AN - Merry Christmas Guys. I still don't own either RWBY or Naruto.

-Chapter Two Start-

Her throat felt like sandpaper, that was what she noticed first, her throat felt scratchy and coarse, it stung as she breathed in, like a dozen needles were stabbed into the flesh simultaneously. Her eyes fluttered open, making her let out a groan as the light assaulted her retina. "Don't move too much Naruto." Jiraiya's voice sounded, piercing the haze around her mind.

"E-Ero Sennin?" She asked, her voice was gravely as she spoke, her arms shaking as she tried to push herself up, only to collapse back down. "What the hell, why do I feel so weak? Why is my voice screwed?"

"This'll help, just stay down at the moment, I'll explain." A water flask was placed against her lips, the cool liquid soothing her throat. "Now what do you remember Gaki?"

"I was walking down the path, explosions causing a landslide, I was attacked by four shinobi, I killed two of them, started fighting the other two, they blew me up and then… nothing." She recited, her memory going blank after she was blown up.

"Let me remind you. You pulled on the Kyuubi's chakra, killed a third shinobi by reversing his technique with a roar, burning him to a crisp. Then I showed up, knocking out the last shinobi… Then you tried to kill me so I sealed your chakra." He went deadpan on the last sentence, talking about her trying to kill him as if it was the most ridiculous thing.

"I tried to kill you?" She stuttered, trying to open her eyes slowly. "Why would I try to do that?

"You weren't exactly conscious." Jiraiya admitted. "You were just attacking anything that moved, the moment I knocked out the Iwa shinobi you lost interest in him."

By now she had got her eyes open, the burning slowly subsiding as she glanced around the cave they were in. It was the same type of rock as the mountain pass, making her think they had moved deeper into the mountain range, but it surprisingly didn't have an exit only a thin hole going up until it reached sunlight. "Where are we?"

"We're in my Doton: Chika Dōkutsu no jutsu." Jiraiya explained, looking at him he looked completely fine, not even ruffled, the only bit that looked out of place was a few specks of blood on his hands and she didn't think it was his. "It creates an underground cavern you can camp in, nowhere near as useful as you would think but it works at times."

"An underground cave. Why wouldn't that be useful?" She asked, shakily trying to push herself up again.

"If you can sense chakra it's really easy to find, it's incredibly chakra intensive and since our main enemy during the war was Iwa it was common for users to get it collapsed on them by Iwa nin who were better with Doton." He explained before shaking his head. "Never mind that, we need to talk about two things, your lack of control and your assailants."

"Look I don't know what happened, the woman was laughing at me killing her teammate. I was then dumped into some mud and everything becomes a blur." She placed her hand against her face, closing her eyes and focused. "I remember fighting, feeling like my muscles were burning and then I was blown up… then nothing."

"You need to learn to control your anger." He said with a sigh. "The Kyuubi's chakra feeds on anger and hatred, the more you feel the more chakra you pull on." He held up his hand to cut off any protests or excuses. "No, it isn't the Kyuubi affecting you. The seal is powerful enough to stop any manipulations it might attempt, this is all you."

She looked down with a sigh, wanting to deny the words. She had been thinking it herself, in a roundabout sort of way. The entire ramen-guilt thing had stuck with her, Inochi had said that her guilt could manifest itself in lots of ways, through anger, through depression, anxiety and a whole host of physical ailments. She guessed that anger was hers.

"Well how am I supposed to learn to control my anger? I've never really had to worry about this before." She sighed wincing as her muscles almost screamed in agony. "Why aren't I healing?"

"I told you kid, I sealed your chakra when you attacked me, no chakra, no healing." Jiraiya almost grunted. "As to your anger, you were quick to anger before but it was just as quick to fade. Now you keep the feeling, you leave it just under the surface and it runs wild the moment someone sufficiently pisses you off." He stared straight into her eyes for the next sentence. "You have to learn to let it go again, to allow it to leave, instead of leaving it to fester. You have to forgive yourself."

"Maybe I don't deserve forgiveness." She muttered, causing Jiraiya to sigh.

"You do, but I know that I can tell you that until I'm blue in the face and you won't believe me. You'll figure it out though, eventually." He chimed in, cutting off her self-deprecating thoughts. "For now we need to talk about your assailants."

"They were a squad of Iwa ambush specialists, focusing on assassination via environmental effects and explosives." Jiraiya began, moving into his lecturing pose. "They used such tactics as collapsing cliffs, creating sinkholes, causing flash floods and triggering mudslides. During the third war they were quite infamous for the damage they did to our supply trains."

"They were infamous?" Naruto asked, kind of amazed.

"Oh yeah, none of them were front line fighters but they caused more damage to us than any twenty front line fighters could." He confirmed, making sure she heard his next words. "I will say that the only reason you killed them is because they underestimated your durability. If they had known you would not have survived the first attack, if they got the first stab and attached an explosive tag to the knife you would have died."

"But they didn't." She stressed. "They didn't."

"No they didn't, but they could have." Jiraiya agreed. "There is as much to learn from a victory as a defeat. The next squad will be better prepared, and the squad after that…" He trailed off, seeing his point sinking in.

"Anyway, they were on direct orders from the Tsuchikage to kill you." Jiraiya continued, his eyes turning intense. "Not official orders mind you, but direct."

"What do you mean?" She asked, sitting fully for the first time since she woke up.

"I mean that if this was an official mission we would be able to do something about it, because it's unofficial it means that he can deny it as little more than some of his soldiers attempting to collect a bounty instead of a direct attack on Konoha's Jinchuuriki." He leant back, looking up towards the caverns roof. "Now though things will get worse, he now has a reason to give you a bounty of his own and that will mean everyone in Iwa and all their allies will be keeping an eye out for you."

"But that's not…" She began before trailing off.

"Fair? No it's not, you're getting the short stick of this." Jiraiya agreed. "But that's how things are. With this Akatsuki are likely to act early, not wanting you to be killed before they can grab you."

"Unless." She prompted, hoping there was an unless.

"Unless you disappear until the heat dies down." He nodded, seeing her freeze up at that. "And I've already figured out how you're going to do that."

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Two weeks later

An hour before dusk

An island thirty miles off the coast of Nami no kuni.

The island was small, so small that 'a rock in the middle of the ocean' would be just as apt a description, it only had a small smattering of grass across it's top and no other life beyond one toad. "Kuchiyose no jutsu." The toad declared before Naruto and Jiraiya appeared in a puff of smoke, Naruto blinking dumbly at the feeling. "There you go Jiraiya-boy, Naruto-chan, this is as far out as I can go." The toad was green, with white hair styled in a mohawk. He was clad in a grey cloak and carried a gnarled wooden staff.

"Thanks Pa, this is perfect." Jiraiya gave the toad a thumbs up before, turning towards the horizon, focusing on the task he would have to perform,both of their bags were missing, having been given to a toad to be retrieved later. "I'll get started."

"Where are we Ero-sennin?" Naruto asked glancing around at the empty ocean before focusing on the toad. "And who's the geezer-toad?"

She winced as Jiraiya reached over and slapped her head absentmindedly, continuing his task as if he hadn't even acted. "That 'geezer-toad' as you called him is one of the three elder toads in the Toad Clan."

"I can introduce myself, Jiraiya-boy." The toad lightly admonished the man before turning to the girl. "I'm Fukasaku, one of the two great sages of Mount Myoboku, the home of the Toad Clan. It is good to meet you Naruto-chan." He introduced, smiling at her. "And I have to say your nickname for Jiraiya-boy is both hilarious and depressingly accurate."

"You're a Sage? You mean like Ero-sennin is?" Naruto asked, crouching down to look the old toad in the face.

"No, no, no." He shook his head. "I'm much better than he is." Both Fukasaku and Naruto grinned at the dismayed squawk Jiraiya let off, turning his attention away from his task.

"Don't encourage her Pa, I don't get enough respect as it is." The man protested loudly, looking towards the toad with a betrayed look.

"You get as much respect as you deserve you two-bit pervert." She yelled back at him. "You said we were in a hurry yet you stopped to peep in five different onsens."

He seemed to take offence to that, stopping his task to glare at her. "Hey I'm not a two-bit pervert." He barked out before pulling a pose. "I am a super pervert!"

"That isn't something to be proud of Jiraiya-boy." Fukasaku shook his head as he said that before turning back to Naruto. "Anyway Naruto-chan, we need to start your training in the summoning techniques you can do."

"Summoning techniques?" She asked quizzically. "You mean like the Yatai Kuzushi no jutsu?"

"Yes, that is the most simplistic of the techniques." Fukasaku agreed, nodding his head slowly. "But you can learn so much more, from summoning specific toads to summoning parts of toads."

"You mean like when Ero-sennin summoned the stomach of a toad while trying to trap Sasuke's brother." She thought aloud, thinking over the time.

"Yes, like that." The toad had turned to stare at Jiraiya getting the man to blanch. "Gamahito is still recovering from the hole in his stomach Jiraiya-boy. An apology gift wouldn't be amiss."

"I said I was sorry." The man mumbled in response, glancing away while continuing his task.

"Anyway, that'll have to wait until you're settled in." Fukasaku said, turning back to Naruto. "Just summon a toad and ask for me in about two weeks or so."

"Sure… wait, settled in?" She asked, picking up on his wording. "Where am I settling in?"

"I told you, you have to disappear for a while." Jiraiya told the girl, now making hand seals at a fast rate. "So you're going to need to settle into your new life, to build your alibi while I'm gone."

"Gone? Where are you going?" She blurted out, now worried.

"I need to continue checking out my spy ring. You'll be staying with an old friend of mine, I'll get him to train you and every month or two you'll be reverse summoned to wherever I am to train." Jiraiya told her. "I'm going to be making people think that you're being kept on Mount Myoboku, that way they'll only try to find and attack you while I'm around."

Naruto sighed at that reminder, Iwa had posted a second bounty for her, willing to pay 8,000,000 Ryo for her death and 10,000,000 Ryo for her capture. A third attempt had been made on her, a knife shoved through her kidney before she could even react. The man had been immediately eviscerated by a chakra tail she had created instinctively from the pain.

They had then spent the next five days, away from civilization as Jiraiya set up whatever he was doing.

As if on cue he slammed his hands together, before placing a hand on her head, the air almost rippling in front of her eyes before clearing up. "Alright, this is where we part ways Pa, I'll summon Gama when I need to be reverse summoned."

"Of course, I'll see you in a week or so." The elderly toad nodded. "I'll see you in a few weeks, Naruto-chan." With that he made a handseal, causing him to vanish in a puff of smoke.

"Alright, let's go." The Toad Sage said as he began walking towards the sea, his foot impacting with the water like it was earth and holding him up. "We've got to travel ten miles in two hours, let's go."

"Okay, okay." The blonde mumbled water walking after him as he started walking at a brisk pace. "What did you do just then Ero-sennin?"

"Let me answer your question with another question, what do you know of the world outside of the Elemental Nations?" He asked, a light splashing sound punctuating his words.

"Outside?" Jiraiya grinned at the girls blank expression, stupidly blinking at the question. "There's an outside?"

"Yep, I'm not surprised that you don't know. Only high ranking shinobi know, although that's going to change soon." He grunted at the last part of the sentence. "Welcome to the rest of Remnant."

"Remnant?" She really sounded confused at that.

"It's the name of the planet." He almost waved off the question. "Or at least it's what they call it, personally I think it's a lot more imaginative than Earth."

"Outside of the Elemental Nations the world is split into the four kingdoms and Menagerie. The four kingdoms are Vale, Mistral, Vacuo and Atlas." As such one of Jiraiya's lectures about the world began, causing Naruto to begin to phase out of conscious thought before she was hit on the head. "Listen, this is all stuff you'll be expected to know, if you don't it'll look suspicious."

"But why?" She moaned in frustration. "I thought that I would be learning cool jutsu from you, not geography."

"Well you have to take the good with the bad." He shrugged, not bothering to say why she needed it. "Anyway, the Elemental Nations are surrounded by a barrier, a giant continent sized Fuuinjutsu believed to be about a thousand years ago. It makes those on the inside get lost and unable to find the barrier and the same happens on the outside, then you have the actual barrier."

"After the outside first made contact I figured out how to give people permission to enter and exit the barrier at will, before we had to force the barrier open through sheer brute force." He nodded at a wall of distortion covering the sky and the horizon. "I added you to it so you can walk through it without issue."

"So I can walk through it?" She asked, summing it up. "Why is there a barrier?"

"We can't say for certain but my best guess would be the Grimm." He said with a nod to himself. "They're soulless beasts of destruction. I think seeing it will be better than me telling you."

"Anyway, the four Kingdoms…" Jiraiya began lecturing, this was going to be a long walk.

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It was an hour after the sun had dipped below the horizon, they were soaked through from some fairly large waves and Jiraiya had thrust a brown cloak into her arms. "Put it on, it'll help dry you off and your outfit is just too distinctive."

"Hey, my orange is awesome." She yelled back, shoving the cloak back at him.

He immediately shoved the cloak back into her arms. "I don't care about you wearing orange but everyone knows that you wear orange so we're going to use that to our advantage." She looked confused causing him to sigh.

"Whenever you are in the Nations you will go back to your normal orange outfit, but while outside the Nations you will wear other clothes." He explained slowly. "It's just a small thing to help your disguise."

"But I like my outfit." She yelped, gripping her jacket protectively. "It's warm and comfy and has lots of pockets."

"While that's good and all, it doesn't change the facts." Jiraiya drawled. "Put on the damn cloak and get ready to get a new outfit as soon as we can." He clocked her on the head before she could protest. "You're a shinobi, not a toddler. Don't have a hissy fit over clothes."

She stopped her protest, throwing in the cloak before crossing her arms and pouting. "Why are we out here anyway?"

Before Jiraiya could answer a foghorn sounded in the distance. "That's why we're here." He said as a light appeared in the distance. "That ship will take us to Sanus, the continent that Vale is on. It'll take us to a city called Southend where we can take an airship to Vale."

"An airship?" She asked looking excited. "They have flying ships?"

"Yep, it's the safest way to get around out here." He looked amused at her excitement before beginning to walk towards the large ship, pulling on his own cloak. "Let's get to the ship before we attract something." With that he ran forwards, travelling towards the ship.

They scaled the side of the ship, running up the slick surface before hopping the rail. "C'mon let's go talk to the captain. If we wait people will notice that we weren't here before."

Without any preamble he threw up both of their hoods before beginning to walk into the ship. Following him with a grumble she watched as he walked through the ship… like he knew exactly where he was going. When they got to a door marked bridge he just strolled straight in. "Hey Salty, still sailing I see."

The captain was almost stereotypical, standing there in a blue captain's jacket with a captain's cap,he had white hair and a large bushy white beard. Turning towards the voice he brightened. "So you're still around and kicking you old toad." He almost laughed, looking at the man. "I didn't realise we had picked you up, or was this one of your mid-ocean boardings."

"We just boarded, is there a cabin free?" He asked, pulling out a small lump of gold and throwing it to the captain.

"Yeah, cabin nine." He nodded, pocketing the gold. "If you want I can get some food sent there for you." He took that moment to look over at Naruto speculatively. "You don't usually have company."

"She's my student." He explained with a shrug before pausing. "Actually I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of any families with girls her size, we need to replace her outfit before we hit land."

"It can't be that bad." The captain chuckled, but it turned into a full blown laugh when Jiraiya pushed the cloak to the side to show the outfit. "At least we wouldn't lose her if she fell overboard."

"Hey." She barked as the men chuckled. "What is this, old fart comedy corner." If anything they laughed harder at that.

"Come on, Skipper you have the bridge." The Captain declared before leading them from the bridge. "So what's your name and how did you get mixed up with this lecher."

"My name's Naruto and I got him caught when he was peeping and then bugged him until he agreed to train me." She answered, introducing herself. "How do you know him Ossan?"

"I was sailing along one day, something like sixteen years ago and I just see this man running on the water." He began regaling her with the tale. "I hailed him because of how strange it was and he leapt aboard, we got to talking and I learned about him and I told him of the four Kingdoms."

"Eventually we became friends and I used his ship to visit the different Kingdoms as he went on his route." Jiraiya cut in, not wanting to leave the man to tell the story alone. "Eventually I had finished scouting the Kingdoms and returned but not before I got a list of his scheduled routes every year. I used that to figure out when we needed to go out of the barrier to jump on his ship."

"What if you had missed me? Sea travel doesn't generally stick to a schedule old friend." The captain asked, obviously curious.

"Then we would have had a four hundred mile run to shore." He shrugged. "I would have thrown her on my back and ran at full speed so it would have taken about five hours or so."

"Hmm, if you say so." The Captain hummed before reaching a room and knocking.

"Remember we need to fit in, not stand out." Jiraiya hissed to the two of them as they heard feet walking towards the door.

The door was answered by a fairly small woman, she had short black hair framing her face. Her eyes were a warm yellow and were framed by the smallest amount of purple eyeliner. Most curiously to Naruto were the pair of black cat ears that sat proudly on her head, three gold earrings sitting within them, two in the left and one in the right. "May I help you Captain?" she asked her voice warm.

"Ah yes, Mrs Belladonna. I was hoping that you might be able to help my friends here." The captain began. "Their ship was scuttled by a grimm not too long ago and were able to get aboard as we passed. I've agreed to take them to Southend but they both lost all of their belongings and while I've agreed to lend the older man, Jiraiya, some clothes, you're the only people on board with someone of a similar size and build to the young girl Naruto."

The woman looked speculatively over at Naruto causing Jiraiya to reach up and pull down both of their hoods. The woman's eyes lingered for a moment on her whisker marks before brightening up. "I'll go ask my daughter whether she has anything to spare." She nodded, a soft smile on her face. She turned around facing the room before letting out a soft call. "Blake, can you come here for a moment?"

"Yeah Mom?" A younger voice asked, it was a lower voice than she was expecting for a girl her age. She looked almost exactly like her mother but her ears had an almost purple tinge to them in the light and her eyes were amber as opposed to yellow. She was dressed in a black yukata and had a thick book in her hands.

"Could you see if there's any clothes you wouldn't mind giving away? This girl currently only has what she's wearing." She asked her daughter who looked speculatively at the blonde.

"What happened to her things?" Blake asked, eyes flicking towards her whisker marks before she relaxed slightly.

"Our ship was sunk by a sea dragon, I killed it but the boat went down and we lost our stuff." Jiraiya cut in. "She only has her bright clothes left." He flicked open her cloak showing the bright orange briefly.

The girl rolled her eyes at that before turning into the room. "Come on, I'll see if anything fits you." She said before walking into the room, towards the left most single bed. The room was quite small but was still larger than the room she slept in on the trip to Yuki no kuni. There were three single beds in the room, two of them were obviously being used to relax on while the third was still made but was obviously in use.

"Where's your husband at the moment? I was expecting him to be the one to open the door." The Captain asked, glancing in the room.

"Oh, Ghira wanted to go watch the sea for a while." The older woman answered. "He should be back in a while."

"Speaking of watching the sea, I have to return to the bridge. Thank you for the help Mrs Belladonna." He nodded before beginning to walk away. "By the way, you are all welcome at the Captain's table tomorrow night."

"Thanks Salty, it was cabin number nine you said wasn't it?" Jiraiya asked, getting an affirmative hand gesture in return.

Meanwhile Naruto was standing next to Blake's bed as the girl went through her suitcase. "You should dry yourself off first." She hummed, pointing at a fluffy white towel that was hung on a rack next to her.

"Thanks." She replied, pulling off the cloak and her jacket, leaving her in a green t-shirt. She removed her hair ties causing the two ponytails to cascade into a curtain of hair down to the small of her back. She spent a couple of minutes drying the mane, her hair looking like she had just escaped a hurricane.

"I've got a couple of shirts, leggings and a yukata you can have." Blake listed off, putting together a pile, she passed a white shirt and a pair of black leggings over to her before busying herself with going through her outfits.

"Thank you." Naruto replied almost solemnly, accepting the shirt and leggings. "Oi Ero-sennin, turn around."

"Alright, alright." Jiraiya rolled his eyes as he turned around to stare out into the hall. "You're developing a sense of modesty, I never thought I would see the day."

"Hey, I have a sense of modesty." Naruto barked at the man, causing him to snort.

"I seem to remember a story about you streaking down Main Street for a bowl of ramen." He shot back, chuckling.

"It was worth it." She muttered, getting a low chuckle from the mother.

"You really streaked for a bowl of ramen?" Blake looked bemused at the idea, looking at the blonde with a weird look.

"Yep." She nodded unashamedly before pulling off her t-shirt leaving her in her bright orange training bra, before she swung the shirt over her and buttoned it up.

"How much trouble did you get in for that?" Blake wondered, glancing away as the girl stripped off her trousers and began drying herself off.

"Two weeks of detentions, three hours a day." She immediately listed off. "Biggest punishment I ever got."

"What about the time you snuck into the Hyuuga clan, stole all their underwear and then replaced it with bondage gear?" Jiraiya cheekily asked, getting choking sounds from both mother and daughter.

"I have it on good authority that you have no evidence." She responded, blank faced. She pulled on the leggings, pausing at the slightly too large fit, fortunately she noticed some ties on the waist to tighten it up. "You can turn around now." She said before looking Blake in the face. "Why is your face so red?"

Blake ignored the chuckling of the two adults as she almost glared at the girl. "You shouldn't change in front of people."

"But we're both girls…" She said confused, Blake's face going slightly redder.

"That doesn't matter." Blake almost ground out, trying to suppress her irritability, the girl doing it purely out of naivety.

"Just a small word, onsens are popular in our home town. Same gender nudity isn't that big a deal." Jiraiya threw in, defending his student. "Sorry if she made you uncomfortable."

Blake sighed, letting her annoyance fade as she tried to get control of her embarrassment. "Right, well here's the clothes." She said, clearly trying to end the conversation. She picked up the pile of extra clothes thrusting it into Naruto's arms. "I guess we'll see you around."

"Yeah we should get to our cabin." Jiraiya nodded in agreement, watching in amusement as Naruto was ushered out. "Thanks for this."

"Thank you." Naruto nodded, sounding a bit disappointed as she shuffled out of the room.

"You're welcome." Mrs Belladonna said sweetly, patting the girl on the shoulder as she passed. "I'm sure we'll be seeing each other many times over the next few days."

With that the door was softly closed behind her, leaving her and Jiraiya in the hall. "Well they were nice." He nodded before beginning to walk. "Let's go to our cabin."

Naruto followed morosely, obviously bummed out at being shooed out. "Cheer up Gaki, she was just embarrassed, she'll be over it by tomorrow." He snorted, guessing her thoughts. "Now stop moping, you have more lessons before bed."

"Why?" She moaned, stretching out the word.

"Because, I can tell that you're going to spend as much time as you can with that girl and I don't want you to slip up." He sighed before smirking. "Now prepare for three hours of learning hell."

"Why did I have to ask. 'ttbane."

-Chapter 2 End-

AN - Merry Christmas everyone, hope it's a good one.

Now a few things, sorry this took so long to get out, work and new episodes giving me new idea's happened.

Also i'm now looking for a Beta, PM me if you're interested. It's for all my stories not just this one.

See you guys in the next chapter.