Chapter 20
Yang hadn't been able to contain her excitement when she learned she was finally getting released from the hospital and was more than cleared to return to Beacon! Ruby wasn't much better in that regard either, shooting into the bathroom in a flurry of rose petals, clothes in hand, and slamming the door right in Yang's face! It reminded Yang of when they stilled lived back on Patch, when they would be late for school and were rushing around like madwomen to get ready on time. Naruto, who finally got some sleep and was feeling more than well rested, just watched the whole thing from his chair; his feet propped up on Yang's now empty bed. Yang just let out a huff before stomping back over to her bed and plopping back down, sending a mild glare at the now closed bathroom door. Naruto wanted to point out how they had all the time in the world and there was no rush, but he valued his life far too much to risk it at over teasing his partner. For the moment at least.
"Oh, just you wait till I get my hands on you," Yang muttered darkly, trying her best to set the door on fire with her mind, before her irritation seemingly slipped away and she turned her attention to the still amused Naruto.
"Has anyone ever told you how cute you look when you pout like that?" Naruto asked, which earned her a middle finger and a raspberry bing blown.
"Don't make me come over there and smack you!" Yang mocked threatened, with no real heat behind her words, "Ruby has always been like this, you should've seen it the first time she used her semblance to beat me to the bathroom. She just unlocked it the previous day and didn't quite have her landing down; so she ended up smacking face first into the shower wall. It would've been even funnier if she hadn't nearly broke her nose doing it."
"I suppose there are some fun points to having a sibling, if for no other reason then you have someone to blame when something in the house goes wrong," Naruto said before letting out a grunt as Yang moved from her spot on the hospital bed to sitting on his lap and leaning her head on the crook of his neck.
"What about you, do you have any siblings?" Yang asked, shifting a bit more to get as comfortable as possible on her new cushion.
"Nope, I'm an only child. Growing up outside the kingdoms meant there wasn't that many resources readily available, so my parents could only really afford to have one kid," it wasn't necessarily a lie, not when you also taken the fact that the tribe was constantly on the move and the Naruto had been the only kid legitimately born into it since his own mother.
"You don't really talk all that much about your past, are you ever going to tell me stories about it? Maybe one day I can meet your parents," Yang mumbled, already tempted to fall asleep for a quick nap now that she was secured safely in Naruto's arms, but ultimately knew that Ruby could walk out at any moment and then she'd have to get dressed herself.
"Hm, my life wasn't really all that interesting before I came to begin and certainly no real fun stories. Also you'd probably only just be meeting my mom, since my dad died when I was young," Naruto replied as easily as he would if he was talking about the weather, mixing in some lies with some truth to make it all the easier to tell Yang.
"I'm sorry to hear that," Yang said and she really was sorry, knowing what it was like to lose a parent herself, "If you don't mind me asking, how did he die?"
"Well, from what my mom told me, a bunch of Grimm attacked the house one day while she was away and my dad stayed in. I was still a baby at the time, tucked away in my room, and so my dad protected me. Apparently he fought the whole hoard by himself and didn't let a single one of them get close to me."
"He sounds like a brave man, I wish I know him, but at least I know you take after him," Yang's words actually made Naruto's heart swell up a bit; he was used to being more compared to his mother than his father and to hear someone say that he was brave like him really made Naruto a bit proud.
"Well yeah, where do you think I get my amazing good looks from?" Naruto laughed as he ran his hand through his hair with a cocky smirk on his face.
"Well now I really have to thank him," Yang laughed a bit as well as she played with one of the buttons on his school shirt, her switch being so close to flipping that it wasn't even funny.
Naruto could feel it too, the way the atmosphere between them suddenly grew heavier and how Yang's hand went from playing with one of his buttons to slipping beneath his shirt and running across his abs. Naruto wanted to remind Yang that they were exactly alone in the room at the moment, that Ruby could walk out at any second and could catch them doing some rather inappropriate things. However, Naruto was still very much a teenager and when the young woman looked at him the same way Yang's currently looking at him, then there really wasn't much he could do to resist. Yang started out slow, shifting just a bit more so now that she was fully laying on top of him with her breasts squashed against his chest. A yelp escaped Yang's lips when Naruto's hands came down on her backside, gripping a big ol hand full of nice squishy flesh, and pulled her up even more.
"Oh, someone's a bit more grabby than normal," Yang moaned just a bit as she wrapped her arms around Naruto's neck and went right in for a kiss, not even bothering to be gentle about it.
Just like that time they shared in the shower, the absolute peak of their desire for one another at the time, Yang felt like her body was going to burst into flames at any moment. The way their tongues danced against each other, twisting this way and that in a way that was well beyond the point of being lewd, made all the fire in Yang's body travel down to her very core and grow hotter and hotter. Naruto was in any better condition, not by a long shot, because with no one else had he never felt so complete; like two puzzle pieces that just fit together to form the same picture. Rough hands continued to paw at Yang's cheeks, slowly pulling her nightgown up further and further until nothing but sweet pale flesh remained. Yang moaned into Naruto's mouth when she felt his hand slap down on her bare skin, sending a wave of pleasure coursing straight up to her brain and sending her even more over the edge.
"Put me on the bed and draw the curtain around us," Yang all but demanded, breaking the kiss just long enough to say those words before diving back in with gusto, and through Naruto's hazed mind he knew exactly where Yang wanted this to go.
Naruto didn't even hesitate, not for one single second, and got up from his chair to practically throw them both onto the bed. Yang wrapped her legs around Naruto's waist the moment he got up, with all of her weight being supported by Naruto's hands holding her ass, and let out a muffled grunt when her back hit the hospital bed.
"You're gonna have to let me go if you want the curtains closed," Naruto grunted, every hormone in his body begged him to not let go of Yang for even a second and yet they did need some sort of privacy.
Yang wasn't even listening now, all she knew was her warmth had pulled away and she oh so desperately wanted it back; damn whoever walked in on them doing the deed! One hand snaked its way down Naruto's body, trailing over the rather tight school shirt that Yang noticed did little to hide the toned body beneath, down past his waist, and finally settling on the barely restrained bulge that threatened to burst out at any second. Naruto, on the other hand, was literally being torn in two directions. On one hand he really really, wanted to just go for it and say fuck the consiquences! On the other hand, he was trained enough to know that being caught was the last thing they needed.
"Wha-what are you doing?" Yang moaned in disappointment when Naruto suddenly pulled away, her need filled eyes looking almost betrayed until Naruto suddenly knelt down between her legs with an arrogant smirk on his face.
"Sorry, this is all we can do for now," Yang didn't know how to respond, the sight of Naruto's face between her legs made an embarrassed blush cover her entire face as her hand tried to cover her eyes.
Yang's folds were already soaked, puffy, and drooling in anticipation; she'd been oh so wanting to take this to the next level. An utterly guttural and lewd moan ripped itself from Yang's throat the moment she felt Naruto's tongue lick her from bottom to top, like an icecream cone. She wasn't ashamed to admit that she gushed just a bit right then, not quite fully cumming but close enough to make her hips buck up towards Naruto's face. Now, after sampling his meal, Naruto wrapped his arms around Yang's thighs to hold her in place and dove right in. Yang never stood a chance.
Naruto's only had about three experiences when it came to eating a girl out, but Oum be damned if he wasn't a fast learner! Yang thrashed around at first, her hands flying out to grab the bedrails or Naruto's head to push him in deeper, but before long the pleasure forced her eyes shut.
"Holy shit!" Yang explained, her hand instantly shooting to cover her mouth, when she felt Naruto's tongue roll over a very special spot.
Naruto just grinned before diving in with even more gusto, although this time he completely lifted up Yang's thighs and pulled her down just enough so that she could watch herself being eaten out. Meanwhile Naruto got to watch as Yang's face twisted and contorted with pleasure, making him more than a little prideful.
"Oh-ah-oh-fuck!" Yang felt like she was on the verge of exploding, but it still wasn't enough!
Feeling like a change of position once more, Naruto reversed their positions so that Yang was now the one on top and straddling his face. Hery thick hips were still held firmly in place by Naruto's arms, meaning there was no escape for the blonde bombshell even if she wanted to. Naruto's tongue flicked over her clit like a machine gun, making Yang throw her head back and let out another guttural moan.
"I'm I-I'm gonna d-die. Oh nnn-gh ah shit you tongue's g-gonna kill me!" Yang's eyes threatened to roll into the back of her head and some of her saliva came dribbling out of her mouth, her tongue hanging out like an animal.
On and on it went, with Yang having long since slipped into her own little world and gone completely blind to anything up the feeling of Naruto's tongue ravaging her. She could feel the pressure in her core continue to built and build, to the point she thought it would never stop!
"Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!" Yang swore, biting into her hand to try and keep her moans down; what was left of her mind remembered that Ruby could walk out of the bathroom at any moment!
BOOM!
Yang back arched to the point of breaking, her eyes were wide even if her vision went completely white, and then she couldn't feel anything at all. When her vision finally cleared, all Yang could tell was that she'd face planted into her pillow and was still very much smothering Naruto.
"Y-Yang?" Yang's head snapped around, eyes wide with horror, and the sight of poor innocent Ruby standing there with a massive blush on her face.
"Oh grapes."
"W-what are you two d-doing?" Ruby's question felt automated, like she already knew what Naruto and Yang were doing but was too shocked not to ask such an obvious question.
"It's not what it looks like!" Yang blurted out, finally getting off of Naruto's face while doing her best to fix her gown.
"B-But I saw," Ruby's words were like an arrow to the heart, stopping Yang's excuse cold.
"Ruby," Naruto's voice cut through the haze of both girls' minds, even as he finished whipping off his face, "Come here."
Yang wanted to scream, or maybe curl up into a ball and just cry, but either way she just stood there frozen and watched her baby sister sit down on the bed next to Naruto. Ruby refused to look him in the eye, her flushed face practically glowed even now, but how could she after seeing what she just saw. Walking out of the bathroom to find her secret crush doing a naughty thing to her big sister, or that she stood there and watched until the end?
"Ruby, you know that when a boy and a girl like one another they kiss, right?" Naruto asked slowly, reaching out to gently cup Ruby's chin and tilt her head up so she had no choice but to look at him "Right?"
"Y-Yea."
"Well I like your sister, a lot, and people tend to do things without thinking when they like someone so much. Now I'm sorry you had to see what you saw, but I also hope you understand just how much Yang means to me."
"Is it bad… Is it bad to do those things without thinking?" Ruby mumbled, biting her lip and glancing away.
"Not always, but sometimes people don't see it for what it is. Why?" Naruto tilted his head when Ruby looked back up at him, silver eyes shining with vulnerability.
Yang watched the interaction between two of the most important people in her life, unsure as to how she'd ever be able to look at Ruby without feeling completely embarrassed. She'd been caught riding her boyfriend's face and who knows what else; she felt like a horrible sister! At the same time, the part of Yang that she liked to ignore was grinning like a mad woman and jumping around in anticipation for when she could finally go all the way!
"Because I-I'm not going to t-think this through!" Ruby lunged and the world ground to a halt.
KISS!
"R-Ruby!" so this is what irony felt like; it sure was a bitch.
Most people aren't used to being put into life-threatening situations, in fact this often triggers a person's natural flight or fight instinct to the point that it blocks out all sense of reason. For Jaune this first true moment happened not too long ago when he and his friends had been captured by the White Fang extremist organization and were threatening to be executed with all the Vale watching. When he had heard the news, Jaune was a little surprised with how calm he had been, and had in fact been more scared for his teammates than for himself. Yet it had been when one of those White Fang bastards had set their sights on Ruby, that Jaune decided to open his mouth and say some rather uncharacteristically nasty things to them. The only thing running through his mind at the time was that he'd already been responsible for Ruby getting hurt once, but he wasn't just going to stand by and watch it happen again when he knew he could do something. His reward came in the form of a beating the likes of which he'd never had before, not even from Yang.
So now here he lay, the swelling on his face at large actually gone down and his aura had healed the majority of his more dangerous injuries, but he was still very much in pain. While his face had shown the majority of the beating he'd taken, the fact of the matter was that he'd come out of there with the majority of his ribs cracked and at least a fractured cheek. It was very evident that the White Fang didn't appreciate his comments about how their mothers clearly had a more than simple interest in their family pets to give birth to people that were so ugly. In fact, the only thing that had really kept them alive was Naruto showing up and completely decimating all of them.
"Man, they really did a number on you," turning his head to look at the door, Jaune was a bit surprised to see his team leader standing there with his arms crossed and not even a hint of hostility in his eyes; as had normally been present ever since the incident with Ruby.
"Yeah," Jaune muttered weakly, trying his best to sit up but he's still cracked ribs made that rather difficult.
"Here, let me help before you hurt yourself even more," Naruto said, already at Jaune's side and helping him sit out without aggravating his ribs too much, much to the young man's surprise because Naruto had never been so considerate after one of their many training sessions together.
An awkward silence fell between the two blondes the moment Jaune was settled in his new and more comfortable position, but what else would you expect. The last time Jaune had been in this kind of situation it had ended with Naruto pulling a knife on him and threatening him, which he did kinda deserve if he was being honest with himself.
"I heard what you did for Ruby," Naruto said as he placed his hand on Jaune's shoulder and gave it a comforting squeeze, "Yang and Ruby told me about what happened before I managed to get there. You make sure to protect someone that's very precious to me and Yang, and for that you have my thanks."
"It was nothing, anyone would've done it," Jaune knew that wasn't quite true, from personal experience, but Naruto just shook his head.
"No, there are some people that would've stood by and just let it happen to save their own skin. At one point I was convinced that you would've been one of those kinds of people, especially with your actions in the forest, but I'm glad to be proven wrong in this instance. You saved her from those bastards, you drew their anger to you and spared her whatever they had planned, and for that were even. Yang and I talked about it and as far as we're concerned, there's no more animosity between us. Hell, I'll even stop beating you so bad when we do our training if that's what you want," Naruto joked a bit there near the end, getting a painful chuckle out of Jaune.
"Don't make me laugh," Jaune winced, holding his ribs in a vain attempt to ease the pain, "It kinda hurts when I laugh, or breathe, or do anything really."
"Well, you know what they say; pain is weakness leaving the body," Naruto chuckled.
"I don't want you to, by the way. I don't want you to take it easy on me when we train, not anymore at least. Being here at Beacon, seeing what the grim are capable of, seeing what people in general are capable of, I don't want to be one of those guys that just stands on the sidelines because he's too weak to do anything. I can't do it, not after last night," Jaune admitted, his hands tightening into fists as he thought about what might've been if he hadn't have said anything, if it had been Ruby that had gotten beaten up and said of himself.
Naruto querched an eyebrow, just a bit surprised, "You do understand what you're asking right? It's not gonna be easy and you're gonna spend many days hating me."
"My dad used to always tell me stories when I was growing up, about our family and the legacy we created. I grew up wanting to be so much like my ancestors, to be a strong hero that protects the week, but until now I never realized what it took.," Jaune looked up and stared directly into Naruto's eyes, a small spark of determination was shining brightly within them, "They didn't set out to become heroes, they set out to do the right thing and that's what I want to do. So yes, I understand what I'm asking."
Naruto just nodded his head and grinned a bit, "If I knew this was all it took for you to get a little pep in your step, I would have smacked you around sooner. Alright, the moment you're all healed up we'll get to work on whipping you in the shape. It's not gonna be easy, but I can promise you results."
"Bring it on."
Not all the members of Naruto's team were in such high spirits after their near execution at the hands of those extremists. Yang and Ruby had one another to lean on, the kind of thing that sisters do in difficult times, while Jaune had found his motivation to grow stronger when push came to shove. Surprisingly enough, or perhaps it really wasn't so surprising, Pyrrha was the one suffering the most mentally out of them all. It's why she was sitting out on one of the hospital's balcony gardens and just staring up at the bright blue sky.
Even with the sun beating down on her from above, Pyrrha felt only the cold winds of failure wash over her. Maybe that's why Naruto almost didn't recognize her when he finally found out where she'd wandered off to; plus the fact that her hair was actually down for the first time outside their dorm room. What was even more concerning was that she didn't even seem to notice Naruto's arrival, especially since he wasn't even trying to sneak around or be stealthy in any sense.
"I never took you for a cloud gazer," Naruto eventually spoke up, frowning when Pyrrha sat up and whipped her head around, a look of fear flashed across her face before vanishing just as quickly when she saw it was only Naruto.
"Oh, hey Naruto," Pyrrha greeted, her smile not quite reaching her eyes, as she watched Naruto move to sit in the chair next to hers.
"Jaune said you might be out here; that you weren't quite acting like yourself," Naruto said.
"Im...I'm just tired is all," Pyrrha crossed her arms and leaned back once more to gaze up at the lazily passing clouds, wishing that she was up there floating away with them.
"Pyrrha Nikos, you are many things but tired is not one of them, and you're an even worse liar. So common, what's bothering you?" Naruto pushed a bit more, Pyrrha turning her head so she could look him in the eyes, and leaned forward while resting his arms on his knees.
"Shouldn't you be talking with Yang right now, I know she's been dying to be with you," Pyrrha tried to avoid the conversation, even though she knew it wasn't healthy to keep all this angst pent up inside, but it was almost like she couldn't force the words out of her throat.
"Yang and Ruby are having a...conversation right now and I felt it was best to give them some space."
(Flashback)
"Ruby, you can't just go around kissing people!" Yang shouted, more so in exasperation than any real anger.
"Why not? You do!" Ruby countered, pointing an accusing finger at Yang.
"Yes, my boyfriend!" Yang countered Ruby's counter while Naruto just sat there looking back and forth between each girl as the argument grew more and more heated.
"So? I have a crush on him too!"
"Naruto, will you please explain to Ruby why she can't just kiss you?!" Yang suddenly turned to where Naruto had been sitting, only to find a dust cloud in his place, the door to her room slowly closing, and the shouts of several hospital personnel shouting as Naruto tore down the hall.
Say what you want about him, call him a coward, but there was no way in hell he was sticking around for that conversation!"
(End Flashback)
"So common, what's up?"
"I-I feel like I failed," Pyrrha let out half a sob from just admitting that, like half her Invincible Girl mask had just cracked wide open.
"What, but you did nothing wrong?" Naruto had an idea as to where this was coming from and where it was going.
"Ever since I won my first championship tournament, people have been calling me the Invincible Girl. My parents and trainers were so proud of me. They even kept saying that there was no way anyone could ever beat me. It was fun at first, all the fans kept cheering me on, and I even started thinking I was invincible. After a while it got dull, I was being treated more like an object than a person, and I just so desperately wanted to be Pyrrha Nikos the normal girl," Pyrrha could feel the tears begin to well up in her eyes, "But all I could think about last night was how powerless I was to do anything. I couldn't stop the White Fang when they ambushed us, I couldn't stop them from hurting my partner, and at the end of the day I couldn't even help you save everyone. I-I just feel so useless!"
"Pyrrha…"
"And the worst part about it all, the thing that's really eating me up inside, was that I didn't even try. I was just so afraid, so afraid that if I did something and failed then they'd take it out on everyone else. Some Invincible Girl I turned out to be."
"Pyrrha, it's alright to be scared when you're in a situation like that," Naruto's crimson eyes conveyed nothing but understanding to Pyrrha, who was trying her best to wipe the tears away before they could fall.
"I'm not supposed to be afraid," Pyrrha tried to counter.
"Everyone is afraid when their life is on the line. Hell, I was afraid from the very moment I found out you guys were taken. I kept thinking about what they could be doing to you guys, asking myself if you were already dead. Pyrrha, it's not being afraid that's the problem but what we do while we're afraid."
"But…"
Naruto then did something wholly unexpected, at least to those who didn't watch him grow up. The blonde shot to his feet, grabbed Pyrrha by her shoulders, and forced her to stand up and look him directly in the eyes. Even with her long red hair falling messily over her face, deep crimson and light emerald connected like never before.
"When you're in a situation like that again, Oum forbid it ever happening again, you're gonna have to dig deep and figure out what kind of person you really are. Are you the Invincible Girl who everyone puts up on a pedestal, more of an object than a person, or are you Pyrrha Nikos; the girl who would fight the world to save her friends?"
(End if First Semester)
Yang didn't quite know how to feel about the fact that she and Ruby were leaving Beacon, even if it was for only about two weeks until the next semester started up again. It had taken every ounce of her power to convince her dad not to come flying down to Beacon and collect his children the moment they got out of the hospital. She'd accomplish this mostly by convincing him they would come down for a visit and spend the whole two weeks with him. Unfortunately, the other half of Yang's plan to convince Naruto and Blake to join her head completely fell through. Blake decided to go back to her hometown and visit her parents for the first time in quite a while, to which she was most definitely anxious about. Naruto had said he was doing much the same thing and that he'd probably be out of scroll service for the entire two weeks, which ruined Yang's other plan to send him some rather risqué pictures. Ruby had also tried to convince her own team to come along, but Weiss wanted to catch up on some studying while Nora and Ren had their own little mini vacation planned out. Even Pyrrha and Jaune had plans!
So now here they were, all five of them assembled in their dorm room, casually lounging around while waiting for the call that their transports were leaving. Naruto himself was casually relaxing on the windowsill, one leg propped up on it while the other was planted on the small nightstand just underneath it. Yang was lounging around with Blake, the both of them deciding to steal Naruto's bed since he clearly wasn't using it, with the dark-haired girl reading one of her many books while the blonde looked to be playing one of her many games on her scroll. Jaune was actually doing something nobody had expected him to do, which was maintaining his family weapon and he looked rather content doing it. Then there was Pyrrha, who had finally finished packing all the things she wanted to take back home.
"Come on guys, there's plenty of room at the house!" Yang practically whined as she closed her scroll and dropped it on the bed, having spent the last hour trying to convince her teammates to once again come to Patch with her and Ruby.
"Yang," Blake said with an exhausted sigh, "You've been trying to convince us for days. We all have our own plans to go see our own families over the break, please just let it rest."
"Well how about over summer vacation? We can always get together for a few weeks!" Yang tried to convince them, but judging by their faces it didn't seem to be working.
"How about no?" Blake asked, rolling her eyes, only to let out a yelp when she felt Yang poke her in her side.
"Please! Please! Please!" Yang begged again and again, continuously poking Blake in her ticklish side until the cat Faunus finally managed to catch her hand.
"Keep poking me and you'll lose your finger!" It should be noted that Blake's cheeks were rather flushed as she all but held Yang's hand, fully aware of the massive grin that was on her partner's face.
"Oh, don't tempt me with a good time!"
Watching from the windowsill as his two partners and other teammates devolved into mindless conversation, Naruto could feel the positive aura that just filled the room. It was almost just like the last time he was back with the tribe, the way they all just trusted each other despite having not known each other for all that long. At this thought Naruto crossed his arms, that happy feeling of camaraderie having just instantly clashed with the fact that these people weren't supposed to be his friends. It really was a weakness of his, Raven always used to say that he grew attached to people too quickly and cared about them too much. Sure they weren't his targets, but he'd base their entire relationships together on a lie. He has to come up with something and fast.
Feeling a pair of warm lips press against his cheek, Naruto found Yang standing there with a big old smile on her face.
"You looked a little lost in thought there," Yang said as she jumped up onto the other side of the windowsill and copied Naruto's pose almost perfectly.
"I guess I'm just anxious to head home after so long, it's been a while and I didn't exactly leave on the best of terms," Naruto said, glancing out the window just as a raven flew by and landed on the tree branch just outside.
"You can always come to my house, I'm sure my dad would love to meet you," Naruto just rolled his eyes at Yang's blatant attempt to get him to go with her.
"I think I'll pass on that for now, but thanks for offering," there was no mistaking the sarcasm in Naruto's voice, "Besides, I think it'll be a good thing for all of us to head home for a bit."
"Hey listen, you mind coming with me for a minute? There's something I want to give you."
Naruto just nodded his head without a second thought, taking Yang's hand as she led him out of their dorm room and deeper into the school. It may have taken them about twenty minutes to get to their destination, but there was no mistaking the massive steel door that led to the weapons department. It's where all the students at Beacon could go to work on their equipment, which in other words meant it was Ruby's second home where she spent what little of her free time she still had. When the massive steel door finally slid open, Naruto really shouldn't have been surprised to see Ruby standing there with a thousand watt smile on her face; not to mention a small blush while she avoided eye contact with him.
"It's not what you're thinking," Yang suddenly said, turning to Naruto with a sly grin, "You're not getting a threesome with me and Ruby."
Naruto and Ruby both sputtered at that, one in clear horrified embarrassment and the other in exasperation, while Yang just let out a laugh, "I'm kidding, I'm kidding, don't get so worked up you guys."
Ruby just glared up at her big sister, contemplating how likely she could get away with shaving the blonde's head while they were at home. Wouldn't that be quite a sight?
"Stupid Yang," Ruby mumbled as she grabbed a box that was sitting on a nearby workbench, with the box itself being rather long, and walked up to Naruto before holding it out.
"Oh, what's this?" Naruto asked, noting that the box was a little heavier than he expected.
"Open it and find out, dummy," Yang teased as she moved over next to Ruby and put her arm over the smaller girl's shoulder, the both of them watching his Naruto didn't even hesitate to start ripping into the box.
Naruto's eyes widened before growing soft at what he saw, which oddly enough reminded Yang of Ruby. Resting in the box was clearly a katana, but that was the only similarity it shared with the ancient weapon. This one looked hyper advanced, with even the sheath looking like it belonged on some sort of futuristic weapon, and don't even get him started on what was attached to the sheath. As someone who grew up wielding a sword, especially this kind of sword, he couldn't help but reach in and pull it out to admire it. Placing his hand on the hilt, which was a solid black piece of metal with red grips that glowed ever so slightly, Naruto was a bit surprised when the red on the hilt flashed green and he was able to pull the sword free from a sheath. The blade itself was solid red in color but with veins of dark yellow running down it. What may seem like a simple aesthetic to others, a way to make the weapon look all fancy, Naruto saw it for what it really was. He didn't know how Ruby and Yang had done it, but they'd managed to fuse fire dust into solid metal without it melting and added in veins of lightning dust for some extra kick.
"I think he likes it," Yang whispered to Ruby, who was also in a trance at seeing her latest creation being marveled at by her crush.
"Amazing, simply amazing," Naruto said rather breathlessly before turning to the two sisters, "But why, how?"
"It was Yang's idea," Ruby spoke up, "She thought we should make you something, since you saved us and all. We talked to some of our teachers about where to get the right materials and even got Headmaster Ozpin's approval to order them. The sheath design was my idea, which I got from my Crescent Rose."
"I was wondering why it looked like somebody gutted a sniper rifle and shoved the sword inside of it. I take it if I pull the trigger it'll launch the blade out at high speeds?" Naruto asked, sheathing the blade and putting it back inside the box.
"We figured if you could draw your sword faster than you could get done fighting faster," Yang said with a shrug.
"That's why we designed that harness with the movable arm. When you pull the trigger the arm will dampen the recoil, that way the sheath isn't blown out of your hand, but you might want to make sure you have a strong grip on the sword first."
Naruto couldn't remember the last time somebody got him a gift like this, or maybe it was simply that nobody had ever gotten him a gift like this. So he did the only thing he could do. He pulled both the sisters into a hug, kissed Ruby on her cheek, and then kissed Yang square on the lips. What an adventure this whole job was turning out to be.
OK, so this is the official end to the first semester. I'm gonna take a small break, plan out how I want the second one to go, and I should be back to posting in no time at all.
