Path to the Future
Chapter 5: The Beginning
"God dammit Menma give me my ramen!"
"Nope, you got to catch me first!"
And that is how mornings were from the house of four they were always… interesting to say the least. In the kitchen both Itachi and Sasuke were eating bowls of cereal, while ignoring both Naruto and Menma, as Naruto chased him around the kitchen and living room as they jumped all over the place. Then their door bell rung, "Huh I wonder who that could be? We never get guess this early," Sasuke pointed out, with Itachi nodding and going to answer the door.
"Oh hello Mr. Ozpin," that immediately stopped all occupations in the house as both Naruto and Menma stopped dead cold in the living room and Sasuke stuck his head out from the kitchen. Out of all the homes he made a surprise visit in his years of living, this one was the funniest and most interesting.
"Good morning and pray tell how do you know my name?"
Sasuke walked up to the door and answered, "Well who doesn't know the headmaster of Beacon Academy. Your well known, even in the wilds."
Ozpin nodded and motioned to his assistant Glynda Goodwitch, "May we come in?"
Itachi nodded and let them in, as they all piled into the living room with Glynda and Ozpin on the couch, Naruto on the floor in front of them eating his ramen with his little brother Menma next to him with his legs crossed, while Itachi was on a chair with Sasuke standing behind him. "So what brings you to our home Ozpin?" Menma asked.
"Well we are here to investigate multiple occurrences that has happened throughout Remnant over the past few weeks, with reports showing that they have seen explosions of aura from multiple places." All of the boys in the room all began to sweat and all had one thing in mind, 'Oops.' "The first to show up was a release of purple aura in the form of an arrow that caused the explosion on a train that destroyed half of a cart."
The guys very discreetly looked at Sasuke with upset looks, as Sasuke smiled nervously."There was even an occurance of someone looking towards the mountains with a sort of play spy drone for a video saw an explosion of red aura," it was now Menma's turn as he scratched his cheek nervously.
"The next appearance was at the docks as a wave of pure white aura with streaks of red, destroyed a couple of ships and some cargo as well," Naruto nervously rubbed the back of his head.
"And lastly a tornado of black flames erupted in an alley in Atlas," Itachi had to resist the urge to facepalm himself for not being as careful as he usually was. "And all of these occurrences had a silhouette of someone in them," Ozpin then pulled out a folder with files and pictures of said silhouettes, "Now if I'm going to be honest here, I'm almost 90% sure that these are of your doings. Can you confirm that with me?" They all sighed and nodded their heads, "Thank you now onto business, but before that there is one question before we move on," they looked at him in anticipation waiting for a punishment. "How would you like to join my school this year?"
A couple of seconds after that sentence left his mouth all of the young men in the room face faulted to the ground, as they all yelled, "What?!"
"So you mean to tell me that we make a display of power in or near cities and we get to come to your school?" Naruto questioned and then whispered, "Damn we should have done this a while ago."
"But why?" Menma asked, "After this why would you want us to come to your school? We're from the wilds so the opportunity to live and attend Beacon Academy is rare and great but we just don't know why."
"Understandably," Ozpin stood up from the couch with his cane, "I see great potential in all of you. I believe that with guidance from our teachers that you could be the best that you could be," Ozpin said but to Itachi he felt he was with holding somethings, but choose to not voice his thoughts
"Okay but what about the people here? Our friends, our village?"
Ozpin began a thinking position, "That would be a problem. Tell you what, you attend my school and I make sure that a shipment of food and water is delivered to this village helping them survive without hunting for the next 3-4 months. I have already delivered this offer to the leader of your village, Hiruzen, but he responded that it all depends on you."
The young men all lit up at this prospect, and looked at each other in a silent agreement they all nodded their heads, "We would love to come to attend your school under those agreements," Itachi spoke.
Glynda stood up, "Excellent we will make the arrangements as school will begin in a week. You will still however go through the initiation like everyone else."
Sasuke put on a smirk at this, "We wouldn't have it any other way."
"Wonderful," Ozpin and Glynda headed to the door, "We will see you there and please do not destroy the forest you will be in." And with that they left the boys to pack and say their goodbyes.
Naruto, Sasuke, Menma, and Itachi were all on the plane to Beacon with Menma bouncing up and down with energy, "Guys this is so cool. We get to go to Beacon. How many can honestly say that Ozpin hand pick them to go to Beacon?"
"Yes but still remember everyone earned their spot here. We are the ones that has to truly prove ourselves little bro." Naruto respond.
"I know that but it's still amazing!"
Both Sasuke and Itachi chuckled at Menma, as he was always the energy of the group and pretty much covered their mid range approach, Itachi was the smartest of the group and thus the strategist, Sasuke covered their range and helped back up Naruto, and Naruto held everyone together and could covered close range. They were a team, a team that had years of teamwork worked out, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
Once they landed they all went their separate ways to explore the grounds, but they all met up at the door as they entered in time for Ozpin to give his speech and once the speech was done they started heading out to the place where they would sleep. For sleepwear Naruto wore, a basic tank top that was white with red bottoms, Sasuke wore navy blue shirt with the Uchiha symbol where his heart was, with navy bottoms, Itachi wore a red shirt and black pajama bottoms and on the back of the shirt was where the Uchiha symbol was as well, and lastly the youngest, Menma, had a white tank top with grey pants.
They were walking to their sleeping beds until someone called Naruto over, "Hey!" They turned to see that it was the girl Naruto met the night at the docks so he went over to them with his brother and friends following.
"Hello. Your the girls I near that club."
"Yeah my name is Yang Xiao Long," she then motioned to her sister behind her, "And this is my sister Ruby Rose."
Menma perked up at the last name, "Rose? You wouldn't happen to be related to a Summer Rose would you?" Both Ruby and Yang instantly wanted to know how he knew their mom.
"How do you know mom?" Ruby asked interested to what Menma had to say about her mom.
Menma gave a sad smile, "I'm sorry but I really don't actually know her," Yang and Ruby's face fell at the answer, "I just seen a gravestone with that name on it while traveling the forest. You have my deepest apologies," Menma said bowing slightly.
"Wait so it was you who left that rose?" Menma nodded. Ruby then grabbed Menma's hand with her hands, she had tears that threatened to fall, "Thank you for the kind gesture."
Menma looked into Ruby's eyes and saw the beautiful silver color in them, however that wasn't all he saw. In them he also saw himself, the hurt and pain he experienced when he learned from Naruto that their parents were dead was something that weighed heavily on him, and it was the start where them being happy changed. Sadly he didn't remember their parents too well either as he lost them at a young age, but he loved the stories Naruto told to him about them. Menma raised his hand and wiped away a stray tear, "It was the least I could do," Menma said with a smile.
"Sasuke, Itachi, Naruto, and Menma too?" They looked over to see their faunus friend Blake Belladonna.
"Blake?" Sasuke then approached her, "It's good to see that you made it into Beacon."
"Yeah but what about you guys, last I checked you weren't going to attend Beacon. You didn't even have it in your minds."
"Well things ended up happening and one thing led to another and now here we are."
"What is with all this ru- Itachi?" And once again for the final time they looked over to the voice to see Weiss Schnee.
"Weiss?"
"Oh no not you again!" Both Yang and Ruby yelled.
"So you attended Beacon as well, it's good to know that there are some people here I can rely on."
Itachi sighed, "Now Weiss, it's best that you don't judge people before you get to know them you never know what they could bring." Weiss reluctantly nodded to this and considered maybe trying.
"Okay," Naruto said putting his hands up, "It seems some of us has got on the wrong foot so let's start over and re-introduce ourselves and state our likes and dislikes. I'll start, hello everyone I'm Naruto Namikaze. My likes include my brother, my friends, training with my hand made katana, fighting, and the food of the gods… ramen."
"Eh it's alright," Weiss said and Ruby agreed with her.
"Oh no," Menma said.
"What?" Yang asked.
Naruto then lowered his head with his hair shadowing his eyes, with Naruto suddenly dropping to his knees as he looked at Weiss with anime tears, "I…I should have saved you... I should been the one to fill your dark soul with LIGHT!"
All of the guys plus Blake facepalmed themselves at Naruto's antics, while the others gave off mixed reactions Yang was laughing, Ruby was trying to hold in her laugh but was failing miserably, and Weiss just had a deadpan look on her face.
Menma then coughed out loud, returning Naruto to normal as he looked around to see almost everyone looking at him. Naruto then coughed and recomposed himself, "Anyway my dislikes include traitors, racist, rape, and people who slander ramen not to mention the time it takes to cook ramen," again Menma face palmed himself.
"Anyway I'm his younger brother Menma Namikaze. I like training, playing pranks most of the times with my brother, my said brother, my friends, and ramen but not to Naruto's extent. I dislike the same as my brother except for the ramen part."
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I like tomatoes, training, my brother and friends, and those precious to me."
Menma then decided to add as a whisper, "Not to mention Blake."
Sasuke and Blake blushed as the others chuckled, as Sasuke recomposed himself his a cough. "Anyway I dislike most sweet things, racist, Menma and Naruto's pranks," Naruto and Menma gave a chuckle to this. "Rape, and those who want to harm what's precious to me."
"I'm his older brother Itachi Uchiha. Unlike Sasuke, I like sweets, specially pocky, my friends and brother, also training. I dislike people who are racist, as well as, rape, those who harm my family, and conflict."
"What do you mean by conflict?" Weiss asked.
"Itachi is essentially a pacifist when it comes to humans and faunus. He doesn't like to fight others but if need be he has no problem putting them down," Naruto answered.
"Well uh… then I guess it's my turn. Ahem my name is Ruby Rose. I love cookies and strawberries, my family, and weapons. I don't have any specific dislikes mostly what you guys already said."
"And I'm her big sister, Yang. I like fighting, puns, my sister, father, and uncle, and I like training, and adventures. I dislike all the things you guys said plus people who try to harm my little sister, and people who abandons others." Naruto notice that she said the last one with a lot more contempt then the others, something he would talk to her about once they were better friends, so he kept this information stored.
"I guess I'll be next. My name is Blake, I like seafood," they guys snorted and chuckled at this because of the convenience. Blake gave them a glare which shut them up, "I also like the faunus, books, and reading-"
"Smut," Menma and Naruto added quietly to the guys as they all laughed, until both Naruto and Menma was knocked flat on their ass and back as Blake hit them hard on the head.
"It is not!" Blake yelled.
"Wait what did they say?" Yang asked.
"Nothing," Blake blushed slightly, "Anyway I have an extreme dislike to racist, unfairness, torture, rape, and people making fun of what I read." she sent a glare to Naruto and Menma who just got off the ground.
"And I'm Weiss Schnee," she thought about adding heiress but decided against it after what she found out about it but not adding it put a surprise look on Blake's face. "I like my family, to an extend," she stated the last part quietly, "I like my sister, my butler Clyne, and singing from time to time." She then hesitated on her dislikes, "I… I don't hate the faunus but I hate the White Fang," Naruto could tell she wanted to say more but decided not to push her, but to let her open up at her own pace.
Itachi smiled at this as the other guys clapped, "Wow Itachi, you were to switch a Schnee's perception around," Naruto said putting a hand on Itachi's shoulder, "I'm usually the one that does the changing in people's hearts." Naruto then walked up to Weiss and extended his hand to shake, "We would be glad to have you as a friend Weiss." Naruto said with a smile.
Weiss was appalled at this notion. She never really had friends, true friends anyway, but here this person was actively asking to be her friend. She then gave a small smile and shook his hand, "Thank you for having me."
"Now then let's talk about the goliath in the room," Naruto said as he stood next to his family, "We're all faunus." This bomb was dropped and they waited for it to detonate, and when it did, so did Ruby, Weiss, and Yang.
"What!?" They yelled.
"Wow," Weiss said, "I knew Itachi was a faunus and by extension Sasuke but you guys too," she looked towards Naruto and Menma
"Yep," Menma started, "Although we are a different kind of faunus."
"What do you mean," Ruby asked.
"Well unlike others we have two forms that we can change from. Human form to our faunus form but with our faunus forms we have more than just one characteristic."
"Well then what kind of faunus are you guys," Yang asked.
"Yeah you guys actually never told me what kind of faunus you guys were," Blake said.
Sasuke just smirked, "Well you are going to have to wait till tomorrow to see."
Ruby then opened her mouth to ask something only for Menma to answer her unspoken question, "Yes Ruby, you will have to wait to see our weapons as well." Ruby just pouted and flopped on her bed murmuring about people not showing their weapons, "Anyway I think we should get some sleep we have a long day tomorrow."
The group agreed and went off to bed.
Now I know that Weiss took a major turn, and let me explain into more detail why that is. Weiss is a Schnee and she hated faunus at the beginning of RWBY also she did not like Ruby. However Itachi changes that and here is why. Itachi is the most well mannered and sophisticated of the four. Itachi both in canon and here is smart, calm, thinks with a leveled head, and has a mind unlike any other. A true prodigy. Now Weiss has been exposed to only faunus who are basically like the White Fang, that is until Itachi comes along and saves her regardless, not to mention both versions of Itachi (this fanfic and cannon) are pacifist (this is explain in Naruto more in depth in his novel, the book of Daylight). With this it makes to stop and put things in a different perspective, and with this new way of thinking it makes Weiss be a bit more open minded. Now that is not to say she won't still be stubborn on certain things, she is still Weiss, but with Itachi essentially helping to guide her, some of her actions become different.
Now that is the end of this chapter, thank you for reading and see you next chapter.