Yuto was out taking a walk with Zed while Kurumi was in her house in the seal.
"It's a nice day out." Yuto said smiling as it was a clear and sunny day where it wasn't to too hot or too cold. Suddenly a portal came in front of them and snatches them away to another world.
The Portal opens up in the sky and spits them.
"What the hell!?" Yuto exclaims as he quickly grabs Zed and goes into his Sage Mode so he can land safely.
"Are you ok Zed?" Yuto asks her as he sets her down and turns off Sage Mode. Zed gives a reassuring lick to Yuto's face.
"That's good." Yuto said as he sighs in relief. He then starts looking around with a questioning look.
"Where are we?" Yuto questions as he sees they are in a forest before he senses some negative emotions coming from a certain direction.
"I'm not sure." Daito said uncertainty.
"I sense some negative emotions coming from that way." Yuto said pointing at a direction.
"I see. Do you want to investigate the source of it?" Daito asks Yuto.
"I think I should. We might be able to find out why and how that portal showed up and brought us here." Yuto said justifying his reasons why they should.
"It's a long shot." Daito said calculating the odds of Yuto being right.
"It's better than doing nothing besides waiting for Zelretch or Team Light to pick us up." Yuto counters with a shrug.
"I hate to admit it, but you have a point." Daito said sighing in defeat. Yuto starts walking in the direction of the negative emotions he sensed with Zed following him. Eventually they come across an old looking house made out of stone and wood.
"So, the source of the negative emotions I'm sensing is coming from this house." Yuto said looking at it with a frown as he could smell the stench of blood coming from it as if it was stained with blood numerous times.
"Hi there!" A little girl voice said from behind causing Yuto to spin around to face her in surprised as he didn't sense her until now as she had a lot of negative emotions. The girl who spoke is a seven-year-old fair-skinned girl with wavy waist-length purple hair that is tied with a large red bow in the back with bangs hanging over her forehead and gold eyes. She wears a red dress on top of a white button-up shirt with a black ribbon tied around her neck and she was also barefoot.
"Who are you?" Yuto asks politely as he can tell that she was no ordinary little girl, and he kept his guard up.
"I'm Ellen and I'm the owner of that house behind you." She said with a smile.
"I see. What about your parents?" Yuto asks causing her to lose her smile.
"They're dead." She said simply causing Yuto to frown a bit.
"I see. Sorry for your lost." Yuto said giving condolences to her for her lost.
"It's fine. It's not like you had anything to do with their deaths." She said waving it off.
"True but still giving someone their condolences is something I think any decent person would do." Yuto answers truthfully.
"I see." She said softly.
"Oh, where my manners?" Yuto said in realization as he sheepish rubs the back of his head.
"My name is Yuto Emiya, and this is my dog, Zed. She's a girl by the way." Yuto said introducing himself and Zed as she barks in greeting.
"Are you Japanese by any chance?" Ellen asks staring at him.
"Sort of." Yuto answers as while the Elemental Nations were like the Japanese culture, they weren't really Japanese (I know Naruto is a Japanese anime, but the Naruto series takes place in another world so while they use the Japanese culture, they are a different race of people).
"Interesting." She said before staring at Zed.
"I never saw a dog like her before." She said surprised.
"Well, you really wouldn't have as she is actually an alien dog from another planet." Yuto explains shocking Ellen.
"Wait really?!" Ellen exclaims in shock and surprised.
"Yep." Yuto said smiling.
"That is amazing." She said in awe before she shakes it off.
"So, what brings you here Yuto?" Ellen asks curiously.
"Well, you might not believe me, but a portal showed up and sucks me and Zed up before it spits us out the other end causing us to land in a forest." Yuto answers.
"A portal? Where did it come from?" She questions with a curious look that enhances her cuteness.
"You believe me?" Yuto asks a little confused as most people wouldn't.
"You don't seem to be a person who would lie without a good reason." She said truthfully.
"Thanks for that." Yuto said with a smile as he tries to pet her head, but his hand went through her like she wasn't even there. "What the heck?!"
"Oh, this is actually an astral projection. You see I am actually a witch." Ellen said truthfully.
"That's cool. A friend of mine is actually a pretty strong sorceress." Yuto said in response.
"Really?" She asks interested.
"Yeah. Maybe I can introduce you to her one day." Yuto said as Yui might like to meet Ellen.
"Thank you." Ellen said before she gains a thoughtful look. "Would you like a tour of my house?"
'This is most likely a trap, but I need information.' Yuto thinks before saying, "Sure."
"Then enter through the front door." She said as she disappears, and the front door opens up. Yuto and Zed enters the house while having a bad feeling about it.
"Ready for your tour?" The real Ellen said as she shows up.
"Yes." Yuto said as Zed barks in confirmation as well.
"Then please follow me." She said as she leads them on a tour of the house showing them the different rooms before stopping at one last room.
"This is my library." Ellen said as they enter the room
"This is a nice library." Yuto complements Ellen's library upon seeing it.
"Thank you." She said as Yuto grabs a random book off the shelf to look at it.
"Books are nice, aren't they? With just one sentence you can get lost in all sorts of dreams. The way I think of it, literature allows the reader's consciousness to deeply relish the author and be closer to him. And so, we freely walk around the world of the story from the yarn spinner's point of view. It's only when you immerse yourself in the world of a book that you are able to forget just who you are." Yuto said with a nostalgic look.
"That's an interesting way to put it." Ellen said curiously.
"I used to read a lot when I was a kid. A lot more than I used to read before now. It was a way to escape the loneliness I felt as a child." Yuto said with a slightly sad smile.
"So, you used to be a lonely child back then?" Ellen asks.
"Yeah, I was. I was neglected by my biological parents and Godfather for my biological younger twin sister and most of the people in the village I grew up hated me and called me names." Yuto said sitting down on a chair.
"What kind of names?" Ellen asks as she walks next to him.
"Monster, demon, and failure were the words that were used the most." Yuto said with a sad look on his face.
"Why did they call you that?" Ellen asks looking at him.
"At the time I was the prison for the soul of a powerful being that caused a lot of death and destruction in the village on the day I was born, and I wasn't given any training like I should have, but I later on found out that the being was being controlled that day by an evil man that should have been dead long ago." Yuto answers as he was about to open the book and start reading it when Ellen climbs onto his lap.
"Did you get revenge on them?" Ellen asks.
"I did. I trained and grew stronger with the help of others. I was even adopted and gained a new family that encouraged and supported me." Yuto said with smile as he reminisces on the happy memories.
"What did you do to get revenge?" Ellen asks as Zed lays down near Yuto's feet.
"Well, let me give you a little backstory. My birth mother was one of the last remaining members of a powerful Clan called the Uzumaki and my birth father was an orphan, but he became a strong warrior who achieved many victories and became the leader of the village I grew up in. Because of that he was allowed to start his own Clan." Yuto explains.
"Since I was the older twin, I should have inherit both Clans as Clan Heir or me and my biological sister could have been given one Clan Heir Title each but that didn't happened. Instead she was given both and that basically meant they didn't see me as a worthy heir and was disowned. That day which was my eighth birthday should have been a happy day wasn't. I ran away that day and met an old man who gave me new powers though it did come at a cost." Yuto said as he did felt intense pain that day.
"What kind of cost?" Ellen asks making herself a little more comfortable on Yuto's lap.
"Pain. A lot of it with the color of my hair turning from a sunny blonde color to a snowy white color and my skin gaining a deep tan." Yuto said pointing at his hair and then his skin. "I also had to restart from scratch on my training as I lost the knowledge on how to do certain things but luckily, I had written the knowledge I lost down so I was able to relearn it."
"Fast forward to eight years later there was an exam that comes every six months going on that had three parts and if we did good enough in the last part, we get a promotion which means we can earn more money. In the last part were one on one fights and my opponent in it was my former sister. I defeated her and took back the title of the Uzumaki Clan Heir from her." Yuto said leaving some things out.
"Did you kill her?" Ellen asks.
"I didn't as I already gotten what I wanted so letting her live with the sting of being defeated by her former twin that most people didn't expect much from and not being promote until the next exam was satisfying enough. Plus, I didn't want to prove the people who called me a monster and demon right. Though in the middle of the exams there was a delay and we had to wait until later to continue it by having one more match which was me and against a man named Draco Tepes." Yuto continues as Ellen was enjoying the story so far.
"However, my former parents wanted me to come back to them for some reasons one of which was greed at least from my former father so they challenge me to a three on one fight. If they win, I come back to them but if I win I get a signature technique my ex-father uses, and they will leave me alone from now on. I won against them humiliating them." Yuto said with a proud smile.
"That was a good story." Ellen said liking it.
"Thanks." Yuto said before he notices it is starting to get dark out.
"It's starting to get dark." Yuto said as Ellen notices as well.
"It is. You can stay the night if you want to." Ellen said.
"Thank you. I think I'll take you up on your offer and in exchange I'll make dinner for us." Yuto said getting up while holding Ellen as he puts the book back.
"Why are you carrying me?" Ellen asks as she likes how gentle he was in holding her like he was her daddy.
"I can put you down if you want me to?" Yuto asks causing her to think for a moment before shaking her head.
"No, it's fine." She said as Yuto and Zed walks to the kitchen. He then sets her down on a chair before looking around in the kitchen to see what she had there. There wasn't much so he starts pulling out ingredients for omurice (rice omelets) as well as the tools to make them from Daito's storage as well as the equipment he needs for it shocking Ellen.
"Where did they come from?" Ellen asks surprised.
"My gauntlets and visor have a dimension storage pocket that I can place items in but there is a weight limit. The good news is anything broken gets repair in there and food and liquids with expiration dates are basically frozen in time, so they never go bad." Yuto explains as he starts to cook.
"That is amazing!" Ellen exclaims in awe as she wishes she has something like that.
"It is. I usually keep tons of food, liquids, medicine, equipment, clothes, and whatever else I can store in them in case I need them." Yuto said as Ellen and Zed starts smelling the mouth-watering smell of the food.
"That smells so good." Ellen said as she tries not to drool as a mysterious black cat jumps onto the table.
"A cat?" Yuto questions upon looking back and seeing it. He could sense a lot of negative emotions coming from it which gave him a feeling that it was no ordinary cat.
"That's my pet Mr. Black." Ellen said as she secretly glares at it though Yuto catches it but didn't say anything as to not to tip them off.
"I see. Good thing I am making extra then." Yuto said as he places the finishing touches on the food before he starts dishing them out.
"It looks and smells so good." Ellen said with a bit of drool coming down from her mouth along with the cat and Zed. She takes a bite and her eyes sparkle.
"This is so amazing, good!" She exclaims with stars in her eyes as she keeps eating it while minding her manners as Zed and Mr. Black eats with stars in their eyes as well.
"I'm glad you like it." Yuto said with a proud smile as he was proud of his cooking skills, but he knows not to get cocky as there was always room for improvement.
(20 minutes later)
After they all ate, they quickly cleaned up and Ellen shows Yuto and Zed the room they will be using for the night. After getting dressed for bed with some clothes that doubles as a makeshift combat outfit, if need be, Yuto lays back on the bed while Zed lays down near his feet. Yuto wasn't underneath the blankets just in case and he had create a few Shadow Clones who immediately hides in the room on alert for anything that could happen.
'This is a bad idea.' Kurumi said to Yuto.
'I know but something tells me the reason why we're here is because of that girl.' Yuto said.
'For some reason she reminds me of myself before I met you.' Kurumi said with a frown which causes Yuto to frown a bit as well, but he puts it off for now.
'For now, let's try to get some sleep.' Yuto said as he went into a light sleep where he can quickly move into action if he needs to.