Welcome to Lucky Team S.E.V.N chapter 4. Not a lot to talk about here. Thanks to everyone who has given me suggestions for pairings. I do like the challenge presented by a NaruxNeo fic, and so I am not ruling it out at the moment. That being said it would be just that a challenge to find a way to bring the two together that didn't seem to me like either a cop out or some cliche Capulet and Montague bullshit. That's Romeo and Juliet for all you non Shakespearian's out there. But alas it is still far too early to decide on such a thing seeing as there is still a member of RWBY who hasn't made an appearance yet. Yes we will slowly get more information on the time skip but until then just enjoy the ride. Continue to shout out if there is a pairing you really want. Also I apologize for the kinda crappy description of Naruto's weapons, but shockingly there was someone messaged me a correct answer. PS You'll see if you were right about Naruto's weapons in this chapter. Flames welcome, and away we go.
Lucky Team S.E.V.N. Chapter 4.
Today was wednesday, and that meant that Naruto was a very happy faunus. Wednesday was battle day in their classes, meaning that he could once again put the hurt on some of the faunus hating jerks in his class. It also meant that he could see the cute girl in the class as well. As the blonde made his way towards the auditorium he couldn't help but wonder who he would be paired up with today? As he walked into the class he felt several eyes on him as usual. This years entrants had been smaller than normal in the number of faunus joining, containing just 22 of them besides himself. Unfortunately for Naruto he didn't have a single class with any of them, only being able to see them some days at lunch. The bell rang signaling the beginning of class as the blonde made his way to his seat. The teacher Professor Wenge quickly got the classes attention by clearing his throat.
"Now class it's time to settle down, as you all know today is another day of battle training. I have already begun the computer setting up everyones match assignments, and per usual since Mr. Uzumaki is the last person to arrive he will be assigned two opponents." Professor Wenge said as he addressed the class. "With how often you arrive last one would think that you enjoyed the extra challenge Mr. Uzumaki." Naruto merely shrugged at the professor's comment, knowing that it was totally true. As the students looked forward a large bracket appeared, with names beginning to fill in. The fox faunus instantly smiled as he saw the first name that appeared next to his. He really didn't care about the second name, since he would deal with them quickly enough so that he could focus on his main opponent. "Alright class we will begin with the first match, will Alfred Hitchcock, and Ernest Hemingway please take your positions in the ring?" Professor Wenge asked. The two combatants made their way down to the ring, and assumed their fighting stances. As soon at the match started Naruto began to zone out. Seeing as he regularly wiped the floor with anyone that he fought, he took out one of his father's kunai and began again trying to break down the glyph written on the side of it.
"I forfeit." Called out one of the students, causing Naruto to look up momentarily.
"Well done Mr. Hemingway, now if the next two would please come down." Professor Wenge said as two more students began their trek to the battle floor. Naruto had immediately begun looking back at his father's kunai, now completely forgetting about the fights. It wasn't until he heard the disgruntled voice of Professor Wenge that he finally looked up. "Ah nice of you to join us Mr. Uzumaki. Now if you would be so kind as to come down to the battle floor, we will begin your match." Naruto laughed sheepishly, as he rubbed the back of his head. Standing up he sheathed the kunai and jumped down to the floor. "Now this will be a triple threat match." Professor Wenge began before turning to each of the teens on the floor. "Mr Radcliffe are you ready?" A red haired boy nodded in response. "Mr Uzumaki are you ready?" Naruto also nodded looking to his second opponent. "Mr. Uchiha are you ready?" The black haired boy nodded his head as well. "Alright then, begin!" The professor said signalling them to begin.
"Alright Sasuke let's waste this faunus shit, then we can have a real fight." The red haired boy said looking over at Sasuke. His eyes widened as he saw Sasuke cross the floor at him and deliver a chop to the back of his neck causing him to crumple.
"Well it looks like Mr Radcliffe is eliminated." Professor Wenge said looking back and forth between Naruto and Sasuke. Somehow he knew this was not going to end well. As the two teens stood staring at each other, some of the students watching began to grow antsy.
"Come on Sasuke waste that dirty faunus already." A random girl yelled out, after which several others echoed her sentiments. If the comments had any effect on Naruto he did well hiding it as he grinned at Sasuke. Both teens finally moved rushing forward, with their arms cocked back. Once they had closed the distance they lashed out, both connecting their fist with the others face. Professor Wenge watched as they both stayed in that position waiting for the other to back down first. Finally the two split apart, both reaching for their weapons. Sasuke drew his katana, while Naruto pulled out two of his kunai flipping the one in his left hand into a reverse grip. This time Sasuke charged in first swinging his katana downward at Naruto who quickly brought his kunai up to block it. After he stopped the sword, the blonde faunus fired the kunai in his right hand at Sasuke's chest. The black haired teen barely had time to move, avoiding the kunai hitting his body. A large cut did appear in the blue shirt that he was wearing. Sasuke looked down at his shirt and glared, before he brought his gaze back up to Naruto.
"So we're using semblances huh?" The blonde asked looking at Sasuke's now red eyes. Sasuke merely scoffed at the blonde before rushing in again, this time swinging his sword sideways. Naruto blocked the sword again, but was forced back as Sasuke tried to sweep his legs out from under him.
"What's the matter Naruto?" Sasuke asked derisively as he began to push his attack, using his increased perception to force the blonde on the defensive. It wasn't until Sasuke finally connected on a punch to Naruto's face that the blonde ended up sprawled out on the floor. Sasuke charged in raising his sword, until Naruto crossed his hands in a strange symbol and a poof of smoke appeared. Sasuke was taken aback when out of the cloud of smoke three Naruto's came charging at him. Several people in the room gasped, and even Professor Wenge paid close attention. He knew that Naruto was one of the students who had already discovered his semblance, but the old professor had yet to see it in person. Looking to Sasuke he saw the teen bisect the first Naruto to reach him and begin to slash at the second one, as the first poofed out of existence. As his blade began to embed itself in the second clone, the fist of the third found a momentary home on the black haired teens face. Now it was Sasuke's turn to meet the floor in a less than graceful manner.
"Well this is interesting indeed, I've never heard of semblance copies capable of dealing damage to an opponent." Professor Wenge said quietly to himself, as he pulled out his scroll to make sure the cameras had caught that on tape. Sasuke instantly rolled to his back, and kicked up onto his feet. His face contorting in anger as he looked to where Naruto stood. Suddenly this Naruto poofed out of existence as well. Sasuke looked into the cloud of smoke to see the outline of the real Naruto reaching for something off his back. As the smoke cleared Naruto could be seen twirling a collapsed blade attached to a central ring around in his hand. Instantly Sasuke was on alert as Naruto hit a button on the inside of the ring causing the collapsed blades to spring around. they came to stop forming a large shuriken the four blades curved slightly at the end.
"Here Sasu-Gay hold this for me." Naruto yelled as he sent the shuriken hurtling towards his black haired classmate. Sasuke merely scoffed as he jumped to his right to dodge the shuriken. It wasn't until it went past him that his eye caught a gleam of string coming from the weapon. As Naruto yanked on the string the blades shot off the center ring forcing Sasuke to block with his sword. The blades from Naruto's shuriken hit the ground before they retracted back to the ring as Naruto again yanked on the string attached to it pulling it back to himself. As it was making the return trip Naruto quickly severed the string as he reached up and caught the shuriken.
"Not a bad trick for a mutt." Sasuke said looking at Naruto as the blonde began to spin the shuriken in his hand again. This time Sasuke didn't wait for him to throw it, choosing to rush the faunus in the hopes of ending the match. He used his gauntlet and began to channel lightning dust into his sword. The crackling sound of the electricity caused Naruto's ears to perk up. Sasuke brought his sword up, and then swung it down at Naruto's head. Professor Wenge exhaled a sigh of relief when the clang of metal hitting metal rang out looking to see Naruto having blocked Sasuke's sword with his shuriken. Sasuke looked surprised when he saw that Naruto wasn't being affected by the electricity like others whom he had used this idea on had been. Naruto began to chuckle at the annoyed look on his black haired opponent's face.
"You didn't think I was stupid enough to fall for something like that after watching you use it on other people did you?" Naruto asked earning a glare from Sasuke, and a chuckle from their professor.
"It is true Mr. Uchiha, you do tend to use this technique fairly frequently. It was only a matter of time before someone figured out a way around it." The older professor said causing Sasuke to scowl.
"How did you do it?" Sasuke growled out at Naruto who merely chuckled as he began to spin his shuriken. The effect was instantaneous, as Sasuke's sword was ripped from his hand and tossed across the room. seeing this the blonde attempted to capitalize on the shock sending his left fist hurtling towards Sasuke's face. Sasuke however was quick to recover bringing his arm up to block the punch, he quickly grasped Naruto's wrist before turning and throwing the faunus over his shoulder. Now it was Naruto's turn to recover, twisting his body so that he landed on his feet. He reached to his back and grabbed his second shuriken, hitting the button and causing this one to unfurl before he began spinning it like the previous one. All around the room murmurs of how Naruto must be cheating could be heard, as people wondered how the number one student Sasuke was having such a hard time with someone who was barely passing and a faunus no less. "How did you block my attack?" Sasuke asked again before moving to dodge the second shuriken which Naruto had just thrown at him.
"Tut tut Sasu-Gay a good magician never reveals his secrets." Naruto taunted. Sasuke growled as he reached down to grab his left wrist. His hand began to shake as he overloaded his gauntlet with more lightning dust, to the point where the electricity became very visible around his whole lower arm.
"That's it, there's gonna be one less fleabag after this." Sasuke said as he looked at Naruto his Sharingan spinning. "Say hello to my Chidori." He said looking across the room at Naruto. Naruto looked at his opponent's attack letting out a low whistle.
"Impressive aura manipulation to contain the effect of the activated dust in a small area, thus amplifying its potential damage. And here I thought my Rasengan was original." Naruto joked before he raised his right hand up pouring wind dust into his gauntlet and using his aura to condense it. Several people looked on in awe as a sphere purely made up of wind coalesced in Naruto's palm. The howl of the wind loud enough to dampen the crackling sound from Sasuke's own attack. Professor Wenge looked at the two attacks deciding it was time to end the match. Before he could say this however the two teens vaulted towards each thrusting their dominant hands forward. In a burst of speed belying his age and portly appearance Wenge jumped in between the two grabbing each of their wrists and flinging them away from each other. Two loud explosions filled the room as the two attacks connected with walls instead of flesh, instantly turning the walls into dust.
"Now I think that is quite enough out of you two for one day." Wenge said glaring from one student to the other. Naruto was the first to make it back to his feet, looking across the room to where Sasuke was shakily rising to his own. As the two looked at eachother if only for the briefest of moments a smile spread across both of their faces. "That is all for today class I want everyone to rest up, and tomorrow we will continue with our normal drills. Mr Uzumaki if I may have a word with you?" Professor Wenge finished calling to the faunus who was currently smiling up at another student. The faunus' shoulders slouched slightly probably assuming he was going to get in trouble. As Naruto sulked over to him, professor Wenge looked up to see who the boy had been talking to. His eyes came to rest on the slightly frowning face of one of his favorite students. The mismatched eyes of Neapolitan Sorvete or Neo for short met with his before she looked at Naruto once more and disappeared with her semblance.
"So what will my punishment be for attacking the precious last Uchiha?" Naruto asked as he looked up at his instructor. Wenge was fairly annoyed that the boy instantly figured he was going to be chastised.
"There will be no punishment young man, merely the question of why the Naruto I just saw is not the Naruto that I see on your reports?" Wenge asked, genuinely curious as to why the faunus was on the brink of failing nearly every class.
"Honestly half of them I just don't care, the other half I should be acing if the teachers weren't such bigots." The blonde replied before looking up afraid. He knew that if any of the teachers trying to fail him heard what he just said they would probably find a way to kick him out of the school.
"Is that so?" Professor Wenge asked, now angry that these so called professionals couldn't see past their stupid dislikes to fairly instruct all of the students willing to risk their lives to defend others. "Mr Uzumaki perhaps we should talk to the headmaster about this little issue."
"No it's fine, I can handle it." Naruto said as he shrugged past his teacher and made his way for the exit.
"Well that gives us something to think about doesn't it?" Tai Yang asked as he walked up to professor Wenge.
"Indeed, if only we had some way to find out which teachers were working to fail him." Wenge said looking at his friend and technically boss.
"We can look into the matter discreetly, for now I am just glad to see the boy isn't a lost cause." Tai Yang said as he turned to walk away.
"I sent you the video of their fight, you should take a look at it." Wenge said earning a thumbs up from his headmaster.
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Naruto grunted as he rose back to his feet. He was currently in the forrest around Kenneth's old house working with his father's kunai. He would figure out how these things worked, just like he had promised Kenneth he would. Hearing a snicker behind him, the fox faunus turned to see none other than his crush Neo leap down from a tree landing gracefully in front of the blonde.
"You know if people saw us like this at this time of night they'd probably think that we were doing something inappropriate." Naruto joked offhandedly as he sat down leaning back against the tree Neo just exited. The petite girl looked down at him with a sly smile on her face as she approached him.
"We're both orphans, and besides that you're a faunus They'd probably just assume you were trying to rape me." Neo said without shame causing Naruto to choke on the water he was drinking from a bottle he had brought with him. As Neo chuckled and sat down next to him she reached into the pouch on Naruto's leg and withdrew one of his father's kunai so that she could examine it. Naruto looked over at the girl as she started humming to herself.
"If you can figure anything out as far as how these things work, I'd marry you." The blonde quipped offhandedly as Neo continued to hum.
"This is a teleportation glyph, one of the most complex I've ever seen." Neo said holding the blade in front of her before looking at Naruto. The faunus turned to look at her with a confused expression on his face. "Hand me another one." Neo said holding out her hand, which Naruto promptly put another kunai into. The petite girl raised the second kunai up next to the first and examined the two side by side. "Just like I thought, same kind of glyph but slightly different."
"Alright what are you talking about?" Naruto finally asked as Neo shoved one of the kunai into his face.
"Naruto I need you to memorize the glyph on this down to the smallest detail." Neo said causing Naruto to squint his eyes as he studied the pattern. "If you think you've got it I'll explain what to do." Naruto merely nodded to her to show that he was ready. "So if this is anything like my semblance I just picture where I want to go and I kind of throw myself to that location. It looks like this acts in the same way." Neo explained as she threw the kunai so that it embedded in a tree on the opposite end of the clearing they were in. "Now what I need you to do is envision the glyph from that kunai and imagine throwing yourself at it." Naruto's face scrunched up as he tried to recall all of the minute details about the glyph on the particular kunai Neo had thrown. Once he was sure he had it he imagined himself at the kunai and willed his aura to be there. Suddenly the blonde felt an odd tingle which caused him to close his eyes. When he opened them he realized that his hand was wrapped around something that hadn't been there previously. Slowly he looked down to see his hand holding the kunai, which was still embedded in the tree. Slowly his face began to turn into a smile as he felt something soft touch his cheek. Looking to his right he saw Neo walking away. Because her back was turned he couldn't see the smile on her face, or the blush that dusted her cheeks as she left her parting words. "Don't forget my ring Foxy."
"I uh wah herg, maybe uhhhhh." Naruto's flustered response got a soft giggle from the girl as she used her semblance to vanish from his sight. After several minutes of staring at where the girl had been, Naruto was finally able to shake off his stupor and begin figuring how he would train with his new skill.
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Alrighty there is chapter 4. So a little NarutoxNeo fun for everyone, but again I say don't get your hopes up, since nothing is final yet. Hopefully you all liked the chapter enough to leave some reviews. Critiques are appreciated and Flames welcome because I giggle like a kid who silently farted in the car with the windows rolled up as I read them. Anywhoo se y'all next time.