Chapter 2: Her Protecter.

Naruto fidgeted as he sat at the large table in the kitchen, once again surrounded by the pale green walls of the building.

He stared down at the plate that lay before him, on it contained something that the strange workers called food.

It just looked like a gooey green mess to Naruto.

He looked over to his beautiful Princess, who was seated next to him and happily eating the strange food.

Seeing that she was eating it, Naruto decided to try it.

He picked up the odd object that he saw Elincia using and attempted to use it like she was to scoop up the food and bring it to his mouth.

At least he tried to, each time he tried to use the piece of silverware to pick up a piece of the food, it'd just end up falling off when he tried to bring it up to his mouth.

Eventually he heard a giggle come from the greenette.

He blushed in embarrassment, he was probably making himself look like a fool.

"Here, let me help you, Sir Naruto!" His Princess said cheerfully as she reached over and held the hand that was holding the piece of silver.

"Just bring it down and scoop up the amount of food you want." She said as she demonstrated at the same time using his hand. "Then hold it steady and bring it to your mouth and eat it!" She finished speaking as she helped him move the silverware to his mouth and helped him poor it in to his mouth.

The food tasted strange, the blonde couldn't really tell if he liked it or not.

He turned to Elincia once again, her face still held her kind smile that continued to bring that same warm feeling to his body.

"Sir Naruto." Her smile left her features as her face became more solemn. "What's it like? Being an Orphan and living on the streets?"

The boy looked downwards, no true emotion showing on his features. "It's not nice." The blonde said briefly.

Elincia choose to drop the subject at that after seeing the boy's downcast look.

A new thought crossed Elincia's mind as she gazed out the window.

"Sir Naruto!" She spoke to the boy with a tone of happiness as she grabbed his hand. "Could you escort me through the woods?" Her eyes were full of hope as she gave the blonde her request.

"Escort?" Naruto looked at her in confusion. "What does that mean?"

Elincia giggled at his question. "It means, can you take me through the woods."

That made more sense in the boy's head, but he wasn't sure if it was a good idea. What if she got hurt?

"I don't know. It's not very safe in woods." He said in an unsure tone while briefly scratching the back of his neck.

"Oh..." Elincia obtained a sadden look after hearing that as she let go of the boy's hand and looked down towards the table.

Naruto hated seeing her like that. A girl as beautiful as her shouldn't be sad.

"But, if you really want to Elincia. I'll take you through the woods!" He clenched his fist in determination as he said this.

At first, Elincia smiled in delight until she remembered something that caused her smile to vanish.

"Nevermind Sir Naruto, the Maids wouldn't approve of it." She looked down, dejected.

"We could sneak out." Naruto said without a second thought in an attempt to cheer the greenette up.

"Sneak...out?" Elincia asked in confusion.

"Yeah, we can just wait till the Maids aren't paying attention then sneak out."

Elincia was still unsure about that. "But wouldn't that be wrong Sir Naruto?"

"Nah, no one will even know were gone Elincia, we can just duck out when no ones watching. Have a short walk in the woods, then head back."

Elincia while not completely convinced about the plan, couldn't help but note the boy's tone. He sounded completely sure of himself with every word he said, almost as if the boy was one hundred percent sure that they wouldn't get caught.

Then she recalled overhearing about Naruto's status as a thief and the pieces started falling into place in her head.

She would of liked not knowing that fact at all to be honest, but by knowing it she could tell why the boy was so sure of himself. He'd probably had to sneak around heaps in his life already.

And this was her chance to go beyond the barrier that was this house and explore a small fraction of the world, if she didn't take it now then who knows how much longer she'd have to wait for another chance to arise.

Her smile returned as she nodded at the boy. "Alright Sir Naruto, let's do it!"

The boy became overjoyed to hear that, finally he'd have a chance to repay her for all the happiness she'd been giving him.

Naruto slowly climbed out of the window and landed on the ground before turning. "Alright Elincia, your turn." He said quietly in order to not alert anyone.

Shortly after he said that, the greenette fell from the window and landed right on the young blonde. "Ah, Sir Naruto! Are you alright?" She questioned as she quickly got off him and began checking to see if the boy was alright.

"I'm fine." He said quickly before hopping up and looking around, no one in sight. Good.

He turned to the greenette before pointing over to a small entrence into the treeline located nearby.

"When I say go we need to run over there as quickly as possible, ok Elincia?" The greenette nodded. "Alright...Go!"

They were able to make it to the treeline well enough, well Naruto was fine at least. Elincia was noticeably panting once they had made it.

"Are you ok?" The blonde questioned, he hadn't meant to make her tire out.

The girl nodded as she caught her breath, eventully she grabbed the blondes hand.

"W-well Sir N-Naruto, would you k-kindly escort me through these wo-woods?" She asked with her smile once again present, while her tone had gone back to the nervous sounding voice he'd heard her using when they first met.

He blushed slightly at her request as he turned around and faced the treeline. "S-sure." Great, now he was stuttering to.

Little did the pair know. They were being watched.

"So that's the daughter of Ramon Ridell Crimea eh? This'll be easier then I thought, hehe."

As they walked through the dense woods, Elincia would continusly find herself attracted to the different animals and plants occupying these woods.

"The birds sound so lovely." She said quietly as she continued walking behind her blonde Retainer and listened to the song of the birds.

"Yeah." Naruto uttered without any real care, he was just happy that she was happy. His Princess deserved it after all.

The girl seemed to really like animals from what Naruto had seen. When a Rabbit crossed their path, she'd pet it. When they came across a small stream they'd spent a few mintutes just sitting there because she wanted to look at the different kind of fish.

He'd tried to catch one of the fishs so she could get a better look at one, but ended up just falling in the water after many failed attempts.

Eventully they came to a small clearing.

"Let's take a break here, then head back." Naruto said as they sat down at the base of a tree.

"Alright." The boy had somewhat expected her to be somewhat upset about having to go back, but still held that smile of happiness that the boy loved seeing.

They sat there for a few mintutes, simply looking out into the field in peace.

The blonde eventully felt the greenette rest her head on his shoulder and grip his hand.

"Sir Naruto." She spoke in that soft quiet voice of hers that brought warmth to the boy. "Thank you for bringing me through here."

Naruto could feel his heart begin to beat much more rapidly, urging him to do things that he didn't really understand why he would do them.

But he didn't do anything. He sat there in content. Purely feeling her warmth was enough for him.

"Awwww. How sweet." Naruto's danger senses began to scream at him as Elincia looked around in confusion.

A men fell out of a nearby tree, the man had grey hair that only covered his head and wore a basic brown trench coat and worn out red pants.

"To bad I have to spoil your little moment kids." The man drew a Dagger out of his pocket and began moving towards the pair. "Your gonna net me a big paycheck girlie."

Naruto stood up quickly after hearing that. "Elincia run!" He shouted at her, he didn't like having to shout at her but in this case he felt he needed to.

The girl scampered to her feet before staring at the blonde. "B-but Sir Na-Naruto-"

"I said run!" Now he'd shouted at her and intrupted her, he really didn't like having to talk like this to her.

Elincia hesitated slightly before turning. "O-ok Sir Naruto, please d-don't d-d-die." She was visibly shaking when she uttered those words before running off back into the treeline.

"Woah oh, aren't you the brave one?" The man was taunting him. "Oh I know, I'll let you make the first blow, since I'm a nice guy!"

The boy drew his own Knife as he stood there with his legs shaking, he'd never been in a fight like this before.

"Awwwww, what's wrong? Lost your guts? Oh well guess I'll just go kill the girl and get my paycheck then."

That struck a cord within the blonde.

The blonde rushed at the man in a burst of adrenaline and stabbed the man in the knee.

"ACK! THAT HURT YOU LITTLE PUNK!" Time seemed to slow down as the man brought his Dagger down in an attempt to stab the blonde.

As the blade got closer and closer, the letters on Naruto's Knife began to light of in a flash of red light.

"ELFIRE!"

A burst of flames erupted from the Knife and impacted into the man and caught the blonde in the blast zone as both were sent flying backwards from the attack.

Naruto landed near the centre of the clearing, the impact with the ground casued his back to feel a large amount of pain.

"Naruto!" That voice? Elincia?

The boy brought his head up as he say the greenette running back into the clearing towards him.

He would of felt somewhat happy about this.

If it weren't for the attacker that just got back up.

And was now standing really close to his Princess.

"Perfect timing girlie." The man said with an evil grin pasted on his face. "Now your little boy friend get's to see you die before he does!"

Elincia stared at the man in fear as she tried to move backwards only to trip.

Was this the end for her?

She closed her eyes and waited for the attack to come.

"Heheheheehehe. Hahahahahah- guuu ack!" But it never came.

She opened her eyes to bear witness to her attacker still standing above her, only now he had blood pooring out from his lips and his eyes seemed to have faded.

The man turned his head around in his final moments and stared at the person that had landed the killing blow.

Naruto stood there, with his Knife stabbed into the mans chest.

The boy looked up to see those cold dead looking eyes that the attackers eyes had become.

And those eyes scared him.

What scared him more however, was that he had casued those eye's to become like that.

As the mans dead body fell to the ground, Naruto began to crawl away from the body and from the only person that cared about him. His Princess.

She'd seen him do it.

She'd seen him murder that man.

She'd seen him kill.

He felt terrible.

He sat against a tree and hugged his legs. His eyes wide open.

He'd murdered someone.

"Sir Naruto..." He heard her utter as he noticed her coming towards him.

"NO..." He yelled at her again, that made him feel worse. "Stay away...I don't want to hurt you too." His mind drifted back to the dream. He didn't trust himself near her now.

"Naruto..." She was right next to him.

"No...go away...please." Tears started falling out of his eyes as his mind just continued to flash back to the dream.

"Naruto." Elincia proceeded to do something the boy hadn't expected. She hugged him. "It's not your fault." The song of birds began to make it's way to their ears again.

"But I killed him." The blonde responed, still crying.

"You did it for good reasons though Naruto." He raised his head when she said that, allowing him to once again see that beautiful smile. "You did it to protect someone you care about Naruto, if you hadn't that man would of killed us both." She proceeded to pull him to his feet. "Come on now, we should return home now."

He nodded as he cleared away his tears.

But despite the fact that he'd put this behind himself.

He'd never forget the mans dying face.

And those cold, dead eyes would haunt him for the rest of his days.

Authors Notes.

It was hard trying to do this chapter, I blame my personal inexperience since I feel that this could be better.

Anyway I don't really have anything to say this time soooo, have a good day/night dear reader.