As soon as the Hidden Leaf discovered about Sasuke leaving, a five-man squad was gathered by Shikamaru, including himself, Kiba, Naruto, Choji, and Neji to bring Sasuke back. When they left the village and followed the scent of Sasuke thanks to Kiba and Akamaru. They easily caught up to the Sound Four, but were trapped by Jirobo, They soon escaped thanks to Choji but he was left behind to deal with the remaining three.
As Naruto, Kiba, Shikamaru and Neji were on the move, Neji took the lead as he activated his Byakugan. "That's strange." Neji said earning everyone's attention.
"What is it Neji?" Shikamaru asked.
"Well it's been quite a long time and we still haven't encountered a single trap." Neji explained.
"Seriously?" Kiba said in disbelief. "Why would they do that?"
"Well it looks like we've been underestimated. They think we're nothing but armatures and that the big guy could handle us all by himself, so they didn't even bother to put a trap for us." Shikamaru answered.
Naruto gritted his teeth in frustration hearing this. "Those jerks, they think we're so weak!"
Suddenly, Neji's eyes suddenly widened "Hold it!" Neji said as he stopped causing the rest of the team to stop.
"What's up Neji?" Kiba asked.
"I'm sensing four chakra signatures up ahead." Neji answered. "It seems that they decided to wait for their comrade."
Shikamaru was silent for moment trying to come up with an idea. A couple of minutes had passed before speaking up. "Maybe we can use this to our advantage but we'll definitely have to be careful with this."
Everyone nodded in agreement. When they got closer to them, the four of them hid behind the trees and they got a good look at the Sound Ninjas sitting in the clearing with a barrel in the center.
"Damn it!" Tayuya shouted. "What the hell is taking Fatass so long?!"
"Well he better get here quick, otherwise we'll just leave him." Sakon stated.
"You know Sakon I think we should leave him behind." Kidomaru chuckled as he took out a kunai with a tag tied to the end of it and threw it towards the trees.
'Crap!' Shikamaru as well as the others quickly moved away from the kunai but as soon as it struck a tree an explosion caused them to crash into the ground.
Kidomaru quickly took action. "Ninja Art: Spider Web Net!" He spat out a spider web net out of his mouth which landed on Naruto and his team.
"W-What is this?" Naruto asked as his friends and he struggled to escape but to no avail. Naruto brought out a kunai and tried to cut the web, sadly the blade had no effect on it. "What the heck is this stuff made out of?!"
Sakon smirked as he, along with the others, walked closer to the trapped Ninjas.
"Well, well, looks like we got these idiots to fall for our trap." Sakon snickered.
"S-So you knew your comrade would fail?" Shikamaru asked, as he tried to escape from the web.
"Well, we guessed that Fatass wouldn't be able to take care of all of you," Tayuya stated before smirking. "So we decided to set a trap and to get rid of you twerps, permanently." Tayuya said the last part menacingly.
The three of them then circled the group and they preformed multiple hand signs. Once they stopped they slammed their hands on the ground and a seal appeared beneath and above Naruto's group.
"Forbidden Transportation Jutsu: Malevolent Passage!" The three cried out as the seal beneath the enemy began to glow brightly.
"Wait! What are you doing?!" Naruto shouted out, his voice suddenly sounding distant. Suddenly a dark aura erupted and engulfed the Hidden Leaf's Shinobi.
Once the dark light died down the shinobi were no longer there in place. The three Sound Ninjas started breathing heavily and they fell on their back.
"A-Are you sure t-that was necessary?" Sakon huffed out. "You do realize that using that technique will delay us even longer."
"S-Shut up, you idiot!" Tayuya said. "At least we don't have to deal with anymore of them."
"B-Besides, seeing how important this body is for L-Lord Orochimaru we can't risk it." Kidomaru said. "It is better to delay our mission rather than losing it."
They soon regained their energy and resumed their journey to Orochimaru.
((With Naruto))
Naruto let out a small groan as he slowly started regaining consciousness. He sat up and looked around the area and he soon spotted his team.
"Guys!" Naruto shouted, running to their sides and waking them up.
Everyone started waking up, thanks to Naruto. As they woke up, they looked around their new area. They were in a forest, much like the one they were in before. However, the major difference was that the leaves on the tree and the grass were the color red.
Shikamaru couldn't help but feel uneasy by this.
"W-What happened to us?" Kiba asked as he quickly checked over Akamaru.
"I'm not quite sure," Neji replied as he looked around. "But what I think is important is figuring out the Jutsu those three used."
Shikamaru nodded in agreement. "Yeah, if I remember correctly the seal that they use resembles a teleportation formula."
Naruto gritted his teeth. "Those bastards, now we're further away from Sasuke! We got to hurry!" Naruto was just about to run off until Shikamaru placed his hand on his shoulder, causing Naruto to stop in place as he looked at the lazy shinobi.
"Hold it Naruto," Shikamaru said. "I want to get Sasuke back as much as you but we have to learn about our whereabouts."
"Yeah we got to listen to him Naruto." Kiba said. "Akamaru and I can't even get a scent of those guys anymore."
"If that's the case then they must have teleported us somewhere where it'll be longer for us to save Sasuke." Shikamaru stated. "This makes things harder for us for sure." Shikamaru tighten his fist in realization of something.
"Something wrong Shikamaru?" Neji asked.
"This mean Choji won't be able to catch up with us." Shikamaru whispered quietly but shook his head and turned to Neji. "Neji, can you use your Byakugan to try and find some chakra?"
Neji nodded to Shikamaru's question and quickly activated his Byakugan. As Neji was looking in different directions he couldn't help but frown.
"Nothing?" Naruto asked cautiously.
Neji shook his head. "It's not that, it's just…"
"Just what?" Kiba asked.
"Well I am sensing something but it isn't chakra...I've never seen anything like this before, there's a group of things heading towards us. I'm not sure what on Earth they are but they don't seem to be friendly." Neji stated as he looked behind him. "It seems they're coming from behind as well."
Shikamaru nodded at this and took a few moments to think. He soon came up with the only choice they had for their current situation. "It looks like we're dealing with some savage animals, trying to ambush us from both sides. I guess we got no choice but to fight whatever is coming towards us, everyone, cover every direction."
Everyone nodded in agreement and they stood behind each other, back to back, waiting for the mysterious creatures to show up. It was silent throughout the forest, the only sound that could be heard was the wind, but a howl could be heard in the distance. They saw a group of creatures behind the trees. Soon two large, dark, werewolf-like creatures with black fur and bonelike spines along its body jumped in front of them. The most noticeable features were the bone like mask that they wore.
Everyone was shocked by the appearance of these things, never in their life have they seen anything like it.
"W-What the heck are these things?" Naruto asked as he brought out a kunai, preparing himself if these things attack.
"I don't know but whatever they are, they don't possess any sign of chakra but rather something dark." Neji said.
"I get ya, Akamaru is feeling pretty nervous around these things." Kiba added.
The creatures let out a howl before charging towards them, soon more jumped from the shadows to join in on the fight.
"Take them down!" Shikamaru shouted, causing the group to do so.
Kiba was dodging the monster's slash attack before jumping back a bit. "Alright Akamaru, ready to take these freaks down?"
"Arf!" Akamaru replied.
Kiba couldn't help but smirk and then made a hand seal. "Man Beast Clone!" Akamaru puffed into smoke and once it died down, there were now two copies of Kiba. Kiba and Akamaru jumped up into the air and began twirling their bodies at very high speed. "Fang Over Fang!" Kiba and Akamaru charged towards the creatures, taking a couple of them out.
Shikamaru took a couple of kunai with tags attached to the end of it and threw it at the creatures, resulting in an explosion that took a few of them out. Two more emerged from the smoke of the explosion and charged towards Shikamaru, but their bodies suddenly froze up. Shikamaru smirked. "Shadow Possession complete," He said before turning towards Kiba. "Kiba! A little help over here?"
Kiba turned towards Shikamaru, nodding his head. "Got ya!" He said as he used another Fang Over Fang attack to take out the trapped monsters.
Meanwhile, Naruto had created a couple of clones to fight off the creatures while he summoned a clone besides him. Naruto opened his palm as the clone began creating a rotating chakra sphere on the original's hand. The clone turned into smoke as Naruto charged towards one of them, colliding his attack against it's chest.
"Rasengan!" He cried out as the monster was sent flying until it crashed into the others.
Neji remained in place as he noticed that four of them surrounded him, they all soon jumped towards Neji. The Byakugan user then spun his entire body, creating a rotating shield of chakra around himself and tossing away his attackers. "Rotation!" He shouted before stopping, causing his attack to vanish.
The team took a look around and saw that there was no more of these things, Shikamaru letting out a sigh as he walked closer to his team. "Looks like we took care of them, Neji is there any more around."
Neji activated his Byakugan once more and looked around, soon shaking his head. "No, doesn't seem like it...But I can see a city with people in the distance."
"Is that so? Looks like things might getting better for us." Shikamaru said.
"Unfortunately I don't think so," Neji spoke up. "Like those things, it seem the people don't have any chakra...Although they do possess a special type of energy, I just can't tell what it is."
"Well this city may be our only way to find out where we are, we're going to investigate the city." Shikamaru said, earning a nod from everyone before taking to the trees.
"So what exactly are we going to do when we reach the city?" Naruto asked as they rushed through the tree.
"Well it would be best if we don't attract attention to ourselves." Shikamaru answered before continuing. "If they have a library or something like then Neji and I will go check it out and see if we can gather any information on where we are, meanwhile, I want you and Kiba to take a look around and find out whatever you can about the city we'll be in."
Some time had passed and the team were able to reached the city that Neji spotted and they were quite impressed with how the city was. They were walking around, noticing the buildings and the structure of the city.
"Geez, this place looks really advanced." Kiba spoke up as he noticed a couple of things that he'd never seen in his village.
"Knowing that makes things a bit more difficult for us." Shikamaru added before turning to the others. "Alright, remember the plan. Neji and I will try to find out more about our location, meanwhile, Naurto and Kiba, you guys will look around and see what you can learn about this city."
"Gotcha," Naruto quickly replied before both he and Kiba walked off to gather information.
"Hold it." Shikamaru said, causing the two to stop in place.
Naurto slightly turned his head towards Shikamaru. "What's up?"
Shikamaru responded to Naruto's question by pointing towards a cafe before speaking. "That's where we'll meet up when we finished gathering whatever info we can get."
"Alright then," Kiba said, with the addition of Akamaru's bark before both he and Naruto went their way.
"Let's get to work." Shikamaru said to Neji, earning a nod from him before they started walking down the sidewalk.
"Shikamaru." Neji spoke up, earning the lazy ninja's attention.
"What's up?" Shikamaru said while reading the signs of each building they passed.
"Well I'm just a bit worried, after all, we're in a place where there's no sign of chakra and those creatures back there are something I've never seen...Is it possible to think that perhaps we're no longer anywhere near the Elemental Nation?"
Shikamaru let out a sigh. "I honestly don't know, I mean we do live in a big world world so maybe there's a part of it that we didn't know existed."
"I hope you're right." Neji said until they came to a stop in front of a building called Tukson's Book Trade with a sign of 'Grand Opening' below. The two shinobi looked to each other then nodded, walking into the small store to see if it had what they needed.
They looked around, seeing that the building was of shelves with numerous different books lined up on the rows. "Looks like this place might provide some info for us, but it's a book store so I'm not sure if that'll be a problem for us." Neji spoke as he picked up on of the books, looking over it before closing it. "After all, we don't have any money."
"I know that, but let's just see what happens." Shikamaru said as he made his way towards the desk. He noticed a small bell and tapped it, causing a ring.
"Coming!" A voice said from the back. A large man soon came from the back with a couple of books in his hand.
"Welcome to Tukson's book trade, home to every book under the sun!" A man with black hair and large sideburns called out to the two. "How may I help you?"
"Yeah, we're looking for books on world history, do you have?" Shikamau asked.
"Well I should have some history books like that near the front, why don't you check what you're interested in." Tukson suggested.
"Thanks," Shikamaru said before he and Neji began looking for the history book that would help them out, but Shikamaru had an idea.
"I was wondering," Shikamaru called out, earning Tuskon's attention. "Do you have any history books about something called the Elemental Nations?"
Tukson raised an eyebrow at the question as he crossed his arms across his chest. "Sorry kid, but I don't have any books about this 'Elemental Nations' I never heard of anything like that."
"I see, then do you have any books about the Great Ninja War?" Shikamaru asked.
Tukson remained silent for a few seconds before answering. "Well if it involves ninjas then I'm pretty sure you won't find it in that section over there." Tukson answered as he pointed towards his right. "Try looking at the fictional section over there."
Shikamaru couldn't help but sigh of irritation to himself at the answers he'd been reviving. "Thanks, just wanted to make sure."
"Shikamaru," Neji called out. "It seems this book has the most info we're looking for." Neji told him, flipping through the book.
"Alright then," Shikamaru responded as he brought his hand near Neji, who placed the book on Shikamaru's hand. Shikamaru made his way towards the desk, letting out a sigh as he scratched the back of his head. "Well we found what we were looking but...Is it possible to have this book reserved for us?"
"Reserved?" Tukson repeated. "Don't you have any money to pay for that?"
"I'm sorry but I don't, that's why I would like it if this book can be reserved. That way, when we manage to get some money we could get it." Shikamaru answered.
Tukson remained silent as he looked at the book in the boy's hand, he scratched his head before taking the book out of Shikamaru's hand. "Listen kid, I'll give this book to you for free but in exchange I want you to help me around the store. After all, I could use some extra help with this place...So what do you say?"
Shikamaru was slightly surprised by the guy's offer, normally Shikamaru would have rejected the offer but wasn't exactly sure what to do. 'Damn it, in a situation like this...It really makes things difficult to figure out. The answer this guy gave me supports Neji's theory and if that's the case then we have to find ways to help us with our current situation. This is such a drag...' Shikamaru mentally sighed to himself before responding to Tukson. "I appreciate the offer and I'll accept it."
Tukson gave Shikamaru a soft smile before handing him the book. "Then welcome to Tukson's Book Trade, you'll start tomorrow so be sure to come in the morning."
Shikamaru gave him a nod before taking the book. Both Shikamaru and Neji made their way outside the book store and walked down to where the meeting place was. Shikamaru took in the advanced technology of the buildings around them while Neji was reading the book. After a few moments Shikamaru turned to Neji. "So what have you learned so far?"
Neji answered while keeping his eyes on the book. "It's quite hard to tell, some of the things on this book sounds like legends. The only thing that sounds like history is before a Great War, but the war that we know about is completely different from this book. Their war involved what they called the Four Kingdoms, while ours was between the Elemental Nations."
"Well that's just great." Shikamaru muttered in annoyance before speaking up once more. "So I'm guessing there's not a single mention of chakra, the Hidden Leaf, or at least something that involves shinobi?"
Neji shook his head in response. "Unfortunately, there isn't anything close to that." Neji answered as he let out a small sigh and turning his head towards Shikamaru. "As much as I hate to say this, but it does look like we're someplace where our home doesn't exist."
"I figured as much, those questions I asked were suppose to be questions that anyone could said yes to. Looks like things are going to be harder than I thought." Shikamaru stated.
"Is that why you chose to accept the job?" Neji asked.
Shikamaru nodded his head. "Yeah, if we're going to be stuck here then it would be best to obtain money. I don't want any of us to resort to something as low as pick-pocketing."
"I understand," Neji said before closing the book.
"Did you finish?" Shikamaru asked.
Neji shook his head. "Not quite, I merely read what seem to be important. Such as the four kingdoms I mentioned earlier, Vale, Atlas, Vacuo and Mistral."
"So which kingdom are we in?"
"Well I can assume that we're in Vale." Neji answered before continuing. "I also learned what those things we fought in the forest were, apparently they're called Grimm."
"Grimm?" Shikamaru repeated.
"Yes, according to the book Grimm are the biggest threat in this world. They're basically soulless beasts that seek only destruction." Neji stated.
Shikamaru could only let out a sigh. "Great, everything we're learning about is just showing us that we're seriously no longer in our world."
"Hey guys!" Kiba called out.
Neji and Shikamaru looked towards the source of the voice and saw that it was both Naruto and Kiba, currently sitting on a table outside of the cafe. The two made their way towards the rest of the group, pulling up some chairs as they sat down.
"So I take it you were able to find out somethings?" Shikamaru asked.
"Yeah, we did." Naruto answered. "Turns out the place we're at is called Vale."
"We also learned that there's these more than one kind of people," Kiba spoke. "There's these people who aren't human but they're called Faunus."
"Faunus?" Neji said as he remembered the familiar word. He brought out the book and began flipping through pages until he found what he was looking for. "I see, apparently Faunus are the same as humans, except for a few animalistic traits that they have. They at least one discernible animal appendage. Most often it's either tails or ears."
"I see, anything else about that?" Shikamaru asked.
"Well it seems they've faced discrimination for a long time, all of the history Remnant has recorded at least. There was a revolution that got them basic rights after the Great War concluded. But they're still treated as lesser beings by most people." Neji replied before closing the book.
"Oh yeah, we also learned that people never heard of chakra but something called Aura." Naruto said.
"Aura? Perhaps that was the foreign energy that my Byakugan was seeing, it truly is different from chakra." Neji added.
"We also learned that the tech here is really advanced, there were things here that I never thought could exist." Kiba mentioned. "So that's all that we got, what about you guys?"
A frown appeared across Shikamaru's face. "We learned that there's a chance that we're no longer in the Elemental Nation."
"W-What? You're saying that we're nowhere near any of the major lands?" Naruto asked.
"Not just that..." Shikamaru muttered. "From what we gathered, it seems everything that we know doesn't even exist in this world. The Hidden Leaf, Cloud, Sand, Mist villages, the Great Ninja War, chakra, not even ninjas exist here."
"Y-You can't be serious." Kiba said quietly, not wanting to attract attention to themselves.
"I'm afraid he is," Neji said as he handed the book to Naruto and Kiba. "This book has the information of the world's history and nowhere does it mention anything about our home."
"Then what are we supposed to do?!" Naruto said softly, clenching the book as he felt guilt. He wasn't able to save Sasuke like he promised Sakura, and Choji's sacrifice was in vain and he wasn't able to save his friend.
Kiba and Neji looked at Shikamaru, hoping that their leader would have an answer.
Shikamaru let out a sigh as he placed his hand on his forehead. "I don't know...I just don't know." He muttered.
Welp, I decided to make a Naruto X RWBY fic. I decided to use Neji, Shikamaru, Kiba and Naruto because I enjoy those characters and because you hardly see any characters that isn't Naruto or Sasuke but as long as they can bring in some of the Naruto characters then it's fine. So I hope you guys enjoyed the story and I didn't have a Beta Reader to help me with this, please leave a review and give me your opinion about this.