A large ship transporting cargo was anchored just off the coast of Vale, it's security consisting a few android units that were around the ship. As they slowly made their rounds, one spotted a figure cloaked in all navy blue standing on the railing of the ship.

"Halt." The electric solider states as part of its program, "present identification."

The android's response to the request was a knife that screeched through the air, the android had no chance to avoid it, the knife simply went straight through its head. The figure jumped into the air, skipping off a cargo pod, the figure moved as if he was a feather in the wind.

Two of the other androids came over, investigating what had just occurred. The androids normally white eyes suddenly glowed red, indication of combat protocols being activated, but it was for naught as both were suddenly taken to the ground by two more knives.

The figure stood there, behind them, before sliding the knives out of their metal craniums. Slowly, calmly…almost like a ghost since his footsteps made no sound once so ever, the figure walked slowly towards the helm's office for the ship.

Something moved at the top of the figure's hood before he suddenly leaned back as a sailor appeared to his side with crowbar in hand. The figure spun around as he leaned back, delivering a devastating kick to the side of the man's face with his left foot.

The ship's alarms started to blare out as the figure started to quick his pace, slowly he looked around, before throwing his knives to both sides of himself. The knives soared through air, two androids appeared on his opposite sides, and just like the other three had knives buried into their heads.

The figure's mask, a porcelain in the likeness of a swallow, got stained by a drop of oil when one of the knives hit a pressure valve on the machine. Sighing, the figure finally spoke, revealing a male's voice. "I just had this cleaned…"

Looking up, the figure saw the captain, before crouching down and jumping upwards. He kicked off a light post to gain height, much to surprise of the captain, it looked like this figure was doing stuff one would normally would see a kung fu movie with too much string.

As the figure landed, the captain reached for his pistol, only feel a cold metal up against his throat. "So fast!" the captain looked at the masked figure before shaking, dropping his pistol, "please don't kill me…I have a family…please don't kill me."

"Set the autopilot for this boat to go to the north end of Vale's ports, then tell your men to get in the lifeboats and sail opposite. You will then join your men, leaving this vessel and all of its contents. Failure to comply will be met with death." The figure speaks as he presses the blade against the man's neck, "am I to be understood?"

"Y-yes sir." The captain walked over to the console, pressing a single button, "all men to your life rafts. I repeat all men to your life rafts, this is not a drill. Explosives have been found on the ship, I repeat explosives have been on the ship."

While he was speaking he had begun to set the autopilot.

Turning to the figure, letting of the button, "satisfied sir?" the captain questions with a hiss.

"Yes, you should think about a career in acting." The figure quipped as he nudged his head, "scream before I change my mind on killing you."

Wasting no time, the captain quickly ran, as the captain ran out, the figure slowly watched as the ship began to move. Chuckling, he simply took a seat in the captain's chair, before feeling a vibration in his pocket.

Pulling out the source, his scroll, the figure chuckled as the ringtone played. "The rain is falling down; the rain keeps falling on my head."

A children's song, "I'm going to get her back for putting that on my call alert."

Swiping across the scroll, the figure put his scroll against his ear. "Sup?"

"Have you got the ship?"
"Already on its way, so tell me, this is a small military cruiser from Atlas. Why wasn't it more armed, what did you all send me after this time?"
"Does it matter, you're getting paid handsomely for it."
"Heh, guess you're right."

A loud crash rang the ship, before the figure sighed. "I'll call you right back."

The figure got up, seeing a large mechanical knight standing at the ship's bow. Smirking under his mask, the figure simply exited the helm's central office as the knight launched a shoulder mounted rocket into it. Luckily, somehow, this didn't stop the autopiloting going on.

The blast blew the office away, however the figure simply floated down onto the deck of the ship. "I think that captain is going to win a golden idol one day, usually I play people like a fiddle."

The machine slowly stepped forward, drawing a blade out from its arm where it had kept it hidden. The sword it was wielding was in the style a very large longsword. The machine itself stood six meters in height, easily tripling the height of the figure facing him down.

The machine started to run forwards, slinging its arm back, the figure just stood there as the machine slung it's in arc over its head. Stepping to the side, the figure watched as the sword smashed into the deck of the ship, before he spun around.

Several flows of white light and air slowly formed over the figure's right palm as a ball of pure blue and white energy formed. The ball then gained a shell of blistering wind around it as it started to form four blades on opposite sides to each other.

All this occurring in the single spin the figure had made. When the spin finally came to its full three sixty, the figure leaped off his right foot. Cocking his right arm back, he announced what his attack was. "Rasenshuriken!"

The bot was smashed center mass, a loud explosion sounded as waves of wind rolled off the ball, before the machine slowly got picked up into the air. However, once it did, it was then sent flying upwards, smashing into a cargo pod on the way up.

Holding his fist closed as he looked dead at the ball of white and blue light shooting off with the machine like a comet, the figure simply smiled. "Expand!"

The screech that filled the air was massive, followed by a thunderous boom as the comet was replaced by a stationary sphere of swirling and unyielding wind. Very few parts of the giant metal knight escaped the sphere.

The wind created by the sphere churned the seas until a large waterspout formed over the sphere, before finally it collapsed into itself. The masked figure stood on the ship's bow, glaring at the captain as he retreated.

"You're very lucky that takes a lot of aura to use captain…because I would throw another one for you." The figure states just loud enough for the captain to hear.

The vibration came back, making the figure grumble in frustration. "Yo." He picked up the phone.

"What the hell was that?!"
"A giant metal knight attacked me."
"Well get back here, and I swear if there is any damage to the ship you're taking a pay cut!"

The figure looked at the disheveled deck, before looking back at his scroll. "Yeaahhh…" the figure drawled, "so tell me…um…do you have an electrician in your gang?"

"How bad?"

"Eh…just some facial damage…" a piece of metal from the top of the helm that was barely hanging on fell and created a loud groan on the ship, "and…metal…damage." He sucked his teeth as he just sighed.

"I'll take a fifteen percent pay cut."

A blonde-haired teen slowly walked, it was snowing along the path he took on a forested area inside of the walls of Vale City. Wore an orange gi with a red sash around his midsection to help hold up his black pants, his black overcoat was hanging on him loosely.

On his wrist were black and red clothed armguards, and on his back, was a staff. Sighing, his foxlike ears on his head twitched as he neared a rather large building. He had bought the building on short sale a long time ago when an owner foregone to pay the bank their money.

Currently he was hoping to fix it up a little more, but that was another struggle for another day. Right now, as he neared his home, he heard the laughter of several children. Smiling, he soon came to the door of the large building, knocking on it.

A child answered the door, his hair was orange in color, and he had foxlike ears as well. The boy's smile beamed as he shouted out, "brother Naruto is home!" he quickly turned to see several human and faunus children stop playing/watching TV to turn to the doorway.

"Hey Gama, I got your candy." Naruto smiles as he talks to the small child sitting on the sectional's end.

The small child had pink hair with green on the tips of it, she had yellow eyes. She was faunus as well, her trait being the claws she had on her hand. To a lot of children outside of the house, Gama looked scary, but to everyone she was just the shy little sister.

A teen girl soon enters the room after exiting the kitchen area, "Naruto!" she calls as she runs over and hugs him. She had brown hair, brown eyes, and was wearing just average clothing consisting of sweatpants and a t-shirt. "How did work go?"

"Went good Ayame, how's every one of my little squirts doing here…giving you trouble?" Naruto eyed one, a human boy with red hair and eyes. "Ji?"

"Ain't got nothing to say, Dukang here kept Gama and Chichi up all night." Ji states as he crosses his arms while chewing a blade of grass, "complaining about some ghost."

"G-ghost?!" Naruto yells he looks around rapidly and looks at a skinny black-haired boy. "Dukang, for real…a ghost?!"

"I just saw this shadow, it just kept staring at me…" Dukang answered innocently while tapping his fingers together.

"Eh…well…guess I better call a monk." Naruto comments as he looks towards Ayame before giving a politely uniformed bow. "Thanks again Sister Ayame, I'll be sure to stop at the shop tonight and pick up dinner for us."

"Don't mention it man, we're straight, you just keep our streets clean." She says as she begins to walk out. "Oh, and Naruto. Maybe you should consider getting this place a little bit of a woman's love and touch."

The blonde blushed a little bit, rubbing the back of his head. "Ehe-he-eee…good one."

She smirks before speaking in a much lower tone. "I know a girl who'd like to meet you."

"And I know six…wait…Ji, Dukang, Gama, Aoi, and…where is Li and Aka?" Naruto stopped before Ayame looked around, pinching the bridge of her nose, and Naruto huffed. "I'mma whoop them…I swear it!"

Two children stood on a busy street, holding a picture of their brother. One had blonde hair, and another had red hair, both having blue eyes. "Excuse me miss, you look beautiful, are you single! Would you like to meet a prince!" The blonde politely but excitingly shouted out.

"Hey, you, don't be stingy, yeah so what if our brother is a faunus he's single and ready to mingle!" The redhead shouted.

"He's also super mad!" they heard their brother yell as he landed in front of them, quickly snatching his picture up. "Li, Aka, what the heck are you two doing?!"

"Trying to get you a wife." Aka crossed her arms, "besides brother you're seventeen today!"

"Oh…right…it's October." Naruto scratched the back of his head, "I forgot my own birthday."

"We didn't," Li states as she held up a separate photo, "so we're trying to get you a girlfriend."

"Hey, hold up, why wife then Aka?" Naruto inquires as he looks a little redhead in front him.

"Well…aren't wives supposed to be girlfriends first?" Naruto chuckled at Aka's questions before sighing.

"Aka, Li, listen. I work very hard for us, each week I make sure that you're all clothed…fed…and properly educated. It's a lot to ask, but I'm glad to have to stepped up for you all, but I'm asking as your older brother here." Naruto took both of their hands. "Don't run off again, don't worry about this stuff, it's adult stuff, and promise me you'll take down that sign."

"Nice butt…" Naruto turned his head to a passing redhead as she winked at him, before refocusing on Aka and Li. Aka smirking at Naruto as she nudged her head at the woman walking away.

"No…" Naruto deadpanned, making both girls lower their heads in defeat.

Naruto soon brought Li and Aka home, and walked into where Ayame was patiently waiting. "I'm so sorry, they're so quick."

"Well two ten-year-old twins are devious, right Li, Aka?' Naruto eyed both the girls.

"Yeah…"
"Yes sir."

"Good," Naruto walks up to Ayame and smiles as he this time hugs her, "don't hold yourself down for this…they run out all the time."

"Okay…" Ayame rubs the back of her head, "well dad needs me at the stand."

"Alright, be safe." Naruto lets her go, before following to the door.

When it closed, Naruto turns around, and slumps down. "Ahh…finally, peace and quiet."

"Candy…" Naruto was broken from the shy little noise, and Gama standing in front of him holding out her hand. "Big brother…please."

"Here," Naruto hands her the candy, "just be nice and give some to your brothers and sisters."

Naruto felt something drop from his coat, before picking up his porcelain mask, and sighing. "I wish there was another way to do this, but they need me to do this…Hunters don't make much money legally at least and it's a lot riskier running into a horde than running into a few armed guards."

"Dukang, do you wanna play Outlast Ninja Two?" Ji called out to the child.

"Sure brother, brother Naruto, can we use your T.V?" Dukang inquires as he gives Naruto a look with his eyes, before watching the blonde smile. "Sure…Aoi go set it up for him."

"Right boss!" Aoi saluted Naruto as he ran towards his big brother's room.

"Aoi is the oldest of my bunch, he's going to be turning twelve soon…he wants to be a Hunter. Ji is a little butthead, but he's my go to guy on being blunt honest. Li and Aka always tease him for being kind and obedient, but they'll learn one day that he does it because he's head honcho if something goes wrong…no…can't think like that. Gama, and Dukang are just six…they need a role model and…a father I guess." Naruto looked at all the kids, before smiling, and getting up.

Naruto and family had all finished supper, which was ramen and chicken with several vegetables as side dishes. Naruto watched as Dukang got up, walking towards his shared room between him, Ji, and Aoi. Li, and Aka had decided to stay up and watch tv.

"Li, Aka, make sure to clean up before going to bed. If you clean up good I'll make sure to buy you two some crushed ice as a treat if I go out tomorrow." Naruto says as he walks over and picks Gama up, bouncing her around a little bit.

"Okay brother, night." Li calls out as they turn the tv over to A Hunter's dream, a child's cartoon about Huntsmen.

Naruto walks with Gama, taking her into the girl's room. Gama had her own bed, while the girls shared a bunkbed. Naruto had built the bed frames himself, minus the pillows, covers, and mattresses. Pretty much everything was what he built with local trees in the area.

Even the house's wooden flooring.

In fact, he redid the house by himself, and often wondered if he'd just should get a job being a carpenter. However, carpenters tended to need education, education costs money, and that money is what he didn't have now.

Naruto placed Gama on the bed, covering her up as he lightly singed for her. "Renchaku ha na hanasanai." He lightly singed as he tucked her in before watching slowly start to snore. "This unforgettable love, this attachment, I will not let go."

As he walked over to the door Naruto cuts the lights off, before turning around, and smiling at her as his fox ears lightly twitched.

Naruto was standing outside of the house, he had a sketch book with him, sketching what he was planning to do with the house on how to expand it out. He thought about adding a porch on the front of it so the kids could be out in the rain, he thought about a garden.

He imagined a woman working in that garden, wearing white clothing, he even drew her in. Smiling, he made sure to make a note at the top in very small letters to color this in and frame it. He flipped the page, redrawing the more serious manner of his task, and went around house doing so.

He even thought about fencing, placing a shed at the back, maybe starting a small parcel farm for when the others got older to help him. Naruto stopped, before long, and looked at small wild rose bush growing in his back yard.

Walking over to it, he gently stroked the rose bush, which even responded to him as he flowed blue and white energy onto it. The roses blossomed more, changing several colors, before he picked out three blue and pink roses. Chuckling, he looked at his bundle.

"Definitely doing a garden." Naruto spoke in his mind as he looked back at the house, before sighing.

Each one of the children in his home were children he took off the streets. Children that had been hungry, cold, and alone. Gama herself was the newest edition to the ever-growing family Naruto had started with Aoi a couple of years ago.

Back then he and Aoi both were on the streets, it was just Naruto took care of him more than he did himself. Naruto got involved in his practice of professional theft by benefactors who needed things, and not necessarily legal. He was actually pretty good at it, it was a lot better than some low-level job.

Naruto pulled out a piece of paper, smiling, it was birthday gifts and dates. Each going by the oldest to youngest.

"Aoi-12/12-wants a new game.
Ji-10/23-wants a swing set.
Li, and Aka-11/23-wants a makeup/sword.
Dukang-2/12-wants painting kit.
Gama-5/13-wants candy."

Naruto sighed as walked back, and leaned against a tree.

"Wonder when my next job will be…"