Chapter 3: Setting things up
As Naruto reappeared he found himself in what appeared to be an old broken warehouse. He looked out a busted window and found that he was in the outskirts of the city in the destroyed area known as the outer area. He closed his eyes and used his mastery of senjutsu to see if there was anyone else in the area. He found that there was small clusters of people all throughout the area, but more importantly there was a slightly larger group crowded in the lower level of the building he was in.
With a calming smile on his face he walked down the stairs of the building and saw a small group of around 10 to 15 young girls all around the ages of four to six. It broke his heart to see them like this, but it also strengthened his resolve to help them.
Shaking those thoughts away he saw that most the girls where cowering away from him sending him wary glances with a couple defiantly staring at him while standing protectively in front of the others. He looked at them and honestly thought they all looked so cute with their similar red eyes. He decided it was time to lighten the mood and sat down on an old barrel with his hand out to show he was peaceful, the whole time keeping his calming smile.
"Hello, my names Naruto, but you can call me whatever you like!" he said with a happy grin. He saw some of the girls stare at him weirdly and decided to keep going. "Are any of you hungry? I have some food if you'd like it?"
Some of the girls gained hopeful looks while others stayed wary. He kept calmly looking at them when finally one of the girls walked up to him.
"Hey mister, you look weird." The small brunette said while looking at him warily wondering how he'd respond. All the other girls moved a little farther back positive he would react aggressively. To their surprise the blonde just starting laughing nodding his head in agreement.
"Yeah, little girl you won't find many people weirder than me" Naruto said between his laughing looking proud of it.
All the girls looked stunned especially the little one in front of him. Then he started hearing giggling coming from a few and then as if it was contagious they all started coming closer giggling all the way. They all looked curiously at this weird mister who came out of nowhere with nothing but a staff wondering where the food he had was.
Looking them all over Naruto smile kindly, "You are all some of the cutest little girls I have had the pleasure to meet and I've met quite a few in my long life."
A few of the girls started wondering why he was being so kind to them, didn't he know they were monsters like all those people and even their parents said.
"Mister you are really young, you don't look old like jiichan." A small blond said while another with silver hair girl shyly stuttered, "Wha-wh-what do y-you mean we l-l-look cute. N-N-No one thinks th-th-that, they think were...monsters." She whispered the last part out but Naruto heard her clearly and lost a little of the sparkle he had in his eyes.
"Jou-chan, I've been alive longer than your Jiichan's Jiichan." Naruto said in a kind joking manner trying to raise their spirits. A few giggled but it looked like most of them didn't believe him, he would maybe do some tricks for them to help them trust him. Naruto then looked back to the silver girl who ducked her head shyly and started shivering nervously he slowly raised his hand and placed his hand on her head patting it gently. The girl immediately looked up at him eyes wide.
"You are all cute little girls, just like my musume was when she was your age." He said with a kind smile hoping to get his point across. When he finished talking she looked down blushing with a small happy smile and tears in the corner of her eyes. He looked at the rest of them and saw that they looked really happy as well. Then out of nowhere he heard a large gurgle and all of the girls looked down blushing while rubbing their stomachs. He laughed happily and moved over towards the fire they had going. All the girls looked up at him curiously wondering what he was doing when he couched to the ground none of the girls could see as he unsealed some rations. All they heard was a small puff and then he turned standing up and they widened their eyes in wonder at the food he had wondering where it came from, but then started to crowd him remembering how hungry they were. As he started giving them the food he had unsealed for them he smiled thinking this was a great start to his adventure in his new life.