Disclaimer: I don't own either RWBY or Okami.
"Russel Thrush, Cardin Winchester, Dove Bronzewing, Sky Lark. The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward you will work together as team CRDL. Lead by Cardin Winchester." A silver haired man with glasses wearing a green suit spoke in Beacon Academy's amphitheatre. This was Professor Ozpin, headmaster of the school, and the one to let Ruby in two years early.
Gathered in the amphitheatre, all the students that managed to retrieve the relics from the ruins and pass their initiation stood, waiting to be assigned into their teams..
"Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward you will work as team JNPR. Lead by Jaune Arc." Jaune's confusion at being named the leader was clear, but Pyrrha gave him a smile and a comradely punch in the arm.
"And finally, Blake Belladonna, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, and Yang Xiao Long. The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward you will work as team RWBY. Lead by Ruby Rose." Ozpin finished. Yang hugged her sister while Amaterasu barked in celebration. The lack of questioning at a wolf from the forest being taken into a school filled with kids may have been disturbing to some(Glynda Goodwitch, Ozpin's right hand lady and a professor of the school) but Ozpin allowed it. He saw no harm in allowing the girls to have a pet, and so far the wolf was well behaved.
The main reason though was something he had kept to himself and not informed Goodwitch of. While she had been watching the students on the security footage from the forest during the initiation, he had seen some of the miraculous things the wolf had done and wanted to investigate further. But that would have to some latter since now was the beginning of the year and unfortunately that meant a lot of paperwork for him.
As team RWBY and JNPR walked to their designated dorms, which incidentally were right across the hall from each other, those who had not gotten a good look of Amaterasu turned to the wolf next to Ruby and asked the young girl several questions.
"Soooo what's up with the dog?" Jaune asked with a raised eyebrow. He wasn't sure on the school policy for pets and also didn't remember Ruby having the white furred creature before.
"Pretty sure it's a wolf, and I found him..uh her...uh it during the initiation." Ruby explained while rubbing the back of her. Weiss sighed and facepalmed as the rest of the group gave her incredulous stares.
"You found a random wolf in the forest and decided to have it tag along with you? Isn't that a little dangerous?" Pyrrha asked with a raised eyebrow. Ruby had the good sense to look sheepish at that, while Yang stared at her sister with a deadpan expression.
"...Well it seemed nice and was helping me out so I figured it would be fine to keep around. Plus it did help me and Weiss against a group of Beowulf's and the Death Stalker." Ruby justified to the group. At the reminder of the lightning vaporizing the Grimm the rest of team RWBY and JNPR looked over to Amaterasu. She was sleeping, having lost interest in what was being discussed. Ruby poked the white wolf on the head to wake it up so she would have some backup in this conversation. Even if her back up didn't really talk.
"So, my little sis says you can do some pretty interesting stuff there pooche. Now I may not be able to speak wolf, but I will get some answers from you understand?" Yang crouched down to eye level with the snowy wolf and stared at Amaterasu's blank expression for any signs of emotion. All she got was a silent stare from the panting wolf.
"Ya know we can do this the easy way or the hard way." Yang attempted to intimidate while punching her hand. But alas Amaterasu held strong against the blonde's threat of possible violence.
"We are not going to beat it up!" Ruby yelled as she shot in front of Yang with her arms spread out to protect Amaterasu.
"I wasn't going to beat it up! Just hold it out the window till it spilled the beans." Yang retorted. While she really doubted that the lighting was done by the wolf, as well as the other "magical" things it had supposedly done, she did see it jump off a Nevermore several hundred feet in the air, with Weiss on it's back, and land just find. So either the wolf had a muscle structure of a god or it had an Aura activated like their family dog Zwei. The latter was more likely so it was the theory Yang was going with.
"...Are they actually arguing over interrogating a wolf or not?" Blake asked Weiss rhetorically.
"I can already feel the headaches down the road." Weiss mumbled as she pinched her nose. Ruby and Yang began yelling back and forth about whether the wolf would crack under pressure as team JNPR stood there, mostly forgotten about.
Several seconds of silence passed before Jaune made his first decision as leader of JNPR. Sneak away from the possible interrogation of a wolf.
"Back away slowly then run." Jaune whispered to his team. Each member took one step back, then another, and finally a full sprint away from the scene.
"*Bark*" Amaterasu spoke as she tried to get the attention of the two sisters. Both looked down at the white wolf with curious stares as Amaterasu gave them both her signature blank stare.
"What is it?" Ruby asked with curiosity clearly present in her eyes. Amaterasu was stared quietly for a few more seconds before throwing Ruby and Yang onto her back. Both girls let out an 'eep' as the wolf then began to trot down the hall towards the dorm room.
Blake and Weiss shot each other a look of amusement as they followed the canine through the school. Coming to their designated dorm room Weiss used her Scroll to unlock the door to the room her and her team would be bunking in for the next four years. It was rather plain at the moment, consisting of four beds, dressers, shelves, and a single bathroom. A single window revealed it was dusk as it faced out towards the courtyard of the school as well as the forest far in the distance.
"Neat. Now can you put us down?" Yang asked from the back of Amaterasu. As much fun as it was to ride a wolf like a horse, it was starting to get rather uncomfortable. With a jerk of the back both Ruby and Yang were launched off of the white wolf and landed with soft thuds on the floor. Yang glared at the wolf as Amaterasu hopped onto one of the beds and watched the girls from the comfort of a mattress.
"It's getting rather late and the first day of classes are tomorrow so I think we should get some sleep…...I'm not sleeping with the wolf though." Blake told the group as she walked to an empty bed and claimed it as her own. Before Ruby could react Yang and Weiss had shot towards the other two empty beds, leaving her to bunk with Amaterasu. Looking over to the bed she saw the snowy furred animal balled up and asleep already. Apparently the wolf was part cat with the amount of times it would fall asleep.
"...Ah well. Zwei slept in the same bed as me, how different can it be?" Ruby asked herself as the four got into their sleepwear and called it a night. Turns out the size difference between a corgi and a wolf was quite large as Ruby only had a barely any space. After contorting around looking for space on the bed for a few seconds Ruby sighed as she looked at Amaterasu.
"Hey, um not to be means Mr. or Mrs. wolf but do you think you can..um...like make yourself smaller?" Ruby shyly asked. She was only slightly better at communicating with wolves as she was with people, meaning it was only moderately socially awkward.
Amaterasu stared at the girl in silence for a couple of passing seconds before Ruby saw a mallet with a green ribbon and the same red mark as the ones on the wolf just pop into existence. Looking around she noticed the rest of her team had hit the hay and so were blissfully unaware of what was about to happen. The mallet made two hitting motions at Amaterasu as Ruby's eyes widened as she witnessed the wolf shrink to the size of an insect.
"Not that small! It was a figure of speech!" Ruby hastily whispered as she scooped up the wolf into her hand. A small and meek sounding bark emerged from the ant sized wolf as Ruby guessed that was a retort about her aking it to be smaller.
"Well I didn't think you would magic yourself into being the size of an ant! I mean, who does that!?" Ruby whispered yelled at the wolf. Blake's bow twitched as she rolled over in her bed to see her team leader arguing with something in her hand. The wolf that was giving her stress issues was nowhere in sight but she could still smell it.
"Ruby. What are you doing?" Blake asked in a tired voice. Ruby immediately hid both of her arms behind her back and gave Blake a massive smile.
"Nothing! Nothing at all! Certainly not talking with a bug sized wolf, no mam." Ruby sputtered out at an near impossible to follow speed. Blake had two options here. First one was to ask what she was talking about and possibly see where that goes. The second, go back to sleep.
"Whatever, get some sleep Ruby." Blake muttered as she rolled back over. Seeing the black haired girl look away Ruby went to look back at the mini wolf. However it was gone. Looking behind her Ruby could see the window in the room was cracked open just enough to allow the ant sized creature to sneak away. Panicking, Ruby hastily got dressed and jumped from the window in an attempt to pursue the tiny wolf.
Having jumped from the several story up window Amaterasu used her Lucky Mallet to regrow back into normal size. You try and help someone by becoming small and all they do is freak out. The nerve of some people.
Amaterasu wandered around the school grounds to get a good lay of the land. Humanity had advanced far in terms of technology since she was last awake, not quite to the levels of the Moon Tribe, but still advanced. Speaking of the Moon Tribe apparently they have had some really rough times because last she had looked the moon was not in pieces.
Ah well, easy fix.
Time halted around her as she pulled out her Celestial Brush and looked towards the moon. She was happy her golden ink was back as used the Rejuvenation technique on the moon. Time and Space warped as the shattered moon of Remnant was forced back together by the goddess. Seeing as problem numero uno was taken care of she went back to exploring the school, looking for ways to help out.
"What!" A scream caught her attention as she saw a long haired girl with rabbit ears staring at the fixed moon. She knew the black haired one called Blake was part cat so apparently humans got animal parts. Not quite shapeshifting into dogs, but it was still interesting. Seeing the rabbit girl run off screaming about Coco for some reason, Amaterasu trotted along.
After roaming through various courtyards she eventually came across a garden. If she judged these things in terms of flowers alone it would get a solid 8/10. However the lack of wildlife detracted from the score. What was a garden without bunnies, foxes, deer, and all the other forest critters? Not a good one in her opinion. But the owner of this school had nothing to fear for Amaterasu was here. Walking towards the center of the garden she let out a howl to the moon and summoned forth all the native animals to converge on the garden.
Minutes passed as dozens of small forest animals and deer made their way into the garden. Pulling out several bags of herbs from her Hammerspace inventory system, she quickly won over the animals with food.
"WOLFIE! WOLFIE! ARE YOU HERE!" Amaterasu heard Ruby yelling as she sprinted through the school. Sending her a few barks of affirmation in order to help the poor girl she saw Ruby appear in a gust of rose petals in front of her.
"THERE YOU ARE!" Ruby yelled as she picked out the wolf in a giant hug. Apparently the dozens of animals in the area had yet to be noticed as the red cloaked girl squeezed Amaterasu. Needing to escape the red girl's grasp Amaterasu acted quickly and initiated operation: make it rain.
The name was very literal as Amaterasu did exactly that and caused a massive downpour to occur in the immediate area. Being dropped as Ruby rushed for cover in her hood Amaterasu stared blankly at the girl.
"Why!?" Ruby cried out as she had crocodile tears going down her face. This was her only cloak and now it was drenched in the random rain water. Feeling Amaterasu licking her face though did cheer her up slightly as she patted the wolf on the head.
Taking the time to look around she noticed all the animals eating the grass and frolicking through the flowers. The newly intact moon however caught her attention.
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhh, was that you?"
"*Bark*"
"How?"
"*Bark*"
"That's not very helpful Mr uhhh, Mrs, ok let's settle this. One bark for guy, two for girl."
"*Bark**Bark*"
"Okay!" Ruby cheered at now having the right pronoun to refer to the wolf. Then another thought occurred to her.
"You have a name? One for yes."
"*Bark*"
"Okay, I'm going to go down the alphabet and you bark at the letter got it?" Ruby said as Amaterasu nodded in approval. After 5 minutes of back and forth Ruby learned the wolf's name was Amaterasu. However that was a really long name, so with permission from the wolf, she called her Amy. Ruby's childish wonder was clearly present while interacting with Ammy in the garden surrounded by critters of the forest.
"Alright Amy, I'm Ruby Rose and I'm going to be a Huntress." Ruby reintroduced herself to the goddess.
"Now, um it's great you fixed the moon, but people might freak out about it." Ammy stood silent at Ruby's comment. The young Huntress in training couldn't tell if it was apathy or shock, but given Amaterasu's previous behavior she was leaning towards apathy.
"Sooo, uhh, can you do other things?"
"*Bark*"
"Like?" At the question Ruby found herself surrounded by flowers that just bloomed into existence. Her eye lit up with excitement.
"Cool! What else can you do?" As soon as the words left Ruby's lips, the sun rose. Not in the traditional sense either. The sun actually appeared in the sky with no context, and no fixed moon in sight.
"Wha-!?" Ruby's freakout was stopped by the alarm on her Scroll going off since she set it for 7 am.
"Oh crap, we gotta get back to the others." Ruby grabbed Amy and used her semblance of super speed to shoot through the halls and get to their room in record time.
Barging into the room, making as much noise as humanly possible while doing so, Ruby woke up the rest of her team. Well, wake up would imply there was some sense of peace to their rise. More like she grabbed each person and tossed them out of the bed. Ignoring the screams of disapproval Ruby blew into a whistle and announced the plan for today.
"Good morning team RWBY! Glad to see everyone up bright and early. As team leader our first mission is….decorating!" Ruby and Amaterasu cheered with enthusiasm. Yang let out a groaning version of a cheer from the floor as she tried to regain her faculties.
"Oh and everyone, this is Amaterasu aka Amy and she may or may not have fixed the moon. Soo when you see it tonight don't be surprised." Ruby added on at the end causing her team to deadpan at her.
"What are talking about you dolt? The moon is-...oh." Weiss said as she looked at her Scroll to see a breaking news cast. Footage of the moon being repaired was sent to the press and now the very few people who studied astronomy were at a complete loss. As for the rest of team RWBY? Well, ignorance is bliss so they chose to ignore what Ruby said about the now named Amaterasu and not believe that a simple wolf did something only a deity would be capable of.
Ruby, though stood by her statement and every so often when she would look over to Amy she would see a circle of rainbow colored fire hovering over the wolf's back.