Blake was on the verge of tears, she held her ribbon in her hand, and looked at Weiss with anger. "Because I am…was…apart of The White Fang!"
Ruby, Weiss, Yang, and even Blake herself was stunned at her words. Blake's deepest secret, one-part Ruby knew about the other part she didn't, and now she looked at Blake with saddened eyes. The dark-haired cat Faunus glared at Weiss.
"I've seen children," Blake gripped her bow hard, "little kids missing limbs from your mines. You act like The Schnee family name is so full of honor…glory, and ironically at one time, it was! But, you, you're the daughter of a monster…nothing more and nothing less!"
"Blake," Yang looks at her, "why now?"
Blake threw her bow at Weiss, "because why should I have to hide who the fuck I am!"
"Um, Blake, foul language…" Blake looked at Ruby, taking a deep breath, "sorry…"
"You're not one to blame Ruby, you're honestly probably the one reason I bit my tongue all this long, but I will not have your partner sit here and put all Faunus in a basket!" Blake then looked at Ruby, "and you should agree with me!"
"Oh, yes, because she's dating a Faunus. Let me tell you something Blake, wanna know why I'm so judgmental of her dating Naruto because he'll play the victim card when no one is expecting it and make her bed him!" Ruby eyes widened with anger, she hops down her bed.
"You lied to me, Weiss!"
"Huh?"
"You said you were okay with me dating him, that you all were, and I will not be made into a debate topic!"
"Well it's true, I mean look at your neck!"
There was a small bruise on her neck, not from kissing like Weiss thought, it was a practice fight against Naruto after they had woken up. Sure, there was kissing afterward, but it was none of Weiss's business to begin with!
"That's a really shitty thing to do my sister Weiss, that's a really shitty thing."
"Oh whatever, and meanwhile she's being made into a Faunus's little sleeping toy!"
A resounding slap was heard across the room, Ruby had taken a step forward, the back of her hand was now red as well as Weiss's cheek. Tears spilled from her eyes, looking right at the girl's eyes that she assumed was a friend.
Not saying another word, not even looking at her own sister, Ruby storms out and slams the door hard. Blake just sits there, on her top bunk, looking at Weiss disbelievingly.
"You're such a heartless bitch Weiss, oh wait, guess that's why everyone calls you Ice Queen." Blake gets up, "you're such an unbelievable resemblance to your father, just put something down there and you'd make a perfect son."
Taking a deep breath Weiss glared at Blake, "why don't you go back to your White Fang buddies' terrorist!"
Blake was unbelievable angry, she walked out of Beacon's walls, into the Emerald Forest. However, she stops, feeling a presence behind her. Turning around, there stood Naruto, he had sleeping clothing still on. Looking at her, she looked at him, and then she sighs.
"You probably think me being a former White Fang Soldier is being a traitor to our kind…honestly, I never would've joined if it wasn't for a boy." Blake leaned against a tree, "I was too young and too stupid…"
"Now they're here in Vale, those robberies you heard about on the news Naruto might be caused by our people, and I'm going to go and see if I can stop the next one. I want to prove to everyone that Weiss is running her mouth to that I'm not that anymore." Blake takes a deep breath, "I came to Beacon to run away from that life…"
The blonde fox Faunus nods, walking towards her and smiled as he held his hand out. This stunned her, despite them rarely communicating directly, and at the risk of upsetting Ruby from just walking out of Beacon on an off day from his job he was willing to help her.
"So," Blake extended her own hand, "you're not just going to flash me back are you?"
Naruto shook his head, gripping his hand around hers, and brings out a notepad with his free hand. "I tried to join, didn't take me, not pure blood."
Blake nods, looking at Naruto, "I'm sorry for the grieve they probably caused you."
Naruto shrugs, he didn't really care anymore, but he smirks as he reaches behind him grabbing Kurama. Blake smiles, tapping on her scroll, soon they heard the rush of rocket-powered locker heading for them. Quickly, Naruto did the same, intending to get his battle gear on.
However, what stunned everyone was that a third locker appeared, with a pair of silver eyes walking towards Naruto. Ruby looks at him and smiles while running towards him and hugging him.
"I want to help clear Blake's name," Ruby says, "because she's a sister to me."
Blake's lips quivered a little, but then smiles as Naruto looks at her, how could she refuse? So when their lockers landed, all three of them walked over to them, with Naruto licking his lips as he saw all of his equipment.
Grabbing his specially tailored combat pants with it's many built in pouches, he hid behind the locker and put them on. Grabbing the little bit of armor as he came back around, stripping his shirt off and putting the small amount of armor on.
Ruby all the while was gearing up Crescent Rose, grabbing rounds from inside of her locker, she cocked it. The loud sound of a gravity round being chambered filled Naruto's ears, he turns to her as he puts his shirt back on.
Extending Kurama he tosses up a gale and burn crystal, cocking the staff as they landed, he let its own music fill his ears. Breaking it back down, he hid it under his shirt, while placing the kunai inside of the pouches, and grabbing some wire.
Blake grabbed Gumball and Shroud, reading the gun part by placing burn dust rounds inside of it. Taking a deep breath, she looked both, "you don't have to come with me. Ruby you don't have to prove that you're my friend…'
"No," Ruby stands there and folds Crescent Rose, "I'm going to prove that I'm your leader."
Chuckling a little bit, "you'd never do anything without a friend, would you? You know that if we get hurt we could get kicked out, and that'll ruin your futures."
She shakes her head, "doesn't matter to me, I won't let a friend walk into the grinder alone."
"Plus, we got Naruto, the most badass fighter in all of Beacon, how could we possibly lose?" Blake comments, making Naruto fluster a little bit while rubbing the back of his head, he gave her a thumb's up.
"Oh, that's right, I almost forgot hahaha." Ruby laughs a little bit, making Naruto raise his eyebrow at her. "C'mon Naruto, I'm just joking, besides your also the best kisser."
Smiling, he walks over to her, gives her a quick peck on the lips, and looks at Blake. Nudging his head towards Vale, all the while, the cat Faunus smiles. "Guess there's no talking you guys out of it, fine, so let's do this."
"Hey, hey you, the girl with the kitty ears behind the bow!" Blake, Ruby, and Naruto turned around. "Hey, yo, it's me! The guy from the docks, what you are doing out here so late, wanna grab some tea?"
The trio looked at each other, shrugging as they walked over towards the guy, taking a seat at the table he was at. The tanned monkey Faunus smiles a little bit, looking at Blake, "why the long face?"
"Just personal stuff, besides, we're here on business."
"No kidding so was I, funny what happens when you catch a guy wearing those stupid White Fang masks trying to steal something."
"What?"
"Yeah, you see I caught this guy behind Dust before Dawn, anyway total coward. Blabbed about a heist going down tonight the shipyard, it was too sad, I let him go."
"I'm honestly, no, seriously impressed."
"Did he say who they were working for, Blake mentioned that The White Fang are new to here…mostly." The Monkey Faunus smiles a little, "what?"
"Blake, now that there is a cute name, rolls off the tongue pretty well…probably because it matches the girl." Blake blushed a little bit, looking at Sun as if he grew a second head, "what?"
"Oh, n-nothing, tha-that's just…probab-probably the stupidest(sweetest) thing I've ever heard." Blake quickly makes the blush go away, looking at the monkey Faunus, "and who are you exactly?"
"I'm the staff-wielding badass of Vacuo's Shade Academy, Sun Wukong!" Sun Wukong announced, only to see Naruto and Ruby with stars in the eyes a little bit, "huh?"
"Naruto doesn't Sun Wukong use a staff in Super Dragon Crystal?!"
Naruto nods.
"Cool, we got our Sun Wukong…eh…Sun Wukong…"
"Oh, you guys watch that show?" They nodded, and he smiles, "then maybe I can do that one thing."
Sun Wukong stood up, cupping his hands with a smile, "Ka…me…ha…me…ha!"
Thrusting his cupped hands forward, instead of energy wave of sorts, only confetti flew out from his wrist from hidden launchers. Making Naruto and Ruby roll on the ground laughing, well, Naruto was just struggling to breathe as he couldn't laugh.
"Really, a confetti launcher?" Sun Wukong rubs the back of his head, chuckling, "that is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard of."
"Hey, in all in fairness, it'd be the last thing they'd expect."
"Yes, because it's so…so…stupid."
"Ah man, really, I think it'd come in handy one day."
"Yeah, but today isn't that day, now…heist…now please."
"Oh yeah, it's happening at the docks, and they'll be doing that in about…um…an hour." Sun looked at the clock, "my thing is we should catch them in the act, because that way they won't expect us."
"Where's the rest of your team Sun?"
"Oh they're on another ship, I just got bored and stowed away on another."
"That's cool, actually."
"I aim to please, um…"
Ruby extended her hand out, which Sun took and shook, "Ruby Rose. Sitting right by me is my boyfriend Naruto Namikaze."
"Oh, wow, hey there dude." Sun waves at Naruto, who returns the wave in kind, "wassup?"
Shrugging, Naruto nudges towards Blake, and then to Sun. Blake looks at him, catching what he was doing, strangely just like everyone else in Beacon that had been around Naruto enough she was catching on to his gestures.
"I'm out here to prove my innocence, you see…Sun…I'm former White Fang. I have…had…friend accuse me of being a terrorist. So, I figured doing this could clear my name, and I heard about The Fang robbing places I came out here…these two just tagged along." Blake points at Naruto and Ruby with her thumb over her shoulder, "I'm babysitting them."
"Pshaw, no you're not, I'm your team leader and I'm not a baby. Besides, I and Naruto needed something to test our skills out since joining Beacon." Naruto nods in agreement, smiling as grinds his right hand into his left with a smirk. "Like I said also in the forest, we're a team, a family Blake…you're my sis. I'll gladly run headfirst into a horde for you."
"Aww, that's precious, I'll take this one." Sun jokingly points at Ruby, "you can just stay there Ms. Gloom and Doom."
Blake raised an eyebrow at him, making nervously chuckle, "just a joke."
"Ha…ha…haa…" Blake dryly chuckles in sarcasm, "you're so funny."
Naruto, Ruby, Blake, and Sun were hiding out at the docks, apparently, the operation was starting late. Taking a deep breath, feeling the cold ocean air, Ruby huddled up to Naruto a little bit. Smiling as he wrapped his arm around, she snuggled next to him, only for his ears twitch.
Blake's ears did the same thing, both he and she looked at one another, nodding. "It's starting…"
Blake's words ringed true when a Bulwark came jetting across, landing in the middle of the dust shipment crates and powered down its engine. Suddenly, as the bay doors opened on the Bulwark, Ruby's eyes widened.
"That's Torchwick," She points out, "that guy ain't a Faunus."
"What…" Blake watches as White Fang Soldiers exited the craft, followed by three people in masks that were different in craft other than The Fang's. "This isn't right, The Fang doesn't work with human criminals."
"Well, apparently they branched out." Sun says to her, he gets up, "and looks we're about to crash a party."
Naruto felt something was off about the three wearing different masks, their aura felt familiar, but something felt extremely off with their aura. It felt extremely darker, stronger as well, taking a deep breath, he got up as well.
Holding out his hands, Ruby and Blake took one. Sun looked at them, shrugging, and then placed his hand on Blake's shoulder.
Roman was not a happy camper, they were moving behind schedule to attach the magnetic cables to the cargo pods. Glaring at them, "c'mon your animals, get a move on!"
"Stop!" A voice yells out, making Roman growl, and turns to see an orange flash appear.
The three youths behind him them in their masks, the masks they hadn't taken off since completing their assignment last night, were taken aback. The lead of them, took a step forward, standing beside Roman.
"Brother and sister of The White Fang, why are you serving this criminal?!" Blake screams out, looking at her once fellow members, "this is wrong!"
"Oh, come now, everyone…The Fang is in a joint venture with me." He watches as Blake removes her bow, showing her cat ears, "oh kitty-kitty…"
"Shut it…" Blake growls, and then looks at her people, "everyone please just go home. This doesn't have to turn into a battle, this wrong, The White Fang doesn't do this…it's not our principles!"
Several of the soldiers look at each other, only to look on as Roman claps, and laughs.
"Bravo, take a bow young kitty cat, I think you've made a few animals shed a tear." Roman smiles and then notices Ruby, "well hello there little red, playing hero again?"
"Not so good to see you too, Roman, but tonight I'll make sure you don't get away." Ruby stated as she got Crescent Rose ready, "bet on that."
Naruto was about to move forward, he then pushes Ruby out of the way as a sword made of aura flies out towards him, he barely dodges it and then activates his aura fully. He was stunned when he finally recognized the semblance, and the trio of Roman laughed.
"Goddamn it Sky, how did you miss?!" Russel yells out, removing his mask, his now red eyes glared at his teammate. "That could've had him out of the fight there!"
"Sorry, sorry, I'll just aim at the girl." Sky eyed Ruby, "I'm sure making her scream will be a good start to our revenge."
Naruto's hair perked upwards as rage filled his heart, he wouldn't let them dare touch her, so without warning, he flashes behind Roman. The man with the bowler's eyes widened, he moved just in time to block Naruto kicks, but the others all were sent flying.
Standing up, facing away from him, Roman smirked as he brought the cane to the back of Naruto's head. "Nighty-nighty night fox boy."
"Naruto!" Ruby yells, dashing over and batting a soldier away with her scythe.
Only Naruto grabbed the cane before it could fire, stunning the man at his speed, and he was then lifted off the ground as Naruto's right palm glowed brightly. Flashing away, Naruto spun around and threw Roman at Blake.
The man managed to recover, beginning a high-speed assault against Roman, while Sun came in and started to help. Ruby joined in using her semblance in tantum with Blake's speed, and Sun's constant strikes. However, Roman was still able to avoid their attacks and smiles as he blasts Sun away.
"Damn monkey, have some bananas!" Roman kicked Blake away, blasting a cargo pod that was hanging above Sun Wukong. "Hope you like them smashed!"
Sun's eyes widened, only to get saved by Blake when she dashes over and gets them both out of the way. Ruby was fighting against Roman as she watches Blake check son out of the corner of her eye, and saw Naruto fighting against Cardin's former cronies turned traitors.
Naruto dashes backward, barely blocking a blast from Russel, who smirks. He barely dodges a swipe from Dove's sword, only for a blistering wind to appear in Dove's palm. Caught off guard, Naruto kicked Dove hard and sent him flying, only to feel a sword cut into his back as he leaned forward to avoid it.
His eyes widened as rolled forwards, avoiding the next one, all the while Russel had his palm pointed right back at him again. Getting up with flash, Naruto, in turn, spins around and launches a powerful punch just as he flashes above Russel.
The teen roars out in pain as Naruto's fist collides with his nose, sending him sprawling into the ground as the younger teen got his staff out and activated it. Just in time to block Sky's halberd, and dodge Russel has he throws a dagger.
Batting the dagger away, he flashes around the group and knocks out a soldier as he aimed for Ruby. The girl was currently getting pushed back, he needed to help her! Only then, did he realize something was truly wrong, and he felt enter his sense.
Poison.
Rubbing his eyes, he lands hard on the ground, tumbling. He managed to angle himself to where he could stand up as Scorch roared in Kurama, taking a deep breath, he focused his aura on pushing the poison out.
"Naruto!" Ruby calls out, only to get disarmed by Roman as he gets the scythe out of her hands, but much to his shock and ever own she leans back.
Jumping up she kicks Roman one time in the chest, then another time in the chin, and then as she drops down she sweeps kicks him off his feet. The man manages to backflip as he catches himself with his hands, only to start blocking a reenergized effort by Sun Wukong and Blake as they came running from the sides of Ruby.
Ruby runs over, grabbing her scythe, only to watch as Naruto struggled against the trio. Barely dodging their attacks, she noticed that he had a greenish blemish on his back where Sky must've used his semblance during their fight.
Using her semblance, she dashes, appearing behind Dove as he tries to stab Naruto. Without thinking, roaring out in anger, she slices her scythe and cuts off Dove's sword arm. The teen roars in pain as he gets an uppercut by Naruto's foot, and then the blonde teen turns around while he's in the air and kicks him away.
Breathing hard, his vision going hazy, Naruto coughed up a wad of blood. Whatever the poison they had used was, it was strong, very strong. Breathing hard as he stood up, the blonde felt his consciousness fading.
"Fucking hell, that goddamn batch of poison is actually working Russel!" Ruby looks to her side, finding Naruto on his knees, his hands on the ground, Kurama rolling away from him.
His eyes, red, turned blue as the light from them faded slightly. Breathing harder, Naruto tried to push the poison out, but his aura was struggling to even hold its place.
"Wow, that's some good shit there boys, hell yeah!" Russel licks his other dagger, "and now it's your turn little rose…time to cut the stem…"
Naruto observes them, their aura was more powerful than before, the fact that Ruby sliced off Dove's arm should've sent that boy into shock. However, Dove just walked over to the side, leaning against a cargo pod despite a pained look in his face.
They were different, and it dawned on him that they all had formerly blue eyes. It was haunting to Naruto, had they somehow circumvented years of training and achieved a partial state of True Instinct?" Some he had only mastered the defensive side of, and his hubris of blindly going into the fight was his own doing.
"She can't take them both on alone…stand up!" Naruto stood up slowly, breathing hard, "focus only on protect your precious one…focus…focus…focus…"
Naruto held his hand out, slowly, instead of focusing his aura to heal him he began to focus it all on his right palm. His sun mark glowed, glowed brightly, it glowed hot. Somehow, someway, it was like it was telling him something.
Making his body do something!
The screech filled the air, Ruby's eyes widened as Naruto stood there beside her, holding a Rasengan in his hand. Nodding, she saw him a nod and caught the picture. When he flashed above someone she was to take whoever was left out, if need be permanent, readying herself she feels a bead of sweat drop from her brow.
Not even a moment later, much to everyone's shock including her own, without even creating a flash. Naruto appears above Sky, whose eyes widened as he faced upwards, bringing his arms up to use his semblance.
Only Naruto's hand was faster, slamming the Rasengan into Sky's upper chest, the resounding boom sounded out Ruby's signal. She ran fast, hard, using semblance and blasted Russel away with a gravity round as he attempted to counter.
Sending him to the dock, to which Dove saw and he ran towards, jumping into the waters as well.
Meanwhile, Sky fell to his knees, holding his bloody chest as red liquid seeped from it. Coughing up blood, Sky looked up at Naruto who was standing over him, weakly. The light faded from his eyes as he collapsed down, breathing no more much to Naruto's shock.
Collapsing onto his back, Ruby ran over to him, "Naruto!"
The boy's breathing became hoarse, he squeezed Ruby's hand, only to hear a shot fired at them. He looks at a blast from Roman heading their way as he managed to fend off Blake and Sun long enough to do so.
Pulling Ruby down, rolling on top of her, he expected the shot to end his life.
Only he heard someone scream out one thing, and that sent chills up his spine, as well as a smile on his face.
"Manifestation: Susanoo!" Suddenly around them, a purple bone armor appeared, blocking the shot, while Sasuke dropped inside of it shortly after. "Team Sharon beat them down."
Atlas and Iblis jumped forward, taking on some more White Fang Soldiers as they ran into the area as back up.
Blake and Sun kicked Roman away, just in time to see several more Bulwarks coming towards them. Sun glares at them, he looks towards Blake, "we've got company."
"I've noticed," Sasuke about activated his other Manifestation when he heard a rocket of some sort, and the sound of metal landing next to him.
An orange haired girl wearing a skirt and a school outfit smiles at them, "Hello Ruby!"
"Penny?!" Ruby shouts, "what are you doing here?"
"My scanners indicated fighting, so I was coming to enjoy one of these…spars, and I just happened to walk into a fight." She noticed the bulwarks coming, "are those your friends?"
"No, no they're not, please help me with Naruto!" Penny turns to him, noticing poison spreading throughout his body, "Penny!"
"I'm sorry Ruby, I'm not equipped with a medical supply module." Sasuke was slightly weirded until he looked down at Naruto, his eyes widened. "But I am equipped for combat!"
Penny runs to confront the Bulwarks, while Sasuke watches Roman retreat from Blake and Sun, getting on one knee Sasuke looks at Naruto.
"Naruto, hey Naruto, listen here you dobe you're not dead yet!" Sasuke yells as he begins to flow aura into him, "c'mon Sakura…get here…"
Sakura landed, running over to where Sasuke, and slid onto her knees in front of Naruto. channeling her semblance, a green glow formed around her body as she began to heal Naruto. extracting the poison, color began to restore to his face as he breathed hard.
"Is he going to be okay?" Ruby asks, worried for him, she clutches his face.
He was burning up, "Naruto?"
"He'll be fine, he'll be out commission for a few days, but he'll be fin-holy shit what the hell is that?!" Sakura points at Penny as she destroys the incoming Bulwarks. "That's both awesome and a terrifyingly a cute color of green…"
Everyone watches as a couple of Bulwarks manage to come in, steal a couple of cargo pods, and fly off with them. Taking a deep breath, Naruto breathing slowly returns to normal and looks up at Sasuke who looks down at him.
"Heh," Sasuke smiles, "bit off more than you could chew?"
Naruto's eyes roll back, and he passes out. Ruby all the while had his cradled in her lap, looking at him, making sure he wasn't about to die all suddenly. Sakura nods, looking at her, smiling. She nods, watching as she picks Naruto up, and looks at Sasuke.
"Hey Sasuke, doesn't this remind you of the time Naruto shattered his right leg?"
"Yeah, it kind of does, well c'mon we need to get the idiot to the hospital…and this on-oh this one is dead."
"Hey, Ruby, you kill this one?"
Ruby looks down, her eyes widened at the blast hole that was in Sky's chest, he laid there motionless, his eyes widened in realization and fear. Perhaps what he last saw when he looked at Naruto was that demon glare the boy tended to give off when angry.
How unfortunate for him.