Blake and Weiss argued over a Faunus, a blonde Faunus with blue eyes like the sea in Menagerie. Ironically, looking at him, Ruby for a moment that it was Naruto. Only this Faunus had a monkey's tail, was able to speak, and had darker skin compared to her boyfriend.
The girls argued back and forth a little bit, and Ruby watched as the police had begun running towards the other end of the docks. "Huh, there's a lot of stowaways lately."
Ruby's comment was not unheard by Blake, she turns to her, lightly punching her in the arm. The girl whimpered slightly, but then they heard Weiss squeal a little bit, and then turned to see Naruto walking with two other people.
"Naruto, hey Naruto, ocean fox!" Ruby yells out, "over here!"
Naruto jogged over, looking at Ruby, who had a bag full of dust crystals. She looks at Naruto, smiling, despite being away for two hours they both were relieved to see each other again. Heavily in love, the pair was, and it showed no signs of slowing down soon.
She saw several footmarks on his clothing, made from dirt, she looked at him. "Did you get into a fight."
Naruto nudges his head side to side, smiling, and then points towards the pair he was traveling with. Ruby's silver eyes saw the raven and pinkette walk towards them. Noticing her, the raven smirks as he stops with Sakura.
"Well, I never thought you were capable of finding one Naruto, guess I was wrong." Sasuke comments, he then feels eyes burning into him, "what?"
"Who are you, you're not some jerk are you?" Ruby questions, standing to the side of her boyfriend and watched as the raven held his hand up.
"I'm Sasuke Uchiha, leader of Team Sharon Fruit, S.H.A.I for short. Your boyfriend, right there, is Naruto Namikaze. My second, only younger, brother. We got into a little scuffle that my esteemed second in command broke up, then again…I was the one that was winning." Naruto glares at him as he speaks, only for him to wave the blonde off, "and you must be his girlfriend…or is the other blonde his girlfriend."
"No, Naruto's mine, and I'm not sharing!" Ruby announced as she held his hand, making him blush, but smile lovingly at her. "And, I'm his, we're official."
"Little socially awkward aren't ya, Naruto always was back in school as well, in fact, I remember one time that some kids had pushed him on the ground and were beating him to a bloody pulp. This was when he could talk, and he's lying there just apologizing to them as they beat his head in…and that's when I first met him. I stepped in, kicked their asses down the curb, and got him home to his mother and father." Sasuke tells them all, making Naruto rub the back of his, making the motions of a chuckle.
Locking her arm around Sasuke's, Sakura looks at Ruby with a smile, "you're very cute, I love the rose on your corset."
"O-oh, thank you, and you're…"
"Sakura Haruno, I'm Sasuke's teammate and girlfriend."
"Oh, wow, I love the pink Mistralian dress you got on."
"Why thank you, I'm my team's resident brawler, but I try to keep my looks up to par."
Yang nods, "I can agree to that."
"You're a brawler too, me and you need to trade blows some time, a spar?" Sakura offers to Yang, who purses her lips and smiles.
"I'm going to like you, but I already have a spar planned with Rock Lee. You know him, right?" Yang questions Sakura, who rubs the back of her head with a proud smile.
"Of course, I know the bowl head. He's our resident martial artist back in school, and he's got more martial arts skill than either Sasuke or Naruto." Both boys' faces fell flat at Sakura's praise for Lee, and this made Ruby giggle a little bit. "So, how long have you been dating Naruto?"
"About a month and a half," Ruby summarizes, "I believe."
Naruto looks at her, nodding, confirming her answer. The two still holding hands made Sakura giggle a little bit, she reaches over towards the blonde rubbing his hair, he was still shorter than her. "I'm glad he found someone, he works too damn hard."
"I know, right, he stills works too hard. He's got a job outside of school, and he makes sure to keep his team in line…wait where is your team." Naruto looks, rubbing the back of his head, shrugging. "Disregard that last part, thank you very much, but c'mon I'm surprised I'm the first he's ever dated!"
Blushing lightly, Naruto nudges his head towards her, agreeing with everything she said by motioning the same thing for her.
"You will hear nothing, but good things, when you ever go to our part of Menagerie about Naruto. Did he tell you that his nickname is Shenlong?"
"Oh yeah, he did, and Yang turned it into a perverted joke."
Everyone looked at Yang, even Naruto, who was blushing madly at that notion. The blonde lightly tapped her fingers together, chuckling nervously, and then rubbing the back of her head as she felt Ruby's cute little glare intensify.
"Well, I did say he long, all in the spirit of teasing my little sis." Yang tells them, which earned her a laugh from Sakura, "see it's funny!"
Sasuke struggled to stifle a laugh, "and there also the nickname of Forest Boy. When Naruto was younger he always hanged out in the forest groves our small village, Konoha."
"He still does, are you by chance a Gaian?"
"Why yes, I'm very much so, I even packed the stuff to make a shrine in Beacon once I get there."
"What's your family symbol, I know Naruto's is a swirl mark."
"A Whirlpool, literally his name translates to Orange Harbor Wave, but if he had gone by his mother's surname it would've been Orange Maelstrom."
"Speaking of, what does your name translate to?"
"Sasuke literally means nothing, it's an old word that has no meaning to it, but my last name is translated to Paper Fan after converting the last H in Uchiha to Uchiwa which is what my family is a name derived from," Sasuke explained to as he got out his sword, clicking a button that made it transform into large thin fan made of burn dust. "This my weapon, Ryujin."
"Holy crap, that's so awesome!" Ruby squeals a little bit, "how old is it?!"
"Just like Naruto's Kurama Staff, it's passed down from my family, we don't really know how old our weapons are. However, we do know which one is the better, and I've proved that time and time again." Sasuke watched as Naruto's brow raised a little bit.
"Easy now, Sasuke…Naruto, no need to start another fight and get the police going after us. Just because you two are equal in power doesn't mean you should constantly try to prove who's better, just be brotherly for once." Sakura steps in between them, already knowing what they were about to do.
"We are being brotherly," Sasuke clicks Ryujin back into its scabbard, "brothers fight all the time."
Smirking, Naruto held out his fist, to which Sasuke bumps as the two face each other.
"You've grown up a lot, little brother, Itachi should be coming shortly in a few weeks. Vytal is coming, and I want to beat you and your team to a bloody pulp." The group shrunk back as Naruto's aura flared around him, his eyes and Sasuke creating sparks between, with Naruto glaring at him with a smirk on his face.
Ruby and Sakura both punched Naruto and Respectively on the arm, "cut it out Sasuke/down Naruto."
Amira was walking with Atlas and Iblis, with Lapis standing beside her. Holding her hand, the two boys that flanked them had started a conversation with Amira with Lapis joining in every so often. Iblis was the motormouth of the cousins, and he just couldn't just stop pointing out a few details.
"Let's see, I can control fire, you can control crystal meaning earth, and Atlas here can make a wind storm. If we just have someone that can control water, then we'd be the Elemental Nations from that one show…what was it…Amira?" Iblis turns to his sister, who rubbed the back of her and chuckles.
"Avatar."
"Yeah, and we'd be unstoppable as a team, holy crap that would be awesome!"
"Yes, it would, and we're already unstoppable cousin, we're apart of Team N.A.L.L. Our team is badass, and he's a rival to yours."
"You mean Naruto, that guy Sasuke talks about all the time, sheesh I'm sure they've already fought by now. Sasuke was itching for a fight when we got early leave to come here, transferring over for the final semester before Vytal." Iblis kept going, "I never saw Sasuke so ready to throw himself into a fight, he's usually calculating…it's out of character for him."
"No," Atlas spoke up, "Sasuke's constant mention of getting stronger was all for Naruto…he'd wanted to be ready to beat him."
"Well, Sasuke did manage to master his semblance to a newer height over the last few days, Susanoo is no longer the most powerful he has." Iblis points out, "he still hasn't come up with a name for it yet though unlike Spear, Susanoo, and Moon."
"Moon, Spear, sounds like Sasuke's semblance is powerful." Lapis says as he walks with Amira coming closer to his side, "what is it?"
"It allows him to manifest his aura into different constructs, it's a very powerful semblance indeed. It's why he's never exactly been pushed by another team or even a lone individual. I highly doubt this, Naruto, can seriously pushback our leader." Atlas explains while voicing his opinion on the matter, "Sasuke is unbeatable when he's fully serious."
"They said that about Pyrrha Nikos, yet Naruto beat her in a recent spar, so I think he'll prove you very much wrong." Lapis told Atlas, the giant looking at the much shorter blue haired teen, "bet on that."
"Heh, I like this one Amira, small but brave." Atlas tells her as she blushes a little bit, "and since Uncle Dante likes him I'm assuming you both are together officially."
"Yep." Amira cheerfully says, "but it seems like our team is going out with someone somewhere. Naruto, our leader, is dating another leader."
"Oh, is that so?"
"Uh huh, she's a cutie as well."
"Lucky bastard…"
"Oh, cousin why's that?"
"When ladies see this hulking mountain, they just freeze up, granted the few that do take me up to par is the best damn lays I've ever had hahaha!"
"You're just a warrior through and through, aren't you?" Lapis questioned Atlas, he nods, giving a hearty chuckle.
"Tis the life of a man to love, make love, and fight!" Atlas cheerfully states, "and to make love comes with the fight, the struggle for dominance in bed is like that on the field."
"Why is your family…so open about sex?"
"Because Lapis, we're just open in general, we fear nothing."
"So, a giant Grimm could just be as a tall as a mountain and your entire family would just…go at it?"
"Hell yeah, more honor for us!"
"Glory to the Mirabella Family!" Iblis, Atlas, and Amira chanted at the same time, holding their weapons in the air.
Salem was very pleased, looking at her servants as she saw three new faces walk towards them. Roman had picked them up when they had tried to rob a bank, it went very poorly for them, but it was worth noting their expendable violent nature.
She wouldn't let them see her face, this far from her dimension and unusual looks would spell disaster if they suddenly ratted her out. Though she'd make the rewards they would be given very tempting, power, greed, and lust were the very things that bent humanity indeed even Faunus kind to her whim.
"So, you took a deal offered by my associate, tell me more about this Naruto figure." Salem turns around, her white mask in the likeness of a fox kept her face hidden from them, just like her long silk-like dress kept most of her body hidden.
Her ghostly pale hands being the exception, which frightened the group's leader, Russel.
"Ma-madam, Heiwa, was it?"
"Yes…"
"He's Beacon's most elite fighter, he's stronger than all of us combined, but we want to get back at him for making us get kicked out!"
"We were disowned by our family!" Sky Lark exclaims, "and I don't care how much we hurt him in return…even kill him."
"Yes, like Sky says, I want to kill that bastard!" Russel agreed loudly, while Dove nods.
"I also want the one, Cardin Winchester, dead as well…him and that little bastard nephew he adores!" Dove yelled.
A booming wave of energy washed over them, "silence!"
"You are not to demand someone's blood from me, but, you must first prove that you're willing to commit to me. I demand blood myself, a simple task befitting you three would suffice to prove loyalty. A dissident, a traitor by the name of Hymen Roth, a Vale banker. He used to be under the thumb of Roman, the man you got recruited by, and I want him dead." Salem motions for a figure to walk out, another wearing a similar mask. "Name a reasonable reward, and I'll grant you it, but calling for someone's blood isn't reasonable now…especially when they could prove useful later."
"Then…we want power, the power to confront that bastard Namikaze."
"Hehehe, kill the banker, bring his head to me…we'll talk then."
All three boys got up, nodding, walking out of the dark warehouse to where Roman would be waiting for a picture of their target. Taking off her mask, Salem chuckles, her black lips were licked by a supple cherry red tongue.
"The difference between you and me boys, my power binds you to me, you'll never be free again. You want the blood of that one being, but the way you described him to Roman I can't allow it, his blood is to be mine and mine alone. Though the presence of a silver-eyed girl is troubling, and I'll plan her extraction and conversation to one of my revenants" Salem laughs as a woman clad in a black cloak walks towards her, she removes her hoodie.
Silver eyes met the demonic red of Salem's, her sclera had long since turned midnight from the white light they had been, her eyes full of love and light were replaced with death and darkness. Her black hair, tipped in red, blew in a small little gust inside of the warehouse.
"Lady Salem, is almost time for me to return to my daughters?"
"Soon my little Rose, soon, what a family reunion it shall be…"
"She is smitten with The Light, a thing you plan to finally kill."
"Hehehe, so she is, but don't worry…"
Salem walks over to Rose, cupping her chin almost lovingly, and gazing into the woman's eyes. Inside of her, the actual woman was screaming, trying to break free from a bird's cage she had long been kept in.
"Summer, I always keep my promises, and when I turn your daughter to what you are now…I'll make sure to go after that husband of yours…then your adoptive daughter…then her mother." Grabbing face, Salem licks one lone tear coming down her eye, "and then you'll have a front-row seat to the end of this world…just like The End of Taiyo."
"For I have gone by many names, for I have seen both darkness and the light, and I found that humanity is hypocrisy given form. Many eons ago a man descended from the heavens, teaching them to use energy to protect themselves, but instead, they use it to destroy the world…" Salem pats Summer's cheek as she pulls away, "and like the ancient text proclaimed for that world…a demon would rise with black flames and destroy it…so I have."
"Now, this world, fresh without a true destiny will experience the same cleansing. Unlike what Seishin planned, there will be nowhere for humanity to run from my wrath, and when The Light's eyes see what I've done to this world…he'll either stand against me and spill his own blood…or I will flood him with Darkness." Salem smiles as she holds her hand up.
"But, alas, my powers are sealed within the relics that Seishin used many eons ago to make sure I couldn't efficiently wipe your filth from the world. That's fine, I found a few worth keeping, a few pets. You're one of them, and if your daughter is anything like you…I'll have fun breaking her as well." Salem darkly chuckles as she leaves the warehouse while putting her mask on.
"Lady Salem…" Summer calls out, "what is my next objective?"
"That's simple Summer, have Lionheart ready to track down Raven Brawen once more. Keep to the shadows, I may call upon you to "save" your daughter." Summer nods at Salem's orders, bowing as she watches her mistress walk from her.
However, Summer's hands were trembling, forevermore trying to fight the control the demoness had over her. Tears spilled from her eyes, slowly, deep inside of her something was calling out.
"Someone, please…help me!"
Naruto was taking a deep breath, Ruby was wearing a sleeveless shirt as to keep from getting overheated. Going through the yoga stretches that he would practice due to his mother and father's book writings, he made sure to loosen his body up.
Glancing at Ruby, turning quickly away, he blushed slightly at the way she looked at him now. He too had been having dreams, dreams that were involving a sin to have before marriage in his people. Thinking about her in a manner was both unflattering and tempting, was it right?
Should he even feel that way?
Has there been enough time to even think that way?
Does she feel the same way?
Butterflies danced his stomach as she leaned back, she was very flexible, and it dawned on him that she had to be considering her own combat style. Sighing, he stands back up, watching out of the corner of his eye as she follows his movement.
Taking a combat stance, Naruto shows her slowly on how to do a double front kick, and she repeats it but stumbles forward a little. Catching her before she fell down face first, Naruto looks at her. Dusting her off a little bit as a sign to try again, he shows her that she should have her left foot out since she was dominant on the left side of her body.
Nodding, she does the double kick again, and this time does it perfectly. Clapping sounded as Naruto claps for her, giving her a thumb's up, he then does a double front kick and then as he comes back to the ground he goes low and does a sweep kick.
Ruby nods, doing the same thing, but falls as she attempts the sweep kick. "Oh, my leg, ow-ow-ow!"
Naruto chuckled a little bit, making her look at him, "it's not as easy as you make it out to be ya know!"
Shrugging, Naruto smiles, helping her up. She takes the same stance, albeit keeping her left foot dominant. Noticing her stance Naruto gets behind her, eliciting a small yelp from Ruby as he pushes on her back a little and moves her arms to where they should be.
Standing in front of her, noticing her blush, Naruto rubs the back of his head. He then assumes the stances, pointing at his back. Hitting his forearms against each other, indication of being strong, and then he makes the double front kick once more.
This time Ruby could see the power behind it, and he turns to her holding his hands flat but up in front of her. Looking at him, he bends down and placed a hand on her shoe and tapped it. Raising back up he motions her with his hands, and she gives him two powerful front kicks in succession.
Feeling the power behind them, she smiles, doing again and again and again. "Wow, this fun, it's like dancing!"
She continued onward with the attack, keeping to the pace, she began to force Naruto's hands up a little bit. Seeing him wince a little bit, she frowns but continues to do so anyway. This was her getting ready for the tournament with him, and in a way like an easygoing date.
"One-two, one-two, one-two!" Ruby chants out, "gotta show me some of ya moves."
Both teens chuckle in their own way, with Ruby nodding once she thinks she got the hang of it and went low surprising Naruto. The boy's instinct training didn't kick in for some reason. Stumbling forwards as he felt his legs getting taken out from under him he barely catches himself but ends up just shy of being fully on top of Ruby.
She was breathing, unbelieving at to what she just did, and had sweat rolling down her brow.
Gazing into her eyes, she bites her lip as she gazes at him, giggled. "So, was this your plan eh?"
Naruto shook his head, lovingly flicking her in the head softly, making her wince a little with a fake frown. Lowering his head down to hers, she giggled when their foreheads touched.
"You make me feel safe, you make me feel loved, I love you too…" Those words played in Naruto's head, he wasn't seeking to use them to ravish her, but it was something deeper than any physical attraction.
Physical attraction didn't matter to him, even if he admitted he was attracted to Ruby in such a way, he wasn't using at the means to the end a lot of other boys would their girlfriend. He didn't just want a fling, he didn't want someone that was just going to walk away when they were done with him.
He wanted a four-lettered word, and he found it with her, love.
Kissing, both brought their hands to each other, moaning a little bit they soon just devolved into laying next to each other. Looking up at the clouds, taking a deep breath, they separated.
"I could get used to your training," she flirts while snuggling up next to him, "this Foshan thingy is hard."
Naruto nods, agreeing with her, he remembered when he first started to practice them as a kid. It hurt, he would cramp up, but that was because his dad pushed him to learn quickly. Looking at her, kissing the tip of her nose, she buried herself into his shoulder.
Humming a little bit, she murmurs into his shoulder, "you need to take time to care for yourself…"
Nodding, Naruto sighs in content, looking at her as he gazed into her silver eyes. Those damned beautiful eyes, they were like looking at a silent moon in the night sky. She reached around and gently grabs one of the hands, and he took it gently into his.
"I hate seeing you hurt," Ruby tells him, "so why don't you relax a little bit? If we fall asleep out here I'm sure Yang won't go crazy, and one more thing Naruto…I love you."
Naruto takes a deep breath, smiling with a grunt, he lets Ruby nuzzle up to him. She soon fell asleep; a cute little snore escapes her as she cuddled closer to Naruto.
Sasuke was on top of a tree, observing them, smiling as he took a bite out of an apple.