Disclaimer: First Chapter
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Naruto smiled to himself as he stood in the kitchen of the boat while waiting for the others to be brought back up by Isobu. He couldn't help but be a little nervous, but he knew Isobu was somebody that could be trusted. Anyone that was this insistent about helping him even after the old war he went through was somebody he could trust with his life, and by extension the lives of others. If his friends died then Naruto would take complete responsibiltiy and take his own life in redemption for in what his mind would make him lower than trash.
Naruto blinked when he sensed his own power in the distance, and it almost made him spill the pot of chocolate he was using the ships supplies to make. He was very bored, and surprisingly he had two skills that he normally used to get rid of borden when he was alone that didn't involve training. One of gardening, a hobby that he used when he was back in the Leaf Village, and it was a somewhat popular hobby back in the day. He even had a few plants on his old window when he had his apartment.
His other hobby was cooking... well it wasn't a hobby, but since he lived alone most of his life it was something he just picked up from practical experience. When you cooked for yourself, and had sensative taste bubs, you learned how to cook well or you suffered for it. He suffered for years and went to Ichiraku's so much, and while he was a great cook eventually thanks to his friend teaching him when she had time, he still prefered to eat out than buy the ingredients and make stuff himself. People used to be dicks to him, they would never beat him physically, throw stuff but never throw a punch. He did usually pay more for stuff when he shopped, simply because shops he went to had customers leave the store the second they saw him there.
Even shop owners with nothing at all against him didn't want him to shop there, for fear that they would lose their customers, so they rose their prices to get him to avoid shopping at their stores. It may seem like a cheap thing to do, but they were looking after the sake of their own business and families, so while he didn't like it, he understood and accepted it. Him being a customer usually meant they would see less and less business.
"Is that me... what the hell?" Naruto muttered to himself as he used a wooden spoon and dipped it into the chocolate lightly, before he pulled it out and used a finger to take some of it off and lick it. He smiled to himself at the great taste of the homemade chocolate, before he got out a tray and started to pour the chocolate into the indents in the tray until he completely filled up a grand total of four trays. Each indent was an inch deep, and three inches wide while being shaped like a circle. Each tray also held 10 indents in it, so he would have 40 chocolates when he was done.
Naruto blew his hair out of his eyes, and he looked at the mirror in the room as he passed it by to place the chocolate in the freezer so that it would harden quickly. Naruto ran a hand through his hair for a moment, before he noticed that it was halfways covering his eyes. He clicked his teeth in annoyance, before he grabbed a knife. Naruto stood in front of the mirror and started to finger a lock of hair in his eyes. His hair had been growing out, and now it was getting in the way. It looked cool, but unless he got something to keep it out of his eyes it was just a bother. He even grabbed the back of his hair, and he noticed it went almost all of the way down his neck.
Should he leave it long in the back? He knew the bangs needed to be trimmed some, and he was going to grow out his sideburns so they were like his Dad's, but he didn't know what to do with the back, even as he started to trim a bit off the front. He liked seeing his blue eyes, and having them out of view wasn't something he really liked. He was wondering how long they had been in his way... with him being more concerned about cutting his ears he had stopped regularly trimming his hair like he did in the village so that it never got in the way... what? He cut his own hair and he was proud of it.
Saved him a lot of money in the long run.
"Yeah, ponytail would be cool." Naruto said as he used his hand to grab and imitate a ponytail in his hair after he finished trimming his bangs lightly, just enough for him to see clearly again. Naruto picked a single orange wire from his tail, before he tied it around the back of his hair into a ponytail, a short one at that. He turned his head a few times, before he grinned to himself and flexed in front of the mirror.
He was bored.
He was also a teenager, and flexing in front of a mirror when alone was just something they did. Naruto pouted when he saw his cool was being affected by the long orange bunny ears sticking out of the top of his head. Fox ears or even horns would have been so much cooler than rabbit ears, but NO, he somehow had to get stuck with rabbit ears. Naruto sighed, before he saw his got hair on his jacket and took it off so that he was without a shirt, since he wore nothing under his orange hoodie, with short blue sleeves.
'Hmmm, this is a new body... I wonder if I am still allergic to the same foods as I was before?' Naruto thought after a moment. It wasn't something he considered, that he should have, but he was going to need to go to the doctor for a real check up to see he if he any allergies he should know about. His old body was allergic to a few things, though the allergies weren't very serious, just hives and trouble breathing... not extremely deadly. Naruto shook his jacket off, before he tossed it to the side for the moment. It was only him here after all, until Isobu brought back the others.
Naruto stared at his chest for a moment amd frowned... he could still feel her touch over his heart. Naruto grit his teeth for a moment in anger, before he placed his hand over his heart. That woman had pissed him off so much Cinder Falls, just her name annoyed him, and she had brought up some rather sore subjects for Naruto when the two of them... talked. She had taunted him, and touched his chest even as she pissed him off. He could handle the insults against him and such, but she wasn't insulting him... she had insulted Blake. The only other Faunus on Team RUWBY.
Naruto went the boat rock bad enough to send him to the ground, with the knife in his hand piercing his chest, right in the lung on the right side. Naruto groaned in annoyance, before he pulled the knife out and tossed it away, before he used his regeneration abilities in his aura to heal the wound in seconds, even though it spewed blood the entire time he was healing it. Naruto wiped the blood off his chest, before he groaned in annoyance. Whatever had hit the boat was SO going to die when he got his hands on it. Naruto was NOT a fan of stabbing himself. Naruto laughed to himself, before he felt blood going down his back, and looking behind him he saw the knife had pierced his body all the way through.
...
"How did I not notice that?" Naruto asked himself as he made his aura heal himself again. His own pain tolerance had been growing and growing, to the point that stabbing barely hurt him these days... yet for some reason getting punched hurt more. Naruto got a napkin and cleaned the blood off his back. Naruto looked at the bloodies napkin for a moment, before he sighed and tossed it away. Naruto walked towards the outside of the boat and he felt the wind breezing passed him the second he got outside. He went over to the front of the boat and leaned against the railing, before a small smile graced his face.
It was hard to believe that five years ago today he became a ninja... it was strange. He always thought that he would celebrate this importat day with Iruka and the Team Seven... five years was a monumental occasion where he was from. Five years of active service after graduating was considered to mean you had a promising future as a ninja to the village... it was a shame he never really reached the five year point. Naruto looked down at the waters below with a smile... a sad smile, but a smile all the same.
In the last months of coming here, he had made plenty of friends, but they could never really replace the memories of those he lost.
"Hey Sakura, Iruka... I wonder what you would do in this situation. Kakashi-sensei would just be fine with his pervy book... and you wouldn't give shit about where you were. I can't sense Isobu anymore, so I think he already died... my last links to my old life are dying off as well. I guess that is better than Madara getting them, but still." Naruto spoke to himself mostly, with only the wind carrying his words away from him. Naruto was glad that nobody else was around him right now, or they would question who he was talking to. Naruto chuckled to himself, before he felt the boat rock again, so looking down he saw a Rahab, Grimm Shark, swimming towards the boat.
Naruto pointed his tail at the shark from the boat, and when the creature jumped out of the water it was filled to the brim with holes when Naruto fired his tail needles at it, killing it almost instantly. Naruto was still bored, because most Grimm weren't a challenge to him without them having an advantage. Naruto was going to have to get a new weapon, since he was a fist fighter a weapon would be a way to hold himself back and give himself a good challenge in future fights. Sog had stolen his last weapon... which he named Fire Shadow... to keep in touch with his roots.
Ruby had Cresent Rose and Cresent Rose MK2. Yang had Ember Celica, Blake with her Gambol Shroud, Weiss with Myrtenaster, Prryha with Milo and Akouo, Ren with Stormflower, even Nora had Magnhild, while Jaune had his sword.
He felt a little left out again.
Of course, he had his tail that could shoot needles as long as he had aura to recharge the lost fur with. So he pretty much had an unlimited supply of those, bad thing, if they were brolen they faded away into nothing. He needed something that could compliment him, but not something super fantastic.
Naruto sighed again, before pouting and putting his chin on the railing. Actually, he was pretty good as he was. His tail could shoot needles, shoot strong fur wire, and he used as a spiked club if he wanted to use it as such... maybe he could get some kind of dagger though. He was always good at using a knife in a fight, and it was simple. It didn't even take much time for him to adjust to a new knife.
Naruto sweat dropped to himself.
Knowing Ruby, she would want to modify it so that the knife was also some kind of gun at the same time. Heck, knowing her, she would make it a collapsable sniper that only took the form of a knife when not being a sniper. Knowing her, she would go overboard and turn it into a sword or something. The girl just loved a challenge in creating weapons, so maybe she could be convinced into making something so that he could shoot his tail needles out of it long distance.
Yeah, that screamed something Ruby would do.
The girl liked weapons more than she liked boys, at least, Naruto thought that was the case.
Stretching his limbs out, Naruto went back towards the kitchen so that he could see if this treats for the others, and himself, were done yet. Getting to the freezer in very little time, he opened it and checked inside, before he saw his chocolates weren't done yet. It was sad, but he would admit to being great at making chocolate from all of the times that he made it for himself on the more romantic holidays.
They were somewhat hardened, so taking his finger, Naruto traced a whirlpool design on the top of each one, the symbol of his clan, the Uzumaki. He always did this with his chocolate, carving the spiral symbol into it to make it more personal. Naruto grinned to himself, before he turned the tempature down even more in the freezer to speed things along even more. Naruto was once more bored within minutes though, so sitting down he made a claw position with his hand, and his fingernails grew longer and sharpened.
Then... he started to groom his tail with his fingers, gently scratching at himself.
A huge wave splashed over the edge of the railing, and Naruto was knocked down onto his back and sent floating over to the other end of the boat, where his head hit the railing.
...
"Ow?" Naruto questioned as he sat up and saw a large shadow blocking out the sun. Naruto blinked when he saw the energy body of what was left of Isobu raised above the boat, with it's face scrunching up while the whole thing vanished away into nothing. It's stomach bulged, and loud gagging sounds came from it's throat with Naruto's eyes widening by a large margin when he realized what was going to happen. He paled when he saw Isobu open up it's mouth.
Then waves upon waves of white sludge started to pour out of it's mouth while dozens of Dust Crystals started to pour out with it. Naruto's whole body was covered in the sludge, and four screams were heard, before wet slapping sounds hit the deck while four slime covered girls started to slip across the sludge and hit against the wall in awkward position. Blake was upside down, with her back to the wall and legs in the air. Yang was on her chest with her butt sticking in the air, while Ruby landed flat on her face and her body looked like she was knocked out cold.
Weiss was doing the split, and then she fell over onto her side.
All while covered from head to toe in slime. Naruto saw Isobu's body finished vanishing, while the others in Team RUWBY stood up.
"Never... never doing that again." Yang called out in disgust as she flung the slime off of her body, none of which seemed to get in her hair or eyes for some reason. Actually, none of the girls had it in their hair or eyes... Weiss had white hair, so it was hard to tell with her. They were like sludge covered monsters with pretty hair and eyes. Naruto chuckled, before he suddenly burst out laughing.
Seeing them like this almost made getting thrown up on worth it.
Hey, it didn't get much worse than being covered in snake guts. Snake guts were like a 7 one the gross scale, while this sludge was maybe a 5 to him. Once you get covered in a 7, anything under 7 doesn't even affect you... as much as it should.
"It got in my mouth... it tastes like kelp... gross." Ruby said as she spat out the white gunk, while Naruto chuckled. To him it tasted more like calcium suppliments, since it came from a Grimm creature it was kind of like the bones they had, but it liquid form.
"Look at my sister... 15 and already spitting out... stickyu white stuff... gross it does taste like kelp!" Yang shouted out with disgust when she realized some had gotten in her mouth as well. Ruby might be blushing, but she was stuttering loudly at the bold statement from Yang.
"I told you to close your mouths." Blake commented dryly, though the digust in her tone was clear as she walked over to the edge of the boat and started to slip around. She had warned them about this when the stomach started to fill up with the weird sludge.
"Shower shower shower!" Weiss was shouting as she stumbled towards the edge of the boat and jumped over the railing and down into the water. Naruto laughed at her, before he swung his tail around his body and wiped most of the stuff off, leaving his bare chest explosed, and Yang wolf whistled when she saw his abs on proud display. Naruto blinked, before he grinned and started to flex.
"Yang!" Ruby shouted in embarrassment, while Naruto laughed even louder than before and stopped flexing. Naruto looked at Yang, before he pushed her over the edge of the boat and into the water, before he also jumped down. Naruto saw Yang pop out of the water and send him a foul look for a second, before she grinned and splashed him. Blake landed in the water not much longer after, before Ruby did a belly flop when she landed in the water. Naruto blinked for a moment, before he saw everyone pop out of the water.
He grinned widely, before he dunked Ruby under the water for a few seconds. She came up when he let go, and she splashed him.
The rest of the day they spent playing around and cleaning the sludge off the boat.
None of them were willing to tell him what happened in the stomach though.
Not that he asked that is.
Chapter End!
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