Fox of Remnant

by Zagger the Bloody Angel

A wish. His wish and dreams were placed into the hands of another. And their wish was for him to live peacefully. It seemed Fate was a cruel mistress and still had plans to use him for her gains.

8. Chapter VIII - Volume I Complete

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Events May Proceed.

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"The night is quiet," Naruto commented as they lay on top of the warehouse and kept survey of the shipment yard below, gazing around as it didn't seem tonight was the night they would be making their move or this wasn't the Dust supply Roman was after.

Blake lay next to him as she nodded as she had a controller in hand, carefully looking at Naruto's scroll in front of her as she looked through a camera. What she saw was another nearby shipyard as it seemed whatever she was controlling hovered slightly above the ground. "Why did you buy this drone if you have no idea how to fly it? You have your clones to do almost the same thing."

Naruto grimaced as Blake had the drone from him after he had attempted multiple tries to get it off the ground and failed miserably. It was like he was fighting Nora in Arcadia Fighters all over again and he just could not get the hang of the controls. "It seemed very useful for recon and had a very good range… I'm just not adept enough with technology yet to use it. I've got to practice first."

"That's obvious. You couldn't get it up." Blake stated and Naruto wasn't sure if the double meaning there was on purpose or not but let it go as they were at work. "But you have your clones and I know they retain key memories of what they have seen… So why do you even need this?"

Blake twitched as a clone just then dropped in her camera view just to taunt her and wave. It was like he heard her. Did Naruto have a telepathic connection with them?

The bastard!

"It's resource management Blake. My chakra isn't infinite, not by any means. Not anymore at least." Naruto calmly replied to his partner before sighing as he missed Kurama. "I may have a vast amount of energy that is alarming to those who can sense it when I get going… It's limited and my techniques have substantial drain if I just go burning through them."

Keeping the drone in flight as she checked the corners, noticing the battery was starting to get low she started to bring it in. "I get it. Staying in top conditions in case things go down while sparing just enough for patrol and investigation… Yang is right. Your powers are bullshit."

"In this world they are. And you've already called me on that." Naruto grinned as saw the drone fly back and land before them Blake handed his scroll back to him as he sealed it away and reminded himself to charge it up for later. "I'd say I'm still very powerful back in my world even with this current set of skills I have. I could probably count the number of people on both of my hands that could defeat me and on one had that I just straight up lose to."

"That not counting the Gods at the end of the war?" Blake raised her eyebrows as she wanted to make sure.

"Yeah, not counting them the one hand becomes two and I can no longer count on both hands for that could defeat me," Naruto admitted.

Blake looked out at the sea and could off in the distance the sun was ever slowly peaking. It would be morning soon. "Your world… Frightens me… Because I've seen a little of what you can do and that was two months ago. And I know you've been training and adding your new semblance to the mix which only makes you stronger."

Continuing to look around as he thought about what could go down here in the following days if they showed up, Naruto had to laugh a little. "You know what… Looking back on it my world scares me too. It was violent, unforgiving, and cruel."

"But in the end, I still miss it for the people. But most of I miss…" Naruto sadly smiled as he could see the sun as well and now Blake's attention was on him, looking a little worried at her friend as she thought she knew what was coming next.

"I miss Kurama… I miss my damn fox." Naruto caught her by surprise as he gave an empty sigh. "I miss him being so angry all the time. I miss him trying to kill me or trying to take over my body because all he wanted was his freedom. I miss all his manipulations because he was just… Misunderstood and abused just like I was…"

"And despite everything he was and the damn torment we put each other through for almost seventeen years we understood one another and finally became one and now to not have him as a part of me… Feels like I've had something ripped from me… Like a part of my soul was taken from me. ...And I hollower for it." Naruto painfully admitted.

Blake lay silently as Naruto once more let loose another painful secret to her. Just how many things did he have stewing inside of him that yet come to the surface?

Laying her hand across his back, Blake silently comforted him as they continued to wait for something to happen as they watched the sun rise slowly in the distance. There was nothing else they could do for the time being.

It seemed tonight was not the night Torchwick was going to act so they could catch him red-handed and she could prove the White Fang's innocence.

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"Naruto…" Blake stated as she lay beside Naruto, head laid down on a pillow as they laid down in queen sized bed they rented for the day in the hotel.

"Is this going to be another sleep-on-it thing like last… I guess two nights ago now?" Naruto raised his eyebrow as he sighed as he looked over at the cat faunus who shed her exterior clothing and was only wearing her white undershirt and shorts as she didn't have any other clothes on her this time.

Blake had the decency to blush at the blonde faunus that lay on the opposite side of the bed from her wearing his black t-shirt and boxers. "I'll try to sleep I promise but there are a few things on my mind still."

"It's fine. I think it adds to your charm." Naruto gave her a foxy grin which only intensified her blush further. "So, what's up?"

"I'm scared to find it that it is the Fang… I've already come to terms that it is probable that if it is a big operation like this that the manpower for it would almost necessitate a group like them to be involved." Blake's mood dropped and her ears flattened as she wrapped her arms around her stomach. "And if it them with Torchwick and they are working with a human… I don't understand why but that means he is working with a human."

Naruto sat up and glanced down at Blake before offering his hand to her to sit up so they could talk. "You mean Adam?"

Taking his hand, she let Naruto lift her to a seated position and sat cross-legged before him. Gazing into her fellow faunus' eyes she gave a slow but frightened nod. "Yes… And I can only imagine he is looking for me after I left him alone on that train, abandoning him and his cause."

"Tell me… As of recently don't the Fang track down their lost members… And if memory serves me correctly from my research…" Naruto started as he didn't want to go down this road, but they were here, and he felt it was a necessary topic to cover.

"Yes, they all usually are disposed of in some cases they return to work for the Fang." Blake hung her head low as she knew what was likely to follow when chose her path. "I had expected more attempts to be honest but then I realized something… I don't think they would openly put a hit on me as Sienna would fear retribution from my father and any bad image from Ghira would hurt the Fang tremendously."

"That makes a lot of sense… Sienna is the current leader I guess?" Naruto thought about it and realized putting out a hit order on the daughter of the former and still alive leader White Fang, who still held tremendous influence would indeed be political suicide for the current leader.

He would tear her asunder in probably more than one way. You don't threaten a man's family even if it was his runaway daughter.

Just feeling Blake's love for him he knew there had to be an equal affection for her.

"Yes, Sienna Khan took over after my father stepped down and led the Fang in the direction they currently have taken, even renamed the position High Commander to make it militaristic… She was always violent even back then and butted heads with my father when I was little… Weiss may have been telling the truth they have been warring with the Fang and it may have been her faction they were dealing with. My father no longer being able to wash his hands clean of it may have stepped down because of her now that I look back and think on it." Blake hissed as she began to form her own opinions on what may have happened five years prior.

Naruto silently listened as Blake let her ideal form. It was probable. "About Adam, Blake. Why would he be personally looking for you? From what I can tell it seems like he is a high-ranking member, and it would be a waste of his time and resources to spend searching on a single person."

Snapping her back to the conversation they were on, Blake's ears flattened again, and she looked down once more. "Well as I said I abandoned him and… As I said before I thought he was the love of my life, and I was blinded to some of the things he was doing before I realized what was happening and tried to convince him otherwise, trying to remember who I was before and return to the way I was and did what I thought what my father would want me to do…"

"Engaged?" Naruto deducted but was proven slightly off as Blake grimaced.

"Sort of… We were Mated." Blake had a few tears building in hers before she wiped them away as she looked into Naruto's eyes. "It's sort of the same concept as marriage for two faunus in love with another… They have passionate intercourse with one another and accept the other's vows."

Naruto just looked at Blake with wide eyes and mouth slightly agape. That was more extreme than he was expecting and now there was a little understanding of why she was frightened. Faunus culture was a little more… Diverse?

That was a word for it.

"And I broke them as I abandoned him as I could no longer support his cause. And he knows that so I know he is looking for me and would waste those resources." Blake shook as she was frightened as if they did find the Fang... "And if they are there… If he is here…"

"Blake…" Naruto started as he slid his hands around hers and held them tightly to let her know he was there which snapped her gaze and made it solely focus on his. "You know even if we were just friends, I would protect you no matter what right? It doesn't matter who it is, if someone is trying to hurt one of my friends, I'm going to step in."

"If someone is trying to kill many people I am most decidedly going to step in and take them down," Naruto growled as he remembered what she said about Adam. "So, if he even thinks about stepping a foot in Vale or Beacon and harming a single person here, he has me to contend with and that is the last person in this world he fucking wants to deal with right now."

"I am Naruto Uzumaki, a force of nature this world cannot contain, and I will be glad to give him a first-hand demonstration of what this hurricane is capable of."

Letting his words wash over her, Blake felt the power, passion, and conviction of every word he spoke. And she felt safe once more… She felt like she was home once again but a little different…

Her lips softly met his as she fell into him, her eyes closed as her body ran on complete instinct. And then her eyes opened and a spark of passion in her gaze met his admittingly shocked gaze.

And Blake pulled back as that far as she was willing to go. Even if her body did most of the work, she accepted her action. "Thank you… Now, what does this make us… I still really don't want more… Not ready yet…"

"I…" Naruto tried to start as his brain malfunctioned for a moment from the kiss he received, took another moment before shaking his head. "It's still early but I think we can start working on some things."

"I agree. I'm already using you as an excuse, so I guess… We're a couple that's going to just go slow and work at this." Blake's ears perked up and if Naruto's ears could hear correctly, he could ever so hear a very light purring noise.

But it could have just been his imagination too.

"That's a start." Naruto released her hands and gave a small chuckle. "But we really do need to work on this sleep-on-it thing. We need some rest before we go digging for information and do yet another stakeout."

Blake laughed too. "We are bad at that."

"Get some sleep." Naruto pushed Blake onto her side before in a playful manner making her hiss but laugh immediately afterward as he plopped down on his side. "Was this your entire plot when you refused to let me spend more for a two-bed bedroom?"

"I am not letting you spend triple the price on a room just because I'm here with you," Blake stated as she just wasn't having that. "It's absurd when we have this much room and space. I won't even get a chance to feel your morning issue!"

"Dammit Blake!" Naruto took his pillow and pegged the cat faunus who then grabbed hers and returned fire before they both started laughing and slowly laying back down to rest.

"Naruto… If we're going to be out here multiple days. I'm going to need clothes as will you. So, we'll need to shop or…" Blake left the comment hanging as she didn't want to go back and confront her team right now.

Not until she could prove Weiss was wrong or that she was unfortunately right.

A clone simply popped into existence before heading out to complete his task. "I'll get them, no worries… Hope you don't need any laundry done."

"We have set days so I'm good. Mine is on Monday and Thursdays so I'm good for now… You might not be. You're going to find the same thing Yang did in my drawer."

"Why do… You know on second thought it makes sense, never mind." Naruto started before he realized she was in a room with three others and hiding things like that would need to be in a spot specifically for her.

"Good stress relief… Especially when Weiss or Yang get on my nerves." Blake answered anyways making Naruto choke as she closed her eyes. "But now… Going to need to get a new one… Something larger."

Naruto growled before sighing and shaking his head. "Perverted cat… go to bed."

"Mhm… Night."

"Night."

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Finding what he was looking for, Naruto in cloaked gear, took the alleyway entrance from the street they were on with Blake following close behind. The clone had made a short stop at a shop and had picked up a cloak for her as well and after some cuts, it wasn't too long for her.

It would be harder to identify the individuals if both were cloaked. If one was visible it was still very possible to identify who the other was and Blake was a known student of Beacon therefore identifying the other cloak figure wasn't as difficult. And considering she was a possible target of the White Fang there was even more of a possibility that she might align herself with the celebrity faunus if for nothing else than protection.

Was viable though at least from what Naruto thought of those that knew who Blake was.

"What are we looking for here?" Blake questioned as she knew they were gathering information… "This doesn't seem to be the place that you would get any kind of info from."

"Looks can be deceiving," Naruto explained as he noticed a few homeless on the sides and tossed a few liens to each of them as he walked by. "I don't expect to find any major criminal activity here… What I expect is to be pointed in the right direction because I know some of these people."

Blake caught that last statement and frowned as they came to a door and for the first time outdoors Naruto revealed his hood. So, feeling she do the same, she watched as Naruto knocked on the door to hear a gruff voice open it and what seemed to be a gruff, grey-haired man with tattered clothing answered the door. "Yeah, what do you fancy guys want? Best buzz of as we want no trouble!"

"Not here for trouble. Looking for some friends and wanted to see if they were out." Naruto responded honestly. "Is Mahony Bran currently here? If he is can you tell him Naruto Uzumaki is looking for him?"

The gruff older man narrowed his eyes and sniffed the air a few times before calling into the building. "Yo, Mahony! Got two people out here looking for ya! A strong-looking blonde fox and a lithe little black cat!"

"Wait, I'm not…" Blake tried to say

"Oh yes, you are girl. Can't fool my nose." The gruff man tapped his and grinned before unraveling and wagging a tail behind him. "This old bloodhound still has his sniffer, and it has never failed me before."

"Can't blame you for wanting to hide though. Enough shit to deal with as is." He commented before he a loud voice from inside.

"YO! LET THEM IN RUSTY!" Naruto heard Mahony's voice at hearing the big man's voice and the dog faunus known as Rusty moved out of the way.

"Ya heard him, be quick about it though. Old bones ain't as good as they use to be!" Rusty waved the two in Naruto walked in with Blake tepidly following behind before Rusty closed the metal door behind them.

It was what Naruto expected. Not much, rustic and a little rusty. No pun intended as the building was old and run down but they were doing what they could with it and everything they could with the space. It was extremely cluttered and crowded.

The small room they entered was little more than a small hallway that was no more than a five by ten to enter the building and it had a stool for Rusty to open and seemingly guard the door. Yet there were three other people here and two were faunus kids playing a little board game while what looked to be their mother was standing over a pot and getting ready to cook lunch.

And they barely stepped in, and he could feel the number of people in this place and knew it was only going to get more cluttered and crowded.

"This is my daughter and kids," Rusty mentioned as Naruto and Blake stopped at the scene and could see people littered throughout the rest of the building. "We all have fallen on hard times here and do what we can to help each other… I keep watch and use my sniffer to make sure no one gets in unawares and takes anything."

"Why would anyone…" Blake started but Naruto held out his hand as he knew otherwise as he had seen it already.

"Debt collectors, loan sharks, corrupt yet law-abiding businessman…" Naruto growled as he answered for Rusty as he watched the kids play the board game, he thought he saw Yang trying to get all of team RWBY to play recently.

He thought it was called Grimm Eclipse or something like that. He didn't recall the title, to be honest.

"Through lawful means, they are allowed to just take and take until the people they are taking from just don't have anything more to take from and leave you with nothing left. First, it starts with money. Then when it runs out, they start getting testy and start coming for your things and if you refuse, they'll use the court orders to come to get it and hire law-abiding goons to come to take it until you have no things left until they get what they think they are owed back plus interest for everything they've had to spend to get what they were owed back."

"Then finally if isn't paid up even after they have taken all your possessions including your place of living… They'll come for you." Naruto finished with a low growl filled with hatred as he watched these on the streets over the last two months as he learned more about Remnant and its laws.

He was repulsed. The only benefit was being a Huntsmen who had near free reign if they were under contract… As long they didn't cause more harm than the good they did.

Naruto was going to push that notion as he was going to do good. But there was going to be a lot of harm to the people higher up that didn't want their power taken from them.

And he didn't care.

"That's basically it…" The mother stated as she stared at the pot she was starting her meal from with a sad face. "That is everything that has happened over the past two years…"

"Aryl," Rusty commented as he looked sadly at his daughter as he knew the difficulty his daughter had been going through in her life.

"Naru'o!" A loud squeaky howl broke Naruto's attention and to his surprise, a slightly less thin Vajo rushed into the hallway and nearly jumped the fox faunus. "It's good to see ya! Though' you were a go'er!"

"I'm made of too strong of stuff for that wimp to even do anything to me… He nearly killed himself, to be honest." Naruto responded as he gave a light hug back to the faunus before they broke it up. "Good to see you Vajo… Staying warm?"

"Yeah! Been off the st'ff for a who'e mon'h now!" Vajo jittered but the shaking was far less than he remembered. "Fi'st few weeks were re'lly hard but this la't week been g'eat! I've never felt better!"

Noticing even his talking was even better as it was just possible due to how badly the drugs were messing with him and how much less he was shaking, Naruto smiled. This was a much better version of Vajo.

"Vajo!" The little boy of the group noticed the wolf and grinned. "Do you want to join us?"

"May'e here in a bit! Gotta ca'ch up!" Vajo grinned before a much bigger presence made himself known as he stood just outside the small hallway they hadn't even exited out of.

It was really cramped in there now.

"Good to see you Naruto… Figured you might see what we have going here and… See what to do." Mahony smiled at the blonde faunus before looking at his current outfit and knowing this was more a business affair. "So, what do you need?"

"I was coming to see if you point me in the direction I needed to go… But I think I may have found it." Naruto spoke, letting his intuition lead him as he looked at Aryl with concern.

Taking a deep breath as this was recent and even he couldn't do anything with all his strength, Mahony sighed while even Vajo with his jittery energy sunk against the wall and was even less bouncy as the bronze man spoke. "Do you want to tell him, or shall I take him to where we can talk about Aryl? He can help, he is a Huntsmen and what they did this time was not legal."

"And everything else was?!" Aryl snapped as her body shook with rage and tears filled her eyes, a feeling Blake knew all too well from recently. "I just can't… Nothing matters anymore… There isn't anything we can do about this…"

"The bad man in masks came and took daddy away!" The boy that was trying to get Vajo to play with earlier cried as jumped up and grabbed Naruto's cloak. "Mommy, grandpa, and uncle Bran tried to step in but a man with red hair simply walked in with his friends… And said some words and daddy walked away with him… Daddy would never go with them! He hated them!"

Blake's world froze as she heard the child's world. She knew what he meant by saying a bad man in a mask. It was someone from the White Fang. She wanted to argue it wasn't Fang as that wasn't how they operated but times were changing and maybe if they were working with a human like Torchwick as Naruto thought…

They needed Dust and Lien so if they were paid enough just maybe…

But why would HE be the one doing the job? Unless…

He thought that she could be hiding here as it was a community of humans and faunus alike! Her world dropped as she realized the people in this room could very well have been killed if this had only been a day before she had been seen at this place.

Blake's body shook and her brain turned to mush as her thoughts turned to one thing…

"BLAKE!" Naruto growled and her eyes snapped to see his blues and she looked him in the eyes. "I know what you are feeling right now! I get it, he was here! We will deal with that after this. Stay with me, okay?"

Her world slowly started to move once more as she gazed into her stern but warm eyes that conveyed strength and the willingness to stand beside her. Taking a deep breath, she nodded. "Thank you."

"So 't you he was looki'g for? Man, he was sca'y but we wou'd have gi'in ya to him." Vajo quickly read the situation before shivering at the man's presence. "Fi'st person to ma'e me thi'k Sill wasn't the wo'st I've met…"

Pushing past that line that bothered even him, Naruto pulled out his notebook and began to write in it as he started talking to Aryl. "What is his name? Who was the debt owed to? They are now key witnesses to a search and rescue as if they paid the White Fang to be involved… It's not only a crime they also may know where they could have taken him."

"Desmond Hunt… But I don't have anything to pay you…" Aryl stated as all search and rescues had to be paid out of pocket if they weren't gone for longer than a few days or if the disappearance could be explained as in this case, it would be simple.

Joined the White Fang.

Case solved and her husband was now a terrorist instead.

"Pay is negotiable to whatever I deem fit for the mission at hand." Naruto finished writing the contract in his book and handed it to Aryl. "Please read and sign."

"But I… Wait…" Aryl started as she didn't have anything but as the contract very simplistic one it was a quick read at a glance. "This can be right… That's…"

"Please sign," Naruto stated once more simply.

"Fuck I'll sign it!" Rusty said as he took the contract from his daughter and signed his name on it. "It was the bastards from the Rainbow Hotel and Bar and their damn loan sharks! Bring back my damn son-in-law so he can hug his son and daughter!"

"Then it is agreed upon for the price of one lien that my partner and I will find Desmond Hunt and return him safely to his current place of residence. You have my word." Naruto took the contract and scanned it with his scroll before uploading it and sending it to Ozpin to be loaded into the board.

Sliding both the notebook and scroll back into his pockets beneath his cloak, Naruto gave a nod to both Mahony, and Vajo as Blake looked on in stunned awe at the scene before her. "Mahony, Vajo it was good seeing you both… You're probably going to be seeing a lot of me over these next few months if they don't revoke my license for what I'm about to try and do these next few months."

"Good luck. Man, we'll be rooting for you." Mahony stated from his spot.

"Get t'em and bring him ba'k!" Vajo growled out with a grin.

Turning to Blake, Naruto gave her a soft smile before sliding his hood on. "Are you ready?"

Taking her cue, Blake slowly nodded and flipped her hood as Rusty opened the door for them. "Stay safe you two… They're not above using whatever they can get to use against you."

"Thanks for the head up." Naruto gave a wave before he and Blake exited and returned to the alleyway with a new goal in mind.

"Alright, let's see where this leads us to…" Naruto commented before turning to Blake as they slowly started to make their way down the pathway. "Do you need to talk about it?"

"We can do so in the morning," Blake answered and gave a smile in return at Naruto for checking in on her. "I will need to but for now let's stay on task."

"Okay… Time to bust some heads and get some information."

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"Would never think of this place as a hotbed of crime would you," Naruto said out loud as looked at the Rainbow Hotel with Blake and it was a rather impressive seven-story hotel that was brightly lit up in the colors of the rainbow in descending color.

Starting from red at the top and moving down from orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet on the very bottom.

"Oh, what all have they been doing?" Blake asked curiously as she knew Naruto had been doing some digging in Vale and was curious.

"Mostly money laundering, assault, and batteries for when people don't pay up." Naruto started as that was the standard stuff to expect. "But then there is the stuff that is hidden behind the scenes… Drug trafficking and distribution. Turning most of the men that can't make their debts into cronies… So be gentle on the ones that hesitate to fight back or just flat our run."

"Gotcha." Blake nodded as she was about to walk in when Naruto stopped her, and she realized there was still more.

"The worst is yet to come…" Naruto held his head down and flat out growled in his throat. "They… Sell the woman the failed to meet their debts for sex in a locked brothel beneath the hotel."

Blake's face drained of any pigment before it returned as anger filled her entire being. How dare they do something so heinous?

"One of my clones finally just got access down there recently and let's just say… I'm so glad this came about as I was waiting for a reason to kick down these doors and take these guys down." Naruto had an almost sadistic smile on his face as he couldn't wait to get to the top floor as he knew the boss would be in at this hour.

He was a night owl and loved when the party rocked on the top floor.

"Guns blazing?" Blake stated as she took off the cloak and tossed it to the right side as Naruto followed her example just on the left.

"For you maybe. I'd blow the weak one's limbs off with mine." Naruto growled as he pulled for Shattered Dreams the sheath he kept on his back. "Remember, shots to the arm and legs to wound them."

"I've done things like this before, don't baby me! I'm older than you!" Blake yowled before rushing the door with Naruto at his side. "Let's go!"

Shattering through the glass and rolling through as Naruto just landed and held out both of his hands, he loudly proclaimed to every staff member in the building. "Ladies and gentlemen. I am Huntsmen Naruto Uzumaki! Every staff member here is currently under investigation and is now requested to assist! Those who refuse will be arrested on the spot for money laundering, cases of assault and battery, be suspected of drug trafficking, forced labor, and forced prostitution!"

"I appreciate those that choose to cooperate with our investigation!" Naruto stated as several dozen armed guards rushed and surrounded him and Blake. "However, those that do not will be met with swift justice and be prosecuted with the full force of the law behind it after a very, very lengthy hospital stay! I would suggest you accept my offer as it benefits you entirely to cooperate as I'm only here for your boss!"

"No?" Naruto stated as no one stepped up as he showed his hunter's license via his scroll before pocketing it and giving a shrug. "Well, I guess we're going to have to do this the hard way. Ready?"

"I was born ready!" Blake yowled as Gambol Shroud transformed into a kusarigama form.

That was all it took, and the goons fired but they were too slow, and Blake struck with an arcing kusarigama swipe that knocked everyone back as Naruto jumped and she rushed by all the gunfire. Transforming Shroud back into her sheath blade form, she smacked the first goon down with the blunt end before rolling over the next and kicking the next in the head before transforming Shroud one more time to wrap the guy and nastily spin him until he crashed into a fourth.

Naruto spun in his jump and landed back on his feet soon as Shroud passed underneath him. Taking a deep breath and letting the oxygen fill his lungs, his eyes went feral as turned into a blur one guard out with a blow with the back of Dream's handle while grabbing another guard's skull and simply tossing him out of the building, through a window.

Bullets rained down from above, but she dodged by activating her semblance and using her shadow clone and dropped the two stunned goons by slamming them down with her full body weight into the ground before leaping back into action and turning the Shroud into its pistol form as she continued to run and fired three shots at the balcony above, taking out the lights from above them and stopping them from shooting and making the guards yell as they jumped over as they came crashing down.

Reflexively blocking a baton with Dream, it simply sliced through like butter, but he stopped it before it could do any harm and punched the guard out with a strike to the temple. Holding his arms out beside him as two guards rushed him, he caught them in the air with simple wind pressure and before simply blasting them back with pure natural chakra.

He didn't even need to use a Jutsu on these guys…

Blake was on top of the guys soon as they jump from the balcony and kneed the first one into the wall behind him before taking a page out of Naruto's book and dropping the next with a straight punch. Transforming Shroud back into kusarigama she several others' feet out from underneath them as she continued her push and drove her knee into one's sternum and the ground before rolling and hitting the next guy trying to get up with an elbow to the face

She would have continued her sprint, but Naruto tossed another into him and many of the others started backing away, looking terrified at how many had just effortlessly got beaten down. Most started running and for this reason, this irritated Blake despite remembering what Naruto had stated earlier. "Cowards!"

"Enough of them! Time to head up!" Naruto grunted as he grabbed two more by the head and Blake stopped just for a second as she swore and hit them with a wrestling move known as a DDT before quickly rolling to his feet.

That couldn't be… Naruto wasn't a fan of wrestling…

Did his world even have wrestling?

This wasn't the time for that thought and they both rushed for two entirely different things. She went to the elevator while he went for the stairs. "What, are you doing? This is faster?"

"What, no it isn't this is the faster path… Oh… Hold on." Naruto started before starting to realize what he said.

"I don't have light speed reactions Naruto! Get on the elevator!" Blake yelled as she hit the button and crossed her arms as she glared at her partner in this endeavor.

"That still horrible ideal… They can cut the power and then we'd just have to climb up and I can just run up walls. Can you?" Naruto stated and Blake blinked before cursing.

"Fine! We'll take the stairs!" She hissed as she rushed over and joined him as they started their ascent. "Fucking ninja bullshit!"

"Yeah, yeah. I know!" Naruto as they quickly ascended the first flight of stairs and made it to the indigo floor.

"Well… It's theme properly…" Blake commented as the lighting was indeed indigo colored as they ran down the hallway and to get to the next set of stairs before a group of bodyguards jumped before them. "But this also this a fire hazard! The stairs should all be in one single spot to the top so people can get out safely! It goes against all regulations! How did this building ever get approved!"

Blake flipped past the first two as Naruto simply hammered their skulls into the floor with his bare hands before she laid out the next two by sliding between their legs, tripping them and allowing Naruto to elbow drop the back of their skulls. "You do watch wrestling! Did they even have that in your world?!"

"Actually yes!" Naruto responded as they continued to the end of the floor. "But it was different and not fake like it is here! It was an actual combat circuit where they just didn't use chakra in any capacity. Even some ninja trained for it! Hell, the Heavyweight Champion was one of the Five Kage and one of the strongest people in the entire world!"

"What was your world?!" Blake yelled as decided to try the elevator once more, and Naruto didn't press as he was curious this time as the door opened, and she looked inside. "The elevators are the same way! They only got up one floor at a time! This is a death trap!"

"Or a gauntlet to make sure no one could ever get to him easily unless they were VIP!" Naruto pointed out the VIP elevators before he had an idea. "Do you mind riding me?"

"Could you have phrased that better?" Blake sighed and hung her head as she felt this payback.

"Not after everything you've been saying!" Naruto grinned and Blake's bow twitched as she realized that was revenge as he ripped the elevator doors open. "At least the shaft is nice, long, and hard for you!"

"Fuck you!" Blake yowled as Naruto pressed his advantage and she looked on up. "Please tell me I'm on your back at the very least."

"My jokes go only so far Blake." Naruto looked up and took a survey of the shaft. "I'd say…"

"There they are!"

"Well, time to hop on!" Naruto called out as bullets started raining toward them and Blake jumped on his back, and he climb up, and started sprinting up the shaft. "Hopefully the elevator…"

"Is above us!" Blake called out as her eyes widened it started to come down and fast. "Did they release the breaks on it?"

"There is no way they knew we'd be coming up this way like this!" Naruto roared as he formed a Rasengan as he saw the fifth-floor door. "Blowing the door!"

Blasting through the door, Naruto and Blake tumbled through as the elevator blew past themselves into a casino that now had people running from their entrance. Standing and helping Blake to her feet, Naruto noticed something here immediately different as only three guards came towards them and all of them were females in color-coordinated combat dresses. "These girls have stronger than normal aura… Possibly failed huntresses at one time."

"I can sense it… Paying off good bodyguards must take a lot of money! The bastard!" Blake yowled as she pulled out Gambol Shroud once more and was ready to go. "You have a color preference cause the Cyan bitch is kind of ticking me off with her glare!"

"Take her! I'll take Gold and Silver!" Naruto called out as he drew Shattered Dreams as he rushed forward as Blake transformed Shroud and forced Cyan to leap back from her slash.

Cyan kept stepping back as Blake forced her back with repeated slashes from Shroud's kusarigama form. She was trying to hit her with the blade yet, she wanted to get up against the wall first when she could strike.

That was suddenly broken as Cyan spun straight through Blake's slash into a dance-like motion and with a slicing kick caught Blake by the cheek and knocked her to the floor. Blake quickly rolled as she attempted to finish her was made as the girl tried to stab her stomach with her heel before she flipped onto her feet and carefully gauged her opponent as she wiped the blood from her left cheek.

"Bladed heels?"

Naruto slid between the delicate woman and grinned. "Say girls, it's a bit windy in here."

"Futon: Daitoppa (Wind Release: Great Breakthrough)," Naruto whispered as concentrated on the wind beneath him, and with a burst of chakra gale force winds surged straight upwards and caught the girls off guard and sent them flying upwards.

He on the other hand stayed firmly planted thanks to applying chakra to his feet. Step one completed.

Tracking silver as she tried to regain balance while also protecting her modesty as her combat skirt was flying upwards, Naruto jumped and delivered a powerful kick that sent her soaring through the casino and crashing through several roulette tables before he gave chase. As he neared silver's downed body as she tried to get up felt the presence of gold and quickly brought Dreams up and caught her heal with the ring of the kunai.

Only for him to back his face up another two inches as the hell extended into a longer blade.

Snapping the blade with a flick that sent her spinning and tumbling onto her partner, Naruto was a little surprised. "Bladed heels that extend? Neat."

Transforming Shroud into its wakizashi form, Blake stood up and held her blade at her side before beaconing Cyan to make her move. She was patient. She could wait for her.

It seemed the dancer was not the sort that could wait and began her spinning routine once more but this time she was ready and easily blocked the strike before countering with a slash that struck and sliced Cyan's cheek open, startling the woman. "We match now."

She did not like that spun one more time, but Blake easily countered and cut opening her other cheek with simplistic ease. "You're a one-trick pony, aren't you?"

Cyan's eyes glistened in rage and tried to step towards Blake to make a kick but with quick transformation, her heel was caught in the kusarigama form and it sliced right off. And then with a spin of her own Blake slammed the back of Shroud into her opponent's neck, dropping her to her knees before she fell unconscious on her side.

"All show and no substance… Is this a Naruto or a Yang trait? …They're both rubbing off on me too much."

"Girls, girls," Naruto stated as they both slowly stood up and glared at the black-clad ninja wearing orange boots. 'As much as I enjoy this menage-a-trois I must say I am really not interested. I haven't even touched my current partner and you girls lack her stamina and finesse so I must bid you adieu."

That hit a nerve and both girls struck forward with their heels out.

Step two completed.

Ninja wire wrapped around their ankles and lifted them into the air high above and they both cursed as their skirts fluttered and tried to reveal what lay underneath. They were too panicked about trying to keep their skirts from showing to even try and escape the trap.

And step three was completed.

And Naruto simply whistled as he tightened to wire. They wouldn't be getting out of that any time soon.

"Rule number one girls. Always look underneath the underneath."

Joining Blake at the stairs, noting she was applying some first aid to her left cheek, Naruto knew it had to be the heel as that was a bit of a surprise even for him. "Almost done."

"Two more floors… Think anything will be on the next floor?" Blake commented with a small grin as they started running up the stairs.

"Well considering this is a hotel I think we're good unless they got stronger guards," Naruto replied as moved onto the orange floor. "What possibly can civilians have? … Blake?

She skidded to a halt, an image from the last thing she saw before she left Adam alone on the train standing before her. And it had haunted her in real life as well, not just her nightmares.

"A Spider Droid?!" Blake screamed and couldn't believe how a civilian had access to one of these weapons. "Naruto look out!"

For once Naruto couldn't sense it. He could not sense the droid as it had no life. It had no chakra or aura. He barely caught the charge up of dust particles as he had been focused on Blake even while his senses were active, looking for living opponents.

This opponent was not alive and he was not prepared for that.

Not here at least.

It fired its canon and the canon blast engulfed Naruto in its light before it exploded and knocked Blake back.

"NARUTO!"

Blake cried out before she heard a poof of smoke and a shattered log rolled into her view as the smoke cleared and while the room was charred from the blast and the spider drone remained.

There was no sign of Naruto at all.

"RASENGAN!"

Naruto shot out from the room to its left and the blue orb shattered through the top half of the droid, cracking through its armor and drilling it till there was scrap metal shredding the rooms all around it. When it was finished, Naruto let the orb fade the bottom dropped and the legs fell to the side uselessly.

"Droids… Hmm, what are they good for? …Absolutely… Woah!" Naruto growled before suddenly he found Blake embracing him by the neck. "What the… Okay, sorry. That was cutting it close. I didn't sense it all and I barely got the replacement off in time."

"I'm just glad you are okay!" Blake cried as she was very worried. "Taking a dust-enhanced shot like can be fatal with your guard down!"

Not going to argue the point he probably could have tanked it but have regretted it as he didn't recover as fast anymore and that tanking hits he wasn't supposed to be his specialty, Naruto simply stayed quiet and gave her the quick comfort she needed. "It's okay… I'm fine. We got to keep moving, there is still more to do."

"Right…" Blake sobbed as she slowly regained her composure and released Naruto "We are going to have to talk this morning…"

"It's our recovery time so we use it how we need to," Naruto stated as his eye focused as he noted four more droids walking down the stairs. "So, care to guess how a civilian gets their hand on these?"

"Not through any legal means," Blake growled as her sorrow turned to anger and she suddenly was simply just a clone as she burst forward using her semblance.

"My thought exactly!" Naruto rushed forward to me the small line of Atlesian Knight 130s, better known as AK-130s.

Blake reached first and with Shroud still in sheath mode she cleaved the first one's head clean off as it was still a cleaver in this state and meant to cut through metal. They next tried to summon its melee weapons, but she was quickly one it and disarmed with two quick strikes before she shoved it into the ground and transformed Shroud into a pistol as she stepped on its chest and hissed as she fired into its skull repeatedly.

Naruto sliced through the first's neck with Dream before he finally flicked the switch and it transformed into the dual barrel shotgun and he quickly shoved it into the face of the other before it had a chance to move. "Kaboom."

The blast of orange dust was far more potent than any normal weapon shot as his chakra amped it significantly more. Not only was the head simply obliterated but the neck and chest ripped open from the impact of the blast leaving quite the of twisted, melted metal as the AK-130 fell to the ground.

Both Blake and Naruto simply left the droids as they walked up the final flight of stairs and made it to the dance floor of what once was a rave of people and was now just a flash of red lights and a mob of goons standing before one man dressed in pure white, standing before the bar.

"You have balls coming in here and calling me out on all these crimes Huntsmen!" The bald man with a black goatee growled out as all his top men held their ground in front of him. "Let me cut you a deal…"

Naruto simply started walking forward, his eyes glinting red from the lights of the room. "I do not care for any deal you wish to cut. Tonight your schemes end, and I will get what I came for."

"This is retribution! Your reign ends now!" Naruto transformed Dream back into kunai form as Blake joined him as they stood at the center of the dance floor as the lights flashed around them.

The bald man in the white suit simply growled and slammed his fist on his bar. "Fine! You'll be begging for forgiveness as you watch that slut of yours serve me properly you fucking animal! The first man to stop him gets a million lien and the girl after she's done being used as a cuck tool to prove this Huntsmen's inadequacy to me!"

Blake yowled deeply in her throat and struck, rushing straight for the man. Naruto was on her right, driving his elbow in the black-suited henchmen's throat that tried to get to Blake as she used the Shroud's sheath form and slashed the first henchman men to make it to her with the back side as it was still a blade.

She slid under the next and tried to grab her as Naruto grabbed him and tossed him over his shoulder, across the room, and till she started to roll down the stairs. She blocked two stun batons while on the ground, activating them for intimidation factor before a roundhouse kick slammed them back into the more of the friends and Naruto assisted her up.

"May I have this dance my lady since we here on a dance floor." Naruto grinned with intent in his eyes as he tossed a kunai up and suddenly caught a sprinkler, causing sparks and a small fire to start.

Blake followed his lead as the sprinklers went off at sensors tripped from the fire being so close, she embraced him in a traditional dancing stance as she transformed Shroud into the kusarigama form and carefully wrapped it around the both of them. "Shall we then?"

Naruto grinned as the guards tried to rush them and with a step into their dance, they easily evaded them and began to spin. Shroud flung towards them. But as it did droplets of water began to form around it and form a greater but blunt blade made of water as they were all struck back.

"What the hell?!" Many began to cry out as they had never seen such as thing as another group rushed in as the water poured on all of them.

Yet the two danced and Shroud began to wildly bend to their dance and control, the blade of water getting larger and striking back the next group of henchmen that dared approach the couple like a scorpion's tail. Two more groups rushed, the same result as the blade began to form what looked like a stinger.

And yet they dance and gazed into one another's eyes, completely focused on one another's movements. They controlled the Shroud together. Blake controlled the strikes as she took the guards down and Naruto focused his water masterly to continue focusing more and more strength until the ground itself was cracking from each hit. Together their dance spun the dangerous tail everywhere, lashing it and threatening everything nearby the tail looked poised to strike anyone that came near it, striking with deadly precision.

"Get… Get out of here!" The henchmen began to scatter and flee for the elevator and stairs, only to find the latter was out of commission and scurried for their lives to the only safe place.

"Where are you going?!" The man in the white suit roared at his men running for their lives despite feeling slightly awestruck and terrified at the sight unfolding before him. "You're the ones I pay for this! Get back here and fight!"

The last few brave henchmen were struck away by one last vaporizing strike of the water began to up around the Shroud and the dance ended as both Blake and Naruto stared into one another's eyes, Blake's lips tantalizing close to Naruto's.

"So…" Naruto began. "There is a dance next semester…"

"Yes," Blake whispered back before her eyes shifted to a dangerous glint. "But first."

Shroud transformed back into pistol mode as they broke their embrace and with a single shot a purple blast shot out and hit the bald man in his left knee cap.

"Fuck!" He roared as he collapsed against the bar behind him, trying to still stand. "Wait, listen… I can pay you anything you want."

"You think I want any of your money? After what you said you were going to do to me and have my partner watch?!" Blake yowled as her yellow eyes glistened in the red light as she watched the man try to limp away on the bar. "You are going to tell us everything and maybe I won't put a shot into you balls you limp dick fuck before they arrest you for everything you've done! No! I really feel like you deserve at least one for all the women down below!"

"Arrest me… Ha, that's rich." The man dared to laugh despite Blake's threat as he stopped trying to limp away as he knew there was no point and used one of the stools to steady himself. "Nothing you have will stick… Evidence will be lost… I'll be out in no time."

Blake growled as she was about to rush him when she was stopped, and Naruto stepped forward and calmly stood before the man. "So, someone higher up has your backing… What if they were to learn about your other little collusion, hm?"

"What are you talking about?" The man narrowed his eyes beneath sunglasses as Naruto took another step toward him.

"I think it obvious but let me spell it out for you," Naruto stated as he reached the man with his next step. "It's obvious you have connections with the Schnee Dust Company, and you pay them quite handsomely to protect your assets and you help push their agenda with the influence you have amassed."

"However, it is quite odd that in all these years you have not once been attacked by the White Fang, isn't it?" Naruto knelt to stand at eye level with the man in the white suit. "I find that quite fascinating on why that can be when you have such an obvious connection. I'm sure you won't mind me doing a little digging."

"Hey, wait a minute you don't have the power…" The bald man began to stammer when saw Naruto's toothy grin.

"Oh, but I do. You see I didn't come here for any of the reasons I stated. I'm here on a simple Search and Rescue and you happen to be a key witness as a debit collector so you are one of the first people I have to cross off my list of possible candidates of where he could have disappeared to due to your… legal means." Naruto started with a grin before spitting out the last part with a growl as left a sour taste in his mouth.

However, his chipper mood quickly returned as he closed his eyes and smiled, his eyes almost forming a smile of their own as he grinned and clapped his hands together. "Which means I get to check your ledger to see what his debit is at to see if such a move was even legal at this point and in the process have access to all of your other business activities!"

"Wait… No." The man's world began to crash down as he started to realize he had been played but Naruto wasn't done yet on letting him know just how much he was going to drop the hammer.

"And when I find out all those activities lead to, it will make all the more sense of the eyewitness accounts on the men who cohered one Desmond Hunt to leave with them were indeed White Fang members!" Naruto's gave turned feral and red lights flickered over them and turned his blue eyes crimson.

"So, are going to hand over your scroll willingly and give me the last known location of those men, or am I going to have to tear it out of you?! One way or another I am finding Desmond Hunt!"

"Here, take it!" The man screamed as stumbled grabbing his scroll out of his pocket and handed it over to Naruto.

"Thank you for your cooperation," Naruto stated as he stood up the man kindly opened his scroll and his ledger pulled for him before he gave her a simple look. "Blake, you're up."

"Wait, I thought… OH FUCK!" The man screamed as he was shot time in the promised region.

"I told you what I was going to do! Now talk or I will do it again!" Blake hurried towards the man, grabbed him by the collar with the pistol in hand, and pointed to his face. "Where are the Fang? Where are they keeping the victim, Desmond Hunt?! And most of all where is their leader, the one you most likely dealt with?"

"Where is Adam Taurus?!"

---

"I hate Naruto right now!" Ruby screamed as she finished getting on her Beacon outfit, forced to attend classes officially as Blake was not missing as they were informed by Glynda she and Naruto were out on a mission and looking for them would be interfering. "Why did he have to be so… Him! Ugh!"

In a fit of rage, she tossed the ladder to the bunk bed Naruto had just recently made for her and screamed out once more. "Weiss, I don't care how much you think you are right! You are apologizing the next time you see Blake! You got that alright!"

"What?" Weiss started as she was about to try and defend her actions but seeing the sudden death glare from Ruby she started to think twice about her choice of words. "Well… I guess I was a little harsh with her but let us not forget what she said! She said she was part of the White Fang all her life!"

"So what?!" Ruby countered and stomped toward Weiss, having enough of her attitude.

"Ah, guys?" Yang tried to get their attention as she flicked on the TV and their arguing was less important than what she had brought up.

"After spending an entire day looking for them while you complained about what we were doing, saying you were only worried that Naruto was colluding with the Fang you want to know what I did when we were grounded here and force to attend classes!" Ruby cried out as he now stomped even closer to Weiss who was backing down from Ruby, never seeing her this aggressive before.

"Well, I don't want his image tarnished…" Weiss started as Ruby kept going before she slid back Ruby was right in her face. "Um… What exactly did you do?"

"Hey, guys! This is important!" Yang tried to snap their attention away from their fight as she, for the first time in her life, had actively flipped it over to the news. "Like really important!"

"I skipped all the classes yesterday just so I could study and learn everything I could about the White Fang's history!" Ruby proclaimed as she threw her hands in the air. "And I hate studying, you know that! Do you know how hard that was for me?! How many energy drinks I had to drink to stay awake to do that?! Fourteen! That's why I didn't sleep last night! …Besides still worrying about Blake but I'm pretty sure it was the caffeine flowing through my veins causing my entire body to shake uncontrollably and causing me to question if reality actually exists or if it all is just some quantum reality made up by fan fiction!"

Calming down as her anger lessened and it seemed Weiss understood just what Ruby was willing to do for her team. "And I learned… That everything that Blake said also seems to be true."

At this Weiss wasn't sure what to think but Ruby kept going. "I don't know anything about what happened between your family and the White Fang, but I can say that everything I've read about the White Fang before the change and their old leader… Ghira Belladonna… It seems like it is something he would never stand for and would do everything in his power to keep happening."

"He seems so adored by faunus everywhere for his passive approach but his unwillingness to bend to any demands… To accept anything less than what is deserved for his people and put all his energy into peacefully fighting as he didn't want violence to be the answer." Ruby stated with small admiration she read what little she could about the man there was to find.

And everything was positive outside the racist news outlets, the ones that seemed to be intentionally setting fires instead of trying to bring the news to the people…

"GUYS!" Yang finally had enough and grabbed both Ruby and Weiss by the arm and dragged them over.

"Hey, Yang, we were talking! BLAKE?!" Weiss started as was deep in thought about what her leader was saying before her eyes saw the TV and the headline

"Sis what are… NARUTO?! Ruby complained as she felt that she might have finally pierced the ice around the princess when she saw what was happening.

A bald man in a white suit was being pushed into the ambulance with an officer beside him being booked for money laundering, drug trafficking, illegal business practices, forced labor, forced prostitution, and… collision with the terrorist organization known as the White Fang.

And standing there being recorded by dozens of reporters and their cameramen as officers shielded and escorted a Huntsmen and Huntress in-training from the scene as they carried two black objects in their hands.

The title running across the screen as the news anchors were excitedly talking read 'Prodigy Faunus Hunter and his Huntress In-Training Bust Massively Corrupt CEO.

"Holy shit… Am I right?" Yang finally stated as both Ruby and Weiss looked on at the news in shock. "And from what we know that wasn't even the mission they took! …I so can't wait to get my license!"

"Oh god… Dad is going to be furious." Weiss looked horrified as she knew that man was one of his business partners and shuddered as her crush and friend were now on his radar.

And he was faunus… This was all going so horribly wrong!

Ruby was…

"DAMMIT! I AM SO MAD AT NARUTO!" Ruby flipped the other ladder in the room and started shaking the bunk beds. "CAN I ONCE BE THE HEROINE?! CAN I HELP MY TEAMMATE?! JUST ONE TIME! AHAHAHAH!"

"Uh, Ruby…" Yang was concerned for her little sister as she had never seen this side of her before.

"Don't you start trying to lecture me to Yang! I'm not a child anymore!" Ruby cried as tears started to flow in her eyes before she grabbed her books. "I'm going to class!"

The door slammed and both Yang and Weiss looked stunned at yet another scene.

"We might need to skip class today," Weiss stated, staring at the scene Ruby left behind and was deeply troubled. "For Ruby's sake."

"I agree… I've never seen my sister act this way before." Yang blinked before getting a devious grin as she noticed something on the screen. "And it's about a boy… Go figure. Hey Weiss… Did you notice how Naruto and Blake were holding hands?"

"THEY WERE NOT!" Weiss screamed at Yang as she felt the blonde bombshell was trying to pick a fight but seeing that grin of hers made her think twice and she fidgeted. "…Were they?"

Yang just kept grinning as she went to grab her and Ruby's normal clothes. "Only one way to find out."

---

"Naruto…"

"Is this our routine now?" Naruto questioned as he got up from the bed and looked at the cat that finally decided to lay underneath the covers, this time to protect her modesty however as she was only in her undergarments as some of the officers were helpful and were doing their laundry for them while they rested.

"How are we going to get rid of the reporters and paparazzi?" Blake looked up to a bare-chested Naruto with a very small blush before her eyes ever so trailed south in hopes of something else.

"Hey, eyes up!" Blake cursed before she returned to Naruto's gaze he gave her a reassuring smile. "Don't worry, have that one covered. I'm the one with fucking ninja bullshit, remember?"

Blake had the decency to blush. "That was the heat of the moment… But okay, so what's the plan?"

"My simplest, truest tactic. Shadow Clones and one will transform into you." Naruto explained before grinning. "Now just in case I do need exact measurements and to see what everything looks like…"

"You first," Blake responded with ease making Naruto frown as he was expecting a reaction out of that.

"You know… I normally get smacked for that… Don't get me wrong this is fun in a different kind of way but… I'm just not used to it." Naruto cracked a smile before rubbing the back of his head.

"I like it," Blake responded as her ears twitched happily. "To me, it's both a game where just mess with one another but also confirm our interests with the other. It makes me feel better about myself as… I… He…"

"Blake?" Naruto tilted his head and reached out his hand for her.

She gasped at his hand as tears began to spill from her eyes. "At first there felt like there was genuine interest and I truly believe there was… But as he changed and became the man he is… He saw me as nothing more…"

"He saw me as a tool!" Blake yowled as tears filled her eyes, but anger filled her voice as she looked Naruto directly in the eyes, her grip tightening around Naruto.

It would have hurt most people, but he wasn't most. He gave her a comforting smile as he brought his other hand in and gently rubbed her hand. This action seemed to inform Blake of what she was doing, and her grip slacked immediately, and she looked solemnly at the bed beneath her. "It's why I can't… I don't want this… To go fast. I want to see if this is…"

"To see if this is real." Naruto finished for her as he cupped her hand in a comforting manner. "Don't worry, we'll go as slow as you want even when I feel like I'm ready, okay?"

Blake's lips curved as she sat up, letting the blank pool around her bra be visible before she placed a soft and gentle kiss on his lips. "Thank you."

Retreating under the blankets, she laid her head softly on the pillow and closed her eyes. "They better get back with our clothes… As much as I play… I'm not comfortable with nearly being naked in front of you."

Naruto grunted in agreement as he laid back down. "Well, at least your problem is still covered. I have a hole access and mine problem can just decide to extend past it if someone decides to play too hard."

Blake then grinned mischievously. "So, you're saying I should…"

"Blake Belladonna if I'm exposed you are going down with me," Naruto growled at the cat faunus laying before him.

"I'll be good." Blake pouted but relented before she sighed contently. "Good night, Naruto."

Naruto smiled as he let his eyelids close shut. "Good night, Blake."

---

"Can I learn any of that because this just isn't fair?" Blake complained as they found themselves in a familiar shipyard from before, frowning as they found no one here the night before but this was where they were told everyone would be.

"My techniques, no. Chakra and aura evolved too differently." Naruto answered honestly as there was no way she could ever make a Shadow Clone the same he could as hers were simply too different. "That being said I do think there are things that translate since Aura control is similar in practice. You and I would have to test them out as I'd only feel comfortable teaching them to you… Ren too but that's because everyone else is too hyper, has an agenda, or need to work on other things first before I consider teaching them."

"Really?" Blake raised her eyebrows at realizing he'd be willing to try and teach her and thought it might be possible to teach her some things. "As much as I said I don't want you to be a work-a-holic…"

"We're using our…:"

"No we are not!" Blake immediately hissed and her eyes narrowed as immediately stopped Naruto as soon as he started those words. "I need that time. You don't understand how much I need to get away from that energy… All three are extroverts and want to be out… All the time and only Yang has started to meet me halfway… Even if her tastes still are bad."

"The game looks like fun. You should give it a try and I mean an actual try." Naruto stated as he grinned at Blake's annoyance before hearing something in the wind. "Well, well, well… Looks like someone was right."

"You're kidding me." Blake squinted but could see a Bullhead coming in the distance followed by multiple more. "Not only did he have info on Desmond but he gave us correct information that Roman was going to be here tonight of all things?! How deep was this guy into the crime network?!"

"Waders deep in the shit I'd say," Naruto growled before reminding Blake. "Remember, Desmond is supposed to be one of the recruits they are forcing to come along on this mission. My clones should be easily able to get him out before we get there but just in case…"

"I want Torchwick!" Blake yowled loudly as her eyes focused on the center Bullhead and she focused on her target. "Why the hell is a human commanding the Fang? This doesn't make any sense!"

"Times are changing, Blake," Naruto whispered and she began to calm down as he finished. "Something big is moving and I think it may be the cause of all of this… I fear it may be the cause of all of this and why Oz is being a prick puppet master."

"Still going for him." Blake saw the orange hair man as the Bullhead landed. "Silently… Can you figure out which fang member is… How does your clone do that?"

With a single tug, a brown-haired dog faunus was quickly muffled and yanked away from the rest by a cloaked figure and into the shadows without anyone being none the wiser.

Naruto just grinned. "That's because you're up here with me watching it and knowing what to look for… Not down there where the assassin is ready to commit the deed."

"You didn't answer how you knew it was him." Blake frowned but also had fearful respect that was true, and she would not have seen that coming from below.

And that scared her how easily he could blend into the shadows and faunus see at night and it just didn't matter!

AND HE WORE BRIGHT FUCKING ORANGE HALF THE TIME!

"Emotion… He didn't want to be here and was hating every second of it while everyone else believed in what they were doing. Since my clones know the same things and feel the same things I do I'm sure that is why he made that judgment and picked him." Naruto stated. "You ready… Be careful. I sense another presence here besides just the Fang and Roman so be prepared for an ambush."

"Do you think it could be?" Blake asked worriedly as her thoughts drifted.

"No." Naruto smiled and gave Blake the comfort she needed before this mission. "From what you told me of him… This is, fortunately, a weaker presence, but it feels like still something to be worried about if they are just lurking about and just wandering around aimlessly… It's off-putting and my clone following it feels like he hates it. I'm just going to command him to go in… I don't like it."

"Alright, that's a bad thing," Blake stated as that couldn't be anything good if something with Naruto's personality was just not having a good time with just the following someone. "Let's be quick then."

"Agreed, silent and fast." Naruto agreed as he jumped into the shadows of the shipping crates and vanished.

Blake jumped in, using the darkness of the crates as she went crate to crater to stay silent. The Fang members were attaching the dust crates to the bullhead as Roman was directing them and made Blake growl lowly in her throat but she had to be quick.

"Come, be quick about! No, not like that! It will fall out into the ocean if you do it like that!" Roman complained as he wanted them to hurry but do the job right.

Strike the back of the neck and it would be over.

Rushing towards Roman, he would never know what hit him as she struck the back of his… Shattered glass neck?

Why was his entire body shattering into glass all around her? What was this?

She held Shroud before her defensively and her bow flattened as she listened for anything, but nothing came. She just didn't understand what was going on around her.

"Blake watch out! My clone was dispersed soon as it attacked! Just a moment ago!" Naruto tried to get to her as he couldn't say anything before without jeopardizing either of their locations with his full speed but realized even with his burst of speed a blast of red bullet caught him in the chest.

This was an ambush.

They knew they were coming.

"Son of a bitch?" Naruto growled at the explosive shot that knocked him back and into a crate.

"Naruto!" Blake turned away only to suddenly feel something press into her sternum and then a sharp jab of stabbing pain as she looked in front of her and shattered glass turned into a short four half-foot girl with pink and brown hair holding a parasol straight into her chest.

That had a blade extended straight into her chest.

Blake struck her in the face with the Shroud, catching the woman off guard as she held her bleeding chest off guard, looking down at it grimacing as it wasn't good. "Fuck… Naruto… The hell is this…"

"She has some sort of illusionary power that extended into the physical world so that everyone can see them," Naruto growled as he stood back up and cracked his neck. "Let's switch if you're able…"

"No! She's mine!" Blake screamed as she rushed towards the Neapolitan-colored girl as transformed her Shroud into kusarigama and whipped around the girl.

"Fuck Blake!" Naruto growled as he tried to get to her, taking Fang every White Fang member out between him and his goal, forgetting about Torchwick in the process as there were more important issues in the process.

It wasn't like he was going to escape now anyways if what he felt coming had anything to say about it.

She simply casually dodged around and through her strikes. Blake's eyes widened with how fast she was on her and with hissed as she tried to move when she saw the parasols thrust toward her wound once more. Quickly transforming Shroud into its sheath form to block it, the ice cream woman grinned as the parasol fanned out, pulled Shroud out of her grip, and had Blake stumbling forward into her before she delivered a staggering kick into her stab wound with tremendous force.

Blood spurt from Blake's mouth as the girl in front of her smirked sadistically and as she tried to follow up her eyes widened as there was a cry from above.

"FROM THE HEAVENS!" Ruby's voice echoed as Crescent Rose caught the parasol with her scythe and knocked back the ice cream woman as she flew in from the sky directly above.

As if she had fallen from the Nevermore again but without the Nevermore.

"You weren't even there for that!" Blake cried out as she stumbled backward and landed on her ass while she gripped her chest, blood dripping from the wound as she watched Ruby jump straight for Neapolitan colored girl.

"Blake!" Naruto quickly rushed over to Blake as she growled and checked her wound as she panted. "It's deep and now opened up… Not fatal but you need to stay down or it can be…"

"No, I can still fight…" She tried to convince him that she could keep going as she saw Roman was on his own getting the last of the Fang to gather the crates despite being a bit panicked.

"Blake, stay down," Naruto commanded as he focused on Ruby as she tried to fight the ice cream girl. "We have back-up now."

Blake was about to question that when she heard the sounds and her eyes rolled. "Not them too…"

"Red!" Torchwick cried out in surprise as he remembered her well. "Oh, this can't end well! We need to hurry this up and get that attached… Where are where the rest of my men?"

Two Fang members were slammed into a crater as a shotgun blast sound was heard and followed by a blast of ice and Yang and Weiss made their way onto the scene, looking none too impressed by what they had seen.

"Man, this was almost too easy! There was hardly anyone left!" Yang grinned as she punched her fist together.

"That was probably Naruto doing what he does best," Weiss stated as she held Myrtenaster before her. "So, I say let's finish this and get this criminal ourselves and let them rest!"

"That's it! I'm out of here!" Torchwick said as he went to get on the Bullhead when a new voice made their presence known.

"I am combat ready!" A new orange-haired girl showed up and stood on top of a shipping crate, making her entrance known that her friend made hers.

"Penny!" Both Yang and Weiss cried out and surprise at her arrival before seeing Ruby fighting an ice cream-colored woman and seeing Naruto holding a bleeding… "BLAKE!"

Both Yang and Weiss rushed over to check on their teammate in Naruto's hands

"Oh, and what are you going to do little girl!" Torchwick called the orange-haired girl, and he would soon learn that would be the greatest mistake of his life.

Several metallic blades suddenly shot out of her open back with wires glistening as Penny called out with her eyes glowing from her internal aura processor. "My friend Ruby came to help her friends capture you Roman Torchwick. So, with my father's permission, I am allowed to use 100% of my power to assist Huntsmen Naruto Uzumaki to apprehend you!"

The blades sang through the wind as they shot out at hypersonic speed, piercing into the Bullhead as the others started trying to lift off as well with their cargo but Penny was focused on the one with Torchwick. "You will not be escaping today!"

Planting herself on the ground and locking in her grip, she easily pulled the airship back to the ground as her focus stayed solely on Roman, who admitting looked a little off-put. "Okay, what the hell is with kids these days!"

"Fuck off!" He called out he out his cane and fired another red flare straight at Penny.

The round exploded on impact and the lines seemed to slacken and Torchwick cackled as he seemed to have gotten his way. "Too easy… What the fuck?!"

Penny burst through smoke unharmed and without a burn on her being and leapt straight to the Bullhead using the wires having used the tension of her wires from before to gain momentum. And with that moment she kicked Roman straight in the head and launched him out of the other end of Bullhead and into the bay below.

Then her blades all released at once and sliced the bullhead into several pieces just as she exited the other side and landed on splashed into the water below, surfacing with Roman's unconscious body.

Ruby took another kick to the face as she tried to slash Crescent Rose and use her speed to get past the ice cream woman, but she seemed too agile to get past. She either blocked every strike she made, dodged them, or when she backed off and fired a shot and would flip past them and hit her with that stupid parasol.

It was getting extremely frustrating.

"Why can't I hit you?!" Ruby cried out in frustration as she activated her semblance and blurred into a vision of roses and became a burst hypersonic speed.

Yet her opponent simply shattered into glass all around her Ruby's eyes widened as she didn't comprehend what just happened. "What… I just…"

"Yang, Weiss… Take Blake… I'm up." Naruto commanded as Yang slid underneath her injured partner as Naruto stood up and Blake was still trying to get to her feet while Weiss stood in front of her, making sure she stayed down.

"Oh no, you don't! You are too hurt!" Weiss made sure Blake stayed down while keeping an eye as she worried as this was not a normal opponent before returning to her injured comrade as she was confident in Naruto. "Blake… Soon as this is over… We can talk okay."

Blake's eyes snapped to the white-haired heiress and saw how soft her face was, the caring looking in her eyes and compassion in her voice when she spoke.

There was something different about Weiss now.

Re-emerging into reality directly behind Ruby with her parasol poised to strike the back of her neck went for the kill when a blonde faunus suddenly stood between them slicing a blade.

And it went straight through her parasol like it was nothing.

Jumping back and watching her parasol drop to the ground in two, Neapolitan looked at the blonde celebrity a little differently this time. She had easily disposed of the fake from before but now stood the truth before her.

This one was far beyond her and it was time to make her escape.

That was until the orange-haired girl jumped from the water below and with her savior held unconscious in her grasp. "Huntsmen Naruto Uzumaki! I have procured Roman Torchwick for you! Shall I tie him up!"

"Please! A little busy with the real threat at the moment!" Naruto growled as he could feel the woman before him was incensed at the very presence of Penny and more particularly… Roman being knocked unconscious. And he could feel her aura spike and intensify as if she was getting stronger before his very eyes.

That couldn't be possible, could it?

This wasn't an anime!

He had sensed she was going to simply retreat and he might have let her as they caught Roman and while she was dangerous their goals were complete, she didn't feel entirely like a lost cause. Now however everything had changed and she was a loose cannon and was going to fight.

That he was sure of, and he might have to resort to more power than he'd like to now in the city, even if they were at the docks. Team RWBY was here and that was not an acceptable casualty if he had to start going that hard.

Neo burst towards Penny faster than Naruto expected and to his surprise she got to her first and kicked the robot girl in the face with the back of her heel and launched her off the dock, bouncing her off the nearby dock before she fell into the ocean water below

"Penny!" Ruby cried as she jumped in after her friend to help rescue her.

Neo tried to grab Roman but Naruto was on her, and she blocked his kick with both of his arms and flipped him back before trying to sweep him off his feet but another flip and the distance she wanted was created. She grabbed Roman and she made a run for it.

Naruto growled. He was not letting them get away and despite her power boost, he was still much faster than she was quickly made the gap and drove his elbow into her chest, sending both flying into a warehouse building Torchwick tumbling out of her gasp, denting the building in the process. This only incensed Neo in the process as slowly stood back up, her aura spiking further as her savior took further damage and her brown eyes looked into Naruto's blues.

She then literally shattered before her fist slammed into Naruto's gut from the right and she shattered once more and appeared from the right and kicked him in the face, sending him skidding as he wiped the scuff of the blow off his cheek. "Alright then… Really can't sense that at all. That's annoying. Can't even break that with pulses of chakra either. Weird, doesn't work like illusions of my world."

Taking a deep breath, letting oxygen fill his being as a light steam started slightly pulse off of his muscles as the skin deepened to a reddish hue, Naruto's feral eyes gazed at Neo as her body began to shatter once more and he drew Shattered Dreams. "Let's do this!"

Sniffing the air, he ducked to the left as Neo appeared catching the ice cream girl off guard as his weapon transformed before he struck her with a powerful kick that sent her flying into a crate, and then he landed on top of her and fired Dream straight into the middle of her chest. "Say hello to my little friend!"

The container shattered and exploded with all the dust inside and Neo went flying soaring through, the front side of her singed and burned from the orange blast of Dream's but Naruto wasn't done as he grabbed her by the leg in midair and slammed her into the ground only for Neo to shatter on contact. She then appeared and delivered a jump kick to his gut and followed with a spinning roundhouse that caught him on the chin only for it to break a log in half.

Neo was suddenly pulled underground, looking completely caught off guard by something like this, as Naruto flew in from above trying to stomp on her to end the fight. She simply shattered once more to appear again, grabbing him by the hand, lifting him over her shoulder, and tossing him into and through a warehouse door.

"The hell is this fight!" She is fighting Naruto on even ground!" Yang roared as she sparred twice with Naruto in the two months they had, and she was flattened and trashed each time and he barely tried.

"He's… He's not anywhere close to going all out… His eyes are still blue and he hasn't even mastered his semblance yet." Blake admitted as she was stunned but caught that Naruto wasn't using his natural chakra.

"He must be fearing collateral then and that's fair with all the dust around and what they're already doing. A Huntsmen's job is to keep collateral down while the job. It's accepted it happens but too much and a license can get revoked for a while." Weiss realized that must be what Naruto was doing if he wasn't putting everything he had into putting down his opponent.

"Guys! A little help… Penny is really heavy!" Ruby cried as she hung off the dock carrying an offline Penny.

"I'm coming!" Weiss ran over to help Ruby and started to try to pull her over the dock's edge. "What the hell is she made of?! And you need to lay off the cookies Ruby… I'm slipping… I'M GOING OVER TOO!"

And with that Weiss splashed into the ocean as all three went into the ocean.

"Okay…" Naruto grunted as he stood up and watched Neo strut through the broken warehouse door. "I know this is rich coming from me, but your powers are bullshit!"

Neo simply responded by shattering again and disappearing. "That's what I mean! That right there!"

Before he suddenly fired Dreams right into Neo's chest once more despite the fact she was completely cloaked and knocked her out of her illusion and back and into the wall of the warehouse. "If I couldn't smell your perfume I'd be fucked right now!"

Neo's eyes snapped open wide as Naruto clued her into how he was figuring out where she was coming from every time she stood back up shakily, her aura slowly beginning to drain as she couldn't keep shielding herself from each these blows.

"This fight is over. I haven't even been going all out. Not even close. Give up and submit. I just wanted to completely figure out how you moved just in case you get busted out and they ever had to fight you again so I can train them properly on how to face you. Believe me, I know that's going to happen… Isn't that right you three…"

"So, you know we are here?" A voice of a shadowy figure stated as she was flanked by two others on the rafters above, a grin on her face. "And what makes you think we're just going to let you walk out of here now that you know of us?"

"Because I've already won this showdown." Naruto grinned as his skin slowly returned to its natural color before he suddenly pulled out a small device and flicked it open. "Do you know what this is?"

As everyone stayed quiet, Neo's eyes widened but there was a small thin, grin spread on her face.

This could be fun. A little chaos thrown into the mix to spice things up was her flavor of life.

"This is a detonator. Do you want to know how many bombs I've rigged this warehouse with?" Naruto continued as no one answered and spoiled his game.

"What?!" The voice of the only main of the group spoke. "You must be bluffing…"

"I never bluff. I was taught to prepare for any situation. I foresaw this outcome and I've rigged every single warehouse just in case so they're all going to explode… Just as a precaution as I wasn't sure where I'd end up as I went looking for you as I knew you were here somewhere I just was a little preoccupied with other things to pinpoint your locations earlier." Naruto stated as fact as he was willing to torch it all down just to trap his opponent.

He hadn't anticipated team RWBY showing up and they were a bit of foil, to be honest, so he was glad they were all outside.

The shadow figure simply smirked and let out a cruel laugh. "My, my I really do like you. How my master wishes you would join our side instead of that idiot Ozma. That offer stands at all times just so you are aware. She is willing to give you whatever you desire, no matter the cost. She would much rather avoid facing Fate's champion and prefers if she would stay out of this world's business."

"That idiot only sees what you can do, not what Fate is trying to accomplish, and my master is very aware of this and does not wish to take part in her game... And neither should you, so she wishes to break you free of the chains! So that you may soar free once more unbound by her laws and restrictions!" The shadowy figure announced with passion.

"But I see you still are not aware of these facts... Very well, this day you have won." She announced as her golden eyes burned through the shadows with the passion of the words she spoke before. "Come, we leave. Neo, you and Roman are on your own from now on. You are useless to us. We have bigger plans to accomplish."

Neo's eyes glistened vengefully at these words and anger boiled in her. Her attention was solely focused on the shadowy woman and without a second thought, she leapt at her.

And then there was a whisper of flames and Neo was engulfed by a flare of fire and burst back into the ground. But she still knelt on the ground, air pushed from her lungs heavily as she gazed hatefully at the woman in front of her.

The three shadow figures left and while Naruto could pursue it would be meaningless at this time. He was sure he couldn't break them at this time, and he was more worried about Blake anyways even with some of those odds felt they wrung true, and if anything…

There was potentially a new ally before him.

"Neo was it…" Her brown eyes snapped in her direction as she still stayed motionlessly on the ground where she was nearly seared. "While there is nothing I can do for Roman I must do my job as one's actions must be answered for eventually…"

Seeing her eyes still glistening in anger, Naruto gave her compassion. "I understand whatever you two most have been through was painful. That whatever he did for you to earn such loyalty was immense and I respect that and I will not encroach on that. What I ask of you is…"

"Will you be willing to help me get back against those betrayed the both of you as I want nothing more than to take them down myself?"

Seeing Neo's eyes consider the offer, Naruto walked over to her and knelt before her. "In doing so I am willing to let you walk away from here right now, no questions asked saying that another three unknown suspects intervened and caused your escape as I had everything outside recorded."

Neo's eyes snapped open at the realization that everything that happened outside had been caught on camera which would mean she would be a wanted criminal. "Yes, you're going to be a known criminal but I'm fine with harboring you if you are willing to accept my deal. I need all the allies I can get and a strong ally willing to fight at my side with the same goal in mind is worth having…"

"And maybe I can get a few years taken off Roman sentence…" Naruto tried to butter the pot to get the ice cream woman to bite. "No promises but I'll see what I can do. After all, I have never been against a gentleman thief… He just needs to tone it back down closer to his old days from what I've read on him, not to what he is now."

"And I know they'll be coming for him to shut him up if he has anything on them in the slightest... I can protect him." Naruto finished knowing that would be the deal clincher and the process get information from both her and Roman.

Something within her brown eyes snapped and fire raged within and the answer was clear. Suddenly, from somewhere he could not understand, a sign was pulled out with the word 'YES' written on it as Neo held it out with determination written in her eyes. He looked a little surprised as he was expecting a nod or a verbal confirmation but then he realized something.

She never grunted and made a verbal noise the entire fight.

"Are you a mute?

Neo pointed at the sign.

"Okay then." Then Naruto was just going to have to deal with that. "Can you get to Beacon and find where I stay? That is where we are going to base our operations for now until I figure something else out."

She pointed at the sign once more.

"Good, see you there." Naruto assisted Neo off the ground and white a shattering of glass she was gone.

Then he a sudden realization that his relationship was going to take a major hit.

"Fuck! I'm going to have to explain to Blake how someone that tried to kill her is now living with me and part of the team."

---

"Blake… I'm so sorry about what has happened… To everything just leading to this." Weiss wanted to cry as they sat in her hospital room, Naruto just having tied her bow and letting them in after her dignity was intact as she had just woken up.

She still didn't want people to see her ears. Only Naruto got to.

"Weiss… I have to apologize as well… For I was wrong as well." Blake's bow lowered as she looked at the heiress. "I've come to some realizations as well and I've learned that there were some things my father was not in control of and was most likely the reason why he stepped down."

"Blake, what are you talking about…" Weiss started as she was confused. She was just trying to apologize for scaring her teammate off and away. She was trying to bring back up the point and just wanted to drop it, especially after how Ruby had flipped out on her about it.

But Blake kept going. "I've come to accept that there is a good possibility that there was already a radical faction within the Fang that secretly kept itself out of his sight and the public's sight but specifically was targeting cooperations that were hurting faunus and faunus rights… Like the Schnee Dust Company."

"And when my father finally learned of this and couldn't wash his hands of the blood that stained the White Fang's hand… He stepped down in shame." Blake tearfully announced as she started to believe it was the reason why he was no longer their leader. "They were already coming for him to step down for these reasons, to begin with as his peaceful methods just seemed to slow for the others beneath him, but they worked without bloodshed and that is what should have mattered!"

"I need to go home… To talk to my father… To confirm this but now isn't the time." Blake quietly stated before she wiped her tears and looked over at Naruto with determination in her eyes. "There is too much work to be done…"

"Yeah, about that," Naruto spoke as he looked at everyone in the room and flipped on the TV to show the new showing everyone the news and the new storyline being run. "You all need to train first before I take any of you out."

"As the story is being run, you are all my Huntress' in-training and if that is the case you are all way too underprepared, and it is time for me to whip you all into shape… And I'm starting in the obvious place, first." Naruto groaned as they were leaving with Roman the press jumped all over the case and the officers just barely got him and team RWBY out of there in the Ambulance and squad cars.

His attention was squarely focused on Blake and hers was on his as they had talked about it, and she simply nodded in agreement. She didn't like how easily she had been taken down by her opponent and if his training could help make it easier to fight on an even page with someone of that caliber, she would take it.

"Hey, I'm TV! … So, it is true! THEY DO GROW A SIZE! AWESOME!" Yang stated proudly before she cupped herself momentarily causing Naruto and Weiss to face fault.

"The fuck is wrong with you!" Naruto cried from the hospital floor, not moving an inch.

He refused as Blake giggled from her bed.

"That is not something to be proud of! Be more ladylike!" Weiss screamed as she got back up and glared at Yang.

Ruby simply just wondered why they were obsessed with her sister's breasts. Why would they care so much about their size? She understood they produced milk for when they had kids after and had sex with the one they loved but who cared about how big they were?

Hers were plenty big enough to do the job they were intended for. What other reason could they be talking about the size for?

"Hello friends!" Penny's voice came as the door opened as she waved at the scene that greeted her. "I am better now! All charged up and repaired!"

"You did take one nasty kick from a powered-up Huntress obsessed with protecting what was precious to her," Naruto commented as he finally stood back up before noticing a tall man standing behind her at perfect attention and immediately knew who it was due to his information gathering and realized this was of mass importance.

Or it could be nothing, but he seriously doubted that.

"Oh, Naruto Uzumaki, this is my father. He would like to talk to you." Penny started as started to introduce the two of them, but he did so himself as he stepped beside his daughter.

"Allow me." The tall man stood beside Penny and gave Naruto a bow that he reciprocated. "The name is James ironwood, headmaster of Atlas Academy and general of the Atlesian Military. It is an honor to make your acquaintance."

"The honor is mine, sir," Naruto respond as this was not someone to trifle with as this person held quite a lot of power in the world and was someone Naruto instantly recognized but allowed himself to be introduced to. "It means a lot for someone of your prestige to visit such a young and novice Huntsmen as me. What is it that you came to see me for, sir?"

Ironwood kept his composure bet internally smirked as the boy was good and he liked him. And he was quick and straight to the point. "Allow me to keep this brief as I can see you are here checking in on your ally after a hard-fought battle and enjoying a well-earned relaxation period before the next mission."

Holding out a card, he handed it to Naruto. "If you ever wish to work for someone that knows what they are doing, give me a call and we can discuss the details. We shall be staying here until the end of summertime as it is the Vytel festival. If you wish to talk in person and discuss it that way, feel to drop by, it won't be hard to find me with someone of your skill set."

"Penny, you can stay with your friends for the day. Please turn in at nightfall. Good day everyone." Ironwood stated before he marched from the room and Penny gave her father a wave goodbye.

Naruto pursed his lips at the card in his hand as the door closed and Penny gave out a "Yay!' as she ran over to Ruby and hugged the poor girl with her robotic strength.

That was indeed something had not anticipated happening.

"What just happened? And you cannot be considering leaving Beacon, right Naruto?!" Weiss commented before she looked over at Naruto as had recognized the man as he had many times met with her father and grandfather before she saw the look on the blonde faunus' face. "Naruto, hey, wait a second…"

"It is always best to consider one's options and having a friend in high places is never a bad thing," Naruto said aloud and Blake's eyes narrowed as she painfully sat up on the bed and hissed at her partner before he turned and smiled at her. "I'm not leaving, don't get me wrong. I'm going to keep this in my back pocket for now. I'd like to stick this to Oz and let him know he isn't entirely in control here."

"Okay…" Blake laid back down but still didn't feel better after watching her new love interest consider an offer of leaving the place they were currently staying. "But I swear to…"

"You think I would? Without you after everything we've confessed to one another over these past few days." Naruto commented as the room suddenly went quiet and all eyes were on the two of them. "Guys, go get lunch… Blake and I need to talk."

"But it was getting good and I needed popcorn!" Yang started but saw both Blake and Naruto's gaze. "Oh… Alright, I don't need to be broken and clawed… God."

"Wait… Are you two?" Weiss started putting together pieces and she didn't like what she was connecting as she looked between the two faunus, one of which she was becoming friendly towards and the other she was building a crush on.

It wasn't fair!

"Come on lovesick girl." Yang grabbed Weiss by the arm. "Penny, stop killing my sister, and let's go get some food."

"Rodger that!" Penny let go of Ruby's neck before Ruby gasped for air in relief and then took her hand and dragged her out. "Come on, let's go!"

"Wait I'm not ready! Hold on!" Ruby cried out in frustration as she was being dragged along before the door closed behind them.

Once they left, Naruto noticed Blake's arms were crossed and she was looking away in frustration. "Seriously?"

"I don't know! With how interested in that offer you just were? I feel a little betrayed after everything!" Blake growled but also sighed as she looked back at Naruto. "Listen, I get it. You function differently than what I'm used to and this is something I'm just going to have to get used to… But that kind of hurt! It felt like you were just about to walk out on me!"

"I'm sorry," Naruto stated as sat at the foot of her bed and gave a sad smile. "I didn't mean to make you feel like that. I wasn't expecting an opportunity like that to just descend from the heavens and fall into my lap… I'll try to be more considerate of your feelings…"

"No…" Blake sighed as her bow flattened and she shook her head. "Work comes first in this situation and your right as much as I hate it. I'm going to have to suck it up since we are both in relationship and work partners and things like this just happen right in front of me… But you really wouldn't just leave, right? With Adam…"

"Hell no! I'm hunting his ass down first and foremost!" Naruto growled as he made a promise to Blake and his eyes flickered brightly. "I will give you my word we will find him and if we can't arrest him… We will put an end to him, together. For your sake. Ironwood's ass can wait."

Feeling the surge of care, determination and raw willpower coming from Naruto Blake willed herself to sit up despite the pain and she lightly pressed her lips against his. "Okay. Together."

"Well about that…" Naruto started and nervously chuckled as he scratched the back of his head and his ears flattened. "There might be a… Third member of our team now… With pink and brown hair.

Blake's bow flattened further, her eyes glistened with anger and turned feral and she finally grabbed Naruto by his collar.

And from the cafeteria the rest of team RWBY and Penny could hear Blake scream. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE IS PART OF THE TEAM NOW?! SHE TRIED TO KILL ME!"

---

In a small dark lit room, a man growled as he kept hitting a remote control towards the TV in front of him. He hated the image he saw before him, but he kept watching it as a reminder of why he recorded it.

It would soon serve him well enough.

"Sir! Preparations are finished!" A man wearing a white mask and two bear ears on the top of his stood at attention as entered the room.

"Good… I'll be there shortly. Dismissed." The man stated as he continued to watch the video from his seat, positively livid at what he was seeing as his other hand tapped the hilt of his katana while a red aura began brimming around him.

The subordinate did not need to be told twice and exited the room.

The video in question that kept being played was of the blonde faunus Huntsmen that he had been ordered to track down and recruit having busted a crime syndicate that had been paying his group for protection despite their connections to the Schnee Dust Company.

Lien was lien and he offered a lot to keep their heads and fund their mission. It wouldn't matter soon enough anyways.

All humans would be eradicated regardless.

However, the image he kept rewinding to infuriated him and it changed his entire goal. No, there would be no recruiting this faunus despite the prodigy's image being a great moral boost to the White Fang as a whole like Sienna wanted.

Like her wants matter very much in the future anyway.

Seeing who he was with made him livid.

She was with him. And it was what she was doing with him that ripped his heart out even further than what she had when she left him on the train that day.

Their hands were intertwined as they left the scene. And those eyes… Those eyes!

They were filled with hope and admiration! The admiration that she once held for him!

He would kill this faunus and then… He would take her back. And she would be used the way she was intended to be used.

As a mother to the children of the next High Commander of the White Fang…

Adam Taurus.

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Volume I, Recovery...

Completed.

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Initializing...

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Volume II, Revelation...

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