All Naruto wanted to be was a normal hunter. Try not to stand out or anything, just study at a normal school in peace
It didn't help with the fact that he was the leader of a team that consisted of three huge celebrities in Remnant, him being the only normal kid.
At Beacon Academy, of all places.
Somebody save him.
Naruto Uzumaki, the whiskered blonde teenager, was feeling down.
Don't get him wrong. He was happy that his family wanted him to the best he could do in his possibly short life. He was more than happy! It's just...
Why Beacon Academy?
Weren't there other schools attend? More normal ones?
It's even a miracle that he managed to get in the first place! The hands of the one up there must be resting upon him, for he's done the impossible and joined Beacon Academy with ease.
Oh, the pain and pressure his parents are unknowingly putting on his shoulders...
Not to mention his little sister, too. Not his little sister. The brightly coloured-haired teenager sighed as he vividly remembered how big his little sister's eyes were. How watery and undeniably cute they became in less than a second. It was... so...
In the corner of the giant metal airship commonly known as a Bullhead, a whiskered fellow hit his head lightly with the palm of his hand, a sigh released from his lungs. His thoughts were getting off track again. The point in all of this was that all he wanted to be was a normal hunter.
"Oh. My. Remnant."
"Is... is that?!"
"Yes! Yes it is!"
The sounds of teenage girls squealing reached his ears, snapping Naruto out of his thoughts. Being the curious boy he was, he tilted his head upwards to try and get a glimpse of what exactly the cause of the commotion was.
A small blotch of extremely dark blue reached his own cerulean eyes. Even the colour was an obvious give-away to the blonde haired teen.
Naruto sighed once more. To him, sighing was just a huge breath held and finally letting it go. Because of that principle, he sighed much more than anyone should which would constantly worry his parents. It was really an annoying situation sometimes.
Anyway, back on track. The dark blue hair belonged to the famous Sasuke Uchiha, hailing from the Uchiha family that were well known in the world of Remnant. With their known bonds with the Schnee and their special Semblance that made them a well respected lot of people, the young Uchiha was known as the prince of such an organisation and therefore garnered a lot more attention than he would like.
At that thought, Naruto snorted uncharacteristically. Even he, a self-admittedly dense guy, knew that being famous has its cons. This was exactly the reason why he wanted to be normal - he wanted peace.
The blonde haired teen shrugged. It's not like he could actually become famous, right? He came from a pretty normal family. The name Uzumaki was unheard of. Just him, his parents and sister.
Well, maybe there's secrets. Naruto wasn't that dumb. He knew that his parents were hiding things but since he was such a kind boy, he didn't bother digging into secrets as well as digging his own grave. It didn't sound reasonable to him to do something so selfish, anyway.
Ignoring the fact that the famous Uchiha prince was being smothered by one or two pretty cute girls, Naruto tilted his head to the side when he heard a mature, yet feminine, voice echo throughout the area.
He saw a woman standing on the side of the ship, projected through a holographic system. Naruto whistled at two things - the technology was quite advanced at this academy and the woman was rather pretty.
What? He was seventeen. He could at least admire the opposite gender, even if it was only a little bit.
Dammit, perverted hermit.
"Hello and welcome to Beacon."
Naruto scratched his head in confusion. He's never seen the woman before, so the question was ringing in his mind - who was she?
"My name is Glynda Goodwitch."
Ah. Maybe he'll get to know her more in the future.
The woman now known as Glynda continued her speech. "You are among the a privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy. Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace and as future Huntsmen and Huntresses, it is your duty to uphold it."
Uphold peace, huh. Naruto smiled a small smile as he felt his heart warm up. Yeah. Be it peace for his future or peace for the world's, he'd try his best to keep this peace he'd know steady and unharmed.
"You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task, and now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and the training to protect our world."
As the last words echoed in both the room and his mind, the woman slowly faded until she ceased to exist. Blinking once at the sudden disappearance, the blonde haired teenager looked down at his palms that rested against his knees.
"...peace. I really like that idea." Naruto said softly, lifting his palms up close to his face. He always thought that something cool would happen to his palms, something that would make others stare at in awe. Maybe a huge, blue swirling ball spinning in all different angle...
"...pfft." The blonde haired teen chuckled lightly, clenching his fist and bringing it to his mouth. It was a funny thought to him, to think that something as unimaginable as that actually popped up into his mind.
Well. Not all things are impossible, Naruto deduced with a happy smile. With enough willpower, he'd pull through and make the impossible, possible.
"KYAAH! Sasuke, please give me your autograph!"
...second thoughts were invading his mind.
"BLUUURGH!"
Naruto sighed again with a palm brought to his face. He know he wanted peace, but sometimes that peace would bring consequences and disrupt said peace.
For example, the fellow blonde haired guy who was kindly giving the trash can his lunch.
He felt his hand slowly slip into one of his pockets, reaching for the drug that his parents gave him in case the same thing happened to him. Giving in with a small pout on his face, Naruto knew that he was sometimes too kind for his own good.
And anyways, he could sympathise with the guy puking his guts out. He also had problems with motion sickness and the only way he knew he could counter such a disastrous problem was too meditate on either nothing or his thoughts. His dad also had the same problem, though his mom had nothing to do with his motion sickness.
Must be something to do with guys and blonde hair.
He popped open the lid with his thumb, leaving the lid in his pocket as he shook the small container and let one pill slide onto the palm of his other hand. After doing so, he lightly tapped vomit boy (a nickname he came up with on the spot) on the head with the container.
Naruto spoke, his voice not loud but clear. "Hey. I have something for you."
The boy he was 'treating' looked upwards with a defeated expression, green slime sludging down his chin. Slightly disgusted, Naruto scrunched up his nose as he shoved the pill in front of the guy's face. "Here, eat this. It'll help you get over your sickness." He wanted to help the poor thing.
That, and get the green sludge of that guy's face. Naruto would admit that even he didn't puke so... horribly. It was a disturbing thing to set his eyes on.
The armored boy quickly grabbed the pill and instantly gulped it down in record time and, with record time again, felt brand new. Like a newborn baby, one would say.
It was utopia. Pure bliss. Paradise. The boy never thought that such a thing was possible, that pills could instantly bring peace and serenity over wars and conflicts in his shameful stomach. To think that such a small pill could cure deaths, bring life and save the world!
All in the mind of Jaune Arc, ladies and gentlemen. The blonde boy looked at his saviour with an awed expression. "T-This... this is amazing! How'd you manage to do that?!"
If not for the slime sliding down the guy's chin, Naruto would've felt his ego grow a bit. Instead, he pointed at the terrifying creature and said with a dead voice, "Please wipe your chin. It's disgusting."
He may have his father's softness and manners but his mother's blunt words and attitude on the field were engraved into his genes. Nothing he could do about it.
Jaune blinked before he brought a sleeve to his chin and wiped it left and right. He looked down and saw a green spot now on his outfit. Realising what exactly had happened, he looked upwards with a sheepish expression and chuckled abashedly. "S-Sorry?"
Naruto resisted the sigh that rose in his lungs. He looked into the blonde's eyes, noting that they were blue just like his. "It's alright. Just try not to make a big scene like that next time."
His fellow blonde nodded, and silence fell upon the two still teens. Naruto blinked once, before a bead of sweat rolled on his chin. What was with this awkward silence?
"S-So..." At least the other guy noticed the uncomfortable feeling as well. "What was that?"
So, in the midst of his puking, the blonde didn't notice what exactly he ate. The whiskered teen scratched his head once more. Was this guy an idiot? Accepting the pill without question.
Well, it's not like Naruto didn't think about warning the boy that he was there in the first place. Alright, they were both at fault. May as well answer his question in compensation for his thoughtlessness.
"It's a drug."
...
"...oh, wait a minute." Naruto muttered, his face turning slightly red from embarrassment as scrunched his lip. "I don't think I was meant to say that out... loud..."
The look of sheer horror on Jaune's face was amusing, to say the least. His face was pale and his jaw was hanging. It Naruto didn't know any better, he'd think Jaune was a ghost in disguise.
"Y-You just poisoned me?!" The scared blonde cried, pointing an accusing finger at Naruto's direction while shaking furiously like he was in the cold. How could he?! This... this... guy just strolled up to him and drugged him, in his most vulnerable moment too! That's just mean!
"..." Naruto was sure that a misunderstanding was currently brewing. He brought a hand up to deflect the fear the finger was shooting at him, his own face a bit guilty at his slip up. "W-Wait! I swear I can explain!"
"How can you explain the fact that you drugged me!?"
"Medicines are a drug! I was just calling the pill a drug because medicines are drugs as well!"
Jaune stopped shaking and the paleness faded (slightly, considering how pale he was in the first place) but his face didn't show any signs of letting up. "How do I know that you're not lying?"
"Some drugs are known to be harmful but if I've taken the same drug you just took many times over, then I'm pretty damn sure that you're alright as well!" Naruto rambled, his face fully red from the ordeal.
Jaune blinked owlishly once, before he stood up straight with a grin. "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
If his life was a cartoon, the whiskered teen would've let his face plant into the ground in a comical fashion. Were all people in his life so... quick to change emotions?
Bipolar wasn't the word, since the word means to turn from depressed to maybe a little maniacal. But his mother went from beaming to downright furious, his perverted uncle could go from bathing in his own blood in sheer pervertedness to being a damned slave driver and even his father would go from depressed to happy to depressed again around his mother.
...maybe his father was a tad bipolar, but that's getting off track.
Naruto eyed the blonde with a wary eye, exasperation evident on his face. "People like you make my life hard."
Jaune took a step back, his face radiating shock. "Wha- That's rude!"
"...y'know,-" Naruto sometimes hated his mother's speaking antics. "-I think we've gotten off track here. How about we re-introduce ourselves in a more... civil matter?"
The other blonde nodded, his grin still intact. He let out a hand for Naruto to shake out of politeness. "The name's Jaune. Jaune Arc. It's a pleasure to meet you!"
'Not so much for me.' "I'm not shaking that hand. It touched a garbage can and was more than a metre close to hazardous acid."
"Hey!" Jaune fumed, clearly insulted. "My hand's not that dirty! My pukes aren't so bad, and you were the one that wanted to talk in a 'civil matter'!"
Naruto huffed. 'That's a triple hit combo in a single sentence.' After that thought flew past his head, he thought of the earlier conversation he had with this blonde fellow.
Jaune Arc didn't seem like such a bad person, after all. A little rough around the edges, but nobody was perfect. It's the imperfections that shape a man.
"Maa. Don't take it the wrong way." The whiskered teen said with a lazy tone as he waved it off with a hand. The smile on his face, however, only grew larger by the second. "I'm just pointing out the obvious."
"How about we re-introduce ourselves in a civil matter?" Jaune imitated his conversational partner's words with a childish voice, his arms crossed as he jiggled his voice. He was clearly not amused. "That's totally not what's happening right now!"
Naruto, through gritted teeth, sighed out of pure annoyance at how frustrating this guy was. He had to change the topic, or this was going to to make him insane. "Look, how about we talk to little red over there? I mean, we at least have to talk to others if we want to become famous in this school."
He didn't want to become famous at all but maybe this guy did. If he only said 'you', however, Jaune would probably take it the wrong way and think that Naruto only saw him as some sort of subject.
He had a bad feeling that this was going to come back and bite his ass, though.
The whiskered teen suddenly felt disturbed at the look and aura Jaune was giving off. His eyes were glistening and his body looked like as if it was ready to run laps around the whole school over and over again.
Yeah, this was really going to come back and bite his ass.
"Let's go!" Jaune cried, a hand fist-pumped into the air out of excitement. "We'll become famous! The 'duo blonde handsome guys', strolling through the campus with ladies falling for us everywhere we go!"
Naruto stands corrected. It was already coming back to bite his ass.
"The girl laying on the ground's pretty cute, too. Let's go talk to her!"
Four years of this?
'Help me.'
"C'mon!- wait, I didn't even get your name."
"Only now you realise that?"
AN: Hello, hello, hello. It's my first attempt at a Naruto x RWBY fanfic, so please be gentle with me.
To be honest, I may or may not be working on my other fanfictions but while I was in the middle of a chapter for one of them, I thought of this idea.
What if Naruto, who has an ordinary family with a father, mother and sister, just wanted to be ordinary as a whole? Be normal so he won't have to deal with others, become a successful normal hunter and live a normal life.
Of course, Naruto's still going to realise that hunters are anything but normal.
Aside from that, yeah. I have a fickle imagination, so it hurts that I'm constantly thinking of ideas.
As for Naruto being slightly OOC. His father is still alive so he teaches his son manners along with Naruto's mother, thought their personalities show within their son. From years of parents berating on your manners, of course Naruto would change slightly. More will be explained in the future.
Oh. If you have any ideas or inquires, please private message me or reviews. I don't mind if you just read this without telling me anything, though. Knowing this story is being read already makes me happy.
Expect late updates. I'm also busy with reading other fanfictions, as well as writing practice ones and watching anime all the same. Sorry in advance.
Not-aThinker14, over and out.