7. Chapter 7
Chapter 7
Naruto awoke later that morning, after maybe four hours of sleep, to a smiling Yang, a still waking up Blake, Jaune putting on his uniform jacket, and Pyrrha walking out of the bathroom while trying to put her hair up her usual high ponytail. His clock was blurry, even after he narrowed his eyes to try and focus, but it was the ear piercing sound of a whistle that really woke Naruto up. Now finding himself looking up at Yang from the ground, her smile now very smug, Naruto's eyes narrowed at the gold whistle she was waving at him. Also, judging by the looks of his other teammates, they were no more impressed than their leader was.
The male Branwen slowly got to his feet, snatched the offending object out of Yang's hand, walked over to the open window, and threw it right out. He then walked back over to Yang and flicked her right on the forehead, getting a sharp yelp from his fellow blonde.
"No, bad Yang," Naruto chided, like she was a little puppy, but Yang just ate up their morning frustration with a big old smile on her face.
"Despite her...interesting methods, classes start in about an hour," Blake pointed out, seeming to be more irritated by Yang's little joke than any of the others; her bow twitched ever so slightly.
"Right," Naruto grunted as he walked over to his dresser and pulled out the uniform he was apparently meant to wear, only to scoff at what he saw.
The black suit jacket and pants were fine, even if the gold trim was a bit much, but there was no way he was gonna wear a tie. Not only did the color clash with the rest of the uniform, but also having something wrapped around his neck was a no go for Naruto. So after a quick shower, in which there was no hot water left, Naruto rejoined the others fully dressed, aside from the tie and him having the top three buttons of his shirt undone. Everyone was ready to go, even Yang and Jaune had all their books together, and that brought a smile to Naruto's face.
Yang spotted her team leader and couldn't help but admire the way he filled out his fancy looking uniform, "Well someone looks nice.
"Yes, the colors suit you," Pyrrha also gave her two cents, trying her best to interact with her new team despite how socially awkward she felt doing so; no doubt do to her time being a world renowned fighter at such a young age.
"Thanks I…" whatever Naruto was about to say was cut off by a shout from across the hall.
Poking their heads out into the hallway, Naruto and his team spotted team RWNR running like a pack of Grimm was hot on their heels. As one, the five-man team pulled out their respective scrolls, saw they still had twenty minutes before their first class, and wondered what was up with them. Then, not give seconds later, all the other new teams came rushing out into the hall with matching panicked expressions.
"Um, did we miss something?" Jaune asked as team NYBJP, which Naruto thought was a stupid way to name teams, filed out of their room.
"I don't think so?" Pyrrha sounded just as unsure as Jaune, she even did a cute tilt of her head that the blonde leader found just adorable.
"Hm," Naruto rubbed his chin in thought before shrugging his shoulders, "Let's head to class; we'll get more answers there."
It was fortunate that she school provided a map app for the students personal scrolls, namely to help them find their respective classes. Otherwise Naruto had a feeling he would have never made it to the first class, which was apparently taught by an elderly man named Peter Port. The overweight teacher honestly didn't impress Naruto. Even after just sitting down with his team, who decided to take up the second highest row, Naruto spotted several fake Grimm trophies mounted on the classroom walls and even the man's personal weapon. He resisted the urge to scoff, Raven made sure her son knew that a warrior never mounts their weapon in such a brazen manner!
"This guy is gonna teach us about the Grimm?" Yang didn't look impressed either, although she had already faced her fair share of the crazed monsters and no doubt found learning about them in a classroom to be boring.
"Professor Port was actually a famous huntsman back before he retired to teach here at Beacon," Pyrrha pointed out, her fingers typing away on her scroll before pulling up a thirty year old picture and showing it to the rest of her team.
Naruto, Jaune, Yang, and Blake couldn't believe what they were seeing; it wasn't possible! The man in the picture looked like a 5'8" Grimm killing machine, dressed in brown cargo pants, a white muscle shirt, dark brown boots, and black fingerless gloves. He had swept back black hair, a full beard, and held a massive double-sided ax in his right hand. Then, as if to top everything off, he had a Beowolf pinned to the ground with his foot alone!
While the others continued to gawk at the photo, Naruto glanced back to the overweight teacher in confusion. What could have turned a warrior like that into what everyone saw standing before them?
"Good morning future huntsmen and huntresses of Beacon Academy!" the professor shouted, waking up the few students that had already fallen asleep, "My name is Peter Port, retired huntsman, survivalist, and expert on all things Grimm! In this class I shall imprint upon you all my vast knowledge and many adventures! By the time you leave here, no Grimm will be able to stand in your way! Haha!"
The man's short little introduction was met by complete silence and students once again beginning to fall asleep. Most of Ruby's team, including the girl herself, looked bored out of their minds and would rather be almost anywhere else. Naruto was paying more attention to the diagrams posted up behind the teacher that listed the traits of various Grimm they would be facing; the rest of his own team were doing various things to keep themselves entertained.
"Hey," Naruto whispered, catching Blake's attention, "Think we can sneak out of here and not get caught?"
The bow wearing blackette seemed to actually consider his question for a moment, looking around for various escape routes and a way to distract the professor long enough for them all to get out without being caught. It was with a sad sigh that Blake just shook her head; she'd be able to escape just find but her fellow students would be left behind in this boring class.
Naruto just shook his head, this was gonna be a longday.
As it turns out, Naruto was wrong in that regard, because not thirty minutes into the class and the professor was already asking for volunteers to face a Grimm. This had been preceded by a rather long, not to mention boring, story about Prof. Port's first time facing a Beowolf and every excruciating detail that came with it. It was during this time that one of the members of Ruby's team, Weiss he believed her name to be, began to grow slowly more and more aggravated with how the rest of her team was acting. Just watching the anger build up within her was more interesting to Naruto than the class had been, but it wasn't until Prof. Port asked for volunteers that it really came to a head.
"The moral of the story is that a huntsman must be honorable, a huntsman must be dependable, a huntsman must be strategic, well educated, and wise!" Prof. Port continued on and on, having many of the students nod their heads in agreement with his ideals, but Naruto just shook his head at the sheer absurdity of it, "So, who among yourselves believed yourselves the embodiment of these traits?"
Normally Naruto would just ignore the whole situation, but so much of this was little more than BS! A huntsman doesn't need honor to defeat Grimm and neither do they need education aside from knowing how to fight! Out in the wilds, where there are no massive cities to keep you safe from Grimm, the only thing that matters is strength and the will to act. So just before Weiss could stand up and declare that she believed herself to embody these traits, Naruto raised his hand.
"I'll give it a shot," Naruto said as he eyed the massive cage that no doubt contained a Grimm of some form.
Peter Port just smiled and motioned over to the cage, "Then step forward and face your opponent."
"Hey, shouldn't he be allowed to get his weapons and armor first?" asked Jaune, who didn't think it was right for his team leader to face a Grimm without at least having some form of protection.
"Quite right, Mr. Arc, quite right indeed. Mr. Uzumaki, you may retrieve your weapons and armor if you so wish," Prof. Port said, motioning towards the door the classroom, but Naruto just shook his head.
"I won't need them," this did get Naruto looks from everyone else, who finally woke up from their teacher induced naps, and couldn't believe that they were hearing.
Only those trained in hand-to-hand combat would be able to stand up to a Grimm like that, but even then those people tended to wield gauntlets or some other kind of device to shield their hands. Yet Naruto just walked down the few steps it took to get to where Port was waiting for him, with his hands stuffed into his pockets the entire time.
"Are you sure, it is not wise to let pride get in the way of your own self-preservation," there was something in the professor's eyes when he said that, almost like he was remembering some haunting moment in his past, but Naruto filed that away for a later date.
"I'm sure," was all Naruto said, moving to stand a few feet away from the cage, which was violently shaking by this point.
"You can do it whiskers!" Yang cheered, liking that her team leader was gutsy enough to go up against a Grimm with no armor or weapons.
"Be careful!" Pyrrha was a lot less happy about it, but was too nice to really voice her displeasure in front of everyone.
"Will be counting on you," Blake had somehow pulled out a small flag with their team's initials on it, showing her excitement without actually displaying it in her tone or facial expressions.
"Go leader!" and then there was Jaune, Naruto still had to figure out what his fighting style was and where he would fit into their new team.
The professor stood next to the cage, having taken his weapon off the wall, "Are you sure you don't wish to at least get your weapon?"
"I don't need one."
"Very well, let the match begin!" the lock was cleaved off the cage with a single swing of his ax, allowing a Boarbatusk to come charging out right at Naruto.
Everyone shouted at him to jump out of the way of the charging Grimm, even his own team, but Naruto just stood his ground and took his hands out of his pockets. Right when the creature got in range, Naruto use the Grimm's face as a springboard to leap over it, sending the Boarbatusk's face into the ground.
Naruto landed in a small crouch before standing back up to his full height, watching as the Grimm shook its head around wildly before turning to glare at him.
"An impressive dodge!" the professor praised, "But how will you defeat it with no weapons?"
The Boarbatusk charged again, it's anger blinding into the threat that stood before it, and this time Naruto didn't jump over it. He still planted his foot on the creature's face, but this time he gripped its tusks with both hands and dug its face deeper into the ground. He twisted the creature until it had no choice but to flip onto its side, allowing Naruto to place his right foot against one tusk, while he gripped the other one with both his hands. The Grimm cried out in pain is Naruto begin to pull, which was followed by a sickening tearing sound as he ripped one of the tusks right out of the creature's face.
"This is the truth of the matter," Naruto said as he used the tusk in his one hand the stab the creature through one of its tiny legs and keep it pinned to the ground.
"Out there, beyond the safety of these walls, there are only two things that truly matter. It's not honor, it's not being dependable, nor strategic, nor educated, or even being wise!" Naruto said as he planted his foot down on the Boarbatusk's neck, and ripped off its other tusk.
"Mr. Uzumaki," Prof. Port tried to cut in, but Naruto wasn't done yet.
"The two things that matter out there, when you're faced with the possibility of a Grimm attack every single day, is power!" Naruto shoved the second tusk into the creatures unprotected bottom, killing it instantly, "And the will to act. If you lack either of these two traits, then you won't survive long enough to be praise for the ones that Prof. Port says you should have."
Naruto didn't say anything else as he climbed back up the steps to his seat, ignoring the looks almost everyone was giving him. If the students were to survive the real world, the one that they came to this Academy to learn how to survive in, then they couldn't let such a simple thing as honor hold them back. If they did, then they wouldn't survive, or someone they were close to would die.
"An interesting philosophy, Mr. Uzumaki," there was a slight bit of wariness in the old man's tone, "I'm afraid that's all the time we have for today. Be sure to cover the assigned readings and stay vigilant. Class dismissed!"
Naruto was one of the first ones are the classroom, silently cursed himself for going off like that middle class will he was supposed to be undercover. Even his transcript said that he wasn't that skilled, yet there he goes killing a Grimm with his bare hands, and he did so in front of his entire year. Yet his silent cursing was interrupted by an argument-taking place just around the corner, between Ruby and her partner Weiss no less. Pausing just behind the corner, Naruto decided to listen in.
"What's wrong with me? What's wrong with you!" Weiss shouted at her young team leader, stomping her foot on the ground in irritation, "You're supposed to be our leader, but all you've been so far is a nuisance!"
"What did I do?" Ruby tried to defend herself, but Weiss was on a rampage.
"That's just it, you've done nothing to earn your position! Ever since I met you, you've done nothing but act like a child! You nearly got me killed by leaving me behind in the forest, you left me hanging onto a Nevermore, and let's not forget how you've been this entire class!" the more Weiss shouted the more Ruby looked like she was going to break out into tears.
"Weiss…" she tried to cut in, but that just seemed to make the white themed girl angrier.
"I've trained and studied for almost my entire life! All you've done is mess around on some little island no one cares about! You should have never even come to Beacon and Ozpin never should have made you a team leader! He made a mistake!" Weiss continued to shout, getting more and more in Ruby's face, unaware of how the blackette was slowly balling her hand into a shaking fist.
"Like you're any help!" Ruby suddenly snapped, her gray eyes piercing into Weiss' very soul, "Maybe instead of complaining about what I do, you should help me get better! I'm new at this, I don't know what I'm doing half the time and you screaming at me isn't helping! I've trained ever since I was little to be like my mom, my mom who was a better huntress than I'll ever be, so don't think you're the only one that has any right to be here!"
Weiss stood there, more than a little stunned that Ruby actually snapped back at her; she's never had anything like this happen before. She was either the one being told what to do, in the case of her father, or she was the one telling people what to do. Now here stood a fifteen-year-old girl, who she just got done shouting at, and instead of submitting she challenged her!
Ruby turned around to storm away, feeling more than a little drained after letting all her bottled up emotions out, but found herself running into something surprisingly solid. Even when she was about to fall back after the sudden collision, a pair of strong hands grabbed her shoulders and kept her standing. She looked up and found Naruto, who she didn't expect to be standing there, smiling down at her.
"How's it going, little red?" Naruto pretended to have just turned the corner, "Princess? What's with all the shouting?"
"Weiss is being mean and shouting at me!" "Only because you deserve it!"
"I do not!"
"Do to!"
"Meanie!"
"Child!"
"Don't call me that!"
"Then stop acting like one!"
Naruto just looked back and forth between the two arguing girls, wondering if either of them was ever actually disciplined growing up. This eventually led to Naruto moving in between them and lightly smacking them both on their heads. This stopped their argument cold.
"Ouch, that hurt!" Ruby and Weiss echoed, rubbing the backs of their heads, not even realizing that they actually just agreed on something.
"Are you two done?" Naruto asked, looking down at them with a raised eyebrow. "But…!" Weiss tried to cut in.
"You don't deserve to be team leader, you haven't earned it," that shut the white haired girl down in a second before Naruto turned to Ruby, "And you've been chosen to be a team leader so you need to act like it."
"Like hell I haven't earned it!" maybe flaring her temper at Naruto would work better than it had on Ruby, after all he wasn't herteam leader, but hellfire eyes just narrowed at her.
"Really, ever since coming to Beacon what have you done to earn the title of being a leader? From what I've observed you like to lash out at your teammates when they don't do what you want, you are quick to anger in general, instead of helping your leader improve you seem to enjoy tearing her down. So tell me, how have you earned the right to lead anyone? In fact, I feel bad for any team you are assigned to lead with your current mindset," Naruto's berating reminded Weiss of her sister.
"And Ruby, I understand that you're new to being in charge of others, but you've been handed both a great opportunity and challenge. Being in charge of others mean that you must always be thinking about their wellbeing. Your strengths become their strengths and your shortcomings can also become their shortcomings. A leader must always being trying their best, both inside a boring classroom and out in the world fighting Grimm."
Both girls shared a glance, feeling more in trouble than they ever did with their own parents, and more than a little ashamed with how they were acting towards one another. Ruby may not remember her mom, but the stories Yang told her always involved her being kind to others and understanding. Even her dad said Summer Rose was the center of their team, being able to put up with all their antics with a smile on her face. Similarly, Weiss also knew that her big sister would be appalled at how inelegantly she was voicing her grievances to, what she would consider, a superior officer.
"But I have to be the leader, I have to be the best, I'm a Schnee," Weiss whispered, quoting the last thing her father said to her before she left for Beacon; it was over a scroll call too.
"Here, and out there against the Grimm, it doesn't matter if you are a Schnee, a Rose, or and Uzumaki. There are too many odds against us to worry about such things. So instead of trying to show you deserve to be a good leader, why not prove to everyone you're a good person?" this time Naruto just patted Weiss on her head, his gazing softening a bit.
"Weiss," Ruby cut in, nervously fiddling with her red cloak. "Ruby?"
"I-I'm sorry for yelling at you," Ruby choked up a bit.
Weiss herself looked a bit surprised, no one ever apologized to her before, "I'm sorry for yelling at you to, and for saying you shouldn't have come here."
"Can...Can I see some of the notes you took?" Weiss smiled a bit and nodded her head.
While the two girls slowly began to deepen their friendship, with Naruto watching over them, another figure stood just a bit further down the hallway. Ozpin had been watching the interaction between the two girls, noting how they seemed to be at odds, and had planned to use this animosity to depart some advice upon the daughter of Summer Rose. Yet it would seem he'd been beaten to the punch, which wasn't troubling so much as a missed opportunity for the headmaster. He needed a silver-eyed warrior on his side; they were the only ones that could tip the scales of battle when it came to the Grimm and the Maidens.
"Hm, what's your game, Mr. Uzumaki."
There were two things that ran strong in the Branwen family; drinking and short tempers. Raven and Qrow's parents drank to make being leaders much easier, or at least take away some of the stress. Qrow drinks to forget how screwed up his life has become, ranging from the horrors he's seen to the friends he's lost. Raven, on the other hand, used to drink just to drown her misery away for a few hours before she was forced to face the cruel world once more; normally with a killer hangover.
That was actually how she ended up getting pregnant with Naruto and Yang, not that she would ever tell her two children they were unplanned. It had been after a rather long and difficult mission to the Grimm lands, a mission given to her team by Ozpin when she was still blind to his true personality. Summer had been thrilled, they'd been off active duty for about a month, and even Raven had to admit that she was a bit excited to stretch her legs a bit. Naturally that all changed when they were attacked by a pack of Sphinx with a monstrously large alpha Sphinx leading the charge against them! That had been the first time Raven had ever seen Summer panic, not to mention that Qrow had been swallowed whole by the alpha and somehow managed to cut his way out of the damn thing!
Needless to say, the moment it looked like one of her teammates had just died, Summer Rose officially lost her shit. Even after Qrow cut his way out of the beast, Summer just continued to go on a rampage the likes of which none of them had ever seen before. Her hunting spear was like a blur as it drilled through Grimm after Grimm and Summer ended up unleashing her silver eyes upon the few survivors! If the situation wasn't so dire, Raven probably would have been more turned on than she already was!
Naturally they all returned to Ozpin, gave their mission report, and got some much-needed rest. Of course the next day Raven and Qrow decided to go out drinking, Qrow was still a bit shaken after being swallowed alive, and surprisingly Taiyang and Summer decided to join them. Raven never laughed so hard after watching Summer drink alcohol for the first time; the white cloak-wearing girl practically fell out of her booth.
It was hours later when the crazy shit really started to happen; starting with Qrow daring Tai to hit on the
waitress to get her number. As it turned out, the waitress turned out to be a guy and Tai got his revenge by throwing Qrow out the window. The next thing Raven remembered was standing outside the bar, Qrow and Tai wrestling around on the sidewalk like a bunch of boys, Summer clinging onto her, and the bar itself being engulfed in a big ball of fire.
"Youhavereallyprettyhair," Summer had told her in a drunken haze, playing with Raven's hair as she had leaned up against her.
Two bars later, both of which somehow managed to remain standing, and all for members of team STRQ wound up in a hotel room with some cheap whisky. It's not what you think, not yet anyway. Summer suggested they play truth or dare, which they only managed to convince Raven to do because she was already plastered, and that's when things started to get weird. Needless to say, Raven woke up the next morning completely naked, sore, with Summer drooling on her chest, Tai holding her from being, and Qrow somehow holding onto Summer while also halfway falling off the bed. The fact that Raven felt sore in bothspots made her shutter at the thought.
The rest of the team freaked out, got some hangover medication, managed to hunt down all their scattered clothes, and swore never to talk about that night again. Sadly that didn't stay true seeing as it apparently took only that one try to knock Raven up, Summer got away scot free because apparently she was smart enough to be on the pill, and she'd be lying if she said she hadn't been afraid her kids were somehow her brother's. Yet they came out as blond haired screaming pups, who both had a good set of lungs on them, and Raven never felt more complete than she had at that moment.
And that's how her drinking made her a family, for as long as it lasted anyway.
"You look depressed," Raven glanced up from her glass, scotch if her hazed mind remembered correctly, to find her brother sitting down next to her.
"At least now you're not alone in that regard," Raven shot back, draining the rest of her glass in a single shot and motioning for another, "So what do you want?"
"What, a brother can't check up on his sociopath of a sister from time to time?" Qrow grinned as he ordered the same thing Raven was drinking; they did have similar tastes after all.
"Your single, smell like a homeless guy, and are hanging out with your sister instead of hitting on a girl half your age. What do you think?" Even drunk she could still burn him; it was a gift.
"What're you still doing in Vale, don't you have a tribe of cutthroats and scumbags to look after?" Qrow knew he was poking the dragon, but it was the best way to get info out of his big sister.
"Maybe I'm keeping an eye on Yang, she is my daughter after all."
Qrow laughed at that, laughedright in Raven's face, before going stone cold serious. Raven actually felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand right up on edge; she knew how deadly her little brother could really be in a fight, drunk or not.
"Keep an eye on your daughter, or your son," Qrow practically hissed the words, Raven's glass shattered in her hands as her as her deep red eyes suddenly pierced into her brother's.
"Careful, littlebrother, don't say anything stupid," while Raven put on an angry facade, mentally she was panicked; if Qrow knew then did that mean Ozpin knew as well?
Qrow tilted his head back and slowly finished the rest of his glass, pulled out his scroll, clicked on something, before turning the screen to show Raven. There the evidence was, a picture taken not twenty- four hours ago of Raven and Naruto sitting on the roof catching up. Raven's first instinct was to smash the scroll, followed by Qrow's face, but that wouldn't solve anything. Qrow was an idiot at a lot of things, but blackmail wasn't one of them.
"What, not gonna come up with some half-assed lie about how you thought he was dead and only recently found him? I'm a bit underwhelmed," Qrow taunted as he slipped the scroll back into his pocket, the tension now noticeably thicker.
"Does he know?" Raven growled out, her previously hazed mind now razor sharp. "Who? Tai?" now he was just asking to be punched, but Raven held back.
"Ozpin, you simple minded fuck, the man who wanted to turn my son into his own personal weapon!" Raven shouted, slamming her hand onto the bar counter and drawing quite a bit of attention.
"Is that why you left, why you broke our hearts and left your daughter without a mom, because you thought Ozpin was going to weaponize a baby?" Qrow shot to his feet, getting right in Raven's face.
"Youweren't there that day! You didn't see the way he looked at my baby boy! It was the same way he used to look at Summer; you remember don't you?!" by this point everyone began to leave the bar, even the bartender.
"So your solution was to steal him away in the middle of the night and then tell me, your brother, that he had died at the hands of the Grimm. You showed me a goddamn grave, Raven, a small little grave with my nephew's name on it!" Qrow slammed his glass onto the ground, his frustration building.
"Because you would have run to your little master and told him where Naruto was!" Qrow snapped at that and grabbed Raven by the front of her outfit, picking her up and actually threw her into a table halfway across the bar.
"He was family, I wouldn't have said shit if you asked me to! I would have lied my ass off, told the old man I couldn't find you, but instead I only find out now when he's practically a grown man!"
"Well how was I supposed to trust you after you told him about our past?!" Raven roared back, picking up half the destroyed table and chucking it back at Qrow, who managed to dunk just in time.
"You self centered bitch!" Qrow charged at Raven, wanting to beat some sense into her with his bare hands.
"Traitor!" Raven shouted back, grappling Qrow and sending them both to the wooden flooring.
The elder Branwen siblings rolled around on the floor trying to overpower each other, much like they used to do back in their younger years. Qrow somehow managed to get Raven into a chokehold, only to get a solid elbow to the crotch in return. Raven tried to twist herself around and lay into her little brother with metal covered fists, but a solid punch to the jaw sent her sprawling backwards. More and more they fought, using chairs and tables as makeshift weapons, and eventually they both wound up toppling over the counter they'd originally been sitting at.
"Bitch!" Qrow growled as he managed to get to his feet and lay into Raven's side with a few strong kicks, only to be once again nailed right in his balls.
"Jackass!" this time it was Raven who stomped her little brother, only to get her foot caught a few seconds later and drug back to the ground.
"Fuck you!" "Eat a dick!"
A glass bottle had slowly been shook to the very edge of the shelf it had been placed on, until it eventually fell off and hit Raven in the back of the head; followed by smacking Qrow right in the face. The two warring siblings groaned in pain as they slowly moved apart, with Raven sitting up against the counter while Qrow leaned up against the cabinets below the shelves. Sitting in between them was a large bottle of gin; both the siblings spotted it at the same time. Qrow managed to get to it first, trying to pry the lid off with his teeth but failed miserably.
"Give it here, pussy," Raven snatch the bottle away, hooked the cap in between the plates in his armor, and pulled it free.
Qrow went to take it back but Raven pressed it to her lips before he could and down a few gulps. Her face twisted in annoyance, followed by a few coughs, before she finally handed it to Qrow.
"Gah, that shit is disgusting," Raven spat, having never really liked the taste of the stuff in large amounts. "Now who's the pussy?" Qrow handed her back the bottle.
"At least I'm meant to have one." "Fuck you."
Silence soon enveloped the brother and sister once more, their anger mostly gone and instead was replaced by simple unease. They waited until the entire bottle was gone before speaking and it was Qrow who broke the ice.
"You really think I'd betray you guys for Ozpin?" Qrow asked, wondering if he had actually earned that kind of response from Raven.
"I don't know, I was scared at the time and didn't know who to trust, especially after me and Tai got into it later that night. He was all for having the bastard get involved. Do you really think I'm a self centered bitch?"
"Sometimes, yea, but not when it comes to your family," Qrow let out a tired sigh before he looked up to meet his sister's eyes, "I just wish I could have been apart of the kids life, or as much as my semblance allowed anyway."
"Our family is so fucked up."
"Your the one that had a foursome with your brother." "Gah, how can you still bring that up?"
Qrow smirked and reached up above for another bottle, "Because, unlike you, I still don't remember a damn thing after getting back from that mission."
"Well lets hope my kids don't take after me then," Raven kicked the shelf and caught the bottle that fell off it, cracking it open the same time Qrow opened his.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Qrow asked as they clinked bottles, taking long swings respectively. "I'm saying Yang kissed Naruto on the cheek and it wasn't the brother sister kind of kiss either." "Tai's gonna freak."
"Yep."
Qrow looked around a bit before an idea suddenly popped into his head, "Hey, wanna go mess with Glynda, like back in the old days?"
"My dear little brother," Raven grinned as she slowly got to her feet and held out her hand for Qrow, "I love your ideas."
The Branwen siblings stumbled out of the bar together, with Qrow's arm slung over Raven's shoulder as they walked. They wouldn't make it more than a few blocks away before passing out on a random roof. The hangovers they would experience would be legendary.
Naruto sat on his lone bed, leaning up against the headrest with his knee propped up and a textbook in his hands. The rest of the day had gone by rather boringly, aside from a few questions his teammates had about his life prior to Beacon and the way he acted in class. In the end it wound down to some more team bonding, discussing some early morning training ideas, and doing some boring homework.
"Hey, you still up?" Yang's voice broke Naruto's concentration, making him look up to find his partner shuffling herself over to him.
"Sorry, did I wake you?" Naruto asked as he sat up a little straighter, only to watch as Yang flopped down next to him on his already small bed.
"Can't sleep, to cold," Yang shivered a bit as she sleepily moved closer to Naruto.
"It's almost ninety-five degrees in here," Naruto said with a flat look, having resorted to an orange tank top and sleeping shorts just to stay cool.
"Still cold."
"Then go snuggle up with Blake."
"Too lazy," Yang shot back, resting her head on Naruto's chest and finding herself strangely at ease doing so.
"She's one bunk below you," Naruto himself felt oddly relaxed. "Naruto."
"Yea?"
"There's a smoking hot girl using you as a pillow, shut up." "Whatever."
Naruto tossed his book onto the ground, leaned over to turn out his light, before properly laying down in his now occupied bed. The young Branwen was out just a few seconds later, pulling Yang closer as his mind slowly slipped away.
Glynda Goodwitch liked to think of herself as a morally good persona, which was why she felt so sick doing her current task. The cameras she'd ordered installed were now set up to her personal scroll and everything going on in Naruto Uzumaki's room was under her watchful gaze. Ozpin had given her strict instructions to only report anything that looked odd, mostly any evidence as to if Mr. Uzumaki was anything more than a simple new student.
Glynda sighed as she lay in her own bed, dressed in only a night shirt, and watched Ms. Xiao Long climb into bed with her team leader. She could bust them right now, seeing as it was against school policy for anyone to share a bed, but that would reveal the cameras.
"Well," Glynda bit her lower lip as she observed the two blondes, "They do look good together."