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Ang3l: Alright, alright. I know. What the hell Ang3l? A new story when you have two others you need to work on? Well this one has been bugging the hell out of me and I needed to get in down in writing. So here is my newest story. And don't worry you Seal Mistress and Vengeance readers, those stories are not being abandoned.
Kurama: Sure. Whatever you say cupcake.
Ang3l: What the hell are you even doing here? This isn't your universe!
Kurama: I am the strongest of the Bijuu! I can do what I want!
Ang3l: *deadpan stare* You know your head still needs to fit out the door right?
Kurama: Whatever brat.
Ang3l: Seriously. It's fun having you here, but just go.
Kurama: Make me!
Ang3l: No need. *sharp whistle*
Unknown: *loud battle cry*
Kurama: Huh? *gets punched by a flaming yellow blur*
Ang3l: BYE!
Kurama: Damn you!
Ang3l: And now our new guest. Yang Xaio Long! Welcome!
Yang: *smirks and winks* Thanks good looking.
Ang3l: *blushes* Anyway. Say the disclaimer and we'll get on with the story
Yang: ForsakenAng3l does NOT own RWBY or Naruto in any way, shape, or form. If he did I'm sure me and Blake would get more screen time together *wiggles eyebrows suggestively*
Ang3l: *face palms* I may need somebody who will actually take this seriously...
A blond fox Faunus leaned against the railing on the window of the bullhead he was on as he read a book. He had a red-orange bushy tail and two red-orange, almost rabbit like ears on the top of his head. His eyes were cerulean blue but the pupils were slits. As he began grinning at the book, sharper than normal canines could be seen. But the most notable features on his face were the six whisker birth marks on his cheeks, three on each side. Upon further inspection the blond was wearing a pair of black pants with black combat boots. There were two orange stripes going down the sides of the pant legs. His bootlaces were also orange. The top he wore was an orange shirt with a red whirlpool symbol in the center of his chest. You could just make out a belt under the shirt and what seemed to look like cartridges of some sort all over the belt. Around his neck was a green crystal attached to a leather cord along with another simple necklace of an orange marble held by a replica of a Nevermore talon. Over the shirt he wore a black cloak with a hood. The cloak had orange flames across the bottom as well as the same whirlpool symbol in the direct center of the back. Across his back was a large hammer with a blade folded in on the opposite side of the hammer. A revolving dust chamber could be seen upon further inspection.
Standing next to him, but facing the window, was a dark haired teen. The back of his hair stood up, much like that of a duck's tail feathers. He had dark onyx eyes that had seen more than any normal teenager had. He wore dark blue pants with combat boots on his feet. On his torso was simple gray armor with a sleeveless black shirt underneath. He wore black fingerless gloves that had metal plates on the back of them. Covering his forearms were metal plates with leather straps holding them in place. There was a gray pack attached to his back with small jets on the bottom. On the direct center of his pack and also on the metal plates on the back of his hands was a red and white fan. Attached to his hip was a white mask with a beak and four red markings under the eyes of the mask, two under each eye. The most notable feature of the mask, however, was black, almost flame-like markings that seemed to spread from the left side to the center of the mask. Attached to the back of his belt was a tanto in a sheath with the same fan engraved into the handle.
The blond smirked before he closed his book with a happy sigh. He put his book up and grabbed an orange from his bag that was by his feet. The raven haired guy next to him simply watched the scenery fly by.
"Wanna slice?" the blond asked as he ate a slice.
"Sure," the raven haired teen replied. The blond handed a piece over. "Thanks."
"You're welcome," the blond replied as he ate another slice. "I wonder how much longer this trip is gonna last. I'm getting bored waiting."
"Patience Naruto. We'll get there soon enough," the other boy said.
Naruto groaned. "I know Sasuke, but this is taking too damn long," he said. "I'm ready to show off my skills with Maelstrom."
Sasuke sighed. "Just eat your orange and quit complaining," he said.
Naruto groaned and ate another slice. He turned his head as he heard a rather loud groaning from two different people. One of them was a blond with scraggly hair and wore armor with a dark hoodie underneath. He had a sword strapped to his side. His pants were simple jeans and he had leather, fingerless gloves. The other person was a pink haired teen with large bracelets on his wrists. He wore white pants that went to just under his knees. He wore black sandals on his feet and had a dark blue trench coat with yellow outlining. It had a single sleeve covering his left arm. Around his neck was a white scale designed muffler.
Both boys were holding vomit back, the pink haired teen with better luck than the blond. The blond suddenly went running past the two other boys and towards the back of the ship.
"Ew! Yang! It's on your shoe!" a girl yelled.
"Ew! Get it off!" another girl screamed.
"No get away from me! Stop!" the first girl screamed back.
Naruto chuckled as he watched the interaction before another groan earned his attention. He looked back over at the pink haired boy leaning against the same railing Naruto was leaned against.
"Ugh! When is this thing gonna stop?" the pink haired boy asked the dark blue haired boy next boy to him.
"I told you not to look out the window earlier. You never would've known we were on an airship," the teen said. "But noooo. You just had to look, damn flame brain."
The pink haired boy wretched again and held it back with no small amount of effort. "Shut up ya damn stripper! And put some clothes on," he grumbled.
The other boy looked down and he was indeed no longer wearing anything save for his boxers. "Gah! What the hell?! Damnit!" he yelled and quickly found his clothes. He was wearing dark blue pants with combat boots on. His shirt was the same color of dark blue but he had a silver vest on over it. Over that he wore a white open front trench coat with a high collar. The coat was outlined with the same color blue as the rest of his clothes and the bottom of the sleeves were rolled up once and buttoned back. Around his neck was a silver cross with a small blue gem in the center of it.
"Idiot Gray," the pink haired teen mumbled.
"Like you're one to talk Natsu," Gray retorted. "At least I'm not the one moaning on the floor like a moron."
Naruto chuckled lightly to himself before focusing his attention back on his orange. He turned his head and looked out the window as he felt the ship begin to descend. "Looks like we are finally landing," he said to Sasuke.
"Hn," the raven haired teen grunted.
Once the ship had landed and the two of them had gotten their luggage they immediately started walking with the rest of the other students, somewhat towards the back of the group. Naruto turned to say something, but was cut off as a loud explosion was heard behind them. Both boys stopped in their tracks and turned to see what was happening. What they saw was a girl who was covered in soot and another wearing a black skirt with a red hood apologizing rapidly.
"I wonder what that's all about," Sasuke asked. When he received no reply from Naruto he turned towards him. "Hey you OK over there?"
"That's a Schnee..." Naruto said dangerously low, his eyes flickered from blue to red and back quickly. Sasuke knew that Naruto couldn't stand the Schnee company due to his Faunus heritage and certain past experiences.
"Calm down," Sasuke warned. "You'll only cause problems if you don't."
Naruto closed his eyes and took a deep breath before releasing it slowly. "We better go see what happened before the Schnee completely tears that other girl apart," he said.
Sasuke nodded and began walking with Naruto towards the two girls.
"You complete dolt! What's wrong with you?!" the Schnee yelled.
"I'm sorry! It was an accident," the other girl quickly apologized.
The girl in white was about to yell again before Naruto stepped in. "Alright what's going on here?" he asked.
"Like it's any business of your you filthy- mmph!" she was cut off by a hand on her mouth.
Sasuke sighed. "Before you say anything, I'm actually saving your life right now," he told the girl.
She glared at him and smacked his hand away. "And just who do you think you are?!" she yelled.
Before he could answer, a new voice answered for him. "Sasuke Uchiha, younger brother of Itachi Uchiha. One of the best hunters of his generation," the voice, clearly female said. "And you're Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. One of the largest producers of energy propellants in the world."
"Thank you! Finally some recognition around here!" Weiss said, holding her head up high.
"The same company infamous for its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners," the girl finished making Weiss go wide eyed.
"Wha- How dare- Ugh! The nerve!" Weiss growled before turning around with a huff and storming off as a couple of her servants gathered up her luggage and followed the girl away.
"I'm sorry! I'll make it up to you somehow! I promise!" the hooded girl yelled after her before she hung her head and sighed. Sasuke put a hand on her shoulder.
"Hey. It's alright. She's just stuck up, it was an accident anyway," he said comfortingly.
"Thanks," the girl mumbled.
Naruto who had been silent for too long had drawn Sasuke's attention now. "Naruto? You OK?" he asked.
Naruto was staring wide eyed at the newcomer. His mouth was hanging open slightly as he stared. "Blake," he whispered.
The girl turned and gasped slightly. "N-Naruto?" she stuttered, her voice just above a whisper.
They stared at each other for a moment before Blake turned and ran. "Blake!" Naruto called after her. He turned to Sasuke. "I'll see you later! I've got go," he said quickly before running off after Blake.
Sasuke watched him curiously for a moment. "What the hell was that about?" he asked to no one in particular.
"Is that a friend of yours?" the girl asked.
"Yeah. My best friend actually," he said. "I'm Sasuke by the way."
"Ruby," the girl introduced herself.
"It's nice to meet you Ruby," Sasuke said politely before looking over Ruby's shoulder. "And I'm guessing that's barf boy from the bullhead?" he inquired.
Ruby turned around to see the blond from earlier holding his stomach and slowly walking their way. "It looks like it," she replied.
"Ugh," the blond groaned as he got closer. "That was horrible," he said.
"At least you weren't the only one," Sasuke said. "There was another heaving just the same as you on the bullhead. Only he was able to hold it back."
The blond groaned. "Well I feel a little better now," he said. "I'm Jaune Arc by the way. It's short, sweet, rolls off the tongue. Ladies love it."
Ruby tilted her head. "Do they?" she asked.
"They will... I hope," he said the last part quietly.
"Hn," Sasuke grunted. "Sasuke Uchiha." He put his hand out. Jaune shook it.
"And I'm Ruby," Ruby introduced herself.
"Aren't you the girl who exploded earlier?" Jaune asked.
Ruby hung her head. "Yes," she groaned.
"Well at least you embarrassed yourself coolly instead of like an idiot," he said.
Ruby lifted her head and smiled lightly. "Uh, thanks?" she said.
The three of them began walking towards the school. "So what kind of weapon do you have Jaune?" Ruby asked.
"I've got this sword," he said as he drew the blade. "And this shield." He clicked open the shield and held it out.
"What do they do?" Ruby asked excitedly.
"The shield collapses so that when I get tired of carrying it, I can just put it away," he said.
Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "Doesn't it still weigh the same though?" he inquired.
Jaune hung his head. "Yeah," he said quietly. "What about you guys?"
Ruby beamed and quickly pulled Crescent Rose from behind her back and unfolded it. Jaune flinched while Sasuke simply raised an eyebrow. "I've got this!" the girl exclaimed.
'It also looks like it could collapse into a different weapon if she chose too,' Sasuke thought to himself, although not commenting on the fact.
"Woah! Is that a scythe?" Jaune asked as he stepped back from the massive weapon.
"It's also a high-end, high-caliber, compact sniper rifle," she said proudly.
"Uh, what?" Jaune asked confused.
"It's also a gun," Sasuke clarified.
Jaune nodded. "Well what kind of weapon do you have?" he asked Sasuke.
Sasuke allowed a small smirk to grace his face before he shifted his shoulders slightly. The pack on his back opened up and whirred to life as to wings made entirely out of swords spread out behind him. The wingspan was at least eight feet. The feathers were the swords and the joints were a dark gray color. The boosters on the back ignited letting Sasuke float off the ground a few feet.
If physics had allowed it, Jaune's jaw would've hit the ground. Ruby on the other hand was beaming brightly. "That's so cool!" she exclaimed. She was quickly moving around Sasuke, looking over every inch of the wings. "Are those dust chambers? Oooh! That sword comes off! Wait they all do!" She squealed.
"Yes. Every sword is detachable, and I can use them all with ease," Sasuke said as he folding the wings up into the pack. "Did you design your scythe?" he asked.
"Yes I did!" she answered proudly as she hugged the weapon.
"Wait? You made that?" Jaune asked. "Did you make yours too?" He asked Sasuke.
Sasuke nodded while Ruby grinned. "Yep! All students at Signal forge their own weapons. What about yours?" she asked.
"It's a hand-me-down. My great great grandfather use it to fight in the war," he said.
"Sounds more like a family heirloom," Sasuke said.
"Well I like it," Ruby said. "Not many people have an appreciation for the classics these days," she said with a smile.
Sasuke nodded in agreement. "That is true. I still use my brothers old tanto from time to time during spars," he said as he drew the blade from its sheath.
"How many swords do you have?" Jaune asked.
Sasuke shrugged. "A few," he said.
Ruby beamed. "Well the more the merrier!" she exclaimed.
Sasuke turned to Ruby. "Naruto has a scythe similar to yours, only its orange and has a giant hammer on the other side. It's also a combination of just about any gun you can think of," he said.
Ruby gasped. "You've got to introduce me so I can look at it!" she said, somehow becoming a chibi version of herself and floating at Sasuke's eye level.
Sasuke took a small step back. "Sure thing," he said.
"Thank you!" she squealed. She was about to say something else but then stopped and thought for a moment. "So where are we going?" she asked.
"I don't know," Jaune shrugged. "I was just following you guys."
"We passed where we needed to go a few minutes ago," Sasuke said.
The other two turned to him. "Well why didn't you say something?" Jaune asked.
Sasuke shrugged. "Nobody asked," he said simply.
Jaune hung his head. "Well let's go before we're late," he said. "Which way?"
Sasuke turned and started walking back to the auditorium.
Meanwhile on the other side of the campus a couple minutes after they ran off, Naruto was chasing Blake through an open sided walkway. "Blake! Wait up!" he yelled. He was ignored, of course, as Blake picked up the pace. Naruto groaned before running faster himself so he wouldn't lose sight of her. Blake turned a corner and quickly hid in a small alley in between a couple of buildings.
She watched as Naruto ran passed her then counted to ten before poking her head out and looking around. When she didn't see him anywhere she stepped out only to be pulled back into the alleyway and pushed against the wall. An arm on either side of her head blocked her escape route. She looked up at the fox standing in front of her and sighed before closing her eyes and looking down.
"What Naruto?" she asked. "What do you want?"
"I want to know what happened to you when you left," he said. "I know about the Fang, but after we turned 14 you just stopped all contact with me. I haven't heard from you in almost three years Blake! Do you have any idea how worried I was?"
Blake kept her eyes to the ground. "I'm sorry," she said quietly. "Things just got too intense for me to keep talking to you. And when I decided to leave I didn't want them to threaten you. So I cut all ties with you. I didn't want to, but I had to."
Naruto was silent as he stared at the dark haired girl. He looked up at the bow on her head and smiled. She still wore it. "I just wish you would've told me," he said.
"You know I couldn't," she said. "It would've put you in danger."
Naruto lifted her face so he could look into her eyes. "I don't care how much danger I'm put in. I'll always protect you," he said with a small smile.
Blake stared at him before closing her eyes and wrapping her arms around his neck and hugging him. Naruto wrapped his arms around her waist and returned the hug. "Thank you," she whispered.
"Anytime, Kitty Cat," he said, using his old nickname for her.
Blake smiled lightly. "I told you to stop calling me that," she said.
"And I told you that it would never happen," he retorted.
Blake stepped back and smiled up at him. She was about a head shorter than the blond fox. "I see you've still got your necklace," she commented.
"And you've still got the bow I gave you," he smiled at her.
"Of course. How else am I gonna show people who I really am without them judging me just because of my race," she said.
"I still think you should let your ears be out in the open," he said with a grin. "Just wear the bow behind them instead of using it for cover."
Blake gave him a dry look. "Of course you do," she said. "But that's only because of your rabbit ears."
Naruto narrowed his eyes and reached up and stroked his ears protectively. "Fox ears. Not rabbit," he said dryly, earning a small chuckle from Blake.
"Then don't call me Kitty Cat," she smirked.
"Nope," Naruto grinned.
"OK, rabbit ears," she smiled.
Naruto laughed lightly. "It's good to see you again," he said.
"The same to you," she replied.
The two of them stared at each other for a moment before Naruto lightly coughed. "We should, uh, get to the auditorium before we're late," he said as he looked to the side, trying to hide the slight blush he had on his cheeks. He had just now realized how close they were to one another.
Blake noticed this as well and blushed lightly. "Yeah, you're probably right," she said. Naruto lead Blake out of the space and rubbed the back of his head.
"I'm glad your OK," he told her and lightly nudged her with his arm.
"Thanks," she replied and pushed him back. He grinned while she smiled up at him. Naruto pulled another orange out of his pocket and began peeling it. "I see you're still eating oranges like they are going to disappear tomorrow," she said with a smirk.
Naruto shrugged as he finished peeling the fruit. "Yeah? I like oranges," he said as he ate a slice, offering a piece to Blake. She took a slice and thanked him. "Almost as much as I like ramen!"
Blake rolled her eyes. "You and your ramen addiction. I really hope that the worlds ramen supply doesn't run out," she said dryly.
Naruto nearly choked on his orange slice. "Don't even joke about something like that," he coughed. His face was full of dread. "I would die!" Blake chuckled lightly as his outburst, but immediately stopped at Naruto's next comment. "What would happen if the world ran out of tuna?" he asked. "What would you do then?"
Blake blinked and felt a shiver run down her spine. She shook off the feeling of dread. "OK, I won't joke about it. That's scary," she said, fearful of the thought.
Naruto grinned. "Yeah it is," he chuckled.
They soon arrived at the auditorium and walked in. Naruto quickly found Sasuke and led Blake over to him.
"Hey dobe. I see you found your girlfriend alright," Sasuke said with a smirk.
Naruto and Blake both blushed. "S-she's not my girlfriend, teme!" Naruto growled at the raven haired teen. Blake chose to remain silent and looked at the extremely interesting wall across the room. "Jackass," Naruto mumbled.
"Whatever, dobe. Oh by the way this is Jaune," Sasuke motioned with his head to the blond next to him.
"Aren't you the guy that threw up on the bullhead?" Blake asked.
Jaune hung his head. "Yeah," he said in shame. "I get motion sickness easily."
Blake nodded. "Uh-huh," was all she said.
"Well either way it's good to meet you Jaune. I'm Naruto, and this is Blake," Naruto introduced himself and Blake.
"Likewise," Jaune said and put his hand out to Naruto. Naruto shook it then pulled out another orange from seemingly thin air.
"Another one?" Blake asked dryly.
Naruto simply shrugged and quickly peeled the fruit before quickly devouring it. "I'll be right back. Gonna go throw this away," he clarified. With that Naruto quickly made his way through the throng of other students to a trash can. After disposing of the orange peel, he began the trek back to his friends. On his way there he bumped into the pink haired teenager he saw earlier.
"Hey watch it!" the teen yelled.
"You watch where your going!" Naruto growled back.
"You bumped into me!" Natsu retorted.
"Well I'm sorry! Maybe you should pay more attention to your surroundings and..." Naruto was going to say something else but a strange sight caught his eye, making it twitch slightly. "And why isn't he wearing any clothes?" Naruto asked pointing over to the same dark blue haired guy from earlier.
Natsu forgot what the two were arguing about and turned around to see that Gray had indeed stripped down again. At least he was still wearing pants... "Hey put some clothes on you damn stripper!" Natsu yelled.
Gray looked down and groaned. "Damnit again?! When did I even take my shirt off?" he yelled.
A few of the females in the crowd were shamelessly admiring his toned body, but he paid them no mind. Natsu rolled his eyes and rubbed his face. "Sorry about that moron. He likes to strip for some reason," Natsu said.
"Honestly, I've seen weirder," Naruto said. "Sorry for bumping you by the way. Names Naruto." He put his hand out.
"Natsu," the teen replied and shook Naruto's hand. "And the stripper is Gray."
"Hey!" Gray growled. "It's not my fault! Blame Ur! It was her stupid habit that wore off on me!"
"Who's Ur?" Naruto asked.
"The person who taught him how to use his weapon and semblance," Natsu explained.
Naruto nodded in understanding. "Well anyway, I've got to get back over with my friends. I'll see you guys around," Naruto said and waved as he walked back into the crowd.
"See ya man," Natsu said as he left.
Naruto quickly made his way back to his little group just as Professor Ozpin began his speech.
"I'll keep this brief," the professor began.
Naruto yawned. "Translation: This is going to last two hours," he said with a groan.
Sasuke nodded in agreement. "Of course it could last way less. Professor Ozpin seems distracted by something," he noticed.
"He's finished," Blake chimed in.
Naruto opened his eyes and pinched himself to make sure it wasn't a dream. "Well that works I guess," he said. "I honestly wasn't paying attention. Did I miss anything really important?"
Blake shook her head. "No not really," she said.
Naruto nodded and looked back over at the stage as Glynda Goodwitch stepped up to the microphone. She cleared her throat before speaking. "Alright students. Gather in the ballroom after dinner. Tomorrow we will fully initiate you into the school. For now, you are dismissed," she said and turned to follow Ozpin.
Naruto looked between Blake and Sasuke. "I wonder if they've got ramen," he mused to himself
Sasuke groaned. "I don't understand how you can eat that stuff so much," he said. "It's good every now and then. But at the rate you go it's ridiculous."
Naruto simply tuned him out as they went to dinner. Once in the dining hall Naruto immediately searched out his favorite food. "Yes! They've got it," he grinned as he found a place near ramen and quickly got himself 6 bowls.
Blake smiled lightly. "I see he hasn't changed at all when it comes to his food," she said.
Sasuke groaned beside her. "No. The dobe continues to eat that stuff almost religiously," he sighed and sat down next to Naruto while Blake took the other side of him.
"Yes. I eat ramen religiously. I'm the same way as your are about your tomatoes," Naruto said from his fourth bowl of ramen. How he ate that fast nobody knew.
Blake shook her head and opted for tuna salad while Sasuke had tomato soup. The trio shared a look as they all ate their respective foods before smiling, or smirking in Sasuke's case, before digging back into their meals. OK so maybe they all had their own favorite food that they could eat like it was going out of style.
Naruto finished his sixth bowl of ramen and was starting for more until Sasuke intervened. "Let's get one thing straight here. I am not waking you out of your food coma in the morning so you better tone it down," he warned.
Naruto grinned. "Oh come on. That was one time and it wasn't that bad," he said, scratching he back of his head sheepishly.
Sasuke turned and looked over at Blake. "Hey slept for three days straight after pigging out on an all you can eat ramen venture that, due to unfortunate circumstances, I had to pay for. 32 bowls of ramen later and he passes out at the restaurant and the dobe didn't wake up until three days later," he explained. "And then he had the audacity to ask for more ramen the moment he woke up."
Blake chuckled lightly before looking at her fellow Faunus. "That sounds like you," she said.
The blond fox grinned and finished off his 10th bowl of ramen. "At least I stick to a single food and not, well, all of them," he motioned down the table a little ways towards a pink haired teenager and another dark blue haired teen. The pink haired teen had about 15 different foods around him and he was eating every single thing that was on the plates.
"Would you slow down you idiot?!" Gray growled.
"No way! It's a feast that I don't have to pay for. So I'm going to take full advantage of it," Natsu said with a mouthful of food.
"Flame brained moron," Gray groaned.
"Damn stripper!" Natsu shot back. "And put on some clothes!"
Gray looked down and he was only in his boxers. His shirt and pants gone and lying Oum knows where. He sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Why does this always happen?" he droned to himself.
"Cause you're a stripper," Natsu answered for him.
"At least I'm not a moron," Gray shot back.
"What'd you say?!" Natsu jumped up and glared down at Gray.
The other boy stood up and literally butted heads with the pink haired teenager. "You heard me hot head," Gray growled.
The trio down the table turned their attention back to their food. Naruto looked over at Sasuke for a moment. "At least you don't strip down constantly," he said.
Sasuke raised his eyebrow. "Yes. That is fortunate," he said as he finished his soup.
Naruto nodded and finished off his next bowl of ramen. "Well I'm stuffed," he said with a happy sigh.
"It was a good meal," Blake said.
Sasuke nodded. "Let's go find someplace good to sleep before all the good spots get taken," he said as he stood up, followed shortly by Naruto and Blake.
As they walked Naruto glanced at every single person out of the corner of his eyes. This did not go unnoticed by Blake as he brow furrowed. "What are you doing Naruto?" she asked.
Before Naruto could answer, Sasuke spoke up. This allowing Naruto to continue glancing at the students. "He's looking for the best person to pull a prank on," he deadpanned.
Naruto nodded. "Yup," he said simply before they all sat down near the middle of the room. Blake on one side and the two boys on the other side. "Hey Sasuke, you think I could paint a giant naked woman on the side of one of the buildings?" he asked with a grin.
"You'd get caught," Sasuke said simply.
"That's what you said about the time I painted an entire building back home," Naruto said smugly. "Now that I say that, I still don't think anybody has noticed that..." he trailed off before shrugging. "Oh well."
Blake and Sasuke both gave Naruto deadpan looks. "If you can paint a giant naked woman on the side of one of these buildings, I will pay for you all you can eat ramen," Sasuke challenged.
Naruto grinned evilly. "You're on. Time limit?" he asked.
"Doesn't matter. Just as long as you can do it without getting caught," Sasuke said, confident he wouldn't be able to do it.
"Deal," Naruto said and they shook hands. Naruto's grin threatened to split his face apart. "Now I just need to find somebody to prank tonight." His eyes scanned the crowd before they landed on a head of messy blonde hair. "Target acquired." Naruto stood up and seemed to disappear into the crowd of students as he made his way over to his next victim.
Sasuke and Blake shared a worried look, both knowing of his penchant for pranks; Sasuke more so having been at the butt of quite a few of them. Sasuke shivered involuntarily at the memory of those pranks. They were truly, evilly clever. Blake raised an eyebrow but did not comment.
"How did you and Naruto meet?" she asked.
"He kicked my ass for spilling his bowl of ramen," Sasuke said. "That's how I got this scar." He lifted the bangs away from his forehead to reveal a small scar that went from just above his eye up to his hairline. "Bastard threw me through a wall."
Blake laughed lightly. "Sounds like something he would do," she commented.
"What about you?" Sasuke asked.
"Same as you, only I didn't spill any ramen. I said it was nasty once," she shivered lightly. "He put some really hot sauce in my tuna. My mouth felt like it was on fire for three hours."
Sasuke smirked before he noticed Blake's bow twitch slightly. "You're a Faunus aren't you?" he asked quietly.
Her eyes widened as he head snapped to Sasuke. "How did you-" she was cut off as Sasuke answered the question she was about to ask.
"Your bow twitches every now and then, especially at the mention of tuna," he said simply.
"Please don't tell anybody," she said in a worried voice.
"Hadn't planned on it. I'm sure you have your reasons for hiding your ears," he replied.
"Thanks," Blake said with a sigh. "Wonder what he's going to do to the blonde?"
Sasuke shrugged before he grabbed his scroll and zoomed in on Naruto and began recording. Naruto's pranks were always entertaining and he posted them on ViewTube. They had quite the group of people following them and with the amount of people following them, ViewTube actually paid them money every month so long as they continued to post videos. Neither male could complain about that one bit.
Naruto continued to sneak through the crowd unnoticed by anyone other than Sasuke and Blake as he neared his target. He quickly pulled a pair of scissors and some string that was close to the same color as the girls hair from his pocket. Naruto grinned evilly as he got right up behind the girl. He snipped the scissors right by her ear and then lifted the string up to eye level.
The blonde girl turned and when she saw what Naruto was holding her eyes widened.
It was at this moment that all the students in the ballroom heard a very loud yell and an explosion shortly followed by an equally loud grunt of pain then a crash.
Sasuke and Blake stared wide eyed at what they had just witnessed and scooted closer to each other for protection from the crazed blonde. That was the scariest thing they had ever seen in their lives!
(Roughly twenty seconds prior)
Yang Xaio Long was talking to her sister, Ruby, about how she actually made some friends today.
"I'm pretty sure Weiss counts as a negative friend," Ruby grumbled.
"Aw come on sis. There's no such this as negative friends, you just happened to make one enemy on day one! It'll get better," Yang grinned. It was at that point that the sound of snipping was heard right by Yang's ear.
She turned and saw a blond fox Faunus standing there holding a pair of scissors and… "Haha! I got you!" the boy laughed.
Yang growled deeply and her eyes turned red. Flames started emitting from her body as she pulled her fist back and let loose a mighty battle cry. "WHY YOU!" she roared as she swung her fist right into Naruto's face. The resulting explosion sent Naruto rocketing through the air and embedded him into a wall.
Yang was panting heavily as she began walking over to Naruto with her glare trained directly onto him. More flames continued to pour off of her body as she walked, and she could've swore she heard somebody say something about "good tasting fire" but she ignored it. When she reached Naruto she grabbed him by the collar and pulled him from the wall.
"You cut my hair! Give me one good reason why I shouldn't completely demolish you!" she growled, lifting him into the air.
"I didn't actually cut your hair," Naruto said weakly. This girl could pack quite the punch, all pun intended. Yang for some reason smirked as she felt somebody had made a mental pun. "It was string, I swear!" Naruto lifted his hands up defensively
Yang pulled him closer to her and peered into his eyes, looking for any sign of a lie. She sighed and set Naruto down when she realized he wasn't lying. "Sorry about that," she said as she rubbed the back of her head sheepishly. "It's just whenever someone messes with my hair..." she trailed off.
Naruto stood and dusted himself off almost as if nothing had even happened and shrugged. "It's all good," Naruto grinned. "I'm the same way with ramen. I will say this though, you pack one hell of a punch."
Yang smirked. "That's the idea," she smirked. "I always bring the "punch" to the party."
Naruto raised an eyebrow. "You must be a punstress, am I correct?" he asked as they began to walk back towards where Ruby was.
Yang put her hand on her chin in thought. "I've never been able to think up a name for it before," she said. "And "Pun Mistress" just doesn't fit, but "Punstress" I like." She flashed Naruto a grin.
Naruto blushed lightly as he watched her while, unbeknownst to him, Blake was glaring at the blonde, her fists clenching tightly.
"Uh, Blake?" Sasuke asked beside her.
"What?" she almost growled out.
"Your cutting the circulation off to my hand," Sasuke stated. "And it's starting to hurt."
Blake's eyes widened and she looked down. Sure enough she had a death grip on Sasuke's wrist. She quickly released her grip and brought her hands together and placed them in her lap. "Sorry," she said quietly.
Sasuke shook his hand to get some blood back to it. "It's fine," he waved her off. "That being said, somebody is jealous."
Blake immediately sent a glare at Sasuke that he simply shrugged off. "I'm not jealous!" she retorted a little too quickly. "It's just that- Well- RRGH!" she growled.
Sasuke smirked. "That she's standing too close to him?" he inquired.
Blake blushed lightly and looked away from them and too the floor. "Yeah," she mumbled.
It was at this time that Naruto and Yang had met up with Ruby and had then made their way over to Sasuke and Blake. "Hello!" Yang practically sang as the trio arrived next to the two dark haired teens. Ruby waved at Sasuke, who nodded in return. Of course this action didn't go unnoticed by Yang who broke out into a grin. "Well! Good job sis," she said and wrapped her arm around Ruby's neck in a one armed hug. "You didn't say this Sasuke person you met today was this much of a hottie!" She winked at Sasuke as Ruby's face turned twelve different shades of red in the span of a nanosecond.
Ruby began sputtering incoherent sentences before she scowled at Yang and punched her arm while Yang laughed. "Yaaaaaang! it's not funny!" she grumbled.
Yang simply shrugged and leaned down towards Sasuke, not bothering to hide her rather large cleavage that was practically pressed into Sasuke's face. A light blush appeared on his face as he used any and every bit of willpower to not look straight forward and keep his eyes locked on the blonde brawler. "What say me and you go find a quiet place to sneak off to?" she suggested with a wiggle of her eyebrows.
Sasuke managed to turn away and stare at the wall as the blush on his face grew ever so slightly. "I'm good, but thanks for offering," he said as he coughed into his hand, sneakily wiping away the blood from his nose.
Naruto meanwhile was snickering at his friends expense while glancing at Blake and how she would react to the loud blonde. Blake, being a cat Faunus, hated loud noises and crowds. So the girl made every effort to avoid them as best as she could. How she became friends with Naruto, one of the loudest people in all of Remnant, will forever remain a mystery.
"Anyway," Naruto spoke after regaining his own self-control. "Blake, Sasuke meet Yang. Also Blake, meet Ruby," he introduced those who didn't already know each other.
Blake nodded to Yang and Ruby while Sasuke waved slightly at Ruby, making sure to not look at Yang. "You guys ready for tomorrow?" Sasuke asked.
Ruby grinned and spoke up first. "One hundred percent. I can't wait to show off my sweetheart," she said as she hummed thinking of Crescent Rose tucked away in her locker.
Naruto raised an eyebrow. "You're sweetheart?" he asked.
"My weapon," Ruby explained, earning a nod of understanding from Naruto. "Oh yeah! That reminds me!" she exclaimed and was suddenly right in Naruto's face. "You're friend said you have a super cool weapon! How many guns does it turn in to exactly? Do the hammer and scythe come apart or is it simply one whole weapon? Do you use any dust cartridges? Oh! What is your weapons name?" she shot question after question off at Naruto.
Naruto shook his head to clear it form the jumbled up mess of questions he had just received, only able to really pick out a couple. The last question being the most prominent. "Maelstrom," he said. "My weapon's name is Maelstrom. As for any other questions you have about it, you'll just have to wait and see tomorrow during initiation."
Ruby visibly deflated and pouted. "OK," she said somewhat sadly.
Naruto, being one to hate making people sad, placed his hand on top of her head, making Ruby look up at him. "However, if you would like you can look at it after we are assigned our teams. Sound good?" he smiled at her.
Ruby beamed up at him and nodded vigorously. "That would be totally awesome!" she nearly yelled.
Naruto opened his mouth to say something else but was cut off as someone else cut into the current conversation.
"Do you people have to be so loud?! Some of us are actually trying to sleep!" a girl growled out as she stormed over to the small group.
They all turned to see one Weiss Schnee glaring at them with her arms crossed. Naruto returned the glare full force, making Weiss flinch back a little but she held her ground nonetheless.
"Guys, she's right! People are trying to get to sleep!" Ruby exclaimed as she realized just how loud they were actually being.
"So now you're on my side?" Weiss asked bitterly.
"I was always on your side!" Ruby countered.
Weiss was about to retort but was cut off by Naruto stepping directly in front of her, his eyes slowly changing red. "Hey this conversation here is A to B. So why don't YOU," he spat out, "just Schnee your way out of it!"
Yang snickered at his clever use of the girls last name to make a pun. Even Sasuke cracked a smile. Weiss more visibly flinched back at his tone and took a small step back. Sasuke decided to intervene before things got really out of hand and Naruto did something he would regret. He stood up and walked next to Naruto and placed his hand on his friends shoulder.
"Calm down," he all but ordered. "There are too many people here and it would be a bad idea anyway. Besides, the killing intent your sending off is starting to make the others sweat."
Naruto looked at the other three girls and sure enough they were sweating and, in Ruby's case, starting to shake in fear. Naruto took a deep breath and released it slowly before his eyes turned back to blue. He turned back to Weiss and looked her straight in the eyes. "You should leave," he said somewhat harshly.
Weiss swallowed the lump that was in her throat before she glared at him one last time before she stormed off to go back to her sleeping bag. "She's probably just pissy cause she has to sleep on the ground with us peons," Yang said.
Naruto smirked at the blonde brawler. "Probably so, but either way I'm going to sleep. The night has went south for me," he told them. "I will see you all in the morning," he said with a completely over exaggerated bow before he went to his sleeping bag and tucked in for the night.
"Wow," Ruby said. "He was really cold towards Weiss."
Sasuke looked at her. "He has every reason to be really," he replied. "Well maybe not towards her specifically but towards her family."
"Is it because he's a Faunus?" Yang asked.
"That and more," Blake answered for Sasuke. Both of them knew good and well the reason why Naruto was so hostile towards anyone with the last name of Schnee. Sasuke made eye contact with Blake and nodded to her. "It's not either of our places to say why, but I can say that they basically took everything from him a long time ago."
Ruby and Yang glanced at each other as the air between the four became somewhat awkward. "Well, I'm going to follow the dobes lead and turn in. Good night," Sasuke said and walked over to his sleeping bag.
Ruby yawned. "Yeah that's sounds like a plan," she said. "It was nice meeting you Blake."
"Likewise. Good night you two," she said to the sisters.
Yang grinned at her. "Night sweet cheeks," she said with a wink.
Blake merely rolled her eyes before she laid down and slowly drifted off to sleep.
Over with Naruto and Sasuke. "Did you really have to put the fear of Oum in her like that?" Sasuke asked his best friend.
Naruto was currently laying on his back with his hands under his head acting as a pillow on his pillows. Naruto slept with two pillows cause one was just too little. "Yeah, yeah. I shouldn't have acted as rash as I did, but anytime I see any member of that family it just makes my blood boil," he growled as he attempted to glare a hole in the ceiling. "I know revenge isn't the answer, but every time I see one of them I just want to let all self control go and rip them to shreds."
Sasuke sighed as he removed his shirt and dropped it next to his sleeping bag. "Either way, that could've been handled a little better," he commented.
Naruto rolled his eyes. "No shit Sherlock," Naruto replied dryly. "It's just too close to that time of the year. That's what's making me this aggressive."
Sasuke nodded. He was well aware of what happened around this time nine years ago. It was the time that Naruto's family was killed. No. Killed is too light of a word. Murdered or executed would fit better here. Naruto has never gone into full detail of what actually happened but Sasuke wasn't so sure he actually wanted to know what happened.
"Let's get some sleep Naruto," Sasuke encouraged. "It'll take your mind off things."
"Yeah," Naruto replied. He heard his friend get into the sleeping bag next to his and turn a few times before Sasuke finally settled into a comfortable position. Naruto continued to stare at the ceiling for another few minutes before he turned over and drifted off to sleep him self. Tomorrow was a new day and initiation, he needed to be well rested.
Natsu Dragneel woke up the next morning with a line of drool hanging out of his mouth. He sat and rubbed the sleep from his eyes before he stretched with a yawn. He looked over to his left and found Gray sleeping, and from the looks of it the teen had stripped down in the middle of the night. No article of clothing was spared this time.
"Damnit Gray! You strip even in your sleep!" Natsu yelled and promptly slammed his pillow into his sleeping friends face.
Gray shot up from where he was sleeping and headbutted Natsu. "You damn moron! Let me wake up on my own!" he yelled back, unknowing of his current...exposing predicament.
"You can say that after you put some damn boxers on!" Natsu pushed his forehead forward into Gray's.
Gray pulled his head back and looked at Natsu confused before Natsu's word actually sunk in. Gray suddenly felt a rather chilly draft and slowly looked down. There exposed for the entire student body to see was Little Gray waving about proudly. Gray's eyes widened to comical proportions and he quickly grabbed his blankets and covered himself up. "Where the fuck are my clothes this time!?" he yelled out and began scrambling to get some clothes on as he rushed to the bathrooms.
"Damn stripper!" Natsu yelled after him.
"Flame brained moron!" Gray yelled back as he entered the bathroom.
All the commotion this morning woke Naruto up from across the room. "Who the fuck is being this loud," he began as he slowly sat up and rubbed the sleep from his eyes and the drool from his mouth, "this early," he stood up and grabbed a stress ball from his bag next to him, "in the fucking morning!?" he roared and threw the stress ball across the room, accurately nailing Natsu in the face.
Natsu fell onto his back as he held his face in pain. "Oum damnit! That hurts you bastard!" Natsu yelled through his hands.
Naruto shook his head and noticed Sasuke already up and dressed. "Morning Dobe," the teen greeted.
Naruto grumbled a good morning before he packed his stuff up and stretched his body out, sighing as he heard a loud crack from his joints. "Breakfast?" he asked.
"I'm starving," Sasuke replied and with that the two of them walked to the cafeteria. Sasuke grabbed a bowl of oatmeal while Naruto grabbed a bowl of Pumpkin Pete's cereal and three bowls of ramen. "Your addiction knows no bounds does it?" Sasuke asked dryly.
Naruto simply shook his head before he grabbed a cup of coffee and took a couple of sips. Naruto wouldn't answer him with words. Not unless asked a direct question. Sasuke knew this so he simply would eat his food in silence until the coffee and ramen had kicked in. Naruto quickly devoured his first bowl of ramen while he waited for the cereal to get a little soggy, but not so soggy that it was mush. Naruto didn't like really crunchy cereal, but he also didn't like it to be super mushy either. He had a system of how to eat breakfast. Drink some coffee, eat a bowl of ramen, then the cereal, eat the other two bowl of ramen, then down the coffee completely. Sasuke had no clue how Naruto came up with this method of eating breakfast but he didn't ask either since it always seemed to wake the other teen up easily enough. Why question a method that worked so well, even if it did seem weird.
Naruto downed his cup of coffee by the time Sasuke finished his oatmeal and orange juice. Naruto let out a content sigh. "And I'm awake," he stated to nobody in particular.
"Coffee round two?" Sasuke asked.
Naruto shook his head. "Not this morning. I don't need that much caffeine for initiation," he said.
Sasuke nodded. "Good point," he said as he stood up. "We should go get ready before they call us to wherever we need to go."
Naruto stood up and grabbed and orange from the table as they walked away towards the locker room. Naruto found his locker and punched in his code. "I wonder if I can change that code somehow," he said before he found the right buttons. "Ah here we go. 8, 0, 0, 8, 5. Perfect!" he grinned over at Sasuke a couple locker down form his.
"'Boobs'? Really Naruto?" Sasuke asked with a dry look.
"Yup!" he laughed, making Sasuke roll his eyes.
The raven haired teen grabbed his weapon, Susano, from his locker and strapped it onto his back before grabbing the tanto and attaching it to his waist. "You ready for toady?" he asked.
Naruto finished putting on his combat boots and adjusted his cloak before he grabbed Maelstrom and unfolded it completely, the scythe blade shining dangerously in the light. He spun it in his hands a couple times before he sat on a bench and pulled out his cleaning kit and began to do a quick clean of his weapon. "Sasuke, I was born ready for this," he replied not looking up from his weapon maintenance. Satisfied that everything was clean, he took out a sharpening stone and began making sure the scythe was extra sharp for the inevitable upcoming battle against the creatures of Grimm. Once that was done he stashed his cleaning kit back in his locker and shut it. Naruto folded his weapon up and strapped it to his back from shoulder to hip.
"Let's go see if anybody else is ready yet," Sasuke said as they walked towards Yang and Ruby.
Ruby was currently cuddling her scythe close to her body like a mother would her child. Sasuke raised and eyebrow as they neared but said nothing as he had seen weirder being around Naruto.
"Well you two look ready for the day," Naruto commented, making the girls both jump.
Yang grinned at him and draped her arm across his shoulders. "Oh yeah we are hot stuff," she said playfully. "But the question is, are you two ready?"
Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other and then both smirked. "Hell yeah," Naruto said with a fist pump.
"Hn, is that even a question?" he smirked.
Yang grinned. "Good," she said. "I'd hate for the two of you to be eaten by a Grimm."
"As if," Naruto said confidently.
Yang was about to say something else when Jaune walked through the group, completely oblivious to his surroundings. "Aw man," he groaned. "There's no way I put my stuff in locker 326. I would've remembered having to count that high."
Meanwhile, not too far away, Natsu had just shut his locker and slid the oversized bracelets onto his wrists before he punched the air a couple times. The red bracelets clicked and shifted to form gauntlets that covered the entire tops of his hands and fingers. At the end of the finger tips they transformed into dragon like talons. "Alright Dragon Claw is primed and ready to go," he declared as they shifted back to bracelets.
Gray was busy on the bench cleaning his weapon. When he was satisfied with his work the canon back into its sword form and strapped it to his back. The sword was a large two-handed sword that was a light blue in color. Frozen Melody was infused with high quality ice dust, thus giving the weapon it's color. "You ready Natsu?" Gray asked.
"Would I be here if I wasn't?" Natsu retorted.
Gray smirked at his friend as they began walking out of the locker room.
"Would all students please report to Beacon Cliffs for initiation," Glynda Goodwitch's voice said over the intercom system.
Naruto smirked as he, Sasuke, Yang, Ruby, and Blake all walked out of the locker room. "Let's do this," he said.
Ang3l: Well what did you guys think? Good? Bad? In between? Drop a review and let me know!
Yang: How come I didn't get as much page time? *eyes turn red*
Ang3l: *nervously* W-well it's only the beginning of the story! You'll get more page time eventually!
Yang: I better. You can't have Team RWBY without Yang!
Ang3l: I understand this.
Yang: Yang around for the next chapter everyone!
Ang3l: *groans* Your puns are horrid...
