Okay, I understand you guys have questions about how Jaune was reborn as an Uchiha in the Naruto Universe in the first place, and this chapter will cover that. Hopefully, this will shed some light on why it happened, and why Team RWBY and the remainder of JNRP became as dark as they have. As well as changes to their fighting styles and weapons.

*As usual, RWBY and Naruto are not owned by me. They belong to Rooster Teeth and Kishimoto.*

Delving Into The Past!

Sitting at a desk working on a laptop computer was a strange looking individual. He looks mostly human, but his skin is a strange obsidian color, and he has these bony growths around his lower jaw and the sides of his upper lip that formed a sort of mustache/beard combo. He has slicked back black hair, blood red eyes, and silver colored piercings on his nose and ears. His outfit was a set of dark brown robes with gold trim and black armor underneath, and a brown helmet with large, gold colored, jagged horns sticking out of the front. Clipped to his belt are two Lightsabers that one would see in the Star Wars franchise, and they're both uniform in the fact that they are Dual-Vented Lightsabers and appear to be made of wood.

Sensing that he has company, the man looked up from his work and smiled at the audience.

"Oh! Hello again, my loyal readers! Marka Ragnos629 here, coming at you live from my desk!" he said with a welcoming wave. "So, you're probably wondering about a few things that might not make much sense to you about my story. Well, here. Watch this, and it'll tell you guys everything you need to know about these events."

Marka Ragnos629 turned his laptop computer so that the screen was facing the audience, and as a bright flash of light illuminated the room, we now find ourselves in the darkened office of Headmaster Ozpin. All was quiet as the door opened and someone walked in.

"Headmaster? Is Jaune back from his mission yet?" asked the leader of the color-coded team, RWBY, Ruby Rose.

Ruby is a teenage girl. About fifteen years old. She has red hair that's more of a dark brown at the base, pale skin, and silver eyes. Her choice of attire is a black blouse with red frills on the sleeves, a combat skirt of the same style and color scheme, along with black tights and black and red combat boots. To top it all of, she wears her mother's old red hooded cloak.

Her friend and fellow team leader, Jaune Arc, had been called to the headmaster's office for his first ever solo mission because of his remarkable improvement, much to Weiss' ire, but he has yet to come back. It was meant to be an easy Grimm Specimen Capture mission that would take, at the longest, a day and a half to complete. Problem is it's been a week since he was given this mission.

So what was the young girl's solution to her current predicament? Why, to go and speak with her headmaster, of course.

But upon entering the office, which was full of a ridiculous amount of coffee machines, Ruby was surprised to find that nobody was there even though Ozpin usually works up here even on weekends. And today is Saturday, so he should be doing paperwork here, at least. Now, most kids her age would see this as a sign that nobody was home and to come back later. Not Ruby. She saw this as a means to try and figure things out herself.

She walked into the office and began her search, trying to see if there was anything out of place. Moving stuff around as quietly as possible, which was still quite loud, Ruby found a bunch of random junk in the headmaster's office. Used coffee grinds, moldy food, broken parts from old weapons, a picture of a pasty white woman with red eyes and black, veiny lines on her face on a dartboard…

She's very much disturbed by that.

But she's found nothing so far that could possibly give her any important information that pertains to Jaune and his mission. Ruby sighed and ran her hands through her hair in frustration. She severely wished she could just take out Crescent Rose and just start blasting stuff to smithereens in order to calm down. Unfortunately, all that'd do is piss off Glynda because of the damage to school property. Bad idea, considering how mad she was after that giant food fight. She's still not sure how Jaune ended up falling out of that three story window during the whole thing, but just chalked it up to the blonde's own bad luck.

Just as she was about to give up and go back to the dorm, something under a pile of bills caught her eye. Using her speed Semblance, Ruby zipped over to the pile of papers and after looking to make sure no one was around, she carefully removed the item and was surprised to find that it was a little black book, no bigger than the average human hand. Ruby wanted to open it, but after that incident where she found out what Blake's book was all about, she became a bit more cautious around these things.

The turned it over, hoping to find a story summary, only to find a very incriminating warning written in gold letters, and covered in jelly sauce and coffee stains.

'Ozpin's Journal: property of Ozpin. Do not touch, except for Ozpin. THAT GOES DOUBLE FOR YOU, QROW!'

Naturally, a note like this sparked that childhood curiosity we all have had in our early childhood and mid-teen years. Ruby grinned and raised an eyebrow at just what Ozpin could be hiding in this little book of his. Maybe some kind of dirty little secret? Maybe a map to the famous Beacon Treasure leftover from Ozpin's pirate years? I mean, come on! How else could he afford to have a school like this one built and still have enough leftover to purchase a seemingly bottomless amount of coffee?

"A journal, hunh?" mumbled Ruby.

She opened the book to the first entry, which just so happened to have a passage written within that seemed to be before Beacon's initiation. But what she read was greatly confusing.

'Dear Journal,'

'This war between myself and Salem does not seem to be going well. Ever since that witch created the Grimm many millennia ago, she's been hellbent on 'preserving the balance of the world' like she keeps rambling on about. How there must be darkness to balance out the light. One cannot exist without the other, and blah, blah, blabbity, blah, blah, malarky! When will she realize that the light must always eradicate the dark? That is how things must be if life is truly to be preserved and the world be kept in balance! No more death. No more destruction. No more darkness. But dammit, that woman is as stubborn as a mule!'

'There's only one option I have left to finally put an end to this war I've started with Salem! I must establish a school where I and several members of my inner circle can train a new generation of warriors to eradicate these Grimm and finally destroy Salem! Then, I can implement my plan for true, everlasting peace! I have to go now, my head just hit the ceiling. Wait, what?'

Not at all disturbed by that last sentence, Ruby was far more confused now than before she started reading this thing. Who's Salem? And why was Ozpin trying to get rid of death, destruction and darkness? Doesn't he understand that those things can't be eradicated like he wants them to be?

Ruby's not totally naive like everyone seems to think she is. There's more going through her mind than just guns and cookies. She knows and understands that there must be balance between these things for the world to truly remain in balance. Death, destruction and darkness are just as much a part of the world as life, light, and harmony. None of these can exist without the other. It's a lesson that was taught to her by a woman with black hair that looked similar to Yang's, and was wearing a Nevermore mask.

The fact that Ozpin started a war with this 'Salem' woman over such opposite ways of thinking just sparked more questions for the young girl than she ever thought she'd ever have. Questions that might only be found within this book.

So, against her better judgement, Ruby turned the pages in the book to the next entry.

'All is going according to plan. My new school, Beacon, has already produced a team of fantastic hunters and huntresses. I call them Team STRQ, a team consisting of their leader Summer Rose, Taiyang Xiao Long, Raven Branwen, and Qrow Branwen. I just know that by the time they graduate, I'll have molded them into the perfect warriors to train the next generation! Oh, don't get me wrong, they're most definitely the strongest team in Beacon, currently, but they aren't the ones I'm looking for. That honor may fall to their descendants. After all, the next generation is always stronger than the previous.'

Ruby's eyes narrowed at this particular line. Something was beginning to seem awful fishy around here, and it's not that horrible aftertaste from the sushi Blake made her try. Bleh! The little reaper absolutely HATES the taste of raw fish! She turned to the next passage and what she read made her start to SEE red!

"It would seem as though Summer and Raven are a lost cause to our war with Salem. Upon approaching the members of Team STRQ after the birth of Taiyang and Raven's daughter, Yang, I spoke with them about my plan in regards for these children and the fight against Salem. Taiyang and Qrow were all for it, but Raven and Summer proceeded to kick my ass so hard I think one of their boots was lodged up it, before they proceeded to kick me all the way back to Vale all while refusing to let their children be turned into weapons! And what's worse, before doing so, Raven destroyed her wedding ring and effectively divorced Taiyang for agreeing with me, cut off all connections with Qrow, and went back to those stupid bandits she calls her tribe!"

"Such foolish women! Do they not understand the need for Salem and her dark creatures to be destroyed for true light to be brought to the world?! Who cares about whether or not children are turned into weapons for the greater good? This must be done! Now, I know that Summer will remain with Taiyang to help raise little Yang in place of Raven, as she doesn't wish for her best friend's daughter to grow up without the love of a mother, but maybe I can use this to my advantage… all I need to do is wait a few years and see if Summer ever gives birth to another silver-eyed warrior, and then I'll send her on a suicide mission and have her killed so I can manipulate her child into the perfect weapon to combat Salem. For now though, all there is to do… is bide my time…"

Ruby slammed the book shut and hastily stuffed it into an inner pocket she keeps hidden in her cloak. She uses it to keep all sorts of stuff, since she never knows what she might need. So far, she keeps things like a rubber duck, horn of deer buck, nunchucks, and for some odd reason, she also keeps unshucked corn in this pocket.

"I gotta tell the others about this, NOW!"

With that, Ruby disappeared in a flurry of rose petals as her Semblance was kicked into overdrive. She's a woman on a mission, and she's not about to fail so long as she can save her friends and find out what happened to Jaune! Knowing Ozpin, he must've had a hand in her fellow leader's disappearance.

The scene changes once again, and the audience find themselves back where they started. In the office of Marka Ragnos629 with said writer closing his laptop computer after shutting it down.

"So sorry to say that that's the only glimpse of what happened you're going to get for now. But don't worry, all of your questions will be answered. In time."

*To Be Continued…*

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