Chapter 3: Class Begins
"You know I'm only allowing this because your body is small and childlike."
"Don't say that. I'd like to think I have a healthy body. Kura-sama has said so as well." Naruto was currently caring Okita on his back as they walked across campus in their school uniforms. He noted her chest was pretty deceptively spongy.
'I guess it's mainly your stature that's childlike...'
"Well you don't look very adult now if I have to carry you to class on the first day." She winced as if the volume of his voice was too loud.
"Ittai can you keep it down. You shouldn't have kept me up last night."
"You were the one who kept begging me-."
"Well you two sure grew close fast..." They looked to the side to see Kura waiting by the door to their class with her arms crossed.
"- to tell you more about Kura-chan." Naruto finished his sentence with a bit of an awkward inflection quickly figuring out how misinterpreted their words could be taken if someone came in at the wrong time. Okita seeing her master quickly jumped off Naruto's back as if being full of energy and forgetting her fatigue.
"Good morning Kura-sama!" Kura ignored Okita for a moment as her eyes shifted to Naruto giving him a hard gaze as he sweated a bit. She walked by him causing him to sigh in relief as she held Okita's hand and placed a bottle in it.
"Oki-chan remember you're condition. I want you to help Naruto-kun out when he needs it but I also don't want you being dead weight." Okita blushed at what she interpreted as affectionate contact from Kura along with hearing the shortening of her name not seeming to be affected by the bluntness of her words
"K-Kura-sama!"
The fox faunus turned back to Naruto and poked his chest hard in seriousness. "Now Naruto take care of Okita. She's strong on her own I made sure of that but she's far from unstoppable. So be there to push her forward when she get's stuck and to stop her when she goes to far? Okay Naruto-kun?" The warm smile she gave him made him ignore how she basically referred to both of them as if they were property and pets. Well in a way Naruto might as well of been a stray when she found him and he didn't know what the deal with Okita was but she seemed to favor the fox heiress like a lost puppy.
"Don't worry about it Kura. I will watch over her with the full extent of my power." She nodded happily as she poked his chest again.
"Good that's just what I wanted to hear. Just don't do anything to her without her consent. She's a small girl and submissive in nature so I don't want you taking that as an opportunity to force yourself on her since she's in your care. Naruto choked while Okita's face blew up. However instead of voicing her embarrassment at her master it went elsewhere.
"Y-You beast!"
"What?! I didn't even do anything!" Of course Naruto would be the target over Kura. The faunus princess watched the two of them as her tail waved in amusement before she giggled to herself.
"You two should get to class. Just remember you're a team and I will be watching."
"They have been called monsters! Demons! Creatures of the night! That which lies in the dark waiting to pounce! The Grimm have been called a number of things over the generations. But I merely refer to them as prey! Hohoho!"
Many of the students in the class found the professor a bit up there on the cringe scale as he seemed to of mastered the art of giving a history less and putting himself up terribly.
"Oh really?" Naruto leaned on his fist as he smirked at the teacher's obvious arrogance. There may be a lot of grimm the teacher could handle but don't count them all the same. He didn't know why he took pride in his status but he did.
"Does that offend you?" The fact that she was considerate enough to actually ask him that whereas most people would ignore him gave Naruto a conflicted emotion. But it was in a good way and so he was happy that this was the girl Kura picked. He looked returned her a small smile and shook his head.
"No not really I just find it funny how boastful to call Grimm his prey. Most of the ones he faced were probably mindless beasts. I wonder how well he'd do against one with actual intelligence." Though he denied it there was a slight sting in his voice unintentionally which Okita caught causing her delicate eyebrow to raise slightly.
"Is that traces of pride I detect?"
He shrugged not sure himself. Port continued to ramble on now giving some story of his past that he must have thought was hot shit.
'He's bragging about facing a lone Beowolf? It better have been at least a few decades worth.' He sighed and leaned into his fist again in boredom. His eyes shifted across the classroom. All of them might as well of been nobodies. His gaze stopped when he caught Ruby who seemed to be giggling while drawing something in her notebook.
'Heh guess she finds the teacher boring as well.'
His vision hazed slightly as it was forced in the direction of Weiss unconciously. The girl looked like someone just ran over her foot as she gritted her teeth while descretly shooting glances at Ruby.
"Kami while is she so angry it's distracting me."
"Who? The Schene princess?"' Okita followed his line of sight figuring it out as he nodded. "I heard that the four down there were made into a team with Ruby Rose being chosen as the leader."
This surprised Naruto before he snorted a second later in amusement.
"Wait four of them?"
He counted the girls red, white, yellow, black... His eyes contracted picking out the girl with black hair. As if feeling the eyes the girl looked in his direction, flinched, and faced back forward trying to ignore him.
Naruto's sharp teeth flashed as he grinned. "Blake~."
Now Okita flinched at Naruto's expression. "Y-You know her?"
"Who among you thinks they have what it takes to be an ideal huntsman?!"
Of course because of her own internal pressure Weiss was the one to quickly raise her hand before everyone else.
"I do!"
Port waved her down happily glad to see one of his students so enthusiastic. Misreading her reason for doing so her team cheered her own as she made her way down. Port moved over to a crated that the students had ignored for the entirety of the lecture and pulled the tarp off of it. Naruto was the only student in the room to not be surprised that it was there. The beast roared and rattled the cage as it was now able to set its sights on its enemies.
Weiss took out her rapier sword and held it at the ready. Professor Port nodded and retrieved his axe, using it to cut the cage open as the revealed Grimm bolted out. Naruto hummed in thought at the type of Grimm.
"Oh its one of those. I think people call them a Boarbatusk?"
Naruto flinched at the loudness as Port had heard him.
"Correct Mr... I'm sorry but I do not know what your family name is?"
"Neither do I..." Naruto looked off to space dramatically making Professor Port apologetic as others in the class looked at him with varying expressions.
"I- Forgive me I didn't mean to dread up painful memories." Okita elbowed him in the stomach harder than he was expecting as he winced somehow knowing that Naruto was messing with the teacher.
"Ah, well you can call me Naruto or shorten that if you want to." Port's disposition quickly did a 180 as he cheered up again.
"Ah very well then Mr. Ruto! Yes the Grimm Ms. Schnee is facing is indeed a Boarbatusk!" Naruto felt negative eyes on him as he looked to see Weiss glaring up at him. 'What did I do?' Turns out she just didn't want to hear his voice. She was forced to refocus on the beast in front of her as the boar-like creature barely missed her. She spun out of the way as she dodged slashing out her sword and striking the Grimm. It bounced off soundly as it struck the Grimm's tusks.
"Oh ho! Nice try Ms. Schnee but while this Grimm is a small one the Boarbatusk's tusks are extremely hard." The boar rounded back on Weiss and charged as she too dashed at it sliding across the ground as if it were coated in ice. She slide right into the boar and blocked its tusks with her sword held sideways as she got stuck. Naruto groaned as the boar twisted and knocked her away causing her to lose her grip on her weapon keeping it slightly lodged in the beast's tusks. Weiss tumbled across the ground surprised by the body sized Grimm's strength reminding her that all should be treated seriously. Port wasn't fast enough to intervene as the boar charged in for the kill. Weiss crossed her arms while on the ground bracing for the attack that never came.
"If you are using your weapon as a rapier and it looks like a fucking rapier then use it to fucking stab!" Her eyes opened in shock as Naruto in a gust of wind appeared between her and the grimm. When the Grimm got within arms range Naruto yanked the rapier out of the thing's tusks. He twisted his arm and with the short second he had time to act he lurched his body forward before thrusting forward his arm using his momentum to increase the force of the impalement as with an audible thunk from metal seeping hard into flesh the weapon sunk all the way to the hilt right into the Boarbatusk's forehead. It didn't even let out a sound as the sword sunk all the way down to the hilt from the thing's forehead. It fell to the ground instantly as it slowly dissolved in death. Naruto let go of the weapon as it was stuck firmly in the still fading corpse but also didn't care enough to remove it.
"The boar wasn't even that strong of one for it's type. Many Grimm may be mindless but that doesn't mean you should attack them mindlessly. You could have hit it from the side where it wasn't plated or even struck under it where armored creatures are usually the softest." He turned to Weiss so that he could actually face her when he was talking to her but wasn't surprised to find her pissed off at him.
"Who asked you for your input?! And I didn't ask you for your assistance either! You give advice but you don't even follow your own!"
"What are you... Oh right. I simply did the same you did, attack the boar from the front, because I'm strong enough to do so. Not just skill wise but physically strong enough. Do you think its easy to stab a weapon like that through several feet of grimm skull and flesh?"
Weiss stared him down with fury evident in her eyes as Naruto simply and stood their taking it with a bored expression as if egging her own with his passiveness, which he was.
"Bravo, bravo Mr. Ruto! Excellent show of skill and execution! He is right class as a Huntsmen should know how to pick their battles and go about them as a mistake can easily cost you your life. But that is why we have teams to help you both learn how to work and rely on others but also to learn from those that make up for what you lack and improve your survival rate in battle." With that Port gave a few more instructions before dismissing the class.
Weiss turned on her heel and went to retrieve her weapon from the still fading corpse not wanting to be there anymore. She tugged on it and stumbled as she found it hard to do so. Naruto walked up and grasped the hilt of the sword pulling it out smoothly before handing it to Weiss.
She snatched it out of his hand before storming off not wanting to be around anyone right now. Naruto just watched her go with eyes full of mirth. Ruby and Yang jumped down to the front of class now that it was over to speak with him.
"Naruto! How did you move so fast! Is that your semblance?" Ruby got up close to him excited to find out how he was able to perform the way he did.
"No? My semblance is something else. I've just trained enough to be really fast naturally. Besides I wouldn't want to have a semblance only meant for speed. Seems kind of useless to me." He knew he said something wrong because Ruby fell to her knees looking down with a dark aura gathering about her. Yang glanced at her sister before looking at Naruto who seemed to be sending her a look showing her his confusion.
"Her semblance lets her move really fast." He blinked before looking a bit abashed as he gave an embarassed smile.
"O-Oh..." He scratched his head now knowing why Ruby looked like her pride had been crushed. "Ah well does it help her run fast or is it literally just moving fast?"
"As far as I know it only lets her move fast. It doesn't use her legs though."
His eyes widened slightly. "Wow that could potentially be very useful with any weapon then. If it lets you move fast enough you may not even need a weapon when fighting other people if you are good enough!"
She snuck a peak down at her younger sister again before giving a sneaky grin. "Yeah... Her unarmed combat skills are ass."
"Yang why!?"
"Well its true. My honesty is simply tough love sis." Ruby looked like she was going to cry and Yang while appearing sympathetic might have been enjoying it to a degree so he decided to change the topic.
"You know Ruby you never showed me your actual weapon. I know you said its a scythe but-." That made the girl spring into action as she forgot the glaring holes in her skillset and brought out some kind of red metal item from her back. How she had hidden it so well he didn't know but then again she did walk around wearing a cape.
She pointed it at him and he flinched as he suddenly slid back several feet out of the range of it when it expanded forming into a really big scythe the size of her body.
"Fucking hell..." He mumbled to himself.
"It's also a sniper rifle!"
"Of course it is."
"And I made it myself!" 'Her too?!' Naruto whipped out a notebook from nowhere and grabbed a pencil, also from nowhere.
"Please continue." Yang sweatdropped as she watched the two who she would now dub Gear Geeks go into an indepth conversation about weapons that she didn't fully understand.
"So my place later tonight?"
"Sure I can't wait!"
Yang's eyes snapped open upon hearing that as she had zoned out of most of the conversation.
"Wait hold on a min-.!"
Okita watched the three talk not really feeling like joining them. She did notice how the black haired girl with the gold eyes similar to her Ojou-sama but no where near as dazzling, seemed to sneak out of the room trying it seems to deliberately avoid notice from her blond teammate.
"Hmm..."
Okita was cut short from her line of through as she found her face smoothered into a really soft valley.
"Okita! I couldn't find you where were you?!" She groaned but smiled anyway noticing the voice as one of her sisters. She forced the girl to let go of her before standing up and still having to look up because she was short. The girl had a warm shade of blonde hair with flaring bangs very similar to Okita's but more so in general. She also had a long thick braid for her hair going down her back all the way to the tip of her rear. Her face was near identical to Okitas but had slightly tanner skin and innocent blue eyes. She stood at 5'4 and while Okita had a favorable modest body and great legs she had to admit her sister's body was more filled out and womanly. She wasn't all that insecure over it either however.
The girl was Jeanne D'Arc, age 17 and was one of Okita's older sisters.
"Nee-chan I'm still surprised you made it here. You were never much of a warrior like the rest of us." The girl stood back as she held her arm timidly having the affect of pushing her breasts together. "I'm an Arc I c-can be strong too I'm j-just a late bloomer."
Okita deadpanned at her sister's chest. 'Late bloomer you say.' The shorter sister shook her head to dispel the thoughts as she leveled her sister a warm smile.
"Well if you made it to beacon in spite of things then you must be pretty skilled already." Jeanne flinched before looking away nervously, unable to make eye contact.
"R-Right I'm good now!"
If there was one thing she knew it was when her sisters were lying to her. Her eyes narrowed as she placed her hand on the hilt of her sword causing Jeanne to pale as she visibly perspired.
"Jeanne..." To those watching if you didn't judge by appearance it would be hard to tell who the older sibling was.
"Should a teacher even be in the students' dorms at night?" Naruto laid on his side on top of his bed propping his head up with his fist as he lazily looked over at Kura who sat on their desk. Okita on the other bed was sitting in seiza position as if waiting attentively for Kura to give her an order.
Kura pulled off her beanie and shook her head as she wiggled her ears letting out a small breath of relief. After collecting herself for a second she sent him a slight glare.
"I was a student until recently and I'm not old. I still live here too you know."
"Pfft can't wait to see the state of your room..."
"And I'd love to have you in my room Naruto-kun." His heart jumped in his chest as she gave him a sly look. He tried to play it off by feigning an unresponsive expression as he knew she was teasing him but it was too late. Her gold eyes glowed at him for a moment as she smirked to which he just sent her a look of annoyance. She nodded to herself in satisfaction before standing on her own two feet and crossing her arms.
"Well you have gotten a lot better at controlling your reactions. But you still can't hide from me."
"You can't really blame me for that I haven't seen you for over 2 years."
There was a knock on the door of their room causing the three occupying it to look over at the entrance. Okita jumped up to her feet before making her way over to the door to open it. Kura's eyebrow rose when she saw the forms of Ruby who was holding her collapsed scythe in her arms, Weiss, and Jeanne. All of them were in pajamas.
"Well you act fast..." She looked over at Naruto a little annoyed. She flinched a little this time when Naruto this time flinched as he smirked.
"You know jealousy is also a negative emotion." He didn't have to say anything else for Kura to understand what he was saying. "And I only invited Ruby to share weapon knowledge with her. I don't know why the other two are here.
Seeing Kura already in the room made her a little nervous as she had heard that the girl older than her was also an instructor or something now but she wasn't sure of what the woman's relationship with Naruto was or if he was in trouble for some reason.
"U-Um I'm Ruby Rose. I saw you on the school grounds the other day when I met Naruto. Nice to meet you!"
Kura nodded at the nervous younger girl. "Yes I remember you, youngest of the first years. Barely younger than my two cute little disciples here." Okita blushed taking it as a compliment whereas Naruto's eyes narrowed at Kura in response to the patronizing. Ignoring it for now Naruto looked at Weiss for a second who while had been focusing on Kura the majority of the time ended up looking at him at the same time locking eyes. He shrugged off her gaze making her feel discarded and hitting her confidence a little when he went on and addressed the busty blonde in the room since the only one he knew by that description was Ruby's over confident sister Yang and this girl didn't seem to have the same level of self-esteem.
"I guess she's here for you Okita?"
The girl nodded and grabbed the older girls hand and despite her protests dragged her into the center of the room. She gave the girl a look of expectation when she didn't say anything.
"Well? I'm not going to do the introduction for you."
The girl seemed less sure of herself as everyone stared at her though a light seemed to go off in her eye as if she knew the girl. The girl gathered her nerve and gave out an anxious laugh as she scratched her cheek.
"Ah w-well I'm Jeanne D'Arc, Okita's older sister or rather one of them. I'm just here to visit her you know?"
"The Arc family has interesting genes. You both resemble your older sisters to the point you could be twins. Okita looks a lot like 2 of the 3 older ones but younger. You Jeanne however if I didn't know better I'd say you were the twin to Joan." Both sister's paled at the mention of the older sibling though Jeanne looked downright frightened. "H-How do you know so m-much about-?"
"Your family? I took in your younger sister there and watched after her at partial to your older sister's request and out of my own self interest. Also Jeanne was one of my teammates. Don't worry I won't bite you." Kura quickly said when she saw the girl take a step back. Naruto hadn't really moved from his spot on the bed as he watched their interactions.
"I'm guessing there is a story behind all this."
"You can find out later Naruto-kun."
"Aight." He jumped out of his bed spinning on his hands before landing on his feet. Kura didn't react nor did Okita but Ruby clapped thinking it was cool. Naruto walked up and held out a hand. "Well nice to meet you. If you're like your sister then I think we will get along fine." Jeanne looked at his hand unsure of herself before slowly reaching out and shaking his hand. He gave her smaller, delicate hand a reaffirming squeeze as he smiled as well. She blushed a little at the feeling of his grip.
"You have hands just like father..."
"Alright let go of her." Okita pushed her sister from behind out of the way forcing them to stop the hand hold. He looked at the two sisters in confusion for a moment at their reactions. He did find it interesting that Okita's presence felt a lot more dangerous than her sister's even though Jeanne seemed to have a large pool of aura from what he could tell.
"Excuse me!" Hearing Weiss call out he turned to look at her not sure why she was here? "Um, yes?" Weiss bit her lip as the two clansmates in the room could feel the tension building within the girl. In a strained manner she finally was able to get out the words she was looking for.
"I wanted... to apologize. I've come to realize that my attitude has not be the best and I have been unnecessarily rude to you." His surprise was evident as it showed on his face but he was happy to hear her say that.
"Don't worry about it. I know I can get to people sometimes and I could have acted better with how I dealt with you. It just bothered me a little how you treated Red over there." He thumbed over at Ruby who seemed to look a bit bashful at hearing such a reason as well as the nickname. "Now if you want I-." His words died as Weiss walked right past him to stand in front of Kura before giving her a formal bow as well.
"And I must apologize to you as well Lady Kura! I have not behaved in a way befitting someone who wished to be in your audience and have wronged your servant as well. Please do not think poorly of me!"
Kura gave a wide smile full of mirth while Naruto turned his head to look back at them with a scowl.
"This ass kissing little white-."
"Fufu it's okay! We are expected to make mistakes when we are young. Your sister was the same way. Though she didn't make sure petty mistakes often..." Weiss winced at being compared. "You do however seem to admit your wrongs a little faster and it is always great to admit when you are at fault. I'm sure my servant has no qualms with you now."
Naruto's eye twitched as every time Kura said servant or a similar phrase in reference to him it felt like the words were laced with poison and honey as if she knew how it annoyed him but did it anyway for her own entertainment.
'Bitch I might.' He also didn't like how fast Weiss casted him aside but he would let it go this time. Kura seemed to control the attention of both Jeanne and Weiss like innocent sheep as they wanted to know more about how this beautiful faunus knew both of their elder sisters. As Kura's ego was inflated by the admirations of the two younger girls Naruto got on with why he asked for Ruby to come to the room in the first place. He took out two scrolls and threw them down on the ground. He snapped his fingers at Ruby to get her attention as the girl too had gotten distracted by Kura.
"Remember why you're here Red or you won't be leaving this room for the entire night."
"O-Oh right sorry! My bad! She seems nice though."
"Yeah at times now come over here and look." Ruby did as he said and sat down him and look through the long scrolls of parchment.
"Ah what am I looking at?" The way she asked that made Naruto feel a little self conscious about the design.
"M-My weapon?"
"Its a metal star thingy."
"A shuriken! Or at least that's what it's designed after."
"A what?" She looked clueless which was a cute look on her but made him groan.
"It's like a throwing star! You know th-."
"Oh like ninjas?!" Her eyes now shined like stars causing him to sweatdrop as he smiled awkwardly.
"Y-Yes those are called shurikens."
"Oh I get it now." She looked back at scroll again before her eyebrows furrowed. "This seems kind of small. Not sure how good it will be against the grimm."
"It's not to scale you know." He pointed to a picture of the weapon design that had a picture of a person standing next to it. "This is the general size in comparison to my body I'm going to be working with." The dual haired girl had her eyes widen in awe. "Wow! Not sure how you would use it right but if it's that big I'm sure it can cut down a few grimm! How does it shoot?" Naruto now blinked in confusion.
"What?"
"A weapon isn't cool if it can't shoot. You have to have something that can make up for range or it leaves you at a disadvantage I think."
"It doesn't need to be a gun. Why would I make a throwing weapon a gun?!"
"Why not?" He recoiled on himself on that skillful counter from the red girl.
"Wow I did not think that far. Touché."
The girl had a natural light to her disposition that he felt was nice to have around. That and he found her grimm wolf and red riding hood pajamas adorable especially from behind. Her butt was small but it was right as well.
- END -
AN: Okay stopping it here. I wanted to add a bit more but I decided to go on and post. I have a lot of work to do and I'm behind on my college stuff so I wanted to go on and post it now instead of delaying it more.
Really like how much attention this is getting. Keep review and keep checking my deviantart as i will try to keep doing more art for this and other things. Since I ended this chapter earlier the next update will either be for this or for Ultimate Weapon.
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