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Reading Ch 37: Teams
"My turn." Weiss said before getting the book. "Chapter 37: Teams…."
'Ah, the team forming ceremony, a beautiful ceremony indeed... not, this is SO boring.' Naruto thought in annoyance. He was at the back of the entire row of students, standing by himself, and he had been listening to Ozpin ramble on about chess pieces and naming like 7 teams so far that had been officially formed. He had been rudely awoken by Yang, though he did get a restful sleep during his short few hours of nap time.
Weiss, Blake, and Ruby look at Yang, thinking the same thing. 'What did she do?'
They decided not to think about it. For their own health.
They were surrounded by an audience of other students that attended the school, a lot of them, amongst possible family members.
Well, at least this was better than waking up in a hospital.
"Way better." Ruby, Yang, and Nora agreed with shivers. All that white, the smell of the rooms. It so horrible.
"Cardin Winchester, Russel Thrush, Dove Bronzewing, Sky Lark... the four of you collected the Black Bishop, from today onwards you will be known as Team Cardinal, led by Cardin Winchester." Ozpin spoke as four young men stepped forward, all 17 years old... but none of them that impressive by Naruto's high standards. They were actually pretty weird looking in how they were dressed.
It was like they had a theme planned out.
"Most likely." Blake said with an eye roll and a scowl. The others are also scowling at the mention of Team CRDL. None of them forgiven them for the bullying they did, and probably still do.
They were standing in order, and the only one to break the theme was Russell. The theme was wearing black bodysuits, and over those bodysuits they would wear different armors. Russell had on a more hunter-type green gear, with a spiked shoulder blade and gray pants. The rest didn't break theme. Cardin was the largest, most muscular of the ground with short brown hair and blue eyes, wearing silver with gold rimmed armor. Russel had a light green mohalk, shaved on the sides, with the same shade of blue eyes. Dove was a short little dude, but bulky, with combed blond hair and closed blue eyes, wearing bronze armor... finally, Sky had slicked back blue hair, with blue eyes... and dark gray armor similar to Doves.
They had their theme planned out, blue eyes, all guys, and armored up.
They stood with forcefully rapt attention, like they were trained soldiers or something.
Yang snorted. "If they wanted to be soldiers, then they should join Atlas."
"I doubt they would let them." Weiss sniffed. Atlas military has more discipline than those boys have.
Naruto was a trained soldier, and he didn't stand like that.
"More like a mix of a mercenary, soldier, and assassin." Ren guessed. "You kill people in the shadows, get paid for it, but is still the main protector of his village."
A few of them blink at that. "Huh. Never thought about that." Yang said, mainly to herself.
'Pfffft, man, these people are eating this up.' Naruto thought as Team Cardinal moved to stand off the stage, getting away so that the next team could rise. Naruto had already guessed that Ozpin put the leaders name, and initial first.
He wondered what this Cardin boy had done to earn leadership.
"That is something all of Beacon is wondering." Blake said sourly. "Cardin doesn't show any leadership material at all."
"Probably because he was the one leading the team." Ren said to Blake. "And since none of them possess any leadership abilities either, Cardin was probably the only choice they could get."
"I wish they would just kick them out." Yang grumbled.
The response she got was, "Don't we all?" from the rest of the group.
"Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Pyrrha Nikos, Lie Ren. The four of you found the White Rook piece, and together you will be known as Team JNPR (Juniper)... led by Jaune Arc." Ozpin spoke, and Naruto could understand that. Jaune, despite a vast lack of battle skills, had shown an battle oriented ability to think. He didn't have the brawn to back shit up, but he could think his way out of a jam if need be. The traits of a leader, being able to make a plan during battle, and being somewhat observant.
"See? Even Naruto agrees." Ruby gloated to Weiss. The two argue sometimes about Jaune being a leader. Ruby thinks Jaune have the capability of being leader while Weiss think the opposite.
Weiss just 'hmph' and turn away from Ruby. Mostly because she can't really argue. Naruto has shown to be very observant, and she can't really argue with what he says. Jaune had the ability to think things through in battle.
'Good going vomit boy.' Ruby thought with a happy smile on her face, glad that somebody was getting some recognition.
Jaune slam his head on the table while Ruby rub her head sheepishly. "Sorry Jaune." Ruby told her friend.
'Feh, this is interesting enough I guess... looks like Jaune is about to have a panic attack though. Pressure already getting to him, shame.' Naruto thought when Nora lightly punched Jaune in the arm... and possibly broke the poor boy's bones with her punch.
"Why me?" Jaune whimpered. Even in his good moments, he doesn't get a break.
Nora laughed sheepishly, as did Pyrrha since in their universe, the redhead was the one to punch Jaune in the shoulder.
Jaune wasn't trained in aura, and didn't seem to know what aura was.
That would need some correcting, and soon.
"I'll handle it." Pyrrha said, smiling at Jaune. The boy smile back in thanks.
"Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long. You four together found the White Knight, and together you will be known as Team RWBY (Ruby) led by... Ruby Rose." Ozpin declared as they stepped forward, and Ruby was downright shocked that she was made the leader for the team. Yang was the only person who seemed to be proud of Ruby, Weiss looked rather spiteful of the girl's position, while Blake looked indifferent.
She didn't care who was leader, she honestly did not care at all.
"And little Rube have become a great leader." Yang said, giving her sister another one arm hug.
"I admit, you are doing a good job Ruby." Blake said, smiling at the young girl.
Weiss huff, but silently agree with the blonde bimbo. She admits, if she had became leader, it would've been disastrous.
"Good going sis." Yang whispered under her breath, and Ruby looked back at Naruto, beaming in pride.
"Nice job Little Red." Naruto muttered to her with a wink, with her eyes gaining a sparkle to them at being praised.
Ruby's eyes also sparkled at the praise Naruto gave her, especially since he is an experienced fighter.
Yang, Blake, and Weiss couldn't help but feel a little jealous. They hope they will get some attention from Naruto in the future.
She looked up towards Ozpin, who gave her a split second nod. Naruto raised an eyebrow at this as Team RWBY moved off of the stage, and he himself stepped forward.
'He doesn't have anyone with him.' Nora thought to herself as she looked at Naruto standing alone, and she was not the only one.
The popular question was why was this singular student all by himself.
"Because he got the cat." Nora said cheerfully. "And rip it apart."
Jaune lean over to Ren. "How does she say stuff like that with a cheerful face?"
"I stop trying to figure it out years ago." Was all Ren said.
"Naruto Uzumaki, you found the Black King piece, and by yourself you will be known as Team Naruto... led by yourself." Ozpin said, since Naruto was an army of one, he didn't really need a whole lot of people on his team. He could fill in any missing team spots by himself if he wanted to.
That was why Naruto's team name was officially Team NNNN, since Naruto could make three clones of himself to fill in the missing letters.
"Makes me kinda glad he's by himself." Blake said. If he joined a team, he would've force himself to cut back on a lot of his abilities to be on even playing ground with them.
By being by himself, he won't have such worries.
Naruto jumped off the stage and landed next to Team RWBY, who gave him softer smiles, though Ruby was happy to see the genuine grin that was on Naruto's face.
Everyone else is glad to see him being genuinely happy. They really missed his carefree grin, especially Team RWBY.
"A team of one... more like an army of fun." Yang joked with Naruto, since he had been the last person on stage.
Everyone groan. "Goddammit Yang." Ruby, Blake, and Weiss said instinctively.
Naruto smacked the side of her head, unamused by her joke, even if he was grinning at her.
"Hey!" Yang cried out while the others thank Naruto for doing that.
Yang pouted. Her friends suck. All of them.
"Very punny, but the timing was off." Naruto lectured her, mocking her ability to make puns, with her challenging grin showing she understood that.
"Ghat wasn't the only thing that was wrong with it." Weiss muttered, getting nods from everyone except Yang.
"All of you are critics." Yang huffed. Her puns are great thank you very much!
"Now, each of you will be assigned a Scroll. That Scroll will be your Room key, and had your room number on it. Just take a picture of your face, and your data will be downloaded into it." Ozpin informed them all as several older students went passed them holding onto boxes of small white devices. When they were passed by, the students gave them each a Scroll, and the students held those scrolls in front of their faces like they were being shown to do.
Downloading student information.
The Scroll opened up, showing a picture of Naruto's face on it, and the semi-holographic styled screen showed his basic information. It showed his room number, unsurprisingly, with Naruto twitching when he saw it.
810
Of course, numbers that added up to 9, once again.
"Hey, are rooms are next to ours!" Ruby exclaimed, causing smiles and grin from her team. Now they have a better chance of getting closer to him.
"Hey, we are room number 812... we are right next to you." Blake commented to Naruto as the students started to file up and head out of the auditorium in an orderly fashion. Naruto looked at the numbers, and true enough, Blake was right. They were right next to each other, no doubt Ozpin meddling in some way to put allies close together.
"Oh, looks like we are in room 811... right across the hall from you." Jaune said with a smile. They were all close together on the 8th floor, a rather high up floor actually.
"I sometimes wonder if Ozpin did that on person." Ren mused. That was too much of coindenance for the two teams to be close together.
"I just want to sleep." Ren muttered to himself so that nobody who wasn't paying attention would hear him. They had a hell of a day, fighting huge demonic beings that could read your mind, and seeing huge toads and giant monster battles. He was kind of shell shocked that such powerful battles could be fought.
"Come on Ren, we've seen weird stuff before." Nora waved off.
Ren, in response, gave his friend a blank look. "We haven't seen a giant toad, a giant demonic monster, or battle like that before." He can't blame his other for wanting to rest.
"Hey Ruby... ask Naruto for the Key Code to his room." Weiss whispered to Ruby, since Naruto would more likely give it to the pure hearted girl. No doubt if somebody seductive like Yang, or mysterious like Blake... or even herself, asked they would get a no.
Time to use her new leader to her advantage.
Ruby gasp and look at her partner in betrayal, while the bumblebee look at Weiss in surprise. The heiress, in response, turn away from all of them.
"Wow, I never thought you would do something like that." Blake said in a bit of surprise. "I would soon think that Yang would've done it." Yang chuckle and shrug. She ain't denying it.
"Shut up." Weiss muttered, trying not to look at the betrayed look on Ruby's face. She look too much of a puppy like that.
"Okay? Hey Naruto, can we have your Key Code so we can go to your room?" Ruby asked nicely, and she held out her own Scroll with the Key Code screen on it. Copying down the number meant nothing, what you needed was the actual data that was hidden with the number. There was no type in, but once you got to the number screen you would be allowed to trade and swap key information.
"I can't believe you used me!"
"I'm sorry, but I needed to use that advantage!"
Naruto's Scroll was still on that screen, so he didn't need to do anything but touch his scroll to hers to trade information.
Weiss nearly tripped over somebody's foot as they walked, but she didn't actually fall completely.
'Come on... do it.' Yang begged in her mind. This would be awesome, she could hide stuff in Naruto's room... and do stuff in the room with Naruto.
Weiss, who was taking a sip of water, promptly did a spit take at that. The others, san Ruby and Nora for different reasons, blushed at what it had implied. "Yang, you fiend!" Weiss cried out.
"She didn't mean it like that!" Yang said back with a blush. She like him, but she isn't easy.
Not sex, but just some nice alone time every once and awhile.
"See!" Yang pointed out. A few of them rub their head sheepishly while Weiss herself just huff and turn away, not wanting to admit she's wrong.
Ruby scratch her head in confusion. "Why are you guys freaking out? What were you thinking of?"
"Nothing." Nearly everyone said. None of them, not even Yang, knew how to give Ruby a full talk. While she know the basic, she all too innocent on the innuendos.
She loved him, but she wasn't easy... oh, don't get her wrong, she would put out for Naruto when she felt like enough time had passed.
"Wow." Weiss said, a little shock that Yang would think something like that. "I actually gain some respect for you." Blake was in agreement with Weiss on that.
She felt that maybe 3 or 4 dates would be enough time.
"And I take back what I said." Weiss said with a frown, something that is mirrored by Blake as well.
Yang grin. "Well I think it's the perfect amount of time." Weiss and Blake glare at her. Like their others would let the bimbo be with Naruto.
'Hmmm?' Blake hummed with a raised eyebrow, wondering more to what Weiss and Yang were planning on doing, and how she could put a stop to it.
She wanted to mess with them, without them knowing she did it.
Now it's Blake turn to be glared at by Yang and Weiss. The cat faunus merely smirk at the two.
"Oh, sure." Naruto said as he gave her his information, and he had hers in return. Now they could use their Scrolls to open each others rooms. He didn't see the problem with it, and neither did Ruby to be honest. Of course, Ruby didn't have the mind of a hormonal 17 year old girl. She had the mind of a hormonal, innocent 15 year old girl.
Naruto was just oblivious to the obvious.
"Um, okay. Wow." Jaune said in disbelief. "Even I'm not that dense."
"At least you're self aware." Weiss replied with a huff.
"Thanks!" Ruby said as they all left the building together, and started to head towards the dorm. Their things should have already been sent to their rooms, so they just needed to go there. Their uniforms would also be waiting for them at their rooms.
Naruto placed his hands together, before he vanished in a puff of smoke, and used the Shunshin to appear on the Dorm Building.
Ruby pouted. "So lucky. I wish I could do that."
"Me too." Weiss huffed. "Then we wouldn't be late to class all the time, thanks to the two of you." She gave pointed looks to Ruby and Yang, who are whistling innocently.
He jumped down to the ground, before he walked into it and started to travel up the steps. Glynda hadn't lied, each floor did have their own place for showers, bathrooms, and a place for students to do laundry. Naruto went straight for the 8th floor though, and didn't need to walk any great distance before he got to his room.
With a swipe of his Scroll, the room was unlocked and he opened the door.
The room was empty for the most part, it had a single bed pushed up against a wall in the corner, right next to a large window. There was a dresser for clothes, and Naruto was surprised when he saw that there was a bathroom. The bathroom didn't have a shower or anything like that, showing that showers were still located in one place, but other than that it was a working bathroom. His room was mostly empty space, so Naruto grabbed his scroll.
"And he got a room of his own." Weiss said, feeling a little jealous. She wish she had a room to herself. She doesn't dislike her team, but it's hard to bunk with them.
Ruby always awaken rudely, whether by whistle or ice cold water. Blake is always eating tuna in the room, causing the stench to come in there. And don't get her started on the blonde bimbo.
This had been his storage scroll for his real home, when it still existed.
It contained a few things that would liven the room up a little, just some things he liked to carry with him. This room already had a deck of it's own, and a bookshelf, that he would most likely never use for books. He wasn't going to lie, not a big book person.
"Book haters!" Ruby, Yang, and Nora cheered, causing Blake to glare sharply at them.
Those three need to read a good book. A book can be just as good as a movie.
Naruto unrolled the scroll and laid across the ground in the middle of the room.
"Release." Naruto said, and in a puff of smoke a small clothed table appeared on the ground. This was Naruto's kotatsu, it was a smaLl heated table that you sat at using pillows on the ground. It had a blanket connected to it, and if it ever got cold he could just sit or lay underneath it for warmth.
Naruto took out his scroll from under the table, before he placed it on the table, and with a command a smalerr puff of smoke appeared.
Naruto's portable stove, basically the way he cooked foods that he prefered, boiled water, made hot pots with. Naruto unsealed a set of bowls, and he went over to the bookshelf and placed them there for storage. He would have to buy chopsticks later, but after his bowls Naruto unsealed several pictures and placed them on the desk. Something to look at when he needed a pick-me-up, or just for old times sake.
"Um, is anyone else feeling jealous that Naruto has a room to himself, with all that stuff in his room?" Jaune asked. Several hands was raised in response to the question. "Oh good. I thought it was just me."
There, it wasn't much, but it was a pretty good start.
Now he needed a fridge, and he would be able to store cold foods as well.
Naruto grinned for a moment, before he jumped onto his new bed and laid down, staring at the ceiling. This was his life now, and he would have to get used to it, no more freedom of sleeping under the stars and travelling the world all the time. He would need some time to get used to having a roof over his head, what with camping for 2 years.
"That sounds like my kind of lifestyle." Yang replied with a grin. "Traveling around, sleeping outside and under the stars." Yeah, she would love to have that life.
"But it also dangerous." Weiss replied to Yang. She isn't much of an outside person, and would rather stay inside than go out and travel.
Naruto stood up and opened up the window, before he leaned out of it and looked at the moon.
Naruto clapped his hands together, and said a small prayer for his late friends.
He hoped they found peace in the afterlife.
"I'm sure they did." Pyrrha said, hoping for the best for Naruto. The blonde haired boy had gone through too much and deserve the happiness and love he desired.
And that's the end. I hope you all like the chapter. Next up, is either the Fusion explanation or the morning after the initiation. Be sure to review, favorite, and follow, and I will see you guys later.