Kitsune In Remnant
I don't own Naruto or RWBY
"Talking" "Different Language"
'Thoughts'
'Attacks'
"Demon/Summon Talking"
*Actions or Sounds*
Pyrrha, very unlike herself, cursed as she dodged another swipe from her ice cream coloured attacker. Neapolitan she believed. Despite her short stature she was incredibly skilled and quick, and if it wasn't for the fact that she was beginning to get used to Kitsune's speed when they trained occasionally, she doubted she could've kept up this long. Not to mention that her whole team was currently fighting her and they only seemed to be a minor inconvenience judging by the ease at which she was fending off their attacks.
The night had started off well with everything going to plan, barring a few minor bits like Ruby running randomly off. Weiss had got in contact with her family, Yang had gone to the information broker she had visited before arriving at Beacon with Ren and Nora only to find it a burnt out husk months old. Blake had snuck in the White Fang gathering while she sat back in case she needed help. Which turns out that they would both need it when a new Atlas mech crashed through the wall and began chasing them through downtown Vale with the infamous criminal Roman Torchwick at the helm.
Then it had started to go downhill, they had begun by ganging up on Torchwick and the battle was going well, together the 8 of them made it hard for anyone to be hit and scored a lot of their own. Then the little girl, or woman, turned up and started helping her apparent compatriot, judging Roman to be the higher threat at the time considering the giant mech he was in, Pyrrha sent Weiss to help team RBY in bring him town while she Ren and Nora dealt with the newcomer. It was a mistake.
So now she prayed to Oum they could last long enough for RWBY to arrive or they were shit out of luck. Swearing intended.
Nora and Ren seemed to have some sort of success at pushing their opponent back and she ran to join them as they simultaneously backed off. Their strategy stayed the same as she reengaged; since she was the strongest she stayed in prolonged combat the longest, keeping the girl's attention while the other two raced back and forth with hit and run attacks, Ren with speed, Nora with her rather devastating attacks. Or they would be if they actually hit. While the strategy wasn't successful as to be a winning one, it was better than the ones tried earlier so they stuck with to try and waste time until back up arrived.
Pyrrha swiftly passed her two teammates and swung her shield at the girl in an attempt to knock her off balance but she simply danced out the way of both her strike and Nora's who tried to seize the opportunity to get a hit in. Pyrrha attacked again as Nora backed off, this time the girl didn't retreat and they traded blows a few times, Pyrrha constantly reminded of her fight with Kitsune with the ease at which the girl countered her. The Spartan ducked down and Ren came over her head with a kick that forced her to block with her sword knocked her back slightly, capitalising on the opportunity crouched to a knee and let Nora use her back as a launch platform for a overhead strike that although missed, forced their opponent back further and off balance. This time it was Pyrrha who used the opportunity to attack, the girl seeing it coming, who despite being off balance struck out with her blade trying to keep her at bay. Pyrrha blocked with her shield and used it to open her guard, the girl seeing this twisted herself out the way to present a smaller surface to hit which meant Pyrrha only scored a glancing hit on her side.
What she didn't expect was for her image to shatter like the Ursa had against Kitsune in the Forever Fall Forest. This surprise meant she was now overextended and off balance, having thrown her weight into the attack, so when the little nuisance appeared behind her she could do nothing more than curl and take the surprisingly strong kick to her back. So quick and strong? Their chances weren't looking good.
She rolled along the ground a few times before she managed to right herself, and just in time for her to bring up Akoúo to block a stab from the smirking girl. She was saved from her dialemma when Nora and Ren pincered her between them and forced her to once again disappear.
"This is not going well," She spoke as Nora gave her a hand up.
"No, that semblance of hers is strange." Ren agreed.
"It doesn't matter, we'll still beat her!" Nora yelled, brandishing her hammer.
"I'm not so sure, these physical illusions she uses will make it almost impossible for us to hit her." Pyrrha chewed her lip. "I'm beginning to regret not telling Kitsune about this." And she was, she was initially against betraying his trust like this, especially since he was her friend but she agreed they needed to do something about the Fang.
"As am I, but we don't need to win only hold out until the others are finished with Roman." Ren reminded.
As if on cue a large explosion rocked the ground, hopefully heralded the destruction of a large mech, and that their fellow students were successful in their fight. It seemed that that the girl also had the same idea as her head snapped to the direction the explosion came from, a frown breaking the cocky smirk they thought was plastered on her face.
She turned back to the three opposing her and bowed mockingly, sheathing her blade back into her parasol as she did so. She stood straight again and blew an imaginary kiss in their direction with a taunting wink and shattered into glass.
The trio shared a glance before turning a rushing off to where the explosion originated from, arriving just in time to see, an obviously very angry, Yang launch herself at the petite woman standing in front of Roman, the scattered remains of the mech around them.
"Wait!" Pyrrha yelled, trying to stop Yang from making a mistake. Either she ignored her or didn't hear and continued on her course. The neapolitan girl smirked and ducked letting Yang fly over her head and into the direct course of Roman's cane, with Yang going at the speed she was, she was unable to stop herself from getting struck directly in the face and sent back to the group making the rest of RWBY, she was soon joined but the final 3.
"What say you Neo, want to teach these kids a lesson they won't forget? I don't see their caped friend anywhere." Roman questioned stepping up to the girl whose name was actually Neo. The girl in question smirked and spun her thin sword that reminded them all of Kitsune to much for them to like.
"Careful, I know Blake that you've fought Roman before but the Neo girl is incredibly skilled and uses illusions to fight and possible teleport around." Pyrrha warned, readying to fight a second time.
Yang shook her head as she got up, "We got a plan?"
"Myself and Nora did hit and runs while Pyrrha held her in place. The plan has merit but we seemed to be nothing more than an annoyance." Ren explained
"With more people, we might stand a better chance." Weiss added.
"Alright, it's all we got at the moment let's do it. Weiss stay back and use your glyphs as support, Yang stay with Pyrrha, and Blake you and I will help Nora and Ren with hit and runs. Sound good?" Ruby put forward. Everyone nodded. "Good, Yang and Pyrrha go!"
The two heavy hitters rushed forward and met Neo half way when she charged back, Yang punched high while Pyrrha went low but both missed when Neo slipped in between the two and kicked Yang in the back. Knowing that her current partner would be fine Pyrrha swung at the girls back causing her to smash into pieces, remembering last time she instinctively positioned Akoúo behind her and blocked the retaliatory strike leaving her open to an attack from a glyph enhanced Ruby and Ren.
She didn't see the outcome having to turn away to face Roman who had decided to join when they were distracted but it seemed unnecessary when Blake and Yang jumped between them and began fighting the criminal, and despite the clear teamwork and skill presented by the partners they were unable to break through the man's apparently formidable defence and Yang was once again knocked back leaving Blake on her own until Nora arrived to help.
'So much for the plan' Pyrrha thought as she saw the man being handled she switched back to Neo and looked for a weakness as the girl nimbly dodged between Ruby and Ren's attacks while keeping that infernal smirk across her lips. She didn't even seemed pressed as she danced around their futile swipes or shots, even with Weiss helping them.
Pyrrha grimaced and joined the fight with Ruby and Ren, although the three have not fought together like this they made do with what they had and they at least made Neo have to block occasionally. For a few minutes everything was fine, well as much as it could be depending on the situation. Then everything went wrong.
Pyrrha parried a slice from Neo opening the girl to attack but she was wise enough to back off, Ren then dropped from above and fired StormFlower before slashing downwards and getting her to roll directly into the path of Ruby sped up by her semblance and together the two corralled Neo towards Pyrrha who was waiting in the sidelines for such a thing. A white glyph appeared underneath her and the redhead shot forward towards the fighting trio, when the two saw her approaching they wisely retreated leaving the criminal's accomplice open to be slammed into by what must have felt like a truck. Neo flew back right into the waiting line of Weiss, who when the opportunity presented itself stabbed forward with her rapier expecting to hit something solid like Pyrrha had, this time however the girl once more disappeared into shards. This time the consequences where much more deadly.
Pyrrha, stared in horror at the blade sticking out of her partners chest along with Ruby and Ren and if the sounds of battle were anything to go by then the others must have noticed as well. The blade retracted and Weiss wordlessly dropped to the floor while Neo merely smirked as if she hadn't just stuck her sword in somebody.
"NO!" Ruby was the first to react by dashing forward towards their enemy with her scythe ready to slash, far too quickly for either Pyrrha or Ren to stop her.
"Ruby wait!" Yang yelled desperately, her body coming into view along with the others, apparently they had momentarily forgotten about their own opponent.
The young girl either couldn't hear or ignored the call and continued onwards to Neo, the girl in question smirked again and sidestepped the speedy rosette swing her sword as she past, Ruby eventually came to a rolling stop a few feet further, the cause of which was a long gash down her leg and her side which looked be bleeding heavily and very painful if the girls pained cries and whimpers were anything to go by as she clutched at it.
Neo slowly approached the downed leader, twirling her blade tauntingly with the smirk till emblazed on her lips. The movement snapped her and Ren out their stupor and they rushed forward, hoping to get there in time. Roman had meanwhile stepped back into the fight and was disallowing Yang and the rest the ability to come to the rescue anytime soon.
Ruby clutched at her wounds, fighting the urge to let the tears fall. She didn't know why her aura didn't shield her, was this girl able to cut through it as if it didn't exist? This was all her fault; she had been the one to press for them to go despite Kitsune telling them not too. And now she was lying on the ground in a puddle of her own blood and Weiss...Weiss might be dead. And it was her fault, why, why did she have to try and be the hero?!
She turned her gaze up just as her opponent entered her field of vision, sword poised to strike, "I'm sorry Kitsune." She whispered, closing her eyes.
The blow never came, "I know you are Ruby, doesn't mean I'm not pissed though."
Ruby opened her eyes slowly, not know what she would see. "K-Kitsune?" She whispered again, there was another figure about her now, cloaked in black and holding the criminal's wrist with an iron grip.
Naruto hummed the affirmative, "Go to sleep Ruby, I'll handle this." He commanded with a cold glare directed at the cause of Ruby's wounds.
Ruby opened her mouth to protest, but the words got stuck in her throat as a heavy presence settled on her mind. It was warm and inviting, like a warm blanket in the winter, so when it completely enveloped her mind she didn't resist further and let unconsciousness claim her.
Naruto kept his eyes trained on the woman before him, despite her small stature he knew that she was one not to be trifled with. Size meant nothing when it came to fighting, he could attest to that having spent his younger years as a 'shrimp'. The woman smirked and disappeared into shards, reappearing near Roman to knock back the others he was fighting.
"Go see to Ruby and Weiss, I can handle this," He spoke, appearing next to them in a whirlwind of leaves. The others gave him looks but a quick one of his own was enough to 'persuade' them. He was angry; there was no mistake about that.
Roman smirked and twirled his cane and pointed it at Naruto, "Ah, the caped crusader returns! To what to do we owe the pleasure?" He asked snidely
Naruto said nothing but the rasp of him unsheathing his ninjato from underneath his cloak, which in itself was answer enough.
Roman frowned, "Not much of a talker are you? Very well." The small sight on the tip of the cane flipped up and an orange projectile towards their new opponent.
Naruto was more than ready this time and swung his sword in an upward arc, a blue arc of visible wind formed and easily cut through the weaker dust bullet causing it to prematurely explode in the air. The crescent of wind blew through the smoke unimpeded, trailing a grove in the concrete along its way. Roman and Neo split apart to dodge the clearly deadly piece of wind, both going separate ways.
Naruto didn't wait however and was moving the moment the bullet exploded, he went for Roman first, although the newer woman was the higher threat if he could take out Roman early he could full focus on her without any interruption. Roman had barely got back on his feet before he was sent back down from a flying roundhouse that knocked off his hat.
Naruto planted both his feet on the ground and brought up his ninjato to block a strike from the diminutive woman, the smirk that was formerly plastered on her face was gone, replaced by a crease in her eyebrows and a frown on her lips.
Naruto smirked himself, she knew he was stronger and more skilled then the others, they had just begun their fight but she knew, that if she didn't fight at her best she wouldn't win. A simple instinctual fight or flight, nagging at the back of her head. Naruto easily parried her attack and lashed out with a punch that shattered her image, the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end and he ducked, kicking out his back leg as he did so, catching her solidly in the stomach.
He stood straight again and blocked two attacks from Roman as if there were nothing more than a child's effort at being a warrior. He sidestepped and the girl soars past him this time, he raises a knee to catch her own attempt at a backwards kick and pushes her of balance into the path her of partner, both turn into glass this time and appear a few meters back.
Instead of rushing forward to engage the two like before, Naruto buried his sword in the concrete and weaved a set of seals too fast for anyone to keep up. 'Katon: Gókakyú no Jutsu' He spoke before expelling a large fireball from his mouth. Roman and Neo scarcely had the time to widen their eyes as the ball sped towards them before it encompassed their bodies with an explosion larger than the ball itself.
Naruto swung his arm and a gale of wind picked up to blow away the smoke before dispersing. He kissed his teeth. Nothing. "Typical" He muttered to himself. He retrieved his blade and turned to his teammates and their sister team, gathered around their two downed compatriots. Yang was cradling her sisters limp body while sobbing quietly to herself, Blake sat behind her with a hand on her shoulder in a desperate attempt to comfort her own partner. The others were gathered around Weiss and were trying to keep the heiress conscious while they attempted to stem the bleeding from her torso, the blood staining her once pure white coat a dark red and pink.
Naruto's hand disappeared into his cloak and reappeared with his e-scroll in hand, he pressed the image for Ozpin and held it to his ear while taking quick strides to the others, "Ozpin? Yes it's Kitsune, I need two Bullheads on my position as quickly as you can and bring Professor Peach...no I'm fine, it's Ruby and Weiss...15 minutes, I doubt Weiss will last that long she's been hit bad by the looks of things...ok I'll do what I can." He hung up just as reached the subject of his conversation, he ignore Ruby for the time being, knowing that she was in a better state than the girl currently bleeding out on the floor.
"K-kitsune, I'm so-" Pyrrha began until Naruto held up his hand.
"I'll deal with you lot later but Weiss is a bigger concern right now, so be quiet and let me handle it." Naruto snapped and Pyrrha instinctively shrunk back as if burnt. He stepped closer to her and knelt by her form, "Weiss can you hear me?" He asked looking at the wound on her chest, and the still growing circle of red.
The Schnee opened her eyes and looked at the shinobi above her tiredly, "Kitsune? Where are we? Why can't I move?" She questioned, confusion and panic mixing with her voice.
Naruto frowned underneath his hood, she didn't remember anything, that's probably a bad sign. "You're underneath the highway in Vale, you can't move because you've been stabbed and there's possible damage to your spine." He answered honestly garnering weird looks from the observers.
"Why is it so cold? I'm so cold Kitsune, I never get cold." Weiss whispered
Naruto grimaced and channelled fire chakra through his body and expelled it in a bubble around him to try and keep her body temperature up, "You've lost a lot of blood Weiss, there's not enough going round your body to keep you warm." Weiss nodded slowly and began to close her eyes again. "Hang on Weiss, you can't sleep yet."
"Why?" She whined; Kitsune would have considered it cute if it wasn't for the situation.
He glanced at Pyrrha, who looked on at the scene with unshed tears, "Keep her occupied and awake." He told her and retrieved a kunai to cut open the clothing covering the wound.
He peeled away the clothing and looked at the wound with a blank face, it was bad simply put. Although the wound itself was clean and tidy, the work of a good and sharp blade, it was bleeding heavily and he would wager that she was bleeding internally as well. That was also bad.
Naruto glanced up at the hitched gasp coming from Pyrrha, who was now almost as pale as Weiss, "Keep talking to her Pyrrha, let me handle this. Trust me." He reassured and went to work, not even bothering to see if he received a response.
His hand dug into his kunai pouch and retrieved another pouch; this one was white rather than beige and had a red cross in the centre. He opened it and rummaged around for a moment before pulling out a small ceramic pot and a packet of red blood pills.
He set the pot down beside him and opened the packet and popped one in his mouth and began chewing into a paste. He then opened the pot and scooped out a generous amount of green paste and began lathering it on the wound on Weiss chest. It was a special paste introduced during the war to help seal wounds quicker and stimulate the cells around it to heal quicker before a medical ninja could see to it. Although he would never need it with both the Kyuubi and his own healing ability, he had decided to start carrying around medical supplies to tend to wounded allies as he could never learn medical jutsu, the result of both his ever expanding chakra and that it carried elements of demonic chakra making it poisonous to anyone but him and other jinchuriki.
"Set her up." He told Pyrrha through his chewing, as he gathered another load of paste at his finger tips. Pyrrha did as she was told, doing well even when Weiss began crying out in pain at the movement. He made sure to be quick when applying it and soon Weiss was back flat on the ground, eyes closing as unconsciousness began to claim her. "Hang on Weiss, we're almost there." He mumbled his mouth almost full by this point. He shifted slightly and bent over her face, activating a quick genjutsu he pulled down his mask and planted his mouth on hers and pushed the paste into her mouth. He retreated and massaged her throat to make sure she didn't choke on the sudden intrusion, all the while ignoring the shocked and confused looks the others were sending him. "A blood pill. It will help stimulate the body to speed up the formation of blood and increase the pressure." He explained, pulling his mask back up and dispelling the illusion. He closed the pot and replaced both it and the packet of blood pills in the medical pouch and came back out with a roll of bandages and set about wrapping Weiss' wound to make sure that the paste stayed in place and did its job.
His eyes continued to be blank as he took in Weiss' body; although it hurt to see her in such as state he had seen enough of it to be numb to the feeling. He had done all he could with his limited healing ability and now it was up to Weiss to hang on until Ozpin arrived with Peach in 12 and a half minutes by his count.
He stood and moved to Ruby to repeat the process on her without the aid of a blood pill, she hadn't lost enough for it to be of any use. He worked silently, heedless of the pained whimpers that escaped Ruby's sleeping mouth, and the way that Blake's bow guiltily flattened against her head.
He did however take notice when his acute hearing picked up the gentle beat of approaching propellers 10 minutes later and he glanced up as 2 bullheads navigated a paths through the maze of supports and landed a dozen feet from their position, Peach and a few other doctors jumping off before it had even settled. Ozpin followed at a more sedate pace.
He went straight to Ozpin as Peach raced past and began tending to Weiss and Ruby with their concerned compatriots looked over, "I've done the best I could with my limited knowledge." He told Ozpin when they reached each other.
Ozpin nodded, "Then hopefully it will be enough, do you know what happened?"
Naruto shook his head, "Not the full story but I have an idea." He turned his head slightly and locked eyes with Blake.
"I see." Ozpin followed his gaze.
"The two criminals they were fighting know that I'm a shinobi, the chances of the White Fang and whoever is leading them thinking me a threat has just gone up. A lot." Naruto stated grimly. "We may be seeing more missing-nin in the coming weeks, perhaps months."
"Why are you telling me this?" Ozpin inquired
"Because things are going to get messy, I need you to keep Ironwood of my back, I don't trust him to sort out the problem not matter what he might believe."
Ozpin was quiet for a moment, "Very well, just don't make me regret backing you on this Kitsune. I already received flack for just inviting you here. Don't do something you might regret." He warned.
Naruto smirked underneath his mask, "Who said I would regret anything?"
Ozpin eyed him but said nothing.
"Are you going to punish them?" Naruto asked, breaking the silence. Both now looking as Peach and the other doctors worked on Weiss.
"I had thought of it but I think this is punishment enough for their mistake, don't you?"
Naruto sighed, "If we were in the Nations, Ruby and Pyrrha would be court marshalled and thrown in prison for disobeying orders and getting their teammates wounded because of it. The others would at best be demoted, worse dishonourably discharged and placed under observation."
"We're not in the Nations though, are we?" The headmaster pointed out.
"No, we're not."
They were silent again as they watched the doctors carry Weiss and Ruby on stretchers to the first bullhead, being joined by Yang and Pyrrha while the others made their way over to them on the second bullhead.
"Are you going to say something or shall I?" Naruto proposed.
"I'll let you handle this, I shall go and check the condition of young Weiss and Ruby." Ozpin said and turned to board to bullhead before it took off.
Blake led the procession towards him and opened her mouth to speak, Naruto threw a thumb over his shoulder at the bullhead waiting for them and she shut it with an audible click. He said nothing and did nothing as the down hearted group trudged past him and onto the bullhead where he finally joined them and sat on the edge of the hold, uncaring as he legs dangled off in the air.
The entire journey back was filled with only the thrum of the bullhead as it made its way back to Beacon, the silence between its occupants only added to the tension that was already present and Blake's ear's had long since disappeared into her hair line.
The 15 minute journey back passed quickly and Naruto didn't even wait for the bullhead to come to a stop before jumping off and walking to the other bullhead which had just finished dropping off its occupants.
He approached the Peach at the centre of the group and looked down at her short stature, "How are they Doc?"
Professor Peach brushed a lock of peach coloured hair behind her ear and looked up at Naruto with an impressed look. "Whatever you did saved Weiss' life, although that paste you applied sealed the outside wound it didn't stop the internal bleeding, it did however kick-start her own aura in healing the minor damage to her spine."
Naruto nodded, "I suspected as much which was why I gave her the blood pill."
Peach looked at him with confusion this time, "Blood pill?"
Naruto retrieved one from his pouch to show her, "Something we created that helps stimulate the creation of blood in the body and increase the pressure in the body."
"Really? May I have one to study, that could certainly save many lives." Peach requested looking at the small red ball in nothing short of awe.
Naruto shrugged, "Sure, I'll have to check with my higher ups first though, classified and all that."
"I understand." Peach nodded
With the conversation over the doctors carried their charges towards the medical wing of Beacon while the rest of them returned to their dorms, their heads hanging low and guilt written over their faces.
He avoided talking to them, even when both Yang and Pyrrha attempted to and instead sped up to walk beside Ozpin, "With your permission I want to set up a sealing array that will detect any chakra around the academy, with it I can hopefully intercept any shinobi before they have an opportunity to harm the students." He requested
Ozpin looked at him critically, "You do understand what you're asking correct? How do I know you won't use it to harm the students yourself?"
"You don't. That's why I'm asking you to trust me."
Ozpin eyed him some more and Naruto slowly began to get unnerved by the headmasters piercing gaze. He nodded once and carried on in the direction of his office, not giving anything away with his walk or posture to his feelings on the matter.
Naruto sighed in relief and checked his pockets to see how much ink he carried on him and grumbled under his breath when he realised he didn't have any, which meant he had to return to his dorm anyway.
He had decided on the journey back that he was going to give them what basically devolved into the silent treatment. He agreed with Ozpin that the injuries of Weiss and Ruby were punishment enough for both teams but he didn't think that was enough for them to really understand why he was upset with them. So he wasn't going to talk to them. Call it childish but they were likely going to try and apologise for what happened and he honestly didn't want to hear it. They could stew in their guilt and he won't give a damn.
Naruto sighed again and combed a hand through his hair beneath his hood, uncaring to the many patrols of Atlas troops watching him. They couldn't do anything even if they wanted to.
There was no use delaying, may as well go and get that ink.
(End)
That's that folks, I was intending for a lot more to be included in this chapter, like the dance but this kinda went on for longer than I originally intended. On that note I hope you like the chapter because this is the third time I've written it and I sticking with it now, so if you don't. Tough.
Next chapter shouldn't be long, but I've said that before so don't get your hope up.
-Red
Translations
'Katon: Gókakyú no Jutsu' – 'Fire Release: Great Fireball technique'