Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or RWBY, I am not the author of Naruto the Huntsmen, that is a fic white by fairy tail dragon slayer, who gave me permission to make this reading story.
Ruby have manage to get Naruto to town and now everyone was expecting the doctor to tell them how bad his situation was and if he was going to recover, some of them were optimistic about this, and even Sasuke said that Naruto was too stubborn to die of a sickness, but others as Tsunade and Sakura were more worried since their medical training was telling them that Naruto's condition was delicate.
"Sorry, but this town just doesn't have the medical supplies needed to cure him. The shipment of injections, IV drips, and the other objects needed to save your friend were attacked and destroyed by Grimm weeks ago." Doctor Fall said with a sympathetic tone, and on her face Ruby could see she was truly sorry about having to tell Ruby that she wouldn't be able to cure Naruto. Fall was a woman in her late forties with the signs of age catching up to her, and she had snow white skin with dark brown hair and green eyes, a popular color in this area it would seem. She was dressed in scrubs and a medical jacket, with her nametag on her left breast. She had a clipboard in her right hand, and she was looking at it intently.
Everyone gasp when they hear the doctor, the fact that Naruto was so sick that he was going to die make them all feel useless! Of course Hinata and Honey were on the verge of crying.
"You have to save him! You just have to!" Ruby shouted out in a panic. She had run all of this way in twenty minutes so that they could save Naruto. Along the way he had coughed up blood! If that wasn't a bad sign, then she had no idea what else would make this worse. Then she learns that there is a lack of medical supplies because the Grimm had been attacking the people that had been bringing them to this town. The town was way out there, so they needed to order supplies from Vale. That would explain why the situation was so desperate here for them to wipe out the Grimm as soon as possible. The death rates from the attacks on workers that travelled by foot to the mines every day had risen now that they couldn't get properly healed, infections had been on the rise, and people were losing loved ones and friends because of this... she was losing one of her loved ones as she thought about it!
All the shinobis in the room have grim looks, all of them have experience this in their lives and how awful it feel, with the exception of Sasuke who was as expressionless as ever.
"We don't have a shipment of injections for that, and we don't have any here either. The people here don't often get Faunu-flu, and everyone has been exposed to it as a child. Those that hadn't are part of Faunus species that are immune to this strand of Faunu-flu. There is nothing that can be done about this." Doctor Fall said with her sympathy for the girl growing as she saw how worried that Ruby really was for her sick friend. Ruby took a step back in shock, before she look at the ground with tears starting to gather at the edges of her eyes. After everything she had done to make sure that he would get here in time, and because of the Grimm there was nothing that could be done. Ruby saw another doctor come into the room, before gently closing the door behind him. This one was clearly a Faunus, and he had light brown hair with green eyes and two antlers sticking from the top of his head. He was leaner than the other Faunus in the town, and he was dressed similar to Doctor Fall.
"June, there is a man here to see the recent patient. Should I let him in?" The doctor asked, and Fall blinked before looking at the surprised Ruby. She was surprised that a man had come to see Naruto, mostly because the only guys Naruto was friends with her Ren and Jaune, and there was a complicated friendship with Jaune considering how much Naruto picked on the other blond.
"Who has come to see Naruto? Nobody knew he was that sick, this is really suspicious." Said Jiraiya who was trying to think who could have visit Naruto.
"You don't think it is Sog, do you Jiraiya?" Ask Tsunade concern that this mysterious visit could be Naruto's brother.
"Although Sog is an overprotective brother and wants to protect him he isn't watching him all the time, so it's highly unlikely that he has come to see him." Answer Kimawari remembering the times that she have seen Naruto and Sog interact before he recover his memories.
"But if the person visiting Naruto isn't Sog then who is?" Ask Sakura, but before anyone could answer her the doctor speak.
"Name?" Doctor Fall asked with a hard look.
"Kong, and he is here to visit that young man that was injured this morning in the mines... one mister Dyson." The doctor said, and Ruby twitched at how she assumed that the person had been visiting Naruto just because recent patient had been said. She just assumed that somebody was visiting, when the only people that even knew that Naruto and the rest of them were up here would be the headmaster and Team Juniper. They had been the only ones informed about this, while the nurse had a slight idea they were on a mission. She had just been informed to tell if Naruto was healthy enough to go on a mission.
"Now I feel really stupid for thinking that someone have come to see Naruto." Said Jiraiya after he had face palm.
"Don't feel so bad Jiraiya, we all assume the same thing." Try to conform him Tsunade.
"Yeah but we are shinobis Tsunade! We should have known that the person that has come wasn't visiting Naruto."
"Well none of us have use any shinobi's abilities in several thousand years, so it's understandable that you would make that mistake Jiraiya." Said Sasuke who didn't want to accept that he have also thought that someone was visiting Naruto.
"I see, Dyson is in no danger of dying, so let him in." Doctor Fall said, before she turned to Ruby with a glint in her eyes. "You know, when I checked the blood of your friend I found some interesting results. His immune system seems to have taken a drop, and he had traces of a powerful tranquilizer inside of his body." Doctor Fall informed Ruby, while the girl raised an eyebrow. That was a weird bit of information to learn about Naruto, and something she had no way to explain. The only time something weird had happened in awhile was when they had followed Miss Feather-Breast the First into the forest and found both Naruto and Yang pretty much naked.
"Uh...?" Ruby tried to ask a question, but her words didn't really form right.
"You have no idea how much you don't know kid." Said Jiraiya.
"You can really blame her Jiraiya, she is only a kid, besides she doesn't have access to a spy netmork as you do."
"Still she is the leader of the team, she should be better at knowing when something is wrong with them or they are hiding something." Clarify Sasuke who wasn't impress with Ruby's leadership. Sakura hit him in the back of the head before scolding him for being mean to a little girl that is too innocent.
"I wouldn't worry though, while the symptoms of Faunu-flu look fatal, he is still rather young. It shouldn't be fatal for him without treatment, I would say less than a 60 percent chance of him actually dying from this... and that is only because he had travelled in the snow so much. A lot of rest will do him good." Doctor Fall told her, and she did smile lightly when Ruby let out a big sigh of relief and fell backyards into the waiting room chair.
That was the best news she had heard all day.
"She considers less than 60 percent of dying good news!? Is she fucking retarded?" Shout Sakura who was shock by the high probability that Naruto would die.
"Sakura calm down, remember that Ruby doesn't have any medical training, also she seems to be the kind of not being good at school unless it is something physical." Tsunade said to her apprentice.
"Thank you, you have no idea how much that means to me." Ruby said, and she looked at the door to the waiting room. She had pushed herself to get here as fast as possible, so now she thought the others wouldn't be here for a few hours depending on how fast Weiss was able to find them. Then she would have to think about what would happen if they all got attacked on the way back. Ruby blinked, before she pulled out the emergency phone that had been given to her just in case she ran into any problems that she couldn't handle on her own. She knew that this might now be a good idea to involve others, but she was going to call for help. There were 5 Grimm nests forming, and they were just a group of four people right now.
"There is nothing shameful with asking for help when you need it." Said Tsunade.
"Especially if they are as inexperience as she is." Simple state Sasuke surprising everyone that he didn't say anything despiteful against Ruby.
"It is my job." Doctor Fall said, before she left the room to look after other patients. She left Ruby alone to herself now, while the red tipped girl looked at her emergency contact phone with a thoughtful expression. Should she really contact help when they might not even need it? Naruto needed time to rest, but the four of them should be enough to take out each nest one by one. It will take longer than before, but she was sure that they could do it if they tried. She didn't think that they would need to get help, but maybe the headmaster would be able to send some kind of medical help with the backup team. Something that would increase Naruto's chances, because honestly, 60 percent chance of death was not a very pleasant thought.
"Finally she realize it!" said an exasperate Honey.
"Mom don't be so harsh with that girl, you know that I was as naïve and innocent as her when I was her age." Said Vanilla who was more comprehensive of Ruby.
"Lets just hope that Ruby learns from all this experience and becomes a better leader once dad gets better and all return to Beacon." Said Himawari who have calm down now and was already thinking that her dad would survive despise his odds.
"I agree with Himawari, the gaki will survive this despise the odds being against him." Said a confident Jiraiya making everyone else believe in this.
'I'm going to make the call.' Ruby thought with determination. Her pride had no business here, not when it was partially her fault for letting Weiss take charge and make them start hiking towards the nests right away.
In that moment the image change to Weiss that have finally found and reach Yang and Blake.
"Wait, why did the image change? Why aren't why watching Naruto anymore?" ask a panicked Sakura who along Sasuke was starting to think the worse.
Seeing the panic attack that Sakura was entering Tsunade decide to calm her. "Relax Sakura, while this is not the first time that this has happen, it's nothing bad or serious. This just happen Because Naruto is just sleeping and nothing important is going to happen to him that the image has change to the rest of his team, he is going to be fine and the will return to him when he wakes up." This tranquilize Sakura and Sasuke and they continue to watch along with everyone else.
"Weiss, this is all your fault!" Blake yelled at Weiss as the trio ran as fast as they could towards the town. Weiss had just gotten to them and informed them that Naruto had gotten a very bad case of the Faunu-flu, something that could prove fatal for those above 15 years old. Blake herself had gotten it as a child, so she wasn't worried about herself getting a very bad case of it, but there was no proof that Naruto had ever gotten it or gotten a shot for it. Blake knew that she had a light case of it right now, but it was only a light case due to her higher immunity to it at the moment.
"How was I suppose to know he had the Faunu-flu!? He had only been showing signs of a cold, not anything serious!" Weiss yelled back at Blake, knowing that this was her fault, but she wouldn't let somebody yell at her for this. It was an honest mistake after all.
"Regardless of your excuses, it is up to Naruto to decide if we forgive you or not. If he gets better or worse... if he dies though..." Yang trailed off with a shiver. She didn't even want to imagine Naruto actually dying, mostly because she was sure that every one of their friends would be devastated. Naruto didn't seem like he would like to die in a bed like this, because in her humble opinion Naruto was the kind of guy that would much prefer dying in a fight. He wanted his last stand to be against an enemy, and he wanted to take the enemy out in a way that it wouldn't be able to hurt any of his friends. He wanted to put his own death to good use. He wouldn't like to have such a pointless death like this.
Hearing this make Honey smirk and said, "while she certainly is the one that knows Naruto the best she is partially wrong."
Everyone was confuse by that with the exception of Hinata who knew what Honey was talking about and when she saw the confuse expressions of everyone else she decide to clarify what Honey have said.
"She means that a young Naruto would think that way, but whenever he found someone that he loves and wants to start a family with he would change his priorities and would want to pass the time with his wife and kids and die surround by them."
"Not that he wouldn't fight to the death to protect their love ones, because he would die happily in order to save them just as he died to protect me when I was giving birth to Vanilla." Honey continue.
"Weiss, you have had a horrible attitude to people different than you. This time your attitude might get somebody killed!" Blake lectured Weiss, before she went silent so that her words could sink deeply into Weiss' mind. The three girls all jumped out of the way when a tree went flying towards them. Yang jumped over the tree as it sailed over, while Weiss ducked under it while Blake avoided the tree by jumping to the side. They all looked back and saw the tree crash through two trees before sticking into the snow covered ground like a flag in the sand on a sandcastle.
"Okay, who threw that?" Yang asked as she landed on the ground, while the other two regrouped with her as soon as they could. The answer came as a very unpleasant surprise when not too much longer later the sound of the crunching of snow made its presence known. Yang and Blake gasped when they saw a figure emerge from the woods, while Weiss groaned at perhaps the worst possible outcome for this entire thing.
Naruto.
"WHAT!?" ask every shinobi in the room, while they all wonder how was it possible that he was there when not long ago he have fall sleep in the village.
Honey realize what they were thinking and explain the situation to them. "That is not Naruto, that is an imitation grimm that have taken the form of Naruto, and appears to have his strength too.
While this answer their question it also make them really nervous for the girls, if this grimm have Naruto's health that would make it a difficult foe to kill, and if this grimm have more of Naruto's abilities it will be almost impossible for the girls to kill it or even escape.
Not Naruto though, this Naruto had Naruto's normal fur color of orange, instead of the color it was right now with it being so cold. This was how one of them pictured Naruto, his usual orange self. The long orange tail, and those orange rabbit ears sticking from the top of his head only inspired fear at this moment when F-Naruto (Fake Naruto) opened his eyes to show that the color of those eyes were pitch black. There was nothing, no white, no blue... just pure black. Like the inky depths of the abyss were staring at them, and in the middle of those black abyssal eyes appeared a white dot that showed that those eyes were looking at Blake, before its eyes drifted to Yang, then finally landed on Weiss for a moment.
"Well, this is going to hurt me, but lets kill it." Yang said with a frown as she activated her gauntlets and sent a punch at F-Naruto. The copy of their friend just ripped a tree out of the ground and held it in front of his body when the explosive shot gun shell blew the tree up in that part. F-Naruto pointed his tail at Yang, before a barrage of orange glowing needles shot at her at high speed. Yang crossed her arms in front of her face and her aura reduced the damage to almost nothing, but she was launched from her feet and sent flying.
"That is annoying... if this thing has his healing we have to retreat." Weiss said, before F-Naruto vanished in a blur and appeared in front of her with a fist already drawn back. Weiss swung her rapier in front of her, expecting this copy of Naruto to pull a Naruto and punch her aura and dust powered sword. His fist collided with her sword, before she blinked in surprise when he withdrew his hand with smoke coming from it, a growl escaping it's throat at the burning hand... that showed zero sign of healing. Weiss gained a widened set of eyes when she remembered something.
"Oh no! It can also shoot needles from his tail!" Exclaim Hinata who was getting more worried by this development.
"They should run instead of fighting it or they would end dead." Said Sasuke with an annoyed expression.
Jiraiya start to laugh at this and barely manage to answer. "You are the last person that should say something like that kid, if I remember correctly when you were 12 you blindly charge against your brother with a chidori even though you have not a chance to defeat him."
Sasuke just grunt and stare at the floor unable to retort Jiraiya's comment.
Naruto, and that tailed Grimm creature... both of them were weak to being hit with certain aura and dust related attacks. It would seem that Naruto's healing was related to his aura, meaning that without that... he wouldn't heal. It also meant getting hit by aura attacks or dust attacks would negate his healing to a certain degree.
This was a Grimm in Naruto's form, but a Grimm all the same. It had no aura to power Naruto's healing ability with, his tail needles and super strength didn't need aura, so those could be used freely.
"Jiraiya, tell me do they have any chance to kill that thing, or even get away?" Ask Tsunade with concern in her voice.
"Honestly hime, I don't think they can even hurt it, much less kill it, they could escape but only if they manage to distract it for long so it won't follow them." Answer Jiraiya.
"Tsunade sigh at that, she have conclude the same thing but have hope that he would samething else.
"Everyone, hit it with aura!" Weiss said, before she found herself in a tight spot when F-Naruto's fist slammed into her gut and sent her up into the air. She gacked up blood from the force, but her own aura protected her from most, if not the majority, of the damage. It would seem that F-Naruto was NOT a big fan of her saying that, because with a second to tense Naruto's legs, F-Naruto jumped into the air next to Weiss.
"Weiss, look out!" Blake shouted as she threw her weapon at F-Naruto's tail and wrapped around it with ease. Yang ran next to her and both of them yanked on the line, and stopped F-Naruto from going any higher. Weiss summoned a glyph under her feet, white in color, before she jumped off of it and landed on the ground safely while F-Naruto came down crashing into the snow covered earth. Yang fired a few shots and peppered his landing spot, while Weiss flipped her sword into a different dust mode and stabbed the ground.
Spears of ice started to form on the snow and head straight into the area that F-Naruto was located in. They weren't surprised when they saw that F-Naruto ran out of the way of the ice, so Weiss switched to a different sword mode. Blake pulled the other half of her weapon before she flipped her gun and a short sword popped out of the end. Then she used the other half of her weapon in its cleaver form to give her a dual weapon.
"They seem to be doing a good job defending themselves, why did you say they can defeat him Jiraiya?" Ask Himawari with Honey and vanilla agreeing with her.
"And if they were just defending a position or waiting for backup they would be fine, but since they can't hurt it, or even go on the offense it is only a matter of time before they make a mistake that would end with them injure or dead." Explain Tsunade and all the shinobis agree with her.
"Guy's, I will hold it off. Try and find the right time to finish it... it isn't Naruto... it isn't him." Blake whispered to herself at the end as she started to run at F-Naruto with a determined frown. She stopped and started to spin on the ground, before her sword collided with the side of F-Naruto's open hand. The blade sunk in deeply, and blood splattered on her face. Her eyes widened for a second, before she ducked under a claw swipe and rolled out of the way of a barrage of needles. Standing up, she swiped with her cleaver, before swinging her sword when the cleaver was dodged.
She was punched in the face, but instead of going flying like Weiss, she tossed her cleaver at the ground and grabbed the rope firmly so that she was rooted to the ground and able to swing her sword and cut F-Naruto across the upper left arm so that a gash appeared. She jerked her weapon out of the ground, before she pointed the cleaver at F-Naruto and pressed the trigger so that bullets started to come out of the cleaver when it turned into a more gun-like shape. F-Naruto seemed to be smart, and used his tail with iron-like tail needles forming a sort-of barrier that blocked the bullets.
A shadow clone of Blake appeared next to F-Naruto, and it glared at the clone before the clone vanished just as F-Naruto made a swipe at it. His attention was returned to her when he felt her blade start to pierce his chest, so lashing out he scratched her forearm before she jumped back and made another shadow version of herself in front of her to take a barrage of needles that killed her double, so with her double gone she rushed forward and clashed with F-Naruto's claws again with her sword. The two struggled for a moment, before F-Naruto smelled the air and jumped away when Yang punched and destroyed the ground he had been standing on.
"Dang, it has his sense of smell... no sneak attacks then." Yang said with a frown when she looked at F-Naruto running at Weiss.
"Oh no this is getting worse by the minute, if that grimm continues to show more of Naruto's abilities they will be kill!" Said a worried Hinata.
"That is what makes an imitation grimm so dangerous, because they copy a person so good that is almost impossible to distinguish it from the real one, fortunately as the Schnee girl said they can't use aura aura, so it won't be able to regenerate at the same level as Naruto or use his aura base attacks that are quiet powerful.
"It has everything that Naruto has!" Weiss shouted at Yang for her mistake in assuming that a clone of Naruto wouldn't be able to use his sense of smell. Yang looked sheepish, before a REALLY bad idea form in her mind and she punched the ground behind her with both hands and got a major speed boost. She was able to beat Naruto to Weiss, and she looked at Weiss with determination... before grabbing Weiss' skirt and lifting the entire thing up far passed her stomach so that her panties and bra on her pale skin was showing to everyone around them.
Everyone except Sasuke turn to see Jiraiya expecting to see him with a perverted look, but instead they found him with a serious expression surprising everyone, even Sasuke, Jiraiya seeing their confuse looks he told them.
"What? I prefer that my women have curves in all the right places, not to have tomboyish bodies, I would prefer to see Yang or Blake in their underwear, not that I need it when they wear such revealing and skin thigh clothes!"
He start to pervertly giggle and do some groping movements only to be beat by all the women while Sasuke just look away with a light blush and hoping that Sakura wouldn't see him or she would nag him to no end.
Weiss went bright red out on shock, before everyone heard the sound of feet stopping to see the F-Naruto staring right at Weiss for a few seconds, and the look of conflict came over the copy of Narutp's face.
The sound of flesh being pierced was heard, and blood splashed on the snow when a black blade pierced through the back of F-Naruto's throat and came out of the other side. The black eyes turned white and blue, before the creature turn's it head to Blake standing behind it and coughed up blood... and Blake looked on in horror when she saw the look of utter betrayal on the Grimm's face that it had stolen from Naruto. The tears going down its face and blood coming from its nose and mouth would be forever etched into her memory, with those accusing eyes asking her 'why', and even though she knew it was a Grimm stealing Naruto's form and abilities, to see him looking at her with those eyes while she was stabbing him in the throat from behind, his blood going down her sword and covering her hands and parts of her arms.
She couldn't look away, and she couldn't close her eyes.
"She seems to be going into shoock Tsunade-sama! We need to so something!" exclaim Sakura.
But Tsunade didn't answer, instead Jiraiya was the one who did it. "That is not the look of someone going into shock for killing another person Sakura, that look of shock is of someone that have betray their friends,"
This make everyone realize what Blake was feeling, and it made Sasuke feel a sense of guilt that he haven't feel in a long time, something that remind him that he was trying to find the way to make Naruto's soul to rest in peace so he can finally apologies to him.
More blood splattered on her face, before the light died in F-Naruto's eyes before falling limp with the sword piercing through the side of his neck and coming out of the other way so the body fell to the snow and dyed it red with blood.
'It isn't Naruto... it isn't Naruto... I think I'm going to be sick.' Blake said as she covered her mouth and forced herself to keep from throwing up. That Grimm may be dead, but it had gotten the last laugh in the end by messing with her mind.
"Okay, lets get moving-OUCH!?" Yang shouted when Weiss slapped her across with face with a furious blush.
"That slap was to expected, after all no perverted act perform on a woman can go unpunished." Said Jiraiya in a sagely way making every women, specially Tsunade, watch him as if he have grow a second head.
"If you know this then why do you always act like a pervert in front of women Jiraiya?" ask Tsunade who was really intrigue by what Jiraiya have said.
"Well hime that is because it's because life is more interesting and funny this way!" said Jiraiya while he smile like a fool making everyone face palm.
"WHY!? Why did you have to do that?" Weiss growled out at Yang, and the blond girl rubbed the back of her head.
"Well, if it thinks like Naruto, and has parts of his personality, then it wouldn't dare think of hitting a naked girl. Naruto is a bit of a perv, while the Grimm may be controlling Naruto's body, parts of Naruto would naturally leak through... I just knew that part would take over for a few moments." Yang reasoned, and Weiss huffed and looked away, not wanting to admit that it was a good idea to use Naruto against the Grimm that was using Naruto against them.
"Naruto! Hurry!" Weiss shouted out when she remembered why she had gone to get them in the first place. The two girls also looked at each other, before they all started to run together.
They needed to hurry!
"Yes go see my dad now before something else happens!" shout Vanilla.
"At least they now have a way to defeat this imitation grimms if they run into any more." Said Sasuke who couldn't believe that they have defeat an enemy that overpowers them so much with such an idiotic move, although in retrospective he should have seen this coming since Naruto use the Sexy reverse harem jutsu with Kaguya in order to distract her.
"I'm just glad that this grimm fight is finally over and now that are able to return where Naruto-kun is and we are going to see how he is doing." Said Hinata who really didn't give a shit about the girls and only want to know if Naruto was ok.