Summary: Naruto has always been alone. He didn't remember a time as to when he wasn't alone. An orphan, and hated in the small village he grew up in, it was a wonder he hadn't gone insane. But this was a new chapter in his life. The Red Moon would light his path. The foundations of are world were going to shake. A maelstrom is on it's way.

Pairing is NarutoxYangxBlake (and maybe Ruby as well)

RenxNora

NeptunexWeiss

JaunexPyrrha

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or RWBY

Chapter 1: Teams Formed

Beacon Academy. The final step people born in Vale took before they could officially become a Huntsman/Huntress. With headmaster Professor Ozpin, the school had prospered and produced many fine Huntsmen and Huntresses who became known around the world. To be accepted into this school was a great honour for anyone.

Walking towards the school was a young man- who looked to be around 15 or 16 years old- walking towards the school. He wore a large, dark brown cloak that covered his form, and was heavily battered and torn, seeming more like a rag than an actual cloak. He held a small bag over his shoulder as he walked. On his hands were a pair of black gloves with strange dents in them, and pitch black spikes at the bottom of the wrists.

He glanced up to see a large ship landing nearby and students walking out. One girl in particular caught his eye. She had long blonde hair and violet eyes. Her breasts were rather large, at least a D-cup, and she had a rather curvy figure. She wore a tan vest with gold piping over a yellow, low-cut crop top with a black crest that resembled a burning heart. The vest had puffy cap sleeves with black cuffs. On the sides of the cuffs, there were two small, golden buttons.

She also had a brown belt with a buckle, a pouch, and a small banner-like object. The same burning heart crest appeared on this banner, except golden in colour. She wore black shorts under her belt, which resembled a pleated skirt in the back. Over the short shorts but under the belt was a white, asymmetrical back skirt.

Aside from an orange infinity scarf around her neck, she had no discernible jewellery. She wore brown, knee-high platform boots that appear to be made of leather, with orange socks of different lengths. Her left leg also had a grey, bandanna-like object wrapped around the top of her boot. She wore fingerless black gloves, and strange yellow devices underneath those gloves.

Tearing his eyes away, he continued walking forwards as people surged around him and headed towards the school, or just stood around talking. He soon sat on a bench, gently setting down his bag before he opened it and pulled out a small, golden crystal. Holding up his wrist, he set the crystal in a small indent between 2 of the spikes. He then did the same for his other glove.

He picked up his bag and began walking again, until he felt someone run into him from behind. He fell down, his bag landing beside him. He grumbled as he slowly stood up and picked up his bag. Glancing back to see how had run into him, he saw it was the same blonde girl he had noticed earlier. Huffing a sigh, he offered her his hand.

Said girl was rubbing her ass, having fallen straight on it. She looked up and saw the man offering a hand. "Ah, thanks!" she said with a cheerful smile and grin as she took his hand and he helped her up. "Sorry about that! Just trying to get my little sister to make some friends beside me!"

The man shrugged it off. "It's fine," he said in a soft voice. "Just please watch where you are going next time."

"Will do!" she grinned then threw an arm around his shoulder. "So, what's with the cloak? Trying to put on the whole mysterious look or somethin?"

He shook his head. "No...the cloak is a gift, so I make an effort to wear it."

"Why?" the girl asked. "I mean, I get that it's a gift, but why do you make an effort to wear it just because of that?"

"Because it's the only gift I've ever received..." he said solemnly.

The girl opened her mouth to speak, but then decided to close it and change the topic. "Well it's a nice cloak either way! By the way, I'm Yang! Yang Xiao-Long!" she offered him her hand to shake. "You?"

He chuckled lightly before reaching out and grasping her hand. "Naruto," he said in a light tone. "Naruto Arashi Uzumaki."

"And that's how I got revenge on the teacher for sabotaging my test," Naruto finished saying to Yang as the two stood in the Ballroom, where the other first years had gathered for orientation.

Yang was covering her mouth and giggling into it. "Y-You dyed all of his clothes bright pink and dunked them in catnip and tuna?!"

Naruto grinned under his cloak. "Yeah. Had cats chasing him for a month. The best part was though, everyone knew it was me, but he could never find enough evidence to show to the headmaster to approve my expulsion. That's when I got the nickname 'Prankster From Hell'," he declared proudly.

"Remind me to give you a call any time I need to get revenge on someone," Yang said through her giggle-fit. "You gotta tell me about more of these pranks when you've got the time Naruto."

"Will do Yang."

Yang soon broke out of her giggle-fit and saw her sister Ruby. "Ruby, over here!" she called and waved. "I saved you a spot!"

"Oh!" Ruby said in a loud enough voice that Yang and Naruto could hear her. She turned to her companion- a blonde boy- and said, "Hey! I-I gotta go! I'll see you after the ceremony!" she turned and headed towards the two.

Ruby stood beside Yang, and Naruto could not- for the life of him- see how the two were related. Ruby had a pair of silver eyes and was dressed in a black blouse and a skirt with red trimmings, complete with a red cloak. She looked to be very young, probably 15. Her entire outfit was 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 was black, with a red tint to it.

"How's your first day goin little sister?" Yang asked casually.

"You mean when you ditched me and I exploded?" Ruby responded with her own question, a hint of venom in her voice.

"Yikes," Yang said. "Meltdown already?"

Naruto stifled a chuckle at that while Ruby looked to Yang with an annoyed expression. "No, I literally exploded a hole in front of the school! And there was some fire and I...I think some ice?"

Yang grinned a little bit. "Are you being sarcastic?"

"Ah, I wish!" Ruby said in exasperation. "I tripped over some crabby girl's luggage! And then she yelled at me!" As she spoke, a white haired girl behind Ruby was glaring at her. "And then I sneezed, and then I exploded! And then she yelled at me again, and I felt really, really bad and I just wanted her to stop yelling at me!"

"You!" the white haired girl said.

Ruby jumped into Yang's arms, ending up in the princess carry position. "Oh god it's happening again!"

"You're lucky we weren't blown off the side of the cliff!" the girl growled.

'What cliff?' Naruto thought. 'The only cliff here for the next mile is the one overlooking the Emerald Forest...''

Yang looked to Ruby with wide eyes. "Oh my god you really exploded."

"It was an accident," Ruby said, removing herself from Yang's arms. "It was an accident!" Suddenly, the girl held a brochure in front of Ruby's face. "What's this?"

"The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any injuries or damages sustained while operating a Schnee Dust Company product," the girl said. "Although not mandatory the Schnee family highly encourages their customers to read and familiarize themselves with easy-to-follow guide to Dust application and practice in the field."

Ruby looked at her with blank eyes. "Uhhh..."

Naruto sighed and looked to the girl. "You broke her. Do you know how long it will take to put her back together?"

Yang giggled while the girl glared at Naruto. "It isn't my fault if she can't understand simple sentences!"

"Maybe if you took a breath when you were talking she would have understood," Naruto groaned out.

Yang decided to interject here. "Look," she said rather awkwardly. "It sounds like you two just got off on the wrong foot. Why don't you start over and try to be friends, okay?"

Ruby turned to the girl. "Yeah, great idea sis!" she cleared her through and offered a hand. "Hello Weiss! I'm Ruby! Want to hang out? We could go shopping for school supplies!" Naruto face palmed here.

At this point Weiss began speaking with a sarcastic tone. "Yeah, and we can paint our nails, and try on clothes, talk about cute boys, like tall, blonde, and scraggly over there!" she pointed behind her to the boy Ruby was with earlier, who noticed he had just been pointed out and looked to Weiss.

"Oh wow, really?" Ruby said rather excitedly.

Weiss looked at her and said in a deadpan tone, "No." She crossed her arms while Ruby hung her head.

Suddenly they all heard someone clear their throat and looked up to the stage. Standing there was Professor Ozpin with Glynda Goodwitch, with Ozpin at the microphone. "I'll keep this brief," he said as he pushed his glasses with his free hand, the other holding a walking stick which was planted on the ground. His voice was amplified by the microphone. "You have travelled here today in search of knowledge. To hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people.

"But I look among you, and all I see is wasted energy in need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step." With his piece said, Ozpin walked off the stage while Glynda stepped up to the mic.

"You will gather in the ballroom tonight," she said. "Tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed."

Yang looked to Ruby. "He seemed kind of...off."

Ruby nodded in agreement. "Almost like he wasn't even there."

"I'm a natural blonde, you know," said the blonde boy from before as he looked to Weiss.

"So is Yang," Naruto dead panned to the boy, who chuckled nervously.

Sleeping bags were laid out across the floor of the ballroom late at night as students were now in their Pyjamas, ready for bed. Ruby was writing in a small book, her sliver eyes staring at the pages as she wrote.

"It's like a big slumber party!" Yang said as she crashed onto the sleeping bag beside her sister.

"I don't think dad would approve of all the boys though," Ruby said.

Yang grinned and her eyes went half-lidded. "I know I do," she purred as she saw all the topless boys in the room. It was then that Jaune walked by them in a onesie and Yang cringed slightly. "Eww..." she said. Then she saw someone else enter the room and she had to fight down a blush.

Standing there was a young man, looking around 15 or 16, and boy was he hot. He wore dark orange pyjama bottoms that cut just below his knees, and he wore no shirt. His body was muscular, not bulging and gross like body builders, but not light and pathetic like someone who just started training. He was built lean, like his muscles were meant to be used. He had sun kissed blonde hair and a pair of deep cerulean eyes that seemed almost like a void one could get lost in. On both his cheeks were 3 marks running along them, like whiskers.

Yang had to tear her eyes away from him when he winked at her, and instead chose to focus on what her sister was doing. "What's that?"

"A letter to the gang back at Signal," Ruby told her, smiling slightly. "I promised to tell them all about beacon and how things are going."

"Awww, that's so cuuuute~" Yang said in a girly voice, only to be hit in the face with a pillow, courtesy of Ruby.

"Shut up!" she growled. "I didn't get to take my friends with me to school! It's weird not knowing anyone here!"

Yang removed the pillow from her face. "What about Jaune?" she asked. "He's...nice. There you go, plus one friend! That's 100 percent increase!"

Ruby turned over and lay on her back. "Pretty sure Weiss counts as a negative friend. Back to 0."

"There's no such thing as negative friends!" Yang told her. "You just made one friend and one enemy!" Ruby was about to throw another pillow at Yang.

"What am I chopped liver?" A voice said, making her stop. Both Yang and Ruby looked up, and instantly blushed. The blonde guy from before had walked over, a foxy grin on his lips. However they both knew that voice.

"Naruto?" Yang asked.

"The one and only," he said with a cheeky grin. "Still think I'm ugly under the cloak?"

Yang stood up and ran her hands over his stomach, amazed. "Holy crap Whiskers! These abs are rock hard!" she looked up with a perverse grin. "Is there something else your hiding that's rock hard?"

"Yang!" Ruby yelled, blushing.

Naruto just laughed and sat on the sleeping bag next to Yang. "But anyway Ruby, I'm your friend too. Plus it's only been one day, you've got lots of friends around. You just don't know them yet."

Ruby just sighed and glanced forwards. Her eyes widened slightly and she sat up. Naruto followed her gaze and saw she was looking at a black haired girl wearing a black bow. She wore a black dressing gown with white lining on it. She was sat against the wall reading a book, the candles providing the light for her to read.

"That girl..." she said.

Yang looked to Ruby. "You know her?"

"Not really," she admitted. "She saw what happened this morning, but left before I could say anything."

"Well," Yang said with a small grin. "Now's your chance!" She stood up, grabbing Ruby's arm and began to lift her off the floor.

"Hey, wait!" Ruby protested as she was dragged to her feet. "What are you doing?"

Naruto chuckled. "Oh my..." he followed the two. "Things are getting interesting~"

The black haired girl peered over the top of her book and saw the three coming towards her, though a tint of red dusted her cheeks at the sight of Naruto. "Helloooo!" Yang said, waving with a large smile. "I believe you two may know each other!"

She blinked. "Aren't you that girl who exploded?"

"Wait she actually exploded?" Naruto asked.

"I deducted that after hearing Weiss," Yang said.

Ruby chose to ignore the two of them. "Uh, yeah! The name's Ruby," she offered a hand, which the girl looked at before Ruby pulled it back. "But you can just call me Crater...actually you can just call me Ruby."

The girl no longer had her eyes on Ruby, instead just looking at her book. "Okay."

"What are you doing?" Yang whispered to Ruby.

"I don't know help me!" Ruby pleaded.

Naruto just rolled his eyes and stepped forward. "So what's your name?" Naruto asked her politely.

She sighed slightly, looking up while trying to fight down the blush. "Blake."

"Nice to meet you Blake, I'm Naruto," he gestured to Yang. "This is Yang, Ruby's older sister." He smiled at her. "That's a nice bow you have."

"Thanks..." Blake said.

"It really matches your lovely hair," he said to her. This made Blake surprised and she blushed a little hotly.

"Um...thanks," she said, trying to fight down said blush.

Naruto chuckled and Yang spoke. "Nice night, don't you think?"

"Yes..." Blake said, glancing up. "It's lovely. Almost as lovely as this book..." she hinted. "That I will continue to read..." Ruby and Yang just stared at her blankly while Naruto had to put his fist in his mouth to stop himself from laughing. "As soon as you leave," she finished as she looked back to her book.

"Yeah, this girl's a lost cause," Yang said, looking to Ruby.

Ruby was focused on Blake though. "What's it about?"

Blake looked up. "Huh?"

"Your book," she clarified. "Does it have a name?"

"Well..." Blake said. "It's about a man with two souls, each fighting for control over his body."

Naruto blinked. "What in the hell are you reading?"

"What's left of me?" Yang asked.

"Red VS Blue in book form?" Naruto asked again.

"...Harry Potter?" both blondes said together.

Ruby decided to ignore them, and instead stepped forward towards Blake. "I love books," she told her. "Yang used to read them to me every night before bed. Stories of heroes and monsters...they're one of the reasons I want to be a Huntress."

Blake smiled slightly. "Why is that? Hoping you'll live happily ever after?"

"I'm hoping we all will," Ruby told her. "As a girl, I wanted to be just like the heroes in the books. Someone who fought for what was right, and protected the people who couldn't protect themselves."

"That's very ambitious for a child," Blake said, lowering her book slightly, a small smile on her face, which soon turned into a frown. "Unfortunately, the real world isn't the same as a fairy tale."

Naruto grinned at that. "That's why we exist isn't it? To try and make this world better."

Ruby nodded in agreement. "Without us, then people wouldn't have any hope, so we're here to try and give it to them."

"Ohhh, I'm so proud of my baby sister," Yang said as she walked to Ruby and hugged her, lifting her into the air.

"Cut it out!" Ruby demanded as the two started brawling.

Blake giggled slightly. "Well, Ruby, Yang..." she blushed slightly and looked to the other blonde. "Naruto. It's a pleasure to-"

"What in the world is going on over here?!" Weiss Schnee demanded as she walked over. Her hair was down and she wore a short blue dress for bed. "Don't you realize some of us are trying to sleep?"

"Don't you realize some of us don't give two fucks?" Naruto retorted sarcastically.

Weiss grew angry and was going to respond, when she saw Yang and the blonde saw her. "Oh not you again!" the two said together.

Ruby suddenly held a finger to her lips. "Shh! Guys, she's right! People are trying to sleep!"

"Oh, now your on my side?" Weiss asked sarcastically.

"I was always on your side!" Ruby complained.

Yang nodded. "Yeah, what's your problem with my sister? She's only trying to be nice."

As they spoke, Naruto gave Blake a look, and she nodded. He reached for the candles and began to lift them up.

"She's a hazard to my health!" Weiss argued.

The argument was cut off when Naruto blew out the candles, causing the entire room to be sunken in darkness.

As the sun rose up the next morning, Naruto's eyes opened and he slowly tried to sit up...only to discover he couldn't. Looking down, he saw that Yang, Ruby and somehow Blake were all sleeping on him, Blake and Yang on both his arms and Ruby on his chest. As much as he was enjoying the situation, Naruto junior seemed to be enjoying it a bit too much.

"Well..." he mumbled. "I appear to be trapped..." he closed his eyes as he tried to think of anything to not turn him on in this situation. 'Come on Uzumaki! Don't let this effect you! Think of anything! Uh...the old man! My perverted grandfather! Mom! ...Okay mom is pretty hot, so dad! Leo! Robert! Jaune! JAUNE!' Luckily, these thoughts did the trick as he felt his erection go down before the girls woke up. He breathed a sigh of relief.

"Now...how to get out of this..." he hummed before sighing. He debated waking up Yang, but he was too tired to listen to her perverted comments, so he shook his left arm to wake up Blake.

"Ugh..." she groaned as she slowly sat up, rubbing her yellow eyes tiredly. She looked to her right and blushed upon seeing Naruto in his compromised position with Yang and Blake. "Um..." she looked back to his his left arm...which she had just gotten off of.

Naruto waved with his now free hand. "Morning Blake," he said with a nervous grin. "Could you...help?" he gestured to Ruby. "I don't want to wake her up."

"S-sure," Blake mumbled and gently lifted up Ruby, who snuggled into the girl's embrace before Blake gently set her down on her sleeping bag.

Now free of his chest, Naruto gently used his arm to lift up Yang's head and put a pillow under it before he moved his arm out of the way and had Yang's head fall on the pillow. He breathed a sigh of relief and sat up. "Freedom," he groaned as he cracked his neck. He gave Blake a smile. "I owe ya one."

"It's fine," she said, her blush now gone as she had awoken a bit more and was able to fight it down. "How exactly did we end up like that anyway?"

"Hell if I know," Naruto shrugged. "All I know is I fell asleep in a dark room, woke up with 3 girls on me. Not a bad way to wake up, but not ideal for the day of initiation." He looked around to see everyone else still sleeping. "I'm gonna go get ready."

Blake looked outside then back to him. "It's dawn."

"I know," Naruto said with a grin before he walked out of the ballroom and to the guy's changing room.

The black haired faunas just shook her head. "Men..."

Yang suddenly sat up, her eyes shooting open and looking at Blake. "Did somebody just say men?"

"...No," Blake said. "Go back to sleep."

Yang just fell back and went to sleep again immediately, causing Blake to sweat drop. "What a strange girl..."

A few hours passed by, and Naruto was sat on a bench in the large room containing lockers. He wore his large brown cloak that covered his form again, with the hood pulled up. His black fingerless gloves were on his hands, and the black spikes glinted slightly from the lights above. He rotated his right shoulder and cracked his neck. "Alright...what will the teams be I wonder?"

"Who knows?" Yang said as she walked out of the girl's changing rooms and into the main locker room. She sat next to him. "So, I see the cloak is back again. Why though? You look so much better without it, at least lower the hood Whiskers."

Naruto laughed. "Not a chance Yang," he pointed to his hood. "It's strategy. I hear Beacon has some pretty extreme ways for deciding partners, so I'm being prepared."

Yang pouted. "Fine...for the record though, I hope you end up on my Team Whiskers."

He smiled under his hood. "I hope the same too Yang, it would be nice to have a fellow blonde on my team."

"Yeah about that," Yang pouted. "How come your hair looks so much better than mine blondie? I put some real work into my hair, but yours looks just as good. Do you put work into your hair?"

"What?" Naruto blinked. "No, I wash it maybe once or twice a week, and I only use normal shampoo. My hair is naturally the way it is, even the spikiness."

"...You bastard whiskers," Yang said with jealousy. "That's just so unfair."

Naruto shrugged. "Meh, you'll get over it," he saw Ruby approaching and waved. "Hey Rubes!"

"Hey Naruto!" she smiled as she walked over, clearly in a better mood than the day before, as she opened her locker.

Naruto was about to ask her a question, when a boy with black hair and a magenta streak in it, along with a girl that had orange hair- lucky bitch- walked past as she said. "But not together together," after which she giggled.

"Wonder what those two are so worked up about?" Ruby asked.

"Oh who knows," Yang said before looking to Ruby and crossing her arms under her chest. "So, you seem awfully cheerful this morning!"

Ruby grinned as she pulled her weapon out of her locker. "Yep, no more awkward small talk or getting to know you stuff," she hugged her weapon. "Today, I get to let my sweetheart do the talking, haa~"

"Well..." Yang uncrossed her arms. "Remember Ruby. You aren't the only one going through initiation. If you wanna grow up your gonna have to meet new people and learn to work together."

"Ugh you sound like daaad," Ruby complained, putting her weapon back in her locker for a minute. "Okay first of all, what does meeting people have to do with fighting-"

"It allows you to learn other people's strategies and incorporate them into your fighting style so it becomes easier to fight grimm and in tournaments," Naruto said instantly, making both girls look at him. "What? It's what I do."

Ruby pouted. "Fine, you have a point there. But I don't need people to help me grow up!" she stood rather proudly and crossed her arms. "I. Drink. Milk."

Yang was somewhat worried as she didn't want Ruby to depend on her forever. "But what about when we form teams?"

This made Ruby hesitate for a second. "I...I don't know...I...I suppose I'll just be on your team or something..."

"M-maybe you should try being on someone else's team," Yang suggested rather awkwardly as she glanced to her hair and moved it over her shoulder, running her fingers through it before letting it flow back behind her.

Ruby's eyes narrowed and she walked towards Yang with a stern look, getting right in her face. "My dear sister Yang are you implying that you do not wish to be on the same team as me?!"

"What?" Yang said, mildly shocked. "No, of course I do. I just thought...I don't know maybe it would help you...break out of your shell!"

"WHAT THE-?!" Ruby yelled, sounding offended and angry. "I DON'T NEED TO BREAK OUT OF MY SHELL THAT'S ABSOLUTELY-"

"Ridiculous!" they heard as Jaune Arc walked past them, staring down at a piece of paper. "There's no way I put my gear in locker 636 yesterday, I'd have remembered needing to count that why! Why did this have to happen todaaayyy..."

Naruto blinked. "Is it me or did Jaune just unintentionally finish Ruby's sentence...by talking to himself?"

Yang nodded slowly. "I think he did."

"Right..." Naruto nodded. "Just checking. Cause that is too much of a coincidence."

"Oh your just over thinking it whiskers," Yang said with a roll of her eyes.

"Trust me Yang," Naruto told her. "When you've seen the shi- stuff-" he corrected himself since Ruby was still fairly innocent "-that I've seen, you learn that coincidences are NOT just that. Someone is messing with us, I guarantee it."

Yang rolled her eyes. "Now your just being weird. Come on whiskers, I wanna get initiation done so I can check out the dorm rooms!"

As if one cue, a voice sounded through the speakers. "Would all first year students please report to the Beacon Cliff for initiation."

"...Okay Whiskers, that one was kinda creepy," Yang admitted as they started to head to their location, and watched as a red haired girl pulled her weapon out from Jaune's hood.

"I'm sorry," she said. "It was nice meeting you," she hurried away and Naruto paled.

"Likewise..." Jaune said, mildly dazed.

'Oh god not her!' Naruto mentally screamed. 'I thought she was going to Haven! Not Beacon! That cunt dripper changed her god damn mind!'

Ruby noticed Naruto paling. "You okay?"

"Y-Yeah," Naruto said. "Just...excited is all."

"Okay..." Ruby said as they walked to Jaune.

Yang grinned. "Having some trouble there lady killer?"

Jaune looked up, somewhat dejected. "I don't understand," he said as Ruby offered him a hand. "My dad said all women look for is confidence. Where did I go wrong?" he sighed as Ruby helped him to his feet.

The hooded blonde chose to speak here. "Calling her Snow Angel probably wasn't the best start," he told Jaune.

Ruby began supporting Jaune as Naruto and Yang walked side by side. "Come on Jaune. Let's go," she said as the two followed.

All the first years were stood in a long line on the side of a cliff that over looked the Emerald Forest. Naruto stood at the end, just after Jaune. All the students were looking either ahead or at Ozpin and Goodwitch.

Ozpin held a mug of coffee in his hands, which he sipped before he began to speak. "For years you have trained to become warriors, and today your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest."

Glynda began to speak. "Now, I'm sure many of you have heard rumours about the assignment of teams. Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates...today."

"What? Hau..." Naruto heard Ruby say, mildly distressed.

"These teammates," Ozpin continued. "Will be with you for the rest of your time here at Beacon. So it is in your best interest to be paired with someone with whom you can work well." Ozpin ignored the quiet sound of Ruby groaning. "That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next 4 years."

*Crrrck* *Smash*

"WHAT?!" Ruby yelled, as Naruto and everyone else could practically hear the world around her breaking.

"Now," Ozpin continued. "Due to an odd number of students here, the singular student to make eye contact with another pair after landing will make those three people partners as well, and will be assigned a special room for the sake of housing all of them. After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path...or you will die."

"Hehe..." Jaune said as he gulped nervously.

Ozpin once more ignored him and continued. "You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation. But our instructors will not intervene. You will find an abandoned temple at the end of the path, containing several relics. Each pair- or group of three in one case- must choose one, and return to the top of the cliff. You will guard that item, as well as your standing, and grade you appropriately. Now are there any questions?"

Jaune raised his hand. "Yeah, um, sir-"

"Good," Ozpin said. "Now take your positions."

Everyone got ready to be launched. Naruto opted to crouch down. "I'm gonna get such sweet air," he mumbled softly to himself with a sly grin as suddenly the black spiked on his gloves began to open and grow along his arms until they were covered up to just below in elbows in a pair of black, silver and red gauntlets, the base being black and the rips being silver and red. A barrel suddenly spun as what looked to be living aura tried thrashing around in bullet slots, but remaining contained.

"Uh sir?" Jaune said again. "I've got um...a question."

Weiss was launched into the forest.

"So this 'landing strategy' thing. Uh, w-what is it? Your, like, dropping us off or something?" Jaune asked as more people were launched.

"No," Ozpin said. "You will be falling."

Jaune scratched his head a little bit. "Oh...I see. So, like, did you hand out parachutes for us?"

The orange haired girl from before got launched into the forest.

"No," Ozpin said. "You will be using your own landing strategy."

"Uh...huh...yeah..." Jaune said slowly.

Yang looked at Ruby and winked before she put on a pair of sunglasses and got launched into the air, Ruby following afterwards just after smirking at Jaune for a second.

"So, uh..." Jaune said. "What exactly is a landing strate-GYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" he yelled out as he was launched into the forest.

Finally, Naruto was launched, but just as he was he jumped and went far higher than any of the other students, going higher into the air, but not going a lot further.

Glynda looked at that with wide eyes. "Professor Ozpin...shouldn't we help him?"

Ozpin took a sip from his mug. "No. He doesn't need it."

As Naruto was the highest in the air, he could see what everyone was doing below him and had plenty of time to observe as he was still going up. Ruby crashed into a bird and shot a few bullets before she made her weapon go into Scythe form and twirled on a tree before landing.

Weiss was the most safe, as she simply created Glyphs in the air and jumped off them before creating another and jumping off the next glyph, enabling for a safe landing and her not being hurt in the slightest.

The black haired boy- Lie Ren- from earlier flipped and stabbed the sickle parts of his guns into the tree, going down it in a spiral motion before he also landed on the ground and dusted himself off.

"WOOHOO!" he heard as he saw what Yang was doing, as used her weapon to blast the trees for extra distance and bounce as she kept going forwards. Finally, she went back first into some branches and leapt out of the tree, jumping off a few more trees before landing on the ground with a roll.

Pyrrha Nikos had her shield out front and crashed through a few trees before landing on a particularly large branch and rolling for a safe landing on it. She turned her spear into it's gun form and looked through it's scope. Jaune Arc was falling to the ground, and would most likely die. She grabbed her weapon in the middle and twirled it as it turned into it's Javelin form. She took aim and threw it far. It went through Jaune's hood and impaled a tree, keeping him safe.

Naruto smirked as he started to descend to the Earth. He clenched his right hand into a fist and under the cloak, his eyes turned venom-green. "LET'S TEAR EVERYTHING TO SHREDS, AZI DAHAKA!" As he hit tree level, he grabbed onto a tree and- with only one arm- pulled the tree out of the ground while falling, and quickly put it underneath him, causing the tree to take the brunt of the fall as he landed, unharmed. He smirked. "Too easy..."

He stood up straight and looked around. "Now then..." he hummed as he began to run in a random direction. "Where can I find Yang...?"

Yang was walking through the forest, bored out of her mind as she searched for...well anyone really. "Hellooooo?" She got no response and kept walking. "Is anyone out there?" She still got no response. "Hellooo!" she stopped walking and threw her arms in the air. "I'm getting bored here."

She heard bushes rustling and turned around. "Someone there?" they rustled more and she walked over to them. "Ruby, is that you?" she said with a mildly excited voice before she spread the bushes, a grin on her face. Said grin turned into a straight line as she looked up. "Nnnnope."

The blonde girl jumped to the side as an Ursa tore through the push and tried to claw her, but failed. She rolled and rose to her feet, Ember Cecilia taking it's full form on her arms. She saw another Ursa coming and back flipped away, dodging it's attempt to claw her. She rose once more and looked at them. One ran at her and she pulled her arm back before punching, Ember Cecilia firing a bullet in it's stomach as it was blasted towards it's friend.

The other charged, and Yang hit it's jaw with an uppercut before kicking it in the stomach, sending it back to the other Ursa, which was now back on it's feet and growling in anger.

"You guys wouldn't to have happened to see a girl in a...red hood would you?" she asked the two Ursa as if they could actually speak. In response, the two bears roared. "You could just say no!" the first Ursa charged again, trying to claw her, but she back flipped out of the way. "Haha! Geez, you two couldn't hit the broadside of a bu-huh?" she was cut short when she noticed something fall to the ground.

A strand of her hair.

"You..." she blinked and her eyes turned red. The Ursai look to each other in confusion. "YOU MONSTERS!" she slammed her fists downwards and fire exploded around her as she charged, propelling herself forwards with Ember Cecilia. She punched one of them in the face before hitting it with an uppercut, flames following each attack thanks to her weapon.

She propelled herself towards it's falling form and began to attack. She slammed her fists into it's stomach a few times, before then hitting it with an uppercut and pulled her fist back before she punched it in the stomach once more and hit it's stomach again and it was sent back. But Yang didn't stop as she propelled herself at it again and punched it's stomach again with great force, throwing a few kicks into her attack, before she punched it's head down then swiped it in the face, killing the grim and sending it through 5 trees and it lay on the ground, dead.

She turned to see the other Ursa approaching as another tree fell to the ground. "WHAT, YOU WANT SOME TOO?!" she demanded as the Ursa rose to it's full height, growling...before the sound of something cutting through air was heard and stabbed into the Ursa's back, causing it to fall flat on it's stomach.

Standing behind it was Blake Belladonna, looking at the fallen Ursa before she tugged the ribbon her weapon was attached to, pulling it back into her hand. She turned it back into a sword before sheathing it and looking to Yang with a grin.

Yang didn't smile as she looked at Blake. "I could have taken him."

A voice said from behind Yang. "If the other one is any indication, I'm sure you could." Yang looked back to see Naruto standing there, making eye contact with Yang, before his eyes shifted to Blake. "Looks like we're the three person group."

"Whiskers!" Yang said happily as she tackled him in a hug, then grinned. "You got some sweet air on that jump! How'd you land safely?"

"I'm curious about that too," Blake said. "You were falling very fast, you should have-"

"Slammed into the ground and died?" Naruto interjected. "Meh, I just ripped a tree out the ground as I fell and used it to break my fall."

Blake blinked as Yang grinned. "You...ripped a tree...out the ground...and used it to...break your fall?" Blake asked slowly.

Naruto nodded. "Yyep! Now come on," he pointed towards the North. "I saw the Forest Temple since I was so high in the air, and it's this way."

Not too long later, Naruto, Yang and Blake all came upon the ruins of the forest temple. Yang was in the middle, Blake was on the left and Naruto was on the right. They were on a small hill that overlooked the temple.

"Think this is it?" Yang asked, and Blake gave her a look that told her she was an idiot.

"I don't think this is it," Naruto said. "I know this is it. It looks just like what I saw when I was in the air."

Yang glanced to him, then Blake. Blake began to walk down the hill and- not left with much choice- her two blonde comrades followed after her, heading towards the middle of the temple. Around it's edges, there were several small pillars that held either a black or gold object on it.

"Chess Pieces?" Blake asked.

"Looks like it," Naruto said. "Must be the relics.

"Some of them are missing," Yang noted. "Looks like we weren't the first ones here."

Blake nodded. "Well...I guess we should pick one."

Yang walked to the Knight piece. "How about a cute lil' pony?" she suggested.

"Go ahead," Naruto told her, with Blake nodding positively. Yang picked up the chess piece and put it in her pocket. Then they heard a very feminine scream.

Yang looked towards the noise. "Some girl's in trouble!"

Blake however, looked up and saw something rather...interesting.

Naruto followed her gaze and blinked. "Oh crap..."

Yang looked to them. "Did you guys here that? What should we do?"

The bow wearing girl simply pointed up, causing Yang to look up. It was Ruby Rose, and she was falling towards the ground. "HEADS UUUUUUPPP!" she yelled as Jaune Arc flew in from out of nowhere and crashed into her in mid air, sending them both spiralling into a tree.

Ruby's eyes were swirls as she sat on a branch against the base of the tree, dazed. "Ugh...what was that?" she shook her head.

"Ah-hem," a voice said and she looked up to see Jaune hanging upside down. "Hey Ruby."

"Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Blake asked.

"I..." Yang began before they heard a roar and looked straight ahead to see an Ursa charging...and seemed to be roaring in pain.

The grimm was flailing around wildly. Suddenly, a pink blast of energy was heard behind it. "Yeehaw!" a girl's voice called as the grim went stiff and fell forwards, hitting the ground face first. Dead. The orange haired girl from before- Nora Valkyrie- rolled off of it as it hit the ground, before standing up and looking back. "Aww, it's broken."

She ran and stood on it's head as Ren came out from behind it, panting heavily as his knees were trembling. "Nora...please...don't ever do that again..." he looked up to see Nora had vanished, and he turned his head looking for her.

Nora was standing in front of the golden chess piece that was shaped like a castle. "Oooo!" she said excitedly as she picked it up. "I'm queen of the castle~ I'm queen of the castle~" she balanced it on her head.

"NORA!" Ren yelled in annoyance.

Nora stopped and giggled. "Coming Ren!" she saluted and let the piece roll off her head, catching it with her other hand. Before she skipped back towards Ren.

"Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" Blake asked.

"I..." Yang tried to speak again before a cross between a screech and roar was heard as the sound of trees crashing to the ground was heard as well.

They all looked to see Pyrrha Nikos running out of the woods, with a huge Deathstalker chasing her, making her jump when it tried to catch her in it's pincers. "Jaune!" she yelled.

"Pyrrha!" Jaune yelled.

"Woah!" Ruby said as she ran and jumped off the branch.

"Ruby!" Jaune yelled out.

Ruby landed with a roll. "Ruby!" Yang said happily.

Ruby spread her arms. "Yang!" she prepared to hug her sister.

"Nora!" said the orange haired girl as she popped up between them.

"Naruto!" said the other blonde as he fist pumped. Blake looked on with indifference, if not mild confusion at what had just transpired.

Blake looked to Pyrrha, who was still running from the Deathstalker. "Did she just run all the way here with a Deathstalker on her tail?"

"You sure like asking questions huh," Naruto asked with a sweat drop, making Blake blush slightly as she realized she had just asked 3 questions in a row.

"Grrr..." Yang said in anger before her eyes open and were red again. "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! COULD EVERYONE JUST CHILL OUT FOR TWO SECONDS BEFORE SOMETHING CRAZY HAPPENS AGAIN?!"

Naruto checked his watch as about 2 seconds passed before Ruby pointed up and gently tapped her sister, with run hurrying over and stopping between Nora and Blake, still panting. "Um...Yang?"

The girl's shoulders dropped and everyone looked up to see Weiss Schnee holding onto a Nevermore's claw as it flew around. "HOW COULD YOU LEAVE ME?!" she yelled.

"I said jump!" Ruby said.

"She's gonna fall," Blake said.

"She'll be fine," Ruby insisted. Weiss lost her grip on it's claw.

"She's falling," Ren deadpanned.

In the tree, Jaune panted before grinning as Weiss fell.

Naruto saw what was about to happen and spoke up. "10 Lien says when Jaune catches her they forget about gravity?"

Ren looked at him quizzically. "How do you forget gravity?"

The blonde pointed to show Jaune caught Weiss, and the two were now seemingly hovering in the air. "Just dropping in?" Jaune asked, before Weiss looked down, then back to him. Jaune looked down and gulped. "Oh god!" they gripped each other and began to fall. "Nnnooooo!"

Jaune landed on the ground, stomach first as Weiss then landed on his back, checking her nails. "My hero," she said sarcastically.

"My back," Jaune groaned, as Pyrrha kept running from the Deathstalker in the background.

"That's how Ren," Naruto told him, smirking slightly.

Everyone watched as the Deathstalker slammed it's pincer into Pyrrha, and she landed on the ground in front of the group. "Great," Yang said sarcastically. "The gangs' all here, now we can die together!"

"Not if I can help it," Ruby said as she charged at the Deathstalker. "Yaaa!"

"Idiot!" Naruto growled as he followed her. He dodged a bullet that Ruby shot backwards for propulsion. He caught Ruby as her attempt to hit the Deathstalker with her scythe failed. He threw her back to Yang who caught her as Naruto punched the Deathstalker with his weapon- Azi Dahaka- causing it to go back a few feet, then turned and ran back to the group as Weiss froze the Deathstalker with her rapier.

Yang hugged Ruby. "So happy your okay!" she said as she looked at her sister, before the two looked to the sky at the Nevermore, as it was cawing.

"Guys!" Jaune said. "That thing's circling back! What are we gonna do?!"

"Look," Weiss said. "There's no point in dilly dallying, our objective is right in front of us."

Ruby nodded. "She's right. Our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to the cliffs." Weiss nodded to Ruby, who nodded back. "There's no point in fighting these things."

"Run and live," Jaune said. "That is an idea I can get behind."

They all looked towards the temple. Ruby and Jaune both walked up and grabbed their pieces. Jaune grabbed the other golden rook while Ruby grabbed the other golden Knight. The two nodded to each other with a grin.

The Deathstalker's struggling finally began to bear fruit as cracks began to be made in the ice.

"Time we left!" Ren said.

"Right!" Ruby nodded and put her artifact away. "Let's go!" she ran ahead, with everyone else following her, though Yang stood behind for a minute to watch with a grin.

Blake stopped by her and walked over. "What is it?" she asked.

Yang watched as Ruby stopped for a minute to see Ruby stop and gesture for everyone to follow. Naruto smirked from beside Yang as he too saw. "Nothing," Yang said and the group of three quickly hurried to catch up.

They all soon ended up running to a much larger part of what appeared to be the ruins of a city, as the Nevermore flew over head. They all hid behind pillars and the Nevermore landed on top of what could have been the remains of a castle across the bridge, screeching.

"Well that's great," Naruto growled. He then looked back to see the Deathstalker burst out of the woods. "And that's even better!" Naruto ran ahead. "Come on!" they all followed, except Nora who hung back and set about firing at the Nevermore to distract it for a minute.

She was able to get it to fly away for a minute, but turned and saw the Deathstalker about to get her. Luckily, Blake and Ren slashed it's face while Yang grabbed her and used her Glyphs to jump away from it. Blake and Ren kept running from the Deathstalker as it followed restlessly to get it's prey.

Pyrrha stopped running and looked back to them for a second. "Go go!" her javelin turned into a shotgun and she began firing at the nevermore until Blake and Ren caught up, then she turned and they kept following the group.

Naruto glanced to the side to see the Nevermore had circled back around. It slammed through the bridge, leaving Pyrrha, Ren and Blake on one half facing the Deathstalker, while the others were on the other side of the bridge stuck with the Nevermore.

Ruby, Yang, Weiss and Naruto had all climbed to the top of the castle. Naruto looked to see Blake was slashing the Nevermore now and landed with them on the top of the castle as the Nevermore began to circle back around again.

"It's tougher than it looks!" Blake told them.

"Then let's hit it with everything we've got!" Yang decided.

Ruby's sniper rifle turned into it's scythe form to give her better aim. Blake pulled out her sword and turned it into a gun. Weiss spun the barrel on her rapier and prepared to shoot Ice at it. Naruto's gauntlets glowed red as he pulled a fist back. They exploded at once. Weiss fired ice at it, Yang shot the exploding bullets from Cecilia at it, Blake and Ruby fired their guns, while Naruto punched, firing concentrated blasts of aura at it.

The Nevermore screeched as it slammed through the castle and it began to fall into the misty chasm below the bridge. They all used different ways to get back up to the bridge. Ruby jumped off of falling pieces of stone and shot her bullets to propel her to others so she could get to the bridge. Weiss created Glyphs and jumped off them. Yang punched through the slabs of stone to push herself higher into the air. Blake jumped onto one of the pillars keeping their half of the bridge up and ran up it. Naruto did a very powerful jump and landed straight on the bridge.

"None of this is working!" Naruto heard Weiss say, before he looked to see Yang firing her exploding bullets and then to Blake who swung up the rest of the way to the bridge.

"I've got a plan!" Naruto yelled loud enough for them to hear. "Buy me one minute and try to restrain it!"

The girl's nodded in acknowledgement and kept firing attacks at the Nevermore. Naruto took a breath and began to focus an intense amount of aura into his gauntlets, so much they glowed with absolute power within them.

Out the corner of his eye, Naruto watched as Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren and Nora were able to defeat the Deathstalker, though he noticed Jaune taking charge and showing the qualities of a leader.

The Nevermore seemed to have chosen to focus on Yang as she was the easier target. It circled back around as Yang just kept shooting at it. Soon enough it was right by her and opened it's jaw to eat her. She jumped up and held it's mouth open with her feet and left hand, while she kept firing bullets at it, but this time in it's mouth as it flew towards the side of the cliff. "I! HOPE! YOUR! HUN! GRY!" she glanced back to see the cliff and back flipped out of it's mouth, landing on the ground as it crashed into the side of the cliff. It landed and screeched in pain and anger.

Weiss took the opportunity and charged towards it, almost as if she were gliding on the ground and jumped up, stabbing the tip of the Nevermore's tail as it tried to fly away and ice formed around it, holding it in place against it's will. She hurried back to everyone. Blake stood on the side of a pillar and threw her gun-blade at Ruby who was on the other, leaving a trail of her strong ribbon as she held it. Ruby caught it and they pulled, making it tighter.

Naruto jumped up, landing on the ribbon as Weiss made a Glyph that turned black and held him in place on the ribbon. "Not a bad idea," Weiss admitted. "Though it is rather crude."

"Can you make the shot?" he asked as his gauntlets were now glowing red and black.

"Hmph," Weiss smirked. "Can I?"

Naruto grinned. "Fire."

Using his left gauntlet, he fired backwards as the Glyph turned blood red and fired Naruto forwards, towards the Nevermore's head. He pulled back his right fist. "TEAR HIM TO SHRED, AZI DAHAKA!" He slammed his fist into the head of the Nevermore and it screeched in pain as it's entire body convulsed...before it exploded into a million pieces and Naruto landed, his hood now down as the remains of the Nevermore fell down around him.

"Well..." Yang said after a moment of silence. "That was a thing."

Naruto walked over, chuckling. "Yes Yang," he looked across the bridge at Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren and Nora, whom all looked back at him and the other girls. "Yes it was."

Applause were heard in the amphitheatre as Professor Ozpin spoke. "Russel Crush, Cardin Winchester, Dolph Bronzewing, Sky Larke," as he spoke, their faced appeared on the screen along with the first letter of each of their names. "The 4 of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward you shall work together as Team CRDL (Cardinal). Led by...Cardin Winchester!"

They walked off the stage as Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren and Nora walked up and stood in a line. "Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, Pyrrha Nikos, and Nora Valkyrie. The 4 of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward you shall work together as Team JNPR (Juniper)!" Nora hugged Ren, who chuckled lightly. "Led by...Jaune Arc!"

"Wha-" Jaune said in surprise, pointing to himself. "L-led by...?"

"Congratulations young man," Ozpin told him.

Pyrrha lightly punched Jaune on the shoulder, making him fall on his ass and everyone laugh at him, while Pyrrha looked surprised before grinning lightly. Finally, they walked off stage as the final team walked on.

"Naruto Uzumaki, Blake Belladonna, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, and Yang Xiao Long," Ozpin spoke again. "The 5 of you retrieved the white-"

"They were gold actually," Naruto cut in. His hood was down so a fair amount of girls in the hall were blushing.

Ozpin decided to humour him. "Very well, gold knight pieces. From this day forward you shall work together as Team RWUBY! Led by...Ruby Rose!" Weiss looked to Ruby in shock, while the red hooded girl looked just as surprised. "And...Naruto Uzumaki!" Applause were heard as the whiskered teen was just as surprised as Ruby was.

"I'm so proud of you!" Yang said as she hugged Ruby.

Blake nodded to Naruto with a smile, who looked at her before giving her a smile of his own and nodding back.

"Looks like things are shaping up to be an...interesting year," Ozpin said, more to himself than the crowd, his gaze was directly on Naruto when as said that.