"Well," Naruto looked at the three massive Grimm, "who's got what?"

"I got this!" Ruby exclaims as she activates her scythe and charges.

"She does NOT have this, the little girl is like you when you were younger, in over her head!"
"I noticed!"

Naruto ran and stunned everyone when a golden light appeared around just as the Giant Nevermore started launching its feathery assault. Ruby's cape got caught by one of the feathers, stopping her retreat after the failed strike on the Deathstalker, she was very fast…even by Naruto's standards.

So, he had to be faster!

He became flashes of gold, grabbing Ruby just as a hail of feathers impacted her position. He slid, the dirt being kicked up from his feet. She was held bridal style as he flipped forward and kicked The Deathstalker right in its face.

It was hard enough to make it slide back, he looked at her, "hey there bright eyes."

Jumping back to the others as the snake started to move, Naruto looked at Ruby who was blushing, she seemed terrified of his red eyes at first before she took a deep breath.

"N-N-Naruto, th-thanks," Naruto let the blushing Ruby down with a smile.

He rubbed the back of his head his golden flames danced around him, "this is called Kurama by the way, Yang."

Yang was stunned, lost for words for once, along with Blake. She just saw him all golden, in fact clothing formed around him as he rubbed the back of his head. She just ran over and hugged her sister, holding her tightly.

"Don't you ever go off and stupidly charge again!"
"Yang…hug…crushing…me…air…"
"Sorry, thank you Whiskers."

Naruto waved her off, "don't mention it, pick your targets because I got dibs on the giant snake."

"Wait," Weiss moves to stand in front of him, "you can't be seriously saying you're going at it alone."

"Hah, aww, you act like you give a shit after all. Anyway," Naruto picked Weiss unceremoniously by the shoulders and moved her out of his way, "stand back and pick between the two left."

He took a deep breath, "Kurama, let's go."

"Are you bringing me out?"
"Version two."
"Full body?"
"Hands."
"Hahaha, rip and tear until it is done."
"With pleasure."

Everyone watched as Naruto's hands suddenly lost their skin, becoming a mass black and red energy in the shape of claws, "this what I mean by battle happy…don't get in my way."

The snake took charge, hissing as it reared its heads back, ready to strike at him as he ran forward. Naruto stunned everyone as he flashed several places at once, and a red slash appeared over one of the snake's heads it fell off.

Weiss took a deep breath, "okay, so we'll let the demonic Faunus guy go at it with the snake."

"God, can you just turn off bitch mode for one minute?" Yang questions as she popped her knuckles.

Blake nodded, "kind have to agree; besides he did save Ruby's life so that doesn't constitute demon."

Weiss shook her head, "fine, I'm sorry. For now, besides as much as Ruby is annoying…she's still strong in her own right."

"Aww," Ruby blushes, "Weiss you do care."

"Hahaha," Weiss' face fell flat, "don't push your luck."

"Um, Pyrrha," Pyrrha turned to Jaune as he readied himself.

She nods, "Nora, Ren."

Nora saluted, while Ren bowed, "how can we protect the castle?!"

"We're killing a Deathstalker," Jaune says as he got ready to run with them, "but wait until the others make a move."

Ruby nodded, "guess we'll kill a Nevermore, let's go!"

Yang nodded, running with her sister, with Jaune looking at them as he nodded and ran with the others. Yang and Blake used their ranged weapons to take potshots at the Nevermore as it flew over, with Ruby leaping every so often and firing a sniper round off.

Naruto roared out as he dodged two of the heads before slicing them off, his eyes widened when two replaced the others, growling as he saw the other blonde, Jaune leading his team toward a bridge. It was a smart play, it kept any smaller Grimm from coming into play.

However, with an aerial enemy, they were going to be split between forces, he took note that Ruby had stepped and was leading the charge against The Nevermore. Several loud bangs, rapid banging, and such filled his fox ears as he watched them go.

"They can handle themselves, focus!"

Naruto kicked ahead away as it tried to snatch him, he landed on the ground and backflipped out of the way. If he wasn't trying to hide his true power he'd obliterate the creature with ease, then he smirked as he saw it grow another set of heads out of the one he sliced off in his retreat.

What had been eight heads, was now nearing fourteen, and he was seething more with frustration. This was the first Grimm, albeit it made him unnerved since it reminded him of a certain Snake from his past, that truly was slightly pressing him.

Dodging left, hopping and kicking a few heads away, Naruto landed on the ground hard enough to sink and crack it around him. Smirking as he looked at his version two claws on his hands, he thought that the corrosive nature of their chakra would keep any sort of healing out of the picture.

It wasn't the first time he was wrong after gaining Ashura's knowledge, most certainly wouldn't be the last.

Naruto took a minute as he looked at the creature, then noticing something as he looked down at his arm, he noted a purple droplet on it. Then sighed as he flexed his arm and hand, watching as Kurama pushed out any venom that had sunk in.

He turned his head after he heard someone yell, which left him wide open to an attack from a hiding Beowulf, but he quickly dispatched as it got thrown into the Eight headed beast's maw for its efforts.

"Don't get distracted!"
"I'm not distracted, but I can't let any of them get hurt!"
"Naruto, this isn't for you to just jump in and save everyone, they are choosing the paths of warriors…you said it yourself…they're soft."
"Doesn't mean they deserve to bite the dust if they die!"
"No, but it will prove to themselves that they can do this!"
"You're right…"
"Hehehe, so now that they're distracted by their little fight, how we doing this?"
"Fox Fire."
"I've always wanted to roast a snake, but this'll do."

Naruto suddenly charged, grabbing the snake chakra hands and arms, pushing it back into the forest some more. His hands went back to normal as he took a deep breath, drawing as much air as he could, and then he formed a hand seal.

"Fire Style," Naruto launched a torrent of flame from his mouth, "Fox Fire!"

The snakes hissed, roaring out as the fire burned over them, with Naruto smirking as he charged and reshaped his left hand into the claws of version two. The beast's head came off, this time it did not regrow.

Flipping backward just in time to avoid a strike, Naruto kicked a head away before blowing fire on it as it passed by before slicing it off with his right hand forming the claw this time. Taking a step back, Naruto watched as it thrashed, smirking as it seemed to get angry.

It roared out at him, but that only made him smirk as he brings his hands to his side, "RAAAWWR!"

"Hahaha, yes, use my voice!"
"I can feel it, this rush, let us try something different Kurama!"
"What are you doing?"
"You'll see!"

Naruto blew several balls of fire from his mouth, "Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!"

The heads screamed as fire impacted them, with Naruto forming a Rasenshuriken in right hand, "thanks to my Ashura's knowledge…I can use all elements…as if I could do them since I was baby!"

"Go!"
"Already on it!"

Naruto flung the ball of energy at the beast, the fires burning out on the beast's scale made the blast catch fire, it sliced through most of the heads. The beast wasn't able to regrow them as Naruto watches them disperse into black smoke.

Only four heads remained of the eight that multiplied beforehand, he smirks as he turned on his heel, suddenly blocking a few Beringels as they came into the fray. He punched them all back, obliterating them in chakra punches as he took deep breaths between each hit.

The snakes suddenly roar out, making him focus on them, he seems them suddenly lurch up. Electricity crackling around them, his eyes widened a little bit, and he smirked.

"Color me impressed, its producing dark chakra, which isn't able to be picked up on unless you're an acute sensor like me…heh…I guess some of these Grimm can use chakra…but its weird since I don't seem to feel life energy from them. Honestly," Naruto muses as he got ready with another Rasenshuriken, "I didn't expect it could even do that."

Naruto launched the Rasenshuriken just as it lets loose a roar, its electricity crackling from its mouth, only to meet its archrival in the wind that was heading for it. Three of the four heads were sliced off, leaving the last one on it, while Naruto just casually took a step forward.

The beast did something he expected, it slithered backward, "so you all can feel fear?"

The blonde dropped into a fighting stance, taking a deep breath, "since you can feel fear you can understand me then."

"You are not making it out of here, not alive, and since I am more than certain that you can understand me. Know this, hear it very well, I have fought Gods. You," Naruto formed a Rasengan in his hand that gained a fiery appearance of golden orange, "are just another fodder."

The snake suddenly hissed, launching all of itself at Naruto, only for the blonde to blast through it entirely as he went into its mouth and tore through it with the flamelike Rasengan. Appearing out of the lower tail from where he just made room inside of the snake, Naruto slid to a stop as he deactivated his cloak.

The loudest boom yet sounded as the black mist flowed around him, he took a deep breath before smiling, then looking at the blinking red light in a tree. He dusted his shoulders off, winking at the camera as he heard the noises of the other fight growing louder.

Ozpin puckered his lips, smiling a little bit, "just how much did you hold back?"

Glynda was slightly shaking, "Ozpin," she hands out her own board monitoring everyone's aura levels.

Naruto's levels weren't present, because he had crashed the system twice, so she didn't get a reading. However, she had an unknown aura signature placed on the map, heading toward Naruto very fast. It was large, larger than her own, by a few times.

The man sipped his coffee, "looks like Salem has come to play, or one of her goons."

"Should we help?" Glynda questioned as she looked at it, it was just a few miles away from Naruto, but it was closing rapidly.

"The Black Shadows have been a thorn in our side, using powers similar to Naruto's here, we'd just be in the way. Let an expert handle the novice," Ozpin patted her back, "come now, we must prepare the hall."

Naruto was sitting in a tree overlooking the destroyed bridge, watching as the giant Nevermore struggled against Ruby's teamwork, he smiled as she took initiative in all the right ways. She was kid compared to the ones around her, even Naruto himself, but he was colored impressed at their teamwork

Leaning on the branch, watching out to make sure he wouldn't have to intervene to save someone, he then sees Blake fall of the bridge only for her to skillfully use her weapon to get back into the fight. Call her gloomy, call her reserved, but she was an expert fighter.

Perhaps a little too good for just being in training, Naruto noted that she had a coiled snake stance. The same stance veterans of combat, namely himself, had in any form or fashion they always had that "ready-set-go attitude" in their stances.

For her to have it raised some questions in his mind, not doubt her reasoning being here, probably. But, nonetheless, if it didn't directly affect anyone that he was considering a friend then he didn't need to worry about little secrets.

Everyone had their secrets, he had a godly one, a literal godly one.

Naruto got up, taking a deep breath as he saw the beast get knocked into the mountainside, he pumped his fists. He was just damn colored impressed, it was no Madara, but the lowered expectations in combat from this era was enough to make him excited.

Then came the ending of the struggle, he saw Ruby run up the mountain, assisted by glyphs as she then hooked the beast's neck with her scythe and ripped it off. Whistling, Naruto watched all this from afar, and he chuckled as he was going to buy her these "chocolate cookies" if he got the chance to earn money.

He was watching all of them celebrate a little, then he sighed as he suddenly threw his elbow back, "you're not very good at hiding your chakra signature."

His elbow had been caught by a black-haired young man in a mask, "you sensed me?"

"Not too hard, considering you have my own chakra within you, so are you going to explain?" Naruto questioned as he saw the long katana on his hip, smirking as he saw him avoid it, he was smart.

"I don't need to explain myself to you, imposter."
"Imposter?"
"You pretend to walk among sheep when you're easily a God."
"Aha, you know about my furball then, so…what're you gonna do?"
"Kill you."
"You can try, a Goddess did, she failed horribly at it."

Naruto then kicked the person away hard, watching him go through several trees, he took a deep breath as he entered Sage Mode but hid it under a transformation. The being got up, his red mask slightly cracked from taking a full hit b ya tree, but it held.

The blonde narrowed his eyes, "Chakra Wood?"

"Not bad," the person said as he got shook off the impact like it was nothing, "you're holding back?"

"Yeah, by the way, hair dye is horrible. Seriously," Naruto then saw under the tuft of red hair from where the hair dye had got rubbed off, "that's also a Faunus Trait?"

"You seem to not even be aware of what exactly you are, such a sad state for a God, hehehe." The young man laughed, as he flexed his hand.

The blonde shook his head, "you're in way over your head, back off…now."

"I'll do no such thing," he got his long crimson katana out from its sheath, "I am Sangre."

"Heh," Naruto loosened his stance, "you are very prideful. I've known men like you, you're not so different from those I've beaten in my time. So, let us drop the bullshit, what do you know about me?"

"The All-Mother has told me everything, Fox God," Sangre stated as he readied himself.

Naruto's eyes slightly widened, "did you just say, "All-Mother?"

"Oh God, please no…"
"Naruto…"
"No…no…no-no…"
"Focus…"
"I am, but, goddamn it all if she is alive!"
"We don't know for sure, but I'm quite questionable to as why he just called you Fox God, interesting."

"You both can quick talking," Sangre smirked from under his mask, "that's right I can hear you both."

Scoffing, Naruto rolled his eyes, "tell me…is The All Mother's name Kaguya Otsutsuki?"

"Heh," Sangre scoffed, "you'll have to beat it out of me."

Naruto smiles as he got ready, "don't play, because you're not facing someone without knowledge of what you can do."

"Yet," Naruto's eyes widened as another Sangre appeared behind him, "you forget that I have the same type of chakra you do."

Naruto blocked the sword slash with Sage Mode enhanced skin, he then punches the clone hard, watching it burst into smoke before it ignited and exploded in a wall of flame. It didn't make a boom, it didn't last long, it just formed a ball of flame around him.

Sangre readied his blade just as Naruto appeared in front him, clashing a kunai against it, Sangre's eyes slowly turn red under the mask. Growing claws that tore the tips of the finger covered gloves open, making Naruto smirk as the young man hit him hard.

The blonde twirled away, getting distance, "I can see you're able to use the initial state."

"Initial state?"
"Oh, this is going to be fun."

Naruto took a deep breath, deactivating Sage Mode, and then opened his eyes slowly to reveal red irises with a foxlike quality to them. His appearance became more feral, he popped his knuckles as his canines poked from under his lip.

He gave deep growl, "this is what I meant," Naruto held his claws out.

Sangre readied his blade, "heh, guess that's why I bear the most powerful of all the chakras beside her own."

"You keep saying her, I already know her name, Kaguya Otsutsuki."
"You know nothing, The Rabbit Goddess is dead."
"Beg your pardon?"
"Fox God, you are no different than The All-Mother, that is why you are a threat to her."
"Okay…well…now I'm confused as hell."

Naruto blocked several slashes with kunai as Sangre appeared in front of him, he noted the fighting style, it was definitely no different than a Kumo Shinobi's fighting style with katana, it made him narrow his eyes and analyze the fighting style carefully.

The strange thing was, instead of working his way through, he was just letting Naruto hit the blade.

The blonde fought, hitting the blade with his kunai rapidly as they dashed between the trees in the shadows of their speed. Naruto got the upper hand quickly as he kicked Sangre across the ground, taking a deep breath as he did.

Sangre got up, slowly, but a smirk formed on his face as he channeled red energy into his sword before sheathing it. Naruto charged at him, his speed catching by surprise to where the blonde drove his knee into the man's face, easily breaking the nose of the man through the mask.

"No mistaking it, that's chakra wood," Naruto observed he then kicked the warrior away.

He took a deep breath, "surrender."

"I don't surrender to you, imposter, now feel the wrath of my own full power!" Sangre screamed as he charged, with Naruto just standing there.

"Wilt," he gripped the blade, "Blossom!"

Sangre's world turned red as he slashed at Naruto, the teen bringing his arm up and taking another deep breath, what should've happened was Sangre's sword slicing through the false God's hand and head. Instead, as his world returned to normal, the masked agent of The All-Mother was stunned as the blade didn't even pierce through Naruto's skin.

The Shinobi looked at The Swordsman, he watched as his forearm bled a little bit, "is that all?"

Sangre's eyes widened as Naruto crashed his fist on his stomach, he coughed up a wad of blood as he raised into the air by the force, Naruto then jumped up and snapped his body as he kicked Sangre hard through a few trees.

Deactivating his initial state as he healed, Naruto watched as Sangre got up, he cracked his knuckles.

"So, tell me, how did you get ahold of Tailed Beast Chakra?"
"I was granted this gift, by a true deity, you are greedy to keep their souls within you."
"You know about them, so how do you have Kurama's power if he's still there."
"I will never tell you our method, but just know I have seen the depths of your power, and I'll return to finish this job."

Naruto didn't bother to move against him, instead, he sighed, "you're way out of your mind if you think you've truly seen the limits of my power."

"But," the blonde smirked, "here's a little taste of it."

Naruto roars out as his golden cloak formed around him, nine tails swooshing behind him as he perfectly synched with Kurama, Sangre backed up. Slowly, but surely, he began to step back away from Naruto as the blonde kept walking toward him.

"You can take this message back to Kaguya," Naruto flashed and slammed his fist on Sangre's shoulder as he sucked the chakra of The Nine-Tails away, "I'm back."

Sangre felt Naruto slam his fist into his mask, shattering it, and then getting carried by the force hard enough to slam through even more trees. The blonde sighed, watching as the trees fell over, he then flexed his hand.

"Feel better, Kurama?"
"Yes, how did you get injured and caught by surprise?"
"As much as a novice he is in using your chakra, its still your chakra, and he cloaked his clone in it to throw me off."
"Interesting, very intelligent, but pride brought him into a fight he didn't have a chance in winning."
"Kurama, your pride is your own downfall, if I had been stupid enough to let him strike my throat it would've sliced it open."
"The wound on your arm was only caused because bypassed my chakra, and you foolishly activating Sage Mode again at the last second."
"I'm rather impressed though, Kumo fighting style, and Wind Style and Fire Style."
"When did he use the Wind Style?"
"When he tried to slice my arm off, he coated it at the last second just in case his base didn't give him enough."

Naruto sighed, "that's strike one Ozpin though, no one that strong just sneaks past someone as sensitive as him."

Sangre appeared out of a dark portal, stumbling as he landed hard on the ground, breathing hard. His mask fell off, revealing the features of a man in his twenties, horns on his head. He had a black substance coming from his mouth as his wounds tried to heal themselves.

A woman with ornate white hair, sitting on her throne, sighed.

"I told you not to engage him, now he knows that you indeed bear his power, along with others likely having it. You've made a very strategic," she hissed, "blunder."

"Forgive me, All Mother Salem, I was just testing the stories. Please," Sangre bows, "spare me."

"You will do well to heed my words next time, the fact I'll let you live to exact your petty revenge on a woman should be a testament to my ever-forgiving nature to my most loyal subjects. Uzumaki Naruto," Salem reaches for her wine glass, "indeed lived up to her whispers."

"The Rabbit Goddess was killed by him, yet you seem to think you'll fare much better, may I ask why?" Salem saw a shadowed figure standing there in her courtroom, she rolled her eyes.

"Oh, Owl, you never cease to be the most analytical of my troop. I never really wanted to kill him, which is why Sangre will be forced to battle one hundred Beringels to the death with his bare hands, call it forced training. You see," Salem took a sip of her wine, "why have a soul of one God…when I can easily have two?"

Owl bowed, "two opposite souls, an unlimited power."

"Once I have that power, I can be able to access The World of The Gods and conquer them. For now," Salem conjured an image of Naruto from her mind, "I shall tend to my thoughts upon this young God."

Sangre gets up, "I shall slay two hundred Beringel if it makes me stronger and pleases you, my lady."

"Yes, yes, and Sangre…"
"Yes?"

"Do not ever go against my standing orders again, Tyrian has problems listening to me, especially with the damned Tanuki's power inside of him. So," Salem's eyes lit up as the diamond mark on her forehead did, "don't skate on thin ice."