A raven-haired teen dashed into a thick forest, dodging between cherry trees, behind him was a pink haired teen. "Team Sharon Fruit, converge on target."

Dropping down from the trees the leader of Team Sharon Fruit stood up, he looked at the target and found that it was an equally raven-haired woman with flowing hair down her back. She glared at the teens as they dropped around her, looking around, she smirks.

"So, instead of sending trained professionals Lionheart thinks I'm just fit for children?" The woman comments, chuckling a little as her eyes turned red. "I'm not going to kill you all, that'd be a cruel thing to do to fools."

"Heh," the leader chuckled walking forward, "sorry to disappoint you…Raven Brawen."

"You look familiar…"
"I'm Itachi Uchiha's younger brother, Sasuke Uchiha, you probably know my brother since he fought you."
"So, why come then, obviously he was beaten by me if I'm walking."
"Call it a test, to see if I can stand on equal footing."

"Confidence boy, that's a good thing as long as doesn't come with a false claim, then it's just pure hot air. Hot air is only good for leaving one's final breath when their blood is spilled on the ground, keeps a little bit warmer." Raven told him, she looked at his squad, "you all would make fine additions to my tribe."

"Sakura be ready to heal with your semblance, Atlas get ready to protect Sakura, Iblis provide me covering fire." Sasuke orders as he walks forward, his combat armor jingles a little bit.

Sakura readied her semblance, glaring at the woman, she smirks confidently. "We're sent on this because Lionheart thinks we can give you a decent fight."

Iblis, a short bright orange haired boy with two daggers at his belt takes a deep breath. Iblis's face becomes one of confident as fire bursts around him, forming balls into his hands.

Atlas, a tall muscular teen, towering above them all walks towards Sakura, standing in front of her. He held up a giant halberd, pointing it at Raven. The leader of The Brawen tribe remains stoic, not letting the display affect her.

"Children, you all need to learn to respect your elders," Raven comments, pulling her sword out of her sheath. "I'll give you that lesson."

"You can try, but I just got to warn you, you'll be surprised." Sasuke draws his sword from the scabbard, electricity crackled around it. "I'm going to be more than you think I am."

Raven and Sasuke stared at each other, both holding their katanas up in the air, shifting positions every so often. Both analyzing each other, looking for a moment, looking for an opening to start it off. Taking a deep breath Sasuke clicked his katana back in before charging.

The woman's eyes widened as his eyes turned a bright red, she watched as they formed two different smaller pupils in the shape of tomoe around the main pupil. She slashed at him only to be stunned when he shifted his body around and sliced at her with a quick draw of his blade.

She barely dodges, turning and blocking Sasuke's second quick draw. Only to feel the heat coming from behind, she turns around, seeing Iblis launching fire at them. Dodging, she frowns as Sasuke becomes consumed by the flame, only for a giant large skeleton arm to emerge and attempt to grab her.

"Ma-Magic?!" Raven mentally screams, the weight of the situation hit her if it indeed was magic.

Dropping to the ground she looked around, seeing that Iblis had disappeared, the flames that Sasuke had been standing in slowly dissipated. It revealed him covered in a bony armor, him smirking. "Behold my semblance, Manifestation."

The bony armor disappears, reabsorbing it allowed his aura pool to go back up to a full one hundred. Raven could sense the immense amount of energy the teen had, it wasn't magic, but this changed the game slightly.

It made Sasuke, the leader of these so-called children, an effective fighter in close to mid-range. This left Raven the only options to either fight long range or draw them deeper into the forest to gain a foothold. Looking at Atlas, she saw him standing there.

"Manifestation, Fire Manipulation…no that'll box me in the forest. Now, what are you capable of, since that one girl is capable of healing…and probably only that…she's the weakest link." Raven dashed straight at Atlas, planning to dodge around him and give Sakura a nonfatal wound to escape. "He's large and lumbering by the looks of it, I doubt he can react to me in time…just in case."

Raven brought her sword along the length of her unguarded side, just in case he swings fast enough to catch her which she really doubted. So as she neared Atlas he merely took a deep breath, only to breath a large stream of wind from his mouth with a mighty roar.

Being blasted by the concussive force Raven nearly stumbled, catching herself in time and blocking a halberd slash. She barely transforms into her bird from in time to avoid being grabbed by Manifestation. Weaving through the flames that Iblis launched while hiding in the trees, she landed on the ground and transforms again.

Breathing a little hard she watches as Team Sharon Fruit, S.H.A.I stood against her. All of them once again together, the four them not once breaking their formation, taking a deep breath she glanced around.

"We'll call it a draw," Raven comments as she slices open a portal, jumping into it as Sasuke attempts to grab her once more.

When she disappeared Sasuke merely released his semblance, reabsorbing Manifestation. "Taking a little tactical retreat was brilliant of her, she now knows all of our semblances, and she'll plan accordingly so the next time."

"But we completed our mission, the town's defenses were set up in time, she was probably hiding her tribe in the forest to make sure they weren't seen while she cleared the way." Sakura summarizes, getting an agreeing grunt from Atlas.

Iblis looked at Sasuke, seeing a glowing mark on his hand, knowing it only activated when in the presence of a truly strong opponent. "Sasuke, that Crescent Mark is showing again."

Looking down at his palm, nodding he then smirks. "So it is, so, I heard my friend Naruto from Beacon has excelled. The Vytal tournament is within five months happening, I want to be ready to win. Which is why I'm now going to increase our training regime."

"Right, we'll show everyone that our team and Mistral is the best." Sakura agreed with Sasuke, fully supporting the choice. "When do we start?"

"Tomorrow, after class," Sasuke tells them, watching as they nod, and they all started to walk away.

Looking at the glowing mark he smirks, his eyes full of confidence as he walks away.

Naruto woke up, his hand burning slightly as he looked down. His palm had a glowing white dot on it, perfectly round. Watching slowly as it disappears he looks around the room, finding his team was sound asleep.

Getting up he walks out of the room into the hallway, he felt uneasy, as if something had just happened. Taking a deep breath to calm down he looks about the hallway. Finding Cardin sitting outside of his room, stretching he looked down at mace wielding knight.

Nudging him with his foot, Cardin's eyes fluttered open. "Wh-what, oh, right…"

"I wanted to ask you a question, and be honest with me, why do you even care about my past?" Cardin asks, the question plaguing his mind ever since Naruto and he started their daily schedule together.

Naruto sighs, taking a seat by him, pulling out a notepad. "Also, why don't you learn sign language, or just go have surgery?"

"I tried surgery, didn't work. I never needed sign language, I never had the time to learn." Naruto showed Cardin as he wrote, leaning against the wall.

"Still, why do you care?"
"You're in pain."
"So…let's say I am in pain, why would you care?"
"Because, deep down, you're not seriously this evil."
"You don't even know me."
"I know your friends are bad influences, they make you do things, don't they?"
"That's not true."
"Is it?"

Naruto looked at Cardin, right in his eye, he then wrote down on a notepad. "Stop picking on Jaune like he's some pack mule, layoff."

"Look, I agreed to stop horsing you, but don't tell me what to do."
"Harming others will only make descend further into that darkness."
"There you again, acting like you know everything about me."
"Would your brother want this from you?"
"Don't bring him into this…"

Cardin gets up, watching as Naruto did the same. "So are we going to go to the tree thing?"

Naruto shook his head, looking at Cardin, holding out his hand. Cardin nervously took it, only to beflashed away.

Ending up in front of the shrine, Cardin looked around, seeing fresh dew on the grass. He watches as Naruto walks over to the shrine, motioning for him to follow. When he did he watched as Naruto got into a lotus, which he followed suit just to humor the younger teen.

Looking at Cardin, Naruto hands him a piece of paper. "I'm going to teach you how to meditate."

"I don't believe in your fake gods," Cardin stated, unwilling to be converted into this cult as he saw it.

Naruto gets out his notepad again, writing down, "meditation isn't about believing in Gods."

"It's about clearing one's mind, to find a true a purpose, besides I needed to be here in the evening to show Oobleck The Kagura Ritual." Naruto wrote on his notepad, looking around for a good place his notebook, but nodded at Cardin.

Scowling a little, Cardin looked up at the sun. "Will we be late for class?"

Naruto shook his head, gripping Cardin's hands. Taking a deep breath, he watched as Cardin followed suit. Letting go of one of his hands Cardin watched as Naruto pointed at his eyes, closing them. Cardin as well follows suit.

He then felt Naruto share his aura with him, for the first time, Cardin could truly see just how vast Naruto's aura was. That wasn't the only thing he saw either, he could see auras of other things, of people asleep in the top rooms.

Was Naruto showing him something?

He saw all the different lights of aura, he saw all the different people they belonged to, he could feel the birds in the trees. Slowly breathing, he could feel…a warmth wash over him. Slowly he imagined himself being in a forest.

Like during the summer, at his family estate.

When he saw them pop into his mind he could also see around him the people he knew as friends, those same people took creatures as small as rabbits and threw them against a tree. That same rabbit transformed into Velvet.

Scared now, he pressed on, unsure of what Naruto was doing.

"Why can't I be accepted for who I am?" He heard Velvet's voice, she sounded sad. "I just want to be a proud Faunus, I can understand the hatred, but not the ridicule with it."

The day in the lunchroom had made Velvet slightly depressed anytime she got near Cardin, it incited other students that had previously bully her to start again. Because Naruto had to intervene, he essentially opened personal old wounds.

Biting his lip, he then heard a little boy crying. Looking behind him he saw himself, his younger self, sitting on the ground as Faunus children made fun of him. However, ever so slightly, there was sort of glitch that made them change places.

"Was it worth it dear brother, to become the monster?" Cardin's eyes widened, turning to see Jay, his brother's blue hair flowed in the wind of the vision. "Was it worth hurting others so that you could feel better, is it worth the pain you'll feel when it comes back to you?"

"Okay, what the hell…this can't be real."
"It is, I'm here, and I'm sorry that I caused you so much pain…father so much pain…mother…pain."
"It's because of the fucking Faunus woman you loved!"

"It wasn't because of her Cardin, there was no White Fang involvement in my death…father was a member of H.A.F.L (Humans Against Faunus League.) and told you that so you would one day grow to hate them." Jay looked at his brother, he had a smile on his face. "You know, you should go home, look through the albums…I left you something there, something that will lead you to the truth…if time hasn't barred it?"

"What is that, what do you mean, just quit Beacon?!" Cardin yells, he shook with rage. "I've made my place here, I earned my spot here!"

"You'll end up dead if you continue down this path, the pain you because someone will be so great one day, they'll seek to rid you of this world," Jay warned Cardin, he walked over to his brother. "Cardin…I am asking you to let go of me, but not to move on…if fate is willing…you're an uncle right now."

"Just go to the family home, open up our photo album, there'll be a scroll number." Jay started to walk away from Cardin. "I love you brother, please find peace."

Opening his eyes, Cardin was filled with sadness and rage, he pushed Naruto and got up. "What the fuck was that?! What did you do to me, what the hell are you?!"

Naruto looked confused, he got his notepad, writing down a question. "What happened?"

"You damn well know what happened, you bastard, who did you talk to! Was Ozpin, did he put you up to this as well, is it because I'm unsolvable?! You used me, you waited for me to open up, so you could hurt me! You made an illusion of my brother come talk to me, saying that The Fang had nothing to do with his death! Who the fuck you, are you a White Fang member?!" Naruto was constantly motioning for Cardin to keep his voice down. "You'll regret doing this Namikaze, I can guarantee that…"

He walks away, leaving Naruto there, he looks at Cardin with saddened eyes. He then realizes something, Kagura, the wolf guardian probably came to Cardin in the vision. He stands there, stunned, he then falls to his knees.

"You came, you tried, and you may have failed…but time will only tell great wolf mother. Let Cardin calm himself, find assurance in your vision, let him see his path." Naruto prayed, he took a deep breath. "Don't let him do anything stupid."

Cardin came into his team's dorm, his team wanted to meet him there at lunch. Entering the door he was met by the sounds of buzzing, looking down he saw boxes full of Rapier Wasps. "I got enough to get that blonde Faunus as well."

Cardin saw Russel smirk, showing him the specifically more painful variants in a separate box. Dove looked at Cardin, smirking. "We took your idea, I heard we'll be going to collect sap in Fall Forest today in Peach's class, Glynda will be playing momma bear to that one orange haired bitch. Knowing her, she'll be sucking that sap down like a coke head, Amira as well."

"So…we just throw them at them all?"
"Oh no Cardin, you see we've all done some light reading, and Rapier Wasps are highly attracted to Red Tree Sap…guess what we'll be collecting."
"Oh…"
"Something wrong, Cardin?"

Cardin shook his head, taking a deep breath. "So do we have Jaune working with?"

"Who do you think is going to collect the sap, this'll be a piece of cake, and best of all…Jauney boy is going to take the fall." Cardin looked at them, then something slowly starts to click in his head. "We'll get him kicked out, then we can work on messing with Ruby enough to where Naruto lashes out one last time and make him lash out to the point where he's kicked. Then we work on the silver-eyed little bitch."

"We can't really get rid of her, but we can make her life a living hell. Teach her that little kids don't belong here." Russel stated, looking at their leader. "So, how does it sound? We'll have a cart to sneak the boxes in."

Cardin looked at the door, taking a deep breath. "Will all the pain go away by hurting others?"

Balling his fists up, Cardin looked at his team. "Maybe we should wait, this…um…I'm not feeling too well about it."

"Oh?" Sky asks, "who's the pussy now?"

"Yeah man, ever since you were forced to hang with Naruto you've changed a little bit, you're not hurling insults at Velvet. Don't you like making fun of Faunus?" Dove says, looking at him, smiling a little bit. "You aren't going to be a snitch on your own team, are you?"

Looking at his team he saw the anger in their eyes, slowly, he backed up towards the door. "Look, guys, I'm just saying someone could get killed."

"So?" Cardin's eyes widened at Russel's question, "The Grimm did it…Jauney boy did it…"

"Okay look, I am not allowing this, I'm your Team Leader." Cardin steps forward, he balled his fists up. "Go and throw away those boxes and let's forget about it!"

Sky got behind Cardin, blocking his escape route. "Oh, sorry Cardin, didn't mean to wake you up…from your headache."

Cardin turned around, facing Sky, only to feel Dove smash glass lamp over his head. He fell down, barely conscious as he laid there. "Wh-what are you doing…this…is…insane…"

"You just lay here now Cardin, you look like you had a bad fall right boys?" The group nodded, smiling. "You see if we do get caught…you'll just be involved with us."

"After all, you did agree to it." Sky states, grabbing Cardin by his hair. "bitch."