Hello, and welcome to my first ever fanfiction in the history of my life! I will make some storyline and grammar mistakes, so please point them out. If you can think of ways to help, please PM me. Anyways, this is going to be a Naruto and RWBY crossover (I know, SOOOOOO original). Anyways, this is going to center around Naruto and the RWBY cast. I don't know about pairings, but I'm free to suggestions (I do like the White Rose shipping in RWBY, but I can do something else if you guys want)! Please let me know! Anyways, enjoy!
Oh, and before I forget:
Disclaimer: Naruto and RWBY do not belong to me. Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and RWBY belongs to Monty Oum. I only own the story.
It was supposed to be a simple reconnaissance mission. Nothing more, nothing less. But it seemed that fate had other plans for young Naruto Uzumaki, knuckleheaded shinobi of the Hidden Leaf Village. The mission was to simply respond to a sudden disturbance in the outer borders of the village. Naruto specifically remembered that Granny Tsunade said that it may not be a cause for concern, but as he felt his very molecules and the very essence of his nature shifting, he knew that this mission was anything but. He scoffed. Of course this kind of stuff always happens to me…
FLASHBACK
"Team 7, I need you all to check out a sudden disturbance in the southern part of the village's borders." Tsunade spoke as she gazed over the ragtag shinobi team.
Kakashi Hatake, a lean man with grey hair that defied gravity, nodded slowly without taking his eyes off the "romance" novel that he constantly had with him at all times. The fluorescent lighting glinted off of his forehead protector, which covered his Sharingan in his left eye. "Can you give the rest of us more intel, Hokage-sama?" Kakashi drawled out.
"Yeah Granny Tsunade, I need to know if there are people I can fight, dattebayo!" Naruto yelled, pumping his fist into the air. Naruto Uzumaki was an eccentric shinobi compared to others. His hair was a golden blonde, spiky hair, and his eyes a sky blue. To top it all off, he wore a bright orange jumpsuit with black stripes, and had black sandals. To this day, Tsunade still wondered how Naruto managed to stay hidden in spy missions. Then again, Naruto always disregards sneaking around and goes around wreaking havoc everywhere when the opportunity presents itself. Tsunade thought in exasperation.
"OI! DON'T CALL ME GRANNY, BRAT!" Tsunade yelled as she threw a scroll from her desk to Naruto's cheeky face. Crap, I think that was from the Raikage. Tsunade thought.
As Naruto went down in a heap, Sakura Haruno, Naruto's teammate, proceeded to grab him off the floor and shake him around, yelling at him about disrespect all the while.
Sakura was a young kunoichi with pink hair and emerald eyes. While extremely pretty, Sakura had a violent personality that rivaled even Tsunade. Which was saying a lot. Tsunade even heard a rumor that Sakura once punched an annoying brat through a building after he insulted her hair. She really is my student.
"Hn, shut up," said a cold voice, "both of you annoy me." This came from none other than Sasuke Uchiha, a raven haired teenager who had bottomless onyx eyes that seemed to peer into one's very soul. Sasuke originally betrayed his team and trained under Orochimaru, one of the 3 Legendary Sannin and a power-hungry traitor. And he would have stayed with Orochimaru too if Naruto didn't find him and drag him back to Konoha. As it turned out, Sasuke's impulse to abandon his team and village was only because of his curse mark. After its removal, Sasuke slowly recovered and integrated back into Team 7, much to the happiness of Naruto and Sasuke.
Tsunade snapped out of her thoughts and spared a look at Kakashi, who was still reading the book despite his student's bickering right under his half covered face. Tsunade sighed and rubbed her temples, fighting against the migraine that was sure to follow the bickering. I need some booze. Tsunade thought. I'll ask Shizune to send me some after this.
"Anyway," Tsunade spoke over the scuffle, "I need you all to check out a disturbance. Sentries have reported strange energy readings in the woods around the southern part of Konoha." Saying this, she handed some papers over to Kakashi, who scanned its contents with his eye.
"These energy readings don't seem to be from chakra, Hokage-sama," observed the stoic teacher, "I've never seen readings like this before. Is it a new form of chakra?" He showed the papers to Sasuke and Sakura, who looked genuinely interested in the data. Naruto didn't care about the weird energy at all and just sat on the ground with a scowl on his face and rubbed a bump on his head, courtesy of Sakura.
"We don't know," admitted Tsunade, "we got a Hyuuga to look at it, but he wasn't able to identify it." She looked pointedly at Kakashi and Sasuke. "I was hoping some certain people can spread some light on the subject."
Kakashi and Sasuke understood completely. As the only two people in the village who could use the Sharingan with ease, they were both sought out for their skills in dangerous and mysterious situations. However, this time, Kakashi and Sasuke were actually interested in this particular situation. A disturbance that was not of chakra origin. This was both mysterious and slightly exciting for the two Sharingan users.
"Then what are we waiting for," yelled Naruto, who apparently got over his injury, "let's go check out the thing, dattebayo!" Saying this, Naruto jumped through one of the many windows in Tsunade's office and sped off somewhere.
"Naruto! That's the wrong way, you idiot!" Sakura yelled after him.
Kakashi sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Honestly, that little terror will be the end of me someday," he muttered. He then looked at Tsunade, who seemed to be slamming her head on her large table. The numerous paper and scrolls bounced about and fell off. Kakashi winced in sympathy. I know how you feel Hokage-sama. "Anything else, Hokage-sama?" Kakashi asked.
Tsunade looked up from her table, her forehead now covered with a large red bruise. "No, that is all," she said, "you are all dismissed."
The rest of Team 7 bowed to her in respect and walked out of the door like any normal shinobi would do.
Tsunade watched as Sakura closed the door behind her on the way out. She sighed. For some reason, she felt some sense of foreboding due to the reports of the energy. There was nothing dangerous about this at all, yet she felt as if she sent Team 7 into enemy territory with blindfolds and tied hands. Tsunade's intuition was rarely wrong, and saved her life in many occasions in the past. I really hope this is one of the times where my intuition is wrong.
Tsunade stood up and turned to look out her windows. Konoha was peaceful at the moment, and the Akatsuki didn't make their move yet to capture Naruto. She observed some Genin run down the street, trying to catch a cat weaving through buildings with a headband in its mouth.
Tsunade observed her village for a while, and then remembered something of great importance. She clicked the intercom on her desk. "Oi, Shizune," she yelled, "get me some booze up here!"
"Right away Hokage-sama," came the reply, "but shouldn't you cut back on the drinking? It can't be healthy for you, and when you get drunk, you can't really get any work done, and…"
Tsunade just shut off the intercom and leaned back into her chair. Smiling at the prospect of incoming booze, she almost forgot about her misgivings about the recon mission she gave to Team 7. Almost.
3rd PERSON POV
Naruto leaped over buildings and ran across rooftops with ease, channeling chakra into his feet to stick to some slippery walls and railings. His bright eyes looked over the village and its citizens. He grinned at the sight before him and quietly observed several landmarks. He could see his apartment, Ichiraku's ramen stand, the Hokage tower, and the 5 huge faced chiseled into the cliff wall behind the tower. Naruto's eyes moved to the 4th Hokage's head. His father. Naruto never actually met him in real life, but talked to him inside his head after he almost ripped off the seal that contained the Kyuubi, the nine-tailed beast, inside of him. Then Naruto proceeded to sucker punch his dad in the stomach because he remembered Minato was the one who put the Kyuubi inside him in the first place.
Naruto's attitude changed into one of regret as he remembered what happened during that time. He went on a rampage after his friend, Hinata, almost died by Pein, a crazy guy who was convinced that he was God and killed people for his twisted view of peace. But there was no need for thinking back on it. After Naruto sought him out and changed his views, Pein gave up his life to revive all the people he killed in his invasion of Konoha.
A shout snapped Naruto out of his somber reverie. "Naruto, slow down!"
Looking back, Naruto saw the rest of his team trying to catch up to him with no avail. Grinning, Naruto only sped up and ran with a new vigor while calling over his shoulder, "Catch up with me if you can, Sakura-chan!"
To his horror, she did. Looking into Sakura's eyes, Naruto only saw promises of pain and torture if he didn't slow down to wait for them. There were only two options left to him. Get down on his knees and beg for forgiveness, or keep running like a bat out of hell. He foolishly chose the latter and pumped more chakra into his legs, reinforcing his stability and speed.
While the two ninja chased each other like a cat and mouse, Kakashi and Sasuke just traveled in silence, both rereading copies of the reports of the energy in the area they were currently heading towards. Kakashi sneaked a look towards his quiet student. Kakashi was actually quite proud of his young student for coming back to his friends and thanked Naruto for bringing Sasuke back in one piece. Smiling under his mask, the grey-haired teacher fondly reminisced the times when Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were little kids and all the antics they would all get into. But they're not little kids anymore. They are fully-fledged shinobi now. They grow up too fast.
Kakashi looked back at the two shinobi ahead of them. Sakura finally caught Naruto and sent him flying with a chakra-enhanced punch that sent him flailing into the sky towards the area of disturbance. That must be a new distance record. Kakashi thought absentmindedly. He would never admit this, but he missed the times his team played around like this. After Sasuke left, the team had been a lot more subdued and quiet, which was fine for the young Jonin, but torture for his young pupils. Again, he thanked Naruto for bringing back Sasuke, thus injecting life back into the team again. Even Sasuke was slightly smiling as he watched Sakura yell at Naruto while he was still in the air.
Thank Kami for my team. Kakashi thought. I hope nothing bad happens to them anytime soon.
He spoke way too soon.
TIME SKIP
"Oi, teme," called Naruto, "can you see anything yet?"
Sasuke just ignored him and scanned the forest with his activated Sharingan. "Hn," he replied.
Naruto felt veins pop up under his skin in anger as he saw that he was being ignored. He decided to ask again, this time, a little nicer. "OI, TEME! CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING, YOU DUCK-BUTT HAIRED IDIOT?!"
Sasuke felt his own veins start to pop up at Naruto's outburst. "I don't see anything at the moment, dobe."
"Teme."
"Dobe."
"Teme."
"Dobe."
As the two shinobi insulted each other, Kakashi and Sakura were in another section of the forest, a couple hundred feet away from Sasuke and Naruto. Even so, they could both hear the two bickering like two angry grandmothers.
"Seriously," Sakura groaned, "why can't they both stop arguing for two seconds?"
Kakashi eye-smiled at her. "That's just their own way of talking, Sakura," the Jonin said, "them insulting each other is just their version of friendly conversation."
"Even so, they're just too loud, especially Naruto."
Kakashi placed his hand on her head. "If you were a guy, you would understand."
Sakura scoffed and pushed a low-hanging branch out of her way. "I doubt it."
Kakashi suddenly stiffened and stopped in his tracks, looking to his right, straight into the bushes.
"Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura called worriedly. "What's wrong?"
He simply motioned for her to stay low and gestured for her to come over. "Call over Naruto and Sasuke," he ordered, "tell them to go towards the clearing up ahead and meet us there."
Sakura recognized the urgency in her teacher's tone and quickly called Sasuke (obviously) on the radio. "Sasuke-kun, meet us in the clearing up ahead and meet us there. I think Kakashi-sensei found something."
"I know," came the reply, "I see it too. Naruto, you better be quiet and be careful about this. I see some strange energy up ahead, and I don't want to mess up because of your mistakes."
Sakura heard an indignant comment from Naruto at how he was always quiet and careful in situations like this. She shut off her radio and slowly crept along with her teacher.
Meanwhile, Naruto and Sasuke were quietly approaching a clearing. It looked innocent enough, complete with flowers and the gentle sound of bees buzzing in the air, but the Sharingan saw a different story. Both Kakashi and Sasuke saw a rolling mass of some strange energy that seemed to be alive straight in the middle of the clearing. It was dark purple in color, and occasionally sent tendrils of energy, which was grabbing all living organisms and making them disappear. Sasuke was confused. This couldn't be a genjutsu, since he had the Sharingan active. No, this was something unexpected and different.
"Sasuke," whispered the blonde teen, "what's happening? I can't see anything wrong with the place. Can you see enemies? Are we gonna have to fight?"
"Shut up, dobe," he muttered, "I just see some weird energy in the middle of the field."
Naruto's excited face fell in disappointment. He really wanted to fight some people. A couple of enemy ninja was just the thing he needed to boost his spirits. However, there were no ninja in sight, other than Kakashi and Sakura, who were signaling towards the duo with some hand signatures that Naruto couldn't even understand. Sasuke did, however. Meet us near the big bushes in the corner of the field. Sasuke nodded in affirmation and gestured for Naruto to follow him. "Come on, dobe, we need to meet up with Kakashi and Sakura over there." He pointed to the bushes indicated.
"Okay, but I'm not gonna be happy until we get back to Konoha for some ramen," the boy muttered.
"Hn."
TIME SKIP
Kakashi looked over his team as he discussed what to do with the strange energy in the clearing. "Do any of you have any ideas on what to do? Except Naruto, I'm pretty sure you would insist on attacking it."
Naruto's reply was indignant. "I was gonna suggest that I go into Sage Mode and see what that energy is," he retorted, "I thought that maybe I could detect what it is since you and Sasuke-teme can't tell what it is."
Kakashi blinked at the surprisingly smart idea that came out of the knuckleheaded ninja's mouth. Again, he was reminded of how much Naruto had grown over the past few years they were together.
"That's…actually a good idea…" said Sakura hesitantly, "I didn't think about that."
Naruto gave off a blinding grin and settled into a cross-legged position and began to gather around Nature energy around the vicinity.
While he was gathering energy from the area, Sasuke and Kakashi kept their red eyes on the rolling mass of energy, or in Kakashi's case, eye. They saw no difference in its motions, but they were still hesitant to go near the disturbance. All of them had no wish to be sent to wherever the thing sent the bees and other small animals to.
It was when Naruto was almost done with achieving Sage Mode when things went horribly wrong.
As soon as Naruto's eyelids started to grow orange, Kakashi and Sasuke quickly noticed that the blob of energy grew extremely agitated and sent tendrils of purple light shooting towards Naruto. Kakashi quickly flashed through a couple hand signals. "Doton: Mud Wall Jutsu!" He slammed his palms onto the ground and a huge stone wall rose out of the ground between Naruto and the reaching tendrils. Sasuke activated his Mangekyou Sharingan and created a Susanoo, an ethereal purple being with almost impenetrable defense, around Naruto. Sasuke was able to activate the Susanoo right after he was brought back to Konoha, and used it with only some difficulty.
However, despite the efforts of Kakashi and Sasuke, the tendril just traveled straight through the obstacles and wrapped around Naruto's leg. Sasuke was shocked. Nothing had ever bypassed his Susanoo so easily before, and this was totally new for him.
Naruto was dragged out of the protective shell of the Susanoo and pulled towards the agitated mass of energy. In desperation, Naruto channeled his massive reserves of chakra into his hands and stuck them on the ground in the hopes of slowing his route to the middle of the clearing. It worked for a little while. As he felt his grip loosen, Naruto quickly grabbed a kunai from his hip holster and tried to slash at the thing grabbing his leg.
The blade just passed through as if it was made out of air. It had no effect whatsoever.
"Guys! Help me with this!" Naruto yelled, "I can't cut through this thing!"
The threesome ran forward and grabbed Naruto. Sasuke ran many possible solutions in his head and came up with only one.
"Sakura!" he called, "Try to sever the thing like it's a chakra string!"
Sakura nodded and took out her special anti-puppet knife that she carried around ever since she encountered Sasori's puppets long ago. Pumping chakra through the knife, she slashed the now glowing blade in the general direction of where the tendril would be. In reality, she had no idea where the thing was, so she slashed the air in front of Naruto's sandals.
Again, this didn't work and Naruto was slowly being dragged to the center of the clearing. The blob of energy became more visible as Naruto got closer to it. It grew in intensity and soon, wind howled around the clearing, whipping up leaves and rocks into the air.
As Naruto tried to drag himself forward, he knew that if he and his friends got caught in the blob, not very good things would happen. He had only one choice.
"Kakashi-sensei, Sasuke, Sakura-chan! Get away from here! I can't let you guys be dragged with me!"
"No way!" yelled Sakura, who kept trying to slash the now visible tentacle, "we're not letting you go Naruto!"
In the calmest voice he could muster in the situation, Naruto looked his team with determination and a small smile on his face. "Save some ramen for me when I get back, dattebayo."
Saying this, Naruto relinquished his grip on the torn up dirt and shook off his friend's hands. The last thing he saw as he entered the mass of energy was the shock and horror on his teammate's faces as they screamed his name. Then darkness claimed him, and he felt as if his very molecules were being shredded down and shifted around. Sorry guys, he thought, as long as you're all safe.
Then he blacked out.
Several dimensions and alternate realities away, a group consisting of four girls heard a sudden boom in the distance. As they looked at the sky, they saw a figure drop from the clouds into the woods they were currently overlooking.
"Uuuhhh…what the heck was that?" a young red-headed girl with silver eyes asked.
"I don't know, but we should probably tell Professor Ozpin if he doesn't know already…" said a white-haired girl with ice-blue eyes.
"Oooh, I hope we get to check it out!" exclaimed a blonde-haired girl with lilac colored eyes, "I need to train for the Vytal Tournament!"
"Our opponents in the fights aren't going to be Grimm, Yang." sighed a black-haired girl with amber colored eyes and a black bow on top of her head.
The young, red-headed girl ran forward across a clean plaza, her crimson cloak billowing behind her as she ran towards a huge tower with a speed only a shinobi could rival.
"Come on guys! We need to tell Ozpin!"
Sighing and shaking their heads in amusement, the three remaining girls followed their boisterous leader as a gentle breeze flowed through the air of Beacon Academy.
Little did they know that this was going to be a looong day for Team RWBY.
So, what did you guys think? I think it was a little rushed, but then again, I finished this in about 3 hours so don't expect it to be that good. Sorry for the lack of context, this was going to be longer but I was running out of time. Anyways, tell me how I did on my first story, and please leave a review on how I could do better! Criticism is also welcome! Thanks!
-A.S.V.