Quick note, I changed "Grime" to "Grimm" like many had pointed out, I also changed the paragraphs also, so that it's easier to read.

Chapter 1

His first appearance

"Life is never easy", a saying that everyone knew, mainly a reference to the feeling of unfairness that a person felt when he or she experienced the real world, and to be bluntly truthful, it was a faithful truth. Life never took favourites, it was equally harsh to each gender, and never gave free handouts. Sure, people had more money than others, but at the same time, could also have horrible family issues, or physically unable to produce children. Or, someone could have little, to no, income, while having a great family life.

And, in most cases, a race, or gender, would be discriminated against, leading to equality to not be achievable.

However, Life didn't have a Will, it was a mere tool for every species, its power squandered without care, but, in some rare occasions, Life took its revenge, normally in the form of a near endless force that destroyed everything that wasn't directly connected to nature, seeing as Nature worked hand in hand with Will. And, when these things arose, and grew greatly out of control, it was the job of Nature itself to fix the imbalanced, and unnecessary, presence of Will.

In most cases, Life lost, its control over Will being beaten into submission, before it was once again forced to be ruled by the people whom it fought against for freedom. But, in some worlds, which were extremely unlucky, Nature failed, leaving Will to rampage around, its task never truly complete until the planet was void of life.

In this case, Life had taken the worst of these qualities and applied them into a peaceful society, Will took the form of monster that hunted the inhibited populace, crime was high, with some being higher, rape wasn't something males or females didn't have to worry about so much seeing as most people could fight, with some being better than others, but theft and murder were always happening.

Dust, the weapon that the population used to fight with, was brought, and stolen, by average people. Children from the age of 13 was trained to fight with, and build, weapons, ranging from gun-blades to sniper-scythes, so they could take part in the millennia pasted.

From the very start, Life had power over man, using Will's sheer numbers to overcome the peaceful races of the world, human and Kemonomimi. Unfortunately, because of the none-violent nature that the two lived in, they fell quickly, the monsters- who were rightly called "Grimm"- overpowered and out-numbered them in only 50 years, reducing their population from 2 billion to only 13 million, with the majority of them being 21 or younger. This low population only decreased for years following, with most of the Kemonomimi dying off in several attempts kill the Grimm.

But one day, 60 years after the Grimm came to light, a young boy was born to a royal family of Fox Kemonomimi, called the Yami, which were on the brink of being wiped out. The boy, who was given to the human settlement of the east, grew up to become a bringer of peace, the power of love, and a goal of peace, pushed him to find anyway to defeat the Grimm. Fighting and training was his life, his determination never faulting as people around him tried to discourage his dream. But, the boy had a secret power, using the last heirloom given to him by family, a piece of the moon that contained a single crystal, unlocked a power deeply hidden inside his body. This power, which he used to unlock other peace seekers' powers, was named "Aura".

The fight, which wasn't even considered one before the boy unlocked his powers, was soon made into an all out war, several million humans and Kemonomimi, launched several strikes on Will's forces, destroying more than what was lost. Their luck continued to carry as the boy, now turned man, infused a single weapon with his crystal, giving him a way to fight the Grimm, without exhausting himself from using his Aura as a weapon. With the successfulness of this invention, the man slaughtered millions of Grimm, resulting in several settlements being taken back. It was so successful he, and the people of the world, agreed to the idea of getting more crystals from the moon, something not done since the Grimm first invaded.

Travelling to the oldest city of the Kemonomimi, called Asterix, the fox Kemonomimi used the technology hidden inside the town's underground system and flew to the moon with a select few hunters. The mission, which was to drill out enough crystal from the moon for the people on the planet bellow, however was compressed when, half way into the operation, one of the representatives from the south core squad of Tefia, a human settlement, decided that only the he, the "strongest" Aura user, was allowed the Crystals. The others, including other humans, disagreed on this, resulting in a fight for the survival of the races, or the selfish needs of one. The result, the races survival won, but not without cost, the selfish man had a rather explosive semblance that he used to hit a revealed crystal patch.

The aftermath of the man's power, combined with the huge amount of crystals, destroyed a quarter of the 3,476 kilometre moon, something which wouldn't have happened without the crystals amplifying its a million fold. Two of the four guys survived, the fox Kemonomimi was only able to save a young girl from the East, called snow, with his shield semblance, leaving him all but on death's doorstep. The two, who were shocked, recovered to their still intact pod, where they recovered and mined from the moon for a couple trillion small crystals, using the machine's tools and storage to their full compatibility.

However, their tale was swapped when the human's found out that one of their own had nearly caused the destruction of the world. Instead of the humans being the one at fault, they made it out that the Kemonomimi was the one to go rogue, resulting in the races splitting into two faction, the Humans, and the newly named Faunus, an insult the Kemonomimi would never live done. However, the fox leader didn't want this, he wanted them reunite to face the Grimm, so in an attempt to get the humans to his side, he brought half of the dust he had and gave it to them as a treaty.

The treaty, which agreed to the formation of equality, only lasted until the Grimm was driven off, putting the monsters at bay. Soon, war was discussed between the two nations, anger boiling in the humans as their pride was damaged from one of their own nearly ending the world, while the Kemonomimi hated their newly named tittle and wanted it gone. This war, which would have been the end of one of the races, was quickly shut down by the Fox and Snow, the two agreeing to marriage to help better the relationship between the two races.

It worked, once again the races of the world came together to stop any Grimm taking advantage of their fight. This united nation stood tall for acouple of centuries, everything was equal, however everything good soon comes to an end, and this was no exception. 50 BGW (Before the Great War) the queen of the humans and king of the Kemonomimi (Now known as Faunus) divorced, shattering whatever peace that the two had together, with the humans blaming the Faunus, while the Kemonomimi blamed the humans.

A war, rightly named as the Faunus Rights Revolution happened no more than 50 years later when the humans suddenly declared that all Faunus will be confined to Menagerie. The war lasted a consecutive three years, the death count being well into the millions on both sides, and didn't seem to have any end in sight, however this all changed when the inexperienced leader of the Human forces, General Lagune, attempted to catch the enemy off-guard in a nocturnal attack. Unfortunately for him, the Faunus were able to leverage their advantage of near-perfect night vision and soundly defeated the larger army.

Sometime after the war, an organization called the White Fang was set up and intended to serve as a prospective "symbol of peace and unity between Humans and the Faunus", just as the Fox had done in the past. However, this idea was evidently abandoned in the face of continuing discrimination.

That was 80 years ago, and the result is still shown to this day.

A blonde haired teen, one that stood at the hight of 5 foot 8 inches finished off his story with a small frown, his crystal blue eyes glancing at his fellow students. The teen, who looked no more than fifteen of age, was dressed in light gray armour with red leg plating that travelled down to his knee which was placed over a full body black suit, one that covered his whole body, except for his head, leaving his shoulder length spiky blonde hair and light tanned face revealed. Speaking of his face, the teen had longer than normal canines that stuck out from his upper lip, much like what a vampire would have, and three whisker like marks on each cheek. On the teen's back, was a long lance, which was a three part weapon, the base form being a long lance with a multiple joints. The second form was that of a simple guard, that drew in all of the connection to form a 31 inch long 12 inch wide shield. The final form was that of a two weapons melded into two guns, a pulse cannon that shot out a beam of dust, while the other one being a hand held mini-gun that shot 100 high impact vibranium rounds per second.

All in all, the boy looked like he was a trained warrior, stronger then what a teen should be. However, he wasn't alone, the teen was in a school designed to teach young and old people alike to become hunters and huntresses, the defenders against the remaining Grimm, which continued to grow in size every day. This school, called Signal Academy, was located on an island called Patch, just to the coast of Vale, where loads of teens from Vale came to train to become hunters and huntresses. Signal, however, was the first school you can go to get training in Vale but it wasn't made to make people masters in combat, no, it was a stepping stone for trainers to get to Beacon Academy, a facility located in the kingdom of Vale for training teams of fighters to slay the various monsters that plague Remnant.

Since he was young, the blonde had always wanted to protect others, being born an orphan had done alot for the boy, its showed him the reality of the world, how thieves could steal for his families survival, or how a person could be called a murder for protecting himself and his family. He found that the world was not a simply white and blank, it was more of several different shades of gray, and nothing came free, even friends. But that was not to say that you couldn't live without hatred or friends, Naruto had some close ones after all, all someone had to do was push past fate, never judge a book by its cover, and make your own future.

Going back to the class, the people was full of people, most human with Naruto being the only, Faunus that also looked fifth-teen of age, with one female looking in her mid-thirties. Said female was the teacher of the class, one of the only Faunus teachers in the whole of Remnant, a female of 24 that had long red hair and dark Pink eyes which were covered by simple glasses. On her head was two small red cat ears on top of her head, showing her race, which match her red black blouse and formal skirt. Amelita Tremper, the name of the young teacher, was a former beacon student that graduated from the combat cool with honours, killing over 3000 Grimm in an invasion on the edge of Vale. After several years of working in the routes of a huntresses, Amelita applied for a job at Patch to train the future students of beacon, her reputation instantly getting her the job, that was two years ago. When she first joined, she was placed in the same class as Naruto, another Faunus, with usual sized canines, to big for them to be humans, which was her first indication of him being a fox Faunus. At first, she was nervous, not for herself, but for the young boy, but it was soon completely forgotten when the boy somehow made friends with a young girl in the same class in the first day.

The person, which was the same age of Naruto but stood 6 inches shorter, was a young, silver-eyed, pale girl dressed in a black blouse and a skirt with red trimmings, complete with a red cloak. Her entire outfit is made up of various shades of red and black, with black as the primary colour on the main suit and red on the cloak. Even her shoulder-length hair is black, with a red tint to it. The teen was impulsive, naïve, and innocent, but when necessary, she could be serious and dependable, something Naruto found incredibly cute, much to the girl's embarrassment. The girl, Ruby Rose, is a self-proclaimed dork when it came to weapons; she is quite intelligent, having designed and built Crescent Rose during her first year at Signal Academy, although she admits to going "a little overboard" with its design. She feels that seeing new weapons "is like meeting new people, but better." She seems to be fascinated by any type of weapon, seeing as she fussed over Naruto's weapon than the blonde himself.

Ruby is very skilled in combat, despite her small stature and age when compared to those around her. This is a result of special training from her Uncle Qrow, who Ruby claims took her under his wing in order to improve her skills. As a result, Ruby is a master at using her scythe. Ruby's main weapon in combat is her scythe, Crescent Rose, which she designed herself, as all students at Signal do. Her weapon is a combination of a scythe and a high-powered rifle, which causes a large amount of recoil when fired. The dark haired teen uses the recoil from Crescent Rose's shots to augment the speed and force of her strikes. However, she is also able to spin Crescent Rose with exemplary skill and power without the recoil, often executing chain attacks with this technique. Even without the use of special abilities, Crescent Rose is incredibly sharp, making it easy for Ruby to cleanly slice through large trees with a single, non-recoil-augmented blow. Adding to this, she also uses the weapon itself as a platform from which to attack, shown when Ruby lays down completely on the handle of Crescent Rose while firing at opponents. Sometimes, when she plans to fire the rifle from a stationary position, she twirls Crescent Rose's scythe tip into the ground to give her a monopod for stability and a way to absorb the recoil that would otherwise cause Ruby to be thown backwards.

Ruby carries two kinds of ammunition with her: unmarked and Cross Clips. The unmarked magazines will fire off a high-calibre bullet with a white muzzle flash. Cross Clips (technically magazines), on the other hand, give off a black muzzle flash and are shown to have significantly greater power than the unmarked magazines. This lends her even more speed and power. With Cross Clips, Ruby is able to use Crescent Rose to propel herself with extraordinary speed before rotating herself axially in midair to execute a devastating spinning slash attack. To add to her already impressive battle prowess, Ruby's Semblance is speed. Because of her Semblance, she is able to move from place to place so quickly that that she appears to be teleporting, as she seems to materialize out of nowhere.

Ruby also has a strong sense of moral justice, a trait she obtained from stories about heroes and monsters that her sister used to read for her, as well as the way her parents raised her in childhood. These stories are what gave her the ideals that she wished to live by and uphold throughout her life, and are the reason for her love for books. Because she is shown to be childish even when in class, she tended to study with Naruto to cover the necessary knowledge. She's also quite naïve, as although she doesn't like to be the centre of attention, making her sniper-scythe effectively put her in the spotlight for the first year of school. In addition to her dislike of attention, Ruby prefers to either be alone or with Naruto, her other friends either not being close enough for them to take up her Naruto and weapon time.

All in all, the two matched up like gasoline and fire, explosive, which was shown by the amount of storage sheds and hideouts they had blown sky high by accident. Their friendship had not been established by weapons, much like people thought, but instead they became fast friends for their love of food, or more precisely, Naruto's cooking. Ruby had all but fell in love when she first tasted Naruto's cookies, proclaiming that they were better than anything she had tasted, followed shorty with her demanding more when she finished a batch of 60 in a single minuet. Seeing as Ruby was Naruto's first friend, he had taken it upon himself to spoil her, always making cookies for her, and training to always be able to be her partner for when they became hunters.

Breaking from that thought, Naruto's attention was brought to the teacher as she called his name. "That was a very interesting story, Naruto, however you left alot to be desired, please attempt to put more detail next time." Amelita remarked, getting the attention of the class, however before she could continue the bell rung, making all the students rush out the class room, leaving only Naruto, Ruby, and Amelita in the class room.

"Hey Ruby." Naruto smirked as he stepped beside beside his friend, placing his notes from class inside his ammo bag hanging on his left hip. "Did you remember to note down the work." Turning around, the blonde couldn't help but sigh when he saw that most the notes of the black haired girl's paper were weapons. "Rubyyyyy."

Ruby, who was packing her stuff away also, chuckled nervously as she took her paper from Naruto's hand, it wasn't her fault that ideas of weapons only came into her head while class was in session. "Sorry Naruto." The girl said with her head hung low, a small pout appearing on her face. "I didn't mean to, but lesson is soooooooo boring." The teen whined, unaware of the twitching teaching sitting behind her. "Plus, I can always copy your notes." She continued, placing her belt like bag around her hips.

Shaking his head, Naruto waved to the teacher as he and Ruby left the room, their feet tapping against wooden floor as they rushed out into the open corridor. "So Ruby," Naruto started, turning around the corner with the weapon nerd by his side. "Are you still up for... later." He said with no small amount of nervousness, his cheeks flashing slightly as he turned his head away from the cap wearing teen.

Ruby's cheeks flashed as bright as her cap when she heard those words left Naruto's lips, the memory of the blonde asking her out on a date still fresh on her mind. "I... er, yes!" She spouted out nervously, her heart fluttering slightly at the idea of going out with her best friend. "From Dust Till Dawn sounds like a good start, I heard there's a new release of weapons weekly out, and I want it bad." Ruby quickly snapped out of her mood, a smile lighting up her face instead of a blush.

A chuckle left Naruto's lips as he patted Ruby's head, much to the short girl's annoyance. "That's fine, I can meet you there at seven tonight, I need to get a certain set of vibranium shells to make some rounds a certain weapon." He said with a smirk, getting a shocked looked from Ruby. "Afterall, I specificity remember a little girl wielding a scythe wanting some."

In a flash, Ruby wrapped her arms around Naruto's stomach and started jumping up, unknowingly pushing her assists against him. "Thank you!" She shouted happily, she had wanted Naruto to make her some shells for Crescent Rose for ages now. "I can't wait for later, Crescent Rose is going to love it!" Ruby remarked happily, letting go of the blonde with a happy squeal as she unclipped her sealed scythe and started to rub it.

Shaking his head, the teen walked out of the school, dodging the other students rushing past him. "Well, your birthday is soon, so I thought I'd get you an early birthday present." He continued, looking around until his eyes looked with his prize passion. Sitting no more than fifthteen feet from the blonde was a three-wheeled (two paired up in front and one in the rear) motorized vehicle with extraordinary maneuvering capabilities and with a combination of polished black metal over brushed gold mechanics, either side of the front tires is an expandable compartment that fits all pieces of Naruto's equipment. Without warning, Naruto walked up to it and opened it's seat compartment and took out two helmet, one that was black and red rose designed, the other was yellow and blue that vaguely resembles the shape of a fox's head. Slipping his weapon into the bikes compartment, the blonde threw Ruby the rose designed helmet while putting on the fox helm. "Get on then, I'll take you home, I'm sure Tai will want to know where you are going today."

In a loud roar, Naruto's bike started up, kicking gas out of the exhaust, much to the annoyance of the janitor. Ruby smiled beneath her helmet, Naurot had gotten his bike on his 15th birthday, last year, and started to ride it not shortly after, taking her everywhere she needed to go, mostly to the weapon store, thanks to the rule of Hunter/huntresses begin allow to ride motorcycles at 15 and cars at 16. Getting on track, Ruby wrapped her arms around her blonde friend's stomach, signalling for him to go, which he did will a smirk.

Going from 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds never really bothered Ruby, seeing as she could run 2,500 feet per second if she forced her body to breaking point (as fast as an average bullet), but the feeling of warmth emitting from the blonde was defiantly the best part of riding with him. For some time now, Ruby had come to realise that Naruto had a natural heat to him, not to hot but not too cold, that sent a tingling felling down who ever touched or, in her case, hugged him. However, much to her dismay, she only lived 30 miles away, 30 minutes with Naruto current speed. Said minuets seemed to go real fast, it only felt like 10 at max, much to Ruby's disappointment, and it wasn't long before Naruto turned up onto her run way. "Seems Yang isn't around." Naruto remarked quickly took notice of the lack of Yang's motorcycle, Bumblebee.

Yang Xiao Long, Ruby's half-sister, is a teenage girl who always wore the same tan vest with gold piping over a yellow, low-cut crop top with a black crest that resembles a burning heart. The vest has puffy cap sleeves with black cuffs. On the sides of the cuffs, there are two small, golden buttons. Adding to this was a brown belt with a buckle, a pouch, and a small banner-like object. The same burning heart crest appears on this banner, except golden in colour. She also had black shorts under her belt, which resembles a pleated skirt in the back. Over the short shorts but under the belt is a white, asymmetrical back skirt.

Aside from an orange infinity scarf around her neck, she has no discernible jewellery. She was wore the same brown, knee-high platform boots that appear to be made of leather, with orange socks of different lengths. Her left leg also has a gray, bandana-like object wrapped around the top of her boot. She wears fingerless black gloves underneath her weapons, which resemble two yellow mechanized gauntlets with a black design. Her long blonde hair becomes lighter in colour at the tips and flows in a loose and messy manner, with a few locks sticking out and a small cowlick on top of her head.

Shaking her head, Naruto got his thoughts off of the elder sister, just thinking of her made him cringe, her bad puns really took ahold of him and not in a good way. Seeing as he was a fox Faunus, the blonde female had spent every waking minuet trying to come up with puns with something to do with foxes, and most, if not all, were simple horrid, enough to make even Ruby moan in annoyance. Parking his bike, he quickly took off his helm and hung it on his bike's left handle, leaving his weapons in his storage compartment, before walking up to house next to the garage.

Without even knocking, Ruby opened the door and rushed inside, tapping her feet on a shoe-pad at the front of the entrance as she did so. "Dad, I'm home. Naruto's here to!" The black haired girl shouted as she walked into the kitchen, instantly looking into the fridge. Finding what she was looking for, the young teen grabbed a carton of milk and walked over to the cupboard.

While Ruby was doing this, Naruto was busy trying to look the complete opposite of nervous as he stared Taiyang, Ruby's and Yang's father, in the eyes. "So, you want to take my daughter out, I hear." He said, his lilac eyes glaring down at the fox Faunus.

"Yes sir!" Naruto remarked instantly, locking eyes with the older male. "I've known Ruby for a while now, and I really want to get to know her more." He admitted straight up, not wanting to beat around the bush with Ruby's overprotective dad.

There was a dead silence for a couple of seconds, neither male willing to turn away of give in. Without warning, the older of the two raised his hand and tapped the teen's head, making Naruto blink in surprise. "I know you do kid, I know you well enough to know that you a good man, even if you're young." He continued, brushing his blonde hair behind his ears. "However, if you ever hurt my girl," He started, his eyes turning a deathly red. "I will hunt you down and teach you a lesson you won't ever forget!" He growled out, one that sent a shiver of fear down Naruto's back.

"Y-yes sir!" The teen quickly remarked, bring his hand to his head in a salute. "I promise to look after Ruby, no matter the cost!" Naruto promised, knowing full well that Taiyang knew he would never break a promise.

"Good." The father remarked, tapping the boy on the arm as he walked past him. "Let's hope you don't mess up." Tai remarked as he entered the kitchen, only to catch his daughter stuffing her face with his newly baked cookies. "RUBY!"