Blah, blah, blah, re-upload of the original chapter to fix a few things.
Oh yeah, and, uh, disclaimer: I don't own either RWBY or Naruto/Naruto Shippuden.
"Excuse me?" Naruto raised an eyebrow even as random Konoha Medic Nin Number 1 wrapped the gauze around his now stump of right arm inside the still rebuilding hospital inside the Hidden Village. "No, please speak again, because I could have sworn you just told me that Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki weren't my PARENTS!" "Calm down, gaki." The current Hokage of the village finally walked into the small room to the relief of a sweating random Konoha Medic Nin Number 2 to defuse the situation. "Baa-Chan, tell this loon that he's crazy, and I also recommend a trip to the insane asylum." The big breasted women rolled her eyes as the random Medic Nin yelped and quickly fled the room in fear of actually being sent to the looney bin by the 4th Great Shinobi War's hero.
"Okay, one, you aren't a certified Medic so you can't declare anyone but yourself as crazy, and second, I am afraid what he was saying has some merit." "What?! Do I have to go over the part where I saw my parents in my head again-" "I'd thank you if you didn't, though I could use a good laugh at the part where you punched our Yondaime Hokage in the gut- but regardless, our blood tests don't lie, and they say they aren't your biological parents." The most renown woman when it came to all things medical quickly threw in the last part to avoid another outburst from him. "I know, I know. Even if you aren't related by blood, it doesn't mean they are any less your mother and father. But, from what we are reading, you were apparently, er, adopted." She scratched the back of her head awkwardly. "And it was supposedly an on the spot decision, as well, because there aren't any legal documents to go along with the fact."
"But- you- I- HE SEALED THE DAMN KYUUBI INTO FUCKING RANDOM KID AFTER ALL?!" "Well, from what I can gather, sometime between Obito threatening their actual kid and the sealing of the Bijū, there was, uh, some complications, and the real child didn't make it through the night, so in desperation, Minato must have grabbed the only other kid that was new enough to hold the thing successfully." She sighed tiredly. "You." "So, you are telling me, that I am in no-way-shape-or-form related to our Yondaime Hokage, or his wife, one of the last living Uzumakis?" "Uh, no." "And you are also telling me, that he sealed the Kyuubi- a dangerous living entity of malicious intent- into an lone, orphaned boy he knew next to nothing about?" "Er, yes?" "Fuck punching the old man, I should have RasenShurikened him back to the underbelly of the damn Shinigami, 'Ttebayo!"
Tsunade winced at the outburst as the other medic nin jumped in fright and fled the room not soon after that.
Those things hurt(Not that she knew from personal experience, but she was one of the ones that performed the autopsy of Kakuzu, and from what she saw, that had to hurt.).
"Yeah yeah, calm down, gaki. Before you go all emo on us all-" "Oi! I am nothing like Sas-Uke!" "-It is highly likely that your two parents didn't even know you weren't their kid in all the rush of the attack, so to them, you were still their precious baby boy. That, and we WERE able to find a someone to match to your blood." The Senju squinted at the paper on her clipboard before flipping it over to look at a new page. "Something weird, no first name, but the last name was along the lines of 'Arc' if memory serves me correctly." At that, Naruto's brows only furrowed. "What the hell kind of name is that? There aren't any clans out there that I know of with that name." "That would be because it's not a clan name; just someone from generations ago that visited the village and needed medical attention, and- being a Shinobi village- we kept some samples of their blood, and if my guess is on the mark, it would make that person your great, great, grandfather." "Geez, that far back?" "You know it, and, I am also afraid of what that means."
Naruto only grew even more confused(And considering what they were already talking about, that says something.).
"What that means? Like, it's an enemy of Konoha or something? Cause, if you haven't noticed already, I don't think anyone in the Elemental Nations wants a piece of this any time soon." Naruto grinned and flexed his left arm while he went to place his other hand on top of his bicep, only to realize he was now a paraplegic. "Oh… That's kind of depressing, actually." "Look, the reason I am hesitant to mention this, is because it's a well kept secret of all the Kage's in the land-" "And, I am not sure if you know this or not, but I not only saved all your asses, I am also eventually going to get the hat anyway, so you might as well tell me." The blonde female just clicked her tongue in irritation. "Cheeky brat… But, fine. You see, when you look at the map of the Elemental Nations, there's not really anything to the North, is there?" A blank look was her only answer.
"Oh for the love of- it is nearly all water!" "Ah, that makes sense." Resisting the urge to strangle the blonde idiot while a nerve ticked on her forehead, she continued. "And most would be satiated with knowing that much, but-" "Wait, let me guess: There's a hidden land that none of us know about that you all have hidden from the world." Seeing her annoyed look, the teen coughed into his fist. "But, please continue." With a scathing look shot his way, the Godaime Hokage finally sighed before pulling out a sake bottle from… Somewhere(Two guesses from what- and if you say marshmallows, you wouldn't be wrong.) and took a long swig from it. "Your irritating inputs aside, you are basically correct. You see, back around the same time the Hidden Villages were created, there was five continents that were constantly at each other's throats- well, more specifically, four of them were, and the fifth was just kind of stuck in the middle."
"And that fifth one was us, I am taking it?" "Who the hell is telling the story here, gaki?" "I don't know, but if this is like just about every other magical story that starts like this, I am fairly confident I can do it myself." A pissed off Tsunade's fist to the face(Plus a lot of girly screaming and broken walls.) later, the two were standing in the Hokage's office alone. "Right, where was I?" "Slamming your fist into my face…" A bruised and battered Naruto muttered to himself as Tsunade ignored him and poured herself a saucer of her favorite drink. "Oh, right. Anyway, they were at war, something about, furries, or whatever, I don't know, this was ages ago. Long story short, we got tired of their shit and went our separate ways, and after we gained the knowledge, we soon used Chakra and Fuinjutsu to prevent anything over there from getting over here."
"So, we isolated ourselves because they were at war?" The blonde male raised a brow. "Seems kind of hypocritical, if you ask me." "Oh, it wasn't the main issue of why we sealed ourselves off from the rest of the world, it was just one of the many things that made us decide to tell them they could go fuck themselves." Tsunade went to take a drink from her cup, only to pause and shrug before taking a large gulp from the main source. "Many things, like, what?" "Well, they were really racist bastards, and the people of our continent were unable to use a source of energy they called 'Aura' or something of another, so they constantly looked down on us." She snorted before taking another chug. "Which was stupid because even their strongest warriors and greatest leaders could barely hold a candle to our best Chunin in this day and age, so it eventually came back to bite them in the ass. Plus, there were these creatures that fed off negative emotion- yeah, I cringed at that, too- and would go into settlements, villages, and cities to kill the inhabitants like mindless beasts, and, considering the clan wars were still a thing back then, it would not have boded well for us if they found their way over here, so we sealed ourselves away from them, and in relation, from them to us."
"Wow. That's a lot to take in… So I am guessing, then, that one of my ancestors made their way over here some time ago, visited, and left back to their homes not soon after?" "That's the most likely answer, yes." "But, that doesn't seem to answer the question of how I got here, then." "No, no it doesn't…"
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"... So, you gonna tell me any time soon, or-"
"Damn gaki, you think I know? If I had to guess, all this usage of space/time ninjutsu Minato and that Obito kid used fucked up in some way and you were sent here to the nations form your original home." "Well, makes sense, I suppose. But, if I am from there, how can I utilize Chakra?" She in turn raised her own brow and shrugged at him. "Beats me, but nowhere in the notes left by my Grandfather did it say that the reverse wasn't able to happen, in which a person from outside could learn to use Chakra. That, or being the host to the Kyuubi forced some Chakra coils to form themselves. I don't know, that was never really my personal field of study." "Well, okay, this was interesting and all, but what if my real parents are really just in some other village, and not outside these seals with the people from the past used to be brethren of?"
"That's easy: I already asked all the Kage's if they had any citizens with the last name 'Arc', and they didn't, so then I gave them a sample of your blood-" "Wait, you did what now?" "-To run a match with any orphans or people with no family in their villages, and they still turned up negative." "O-kay. A violation of my personal rights aside, what if they aren't in any major hidden village, then?" "Already asked around; Nami, Tea, Oto, Ame, Nadeshiko, Shimo, Taki- the list goes on, and all of them have confirmed no living or recently deceased members of your family." Hearing that, Naruto could only try to fix his jaw off the ground as he stuttered and made stunned noises from his open maw, a look Tsunade could only smirk at. "What? Did you expect years of long searching to even hear of a rumor regarding your family? News flash: Being the hero of the world has some perks. Major perks."
She eventually let the smirk drop though as she sighed and leaned her head onto her steepled hands. "That being said, I DID get it from one of the hidden villages that yours is a clan of some renown in the other lands- known for producing war heroes, and fantastic warriors with a high sense of honor. Sound familiar?" Once again, the smirk was in place, but it lasted all of a second before it turned into a stony gaze. "At any rate, finding your place of birth would be hard, if not impossible without us sending someone into those lands to find out more about them." "So, I guess this is the part where you have to crush my hopes of ever finding my real parents, huh…?" "No, actually, this is the part where I mention that some fool that goes by the name of Amarillo Arc and his wife, Melyn, were said to have been on an expedition clearing out these aquatic creatures bearing an eerily similar look to the beasts I told you about before were sighted very near Iwa a few years back, and foolishly gave their home address to an innkeeper on a small island near the coast of Iwa that wasn't under the seals influence, and a team recently set sail to said island to get this information from said innkeeper about a day ago."
"Wha…" Naruto slowly blinked. "What?" "Yeah, like I said: MAJOR perks." "B-Baa-Chan… I, I don't know what to say…" "Just promise me that you'll be back to visit your old granny every once in awhile, eh?" Tears threatened to fall as Naruto rushed behind her desk and pulled her into a tight hug, which she gladly reciprocated. "Now, there's only one last thing to consider before I go to find them…" "Oh? And what's that?" The two seperated and the male chuckled nervously before waving what was basically only a bicep that he used to call his right arm. "How am I gonna write this off?"
"I'll give them this: WAY bigger buildings." Naruto whistled as he walked through some no-name city inside the continent known around here as Sanus. It was, without a doubt, much more technologically advanced than even their best country in the Elemental Nations, and he doubted this place was even near places like Vale and Atlas(Or at least he thought, from what he has heard.) when it came to advances in science, so that was saying something.
However, the advantages over the nations just about stopped there.
Their 'Huntsmen'(The Shinobi of this land, apparently.) couldn't hope to hold a candle to even someone like Konohamaru- let alone HIMSELF- and while their armies were grand, it couldn't hope to hold up against the might of the United Shinobi Alliance the way they were. And speaking of, the race discrimination was just abhorring(Enough to set them back a decent amount of paces, he'd wager, as the Human and Faunus race just couldn't seem to become in sync, and as the Child of Prophecy knew, that's how they, as a people, grew.), and this was coming from the teen who had faced discrimination, hatred, and anger his entire childhood. And now he was getting it here, too, as the people seemed to think his whisker marks meant he was categorized as a 'Faunus', to which he took offense, because, honestly, he wouldn't want to be stuck in either of these peoples columns if it came down to it.
They both disgusted him the same amount; humans for their treatment of the faunus, and the faunus because of how they went about reacting to the treatment the humans were giving them(If there was anything he had learned through experience, it was that hate doesn't absolve other hate.). Regardless, though, he was here on a mission(Not a real one, but a kind of mission you go on when you want to try to find the meaning of life… Well, hopefully not like that, because that would imply this would take a while.) and he planned on finishing it, Kami be damned!
It wasn't easy coming here, though, and it was made even harder when he faced obstacles at every step(The clearing of the seal actually took quite a bit of Chakra, as he had found, which was why their were never parties sent out of ninja numbering lower than at least 15, and considering he was plum out of the stuff from his fight with Sasuke at the Valley of the End, he had to wait a day or two for his to return to him, then he had the perilous journey of making it to land by water walking across the ocean- which was made that much more difficult when he got railed up on some weird ass monsters that occasionally attacked nearby boats that he had to go help, then he had an ENTIRE language barrier to cross(Thank god for Kage Bunshin!), and if that wasn't enough, his parents just so happened to be living in an area that was apparently the 'Racist to Faunus' capital in this land, so he couldn't get directions to save his life!), and after about two weeks of work, he had finally located and got to the place where he believed his parents would be.
And damned if he wasn't as nervous as he was excited!
For the event, he chose to change his attire up a bit to fit in better in these lands(Fun fact: Orange jumpsuit with sandals and a headband with what people mistook for a snail engraved on it wasn't exactly normal here… Though, looking back on it, not really normal for back home, either.), and was now wearing a burnt orange track jacket(In loo of just letting his arm hang free and let everyone notice the open area where an arm SHOULD be, he craftily made a wooden prosthetic from wood and attached it to his arm, where he tied it up to make it seem as if it was broken so that people wouldn't start suspecting something.), opened up to reveal his black t-shirt, with matching orange track pants, and black sneakers with bright orange laces that, all-in-all, made him feel and look badass.
… What? It couldn't not be orange, that's just blasphemy(He would die wearing his favorite color, damn it!)!
And he was also currently outside a rather large, four story house with several windows showing off either deluxe curtains or impressive rooms decorated in such a way that they couldn't not be bedrooms, and a large yard that he couldn't help but notice was with a well kept garden filled with exotic(To him-) flowers, and a big patio that was, more than likely, used to host parties and gatherings when the weather was better. The house itself was painted a bright yellow, giving it a cheerful feel that was reminisce of something he once dreamed himself being a part of when he was not even four feet tall, but he shook that thought off and released a deep breath as he opened up the wiry metal fence door and walked up to the porch of the large abode. "Well, here's to hoping…" He drew in one last breath before knocking on the well polished oak door hiding the rest of the house from view.
Now, of all the things he was expecting, a giant of a giant man bearing an eerily similar appearance to himself(Why the hell was he a squirt if this was his dad?!), with short blonde hair that spiked in every direction that it could with its shortness, and cobalt blue eyes, opening the door to the house and literally having to duck to see through the doorway was not one of them. "Can I help you?" His rough, scratchy voice cut through the tension Naruto was feeling, but instead of making it better, it only got worse as he stuttered and tried to find the right words for this conversation. "U-Uh, g-g-good afternoon, s-sir! I was, um, I was wondering, if, perchance, you would know, uuuuuuuuh…" Naruto winced at his own terrible dialogue, and cursed inside his head for him to get it together.
The man, who was wearing what looked like weekend attire consisting of a grey wife beater and blue jeans, however, thought the wince was for something else, as he glanced down at the teens right arm, seeing it entirely bundled up, indicating there was something wrong with it, and the way it was tied to his shoulder to make a form of sling made him believe the boy was having pains with his arm. "Would you like to come in to ask your questions?" Naruto, for his part, jumped at the sound of the man's voice again, and his eyes widened when he finally took in what was asked of him. "Oh! No, no no no! I wouldn't want to intrude, I just, uh…" "Nonsense!" The large man(Probably around 6'8, as he was well over a foot of Naruto's own 5'7 height.) gave a bellowing chuckle more fit for someone of Santa Claus's stature than some giant of a man, and clasped his hand onto Naruto's good shoulder, making him wince again(Though more in surprise than the pain the man thought it was.) as he was lead inside.
As Naruto was pulled along into an expansive living room, he couldn't help but look around at all the pictures hung on the equally yellow walls of the family home, all containing various pictures of the man pulling him into his home, and a variety of females, most likely his wife and daughters(He had sisters?!), and they all looked as happy as could be as he was gently pushed down onto a velvet sofa the same color as one of those red velvet cupcakes he's seen in bakeries a few times as the bear of a man sat himself in a recliner that was pitch black in color. "Now then, would you like some refreshments? I hear my wife makes the loveliest cookies this side of Sanus." The bigger male chuckled again as Naruto nervously shifted his position on the couch, more out of anxiety than to find a more comfortable position.
"U-Uh, that's okay, thank you for asking, but I am good." "Nonsense!" Once more, the man made his decision for him as he called out to, who he assumed was, his wife. "Melyn! We have company! Could you be a dear and get us some refreshments?" At the name, Naruto couldn't freeze up any more if Haku was brought back to life(Again-) and he made him a giant Naruto-cicle. "Oh? Who is it this time?" A beautiful voice of what Naruto thought was an angel(Wasn't that the same when he met who he thought was his mother the first time, too?) called out to the larger male from the kitchen, and he was about to shout back when he paused and rubbed his neck sheepishly and turned back to the still teen on the couch. "I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name. I tend to bring people into this house without so much as a word spoken between us and I forgot that this time it wasn't one of my pals." "U-Um, t-th-that's fine, sir. Th-The names Naruto." "Naruto, eh?" He raised a brow at him. "Strange name. No surname?"
At that, Naruto looked to the ground as another thing he has been painstakingly thinking about these last few weeks came to mind. "W-Well, before this, the name I thought was mine wasn't, really mine, as it turned out I wasn't the child of who I thought my parents were afterall." "I- see." This time it was the man's turn to wince as he undoubtedly brought back bad memories for the lad he brought into his home that he would have rather not bring up. "It's someone who wanted to ask me some questions, honey! Most likely for some paper or article or some such thing. Say's his names Naruto!" "Naruto? Well that certainly seems like a foreign name." "Indeed." The big male stroked his chin in thought as he turned back to his guest and looked him over. "Certainly doesn't look foreign, though. In fact, you look like me when I was younger." He narrowed his eyes as Naruto started to unconsciously sweat. "A lot like me. Say, where'd you say you were from?"
"Er, that's, the thing, sir. I come from, a rather distant place, and I came here to look for people calling themselves, the Arcs, and I was wondering if they had lived here still, for the information I received was from quite a few years back, and I feared it was outdated." "Aye, they live here. Why ya askin'?" He kept his eyes narrowed as Naruto gulped and tried to figure out how to tell them that he thought they were his real parents, but he couldn't figure out for the life of him how to do so.
Luckily for him, it was taken out of his hands once again, as an absolutely beautiful and tall blonde woman(SERIOUSLY?! WHY WAS HE A HALF-PINT WITH PARENTS LIKE THESE?!) with hair falling to her lower waist and wide, icy blue eyes strode into the room wearing a pink apron over grey sweatpants and a white t-shirt while carrying a tray full of ice tea. "Now, what are we talking about-" She took one look over to the couch and saw Naruto, before the tray fell to the floor with a clatter as her arms became numb and fell to her sides. "Honey?" The larger man who was most likely Amarillo if the information was still holding up, rushed out of his seat to his wife's side, as she continued to gaze absently at where Naruto was sitting. "Melyn? Say something, darling!"
"J-Jaune…" "What?" At that name, the man went still as well. "What about Jaune, baby?" "He's… Right…" She slowly lifted arm to point at an anxious and uncomfortable Naruto before she became a blur that slammed into a very much surprised Naruto. "MY BABY!" She sobbed into a shocked Naruto's shoulder as the man looked at them both in the same amount of shock. "H-Honey! Don't you think you are jumping to conclusions a bit too-" The chilling glare she sent the mans way was enough to send shivers up BOTH their spines. "A mother never forgets… The face of her child, Amarillo. And this face… This, gorgeous face… Is my baby boy that I gave birth to all those years ago." Now she was kicking up the water works as tears fell down her cheeks and she now held Naruto's own tear stained face close to her bosom, relishing in their closeness.
"My baby, my baby Jaune… You are finally home." She rocked him even as she tried to keep the sobs from escaping her mouth, and even as the largest person in the room joined them in their closeness and tear fest, and long after Naruto guiltily looked to the ground and closed his eyes to try and unsee the many faces that flashed through his mind at that.
"Yeah… Home."
"I can't believe my long lost son has returned- bah, what else did I expect from my own flesh and blood?!" Naruto's newly found father bellowed out to the world as they sat outside on the patio in a large picnic table meant to hold over ten people while laughing, while the now overjoyed and smiling mother held her once missing child close to her, keeping his head on her right shoulder as she rubbed his own gently while he took in everything around him. "So." He finally quieted down enough to question his son. "Jaune-" "Uh, I go by Naruto, now…" Seeing the man twitch and the mother flinch, he quickly gave his reasons. "Not that I don't like the name you gave me! It's just, well, I grew up with it, and it's all I really have besides the clothes on my back, anymore…"
Which wasn't a complete lie, when you didn't think about the countless thousands of people that were indebted to you for saving the entire world and thought of you as some kind of royalty that came from the heavens to lead them into a prosperous age…
Yeah, best to leave that bit out, along with the fact he was basically crafted to be a child soldier(Naruto didn't know what the norm here was, so he wasn't going to try and broach that topic with a fifty foot pole.).
"We understand." Surprisingly, it was the mother that eased his worries for him as she rubbed his back soothingly. "But, if you don't mind us asking, baby, where did you come from? And where did you end up?" "Um, actually, I was kind of hoping you could tell me that. You see, back where I came from, no one knows how I ended up there- only that I appeared out of the blue one day." This was what he was really curious about(Aside from who his real parents looked and acted like, anyways, and those were already sated enough for today.), and wondered what really happened that day. "We… Honestly have no idea." His biological father scratched his chin in thought as his mother tightened her grip on him, most likely fearing he would up and disappear without a trace again if she let up her guard for even a second. "One minute you were in the nursery of the hospital, and the next, when we went to check up on you, you were gone!" Well, that was some disappointing news to hear.
He had really been hoping to figure out just what exactly happened at his birth, but all the evidence just apparently pointed to Kami just really hating him and sending him away from his original home.
"That's…" He sighed once more. "Just about what I expected, to be frank." "Speaking of where you come from…" "Oh, right! Well, I came from a settlement back in Mantle, but, uh, it didn't work out so good." Well, at least his uncomfortable at lying to them could be played off as remembering some bad memories. "Oh, you poor thing!" As his mother coddled him, his father seemed to remember something. "That's right, I forgot to ask, but what's with your arm?" His arm? "My arm? Right, well, I had a rather… Uncomfortable run in with some Grimm, and it kind of, broke." "Broke?" The man raised an eyebrow as the mother glanced at him. "You mean ripped off?" Well, seemed he was found out. "... Yeah." Seeing as the charade was over, he reached with his left arm and pulled off his 'Right' arm that was covered entirely in bandages, revealing it to be nothing more than a piece of wood with a vague resemblance to an arm, and the stump of what remained of his actual arm was almost entirely covered by his rolled up sleeve.
"OH MY OUM!" The only female with them was currently freaking out at the sight of his lost appendage, and was already fussing over him even more(If that was even possible.), while the larger blonde was crying…
Tears of pride?
"*Sniff* That's my son! Fighting the world to the point he loses his own arm! I've only known you for an hour, and already I am so proud!" "AMARILLO!" At least his mother had the decency to look appalled. "This is serious! We need to get him to a hospital! And then we are making calls, mister! We need to contact Atlas and have them import a replacement for him straight away!" Replacement? "Ah, yeah, we do. Okay, I'll go get my keys-" "Woah woah woah!" He quickly got up before either of them could do anything and waved his… Arm(Not helping!) in panic. "No need for all that! I got this protecting my village, and I am not ashamed to admit this was through no fault but my own. And I am also not ashamed to admit that I don't need some replacement to place on my arm. I want to make sure I remember this for a while, at least, so that a repeat doesn't happen…"
Well, 'Want' and 'Need' are different aspects, here, as he most certainly doesn't need a new arm(He was already tied for the strongest being in his nation- in this one? He was easily the strongest even without it. Now, he wouldn't really mind a new arm, but those robotic substitutes he has seen in catalogues and on the internet weren't really… What's the word he was looking for? Oh yeah- reliable! Seriously, one could punch from a Jonin would probably break the damn thing anyway. He was better off just slamming his stump of an arm into his enemies over that piece of crud.), but they didn't need to know that right now.
At his declaration, his new father couldn't stop the waterworks even if he tried. "*Sniff* Such a manly man- that's my boy!" His mother, on the other hand… "Young man." She said stiffly as she placed a hand down on his left shoulder. "You are getting checked up on, regardless of your wants or needs." "Mel- er, mom." That was gonna take some getting used to. "Trust me, I'm fine! I've already had the best doctors in the land look at it for me, and it isn't gonna be prone to infection or that other junk anytime soon. See?" Lifting the stump up for her to inspect, she did so with great scrutiny, but not seeing anything wrong or bad with it, she then reluctantly sat down on the bench, bringing him with her to cuddle with once more. "Well, fine. But you are getting checked regularly, got it?" The stink eye she shot him told him not to disagree, so he quickly agreed.
"Although, I did want to ask one other thing-" Well, there was two, but the question on how the tall gene in the family apparently skips generations could come later. "That I was curious about when I saw all those pictures in the living room…" "Ah, of course! You must be wondering if you have any siblings!" "Yes, actually. Do I, and if so, when can I meet them?" He would be lying if he said he wasn't excited to meet any possible brothers or sisters he had soon! "Well, for the first part, you do." Awesome! "Seven older sisters, in fact." That… What? "S-Seven?!" "What can I say? Your mother and I are very, very busy." Even though he had only just met them, he couldn't help but be a bit disgruntled at the casual way his own father talked about such activities with the person who gave birth to him.
"Amarillo!" And so was his mother, apparently. "Not in front of our child!" "Right." Well, at least he had the decency to look sheepish as he rubbed the back of his head. "But, yes, you have seven older sisters- a pair of twins a little over a year older than you, a set of quintuplets two years older than you, and a sole sister that is older than all of you." At hearing that, Naruto himself couldn't help but blanch at the thought of bringing a set of quintuplets into the world, among the various other siblings he had too. Looking at the woman who was his biological mother, she gained a grin similar to one of his own nervous ones and chuckled in the same fashion. "Heh heh, yeah, pushing them out isn't exactly one of my better memories, to be honest…" "Yeah, I'll say! I still feel phantom pains in the hand you crushed almost all my bones to dust in." The man rubbed his left hand soothingly while reminiscing in past memories.
"Ouch… In any case, when do I get to meet them?!" After hearing the excitement in his voice, his father couldn't stop himself from wincing at having to give him the bad news. "Sadly, they all go to a Huntress Academy, and the new term starts in three days so they are out either getting prepared for it or are traveling to the Academy as we speak, so you won't be seeing them in person for quite a while; at least half a year, until the Vytal Festival starts and we can go visit them for their matches." "Oh… Well, that's okay, I guess. I've waited seventeen years to see you guys, a few more months isn't really a problem." Hearing Naruto talk about his age, however, made a metaphorical light bulb appear over the top of his father's head. "Say, Naruto, you turned seventeen a few weeks back, correct?" "Um, yeah, I did."
At least he thinks he did- the time in the Elemental Nations was wonky compared to the rest of the world, so the middle of Fall there was about the end of Summer, here.
"So you did… And you lost your arm protecting your village from invasion, right?" "Uh, yeah?" Well, stopping Nagato counted as protecting it from invasion, right? "Then my only remaining question is-" He grinned fiercely as he slammed a palm onto the bench, cracking it from the force. "-How good a fighter are ya?"
"This certainly wasn't how I was expecting my week to turn out." Naruto sighed and scratched the back of his head as he made his way slowly across the courtyard of Beacon Academy; a place of learning that taught young Hunters and Huntresses-in-training how to fight against the creatures he knows as 'Grimm', and in perfect honesty, not someplace he wanted to spend the next few years, because, let's be real here.
What in the hell are they going to be able to teach him- a descendant of the Kami of Shinobi, the hero of the 4th Great Shinobi War, and strongest Jinchuriki of his generation?
Jack-squat, that's what.
Still, his father did pull many-a-string to get him accepted into the place, and it DID hold the rest of his family he had yet to meet, so he supposed it wasn't all bad. He still would have liked to spend more time with his biological parents to get to know them better before doing this, but this just meant he could learn more about his sisters in the meantime it took for the Vytal Festival to come to town and he could reunite with his parents again then. But, the more he took in this place and it's people, the more he found he wasn't going to like this as much as he was trying to hype himself into doing.
That, and the fact he would have to do a lot of research to pass these 'Classes' of his was not making this any easier on him.
And neither were the heated looks he was getting from the racists(Even though he wasn't a faunus, damn it!), and the skeptic looks he was getting from students who had taken a notice of his right arm, or more specifically the sleeve of his track suit he had stapled at the elbow and shoulder to hold it place better than just rolling up his sleeve to it's absolute limit that clearly showed he was missing something important.
Sure, some of the students looked clearly concerned about his lack of appendage, no doubt wondering what in the nine layers of hell a paraplegic was doing at a school for warriors in training, but he gave them no heed as he lost himself in his thoughts and took a look around the place.
"Naruto." For the first time in the last few days, his partner and best friend spoke up in his mind. 'I know, I felt it when I first entered Sage Mode to scout this place out; there's a faint source of power in the basement of this building. It feels like it's between life and death, most likely in some kind of coma or stasis.' That was another thing that he did not like about coming here- just what the hell were the staff doing in this place to have something like that on school grounds?!
"Then I take it you also noticed that then, too?" 'Indeed.' What Kurama was talking about was, of course, the fact that there was someone in this school that held no emotion. Now, thanks to Kurama's power of being able to sense negative emotion, Naruto was able to feel that literally EVERYONE on this continent had some form of unpositive feelings- whether it was jealousy, anger, hatred, sadness, vanity, gluttony, they all had one. And being raised in the Elemental Nations, it was easy to feel what they felt all the time as well, and while emotions were high over there, it was NOTHING like what he was able to see over here.
Literally every single person had some emotion running high, and that was most likely why they all were having such trouble with these Grimm things in the first place. But, when he set foot on this campus, he was able to 'Feel' one person out the most- mainly because of his lack of emotions compared to everyone around him. And in Naruto's experience, that was never a good thing.
But, he thought to himself as he saw a black haired girl with red highlights in it fall to the ground on her butt, that was all the more reason to stay and protect his new found sisters from whatever crazy shit this academy was hiding inside it's walls.
"Howdy! You look like you could use a hand!" Did he really just say that?
Kill him- please.
While he was slowly dying on the inside, on the outside he had a large grin that just screamed 'I wanna be your friend, please accept that or else I'll punch you until you do!' as he held out his sole hand to help the young girl up from the ground. "Oh, um thanks- OH MY GOSH, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR ARM?!" Her shouting fit would have had everyone's eyes on them right now, if it weren't for the fact they had all left the yard in search of the auditorium they were all meant to meet at. "Huh, this?" He waved around his third of an arm like it was no big deal and just continued to grin. "Nah, it's nothing! Got it from protecting my home, so it's all cool in my book!" Meanwhile, the young girl couldn't seem to pick her jaw up from off the ground at the casual way the blonde teen seemed to brush off missing a limb.
"But- you- arm- why-" "Wait, what time is it? OH CRAP! We're gonna be late if we don't hurry!" With that said, the once Uzumaki turned to a random direction and started slowly jogging(Which looked like more of a steroid fueled sprint to just about everyone else.) to find where he was meant to be at for the Freshmen speech. "H-Hey! Wait for me!" Not wanting to be left alone just yet, the small girl used her Semblance to chase after the boy, both equally lost and most likely going to miss the meeting.
"Phew, made it!" Naruto grinned as he finally entered the auditorium filled with other students, none the worse for wear after going on a wild goose chase across the school to find the room.
Ruby, on the other hand, could not say the same as she slowly crawled into the room, totally spent after trying to keep up with the stamina freak that was Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze-Arc. "We… Went through… The school… SIX TIMES!" "Was it six? I counted four. Huh." The blonde scratched his chin in thought before just shrugging. "Meh. Was never good with numbers anyway." "You… Are a… Stamina monster…!" A panting Ruby slowly stood up, still out of breath from her last excursion as Naruto chuckled sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head. "I've been told." "Ruby!" They both looked over in the large crowd and saw a blonde beauty with lilac eyes waving the smaller of the two over. "I saved you a spot!" Naruto glanced at the beat, small girl. "Think she's talking to you, short stuff."
Oh how he has always wanted to be able to say that to someone around his own age.
"HEY! I HAVE BEEN DRINKING MILK- wait, I didn't get your name…" She looked around herself, trying to spot the blonde male from before, but failed to do so after a long search. "How does someone with no arm slip away like that?" She eventually muttered to herself as she went over to stand by her sister. "Pretty easily, once you get to my level, actually." Naruto whispered to himself on the ceiling, hidden in the shadow of a pillar as he waited for that one presence that didn't sit right with him to enter the room, as he could tell from the way it was walking it was headed this way.
He didn't have to wait long, either, as the presence entered, along with another, revealing an imposing man that stood half a foot taller than a six foot stature, along with an almost equally tall woman(WHAT THE FUCK WAS WITH THESE FREAKISHLY TALL PEOPLE IN THIS LAND?!) going up to the stage to no doubt give the speech they had all been waiting for.
Not that Naruto cared or even paid attention to it, as he observed the source of his worries, and those same worries only doubled as he took in more from the man.
He was, for all intents and purposes, a blank slate- not like those NE members Danzo used to be the leader of, because even if they were trained to hold their emotions in, they still had them, unlike the statue before him. And while he wanted to believe his father when he told him the headmaster was good and to trust him, even despite his 'Habits' as he had put it, he just couldn't find it in himself to do so, especially from what he had heard of the man from his father's call to the same man, who seemed a little too interested to meet with the so-called missing son of the Arc line.
The way his eyes scanned the crowd frequently also told him he was trying to find him, but Naruto wasn't having any of it(Especially when he had a look in his eyes Naruto had only seen once, and when that time was when he was naught even seven and he had barged into the Sandaime's office, only to see a certain decrepit old man who was once the rival of said Hokage stare at him with eyes one would use to look at a weapon they just knew they had to have, he wasn't very keen to be put under any scrutiny any time soon.), so he just stayed in the shadows on the ceiling, waiting up there until the man left and the woman gave out her orders before slipping into the lockers rooms, changing out of his clothes to a long sleeve black shirt and pumpkin orange pajama pants, and sneaking into the lobby where they would be held for the night and finding a remote location where he was less likely to be bothered and finally falling to sleep.
Well, sleep was a relative term, considering he was a Shinobi trained to be alert at any moment, but still.
Waking up was a simple matter(Even if he was up before about 95% of the rest of the people there.), and he didn't waste any time to go to the cafeteria(Where they didn't serve ramen- where was the complaint box when you needed it?!) for breakfast, where he spent most of the time after eating getting in tune with the nature in this land(Which was polluted as shit, as he had angrily found out- nowhere near as clean as it was back in the Elemental nations, and it showed by making the form a lot less powerful than what it usually was. Kurama, luckily, told him that if he kept up a routine of filtering the energy into his body, purified it, and released back into the world, he could slowly, but surely, clean up the place around him, which was a major relief.), and after it was closing in on the time of 'Initiation', he got up and headed to the locker rooms himself.
"You know, I feel like they could be wasting the time they use to make rocket lockers on something a lot better." Naruto muttered to himself as he got his clothes and quickly changed into them(That was about it, actually, because he always has his Kunai and Shuriken on him, and with the Gudōdama, he could instantly have any weapon he could think of, so getting on was kind of useless… Well, that and a lot of weapons were two handed and he, didn't really fit the bill for those.) and, checking to see if he had the time, went off further into the locker room to see if he could find anything interesting or people to talk to(Or even better; prank!).
"Wow!" And something did catch his eye- an eye turning scarlet redhead with the same shade of hair his once thought mother(Seriously, if you think it was confusing for you, just think about how bad it was for him.) had, talking to an equally beautiful white haired girl with a light scar over her right eye(Not that it made her worse looking to him; if anything, it made her look better in his opinion.). Deciding it was time to use the 'Uzumaki-Namikaze-Arc' charm once more, Naruto confidently strode up to the two, and, once close enough, coughed into his fist to get their attention, which he did, and when he did-
He froze.
What the hell was he supposed to say to them?!
"Uh, nice weather we're having…?"
"Smooooooth."
Shut it, ya furball!
To his undying embarrassment, the white haired girl raised an eyebrow skeptically at him while the redhead giggled at his attempt at small talk. "Um, what I mean to say is, it's nice weather for our Initiation, isn't it? Heh heh, heh… Oh Kami-Sama, this is so awkward." Naruto muttered that last part to himself and face palmed, hard, while the redhead just giggled even more at his misfortune. "Well, I'm just gonna… Go, before I say something even worse than sticking my foot in my mouth, like how much I love the red shade of your hair and how beautiful I find the one with the scar-" He froze, once more, when he found himself speaking out loud and not in his mind as the one giggling flushed a little and the one with the scar started gaping with pink cheeks.
"Oh Kami, I did it again!" Naruto quickly left the room while shouting out his woes for all to here, ignoring everything as he went to go run around the school a few times to cool off.
These next few years were gonna be excruciatingly loooooooong.