Answers to your reviews: (OMG NEW CHAPTER!)
SlyUzumakiVii - Dude, I am actually a computer engineering student myself. But I try not to go all technical to keep the story readable for everyone lol. Good luck with the project by the way, guess you meant the Ghosts right? right?
hawkeyestratos1996, I don't intend to create quickly-formed relationships but Summer will return to the story at some point. Actually, you're going to feel her presence in this chapter. (Whoops, spoiler.)
PTSeeker, thanks bud.
Guest, Haha close one. But I guess the concepts are so similar in Halo, Warframe and Destiny. I took the idea from Destiny 2 lol.
ezy2, woo dude bullseye, you even noticed the title lol. They're from Destiny.
Shirou Emiya1, yep you got it. But seriously I wasn't expecting you to notice the title hint, you guys are the BEST. I'll try to hide things better as the story goes on nihihihihihi. Yeah, about Naruto's condition: don't worry you're going to learn about it soon enough.
Joseph Deluca, woah there. Glad you enjoyed but it's not my intention to make Ghosts kill Naruto or something so no Terminator! For now, Ghosts are the most sincere and helping kind of all Artificial Intelligences.
Neo-Shepard, idk man. Maybe
Danish78, thanks for the review and helpful advice. I didn't know there were that much errors to be honest, I used Grammarly tho… meeh. Double-kama is actually the same weapon Maira used in season 6 with a different design so I saw no need to explain it any further lol and yeah they're crossed behind his back. Attire is also true but I didn't give much attention to be honest. Keep reading I'll try to do my best.
End of the answers, thank you all.
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Do You Believe in Destiny? - A RWBY x Naruto Crossover
Chapter Two: Life is Pain
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"Son of a-" Naruto suddenly shielded his eyes from the sun lights as he stepped outside the building with the others. Seriously, how long he had been in that room? Probably, since he first came to Beacon Academy...
Sasuke adjusted his coat on his shoulder and kept walking, Aoda - by his side - made a spin and followed. The helper-drone seemed happy to have its owner and creator around.
"Why did you even come to Beacon, Ironwood was not happy. " Sasuke sent a look over to him who tried to adjust the daylight. It was an expected question since Naruto had left the city suddenly. Sasuke knew his friend, there must've been something that bothered him back then.
"Atlas is so fucking loud, I've found a good spot for myself here." Naruto lowered his hands and pulled his hood forth to shadow his face. It was no lie, he always enjoyed the silence even if it can be found in a basement.
"Oh?" Sasuke made an amused voice then continued walking, being followed by the two. Sasuke had already grabbed everyone's attention but slightly knowing his cold behavior nobody decided to come and talk to him. So, the situation instantly turned into a 'famous people passing by the ordinary ones', kind of.
"Master?" Aoda decided to call out for its creator, it meant to ask something since he first saw him here in Beacon.
"Hm?" Naruto turned his face to him, ignoring the looks student gave him. It'd always been this way, since the school. He could never understand people, they were different, Faunus or human, they were different.
"Why don't you create one of my kind for yourself. I'd help you keep your health in check." The flying drone proposed in a kind manner. It was logical, its creator was making helpers for others but he had none. Naruto closed his eyes for two seconds as the wind gently 'struck' him.
"I have enough voices in my head. You focus on helping your own owner." The blonde Faunus ordered while gazing the purple-black Ghost, maybe he could make some adjustments or additions after the meal.
"Y-Yes sir!" was the companion's reply. Sasuke sighed and stepped into the cafeteria just to be engulfed by curious looks again. He saw the Ghost flying past him and his former teammate stepping into the building.
He took sight of the trays and meals, making his way to the place where they could get some food.
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"Then he was like Wuuh and kaboom!" Ruby exclaimed as she mimicked the fight she and her friends witnessed.
Team RWBY along with JNPR sent her various looks while the youngest of the group sighed in satisfaction.
"Man I like being a Huntress."
That was when Nora jumped forward and slammed her hands on the table, she was not satisfied by the black-red wearing girl's version.
"You forgot the Pooow and Kahaaa then Boom they're gone." the energetic girl yelled and mimicked Sasuke's lightning strike.
Pyrrha giggled softly at her friend's antics as Ren slapped his face. There was a short silence in the cafeteria since none of the students actually wanted to chat after what they saw. The crew failed to notice Naruto and Sasuke heading inside since the place was huge and they were kinda... depressed.
"To be honest, I'm still getting goosebumps by those things…" Weiss was the one who broke the silence, her head was tilted and her eyes were focused on the table.
"Yeah…" Blake agreed, she was hugging her legs but somehow not showing how scared she actually was.
Hearing that, the crew was engulfed in a heavier depression.
"Tell me about it, the mere sight of them…" Jaune put some wood into the fire.
Ruby made a face at her friends and watched them with concerned eyes. She had to do something but Aha!
"Did you see him turning them into stones with his eyes?" The black and red wearing girl asked in excitement.
"It wasn't his Semblance?" Ren asked, he didn't seem affected by the Apathy danger at all. God knows he only joined the conversation to cheer others up.
Jaune sent a weird face to his friend.
"His semblance is Lightning dude."
Nora appeared behind them and pushed their heads down, a wondering expression on her face.
"Multi semblance?"
All of them shook their hands in the negative meaning and made the girl grin like a child. Yang waved the girl off and turned to her baby sister.
"Talking about him, Ruby. His eyes… they were-"
"Hello, folks how is it going?" That was the new trick Aoda had learned to build a connection with the younger ones. It watched as the youngest of the group appeared right next to him in rose petals.
"You're the super cool cyborg from earlier-! " Ruby exclaimed as she investigated the drone from different angles.
"Aah Rubes, cyborg doesn't mean what you think it is. I know it sounds cool but... " Her older sister commented as she continued to eat.
"Ohw." Ruby seemed down when Yang jumped from her seat.
"But still dude! You're awesome!" She tried to slow-motion punch the machine what dodged the attacks.
"My thanks, that's my programming." the Ghost answered happily, not caring about her punches.
"Seriously, looks more durable up close." Jaune and Pyrrha made their way to there and the blonde of the duo poked the drone.
"It indeed does." Pyrrha smiled as she crossed her arms.
"Can you cook pancakes? Can you fire missiles? Can you uh- yes you can shoot lasers." Nora seemed to have other questions. Aoda dodged another attack from Yang and spun around the energetic girl.
"I- I wasn't designed to cook… " It didn't sound happy. Then it glowed in excitement.
"But I can measure your aura capacity if you want… Uh, I'm not sure if that would be entertaining but." Aoda wasn't sure how to make the young souls smile.
"YES!" The students yelled in one voice, big grins on their faces.
"Oh? " The flying companion was startled first but it recovered and made happy noises as it flipped in the air.
"Alright then, that'd be my pleasure. Don't forget that I'm not going to be measuring your combat skills. Aura reserves only can be enlarged by being depleted repeatedly. While it's not only related to that, Aura reserve roughly shows how much battles you got into."
"Me me, me first!" Ruby was jumping in excitement as the others took their positions behind her.
"Very well." Aoda stopped in front of the girl then scanned the small girl with a horizontal ray of light.
"Ruby Rose, 220k."
"Eh?" What did that mean? She needed someone to compare.
While her leader was questioning her life, the Schnee heiress stepped forward letting the drone scan her as she waited with a somewhat proud face.
"Weiss Schnee, 295k." The white-haired girl made a 'hmph' and stepped aside to let the others get measured too. Aura capacity was merely showed how much armor one has, it wasn't actually a factor to show the power level.
"Let's do this!" Yang slammed his fists together as she grinned at the Ghost. Aoda let out a sound of acknowledgment and scanned the busty teen.
"Yang Xiao Long, 380k."
"Yesss, beee-" Yang exclaimed and stuck her tongue at her teammates. Smirking as she saw the clouds of depression over them.
"Lie Ren. 300k." the black haired student walked to the side with a satisfied expression on his face, 300 sounded plenty.
"Way to go buddy." Jaune slapped his back with a fake smile, he was so nervous about the measurement and he had his reasons.
"I will beat you all Wuuuu!" The Valkyrie was on the stage, she crossed her arm and closed her eyes while the Ghost scanned her.
"Nora Valkyrie, 320k."
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The orange haired girl's face suddenly went black and white, it was an epic scene to see to be honest. Aoda noticed her gloomy aura and blinked her lights, she must've been sad because she was not the first.
"Don't worry, I have a combat support mode that will boost you with 130k more." Aoda channeled Aura from its reserves and temporarily increased Nora's Aura level, to 450k to be exact.
The energetic girl, now having a white glow around her, roared in the excitement which made the other students gave them weird looks.
"I HAVE THE POWER!" She exclaimed as she opened her arms and laughed like a demoness. Her friends were half-excited that they saw such a feature of Ghosts and half-scared of what Nora could do.
Ren stepped forward and waved his hand in front of the flying companion, an all-knowing expression on his face.
"I don't think that's a good idea…"
Aoda blinked then cut the connection, watching the girl making a dance of happiness along with Ruby. It really liked seeing the younger ones happy. Seeing the Faunus girl in front of it, Aoda got to work and scanned the girl.
"Blake Belladonna, 305k" Guess it was sufficient, she didn't expect it to be lower than Nora though. It made her think she didn't know the girl close enough, she noted that she'd learn about her later.
There were two more left, Pyrrha and Jaune.
Aoda took notice of Pyrrha nodding to it and scanned her.
"Pyrrha Nikos, 395k"
Wait.
"Woah…" It was their reaction.
"Pyrrha you're so cool!" Ruby exclaimed as they surrounded the redhead with Nora.
"I- I mean…" The circlet-wearing girl looked away as her cheeks heated up. She wasn't a type of person that takes compliments very well.
"Jaune D. Arc… 170k?"
Wait?
The crew instantly stopped giving attention to Pyrrha and turned to Jaune who was stood there agape, now he couldn't say he was not expecting this. The red-haired girl made his way to him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
Meanwhile, Aoda was making strange noises, there was something disturbing him about the result.
"I think there is an error in my calculations."
Before it could make a further explanation, two older males walked towards their location. They must have eaten already. Team RWBY and JNPR watched as the intimidating figures approached them.
One of them was that super cool huntsman who was the trending topic of the lunch chat. The other one was a different guy with a similar physique maybe a bit leaner.
He was a fox Faunus that's for sure, his ears and whisker-like marks were showing it.
His attire was reflecting his laid-back personality but still… How did he look as intimidating as Sasuke Uchiha?
Naruto was currently looking at a certain white-haired girl with half-lidded eyes as he stood by the teams lazily.
Weiss didn't know what to say or do when the tall young man stared down to her smaller form. Blake, on the other hand, compared this scene with one of those Shoujo Manga moments.
"... Mini-Winter?" Naruto wondered with a slightly confused face.
"Uhm, it's Weiss actually. I'm Winter's sister, do you remember me? " The Schnee heiress actually remembered the guy from two years ago, when she'd met Sasuke too.
Naruto raised an eyebrow at her answer and let another awkward silence pass. Then he turned to the raven-haired huntsman.
"Maybe we could kidnap her to threaten Ice Queen."
"No."
"Whatever." Naruto shrugged his shoulders. The scientist's furry ears moved as his eyes caught sight of yellow eyes and black hair, causing the Faunus-girl's bow to twitch.
Blake noticed his look and choked her head backward and frowned a bit. He seemed like he knew her, maybe he was once a White Fang member like her. I didn't matter, she already told her friends about her past. So it was okay... right?
Other than that, he was so freaking tall… and his eyes were scanning him like a scope on a tower which was pretty unnerving.
After a little (long for Blake) while, Naruto stopped making the girl feel uncomfortable and prepared to leave.
My little flower, how I've missed you…
Naruto's eyes widened and his frightening presence ceased for an instant, for a little moment, when he felt a warm feeling in his palm.
"Master?" Aoda's voice brought him back to his senses and he noticed Sasuke's wtf face, his face was literally asking him 'What the hell are you doing?'. He slowly turned his head to the side and noticed where his hand was going.
His hand was currently caressing Ruby Rose's cheek who he paid no attention earlier.
The petite girl of team RWBY was looking straight into Naruto's eyes with her big silver eyes as tears threatened to start dripping any moment.
Everyone watched in pure shock as the little girl couldn't hold back a hiccup as a drop of tear rolled down her cheek.
F-For a second… She felt like… like her mother was there.
"I- I'm sorry!" Ruby took a step back first, making the older young man pull his hand back. Then she stormed out of the cafeteria.
"Ruby!" Her older sister made a called after her but the team leader was already gone.
"Ruby wait!" Blake rushed after the girl. Naruto watched with a blank face as his dreadful aura came back to him.
"Uh-?" He tilted his head and noticed a blonde girl with large assets glaring daggers at him.
"You! Why did you do that?" She growled angrily, she wasn't sure what he did but she was not going to let anyone make her baby sister cry.
Naruto was not amused.
"Not to enjoy a scenery like this, that's certain." He pointed down her breasts with a finger.
"That was weird even for you." Sasuke commented about his recent action. Like seriously, it could've been considered as sexual assault, they were not students anymore.
The bombshell of team RWBY was shaking in rage, making her friends look at her in concern. The man who made her sister cry didn't even care about it, not one bit. He was just standing there with that stupid blank face. She ignored her friends' calls as she raised her face, revealing her glaring red eyes. She launched herself to the blonde huntsman with her fiery aura coating her fist. She delivered a powerful punch to the back of him.
That was when she noticed her attack was blocked. Sasuke was right next to him with an outstretched hand, he had caught her fist. Yang frowned at the kama-user as he felt his iron-grip around her joints.
"Looking out for your friend?" She asked with the same frown. Sasuke let his natural element flow to her and give her limb little shocks, causing her to pull her hand back.
Which also caused her fiery aura to disappear.
"Looking out for you..." Sasuke stated shortly with a straight face. The girl in front of him was must've been unaware of Naruto's position, he was a huntsman who he trained along with him and he was a dangerous one at it.
Yang - now standing without her aura covering her - felt the blonde Faunus's dreadful aura washing over her, causing her eyes to go wide as sweat rolled down her face. Even though he was facing the opposite way, it was there and alive.
Naruto opened his flask and poured the cold liquid into his mouth.
"Yang, let it go." Weiss placed a hand on her shoulder as her other friends took a somewhat defensive position around them. Sasuke spared a look at the younger ones and nodded at Weiss who took the sign and nodded back.
With that, Naruto kept walking away to take his food being followed by Sasuke. Guess they were going to eat the dessert outside though.
The flying companion made some nervous sounds as his guards quivered.
"My apologies about the unpleasant event." Aoda said with its glowing eye then followed its owner and creator. The favorite teams of first-year stood there stunned for a while until someone decided to speak.
"What was that…"
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Later that day, Naruto had returned to his quarters since Sasuke decided to take a nap under a tree with his companion beside him. They were designed to stay on their owner's side after all, whatever happens. Even though Beacon was one of the safest places in the world, the drone would keep an eye out for possible dangers.
What happened to me?
On the other hand, Naruto was on his comfy chair looking at the screen with unblinking eyes as his fingers worked on the keyboard. Beside his high-electricity-consuming computer, there was a humanoid robot (which looked like a training dummy) plugged into it with several different colored cables.
Naruto slapped the Enter button and let his assistant take over as he took his flask off of the desk.
"Simulate the Emerald Forest." He emptied the flask into his mouth and threw it to the couch, standing up as he did.
"You know what? I wanna see it too, render it to the #02 screen with highest p/t." Ignoring the pain in his leg, he stretched his arms and threw his hoodie to the side which left him with a tank top.
"Yes, sir." The answering voice was a fully robotic one, unlike Aoda who possessed a personality. The computer started to work as a loading screen appeared in one of the six screens.
After a little while, the loading was complete. A mid-quality image of Emerald forest appeared on the screen. Naruto sighed tiredly.
"Add the dummy, genius."
"Of course, sir."
Naruto walked towards the sword he'd taken from one of the smaller room priorly and turned to the faceless dummy which came to life and walked to the middle of the room. Naruto checked the screen just to see a replica of this dummy in the middle of the Emerald Forest.
He shrugged and made his way to the robot, drawing its attention. Out of nowhere, he swung the sword at the robot with average speed.
His lips slightly curved upwards when he noticed his attack was blocked by the dummy's forearm. The blonde reversed the weapon and gave it to the robot. The robot took it and crouched into a fighting posture.
Unknown to the rest of the world, it was the posture of the former combat trainer of Atlas Academy.
"Learn." It wasn't an order, it was a prayer. Now the poor dummy was alone in a place thick with creatures of Grimm.
Let me out.
Naruto shook his head as the new voice struck him again, he turned around and made his way to the couch. He took a cloth off of the floor which had weights strapped on it and sat on the couch.
"Fucking classic." That was his comment on the new voice. Even the sweetest soul was doomed to go insane day after day, staying in Limbo was an unimaginable nightmare for them.
Since he first unlocked his semblance, he was a guesthouse for these angry spirits if not a permanent home. Deciding to ignore the newest incomer, he watched the robot attacking the invisible creatures with carefully angled swings.
Hmm, it was better than last time.
He frowned as he let the weighted cloth hang down his right foot. He moved his leg up, carrying the weight along with it. Apparent on his face, those were not the most pleasant moments for him.
After a while, a familiar robotic voice echoed in the large room.
"Sir, Cyborg Commander is calling."
Naruto let out an annoyed huff as he tried to complete the set. It was James Ironwood's nickname in his directory.
"Patch him through, just audio."
"Wassup Jim." He greeted with an emotionless voice. He was not in the best mood to talk with him but... whatever let him get this over with.
A short noise reached his ears before James Ironwood's voice came from the speakers.
"Naruto it's been a whole month so I will get to the point, I demand your immediate return to Atlas."
Not that shit again.
"Oh? And why would I want that?" He asked with a fake-amused tone then clenched his teeth as the pain became unbearable.
"Don't give me that, you were a part of the research team that could've made a breakthrough. What reason do you have to not come back?" Ironwood was trying to keep his calmness against his former student but Naruto was so damn careless in his opinion.
"Those money-seeking bastards are just slowing me down, I'm better on my own." Naruto clenched his teeth and lifted his leg one more time just to slam it down as he panting heavily.
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There was a short silence between them when Naruto caressed his leg and James tried to re-compose himself.
"Those are the best scientists of Atlas and your experienced elders." The general of Atlesian Military stated with a smooth tone. Naruto snorted at his statement while his eyes followed the dummy's animation in #02 screen.
My flower- Grimm… slaughter.
He closed his eyes for a moment then opened them again but this time not as ocean blue ones but red slits. He clenched his teeth as his Faunus traits became more evident.
"Don't act like you don't know how they made it look like they're the inventors of P. E. N. N. Y when all they did was following the fucking blueprint to build its chassis!" He stood up harshly stumble over and support himself by holding the wall.
"Fuck!" He pressed his head to the wall as a painful shock spread to his body from his leg, his sharp claws leaving marks on the wall. Ironwood was not amused.
"I am aware. Winter also told me you've pointed them your weapon and threatened them to kill them along with everyone they loved." He stated with a serious voice. Knowing the temper of the member of Genious team, he would at least beat them up to a degree to require hospitalization if it wasn't for the certain Schnee.
"You know what? I don't give a fuck about it they can have it, it was a stupid experiment after all but I won't watch those imbeciles pretend like they're doing shit." Naruto hated people who sounded like a crybaby and he was not going to be the one.
James wasn't done yet.
"Naruto, what about your weekly checkups? According to Dr. Ziegler, you haven't shown up in the last four weeks. You need to consider your position in Atlesian Military."
"I AM JUST FINE!" The Faunus roared with his forehead still pressed onto the wall.
Leave me alone. His leg hurt like hell, the voice in his head was getting louder and louder, and James was-
"End the call." Naruto said.
"Na-"
With that, Ironwood's connection was interrupted. For a while, the only voices in the large room were Naruto's breathing and the robot's swinging.
I can't die yet.
Naruto's eyes opened wide in anger as he slammed his fist hard to the wall with raw power, destroying the concrete and creating a large hole inside. The blow itself and falling pieces made loud noises.
Calming himself down a bit, the blonde pulled his hand out of the hole. He spared a look at his flask which was empty then made his way to his chair. He let out a deep breath and looked at the screen, the procedure was almost over.
He checked the creatures dummy has encountered until now and opened some statics.
If dummy was still alive then it had reached the combat capabilities of an average huntsman.
Guess he was going to work a bit more until the annoying raven-haired bastard comes and makes him go to sleep. His sleepless eyes gazed the screen once more then he clicked his tongue.
What was his chance of making Glynda repair that wall…?
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A/N: Done! (except for RWBY's recover scene... don't worry we'll come to that) Thank you all for reading. Hope you enjoyed the chapter. Don't forget to leave a review and tell me about what you think about the characters, I'll make sure to answer.