Chapter 10: Two sides and the Fox Cloak
Author Note: Sorry for the really late update, events in the real world had me have limited time to write. This will result in infrequent updates from me. But due to this I have made this chapter longer, so I hope you enjoy it.
I'm glad you all like what I have written for this story so far. Thank you for all the follows, favorites, and the reviews. You are giving your honest opinions and criticisms. I really appreciate this and I am looking forward to what you have to say next.
IMPORTANT WARNING: This story is rated M for a reason. If you can't handle mature themes and language please leave and look up other stories.
This will be a Naruto x Harem story.
I DO NOT OWN NARUTO ALL CANON CONTENT BELONGS TO MASASHI KISHIMOTO.
I DO NOT OWN RWBY ALL CANON CONTENT FROM THE SHOWS, MANGAS, AND COMICS BELONGS TO MONTY OUM AND THE OTHERS I CAN'T NAME OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
IN ADDITION I HAVE WATCHED A LOT OF RWBY FAN MADE VIDEOS, READ A LOT OF RWBY FANFICTION, AND SEEN A LOT OF RWBY FANART.
AS A RESULT IT HAS INSPIRED SOME OF THE IDEAS FOR THIS STORY.
SO IF SOME THINGS IN MY STORY THAT SEEM FAMILIAR TO YOU IN SOME SHAPE OR FORM THEN YOU PROBABLY HAVE SEEN THINGS SIMILAR TO MYSELF.
I DO NOT OWN THOSE IDEAS; THEY JUST INSPIRED ME AS I THOUGHT THEY WOULD WORK WELL WITH WHAT I HAVE IN MIND.
Constructive criticism is welcomed.
"Speak" Characters Talking
'Speak' Characters Thinking
Handsigns
"Speak" Grimm Talking
'Speak' Grimm Thinking
Certain Key Terms and Semblances when they are first mentioned
Lets start the story-
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Lecture Hall
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Teams NFSS, RWBY, and JNPR along with other students are currently in another lecture with Professor Oobleck.
"Faunus." Professor Oobleck begins talking. "Though disparaged by some as beastmen or half-breeds individuals with a single animal trait are known by the umbrella term of Faunus." Professor Oobleck is continuing a lecture on Faunus history. "With that history guiding us we now live in a society where Faunus and Humans alike are treated as people who can coexist peaceably." Professor Oobleck pauses for a moment. "Still, the gulf has not been entirely bridged. Can anyone tell me what organization demonstrates this best?" He asks the class, but he then pushes up his glasses a bit and points at a student. "Perhaps you know the answer Mr. Arc!?" Professor Oobleck energetically asks.
Jaune just makes a sound that sounds like he is just waking up.
"Incorrect!" Professor Oobleck says with the same energy.
"He didn't even get a chance to respond." Sai says to his team.
"How does he fall asleep in this class?" Fū ask almost amused.
"Amend your ignorance and produce for me a 30-page essay by next week on the role of race in society from a historical perspective!" Professor Oobleck tells Jaune.
"HUH!?" Jaune says now fully awake.
"Wow." Was all Sasuke could say.
"That's so brutal." Naruto says.
"My fine students." Professor Oobleck begins saying. "The future is no more then the accumulation of the deeds and misdeeds of the past! This is the ultimate truth! Know this! Those who take the past lightly have no future to speak of." Professor Oobleck pauses for a moment. "Now! Does anyone know the answer?" He asks again.
"It's the White Fang, sir." Pyrrha says.
"Correct Miss Nikos! What an exemplary student!" Professor Oobleck says.
"Thank you, sir." Pyrrha says.
"Can you explain for us the White Fang's goals and the issues that have arisen around them?" Professor Oobleck asks Pyrrha.
"Well, their main goal was to address the widespread discrimination experienced by Faunus in society through peaceful means like debate and negotiation. But five years ago a change in leadership lead to a change in their methods." She pauses her explanation a bit. "They started stealing Dust. Smuggling it, dealing on the black market, even kidnapping and murder became part of their radical agenda." She pauses again. "Unfortunately the White Fang is basically a terrorist organization nowadays." Pyrrha finishes talking as Weiss and Blake have become a bit more thoughtful at this topic.
"A perfect answer Miss Nikos!" Professor Oobleck begins to say. "From you I'd like 30 pages on the fundamental societal issues suggested by the White Fang's existence, as well as potential solutions!" Professor Oobleck says.
"Happily." Pyrrha says.
Naruto, Sasuke and Fū widen their eyes. "The fuck?" They all say not understanding why Professor Oobleck is doing this.
"Class dismissed!" Professor Oobleck says as he and some of the students leave for their last class of the day.
"So are we still going to Vale with Team RWBY?" Fū asks.
"That is the plan." Sai says. "But why are we going to Vale again?"
"I have things to do." Naruto says.
Sasuke raises an eyebrow. "I thought we were going to scope out the competition."
"That too." Naruto says as he and the rest of his team hear Weiss arguing about Ruby taking Weiss's notes. Naruto smirks at this. "Sounds like they are having fun."
"In what way?" Sai asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Friends argue from time to time. Kind of like Naruto and Sasuke here." Fū tells Sai who nods now understanding.
"So who wants to get their attention?" Sasuke asks pointing to Team RWBY.
"Follow my lead." Naruto says getting up from his seat. "Well team lets head to town, its not like we are waiting for anybody." Naruto says loudly as he and his team walk out the door.
"What will that accomplish?" Sai asks.
"Naruto loves to push Weiss's buttons." Sasuke explains. "She will soon react to use being gone."
"Hey wait up!" Weiss yells at Team NFSS. "What are you three waiting for? Lets go!" Weiss says to her teammates as the catch up.
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Vale
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Teams NFSS and RWBY walk around the streets of Vale that are being decorated in time for the Vytal Festival with Red, yellow, and green streamers and balloons are proudly on display. The elderly Shopkeep is being put up a sign that reads in bright red letters "WELCOME TO VALE!" for all the foreign newcomers from their respective kingdoms of Remnant.
Strolling through all of this is an awed Weiss who looks more excited then she has been. "Ooooh, this is absolutely wonderful!" Weiss says raising her arms in amazement.
"I don't think I've ever seen you smile this much, Weiss." Ruby begins saying as she frowns a little. "It's kinda weirding me out."
"Yeah, your looking as goofy as Ruby usually does." Yang comments.
"What!?" Ruby says in shock.
"I'm afraid I can't help myself. After all the Vytal Festival is finally upon us." Weiss says to the group.
"We already know that." Sasuke says.
Weiss continues not hearing Sasuke's words. "Vale, Atlas, Vacuo, and Mistral. The four kingdoms come together for this grand exhibition; one that features tournaments, parades, and dances parties! Even before the event properly begins people and sights from all the kingdoms join in a massive celebration. Oh, the amount of planning and organization that goes into this event is simply breathtaking!" She says with a skip in her step.
Yang sighs with her arms crossed. "You really know how to take a good thing and make it sound boring."
"Quiet, you!" Weiss says to her teammate.
Fū snickers at Yang's interaction with Weiss. She then looks at Naruto who is holding a Scroll. "Whatcha doing?"
"Just recording." Naruto begins to explain. "'It's funny to see Weiss act like this."
"You just want blackmail material." Sasuke comments with a deadpan expression.
"I have no idea what you are talking about." Naruto says to his friend no longer recording Weiss and putting his Scroll away.
The two teams stop near the docks as the sounds of foghorns are heard. "Remind me again why we're spending our Friday afternoon visiting the stupid docks?" Yang asks slightly annoyed.
"Ugh, they smell like fish!" Ruby says covering her nose.
"It's not the worst thing I have smelled." Naruto says.
"I've heard that students visiting from Vacuo will be arriving by ship today. And, as a representative of Beacon, I feel as though it is my solemn duty to welcome them to this fine kingdom!" Weiss 'innocently' explains to the group as she starts walking away again.
"She wants to spy on them so she'll have the upper hand in the tournament." Blake says against Weiss claim.
"You can't prove that!" Weiss scoffs at Blake's accusation.
'She totally is.' Naruto, Sasuke, Sai, and Blake think.
"Vacuo huh." Naruto says with a smirk. "I wonder if Natsume would be here if I called?" Naruto asks out loud as Sasuke hits him in the back of the head. "Ow! What the fuck!?" Naruto says.
Sasuke glares at him. "You are NOT calling her! I can't deal with that again!" Sasuke yells at Naruto.
"She's not bad." Naruto tells Sasuke.
"That's because she likes you!" Sasuke argues back.
This conversation catches the attention of the teams particularly Weiss. "Who is Natsume?" Weiss asks in curious and a light accusatory tone.
"Natsume is a childhood friend of Naruto's who is a pretty strong fighter the last time I saw her." Sasuke explains. "She has quite a Semblance." Sasuke says as he remembers some unfortunate encounters that involve him getting thrown through walls and getting blown up.
"What else?" Weiss asks wanting more details.
"Why are you so interested in Natsume all of a sudden? I told you about her years ago?" Naruto asks Weiss.
Weiss raise's an eyebrow. "I guess I forgot." She replies.
Naruto then gets a devious smirk. "Are you actually jealous of a girl you don't know?" He asks Weiss.
Weiss blushes a bit at the accusation. "Don't be ridiculous you stupid fox." Weiss begins to explain as no one notices Blake's eye twitching. "I just want to know about the competition."
Fū then smirks and goes over to Yang and Ruby. "A competition for what I wonder?" Fū says aloud as Yang laughs, Ruby blushes, Blake's eyes widen, Sai raises an eyebrow, and Sasuke facepalms.
"For the Vytal Festival obviously!" Weiss yells red in the face at Fū accusation.
"Whatever you say Ice Queen." Fū lightly mocks Weiss. This starts an argument that Ruby and Yang have to break it up.
As both teams walk down the streets they hear something. "Get back people. Get back! There's broken glass around here."
Ruby turns her head to the right "Whoa." Ruby comments as both teams' looks at a shattered window down the street and a door full of yellow caution tape of the Vale Police Force. The small crowd quickly leaves but not before saying a few things as they leave.
"Another Dust Robbery?"
"How many does that make this month?
"I wish the police would get their act together."
The teams walk over to the detective in front, who is writing on his pad. "What happened here?" Ruby asks out loud.
"Robbery again. Damn it! This is the second Dust shop to be hit this week. This place is turning into a jungle." Detective 1 says walks over to his partner.
Yang sighs sadly "That's terrible." She says.
"They left all the money again." Detective 2 says to his partner
"Huh?" Ruby says turning her head when she hears this.
"Yeah, just doesn't make a lick of sense. Who needs that much Dust?" Detective 1 asks.
"I don't know, an army?" Detective 2 says.
"You thinking the White Fang?" Detective 1 asks?
"Yeah, I'm thinking we don't get paid enough." Detective 2 says removing his sunglasses as they both move to discuss the case away from the teams.
"Just when we learned about them in class today." Fū says.
"That is a weird coincidence." Sai says.
"Hmph! The White Fang." Weiss begins to say as she crosses her arms and pointing her nose in the air with her eyes closed for a moment. "What an awful bunch of degenerates!"
"What's your problem?" Blake says with growing annoyance.
Weiss uncrosses her arms turns to Blake. "My problem? I simply don't care for the criminally insane."
"The White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths." Blake begins to say as she crosses her arms, getting serious. "They're a collection of misguided Faunus."
"Misguided?" Weiss says in a questioning tone. "They want to wipe Humanity off the face of the planet!"
"So then they're very misguided. Either way, it doesn't explain why they would rob a Dust shop in the middle of downtown Vale!" Blake says with an slight increase in volume.
"Hmm…Blake's got a point. Besides, the police never caught that Torchwick guy I ran into a few months ago, maybe it was him." Ruby says trying to defuse the situation.
"That still doesn't change the fact that the White Fang are a bunch of scum." Weiss begins to say not noticing Blake's growing anger. "Those Faunus only know how to lie, cheat, and steal."
But before anything else could be said a voice yelled out. "That guy dined and dashed! Somebody stop that Faunus!"
As the teams overhears the call for help the see a Faunus jumping over the RWBY girls doing a back flip as he winks at an astonished Blake. The Faunus in question is a tan-skinned boy with short spiky light-blonde hair and dark-gray eyes. He wears two red wrist bracers over black fingerless gloves and an open loose-collared white jacket with no shirt underneath, displaying his muscular physique. He also wears blue cargo pants tied up with a white belt. He wears white bandages on his legs and has a chain hanging from the belt loop on the right side of his pants. He sports black and yellow sneakers along with a black cord necklace around his neck with a round pendant bearing a monkey emblem. As a result of his Faunus lineage, he has a long prehensile monkey tail the same color as his hair. After he lands and continuing to run he says, "Sorry 'bout that I just didn't have the cash on hand. Put it on my tab, 'kay."
"Get back her, you thief!" The shop owner says watching the Monkey Faunus get farther and farther away.
The group has different reactions to this. Team RWBY and Sasuke are stupefied; Sai raises an eyebrow, Naruto and Fū chuckle finding the situation amusing. Weiss breaks out of her stupor first. "Ack, this is no time to argue! Lets catch that guy!" Weiss tells the group. Ruby quickly gives chase to the Faunus with Weiss and Yang following her. Blake stands still, lost in thought, then comes back to reality and follows her teammates.
"Well that just happened." Fū says with a smirk.
"Should we go after them?" Sai asks.
"Lets just leave him be." Naruto says laughing a bit. "It's a classic move in Vacuo. Gods know I've done it a few times in the past." Naruto explains.
"You did that to me as well." Sasuke says with an annoyed voice with his eye twitching remembering how much Lien he unwillingly paid for Naruto's ramen.
"Damn it Sun! Where did you go?" Team NFSS turns to see the owner of the voice. The new person was another Faunus. The new Faunus looked to be a well-built male of 6 feet, a tan-skin tone short blond hair and dark-gray eyes. He wears two red wrist bracers over black fingerless gloves and wears a green T-shirt. He also wears blue cargo pants tied up with a black belt. He sports black and blue sneakers. As a result of his Faunus lineage, he has a long prehensile monkey tail the same color as his hair. The new Faunus turns to the team. "You wouldn't happen to have seen another Monkey Faunus running around here?" He begins to ask. "His name is Sun Wukong. He has spiky light-blonde hair, same color eyes as me, about the same height as me and has a tail like me as well."
"Well we didn't get his name, but we saw someone with that description running because he didn't pay for some food." Naruto says
The new Faunus facepalmed. "Why do you do this Sun?" He says with a sigh.
"You his brother?" Sasuke asks.
"Cousins actually. My name is Sha Sanzang." The now name Sha clarifies. "I'm supposed watch him, but he managed to get here before me. Anyways thanks for telling me this. Who are you guys?"
Naruto introduces his team. "The one with the duck's hair is Sasuke." Sasuke gives Naruto the middle finger. "The pale guy is Sai."
"Nice to meet you." Sai says casually.
"I'm Fū!" She says introducing herself.
"And I'm their leader Naruto."
That's when Sha's eyes widen slightly. "Wait Naruto, as in Naruto Uzumaki?" Sha asks.
"You know me?" Naruto asks with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, your Arashi's brother, he's actually looking for you. He told me if I meet you first to tell you to meet him at a dance club/nightclub in Vale you visit." Sha reveals surprising the team.
"I see, thanks for telling me about this." Naruto says.
"No problem." Sha reaches his arm for a handshake. "It was good to meet you all."
"Likewise." Naruto says giving Sha a handshake, but when they made contact a shock went through them and they let go. 'No way!' Naruto thinks knowing what that shock feeling is.
"Now if you excuse me I have a cousin to find." Sha says as he leaves.
"You have a brother!?" Fū asks Naruto not hearing this before.
"What made you want to keep something like that a secret?" Sai asks.
"I wasn't keeping it a secret. It just never came up." Naruto tells his teammates. "Anyway we might have a situation coming up soon."
"What kind of situation?" Sai asks.
"There is three of us here now in Vale now." Naruto says cryptically while looking at Fū. "Now if you excuse me I have a brother to meet and a club to go to." Naruto says as he leaves the group.
Sasuke cups his chin thinking out loud. "What does he mean by three of us?" Sasuke says assuming Naruto was taking to the team.
"It seemed like Naruto was talking to Fū when he said that." Sai says.
That's when Fū got just a bit nervous finally connecting to dots. "Looks like 9 and 7 aren't the only numbers in Vale."
Sasuke's eyes widen in realization. "Fuck, that's not good." Sasuke says summarizing the situation.
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Ramblin' Rogues
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Some time later Naruto arrives at the familiar old brick building of Ramblin' Rogues. He enters the club and walks towards the bar area. "Fox." Naruto turns to the left to see that Junior greeted him.
"Hey Junior, business is looking lively as ever." Naruto says noticing a lot of costumers drinking and dancing.
"Yeah, listen someone has been waiting for you." Junior says.
"Let me guess a red-haired Faunus with fox ears." Naruto tells Junior.
"How do you keep doing that?" Junior asks.
"He's my brother." Naruto says as he walks to the bar and takes a seat.
"You sure took your time." Naruto turns to see the person next to him. The person is a male Fox Faunus the same age as him. He has a lightly tanned complexion with a short red hair, three feral-looking whisker marks on his cheeks, and he has a pair of fox ears on top of his head. He is also 5 feet 5 inches tall. He wears a red colored shirt underneath his black fur-lined coat, black pants; brown boots and several belts complete his look. He has silver eyes with slit pupils. This is Naruto's twin brother Arashi. "I was waiting for ages." Arashi says with a smirk.
Naruto smirks as well and they fist bump. "It's good to see you again Arashi."
"You too Naruto." Arashi begins talking. "So how are things going at Beacon?"
"They have been going well." Naruto begins to say. "I'm the leader of my team, Sasuke is also on my team, Meet up with Weiss, and did some pranking. So the usual."
Arashi laughs. "Sounds like you are having fun." Arashi then stops laughing. "But seriously anything of note at beacon?"
Naruto sighs. "Well I sealed up a Grimm Pool, I have made a friend named Ruby and she also has silver eyes…" Naruto begins to say, but gets interrupted.
"Wow. That makes you, dad, me, Sasuke, Itachi, and now this Ruby girl." Arashi counts. "We finally have reached the second hand of people we know with the eyes."
"Yeah, but Ruby hasn't awakened yet." Naruto clarifies.
"Oh that's a shame." Arashi says with a sigh. "I guess we just have to wait. Anything else going on?" Arashi asks.
"Actually there are 2 things." Naruto begins to say. "The first thing is one of my teammates Fū is like me only her number is 7."
The moment Naruto says that Arashi's eyes widen. "Holy crap, that's crazy. Has everything been alright?" Arashi asks.
"It's been going well, there haven't been any situations that have been too stressful. Unless you count…homework." Naruto says with a dramatic pause.
Arashi smirks a bit understanding the pain of homework. "That's good to hear. But what's the second thing?" Arashi asks.
"I meet Sha today." Naruto says.
"Cool." Arashi begins to say. "Sha is a member of my team so expect us at the tournament."
"Did you know that Sha is like me?" Naruto asks.
Arashi's eyes widen again. "Wait, really!?" He asks. "I didn't know. Wow, so it's you, Fū, and Sha. That's one-third of the 9 in Vale, talk about craziness. Looks like I will have to be extra aware from now on." Arashi says.
"So is there anything going on with you?" Naruto asks.
"Unfortunately nothing of note compared to what has been going on with you aside from some Grimm Pool sealing." Arashi then smirks. "But I think you should come back to Vacuo for summer vacation."
"Not that I have a problem with that, but why?" Naruto asks.
"You will have to wait and see." Arashi says with a smirk.
"So stingy." Naruto grumbles until Naruto gets an idea. "Can I invite friends over as well?" Naruto asks.
Arashi shrugs his shoulders. "I don't see why not." Arashi begins to say. "But if you do tell them to bring swimsuits."
Naruto's raises an eyebrow at this. "Ummm…okay." Was all Naruto could say to his brother.
"Like I said you'll have to wait and see." Arashi says before he gets up from his seat. "Well I have to be off. By the way, there are twins waiting for you in another room, have fun." Arashi leaves the club.
"Same old Arashi." Naruto says as he goes to upstairs to the twin's room. After a few seconds someone's hands cover his eyes and he gets hugged in the front and back.
"Guess who." Both Melanie's and Miltia's voices echoed. Naruto smirks at this. The twins occasionally do this as a game to see if Naruto can tell other differences between the twins and most of the time he gets it right. But through the use of trickery like switching perfume made Naruto guesses wrong at times. As a result it lead to him doing things for the twins. While some of those things weren't an issue, heck he enjoys most of those things, but there was one thing that the he really didn't enjoy so he made a conscious effort to guess them right.
'This seems pretty standard for them.' Naruto thinks as its usually Melanie in the front and Miltia in the back. 'Wait a second, this is…' Naruto thinks realizing something. "Huh, I didn't think you would be in the front this time Miltia. You're usually less bold and Melanie you're usually less conservative then this." Naruto says as the twins let him go and he sees that he got it right.
Melanie pouts a bit while Miltia has a slight blush after being found out. "How did you get it right this time?" Melanie asks sounding a bit disappointed.
"Melanie, you maybe bolder then Miltia, but your hands are a bit softer then hers." Naruto says to her much to the twin's surprise.
"Wow, that's impressive." Miltia says.
Melanie sighs. "I guess this game has pretty much run it's course if you can tell such a small difference between us."
Naruto chuckles at this. "So did you call me for business or pleasure?" Naruto asks the twins.
Melanie sighs again. "Unfortunately, it business this time." Melanie says.
Miltia walks over to Naruto with a gray Scroll in hand. "Our mutual friend has a message for you on a certain plan of action." Miltia says as she hands over the scroll."
"Thanks Miltia, I will be in the usual area. Be back in a few." Naruto says as he goes to a separate area of the room where he sees his contact Jack and Cream. This is room is basically a space where Naruto can send messages and make calls, but not be tracked for them. Naruto then makes the call. "You called Jack?" Naruto says.
"Took you long enough." A distorted voice answers back. "I've been waiting for over an hour."
"Whatever you say Jack." Naruto begins to say. "So what's up, got any news for me?"
"Yeah me and some circus animals are going to be in town in two days any requests?" Jack asks.
Naruto thinks then smirks. "Nice to know. Can you limit their tricks?" Naruto asks.
"I will see what I can do. Don't get too crazy when we meet." Jack says before hanging up.
Naruto sighs. "Damn, playing both sides of the game is exhausting." Naruto leaves the area and sees the twins. "Thanks for telling me about this girls." Naruto says as he gives the Scroll back to Miltia.
"No problem Naruto." Miltia says.
"So…" Melanie begins saying in a more seductive tone. "Do we get a "reward" for our work?"
Before Naruto could say anything his Scroll rang and he sees a message from his team. "Sorry Melanie, not this time. I have to get back to my team." Naruto says apologetically.
"Damn it!" Melanie says. "You better come back next time."
"I will." Naruto says as he leaves the Nightclub and heads back to Beacon.
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Team RWBY Dorm
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After leaving Team NFSS behind to chase the Monkey Faunus they meet this odd girl named Penny and then things got a little more complicated for Team RWBY. Weiss and Blake got into an argument about the White Fang and Faunus. Ruby and Yang continued to listen to their argument going all day and at nighttime in their dorm room the argument still continued.
"I don't understand why this is causing such a problem!" Weiss says.
"That is the problem!" Blake counters.
"You realize you are defending an organization that hates Humanity, don't you?" Weiss begins to say getting up from her bed. "The Faunus of the White Fang are pure evil!"
"There's no such thing as pure evil!" Blake says getting on her feet as well. "Why do you think they hate Humanity so much? It's because of people like Cardin, people like you, are to blame for the drastic measures the White Fang take!"
Weiss stays silent for a moment. "I'm to blame?" Weiss asks in an almost frighteningly calm voice.
"Seriously, cut it out you two." Yang says trying to defuse the situation with no success.
"What are you talking about?" Weiss asks in that same calm voice that has an angry undertone to it.
"You're discriminatory!" Blake yells gritting her teeth.
Weiss and Blake stare each other down in silence. Weiss leans in close, leering as she speaks quietly. "Those criminals have been attacking my grandfather's company for as long as I can remember." Weiss begins saying as Blake eyes widen in shock. "And ever since I was a child they have killed employees, associates, friends, and family; an entire train car full of Dust, stolen. And every day, my father would come home, furious. And that made for a very difficult childhood." Weiss says her voice getting louder as Blake starts to feel emotionally cornered.
"Weiss, I-" Ruby begins to say going over to comfort Weiss, but Weiss continues talking.
"No!" Now Weiss begins yelling at Blake. "You want to know why I despise the White Fang? It's because they've turned my life upside down! And now you have the nerve to tell me I'm to blame?!" Weiss continues yelling, while Blake looks like she can't hold back her words much longer. "They're nothing but liars, thieves, and murderers!" Weiss yells.
That was the moment something in Blake snapped. "We only ever wanted to be treated equally!" Blake yells at Weiss saying the words she tried to hold back.
For the first time since the argument started silence drops down on Team RWBY and a surprised Weiss backs away slowly.
Blake realizes her mistake as she looks around at her teammates. "I... I..." Blake she dashes out the door unable to speak a sentence to her teammates.
"Blake, wait! Come back!" Ruby runs over to the door and calls to her down the hallway as Yang sits herself down and Weiss looks down angrily.
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Beacon Academy-
Main Avenue
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Blake runs outside and arrives at a statue of an armored man with a sword and a hooded woman wielding an axe on an outcropping, staring at the Beowolf under the stone heroes in particular.
She closes her eyes and slowly lifts her arms up to her bow and pulls the string to release the bow from her hair revealing her Cat Faunus ears. She looks at her bow now a ribbon as she recalls some memories.
'The White Fang needs you Blake.' The dark voice of her old partner/mentor rings in her ears as she closes her eyes.
'They're nothing but liars, thieves, and murderers!' The angry words of her new teammate also echoing in her head as clenches her ribbon and grits her teeth.
On the verge of crying, she becomes startled when she hears a voice behind her. "I say you look better without the bow." She turns around to see the Monkey Faunus that she and the rest of her team were trying to catch. "The name's Sun Wukong. Wanna tell me what's troubling you? My new Faunus friend?" Sun asks.
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Team RWBY Dorm
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It is morning at Beacon as Ruby wakes up from her beauty sleep, yawning in the process. She looks over at Blake's empty bunk with a book on it, and groans sadly. 'Blake and the White Fang?' Ruby thinks as she is unsure how to take this situation until an idea crosses he mind. She gets her Scroll and messages Naruto and Fū to help them later. After sending the message she gets Weiss and Yang to search for Blake.
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Team NFSS Dorm
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Team NFSS just got dressed and was debating what to do for the last day of the weekend until Naruto's and Fū's Scrolls dinged.
"Who's messaging you two?" Sai asks.
"It's Ruby." Fū says. "I wonder what she wants."
Naruto looks at the message. "Looks like we are helping to help find Blake today."
Sasuke sighs. "More drama from Team RWBY." He comments before turning to Naruto. "You should let them solve their own problems."
"Don't be like that Sasuke if our friends need our help we should at least try to help. Plus the timing matches the warning I got, so this isn't just for Team RWBY's benefit." Naruto clarifies to Sasuke.
"Fine." Sasuke relents as the team goes to help Team RWBY.
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Vale
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Later in the day we see Ruby, Weiss, and Yang walking through the empty streets of Vale. "She's been gone almost all weekend..." Ruby says to the group.
"Blake's a big girl, I'm sure she can handle herself!" Weiss says.
"Weiss, come on. She's one of our teammates." Yang tells Weiss.
"Is she? We all heard what she said!" Weiss replies back.
"Weiss." Ruby tries to calm her partner down.
"We're still not 100% sure. Either way, she's missing, and we need to find her!" Yang says.
Ruby: "I just hope she's okay..."
With Blake and Sun
Elsewhere, Blake is sipping a cup of tea and sighing. She looks up at Sun sitting across from her, who holds his drink with his tail as his hand props his head up. He takes a sip when Blake puts her cup down. "So, you want to know more about me..." Blake says
"Finally, she speaks! Nearly two days and you've given me nothing but small talk and weird looks!" Sun begins to say as Blake gives Sun a firm look. "Yeah, like that."
Blake rolls her eyes before closing them and looking at him sadly "Sun…Are you familiar with the White Fang?" Blake asks
"Of course! I don't think there's a Faunus on the planet who hasn't heard of them. Stupid, holier-than-thou creeps that use force to get whatever they want. Bunch of freaks, if you ask me!" Sun replies.
Blake sips her drink while listening until she speaks up for the big reveal. "I was once a member of the White Fang." Blake admits to Sun.
Sun promptly goes cross-eyed and chokes on his drink, making him put it down and wipe his mouth as he holds up a hand to process this information. "Wait a minute, you were a member of the White Fang?!" Sun admits in shock.
"That's right. I was a member for most of my life, actually. You could almost say I was born into it..." Blake begins talking. "Back then, things were different. In the ashes of war, the White Fang was meant to be a symbol of peace and unity between Humans and the Faunus. "Fangs of pure white need not shed blood." That's the true meaning behind the White Fang, behind the name. I was so proud." Blake says focusing on that word.
"Woah." Sun says in surprise not knowing that before.
Blake continues talking. "Of course, despite being promised equality, the Faunus were subjected to discrimination and hate. Humanity still thought of us as lesser beings. And so, the White Fang rose up as a voice of our people. And I was there. I was at the front of every rally. I took part in every boycott. I actually thought we were making a difference. But I was just a youthful optimist."
Blake pauses to take a sip of tea. "Then, five years ago, our leader stepped down, and a new one took his place. A new leader, with a new way of thinking, suddenly, our peaceful protests was being replaced with organized attacks. We were setting fire to shops that refused to serve us, hijacking cargo from companies that used Faunus labor. And the worst part was, it was working. We were being treated like equals. But not out of respect... out of fear. And before I knew it the White Fang I knew and loved was gone from this world."
Blake puts down her teacup in front of a stunned Sun. "That's why I left. I decided I no longer wanted to use my skills to aid in their violence, and instead, I would dedicate my life to becoming a Huntress and to protect. So here I am: a criminal hiding in plain view, all with the help of a little black bow." Blake says wiggling her cat ears beneath the fashionable disguise to demonstrate.
Sun comes to terms with this. "I'm glad to know, but don't you thing you should tell your friends that key tidbit?" Sun asks as Blake merely looks down in shame and says nothing.
With Ruby, Weiss, and Yang
The scene transitions to Ruby, Yang, and Weiss walking through town and calling in vain for their missing teammate. Well only Ruby and Yang as Weiss isn't really helping right now.
Ruby turns to Weiss. "Weiss, you're not helping!"
"Oh! You know what might be able to help? The police!" Weiss comments back.
"Ugh, Weiss..." Ruby says crossing her arms in irritation.
"It was just an idea!" Weiss:
"Yeah, a bad one." Ruby says continuing to walk down the sidewalk
Yang is following behind Ruby. "Weiss, I think we should hear her side of the story before we jump to any conclusions."
Weiss continues following behind Yang. "I think that when we hear it, you'll all realize I was right!"
Ruby gets a bit more frustrated and decides for a change of pace. "Lets all just split up and cover more ground." They all agree with this plan and each goes their separate way.
With Blake and Sun
As the sun of Remnant starts to set Blake and Sun are now walking down an alley.
Sun has his hands behind his head before speaking. "So, what's the plan now?" He asks Blake
Blake begins contemplating. "I still don't believe the White Fang is behind these robberies. They've never needed that much Dust before." Blake says.
Sun: is widening his eyes. "What if they did?" He begins saying lowering his arms and pacing in front of Blake as he continues his theory. "I mean... the only way to prove that they didn't do it, is to go to the place where they would most likely go to if they were to do it, and not find them there! Right?"
"The only thing is, I've no idea where that would be." Blake says unsure on how to go about this.
"Well, while I was on the ship, I heard some guys talking about a Schnee Dust Company cargo ship hauling a huge amount of dust into the port tonight." Sun says to Blake's shock
"You're sure?" Blake asks.
"If we do a Stakeout we're sure to run into the robbers." Sun says.
Blake then turns to him. "What's your objective, really?" Blake questions him.
"Are you always so guarded?" Sun says laughing a bit. "I'm just doing my darnedest to cheer up a gloomy girl who had a falling-out with her friends." Sun replies.
Blake is silent for a moment before talking. "If you think that's enough to earn my trust then you're a happy-go-lucky fool."
"Ouch!" Sun says in a fake hurt voice. "Well too bad, cuz I totally am!" Sun begins saying. "Whatever, though. Have it your way. You can mope around here with nothing to do or join me for an all-night stakeout."
Blake is silent as she looks towards the sky. "Terrible options all around…" Blake says as Blake sudden narrows her eye in Sun's direction.
"What's the problem now?" Sun says as he turns to see a black rat running away from the pair. "It's a rat." Sun says plainly as the 2 Faunus leave towards the port.
Unknown to the Cat and Monkey Faunus the black rat traveled up a building and dives into a blank piece of paper turning into words and sentences. Sai picks up the paper and reads the information on it. "So that's Blake's story and what she plans to do." Sai says sending the information to his team while he watches Blake and Sun from the shadows.
With Weiss
Weiss has been looking around nonchalantly to find traces of Blake. She sighs continuing to find nothing. "Damn it." Weiss says.
"Trouble in paradise Princess?" Weiss turns around to see Naruto talking to her.
"What are you here for Naruto?" Weiss asks not in the mood for Naruto's regular nonsense.
Naruto gets the message and begins talking. "Ruby messaged me about what happened between you and Blake. Though I would have though she would have revealed her heritage before this."
Weiss's eyes widen. "You knew that she's a member of the White Fang?!" Weiss asks.
Naruto raises an eyebrow at that. "I knew she was a Faunus. But I doubt that she is a member of the White Fang."
"How are you so sure? The innocent never run." Weiss asks with her hand on her hips.
"If she is a member of the White Fang then I would think she would be a lot more aggressive towards others. Blake on the other hand is just moody and prefers not interacting with others unless it is necessary." Naruto reveals.
"That…does sound accurate." Weiss says looks down in thought arms to her side. "I still want to hear the truth from her mouth." Weiss says.
Suddenly Naruto's Scroll dinged and he sees a message from Sai. "Well…it seems Blake is looking for a confrontation with the White Fang."
"Lets go then, we can't Blake deal with those murders!" Weiss says looking up with an unusual amount of determination that seems to hide something else.
"Weiss what's wrong?" Naruto asks.
"What do you mean?" Weiss says impatiently.
"You seem really on edge and your emotions are at an all time high." Naruto begins explaining. "This isn't a classroom Weiss and I don't want to have a repeat of what happened in Port's class a few months back."
"You don't understand!" Weiss says.
"Then tell me!" Naruto decides to push Weiss this time.
"THEY KILLED MY BROTHER!" Weiss yells while tears fall from her eyes. This declaration stunned Naruto to silence. "You don't have the right to stop me." Weiss growls at Naruto.
'Damn. Things really have changed for Weiss.' After a few moments of silence Naruto sighs. "You're right, I don't have the right to stop you." Naruto begins saying. "But, if you do this the way you are now and you get hurt that will make me, your friends, and teammates sad." Naruto says with a sympathetic look and sends Weiss a copy of the message he got from Sai. "As your friend I ask that you get your emotions sorted out before doing anything because your teammate is waiting for you." Naruto says before running to the new port Sai mentioned.
Weiss looks down at her Scroll contemplating what she should do next, while reading what Naruto sent her.
With Ruby
In another area of Vale Ruby has her own difficulty while searching for Blake she encounters Penny again. So Ruby decided to take a brake on a bench and they talk.
"So, Blake is your friend?" Penny asks.
"Yes, Penny." Ruby says with a sigh.
"But you're mad at her?" Penny asks.
"Yes. Well, I'm not. Weiss is." Ruby clarifies.
"Is she friends with Blake?" Penny asks.
"Well, that's kind of up in the air right now..." Ruby says.
"But why?" Penny asks trying to contemplate this.
Ruby sighs and explains a bit further on Blake's situation with Weiss.
"I see, so those are the circumstances concerning Blake." Penny says.
"I'm so confused." Ruby begins saying. "Even if I find Blake what would I even say? It feels like nothing makes sense anymore."
"However, Blake is still your friend, yes?" Penny begins talking. "Now matter what sort of person she may be the fact of your friendship remains unchanged. Am I incorrect?"
"No, your right." Ruby says with more determination. "Lets continue the search."
With Blake and Sun
Amidst the chirping of crickets and darkness of night, Blake lays flat on her stomach on the rooftop overlooking the shipment of Schnee Dust containers.
"Did I miss anything?" Sun asks.
Blake looks up as Sun drops down to her right. "Not really. They've offloaded the crates from the boat. Now they're just sitting there."
"Cool." Sun say holds out one of the bananas in his arms. "Want one?"
"Unbelievable." Blake says not understanding how Sun is making light of the situation.
"Don't give me that evil eye. I can tell you are hungry." When Sun says this Blake's stomach rumbles to her surprise. "See, your tummy doesn't lie." Sun says as he and Blake eat the Bananas for a bit.
"Why are you here hanging out with me? You barely know a thing about me." Blake asks to Sun's confusion.
Sun sighs. "I'm just the type who can't abandon someone who's down in the dumps. Is that weird?" Sun asks while Blake remains silent. "And if the problem is us not knowing each other enough then lets talk more about ourselves? As partners in crime." Blake delivers an angry glare at him at that last comment. "Yikes! C'mon. That last part was a joke."
Just as he says this Blake's ears twitch. "Get down!" Blake says forcing Sun down on his stomach.
"Why are we hiding?" Sun begins to ask as suddenly the winds blows all around them, and they look up to see a Bullhead's searchlights flashing around for a landing spot, descending in the middle of the cargo containers and extending a ramp for a black hooded individual with a metallic fanged mask to come out of. "Look at them, those creepy masks.
"Oh no." Blake says.
"Is that them?" Sun asks
"Yes... It's them." Blake says staring at the bloody wolf on the back of the man's outfit.
"All right, grab the tow cables!" The White Fang Soldier says to the other White Fang members coming from the aircraft, motioning with his rifle.
"You really didn't think they were behind it, did you?" Sun asks.
Blake stares sadly at the scene. "No. I think deep down I knew. I just didn't want to be right." Blake says as she closes her eyes in despair, only to open them suddenly when she hears a new voice.
"Now then," Roman begins to say as the soldiers look up at him gesturing widely and coming down the ramp. "Time to put in a night's work. Wouldn't you agree my fanged friends?"
"What the?" Sun begins saying. "He's not wearing a mask?"
"This isn't right." Blake says.
"Huh? What isn't?" Sun ask.
"The White Fang would never work with a Human. Especially not one like that." Blake says as she stands up and unsheathes the Katana of Gambol Shroud before walking off the edge of the roof.
"Hey, what are you doing?!" Sun says alarmed.
Blake falls to the ground in a crouch then continues on to hide behind one of the containers, peeking around the corner to see Roman. She then suddenly appears behind him with her blade at his throat. As a result Roman drops his cane Melodic Cudgel.
"What the- Oh, for f-" Roman begins saying before he gets interrupted.
"Nobody move!" Blake says while Roman rolls his eyes when he's cut off by Blake mid-swear.
"Whoa! Take it easy there, little lady." Roman says.
"What's going on?!" The White Fang soldiers say.
Blake uses her free hand to go for her bow and remove it, causing the ribbon to fall away as her Faunus ears are shown to the world. "Listen comrades of the White Fang!" Blake begins saying. "Stop taking orders from this rotten man! Take back your pride as members of the White Fang!" Blake yells at the White Fang soldiers who seem surprised.
"Ha ha!" Roman laughs. "I'm afraid you've got it all wrong." Roman tells Blake.
"What are you talking about?" Blake asks in frustration.
"Them? Taking orders from me?" Roman begins saying. "Perhaps you didn't get the memo, little miss all-star student. They and I have joined together in service of a grand, sublime plan. We are partners. Equals, even."
"I don't by that for a second. You must have deceived them somehow." Blake says in furious denial.
"Witness with your own two eyes then." Roman says to Blake.
Blake's eyes widen in shock as the White Fang soldiers ready their guns and equip their swords in response.
"You speak of "taking back pride"? "Really?" Roman begins asking. "Did that pride ever even exist? Well, Faunus?" Roman asks as the White Fang soldiers begin to close in on them with the intent of getting to Blake.
"You guys, why?" Blake asks seemingly devastated.
""Why" she asks?" Roman begins to say as he laughs a little. "Surely you already know." Roman say as a still shocked Blake has an internal crisis. She doesn't even notice that Roman is moving his foot to Melodic Cudgel. "Because this is the true nature of all the Faunus." Roman says as suddenly, the air is filled with more turbines blowing the wind wildly around the holdup. Two more Bullheads are hovering above the heist, and as Blake watches in horror. Roman uses his foot to flip the handle of his weapon. He catches it and smiles as he manages to fire his cane at Blake's feet, resulting in a large explosion.
Blake, dazed but relatively unhurt on the ground, quickly rolls and runs out of the way of Roman's continued attacks, flaming missiles destroying cargo behind her as she flips and uses her semblance to dodge then retreats behind more containers. But what, awaits her is more White Fang soldiers as they begin attacking her.
Roman then laughs. "It's hopeless my cat-eared cutie." Roman says tauntingly.
"Wait! Stop!" Blake tries to tell the White Fang soldiers as she blocks and dodges their attacks, but they don't listen.
"Now, what good villain stops just because he's told to?" Roman says like this is a fact of life.
"Hopeless huh?" Sun begins saying as he leaps from the container above Roman and drops down on the criminal's face feet-first, rolling up and readying himself to fight. "Don't be so sure just yet!"
"Sun!" Blake says.
"We really stepped in it now." Sun says.
"Tch, how obnoxious." Roman says as the Bullheads open to let more White Fang members descend on the scene, standing by Roman as he gets up and surrounding Sun. The White Fang charge at the Monkey Faunus, but he manages to dodge slashes and get some of the soldiers with his fists and kicks until he rolls out of the way of one's sword.
"Haha!" Sun says pulling out a collapsible red staff. He quickly uses this to beat down on each opponent that nears him, felling each one in a single flaming blow when he twirls it around, even creating a scorching shockwave to beat the last of them.
Blake peers around the corner of the container to watch Sun jump around and beat another White Fang soldier, landing on his back and causing him to fly over toward Roman's head. The crime boss ducks then growls in annoyance and aims his cane at Sun, firing a shot that he defends himself from. Sun kicks Roman in the chest and disconnects his staff into two spinning circles of flame-firing shotgun nunchucks before becoming twin arcs of offense again. Sun swings each gun at Roman while firing everything he as at him, but even with the rapid series of shots and flying bullets, Roman manages to defend himself against every bullet and hit with his cane.
"Letting her fend for herself Monkey Boy?" Roman says as Sun hesitates for a moment to see Blake struggling to fight the slowly increasing number of White Fang soldiers and stops with one foot in the air. That moment of hesitation was all Roman needed as he aims the base of his cane preparing to fire a shot into Sun's abdomen area at point blank range.
"Sun!" Blake yells in worry knowing she can't do anything at the moment. Suddenly a series of miracles occurred. First was in a flurry of rose petals Ruby appears using Crescent Rose and knocked Roman back saving Sun. "Ruby?!" Blake yells in shock.
"Blake! Finally found you." Ruby says joyfully reuniting with her teammate again.
Blake let her guard down for a moment and when the White Fang soldiers tried to capitalize on this when suddenly a wave of ice shows up and freezes the some of the White Fang soldiers in place. If this didn't surprise Blake enough see hears an unexpected voice "Do you have any idea how long we've been searching for you?" Weiss says to Blake.
"Weiss!" Blake says in shock not expecting the Schnee heiress to save her. "Why are you-" Blake begins to say before Weiss cuts her off.
"I have a few things to say to you. But first we have something to do." Weiss says as a few of the White Fang soldiers who avoided her ice began to get up.
"It's the Schnee heiress!" One of the soldiers says with anger. "Lets get her!" But before the threat could be carried out Yang and Fū show up and knock away the White Fang soldiers.
"You didn't think you were going to do this on your own." Yang says to her partner.
"Since Ruby called us to, we also got involved." Fū comments as well. When she says this more members of the White Fang getting knocked out and soon bound by a black snake.
"Seems like we made it Sai." Naruto says to his partner.
"Indeed. Though it seems Sasuke is not here yet." Sai says.
Naruto sighs. "Of all the habits to learn Sasuke had to pick up from Kakashi Sensei it had to be being late."
Back with Ruby she continues her confrontation with Roman getting up. Roman: "Well, we meet again, Red! Isn't it past your bedtime?" Roman begins to say. "A shame you had to ruin this nice, peaceful night. Well that quite all right." Roman says as a Bullhead shows up. "Might as well go out with a bang." Roman gets on the Bullhead to make an escape. "Enjoy your night, Little Red." Roman says as he escapes.
"Wait!" Ruby yells and tries to go after him but the other Bullheads fires at Ruby. Fortunately Ruby uses her semblance to get out of the firing range. "That was close." Ruby says as she meets up with the rest of her team, Team NF(S)S, and Sun.
"Glad we all could make it." Naruto says to the group.
"Though we still have some unfinished business." Weiss says as the group turns many more White Fang soldiers and 5 Bullheads.
Then a weird thing happened. "Are you faring well Ruby?" Penny says standing on top of a crate.
"Penny, get back!" Ruby says looking up at her.
"Don't worry, Ruby. I'm combat ready!" Penny says with confidence. Her backpack mechanically opens up, and from its dark depths comes a single sword that extends and multiples into several blades hovering over Penny's back. Leaping from the rooftop with the weapons acting as wings, she sends three of her swords to knock two White Fang soldiers down before even landing on the ground, where she proceeds to fling the swords at one enemy, impale another to a wall, create a barrier of spinning steel against a running attack, leaping over a goon with her swords in tow, and finally making a wheel that she throws to knock multiple White Fang soldiers off their feet.
"Whoa!" Naruto, Fū, Yang, and Sun say as Naruto meets up with Fū and Sai, while Sun goes on his own. Both groups fight White Fang soldiers leaving Team RWBY by themselves.
Three Bullheads come from the skies and open fire on the battle, but Penny merely forms a shield and launches two of her swords into the wall behind her, which in turn pull their wielder back with their strings. When her swords swirl around her again, she commands them to open their points and build up a large glowing ball of green light. With a punching action, several bright lasers crack the pavement when they fire at the transports and slice each one in half, causing several of the White Fang members inside to fall and letting Ruby watch as Bullheads fall in pieces behind her.
"I guess its safe to assume that this Penny girl has the Bullheads under control." Sai says with a raised eyebrow.
"Ha ha ha!" Suddenly Team RWBY turns to see a new foe appears has white shoulder-length hair with a slight hint of blue and cat ears the same color as his hair. He is muscular and well defined in build. He wears a opened black vest with the image of a bloody wolf with three bloody scratches and teeth bared at the world on the back, tight black pants, and a dark brown belt that had a silver rectangular belt buckle. He also wears a tiger mask. "Well if it isn't Blake. I haven't seen you in a long while." The foe says in an arrogant tone.
"Mizuki." Blake says with a growl.
"Are you actually trying to play the good guy after everything you have done?" Mizuki says mockingly.
"Our power was meant to protect others not to harm them. Though I guess you never understood that, even though you were in a position to." Blake says.
Mizuki scoffs at the claim. "It's not my fault my teammates were incompetent."
"Umm…I'm totally lost right now." Ruby says out loud.
Mizuki turns to her and gains a look of slight interest. "You girl in the red cape, you training to be a Hunter?"
"Yeah." Ruby says not following the conversation.
"Ruby, don't listen to his nonsense." Blake tells her leader.
"Aw come on Blake don't be like that." Mizuki begins saying. "This will be quite educational for her. The little girl needs to know that being a Hunter means absolutely nothing."
"And what do you know about it?" Ruby asks angrily not liking having her dream mocked.
Mizuki gets a malicious smirk. "I know because I used to be a Hunter myself some time ago."
"What?" Ruby asks in disbelief.
"Its true, I did all the things a Hunter normally does; help the population, hunt and destroy the Grimm, and all that other nonsense. But after I completed my one of my missions the authorities revoked my license." Mizuki begins telling Ruby. "That's the reality of the world little girl."
Ruby looks very uncomfortable now not sure how to respond to Mizuki.
Then Weiss intervened. "It seems you completely left out the part where you killed one of your teammates." Weiss says to the surprise of most of the group. "I heard of you, a Faunus Hunter from Mistral got his license revoked because he killed his teammate during a mission."
"It's not my fault that he became deadweight." Mizuki said.
"Like Blake said don't listen to his nonsense Ruby." Weiss tells her partner.
"Right." Ruby says with more confidence now learning the context of how Mizuki got his license revoked.
That's just when Blake leaps into the action. Blake goes in close and becomes a blur of afterimages as she slashes both blades at Mizuki, who backs away and deflects each would-be blow with his sword at unbelievable speeds. Blake continues to dash, hop over, and slide around Mizuki to try and find a weak spot. Finally landing a blow after using her Semblance but he quickly recovers, deflecting several more attacks before attempting to punch her in the face. Only to hit a clone as she flips away. The two clash weapons again, then Mizuki jabs her in the side.
"Hahaha! Is that all you got Blake?" Mizuki says as he lands a few more hits on Blake until one final beating to the head with his fist causes her to go down. Yang appears vaulting over Blake as she and Mizuki get into a small fight. Yang tries to land some some shots in with Ember Celica but Mizuki dodges or blocks with his sword with ease. However, he got arrogant, there was second-long pause that allowed Weiss to activate a Glyph launching Mizuki up into the air and becoming trapped by Weiss' beams of blue energy. This restricted his arms, legs, torso, and neck. Then with her Semblance Ruby quickly closes the distance between her and Mizuki. Ruby then lands a powerful slash that slams Mizuki back on the ground, his sword lost in the water, and his Aura broken.
Team NF(S)S shows a pile of White Fang soldiers that they have defeated.
"We're finally done!" Fū says while stretching.
"They were easy to defeat but the issue was the number of them." Sai says.
"Lets check back on Team RWBY." Naruto says as they move to Team RWBY's location. But when they get there they bare witness to something that they can't believe.
"Did we win?" Ruby asks.
The moment Ruby asks that they hear Mizuki laugh. HA HA HA! "To think you managed to break my Aura" Mizuki begins saying as he gets up showing that his mask had been removed and it shows his green eyes and slit pupil. "I admit I underestimated you four a bit. But now is when I get serious."
"Don't bluff, you can't keep up with us anymore without your Aura." Weiss begins saying.
Mizuki smirks. "That may have been true in the past, but now I have this." Mizuki says as he takes out a glass filled with a black tar-like substance and drinks it.
"What's he doing now?" Blake says in confusion.
After finishing drinking Mizuki throws the glass to the side breaking. Suddenly his body convulses as a black mist comes out of his body and begins to change it, much to the horror of the witnesses. Mizuki's face gets pale, his eyes become yellow, the sclera of his eyes become black, his muscle mass increases greatly, and develops some bone armor on his body, his feet become cat-like, his entire forearms and hands are replaced with large blades in the shape of canine teeth, with red veins visible through his body. He gains the skull of a Sabyr Grimm on the top of his head, resembling a helmet.
"This power is amazing!" Mizuki exclaims with glee.
Ruby, Weiss, and Yang were speechless at this development.
"It can't be. A Faunus became Grimm-like." Blake says completely mortified as she loses strength in her legs and falls on her knees.
Mizuki just smirks as he rushes towards team RWBY faster then he had at the start of the fight and brings attacks Blake flinging her into a crate breaking her Aura.
"Blake!" Yang yells charging at the now monstrous Mizuki. Yang punches Mizuki several times but Mizuki either blocked her with his now large blades for arms or redirecting her hits to the bone armor, which resulted in minimal damage at best. Mizuki then does the equivalent to a karate chop and slams Yang into the ground. Mizuki begins to move away until Yang grabs his leg. "Y-you are not going anywhere." Yang says with a low stubborn voice before losing her grip.
Mizuki grins evilly and raises his arm preparing to stab her until in a flurry of rose petals Ruby slams her scythe against Mizuki who takes a few steps back do to the impact but it barely fazes him as becomes frozen by the ice Weiss created. Both Weiss and Ruby charge forward to attack Mizuki. But Mizuki breaks free of the ice and swings arms hitting Ruby and Weiss in the stomach knocking the air out of them and laying on the ground awake but temporarily unable to move.
Looking above we see Team NF(S)S looking at the unbelievable scene. "What is going on?" Sai asks unfamiliar with this unusual phenomenon.
"It can't be." Fū says with worry and disbelief. "Why does that guy have that kind of power?" Fū asks out loud seemingly having some familiarity with Mizuki's condition. Fū and Sai then realize their leader is missing. "Where's Naruto?!" she asks.
Mizuki begins walking over too Ruby and Weiss, but gets stopped mid way by Naruto who appears from the air cracking the pavement.
Naruto glares at Mizuki showing that his hair spikier then normal, his nails longer and sharper then normal, and his silver eyes now showing yellow slitted pupils. "Where did you get that liquid?" Naruto asks with growl showing more anger then Ruby had ever seen from her friend before.
"That's not important. What is important is that I have this power now." Mizuki laughs a bit. "I would have never gained this much power if was still a Hunter, I'm glad I gave it up in the end."
"What do you want with Weiss and Ruby?" Naruto asks still angry.
"Oh, so you noticed that? You're more perceptive then I thought. Though I think I will capture you too." Mizuki tells Naruto.
"Why?" Naruto asks.
"Lets just say someone I know is interested in the Schnee Semblance and people with your eye color." Mizuki clarifies.
"And what's so interesting about my eye color?" Naruto asks. Based on the current conversation he can tell Mizuki is following someone's orders. He knows that Weiss's Semblance unlike others is hereditary, so it makes sense why someone would be interested in it. Now he want's to see how much Mizuki actually know.
"Don't know, don't really care." Mizuki charges at Naruto and they being fighting. "If I can deliver you three then I can become even more powerful! You three will be sacrificed to make me the ultimate fighter!" Mizuki yells.
Naruto then preforms a scratching with his hand and Mizuki easily moves away from it. "How ju-AAAAAAHHHHHH! MY EYE!" Mizuki yells holding the right side of his face clearly showing his blood on his saber arm. "YOU BAST-!" As Mizuki begins to curse Naruto out he sees something that surprises him.
"You disgust me, you bastard." Naruto says with a growl as a dense shroud of "Aura" covers Naruto's body. The shroud is a translucent red with black bubbles reminiscent of boiling liquid forms all along it. The shroud takes the shape of an actual fox from paws around his hands and feet to ears on his head. The shroud also shows a single tail as well.
"What the heck is that?" Sai says surprised by this development. Fū suddenly falls on her knees and clutches her chest in pain. "Fū are you alright?" Sai asks.
"It hurts." Fū says in pain.
'Is this because of the Grimm inside them?' Sai thinks.
"What the…" Blake says watching what is happening to Naruto.
"Heck is going on here?" Yang continues Blakes question.
"Is that really Naruto?" Ruby asks unsure of what to think of this whole situation as this looks like a scene for some action horror movie Yang used to show her.
Weiss just remains under silent surprise during this whole ordeal, not used to seeing her friend do something that vicious. 'Is that really Aura?' Weiss thinks to herself.
Mizuki growls at this development. "No way. I refuse to accept you have power like this!" Mizuki charges forward trying to stab Naruto, but Naruto swings his arm upwards to block the attack. As a result Naruto not only destroyed Mizuki's left saber arm the shroud claw extended destroying the some of the bone armor and making scratch marks on Mizuki's left side.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Mizuki screams in pain.
"You really don't know anything do you." Naruto asks getting closer
Mizuki tries to laugh with fake bravado as he stands up too. "You act all high and mighty, but your no better then me!" Mizuki tells Naruto.
"I NEVER ASKED FOR THIS!" Naruto says in anger that Mizuki would compare them as he makes a ball of spiraling golden aura in his hand. But the difference is that the gold is a darker color and it has the red shroud around it as well. In a final clash as they charge to one another Mizuki tries to stab Naruto with his right saber Naruto puts the spiraling golden ball against it. As a result the ball quickly destroyed Mizuki's other arm and it continued forward to Mizuki's torso as it destroyed the rest of his armor and caused an explosion that made a giant crater at the port making everyone else cover their eyes.
After the dust settles they see a still shrouded Naruto standing over a defeated Mizuki. But another surprising thing happened as Mizuki's body shriveled up into a frail and decrepit old man, his skin darkened brown and his skin heavily wrinkled.
Naruto then takes a few deep breaths attempting to calm down. Fortunately it works as the shroud begins to recede back into his body. His hair and nails turn back to normal, and his pupil is no longer yellow. Naruto then walks to Team RWBY as well as Sai and Fū who arrived before Mizuki shriveled up. "Are you all okay?" he asks.
"We could be better." Weiss begins saying. "But you need to explain what all of that was."
"I promise I will later but for now lets just chill for a moment." Naruto says as he takes Fū and Sai to the side.
Later, a handful of police cars are at the docks, where Team RWBY, Team NF(S)S, Sun, and Penny are sitting on boxes in silence. Blake had long put on a new bow as Weiss turns to face her.
"Look Weiss, it's not what you think, see, she doesn't actually have a bow, she has kitty ears and they're actually kind of cute..." Ruby is speaking quickly to explain the situation.
"It's fine Ruby. I can speak for myself." Blake says calmly looking at Weiss. "Weiss, I want you to know that I'm no longer part of the White Fang anymore. Back when I was with the-"
"Stop!" Weiss begins saying. "We've been searching for you for almost twelve hours." she pauses for a moment. "That means I've had about twelve hours to think about this. And in that twelve hours, I've decided..."
Yang, Sun, and Ruby look on, worried.
"I don't care." Weiss tells Blake
"You don't care?" Blake asks surprised.
"I want to believe in the person that I've come to know." Weiss begins telling her. "But I also…said some things I shouldn't have. For that…I-I'm sorry." Weiss says embarrassingly.
Yang then intervenes. "You can forgive her, right Blake? After all Weiss was looking for you since the weekend started all by herself.
Weiss gets shocked. "How dare you Yang! You promised not to tell!"
"Really? I did?" Yang questions.
"You're incorrigible. Weiss tells Yang.
"Sorry." Yang says.
They are then alerted to Blake laughing. "I'm sorry too." Blake begins saying to her team as she wipes a tear from her eye. "Thank you…all of you."
The moment is serious for a second more until… "Whatever! All that matters is that Team RWBY is back together!" Ruby says waving her arms wildly.
With Team NF(S)S we see Naruto talking with Fū. "Are you okay Fū?" He asks her.
"The discomfort has faded." Fū says.
"I'm sorry I didn't think my cloak manifesting would hurt you."
"The more we learn I suppose." Fū comments.
"Still the amount of destructive you posses is frightening. We're lucky you didn't set off any Dust explosions. Sai says as Naruto laughs at his luck.
"SUN!" Both teams turn to see Sha and Sasuke walking towards them.
Sun laughs nervously. "Hey Cousin."
"I've been trying to find you for the past 2 days." Sha says as he lectures Sun. while Sasuke goes back to his team.
"You're really late Sasuke." Naruto says.
"Whatever, so what did I miss." Sasuke asks.
"Not much." Sai begins explaining. "Just a Faunus becoming Grimm-like, Naruto having a cloak around him, and Fū in a bit of pain."
Sasuke's eyes widen at the news. "FUCK! I missed a lot." Sasuke turns to Naruto. "Can I at least assume you managed to form only one tail?" Sasuke asks as Naruto nods his head. "Okay it could've been worse."
Fū then talks. "Well I know we will have some interesting competition during the tournament.
Ruby is looking around "Wait a minute. Where's Penny?" she asks.
From the darkened back seat of a limo, Penny watches the group of friends reuniting with each other.
"You should know better than to go running around in a strange city." Penny's Driver says.
Penny lowers her head sadly. "I know, sir."
"Penny, your time will come..." Penny's Driver says as the car drives off.
Naruto's eyes widen suddenly "FUCK! Naruto yells as everyone looks at him.
"What's wrong?" Ruby asks.
"It's Monday morning!" Naruto says.
Weiss's eyes widen at the implication. "We're going to be late for class!" She screams.
Meanwhile, Ozpin is seen holding a Scroll showing a "LIVE FEED" of Naruto and Ruby at the docks. He closes the video and opens up a communication with Qrow, whose team name and other information is left blank and his only message is: "QUEEN HAS PAWNS."
"Hmmm." Ozpin hums.
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Roman walks into a large warehouse with a shadowy interior. He goes over to a table and places down a case of mysterious contents, sighing in tiredness.
"Nice to see you made it, Roman." An attractive female voice says.
Roman turns around suddenly when he hears the voice and their noisy entrance. "Whoa! Hehe... I wasn't expecting to see you guys so soon..."
Of the three figures before Roman only her head, containing yellow eyes and flowing dark hair, is seen. "We were expecting more dust from you."
Roman laughs a little before getting serious "Hey! You were the ones who suggested working with the White Fang."
The dark haired women chuckles darkly. "And you will continue to do so." She says as she summons a fireball in her hand and steps out of the darkness with her two companions, a gray-haired man and mint-haired, tanned woman "We have big plans for you, Roman. All we ask is... a little cooperation."
Roman raises an eyebrow. "I thought you would be more disappointed." Roman says.
The dark haired woman pulls out a tablet. "Normally I would be. But thanks to that failure I was able to see something very interesting." She shows an evil little smile seeing Naruto in his cloaked state.
End of Chapter.
What did you think? Was it good, bad in between?
My goal for this chapter was to introduce a couple of new characters, interactions, some changes to the Canon, show some for fighting scenes, as well as a new concept I'm doing for this story.
Also before you all criticize me for adding more character with Silver eyes I have a reason for this in later chapters (A reward for whoever figures it out based on what I have done so far).
1. For Sha Sanzang think of a mix of Sun and Kaidou Motoharu from "Hagure Yuusha no Estetica" with a few alterations.
2. For Arashi think Naurto's body type, his hair is based on Karma Akabane from "Assassination Classroom", and his clothes are based on Basara Kurochi from "B-Daman" with an altercation.
3. Yes I'm using Mizuki from the Naruto series. If his appearance doesn't sound familiar to you I understand as this is from an anime only arc in the part 1 of the Naruto series. See episodes 142 to 147 if you want a better visual. As it was inspiration for this chapter
4. If you want a better visual of Mizuki's transformation think Ggio Vega's Tigre Estoque El Sable from the "Bleach" anime. Just replace the brown with black and the black markings with bone armor, and get rid of the yellow fur, as well as a few details added from the Sabyr Grimm.
5. Think Naruto's Verison 1 cloak with some slight changes.
6. For Naruto's Rasengan it was the one he used against Sasuke at the end of part 1 when the fox cloak was shown against Sasuke's 2nd level Curse Mark.
I hope you all enjoyed reading this chapter.
Next Chapter: No name yet.
STAY SAFE EVERYONE.