Waking up Ruby had a melancholic face, licking her dry lips and yawning, she goes to stand up. The cold air of Beacon's halls flood around her, the place was indeed a castle, and just like a castle bore a chill that can be found no where else.
In her red PJs, she stretched, going to reach for something on her neck she gives a sad sigh when she cannot feel it. "Guess it wasn't a bad dream after all…"
Sighing, she walked over towards her shoes, slipping them on she almost had to take right one immediately. "Ouch, ouch, ouch!"
She rubbed her foot, leaning down, she looked through the shoe. Her eyes widened when her hands came to feel a cross shaped object, her heart stopped, slowly she gripped the object and pulled it out. Almost gasping, her mouth hanged open like a gaping fish.
"M-my necklace?" Ruby questioned herself, she couldn't believe it.
Walking over to Yang, she knelt down. "Yang…Yang…Yang~ Yang!"
Yang lilac eyes fluttered open, she rubbed them. "Oh, what is it Ruby…can't I just have five more minutes?"
"Yang, look, I got mom's necklace back!" Ruby says excitingly, her voice accidentally wakes Weiss, who glares at the girl.
"Ahem, some of us are trying to sleep!" Weiss barks a little, rolling back over, trying to sleep.
Yang growls at the girl, her eyes turning red, she then calms down with a sigh. "Now, what did you say Ruby?"
The girl responded by just holding her necklace in front of Yang, the girl's lilac eyes opened wide. "He actually brought it back, that's actually cool…wait, why do I feel so comfortable?"
Looking down she saw her head was resting on two pillows instead of one, leaning up, she was looking around. "Yang…is something wrong?"
"Oh, nothing Ruby, I'm just looking for a friend I met yesterday. By the way, where did you find the necklace?" Yang asks as she rubs her eyes, the mixed haired girl looked at her.
"Duh!" Ruby holds it out for her to see, "it must've fell off my neck into my shoe."
Yang blinked at her sister, at last however, the cogs began to turn in her head. "Oh, um, Ruby now I remember I saw a boy going through your shoes."
"My shoes?!"
"Yes, your shoes, which was weird…but he was probably too shy."
"Oh, really, is he in here?"
Yang kept looking around, looking for Naruto, only to come up empty in her search. "Well…Ruby, not really um…honestly he should be."
"Oh, is it that blonde haired guy, Jaune…wait…no…he's actually overconfident…" Ruby rubs the back of her head.
Yang laughed a little bit, "you aren't lying, but no…I guess we'll see him shortly in the meeting."
"Yeah…wonder what he's doing right now?" Ruby muses herself, "besides its not that one guy right…the strange one…"
"Oh, you mean the one that can't talk?" Yang questioned, she had a small smile come across her face. "You'd be surprised.'
"Come on now, Yang, he's creepy." Ruby bemoans asking the question, "you're just teasing me!"
Naruto sighs, looking at The Emerald Forest from atop Beacon, he was wearing his battle gear. His bag was at his side on the roof. Currently, he was drawing a sketch of the forest in his location journal. He always made sure to document where he had been, marking anything interesting, or the animals that lived there, if at all.
His book was filled with various sketching, some of them were of people as well. Like Ghira Belladonna, Sienna Khan, Ozpin, Michael and his wife, and even his mother was featured along with a drawing of his father.
He wasn't the best artist, he always draws people with their hands behind their back, he couldn't draw hands to save his life. Everything else was fine, the eyes could use a little more detail, the hair could use more depth, but the hands were his worst enemy in art.
He hated drawing hands, he never understood how Sai could make it seem so easy.
The various creatures had drawn over the course of the last few years while having the journal was impressive. He even thought about getting a second journal, just so he could continue to document the area, and the types of plants that even lived there.
Forestry, ironically, was in his blood. He felt drawn to the forest, as if it was always calling to him, it was strongest in a full moon.
Writing in his journal, Naruto had finished drawing a picture of Yang and Ruby, he had been up all morning drawing pictures of all the people he met to make sure he remembered their names and documented them.
Stopping, he felt something crawling on his hand, looking down he spotted the culprit. A monarch butterfly had skittered along his hand, chuckling a little bit, Naruto placed his pencil inside of the journal. placing the journal on the stone banister, he moved his hands to allow the butterfly to crawl upon it.
It stopped in his palm after he rotated between them a little bit, then fluttered its winds before flying off his hand. Smiling, he watched as the butterfly flied down towards the garden.
Looking at the sun, the blonde saw the time through practice, he nods as he starts packing up his journal and things. He got up on the banister, taking a deep breath, he made sure to secure his bag.
He then hopped off the top, air rushing into his body, he felt cool wind blow past his fox ears as he descended down rapidly. Placing his right index and middle finger to his head, he focused his semblance. Disappearing in a orange flash, appearing on various other banisters as he made a game out of it.
Leaping off one, jumping backward, backflipping, front flipping, acting as if he was sawn diving, and lastly appearing out of the last teleportation on the ground doing a one-handed hand stand. Kicking his body in motion, using the momentum, he flipped upright.
Lapis came outside the front entrance, into the courtyard. "Oi, Naruto, we're supposed to be getting a locker!"
The blonde's ears perked up, realizing that he had forgotten about getting a locker. Using his semblance, he appeared next to Lapis, startling him. Giving him a peace sign, while showing the toothiest of smiles. Lapis rolled his eyes, motioning for the boy to follow.
Getting out his headphones, Naruto turned his scroll onto his music app, playing soft guitar music. The music was from a show he had watched before, he bought the soundtrack because it appealed to him. The show was Ico: Castle in The Mist.
The theme song was often played with a strumming of guitars, it was interesting what kind of music people could make with just a few instruments and hums.
Taking a deep breath, losing himself into the music, Naruto continued to walk down the hall with Lapis.
"So, Amira is already there, so is Rock Lee." Lapis told Naruto as they walked, "so we'll be a quartet of friends."
Shrugging, Naruto looked at Lapis scratching his chin, snapping his fingers the blonde smiled. He flashed ahead of Lapis, grabbing a pen off a desk before flashing back. The blonde Hunter in training was very good at his semblance, it was only natural for him.
Walking along the halls, they came around corner, leading towards where the lockers was. The duo watched as other students walked in front of them, with Naruto accidentally bumping into one. A green haired girl with orange eyes.
"Oi, sorry, didn't mean to bump into ya there!" The girl calls out, she looks at him. "Hey!"
The girl dashed back in front of him, she holds out a flute. "You just dropped this."
Naruto smiles, taking the flute, bowing in respect.
"Eh?"
Naruto made an X over his throat, smiling while rubbing the back of his head, but he did give her a thumb's up.
"Oh, sorry, well…um…better get going."
The girl walks off, running over to a tall brown eyed and haired young man with a red mask over his face. Sighing, Naruto looks around, only to feel a pat from Lapis. "Hey man, cheer up, I'm sure you'll find a girl."
Naruto rolled his eyes, looking atLapis, while drawing a map of the school on the paper. He wanted to make sure to find his way on his own next time.
Inside of the locker rooms, Naruto saw that most of the lockers were taken. Walking over to the singular lockers Naruto found his lucky number, which was ten, without an occupant. Smiling, he opened it, shoving his gym bag inside of it.
Reaching into the gym bag, Naruto pulled a satchel out of it. Putting in his location journal, his flute, and Kurama. He grabbed a few Dust Crystals, putting them inside of his pouches on his lower clothing. Checking the wire he had, he nodded as he felt his kunai.
"Hey Cardin, look, strange kid carries a purse!"
"Yeah man, no kidding, is he a girl? Tomboy!"
"Tomboy!"
"Tomboy!"
Naruto turned towards Cardin's group, shaking his head. "They won't last out there Naruto…just take a deep breath."
Taking a deep breath, Naruto nearly ran into Ruby, which made him freeze up. Both of them locked eyes, both of them standing motionless, the reason was so simple. With both of them being of similar height, the simple act of being close made them face level, they close enough to feel the heat of their breath.
"Hey I wanna tal-huh?!" Ruby was stunned to see Naruto suddenly disappear in a flash.
Yang was there watching it, she was stifling her laughter as she just watches Naruto basically pull a Ruby when the girl used to be a scared little kid. Yang turns, seeing the flash exit out of the corner of her eye, and sees Naruto hiding behind some lockers.
"Oh this is just precious, though I'm going to kick Cardin's ass one day…so what if Naruto is a little feminine for carrying a purse…err...satchel." Not wanting Ruby to notice, Yang snuck away from her sister, coming towards Naruto was who had hid behind some lockers.
Sneaking up behind, she had a mischievous grin come across her face. "Hey there lover~"
Naruto's eyes shot wide open, but when Yang grabbed him, she was stunned to get drag into the warp with him. It made her nauseated as she felt herself getting warped around several more times, each time Naruto ended up in a different part of the locker room.
Skillfully, or by sheer luck, they managed to flash around where Ruby wasn't looking.
Yang got over her ill stomach, laughing as Naruto stopped flashing. Turning around, he glared at her, showing his teeth as he growled. "Oh, relax, relax. I was just joking, why did you flash away from Ruby…I sent her over to talk to you."
Yang's wink calmed Naruto a little bit, he took a deep breath, calming down. He never really intends to activate his semblance by instinct. Ruby shocking him, Yang scaring him, it was just out of natural reaction for him to activate his semblance and get the hell out of dodge.
"Oh, see, now we're on the same page. Hey, listen, how did you give me back my pillow?" Yang asks as she watched Naruto pull out a pen, grabbing a piece of paper at a nearby locker, and writing on it.
"You sleep as though you are deaf."
"Oh wow, I'm usually a light a sleeper."
"Lies."
"Hey!"
"L.I.E.S."
Naruto makes the motions as if he was chuckling, though no sounds came from him, it was almost as if he stifles his laugher, but Yang knew better by now. As many people tried to say that she was dumb, she was actually keen on observance, and her observance pointed towards three things about Naruto.
Innocence, meaning he never really got a chance with girls being near him all the time.
Shyness, if her theory was correct, Naruto liked Ruby and flashed away because he didn't know how to communicate with her sister.
Skilled, the oddball out of the observation, but the greatest one. She could tell that he was no slouch when it came to a fight.
Yang watched as Naruto slightly blushed, noticing why, she backed off a little bit. "Sorry, didn't mean to press the girls on you."
Naruto rubbed the back of his head, looking away in a blush, he looked at the clock and pointed at it. Yang blinked for a moment, she then went wide eyed. "We're late!"
Naruto grabbed her shoulder, making looking at him as he put two fingers up to his temple, locking onto a strong aura signature.
They then both flashed out.
"I'm never going to get used to that, even if we end up on a team." Naruto rubbed the back of his head as Yang hurled on the ground a little. "Though thanks, we're on time."
"Namikaze Naruto, Yang Xiao-Long, glad that you could finally join us." Naruto and Yang turn towards Glynda. "Now please head towards your respective launch pads."
Naruto nods, walking away from Yang, finding his launch pad by Cardin, the boys chuckle as his satchel bounced on his hip.
"Look, its beta male." Cardin points out, making Naruto sigh, "don't drop your fanny pack."
Naruto turns to Cardin, glaring at him, only to then smile as he flicks the boy off. Cardin glares at Naruto, only for Glynda to step in between them. "Is there a problem here?"
"No mam, we're just joking around, boys will be boys ya know." Cardin lies like a snake, smirking at Naruto as Glynda nodded. "So sorry if we meant any bad by it."
"Well keep it under control, Namikaze may very well end up on your team. Speaking of Namikaze." Glynda tossed Naruto a whistle, making him look at as he caught it.
Time seems to slow down for him.
"Oh look, girly boy has a whistle!"
Naruto was pushed down as a bat winged Faunus laughs, kicking Naruto into the ground. "So foxy, what'ya going to do now?! Not so smart without the whistle eh!"
The Bat Faunus held Naruto's whistle, dangling it with his claws. "Mommy and Daddy gave you this didn't they, oh poor baby~ you don't belong here!"
"Yeah!" A clawed Faunus yelled, "half breed!"
"You're not a true faunus, I mean look at you, you need this because you're broken!"
"Yeah, probably because he's some genetic freak!"
"Hey, quick question Naruto…you going to flash away again, pray to the almighty forest?"
"What a crock!"
"There is no great forest God, there is no Gaia, no Ori, no one out there…well not anyone for you, freak! You can't even talk, what God would want a broken toy!" The Bat Faunus scathes Naruto as he looks down at the crying boy.
Naruto watched as he was tossed the whistle. "Go on momma's boy, call for help, you can't scream anyway!"
"Namikaze." Glynda pinched her nose, "I hope you aren't a little on the slow side when it comes to fighting as you are grabbing things."
She places the whistle inside of Naruto's hands, making him grip it. "If you need help from anyone, just blow the whistle."
Naruto looks at her, looks down at the whistle, gripping it as he looked back up at her. He didn't know what to do, so he just nods, accepting it as a token of concern. As she walked away, he could hear several of the students around him laughing.
Naruto looked at Lapis, who was glaring at Cardin and his gang. As he was then launched away, much to Naruto's surprise. They had missed the speech?! That wasn't a good sign, it made him look bad. He looked over towards Yang.
Only to have Ruby look at him, as if he had grown a second head. He was about to wave when he heard the launch pad next to him launch one of Cardin's friends into the air. Turning to ready himself, he then felt himself get propelled into the air.
Inside of the air, Naruto looked around, taking notes of a large temple nearby. Guessing that's where they needed to go, Naruto allowed his flight to continue, and even used his semblance to teleport higher into the air.
He watched as Ruby was flung along with her sister, to which Yang started user her gauntlets to blast her way through the forest, while Ruby was just flying gracefully.
The wind fluttering in his ears, he teleported a couple of more times. Looking over at the various people who landed, and sighs as he felt it was time to land.
Relaxing, he let his body get loose as he descended downwards, and once he felt that he was near a tree he landed on the branch. Teleporting to displace his weight, keeping from harming the tree.
He flashed into a clearing, looking around as he stumbled a little bit, his momentum dying. Looking around, he took a deep breath, he could smell a nearby river. Smiling, he checked his gear, finding it all in place.
Hearing a loud scream, Naruto looked up, only to get smacked in the face by Amira's butt as she came in from a hard landing. The reaction was that Naruto flashed without warning, hitting the side of a tree with Amira on top of him.
"Holy crap, I zoned out!" Amira yelled, looking around she found that she above Naruto. "Oh crap, Naruto…are you alive…flick me off if you're alive!"
The blonde looked at the alabaster haired girl, he simply raised his left fist, flicking her off as requested. "Oh thank Gods, anyway, well…looks like you and me, and the dark brother make three."
Naruto leaned huffing as he rubbed his face, looking at her blush, she laughed a little. "Good thing I got some cushion for the pushing eh…eh?!"
Rolling his eyes, smiling a little bit, Naruto dusted himself off.
"So, did you see that temple when you were up in the air, like I said I was zoned out. Anyway, we're supposed to get some relics…by the way…saw you flash in with girly mic tomboy. You and her…shall we say, practicing?"
Naruto eyed Amira, leaning down, he wrote into the ground. "Pervert."
"Hey!" Amira shouts, she then childishly crosses her arms. "I am what I am, and I'm not ashamed…"
Both of them got their bearings, looking around, both took in the scenery. Taking a deep breath, both looked at each other, nodding.
Naruto smiles, holding out his fist, letting Amira bump it. "Partners."
