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"See guys, this is so much better than going to class!" Ruby cheered her team on, now noticing the darker looks that everyone was sending her. Ruby had taken a week long mission from Ozpin that would involve them going to a very cold place up north, and while Ruby seemed to have zero problem with the cold, the others didn't share her like for the cold. Ruby had her cape to keep her pretty warm, while the rest of them didn't exactly wear clothes suited for fighting in the cold. Weiss had to wear a white fox fur jacket, and white fur leg warmers to keep herself from getting cold. She wasn't bothered, but a week of hunting for a Grimm nest that had appeared in the coldest part of their country did NOT something she would like.
On a side note, she was not Naruto's favorite person at the moment when he heard what kind of jacket she was wearing.
Blake seemed to be doing okay, but she was a warm person... when you didn't count personality that is. She was able to withstand the cold, but even she was wearing an extra layer of clothes... the same clothes actually. She was wearing a copy of her normal clothes, on top of her clothes. It didn't even look like she was dressed any different. Yang just put on a thermal undershirt and some leg warmers.
Naruto on the other hand, he was wishing that he wasn't bothered by the cold. Ever since becoming a Faunus, he had lost his body hair without being able to grow it back. That put him on equal standing as the girls when it came to the cold, he had no extra layer that came with body hair. Not to mention the country he had been born in was named the Land of Fire for a reason. Even in winter it rarely dropped under average spring or fall tempertures, and when it did fall everyone was surprised. He had his hoodies pulled over his head, with his ears sticking out of the holes in the top.
"Well... at least we won't have to go sap collecting tomorrow." Yang tried to help her sister out after a moment, only to sweat a little when she saw that Blake sent her a dull glare. She backed up awkwardly, before her back hit the wall of the train box car they were riding. No luxury plane rides this time, they were in low-class hobo-level riding accomodations. The recent weather up north made it so no planes could safely go into the area. Blake only stared at Yang a little harder, before she sighed lightly and looked at the ceiling above their heads.
Yang and Naruto had never told the others what had happened on that day, because Yang had suggested to Naruto that they leave any connections that connected him to the White(Blake) Fang out of the story. That meant that Naruto had kept his... brother... a secret from everyone that wasn't Yang. On a lighter note, Naruto had caught the chicken and made it his pet. Right now he had asked Nora to take care of Miss Feather-Breast the First... Ruby named the chicken such a long and strange name. The name made Naruto hungry for chicken breast, and his chicken seemed to like the name. They mostly just called her Feather, but Miss Feather-Breast the First was the only thing Ruby herself would call his chicken.
Naruto had wanted to name her Chick Nora, because the chicken was crazy and did random crap that nobody understood.
"So what do we ACHOO have to do?" Naruto asked, continuing even though he sneezed halfway through his question. The last few days he had been showing signs of having caught a small cold because all of that poison in his system had weakened his immune system and then he had been in the forest without any clothes on. He had pretty much over dosed on transquilizer and was now paying for it with a weaker immune system, but nothing he couldn't handle. Once his immune system was back up he would be better in no time at all.
Stupid immune system, stupid Yang for only getting shot with one dart while he got like six. That was overkill.
"Um... well I don't know what we really have to do... but I think we are suppose to find some Grimm Nests and take them out." Ruby said as she tried to remember what kind fo Grimm they would be going up against. Weiss sighed in annoyance, before she looked at Ruby in annoyance as well.
"We are looking for Imitation Grimm after getting the map with marked locations from the contact that had issued the request to Headmaster Ozpin. After that we are to confirm the destruction of the Grimm and return to Beacan. Imitation Grimm are tricky, so we are suspected to be searching for a weak... though we might be able to cut down on that." Weiss informed the leader of their team the information that Ruby should have had memorized in the first place.
"Imitation Grimm, a rare breed of Grimm that appear in remote places to the north and south. They don't appear often, but finding and killing them are a problem because they can imitate their targets bodies and personalities. Nobody knows what they look like, because they never take their real form when in the eyes of a living creature." Blake said as she turned the page in her book, before she blinked when she saw something orange moving towards Ruby. She raised an eyebrow3, before she saw Naruto slowly gaining ground on the red leader with shaking arms wrapped around his sides.
Naruto hated the cold, he really did.
"C-c-cold." Naruto said, and Ruby blushed when he lifted her red cape and crawled behind her and hugged her from behind with both of their heads sticking out of her hood. Naruto's tail curled around both of them, giving them both an extra amount of heat. Ruby face was ruby red, matching her ruby red robe, while Naruto started to regain color to his skin now that he had an actual source of heat.
"Anyway, Imitation Grimm are ruthless and normally take on human form in the diguise of the one that the target loves most. Then they go for weak points just to make things slower and more painful." Weiss continued now that she didn't think anyone was going to interupt her or try to show her up somehow. Yang raised an eyebrow, before she looked at Ruby in concern. If this was romantic love, then Yang was pretty sure she knew who Ruby would be seing. If it were family love, then she was still pretty sure that she knew who Ruby was going to see. Yang also looked at the nervous Blake, who was making it a point to not look at Naruto for this.
This was going to be good.
"Hmm, well then it is good for me that everyone I love is dead." Naruto said without thinking now that he had warmed up. He was pretty damn sure that by this point Madara had fucked shit up all over the Elemental Nations, so all of his friends and loved ones were dead by this point. Maybe the entire world had been destroyed by this point as well, so if e=he saw any familiar faces he would be able to do what had to be done and kill the Grimm parading as his loved ones.
'That... that one actually hurt a little.' Yang thought, knowing that Naruto hadn't been trying to actually hurt any of themj with his statement. She knew that his loved ones were dead from what he had told her, so he was just refering to them, but that statement made her heart stab with pain.
"I agree, it would make things much easier for you to discern friend from foe. Sad as what you said is, if you already know somebody is dead, you won't be taken off gaurd." Weiss agreed, knowing that she might also see somebody that she knew would be dead. It was sad that a loved one died, but sometimes it actually helped them to understand that they were being tricked. She wouldn't be fooled by an Imitaion Grimm taking the form of her loved ones, but she was pretty sure that Ruby didn't have what it took to kill something that looked like a loved one.
'Okay, ouch.' Blake thought with a frown when she looked at Naruto. That was a blunt statement, and he had said it without thinking. Of that she was sure, but she could tell that he wasn't thinking of them.
"What... what about us?" Ruby asked Naruto with her blush calmed down by his hurtful statement. She wasn't an understanding of the fact that Naruto didn't seem to be thinking of them when he said his loved ones were dead.
"Huh? Oh, I just meant that if it takes the form of my old friends I won't be fooled. I know all of your scents by heart, so there is no way that I would be fooled if it took you guy's forms." Naruto said with a wave of his hand, and the pain in the girl's hearts went away when they heard that he had just been thinking about how easy it would be to pick out the enemy from and friends.
'Funny that both Foxes and Rabbit's fur change from other colors to white in the winter.' Blake thought when she saw Naruto's fur color on his tail, and the color of his ears and hair start to lighten up slowly the longer they stayed in the cold on the train without a heater. Naruto seemed to react to the cold the same way as an animal, with his fur changing color to help him blend in with the area around him. Funny, because Naruto's clothes would still make him stand out by a lot in this enviorment.
'I want to tease Sis, but I don't want to ruin the mood between her and Foxy.' Yang thought with a small smile when she saw how close Naruto and Ruby were physically right now. Though it seemed that only Ruby was enjoying the hug for the purpose of it being a hug, while Naruto enjoyed the heat he was soaking up from her. Heat that only increased with her blush.
"Weiss, do you know where we are suppose to meet the contact?" Blake asked to break the warm and fuzzy mood that the Leader and the Strongest of the team were giving off. Weiss nodded and pulled out a map with a small area circled, before handing it over to Blake to inspect. There was a blue circle labled as the spot they were suppose to be dropped off, and according to the map they would be walking two miles to get to the city they would be meeting the contact. This would be a problem if they encountered the enemy before they could get into the city where the barriers were set up to keep most Grimm from getting in.
'Hm, if I had to guess I would see Ruby or Foxy if the Grimm got to me. Weiss I can't really etll for sure, but maybe a parent or something. Ruby would see Foxy or me for sure, while I am sure that Blake would see Foxy... Foxy might see that Pervy Sage guy or one of his friends from the past.' Yang thought, not concerned about the mission they were on. Originally this had been the mission that was suppose to go to another team, Team CFVY to be exact, but Velvet had gotten sick with a very common Faunus sickness... Yang looked over at Naruto for a second at the memory of a Faunus related sickness that had a high effect on animal related beings.
"ACHOO!" Blake sneezed, before she rubbed her nose in irritation. The last few days she had started to feel a little under the weather, about the same time as Naruto actually. It started when Velvet came to history class and sneezed a few times, but Blake didn't really think anything of it at the time. If she was getting sick, then she would be so annoyed with Velvet.
'Bad luck for Velvet, while she is stuck at school out team is going out on a mission and raising our fame. Hahaha, this is amazing. I can rise through the ranks even quicker, and become even more popular than before! I do have to feel bad for her teammates Coco, Fox, and Yatshashi though... I know how much of a trouble it is having a Faunus on the team.' Weiss thought with a look towards Naruto. Ever since he had been hiding something from her, her opinion on him had sytarted to waver. While before she looked at him as a valuable teammate that was strong and dependable, she didn't like the fact that he was hiding things from them.
For all she knew, he could be a member of the White Fang.
The only reason she didn't insult Naruto to his face was because she still had some respect for his skills, and she knew that he had yet to do very much to actually deserve her disrespect at this moment. She would lay into him though the second she had thr chance to scold him, or yell at him. She and the others were startled when the train came to a complete stop and tossed them across the floor just as the doors started to open.
"Alright brats, this is as far as I take you. My train isn't permitted to enter the territory of this barrier. Not get off and get moving." The train conducter stated as he physically grabbed Yang by her arm and threw her out of the train. This man was pretty huge, and he was able to easily grab Blake and Weiss and throw them into the snow as well, before he yanked on the bundle that was Naruto and Ruby wrapped in his tail and her cloak before tossing them out of the train box and into the snow as well.
'Dick/Jerk.' Naruto, Yang, and Blake thought the first word, while Weiss and Ruby though the second one all in unison. The train conducter rushed to the engine on the other end of the train, before black smoke came from the exhaut pipe and the train started to move again. Soon the short train was out of sight again, and they all shivered when a harsh chill went down their spines.
This was going to be a long walk.
Chapter End!
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