Hello readers and welcome to my new chapter. On this one, the group will be reading about the argument between Naruto and Blake about the White Fang. And the canon Blake will get a bit of a wake up call about the White Fang. So, enjoy the drama.

Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY or Naruto.

Reading Ch 7: Black

"Chapter 7: Black…." Blake read nervously, wondering how injured her counterpart. Or if she survived the explosion at all.

"Shit!" Naruto shouted as he held Blake, who had been knocked out cold by the explosion, the sensory overload had taken her out. Not to mention she had been physically exhausted by Naruto, having taken a good few strong hits and having her aura reduced to next to nothing. The explosion had wiped out the rest of her remaining aura, and knocked her out.

Naruto was hurt, he had taken the full brunt of the explosion right against his back.

He had a large open gash on his chest, and he had a huge burn that had gone right through his clothes and burned off a fair amount of skin. His back was bleeding, his chest was bleeding, and he was falling off a cliff holding onto a knocked out woman.

Not to mention there was a giant metal platform falling after them.

"...I'm kinda glad he didn't let me go with him." Yang said with a nervous chuckle. She doubt she could handle that much damage like he is doing. But a part of her is very worried for Naruto, even though he will survive this.

Naruto's back slammed into a large boulder, before he bounced off of it and the platform crashed into the side of the cliff. Naruto groaned in pain, and then his eyes widened when rocks started to fall with the platform. Rocks knocked into rocks, and those rocks knocked down larger and more dangerous rocks that soon became an avalanche of stone falling towards them. The rock slide was dangerous, and the platform coming after it was even worse for them.

"Them?" Blake asked in surprise. Considering his feelings about the White Fangs, she would've thought he would leave her for dead. Especially for blowing up the platform.

Yes, them.

"I think that just broke the for fourth wall." Ren pointed out. He wonder how many times that will happen or if this will be a rare coincidence thing.

Naruto wanted to put this girl in jail so that she could serve out a well deserved justice, and pay for the crimes that she had commited for a misguided cause.

Blake frown at that. It's the humans fault for making faunus do things like the White Fang did. They treated her race as actual animals, so they should retaliate right back.

There were no personal feelings against her, and he sure as hell didn't want her dead. She was knocked out, unable to defend herself, so it was up to him to make sure that she got out of this alive.

Weiss huff. "If I was in his shoes before I had went to Beacon, I wouldn't think twice about leaving her. No offense Blake."

"A lot taken." Blake said, giving the Schnee heiress a dirty look.

Naruto chanelled some chakra onto his hand, before he grabbed onto the side of the cliff.

Only for a boulder to smash into his hand the second after and knock him off of the cliff again, only this time with a bleeding hand.

"Can't stick to the side of the cliff with this rock slide... Damnit!" Naruto shouted, because the options weren't looking good. There was a small river on at the bottom of the cliff, about 20 meters away from it actually, and a lot of rocks falling above him. He was going to either hit the ground and get crushed by boulders, and a steel platform, or he was going to drown in the water and also be crushed by rock and platform.

Neither option was fun, but with the water at least there was a chance.

"A very small chance." Ren said. Not only your bones might be crush by the impact from the water, the debris might still hit them. So it was a very small chance for Naruto to survive.

But considering this is only chapter six, the blonde and Blake will probably survive.

Naruto would have created a Shadow Clone, were it not for him being unable to form the seal while holding Blake and having a broken hand. Naruto kicked off of the cliff, having only seconds before he hit whatever he was going to hit.

His back hit the water, and the air got knocked out of him. Naruto was forced to let go of Blake when his hands went to sooth his back, purely out of instinct, and they went to his throat to prevent him from taking in water. Boulders started to go into the water, shaking up everything and making the currents go more violent. They were being dragged down by the boulders flow changes, and Naruto started to swim towards Blake. Her weapons were already at the bottom, but she was caught on a slab of metal that stuck her to the bottom.

Naruto grabbed Blake, and used his teeth to hold her weapons, before he kicked his legs and much as he could and managed to breach the water. Naruto swam over to the side of the river with Blake, before he pushed her onto the side. Naruto spat her weapon onto next to her, before he gasped and breathed in some much needed air.

"And he survived!" Yang cheered, breathing out in relief. She was worried that Naruto wasn't going to make it through that fall and the debris over him and Blake.

"Woah, that was dangerous." Naruto said as he climbed onto the side of the river, and he placed his hand on Blake's chest. He pushed down, before she started to cough up water onto the ground and breath in oxygen as well. The act of coughing out water woke her up, and she started to spew water out of her mouth and nose. She was gagging and coughing up everything in her lungs, while Naruto leaned up against the nearest fallen boulder and groaned in pain.

He was pretty badly injured, having protected Blake from a lot of stuff.

That made the girl feel a bit guilt and her posture shows it. Even though he plan for her to go to jail, he was willing to protect from all that while others wouldn't think twice about abandoning her. Weiss being an example.

She was still spitting out a lot of water and gasping for breath that just did not want to come to her. She gagged a little more, before she spit out the last of the liquid in her mouth.

Her eyes widened drastically, and she looked around her. She grabbed her weapon, before she tried to scramble to her feet.

"Ah!?" Blake called out as she fell down and held onto her swollen ankle. Something must have smashed into it when she was knocked out after the... explosion. Her eyes widened and she looked at herself, and she tried to remember what had happened right before those pieces of paper went boom.

She was stealing Dust with Adam. She had got her butt handed to her by that Naruto guy. She had abandoned the White Fang. She had tried to cut the train platforms apart. Naruto had jumped and saved her from the explosion.

"That basically sums it up." Yang joked. "And I prefer the term, getting your ass kicked." Blake glared at her while Ruby yelled "Language!" at her sister. The only reason she didn't yell at Blake last chapter was because she was in shock at what happened.

"You okay there?" Naruto asked Blake, getting the wet girl's attention to him for the first time since she had woken up.

"What... where... how...?" Blake asked, not sure what to ask first. She couldn't exactly run away from Naruto with her ankle sprained, not broken just sprained. He would catch her, but she wasn't going to jail without putting up a fight. She levelled her sword at him, and switched it into a pistol form so that she could fight long distance.

"Careful there, I managed to block most of the explosion, but damn!" Naruto said as he leaned forward, and Blake managed to catch a glimpse of his destroyed backk.

"Oh my god!" Weiss said, holding her mouth in shock. The others are also shock and horrified as well, especially Yang. Seriously, how is this guy still conscious? That look like it would hurt like hell.

Her eyes widened, though she wasn't sure why Naruto had gotten so injured to save her. She had her first question she was going to ask though.

"Why did you save me? You hate Faunus don't you, you tried to put us in jail." Blake asked with an unsure tone.

A few people in her look at her incredulity. "Didn't it cross your mind that some people might think what the White Fang is doing is wrong, whether he/she is human or faunus?" Ren asked her carefully. Blake ignore her, mainly because she doesn't have an argument for that, and kept reading.

She saw the damages done to Naruto's freely bleeding body, though the wounds were healing over and steaming unnaturally. He seemed to have some sort of strange healing ability that was much faster than an aura would give.

"Seriously, I want to know what is causing the fast healing!" Weiss exclaimed, trying to figure out. No amount of aura could heal someone this quick. Is it because of his chakra? Can his people do that?

"I don't hate Faunus, and I don't hate you." Naruto told her truthfully, and Blake looked at his whisker marks, before she remembered something.

"Why are you trying to put our kind in jail!?" She shouted, unable to actually go and punch him for betraying their race.

Spirit sighed. "Even though Naruto isn't a faunus, do you really think every single faunus will support the White Fang or let them do what they do?" Blake stare at him.

"I can understand not supporting them." Blake said to him. "But why would they put their own in jail?"

'Maybe they know that the White Fang actions are wrong and want to stop it?' Spirit thought with a mental eye roll, but didn't say it. He'll let make the realization when she read this chapter and the next.

"I'm not a faunus, I need money... and for the good of the people, I want to put the White Fang away. I get money, and people worry about less criminals." Naruto told her with a wince as a rock slipped from the cliff and hit him in the shoulder. It was dislocated for sure, and relocating was going to be a bitch.

Everyone winced, especially Yang. "Yeah, it really is going to be a bitch." Yang said, rubbing her shoulder. There was a few times she dislocated her shoulder while searching for her mom.

"Language Yang!"

Yang merely roll her eyes at her sister.

"Criminals... I can't argue there, but why the White Fang, there are plenty of criminals out there." Blake questioned him. She wanted to know why he was targeting the White Fang, even if she just quit.

"They are dumb." Naruto told her, and her temper flared at him.

"How dare he?!" Blake said in anger. They may be misguided, but they were treated equally, they wouldn't have to act this way! What give him the right to judge them?!

"He isn't wrong." Weiss said, liking Naruto a bit more and more. Blake, meanwhile, glare at the Schnee.

Spirit look at her carefully. If she let her temper get the best of her, he will need to enact punishment to make sure they know he's being serious. And the best punishment for people is pure embarrassment.

"Dumb!? We may be misguided, but if we were treated equally we wouldn't have to act this way! What gives you the right to judge us!?" Blake shouted, her fuse before her temper tantrum getting shorter and shorter.

Blake was too angry to think her other was saying the exact thing she was thinking.

"What right do you have to hurt people?" Naruto asked her, and Blake wanted to stand up and slap him, but she grabbed her ankle and groaned in pain.

"Ignore the pain and do it." Blake hissed to her other, making Yang look at her in anger.

"He isn't wrong." Yang said in defense to her, making Blake look at her in anger as well. Is everyone against her?! Weiss she can see, but Yang?

"What right? Faunus aren't treated as well as humans are! We are treated as less than human, and hated for something we can't control!" Blake called out at him, and she was seconds away from shooting him.

"You tell him other me!" Blake exclaimed while the others look at her in shock. Blake, cool and collected Blake, is getting too into the story. It's as bad as Yang when she read her arc.

"So you take your anger out on innocents?" Naruto asked her, and she recoiled back in shock.

That also broke the wave of anger from the other Blake. She forgot that was the reason she left the White Fang, because they were hurting innocents.

His words seemed to ring within her, because that was part of the reason that she was leaving the White Fang. She realized that they weren't going for peace between the races, or equality, now it was more about getting a spot higher than humans, or destroying them totally.

"Like you would know anything about this, you're human, so how could you understand what the Faunus go through?" Blake asked bitterly. She wouldn't take a lecture from Naruto.

That had everyone give her a look of anger for saying something like that while Blake shrink under her seat. Okay, that may have been racist of her to say something like that. And also hypocritical of her to act racist.

"So, because I'm human, I can't understand your pain?" Naruto asked her, eyes narrowed with a glint in them. It would seem that Blake had a small mental issue, she was misunderstanding that people could experience similar pains.

She was also underestimating Naruto's pain.

"You definitely are." Yang said, one step closer to hitting the girl. Meanwhile, Pyrrha felt sympathy for Naruto. Is everyone gonna keep reminding him of his past in each arc?

"Only a Faunus can understand the pain of a Faunus." Blake confirmed for him, and Naruto sighed at her, showing how disappointed he was.

"Do you really see how stupid you're acting?" Yang said to partner, making her shrink. She would've defend herself about how her other was acting, but hearing about Naruto's past in the other chapter makes wrack up in guilt. And she couldn't say that it was other, since they have the exact same personality.

He had saved her, because he believed she could be saved in more ways than one.

'Is he really that naive?' Both Ren and Weiss thought. No offense to the cat faunus, but people like Blake, who is set on their beliefs, will be very hard to change.

"When people get hurt, they learn to hate... when people hurt others, they become hated and racked with guilt." Naruto told Blake, and she looked at him with narrowed eyes. She didn't know where he was going with this, but his words were wise... and they seemed like words somebody had spoken to him before.

"Those words were spoken to him." Spirit told them, when he saw eyes on them. "It's been told to him by someone he thought of as a grandfather." He didn't say anything else after that, making the others return to the story.

"What are you talking about, what could a person like you ever know about hurt? You want to put me in jail, but you saved me... You are so happy, happy people like you can't know pain." Blake said to Naruto, conviction in her tone.

Many people merely facepalm while Blake shrink a bit further. "Your other is being stupid!" Nora exclaimed, wanting to break Blake's leg for acting stupid. But she doesn't have her hammer, so she couldn't.

"... I'm kind, because I've been hurt. When you know pain, it allows for hate... but knowing that pain also allows people to be kind. I'm kind, because pain allows people to grow. I grew up to be kind, because that is how I chose to grow up." Naruto told her. He didn't want to sit alone and cry, so he had grown to be funny, fun loving, and kind to people who needed kindness. He saved people, and gave seconds chances to people who frankly didn't even deserve those chances.

"And that makes Naruto one of the few who are very purehearted, despite the bad past he had." Spirit said. He can name many animes, books, and movies where characters are very pure of heart out of all the characters around them. Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and Naruto are one of those few.

"... What pain do you know?" Blake asked, the way Naruto spoke, his sincere tone. It made her want to hear what he had to say. He really did seem like somebody who knew pain.

"Hate, loneliness, loss for starters. Like a Faunus, I've been hated and discriminated against for being different... for something I can't control, and didn't even know about until 5 years ago. I had no family, no parents or siblings... no friends, and was hated by most everyone. I know pain, and I kept losing the few people who loved me. I know your pain, and I hated people... I wanted to destroy everything at one time, but kind words saved me... So I want to save others." Naruto explained to her. He didn't tell her why he was hated, but Blake was perfectly capable of seeing the sadness and happy tone to his voice as he fondly remembered his pained past.

Even though they all heard it before, it still brought tears to their eyes when they hear about his past. Meanwhile, Blake felt like scum right now. Naruto face a past even worse than worse than hers or any faunus, and yet he still retain a pure heart. Says a lot about how she acts.

"... No family or friends, and hated. Did people believe you were a Faunus because of your whisker marks?" Blake asked, wanting to believe that Naruto was hated because people thought he was a Faunus.

"No... people thought I was a demon. There are no Faunus where I'm from... In my entire home country, I was the only person like me. You said goodbye to your partner, why?" Naruto asked her, wondering what she had been saying goodbye to.

Wow, that was even worse. To be the only one that was different out of everyone and be hated like that. That made everyone heart clench at the thought. Whoever those people are, are stupid and monsters themselves to be hating one boy for something he couldn't control.

Blake went silent, and refused to talk to Naruto.

"... Why did you save me?" Blake asked Naruto again, this time wanting a more complete answer than the one that she had been given.

"Why not? You deserver a second chance like anyone else, and I don't want you to die." Naruto told her. He didn't want her dead, or her partner. Blake did have one point, the White Fang, while horrible, were misguided. They didn't have the proper road to being treated correctly, only the route to being treated like monsters to be feared.

'And that's a point down.' Weiss thought with a frown. The White Fangs are monsters to her and should be treated as such, especially since they give the Schnee Dust Company a lot of grief.

She also felt conflicted about Naruto giving Blake a chance. On one hand, the Blake that is with them now has her trust, even if she use to be a White Fang member. On the other hand, she also felt that he shouldn't give White Fang members second chances, only to stab him in the back.

"You risked your own life to save me, a stranger?" Blake wanted to keep the subject from herself. The less she spoke about herself personally, the better in her eyes. She was still curious though about his motivation for saving her.

"Like I said, why not? You didn't deserve to die, you haven't gone that far... You don't seem like a murderer to me at heart. I seem like a good person, who has been hurt and wants to make other see your pain." Naruto honestly spoke from the heart.

"And she really is a good person." Ruby agreed, making Blake smile at her young leader.

Blake looked down at Naruto wound, something that she helped to inflict. She didn't directly cause the wound, but she helped to cause it. She was just as responsible for his injuries, even more so the huge burn and gash on his back.

"... You do understand pain, I'll give you that... but you can't just expect us to let them walk over us, and do nothing either." Blake told him, and he shrugged his shoulders.

"Yeah, he can't expect to just let us be walked over like that." Blake said, agreeing with her other.

"Who are you punishing by stealing Dust?" Naruto asked her, wondering what her answer was.

"The Schnee Dust Company, they don't get any profit from stolen Dust. They use Faunus and spread around hate against us." Blake told Naruto, who snorted.

"That's a dirty lie!"

"Says the girl who dislike/distrust all faunus just because of the White Fang." Spirit shot back, making Weiss glare at him. "I know that many of your family friends are dead because of them, and that your father cause you grief because of it, but that doesn't mean every single faunus is in the White Fang." He feel sympathy for her, but that attitude is driving on his nerves.

"You aren't just punishing them, think about it from this point of view. When I was a kid, I pranked people who pissed me off... But my pranks didn't just get them." Naruto told Blake, a sour grin on his face.

"What does pranking have to do with this?" Blake questioned. Now he was talking about pranking of all things.

"Oh yes, the Schnee don't get profits from stolen goods... but those goods can't be sold to the people who need them. Huntsmen and Huntresses lose out on ammo, and run low in battle... the loss of ammo means they die... and when they die, innocent people die!" Naruto exclaimed to Blake.

Her earlier thoughts came back with a punch and her eyes widen. Naruto is right. She and the White Fang were indirectly raising the chances for good people to die, people who might've never done anything to the faunus or faunus themselves.

But how can so many years of hate can be healed? Just like that?

Her eyes widened, because when she thought about it... that was true.

She was indirectly raising the chances for good people to lose their lives, people who might have never done any wrong to the faunus.

"You... How can so many years of hate just be healed!?" Blake shouted out, not having a single clue what she was suppose to do.

'My other is really just like me.' Blake thought in her head.

"How should I know, I'm still looking for the same answer ya know. How can so much hate just be healed? How can peace come, when people don't want peace... I don't know, but if there is an answer, I can swear to you that I cam going to find it!" Naruto spoke with his eyes filled with nothing but conviction.

"And I have the feeling that Naruto can do it." Yang said, believing in her other's (And her's) crush. Spirit held down a smirk, knowing that Naruto did made peace in his own world on the main dimension.

He had enough conviction in his eyes to frighten Blake for a moment, because the power and emotion in those eyes were honest and pure.

He didn't know the answer, but he wanted to find it.

Naruto's injuries, which had been large and wide, were nearly completely healed. Blake noticed this, as did Naruto, but she didn't say anything. She was thinking over his words, and finding that while Naruto and her did not get off to a very good start... he was a respectable person.

"I agree." Blake said. Being treated horribly, but still maintaining a good heart. Saving her life when he could've leave her for dead. Wanting to find the answer on healing so much hate. If any of those doesn't earn her respect, nothing would.

"You really don't hate the faunus?" Blake asked, just for confirmation.

"Not at all... People think I'm a Faunus, no matter what I tell them. I don't hate you Blake, or your race... Honestly, even when we were fighting I didn't hate you. Will you go to jail peacefully?" Naruto asked her, and she shook her head.

"I hope he doesn't put her in jail." Yang said, with Ruby and even Weiss agreeing. Even though Blake use to be in the White Fang, she's still their teammate. And they don't want that to change.

"Can you give me a second chance, to make things right and do things the right way? I've already left the White Fang... I want to make a difference, without doing what I did." Blake asked Naruto, and she spoke of what she wanted to do. Naruto closed his eyes, before he grinned at her and opened them.

"Sure thing, but I think we have other issues here. You can't walk on that ankle, it is getting night time, and we are a lot of miles away from civilization. If you stay off it, you should be better in a day or so." Naruto told her, and Blake seemed to realize the situation. She was unable to walk, while in a grimm infested forest. She had no way of getting around on her own, and her fighting potential was cut down.

Things were not looking good for her.

"It's best to accept whisker's help." Yang commented lightly. Even she, and even Weiss, isn't dumb enough to try to survive in a Grimm infected forest on their own.

"... Do you have a Scroll?" Blake asked Naruto, and her shook his head.

"I do not." He said to her, and she groaned. That would have made things easier for them, a lot easier. Naruto stood up, before he walked over to her, and without even asking her permission he picked her up and situated her on his back.

Blake blush a little when she saw that while Yang eyes turn a bit red at seeing thought. She admit, she's a bit jealous that Blake is getting a piggy back ride from Naruto, even though she had one.

Blake's eyes widened dramatically at the sudden move, before Naruto jumped up and stood on the side of the cliff.

Now her eyes were nearly popping out of her head.

Clones, energy balls, walking on surfaces like cliff sides, and whatever else he had done. He had way to many abilities, and most likely had abilities hidden away from her.

"Agreed." Everyone said at once. Makes them wonder if his people has that many abilities as Naruto does.

"What are you doing?" Blake asked suspiciously, and Naruto grinned at her.

"Well, looks like I'll get us to Vale. Whatever you do after that is up to you, but I think you are on the right path now." Naruto told her. If she quit the White Fang of her own will, then she was setting herself up for redeeming her past actions already.

Blake smile a little. She is glad someone like Naruto is saying something like that.

Blake didn't really have a choice if she wanted to come with him or not, she couldn't walk on her own at the moment.

"Also, I saved you 3 times, not once." Naruto informed her, and her eyes widened.

"What?" Blake asked, and Naruto grinned.

"First, the explosion. Then I stopped you from getting crushed to death by boulders, and last I saved you from drowning. So three times, you owe me a bowl of ramen." Naruto told the girl, who furrowed her brow.

"He saves her life three times and he want ramen as reward?" Jaune said in disbelief. Spirit was right, the guy really is addicted to this stuff.

Saving her life three times, and all he wanted was a bowl of ramen?

She could do that.

"I definitely can." Blake said, glad he isn't asking for anything she wouldn't want to give. Then again, she wouldn't really expect it from Naruto. The guy is just too nice for something like that. "And that's the end of chapter seven."

"Well, this book is becoming a emotional rollercoaster." Yang said, with everyone agreeing. They all keep getting shock, sadden, angered, and plenty of other good and bad emotions.

"And this roller coaster is both fun and horrible!" Nora said with a pout. She hates being sad, and yet this book made her sad twice. Then, like doing a 180, she brighten up. "Anyway, next chapter!"

And that's the end. I hope you guys like this chapter. It was hard to see how Blake would react without ignoring what happened in the other chapters, so I hope I did good. Also, I hope I didn't mess up Weiss character on here as well. It was hard to show her prejudice of the White Fang and faunus themselves, as well as keep the fact that she trust Blake in the canon. Review, favorite, and follow, and I will see you later.