Hello there my friends, and welcome to another story conjured up by your ever poor-time-management-skilled humble writer ShadowsEdge :D. So, i actually thought up the plot for this story when i was registering for summer courses *shrugs* go figure. I know it's starting off pretty similar to many of the crossover fics on here, and i apologize for that, but i wanted to have some familiarity for those readers who have a really hard time with stories that go no where near the original.
So, just a heads up, this will be a fic that will go in a very strange direction, and there will be multiple characters from the Naruto verse making appearances and sticking in the story. I haven't actually completely decided on the pairings, but i do know 'tis shall be a harem-fic. Yes yes i know, a lot of them already on here, boo hoo go cry me a river.
Now, the warnings. Probable wincest (High probability of incest). Lots of lemons (Because there must be sex), such perv, much hentai. Gore (Because there must be gore.) and probable torture, slight insanity with some characters/obsession-ok you know what, it's Rated M. Let's go with that.
Aside from that, there will be a slight integration of songs, and that's basically it. The rest you will have to wait and see *laughs evilly*. Oh and I made a slight change to the age that Naruto and Ruby were found for plot-related purposes, I didn't realize i messed that up until i was writing the second chapter. For you first timers, that won't matter until the next chapter anyway, so just enjoy the ride.
On with the story!
I own NOTHING of the characters or stories aside from the ideas here!
Chapter One: Pompeii Nights
"O~h they have the new high-penetration dual-layered tempered dust core rounds in fifty caliber?!" a pale girl with porcelain for skin and silver eyes cheered out in an increasingly speeding fashion while her voice raised an octave with every other word that came out of her light-pink lips.
The start of a fast rock song could be heard from the black and red headphones she had on as the young teen did a little happy dance while staring at the display case with a dreamy look ~This will be the day, Casey Lee Williams/Jeff Williams~. That was exactly what she was looking for!
The young girl had jet black hair with red highlights that seemed to go up the strands of her hair more in some locks than others, and the bangs on the right sight of her head reached her shoulders while the left side was cut shorter to where it only framed her small, innocent face.
She had on a black combat dress that ended in a skirt with a frilly blood-red underskirt and wore a black corset over it with swirling rose pedal designs in red with crimson strings that kept it fit tightly to her body, somewhat masking her borderline C-cup breasts. She had just under knee-high combat heeled-boots that also had red laces, and covering her body entirely if you looked at her from behind was a red cloak with its hood down, rose-vine designs lining its' hem, and crucifix fastenings connecting it to her attire was held together by a small silver chain that looped into her blouse making the lacey collar she was wearing stick out.
Completing the gothic look she had going on was a black leather belt that looked to be a little too big for her and had multiple compartments that held sizable magazines and a small tube-like item about the length of her hand from palm/wrist to her fingertips. On the back of her belt was a large rectangular red and obsidian…thing. On the front and shifted a bit over to side for style, sat a beautifully crafted rose-shaped belt buckle that gleamed from the pure silver that it was made from. In the center of the rose sat a blood-red stone that made the piece of craftsmanship all the more exotic.
"Can't wait to tell Ya~ng, I'll be all like 'He~y check out my awesome-"
The doorbell rang and alerted the shop-keep of another customer.
"Hello, welcome to From Dust 'Till Dawn, feel free to browse my wares and let me know of any questions you may have young man."
A young male with silky black hair endowed with the same red highlights as the girl swooning in the ammunition section and looked somewhere between fifteen or seventeen as he nodded to the polite shop-keep. The handsome young man smiled just a bit as he caught sight of the girl in the red cloak. His hair was up in smooth spikes whose locks of silky ebony and crimson hair seemed to be unable to decide whether to stand straight up in spikes, or come down to shadow his exotic silver eyes in various areas of his spikes/bangs.
He walked up to the girl clad in red that was absolutely fawning over the new shipment of military-grade explosive rounds, and sauntered up to her side, the two rapping their arms around each other like tangled roots instinctively.
"Sorry I took so long Ruby, the smith at the Outfitters didn't want to let Bloody Rose out of his sights."
One Ruby Rose turned to the boy of striking similarity to her with a smile, music blasting out of the ear-bud that wasn't in so she could retain awareness of her surroundings, "That's ok Naruto, I wouldn't let that masterpiece out of my sights either!" Ruby giggled as she went back to deciding what type of round she was going to stock up on while the boy named Naruto gave her another smile. Their beaming faces sharing the unmistakable resemblance of twins, albeit Naruto's face was a little more angular and sharp while Ruby's was more round and feminine.
The only thing that was widely different in the twins faces, were the sets of three jagged scars that ran across both of Naruto's cheeks, making it look like he had whiskers.
Naruto was wearing an outfit similar to his sister's. His pants were black as was his shirt, and he wore a matching coat that bore the same gothic designs in red that his sister had on her corset. Though while Ruby's designs depicted rose pedals that seemed to dance in the wind, Naruto's clothing depicted elegant crimson rose vines that ran along the trim of the bottom of his jacket, the tips of his sleeves, and along both sides of the buckles that went down the middle of his jacket which kept it from flying off or around him while he fought as well as the hem of his hood.
The interior of his clothing being blood red just like his sister's. On his back, a full-sized rose in the center of a maelstrom of wickedly thorned rose-vines and pedals stood under a crescent moon. A crimson sash that served as a belt as well, was his attire's defining feature as opposed to his sister's cloak, and there was a bit of excess fabric that went down along his right leg stopping at halfway down his thigh. Finally, a compact black and crimson metal object settled along the back of his beltline completed his outfit with a small tactical harness that held it in place.
Lastly, a silver cross with a hint of metallic-grey hung just above the center of his chest with a blood-red stone, identical to the one that his sister's piece of jewelry bore, set in the center. The inch-and-a-half long cross was littered in beautifully detailed roses that were interconnected with pedals and vines when inspected closely.
Naruto chuckled, bumping Ruby in the shoulder with his own, "That's because you pretty much built it sis."
The weapon fanatic bumped her brother's shoulder in return, "I only built the frame and gave you a few pointers on the parts that go into the weapon morphing process and what not. All the dust-integration capabilities is your doing."
The taller and spiky-haired sibling blushed lightly from the praise as his eyes locked onto the rounds that his sister was inspecting, "I suppose." Naruto was five-foot six-inches tall, a good height for an almost-sixteen year-old, while Ruby was five-foot two-inches eleven inches.
Ruby decided that she couldn't decide which type of round she was going to buy, so that of course meant that she would buy both the high explosive and the high density rounds. "I still don't know how you manage to do everything you do with dust integration in your weaponry."
"I told you that I'd be happy to show you how to retrofit Crescent Rose into a dust-morph weapon." Naruto said as he allowed his sister to fiddle with the sleeve of his left hand which she currently had hovering over her chest, said twin was probably now deciding how many rounds she was going to buy since she was buying both types. He figured that by the focused stare she was doing as she plucked out the strands of string that were sticking out, however few of them there were left anyway.
Ruby blew a bang away from her eye as she turned and headed to the cashier, pulling on Naruto's sleeve for a moment before both twins fell in step with one another almost as soon as they started walking. "Nah It's ok, you're the dust guru. I like to keep it old school." She teased with a smile.
Both sets of silver eyes gazed at each other with amusement as Naruto replied, "Suit yourself."
The siblings made their way to the front desk, Ruby started a little chat with the elderly cashier while Naruto occupied himself with checking out the different types of dust in the shop. He was already stocked up pretty well, but he was always on the lookout for Natural dust crystals. It was hard to find a genuine dug up crystal in shops nowadays since the Schnee Corporation had been mass-producing engineered crystals in numerous different types since the first Faunus war. That kind of production over a good century of its instillation made it to where dust distribution in the colonies almost always had the Schnee logo on the side of it.
Naruto shook his head. It was crazy, he and his sister would've never even come close to thinking about corporations or anything that happened inside the colonies in general. Mostly because, he and his sister didn't grow up in the colonies. They didn't grow up anywhere near Vale or the small island community they now lived at with their father and half-sister. Hell, for he longest time, Naruto and Ruby didn't know they had a family or even parents to begin with.
For the longest time, all they had was each other…
Naruto put up his hood as he popped in his headphones on one side, not at all hearing the music playing though the volume was up fairly high. 'It's been almost four years since Father found us. Four years since we've lived behind walls, in a city of concrete, metal, and lights.' He looked over to his sister, taking in the sight of her smile and the way her eyes shined as if it were the last time he'd ever get to see them like that. Selfishly taking in the sight of her happy face, milking it for all it was worth.
It was one of the only things that kept the memories of the glowing red eyes of grimm circling and closing in around her helpless and bloodied form in the middle of the godforsaken forests that they had survived in as children, before the dark depths of the forest around them came to live with the angry glow of flames and rage.
Naruto blinked, and looked down as he slowly unclenched his fist that had been shaking with the memories of before he and his sister had been found in the middle of the wilds of Vytal, and brought to live in Patch which was on the eastern coastline of the continent. He uncurled his hand, and saw that he had nearly dug his nails into his palm to the point of drawing blood.
The bell to the door chimed and gained Naruto's attention, silver eyes narrowed to a point looked over the group of men that walked in, and an eyebrow raised at the sight of a fedora, a white suit, and orange hair.
The shop keep turned a happy gaze to the group of men walking in, not really paying attention to who they were and more so at the fact that he was getting more customers than usual. He knew he had a good feeling about changing the hours of the shop to accommodate the nightlife, "Hello, welcome to-"
The old owner was thoroughly ignored as the man in the expensive looking suit twirled a burgundy colored cane and spun around as men in black suits and red ties poured in behind him. Naruto's face turned into a cold glare as he immediately went to back up his sister. If he knew her like he thought he did, Ruby was going to start some trouble with these thugs.
"Alright boy's, put your robber-panties on and get to work." The flashy criminal grew a smirk on his face as he twirled his ever present cane, "Gents, we are commandeering this store!" the man ordered and announced as he took off his expensive hat and gave an overly dramatic bow.
Ruby was oblivious to the new development as she had popped in both earbuds and was rocking out while she waited to be rung up. She was mumbling something about just getting new rounds in tune with the song that she was listening to earlier…that had never stopped…because she had it on repeat. What? She was trying to get the lyrics down!
The man in the white suit strolled right by Ruby without so much as a blink in her direction as he headed around the desk to have a chat with the owner of the place.
Meanwhile one of the goons that had walked in behind who Naruto could only assume was the leader, he was currently forming a plan of attack since his sister was clueless to what was happening thanks to her headphones WHICH HE'D WARNED HER ABOUT BEFORE, walked up to ruby as he swung the red sword that he had into his hand in a very 'tough guy' fashion.
"Hey, you!"
The henchmen looked at Ruby in disbelief as she continued to head-bang with her eyes closed, completely ignoring him, to the music she was listening to as Naruto calmed down a bit. He counted a dozen men…and was relieved. These guys looked, acted, and smelled like bouncers that worked at one of those bars that Yang and her friends like to go to because they don't check I.D. This wasn't going to be a problem at all.
The orange-haired man had made his way to the cashier's side of the front desk by this time, and grabbed a red lollipop from the elderly man's counter, "Thank you, kind sir. I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you…" the criminal twirled the candy in his fingers before sticking it in his mouth, "That Roman Torchwick, that's me by the way, will be putting your wares to very good use."
Almost immediately after he said that, one of the men he hired called out to him, "Boss, we got a probugh!"
Roman's eye twitched as he turned around, "We got a what?" before his face scrunched up in confusion.
Ruby made a cute angry face after kicking the goon that had knocked her out of her rocking trance away and turned to her brother, watching as he got one of the henchmen that had the misfortune of crossing his path into a submission hold. "Hey Naru! This guy tried to rob me!"
Roman looked on to see a teen in black and red like the young girl he walked passed, holding one of the men he hired in a particularly painful looking submission-hold with his left arm constricting the man's throat, his right arm behind the man's back while holding the henchman's other arm in an awkward angle, and had the man's legs kicked out to where he was completely in the boy's control.
Naruto's face was set in a hard glare, but chuckled a bit as his eyes traveled over to Ruby, "Did it work?" he asked even though everyone in the room, including himself, knew the answer to that.
The corset-wearing sibling smiled as she reached behind her back, and pulled out her sniper-scythe Crescent Rose and morphed it from its compact state to its full size. Ruby used the weapon that was twice the size of her body as a brutal looking walking-stick, setting it on the floor with a loud clang! And shook her head with a cheeky grin, "No!"
Roman looked back to the boy who looked a lot like the girl with the crazy looking scythe, having absolutely NO idea what was going on.
Naruto jerked the henchman's right-arm upwards, dislocating it with a deep pop and a resulting cry of pain before smiling back at his sister, "Same here!"
"Kill him!" Torchwick ordered frantically after coming back to his senses. Who the hell were these kids? "Kill big red and the little red too!" was this supposed to be some sort of joke? Well over the guys' that he hired dead bodies! Nobody makes a fool out of Roman Torchwick and gets away with it!
~Injection, by Rise Against~
Ruby and Naruto scowled at the degrading name, but only the former voiced her opinion of it, "Hey!"
And like that, she immediately dove into an elegant game of fluid movement and graceful technique with her combat booted feet just itching to smash some faces.
The goons Roman had brought with him all charged in with the knives, chains and swords that were at their disposal.
Roman smirked a little as Naruto, who he deemed as big red, was surrounded by six of his hired men while the other five were being led outside by the young girl in red and black. He had done a double take on the weapon that she pulled out of freaking nowhere and just stared at it as she bolted outside with a trail of rose pedals in her wake.
Unfortunately, Ruby wasn't as good as her brother was in hand-to-hand combat and needed a lot more room to fight effectively than what the dust shop had to offer.
While Ruby ventured outside, Naruto was stuck inside with the slight majority of henchmen. Which he didn't mind since that meant his sister would be safer, but, that did spell one particular problem for him.
'Damn, I don't want to throw these guys around too much in here, if at all. Dust and sudden impacts do not go well together.' Making up his mind on what to do, Naruto rushed forward and rolled over one of the henchmen who was stupid enough to try and meet him head on, a very good evasive maneuver that the only person that Naruto and Ruby knew before their father found them, had taught him as a kid.
Using his left hand, Naruto twisted the henchman's left hand as a counter to the swing that he had tried to land on him, having rolled along the same arm's shoulder; the momentum of an enemy's attack was much easier to deal with if moved along with it, instead of against it was what he had been taught. Naruto held onto the hand with an iron grip and planted his feet, tugging on the arm that he still had in his grasp in an arc and slammed the grunt to the ground with enough force to knock the air of him.
He heard a few pops and knew for certain that he had either broken that guys arm, or dislocated it with the way he tugged it in a direction that the arm could only rotate to so much. Two down, only five to go counting the one he took out from the start.
Turning with another blow that was intended for his head; kicking the downed henchman in the head as he manipulated the poorly trained goon's punch to move him in the same line of attack, Naruto tripped the guy most recent to attack him simultaneously. He stole a quick glance outside to see Ruby more than holding her own against the pathetic brawlers that definitely had to be bouncers.
He smiled at her use of the counterforce of her scythe to change her direction and increase her speed in an instant. It had taken them both a while to get used to that style of fighting, but Naruto could happily admit that his sister was the better of the two with the way she used her scythe in her and their Uncle's mostly momentum based style.
Most of the time she capitalized on the sudden burst of speed with a well-placed kick to one of her opponent's heads. Naruto did something along the same lines to that, but his style of scythe fighting was still very much different from his sister's.
The ebony and crimson haired teen dropped low and did a backwards sweeping kick, knocking a second thug off his feet and elbowed the back of his head as he fell, knocking him unconscious and making him flip the other way in turn. Two of the other henchmen rushed him from the front while another came in from behind, with the other two preparing their weapons and waiting to get their turn at him.
"You little bastard!"
"I'm gonna fuck you up!"
Naruto leaped into the air, rolling over one of his opponents again and kicking the one beside him to the ground with his right leg with a solid thud as the drunken fighter's back hit the floor flush.
Aside from the little aces of his sleeves, Naruto had yet to discover a weapon that he was better at fighting with than his own two hands since he was still working out the kinks with his mostly self-made weapon, Bloody Rose. It used to be a Sniper-scythe that was just like his sister's, but he just couldn't completely sync with the repulsive-force technique that Ruby and their Uncle Qrow used. So, he recently gave his scythe a major tune-up…which he would gladly give a field test if he could get outside.
But alas, he had to look out for the old shop-keep, because he knew Ruby would be mad at him if he didn't.
'God these drunks have no center of balance.' He thought as he tripped a henchman that shakily gotten back up on his feet behind him as soon as he got back to his base after rolling over one of the other stumbling goons, and quickly slid his right foot back to hook onto the brawler's left, giving a sharp elbow/shoulder-barge that sent him scrambling to the floor.
The fools moved sloppy, and wasted almost all of their movement; not at all possessing the ferocity that his strikes held.
The two remaining grunts that were now back onto their swaying legs, looked at each other and then back at the black and red wearing Naruto who was tearing them down one and even two at a time. The spikey-haired Rose sibling settled into a readied stance with his left fist extended out and bent at the elbow, level with his chest, while bringing his right hand eight inches away from his head, just below being level with his chin with his fingers half-way curled. The shadowed silver of his crucifix-necklace gleaming as he cracked his neck.
By this time, Roman stopped gathering the dust crystals that were near the cashier's desk and took on a grim look. 'Shit.' Striding outside at a good pace, Roman was startled when one of his hired thugs hit the wall beside him with a loud smack, and slid down with a groan.
"What the hell?" the cane-bearing criminal surveyed his hired men with a frown on his face that turned to a scowl, all of the henchmen were sprawled out and groaning in pain outside as well, "You guys were worth every cent I paid for you…" his green eyes traveled over to a pumped up Ruby with a self-satisfied grin on her face, standing in the middle of the empty street with three of the five thugs that she had beaten into a pulp laying scattered around the area around her. "Grrr!"
Roman twirled his cane and let it slide so that he was holding it by its handle, the tip of his cane opened up to reveal a barrel of a gun while a reticle popped up just before the barrel, "Isn't it passed your bed time?!"
Ruby's satisfied smile turned into an instant scowl at the remark on her age, and quickly twirled her giant scythe in flowing swirls around her body to block the heated dust rounds that were fired at her, courtesy of Roman Torchwick. 'Oh no, lethal rounds!'
~Doomsday by Atreyu~
Roman spent the next several seconds playing a shooting variant of whack-a-mole with the humble Ruby Rose, only he was making the holes for the moles to pop out of since the girl in the red cloak was dodging every explosive round fired in her direction with a trail of what looked to be rose pedals in her wake.
"God-*boom* dammit! *crack* Stay! *boom* Still!"
Ruby was slightly panicked right now. She was no stranger to gun fire, having been something of a prodigy alongside her brother during her training back at Signal academy, but lethal rounds were reserved for use against grimm only. It had been a very long time since she'd fought against another human who was trying to kill her.
Having had enough of playing around, Roman reached into his pocket and pulled out a decently sized blaze dust-crystal, and tossed it in Ruby's direction.
While he was about to shoot it, he saw a swift moving shadow in the corner of his eye, his lone-eye widened when it turned out that Narutowas in the air and correcting his body after tossing the dust crystal backin his direction!
"Burn!"
Roman barely blinked before firing a scattering shot towards the crystal in a desperate attempt to save his skin, and hoped for the best.
"Woah!-" Ruby yelped as her body was both knocked in the air, and wrapped by a pair of strong muscular arms that felt very much like her brother's. Her vision going from a Roman Torchwick who had just fired a shot, to a blur of wall and billboard signs before stairs and a broken moon were the only things in her sight.
The blaze crystal blew up mid-air in a ball of violent flames, the force of which set off more than a few car alarms, and sent the groaning henchmen flying in different directions with parts of their clothing igniting in turn.
The twins soared through the air a ways before landing on what Ruby could make out as a hard masculine body, and was rolled onto her back as a whistling sound came roaring in. The sound made her instinctually shut her eyes, and the resulting sound of metal meeting flesh at high speedsand a grunt of pain made her flinch as she let out a yelp of both surprise and fear to go with it. Tonight was a whole new territory than what she was used to. For one thing, grim didn't explode cars.
She slowly opened her eyes after an hour-long second, only for them to snap open as far as they could when the sight of spiky locks of black and red hair waving about with the residual drafts of having a sudden burst of superheated air gust around. Two pairs of silver orbs stared into each other with concern, one set of silver orbs were narrowed into those of a hawk as Naruto scanned his sister's body for injury, while Ruby's eyes were wide with shock.
"Are you alright?"
The now hoodless Naruto surveyed their surroundings with his peripherals as he kept eye contact with Ruby. That door had been sent flying before Ruby had registered what happened, the shock of everything happening so fast and the fact that she wasn't fighting a grim who would just try to pounce on her was throwing her off a bit, and would have been seriously hurt by that door if her crazy brother hadn't discarded all notions of safety for his own well-being.
"N-naru!" Ruby stammered out as she saw movement in her peripherals and looked on to see the remaining three henchmen spilling out of the dust store after them. The smaller framed twin slid out from underneath her brother and motioned for him to stay at least on a knee so that she could check his wound, "Look what you did! You have a really bad gash on your back!"
Naruto's eye twitched as he gave his sister a look, "What I did?"
The twin with the seven-foot scythe in her hands let the blade of her weapon sink into the street as she whipped around with righteous fury in her eyes, choosing to try that again and pretending as if she had never blamed her brother for being hit by a car door that was intended to her by lady fate who was being ever so cruel this evening, "Look what you did to my brother!"
Naruto got up as his sister attempted to burn Roman with her glare alone before noticing a slight increase in the number of able bodied henchmen surrounding them.
"Ruby, back to back!"
Immediately Naruto pulled out a rectangular obsidian metal object from his beltline, underneath his sash, as if drawing a gun and the hunk of metal quickly revealed itself to be a scythe that looked just as menacing as the one in his sister's hands, if not even more so.
The scythe was a little longer than Rubies, and a good bit heavier, but the most notable difference aside from color was the design of the blade. While Ruby's Crescent Rose had a blade that was made up of seven different blades that ran in two tight fit rows into a sickle-like edge and a sturdy frame, Naruto's Bloody Rose used nine different blades that stacked up on both sides of a single blade with grooves set into the sides, with the other eight bearing the same grooves as the main blade and a partly open frame built to be able to move up and down the metal cord-looking rod that was in the center of the scythe's pole.
The interlocking parts of the frame looked to be able to shift in order to change the weight distribution in the scythe during combat, but they also had a somewhat blade-ish looking design to them also which made the henchmen that were now looking between each other again feel very weary of 'Big Red', including Roman, now that his weapon was out.
Ruby responded and moved to her brother's call with extra vigor, "Kay!"
The resulting groan from Ruby actually backing up into her brother made her give him an apologetic face though he couldn't see it, "Sorry!"
Ruby blocked an incoming swing of a chain with a metal ball at the end of it, and twisted her scythe around so that it wouldn't get caught, kicking at the thug's shin as she did so. Naruto hit him with the side of the bottom of his scythe being mindful of the spike at the very bottom of it, "Ow." He muttered as the sting from having his wound bashed by his ever speeding sister was barely subsiding.
The corset-bearing girl weaved her massive weapon around to block a strike coming in from her right and hit another henchmen that had decided to join the fray. Both twins needed to mind the incoming shots from the fedora wearing criminal as well, which was making things a lot more annoying than it should be.
Naruto swept one of the henchmen in front of him off his feet before having to block another one's sword. His left hand had to move from the frame of his scythe to catch and twist said henchmen's hand, breaking the wrist before head-butting him away after hearing the knife that the goon once held fall to the street floor.
"Told 'ya you needed to work on your hand-to-hand." Naruto commented out of the blue as he hit another henchmen on the side of the knee with the back of the tip of Bloody Rose, breaking or tearing something if not the man's knee entirely.
It was Ruby's turn for her eye to twitch as she thrust the top of Crescent Rose into a henchmen's stomach before hitting him in the side of the head after he curled into himself with the side of her massive blade like it were a brutal looking hockey stick, "I'm working on it!"
Naruto was starting to get impatient with fighting mindless brawlers and blocking or dodging dust rounds at the same time, and decided to break them apart after both he and Ruby ducked under another fire-ball shot courtesy of Roman, "Ruby!"
The twin sister nodded and raised her scythe back over her head as she prepared herself. Naruto swung Bloody Rose around in an arc, the blade of his scythe interlocking with his sisters, and flung her to a group of three henchmen who were collecting their bearings a ways away.
Naruto spun around and narrowed his eyes at a goon that was a decent distance away as he parried a strike to his left, and did a sharp flick of his wrist as another thug charged him. A quiet ejecting sound that was noticeable only to him, clicked as he redirected a swipe of a red sword. He kneed the man in the gut, making him bend at the waist, and rolled over him as he pushed him further behind him with a kick to the ass.
Time slowed down as his heart thundered in his chest. Naruto glared at the thug who was almost done putting the silencer on a pistol, and felt his weapon shift as parts of his scythe separated and formed back around a thick metallic cord that was elongating, which ran through the inside of his scythe, while eight of his scythe's blades split into two separate teeth-like blades that travelled along the thick metal whip with the final instrument of death resting at the tip as it separated into two parts as well. Naruto twirled the bladed-whip form of Bloody Rose and spun around on his heel to give it more momentum.
'I am not in the mood for another gun!'
Naruto pressed a glowing red button on the grip of Bloody Rose, and a flame traveled from the base of it as the rest of his newly outfitted weapon wrapped around in glowing red blades that ran along a blazing metal whip. The goon that was now aflame, and halfway shredded after naruto ripped his transformed scythe out of his body, had the great misfortune of having a molotov on his person as well.
Ruby had just gotten done obliterating the thugs that decided to continue to fight her as well, and looked over the scene to see if Roman could be spotted since he hadn't shot at either of them in a while. Hearing cursing in the distance, she turned around and saw the man in the white coat that shot at her a bunch of times climbing up the ladder on the side of a nearby building, trying to get to the roof. "There!"
Ruby ignored the sight of the man who had stopped screaming as his body still burned, and watched in fascination as Naruto's scythe retracted into itself and morph back into a scythe as he twirled it while he ran. The twins pursued the wanted fugitive, and Ruby caught sight of the large gash on her brother's back as they made their mad dash to the ladder twenty yards away. "Does it still hurt?" she asked in an extremely worried tone. 'I'll get better Naru, I promise!'
Naruto ignored the sting of air hitting his already pretty much healed-up wound and the uncomfortable sensation of having it move around while he was running, "I'll be fine. Now get in my arms." He responded calmly, but firmly as they neared the fire-escape Torchwick used to get to the roof.
Ruby's face scrunched up in confusion. She had no qualms with cuddling with her brother, but here? Now of all times? "Huh?"
Rolling his eyes, Naruto picked his sister up bridal-style, earning a slightly red face from Ruby as she let out a 'wah!' of surprise. Naruto squatted down with his sister in his arms as he got near to the building, "Slash on my back remember? We're jumping up there."
Between the two of them, Naruto had way more aura, so using it to boost his strength and speed to jump up there was smartest since Ruby's fighting style required her to stay in motion thus using up more of her reserves.
"O~h, yeah. 'Kay!"
Shaking his head at his sister's antics, Naruto launched them three-fourths of the way up the front side of the five story L-shaped building, getting an excited 'Wooo!' from Ruby, and rebounded off of the wall on the right to land in the center of the roof.
The cloak-wearing sibling shouted at the fleeing criminal almost immediately after he set her down, "Hey you, stop running!"
The fedora wearing man turned to the duo with a smirk, cavalry was already here. "It was fun playing with you kiddies, but Mr. Roman has to catch his business flight!"
The sound of jet engines wailed in the area, and the roof top was soon pounded by a constant stream of warm air. A smug chuckle came from Roman as a Bullhead settled down a story or two above him, "Get home safe now!"
Roman tossed another, even bigger blaze crystal at the scythe twins as he hopped into the Bullhead that was now just hovering over the roof.
Naruto glared as he morphed Bloody Rose into its compact form, and quickly put it away as he took a readied stance with his knees slightly bent and as a mysterious red glow radiated out the slight gaps in the collar of his shirt around his neck, 'Damn! I really hate doing this out in the open!'
Ruby got behind her brother, watching as he brought his left hand up with is fingers somewhat stretched out as if he were grasping some invisible object. Roman watched in fascination as the dust crystal he had thrown suddenly halted in mid-air and levitated in place, with a sort of thrum of energy coming off it in increasingly sporadic waves that made it look like it was becoming unstable.
Naruto closed his eyes as he clenched his raised hand into a fist, and made a swiping throwing motion as he unfurled his hand, making it look like he let something go.
A mature looking women with curly blonde hair landed on the roof and sent a wave of purple energy with the ladle that was in her right hand just as the floating crystal shined almost excruciatingly bright and exploded, sending a spiraling and intertwining cloud of serpentine flames and embers towards Roman and the bullhead he was on.
"Holy shii~t!" the flamboyant criminal cried as he latched onto one of the several nylon hand-grips that hung from the ceiling of the aircraft, nearly falling out of it as the agile helicopter maneuvered away from the blast.
The pale-skinned twins watched the new arrival as she formed a protective glyph that was intended to block the force and flames of the blast, only for virtually none said flames or blast to hit it, making the woman blink in surprise and confusion as to what the hell just happened. The green-eyed woman pushed up her glasses after blocking the blast and rolled her eyes at the rather crude, at least in her opinion, use of dust and gave a feminine grunt of annoyance at the wasted effort.
Everyone except Ruby missed the dimming orangeish-red glow coming out of Naruto's collar and sleeves before it vanished completely…though there was a pretty good chance that even Ruby missed the sight of her brother's semblance since she was staring at the blonde huntress with an almost worshiping look with her mouth agape in awe.
It took some effort on her part, but the newly arrived huntress ignored the cold look that the boy who was shielding, who she distinguished as probably his sister, with his body and in a readied stance with what looked like a whip from hell that he drew from behind his back the moment he recovered from whatever he had done to that dust crystal.
Meanwhile, Roman grumbled something about crazy red-brats and their annoying super-semblances charring up his suit as he climbed into the pilot seat after his 'associate' told him to 'Make his filet mignon ass useful' and ordered him to take the wheel. Or throttle, whatever the cool looking thing that made the Bullhead move was called, not like he paid much attention to the specifics, he just knew how to fly the damn thing.
Walking passed the wide-eyed girl and her crazed sibling, she then waved her ladle again in a quick series of swirls, and sent tiny missiles of purple energy crashing into the Bullhead with a slight 'Hmph.' of disregard towards Naruto.
Ruby took the time to look over her brother as he switched Bloody Rose back into its scythe form, he still needed to tinker with his weapon's alternate form.
The blonde woman glanced their way as she bombarded the bullhead with her purple energy projectiles, 'These kids have no idea what they're up against.'
She was soon forced to immediately form another defensive glyph when she saw a bright amber silhouette of a woman glow dangerously from within the open space of the small craft's interior. 'Another dust-user!' she thought alarmingly. Having two caster-styled huntresses fighting in the same area was never good. ('caster' is just the category name that I picked for hunters who use dust in spell-like attacks since I couldn't find one on Wikipedia or the official website)
The twins in black and red huddled into each other's arms to block the light from the intense heat of a large, almost lava-like fireball that was fired at them. Ruby was amazed by both displays of skill and power, while Naruto narrowed his eyes at the woman in the bullhead weaving another dust attack. 'That blaze looked like liquid fire before it hit, and it seemed as if shards of glass were mixed in along with it.'
While Naruto was analyzing the dust manipulation that was going on, Ruby's eyes locked onto the battle that was going on around the air craft in wonder. The huntress that had come to the siblings' aid was being blocked at every move she made to bring it down.
Naruto focused his vision on the archaic symbols and designs that lit up the woman's form in a symmetrical fashion down her limbs and various parts of her body, making his blood run cold, 'I know those markings!' he grabbed his sister's face and turned it toward the woman in red, which garnered a look of equal shock from his twin.
Ruby's form froze as the mysterious caster sent a hail of the strange flame and lava-glass dust, 'Why does she have those? No, scratch that, how does she have those?!'
Finally, after a few more of the 'Professor' looking huntress's energy projectiles were blocked alongside a few rounds from Ruby's sniper rifle, the woman's silhouette lit up in an angry glowing amber as her clothes lit up with archaic design that began from her chest as if they were hot coals and revealed a fiery red dress.
Only a single, glowing orange eye could be seen of the woman's face and raven-colored hair draping down her left shoulder as spiraling red-glyphs appeared and surrounded her body before exploding out, cancelling everything that the blonde huntress and Ruby were throwing at her.
One last, not to mention huge, fire and molten-glass caused the entire roof to be blanketed with smoke after the calm huntress encased them in another protective glyph to keep them out of harm's way.
After the smoke cleared, the huntress looked over to the obvious siblings with a raised brow. Ruby morphed Crescent Rose back into its compact form along with her brother, and both twins took on a look of concern before Ruby ripped a bit off a piece of his sash to clean the blood from his back. He had used his aura throughout the fights of the night, leaving nothing but skin behind as she wiped away the drying blood. Though, that did nothing to hide the scars that were already present.
She tried not to think about the times her brother's scars were acquired, she kept her own scars completely absent from her mind as well, as she turned her brother around and gave him a hug. Ruby dove her face into Naruto's neck as his strong arms wrapped around her and clasped together just underneath her shoulder blades. 'Don't worry Rube…you're safe.' Naruto spoke to her inwardly, conveying that message and more as he rested his cheek on the corner of the top of her head.
The two reveled in their warm embrace…they always sought comfort in each other whenever they had to fight as children, and they still did. The sound of heels tapping on the ground towards them drew them apart, and gained their attention.
The twins turned in sync to see the glasses-wearing huntress give them both an irritated look, "You have a lot of explaining to do."
Sensing her brother tensing up in response to the strong approach, Ruby walked forward after plastering on a cheery smile. She gave Naruto's hand a gentle squeeze and quickly letting it go as she led him along, although her body was mostly in front of his, silently telling him that shewouldhandlethis.
The 'Professor' looking woman missed the small interaction between the siblings and raised a brow as the sister walked up to her, cupping her face with both hands and gazing at the beautiful woman with a dreamy look in her eyes, "Are you a huntress?" the now uppity girl squealed, "That is so cool!" One Glynda Goodwitch had to stop herself from taking a cautious step back as the red and black-headed girl conjured up a notebook with a red gothic cross design in the center and pen out of nowhere before holding it up to the blonde huntress, "Can I have your autograph?" she asked with awe practically dripping from her mouth.
The question threw the woman off…mostly because they had just gotten through a potential life-or-death battle and that was the first thing that came out of the girl's mouth? Glynda crossed her arms as her face took on a stern look.
"No."
Ruby deflated while Naruto walked up to pat her on the back, saying something about her not needing a mean huntress's autograph.
The twins looked up simultaneously as Glynda started tapping her foot, clearly becoming agitated and wanting to get on with the night. For some reason, they both felt like the woman resembled a mother or a babysitter who had caught two children that were up to no good and was waiting for them to explain themselves.
The red and black wearing siblings clasped their hands with one another's as an atmosphere of dread radiated off of the huntress.
"And neither of you are 'ok'…because you're coming with me."
Twenty minutes and a car-ride later, the scythe-wielding twins found themselves in an interrogation room of sorts. Ruby was fidgeting nervously in her seat while Naruto simply stared the serious looking Huntress across the table from them with a look of indifference as he sat with his arms crossed.
"I hope you realize your actions tonight will not be taken lightly, young lady."
The blonde haired huntress scolded her as she paced around the room, causing one pair of silver eyes to look down at the table while the other pair stayed locked onto the slow marching woman.
"And neither will yours, young man." Glynda asserted with an edge in her voice. She still couldn't figure out what the boy did to that blaze crystal, and hadn't quite forgiven him yet for holding himself so threateningly with that hellish whip of his when she got close to them. The look in his eyes as he stood between she and his sister was also…chilling to say the least.
Glynda could understand one's willingness to protect their family, but the look she had seen in the boy's eyes had quite honestly disturbed her.
It was as if she had stumbled upon an animal snarling at her as it tried to protect its kin.
To get under the skin of a huntress of her experience with a look alone was no small feat, and not to be ignored. "You put yourselves and others in great danger."
Ruby raised her head and protested on her and Naruto's behalf, "They started it!" She was about to add on to her little outburst, but was cut off by the 'teacher' looking woman as she started to calmly paced in front of the table.
"If it were up to me, you would both be let off with a pat on the back…" Ruby's face lightened up a little and a small smile graced her lips.
However, the huntress stopped pacing and looked up from her scroll which she was using to review the video footage of the duo's fight and gave Ruby a light glare, "And a slap on the wrist." She finished in a sharp tone and swiped her ladle down hard enough to make a snapping sound, purposefully missing Ruby's hands as she retracted them quickly with a 'Eep!' of surprise.
Glynda raised a brow, however, when Ruby reached over to grasp her brother's clenched hand almost instantly when she had swung her ladle. She took note of the instantaneous aggressive reaction of the girl's sibling, and stared into silver eyes that held the same rabid look that the boy had earlier. Glynda nodded to herself inwardly, there was definitely something off about the two trouble makers she had stumbled across, especially the boy.
The huntress kept her ladle pressed against the desk, deciding to take it up with her husband later and leave it alone for now, "But…there is someone here who would like to meet you both." And with that, the huntress turned around sharply and exited the room with only a single LED light overhead, closing the heavy metal door with a bit more force than necessary after glancing back at the hooded blonde in black and metallic silver.
Leaving Ruby worried about how she was going to explain getting taken in for questioning to both her father…and her sister Yang. Meanwhile Naruto was more occupied with glaring at the door that Glynda had walked out of. "Keep walkin' bitch." He mumbled, earning a slight jab to the arm from Ruby.
The humble girl smiled at her brother's overprotectiveness towards her. While it did sometimes bug her, albeit very rarely, Ruby could never forget what they both went through before their father had found them in the middle of the wilds that they grew up in, and instead, felt thankful that she and Naruto were even alive.
Plus, Ruby would be a hypocrite if she thought Naruto's overprotectiveness of her was excessive, because she was just as bad. Ruby was just more subtle about it than her brother. Naruto was always the fighter between the two of them, while Ruby was far from being a slouch, she was not as short-tempered as her brother which is what lead to most of his fighting in the first place.
Ruby sighed as she leaned her head onto Naruto's shoulder, and felt him leaning his head against her own in response as she draping her cloak over them, wrapping both her arms around Naruto's left and holding it close to her body.
She felt like her head was on fire from both the stress of the night and how they always managed to get into these kind of situations. It was still very difficult for her to get used to the colony life, even in the small island-settlement where they lived at. It was times like these where Ruby truly realized how different she and Naruto both were to everyone else in their hometown. Hell, even at signal academy they were singled out from everyone else.
Naruto and Ruby were both prodigies in combat, and had quickly made themselves known to be two of the small but disciplined Huntsmen academy's top fighters. Though even at a school meant to train warriors, the siblings still had trouble fitting in. There were numerous…incidents where some students had tried to bully her and Naruto. The crimson-cloaked girl snorted mentally. She used the word 'tried' lightly, they had both sent multiple students to the hospital that day. Two of which, couldn't return due to the injuries they had sustained. They had ended their careers before they even started.
Memories of her and Naruto as toddlers prowling about the forests far beyond the walls of Vale played in her head. Images of rainy days spent huddled with her brother as they shivered together in clothes fashioned from leaves that were slick on their bodies from the moisture, and jumping with joy in tattered rags when they managed to start a fire flashed in front of her eyes.
And the picture clear memory of a male figure with wolf ears on-top of his head and a bushy tail that she and her brother used to always annoy the man by tugging on it consumed her thoughts as her grip on Naruto's arm tightened.
'Oh no…I'm doing it again.' burying her face in Naruto's chest, Ruby's shoulder's trembled just a barely enough to notice as Naruto wrapped his arms around side and brought her into a tight embrace. 'I hate this…I want to go home.'
Naruto's own silver orbs were clouded with their childhood spent in the wilds as well. He and Ruby vowed to stay with each other no matter what nearly a month before they were found by their father, Taiyang, and the two had rarely left each other's sight since going with him to the colony. It was hard adapting to life within walls for both of them, but if Naruto had to say, he'd agree that Ruby adapted much more easily to the enclosed cities with rules and laws than he did despite how much trouble she gave him and their father when they first moved to Patch.
Well, she mostly a pain to their father, Naruto was just happy that she was safe and was content with whatever mischief Ruby got herself into…even though he was the one to instigate most of the time.
Ruby gazed up at her brother's calm and passive face as she sniffled and took a deep breath before whispering to him, "Aren't you scared?"
Naruto tore his eyes away from the door and smiled, "No." He leaned forward and gave a kiss to her forehead, an act that she took a liking to years ago when she asked him if it was really ok for her to have seconds even though it was his dinner for the night, "I have you with me."
Ruby smiled a little and snuggled closer to her brother, who always knew how to cheer her up and make her feel better. "Besides, Huntsmen don't have the authority to actually arrest us. They're more of a mercenary group than anything else. Specialized soldiers who deal with the monsters of the world, whether they be grimm or otherwise…"
Ruby turned to her brother with a slightly bigger smile than before, "You really do pay attention in class?" Usually Naruto was either asleep in his desk if the lesson of a class pertained to anything other than fighting, grimm, or dust.
Naruto chuckled a bit and playfully bumped his head into hers, "Only when you tell me it's important."
The siblings were cut off from anymore conversation as the door to the interrogation room opened and another voice bellowed out into the room, "That was very well said by one of your age. About Huntsmen, I mean."
Naruto and Ruby looked up to see a man with grey hair wearing spectacles over his brown eyes stroll into the room.
He wore a dark grey sweater with an olive green scarf and black pants, and walked with a cane, but it seemed to be mostly for appearances since he had no visible limp. In his left hand, he had a plate of cookies. Beside him was the blonde huntress from earlier holding a cup of steaming liquid, she held it in a way that gave the impression that she was just holding it for someone. And since she only walked in with the grey haired man who had just sat down, both teens could only assume that she was holding it for him.
"But I wouldn't go so far as to label the hunters and huntresses as a mercenary group. A specialized branch of government agents, meant to be the guardians of the colonies? Yes. But soldiers ready to sign on for god knows what kind of job, I'd think not." The man sat down and took the plate out of the huntress's hands to set it down in the middle of the two youths, "I'd like to think the business of being a hunter is far nobler than that of a gun for hire."
Ruby's eyes flickered in between the two as a sudden silence engulfed the room. It was awkward, but she glanced at the plate of cookies with hesitant eyes, and had to put in effort to stop herself from taking any of the cookies. Noticing Ruby's dilemma, Naruto decided to help her, and simply took one of the cookies before holding it up to her mouth.
Ruby smiled at her brother and ate the cookie whole, afterwards Naruto wiped a bit of crumbs from the corner of her mouth as she chewed even though he knew it was probably a pointless gesture. Noting the deliciousness of the cookie, Ruby looked to the grey-haired man with spectacles to see that he didn't want any either, so, she did the same thing for Naruto. He shook his head after eating the one and left his sister to eat the rest, who began eating them at a rapid pace, speeding up in her glutton with each one that she scarfed down.
During Ruby's eating contest with herself, she missed the staring contest between the spectacle wearing man and Naruto who was suspicious of him. After a tense few moments of neither giving any sign of breaking their contest of character, the grey haired man finally diverted his eyes to the scroll in his hands and he quickly went about pulling up several different angles of the footage of their evening.
"Tell me, where did you two learn how to do this?" the man asked as he showed them the video of their fight from a camera that looked to be somewhere along the side of a building near their immediate area.
Ruby paused in her binge cookie genoc-eating, "Um…S-signal Academy?" she wasn't sure if cooperating or not cooperating would make any difference in their situation at this point, so she just chose to tell the truth. Well, half-truth…quarter-truth? Ok fine, she was telling a part of the truth, same thing.
The man in the green scarf replied with an incredulous tone in his voice, "They taught you both how to use one of the most dangerous weapons ever designed?"
The scarlet wearing girl fidgeted in her seat, not really sure how to continue. Naruto was not the negotiator in times like these, he was the guy that beat the crap out of the person she was speaking with if they pissed her off, "Well, one teacher in particular."
The man crossed his arms and nodded as the huntress beside him set the cup of steaming liquid down in front of him. "I see…" It was tea, judging by the smell, and he hummed a quick 'thank you' before he continued, "It's just that I've only seen one other scythe wielder with that level of skill before." he looked off to the side with a reminiscing expression on his face, "A dusty old crow."
Ruby nodded and replied, but nobody could quite understand what she was saying…mostly because she still had the last four cookies in her mouth.
Her cheeks matched the color of her cloak as she quickly swallowed her food, Naruto wiped her mouth with an amused face as she muttered a quick 'sorry' before trying again, "That's my Uncle Qrow, he's a teacher at Signal."
Seeing Ozpin's analyzing gaze alongside the blonde woman's scrutinizing one, Ruby chose to cover her and her brother's tracks, "I-I was complete garbage before he took me under his wing." She then smiled a little and started moving her hands around in a martial arts fashion, "But now I'm all like oouu wachaaa, huuooo!"
"So I've noticed." The seasoned man replied with an obvious grin. The girl was good, but she wasn't that good. Her eyes gave her away.
The man turned to Naruto, who had yet to say a word, and looked at him with hidden interest in his eyes, "And what about you, where did you receive your training from, young man?...Is it safe to assume you underwent similar training as your sister?" he asked in a calm voice, though the hidden tone of interest within it didn't go unnoticed.
Ruby turned to look at her brother, and frowned when she saw that look in his eye. Ruby was the talker, but Naruto was the eyes whenever they got into a situation like this. Her brother always had a niche for analyzing people, it looked like the jig was up.
"Home."
The man showed no physical reaction to the boy's response, but underneath his calm demeanor, the longtime hunter felt that he had stumbled across a very good opportunity, if only one that needed a bit more delicacy to seize.
"I see." He nodded slowly, and leaned back in his chair just as hesitantly, debating on how he should handle the situation. "Do either of you know who I am?"
Ruby was the first to answer, mostly so her brother didn't say or do anything rash, "Of course we do, you're Professor Ozpin. You're the headmaster at Beacon." She had a feeling that if she didn't speak for them both, that things might start going the wrong way. Naruto knew that Ruby was more of the people person between the two of them, he was few of words with anyone besides his family for that reason.
Ozpin let out a slight chuckle, "Hello."
"Nice to meet you." Ruby replied, trying to keep the atmosphere light. Naruto nodded his greeting as Ruby grasped his hand again, the twins interlocking their fingers so that neither of them could let go.
The professor knew that something was different with the siblings in front of them, particularly the brother. So, he chose to focus on the sister to see if he could get a read on the two promising youths in front of him. "You…have silver eyes."
Ruby moved her head back at the sudden attention towards her…and the pretty weird question thrown her way, "E-er, umm…yeah." She gave Naruto's hand a squeeze, silently telling him not to do anything rash, as her own hand balled into a fist as Ozpin leaned forward a good amount, invading her personal space.
A moment of tense awkwardness passed by before Ozpin drew in another breath and continued as he leaned back again, "So what is an adorable girl such as yourself, doing at a school designed to train warriors?"
Ruby was hesitant to answer at first, she was still feeling the awkward air about the conversation and the tenseness from her brother but decided to go with it, "Well, I want to be a huntress."
Ozpin leaned over, his interest peaked, and clasped his hands together at the fingertips, "You want to slay monsters?"
Ruby nodded, "Yeah. I only have two more years left of training at signal, and then I'm going to apply at beacon." She answered. Ozpin thought she was done there, but took a back seat once he saw that she was far from finished telling her story, "You see, our sister is trying to become a huntress, and I'm trying to become a huntress because y'know, I wanna help people."
She animated her story with hand movements as she continued, "Our parents always told us to help other people, so I thought to myself 'Ah well, might as well make a career out of it' *chuckles softly*. I mean the police are alright, but hunters and huntresses are just so much more coolandromanticandexcitedand just-" she squealed excitingly, "You know?!" she finished with stars in her eyes.
The blonde huntress next to Ozpin blinked while giving Ruby an awkward look. Meanwhile Ozpin just looked at her with an amusement behind his glasses, "You want to come to my school?"
Ruby simmered down and nodded with a warm look in her eyes as she recalled her years before Taiyang had found them, and how far she had come since then, "More than anything." She turned to Naruto and offered him a comforting smile and gave his hand another gentle squeeze.
The headmaster looked over to the huntress next to him. Silently asking her 'What do you think Glynda?' only for her to roll her eyes and let out a feminine grunt as she turned away, replying in silence 'You already know you're going to except her.'
Ozpin smiled and looked over to Ruby, "Well alright."
Ruby's silver eyes widened to dinner plates as she cupped her fists below her chin in excitement, "Really?!"
The professor nodded with a smile, "Go along now with Professor Goodwitch, she'll escort you home."
Ruby was about to nod before what the headmaster actually said processed in her brain, "I'd like to stay with my brother if you wouldn't mind."
Ozpin raised a brow, not expecting the cheerful girl to suddenly question anything he said on any sort of level after granting her acceptance into his school. "I'd like to talk with your brother in private, if it's not too much trouble." He closed his eyes, and took a sip of his tea before continuing, "Like you, he showed exceptional skill during combat, and I'd like to give him the same opportunity as I gave you. But first, we have matters that must be discussed."
Now Ruby knew that nothing would happen to Naruto…probably. But that didn't mean she wasn't at least a little bit worried about leaving him in the room. That, and she didn't ever leave his presence unless asked or if it were absolutely necessary. Neither of them did.
Memories of her wandering alone, lost in the forests of the wilds as night was approaching flashed across her eyes and her cheerful face took on a hard look, every ounce of glee draining from her face like running water as her grip on Naruto's hand tightened just a tad. "No."
Ozpin looked up, and raised a curious brow at the flat out rejection from the red and black wearing Ruby, showing a complete change of attitude. Glancing over to the black and red wearing Naruto, his interest peaked once more. The boy was openly glaring at him with nothing short of the want to inflict harm to him. 'She will not leave her brother's side…very well.'
The life-long hunter closed his eyes and spoke up before Glynda could offer her opinion on the matter, who was getting extremely irritated by the display of disrespect and was quite fed up with it, "I see…my apologies." Ozpin pressed his fingertips together and leaned back in his chair "So, Mr. and Ms.?" he left his sentence hanging. He didn't know the siblings personally, so he wouldn't call them by their first names.
The twins bore into the headmaster with their silver eyes, both pairs unflinching, "Rose." They answered simultaneously.
The professor raised a brow, and leaned forward, folding his hands together as he propped his elbows up, "Mr. and Ms. Rose." Ruby nodded, and really just wanted to go home, while Naruto's whiskered face remained passive, "Is it safe for me to assume that you two are not from Vale? Born outside the colonies?"
Neither sibling blinked as they nodded their heads at the same time after a moment of pause.
"It's not safe, but you are right." Naruto answered back, speaking for the first time to either adult in the room.
Glynda raised a brow. She usually remained silent during times like this and let her husband do all the talking. She was very much happy to simply observe. And right now even her interest was peaked, as experienced of a Huntress as she was, Glynda had rarely ever met anyone that was born and raised outside the colonies.
Meanwhile Ozpin nodded in understanding, not at all offended or fazed by the sibling's behavior. He had met people who had lived the majority of their lives in the Wilds before, all of them had behaved in a similar fashion to the brother-sister duo sitting in front of him. They were all loyal 'till death for each other, and covered in thorns when around everyone else. At least, to those they didn't trust. The duo's fighting ability made all the more sense to him now. It was also no wonder that they were no stranger to death either. Or at least the brother.
"The battle between the two of you and Roman Torchwick's hired hands was…impressive, to say the least. The quality of enemy may be under-par for those of your skill, but that did not tarnish my glimpse of your talent."
Naruto's brow twitched a bit, "Speak your mind, Ozpin. I don't have the patience for your careful approach." The hot-headed sibling rubbed the back of his arm after receiving a pinch from Ruby, who was smiling very sweetly at the moment. "Ow…"
The headmaster smiled at how close the twins were before nodding, and bringing up the video from earlier. He opened it five times so that there were different screens playing at once, and he paused them at different points of time, "You fought twelve men alongside your sister, taking on six men after incapacitating one right from the start."
Ozpin looked up to see Naruto nod while Ruby gave a sheepish smile, "Out of those six, you successfully neutralized them without any major injury. A few broken bones and beaten organs, but nothing that can't be fixed or put back in place."
The sash-wearing twin shrugged, "They weren't much to fight. I had a harder time keeping them from exploding the dust in that shop than I did facing them."
Ozpin took on an impassive look as he played another video were the teen was seen taking a second glance outside the slightly stained window, and snapped the neck of one of the thugs he was beating before diving out the window. "Why then, did you kill this man, and not the others while you were still in the dust store?" the professor didn't show any change of emotion after seeing Naruto killing a man with no hesitation. He had spilled the blood of many himself in his time as a huntsman. Grim, Faunus, and human alike.
Moving his gaze over to Ruby, Ozpin nodded inwardly at the fact that Ruby seemed just as nonchalant about it as Naruto.
Staring him straight in the eye, the spikey-haired Rose sibling shrugged and answered the question without missing a beat, "You don't challenge another life without reason. Take only what you need, for reasons that are larger than yourself. That is how I was raised."
The headmaster nodded his head, "That, I can respect." His eyes went down to the video on replay, and back up to lock eyes with dual sets of steely silver orbs, "And in this instance?"
The twins glanced at the video and back up simultaneously, Ruby slid a lock of hair behind her ear as Naruto answered for them both once more, "Their lives were forfeit the moment they chose to take what wasn't theirs, walking in with the threat of violence for no other reason than to fill their pockets…that old man was innocent. Ruby was innocent. Just, even. And to save her life, I had to take one of theirs. A life, for a life. As it is beyond the safety of these walls."
Ozpin didn't bother asking whether or not Naruto thought he was innocent in the matter. He already had a pretty good idea of the young man that sat in front of him, nor did he ask him if the elderly man's life was ever in his head along with his sister's as he killed the few robbers that he did. "I take it you had the same train of thought for this man as well?"
The video changed to a close angle of the whiskered teen butchering the thug who had tried attaching a silencer to his weapon. The video showed that Naruto cooked the man after essentially gutting him as well, the flames from both his morphed scythe and the molotov that exploded from the heat and broken from the attack as well igniting the small area around him.
The twins didn't move or blink. An answer wasn't needed, he had already stated why that thug's life had ended.
The professor nodded, figuring that would be all that either Rose would have to say on the current subject. So, taking off his spectacles, the older man folded his hands together on the table.
Ozpin had seen much in his time of living, and experienced more of the bad things in life than good. To him, it was obvious. Both Naruto and Ruby lived for and with one another. He didn't have to know the specifics of their upbringing to know that the harsh world outside the colony walls had forged a bond that no amount of authority or set of rules could break. Luckily, he made his own at his academy, and had plenty of…acquaintances in positions of power. In order for Ruby to attend his academy, Naruto would have to go with her.
And Ozpin Silverlance just loved to give out…opportunities to those whom he deemed worthy of them.
Closing his eyes, the headmaster of Beacon took another deep sip of his tea before setting it back down on the table, "Well, I cannot say that I agree with your end-methods. But I do know and agree with the ideals that you both live by."
Naruto and Ruby looked at each other in confusion, not really knowing where the professor was going with this.
Ozpin looked at Glynda, who had remained silent through the majority of the conversation and simply observed, with a kind smile.
The blonde huntress rolled her eyes as she gave another feminine grunt and began typing acceptance letters for both the energetic girl who was clasping her hands under her chin, and her slightly enigmatic brother who was now sitting with his arms crossed.
"Well then…how would you like to attend Beacon Academy?"
Aaaalrighty then, that's a wrap. See, it wasn't that bad right?
Alright, down to the needy greedy, Questions, comments, reviews. I needs them to make the storez bettaz.
Also, like i said, pairings undecided, so their open. As of now, I'll be including Kushina, Anko, Itatchi, Killber B, Gaara, aaaand Shikamaru from the Naruto verse. Anyone else you guys want me to add just pm me or review, gimme some reasons and I'll probably put 'em in.
Well then, 'till next time! Read! Review! No flames! Wincest! *Looks at my Laptop screen and eyes widen, attempts to block out that slide on my powerpoint* *cough* *cough* I have no idea where that came from...*Clears throat* who put that there...