Naruto, Stop Ruining The Fairy Tales! Chapter 5: Naruto Shouldn't Be Allowed To Go Alone, a Fairy Tales + Naruto Crossover fanfic

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This chapter is a little…Brace yourself…Over 120 pages! Yes, you hear me. It's 122 pages include the ANs.

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

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Chapter 4: Naruto Shouldn't Be Allowed To Go Alone

It have been two days since the blizzard hit and it hasn't been let up anytime soon so everyone have to spend most of their times inside. "Where does it go to?" Christmas muttered to herself as she hold a jigsaw piece up, her eyes scanning the puzzle on the desk. Naruto and the girls learn that she's a puzzle lover since the first day when she asked them about playing with some puzzle sets that she found under the desk. "Ah!" She connected the piece in then look over the remaining pieces with a hum.

"I'm bored." Goldilocks stared at the ceiling blankly as she lie on the bed before she lift her head up slightly to nudge Naruto's head with her bare foot while he sit on floor with cards, "Hey, Naruto. Teach me something new."

"Like what?" Naruto reached out to Kitty's cards, gauging her face as his hand hovering over her hand before he select a card.

"Aww!" Kitty glared at the joker card in her hand with a groan.

"New games, new things, anything from your homeland, whatever." The short-haired blonde kept nudging then genin's head, "Anything that end boredom or pass time faster."

"Um…" He reached behind to grab her wiggling foot by ankle before he hold it down on his shoulder, "Shiritori?"

"Shi-what?" Goldilocks lifted her head up again with questioning look.

"Shiritori, it's a word game." Naruto explained, "You have to take last letter of a word and start a new word with this letter…"

"Oh, you mean word chain game?" The short-haired blonde dropped her head with a grunt, "No thank. What else?"

"Wanna me tell you story about one time I painted Hokage's mo…" He said.

"Hard pass." Goldilocks waved her hand up in air, "Heard this story one too many time already. Is there anything to pass time?"

"Want to make out with me?" Naruto rolled his eyes with sarcasm while scratching Haru's belly, "Or, oh, I don't know, take a nap." There was a long pause and it took him some time to notice that almost everyone were staring at him. "…Now what?"

"What's make out?" The short-haired blonde spun around then rolls onto her stomach to stare at him oddly along with the girls.

"It's a different kind of kiss but more deeper and involve things." He coughed with heavy blush, he remember coming across some couple making out in public back at Konohagakure and it always make him look away, feeling embarrassed and awkward each time it happen. "Um, like…"

"Instead of explaining, why not show it to us?" Goldilocks shrugged.

"Um, w-who am I supposed to do with?" Naruto blushed madly.

"Me!" Rosie raised her hand high up, "You can do this make out thing with me."

"O-Okay." He beckon her over to sit on his laps by patting his legs as he recall these embarrassing encounters with couples and the redhead happily sit on his laps, her back to his chest. "Hold on, l-let me…" He gently turned her legs over so she can face him sideway as his right arm wrap around her waist and he place her arms around his neck.

"Do people do this make out thing like that?" The redhead asked him.

"Sometime." Naruto replied, "I saw some couples making out in this pose, some do it while standing together. It depend on people and their preference." He cleared his throat with blush, "O-Okay, um, there's different methods of makeout…One is long kiss like that…" The genin looked at the redhead and she give him a nod with beaming smile as if she was giving him permission to go ahead. "F-Follow my lead." Naruto lean his head forward to lock lips with Rosie and he lightly suck her lips, an action that she copied after few moments of surprise.

"…H-How long is it going to last for?" Heida asked awkwardly with growing blush like almost the rest of girls as they watch a longest lip-locking kiss between their boyfriend-slash-husband and redhead.

"A-As long as they can hold their breath, I assume." Gretel blushed and it went on for couple minutes until the couple stops their makeout.

"…Wow, w-what's another method?" Rosie asked breathlessly with flushed cheeks.

"S-Second method is…" Naruto said breathlessly before he lock lips with her again and he tried to recall the couple's actions as the redhead follow his lead once again. 'I've seen some people just shoving their tongue in and other go slow.' He don't have any single clue so he just go with whatever feel natural to him. After few seconds of makeout, the genin brush her lower lip with his tongue as Rosie open her mouth slightly with a surprised squeak and his tongue slide in, brushing her tongue and exploring her mouth. It took five seconds before Rosie push her tongue into his mouth, their tongues end up entwined in an dance and the couple slowly get lost into it as they enjoy their first makeout.

'O-O-Oh my, w-w-what are t-t-they doing with t-t-tongues?!" Snow's face heated up and her body gains a full-body blush as she watch them with a gasp.

"Kissing with tongues." Hestia said bluntly with expressionless face but there is a faint blush across her nose.

"A-A-And that's second one." The panting genin break apart from the panting redhead.

"…Is there more?" The panting redhead asked, almost begged with dazed eyes and she unknowingly nibbled his lower lip lightly.

"I-I don't know, I know there's m-more b-but t-that's all I know." Naruto muttered.

"Aww." Rosie pouted before her pouting lip become a smile, "Can we do it again?"

"Before you answer her, I want to try this makeout with you now." Goldilocks suddenly slip in between them, "Just to see if it's good since Rosie's begging for it."

"Oh, um, ok…" He said before the short-haired blonde start to make out with him on spot and he can hear the others talking.

"Let's take turns." Kitty hummed, "Maybe we'll like it or not."

"I admit I'm curious to try it." Christmas said.

"If it's enjoyable, then I think we found something new to pass time." Annette smiled widely.

'Uh-oh, why do I have a funny feeling about it?' Naruto thought to himself as he continue to make out with Goldilocks.

Tate have been looking forward to suppers because it's only one of three times the giant can see Naruto during the blizzard until he get very confused and concerning when he see Naruto rubbed his blushing face while most girls look very giddy and happy about something. "Did something happen?" The giant asked the genin as he moved his giant chair to the blonde's side, sit down almost right away.

"Huh?" Naruto looked up to him with a blink and Tate notice that his lips look a little swollen.

"What happened to your lips?" Tate asked concerning, "Did you hit it with something?"

"Yes, with our lips." Kitty giggled.

"Quiet, you." Annette nudged her with elbow, giggling with several girls.

"How did you hit each other with lips?" The worried giant asked innocently.

"Tate, gi…" Wendy coughed as he caught himself, "Tate, man, I think they're talking about kissing."

"Yes, we were making out." Lily smiled drowsy in her zipped-up sleeping bag, wobbling side-to-side in her chair.

"…I'm sorry, making out?" Arya raised his eyebrow puzzlingly.

"It's a special intimate kiss." Christmas said, wearing a full-sleeve floor-length light blue dress. Some girls convinced her to wear this kind of clothing when out in public and she can wear whatever she wants in private. It was pretty easy because the pale woman say something about in Rome, do what Romans do, something that Naruto don't get it at all. "Something wonderful from Naruto's homeland that he show us."

"Yeah, many times." Naruto mumbled under his breath with red face, at least some girls got innocent chaste makeout and it ease his worries a bit but still…

"Oh, I see…" Tate felt some pangs in his heart as his head dipped slightly with sad expression that some huntsmen noticed while the rest don't. "That's…Um...Nice."

"Oh, I gotta ask." The genin looked up to the giant as he changed the subject, "You said you're half-giant, right? Can I ask which one is a giant?"

"Ah, my mother is a kind giantess and my father is a human." The half-giant replied with a light smile.

"How tall is she?" Naruto asked curiously.

"About twenty to twenty-five foot tall." Tate tapped his cheek with a hum and the genin choke on his spit along with few girls. "I never asked her about how tall she is."

"A-And your father?" Hedia asked.

"Five feet and ten inches tall." The giant chirped.

'That must be one difficult marriage.' Cinderella wondered, the giantess may have to be very careful around her fragile husband from her steps to sleeping in same bed but she don't say it out loud.

"Oh, lunch's here." Billy announced as soon as he see the cookers exit the kitchen with tray of foods and cups. "What are we having?"

"Ham and cheese sandwiches." Piper placed the trays on tables and everyone take one or two sandwiches.

"Naruto, can I ask you for something?" Beauty asked him after taking a bite of her sandwich.

"Sure, what is it?" The genin nodded.

"Can you teach me how to read and write your language?" The brunette woman asked, "I notice that there are some books from your homeland in the library but it's in different language and I want to translate it into a new book so anyone else can read it."

"Yeah, I will." Naruto nodded again, "And if I get a little busy, I'll send you a clone to help you with that. When do you want to start?"

"After lunch or tomorrow if that's possible." Beauty replied.

"After lunch it is." He ate his sandwich.

"Can anyone join?" Snow asked.

"Sure, the more the merrier." Naruto grinned and the ravenette smiled back.

"Goldy, what does it take to stop you from laying an egg every single day?" Elsie asked the enchanted goose worriedly, "You must be very exhausted with hurting butt. And I don't know what to do when all your eggs hatch, poor you, so many goose babies to look after." Goldy squeaked with an small sweatdrop.

"Elsie, the golden eggs are unfertilized." Heida deadpanned at the auburn-haired woman as she begrudgingly collect eggs from chicken coop before she scream out in fear as soon as one of hen flew over her head with flapping wings, "You filthy beast! Stop doing that to me!" Her shout cause the chickens to fly around the screaming teenager in cage as she flailing her arms around, her hair come undo in messy fashion.

"I'm done with milking the cows and poured the milks in milk bottles." Nico wiped his hands before he pick a large crate of full glass bottles then carry it outside, "I'll bring it to the dining wagon."

"NO, COME AND HELP ME!" The dark-haired teenager cried out as she swung her arms around wildly to keep the cawing chickens at bay, "ARGH! I SHOULD HAVE GO FOR LANGUAGE LESSON INSTEAD! IT'LL BE EASY THAN THAT!"

"Ugh, so hard…" Steams came out from Tate's ears as his forehead lie on the table with a groan, "And confusing…"

"I know." Rosie said with river of tears with her face also on table as steam floating from her head, "It look easy at first with basic then it got all confusing!"

"Don't feel bad." Gretel said to them gently, "Not everyone can master a new language right away."

"Until you're Snow White." The redhead pouted childishly toward the said girl, who give her a sheepish smile in return. The ravenette surprisingly have taken to Naruto's language like fish to water, although she has one or two error once in a while but she fix them right away after checked it with the genin.

"Well, there are some special cases." The brunette girl amended.

"I think it's better to stop here for now." Naruto rubbed his neck to get rid of some stiffness, "It feel like it's getting little late."

"I agree." Beauty stretched her arms out and she can feel some small pops in her shoulders. "We can pick it up tomorrow after the girls' lessons."

"Yup." The genin stood up with few stretches before he walk out, "I'm gonna check on the plants then go back to vardo."

"I'll come with you!" Annette follows him out eagerly with a certain glint in her eyes.

"…She's going to make out with him, isn't she?" Gretel deadpanned after a minute.

"She's very bold than us." Snow sighed, she'll do the same thing if she have the orangette's courage. That make Tate upset with some pains in heart.

"Um, I-I'll going back to b-bedding wagon." Tate got up with a forced smile before he left and some girls bid him bye.

Billy boringly crave some doodle into her bedpost with a small knife while lying on bed until she hear door opening and she look up to see Tate trudge in dejectedly. "Um, how was the lesson?" The brown-haired tomboy asked.

"Ah, i-it was hard but interesting." Tate sat down on her bed with a low mutter as she reach up to untie her bind, "W-We'll continue where we l-left off tomorrow."

"Did something happen?" The young teenager sat up, stabbed the knife in bedpost then left it there.

"Huh?" The giant gazed down to her with a jerk of her head, "W-What do you mean?"

"You're upset." Billy replied simply, "The question is why?"

"Oh…" Tate uttered softly, "It's so unfair…They can love him but I can't…I want to be close to him but I can't show my affection for him while his lovers can and it's so painful for me to beg with it." She sighed sadly, "How long do I have to…" She sniffled, "How long do I have to keep it secret?"

"Um, bear with it for a bit." The tomboy rubbed her neck awkwardly, she don't know how to comfort someone in this situation. "I don't know how long it'll take but, maybe, you'll be with him as yourself once we finish our mission."

"How long?" The giant sniffled.

"I don't know." Billy repeated with a shrug and that make the giant sadder as the tomboy cursed inside her head. How does some girls make comforting someone look so easy?!

"Gretel, why is there a crate of hourglasses on desk?" Lyra asked curiously.

"I'm planning to put them in some wagons so we can keep time better." Gretel replied as she take two large and one small hourglasses out of the box, "It'll be more useful to have couple in kitchen."

"And these three?" The living harp asked as she watched the brunette set them on the shelves.

"One for day clock, one for keep track of any activity and the smaller one is for thirty minutes since it's thirty-minutes hourglass." The brunette returned to the desk to look through the hourglasses again.

"I'm curious, who will flip the day clock each hours while we're on moving?" Lyra asked.

"Any girls who want to stay in here." Gretel shrugged lightly, "Some may want to stay inside to avoid the winter like Lily or for comfort. They will turn it over throughout the day. Also we will have one in leading wagon, it's better to have one than depending on the sun for time, considering the weather now."

"Ah." Lyra nodded understandingly, it'll be difficult to find sun in sky now because of clouds.

"I'll be right back." The brunette put some hourglasses in a small box then carry it out.

"Lyra, do you ever get lonely in here?" Cinderella asked the harp politely as she knitted a blanket, one of few hobbies she has taken up when she find it to be relaxing. "We can bring you to dining wagon and wagons if you want to."

"Naruto asked me the same thing." Lyra giggled, "No, I'm not lonely because I like to be alone for hours in silence. If you wonder why, I was keeping captive by a greedy giant who forced me to play music every single minute until Naruto rescued me and Goldy from his grasp. And for the wagons, I prefer to stay here and that is for the best. I'm made of pure gold and I'm afraid that any man will be blinded with greed once they lay their eyes upon me that they will attempt to hurt any of you…I'm not very worried since Naruto can protect us easily and some girls here have learned how to defend themselves, but still."

"I understand." The strawberry-blonde woman replied with a nod, "If you change your mind, let us know."

"Will do." The living harp smiled at her.

On the third day of blizzard, Snow was washing the clothes in the laundry room within the clothing wagon and she hang them up on the drying rack before she turn to see Naruto walk in. "Done with the laundry?" He asked.

"Yes, I finished it just now." Snow replied with a smile, "Are you going to do yours?"

"Ah, no." Naruto scratched his head with a blush, "I was looking for you."

"Why?" She tilted her head, can't help but to feel blush coming on.

"I-I want to spend some time alone with you, just us two." He answered with red face, "Y-You know, a 'us' time? I figure it's one of t-t-things that a couple does, r-right?"

"T-That sound wonderful." Snow blushed hard before she pause for a moment, "What can we do for this 'us' time?"

"We can talk, cuddle, kiss or whatever you like." Naruto scratched his head again, "We can even make it a date too if you want."

'I think it'll be hard to have a date because of blizzard.' The ravenette thought to herself, 'And I'd like some privacy so the others won't bother us and take his attention away indirectly or directly.' She remembered where they are and an idea come to her mind before she take hold of his hand. "Come, Naruto." She led him out of the laundry room and down the corridor until they reach one of four changing booths in middle and she pull him inside, close the curtain.

"Snow?" He blinked at her with burning face, why does it make him feel weird and hot to be alone in booth with his girlfriend?

"It's so we can have some private." Snow replied as she sit down on the bench then pat the spot next to her and her boyfriend sit down with her. She place his arm around her shoulders then rest her head on his shoulder and he pull her closer as she slide her arm around his back while her another hand hold onto his hand that's on her shoulder. "Aah, that feels nice." She smiled beamingly, clearly enjoying the snuggle.

"Yeah, it does." Naruto lightly nuzzled the top of her head with his cheek and they sit in silence, just enjoying each other's company.

"…We should get a pet bunny." She speak up.

"A bunny?" He glanced at her as he recall it to be one of her favorite animals, "What color?"

"A white bunny, they're adorable." Snow tapped her chin, "I don't mind black bunny either."

"When we get them, where do you want to keep them in?" Naruto asked, "Livestock wagon or in vardo with us?"

"Mm, I think both…" The ravenette paused as she realize something before she tilt her head up to him slightly, "Did you say when, not if?"

"Yeah, we're gonna get some pet bunnies." The genin grinned, "I mean, we have some pets and it feel like they're liven things up. Look at Haru, he always make some girls feel very comfortable and less stressed."

"That's true." Snow laughed softly, "…When we get bunnies, will it be okay if it's two? One girl and one boy."

"Sure, you can have many as much as you want." He pecked the side of her temple, causing her to blush lightly with giggles. Naruto decide to change their seating positions after couple minutes, "Can we change our seating?"

"Yes." She blinked at him and she allow him to adjust their seating. He slide his right arm under her knees to lift her legs up, moving them onto the bench as he carefully twist their bodies around and his back rest up against the side with Snow sitting in between his legs.

"Does it feel comfortable?" Naruto wrapped his arms around her torso, pulling her close into his chest and his chin rest onto top of her head.

"Y-Y-Yes, it does." Snow blushed hard at the feeling of his arms around her stomach, "It also makes me feel like we're more intimate now."

"Yeah." He pecked her bare nape, causing her blush to deepened. Her blush deepen farther when he give her butterfly kisses from her nape to her cheek. Naruto don't know what urge him to do these affectionate actions but the answer is simple…He's going through puberty that have started few days ago. "I love you."

"And I love you too." She craned her head out to face him before her lips meet his lips in a gentle kiss and it become an makeout between them as they snuggled tighter. Snow twist her body around until her stomach lie on him as they explore each other's mouths with their tongues and they were going to continue but the sound of curtain sliding reach their ears.

"Let's check and see if they fit yo…" Gray said to Tate as he pull the curtain aside before he pause to stare at the couple, who were looking at them with deer-caught-in-headlight expression. Behind him, Tate give an startled gasp with widened eyes before the giant bolt out and the brunette huntsman glance at the fleeing giant's direction then back to the couple awkwardly. "…Carry on." He closed the curtain and the couple can hear his footsteps moving away from their booth. There was nothing but silence as the widening-eyed couple stare at the curtain for a while before Naruto start to snicker.

"N-Naruto, it's n-not funny." Snow whispered but she was also snickering before they break out in fit of giggles, "O-O-Ok, a little funny but still. That was mortifying." She covered her smiling lips with hands to stifle some giggles before she glance at her boyfriend sideways, "S-Shall we continue it back in vardo? We can use bed for private since it has curtains. The others will understand."

"S-Sure." Naruto giggled and they get up to go out, holding hands the whole way.

"I'm glad they give us some games to pass time." Arya muttered in front of table within the bedding wagon as she move a chess piece across the board.

"Yup." Set boringly move her piece, "They're kind, alright." Her gaze shift up from board to the silver-haired girl, "Check."

"To be fair, they gave us those because they have so many extras." Billy played a card game with Wyatt and Nico.

"Yes, but they did it without asking for anything." Sam commented from her book, "Like bedding wagon and other things." Some girls nodded in agreement and all of sudden, Tate barge in through the door as everyone jumped up at the loud noise before she throw herself on her bed, burying her face deep in pillows.

"Wha...?" Wendy attempted to calm her pounding heart down with bewildered expression as Tate trembled in her bed before she see Gray closed and lock the door as soon as she get in, "What's going on?"

"We walk in on Naruto and Snow when they were having a intimate moment." Gray said awkwardly, "Just kissing and hug, that's all, but it's very intimate." She said quickly to not give anyone wrong idea when she mention the intimate moment.

"So that's why Tate ran in like that?" Arya questioned and the brunette responded with a nod. "I'll handle her." She got up to approach the trembling giant, "Tate, I know you're upset but…"

"Why?!" Tate cried with her face still buried in pillow, "Why do I have to hide my identity from him? It pain my heart to keep it secret from him and it's more painful to witness him receiving affections from his sweethearts when I can't give him any!"

"I'm sorry but we can't reveal our…" The silver-haired teenager said.

"Does Naruto and the girls look like someone who'll expose us?" The giant cut her off, "No, they're trustworthy enough! And if they do, who are they're going to tell?! It's not like we're in our country! No one knows us here!"

"She's right, it's not like we'll run into anyone from our nation." Wendy inputted, "And we spend enough time with them to know that they can be trusted with…" Arya gave her a look, "Ok, shutting my mouth." She raised her hands up to placating her leader.

"Tate, please calm down." Arya turned back to the giant, "I know I am repeating what I have told you many time. We have to hide our true identities to infiltrate into the prince's inner circle and prevent him from marrying the princess by remind him of his promise. We can't reveal ourselves to anyone just because you have a fleeting silly love for…"

"NO!" Tate shouted with running tears as Arya and several girls got startled, "It's not a silly love! He is my TRUE LOVE!"

"Tate!" The silver-haired teenager widened her eyes with a sharp gasp as several huntswomen also gasped, "Don't make a claim like that! Do you realize how serious it is to claim someone as your true love?! It's something you can't come back from because it's sacred bond and you will have to spend the rest of your life with this person! You can't be certain that Naruto is the one when you barely know him!"

"I'm very certain he's the one!" The giant replied with clenched fists at her sides, "No one have ever make me feel like that before! I-I-I want to be with him!" Her teary eyes snapped to Arya, "I-I-I thought out of everyone, you'll understand! What's it like to be not with your beloved! This aching heart, this suffering painful feeling I have to endure!" The silver-haired teenager froze for a moment before her head dip to stare at her lap, "I don't know how long I can take it! W-What can I…"

"Ok."

"…Huh?" Tate looked up to her leader with blinking teary eyes as the rest of huntswomen looked at the silver-haired girl with various reactions, mostly puzzling and curious.

"I said ok." Arya crossed her arms with a heavy sigh.

"T-T-Truly?" The giant's eyes lit up and she look like she want to bolt out of the bedding wagon right now.

"But before you reveal yourself to them!" The silver-haired teenager held her hand up to stop the giant from acting, "We have to come up with a plan to convince them that we have no knowledge of your true gender."

"I believe I have some ideas." Wyatt said slowly with lifting hand and Arya listen to her huntswomen while adding few inputs as she have some internal struggle within her head.

Why does she not understand Tate's feeling, neither experience it when her prince left to sought out the neighboring princess' hand in marriage?

"Oh, it's time for your naptime." Elsie chirped to a rag doll in her hands as she sit in front of Naruto on the bed with drawn curtain and the genin just scratch the back of his head. After he came back with Snow and they told the girls about what happened in the clothing wagon when someone ask them why they witness Tate ran out, it was decided by everyone that each girl will have 'us' time with him for thirty minutes to a hour and the time can change anytime as long as it's mutual agreement. Right now, Naruto is spending some time with the auburn-haired woman but he don't expect her to want play 'house' with him and it feel a little weird in his option. "My little Hans, mommy is giving you to your daddy." She gave him the doll with bright smile, "Daddy will tuck you in."

"Hai, daddy will." Naruto lie the doll down awkwardly then cover its bottom half with blanket before he look up to the smiling woman, "Hans?"

"Oh, it's a name that I want to give to our son." She replied brightly with clasped hands, "It's a good name that will make our child grow big and strong."

"You want to have kids one day?" He asked out of curious.

"Yes, I want to be a mommy." Elsie beamed with starry eyes before she tilted her head with finger on her chin, "But Elsie doesn't know where baby come from and how to get them. Do you?"

"I honestly don't know." Naruto scratched his head sheepishly, all he knows is that babies came from women's stomach but he don't know the details.

"Awww." The auburn-haired woman dropped her head with a pout before she lift her head up again, "Do you think others will know? Like Gretel and Beauty, they're very, very smart."

"Mm, maybe." He shrugged, "I'll ask the boys, they must know too." The oldest huntsmen might have the answer.

In the bedding wagon, the huntswomen suddenly feel some kind of embarrassing dread for some reasons before they brush it off as chill wind.

"I hope so." Elsie said before she hum thoughtfully, "How many children do you want?" Caught off guard by her question, the blonde blink owlishly few times before he finally give his replies.

"Um, I-I don't know." Naruto scratched his head, "I never give it any thoughts because it's pretty far away from my head. Um…" He crossed his arms as he think it over, "Sometime I dream about having a big family so…"

"Ooh, so you want to have many children?" She beamed.

"In future, I guess so." He shrugged before he look at her curiously, "What about you? Since you asked me how many children."

"I like to start with one son and daughter then we give them many little brothers and sisters." Elsie chirped.

"Big family then?" Naruto chuckled innocently, he have no idea what he just opened in the future as the auburn-haired woman nodded rapidly with bright smile. Before they can continue, the curtains got drawn and they look over to see Rapunzel.

"Elsie, your turn is over." Rapunzel informed the said woman.

"Ok." Elsie flashed her a big smile as she hugged the genin before she slide off the bed to join the group and the long-haired blonde climb upon the bed, drawing the curtains together.

"You're next?" He asked the long-haired blonde as she gave him a nod, "What do you want to do?"

"Cuddle and talk." The long-haired blonde wrapped her arms around his waist as she lie on him halfway, nuzzling against his chest.

"What do you want to talk about?" Naruto wrapped his arms around her, lying down to make them more comfortable.

"Anything." She shrugged as she clasp his hand, stroking it gently. "Just anything."

"Alright." He hummed, "How are you doing with your medic training?"

"Excellent, I have mastered the basic and advanced level so I am currently studying the…" Rapunzel rambled on as her boyfriend listen, adding some comments once in a while and the topic change several times throughout their time.

"Remember the plan, everyone." Arya whispered to the huntsmen as the giant bounced excitingly on chair, it's almost time for dinner and they were waiting for Naruto and the rest of girls to arrive. "We…"

"Hey, guys." Naruto walked in with several girls after they take their winter coats off and wiped their feet on mat, "How's it go…"

"Naruto!" Tate shot to his side with a wide bright smile, "I love you!"

"Um…" The genin gave the giant a strange look, unsure how to respond to that as the rest stare on and no one notice the silver-haired teenager's facepalm. The giant tilt his head at the blonde puzzlingly until Tate notice Wendy make a big bust gesture behind the group's back that went unnoticed by the genin and the girls.

"Oh!" The giant realize 'his' mistakes, "I'm not really a man...Hold on." Tate take the cap off to let her long hair flowing free then reach back under shirt.

"Not a man because of long hair?" Naruto raised his eyebrow, he don't know if there is some cultural that have different view on hairs. "I know some guys who have long hairs and whoever says that is…"

BOING! BOING!

"NANI!" The genin choke on his saliva with popped out eyes as Tate's chest shot outward and some girls stare at the jiggling bust in shock or different reactions. "You're a girl?!"

"I'm really a girl!" Tate replied brightly.

"Oh, we don't know that." Wendy waved his hands then cupped his cheeks with fakest gasp, "Tate have tricked us with her amazing disguise! I bet she did it to work a man's job since no woman is allow to work a man's job in our homeland, am I right?"

"You're right!" The giant chirped happily and no one notice the redhead flashing the huntsmen a thumb up with toothy grin and wink as Arya stared murderously at Wendy with rapid-twitching eyebrow. All the plan she worked hard for, just flew out of window like that.

'I am so have a talk with her later.' Arya pinched the bridge of his nose with a quiet grumble.

"Tate, would you like to tell us why you have fall for Naruto?" Snow gently pull the giantess aside with the group and the said genin stumbled close to the huntsmen in daze.

"G-G-Guys, you don't know…?" Naruto stuttered bewilderedly.

"We're surprised as you are." Wyatt coughed into his fist awkwardly with a small sweatdrop, "I think it explain why Tate always hide from us when he…She change her clothes, bath in private by herself before we met you and etc."

"Oh…" The stunned genin muttered dazedly as the huntsmen nodded with various expressions, "…That is Haku all over again but reverse."

"…I'm sorry, Haku?" Sam raised his eyebrow at him quizzically.

"Haku was someone I met on my first C-rank turned A-rank mission." Naruto answered, "I thought Haku was a very pretty girl at first…Turn out he's a pretty boy who wear female kimono for some reason." He's not going to tell them that he had a fleeting crush on Haku before receiving this bombshell.

"Oh…" The red-haired teenager scratched his cheek sheepishly, he have no clue what kimono is. "That must be a shock."

"Oh, it was, big time." The genin exhausted out.

"Naruto!" Goldilocks sharply turned her head to the said boy, "Tate's your lover now."

"We'll help her move in after dinner!" Rosie lift her hand up with a chirp.

"Wait, what?" Naruto turned to his girlfriends bewilderedly, "What did she tell you to convince you guys into that?"

"Enough to know that her love for you is like ours." Annette smiled sweetly, "Oh, everything she said is so beautiful and sweet. She have moved our hearts." The bewildered genin looked to his other girlfriends, only to see that they have accept the giantess into their group.

"Um…Ok, great?" The blonde muttered lamely as the group led Tate to the table so they can chat before he turn to the huntsmen, "…Did that just happened?"

"Yes, I believe it did." Rowan patted his shoulder and the genin look so very confused.

After a quick move-in, Tate was over the moon because she get to wear cute and pretty outfits that have been adjusted by Vasilisa who enjoy a new challenge and she can be affectionate with Naruto, her lover. She feel so free after revealing her true identity to everyone. 'I'm so happy!' Tate smiled gleefully, despite how small the vardo feel to her.

"What kind of nightwear do you prefer to wear?" Vasilisa asked the giantess, "Ze gown or matching pajamas set?"

"Oh, I don't know." Tate tilted her head slightly before her gaze shift to Naruto, "What do you prefer me to wear?"

'Why is she asking me that?' Naruto looked at her oddly, "Um, you can wear whatever you want, anything that make you comfortable to sleep in…" He paused for a moment, "Same goes for in private and public."

"Really?" The giantess' eyes lit up, now fully understand why some girls wear different nightwears from gown to fleece pajamas set. "Ooh!" She turned to the petite blonde, "Vasilisa, do we have lot of cute and pretty nightwears?"

"Da, a lot of them." Vasilisa nodded up to her.

"Naruto, you said that we have freedom to wear whatever that make us feel comfortable enough to sleep in bed…" Christmas spoke up to get his attention as she cupped her chin with tapping index finger, "Even if one prefer lacking of some?"

"Um, yeah, sure." The genin gave her a raised eyebrow, he don't understand the lacking part but he assume that it's about underwear or something like that. "As long as it help you sleep easily."

"Excellent." The ice fairy strolled toward the bed and Naruto turn away from her with a light shrug of his shoulders.

"Once we're done with changing, Tate, you should get in bed first." Snow said before she look concerned at the bed, "…I hope it's big enough for you."

"Don't worry, I'll curl up or sit up." Tate smiled down to her, "I can sleep sitting up with no problem." The ravenette just hummed unsurely before she make a startling gasp with red face when she see something past Naruto's shoulders along with several blushing girls.

"What?" Naruto raised his eyebrow at the shocked faces and he was about to turn around but Snow swiftly grasp his face by cupping his cheeks to fixated his eyes on her.

"Naruto, please don't look back." The blushing ravenette squeaked out as the confused genin obey her with blinks before she lean her head out over his shoulders, "C-Christmas, w-what and why are you doing that?!"

Christmas' voice replied back casually, "I always sleep nude." Naruto's face turn atomic red with widened eyes, "Naruto told us that we can dress whatever we want to bed as long as it's comfortable for us."

"…I-I-I did said that…" The blushing genin choked out.

"See?" He can hear some rustling from Christmas as she get in the bed, "It's fine."

"…Can you please cover up to your neck?" Snow asked politely with heavy blush.

"Very well, I will." Christmas' voice replied back and the ravenette peek over her boyfriend to make sure the snow queen is decent before she let his face go.

"Guess we have to keep Lily on other side of bed from now on." Goldilocks muttered with heavy blush, "…And a sheet to separate us." Christmas have a icy cold body, something that some girls find out the hard way when they snuggle up in sleep. Only Naruto is immune to her cold skin for unknown reason.

"L-L-Let's turn in now." Naruto cleared his throat with a cough, "Good night, everyone." He start to give everyone their goodnight kisses.

"Good night, Naruto!" Tate pressed her lips against his lips in a chaste kiss for the first time and she unknowingly pull him into a bear hug, lifting him up slightly. The genin have a strange feeling that he can't explain when she hold him up before she put him down. "Do you know it's my first kiss?" She giggled happily down at him, "I love you so much." She gave him one more chaste kiss before she slip into the bed.

"N-Night." The muttering genin scratched his head before he join his lovers for bedtime, ending up spooning Kitty while spooned by Tate. The bed may feel slight cramped but it feel pleasant and secure in some way.

"Do we have a bigger vardo wagon?" That was the first thing Heida asked when Naruto's group gather in library for lessons and different activities.

"We have some vardo that are two to three sizes larger." Gretel replied.

"Why do you ask?" Rosie asked.

"It's starting to get cramp inside the vardo now." The dark-haired brunette grunted, "Either we need to do some of expansions or change wagons."

"I think it'll take a lot of time to modifying the one we're living in and some issues may arise from that." Snow hummed thoughtfully. If they make the bed expandable, it'll get in the way if someone is using the desk and it may knock Lyra down by accident. If they chose to take the back or sides out, there is a possibility that the new walls will have small gaps that allow cold air in.

"I was about to suggest changing vardo wagons at some point." Gretel folded her hands on table, "But to be honest, I do not want to move or modifying our vardo because...It does feel like a home to me and it'll be shame to switch another wagon after we put a lot of works in decorating it."

"I agree with you." Rapunzel nodded along with few other girls.

"Then what are we going to do?" Naruto asked, "It's not like we can make vardo bigger by connecting some wagons together." Some girls shook their heads at his comment somewhat amused with some eyerolls as the group thinks it over.

"…Oh, before I share my idea, I have to ask Naruto something first." Beauty turned to him after something came to her mind, "Naruto, you can seal anything into storage scroll as long as they're not bolted to earth itself, correct?"

"Yeah, pretty much." The genin confirmed it with a nod and little shrugging shoulders.

"Then how about we build a yurt or something similar to it?" The book lover turned to the group with a smile and there were nothing but silence as everyone blinked at her.

"A what?" Goldilocks furrowed her brows puzzlingly.

"A yurt." Beauty replied before she notice their confusion, "Ah. Yurt is a tent, some would call it a hut and it's very easy to expanding its size and dismantle or assemble it. Hold on." She get up to search something within the bookshelves, "I remember seeing it in a book somewhere here…Let me see…" She pulled a book out, checking it by flipping through pages before she put it back in and repeating as she checked several more books. "No, not here…Wrong one…Oh, interesting but not what I'm looking for…Not this one…Ah! Found it!" She rushed back to the group then lie an opening book down on table to show everyone a hand-drawing picture of yurt, "The writer claim he travel to another land where he have visit a nomadic tribe who live in these yurt and there are different kind of yurt. It said that they provide a protection from winters and you can change it to suit the summertime."

"Wow, that look pretty big." Rosie whistled at the picture in awe and she flip a page over to see another drawing of yurt's interior, "Cool! It look like a big room of some house."

"We can build a platform under the yurt." The book lover added, "That way it won't touch the ground and protect us from anything like possible flood from rain for example."

"Oh, oh, oh!" The redhead perked up, "And we can connect yurt with vardo wagon. You know, like parking and push it into an opening wall." She makes a pushing gesture with her hands.

"But won't that let cold air in?" Goldilocks pointed out, "Gaps and all."

"Oh." Rosie put index finger on her chin with a hum.

"How about we put a short hallway in between?" Naruto suggested, "Yurt have a door so why not put another door in there, no worry about cold air and whatever." He rubbed his chin, "Maybe putting couple steps in hallway while we're at it." He don't know if the yurt and vardo wagon will be at same level but it's better to be safe than sorry.

"That's…" Gretel arched her brow with a blink as she tilted her head slightly, "That's a smart idea." It sounds like a very simple solution to problem…Several problems. "We can draw it up and ask Wendy to help us since he's an experienced carpenter."

"Yup, he can help me covering my mistake and teach me how to do it right." Naruto grinned, "Want me to go and ask him now?"

"Yes, if it's not a bother." The young brunette said as she take a paper and pen out before the genin leave to see Wendy and she turn to Beauty. "Is there more pictures of these yurt? I need some for reference."

"I believe there should be some." Beauty got up to look through the books, several girls help her out.

"Let's put giant bed in center." Annette grinned.

"Don't forget the secret compartments." Goldilocks inputted, "We need more of them." Some girls make many suggestions as Gretel put couple down on the table.

"A yurt?" Wendy stroked his chin in front of Naruto, "On platform? Attaching and detaching wagon to it?" He stared at the genin blankly for few moments before he flash a thumb-up with a grin, "I'm in! It sound like one interesting project to work on. We're working on it after the blizzard, right?"

"That's the idea." Naruto confirmed.

"Mm." The redhead nodded couple times, "Since you and girls are drawing it up, maybe I'll come with you to look at it."

"Sure." The genin nodded.

"Great, let me put coat on." Wendy fetched the winter jacket and put the boots on before they left the bedding wagon.

"…Wendy." Naruto turned to him with a raised eyebrow, "Why were some guys sweating and panting so much when you let me in?"

"Workout." The redhead lied smoothly, the huntswomen were catch off-guard when the genin knock their door out of blue and rush their crossdress. 'Two minutes, that have to be a new record.' The duo waddled through the snow to the library wagon.

The blizzard has ended several days later to some relief but the group wasn't able to leave right away for a obvious reason. "What are we going to do?" Arya stared at seven-foot tall snow behind the barrier walls with mixed of anxiety and furious, "It'll take months to dig our way out!"

"Don't worry, I got it covered." Naruto grinned at the silver-haired teenager as he gave him a suspicious glare, "Really. Before you guys show up, we were talking about chance of this happening. All I have to do is holding this shovel…" He gestured to the shovel in his right hand, "Then create thousand kage bunshin!" As soon as he declared it, thousand of his clones appear in smokes and they gave a battle cry as they charge to the snow. The silver-haired teenager choke on empty air as he gawked at thousand bunshins digging through the snow with cries before he slowly turn to the creator with widened eyes. "With that, they'll get us to point B from point A but we won't move out for three days." He rubbed his chin, "When we get to the next stop, I'll spam kage bunshins and we'll travel again the next day after that then repeat until there's less snow."

"…That…That's excellent…" The silver-haired teenager muttered slowly with glazed-over eyes, still stunned by the sight before he stumble toward the bedding wagon. "I'll be in my bed…"

"Alright?" The genin tilted his head at him puzzlingly before he see Wendy approaching him, "Hey, man, want to look at the lumbers and start working?"

"Yes, I'm dying to do something outside instead of curling up inside." Wendy have been looking forward to building and get some fresh air.

"I'll bring the carpentry cart out." Naruto walked to the vardo wagon as the redhead snickered at the mention of carpentry cart, "Oh, I gotta ask. Do you want us to convert a box wagon into an carpenter workshop? So you can have place to do woodworking like craving and building and all. Kinda like forge wagon." The group consider converting one box wagon into an forge

"Forge wagon?" The redhead laughed at the name, "So lame. And yeah, let's build carpentry workshop."

"Hey, it was either that or blacksmith wagon." The genin huffed with crossed arms.

"You can either drop the wagon part or call it smithy wagon." Wendy snickered.

"Mm, guess I'll change it to blacksmith." Naruto muttered as he entered the vardo then exit with scroll, "What do we work on first for the yurt?"

"Platform and frames." The redhead replied as he take a measure tape out to measure the vardo's porch and its size, making mental notes while the genin place the scroll down in a clearing to bring the lumber cart out, woods and tools and all. Wendy approached the woods to check the inventory, pointing out what they need as Naruto create more clones to take them out.

"Damn, you will be put up with angry mob of laborers for putting them out of works if you were an carpenter." Wendy joked to Naruto with a whistle three days later as everyone get ready for depart.

"Good thing I'm not." Naruto puffed his chest out with a cheeky grin before he look at the building with a headscratch, "But it's not complete yet." They were looking at half-constructed yurt on top of completed large wooden platform with stairs.

The one-thousand square feet platform was in perfect square and a little over three feet tall, it have thick plywoods on top and bottom with thick walls and four large thick log legs. The box platform was Wendy's idea along with crawlspace and the redhead want Naruto to put trapdoors somewhere inside the yurt once it's complete, the carpenter refuse to know the location. Something about possible secret compartment if the group plan to insert walls within crawlspace.

The yurt appear to be big as an one-story house, it have a skeleton frames in perfect circle with two doors, one in front of the stair and second on right side of the yurt.

"…You think it's too much?" The genin muttered at the size, it feel like they are building a hut or house instead of yurt at some point.

"Nah!" Wendy waved it off, "It's better to go big."

"If you say so." Naruto shrugged, "You're the boss." He approached the yurt to seal it as the redhead smirked amusingly and they head to the wagons separately.

"Everyone, are you all ready?" Snow called inside the leading wagon as soon as Naruto get on and most gave her their own responses before the ravenette command the horses to move out, following by other wagons.

The travelers have get a good amount of distance within five days, thank to free labor of spamming clones and right now, most travelers were in the dining wagon for a early dinner. "We'll be able to overcome the delay in two days, thank to Naruto's clones." Gretel looked up from the map to the group, "And the good news is that the height of snow is getting less from this point onward according to Naruto's memory feedback from his clones."

"The whole clone memory thing is still freaking me out." Sam muttered with weird look after he takes a bite of his sandwich.

"You'll get used to it after a while." Goldilocks replied flatly before she glance sideways, "Where's Naruto? Is he still outside building with Wendy?"

"Yes, he said they are almost…" Rapunzel said before the said genin pop in.

"Done!" Naruto suddenly declared loudly with wide grin, "We finished it! Come and check it out!" He ran out right away without looking back.

"Someone's very exciting." Billy rolled his eyes as everyone get up after finished the last of their dinner and they walk outside to see the complete yurt and platform with various expressions from blank to impressed. The platform now has rails with stairs and large porch, some can say it's a balcony, and the yurt now has wooden walls with spire-like roof and a corridor on its right side. The vardo wagon park inside the said corridor perfectly.

"Ta-da!" The genin grinned, "What do you guys think?"

"It look amazing!" Rosie grinned back.

"Indeed it does." Gretel examined the building with her eyes, "But we have to take a look inside." She tapped her chin lightly, "Is there any issues pulling and parking vardo into corridor?"

"Ha, not a single problem." Wendy puffed his chest out with fists on his hips, "We tested it twenty times and it fit like gloves." His tone carry some kind of pride. Normally it would take a normal person months or years to build this setup but Wendy and Naruto have done it in almost two weeks, all thank to kage bunshin.

"Yeah, what he said." Naruto nodded happily as he lead the group inside the yurt, "It's kinda bare inside because I want you girls to decorate it up the way you like." Most take a look around the interior of yurt, it was almost bare like he said but there were few things to look at in a wide open space.

There is a wide long wall bench, starting from the right side of front door to another door in a large semi-circular and it's wide enough that two person can lie together side by side. There are four smooth wooden pillars in center that hold the spire roof up in perfect square formation with several beams above and some people notice that there is a kind of circular shelf in the ceiling of spire, large enough for few people to stand on if they're able to reach it. The floor appear to be laminated enough that anyone can skate across with socks on, an urge that several adventurous girls resist.

"Oh good, you leave the other side empty." Gretel looked at empty space on the other side of the yurt with approving nod.

"Wow, it's so big like a house!" Rosie explore the yurt with a little spin.

"What's up with pillars?" Heida questioned.

"Support, duh." Naruto smirked as the dark-haired teenager gave him a small growl, "That and in case if someone want to put hammocks up."

"Hammocks?" The dark-haired teenager can't picture someone sleeping in hammock inside yurt, "…Ooook."

"I can see some mounted shelves here and there." Annette eyed the wall above bench.

"Ooh, we can put some pretty flowers in vase on them." Tate's eyes lit up with a clap.

"If you want to set things up today, my clone just bought the storage wagons out." The genin informed them, "Give me a holler if you need me to create some clones to help carrying heavy stuff."

"We will." Gretel replied as she opened the second door to peek inside the corridor, seeing steps and the vardo's entrance. Maybe she can decorate the corridor a bit. She turn her head to Naruto as she closed the door, "You should go get your dinner." She glanced to Wendy, "You too."

"Yes, boss." Wendy gave her a playful salute.

"Hai." Naruto gave her a grin before they walk out of the yurt with the huntsmen as he turned to Arya, "You sure you don't want us to build another one for you guys?"

"Yes, I'm sure." The silver-haired teenager nodded his head firmly, "The bedding wagon is enough for us and we can't take advantage of your generosity. You will end up with a extra and unwanted yurt after we go on our separate journey as soon as we find our homeland one day."

"Arya is right, we are technically your guests and guests should stay in guesthouse, which is the bedding wagon." Sam said to Naruto with a sideway glance, "And you can reuse the bedding wagon for another guests once we are gone one day."

"What if we get more guys joining us while you guys are here?" Naruto asked after some thinking and the huntsmen nearly freeze in their track, haven't consider this possibility.

"…Y-You can make more bedding wagons." Arya choked out a bit.

"Mm." The genin shrugged his shoulders, "Guess we're done with building things for now."

"Yuuuu…." Wendy was about to agreed with a smirk until he suddenly stop with a pause then he turn to stare at the yurt blankly for couple moments and the redhead turn back to stare at Naruto's back. Wendy have to admit that he have a lot of good time working together with the young teenager and cracked up when Naruto told him some jokes and funny stories during their chats, even when he did something silly with his clones like arguing over whether to paint the walls or not and booping a lazyass 'worker' in head with soft-mallet hammer to dispel it. The knowledge of not doing it again with Naruto has left Wendy with a strange feeling in stomach. "…Um, you know, we still have wagons to convert." The carpenter caught Naruto's attention, "Carpentry workshop, blacksmith and other things, remember?"

"Oh yeah." The blonde scratched his head sheepishly, it slip from his mind for a minute there.

"We should start working on these either tomorrow or whenever we have time." Wendy said.

"You want to help out?" Naruto grinned foxy, "Awesome! It'll be a blast!"

"Yup, it'll be a blast!" The redhead pumped his fist up with a chuckle, twirling his mustache with another hand. The carpenter didn't notice few suspicious glances from couple of the huntsmen.

"Wow, that was fast." Naruto returned to yurt a hour later after ate his dinner and he was almost taken aback as soon as he take a step inside.

There are three large tall shelves, half filled with books, with two wide desks in between, two tall wide drawers and two wardrobes on the left side. On the right side, there are few mounted shelves above bench, the said bench now has cushions with back pillows, and many chests under the bench as makeshift drawers. Two low-tables set up near the bench and there were dozen things on them like stack of folded rugs. He spot several crates lying around here and there.

"Indeed, thank to Tate." Snow smiled, "She has amazing strength." The said girl blushed at that, it's not everyday someone compliment giantess on her strength, "But we still have so much things to place in here."

"Like bed?" The genin immediately notice the lack of said item.

"We want to wait until you show us where the trapdoors and secret compartments are before we put anything in." Gretel replied, "It'll be bothersome to move things around again."

"Oh, let me show you." Naruto walked to a certain spot as all girls drop everything to follow him, "The first one is right here." He stop near the northwest pillar a little away from the center and he kneel down to place his hand on floor, sliding panels back slightly with force then lift it up to reveal a small stepladder. "Ta-da!" The blonde flashed them a grin as he take the removable trapdoor out of the way.

"You put a stepladder in?" Goldilocks raised her eyebrow.

"Yeah, after all it's kinda little deep." The genin shrugged his shoulders and Gretel step down to look under the floor, seeing walls and the hidden space appear to be around eight feet by eight feet.

"Ah, you walled it off?" The brunette lift her head up from hidden basement.

"Yup." Naruto chuckled with a nod, "I figure it'll be helpful if we plan to store only specific things in one place like…Say, rugs and mat. Something like that."

"You said it's first one." Gretel climbed out of the hidden room as everyone take turn to look inside, "Are other ones same like this one?"

"Hai, the other three are like that." The genin put the removable floor back in with a click before he show them the other three hidden rooms, which are by the other pillars and away from the middle. "But the fifth one is different." He led the group almost all way to the back of the yurt and stop in middle before he open another trapdoor. The brunette girl step down and she barely can see the other four hidden room's walls in the darkness.

"So this one is a crawlspace?" The brunette girl exited to allow others check it.

"Yeah." Naruto put the floor back in after Cinderella, the last person, climbed out, "Now for the secret compartment." He walked up to right wall and place his hand on it, pushing in with small force then slide it to right to reveal a nock with four shelf. "This one is kinda like vault, we can store something valuable or important things inside." He showed them five more secret compartments within the walls, some are exactly same and some are smaller. "And that's it." He turned to the girls, "Any questions?"

"What's up with that?" Kitty pointed to the ceiling, she's very curious about this weird circular piece like everyone else.

"Um…" He glanced up to the ceiling before he scratch his head sheepishly, "I figure you guys must want attic or some kind of second floor. Honestly, I wasn't thinking when I put it up there."

"I assume we will have a ladder in here, no?" Rapunzel stared up, "After all, I can't see any of us climbing up without aid."

"Until you can walk on walls like Naruto." Goldilocks snorted and some girls nodded while the genin look more sheepish.

"Well, we will figure out what to do with it later." Gretel spoke up, "Let's finish unpack, decorating and set things up." She turned to her boyfriend, "Naruto, can you get the mattresses and put them together in the center until each one touch the pillars."

"Just mattresses?" Naruto raised his eyebrow at her with rapid blinks, "No bed frames? Just bunch of mattresses in one giant mattress?" The space of center between pillars is pretty huge.

"Yes, we don't have a colossal bed frame and if we do, I don't think we'll put it in." The brunette girl shook her head, "It was little hard to get in bed when we're in vardo. It's better to walk around and find our spot in bed without hopping on and off it."

"Ah, I see." He blinked few times before he shrug his shoulders, "Would you like me to grab blankets and pillows while I'm at it?"

"Yes, please." Gretel replied and the genin left with a thumb-up.

"…I still say it's a house, not yurt." Goldilocks sprawl out on a giant mattress, that have been tied together with two layers by one giant cover sheet that was created by Vasilisa with some help, as everyone get ready for bedtime.

"Whatever it is to us, at least we all can move around freely." Rapunzel said as Naruto carry Lyra into the yurt from vardo and Haru wander around the room, smelling everything as much as he can.

"Oh, I agree with you there." The short-haired blonde muttered while she watch her boyfriend placing the living harp close to the mattress as he make sure she's comfortable, "That is way better than small tight cramped vardo."

"Definitely." Rosie exited the changing screen that have been set up in corner near the bench as she fix her red fleece pajama shirt and pant up, "No more bumps and whoop moments."

"…Whoop?" Cinderella looked at redhead questioningly.

"It's like oop but sound funny." The redhead grinned up to strawberry-blonde woman, "Naruto said it sometime."

"Ah…?" The strawberry-blonde woman blinked slowly.

"How long do you think it will take us to finish arranging the furniture and decorating?" Tate wondered as she looked around the yurt.

"About two or three weeks, I assume." Snow put index finger on her jaw with a hum, it will take a while until it will feel homely.

"Naruto, I want bedtime cuddle." Hestia appeared at the genin's side, wrapping her arms around his waist in hug as she look up to him with blank face. "Now."

"Alright, let me kiss everyone good night first." Naruto pat her head gently before he go around giving each one their goodnight kiss and it was little hard for him to walk because the albino girl keep hugging him the whole time. The genin chose a spot on the giant bed, which is near the edge of head part and in middle. Naruto lie down on his back with pillow under his head and almost immediately, Hestia lie on top of him with her arms wrapping around his waist once again as he place his left arm around her torso. "Comfortable?"

"Yes." The albino girl nuzzled her face in his chest and she barely give Nerida a glance as the mute girl claim Naruto's right side to lie on his right arm. The greenette look very happy as soon as he absentmindedly stroke her head softly.

"Good night." Rosie put blanket over them before she get under it to her boyfriend's left side, "Oh, can Haru sleep on same bed with us?"

"Sure, I don't mind if he want to." The genin shrugged his shoulder slightly, they give Haru a second dog bed near their bed.

"Great!" The redhead grinned beamingly as she looked over to the dog's direction, "Haru, he said it's okay for you to come on if you want to!" Haru simply barked then rest his head down on his bed, causing the redhead to pout childishly. "Aw, I want him to sleep at our feet." Her boyfriend just chuckled lightly as he slowly fall asleep to Lyra's music while the rest of girls chose places with blankets and Naruto realize something as soon as his eyes closed. Despite the fact that there is a lot of space on the colossal bed, the girls all sleep very close to him and each other as they all cuddle together.

The next day, everyone watch Naruto seal the yurt into the scroll easily with some awe and confusion. "…Is there any limit to this storage stroll's…Um…" Sam twirled his hand at the now empty field, "Time-space thing? Or is it time-dimension?"

"You got it correct the first time." Goldilocks grunted, "And Naruto said there used to be one but he did some tweaks to it and now we don't know its limit anymore."

"Actually, all we know is that he can't seal living beings in this scroll so…" Rosie pointed out.

"Oh yeah, I forget about this one." The short-haired blonde muttered.

"…I see…" The red-haired huntsman slowly sweatdropped with unsure expression before the travelers get ready to set out to catch up on their schedule.

What the group don't know, not even Naruto, is that the genin have unwittingly create a new and unique fuinjutsu when he 'tweak' the storage seal and it would have take his world by storm because his 'storage' seal is actually dimension seal, meaning he can basically 'seal' a whole world and still have rooms. Of course Naruto will never know this fact for many years.

They have been traveling for several days and managed to recover some lost times to some certain people's relief and joy. Inside the leading wagon, Naruto was looking through his jutsu scroll for anything new to learn while most girls relax and he groan to himself as soon as he find another genjutsu scroll. "Ugh, not another genjutsu." He grumbled to himself.

"What's genjutsu?" Kitty slide up to his side before she blatantly duck under his arms as she climb onto his laps, curling up with her arms around his neck while he was still holding the opening scroll.

"G-Genjutsu is an illusionary techniques, which allow ninjas to cast illusion on their surrounding or trick someone into believing something is happening, even playing with five senses." Naruto tried his best to explain it with a faint blush as the catgirl nuzzled his nape with some purr, "I-It requires good chakra control."

"Are you going to learn it?" The catgirl asked.

"Nah, I won't." He shook his head lightly.

"Why?" Kitty asked curiously.

"Because I suck at it." Naruto muttered bashfully as he remember his poor attempts at performing standard bunshin, "My chakra control is pretty lousy and I always…"

"But didn't you say your chakra control improve a lot?" The catgirl tilted her head with a twitching ear, "Won't it make you better at genjutsu now? What's the point of doing all these chakra control exercise if you're not going to learn genjutsu?"

"Um, well, you see, um…" The genin stammered few times until he closed his mouth with a rapid blink, 'She's right…I might be able to use genjutsu because of my improved chakra control.' He know it's going to be a struggle to learn and master genjutsu since he have no experience with it but he'll get there…"Look like I'm going to create more kage bunshin than usual today." With help of his kage bunshin shortcut!

"Heh, you do that." Kitty nudged his hands down as she rubbed herself against his chest, "But right now? I want my catnap with you."

"You want me to lie down?" Naruto rubbed the top of her head, causing Kitty to purr happily.

"No, stay like that." The catgirl yawned out before she close her eyes, still nuzzling her head against him and the genin continue to stoke her head for a while.

"Two hours break." Gretel announced as they pull the wagons aside and Naruto almost immediately create hundreds of clone then send them out for training. "Is anyone hungry?" There were several affirmations before she take a basket of wrapped sandwiches out, "Here, take one."

"What's in them?" Rowan asked, unwrapping his sandwich.

"Strawberry jam and peanut paste." The brunette answered, "But I prefer to call it peanut butter after Naruto point the name difference out."

"Interesting." The tanned huntsman starts to eat his sandwich along with several others.

"You girls are not doing defensive training today?" Nico asked curiously.

"No, we're taking a day off." Snow replied with a headshake.

"Ah." The tall pinkette nodded his head understandingly but he think it's a shame because he like to watch Naruto teach some girls how to protect themselves. 'It'd be nice if we get same treatment like that back in my country.' Men would have scoff at the sight if they see that in his country and perhaps start to harass them to some degree. That make Nico feel uncomfortable and strange about it happening to everyone here.

Goldilocks boringly look through random stuff in the chest inside the front wagon for something to pass time until she find a scroll, "Did Naruto forget about this one?" She muttered to herself as she unroll the scroll, her boyfriend can be little airhead sometime because he tend to put random scroll in wrong place…That or his clone did it. "Huh?" She raised her eyebrow at illustration of fighting stance and moves, what make it stand out to her are that the person was wielding ax. "I wonder if he'll let me keep it for a bit while?"

"Oh, he will!" The short-haired blonde nearly shriek out as Rosie suddenly plop herself on Goldilocks' back with her arms around her torso, "He let me borrow some archer technique scrolls."

"R-R-Rosie, d-d-don't sneak up on me!" Goldilocks panted heavily.

"Sorry." Rosie rest her chin on her shoulder with a giggle and the short-haired blonde just grumble lowly.

"If he don't mind then I'll borrow it, but I have to ask him anyway." The blonde looked around outside before she ask the redhead, "Where's Naruto?"

"Tree-hopping training." The redhead answered, "He said something about making it tough by perform jutsu in mid-hop."

"Ah." Goldilocks uttered, that will take a while.

"…Want to cuddle?" Rosie asked.

"Yes." She replied with a small nod of her head, "Vardo or here?"

"Vardo, it's warm than out here." The redhead nuzzled the blonde's nape and they went inside the vardo for a little cuddle and to keep Lyra company.

"La, la, la!" A wooden male puppet with long nose and yellow pointy hat skipped through the woods as he have a big smile on his face, "I am going to be a real boy, I am going to be a real boy! La, la, la! I am going to be a real boy! La, la, la!" A sharp wind flew by him without any warning and the puppet froze still with happy expression on his face…Before his right side slide down then fall forward while its left side fall backward, had bisected by the very same wind. "LAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" With one final cry, the puppet become lifeless the very moment it hit the ground.

"OH SHIT! FUCK! FUCK!" Naruto swiftly jumped down next to the bisected puppet with alarmed expression and flailing arms, "I DON'T SEE YO…" His panic suddenly ended when he look close to the body with rapid blinks before he throw his head back in relief as his knees buckled, "OH THANK KAMI! It's just a puppet!" He exhaled out sharply with hands on his knees, he thought he accidentally kill someone and that took few years off his life. "Holy shit!" It took him few minutes to calm his pounding heart down before he look at the puppet questioningly, "Why is there a puppet out here?" He picked the right and left parts up as he look around for any sign of whoever it belong to before he slowly put the parts together for close examination and its head drop off in pieces. "…Eeeeeeeah, not salvageable." His shoulders shrugged as he seal the bisected puppet in his scroll, "Firewood it is." Naruto jumped up to a tree, resume his training.

"Pinocchio, wait up!" A cricket in jacket with top hat hopped out few moments later before the creature look around in confusion, "Pinocchio? Where have you gone to?" The cricket took off in another direction, searching for the puppet.

Back with Naruto, the genin hop across the branches for some good amount of time and he make a small miscalculation when he make another leap. He land on a small branch and it snap off, causing him to fall down with a yelp before he land on something with a crash and snapping bone, something that don't belong to him. To this day, he swear he heard someone screaming 'The sky is falling!' but he assume it was an trick playing on him by his brain. "What did I just land on?" Naruto ask himself as he get up then look down to see a…"Chicken?" He awkwardly pick a dead red chicken up by its feet, its neck dangling at awkward angle and he hope it was a wild chicken and not someone's pet or summon because it have red-and-white checked apron. "…It's a wild chicken." Naruto convinced himself while yanking the cloth off then he seal them separately, "Yes, a wild chicken." The genin walked away with an innocent whistle.

Two hour break was almost over and Naruto was planning to flash back to the group until he come across something very odd near an small canyon. The odd sight was fight between a lion and tiger and it look like it was over a dead deer but what make it odd is that both creatures look so exhausted as they swatting each other with paws until they pass out. "…Is that a mountain lion that girls warn me about before?" Naruto scratched his head puzzlingly, completely have no clue about wild animal's habital. He was more confusing with the tiger's appearance but one thing he know is that they are very dangerous animals and there's a very good chance that these beasts will encounter his group since they're close to the rest site. 'I'll ask the guys about it later.' Naruto draw his kunai before he take a mighty leap in air.

"Oh, wo…" The lion was about to say something to the tiger after noticing something from the corner of his eyes until he took by surprise when an blond boy suddenly impale the tiger's skull with glowing odd dagger from above out of nowhere, killing the creature immediately.

"SHURIKEN KAGE BUNSHIN!" The genin fling a single glowing shuriken and it become three as it flew toward the widening-eyed lion. Both shuriken penetrate the lion's eyes while the third one hit squarely in forehead and they went through the skull and out like knife to paper. "WHOA!" Naruto gaped at the sight as the second creature dropped dead, "Wind-enhanced tools are awesome!" The genin have no idea how useful and powerful it is to enhance his tools with wind chakra but to be fair, the beasts were exhausted so he don't know how it will turn out if they were in their top form. He step off the dead tiger before he glance between three corpses then he rub his chin in deep think, "…Maybe I'll take them with me?" Someone in the group might want to put these bodies to good use like fur and meats for example. Naruto put the corpses of lion, tiger and fawn in his storage scroll before he flash away.

In the background, a fox stare on with widened eyes and it slowly turn around then walk away in daze as it thank its guardian angel for not letting this boy notice the creature in first place.

"…Well, it look like you have a busy day." Goldilocks said to Naruto flatly with a small sweatdrop as she watch the girls and huntsmen inspect the corpses, mostly in awe because it's not everyday you get to see tiger and lion up close.

"I guess so." Naruto scratched his head sheepishly.

"Naruto, why does this chicken look like it have been squashed?" Val lift the said creature up by its feet with a puzzling expression.

"I land on it." The genin admitted.

"…You land on it?" The chubby teenager gave him a funny look and Wendy laugh out loud in background with few giggling girls.

"Yes, I did." Naruto blushed embarrassingly.

"…Ok." Val stared at the dead chicken, at least it can be used for food.

"Is there anything else?" Gretel asked the genin out of curiosity.

"…I kinda find firewoods." Naruto coughed into his fist, "A broken puppet."

The brunette stares at him for few moments before she turn back to the lion's body, "Ok then." At least it's not treasure or magical objects this time.

They reach a small village three days later and the group decide to stop there for a short time to take a look around to see if there's anything worth enough to buy like more livestocks or fruits. Naruto find himself walking with Cinderella and Hestia as the albino girl held both blondes' hands in middle and it was pretty nice...Beside a little run-in with a screaming woman that was chased by three little mice and Naruto have to kick them far away into a ditch, which earn him a thank you from the villager. The genin actually wonder why these mice have sunglasses and little canes. "I think it was very sweet of you to rescue this farmer from these awful mice." Cinderella smiled timidly at him.

"Anyone would do the same thing." Naruto waved it off with a smile.

"Mm." The strawberry-blonde woman make a humming noise as if she was either agreeing with him or not.

"Cinderella, what do you want to look at?" Hestia looked up to the said woman blankly.

"Oh, um…" Cinderella took a look around until she spot a small shop, "Can we look at some furniture?" A wave of embarrassment hit her as soon as she remember how many furniture they own, "O-O-Or no…"

"Sure, let's go check it out." Naruto shrugged his shoulders and the woman find herself drag into the shop by the little girl.

"Welcome, how can I help you three?" The owner greeted his possible customers politely as he screw a chair leg into place over his worktable.

"Just looking around." The genin said with a wave of his hand.

"Alright." The man gave a nod to them before he turn back to his task and the trio take their time to browsing.

"Oh, that looks very lovely." The strawberry-blond woman muttered to herself out loud as she stared at a well-made rocking chair, what caught her eyes the most are the beautiful hand-painted colorful flowers imprinted across the headrest and smooth wooden 'vines' poles. She can see herself sitting on it and relaxing inside the yurt or outside on porch during spring if the weather is good.

"Want to get it?" Naruto asked, startled the blonde woman in process.

"O-O-O-Oh, um, n-n-no." Cinderella stuttered after a little jump.

"You sure?" He tilted his head, "You look like you really like it. I don't mind if we buy it, same for everyone else."

"O-Oh, um, if it's not a much bother…" The blonde woman muttered after thinking it over for couple minutes, "Yes, I want to own it."

"Ok." Naruto turned to the owner as he pointed to the chair, "How much is this rocking chair?"

"Twenty-five silvers." The man answered after take one look over his shoulder and Naruto place twenty-five silver coins on table next to the owner before he seal the chair into storage scroll. The blondes resume looking around until the genin spot a sign on a very plain and common wooden table before he turn his head to the owner curiously with raised eyebrow.

"Why does it say five hundred gold?" The genin pointed to the sign on table, it's so small that it's fitting for four people to sit around it and low enough that they have to sit on floor. "For this little table? That makes no sense at all."

"Ah." The owner chuckled as if he has heard it many time, "That's because it's a very special table, you see. It's magical."

"Magical, how?" Naruto squirted his eyes at him.

"If you set it up and say these words, 'Little table, set yourself'." The man said clearly, "It will be covered with a clean little cloth and bring you fine and delicious food with some drinks."

"…Any kind of foods or is it limited to some?" The genin perked up at that with a hopeful tone.

"Aye, it can be any foods." The owner rubbed his chin, "I think?" He glanced sideway at the boy, "Tell you what, you can test it once."

"Really?" Naruto grinned as the man nodded before he turn to the table, "Little table, set yourself with miso ramen!" A steaming bowl of miso ramen appear on the table from thin air, "RAMEN!" He snatched the bowl and eat it in one go to the man's gobsmacked face, never have he seen anyone eat this fast. "Man, it have been long time since I have one!" The genin wiped his mouth clean with his sleeve before he sharply turn to the owner, "Old man, I'll buy it!"

"…You know it's five hundred gold?" The owner reminded him gently, 'O-Old man? I'm not this old.'

"Yeah, I know." The genin take a bag out of his pocket then hand it over to the man and the owner look inside to see gold coins.

"…L-L-Let me count to make sure." The man blinked rapidly at the money in bag and it took a while as he total it up. "Four hundred and eighty…Four hundred and ninety…Five hundred." He hand the now-small bag back to the genin, "Here, you have some extra gold left over."

"Thank!" Naruto took it then pick the table up with a beaming wide grin, "Man, that is going to be my favorite table ever!"

"Be careful when you use it out there, there must be some people that may try to steal it." The owner warned him, "After all, it's very valuable."

"Don't worry, old man!" The genin hollered to him as the trio left the shop, "And thank!" He seal the table into scroll and the owner simply scratched his head then he turn back to his task with a shrug.

"Excuse me, may I learn your craft?" The owner turned to see a young man entering the shop and the man welcome him in with a nod.

With the trio, they wander around a bit more until something catch Hestia's interest. "Ass." The albino girl said flatly.

"Wha…?" Naruto pull a double-take at her then look ahead to see a elderly man leading a donkey toward them with rope around its neck, 'D-Did she just call this old man an ass?' Did he just mishear her?

"That's a cute ass, didn't you agree?" Cinderella smiled down at her and the albino girl merely nod her head as the genin gave them weird look.

"I want to pet it." Hestia said as the old man with donkey get close within earshot.

"Go ahead, little lady." The elderly man gave them a warm smile, "You can pet my ass."

"Thank you." The strawberry blonde woman smiled back timidly.

"Ummm…" Naruto opened his mouth before Hestia pet the donkey's hair while Cinderella pet its back, "…Wait, when you were talking about ass, do you mean that?" He pointed at the donkey.

"Of course, it's a ass." The old man said as matter of fact, "Who else do you think we're referring to?"

"Um, the butt?" The genin scratched his head bashfully and the old man blinked at him few times before he laugh out loudly.

"Oh my lord, did you thought we were talking about my…" The elderly man nearly chokes on his laughter with tears down his eyes, "Oh! Oh! That is the funniest thing I have ever heard of!"

"Not my fault there's different meaning for some words around here." Naruto grumbled under his breath with embarrassing blush, 'That is 'gay' situation all over again.' He remember getting very confusing when some girls and huntsmen said they're gay about something for a while until he discover this word mean happy here.

"Oh, thank you for giving this old man a good laughter." The elderly man wiped tears off his face with giggles, "Phew!" He glanced at the donkey as it lean close to the girls, "Oh? It look like he have take a liking to you."

"And it look like Hestia here like him." Cinderella commented, "He look very lovely."

"Indeed." The old man cupped his chin with a hum as he looked at the said girl and donkey for a while before he make his decision, "Would you like to take him off my hands? He may not make a good working ass but he's a docile pet."

"Are you sure?" Naruto blinked at him.

"Yes, I am a very old man and I won't be around any longer soon." The elderly man nodded his head, "It will give my heart some ease to know that he'll be well looked after." He snickered, "That and I must give you a reward for making me laugh. I haven't a good laugh after a long time."

"Can we take him?" Hestia turned to her boyfriend blankly, "Please?"

"You want to?" The genin looked at her as she nod once, "Alright." He turned back to the old man, "How much?"

"Oh, he's free." The smiling man hand the rope to the albino girl, "He's a very magical ass because if you place him on cloth and say 'Bricklebrit' out loud, he will produce gold from his mouth and behind."

"…Really?" Naruto stared at him with the girls and the old man stare at them for a minute before he walk away with a loud laughter as he remember the whole ass conversation. "…Guess it was a joke." He scratched his head before he turn back to the girls, "Do you want to go back now?"

"Yes." Hestia pet the donkey, she want to show her new pet off to everyone. "I will call you Blaze."

"Um, I-I would like to walk around a bit more with you if that's okay?" Cinderella muttered.

"That's okay." Naruto create a clone to walk Hestia back with donkey before he turn his attention to the blonde woman, "Shall we?" They walk together and the genin absentmindedly slip his hand into her hand, causing Cinderella to get a little startle by his action but she welcome it as it make her feel more relaxing.

If they look back, they would see a older teenager boy approach the old man for a work as miller.

After some more wandering, they stop to watch a man lathe a wood into a smooth bowl skillfully to pass some time. "The turner is really skilled at it, I wonder how long did it take him to hone his craft?" Cinderella wondered out of curiosity.

"Somewhere between ten to twenty years, I bet." Naruto replied.

"You're right, I have been turning for fifteen years now." The woodturner answered politely since they didn't distract him from his work the whole time and he inspect his project closely with a hum. "Ah, fine work." He put it down satisfyingly.

"May I ask you a question?" The strawberry-blonde woman asked the man politely after seeing that he finished his work.

"Go ahead." The man nodded without looking back, picking another wood to crave.

"What is inside this sack hanging by the rack?" Cinderella pointed to a neat and clean sack that hanged from the rack to the man's right, "I notice it have move a little once in a while."

"Oh, that?" The woodturner looked over to the sack, "It's a magic cudgel in sack."

"Oh?" The woman blinked.

"What's a cudgel?" Naruto raised his eyebrow with tilted head, "And what it can do?"

"It's a stout club made from wood with heavy blunt head." The man explained, "The reason why it's magic is because if someone try to bring some harm upon you in any form, the cudgel will come out to give wrongdoers a nasty dance on their back when you open the sack and say, 'Out of the sack, Cudgel'. It can beat anyone badly that they won't be able to move for a week and won't left off until you say, 'Into the sack, Cudgel', and it will return to the sack."

"So it's for self-defense then?" The genin crossed his arms with a blink.

"Right." The woodturner nodded.

"That's amazing." Cinderella gasped, "That will come in useful if we encounter any unsavory people on our travel."

"Yeah, it will." Naruto agreed with her as they looked at each other while the woodturner turned to stare at them, "But I don't think he'll sell it. It must be some family heirloom or he have paid a lot for it." The man study them for a while with intense eyes and he assume that the blondes are part of vagabonds that try to find a better life in safe place and it look like they have kind hearts.

"…If you want it, it can be yours for a hundred gold." The man spoke up to catch their attention.

"Wait, really?" Cinderella blinked as the woodturner confirmed and the blondes share a look with each other. "Do you think we should buy it?"

"Mmm…" Naruto rubbed his chin in deep thought, "Like you said, it will be useful for you and girls to have some protection just in case." He paused for few moments before nodding his head as he take the money bag out of his pocket, it's good thing he have exactly hundred gold after bought the magic table. The genin make an exchange with the man while he teach them the keywords and the blondes walk away with the sack after thanking the woodturner and a young teenager boy approach the woodturner for apprenticeship ten minutes later.

The three brothers that got job today will have no idea that they were too late to gain a wonderful gift that will help them regain their father's trust in future.

"How interesting." Gretel stared at magical table and sack along with the girls and huntsmen, "Very interesting. You bought a magical table that can produce foods and drinks and a cudgel in sack that can beat any criminals for week under your command." She glanced to a donkey that was getting brushing by Hestia, "Not only that, we now have a pet ass."

"For free." The albino girl said blankly.

"Yup." Naruto nodded at the donkey, "The old man was very nice to give him to us for free. And he just told us a joke about Blaze."

"Joke?" Rapunzel tilted her head, "What joke did he share with you?"

"He said that Blaze is a magical ass that can make gold from both end if you put him on cloth." The genin rubbed his chin as he tried to recall it while Hestia led Blaze on a cloth mat for little trim behind him, "And say a word…What was the word he said to us…Brick? Brickle…Oh!" He snapped his finger, "Bricklebrit!" Naruto hear a sudden gag and fart, following by two heavy thud behind his back and he see everyone stare at something behind him with various reactions, some in shock and he did see two or three deadpan staring. "…Blaze just spit gold out, didn't he?" He muttered lamely with his index finger up.

"Yes, he just did." Snow muttered.

"Gold coins from mouth and big nuggets from behind." Heida commented and Goldilocks squeal excitingly.

"…Magic ass." Gretel deadpanned, "You got us a magic ass."

"…C-C-Can we just say donkey instead of ass?" Naruto slowly turned around to stare at pile of gold under Blaze while Hestia continue to trim his hair uninterestingly, "P-P-Please?" He don't think he can handle the whole 'ass' phrasing because it's so confusing and make him want to laugh out loud inappropriately.

After two more days of traveling, the campsite was in process of setting up after they find a wide plain near the road and Naruto thought it'd be good time for a short snack break as he take a wrapped ham-and-cheese sandwich out from basket. He spin around as he unwrap the food until he notice a panting young man jogging down the road with a large handkerchief wrapping around something on his back and the man suddenly stop in trail, slowly turn his head to the genin with heavy pants. The man was staring straight at the sandwich in Naruto's hands before the blonde speak up, "Um, are you okay?"

"Can I have that?" The man pointed to the sandwich, 'Please say yes, please say yes! I want to throw it away!'

"The sandwich?" Naruto glanced at the food then back up to him, the man look very hungry. "Sure, you…"

"Here, your payment!" The man suddenly pushed an wrapped object into the blonde's hands as the genin can feel the heaviness of weight and the man snatch the sandwich before he swiftly ran away. "OH! Hans, you're in luck!" He crackled like madman and the boy got off guard by the man's second wind and his speed.

"H-H-Hey, wait!" Naruto called out to the man but it was too late as the man vanishes from his sight at very high speed, "Y-Y-You…You don't have to pay for it! IT WAS FREE!" He stared at the road for few minutes, waiting for the man to return but only a rider on horse gallop pass the campsite.

"What did he give you?" Snow approached him after she witnessed everything.

"I don't know." The genin put the wrapped object down on wagon's back then unwrap it, only to drop his jaw along with Snow and several other people as soon as the object reveal to be a gold nugget the size of human head. "…ALL OF THAT FOR A FUCKING SANDWICH?!" He can't really believe how can this man willingly give it all away for a ham-and-cheese sandwich! The genin turned to everyone with widened eyes, "Do I have to chase this guy down and return it to him?" Everyone look at each other before they debate.

"…No, as I know it's wrong but he paid you for a sandwich so therefore the gold is rightfully belong to us now legally." Gretel sighed after a deep discussion with the group and reach conclusion.

"O-Ok, I-I'll put it away…" Naruto wrapped the lump of gold dumbly then he carry it into the yurt, still can't comprehend how it end up in their possession.

"Who have the map?" The genin asked a hour later.

"Here." Wyatt waved the map above his head before he give it to the blonde, "What do you need it for?" It was just curiosity.

"Oh, I'm thinking of sending some bunshins up to this mountain over there to test some new fuinjutsu and some high rank jutsu." Naruto jabbed his thumb to a mountain surrounding by forest in distance, "But I want to check and see if there's any towns nearby this place. I don't want to get someone in crossfire by accident." He read the name of the mountain then scan for any town landmarks, "No towns close, that's good." He give the map back to Wyatt before he create a batch of bunshin then he give one of them paper slips, "You know what to do."

"Roger, boss!" Naruto turn away from his bunshins to the blue-haired teenager and no one notice that one of clones snatch something on its way to the mountain. "Thank, Wyatt."

"You're welcome." The blue-haired teenager nodded once before he look at him curiously, "What kind of fuinjutsu are you testing, if you don't mind me asking?"

"You remember a explosive fuinjutsu?" The genin said as the teenager nodded again, "I create another version of it, it's going to be a land mine that can be triggered by weight and I don't have to flare my chakra for it." Naruto cupped his chin with tilted head, "It's kinda an experiment so I don't know the result until the guys' memories come back to me."

"Land mine? Weight trigger?" Wyatt gave him a odd look, "You sure come up with some…Intriguing ideas."

"Is that a bad thing?" Naruto asked as he create more clones to do some training in forest.

"Not really." The blue-haired teenager waved it off with a headshake, "You just make me realize how much I don't know about the world and that I need to change the way I usually strategize." Wyatt make a mental note to talk more with Naruto to learn how to think out of the box from now onward.

"Oh, I'm with you on this first part." The genin chuckled lightly as he rubbed his head, "The world is bigger than we thought and we don't know much about it." Wyatt agreed with him again before the blonde bid him bye since he have physical workout to do.

In a forest, group of clones decide to spilt up in different directions to cover more ground and one clone have been wandering farther for a while until he almost trip over something by a tree. "Huh?" Naruto looked back to see a overturned little low table with cloth on it, "Why is that all way out here?" He set it up then give it a look over, it somehow remind him of the magical table and his eyes squirted up in deep thought with rubbing chin. "Hmm…Nah!" He chuckled, "It can't be another magical table that summon foods. It'll be crazy." The clone laughed with waving hand, "Oh, little cloth, cover yourself." He said jokingly, only to shut up when foods magically appear on the table. "…Oh, you gotta be kidding." Naruto was at loss for a while until he decide to carry it with him, trying to figure if he should bring it back to his creator or not.

"Good evening, young boy." The yelping clone nearly jumped up from a voice before he look to his right to see an black man burning some charcoal and he was also baking potatoes over fire. The boy realize that he have been wandering farther while lost in his thought. "Would you like to be my guest and have some? It's…" The man sighed, "Potatoes, like every day."

"You sound like you have it every single day." Naruto commented.

"Oh, yes, yes, I have it every day for…" The black man paused to recall the numbers by counting with his fingers, "Five years." The boy dropped his jaw at that, poor guy! He must be sick of potatoes by now, only if he have something…Else…To…

'That's it!' The clone's eyes lit up before he hold the table out to the man, "Hey, you can have that. It's magic table that can summon any kind of foods you want!" He set it in front of the puzzling man, "Listen well because that's the keywords! Little cloth, cover yourself!" The foods appear on table and the black man just stare at it with rapid blinks then turn his gaze to the boy.

"…Y-Y-You're giving it to me?" He stammered, "Without want anything in return?"

"Yeah, I don't need it." Naruto shrugged. It's true, the creator have a magical table and it's not like they need another one. "Enjoy your dinner!" He was about to walk away with a wave.

"Wait!" The black man stopped him, "Let me give you a gift in return for your kindness." He took a old shabby knapsack off a low tree branch that it have been hanging on, "That is a soldier's knapsack, it may be old and shabby, but in it wonderful powers lie concealed. I no longer use it, I will give it to you."

"What can it do?" The clone asked, taking the sack from the man with both hands as he examine it curiously.

"Every time you tap it with your hand, a corporal comes with six men armed from head to foot, and they do whatever you command them." The man replied.

"Sound like bunshin or summoning technique." Naruto muttered to the man's confusion, "But are you sure you want to give it away to me?" He's not sure if his creator need it but maybe the girls, huntsmen or someone else would like it.

"Yes, I am very certain." The black man nodded firmly, "It's a fair exchange."

"Alright, I'll take it." The clone accepted the man's gift, "Thank and bye!" He walked away with a wave.

"Good bye to you!" The man hollered before he sit down in front of his magical table with watering mouth, "No more potatoes for me again!"

Another clone stretch his arms out as he take a stroll around in the forest after blasting several poor trees with earth bullets and he was bored. "Man, I wish boss put me on katon squad instead of Doton squad." He complained to himself until he notice something from the corner of his eyes, "Mm?" Naruto turned his head to see a old worn-out hat hanging on a low branch, "Hat?" He took it down with a confusing mutter as he looked around for its owner, "Have it been abandoned?" He checked it over then give it a smell to make sure it's not dirty or stinky, which it wasn't. "Maybe Vasilisa can put it to some good use." He shrugged his shoulders as he tried it on and turn it around.

Suddenly, twelve floating cannonballs materialize in front of him and they shot in the direction he face with a thunderous boom, following by dozen thunderous explosives in different distances. "…" The widen-eyed clone was gobsmacked by the bizarre sight and he shakily turn the hat around again, repeating the cannon barrage. "…HOLY!" Naruto yanked the hat off his head and hold it out at arm length. "What the fuck?!" He stared at the hat dangling innocently in his hand, "…I'm taking you back with me." Naruto stumbled away in daze and several minutes later, an stout man race into the clearing in panic. The first thing he did was take a look at the branch where the hat used to hang on.

"…I HAVE BEEN ROBBED!" The man cried in shock, fearing that it have fall into wrong hands. He ran in wrong direction in hope to catch the robber.

A raspy breath echoed in his throat as a old man clutch a old worn horn to his chest on ground, he was trying to hold on from a sudden heart attack when this mysterious explosive near him give him a sharp startle. 'The horn, the horn!' The rasping man gazed down at the horn in his chest, 'I need to do something about it before it's too late!'

"Hey!" The old man hear someone shouting as the owner kneel down next to him, "Are you okay?! Shit, what happened?!" The old man look up to see a blonde boy with blue eyes and whisker marks on his cheeks, "Shit, shit! I have to…"

"T-Take the horn!" The old man suddenly push the object into the boy's hands, "Keep it out of anyone's hands! It hold powers beyond your imagination! Whoever blow it will bring walls and fortification down, and all towns and villages become ruins!" He rasped, "A-A-And bury me here!" With that, the old man dies.

"…OLD MAN!" The wailing clone shook the dead man's shoulders, "WAKE UP! DON'T YOU DARE DO THAT TO ME!" It was in vain so the clone buried the old man according to his wish and was forced to go back to his creator with a powerful yet dangerous horn.

Once again, Naruto have no idea that he was indirectly responsible for someone else's death.

"…Is that a hill of silver?" Another clone stared at a hill of silver in amazement. Who the hell leave a hill of silver in middle of forest?!

"Yes, it is." The second clone nodded dumbly, "Lumps, coins and all."

"…Go back and grab a storage scroll." The first clone said as the second clone's head turned to him, "Finder keeper."

"Alright, want me to tell boss?"

"Nah, don't tell him." The bunshins grinned impishly to each other, sometime they like to mess around with their creator.

"…Is that a hill of gold?" Another clone stare at a hill of gold in amazement. Who the fuck leave a hill of gold in middle of forest?!

"Yes, it is." The second clone nodded dumbly, "Lumps, coins and all."

"…Go back and grab a storage scroll." The first clone said as the second clone's head turned to him, "Finder keeper."

"Alright, want me to tell boss?"

"Nah, don't tell him." The bunshins grinned impishly to each other.

Both the clones that have stumbled upon the gold and silver hills have no idea that they were sharing same experience.

Three brothers will come across the plain where the hills used to be and will continue walking without stop several days later.

"Phew, I think that's enough for now." Naruto, the original, rolled his neck around after a intense workout as he walked through the snowy forest, 'Hiraishin or take my time?' The scenery look beautiful so the genin decide to take his sweet time hiking back to the campsite. After few minutes of hiking, he suddenly hear some sobs near and he quickly scan the forest. Naruto wonder if he was hearing it so he listen close and sobs reach his ear clearly this time. "Hello?" The genin called out with cupped hand over his mouth, "Is anyone there? Do you need help?" The sobs stop for a moment then a voice call back to him.

"Y-Y-Yes, I do!" A voice said with sobs, "I'm up here!" The genin tilted his head up to the trees as he scanned for anyone but he don't see the owner, "Over here, at right…Your right! Little down…" Naruto follow the owner's direction until he see a girl waving frantically on a branch.

The girl appear to be a young petite teenager with amber short hair and bright blue eyes, she wear a dirty gown that seems to have been tattered by elements. What make her stand out the most is that she's tiny…So tiny! She's tiny as a thumb!

"Um, how did you end up this small?" He quickly jogged up to the branch then hold his hand flat out to her, allow the tiny shivering girl to climb onto his palm. "And end up here?"

"I was born this way." The tiny girl tried to keep herself warm by rubbing her crossed arms, "And how I end up here is a very long story that starts when a ugly toad kidnapped me."

"That must be interesting…" Naruto blinked slowly at her as he carefully carry her through the forest, "…What's your name? I'm Naruto Uzumaki."

"M-My name is Thumbelina." She answered with clattering teeth, "A-A-Are we going to somewhere warm?" It's all she can think about right now after trying to survive the winter.

"Yeah, I'll take you right there." He nodded and he was about to use the hiraishin until he hear a loud scream in near distance. It sound like someone was in danger. "Hold on! I'm giving you over to my bunshin!" He summon a clone to the worried tiny girl's shock and amazement, "He'll take you to someplace safe! I have to go help!" Naruto raced toward the screamer's direction as the clone vanish in a flash with the tiny girl and the genin come across a run-down shabby hut. He hear more screams from inside, following by some crashes and Naruto swiftly kicked the door open. The first thing he see is a screeching wild dirty woman in rag dress brandishing a bloody knife and she was slashing toward two frightened girls in front of her, one shielding the another in protective stance. The second thing he notice is that the girls were bleeding, due to many cuts all over their tattered dirty clothes.

"I'm cutting her up!" The woman bellowed at the girls, "Stop protecting her and let me kill her!" It seems that she didn't hear him kicking the door in as she approached the girls menacingly.

"No, please don't ki…" The girl that was protecting another cried out before the woman cut her off with another bellowing shout.

"NO MORE!" The woman roared as she prepare to stab them, "I AM GOING TO EAT…" The crazy woman got blindsided by a roundkick to the side of her head, sending her flying across the room with violent tumbles and Naruto land in front of the surprised girls.

"W-W-Who are you?" The first girl stuttered out in shock and the second girl stare up at him under the first girl's arms with wide eyes.

"I'm here to save you two." Naruto said to them as he keep one eye on the crazy woman, who was getting up with some stumble.

"ARGH!" The woman screamed as she swing the knife around crazily with drool, "YOU! YOU ALL! WHY?! WHY DO YOU ALL KEEP STOPPING ME FROM GETTING MY MEAT?! ARGH! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU ALL! COOK YOU UP AND EAT YOU UP!" She lunge at them with savage roar.

"CHEW ON THAT!" Naruto socked her squarely in mouth, sending her flying once again with shattering teeth and the woman swiftly stand up with another roar as she knock a lit lamp over with her wild swing. The lamp hit the floor and set it on fire, which spread out but the enraged woman barely give it a glance as she charge toward the children wildly. "Shit!" He swiftly conjure the rasengan in his hand then ram it into the leaping woman's face once again and the screeching woman fly toward the wall...And she would have go through it if a portal don't materialize. The roaring woman went through the portal and it disappear without a trace. "This portal again?" The genin stared at the wall with blinks until he remember the fire as it swiftly engulf the groaning hut at alarming speed, "Oh shit!" He quickly grab both girls then race out of the burning hut before it collapse with series of crashes. "T-That was close one." His head turned to the two girls as they kneel on snowy ground, "Are you two alright?" He glance up and down their appearances for the first time.

The first skinny girl appears to be around his age with dirty short choppy gray hair and she have black eyes. The second skinny girl seems to be between eight to ten with dirty medium-long messy gray hair and black eyes.

"I…" The older girl uttered before she fainted along with the young girl.

"Oh, fuck!" Naruto quickly scooped them up before he flash back to the campsite to get them help.

In a random village far away, the villagers were alerted when a portal open up in the sky far above them and a wild dirty woman fall out, hitting the hard pavement. The woman die immediately from hard impact at high speed and the villagers gathered around the body with morbid curiosity as soon as the portal vanishes without a trace.

Two clones wander up the mountain to look for some safe place to test a bunch of latest and new seal tags before one of bunshin turn to other. "Hey, what's the name of this place?" The first clone asked.

"Simeli Mountain." The second clone grunted.

"What mountain?" Naruto raised his eyebrow.

"Simeli Mountain." The second Naruto repeated.

"Samely Mountain?" The first clone misheard him.

"SIMELI Mountain." The second clone said clearly.

"Semey Mountain?" The first Naruto blinked.

"NO!" The second Naruto threw his hands up annoyingly, "How can you mishear me?! I said Simeli Mountain! SIMELI MOUNTAIN, SIMELI MOUNTAIN, OPEN YOUR FUCKING EARS!"

"Whoa!" The first clone held his hands up, "Chill out! I was just playing…" Suddenly, the ground rumble as the startled clones yelped out and the cliffside shift before their eyes, revealing a entrance as the rumbles cease. The bunshins trade looks with owlish blinks before they decide to walk through the entrance and they find themselves in a giant cavern, filled with…

"HOLY SHIT!" The second clone gawked at the sight, "Did we just discover a hidden treasure?!"

"Whoa, treasure cave." The first clone also gawked at the treasures in front of them. There were many giant sacks, filled with golds and silvers, and many giant piles of gems and jewelries that was heaped upon another, and many wooden barrels with lids, many treasure chests, ranging from smallest to large, heaped upon another like row of corns. "I wonder who's hoarding all of it?"

"A dead guy, I guess." The second clone shrugged his shoulders, looking around.

"Huh?" The first clone turned to his fellow bunshin, "What do you mean by that?"

"Look at that." The second Naruto gestured in front of them, "Everything are nearly covered in dust and cobwebs. I don't think anyone have been in here for a long time…" He rubbed his chin thoughtfully, "Two or three hundred years, give or take."

"Mm…" The first inspected his surrounding to see that his fellow clone was correct when he see dust and countless webs, "Oh, I think you're right…" He rubbed the back of his head, "So…What are we going to do?"

"…Finder keeper?" The second clone turned his head to look at him and the first blonde stared back for few moments.

"…Finder keeper." The first Naruto shrugged with a light nod before he cup his chin, "But how can we bring it all back to boss?"

"Hehe, I got it covered." The second blonde pulled a medium thick scroll, the length of entire arm. "After all, I have one of big storage scrolls…And before you ask, no, it's not bunshin, it's real deal. I nicked it without boss' knowledge."

"…Why?" The first clone gave him a funny look, "Why would you do that? What are we supposed to do with it…No, best question, how the hell can we get it back to boss if we got dispelled far away from him?!"

"Meh, I feel like it and it's his problem, not ours." The second clone shrugged and the first clone just stare at him weirdly for some good amount of time before he just also shrug. "I'll unroll it out, you use kage bunshins."

"Gotcha!" The first clone create over thousands of kage bunshins, "Ok, everyone, collect everything! Down to last coin! Leave nothing behind!"

"Roger!" The clones scattered everywhere, swiftly collect and carry every single treasure to the second clone as he seal every pieces into the storage scroll. It took a little over five hours until the cavern become bare and the second clone seal the last sack then roll the scroll up.

"Take it to boss." The second clone handed the scroll over to the first clone, "We'll dispel here."

"Alright." The first clone gave him a thumb-up before he vanish in a flash with the scroll and the second clone dispel all extra bunshins then himself. When the second clone pop out, he forget one thing…He have bunch of real tag papers and the said items scatter all over the dirt haphazardly. Five minutes later, a poor man wanders into the cavern with curious face and he look around.

"Oh my, when have this cave been here before?" The man sounded very confusing by the existence of this place and he become more confusing when he see scrambled papers in front of him. He was about to pick it up until he hear a heavy loud thud behind him and he whip around startled to see twelve giant wild men, the heavy loud thud come from a giant sack that have been dropped by one of them as the men stare at him and the cavern furiously.

"How dare you steal from us?!" The leader roared angrily, the bandits stomped closer to the shivering man.

"I-I-I have steal n-nothing!" The poor man backed away as his foot step on the tag and he was about to plead his innocence until he notice something behind the robbers. A glowing hole open up under the sack, swallowing it up and it vanish silently. "Heavens, what was…" The tag under his foot glow blindingly and before everyone know it, there was a giant explosive that cause the cavern to collapse in, destroying the entrance and killed everyone in process. The poor man die quick and painless without knowing it and for the robbers, they were maimed and buried alive under the crushing boulders for last ten painful minutes of their lives.

"How are they?" Naruto asked Rapunzel worriedly as soon as the long-haired blonde step outside with couple girls while everyone gathered outside, waited for the news on two girls. Everyone was surprised when his clone appear with the tiny girl in his hand then they become more surprised and worried when Naruto appear with two fainted injured girls and he explain everything to them after bring them inside with the medic and couple girls.

"I healed their injuries, but they are malnourished." Rapunzel sighed with a small frown, "I don't know how long they have been starving for."

"Is that why they fainted?" Snow asked worriedly.

"It's possible." The medic replied, "That and they must be very exhausted after what they have went through." She looked to the cookers of the group, "Val, Piper, can you please make some light meal? Not too much, we need to ease them in."

"Gotcha." Val nodded with Piper before they head inside the dining wagon.

"Will they be okay?" Naruto asked.

"Physical, I believe they will in long term." Rapunzel said, "But mentally? I don't know. I think you should be there with them when they wake up so they won't be very frightened by unfamiliar surrounding if there's a familiar face."

"Get it." The genin create a clone to go inside, that way the kage bunshin will let him know immediately when the girls wake up.

"…If you wonder about Thumbelina, she's inside the clothing wagon with Vasilisa." Snow informed her boyfriend after a long silence between the group, "Get fitting for new clothes and everything."

"Oh, I was actually wondering where she was." Naruto scratched his cheek with index finger, "That must be challenging for Vasilisa to make some tiny clothing." Several people agreed with him in their own way and he was about to say something until he jerk his head back with a widened eyes. "…Wait, what?!" Everyone looked at him puzzlingly before three clones appear in front of the group in flashes, the bunshins barely trade glances with each other as they hand scrolls over to the gaping blonde.

"Here, boss, all yours!" The grinning clones said together before they poof in smokes.

"…WAIT, WHAT, WHAT?!" The genin's jaw dropped farther down before his gaze slowly shift to the scrolls in his hands. Before someone can ask him what's wrong, three more clones show up with items and they just drop it at his feet.

"Magical shits." One of the three clones pointed at the objects with a deadpan face before they vanish in smokes.

"…WAIT, WHAT, WHAT, WHAAAAAAAA?!" Naruto was flabbergasted as the memories flow into his head.

"First, what does these do?" Gretel pointed at three items, "A knapsack, hat and horn in order, please." Naruto slowly explained their abilities and how his clones end up receiving them, "…I see. We'll figure out what to do with first two but the horn? Seal it and put it away in yurt." The genin swiftly create a single clone to bring the magical items inside the yurt, "Now the scrolls."

"Um…" The genin glanced at everyone in front of him, "…Treasures. Hidden treasures."

"Ok, bring them out." The brunette sighed wearily and the blonde looked around at their surrounding then back to her.

"…It's not big enough." Naruto muttered, the campsite have taken up so much space.

"…Not big…?" Gretel slowly looked up to him with everyone else before she froze few moments later, "…Naruto, please don't tell me…" She stared at the scrolls as if her nightmares have come to life.

"I'm sorry, Gretel…" He looked away sheepishly, refuse to meet his girlfriend's eyes.

"Please tell me it's a prank." She pinched the bridge of her nose, "Please."

"I'll get a biggest box wagon out and show it to you inside…" Naruto shuffled off to fetch wagon scroll for a large box wagon so he can bring the treasures out inside for everyone to see. Five minutes, poor Gretel fainted along with nearly half of the group as soon as they look inside the wagon to see gold and the rich while the rest stare on in disbelief, one very exciting Goldilocks who want to take a money bath right now. That was when Naruto inform them that he needs to bring few more box wagons out to dump the rest in for inventory check. One good thing about it is that Naruto will make inventory list with his kage bunshin since it's technically his fault to Gretel's relief.

"I can't believe it." Gretel muttered to herself flatly as she read the list in dining wagon with everyone, the list was longer than she thought.

"I have never seen so many different gems in one place in my life." Gray rubbed his eyes thoroughly, he still can see sparkles behind his eyelids.

"Mm, good thing it come with lot of barrels, sacks and chests." Kitty pointed the silver lining out, "And Naruto said his clones are applying storage seals to them while sorting through the riches."

"Yes, it'll make much easier to put them in secret treasury." Snow said to the catgirl, it was agreed by Naruto and the girls that the northwest semi-basement will be used as treasury. She turn to the huntsmen, "But are you sure that you don't want to take some?"

"We're sure." Arya replied with a firm nod, "We have no need for it." The leader and his huntsmen will feel some guilt for taking money after everything Naruto's group did for them and they don't really have any reason to get more money in first place.

"Where do you want me to put this bed in?" Naruto held a miniature bed that have been craved from a small block as he looked inside a metal box lantern with missing top and Thumbelina, now wear a long green wool dress, glance around with a thoughtful hum before she point at right corner.

"There." Thumbelina watched the genin carefully place the bed in the corner, "And can you please line the boxes over there?" She pointed to left wall and Naruto put several miniature chests among the left wall.

"Here are ze clothes." Vasilisa place a pile of tiny clothes near the lantern's plate, "And I made you some rugs. It'll keep your feet warm."

"Oh, and here are tiny drawers for tiny girl." Wendy placed three different kind of drawers along with other furniture near the lantern.

"Thank you." The tiny girl smiled up to them, she can't believe her luck when her savior find her and bring her to kindest people.

"Oh, I gotta go." Naruto's head jolt up before he get up, "The girls are waking up."

"I'm coming with you." Rapunzel get up as the genin pick food trays up and they left while the rest look on with some concern for the new arrivals before they turn back to whatever they were doing.

"Uuh…" The older gray-haired girl's eyes slowly fluttered open and she was confusing by her new surrounding for few moments as she lie on most soft bed until the memories of event return to her head.

"Mm…" A yawn and shifting in bed draw the older girl's attention to a young girl as the little girl sit up, rubbing her eyes sleepy before she look up to the older girl with her big sleepy doe eyes. "Big sister." The little girl leaned against her older sister.

"Are you okay?" The older girl wrapped her arms around her little sister and she notice that they were wearing a clean plain white gown.

"Yes." The little girl yawned softly, "I'm hungry."

"I…" The older girl opens her mouth until they hear a door creaking open and she pull her little sister into protective hug. The curtain draw away gently to reveal Naruto, causing the older girl to relax but she don't release her hold on her little sister and she notice a blonde girl behind him.

"You're finally up." Naruto smiled at them before he lift the food trays up to show them warm breads, soups and cups of water. "You two must be very starving." He place them in front of the girls, "Here you go." The little girl's eyes lit up before she bolt from her sister's arms to grab the foods.

"Eat slowly." Rapunzel spoke gently to them as she approached her boyfriend's side, "We can't give you more than one light meal a day for a while until you two make full recovery."

"Yeah, listen to her." He jabbed his thumb at the long-haired blonde, "She's the medic."

"Did you hear that?" The older girl said to her little sister as she pull the tray close to her and the little girl just nod her head, chewing on bread with both hands while staring up to Naruto.

"What's your names?" Naruto asked them, "I'm Naruto Uzumaki and that is Rapunzel."

"I'm Willia and that is my little sister, Millie." The older girl gently stroke the young girl's messy hair before she look up to him curiously, "Um, did you change our…"

"No, it was me, Beauty and Cinderella." Rapunzel said, "They're other girls that are with us."

"Oh." Willia uttered.

"I'll go let everyone know." The long-haired blonde said to Naruto before she left, "Make sure you show them the way to bathing wagon once they finish eating."

"I will." The genin hollered back.

"Um, where are we?" The older gray-haired girl asked him after she take a sip of warm soup.

"Campsite." Naruto scratched his head, "To be more specific, you're in main vardo."

"Camp…?" Willia said slowly with a blink, "Are you…A traveler?"

"Yeah." He confirmed, "We're traveling all the way to port so we can get a boat that may take us to another land…Hopeful, my homeland." The teenager girl gave him a questioning look, "Do you remember the portal show up when I hit this lady away?" The girl slowly nod at that, "This portal suck me in then spit me out in different land far away from my homeland."

"Oh." She blinked rapidly, "Um, is that what happen with our mother? She's in another land?"

"…Huh?" Naruto stared at them before his eyes widened, "Wait! This crazy lady was your mother?!" The older girl meekly nodded, "Why was she trying to kill you and your sister?!"

"…She has lost her mind from hunger long time ago…" Willia frowned sadly, "We have some hard bread but it wasn't enough for her…She tried to kill Millie more than once so she can…" She can't bring herself to finish this sentence, "I suggested that we should trap some wild animals or get more breads…But she reject it…Because she want Millie. I-I tried to stop her and she just lost it…" Her head lower with shimmering eyes, "T-That was before you come…I-If you haven't…She would kill and eat…"

"Big sister." Millie looked up to her with sniff, "S-Stop talking about t-that scary lady…"

"Millie, it's okay." The teenager girl shush her sniffling sister gently with soft pats, "Don't cry."

"I…I see…" Naruto was at loss for words, 'How bad was it…Why would someone try to kill and eat her own children?' He tried to change the topic, "…Do you want to come with us?" The older girl look up to him, "You can stay with us until you have any places you two can go to? Like relatives' places?"

"We…" Willia said as she remember that the rundown hut have burn down, "…We don't have any place to go. It's…It's just us two…" She glanced around then at her sister who was enjoying the warm meal, "…I-I want you to take us with you…To wherever you are going."

"Alright, I'll let the others know." He replied and he keep them company until they finish eating before he gently help them up then lead them to bathing wagon as the girls look around at the campsite in amazement.

The night have come and Naruto place Thumbelina's lantern on desk in yurt carefully while everyone get ready for bed. "Is that good?" He asked the tiny girl.

"Can you turn it around so the entrance faces your bed?" Thumbelina asked and the genin turn it around until the face of lantern face the large bed. "Thank you very much." She enter her home happily, drawing the curtain door close so she can change into her pajamas.

"Welcome." Naruto walked away with a chuckle and he stop when he see Willia set blankets and pillows out on the bench with her little sister cling to her leg. "Willia, you know you two can either sleep in vardo or on this bed?"

"Oh no, no, that's too much." Willia waved her hands with shaking head, "We're fine with sleeping on this bench." The cushions were very soft like bed so it's good enough in her eyes.

"We don't mind if you join us on this bed." Snow smiled kindly and the sisters tried to make themselves smaller as they move a little close to Naruto. The sisters were uncomfortable with many people after no contact with outside world for a long time, due to their insane mother and lucky for the sisters, everyone seems to understand that so they keep their distance with the sisters to ease their anxiety.

"I-It's okay, Snow." The gray-haired teenager rubbed her little sister's now-silky and clean wavy hair with a mutter, "T-Thank you."

"Okay then." The smiling ravenette stepped back, "If you feel like to join us in bed anytime, you're free to." She want to make sure that the sisters know that the offer is open, "Good night, Willia, Millie."

"Good night." Willia replied back politely as she lift her sister upon the bench.

"We're right here if you need us for something." The genin said to the sisters before he walk over to the bed and Millie crane her neck out to follow him with her doe eyes. Her older sister look over out of curiosity and she almost froze in shock when she witness the genin kissing Gretel good night then the shock become confusion when he kiss another girl then another one and another one.

"Naruto, you forget to kiss us good night!" Millie suddenly called out as soon as the genin pecked Cinderella's cheek and he turn to the sisters with owlish blink then he glance back to the girls.

"Um, here?" Naruto tapped his forehead then cheek and the girls trade glance with each other before they give him permission right away with their own affirmation actions not a moment later.

"M-M-Millie, d-don't be silly." The gray-haired teenager bend down to her sister with a nervous laughter, "He doesn't forget to because…"

"Good night, Willia." The said girl squeaked with blush as the genin pecked her cheek before he give Millie a peck on forehead, "Good night, Millie."

"Thank you for saving us." The young sister wrapped her arms around his neck in a hug as she kissed his cheek, "I love you."

"You're welcome." Naruto hugged her back before he break the hug as he stand up, "Go to sleep, ok?"

"Ok." Millie lie under the blanket as her blushing sister slip in behind her before she bury herself in her sister's torso with a cuddle, "Good night, big sister."

"G-Good night, my dear sister." Willia whispered to her, her gaze shift up to the genin's back with red face as he walk back to the giant bed.

"Naruto." The genin hear his name before he turn to see Thumbelina standing on the desk with a smile, "I think you forget someone else."

"You sure?" Naruto asked her as she gave him couple nods, "Alright. Um…" He tried to figure out how to give a thumb-sized girl a kiss before he place his head close to her with slight puckered lips, "Good night, Thumbelina."

"Good night, Naruto." The tiny girl lean forward to kiss his lip before she dart into her lantern with a giggle and the genin was confused by her action.

This time Naruto manage to make it back to the giant bed without any more stop and he completely have no idea how many more hearts he just stole in a single day.

Wendy was thinking to herself as she brush her hair in bedding wagon and she glance at the other huntswomen who was getting ready to turn in for the night. Her gaze shift to Arya for few moments before she set the hairbrush aside, "…Arya, can we talk?"

"Yes, Wendy." Arya sighed out, "You can tell him." She turned to her huntswomen, "Everyone, remember the plan."

"…Um, you don't know what I was going to talk about." Wendy gave her a funny look, "And…"

"You want to come out to Naruto like Tate because you like him." The silver-haired teenager said exhaustingly, "Honestly, it was so obvious."

"Yes, you go on and on about how funny he is." Billy deadpanned.

"You would come up with any excuse to spend some time with him under guise of building things." Gray pointed out, "You convinced him that an armory wagon is necessary."

"W-W-Well, it is!" The blushing carpenter crossed her arms with a huff, "He complained about how many weapons have taken up most of his storage seals and I suggest it so it'll be easy for anyone interesting to take any weapons for training or whatever. I want to reveal myself because I want to be myself, not because I-I like Naruto." Some girls didn't buy it.

"Again, it's very obvious that you have fall for Naruto." Arya deadpanned to the carpenter's weak protest, "Although it did take you some time to realize your feeling."

"T-There's no feeling here!" Wendy denied and there was a minute of silence. "…You're giving me permission because you're afraid that I might expose your 'plot' before we get to our homeland, aren't you?" She said with a small smirk.

"…Maybe." The silver-haired teenager said flatly, that and she don't want to do the whole dance thing like she did with Tate again. "When do you want to tell them truth?"

"Tomorrow because, honestly, I can't take another minute of have my hair shove up my nose." The carpenter replied and it earn few looks from the others.

"Alright, at least this plan won't go astray this time." Arya sighed to herself.

"Ta-da! I'm a woman and I have been hiding it from everyone." Wendy said to the group with stretching out arms in dining wagon as Naruto gawked at her along with few others while Arya just facepalm at her because that was the first thing she announced as soon as they walk in, "So yes, I finally can be myself." She casually sat down on chair with a wide grin, "So what's for breakfast?"

"I hate you so much." Arya grumbled lowly under his breath with his hand still on face.

"Tate, did you know?" Rosie asked the giant and Tate pause for a moment, unsure if she can answer this question until Wendy answered.

"Oh, she knows." The carpenter said, "We both agree to keep each other's secret and cover for other. How do you think we manage to trick the huntsmen into believing we're men for a long time?"

"R-Right!" Tate nodded furiously with big flustered smile.

"And what make you decide to reveal yourself?" Heida asked with raised eyebrow.

"Well, I have been told that I have some feeling for Naruto." Wendy shrugged her shoulders, "So yeah, I'm going for it and see what'll happen. Maybe I get my happy ending, who know?"

"…That makes sense in a way." Gretel muttered, "Like why you always ask Naruto for his time with constructions after yurt." Most share her sentiment, "I guess we'll help you move into the yurt."

"Oh, are you all okay with me moving in?" Wendy asked as most girls nodded, "Great! Let's do it after breakfast."

"…I…What?" Naruto finally stuttered out stunningly as he slowly sit down with owlish blinks, what just happened?!

"Is she dead?" Millie asked the group inside the leading wagon as she pointed at Lily in her cloth cocoon, they have been traveling for three days and the little girl have not seen the toad girl make a single movement.

"No, she's sleeping." Rosie poked the toad girl's cheek, causing Lily to croak out in her slumber as the redhead giggled. "She's a toad girl and toads go into hibernation during winter. If you watch her close during supper, you will have seen her eating and talk a bit."

"Oh." The little girl leaned against her sister's side, "She looks very dead."

"Don't say that, Millie." Willia slide her arm around her sister's shoulders to pull her into a side-hug, "It's a little rude."

"Ok, big sister." Millie bobbed her head slightly before she turn her gaze to stare at Thumbelina as she sit in a tiny wooden box with cotton as seat on a crate and the ride was enjoyable until it slow down to stop.

"Is it break time?" Naruto get off Tate's laps to the giantess' pout and he poke his head out between Snow and Gretel from the curtain, only to blink rapidly at the tunnel of thorns with an weather-damaged castle a mile away. The castle was also surrounding by thorn 'forest' and it look like it have abandoned for who know how long.

"That is quite strange." Gretel glanced up and down between the map and the old castle with furrowed brows as everyone looked outside at the bizarre sight with various reactions, "This castle is not on map at all."

"Maybe it wasn't put there because this road is not often taken and it becomes forgotten by time?" Beauty suggested, it would make sense since the path they're on are very lesser known and they haven't run into another travelers for days.

"Must be, it look pretty abandoned." Snow agreed as she analyzed the tunnel with her eyes, "Well, I don't think the tunnel of thorns will damage the horses and wagons at all." The tunnel was wide as the path and its height is two time higher than their wagons.

"Let's carry on." The genin hummed.

"Naruto, you should go explore it!" Goldilocks suddenly said with a eager grin.

"Um, why?" He raised his eyebrow at the short-haired blonde.

"What if there's lost treasures in there?" The short-haired blonde vibrated with starry eyes, "Or very valuable stuff that we can sell for more money."

"I don't know, we have so much stashing away." Naruto deadpanned with a sweatdrop, why isn't he surprised by that. "And it's not like someone would left their money behind." What if the people who used to live there decide to relocate to another kingdom and they took everything with them but the castle itself, who know?

"What if they have ze unique clothes?" Vasilisa wondered once she heard Goldilocks' mention of lost treasures, "Like ze tapestries, carpet and everything."

"Oh, lost history." Beauty gasped, "That would be very interesting to learn about it."

"Well, it's possible they may abandon many things like furniture and tools." Wyatt approached the front wagon with Rowan to check on them and they have heard everything within earshot, "Maybe with some luck, you'll find more wagons and carts."

"Yes, and if they're rundown, we can repair or put them to good use." Rowan added and almost everyone agreed with the idea.

"Guess I have no choice then." Naruto sighed to himself before he glance to Gretel, "Please don't blame me if I come back with more gold."

"Oh, I won't." The brunette with braids sighed, "I'll blame everyone but you…This time."

"You make it sound like I'm some treasure magnet." He rolled his eyes playfully as he get out of the wagon.

"Sweetheart, you are a treasure magnet." Gretel retorted teasingly.

"Don't forget girl magnet." Wendy added with a light chuckle.

"That too." The brunette smirked slightly and almost everyone giggle to Naruto's chagrin.

"Yeah, yeah." The blushing genin grumbled playfully, "Stab the hiraishin kunai in ground if there's emergency." He took off in air, running across the thorn sea like solid land to the new arrivals' shock and awe.

"…Ok, how can he run on thorns?" Wyatt deadpanned.

"Something about chakra platforms underneath shoe soles and combines with tree climbing." Heida replied boringly.

Naruto was understandingly shocked once he reach the castle because the thorns actually cover each inch of fortification, making it impossible for anyone but himself to get inside, and there's a city surrounding the castle. What make it weirder is that there are a lot of gray statues with cobwebs and they look so lifelike. "That place better not be haunting." Naruto shivered as he walks by two sitting statues near a large city fountain before he cross his fingers, "Kage bunshin!" He create a little over five hundred clones, "Alright. Here's five storage scrolls." He hand the items over to the first clone in front, "Spread out and grab everything then bring them back here so he'll store everything inside."

"Um, even the creepy statues?" One of the clone eyed the lifelike statues with shiver.

"Hell no!" Naruto shook his head furiously with pale face, "These things look like they'll come to life and curse our asses! Leave them alone!"

"What if we find bunch of old money by chance?" Another clone asked, "Like purse of some coins from past? Do we take them too?"

"Hai, grab everything that are not nailed down." The creator said firmly with hands on his hip.

"Everything but buildings and statues?" The third clone asked for clarification.

"Yup, once it's all over and done with, you teleport back to wagons and hand scrolls to Gretel for safekeeping." Naruto pointed to the first clone.

"Gotcha!" The clone saluted, "What about you?"

"I'm heading inside the castle." The creator jabbed his thumb toward the castle over his shoulder, "Doing same thing and exploring. You guys, go and start gathering!" Everyone scattered as soon as Naruto left to go to the castle.

"Urk!" A clone shivered at a statue of boy lying on something, "Who the fuck put an statue on bed?"

"Same crazy motherfucker that put many statues in different houses for some freaking reason." The second clone grab the foot of the bed, "You grab the other end and we toss this creepy statue out." They lift the bed then they toss the boy statue out through the window with shattering glasses into a ditch before they carry the bed out of the house, "Crazy it's still in one piece." He commented on the statue that stick headfirst in the ditch.

"Must be one tough stone." The first clone shrugged.

"Hey, why are you loading these statues?" The clone asked another clone, who was shoving some statues onto cart, "Boss said not to take them!"

"I know, I'm moving all statues to one place to get them out of the way so we don't have to deal with encountering them or touch them." The second clone huffed, "I'm gonna dump them all in wells and some empty buildings."

"…That's smart." The first clone blinked with some pause, "…Let me help you! Oh, and if we're dumping them in well, we better take the bucket and ropes out first."

"Oh, good catch!" The second clone gasped, "I didn't think of that!"

"Who the fuck put money bag or weapons on these statues?" The clone remove the belt from the statue of overweight man.

"Better question is why are some statues place in weird places like that?" The second clone remove the curtain from the window inside the house and the first clone look through the window to see an statue mounting another statue on bed.

"Who know what this guy was thinking?" The third clone shrugged, "If you think it's weird, you would have seen this red house on the other side of this city. Many rooms have statues in weird poses, some more than two."

"That guy must be one weirdo." The second clone kicked two statues off the bed before the clones haul everything away.

"Ew, ew, ew!" A clone lift an golden elegant crown from a statue on throne as the new batch of clones take everything in throne hall down, "It's so realistic and lifelike!" Why did his creator assign him to this room?! Naruto have create another three hundred bunshin as soon as he walk into the castle and just wander away after assigning them jobs and give a lucky clone another five scrolls. "The beard feels so real hair! They're so pokey!"

"Zip it!" Another clone rolled a colossal carpet up with another four clones, "And make sure you get their clothes while you're at it!"

"Who the fuck dress statues up with clothes?" The first clone whimspered as he remove a thick robe, glancing between two statues of what look like some kind of royals before he heave the thrones to push the statues out down the short stairs with tumbles.

"Unbelievable, there's actually lost treasures." A single clone stared at colossal room, filled with money, jewelries and other things of values. "Oh well." He create a squad of kage bunshin and empty the whole treasury out.

"Um, do we have to take these huge ass paintings with us?" A random clone asked a group of clones as they take each single portraits down in a longest hall.

"Yes, we have to." One of the clones grunted back, "Boss say to grab everything that aren't bolted down. Every single thing!"

"Um, alright then." The clone that asked the question just shrugged his shoulders before he remove suit of armors from statues.

'That is so weird.' Naruto, the creator, thought to himself as he wander in corridor, 'What make people left everything behind? What happened here?' Many memories of kage bunshin have been flowing through his head at slow pace and he was very understandingly shocked by the amount of money and countless items in good conditions, half of items were in poor but repairable conditions. 'Maybe the people got sucked into portals…No, it don't make sense. From what I have seen so far, only one portal open in one location…A giant portal? No, it would take everything together with people.' He rubbed his chin with scrunched up face as he tried to come up with theories, 'War? It might have wipe this city out…No, then why would an army leave so much money and resources behind? Diseases? No, there should be human skeletons lying around. Natural disaster? No, the castle should be in ruin along with city and again, skeletons.' Naruto scratched his hair furiously, "Ugh! That is so confusing!"

He wander a bit more until he come across elegant tall doors and he try to open it three times but it was locked. "Rasengan!" Naruto broke through the doors with low-powered rasengan.

"WHAT IN THE…?!" The genin froze as he stare at a man in his fifties and he was standing over an unconscious woman with his hands around his pant.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!" Naruto shouted with pointing finger. While he may be clueless when it comes to topics relating to sex, he immediately realize what this man was trying to do.

"WATCH YOUR TONGUE, PEASANT!" The man shouted back angrily, "I AM THE KING AND I'M TAKING HER FIRST! HER FIRST FRUIT OF LOVE RIGHTFULLY BELONG TO ME SO DON'T THINK ABOUT STOPPING…"

"FUCK OFF, YOU FUCKING BASTARD!"

"YOU CUR, I AM NO BA…" The red-faced king roared before a large swirling orb smash into his groin and the man flew backward through the window with a high-pitched scream, shattering it in process. Naruto's pretty sure that the man will survive the fall, due to overgrown garden and snows outside, but this bastard will not be able to walk for a long time, courtesy of rasengan to hip.

Little did the genin know that the man have land on metal spikewall, that was hidden under snow, groin first then impale his face in spikes, dying very slow and painful. If Naruto ever decide to peek outside to check on this dying man, he would think the man have passed out from pain and not dead but he didn't check. Instead, the concerning genin race over to the unconscious woman and to his relief, this bastard hasn't touch her clothes in any form by the look of it as he give her a look over.

The woman appear to be somewhat in middle between older teenager and young woman, she have a waist-long wavy light blond hair, red lips and pale skin. She has a narrow waist, slender figure and long legs. She wear a blue light dress and an golden necklace. Naruto can't help but to think how she look very pretty when she's sleeping.

"Hey, wake up." Naruto shook her shoulder gently as he create dozen of bunshin to empty the grand bedroom out, "Are you okay?" The moment he touch her, he unwittingly dispel the curse on her and the woman start to stir up.

"Ah, oh…" The woman's eyes fluttered open to reveal violet eyes as she stare up to the blonde boy, "Oh. Are you the…"

"Hold on!" The genin suddenly cut her off as he lift her up princess style, "I'll get you out of here before this bastard come back and try to rape you again!" His clones quickly seal the giant elegant canopy bed then the clones vanish in a flash once the bedroom is empty.

"Wha…?!" The woman widened her eyes at him in shock and her shock farther when Naruto use the hiraishin jutsu to teleport them out of the bare bedroom.

Once Naruto return to the group with new girl in tow and told them to get moving again, he explain everything to them during the ride from ghost city to the incident. "OH, MY WORD!" The new woman gasped in shock with her eyes widened in horror, "If you haven't show up sooner, I'd be…"

"But I did show up and you're safe." Naruto placed his hand on the blonde woman's shoulder, "He never get a chance to touch you."

"Y-Yes, you're right." The new woman leaned close to him as she whispered low, "To think my true love have come rescue me before he break the curse on me with kiss."

"Huh?" The genin tilted his head at her, "I don't hear you, can you repeat it a little lo…"

"But I'm very confusing about something." The blonde woman sat up straightening with worried furrowing brows, "You haven't seen a soul when you visit the city and palace? Not a single one?"

"No, I don't see anyone beside you and this bastard." Naruto shook his head with a frown, "It was so weird as if everyone just up and disappear overnight."

"That sounds very bizarre." Snow looked over her shoulder worriedly, "I sincerely hope nothing bad happen to these people."

"Maybe a magic spell makes them disappear?" Rosie assumed, "Or they decide to move out?"

"Who know?" Gretel tapped her chin with a thoughtful hum before she look up to the new woman, "My apologies, I realize we haven't make introduction. May I ask you for your name?"

"My name is Briar Rose." The woman answered and everyone make their introduction one by one.

The colossal door burst open as a nude man screams loudly in the grand hallway, "I HAVE BEEN ROBBED OF MY CROWN AND CLOTHES!"

"SOMEONE PLEASE FETCH ME A DRESS!" A nude woman cried as she tried to hide herself behind the man.

"YOUR MAJESTY!" A nude stout man raced up to them while covering his groin with his hands, "SOMEONE HAVE STOLE THE SUITS OFF THE KNIGHTS ALONG WITH EVERYTHING!"

"IT'S ALL GONE!" Another nude woman poke her head out behind the doorway, "IT'S ALL GONE! THE CLOTHES, FURNITURE, EVERY SINGLE PAINTING!"

"SOMEONE STOLE EVERYTHING FROM THE TREASURY!" A old nude man wailed behind the pillar, "NOT A SINGLE COPPER HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHIND!"

"WHAT?!" The nude king cried.

"YOUR MAJESTY, YOUR SUBJECTS HAVE REPORTED THAT EVERYTHING IS GONE IN THE CITY!" A nude slouching skinny man jogged while covering his groin with hands, "MANY ARE TRAPPED IN WELLS! SEVERAL BUILDING ARE OVERCROWD WITH NUDE PEOPLE THAT CAN'T GET OUT WITHOUT ANY HELP! NOT ONLY THAT, WE ARE SURROUNDING BY THORNS AND WE HAVE NO TOOLS TO HELP US CUT IT DOWN!"

"WHAAAT?!"

"SHE'S GONE! SHE'S GONE!" A nude stout old woman ran to the group with wail, "THE PRINCESS IS GONE! SHE'S MISSING!"

"WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!" The king and queen cried.

"THERE'S A DEAD MAN IMPALED ON SPIKEWALL OUTSIDE THE PRINCESS' WINDOW!" A young nude man poked out behind the doorway before he show them the severed head of the old king, "HERE'S HIS HEAD!"

"…Wha?" Both the royals and everyone blinked at the man before the king speak slowly, "…W-W-Why…W-Why did you bring his head here in first place?"

"To see if anyone recognize him." The man jiggle the head as he shift it to each one's direction, "Do you? Do you? Do you? No? Very well, I shall show it to the knights and see if they know him." He disappear from their sight and there was a long pause of silence.

"…OUR DAUGHTER IS GONE! FIND HER!" The queen cried to her husband and the palace have fall into pure chaotic along with its city.

After a very long day and great distance far away from the thorn forest, they finally set the campsite up and finish their supper. Now, everyone were staring at what Naruto have unseal from the first scroll for a while before Gretel slowly grasp the genin's shoulder as she bury her face in another hand. "…Naruto." She sighed, "I believe no one ask you to take everything."

"Too much?" Naruto scratched his head sheepishly.

"Empty a whole city?" Heida droned, "Yes, that's too much." Several people nod their heads blankly.

"Hehehe, whoops." The genin chuckled nervously, "M-Maybe we can sell some of them?" It earns several deadpan stare from the groups.

"Wait, it can't be right." Briar gasped in shock, drawing Naruto and other's attention as they settle down in yurt while his grumbling bunshin make the inventory list outside in cold winter.

"What can't be right?" Naruto asked her, one minute she was gasping in wonderment when she explore the yurt then the next minute she pull a hundred and eighty.

"The year on this calendar." The blonde woman pointed at the calendar, "I-Is it wrong? T-The year is misprinted, correct?"

"Um…" The genin scratched his head as he look at the calendar, he actually don't know what year it is since he never pay attention to it. He only go by years of his age.

"It's not misprinted." Snow answered after she checked it.

"I-It's not?" Briar's eyes widened, "T-T-That mean…I-I have b-been under t-the cursed s-slumber f-for h-hundred years?!"

"What?" Naruto corked his eyebrow as almost everyone become confused before the blonde woman's legs give out and the genin quickly catch her since he's close. "Whoa! Are you okay?"

"N-No…" The blonde woman muttered out on floor, "I-I-I think I k-know why t-there w-was no one i-in my k-kingdom…B-B-Because t-t-they're all gone…" Some looked confused by that as she struggled to get her explanation out, "T-T-The curse that I-I was s-s-stricken with. I-It's a sleeping curse…I-I was supposed t-to be cursed to s-sleep f-f-for eternity a-after pricked my finger on spindle on my b-b-birthday. I-I-I don't know what h-h-happen on this day, I-I remember waking u-up to m-my maid wish me g-g-good b-birthday then n-n-nothing. N-N-Now I-I just find out t-that I-I have b-been sleeping for one h-h-hundred years."

"Wha?!" He blinked rapidly.

"Oh my, that's a terrific magical curse." Tate gasped and the genin wonder if the magic is unlimited but there are a lot of thing he don't understand about it.

"T-They're all gone." Briar sobbed out, "E-E-Everyone I know and l-love are gone. I-I'm all alone…I have no one…"

"No, you're not!" Naruto grabbed her shoulders to make her look up into his eyes as he kneel down to her, "You have me and everyone here! We're all here so you're not alone!"

"…T-T-That's right, I-I have you…" The blonde woman uttered with a sob before she tackle him into a tight hug as she cried into his chest and he wrap his arms around her. He and almost everyone try their best to comfort the grief-stricken woman who have lost everything.

Briar was basically comatose for hours as she lie on Naruto's laps on bed, twirling a loose thread of a blanket that sit over the genin's laps around her finger over and over absentmindedly and the genin just rub her back. She just watch the girls approach Naruto for good night kisses, even one little girl dragged her flustered sister and another girl carried thumb-sized girl and living harp, and she wasn't fazed by their close affection. She wonders internally if Naruto is part of royalty or noble since it's very common for one to have many lovers, she know that a king of her neighboring kingdoms has five wives…Or if the time have change by then.

"Briar, um, we should go to sleep now." Naruto said to her awkwardly and the woman slowly lifts her head up slightly to stare at him for few moments.

"…C-Can you w-wake me up with a k-kiss?" Briar asked nervously, she don't know if she will fall back into the deep slumber again and she'll feel a little better if he kiss her every morning since he's the one who have woke her up with curse-breaking kiss.

"Um, if you're okay with it." The genin replied with few blinks, seeing no harm in giving her a innocent kiss on cheek or forehead.

"T-Thank you." The blonde woman sit up then surprise Naruto with a chaste kiss on lips before she lie back down at his side, "Good night."

"G-Good night." Naruto replied back in daze and he tried his best to ignore Wendy's joke about new sweetheart joining to some girls.

"Naruto, my beloved, I want morning kiss too." Annette jumped on a chance with a eager smirk and the genin notice several girls have similar idea.

'I think my lips will be so sore at the end of month at this rate.' Naruto sweated mentally.

When the girls get dress after bath the next morning, few certain princesses were surprised that Briar come out from bathing booth wearing a black bodice, a gray shin-length frock with long sleeves rolled up to her elbows, a petticoat and black headband that push her wet hair back. "Why are you dressing up like an peasant?" Heida asked her strangely.

"I take a liking to them." Briar replied with a small twirl of her skirt and the dark-haired teenager merely raised her eyebrow at the woman before she brush it off with a shrug.

"Millie, hold still." Willia struggled to dry her squirming sister's hair off with towel inside a booth, she also have difficult time put dress on her.

"I want to eat!" Millie pushed the towel off her head, "Hurry, big sister! Get your dress on!"

"We will eat as soon as I finish dry your hair out." The older sister force the towel back on her sister, "I promise!"

"Ok." The little girl pouted before she tilt her head back up to her, "Big sister, why do we have to wear boring white and gray gowns all the time? I want to wear pretty one and some with many colors. They're very warm."

"Oh, um, I-I-I think it's t-too much for us t-to receive a-after how much t-they have given to us out of g-g-goodwill." Willia stammered out at her sister's question. They have give the sisters shelter and warm foods and it make the older sister feel guilty if they take those wonderful and high luxury clothes, despite the fact that everyone encounter the sisters to take some for themselves.

"Is it?" Millie tilted her head innocently before she think deeply as her older sister finally dry her hair out, "…Oh!" She clenched her fists up to her chest, "Maybe we can get more if we work for them or be Naruto's sweethearts!" She look very proud with her idea.

"M-Maybe w-we can w-work for them once w-we become more healthy." Her older sister stuttered with pink-tinted cheeks.

"Hmm, I think sweethearts are better." The little girl hummed with index finger and her sister's blush deepened.

"L-L-Let get your boots on and we get something to eat." Willia attempted to take her sister's mind off it and it work when her sister ran out with 'food' chant. "Millie, don't run!"

The journey resume as Gretel discussed with Briar about the 'palace' scrolls beside her 'bedroom' scroll and it was agreed that the blonde woman will look through them since everything from palace technically belong to her. Not only that, Briar insist that the riches will be add to the group's treasury, claiming it belong to Naruto now against the genin's protest until he was forced to cave in when she shot him the old pouty 'puppy eyes' trick.

"And we still haven't sort the Simeli Mountain treasure out." Gretel turned her head to give Naruto a deadpan stare with a sigh.

"I'll dump the palace treasury in the Treasury wagon." Naruto refused to meet the brunette's eyes out of embarrassment as he scratched his head sheepishly, it's not like he went out of his way to look for them. 'Maybe they're right about me being magnet.' He sweatdropped.

"You're calling it treasury wagon?" Wendy snorted, "It should be Sorting wagon."

"I think it's still treasury wagon, even if it's temporary." Annette hummed.

"Mm, still going to call it sorting wagon." The carpenter shrugged her shoulders before she snap her fingers in realization, "Oh! Naruto, at the next stop, we should look at the wagons, carts and furniture from city to see if we can keep or dismantle them."

"Why dismantling?" Naruto asked.

"If there are some shabby carts with rotting woods, will you use them as it is?" Wendy lie it out to him.

"Ah, no." The genin understand her intentions, "Are you suggesting that we can put the rotten woods in the firewood stock?"

"If they are not far gone." The carpenter nodded, "Then after that, we can work on one of projects."

"Cool, maybe that's what we can do with boats." Naruto crossed his arms with a hum.

"…You found boats in landlocked city?" Beauty gave him a odd look.

"Yeah, but they're all…Um…Row boats?" The genin rubbed the back of his head, "You know, a little one that are for two or four people to go in lake. I don't know my boats, sorry."

"That's okay, I was just curious." The book lover waved it off before she lean close to her fellow brunette, "At least it's not a ship."

"I know." Gretel whispered back.

A week have passed since Briar's joining and it was a smooth sailing from there as everyone fall into routine from training to spending time with each other until a little something called mother nature slap them in face in an form of rain…A heavy rain that impair vision severe. "I'm so glad that we finished get the campsite up before that happened." Naruto looked outside from the door with a mutter, it suddenly pour after a thunderous boom in sky.

"I'm so glad that some of us get a cold refreshing shower." Heida said sarcastically as she wringed her soaking hair with towel and several certain grumbling girls were in similar stage, had suddenly caught by downpour early. They were forced to change and hang their soaking clothes in the corridor.

"Give you a good wake-up call, didn't it?" The genin chuckled, earning him a light kick to shin from his grumbling dark-haired wife. "Ow, that hurt."

"Give you a good wake-up call, didn't it?" The dark-haired teenager jested, drawing few snickers from few girls and Naruto rolled his eyes at her.

"It look like we have no choice but to stay inside all day." Gretel peeked outside at the heavy rain.

"Huh?" Naruto's head turned to her, "You make it sound like we're not going to another wagons."

"Snow and rain make a dangerous combination." The brunette said as a matter of factly, "Not to mention that we may have to delay a little because it'll be very hazard on the wagons during the traveling."

"Da, I have seen ze wagon accidents from ze rain during snowstorm." Vasilisa remember the danger of rainfall in winter and some accidents cost lives.

"Oh." The genin blinked few times before he scratch his head, "Good thing we keep food table in here."

"But what about the huntsmen?" Snow asked worriedly, "I think they have nothing to eat in the bedding wagon."

"Oh, I got it covered." Naruto grinned.

"Ugh, I can't believe our luck." Arya peel the wet shirt off her with a grimace along with everyone else but Billy, who was very lucky to be inside when the rain come down.

"It's not this bad." Piper shivered as her nipples hardened from cold, "I think it'll set us back by two days or three this time."

"Yes, I-I-I agree." Nico said with chatting teeth, "It's better than spending a week inside."

"Indeed." Set curled up in her blankets to warm herself up, her soaking clothes lie on floor in crumpled pile.

"But here's one issue…" Wyatt wrapped towel around her torso, "How do we get foods?"

"I gu…" Billy was about to say something until they hear rapid bangs on door, "Who's there?" She turned to the door since she's close to the front.

"It's me, Naruto!" The genin's voice shouted under the rainfall, "Hurry, let me in! It's fucking cold! THEY'RE STINGING ME!"

"Hold on." The tomboy turned back to the group, only to blink at blanket curtain walling half of wagon off. "…How did you…"

"Go answer the door and see what he want!" Arya poked her head out with a hissing whisper before her head duck back behind the curtain.

"Ok, ok." Billy unlocked the door then open it and he take a step aside as the soaking shivering genin rush inside with table under his armpit.

"F-F-F-Fucking b-b-b-boss!" Naruto put the table down, "W-Why can't he give me a fucking umbrella?! Or a raincoat?! Is it too much to ask for?!"

"Boss?" It took the brunette huntsman few seconds to realize, "Oh. You're one of his clones, right?"

"Y-Yup." The clone grumbled and he raise his eyebrow at the blanket curtain for a bit before he shrug his shoulders, decide not to ask about it to the brunette huntsman's internal relief.

"Why does he send you here with a table?" Billy asked him as he glanced at the table, "…Wait, is it the one that summon foods?"

"Yup." Naruto confirmed again, "S-S-Since we can't g-go to d-d-dining wagon because of w-weather, b-b-boss is making f-food delivery. W-What do you guys want to eat?"

"Hold on." The young huntsman approached the curtain then poked his head through and the bunshin hear some hushed whispers before Billy return to him. "Roast ham, warm soups and a big fat chicken."

"D-Drinks?" The clone asked.

"We have a barrel of water so we're good." Billy replied.

"Alright." Naruto turned to the table, "Little table, set yourself with roast ham, big fat chicken and warm soups!" The said foods magically appear on table before they move them to another table, "There." He tuck the magical table up under his armpit and he head to the door with Billy in tow.

"Thank you, Naruto." The young huntsman said as the grumbling clone step out in rain before he speak again, "Hey, can I ask you something?"

"What?" The clone turned to him with a grumble as he get drenched by heavy rain.

"Why are you not carrying it above your head?" Billy asked with an amused smirk as the clone froze and it take all of his will not to laugh when the blushing clone slowly raise the table above his head with comically murderous face.

"N-N-Next time he pull a stunt for something like that, I'm gonna shove him out and see…" Naruto stomped away with a grumble and red face.

"So stupid." The brunette closed the door with amused snort, locking it before she turn to the curtain, "You can come out." The huntswomen take the blanket down then gather around the table to eat their dinner and Arya suddenly smack her mouth with shaking shoulders few minutes later, giggling out. One by one, the huntswomen start to giggle and laugh over the dinner.

"Screw you!" The wet bunshin shove the table into Naruto's hands before he dispel and the genin blink few times then drop his head with a groan.

"Oh, I'm so stupid!" Naruto muttered to himself and few certain girls quipped their eyebrow at him as if they were saying 'since when you weren't stupid?'. The genin set the table up, cleaning it before everyone make their order with the magical table.

After dinner, Naruto walk into the vardo and he was surprised to see Beauty reading a book on stool in corner as she lift her head up once she see the door opening in the corner of her eyes. "Oh, I thought you were behind changing screen in yurt." Naruto rubbed his head, "Guess I'm wrong."

"That's okay, I sneaked in here for a little quiet time with books." Beauty giggled with a tiny smile, "What bring you to here?"

"Swapping this D-rank genjutsu scroll for C-rank one." The genin pulled a scroll out of his pocket for proof, "And to do a little experimenting with fuinjutsu."

"Genjustu, that's the illusionary one, right?" The brunette woman asked as he responded with a nod, "How was it? You mentioned to us that you have some struggle with this art."

"I barely get D-rank genjutsu down, thank to my kage bunshin but it was quite headache." Naruto put the scroll away in the jutsu scroll with a groan, "I think C-rank and higher will kick my ass."

"You'll manage." Beauty giggled and the genin pouted at her childishly then his eyes draw to her lips. He don't know why he feel drawn to her lips or why he start to feel a little weird around the girls in a good way as if he want to get more close to them for some reasons. Unknown to him, the puberty have hit Naruto bit by bit. "Oh, do you want to kiss me?" She teased after noticing his gaze on her lips.

"Y-Yes." He squeaked out with faint blush, "Eh, I me…"

"Here you go." Before he know it, she plant a chaste kiss on his lips and she pull away with a smile as they look into each other's eyes. Naruto slowly lean forward to her and she allow him to kiss her on lips then they peck again and again, it end up become a makeout that last few minutes until the blushing genin break apart.

"Um…" Naruto can't believe what he just did, "I…"

"It look like I'm your sweetheart now officially." Beauty cut him off with a kiss before she walk out of the vardo with some giggles, "I'll give the girls the good news then help them convince Cinderella. She have no idea how very she's smitten with you since you save her."

"Ok…" He uttered dazedly as his brain shut down when she told him the sweetheart part until it reboot once he realize something else before he turn to the closed door with rapid blinks, "Wait, what? Cinderella's what?" He stared at the door bewilderedly for some amount of time before he sit down with a shrug and sigh, "I hope I don't end up with many girlfriends at the end of this trip." He suddenly get a strange sense that he just screwed himself up the moment he open his mouth but he shake it off.

When Naruto came back to the yurt, he find himself cuddling with Nerida on his laps as she nuzzle her face in his chest happily while he sit on bench and the rest of girls were relaxing or chat in small groups. "Nerida, have you got better at reading and write?" Naruto rubbed her back gently and the mute girl nod few times with bright smile. "That's great! I'm so proud of you." Nerida's smile widened and she slip her hand into his free hand, entwined their fingers as she giggle mutely when they threading their fingers in some form of game. "Do you like it?" He asked her about their hand 'game' and she nod again happily as they coniine it for a while in comfortable silence. "Nerida, I love you." He kissed her forehead and she squeezed him happily with her another arm around his torso as she pecked his mouth in a sign of returning his love back.

"Do you have any fours?" Elsie asked Rapunzel as they play go fish game with Wendy, Millie, Willia and Rosie.

"No, sorry." Rapunzel shook her head with a smile as the auburn-haired woman pouted childishly, "Go fish." She noticed Millie trying to peek at her cards and she hide the cards from her with a amused smirk, causing the little girl to pout with puffing-out cheeks.

"Millie, please don't cheat." Willia shot her little sister a look but her eyes hold an amusing glint.

"Hestia, how long have you been staring at this candle for?" Snow asked the said girl as the albino girl stare intensely at the flame of candlestick, "Please take a break, you'll burn your eyes out."

"Ok." The expressionless albino girl looked away from the candlestick to the ravenette, "Can I lit another lamp?"

"No, we have enough light in here." The ravenette gently take Hestia's hand to led her to the bookshelf, "How about we pick a book out and I'll read it to you with other girls over there?" She pointed to a small group of Cinderella, Briar, Beauty and Gretel reading books.

"Ok." Hestia nodded blankly.

"Tate, please hand me a piece near to your hand." Christmas looked up from the jigsaw puzzle while Lyra watch over it and the giant pick a piece up, handing it over to her. "Thank you." She try to connect it into the puzzle, "…No, wrong one."

"I hate rainy day." Heida lie on her side on bed with a grumble as Lily snore near her, "It's so boring in here."

"Do you want to play catch with me?" Annette bounced a small soft ball off the wall.

"I thought Goldilocks' playing with you?" The dark-haired brunette glanced over her shoulder to her with raised brow and the orangette wordlessly point to opening doortrap near northwest pillar. "…Gold fever?" She deadpanned.

"Gold fever." The deadpanned orange-haired girl nodded with sigh before she glance up to the ceiling as Kitty enjoy her naptime in attic, 'She's so much like a cat.' The orange-haired princess have no idea how she get up there without ladder.

"Eh, I'll play." Heida got up to go play catch with the orangette, "It's better than watching Vasilisa fitting Thumbelina." She jabbed her thumb to the said petite blonde as Vasilisa measure the thumb-sized girl for a new pajama set.

'Maybe I should teach them something new to help passing time during rainy days?' Naruto wonder to himself as Nerida bury her face deep into his chest, there are some games he know that they must like to play indoor. He was snap out of his thoughts when they hear rapid poundings on the front door and Naruto was first to answer it. He peek outside to see a young slender teenager girl completely drenched by heavy rain as she crossed her arms with hands tucked under her armpits in attempt to keep herself warm.

"P-P-Please give me shelter." The shuddering girl stuttered out. She have a long bright green hair that nearly cover her face, he can barely see her jade eye behind her wet hair, and pale yet fair skin. She wear a plain brown dress over white shirt and pair of leather shoes.

"Come in." The genin fully open the door as he take a step aside, "Let's get you out of rain…"

"PLEASE GIVE ME SHELTER!" The girl suddenly screamed out with tight-shutting eyes, "I'M A REAL PRINCESS!" She froze as soon as his sentence caught up in her mind, "Wait…You're letting me in?"

"Of course, come on in." Naruto gently grab her wrist with a small sweatdrop before he drag her inside, "You don't have to lie about the whole princess thing." He shook his head, 'Did she keep get turn away from shelters often that she have to come up with this excuse?' Another thought occur to him, 'Wait, how long have she been looking for shelter in this rain?! And there's not a lot of houses on this road.' Look like he might have some prank victims.

"B-B-But I'm actually…" The soaking girl stuttered out.

"Oh my!" Snow appeared at the girl's side, "Let's get you out of these wet clothes before you catch a cold. We have some spare clothes you can wear for now."

"I'll go set a temporary bath up over there with curtains for privacy." Naruto pointed to a seclude spot before he went to fetch the extra bathtub and other things for the temporary bathing booth.

"Wha…" The wet girl was so confused as she got dragged to another place by Snow and several girls.

"Oh, you look much better than earlier." Tate said as the new girl come out of the temporary bathing booth in new clothes and her hair have been dry off enough to show that she have curly hair that reach her rear and it was little unkempt. "Are you still feeling cold? We have some blankets."

"N-No, the bath have warm me up enough." The new girl waved her hands timidly, "And the clothes on me is very warm than it look like." She glance down at her thick purple wool gown, "Thank you."

"What's your name?" The smiling giant asked as almost everyone gathers around her while Naruto swiftly put the booth away in scroll to the new girl's amazement mixed with shock.

"Delilah P…" The greenette closed her mouth with a snap, silently hope they don't catch her little slip.

"P what?" Naruto turned to her with raised eyebrow along with others.

"N-Nothing, you all are going make fun of me." Delilah tried to make herself smaller as she fidgeted with her hands.

"Why would we make fun of you?" Tate tilted her head with some concern.

"Is your last name something embarrassing?" Kitty asked.

"Like Pecker or Po…" Wendy snickered with toothy smirk.

"NO!" The screeching greenette stomped her foot down with red face, "IT'S NOT PECKER, IT'S PEA!" She suddenly froze as soon as she realized that she just told them her last name.

"…That's quite unique last name you get there." Snow slowly said after a short pause and the embarrassed greenette's face turn redder.

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki." The genin introduced himself and Delilah was very thankful by him steering it to introduction as she was introduced to everyone. "So how did you got caught by the rain outside?" He asked.

"I was on my way to a kingdom to see a prince because I'm a princess and he…" Delilah said until Naruto place his hand on her shoulder with a sigh.

"I told you that you don't have to pretend to be a princess so someone can let you in, we'll give you shelter no matter what." Naruto patted her shoulder.

"Indeed, and there is no kingdom for miles and miles." Gretel handed her the map to show where they are and that there is no castle landmark for miles and miles to Delilah's shock.

"And if you were a real 'princess', you should be accompanied by royal carriage and knights." Heida pointed out, "Where are they?"

"M-M-My kingdom is s-smaller so w-we don't have r-r-royal carriage a-and we can't t-t-take knights with me." The blushing greenette poked her fingers together timidly.

"And where is your kingdom on the map?" The dark-haired teenager rolled her eyes, "Or any places you realize?"

"Um, i-it's not on m-map…" Delilah study the map with some confusion, "I-I-I don't know any places on this map."

"Huh, sound like you got teleported by a portal like me and other guys." Naruto grimaced along with some others.

"P-P-Portal?" The greenette looked very puzzled by that as her eyes widening.

"Yeah, a portal." He rubbed his chin, "Maybe there was rain at wherever you come from and the portal open up in front of you and you end up here in same weather without know it." The greenette look more and more confused, "I know it's way sudden for you but I think it's best for you to stick with us since we're in same boat."

"E-Eh?" Delilah squeaked.

"The thing is, we're traveling to a port so we can go to another land and try to find our way back to homes." Naruto explained.

"And most of us are going with him because he's our sweethearts." Rosie flashed a beaming smile with a giggle and the baffled greenette blinked rapidly.

'He have more than one sweetheart?' The greenette glanced at the blushing genin, 'Is he a prince or noble?' Before she can open her mouth, her stomach rumbled loudly to her chagrin.

"You must be starving." Snow gently grabbed Delilah's shoulders as she led her to the magical table on other side, "Let's get you something to eat."

"I think she's an orphan." Gretel whispered to Naruto.

"Huh?" The genin's head turned to her with a blink, "Why do you think that?"

"When she begged for shelter, it sounds like she had been turn away often." The brunette girl said, "Usually, people tend to reject orphans and ignore them when they beg for something like taking shelter in their home or give them a food. Not only that, her stomach rumble so loud as if she haven't eat anything for a long time."

"That's true, I have seen it happened many times before." Cinderella frowned sadly, she remember seeing bakery owners chasing poor orphans away when she was forced to run some errands for her abusive stepfamily in city.

"That and there is absolutely no way a royalty's last name is Pea." Heida rolled her eyes again before she pause for a moment, "…Maybe, but I won't buy it because she show up wearing commoner's clothes. She must come up with this name on spot like her 'princess' status."

"If she's really an orphan then…" Naruto hummed, "We have to take her in and give her a place to call home." Most agreed before they walk over to the greenette to chat and getting know her.

What the group don't know is that Delilah haven't been send here by portal and the map was a little behind by a decade. The campsite they're on right now is actually a part of road that lead to a kingdom a mile away in north but the road was covered by snow and the view of castle was obstructed by tall trees.

"Mother, why is there a stack of mattresses and why do you have a pea in your hand?" A older teenager in elegant outfit asked with baffled expression and the woman in regal robe glance between towering mattresses and her son.

"So we can test the sensitivity of a princess." The mother answered as she insert a pea in between mattresses.

"…What princess?" The prince shrugged with his hands, "Mother, we turn all princesses away because of their bad manners and they're not my types."

'Ugh, no, you're the one who turn them all away because you're so picky.' The queen glared sideway at her son, wondering where she went wrong with her stupid son. "Patience, my child, a beautiful and very sensitive princess will come."

"Ok, mother." The teenager boy shrugged again.

They wait for so long that the prince never has any heirs or marry someone to his mother's deep disappointment but that is another story for another time.

Back in the yurt a hour later, everyone were sleeping after giving Delilah, who have chose a spot in the corner of bed, some blankets and a large pillow and it was peaceful with the sound of Lyra's music and raindrops…Until the thunders and lightings hit, following by some screams that wake almost everyone up.

"Wha…?!" Naruto bolt up alarmingly with tensed body, "Who…" He got blindsided by a blurred figure as it tackle his chest, "Oof!" He grunted out before he glance down with a blink to see Millie clenched his shirt tightly with her fists as she cowered, "Mil…?" A thunder and bright flash cut him off as the little girl cried out frighteningly.

"Oh, everyone, I'm so sorry!" Willia raced over with some stumbles, due to her sleepiness. "Millie's scared of lightning and thunders." On cue, the thunder hit and the scared girl cried out again with sobs.

"It's okay." The genin relaxed as soon as he realize that they wasn't in danger from anything, "We'd be up either way because of thunders." A booming sound echoed and the little girl cried harder before he wrap his arms around her as he rubbed her back to calm her down. "You're okay, Millie, it's going to be fine." The whimpering girl buries her head in his chest as if she was trying to block the sound of thunders out.

"Sound like we're having a thunderstorm." Snow flinched slightly from the booming thunders and rapid flashes of bright light and she stroke Kitty's head as she hissed at the lightning frighteningly. "We better check on the animals."

"I got it covered." Naruto create a single kage bunshin to go out to the livestock wagon before he glance at the girls, "Can one of you check on Thumbelina and Lyra to see if they're fine?" He don't know why he throw the name of the living harp in but it won't harm a bit to check on her just in case.

"I'll do it." Rapunzel got up to go checking on the said individuals.

"I'll take Millie off yo…" The gray-haired teenager reaches out to her sister before a thunder makes her jump with a yelp.

"I WANT TO STAY WITH NARUTO!" Millie wailed into the genin's chest and Willia look very unsure and little nervous.

"I don't mind if she sleep with us." Naruto patted the sniffling girl's back as he looked up to the gray-haired teenager, "As long as you're okay with it."

"W-Well…" Willia was about to give her response but a very loud thunder drop by with a boom and she dove into the surprised genin's arm with a shriek.

"…Well, you can sleep with us too if you want to." The genin rubbed the trembling teenager's back, she must be trying to be brave for her little sister.

"Yes, we're okay with that." Snow said to reassure the sisters.

"…U-Um, if it's n-not m-much a bother to you…" Willia blushed embarrassingly.

"Alright." Naruto slide the blanket over them as the rest of girls gather to cuddle together.

"Thumbelina's still sleeping and Lyra said she's fine." The long-haired blonde join the cuddle pile before she notice something else, "When did Delilah get here?"

"Huh?" Naruto craned his head up to see the said girl on his leg as she trembled in balled-up blanket with her hair poking out, "Um…You're welcome to join us, by the way."

"T-T-T-Thank y-y-you…" Delilah's voice squeaked out with some fear.

"Good night, everyone." He said as he tried to go back to sleep with everyone but it was little hard to do since the thunderstorm continue on and some girls were afraid to sleep for couple hours.

"It finally stop raining." Goldilocks looked outside in morning before she notice something else then she look back inside the yurt, "…Naruto, why are there a bunch of clones breathing fire down the road?"

"Melting ice so it'll be easy and safe for us to move out." Naruto approached her while carrying Millie as she sleep with her arms around his neck tightly, "Of course we won't travel very far for next few days."

"Ah." Goldilocks hummed, "Good thing that we're close to spring now." She paused for a moment before she drop her head with a groan, "Oh. We missed Christmas."

"What are you talking about?" He gave her a funny look before he jerk his head softly to the snow queen, "She's right there."

"No, not this Christmas." The short-haired blonde smacked her forehead, "I'm talking about the Christmas holiday."

"What is it about?" Naruto asked her out of curiosity.

"It's a holiday where Santa Claus come to give children gifts and all we have to do is put a Christmas tree up, decorating it and festive." Goldilocks said, "Also we have to sleep so he will come."

"Who's Santa?" He asked confusingly.

"He's a magical old man who live in North Pole…" The short-haired blonde explained to him about Santa Claus.

"…Wait." Naruto furrowed his brows with bewildered expression, "We're celebrating some creepy old man who breaks into many houses all over the world to watch some sleeping kids while eating cookies and milk and then left us bunch of toys and candies? T-T-That is so weird. I'm okay with the whole exchange presents between people thing but…That is so weird."

"No, it's not." Goldilocks sweatdropped at him, "Anyway, he always come on the eve then we celebrate Christmas on December twenty-five. Don't you have any holidays where you come from?"

"Um, we have festivals but I don't know anything about them." He muttered, "Maybe we have Christmas there but…"

"We'll celebrate it together next year." The short-haired blonde said, realizing that her boyfriend don't have anyone to celebrate Charismas with for whole of his life.

"That'd be nice." Naruto hummed before he grimace slightly, "Beside the whole old man breaking into our home to watch us sleeping." Goldilocks rolled her eyes with a small headshake, "Anyway, I'm gonna put her to bed in vardo with Delilah and Willia." Both teenager girls were very tired and exhausted like the little girl in his arm because they didn't get a wink in last night.

"Are you going to stay in vardo or join us?" Goldilocks asked curiously, "Because Millie look like she won't let go of you any time soon."

"Both." He replied, "I'm going to be in vardo while my clone hangs out in wagon with you girls."

"Alright." She shrugged with a hum before she fetch her bathing basket, "I'm going to bathing wagon with the girls, see you later."

"Later." Naruto answered back as he carried the snoring girl into the vardo.

After a half day of slow traveling, everyone was in process of setting the campsite up and the huntsmen were surprised and confused to see a new addition to the group at first until they get an explanation from Wendy. "I think we got everything up." Naruto looked around at his surrounding.

"Yes, for now." Annette watched Hestia set a bush on fire few yards away before her gaze shift to Rosie who was doing light archery training then at several people going inside the livestock wagon to do their chores. "I'm glad there is less snow around here now."

"Yup, I guess it's because of ra…" The genin suddenly pause with few blinks before he cup his ear with raised eyebrow.

"What?" The orangette raised her eyebrow quizzically.

"I think I hear something but I'm not sure." Naruto muttered as he strained his ears.

"Like…?" Annette tilted her head slightly, trying to her best to listen to her surrounding.

"Like…" He looked visibly baffled, "Giggle, taps and some crying?"

"…Tap?" She uttered confusingly until she hear some tapping noise and it become loud as it get close, following by some cries. "Wha…" They turn around to see a thin petite teenager girl as she dance out of the woods and she look close to exhaustion with tears running down her face. She have a long straight sandy hair in low ponytail, brown eyes and light skin, she wear a dark navy dress and pair of bright red shoes.

"P-P-Please help me!" The dancing girl cried out as soon as she see them, "I-I can't stop dance!"

"Can't stop dancing?" Naruto's head rotating to follow the sobbing girl as she dance around them with some twirl, "Why don't you just, um…Stop dancing?"

"I-I can't, if I w-w-want to!" The dancing girl sobbed with tapping feet, "T-The shoes! T-T-They're cursed!"

"Oh!" Annette gasped.

"Let us help you out." The genin reach out to the dancing girl but she move out of his range with some dance moves, "Wha…"

"The s-s-shoes, t-they're forcing me!" The dancing girl sobbed out as the genin make several attempts to catch her with aid of Annette.

"Gotcha!" Naruto finally caught the girl after eleventh tries as he hoist her over stomach-down on his shoulder and her legs keep kicking the air. "H-Hold still…" He grunted out as the orangette pin the kicking legs together with her arms and his free hand take a grasp on the first red shoe, slipping it off easily.

"What's going on out here?" Rowan asked puzzlingly as he walked out of the livestock wagon with buckets, most of the travelers also come out to see a bizarre sight in front of them.

"Cursed shoes!" The genin hollered back as he manage to remove the second red shoe, "Forcing to dance!" He threw the shoes away and when they land, instead of stay still, they ran toward him as if someone visible is walking in them to everyone's shock. "HOLY SHIT!" Naruto tossed the girl into Annette's arms before he swiftly went through handseals then blow fireball at them. Instead of crumbling to ash, they keep dancing toward him on fire. "OH FUCK!" He quickly yank an small scroll, unroll it out and he thrust it forward with both hands. "BEGONE, YOU CREEPY POSSESSED SHOES!" The shoes leap up in air before the seal on scroll suck it in with a tornado along with fire and he shut the scroll together with heavy pants. "I fucking hate ghosts and creepy haunting stuffs." Everyone watch on as Naruto dig a hole in ground with his bare hand then he bury the scroll in, pushing the dirt back in with some hard stomp and he turn to them. "Well, good thing it's a small one and empty." One less storage scroll is no big deal and it was a single-storage one for his ramen so…

"O-O-Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!" The sandy-haired girl cried out as she collapsed on her knees, but this time it was in pure joy and relief.

"What's your name and can you tell us what happened?" Naruto approached her along with the others.

"K-Karen." The sandy-haired girl looked up to him with a snotty sniffle, "A-A old s-s-solider with r-red beard cursed m-my shoes b-b-because I l-l-like them so much t-that I wear it everywhere I g-go…T-T-They were p-p-pretty and n-n-new, s-something I never have before…" She rubbed her eyes with some sobs, "B-B-Because of t-this man, I-I-I missed m-m-my stepmother's f-f-funeral a-and I-I-I've been f-f-forced to d-d-dance far away from my home for w-w-weeks…" She stop herself with a sob, "No…I-I-I don't have any place to go back anymore…I-I'm orphan again."

"You don't have anyone else that'll look after you?" Beauty looked very concerned by that and the rest also share her concern as Karen shook her head sadly with some more sobs before they exchange glances with each other. "Um, if that is okay with you, do you want to stay with us?"

"C-C-Can I?" Karen lift her head up to stare at the brunette woman with heavy sniffle before she glance across the faces until it stop on Naruto as they give her nods, "…Y-Yes, I-I-I want to." She try to push herself up before she look down at her trembling legs then up to them with exhausting blush as she looked worried, "C-C-Can one of you carry me? I-I-I can't feel my legs…"

"Oh, I get you." Tate easily scoop her up.

"T-T-Thank you." It feels so strange to the sandy-haired girl that she was being cradled like an baby in a giantess' arms.

"Let's get you insi…" The smiling giantess said until she get cut off.

"Wait." Naruto remember something else as he counted up with his fingers, "I heard tapping and cries and they come from Karen…Then where does this giggle come from?" He still hear this giggling throughout the whole haunting red shoes episode and after.

"Speaking of giggles, I hear it." Nico lift his index finger up and it become very clear that there are giggles in air.

"I hear it too when we arrive here…" Snow looked around with everyone else in confusion, "I thought it was coming from one of us."

"Please don't tell me it's another ghost." Naruto shivered until something drop on his head from above, "Ow!"

"Naruto, are you okay?!" The ravenette turned to him worriedly.

"Yeah, I'm fine." The groaning genin rubbed the bump on his head, "What hit me? A big hard…" He looked down at his feet, "...Rattle?" He pick a wooden rattle up with quizzed arched brow, "Why is there a rattle in middle of nowhere?" He looked up to the sky before he drop his jaw with widened eyes and they all follow his line of sight until they gasp in shock when they see a rocking wicker cradle hanging on a treetop by ropes. The cradle wasn't the only one thing they see, they see an arm waving over the edge of cradle and they can hear some crying.

"Please don't tell me there's a baby up there!" Elsie cried out in shock and they cried out in shock when a branch that hold cradle up broke off, sending it falling down. Naruto bolt into action as he ran up the tree then hop off to catch the cradle in midair and he slow down his decent until he land in front of the relieved group.

"WHO THE FUCK PUT BABY UP IN TREE AND LEAVE IT ALONE?!" Naruto panted heavily, he swear it took a decade off his lifespan. He look down inside the cradle as cooing and giggles come out from it before he look up again, "Let me correct myself…WHO THE FUCK PUT BABIES UP IN TREE AND LEAVE THEM ALONE?!"

"Say what?" Goldilocks blinked before everyone gather around him to get a good look inside the cradle. They were looking at three babies, two girls and one boy, in white gowns with bonnets and they all have blond turf of hairs, blue eyes and sun-kiss tan skins. "Aww." Like most of the group, they find the babies to be adorable.

"How old do you think they are?" Arya wondered as he resist the urge to coo at the babies.

"Around four months, I guess." Wyatt bit his inner cheeks in to fight the urge.

"Are they triplet?" Thumbelina peeked inside on top of Vasilisa's head.

"I think they are." Vasilisa said, "They resemble each other."

"Are they our babies?" Elsie asked with starry eyes and everyone turned their heads to her.

"I don't know, Elsie." Naruto said slowly, "They must belong to…Um…" He looked around at their surrounding, "Wait, how did they end up here?" Now he realize that they are very far away from civilization.

"Either they drop in through portal or…" Christmas frowned slightly.

"Or what?" The genin asked.

"They have been abandoned." The frowning ice fairy sighed, "As horrible as it is, it's common in this continent for adults to abandoned unwanted children in wildness for various reasons."

"What?!" The genin dropped his jaw along with some others and the rest have different reactions, some wasn't surprised at this fact. "If that's true…" He looked down at the cooing babies as they gave him happy wide smiles before he look up to them, "Do we keep them?"

"YES!" The auburn-haired woman hopped up and down excitingly with claps and almost everyone agreed one by one.

"Look like we get three new family members." Naruto looked down to the squealing babies before he slowly look up as soon as he realize something, "…One question. Who know how to raise babies?" He's completely clueless.

"Ok, for supper, we will have..." Gretel walked out of the yurt as she flip through her notebook with a pencil tucked behind her ear before she look up to see a unfamiliar girl in Tate's arms and Naruto holding a cradle with triplet inside and she just stare blankly.

"Um, we're taking them in." The sheepish genin scratched his head nervously with free hand.

"…I only have been inside for ten minutes." The brunette teenager deadpanned before she pick a pencil out behind her ear then jolting something down in notebook, "Let me make some adjustment…Three babies…Some recipes in cookbook…" She muttered few times before she put the pencil away as she look up, "Ok, bring them inside." She tear a page out then hand it over to Piper who was closest to her, "Piper, here's the order for supper."

"I'll prepare them." Piper nodded his head.

"Yay!" Elsie clapped her hands with a squeal as Naruto enter the yurt with the girls, "I'm a mommy! I'm a mommy!"

"We should name them." Rosie said as Naruto place the cradle in middle of the giant bed while Tate put Karen down gently and the sandy-haired girl fall asleep almost immediately. No one was surprised by that since she claimed that she danced nonstop for days.

"Hans!" The auburn-haired woman clasped her hands as she looked down at the triplet eagerly and the girls consider it for a while.

"Hans…" Snow tapped her chin thoughtfully, "Hans, that's a good strong name." The auburn-haired woman nodded rapidly as the girls discussed it for few minutes, "Hans it is." Elsie cheered as she jumped up and down and Naruto's eyes draw to her juggling bust before he look away with red face, wondering why he like it.

"What about the girls?" Kitty poked one of the triplet girl's cheeks softly and she giggle when the baby squeak in delight.

"How about Elizabeth?" Gretel suggested.

"Oh, that's good one!" Rosie perked up, "It come with many cute nicknames like Liz!" Almost everyone agreed right away before they turn to Naruto.

"What?" The genin blinked at them puzzlingly.

"You should give last one a name." The ravenette smiled, earning many nods from other girls.

"Oh, um, let's see…" Naruto scratched his head then look close at the last girl of triplet with crossed arms as he hummed thoughtfully with scrunched up face, "Her name will be…Um…" He rubbed his chin as the babies giggled at his expression, "…Riko?"

"Riko, what is the meaning behind this name?" Rosie tilted her head curiously.

"White jasmine." He replied, "I thought it's a fitting name."

"Hmm, I like it." Annette said the name few times to test how it sound.

"Da." Vasilisa agreed.

"Then it's official." The smiling orangette said, "Hans, Elizabeth and Riko."

"I think we may have some nursery stuff in storage." Gretel took her inventory book out from a desk's drawer.

"Ah, from his clones' big shopping spree?" Goldilocks hummed with crossed arms and the brunette girl nod her head, she's so glad that they have inventory book to keep track of everything from Naruto's huge shopping spree because she can't remember every single item they own.

"Aww, look at them." Tate giggled at the triplet as they stretch their arms out to Naruto with waves and grabbing motions, "They want Naruto to hold them."

"Really?" Naruto looked at the cooing babies with a clueless blink, "Um, is it okay to hold them? How do I pick them up?" He have no idea what to do with babies!

"Let me help you." Willia tried her best not to giggle at his clueless face as she carefully lift Riko up from the cradle first and she place the baby girl in the genin's arms. She repeat her actions one by one until the triplet were in his arms, right arm under their bottoms with left arm on their backs to secure them.

"Um, hi?" Naruto said to the triplet lamely with nervous grin, he doesn't want to drop them, and they squeal happily, patting and grasping his head, neck and shirt as if they want to get closer to him.

"Hehe, they're so happy to be with their daddy." Rosie laughed at the cute sight.

"…Huh?" His head lift up to her with rapid blinks, "Don't you mean big brother?"

"Nope, you're their daddy now." Wendy smirked.

"B-B-But isn't I too young to have kids?" Naruto stuttered bewilderedly.

"I don't know what's it like in your country but here, it's very common for people to have children around thirteen." Gretel replied while she scan the list as she flipped through the pages of notebook, "In other word, you're old enough to be their father."

"W-W-Wha…?!" He choked on his spit as almost everyone back her up for next few minutes before he look down at the cooing triplet, "…If I'm their dad now, does that make you all triplet's moms?" Almost everyone froze at that.

"Um, on sec…" The brunette girl muttered with red face, only to be cut off.

"YES, WE ARE!" Elsie squealed happily.

"Yes!" Tate smiled brightly.

"Ooh, that mean he's our husband now." Rosie giggled to Snow as they share blushes along with several other, the redhead's blush was rosy across cheeks while the ravenette have atomic blush.

"They're your moms, right?" Naruto grinned down at the triplet, having not heard Rosie's comment, and the triplet cooed happily as if they were in agreement with him.

"Oh dear." Gretel exhausted with hand on her shaking forehead, 'Does Naruto have no idea that he basically wed us the moment he declare us to be the triplet's parents?' That is a unbreakable law in this continent for various reasons, 'Maybe I should have teach him the laws here?'

"Do you mind if I hang out here with you guys for a bit while?" Naruto asked the huntsmen in the bedding wagon couple hours later.

"Why?" Sam asked him curiously with raised eyebrow.

"B-Because they are feeding the triplets." He muttered with heavy blush.

"Feeding the…" The redhead furrowed his brows until he realize something with the huntsmen, "Oh! They're breastfeeding…"

"Yes." Naruto cut him off swiftly with atomic blush all over his face, the memory of Elsie taking her top off to flash him was very fresh in his head.

"I don't know that the girls can wet-nursing." Arya muttered before he pause for a moment, "…All or…"

'Elsie and Cinderella.' The genin heard the former offer to try when he left the yurt and he think some certain women offer but he didn't say their names out loud, "Some but I can't tell you…I mean, it's pretty personal and something that I can't tell other guys like you."

"Wh…" The silver-haired teenager opened his mouth along with few others before their mouths closed as soon as they remember something, "…Oh, we understand…" He coughed into his fist awkwardly, 'I forget men always act weird around women when they're breastfeeding babies or have different views from women when it come to natural things.' He cleared his throat again, "The triplets, have you give them names yet?"

"Yup." Naruto nodded as he extended his fingers up one by one, "Hans, Elizabeth and Riko."

"Sound like good names." Wyatt hummed before he ask the genin about the last name and he explain it to the huntsmen.

"I'm really worried." The genin scratched his head with a heavy sigh, "I don't know anything about raising a kid, three at that."

"Everyone doesn't know at first." Rowan said to ease the genin's worries.

"He's right." Gray said, "All you can do is try your best and be there for them."

"Why are you all acting like it's hard thing?" Billy whittled the wood block with knife, "You just feed the babies, put them to sleep, wash and dress them. All they can do is just sleep and eat."

"…You're all right." Naruto's head lifted up from his hand with a blink, "Why was I worried for in first place?" Like Billy said, all the babies can do are just sleeping, eating and crying. It'll be a easy job ever and everyone just can do it!

Oh, naive, naive Naruto. He have no idea what he's going into.

"If you are okay with that, we'd like to pitch in and help you guys out whenever you need help with the babies." Nico suggested.

"I'll ask the girls and see what they think." The genin said as the pinkette nod his head, "Anyway, do you guys want to play some games?" He asked, want to know his guests more and to have some guy time.

"Sure, I'm game." The brunette huntsman shrugged as he move from his bed to the table with several huntsmen and Arya keep playing chess with Wyatt.

"You won again?" Billy groaned with suspicious look, "How did you do it?! Wyatt, did you see him doing something to deck?"

"No, I have my eyes on it the whole time." Wyatt scratched the side of his head puzzlingly, "We even have him rolled his sleeves up."

"Arya?" The brunette looked to his leader.

"I've been watching his hand and I'm very shocked as you are." Arya shook his head bewilderedly.

"I told you guys." Naruto smirked smugly as if he have been validated, "I've never cheat." He pointed at his cards on table, "I draw them then play it normally."

"…Maybe he have a devil's luck?" Gray muttered. He was very puzzled by it, after all how can someone win the card game nearly hundred times straight?!

"Devil's lu…" Billy was about to shot his fellow brunette a ridiculous look before he halt in trail, "…No, wait. That would explain everything. The magical shits, treasures and…"

"Indeed, it makes sense." Nico muttered.

"Hey, don't make it sound like I'm some kind of walking magnet." Naruto gave them a funny look, "It was all coincidences!"

"I don't know…" Rowan stroked his beard sagely, "You told us a crazy story about how your first mission out of your hometown went from low rank to high rank…"

"And that was not the only one." Sam pointed out, Naruto have been sharing some stories about his career and they were very farfetched to some ears.

"Coincidences." The genin huffed, "It's not like I went looking for it on purpose! I was just there at right place, right time."

"More like wrong place, wrong time." Set droll with deadpan tone, that is the most words Naruto ever heard from this quiet huntsman and the huntsmen agreed with him.

"Guys!" Naruto pouted childishly at them before they hear a knock on door, following by opening and their heads turn to see Heida poking her head in.

"Have you seen scruffy fox…" She spot Naruto, "Oh, there you are. We finished feeding the babies so you can come back in."

"Look like that's my cue to leave." Naruto pushed himself up with a grin, "We should have some guys time next time." He exited the wagon with a wave, "Later, guys."

"Later, ugh." Billy glared at the cards on table, trying to comprehend the possibilities of drawing better cards.

The genin and Heida return to the yurt together before he announce, "I'm back."

"Welcome back, did you find any nursery?" Gretel looked up from the cradle as the girls gather around it again.

"Yeah, I found them." Naruto pulled a scroll out of his pocket as he glanced at the babies to see that they were sleeping, "Want me to unseal them now or…?"

"Now will be best time." The brunette girl nodded once.

"We clear up an area for it." Snow pointed to a empty space at left side near where the bench end in back.

"Alright, gotcha." He walked over to the empty space before he unseal the nursery stuff, quickly check over his shoulder to make sure it don't wake the triplet up then he carefully move things around. Some girls and women approach him to help out moving and set things in place.

"Three cribs?" Willia whispered to him, quietly slide a crib across the floor with a push.

"Yeah, so they can have their own crib to sleep in." Naruto replied before he pause to consider something, "…Until they want to share one crib?"

"We'll find out in time." The gray-haired teenager hummed softly and it take about a hour to decorate the nursery area since it only have cribs, changing tables, baskets, rugs and a small chest for baby toys on top of a small drawer.

"Look good enough." The humming genin put fists on his hips.

"I think the cribs should be more closer to the bed so it'll be easy for us to fetch triplets when they need us for something." Beauty tapped her chin thoughtfully.

"Good idea." Naruto rubbed his chin with a mutter, "I'll move them when the babies are up." He don't want to take a risk to wake the slumbering triplet up by doing that and the brunette woman nod her head understandingly.

Several hours later at night, three ear-shattering wails wake everyone up and Goldilocks turn over onto her stomach with her chin on mattress with red eyes. "Again?" The short-haired blonde muttered tiredly as Elsie and Naruto get up to calm the crying triplet, "Can't we please get ten minutes of sleep?"

"According to the book, it's normal for them to cry at night at random and it'll take a while." Beauty muttered sleepily as the genin and auburn-haired woman rocked the wailing triplet back to sleep in same crib. It turn out that the triplet will go berserk and cry their heads off if they get separated from each other in cribs so they have to be put together in same crib. Beauty notice that Millie and Willia have end up in same bed with the group but she don't say anything about it.

"They're back sleeping." Naruto crawled back into the bed with Elsie quiet as possible as they can and they turn in. Few minutes later, there was a small creak sound, following by crying and Naruto's eyes snapped open tiredly before he went back to the triplet with the auburn-haired woman in tow. It occur few times before everyone finally get a chance to sleep…For a while.

Piper and Val set the table the next morning in dining wagon before they hear footsteps entering, "Good morn…" Piper looked up to greet, only to pause as he stare at exhausted genin and girls as they carry giggling triplet in cradle. "…Rough night?"

"Oh, you don't know half of it." Goldilocks sat down in her chair…Before her head collapse on the table with a exhausting groan.

"They may be angels but at same time, they're demon in disguise." Heida joined her as the tired group take their seats and the triplet was placed on cradle stand between Naruto and Snow. Hans wave the rattle up in air with giggle and his giggling sisters reach out to it with grabbing hands.

"Oh." The black-haired huntsman have no idea how to response to that.

It have been four days since they adopted the triplet and saved Karen from dancing curse, the travelers have cover many distances in short time and they decide to park near a small frozen lake for a day. "Wow, that look like a huge place." Naruto stared at a huge city in distance with an impressive whistle, the city appear to be very larger than Konohagakure. "Are we going down this road?" He pointed at the main road as his head turned to Gretel who have the map.

"No, we will go this way." The brunette girl pointed at another road.

"Oh." He hummed, "…Do you want to go visiting it?" Gretel simply shake her head before he turn to the group, "Hey, anyone want to visiting this place with me?" Naruto was surprised that everyone politely turn him down, "Um, why don't you guys want to come?" It was pure curiosity on his part.

"Most of us are very exhausting and we want to sleep in." Kitty yawned.

"This place look like it's a very crowded place." Arya grimaced, he don't want to risk exposing his secret if someone can figure the huntsmen's true appearance with a glance.

"Y-Yes, too crowded…" Delilah muttered timidly.

"Too much hassle." Christmas waved her hand dismissively, she can see men harassing her everywhere she go like proposing or begging for a night and it's much worse in a large city like this one.

"I-I'm not ready to see how much things have change." Briar fidgeted with her hands.

"Someone have to stay with Karen and see how's her legs doing." Rapunzel glanced at the vardo, the sandy-haired girl have been lying in bed for days because she claim that her legs feel very numb and was very frightened that she may lose the ability to walk.

"Ah." Naruto scratched his head before he shrug his shoulders, "Alright then. I'm going to visit this city for few hours then come ba…" Bunch of loud quacks cut him off and he look over with a raised eyebrow to see a group of baby ducks harassing a large strange baby duck on shore. "A fight?"

"N-Naruto, you should go help this poor thing." Delilah swiftly approached him from behind, "Please!"

"I will." The genin walked down to the shore.

"You're so ugly that you need to be whacked!" He can hear one of the ducks teasing the large creature with malicious intent.

"Oh!" The large creature cried, "Please leave me aloooooooooo!" The creature screamed out as it get pick up by Naruto and the genin threw some big swings at the quacking ducks.

"Scam, you all!" Naruto shooed the baby ducks and they ran away from him down the shore as fast as they can with startled quacks. He lift the large duck up by hands, "Hey, you alright?" The teenager was puzzled why the duck cover its face with wings as several girls approached them to check on the poor creature, "Um, why are you hiding your face?"

"Because I'm so ugly!" The duck cried behind its wings and the genin caught its feminine voice. "I'm a ugly duckling who will become one ugly duck!" The wings lower to reveal the duck's eyes with tears, "Oh! I'll fright you away with my loo…"

"Excuse me, I'm sorry, but you're not a duck." Snow spoke up, "You're a swan."

"…Wha?" The creature slowly look up from its wings with a owlish blink, "I'm a…What?"

"Swan." The ravenette repeated, "Baby swan is large than duckling, have dark feathers and different beak."

"How do you know about…Um…" Naruto asked her curiously before his brow raised at the creature in his hands, "Um, are you boy or girl?"

"I'm a girl." The ugly duckling answered, still bewildered about the bomb drop. "I'm a swan?"

"How do you know about her type?" He finished his question to the ravenette.

"There used to be a lot of royal swans at my old home and I tend to them from time to time." Snow replied.

"Oh." Naruto looked down at the creature in his hands.

"…I'm a swan?" The baffled creature turned her head from side to side, "I am a swan, not a duck?! I don't understand. Why don't anyone tell me I'm a swan until now?!"

"Well, you're a swan." The genin put the creature down on ground gently, "Anyway, you're safe now. Be careful next ti…"

"Wait, can you all please take me?!" The baby swan flapped her wings, "I don't want to stay here and be bothered by these awful ducklings!"

"What about your parents?" Naruto asked.

"I don't have swan parents." The female swan replied faster.

"If that's the case, then welcome aboard." Snow scoop the creature up with a smile.

"Yeah, there's a lot of room in livestock wagon." The genin nodded with crossed arms, 'I wonder what kind of things summon swans can do if someone get their hands on summon swan scroll?' "So what's your name? Mine's Naruto Uzumaki."

"I don't have one." The swan answered sadly and the genin wince in guilt.

"That's okay, we can come up with one for you." Annette smiled with Delilah behind her back.

"Naruto, go on ahead and enjoy your day at the city." The ravenette gave him a smile before the small group walk back to the campsite with the baby swan.

"Sure, see you all later." Naruto waved to them before he head out to visit the huge city.

'This place looks so busier than Konohagakure.' He only have been in the city for two hours, Naruto was very amazed by many people filling the street and everywhere he look at, different buildings constantly greet him. 'There are so many restaurants and stores here.' Naruto absentmindedly pat the scroll inside his pant pocket, he wonder if everyone will like what he got them when he return. "Let's see…" The blonde glanced up to a huge unique building that tower over all buildings a mile away, "That's one huge building."

"Oui, that's Notre-Dame." An old woman said offhandedly as she walked by him.

"Ah…" The genin looked behind with a blink then back to towering building with another blink, "Huh." He memorized the name so he can ask the girls about it before he resumes his exploration.

About thirty minutes, Naruto find himself in what appear to be a red light district and he look around confusingly. "How did I end up here?" He muttered to himself, completely not bothered by sex workers, gamblers and addicts around him since he's used to their types back in his birthplace. He looked around until a sex worker walk by him, "Excuse me, miss, how do I exit the red light district?"

"Go up this alley, take left then third right and you'll be out." The woman pointed to the said alley.

"Thank, miss!" The genin walked to the said alleyway as the sex worker carry on and he follow the directions until he hear someone shouting on the second right.

"I said no!" Naruto peek around the corner to see a blond man in lavish clothes with sword harassing three busty curvy blondes in corner of dead end and he was holding one of them by wrist. "We are not prostitutes!"

"Ah, ah!" The man laughed boastfully, "Don't act sly, after all how can you explain three attractive and beautiful women wandering in red light district out of all place? Not to mention that you girls have been sending me looks after our fateful meeting. I will pay you handsomely and you three will have an unforgettable night of passion with me, the…"

"We told you we are not this kind of girls!" The second woman pulled the first woman away from him, yanking her wrist back from the man and it anger the man.

"Why, you whores!" The man sneered as he draw his sword, "I treated you three like queens and you act like that! Get down on your knees and…"

"Hey!" The adults turned to see a young teenager charge toward them, "Ladies said no!"

"Who do you think you are, you fl…" The sneered man snarled, only to get cut off by dropkick to face and he hit the wall then slump down on his rear with a painful groan.

"Kage bunshin!" Naruto created three clones to the yelping women's shocks, "Get them to safety. I'll tie him up."

"Roger!" The clones scooped the yelping women up before they leap up onto the roofs, hopping across with the women as they yelp out again.

"Now…" The blonde turned to the groaning man with a savage grin as he take an rope out, "I get a good prank for you."

Twenty minutes later, a trio of knights comes across the fuming blonde man in the alleyway. The man have been tied up around his torso and hanging by roof but what make it more humiliating for this man is that he have pink glitters all over him with thick makeup, lipstick and all. Under him was a sign that say, 'Pucker up! Two copper per kiss! Five silver for special kiss!'.

"Here." The clones put the women down back on their feet after getting a long distance from the red light district, "You're safe now. Be careful next time and try avoid this place for a while." Two clones disappear in smoke and the third clone was about to dispel himself until one of the three women stop him.

"Wait!" The first woman grabbed his arm, "Where do you live in this city? We want to thank you for your brave act."

"Oh, boss doesn't live here, he's just visiting here for a day." The clone see no harm in telling them, "If you want to find him, you can go to a campsite few miles out of the city by a frozen lake. You won't miss it with many wagons and big yurt that look like hut."

"Boss?" The second woman looked confused.

"The one who create me and other two clones, he's the real guy." He replied, "Anyway, I gotta dispel now. Take care of yourselves and stay safe." He dispelled before their eyes and the women exchange glances with each other.

"…Shall we go back to the inn and grab everything before we go see him?" The first woman asked.

"Oh, yes, let's!" The second woman grinned.

"Ooh, I can't wait to see him soon!" The third woman swooned before the trio raced through the city with giggles.

'Why is there people gathering over there?' Naruto wondered to himself as he noticed a crowd gathering and he approached it out of curiosity. The first thing he hears is music before he sees a sixteen year old girl dancing around with galloping goat that have a golden hoop earring in its ear.

The girl appear to be attractive with hourglass figure, caramel skin, emerald green eyes and long thick raven-black hair. She wear a white top with teal bodice, purple skirt with white petticoat and golden jewelries like hoop earring on left ear, bracelets on wrists and anklet on both right hand and ankle.

'Oh, street performance.' He was about to leave until his eyes meet her eyes and she flash him a grin before she suddenly drag him in, forcing him to dancing around clumsily. "H-H-Hey! I-I can't dance!"

"Relax, you." The giggling teenager girl whispered to him and the dance went on for a while, much to Naruto's chagrin due to his clumsy dance that earn some laughs from the bystanders and it don't help when this goat force him to keep dancing by headbutt him once in a while. The show wind down to stop much to his relief and the watchers toss coins into a wide cap at their feet.

"Finally…" Naruto exhausted.

"You're not bad at it." The smirking girl teased him before the bystanders ask for encore, "Oh, did you hear them? They want us to give them another one."

"Yeeeeeah, nope." He raised his hands up as the smirking girl inch closer to him, "Find another par…" There was some angry shouts in back of the crowd as it get close and Naruto miss what they were saying since he wasn't listen but he don't miss the change in the girl's demeanor and she look visibly upset by something, signifying that the shouts were aiming at her.

"Oh no, not again." The girl quickly collected her stuff in a bundle and she scan for any opening to escape but she don't. "Oh no, I'm do…"

"Hey, follow me!" Naruto grab her by hand before he use a low-powered Daitoppa jutsu to break through the startled crowd with the girl and goat in tow, the people were very confused by a powerful gust that throw them off balance. He have no idea what was going on but the girl look like she need help and whatever the shouters was, they sound like they're up to something really no good. They have been running through different streets with twists and turns for a good amount of time until they duck into an alleyway. "I think we're good now." He released her hand.

"Thank…" The girl panted with hands on her knees, she has never run this fast and this long before until now. "Um, I don't get your name."

"Naruto Uzumaki and you are...?" He gestured to her.

"Esmeralda." She answered before she gesture to her goat, "She's Djali." She glance up and down his appearance, "You don't look like you're from around here."

"Yup, I'm on a trip across the land to a harbor or any port to go oversea and try find my land." Naruto said, "We just stop at a lake few miles away from this city and I decide to visit this place while I'm at it."

"You're an vagabond?" Esmeralda blinked, "And you're going oversea?"

"Still don't know what vagabond is but I'm trying to find my way back to home because of this damn portal." He said with a sigh, "Honestly, I still can't believe how much crazy things have happened to me up until now." She gave him a funny look, "It's a long story."

"We get a lot of time." She shrugged her shoulders as she count the coins in her hat, "Care to share some?"

"Mm, I get a few." Naruto checked the position of the sun in sky before he tell her about his trip from the moment he got sucked up by a portal, ending up in Lost Wood and witness some bizarre things from gingerbread man to giant beanstalk and other things in short summary with less details to the girl's amazement.

"Wow, that sound amazing." Esmeralda tied a coin bag to her goat, "All the sight, the traveling and the people. It sounds so…" Her lips curved up into a grin, "Freeing."

"You can say that." He nodded in somewhat agreement, "Make me wonder what I'll see next here and oversea." The girl gain a thoughtful look at that.

"Me too…" She takes few steps away from him with hands behind her back as her body swaying side to side, 'I want to go but there's something holding me back…Until I have a reason to…' The performer barely turns to her right and she was greeted by an deformed man as he lunge at her from shadow with ropes out to wrap her, causing her to scream out in fright.

"RASENGAN!" Naruto quickly shove the orb into the man's face before the deformed man can get his hands on the startled girl and the man crash into the wall with a scream. The deformed man hit the ground with a thud and he pass out right away, due to pain. "You okay?" He quickly checked on the panting girl, "This guy just come out of nowhere."

"Y-Yes, I'm ok." Esmeralda took few deep breathes to calm herself down with hand on her chest, "He gave me quite a fright. I think he was trying to catch me for something." The way she said make it sound like it's a normal occurrence, "Tha…"

"I hear a scream, is anyone in need of assist?" They turned to see a knight in golden armor appear around the corner and the girl find him to be handsome, she feel like she must have a crush…

"Ah, you're this asshole who tried to force himself on three women!" Naruto jabbed his finger at the knight, he almost don't recognized him in this shiny armor…Without his makeover.

"He what?" Esmeralda widened her eyes at the genin. And there goes her crush on this man, what a fleeting one it is.

"He harassed three women who was lost in red light district and tried to attack them after they refuse him, something about night of passion." The genin glared.

"YOU FUCKING CUR!" The knight snarled as soon as he realize the boy, have not seeing the teenager girl next to him due to his tunnel sight. "I'm going to kill you for ruining my chance with these whores! I'm executing you on charge of muddling my honor, you gy…"

"Kage bunshin!" The angry knight choke on his spit as Naruto summon dozen clones before one of them deliver a high kick to chin that launch him up in air as the clones jump into air, "U-Zu-Ma-Ki!" The clones send him higher with each kick before the last one drop a somersault dropkick on the knight, sending him crashing into the ground to the girl's mix of shock and amazement.

"Y-You're a sorcerer?" The bewildered performer uttered.

"No, I'm a shinobi." Naruto sighed as he snatched the deformed man's rope up to tie the men together, 'How many time is it now?' He dusted his hands after tightening the knot, "Well, we better get out of here."

"…Yes." Esmeralda stared at the genin, this boy just save her from attempted kidnap before it even happen and he also save her from making a wrong choice without knowing it. "Hey, this travel of yours. Can I come along for a ride?"

"Eh?" His head turned to her with a blink, "Um, family or…?"

"Don't have one, I'm always on move from village to village around here." The performer replied smoothly, "I'm a little like you, a wandering entertainer. And it'll be very interesting to see the world. It's not every day you get a chance to go on an epic advantage." She bat her eyelash at him, "So…What do you say? Can we come with you?" Djali bleated to her unsurely, "Shush you." She whispered lowly to her pet.

"Um…" Naruto rubbed his chin as he stared at her with raised eyebrow for a while before he shrug his shoulders, "Sure, why not?" Maybe she just want to travel a bit with his group for a while before they go on their separate paths, it's not like she'll fall in love with him for any reasons. "Do we need to get your stuff before we go back to the campsite?"

"No, that's my everything." Esmeralda gestured to bundles on her goat's back, "So we're ready to leave with you anytime."

"Ok, we're going now." He approached them to put his hands on her shoulder and goat's back, "Brace yourself, we're teleporting." They vanish in a flash and the two tied men groaned weakly as they slowly stir up with some confusions.

At the campsite, several people were outside doing a light exercise, relaxing or working on something until Naruto appear with two passengers and the group take one look at them. "You're back with someone, unsurprisingly." Goldilocks stopped chopping the woods, "Did you save her from someone or something?"

"To be fair, we just met at her performing show first before this man with big hutch back come out with ropes from nowhere." Naruto rubbed his head while Esmeralda check her surrounding out, "That is Esmeralda, she's a wandering performer and this is her pet goat, Djali. She said she want to come to see the world."

"Hello." Esmeralda gave them a charming smile, "I'm looking forward to traveling with you all."

"Nice to me…" Rosie chirped until they hear a holler and they turn to the source to see three women jogging toward them from the road, two of them carrying a big trunk together with one behind to keep it balance.

"Yoo-hoo, there you are." One of the women waved her hand with wiggling fingers in flirty manner toward the genin.

"Naruto?" Heida arched her brow at the said genin with 'what did you do' face and Naruto blink few times at the three new arrivals for few moments until he reach a realization.

"Oh, aren't you three the one that I saved from this pervy knight?" The genin pointed at them, he doesn't get a good look at them at first but now, he does.

The three attractive women appear to be identical triplets and somewhere between older teenager and young adult. They have long groomed blonde hair in low ponytail that reach their bottoms, curvy yet slender bodies with large bust and green eyes. They wear identical dress with some kind of apron that expose a massive amount of cleavages, hair bow ribbons and black-strap mary-jane shoes. While the women are triplet, there were few things that difference them from each other. The first one's clothing was all in red, her ribbon was near her rear instead of close to head like other two and her face was framed by two bangs that parts away. The second one wears yellow color and she have widow's peak with two bangs. The third one have green clothings and a bang over her forehead.

"Yes, that's right." The woman in red smiled brightly as the other two put the trunk down, "My name is Claudette."

"My name is Laurette." The woman in yellow smiled with clasped hands.

"My name is Paulette." The woman in green squeezed her shoulders together with clasped hands as she giggled before they speak together in unison, "And we're the Bimbettes sisters."

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki." Naruto replied with a lifting hand, he don't comment on their unique names.

"Please tell me Bimbettes is a nickname." Heida did commented on the name with a deadpan tone.

"Oh indeed, it is." Claudette smiled, "It's because we share ette in our names."

"And the bimb part?" The dark-haired teenager asked.

"Bambi because we're cute as dear." Laurette cupped her cheeks as her sisters giggled together, "That's what some people have been calling us."

'Shouldn't it suppose to be Bambette?' Heida stared blankly at the triplet sisters, she want to jest at them but it's too easy and she bet it will go over their heads by their looks.

"Did you girls come all way here to thank me for helping you out?" Naruto eyed the trunk curiously.

"Yes, and you mention you're a traveler so we decide to come along for a ride." Paulette grinned.

"Yes, we want to come with you." Claudette clasped her hands up to her cheek

"And traveling, oh what a fun it will be!" Laurette giggled.

"Oh." The genin realized that the trunk must be the triplet sisters' luggage before he shrugged his shoulders, "Alright, you can join us if you want to." He don't see any harm in letting them come and the giggling sisters cheered together.

"Gretel." Goldilocks opened the yurt's door to call into, "We get four new arrivals." A bleating, "Correction, five new arrivals. Four girls and a goat."

"Please tell me the goat is not enchanted." Gretel's voice called back.

"…Is the goat magical?" The short-haired blonde glanced back to the group.

"No." Esmeralda chuckled softly.

"No, it's not." Goldilocks replied back into the yurt.

"Bring the girls in and tell Naruto to bring the goat into the livestock wagon." The brunette girl's voice sighed.

"You hear her?" The short-haired blonde turned her head to the genin.

"Yeah, I hear her." Naruto patted the goat lightly, "Come on, girl, follow me." Djali follow him as the new arrivals enter the yurt and the genin walk into the livestock wagon. "Alright, I'll put you in pen with other goats…" Djali give him a scoffing bleat, "What's the matter? You don't want to share pen with other goats?" The goat bobbed her head up and down with bleating, "Well, I guess it's okay to put you in empty pen." Naruto shrugged his shoulders, Djali is Esmeralda's pet and not livestock so it must be better to keep them separate to avoid any confusion. He lead the goat to a empty pen and he toss hay in, spreading it out before he let her in. "Make yourself at home." He take a look around at the room until his eyes land on the baby swan who was 'fluffing' her bed, which is a nest in small low crate near Goldy. "Hey, how you doing?"

"Oh, hello, Naruto!" The baby swan looked up from her nest, "I don't hear you coming in. I am doing great." She flapped her wings, "Because I have a pretty name that will help me grow into beautiful swan!"

"What is it?" He asked.

"Svana!" The swan chirped happily, "Snow give it to me!"

"It sounds pretty and nice." Naruto replied with a hum and the baby swan chirped happily before he bid Svana a bye as he leave to go back inside the yurt.

"Wow, Beauty, you look so similar to someone from our old home before we moved." Paulette smiled at the said woman as her sisters nodded together, "We almost mistake you for her at first glance."

"Oh, that's interesting." Beauty blinked at them, "What was her name?"

"We don't know, we only seen her around and her hair is more lighter than yours." Claudette pressed index finger against her chin, "Almost like blond." Her sisters agreed and the brunette woman blink once. Naruto's gaze shift to Esmeralda as she introduce herself to everyone, same goes for the Bimbettes.

'Yup, I think I will have a lot of boy times in near future.' Naruto rubbed his head with a small sweatdrop as soon as he realize that he is slowly getting outnumbered by girls in this yurt before he glance at left side, 'Maybe we can put another vardo in since they might want their own…Bedroom?' He don't know if they can call it a room or wagon since it's going to be connecting to this yurt like the main vardo. Guess he'll find out as soon as he talk to Wendy about it and let the new girls call it whatever they want. He take few steps forward until he spot the giggling babies in the cradle and Elizabeth was playing with rattle before she notice him. She drop the rattle to stretching her grabbing hands out with a squeal and her siblings follow her line of sight to see the genin, copying her action. "You miss me, didn't you?" The chuckling genin approached the cradle and he give them light tickles on their bellies, causing the laughing triplet to kicking everywhere while holding onto his hands.

"Aww, they're so cute!" Esmeralda appeared at his side with Bimbettes sisters behind him as they get close look at the laughing babies, "What's their names and who they belong to?"

"The boy is Hans, the girls are Elizabeth and Riko." The genin answered, "Elizabeth has a birthmark on her chest so it'll be easy to tell the girls apart." They discovered her birthmark when the triplet siblings were given a bath on the first day, "And for who they belong to. They're our. We took them in because they have been abandoned in wildness." The new arrivals were surprised by that.

"It's good thing you find them." The performer muttered as she stared at the giggling babies, "Must be why they take a very liking to you."

"Yeah, they like their daddy because he save them from falling off the treetop in cradle." Kitty said.

"…Say what?" Both performer and triplet sisters blinked rapidly at the catgirl before their heads turn to the genin.

"…We found them hanging on top of a tall tree in this cradle." Naruto grimaced, at first he thought it was due to portal until Wyatt pointed out that the strings of cradle was tied to the branch and that can only been done by hands. "The branch broke off and I jumped up to save them."

"Wow, that's heroic of you." The woman in yellow swooned, "You're so brave."

"So daring." The woman in red swooned.

"So cute." The woman in green swooned as the genin blushed before the triplet sisters giggled to each other with hands up in front of their mouths.

"…There's three more Annette." Goldilocks deadpanned, she can easily see them joining the relationship very soon.

"Must be ette thing." Rosie shrugged and the short-haired blonde open her mouth before she freeze as soon as she realize it's in the orangette's name.

"…You must be on something." The short-haired blonde cupped her chin to ponder on 'Ette' theory.

"Is it almost time for supper?" Naruto asked after he finished played with the babies.

"In an hour." Christmas answered curtly, focusing on her puzzle.

"Alright, I guess I can work a bit on some jutsu." The genin muttered to himself before he went outside for a thirty minutes training.

"The sausages were very delicious." Briar said as they finished their dinners in the dining wagon and most agreed with her.

"Since we're done with dinner, I get you all a gift…" Naruto took his scroll out before he give Esmeralda and Bimbettes sisters apologetic face, "Sorry, I don't get you four anything because I bought them in city before I meet you all."

"It's fine." Esmeralda waved it off with a smile, something shared by the triplet sisters.

"A gift?" Willia blinked, "For what?"

"For Christmas holiday." The genin replied, "Goldilocks said we missed it and the way she talk about it sound like it's a very important one so I decide to buy presents. You can say it's a late presents for everyone. The gifts may be not much but…"

"It's fine, it's the thought that count." Gretel replied, earning several nods from others.

"I'll call your name out when I'm giving them out." Naruto unseal a pile of gifts before he pass them out to almost everyone.

"Thank you, Naruto, I love my present." Rapunzel smiled with new medical book in her hands as Gretel examine her elegant notebooks and Beauty leafing through the pages of newest book.

"Oh, that is so pretty." Snow held a crystal vase in shape of dove and Nerida smiled brightly at her snowglobe of fishes and glass corals, several girls seem to like their glasswork presents. Naruto even see Heida trying to hide her smile when she looks at her glass bear statue.

"Wow, how did you know I need an archery glove?" Rosie beamed at her new glove and the rest of girls adore their own gifts.

"Thank you very much." Arya muttered under his breath as he check his new chess pieces out and the huntsmen nod their heads, looking over their own gifts.

"Our children really love their presents." Elsie giggled to herself with big teddy bear on her laps as she watch the squealing triplet playing with their own stuffed animals in their own ways. Hans nibbled on his rabbit's ear, Riko lifting her cat up and Elizabeth hugged her lion with both limbs.

They weren't the only that receive a gift of their own because Haru was having a field day with his brand new bone on floor under the table and a new collar around his neck with wood tag. Most animals in the livestock receive their gifts in form of foods or collars and Lyra will get a luxury polishing set that Naruto will apply at her request.

"I'm glad you all like them." The genin grinned.

"Now we have to get you a gift." Annette shot him a flirty grin, "And I know one thing."

"Makeout?" The little red riding hood whispered to her with a giggle.

"A good long one." The giggling orangette whispered back and several girls snickered, causing Naruto to feel like he's in some kind of danger.

"You're so going to get a lot of gifts after that." Wendy joked, earning several agreement from the others.

"…Oh, um, I'm fine with just one gift from you all chipping in." Naruto coughed into his fist as soon as he realizes that it's going to be too many presents. The girls exchange glances with each other before they respond him with collective 'nah', causing the poor genin to slump his shoulders and most chuckle at him goodheartedly.

"I'm going to put you down here, is that okay?" Naruto asked Karen as he carried her to the giant bed princess style.

"Yes, thank you." Karen blushed as he carefully lie her down then put blanket over her, "Thank you again."

"No problem." He replied, "Want me to get you anything?"

"No thank you, I'm going to sleep." The sandy-haired girl smiled slightly before she timidly squeeze his hand lightly, "Thank you again for a wonderful gift. I really love my shawl." She rubbed the wool green shawl with flower pattern around her shoulders, "It's pretty and warm."

"Again, no problem." Naruto flashed her a grin before he peck her temple, "Good night."

"G-Good night." Karen rest her head on pillow with red face and the genin quietly walk off the bed. He glance around to see that the girls were either relaxing or get ready to turn in early while few of them watch after the triplet siblings.

"Hey, Naruto." The said person's head turned to see Wendy lounging on the bench on her back with hands under her head, "Come here and lie down with me." She patted the empty spot at her left side.

"Sure." The genin see it as perfect chance to talk to her about small expansion so he lie down next to her, "Wendy…" Naruto was about to tell her, only to yelp out lightly as she put her arm around his shoulders then pull him in against her side in a sweetheart cradle.

"That is sweet spot, huh?" Wendy patted his back with a sly smirk.

"Y-Y-Yeah." Naruto don't know why it make him blushing so much as she gently rubbing his back, "W-Wendy, how do you f-feel about making some expansion or changes to yurt?"

"Oh, I was actually thinking about it." The carpenter replied, "I want to add canopy around the yurt." They can have shelter from any weather like rain and some people here may like to sit outside to watch rain or something like that. "Oh, and armrests with wall panels on this bench to divide them. Mm…" She rubbed her chin with free hand, "About a bed and half length for most." She glanced at her lover, "You? What kind of changes are you thinking?"

"I want to add another, um, room?" He absentmindedly nested his head in her nape to make himself comfortable, "Like the vardo and hallway, you know?"

"Oh, we can do that." Wendy muttered, "There's a lot of vardo and other wagons that we can use as 'room'." She whistled, "Boy, we sure have a lot of things to work on when the spring come." Naruto hummed in agreement, "Putting these aside, how was the city beside a dishonored knight and failed kidnapping?"

"It was pretty huge yet so crowding." Naruto said, "There was almost no room between buildings and I got lost few times. The fact that I use this hugest building as landmark does not help me one bit."

"The one that we can see from here?" She asked.

"Yeah, the…" He tried to recall the name, "What was the name that old lady told me? Not…Not re…Oh! Notre dame."

"Huh, sound like it's a cathedral." Wendy muttered.

"Cathedral?" Naruto blinked, "What's that?"

"It's a kind of church that has bishop." She explained simply.

"So it's a religious place?" He blinked.

"Yup." Wendy popped her lips.

"Huh, don't know there are different religions." Naruto muttered.

"Oh, what's religion in your nation?" She asked curiously.

"I don't know." He grinned sheepishly, causing her to chuckle lightly.

"Of course you don't." Wendy turned over on her side to face him, "You don't look like a type that worship something…" She smirked teasingly, "Until it's ramen."

"Ramen is the food of gods." His grin widened.

"Yes, yes, it is." She nodded sagely in a playful fashion before she peck his lips as he blushed at her surprise action, "You know, Tate and I are going to cuddle with you tonight, right?"

"Um, yeah?" Naruto said.

"I wonder if she'll bury us in her bosom in her sleep." Wendy teased and the genin's face turn redder. "That will be one of awesome ways to go."

"Y-You pervy." He muttered.

"Oh, I'm your deviant." She kissed him again with a teasing giggle and the genin wonder if he will survive the sleep tonight.

Spring have arrive two weeks later as the wagons stop for a break and almost everyone jump up in air when the door of vardo suddenly swing open as Lily ran out with a loud cheer. "SPRING!" The hyper toad girl darted everywhere in circles, "IS! HERE!"

"I guess it'll be common in future." Naruto muttered to himself as he watch the energized toad girl running before she jump on him with her arms around his neck, causing him to yelp out. Lily ambush his lips with her own before she break away from him with a hop.

"Ooh, I miss kissing you!" Lily croaked happily as she spun around before she stop to stare at many faces then she tilt her head with bright smile, "Who are you?" That produce a lot of sweatdrops.

"Don't you remember them joining us throughout our journey?" Gretel asked her.

"Mm, I don't know." The toad girl shrugged her shoulders, "Sometime I wonder if I was dreaming it up or it's all real. You can't tell them apart when you're in hibernation."

"I-I see…" The brunette girl's sweatdrop enlarged slightly, "I guess we have to catch you up on everything."

"While you catch her up on it, I'll go training." The genin pointed to the woods before he use kage bunshin jutsu to summon dozen squads, "I'll leave some kage bunshin here." With that, he and most of his clones went to the woods then split up.

"I'd better practice my archery." Rosie went to fetch her bow with skip in her steps and several girls and huntsmen decide to do some workout and honing their skills while they can.

"Hey, I'm taking break." A single kage bunshin called out to the genjutsu squad after twenty minutes as he break away to wander around.

"Alright!" Several clones hollered back before they resume their genjutsu training with some grumbles and the kage bunshin walk farther through the forest, glancing around up at the trees.

"The leaves are coming in, huh." Naruto can see some budding leaves on couple branches per a tree as he walk deeper into the woods and about ten minutes later, he come across something. "Huh, what's going on?" The blonde raised his eyebrow at a line of different animals in front of a large burrow with opening door and each animal were standing on their hinds, wearing different clothes. He noticed that among the beasts, one out of three was foxes. Naruto carefully approach the line to ask a bear in pant, "Um, what's the line for?" The bear look back before he blink rapidly at the genin.

"A human?" The bear muttered puzzlingly before he jabbed his claw at the burrow over his shoulder, "To answer your question, that is a waking for Mr. Fox. He has recently pass away and we come to say our words to Mrs. Fox."

"Ah, sorry to hear that." The clone scratched his head awkwardly, "Sorry to bother you, I should get going…"

"No, no, you should come in and pay your respect to Mr. Fox and say your piece to Mrs. Fox." The bear suddenly moved the genin in front of him, "All animals must do that, even a man who stumble upon the waking. It is the custom here."

"Um, b-but I don't know Fox." Naruto muttered awkwardly, he don't want to be very rude.

"That is fine." The fox in front of him said with a shrug, "I don't know Mr. Fox very well. But I do know that his wife is gorgeous and I shall make her mine!"

"…Don't her husband just died?!" The shocked genin dropped his jaw at the fox.

"Poor Mrs. Fox, to lost her husband on the wedding day." The bear shook his head solemnly.

"But she is still pure maiden." The fox grinned.

"I don't understand what you mean by that but it feel so wrong for you to say that." Naruto frowned at the fox in front of him and the fox continue to chuckle dirtily as the chuckle awfully remind him of this pervy bastard. '…Time to take a page out of Kakashi's book.' The genin turned his head to the bear behind him as he pointed his finger at something behind, "Hey, what's that over there?"

"What?" The bear turned around to see nothing but nature.

"Onethousandyearsofpain!" The creature heard the boy say something very quick and he turn back to see the blonde standing innocently but the fox in front was missing.

"I don't see anything and where did this young fox go?" The bear asked confusingly.

"Oh my bad, I thought I saw something." The clone shrugged his shoulders innocently, "And the fox said something about potty break."

"Ah, I see." The creature blinked once before he shrug his shoulders and the line slowly move until Naruto walk into a large den, looking around. It look like a common living room but there's a opening casket near the fireplace with a humanoid fox inside.

'That is very awkward.' Naruto sweated nervously as he see some beasts mingling with each other.

"Mrs. Fox is over there so you should pay your respect to her." The bear gestured to a individual on a wooden bench by herself and the clone was almost taken aback by her appearance because she look more human out of everyone.

Mrs. Fox appear to be eighteen years old with lithe body and H-cup bust, she have a medium straight orangish-red hair with brown tips hair and some curls, and brown eyes with slit pupils. She wear a dark brown floor-long skirt and gray top with long sleeves. She has a pair of long fox ears and five thick bushy tails with white tip.

'Five tails kitsune?' The clone blinked rapidly, he don't know there's other kitsune but he really don't have anything against foxes…Until it's the one inside him. He approach the upset fox woman as he notice that her eyes appear to be red from crying, "Um, I'm sorry about your husband." Naruto said awkwardly, rubbing the back of his head and the sad woman look up to him with slow blank blink.

"…You're sorry?" She uttered slowly as the sweating genin think he said something wrong, "…That…That is first time someone say it to me since he died." Mrs. Fox lowered her head.

"What?" He blinked.

"Everyone keeps asking me to marry them…" Mrs. Fox whispered sadly, "I just lost my husband on our wedding day and not one say a word about him, only about marriage."

"What?" Naruto repeated before he glance around until he notice that almost everyone in the den are male, "…That's kinda insensitive of them to ask you for marriage in this situation." He muttered under his breath.

"…Can you…Please sit with me for a while?" The fox woman asked him softly, patting a spot next to her.

"Sure." The clone sat down next to her, maybe she need him to keep the others from approaching her to ask for marriage. He can hear her sniffling as she dab her eyes with a handkerchief, "Um, what's your name? I'm Naruto Uzumaki."

"Vixen Fox." Mrs. Fox replied softly.

"Vixen Fox?" Naruto blinked rapidly, 'Both names are related to fox?' He coughed into his fist, "Um, that's interesting name you get there."

"Indeed." Vixen smiled softly mixed with sadness before she wipe her tears again as the genin give her several comforting pats on back, "T-Thank you." She lean her head on his shoulder to calm herself down…

"I KNOW IT!" Everyone were very startled when the fox in casket bolt up into sitting position as he pointed at shocked woman and blonde, "YOU'RE NOT FAITHFUL TO ME! As soon as I die, you decide to cheat on me with a man and talk about engagement! YOU'RE A CHEATING WH…"

"Wait!" The clone stood up as he pointed finger at the fox in casket while Vixen tried to comprehend that Mr. Fox is alive, "You faked your own death because you…You think she wasn't faithful to you? What the fuck is wrong with you?! YOU DO NOT FAKE YOUR DEATH ON WEDDING DAY! THAT IS SO FUCKED UP! SHE WAS IN GRIEF BECAUSE OF YOU! SHE WAS IN A LOT OF PAIN!" He thrust his index finger up, "AND IF YOU WERE REALLY DEAD, SHE CAN REMARRY IF SHE WANT TO AFTER SHE MOVE ON! IT'S NOT CHEATING, YOU FUCKING ASS!"

"…Does he not know Mr. Fox is a fox, not ass?" A stag whispered to dog and the canine shushed him.

"You're so fucked up!" Naruto still rambled, "If you believe Vixen is not faithful or whatever, instead of faking your death, you should just, oh I don't know, talk it out! But not only that, if I'm married to her, I will trust her no matter what instead of questioning her loyal, faith or whatever it is you are looking for! She's very upset because she was in love with you and you just went and do that shit! FUCK! FUCK YOU! THAT IS SO WRONG AND SO FUCKED UP!" He kept going on for a while as Vixen stared at him along with other animals and Mr. Fox just stare bewilderingly until he finally stop his rant with heavy pants.

"…H-He's right." Vixen spoke up after a short pause, "T-That was wrong of you to do that…I-I have been mourning you for weeks and you…You were pretending the whole time…D-Do you have any idea what you have done to me!" She feel her anger raising up, "Y-You BASTARD! YOU'RE A FUCKING ASSHOLE!" She picked this swear up from Naruto because it sound so right to say it to this bastard.

"Y-Y-You…" Mr. Fox stuttered few times with widened eyes before his face twisted into an ugly sneer, "YOU ARE NO LONGER MY WIFE!"

"GOOD!" The five-tailed woman barked back angrily, "I'M LEAVING YOU! I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WAS THINKING WHEN I LET YOU WOO ME!"

"GOOD FOR ME!" The male fox barked back, "NO ONE WILL TAKE YOU AS THEIR BRIDE, EVEN IF YOU'RE PURE MAIDEN!"

"TOO BAD FOR YOU!" Naruto shouted back, "I WILL TAKE HER AS MY BRIDE IF SHE WANT TO AND IT'LL BE YOUR LOSS!"

"YES, I WILL MARRY HIM!" Vixen pointed sideway at the genin, "HE'LL SHALL HAVE MY PURITY WHICH YOU WILL NEVER HAVE!"

"YEAH, I'LL MAKE HER HAPPY, SOMETHING THAT YOU NEVER DOES!" The genin shouted.

"G-G-GET OUT, GET OUT!" Mr. Fox hollered angrily as most animals ran out except for several.

"WE'LL GET OUT AFTER WE GIVE YOU A BEATDOWN!" Naruto walked toward the fox in casket and he rolled his sleeves up, Vixen follow suit.

"…Beatdown?" The male fox blinked owlishly.

Outside, the animals jumped up in air as they hear many noises from the burrow, mostly crashing and shattering following by cries and holler of pains and broken furniture flew out once in a while. After several minutes, the fight finally stop and Naruto and Vixen stormed out as the angry woman carry her luggage. The trembling animals follow the angry couple with their eyes as they disappear into the woods then their gazes slowly shift back to the burrow and Mr. Fox pathetically crawl out on his stomach with many bruises and blood all over his body and broken bones, some can see his bald spots as if his furs have been tear right off. Mr. Fox merely whimper weakly before his head drop on hard ground, passing out immediately.

Naruto and Vixen stomped through the woods until they suddenly stop in their trail as everything catch up to their minds before they exchange looks with each other. "Wait, did we just…" Naruto muttered dumbly.

"Yes, we just did." Vixen gave him a slow nod, "And I will not take it back because I chose to be your bride willingly."

"Um, I have many sweethearts and wives." He said lamely, thinking it'll change her mind.

"Oh, I am fine with that." The five-tailed woman shrugged nonchalantly to the genin's gobsmacked face, "I'm looking forward to meet your mates." She simply give him a sweet smile, "So please take me to your home."

"…Boss and everyone are gonna kill me." The clone groaned before he notice her confusion, "Oh, I'm a clone and the real one is out there but he'll be back at the wagons and he'll know everything after my memories goes to him." Vixen looked more confusing so the clone explain everything to her as they make their way back to Naruto's group.

"A cabin?" A kage bunshin muttered to himself as he come across an old cabin in woods, the clone was looking for a wide field so he can use fire jutsu and he have been hiking for miles. The cabin have some signs that someone is still living here so he chose to leave it alone…

"WHO'S OUT THERE?!" Until someone pop out from the cabin with eleven people, all males and appear to be young adults.

"WHOA!" Naruto raised his hands up to show that he's not hostile, "I'm just passing through."

"You…" The leader narrowed his eyes at him before he relax, "Oh, you're a man. Go on." He turned around to shoo the men back inside, "You should be glad that you're not a girl."

"What would you do if I was a girl?" The curious clone asked.

"We'll torture and kill any women that appear before us!" The leader replied firmly.

"And eat them!" Someone in the group shouted out.

"We will start our hunting soon." The leader said to his group.

'…Wait, they're cannibal?!' Naruto gawked at the band in shock before he realize that there is a chance that they'll stumble upon the wagons and try to kill everyone. "OH HELL NO!" He flashed through handseals then surprise the twelve men with air bullet that knock them off their feet.

"Wha…?!" The shocked leader utter before the clone lunge at them with battle cry and it was a one-sided fight as he blast them around with wind and earth jutsu until he bury each one in earth up to their necks. "W-W-W-W-W-Wha…" He stammered with swollen eyes, countless bruises and bust lip, the other eleven men have similar injuries.

"You are going straight to jail." The clone entered and exited the cabin with paper and pen as he wrote something down before he place it on ground in front of their heads so someone else can find it. He wrote that the men are cannibals and murderers so they need to be send to jail. Naruto flash through handseals again before he blow the cabin up with exploding fireball, creating a pillar of smoke to draw someone because he don't want to deal with prisoners. "See you never." Naruto scoffed at the groaning men as he walked away from the destroyed cabin. About eight minutes later, he almost bump into someone with a yelp and he look at the person, revealing to be a girl around his age.

The petite girl has shoulder-length wavy golden hair, brown eyes and an eight-point star mark on her forehead. She wear an elegant red dress and pair of golden flats.

"Oh, I am very sorry to run into you." She apologized right away.

"It's okay, it's also my fault." Naruto waved it off, "What are you doing out here by yourself?"

"Ah, I am in search for my long-lost brothers." The girl with star mark replied, "I learned that they have gone missing at my birth and have been searching all over the land." She gestured at their surrounding, "That is one of last places to search for them."

"What's the other place, if you mind me asking?" The clone said.

"A harbor, I believe." She recalled from her memory, tapping her chin.

"Oh, we're traveling to this place too." Naruto replied, "If you like to, we can give you a ride."

"Ah, that'll be wonderful." The girl with star mark clapped her hands with a bright smile before she peek over his shoulder, "But first, I want to check this area."

"Oh, you don't want to go there." He shook his head as he jabbed his thumb at the direction, "There's a group of cannibals who target women only, I took care of them and blew their cabin up."

"Oh my!" She gasped as she allow him to lead her back to his group, "I am very fortunate to meet you here or I'd end up being eaten by cannibals. My name is Astra." He introduced himself to her and they talk a bit as they walk through the woods, neither know that the twelve men that left behind are the girl's missing brothers and they will never find out.

Naruto feel glad to see green around him, even if they have been growing back a little, as he take a short break from his workout with a relaxing hike up a large hill. 'Shouldn't be long until the snow are all gone then I can take girls out on outdoor dates.' Naruto spot two worms rolling around in dirt on the way up and he swear he hear a faint conversation somewhere but he don't pay it any mind. Once he reach the peak of the hill, he stand still with fists on his hip to watch the horizon. "Man, what a nice vieeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" The ground under him suddenly collapse and the screaming genin fall in the sinkhole until he land on something soft yet hard with a grunt then he hear something cracking, following by grunt, scream and thud as something slip out forward under him. As he bounced back into sitting position, his left hand shot up in air by recoil and he feel something wrap around his middle finger. "Huh?" Naruto's head turn left to stare into blinking eyes of a girl.

The girl appear to be sixteen years old with slender body and he tried to not to look at her very well endowed chest. She have forest green eyes, long blond hair that part away at both side of her face and two long pointy ears. She wear a pale green dress with a opening on her chest to expose her cleavage but it was mostly covered up by a thin white dress under her green dress and a pair of green leather shoes with pointy curled-up toes.

"Who…" Naruto uttered until he hear a groan from under him and he look down to see a twitching person on floor in front of him with foaming mouth. The person appear to be very old man but he was so short and he have long pointy nose, ears and green skin with claws. "Oh crap! Is he still alive?! I don't mean to land on him!" He looked up, only to blink at the sight of an baffled audience staring back at him and it look like he have interrupt a huge feast. "…I-I'll head out now."

"I'll take him as my husband!" The girl grabbed his holding hand with both hands as her tone carry something, almost sound like distress and it don't go unnoticed by him.

"What?!" An elegant man with pointy ears in floor-long robes bolted up from his seat with a angry scowl.

"What's going on?" Naruto whispered to her perplexedly.

"They're forcing me and my sisters into marriage with him and his sons." The distressed girl gestured to the twitching old man on floor with her eyes.

"What?!" The genin's eyes widened, the old man look so old enough to be the girl's grandpa, maybe great-grandpa. "Where's your sisters?" He whispered back.

"T-They're behind us." The girl whispered.

"I can take you guys out of here in a flash." Naruto keep one eye on the audience as the angry man walk toward them with stomps, "I'm traveling with a group and you can come with us if you want to. But doing that, you guys may will never come back here and…"

"Yes, yes!" She nodded rapidly.

"And your sisters?" He whispered, "We need to tell th…"

"We heard everything and we want to escape here." The genin hear a voice speaking behind him, "All of us."

"Take hold of me tight and good." Naruto extended his arms out as he felt more than several pairs of arms wrap around him but he don't pay attention to it in prefer to focus on his teleportation jutsu. "HOLD ON!" He said before he vanish in flash with his passengers and the man in robe was so shocked by the sight that he tripped over his robe and hit his head on hard floor, knocking himself out in process. The baffled audience was at loss that they don't do anything for next five minutes in complete silence before the chaos break out as they ran around crazily with shouts, not know what to do without their unconscious leaders.

"Wooow, I sure missed out on almost everything." Lily giggled as soon as the group finished their stories before she spot something behind the group, "Heh, two Naruto are back."

"Two…?" Heida turned with the others to see kage bunshins lead two girls toward the group from different direction as she released a deadpan sigh, "Of course." As soon as the clones reach them, a flash appear in front of them revealing Naruto with his passengers and she sigh again. "Of course." Her head turned to Gretel, "Maybe someone has to go with him next time."

"I'm considering it." Gretel drawled.

"Good luck, boss!" Both clones gave their confusing creator a thumb up before they dispel in smokes and Naruto receive their memories.

"Huh, oh." Naruto blinked before he look at the group who was waiting for his explanation, "Long story short…" He pointed to the five-tailed woman, "Vixen's asshole ex fake his death to 'prove' that she will 'cheating' on her and kick her out but not before we beat him up because it was so fucked up." His finger shifted to the girl with star mark, "Astra here is looking for her long-lost brothers. I ask her to come with us since we're going oversea and it'll be good for her to be accompanied with us. I mean, she almost run into a group of cannibals who target women." When he turned to his passengers, Naruto was surprised to see seven girls before he turn back to the group as he gesture to them. "They were forcing to marry a very old man against their will so I took them out there…Um…" He turned back to the girls with sheepish grin as he scratched his head, "I never got your names." He notice that they all wear exactly same outfit with pointy shoes.

"You rescue seven elves and yet you don't know their names." Billy deadpanned at him.

"That's so Naruto." Snow giggled behind her hand.

"Elves?" The blinking genin raised his eyebrow at the brunette huntsman.

"I'm Eris of Elfin Hill." The blonde elf teenager, the very girl that begged Naruto, gave them a gentle yet timid smile before she drop her smile with a realizing gasp, "Ah, I make a mistake. It's Eris, just Eris. Elfin Hill is no longer our home now."

"I'm Loriel." A seventeen years old teenager girl spoke soft, she seems to be taller than the genin by two heads. She have a slender yet attractive body with C-cup bust, pointy ears, gray eyes and pale white hair in bun but what make her stand out is her gray skin. "Sixth of seven sisters."

"Valva, the fifth of seven sisters." A eighteen years old girl with busty voluptuous body run her hand through her hair. She appear to be athletic and she have dark purple eyes, long straight black hair that reach the back of her knees and chocolate skin.

"My name is Cylia, the fourth of seven sisters." A nineteen years old woman crossed arms under her chest to push her bust up with a sweet smile. She has a buxom hourglass body, long violet hair with four thick curls and green eyes.

"Tauriel, third of seven sisters." An attractive woman with voluptuous body in her twenty said curtly. She have a wavy golden hair that reach her shoulder blades and icy-blue eyes that seem to piece through their bodies with a glare.

"Zelda, the second of seven sisters." A twenty-one years old busty woman said flatly without any emotions. She has a lean body with F-cup bust, dark chocolate skin and chin-length earth-brown hair that frame her face in a neat bobcut style. Her face's concealed by a featureless porcelain mask with holes for eyes and mouth that show nothing but pitch black.

"Sera, the elder of seven sisters." The elder sister of elves crossed her arms. She has long icy-cyan hair that reach her rear with some strands sticking out in a mix of unkempt and neat, bluish-white eyes and caramel skin. What make her stand out from her sisters are her petite body, she appear to be a head shorter than Naruto and her near-nonexistence chest.

"Really?" Naruto blinked at Sera, "You look more like baby sister."

"Don't remind me." Sera's eyebrow twitched as if she have heard it one too many time, "I'm twenty-two and yet…" She grumbled darkly under her breath and some swear they saw her glaring at her sisters' chest for some reason but they assume it was perhaps a trick of eye.

'Why do I feel a kinship with her?' Billy sweatdropped within his head and the group introduced themselves to the new arrivals.

"Alright, we have to put some of you in front wagon and other in rear wagon." Gretel said, she decide to put the new arrivals in front wagon for time being and it take some time until the groups have been set before the travel resume.

"Feel free to sleep anywhere you want." Rosie gestured to the interior of yurt before she glance at two certain spots, "Anywhere but Haru's bed and nursery."

"We will build you a bedding wagon or add 'room' here later when we have time." Snow bounced Riko in her arm, patting the drowsy baby while Elsie change Hans' diapers and Cinderella wet-nursing Elizabeth.

"What's that?" Astra pointed to a violet hammock bed that tied to northeast pillar and a thick pole a arm span apart in between.

"That's Esmeralda's hammock bed." The red-haired girl answered, "She sleep in it most of time." Other times, she end up in bed with everyone.

"Since I'm one of Naruto's wives now, I'll join you girls." Vixen carried pillow and blankets to the giant bed. Most of new arrivals were surprised when they found out about Naruto's relationship but they were pretty acceptable.

"…Me too." Eris inched close to the bed with heavy blush.

"Eris." Valva arched her brow at her baby sister, "What you said about taking him as your husband, were you serious about it?" Her youngest sister's blush grow into a full-body blush, "Ah, love at first sight?" Her voice carries a teasing tone.

"I can't blame her, he look cute." Cylia giggled with a smile.

"Quiet you two!" The young sister of elves sisters squeaked at her sisters as their other sisters test the bench out.

"Huh, where is one of your sisters?" Christmas noticed one missing certain elf.

As Naruto look through several scrolls in the vardo wagon, he can't help but to sneak few glances over his shoulders at Zelda as she stand behind him silently. "Zelda, was it?" He finally speak up after few minutes, "Why are you standing still behind me?"

"I desire to serve you." Zelda spoke emotionless.

"Serve…" Naruto turned to her with owlish blink, "I don't understand. What do you mean by that? Like a maid or what?"

Zelda stares at him behind her mask for a short pause, "…Yes, master."

"M-Master?" The genin was complete at loss, not know what to say until they hear the door creaking open and they turn their heads to see Sera looking inside.

"There you are, Zelda." Sera said before she notice Naruto's bewildered expression, "What?"

"She said she want to be my maid and serve me." Naruto pointed to the masked elf and the petite elf blink once, twice then thrice.

"…Is that true?" The petite elf turned to stare at her masked sister and Zelda merely nod her head once. "…I have to admit, I'm not surprised that you chose him since he feel like nature itself."

"Wha…?" The genin get more confused.

"Let her do whatever she want." Sera turned back to him as she waved it off, "It's fine." With that, she left and the stunned shinobi stared at the door for a while before he turn to the masked elf.

"But I don…" Naruto stopped himself as soon as he realizes something. He don't know anything about elves, what if that serve thing is part of their culture and must be important? He don't want to come off as insensitive and rude by refusing her to act as his maid. "Um…I'll be in your care?" The genin muttered lamely and Zelda merely nod her head slightly at him before he turn back to his scroll in complete confusion for an hour.

After the new group picked their clothes out from clothing wagon, a place to sleep, most elves chose to sleep on the wide long bench and turn in for night with everyone else, a noise wake Naruto up in middle of night and he look around in daze until he pinpointed it to the gray-haired sisters on bench. He quietly gets up then walks toward to the sisters and he discovers the noise was coming from Willia, who seems to having a nightmare, as she tossed around with pleads and little sobs. "Willia, wake up." Naruto shook her shoulder gently as he whispered to her so he don't wake the others up, "Wake up, come on." It took a while until Willia jolt up with alarmed gasp and snapping-wide eyes.

"M-Mi…" Willia's head whipped around until her teary eyes land on her little sister, who was blissfully sleeping. "O-Oh, thank god…" She gently run hand through her sister's hair as she start to crying.

"Hey, it's okay." Naruto kneel down to her side as he stoke her back to soothe her, "Whatever you have, it was just a dream."

"I-I-I know." She sobbed quietly, "B-B-But it feel so real a-and…"

"Do you want to talk about your nightmare?" He slightly got up to sit down next to her half-lying body.

"…M-My mother…" Willia wiped still-running tears off her face with hand as she leaned close against him, "S-She came back and found us…S-She killed everyone i-in front of me then eat M-Millie a-and force me to…" She sobbed into his chest, can't bring herself to finish it.

"It's okay, it's okay." Naruto rubbed her back with a soft shushing, "It's just a nightmare. She's far away from us and there's no chance in hell that she'll find us. If she does, I'll protect you all and kick her ass black and blue."

"…Y-Y-You mean her bum and n-n-not the animal?" The gray-haired teenager muttered within his chest.

"Yeah, her bum." The genin muttered, he need to remind himself that some words have double or different meanings around here. "Willia, I promise you that your mother will never hurt you two as long as I'm here because you two are one of my precious people. I will protect you girls with everything I get."

"I-I know you will." Willia blushed in his chest as her tears stopped and she peek out at him then her little sister. "…If it's not a bother…Can we sleep with you and girls?"

"Sure, you can." Naruto said.

"…C-Can you carry us to there?" She asked with red face.

"Alright." He chuckled softly as he slide one arm under her knees, "Grab Millie for me, will you?" He wait as Willia gently scoop her sleeping sister up and Millie curl up in her arms without even a stir before he carefully lift them up while stand up. He quietly carry them to the giant bed, "Want to sleep next to me or…?"

"Y-Yes, please." Willia whispered and the genin lie them down then lie down, throwing blankets over them.

"Good night." Naruto pecked her forehead, causing her face to burn up.

"G-G-Good night." She suddenly peck his lips with a chaste kiss before she bury her red face in his nape with tight shutting eyes. The genin blink few times before he shrug his shoulders and he went to sleep.

What they don't know is that the elves who were sleeping on benches were awake and have overheard them.

"Ooh, we're finally here!" Naruto grinned widely as he spotted the harbor from distance few days later and many travelers squirt their eyes at the faraway harbor in attempt to see it more close and clear. "Can't wait until we ship out!"

"Yes, tomorrow." Gretel eyeballed the distance between their location on top of rocky hill near the ocean and the harbor.

"Really?" The genin groaned with slumped shoulders before he brush it off with shrugging shoulders, "Eh, it's just one more day."

"I hope I don't get seasick." Delilah gulped nervously.

"That'll be tough." Rapunzel looked at worried greenette, she wonder if there's a medicine for seasick in her medical books.

"Well, let's get back in wagons and…" Arya said until something cut him off.

"AH!" A scream startled the group and it sound like it was coming from below the cliff in the ocean and they look over the edge to see a giant ship. Naruto and several people can see someone paced around the edge of boat in panic. "I AM BETRAYED! I AM CARRIED AWAY AND HAVE FALLEN INTO THE POWER OF A MERCHANT! I WOULD RATHER DIE!"

'A kidnapping?!' Naruto's eyes widened before he turn to the group, "Wait here! I'll go save this person!" The genin apply chakra to his legs as he ran down the side of cliff then across the ocean.

"Ah, ah, don't be alert, my…" The victim turn to face a man dressed like an merchant and the victim back away from him fearfully. The merchant was cut off when something jump up from the ocean and land in between him and the surprised victim. "What?" He stared at a blonde boy bafflingly, "Who…"

"Kage bunshin!" The genin create over thirty clones to the crew's shock before he toss a scroll to his clone, "Scatter these out, stall them as much as you can!" He swiftly scoop the squealing victim up in bride carry and he teleport before the shocked crew's eyes.

"A-After them!" The merchant screamed dumbly, "Find them and bring my bride ba…"

"FUTON: KAMIKAZE!" Four bunshins blast powerful tornadoes at the sails, which cause the ship to rocket across the ocean hundreds miles away from the land at very high speed that send the scream crew tumbling like ragdoll.

"F-F-Fight back!" The merchant pulled a sword out as he screamed at his men, "Take these commoners out!" A foot smashes into his mug violently and the crew barely can defend themselves from the clones.

"Here!" The clone with scroll passed out explosive tags to his fellow bunshin as they ran inside the ship, "Punch holes in so they'll have no choice but to bail out!"

"Roger!" The bunshins scattered and the clone with scroll ran deeper below the deck then his jaw drop as soon as he got greeted by gold…Wall to wall, floor to ceiling, from simple coins to furniture to animal statues.

"…Eh, this ship is gonna sink." The clone shrug his shoulders, "Boss will put them to good use." He swiftly seal everything into the scroll until there's no measly of gold left behind and the grinning clone teleport in a flash.

Back on the deck, the merchant and his men have hard time dealing with the clones but they take some comfort in the fact that they vanish with one solid hit. The merchant see one clone jolt his head up before he holler to his fellow clones, "It's all set! Clear out!" All but one clone dispel in smokes to the crew's confusion and the solo clone cross his fingers with a wicked sneer, "That'll teach you bastards to try kidnap someone! KAI!" He vanished in smokes.

"…What is Ka…?" The merchant muttered puzzlingly before series of explosives break out.

Naruto make one small, tiny, wee miscalculation when he gave his clone the scroll, filled with explosive tags. He thought it was a small types that can put some small holes in ship…But in reality, it was a large-scale explosives.

The ship blew up to smithereens along with doomed crew and merchant, who was actually an king in disguise, and the ocean easily cover it up, leaving no trace behind.

Naruto return to the group with the rescued victim, "Are you okay?" He examined the victim, who turns out to be a female, for any possible injuries with Rapunzel.

"I-I-I am fine and well." The victim stuttered out, still shaken by her kidnapping. She appear to be in her mid teen and alluring, despite her slim body. She have gold hair in fishtail style, gold eyes, gold-glittered eyelids and gold lips. She wear a golden princess dress with golden ruffs, golden stocking socks and pair of golden flats.

'…D-Did someone dip her in gold?' Naruto eyed her weirdly.

"M-My name is Orania of Golden Dwelling." The girl in gold spoke and the genin sweatdrop lightly along with few certain girls, even her name and title have gold in it.

"Golden Dwelling…?" Snow looked at the map in her hands, "Is that a place or…?"

"It's a kingdom where I come from…" Orania peeked at the map before she give out an gasp, "That is not my land! I don't recognize any places on this map!"

"No?" The ravenette blinked at her with some concern, "That mean you come from another land…How long have you been on this ship for?"

"…I don't know…" The girl in gold blushed embarrassingly.

"You don't know?" Naruto tilted his head at her, "Do you know how many hours have pass? Days?" He don't know how long it can take a ship to reach different continent.

"…I-I don't know…" Orania repeated with growing blush, "I have been looking at gold under deck for who know how long."

"What gold?" The genin blinked along with the others before his clone suddenly appear in a flash.

"Here, boss!" The grinning clone hand the scroll to his creator before he dispel.

"…Oh, these gold…" Naruto muttered at his memory before his head jerked to the scroll in his hand with widened eyes, "…Oh! OH!"

"Oh no, Naruto." Gretel sighed wearily at him as she buried her face in hands, "Is it lavish?"

"…Maybe?" The sheepish genin muttered.

"How did you end up getting kidnapped?" Rosie asked the new girl curiously.

"…I was lured into the ship to look at the gold, the merchant said I can take my time because he will not tell the ship to take off while I'm on it." Orania's blush become atomic red from pure embarrassment, "They must take off while I was examining every single one from top to bottom and front to back."

"…Wow, seriously?" Heida deadpanned at the embarrassing teenager, "Are you this naive?"

"Shush you." The girl in gold muttered, "I thought the merchant was very trustworthy but I was wrong."

"Look like you have to come with us." Naruto turned to Orania as he jabbed his thumb at the harbor in distance, "We can get you back home…" He paused, "Eventually."

"Oh, thank you." Orania fidgeted with her hands, "I'll be in your care until then." They lead her to the wagons and Goldilocks turn to Naruto with a certain glint in her eyes.

"So how much do you think it is in that?" Goldilocks pointed to the scroll in the genin's hand, already drooling from the corner of her mouth.

"Um, since it's all gold, I don't know…" Naruto scratched his head unsurely, "Maybe we'll find out at our next stop."

"…Five ton." Gretel deadpanned at the shocked shinobi as she held a solid pure gold spoon up to him after she have his clones do the work as punishment as soon as the group set the campsite up in forest near the harbor, "Five ton of gold." She tossed the spoon over her shoulder into a large pile of gold casually, "At this rate, the next thousand of our generations will never work for their lives, thank to your treasure-magnet."

"…That don't sound like a bad thing…" Naruto muttered bashfully with widened eyes and the brunette girl sighed at him.

"No, but it'll make them idle." The brunette replied as she watched the stunned genin seal all gold back inside the scroll, "…I'm starting to think Wendy have a right idea about building a treasury wagon or vault because we're not going to put all treasures present and future in the hidden rooms."

"You make it sound like we're going to find more treasures." He muttered and Gretel just give him a deadpan stare.

"That and other things like magical items and enchanted beasts." She said flatly and the genin can't respond to that because she must be right. "Anyway, we should go get something to eat."

"Ramen?" Naruto grinned as she gave him somewhat amused nod, "Alright!" They head inside the yurt to get some snacks from magical table and he sit down near the triplet babies to watch them while sipping his noodles. The babies were rocking side to side with swinging arms and Elsie and several girls were encouraging them on. "Doing roll over again?" He asked.

"Yes, it's good exercise for them." Cinderella smiled with one eye on the babies and Hans roll over onto his stomach as several girls clapped for him, causing him to lift his head up with a happy coo. His sisters follow suit within three minutes and they babble happily at each other under their adopted mothers' gushes. Elizabeth turn her head slightly to see Naruto and she happily squeal out loud, stretching her right arm out to press hand on mattress then left arm.

"O-OH!" Snow gasped in joy, "Elizabeth's crawling! She's crawling!"

"What?!" Goldilocks turned away from mirror to see the said baby crawling toward Naruto at slug pace, "OH! SHE IS!" Never have Naruto seen all girls gathered together so fast, even he don't know how Karen end up being there despite the fact that she still can't walk. Hans and Riko look at their sister with a curious coo then at Naruto before they imitate her, slowly and clumsily crawl toward the genin. "EEE! They're doing it, they're doing it!"

"Oh, wow." Naruto put his bowl aside to pat hands on his lap as he watched the triplet babies make their way to him with clumsy movements, they did struggle a bit. "Come on, guys. You can do it."

"O-Ooo!" Elizabeth was first to reach him as she threw her arms over his right leg with a babble and the genin pick her up, setting her on his lap. Riko was second to reach him before her brother does and Naruto place them on his laps as the babbling triplet lean forward against his chest, waving their outreaching arms to his face.

"Good job, you three." The genin gave the babies a peck on their foreheads, causing them to laugh gleefully and almost every girls praise the triplet siblings on their first crawling.

"Ba!" Hans hugged Naruto's chest.

"Baba!" Riko joined the hug.

"Ba ba!" Elizabeth also joined the hug and the genin blinked rapidly down at the babbling babies.

"Aww, they're trying to say dada or papa." Claudette cooed with her sisters and several girls as the triplet babies seem to confirm it with babbles.

'Guess I'm their daddy now.' Naruto sighed mentally, have resigned to accept the fact that he's the kids' adopted father instead of brother like he want.

"Children, come to mommy." Elsie kneeled few feet away from Naruto with spreading arms.

"Oh, oh, crawl to me!" Kitty patted her laps and most girls start to call out to the cooing babies as Naruto gently put the triplet siblings down, allow them to crawl toward the girls at their paces.

"Let's not take it too long because we have to get up early tomorrow morning." Gretel reminded them before she smile to herself as Riko crawl onto her lap with happy coo and the group watch the babies crawling around for a while until it was time for bed.

"No, no women allowed." A captain turned the group away rudely the next day.

"What the hell is wrong with them?" Naruto glared at the captain as the man walk back to his crew on dock, "That is the eleventh time."

"They may believe that it's a bad luck to have women on boats." Sam sighed, he feel very annoyed by repeating rejections. "It was said that the sea god will be angered by the presence of women and conjure violent storm to sink boats."

"What?" The genin raised his eyebrow at red-haired teenager, "That's silly and stupid!"

"It is how it is." The red-haired huntsman shrugged his shoulders with another sigh.

"Now what?" Heida asked and the group brainstorm for a while until Naruto gets an idea.

"Hey, why not buy a ship?" Naruto said.

"I don't kn…" Snow caught herself as she think about it, "…You know, it's not a bad idea. Naruto can seal and summon the ship from his storage scroll so it'll save us a lot of things in long run term."

"Da, and his clones can be crew." Vasilisa hummed.

"But we need a captain, someone who know how to navigate the sea and et cetera." Gretel pointed out.

"…Well, I can do it." Sam raised his hand up, drawing everyone's attention to him. "My grandfather and father were captain and fisherman respectively and I learn many things from them. Mostly from my grandfather."

"Really?" The genin stared at him with raised brows, "Huh, how convenient."

"It never have bring up and I honestly never thought that my…Talent will be put to use like that." The red-haired huntsman shrugged his shoulders with hands, no one really ask him about his craft and he thought it'll be useless since they were mostly traveling on land and pay for a ride on ship.

"Alright, we have a captain and 'sailors'…" Beauty glanced at the fleet, "But the problem is getting the right one and I don't know how some people would be willing to sell their boat to us."

"Oh, I get this one covered." Naruto grinned.

"Hey, old man, I want to have your boat." The old captain turned to see Naruto as the blonde point at a large brigantine ship while holding a big bundled object in another arm.

"No, you…" The old man grunted annoyingly before the boy unwrap the bundle to reveal six golden eggs, causing the man to choke on his spit with widened eyes.

"Will six solid gold eggs do it?" Naruto smirked at him cheekily.

"It's all your." The old captain replied right away and he take some delight in the fact how heavy the golden eggs feel when they end up in his arms.

"Great, can you call your men to clean out?" He said to the captain, "Oh, leave the cannons behind. Just get everything else that belong to you and guys out."

"Roger!" The captain made a beeline to his crew as Naruto create some clones to keep eyes on the ship to make sure the sailors won't try to run off with eggs and ship.

It took about seven hours for the former crew to empty the ship out then went off on their merry way as the travelers take over the ship and one hour for Naruto's group to load the wagons and animals into the cargo hold before the group takes time to explore their boat. "Damn, the captain's cabin is giant!" Goldilocks dropped her jaw at the empty grand cabin in marvelous awe, it was almost big as the yurt but not on grand scale.

"You should have seen the floors below the deck." Esmeralda turned away from the windows with a eager grin.

"Yes, there are so many cabins and huge rooms!" Lily grinned, "I can't wait to see what we'll turn them into!"

"The huntsmen will have two cabins." Snow hummed, the huntsmen's cabins have bunk beds and-slash-or hammock beds built in.

"Like Lily said, I can't wait to see how our ship will look like after we decorate and set things up." Rosie grinned widely, rocking on her feet in pure excitement as they walk out of the grand cabin and on deck with the rest of the travelers. "Ooh! We also have to come up with the name for the ship!"

"Go…" Goldilocks grinned lopsidedly.

"We're not going to name our ship with a 'gold' word in it." Gretel deadpanned at her, "It's like announcing to the pirates and unsavory people that we have treasures onboard." The short-haired blonde pouted childishly with crossed arms.

"Let's see…" Naruto rubbed his chin as everyone discuss on the names.

"How about Mercury or Marlow?" Briar suggested after a while.

"What's Marlow?" The genin asked.

"It means driftwood." The blonde woman answered, "I thought it's a fitting name because we're drifting from one place to other."

"Marlow, Marlow…" Some people tested it out with few mutters before Gretel spoke as most nod their heads, "It's a good name for our ship."

"We should add something to this name to make it stand out." Kitty hummed with finger on her cheek, "Like color or something?" Many words were throwing around from global to orange.

"Rosy Marlow?" Tate suggested and almost everyone pause to let it roll around in their heads before they exchange glances with each other then nodding their heads one by one.

"Rosy Marlow it is." The brunette girl nodded her head once.

"Alright, let's move out!" Naruto grinned as his kage bunshin hand him several scrolls, "Let's go put things up while Sam sail us out!"

"Tell your clones to untie the ropes and raise the anchor." Sam went up to take the helm and the clones scatter around as almost everyone stand at the guardrails to watch themselves departing from the harbor and to the sea for the first time. One common question that runs through everyone's heads is what land will wait for them once they reach it.

'Wherever we're going to, I'm certain it'll be unlike this continent.' The genin watched the land become smaller and smaller as they went far in the distance and he's exciting to see what the journey will bring them to, hopefully his homeland. 'No hidden treasures, magical shits and crazy situations.'

Little does Naruto know is that in the future he wonder he have jinx himself and wish that he never have think that.

And that end the fourth chapter of NSRFT!

Over 120 pages! Take that!

Wow, Naruto! He keep ruined and change stories while getting rich, even if it was not on purpose…Also unwittingly commit some crimes like murders along the way like always. I seriously hope it don't become a regular habit. Not only that, the campsite have recruit more people and grow bigger along with Naruto's new family because of Naruto's luck. Gretel must be on something about magnet. Hmmmmm.

Eh, it's not Naruto's and girls' fault that they fall in love with him so easy and fast because it's fairy tales…Again, did you read these original stories? Like I said before, the people in stories fall in love so fast and some are so fucked up. Yes, I will say it again and again as much as I like.

Let's hope that nothing will happen in a new different continent/island/whatever they visit next…Oh, why am I kidding? It's Naruto we're talking about here! Something will happen for sure!

Before some of you say something about Bimbettes not belong to The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, I know! That is just an fanfic and in most fairy tale media like some certain movies, you always find certain characters in different places that they don't belong to.

For anyone who's interested, Eris is based on Eris from Monster Musume/Daily life with monster girl, Tauriel is based on Queen Elf from Monster Girl Quest.

Where will they go to next? What fairy stories will be ruined? Will the new lands they visit be less crazy? Will Naruto stop making these girls fall for him this easy? 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.

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