Disclaimer: First Chapter
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Naruto's body... only a small amount of his head remained, out of instinct alone his Semblence had activated his own aura to protect the parts of his head that focused around defending his brain. He only had a single eye, and it was in an open state, despite what people thought... Naruto was awake.
Naruto was awake, and he knew what was happening around him.
He couldn't feel anything... anything at all, his body was nothing more than aura. He couldn't use his body, because using it would cause him to lose aura even faster than he was using it. Despite his current state, Naruto had to force himself to endure the tortue of remaining perfectly still... because if he moved... he died. He knew that for a fact, the explosion that had 'killed' him... because even he knew that he was pretty much dead right now.
Fuck death though.
He didn't want to die, that would mess his family up. He didn't want to put his family through the pain of his death, and while he had no fear of death... he had a fear of hurting his family, the people he loved.
At the same time... he wondered what was going on around him.
He wasn't in the hospital anymore, he knew that much. That, or he was in the hospital and just in a place he didn't recognize.
Naruto's body meant... a lot to him, but at the same time, his soul was a very powerful thing. He placed most of his very being inside of his soul. Who he was, was in his soul, not his mind. He could understand why he was in a machine, and... being scanned for something apparently. Naruto didn't know what the machine did exactly, but Naruto moved his only eye and looked around. His eye wasn't made of aura, so he could use it to look around. He could see some kind of... Naruto didn't know what it was actually, it seemed like a strange crystal orb about the size of a fist.
It was sitting in the middle of a machine a good distance away from him.
The crystal ball had several objects hooked up to it, like cables leading from the machine that he was in to the orb. Naruto could see a faint orange glow coming from the machine, it was strange, but his silver eye watched as the orb started to glow more. The cables leading to the orb had a strange fluid moving, and the fluid seemed to be... being drained out of his very soul.
They were infusing his soul into the orb.
He wondered why, he couldn't exactly fight back. He was dying as it was, sure, as long as he stayed still then he could avoid running out of aura so long as he didn't waste any actually moving the aura body... but what kind of life was that? Naruto spat in the face of death, but his existance was torture... he couldn't interact with the world around him anymore without a body.
...
There was his father and Qrow, sitting down... and Naruto could see them looking at some sort of screen. Naruto could slowly feel himself forgetting about the world around him, his past... his present... his dream for the future... not only was his soul being moved into the orb, but it would seem that his very brain was being transfered into something. Everything that made him, him was being used for some purpose... that had the approval of his dad and his uncle.
Naruto closed his only moving organ, and he trusted his... what were they to him?
They were something... they were... why was he trusting them?
What was happening to him?
...
Who was he?
A large square machine in the room with both Taiyang and Qrow started to hum wildly, before it ejected a series of 5 seperate plugs. Taiyang very carefully held the small plugs in his hands, so gently it was like he was holding baby birds made of the most fragile of glass.
"Don't worry Naruto... Daddy is here for you. He won't let anything hurt you anymore." Taiyang whispered to the machines that contained Naruto's memories, his personality, everything about him was contained in this 5 seperate little plugs. Plugs no bigger than an inch long and half an inch wide, black in color and made of unbreakable adamantine... the reason why it was hard to make even one of them. Taiyang was paying enough money to buy a second house to get the metal for these plugs.
The orb containing Naruto's soul started to glow much brighter as most of it's job was done.
Qrow placed a hand on Taiyang's shoulder, and comforted his long time friend without the need for words. It must be strange for the man to hold his son in such a state, very strange and at the same time very... nice for the man. Qrow heard a grinding sound coming from the machine that had what was left of Naruto's flesh body... now useless to him now that his soul was in the orb and his mind was in the plugs.
The scientists unplugged the cables from the orb, before it revealed that the holes for the cables sealed themselves up. The soul was already infused with the orb. Qrow made sure that Taiyang was not looking at the machine, because it was gruesome to see, that was for sure. It wasn't disgusting per say, but it was strange. Naruto's remaining body was being combined with Dust. Then it was being grinded into a dust powder, which was placed inside of a tube... insuring that Naruto would retain his ability to use Dust in the future.
The vial containing the Body/Dust was then inserted into the orb, and the dust was infused with the orb.
"I know this must have been hard for you, but I'll stick by your through this Tai." Qrow spoke tenderly for his friend, who he had known since they had gone to Beacon. Heck, they had been on the very same team, along with not only Summer, but with Yang's own mother, his sister. They had been their own 4 person team, but to think that Taiyang had managed to marry both of the women showed that his... personality was one that attracted women.
Dude was a looker too, that didn't hurt.
"Thanks... I'm thankful that Ironwood is giving us the Aigis for this. I hope Naruto doesn't hate me for doing this to him." Taiyang worried, showing that even the strongest of men had things that made them nervous. Qrow was gifted with Naruto's soul orb by one of the scientists to hold, guessing that the soul would feel comfier with family.
Qrow looked surprised when he felt warmth coming from the orb.
Not just emotional warmth, but physical warmth. Holding the orb made his hands warmer than before, the orb seemed to be actually capable of producing heat. He likened it to the fact that Fire Dust was used for the combining, thus giving the orb some heat properties.
Qrow smiled, Naruto was such a warm and loving boy that this just felt... right for his soul to be placed inside of. Qrow reached into his cloak's pocket, before he pulled out a new red scarf and used it to wrap up Naruto's soul. Despite not being blood anymore, he still loved Naruto like his own flesh and blood nephew. The bonds of family were not one that would be denied so easily. The two men started to head out of the room, apparently Ironwood had been able to fly the machine needed for the process out to Vale on a Bullhead, as well as the quickly finished robotic body.
The AIGIS.
Unlike Penny, the only other robot capable of true human emotion, Naruto's body was going to be mostly... weapon. Penny was designed to truly look like a human girl, because her creator had also wanted a daughter out of her. The creator of Penny didn't give a shit about Naruto, so he didn't care if Naruto had a full coating of false skin over his body. Qrow had seen the robotic body, and the only places that had false skin was on the human face of the robot that greatly resembled Naruto's own face... and it was even as soft as human skin. Underneath the skin was a small layering of super touch, but super soft, synthetic flesh that was used to mimic human facial expressions.
Naruto would be capable of every human expression.
When they left the room they were in, they were immediently joined by Yang and Ruby.
"Is that him?" Yang asked with excitement, and Qrow nodded and showed Yang the orb that glowed ever so softly. Yang reached out and gently touched the orb with her fingertips, before she smiled even more gently at the warmth coming from the orb.
"Is that his scarf? I thought that was destroyed in the explosion." Ruby commented with a strange look on her face, but she ran her hand over the MOST intimate part of Naruto to ever exist. She was directly touching his soul, the part of him that almost nobody could ever truly touch. As of now, only a few people had touched Naruto's soul, a thing that only he should ever touch.
"I searched through the wreckage and found some scraps of it, then I weaved them into a new red scarf." Qrow said, and the family continued to walk together. Qrow let Yang hold Naruto's soul, because she needed to hold it more than anyone at the moment. She, with the most mental scarring of them all, needed to feel Naruto's warmth coming from the orb.
"Those guys work very fast, it has only been a few days... and he already had a body built." Taiyang commented as they entered the room where the robotic body was being held.
"Well, the Aigis was already mostly finished. They just needed to make some of the more eye pleasing features. The machinery was already finished." Qrow said when they all came onto the iron table that was holding the new Naruto on it.
It was a robotic body that was about the 5'6" tall, a height that would allow for taller foes trouble hitting him, and smaller foes trouble escaping him. It was a fine height for battle, the original purpose of this weapon body. Unlike the other synthetic person, this body had white cloth on the arms, legs, and torso that weren't covered with silver colored plating to protect the black arm and leg parts underneath. The arms had white plating on them as well, with lines running down them showing they opened up.
His forearms had thicker, dark gray guards on them, and his hands were mostly white, but his fingers turned gray halfway through.
His shoulder's were made of black material, with a silver metal rounded parts for the ends of the shoulders, all connected to rotatint silver metal parts that replaced where his bisceps used to be.
Naruto's entire torso, stomach area and all, were covered in a white cloth that was connected the the armored body underneath it. It was shaped just like a human body, a lean male figure actually, and Naruto's neck was white... and the clothing had a shirt collar with a blue necktie around it. Near the bottom of his waist, just before his legs came out, were two silver gears. Lines went up the side of Naruto's torso, showing that the white clothing could be removed so that you could access the gears inside of him.
Naruto's legs were like his arms.
The place where they started were made of silver metal, and coming out of that silver metal was black metal with silver capable of rotation for a full set of movement... connected to a black gear that went inside of another silver piece that was placed to defend the place gears. Naruto's legs were white and shaped just like legs... only at the bottom they ended in thicker silver pegs instead of human feet. The front of the peg seemed to come out in some semblence of feet.
Finally, was Naruto's face.
Naruto had bright blond hair that was kind of messy, and kind of straight at the same time. Naruto's jawline had no skin, instead it as white with part of his chin being white as well. His face was very 'pretty' and not female pretty, but pretty boy pretty. His white neck reached up the back of his neck as well... and into the shorter blond hair.
The strangest parts were the sides of Naruto's head, where ears should be.
Should be, he had no ears. Instead were what looked like vents with what appeared to be dark blue fans with a single dot on each one, and the fans were shaped with three triangles shaped inside of the circle.
"Yang, please give me Naruto's soul." Qrow asked nicely, not wanting to upset Yang anymore than she might be.
She handed over the soul without a word said, though she was surprised when Qrow gently set the soul next to Naruto's body. He moved and with a small tool he undid the white cloth on Naruto's torso. With it undone, he was able to remove it and expose the gears underneath... and inside of his chest cavaty, once the armor was removed, was a sphere hole with several plugs inside of it. Qrow carefully placed the orb inside of the hole, and he moved it until there was a clicking noise.
The gears started to move, energy flowing through them.
Qrow closed Naruto's chest up, befre he reconnected the cloth layer over him again.
"Can Naruto feel when he is being touched?" Ruby asked when she looked at the VERY humanoid looking body on the table in front of her.
"Yes... the other robot has the ability to feel her own body as well, he has the ability to feel pain and feel pleasant feelings like us... though to a different extent." Qrow said as he clicked something on the inside of one of the objects sticking out of the side of his head. It extended farther out of his head, though only the right one, before it popped out of his head.
'I wonder if he will let me tinker with him?' Ruby asked herself, wondering if she would be allowed to study Naruto's blueprints.
'So... he is like this now.' Yang thought sadly, seeing her flesh and blood brother turned into this... of course, they were still blood, because Naruto's soul had his blood infused inside of it in the form of dust.
"Tai, Naruto's brain." Qrow said to Taiyang, who looked at the plugs that were being cradles gently in his hands. Taiyang handed over Naruto's brain pieces, before Qrow started to place them inside of 5 seperate little slots, but he placed them upside down. He turned Naruto's head, before he inserted the part back into Naruto... there were five loud clicked as the brain pieces were placed into the right places INSIDE of his head.
He then twisted the connection back into place, and it completely locked so that nobody but those that knew how to disconnect it would be able to remove it.
...
"Did it work?" Yang asked in a worried tone when she looked at how Naruto was NOT moving.
"Not right away, his body is still charging up and getting started up. Here Ruby, you are the tech wizz of the family, so can I trust these with you?" Qrow asked as he gave Ruby a flashdrive for her Scroll, and on the side of it were the lettering for Blueprints, showing that he was trusting her with Naruto's body. She would be the person responsible for taking him apart, and maintaining his body until he could find some more people he trusted to take care of it.
Ruby held the flashdrive carefully, before she inserted it into her scroll and downloaded the entire set of blueprints, and then saved them, and made copies... and put the drive in her skirt pocket.
"Come on little guy, Dad will sit here and wait for you to wake up. Take all the time you need to wake up, we'll be here for you." Taiyang spoke softly as he grabbed the cold metal hand of his son. He did notice that Naruto's hand seemed to be slowly heating up, showing that the energy inside of him did have a slight heating effect to it on his metal body.
"Yeah, soon we can all go back to school and our friends don't have to worry about you anymore... for some reason, Pyrrha has completely shut down without you." Ruby spoke like Naruto was able to hear her. It comforted her just to talk to him, and Yang sat down and looked at him for a second. She placed her hand on his torso, before she felt the light heat coming from where his orb was placed, right where his heart would be.
She laid her head down on him, and Ruby copied her.
Taiyang sat down in a chair, never letting go of his son's hand.
They were a small family, but they were a very loving family. Nobody was afraid of showing affection, and they were all scared of losing each other.
Naruto's friends would be allowed to visit later, right now... it was family time.
Chapter End!
This is NOT like Robocop, this is NOT a reference to that Asura game. This is a Persona 3 reference to Aigis. Also, not ALL metal is magnetic!
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