Outfoxed Author Hazeleyes180's Ideas for Possible Crossovers

by hazeleyes180

I write Outfoxed as the main story, but this is a 'folder' for my ideas and 'pilot' chapters for possible future series. This is just where I ramble on with my ideas. :-) Please leave feedback if you can. Thanks. CURRENT STATUS: Starting One Piece crossover pilot now.

6. NarutoxRWBY crossover END

Here's the final part of the pilot, and it's a big one!

Enjoy!

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Untouchable Island

"We went overboard, didn't we?" Kurama muttered to herself humorously after she appeared out of her shunshin and glanced around at the devastated landscape before her. Large smoking craters were everywhere as far as even her enhanced vision could see, with a few blackened tree trunks breaking up the scenery a bit. She then shrugged uncaringly.

"Oh well. Not like the humans are gonna have any need for this place." she waved this off as she recalled the history and legends of 'Untouchable Island' by shifting through what Qrow knew about Remnant. Even if the land was completely cleared of the Grimm creatures, the horror stories and superstitions about this place would keep the humans from settling here in large drives for at least several decades longer.

She had to admit she was fortunate to have found someone like Qrow so soon after entering this dimension. He had very intimate knowledge of how everything ran in this world thanks to his involvement in many aspects from the criminal underworld all the way up to the upper echelons of the major governments. Not to mention the secret war Ozpin's group was raging against the so-called 'Queen' for years. Kurama had to chuckle maliciously.

Let's see how that queen bitch will react to a goddess crashing her cute little court.

Needless to say, the beautiful and powerful nine-tailed kitsune was never one for being humble.

Thinking of that man, fifteen minutes went by since she oh-so-graciously let Qrow go and she could sense him leaving the island with his other men at a rapid velocity now.

"That's one annoyance down. Now...what to do about the next one?" she grumbled with a frown. As quickly as Qrow's group was leaving, she was sensing yet another group of humans approaching this island. However, she could tell they carried no negative intentions for Naruto and her. They were apparently investigating the disturbances here, and they were likely military, considering the heightened sense of self-discipline she could feel from the five humans on board.

I wonder if we can hitch a ride to the mainland on that transport without them noticing? she thought as she continued to leisurely walk with crossed arms toward where Naruto and the large creature were fighting now.

She then uncrossed her right arm and stared down at her hand as she flexed it.

Despite being restricted, this isn't too bad. I'm still more than strong enough, and I just have to watch out for some of those tricky semblances. My absorption of residual malice has also been cut down to almost nothing, so I'll actually have to watch my energy usage in long battles and make sure to recharge in between. Lastly, those super-class Grimm will require some caution if Naruto isn't around, but I should be alright. she gave an unconcerned shrug, and crossed her arms again with a smirk.

That birdbrain is also much stronger than he let on and I would've liked to play with him, but he left his main weapon behind to keep his cover intact. It wouldn't have been any fun if he wasn't fighting at his 100%. Besides, I have a feeling we'll meet again.

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On a transport flying away from Untouchable Island at high speed, Qrow Branwen sneezed and shivered as his face seemed to turn blue with dread under the helmet.

I have a feeling I avoided mortal peril by the skin of my teeth today...but why did it also feel like I'm only delaying the inevitable?

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"Kukuku…" Kurama chuckled evilly, suddenly feeling pleased that she was being feared somewhere in this world.

As she passed a large lone boulder, a part of its shadow shifted, revealing a pair of red eyes glaring at the woman's retreating back. A large Ursa Major, one of the last few remaining Grimm creatures on this island, silently stepped out from behind the rock to creep up on the still-walking woman. It rose its clawed paws for a grab, and opened its large drooling maw full of sharp teeth to chomp down on her rather inviting neck.

"To attack me all by yourself...it's clear you're dumber than the average bear, Yogi." the woman's nonchalant voice made the Ursa rear back slightly in surprise, even as she continued to walk onward without sparing it any attention. Recovering, the bear-like creature growled at being completely ignored as a threat, and was about to pounce.

It almost didn't hear a barely audible slicing sound in the air between the two.

That was when it froze with a slight gurgling sound, and life began to fade from its red eyes. In the next instant, it split down the exact center, with the two dissolving halves falling to the ground with a pathetic-sounding whump.

Kurama still never bothered to glance back at her handiwork as she disappeared with another shunshin into the hazy cloud of dust and smoke blanketing the entire island, making a beeline for Naruto's location.

Aboard a bullhead approaching the island

Winter Schnee had to stifle another nervous sigh as the bullhead's cargo hold, which she was sharing with three soldiers and ten inactive AK-130 robots, gave a lurch under nasty crosswinds buffering the VTOL around over the sea.

Once the excitement of being asked to lead such an important mission so soon after her graduation passed, it hit her that she was voluntarily heading to the infamous Untouchable Island to check out the situation. She remembered her stomach giving a violent flip at that realization.

"Lieutenant, there's something you should see here." the bullhead pilot's voice came in through the intercom. The beautiful white-haired woman frowned, before she rose to her feet and moved through the door into the cockpit. She paused a moment to take in the sight of the devastated island looming large through the cockpit's windshield, before shaking it off to take a seat in the co-pilot's chair. She waited expectantly for the pilot to begin speaking.

"A new contact just appeared on the radar. Have a look, ma'am." the pilot, named Gray, explained as he tapped on the radar screen. Indeed, there was a new blip on the radar, and it was leaving the island at high speed.

"It has to be one of the two suspicious aircrafts." Winter muttered as she narrowed her eyes at the screen.

"Its profile matches that of a common military bullhead transport, though we can't positively identify it as friend or foe."

"All unknown aircraft we encounter are to be viewed as foe. Can we intercept it?"

"Negative, ma'am. It's flying fast, and its flight path is heading away from us, so we'd be playing catch-up all the way deep into the mainland."

"Damn it. We'll have to leave it up to central command to track that aircraft now. Since we won't be apprehending anyone, we'll go back to our original objective, which is to determine the state of Untouchable Island for possible future expeditions."

"Shouldn't we investigate the second unknown aircraft?" Gray pointed out, getting Winter to shoot him an amused look.

"Are you looking for a reason to actually set foot on that island?"

"N-n-no, ma'am."

"In my opinion, the important question here isn't where that aircraft is, but why isn't it leaving the island alongside the first one. There is no reason for it to voluntarily stay behind on a dangerous island."

The pilot gave a gulp.

"I'm definitely fine with searching from a safe altitude." he replied with a sheepish smile. Winter smirked, and watched silently as the burning island finally filled the entire windscreen and they were ten miles inland before long.

What unnerved Winter and Gray, more than the countless plumes of smoke rising like pillars around them and the devastated landscape beneath them, was the absolute lack of those Grimm creatures. There were no land-based creatures anywhere they looked, and no avian creatures knocking them out of the sky. This was the farthest any human had ever advanced into the island in history, and they were encountering absolutely no resistance.

"D-do we continue?" Gray did his best to keep the nervousness out of his voice. Winter caught it anyway, and she completely understood his fear. Still, she still had to act the part of this mission's commander.

"Just do a high-speed flyover in a circle around the island's center when we reach half of the way inland, and make sure all of our scanning instruments and external cameras are running nonstop. Afterward, we'll break off back toward Atlas to report to the general. Do we have enough fuel?"

"Just barely, ma'am."

"Good. We'll be able to gather enough information at that point to determine if it's safe to send some expeditions to explore more of the island, and we can pat ourselves on our backs for a job well done."

The pilot chuckled.

"It'd be nice if it's that easy."

"Hope for the best, prepare for the worst." Winter replied, before letting out a sigh. "I just wish there aren't so many unknown variables in this situation."

Just then, a massive fireball illuminated the night sky in the distant horizon off to their left, and they felt a rumbling shockwave pass through the bullhead. Silence settled in the cockpit for a long moment as the pair watched a large mushroom cloud billow into the dark sky.

"Well, that's one unknown variable down, and many more to go." Gray tried to say jokingly, but his tone was flat. Winter let out a long sigh to expel the nervousness threatening to rise within her.

"The good news is that we know approximately where the possible cause of this whole incident might be, and we're not flying blind anymore now."

"In my experiences, there are always bad news with the good ones, to be honest." the pilot replied with a grimace. Winter had to crack a humorless smile.

"The bad news is that we need to investigate this much closer than out here."

"I knew you'd say that, ma'am."

Back on the ground

Kurama appeared out of another shunshin, and this time she stopped walking. Cocking her head with a curious expression, she slowly sidestepped several yards to her right and stood still with crossed arms, seemingly waiting for something.

A low rumble reached her ears, before she began to feel a slight tremor in the ground under her feet. It wasn't long before the rumbling sound was almost deafening and the tremor increased almost to the point of an earthquake. Finally, she heard pained yowls and whimpers.

Out of nowhere, a large black clawed paw slammed down on the ground; on the same spot that she nonchalantly sidestepped out of the way. Completely unfazed, she glanced up to see the massive and completely mangled form of the true manticore Grimm as it ran by at top speed, not even noticing her presence. It lost most of its body armoring, and what remained were cracking and crumbling off in large pieces. Most of its exposed body was completely covered in bleeding wounds and burns, and almost half of its face seemed to be caved in with a missing eye. Somehow, its bat-like wings and scorpion tail were still barely intact, despite the large amount of damages to them. She had to wonder just how this massive Grimm creature was still alive with so much accumulated damage. Perhaps the larger the creature, the more durable it became?

The whimpering creature disappeared completely into the distance before long, running away as if a predator was following it.

A sinister and rumbling cackle shook the area as she heard thudding footsteps approaching slowly and confidently.

"Here kitty, kitty, kitty! Don't be a pussy!" a deep and menacing voice thundered throughout the area, and another terrifying cackle followed.

Kurama had to grin wide as she shivered pleasantly while squeezing her thighs together. She loved it when Naruto was funny, goofy, gentle, warm, and loving to her most of the time, but it turned her on something fierce whenever he changed into that form and let himself be domineering, sadistic, and ruthless. Not that he was unable to act like that as a human, but this form just seemed to amplify the effect by quite a lot.

The footsteps grew closer and louder, and she shifted her gaze up a long way to see the entirety of a huge fifty-feet-tall bipedal silhouette, with nine long swaying tails behind it, breaking through the smoke and dust in front of her.

If Kurama's fox form could be considered somewhat feminine for her slenderness and small amount of defined muscles, then Naruto's enormous crimson fox form that just came lumbering out of the haze with earth-shaking footsteps would be viewed as the masculine version.

Quite different from Kurama's svelte form, the foxified Naruto was slightly hunched over in that animalistic way with a small hump, and was bulked up with a large and thick muscular torso on two powerfully-built bipedal legs. His arms, a bit long in proportion to help with his running on all fours whenever he needed to, were also thick with huge, powerful, and coiled muscles that looked like he could punch holes through entire mountains. His hands were tipped with thick and deadly black claws.

His head now looked more like an actual fox's than Kurama. For one thing, he had the familiar triangular fox ears, tipped with his signature blond color, compared to Kurama's longer ones. (I'll destroy you if you call them rabbit ears! -K) He also didn't have her black demonic markings, instead having a regular fox's fur pattern in which most of his head was crimson with his bottom jaw and some of his furry cheeks colored the same golden blond as his ear tips. That color continued down the front of his thick neck onto his massive pecs, before it finally faded into crimson on his incredibly sculpted stomach.

He was also naked, in any human's sense of the word. However, there was no concern since he had fur all over, and the transformation automatically removed his privates for some inexplicable reason, much to Kurama's immense disappointment. She had to make do with only getting the amazing, mind-blowing, hot, passionate, and earth-shattering sex in human form. She was the powerful Kyuubi no Kitsune! It was her right to have her cake, and eat it too!

Moving away from her perverted mindset...

Despite all the bulk, she knew from experience none of that slowed him down at all. He was a deadly combination of quick and powerful, and made excellent use of his relatively small form against larger monsters to deliver devastating beatdowns like the one he just gave to the larger true manticore. She shivered excitedly as she remembered her past 'spars' with Naruto that pushed them both to their limits.

Although she knew to never take being large and having raw power for granted anymore, especially after being sealed into three Uzumakis, those savage battles with the smaller and versatile Naruto were stark reminders that not all battles would be won with overwhelming power.

If there was at least one similarity between Kurama and Naruto, aside from their primary crimson color, it was that they each had nine long swaying tails, almost two times their body lengths, that they both could use to their full, and incredibly deadly, potential. While Kurama used her tails to cause unbelieveable amounts of damage and natural disasters due to her greater size, Naruto used his with more finesse and to augment his more powerful elemental jutsu.

They were also similar in that they could shrink or enlarge their fox forms to a certain degree. Naruto could grow from fifteen feet to about fifty. Kurama handily beat that as she could grow to as much as three hundred feet tall standing upright.

In short, Naruto's transformation could be viewed as the ultimate mixture of his human form, his versatile abilities, Kurama's fox form, and some of her power.

Whenever the powerful immortal duo seriously fought each other in their fox forms, mostly because of stupid arguments that got out of hand, it was quite likely their days-long battles could render entire countries uninhabitable.

Although, their angry make-up sex afterward would have been the stuff of legends if there were anyone around to witness it.

It was for that reason Naruto didn't feel inclined to transform to counter Kurama's insane rampage earlier in the day. He knew the resulting escalation in power would have wiped the island off the map completely.

Breaking out of her silent admiration, Kurama grinned up at her partner as he came to a stop before her. He cast an awe-inspiring silhouette with the fractured moon high in the sky behind it, his two glowing red and blue eyes gazing down at her, and his long tails swaying ominously behind him. This would have been a very intimidating sight for anyone, with the exception of one.

That 'exception' just lazily pointed her left thumb over her shoulder in the direction of the terrified Grimm creature.

"It went that-a-way." she said jokingly.

The transformed Naruto grinned toothily, baring all of his menacingly sharp canine teeth along the entire length of his muzzle.

"Thanks for the tip, my lovely vixen. Care for a ride?"

"Thought you'd never ask." she retorted, before disappearing in a blur, only to reappear in the next instant on the top of Naruto's furry head, right between his large fox ears. She hummed in pleasure as she sat down cross-legged and rubbed her legs against the soft fur underneath her. Reaching over, she scratched the base of his right ear for a few seconds. A pleased rumble escaped Naruto's throat as he began walking again, leaving behind loud footsteps. Unlike Kurama in her fox form, he preferred to walk upright, and he did it with a slightly hunched posture, making him seem beastly and threatening.

He was in no hurry to go after the large Grimm. Although it still had its wings, he damaged them too much to be used in long flights, so the giant manticore would not be able to get off the island at all without falling into the surrounding sea. He'd take his time chasing it down until it had nowhere to go.

"I'm surprised you let some of them go. Figured you'd make all of them 'disappear' after pumping at least one of them for information." he suddenly stated, referring to the black ops group that she confronted. Thanks to his fox form, he could sense some of them fleeing from the island at this moment.

"One of them impressed me with his willingness to protect the remaining men, so I just scanned his memories and let them leave. Turned out he's a pretty important person, and I have to say we've dropped into a pretty interesting world. Turns out being stuck here because of my 'condition' for the time being might not be a bad thing."

"Hmm...I guess we'll really be staying here a while."

"Well, we've hopped twenty worlds in the last fifty years with almost nothing to show for it, and I know we're both weary of the fast pace. After seeing that human's memories, this place is interesting and would make for a nice long pit stop."

"I'm not surprised. Every time you've said a world was interesting, it turned from a couple year's visit into at least several decades."

Kurama laughed.

"I guess that's true. I'll tell you the long version later, but for now this planet is called Remnant, and let's just say we've dropped in on what seems to be an never-ending stalemate in a millennia-long global war between those creatures, called the Grimm, and the humans. To help fight the creatures more effectively, there is a group of powerful and highly-trained humans known as 'Huntsmen'. Because of my 'condition', we know it's in our best interest to help the humans out if we're going to be able to hop out of here one day." she explained, getting Naruto to nod carefully so as not to jolt her. Even in his intimidating fox form, an annoyed human Kurama was still scary.

"In the meantime, there are many aspects of this world that will catch our interest and we'll want to study them; especially the internal energy used by the humans called 'aura', and this natural resource called 'dust' that's used in everyday items and weapons. There's a nice bonus if we're gonna stay here long-term...there are many strong and beautiful women here who know exactly what they want in their men. They'll impress you from what I've seen in that man's memories, Naruto."

"There were plenty of amazing women that I never got with. Why would it be different this time?"

"Because I also remember that anytime I thought a world was interesting, you suddenly ended up getting with at least one woman...usually a harem in most cases."

A rumbling chuckle vibrated through her from underneath.

"Now that you mention it…" he let out a tired sigh as he brought his massive clawed hand up to his face and slid it slowly down his muzzle in exasperation. "...I don't know how we keep running into so many women who'd willingly share me with only minor disagreements. Not that I'm complaining, really."

Kurama smiled softly and patted a hand on his head.

"I don't think I can ever adequately say just why we think you're worth sharing instead of constantly fighting over you. It's something that we women seem to understand completely, but can never put all of that into words no matter how hard we tried even if you asked. Hasn't it been long enough since the last time you truly let someone in?"

"Yeah…I guess it has been. I'll consider this, as long as you're ok with this."

She let out an exasperated sigh.

"You don't need to ask me permission every time another woman catches your fancy. You'll never get rid of me no matter whatever happens, and we'll always be together till we both find a way to die together in peace, or reach the end of time." she grinned as she scratched behind his right ear for a moment, making him growl pleasantly.

"I could decide to say no more to all of this, and I know you'd accept that decision. On the other hand, I really enjoy being able to feel the strong positive emotions from those you love, especially your children. In short, the more happy women and children you have, the more content I am. I don't want to ever give that up."

"I know, and you've been so understanding about this. Still, we have yet to find out if there's actually anyone here to consider in the first place."

"I think there are plenty to pick from. From that man's memories, his two nieces are going to be quite a skilled and beautiful pair of huntresses in just a couple years, and you'd like their personalities. He also knows a woman who's considered one of the strongest huntresses around, but she's also a single, strict, and stressed-out teacher who could use a man's touch to thaw her out. Plus, there's a young and powerful dueling champion rising to fame in one of this world's countries, and she's quickly becoming known as 'The Invincible Girl'. She's also known to be kind and humble, despite her fame. Definitely feels like your type."

"Sounds nice." the massive transformed blonde muttered as he thundered onward, disinterest clear in his tone.

"Did I mention she's likely one of the most beautiful redheads you'll come across in at least a couple centuries?"

Kurama couldn't help but grin wickedly as she felt Naruto falter a tiny bit in his footsteps, and three of his nine tails flickered slightly. No one but her would have noticed.

Now to go for the low blow.

"There are also those female faunus."

"Huh?"

"At least a third of the world's population are faunus, and they're slightly mutated humans who display some physical animal-like traits, which are usually ears, horns, or a tail. They all carry some common enhanced attributes, like better reflexes and night vision, in addition to the traits of whatever species they are. For example, a woman with cat ears would have some rather catlike attributes."

She smiled wider when one of Naruto's fox ears flickered beside her. She didn't need to read his mind to know what he was thinking at the moment.

"Are there actual catgirls in this world?!"

"I wonder if there are cute bunny girls too? With those long ears and maybe a fluffy tail?"

That got Naruto to stumble over his foot slightly, making the land around them shake briefly. Kurama's grin was pure evil now.

"How nice." he tried really hard to keep the interest out of his tone. He really did. His rider's amused laughter from above told him he did not succeed at all.

Damn his weakness to Kurama, redheads, cute animal girls,….and too many other things.

"Don't we actually need to establish ourselves in this world first before we even think of long-term agendas?" he pointed out, obviously changing subjects by force. His rider frowned and smacked a hand on his forehead.

"Oh phooey. You're no fun, though you do have a point. Most of the girls I mentioned aren't of age yet anyway, according to this world's laws." she said, internally amused at the fact Qrow had extensive knowledge of each country's laws to avoid troubles involving underaged females.

"And that means we're done talking about this for now."

"I can totally hear the excitement in your tone at the idea of meeting more more gorgeous and nubile women, Naruto." Kurama grumbled, her tone dripping with sarcasm.

"We won't have time for that anytime soon, so what's the point being excited about this now? You just want your shot of positive emotions as soon as possible, you happiness junkie." Naruto deadpanned back.

Before they could begin bickering like an old married couple, both their attentions snapped to something unseen in front of them.

"That damn housecat's stopped being terrified all of a sudden. It's all total malice and killing intent now."

"What's changed?"

Kurama clicked her tongue in annoyance after a moment of focusing her senses. She was always the better sensor of the two.

"Those idiots…"

"You mean the new group of humans I sensed flying in?"

"Yeah...they're obviously investigating our recent 'dispute', and now they've gotten too close and caught its attention. All it cares about now is killing a meager few more of them before it dies at our hands. That's some single-minded focus for it to be willing to ignore its injuries and our pursuit."

Naruto let out a rumbling sigh.

"That's what I get for playing with my prey too long."

Kurama smirked lasciviously.

"It's not a total waste. You being all menacing and sadistic certainly turned me on big time."

"Hold that thought for the bedroom, whenever we find one. Hang on."

The transformed blonde crouched so he'd get on all fours, and shot forward to run like an apex feline at an amazing speed, which seemed impossible for an enormous and muscular monster fox. Kurama merely shifted slightly so she'd stay secure on his head using chakra while her giant companion thundered quickly across the landscape toward where they were sensing the ongoing disturbance.

Despite the situation, the beautiful vixen had to smile serenely as she felt wind blowing through her hair, and enjoyed being softly rocked by her beloved's powerful and purposeful movement underneath her. It felt so freeing.

She understood exactly why Naruto loved riding on her whenever she was running in her fox form.

Meanwhile...

Winter Schnee was in agony.

She let out a weak groan as her entire body fully registered the pain it was in. She belatedly noted that she was lying on a flat metal surface. She opened her eyes, only to realize she was getting blood into her left one from an apparent head wound. Quickly blinking while wiping the blood away with her left sleeve, she tried to take a look around with the other eye.

She was in the cargo hold of the bullhead transport, which she noted was silent and unmoving. Dim and ominous red emergency lights flooded the room, keeping it from being completely dark. It looked like a disaster happened here. Overturned cargo boxes were everywhere, some of the AK-130s' dismembered parts were strewn around, smoke was slowly filling the hold, and one of her escorts, Ciar, was strapped into a seat against the wall opposite her.

He was slumped over with a large pool of blood growing underneath his seat, clearly caused by a long jagged piece of metal impaled into his chest. The man wasn't moving, or even breathing.

Winter had to gasp and force down some bile at this grisly discovery. It was her first time seeing a human die that gruesomely in front of her.

"Damn it…" she growled as she wiped away more of the blood off her head. She rose to a sitting position, only to be seized by a nasty dizzy spell. It was clear she hit her head hard in whatever happened. Trying to will the fogginess in her head away with some aura healing, she began to remember.

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They were exploring the island.

They came across the large form of a clearly terrified true manticore Grimm running on the ground below.

It noticed them, and its terror instantly changed to that of rage and malice.

They were shocked by its sudden flight into the sky to go after them, despite the obvious injuries all over its body.

They tried evasive maneuvers to get out of the Grimm's reach, but it was too late.

Winter was so sure that she and her crew were going to die at that moment when the manticore's large form filled the windshield with a raised claw about to strike.

That was until the creature's damaged left wing fell apart completely at the last second from the flapping pressure, forcing it off balance while missing completely with its claw.

It did not miss with its tail as it spiralled out of control back down to the ground.

The bullhead's right engine was sheared off by that desperation move.

The crew then spent the next five terrifying seconds trying to brace themselves for the plane's controlled crash.

Winter hadn't made it to a seat to secure herself in time.

She remembered being thrown backward out of the cockpit into the cargo hold on impact.

There had been a flash of white, and then she blacked out.

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Now that everything came back to her, she knew she was fortunate to have instinctively used a glyph to slow herself down just enough at the last second. She doubted she would've survived crashing that hard onto the floor otherwise.

Her breath hitched in pain when she moved to stand up; it felt like a couple of her left ribs were floating. She quickly focused her aura into healing the broken ribs as she rose to her feet carefully. She limped over to the still-unmoving Ciar, and took a pulse for confirmation.

Dead.

She let out a pained exhale as she turned away. Now wasn't the time to mourn. She needed to find the rest of her crew and escape in case the manticore was still around.

"Can anyone hear me?" she called out to the rest of the cargo hold as loud as her mending ribs allowed.

A weak groan from her right caught her attention, and she quickly hobbled over to a pile of cargo boxes. She could see a slightly wiggling leg sticking out from under them. Quickly making several gestures with her right hand, a blue glyph drew itself out of thin air in front of her, and it flashed just before the pile of cargo boxes were suddenly blown off the trapped person to clatter loudly against one wall.

"Private Sini! Are you alright?" Winter exclaimed as she carefully crouched down next to the female soldier, who groaned and shook her head.

"I think so, ma'am. I was just pinned down."

Letting out a breath of relief, the Schnee daughter nodded decisively as she helped Sini into a sitting position.

"If you're able, can you search the hold for Private Duncan? I'm going to check the cockpit for Pilot Gray, and to retrieve this plane's data drive and the distress beacon."

"Aye. What about Ciar?"

A sad shake of her head was answer enough for the female soldier.

"Damn it!"

Winter really wanted to give the woman some space to grieve for their comrade, but there was no time. She steeled herself.

"As soon as you can, find Private Duncan, arm yourselves, and see if there are any intact robot to activate. We need to get out of here and away from that manticore. We can't afford to face it."

"Yes, ma'am." Sini replied sadly, but put on a determined expression behind her visor as she slowly pushed herself to her feet. Winter stood as well and moved to find the pilot, hopefully alive.

She let out a sigh as she observed the absolutely wrecked cockpit. The windshield was completely blown out, and the instruments were trashed with wires sticking out everywhere. Her glacier blue eyes immediately locked on to the pilot's chair, which had Gray slumped over in it. Quickly moving, she unsheathed her very sharp sword to cut off his harnesses, and straightened him upright. She was relieved to find he was still breathing. Not noticing any sign of major bleeding or injury, she shook him slightly hard, and that got him stirring. Leaving him to wake up on his own, she reached deep down by the side of the center console to pull a well-hidden handle.

The top panel of the center console popped out slightly with a loud pop, getting the pilot to jolt wide awake in shock.

"Fuckin' fuck!"

"I'd normally reprimand you for that foul phrase, Pilot Gray, but I'll let it pass this time." Winter muttered dryly as she ripped the destroyed console panel off and carelessly tossed it aside. She then reached deep into the innards to rip out a large neon orange and heavily-shielded data drive. It contained all information gathered during the bullhead's entire flight from the moment it lifted off, including valuable scanning and video data of its flyover above Untouchable Island.

"I always wondered why they call that a 'black' box." Gray quipped as he shook off the rest of his daze and gingerly pushed himself out of his seat. Despite the situation, Winter had to smirk as she handed him the data drive. He quickly shoved it into his jacket.

"It seems that forever will be one of life's many mysteries. Grab the beacon and activate it. We're getting back to the others now."

"Aye, ma'am." the pilot replied as he reached up to a small compartment overhead and popped it open to retrieve what looked like a small yellow transmitter radio with a thick antenna. He pressed a large red button on it, and a LED on top began blinking every few seconds. He then shoved that inside his jacket, too.

Done with the cockpit, they left to find Sini and Duncan waiting for them, along with four intact and activated robot soldiers awaiting orders. Winter frowned when she noticed Duncan was putting all of his weight on his left leg and leaning on Sini. His right leg was wrapped in a makeshift splint.

"My leg's busted, lieutenant." Duncan spoke up, answering her unasked question.

"We have to be able to move fast." Winter stated, making the others stiffen in alarm. She wasn't going to suggest leaving the injured soldier behind to cut off the dead weight, would she?

They were surprised when she turned to one of the AK-130s standing ready.

"Unit-05, you will carry Private Duncan."

"Affirmative, Lieutenant Schnee." the robot replied in an electronic voice.

All three soldiers smacked their foreheads. They didn't think to use one of the robots for help.

"I went to a huntsmen academy for four years. I was taught to never leave my teammates behind, and I will not begin now." Winter declared with a raised eyebrow, knowing exactly what her subordinates were thinking.

"We're sorry for assuming otherwise about you, ma'am." Sini spoke for the three in shame as the robot moved to pick Duncan up into a fireman's carry.

"It's fine. Hopefully we will survive long enough for us to find out more about each other. For now, let's go." Winter ordered as she moved to one of the bullhead's side hatches and blew it out upon finding its emergency release, letting some biting wind in.

Steeling herself against the cold, she got her sword out as she hopped out of the downed bullhead onto solid ground. She then noted that they had crashed in the middle of a mostly flat and grassy field. The area was illuminated by the moon's light, casting an eerie glow everywhere. She could see many burning plumes of smoke in the distance, reminding her that she and her group were stranded in the middle of an island that had been leveled by unknown forces.

She gave a brief shiver at that thought. She couldn't help but be thankful for the fact that whatever happened here apparently wiped out most of the Grimm creatures here in the process.

Hearing her subordinates and the robots hop down to the ground beside her, she turned to them.

"We're too exposed out here. We need to quickly get to that." Winter pointed to a distant patch of trees, one of the few forests still left intact on this island. "Those trees will provide cover, and hopefully hinder the creature's large size."

"That far?" Gray balked at the distance they'd need to cover, which was about two-and-half miles of flat land. They'd be extremely visible and vulnerable to any attack.

"She's right. The bullhead's burning, and it'll be easy for that monster to find this spot. To stay here means certain death." Sini spoke up, pointing to the black plume of smoke rising from the aircraft's fuselage. Gray gulped, before steeling himself.

"Ready when you are, ma'am."

Winter nodded before turning to Duncan, now being carried by one of the robots.

"Private Duncan, I'll be taking your assault rifle. With the way you are now, you won't be any help in combat situations." she held a hand up to silence his coming protests. "In that case, I am assigning you a different role, and that's to keep a sharp lookout for any threat. Also, you'll be listening closely on your radio for any word from our backup, who should be arriving to extract us in thirty minutes or so."

Duncan looked like he was about to argue his usefulness for a long moment, before letting out a resigned sigh. He then handed her his assault rifle, which she strapped to her back.

"Turn on your visor's night vision, and keep an eye out for anything behind us. You'll be taking up the rear. Private Sini, Pilot Gray, and I will be in the middle with Unit-02 taking point. The two remaining units will flank us. Did everyone understand?" Winter ordered, getting affirmatives from all of her group.

"Good. Let's move at a steady jog."

About a mile into their brief, and so far uneventful, trek, Gray couldn't help but speak up.

"Lieutenant, why do you even need that rifle? It might as well be a spitball shooter against a true manticore."

"Just like a 'spitball shooter', this rifle will likely annoy the creature enough into attacking whoever's shooting it."

Everyone else understood what wasn't said. Winter planned to draw the manticore's attention away by herself should it find them.

"Ma'am…"

"My task is to get all of you home alive with valuable information about this island and the incident. I am the fastest and likely the only one here capable enough to even cause some slight damage to it, so I aim to buy you all as much time as I can." Winter cut off Gray with a firm voice that brooked no argument. It didn't deter Sini.

"We can't accept that! I don't want to leave you here to sacrifice yourself!"

"Who said I'm going to die that easily? I intend to rejoin you on the transport out of here." Winter retorted with an assured expression. This put her subordinates at ease.

"You'd better, lieutenant." Sini huffed with a pout under her helmet. Winter had to fight to hide her smile at how concerned they were about her welfare.

"Just contact me on my radio when the bullhead is close. I'll break off and get to you as soon as possible." she explained as she held up her small radio unit, and that got her affirmative nods in return. They continued to jog for a while longer, before Duncan's nervous voice broke the silence.

"O-oh shit! It's here!"

An explosion, then an angry roar from behind punctuated that statement.

Everyone else dared to glance back, and felt their stomachs drop when they saw the massive form of the true manticore Grimm stomping down on the destroyed remains of the crashed bullhead. It was apparently angry about not finding any live human at the crash site. It began to search the surrounding land with its remaining red eye.

"Remember...calm yourselves. It will find us sooner if we let fear overwhelm us." Winter whispered to her subordinates. She was relieved that they seemed to be keeping their calm for the most part, but she knew the creature would still find them. They still had about a mile to get to the small forest's treeline. The group began to run at full speed now.

They only made it another quarter-mile before another angry roar reached their ears. Then they felt rumbling footsteps under their feet. Winter knew it was time for her to break off.

"Unit-05, continue carrying Private Duncan with the others. The other units are to go with me now." she panted out lightly before she broke off to the right with her three robotic escorts following. To their credit, the soldiers continued onward without breaking stride.

"You'd better come back to us alive!" Sini shouted over her shoulder.

Winter let out a nervous exhale as she stopped and turned to face the chasing manticore. It was easily covering the distance with its large strides. It would be upon them in seconds.

"All units, fire on the creature!" she ordered, and the three robots around her mechanically shifted their hands into a pair of gatling guns each and opened fire immediately.

Just as she hoped, the gunfire caught the large creature's attention. It roared angrily and broke its line of sight away from the three retreating soldiers to focus on the offending robots. The bullets weren't doing any damage, but they were more than irritating enough, especially when they were mostly hitting its damaged face.

Winter decided to move on to her next tactic now.

"All units are to detonate when it gets close enough." she muttered quietly.

"Affirmative. Please get to a safe distance, Lieutenant Schnee." one of the units replied flatly, not at all fazed that they were being ordered to blow themselves up. Winter winced. She hated how easy it was to just discard them like this, but the AK-130s were too slow to dodge the charging manticore and their melee weapons would not do anything to it. Their only option to even damage it was to self-destruct their dust cores near it.

"Thank you." she had to say it.

The unit that spoke gave her a curt nod before returning its focus to the looming creature. Just when the true manticore jumped into a pounce to slam down on the group, Winter immediately used her semblance and speed to seemingly teleport to about a hundred yards away. There was a violent tremor under her feet as the creature landed, before three bright flashes almost blinded her. The sound of three simultaneous explosions rattled her eardrums immediately after, followed by more angry roaring from the large Grimm.

Blinking out the spots in her vision, she was gratified to find the manticore furiously rubbing one of its paws on its face. It was obviously affected by the explosions.

While it was distracted, she spared a glance back at the forest behind her, and was glad to note the three remaining soldiers were going to pass the treeline any second. Nodding to herself in satisfaction at a plan executing well, she returned her focus to the manticore. She needed to keep it busy until the backup bullhead arrived.

She hoped that wouldn't take too long.

Using her glyphs, she moved five hundred yards farther from the creature in almost an instant, and unstrapped her commandeered assault rifle from her back. Having no use for the normal rounds this weapon carried, she pushed a button and it mechanically shifted itself into a high-powered sniper rifle with a separate magazine containing five large-caliber rounds that could take down a deathstalker each.

The manticore was beginning to shake off the explosions, and was now lumbering toward the forest where her subordinates fled into. She wasn't going to allow it any further progress.

She got down one knee, shouldered the sniper rifle, and gestured with her free hand to create five white glyphs spinning rapidly in front of the barrel. She then took aim, and pulled the trigger.

BOOM!

The ground in front of her rifle exploded from the force, the gunfire was deafening, and her entire body rattled harshly when the multiple speed boosts provided by the spinning glyphs got the large bullet to leave the barrel at an impossible velocity.

Winter knew she hit her target when the massive true manticore actually staggered to one side from the powerful impact against its face. It was like being hit by a high-speed cannonball.

Emboldened by this, she did the same procedure with the second bullet quickly before the creature managed to recover.

BOOM!

This time, the following impact got it to stumble down to the ground, before it recovered quickly and shot up with an angry roar. It frantically searched for where the annoying bullets came from, and found a lone white-haired human woman standing in defiance against its might. It growled with an angry snarl, and launched forward into a surprisingly quick charge. By the time Winter got the third bullet ready to leave the barrel, the monster was only a hundred yard away.

BOOM!

Fortunately for her, she had the forethought to aim for one of its front legs as it charged her. The impact was so great that its left front leg snapped out from under it, getting it to trip over itself, and it slammed into the ground with a loud earth-shaking crash. It slid to a stop just before the white-haired woman with a rumbling groan.

Winter should have used this time to put some more distance between them. However, being young and inexperienced with the hubris of actually causing this legendary Grimm creature some damage, she allowed herself to make one fatal mistake.

Instead of being cautious and keeping distance, she actually moved closer to the downed creature's face with her rifle up and ready. She was going to shoot the last two bullets from this distance, believing true damage would actually occur.

Once more, five more white glyphs began spinning quickly in front of the barrel while she was aiming right at the creature's remaining eye.

That was when a massive force slammed into her from the right.

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Winter had no idea how long she actually blacked out. She knew it wasn't more than a couple minutes since the true manticore hadn't finished her off yet. What fully brought her back to reality was her radio unit crackling with static and unintelligible voices.

She blinked her glacier blue eyes open to find herself staring up at the dark sky, and she realized she was laying on the ground spread-eagled. She had no idea what happened, and her entire body throbbed painfully with a mixture of extreme agony and cold numbness. She carefully shifted her head so she could glance to both sides for any clue, and she found the sniper rifle laying in large pieces on her right.

"-tenantt Sch-!"

Instinctively, she tried reaching for her radio with her right arm, and groaned softly in sharp pain. It was broken in several places. She could feel a few more of her ribs had broken too, and her right lung was flooding slowly. She was going to drown in her own blood if she didn't get help.

Blinking back some tears at the realization she would likely be dead soon, she slowly moved her left arm to reach into her ruined white overcoat for the radio.

"Lieutenant Schnee, the backup's here! We're waiting on you!" Sini's worried voice came through. Coughing out some blood, Winter wet her dry lips.

"Everyone...I'm sorry. You have to go."

"What?! We're not leaving you!"

"It's too… dangerous. I don't have long."

"We're coming! Hang on!"

"No!" she coughed briefly in pain at her outburst. "It's still here. Please...you have to go." she fell slack as a new wave of numb coldness passed through her. The radio fell from her hand, and she could barely hear Sini's frantic voice as she fought to stay awake a second longer.

It was becoming so quiet and peaceful around her, and she felt this wasn't a bad way to go. Her only regret now was that she was leaving Weiss on her own, and she could only hope her little sister had grown strong enough by now to go on without her protection. She had to smile as she stared blankly up at the sky filled with twinkling stars, thinking of her sister and their deceased mother.

She briefly wondered if her mother was going to scold her in the afterlife for not sticking around to watch over Weiss.

A rumble jolted her from her thoughts, and she fully came back to reality once more. She couldn't see anything from lying on her back. With a groan, she forced herself to roll on her left elbow while holding her broken right arm to her chest. It was pure agony for her, but this also gave her more range of movement to look around her surroundings as she forced herself higher on her left arm.

She found the true manticore slowly rising to its four feet nearby with some annoyed growls. Its scorpion-like tail was swaying back and forth over its head, and she realized now that it had blindsided her with that appendage since she was so focused on wounding the creature. She wanted to kick herself for her mistake, because she was going to pay for it with her life.

The creature's single eye locked with her gaze, and all she saw was evil, malice, and glee at her suffering. She returned the gaze with her coldest glare ever.

"I won't cower before you. I will not fear you, and I hope you choke on all my hatred." she spat out defiantly, some blood from her lung running down her chin.

The true manticore growled angrily, apparently denied the pleasure of seeing fear in its latest victim. It loomed over her with a low, rumbling growl. It was apparently trying to intimidate her.

In return, Winter Schnee displayed her nastiest sneer ever.

"Take that tail...and go fuck yourself with it."

Having had enough of her disrespect, the creature roared loudly and launched forward to devour the human whole in one bite.

"DYNAMIC ENTRY!"

WHAM!

Winter had her eyes wide open as she prepared to accept her fate, so she was utterly astonished to hear a loud roar interrupt her seemingly scripted death, and then watch a huge crimson bipedal monster that looked like a fox appear out of nowhere to double dropkick a legendary Grimm creature in the face.

To repeat:

He double dropkicked a fucking True Manticore in its face. Plus, he talked!

Her pain-addled brain was trying to wrap itself around what she just saw. It didn't help that it felt like the entire world was shaking violently around her with the Grimm being sent flying back and the crimson fox crashing to the ground where the Grimm once stood. The fox laughed a booming laugh as he easily rose back to his feet with all of his canine teeth bared in a intimidating grin.

"I'm disappointed in you, pussycat! You managed to run away from me, and what do you do with that chance? I find you stopping to pick on a beautiful woman! It's like you really want to die!" the fifty-feet tall monster fox roared as he stalked menacingly over to the groaning Grimm with thundering footsteps.

Despite the obvious size advantage the Grimm creature had over the fox, Winter couldn't help but believe the true manticore was the one completely overmatched here, especially when she noted the expression of terror forming on its face as the fox approached. She realized now that this crimson creature was the one who had damaged the Grimm so extensively earlier.

"Seriously!? 'Dynamic Entry'?! You invoke that green freak with your dramatic entrance here?! You didn't even use the correct attack; it was a flying spin kick, not a fucking wrestling move!" an annoyed feminine voice exclaimed loudly from next to Winter, making her jolt in surprise.

Ignoring the wave of pain the movement caused, she snapped her attention to the voice, and her jaw dropped when her eyes landed on a gorgeous and petite dark-skinned woman standing next to her. Her beautiful gem-like gold eyes were glaring up at the huge fox monster with exasperation and absolutely no fear. The fox laughed that booming laugh again.

"I know, but you have to admit shouting that name with any kind of attack works!" he called back over his shoulder with a teasing grin as he continued to approach the laid out Grimm. The woman rolled her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose.

"Baka... he's kinda right, though." she muttered quietly to herself, before glancing down at the injured human with a neutral expression.

"Thank you,...but who... are you?" Winter spoke between pained pants. She knew it wouldn't be long before she passed on, but she wanted to know the names of those who saved her from being a Grimm's meal in her last moments.

A long moment passed, before the woman sighed.

"Save that for after I heal you." she grumbled as she crouched down next to the human's body and turned her over so she faced up. Winter frowned.

"Impossible. I cannot recover from a… punctured lung with the little...time I have. It's too late to...transfer your aura…" she managed to get out in shallow breaths. The golden-eyed woman nodded as she put her left hand on Winter's forehead, and her right hand on the chest, just above those ample breasts.

"That'd be true if I used 'aura'. However, my own energy should do the trick...and you're lucky I bothered to practice Yang Release Healing at Naruto's insistence." the woman retorted irritably, as if it was a personal affront to her nature to actually heal anything.

At first Winter didn't seem to feel anything, and was beginning to feel embarrassed about having a hand touching a part of her breasts. Suddenly, some foreign energy flowed into her, and she could see some sort of a crimson energy covering all of her like a thin shroud.

"Interesting...it's resonating well with your aura." the dark-skinned woman remarked quietly, mostly to herself.

Almost right away, she could feel her ribs fixing themselves and her broken right arm was setting itself back into place as if it was new. Her head instinctively lifted slightly off from the ground with her eyes wide open, and a loud moan involuntarily escaped her throat as even more of that wonderful energy flowed into her. This was amazing! All she wanted to do right now was to hop to her feet and do cartwheels around the grassy field for hours!

The hand on her forehead pressed her head back down to the ground firmly, crushing that feeling.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you. Your ribs and arm will be mending for a good while longer." the woman suddenly said as if she read Winter's mind. At that moment, the energy flow stopped and Winter groaned soulfully in disappointment at the loss before she could stop herself.

"That should keep you patched up until your friends pick you up." the woman stated as she stood to get back to watching the ongoing monster battle. Speaking of that…

Loud rumbling and an earth-shaking roar got Winter to shake off the lingering effects of the strange healing procedure, though she still was feeling some high from that. She then propped herself up on elbows to see what was going on, and her expression became agape.

The true manticore Grimm had tried a full-body charge, but the monster fox, only half its size, easily stopped it with his feet digging deep into the ground and was now pushing it back with ease. The Grimm roared angrily and tried to chomp down on the fox's shoulder, only to be stopped by a clawed hand gripping its lion-like face.

It whimpered in pain as it tried to pull out of the impossibly tight grip, while the fox grinned sinisterly and reared back with his free hand clenching into a fist.

"It looks like I've left your face half done earlier! I'll fix that for you!" he growled, launching his fist forward into the undamaged half of the unlucky creature.

THOOM!

The impact literally shook the island as the Grimm was sent flying back for what seemed like forever before it finally landed in a violent tumble across the large field. Winter yelped in surprise with the ground shaking violently underneath her, while the woman stood still with a hand on her cocked hip, seemingly undisturbed by the tremors. The fox monster followed after the unmoving Grimm at this point.

"What or who is that?" Winter whispered mostly to herself as she stared at the crimson creature's broad back as he moved away. She also had to admire the almost hypnotic swaying of those nine long tails. The woman heard her.

"That'd be my beloved, Naruto Uzumaki. I go by Kurama."

Winter stared up at the petite woman agape, and then she began to glance back and forth between a tiny human woman and a fifty-feet-tall fox monster. The obvious question was coming to her mind, but she just didn't want to ask it. Kurama rose an eyebrow with an amused smirk at the utterly lost expression on the white-haired woman.

"He does have a human form, so no need to think about the 'logistics'."

Winter flinched in surprise, and blushed in embarrassment. Kurama had to admit she was beautiful like that, with her slightly pink cheeks standing out so starkly on her pale skin framed by her unique white hair shaken free from her signature bun. Naruto would likely find her attractive, both inside and outside, despite her somewhat cold exterior.

While Kurama was healing the woman, she had taken a glance through her memories. She liked how the white-haired woman refused the fate she had been born into, which was to be a spoiled rich heiress trained to run a large corporation. Instead she struck out on her own to make a name for herself without using any of her powerful family's influence. Kurama also was impressed when Winter did her best to protect her subordinates and managed to briefly fight against the odds with the manticore, despite her terror. When she thought she was about to die, her last thoughts and regrets weren't about herself, but about how she was leaving her beloved sister behind. Those were traits Naruto would appreciate.

Although Kurama was putting Winter on the list of possible partners for Naruto, she also knew now wasn't the time for matchmaking like her partner had said before. The duo's number one priority was to get off this island and blend into this world's society as soon as possible, and that backup bullhead coming for Winter was their ticket out of here. She'd have to keep any conversation with the Schnee daughter short for now.

"I'm sorry. It's just that I've never heard of such a powerful semblance like that." Winter's awed voice broke her out of her thoughts.

"This has nothing to do with aura or semblance."

"Then what…?"

"I'm not in the mood to go into long talks about this, so save your questions for later, princess." Kurama curtly cut off any more questions as she continued to watch the battle.

Winter felt herself swell up in indignation, and was about to insist she was the Schnee 'heiress' like she used to back in her teen years. She managed to force that down and took a calming breath. She wasn't that spoiled rich girl anymore.

"You'll have to forgive me for being curious about some unknown power never seen before in the entire history of Remnant. Especially when it's powerful enough to push a super-class Grimm around like it's nothing! And there's your healing powers...there was absolutely nothing like it before now!" she exclaimed with a challenging frown, refusing to be cowed by her savior. This got Kurama to stare down at her with a blank expression, and they held each other's gaze for what seemed like an eternity. Finally, the dark-skinned woman cracked a small smirk. For some reason, Winter had this feeling that she passed some sort of a test.

"Chakra."

"Huh?"

"That's all the hint you get, princess."

If Winter still had some strength, she'd have tried to strangle the woman right now for being so rude and vague. She had a feeling that'd lead to an early death, though, so she forced down her anger once again. This Kurama seemed to have a way with pushing her buttons.

The ground shaking and more roars shook her out of her irritation, and she shifted her attention back to the ongoing monster battle.

The fox creature, called Naruto according to Kurama, was holding back yet another charge by the larger Grimm, before he wrapped both of its front legs with several of his tails and wrested it sharply to the side with a roar. As it tripped and crashed to the ground, he began raining down devastating hits on its torso with all of his nine tails. Winter could tell this was dealing some major damage, considering that the continuous hits were shaking the ground like a minor earthquake, plus the pained yowls escaping the large feline-like creature.

Finally, after what seemed like forever, Naruto stopped his tails' relentless assault, and leapt high into the air to perform a powerful double foot stomp straight down on the laid out manticore's head. For some reason, he was doing this ramrod straight with crossed arms.

The resulting impact made the ground around the two huge combatant explode upward into enormous chunks of upturned earth, and the creature's head was literally driven deep underground under his feet.

Winter was glad she wasn't standing when the powerful hit landed. Otherwise, she definitely would've lost her balance with the ground practically giving a huge lurch underneath her. Kurama was still unfazed by all of this, much to her hidden envy. In fact, the short woman was shaking her head.

"This time it's M. Bison..." Winter heard her mutter tiredly, and she had to smile slightly. She didn't understand what Kurama was referring to, but it was likely some silly immature male thing that every man was prone to doing occasionally, even in serious moments. For some reason, she felt Naruto was not as scary as a minute ago.

"Oi! That's enough playing around! This girl's got friends coming and we need to get out of here soon!" the petite woman called out to Naruto. Winter stared up at her in surprise.

"W-w-wait! You can come with us! We can help you!"

"And put ourselves in your military's custody? No thanks."

"But-!" Winter's further protest died in her throat when Kurama snapped to her with a threatening glare. She shivered under those terrifying golden eyes.

"Can you really guarantee us a ride, with no questions asked, to the mainland and then let us walk out the front door as soon as we land?"

Winter's averted eyes were answer enough. There was no way the general or the council would let them walk away without answering some questions at least. And she knew things wouldn't end well for Atlas if they tried to detain the duo.

"Gotcha! I'll finish it off now." Naruto's booming voice reached the women, and they shifted their attention back to the large monster fox just in time for the upturned earth pieces to explode and the lion-like Grimm creature leapt out toward Naruto, who was distracted by Kurama's shout. It managed to chomp down on his shoulder, getting him to roar in discomfort.

Winter's entire body clenched at this possible turnaround in the battle. Kurama, on the other hand, cursed and pinched the bridge of her nose.

"Dammit! Stop screwing around, Naruto!"

This got Winter to gape at her in shock. Just why wasn't this woman concerned about her 'beloved' being possibly injured? Before she could worry too much, the fox's laughter proved Kurama right.

"To be honest, this is actually the first strike it managed to land on me all this time. I'll give this to the pussycat for once." Naruto retorted with a grin, not too concerned about the true manticore's teeth trying to sink into his shoulder. He reached up with his hands so one gripped its bottom jaw and the other did the same with its upper. The creature's remaining eye widened at the implications. It frantically tried to push off him, but it was too late. It was already trapped in the fox's powerful grip.

With a loud growl of exertion, Naruto pried its jaws far enough apart for him to slip out, and just kept pulling them apart with an even louder roar, until a sickening crack echoed throughout the large battlefield. Although Winter carried no love for all Grimm creatures, she had to wince in sympathy when the sound reached her ears.

With a pathetic whimper, the larger Grimm creature slid off the smaller Naruto to flop onto the ground with an earth-shaking thud, its bottom jaw now hanging unnaturally. It was now completely spent, and all it looked forward to was the sweet release of death. That was something Naruto was going to grant.

"I have to say it'd been fun fighting with you for a little while. Thanks for putting up some challenge, and I'll make this quick." its opponent muttered quietly in slight respect.

He then reared his head back to do an earth-shaking victory roar to to the sky with his arms spread out and his tails whipping around into an excited frenzy around him. Winter couldn't help but tremble with a large jolt of excitement at this display.

As his roar faded, his open mouth then began to glow an ominous bright blue with smoke coming out. He then snapped his head forward with a huge stream of blue fire blasting out of his wide open maw. The stream was so massive that the entire body of the true manticore was completely engulfed. The firebreath quickly grew and expanded until it was several miles in length.

Winter had to gasp and shiver at the awesome power being displayed here. The fire was so bright it was almost blinding. She wouldn't be surprised if it was visible from anywhere on the large island. In addition, even though Naruto was miles from here and aiming the massive stream away from her and Kurama, she could feel the heat.

She was also reminded of when the Schnee Dust Company researched and tested large rocket engines, and she was there in person when they did a test fire. She had been so amazed by that destructive power...until now. Naruto blew that out of the water completely.

Finally, the firebreath ceased, and the remaining stream then billowed into the sky in an awe-inspiring cloud of flame and black smoke. Winter knew there was nothing left of the Grimm creature now.

Naruto let out a rumbling sigh and turned his back to the fire to walk with thudding footsteps. Winter's stomach dropped when she realized the huge monster was coming toward them. Even though she was somewhat sure he was friendly, he was still quite intimidating in that form. Still, she was still unable to move, and steeled herself for anything as she watched the large bipedal fox approach.

Finally, the fox came to full stop just before the two women. Kurama was calmly standing with crossed arms as she stared up at him. On the other hand, Winter was doing her best to fight down her fearful whimpers while putting on a brave front. For what seemed like an eternity, she stared up at a pair of glowing eyes, colored crimson and ice-blue, searching over her. Naruto seemed to checking her out.

"Oi, give the poor girl a break. Get down here." Kurama's exasperated voice jolted Winter out of her staredown with the huge fox.

If she hadn't been watching everything carefully, she wouldn't have believed what was happening in front of her.

At first, Naruto let out an amused snort at Kurama's admonishment, and then his entire body glowed bright crimson. He then began to shrink fast, much to Winter's amazement. It wasn't long before he stopped shrinking at what she estimated to be fifteen feet tall. Then he glowed even brighter, and his entire body actually began to shapeshift as he shrank down even more.

After a few seconds, the shape reformed itself into an actual human with the bright glow fading away, and Winter had to fight down an intense blush. She was not expecting how incredibly handsome this tall blond-haired man was as he stood there with an easy smile. And were those whiskers!?

He was dressed in some slightly torn tight-fitting clothes that showed off his toned muscles, and the poised and beautiful white-haired woman was doing everything to force down a purr of 'Yummy!'. She was used to having men chase after her, not the other way around!

She had seen her share of handsome men in her life, but this man just oozed confidence that he could easily back up. Although she liked confidence in a man, she was surprised to find herself staring into his deep and compassionate right blue eye that also had a spark of mischievousness. His left was shut, and she could see a scar running across it. She actually felt sad at that for a brief moment, since she was sure having both those deep blue eyes looking at her would have made her believe everything would be alright no matter what. His smile showed her that he was an easygoing and approachable man that made anyone want to be friends with him. She briefly wondered how he had ended up with someone as blunt and cold as Kurama.

"Hey there. You alright?" his deep, masculine, but friendly voice was heaven to her ears. She gave a brief shudder, before clearing her throat.

"Y-yes. I do have to say that was impressive. No one man has been able to kill a super-class Grimm creature by himself in recorded history. Thank you for rescuing me."

Naruto did his famous sheepish pose with an embarrassed smile. Winter wanted to squee at how cute this was.

"It's no big deal. Well, I'm Naruto Uzumaki, as I'm sure my lovely lady here has told you."

Winter nodded, before shooting Kurama a neutral expression, which the small woman returned with a cocked eyebrow and an upturned corner of her lips.

"My name is Winter Schnee, and we've had a...rather brief chat."

Naruto chuckled, flooding Winter's body with warmth at this sound.

"That's Kurama for you." he replied with a knowing grin, getting the irritated golden-eyed woman to elbow him in the stomach. Winter smiled slightly at the display.

"Just...who are you two? Where did you come from? It's like you appeared out of nowhere." she had to ask. Naruto flinched comically in surprise while Kurama chuckled at an unknown joke that she was apparently not in on.

"Uh..you have no idea how close you hit that nail on the head, but it'll take too long to explain. Let's just say we're not from around here and leave it at that for now." Naruto replied, looking truly apologetic for not being able to satisfy her curiousity now. She couldn't bring herself to insist upon seeing that expression.

It was at this point the exhaustion of this exciting day finally caught up to her. She wobbled unsteadily on her propped elbow, before flopping down on her back with a groan.

"Winter!" Naruto's concerned voice reached her ears as she felt a comforting presence kneel at her side, and a large and warm hand slid in under her head to hold her steady.

"It's okay...I'm just tired." she whispered as she stared up at Naruto's face hovering over her. His genuine concern was something she wanted to cherish, even though she had only just met him. She came across so many people in her life who had nothing but ulterior motives for her that she had given up on finding someone who was truly genuine.

She could tell right away that this man in front of her was one of those rare few. She weakly rose her left gloved hand to get his attention.

"Naruto...can you remove my glove, please?"

She wanted to squee again when Naruto cocked his head in confusion with that squinted foxlike expression, but he complied anyway and tugged her black glove off. Her hand now uncovered, she reached up to gently caress the surprised man's warm cheek. She normally wouldn't have done this if she wasn't so exhausted and still feeling high from Kurama's healing technique, but right now she just wanted to check something.

"Those aren't tattoos?" she murmured in awe as she briefly ran her fingers over his 'whiskers'. Naruto slumped his shoulders with a groan while Kurama chuckled off to the side.

"It's almost always the first thing they notice." he grumbled with a resigned smile. Winter blushed and smiled shyly in return, but she knew her exhaustion was overtaking her now.

"Thank you both again for saving me. Will...will I see you again?" she asked almost fearfully. She wanted to know them more; especially Naruto.

The handsome blond man gently grasped her left hand and shot her a bright grin. In the background, the distinctive sound of a bullhead's engines was growing louder.

"You betcha! Now get some sleep, will ya? Your friends will be here any second. You can hear them coming."

Winter nodded weakly, and she was already drifting off when he laid her head back down on the ground.

Naruto straightened up, gave a nod to Kurama, and they disappeared in a pair of blurs.

A minute later, the sound of two turbine engines filled the area, and several spotlights shone down on Winter Schnee's unconscious form.

Five minutes later, she was safely secured inside the transport's hold. No one noticed a pair of blurs hop onto the top of the bullhead's fuselage as it lifted off and shifted its engines into cruise mode to speed on back to Atlas.

Later on top of the flying bullhead

"So...the faunus were discriminated against all of recorded history just because they have extra appendages? This is as stupid as discriminating based on the tone of the skin." Naruto muttered with a displeased expression. He was sitting cross-legged on top of the bullhead. No one on board knew they had a pair of stowaways.

"Yes. So even when we destroy those Grimm creatures eventually, it'd likely result in the humans and faunus turning on each other with no common enemy to worry about." the other stowaway spoke up from her seat on Naruto's lap. Kurama leaned back into his chest while drawing his arms around her tighter. It wasn't that she was cold, thanks to Naruto projecting a 'bubble' around them with his wind chakra to divert the cold winds away as their ride flew over the winter country of Altas. She just enjoyed being enveloped by her lover's large frame.

"Even with the Grimm still out there, a large faunus rights activist group, called the White Fangs, are now using terrorist tactics against the Schnee Dust Company to get their message heard, based on what I know from the birdbrain and princess's memories." she added. Naruto had on a thoughtful expression as he rested his chin on top of her head.

"So...Winter is related to that company based on her last name, I'm guessing?"

"Purely by name only. Her father, the one who sent that black ops group after us, runs it, and he is a racist and greedy bastard even in her own opinion. His company's dust mines apparently force atrocious working conditions on the faunus they 'employ'. Don't worry, princess has nothing to do with that, and intends to revamp the company's policies regarding this when she eventually takes over from her father."

Naruto smirked.

"Sounds like you're talking her up for me."

"You have to admit she's gorgeous and skilled, and I can tell you she has personality traits you'd like."

"You're right. She is beautiful, rather brave to face off against that cat, and she was cute when she wanted to check my whiskers out. I'm not opposed to getting to know her more whenever we meet again later."

Kurama nodded with an unseen grin. She had a good feeling he was hooked.

"Moving on, we know those White Fangs will likely escalate their activities soon, and begin involving innocent lives from both sides. Birdbrain believes they'll eventually want to commit total genocide of humans within a few years, and I have to agree. We've seen groups like this too many times in the past to think otherwise." she continued, now getting serious. Naruto frowned.

"If they're too fanatical, then we'll have to destroy them along with the Grimm. We'll start with a few very public examples to scare the less motivated members and recruits off, and if they keep it up, then we'll bring down the hammer on every remaining member. Same old plan we've done with the other groups before now."

"We'll see what happens. This still won't change the humans' views on the faunus, though."

Naruto smirked as a plan came to his mind.

"Oh, they won't get away with this either. Oi...you said there are a few large land masses still infected with the Grimm that the humans couldn't take control of?"

Kurama caught on to his train of thought, and grinned deviously.

"Yes, there are...and you have no idea what you're doing to me with your clever scheming."

"I'm pretty sure I do." Naruto muttered lowly with a husky voice next to her left ear, making her shiver, before he did a slow lick behind it. She hummed sharply as she arched her back against his chest.

"Damn you, Naruto…" she exhaled happily as she craned her neck to the side and allowed him to lay nibbling kisses up and down along it. Meanwhile, his right hand began to gently massage her right breast while his left hand slid in under her four-piece skirt to rub sensually up and down her smooth left thigh. This made her arch her back against him even more like a high-strung bow, and she moaned loud enough to risk the people in the bullhead hearing them.

"God...I love this dress on you, Kurama." he breathed hotly against her neck, just before her left hand shot up to grip his blond hair and yanked him forward far enough for her to turn her head and crash her lips to his in a bruising kiss. Meanwhile his skilled hands continued to get a slow but burning rise out of her sensitive body.

"We need to have our 'Arriving into a new world' fuck...NOW!" she growled lustfully after a few minutes of heated kissing, and couldn't seem to stop herself from squirming deliciously under his touches. Her beloved had the gall to grin unrepentantly.

"How is that any different from 'Leaving the old world', 'We destroyed the main baddie', 'We've taken over the world', or pretty much every other reason to have sex?"

"Shut up, smartass!" Kurama shot out of his lap and grabbed his wrist. At this point, they were flying over the outskirt of Atlas' capital city. With strength that a petite and a very horny 5'0 woman shouldn't have, she dragged her lover behind her as she jumped off the top of the bullhead.

Meanwhile, the blonde was completely unconcerned about free falling to their death from this height.

"We're gonna find an empty house for sale below, huh?" he deadpanned.

"Oh hell yes!" Kurama replied cheerily as they aimed for a large residential area below, intending to break into an unoccupied residence and make….good use of it for the next few days.

Naruto, trailing behind Kurama, grinned pervertedly as he noticed the flapping wind was blowing her skirt around in a way that it was showing him a fantastic view of her perfect panty-clad ass, and the clearly soaked spot over her crotch.

"The view's definitely great on the way down."

Next day in Atlas Central Command's infirmary

Winter Schnee's glacier blue eyes blinked wide open in an instant, and she found herself lying on a bed staring up at a white ceiling. She lifted her head slightly and glanced around. She recognized the infirmary. Letting out a sigh of relief, she laid her head back against the pillow.

I survived, and I'm still alive.

She spent a few minutes basking in that thought, but apparently someone had been notified she was awake because her room's door slid open to reveal a female doctor and her superior, General Ironwood.

"Sir…" she tried to say, but was stopped by a shake of James' head as he stayed outside the door while the doctor entered.

"First, she will check you over. I will speak with you if she deems you healthy enough." he said before the door closed to give Winter privacy for the checkup.

A few minutes later, the imposing man was standing by her bedside.

"I have just been told that you're in surprisingly good health for facing off against a true manticore Grimm with what were apparently suicidal distraction tactics, according to one Private Sini." he began with a curious raised eyebrow. Winter had to let out an unladylike scoff.

"I am afraid you will find this hard to believe, sir. Even now, I still can hardly believe what I've seen."

"After everything else that's happened the last few days, I'm inclined to keep an open mind."

---

After the long debrief, Ironwood had on a pensive expression as he carefully thought over every detail he was told.

"This is quite a situation we're in." he finally said.

"I understand, sir."

"Two unknown persons, each with powers beyond our imagination, are likely roaming around Remnant. I am concerned about their intentions."

Winter had to speak up.

"I honestly don't think you need to worry about them being hostile. I can tell that much by only speaking to Naruto Uzumaki for a few minutes." she replied with her most sincere expression. James stared at her for a long minute, daring her to break off. She didn't. He nodded slowly.

"I have to admit I believe you, but I will still send out your descriptions of the two individuals for authorities to keep an eye out. However, we will not confront them. I merely wish to open discussions with them."

Winter nodded. She expected at least that much.

"What about my father?"

Ironwood let out a frustrated sigh.

"We tracked that second bullhead all the way to one of SDC's buildings right here in the capital. It was so blatant that we couldn't believe we were lead straight there. Just as we were about to raid the location, we received a call from the building's manager, stating that an unidentified aircraft had landed on his building without permission and he found it empty. He turned the bullhead over to us and allowed us to search the building from top to bottom without any fuss, and then wished us luck with catching the culprits. We couldn't find any sign of anyone who had been on that plane in the building, and there was nothing on board to link it to your father. In the end, we have no proof he was involved with the incident in any way."

Winter let out an angry scoff.

"I should have known Father would have had backup plans to make himself look like the innocent party!"

James gave a sympathetic pat on her shoulder.

"We'll have to wait for another opportunity. For now, I'm glad you came back. I'd say you should rest now, but I believe you have one more visitor waiting." he finished with a small smile and a nod before he left through the door.

A second later a little white blur zoomed to her side with teary ice-blue eyes. She looked almost exactly like a younger version of Winter, with the exception of their eyes being different shades of blue. The older sister also silently apologized for taking almost all the genes in the bust department, for she could tell her younger sister would eventually grow into a more lithe figure compared to her impressively voluptuous one.

Even with that belief, she continued to support her younger sister's hopes for having big breasts with hidden tears of pity.

"Winter! Y-you're o-o-okay!" Weiss exclaimed brokenly, obviously wanting to hug her older sister, but was barely holding back for fear of any possible lingering injury. Winter smiled and opened her arms to draw the sobbing fifteen-year-old girl into a tight embrace.

"Th-they said you faced a true m-manticore and survived!"

"I know. I'm an amazing big sister, am I not?" she bragged jokingly, but was surprised to find a pair of ice-blue eyes glaring sharply at her.

"I don't care about that! All I care about is that you came away alive! You're all I have, and I don't know what I'd do with you gone! I'd miss you terribly!" Weiss admonished angrily as she squeezed tighter, not ever wanting to let go of her big sister again. Winter smiled softly and began to rake her fingers through her little sister's side ponytail; a gesture that was usually calming for both. Briefly, she thought about admonishing her little sister for blatantly omitting their father in that heartfelt statement, but she couldn't bring herself to care. They held each other tightly with sniffles for a few long minutes.

"I'm sorry for worrying you. I didn't want to go either, and I would've missed you in the afterlife. I love you, my little snowflake." Winter murmured lovingly as she pecked on the top of Weiss's head.

"I-I love you, too. Just be careful next time." the younger sister whispered as she moved back and began wiping away her tears.

"Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere for a long time. It's all thanks to a certain man and his companion." Winter replied softly with a warm smile at the memory of a certain blond-haired and whiskered man. This got Weiss to straighten up and stare at her in shock.

Not once did her older sister ever utter anything about any man with that kind of tone and that soft smile in all of her life. This was big!

"Who's he?! Is he handsome?" she exclaimed with an excited expression. Winter reared back slightly with a small blush on her cheeks as she averted her eyes.

"Why all the excitement? He just happened to save my life and I only spoke to him for a few minutes."

"It's just that you have never said anything kind about any man you've met so far. Especially not with that smile. In fact, I was worried you'd end up being a spinster….uh…" Weiss paled as she let her mouth run ahead of her brain again. And even worse, it was in front of her older sister.

Whose closed-eyed smile was rather ominous, as was her violently twitching left eyebrow.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?"

Soon…

"I am happy to see you're up and about, Glyndia." James Ironwood commented with a nod. The beautiful blond woman was standing behind Ozpin on the video screen hovering over the general's desk.

"Thank you, James. The sensations have stopped yesterday, and I hope that was the last of them." the teacher replied with a curt nod.

"That may not be the case, considering the information I've gathered."

Ozpin rose an eyebrow.

"Won't your council object to you sharing this information?"

"They are concerned about the disappearance of those who caused the disturbance, considering we are scanning the entire Untouchable Island and have yet to find anything except for widespread destruction, a few minor Grimm creatures that we destroyed, and the remains of ten unidentified men near a crashed unregistered bullhead. Essentially, the entire island is completely empty now and ripe for the taking."

Glynda gasped softly.

"After all we know of that place, I've always considered it an impossibility for the island to be settled by humans."

Ironwood nodded grimly.

"Yet, here we are. The Atlas council is interested in the whereabouts of the two individuals responsible for such destruction, so they're electing to spread the news to the other councils in order to conduct a more widespread search for those two. By the way, I've noticed you don't seem interested in my mention of the ten unidentified men, Oz."

Ozpin brought his usual mug up to his lips to take a sip.

"Because I know exactly what happened to them."

James leaned forward with an interested expression.

"It sounded like you somehow had a witness on the island that I didn't know about."

Ozpin smirked over his mug.

"A little bird told me."

Several days later

"So tired…" a man's voice echoed through a large snowy forest just outside Atlas' capital.

"Oh, quit your bitching." a woman's voice shot back harshly.

"You practically kept me chained to the bed for three days, and then you drag me out at this ungodly hour of the morning." Naruto exclaimed as he pushed a tree branch out of the way with Kurama following after him.

"I didn't hear you complaining at all in all that time, and it's eight." she retorted dully as Naruto let the branch go, missing her head completely because she was short.

"That's right! Ungodly!"

"Well, after all that 'bed rest', I figure we're feeling energized-"

"Speak for yourself."

"-and I want to test my reduced powers fully. So...here we are."

Indeed, the duo have now found themselves completely surrounded by a large pack of beowolves.

A sigh escaped the blonde.

"It's too goddamn early in the morning for this shit." he muttered in resignation even as he drew out his twin sabers. Kurama shot one of the snarling beowolves a fanged grin as she took up a stance and sharpened her fingernails into deadly claws. The targeted beowolf immediately launched forward to begin the battle.

"I think this is going to be fun world!" she exclaimed with a vicious grin as she sliced the incoming Grimm's head off easily.

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Finally done with the pilot. It's been fun writing this one. I'll be posting a brief chapter tomorrow with some scenes I thought up, should I make this a series. It's mostly just how most of the RWBY characters would interact with Naruto and Kurama, and a few funny scenes I thought up...and even scenes that I don't think will be in the final story at all. Think of this as a ….trailer for the rest of this story should I decided to write it.

After that, I'll be working on and posting the next chapter of Outfoxed, and then come back here to post some ideas about the One Piece X Naruto crossover.

If you're curious about what Naruto might look like fully transformed...I would say...think of the werewolf form in the movie Van Helsing. You can easily see the transformation clip on youtube with 'Van Helsing werewolf'

Take that, make the fur a bit less shraggy, change color to crimson with some golden blond, give it muscle-growth steroids, and finally make it fifty-feet tall in this chapter, and you'd probably have a pretty decent image.

Thanks for reading, and please leave feedback about anything in this pilot. I know some parts probably didn't turn out great, and I'd likely change some things around a bit if I post an actual series.

P.S. If you have any suggestion for any quick scene you'd like me to write up between Naruto/Kurama and any of the RWBY characters in the next installment, I'd be happy to hear them out in reviews or PM. I'll contact you if I like the idea and then credit you in the next chapter.

No lemon, yaoi, or disturbing scenes though. Just something quick, funny, or maybe fluffy.