AN:

WOW, guys you are AWESOME, not even 2 chapters and already have more visits than my previous fics?! don't know whereas to be flattered or depressed…

For some of the people who review this chapter. first to (cryo threshold) yes, yes it was. to (voidprince): wow calm your horses man! yeah that passed over my mind but that would make him way to OP than he already is. also the group is mostly full. For (animecollecter) yes they are a bit short but with the attention span of a squirrel its really hard for me to go beyond the 10k words and make it good; anyway thanks man and i hope you enjoy too.

For the ones that doesn't like how im making Naruto, please consider that this is a DARK NARUTO! obviously he's going to be OOC as shit! what? do you think spending most of his life abused and going to Orochimaru of all people would make him friendship, sunshines and little pony like!?.

To the Guest from the 1st chapter… I warned that those who gives shitty reviews to GTFO if you don't like, even more, if you hated it WHY THE HELL DID YOU BOTHER TO COMMENT!?.

(Sigh) Lets get this started.

Chapter 2: Tip of the Spear

As the first rays of the sun toughed the land, the port of Vale came across the sights of barely-holding vessels that had the scars of having survived a battle with Grimms judging by some of the white bone feathers still stuck on the board.

The guards and dockworkers immediately went to help the people who stumbled down the ramps, some crying in relief and others staring at nothing still in shock, amongst them a boy clutching a sword way to big for him like a life-line.

Julius Arc observed his grand-niece in pity and anger, mostly at himself wishing he stayed behind and not his sister, but unlike her he was no longer in fighting condition at his age of 64. still, if he had…then maybe Jaune would be looking like some of his surviving team-mates after the war.

"Come on little man, time to get you with your parents"- the man said gently moving the boy shoulder trying to snap him out. it worked a little to well because Jaune jumped startled and almost dropped the sword while trying to catch it clumsily.

"Whoa, take it easy Jauny, we're safe now" the man smiled like a goof in an effort to calm him down, not at all surprised but still sad for the boy for having possible PTSD.

-"o-ok, uncle Julius…Nana's coming back right?"- Jaune looked up to the man holding his hand, desperate to hear something that would calm down the feeling in his stomach and not for the long time at sea.

-"Of course she is Jauney-boy! that old lady has more strength in her body than an ursa you know? in fact, I'll bet that she's already cleaning the streets with those grimms while waiting for reinforcements!"-

"Oh…ok uncle…but it…it looked scary, the one covered in bones"

Julius know which one was the one that the boy mentioned, but he keep smiling while guiding Jaune towards the streets; he didn't want to admit that he too was scared of that demon.

-Same day; former town of Reach, Requiem.-

"Whew…that was certainly interesting don't you think guys?" The blond Hanyo exhaled while popping the bones of his shoulder back in their place, standing at just 3 meters of a woman impaled on a spike made of bone.

Watching their leader were the other members of the Hanyos, Jugo looking more calmer and simply looking at the buildings while holding the sleeping Ranmaru on his back.

Karin was kissing the ground not minding the dirt of bodies while muttering "never flying again" over and over with Pakura holding her face embarrassed.

Tayuya meanwhile was gritting her teeth in annoyance while their medic and fellow red-head Amaru tended to her arms where some of the dust bullets drilled her way.

"*Snort* says you…some dead fucker used a sword that spilled those 'bullets' things like a kunai launcher."

"then you should learn to dodge, right Tayuya-chan?" the medic asked bemused but with a hint of teasing in her voice, making the mentioned girl blush angrily

"Go suck a dick Amaru!" Juugo glared at her not wanting to wake his 'little brother' but their leader spoke before it escalated in another shouting match.

"Maybe she will Tayuya, but thats for later, now how's the situation Isarabi-chan?" the blond seemed to talk to thin air, but from behind him a puddle started to form making a female humanoid silhouette that turned into what appeared to be a fish-faunus girl except for the black sclera and aqua-green eyes.

"Just as you said Naruto-sama, the ships made it back to the other lands, by now the survivors must have alerted the authorities about the attack" rather than looking concerned, the red-eyed blond smiled like a snake, or a fox.

"Perfect, then now we must move to phase 2" with a mental command, the grimms started to run back into the forest. the others were ready to depart but someone had a a look of curiosity.

"What about the prisioners?" asked Jugo not really caring about them, just wondering why they spared a fourth of the town's population.

Naruto didn't mind, expecting the question.

"while the grimm are useful and we got a pair of Rock-eaters, we still need agile hands to make our base, and 'if' we turn them to our side, then we'll have more numbers to our forces.

"and if they resist?" Juugo was not contradicting his leader, simply stating the most possible outcome knowing that some will refuse to serve them.

Naruto knew this, but he learned manipulation from the one of best shinobi in his world, already knowing how the faunus are treated by the humans, even in this so called project off coexistence, he was confident enough in swaying most of them…the rest…

"I'm sure I can 'convince' them, other wise, they can join them" he said gesturing with the looted sword of the impaled woman to the pile of dead bodies stacked on the town's square, both from faunus and humans(mostly) alike.

They join or they die, either way worked for him.

In other matters, the energy these people used was intriguing for the hanyo, this 'Aura'…was something he could not take at all.

Unlike the bloodlines in his world, Aura was not part of the physical body so to speak, it was the manifestation of their souls used to fight. so when he tried to take the Aura of the woman in the middle of their duel…well…he was glad to know how to shift the bone layers under his skin like Kimimaro-sempai, otherwise he would be missing a lung.

Trying to take the Aura of these people was painful for a Hanyo. Period.

That doesn't mean he couldn't experiment with it, sadly one of the traits that he didn't want to get from Orochimaru. but if he could find the way to convert aura for their own use, then not only the 'huntsmans' will loose their advantage against the grimm…

They will have the key to end this war.

For now the blond will wait before world domination, its time to make HIS hidden village under the mountains, maybe he'll name it as Yamigakure…the village hidden in the dark.

-"Hehehe…Shodaime Yamikage, sure it has a nice ring"-

-Vale Council Building, a week after the Fall of Reach-

-"This is an outrage! the council would have responded if the missing people were only 'human' colonists!"- a faunus representative shouted his disgust at his petition to send a rescue team being denied; out of the 3000 faunus colonist that lived in reach, only about 500 were accounted with the refugees while the humans had over 3 times the numbers.

Ambassador Marcus Noir, a golden-eyed panther faunus who unfortunately had a…lover… in Reach doing a business trip in Reach. He new she was capable of taking care of herself, but since he's taking care of their child his job was making difficult to be there for her, and as if it was not enough this tragedy happens and the last thing he heard from Felicia Belladonna was that there was a Grimm attack before he lost contact with her.

She was amongst the missing persons in the list.

So when the faunus refugees started to beg him to send a rescue team, Marcus didn't hesitate to take his petition to the council…one that's been rejected since the start.

"The people of Reach knew the risk of establishing a settlement in the land of Requiem, Ambassador" one of the pro-human councilman told him saying his tittle as if it was a sour thing to do.

"So thats it!? You're just going to leave the persons trapped there!? This is the Mountain Glenn disaster over again!"

That got some of the councilman unconfortable knowing exactly how well the public reacted to that.

"Then what do you expect us to do, Ambassador? Reach had a militia and militar equipment equal to a small garrison, something that supposedly was enough to repel any attack from the grimm, what difference would make an army except the number of losses?" this time spoke a rather pragmatic councilwoman, while she agreed that they should send a rescue group (at least to keep the PR points) she knew that it was almost impossible to send bullheads knowing that a vast number of nevermores were enough to destroy any aerial vehicles send in their way.

"Also while I don't think anyone wish it to be true, we must be open to the chance that there's no survivors" the woman said somber enough that it affected everyone in the room, pro faunus or not, the lose of live always hits harder to anyone.

"Then we don't send an army"

All eyes in the chamber looked at the unofficial representative of Vale, the Headmaster of Beacon Academy.

Ozpin took sip from his coffee mug before turning to the council and ambassador who looked anxious at his words.

"while true that sending an army would be foolish, it would be more to simply ignore the threat that this represents…a settlement that was overrun by grimm in a cohesive and strategic manner, destroying the defense turrets before they had the chance to use it…and the taking of prisioners by the grimm… I fear that there's more to this than a simple grimm attack, so I suggest that we send an elite team of huntsman to make a risk assessment before we do something else"

Murmurs and whispers broke for a good time before it quite down, apparently reaching to the same conclusion.

"Very well, the council approves to send an scouting force to assess this possible threat, Ozpin, you have 48 hours to assemble this team, understood?"

"Clear, honorable council".

With that said Ozpin made his way out of the chambers, walking leisurely thinking of the possible members for the scout/rescue task-force, already having in mind a huntress in particular, but he'll have to cash a favor considering that she has a family now and it was a high risk mission.

The gray haired man was about to enter the bullhead going to Beacon before stopping to let his pursuer catch up with him.

"Do you need something from me Ambassador?"

Ozpin turned to see a fierce and determinate glare directed at him.

"I'll go too Ozpin" the professor just raised an eyebrow in response

"I was not aware that you needed to go to Vale ambassador…?" Marcus simply scoffed before taking a seat in front of the headmaster, ignoring the smoldering glare sent his way by the blond woman with a riding crop.

"We're not idiots Ozpin and you know it, these are faunus people who're mostly trapped there so I'll go with this task-force of yours"

"Thats…surprising to hear coming for a politician, without offense, I thought that you would be content with staying here instead of going to a very dangerous mission"

Marcus bowed his head down before replying

"I'll admit that some of my other reasons are personal, but Im saying the truth about going to help my people, also I may be a politician but I knew how to defend myself" to emphasize this point, his claws lengthened considerable looking quite capable of doing some damage.

"Very well, but please notice that you'll be following the orders from the team leader absolutely to the letter, Ambassador Noir"

Marcus didn't have a problem with that, and while the bullhead was taking off he send a message to his half-brother to see if he could take care of Blake for a few days.

And to arrange some transcripts to make him her legal guardian in case anything happens.

END.