Thank you for the reviews and feedbacks.

Some questions won't be answered to avoid the spoilers and if I miss some questions, sorry!

Most characters might be OOC and there might be some grammar errors but I'm trying my best.

Enjoy the third chapter of NSRFT!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, fairy tales and anything mentioned in this story.

Chapter 3: The Winter Is Coming

It's a early morning when Gretel exit the vardo wagon with thick shawl around her pajama and she inhale some fresh air in with groggily expression before she notice Naruto finished his warmup as he crossed his fingers. "Kage bunshin!" He create hundreds of bunshin before he point to the first group, "I want you guys to work on chakra control, specifically the elemental control." His finger shifted to the second group, "Work on Fuinjutsu." He turned to the third group, "Katon jutsu." He pointed again to the fourth group, "We need to master iryo ninjutsu, who know I might need it one day." He turned to the final group as he scratched his head, "Crap, I think I made too much of you guys…Um…Maybe we can start training with bukijutsu and do some weapon mastery? Starting with sword or something else?" The fifth group of clones just shrug their shoulders, "Some of you guys will stay here in case if the girls need some morning training. I'll be focusing on mastering hiraishin."

"Wait, do I have to learn iryo ninjutsu?" One of the bunshin whined, "No! I want do something cooler instead of this stupid medical crap!"

"Too bad!" Naruto huffed at his clone as Gretel raised her eyebrow behind him, "You're with the medical squad so suck it up!"

"No, no, no, no!" The clone dropped on his knees with clasped hands, "Please switch me with someone else! Please, boss, please!" He continued to complaining and pleading to his creator for a while.

"Ugh, fine, you sissy." The shinobi's eyebrow twitched as he glared down at the cheering clone, "Go trade place with katon squad."

"THANK, BOSS!" The cheering clone run to another group.

"Everyone, go." Naruto waved his bunshin off while rubbing his forehead as the groups moved out and he finally notice the brunette. "Morning, Gretel."

"G-Good morning, Naruto." She cleared her throat to calm herself down after remembered last night, "May I ask you a question?"

"Sure." He nodded.

"Is it normal for your clone to act out like that?" Gretel gestured to the empty space, "It's quite out of character. You once told us that all your clones are same like you in every way."

"Ah, yeah, I thought the same thing until I read the kage bunshin scroll again." Naruto scratched his head, "Turn out it's common for any kage bunshin to have their own personality if someone create this many clones. It's rare in a small group." He paused for a moment, "Which explained a lot of things if I think about it." He remember how he get into it with his clones in past and he never gave it a thought until now. "No wonder why one want to gossip and other want to lazing around."

"Ah, interesting." She hummed before she shivers under a cold breeze, "I'm going inside. Breakfast will be ready in thirty minutes."

"Got it!" He gave her a thumb up over his shoulder as he jogged over to a clearing in a distance and the brunette enter the vardo for warmth.

"That place look perfect for training." A clone said to his group as they approach a field of roses, "What weapon do you think we should focus on today?" He held a scroll up, "Sword?"

"Why not?" The second clone walked over until he accidentally step a rose and there was a loud crack, following by a wet squish. "Wha…?" He lift his foot up to look under it, "Ew! I think I step on a big fat bug!"

"Whoa, what kind of bug can have this much blood?" The third clone grimaced slightly at the sight of thick blood under the second's sandal, "Some spider?"

"Must be." The fourth clone shrugged as he walked until they hear something strange like 'NO!' before there was another weird sound of cracking and squishing and everyone look around at their surrounding in confusion. "What the?" He lift his foot up to see a blood glob, "Eww! Is this field filled with some kind of big fat bugs?!"

"Maybe we should change the location." The first clone said to everyone and they agreed as the group move to another field. If they have take a close look in the rose bed, they should have seen some tiny human limbs twitching near the blood smears.

Oh, woe Tom Thumb and Thumbling! For they have been squished like insects.

In other place, the clone was practicing a basic katon jutsu as he blew fireball after fireball and he take a short break to rest his throat. "Ugh, why do we have to do katon today?" He grumbled as he went through some handseals before he shot a fireball and something unexpected happen next.

"Oh, I have successfully trick my master into disrobing, now I need to stop the king's car…" A orange cat in boots leap out of nowhere before the creature lit up in blaze by the giant fireball, "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The blazing cat ran around in circle with flaring arms as Naruto watch on with dropped jaw for several minutes before the creature plop over, completely burnt and dead.

"…" The clone slowly turn his head sideways few times before he quietly dig a hole then push the dead cat in along with its boots and push the dirt back in. He straighten himself up with hands behind his back and he walk away with a innocent whistle and shifty eyes. 'Boss can figure it out himself.'

Somewhere a bit away, a poor nude man was forced to leave the cold river and run for cover while a royal carriage continue on without stops.

Naruto prepare himself with the hiraishin kunai after many tries and he throw it at a tree with all of his strength. The kunai soar through the air until it stop…In Naruto's hand as he skidded across the field. "Whoa!" He barely keep his balance up before he look at the kunai in his hand with rapid blinks then he celebrate loudly, "YES! I DID IT!" He jumped around, "Yes! Yes! Yes! I did it!" He laughed until his foot hit something and he look down with a blink. "...Is that a bottle?" It's a long-neck glass rounded bottle with cork and it look like it's filled with something. "Wonder what's inside." Naruto picked it up then uncorked it to take a sniffle. Suddenly, the smokes erupt from the bottle and an giant spirit stretched his arms out with claws.

"Oooh, do you know what your wages are for having let me out?" The spirit roared with awful voice, "I must strange you for it! For I am the mighty Mercurius, the…"

"GHOST!" The shinobi shrieked in high pitch

"What?" Mercurius arched his brow, "No, you fool, I'm a de…"

"AAAAH!" Naruto suddenly cut him off with a haymaker to jaw, sending him tumbling before he yank dozen of tri-bladed kunai then scatter them everywhere and he vanish in yellow-and-orange flash.

"What sorcery is…" The giant spirit uttered before he got smacked around by blurs as the speeding shinobi hit him with dozen jutsu and the spirit crash through couple trees with high-pitched shriek. 'H-How is this possible?! How can this child hurt me? I'm invulnerable to all mortal weapons and magic!'

The reason why Naruto can harm the demon is because one of his gifts, it allow the outsider to harm any spirit, demons and invulnerable folks so they can defend themselves…Don't forget that no harmful spells and attacks from certain species can affect the outsiders. In other word, the outsiders are truly invulnerable in the fable when it come to magic. That is one of the natural laws created by the fables in order to protect the outsiders in their journey to escape…And of course, Naruto don't know that.

"W-W-W-Wait! WAIT!" Mercurius held his hand out to the boy as soon as the hiraishin ended, "S-S-Spare me! Spare me, good sir! I-If you do…" He pulled an little bag out, "I-I'll give you that! If you spread one end of this over a wound, it will heal…" He pointed to left side of the bag then to other side, "And if you rub steel or iron with the other end it will be changed into silver!" The blonde stare at the demon in complete silence and the demon held a nervous grin, hoping that the boy is considering taking the treasure and sparing him.

"…LIKE I BELIEVE THIS BULLSHIT, GHOST!" Naruto vanish in the flash and the demon lost his smile with widened eyes as one-sided assault resumed. After one many high-speeded rasengan to head, Mercurius' face caved in before he explode in brimstone smoke and fire, signifying his death…But Naruto see it as a summoning dispel or sign of success exorcism. "OH THANK KAMI!" He breathed out before he create dozen of bunshin, "G-Go collect the hiraishin kunai." His clones obey him and the shinobi panted with hands on his knees until he spot the spirit's bag on the ground before he pick it up as he remember the ghost's words. "…I wonder if it's true…" Naruto took a normal kunai out then rub it with the right side of the bag and he move the bag away to stare at…Pure silver kunai. "Holy! This creepy-ass ghost was telling the truth!" He paused for a moment, "…Eh, I'll still beat this g-g-g-ghost's ass." He decide to take the magic bag back with him.

The girls stare at silver bowl in silence before Gretel make a small cut on her hand then cover it with left side of the bag and she pull her hand out to see unblemished palm. "…You have a quite interesting morning." Gretel said to Naruto as she hang the bag on the hinge of the shelf while everyone look up to him, "Anything else?"

"Um…" Naruto sweated as he had a flashback of screaming cat on fire ran around in circle, "No. Nothing else at all. Just that g-g-g-ghost and that I finally mastered Hiraishin."

"Congratulation on mastering your technique." Snow handed him a bowl of porridge, "What will you do next?"

"I'm thinking of creating a hiraishin mark and put them on wagons, just in case of emergency or if I need to get back in no time." He rubbed his chin, he'll leave the hiraishin training to his clones from now on.

"That's smart." The ravenette said.

"Yeah." Naruto took a spoonful of porridge, "Can I see the map? I want to know where we are right now." Snow give him the map with a nod and he study it until he notice something that puzzle him. "Um, what's this icon?" He pointed to a blocky icon on map, the reason why he asked about it is because the map has many said icon all over the map.

"It's meant to resemble castle and kingdom." Gretel explained.

"Oh." The humming shinobi check the map again and everyone finish their breakfast up before they can get ready to set off.

The group reach a small town within two days and they was about to pass through without stop since the sun haven't reach its peak yet, but a certain person try to stop them. "Wait, everyone, wait!" Goldilocks suddenly shook Snow's and Gretel's shoulders from behind as the said girls sat at the driver seat before she point to their right, "Stop here for a minute!" The girls followed Goldilocks' pointing finger's direction as everyone else peek out to…

"Why do you want to look at bunch of wagons?" Naruto asked the short-haired blonde oddly. There are many different kinds of wagons parking near an barn and a elderly man was lazing on a picket sign that read 'for sale'.

"Not look at, buy them!" Goldilocks replied, "To be specific, the box ones!" She pointed at a wooden boxcar wagon with door in front. "You can put them in your storage scroll things."

"Why should we want to have these boxy wagons?" He furrowed his brows with a puzzling frown.

"So we can have place to take bath in and to turn one into a giant closet for the clothes that you have in clothing scroll." The short-haired blonde replied, "The season is going to change and I don't want to take a bath out in rain or snow!" She rambled a bit about random stuff relating to wagons for a while until she finally get cut off by her boyfriend.

"I can understand the first part but…" Naruto sweatdropped with a deadpan expression, "Why should we turn one into a…Clothing wagon? That's stupid."

"…She's right, we should buy the wagons." Gretel suddenly speak up while cupping her chin with index finger.

"She's right?" He blinked.

"I'm right?" Goldilocks blinked, not expected her to take her side before she puff her chest up. "I mean, I know I am!"

"We're going to have a clothing wagon?" Naruto muttered.

"No, a bathing wagon." The brunette said, "A box wagon can give us a better shelter in winter while we take baths. Not just that, the box wagon tend to be empty so that allow us to turn them into anything that benefit us." She looked to the shinobi, "Remember what we discussed the other day about this greenhouse, we can turn one into a mobile greenhouse and see if it work."

"Oh, we can use one as a livestock or stable wagon." Snow added and the brunette nodded as they stop to step down.

"Excuse me, how much?" Gretel approached the old man.

"Eh, it depend on the wagon." The old man said.

"You mishear me." The brunette said with a glint in her eyes, "How much for all wagons you have here?" The old man's eyes just widened at her with arched brows.

"Wow, Gretel, you're pro at haggling!" Naruto don't know how long he have been staring at the said girl with dropped jaw since they leave the town, "Two hundred silver…" He gestured to a black Shire horse that walks next to Holly, "And you even got us a horse for free!"

"He was very happy to give us Jack for free after we clean him out." Gretel brushed it off like it's nothing, although an amused glint can be seen in her eyes.

"But is it still good idea to buy all wagons anyway?" He asked out of curiosity.

"It never hurts to be prepared for any situations." The brunette counted up with her fingers, starting with thumb first. "What if a wagon get damaged like fall into a deep ditch, get destroyed, fall off mountainside or its condition become worse as seasons change and make our vardo wagon unsuitable to live in. There's a good chance that a witch will curse a wagon to disappear, who know?"

"Oh, huh, I've never thought about that…" Naruto scratched his head as he glanced at the wagon scrolls in a chest under the leading wagon's bench. "…But seriously, a clothing wagon?"

"We're not…" Gretel trailed off as he gestured to Goldilocks, who was laughing her head off about clothing wagon and many outfits to try on without any hassle. "…Never mind." She sighed wearily with flat expression, "At least we can decorate and turn wagons to whatever we want it to be then have you summon and seal them."

"Yeah, as long as it's not greenhouse or livestock wagons." He replied, "Since greenhouse require time and growth while storage scroll can't and it also can't seal living beings…" He paused for a moment with a scrunched-up face, "…Can it?"

"If it does, I'm very certain that livestock and all living beings will lose their sanity from trapped in a time-space…" The brunette twirled her hand questioningly, "Limbo?"

"Oh, is it possible to restore their brains?" Rapunzel asked while she wrap gauze wrapping around Rosie's forehead for practice.

"Mm…" Naruto rubbed his chin, "I don't know. Let's find a wild animal and…"

"No, Naruto." Gretel cut him off with a deadpan expression as if she knows where his mind was going to, "We are not going to do that." He pouted childishly, which earn an eyeroll from her.

"Oh, I just realize something." Rosie lay her head on the genin's laps as she lie on the bench, "If we're going to have a clothing wagon, do we need to build walls to divide our clothes or just put up long poles overhead to hang them and build dressers? Oh, do we have wardrobes?"

"We'll figure it out when we set the clothing wagon up." He ran his hand through her red hair, massage her scalp to her happiness. That's one of what couples do, right? Naruto wondered.

"And bathing wagon?" The redhead nuzzled his thighs, "Are we going to figure it out too?"

"Ah, this one is pretty easy." Naruto think about it, "We can build stalls on both sides, starting in back and work up to front, then put curtains up…But we only have like three bathtubs, right?"

"Right." Gretel confirmed.

"So that will leave us with three stalls and a huge space." He rubbed his chin.

"Then we could buy a dozen of bathtubs to fill it up." Rosie grinned.

"Yeah." Naruto hummed, there's eight of them and three bathtubs so he better remember to buy some tubs as soon as they reach another villages…Along with wardrobes and dressers…Kami, they're going to have a clothing wagon and that is so weird for him. "…Oh." He realized something as he turned to the brunette, "Gretel, are the money different in regions?" She looked at him questioningly for more clear explanation, "The prices? In one town, some stuff cost less while the other town charge more. Um…Like, a table cost two silver and another table cost ten silver, yet they're same."

"Ah, yes, it varies in regions." Gretel nodded, "There are some places that don't accept copper because they're not valuable and demand more silver." She tapped her chin, "I once hear a rumor that there are some place that value coppers more than gold and will take ten copper coins in equal of one gold."

"Five copper for one gold?!" Goldilocks whipped her head to her with dropped jaw, "That's insane!"

"Like I said, it's a rumor so I don't know if it's true or not." The brunette shrugged.

'I hope it's really a rumor because I can't think of any place that treats gold as cheap back home.' Naruto wondered to himself with a headshake.

A tortoise crawl down the path with half-lidded eyes and the creature was smiling as he steadily make his pace…Until someone suddenly pick him up. "Hey, little fella, you're going the wrong way." Naruto carried the tortoise to a river before he gently toss the creature in the water, "Here you go."

"No, the raaaaaaaaaaaaaace!" The tortoise screamed out as the rapid carry him far away around the curve but his scream was drowned out by the sound of rapid and the genin walk back to the campsite with a whistle, feeling satisfied by his small good deed. The shinobi never notice a hare speeding by behind him.

"When are we going to set the wagons up?" Goldilocks asked as soon as the only boy reach the site.

"At the next stop." He replied, "It's still afternoon and we're just here for a break. If we do it now, it'll take about three hours or more."

"Ugh, I haven't take bath for days because of this stupid weather." The grumbling short-haired blonde crossed her arms. It's true that the weather recently become more cold as days went by and she can't enjoy taking outdoor warm bath because she don't know if it'll rain or snow today.

"You'll get one tonight so don't worry." Naruto walked away from her with another headshake, he swear that the spoiled girl have one-track mind. Oh, how do he not know that's a pot calling kettle black. He approached Rapunzel, "You ready for little training?"

"Yes!" Rapunzel nodded eagerly before she press a index finger to her cheek, "But are you sure about that?"

"Yeah, I'm sure." He nodded, "I heal pretty fast, you know? I once stab the back of my hand so deep that I have a nasty gash and it heal in half day." There was a short pause between the blondes.

"…Why would you do that?" The long-haired blonde asked oddly and worried.

"I fought a guy who laced his chain-arm thingy with poison and he nicked me." Naruto recalled, "I have to clean the poison out with fresh blood so…"

"Oh." Rapunzel uttered, "Is that so? Um…If you will, please?"

"Here I go." He grimaced to himself as he create a clone and the bunshin grabbed his right arm, "That's gonna suck. Good thing I know I can heal from that." The clone dislocated his forearm, "Son of a…!" The worried long-haired blonde examine his arm then relocated it before she apply sling to him. Naruto have promised to be her real-life guinea pig so she can get some real experience as medic and he's the only one who can heal from everything as long as it's not instant fatal. "Good thing you don't have to do stitches on me since the pig meat is best substitute for that." He joked with a small chuckle.

"Don't joke about that." Rapunzel scolded him, despite her tiny giggle. "I don't want you and everyone to get hurt badly. I know it can't be helped but still." He agreed with her by nod his head as she patch him up over and over before she finally speak up after few minutes, "…Naruto, I don't know what sweethearts do together. I mean, what people do for courtship and other things. I'm very inexperience…" She sucked her lower lip in for a moment, "How do I keep everyone happy? I…"

"I get it." Naruto scratched his head sheepishly with one good hand, "I'm very new to whole thing and I'm pretty sure everyone here feel this way too. The best thing we can do is winging it, getting know each other more and maybe go on few dates."

"Date?" She gave him a odd look, "Do you not know today's date?" She tilted her head with a hum, "Maybe we should get an calendar…"

"No, no, not this kind of date." He said before he scratch his cheek, "…You know, we do need calendar…No, wait!" He waved it away, "I mean, date as in date-date." She stared blankly at him, "…Oh, is there a different word for it here? Um…When two people go out and enjoy something together for some time…Courting, right?"

"Oh, yes, it's court." Rapunzel hummed, "But date sound little better than court for some reason. But I think we already cover the whole 'knowing-each-other'." She does have point there, "Maybe we should get calendar and set up dates? Until we're…Winging it, did I use it right?"

"Yeah, you did." Naruto nodded, "We'll figure it out later." The long-haired blonde nodded at that before they chat a bit.

They have one more hour left before they leave so they start to have some lunch and the genin look over his shoulder to check on his bunshins until he notice something. "Hey, you!" He pointed to a clone in distance, "What are you doing with planting pot?!"

"What does it look like?" The clone hollered as he drop something inside the pot from a small bag, "I'm planting a bean here!"

"You idiot, we're not supposed to plant anything until later!" Naruto shouted, "And bean?! Really?! Do you know how long it'll take?! You idiot!"

"Fuck you, boss!" The bunshin shouted back as he poured the water in the pot, "I can do whatever I want!" As soon as he finished his sentence, there was an sudden earthquake before giant stalk shot up from the shattering pot to beyond the sky as it take the screaming clone up. "I HAVE SO FUCKING MUCH TO LIVE FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!"

"WHAT THE FUCK?!" Naruto looked up with gobsmacked face and other girls also looked shocked by the sudden growth of beanstalk.

"HOLY!" Goldilocks nearly choke on her fork.

"Oh!" Lily croaked.

"Oh my!" Snow gasped.

"…Cool!" Rosie whistled, drawing some stares from the other. "What? It's not every day you see a magical giant plant shot up in one day."

"…Magic?" Gretel whipped her head to the lying bag near the base of beanstalk, "Naruto's clone was planting it from this bag…"

"…It's a bag of magic beans?!" The genin gasped in horror, "If we had planted it in the greenhouse wagon later…" He picture a wagon break apart as the giant stalk erupt along with screaming people, it's really good thing that his kage bunshin was acting out early or everything will be destroy in the near future. "…Want me to burn this bag?"

"Seal it and label it." The brunette replied without missing a beat and he obey her right away, tossing the said scroll in a chest in passenger wagon.

"What should we do about this beanstalk…" Naruto asked before his head snapped up to the sky with widened eyes, "What the hell?!"

"What is it?" Snow asked him.

"The memories of my kage bunshin just came back to me just now…On top of this beanstalk…Th-There's a giant castle on land…" He slowly pointed up to the towering stalk weirdly, "…On a cloud."

"Like a floating island?" Rapunzel squirted her eyes up to the sky with everyone.

"And giant castle?" Snow asked somewhat nervously, "When you say it's giant…Is it human size or…Size for giant?"

"Um…" Naruto recalled the memory, "It looks pretty giant with everything, it was like fifty foot tall or something."

"Giant!" Gretel gasped frighteningly.

"Is giant bad?" He asked them curiously.

"Most giants are man-eater and they are more formidable." The ravenette answered nervously, "It takes entire army of a kingdom to take one down."

"They can be reasonable with…" Gretel added, "But they're very short-tempered and hold grudges for a long time."

"You said most, is there some good giants?" Naruto looked up the beanstalk.

"Yes, rarely." Snow gulped and the shinobi stare at it for a while until he make up his mind.

"I'm going up there and check it out." He said to everyone's worries, "Don't worry, it'll be fine. It looks very abandoned because it's in ruin."

"But what if it's not?" Lily asked.

"Well, let's hope it's a home of a friendly giant." Naruto scratched his head before he take an hiraishin kunai out to give it to the ravenette, "Hold onto it. If it's an emergency, stab it in ground and I'll be back in a flash."

"Understand." The ravenette nodded worriedly and the shinobi make several kage bunshin to stay behind before he climb up the beanstalk, which is easy thank to his shinobi training as he ran up with several high leaps in between. "I hope he'll be okay."

"Us too." Rosie nodded worryingly.

It take Naruto fifteen minutes to reach the top of the beanstalk and he take the sight of giant building in with some awe. "Wow, that is so bizarre and awesome at same time." He ran up to the front door and his jaw drop as soon as he reach it, the door is like hundred foot tall to him and he feel like an ant compared to it. Naruto walk through the gap between the door and doorway until he carefully peek inside to see a foyer. 'This place look empty.' He glanced around at dust and giant cobwebs in ceiling and he wander around in stealth mode.

He have no idea where to go now until he hear a loud honking noise and some music near a giant doorway. 'What was that?' Naruto followed the sound into a room, discovering it to be an kitchen and the sounds was coming from top of the giant table. He take a glance around to make sure it's clear before he climb up the table leg with chakra until the genin reach the top and the blonde quietly peek over to see an normal-sized goose in nest next to human-sized golden harp and a giant bag the size of average man. Naruto glance around again before he get on the top and walk toward them to get a close look. The white goose looks like…Just any normal goose. He turned to the golden harp, it have a golden figurehead of a young woman in gown with her 'wavy hair' up in Chignon hairstyle. "Wow, it look so lifelike." The figurehead's eyes suddenly spring open.

"Oh, a human?" The golden harp smiled, causing the genin to fall on his back with a high-pitched scream. "Oh! My apologies, I don't mean to startle you."

"W-W-W-What are you?" Naruto panted heavily while he clutched his chest, "O-O-O-One of these magical species or…?"

"I'm a magical harp, of course." The animated figurehead smiled kindly and the goose honked loudly with flapping wings, drawing the genin's attention for a moment and he notice something else.

"…Is that a solid gold egg?!" He gawked at shiny smooth gold egg under the goose, "Did this goose just lay a gold egg?!"

"Yes, once a day." The living harp nodded once.

'That is getting weird and weird.' Naruto kept gawked at them before he decide to distract himself with something else, "Um, what's in this bag over here?"

"Gold." The figurehead replied and the genin's eyes nearly pop out, how big are gold inside it?! "Human, did you break in here to take us?"

"Oh, no, no, I thought this place was abandoned and I was checking around!" The genin waved his hands with heavy sweats, "Now I think about it, why did I come up here in first place?! I'm not going to steal the gold and kidnap you two! Please don't tell whoever live here."

"No, no, I'm asking you to rescue us and take this bag of gold because we are 'stolen goods'." The harp shook her head softly, finding some amusement in this human's antic.

"…Wait, someone stole you?" Naruto blinked rapidly.

"Yes, a greedy giant who's quite vexed that he can't go down anymore since he lost his bag of magic beans long time ago." The figurehead frowned.

"Oh, I see…" He glanced between the goose and the giant bag, "Do you know who the original owners are?"

"Yes and no." The harp hummed, it sound like a tune to him. "I do not know whose gold in bag belong to and I'm very certain that the owners are dead. For the goose's owner, he was eaten by the giant and my owners, I believe they have passed away because many years have been passed." She don't know how long she have been up here for but it feel like a century to her. "If you take us, we all will belong to you."

"Is that okay?" Naruto asked a little unsure and she nodded few times to ease his concerns. "…Well, alright then." He shrugged his shoulders as he take an scroll out to seal the giant bag because he's not going to carry it on his back!

"Oh, amazing!" She gasped in awe, "I do not know you're a sorcerer."

"I'm not sorcerer, I'm shinobi." He tucked the honking goose under right armpit and his left arm wrap around the figurehead's waist, find her to be very light when he lift her up. "Now…" They suddenly hear a booming voice.

"Fee-fi-fo-fum!" They looked up to see a giant dirty man stomped into the kitchen, "I smell the blood of an..." He smelled the air again with confused expression, "Japanese man? I know the smell of Japanese man's blood but it's different…Mixed blood? Ah, bah!" He waved it off with a grunt, "Be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread!"

"Kage bunshin!" Naruto spammed many clones to distract the giant and the bunshin leap high in air to the giant man's surprise as he make a break for it with his haul. Now he know it's a evil giant, he won't feel bad about stealing and attacking the homeowner.

"CHODAMA RASENGAN!" The giant's eyes widened farther when many bunshin work together to create barrage of giant spiraling orbs. Why does the greedy giant have a fun feeling that it won't end well for him?

With the original genin, Naruto ran out of the castle with a victorious cry as he ran to the beanstalk and he never look back when the left side of the castle explode outward with roaring storm of smokes and dusts while the screaming giant flew out with bloody face to who know where. Naruto jump then slide down the beanstalk with his chakra-enchanted feet and he reach the ground in flat time to the girls' surprise.

"Naruto, you're back already?!" Snow gasped, "It only has been about thirty minutes…And you bring something back too."

"Hold on for one second!" Naruto quickly put the goose and harp down before he ran back to the base of the beanstalk as he make some handseal, "Futon: Shinkuha!" He launched dozen wind blades that cut through the beanstalk like it was nothing and it fall across the left field far away from the trail. "Whew!" He turned back to the confused girls, "Sorry, turn out it wasn't abandoned and there's a giant but it's okay, I took care of it. He wasn't really tough and there's no way for him to get down forever."

"I-I see…" The ravenette and everyone turned their heads to stare at the direction of fallen beanstalk, it's good thing that there isn't any towns for miles in this direction.

"…Anyway, you brought a goose and a gold harp back?" Goldilocks looked at the said animal and item, "Is that all?"

"Ah, no, he also brought a bag of gold." The living harp smiled to the gawking girl and the short-haired blonde turned her head to the group weirdly as if she wasn't seeing things before they all turn to the boy.

"By the way, this goose over there lay a golden egg once a day."Naruto pointed to the honking goose and the girls continue to give him strange looks.

A boy named Jack was pulling a cow by rope down a path and he was humming a merry tune…Before the giant smashed down on them with a booming crash…Then the beanstalk crashed down on them with another booming quake! All three died under the beanstalk in one swoop!

"Since you don't have name, how does Lyra sound?" Rapunzel asked as they rode with the living harp and the goose was sitting in an empty crate.

"Oh, that sound like a perfect name for ol' me." The living harp smiled warmly, "You shall call me Lyra."

"And she'll be call Goldy." Goldilocks poked the goose and she pull her finger back before the creature get a chance to bit her with angry honk. "Yikes, someone don't like to be poked."

"Ah, she have bad experience with poking because this awful giant kept poking and poking her everyday to demand for more gold eggs." Lyra shook her head sadly before her expression brighten up, "But these days are long behind us now."

"Indeed." Snow commented from the driver seat with Vasilisa.

"In this scroll is a bag of gold and you say it's bigger as a man?" Gretel examined the said scroll in her left hand gingerly, "Big as in height?"

"Yeah." Naruto scratched his head, "It's huge and I don't know how heavy it'll be until we get to our next stop."

"Ah, I'm looking forward to it." The brunette hummed, 'That is going to be very common, isn't it? Naruto coming back with treasures and strange things.' She has no idea how right she is in future.

It took several hours until they reach their next stop at a wide clearing and Naruto have to look through the wagon scroll to unseal three boxcar wagons then take the giant bag out. "Wow, it's huge!" Lily gasped as the girls looked shocked by the size of the bag before she press herself against it with stretching-out arms, "And lumpy!"

"Should I untie it from top or cut it open?" Naruto asked.

"Cut it open." Gretel answered, "We can reuse the bag, although I don't know what we can do with a giant rope."

"Get it!" The genin make a long cut with kunai and a river of gold coins, some nuggets can be seen, slide out in a growing pile to everyone's amazement.

"GOLD!" Goldilocks throw herself on the pile to roll around with crazed laughter, causing almost everyone to deadpan with sweatdrops.

"…Naruto, can you make clones to help me sort through them and put five hundred gold coins per bag?" The brunette asked him and he confirm it by create dozens of kage bunshin.

"I shall fetch ze scissor to cut ze bag into smaller bags." Vasilisa went to get the said item.

"And we'll hold Goldilocks back." Rapunzel pulled Lily and Rosie along as they grab the spoiled girl back. Snow has gone to tend to the horses and goose.

"If anyone need me, I'm going to inspecting inside these box wagons and draw out the plans." Naruto said over his shoulder as he climb into the first box wagon that have door in front with blank papers in his hand and he scan the interior, it's big enough to fit fifty people in with some spaces. "Hmm, that will be a bathing wagon." He scratched top of his ear with pencil before he draw into the first place, "Let's put an bench in back so someone can wait for their turn…Stalls on both sides…Oh, curtains with few inches above the floor so it won't get wet. What should go in stalls beside bathtubs?" He scratched his chin thoughtfully, "…Hooks for hanging, small bench to sit down, dam bumpers."

After few minutes of looking around, Naruto walk out and into another box wagon that have wide door on one side before he look around again. "Mmm, maybe we can put animals in here?" He quickly draw up a basic stables on both side then add a goose pen at center of the right wall, the blonde decide to leave everything empty for now until they get some more animals or not. The third wagon was pretty easy, all he have to do is building troughs, tables, shelves, pedestals to place some pots, tool hangers and install some hanging hooks in ceiling then slap heater tags here and there. When Naruto stepped off from the third box wagon, he remember something that he forget.

"Oh, the clothing wagon." He deadpanned before he scratched his head with a sigh as he went to summon the fourth box wagon, 'Well, at least I can empty everything out from the 'clothing' scrolls and reuse the storage scrolls.'

"I'm thinking of attach four or five long rods from one end to another end of the wagon on both sides so we can hang some clothes up and put some low walls down the corridors, just so we can separate clothes from regular to swimwear, something like that." Naruto talked to some girls around a small low-table in vardo wagon as they have warm steaks, Lyra was the only one that don't eat anything since she's a living harp and have no need for foods. "I'll put few racks in and several low shelves for shoes, few changing booths. The empty spaces will be filled with wardrobes. What do you think?"

"That sound like a good plan." Snow hummed before she pointed to right corner near the door on the paper, "Can we turn this space into a washer and drying? So we can have place to wash and hang clothes up for drying during the winter and rainy days."

"Oh, good idea!" The shinobi wrote it down.

"Can we convert this space to a workspace for Vasilisa?" Rapunzel suggested, "We can store fabrics and furs in there too."

"Mm, Vasilisa, what do you think?" Naruto turned to the said girl.

"Da, I'd like to work in there." Vasilisa took a bite of her steak, "I can take some inspiration by looking at ze clothes."

"Alright, we're putting it in." He wrote it down before he glance around, "Anything else?" He receive many headshakes, "Ok, I think we're done for now." The genin put the papers away then he look at Gretel, who appear to be very exhausted and dazed. "Gretel, you okay?"

"Two hundred and forty-two bags…" Gretel muttered under her breath, "Six fifteen-pound nuggets, hundred one ounce nuggets..."

"Look like she's still out of it for a while." Rosie commented while she poked her side gently few times.

"I'm curious, why do people have stuff made out of gold?" Lily examined the golden knife and fork, that was one of many golden items they found in the giant bag.

"I assume that the greedy giant ransacked several royal and noble families in past." Snow guessed.

"Must be." The long-haired blonde muttered, "But it belong to us now and we need to find places to hide them." She glanced at the secret compartment, it's full now and there are still lot more that sit inside a scroll.

"I'll empty it out temporarily to apply some storage seals then put all money bags back in." Naruto shrugged his shoulders, "For jewelries, gold items and gems…"

"We can make another secret compartment!" Goldilocks spoke up, "Somewhere in floor, ceiling or walls." She paused, "Can we expand compartment?"

"Um, no one here's experienced enough to do that." He glanced around at the interior of vardo, "We'll put them in this big chest over there for now until we figure out." Most agreed with his suggestions and they finished their dinner few minutes later. "Since we're going to stay here for couple days, I'll have my kage bunshin starting work on the box wagons the first thing in morning."

"Great!" The short-haired blonde threw her hands up in excitement, "Warm bath, here I come!" Almost everyone quietly can't wait for it either.

"Are you sure that you're comfortable like that?" Naruto asked Lyra, the harp was sitting in place where the changing divider used to be and she was facing the bed.

"Yes, I am comfortable." Lyra smiled as she watched everyone get ready to turn in, "This place feels good. Thank you for asking."

"Um, do you need anything else?" The genin asked, "…Wait, can you sleep?"

"Ah, I have no need to sleep but I'll close my eyes to make time pass faster." The living harp replied.

"Oh, ok." Naruto blinked, "Um, good night. See you tomorrow morning."

"Good night." Lyra smiled, "Please let me know if the music bother any one of you when you try to go to sleep." She had asked them early if it's okay for her to play music to lull them to sleep and they allowed her to out of curiosity to see if it'll help them.

"Will do!" Lily singsong as she pulled Naruto down onto the bed then snuggle up to his side happily and the living harp giggle at the sight, finding it cute. The harp gently plays a lullaby and the children fall asleep almost immediately as she look over them with a smile.

The next day, Naruto draw a large seal formation on a plyboard while Snow watch him from the vardo's steps as his clones were still working inside the box wagons and he get up. "And done!" He stretched his back out with few pops, "I hope it work."

"What is he doing?" Snow looked up to see Lily sit down next to her as the genin place himself far away from the board.

"He's making a hiraishin marker." The ravenette replied as the toad girl lean on her side, "If it's successful, he'll apply it on the wagon. He talked about that, remember?"

"Oh, right." The toad girl croaked before she giggle as Naruto kiss the ground few foot from the marker and the blonde repeat his actions few times. "…Can I help you washing the blankets? After all it's my fault for making them very sticky." It turn out that Lily move a lot in her sleep and they will always wake up to find her in strange position.

"I would like it." Snow smiled as they ignored Naruto's loud cheering at his successful attempt.

"Now I'm off to make seals." The genin eagerly ran off.

Gretel look up to the genin from a map as everyone was relaxing while doing their own business, "Naruto, how fast can you reach a town northwest from here?"

"Let me see." Naruto looked at the map as the brunette point a village icon out, it appears to be a little bit past a small forest and not anywhere close to their route. "I think it'll take me about three hours to get there if I go at shinobi pace." If it was at civilian's pace, it will take a whole day to get there then another day to get back. "Why do you ask?"

"Some girls and I made a shopping list and I'd like to get it out of the way as soon as possible to save us some time." The brunette held a folded paper up, "Will you mind doing this errand for us?"

"Sure, I don't mind." He took the list from her, "I also have things that I need to get like nails. Plus, that will give me a good excuse to see if I can do a long-distance teleport with the marker."

"Thank you." Gretel gave him a large money bag, "Inside this bag, there are hundred coppers, three hundred silver and two hundred gold. Make sure you get changes."

"Will do." Naruto created several kage bunshin to stay behind before he ran into the woods with a holler, "I'll be going now."

"Bye, be careful!" Snow called out while several girls said their byes to the genin.

It actually took him three hours to reach a small town like he thought and he find a place that sell furniture almost right away. "Let's see…" Naruto opened the list to read it with some mumbles before he look over to a man who was just sitting at a table as couple men lazing around, "Are you the owner?" The sitting man nodded once, "Do you sell nails by any chance?"

"Yes, five copper a box." The owner replied boringly as he placed a small wood box on table, "One box hold hundred nails."

'Wow, so cheap!' The blonde whistled mentally, "Where do you keep bathtubs, wardrobes, drawers and…" He rechecked the list, "Barrels?"

"They're all in back." The owner jabbed his thumb at his right.

"Thank." Naruto walked before he stop to turn to the owner again, "Um, do you sell mattress and bed separately?"

"Yes."

'Oh, thank kami!' He sighed to himself in relief, he don't want to add more beds because they still have three beds that haven't been used yet. 'I wonder why Goldilocks want more mattresses? Is it another one of her 'one, two, just right' thing again?'

He buy ten barrels, twelve wardrobes, ten box of nails, eighteen tubs, nine drawers, nine mattresses, several candle stands, some buckets and several nightstands. It only cost him one hundred and twenty silver and fifty coppers.

"What's next on the list?" Naruto said to himself as he checked the list while leaving the store, "…Where can I find haystacks and foods for animals?" He wander around the town for a while, asking around if there are any stores that sell certain things and for directions.

A Old English Sheepdog was sleeping on a road near the edge of a town, unawake that the grumpy man on the cart was heading toward to the dog and the driver would have ran over the poor dog…But the dog was quickly tackle out of the way by Naruto as the cart speed through. "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" Naruto shouted at the driver furiously as the dog woke up with a jolt, "YOU SAW THIS DOG! YOU WERE GOING TO RUN HIM OVER!"

"LIKE I CARE ABOUT SOME STUPID MUTT!" The driver shouted over his shoulder rudely as he get a long distance away from them, "THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT, BASTARD!"

"Oh, yeah?!" The genin flashed through handseals then smash it on ground and a earth ledge shot up under the wagon's wheel, causing it to pop off. The driver cried out in shock as the cart crash into the ditch and he takes a nasty tumble. "Ha!" Naruto turned to the dog, "Hey, doggy, you okay?" The animal barked once, "Good, just don't sleep on road from now on, okay? Bye." He was about to walk away until the dog take hold of his jumpsuit, "What? What is it?" The dog stare up to him, "Um, are you trying to say you want to come with me?" He guessed as the dog barked again, "Um, I don't know…" The dog whined softly and Naruto look into the dog's puppy eyes with his ears pressed down. "…D-Damn. Tell you what? We'll check with the girls and see if it's okay." Naruto reach down to hold onto the dog, "Hold on, doggy. I'm going to use hiraishin to get back, it'll must be wobbly for you." The dog barked confusingly before they vanish in a flash and few moments, a sparrow look up from the branch as it look for the dog until it see the grumpy man climb out of the ditch.

"…DID YOU KILL MY FRIEND?!" The sparrow misunderstand the situation, believing that the driver have killed the dog and the bird flew to peck the screaming man as he ran all the way into the town.

A flash appear in the campsite and Naruto blink at the surrounding then he look down at the stumbling dog before he jump up with a loud whoop. "WOO!" Naruto laughed, "I can't believe it worked! I can do the long distance travel while carry someone!"

"Naruto, is it real you?" Rosie looked away from her archery training before she notice the dog at his side as she gasped happily, "Dog!" She rushed over to scratch the dog, "Ooh, so cute!"

"Did Naruto came back already?" Snow exited the livestock wagon while the rest of girls showed up before they also notice the dog, "Oh, where did that dog come from?"

"About that…" Naruto told them what happened after he finished the shopping, "…And it look like he don't have place to go so I bring him back. Do you guys want to…"

"Keep the dog?!" The redhead squealed with shiny eyes before she turned to the girls, "Please say yes, please! Please!"

"I agree with Rosie." Snow said, "We should keep him."

"Da." Vasilisa nodded in agreement.

"I always want a pet." Rapunzel bounced on her heels.

"I don't mind as long as it don't slob on me." Goldilocks shrugged her shoulders uncaringly.

"I don't see any harm in that." Gretel hummed.

"I'm okay with that." Lily croaked.

"Then that's it." Naruto scratched his head as he looked down to the dog, "He's ours now." The dog barked once.

"Yes, now you have to give him a name." The brunette said.

"Me?" He pointed at himself with a rapid blink.

"Yes, you're the one who bring him here so it's your responsibility to name him." Snow smiled.

"Oh, um, let's see…" Naruto looked at the sheepdog with rubbing chin, "Um…" He think for a while, "…How does Haru sound?"

"Haru, what does it mean?" Rosie tilted her head.

"It mean spring." He explained and the dog barked as if he's happy with it.

"Haru it is." The ravenette nodded approvingly and the other girls accept the name.

"With that out of the way…" Naruto pulled a storage scroll out along with list and money bag, "There are some left on the list because the town doesn't sell them but I got most of it."

"Ok, we'll save the list for next time." Gretel checked the list, some items have been crossed out, then inside the money bag. The genin walk over to a large empty space to put the scroll down then release everything with a poof of smoke, nearly everything was stacking up. Beside the furniture and nails, there are twenty haystacks, a large sack of birdseed, haircare supplies, several water pails, some books, writing sets, stack of journals, calendars and few more.

"Kage bunshin." Naruto created twenty clones to have ten move wardrobes and drawers along with two tubs to clothing wagon as washing tubs and another ten to move haystacks to the livestock wagon along with birdseed bag.

"I'll take them back to the vardo." Rapunzel packed haircare supplies, calendars and books in a water pail then pick it up with writing set in another hand before she enter the wagon to inform the harp, "Hey, Lyra, guess what?"

"And I'll carry these to livestock and greenhouse wagons." Snow collected the water pails and buckets and she head to the said wagons.

"Alright, I'm gonna put barrels, nightstands, nails and mattress back in scroll." The genin resealed the said furniture as his clones returned to carry the rest of tubs to bathing wagon before he turn to Goldilocks with strange look, "Why did you have me buy mattresses anyway?"

"You never know if we need to change the mattress one day." The short-haired blonde shrugged her shoulders, picking some candlesticks up to put them away in vardo wagon.

"Um, okay?" Naruto furrowed his eyebrows, is that one of customs here?

"And that is your bed." Naruto pat a unzipped wool sleeping bag into an makeshift dog bed near the bookshelves inside the vardo and next to the dog bed are bowls of water and leftover meats. Haru, now wearing an leather collar with wooden nametag, walked onto the dog bed, making a circle before he lie down, "Comfort?" The dog bark happily before the genin rubbed the dog's head, "Night, Haru." He got up to join everyone in the bed.

"Just to let you know, if he want to go out late at night, you go with him." Goldilocks said to him as soon as he lie down next to her, "After all, you're the one who bring him here in first place."

"Yes, dear." Naruto rolled his eyes, causing her to blush lightly at the 'dear' part.

"Naruto, when we start moving, will Goldy and Haru ride with us in front?" Vasilisa asked him, cuddling up to his other side.

"Yeah, for time being." He replied, "Haru can ride with us all the time but Goldy have to because I don't think two horses can pull four wagons at once, which is why I don't plant anything in the greenhouse yet until we get enough horses or figure something out about that."

"Ah." The young blonde uttered softly before she slowly close her eyes, "Good night."

"Night." Naruto whispered before he glance at his sides to see that the girls have fall asleep already and he close his eyes, he have to get up early tomorrow again to fix few things up in the box wagons.

A small spider slip out of an spout as it rain hard and the itsy-bitsy spider kick its legs up…Before Naruto step on it as he ran to a store hurriedly, covering his soaking head. The genin barge in, "Hey, do you sell umbrella?!"

"Yes, it's right next to you." The clerk pointed to a tall metal can, filled with many umbrellas, next to the soaking genin. "One silver for…"

"I'm taking them all!" Naruto threw a gold coin at the widening-eyed clerk as he picked the can up, "Keep the change!" He vanish in a flash, causing the startled clerk to jump up. The clerk blink rapidly at the empty space then he look down at a gold coin, only to discover it to be a one ounce gold nugget before he pick it up while turning to unawake man.

"…Boss, I quit!" The laughing clerk ran out with the gold nugget to the owner's confusion, "I'm rich! Rich!" He doesn't have to work for years with this nugget!

With Naruto, he return to the passenger wagon and he quickly pull a umbrella out to hold it above Snow's head, the ravenette was completely wet from the sudden heavy downpour. "Here, Snow!" As soon as he hold it up, the rain suddenly stop and the sun come out. "Oh, you gotta kidding me."

"Thank you anyway." Snow squeezed some of her hair out with a giggle, the genin just ran all way to the village in distance offroad and back within few minutes before she can have a chance to make a suggestion to take cover in the wagon. "Shall we stop for a minute to take a quick change?" She command the horses to halt.

"Yeah, you can go first." Naruto helped her down, allow her to enter the vardo.

"Naruto, do you know we have some umbrellas?" Gretel deadpanned from under the flap and the genin can hear some giggles inside.

"…I was panicking." He blushed embarrassingly to her amusement. It's not his fault that he wasn't thinking straight because of this sudden downpour. The travel resume after a quick change of fresh and dry clothes.

"Where were we before this rain happened?" Snow think back until she remember their conversation, "Ah, you were going to tell me what ramen is."

"It's my favorite food that I don't have for a long time." Naruto groaned in dismay, it really suck that the food scroll don't have ramen in any form and every single places they come across have never heard of it. "It's a noodle soup with different kind of noodles and broth, you can add any meats and vegetables in like pork and nori…"

"What's nori?" She asked curiously.

"It's dried seaweed." He replied.

"Oh, how interesting." Snow hummed, "I would like to see how ramen taste one day." She looked at him, "Do you know how to make it?"

"I wish!" Naruto pouted, "All I know what's in ramen but not the process."

"Maybe we can try making it?" She suggested, "I know we can't do it on first try but practice make perfect."

"Really?" He perked up as the smiling ravenette gave him a nod, "I'd like that, but first…We need to find some ingredients and that will take a while until we get a chance to." She nodded again.

After a quiet ride through small woods, they suddenly hear a voice calling out to them. "Where are you going?"

"Who say that?" Naruto scanned the woods with Snow and girls that looked outside until he see a small tabby cat on a thin branch. "Was it you, cat?"

"Yes, it was I." The cat mewled.

"Um, to answer your question, we were just passing through." The genin stepped off the wagon to talk to the cat, "We're going to a harbor far away from here." His right hand reach out to the creature, "What about you? Why are you out here by yourself?"

"I well know your de…" The cat said before Naruto's hand make a contact with its head and there was a bright light, following by smokescreen which clear away within few seconds. Gone was the cat and in its place is a girl. She have a long straight light brown hair with black steaks, catlike hazel eyes with slit pupils, slightly long sharp nails and she wear black gown-like dress. What make her stand out the most are cat ears that stick up from the top of her head, cat tail and fangs. "Wh…" The catgirl gasped before the branch break under her weight and she launch forward onto Naruto as they yelped out. Her lips accidentally smash against his lips as their eyes widened while the blonde's back hit the grass and she yank her head up, ending up saddling him. "What…?!" She lifted her hands up to examine them then all over herself, 'T-T-The curse is broken? H-How can it be…Until…' She stare down at the boy under her as she come to an conclusion, 'He's…' A cat-ate-canary grin appear on her face as she shove her face down closer to him with a gleeful shout, "You're my true love!"

"…Nani?!" Naruto cried out in pure shock and confusion.

Unknown to everyone, the reason why Naruto was able to dispel the curses, or enchant in some case, is because of one of the outsiders' gifts. With a single touch, a outsider can break any kind of curses and magic, depending on its types…Although it is very rare and one must have a very good luck to receive this gift, which Naruto happened to get it, no thank to his devil's luck.

"Look like we have a new traveling companion." Goldilocks deadpanned with a flat tone.

"Let's bring her inside." Gretel sighed, it was pretty easy to convince the catgirl to get in the wagon with them and few minutes after they leave the area, an young boy wander through the woods while looking around.

"Here I am quite alone and deserted, how shall I obtain a horse now?" The young boy kept wandered into the darkness of the woods in an opposite direction.

Back in the wagon, the group introduced themselves to the new face, "Your name is Kitty?" Naruto blinked at the catgirl strangely as she scratched Haru behind his ear, "Um, that's…Unique."

"You think?" Kitty tilted her head.

"And you're sure you want to come with us?" Rapunzel asked her, "Don't you have anyone waiting for you or…?"

"I don't have anyone or any places to go back." Kitty lied smoothly, she's actually an princess of a kingdom but she won't tell them that because she don't want to lose her true love and it don't look like her beloved have a destination in mind and won't change his mind for anything else. "Can I stay with you guys?" Almost everyone accepted her in with a very, very short discussion. "Purr-fect!"

'P-Purr-fect?!' Naruto sweatdropped at her pun, he hope it's not a common thing with her.

While setting the campsite up, Naruto and few others have notice that Snow have been coughing once in a while. "Snow, are you alright?" He approached her with some concern.

"Yes, I'm well." Snow waved it off with a nod before a small cough slip past her lips.

"Maybe you should take it easy and go take a rest inside." Naruto jabbed his thumb to the vardo wagon.

"But we have to…" The ravenette looked around at the campsite, they still have choices to do.

"It's okay, we get it covered." He said to reassure her.

"…Well, if you say so…" Snow hesitated a little before she cough few times then slowly nod her head, "I guess a rest for one day might be good for me."

"Great!" Naruto turned to a certain long-haired blonde, "Rapunzel, can you take Snow inside and make sure she stay in bed?"

"Yes, I'll take a good care of her!" Rapunzel looked very eager to take care of her first patient as she arrived at the ravenette's side before she look over to beckoned the new member of group, "Kitty, come help us. It'll be perfect time to introduce you to Lyra." When they departed from the last stop, the living harp ask them to let her stay in the vardo wagon because she prefer the location and want some quiet to herself, something that she never had while in the greedy giant's possession. The group allowed that.

"Oh, who's Lyra?" Kitty asked them as the girls walked into the vardo wagon and Naruto turn to look at the horses.

"Well, how hard can it be to lead them into the stables?" He shrugged to himself. It turn out to be difficulty because Jack was so stubborn that he would fight the genin back and he have to use clones to get the damn horse in, why can't Jack be like Holly?!

Few hours later after they get the campfire going, Naruto and few others wasn't sure what to make for dinner. "How about we debone some pieces of chicken, chop meats up then cook them?" Naruto suggested.

"Oh, and we can make some eggs!" Kitty popped up in between the group with a gold egg and he give the smiling catgirl a funny look.

"Um, Kitty, that's a gold egg." He said, "I don't think it have any…" The catgirl suddenly crack the egg on the edge of metal plate and a golden yolk pour out onto it to their amazement. "Holy! It does have yolk inside!" The genin stared at the cracked egg bewilderingly before he slowly take the shells from the catgirl, staring at perfect jagged line around the edge of the shells.

"…I guess we can save some money on eggs since Goldy lay one egg a day." Rosie blinked.

"Yeah, but we still have to buy some chickens so we can get more eggs…" Naruto said as he put the shells together like an puzzle and two things happen from this action. One, the line disappear as if it have never been cracked in first place and two, it suddenly become heavy. "Whoa! What the fuck?!"

"What's the matter?" Gretel arched her eyebrow at the gaping shinobi.

"…T-T-The egg…" He stuttered in disbelief as his head slowly turned to her shakily, "I-I think it…It turn solid?"

"…" The brunette and the other girls stared at him for a while before she give out an sigh as she reach out to the egg, "Naruto, that's impossible. A empty eggshell can't turn…" As soon as she fetch the gold egg, her arms nearly dropped down under the egg's weight and she slowly look down at the egg in her hands. "…It's solid?" She drop it and it hit the ground with a heavy thud to prove their statements. "…It's solid."

"Magic egg!" The redhead clapped her hands in awe.

"Solid gold?!" Goldilocks dropped her jaw, "How much does it weight?!"

"Um…" Naruto take the solid golden egg from the shocked brunette then he try to guess the weight by lifting it up and down few times, "About twenty pounds or more, give or take. I don't know until we have some kind of balancing scale or anything like that."

"B-But it shouldn't be this heavy…" Gretel stammered before she press a hand on her forehead with lowered head in exhaustion when she realize how many Goldy can lay eggs in a year and she don't know how long a enchanted goose can live for.

"…Can we have eggs for breakfast tomorrow morning?" The short-haired blonde asked with a glint in her eyes, she's sure they have few golden eggs laying around right now. Two certain person sweatdropped at her, knowing what she's thinking right now.

"Here, Snow." Rapunzel hold a spoonful of soup out to the ravenette in bed, "Open up."

"You know you don't have to feed me, right?" Snow said, "I can eat on my own…"

"Oh, nonsense!" The long-haired blonde shook her head lightly, "You need to rest and let me take care of you." She gave her a smile, "Okay?"

"Um, a-alright…" The embarrassed ravenette muttered before she take a bite of spoon, she feel strange about doing nothing but rest and having someone tending to her like that. She's not that sick. It took a while until the blonde finished fed her and she gently stroke Snow's head, brushing some hairs aside her face.

"Is there anything you want me to do or shall you go to sleep?" Rapunzel asked.

"No, thank you." Snow replied politely, "I'll take a nap." The blonde gave her a nod before she lie down near her, "Rapunzel?" The ravenette stared at her confusingly.

"I have to stay here to watch after you and help you whenever you need." Rapunzel answered.

"But Lyra can…" Snow glanced to the smiling harp.

"I'm not a medic, dear." Lyra giggled musically, "And it's best if she stay near you. Who'll know if your coughs become worsen?"

"Yes, what she said." The long-haired blonde chirped and the ravenette just lie there, unsure what to say since she's not used to this kind of attention but it don't feel bad to her.

It was very late at night when everyone sleep in the bed until one of them wake up with a groggily blinks when a noise reach near the wagon. "Who's ringing something?" Naruto yawned as he quietly get out of the bed, furrowing his brows at the endless ringing as it get close to the wagon and he glance at the girls and Haru. The girls were still sleeping but the dog was up with a tilted head. The genin approach the door and he was about to check it out until a knock stop him in his trail.

"Ah, is Elsie inside?" A voice cried worriedly and Naruto open it to see a young slender woman in her twenties and she have dark auburn hair that reach to her mid-back, light tan skin and bright blue eyes. She wear some kind of green gown with black tunic and white apron but what make Naruto raised his eyebrow is that she's wrapped in some kind of snare net with many bells. Also, she's completely soaked due to the heavy rain outside.

"No, who's Elsie?" He asked.

"Oh, that's me." The woman gasped joyfully.

"Um, oh, okay." Naruto scratched his head puzzlingly, "Um, get in here." He invited her inside before he close the door as he looked at her, "Why are you outside all by yourself in rain?"

"I have been fleeing for my life because there's awful noise that won't stop chasing me for a long time…" Elsie turned around as the bells jingled before she jump up with a frightening gasp, "Oh no, it's still following me! That jingling sound!"

"…These ringing sounds are coming from this net you're wearing right now." He sweatdropped at the woman as she glanced down at her appearance with a innocent blink before he reach out to remove the net, "Here, let me take it off you."

"Oh, thank you, dear." The woman smiled brightly with a relieved sigh.

"No problem." Naruto glanced at the net with hooked bells before he looked back up to her, "How does it get on you in first place?"

"Oh, I don't know how." Elsie shook her head, "All I know is that I don't wear it before I take a nap on a hill."

'Sound like someone pull a prank on her.' The genin rolled the net up then put it away in a bucket before he notice her wet clothing then he reach inside a storage chest to take a clean white gown out, "Here. You should change before you catch a cold."

"Oh, thank you again." She gave him another smile before she suddenly slip her clothes off and the yelping genin quickly turned around with a bright red face.

'HOLY!' Naruto dropped his jaw with widened eyes, he accidentally take a glimpser of something that he shouldn't have seen. 'They're two time bigger than Tsunade-baa-chan's!'

"Ah, it feel so warm and comfortable." Elsie chirped and Naruto carefully looked back to see that she's dressed, the gown stop a little pass her knees.

"Um, y-you can stay here for tonight." He fetch a pillow and sleeping bag from the cabinets, unroll it out on floor for her. "Then you can go home."

"Ok, thank you." The woman smiled before she tilt her head with index finger on her cheek, "…But I don't know my way back…And where do I live again?'

'…Another one?' A heavy sweatdrop appear on Naruto's head as he stared at her, is that very common in this country for people to get lost?! "You can stay with us if you want to. We're traveling through some villages and maybe you'll remember where you live after seeing some familiar landmarks or places."

"Oh, I'd like that." Elsie replied as she find the sleeping bag very fascinating while she crawl inside, "Thank you very much, dear."

"Welcome." Naruto slowly get back in the bed, "Oh, I'm Naruto, by the way. Good night." With that, he fall asleep right away.

"Good night, Naruto." She smiled then she take a glance around at her surrounding as she slowly fall asleep on floor with no worries. After all, she's safe now and will be home in no time.

Little does Elsie know is that she will never go back to her hometown because she took many turns all night and if she does, she will not remember it. After all she's quite ditzy to certain degree.

"Naruto, why is there a woman sleeping on the floor?" Goldilocks asked him sleepily as most girls stared at the snoring woman on floor from their bed the first thing in morning.

"Long story short…" Naruto yawned sleepily, "She got lost in rain and she found our camp late at night so I invite her in. She'll stay with us until then."

"Oh, okay then." The short-haired blonde plop back on bed, "I'm going back to sleep." The others just accept his explanation almost right away without any fuss.

"You have a fever so it's better for you to stay in bed." Rapunzel said to Snow, who have flustered blush with some sweats running down her forehead.

"How bad is it?" Naruto asked her worriedly, applying a wet towel to the blushing ravenette's forehead.

"It seems not to be severe because we force her to rest yesterday." The long-haired blonde replied, "Which was the best decision we made. If it wasn't for that, her fever would be very high."

"Oh, good." Rosie sighed in relief, "How long does she have to stay in bed for?"

"Four days at best." Rapunzel said after she examined the sick girl.

"Does that mean…" Snow coughed few times, "The traveling will be delay? Oh, I'm sorry, I don't mean to…"

"Hey, hey, don't be sorry." Naruto cut her off, "It's not your fault that you get sick in first place. It can't be helped anyway. Plus, we can still moving while you stay here, resting up." He shrugged his shoulders, "It's not this hard to steer the wagon after all."

"He's right, you can focus on getting better." Gretel agreed, "Rapunzel and Lyra will keep you accompany while we're on route."

"Yes." Rapunzel nodded her head before she looked at the group, "Anyone else wants to stay in vardo with us?"

"I will." Goldilocks just got in the bed on the left side far away from Snow to prevent herself from catching cold, 'Nap on bed is better than the cushions in another wagon.'

"I'll help you out." Lily chirped to the long-haired blonde with a cheery smile.

"I guess everyone else are going to ride up in front." Naruto glanced around to see if anyone else want to stay in the vardo wagon before he look back to Rapunzel and Snow, "I'll go make a soup and left a pot in here so you guys can nurse Snow back to full health then fasten the wagons together."

"Thank you, Naruto." Rapunzel gave him a nod.

"No problem." He said as his hand placed on Snow's forehead gently, "Get better sooner, alright?"

"I'll try to." Snow smiled gently up to him and the genin smiled back before he exit the vardo wagon with few others to clean up and get ready for the department.

Naruto and Rosie sat in front as the blonde steer the horses and the redhead have folded map on her laps. They have been driving for about four hours until they stop in front of three forked paths and the genin turn his head to the redhead. "Which way should we take?" He asked.

"Left." Rosie pointed with a chirp after she checked the map and the blonde gave her a nod as he turn the horses to the left trail, resuming the journey.

About half of the day has pass and the genin hear something that he wish he don't want to hear it. "…Uh-oh." Naruto whipped his head around to the sheepish redhead as she turned the map around several times, "I just realize that I can't read the map."

'I should have known it.' Naruto sweated as he realized something else, it was his idea in first place to give Rosie the map in first place because he thought that Rosie won't give him a wrong direction with a map and anyone can read it...Beside himself, he never bother to learn how to read the map on deep level. "We're lost again, aren't we?" He scratched his head.

"I'm so sorry." Rosie blushed embarrassingly with a pout and slumped shoulders.

"It's okay, it's not your fault." He waved it off before he notice a large stone building near the trail off their left, "I'm going over there and ask where we are then we can remap our routes." There's no point in turning around and go back since they kinda waste half of a day and they can get back on their original route if they keep continue on forward.

"Ok." She smiled as the genin stop the wagons to deboard and jog up to the building before she tilt her head. "But why can't we ask Gretel?" Her question fall upon deaf ears.

With Naruto, he approach a giant wooden gate and he look around for something like gate bell. 'Do I have to knock?' The genin look around one more time then shrug his shoulders as he reach up to knock the gate and he can hear it echoing. "Maybe it's em…" He muttered to himself before a window slide open above him and he look up to see an bearded man with furious expression on his face. "Hello, can you…" Naruto raised his hand up in greeting.

"You, wait there!" The man shouted before he slam the window on the confusing boy and the genin just look at his right and left in puzzlement. Before he know it, the gate swiftly open and the angry man shove a shocked older teenager girl into Naruto's arms while a knight toss several large bags out at their feet. "I have taken an oath to give you to the very first beggar, and I will keep it!"

"Beggar?" Naruto glared, "OI! I'm no…"

"Daddy, no!" The teenager wailed with widened eyes.

"Now it is not proper for you, a beggar-woman, to stay any longer in my palace, you may just go away with your husband!" The bearded man sharply lift his hand up to stop her.

"Wait, husband?" The genin blinked rapidly.

"That's right!" The man lifted his another arm up, "By the authority of I, the king, I now pronounce you husband and wife and have been witnessed by Sir Conard here!" He gestured to his knight before they take a step back inside as the gate slammed in front of the gawking 'newlyweds'.

"…What?" Naruto uttered dumbly, "All I just want is know where we are and ask for directions!" His head turned to the sobbing teenager girl to take a good look at her. She have a fair skin, long dark brown hair that reach to her rear, red lipstick, green eyes and a beauty mark under her left eye. She wear an navy blue long-sleeved dress with golden flora patterns and frilly skirt. Right now her face was stained with heavy tears and snots.

"Daddy, no, no!" The wailing teenager banged the gate for who know how long but no one answer the door before she turn to face him with heavy sobs.

"Um, can he do that?" He asked dumbly after a full minute of awkward staring and the sobbing woman merely nod her head shakily. "Oh…Shit. Can we…Um…Get divorce or something? I mean, we just got married by force."

"N-N-No, divorce is illegal…" The teenager sobbed, "I-If we get one, w-w-we will be p-punish for t-t-the eternity."

"…Shit." Naruto groaned heavily, how the fuck is he going to explain that to everyone?!

"W-W-What are we're going t-t-to do now?" She take hold of the bottom of Naruto's sleeve with heavy sobs and the genin glance at his holding sleeve then up to her with raised eyebrow.

"Um, since we're stuck together, you have to come with us on a long trip…" He scratched his head bafflingly, "Um, what's your name? I'm Naruto Uzumaki." It took him some time to use his name this way to avoid some confusion.

"H-Heida…" The sobbing teenager sniffled, "Constance." She paused with a sniffle, "L-Long trip?" Naruto simply point at the wagons in distance as she gasped, "O-O-Oh woe me! My father just went and married me off to a vagabond!" She start to sobbed loudly.

"Oh, boy…" Naruto muttered under his breath as he have no choice but to led the sobbing teenager back to the group with bags. "Do you by any chance know where we are?" He asked her as soon as they reach the wagon and Rosie hold the map out to the sobbing teenager with some concern, wondering why the teenager was crying her poor head off. Heida took one look at the map before she flip it around and the redhead take a look at it.

"Oh, I see it now." Rosie stretched the map up above her head, "Thank you, miss…" The redhead watch the sobbing teenager climb inside the wagon with bags before she turn to the genin with tilted head, "She's coming with us?"

"Yeah, under an bizarre circumstance and I still have no idea what just happened." He muttered to the redhead's confusion as he take the driver seat once again, gently take the map from her to look it over. "Ah, we can get back on track within few days if we keep going down this road." He whipped the reins to get the horses moving.

A lanky man stroll up to the very same building with a bard and he start to play a music with a hidden smirk. 'I can't wait for the king to marry her off to me so I'll teach her a lesson that she'll never forget.' The man strummed the bard, 'And she will never call me King Thrushbeard again!'

He will later be in shock when he find out that the king have married the princess off to some kid that come here before him and the angry man strike his bard on ground with series of shouts, cursing at the sky before he run off to search for his 'fated bride'…Which he will never find for the rest of his life.

"Let's take break here for couple hours." Naruto announced to the group as he drove the horses to a wide clearing in forest and they stepped off to stretch out, some went inside the vardo to check on Snow and other girls.

When he told the girls about Heida's situation and their sudden marriage, he was very worried about how his girlfriends would handle the news but to his shock and pure confusion, they accept it without any problems…Although, he swear he heard someone whispering that he'll have no choice but to marry them all or something like that but he must imagine it.

'Is that normal around here?' Naruto don't know why everyone just roll with it but again, he's just outsider in a unfamiliar land. If it happen back home, he's pretty sure everyone will fight and argue over it and may lead to some slugfest. Naruto shake it out of his head as he turned to the group, "I'm going jogging around over there." He created two bunshin to stay with them as he jogged into the woods and he can hear some girls' affirmations behind his back.

He have been jogging for twenty minutes until, in a very clumsy moment of his life, he got his sandal tangled up with a upturned root and Naruto give out an yelp as he trip over…Down the steep hill. "OH FUUUUUUUUUUUU!" He shrieked throughout his tumbles.

A beautiful fair-skinned young teenager girl with medium wavy orange-ish hair in lob hairstyle in purple elegant gown slowly bend down with closed eyes as she slowly bring her lips to a frog that sit on the edge of well. 'Yes, yes, the curse will be broken!' The frog cheered mentally as he brace himself for the kiss and suddenly he hear something in distance. 'Hmm?' The frog barely turn his head in time to see a boy rolling out from the bush before the blonde accidentally push him aside…Into the well, where the poor frog hit the stone and broke his neck in process as it fall to the bottom of its grave.

"Finally…" Naruto uttered quietly with heavy pant as soon as his back hit the well, some leaves and twigs stick out all over his hair and clothes, and he look up…Just in time to have his lips met by the orange-haired girl's lips. 'Wha…?!' He squeaked in surprise as she pull away while opening her eyes to stare at him.

"…Oh, you're so handsome!" The girl gasped wonderfully, "If I have known that my kiss will free you from this curse, I would have done it in first place! What is your name? I'm Annette."

"Naruto." He can't help but to reply as the girl invade his personal space with bright golden eyes, 'Too close, too close!' He cleared his throat as he get up, "Um, I have no idea what you're talking about but I should get back. Bye." He reach out to Hiraishin marker and feel it pulling him.

"WAIT!" Annette suddenly seize him by wrapping her arms around his waist as she press herself against his side, "I'm not letting you leave me!"

"Whoa, wait!" Naruto cried out, "Let me go…" It was too late as his hiraishin jutsu take effect and they swiftly teleport to the wagons in a flash, causing them to stumble slightly. "Whoa!"

"Huh?!" The orange-haired girl blinked rapid to clear some dizziness and dark spots out of her sight before she notice several girls staring at them then she glance between Naruto and the girls several time. "…I'M MARRYING HIM!"

"Say what?!" The genin dropped his jaw at her outburst.

"Oh, is that so?" Gretel merely arched her eyebrow at the new girl as if it's normal thing…Which is starting to be around here. "We'll discuss about that inside, welcome aboard." She take Annette in by hand.

"…Wait, wh…" Naruto rubbed his forehead with a resigned groan as he get back on the wagon with everyone, "Oh, forget it." He decide to go with the flow…For good this time.

"So to summary it up…" Snow coughed softly as she stared pointedly at Naruto, "Not only you took a wrong turn, you end up getting us two new companions…One who become your wife by sudden against your and her will…In one day?"

"Um, yeah…" Naruto scratched his head sheepishly as he glanced at the new girls, Heida was still crying but it have lessen now and Annette have an lovestruck expression on her face with hands on her cheeks as she blatantly stare at him. "It just happen like that."

"…Why am I not surprised by that?" Snow dropped her head with a sigh as she mumble under her breath, "Should have stay and wait until I get better." She lift her head up to look at him again, "Maybe it'll be best if we camp out here for few days?" She glanced at Gretel, "Until you wish to take the reins for time being?"

"I'm sorry, I fear I do not know how to command horses as well as you do." Gretel shook her head lightly.

"Alright, let's stay here for a bit." He said and most agreed with it as he check the map until he notice something. "Oh, there's a lake near here."

"Lake?" The brunette checked it to make sure, "Ah, that remind me…We need to refill barrels with fresh water."

"I'll do that the first thing tomorrow morning." Naruto hummed, he can reach there within a hour and half at shinobi pace.

"Make sure to check for any fishes." Gretel informed, "We're little low with seafood." He gave her another nod before she glance around as half of group put sleeping bags out on floor and another half take the bed in order to prevent Snow's flu from spreading. Elsie and Heida are part of the former while Annette is part of latter because she wants to be very close to Naruto. One thing about the sleeping arrangement Gretel's glad with is that the vardo wagon is big enough for everyone.

"Wow, that's one biggest lake I've ever seen." Naruto whistled at a large lake, it's as if he's stand in front of an ocean and he can see tall cliffs with waterfall nearby. He create dozen kage bunshin then unseal barrels, "One of you guys go out there and see if there's life in water. If there's some, call two in for help."

"Got it." One of the clones runs across the water to scout out.

"And what about you, boss?" Another clone asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Gonna get some suiton jutsu in." Naruto looked out to the lake then up the waterfall, "Maybe try running up the waterfa…" His eyes squirted for a moment before they snap widen as he suddenly took off with a shout, "SHIT!" His clones just trade confusing looks with each other before they shrug their shoulders.

She don't know how long she have been wandering for since she was carried to an unfamiliar land and she's starting to lose hope of finding him as days went by because she know he's going to marry a princess…No, he's already married by now and there's nothing she can do about it, after all she can feel herself dying. Tears run down her face, is that her fate? To die alone on a land? Her feet carry her somewhere and she find herself overlooking a lake from the cliff near the waterfall as her eyes draw to the water. It's so wide and clear like an ocean and it remind her so much of her home…Home…A sad smile slowly form across her lips and with each painful steps she take bring her close to the edge as she stretch her arms open. She took one step over the edge and barely fall before something shot up from beneath her, tackling her back on the ledge.

"What were you trying to do?!" She hear a voice shouting as she realized that someone just stop her from jumping, "If you have dive, you'll die from this height! Not to mention the water near the cliff are too swallow!" She don't looked up to this person's face as she start struggling in this person's arms, feebly clawing out toward to the ledge with tearful eyes and gasping mouth. "H-Hey! Hey! Don't do it!" She struggled harder in attempt to free herself, "D-Don't you have something to live for? What about your family? Friends? Home? Anything?!" No, she have throw everything away for what? Nothing! She continue to struggled, "N-No? S-Shit…T-Then…Then I'll give you a reason to live for!" She ignore the voice, "Hey!" Hands cupped her cheeks before they swiftly-yet-gently turn her face up to the owner of voice, "Look at me!"

Sliver eyes meet blue eyes as she take a good look at the voice's owner, a blonde boy, and she feel like she's at loss. Never have she seen so much emotions in one's eyes, filled with worry and concern for a stranger he just met. He, the one before this person in front of her, never look at her this way even when she was constantly in pain.

"Did you hear me?" He said firmly with locked eye contact, "I'll give you something to live for! I promise you that I will try and try to find you a reason, even if it'll take me years!" Something about the way he speak fill her body with warmth as if he was putting hope inside her, even if it's in vain.

'Ah, only if I have meet you instead of him.' She suddenly bury her head in his chest as she wrap her arms around his waist and she can see the dawn coming up.

"Phew, I'm glad you change your mind." He exhaled out in relief, "You'll going to live a long and happy life, I'll make sure of it." She closed her eyes, she shiver to think how sorrowful he'll be when he discover that she don't have any longer to live and become foam in his arms. She wait for death to come…Wait…Wait…And more wait…She creaked one eye open at the rising sun then close for a moment before her eyes snap widened as she lean her head away to look up at him with owlish blinks. "What's the matter?" She lift her hand up to stare at it then down at her legs in confusion and the blonde boy follow her gaze with equal confusion.

'I'm not sea foam?' She stared at her body with furrowed brows, 'The witch say I would have die at the dawn after I fail to win his love…Until…' Her head whip up to him, 'This person…He's my true love?!'

"Um, what?" He rubbed the back of his head at her staring, "Um…Are you wondering about my name? I'm Naruto." He assumes that she was curious about his name and not something else.

Naruto have unknowingly save a little mermaid from a tragic ending, thank to his gift dispelling the curse, but at same time he just create another misunderstanding that they will never realize for the rest of their life.

"Naruto, you're back and who's that?" Lily smiled at the said shinobi before she tilt her head at a new face as most girls look over to the pair that come out from the woods. The new girl appears to be short on petite side and covered with dirt. She have long unruly seafoam green hair, sliver eyes, pale skin and she wear an tattered dirty dress that have lost its color.

"Um, she don't speak much." Naruto glanced at the new girl with a scratching head, "I, um, happen to find her and, um…Save her." Very few girls raised their eyebrows at him.

"Hello, I'm Rosie!" The smiling redhead appeared at the new girl's side, "You look like you need a bath so badly. Let us help bathing you."

"But first, we have to pick some clothes out for you." Vasilisa pulled the new girl toward to the clothing wagon and the new girl look down at her own feet, it's very shocking and surprising that each steps does not bring her any pain since she met Naruto. That does bring some joy to her.

"Naruto?" Snow coughed softly on the vardo's porch, have been allow out for a little fresh air. Gretel, Goldilocks and very few 'mature' girls give their attentions to the said blonde.

"…What really happened is that…" Naruto whispered to them about what happened early and they were shocked but glad that he saves her from herself, feeling worried and concern for the new girl. About a hour later, Naruto notice that Rosie was first to exit the bath-wagon and she appear to be upset. "Rosie, what's wrong?" He asked her worriedly and the sad redhead looks up to him for a moment.

"…I think I know why she doesn't speak much." Rosie muttered softly before the new girl prance out of the bath wagon, looking very clean and wear better. Her hair appear to be straight yet frizzy and she wear red long-sleeved gown with slightly puffy shoulder but what catch Naruto's eyes the most is a long thin scar that run across her throat. It's pretty unnoticeable until someone takes a good close look at her neck. The new girl present herself in front of him with bright smile as if she want to show herself off.

"What happened?" Naruto asked and the girl just tilt her head questioningly as he smack his forehead mentally, she's mute so it's stupid for him to ask her for explanation. He have to be more direct, "Did someone do that to you?" The genin asked gently as he pointed at his neck then at her and the mute girl widen her eyes for a moment before she dip her head, staring down at her feet. "I see…" He frowned, "…Did this person get arrested and punished for it?"

The mute girl blink at him before she shake her head, why would the sea witch be punished for making deal with her?

"What?" The genin gasped before he tighten his jaw as his anger boil up, 'The fucking bastard got away with it?!' He took a deep breath before he gently put his hands on her shoulders, "Please tell me, you know who did that to you?" She gave him a innocent nod, "Good, that mean you'll recognize this person…If we ever encounter whoever did that to you, will you promise to tell me and point this person out?" A nod then a questioning head tilt, "Why? Because I am gonna beat the shit out of this fucking bastard for you!" The mute girl blink innocently at him with tilted head, she doesn't understand the last part since it's her first time hearing these words.

"Naruto, mind your language." Gretel halfheartedly scolded him, she don't mind if he lay his hands on this criminal and she's not the only one as couple certain girls want to assist him with the beatdown if they ever find this person. The brunette approached the mute girl, "Excuse me. Can you write your name down for us?" The mute girl just stare at her confusingly until Gretel make a realization, "…D-Do you have a name?" A headshake, "Oh dear. You're a nameless orphan, aren't you?"

"Nameless orphan?" Naruto blinked at the brunette, "Is it common in this country? Orphans with no name?" As far as he know, a orphan without name is pretty rare in his homeland but the way she say sound like it's a normal thing for someone to encounter a nameless person.

"Yes, quite." The brunette nodded, "Three out of ten children you meet on street have no names until they receive one from someone else, mostly noble if they're lucky."

"Oh." He muttered before he turn back to the mute girl, "Since you don't have one, maybe we can come up with a name for you…Is there anything you like? So it'll be easy for us to come up with a name relating to whatever you like." The mute girl pause for a moment before she crouch down with a smile and she draw few squiggly lines in dirt with her index finger. "Is it sky, air, wind?"

"I think it's water." Rosie guessed and the mute girl bobbed her head at the redhead rapidly. "Oh, yay! I got it right!"

"Water?" Snow cupped her chin with a soft cough, "As in lake or ocean?" The mute girl's head bobbed once again and it took her a little while to figure it out. "…You like the ocean?" More nods.

"Ocean, ocean…" Vasilisa tapped her cheek in deep thought along with the others.

"Coral?" Rapunzel suggested and the mute girl considers it for a moment before she shake her head.

"Sandy!" Kitty threw out and the mute girl look crossed for some reason before she shake her head furiously.

"Nami?" Naruto said, causing the mute girl and other girls to look confused. "Um, it mean wave in my language." The mute girl seems to consider it, only to shake her head. "No? Okay, um…" He cupped his chin with a hum, "Let's see…"

"How about Nerida?" Annette asked.

"What does it mean?" The genin asked curiously.

"It mean sea nymph or mermaid in Greek." The orange-haired girl explained and the mute girl perked up at that as she pointed at her with rapid nods. "Oh, you like it? Is it because of mermaid?" The mute girl nod again.

"Then it's agreed that her name will be Nerida." Gretel said as almost everyone nodded before she glance at the group, "So who want to show her a bit little around here?"

"I will." Lily croaked as she take Nerida's hand to lead her to a livestock wagon, "Let's go see horses and Goldy." The mute girl blink oddly at her as they enter the livestock wagon.

"Now, Snow, it's time for you to go back inside." The brunette turned to the said girl.

"Alright." Snow obeyed her with another cough before she head inside with Rapunzel in tow.

"I'll get the fire going for breakfast." Naruto walked up to the campfire, arranging the firewoods and he sneak a glance to Heida, who have been sitting on a log near the pit the whole time. "Um, how are you feeling?" He tried to make a small talk while doing the chore.

"I'm still upset." Heida huffed with a sniffle, "I still can't believe my daddy just went and marry me off to a vagabond who have many sweethearts!"

"Could be worse." He shrugged his shoulders as she gave him a quizzical look, "You'll may end up marrying to a pervert who's old enough to be your father or grandpa and he'll force you to do things every single day." He lost the count of how many time Jiraiya ask him for his sexy jutsu everyday until the portal incident.

"…If it's not a sin, I'll murder this man if that happen to me." The dark-haired teenager paled with green face, shivering at the idea of marrying a very dirty deviant elder.

"…Wait, would you do the same thing to me?" Naruto looked up to her with raised eyebrow after he start the fire and she stare at him for a while until she open her mouth.

"No, at least you're decent enough, even if you're a vagabond." Heida replied as she prop her head up with her fist while her elbow rest on her knee before she give him another lookover, "Also, you're not bad looking, despite how much your scars make you look like a scruffy fox."

"One, I'm not a vagabond, whatever that word is." Naruto deadpanned at her with bit of annoyance, "And two, the 'whiskers' on my cheeks are not scars, they're birthmarks!"

"Really?" She arched her brow at him weirdly, "That's…Quite unique birthmarks then…" She shrugged her shoulders, "Still make you look like scruffy fox and no matter what you say, you're still a vagabond at the end of the day."

'Shall I do some little pranks?' The genin's eyebrow twitched at her, it has been a long time since he pull pranks.

"By the way, what are we having for breakfast?" Heida asked a minute later.

"Eggs and leftover from last night." Naruto replied.

"Leftover?!" She gasped in shock and horror, no royal shall eat leftovers and she's going to eat some leftover?! "Oh, woe me!" That causes the genin to sweatdrop at her dramatic reaction.

It was almost time for bedtime when Nerida examine her own sleeping gown in fascination because it feel so comfortable and warm before she lift her head up to see some girls approached Naruto. "Good night, Naruto." Rosie smiled to him before they share a kiss and the mute girl froze at the sight. At first she was upset to encounter this similar situation then she become confused the very next second when another girl bid him goodnight with kiss.

"Oh, confusing about it?" Lyra smiled at the mute girl as Nerida turn her head to the living harp puzzlingly, "The girls are courting Naruto with open heart and…" The mute girl don't hear the rest of Lyra's explanation as her eyes lit up with her heart swell up with hope and joy and she quickly toddle up into the group. As soon as she get in front of the genin, Nerida swiftly held her head up with closed eyes and puckered lips and Naruto blink rapidly at her in surprise before he glance at his girlfriends curiously. Most girls give him a nod as if they give him permission to go ahead with it to make the mute girl happy after what she went through.

'I wonder if one of them have something to do with that.' Naruto looked back to the mute girl who was still waiting for her goodnight kiss, "Are you sure about that?" Nerida gave him a rapid nod while keeping her puckered lips up with closed eyes, "Alright. Good night, Nerida." He kissed her on lips then pull away and Nerida look like she'll burst up with happiness as she hopped up and down on her bouncing heels before she nearly tackle him in a tight hug, nuzzling her face in his chest happily.

"Someone's very happy." Snow teased with a light smile.

"Yeah." The genin rubbed the mute girl's head softly before she release him from hug, "Now let's turn in." He move closer to the bed and Nerida tilt her head before she suddenly grab him by the back of his shirt, causing him to look back over his shoulders at her with raised eyebrow. "What is it?" Nerida pointed at Elsie, Heida and Lyra then she tilt her head at him questioningly.

"Ah, we haven't kissed each other good night." Elsie giggled airy.

"Yeah, because I…" Naruto was about to say something as he turn his head, only to be surprised by a chaste kiss from the auburn-haired woman when she bend down.

"Good night." The auburn-haired woman smiled innocently, it was an accident to kiss him on lip when it was supposed to be on cheek until he turned his head but she'll let it slide. 'Ah, I shall kiss him good night and good morning every day from now on. It bring me greater joy than before and I've never feel like that before.'

"Um, night." He blinked rapidly in daze as Elsie lie down to sleep before he turn to Heida, "Good night."

"Don't you dare…" Heida growled before she squeak out when she receive a kiss on cheek and her hand fly up to her kissed cheek with widened eyes. "…Just on cheek?"

"Yeah, you don't want me to kiss you on mouth so I just kiss your cheek." Naruto replied with a shrug, "Until you want me to?"

"…N-No?" The dark-haired teenager muttered and the genin turn away from her. Why does she feel disappointed for some reason?

"Um…" The genin stared at the living harp, scratching his head.

"Go ahead, master." Lyra laughed at his reaction, "I don't mind receiving a good night kiss from you."

"Yes, kiss her lips." Goldilocks smirked teasingly at her boyfriend and couple girls join in the tease as Naruto was about to retort until he saw Nerida's shiny eyes, which cause him to give in.

"Good night, Lyra." Naruto rolled his eyes mentally before he lock lips with the living harp that last for couple moments and he pull back as he turn to the group. "Now that's everyone…" He looked down for a second then back up to the group with a deadpan look, "And don't make me kiss Haru goodnight." The dog lift his head up with a questioning bark as soon as he hear his name.

"As long as it's on top of his head." Snow joked and few girls laughed as the genin shake his head lightly. While it went down, no one noticed that Lyra stare oddly at the genin's back with a curious expression. When they share a kiss for the first time, the living harp swear she feel some odd kind of warmth within her lips and how cold it suddenly become when he break the kiss, neither understand why she linger for one more kiss from her master.

'What are these odd feelings?' Lyra wondered to herself as the group turn in before her gaze shift to Naruto, 'Maybe I'll ask him to kiss me good night tomorrow? That must help me figure it out.' The harp quietly plays music to help them sleep while she has a internal debate.

One morning, a dirty scruffy man was sleeping on a very dirty fur coat until he wake up goggily and his eyes glance up to a finest greenjacket coat that hang on a broke-off branch above him. "Ah, I'll put it on after I fetch a drink from creek over there." The man toss the fur coat on to combat the cold air of early morning and he approach a creek, kneeling down to collect some water in his cupped hands. When he take a sip of coldest water, he swear he heard some strange gibberish from his left but he pay it no mind as he fetch another water until the dirty man become confuse at the sight of the water flowing in opposite direction. "Why is it going another way when it should go right?" He suddenly hear a rumble from his left and he look up just in time to see a giant tide rolling toward him. "WHAT IN THE NAME OF…" The wave come so fast that it never give him any chance to get out of the way and it blow him all way down the creek mile and mile away.

"WOOO!" Naruto showed up shortly with few jumps, "I did it! I turn this little creek into a tsunami! This jutsu is so awesome!" He laughed with some silly jumping dance until a green object catch his eyes, "Huh?" Naruto jogged up to the coat, "Why is it all way out here?" The greenjacket coat just stand out to him since it's in middle of bare woods, "Does it belong to someone here?" He looked around confusingly before he cupped over his mouth, "HELLO? ANYONE HERE?! I SEE A GREEN COAT HERE, DOES IT BELONG TO ANYONE?" He waited for a minute to see if there's response, "HELLO?!" Naruto waited for few minutes but no one answer him before he take the coat down, "Guess it's abandoned." His nose winced, "Oh! That thing reek! How long has it been out here for?" Naruto gagged as he walked away with the coat at arm length, this thing need a wash so bad!

"There, all clean." The genin held the green coat out to the group a hour later, "Which one of you girls want it?"

"I think you could have it." Vasilisa said, "It's a man's coat."

"I agree with Vasilisa, you could have it." Snow nodded, fully recovered from her ill. "The winter is not far off so it's better for you to wear it. It's coat for winter, correct?"

"Da." The young blonde nodded, "You shall try it on. I'll make some adjust if ze coat is too big."

"I don't think it's big." Naruto put the greenjacket coat on with a hum before he stretch his arms out, "It fit prefect!"

"It's too big." Vasilisa pointed out to the bottom of his new coat, it almost touch the ground and the sleeves went past his hands.

"Well, I can roll the sleeves up." He pulled the sleeves back then put his hands inside the pockets, "But other than that, you don't have to fix it since I'll grow…In…To…It?" He slowly trail off with some confusing blinks.

"What is it?" The young blonde tilt her head at him and everyone look up to him curiously.

"…There's something in pockets?" Naruto blinked puzzlingly, "But it wasn't full before when I checked." He pulled his hands out as he looked down to see that he have fistful of silver and gold coins before he utter quietly, "What?"

"Maybe you checked wrong pockets?" Rosie suggested.

"Must be." The shinobi put the coins down in a clean bowl before he peek inside his pockets, "Ok, all empty now." He jabbed his hands inside with a shrug, "That was weird. I don't understand how they don't fall…Out when I…Washed them in…Tub?" He pulled his hands out to reveal another fistful of gold and silver coins, "…" He dump the new coins in the pile then he dig into his pockets to see if the bizarre event recur and the pile slowly grow as he repeatedly take coins out of his pockets.

"I think you found a magical item." Rapunzel said bewilderedly at the pile of coins along with everyone else but Goldilocks, who was drooling at the sight.

"Hold on." Naruto took his jacket off then dig around inside the pocket, "Huh? Nothing." He turned the jacket upside down to shake it around for any loose changes but neither come out, "I think I got them all out now." He put it back on, "So…" He paused as soon as he put his hands back inside the pockets.

"Let me guess." Gretel spoke calmly, "When someone wear it and put their hands in pocket, they get the money. If no one wear it, no money."

"...Yes, I think you're right." The genin slowly remove his hands from the pocket, holding fistful of coins.

"Please take it off and put it away in the bottom of this chest right this instant." The brunette calmly pointed at Naruto's chest in bottom shelf, "If you're wearing it, please do not put your hands in pockets until need to."

"Gotcha." Naruto obeyed her right away.

"Um, I'll go get horses ready." Snow exited and some girls followed suit with the genin in tow.

"…Is that common around here?" Heida asked Goldilocks but the answer never come, "Goldilocks?" She turned her head to see that the short-haired blonde was rubbing her face in the pile of coin as the teenager sweatdropped with weird look, "And they said I'm spoiled mean-spirited one."

They reach a small village a couple days later and they can see it's a farming village. "Ah, if we want to buy livestock, now's the time." Gretel hummed.

"But there's a city few miles from here." Goldilocks said, "Why not buy animals at this city?"

"Do you know if they will sell livestocks over there?" The brunette asked and the short-haired blonde open her mouth before she snap it close with a grumble. "Exactly. And it's better to buy animals from farmers because they know better."

"But who'll steer it?" Kitty asked.

"I'll use kage bunshin to drive the second wagon." Naruto shrugged his shoulders, "It won't be hard for him to follow us."

"Ah." The catgirl hummed in approval.

"Let's go around and ask for anyone who's willing to part with their animals for right price." Gretel stepped off the wagon with most before she look over to the genin, "Naruto, if you plan to summon the livestock wagon or use clones, please do it in private. I don't want you to give anyone a heart attack again."

"I didn't give this old lady a heart attack!" He muttered embarrassingly under his breath, "It was coincidence, pure coincidence." It was a simple sealing for restocked foods but he did it in front of a old woman and she gave out a frightful scream, something about witchcraft before she passed out face-down in her meats.

"Sure, it was." Goldilocks deadpanned before they wander around the farms and ask some farmers.

"Do you think it's too much?" Heida grimaced as she held an chicken at arm length before it suddenly flap its wings, causing her to shriek out. "OH GOD! OH GOD! SOMEONE TAKE IT! TAKE IT!"

"Don't freak out." Naruto took the chicken from the panting teenager with an eyeroll, "And it's not too much." He gently toss the chicken into a chicken coop before he close the netted door and he check the net fence by lightly yanking it to make sure it don't come apart. Naruto had place a chicken coop in the end of the livestock wagon opposite Goldy's nest and barrier it off with net from ceiling to floor to keep the chickens in. The coop was pretty simple, a open wooden coop with twenty sections for chickens to nest in and a long feeding trough.

"Ten hens and one cock isn't too much?" The older teenager jabbed her finger at the clucking chickens as they explore their new home and she shift her pointing finger in other direction. "Three cows, six horses, a goose…" She threw her hands at a long pen opposite the horses' stable that are right next to the cows' stable, "Seven sheep! SHEEP! WHY SHEEP?!"

"Vasilisa want them for the wools." He replied, "And why are you acting like we just bought six horses when it's four?"

"Ugh." Heida rubbed her forehead furiously before she point to empty pens on other side near the chicken coop, "And what is it for?"

"Oh, just in case if we get more animals like pigs." Naruto scratched his head, "But we're going to use it as storage for animal foods."

"Why would we raise pigs?" She huffed as the genin unseal bags of animal foods in the empty pen along with haystacks and he turn to look at her with raised eyebrow. "What? I'm just asking what's the point in owning pigs?!"

"Meats." He simply answered.

"How can pigs give us…" Heida grumbled before she paled in horror, "…No, you're not saying…" Naruto just nod his head few times, "…No."

"Relax, if we happen to get some pigs, we'll raise them until they die from natural cause so it'll be easy for us to cut them open." Naruto waved it off as his wife paled farther, "Yup, you have to help us out with that."

"NO!" The older teenager's hands flew up to her ears as she spun around on her heels then walk out, "No! No! I'm not going to work like some farmers or butcher!"

"Too easy." He snorted amusingly, he was joking about the last part and he wasn't sure that they will have pigs in future. Naruto exit the livestock wagon and he look around at the campsite as some girls do their task or relaxing. He quickly make a beeline to the greenhouse, or green-wagon as he dubbed, and he immediately check the seed bags. "Which one shall I start planting first?" The blonde glanced at some potted plants that he bought from some farmers, who swear that the boy's crazy to try growing plants in upcoming wintertime. "Or should I put them in beds?" His gaze shifted from the pots to one of many different garden boxes and some troughs.

"Ah, there you are." Naruto turned to see Annette enter with a beaming smile, "What are you doing?"

"I'm going to start growing some vegetables, foods and other things." Naruto turned back to examine the seed bags, "And I can't wait because it have been long time since I left home. Gardening is one of my favorite hobbies, you know?"

"Really?" The orange-haired girl looked surprised, "I do not know you enjoy gardening. I find it very strange that you're a magical warrior, do you desire to be an gardener at some point?"

"Again, I'm a shinobi, not magician." Naruto deadpanned as he ignored a light giggle from her before he tilt his head with a think, "And gardener? Well…I actually consider it couple times during my academy days when I kept failed the final exam three times. It was that or work at Ichiraku's stand."

"Academy?" Annette asked, carefully pick a tray of tomato seedlings up. "May I replant them?"

"Sure, here's a shovel." He handed a gardening trowel over to her as she take place at his side, "In my hometown, we have a big academy that train people like me to be a shinobi. It's like a school but for shinobi. People have to sign up at six and they usually graduate at twelve and join the shinobi force after complete their final exam…" He groaned, "Then take the real final exam few days later."

"Interesting." The orange-haired girl hummed as she dug a hole out, "Is it deep enough for the seedlings?" Naruto check it then he gave her a nod, "Does everyone have to join the academy or is it optional?" She asked, carefully replant the first seedling.

"Yeah, it's not mandatory for everyone to join the force." Naruto replied as he decided to start with potatoes first and he start upturn a line of soil.

"Oh, and what make you join in first place?" Annette asked curiously while she continues to replant the seedlings.

"Well, to get attention." He scratched the back of his head with his dirty hand, "When I was little, not a lot of people…Was paying attention to me so I thought I'll act out and make everyone notice me, maybe more if I join the academy…That and I want to become a hokage so everyone can look up to see me and respect me. Oh, hokage is like a leader of shinobi village."

"And have it change in any way?" The orange-haired girl asked before she smirk flirty at him, "Because you have all of my attention."

"K-Kinda." Naruto coughed into his fist with light blush, "I still want to be hokage to protect everyone and my precious people but to do that, I need to become stronger enough."

"Am I one of your precious people?" Annette batted her eyelashes at him, inching close to him.

"Y-Yes." He suddenly feel shy for some reasons, she's very forward than some certain girlfriends.

"Wonderful!" She surprised him with a chaste kiss as she take hold of his hands then she shower his face with many pecks. Yup, so very forward.

"H-H-Hey, stop it, I-I have some works to do here." Naruto was very flustered by her action.

"I'll stop when you give me one kiss." Annette puckered up and the blushing genin swiftly give her a peck.

"T-There." He turned back to the garden as the lovestruck girl giggled with hands on her cheeks, 'It's so weird that she become my new girlfriend on the very first day they met, how did she convince the girls to convince me to let her join?' He chalk it up as another one of the country's strange way of life and customs.

The snowflakes have fall the very next day and it come without any warning, which take Naruto by surprise as soon as he open the door. "Ah, the winter is here." Gretel looked outside as she throw a shawl on around her shoulders.

"Yeah, but I think we can still travel since the snow is pretty light." Naruto looked around, he can still see the grass.

"Not today." The brunette shook her head, "We don't know if the snow will become stronger in few hours and if it does, it'll be very difficult for us to travel."

"So we're gonna wait it out for now?" He scratched his head with a hum as Gretel gave him a nod before she glance up and down his appearance out of blue and he raise his eyebrow at her. "What?"

"It's better for you to start wearing socks and boots because you are not going out there in snow in these sandals." Gretel looked pointedly at his sandals then at his orange jumpsuit, "And we should start wearing winter clothes now." She's glad to get him out of these tacky bright clothing because it's getting too much for her poor eyes and she's pretty sure that the girls will agreed with her.

"What's wrong with sandals?" Naruto looked down at his shoes in confusion, "I can walk through snow just fine with these."

"Do you know how awful cold the snow is, you'll get frostbite and lose your toes." She replied, "In other word, we'll cut them off to save your life."

"…On second thought, I should wear boots from now on." He paled with shivers.

"Good." Gretel reached out to take his hand with a yawn, "Now get back in bed, it's more warm than outside and I'm not done with cuddling you."

"Alright." Naruto closed the door as they head back to the bed before he look at her with a blink, "Wait, what was the last part?"

"I said I'm not done with sleeping." The blushing brunette lied, it just slip out. The genin stare at her for a moment before he shrug his shoulders as they get back in the bed and Gretel cuddle up at his side while hiding her blushing face in his chest.

A hour later, Naruto was so glad that he listen to Gretel because the snow suddenly reach four inches and there's no sign of snowfall stopping. It's really good thing that they park the rest of wagons close enough that a walk is just a stone's toss away. "Naruto, try them on." Snow handed a pair of boots to him as everyone went through the clothes in clothing wagon, beside Lily who look like she'll fall asleep at any moment with dozy expression.

"Ok." Naruto tried them on and he test them out before he remove them. "Nah, it's too big."

"Too big?" The ravenette checked the size before she give him another pair of boots after looking around.

"It fit." He said as soon as he put them on with few taps on floor, "Little snug but I think I can break them in."

"Good." Snow replied.

"I found gloves and mittens." Kitty carried a medium wicker basket over to the group, "Are we going to put them in the vardo?"

"Yes, Kitty." Gretel placed bundles of cotton and fleece blankets on top of the basket as Vasilisa help Nerida trying a fur hat on to the mute girl's fascination.

"Here, that ushanka is much better because it have ze flaps." Vasilisa swapped Nerida's fur hat with another fur hat that have ear flaps, "How is it?" Nerida beamed at her with bright smile, "Excellent."

"Where does one come to own so many things?" Heida asked Goldilocks as they tried on the prettiest winter clothing as much as they can find, the dark-haired teenager look very impressed by the amazing amount of clothing. Usually, it's the royalty that own this many.

"It starts with a storage scroll from a giant scroll." Goldilocks shrugged her shoulders, "And Naruto find some good things, finder keeper and all then we spend some money. He's lucky one."

"Finder keeper?" The older teenager arched her brow oddly at unfamiliar term.

"Rosie, Rapunzel, I found some lovely dresses that suit you!" Elsie held two colorful dresses with a bright smile before she lift a certain piece up with another hand, "And I find a wonderful underwear, they're very supportful."

"Ooh, it does look very lovely." Rapunzel said as the redhead looked through the drawers for any good winter coat before she tilt her head, "But I'm not sure they're suitable for winter."

"Elsie, that's not underwears." Naruto informed, "It's bikini."

"What's bikini?" The only adult blinked puzzlingly with tilted head and the rest turn their heads to the genin curiously with blinks.

"It's a swimsuit for girls." He gave them a odd look, "You know, something to wear when you go swimming?"

"You swim with clothing on?" Elsie blinked again, "How odd, it's like saying you have to walk around naked." The genin blinked at her oddly before he look at the other girls to see that most were also giving him strange looks too.

"Um, what do you all wear when you go for a swim?" Naruto asked.

"Nothing." The auburn-haired woman replied, "When one take a swim, they strip everything off."

"…A-A-And that's normal around here?" The genin felt heavy blush coming on.

"Yes, as long as we meet right conditions." Gretel confirmed, "I bet it's different for you in your homeland."

"Um, kinda." Naruto coughed, "When people go swim in public, they have to wear swimsuits but when it come to hot spring, we go nude even if it's mixed."

"…What's hot spring?" Annette asked out of curiosity.

"It's a spring with natural hot water." He explained, "Many people in my homeland usually take bath in them and there's a lot of onsen. Most of hot springs has divided section for both men and women but there are mixed, shared by both genders and usually strangers."

"Oh my!" Snow looked shocked by the mixed part, "And that's common over there?"

"Yeah." Naruto scratched his head.

"What a cultural difference it is." Gretel hummed interestingly.

"I'll say." The shocked ravenette covered her blushing cheeks with hands.

"Um, let's go back looking for winter clothes." Goldilocks took the swimsuit from Elise to toss it away and most agreed with her almost right away. "…And Lily's passed out by the way." Almost everyone notice that the said toad girl was snoring facedown on floor.

"Ah, of course." The brunette realized something, "Toads hibernate during winter. And here I was wondering why she becomes quiet lately. She was very active and talkative few months ago."

"Huh, you're right." Naruto think back before he look down at the snoring toad girl, "Should we wake her up or let her be for now?" Gretel replied with the latter while picking some thick wool coats for the toad girl.

Several hours later inside the vardo with winter gears, one of them bring something up. "How are we suppose to cook now?" Goldilocks asked with her cheek on fist as she lie on floor.

"We can dig the campfire out?" Rosie suggested with tilted head.

"Not during ze snowfall and blizzard." Vasilisa said.

"Oh." The redhead uttered with realization.

"We can use one of box wagons as a place to cook foods." Naruto suggested after some thinking.

"I don't know, it sound a little dangerous." Rapunzel hummed worriedly, "The wagons are made out of woods so…"

"It'll be less risky if we use stove." Snow clapped her hands, "We can put it at the far end and cover the floor and walls with stones around it to prevent embers from setting this wagon on fire."

"What about smokes?" Kitty pointed out with a wiggling nose, "It'll be unpleasant to smell smokes when it fill the wagon up with no vent."

"Some stoves have tall pipes for chimney, right?" The genin lifted his index finger up in air, "I can cut a circle in the ceiling so it can stick out and pad the edge of hole with stones and clays."

"As much as I love the idea of having a cooking-wagon, there's one problem." The short-haired blonde pointed something out, "We don't have a stove."

"Oh, right." Naruto scratched his head with a small frown.

"There's a city not far from here, you know?" Gretel reminded them with the map, "Naruto can go there and check to see if any stores sell stove."

"Alright, I'll go there right now." The genin grinned before he receive the unfinished shopping list from the brunette.

"Hold on." Elsie clasped her hands with a big smile, "May I ask you to buy something for me?"

"Sure, what do you want?" Naruto pick a pencil up to write down on the list.

"Games, picture books and dolls." The auburn-haired woman's smile widened, "I want a lot of teddy bears and likes."

"You want stuffed animals?" He blinked, "For…?"

"Decoration, to play with and sleeping." Elsie replied, "I sleep very easy when I have a teddy bear with me."

"…Ok." Naruto wrote it down with a small shrug, everyone has their own sleeping habit and he's not one to judging. "While we're at it…" He looked to the others, "Do anyone else want me to get something?"

"A ball." Annette placed index finger on her chin, "I'm very fond of tossing it around."

"Outside, I hope." Gretel commented with a warning look and the orange-haired girl nodded rapidly.

"Books." Heida cast a gaze at the books in shelf, "Any interesting books." She want to have something to pass the time because there's nothing to do now with all snow out there and it's so annoying that most books are 'how-to' books.

"Empty milk bottles and jam jars." Snow hummed, "I would like it if you get your hands on some full jam jars. We can reuse them."

"Oh, oh, I want more arrows." Rosie spoke up with waving arm, "I want to compare them with mine."

"Got it." He wrote everything down before he look up to the rest of the girls that haven't speak up yet, "Anything else?" Nerida fidgeted with her hands, "Nerida?" The mute girl jumped up at her name as he gave her a smile, "Would you like to write it down? It's okay if it's a big thing because we have plenty of money to spare."

"Plenty, my bum." Goldilocks snorted under her breath and the mute girl look worried and nervous.

"Here's paper and pencil." Gretel handed it to silver-eyed girl, "You can draw it for us." The mute girl perk up at that before she draw a rectangle then add an outline of fish in center.

"You want me to get a fish tank or bowl?" Naruto blinked as the mute girl confirmed his guess with a nod, "Will it be fine if it's empty?" She nodded again, "Ok." He glanced at the girls, "Is that everything for now?"

"Yes." The brunette handed him the money bags and brown gloves, which he put it on as he looked at himself. He felt strange for wearing brown pant and black long-sleeved shirt with socks and boots but the girls seems to like it and it's for his protection against the dangers of snow. "Be careful out there."

"I will." He put a thick padded trenchcoat on along with wool scarf, now he feel more weird wearing the latter. Naruto open the door and he can see it's almost time for the sun to set as he step out into the snow, his boot sink underneath the snow.

"Will it be hard for you to move out there?" Snow asked with some concern.

"Nah, I learn from one of my scrolls that if I combine tree walking and water walking together, I can walk on snow as if it's a solid land." Naruto apply chakra to his feet as he lift his foot up then put it down on surface of the snow before he push himself up, standing on it. "Alright! First try!" He pumped his fist up in air with a laugh before he took off with a quick bye.

"When will he ever stop amazing us?" Goldilocks deadpanned at the sight.

"When he come back from death, that'll be the day." Kitty joked.

"Nerida." Gretel gently pulled the mute girl aside as she looked up to the brunette curiously, "Will you like me to teach you how to write and read?" Nerida blinked few times in surprise before she bob her head rapidly with clasped hands, "Very well, we can learn a little right now." The brunette gently bring the mute girl to desk then place a paper as they take seats together, "Let's start with the alphabet first."

"I wonder if it's okay for me to get five different stoves and many things?" Naruto scratched his head sheepishly as he looked at storage scroll in his hand while he wander around in the city. When he found a place that sell stoves, he just realize that he don't ask the girls what kind of stoves they want and all the stoves there appear to be pretty primeval, despite how 'latest' and best model there are according to the owner. He wasn't sure which one to get so he decide to get five different models, which end up earn him a free kitchen set from a very happy owner who thought that Naruto work for a noble family and the genin wonder why the owner ask him to bring a noble family here next time when he left. 'Is everything here behind?' Naruto wondered to himself as he pocketed the scroll then he take the list out, "Let's see…Oh, I got everything already?" He look up again to the sky to see that it's night already, time sure go by so fast when he went around visiting many stores. "Time to go back home." Naruto turn around into an alleyway as he decide to take a long route so he can practice the dubbed snow walking until he notice something alert.

"Grandmother." A little girl curled up in front of burning matchbox with heavy shudders as the snow piled upon her, "Oh! Take me with you."

"Hey, hey!" Naruto quickly ran over to the girl alarmingly, "How long have you been out here?!" As soon as he reach her, the poor girl pass out. "OH FUCK!" The genin act fast as he took his scarf and coat off, wrapping it around the girl and he scoop her up. "FUCK! HOLD ON!" He swiftly activate the hiraishin jutsu and in a single blink, he was back in center of the campsite with the girl in his arms. Naruto ran into the vardo with a slam, startling everyone inside. "She need help!"

"What happened?" Rapunzel leaped into action as she examine the unconscious shivering girl.

"I found her out in alleyway by herself!" Naruto answered rapidly, "I don't know how long she have been out in cold for!"

"Go fetch me the blankets and sleeping bags!" The long-haired blonde hollered as everyone scrambled, "Unzip the sleeping bags all the way down! We have to warm her up before it's too late!" She noticed that Naruto was about to lie her down before she stop him, "Naruto! Keep her close to your body as possible as you can! She need body heat!"

"Okay!" He hugged the girl tightly to his chest as Rapunzel sat him down on floor before the girls quickly swaddle the blankets and unzipped sleeping bags around the genin and fainted girl that only their heads stick out. "Now what?" The worried genin asked, trying to look down at the shuddering girl's face but it was buried in his chest.

"We have to keep warming her up." Rapunzel carefully make her way through the swaddled blankets until she reach them in center, "Don't move and let me do it."

"Do what?" Naruto asked until he feel her hands pulling his shirt up and he listen to her as she take it off his head, pushing it aside. "What are you doing?"

"We need to share body heat and that is the best method." The medic in training replied as her hands work under the blankets before she push some clothing out and Naruto feel something like skin pressing up against his body.

"Wait, did you strip her?" He asked as soon as he realize that the clothing Rapunzel threw out belong to the fainted girl.

"Yes, that is for her good!" Rapunzel replied as she tossed her clothing out, pushing their bodies together and she rubbed the fainted girl's legs. "Oh goodness! Have this poor girl been walking around barefoot!"

"I don't know, I just found her like that." Naruto frowned worriedly.

"If she get more body heat, will she get better faster?" Elsie asked worriedly.

"Possibly, it's likely." The long-haired blonde said.

"Then I'll help." The auburn-haired woman pulled her dress up in open and Naruto swiftly close his eyes out of politeness. He can hear rustling clothes and feel some movements shifting through the sleeping bags and blankets then skin contact…A lot of skin contacts. He open his eyes to see that everyone have got in to share their body heat.

"Poor thing, I hope she'll make it." Snow muttered worriedly.

"I hope so." Lyra said from her place, unable to help them for a obvious reason.

"She will." Rosie replied and the worried group tries to find different methods to bring heat to the fainted girl while sharing body heat throughout the night.

Her eyes flutter open with some shifts until she become very confuse as she weakly lift her head up, why does she feel so warm instead of cold? Did she just die and went to…"Oh thank goodness, you survived." The girl rotated her head slightly to see a living golden harp through her messy hair as the figurehead smile down at her, "We were so worried when Naruto bought you in."

"Na…Ruto?" She whispered with raspy voice, still in daze and confusion until she realize that there's pair of arms around her and she peek up to see a sleeping blonde boy with whiskers.

"That's the name of the boy who have you in his arms." The living harp smiled kindly, "He's the one who found you, rushing back here while carrying you in his coat and scarf then never let you go the whole night. Everyone here were worried for you when they got in there." The girl weakly look around to see many girls sleeping under many strange warm blankets together with her and the boy, "Everyone will be very glad and relived to see that you survived from the coldness." The girl turn to stare up at the boy and she weakly push herself up to get a better look. Her action cause him to stir.

"Wha…" Naruto opened his eyes with few flutters until he look down to see the girl have woke up, "Oh!" He almost sat up happily before he quickly quiet himself as soon as he realize that everyone else are still sleeping and he don't want to wake them up after a long worrying night. "You're okay." He grinned down at her, "You sure had us worried and…" Naruto paused as he notice something under her hair and he gently push her hair up to see nasty black eye with bumps and bruises all over her face. "What happened? Who did it to you?" He frowned furiously before he notice the girl retreated into herself at sight of his expression, "Hey. I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at whoever did it to you." He lift his right hand up gently as it glow green to the girl's silent awe, "It's good thing I got the whole basic of iryo ninjutsu down." He placed his hand on her face, "Hold still. You'll feel better soon."

"Mm, warm…" The injured girl uttered with raspy voice as her head leaned against his hand, she can feel warmth from his strange magic and she also can feel the pain dulling until it disappear after some time.

"There, let me take a look at you." Naruto gently lift her chin up to give her a lookover for any bruises. The girl has red eyes and white unruly chin-length hair with bit dirt and she seem to be close to Vasilisa and Nerida in age. "Do you have any injuries I can heal?"

"Can you heal…" The girl paused to rest her sore throat with expressionless face, "All of it?"

"Yeah, as long as it's not too serious." He said and the albino girl slowly blinked at him before she push blankets and sleeping bags off her, turning her back to him. When he see her back, he never feel simultaneous feeling of cold running down his spine and blood boiling in anger. On the girl's back, there are many bruises and long black lashes all over as if someone have lashing her with belt and kicked her down more than once. That's not all, she appear to be slightly malnourished, due to visible ribcages and slightly sunken stomach. Naruto took deep breathes to calm himself down in order to not scare her as he start to heal her back. "…What's your name?"

"Hestia." The albino girl said softly, "My grandmother…She named me."

"That's one unique good name." Naruto replied, "My name's Naruto Uzumaki." He paused, "Nailed it!"

"Naruto Uzumaki…" Hestia uttered softly before she tilt her head back up to him, "Nailed It? You have a long…Name."

"Oh, no, no, it's Naruto Uzumaki." He chuckled lightly, "I said nailed it because I have hard time saying my full name the other way around. If I'm in my homeland, it's Uzumaki Naruto but everyone here thought my first name is Uzumaki."

"Oh." The expressionless albino girl uttered, quietly enjoy the healing warmth.

"Yeah." Naruto removed his hand from her back, "Done. Any more?"

"Yes, arms…" Hestia lift her arms up to show some more bruises then she looked down at her body, "My chest, legs…And bum."

"I see." He resume the healing process with a frown, "Can you tell me who did it to you? Was it one person or more people?"

"My father." She replied.

"He's the one who did it to you?!" Naruto shouted angrily out in shock as Hestia flinched before he quickly calm himself down while comfort her, "Sorry, I don't mean to shout. It's not you, it's this bastard father of your. I can't believe that someone can just abuse their own child. How long have he been doing it for and what about your mom, anyone that can help you?"

"For many years." Hestia replied softly, "He always get…Drunk and angry all the time…He always hit me if I…Make a mistake, don't do whatever he say or don't do well like selling all matchsticks…Even if I did sell all…He'll still hit me. My mother and grandmother are dead. No one can help me…Because it's the right…"

'She have been abused for years and no one did anything to help her, not even a stranger?!' Naruto bit his tongue, "Have you report it to police? Any force?"

"They don't care because I am poor, a child and a girl." She replied, "My father have right over me…And he said no one can touch…Him because of friends." She remember reported him once to a police officer but it turn out the officer was a friend of her father and took her back to her father, who claim she got injured from playing around then give her a brutal beating after the officer left. She never tried again after that and her father always talk about 'friends in high places' to drive fear in her because she don't know if it's true or not.

"What?" The genin hissed lowly with furrowed brows, that is not right.

"…What will I do…" Hestia curled up in his arms, "He'll kill me…When I go home because…I don't go back after weeks…"

"…Wait, hold on." Naruto looked down at her again, "After days? Are you saying he lock you outside…For days on your own?"

"Yes." She muttered as if it's a common thing.

"…That's it!" The genin hugged her tightly with anger yet determined look, "You are not going back there ever again!" The albino girl look up to him with a questioning glint, "You're coming with us. It's more safe and you'll have better life far away from this place."

"…I don't have to go back?" Hestia rested her head on his chest with a hopeful tone, "Never?"

"Never!" Naruto nodded firmly, "You're struck with us for good!"

"…Thank you…" She nuzzled her face in his chest with a hug.

"No problem." He wrapped her with blanket, "You should go sleep for a bit and rest up."

"Ok." Hestia closed her eyes, "…Will you…Be here when I…Wake up?"

"Yeah, I will." Naruto replied as the albino girl fall asleep right away as if she haven't been sleeping well for long time. He take a glance around at the girls, it seem that he don't wake them up with his shouting then he look back to Lyra. "I hope things will look up for Hestia now."

"It will, because this poor thing have you now." Lyra smiled sadly, had heard everything. "You did the right thing."

"Of course I did." He nodded his head, "I can promise you that Hestia will have a better life from now onward and I won't let anyone hurt her again."

"I hope so." The living harp agreed and the genin look down at the sleeping white-haired girl.

"I guess it don't hurt to own five different iron stoves." Gretel hummed as several girls looked around at the stoves in a plain boxcar wagon while the other went through a pile on other side, "That would speed things up if we wish to cook many foods at once." It have been few hours after everyone finally got up and learn some details about Hestia, which everyone accepted Naruto's decision right away without any issues since they want Hestia to have better life like them.

"Yes, while they all have griddle top, some of them have one or two ovens." Snow agreed while she give Hestia small amount of food, they will increase her amount a little by little so she can fully recover and become healthy but it'll take some time until then. "Eat up, Hestia, and do it slow."

"Ok." The expressionless girl munched on a piece of bread with both hands, now wearing long grey dress under red thick padded winter coat that reach her ankles and a pair of black boots with white knee-long socks. She turn out to be about ten but she's too small for her age. Her raspy tone have disappeared after she drank some water few times.

"I'm glad you're okay with me getting five stoves." Naruto scratched his head sheepishly, "I still should have asked what stove you all want before I left yesterday." The brunette just wave it off while she check inside the stoves after the rest of the girls went over to the pile and the genin turn to the group that looked through the pile then to Nerida as she examine a empty fish tank. "Nerida, is this tank okay?" The mute girl nodded happily, "I'm glad."

"Naruto, you sure buy a lot of things." Goldilocks commented as she packed twenty full jam jars into a basket before she hold a jar up to him, "I'm not even sure if you know what you were getting. That is not a jam."

"Yeah, it's peanut butter." He replied.

"You mean peanut paste?" The short-haired blonde looked at the jar of peanut butter oddly, "I don't see any butter in there…Is it mixed?"

"No, it's peanut butter and I bought some jars because I thought you guys need it to make some foods or use it for peanut and jelly sandwich." Naruto said and some girls give him strange look, causing him to sweatdrop slightly. How far behind is this country?

"I don't mind if he buy many things." Annette shifted through basket of fifteen balls of different sizes, "After all, we still have a lot of money."

"And if we ever run out, we can get more gold and silver from the magical greenjacket." Heida snorted as she separate thirty-five books and ten children's picture books in a neat stack, "Which we won't have to use for fifty years or more than that."

"Yeah, after two thousand years." The short-haired blonde turned back to the jars with a snort.

"Wow, I don't know money expand your lifespan." Elsie gasped in awe as she hugged dozen of stuffed animals to her chest, sitting in middle of dolls and more stuffed animals.

"Goldilocks, you fix that." Vasilisa brushed Lily's hair as the toad girl lie sleeping on floor with drool and Rosie were comparing new arrows with her arrows.

"Mm, milk, milk." Kitty singsong happily as she put empty milk bottles in crate along with full milk bottles, "I can't wait to drink milk as much as I want."

"I'm glad we have a cooking book." Rapunzel sort the new kitchen set out from pans to utensils, "Oh, six pair of cooking mittens. Kettles and teacups. Naruto, whoever give those to you for free is very kind."

"Yeah, he was pretty nice even if he's weird." Naruto replied as he set several jars of candies aside before he turn back to the group, "After we finish sorting things out, I'll have my clones use doton jutsu to collect stones and get start work turning this wagon into a cooking wagon."

"How long will it take until it's done?" Snow asked.

"A day." He rubbed his chin with a hum, "Normally, it'll take days but you know how fast it is with my kage bunshin."

"I'll draw a line to divide it in half." Gretel pull an chalk out, "One half for kitchen and other for dining."

"That'll be helpful." Naruto approved the idea as he wonder if he should add walls with doorway to make it truly divided. It took some time until everyone finished sort through everything.

The next day, everyone look at the new appearance of wagon from outside. It look like a regular box wagon but there are five chimneys sticking out from top in row on right-end side. "Ready to look inside the cooking wagon…" Naruto grinned at them before he rub his chin, "Or is it dining wagon?"

"Dining wagon." Gretel hummed, it was supposed to be 'cooking' wagon because of kitchen only until they add dining room on impulse. They step across the snowy field to enter the dining wagon with step ladders through a sliding door.

"We need to do something about walking around in snow." Heida complained as they wiped their boots on mat then remove them, stow them away on a shoe rack near a wall as soon as Naruto closed the door behind them.

"Is that dining room?" Rosie tilted her head at the said area with index finger on side of her chin, "It look so bare." There is nothing but large shag carpet bordering few inches away from the corners, "Where's table and chairs?"

"Table and chairs?" The genin blinked at the redhead before he smack his forehead, "Oh, right. One of you told me that people here eat at table with chairs, not on floor."

"Do people generally sit on floor for supper in your homeland?" Annette asked.

"Kinda." Naruto scratched his head, "A lot of people I know eat at table on floor but some people prefer sitting on chairs."

"Which one do you prefer?" The orange-haired girl asked.

"I don't mind either way." He shrugged his shoulders as he rubbed his chin, "But I'm not sure if we have enough chairs for everyone."

"We will decorate and set it up later." Gretel looked at walls with doorway to the kitchen and she step over the slight stone ledge, following by the group as they looked around at the kitchen. The floor and walls have been coated with smooth stones and five stoves sit in back in neat row with two inches gap in between. There is a big table with thick top in middle of kitchen and it have two shelves under it, the kitchen sets and box of utensils can been seen on those shelves.

"Oooh, it will be perfect once we get our hands on dry sink and cabinets." Snow clasped her hands together happily as she looked around, "Racks too."

"And many other things." Goldilocks looked around uninterestingly while Gretel and several girls checked the stoves to make sure they're secure enough with bolts, which they are.

"Yeah, like refrigerator and freezer." Naruto agreed, "That will be perfect once we get some ice cream and…" He trailed off when he notice the familiar stare from the girls, "…What?"

"What are refrigerator and freezer?" Elsie asked, "And ice cream?"

"I'm familiar with ice cream." Heida said, "They're luxury frozen sweet, made from milk and sweets with some favor."

"Ooh." The auburn-haired woman's eyes lit up, "I want to rry it. Do you know how to make it?"

"No." The older teenager replied bluntly, causing the woman to pouted childishly with sad expression.

"Um, refrigerator is an machine that keep foods fresh." Naruto explained, "Keep things at room temperate or below, making them little cold. For freezer, it's same like refrigerator but it keep things frozen below zero point like ice for example."

"Uh, is it like ice house?" Gretel asked.

"Ice house?" He raised his eyebrow.

"It's a small building to storing ice blocks and they're partly or wholly underground so they can last almost a year without melting down." The brunette said, "They're always close to lake or any place that provide winter ice."

"Oh, um, yes, kinda?" Naruto scratched his head, "But refrigerator can be used inside a house and can keep things cold for more than a year, depending on the food's lifespan…" He paused to looked around at the bottom of walls, "Um, never mind, it's just a stupid suggestion since they need electricity to run and we can't just go put power outlet here, which is pretty stupid now I'm thinking about it."

"Electricity, run, power output?" Rosie looked so confused with some stream coming from her ears.

"Um, something from my homeland." He chuckled sheepishly and everyone decide to left it at that, beside few new girls who look confused by that.

"Well, let's take it for a test drive." Gretel changed the subject as she put woods inside then strike a match to set it on fire, "I hope you all like eggs and streaks for breakfast."

"I'll go get foods." Naruto left as everyone stay behind to keep their eyes on stoves for different reasons, "And look for tables and chairs."

"I'll say it's a successful." Snow wiped her smiling mouth with cloth napkin as everyone sit at table in dining area. The cooking went smoothly without any hiccups and it feel like the stoves make it process faster…Although it took a long time to get the stoves ready after starting fire.

"Yeah, it's way better than cooking meats over campfire." Naruto agreed along with everyone else before he glance around, "It would be more comfortable for everyone if we have enough chairs." He only find ten chairs in one of storage scrolls so some have to share at the table. Kitty have to hold Lily up to feed her while the toad girl kept dozing off, Vasilisa sit together with Rapunzel side by side, and Naruto have Hestia and Nerida on his laps. The emotionless girl entwined his left hand with her right hand, playing around with it while she slowly eat small piece of meat with her free hand and the sliver-eyed girl clumsily scoop the eggs up as she hold fork awkwardly while her free hand also hold Naruto's other hand. It's good thing that he already ate his breakfast or it'll be cold by now. Several 'mature' girls guess that the new young girls take in comfort by staying close to him, body contact and use form of affections as a outlet to get over their own trauma. The genin don't mind it as long as he can help them get through whatever they just went through.

"True, we need more chairs but it's manageable." The ravenette said.

"Hey, when are we going to set out?" Goldilocks asked.

"In few hours after breakfast." Naruto hummed, "I have to get two regular covered wagons out to fasten them to greenhouse and livestock wagons then clear the road with kage bunshin with shovels."

"Don't we have two shovels?" The short-haired blonde frowned oddly with raised eyebrow.

"Oh, don't worry about that." He replied, "I'll hold a shovel then use kage bunshin. Boom, hundred shovels or more."

"…Permanently?" Goldilocks muttered bewilderedly.

"Nah, they vanish along with clones." Naruto shook his head.

"Oh, if that was the case then I would think you're the stupidest boy for not thinking about it early." The short-haired blonde muttered before she snorted, "Bur again, you're still stupidest boy."

"Hey." He shot her a glare, which receive him a sticking-out tongue from her. 'I'll put her on the prankee list.'

"I'm glad we don't have to clean the coachman's seats because we built a shelter the other day." Rosie commented.

"Indeed." Snow nodded, she don't want to get sick and feel bad about it again.

"Is anyone else going to ride in vardo with Lily and me?" Kitty asked them before the toad girl smack the catgirl's chest with her face, "Oh, you've get to be kitten me." She groaned, "Now I have to take another bath."

"Heida, Hestia and Rapunzel will." Gretel replied.

"What about Naruto?" Hestia asked blankly, squeezing his hand.

"I can leave a clone inside with you." Naruto looked down to her, "Is that okay?" The expressionless girl merely nods at that and it takes a while until everyone start their preparation.

By the time they get far away from the city by many miles, the officers have arrested Hestia's father based on suspicion that he may have murdered his daughter and hide her body after some people notice the disappearance of albino girl and he was hanged at gallows.

"Why are you carrying a candlestick around?" Goldilocks asked Hestia as the albino girl carry a said item in her right hand and matchsticks in another, the group were on a break.

"Because I need it." Hestia replied flatly.

"For what?" The short-haired blonde raised her eyebrow quizzically at the expressionless girl as the young girl lit the candlestick.

"Fire." The albino girl stared at the flame intensely.

"Uh, okay?" Goldilocks turned away from her with a shrug and weird look. Behind her, Hestia calmly reach her candlestick out…And set a bush on fire.

"Oh, burning bush!" Elsie clapped in awe, "Like the one from the book!"

"What the bloody hell?!" The short-haired blonde sharply spun around with widened eyes before her head snapped to Hestia, "Why did you do that for?!"

"I want to burn it." Hestia said bluntly without taking her eyes off the burning bush, "And I like fire."

"…Are you a pyromanic?" Goldilocks stared at the expressionless girl flatly, no one was worrying about the fire because it's far away from the wagons and it'll go out soon thank to the snow. Hestia just walk over to another bush before she set it on fire as soon as the first bush went out, "Yes, you're a pyromanic." She rubbed her forehead with an groan.

Naruto have witnessed everything from his position as he sweatdrop, "…Should I be very concerning about that?" He paused for a moment as Hestia stare at the fire before he shrug his shoulders, 'Maybe it's just a phase.' It look like she know what she was doing when she checked the distance between bushes and wagons early, 'If it get bad, we'll stop her and explain it to her why she can't do that.'

"I think we can travel for few more miles before we stop for a night." Snow said to Gretel with opening map.

"I agree as long as it's not snowing." Gretel glanced up at the dark clouds with a hum.

"Hey, I'm going on a light jog." Naruto called out to them, "You get kunai on you?"

"Yes." The ravenette showed him the tri-prong kunai with a little wave, "It's right here." The genin gave her a nod before he start his jog into woods, "…Shall we stop Hestia from set things on fire?" She asked as soon as the expressionless girl attempt to set a lone tree on fire.

"…Let give her a little time before we do that." The brunette muttered tiredly.

"Man, I sure get this snow walking down." Naruto felt proud of himself as he jogged across the snowy field and he feel like it's time to turn back to complete his jog. A scream in distance startle him and the genin swiftly ran toward the source until he discover a young slender brunette woman in purple cloak chasing by pack of wolves. Naruto quickly leap in between the woman and the pack with a shout, "Futon: Daitoppa!" The wolves fling everywhere by a powerful wind and the woman was so startled by the sight that she slip and hit her head on a flat stone. Several wolves lunge at him with a snarl and the genin quickly use fire and wind jutsu, taking few out in process. It took few more jutsu until the dwindling pack has enough and ran away. He scan the woods for any sign of the pack as he move close to check on the woman and he see her head bleeding but it wasn't too serious. "Better wrap it up before I bring her back…" He muttered until he hear an loud savage roar and he turn to see an giant beasty chimera-like creature charge toward them with fury in its eyes. "OH SHIT!" Naruto quickly went through a series of handseals.

"YOU…" The beast roared, only to be cut off by the genin's cry.

DOTON…" The genin slammed his hands into the snow, "DORYUSO!"

"Wha?!" The beast barely utter before he got skewered through torso by a giant earth spike and the creature held the sides of spike with his claws, choking on his blood while standing, due to the spike's position and angle. The creature shakily lifts his head up to stare at the genin with widened eyes before his head drop lifelessly with dangling arms.

"Holy fuck, what kind of animal is that thing?" Naruto panted heavily at the creature before he quickly scoop the woman up in princess carry, "Better get out of here before any more animals show up." He quickly took off with haste, not bothering to collect the bodies of wolves and a bizarre creature.

Several hours later, Naruto dust some snows off his gloves and wipe boots on small mat as soon as he enter the vardo once they reach the next stop. "I'm back, how's she doing?" He asked Rapunzel.

"Still sleeping." Rapunzel replied as she hang the magical bag up before she glance at the older brunette that lie on bed near Lily, "She had some minor wounds, mostly from wolves, and a nasty bump with small cut but I already heal all of it with this bag."

"Does that mean she's okay now?" He asked as most of the girls enter the vardo after finished their tasks.

"Physically, yes." The long-haired blonde hummed thoughtfully and one of them was about to ask something until they hear a stirred groan before they turn their heads to see the brunette woman sit up with hand on side of her head.

"Ugh, my head…" The brunette groaned again. She have a long thick wavy brown hair that reach the bottom of her shoulder blades, grayish-gold eyes, full pink lips and rosy cheeks. She wear a long blue sleeveless dress over a white long-sleeved button-up shirt with a white apron that nearly reach the bottom of her dress and a long white petticoat under her skirt. The first thing she see is Lily's slumbering face sticking out from an strange bag near her, "Wha…"

"You're finally up." Rapunzel said to draw the brunette woman's attention to the group, "How are you feeling?"

"I-I'm confused…" The groaning brunette rubbed her head with the heel of her hand with furrowed brows as she spoke with an accent, "What…What happened?"

"I saved you from the wolves and some monster and bring you back here." Naruto replied.

"Wolves?" The brunette woman's eyes widened, "Monster? I..." She lowered her head in confusion, "I don't remember that…"

"Huh?" The genin blinked along with several girls.

"…What do you remember?" The long-haired woman asked her carefully.

"Um, My name is Beauty Belle." The brunette woman muttered as if she was trying to recall everything, "I'm twenty-one, I know when's my birthday and…" She paused with a sharp inhale, "T-That's all I can remember…I-I-I can't remember anything else."

"…It sounds like you have amnesia." Rapunzel spoke.

"Wait, she got it after hitting her head on this rock?" Naruto widened his eyes in worry, "Is there any ways we can cure her of that?"

"No, I'm sorry." The medic shook her head softly, "It's not something we can cure through medicines. She have to recover on her own but it's possible that she will never get her memories back." The genin look upset by that and he wasn't the only one.

"It's okay." Beauty spoke softly after she noticed their expressions, "I'm not upset about losing my memories, just confusing…And it's not hopeless case because there's a good chance of recovering my memories one day." She turned her head to Naruto with a reassuring smile, "You save my life, didn't you? I thank you from the bottom of my heart, thank you…"

"Naruto." The genin said after he noticed her stare, "I'm Naruto Uzumaki…Are you sure you're okay with that?"

"Oui, I am." The brunette woman replied and the group introduced themselves.

"Alright, I want to ask you that…" Goldilocks raised her hand up with a weird look, "Are you sure that your full name is Beauty Belle?"

"Oui." Beauty nodded with a light embarrassing blush, "That I can remember clearly and I do not know why I was named this way."

"What's wrong?" Naruto glanced between them with raised eyebrow.

"Belle mean beauty or beautiful." Rosie giggled to the brunette woman's chagrin, "In other words, her name is Beauty Beauty."

"Oh, um, I see." He scratched his head, "That's…Unique." He can't help but to snickered under his breath and in the end, Beauty was welcomed into the party for several good reasons.

"You sure you're okay with sleeping on floor?" Naruto asked Beauty as he rolled the sleeping bag out for her and he put several different types of blankets on it along with pillow. "I mean, you have been injured today and we don't mind if you want to sleep on bed."

"Yes, I'm sure and thank you." Beauty replied with a smile, wearing an white nightgown. "But I'll feel bad if I do." She glanced at the near-crowded bed, "I don't want to have someone sleeping on floor while I, an outsider, take their place and some may feel uncomfortable sleeping next to stranger."

"I don't think they'll feel this way." He said as he think back to the girls' first night, they were pretty very comfortable sharing bed.

"I'm certain that Nerida and Hestia does." The brunette woman replied.

"They're shy around new people and strangers." Naruto said.

"I agree with you about Nerida, but not Hestia." Beauty tapped her chin, "She seems not to like me very much."

"Um, Hestia?" He scratched his head with a blink, "I don't think she dislike you. Just give her some time and she'll warm up to you. You'll feel like silly when she does."

"If you say so…" The brunette woman muttered before Hestia and Nerida approach Naruto after finished their changes and Beauty offers them her smile. Nerida duck behind the genin with timid look and the brunette swear that the albino girl give her a glare for a second. 'I pray Naruto's right about her.'

"Naruto, look." Hestia tugged the genin's shirt before she stretch her arms wide open to show off her white fleece pajama set, a shirt and pant, with orange fire patterns.

"You look nice." Naruto patted her head with a smile.

"Thank you." The expressionless girl hugged his side, nuzzling her face against his chest. Nerida took one look at her before she tug the genin's shirt with determined look.

"Yes, Nerida?" His head turned to the mute girl and she stretch her arms out like Hestia to show her wool navy-blue nightgown with dark blue tide wave patterns. "Did you find something you like? You look nice in it too." Nerida hugged his other side with a beaming smile before she lock eyes with Hesita and they stare at each other with somewhat intense, Beauty and couple girls swear they saw lightings between their eyes. Naruto was unawake of their actions as he patted their heads while looking at Beauty, "I hope you don't mind Haru sleeping next to you or laying his head on you. He does that sometime."

"Ah, I don't mind." Beauty reached down to scratch Haru behind his ear, "He wouldn't be much bother."

"He won't." Heida commented, "All he does is just sleeping and eat."

"That's not true." Snow looked at the older teenager, "He help out with the livestock and run around to play." The teenager just shrugged her shoulders at that.

"Alright, good night." Naruto said to the brunette woman as he helped the young girls up onto the bed.

"Good night…" The brunette woman glanced at the shelves, "Do you all mind if I have a light reading before I go to sleep?"

"We don't mind." Gretel replied from her place as she draw the curtains, "Feel free to use the desk, the lamp won't bother us."

"Thank you." Beauty select a book then walked over to sit down at desk, start reading as the rest went to sleep and Haru plop his head on her laps for more headscratch, which she give him absentmindedly.

It took four days until the party reaches their next stop and it was decided that they'll camp out for several days. "There is a city with kingdom off the route ten miles away from here." Gretel muttered to herself as she read the map inside the vardo, "It's possible that we may visit it during our staying."

"Gretel." The said girl turned her head to see Rosie poking her head inside from the door, "I'm going to make something to eat. Would you like me to make you one?"

"I'll like a sausage and some eggs." The brunette girl said, "Scramble."

"Ok, get it." The smiling redhead nodded to her before she close the door and walk toward the dining wagon, taking a glance at the surrounding. Goldilocks was chopping woods, Beauty was enjoying the coldness as she sit on a stump to read a book and several Naruto's clones were working on a latest project to 'upgrade' the campsite while the rest of clones were following their training schedule. The rest of girls were inside different wagons, doing whatever they're doing. "Hm?" The redhead stopped to stare at the clones, "Is real Naruto here among you?"

"Nah, boss is training a mile away from here because he want to use some powerful jutsu." A random clone informed her, "You kinda missed him few minutes ago. Do you need something from him?"

"No, I was just curious." Rosie waved it off with a headshake, "Thank you for let me know." She skipped off to the dining wagon and the clone resumes his training.

"Hi-yah!" Naruto punched the snowy ground...And buried his hand under snow. "Dammit!" He pull his hand out with a groan, "How did granny do that?" He shook snows off his glove with a humming frown, "Does she channel chakra into her fist and just punch? Or did she do something with it before punch?" Naruto crossed his arms with tilted head as he mumbled to himself and he never notice a portal opening up few yards behind him until he hear some cries, following by thuds. "Huh?" The genin turned around to see twelve tangled bodies as they tried to push each other off to get up. Naruto notice that they appear to be male and huntsmen.

"WHAT IS THIS SORCERY?!" A thin person spring up in to sitting pose with a cry to look up at the portal along with everyone else and Naruto take a good look at the first person. The person appear to be a young teenager boy, maybe two years old than him, and he have short blue hair and gray eyes. He wear an brown cap, brownish cardigan coat with grayish-brown pant and pair of brown leather boots.

"Quick!" The second person attempted to leap up on feet as he pointed at the portal, "We need to go back through that before it…" The portal vanish in a blink, "Disappear…" His pointing finger drop lifelessly, "…Blimey." He have a brown hair under a cap that have a white feather, brown eyes and an accent. He wear exact same outfit like the first person and when Naruto scan the other, all huntsmen wear identical uniform with similar hats.

"Oh, that's quite bad, isn't it?" The third person placed index finger on his chin and Naruto have to take a double-take at his appearance. He appear to be nearly eight feet tall with very tan skin, he have light sandy blond hair, red eyes, slender yet muscular body and slight pointy ears.

"Yes, it is!" The fourth person screamed in shock. He look like he don't get out much because of his pale skin, appear to be sixteen or seventeen years old and he have silver-white hair with gold eyes. "This magic portal took us somewhere away and we don't know where we are!" He noticed Naruto from the corner of his eyes before he jabbed his index finger to point at him, "You! Was that your doing? Where are we?!"

"No, it's not and I don't know." Naruto scratched his head with a light shrug as the group finally get up on their feet, "The portal sucked you in too, huh?"

"…Too?" The silver-haired teenager lowered his hand with a blink and everyone else also blink at that.

"Yeah, I was in a rundown library to hide from the pervy bastard and I was going to learn a jutsu until this portal suddenly come out of nowhere and teleport me to woods in continent on other side of the world." The genin explained.

"O-O-Other s-s-s-side…" The silver-haired huntsman's eyes widened with tremble, "O-Of the w-w-world?!"

"Calm down." A tall skinny huntsman with brownish red hair and mustache place his hand on the silver-haired teenager's shoulder, "Maybe this portal teleport us somewhere closer." He has brown eyes and some freckles under his eyes.

"Um, I have a map back at campsite." Naruto jabbed thumb over his shoulder, "You guys can take a look at it and see if you see anything familiar." The silver-haired teenager slowly nodded his head, it seems to the genin that he's the leader of the huntsmen. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki." He said as he lead the group while noticing that they were carrying bags on their back and some have weapons, mostly short swords and bows. "And you guys are…?"

"Ah, I'm Arya." The silver-haired teenager answered.

"Hello, I'm Tate." The eight foot tall huntsman smiled warmly.

"Wyatt." The blue-haired teenager with gray eyes replied curtly.

"Wendy, which is a man's name." The huntsman with brownish-red mustache gave Naruto a thumb-up and the huntsmen gave him a certain look.

"Um, okay." The genin shrugged his shoulders, "Not the first, um, unique name I've ever heard of."

"…My name is Gray." The brown-haired huntsman with feathered cap said after he gave Wendy a stern look.

"I'm Billy, friends call me Billie." A young thin teenager spoke. He have a light spiky brown hair with bang that cover his right eye, hazel eyes, dark freckles across his nose bridge from cheek to cheek and a single long fang. He appears to be few inches shorter than Naruto.

"Set." A older teenager said dully. He have steel teal hair that cover his left eye, cyan blue eyes, puffy upper lip and apathy expression.

"I am Val." A chubby huntsman spoke softly, he have dark violet hair and blue eyes.

"Nico." A tall teenager crossed his arms, he have a choppy pink hair, yellow eyes and black thick mustache.

"Hello, my name is Piper." A slender black-haired huntsman closed his purple eyes with a gentle smile, he appear to be around eighteen.

"Rowan." A tanned huntsman lift his hand up in greeting, he have purple hair, violet eyes and thick purple beard.

"And I'm Sam." A thirteen years old huntsman finished, he have red hair and bright green eyes. "How far is your campsite?"

"At this pace, I'll say around a hour." Naruto replied and he can hear couple groans behind him, complaining about how cold it is. Seems they came from someplace that don't have snow. It took some time until they reach the campsite and the huntsmen were taken aback by the amount of wagons, unique wagons, the girls and the clones. "Before you ask, the other me are my clones, not my brothers." He said to the hunters as he remembered Elsie and couple girls asked him that question, "I can create kage bunshin and dispel them with chakra, which is not a magic at all. I'm not sorcerer, I'm a shinobi."

"Oh, um…" Rowan blinked few times with lame tone, "You get it a lot?"

"More than I like." The genin sighed.

"Naruto, you're back." Beauty looked up from her book with a smile before she look at the other group questioningly as the girls start to gather, "And with company."

"Men…" Hestia almost immediately hide behind Naruto with Nerida as she peeked out with a glare while the mute girl peeked out timidly, "I hate men."

"You know I'm a man too?" The genin looked down at her as he pointed at himself.

"You're the only man I love." The albino girl pressed the side of her head against Naruot's side.

"Ah." Naruto scratched his head sheepishly with light blush and chuckle as he looked between the groups, "Let me introduce you guys to each other. That is…" He made a quick introduction of each group then explained to the girls, "And the portal disappeared on them like it did to me. I offer them to take a look at the map to see where they are."

"Here you go." Gretel pulled the map out of her pocket then hand it over to Arya, who swiftly open it with scanning eyes as the huntsmen peek at it from all directions.

"…D-D-Do you have another map?" The silver-haired huntsman slowly lift his head up shakily.

"No, I apologize." The brunette girl shook her head, "That is the only map we have and there is no world map because to my knowledge, no one have create a world map yet." The silver-haired huntsman looked down at the map again with widened eyes in horror.

"Guess we're in same boat, huh." Naruto recognized this look.

"W-W-W-What are we going to do?" Arya stuttered and most of huntsmen looked worried and concerned about their situation.

"Um, if that's okay with everyone here…" The genin looked between everyone, "You guys can travel with us. We're going to harbor in…" He turned to Snow and Gretel, "Three months?"

"By our rough estimation." Gretel said as the ravenette nodded slightly, "It can be around three or four months."

"As long as we don't encounter any storms." Snow added, earn a nod from the brunette girl.

"F-F-Four months?" The silver-haired teenager stammered, 'I still have some time. The wedding is a year away." He turned to his fellow hunters and they have a whispering debate for a while until he turn back to Naruto's group. "We accept your offer, thank you for your hospitality."

"Great!" Naruto grinned.

"Are we going to have them stay in one of the vardo wagons?" Goldilocks asked Gretel.

"No, I don't think they'll like that." The genin replied instead, "There aren't big one enough beside ours. Same for tents, I don't know if there are any big one that are suitable for the winter."

"Until we make one?" Rapunzel suggested, "With another box wagon?"

"Ooh, good idea." Naruto nodded, "We can turn one into bedding wagon for guests. I believe we have enough mattresses and woods to make beds…" He paused to look at Tate for few seconds, "Hopeful enough."

"We have twelve mattresses and three beds." Gretel informed him, "So you have to build nine beds or buy them. We need to get one more mattress to make one large enough for him."

"Oh, you don't have to do it for me." Tate waved his hands with flustered expression, "I'm comfortable sleeping on floor."

"I don't know, the floor can be hard to sleep on." The genin scratched his cheek doubtfully, "We'll feel bad if you don't have a bed to sleep on while everyone else does."

"I'm pretty sure some of us don't care." Heida replied with crossed arms and uncaring expression but he ignore her.

"Ah, I know!" Naruto got a idea, "We have a lot of extra sleeping bags. We put the first mattress in then fill the rest of space with folded bags and replace it later when we get another mattress."

"That's a clever solution." Snow smiled.

"Thank, Snow." He grinned back before he turn to the huntsmen, "Are you okay with bunk beds? I'll put two single beds and five bunk beds in if you're cool with it."

"Um, we'll be fine with bunk beds." Arya gave him a funny look, due to Naruto's strange words.

"Alright!" Naruto jogged in and out from the vardo wagon with several scrolls and he walk over to empty space. The huntsmen jumped up with startled yelps as the genin summon a box wagon from a scroll, following by kage bunshin. Even Beauty was surprised by the summoning since it's her first time seeing it in person.

"You'll get use to it in time." Goldilocks commented on the huntsmen's shocked expressions, "After few more shocks."

"Um, like what?" Val asked meekly.

"Oh, you'll see." The short-haired blonde picked her ax up then walked back to the lying logs, "You'll see."

"Why do I have a weird feeling in my guts?" Billy raised his eyebrow.

"Hey, I finished it." Naruto called out to the huntsmen couple hours later before he notice some strange looks from them, "What?"

"Some girls here have mention…" Wyatt coughed into his fist, "Your relationship with everyone."

"Ah, yeah, that…" The genin scratched his head sheepishly with equally-sheepish grin, "I honestly don't know how it just happen." He paused for a moment, "And Beauty isn't part of it because we just met yesterday when…"

"Yes, you rescued her from pack of wolves and some wild beast." Gray said, "They told us that and some have similar stories about how you save them or invite them in after they got lost like us."

"Lot of things happened up until now." Naruto chuckled sheepishly before he pause with few blinks, 'Is it me or did many crazy things happen around me?' He think back to the very beginning of his career up to this point, '…Nah! Must be coincidence.' He cleared his throat as he lead the huntsmen to bedding wagon, "But I still can't figure out how I end up with many girlfriends…Ah, right, different meaning here, I mean sweethearts."

"The common thing that the girls said is how kind you are." Sam said as the huntsmen recall the girls talking about how they fall for the genin.

"They're my precious people." The genin replied as they reached the door in right side of the bedding wagon with steps and porch like an vardo wagon, "Anyway, I put few things inside for you, beside beds." He entered the bedding wagon with the huntsmen as they looked around, "Hope you like it." There is a bunk bed placed horizontal at the back, four bunk beds at sides in row, two each, and two single beds also at both sides, one is long that it have sleeping bags packed into the empty space. In the front area, there is a large carpet with pile of folded blankets and sheets and couple nightstands with a single drawer. "I know it's not much for now but we'll buy more to make this place more homely and comfy for you guys."

"That's kind of you." Rowan rubbed the back of his neck guiltily, "But again, you don't have do it for us."

"Hey, don't worry about it." Naruto waved it off, "We're in same boat, after all. I will like it if someone does same thing for me when that happened to me."

"Does this door have a lock?" Arya asked, glancing back at the door.

"Yeah, let me show you." The genin closed the door to show them a sliding lock with pin on frame, "You slide it this way…" He moved the bolt then pull bolt down before he latch the pin on it, "Pull it down then lock it with this pin." He jiggle it to demonstrate the secure of their security before he unlock the door, "Easy and simple. That okay with you guys?"

"Yes, yes, that is very good." The silver-haired teenager looked very satisfied with that.

"Naruto, what are these papers?" Sam pointed to dozen heater tags that stick on walls near the ceiling.

"They're heater tag." Naruto explained how it work to them, "…And I recommend you guys not to tear it down or it'll get little colder in here."

"How interesting." Gray stared at the tags with a hum.

"I'll let you guys settle in first." The genin head outside, "We'll get you when it's time for dinner."

"Thank you." Val closed the door then locked it before he turn to the group, "…Well, that just happened."

"UGH!" Arya plop down on right single bed with heavy groan, "I can't believe it! How can it happen to us like that?!" He reach up to take his cap off…Then shake long straight hair loose with few strands before he reach under his shirt and remove the bandage wraps, revealing Arya to be a teenager girl. "Ah!" She breathed out in relief as soon as she free her bust from tight wrapping before she drop her head down with a groan, "What did I do to deserve this fate?"

"Maybe it's because you want to stop a wedding?" Wendy reach up to his mustache and untie it, revealing that the 'mustache' was actually part of long bushy hair and like Arya, 'he' turn out to be a teenager girl.

"AND YOU!" The silver-haired girl jabbed her index finger at Wendy with a exhausted-yet-furious expression, "Who ever introduce themselves this way?! Wendy, which is a man's name! Huh?!"

"Me." The brownish-red-haired girl grinned lopsidedly, pointing at herself with thumb and the silver-haired girl facepalm.

"Quiet down, you two." Wyatt removed his coat, reveal 'his' quite gifted chest and slightly narrow waist as 'he' turned out to be a girl. "We don't know they can hear us outside or not."

"Maybe not, the walls look thick to me." Rowan reached up to remove the beard, exposing 'himself' to be a girl and one by one, each 'huntsman' turn out to be huntswomen as they remove their disguises.

BOING! BOING!

"Aaah!" Piper exhaled out happily as soon as she took a bustier off and her voluminous K-cup bust sway out. "I know the bustier is magical but it feel so tight and confined."

"I know this feeling." Tate agreed as she freed her P-cup breasts from bandage wraps with a relieved sigh.

"Bloody cows." Billy stared at their chest with breast envy before she look down at her flat chest, "Fuck."

"Um, you know you're still growing, right?" Sam combed her long wavy hair with hand. Most girls have long and medium hairs, expect for Billy and Rowan who have short hair. The brunette with fang crossed her legs on bottom bed with a low grumble and the redhead sweatdrop at her.

"As unfortunate our situation is, I'm glad this accursed portal drop us near a good man who can help us." Gray messed her long unruly curly hair up as she take another look at the bedding area, "He don't have to make it for us."

"He's so kind and very thoughtful like they said." The giant had a warm smile and very faint blush as she take the blankets and sheets, passing them off to the huntswomen while they claim their beds with bags.

"Yes, without asking for anything in return…" Arya muttered, "I shall give him some reward once we complete the mission."

'You mean if?' Set lie on her side in horizontal bottom bed with bored expression, she don't voice it out loud because Arya will bite her head off for tempting the fate.

"Sorry about having you guys sit on floor." Naruto said to the huntsmen with Vasilisa sitting on his laps as the huntsmen sat around a low-table in dining area, "We don't have enough chairs."

"It's fine, we understand." Rowan rubbed his beard, "We're grateful to be served dinner with a fine table you have here." He glanced at pieces of chickens and salmon on plates and cups of fresh water.

"I don't know if the table is 'fine'." The genin arched his eyebrow at the low-table's direction as he stroke Vasilisa's head absentmindedly and the young blonde lean closer, enjoying the massage.

"You know, since we're going to stick together for a while, maybe we can pitch in to help you all." Wendy twirled his mustache, "I can reinforce wooden furniture and some wagons for example."

"Are you an carpenter?" Snow asked.

"Yes, that's my trade." The brownish-red-haired huntsman flashed a thumb-up with a grin, "I learned from my father, who come from a long line of carpentry family."

"Ooh, that will be very helpful!" Rosie clapped her hands.

"I'll say." Naruto agreed, he may build and upgraded things but he's not experienced enough and have an real carpenter around really help out in a long run.

"Oh, I can help carrying heavy things." Tate lifted his hand up with beaming smile, "I'm half-giant so it's no sweat for me to lift anything over tons or many things at once."

"I'm a tracker." Wyatt said, "I'm your man when you need to find track of animals or anything else."

"I'm a cooker." Piper added, "I have a lot of knowledge in this area so I can help out in kitchen if you like me to."

"I can help out with that too." Val inputted.

"I'm archer so I can help a bit out with hunting." Set said dully.

"Ooh, archer?" Rosie's eyes lit up, "Can you teach me few things? I have been training myself as an archer." The steel teal-haired huntsman simply shrugs his shoulders, following by a tiny nod. "Awesome!"

"My craft is blacksmith and forger but it's useless here for several good reasons." Rowan said, "I'll help out with anything if you need me for something."

"Same here, some of us have skillset that are useless because of lacking necessarily." Arya glanced at several huntsmen, "But we can help. We can be…Part of security or something."

"Wow, that's nice of you all." Naruto grinned as several girls nodded in agreement.

"Everyone, please finish your dinner." Gretel gave everyone a stern look as she cut into her chicken, "It's getting cold." Almost everyone turn back to their dinner right away at the brunette's voice.

The next morning, the huntswomen were sleeping until a knock slowly stir everyone out of their slumber. "Who is it?" Arya asked drowsy.

"It's me, Naruto." The genin's voice replied and that fully wake the huntswomen up as they quickly scramble.

"W-Wait five minutes!" The silver-haired teenager shouted and she turn to see Wendy pulled the bandage wrap around Tate's chest back with hands while pushing the crying giant forward with her foot while Piper struggled to get her magical bustier on with few girls' help.

Outside, Naruto lightly kick some snow up in air to pass time as he ignored some loud chatters inside the bedding wagon until the door swing open and he look up at the panting huntsmen, some fidgeted with their caps. "Everything okay?" The genin raised his eyebrow at the still-panting huntsmen.

"Y-Yes, everything is okay." Arya panted, "All okay." He coughed into his fist with clearing throat, "W-What is it?"

"The girls are done so it's our turn now." Naruto said.

"…For what?" Sam blinked with everyone.

'W-W-W-W-What have we got ourselves into?!' The blushing redhead shivered in the stall, 'A man is bathing with us! A man!' To be fair, everyone were in different stalls with one tall big stall for Tate but the thought of a man taking bath near them make the huntswomen feel embarrassed and nervous for many reasons.

"I'm sorry we don't have a big tub for you, Tate." Naruto hollered from his stall.

"A-A-Ah, no, it's fine, it's f-f-fine!" Tate hollered back with a squeak.

"You sure?" He asked.

"Y-Y-Yes!" The giant squeaked.

"T-T-This heater tag sure has many uses." Gray stammered as she curled up under the warm water, mentally pray that nothing will happen.

"Yeah, fuinjutsu is pretty useful." Naruto chuckled, "I hope I can live up to Uzumaki clan. Turn out my clan are pretty famous for their fuinjutsu art and before you ask me, I don't know much about them because I'm orphan and I just found out about them few months ago."

"Oh, um, that's…" The brunette teenager slowly muttered, "Interesting?"

"Yup." The genin washed his hair out, "…You know, I'm glad you guys are going to stay with us."

"Oh, why?" Wendy coughed to clear her throat.

"Because I was get outnumbered by the girls." Naruto chuckled, "I feel so out of place when they talk about the girl things, you know? And it always feel little lonely in here when I take bath by myself. I know there are some that we have in common but there are things that I can't talk about with girls, you know what I mean?"

"Y-Y-Yes, w-we do!" Arya nearly shrieked.

"I know you do." The genin chuckled lightly and there was a silence as everyone wash themselves until he speak up again. "Hey, can I ask you some personal questions? Because some of you are older than me."

"Yes, what is it?" Piper asked and the huntswomen soon wish she shouldn't have ask.

"Is it normal for guys to grow things down there?" Naruto asked, "And why do my dick get hard when I wake up?"

'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!' Nearly all huntswomen screamed mentally with comedic tears and red face.

"What's wrong with you all?" Heida gave the huntsmen funny look as the red-faced huntsmen huddle together in slump.

"N-N-Nothing, w-w-we're just tired…" Wyatt tugged his cap down in attempt to hide his red face, "Y-Yes, just tired." The huntsmen mumbled in confirmation.

"Ooookay…" The dark brown-haired teenager walked away from the embarrassed huntsmen.

"…A-Are we going to go through that every single day?" Sam rubbed his heating ears and some huntsmen squeaked or groaned at that, there is no other way to avoid it or risk exposing themselves.

"You're giving me three bags of each?" Naruto asked Gretel as he take money bags from her along with a new list few hours later.

"Yes, because we have more people now." Gretel replied, "That mean when you go to a store, you have to clean them all out this time."

"Clean them out?" He blinked, "Like buy everything in sight? Is that okay?"

"Yes, it's okay because it's a part of kingdom and the stores will restock the very next day." The brunette shrugged her shoulders, "I expect you to clean out at least four butcher's shop. Leave nothing behind."

"Alright, I'll do that." Naruto read the list as he collected some empty storage strolls from his chest, "Any places I'll visit, I'll clean them out."

"Excellent." Gretel nodded, she don't know if the group will get bigger in the future but it won't hurt a bit for them to overspend everything this time and for once.

"Mm, and you want me to buy livestock if it's possible too?" He asked as soon as he noticed livestock on the list.

"If possible, we need one more cow, some goats and ducks." The brunette hummed.

"Goats and ducks?" Naruto blinked at her before he shrug his shoulders as he exit the vardo, "Ok, I'll keep my eyes out for animals." He looked out to the group, "Hey, I'm heading to city ten miles away from here. Anyone want to come with me?"

'That will take whole days to get there and back.' Wyatt looked at the genin strangely and his fellow huntsmen have similar thoughts.

"Eh, I'll pass." Goldilocks waved it off, she don't feel like visiting city today and the girls also declined his offer.

"No thank you, but can you visit bookstore and buy me books?" Beauty asked.

"I like to come with you." Vasilisa approached him.

"Great, anyone else?" The genin looked around to see if anyone else want to come too but no one else take up on it. "Alright." He looked down to the young blonde, "Ready to go?"

"Da." The young blonde nodded up to him.

"Hop on." Naruto bend down to let her climb on his back in piggy-back carry and he make sure to secure his hold, "Hold on, Vasilisa." The said girl tightened her arms around his neck before Naruto took a mighty leap into the woods as he hopped cross the branches, startling most of shocked huntsmen in process.

"Yup, he's this fast." Rosie giggled at their gawking faces.

"You alright?" Naruto asked the young girl as he put her down as soon as they reach the edge of the city.

"Da, that was fun." The corner of Vasilisa's lips twitched upward in a smile as she hold his hand with a slip, "I enjoy it."

"Really?" He smiled back, put it in the back of his head to remind himself that she enjoy the ride.

"Da." Vasilisa nodded before she turn her head to the entrance of the city, "So where to first?"

"The butcher's shop, of course." Naruto walked into the town with her, "Is there any places you want to go to?"

"Clothing store, I want to see ze clothes and get more fabrics." She answered.

"You know we're going to clean the stores out, right?" He said and the young blonde turn her head up to stare at him for few moments.

"…Oh, then I want to find three clothing stores." Vasilisa smiled lightly and Naruto chuckle at that before they find the first butcher's shop. After emptied four butcher's shops and three clothing stores out, the genin have a idea to send dozen of clones out to do shopping while he look around the city with Vasilisa.

A kage bunshin walk into a furniture store and he look around until he find a man leaning against the cashier's table. "Are you the owner?" The clone asked.

"Yes, how can I help you?" The owner replied.

"Do you do custom order?" Naruto asked.

"Um, yes, you want me to make something?" The owner raised his eyebrow puzzlingly at 'custom order' phase.

"Yeah, I want a huge bathtub for eight feet tall person." The clone stretched his arms open out to demonstrate the size as possible as he can.

"Oh, I can make it." He nodded, "That will take two hours."

"Great!" Naruto grinned, "Can you start now? I'm gonna look around here." That is just an excuse to pass time since he's going to buy everything in this store.

"Yes, sir." The owner went off to start his work on a customized bathtub. He will later cry out in joy when he receives twenty gold coins.

"Here you go, Vasilisa." Naruto gave her a chocolate bar before he eat his own bar with a joking tone, "That'll be our secret."

"Da, our secret." Vasilisa ate her candy with a soft giggle as she leaned her head against his arm while tighten her arm around the very same arm, "I'm glad I get to spend some time with you today."

"Me too, it's really hard to find some time to spend together with you and girls with everything went down." He agreed, it have been very heretic weeks and the works pile up. "But that's going to change now because we have more helps now so I'm going to try my best and find time for you and everyone."

"Mm, I know you will." She looked up to him before she tug his arm down a bit few times as if she want him to bend down.

"What is it?" Naruto bended down and the young blonde lift herself up on tiptoe to kiss him on lip.

"I love you." Vasilisa break away with a light smile.

"…I love you too." He replied back with blush and they resume their walking, eating their candies.

A kage bunshin race down the street then take a sharp turn around the corner and he accidentally crash into a snowman, destroy it in process with a groan. "Ugh!" Naruto get up as he brush snow off his body, "Who the heck put a snowman in middle of…Huh?" He see something buried under the crumbling snowman and he pull it out. "Is that a fire poker?" Naruto blinked at iron poker before he look around at his surrounding, "Why was it inside a snowman?" He wonder if it belong to any family in these houses but no one come outside after a noise, "...Maybe I'll take it with me. Someone back at camp must want it." Naruto sealed the poker with a shrug before he resume his run and few minutes later, a dog look outside the doghouse with a blink until he see the destroyed snowman.

"Ah, I thought he will be done in by the warm of stove when it was something else." The dog shook his head at the snowman's fate, "Ah, poor snowman."

"And that's last one." Naruto took a storage scroll from his last kage bunshin as it dispel.

"Now what?" Vasilisa rubbed his hand with her thumb.

"Mm, do you want to look around a bit before we go or…?" He asked her.

"Da, I want to look a bit." She said after some thinking.

"Ok." Naruto wandered around with her and they unwittingly walk through a rundown gate into a wide field.

"Where are we?" Vasilisa glanced at some dead flowerbed as they follow the crooked path, littered with cracks and potholes.

"An abandoned park, I guess?" He looked at some dead trees until they come across an gloomy rundown chateau, "Or not. What is this place?"

"Mansion, I assume." She shrugged.

"Is that what it look like?" Naruto examined the building before he turn to her, "Let's turn back and…"

"YOU STUPID WENCH!" A shrill voice snarled, following by a loud smack and a cry. Without think about it, the genin quickly ran toward to the voice with the young blonde in tow and they went around the building to see a elder woman in luxury dress stand over a young woman in rag as the latter rubbed her red cheek with her knees on hard cold pavement and there were two laughing young women in background. "You're so useless!"

"HEY!" The genin jumped in between them as he glared up to the surprised elder, "What the hell is going on?!"

"Who are you, you ruffian?!" The old woman screeched, "How did you get in here?!"

"I asked you first!" Naruto shot back rudely, "What's going on here?!" He turned to the young woman on ground, "Hey, are you okay?" The young woman have a slender body with hourglass figure, fair skin, pink lips, blue eyes and shoulder-length puffy strawberry-blonde hair. She wear a dark vermillion vest with light aquamarine long sleeves, knee-length brown skirt, white apron, white scarf around her head, and pair of black flats. Her outfit is thin enough that it don't give her some protection from the cold and appear to be dirty and nearly in tatter.

"I-I-I'm fine." The young woman stuttered and Naruto notice her red throbbing fingertips and slightly blue color on her lips then her scraped knees with some bit of blood on pavement and she look very exhausted. He also notice a full pail near her with dirty rag.

"No, you're not!" He reached down to get her up, "You look so tired and why are you doing out here like that in this weather?! It's too cold!"

"Da, he's right." Vasilisa frowned slightly at the young woman's appearance.

"She's not tired." The elder woman scowled at them, "She has to finish washing everything from here to over there." She pointed to the end of porch, "Then shovel everything out of the yard, serve us supper, dusting and wash everything inside from top to bottom and…"

"Are you crazy, you hag!" Naruto dropped his jaw at the old woman, "Are you saying that she have to do all of that by herself?!" The scowling woman just nod curtly, "That is abusive!"

"No, no, that is not abuse." The old woman scoffed as she crossed her arms, "That is love from her dearly mother. I am putting this worthless girl to do some good work, she can't be idling all day and…"

"What?!" The genin shouted again, "She's your daughter and you're blatantly abusing her!" The memory of how he found Hestia and what she went through flash through his head as he glared deadly at this cruel woman.

"Oh, please, she's her stepdaughter." A young woman scoffed behind the hag along with another young woman, "This worthless wench must feel so grateful to have a kind mother like ours for taking her in after her parents passed away."

"Yes." The second young woman agreed before she glare down at the young woman on ground, "Hey, you, go back to work and…"

"NO!" Naruto suddenly scooped the strawberry-blonde woman up in princess carry, shocking the women with his strength. "We are taking her with us! She's not part of your family anymore now!"

"W-What are you doing?!" The strawberry-blonde woman gasped in shock and awe.

"I'm saving you from these bitches over there!" The genin's glare hardened at the women in front of him, "They aren't your family anymore! What kind of 'family' abuse their own children and treat them like that." The blonde woman stared at him with few blinks, "No one deserve it, even if they are stepchildren!"

"You ruffian!" The old woman snarled at him, "Release her at once or I'll…"

"FUCK YOU, YOU ABUSIVE BITCH!" Naruto shouted as he created two kage bunshin sealless to the women' shock and he grab Vasilisa. "WE'RE OUTTA HERE!" The trio vanish in a flash.

"Wha?!" The wicked stepmother cried in shock, "What witchcraft is…"

"Suiton: Teppodama!" The first clone spit large water bullet at the screaming women, knocking them off their feet as they tumble in the sudden sea of water.

"Doton: Doryu Taiga!" The second bunshin backed his fellow clone up with a mud river that hit the screaming women and they tumbled farther outside into snowy field.

"S-S-S-STOP!" The wicked stepsisters cried.

"HELL NO!" Both kage bunshin pulled stinky bombs out of their pockets, lobbed them at the screaming evil stepfamily. They even humiliated the women by running them out into the city where everyone can see them.

At the campsite, everyone were doing whatever they want but there was a little awkward atmosphere between some people because they don't have anything to talk about or know what to do right now. "One cow, three goats, four ducks and two more hens." Gretel wrote into her inventory book as Snow, Rapunzel and Rosie bring the said animals into the livestock wagon.

"What do we need goats for?" Heida frowned in confusion, "I can understand ducks for their eggs but not the goats."

"We get milk and fleece from them." Kitty licked her lip at 'milk' part, "The milk can be used to make cheese and other things like cow milk but they taste different."

"Oh, ok." The dark-haired teenager grimaced, goat milk sound horrible to her.

"…Um, this girl Hestia, she's not going to burn us, will she?" Sam asked somewhat nervous, keeping one eye on the said girl.

"You'll be fine." Goldilocks stacking the firewoods up in a neat pile, "Hm, I wonder if there's a metal rack to store them in?"

"Really?" The redhead huntsman looked at the albino girl.

"How fast can I get a man on fire?" Hestia muttered blankly to herself, holding candlestick and match in each hand menacingly.

'Okay, I'm staying away from this girl.' Sam quietly back away from the pyro and there was a flash before everyone look up to see Naruto and Vasilisa have return with someone new.

"Naruto, Vasilisa, who's that?" Heida asked.

"That is…Um…" Naruto looked at the strawberry-blonde woman as he seat her on a large log.

"My name is Cinderella." The young woman said.

"Cinderella." The genin repeated to the group, "We found her being abused by her so-called stepfamily, they were forcing her to do many things all by herself out in cold." Hestia looked up at that, "So I rescue her and bring her here. Don't worry about these assholes, I leave couple bunshins behind to humiliate them." Naruto smirked mentally at the kage bunshins' memories as they pop into his mind.

"But…" Cinderella was about to defend her stepfamily until she feel a small hand on her lap and she look down to see Hestia looking up to her with expressionless face.

"You're safe here." Hestia said flatly and the strawberry-blonde woman has a strange feeling that she can understand her in some way.

"…Truly?" The strawberry-blonde woman whispered softly as the albino girl gave her a nod before she glance up to Naruto and the group, "…I'm grateful for your act and I don't know how to repay your kindness."

"Don't worry about it." Naruto said as Rapunzel appeared with magical bag to heal Cinderella's knees and after she finished heal her, both long-haired blonde and Vasilisa lead the young woman to the clothing wagon.

"Let's get you out of these rags." Vasilisa said to Cinderella as they enter the clothing wagon and the genin turn to the rest.

"Do you all want to start sorting through everything now or wait later?" He pulled a storage scroll out that hold dozens of scrolls inside.

"Now will be better since I have my inventory book." Gretel lifted her book up slightly with her pen out, "You can return the money bags to me later tonight."

"Gotcha." Naruto walked to a 'training' area since it's wide and open with all snow cleaned out. "Stand back, everyone." He called out to warn everyone as he unroll the scrolls out before he unseal them and many huge piles appear in smoking poofs along with ten new wagons.

"Wow, it look like you're building a village." Wendy whistled at the sight.

"At this rate, he will." Goldilocks snorted.

"Just a little warning, some of my kage bunshin went crazy and bought things that we don't need at all." The genin scratched his head with a nervous cough.

"What do you mean by…" Gretel walked a bit to take notes until she spot something with a pause before she turn her head to deadpan at the genin, "…Did you just buy a whole blacksmith building?"

"No, it was my clone." Naruto blushed in embarrassment and everyone finally notice that there are two forges with anvil, many metals and dozen of smithing tools.

"Naruto, they're you." The brunette wrote it down with a sigh, "I guess I have to discuss with Rowan about that." She lift her head up to glance left and right at the piles, "I'm going to start with foods first." She glanced at several people, "Go get piece of paper and pen then write things down for me, please and thank you."

"I'll get it." Snow went to fetch the said items from the vardo.

"Will that be okay if we carry things inside?" Piper picked a poker up for an examination.

"Yes, but please mark them down before you do so I'll know." Gretel replied back, counting large sacks of salt, flour and sugar next to crates of condiment jars and spices. Snow return with several papers and pens, which she pass them out to few people.

"Tate, I ordered a big bathtub for you." Naruto called out to the giant as he gestured to a large tub, "With that, you don't have to worry about taking bath."

"O-O-Oh, t-thank you." Tate squeaked, feeling very flattered by that.

"What are we going to do with the rest if we can't find any places for them?" Gray asked out of curiosity.

"Naruto will put them in a storage wagon then seal it in storage scroll." Rosie chirped, "And it'll go into a big storage scroll."

"…Storage in storage…" The brunette huntsmen tried to wrap his mind around it, "In storage…"

"I'm exhausted!" Kitty plopped on bed face-down, the bounce nearly wake Lily up but the toad girl went back to sleep right away with a snore.

"Me too, ugh." Goldilocks also plopped on bed on her back with a tired grunt and almost everyone was understandingly exhausted after a long day of organizing and decorating.

The bathing wagon now has tubs in each stalls with two more waiting benches in front.

The clothing wagon of course has more clothes and fabrics than before with no changes but a spinning wheel, spinning jenny, loom and several clothing tools have been put inside to Vasilisa's joy.

Many things have been add to the dining wagon, the kitchen now have dry sink with wooden sink side-by-side, four cupboards fill with various cups and kettles, six pantry cabinets fill with dishware, few top-drawer cabinets for kitchen utensils, Two wide storage six-shelves, spice rack, racks to hang some pans and tools up, worktop boards, different grinders, few small crates of fruits and vegetates, and few small barrels for trash. The dining area now has two long wide tables and thirty chairs, fifteen per a table, and few flower vases.

The bedding wagon now appear to be complete since Tate's bed now have two mattresses but that wasn't the only one that added in. It gain a sofa with three chairs, twelve four-drawers, two wide five-shelves, fifteen chests, six racks, a empty barrel and small low-table with few cushions.

Not only that, they even convert another box wagon into a library because Naruto's clones have empty several bookstores out and they end up with hundreds of books. Inside the library, three walls have been covered up by floor-to-ceiling shelves, two aisles of short two-shelf bookcases, three tables with four chairs each and two desks.

"Us too." Annette yawned lightly as she placed a vase of fresh roses on the desk, "And we still have more decorations and works to do tomorrow."

"Yes, we have to fitting the horses with saddles." Snow muttered, "Then we have to set few things up in the livestock wagon."

"Don't forget we need to finish the inventory." Gretel copied the papers into her book at the desk.

"Bloody…" The short-haired blonde grumbled into her pillow, "Why can't we just have Naruto's clones do it?"

"No, we can't be lazy." The brunette girl chided her and Goldilocks grumbled into her pillow again.

"Cinderella, do you want the bed or sleeping bag?" Naruto asked the said woman after he gave some of his girlfriends good-night kisses.

"Um, I…" Cinderella timidly rubbed her hands at waist as she looked between bed and sleeping bag on floor, "…I want to sleep in bed, is that okay?"

"Yeah, it's fine." The genin nodded with a light shrug, "Grab a empty spot. I hope you don't mind the girls cuddling up on you, some are cuddlers."

"I don't mind." The strawberry-blonde woman shook her head lightly as she stared at him before she slowly places her hands on his shoulders, "…And again, thank you for saving me." She surprise him with a light chaste peck on lips before she find a place on bed at far left side and Naruto blinked rapidly at the affectionate act then he brush it off, she must be very thankful to escape this life and it actually was.

'Am I a strange one?' Beauty start to wondering after witnessing Cinderella's action, 'She kiss him good night and get in bed like it's normal. Is that social etiquette in this land?' Amnesia sure take a lot of things away from her but her name and birthday. It took few minutes until she make her decision, "May I sleep in bed too?"

"Yes." Naruto and everyone else said almost at same time.

"Good night." The brunette woman folded the bag up then peck innocently the genin's lip out of blue before she get in the bed.

"Um, night…" The genin feel so confused for few moments, 'Ah, forget it.' He sighed mentally as he get in the bed, 'Go with the flow.'

In the bedding wagon, the huntswomen adored everything as they get ready to turn in. "That place will look more nice once we put some arts up." Nico commented, "Maybe some more pretty decorations and more flowers…"

"No, we can't be greedy and add these things." Arya rejected her suggestion almost immediately, "That will expose us because men don't care much about decorations and its look."

"Yes, your majesty." The pinkette huffed sarcastically before she notice that Tate have been staring at her bed quietly, "Tate, what is it?"

"Naruto is so kind and thoughtful…" Tate muttered, "Because he got me things in my size when I never ask him to…"

"We know, Tate." The silver-haired teenager sighed at her with flat look, how many times does she have to listen to the giant repeating things?

"He's very sweet, handsome and cute." The giant slowly gain blush on her face and that cause everyone to gaze up at her with several reactions.

"I guess he's little cute." Set causally shrug her shoulders uncaringly as she make herself comfortable on her bed.

"Please keep it to yourself." Arya frowned slightly at them, "As huntsmen, we can't be showing our attraction to a man without putting the others at risk."

"…What if I tell him about me?" Tate sit down on her bed, "Just me and no one else. So that way, your secret will be safe and…"

"No, it's risky." The silver-haired teenager cut her off right away with crossed arms, "What if when you tell him your secret, he'll figure out that we all are not men but women as soon as you reveal yourself."

"I doubt that, Naruto look like he doesn't have a brain." Billy snorted.

"Either way, it's still risky." Arya's gaze snap over to Tate, "Keep your feeling to yourself, you can't just go and fall in love with someone who show you a small kindness this fast. Trustworthy or not, they can't know our secret."

"I don't know, we're in a new land and if they do, who are they going to tell?" Wendy inputted with shrugging hands, "It's not like anyone from our land are here and know us. We can drop our disguise with them until we reach our homeland then disguise ourselves again."

"No, as I keep saying it, it's too risky." The silver-haired teenager clapped her hands loudly with a glare before she yank the blanket over herself as soon as she get in, "We keep our disguise up until the end of our mission and keep secret, no matter what! End of discussion."

"Ok, Arya…" Tate dipped her head slightly sad.

"Well, Piper, I'll pray for your breasts." The brownish-red-haired teenager turned her head to the said woman.

"Thank you." Piper slowly placed hands on her bust worryingly, she hope there will be no side-effects in long run term.

"I don't know why my kage bunshins decide to buy all these hobbies stuff." Naruto muttered to himself with a headscratch as some people load hobby-related objects into a covered wagon from paintings to stone craving sets.

"Maybe you think they'll be useful and helpful for us to find something to enjoy or passing time." Annette put a framed painting upon stack of artworks.

"Must be." The genin shrugged before he glance at the huntsmen as they loaded the large cart with lumbers, plywood and woods along with more carpentry tools.

"Who the hell buy doors and windows?" Billy grumbled under his breath before they start to loading glasses, "And glass?! What are we going to do with these?!"

"Quit yapping your trap." Wyatt grunted back.

"Yes, we're almost done." Sam carried the paint cans to the cart.

"Soap!" Rosie pop up from the top of pile with soap bars in both of her hands, "Bathing soap!"

"Oh, bloody yes!" Goldilocks cheered, "Soap!"

"And shampoos!" The redhead lift a crate of glass and metal bottles of shampoo.

"OH FUCK YES!" The short-haired blonde cheered loudly, "THAT'S LUXURY THINGS THAT ONLY RICH NOBLES AND ROYALTY USE!" Few girls cheered together.

"Is it a big deal?" Naruto sweatdropped at the sight, soaps and shampoo can be find everywhere and anyone can buy it for few ryos back home. It don't occur to him that things work different here and these items are consider luxury because they're new in this world.

"It is." Snow giggled at his face as she pack all hair care items and cosmetics in a large crate before she tap her chin with a hum, "Maybe we shall put few sinks and mirrors in bathing wagon?"

"I'll add four sinks with mirrors in the back." The genin made a mental note.

"Excellent." The smiling ravenette carried the crate to the bathing wagon.

"Can I help?" Cinderella approached them timidly, wearing blue thick ankle-long coat over blue wool dress and white pant with pair of brown boots.

"No, I told you that you need to rest for few weeks." Naruto turned to her, "You're on vacation."

"Um, vacation?" The strawberry-blonde woman stared at him questioningly.

"Yes, vacation." He gently push her back to lead her away from the pile to the young travelers of the group, "That mean no work and lot of funtime!"

"Doing what?" Cinderella asked confusingly with meek tone.

"Building snowman, have snowball fight, anything that don't have to do with work." Naruto replied before he turn his head to Nerida, Hestia and Vasilisa, "Hey, why don't we show Cinderella here how to build snowman?" Nerdia bobbed her head with clenched fists close to her chest, Hestia stare blankly at him and Vasilisa blink few times. "I'll go roll it up now!" He bend down to start building the snowman and the young girls join, Vasilisa slowly join as Cinderella glance between them for a while.

"Um, o-okay…" The strawberry-blonde woman slowly crouch down with them as she awkwardly help them by patting snowball in place, "Am I doing it right?"

"Is it time for break?" Heida slump over a barrel with a tired groan, her arms dangling over the edge of barrel.

"No, Heida." Gretel walked by her with crate of chains, "Go back to work."

"But they…" The dark-haired teenager pointed at Naruto's group.

"Naruto did a lot of work so he deserves a break." The brunette said over her shoulder without looking back, "The girls are still young enough to have childhood memories and Cinderella…You don't have to ask to know why."

"Ugh…" Heida's head dropped, "I want this vacation thing, whatever it is."

"Finally!" Goldilocks hit the table with her face with dangling arms in the dining area as everyone gathered for dinnertime, "It's all over. Never again…" They finally sort and separate everything.

"For now." Gretel said to the faceplanted blonde with somewhat amused tone, "But at least we got everything out of the way and save us money in a long term."

"I only hear the save money part but not the rest." The short-haired blonde's voice muffled between her face and table.

"Dinner's served." Piper exited the kitchen with tray of steamed ham with braised pork legs and Val carry a pot of porridge, following by Snow with plate of corncobs with some butter and Elsie with trays of water in cups. They set them on both tables and everyone take cup and pieces, starting eat at their own pace. "Make sure to leave some room for dessert."

"Dessert?" Elsie looked up along with few others.

"Yes, pudding." Val smiled, "Naruto here have bought a lot of recipes from bakeries and cookbooks. It was quite interesting to make it from scratch and I hope everyone will enjoy it."

"Ooh, I never have a pudding before." The auburn-haired woman's eyes shined.

"Me either." Rapunzel felt her mouth watering at a new dessert and several girls have similar feelings. Everyone continue to eat their dinner with some small chats until they receive the dessert and in end, everyone was happy to have a full course.

The next day, everyone was relaxing while some take a look around in the improving campsite. "You're not training today?" Heida asked Naruto from her sitting place.

"Nah, I'm taking two days off." Naruto played fetch with Haru as he throw a small ball and have the dog chasing it in snow. "I have been busting my ass for weeks." He twisted the ball out of Haru's mouth as soon as the dog ran back to him.

"Oh." The dark-haired teenager grimaced slightly at her husband's crude words.

"Hey, catch." The smirking genin surprised her by tossing the ball at her.

"H-H-HEY!" Heida barely catch the ball with some fumbles, "EW! It's so slimy!" She groaned in disgust before her head shot up to glare at him, only to widen her eyes as Haru charge toward to her with lolling tongue. "NO, HARU, DON'T J…" The teenager screamed out as the dog tackle her back off log into the snow and she fling her arms around with disgusting screams as Haru lick all over her face. "YOU DAMN FOX, I'M GOING TO GET YOU!"

"No, you won't." Naruto ran off with laughter and he duck into the library wagon before the screaming teenager can see him. He spot Beauty reading a book and Gretel looking over Nerida and Hestia as the young pair concentrating on their handwriting while holding pencils awkwardly in their fists.

"What's so funny, Naruto?" Gretel glanced sideway at him as she corrected the girls' pencil holding, "Does it have something to do with Heida's screams outside?"

"I tossed Haru's ball at her." He approached them with a snicker.

"That's mean of you." The brunette said, the left corner of her lip twitch upward while Beauty snickered behind her book. Nerida turn to him, tugging his shirt to get his attention and he look down as the mute girl stretch a paper out to him proudly with both of her hands, displaying a crude yet readable handwritten name, her name.

"Oh, did you write it yourself?" Naruto asked as Nerdia nodded rapidly before he pat her head, "Good job, Nerdia." The mute girl become more happy at his praise.

"Naruto, look." Hestia copied the mute girl's act, her paper also show a crude-yet-readable name.

"You did great too, Hestia." He patted albino girl's head and she make a quiet happy noise, despite her expressionless face. Nerdia shot daggers at her from her eyes for stealing her thunder and she pout childishly with puffing cheeks. In her view, Hestia give her a smug look with a sticking tongue and the mute girl sharply turn back to her homework with determined face, she'll get better at it and get one-up on her rival.

"AH!" Everyone looked up to see Heida stood in front of door with childish sneer and it's pretty comical sight to everyone because she look completely mucky with messy hair, "NARUTO, THERE YOU ARE!" She ran toward to him with a battle cry.

"And that's my cue to leave." Naruto smirked as Heida tackle him…Only to faceplant into a log as the genin vanish in smoke.

"NARUTOOOOOOOOOOOO!" The dark-haired teenager leaped up on her feet with red imprint on her face before she run outside to seek and destroy the damn boy.

"…" Beauty turn to the young girls calmly, "I believe it's almost time for your reading lesson. Shall we go get Vasilisa before we start?" The young girls give her a nod as if everything before now don't just happen.

"Um, is it usually like that?" Cinderella asked Rosie and Kitty as they watch Heida tumble into some kind of colorful smoke bombs before she ran out with rainbow paint, screaming her bloody head off in rage as she chase the laughing genin around.

"Sometime." Rosie giggled, "He like to play a little joke on us, sometime big one on couple girls like her for one." She gestured to the screaming teenager as several snowballs hit her from all directions, courtesy of kage bunshin.

"O-Oh, is…" The strawberry-blonde woman become worried, "Is he doing to do it to me too?"

"A little, but there are some people that he don't prank." The redhead placed index finger on her chin as her head tilt slightly up with a hum, "Like, um…"

"Lyra." Kitty stretched her back out.

"Lyra is a living harp and it's really hard for him to pull prank on her since she can't move without our help." Rosie pointed out, "That and she prefer to stay in vardo almost all the time, out of sight."

"You speak truth." The catgirl crossed her arms with a hum, "…What about Snow…Wait, no, he tickled her the other day."

"He did same thing to Gretel." The redhead added as they think deeply and Cinderella wonder if she better brace herself for Naruto's prank in future.

Naruto snicker to himself as Heida kept chasing him with rage in her eyes and he suddenly stop, spinning around to face the charging teenager with a foxy grin. "I GOT YOU!" The roaring teenager tackle him down as he laughed out loud, "Cease your laugh, you damn fox!" She scooped some snow up to smear it all over his face to get her revenge, "STOP LAUGHING, YOU SCRUFFY FOX…" Heida feel his hands swiftly slip under her armpits, "OH, DON'T YOU DA…" She start to laugh out loud as he tickled her merciless to point that she was crying before she tickle him back to free herself while shoving some snow inside his clothes and they end up rolling around. It went on for a bit while until Heida break free from him, rolling onto her back as they lay in snow. "D-D-Damn y-you, s-scruffy fox…" She wheezed through her fit of giggles, "D-D-Damn you…"

"I-I-I just g-give you some exercise." Naruto snorted through his giggles.

"A-A-Are you calling me i-idle person?" She gave him a dirty look sideway.

"I don't know what idle person is but if it mean lazyass, then yes, I just did." He replied.

"Why am I not surprised by my husband's stupidity?" Heida grumbled up to the sky before she throw another dirty look at him, "If that was an exercise then why am I on the receiving end of this humiliation?"

"That's your punishment for being lazy." Naruto stood up with her as he dust himself, "You barely did anything since you join us. And don't you try claiming that you helped us the last two days, I saw you pretending when all you did was just picking and putting stuff down in same spot over and over."

"Urk." She groaned, she thought she got away with this trick. "W-Well, that don't matter because I am not going to work like some commoners."

"More punishment then." He said.

"Bring it on." Heida huffed with crossed arms, "There is nothing you can do that make me work." Naruto open his mouth to say something.

"You should give her some spanking then have her help me carrying those firewood." Goldilocks spoke up near them, gesturing to a pile of fresh chopped woods.

"…A spank?" Naruto blinked at his fellow blonde, "Why?"

"So you can disciplining her." The short-haired blonde rolled her eyes, "Duh. It's how things work around here, someone act out and you punish them with spanks."

"Yes, it's common to use it as form of discipline." Snow explained since she believe Naruto may not have know about it when he was in his homeland, "It's mostly use to teach bad children to behave and learn their lesson or to discipline anyone."

"Indeed." Rowan commented as he walked by with water-filled vase and Naruto stare at his lifting palm with a blink.

"Oh, please!" Hedia faced the girls with a scoff as she crossed her arms, "Like he would give me one. It won't change a thing and if he did, I'll make sure to give hi…"

SMACK!

"EEP!" The dark-haired teenager squeaked out with her eyes snapping wide open, her body straight up rigidly with a sharp jolt and there was a moment of silence before she slowly turn to Naruto with slow-burning face. "Did you just…"

"Give her another one!" Goldilocks hollered, "You always spank them five times!"

"Really?" Naruto raised his eyebrow, receiving few nods.

"No, it's…" Hedia barely shout out before she let out a string of squeaks as soon as the genin spank her bottom four times and she become very quiet with deep red face.

"Um, go help Goldilocks carrying woods?" The genin said lamely.

"…Ok…" The dark-haired teenager mumbled as she walked toward to Goldilocks, 'W-What is this feeling?'

"Wait, just like that?" Naruto dropped his jaw, she's doing it without arguing about it?

"Spankings always work like charm." Rosie replied as she tried not to cringe at the memories of her mother punishing her for misbehaving, "As long as it's done in moderation and within a good reason."

"Um, I see…" The genin really don't know how to feeling about that, "Um, I'm going to take a change then take a little nap."

"If you're still sleeping, would you like me to wake you up for dinner?" Snow asked.

"Yeah, thank." Naruto nodded over his shoulder as he head inside. After a quick change into a plain shirt and pant, he climb into the bed and Lily opened her eyes slightly to see him.

"Naruto, is it night already?" Lily asked sleepily.

"Nah, it's still day out there." He lie on his back with a small yawn, "I'm just taking a nap."

"Ah, mm…" The toad girl sluggishly crawl out under from her clothing cocoon to cuddle on top of him, her arm slip under his shirt to lift it up slightly so she can press herself against his skin. "Mm, body heat. I love your body heat, it's so much better than these bags and blankets."

"I know." Naruto rubbed her head, have got used to her mucus to point that it don't bother him. "…Hope my shirt will not get off again this time." He lost the count of how many times he woke up shirtless and covered in mucus and dry drool stain since the winter start.

"Mm, no promise." Lily giggled sleepily before she give him a chaste kiss then fall asleep, drooling right away on his chest.

"Oh boy." He stroked her hair with a light sigh as he closed his eyes for naptime, guess he's going to take a bath before dinner when he get up.

The traveling resume with Naruto's group leading, huntsmen in second covered wagon that pull greenhouse wagon and kage bunshin steering third covered wagon with livestock wagon in back and they make a good progress for the next five days until they were forced to make an emergency stop halfway on sixth day for one reason, powerful blizzard. 'It's good thing the clothing wagon have goggles.' Naruto waddle through the knee-tall snow with a scroll, 'Although I don't understand why everyone are making big deal out of these goggles? Is it another thing they don't have here?' He shrugged mentally as he open the scroll and he hear a voice behind him.

"Hey, Naruto, what are you doing?" The genin looked over his shoulder to see Wendy.

"I'm putting barrier up." Naruto replied, "Fence? Wall? Eh, it's more like a wall." He unseal a seal on the scroll and a ten foot tall, five foot wide thick wood wall appear with stone base.

"Damn." The brownish-red-haired huntsman whistled impressively as he slip his goggle up above his forehead, "Did you build it before or after the big shopping?"

"Before." The genin pushed his goggle up as he tapped the wall with his knuckles, "The girls told me about how blizzard are common around here and how powerful they can get sometime so I have an idea to build some kind of barrier to shield us from that. Not sure if it's good enough to hold out."

"Well, I say it's…" Wendy study the wall with a hum before there was a loud hard smash on the other side that cause them to jump up and they hear some painful groan. Slowly, both genin and huntsman turn to stare at each other than to the wall, glancing back to each other and repeating few more times. They slowly put their goggles back on then slowly peek out from behind wall on both sides and the first thing they see a groaning young woman sprawling out in middle of shattered sled. "…I say it's sturdy enough."

"Yeah…" Naruto gulped before they quickly help her up then bring her behind the wall. "Hey, are you alright?"

"O-Ooh…" The young woman stumbled with hand on her head before she turn to face the genin dizzily with some groggily movements as she pointed at him, "To e-e-earn a g-great reward, y-you must c-complete my c-c-challenge." She have a slender and tall body, slightly pointy ears, pale snow-like skin that almost look like ice, winter blue eyes, long white with blue streaks hair that reach her rear, ice-like eyelashes, blue lips and she wear thick floor-length white fur coat.

"Challenge?" The genin glanced at Wendy oddly.

"Yes, a d-d-difficult challenge t-that no mortal can c-c-complete!" The pale woman lift her index finger up above her head.

"What challenge is it?" Naruto can't help but to snort at her dramatic statement.

"You m-must write this w-word, 'Eternity'…" She said.

"I can do that." The genin rolled his eyes.

"In i-ice with t-that needle." The pale woman pull an thin silver needle out of her coat, holding it out to him with dizzy blinks and he slowly take it from her with a owlish blink.

"…Good luck with that." Wendy said to the genin somewhat amused.

"Um, there's no ice around here." Naruto looked around.

"I-I-I make you one." She pointed at the ground and a bluish beam shot from her fingertip to the snow, creating a paper-thin ice sheet in size of regular paper. Both genin and huntsman stare down at the new-formed ice bewilderingly.

"…Now I see why it's a difficult one." The huntsman commented as Naruto bend down with needle out and ready before he look up to the pale woman, "I have a question. Can he take it as many as he want?"

"Y-Yes…" The pale woman slowly regain her bearing as she recomposed herself with stoic face and tone, "He can retake it as much as he want and there's no time limit but it's impossible for…"

"Done!" The genin got up with puffed-up chest as he held a ice sheet out to her.

"W-W-Wait, what?!" She pull a double-take with widened eyes as she nearly choke on her spit and her eyes snap down to the sheet to see 'Eternity' word in perfect handwrite. To make it more insane in her view, the ice wasn't even cracked, not a bit! "H-H-How?"

"Yes, how did you do that in first try?" Wendy asked in awe.

"I guess it's because of fuinjutsu." Naruto replied, "I have to write some seal formations carefully in a small print."

"That kind of make sense." The huntsman accepted it with a shrug.

"So what's the reward?" The genin turned to the woman with a smug grin.

"I can't believe you passed it…" The pale woman checked his work bewilderingly before she drop it with a sigh, "But I have to accept it nonetheless." She coughed into her fist to clear her throat, "Your reward is I, Christmas."

"Christmas, really?" Wendy raised his eyebrow.

"Huh?" Naruto uttered in confusion.

"For passing my challenge, I am now your wife." Christmas suddenly kiss the genin on lips. Her lips feel so cold to Naruto but for Christmas, she feel some strange warmth from his lips and some changes shifting through her body. She pull away from the gaping genin, only to kiss him again for the second time then third time and again, she pull away to stare at him as if she was waiting for something to happen.

"…W-What?" The blushing genin stuttered in shock.

"…Very interesting." The pale woman muttered in equally shock, somehow she just lost a certain curse ability from their first kiss. A normal person would die from third kiss of the snow queen. To make sure it wasn't an faulty, she give him six more quick kisses and nothing happen to her husband. "Very, very interesting."

"Look like you got another loveable sweetheart." Wendy chuckled.

"Another?" Christmas turned to the huntsman with questioning arched brow.

"Yes, many sweethearts in there." The huntsman jabbed his thumb at the vardo over his shoulder, "One of them is his wife."

'Ah, he must be another royalty.' The pale woman hummed mentally, "Well, I shall introduce myself to them." She calmly walked to the vardo then enter it while the genin just stand gaping near the wall and Wendy scratched the top of his hat quietly.

"AGAIN?!" Goldilocks hollered in disbelief as she opened the door with a slam, "DID YOU ACCIDENTALLY MARRY ANOTHER ONE?!"

"THAT'S RIGHT, HE DID!" Wendy hollered back amusingly, "HE TOOK HER CHALLENGE WITHOUT ASKING WHAT REWARD WAS!"

"Unbelievable…" The short-haired blonde facepalm before she close the door with a sigh, "Oh well, time to chat and getting know the new girl…Again."

"…Anyone ever tell you how accepting your lovers are?" The huntsman said to Naruto with a sideway glance and tilted head.

"…I'm gonna finish putting the walls up…" Naruto stumbled away bewilderingly.

"Watch out for any girls on sleds." Wendy hollered with laughter.

"Shut up!" He cried back with red face.

"Welcome, Christmas." Elsie chirped happily with claps, sitting on her knees on the bed with many stuffed animals on her laps. "We're going to have a lot of fun time together."

"Thank you." Christmas replied politely.

"Why don't you take this coat off to hang it up?" Snow gave her a kind smile as she play a card game with some girls, "And join us for a game. We can chat and learn about each other."

"On this rack?" The pale woman pointed to the coat rack, receiving some nods and she slide the coat off then hang it up.

"C-C-Christmas, w-w-what a-a-are you wearing?!" The blushing ravenette cried scandalized as soon as she see what the pale woman was wearing under her fur coat and some girls was also shocked.

"A dress, of course." Christmas replied simply, she wear a knee-length white plunge dress that greatly expose the cleavage of her ample C-cup bust and her back was also expose since the dress is backless. She wear a pair of ice-like high-heel shoes until she kick them off at the foyer then walk across to sitting down on floor with the group, smoothing her skirt out. "So what are we playing?"

"G-G-Go Fish, N-N-Naruto teach us t-t-this game…" Snow squeaked before she eye the woman up and down, "Um…M-M-Maybe y-you should change i-i-into s-s-something comfortable…A-A-After all, i-it's cold…"

"Oh, I'm very comfortable, thank you very much." The pale woman replied, "And don't worry about me because I'm immune to cold. After all, I have the power of winter."

"What do you mean?" Rosie tilted her head with cards in her hands, "Power of winter?"

"I can conjure and manipulate ice and snow." Christmas answered, "Not only that, I can create enchanted snowmen among many other things."

"Like a witch, fairy or…?" Kitty tilted her head.

"You can say I'm elemental fairy in some way." The pale woman hummed, "A ice fairy, I believe."

"You believe?" The redhead raised her eyebrow with a blink.

"I admit I don't know how I was born." Christmas replied before she change the topic, "So how do you play this go fish game?"

"Ah, I-I think…" Snow stuttered before Naruto enter the vardo, removing his coat and goggles.

"Done with the walls." Naruto grinned at them, "They're working pretty good but there are small gaps so the visibility is little low." He looked around at the group, "Um, how are you all getting along with each other?"

"W-We are..." The blushing ravenette glanced between him and the new woman worriedly, "We have been chatting a bit and she's about to playing go fish with us."

"Deal me in." He join the group, using this chance to get knowing the new girl of the group. At this moment, some girls were confusing about how Naruto act like it's normal thing for Christmas to wear something so revealing. "…What?" He raised his eyebrow at them while drawing few cards from the deck.

"Um, are you okay with what she's wearing?" Beauty glanced at Christmas with blush.

"Mm?" Naruto turned his head to the pale woman with a blink and raised eyebrow then back to the group, "Um, yeah?" That makes most girls more puzzled with his causal reply and someone figure it out.

"Oh, I think it's different in his homeland." Gretel tapped her cheek as everyone turn to her, "The people may dress different over there from here. That must be why Naruto see Christmas' dress as norm because of his society." She notice some girls were still confused so she turn to the genin, "Naruto, can you tell how does women dress in your homeland?"

"Um, it depends." He scratched his head puzzlingly at her question, "They can wear whatever they want."

"Like pants?" Heida pointed to Rosie since she's the only girl of the bunch that wear pant the most.

"Yeah, pants, shorts, skirt, whatever they like." Naruto shrugged his shoulders.

"…What's shorts?" The short-blonde girl raised her eyebrow questioningly.

"It's like pant but short with no pant legs." He placed the side of his hand on thighs, "Like that, around this short."

"W-Wha?" Snow choked on her saliva.

"Do they wear any kind of shirts too?" Rapunzel asked curiously.

"Yup, they do." Naruto crossed his arms with a hum, "There's this one crazy woman I know who go around wearing fishnet shirt."

"W-W-WHA?" The blushing ravenette looked like she's going to faint right there.

"…Do they usually show a lot of skin?" Goldilocks asked.

"Yeah, that's normal." He nodded.

"WHAAAAAAAAA?" Snow wobbled in her seat.

"Do you don't mind if any women dress differently?" Gretel asked, "Like showing more skin, wearing whatever they want even if it's man's clothing?"

"I don't mind." Naruto shrugged, "Everyone can wear whatever they like as long as they're happy and feel more comfortable with."

"Even if it's us?" The brunette girl asked.

"Yeah." He raised his eyebrow, "Why do you ask?"

"Just wondering." Gretel hummed and most girls seems to be thinking about something.

"…Wha?!" The blushing ravenette uttered in shock as her imagination run wild inside her head.

"Is it different here?" Naruto asked as he put his hand on Christmas' shoulder before he yank his hand off with a light yelp, "Whoa! You feel so cold! We should get you some blankets!"

"Don't worry, my beloved." Christmas waved it off in attempt to ease his worries, "My body's always cold because I have ice-cold blood flowing through my veins, which is normal since I'm possibly an ice fairy."

"…A what?" He blinked owlishly, why does it feel like it's going to be a long conversation today?

"I wonder how long the blizzard will last for?" Rosie glanced at the door curiously.

"One week." Christmas replied as most gave her odd looks, "Like I said, I have power of winter so I know when a blizzard come and how long it'll last but I can't control the weather anyway."

"If that's true then I'm glad we're prepared." Naruto muttered and some agreed with him. "Alright, let's start playing. Who want to go first?"

"I will." The redhead smiled widely, "Hestia, get any five?"

"Go fish." Hestia said flatly.

And that end the third chapter of NSRFT!

Almost 100 pages! Take that!

Naruto sure ruined a lot of stories while gaining many things and expanding the campsite along with his group. At least, some ruined stories save some lives like Haru the dog and Hestia the little match girl! We also found out couple outsider gifts that Naruto receive and they're so overpowered and ridiculous! Not only that, the genin accidentally end up with two wives! Whoops! Oh, and let's not forget how he killed some important characters indirectly and directly, whoops again!

Before you all say something about it, I know that the twelve huntsmen story say that all twelve maidens look like each other but I decide to make them all different because that would be little impossible to find eleven girls that look alike to the twelve maiden. And hey, different versions and all.

To avoid any confusions onward, the twelve huntsmen will be referred as males when they're around Naruto's group and in public but will be referred as female in private with the 'huntsmen' until their secret is out.

For anyone who's interested, the twelve huntsmen's names are unisex and the four characters, Wyatt is based on Naoto Shirogane from Persona 4, Tate is based on Tionishia from Daily Life With Monster Girl but without horn, Set is based on Setsuna from Fire Emblem Fates and Wendy is based on Wendy from Gravity Falls.

Where will they go to next? What fairy stories will be ruined? Will Naruto's group find out that the 'huntsmen' are huntswomen? Who'll join the band? What treasures will they take…Eh, find? What'll happen next? Let's find out in next chapter!

Anyway, I think that's all I can say for now. Thank you for your time to read it.

Please leave reviews and feedback here. The flames will be poofed out.