Disclaimer - I do not own Naruto or Rwby.
AN - Here's the first chapter of the rewrite of The Rose and the Maelstrom, it is very different. More at the end of the chapter.
-Chapter 1 Start-
"You seem quiet Gaki." Jiraiya called to the girl standing beside him. He himself was a tall man, standing at six foot one, with long white hair, framed with a headband containing the ancient kanji for oil, tied in a ponytail going down to his hips. His dark grey eyes were kind, but hid steel beneath their surface, accentuated by the two red streaks moving from his eyes down over his cheeks.
He was wearing a strange ensemble, a green short kimono, with matching trousers, were covered by a red haori. A wire mesh shirt could be seen poking out from underneath the kimono and a pair of traditional geta finished his outfit.
The girl next to him was young, barely two months into her teens. She had long blonde hair, tied in twintails, going down to her waist. Her eyes were a light violet, usually sparkling with energy and mischief, now dull and tired, sorrow lacing them. Three whisker marks on each cheek framed her face, making her look quite fox-like, drawing the eye away from her frowning mouth.
She was wearing an orange jumpsuit, accentuated with blue and white, with a white spiral on each shoulder and a red one on her back. A pair of blue sandals graced her feet and a headband with a leaf symbol graced her forehead.
"I'm fine Ero-sennin." She replied rather abruptly, her eyes briefly flicking to him before focusing on the road ahead of them. "Nothing's wrong." She affirmed, getting a look of disbelief from Jiraiya.
"Really?" He asked, peering at her. "It is okay to feel sad after what happened kid, you are allowed to."
"I'm fine!" She said through gritted teeth, accelerating slightly to stop the conversation. Jiraiya wasn't going to let that happen though, accelerating to match her.
"Your teammate died Naruto, you need to let yourself grieve, to mourn." He tried to verbally prod the girl, trying to get her to let the feelings out.
"He didn't just die Ero-sennin, I killed him." She spat, her fists clenching. Her violet eyes were shining with a hint of red. "I killed my best friend because I was too weak to capture him alive."
Sighing briefly, Jiraiya ran his hand through his hair before speaking. "Kid, I looked at the battle site and I've read the reports. You did everything imaginable to take him alive, you even took several wounds which would have killed anyone else." He stopped, grabbing her arm and turning her to look at him. "You only struck to kill once and that was when it was apparent that you couldn't capture him, you did the right thing."
"Killing my best friend was the 'right' thing?" She yelled back at him her eyes now fully red.
"In this case yes!" He told her, her fists clenching. "I wish I had the strength to do that."
"W-what?" Naruto was on the back foot with that declaration. "What do you mean?"
"When Orochimaru turned traitor I chased after him like you did with Sasuke, we fought briefly and I overpowered him but I wasn't strong enough to take him alive and I lacked the will to kill him." He admitted, sighing deeply. "I couldn't do it. He escaped and you know the rest, my inability to kill him has caused the deaths of Sensei and thousands of others. You did the right thing, it was too dangerous to risk it."
"Sasuke wouldn't have... I know he wouldn't have." She tried to argue.
"Just like I 'knew' that Orochimaru never would have or Sasuke 'knew' that Itachi never would have." He knew the second bit was a low blow but he needed to get through to her. "No one knows what someone is capable of, because we all are capable of doing so much more than even we know."
Seeing the girl retreating in on herself and forcibly holding back tears he knew he had hit the right points, but he needed to strike while the iron was hot. "You stopped Sasuke from going to Orochimaru, if he had made it he would have been placed on all ANBU hit lists and would have had a bounty on his head that periodically increased until someone was successful." Seeing her crumbling he had one more remark to use. "Even if he survived all of that he would have just became Orochimaru's meat puppet, if anything you saved him from a few years of pointless suffering followed by death."
"Why? Why?" She asked, tears beginning to roll down her cheeks. "Why did he make me kill him?"
"Who knows Gaki, he was an obviously tortured soul who received no help." Jiraiya responded, his hand clutching her shoulder. "The only reason he lived for so many years were so he could kill Uchiha Itachi, he didn't have anything else. Maybe... maybe he just wanted it to end."
"Sasuke wouldn't do that." She protested. "He wanted to avenge his clan and then rebuild it, why would he..?"
"Who knows, maybe I'm just full of it. Maybe no one knows, we do things without conscious thought sometimes." He shrugged. "All we can do is to move forward, to keep going. The dead are in a better place than we are, don't pity them."
The silence that followed his statement stretched, nearly twenty minutes passed as they walked down the path. "I miss him." She said to no one in particular. "I... did you know that the last words he said to me were thank you? I'd just shoved a Rasengan into his chest and the last thing he did was thank me, who does that?"
"If there is one thing I know about Orochimaru's juinjutsu it's that it attacks the mind, the more you use it the more it attacks. It plays on your greatest fears and damages your judgement, directing you towards a certain path." Jiraiya spoke softly. "I think he might have realised too late and feared what he was becoming, or maybe he felt he had no choice in what he was doing and was glad that someone took it from him."
"Really?" She asked fighting off tears, her voice cracking.
"Maybe, maybe not." Jiraiya admitted, not wanting to mislead her. "All we can say for sure is that Sasuke knew that it was the right thing and that he was thankful towards you."
"I miss him." She reiterated quietly.
"I know Gaki, I know."
-LINE BREAK-
Two weeks had passed since they had left Konoha, meandering around Hi no Kuni at the whim of Jiraiya's contacts. The weather had stayed mild even as the winter continued, the temperate climate pleasant all year round.
They had just left Kakō-machi, a town located in an ancient crater formed long before human history, and were travelling towards Tokushima-shi, the capital city of Hi no Kuni. Jiraiya had been looking slightly shifty since he had visited an old, abandoned bathroom, forcing her to stay outside. He had returned with a small black book and a disturbed look on his face.
"What's up with you Ero-sennin?" She asked, a small whine in her voice. "You're acting really weird 'ttebane."
"Something's happened Gaki, I want to put some distance between us and the bounty office before we stop." Jiraiya replied, glancing around the forest that surrounded the road.
"Bounty office?" Naruto asked, suddenly confused. "You only went to a dirty old bathroom."
"That was a bounty office." He said, stressing the was. "Specifically a black market bounty office, it's for illegal bounties and to allow criminals like nuke-nin to hand in bounties."
"If it's illegal why did you go?" Now she was even more confused, bounty offices in toilets, illegal bounties. What was he on about?
"Because the criminal underworld is one of the best places to get information and bounty offices like that are the easiest way to access them." He explained, trying to get her to understand. "As Konoha's spy master I have to collect all information possible, legal or not. Besides, just because they're criminals doesn't mean they're bad people, I know a lot of good criminals."
"What about that book you brought out of there?" The book had been bugging her since she had seen it, at first she thought it had been one of his porn books but he looked worried as he leafed through it.
"A book I got from a bounty office? I wonder what it could be." Jiraiya snorted at the end before cuffing her over the head. "Use your brain Gaki."
"So it's a bounty book?" She asked, receiving a nod and an eye roll in response. "So why did you look so freaked out by it." In lieu of an answer she had a page shoved in her face causing her mouth to dry as she read the contents.
Name: Uzumaki Naruto
Moniker: Kyuubi no Jinchuuriki
Gender: Female
Date Of Birth: 4th October 49 A.K.F.
Allegiance: Konoha
Rank: Genin
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Bounty: 3,000,000 Ryo (dead) 5,000,000 Ryo (alive) - Otogakure
It was accompanied by a picture of her during the Chunin Exams, taken as she left the stadium after her fight with Neji and a description of her personality. "Is this real?" She asked, her eyes wide as she got a look at the page, her breath hitching as she read the moniker. Getting a nod in return she gulped before asking her next question. "And how many people will see this?"
"This is actually a legal bounty, that means it will be put in the official bingo books." He explained, carefully gauging her reaction. "Meaning everyone chunin and up will be given a copy."
It was as if a dark cloud had formed over her head, she slumped down in despair, her eyes going almost blank and her voice taking on an almost scratchy quality. "So everyone's going to know about the Kyuubi by the end of the week."
"Basically." Jiraiya agreed bluntly. "The law surrounding your status as a Jinchuuriki will be revoked and a large amount of the anonymity that I was banking on will be stripped away."
"Who cares about that!" Naruto exclaimed loudly, panic filling her features. "What's everyone gonna say back in Konoha, it was bad enough after Sasuke, what will everyone think after this."
She was stopped by Jiraiya's fist bopping her on the head, the pain making her clutch her head. "It won't be as bad as you think Gaki, Tsunade-hime wouldn't let it get that bad." Shaking his head he turned back to the path. "Neither would the clan heads or any of the jonin, they couldn't get to their positions with the sort of idiocy others show. What we need to focus on is keeping you alive while you train. That's a high bounty for a genin, a bounty that will attract attention, people will think that you're a soft option and will attack in force."
Seeing her about to protest he continued speaking, cutting off any rants. "Your head is now worth several years wages for the average person, you will be attacked." He was absolute in that declaration, his manner allowing for no argument. "Hopefully my presence will dissuade most of the hunters but there are always a few idiots…"
"I can protect myself Ero-sennin." She retorted, glaring lightly at him. "I'm not a kid."
"No, you're not." Jiraiya agreed. "You're not a kid, you might be childish but you don't have enough innocence to be a kid. But don't take this lightly, they probably won't try to kill you head on, no one is invincible, especially when taken by surprise."
"Just, be careful Gaki, don't get overconfident." He finished. "It'll just get you killed."
-LINE BREAK-
"One miso ramen please." Naruto ordered, a wide grin on her face. They had just stopped in a small town after a week of travelling off the beaten track, completely bypassing the capital city to avoid predictability. Arriving here Jiraiya had finally consented to getting some ramen, something he had been avoiding due to… budget constraints.
They had so far escaped the notice of any true bounty hunters and would have continued staying off the track if they hadn't needed to check in with one of Jiraiya's assets.
She could admit that she was beginning to feel better, a month having passed since Sasuke's death, she was feeling less numb, the world around her actually drawing some interest. But with it came more anger than she had ever felt before, anger that was becoming increasingly hard to repress.
Jiraiya had mentioned several times when her eyes flashed red due to her anger and she remembered a few times where her vision became clearer while angry and her nails became sharper. There were also times where she was glaring at people for minor annoyances that she would have shrugged off before.
A few times she even caught herself brooding, usually when it rained or when they passed waterfalls. She was also far more ferocious in combat, using more dirty tricks and potentially dangerous moves than she had before. She really wanted to hurt Jiraiya during those spars and it was beginning to freak her out.
On the other hand she seemed to have calmed down slightly, finding it easier to stay in one place and to listen to lectures without her mind wandering. Sure it still wandered but she was getting more from it, she could hold a basic conversation on her philosophies now, even if they were nowhere near as fleshed out as she had previously thought.
She suspected that a lot of the mood changes were due to the Kyuubi's influence but Jiraiya had only hummed in a non-committal manner when she said this.
But now she had money thrown at her and was told to go get ramen, for the first time in a month she was allowed ramen. She had quickly scoured the town finding the only ramen stand, a little hole in the wall called Ramen Nadeshiko who had an actual Yamato Nadeshiko as the chef, and placed her orders.
Jiraiya was off talking to one of his contacts, something about a shipment that had passed through the town, leaving her alone for the first time in a week. She guessed he was trying to make sure she was safe but it was slightly suffocating… at least she hadn't caught him peeping on her.
The scent of freshly cooked ramen roused her from her thoughts, the big bowl being placed in front of her, the broth sloshing around the the sides as it was placed on the counter. "Itadakimasu."
The first bite was surprisingly bitter, the broth coated noodles not tasting quite right. She was almost tempted to complain but she just couldn't bring herself to care…
Bolting up she swallowed harshly, there was something seriously wrong. 'There must be something seriously wrong with me if I don't care about ramen.' Turning she looked at the waitress who was looking at her nervously. "This is kind of bitter."
"Is it?" The waitress asked, glancing back at the chef who shrugged his shoulders. "Well how about a second bowl, free of charge in apology."
"Sure, spicy pork please." She replied pushing the ramen away from her and leaning back. 'I should probably talk to Ero-sennin about my issues a bit more. I don't want to go emo like…'
She clenched her fist hard, trying to cut off the thought, the pain stopping her from going too deep into her own thoughts. Surreptitiously she wiped her palm on her trousers, getting rid of the small amount of blood that had began to well from around her nails, her body heating as her healing kicked in, her wound shutting with a sizzle. Surprisingly her body stayed warm, usually cooling down after the healing was done, but it wasn't too bad.
She supposed she needed to find some form of closure, like Ero-sennin had said before. But how would she do that? She had no idea.
The chef's knife thundered as it sliced some chilies before transferring them, seeds and all, into the new bowl of ramen. The pork was added on top, the thin slices fanning across the noodles before it was passed forwards and placed in front of her. "Please enjoy."
"Thanks." She said with a nod before digging in, the chillies pleasantly burning her mouth but failing to entirely hide the bitter taste. This time she didn't bother complaining, maybe it was something with her.
For the next ten minutes she slowly consumed two more bowls, the bitterness remaining in each bite, her body uncomfortably warm. 'What could it mean? Is my guilt making it so I can't enjoy my favourite thing? How did Ino's dad put it, my mind tricking my body to cause a physical reaction to mental trauma.'
"What's up with you Gaki?" Jiraiya's voice chimed up from beside her, having claimed the seat without her noticing.
She didn't even flinch, used to this from the months of travelling with him. "The ramen tastes really bitter," She complained, ignoring the worried look on the waitress' face. "And I'm wondering if the problem is with me instead of the food."
"How so?" He leaned forwards, glancing at the ramen before back at her.
"Well, after I got out of hospital and before we left to train, Baa-chan made me go to a few therapy sessions with Ino's dad. He told me that sometimes our emotions can affect us physically and to be on the lookout for that." She explained, placing her chopsticks down. "I think that, maybe my guilt is making me feel like I can't enjoy anything so my body is ruining my ability to enjoy ramen."
"Well Inoichi does know his stuff, if it's about the mind the only person I would trust more is his father, but first you should check for other circumstances." He replied, dipping his finger in the ramen broth and touching his tongue to it.
"But I don't know what else it could be." She replied, her head slumping. This only caused Jiraiya to gain a deadpan look on his face.
"Gaki. The ramen is poisoned." He deadpanned before disappearing in a blur of speed, pinning the chef to his worktop and creating a clone to pin the waitress.
"What!" She yelped, jumping out of her stool. "Who would dare poison ramen?" Her eyes were now red, the pupils slitted, she absently noted her teeth itching as her canines tried to grow.
"Of course that's the bit which pisses you off." He snarked before turning his attention to the pair of prisoners. "Now, why did you try to kill my apprentice?"
"Please, they said they'd kill us." The woman sobbed, her arm almost screaming in pain from where it was wrenched behind her back.
"Did they? What else did 'They' say?" Jiraiya asked, applying pressure to the man's arm.
"That a girl with blonde hair and purple eyes would probably be coming by, if she did we were to place some poison they gave us into the broth. Once she collapsed they were going to grab her and leave." The man squealed, a crowd had begun to form, the drama drawing them in. Jiraiya just hummed before wrenching his arm again. "They also said we would get five percent of the bounty if we didn't say anything."
"Makes sense, if you had just gone to the police or the militia they would have had to leave." Jiraiya reasoned, before his eyes hardened. "They had to appeal to your greed, if you tattled then they would have either had to skip town or been rounded up."
"Please." The lady pleaded.
"Upupup, no complaining. It doesn't suit such a pretty little thing like you. Now who are 'They?'" He leered at the woman momentarily before his eyes hardened.
"They were wearing dark clothes, their mouths covered by masks, they had blank metal headbands." The woman sobbed, the crowd whispering and cursing about shinobi.
"That's a very nice lie, now who were they really?" Jiraiya demanded without missing a beat. The woman squirmed before her arm was wrenched again. "This is me asking nicely, don't make me be harsh."
"It's my cousin, he's a bounty hunter." The man whimpered. "He runs with three others, he's a ronin."
"Much better. Now I'm going to hand you over to these nice men for the attempted murder of an active member of the Konoha military." Jiraiya motioned to the militia men who had just shown up. "Next time people might not be so lenient."
-LINE-BREAK-
A week had passed since the failed assassination attempt and they were back on the road, the restaurateurs had been convicted quickly getting five years apiece. From what Jiraiya had said, this was was an incredibly light sentence.
The bounty hunters hadn't been seen since, using the commotion to flee. The cousin was called Unagi, a man who tried to become a samurai but fell to a life of crime, bringing dishonour to himself. Jiraiya wasn't that worried about the man tracking them but had urged her to be alert when alone as that was when someone would strike.
Now they were just ten miles from a mountain village near the border with Heiya no kuni where they planned to stop for the night, the next day planning to descend into country and cross the Tenchi bridge.
"Hey Gaki, I need to take a leak, just carry on I'll catch up." Jiraiya grunted as they reached the edge of the forest they were in, a mountain pass greeted her from just beyond the treeline. "Try not to get too lost."
"Whatever." She huffed before hurrying forward. "How do you get lost on a straight path?"
The pass was roughly a hundred metres wide, with a sheer cliff on one side and a slope on the other, small amounts of brush lined the slope the slope ending with a small cliff face nearly six metres up. She was almost stomping as she walked down the path, her annoyance palpable.
"He just enjoys pissing me off, if he's not peeping on girls he's making cracks at me. We haven't even done any proper training yet." She grumbled, booting a rock as she passed it, causing it to fly forwards further down the path. The echoes of the stone reverberated around the pass, the sound magnified by the stone walls.
Striding forward she kicked the rock again, sending it bouncing off the cliffside and onto the slope. The sound of it skidding back down caused her to crack a small smile before she sprinted up to it and kicked it again.
This time the rock went skidding up the slope, bouncing off of the cliff face at the top before bouncing down and getting caught in one of the shrubs. The clacking of the rock continuing to echo…
'That's not an echo.' Naruto eyes widened, her hand moving to her kunai pouch as the first explosion started, emphasis on the word first. Nearly a dozen explosions detonated along the ridge, the numerous blasts causing the slope to crumble and slide, the tonnes of rock and stone hurtling down towards her in an attempt to crush her.
"Oh shit." She cursed before turning, facing towards the cliff and jumping, her chakra seeping in and finding purchase, allowing her to run up the wall as if it was the path. Unfortunately this didn't last very long as her attackers had thought of this avenue of escape, evidenced by the explosions that detonated the top of the cliff, causing that to collapse as well.
"Damn it." She spat before launching back over the collapsing slope, landing briefly on a flat boulder that was sliding down before leaping again, trying to clear the rockslide.
It was at that moment that her attackers showed themselves, one appearing at the top of the slope and throwing two handfuls of shuriken, another two came out from the cliff throwing kunai and a fuma shuriken at her, trying to box her in. The fourth attacker shown himself, bursting from within the rockslide a kunai clutched in his hand thrusting towards her stomach.
"Fuck." She swore as the knife thundered into her gut, blood beginning to spill, grabbing the hand that was holding the knife she used it as leverage, flipping behind her attacker and kicking off his back. The man was launched into the path of his comrades weapons, blood flying as he was stabbed repeatedly, dead before he even hit the ground.
Naruto on the other hand had landed on the still collapsing slope, skidding down with the scree, the blade dislodging from her stomach as it got trapped in the rock. Painfully she slammed into the cliff at the bottom, the rocks piling up and burying her.
All was silent in the pass, the rocks having taken nearly a minute to settle, even the birds were silent, having fled during the initial explosion. "Shu is dead." The only girl noted, her tone almost bored as she looked over the partially buried corpse of her teammate.
"He always underestimated his opponents, that got him killed." The shorter of the two men replied with a nod. "Mai, collect the jinchuuriki's corpse, we need to get out of here and across the border before the Gama Sennin catches up." He ordered, moving towards his comrades corpse.
"Yeah, yeah. Don't know why you're bothering with his corpse at all, it's not like he was worth anything." She scoffed, moving towards the cliff face. Crouching down over the last area she had seen the blonde girl she quickly began shifting dirt and rock. "To be honest I'm glad he's dead, his incompetence was dragging the rest of us down."
At that moment the world almost became heavier, the air suffocating Mai as everything seemed to gain a red tint. "What the hell do you think your teammates are?!" Naruto's voice yelled, a red cloaked hand bursting from the ground, wrapping around Mai's throat. The ground cracked and shattered as Naruto sat up, dust and pebbles cascading from her form. "Don't ever take your teammates for granted!" She screamed into her face before slamming the woman's head into the cliff, a loud crack reverberating through the area, her neck almost perpendicular with her torso.
"Shit, Doton: Doryuu Taiga." The lead nin yelled, flashing through hand seals. Suddenly Naruto yelled in shock as all the rock beneath her turned to mud, causing her to sink, her lack of footing causing her to fall and become fully submerged in the mud.
"Katon: Gōen no Jutsu." The other man yelled, spitting a cone of flame, striking the mud and causing it to harden and solidify. He panted heavily as the fireball faded, having overpowered the technique in his panic, slumping slightly after the fire had faded. "Damn, she was tough."
"She is a jinchuuriki, they are powerhouses and are known for being inhumanly sturdy." The leader nodded, staring warily at the hardened mud. "We might need to use more firepower, get all of your exploding notes out."
At the moment the ground exploded, the area getting showered in debris as a red cloaked figure stalked out of the crater on all fours. Naruto was covered head to toe in red chakra, her eyes blazing red, her canine teeth extended into fangs and her fingernails sharpened into claws. The red chakra was sitting lazily around her form, two streams extending from her head like ears and one forming a tail that flicked in agitation behind her.
A guttural growl, that reverberated through their chests, issued from her mouth before she exploded forwards, dust scattering behind her as she dived, claws ready. "Doton: Doryuuheki." The leader yelled, a wall of rock bursting from the ground causing Naruto to bounce off, her head bleeding for a moment from the impact. "Get those explosive tags now!" He yelled as the girl shook her head and ran up to the wall, her first reducing the wall to rubble. "Doton: Iwa Bunshin no Jutsu."
Three identical copies of the nin grew from balls of mud that he spat out, the trio charging at the growling girl, throwing shuriken in an attempt to distract her. Swiping her arm lazily through the air she buffeted the area with wind, knocking the shuriken from the air before leaping forwards, clawing at the lead clone, only hitting air as it crouched.
The clones left arm flashed out, catching the kyubbified girl in the ribs and sending her to the side. Quickly she slammed her tail into the ground, digging it in to flip around and land on her hands and feet, the growling intensifying as she leapt at the clone again. Her anger induced tunnel vision caused her to ignore the other two clones, allowing them to strike her in a pincer manoeuvre, one attacking her legs with a stamp, the other throwing a hook punch towards her head.
To the shock of the faux-shinobi she didn't even budge from the strikes, the bijuu chakra planting her firmly in the ground. The constant growling turning into outright snarling was the only warning the two clones had before chakra hands burst from her torso, thundering through their torsos, the clones turning back to rock and crumbling as the girl glared at the final clone.
"Doton: Sando no jutsu." The original nin yelled as he slammed his hands down, two slabs of rock raising from the ground, crushing the girl between them. This was the opportunity they were waiting for, running forward the clone slammed an explosive tag onto her chest, the chakra cloak making it detonate immediately destroying the clone and launching her back into the cliff. "Now!"
At this yell the other nin, jumped into the air, launching a kunai towards the staggered girl, nearly thirty tags tied together and attached to the end.
The explosion rocked the area, several of the more precarious rocks tumbling down before the rock wall collapsed. "Did that kill her?" The thrower asked, staring at the unmoving pile of rocks. "That was thirty explosive tags, that should have killed her, right?"
"She should be little more than paste." The leader admitted, staring at the rocks that entombed the genin. "But why hasn't the sickly feeling dispersed?"
As if to answer him the pile of rocks exploded into the air, revealing Naruto stalking from the crater, a second tail swishing behind her. The red eyes glared at the pair before she disappeared in a blur, her speed having been boosted by the second tail. "She's above us." The subordinate yelled, seeing the girl diving from above he flicked through some handsigns before inhaling. "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu." He yelled before exhaling, sending a massive ball of flames towards her as the leader dived to the side.
It was all for naught though, rearing back her head in a massive breath she roared straight at the fireball, the force of it sending the fireball back at the caster engulfing him in flames and causing him to release a blood curdling scream as he ignited. The leader was luckier, he had only been caught by the fringes of the technique so he only had burnt hands but he couldn't move them too much. "Damn it."
A light growl sounded from within the flames, the flames parting as the kyuubified girl stalked out, glaring at the man. "If you want to finish it, do it, Konoha scum."
"I think it's time to stop this right now." The voice of Jiraiya echoed as he appeared behind the nin, striking him in the back of the neck, knocking him unconscious. "I can't leave you alone for even a minute can I Naruto?" He shook his head before jumping backwards, a clawed hand swiping through the air where he had been standing. "Naruto, snap out of it." He barked.
Letting out another roar she dived forward at speed, trying to disembowel her sensei with her claws. Just before she reached him he stepped forward, flicking his foot out and kicking her in her right cheek. Sending her staggering before she righted herself, snarling. "Seriously Naruto, snap out of it."
She didn't, letting out a roar she punched the ground, creating a crater around her. Pulling up her hand the ground heaved as she pulled a piece of rock, twice her size, from the ground, hefting it above her head. "I guess I'll need to snap you out of it myself."
He quickly leapt up, the rock flying beneath him harmlessly, even as that happened he could see the girl lifting another rock and launching it towards him. "Futon: Kawa." He intoned before blowing wind chakra above him to push him back to the ground, the second rock sailing over his head.
Without missing a beat he continued running towards the girl, sidestepping a chakra hand that had flung itself towards him he made a hand sign, a single shadow clone popping into existence which began to run counterclockwise around the girl while he ran clockwise.
Her head was flicking between the two Jiraiya as she tried to figure out who to attack, her tails circling around her before simultaneously lashing out, trying to hit both of them but failing to hit their mark. With both tails fully extended he took the chance, both Jiraiya and the clone swiftly changed direction, charging towards the girl, fingertips glowing purple. Sidestepping another chakra hand he lashed out, slamming his fingertips into her stomach with a cry of "Gogyō Fūin."
For the first time in five minutes the mountain path grew truly calm, the cloying, hateful feeling disappearing from the air and the only sound that could be heard was the crackling of a fire. Naruto had collapsed to the ground unconscious, the ominous red chakra vanishing and her animalistic features receding. "Well, this was a shit show." Jiraiya sighed, eyes finding all three corpses and the unconscious nin. "Let's find out what caused this."
-Chapter One End-
AN - So how was that, it took a while but it is here.
Now why did I rewrite this... I was dissapointed with how the story was going. It was my first true attempt and I did not plan properly, I was placing things in the story that I thought would be cool and later decided that I didn't want to use it, Ruby's sharingan as an example.
The shows also progressed, bringing new information and world building that I wanted to use but couldn't under my current framework. So I went back and started writing the story again and I am much happier with how it looks now, I have a lot planned.
I hope you enjoy this story and all others to come.
Current stories I am working on.
The Ruby Rose Chronicles - RWBY/multi xover
Ruby: Life is a game - RWBY/Gamer
Kingdom Hearts: The sister's remnant - RWBY/Kingdom Hearts
Kaliedo RWBY - RWBY/Nasuverse
