Before we get started, I just wanted to remark that 100 Lien is the same as 100 yen, which is $0.82, or £0.52.

Chapter 3

Naruto glanced at the new arrival, his trained eyes lingering on him, a small smirk lingering on his lips. "Professor Ozpin." The blond said with a nod, getting a small smile from the elder gentle men. "I'm guessing you're hear to talk about the people we faced." Following the man's gaze, the fox faunus walked towards a single table that had two chairs, which were quickly occupied by Ruby and Naruto.

Letting Glynda place a small tablet on the table, a video of the two 15 year old teens fighting. "So! Where did you learn to do this?" The man, who looked to be in his mid 30's, remarked, sipping some coffee from his mug.

"S-Signal Academy." Ruby, who looked nervous, instantly relaxed when a plate of cookies appeared infront of her face. Naruto seeing this, smiled gently, his long fangs glinting as the rays of light coming from light-bulbs hit the pearly whites.

"They taught you to use one of the most dangerous weapons ever designed?" Raising his eyebrows, the professor looked down at the girl in suspicion, the girl had amazing flexibility and strength, something that went hand in hand with her ability to wield her sniper-scythe. It was unbelievable that at the age of only 15, the two teens could easy match some hunters in training that were Beacon.

"Well, one teacher in particular." Ruby said, her eyes on the plate of cookies sat infront of her, the only thing stuffing her face right now was the fact that Naruto was sitting right next to her.

"I see… It's just that I've only seen one other scythe-wielder of that skill before." Ozpin remarked, glancing down at his mug. Without warning, Ruby suddenly started to stuff her face with the cookies, making Naruto shake his at the girl's unusual obsession. "A dusty old crow." The professor continued, looking up from his mug only to blink in surprise.

"Mhmm oumm momm." Ruby said as she tried to talk with cookies stuffed in her mouth, much to the silent distaste of Glynda. "Sorry," Quickly swallowing the food, the red head whipped her mouth. "that's my Uncle Qrow, he's a teacher at Signal. I was complete garbage before he took me under his wing. Now I'm all like, he Kiai hwaaa." The teen finished, doing random kung-fu sounds and motions, getting a round of raised eyebrows from the group.

"So I've noticed." He remarked, a small smirk appearing on his lips, as he leaned closer towards the silver eyed girl. "And what's an adorable girl such as yourself in a school to train warriors?"

"Well, I want to be a Huntress." Without hesitation, Ruby instantly remarked in a quite tone, getting a smirk from Naruto, who leaned against his chair.

"You want to slay monsters?" Ozpin concluded, taking another long sip from his coffee mug, a small smile hidden by the white cup.

Ruby nodded with a smile, "Yeah! I have only two more years of training left at Signal! And then I'm going to apply to Beacon! You see, my older sister is starting there this year, she's trying to become a Huntress, and I'm trying to become a Huntress so I can help people." The red head in training said with a smile, glancing towards Naruto from the corner of her eyes. "My parents always taught us to help others, so I thought, 'Hey, I might as well make a career out of it!' I mean, the police are alright, but Huntsman and Huntresses are just so much more romantic and exciting and really, gosh, you know!" She said in a fast pace, a smirk forming on her lips with each word. While she was talking, Naruto eyed Glynda, he could smell her perfume on himself, meaning that she carried him towards the hospital after he passed out, he could even sense a small amount of her aura connected to his.

"Do you know who I am?" The man directly asked Ruby, seeing as Naruto had already spouted out his name when they first met.

Ruby, who looked confused as to why he would ask this, smiled. "You're Professor Ozpin. You're the headmaster at Beacon."

"Hello"

"It's nice to meet you."

A smirk appeared on Ozpin's lips as he took another sip of his coffee, his eyes lingering on the girl. "You want to come to my school?"

"Morn than anything." Ruby said with a smile, her tone akin to begging.

"Well, okay!"


Naruto glanced towards Ruby, she had silently sat beside him from the moment that they were escorted, in car, towards his motorcycle, her head tilted downwards in thought. "You know, its not everyday you get accepted to Beacon Academy, you should be proud." Naruto said, trying to encourage the smaller teen. "I mean honestly, how many people can say that they got to go two years ahead of any normal person."

"I'm not going..." The red-head quietly spoke out, shocking the blond beside her into silence. "I don't want to seperate from you! Not after what happened to night," She continued, yelling out at Naruto. "What if they hunt you down? what if I'm not there next time? What if... What if?" Ruby stuttered, fear clouds her eyes. "What if I lose you?!"

"You won't." Naruto stated calmly, placing his chin against the shorter teen's head. "I'm always going to be there, no matter what." He continued with a smile, planting a soft kiss against Ruby's head. "Plus, what would do without my cookies, Yang would end up driving you off the deep end." He joked, getting a slight chuckle from the blond. "Look, I know you want to go, I can practically see your excitement, and I won't let me being the reason for you not to." Glancing towards Naruto, Ruby moved closer to the teen, his passion and kind heart always made her heart flutter. Moving in closely, Ruby went to kiss the taller teen, her lips parting gently, however, before she got to close enough, the driver of the car suddenly stopped, resulting in her head butting the Fox Faunus instead. "Shit!" The teen cursed out, blood leaking from his nose, and onto his black jeans.

"I'm sorry!" Ruby shouted in surprise, her forehead stung lightly but the fact that the blond was bleeding was more important. "I didn't mean to!" She continued to shout, using a piece of fabric from her clothes. "Hey, what's the big idea, stopping all of the sudden?!"

Glynda frowned as she glanced back at the kids, a sign leaving her lips when she saw blood leaking from the teen's nose. "Your ride is finished, your bike is still where you left it." She remarked, pointing to a parking lot that Naruto remember fondly. "I will send a private message to your scroll within the week, its a contact that you can sign, or simply ignore, the choice is your's."

Nodding, both Naruto and Ruby slipped out of the nice car before walking over to his parted bike, which had not been noticeably chanced or touched in anyway. "Listen Ruby," the blond started as he graped his and the red-head's helmets, a small frown on his face. "I thought about what Ozpin said about Beacon, and I've decided to go." He revealed, shocking his friend into silence. "I know what you're thinking, leaving my friends behind would be horrible, but at the same time its the only way I'm ever going to find a way to help my... condition."

Ruby's shocked face was replaced with concern as she glanced of the teen, checking for any sign of blood. "I-I didn't know it came back, you didn't tell me?" She asked in a mix of disappointment and anger, and why shouldn't she! The fact that he hid it from her was highly frustrating. "Naruto, how long has it been back?" The fact the blond turned away in shame made Ruby worry slightly. "Naruto?"

"It never left." The blond admitted in shame, much to the the scythe wielder's horror. "I lied so you, nor your family, had to worry, I felt guilty enough when your dad took me in for the week I was ill." Naruto admitted with a frown, which was hidden behind his mask, as he turned away from Ruby. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you, its just you never slept when I was at my worst, I don't want you to spend ever night worrying if you'd see me in the morning." He continued to argue, hitting the top if his bike with a growl. "I promised myself that I'd never make you cry again, never!"

A pair of small arms wrapped around Naruto chest as Ruby hugged the teen from behind, burrying her face into the cloak he wore. "Naruto, I'm anger that you didn't tell me." She started, making Naruto lower his head in sadness. "But I understand not wanting to make me cry, I would never, ever, want to make you cry."

Smiling gently, the blond removed his helm and turned towards Ruby, his hands on her hips. "And that's why I love you" Naruto smirked, leaning in for a kiss only to be blocked by Ruby's finger.

"I don't think so, mister!" Ruby interrupted the teen, a small fake frown on her face. "You don't get a kiss until you make it up to me." She continued, turning away from the blond, hiding her smirk from the teen. "I expect to cook me a hundred, no a thousand, cookies, each one a different flavor!" She shouted out, excitement and a crazed look mixed in her eyes. "and every day I expect hugs, and mehhhh." Before she could continue, Naurto brought her into a soft kiss, her eyes fluttered close as she leaned into the soft kiss.

The two stayed like that for some time before separating, a thin line of saliva the only thing keeping them connected, two light blushes on each of their cheeks. "I love you, Ruby Rose." the blond stated, making the red head's checks light up, before he hugged her into his chest. "You know, you're surprising good a kissing, are you sure that was your first time?" Naruto pointed out with a sly smile, only to receive a sharp push to the stomach.

"Baka..."

The two stayed silent as they hugged, the glow of the moon shinning over them, that was until Naruto noticed the time. "Shit, half ten, your dad's going to kill me." he sighed, picking up his and Ruby's helmets before handing her's over whilst he put on his. "I'll take you home, no doubt your family will be sick to the stomach worrying about you."

"Me?" Ruby asked in surprise, slipping on her helmet and getting on the bike. "I'm more worried for you, even I don't know how they're gonna react to the news that you're still sick." An annoyed groan left the driver's lips as he started his bike, the soft hum of the engines giving Naruto no peace to mind. "And don't think I'll let you avoid it, I'm going to make you tell them." A louder groan left Naruto this time, he was really hoping for the opposite to happen.

Not wanting to think, or talk, about it, the blond drove out into the streets of Vale, making sure not to hit anyone that might be passing by, before setting their destination to Ruby's house, aka Ruby's angry father's house. "This sucks."


"You've got some nerve, boy!"

Stepping into Ruby's house, Naruto expected as much, Taiyang Xiao Long was basically leaking anger, his eyes taking a sinister red and his body was covered by a dark black cloak. Taking a step back in shock, the blond barely had time to dodge a deadly blow aimed to take his head off, courtesy of Taiyang's fist, which ended up destroying the shut door behind him. Jumping out of the now open arch way, the bike fanatic continued to avoid the older man's fist, ducking and weaving around them, before the father got a lucky break, quite literately seeing as blond's nose broke, as punched him square of the bridge of his nostrils. Naruto flew backwards into a tree, nailing him into it, where he stayed for several seconds, his aura still not complete recovered, with a bloody nose.

"Dad!" Ruby shocked in shock, never actually expecting her father to nail her boyfriend in the face, even if it was admittedly a good shot. "What are you thinking, hitting Naruto like that, he's still sick!" the red-head stopped dead in her tracks, she had slipped up by accident, her face taking a blush of anger and embarrassment. "I mean, he's still recovering!"

"Sick?" Taiyang easy picked up on his daughter's accidental wording, his eyes widening in shock. "What do you mean sick?!" He stopped him from shouting at his daughter, settling for a half yell, as he tried to figure out what Ruby meant by 'sick'.

"She means, I lied to you about my illness." Naruto groaned out, his nose snapping back into place as he applied aura to it, Taiyang instantly on him with a glare that would make any lesser man piss his pants. "S-she didn't know, until today that is, but my Anemia never left, I just found a way to stabilize it with my aura." the blond admitted with a frown, shame easily reflecting in his eyes, whipping his nose with his hand. "Dang, that's the second time I've been hit in the nose." he rasped down, coughing out blood onto the grass.

Taiyang's eyes widened in shock, h-he just punched someone he saw as family with enough force to instantly deplete his aura, which he felt was his right for getting his daughter into danger, but to find out that said aura was keeping him alive made the man feel like crap. "W-wait, if you were in the hospitable for aura depletion, wouldn't that mean you were close to death?" He asked without thought, making Ruby realization how close to death Naruto really was.

Shaking his head in annoyance, Naruto shifted his head to Ruby, who had dropped to knees and was now visibly crying, making the dad face palm. "I didn't bother to remind her of that, she was to busy getting over the fact that I still had Anemia." he admitted, wobbling his way over to Ruby before knelling beside her and bring her into a hug.

"Don't think you're off the hook, Naruto, I'm still mad that you brought my little Ruby back late." the dad remarked, only to sigh when Ruby started to cry more. "But I'll leave you two alone, I'll heat some milk up for you." Tai continued, walking past his broken door and into his home.

"Come on Ruby, I'll take your room, we can talk there." The blond remarked as he picked the girl up in a bridal carry and slowly walked into her house. Walking as softly as he could, Naruto carried the girl into her room, which was decorated by loads of roses and designs of weapons plastered on the walls, a double queen sized bed, with a single large red rose pattern in the center, and two double plain black cupboards.

Laying the girl down on the bed, the blond sat beside her, many upon many thoughts rushing through his mind, each one failing to help Naruto find the right words to cool Ruby down. "Listen Ruby," he stared, turning to the crying teen. "What dad said wasn't wrong," he admitted, making the scythe wielder freeze on the spot, with a smile confuting smile gracing his face. "however, he wasn't actually correct either, I won't die any time soon, promise." the teen said in determination, his thumb clearing away the stray tears going down Ruby's pale cheeks.

"Pinkie promise?" Holding up her pinky, the teen smiled softly when the blond wrapped his pinkie around her's. "Can we have some cookies and milk?" Ruby asked, her tears replaced by a smile, hoping to get rid of the feeling dread lingering inside her mind.

Nodding his head, the hunter in training planted a soft kiss on girl's cheek before picking her up and carrying her down stairs.


A week of constant cuddling and being pampered, Naruto finally felt that it was time to get work, he left Ruby's home dressed in a white dress t-shirt that had two red rose cufflinks, black dress pants, newly polished dress shoes, a gray waist coat, and a neon orange tie. Finishing off his look, the teen had his hair combed back, and open black blazer and white leather gloves. All together, Naruto looked like a high-end business, which wasn't fair of his profession.

You see, Naruto worked as an information broker, someone who gathered and trades secrets for cold hard cash or information, and being one of the biggest made the blond somewhat a "hidden" celebrity. Of course, he didn't start out like this, the teen had to work tirelessly from the day he left the white fang, 4 years ago, to this very day, the fact he had information of the White Fang gave him a relative boast though.

And just like ever other none school day, the teen left to go meet with one of his contacts, a fairly new arrival to the secret trading game. After traveling for several house, the blond sat his bike down in his private parking space just outside his favorite Café, Royal-tail Café- a place for faunus to go without being over-charged, or not being served at all, but also one the only places that allowed Naruto to do his business- before he entered the little coffee shop.

A young girl, who looked no older than Naruto himself, walked over to him with his table. Her white cat ears instantly caught the teen's eyes. She was a petite girl around 15 years of age with white hair and hazel eyes, the front of her hair had two long bangs going past her shoulders and several loose bangs hanging over her forehead, while the back has a short bob cut. Dressed in a standard maids outfit, the girl showed no outward emotion as she looked at him, not even negatively, as she placed a single white menu on his table. "Thank you." The blond remarked, making the girl nod before she left him to alone.

It didn't take long for Naruto to order a cup of tea, with two sugars and some milk, as he waited for his associate to arrive. Taking a sip, the blond took his time to appreciate the calm and homely feel that the shop had, it was one of the only placed that you could see both humans and faunus being civil to one another, something that the blond wished happened more often.

A bell rang around the shop as another customer entered, no'one really bothered by the newbie. Glancing around the room, the women ignored everyone, as she didn't care for the "average" people sitting and drinking tea, that was, until she connected eyes with the lance wielding faunus, a strange amount of elegance coming into play as she walked over to him and sat down infront of him. "Shadow Fox, I presume." she asked in a cold and professional tone, something that Naruto expected, seeing as who she was.

"Winter Schnee," Winter, the new arrivals revealed name, was clearly a beautiful women, standing at 5'6, the female of 21 held a strong aura of professionalism, with little emotion. Her long white hair, which reached to her lower back, was tied into a high bun, with a curly bang coming down on the right side of her face. If one was to judge her by looks alone, they would say she was a perfect representation of snow, cold and an uncommon sight, and her clothes only added prof to it accusation. the Schnee was dressed long white cloak, which covered her dark blue blouse, white shirt, and silver-white leggings, that had red silk weaved into its high collar. "current manger of Schnee finical security, how may I help you today?"

Winter, who's facile features didn't change in the slightest, brought up a white business case and planted it infront the blond, open for the teen to look inside. "These documents are files that have suspected Dust thieves, both human and faunus." The women continued, allowed the man infront of her to reach into the case and pull of a file at random. "Akio Hunt, code name "bull", he wields a fusion between a Wilt and Blush. Age unknown, location unknown, and race, Faunus." the cold female remarked motionlessly, keeping eye contact with the blond through-out the speech.

"And that is where you are mistaken, my dear Ms Schnee." the blond remarked, placing his own case onto of table. "This holds several hundred thieves that have robbed from you. Now," the blond started, pushing the case towards the women. "I could just give you this, but I have a motto you see, 'Nothings free, not even death.'" Naruto said, learning forwards, his fingerings intertwined infront of his face. "So, for this information, what are you willing to give me?"

Winter, who knew very well that Naruto's call wasn't a bluff, frown as she glanced towards the metal case, the secrets inside it could probably save her family'a company some time, money, and even employment. "I shall offer you 1,000,000 Lien now, and 1,000,000 Lien for each confirmed target." Winter remarked, while 1,000,000 seemed alot, seeing as that was a middle class pay, it really wasn't, something that Naruto found quite offensive, not that he showed it.

"You know," the remarked, a sharp edge to his tone. "I have enough secrets and evidence on the Schnee family business that could bankrupt you, several times over, so you better take our deals more seriously." the blond threated in with no emotion, a slight twist of his left hand being the only indicating that he was angry at the offer.

In response, Winter frowned gently, she didn't the faunus, how could he have secrets on her family? Preposterous, absolutely, and every-truly, absurd! "I have no knowledge of what you speak of." She refused straight off the bat, her eyes narrowing in disbelief.

"Oh, you need proof." the blond remarked with a smirk, oh how he loved proving people wrong. Pulling out a folder he had prepared for this very reason, Naruto flipped open a page filled with Lien transfers, including the location, and whom, it was going to. "You see this, its a list of shadow deals dealt by your father to hire several assassinations of average day civilians, and their families, who wanted to promote faunus rights." he revealed, pushing the papers into Winter's view. "and that's not even a faction of what I have on your family."

Winter, who was looking over the paper, frowned in shock. When did this take place, how, but more importantly, why? "I... hadn't a clue." She thought to herself, shocked by the fact that her father, of all people, actually hired assassins to murder people, innocents that hadn't even done anything wrong. "Fine, I shall change my offer, in exchange for the hit list, I will give any information I can, on top of my previous offer." It was only fair, not only would it mean she could stop criminals, it also allowed her to have future deals with the fox faunus.

Tapping his sharp nail in thought, Naruto tried to think of the bad possibilities compared to the good ones. 'If I make this deal, its means I can keep an even tighter leash of the Schnee family, whilst not getting myself in to deep.' Glancing at the emotionless women infront of him, the blond smile, raising his tapping hand up for a hand shake. "You have yourself a deal, Winter Schnee. I wish for a great many years of service together."

Hook, line, and sinker.

"As do I, mister Fox." standing up from her seat, the women pushed her suit-case forwards before grasping what was now her's and leaving.

"Before you go, Winter, make sure you say hello to Weiss, it has been many of years since I last saw her." Winter's eyes widened as she took her final step outside, not truly knowing if she was being made a fool out of.

Naruto watched the women leave with a large smile, showing his sharp and long canines, he knew this was going to be a interesting future partnership, that was for sure. Glancing down at his now empty mug, the blond stood up and placed the right amount of money on the table before he too left, he had some other busy to deal with, the was still young afterall.

Chapter end XoX