A twelve year old naruto watched as the rain fell in slow motion, it had been three years since the flash and everything was falling apart.
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The rain hid the tears that fell from his face as his black jacket slowly ruffled in the wind. His hair matted with sweat and water as his eyes glowed with sadness. Shikamaru was falling apart in his grief, the stress was getting to the nara, as Naruto had even caught him drinking alcohol at one time as he cried over his inability to save the pink haired girl.
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Ino on the other hand threw herself into work. He hadn't seen her asleep once since he woke from the coma, as she worked to become a medic and eventually a field medic a trail that would lead her to becoming the youngest doctor on the planet, along with the early death of just pushing to hard. Ever since he woke up from the coma he would hear her screams for dead Akimikichi.
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He felt gravity pull he as he watched the cloud charge with lighting, and the wind sweep his hair, as water poured down, from the heavens.
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Lee had run off somewhere, with Tenten and Guy not that he could blame them-They were never the same after Neji's death.
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The wind batted his clothes, as he felt his hair stand on end. The amount of despair, following them around wasn't helped by the news crews following them around like they were some sort of animal to be displayed in a zoo. Remnant was treating them like puppets to be shown on the news, as only their young age kept them out of news broadcasts and offers to play roles in films based off the events that had transpired when the 'Leviathan' as they named it, sunk everything he had ever known.
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Qrow stared down at him, with a face of horror as his friends did the same. Qrow had taken them in after the flash… well every minor that was willing to stay with him that is. Ino looked at him with tear streaming down her face, Shika looked stunned as he watched the blond, while One Sasuke Uchiha stared down with fear, a single hand reached out, as he layed on the ground trying to catch him. Several scars visible on the boy's wrist and showed brightly against his white skin, showing the signs of how many times the Uchiha almost succumbed to the grief.
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Poor bastard that Uchiha. His entire family having been slaughtered by Danzo and his idiotic crusade. All but him and his older brother, who ended up smiling at the younger brother, blood leaking from his teeth as a pieces of debris pierced his chest. The duck haired bastard was planning on disappearing off to mistral.
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Lighting snaked down from the skies in the same slow motion, as it dig a zig zag between raindrops. Each second drawing it closer, and closer to his body. However as the electricity drew close, a buzz in the air he couldn't stop the forlorn smile that formed on his face, as his eyes turn chaotic, glowing with a lavender light.
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The electricity hit his body, as with a back flip, his feet were facing the ground, the lighting seemingly following his directions as it flowed around his body into his feet, as he struck the ground with a flash of light and a crack of thunder. Standing in the crater, he looked up at the cliff, were his friends his family waited, staring down at him with tears in their eyes.
He needed to get away from it, he needed to get away from it all. And he did, as he turned walking away from everything he knew, and turning to everything he would learn.
As he stepped into the forest he had a whimsical thought… 'I wonder if there's such a thing as a blue tree?' Little did he know in a few hours of wandering he would find a cave… that lead to forest full of white deer, star like dust crystals and most of all?
Blue trees
-Two years later-
A fourteen year old boy, Smiled down at girl with slightly brown skin along with her straight silky brown hair that looked perfect with her glowing hazel eyes, as she stared up at him with a smile that was just a bit smaller than usual.
"Is something wrong?" She winced slightly before saying in an awkward voice "It's nothing…" He sighed as he looked around, the place only they knew about. It was a hill outside of town with a large amount of trees at the bottom, however the hill itself had only one tree with pure white leaves, and that made its branches look like fluffy clouds.
"Is this about that guy at your school again?" He asked a tinge of jealousy entering his soft voice. Hazel eyes sparked upon recognition of the emotion "No, well yes but not in the way you seem to think." The Boy looked up cluelessly as his brown haired companion. "It's just… a few weeks ago he said something about you and it's just been stuck on my mind, and well you know…" she said looking away from his eyes as if he was going to insult her.
"What did he say?"
The girl sighed, as she too looked over the hills that surrounded them. "You know Cal… he can say some pretty mean things when he gets worked up…" He stared at her. "Well he said… he said he heard you bragging about how you took my heart and… and you were going to just leave me the second I Start to age and lose my "Looks"" She closed her eyes as she leaned up against the tree with white leaves.
She knew it was a stupid thing to be afraid of, after all they were both only fourteen, not twenty. They were both just starting life so it wouldn't be a surprise if they just grew apart and disappeared from each other's life.
Did that make it any better? No, it just made it worse. They were teens high on puppy love as her father liked to say, and they would have to come down at one point or another.
The boy rubbed the back of his head nervously, after all he really didn't know ho to reply to that. "Thats an awfully grown up thing to worry about…" he said trying to lighten the mood… it didn't work at all.
So he sat beside her, putting her in his lap, as he wrapped his arms around her, as she rested her head on his chest. Before she looked up at him with a puppy dog eyes and said in the smallest most desperate voice he had ever heard come from the little angel that rested on his lap.
"So are you going to love me when I'm no longer beautiful, would you follow me across the world if I left, do you even care about me?"
The boy stared at her and pulled her closer, as he seemed to think about his answer.
"No I'm not going to love you when you're no longer beautiful, no I wouldn't follow you across the world, No I don't care about you…"
The girl felt helpless as he spoke, as she tried to get up and run, only for his grip to tighten around her body.
"Because as far as I'm concerned you will always be beautiful to me, No I wouldn't follow you around the world since you're never going to leave my arms, and most of all I don't care about you, I love you!"
The girl stopped struggling as she stared up at the boy with love, unmatched by any the lands of remnant had seen before, her hand on his chest as she leaned close to him, sparks flying when their eyes met.
The White cloud tree blew in the wind scattering the leaves, from it branches, joining the red and yellow leaves in the fall winds, as the two kissed a soft tender kiss, even though the cold fall winds blew against them they both felt wonderful as though the sky was light years away from being the limit.
They pulled apart from the kiss breathing hard as he looked at her, with shining loving eyes, as she moved close once again. He closed his eyes in preparation for another kiss.
*Slap!* "Ow!"
"Never do something like that again you jerk!" But she still settled into his lap as he laid against the tree Seemingly unaffected by his girlfriend's epic slap. They laid there basking in each other's presence like it was a sauna.
Before she looked up at him again, with innocent brown eyes.
"Hey naruto… I love you." He smiled softly
"I love you to Amber."
He sat up gasping for air, his hair a tangled mess, blue baggy eyes as he started to calm down. Pitting his face in his hands naruto sighed. 'That dream again…' Shaking his head, he got up and took a shower.
Leaving the shower, his hair soaked in water now instead of sweat.
He looked around the master bedroom of his "Cave" home. Their was a single twin sized bed pushed into top right corner a bookshelf in the opposite corner with a single large, walk in closet with sliding doors on the left wall right next to the bookshelf, while the bathroom door was on the exact same spot on the opposite wall, a few feet away from the bed.
Several pictures were on a nightstand next to his bed while a single person sofa sat next an artificial window on the far side of the room, in between the bookshelf and the bed along with a large table, filled with weapon designs and dust theory along with a few ideas on what to do with the grim plating they seemed to be amassing at much quicker rate than either spines or, masks. A single gigantic Hologram that was projected from a two small slits in the wall in between the bookshelf and closet, displaying the entirety of remnant, with a few extras such as small labels that showed what they had called each section of land, in the myths.
Probably because they didn't use the Grimm Plating as much as the other, Grimm materials... They really needed to come up with another name for that...
But what he paid the most attention to was the nightstand, well more specifically the pictures on it. There were several, like one of the few showing all eleven of the friends before the leviathan struck. Several showing the only four still in vale, while another was much more somber taken soon after he had woken up from his coma, with all the survivors huddled together, in a mass picture.
But there were two others showing him kissing a girl with brown skin, brown hair, and brown eyes, with a white tree in the background. While the other depicted them sleeping soundly his back against the tree while she slept with her head, on his chest sitting in his lap.
Those two pictures showed some of the happiest he had ever been in his life, before she disappeared one day, with no warning.
Behind them laid a single container specially made from treated dust to allow view of its contents, which consisted of a single pale gray acorn.
An acorn from the white cloudy tree that they had both loved so much.
He sighed, going over to the walk in closet, and grabbing his usual, clothes though as he slipped his gauntlet on he couldn't help but think today was going to stranger than usual. That though was enforced by the fact we had, been sent a invitation to talk with the headmaster, of beacon… as the Grimm hunters.
It wasn't a real meeting since it was going to be a conference call but still it was bound to be a whole new level of strange.
That was also the reason he was going into vale, meeting up with shika, and Ino at juniors getting suitably drunk, for the day meeting Winter schnee and then wake up early the next Morning in head out to a renting conference complex, that were used for long range meetings when someone couldn't make it.
Admittedly Drinking before meeting Winter was Qrow's influence showing, he might actually get drunk before the meeting just to piss off the old drunkard only to blame it on him when asked, by the supposed hard ass assistant of Ozpin.
Yeah that sounded like fun.
Well except the meeting with winter part… you may be asking why the teen had to meet with the daughter to the Schnee company. the answer had to do with a dusty Qrow meddling in his life, and the cold woman wanting to apologize for barging into his house… That and she supposedly had something he would want to get back from her.
Whatever the hell that meant.
At least now he didn't have a job to be late to, after starting up Lavender-Company he didn't have to really worry about money, as they sold the simpler designs he had made for mass production and in all honesty it was something just about anyone could do if they went to single academy since they had a weapon crafting class.
All he had to do was create about ten different designs, that were sturdy and would hold up to time along with being practical to use in the field, without any real training.
It was easier than you would think.
After a week of operating all the equipment on his own, he had enough money to start hiring a few more design specialists, and office workers only for it to suddenly expand enormously once he put Ebisu a fellow survivor as CEO.
Naruto, Ino, Shikamaru, and Blake wouldn't have to work for a great while if they didn't want to, not to mention some of the more complicated designs Shikamaru came up with occasionally. Naruto was many things but he was never going to beat the Nara when it came to shift-weapon designs. Just like he would never beat Ino when it came hopscotch or imbuing dust into clothes.
It was just apart of life, I mean it's not like he was some sort of main character… right?
