kids. I mean... now that I think about it... I don't know if I can just kill them without at least trying. Especially since we've got a translator to talk to them."

Naruto lifted a black-nailed finger from where he was now blessing the last human, "Technically, I did also grant you All-speech."

They all blinked before checking their language skills, "Damn! He's right!"

"Aw man... all that time I spent learning elvish..."

Susan merely grinned, "Hah! Stupid nobles are all snooty, bragging about how they can speak seven languages and have 'Continental Calligraphy' and all the rubbish. Now I just gotta learn that skill and I can be like, 'Oh really? Only seven? I know All-Speech'."

Anzu lifted her hand hesitantly, "I don't know that one, but after we're safe I could get you started with 'Continental Letter Deciphering'... if you want. No charge... I just... like helping people and you seem really nice."

"Heh... thanks kid. I might take you up on that offer."

Suddenly, Susan blinked as a hand tugged on her skirt, "Gobukichi hungry mama."

She blinked down at the now auburn-haired and orange-eyed goblin, "Oh... I suppose it's been a few hours since you finished that rabbit earlier. And we kinda already cooked and ate those two rabbits whatever his name was brought."

Susan shrugged, "Oi! My other brat. Get over here. Are you hungry as well?"

"Gobusei very hungry mama."

Nodding, she picked up by the waist and sat down, "No biting alright? Biting is for solids. Mama makes liquids and will bite you if you bite her, ok brats."

Anzu blinked rapidly, "What are you doing?"

She shrugged, "I just gave birth to them and fed them this way a few hours ago. Might as well feed them like this a few more times since they're still just babies. Kinda weird to have talking babies though."

Naruto raised a hand from near the remaining green goblins 'waiting' to be blessed, "Sorry... my fault. My blessing is giving them enough energy to accelerate their mental processes."

Another orange-skinned goblin poked his shoulder, "What's accelerate and processes mean? Oh! My name's Gobume. What's yours?"

"I'm Naruto. Those mean to go faster and faster and a way to do an action that's always the same each time you do it. So basically I made you able to think faster and learn new ways to do things faster."

"Oh... ok... I'm gonna go find my mommy. I'm hungry now."

The archer sighed and came to pick her up, "Come here sweetheart. My name's Mina."

Suddenly one of the light swordsmen blanched, "Eh... I just realized. I've got three kids over there. A little help here?"

A shielder placed a hand on her shoulder, "Don't worry, I've got your back."

Eyes beginning to water, Susan snorted, "Man this is so surreal. I feel like I went off the deep end and my mind's just trying to cope."

The other woman looked around uneasily and one actually poked herself with the tip of her blade.

"The pain seems real enough."

Susan bit her arm, "True... there's that at least. Haven't found anything on this earth that hurts and isn't real. In fact... I've heard all but the really crazy-high-level illusions break with pain."

After a moment, she shook her head, "Doesn't matter now. Oi! Frosty! Bring that magic stuff a bit closer. I've still got hands ya know."

~([Scene End])~

It wasn't long before everyone started showing signs of nodding off, Anzu was the first to realize it and spoke up, "Ok everyone, we need seven volunteers for hourly watch changes. I'll take first."

Rillia quickly raised her hand, "I'll take second."

Shaking her head, Rachel sighed, "I can't. I'll be staying up to try and upgrade this armor. Most of its only blacksmith level... no offense Susan... and, with it damaged as well, I need to make sure sure it's as strong as I can make it. There's no telling if our older kids will feel the same way as our little brats here do."

Murmurs of appreciation for her ran through the cave and more quickly raised their hands.

Susan merely rolled her eyes, "Oh no... my heart has been fatally wounded by your words. However shall I survive."

Gobukichi and Gobusei gasped and started crying, "Mama!"

She facepalmed, "Alright... I need to teach you what sarcasm is brats."

~([Chapter End])~

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