Opening Asterisk
miageta yozora no hoshitachi no hikari
Naruto is falling down but completely relaxed about it. Team JNPR shifts threw the screen Pyrrha looks at the screen with her hands behind her back a smile on her face. Jaune looks up at the screen with a bit of confusion as he passes by. Nora is in mid tackle of Ren who also has a smile on his face.
miageta yozora no hoshitachi no hikari
Naruto appears once again but this time he's standing up looking at the screen with a cocky grin on his face. The camera looks at him from a downward angle to revel Ruby who's standing a bit away from him and looking into the opposite direction. The rest of team UMPR and RWBY appear on the screen all with various poses. Then one by one the spin and disappear except for Naruto and Ruby.
Instrumental
Naruto and ruby are closer now, both of them in their regular clothes. Ruby has a pair of headphones on and her arms crossed as she looks off with a smile on her face. Naruto had his hands behind his back and a cocky grin on his face as he looks in the opposite direction. They disappear and the screen shows various scenes of the teams or only a few of them going through their daily lives at Beacon. UMPR slowly pops on the screen as the scenes fade out.
hitotsu futatsu kane no ne wa hibiku kokoro no naka e to hiroku fukaku
Jaune is standing and looking one way then it shifts to Ruby with her Scythe being held behind her.
monogatari no youna hoshi no shizuku sono naka ni hosoi senro wo kizuku
it finally shifts to Naruto who has his hands up and ready to go as if he's expecting a fight.
jikan to tomo ni jidai wa ugoku nagareru hoshi wa shizuka ni ugoku
the scene shifts to Ozpin and his teachers all standing in front of Beacon.
me wo tojite mimi wo sumaseba GOOD BYE
The scene shifts to Ozpin who sips his coffee. Then to Roman who had a cocky look on his face.
hanate hikari makezu ni shikkari ima
Naruto and Ruby are arguing about something.
toki wo koe dareka ni todoku made
They both pull out their weapons and look ready for a fight. But Caboose comes as he keeps going back and forth threw Church.
eikou no hikari wa kono mukou ni
Naruto and Ruby look at each other and then join in with Caboose.
KIMItachi to tsukutteiku SUTO-RI-
Suddenly al of the other members show up and do the same thing. Church gains a tic mark on his face and starts yelling at them.
miageta yozora no hoshitachi no hikari
Team UMPR charge into an area full of grimm and begin to fight them.
inishie no omoi negai ga jidai wo
Roxas cuts a few of them down while Percy stabs his trident down to use as a lift to jump over Roxas to stab another one.
koe iroaseru KOTO naku todoku
Caboose is shooting every grimm that Naruto is kicking and punching into the air. Naruto turns around to punch a grimm that was behind him.
KIRARI hitomi ni utsuru dareka no sakebi
Ruby appears on the screen with a smile. She begins to speed side to side covering the screen with rose petals.
kaze ni omoi wo tsuki ni negai wo
It shows a wall next as everyone begins to paint their symbols on it.
chikara aru kagiri ikiteikunda kyou mo
The group looks to their right as a red and blue flashing light appears. They look surprised and begin to run in the opposite direction as the cops chase them.
miageta yozora no hoshitachi no hikari
After the cops pass the symbols on the wall begin to glow and slowly pop off of the wall and the wall disappears.
inishie no omoi negai ga jidai wo koe iroaseru KOTO naku todoku
Ruby and Naruto are in the picture diagonal from each other. They slowly look at the screen Ruby with a calm smile and Naruto with a cocky grin. They're both in their Beacon uniform,
bokura no omoi mo itsuka dareka no mune ni hikari tsuzukeyou ano hoshi no you ni
Suddely they're in squares and in their regular clothes. The begin to shift around so all of the other characters are able to appear on the screen. All of them looking ready for battle.
It had taken a couple of minutes to convince the others that the grimm was harmless. Well except for Caboose. He even tried to hold it but Church was against it.
"He holds on too tight," Church explained. "Way too tight,"
"Ah!" Caboose supplied helpfully. "Yeah, right, I do that all the time. It's how I show affection."
"His guinea pig never stood a chance." Church said as he looked down shaking his head. "Rest in peace, Mr. Frittles"
"Ok Caboose you are never allowed to hold him," Naruto said. "He can sit on you and you can pet him." Then Naruto had a thought. "Softly…With one of us present…. Watching you… at all times,"
"Are you sure its ok?" Roxas asked. "I mean it is a grimm,
"If it tries to kill you I'll deal with it," Naruto said.
"That's not as assuring as you think it is,"
"I don't have a problem with it," Percy said shrugging. "How exactly did you come across it anyway,"
"Fighting the real alpha beowolf," Naruto answered. He then told his tale about what had happened while he was in the forest.
"Grimm killing each other," Church said in awe.
"I don't know either," Naruto shrugged. "Maybe there's more to them than we thought,"
"Should we inform Ozpin?" Roxas asked.
"Not yet," Naruto said. "All things considered this is an isolated incident. "We'll keep this quiet unless it happens again,"
The others nodded in agreement.
"What are you gonna name it?" Percy asked.
Naruto looked down at the little fox like grimm. "You know I never thought about it,"
Line Break
The first incident had happened in the locker room. Jaune and Naruto had gone to get their weapons for some leadership exercise.
"So what do you think he's gonna have us do?" Jaune asked.
"I don't know," Naruto responded. "All I know is that I have an essay to turn into him next week or I fail the semester,"
Jaune stopped at his locker but Naruto continued to head to his.
"Hey it could be worse," Jaune supplied.
"How?" Naruto yelled.
"I don't know," Jaune supplied. "I just heard that was the best thig to say in these kind of situations,"
"I hate you Jaune,"
"You know you love me," Jaune shot back smugly. "So ready to go?"
No response.
"Hey Naruto you ready yet?" Jaune asked. Again no response. Jaune shut his locker and headed towards where he knew Naruto's was. "Naruto everything…," Jaune stopped short at what he saw.
'GO AWAY!'
'MONSTER,'
'DAMN FAUNUS,'
'WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE,'
These phrases had been painted all across Naruto's locker.
"What the hell is this?" Jaune asked in shock and anger.
"It's the result of the fight I had with Cardin," Naruto supplied as he opened his locker.
"But you didn't even hurt him that bad!" Jaune defended. "And you never punched him in the face,"
"True but they still saw it almost happen," Naruto retorted.
"I'm getting Goodwitch," Jaune said as he turned to leave.
"No," Naruto said. "It's fine and more than likely we'll never know who it was,"
"Are you sure,"
"Yeah, besides no one is bullying anybody else," Naruto said. "If this is the cost of no racism than they can bring it on,"
Truth be told Naruto could find out who did it with his sense of smell. But he didn't care enough. This wasn't new territory for him.
Jaune looked at Naruto with narrowed eyes. "If it escalates I'm telling Ozpin,"
It wasn't a request.
Naruto nodded his head. "Fair enough," Then he clapped his hands. "Now, let's get this exercise over with," He wrapped his arm around Jaune's shoulder and the two walked off. Jaune took one last look at Naruto's locker and clenched his fist.
Line Break
Over the course of the week the attacks kept happening. Either something on his locker or at his desks in classes. Paper notes being thrown at him calling him names. Naruto had taken the abuse in stride.
Many of his friends had been adamant on doing something about it but he would blow it off for one reason.
They never attacked. It was just words. They never shoved him, or threw stuff at him. They never harmed him.
And it wasn't a surprise. Not many people could. The entire group of student in the huntsman program was barely a fifth of the student body.
And he was friends with eleven of them. Unless you didn't include Ruby, Yang and Weiss. Yang didn't like him, Weiss didn't trust him apparently according to Blake, and Ruby was just infuriating.
Well, back to the main point. He could protect himself. And the student body knew that which is why their attacks were non-physical. Yeah he would be fine.
Which brings us to lunch once again.
"And that is why we're never allowed inside the pancake house back home," Nora said.
"What?" Percy asked. "You didn't tell a story, you just sat down next to me and said, that's why we're never allowed inside the pancake house back home,"
"Exactly," Nora confirmed.
Percy just stared at her. "Weiss I'm confused," Percy said to the girl on the other side of him.
"I am to," Weiss replied. "I'm confused why you're paying more attention to her when this paper is due tomorrow," She scolded.
"B-but, she," Percy stuttered.
"No buts!" Weiss snapped. "You will finish this paper and get a passing grade. I've worked too hard to see any other result,"
"Wait, what do you mean you," Percy retorted. "I'm the one doing the writing. And last time I checked you weren't done either,"
"Please," Weiss scoffed. "I finished after our session yesterday," The two had decided to continue to help each other on the essays since they both had prior knowledge on each, others topic. In exchange The two of them would occasionally spar. Truth be told she was frustrated because she kept losing.
"Ooooooo what session might you be referring to Weiss," Yang asked coyly.
"Yang stop trying to torture, Weiss," Blake said from her seat.
"Dust, armor, weapon, nevermore, Taiju!" Naruto, Jaune and Ruby were locked in the game that Jaune had shown them the other day. They had all landed on weapon.
"Ok we all can't keep choosing weapon," Jaune pointed out.
"Yeah seriously these draws are getting annoying," Naruto agreed.
"Well how do we decide who stops?" Ruby asked. The three look at each other then back at their hands.
"Dust, armor, weapon, nevermore, taiju!" They all chose weapon.
"Motherfucker!" Naruto shouted.
"Language," Pyrha reprimanded.
"Hey!" A gruff voice said from behind them. The table turned or looked up to see four guys staring at them. Well more specifically Naruto.
"You Uzumaki?" The one in front asked. Naruto blinked a few times.
"Yeah" Naruto answered. Then the negativity hit him. He quickly saw where this was going.
"We got a bone to pick with you," One on the right growled. Percy and Roxas took notice of the tone and were immediately on guard.
"About?" Naruto asked raising an eyebrow.
"You think your hot stuff don't you," The leader sneered. "Just because you took out some rookie you think you run this place,"
"Not really no," Naruto responded.
"Well let's get one thing straight," The leader took a step towards Naruto. "You are nothing. You're a filthy Faunus and that's all you'll ever amount to." Blake had clenched her book as she looked up from her book with narrowed eyes.
"Well he took a shower this morning so I don't think he's filthy," Roxas said speaking up.
"And who are you," The one on the left retorted.
"His teammate," Roxas confirmed as he Percy and Caboose stood up.
"I don't appreciate you talking to our captain like that," Percy put stress on the captain part.
"Or my friend," Jaune added as he to stood up.
"And who are you supposed to be," The leader growled.
"The names Jaune Arc of the Arc family," Jaune said. "And if that last name doesn't ring any bells then I'm the leader of team JNPR," As one the other members of team JNPR stood up as well.
"We don't want any trouble," Ruby said. "But I will not tolerate racism to a fellow comrade. We are all hunters. We are the ones that protect the people, not separate them," The members of team RWBY stood up as well. Jaune and Ruby had stood in front of the still sitting Naruto.
"Oh do you really think you stand a chance," the leader cackled. "We are second years, we have more experience the you," The three around him laughed. "You stand no chance against us even with the invincible girl on your side or whatever last name you may possess. Your just first years,"
"Oh so how about fighting us then," A playful voice said. The group tuned to see another group staring at them.
Naruto looked up to see the rabbit Faunus he had helped as one of the four.
The speaker had been a girl with a pair of sunglasses and a dark brown beret on. "Because it's like you said. Their freshmen, so maybe a fellow second year team will be a better match for you,"
The leader of the other group paled slightly. "C-Coco,"
"Oh what happened to all that big talk a minute ago," The girl now identified as Coco responded teasingly, though the aggressive undertone was noticeable. "Well I think you should be like the rest of your squad and leave,"
The leader turned around to notice that indeed his team had abandoned him. He turned back around to give an evil glare at towards Naruto. He then turned around and walked away.
"That's, what I thought," Coco smirked. She then turned her attention to the others. "What it is the names Coco Adel," Coco greeted. "Tall dark and handsome here is Fox Alistair, this big lug over here is Yatsuhashi Daichi and this cute little bunny is Velvet Scarlatina. And with me as the leader we form Team CFVY," Coco greeted her teammates and herself.
"Now, which one is it Vel," Coco asked Velvet. VelvetCoco hesitated but pointed at Naruto. Coco walked up to where he was and looked at him. "So you're Naruto Uzumaki huh,"
"That seems to be the case today yes," Coco smirked at the joke.
"Oh this one has jokes I see," She complimented. So our little bunny rabbit tells me that you helped her out the other day. Is that true,"
"Yeah but to be honest I came later," Naruto said truthfully. "The one you should really be thanking is Caboose. He got them to stop before I arrived.
"Oh and modest to," Coco examined. She then turned her attention to Naruto's blue hat wearing teammate. "Is that true what he's saying,"
"Yeah well I thought it would be better if we could all be friends," Caboose said happily. "That way we can make secret high fives!"
Coco smirked at the boy. "Ok its official, I like them," Coco said. Then she along with Velvets teammates bowed their heads slightly. "On behalf of team CFVY I thank you for what you did for Velvet," Coco said as she looked up. "If you ever need help with anything, do not hesitate to ask,"
Naruto blinked a couple of times before smiling. "It was no problem,"
"Oh that modesty of his is gonna make me wanna snatch him up if you don't make a move Vel," Coco whispered to Velvet who blushed slightly.
"It's not like that Coco." She defended.
"Oh so you prefer the friendly knight," Coco said looking at Caboose. "Seems super innocent. Maybe you want to take advantage of that, I knew you liked to dominate,"
Velvets face turned completely red.
Coco and the rest of CFVY had sat with them for the rest of lunch and talked with them all as everyone introduced themselves. After lunch had ended the groups began to go their separate ways for evening classes.
"Don't read into it," Yang said to Naruto after everyone else had cleared out. Naruto looked at her.
"Frankly I don't trust you, and after what you did to Cardin I honestly don't disagree with the people here. You don't belong here and if you ever hurt Ruby I will end you,"
With that Yang left.
Line Break
Man this is gonna be great," A boy said as he left the docks of Vale. "I'm so glad I chose this place to look and I got to come alone! This is gonna be perfect!" The boy looked at the streets of Vale that were full of people. "Now first place I should look is a restaurant," He said slyly as he made his way down the street.
Line Break
Naruto Jaune and Ruby were sitting in their leadership class. They had a few minutes left and were patiently waiting for the bell to ring.
"Alright before you leave I have an assignment for you," The teacher said. "The four of you are now leaders of teams, meaning that your teammates are going to look to you for guidance,"
Naruto got an image of his team in his head.
(Naruto's head)
"Alright guys here's the plan," Naruto said.
"Don't care," Roxas said.
"No thanks," Percy.
"Yeah is this the line for the bathroom?" Caboose asked.
"Since I'm the smartest one here I should lead," Church commented.
Eventually the argument lead to a brawl between the team.
(Real world)
Naruto gained a tic mark on his face and his right eye was twitching.
Jaune thought about his team
(Jaune's head)
"Alright, follow my lead!" Pyrrha shouted as she charged forward. Nora and Ren followed her,
"Hey!" Jaune shouted in sadness. Upset that his teammates seemed to forget he was the team leader.
(Real World)
Jaune looked down sadly.
Ruby thought about her team.
(Ruby's head)
"Alright guys first lets," Ruby began.
"No you dunce!" Weiss said as she ran forward.
Blake remained silent as she jumped in next.
"You can lead next time Rubes," Yang said as she ran forward
(Real World)
Ruby sighed.
"So I think it might be time you gain an understanding of your team's individual strengths and weaknesses," The teacher continued. "So I want at least three different team formations by next class. Keep in mind that only one has to involve all four of you. Now run along.
Line Break.
"You guys mind sharing the training arena?" Jaune asked. "I heard most of the slots to use it were already filled up for the next week,"
"Yeah sure I'm cool with it," Naruto said. Ruby nodded in agreement.
"I think we should start with maybe asking about their weapons," Ruby mentioned. "Get an understanding of how they work could help with coordinated attacks,"
"Yeah sounds good Red," Naruto said. "Not as good as any idea I could come up with but still good,"
"Oh and what do you suggest," Ruby mocked. As the two began to bicker Jaune had remained silent while he was deep in thought. Then a lightbulb went off.
"I have an idea," Jaune said causing his companions to stop bickering. "How about a weapons expo,"
Naruto and Ruby looked at him.
"Look I know we have teams and all but there might be situations where we might need to help each other as well." Jaune explained. "So maybe being able to make other moves could come in handy,"
Naruto and Ruby continued to stare at Jaune. They turned to stare at each other. Then slowly grins came across their faces.
Line Break
A few minutes later. Team UMPR, RWBY, and JNPR were in the arena with team CFVY who just so happened to have the arena for the day.
"Alright since it was my idea I'll go first," Jaune said. He pulled out his sword and shield. "This is Crocea Mors. The sword is a family heirloom passed down in the Arc family since my great grandfather. And the shield doubles as a scabbard that makes carrying it easier."
"Wait," Coco said speaking up. "Then doesn't it weigh the same,"
Jaune sighed. "Yes," He moaned out.
"I shall go next," Pyrrha said immediately holding out her spear and shield. "This is Miló and Akoúo̱. Milo is a spear but can be used as a sword and rifle as well." She explained as she transformed the spear into a xiphos style sword and then a rifle,"
"Interesting," Fox said. "Not many people can handle three different weapons so well. Guess that's why they call you the invincible girl,"
"Thank you," Pyrrha said bowing a small blush on her face.
"I'm next I suppose," Ren said as he pulled out his StormFlowers. "My weapons are called StormFlower and their pretty simple," He said as he showed the sickle blades attached to the pistols.
"A straight forward weapon," Yatsuhashi said. "Sometimes simple can be the best way to go," He patted his own large sword. It had no other forms, it was just a sword.
"My turn!" Nora said excitedly as she pulled out her weapon. "This is Magnhild, and it serves as a grenade launcher and a hammer! I mostly use fire and lightning dust combinations for the grenades but I have a few fire and water one's to create a smoke screen. It also has a second grenade launcher form now which lets me fire all of the grenadesgrnades at once!"
"Wait you actually added that," Roxas said in alarm. He remembered how Nora said she would do that for a bigger explosion but he didn't think anyone would ever do it for her.
"You bet your ass I did!" Roxas began to turn pale. He turned and gave Ren a look that said 'How could you let this happen!'
"It's…really… explosive," Velvet said hesitantly.
"You bet your ass it is!"
"I'll go next!" Yang said. "These are Ember Celica. They're a pair of Dual Ranged Shotgun Gauntlets. I mostly use Fire Dust for the ammo for bigger impact on contact."
"A close range fighter," Fox said. "I recommend trying out different Dust's for different effects,"
"I'll go now," Blake said as she pulled out her weapon. "This is Gambol Shroud. Its classified as a Variant Pistol Chain Scythe," She explained. She took the broad sword off revealing it to be a sheath. Inside was a katana. "The sheath serves as a broad sword and the katana can transform into a small kusarigama that serves as a pistol as well. I don't use a particular dust for any effect,"
"That's a lot of weapon," Velvet commented. "But it's easy to see that they flow together very well,"
"My weapon," Weiss began. "Is a Multi Action Dust Rapier," As if to prove her point the hilt did a spin to show the multiple colored Dust residing within it. "The hilt serves as a hammer to fire the Dust off at any power level I deem appropriate,"
"I see," Yatuhashi said. "She hashad an understanding of Dust and knows how to use them properly and she has an understanding of so many types. No surprise from a Schnee I suppose,"
"Guess I'm up," Ruby said. "This is Crescent Rose. It is a High Caliber Sniper-Scythe. I can still fire shots in its Scythe mode but their less accurate."
"Nice," Coco said with a smirk. "Not many people out there use Scythe's so you must have a private teacher,"
"Yeah my uncle," Ruby answered. "Without him I couldn't use this as well as I do and I'm still average with it,"
"Ooohh a humble one," Coco cooed. "Aren't you adorable," Ruby blushed.
"Ok guess I'll…" Naruto stopped as a thought came to him. "Actually I think Caboose should go," Roxas and Percy looked at Naruto and realized what he was thinking.
"Ok," Caboose said. He pulled out his Assault Rifle. "This is Freckles, and this," He said pointing to his armor. "Is Sheila,"
The entire arena just looked at him weirdly. Naruto, Roxas, Percy were trying to hold in there laughs.
"That's nice," Velvet said skeptically.
"Caboose," Naruto said trying to hold his laughter in. "Show them how they greet people,"
"Oh right!" Caboose said. "Freckles, Sheila, say hello,"
"Greeting it is a pleasure to meet you," Sheila said happily.
"Nice to meet you," Freckles said.
The entire group just looked. Then it registered on what just happened. The members of team UMPR minus Caboose were laughing their asses off.
"Did his gun just talk?!" Jaune asked in alarm.
"What the hell!?" Yang shouted.
"Wh-what?" Velvet squeaked.
"WOW!" Ruby said stars in her eyes. "What kind of processor do they run on! Do they help in battle? I must know!"
After finally calming everyone down Caboose proceeded to explain his weapons. Well the the weapon and armor did at least.
"I am an all-purpose Assault Rifle with a built in FMJ, Thermal scanner and Target finder. I serve as Captain Cabooses primary weapon," Freckles said.
"He also enjoys wearing hats and going out for walks," Caboose said.
"Affirmative,"
"I am the body armor you all see Caboose wearing." Sheila began. "I support the weapon systems and reflex increase in Cabooses movement and armor,"
"Wait you mean there are hidden weapons within the armor?" Blake asked.
"Yep," Naruto confirmed. "Caboose, show them 'care package'"
A moment later slots around the armor popped out to reveal dust bullets and missiles.
"He's a walking armory," Yang spluttered.
"Thank you," Caboose said.
"Wait what about the pistols," Blake asked.
"Oh their just that though they can be switched too automatic…Next!" Caboose explained that one.
"Right," Percy said as he stepped up. "This is Neró, it serves as a double chained sniper trident." He showed the weapon on its rifle form then its trident and finally brought the chains out. He then opened a compartment that revealed two very long water dust crystal. "The reason the crystal is so long is because of the torrent effect it has."
"I get it," Weiss said. "By having it so large the water can come out like a geyser allowing for longer reach should you throw it."
"Yep," Percy confirmed. "It can be used in different ways to and it allows it to last longer in battle. "Though finding someone to make a dust cut like this is hard to find. Thankfully my guy said he would be coming up some time next month so I have to make do with this until then."
"But how can you control it in such a way?" Weiss asked. "Not to mention how you recklessly use and handle those water Dust crystals,"
"Well that's because of this," Percy said as he opened a small compartment in Neró and pulled something out. It was a deep blue crystal in the shape of a water drop. It wasn't really big; it could fit perfectly in the palm of his hand. There was a faint glow it was emitting and if one looked close enough it looked like water was inside the crystal.
Weiss's eyes grew wide at the site of what was in his hand. "Is that a Prime Dust crystal!"
"Yeah," Percy answered casually.
"What's that?" Naruto asked.
"A Prime Dust crystal is the greatest and strongest Dust crystals to have, they literally last forever" Weiss explained. "They can literally control other of the same element,"
"Meaning," Ruby asked.
"Meaning that's why the crystals didn't go off in his fight with Pyrrha," Weiss explained. "He didn't want it to. He can literally choose when to set off other water Crystal's or even how they go off, like all at once or over an extended time,"
"That's impressive," Fox commented. "I'd suggest more Dust but if you have that with you then what's the point,"
"But how did you get your hands on one," Weiss asked. "There extremely rare and even then their seriously expensive,"
"How expensive," Yang asked.
"Even if Ozpin were to sale this school for three times its value he still wouldn't have enough to by one,"
"Wow," Naruto said. "How did you get one Percy,"
"It was a gift from my mother," Percy said as a somber look came over his face. Everyone immediately got the tone. 'I don't want to talk about it,'
"Next is me I guess," Roxas said bringing the attention away from his partner. He pulled out Oathkepper and Oblivion. But before he could continue he was interrupted by Ruby.
"No Way! You use Keyblades!" Ruby shouted. "I didn't even know they were still made.
"Ruby what are you talking about?" Weiss asked.
"Keyblades were the first weapons used against the grimm!" Ruby explained. "They wereWhen Dust had just been discovered the only weaponspeople found a way to literally be forged in Dust by people. Well more specifically a family did."
"What family?" Blake asked.
"The mouse family," Blake answered. They were the original rulers of Vacuo before all four kingdoms switched to the council system."
"Were?" Nora snorted. "They still are the rulers,"
"Anyway, they createdextract the blades to fight offenergy made from Dust and solidify it. In its solidified forms came the grimm and they worked well if not for one flaw," Ruby continued.
"WhatKeyblades. But there was the flaw?" Naruto spoke up.
"Not everyone could use them," Roxas picked up the story.
"He's right," Ruby said. "The weapons were either too unstable or the wielders were to week to handle the power. To find somebody who can and does use them in this era is amazing!"
"One correction Ruby," Roxas said. "It's not that the power was unstable. It was more because people couldn't handle the force. These things were literally made in dust so anyone wielding them would be holding dust in its primal form.
"So how can you use them,"
"Because of resonation," Roxas explained. "I don't know why but these things resonate with me, they just feel right to me,"
"Wait so your saying those are the only weapons you've ever used," Ruby asked. "Where did you find them?"
"He came with them," Ren explained. Everyone turned to look at him. "When Roxas appeared on the orphanage doorsteps 5 years ago they were on him."
"But that doesn't explain where he got them," Percy said.
"Because he doesn't know," Nora explained. The group blinked before turning to look at Roxas.
"I don't have any memory before 5 years ago," Roxas explained.
Flashback
Roxas was walking through the desert. He was wearing what seemed to be the remains of a black cloak. How had he gotten here? He didn't know. All he knew was that he needed to keep walking or he would die.
Where had he been before? Where was he now? Where was he going? These questions were going through his head as he continued walking. It didn't help that he was dragging two strange swords in his hands.
He knew that rationally dropping them would be smart. He was weak, tired and these the blades were incredibly heavy in this heat on top of his weakened state.
But he couldn't do it. He refused to drop the blades. So he kept walking with the swords in tow. He walked for hours and hours under the hot sun. Then finally he saw a town in the distance. Finally, a reprieve. Just a bit farther and water.
After finally entering the edge of town he noticed a building closest to him. He slowly walked to it. When he reached the door he stared at it. He couldn't knock. He was too weak too. Luckily he didn't have to as the door opened a moment later. He came face to face with a girl with orange hair just a little shorter than him.
"Who are you!" The girl asked with a grin.
Roxas didn't have an answer. He just decided to succumb to his exhaustion. He passed out. The girl backed up as he fell face first onto the ground.
"Ren! A hobo is in front of the door again!" Nora called.
Flashback end
"And that's how we met," Nora said.
"Everything before then is blank,"
"Wow," Jaune said.
"Yeah, but anyway these are my weapons," Roxas said. A moment later Ruby was in front of him startling him. 'Shit she's fast,' He thought.
"Will you let me examine them?!" Ruby asked excitedly.
"Umm," Roxas said as he looked at Ruby skeptically. "Maybe some other time,"
"Yeesss!" She shouted. She zoomed back to her spot. "Continue,"
"Um… Ok then," Roxas said. "There's not much else to tell. I can combine them to use as a double blade but that's about it."
"What Dust are the two made out of?" Naruto asked.
"Light and Dark," Roxas answered.
"Well last but not least," Naruto began. "This is my Savage Scurra. It serves as a set of gauntlets and boots and the boots or gauntlets can come off to turn them into Kusari Fundo's which allows me some distance. There is one last setting it has but right now its incomplete so I'm working on the bugs."
"Wait you mean you've been fighting this entire time with an incomplete weapon," Weiss asked in surprise.
"Yeah," Naruto answered.
"What I wanna know is what other features you have," Blake said. "I've seen you punch things and send them flying,"
"Oh that's because of my semblance," Naruto explained. "It's a power type," That wasn't a lie, just not a full truth. He didn't feel comfortable revealing his 9 'semblances' as that would lead to more questions. Questions that if answered would be very bad for him.
"Makes sense," Jaune said then clapped his hands. "Alright let's get to work
The rest of the time in the Arena was spent with each team trying different combinations and move sets. After a while the teams started switching up. All, was going well and smooth. '
Or at least it was until Yang and Naruto were paired up.
"Watch where you're going!" Yang yelled.
"Me!" Naruto retorted. "You got in my way!"
"Because you were being to slow!"
"No you were just trying to hog!"
"Don't call me fat!"
"That didn't even leave my mouth!"
"Whatever!"
"That's it!" Naruto shouted. "What exactly is your problem with me!" The rest of the freshman and team CFVY had all stopped to look at the confrontation.
"This isn't gonna end well." Blake muttered as she made her way to her partner.
"Ever since we met you've given me the cold shoulder and frankly I don't know why." Naruto said. "I would have blown it off if it was because I was a Faunus but that's not the case, so what!" Naruto was sure Yang didn't know about his grimm heritage. He was going to chalk it up to instinct but even then they usually just avoided him. So what was her deal!
"Hey let's calm down here," Ruby tried. She had made it to them first. She reached to put her hands on their shoulders but Naruto smacked her hand away.
"Don't touch my sister!" Yang shouted and cocked her fist back to hit Naruto. She was stopped however by a black strap wrapping around her hand.
"Calm down Yang," Blake said as she pulled on the strap.
"You wanna know what my problem is with you," Yang said. "The first time you met my sister you attacked her!"
"Oh my Oum is that what this is about!" Naruto said.
"It's not just that!" Yang interrupted. "The next time you meet up you endanger her life with that stunt in the emerald forest during the relic exam, and when I get to the top of the cliff I see you attacking her again!"
"She started that one!" Naruto defended.
"Bullshit!" Yang said. "And don't think I didn't see you fighting Ruby again in forever fall. And finally the biggest one of all is what you did to Cardin!"
"You're taking his side!" Naruto shouted.
"No! Cardin needed to be stopped I don't deny that. But what you showed you were willing to do to another person," Yang grounded out. "How you acted then was nothing better than a grimm,"
"Yang!" Ruby shouted as if she was offended by the comparison.
That caused Naruto to pause.
"How can I trust someone whose done all of that and with such way of fighting," Yang growled. "For all I know Ruby could have ended up like Cardin would have if you hadn't been interrupted.
"Screw you! You don't even know me," Naruto said as he slung his hand back in protest. Unfortunately, he had forgotten Ruby was right there behind him. There was no power behind the hit so it only took her by surprise and made her stumble. But it had hit her in the nose. And his weapon was activated.
"Ow!" Ruby shouted as she covered her face.
"Red! My bad are you ok," Naruto asked. Ruby didn't say anything she just removed her hands from her face. Blood began to drip from my nose.
Yang saw red.
Blake wasn't enough to stop what happened next.
"RRRRRAAAAGGGGHHHH!" A fiery explosion appeared around Yang and her eyes turned red. She clenched her restrained fist and launched it. Forcing Blake to let go of the strap. Naruto turned just in time to have a fist bury itself in his face.
He went flying into to wall.
"Yang!" Ruby shouted in shock and anger.
"Naruto!" Percy shouted as he and Roxas ran to their leader who was still in the wall.
"I told you not touch my sister!"
"Yang calm down!" Blake urged.
"What I'm calm," Yang retorted in a clearly not calm voice. "It's his own fa-" She didn't get to finish her sentence as a moment later a fist was in her stomach sending her flying next. The group turned to see Naruto with his fist out to where Yang used to be.
"You wanna go that bad," Naruto whispered. Naruto's power surged as he gritted his teeth. "Fine then, I will demolish you!"
Yang slowly got up as she looked up, her eyes red and glared at Naruto. His eyes shadowed by his hair. His goggles had fallen around his neck. But his stance told her all she needed to know. The two leaped at each other with their fist's cocked back.
"Guys stop!" Jaune tried.
"This is bad," Roxas quipped.
"I'll handle it," Pyrrha said as her hands began to glow.
"That's enough!"
Suddenly Naruto and Yang were thrown in opposite directions. Everyone turned to see Goodwitch standing at the entrance with her hands out.
And she looked pissed.
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"Now I don't know what started the fight and frankly I don't care," Goodwitch said at the students who were seated in front of her. "The fact doesn't change that the both of you endangered not only yourselves but your fellow classmates as well."
Yang and Naruto continued to look down.
"You are lucky that it was in the arena!" She scolded. "If it had been anywhere else and you could have hurt a regular student. That is the only reason you are not visiting Ozpin or are on an airship back to your homes." She turned her attention to Yang. "According to the others, you threw the first punch,"
"Yes ma'am," Yang said bitterly.
"I see. Ms. Xiao-Long I know you love your sister but you must understand that it was in accident and a completely harmless one at that. You must learn to control your temper or I can guarantee it won't end well for you when you're out in the field. You are to report to Professor Port after class for the next week and you will be grounded from any participation in combat class. Are we clear."
"Yes ma'am,"
"Good," She turned to Naruto. "As for you. I realize that you were provoked but you are a leader. You are held to a higher standard. As such you are grounded from combat class for a week as well and you will hand in a 10 paged essay about what it means to be a leader by the end of the week and if it is unsatisfactory you will be grounded from combat class for another week and rewrite the essay. The process will continue until I find it satisfactory."
"Yes ma'am," Naruto said.
"Good and just so we're clear. This won't happen again,"
After the two had been dismissed they began to make their way to their rooms. Neither saying a word to the other.
Before the two took the turn Yang stopped. Naruto looked at her with a neutral expression.
"Stay away from my sister and my team," She growled. "You may have everyone else fooled but I'm not. And the minute you slip up and everyone else sees what I see I'm going to take you down myself,"
She continued to look at him for a moment. Then with a huff she turned and headed into her room. Naruto looked at her and sighed. Then he entered his own room.
"So what's the verdict," Percy asked as Naruto walked in.
"I have to write an essay and I'm grounded for the next week." Naruto grumbled out as he climbed up to his bed.
"Well it could have been a lot worst," Roxas commented.
"That's true," Church agreed.
"I guess but still,"
"Don't worry about it too much," Roxas said.
Knock knock.
The boys looked towards the door.
"It's open," Percy said. The door opened to reveal Ruby standing there.
"Hey guys," Ruby said. "Can I come in?"
"Is your sister with you?" Roxas asked.
"To answer your question, no" Ruby said. "She's grounded to her room,"
"Then come on in,"
"Thanks," Ruby walked in. "Where Naruto?" All of the occupants pointed to the top bunk of the bunk bed on the left wall.
"Oh you guys made bunkbeds to,"
"Wait you guys did to?" Roxas asked.
"Yeah,"
"Damnit," Roxas grumbled as he reached into his pocket and handed a couple of bills of Lien to Percy.
"Thank you," Percy said with a smirk.
"Anyway," Ruby said. "Naruto,"
Naruto looked up from his bed and looked at Ruby. "Wassup Red,"
"On behalf of team RWBY I apologize for Yang's behavior," Ruby said. "What she did was out of line and shouldn't have happened in the first place,"
"It's fine Red," Naruto dismissed. "Nothing I'm not used to," He mumbled the last part to himself. Ruby looked at him for a moment.
"Hey guys do you mind if I talk to Naruto alone for a moment?" Ruby asked. His team members looked at each other.
"C'mon guys," Percy said.
"It has been a minute since I had Ren's pancakes," Roxas said.
"C'mon, maybe we can make new friends," Caboose said.
After they had left the room Ruby looked up at Naruto.
"Does that happen often?" She asked.
"What?" Naruto said. "Getting attacked. No but it's not the first but the reason is,"
"No I mean…" Ruby hesitated. "I saw your face when you hit Yang,"
Flashback
"You wanna go that bad," Naruto whispered.
Ruby moved her hands to look at Naruto's face. What she saw shocked her.
Naruto's whiskers had become more prominent; his hair was more red than blonde now, his tail was beginning to change color. It was turning black. But that's not what had Ruby worried. It was the pure red eyes and red symbol that began to form around his eyes.
"Then fine, I will demolish you!"
Flashback end
Naruto stared at her.
"The changes… what number were you at?" Ruby asked.
Naruto stared at her then sighed.
"Most likely 6," Naruto explained. "That's as high as I've gotten. But I can't control 6,"
"What do you mean," Ruby asked. "I thought you said you had 9,"
"I do," Naruto confirmed. "But I don't know what 7 and up are." He explained.
"Because you haven't mastered 6," Ruby confirmed.
"Mastered," Naruto snorted. "I don't even know what it is,"
"What do you mean?" Ruby asked.
"I mean that I've only ever activated 6 one other time in my life and I don't know what happened,"
"I don't understand,"
"And you don't need to," Naruto snapped angrily looking at her. Ruby stared back defiantly. Naruto took a deep breath. "I'm sorry, that was unnecessary,"
"It's fine," Ruby dismissed. "Do people really attack you?"
"After they find out about my...origin," Naruto explained. "No surprise really,"
"I guess not," Ruby said. "Though it's more likely because you attacked them out of nowhere for no reason like you did me or even worse because you walked in on them"
"Oh my- I said I was sorry!" Naruto shouted angrily.
"Ssssuuuurrreeee," Ruby said. "You damn pervert,"
"Hey screw you, cookie monster! At least I have better control of my team!"
"Oh so we're going there now! I just apologized for her actions!"
"Whatever,"
"Don't you whatever me!"
"I just did!"
"And to think!" Ruby scowled. "I was going to offer my help on completing your weapon,"
"Who says I need your help!" Naruto countered.
"Well since it incomplete," Ruby countered. "And what do you mean cookie monster!"
"You know what I mean!" Naruto yelled. "You can't go a meal without a cookie,"
"Oh I don't want to hear that from you, you ramen freak, don't think I don't hear you complaining about not having it at every meal," Ruby said. "At least I know how to make food!"
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"Shooould we step in," Roxas asked as they heard the argument on the other side of the door.
"Nah it's fine," Percy said casually. "It's faint but you can tell their both feeling better."
Roxas blinked. "Are you hearing the same argument I am?"
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"Oh please I can cook way better than you can," Naruto said. "Especially cookies,"
"Oh really!" Ruby said. "I bet you can't,"
"Oh yeah bring it!" Naruto yelled.
"YIP!"
Ruby and Naruto both stopped. Naruto paled while Ruby swiveled her hand.
"What was that?!" Ruby asked.
"Oh that was me!" Naruto said.
"You?" Ruby said suspiciously.
"Yeah I got the hiccups sue me,"
"YIP!"
"Man my hiccups must be bad," Naruto was sweating bullets. "You should go before I give them to you!"
"What?" Ruby said as Naruto began pushing her outside of the room. "Hiccups aren't contagious!"
"Yeah well, mine are!" Naruto said as he pushed Ruby through the threshold. "Goodnight Ruby see you tomorrow." With that Naruto slammed the door.
Ruby looked at the door in confusion. He turned around to look at the other members of team UMPR.
"What just happened?"
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Naruto sighed in relief and looked at the grimm on his bed.
"You almost got caught," Naruto growled.
"Yip!"
"I told you I won't save you if you get caught,"
"Yip!"
"That means you'll most likely die," Naruto urged.
"Yip!"
"I should have left you in the forest with Scarface," Naruto grumbled.
"Yip!"
"Can't you say anything else!"
"gggrrrrrrr,"
"Anything else,"
"Arf!"
"… good enough,"
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"Hey thanks for the meal," The boy said as he walked out of the restaurant. "Man this next week is gonna be fun. Nothin to do but kick back and relax."
"Excuse me if I can ask where did you get your hoodie," A guy said walking up to the boy.
"Oh this," He said pointing to his hoodie.
"Yeah I've never seen that shade of yellow before,"
A tic mark appeared on the boy's head.
"It's not yellow damnit!"
"Oh then gold?"
"No! Its orange you, asshole!"
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I wonder who the mysterious boy is wink wink. Will he ever convince people he's actually wearing orange? Who knows. Well I hope you enjoyed the chapter. We hit the backlash of Naruto's attack on Cardin. We delved into the mysterious past of Roxas this chapter as well as made a reference to another legendary and actually the oldest family. And lets not forget everyone meeting Freckles and Sheila. And team CFVY has entered the stage! As for the Yang and Naruto incident do not worry they will be having it out soon enough. But now you all know what her problem with him his which is a bit justifiable from a certain standpoint. And out first block on Naruto with his 'Semblance's' 9notice the quotations) And once again I leave our little grimm nameless though I have an idea on what to name him. I will have a name by next chapter for sure. next chapter I introduce a familiar face as well as deal with some of the back lash between Naruto and Yang. Well as always Read Review and above all else... Enjoy!