"Oh the Vytal festival this is absolutely wonderful" Weiss beamed happily
"I don't think I've seen you this happy before Weiss" Ruby said
"I have to agree, kind of creeping me out a bit" Naruto mumbled.
"How could you not be smiling, a festival dedicated to the cultures of the world, dancing, dining, parades and a tournament; the amount of organising and planning is simply breathtaking" Weiss said cheerfully
"Me and Festivals don't exactly have a good relationship" Naruto said
"Hey don't worry this is the first time you'll have fun at a festival" Yang said comforting her little brother
"If you say so sis" Naruto sighed
"Besides Weiss always knows how to make a good thing sound boring" Yang chuckled.
"Quiet you!" Weiss snapped.
"Wow you guys brought me to a harbour lovely, now I know what fish smell like" Naruto groaned
"Yeah Weiss remind me again why we're spending our Friday afternoon down at the docks and not showing Naruto the rest of Vale?" Yang asked
"Well if you must know I've heard that students from Vacuo will be arriving today" Weiss said "and as a representative of Beacon I thought I would welcome them to this fine kingdom" Weiss said
"She wants to spy on them, so she'll gain an advantage on them during the tournament" Blake said
"You do not know that" Weiss said. The group stopped outside a shop making them approach
"Great now we're...Whoa! What did this?" Naruto asked looking at the crime scene.
"What happened here?" Ruby asked
"Robbery, second Dust shop this week. This place is turning into a jungle" A police officer said
"That's terrible" Yang said
"They left all the money again" a second officer said making Ruby snap her attention to them
"It doesn't any sense why take the dust and leave the cash, and who needs that much dust?"
"I don't know you know what I mean"
"You think it could be the White Fang?" the first officer said
"I think we don't get paid enough"
"Hm, the white fang what a bunch of degenerates" Weiss said snootily
"What's your problem?" Blake asked.
"My problem, I just don't care for the criminally insane" Weiss replied
"The White Fang are hardly a bunch of psychopaths, they are a collection of like minded Faunus who are misguided"
"Misguided? They want to wipe us out!" Weiss argued
'Why do I get the feeling of two sides one story each side told wrong?' Naruto thought
"So then they are extremely misguided" Blake said
'I also get the feeling Blake isn't telling us all she knows' Naruto again thought 'but how do I know these feelings, could it be that weird soul thing Elsa told me about, no I don't think so'
"Either it doesn't explain why they would rob a downtown dust shop in the middle of Vale" Blake continued
"Blake has a point, and the police haven't caught that Torchwick guy yet" Ruby said "maybe it was him."
"That doesn't change the fact the white fang are a bunch of scum!" Weiss said "Those Faunus only know how to deceive, murder and steal"
"Ah, ninja present" Naruto blurted out making the group look at him "well ninja in training anyway
"That is not necessarily true" Yang said hesitant
"HEY! STOP THAT FAUNUS" a man shouted as a guy with a monkey tail ran away. This made the girls run over to see what was happening
"Never a dull moment" Naruto chuckled
"thanks for the ride guys" he chuckled jumping onto the docks and taking off.
"That guy is cool" Naruto smirked
"Don't get encouraged" Weiss said
"You no good stowaway" the captain said
"Hey who are you calling a no good stowaway, they would be caught; I'm a great stowaway" the monkey guy said
"Get down here now" the first cop said before a banana peel splattered on his face. Making the monkey laugh and continue on his way, before rushing past RWBY and Naruto, winking at Blake.
"Well Weiss you wanted to see the competition, and there he goes" Yang chuckled
"Quick! After him" Weiss shouted and took off with Yang and Ruby following her, while Narutio and Blake stood behind
"Do you know him?" Naruto asked.
"No" Blake stammered
"So that's a Faunus, huh not much different to us" Naruto said shrugging before they chased after them.
While chasing them, Weiss ran into a girl "No he got away" she said as she saw the Faunus run away
"Er, Weiss" Yang indicated the new girl, making the heiress stand up rather quickly
"Salutations" she said freaking Weiss out
"Finally I *gasp* caught up *wheeze* with *huff* you *huff* guys" Naruto said nearly collapsing
"You can outrun Grimm but you can't keep up with us?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah, pretty much who's the girl?" Naruto said finally having his wind back
"We don't know" Ruby whispered
"Seems a bit, well strange" Naruto whispered back
"Um Hello" Naruto said
"Are you okay?" Yang asked
"I'm wonderful thanks for asking" the girl replied
"Um do you want to get up now?" Ruby asked.
"Why Yes" the girl said jumping up.
"My name is Penny" Penny introduced herself "Its a pleasure to meet you"
"Hi Penny, I'm Ruby"
"I'm Weiss"
"Blake"
"Are you sure you didn't hit you head?" Yang asked before Blake smacked her "Oh I'm Yang"
"Maybe she's crazy" Naruto said before getting headslapped by Blake "Name's Naruto" he groaned
"Its a pleasure to meet you" Penny repeated herself.
"You already said that" Weiss moaned
"So I did" Penny smiled
"Sorry for running into you" Weiss apologised
"See you around friend" Ruby said leaving making Naruto count in his head
"She was weird" Yang said echoing her brother's statement
"What did you call me?" Penny asked.
'Ten seconds' Naruto said
"Oh I'm sorry I didn't you heard me" Yang explained as Weiss was giving herself whiplash
"Not you, YOU!" Penny said indicating Ruby
"Me! Err, I didn't, what?" Ruby asked panicked
"You called me friend did you mean it?" Penny asked
"Um" Ruby said seeing the others indicate NO! but Naruto who just shrugged
"Sure" Ruby chirped "Why not" she said making the others fall over
"Sensational, we can paint our, and try on clothes and talk about cute boys!" Penny squeed
"Was this what it was like with me?" Ruby asked paling
"No, she seems more coordinated" Weiss said getting up
"So, what are you doing in Vale?" Yang asked.
"I'm here for the festival tournament" Penny replied
"Wait you're fighting in the tournament?" Weiss asked
"I'm combat ready" Penny saluted
"Forgive me, but you hardly look the type to fight" Weiss said
"Coming from the girl in a dress?" Blake snarked.
"Its a combat skirt" Weiss countered
"Yeah!" Ruby high fived her
"And there all the latest trend amongst huntresses these days" Naruto joked
"Wait if you're in the tournament does that mean you know that Monkey rapscallion?" Weiss asked
"The who?" Penny asked clueless
"The filthy monkey faunus" Weiss explained holding up a picture
"Why do you kept saying that?" Blake asked seeming angry
"What?" Weiss asked
"Stop calling him a rapscallion, a degenerate, he's a person" Blake snapped.
"Oh I'm sorry would like me to stop referring the trash bin as a trash bin, or the light a light"
"Stop IT!" Blake said
"Stop what! he clearly broke the law, give him enough time he'll join up with the White Fang" Weiss replied
"You ignorant little brat!" Blake shouted stomping
"HOW DARE YOU TALK TO ME LIKE THAT! I am your team mate" Weiss exclaimed
"You're a judgemental little girl" Blake said
"What in the world makes you say that!"
"How about the fact you sorted that boy in with the same crowd as a group of terrorists, solely based on his species makes you as much a scoundrel as you believe him to be" Blake said
"Maybe we should go" Yang said worried as she watched on with her siblings
"Where are we going?" Penny asked.
"so you admit it; the White Fang is a group of radical terrorists!" Weiss said
"That is not what I mean and you know it!"
'I can't believe they're still arguing; man girls can hold a major grudge' Naruto thought as the fight between Blake and Weiss continued as they got back to their dorm sometime around lights out
"I don't understand why this is such a problem" Weiss said
"THAT IS THE PROBLEM!" Blake snapped back
"you realise, that you are defending an organization dedicated to wiping out humanity don't you?" Weiss asked "The Faunus of the White Fang are pure evil!"
"There is no such thing as pure evil!" Blake said "Why do you think they despise humanity so much, its because of people like Cardin, people like you taht force the White Fang to take such vile measures!" Blake snarled.
" People like me! I'm nothing like Cardin!" Weiss shrieked
"You're discriminatory"
"I'm a victim!" Weiss annouced
"What?" Yang asked shocked
"You want to know why I despise the White Fang, why I don't particularly trust Faunus?" Weiss asked making Blake look guilty.
Weiss walked over to the bookshelf and took a breath, Naruto recognised the emotion of her actions. Fear; one he had felt many times before
"They are at war with my family!" Weiss started looking out the window at the moon "War as in actual bloodshed, My grandfather's company has a target painted across its back for as long as long as I can remember, family and friends have disappeared; Board members executed. An entire train of Dust stolen. My father would come home everyday furious and then he would drink himself stupid, which made my childhood very difficult" Weiss explained.
"Weiss, I" Ruby said
"NO! Now do you understand why I hate the White Fang. Because their liars, thieves and murderers!" Weiss said
"MAYBE WE WERE TIRED OF BEING PUSHED AROUND!" Blake snapped revealing something about herself making Weiss flinch
"No way" Yang said
"I, I" Blake whimpered before disappearing
"Blake come back!" Ruby said running off after her
"Naruto stay here!" Yang ordered.
"Blake was one of them?" Weiss asked shocked.
"Wow, I can understand why she wanted to hide the truth" Naruto said
"What, how can you agree with that deceiving freak" Weiss said
"You, you and the way people react to them. Somebody says Faunus and you automatically make them trash, a piece of scum deemed only fit for removal. And how do you do it? By cornering them, threatening them and finally resorting to violence to remove them from the face of the planet. While majority of them just want to left alone in peace, but People like you who only know bad experiences colour their whole race because of a few individuals" Naruto said
"And what would you know of the problems of the Faunus?" Weiss asked.
"Forgotten already have you, think back to the damn day you found me. I nearly had my eyes burnt out and you guys rescued me. Me who everyone else treated like the worse kind of garbage. Me a kid who was kicked when he was already down. Me who was nearly killed over and over again by idiots, me who if not for Blake, would be either blind and beyond help or dead" Naruto said crying
"SO TELL ME WEISS DO YOU STILL THINK THE FAUNUS AS MONSTERS, ESPECIALLY THE ONE WHO SAVED THE LIFE OF A YOUNG BOY!" Naruto said barging past the mad heiress and into the night
"Naruto come back, oh Blake what have I done?"
Naruto stopped near a statue, where humans were on top of a Beowolf. Naruto looked at it from where he was when Blake showed up. She looked mournfully at teh statue as if she was the Beowolf. Slowly she raised her hands to her bow, removing it to reveal her own Faunus ears.
"I knew you would look better without the bow. The next morning Ruby woke up with no signs of Naruto or Blake returning home. This made her worried as Yang was now helplessly lost without her baby brother near her.
"They've been gone all weekend" Ruby said as she and the others walked through Vale looking for the missing two
"Blake's a big girls she'll be fine on her own"
"But what about Naruto?" Ruby asked
"Yeah, he should be fine" Weiss mumbling remembering tehir last enocunter before he disappeared
"She's our teammate and my brother" Yang said sorrowfully
"She is? Or did you forget what she said,
"Weiss!" Ruby scolded her
"Maybe she is, maybe isn't but we need to find her and Naruto too, he doesn't know the area very well and could be lost" Yang said upset
"She was a member of the White Fang, and right under our noses." Weiss said
"I just hope their okay" Ruby moaned. Unaware Naruto was standing in an alley they passed by
"Don't worry I'll be back home soon" Naruto said smiling before running off "With Blake" He was unaware Weiss had actually spotted him softly smiling.
"So, you want to know the real me?" Blake asked sipping a cup of tea with the Monkey Faunus Sun.
