Hello readers and welcome to my new chapter. Here, we are going to have the group read on how Naruto is doing. So, I hope you enjoy.

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Reading Ch 25: The Dream Arc

"I'll read it." Pyrrha volunteered, taking the book from Ruby. "Chapter 25: The Dream Arc….."

'His rate of growth is unreal, and his determination... staggering.' Fukasaku thought as he watched Naruto sitting still in front of him. Naruto had summoned him soon after he had told him the bad news, and Fukasaku had offered to train Naruto in the art that was only passed down from the Toad Summons and the Snake Summons. The art of nature itself, universal in it's ability.

The ability to strengthen yourself using nature, the energy of the universe itself.

Taking that energy into your body, and combining it with your own inner power to form something new, something powerful. A state of being many hundred times stronger than what you were before you entered the state.

A technique many had tried, but few had mastered.

Sage Mode.

The art of the sage, Senjutsu, to gather nature energy and combine it with your chakra. To perfectly mix it with the energies inside of your body, and bring about a powerful form. It was hard, because only those who could sit perfectly still were capable of using it. Racing thoughts, even the smallest of twitches, would destroy the ability to use it and come back to haunt the user very quickly.

"Wow." Ruby said in awe, her eyes shining. "That power sound amazing."

"To gather nature's energy, strengthening yourself and becoming a hundred times stronger." Ren mumbled loudly, also amazed. "This Sage Mode sounds very powerful."

"But the drawback is that you need to be very still in order to activate it." Pyrrha observed. "If you move even the slightest, it won't work and it'll come back to haunt you."

"I wonder how long it will take Naruto if it this hard." Blake said in curiosity. "I doubt it will be easy for him, considering that he isn't one to stay still, especially in a battle."

Naruto had taken to the training like a fish to water.

That made everyone's eyes widen while Spirit smirk at Blake. "You were saying Blake?"

"Shut up." Blake said with a heated cheek before going to the topic. "How is it possible Naruto master something in days, just like that? Especially a technique that requires not to move a muscle?"

Spirit shrug. "If there is a goal in mind, he will take it. He also the most unpredictable knucklehead in his home village, and that just prove he earn that title." Everyone nodded their head in agreement to that statement.

Even without the special toad oil, Naruto had mastered how to sense Nature Energy within a time period of a few days. He had gained the ability to perfectly see, sense, and an imperfect ability to draw it into himself. His progress was stunning, because when he had a goal he achieved it no matter what. Of course, Naruto only goal was mastering Sage Mode right now.

It was the only thing to him that validated his very existance.

That clenched the hearts of everyone in the room. "Poor Naruto…." Pyrrha whispered, tears coming into her eyes. It becoming a habit for everyone, but they are slowly managing to control themselves, even Ruby.

Training was the only thing that numbed his pain, so for the last few days he had gone without food or water, and no sleep. He had thrown himself into training so hard, that if he so much as stopped to feel anything, the dark emotions in him would come back up. He wanted to prevent those emotions from coming up at any cost.

Everyone's eyes widen at that. "He is working himself that hard…" Blake whispered in shock. That was worse than when she was working herself into finding more information about Roman and the White Fang.

Fukasaku looked surprised when he saw orange rings appear around Naruto's eyes, and when Naruto opened his eyes they were yellow with bar pupils.

Yet, they still seemed a little dead on the inside, like Naruto still had no reason for living.

Everyone flinch at the look, especially Team RWBY. The look in his eyes doesn't fit Naruto at all.

Naruto had just attained Sage Mode in record time, his current goal in life... and now he had no more goal. He didn't have a goal, so he was forced to think on what he had lost. Naruto stood up for a moment, before he took a deep breath. He could sense everything around him. Every speck of life, every ant, and every person in the Kingdom of Vale. He could sense it all, but it didn't help him. This power that he had quickly attained couldn't give him back what he had lost. He could never get back the people and things he had lost.

'Don't cry, don't cry, whatever you do, don't fucking cry Yang!' Yang thought in her head, determined not to let a single tear out of her eyelids. She is hating this arc, she hates a lot. It making her emotions go haywire.

"How are ya, Naruto-chan." Fukasaku asked Naruto, and Naruto gripped his fists. With a mighty swing of his fist, Naruto smashed his hand into the ground. A vast crater formed around them, destroying Naruto's tent and everything inside of it. Naruto was only in his orange pants with his necklace around his neck at the moment.

Naruto looked at the crater he was standing in, and he could see it stretched pretty far.

"God damn…." Yang whispered in shock, the others also looking shock. He is probably stronger than she or Nora can ever be, if he could do something like that without any effort.

None of them even notice that Naruto is shirtless, to stun at the display he shone.

"Naruto is getting stronger every day." Pyrrha said in awe. She wonder if her other will fight him. It will be nice to have a challenge for once.

"Empty... I still feel empty. What use is power... if I have nothing to protect with it?" Naruto asked Fukasaku lowly. Who cared if he was a Sage now, because without a person to share his power with... what was his purpose? He didn't have a purpose in life. He could see how pointless making "grow stronger" as his goal was. Once you grew stronger, there was no point to having that as a goal.

"That's true." Blake whispered, looking at everyone. All of them have a goal, including protecting Remnant and/or their family. Each of their goal somehow co-exist with that, especially by becoming a hunter or huntress. Naruto, though, loss his home and therefore lost his goal.

"Time heals all wounds." Fukasaku said to Naruto wisely, and Naruto didn't comment on it. Naruto allowed Sage Mode to drop, and he was visibly exhausted right after he lost his Sage Mode.

"Sage Mode is useless to me anyway... I can't use it unless I sit still, and I can't do that in battle without friends to cover my back while I charge up." Naruto said with a low tone. Fukasaku said nothing to Naruto, because while he had made amazing progress... it had been made simple because of one reason.

Attaining Sage Mode had been Naruto's only way to escape his emotions.

Blake shook her head. "Trying to escape your emotions for a limited amount of time will not make it go away. It will only hit you harder than before." It's like keeping a secret (depending on the kind) from your friends/family. It only be worse the longer you do it.

She should know. She hid her faunus status from her teammates and it nearly cause a rift because of it.

Now, with Sage Mode, Naruto had to deal with his depression once again. No matter how much he trained, it was pointless because Naruto would complete the training and then return to his depression just like before.

"Well, find comrades to help you. I am sure that a goal will do you much better if you find it on your own now... when you find what drives you... summon me again. We will continue your training." Fukasaku said as he vanished in a puff of smoke. Naruto sighed to himself, before he fell and laid right on he ground.

It took him a few days to learn to enter Sage Mode, but even that didn't ease his pain.

He needed to find a goal, something that would allow him to prove his existance... people to understand him and see him for who he was again. He needed something to strive for, a goal that couldn't be achieved in a matter of days.

Ruby, Blake, Yang, and Weiss look at one another before nodding. They will definitely be there for Naruto, to help him find the goal he needs to live.

Naruto sat up, before he glared at the ground. He didn't know what to do with his life anymore.

Two years.

He had spent an entire two years searching endlessly for a way home. For two years, he had been trying to find his way home... and for two years his home had been destroyed. He never had a home to go back to, and he was only hearing this now. In all of his hope for a way to return, even if there had been a way... he would have returned to nothing. He had nothing at all, so his journey to find his home.

His hard work, and the suffering he had gone through every step of the way.

It all amounted to nothing.

"Damn you Naruto. Damn you for having sad thoughts." Yang whispered in frustration as a few tears leaked out. The blondes thoughts are too sad for you not to cry at.

Tears are streaming down Ruby's cheeks, and Weiss, Blake, and Pyrrha have a few tears leaking out as well. Jaune and Nora grip their knees hard to prevent themselves from crying, but they still came out anyway. And Ren and Spirit felt a heavy amount of sadness and sympathy for Naruto.

"Uh... I hate this... No matter how strong you are, it means nothing if you aren't even there to save the people you love most." Naruto said to himself. Of course he didn't fully blame himself for not being there. He wasn't that stupid, but he did blame himself for not finding a way back sooner. He blamed himself for not having gotten there before it was destroyed, and help it not be eradicated.

The shinobi system he was suppose to save or destroy... was destroyed.

His lack of presence had ended up being the deciding factor that destroyed the shinobi world.

"While I'm glad he doesn't completely blame himself, he shouldn't blame himself at all." Weiss said softly, surprising a few. "He didn't had a choice at coming to Remnant. He didn't chose to be absent while his village was getting destroyed. He tried his absolute best to get back home, so he shouldn't feel that it was anyway his fault."

Yang, Ruby, and Blake look at Weiss in surprise. Those were some really deep and kind words, coming from Weiss.

"So, this is the ever out of reach Naruto Uzumaki... or would it be Uzumaki Naruto?" A voice asked from nearby, and Naruto sat up and looked towards the source of the voice. It was an older man, his hair black hair having turned gray (he had black eyebrows), and small glasses over his eyes. The man wore a fancy green suit with a cane in his hand, and he stood at a very tall height... over a half foot over six feet tall.

"It's Professor Ozpin." Ruby said in surprise. It look like Naruto is gonna recruited into Beacon after all.

"Ozpin, headmaster of Beacon Academy... one of the most important men in Vale." Naruto said, and Ozpin's eyes saddened when he heard what sounded like a broken man trying to find new purpose in his life. He had never seen one so young, who had broken eyes like that.

"I recieved a message from a trusted source, saying there was a young, talented man who lived in Vale... but wasn't coming to my academy. Finding you is not easy." Ozpin commented to Naruto, with a slightly impressed tone to his voice. Naruto nodded and stood up, before he dusted himself off.

"I would offer you something to drink, but I'm kind of broke." Naruto said to the man, and he meant that in both ways. He was broke with money, and he was just broken until he found a new purpose to live.

"No need, I won't be long... I was told you defeated a White Fang Lieutenant with ease. That kind of talent would do great my school. Would you like to come?" Ozpin asked Naruto, who looked down for a moment.

He had nothing to lose by doing this now, and with no goal to strive for he might as well try it out. Like he had thought before, with no home to return to, he needed something for himself to do.

He hated to school, but at least school had other students to see his existance.

"He's going to our academy!" Ruby and Yang slightly cheered. It'll be easier to help him since he will be going with them. Blake and Weiss also have smile on their faces at the news.

"Who told you about me exactly?" Naruto asked Ozpin, curious... being depressed didn't stop him from being curious.

"James Ironwood, he recieved a mysterious message from somebody explaining how you would be an asset." Ozpin spoke, since this was a pretty important question for him to answer.

Blake, Yang, Pyrrha, Ren, and Nora look at Weiss knowingly, causing the girl to smirk. "No need to thank me for helping him out." They chuckled while Jaune and Ruby look at Weiss in surprise.

"You send him the message?" Jaune and Ruby asked in unison. They was met with many facepalms from their friends. How dense can someone be?

Naruto looked at him for a moment, before he sighed and rubbed the back of his head.

"Fuck it, I'll go." Naruto commented dryly, really the only way he could respond. He just didn't have anything at all better to do. Literally, he had nothing going on in his life... and going to school sounded better than sitting in the park and rotting to death.

"Never thought I hear someone that prefer school over anything else." Yang joked, but it was weak. She understand why Naruto decided to go, even she would want to if she was in his shoes.

Doing something is better than doing nothing.

So why not go to school?

Who knows, he may find his reason for living there.

"And that the end of this chapter." Pyrrha said, smiling a little. She know that Team RWBY will help Naruto in anyways possible, so she is glad that he's going going.

And she have a feeling that he is going to find that goal quickly.

And that's the end. I hope all of you like the Dream Arc. The next chapter is when the readers is going to read the start of the canon part of RWBY. There is gonna be a whole lot of craziness. Review, favorite, and follow this, and I will see you guys later.