AN: So, it's been a few weeks. As such I suppose I should address a couple things. I wanted to take a little break before releasing chapter 3. However, the major reason for the wait is because I had an inner ear infection and ended up getting BPPV (Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo). If any of you have ever had BPPV, then you know you are not doing anything while you have it. I could not look anywhere without the world turning upside down. It also came with nausea and vomiting, so that was fun. Luckily it has finally gone away, and I was able to finish chapter 3.

I would like to say this next point is addressing the elephant in the room, but I don't think that even begins to cover it. A lot of you were upset about me taking Naruto's chakra away. I get that a lot of you want to see an OP Naruto, but to me that's never been who Naruto is. He has always been the one to overcome the odds. What odds are there when he can breathe hard enough on hunters and kill them? One of you brought up a good point about how in chapter one I made a point of making sure he had his full chakra which made it seem like he would have it in Remnant. That is a fair point. However, what you all do not know is that I actually have a reason for that and for it being taken away. It was not simply for nerfing Naruto, it has a much bigger purpose. However, I am not just going to blatantly tell you all what it is. Imagine if we knew the whole time that Itachi was a good guy. That would have removed so much from the Naruto series. So, I am not just going to tell you all every little plot point for the whole story in the first two chapters. I hope this gets through to you all. I am not retconning the nerf for reasons none of you need to know yet. As for why I sent Kurama, there are a couple reasons. One of them is because I love the dynamic between he and Naruto and Kurama is one of, if not my favorite character. It also gives Naruto an easier way to reflect upon what he sees by conversing with Kurama so I don't have to write mundane inner monologues. The other reasons you don't need to know yet. With that being said, let's get started.


Remnant of A Shinobi: Chapter 3 – Welcome to Beacon

Naruto was up bright and early. He normally likes to sleep in, but he was too excited. Today is the day he gets picked up to go to Beacon. Naruto was already packed up and ready to go. He went downstairs to see Hesta who also had a bag. Naruto was confused. Hesta had not mentioned anything to him about a trip. "Hey Hesta, going somewhere?"

"Yeah, I'm heading to Atlas." Hesta informed Naruto.

Naruto was shocked to say the least. From every interaction he and Hesta had, it seemed like Hesta hated Atlas. Now he was going there? "You? Atlas? Did I hit my head or something?" Just then, Naruto immediately yelled internally, "Shut up, Kurama!" He knew Kurama would have made some snarky comment about Naruto likely having brain damage. So, he cut the fox off before he could. "Aren't you and Atlas like oil and water?"

"Nah, it ain't like that. Sure, I may call certain people from there Atlas snobs, but that's just due to a lot of them being, well snobs. A lot of people in Atlas have lots of money, especially the Schnee's. Money tends to make people think they're some kinda superior. But not everyone there's like that. One such person saw my success against that snob and wants to talk to me in person about becoming a part of his company. I figured I might as well talk to the guy." Hesta explained clearly.

"Wow, I guess you're more open minded than most. Didn't think you'd be packed already though." Naruto mentioned.

Hesta gave a shrug. "Well I could've waited, but why wait? Might as well get it out of the way, right? Besides, things are gonna be boring around here with you heading off to Beacon." Hesta said with a grin.

"Yeah…" Naruto said to the first friend he made in Remnant. He would still be in a state of disrepair without Hesta. He owed him everything. "Hesta, if there's anything I can—" Naruto said before he was cut off.

"Don't you even dare finish that. You don't owe me anything, Naruto. I was happy to help, and you helped me plenty too." Hesta looked down. "You know, I've never really had much in the line of friends. Been on my own for what feels like forever now. Even the guy at the weapons shop is more like a work acquaintance. I know I got family back in the country somewhere, but we haven't spoken in years. Honestly, as short as it was, you're the only real friend I've had for as long as I can remember." Hesta spoke with all honesty.

Naruto gave out his usual grin. "I'm glad we're friends too. I hope things work out with that guy in Atlas."

"Thanks. I would say I hope it works out for you too, but I know your will's too strong for it not to work out." Hesta then stuck his hand out for a handshake. "So, I'll just say I'm rooting for ya!"

Naruto shook Hesta's hand. "I'll see ya again, ya know!" Naruto said as he left and headed towards the landing point to be picked up.


Naruto was now on an airship ferrying students to Beacon academy. He could see a variety of different people, although he did not pay much attention to them. He was too busy watching the broadcast of the Vale News Network. They were currently reporting on a recent crime spree that has been occurring in Vale by the crime boss known as Roman Torchwick. In the picture of his mugshot that appeared on screen, he seemed to have a slender figure and is fair-skinned with dark-green slanted eyes. His hair was somewhat long and was orange with long bangs covering his right eye. He also had black eyeliner around his left eye. In terms of his clothing, he was wearing a red-lined white suit with a small gray scarf and black gloves. The mugshot did not indicate his other articles of clothing. It did however show a very cocky smile on the criminal's face, showing he probably had a massive ego. "He's got style I guess…" Was the only thing Naruto could think to say.

The screen then shifted to the news anchor, Lisa Lavender, who went to the next story. "Thank you, Cyril. In other news…" She said as a picture of Faunus protestors appeared in the top left corner of the screen. "This Saturday's Faunus civil rights protest turned dark when members of the White Fang disrupted the ceremony. The once peaceful organization has now disrupted—" were the last words before the transmission was cut off.

"Man, these White Fang guys keep making a bad situation worse." Naruto mentally commented to Kurama.

"It may be a new word, but people are still people. Ignorance breeds fear, and fear inevitably results in violence. That violence begets more violence and so on." Kurama responded to the blonde.

"The cycle of hatred perpetuates..." Naruto reiterated as Kurama nodded.

Back in the physical world, what cut off the news transmission was the announcement from a woman appearing on screen. She had green eyes and light-blonde hair tied back in a bun with a curl of it hanging down the right side of her face. She wears thin ovular glasses and teal earrings that seemed to match the pendant that was hanging from her collar. In terms of clothing, she wears a white long-sleeved pleated top that has a wide keyhole neckline and gauntlet cuffs. Her lower body is covered by a black high-waisted skirt with bronze buttons and black-brown stockings. She had black boots with bronze heels and a cape that is purple inside and black on the outside. She spoke in the tone of a middle-aged woman, despite how young she looked. Naruto thought it could be situation like Tsunade, but that thought quickly left his mind as he listened to her. "Hello, and welcome to Beacon. My name, is Glynda Goodwitch. You are among a privileged few who received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy. Our world is experiencing an incredible time of piece; and as future huntsman and huntresses, it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task. And now, it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and the training to protect our world." The image of her then cut out.

After a few seconds of silence Naruto let out the thought "She seemed nice."

"…I dunno kit, I have a feeling she's one not to mess with." Kurama said.

"Think so?" Naruto answered the fox. He then shrugged as he would find out soon enough. He then noticed a boy with hair similar to his own running off looking like he was about to puke. A moment later he could hear a couple girls freaking out about vomit on their shoes. Naruto then began to snicker uncontrollably.

Kurama, letting out a chuckle of his own said, "Looks like the school year is starting off well."


The airships finally made it to Beacon and began to land. Naruto was starting to get anxious. He didn't like being cooped up in a place he could not leave. He was glad to be finally getting off the ship. To his surprise though, he was not the first one off. That honor belonged to the other blonde he saw earlier. The other blonde ran off the ship straight to the nearest garbage can and began to let loose. Naruto thought he would try to be nice. Naruto rubbed the other blonde's back for a few seconds saying, "There you go, get it all out…"

"Ugh…thank you…" The other blonde said as he went back to puking. This blonde was actually a little bit taller than Naruto. He had dark-blue eyes with hair in a mess like Naruto's except his was slopped down as opposed to spiky. He wears a white diamond-shaped chest plate, cut off above his lower abdomen and white spaulders. Underneath the armor he wears a black short-sleeved hoodie with detached reddish-orange sleeves. His pants are blue with a white patch on the left knee, as well as black sneakers. He has two belts crisscrossing his waist, both different shades of brown, with a pair of small pouches on them. He wears brown wrist-length gloves with exposed fingertips and small metal plates over the back. He also appears to have a sheathed sword strapped to his left.

As nice of a guy as Naruto was, he was not about to spend the next however many minutes standing around rubbing this guy's back. "Uh, good luck. Hope you feel better." Naruto said as we walked off. He looked up and seen the glory that was Beacon. The architecture of the place impressed him more than Vale's did. "This puts the Leaf to shame…" Naruto said still in astonishment. As he continued to stroll through his new surroundings, he heard an explosion go off.

"Could you go to one place without it exploding?" Kurama said to Naruto to rile him up.

"Oi! Not every place explodes! There was…" Naruto then paused realizing that the Leaf Village was blown up multiple times. "Okay, but there's…" Naruto again had to pause, because the Sand Village received multiple explosions too. This continued for a bit as Naruto made his way to the source of the explosion. Every time he thought of a new place, he quickly remembered something blew up there. "Damn, you might be right…" Naruto said causing the fox to grin. Naruto finally arrived to where the explosion occurred and there were visible scuff marks on the ground. He then looked at what seemed to be two teen girls covered in soot in an argument. Well, an argument in as much as one was chastising the other.

"Unbelievable! This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about!" One of the girls said in an obnoxiously whiny voice. She has pale skin with pale blue eyes and long white hair pulled back into an off-center bun tail hanging to her right. She also has a scar over her left eye. In terms of cloths, she wears a thigh-length strapless white and pale-blue dress. Over this she wears a bell sleeved bolero with the same color scheme as her dress from shoulder to wrist. On the back of the bolero is the Schnee Crest.

Naruto, noticing the crest thinks, "Hesta mentioned the Schnee's before…"

"Supposedly they have a lot of prestige in this world." Kurama informed him.

"Explains the high and mighty act. She sounds just like Sasuke used to, if he had a whiny voice…" Naruto commented to his friend.

The other girl had fair skin as well. She has neck-length dark hair that curls in a crescent shape around the right side of her face that gradates to dark red at the tips. In terms of cloths, she wears a long sleeved thick black blouse with a high collar and red trim on the sleeves, a black waist cincher with red lacing up the front, and a black skirt with red trim. She also wears a pair of thick black stockings and black combat boots with red laces. On top of it all is a red hooded cloak fastened to her shoulders by cross-shaped pins. Her emblem appears as a large silver brooch and is pinned to a wide black belt slung around her hips on an angle. While being yelled at, she is just pointing her fingers towards each other nervously. Her most notable trait however, was her silver eyes. "I'm really sorry…"

Upon looking at both of them, Naruto was perplexed about one thing. "Why are they in skirts? How is that good for combat?"

Kurama simply retorted, "You come from a world where people fought every day in sandals, do you really have room to talk?"

Naruto could not refute that. "Good point." Naruto responded.

"You, complete dolt! What are you even doing here? Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon?" The girl in white interrogated.

"Well, I'm I…" The girl in red stuttered out nervously before she was again cut off by the girl in white.

"This isn't your ordinary combat school. It's not just sparring and practice you know. We're here to fight monsters, so watch where you're going!" The girl in white continued to chastise.

Naruto had heard enough. The girl in red clearly needed some help, so he decided to step in. "Hey, come on. Do you really need to yell at her like that?"

The two girls turned to look at him as he approached. The girl in red looked seemed relieved to have some back up. The girl in white on the other hand just looked more annoyed. "And who are you supposed to be?"

Naruto quickly placed his fist on his chest as he introduced himself. "The name's Naruto Uzumaki! Future badass huntsman!" The girl in red grinned at the way he introduced himself.

The girl in white rolled her eyes. "Could you sound more ridiculous? Who introduces themselves like that?"

"I do, obviously! You sure your head's screwed on tight?" Naruto said before he proceeded to flick the girl in white in the head. This caused the girl in red to snicker. Now the girl in white was the one feeling humiliated.

"How dare you!" The girl in white shouted indignantly as she smacked Naruto's hand. "Do you know who I am?!"

Naruto then raised his hands in a comedic way as if he was threatened. "Well excuse me princess."

"It's heiress, actually." A voice said from outside the group causing all three of them to look in the direction of the voice. Who walked up was another teenage girl holding a bottle of red dust that was sent flying from the explosion. She has a skin tone similar to the first two girls. She had amber eyes and long black hair. A ribbon is tied with a large black bow on the top of her head and she wears purple eyeshadow in catseye style. In terms of clothing, she wears a black buttoned vest with coattails and a single silver button on the front. Underneath this is a white, sleeveless, high necked, crop undershirt and white shorts with a zipper on the front of each leg. She also wears black low-heeled boots and full stockings with a color gradation of black to purple at her ankles. Her emblem is visible on the outside of both thighs just below her shorts in white. On her left arm is a detached sleeve with a silver cuff around her arm, and black ribbons are wrapped around both forearms. A small scarf is wrapped around her neck. "Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. One of the largest producers of energy propellant in the word.

The girl in white, now revealed to be Weiss Schnee, regained some of her haughty stature. "Finally, some recognition." She then quickly snapped her gaze to the girl in red as a means of implication.

The girl in the black bow continued to say, "The same company infamous for its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners."

Weiss was shocked at the sudden defamation of her name. "Wha- how dare—" Weiss could not get out a dignified response causing both the girl in red and Naruto to chuckle. Weiss walked up to the girl in the black bow, gave her a once over look, and then snatched the bottle of dust from her hand before storming off.

The girl in red walked forward a bit nervously trying to yell to Weiss, "I promise I'll make this up to you!" With no acknowledgement from Weiss, the girl in red hangs her head and mutters "I guess I'm not the only one having a rough first day…" She then let out a sigh before she turned to the girl in the black bow and said, "So what's u—" was all she could get out before she seen the girl in the black bow was already walking away. She then falls to her knees and lays on the ground in a depression. "Welcome to Beacon…"

Naruto, seeing the sad state of the girl, decided to sit down next to her. "I haven't left yet, ya know."

The girl in red, having forgotten Naruto was there, breathed a large sigh of relief. At least one person had not ditched her yet. "Sorry about that."

"So, my name's Naruto Uzumaki." Naruto reiterated, not exactly sure if he had introduced himself yet.

"Yeah, I got that earlier." The girl in red informed him.

"…Well, now you won't forget it, ya know." Naruto said making the girl in red smirk. "What about you?"

"Oh! Right, sorry! My name's Ruby Rose." The girl now revealed to be Ruby responded.

"Nice to meet ya Ruby." Naruto said extending his left hand.

Ruby shakes his hand. Then, she quickly asks the question, "So, what's your weapon?" She said with a gleam in her eye.

Naruto was surprised that was the first thing she asked about him, but he did not find it particularly odd. "I'll tell you if you tell me yours."

Ruby stood back up and configured her weapon into an insane looking red and black mechanical scythe. "What do you think?"

"Holy crap! That's awesome!" Naruto said genuinely.

Ruby gleamed at her weapon being praised. It was her pride and joy. "Thanks! It's also a customizable, high impact sniper rifle!"

"Damn, now that's a weapon!" Naruto said, clearly impressed with Ruby's weapon. "What do you call it?"

"Crescent Rose." Ruby stated with a smile. "Now, it's your turn to show me your weapon!"

Naruto then reached behind his back and pulled out his Orange Spark in its condensed state before he configures it into staff mode. "Feast your eyes on Orange Spark!"

Ruby, upon seeing the Orange Spark, was in full fangirl mode. Her eyes twinkled the brightest of starts as she started to ogle the weapon. "The collapsing mechanism is amazing! Oooh! I can see the dust compartments!"

"Wow, you're really into weapons, huh?" Naruto said, a little weirded out.

"Yeah, I really am…I developed better weapons skills than people skills." Ruby said a little nervously.

"Hey, everyone needs a quirk, ya know?" Naruto said in an attempt to make Ruby feel better, which seemed to work. After all, Ruby's personality was nothing compared to the oddity that was Rock Lee. Naruto then configured Orange Spark into its rifle mode.

Ruby was right back into fangirl mode. "Wow! Is it Bolt-action?! Semi-auto?! Full-auto?!"

Naruto couldn't help but snicker at how enthusiastic the girl was. "It's semi-auto." Ruby calmed down a bit. Not from disappointment, but just from gaining more of an understanding of Naruto's weapon. "So, Ru—"

Ruby cut him off. "Since your weapon has compartments for dust, how does the dust affect it?" Ruby asked innocently.

Naruto grinned sheepishly. "Hey, I'm not giving up all of Orange Spark's secrets right away." Ruby's face began to pout. "So, like I was trying to ask, that Weiss girl asked about your age. And I won't lie, I noticed you seemed a bit young too."

Ruby sighed at this part of the conversation as she sat back down next to Naruto. "I got moved ahead two years. I'm only 15…"

"Why do you make it sound like that's a bad thing?" Naruto asked.

"Because I don't want people thinking I'm special. I don't want people looking at me different, or treating me different." Ruby said, surprised she admitted that to Naruto. She would not normally be confessing her personal feelings to a stranger, but somehow Naruto was different. She felt a real big brother vibe towards him. It probably helped that her real older sister was also a crazy blonde.

"Being looked differently isn't always bad. It can be a good thing depending on why you're being looked at differently." Naruto said not really confident that he was right about it, but he just wanted to cheer Ruby up.

"Even if I might be looked at differently in a good way, I don't wanna chance it." Ruby responded.

"Sorry Ruby, but people will always choose to watch the exceptional, not the average." Naruto informed her as he started remembering his days at the academy where everyone would always watch Sasuke and ignore him.

"I dunno, kit. You sure managed to get plenty of people watching you." Kurama noted.

"Oi! That's different! I just became exceptional in a different department!" Naruto told the fox, referring to Naruto becoming a master prankster.

"Now you sound like my sister…" Ruby mentioned to Naruto.

"Well, if we're anything alike hopefully she enjoys some jokes or pranks." Naruto grinned.

"Well, she definitely has jokes…" Ruby said almost painfully looking away.

Naruto then stood back up. "Well, it's getting that time. Gotta get going. See ya Ruby!" Naruto said as he ran off.

Ruby's eyes widened as she snapped her gaze back at Naruto and watched her new potential friend run off. "Wait!" Ruby then fell onto her back again and in a pathetic sounding voice said, "Oh, not again…"

It was at this point the blonde Naruto met earlier arrived to see Ruby in her predicament. He walked up to her and extended his arm to help her up. "Hey. I'm Jaune Arc."

Ruby took Jaune's hand as he helped her up. "Ruby." Upon closer inspection of Jaune, she remembers him from the airship and snickers. "Aren't you the guy who threw up on the ship?"


Naruto, after leaving Ruby, had wondered further into the school grounds. He was amazed at the shear size of the place. There were villages where Naruto came from that were smaller than this one academy. "Wow, this place is nuts!" He mentioned to his Tailed Beast partner.

"Then I guess it's the perfect place for you, isn't it?" Kurama said hoping to annoy Naruto.

Instead, Naruto turned the question on Kurama. "What, would you rather we be at a boring place where you can watch me look at a paper all day?"

Kurama fell silent for almost ten seconds. He had to concede to Naruto on that one. "Okay, good point."

Naruto continued on and came across an obscenely tall doorway. "There's some tall people here, but no one's that tall. What's the point of this thing?!"

"This is where you draw the logic line?" Kurama responded.

"…Shut up." Was Naruto's response as he entered through the door. He seen that this was where all the other students had been gathering, so he was in the right place. He looked around and noticed how seemingly quiet it was. "Well aren't we all just a barrel of laughs…" Naruto muttered to himself, annoyed at how quiet it is for a room full of people. After around ten more minutes, he seen Ruby and the other blonde boy, whom we know to be Jaune, walk in. Ruby quickly ran off somewhere else leaving Jaune distraught and feeling awkward. Naruto thought about going over to him, but then he noticed a red-haired teenage girl looking at Juane. Her hair was in a waist-length ponytail, curled slightly into a loose ringlet. She had green eyes that were complimented by light-green eyeshadow around the far upper corners of her eyes. She was tall and quite muscular compared to most of the other girls Naruto had seen at this point. In terms of clothing, she wore she wore a brown overbust corset with a vertical strip of lighter brown in the center. She also wears an elastic, black, A-line miniskirt and brown opera-length gloves on both arms. She also had on a red, ankle-length sash that wrapped around her skirt. She has a small circular bronze plate by her right hip opposite two pouches with both connected to a belt. The plate has a 'shield and spear' emblem on them. What really stood out is that she seems to be the only girl here with armor. She has bronze greaves that started below her mid-thigh before continuing downwards into her boots. "…He'll be fine."

"Interested? I know that Namikaze blood has a fascination with red hair." Kurama mockingly said to Naruto.

"Oi! Screw you fox! She may be pretty, but so is everyone else here apparently." Naruto said that last part more so in disbelief. He has yet to see an average looking girl since he got to Beacon, aside from Ruby. Not that Ruby was not pretty, but Naruto saw her more as a little sister-type figure, and her being younger only made that more so. Speaking of Ruby, Naruto was broken from his thoughts when he heard the sound of Ruby yelling in mock terror. He was bored so he decided to go check it out.

"You're lucky we weren't blown of the side of a cliff." Weiss said sternly to Ruby.

"Oh my god you really exploded…" A girl who was carrying Ruby in her arms said to her with a look of pure shock. The girl is fair-skinned like the others Naruto had met with lilac eyes and bright golden hair with a slight cowlick sticking out at the top. She is also rather tall compared to the other girls. In terms of clothing, she wore a tan jacket that shows her lower stomach with golden brown piping and short, puffy sleeves with black cuffs that feature two gold buttons. Underneath the jacket looks like a low cut yellow crop top with her emblem on the left breast in black, all of which seem to accentuate her impressive bust. She also wears a brown belt covered by a pleated brown piece of material reaching from hip to hip around the back of her waist, with her emblem emblazoned on the right-most pleat in gold. Underneath this is a longer, white piece of material reaching to her knee on the right side, as well as a pair of black mini-shorts. She wears brown, knee-high boots and orange over-the-knee socks, with the right sock pushed down just below the knee. A lavender bandana is tied around her left knee. An orange infinity scarf and black fingerless gloves on her hands.

Naruto upon seeing the blonde was a bit more taken back than with the rest of the girls. "I…I…" Naruto said in his head.

"So, blondes are your thing? Good to know." Kurama said teasingly.

What Naruto seemed most infatuated with, more than her hair or ever her bust, was her lilac colored eyes. But Naruto quickly shook himself of those thoughts, almost as if he did not have them in the first place.

"You shook yourself of that state pretty quick. I'm impressed."

"I'm not a little kid anymore, it's not just about looks to me. And besides, I don't plan on getting with anyone here." Naruto told the fox. Kurama did not say a word and just smirked. He wanted to see how long it took before Naruto asked out a girl that was obviously not interested since that is his track record. Still, Kurama understood why Naruto wanted to avoid a relationship like that. It had only been two months since Naruto had to be taken away from everyone he had ever known. Despite Naruto's bright attitude, there had to be some insecurities that resulted from his experience.

"It was an accident!" Ruby said as she got out of the blonde girl's arms. "It was an accident!" She stated again looking right at Weiss. Weiss than stuck a brochure right in Ruby's face, causing her confusion. "What's this?"

"The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any injuries or damages—" Weiss then went on to spew more corporate nonsense.

Naruto thinks to himself. "Oh, not again…" He then walks further towards them.

Kurama grinned as he said, "She's consistent, I'll give her that."

"Umm…" Ruby said indignantly after being completely thrown off by Weiss' corporate spew.

"You really wanna start making things up to me?" Weiss asked the distraught Ruby.

"Absolutely?" Ruby said in a questioning and submissive tone.

"Read this and don't ever speak to me again." Weiss said in a very authoritative tone.

"Look—" The blonde girl was about to give her input before she was cut off.

"Again, with this crap?" Naruto said, gaining the attention of the other three. "Seriously, do you get paid to chastise poor Ruby over here?" Ruby seemed happy to see her potential friend again while the blonde girl seemed more curious as to how Naruto knew Ruby.

Weiss was plain irritated. Her eyes narrowed at the sight of Naruto. "You…"

"That's right, it's me! Naruto Uzumaki! …Huh, I didn't mean for that to rhyme, but it works!" Naruto said with his usual wacky demeanor. Both Ruby and the blonde girl smirked at Naruto's not so serious attitude.

Weiss just got more annoyed. "Would you just leave? No one asked you to come over here!"

"Oh, sorry princess. Oh no wait, it's heiress." Naruto placed 'heiress' in air quotes. "But I guess that title does fit you better. It lets us know right off the bat you're full of hot air!" Ruby wanted to laugh but she was trying to get on Weiss' good side so she held it in.

The blonde though had no issues laughing. She definitely appreciated a good joke. "I like this guy."

Naruto simply thought to himself, "It's times like these I'm so glad Kakashi was my sensei. He knew how to get under someone's skin better than anyone. I truly learned from the best…"

While Weiss is close to blowing her top, the blonde girl tries to calm things back down. "So, like I tried to say earlier, it sounds like you two just got off on the wrong foot. Why don't you start over and try to be friends, okay?"

Ruby was thrilled at the concept. "Yeah! Great idea sis." Ruby cleared her throat and extended her arm out. "Hello Weiss. I'm Ruby. Wanna hang out? We could go shopping for school supplies."

Weiss responds in an obviously sarcastic tone. "Yeah, and we can paint our nails, and try on cloths, and talk about cute boys like tall, blonde, and scraggly over there." She points behind herself right at Jaune, seemingly unknowingly. Jaune notices and perks up.

Ruby clearly did not get the sarcasm and said with such hope in her voice, "Wow, really?!"

Weiss in turn has a face that personifies the words 'are you serious' as she says abruptly, "No."

"Wow, that was just mea—" Naruto was cut off by the sound of a microphone being turned on.

"I'll, keep this brief…" The man on the stage was the school's headmaster, Professor Ozpin. He looks middle-aged with tousled silver hair and thin brown eyes. He has a light complexion and sharp facial features. In terms of clothing, he wears shaded glass spectacles and a small, purple, cross-shaped pin on the cowl around his neck. His outfit mainly consists of an unzipped black suit over a buttoned vest and green shirt. He also wears black trouser shoes and long, dark-green pants. He walks with a cane though he does not need it. He is also carrying a mug with the Beacon Academy emblem, from which he drinks either coco or coffee (to this day I don't know which).

"Here it comes…" Naruto thought to himself expecting a long and boring speech.

"Considering how many speeches you've given others over the years, you can deal with it." Kurama retorted to Naruto. Naruto groaned but Kurama had a point.

Ozpin continues on. "You have all traveled here today in search of knowledge. To hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you are finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you and all I see is wasted energy. In need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step." Ozpin then walks off the stage.

Glynda then walks up to the microphone to speak. "You will gather in the ballroom tonight. Tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready, you are dismissed."

"Got some serious Kakashi vibes coming from Ozpin…" Naruto thought.

"That can be both a benefit and a burden." Kurama said upon Naruto's input. Naruto didn't like hearing his sensei being referred to as a burden, but he got what the fox meant. Kakashi had an appearance of a guy who was laid back and took everything in stride but was in reality holding a lot of pain and secrets.

The blonde girl spoke her own input on Ozpin. "He seemed kind of, off."

"It's almost like he wasn't even there." Ruby added.

Jaune then walked up leaning towards Weiss. "I'm a natural blonde you know." This caused Weiss to face palm.

Naruto then decided to quell the awkwardness. "Anyway, how about we finish introductions. Ruby and Weiss already know me kinda, but I'm Naruto Uzumaki!"

The blonde girl then introduces herself. "I'm Yang, Ruby's older sister."

Jaune of course went next. "I'm Jaune Arc." Jaune then remember Naruto's voice. "Weren't you the guy that tried to help me when we landed?"

"You looked like you could use it…" Naruto responded making Jaune rub the back of his head in embarrassment.

"So, Ruby, how do you know this Naruto guy?" Yang asked her sister.

"Oh! Uh, well…" Ruby said trying to collect her thoughts.

Weiss then answered for her. "After you nearly blew us off the cliff and I was appropriately telling you what you did wrong, this fool comes up and starts making fun of me!" Naruto proceeded to flick Weiss in the head like he did earlier. "Ow! He did it again!"

"Just making sure your head's on straight!" Naruto said with his usual grin.

While Wiess grew more agitated, Yang was looking at Naruto's face. She noticed the 6 whisker-like marks on his face. "So, are those real whiskers?" It was at this point that the other three finally noticed them, with them all wondering to themselves how they missed the whisker marks.

"Well, kinda." Naruto answered. "I was actually born with these. So, they're more like birthmarks."

Yang shook her head in understanding. "I'm still gonna call you whiskers though."

"Please don't…" Naruto said to his fellow blonde.

"Nope, it's happening." Yang said with a grin on her face.

Kurama grinned at Naruto getting a new nickname. "Crazy that no one's called you that before."

Ruby shook her head "I'm so sorry..."

Naruto sighed but dealt with it. "Beats being called dobe I guess." Naruto thought to himself.

Ruby then looked around. "Where's Weiss?"

"Oh, she already took off. Maybe I went a bit too far with the teasing…" Naruto said.

"Nah, anyone that messes with my sister deserves it. Besides, that line about the hot air heiress was great." Yang added.

Naruto smirked. "Ruby said you liked a good joke. Let's hope you feel the same about pranks, ya know!"

Yang then let out a chuckle. "Whiskers! You keep getting more fun by the second!"

Ruby then begins looking back and forth between Naruto and Yang. She then rubs her eyes in disbelief. She then thinks to herself. "Are…are there really two them?"


All the new students were gathered in the ballroom in their nightwear. Ruby was wearing a black tank top featuring a heart-shaped Beowolf design on the chest and long white pants decorated with pink roses. She also wears a black sleeping mask decorated with triangular red eyes. She was writing to her friends back home Yang flopped down next to her.

"It's like a big slumber party!" Yang said as she landed next to Ruby. She was wearing an orange tank top with her emblem on the front in red and black shorts.

"I don't think dad would approve of all the boys though." Ruby said to retort her sister.

"I know I do." Yang said which was immediately followed up with her giving a purr as she looked at the other boys in the room, some of whom were shirtless. Then Jaune walked across in blue full-body pajamas with blue bunny slippers and a white bunny face on its chest. This in turn caused Yang to wince at how cringey it was.

Naruto, to Yang's disappointment, was wearing a long-sleeved black t-shirt and some orange baggy shorts. Naruto would normally be wearing a regular white tank top that showed off his well-toned arms, or even no shirt at all, but he was not ready to show off is robotic arm. That would lead to questions about how he lost the arm, which were questions he is not yet ready to answer. He walked right up to Jaune while pointing to his own blonde hair. "Jaune, you're hurting the cause! You're making us blondes look bad!"

"I-I'm sorry…" Jaune said ashamed.

Naruto then snickers. "I'm messing with ya. I don't care what most of these guys think."

Jaune in surprise asked, "R-really?"

"Jaune, listen up. At some point this semester, I'll have gotten on the nerves of at least half of the people in this room. Why would I bother trying to get them to think I'm cool?" Naruto said to answer Jaune's doubts.

"Whatever happened to making good first impressions?" Kurama asked.

"That went to crap the second I got to Vale…" Naruto said to the fox in a defeated tone.

"So, what you're saying is that I was absolutely right." The fox said knowing how Naruto will react.

"Oi! Screw you, Kurama!" Naruto yelled internally at the fox which just caused Kurama to laugh.

"Uh, Naruto?" Jaune said, making Naruto break his spat with the fox.

"R-right. Like I said, don't worry about it." Naruto said trying to not seem like he was talking to himself.

Yang watched with a giggle at the weird conversation her two fellow blonds had. She looked down to see her sister's writing. "What's that?"

"A letter to the gang bac at Signal. I promised to tell them all about Beacon and how things are going."

"Aw, that's so cute!" Yang said in a cooing way which was abruptly stopped by a pillow to the face thrown by her sister.

"Shut up! I didn't get to take my friends with me to school. It's weird not knowing anyone here…" Ruby said with annoyance and slight depression.

"What about Jaune. He's…" Yang tried to think of a decent word to describe Jaune. "Nice. And then there's Whiskers who seems like a real riot. There you go, plus two friends! That's a 200 percent increase!"

"Pretty sure Weiss counts as negative friend. I guess I'm down to one." Ruby said pitifully.

"There's no such thing as negative friends. You just made two friends and one enemy." Yang was once again abruptly hit by another pillow. "Look, it's only been one day. Trust me, you've got friends all around you. You just haven't met them yet."

Ruby then sat up to see the girl in the black bow reading in the corner. She was currently still wearing her bow. Along with that she wore a black, long-sleeved, yukata-style shirt with white edging over a purple undershirt, and a matching skirt. A black obi is wrapped around her waist and tied with a black and white string. "That girl…" Ruby said out loud.

"You know her?" Yang said with a smile, hoping that she could be another potential friend for Ruby.

"Not really. She saw what happened this morning, but left before I could say anything." Ruby said answering Yang.

"Welp, now's your chance!" Yang said to which Ruby rolled her eyes. Yang then dragged her sister towards the girl in the black bow. "Hello~" Yang said in a melodic way. "I believe you two may know each other."

The girl in the black bow replies, "Aren't you that girl that exploded?"

"Uh, yeah." Ruby extended her arm to introduce herself. "My name's Ruby." She seen the girl in the black bow was not reciprocating so Ruby drew her hand back. "Buy you can just call me crater…actually you can just call me Ruby."

"Okay…" The girl in the black bow said clearly disinterested.

"What are you doing?" Yang whispered to her sister.

"I don't know help me." Ruby whispered back.

"So, what's your name?" Yang asked the girl in the black bow.

The girl in the black bow then sighed before answering. "Blake."

"Well Blake, I'm Yang! Ruby's older sister! I like your bow!" Yang said, trying to get something out of Blake.

"Thanks." Blake said in a way to show her irritation.

"It goes great with your, pajamas!" Yang further complimented, hoping to reel Blake in.

"Right…" Blake said showing her disinterest. Ruby and Yang then looked at each other, both making sounds showing neither really knows what else to say.

Yang tried again. "Nice night, don't you think?"

"Yes. It's lovely. Almost as lovely as this book. That I will continue to read. As soon as you leave." Blake showing a little more irritation as she has to further spell out that she wants to be left alone.

"Yeah, this girl's a lost cause." Yang said facing her sister.

"What's it about?" Ruby asked, directed at Blake.

"Huh?" Blake asked confused, not sure she heard the other girl right.

"Your book, does it have a name?" Ruby further reiterated her interest.

"Well, it's about a man with two souls, each fighting for control over his body." Blake explained.

"Oh yeah, that's real lovely." Yang said in a sarcastic and dismissive tone.

Ruby steps forward. "I love books. Yang used to read to me every night before bed. Stories of heroes and monsters. They're one of the reasons I want to be a huntress.

"Why is that? Hoping you'll live happily ever after?" Blake said, once again in an almost dismissive tone.

"Well, I'm hoping we all will. As a girl, I wanted to be jut like those heroes in the books. As someone who fought for what was right, and protected people who couldn't protect themselves." Ruby said with wonder in her eyes.

"That's very ambitious for a child. Unfortunately, the real world isn't the same as a fairy tale." Blake said with a look of slight depression.

Still with a look full oh hope, Ruby said, "Well, that's why we're here. To make it better."

"Oh, I'm so proud of my baby sister!" Yang said picking up Ruby into a hug which turned into a cartoonish brawl between the two.

"Well Ruby, Yang, its—"

Blake is cut off when Weiss approaches. "What in the world is going on over here?!" Her nightwear consisted of a faded blue nightgown with short sleeves and white trim and displays the Schnee Crest on the upper-right chest. She also wears her hair down. "Don't you realize some of us are trying to sleep?" Her and Yang then notice each other and simultaneously yell "Oh not you again!"

Ruby then tells the to shoosh and worryingly says, "Guys, she's right. People are trying to sleep."

Weiss then says indignantly, "Oh, now you're on my side?"

"I was always on your side!" Ruby said, countering Weiss.

"Yeah, what's your problem with my sister? She's only trying to be nice!" Yang said defending her sister.

"She's a hazard to my—" Weiss is cut off by a pillow to the head. "Who just…?!" Before Weiss can Identify the culprit, Naruto yells out to identify himself.

"It's always something with you!" Naruto yelled at Weiss.

"I should be saying that! You're always messing with me!" Weiss responded indignantly.

"And you're always obnoxiously messing with Ruby! Seriously, get a new hobby!" Naruto said, knowing it will only increase the ire of Weiss.

"I recommend high-endurance sprints. It'll help warm up that icy personality of yours." Yang commented. Naruto gave a thumbs up, showing that he approved of the joke.

Weiss glared daggers at Naruto. "Now listen to me you—"

Weiss' rage was then interrupted by Blake blowing out her candles, which was the last light in the room. Amidst the darkness, everyone calmed down and went to bed.

Chapter End.

AN: And that's chapter 3. For those of you who may be thinking I'm about to throw Naruto and Yang right into a relationship, I must tell you the answer is no. Could they get together at some point? Maybe. Their chemistry is more for friendship sake right now. When you look at their personalities they would obviously get along. Still, Naruto may even end up with someone else. Hell, I'm still debating whether there will even be a pairing in this story. If I do decide to include one, it won't be for may many more chapters. Things are still just getting started, so don't expect things to just pop off now. Anyway, see you all in the next chapter.