It was all nice and quite in the NEON dorm, after the ball last night Naruto, Elsa and Oberon just collapse into bed and was sound asleep, even now they were fast asleep. Until Naruto's mobile phone rang, fumbling around for it Naruto answered it
Hello? Naruto speaking" he groaned having just woken up
"Oh, Naruto it Sakura" a cheery voice said
"Sakura, you know its only like six o'clock the morning right?" Naruto asked getting down from his bunk and left the room
"I'm sorry Naruto, but this was too important, I need you to come to Konoha right now" Sakura said
"Wait, why?" Naruto asked confused and still a bit hazy
"Because3 I found something that you need to hear in person and not over the phone" Sakura said
"Alright I'll be there in half an hour, and Sakura" Naruto said
"Yeah?" Sakura asked
"Bring coffee" Naruto said hanging up to get ready
Naruto warped to the gate to see his teammate and old friend Sakura Haruno standing at the gate holding a cup of coffee for the blonde ninja huntsman
"Thanks" Naruto said taking the cup before looking over to Sakura, noticing how she looked
"Is everything okay?" Sakura asked as she crossed her arms under her chest, she had her soft pink hair in a high pony tail, while leaving her bangs out, she wore a dress similar to the one she wore as a genin, only this one was a bolder and deeper red than the dark pinkish red colour it was, she also wore black fingerless goes that went to mid bicep. she wore shin guards as well as black wedge styled high heels.
"Hey Uzumaki you're staring! I don't Elsa would approve" Sakura said
"Just admiring how...mature and different you look" Naruto shrugged.
"You're just lucky I don't slug you one" Sakura said smiling "Now come on, we have business to discuss" Sakura said leading Naruto away to somewhere.
"So what do you want to talk to me for?" Naruto asked placing down the empty cup he was given, he could sense something was off with Sakura. She was twitchy, unsettle something that was a far cry from the calm and collected young woman she usually was. This was big whatever it was.
"I don't know how to simply say this, but I think your father, he had...an...affair" Sakura said wincing as she dropped the bomb
"BULLSHIT! NO WAY WOULD DAD CHEAT ON MUM! HE HAD A FAMILY, HE HAD ME AND YANG! BUT YOU'RE SAYING THAT APPARENTLY THAT WASN'T ENOUGH FOR HIM!" Naruto shouted getting angry
"NARUTO! Calm down, I did some after hours research and found that your father was the last of the Namikaze Clan, his parents died during a mercy mission to the Lotus Country, the same one where your friend Lie Ren came for, Lord Minato's parents were civilian medics and the country's stability was in jeopardy so they were sent in with five platoons of Combat Medics, and were helped out by the Lie Clan. Only they were caught in the crossfire of an invasion by the hidden stone village. Anyway he grew up under Jiraiya's guidance, back to the point back then the Clan Restoration Act was active and they decided that Lord Minato needed a second wife or a lover on the side, after checking the record books I got a few names of his 'expanded' family they were Natsuko Barano and her daughter Akane Barano" Sakura explained
"Okay, um thanks" Naruto said getting up feeling stunned
"Wait! here I digitized the research so you could look it over and find them" Sakura said transferring the files from her pink scroll over to Naruto's scroll.
"Thanks" Naruto said leaving.
Naruto stood at the grave of his father who didn't know what to think of. He was feeling anger and confusion from the new information he team mate said. He sighed and looked down before he walked off bumping into an old friend who was visiting another grave, smoking
"Hey Naruto" the old friend said
"Oh Shikamaru" Naruto said "visiting Asuma again" Naruto said
"Yeah I am, your dad?" Shikamaru said
"Kind of, I needed a place to think, only to get more confused" Naruto
"Okay, so anyway I have the information on the Time-Space techniques shall I send them to Oberon?" Shikamaru asked as he took a drag of smoke. Naruto took in his friend's appearance, he had half his hair in his trademark ponytail, he wore a jonin uniform with a deerskin vest like his father.
"Thanks, man I appreciate it"
"No problem; what's it's for?" Shikamaru asked
"A team project" Naruto said leaving
"Very well, remember Naruto we're your friends so you can tell us anything alright?" Shikamaru said
"Let's just say my sister is even more protected now" Naruto said making Shikamaru confused before it clicked with him.
"So you want to send them back in time to when they died" Shikamaru concluded "This is going to be interesting"
Naruto arrived back at Beacon an immediately went to the private study area of the library, where one can use a small room big enough for one or two people and study in private, among other things but today Naruto was using it for studying the information he had, opening up his scroll and flicking through the information, which was mostly text and no photographic evidence of the woman or her daughter Akane. This was just a mystery to Naruto, looking at the information was tiring. He didn't know how long he was in there until he heard a knock on the door.
"Enter" he said as the door opened reveal his partner and fiancé Elsa.
"Hey is everything okay you weren't here for the first part of today" Elsa said softly sitting down across from Naruto.
"I...I just some shocking news is all" Naruto said swiping the screen to his scroll.
"What?" Elsa asked curiously
"It appears I may have a half sister, between mine and Yang's age" Naruto said looking puzzled
"Isn't that a good thing?" Elsa asked
"Not really, she was born when my parents were still together and it was legal due to the out-dated CRA" Naruto said looking at the Valish translator Weiss got for him when he was younger
"CRA?"
"Clan restoration Act, Baa-chan got rid of it when she came into leadership, anyway the basics of it is that the last male member of a high level clan can have from two to four spouses. That way the clan can regain its members faster than just having one spouse. So I'm guessing my father used it to have another daughter like Yang wasn't enough for him, and then I came along five years later not one word of a second sister" Naruto said slicking his hair back in frustration looking up at the roof.
"Come on you need a break, besides there are others who could help you with this" Elsa said standing up and placing her hands on his shoulder rubbing them lightly
"Really who?" Naruto asked clueless as he felt a peck on his forehead.
Naruto was sitting in the cafeteria trying to translate the names from elemental language into Valish, at first he didn't know why until he discovered in the notes Sakura gave him that the woman was from the Remnant kingdoms and came to the Elemental Nations for an unknown reason.
"What are you working on?" a voice said as two people sat down. Ren and Blake sat down with a snack and drink each. Blake took a sip of her tea before looking at Naruto with some concern
"Let me guess Elsa talked to you guys" Naruto said closing his scroll.
"She didn't have to, Naruto are you okay?" Blake asked.
"Not really" Naruto said explaining the situation that was given to him. He finished and slicked back his hair back in the way he did when he was frustrated, a particular habit he apparently inherited from his father.
"So you're trying to find out who they are by translating their names, which is going to be touch considering Elemental Names have a bit different context" Blake said
"However, if you break down the names into different components and then translate those it should be easier than trying to obtain the full name's true meaning" Ren advised
"Thanks" Naruto said begining to break down Natuko and Akane Barano into components. What he got was: Natsu, Ko, Aka, Ne, Bara and no.
Back in the private study area, Naruto looked over what he was given thanks to Ren and Blake.
"Okay so time to translate, straight off the bat Aka can be translated as Red, Ko's a suffix to a girl's name also meaning child and No is translates into of, of Red. And to my memory Akane means brilliant Red. Anyway running Natsu into the translator gives me: Summer. Okay so Of Brilliant Red and Summer Child, finally running the word Bara, which comes out as...rose, so there names translates to: Brilliant Red Rose and Summer Child of the Rose. Hang on remove Child of and you get Summer Rose mean that Akane Barano is" Naruto said before running out of the study room
"Professor!" Naruto said running into the headmaster's office.
"Whoa, Naruto are you okay?" Ozpin asked concerned for his usually calm and collected student, last time he seen Naruto this riled up was the dark event.
'Can we still call it that now that they're back? never mind that now' Ozpin thought
"Yeah, I'm okay I was just wondering if we have any sort DNA student database?" Naruto asked making Ozpin curious
"We do, however it is only for the teachers and government members to access and use" Ozpin said
"I know, and technically I'm government by being a duke, look all I need is just one search, to confirm my suspicion about something that has come up in the past couple of days" Naruto said
"Very well, I'll allow just the one search, however you must report back to me your findings. I don't want to find out you've been messing around with it." Ozpin said
"Yes sir" Naruto said leaving
'Why would he want access to the Student DNA Database?' Ozpin thought thinking about how Professor Ambrosia came up with the idea from the Genetic database just in case most of the identifying features were removed from a dead student, He knew that something was up just as Goodwitch walked in.
"Was that Uzumaki I just saw?" she asked
"Yes, I take it he hasn't been to a single class today?" Ozpin asked.
"No, which is strange for him, what is going on with that boy?" Goodwitch asked "Come to think of it, the only students who interacted with him were Lie Ren, Blake Belladonna and Elsa Schnee. I questioned them on it and they said they didn't know or had the vaguest sense of what he was up to" Goodwitch added.
"And just now he asked for access to the student DNA records" Ozpin said suddenly realising something "Oh Dear" Ozpin said
"Ozpin?" Goodwitch asked before finally clicking on "Do you think?"
"I don't know but why else. We have to protect whoever he's looking for. I can honestly say things may not be as good as we wanted them to be"
"Okay now to do the scan, first my DNA and then this profile and click compare" Naruto said waiting for the test to finish. He needed to do this and maybe just maybe he would disperse some of his inner darkness, and finally start to heal properly, and until he was sure nothing was going to distract him; classes, friends, Grimm, teachers, Torchwick this was all he needed to do was confirm the suspicions in his head. After waiting for what seemed like an eternity the results came back.
"Its a match, so you are what I think you are" Naruto said exiting out of the database as his temporary access was over now he knew what he had to do.
Out in the courtyard Ruby was stretching enjoying the warm sun on her skin as she hummed a happy tune to herself not caring what was happening around the school, that was Naruto came up to her
"Oh hey Ruto, you okay?" Ruby asked
"Yah I've been worried about something; can I talk to you about something?" Naruto asked leading her over to a tree "I know this may be painful but what do you remember of your father?"
"Nothing, I didn't have one around when I was growing up it was just me and mum, until she adopted Yang" Ruby said feeling saddened by the fact
"Well I think I know why you don't have one, you see...wow this is difficult...you see Ruby you and I share fathers. Thanks to an out-dated rule in our village dad had an affair with your mother and you're the result of that unison. I'm sure there's more to it than I know but what I'm trying to say " Naruto said being cut off by Ruby hugging him
"I somehow knew that we're were siblings from when I first saw you. I just knew" Ruby wept as Naruto comforted "I knew" Ruby said as she hugged Naruto tighter, as he too began to cry. Suddenly Naruto witnessed a vision
"I'm sorry Kushina we didn't you before" Minato said
"Why not?" Kushina said looking at both Summer and Minato before hearing a slurp sound "Victor, can you just shut up for ten minutes with that ridiculous slurping"
"Oh I'm sorry the mood was a bit stifling" Ozpin said
"That I understand, but why you two went behind my back instead of coming to me directly is another thing entirely" Kushina said
"I'm sorry" Summer said
"Oh don't be sorry, what's done is done, though I just wish you guys consulted me first, Summer I don't mind that Minato helped you conceive a child, we'll chock it up to the CRA, but the fact you did behind my back, yeah that I'm pissed off at, now Summer I want you to promise me something" Kushina said taking the huntress' hands in her own. "If anything happens to me and Minato please raise Yang like she was your own" Kushina requested
"I will, just as long as you take care of my own child as your own, if something happens to me" Summer said hugging Kushina
"I will" Kushina smiled. "Now Minato, Victor I believe that damn cat got loose and someone needs to catch it"
"BUT WHY US?" Minato asked
"Think of it as punishment" the girls said
"So she knew, mum knew about Ruby being Dad's second daughter, and I'm okay with that" Naruto said
'I'm glad to hear it' a voice said from within himself.
"mum?" Naruto asked
"I'm still here sweetie, its just you weren't listening because of your fear' Kushina said happily
'Why wasn't I listening?" Naruto asked
"The darkness within you was covering my voice, but now with your sisters and friends by yoru side you will beat back the darkness' Kushina said
"Well that went well" Ozpin said
"Just be glad it did" Goodwithc said "Now shall we get back to that?" Goodwitch asked the monitor on Ozpin's desk was showing a bunch of file names
"Yes we must, with what I think is Torchwick's plan we'll need it up and running very soon" Ozpin said as he click on one named: Project Acceleration
"But we must keep it out of his hands" Goodwitch said talking about the mechanist General Ironwood.
"I agree" Ozpin said
A/N: Well damn looks like after each episode of RWBY you gusy will be getting a new chapter of this series, but DAMN did anyone see Cinder with Emerald and Mercury entering Beacon, speaking of which is she an adult or late teen I mean she seems older than she should (so too does the other two) the fandom places her as an adult, canon has been vague about her age.
So drop a comment telling me what you thought of this chapter, what you think Cinder's age and how she got into beacon until next week I'll catch you on the flipside