Remnant of Darkness

AN: Lost my first copy of this, oh well. So to make it short, I like Naruto/Rwby crossovers. RWBY is awesome as a show thingy. It sucks Monty died. I'm making my own crossever and this is a non-canon add on to Rise from the Shadow, Step from the Darkness.

It's not the Sequel. 'Out of Darkness' is in the works. Anyway on with the show.

Also credit to YaDingus and his/her story 'Of the Lesser Son' which I drew some ideas, semi-copying of parts, and other stuff. You are all free to copy my ideas for stories if you think you can write it better. Just don't write the same story as me, by like copy and pasting or something.

The copied stuff should only be in this chapter and I will be original as I can afterward.

Also I am writing it in my own way, it's not me completely copying the scene, just sort of taking the premise. Like a fanfiction of fanfiction.

Also, Naruto's seventeen cuz it be weird otherwise. I don't remember how old I had him in my other story. Feel free to tell me in a review.

Ch.1 Dark days in...

Who knew being an evil bastard would bite you in the ass. Me? Nope. I thought that as long as I can use my cunning, my power, or my luck to bulldoze my way to victory then I would be fine. Well Lady Luck said otherwise and called bullshit on that bluff. So there I was, happy as a canary that escaped the cat, raised an army, and carpet bombed that fucker's family. I had stabbed ole' pops, ended his pitiful life, and was wondering what came next.

I had a few guesses. I flutter about the elemental nations doing whatever, dodging shifty chicks with a rather creepy wanton destruction way of trying to love/use/abuse/and or protect me. I get offed by one of said shifty bitches, or I find a new person to hunt down for divine and/or unholy retribution.

But Lady Luck said otherwise due to some damn law by the jerkwad named Murphy who liked to make laws and stuff that said I was going to get shafted as hard as possible by fate, while it warmed up it's riding crop so it could tan my hide! But back to the story.

I was making my way out of dodge, you the know the place between batshit and hell, when Kakashi of all people decided to show off his case of pink eye unfair powers that everybody seemed to have. The man had apparently just unlocked his Mangekyo again from seeing me murder Minato and remembering himself killing his girlfriend and decided after seeing me off old fourth fire shadow that he wanted revenge. So using a technique that he didn't know what it does, will do, and shall do to me, he yelled, "Kamui!"

Now if you don't know what it does, then you and everybody else including me are in the same boat. Because as I would later learn from the Kyuubi, the jutsu was only supposed to send me to some pocket dimension that Obito Uchiha, and now Kakashi Hatake have access to.

But nope. In my frantic Kyuubi empowered and Eternal Mangekyo mixed with nature chakra attempt to dodge the move, I royally fucked myself. Trying to do a weird shunshin worked against me with all these different power ups.

So instead of some sucky pocket dimension being my destination. I was sent on a jolly, read as 'horribly and extremely painful', trip through time and space to a place I would later learn was called Remnant.

Back to my horrible and painful trip where I was currently in the middle of.

…...

I grit my teeth. The pain was like nothing I had ever felt. The only thing I could liken it to would probably having each individual nerve in my body being simultaneously being stabbed, burned, doused in acid, and having salt and lemon juice thrown on it while having my brain removed by a rusty spoon.

Then, like a switch was thrown, the pain was gone. I tentatively opened my eyes and looked about. A desert, how fun. Well, better than the hell I had just gone through. I stood up and began walking. Maybe I could find a town where I could drink a few gallons of some sort of a digestible liquid. I would say water, but at this point if all they have is anything that is in liquid form and drinkable that's not piss, I wouldn't be averse to gulping it like it's the god's succor.

For what must have been an hour I walked. Almost immediately a dust storm had started up. I chose to ignore it for the more pressing concern of I was fucking thirsty. As the dust storm continued I became aware of several large 'beings' was the best I could trailing me under the sand. I could really describe them. They were mostly nature chakra, but so much hatred was present. Like the Kyuubi had personally bathed their souls in her feelings, and slathered some Orochimaru jelly on them.

I was then subjected to several seconds of intensely disturbing thoughts of what Orochimaru jelly would entail if made into a real thing. I shook my head and waited for my little followers to show themselves. In tandem two moderately sized scorpion like beasts popped out of the sand followed by a massive one.

All three glared hatefully at me, their beady reddish orange eyes showing their mad hunger for flesh, only thrown off by the slight intelligence and cruel cunning also lurking within. Like a pack, the three attempted to sting me with their stingers. I formed a rasengan, then added some wind to it to add some cutting power before tossing it up slightly to allow to basically began to orbit me as I formed two more, and then I jumped upwards. The three beasts all missed by quite a wide margin, causing me to grin.

The three deathstalkers as I would learn their called didn't even have time to retract their limbs they attempted to use to run me through before I tossed one of the futon rasengans at one of the smaller ones where it expanded and fully engulfed it, eviscerating the beast inside. I quickly threw the other two, which gave each of the other deathstalkers the same fate as the first to fall.

I dropped back to the ground, before dropping to a knee. I ran a little medical diagnostic I remembered Tsunade taught me to find out what was wrong with yourself. I quickly counted and moved my limbs, including fingers and toes, while looking myself over. I then looked internally and gasped quietly in shock. I basically no chakra and the Kyuubi, the fucking Kyuubi, who had half of the chakra that made of the stupid juubi, was nearly running dry, the same as me.

I thought for a moment before coming to the conclusion that the travel perpetuated by the stupid Kakashi's technique must have caused this. I sighed in relief however when I saw how fast both my own reserves and the Kyuubi's was refilling. I didn't know where I was at, and considering how different this place felt, the fact that the desert didn't look like the deserts of Suna, and how the strange beasts definitely didn't look like any summons or indigenous species of the Elemental nations, I was lead to the conclusion that I was probably on a different continent.

Of course several other stray thoughts entered my brain. This could be the future, or past, or a different world entirely. Perhaps even a different universe. But the logical side of me called bullshit. But I couldn't completely overrule those ideas because where I and the powerful rule breaking presence of the Kyuubi was involved, not even logic could stand up.

So in a strange way, the presence of the Kyuubi was comforting, even if she was a backstabbing bitch. She had shared the goal of wanting to kill Minato.

I shook head to rid myself ot the thoughts I needed to find some sign of civilization. Just as I was about to stand up and start moving I felt the cold nudge of metal on my back.

I turned my head, my hand reaching to kill whatever had touched me before I realized I was surrounded by several people in desert survival gear and the man behind me had placed some strange weapon against my back. I doubted it would do much, but I needed information so I played along.

"You okay son? You need some water?" a grizzled man asked as he walked forward out of the sand covered men and women, a bottle of water in his hands. I gladly accepted the water, quickly draining the bottle.

"Thanks... err..." I muttered. Even if I was an evil bastard, it doesn't mean I can't show gratitude and as far as I was concerned these people had never done a thing to me.

"Name's Griff, anyway, whatcha doing out here in a sandstorm by yourself?" Surrounded by the dead corpses of the strange animals, I must have looked a strange sight.

"Truthfully, I don't know how I got out here or where here is," I answered, trying to play the card of amnesiac and confused stranger, which was actually pretty true of my situation. At least the confusion. My memories were quite intact. I think. Actually now that I though about it, it felt like I was missing a couple of huge chunks of my memory and more and more were slipping away.

I was from Konoha and...I hated Minato my father who I killed. Snippets and pieces filtered in about my life, and then they were gone. I knew my name was Naruto. I knew the nine tailed fox was in my gut. I knew about my powers. But my history, it was shaky. Like it wasn't completely there. I'd have to worry about it later. At least my amnesiac act was now kind of true.

The man, Griff as he had said, looked kind of offput. I guessed he didn't know what to really do. "Well, why don't you come back with us to Vacuo, and we can figure out who ya are and where you came from."

"Sure."

Just like that, the sand people and I got on some strange contraption, which I would later be informed was sand drifter, one of the many flying vehicles they had in this land.

While we traveled back to town, considering we were pretty far out, one of the riders explained where we were and answered my questions on what we were on and what the deathstalkers were called and what they were. The woman named Jennifer, who was the person that was explaining what a lot of things were, gave me a basic rundown on the history of the lands and some important information she thought was helpful.

I was currently in the Kingdom of Vacuo, whose capital was the city of Vacuo. I was on the world of Remnant, as she had called it, on the continent of Vytal. On this continent two of the four kingdoms resided. The four kingdoms being Vacuo, Vale, Atlas, and Mistral. Each kingdom's capital being of the same name as the kingdom. The areas functioned basically as city state kingdoms, with small cities being in the lands controlled by the big capital city.

Each city had it's own sort of culture and personality, but all spoke the same language and wrote with the same letters. Each kingdom was governed by a council made of the people, in the interest of the people. The girl explained to my slight amazement, about all sorts of technology and weapons that the elemental nations did not have.

She also explained that the big scorpions were called deathstalkers and that they were part of the monsters that plagued the land called grimm. She also explained that the people who mostly fought them were Hunters and Huntresses, who used a mixture of their own personal arms and Dust.

The Dust, she explained, was a strange element that formed underground in ore deposits. The crystals themselves, or their grounded down powder counterpart was used to power machines and many others things, as well as used as weapons against the grimm.

She also explained that dust came with many different elemental affinities, such as fire and wind, earth and lightning, and water. I nodded, but felt slightly offset by the stuff. It was a bit suspicious. Maybe I would look into it. She did say that the main distributor of the stuff was the Schnee Dust company in Atlas.

She also explained that the hunters and huntresses used their auras and semblances to fight the grimm as well. I shrugged at the strange words, assuming they were something like chakra and jutsus or maybe blood line limits.

When we finally got to the massive city, I was led, to my chagrin, to a police station. Once inside I was placed in a white room with a strict faced man who said we were waiting for some woman named Ashley. So while I waited for the woman, I used my chakra sensor powers to scope out everyone nearby. I nearly fell out of my chair when all the energy I felt around me felt so... so... different. It felt like chakra, but not really. Like something was missing. Like it was incomplete.

Whatever. It didn't matter.

As I refocused on my surroundings, I heard the door open and turned to see who was entering. Again I was shocked. The woman who entered had cat ears. Cat ears. I also spied a tail swaying behind her. The woman looked kind of flustered at my shock at her appearance, perhaps she even stiffened a bit at the inspection.

"Never seen a faunus before?" She asked sort of snidely, like she was used to being looked down upon... like me.

I quickly spoke up, "I haven't. Or I don't think I have. I took a pretty bad conk to the head and the guys on the sand drifter said it was some pretty bad amnesia." Hopefully she believed the bullshit I had just said. I mean it was kind of true. My memories were being woefully foggy, and I knew I wasn't in the elemental nations anymore but... everything was cloudy. Maybe the Kyuubi would know more.

The woman's eyes widened slightly before softened, "Right. Well, I am a Faunus. Though faunus come in many shapes in forms just like people do. We are no different from any other person though. Also expect just about any animal like feature to be possible. I happen to have... cat ears and a tail. Now, enough about that." The woman Ashley then walked over next to the grim faced man.

"Some of my officers have informed me that they found you out in the desert in a middle of a sandstorm, dehydrated and surrounded by dead Grimm. Care to give any explanation?" Ashley asked.

"Well, I woke up in the desert with no clue where I was. So I started trying to find a town or something and then was attacked by those... grimm things. I killed them and that's when I was found by your men. I don't much of anything before that. Just some village surrounded by trees... and blood. Lots of blood. The village I think was called Konoha. That ring a bell?"

"Not particularly. I've never heard of a Kono-Konoha. Anyway, we'll just put you in our records as a citizen of Vacuo and I guess since you haven't done anything we'll just have to set you lose. We can't really help you out any, but I think I can set you on the track to get some help learning about your past. There's an academy named beacon next to the city of Vale, the capital of Vale.

The headmaster there knows a lot about the small villages in Vale's territory and that's the only place that I can think that's got a deal of trees."

The woman shook her head.

"Right, well, since you don't know where you're from I guess I can put you down as a citizen of Vacuo. We can't really help you out but, we can provide you with directions on how to get to Vale through the land route, or if you want you could find a job here in Vacuo and take a plane to Vale. That could be a plan," Ashley told me.

The woman then got a strange look, "If... if you need a place for the night I could put you up, but just tonight."

I quickly nodded. I didn't feel like becoming a stowaway just yet, though that was definitely the plan. I wasn't gonna get some stupid job just to get somewhere when I could so easily sneak on one of their flying vehicles.

So the woman said wait outside and that she would be getting off work in about an hour. So I went outside and waited. After the hour rolled by, the woman came outside and I followed her on the rather short walk to her apartment building.

Once we were in the apartment she showed me where the restroom was and told me I would be sleeping on the couch. I nodded in understanding. Then the faunus woman disappeared into her kitchen.

A few moments later the air in the apartment was filled with the sound of cooking. Feeling a bit useless, I decided to see if she needed any help.

I wandered into the kitchen and spoke up.

"You need any help, Ashley?"

The faunus looked up from her sizzling fish, startled.

"Uh..." the cat faunus's cheeks colored, "sure. If you want you can chop those vegetables and then throw them in with this fish."

I walked over to the vegetables she had pointed out. Just as she was about to point out where the knives were I quickly sliced the food into decent sized pieces using my futon chakra and my finger. I then moved food into the pan for cooking.

I smirked a bit at the girl's shocked look.

When the food was finally done, we sat down at her small two person table and ate.

"So," I said after finishing my meal, "thanks for... letting me stay the night. I have a..." my cheeks grew slightly red. I hadn't had a lot of dealings with normal woman. Though I suppose Ashley wasn't particularly normal. She did have cat ears and a cat tail.

"I have a weird question," I finished.

"Well, what is it?"Ashley asked.

"Can I... can I touch your tail. If you let me I promise to show you something cool!" I quickly added.

The woman blushed and I wondered how old she was. She obviously couldn't be older than twenty-two.

"Uh..." the cat faunus let her tail move in front of her and touched it, "Sure I ….. guess. But be... gentle. It is a part of me."

I reached across and ran my fingers over the soft hair on the tail. I jumped back when a purr made it's way from the woman. I smiled a bit when I saw how embarrassed the woman looked. I hadn't felt this calm in years, and now when I wasn't so angry or... sad I guess, I felt like I could sort of act my age.

"Well, let's move to my living room, it'll be easier to talk that way. You still got to show me something cool, like you promised," the cat faunus then bolted into the living room. I followed after her.

I sat down on the couch next to her and I noticed how the woman's tail seemed to be ever so slowly moving it's way toward me. When the tail was suitably close to my hand to not really look like I was trying to get to her tail, I began to touch it again. Ashley stiffened and then, once more purr quietly.

After a few moments I stopped, and I could almost sense the disappointment.

"Right, well, let me show you something cool."

I lifted my hand, and channeled some of my chakra to appear until it was wafting off like an ethereal fire. I grabbed Ashley's hand before she could pull it away, and then moved my hand together with hers to form a ram seal. The chakra seem to curl around our hands before forming a cat above our hands out of chakra.

The cat then began to prance a bit through the air before coming to rest in my lap. When I let go of Ashley's hand, the cat disappeared.

"That... that was pretty cool," the cat faunus spoke.

As I turned to her, I suddenly had my lips pressed against hers. She had grabbed me and kissed me. I sat there, semi-stiffly, until I slowly began to relax into the kiss.

Then the girl suddenly moved back. "I'm sorry," she squeaked.

"I don't know what came over me," she rambled, her face bright red in embarrassment, "it's just you're so handsome and you touched my tail and it felt really good and I had never had some one touch it besides myself, and then the cool smoky blue cat thing. I just felt the need to kiss you," she finished.

I didn't answer her, and simply grabbed her and kissed back. Soon we both got really into it before she pulled us to our feet and we made our way to her bedroom.

…...

I blinked my eyes open before realizing something. Something very warm and very alive was laying against me, their head on my chest. I glanced down at the head on my chest and got an eyeful of gray locks along with the gray cat ears that I knew belonged to Ashley.

I then looked further down and whistled quietly. Ashley and I were very much naked and very much in bed together. And, Ashley was very much a looker. I lifted the dark blue sheet that had probably been over us before sliding off of us and pulled it back over us.

Apparently, I hadn't moved as softly as I thought as Ashley moved her head and looked up, her hazel eyes looking into my one blue and one black eye.

"Morning there sleepy."

AN: That's the first chapter, let's see how many people are actually interested in it.