Warning: I do not own RWBY, that belongs to Oum & Rooster Teeth. Nor Naruto that is shonen and his creator.


If someone had told her aura was magic she would have believe them.

Heck, she would believe them somewhat even now.

Aura, the power of the soul, was one amazing thing. Only a few days ago he had unlocked their aura and it felt like somebody had awakened a part of her she never knew of. After that naruto/ozpin had them try to bring their aura up, he explained that aura was nothing something that was automatically on but with time they would bring it up on instinct.

One of the biggest benefits of aura was that it gave the user their own personal shield, a lethal attack would be blocked and she could keep fighting afterwards. The second benefit was that it augmented the users physical ability to superhuman level, chakra could also augment their body but that time and skill to actually do it and would take them years to fully grasp it.

Aura was built for it.

Before she could think on it her aura flared as naruto jabbed her with his cane. She barely moved out of the way, they were forced to spare with him while keeping their aura on. It was not a fun experience and before she could react naruto tripped her and level his cane at her neck, the match was over.

"Not bad Sakura, you still need to work on your academy style but with time we can start training you on a different style" said Naruto "And good job, you were able to hold your aura up for the match."

"Thanks, so when will you teach me a new fighting style, I mean I know I need a lot of work for my academy style" sakura asked.

"Your still young and you haven't reached puberty yet, we don't know what your body will be till then so that is why we are using the academy style. Once we reached a certain age we begin working on a new fighting style. Plus, the academy style is a great way to start and we can build off it easily" Naruto explained.

The girl nodded, then she smiled at what came next. Naruto pulled out a single cut red crystal that barely glowed

Dust

"I figured we should start with this before ending today. Dust, something I know you and sasuke are interested in, fortunately for you we'll be starting today" said Naruto. "As for sasuke, I have a different plan in mind."

Sakura paid close attention. Naruto had shown them dust only once and it was like someone had taken ninjutsu and shove it into a crystal.

"Alright, to start out with this here is dust and it is the lifeblood of remnant. It is used to power weapons, industry, vehicles, and almost everything in the world uses it. While many have theories on what it is I will personally tell you the truth, it is magic: Each dust crystal contains a minute amount of magic, now this magic is extremely diluted to the point that even aura can affect it.

Each crystal has its corresponding element and it is easy to tell which is which. Red if fire, yellow is lighting, blue is ice, and green is wind, these are the four basic types of dust common throughout the world. Now you can combine these dust to create advanced types of dust depending the ratio of dust used. For instance combine 50% fire dust and 50% ice dust will give you water dust while a higher percentage of fire dust will give you steam dust.

Of course we will focus on the basic types for now. Now of course depending on how fast you can go we may be able to get other application of dust. However, before we continue I need to know something ... do want to specialize into dust?" Naruto explained.

"Specialize into dust? What do you mean?" she asked

"In remnant there are those whose entire art focuses on dust. They have the ability to weave, forge, and infuse themselves with dust; while such an art is expensive and few can afford the cost, under me that will not be a problem. The reason why I am saying this is that Ozpin and I had been talking about it, being a dust mage requires strong control and willpower as well good control over their aura. After testing your aura for the past few days we knew you could exceed in this art" Naruto explained himself.

...

Being a dust mage, Sakura had to admit that did seem an interesting path. Her mind already was wandering to the different applications of it or the possible limits of it. But a part of wondered about what else the immortal could teach her, she wanted to know about aura and magic more, but dust was magic if in limited form.

After a few minutes of thinking she made her choice.

She grabbed the crystal

"Excellent, now to begin we will start off with pushing aura into the crystal. Don't worry its a low grade one, training variant, so you will only get minor burns at worst. What I want you to do is create a small flame with the crystal. To much aura and you will cause it to explode and to little will do nothing. Find the right amount" he explained.

Sakura stared at the crystal. She then pushed her aura into it as it began glowing, deciding to pull a leaf out his book she pushed as much aura into it. As stated the crystal exploded and naruto handed another one. She repeated it but at a significantly lower level: After repeating it multiple times a small flame lit on top of the crystal.

"Great job sakura" he praised "Now, you just need to do the same thing with the other crystals and then make the element change its shape."

...

"What?"

xxx With Sasuke xxx

Sasuke and Naruto's training swords clashed as they pushed back.

"Not bad, but do try to restrict your usage on the sharingan" said Ozpin.

Sasuke rolled his eyes as they deactivated. Ozpin had given a fighting style that would suit his current fighting method, one that focused on speed and power on a limited extent. He had him copy before doing all the katas anyway, something about muscle memory. Not that it mattered, the immortals fighting style made the copying ability of the sharingan useless. The man's entire style was based on adapting to the user so whatever he copied would just be countered.

It was a little annoying but that was countered by the fact he was getting stronger.

Unlike Kakashi Ozpin actually taught him something, compare to what people thought the man barely teached them anything outside of chakra control and teamwork exercise. Ozpin was rather stren when it came to teaching but the boy learned under him. It also helped that he was able to understand everything the man explained quickly and applied it into his styles.

Right now they had just finished with their latest spar.

"Take a small break for now, I want to discuss on your other skills" he created small bottle of water and threw to him.

"What about them?" Sasuke asked.

"Your taijutsu is good, with that sharingan it is now complete. Ninjutsu is also strong, all those scrolls in your compound helped in there. Kenjutsu, well you seem to a natural at it. However, while those three branches are good they are not enough to defeat your brother" said Ozpin.

"... I know and I—"

"No, I am not saying that you need more work on it. I'm saying is that is isn't going to be enough to kill him, I know you're smart enough to know your brother will be proficient in these same skills. What we need to work on your other skills; Your genjutsu is lacking, tracking skills are not where they need to be, and trap making is nonexistent. Those are the biggest three but there are more" Ozpin listed off.

"Why trap making, how can that defeat Itachi, the man was in ANBU" said sasuke.

Ozpin pulled out a small capsule of sorts. He pushed the top and sprayed something into Sasuke's eyes causing the boy to cry out in pain "This is pepper spray an easily affordable item that is quite useful item against dojutsu wielders. You can easily apply this into any sort trap, Itachi may be good but even he can't dodge every trap. The first step is taking away is his senses, smell, sight, and so on. If you can do that then you have titled the battlefield, that is the power of traps."

"Didn't need to spray me!" he spat

"Perhaps not, but the lesson is imparted. You can't defeat itachi by being pertidictable, your a ninja so cheat your way to victory. As for genjutsu I will see if I can find anyone that teach you how to apply multiple genjutsus, even if Itachi can destroy a single genjutsu not even he can stop hundreds at once and they don't even need to be big ones. Hundreds of minor ones can be more effective then one big one" Ozpin lectured.

A single wave of magic and the stinging sensation died down. Naruto threw a book to him.

"It's a book made by one of your ancestors on traps, I believe it he goes by Izuna Uchiha or something like that" said Naruto "Read it, learn it, and memorize it by heart. It is a good book and is designed to work with your sharingan."

"Is that all we will being today? I thought we were going to be going over dust or more about aura?" Sasuke asked.

"At the moment there's not much I do, remember I have to fight gaara soon. As for aura there's not much else we can do, you need to get your control up and I have already given all the exercises needed to get their. For dust, while dust training may help you it requires a great degree of time to do and more then you might willing to. I do have plans to incorporate dust into your skill set but that will have to wait for some time" Ozpin explained.

"Be proud on how far you have gotten Sasuke, the only thing you need now is time and then you can fight itachi" said Ozpin. The boy nodded as he cracked opened the book.

But before he could continue he heard Ozpin grunt as the world around him started to twist before coming back to the real world. And Sakura was only a few meters away from them. Ozpin popped away.

"Sorry about this, I remembered that the hokage wanted me to meet with someone. Said person is suppose to help with my big friend in here" he pointed to where the seal was. "Don't worry, I'll be back in no time just focus on what I told you"

xxx Konoha Bathhouse xxx

Naruto looked down at the address given by the hokage and then back up.

This was a bathhouse

And he was to meet some guy with long white hair here?

The paper gave only a physical description of the man and nothing more. He was about to begin his search before he heard giggling not too far away. Following the sound he found a man behind the bamboo wall, which housed the female half. Looking back at his paper ... it was the guy.

"Well ... this is a interesting way to start" Ozpin muttered.

Sighing naruto extended his cane and poked the man.

"Eh Eh, OI, I'm doing research here pipsqueak" the old man bite back. Naruto just shoved the paper in his face. He saw the man sputtered before grabbing it. A few seconds later the perverted look on his shifted to seriousness then understanding.

"Ahhhh, so you're Naruto huh? Hm ... not a bad outfit there kid" The man's tone turned into a serious and deeper one "So I heard from the old man that you wanted to learn how to use the fox eh?"

"Yeah, and he told me your suppose to help me?" said Naruto. He remember that after Sasuke forfeited the hokage has asked if he wanted to really tap into the kyuubi's power and once again his answer was yes. Then the old man pulled out a piece of paper and began writing down stuff telling him to go here a few days later.

"Yeah Yeah I will" said the old man. Grabbing Naruto the two vanished to forested area.

"Here you go, a nice safe place for us to work on the fox. Don't worry about hurting anyone either the old man reserved this place a few days ago too" the old man said.

"So um, who are you anyway?" asked Naruto. The minute he finished the man had a gleam in his eyes he started to hear ... music?

"Who am I? I am the man who has no enemies, north, south, west, east ... not even in the heavens! I am one of the sannin!" the man began dancing as he pulled a large scroll that transformed into a massive toad "The white haired frog tammer. Even a baby crying would stare in awe ... the great Jiraiya! That's me!"

...

...

...

"I'm going to use the kyuubi chakra right now" sitting down he ignored the man as he called forth the red chakra. And like before he felt his body started sting in pain and his mind nearly going drowsy from the bloodlust. "Oh yeah, forgot about this"

"Oi! You ok there naruto?" Jiraiya asked, he looked at the blonde from a distance ready to tightened the seal if kyuubi tried to break through "Seesh, you want to give me a heart attack or something! If you hadn't controlled yourself I would have to beat you black and blue!"

"Well maybe you shouldn't done that stupid dance you pervy sage!" Naruto shouted back.

The sannin looked like a goldfish before shouting back "Pervy Sage! You idiot I've been longer than you show me some respect brat! And stupid dance, I have you know I talked with many kabuki dancer to get it right!"

"Well maybe you should get your money back old man" yeah the kyuubi powers weren't exactly doing any wonders. Before they could continue their argument the man stopped and grumbed before calming himself.

"Tch, whatever ... still, it's impressive that you can pull out a tail of chakra right away, I figured it would have taken longer" said Jiraiya "So kid, my old sensei told me you wanted to master this chakra, so how are you going to do it? I have my plan but I wonder if you do?"

"Er, well when I first used it really hurted, like my entire body was being burned or something. So I wondered if I could just er ... get used to it? Like if I say in it for a long time my body gets used to it" It was an idea he and Ozpin passed around as the Kyuubi refused to answer.

"That could ... work actually. I heard of a similar training method used by the mist jinchuuriki ... you really want to try that way?" the sannin asked.

"Well yeah, I mean I also want to use shadow clones—"

"Stopping you right there kid, look I'd rather you not do that. Mostly because I have no idea what the hell is going to happen if you do. That and I don't feel dealing with kyuubi enhanced clones right now" Jiraiya stopped him. The sannin really did not know how the kyuubi training would be affected by adding shadow clones, sure he knew of shadow clone training but this ... may not be the best idea.

The blonde grumbled and conceded as the sannin watched his godson get use to the power. During this time he ever so intervened when naruto had difficulty with the cloak. On his free time he remember what his sensei and the hokage told him about naruto, the boy was an average shinobi by the academy records going from the deadlast too, that made him proud.

However, the records from kakashi painted a different picture. Outside of the earth jutsu sensei taught him the boy began showing off more skills with that cane of his and even defeated the water clone of an A-rank missing nin. Its not surprising to see shinobi hiding their true skills unless it was an emergency, heck look at him for instant. However, their were a few questions in his mind when it came to his skill, he wanted to ask the boy but stopped himself.

Poking at him would only push him away and with the three year trip coming up soon he could find out then.

"Seesh, your one weird godson Naruto" the man smiled.

xxx Hospital xxx

"Shikamaru, didn't expect to see you here?" Naruto smiled when he saw the nara heir in the hospital.

"Naruto, what brings you here?" the nara asked.

He chuckled and scratched his head "Er, chakra burns sadly. All over my body too" training with kyuubi cloak was much harder then it seemed. They had worked on the cloak for a week and only now both of them were confident he should go one tail higher.

"Tch, what a drag man. Chakra burns all over your body, even I would stop their" Shikamaru winced.

"Well good thing I'm not like normal people. Say, what's with that basket of fruit anyway?" Naruto pointed to the fruit basket in hand.

"This? Oh I was going to give it to choji. The idiot ate so much barbecue afterward he got indigestion, I wanted to give this to him but that was before they told me he couldn't eat it" the nara explained.

"Ahh, ... ooohh I just got a terrible idea. Why don't you and I head to Choji's room and eat it in front of him" naruto snickered out. Shikamaru sighed, but didn't disagree. The two headed off to his room, as they did they noticed they passed by Lee's room.

Right to see Lee about to be engulfed by sand

Naruto acted first, taking his cane he charged at him. The boy didn't have time to respond as he was forced away from lee. Shikamaru came next as gaara's body froze.

"Shadow Possession Jutsu" the nara called "Don't try to move, it'll be useless"

"So, want to answer why you're trying to kill one of our comrades? I don't know how it's done in suna but in the leaf we take offense to that" Naruto called. He readied his cane for the worse scenario.

...

"I wanted to kill him" both genin looked shocked by the answer. The only saving grace was that the sand went back into his gorud.

"I don't understand, he should be frozen by my jutsu and yet he looks so calm" the nara looked worried, while he knew naruto was tough they both saw how the fight with lee went "And why do you want to that? You won already, do you some kind of vendetta against him or something!?"

"No, nothing like that. I wanted to kill him ... because I wanted to kill him" gaara explained.

"Oz, Kyuubi, may need to put him down" Naruto looked worried by the statement and shikamaru did not look better. The last thing he wanted to use was the kyuubi, but at this rate ...

"If you interfere with me I will kill you to" the red head warned

"Yeah not going to happen there buddy. You forget me and naruto are here and we haven't showed our trues skills" mostly a lie, he now regretted now taking his shadow lessons more seriously, as for naruto ... well he hoped for the best. "Also you forget their two of us and one of you so your at a disadvantage. Look, if just leave now we won't tell anybody you were here and we can put this all behind us"

"Leave, if you get in my way I will kill you" he repeated.

Shikamaru grabbed naruto before he acted "Hey! We can't go fight him naruto, that guy has monstrous level strength!"

"Well I have a real monster in me too, I won't lose to this tunki!" Shikamaru just looked confused while gaara's eyes widen a bit.

...

"A monster eh, ... Well I too have a monster inside of me. The day I was born the women that was my mother died, my father wanted to create the greatest ninja in suna so he used his powers to implant a powerful spirit within. Known as Shukaku it was said to be the incarnation of a mad monk who sealed within a teakettle" Gaara began.

"Heh ... what kind of parent does that? That's some twisted love there" said Shikamaru.

"Love? ... Don't judge me by your standards. 'Family' ... let me tell what that really means to me. It means hunks of flesh connected by hatred and murderous intent. My mother's life was sacrificed so that I could become suna's greatest weapon and as the Kazekage's son I was given access to libraries of every shinobi art, my father gave me jutsu after jutsu I was raised isolated and spoiled. At first I thought that was love ..."

...

"Until the incident" he whispered

"What incident?" Naruto demanded

At first the boy did not say anything ... then he started chuckled as it got louder. A twisted grin was plaster on his face as he glared at both of them

"For the past six years since I was six ... my father has been sending assassins over the years to kill me. I've lost count just how many I killed" he giggled.

"What!? But you said that your father spoiled you and trained you in the shinobi arts, surely that means something?" Shikamaru argued.

"A presence that is far to powerful is one that is feared. When they sealed Shukaku within me they learned that my mind was not sane and since my father was kazekage he knew I was a powerful weapon. A weapon they could not control, so after I turned six they believed I was a liability and before then I was 'handled with great care'. Now I am nothing more than a relic, a broken tool without guidance.

So then I asked myself, for what reason am I alive now? With my purpose gone I was lost, but you see I could not live like that I needed reason or else I would've killed myself. But thanks to my father's actions I found my reason, by killing those that sought to kill me I found my existence; I would fight only for myself and love only myself, by killing those that wish to harm me or exist I find reason to exit myself and there is not greater joy than that.

For as long as there are people to kill that I will not cease to exist" Gaara explained.

Before they could answer back the sand shot back out, to late did they realized gaara's plan. The boy had covered this room with his sand and now they were cornered.

"Now, help me feel—" the door opened as they heard a familiar and boisterous voice.

"Now now, being all excited is a sign of youth ... however, the finals do not start for a while so I recommend you stop ... unless your are to erger that is" said Gai. The man appeared before the two genin and gave a hard stare. For a brief moment naruto worried he may need to use his semblance on gaara.

Then the boy clutched his head in pain. The sand retreated and he left the room

"I will kill you all, and prove me existence" he promised, leaving them all.