"Ozpin." Naruto called out as he laid in a hospital bed, "damn you work getting here fast."

"Well, you are a friend, friends are supposed to come to each other's aid. I've already put the silencing seals around the room, and as for Ms. Belladonna, she is currently being held by Ms. Peach. So, cats out of the bag, and you took down a mountain." Ozpin summarizes as he bit his lip and walked around the room.

"He smells of arrogance, no offense."
"Typical Indra, not one incarnate can't have a stick up their ass."
"Hehehe, keep thinking that way, and we'll be friends really soon."
"Yeah…um…"
"SHUKAKU!"

"So, we have three options, involving Ms. Belladonna. We can kill her," Ozpin watched as Naruto leaned up.

Naruto merely told Ozpin, "No."

"We can wipe her memory," Ozpin reveals a glyph in his hand, "no harm is done to her…but it has a chance to fail."

"Or, what else?" Naruto was currently getting out of bed and stretching.

Ozpin looked at him, "well, we could bring her into the fold. She's the daughter of Ghira Belladonna, head chieftain of Menagerie and former leader of The White Fang."

Naruto stopped for a moment, "well, someone had some can of worms."

"You and her both," they turn to Oobleck who walks in, "silence seals on?"

"Yes." Both Ozpin and Naruto answer.

He nodded, and looked at Naruto, "so how was the exploration."

"Brought more questions than answers, apparently there was an Ice Age…maybe…a thousand years after my battle with Kaguya. Then I found out that they made these sanctuaries in the ground, and something called The Ever-Flow, and apparently my friend's clan became a Dynasty that lasted well over a thousand years stemming from Naruko…my niece." Naruto scratches the back of his head as he spoke, "all in all, mind-blowing."

Oobleck sighs, "then you fought a King Ghidorah, and then goes the mountain."

"No, wrong mountain, the mountain that I had Kurama and Matatabi throw Ghidorah into was a different mountain. Though given the underground passages, more than likely, I screwed up." Naruto admits at the end, sighing, "and boom goes the kunai."

Oobleck pinches his nose, looking at the blonde, "you've probably destroyed key moments in history."

"The Great Fall, but that's not a great moment in history. There was one more thing, apparently, Grimm started showing up right when the Ice Age happened. They were called Gohma in the journal, and Gohma in my language means Dark Ones. It would explain how they were perceived by my people, compared to the people of the future, since a lot of you lost the ability to sense and detect chakra." Naruto explains to Oobleck as he leans up and gets up from the bed.

"You really should stay in bed," Oobleck warned him as he watches take the cast off his arm. "W-what?"

"Chomei's ability is giving me a flight, but he also grants me a stacked accelerated healing with Kurama. In fact, all Jinchuuriki had accelerated hearing, oceans of chakra, and were generally a Super Weapon to be used in war. That day came to me, but I wasn't forced, I chose to use my power to defend those I cared about." Naruto told Oobleck as he stretches, and then he sighed, "so about this girl…Emerald."

"We have her on a transport to Beacon, Glynda will sneak her into the dungeon area of Beacon, I'm sure you sealed her power with some sort of Jutsu?" Ozpin questioned Naruto as he leaned against a desk.

"Yeah," Naruto reassured him as he continued to stretch.

Suddenly he stopped, his eyes flashed goldenly, and he smiles brightly. "Looks like I got a ping."

Ozpin was intrigued, and took a deep breath as he questioned Naruto, "Ping?"

"I've been detecting someone from my time, in fact far from my time, in the present. He's someone that'll only to talk to me because he was the Father of Ashura and Indra." Ozpin's eyes widened at Naruto's words.

Naruto took a deep breath, "and with a pingback on my Tailed Beasts' collective effort, it means he is wanting me to find him."

"Is he safe?" Ozpin asked as he looked at Naruto.

"Yes," Naruto answered and began to jog in place.

"I guess your new mission is to locate him and find out more if he's been around for all this time…he'll know what happened to the world." Ozpin assigned Naruto as he spoke, and he took a deep breath, "but what about Blake?"

"Can you bring her in here, might as well explain what I am myself unless Peach-san is dropping the ball?" Naruto looked at them, "then again, this is Peach we're talking about."

Blake was escorted by Professor Peach into a hospital room, noting Ozpin and Oobleck there, "so…it is true…you're all in on it."

"Well, not all of us, there's…" Peach tries to come up with a name, and then huffed, "okay, we're all in on it."

"Blake," Blake turns to Naruto as he calls her name. "I'm sure by now that any trust you had in me is broken but understand that I hid my true self in order to protect everyone that I began to call my friend."

Blake shakes her head, trying to process what he said, and then she looked at him. "So, what are you, a monster…a demon?"

Naruto answers her tenderly, trying to make sure he didn't sound harsh, "I have been called those things when I was a child, even as a young teen, and for a while, I believed it. But, no, I'm not some demon that goes bump in the night. I am Uzumaki Naruto, a…was…human from the past. Back before Grimm, and I have seen more horrors than you can dream up."

"So," Peach looked at Naruto, "you weren't a Faunus before all of this?"

"No, sorry, Ozpin makes me keep some tighter secrets between us. However, you've been keeping some of your own Blake, but I will not judge you for what is the past." Naruto hints at what he knows and then took a deep breath, "and speaker of secrets…"

Naruto suddenly threw a kunai that he made appear in his hand, Ozpin's eyes widened as the kunai brushed against his cheek, thudding into the wall and into…a gaseous Grimm.

"W-wha…holy…" Peach was stunned, "I didn't even sense it."

Blake was shaking slightly at the look in his eyes, regardless of what he said, that was the look of a stone-cold killer. He took a deep breath, walking over to the all, pulling the kunai out and placing it back into a pouch on his left hip.

"Salem has grown smarter," Ozpin sighed as he looked at Naruto, "and you got injured?"

"I was against three, one immortal, I can be powerful but against stacked odds, I can be taken by surprise. Its part of the reason I won many of my fights, overwhelming force, but while I'm in my in Tailed Beast Cloak I can't really use Shadow Clones too much," Naruto frustratingly admitted as he took a deep breath.

"Wait," Blake watched him turn to her as she spoke, "did you just say Shadow Clones…that's the name of my semblance."

"Unlike your semblance mine are fully like me, save they die in one hit, they're useful in a fight but against people like the ones you saw me fight…not so much." Naruto told Blake as he took a deep breath, "and as for you following me…you've not put yourself in a position that I can't even force Ozpin off."

She looked tense, looking at Ozpin and them, "W-what?"

Naruto shook his head and then gave a deep sigh, he turns to Ozpin, "Option will not happen, no matter what. So, get that out of the way."

"If she's a security risk, a threat made by Salem to her parents could reveal connections you made to others, Naruto. I promise, an Indra to an Ashura, she won't even know it happened," Ozpin tries to explain option one.

"Yeah," Naruto rolled his eyes, "murder is always so righteous."

"Wait, no, you're not planning to kill me…are you?" Blake looked at them all, with Peach looking back at them, and then sighing.

She looked at Blake, "curiosity killed the cat, Blake…"

Naruto stepped in front of her, suddenly his Tailed Beast Cloak came alive around him, and he glared at all of them. "If you're supposed to protect people, you cannot turn around and harm people, besides the world deserves to know that someone is pulling the strings of The Grimm."

Ozpin shook his head, "and cause worldwide panic?"

Blake looked at them, "why are you risking yourself protecting me, if your aligned with them?"

Everyone turned to Naruto.

Naruto shook his head, "honestly, I don't align with anyone. I'm not from this time, I don't understand it, and don't understand how you have an enemy that wants nothing…but your deaths and you hide them."

"We hide it because the world couldn't handle the fact that an intelligence makes the Grimm sentient, that they were nothing but food to them, all for the madness of one woman," Ozpin argues as he looked at Naruto.

"Yeah, madness, I've seen that more times than most of you here. Let me tell what happens when you keep something a secret, its brutal honesty, bodies start to pile up." Naruto warns them and then looked back at Blake before turning back to them, "and you threatening her is nothing different than Salem herself."

"This isn't your fight," Ozpin states, "you just so happen to pop in at the wrong time."

"No," Naruto glares at him, "she's an Otsutsuki…this is my fight."

"Ipso-facto, you believe we should just announce to the world that a demoness is in control of all Grimm, and people may seek her out to join to just keep their heads," Oobleck also argued and looked at Naruto, "and you know that is true."

"Truth is subjective because I there is not two sides to the story, but three. The one side, the other side, and the actual events. I'm not a phil…uh…" Naruto took a deep breath, "Oobleck?"

"Philosopher." Oobleck helps Naruto as he turned to the side and looked at Peach.

"Yeah, that, and don't get me wrong I am very angry at Blake for following me. Not because of my secret coming out, no, because she's a friend to me and could've gotten killed. I'm not a God, I can't save everyone, but I damn well try to what I can. However, if I must separate myself from you all, and protect those you deem risks…I'll show you the same mercy as I would show Salem if I could get my hands on her." Naruto spoke with passion as he looks into their eyes, "are we clear?"

"Crystal," Ozpin responded with a huff, "and that leaves option two and three."

"Option two is a fifty-fifty," Naruto spat as he scoffs at them, "its already an option."

"Then either she swears herself to our circle, or she dies." Ozpin concluded.

"You must be one arrogant bastard to think you can take me, especially since I'm almost half-way back to where I was taking on a literal God." Naruto warns him and then glared right at Ozpin, "strike…two…"

Ozpin and Naruto glare at one another, both scrunching their hands up, it looked like both were getting ready to trade blows until Oobleck steps between them. Backing off first was Ozpin, while Naruto deactivated his cloak.

"Naruto…"
"Kitten…"

"I'm fine guys, don't worry, how are Chomei and Shukaku?" Naruto mentally questions Matatabi and Kurama.

"They are fine, Shukaku is already annoying."
"Chomei is wanting to speak to you soon."

"Right, kind of busy right now." Naruto took a deep breath and then looked at them, "so…what about an option four?"

"Option four?" Peach questioned.

"She just walks away, doesn't say a thing to you all or anyone about what happened. She went to Mistral, had a good time, and came back refreshed and ready for your tests." Naruto tells them as he took a deep breath, "and I continue the charade of being a normal teenager."

Ozpin shrugs and looked at everyone else, and then back to Naruto, "as long as she can keep her mouth fully shut about anything…sure…"

Blake looked down at the ground, sighing, "I promise not utter a single word."

"On what young lady?" Ozpin furthered as he looked at the girl hold her head down.

She took a deep breath, "I swear on my life."

Blake was sitting in the room alone with Naruto, she was still scared of him, keeping herself toward the door. The blonde was staring at his scroll, looking at the device, and then sighs. He tosses the scroll toward his bag of clothing, making it land inside of it.

"You've got questions for me, that's fine, anything you want to ask me…I'll answer it." Naruto tells her as he took a deep breath, "I'm an open book."

"No, you're not, look, I'm just going to go to Beacon…and I'll say we had a fight in Mistral and we're not ever going to speak to each other again." Blake said as she looked at the door, "and that way you can just do your thing…and I can live a normal life."

Naruto stares down at the ground, and finally, he spoke. "How would I make sense Blake? Honestly, there are things I don't understand about myself yet. I recently just gain the power I had, it is a process to just even keep my powers in check."

"A process that requires Nine Tailed Beasts to help with, all of them are my friends, and the most powerful…has always been my friend…even when I was alone." Naruto rubbed his arm and sighed, "and I guess its why I kind of find life in this time…uncomfortable."

Blake looked at him, "what do you mean?"

"Peach called it combat fatigue, and she's right, my body is so rigged for fighting…I always need to fight something. Which is why I take risks, every other night I sneak into Emerald Forest and fight any Grimm I can get my hands on," Naruto revealed as he leaned back on the wall.

She sighed, "I used to train every day while I was in The White Fang, believing that I could make a difference."

"Blake," Blake looked at him, "it only takes one to start something."

She sighed, "what do you know?"

"Well, I'm a Faunus now, I've experienced this racism…even before it. The world wasn't sunshine and rainbows before Grimm. At the tender age of seven, I was learning every vital area in the human body to sink a kunai to every one of them." Naruto looked at his hands, "what you call you murder…we called growing up."

"Child soldiers…" Blake breathed as she watches Naruto examine his own hands, "did you have a choice?"

"Heh, I believed I did, until I found I was a Jinchuuriki. A person made to seal powerful Tailed Beasts that could level mountains with a swing of their tails, the beasts you saw were Kurama and Matatabi. Kurama was my first, he was my prisoner, and I was his prison." Naruto looked down at the ground.

"I never had a choice, I was a superweapon, a being of immense powers like me was prayed to willingly fight. Others like me, they didn't get a choice, they were treated as tools. In fact, an organization called Akatsuki saw us as nothing but mere vessels to be killed in order to take the powers we had." Naruto breathed deeply, his hand suddenly started shaking.

"Fu, a mint haired girl from Taki, was the first. She was younger than me, just shy inside of fourteen years old. Her life, her dreams, gone…in three days of harrowing pain and suffering, as they literally ripped her soul apart to get to Chomei The Seven-Tailed Beetle." Naruto closed his eyes, thinking of their names.

"Roshi, an elderly Uzumaki…a member of my clan…fought hard to the bitter end. He had lived his life, but, in the end, he died screaming in pain." Naruto then held his head, the memories of the other Jinchuuriki flooded his mind.

A side effect of him being able to tap into their chakras through The Tailed Beasts.

"Next, was Gaara, my friend. He has treated nothing more than tool most of his life, all he did was kill in order to make himself relevant. He finally changed his ways, and if it wasn't for a sacrifice, he'd died…alone…" Naruto took a deep breath.

"I didn't know it at the time, but Yugito who was next just had a baby girl. She died fighting to the bitter end like Roshi, fighting…just to see her little girl again." Naruto took a deep, shuttering, breath.

The Faunus girl looked at Naruto, her mouth slightly agape.

"I'm not going to sit here and regale you with disheartening stories. I am sorry, really, you probably felt betrayed earlier and you do have a right to the truth. The truth is, Blake, that you are my friend. Nothing more, nothing less, but I will not let anyone harm you…just like I won't let anyone harm Ruby, Yang, maybe…Weiss?" Naruto chuckled a little bit.

She couldn't help it, she chuckled, "Grimm bait…"

"Did Ruby tell you, darn it, strawberry needs to keep things on a low…" Naruto returns the chuckle and looked out the window, "and then there's Nora…the whole kiss thing…"

"Have you ever kissed anyone?" Blake questioned, trying to radically change their conversation and get a sense of normality.

Naruto blushed slightly, "well, my own consensual kiss…was…with my friend…more like brother…Sas-Sasuke…"

"So…are you…" Blake blushes a little bit, and for whatever reason, an image of Naruto and strangely Ren kissing filled her mind.

Naruto blushed, and then yelled, "No!"

She waves his hands, "okay, sorry-sorry!"

Both looked at each other, then she looked at him, "I'm not going to kiss you…"

"What, no, I never wanted that!" Naruto declares as he looked away, "like I said…I'm an open book."

"So…was there someone special?" She inquired, curious to see if he was really telling the truth about being straight.

He looked at her, and then looked to the ground, "I don't want to talk about it…"

"Thought you were an open book," Blake teased as she watched Naruto suddenly scrunch his face up, "Naruto?"

"You see, I don't know what happened to her, because I have these weird vivid dreams…they feel real…" Naruto took a moment to compose himself, "she was lavender eyed, a nighty sky haired girl named Hinata Hyuuga."

"She had loved me since we were kids, and of course I was so dense I never noticed it, not until it was too late. She's alive, well was alive, at this point…everything is subjective." Naruto tells her as he looked at her, he had a smile, "what I can tell you is that she was beautiful, and that beauty didn't come from her looks."

"She was beautiful physically, don't get me wrong, but her heart…her soul…" Naruto laughs a little bit and then looked at the setting sun outside of his window, "that was probably what made her something special."

"A fierce warrior, she was, strong and brave. When I was nearly defeated by someone that was close to a God that leveled my entire village in one go…she was the only one to stand up and fight to save me. She fought in the war, she fought by my side, and gave the courage to continue…even as her own family was being torn apart by death," Naruto took a deep breath, "and she was gentle like a butterfly on the wind."

Naruto watched the sun sink a little more, "never fighting against the flow of time, but going with it. She rolled more with the punches than I ever did, and in a way…her shyness and loneliness were my trigger."

His eyes suddenly turn red as he growled, "and I would become the demon people claimed me to be if it meant to save her, I did it with the guy that nearly killed her. If it wasn't for my teacher's teachings…I would've become a monster."

Blake watched as tears started falling from his eyes, suddenly he got up and walked over toward the window. Pressing his head against it, and weeping, watching the sun go down.

"I'm sorry, but my happy ending never came, Jinchuuriki never get happy endings. My mother was one before me, in fact, she was Kurama's, and on my birthday…she was killed for the sole reason of being Kurama's Jinchuuriki." Naruto gripped his hands, "and I hate the very person behind it all."

"Kaguya Otsutsuki, The Goddess of Chakra…more like the insane psycho-bitch that thinks that being a God of Death is the only way to bring peace, but, what world is in need of Gods of Death?" Naruto turned back from the setting sun, looking at Blake, "and it makes me wonder if it came to it…if something happened to my friends…if I wouldn't become like her."

"Why are you telling me this?" Blake watches as he leaned against the window, "Naruto…"

"Because I need someone to vent to, not Ozpin, not Peach, no one that will pass information around like they earned it. You earned my honesty, because you got hurt by me, and I never hurt any of my friends…" Naruto then smiles, "we are friends…right?"

She looked at him, then slowly she smiled, "God or mortal, we're friends."

"I prefer mortal because so far any God I've fought has always been of death. So, I don't like being a God, let alone being called one." Naruto says as he gets toward the door, opening, "you can go to your own room now…and don't worry…because if Ozpin is a smart man he'll know his place."

Blake walked past him, turning to him, "and that's where?"

"Like any Indra, getting curb stomped by an Ashura." Naruto laughs as she just shook her head and walked away.

However, she couldn't help but feel warm, despite what had happened and the ground-breaking secrets she learned…her mind never left the blonde.

Even as she drifted later on that night.