Huntsman's Mimicry
Welcome back to another chapter.
*edit - issue over* So I have had a couple of reviews now saying this should solely be a Rwby fic, not a crossover. So I'm going to leave this to a vote for you people to decide what happens. If it does turn out to be voted for Rwby fic, only names will change everything else stays the same. So even if a recognisable power or character shows up, it will just be my oc. If a crossover vote wins, the story remains the same. So basically just where you find this story in the story section and I'm starting to rant so I'll stop now.
Guest 1&2: sure thing
BlackDragonShinigami: phew thought I messed up there. Yep Neo is awesome and she is going to have some relevance in my first "volume".
ChunkyFunkyMunky: well I tried for an hokage Naruto personality with a drink addiction instead of ramen. Starting this chapter you will start to see similarities in power. I have mentioned Roman and Neo being his only precious people, so that's my reason for Naruto being on that side. If he protects sasuke then it's really no different on that stand point.
YuukiAsuna-Chan: I mean Beacon is the main place but I get what you mean. I may have also strengthened that OTP
"…And this is the wild habitat also known as Emerald Forest" Ozpin stated calmly but his voice echoed loud enough for all students to hear him.
"Don't look all smug, it wasn't named after you"
"I never said anything, just shut up Mercury"
Naruto and Cinder looked between them, rolling their eyes at the duo. Taking a sip of his tea, Ozpin waited for a small moment allowing the silence to enter. "As future Huntsmen and Huntresses, it will be your responsibility to enter the field of battle to complete your mission. As such within this forest towards the North end, you will find some runes. There I have left some 'artefacts' for you to recover and bring back here to pass. However, as you are probably well aware you will face adversity from the creatures you all are aware of, the Grimm." Ozpin took a breather and stirred the tea around in his cup. "Unfortunately in these events, none of teachers here will be assisting you should you come into trouble. That being said every person here will gain a partner should they wish to pass. The first person they make eye contact with within the forest for the next four years".
"WHAT!" Ruby screamed in shock.
"Told ya" Nora nudged Ren's shoulder.
"Once the pair returns from the forest, you both will be graded accordingly. Are there any questions?" Ozpin asked.
"I err… have one… sir" Jaune raised his hands.
"Good" Ozpin brushed off the blond. "Get ready, you will now be using your landing strategy". Everyone stretched and quickly got in position with the exception of Jaune.
Naruto crouched down ready to pounce not getting the chance to hear Jaune's stupid question, being one of the first to be launched. "I'M HAVING A GOOD TIME" Naruto spun around in time to be launched backwards, winking to the others not caring if they saw or not. 'Alright, I have to either get Cinder, Mercury or Emerald as my partner for this job to work' Naruto glanced up and down to keep track of the ground and the direction of his want to be teammates. 'Okay I see now' twisting round, Naruto let his claws out. Falling next to a tree, he clung onto a thick branch and swung forward through the air. Using the momentum, Naruto hopped from branch to branch to slow down before dropping to the ground in a forward roll. "Shit" retracting his claws back to nails, Naruto reached up to his eye taking out a fake blue contact lens. 'I really got to get better contacts, I can't be bothered with the idiots of the white fang trying to recruit me again'. He wiped the contact and put it back in his eye begrudgingly, hiding the red with blue 'so much easier to look like a human after all'.
Hearing shots, Naruto curiously looked up noticing Yang propelling herself through the air with her shotgun gauntlets. "Amateur… having to waste rounds to show off" he shook his head. "Wish I thought of that". Glancing up again, he noticed the familiar sight of gun boots heading near him. "Well that makes my job easier" watching Mercury kick his feet together, the silver haired teen shot downwards to hop gradually lower to the ground. "Sup man".
Landing in a crouch, Mercury stood up taking a step to the side to half turn in the blonde's direction. "Oh great so it's you I'm paired up with" Mercury put a hand on his hip.
"Your damn right it is" Naruto strolled up towards him. "Shall we go on an adventure?" he snickered as they fist bumped each other.
…
"Wait… so you and Emerald aren't together?" Naruto hummed. "Just saying man, it looked like you two had a thing together".
"Pfft yeah right" Mercury flipped to the side, booting a miniature T-Rex Grimm in the head with enough force to snap it's neck. "She's always in a mood, like literally all the time… it's like its her time of the month, everyday".
"I really wouldn't say that…" Naruto threw himself with his spear, piecing directly through the hardened back of a boar Grimm. "Well at least to her face, pissing off a girl with natural strange coloured hair is never really a good thing" he shivered. "Trust me on that one".
"Oh? Hiding something are we?" Mercury grinned, as he turned on his heels to avoid another boar Grimm.
Naruto clicked his tongue as he rapidly shot three Grimm in the head. "Well… nah not really, when I was younger I joined a group with a peculiar rolemodel that may have influenced me to peep on my 'Icecream' and she found out… she kind of well, forced we to walk around town in the nude".
"Dude…" Mercury shook his head. "Why would you even..?" he ran up to a Beowolf Grimm, kicking it as he almost ran up its body with the amount of kicks.
"Well do I, 'the raging alcoholic' look like I really give a damn about doing something like that?" Naruto chuckled. "Anyway we were talking about you and Emerald, just ask her out or something?"
"What just go and ask grumpy?" Mercury crossed his arms.
"Yeah, need a wingman?" Naruto sheathed his spear noticing all the Grimm were dead. "I'm good to take along, trust me I can easily get into weird situations like they were normal and people know that cause I am a good drunk".
"Let me guess, I just need to buy you a drink?" Mercury rolled his eyes as Naruto winked at him.
"Hey Naruto, you made it" both boys looked forward noticing Yang waving the blond down.
"Wow are we here already?" Naruto looked back before at Yang again in confusion.
"You were the one who insisted on tree hopping most of the way" Mercury complained.
"So I did…" Naruto shook it off. "Yang! How you doing?" he held out his arms. Shrugging, Yang mimicked him as they met with a hug.
"I'm good this test wasn't that hard... and I got here first" they backed up from the hug. "And you know Blake right?" Yang pointed back at the darkly dressed girl.
"Yep… you know Mercy right?" Naruto pointed back.
"Don't you dare call me Mercy again, it's either Mercury or Merc" Mercury huffed.
"Not to be rude but don't we have to take the relics back up the hill?" Blake pointed out.
"HEADS UP!"
The four looked up to see rose petals falling with Ruby, right in the centre of it all. A little bit above little red riding hood was the ice queen, trying but failing to stop herself with glyphs. Naruto gleamed 'Perfect… I don't mind catching Ruby but Weiss can go splat, and I can give the Schnees some red crushed ice'.
"Naruto, I'll catch Ruby… you get Weiss" Yang ordered.
Naruto soured but Mercury nudged his shoulder "you remember what Cinder said, the Schnee can't die yet, it's too public for our plans". Cracking his neck, Naruto sprinted to the direction of where Weiss was falling. Pausing for a second, Naruto ran and leaped for a tree. Intercepting Weiss on the way, he grabbed hold of her waist and held her like underarm luggage. Leaning back, Naruto slammed his feet against the tree as he landed, quickly kicking off it. Flipping backwards with momentum, Naruto landed back onto the ground stumbling back.
"Shit" trying to move his weigh forward to stay balanced. Naruto fell anyways with the added weight of Weiss. "Now that's a pain in my ass" he looked to his side noticing Weiss trying to recover. 'Suppose it would be better for me to finish the job myself'.
"Thanks… I guess" Weiss spat grass from her mouth.
"Yeah just saved your life… I guess it's no problem, Fuck I need a drink" Naruto grumbled. Being offer a hand up, he raised an eyebrow curiously. "Never thought you cared that much Mercury" Naruto took the teens hand, allowing himself to be pulled to his feet.
"Don't count on it too often" Mercury grunted. "That was just for the advice earlier".
"HHHHHEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPPPP MMMMEEEEEEE!"
"Oh what now" Mercury rolled his eyes as Jaune and Pyrrha darted out from the trees followed by a large deathstalker.
"So everyone is coming to these runes but some idiots decided to play with the Grimm instead of killing them" Naruto tutted mockingly. "Some people have no standards". Twitching Naruto spun around quickly in time to notice a large Ursa charging towards them. Only for two green chain scythes to stab it's shoulders and pull it back so two swords acting as scissors to decapitate it.
"Sorry, may I cut in?" Cinder smirked flicking the two swords, seemingly out of habit.
'She's used to having blood on her swords, there is no point in doing that for Grimm that have no remains' Naruto shrugged. "Go ahead… but that outfit doesn't suit you" Cinder dead panned him, inwardly agreeing. Wearing jeans, a tank top and a ripped sleeved tanned vest, really was too different compared to her red dress.
"Very flattering Naruto" Emerald walked up smirking.
"Okay can you three quit it, shouldn't we go help them to not look suspicious" Mercury hushed.
"Yes… we shall, Emerald and I will help with the nevermore, you two deal with the deathstalker" Cinder ordered.
Gripping his spear tightly, Naruto rushed over to the Scorpion Grimm. "Ren!" he glanced between the hammer wielding girl and the ponytailed boy she shouted to. With a sigh, he rushed in front of the boy holding his spear in front of him. Staring directly in the Deathstalker's multiple eyes, Naruto raised his spear to block one of its pincers.
"Naruto" he glanced to the side noticing Pyrrha running in to block its other pincer with her shield. "How well are you at defending?"
Naruto hummed as he and Pyrrha jumped back to avoid the Grimm's stinger. "Well…" he glanced at Jaune blocking the stinger only to be send flying on his ass. "I would say I'm decent" he flipped his spear around shooting an explosive dust flare at its face.
"Alright, do you think you can handle the stinger? I can handle the pincers" Pyrrha motioned towards Ren, Nora and Mercury. "Those three can deal with the main body" she turned her head back to Jaune giving him a kind smile. "Jaune could you help me with the pincers?" The boy could only nodded as he stood up.
Naruto allowed Pyrrha to charge in first, taking all the attention. While he leaped over the red head slashing at it's tail. Twisting the spear round, Naruto thrusted the spear forward piercing its tail. Holding steady, Naruto glanced down noticing Ren cutting at the eyes while Mercury and Nora bashed in it's back. 'This is… way too many people for one Deathstalker' Naruto shoot the rifle part of his spear, using the momentum to chop off the stinger.
"Coming through!" Nora yelled slamming her hammer on the stinger, putting it directly through the Grimm's body.
'Now that is scary, strong and small… just like Neo' Naruto blinked. 'No, I will not accept that. One Neo is hard enough to deal with'. He turned his head to the cliff "well that's interesting". Naruto jumped off the evaporating body of the Deathstalker as everyone in the group glanced at the weird sight of a Nevermore being decapitated going up the cliff.
Omake
Naruto glanced at Neo as the two had a silent conversation using their facial expressions to pass the train time. "Oi hurry up, I'm not waiting around here for you animals not to do your jobs" both glanced to the side as a Schnee worker pushed a red haired faunus to the ground. The faunus merely gritted his teeth and stood up again.
Tensing, Naruto felt a grip on his wrist "I'm fine Neo". She narrowed her eyes at him "Just give me a sec".
"Just don't do anything stupid" Neo motioned with her eyes, letting his wrist go.
"I said HURRY UP" the Schnee worker banged his gun against the metal wall just to make a point. Naruto swayed over the worker and tapped his shoulder "the hell man you scared me… I thought one of those animals touched me".
"Hmft, I just came over to see what all the noise was" Naruto put a hand on his hip. "This one not working properly?"
"No he isn't, what good is he if he can't work fast enough?" the worker complained.
"Well better a rusty tool than a broken one" Naruto shrugged. A brief moment of silence passed "so mate can you take me down the back, I need to guard this train but only official Schnee workers can pass through doors… without breaking them".
"The back?" the worker looked puzzled but shook his head. "Look man I can't abandon my post… uh just take the brat, they're 'workers' as well" he motioned to the faunus.
Naruto chuckled "workers, right? Neo come on". He motioned his head to the faunus to get moving, the faunus just growled but walked to the back. Leading them to a metal door, the faunus lifted his arm to a scanner beside the door. Linking with a workers bracelet, the door slid open allowing the three to pass. Looking back noticing the emptiness of the train carriage, Naruto slipped a small box and tossed it to the roof. Neo smiled placing a scroll on the door's control panel.
"Hey what are you two doing?" the faunus piped up looking fed up but a small bit of worry in his voice.
"Just mercenary work" Naruto sighed in the awkward silence. "You hate the Schnees don't you?" the silence from the faunus continued. "What's your name kid?" he asked the faunus even though he looked older.
"Adam… Adam Taurus" the faunus grumbled. "Why do you care? You humans are all the same, you all hate the faunus and treat us like crap".
"Now that's a bit hypocritical but I can't blame you…" Naruto tossed another cube on the roof as it stuck itself. "Although… I wouldn't exactly call myself human" he put his hand out. His nails sharpening into claws while his other hand moved to his eye, removing a blue contact lens to reveal a orange red eye with a slit for a pupil. "Although, pretending to be one does have the benefits of getting good jobs" Naruto placed the contact back into his eye.
Adam gritted his teeth "if you are a faunus then why work for the Schnee Dust Company? They are one of the main reasons we are repressed, why we suffer so much?"
Naruto blinked rapidly as the contact lens went into place. "Look Adam, just because I'm a faunus doesn't mean I have to help them all. I just help those who I find precious, I gave up helping everyone when everyone never helped me". He stopped in front of another metal door "but I'm not working for the Schnee Dust Company". Naruto grabbed the hilt of his sword. "I'm here for myself and Neo here" taking a step forward, Naruto crouched ready to pounce. Smiling Neo pushed Adam's bracelet to the door panel, opening the door to a dim storage kart of the train.
"Bzzt Mercenaries. Naruto Uzumaki. Neopolitan. Worker. Adam Taurus" multiple robots emerged from the sides of the carriage. "Bzzt please return to your post or be considered hostile".
"Neo if you would" Naruto leaped forward unsheathing his sword, right through the first three robots. The multicoloured girl nodded taking out her scroll and placed it on top of the door's control panel. Clicking a few buttons on the scroll, the control panel changed from the Schnee Dust Company logo to a hexagon symbol with TNN in the centre.
"Jeez, what's going on" Adam stepped back but felt the coldness of the steel door, completely locked.
"You can't get out Adam" Naruto spun around, slicing the last robot down. "Security locks the doors of all main cargo carriages… but Neo here will solve all of those problems, for now Adam you have a choice" he grunted. "You can leave this train with your job, you may try and fight us or you can help us and make a lot of Lien… but I-".
"I'll join you, anything to get away from those human shitbags" Adam clenched his fists.
"Good… Neo are you ready?" the girl picked up her scroll and nodded. "Alright let's go, Adam grab the cases with heavily refined Dust, Neo we're grabbing the equipment". Running over to the end of the carriage, Naruto and Neo stopped at the large crates. Shrugging to Neo, the girl motioned her scroll above the lock as the crate opened itself. Naruto blinked at the contents of the crate before glancing at Neo. "Are you sure this was what Roman wanted?" Neo gave him a look. "Oh well, yeah I suppose you use an umbrella as a weapon, I suppose a master thief like Roman would use a walking cane to fight". Neo rolled her eye picking up the cane before moving to the next crate and opening it. "Now that… that is a weapon, prime Atlas tech" Naruto nodded to himself. "Arm guards to defend attacks while the gloves can generate a ball made of pure energy that spins like a maelstrom… then you can add dust to improve its power, now that's a weapon" Neo rolled her eyes "h-hey don't give me that look little ice cream".
Naruto placed his sheathed sword down on the ground and picked up the boxed generator of the weapon. Strapping it to the back of his waist, Neo held out the gauntlets allowing Naruto to slip his arms into them. Flexing his hands with a smirk, Naruto twisted his arm facing upwards noticing the small circular dial on his wrist. Giving it a little twist, the generator hummed quietly as small green lights on the generator and gauntlets switched on. Within a matter of second, blue energy left his fingers and spun like a miniature maelstrom above his palm. Finally a small bit of energy leaked from the palm while energy from the fingers halted as the maelstrom formed a spinning ball.
"It would be a shame to let this go to waste in a drilling operation, I think it would do better in my capable hands".
Chapter end