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Found this collecting dust in my notes, so I decided to get this chapter out.

Osu! Hello there! Its Neonzangetsu again! With massive help from Agurra of the Darkness, this fic was born! Yep, pairing is NarutoxBellmere! Hope ya'll like it! I know, I know, its not exactly our usual thing, but hey, in the fiction world one has to expect the unexpected! Hope ya enjoy it! And on that note...

...here we go once again, folks! We proudly present the next chapter of...

...ROGUE HEART!

Fair warning, this one is more dialogue heavy than others.

We wanted to try a chance of pace just for this story, ya know?

"Give 'em back!"

"No smoking for you!"

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Settling In

Naruto sputtered.

"I'm sorry...what did you just say?"

If anything, the grin on Bellemere's face seemed to grow even wider. There was nothing dangerous in that smile to suggest he might be in any danger yet, her felt himself bristle all the same. Somehow the sight of it rooted him where he stood. As if he'd come face to face with a terrifying predator...and he was the prey. Just what was it with him and redheads?! Was he cursed or something?! Though his every instinct shrieked at him to bolt, he someone managed to stand fast and meet her gaze. Still...

Urk.

"You heard me. While I could raise these little ones alone it seems little blue-"

"Nojiko!" said bluenette happily corrected.

"Right, right," Bellemere continued, mussing her hair. "Little Nojiko seems to have gotten attached. After getting over their fevers and becoming a little more coherent. I let Nojiko know that I intended to adopt her and the little one here," Nojiko said lifting the babe in her arms. "It seems since we discovered the girls at approximately the same time, she assumed that we're a package deal. She was excitedly dancing and shouting something about the strongest 'Mommy and Daddy'. I didn't have the heart to say otherwise. Isn't that right little one?"

Not receiving an answer she looked down to her side to see that Nojiko had moved.

Much to her bemusement, in the time that she'd taken her eyes off her, the little bluenette had gone to the other side of the bed during Bellemere's retelling of the events. She was currently sitting on the edge shaking Naruto's arm.

"Ne, you're going to be our new papa right Oji-san? Please, please, please?"

An awkward silence pervaded the room.

Nojiko made a small, pained sound, like a cub pining for its parents.

"Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaassse...

Gah.

The eyes!

How could you focus on those eyes and not melt into a pile of rubbery goo?!

With that, the last brick in the wall of his resistance crumbled away.

"I mean...well..." Naruto wasn't quite sure how to respond. Although they had been more focused on getting safely to land, during the crazy journey to Cocoyashi village he had manage to get some information on the crazy world he suddenly found himself in. In an over-generalization it appeared that he was now in an ocean based world locked in a perpetual conflict between the main power (something along the lines of Global Government?) and the thousands of pirate crews that roamed the seas. He hadn't really thought too far ahead but was considering scouting out this world a bit.

"Is that so?"

A sudden sinister pressure brought him back to the present moment; tracking it back to it's source he found Bellemere pinning him with the most evil mixture of grin and glare that had probably ever came into existence in the multiverse. This time, the message was quite clear; it promised untold pain on his end if he dared answer in any other fashion than Nojiko was hoping.

Sweat dropping he turned back to the little lass he still had to answer.

Would it really be that bad?

There was nothing of his old world/life waiting for him anyways. He'd also be lying if he said that he hated the idea of being a dad.

"Of course, little lady," he said, tussling her hair,"I'd be honored to be your daddy-GAH!"

Before he could squeeze out that last word, he found himself glommed.

(...Thirty Minutes Later...)

Having been given a clean bill of health Naruto soon found himself with his new charges soon found themselves in Bellemere's cottage.

"It doesn't look like much from the outside but the architect managed to squeeze in three rooms when building this; I was planning on using them for storage, but I guess they come in quite usefully now. The room on the right is mine and currently the only one with a bed. The girls can bunk with me until that's remedied, but I guess you can have the leftmost room and we'll let the girls have the one in the middle.

"Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, but I noticed that it's a little spartan in here" he said noticing that the house lacked many...amenities seemed to be the right word. It was rather simply furnished but there still seemed to be a comforting atmosphere in the little shack.

Looking around, she realized it was a little sparse. Scratching the back of her head she said "all the assignments I've been sent on with the marines meant I never really had time to set any roots here. I kept it simple."

"Oh yeah, you did say you were in the marines. How are you planning on balancing work with the kids?"

"I'm not. Well not marine work at least; they allow their female members to take maternity leave with included pension. I wasn't a senior member so it won't be much, but it ought to help."

Naruto took a quick glance at the baby girl currently in Bellemere's grasp.

"And how long is that maternity leave supposed to go for. The marine's aren't gonna come kicking the doors in if you don't come back are they?"

Bellmere only let off a laugh at the remark, carrying the baby over to the nearby bed and laying her down gently on the comforter, "Thankfully, we live in the East Blue where not a whole lot of pirates like to hang around. Most of them are low level garbage that an average marine can take down. Plus the Marine's are a massive military force, I think they can survive being short one woman."

With the baby softly snoring on the bed, Bellemere quickly reached into her jacket pocket and pulled cigarette packet, "My career of course is the least of our problems. Gonna need to figure out a way to support this little rag tag family of ours." She proceeded to pull out one of the smoke sticks and placed it in her mouth, before reaching for her lighter.

She failed to noticed her partner's expression.

"I actually started growing tangerines on my property a while back, might be able to sell them for a decent chunk of change. We won't get rich but it might hel..." Her train of thought quickly died as she felt both her lighter and cigarette disappear from her grasp.

The denial of her sweet nicotine made the former marine's head dart back and forth in every direction.

"Here's another thing that'll help out." Bellemere looked at Naruto, quickly spoting the cigarette and lighter in his hands, "As of this moment, we're nicotine free. Thought I told you not to be reckless and her you are about to light one off with a baby in the house."

Bellemere's rage practically erupted as she jumped to her feet.

"Oi! Quit acting like I was gonna start blow smoke down the kids throat; I was just gonna light it in here and smoke it out the window, now give me back my lighter."

"Is that so?"

Rather than acquiesce to her request, the whiskered warrior turned his head. Flicking furtive gaze out the window, he hefted his arm, muscles tensing. The marine yelped and lunged at him, realizing what he intended. Her hand brushed the carton just as the blond jerked it out of her grasp; as a result she was just a hair too slow to prevent what transpired. With a determined grunt, Naruto cocked his arm and flung her precious, into the wild blue yonder, over her dismayed cries.

"Noooo!" she wailed, gazing out at the distant speck "Why'd ya do that, whiskers?!"

"I agreed to help take care of these kids and one way to do so is to remove possible health hazards, like cigarettes, regardless of whether you're smoking outdoors or indoors. Besides you're just as response for these kids as I am and I'm not about to let you kill yourself with this crap."

With a single stamp, he crushed the cigarette he'd swiped from Bellemere.

For a moment he almost felt a flicker of pity for her; she looked as though her heart had suffered a stomping as well.

who looked as though her heart had just been while Nojiko seemed to be holding back several laughs.

"Now that, we've set up that little ground rule. I think I'll head into the town and see if there's any work I can scrounge up. Should be a few odd jobs around that I can make us some money to spruce up this place a little. Besides might as well introduce myself to the rest of the town." He quickly made his way for the door, casually ruffling Nojiko's hair as he did.

"Oh, and I'll also be making sure to tell the local markets and stores not to sell you any more smokes or lighters. Gotta keep Mommy healthy for the kids. Ja ne."

"Why you little...

"Gottagoloveyabye!"

Naruto quickly started kicking up dirt under his feet as he saw smoke coming out of Bellemere's ears. He only ran for a couple of yards before taking in the sights around him. Having an actual chance to look around, the island was surprisingly peaceful looking. Mostly open fields with small patches of forest here and there, some of which were clearly meant to be Bellmere's tangrine grove...Which at the moment only consisted of about two rows of ten trees.

"Guess making money to expand the Orchard is another thing on my to do list while I'm staying here...Then again growing trees and watching kids, pretty much beats the hell out of fighting in a global war so I can't really complain."

It didn't take long for the blonde to reach the town, which was simple like the rest of the island, a couple of rows of builds and houses, nothing fancy but still plenty homey looking. Naruto actually found himself smiling somewhat as he felt the warm sun shine down on his face, while looking at the towns folk go about their daily lives without much care.

A couple of the villages actually caught sight of the tall, orange clad blonde and offered him a casual wave, to which he reciprocated.

"Well, well, if it isn't the half dead man Bellmere managed to drag into her latest crazy stunt. Gave us quite a scare young man."

Naruto quickly found himself staring at the smiling face of Genzo, clad in his policeman's uniform, though for some reason his hat now had a pinwheel of all things on it, though Naruto chose not to question it at the moment.

"Sorry I don't believe we were formally introduced, what with all the excitement. I'm Genzo, the local police and authority around here, though I usually have only had to deal with Bellemere's antics in the past so it's not much of a title." He offered Naruto his hand and he accepted it, shaking in response.

"I'm Naruto, and I guess I'm your island's newest resident and Bellmere's...roommate more or less."

His last words drew a great guffaw of a laugh from Genzo along with several people in the immediate area:

"Poor kid, doesn't know what he's in for."

"I'm surprised Bellemere hasn't already tried kicking his ass."

"Good luck getting sleep with her around pal."

Naruto's face flattened at the town's comments, "I take it Bellemere's not the most behaved person in the world."

Genzo only laughed again, "My boy you don't know the half of it. That girl's been a miniature typhoon of mischief for this town since day one. Drives the lot of us crazy, me especially."

"Oh."

A dark cloud seemed to quickly gather over Naruto's head as he quietly sunk down to the ground, "Wonderful, I wind up in some crazy new world and now I have to take care of a couple of kids with woman that acts like a combination of Anko and me back when I was a kid...Cruel irony."

Genzo looked at the slightly depressed teen and merely patted him on the shoulder, "Hey, loosen kid, Bellemere's actually mellowed out quite a bit since her early days. Heck surprised the whole damn island when she decided to join the Marines." However, Genzo's tune quickly changed as he began contemplating something, "Then again when she was a kid she didn't have the military training and access to firearms she does now. Thank god she has her cigarette's to mellow her out."

Naruto's cloud grew bigger as sweat actually started seeping down his brow as the image of a pissed off Bellemere with a rifle in one hand and a sword in the other entered his mind.

"Anyway I wouldn't worry too much about it. Bellmere taking those kids on shows she's matured alot since she was a kid and I'm confident she'll be able to handle things." He quickly gained a big smile on his face as he looked at Naruto, "Of course with you helping her out I have no doubt things will work out in the end. (Yeah this part might need some editing).

Naruto could only smile back at the officer as he stood up, "I suppose so. Though right now we're gonna need some money to help keep things together. Any chance there are some jobs around town I might be able to help with."

Genzo's eyes quickly scanned over the blonde, "Well our island isn't big so we don't have any major businesses or anything like that. Best I can think of is maybe helping out some of the local fisherman and some of the locals with some heavy lifting if possible."

Naruto felt tempted to frown again, partially because the tasks reminded him of D-rank missions, but also because it wasn't likely he'd be able to make much money with jobs like those.

"Though before that happens, I think you might want to consider some new clothing my friend. I'm not an expert but that suit you're wearing looks like it's about to fall apart."

Naruto didn't even have to look at his jumpsuit to know Genzo was right, between the rain, the blood and various rips, his tracksuit was on it's last threads and it couldn't be at a worse time.

"And there's another expense I really don't need at this point."

Genzo however, once again offered a comforting hand, "Come with me for a second, I think we'll be able to find you something cheap."

Naruto was tempted to refuse, but at the moment he didn't have many options, especially since he now had to consider Bellemere and the girls.

The blonde was brought to the local clothing store and quickly swaped out his old clothes for a pair of simple white pants, black sandles, an orange vest and a black sash which helped serve as a belt. Of course he also kept his head band on, the only momento from his previous life.

"There, least now you can walk around without looking like you just crawled out of a war zone kid." Genzo smiled again, along with the stores owner.

Naruto however, still felt uneasy and opened his mouth to speak, but Genzo quieted him, "There's nothing to worry about kid. This one's on us, think of it as a thank you. Bellemere told us how you saved her and the girls from one of the pirates and nearly died because of it. Giving you a few free clothes is the least we can do."

Genzo quietly walked forward and patted Naruto on the shoulder, "Our Island is small and we see ourselves as one large extended family. We look out for each other and care for each other. We owe you a debt of gratitude for bringing Bellmere back to us. So don't worry about it, okay."

Genzo however, once again offered a comforting hand.

"Come with me for a second, I think we'll be able to find you something cheap."

Naruto was tempted to refuse, but at the moment he didn't have many options, especially since he now had to consider Bellemere and the girls.

The blonde was brought to the local clothing store and quickly swapped out his old clothes for a pair of simple white pants, black sandals, an orange vest and a black sash which helped serve as a belt. Of course he also kept his head band on, the only memento from his previous life.

"There, least now you can walk around without looking like you just crawled out of a war zone kid." Genzo smiled again, along with the stores owner.

Naruto however, still felt uneasy and opened his mouth to speak, but Genzo quieted him, "There's nothing to worry about kid. This one's on us, think of it as a thank you. Bellemere told us how you saved her and the girls from one of the pirates and nearly died because of it. Giving you a few free clothes is the least we can do."

Genzo quietly walked forward and patted Naruto on the shoulder, "Our Island is small and we see ourselves as one large extended family. We look out for each other and care for each other. We owe you a debt of gratitude for bringing Bellmere back to us. So don't worry about it, okay."

The blonde ninja could only smile along with Genzo, seeing the image of Sarutobi and Jiraya standing beside the aging officer, "Thanks Genzo, I'm starting to really get the feeling I like it around this island."

The two quietly made their way out of the store and walked down the street somewhat, getting a few more greetings from the people in the village, "By the way kid I've been meaning to ask. You healed up a lot faster than anyone I've seen, most people would be laid out for a couple of weeks after getting shot like you did. You eat a Devil Fruit or something?"

"Devil what, now?"

Naruto's blank look was all it took for Genzo to realize he didn't know what he was talking about, "Basically their fruits that supposedly give you powers when you eat them, but take away your ability to swim. Can do anything from manipulating the elements to turning into animals, even a few weirder ones out there. It's pretty much how we explain anything weird we see."

"Well I can tell you I didn't eat any weird fruit, I just heal really fast, nothing special." Genzo nodded as the two walked back to the front of what appeared to be his office, "Well kid, this is my stop, I imagine Bellmere will be wanting you back pretty soon. Don't worry too much about the job situation, like I said we're family in this town, so don't expect us to just let you starve to death. Though Bellmere can be pretty stubborn with handouts every now and again. Hopefully you'll be able to knock some sense into her."

Naruto nodded, "Based on my current standing with her, I'm pretty sure she'll be the one doing the knocking, but I'll keep that in mind, thanks again Genzo."

With a wave the blonde proceeded to make his way back to Bellmere's home, "A world covered by oceans, with fruits that give you super powers. And I thought chakra was weird. Well, still some helpful insight. Still problem with making some money around here, could always try Shadow Clones, but that might cause more trouble than it's worth...Besides."

Since he'd awoken, Naruto had been trying to keep inventory of his chakra to an extent. Originally he figured that since he still had his healing abilities, that other than being a little jet lacked from his dimension hopping, he was otherwise perfectly fine. Truth however, was his healing was about all he had left. Whatever teleportation crap ripped him from his home had messed with his chakra and control.

As it stood he could maybe make two or three clones at most, forget the Rasengan. Of course Naruto still had his combat training and he was still strong enough to where he was confident he could kick the arse of anyone dumb enough to show up, "If I remember correctly, Bellmere said this the East Blue is actually the one with the weakest pirates and lowest crime rate, hopefully that means I won't need to get into any heavy combat."

As the cabin came in sight, Naruto shifted restlessly contemplating his exact situation.

"On the one hand I promised Bellmere and Nojiko...okay more Nojiko cause I'm sure Bellmere would have been kicking my ass if I said no, to stay here and help out. At the same time I have no idea how I got here or how to get back home, and apparently this world doesn't have ninjas so...DAMNIT, why does this crap always happen to me!"

A muscle jumped in his jaw.

In a fit of pique he quickly punched forward at the nearest tree; much to his chagrin the weathered bark offered little in the way of resistance. He'd scarcely struck the tree than it shattered like so much glass. With a harsh crunch its ruined remnants spun away from him to collide violent with a score more of its brethren, sending them pinwheeling out of sight.

Feeling the anger slowly leave him, he loosed a reluctant, calming breath.

"Alright," he heaved a sigh. "That made me feel a little better."

Wrapping his fist, he turned to face another tree.

"Now, as long as I don't wreck the forest...

A low crunch staunchly said otherwise.

Naruto felt his shoulders droop.

"Ah, shit."

A/N: And there we be! Another marvelous production by Agurra and Neon, champions of happy endings for all!

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"Oi, Nami!"

The young girl froze dead in her tracks, the book of maps clutched against her chest. With every fiber of her being she willed herself not to turn around, knowing full well who stood over her. In the end however her tiny body betrayed her and she found herself staring up into a pair of bemused blue eyes. Her father chuckled softly, a large hand reaching down to muss her strawberry-blond locks.

"Why'd you take that, eh?" he drawled gently. "I could've just bought it for you. But you need to put those oranges back, ya know? I know times are tough, and we can't always afford what you want, but stealing is not the way to about it, okay-?"

Nami couldn't help herself. She really couldn't. She bolted.

"You'll never take me alive, pops!"

"OI?!"

Naruto glowered bloody blue daggers at his daughter. Lifting his head slowly, he craned his neck loosely and somewhat erratically as he stood looking at the direction of the voice-a twitching, spasmodic movement to his motions.

"Time for punishment." His fingers wriggled madly.

"No! No tickling! ANYTHING BUT THAT!"

Bellmere coughed wetly grinning as she massaged the thin graze of the bullet across her stomach.

A near miss.

"You pressed the Naruto button."

Arlong scowled, lowering the pistol. How the hell had he missed?! His shot had been dead on!

"The wha-

Nojiko grinned as a dark shadow resolved itself behind the hulking pirate.

"You shouldnta did that!"

CRUNCH!

That was the only warning he received before a hand closed around the messy mane of his hair and yanked from behind. Whomever they were, they yanked with such force that Arlong actually found himself scalped, his spiky black locks torn away with a spatter of red blood and blue flesh.

Ground.

His nose bent at a horrid angle as someone-or something!-slammed his face into the dirt.

"YOU. DO NOT. TOUCH. MY FAMILY!"

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