AN: So here's yet another new story that I kinda just thought of at random. Funnily enough, I decided on the plot when thinking about a VN, two animes, and thinking about Mistral's criminal ring. Anyways on to the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or RWBY, both works belong to their respective owners!
Story Start!
Mistral was a beautiful place. Out of all the Kingdoms of Remnant, it was the most advanced entertainment and fashion wise. It was a Kingdom that prided itself on being able to make a depressing world like Remnant into someplace, tolerable.
However, underneath that pretty facade was a place filled with crime. The underbelly of Mistral was home to Remnant's largest black market and one of the largest criminal rings in all of Remnant. It had whatever your nefarious desires needed. Needed someone dead? Talk to the assassins in Mistral. You want someone found? Talk to some of the informants in Mistral. You want to disappear? Well… there are many who can take care of that for you. It just depends on what you mean.
-Chapter One: The Meeting-
Ruby Rose smiled to herself as she chased after her newest friend, a boy who was only a bit older than her. At least, that's what her mother told her.
They were both playing tag together in a field that was a small distance away from his home.
"Tag, you're it!" Ruby cried happily as she caught up with the young boy. Feeling accomplished, Ruby made her heroic getaway.
The boy looked a tad irritated that he was caught so quickly, but the look quickly morphed into one of happiness and excitement.
"Don't get ahead of yourself, Ruby! I'll catch you!" Instantly, the boy had taken off in a mad dash and was eclipsing speeds that a boy his age shouldn't have been able to reach
The field was filled with the sound of the two children laughing and playing happily for the rest of the afternoon.
However, like most things, their fun had to come to an end eventually.
"Come on, ****, let's play…" Ruby's words died in her throat when she saw the boy she'd been playing with for the entire day just standing a good distance away. Ruby quickly grew confused and was about to call out to her recent friend, but before she could, the boy's mother arrived and took his hand in her own and began walking away with him.
Ruby felt her heart plummet in her chest as she saw her only friend other than her sister begin to leave.
"Wait! Don't leave!"
She tried to run after him but was forced to stop when the earth split in front of her, blocking her only way to catching up to the boy. Too distressed over the boy's departure, Ruby didn't the take time to ask herself why the earth had split down the middle just to stop her from chasing.
"Please, don't leave, ****!"
Hearing her, the boy turned around and looked directly into her eyes. He directed a small smile at her and waved goodbye.
Ruby saw his mouth moving but couldn't hear anything no matter how much she strained her ears in a futile attempt to hear his words. After a few moments of trying, Ruby was finally able to hear something.
"…See you later… Ruby."
That was all she was able to make out before he began disappearing into the darkness of the night.
"Don't leave…" The young rose managed to mutter out with tears in her eyes as she caught one last glimpse of his hair flowing in the night breeze. The same hair that matched the night's sky.
-To Protect-
-Beacon-
"Gah!" Ruby awoke in a cold sweat. She hadn't expected to have such a dream and she wasn't quite sure why she even had it to begin with. Was it even a dream or could she just consider it a nightmare? Ruby cringed when a headache came over her the more she thought about it.
The boy in the dream… she couldn't remember his name or exactly what he looked like. The only thing she could vaguely remember was his midnight black hair. Ruby once again cringed when she felt a sharp pain go through her head. Deciding that the memory wasn't really worth all the pain, she shook away the thoughts from her mind.
"I need to get up." Sliding out of her sleeping bag, Ruby carefully avoided her sister who was sleeping next to her in her own sleeping bag. Ruby took a quick glance at her older sister and saw the blonde giggling to herself with a small, perverted smile.
"Hehehehehe… don't wuuuury… there's plenty of moommmaaa to go around~" A bit of drool leaked out from Yang's mouth as she continued to dream of whatever sick twisted fetish she had.
"Eww, gross Yang," Ruby muttered out in slight disgust. She'd seen the books that her sister hid under her bed. Not to mention that one time that Yang had accidentally forgotten to delete her browser history. Ruby swore that she had been scarred for life after what she saw the type of things that her sister was in to.
'Bondage, Yang? Seriously?' The young Rose looked away from her sister, embarrassed of her to an extent. She would never get her virgin eyes back, thanks to her sister.
Reasoning that it was better to forget about Yang's messed up desires, Ruby decided to get up and go and get some fresh air, maybe it would make her feel a bit better.
Unknown to Ruby, there was a set of amber eyes that watched her leave the ballroom.
'Ruby?' Blake wondered what had caused the younger girl to get up in the middle of the night.
-To Protect-
Ruby Rose, a young girl at the tender age of fifteen, was currently sitting on the roof of Beacon Academy. After waking up from that strange dream/nightmare she had decided to go and get some fresh air to clear her head. And what better way to get fresh air than from the roof of the tallest set of buildings in Vale?
Granted, what Ruby was doing could be considered very dangerous when one took in to account the lack of railings to stop one from falling off of said roof. Then there was the fact that it wasn't really a flat roof and was more in the shape of a cone.
Yes, dangerous indeed.
However, that didn't bother Ruby too much. She was more preoccupied with her thoughts than the dangers that came from sitting on a slope that was hundreds of feet off the ground.
"What was that dream?" Ruby muttered to herself as she brought her knees up to her chest and simply took in the view and the cool breeze of the night blowing against her face.
"So what are you doing up here?" A voice suddenly spoke, scaring the poor teenaged girl.
"DonttouchmeIknowkarate!" Ruby yelled quickly, getting into a "karate" stance before realizing something.
Ruby had been so startled by the sudden voice that she jumped up and right off the side of the roof. She blinked and then felt herself begin to fall.
Ruby didn't know exactly what happened after that; it had all been just one blur. One moment she felt the terrifying feeling of gravity taking hold of her body, dragging her down to the ground below her. The next, Ruby felt something grab her hand and when she gazed up she was greeted with the sight of an almost golden visage of a teen. He looked so bright that she felt that she may go blind from just gazing at him.
Then she remembered her current position. Her hanging off of a really tall building with only her savior's hand keeping her from making a less than graceful landing with the ground.
Oh, the hilarity of that situation.
"Are you okay?!" Ruby heard the blonde yell with a bit of panic in his voice.
Still a bit surprised by the previous events, Ruby's brain was still catching up to what happened. So she answered him as best she could.
"Um… yeah, I'm fine." She answered nonchalantly with a small and awkward smile.
She could hear a sigh of relief come from the boy's mouth. Ruby was glad that he was worried for her but she still felt a bit uncomfortable with the great distance between her and the ground and voiced that concern appropriately.
"So, do you think you can pull me up now?" Ruby asked her blonde savior.
"Oh, yeah! Of course!" He was quick to respond.
A few brief seconds later of the boy quickly, but carefully, pulling her up as though she weighed less than a feather, Ruby felt her feet touch what she was willing to consider solid ground. Even though it was a cone shaped roof. Semantics.
"Thanks." She showed her gratitude with a small smile and promptly sat back down where she had been previously.
The boy sweatdropped at her rather casual dismissal of her (possibly) near death experience.
"So, um…" The blonde boy started out awkwardly. It was almost as though he didn't really know how to start a conversation with such an awkward silence permeating the air around them. Ruby had to hold back a small giggle. She could definitely relate to that.
"Are you okay?"
Ruby gained a slightly confused look.
"Yeah, of course I am. Why?"
The blonde rubbed the back of his head sheepishly while also flashing and awkward smile to match.
"Well, you did just fall off a roof that is around two hundred feet off the ground." He answered.
That seemed to stop her in her tracks, figuratively speaking.
"Holy shizz, I almost became a pancake!" Ruby nearly shouted as her brain finally caught up to what happened.
Somewhere in Beacon's Ballroom, there was a girl who woke up suddenly when she heard the name of her beloved food. She would later go on to terrorize the cooks of Beacon. Searching for the food that she claimed had, "Cried out to her".
The blonde let out a laugh. "It took you this long to realize that?"
Ruby pouted, "Well what do you expect? It's not like I usually take sky dives from rooftops!" She stood up carefully and glared cutely at the blonde. "Besides, you were the one who caused me to fall! What's up with that?"
That stopped the blonde's laughing.
"Yeah, sorry about that." He apologized with such a sincere tone that Ruby felt really bad for (In her mind) being mean to the teen who had saved her.
"It's fine! You don't have to apologize. You just scared me a bit." She paused, realizing what she had just said. "Not that you're scary! I mean, you look like a nice guy and totally not scary at all. That is, I'm sure you can be scary to the bad guys 'cause you look cool and all that but… uuuhhh…" Ruby moaned in embarrassment. "… And I'm babbling like an idiot…"
The blonde chuckled lightly at her reaction. She was cute.
It was then that the awkward atmosphere of the conversation shifted into one more tolerable. It wasn't entirely less awkward but it was… better.
It was also at that moment that Ruby finally got a better look at her blonde savior.
He was taller than her, very much so. He looked to be 5'10" in height, if not a bit shorter than that. His blonde hair was an almost golden color and seemed to shine when she looked at him. The moon just helped him look all the more… she wasn't really sure how to describe it.
'Cool? Bright? Unnecessarily shiny? I don't know!' Ruby massaged her head as she tried to think of what word was the best to describe him.
Then there was his clothes. It didn't seem all that strange, when one thought of the kind of clothes that the future students of Beacon wore. However, Ruby did find it quite interesting. He wore a black uniform-like jacket that had an orange zipper and buttons on his sleeves and waist. The next thing that he wore was a pair of bright orange pants that had a small black satchel attached to the side of his right pant leg. He also had black combat boots that went all the way up to his shins. Then to complete his outfit, the blonde teenager had an black elastic headband that had a small metal plaque on it. The plaque itself had the insignia of something that the young Rose had seen before, a leaf. She felt her head hurt when she tried to remember where she'd seen that before.
Ruby thought it looked pretty cool though.
The two teenagers sat there, in a somewhat amicable silence.
"Hey," The silence was broken by the blonde who didn't look at Ruby directly. Instead, he just continued to look out into the night sky, examining all the celestial bodies that he could find. "Why did you decide to come to Beacon?"
Ruby looked surprised and quite confused. Where had that come from?
"Umm…" She wasn't exactly sure how to respond to that question. She couldn't exactly say that the only reason she was here was because she managed to stop a criminal from robbing a dust shop, then promptly getting arrested by none other than Glynda Goodwitch, world famous Huntress. Yeah, that would just sound ridiculous. Then again, her father and mother always did say that honesty is the best policy. So maybe it wouldn't be so bad. She was brought out of her rambling by the blonde once again when he spoke up.
"Do you not know yourself?" He asked with a certain look on his face, one that struck a chord within Ruby's heart. It was a similar look to the one her father gave her when she did something wrong. A look of disappointment.
Ruby gained a determined look. This may not be the reason why she was able to come to Beacon, but it was the reason why she wanted to become a Huntress. The same reason that drove her to help the old man who had been about to be robbed by the infamous criminal, Roman Torchwick.
"I want to help people! Just like the heroes in the stories that I've read, who save the day and protect the innocent. I want to be someone that can protect the people that they care about… like my mother." She muttered out the last part to herself, but the blond caught it.
Ruby was expecting him to belittle her, like her former classmates from Signal, for being stupid for dreaming of such a thing. She was even expecting doubt, the same feeling that she got from Blake, who tried to tell her that the world didn't work that way. However, what Ruby didn't expect was a smile being sent her way. A genuine one, not the kind that her sister and father gave her when she talked about her dream. Ruby knew that they were happy and proud when she talked about it, but their smiles were not like this one. This was a true, wholehearted, genuine smile. It showed to the young red-head that the blonde in front of her had nothing but respect for her dreams and reasons, which was new to her.
"You're a good girl, Ruby Rose." The blonde spoke warmly. Ruby couldn't help but blush in embarrassment at his compliment. She wasn't used to getting compliments like that from people that she'd just met. It felt nice, but strange at the same time.
"Umm, thanks… for your nice words…" She looked away from him, trying not to show what she guessed was an embarrassing face. A thought went through her mind however, as she thought back to his words. "Wait, how did you know my name?"
Her question was left unanswered, for as soon as she turned around, the blonde that had saved her was gone. It was like he hadn't even been there, to begin with.
'Huh?' Ruby looked around for the blonde, searching for any sort of sign that showed that he'd been there. She didn't want to be known as that crazy girl who talked to herself all the time after all.
"RUBY?!"
"Oh God, it's happening again!" She screamed and proceeded to latch on to the spire-like roof of Beacon.
"There you are!" The voice once again called out. "Just wait there, I'm coming up!"
"Wait, I know that voice," Ruby looked down and saw none other than Yang, in her PJs. "Yang? What are you doing up?"
"Blake woke me up," She admitted bitterly. Yang was not a morning person. Blake could attest to that with her now bruised cheek. "She told me that you came up here and I got worried that you might have fallen off the roof again." She admitted as she struggled to carefully get on the roof without falling.
Ruby groaned, "That was one time!"
"Five!"
"Shut up!"
A certain white themed heiress poked her head out of the window and glared up at the two sisters on the roof. "Will the two of you be quiet! I'm trying to sleep here!"
The night was soon filled with the sound of the three girls arguing loudly while, at the same time, waking up the rest of the sleeping students.
"NORA! Drop the pancake!" A male voice demanded.
"NEVER! YOU'LL HAVE TO PULL IT FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!"
"You're scaring the lunch lady!"
"GIVE ME MORE!"
-To Protect-
Off in the distance, the blonde who had spoken to Ruby was standing on top of a taller part of Beacon, watching the strange scene unfold. He watched Ruby and the blonde girl next to her continue to argue with the person that he knew to be Weiss Schnee. It was an entertaining sight to be sure.
"Are you okay?" The voice of a young woman questioned to him with concern. Said young woman was shorter than the Blonde, and a bit taller than Ruby's own height. She also had beautiful midnight black hair that reached to just below her waist along with two protrusions trying to poke themselves out from underneath her hood. They turned out to be two animal-like ears that were, surprisingly, white in color. A sharp contrast to her dark black hair.
"Yeah, I'm alright." He stood up and took one last glance at the happy scene with the future students of Beacon before walking away. "Let's get ready for tomorrow!" With that being said, the blonde's peaceful look was soon replaced by a serious visage.
"Let's move, assassins!" The Faunus girl next to him shouted out in a strange sounding language.
The roofs were soon littered with nearly two dozen of shadowy figures with their weapons out. All of them looked to be ready for a manhunt to begin.
"Target is still fleeing. They have holed themselves up in the Emerald Forest." One reported to the blonde.
He nodded. With a quick motion of his hand, the blonde ordered all of his comrades to rush into the dark forest.
They had a mission to complete.
-Chapter End-
AN: That's it! I finally finished this chapter and the next few chapters too!
Now I want to say that this story has been something that I've been working on for the past few months. You might be asking, "Why did it take you this long to make the first chapter if you've been working on it for months?" The answer to that would be because, as a writer, I find it harder to start a story than to continue one. That and it was a pain and a half coming up with the ideas for how I wanted this story to play out. Not to mention working out the plot holes in my ideas. So I hope that you will excuse this for it's tardiness.
Other than that, I hope that you like it, and know that the next chapter will be up sometime soon and that I'm definitely going to continue this story. Also, I'm already working on the next chapter for "With The Push Of A Button". So that should hopefully be out pretty soon. Hopefully.
P.S. - If you're curious, Naruto's outfit is the same as the one that he wore during Naruto: The Last.
Anyways that's enough of my rambling. I hope that you have a wonderful day and please review and tell me if there is anything I can improve on.
CYA
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