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"Wha... what happened to her...?"
4 People gathered together in a room, with a 5th person laying down on a table, critically injured but currently in a stable condition.
Ozpin, a middled aged man with a dark green suit, wearing a lighter green accent to his suit all over his body, wielding a cane that he kept in his hand. He seemed calculating and disturbed as he looked at the young woman who was currently laying on his table, breathing very slightly, unwaking no matter what any of them had tried.
Glynda Goodwitch, a very tall woman standing nearly as tall as Ozpin, over 6 feet easily, with blond hair and bright green eyes, wearing a white and black witch-like teacher's uniform. She was the one who had spoke, looking towards the 3rd person in the room, who was sitting down and drinking out of a flask.
Like his name, Qrow Branwen had a crow-like appearance with feathered black and grey hair, a scruffy chin, wearing a a sideways cross around his neck, and a greyed, open suit. He seemed shamed, of himself, and he looked at the girl on the table with the most reqret.
"... She was attacked... by three people... I didn't get a good look at them, I was focused on saving her." Qrow admitted that he didn't know exactly what had happened.
A tall man, black hair, and a neat and tidy appearance stepped forward with his pristine white suit, looking down at the woman on the table with eyes that lacked pity for the most part. James Ironwood, and while his reaction didn't have pity, they had worry in them at least. He looked at the woman's broken and scarred face, and her weak breathing.
"She's alive, so her powers are safe. I'll have a life-support machine brought, so she can be kept alive until she recovers, if she recovers." James quickly corrected himself, since she had suffered from grevious wounds. While stable, she was in a coma and wouldn't last long without a life support machine to keep her body in a decent stasis.
His insensitive remarks held weight to them.
Ozpin just looked at the woman, closed his eyes.
"Amber's powers are broken, part of them reside in her. She's had part of them stolen from her. I didn't know it was possible, you didn't see who did this?" Ozpin's eyes opened up and he looked at Qrow, who shook his head again. He saw their vague figures, but he had no been paying attention to the attackers, he had been too concerned with Amber at the time. She was the most important priority to take care of. "... She does need a life support system, but she won't ever wake from this through medical science. If she dies, her powers might seek a new owner... or they will seek their other part." Ozpin gave their worst case scenerio for what could happen.
James nodded his head.
"I'll have my men bring the best support system." James started, but Ozpin raised a hand.
"There is a better Life-Support than what science can do, but the location is being protected by an old... ally of an ally of mine." Ozpin spoke with some hesitance in his voice.
"Ally of an ally?" Glynda repeated his exact words.
They weren't said with confidence.
"I'm game, just tell me where to go, and I'll go meet this person." Qrow stood up, serious and somewhat sober now. He unquestioningly looked at Ozpin, nodding his head with respect for the man.
"An ally of an ally... wouldn't it be better to contact your ally directly then?" James questioned Ozpin though, in contrast to Qrow, who followed the man's idea. "Forgive me, but you don't sound very confident." James spoke with a little more respect in his voice, remembering who he was talking to.
Ozpin seemed to understand where the question was coming from.
"For as long as humanity, even before humanity existed, the God of Light brought a Hero from another world here in preparation for humanity being a destructive species. A hero with more power than even the gods... though once he reincarnated into our world, he lost that power. While I reincarnate to stop Salem, he reincarnates to bring peace. Still, he isn't... easy to access... he's got a guardian who is very protective of his reincarnations." Ozpin spoke with some reluctance. He didn't want to speak of any of this, it wasn't a good idea for him to speak of it if he was being honest.
Instead of asking the obvious question "A guardian" with a confused tone like a simpleton would have, the other adults in the room all stayed silent and allowed him to continue. They didn't need to ask the question out loud to know that it was going to be answered for them.
"More power than the gods... hard to believe to be honest."
"With a single swipe of his tail, mountains shatter, the storms appear, and tsunamis are summoned. He holds power so massive, that he could turn this world to ash. The Hero's name is Naruto Uzumaki, all of his reincarnations share his name, and they can all be identified by 3 key features." Ozpin explained as he got up from his chair, and he walked over to the window. He breathed on it, and fogged up the glass so that he could draw with his finger.
"Faunus..." Qrow stated when he saw whisker marks were drawn on the glass.
"Yes, but no... Technically, he has fangs, eyes, and animal-traits like a faunus... you could say he is a faunus, while being a human. Naruto always has golden hair, bright blue eyes, and 3 whisker marks on each cheek... and his partner is Kurama, a giant fox the size of a mountain, with 9 tails." Ozpin explained, and he looked at James, who seemed like he wanted to question him. "You can ask." Ozpin stated it to him.
"If this Kurama and Naruto are so powerful, why don't they defeat Salem?" James spoke, since that sounded like the simple solution.
"Kurama does not care about humans or faunus, he only cares about Naruto. Kurama could more than likely obliterate her, but he won't because to us, our war against her is beneath him. Salem has never made Naruto her enemy. Anyway, getting their help against her isn't the point... when the Gods of Light and Darkness left Remnant, most of their lands were destroyed... but while Salem has taken residence in the remnants of the Lands of Darkness... Kurama has taken residence in one of the few remains of the Pools of Life." Ozpin explained their only hope for getting Amber to wake up.
The Pools of Life, the water of which could grant immortality to those who entered it. Only those who were already gifted with immortality were immune to the gift of immortality, those without it could be healed from even the most horrible of injuries.
"So, we take Amber to Naruto... and then he gets Kurama to heal her?" Glynda questioned, since it sounded a little off to her.
It wasn't ever that easy.
"Life isn't that easy." Qrow pointed out, plopping into a chair with a groan. He didn't doubt Ozpin's story, but even he could see something was going to make it worst for them in general. Life was never easy for him anyway. "Let me guess, it's in some far away place right? Naruto is probably on Menagerie." Qrow waved a hand, showing that those two places were the worst ones for them to go search.
"Well, Kurama has been at Forever Falls for the last 100,000 or more years. The only problem is that Naruto. Well... I like to keep track of him when he reincarnates, since I've been personal friends with dozens of his reincarnations." Ozpin lowered his head with visible shame on his face.
"He's dead?" James questioned.
"No, he's alive... and he's at Forever Falls with Kurama. The problem is he's been there since he has been a baby. I have a personal agreement with Kurama, that the students of my school may go to the Forever Forest on school trips... but only in certain areas. Nobody who has gone into the deeper parts of the forest, has come out alive." Ozpin didn't like to admit it, but they were partially powerless against this. It was out of their control, Ozpin had been to those parts of the forest in previous lives, but only when Naruto had been there with him. Those were times when Naruto was raised by humans or faunus.
Naruto was being raised by wild animals and Kurama this time, meaning there was no telling what this Naruto would be like, and if they could talk to him at all. It was their only hope of reviving Amber, and restoring her powers back to what they were.
-With Naruto-
"There, we've arrived at your village Vale... go and don't come back." Naruto stated to Blake as she was pushed off of Kuro, who seemed to be glad to be rid of her. The large fox spat her weapons onto the ground next to her, and she gladly picked them back up. Blake dusted herself off and ran her fingers through her hair a few times to fix the mess it had become. "If you come back-"
"You should come with me Naruto, and see Vale." Blake responded as she offered a hand up to him.
He looked down at her.
"I don't care about seeing humans and faunus, so I'm not going to do that. Still, I guess I should give you a proper goodbye." Naruto got off of Aka, before he started to walk towards Blake, remembering what he was suppose to do when a forest creature wanted to go to another forest to make a home. Naruto reached up towards his mask.
"I thought you weren't suppose to take that off?" Blake asked when she saw him about to remove his mask.
Her breath hitched when she saw his face, as he shifted the mask to the side.
"That's not a rule, I just wear this mask when I feel like it. The battle is over, and you will be gone soon." Naruto's face was revealed to her, and she just couldn't imagine seeing a more prince-like face. He had a crown, a crown of spiked golden hair that went perfectly with his oceanic-blue eyes. His face was rounded, both masculine and feminine at the same time, showing he inherited a woman's face with a boyish charm to it.
He was a faunus, while he wore red warpaint on his cheeks, the warpaint did not hide his animalistic whisker marks.
'He's beautiful... like he is the rightful prince of this forest...' Blake thought as she watched a bird land on his shoulder as he fully removed his mask and fur hood. Aka pushed her head into his arm, and he placed it on her head. She watched as he didn't even care as small woodland creatures started to gather in the area to bear witness to him. Golden sunlight shining through the red tree leaves to illuminate him, giving him the image of a forest prince, surrounded by his animal subjects.
His lips started to move, and she saw the sharp canines in his mouth, she couldn't tell if his fangs were his faunus feature of his whisker marks.
"Cat Faunus, I hope you find a pack that welcomes you. Despite us being enemies, so long as you never enter this forest, I wish you nothing but the best." Naruto stated to her as he reached out and grabbed her wrist, gripping it tightly and sinking his fingernails into the tender inside. She hissed and was brought out of her haze by the pain, and while he didn't pierce her skin, she saw his nails mark her slightly.
"Yeah... you too." Blake didn't know how to respond to that, but Naruto just put his mask back on and jumped onto Aka's back. "Naruto, next week, I won't come into the forest, but if I find a good bookstore, I'll be back with some good books to read... I won't enter the forest, but you're more than welcome to visit me." Blake called out to him as he rode off.
She doubt anyone would ever believe her story about these events.
Chapter End!
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