Hi, this is a story that I really wanted to start before RWBY Volume 3 comes out. It is my first time creating a crossover and only my second story, so reviews about your thoughts and your feelings are highly welcomed.
First things first, Naruto was born in the RWBY universe so no chakra, no weird dust experiments to give him chakra, and no reincarnation from the Naruto universe.
Also to those who read my first story, A Clan Reborn, that is not hiatus or anything and will be updated within a week, give or take a couple days.
I do not own Naruto or RWBY, these series belong to their respective owners.
Chapter 1: The First Flicker
Legends, stories scattered through time. Mankind has grown quite fond of recounting the exploits of heroes and villains. Forgetting so easily that we are remnants, by-products of a forgotten past.
Man, born from dust, was strong, wise and resourceful. But he was born into an unforgiving world. An inevitable darkness, creatures of destruction; the creatures of Grimm, set their sights on man and all of his creations. These forces clashed and it seemed the darkness was intent on returning man's brief existence to the void.
However, even the smallest spark of hope is enough to ignite change. And in time man's passion, resourcefulness, and ingenuity led them to the tools that would help even the odds. This power was appropriately named Dust. Nature's wrath in hand, man lit their way through the darkness. And in the shadow's absence came strength, civilization and most importantly, life.
But even the most brilliant lights eventually flicker and die. And when they are gone, darkness will return.
In a field a young boy is playing with his friends. His bright blue eyes shining brightly as the six year old blonde raced after another of the children, desperately trying to tag them and not be 'it' anymore. As the small cluster of children continued to play, a woman with red hair watched alongside the other parents from the sidelines. A general air of peace and tranquility surrounded these people as they stood in the shadow of the great wall that protected their home.
Their home's name is Konoha, an extension of the kingdom of Atlas. Ten years ago, Atlas much like their ally, Vale, sought to expand their borders. After two years of fighting the Atlesian military and their hunters would finally succeed in repelling the Grimm and build a giant wall around what would later be known as Konoha.
During this time Kushina and Minato, two of the hunters that participated in the campaign against the Grimm that lead to the founding of Konoha would join thousands of others in settling the new town. Over time these settlers would feel comfortable enough to have families and among those to start families were the two former hunters. The name of their child would be Naruto Uzumaki.
As for Konoha itself, it was defended by a large wall that wrapped around the town. The wall itself was further defended by three platoons from the Atlesian military, armed with top of the line rifles. Inside of the town, the place was further defended by a dozen or so hunters. Finally, in the center of the town was a small airport where the citizens of Konoha could fly into the main kingdom of Atlas and avoid the Grimm threat.
While Konoha itself was not heavily defended, its wall had never been breached, the people were happy, and their main trade, food, which came from the fertile fields inside Konoha's borders, left the population happy and fed. Sadly this idyllic town would soon face disaster.
"Hey you ever get nervous about those goliaths outside the walls?" An Atlesian soldier asked another as he indicated the giant elephant like Grimm outside the wall while they half-heartedly watched the surrounding area for threats.
"Naw. Those Grimm never come near. Let them march." The second soldier answered.
The wall had never been breached in the eight years it stood. The older and more powerful Grimm had even stopped approaching it only patrolling the area nearby. Why would today be any different?
"But don't there seem to be more Grimm around lately?" The first soldier questioned.
The second soldier took a quick glance and counted the giant Grimm. "Hmm, nine. Yep, that's more than yesterday. But so what? If they come any closer we'll just shoot them." The second soldier said with little concern.
As long as the wall held, any number of Grimm could be destroyed by the guarding soldiers.
"Hey guys, they're moving." A third soldier screamed from his perch.
"So what they are always moving!" Responded the second soldier.
"No they're coming towards us. The whole herd, and there are a ton of smaller Grimm traveling by their legs." Urged the third soldier as he looked though the scope of his rifle.
"What!" Scrambling to look over the wall, the second soldier took in the approaching hoard.
Many Grimm were coming. Under the feet of the goliaths the soldiers watched as previously hidden ursi, beowolves, and boarbatusks appeared. Even quite a few death stalkers and king taijitus.
"Fire." The command came from further away as the officer in the platoon took notice of the approaching threat.
With little hesitation the soldiers on the walls aimed their weapons at the approaching Grimm and fired; the bullets spearing into the ground and the surrounding Grimm, killing many of the smaller Grimm but pinging harmlessly off the goliaths.
"Concentrate your fire on the center goliath. Aim for its eyes. We cannot let them reach the wall!" The distant voice of the officer who ordered them to fire them weapons called.
The soldiers turned their attention to the center goliath and opened fire, concentrating their fire into the elephant like creature's eye. However the goliath wouldn't fall, despite losing its vision in one eye.
Then the goliaths shook their heads and gave a trumpet like roar from their trunks before charging forward.
"Bring them down. Bring them down." The frenzied cry of one of the soldiers rang through the air.
Sadly there would soon be another problem for the soldiers on the wall.
The sky once clear was now occupied by black dots. Nevermores the size of the average ursa if not larger were now diving for the walls.
"Incoming." One of the Atlesian soldiers screamed as he glanced upwards, taking his attention from the stampeding goliaths.
The warning would come too late as the nevermores would shoot their feathers at the largely unaware soldiers, cutting them down.
"Get up. You're alright, now get up." The Atlesian soldier who had first noticed the Grimm's charge said. The man was currently rocking the body of the first soldier, the one initially worried about the patrolling Grimm.
The second soldier merely looked over his shoulder as he continued to shoot his rifle at the encroaching Grimm. "Where are the god-damn reinforcements!?" He shouted as he glanced at his fallen comrades, before shaking his head at the soldier's actions, the soldier being rocked was dead, a feather having torn through his pelvis, nearly cutting the man in two.
Things would only get worse for the survivors as the stampeding Grimm finally reached the wall and the wall began to crumble. The wall cracked and splintered as the great strength of the goliaths gouged into the mighty walls of Konoha. Soon the cracks spread and nine monstrous holes appeared, giant gapping slivers that allowed the smaller Grimm through. The wall of Konoha had fallen, the Grimm had broken through.
"Bastards!" The second soldier screamed as he watched the Grimm move into the town.
With a burst of adrenaline the soldier rushed to the stairs while he fired a steady stream of bullets into the attacking Grimm. It had only been dumb luck that the wall hadn't broken enough for the goliaths to break in, but it wouldn't last for long.
His heroic stand wouldn't last long as encroaching beowolves would grab the man and rip him to shreds.
The beowolves would continue up the stairs, charging over the occasional fallen body of their brethren as the last survivors of the wall guard attempted to fight back. But despite their efforts the beowolves would quickly overwhelm the surviving soldiers.
As a beowolf sank his teeth into the last survivor of the Atlesian soldiers, tears began to run down his face as he could already hear the screams rising from the town of Konoha. "God help them."
As the last soldier's eyes closed a resounding crash sounded from the wall as large sections fell, the once gaping slivers now massive holes. The goliaths had broken through.
Inside the town of Konoha chaos reined as various Grimm wandered down the street, killing all they encountered.
A family is sitting down for lunch in the family room. The TV is on as they prepared to tune into a combat tournament from Atlas that would decide Atlas's new champion. Their children who had already declared they would be the best huntresses in all of Remnant talked excitedly about who would win the coming match and what semblances and weapons would be involved.
It was peaceful scene for the family of five as the mother, father, and his three teenage daughters watched the tournament to decide the new champion fighter in Atlas. They're home was even near the wall, close to the farmlands where the father worked.
This peace would be broken as the sound of something impacting the walls was heard.
"I'll check it out. Stay here." The father said as he got up and went for the door.
However the father would not make it to the door as an ursa tore it down and stomped into their humble abode.
"Run!" The father screamed. These would be the last words he would ever speak as the ursa lunged at him, taking him to the ground and began to feast.
The mother took her screaming children and ran. They ran to the backdoor, but there was a boarbatusk waiting. With little time to react she threw her children to the side as the beast curled up and launched into its deadly spin, rolling over the mother and through the house.
The girls wailed, turning away from their mother's strewn corpse before dragging themselves from the home. Around them they could see that their once peaceful home had turned to chaos.
The buildings were being torn as Grimm rampaged through the houses catching the citizens that lived near the wall by surprise and unprepared. The buildings that weren't torn or redecorated with splashes of red echoed with screams, the death knells of their neighbors.
In the street they saw those who made it out of their homes try to run only for the heads of a king taijitu to snatch up two people, one for each mouth.
"Come on." Screamed the eldest of siblings as she grabbed her sisters' hands and ran. Running further into Konoha, running away from the death.
These to be huntresses would never see their dream. For as they ran they eventually turned a corner and went down a path between two houses. Their hope was to travel undetected by the scouring Grimm, unfortunately for them a death stalker came through the wall of the nearby house, tossing a body from its claws.
The giant scorpion creature loomed over the girls before it, giving out a loud screech as the girls cowered, as its claws moved forward. The pathway between the two homes filled with screams before a sickening silence followed.
In the park the parents began to hear screams. Not the playful screams of their children but screams that chilled a person to the bone, the screams of death. As one they turned in the direction of the screams, towards Konoha and they saw smoke.
A sudden explosion, likely from one of the huntsman that made Konoha their home snapped the parents from their daze. Running towards their children the parents called out their names in panic.
"Jessica"
"Tommy"
"Indigo"
"Naruto"
Then as if from a nightmare the creatures of Grimm appeared. Beowolves, the wolf like Grimm that hunted in packs had arrived.
From the trees they came, launching into the group of parents. The woman who shouted the name Jessica and the man who shouted the name Indigo being snatched up into their fangs.
Naruto himself froze as he watched his friend Indigo get grabbed by two beowolves who seemed to fight over the body, tugging and tearing it in front of his eyes. His friends and their parents were being torn apart in front of him. He couldn't move, he was scared, he was just six years old and he wanted his mommy.
From beside him a beowolf howled and prepared to leap, seconds away from ripping the young blonde into pieces. Before the beowolf could pounce on the young boy a chain shot through the air and pierced it through the head.
"Mom!" Naruto shouted as he followed the chain back to his mother.
Kushina was using her semblance, chains, to keep the beowolves at bay. Still she smiled at her son as he ran into her arms.
"It's okay Naruto, I've got you." Kushina said as she tried to reassure her precious child with words she did not believe.
"We have to get to the airport." Kushina half said to herself as she crushed her son to her chest. With luck there would still be a bullhead and she could at least get her son to safety.
"But the others." Naruto mumbles.
"I'm sorry Naruto…Just close your eyes." Kushina says as turns and runs.
A trail of tears runs down Kushina's face. Beside her survivors joined in the race, both children and adults, but they didn't have Kushina's chains to act as a barrier between the Grimm and herself. They weren't trained in aura or combat and thus were being picked off by the faster Grimm.
Kushina fled surrounded by the screams of her friends and their children, with only the company of desperate survivors and her son. She prayed that the bullheads were still in the airport.
Further into Konoha a group of surviving Atlesian soldiers gathered around the airport.
"Ma'am, the Grimm have advanced into central Konoha. The resident hunters are putting up a fight but it's a bloodbath. Nevermores are strafing the ground, slaughtering the populace as they flee. The hunters just can't keep up with these numbers." A soldier reported.
"Ma'am, we have lost contact with the second platoon. We do not know if they managed to contact Atlas. I think we're the only ones left." Another soldier announced as he continued to check his radio in an attempt to hail any surviving Atlesian soldiers.
"Ma'am, we can't hold off the evacuation any longer. We have injured and they won't make it if we don't launch the bullheads now." A third soldier reported in to the overwhelmed lieutenant.
The lieutenant looked around. Civilians dotted the airway as medical personal ran between groups, children were crying, and some bodies had been covered by sheets. In front of her she could see more survivors trickling into the airport but the numbers were decreasing. Her own forces were just twenty soldiers, not an army; she could not hold the airport.
"No. I can't think that way. We will hold. We will get the civilians to safety." The woman thought to herself before turning towards her command.
"Begin the evacuation. Magenta, Saffron, Silver you're going with the bullheads. I want you in separate flights. If second platoon failed to tell Atlas what's going on then you will tell them yourself. I don't care if you have to drag them here." The Lieutenant ordered.
"Yes ma'am." The three soldiers said before running off to prep the bullheads.
"The rest of you fall in. Seven of you are going to help load the children and the injured into the bullheads. The rest of you, we are going to dig in. I don't want to see a single Grimm reach these civilians." She ordered.
"Yes ma'am."
"Good. Now move out."
It didn't take long for the bullheads to be loaded and in the air. They flew fast through the sky, traveling north towards Atlas.
However the evacuation would not have a peaceful flight. Nevermores would spot the flying vehicles over the burning Grimm infested town and pursue them, moving to attack the fleeing civilians.
"We have nevermores." The pilot of bullhead one said. The pilot was just one of the four pilots for the four bullheads in the air.
Outside of the bullheads the nevermores flew seeking to encircle their prey, their wings carrying them ever closer to the metal vehicles. It did not take long for the giant black bird like Grimm to reach them.
"Bullhead four, you have to shake them." The pilot of bullhead two said as a group of nevermores dived and fired their sharp feathers into the rear bullhead of the formation.
Bullhead four swerved in an attempt to dodge the nevermores' attack, dodging several of the giant feathers. "I'm trying. Ahh!" The pilot of bullhead four shouted as a feather hit one of her bullhead's wings. "We've been hit!"
"Can you still fly?" Bullhead one asked.
"Yeah, got a little turbulence but we can still fly. Like hell I'm crashing. I have children onboard." Bullhead four replied.
"Bullhead two watch out." Bullhead three shouted.
"Shit, they're on my flank. I can't…" Bullhead two didn't get to finish as the cockpit shattered under a hail of feathers. The pilot killed in the onslaught and likely destroying the controls.
Bullhead two with its payload of injured and the soldier named Magenta glided through the air, slowly losing altitude as it began to fall to the ground. Inside of the bullhead Magenta attempted to enter the cockpit, using her combat knife in an attempt to hack through the nevermore feathers in an attempt to reach the controls. As she desperately tried to reach the controls a building filled her vision and she closed her eyes before the bullhead crashed and exploded into a ball of flame.
"We've lost bullhead two. Bullhead four is taking their position." Bullhead four said softly after witnessing bullhead two crash into one Konoha's taller buildings.
"Roger bullhead four." Bullhead one stated.
As bullhead four accelerated to take the position of its fallen comrade one of the feathers stuck into its left wing shifted and an engine began to smoke. "Wait. Shit. I'm losing speed. The feather moved. I've losing my left engine." Bullhead four cried.
"Bullhead four, can you land back at the airport?" Bullhead one questioned.
"I think so. We sure as hell can't make it to Atlas." Bullhead four answered as turbulence began to shake the aircraft.
"Bullhead four if you're going to do something you have to do it now. Nevermores are almost on top of you." Bullhead three shouted.
"Hey. When you get to Atlas, make sure they come. Make the Grimm pay for this." Bullhead four stated solemnly.
Not two seconds later the nevermores reached the aircraft and latched on, tearing at it with their beaks, ripping the wings to shreds. The resulting explosion from a damaged dust line in the airship would cause an explosion that would take the bullhead, its cargo of children, and the attacking nevermores to the ground in a ball of flame.
"Hey soldier girl. Strap yourself in and open the door. You're our gun." The pilot of bullhead one shouted back before telling the surviving bullhead to do the same.
"Okay. Show me why I pay my taxes." Bullhead one said once the soldiers were ready.
"Nevermore coming up on our right." Bullhead three said.
"I see them. Bullhead three fly under me. Let's let the soldiers tear them a new one." Bullhead one ordered.
"Roger." Bullhead three responded.
Bullhead three maneuvered itself under bullhead one and waited. Soon the nevermores came, charging at the flying bullheads. Only this time the two bullheads fought back, Saffron and Silver firing their rifles into the giant crow like Grimms.
"I got one." Screamed Saffron as she shot down a nevermore the size of one of the bear like Grimm.
"Great. Now get the rest." The pilot of bullhead one said good-naturedly.
Soon the two ships moved in pattern, weaving their way through the sky, dodging the nevermores and their deadly feathers while making sure their gunners were facing the incoming threats, shooting down as many nevermores as they could.
Still the soldiers and pilots could not keep the bullheads unscathed. The nevermores would often shoot their feathers at the aircraft. Luckily despite the many feathers sticking out of the flying bullhead the feathers had not hit anything vital and the bullheads were able to stay in the air.
"I see the wall. We're almost out of here." The pilot of bullhead three announced to his passengers.
"Great. I'm running low on ammo anyw…" Silver tried to reply only for one of the next groups of passing nevermores to shoot their feathers. A lucky grouping of the feathers would travel through the opening in the bullhead, three of them spearing him; one through his leg, another through his chest, while the other would pass straight through his neck, beheading the man. The rest of the feathers would land amongst the children and injured, killing many.
"Silver you there? You still alive?... Shit I've lost Silver." The pilot of bullhead three said before patching in bullhead one.
"Bullhead one, I've lost my gunner."
"Roger, we'll cover you." Bullhead one replied.
"Saffron, you're the only gun we've got. Make your shots count." The pilot of bullhead one shouted back to his gunner.
"Got it." Saffron said to herself. She was now the only defense for the children and injured in the remaining bullheads, she would die before she allowed anymore of them to be killed.
"Holy shit. That's a big nevermore." Bullhead one screamed.
In front of the bullheads was the largest nevermore they had ever seen, bigger than some houses and it was coming right for them and it was bringing some angry friends.
Bullhead one turned angling itself so that Saffron could get a shot at the behemoth of a nevermore. The woman firing her weapon as soon as she saw the beast only for her shots to prove ineffective, the beast was too large, too powerful of a Grimm for simple bullets to kill.
Saffron angrily cried as she continued to fire at the giant nevermore as it approached her bullhead. She had failed; she didn't have the firepower to kill the evil creature about to attack her bullhead. She couldn't bear to watch as the children around her, the very children she had promised would be safe, died.
The nevermore would not reach bullhead one. Bullhead three accelerated and rammed into the beastie before it could reach bullhead one and began to drag it to the ground.
"Bullhead three what are you doing?" Bullhead one screamed.
"Saving as many as I can." Bullhead three shouted back.
"What!?"
"If you go down then we'd be defenseless. You need to live." Bullhead three fired back.
"You have children on board." Bullhead one fired back.
"Then may I burn in Hell. But it was all or some and I chose some." Bullhead three said before closing the channel.
The bullhead would carry the giant nevermore into the ground and explode, enveloping itself, its passengers, and the giant nevermore into flame.
Bullhead one would in turn gun the engines in an attempt to get away. Sadly the pilot, distressed from the loss of his friends would be unable to dodge the feathers that would lodge themselves into his engines. With the engines down he would be forced to crash land right outside of the wall.
Luckily for the passengers Saffron thought quickly before the bullhead crashed and sealed the door. An action that allowed her and several of the passengers to survive rather than be tossed out of the aircraft once they crashed. Once the crash was over she offered what medical help she could before she turned to the cockpit.
They had crashed in Grimm territory and she couldn't let the Grimm enter the crashed bullhead. Using the dead pilot for cover Saffron shot any Grimm that approached. Over time Saffron would run low on ammo and be forced to make a decision. Turning towards the survivors and more specifically the children she steeled herself before she ordered them to not make a sound and not to move, unless a human called out to them.
With the order given she dragged herself from the cockpit and attempted to lead the Grimm away by shouting and shooting at them before she ran away, knowing she would be sacrificing herself so that the survivors of bullhead one could live. Her effort would fail. The Grimm seeing the dead body of her pilot still entered the ship and began to attack the defenseless children and the wounded.
Saffron, realizing that her plan had failed would fight her way back to the bullhead where she would kill the Grimm inside but be gravely wounded. There she would lie by the entrance into the cargo, the cowering and bleeding survivors of the Grimms' onslaught behind her. She would watch the cockpit; she would not let anyone else through. She would not fail.
From his mother's arms Naruto observed what had become of his home, watched as the town he grew up in burned.
He listened to his mother as she cursed when the bullheads crashed.
He cringed when they passed the bodies of people he knew and those he didn't.
He tried to breathe through his mouth when the smell of burnt flesh assaulted his nose whenever they would pass a fire.
He felt frightened and hatred when he saw his mother deflect a passing Grimm, its body embellished by drips of red.
All he knew was that his mother had promised that when they reached the airport they would be safe, that the army and the hunters would be there to protect them.
When the airport was in sight his mother gave a sigh of relief before she dashed forwards. As they took in the airport, both of them found comfort in the sight of multiple Grimm corpses evaporating, as well as a dozen soldiers accompanied by a couple of Konoha's hunters.
For Naruto however it would be the sight of his dad that would truly make him happy. Squirming from his mother's arms he would dash over to the man and wrap his arms around him.
"Naruto. I'm glad to see your okay." Minato would smile before hugging his son back, a hug that Kushina would quickly join. The family had been reunited.
For the first time in what felt like hours Naruto smiled. Despite the death, despite the fires, despite the fear, he still had his family.
"They're coming again." The cry came from behind Naruto.
The soldiers fired their weapons at the approaching Grimm, slaughtering the leading beowolves and ursi.
"Boarbatusks!" A soldier cried.
From the hoard of Grimm at least a dozen of the boar like creatures curled into themselves and rolled at the line of soldiers. The soldiers attempted to kill them but their weapons could not pierce the armor. So seemingly unopposed the Grimm would crash through the soldiers, shredding many, a couple would even become stuck on a tusk as the creatures would continue to spin into the crowd of civilians.
With the line broken the Grimm poured through, killing soldier and civilian alike. The hunters tried their best but there was little they could do against such numbers and so unprepared. They had been lucky just to get their weapons after the wall fell.
Minato seemed to smile grimly before he took his weapon from his pants. A tri-bladed kunai and began to use his semblance, teleportation, to attack the surrounding Grimm. Effortlessly killing the unsuspecting Grimm, whether they be ursi, beowolves, or boarbatusks. He even began to attack a death stalker, using his teleportation to avoid getting hit by the deadly Grimm.
Kushina meanwhile would look at her son and the surrounding civilians. They were defenseless. She could kill however many Grimm she wanted but she wouldn't be able to stop them from killing the innocents. So steeling herself she called upon her semblance and used it to a greater degree than she ever had before.
Chains shot in front of Kushina, the somewhat translucent chains interlocking with each other as they formed a protective dome over herself, Naruto, and several dozen survivors.
Naruto could only watch in awe as his father killed Grimm after Grimm and his mother's chain dome held up against the attacks of dozens of Grimm. But Naruto also noticed that despite the numbers his father killed more Grimm would arrive and more people outside of his mother's dome would die. While his mother wasn't killing Grimm, she was currently saving the most lives.
It was when his father went to engage an unusually scarred and slightly big death stalker that things changed; his father's knife was unable to break his enemy's shell.
Minato caught in the open and tired from the constant use of his semblance was caught unprepared for the swipe of the death stalker's claw, his body flying across the hard asphalt of the airport and skipping a couple of times. Only Minato's aura stopping him from becoming a smear on the ground.
Getting up Minato looked at the approaching creature and activated his semblance, teleporting himself on top of the giant scorpion's tail. Bringing his knife down he planned to sever the stinger from the creature and have it bleed out or hopefully kill itself with its own weapon.
The death stalker would be too fast for the fatigued man. Feeling the presence on its tail it would swing its tail around wildly, forcing Minato to use both hands just to hold on. Eventually Minato would be flung in the direction of the dome and hit the ground hard.
Breathing hard Minato tried to feel for his aura only to come up empty. He had spent the last of his aura on teleporting and surviving being flung by the creature currently approaching. He had been fighting for too long, against too many opponents, he no longer had the aura to even use his semblance, much less take another blow.
Turning his head Minato saw Naruto, his face scrunched up with worry as he stared at him.
"No. Not in front of Naruto. Not until he is safe." Minato thought to himself. Turning his tri-bladed kunai into a pistol he opened fire on the death stalker, shooting it in the eyes.
With the creature blinded Minato used his superior reflexes and above average speed to close the distance between himself and the creature while dodging its mad attempts to hit him. His pistol changing back into its melee form Minato thrust his weapon forward into the eye of the giant scorpion like creature before burying his arm into the socket. After pushing his arm through the eye of the creature the beast stilled and fell dead.
Minato turned to give a tired smile to his son but life can be cruel. The relentless horde of Grimm was not willing to give the father a break and attacked. An ursa tackling the man to the ground with his arm still stuck in the eye of the evaporating death stalker.
Struggling to remove his arm and failing, Minato looked at his encroaching death. The ursa reeled back its right paw and swung, catching Minato across the face and twisting his head unnaturally. Minato, his face a bloody mess would give his last breathe staring into the horrified eyes of his son as the ursa roared in victory.
All around the survivors outside of the dome were dying as Kushina struggled to keep herself from breaking down at the death of her husband while also keeping her semblance active under the assault of so many Grimm. Kushina's higher than normal aura reserves were quickly approaching empty as she strained herself to keep the dome of chains active longer.
Then a miracle would happen. The Atlesian fleet arrived. The ships firing gatling guns into the crowd of Grimm while dropping squads of Atlesian Knight – 130s. The Atlesian Knight-130 is a humanoid robot that is mostly dark gray with red highlights around the face and chest area, and is armed with wrist mounted blades and a gun. These robots were quickly securing the perimeter under the guard of the Atlesian fleet.
Kushina herself would give out under the strain of holding the dome when the fleet arrived. As her tired form crumbled to the ground, Naruto noticed. When his mother hit the ground Naruto ran to her, hoping against hope that she was okay.
"Mom." Naruto said as he reached her and began to shake her tired body.
"Come on mom. The army's here, we're safe." Naruto continued as he shook his mother's tired body. He wasn't leaving to safety without his mother. He had already lost his dad and his friends; he would not lose her too.
Kushina opened bleary eyes to her son shaking her before widening her eyes and grabbing her son, quickly reversing their positions. A splash of blood hit Naruto's face.
From behind Kushina, Naruto could see a lone beowolf with its jaws around her neck and one its claws through her side. Kushina had seen the creature just as it was about to attack her son and taken the hit for him.
"Are you alright?" Kushina manages to choke out with a smile even as the beowolf was shot off of her by one of the Atlesian knights and the beowolf's jaws ripped her neck even further as it separated.
"Mom." Naruto said with tears in his eyes.
Kushina still smiling and now pressing a hand to her neck reached out and rubbed her son's hair. "Don't be silly, it's a mother's job to protect her child."
Naruto unable to speak through his sadness collapsed into her lap and cried.
"Naruto, I want you to do something for me." Kushina manages to say her own eyes tearing up slightly at the sight of her son.
Naruto only stares up at his mother from her lap and nods, tears still rolling down his eyes.
"I want you to be happy. Don't blame yourself for what happened. Find a girl and have a family. Create lots of stories that you can tell me about later. Just be happy. Promise me." Kushina chokes out. Her voice breaking slightly as her strength began to leave her.
"I promise mom." Naruto says trying to smile for his mother.
"I love you, sweetie." Kushina says as her eyes began to close.
"I love you too." Naruto says softly, as Kushina's eyes finally closed. On her face you could see a smile as she heard son's goodbye.
"Colonel, you asked for the after action report." A lieutenant in Atlas's army said as he handed a report to Colonel Ironwood.
Colonel James Ironwood, a rapidly rising star in the Atlas military as well as the headmaster of Atlas Academy, the school that trains future huntsman and huntresses. He is also a tall man with black hair that wears a white overcoat over a gray suit with a red tie, with a white glove over his right arm.
"Nearly a whole town massacred. This shouldn't have happened." Ironwood mumbled to himself as he read the report.
"Lieutenant, is this Pvt. Saffron comfortable?" Ironwood asked after examining further into the report. When they had sent the Atlesian knights further into Konoha to look for more survivors they had found her nearly dead, guarding three injured children in a destroyed bullhead. She had actually destroyed one of the knights thinking it was a Grimm. Perhaps a nicer looking model would be more appropriate to avoid such situations.
"Yes sir. But I suspect that she will wish to resign after we have finished treating her injuries. She was pretty shook up." The lieutenant answered.
"And the survivors?" Ironwood asked.
"Of a population of nearly eight thousand people less than two hundred survived. We are doing our best to provide medical care. I ordered that we pay particular attention to the children. Even then some might not make it through the night." The lieutenant said. His tone becoming soft once he mentioned the children.
"Good. I don't want those children alone after what they've seen…Still this should not have happened." Ironwood said as his ship flew over the ruined remains of Konoha.
"Sir with all due respect, there was nothing you could have done and you did save lives. You did more than anyone expected, you may even get promoted." The lieutenant finished before leaving the colonel to his thoughts.
"Promoted, nothing I could have done. Hmm…" Ironwood pondered out loud, his mind already trying to figure out how he can make it so that something like this will never happen again.
So I hope you liked the prologue to this story, admittedly it wasn't supposed to be this long and was supposed to actually include Weiss (you will meet her next chapter).
Naruto will not be OP or godlike in this story like he seems to be in crossovers.
As for pairings, my plan is to put Naruto together with Weiss which is part of the reason why he grew up in the Kingdom of Atlas.
Naruto's weapons will either be butterfly swords or sickles. I am also debating whether to make a five person team or throw in three OCs when it comes to making a team for Beacon.
Finally Grimm will be slightly more powerful in here than in the show, though Zwei will remain a beast because he is awesome (yes that is a horrible reason)