An: Hello, my lovely little scrivenauts. If you dislike the name, leave a review to complain. *Looks around furtively to make sure no one knows the plan for more reviews* You don't even need an account. Anonymous is just another name for the shy guys and gals, or those who don't want to join the cult that is this lovely site. Once you join, you don't ever leave.
Anyway, one of the few people who do review, which I thank you for(and you'll know who you are) asked if Naruto is going to be a womanizer or just going to be with a few girls.
Well... it's complicated. I'm not turning him into a gigolo, or particularly planning for him to sleep with any of the girls I am going to make him become 'besties' with. If it happens, well it happens. But! The thing with Ashley was just something I found kind of funny and turned out pretty well in my opinion.
Though to be honest, she will probably never appear again. My muse likes to change my story. Like back in 'Rise from the Darkness', all the stuff with Shiro and Naruto having memories removed was not part of the premade book. I made that shit up on the spot cuz I'm a bad planner for stories.
On to another point. Jaune doesn't exist in this story. I will explain why in the exiting Author Note.
Ch. 3 Not the Academy! Again!
To be direct, the rest of the ride on the bullhead with Weiss was boring. Other than the guards finally getting in the room to check on Weiss due to me having taken it down when I fought the multiple nevermore, and wondering who the hell I was, nothing really happened. Weiss merely waved them off saying I was a 'friend' and they just nodded.
They were under her pay roll. So they couldn't say shit.
The girl in question however seemed to have mixed feelings the rest of the ride. Every minute or so she would glance up at me, her eyes kind of wide like she was thinking I wasn't there or something before softening and returning to looking at nothing. Maybe me jumping out of this plane messed her up more than I thought. It didn't help that the scar on her eye told me a story no words really could. At least from the way she was reacting.
As far as I could tell, that scar was definitely from some sort of fight. That compounded with the fact that it was very faded added age to it. So when she was younger someone had hurt her. Now that was enough to give most younger people a pretty rattled psyche. Having your face cut up by a person trying to hurt you sucked.
But they way she kept checking to make sure I was there, that I was safe and alive lead me to the conclusion she had seen someone close to her get hurt, possibly die. More than likely, that was also when she got that scar. So to sum it up, my little stunt brought up some bad memories and was doing all sorts of stuff to kind of fuck her up.
Now, I knew that I had just met her today, so I probably wasn't that much of a 'precious person' but people's minds did strange things when adrenaline and fear are filling your thought processes. Compound that with some repressed mental problems, and I could at least understand why she was still a bit worried that I might go and die on her.
You would be a bit scared that someone was going to die in front of you if you did see someone die in front of you. Natural human reaction and stuff. Mental psychoanalytical and so on.
I would however like to believe that Weiss and I had become... 'friends'. It was a strange word to me, friends. The only one I had ever really had was Itachi and I killed him. So it wasn't something I was well acquainted with. Most of my interactions with normal people was either being a bastard to them, killing them, or both. I lead a very varied life.
So to actually talk with someone was a novel experience. Make that someone my age who was a pretty girl to boot, and it was like a roller coaster of new experiences. Of course I wasn't so asocial that I became a tongue-tied fool. More of the opposite, I tried to joke and became brazen, doling out nick names and trying to seem more worldly than I had any right to claim for myself.
But that could be worried about later, when I had a chance on my own to think over what the hell was happening to me in this strange world. Or continent, or new dimension. Or Universe. I seriously had no clue where the fuck I was. Not only that, but with my luck and the rules of the universe bending to the biju in my gut, I couldn't really know for sure what was the right answer.
No, right now I needed to focus on the fact that the private bullhead I was in was landing.
…...
I strolled out of the bullhead, stretching my arms behind my head. Weiss started walking towards whatever destination she had her mind set on and I followed at a leisurely pace. I had, what I assumed, was all the time in the world to find the professor-y headmaster guy.
Of course life couldn't be simple for little 'ole me though. Nope, something has to happen at all times. There just isn't any rest for the wicked.
This of course was proven true immediately when I saw a girl trip and fall onto a trolley with Weiss's many trunks on it. This of course set Weiss off like a firecracker.
"What are you doing!?" Weiss yelled angrily.
"Uhh... sorry?" The girl in red answered sheepishly.
"Sorry?" Weiss retorted like the very word had wronged her, "Do you have any idea of the damage you could've caused?" She asked.
I sighed and shook my head. I was going to have to get involved in this before Weiss made the girl cry.
"Hey, cool the jets Weiss. She tripped, don't need to kill her over it," I chided.
Weiss eyes widened a bit at my sudden appearance in the conversation before turning her head to the side all aggravated like. Total Tsundere.
"She started it. All she has to say is sorry and she doesn't even know the damage she could have caused!" Weiss then turned back to the girl on the ground, addressing her, "Do you?"
"Uhh..." was her eloquent reply.
The girl then tried to move one of the trunks that had fallen on her when she had fell into them, before having it quickly snatched from her hands.
"Give me that! This is dust mined," Weiss opened the case and removed one of the vials of grounded up dust, "and purified from the Schnee Quarry."
"Uhh..." the ever so witty banter that the girl in red on the ground seemed capable of. I grinned in spite of the weird situation.
"What are you, brain dead? Dust! Fire, water, lightning, energy!" Weiss ranted.
"Uhh..." Goodness gracious, the girl could win a literary reward for her startling display of literary powers within the English language. A true Machiavellian master, in my humble opinion.
"Are you even listening to me?" Weiss asked, shaking the dust vial in her hand, accidentally letting some of the precious material escape and sort of sprinkle in the fallen girl's direction, "Is any of this sinking in? What do you have to say for yourself?"
Of course the ironic misuse of dust safety Weiss had just partook in was not lost on me, as the shiny particles red fire dust sort of spraying about willy-nilly. Of course that meant that the girl clad in red's nose was tickled by the dust and she sneezed. Violently. Like accidentally causing a quick flash of flame violently.
"Uhhhaaahhh-CHOO!"
I couldn't hold it in at that point and let out a small chuckle as Weiss let go of the bottle she was holding, it's glass form sliding over to a girl with black hair and a black bow. The girl in red looked mortified, and extremely sorry, tears springing to the corners of her eyes. Weiss herself looked fine, other than the light amount of soot that coated her from nearly head to toe.
Weiss stomped almost infuriated, before yelling again after the actual dust and soot fell off her leaving her basically spotless, "Unbelievable! This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about." She then turned to me.
"And you can stop laughing, jerk!"
Of course that just meant I laughed more at her childish reactions to just about everything and blatant hypocrisy.
"I am really, really sorry!" The girl in red tried to apologize, the tears in the corner of her eyes and the awkward... Hinata... like... poking of her fingers together... making me feel pretty sorry for her.
My smile faded faster than the yellow flash himself as memories of Hinata and the times I shared with her entered my head. Before I brutally ended her life like I had Itachi's. Unnoticed to myself, a stormy expression took over, my frowning visage a rather intimidating sight. Of course Weiss was too angry at 'Red', as I decided to call the clumsy girl, and Red too focused on Weiss.
"Ugh! You complete Dolt! What are you even doing here? Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon?" She asked accusingly.
"Well... I," Red tried to answer.
"This isn't your ordinary combat school. It's not just sparring and practice you know. We're here to fight monsters! So watch where you're going!"
"Hey," Red finally seemed to gain some back bone, "I said I was sorry, Princess!"
Weiss actually looked a bit taken back at one of the nick names I had given her.
"It's Heiress, actually. Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant in the form of Dust in the World," the black haired girl said, butting into the near argument Red and Weiss were having.
"Finally, someone knows who is who!" Weiss said.
"The same company infamous for it's controversial labor force and questionable business partners," Bow-girl said cuttingly.
"How dare-!" Weiss stopped mid sentence as the girl left after leaving the red dust vial with Weiss's bag.
"The nerve of-!" Weiss then turned back to Red, just to scoff again.
"Ugh! Let's go Naruto!" She yelled.
"Hey." I said calmly, the seriousness in my tone getting her to look over at me.
"Go cool your self down short stack. No need to get so worked up over nothing. Besides, little Red here didn't mean to fall onto your bags. Also, Bow-girl there was obviously trying to rile you up. Now why don't you go ahead to where-ever you were stomping to get to when we landed here. I got to," I looked the rather embarrassed and still gangrenous looking face of Red and turned back to the annoyed one of Weiss, "something I want to talk with her about."
Weiss simply harrumphed, before stalking off, still a bit prissy. As she walked away I heard her call out, "Don't even think about trying to bail out on me! I will find you again!" She then disappeared towards some doors.
I turned back to Red to see her collapsed to her knees, mumbling a bit to herself.
"I promise I'll make it up to you," the girl said to herself before sighing, "Seems I'm not the only one having a rough day."
I walked forward until I was in front of Red.
"Hey," I said, sticking a hand out, "Don't you know talking to yourself will make people think you're crazy?" I finished a bit jokingly, the reminder of the one other real friend I had probably made and subsequently killed having faded to the back of my mind.
Red quickly grabbed my hand and I hauled her back to her feet.
She quickly spoke up, "I'm not crazy or special!" She then pointed at her knees for some reason, "See! Normal knees! Not the bee's knees or anything crazy. Just normal, girly knees!"
Red then made a face, trying to make what ever she assumed a normal smile must look like.
"Calm down there speedy. Take a breath. I'm sure your non-bee's knees are perfectly... girl knee like."
I then pat the girl on the head.
Red seemed to like that answer as she smiled, a real smile and not the strange amalgamation she had attempted earlier.
"Now, if you're here, I can only guess you're a new student from how lost you look. Wanna go look for orientation or whatever Weiss had said she was going to go to," I offered.
"Sure!" Red said brightly. "By the way, name's Ruby. Ruby Rose! What's yours?" She asked.
"Eh. Pretty name, suits your dressing scheme at least. But my name," I thought for a moment. I would probably need to stick with a last name. Well, Uzumaki sucked because it was a crazy homicidal clan that kind of ruined my life, but I rather die than go with Namikaze, so I guess Uzumaki wins, "Naruto. Naruto Uzumaki. Nice to meet you, Red."
The girl grinned, a light blush dusting her cheeks, before a curious look came over her face, "Hey Naruto? Where's your weapon? Don't you have a weapon?"
I stopped to think about it, Ruby stopping in curiosity to look at me. I didn't really use weapons. Sure I had the Kusanagi and Zabuza's old Kubikirirbochou, but I didn't really use them. Eh, the girl was looking for something impressive right, so I might as well just unseal Zabuza's weapon because it was far more impressive looking.
I reached behind me to grab a seal scroll strapped to my hidden kunai pouch. The pouch and scroll having been hidden by my mostly red with black flames trench coat, and flicked it open behind me to open up the first seal on it and sent a sliver of chakra into it to poof Kubikirirbochou out. I grasped the handle that popped out of the seal and slowly for effect pulled the blade out reverse grip from behind me.
Ruby gasped at the massive blade I seemingly pulled from nowhere. The blade was at least as tall as me and considering I was six feet and four inches, that made it a tall 'sum bitch. Of course, that still wouldn't make it possible or feasible to strap it to my back and make it unnoticeable, not with the way I had removed it from behind my back would make one think.
"Whoa, that thing's massive! It's probably as big as Crescent Rose!"
"Crescent Rose?" I asked.
The girl grinned before pulling out a rather compact looking rectangle of metal from under her cloak and pressed a mechanism to make the thing unfold into a large and deadly looking scythe. I whistled appreciatively at the cool design of the weapon and the rather neat way of storing it.
"Neat." I said glibly, my large sword no longer feeling quite as cool.
"My Crescent Rose can also transform into a sniper rifle to shoot dust imbedded bullets!" To show case, Ruby transformed her weapon.
I once more looked at the weapon appreciatively, before nodding.
"Well, my weapon can't do any of that but," I let the blade rest at a forty-five degree angle and in a show of awesome strength, broke the blade in half. Ruby gasped as the sword broke, her eyes bugging out a bit.
"Why'd you do that! Now your sword is broken!"
"Not quite," I chuckled. I grabbed the half of the broken blade with the handle and ran the still sharp blade along my index finger, leaving a long but thin trail of blood on the metal blade. Almost like magic, dark blue seals appeared along the broken weapon before the blood seemed to slide up to where the blade was broken and repaired itself.
As soon as it was repaired, the seals faded and not a speck of blood was left on it. My finger had also long since healed itself, and I licked away the small amount of blood that was left on it.
"Fancy huh?"
Ruby let out a little screech, before sort of jumping in place.
"That was so cool! How does it do that?" She asked.
"Now that would be telling, now wouldn't it. Anyway, don't we need to get to that orientation thing?" I said, trying to distract her from my blade. The girl gasped before grabbing my arm and pulling me along at an amazing speed, at least for someone who doesn't use chakra, leaving behind a trail of what looked like rose petals.
"WE'RE GOING TO BE LATE!" She yelled.
I simply sealed my blade away as she dragged me along, my body nearly horizontal as she sprinted.
…...
I laughed at Weiss's put out face as Ruby finally dragged us through the doors of the main hall. After an admittedly fun run around a large part of the castle like school, we had finally arrived at the hall. It didn't really help us on our search that Ruby wouldn't stop for more than a second or that the cooks didn't appreciate us taking a detour through the kitchen. They showed such depreciation by tossing kitchen knives at us.
But no matter. We had made it on time, that's what I counted. Though I guess it really didn't matter to me considering I wasn't a student of the school. I also wasn't trying to join like Weiss or Ruby.
I was about to say something to Ruby when I felt an arm sling around my shoulders. I nearly flipped my shit at the yellow haired girl as I grabbed her and prepared to hip toss her, only being stopped mid toss by Ruby. Luckily, the girl I had tried to toss landed on her feet, looking kind of shaken by the sudden attack.
"Hey! What was that for!?" Goldie, as I had now deemed, yelled.
"Uhm, I'm a bit jumpy?" I threw out there.
"Well...," the girl didn't really seem to know what to say, "Anyway, what are you doing with my sister? Huh Bub?" She blustered.
I quickly moved next to Ruby grabbing her head and pressing it against my chest, the red clad girl struggling to get out of my iron grip.
"Obviously we're going to elope! Ruby-Chan has informed me of her undying love and said that she wanted to escape the stifling rule of her dictator like sister. She said she loves her some of the manliness that is Naruto!" I yelled loudly, drawing strange stares from some surrounding people, a rather angry looking glare from Weiss, Ruby's own face becoming really red from embarrassment, and Goldie looking lost.
I let go of Ruby and she backed up, shaking her hands in front of her sister in a placating manner to Goldie, "Yang! It's not like that! He's just joking! I don't like him like that!" From the red look on her face I bet there was something she liked, but whatever.
"What are doing Naruto! Associating with that klutz. You could spending your time far better by hanging around me, you dolt," Weiss said snootily.
I used my speed to basically appear by her side, poking her in the side in an attempt too see her squirm before speaking in a honeyed voice, "Oh, you know I can't replace you Weiss! Where else will I find a silver-haired girl who is stuck between wanting to stab me and keeping me away from other girls. I know my innocence will be protected as long as you're around!"
Cue more strange stares.
Weiss blushed heavily at the bit about keeping other girls away, "Hey, I don't want to stab you..." she said to deny the first part of my little tirade.
"Oh, so you do want to protect my innocence?" I said teasingly.
"Ugh, I probably have to! Considering you tried to kill yourself by jumping out a plane to fight a nevermore!"
Ruby then poked her head literally back into the conversation, by placing herself between myself and Weiss.
"You fought a Nevermore?" She asked.
"Well, like four or five," I said unabashedly.
"In the middle of the air several kilometers about the ground I might add," Weiss added in annoyed tone.
"Whoa there, bro, pretty hardcore," Yang said, once more making herself known.
"Well, I also fought some Deathstalkers in a desert, but at least they put up more of a fight then the nevermore, these things are like super weak," I added.
"What are you talking about, Naruto! Those Nevermore were humongous! Those things could have torn apart my airship in seconds!" Weiss screeched.
I shrugged, "I knew people who make those grimm look like little toddlers...with broken legs. Yeah, broken legs. They are also asleep, the people, not the broken legs."
The three girls just looked at me like I was crazy.
"Hey, believe me or not. I couldn't care either way. Besides, that doesn't really matter. I just need to find that headmaster guy of this place, I got a couple of questions for the man," I said seriously.
Before any of the four of us could say another thing a man stepped out onto the stage in the room and coughed, gaining the attention of everyone in the room. The conversations petered off as he straightened up.
"Ahem... I'll keep this brief. You have traveled 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 amongst 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 that the man stepped off the stage before heading towards an exit, but on his way he pointed at me, beckoning me to come speak with him. The crowd watched as I waved bye to Yang, Ruby, and Weiss and made my way towards the gray-haired fellow.
As I walked I could hear a few grumbles about the rather negative speech, or about how I was signaled out, but I ignored them. I really needed to talk with this guy.
As I grew closer to the man who was waiting near an elevator, a feminine voice filled the rather mute crowd.
"My name is Glynda Goodwitch, for those who memories are poor enough to not remember what I said on the airship to here and for those who took separate vehicles to make your way here, you are among a privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy!"
"Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace, and as future Huntsmen and Huntresses, it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task, and now, it is our turn to provide you with knowledge and training to protect our world."
Glynda continued, "You will gather in the ballroom tonight. Tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed!"
I stepped into the open elevator door with the older man, staying silent as the metal contraption silently took us upwards.
"So if I may ask, who exactly are you and what made you decide to grace my school grounds?" The older man asked.
"It's only polite to give your name first jiji, unless this world really does have different greeting customs?"
The man laughed lightly, "Ah, excuse my manners, my name is Ozpin." The man's face then turned deadly serious, "I seem to have forgotten my manners due to the massive strength I feel coming off of you. The others may not feel it due to lack of experience, or you simply are very good at hiding your power, but I can sense it boiling inside you. Now about the your name and your reason for being here?"
I nodded in acceptance at the small explanation.
"Well, you may or may not believe me, but I needed to ask you a few questions to determine something very simple," I said flatly.
"That is what, dear boy?" The question drifted softly from the grim face of the headmaster.
"Well, it's about whether this is just another continent, or something more logical along those lines... or..." I grew silent.
"Or what, if I may inquire," the gray-haired gentleman asked.
"If this is another Universe."
AN: And that's a wrap. As I said, I'll explain why Jaune doesn't exist in my story. First of all it's because, as a little spoiler, Naruto will be going to Beacon and he will join either Team RWBY or JNPR. Of course, that means they won't be called their original names if Naruto joins one and the team combinations might change.
Another reason Jaune doesn't exist is because to me he feels like a cop out character with potential. Kind of like Naruto. My reasoning is that he has the premises for something great, but they way he was executed was so very poorly. Much like Naruto. I mean just look at all the amazing Naruto fanfictions where Naruto is just fucking amazing.
I mean I'm talking Digitize with Sage and Kenchi with his hundreds of awesome fics. VFSnake and others included. They made Naruto into what he should have been, a strong but human character, able to succeed and not retarded, but have faults and can learn from them.
Nothing at all like my overpowered Mark Sue Naruto. But I digress.
See y'all later.