Pain was what Naruto felt as he started to reawaken to the land of the living. His cheast hurt and his head felt like it had slammed into a brick wall. "Finally awake are we?" A familiar voice asked. Naruto groaned weekly in reply.
"You broke a few bones in your ribcage as well as a slight crack in your skull. You suffered quite a concussion. Amazingly your body regenerated these areas and now shows no sign of previous damage. But that is small compared to what happened during the fight that you and Miss Long had. So could you explain to me what happened?" Ozpin asked.
"I became human again." Naruto responded in a tired tone.
Ozpin sadly sighed, "Naruto, you are not human anymore. From what I could see of the battle footage, it appears you may have activated your semblance." Naruto stared at Ozpin in confusion.
"Wait, does this mean that I can become human again?" He asked. Ozpin nodded in agreement and took a sip of coffee.
"Yes, but I wouldn't get your hopes up. It takes a while before anyone masters their semblance. You are just lucky to have unlocked it quickly. Look at Mr. Arc, he had his aura awoken at nearly the same time that you had yours unlocked but he still hasn't found out his semblance." Ozpin stated.
Naruto just smiled, "Well I'll just have to keep trying until I do master it." Naruto stated with confidence.
"That is the spirit. Now I would recommend that you brace yourself." Ozpin said with a slight chuckle before he walked away.
'What the hell is he talking about?' Naruto thought to himself. He found out a moment later when Ruby rushed into the room with rose petals flying behind her and stopped besides his bed before giving him a massive hug around his neck.
"Oh I'm so happy that you're alive! I thought that Yang killed you!" Ruby said extremely quickly. Naruto just tapped on Ruby's arm. Ruby loosened her arm a bit and Naruto inhaled deeply.
"Air!" He stated in a wheezing tone. Ruby let go quickly.
"Sorry." She replied. The rest of her team followed her into the room with Yang giggling at the scene before her. When Naruto and Ruby noticed this they looked at the team. Naruto's eye widened in shock before he used one of his tails to pull Ruby in front of him.
"Don't let her hurt me anymore!" Naruto screamed.
"Oh calm down Naruto, Yang is perfectly nice. Just don't touch her hair." Ruby whispered the last part out. This seemed to settle Naruto down a little bit because his tail let go of Ruby and went to being limp by the bedside.
"Hey Naruto about before, could we not let that impact our friendship? I mean I may get a little angry at times but I'm perfectly nice like Ruby said." Yang asked with a smile.
'Little angry my ass, reminds me of Kushina.' The gravely voice of Kurama stated.
'Hey, you're awake buddy.' Naruto replied back.
'No shit. Now pay attention, your girlfriend is speaking.' Kurama said with an annoyed tone.
'What are you talking about?' Naruto asked with a slight feeling of embarrassment. All he received in reply was silence. This was interrupted by Ruby saying his name.
"Naruto? You there?" Ruby asked as she waved her hand in his face. Naruto blinked and focused his eye on Ruby.
"Oh sorry I was just thinking. So what were you saying?" Naruto asked.
"Well I was wondering if you were okay from that beating that you took from Yang." Ruby responded.
"Yeah I'm fine. See," He said while banging his fist across his cheast, "I'm all healed up." Naruto said with confidence.
"That's great because we are going to go out on the town again except this time it's with team JNPR!" Ruby exclaimed.
"Okay, I'm good for it. Just give me a few minutes to put some clothes on, or do you ladies want to watch me change?" Naruto asked while smugly looking at the blushing faces of Weiss, Blake, and Ruby. Yang on the other hand seemed perfectly okay with this.
"No, I don't think we need our eyes and minds perverted by your ideas." Weiss said with a slight angry tone before dragging Blake and Ruby away. Yang on the other hand grinned at Naruto before following the rest of her team. When they left Naruto looked to see that Ozpin was still standing in his corner of the room with a slight smile while sipping his coffee.
"Those girls are great friends to have, cherish the times you spend with them." Ozpin said cryptically before walking away, his cane tapping on the ground as he left before once again it grew quiet.
"Okay, that was weird." Naruto said as he threw off the blankets of his bed to reveal his naked form underneath. 'Still not getting used to not having a dick in this form.' Naruto thought to himself. He jumped out of his bed and spotted his clothes on a chair next to his bed. His mask sat atop the pile of clothes with the mouth plate slid open and just stared at him.
"Man that thing is a little creepy. Why is no one terrified of it I'll never know?" Naruto asked himself. He walked over to the chair and put on the clothes with his helmet coming on his head last. "Let's roll." Naruto said before the mouth plate closed together with a metallic clack.
'Way to go looking like a badass, now if only someone actually saw you doing that.' Kurama said teasingly.
"Don't ruin the moment." Naruto said as he walked out of the infirmary.
When he made it outside the room he was greeted to both team JNPR and RWBY standing before him impatiently. "Hey guys. So where are we going to?" Naruto asked.
"To Emerald Forest. We are gonna beat up some Grimm and eat pancakes, and we're all outta pancakes. Wait we aren't really out of pancakes are we Ren?" Nora asked her partner nervously. Ren shook his head in reply with a slight smile. Nora just sighed in relief, "That's good, so lets get to the Bullhead!" Nora said and dragged Ren away with her.
"Nora, just wait up!" Jaune shouted after her. Jaune turned to the others, "We need to get to that Bullhead before Nora makes the pilot take off!" He stated before running off with Pyrrha following right behind him. Blake and Yang looked at one another and shrugged before following after the duo which left Ruby, Weiss, and Naruto standing there.
"Those imbeciles need to learn to slow down." Weiss said while rubbing her sinuses.
"Come on Weiss, lighten up and have some fun. Right Naruto?" Ruby asked him. Naruto nodded and grinned under his mask.
"I have a way to make sure Weiss can lighten up." Naruto replied while trying to hold in his laughter.
"What would that be?" Ruby asked. Naruto in response ran up to Weiss, grabbed her and threw her over his left shoulder much to Weiss' shouting.
"Hey! Put me down!" Weiss shouted while banging her hands on his back. Naruto turned to look at Ruby.
"Want a ride?" He asked.
"Sure!" Ruby replied. Naruto used one of his tails and wrapped it around her waist and lifted her onto his right shoulder much to her excitement and then he took off running down the hallway. They caught up to the others after Ruby gave Naruto directions to the Bullhead.
"No fair, they got to ride him yet I didn't!" Nora complained.
"Uh Naruto, why are Weiss and Ruby on your shoulders?" Yang asked when Naruto entered the vehicle. Naruto let Weiss and Ruby down to which Weiss slapped Naruto in the face but she regretted it afterwards due to hurting her hand on the hard metal of Naruto's mask.
"OW!" She yelled while rubbing her hand.
"Well it's your fault for hitting me." Naruto stated to her while taking his seat.
"And it's your fault for picking up a lady like that." Weiss responded before taking her seat. Ruby sat next to Yang and Blake.
"Naruto decided to give us a lift. It was really fun. And he also wanted to make Weiss lighten up, I don't think it worked." Ruby replied to Yang. Yang rolled her eyes at this.
"Well then hold on everyone, we are going up." Pyrrha stated before handing Jaune a paper bag. Jaune happily obliged and took the bag before vomiting in it.
"You better not vomit on my shoes this time Vomit-boy." Yang threatened. Jaune was too busy emptying his stomach contents.
"So Jaune gets motion sick?" Naruto asked Pyrrha. She nodded.
"Yeah, we're working on fixing it." She replied. Jaune lifted his head out of his vomit bag.
"Making Nora throw me in the air does not fix my motion sickness. It probably makes it worse." He said before his face turned green and he went back to vomiting in his bag.
"Throwing you around is a great way of fixing it!" Nora said as she slapped Jaune on the back causing Jaune to move his head forward and vomit on Naruto's shoes.
"Oh come on!" Naruto shouted. Yang and Ruby laughed at this.
"At least it's not on our shoes." Yang said smugly. Naruto flicked his shoe towards Yang which got vomit on her boots.
"Now it is." Naruto said with a cheerful tone. Yang groaned at what happened.
"I just cleaned these." She stated somberly.
"Well you can clean them again. Anyways, what exactly are we doing in the Emerald Forest? You guys never told me." Naruto asked.
"We are going to be training today. We managed to get permission from Ozpin to do this because we thought you would need training and a new weapon." Ruby said this while rummaging under her cloak and pulling out two kunai with revolver grips. "I got these for you since it seemed you liked them and I thought you could use a weapon just in case you turned human again." Ruby said with a large grin. Naruto smiled under his mask at this.
"Thanks Ruby. I don't know what to say." Naruto said as he took the two kunai into his hands. "So what do these extra pieces on the kunai do?" Naruto asked. Ruby slid closer to Naruto and took the kunai from his hands.
"They can switch from long range and short range by pressing on this button here," Ruby said while grabbing Naruto's hand and sliding his index finger onto a button which caused the kunai's blade to split in the center which revealed a gun barrel while also bending the kunai into a slight angle. "Then you just need to pull the trigger and it'll fire." Ruby said as she moved Naruto's hand to the grip and put his finger around the trigger.
"To reload you need to press this button and replace the bullets." Ruby finished with moving Naruto's hand to a button next to the cylinder of the gun which opened the cylinder of the revolver to reveal bullets already in the chambers.
"Thanks Ruby. This will really help." Naruto said before noticing that Ruby's face was right next to him during the demonstration which slightly embarrassed Naruto. Ruby moved away from Naruto and looked at him with a large grin.
"I hope it does. You'll kick a lot of Grimm butt with those babies." Ruby responded.
"Beacon students, we have made it to our destination. Please be ready to disembark." The pilot at the front said to the teens.
"Oh thank God." Jaune said with happiness. All the teens then stood up from where they were sitting and watched the doors on the sides of them open up reveling grass beneath them.
"Alright kids, I'll come back in three hours to pick you up. Good luck out there." The pilot said. The teens then jumped out of the vehicle and watched it take off.
"Well then, what do we do now?" Jaune asked. He was answered to many growls coming from the woods surrounding them. Naruto held his kunai in front of himself with one in a reversed grip and the other in its transformed mode.
"Survive." Naruto stated. Everyone else followed suit and pulled out their weapons. They circled around each other and waited for the Grimm to come out.
"You think those Grimm are a little angry about our last trip here?" Jaune asked nervously.
"Nah, they just want to give us a warm welcome." Nora said excitedly.
"Here they come." Ren said as beowolves charged out of the forest and at the teens. Naruto started it off by firing three bullets out of his weapon which put down one of the beowolves. The kick of the revolver surprised Naruto due to not bracing his arm which caused pain in his arm which made Naruto drop his kunai. Around him he could hear the others taking care of the Grimm around them.
Naruto saw another beowolf charge at him which made Naruto use one of his tails to grab the beowolf's leg and trip it. Then Naruto jumped onto the monster and stabbed his kunai into it's head. Naruto jumped off the beowolf and threw it's carcass at another beowolf. The creature's charge was halted as it's fallen comrade hit it. Naruto transformed his kunai into it's gun form and fired a round at the distracted beowolf's skull, this time he was prepared for the recoil.
"Naruto behind you!" Ruby yelled out. Naruto turned around to see the beowolf swing it's clawed hand at his face. Naruto transformed his kunai back into its melee form and stabbed it into it's hand then he used two of tails to swing at either side of the beowolf's head which crushed it. A growl behind Naruto made him turn around to see another beowolf about to claw him until a bullet punctured it's head. Naruto turned to see the smoking barrel of Ruby's sniper still aimed at the creature.
"Thanks Ruby." Naruto said. Ruby nodded before transforming her sniper back into a scythe and going back to attacking the onslaught. Naruto picked up his kunai and heard cracking in the woods next to Jaune and Pyrrha and out from the woods came a large deathstalker.
Naruto's Eye widened at this new arrival. Kurama summed their situation up perfectly.
'Well, shit.'
And another chapter done, and on a cliffhanger no less. Anyway I am doing a side project besides this which is titled A Man and His Book so I probably won't be doing two chapters a week as I used to. Still I swear that every week will have a new chapter. Anyway, comment and feed my comment monster.
