Authors Note
DDK here and I gotta say *phew* this has taken me long to come up with this chapter, so bare with with because I had to put alot of thought into this, but first a quick couple of notes before this story starts.
Frist to Guest of Honor, I've taken your suggestion to atleast add in the characters you have mention but it's just one of them for now, the others would be introduce later on in the story so I hope this is enough. Second, Tsunade will make an appearance in this chapter. For her appearence look discription, she would look the same when first introduced in the series, a little bit same person but little different as well so just bare with it .
That's all for now, on word to story time!
DDK does not own Naruto or RWBY
It was Saturday morning at Beacon, a day that each and every student had already have plans on what they would do on thier first day off from classes. Some would mostly sleep in, others would spend the day in Vale, and the rest would take the time to free roam around campus to either relax or train. Inside Team RWBY's dorm room the girls were having their own morning activities, Naru was already dressed in her usual clothing while checking her backpack of what she needed before setting off to visit her grandmother, Yang was in one of the bathrooms currently fixing her massive golden hair to the way she liked it while wearing her own usual clothes, Weiss was seated at her study desk in her own clothing as the heiress was busy polishing Myrtenaster, Blake was laying down on her top bunk bed still her PJ's reading one of her books, and the youngest girl in the room Ruby was snoring off in her bed as she decided to sleep in.
"Alright, I believe that's everything I need." Naru said as she closed her pack up, Weiss having stop polishing her weapon would raise a slight eyebrow up at the fox faunus girl.
"What do you possibly need to pack for exactlly? It's not like you need to go through some dangerous forest, filled with Grimm might I add, just to visit your grandmother." Weiss said to Naru, being as the faunus had told the girls that she was gonna visit her grandmother today.
"Yep." Naru replied not turning to the heiress as she stood and slung her backpack on.
" I'm sorry, what?" Weiss asked in abit disbelief, Blake would look over her book when she too had heard that.
"It's exactlly where she lives, and also where I grew up at. Abit far away from Signal Academy or any other settlements on Patch." Naru told them as Blake would place her book down on her lap to speak what was on her mind.
"Isn't that dangerous? Being surrounded by a forest that is filled with many creatures of Grimm and other wild life?" at her question the black haired girl heard a small laugh, that laugh come from her partner when she exit out the bathroom.
"I'm abit surprise you still didn't get the idea yet, remember when I said that Foxy's grandmother was a Huntress?" Yang asked, it took a second before both Weiss and Blake nodded their heads while Ruby was still sleeping, "Welp she isn't any ordinary Huntress, but she's 'THE' Huntress! One that we all...Ruby are you still sleeping?!" Yang was going on at the excited part until she notice that her baby sister was still sleeping in her bed while Blake and Weiss were on edge on the excited part until they nearly face fault when the golden blonde girl change the subject so quickly. Yang would make her way over to her sisters bed as she poke her finger on the younger girl shoulder, upon the second poke Ruby would throw the covers over her head.
"Ugh, go away Yang! I'm not up yet." the red head said under the covers as Yang notice that Ruby's legs weren't covered an bare footed, a grin spread on the older siblings face.
"Ok sis, have it your way then." she told Ruby as the brawler would grab hold of both the young girls ankles wrapped around one arm to hold in one place. Ruby, feeling her legs being grabbed, would throw the covers off of her and starts struggling in her bed to free herself with wide silver eyes that showed fear of what was to come next.
"Yang, no please doN'T! AHHHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Ruby cried out as she started laughing uncontroably when her older sister had started tickling her feet, Weiss and Blake had anime style sweatdrop on the back of their heads from watching their respectful partners, Naru however could only have an amuse smile on her lips at the sisters.
"Well I better get going while the morning is still fresh, Yang I'll see you around seven later on." the fox faunus told her girlfriend when she made her way over to the sisters, which Yang would puase to give Ruby some time for air as Naru would gave the brawler a soft kiss, which caused the other two girls presence to turn their blushing faces away with Blake going back to her book and Weiss resume polishing Myrtenaster.
"Mmm alright Foxy, I've already got a great place in mind for us to go. See you soon!" Yang told the faunus when the two broke away from the kiss and Naru went to the door as she bid the other three girls a farewell.
"Alright, bye NarRRUUUU! YANG HAHAHAHA!" Ruby cried out when her sister went back to tickling her once again making the young red head laugh and under Yang's mercy. Naru would pull out a set of headphones, similar to Ruby's only in orange colored, from her backpack first then close an sling the pack over her shoulders before exiting out the dorm through the door closing behind, however she came back a second later to adress towards Weiss.
"Oh, and Ice Queen? A little hint about my grandmother, she's not a faunus." she told the heiress before pulling back and closed the door, Weiss had a tick mark on her forhead at the 'Ice Queen' while ignoring Ruby's screaming laugh until she thought of what the fox faunus said to her.
"Not a faunus? What in the world did she...wait...no way!" Weiss thought as her blue eyes went wide as she quickly place her weapon down and grabbed her Scroll, while Ruby had calm down when Yang saw that her sister eyes started tearing up Blake would look away from her book to see the heiress quickly taping something on her Scroll that the black haired girl would soon ignore an went back to her book.
Outside the dorm and standing in the hallway, Naru was inserting a small chip into the slot on her headphones that contain music when suddenly her fox ears perk up when she heard an "EEHHH?!" sound comming from Team RWBY's room. From the way it sounded like comming from the Schnee heiress, Naru could only think that she must of figured it out or looked it up and let out a small snicker laugh as she imagine what the heiress face look like before placing her headphones onto her human ears and turns it on before making her way down the hall towards her locker where she last left Tempest at.
Fifteen minutes later
Once she had retrieve her weapons and strapped them to her thighs, along with her headset on playing one of her favorite bands in her ears, Naru was currently riding on a Dust airship similar to the one that she rode on when first arriving at Beacon. Currently it was making two stops, which Patch would be the first that she would need to get off and then Vale would be next right after, pulling out her Scroll to look at the time Naru would guess that she would be on board for about less than a hour as she put her Scroll away and looked outside of the window she was facing.
There were holo-screen televisions that she could've watch, such as the news and more, but the faunus liked it better to looking out a window while traveling, it was something she enjoyed when ever her parents would take her to places around such as parks and more. At the sudden thought of her parents though made Naru had a sad look on her face, remembering abit of her past way before she met Yang and even more before entering Signal.
"Excuse me?" Naru was brought out of her memory lane when her fox ears picked up that someone was talking to her from behind, turning around she saw a girl a couple years older than Naru. Just like Naru she was a faunus with black fur color wolf ears and a tail, like Blake she had long black hair but was braided and eyes were brown color, currently she was wearing a green sleeveless vest with a black tank top underneath, a green skirt that reach towards above the knee's, while wearing black sockings along black an green colored shoes, and finally Naru notice she wore a belt that held a holster on the right side of her hip with something in that could only guess could be the girls weapon, "Aren't you Naru Namikaze, the first year student that's representing for Beacon?" she asked the fox faunus girl.
"That's me, you've gotten me at a disadvantage..." Naru paused a moment for the other faunus girl to take a hint, which she saw her gave off a friendly smile and held her right hand out.
"Ashley Ketchum, fellow student of Beacon of third year and member of Team KALM." the wolf faunus girl introduce herself, to which Naru would take her offered hand and gave a shake in greet, "We're in Professor Oobleck's history class together, I've seen you couple of times but never gotten the chance to talk." Ashley stated as she letten go of Naru's hand.
"Oh now I remember, your on the second row on the right side of the room. I'm kinda surprise, most higher up year student's don't usually chat with first year students, mostly they just focus on their studies or something." Naru told this that made Ashley laugh a little.
"And you an Velvet seem to be getting along nicely, it's really nice to see her making new friends other than her team and mine. Maybe we can all get together sometimes doing stuff." the wolf faunus suggested, which the fox would agree with her.
"Especially if it means getting Ruby out of her shell and talking to more people." Naru thought for the little red head, " So are you by yourself at this moment or is your whole team here?" Naru asked when she looked around to see if any of the passangers of students on board.
"Nope, we all have plan to doing something seperate for today. Although both Ichigo and Lars would mostly spend the day training while Makato is in the schools library studying, I myself am going to Vale to visit my family for the day in Vale." Ashley explained, giving the names she spoke of Naru guessed those were Ashley's teammate, along with the rest of the time the two spent having a chit chat conversation until the airship had landed to Naru's destination.
"This is my stop, was nice meeting you Ashley. Hope I'll see you around sometime." Naru said as she bid a friendly farewell to the wolf faunus.
"Likewise Naru, see ya later." Ashley said as she waved at the fox faunus who exit out the ship and doors closed behind her, now that she was on Patch Naru would soon started taking the path that lead through the grey forest to where her grandmothers home would be, along with having Tempest out incase she ran into any Grimm along the way.
Patch: Grey Forest area
Naru had spent the remaining hour of traveling on foot through the forest, stopping once in a while to check her surroundings for any Grimm that might attack her or seeing if the path looked familier to the faunus girl, so far she had to deal with about three Beowolves and a Ursai but other than that Naru was starting to reconised the area within the forest and then notice a house at a far distance up head. The building was a one story in height along with a yard that held pratice dummies and a wooden fence that surrounds it, walking up the the front door Naru would grab the knob in her hand and gave it a turn only to find it lock then notice a scanner on the side of the door, pulling out her Scroll the fox faunus girl would swipe it once and then heard a soft click sound comming from the door as she tried again when it was unlock an went inside.
Naru had closed the front door and looked around the inside, finding that the decorations and furniture had been replace with some new things but other than that it was just as she remember when she left. Her fox ears perk up when she heard a noise comming from the living room, walking in Naru saw the person she came to visit within the room, there laying on the couch was Tsunade resting on her back with head on a pillow along with her arm hanging off the couch. It was then that Naru notice that her grandmother was holding a bottle in hand that rest on her chest along noticing some papers laying around on the coffee table right infront of the couch the young girl could only sigh at this then make her way over to the older woman, kneeling down Naru would slowly grab hold of the bottle with on hand and the other rested on her grandmothers hand to pry the grip loosen enough to slip the bottle out of hand, which caused Tsunade to make a snot like sound as Naru turn her head to see if she was waking but she did not so Naru decided to do so.
"Grandma..." was as far as Naru could get when suddenly Tsunade's fist met her vision before blacking out.
Sometime later
Slowly, and abit sorely, Naru would soon waken up from her unconsious state by the scent of cooked food hitting her nostrils. Opening her eyes the blonde faunus girl notice that she was laying on the couch, exact same way position she found her grandmother in, sitting up on the couch enough for her to get off Naru would soon make her way to the kitchen area where she smell the scent of food was comming from, only for her sight to be greeted when she saw Tsunade's back facing her who stood infront of the kitchen stove.
"Well, I've see that you've finally woken up, it'll nearly pass noon already." the elder blonde woman said as she turned around, wearing oven mittens over her hands, as she held a hot steaming bowl of ramen that Tsunade carried towards the small dinning table within the kitchen, " If it's an apology your looking for, this is close to it." she told the faunus girl while taking the mittens off.
"I wasn't actually, kinda figure I deserve that one. However drinking before drifting to sleep doesn't sound healthy, especially for someone of your age Old Woman." Naru remark caused Tsunade's lips to frown while sending a glare towards the young faunus girl.
"Watch it Brat, I'd have half the mind to grab one of your ears and drag you outside to kick your ass around the forest again, seventeen or not you are still just a kid to me!" Tsunade had said with a stern voice, in which Naru would walked up infront of her grandmother and looked up with a glare of her own.
"Says the Old Woman, who keeps her appearence up to make herself look young when in truth she is really an old lady!" the blonde fox faunus told her, for a brief moment there was nothing but silence between the two yet slowly Naru's eyes soften with a smile form on her lips as the same goes for Tsunade before the young girl would wrap her arms around her Grandmother in a warm embracing hug same goes for Tsunade who returned it as well, "I did miss you alot." Naru added.
"And I missed you as well." Tsunade told her as she let the younger girl go, "Now eat your ramen before it gets too cold." she instructed, which Naru nodded and would sit down at the dinning table with the steaming bowl right infront of her as Tsunade herself would make herself some tea. Naru had missed the homecooked meal that her grandmother made as she happily slurp up the noodles into her mouth while Tsunade would sat across from her, after taking a sip of her tea the elder woman would focuse her attention on the young teen, " So from what I've heard lately, you've become Beacon's representive member of the academy." she stated that caused Naru to stop her mid slurp with half the noodles in her mouth and eyes looking at her grandmother, "Oh don't look surprise. Ozpin has told me everything, it's actually a good thing too really with the Vytal Festival comming up this year. It makes me feel so proud of you Naru." Tsunade told the faunus girl, who slurp up the rest of the ramen noodles she was eating into her mouth and swallows so she could speak.
"Thanks grandma, it does sounds like a big burden place on me, well that and I'm pretty sure the other three students from each Academy among the Kingdoms have abit of a similar feeling, but long as I got Yang, Ruby, and friends that I meade at Beacon I'll give it my best shot. Believe it." Naru said with a bright smile, stiring her chopsticks into her bowl before digging in to eat once again. Tsunade would felt abit of pride within herself at listening to her granddaughter while taking another sip of her tea then would speak.
"Good to know, so...how is Yang? I trust that you two aren't doing anything...'intimidating', especially not infront of Ruby." her words had caused Naru to nearly choke on her noodles, while also having a blushing face, as the teen calm herself down.
"Grandma! You know that we would never do anything that would put Ruby's 'innocence' in danger of such!" Naru half explained and shouted, sure the young redhead was only fifteen years old but that face of her's was so young and pure! The way that Ruby would make those silver eyes of her's to go wide and water when she was making a 'puppy' face, weither she was sad or pleading, would make the fox faunus want to pick her up and cuddle her, Naru wouldn't say it to Yang in person but being as an only child she was so jealous of her girlfriend to having an adorable younger sister like Ruby Rose. A light cough broght the young faunus back to attention when she saw that Tsunade was still waiting, "Oh, no ma'am. Yang was...pretty upset at first when we reunited, but she forgiven soon after. We're planning on going out later tonight." Naru told her grandmother then would go back to her ramen to finish it off, Tsunade was quite after that as she watched her granddaughter finished with her meal until asking the question she had on her mind since Naru's return home.
"Did you find him?" her question caused the fox faunus to freeze up, like a deer caught in a light flashed on it, then Naru would only frown and looked down at her now empty bowl infront of her, this reaction was exactlly what Tsunade was afraid of her answer would be.
"No...a whole year and nothing. Between searching everywhere in between Vale and Atlas, and asking those that knew him, there still no sign of Dad. Even trying to visit his work was a dead end." Naru told her, on the night before she started living with her grandmother the fox funaus had only lost her mother, being as she found her body within the living room of her old home in Vale, but her father was no where to be found. And since then Naru wanted to know what happened to him, but back then she was only a small girl and Tsunade being her only relative left to take care of Naru. Standing up from her seat, Tsunade would make her way over behind the young teen then wrapped her arms around to give her granddaughter a comfort hug while Naru would just slump herself back into the embracing comfort.
" I would want to know where he is as well Naru, a mother always worries her child even when their full grown. But don't let this hold you back, you have others that cared about you." as she said this Tsunade would bring up her hand to lightly brush her fingers against the back of one of Naru's fox ears, which would move from the tough, and the young teen smile at that, " Now, what time you were suppose to meet up with Yang?" her grandmother asked to change the subject.
"Around seven in Vale, I was hoping to find something to wear in my room as well pack up some extra clothes an stuff." Naru answered her grandmother while she enjoyed having the back of her fox ears a lil longer till they stopped when Tsunade would soon back off, it was then that Naru thought of something, "Wait...why?" she asked when notcing the her grandmother was walking the door that leads to the backyard.
"Well since you'll have plenty before your date later on, I figure this would be a perfect time for a little training session for you. I don't want my granddaughter to get sloppy, especially a whole years worth of absence." the elder woman said as she open the backdoor, "Put your empty dish in the sink, then come outside." Tsunade told her before exiting out the house. Naru would look on in horror, with a abit of her skin turning pale, before slumping her head down enough for her forhead banging on the table, to most Huntmens or Huntress-in-taining the thought of learning from a vetrean Huntress such as Tsunade would of been an honor, to Naru however it was her very own hell when it's comming from her grandmother.
"It's good to be home again." Naru thought, half sarcastically at that, as she gotten up and put her empty bowl into the sink before marching off to follow Tsunade out as the fox faunus was about to face the wrath of The Golden Fist Huntress.
Vale: Airship Landing Docks, 7:00 p.m.
Several hours had passed and Yang Xiao Long was waiting by her motorcycle Bumblebee. The golden blonde girl had spent the whole day with her sister Ruby along with their father Taiyang and dog Zwei in downtown Vale, while her other two teammates were occupied through out the day at Beacon. It was a shame that her Uncle Qrow couldn't join them, but regardless she enjoyed her day with her family and now she was about to spend the rest of it with her girlfriend, which who she was waiting on at this moment. As a bonus she did go shopping for her date and came up with this outfit that she absolutly fell in love with, besides her regular everyday outfit and her fox faunus girlfriend, so she'll have to keep note on when to where this on special occassions.
(A/N: Her other outfit used in "A Minor Hiccup" and "Painting The Town..." episodes of Volume 2 but minus the pendant round the neck only for a moment.)
While waiting Yang was looking up into the nightly sky and stared at the broken moon, one of which she had wondered many times how it came to be like that, when she notice that an Airship was flying over that just came from the direction she knew where Patch was loctated and watched as it landed. The side doors open up and passangers started walking out and among them Yang spotted the one girl she was lookign for walking out with everyone, as well a noticing that her girlfriends usual attire changed with a new one. On the upper body Naru wore a orange color corset top with a black long sleeve leather jacket as well as black gloves with only her index finger and thumb expose, on the lower half the fox faunus wore black jean pants with orange trims running down on the side with the twin folds of Tempest held in place on each thigh and orange colored boots with black strappings, Yang also notice that Naru's shoulder length blonde hair was pulled up into a low ponytail style while the faunus girl would slug what appeared to be her backpack over her shoulder.
"Foxy!" Yang called out while waving her way, she could see that her girlfriends fox ear's perk up from a distance when the brawler called and Naru turn to her as she would then make her way over till Yang would speak again when close enough, " Well don't you look gorgeous tonight, I take it that since your here then that means you survive her wrath?" Yang asked before getting a greeting kiss on the lips from her girlfriend then taking Naru's backpack to put it in the compartment storage on her motorcycle. She heard the tales of Tsunade Namikaze, of how she took on an entire pack of Ursai alone by being the only defensive line of a village she protected, with only using her Aura and bare fist as weapons thus earning the title 'Golden Fist' due to the color of her Aura, along with unknown monsterous strength she develope throughout her Huntress carreer before retirement. Even still, Tsunade celeberity status had become one that is idolize to young Huntress and Huntress-in-training, including Yang herself among them.
"First of all, thanks for the gorgeous comment. And second of all, yes although let's just say I didn't came out without difficulty." Naru stated as she tense at the memory of her grandmothers training session fortunatly for her it was nothing serious and would still be able to spend time with Yang, speaking of which the fox faunus gotten a good look at her girlfriends current attire tonight, " I love the look Yang, why couldn't you wear this everyday?" Naru asked with a smile as she went an kissed the blonde brawlers cheek, which said girl was blushing from the comment.
"Oh I bet you'd love that Foxy, but I'm saving this for special occassions. Like..." Yang paused as she went and grabbed a spare helmet for Naru, "..where we're going, I know a friend of mine that owns this great club that I wanted to take you too." she explained while putting on her own helmet and climb onto Bumblebee. Naru, who had to lower her fox ear's to avoid hurting them when she put the spare on, would climb on behind Yang and would wrap her arms around her girlfriends waiste.
"And where exactlly is-WHOOAA!" the fox faunus cried out when Yang had took off driving down the road, one of the things that Naru enjoyed even though she hates to admit it was that grippign onto Yang's waiste and getting the chance to nuzzle her face into part of her girlfriends soft golden hair,while Yang herself wouldn't mind being as she was focus on the road.
Vale: The Club
Hie Xiong, or more commonly known as Junior, was standing behind the bar fixing up with his red tie and had a smile on his beard face. Tonight was the night that the club he owned had re-opened after weeks worth of damage repairs, already it was filled people that were on the dance floor with the DJ playing music behind his turntable along with several henchmen gaurding around to keep security, the twins Melanie and Miltiades were taking the night off but would return tomorrow which was fine with Junior seeing as so far there weren't any problems so far. Despite the fact that his club was being watch or monitor by the Vale Police for suspicion, due to his men being arrested when Roman Torchtrick hired them for a Dust robbery a few weeks back, Junior had never felt better to have things back to the way they were...until he notice two of his men that were guarding the entrance doors quickly rushed in and closed it tight then using their own bodies to barricade it.
"What are you two idiots doing!?" Junior asked, as well as yelling through the loud music, them with an irritaded tone, clearly not too happy that they weren't doing their jobs properly. However the two gaurds were trying to say something when the doors suddenly expoded that made it open forcfully and sending the two gaurds flying forward and everyone had soon froze still and looked, just then Junior had that dread feeling when a certain music started playing in the background and a familier sight of golden blonde hair walked through the door.
"Guess who's back!?~ " Yang sang out while holding her hands up and out to display her appearance with her eyes closed, however the clicking sounds that cause her to re-open her eyes to see multiple guns pointed right at her by the henchmen as well as the sound of a scratch record forcing the music to play over and over in a broken tune, Yang's lilac eyes soon turn red when she glared towards the DJ that coward behind his turntable until he peeked up and remove the needle from the record causing the music to stop and he hid back under again.
"So, is this what you called 'friend'? " the henchmen shift their guns over to a new voice behind Yang, which turn out to be Naru as she step into sight and stood by her girlfriends side, " By having to be greeted, with guns pointed at you?" the fox faunus asked with her hands on her hips, which were very close to her strapped weapons ready to be grabbed if things turn south.
"Stop! Stop! Nobody shoot!" they all heard as Naru and Yang watched as Junior would push his way through his men, as well as fixing his tie straight once he was in the young girls presence, " Blondie, you're here...why?" his question was directed at Yang, though from the tone of voice Naru picked up it sounded nervious, "Damn! And I thought I would never see HER again!" he thought to himself as the man was sweating a little, he just got this place fixed and re-opened!
"Hehe, well Junior from what I remembered YOU still owe me a drink..." Yang said while slightly pointed her finger his way, after all she never did gotten her Strawberry Sunrise the last time she was here, "..but I'll let it go, for now, if you keep your goons off from me and my gal here for tonight." as Yang said this she wrapped her arm around Naru's waiste and pulled her close while said faunus girl kept her eyes trained on Junior and his men, as if daring them to make a wrong move that they'll regret. Meanwhile said Club owner was weighing his thoughts on how this would play out, if it were just Yang alone he and his men would 'possibly' have a chance to get payback on the golden blonde after learning from the last brawl, which would nearly cause more damage and more broken bones or bruises, on the other hand though with her fox faunus friend here or girlfriend from the way Junior was seeing theres no telling what the other girl would do and he suspect that those two silver objects on Naru's thigh's weren't just for show.
"And on one night that Melanie and Miltiades took the night off too!" he thought to himself, having the twins 'might' have increase their odds a little but what are the chances of that succeeded? With a sigh, and a hand motion to tell his men to lower their weapons, Junior finally speak, "Alright Blondie, but only if you and your friend don't cause a scene, like trashing the place again." he said and at this Yang had a grin like smile on her face.
"Oh you won't have to worry, come on Foxy!" Yang said as she wrapped her arm around Naru's and dragged her girlfriend off an through the parting ways of the henchmen towards the dance floor, which soon the music started playing again and people went back to their bussiness, while Junior headed back to the bar to get himself a strong drink.
"So...what was that about 'trashing the place again'? " Naru questioned with a raised eyebrow and her fox ears twitching as she gotten over the loud music, Yang though had a sheepish grin while running her free hand through her massive long hair.
"Oh it's a long story... I'll tell you all about it later. Right now, let's Fox-ty!" Yang shouted in cheer with a mix bad pun at the end of her sentence as she guided Naru into the crowd on the dance floor, Naru herself would only shake her head at her girlfriends attempts but smiled as she intends to enjoy her time with the blonde brawler.
Chapter End
Author's Notes
And finally done! On the chapter I mean not the story, this is abit of what I made that is the events before continue on with Volume one and soon working on Volume two, and hopefully three will come out soon this year. Well I hope you all enjoy this.
DDK out folks!
