Disclaimer: First Chapter
My job switched me from mornings to nights, so updates will be a little chaotic until I'm more accustomed to the new schedule I'm on.
Just wanted to give a fair warning.
Story Start!

The area Naruto picked was beautiful so far.

Apparently, the location that Naruto picked for the new camp grounds was pretty close to the shrine at the top of the hill. Just outside of the holy grounds, so that they would not be affected by the aura of the place, but close enough that most supernatural evils wouldn't come and bother them either and where Devils couldn't sense that they were there.

"The river comes down from the mountain, and it's a fresh water source with ample fresh water fish as well." Lancer added as she walked with Asia towards where she felt Naruto. His Servants could always tell when they were talking in the correct direction, and had instinctive knowledge on where Naruto was. "Though, it seems this area has had quite a few trees cut down." Lancer noticed that a good number of trees had been cut through and removed from the area.

Asia didn't have anything to say for or against that, but she could see smoke rising in the distance, showing her that they were getting closer to where Naruto was.

"... Oh my..." Lancer said with some surprise.

"Dear..." Asia whispered in shock as well when she saw what Lancer had seen, and had been so shocking to the woman. She could completely understand the surprise, because she herself could barely believe it.

A cabin.

Half-submerged in a steep of the hill, was a log and stone cabin. The cabin wasn't all that big, but it was sized large enough to be called a small house. Asia saw a shirtless and super sweaty Naruto, who was using a rock to hammer wooden spikes into wooden planks in front of the cabin. On the fire itself, there was sitting a bucket with smoke coming out of it. Naruto grabbed the bucket by the handle, and took it with him into the cabin without noticing either Lancer or Asia standing 30 feet away from him watching him.

That explained the trees.

"I see..." Lancer smiled, since that would explain why Naruto had been lying about what he had been doing today. Now it made a lot more sense, she grabbed Asia's shoulder and turned her away, the log cabin was clearing not finished yet. It was close to finished on the outside, Naruto had built a roof to cover the parts of the cabin that weren't submerged into the hill itself. There was no door and no windows, and Naruto had yet to completely make it air-tight so that drafts wouldn't get in.

Asia shook off her grip and walked towards the cabin, just as Naruto came back out with an empty bucket.

"Naruto."

"Asia!?" Naruto snapped in shock, not at her just out of shock, and stared at her with his cheeks turning bright red. "What are you doing back so soon!?" Naruto asked her as he looked at Lancer, who shrugged her shoulders.

Asia was suppose to be doing Devil work all night tonight, so why was she back already when it was only 3 AM? He wouldn't be done working on the cabin until at least 5 AM, when she was suppose to come back.

"What is this?" Asia asked Naruto as she looked into the building.

It was a big room, with 3 open doorways inside of the big room that led to the inside of the part of the cabin that was submerged underground, and one door that led to a room that was attached to the outside of the cabin. In total, the cabin had 4 small rooms and a medium sized living room.

"Wait, don't go in there yet!" Naruto reached out to grab Asia and pull her back, but she stepped into the building before he could stop her.

Welcome home Asia!

"Wh-what... what is this?" Asia repeated her earlier question when she noticed on the wall she couldn't see earlier, there was a giant sign with that written on it. Lancer walked in as well, and with an appraising eye, she looked at the work done with the walls.

For only working on this for 18 hours, he had nearly finished building an entire multi-room log cabin.

"It's not done... so-"

"What is this and how?" Asia turned to Naruto and asked more forcefully, since she was absolutely shocked by how much Naruto had done. She had no clue that he had been doing all of this, and clearly he had done it for her sake. He had lied to her about what he was going to be doing all day, purely for the sake of giving him the time that he needed to finish building this building.

She just ruined his surprise.

"Well... I... wanted to give you a home you really deserve. It doesn't have any electricity, but I've already got indoor plumbing though. I went a little further uphill, dug a trench and had a small stream of water connect to this place... no indoor bathtub though, I couldn't figure out how-" Naruto started tpo try and worm his way around admitting quite a few things. Asia looked around the place, and she could tell how much hard work that Naruto put into building this place.

There was no electricity, but with the moonlight coming through the windows and her devil eyes, she could still see quite clearly.

"... You didn't need to-"

"I wanted to though... Lancer, can you take Asia away for a little bit?" Naruto asked Lancer, since he wanted to finish the place before Asia came and saw the finish product. He had already moved all of her things into the room he made for her, and he completely finished the inside, but he was still working on getting the doors and the outside finished.

"How did you do this... how could you afford to do this?" Asia pressed Naruto on the part of the question he didn't answer.

Naruto rubbed the back of his head.

"You didn't break the law, did you?" Lancer asked Naruto with her arms crossed, and Naruto glared at her for the accusation.

"I paid for this half of the hill with money, and I did it through completely legal methods!..." Naruto blushed darker when he realized both of the women were staring at him. They wanted to know how he, a broke person, could afford to buy half ot the hill itself and claim it as his own land. "... I sold 2/3rds of Uzumaki island..." Naruto whispered.

Lancer froze.

"You... sold Uzumaki island?" Lancer asked him slowly, because that sounded very much like Naruto had just given away his birthplace away for money. That was the island he was born on, the island that his clan died on, and the place that his mother had called her home for all of her life. That land had over 4,000 years of history soaked into it, and Naruto just sold it like it was nothing. "... You sold it?" Lancer had to be sure to ask that again.

Naruto selling his motherland was just that shocking.

"I mean, I don't care about it... I never lived there, and I don't know anything about the place... so it would just be sitting there. I don't care about the Uzumaki clan or it's history, it's just an island full of nothing to me... so I sold most of it to the government." Naruto didn't sell off all of the island, he just sold most of it. The large sum of money that he got for the island had been far more than enough to buy half of this hill, including the shrine's territory on top of the island.

"... You didn't need to do that for me." Asia whispered with teary eyes.

Naruto had sacrificed even more for her.

"I didn't need to, I wanted to. Ever since I turned 13, Japan has been trying to buy that place from me. You're..." Naruto scratched his cheek and didn't make eye contact with Asia when he spoke.

Lancer, who had been angry, calmed down.

'... Right, Kushina loved the island... but with no Uzumaki living there, the place really holds no meaning for Naruto. He cares more about the future and the present, than the past.' Lancer thought as she looked at Naruto hesitating to talk with Asia anymore. She stepped closer to him, and her big green eyes seeked the answer from him.

"Naruto?" Asia asked him.

"... important to me. You're my precious person, so I need to take care of you to the best of my ability. I lo..." Naruto paused, and he looked away from Asia again, turning around all the way. Naruto shook his head, slapped his cheeks.

Asia hugged him from behind.

"Thank you." Asia was actually crying.

This was what others didn't get to see, what only she got to see. The part of Naruto that was honest and true to who he really was. The way he acted and talked to Rias was the mask that Naruto wore to protect his delicate heart. A heart that had faced nothing but hurt and pain, but this was who Naruto truly was. A kind and loving man who would do anything, no matter how painful or shameful, for those that he cared about.

Everyone who judged Naruto, they might never get to see this part of him, because their hearts weren't open to being changed about him.

"Thank you for being born." Asia whispered into his shoulder, and she let go of him to wipe her tears. She grabbed the bucket he had dropped off of the ground, before she gave him a determined look. "Now where can I help?" Asia asked him with a wide smile.

Lancer could see she wasn't needed anymore, and faded away until the next time that she was summoned.

"You don't need to-"

"I don't need to, I want to." Asia told him with a graceful smile.

*Ba-dump*

Naruto's heart skipped a beat.

He couldn't refuse her help.

Chapter End!
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