RWBY: Kitsune no Reaper
Author's Note: This chapter took me longer than I actually expected to write, while I had an idea of how to properly make the relationships flags with all characters it was hard to also keep track of the comedic relief along with the actual story, as a reminder this story is set as M and although right now it's pretty light-hearted it won't last for long. Enjoy the chapter~
Chapter 10: Normal?
January 8th, Monday
Naruto woke up with a jump, stretching like a cat would as soon as his feet touched the floor. He ducked under the floating desk courtesy of his sleeping partner, Glynda, and exited the bedroom ignoring the panicked squeaks of his teammate who was being clutched to death by the very same teacher. He reached the bathroom in seconds and looked at his reflection in the body-sized mirror that Glynda also forced him to buy a few days ago.
He was tall but not overly so, standing at 6'1'' (1.85m) with an athletic build. He didn't have body-builder muscles or anything of the sort but if he stretched just a bit it would be possible to see the rock-solid muscles he acquired during his short but hectic life. Lifting his long sleeved sweater one could see the many scars that littered his body from said life. The most obvious and glaring ones were the fist-sized one right in the middle of his chest and exited on his back, the second one being the one where Kyuubi seal used to be. A circle shapped scar that encompassed all the diameter of the old seal, the skin marred a permanent angry red as if it was recently made.
Even if those two could be ignored, which was incredibly hard to do so, there were still heck of a lot more. On both his left and right hands and forearms there were millions of smaller scars, as if he had thrown his arms in a shredder and lived to tell the tale however at least these ones were harder to see because of how diminute they were, those were the ones he got from his "re-creation" training.
If you could get past those, then there were the more obvious and recent ones. At the collarbone, from left to right, there were several bullet-sized ones spaced randomly. Right below one of those bullet-sized ones on his left pectoral was a branded burn scar, this one was a symbol closely resembling the roman "II". Naruto traced that one with the tip of his finger absent mindedly as he viewed the rest of the scars, most looked like punctures or slashes that could be ignored since the regrown skin was almost the same color.
But they were still there.
Each and every one of those scars reminded him everyday that he wasn't invincible, that he could bleed and die like any other being, the only reassurance he had was him being extremely harder to kill. His accelerated regeneration helped a lot but it wasn't overpowered and it had it's drawbacks too, if he lost too much blood then his renegeration couldn't keep up. It was actually kind of funny how it worked, it drained him of blood and Aura to recover but at the same time restored the amount of blood he lost. That was the reason why he could shrug off almost any debilitating wound but at the same time it would slow him down for the very same reason that he was losing blood from two sources, the wound and the regeneration process.
A double-edged sword indeed.
Shrugging the slight discomfort he felt from looking like a cat-scratch polepost he disvested the rest of his clothing and took a short hot bath to relax his muscles and ease a bit his jumbled and excited mind, today would be his second step towards his goal. As the dropplets of water and soap cleaned his skin Naruto thought about the powers in this world.
First and foremost was Aura, the spiritual energy inside a person's soul. Then there was the Semblances, the more tangible and physical manifestation of a person innate nature, this one being powered by Aura itself and any source of energy added into it could change it's effects, the most common one being using the Dust to change a Semblance effect.
An example would be a trained person with an innate Ice elemental Aura summoning chunks of ice but if he added the power contained in a Fire Dust Crystal it could change to a chunk of flammable Ice. It sounded almost impossible, but in the world of Remnant such things were more common.
However Naruto problems also came with this very same energy, him becoming a True Sage meant he was capable of controlling, understanding and using any kind of energy at his disposal. In the Elemental Nations, Chakra was the most abundant 'fuel' for their abilities but Chakra itself was a union of the Physical and Spiritual energy in one's body, every human in the Elemental Nations had an innate Chakra System in their bodies but each one differed from the other. Some could have a small cup of water as their limit of Chakra pools while others could have oceans.
In Remnant every being had innate Aura in themselves, because it existed in their very souls, but not everyone knew how to control. The vast majority could unlock their Auras and further on Semblance but others couldn't through their whole lifetime do so. That was another contrast to the Elemental Nations, even an untrained civilian could use Chakra but would be extremely tired of doing so, but they could use it freely unlike in Remnant were Aura didn't come as freely to untrained individuals.
When he was thrown into this world the conflict of energies from his past world, this new world and the extremely weird way in which he was literally thrown created pure chaos in his energy system. His body and soul were forced to adapt and change to this world energies but that meant his very soul was forced to unlock Aura, creating an unbalance in his already fucked up Spiritual Energy. Add in losingKyuubi demonic energy, one that was deeply connected to his soul, it being forcelly taken out and you had the perfect recipe for a Naruto with a bundle of tangled wool as his new energy system pathways.
'Then there's also my own Semblance, since I was never meant to be in this world my powers are also different. A semblance drains the user's Aura and exhausts them physically but my Uzumaki Links work through sacrificing my blood, my physical connection to my old world, and using a lot of my aura reserves, it being my spiritual connection to this world.'
'At least my Uzumaki Links have various uses depending on what I desire them to be, but they still have their limits. If it wasn't because I met Winter then I'd probably would haven't accomplished so much this far.'
Shaking off those morose thoughts he left the shower, dried himself up and readied up for his first school day. Wearing a casual long sleeved polo, blue jeans that rode low on his hips and the utility belt that held his compact scythe on his back and his normal sword on his hip he was ready in minutes. He foregoed eating breakfast in his room and out into the maze known as Beacon Academy. Even after his tour with Weiss he still had troubles finding his way to the Dining Hall, luckily for him many of the other early risers gave him directions.
It still took him 30 minutes to get there though.
As soon as he opened the door, someone called out his name. Naruto tilted his head to the side as he scanned for the caller and found a tall mop of red hair waving at the serving line. Grinning at his (unlucky) luck he strode past some somnolient teens and stood next to one of his new acquantainces.
"Hey Pyrrha, slept well?" Naruto started as the duo looked through the breakfast selections.
"You could say that..." Pyrrha replied a bit drowsily, covering her mouth as a yawn escaped her before stepping further into the line "How about you?"
"Good enough, are you the only one here of your team?"
"Yeeeaah, they are not early risers" The girl replied bemused as she gathered the things she wanted for her breakfast, a balanced diet Naruto noted as he gathered a meal heavy on meat "How are your wounds?" Pyrrha asked after paying.
"Good as new already" Naruto smirked as the duo sat at the nearest table "I'm very hard to put down" he said as he grabbed a bottle of water and started chugging it down.
Pyrrha stared at the smirking Naruto for a second and in an incredibly out of character moment she pushed aside her tray, leaned close to Naruto and looked at him right in the eyes.
"Are you flirting with me?"
Naruto chocked, water spilled out of his nose before he had to clamp down his mouth lest he spit the water at the now giggling red head across him.
"W-what!? No!" He behemontly rejected the notion, he hadn't even meant it that way. The girl went over from giggling to laughing out loud and attracting the attention of the crowd, Naruto in turn could only drag his palms down his face "I walked into that one..." he muttered.
"S-sorry it's been a while since I could talk with someone so freely like this" Pyrrha replied after a few minutes of composing herself.
"It's okay, I just didn't expect that coming from you" Naruto replied a bit sourly, picking one slab of meat with a bit too much force before chewing it.
"Ah... Sorry" Pyrrha replied just as sourly if not more than him, something Naruto picked up instantly and almost facepalmed, of course she would be sad about his words. Pyrrha was supposed to be something akin to an idol in Remnant, what with her popularity and track record of untouchable she probably had developed a distaste to people who expected things of her just because of that.
"Look Pyrrha, we haven't spoken much heck we barely spoke more than 5 times I was just surprised someone as strong as you could also have a playful side okay?" Naruto said quickly, he had possibly brought back bad memories to Pyrrha so it was his duty as not an asshole to fix it.
Pyrrha looked at him again, a little curiosity sparkling in her eyes before they turned mischiveous.
"Are you seriously not trying to flirt with me?"
Oh for the love of!
"Now where did that even come from!" Naruto half shouted as he threw his arms to the air in exasperation, this time he did facepalm as Pyrrha started laughing again much to his chagrin.
"Ahahaha sorry Naruto, you're just too easy to tease but thanks" Pyrrha replied sincerely and digged into her meal, just as Naruto had said they had barely spoken in the past few days. The most they actually spoke was when they met and during the test and it wasn't all that much to start with, he was exactly what she expected of him. Now that he had properly rested she could easily feel his Aura better, it was amazing. If she had to put it into words most people around her were barely flickering flames in the darkness, she herself knew she would be something like a light bulb but Naruto's Aura felt like a lighthouse.
It was amazing and scary at the same time, if it wasn't because the teachers at the academy exuded almost the same amount and in the exception of Ozpin who exuded even more she would be thoroughly scared of his capability. Don't get her wrong, she wouldn't be affraid of Naruto per see just affraid of what limits could he truly reach with that amount of power in him but at the same time it excited her.
As a warrior, meeting someone who surpassed you was always a milestone of sorts. If she trained and became stronger, stronger than even him she would feel accomplished, Naruto being well Naruto was a bonus.
Bzzz
She was startled by the buzzing sound, she looked up at Naruto and saw him fiddling with his Scroll with a smile on his face. Curiosity got the best of her and so she spoke "What is it?"
"Oh someone just sent me something funny" Naruto replied evasively as he pocketed the Scroll away his attention returning to the curious Pyrrha "Ready for today?" he asked.
Pyrrha nodded as she pushed the empty tray aside and stood up along with Naruto, with breakfast over and him not trusting himself with his sense of directions he told Pyrrha to guide them back to the dorms. On the way they talked about their hobbies and Naruto was surprised to find out Pyrrha liked sewing, and in turn Pyrrha was surprised Naruto enjoyed gardening. To Naruto's utter dismay, their dorm was literally three halls away from the Cafeteria wing, it wasn't even a 5 minute walk and it took him 30 minutes to get there!
Just as they reached their team's hall one of the doors opened up and Weiss sprinted out of the room.
"T-t-to class!" Ruby spoke nervously a second after before running with her team after Weiss.
"Class?" The other door was open and the rest of Jaune's team was stacked, watching the running girls. "CLASS!" He shouted after his brain finally proccessed the information and his team ran for it.
Naruto and Pyrrha blinked, she looked at him then at the two teams running then back at him.
"It's the first day and you're trying to make me skip classes, you're a terrible influence Naruto."
"In my defense, I can actually skip the class... on that note shouldn't you be running too?"
The girl blinked again, turned robotically to the front and dissappeared in a wisp of smoke.
- 0 - RWBY: KnR - 0 -
Meanwhile the students of Beacon Academy attended their first class, one conversation was taking place deep underground.
"How long do you think it'll take?"
"Mmm~ A month at best!"
"That's too long!"
"Well, you're not the one dealing with him."
"..."
"Soooo?"
"Fine, but I expect results!"
The person smiled when the line died, a sincere yet sinister smile adorned its features.
"Welp I better get back to work!"
- 0 - RWBY: KnR - 0 -
Naruto was once again running damage control in his room, appearently Glynda had forgotten to feed Rhea (he totally didn't believe that) but that wasn't all, somehow Glynda had managed to enchance the door to stay locked no matter what the rabbit had tried or thrown at it. Safe to say when Naruto had opened the door to his room to collect a notebook for his Strenghtening class he facepalmed, hard.
He heard an exasperated squeak above him and he in turn looked up, if his hand hadn't been on his face already then he would have facepalmed yet again so instead of doing that he just brought the other hand to his face and rubbed his temple.
"I know I'm not the saintest person in the world but I'm pretty sure I never did anything to deserve this" he muttered.
Somehow, Rhea had managed to turn the room itself upside down.
No, not like turning the furniture over.
She turned the room itself.
"Squeak!"
Mustering every ounce of will to not strangle the rabbit he picked her up or down(?) whatever, and brought it to his face.
"Look, I'll get you food and in turn you fix this mess. Deal?"
"Squeak" The rabbit nodded and hoped away from his hands, he watched in disbelief as the rabbit instead of falling started floated in the air. It was like gravity itself didn't understand whether it should pull the rabbit to the room floor(which currently was the ceiling) or to the ceiling (which currently was the floor). Rubbing his temples yet again at the headache this event would no doubt create and his stuborness in understanding whatever it was that was happening Naruto stepped outside and closed the door.
"Naruto? I thought you would be in class."
Said boy looked at the speaker and resisted the urge to bash his head on the door.
"Hey sis..." He started, cooking up an excuse in the matter of seconds as he turned to face her "I just came back to pick up a notebook and Rhea for our next class."
Glynda raised one eyebrow and stared, Naruto held his poker face and mentally breathed a sigh of relief as his surrogate sister seemed to believe the excuse. While he could skip some classes because of his Scavenger status she would be incredibly displeased if he did so.
"And where is this notebook and partner of yours?" She asked with a hint of amusement as Naruto tensed, outwardly she was frowning as she took a step forward. Inwardly, she was enjoying making her little brother squirm. Glynda was still angry at him so what better way to release that pent up anger by making him suffer a little.
As soon as she took another step Naruto stepped into her personal space, she tried to backpedal in surprise but in the span of half a second he grabbed her by the side, had opened the door to his room and threw her inside like a grenade before closing the door, enchancing it with one of his chains to seal it completely.
Naruto waited a second before fishing out his Scroll from his pocket and called Ozpin.
"Naruto? What can I do for you?"
"I know we aren't the best of friends or allies but I still just wanted to warn you not to get close to Glynda for a few days" Naruto replied as he kept staring at the door.
"What?"
"Coincidentally I'll totally not be available for a few days too, just wanted to let you know that."
"Na-" The line died, Naruto took a step back then another and another before turning around and fleeing the scene of crime.
There was no way in heaven or hell he was dealing with this shit.
Stumbling around the corner of the hall, Naruto fought for control of his equilibrium however it was all for naught as he impacted into something. The thing flew backwards before getting tangled in between Naruto feet since he couldn't stop himself and both ended up rolling a few meters on the ground before coming to a stop.
"Uuuughhh..." Naruto groaned as he regained his bearings, he looked at the thing he had smashed into only to find silver eyes looking back at him.
And they were rather close too.
Much too close.
Dread started to seep into his very soul as he felt a sense of Déjà vu, and sure enough when he moved his mouth to apologize he found soft resistence. Normally Naruto would appreciate the softness and fullness of a girl's lip but Ruby was a bit too young for him and this was certainly not the moment to think about this, cursing his luck he pushed himself off the red girl who was turning red. Now that he had better view of their position he noticed one of his knees had ended up in between the girl legs and he was mostly squashing her down.
He saw how the girl opened her mouth to say something, closed it again and turned even more red if that was possible.
"NAAAAAAAAAAAARUUUUUUUUUUUUUTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Naruto paled, instincts honed over years of survival surged and he scrambled to his feet. He easily pulled Ruby arm and picked her up like a sack of potato over his shoulder, ignoring her indignant squeak. He didn't even look back as he reinforced his body with Aura and jumped through the window, breaking the glass in the process as an explosion of flames burst from the now broken window seconds after.
He rolled on the ground, taking care of not hurting Ruby before standing back up. He brought up his free hand to his mouth and bit his arm hard enough to draw blood, his fangs making the action far much easier as he summoned a single white chain which twirled around his now bleeding arm, the chains got smeared in his blood before turning red in color and then black.
The chain dropped to the ground as if it was an anchor, Naruto ducked as a fireball flew past his head and burnt some of his hair. He turned around just in time to see at least ten more fireballs coming at him however he was prepared. He pulled the chain but it didn't budge, instead it yanked him off his feet and in a puff of black smoke he dissappeared as if the ground had absorbed him.
Glynda landed on the spot seconds after the smoke cleared and inspected the scorch marks on the grass, she tsk'ed and waved her crop to fix all the damage she had done.
"You'll have to come back sooner or later."
- 0 - RWBY: KnR - 0 -
Inside an unused classrooms Naruto and Ruby reappeared in a puff of black smoke, the former setting the later down on a nearby chair and waited until she regained her bearings. Now that the danger had sort of passed by he finally released the breath he didn't know he had been holding back.
The red girl blinked several times, one moment she was still sulking because of Weiss words the next she was pushed down and kissed, a blush stained her cheeks at that, and the next moment she was picked up like a sack of potatoes as explosions bombarded them and after that she was suddenly hit by an incredible sense of vertigo, her body had felt like she had been forcefully turned into a small ball before being squeezed down a tiny tube before it was all gone.
"Wasn't that fun?" Naruto started as he scratched the back of his head.
"I... think so?" Ruby replied unsure of herself, she was still trying to comprehend what the hell had happened "Why were you running? And who were you running from?"
"A prank backfired on me and you were in the line of fire sort of" He shrugged as he leaned back on a desk and crossed his arms "Weren't you supposed to be in class?"
"We were, it just ended" Ruby replied evasively, she had already made up her mind about becoming the best leader for her team but it didn't change the fact that Weiss words had hurt.
"How did it go?"
"It was boring... Proffesor Peter wouldn't stop talking and I fell asleep halfway" Ruby replied sheepishly "Oh! At the end he brought out a Grimm and Weiss fought it, she's amazing you know..." her voice trailed off "I don't think I can be as good as her..."
Naruto frowned, he already had an inkling as to what was causing the young girl's mood "Ruby, imagine Weiss using Crescent Rose"
Ruby tilted her head and laughed "Bwahahaha I-I don't think she ca-can use Crescent Rose at all!"
"Exactly, just like you can't use Myrtenaster. There's things you're good at and there's things she's good at, together you two cover what the other lacks so cheer up. You're amazing in your own way too" Naruto smiled as he patted the girl on her head.
"T...thanks" She replied meekly.
"Come on, let's get out of here."
- 0 - RWBY: KnR - 0 -
Sometimes during life one would ask themselves what is their purpose? Which is the meaning of them being alive? This permanent search of self has driven many great men and women to do great things but this very same thing has made many more lose their path and some even were driven to the brink of insanity, and from these even more weren't strong enough and jumped to their deaths. One young man found himself in this very exact treacherous journey and in this current moment, he, like many has finally found his purpose in life.
This one young man is Uzumaki Naruto.
And he currently was laughing his ass off as he threw several small rocks into the air.
Normally, throwing rocks into the air would be slightly dangerous since you could easily dodge the blunt or spiked things and even then, the damage it caused wasn't all that bad if the rock itself wasn't big.
Normally, any normal person wouldn't laugh when they threw rocks into the air either however Naruto was anything but normal.
As Naruto watched the rocks sail through the air he spared a glance at his targets, an enormous group of students ranging from first to second year of Beacon Acadamy. Currently the grand majority of them looked like they were in the middle of a warzone, their clothings were stained with mud, dirt, tree-branches and even the odd rock stuck in hair, there were even some that had parts of their clothing destroyed giving him a free view to the massive amount of eye-candy of several of the students.
He cackled as the first rock hit the floor, creating an explosion that threatened to deafen his ears from his position atop a cliff with teacher Oobleck and Peter next to him, the trio watched mesmerized as the group of students stumbled, cried out and cursed as they ran around like headless chicken trying to dodge the oncoming barrage of rock bombs.
Now one would think this would be an attempt of terrorism in any normal school, but Beacon Academy was anything but normal and so were their teachers.
A week had gone by already since the first day of the academy and Naruto had managed to avoid Glynda's wrath by sleeping in the Forest and far away from any of the cameras but he still attended classes every now and then. It was in one of those instances that he had managed to string up an idea with both teachers about a conjointed class under the 'survival' topic. That was the sole reason why the students were running around for their lifes.
One of the many perks of Naruto's Semblance was that it allows him to Reinforce an item to the point where it's a bomb, the concept was the same as creating an Explosive Shadow Clone so it wasn't all that hard to discover the neat trick when he had trained with his Semblance. That's why as he grabbed more rocks from the ground, Reinforced them and handed a few to both teachers they started throwing the diminute mortal bombs.
"Enjoying the lesson, Naruto?" he heard the amused voice of the headmaster a few feet behind him. Naruto only gave a half-wave as reply before throwing some more rocks "I see, I certainly hope no permanent harm comes to those students..."
"They'll be fine, nothing a few stitches and some sleep won't fix" Naruto replied amusedly at the obvious threat, he was absolutely certain that Ozpin had not forgiven him for the indirect prank of riling up Glynda. At that though Naruto turned around completely and looked again at the headmaster with bedgrudging respect, an angry Glynda was a deadly Glynda and Ozpin had survived that and Naruto wasn't an ass to not give respect where it was due "Since you're here that means I have another mission?"
"Exactly, I have already sent you the email with the details for it. You have a time window of three days for the mission, any further than that and many complications will arise"
Naruto simply nodded, grabbed a whole lot of rocks more and reinforced them "Oobleck, Peter thank you for going along with this idea. There should be enough rocks to last you a few minutes more" and with that Naruto left the cackling teachers and a very amused Ozpin.
End.
Authors Note: I know this was a very short chapter compared to others, however I felt the need to end it here seeing as with next chapter the "introductions to Beacon Academy Arc" will be over. I hope you enjoyed the chapter, thank you everyone for following, favorites and reviewing the story. You have no idea how much it cheers me up whenever I saw a new review.
Some things I feel like pointing out before continuing are:
1. Ozpin and Naruto will always be edgy towards one another, as I'm pretty sure some of you can see canon Ozpin acting a bit like this (I took it a step further) and at the same time canon Naruto reacting to people like this the same way, but it's tempered down by his time living in Remnant.
2. Naruto Semblance, the Uzumaki Links. I've given a deeper explanation this chapter about his semblance and the actual reason why he can't use Chakra, while it may be a bit confusing I'm more than willing to explain it on the author's note on next chapter if you guys desire it. Because of this I've decided to spoil a bit of it.
Naruto has 9 abilities/tricks with his Semblance, four have already been revealed so far int he story and in next chapter I'll add a stat sheet if you so desire (of course without any spoilers).
That's all for RWBY: Kitsune no Reaper, I'm happy to also inform you that along with this chapter I've also uploaded the first chapter of my second crossover (touhouXNaruto) named Kitsune of The Hakurei Shrine. I'd love you much more if you went and read it at least~
See you next chapter.