Somewhere in Vale there is an warehouse that was thought abandoned with a steely grey exterior and concrete floor and at this time of night the windows brought in light coming from the Fractured moon in the sky.
In the warehouse Roman Torchwick stood in front of a table that sat against a wall with a map of Vale above it. Roman was listening to a call on his scroll when he suddenly hung up and slammed the scroll down on the table. He sighed before putting a cigar into his mouth and lighting it with his silver lighter.
Seconds after he lit his cigar a member of the White Fang, once a group of Peaceful faunus, now is a group of faunus extremists, walked up while pushing a cart with crates on it and stopped behind Roman.
Roman took out a bunch of Lien and handed it to the white fang member before takking the Cigar out of his mouth and saying.
"Open it."
The white fang member did as told and the contents of the crate happened to be many dust crystals of different elements.
Roman picked up a Water dust crystal before sighing.
"We are going to need more men." Roman Torchwick muttered to himself
Morning, Beacon Academy:
Naruto sighed as he woke up in the corner of the room he slept in. since teams are normally made up of four members, the dorm room only had four beds for five people. Naruto had decided to sleep in a corner until he could get either a bed or a Hammock of some sort.
He quickly rose to his feet and after checking that the bathroom is free, took a shower and got dressed in his school Uniform.
When he exited the bathroom he was greeted to the sight of Weiss waking up, and Ruby blowing a whistle in her ear before yelling.
"GOOD MORNING TEAM RUWBY!"
"What in the world is wrong with you?" Weiss questioned.
"Now that you are awake we can get to our first order of business.' Ruby stated while ignoring her question.
"What?" Weiss asked.
"Decorating!" Yang exclaimed with her arms full of stuff.
"What?" Weiss asked again.
Blake held up her suitcase,
"We still need to unpack… and clean." Blake said as her suit popped open with all of its contents spilling onto the floor.
Weiss just gave the a blank stare with her arms crossed so Ruby blew her whistle in her ear again causing Weiss to fall over and Naruto to try to suppress his laughter.
"hey, where is all of your stuff Naruto?" Blake asked him.
"Before coming to beacon I had a tendency to move around a lot as you know, after all it was all that moving around that led me to meeting you four as well as saving you Weiss… that lifestyle had the side effect of me being a man of few possessions. For a long time it was just my mentor and I." Naruto explained.
"Ahh…" was the collective response from Blake, Ruby and Weiss.
"Why did you not ever take up a place of residence?" Yang asked him.
"Easy enough question to answer. Traveling ensured I would run into the creatures of Grimm, which I would then use to train by killing them. That is both the long and short." Naruto answered her.
Ruby blew her whistle and clapped her hands once,
"Alright Naruto, Weiss, Black, Yang and their fearless leader Ruby have begun their first mission. BANSAI!" she told them with a yell at the end.
Blake and Yang went to either side of her and repeated,
"BANSAI!" with a tilt of their bodies to the side.
"…yeah, I am just going to head to my first class early… I really do not have anything to put away and I will not have a bed until later today…" Naruto said as he turned and walked out the door only to be stopped by Yang putting a hand on his shoulder and dragging him back into the room to help them.
The people in the hallway could only blink owlishly as Naruto was dragged back into the room, leaning backwards on his heels with both arms crossed over his chest.
After all of the "decorating" was finished Ruby stood in front of them again.
"Alright, now onto our second order of business… classes. Now, we have a few classes together today. First at nine we have got to be." Ruby started but was interrupted by Weiss.
"What, did you say nine?"
"Umm…" Ruby replied clearly confused by the odd question asked.
"It is eight fifty-five you dunce!" Weiss yelled before rushing out of the room with the rest of them following and team Juniper close behind as they realized they would be late as well.
Professor Port's classroom:
"Monsters, Demons, Prowlers of the night. Yes, the creatures of Grimm have many names, but I merely refer to them as pray. Haha." Professor Port started his lecture, "and you will too upon Graduating from this Prestigious academy.
Naruto sat in his chair next to Blake and watched Professor Port with much boredom and quickly found more interest in Ruby's Sleeping face which was soon taken away as she woke up and began drawing something that was revealed to be a mocking of the Professor in front of them.
"blah, blah, blah,blah Cabbages and Potatos, blah, blah, blah." Port lectured.
"Blake…" Naruto whispered.
"Yes, Naruto." She answered.
"What the fuck is he talking about?" he asked her.
"I have no clue." She answered.
"Something about Cabbage and Potato stew I think. Sounds delicious but not as delicious as you Naruto." Yang whispered with a wink.
Naruto did what all he could to keep his blush down as Yang had a smirk on her face while Blake, Ruby and Weiss each sent a quick glare her way.
"Now as I was saying, Vale, as well as the other three kingdoms are safe havens in an otherwise treacherous world. Our planet is absolutely teeming with creatures that would love nothing more that to rip you to pieces. And that ladies and gents is where we come in. Huntsmen, Huntresses, individuals who have sworn to protect those whom can not protect themselves. From what you may ask, well, the very world!" Port said.
A boy near the beck stood up with a "YEAH!"
"Shut up and sit your ass backdown!" Nartuo said before adding, "You are just embarrassing yourself."
"Anyway, that is what you are training to become. True Huntresses and Huntresses must be Honorable. They must be Dependable. They must be Strategic, Well Educated and Wise." Professor port continued.
Naruto watched as with each of those last words Weiss became more and more agitated, to the point where while sitting still she was shaking in rage.
"This is not going to end well… for whoever incurred her wrath and for herself." Naruto muttered under his breath.
"Who among you believes that they are the embodiment of these traits I have listed to be great Huntsmen and Huntresses?" Port asked his class.
Weiss immediately raised her hand and yelled out.
"I do sir!"
"Well then, let us find out, step forward and face your opponent." Professor Port Said as he motioned to the metal cage that had glowing red eyes within its confines.
Weiss got out of her chair and made her way to the open space in the room and got into her ready stance.
"Go Weiss!" Yang cheered.
"Fight well!" Blake said while waving a small triangular red flag with the letters RUWBY on it.
"Remember your training Weiss." Naruto told her with a thumbs up.
"Yeah, Represent team RUWBY!" Ruby cheered only to get snapped at by Weiss.
"Ruby, I am trying to focus."
"Oh… umm sorry…" Ruby replied meekly under her breath.
"Do not worry about it Ruby. She sees you in a position that she thinks she should have and is taking her anger out on you." Naruto told her.
"Alright, let the match begin!" Port said as he took out a giant axe and cut off the lock on the cage which caused the Borbatusk within to rush out and head straight at Weiss.
Weiss moved to the left with a swing of her weapon which hit the Tusks of the Grimm and did no damage.
"Aha, you were not expecting that now were you.!" Professor Port stated.
"You can do it Weiss!" Ruby cheered.
Weiss lunged at the Borbatusk only for her weapon to get stuck on the Borbatusks Tusks.
"Bold new Approach, I like it!" Professor Port said
"Come on Weiss, show it who is boss!" Ruby continued to cheer.
Weiss looked at Ruby which was a mistake as the Borbatusk took the advantage and disarmed Weiss and knocked her away.
"Oho, what will you do now without your weapon?" Port asked.
Weiss got to her hands and knees and waited for the Borbatusk to charge before rolling out of the way at the last second and grabbing her weapon.
"Weiss, go for its belly, there is no armor under…" Ruby started.
"STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO!" Weiss snapped her head to Ruby and yelled at her team leader. Before striking the Borbatusk in its belly.
Naruto sat in his chair with a scowl on his face and a cold look in his eyes directed at Weiss.
Weiss say the icyness of the look and while panting looked at her sword as Professor Port Spoke.
"Brovo, Brovo, it seems that we are indeed in the presence of a true Huntress in training. I am afraid that is all the time that we have for today. Be sure to cover the assigned readings and stay vigilant. Class Dismissed."
Weiss Stormed out of the room with Ruby and Naruto running after her.
"Weiss, what is wrong with you?" Ruby asked.
"What is wrong with me, what is wrong with you? You are supposed to be a leader and yet all you have been so far is a nescience!" Weiss yelled.
"What, what did I do?" Ruby asked.
"That is just it! You have done nothing to earn your position. Back in the forest you acted like a child and you have only continued to do so." Weiss continued.
"Weiss, where is this coming from? What happened to all that talk about working together and acting like a team?" Ruby asked.
"Not a team led by you!" Weiss said and was about to turn around, but Naruto spoke up.
"You disappoint me Weiss… and this kind of behavior would disappoint Winter as well. You say that Ruby has done nothing to deserve her Position when you have not even tried to get to know her. Also what right do you, a spoiled child from the Schnee family, to say that she does not deserve the position of Leader when you yourself have not proven yourself worthy. When I saved you all those years ago you told me that you wanted to make a difference in the world… but with the path that you are walking down you will end up no better than your father… and you know how much I hate your father."
With his piece said Naruto walked past Weiss without so much as glancing her way. As he walked down the hallway the shadows seems to shift slightly as if responding to his emotions.
"I have studied and I have trained for this. Ozpin made a mistake." Weiss said before she took a deep breath before walking outside to talk to Professor Port while Professor Ozpin appeared from around a corner and began to talk to Ruby.
"Hmm, that did not seem to go very well." Ozpin stated.
"Is she right? Did you make a mistake?" Ruby asked him.
"Well, that remains to be seen." Ozpin told her.
"Wha, what do you mean?" Ruby questioned.
"I mean, it has only been one day. Ruby, I have made more mistakes than any Man, Woman, and child on this planet. But at this moment, I would not consider your appointment to leader to be one of them. Do you?" Ozpin explained while leaning forward at the end.
Ruby shook her head before Ozpin continued,
"Being a leader is not just a title, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best then what reason do you give others to follow you? You have been burdened with a daunting responsibility Ruby, I advise that you take some time to think about how you will uphold it." Ozpin said before gesturing for Ruby to Continue on with her day.
With Weiss:
"Professor Port!" Weiss called out.
"Ah, miss Schnee. To what do I owe this fine pleasure?" Port asked.
"I, I enjoyed your lecture." She said.
"Oh course you did child, you have the blood of a true huntress in you." Port said.
"You really think so?" Weiss asked.
"Most surely… hmm, something is troubling you." Port stated.
"Yes… sir." Weiss admitted.
"Dear girl, confess to me your strife." Port exclaimed.
"I, I think I should be the leader of team RUWBY!" Weiss told him.
"That is Preposterous." Port told her.
"Excuse me?" Weiss exclaimed.
"I have believed in Professor Ozpin for many years. The man has never once led me astray." Professor Port elaborated.
"So you would just blindly accept his decision, even after seeing how exceptional I am?" Weiss asked, clearly confounded.
"With all do respect, your exceptional skill on the battlefield is only matched by your poor attitude." Port told her in an attempt to humble her… it did not work.
"How dare you!" she said while raising her voice a bit.
"My point exactly. I see a girl before me who has spent her entire life getting exactly what she wanted." Port told her.
"That is not even remotely true… well, not entirely true." Weiss said.
"So the odds did not fall in your favor. Do you really think that acting the way you are would cause those in power to reconsider their decision? So instead of obsessing over what you do not have, savor what you do have. Hone your skills, perfect every technique, and strive to be not the best leader, but the best huntress you can be and also the best person you can be." Port consoled her.
Weiss simply nodded her said with a sigh before turning and walking away.
With Naruto:
Naruto continued down the hallway and the dark shadows continued to wiggle and Morph with his swirling emotions, mostly his anger and hatred. Naruto stopped and could not help but punch a wall in frustration.
"Mr. Uzumaki…" Glynda Goodwitch spoke.
Naruto quickly recomposed himself and tried to act as if he did not just punch a wall.
"Good afternoon, Miss Goodwitch. What can I do for you?" Naruto said politely.
"Come with me." She said with the classic "come here" Gesture with her right index finger before turning and walking down the hall.
Naruto did as he was told and followed her though his eyes did keep her ass in his sights as she walked.
She stopped in front of her office and opened the door to let Naruto in.
Naruto stepped into her office which had a coffee table with two couches one of each of the longer sides.
"Please sit down and make yourself comfortable." Glynda told him before going over to some cabinets and grabbing a hotplate as well as some things for her to make a kettle of tea.
After the tea was ready she took two cups and filled them with tea before serving one to Naruto and putting the kettle on the table.
"Can you guess why I called you here?" Glynda asked him and Naruto shook his head.
"No, Miss Goodwitch." Naruto told her.
"I can tell that you have quite a bit of pent up anger within you. I called you here so that maybe we can talk about it, and maybe even help you get over your anger." Glynda explained.
"As much as I would love to do that… I do not know you well enough to even begin to talk about the darkness of my past." Naruto told her.
"Then perhaps we can spend this time to get to know one another so that you can eventually get over your anger." She offered.
Naruto thought about it long and hard and didn't speak for a good ten minutes. Glynda simply sat on the couch with her legs crossed and sipped her tea while she waited for his answer.
"That… is acceptable…" Naruto said.
"Let's start off simple and go from there. What are your Likes, dislikes, dreams or goals for the future. Here I will start. I like teaching people, books, the color purple, when people get along and the beach. I dislike people with Ego's, the creatures of Grimm, idiots, sexists and the like. Honestly, my goal for the future has turned into a dream at this point. I had wanted to get married and eventually have children of my own, but people just seem to only see my status or are turned off by my strict demeanor." Glynda told him.
"I find it disgusting that people would only want to be with you for your status Miss Goodwitch. You are Beautiful, inside and out and do not let anybody tell you otherwise. You will find the right man someday." Naruto told her with a soft smile on his face.
"Thank you Naruto, you are very kind despite all the anger you hold inside." Glynda said with a smile of her own.
"Well, for likes, Hunting is one thing I like, the color orange and the color purple, I like watching the leave change color in the fall and drift Away in the wind. I also enjoy practicing what skills I have so that I can protect the things and people who matter to me. I dislike, Bullies, the creatures of Grimm, and… the moon. My goal for the future is to eventually make my way to where it all began." Naruto said with the last part being purposely cryptic.
"the place where it all began?" Glynda asked.
"Perhaps… another time?" Naruto inquired.
"Very well Mr. Uzumaki, same day and time next week?" she asked.
"Sure Miss Goodwitch. I will be here." Said as he set his empty cup on the table and started to get up and walk to the door when Glynda spoke up again.
"Don't be a stranger, if you need to talk, my door will be open for you."
Naruto nodded with a small smile before walking back to his dorm room where a new bed was delivered while he was in Miss Goodwitch's office. He fell face first into the bed and passed out, not even acknowledging his teammates who were in the room.
"He seems a bit stressed doesn't he?" Yang said a bit concerned for him.
"I hope he will be okay." Ruby said as she stared at his stiff body.
"He has always been good to me. He always seemed so upbeat around other people. Something tells me this stress is something he has kept deep down for a long time." Blake admitted.
Weiss would have commented, but she was too engrossed in what she was doing at that moment…
Only time could tell what would happen next.
And that is it for this chapter.