Path to the Future
Chapter 14: Set up
"I can't believe you Ozpin!" Currently Ozpin was in a council meeting in regards about specifically team IMSN. "Letting them have such leaway with the whole Konoha situation, was a bad idea, especially since they are from their and that fool Hiruzen governed it," A white haired man said (no not Jacquese Schnee).
"I don't see the problem with this Mr. Currant," A young women with long red hair stated, "They knew how the village was ran while they were there in the childhood, so they seemed to be the most experience especially with that Itachi boy as young Namikaze's advisor."
"Oh don't mind him Ezra," another young man with pitch black hair stated, "He's just upset that he didn't get to govern the village and it was govern by another Namikaze instead of him. Isn't that right Azure"
Azure growled, "You, shut your mouth Midnight, You don't know what you are talking about!"
"Now, now let's settle down," an older yet stern voice said, "Now Ozpin, explain to us, why did you make this decision without coming to the council first?"
"I did this for multiple reasons. Reason number one is because the people of said village was only going to be governed by those who have lived their for most of their lives at least, even if it was temporary. Naruto Namikaze was the favorite and they requested him to stand in if only for a short time. It was to not damage they had with the kingdoms and Vale. Secondly it was because he was a Namikaze that I accepted to those terms, we all know how they have been when to comes to leadership and with the Itachi Uchiha with him to back him up."
"Which is exactly what I believe was the right move. We have all seen the powerful combination of a Namikaze and an Uchiha. Those families play off each other as though they were blood related, and many would believe that the Uchiha's were the brains and one of the main reason that both houses stayed in great relations. Not only that Itachi Uchiha has shown to have the intelligence that could rival a headmaster. Whether it is economics, politics, and or knowledge about weak points in enemies. With these two factors it was an obvious choice to choose Naruto Namikaze and Itachi Uchiha." Ezra said.
"Okay Itachi Uchiha I can understand but why Namikaze?" A man with blue hair asked.
"Naruto Namikaze is smarter than he leads everyone to believe," Ozpin stated, "While on the surface it seems as though my Namikaze shows just a little above average intelligence when it comes to classes, I had a suspicion that he was not showing everything so I tested his IQ in a guise of an important test, for entrance."
"And what was the results?" Ezra asked.
"His IQ was an astonishing 170 to Itachi's 180."
"What?!" Azure said, "No way that is only 20 off from his father at that age!"
There were murmurs all around the council, "Everyone quiet down," said the authoritative voice, "Now, Ozpin are you sure of this?"
Ozpin nodded, "Yes. This is why I not only appointed Naruto as leader of his team but also of the village for a short time."
"Wooow that Naruto is something," Midnight said as he smirked and continued in a teasing tone, "Isn't he Mr. Currant?"
Azure growled at the taunt, "Enough Midnight, you are a council member, please remember to act like one," asked the head of the council, which Midnight just shrugged to, "As for you Ozpin… I agree to this, I just wish that you told us about this. Let's take a vote if any of this has any repercussions to Ozpin or team IMSN. I vote no."
"I as well say that they are unwarranted for a punishment," Ezra said.
"You can count me as the same. I wonder how far this team is going to go," Midnight stated."
Other council men and women voted and it was at last Azure's time, "Azure what do you choose."
Tyrion said nothing for a couple of seconds until he begrudgingly said, "No sir."
"Very well the votes are Unanimous there will be no further actions, have a good day everyone. This meeting is over." And many one by one left the meeting, but Azure was seething, 'Damn you Namikazes, I swear I will get you back for this and if I can't by you then by other means.'
When Ozpin left the call he turned to the door, "Did you get all of that… Shisui."
Shisui then entered the room, "Yeah and I already warned team IMSN."
"Very well."
"Excuse me Ozpin sir?"
"Yes what is it Shisui?"
"Out of curiosity, why don't you deal with the problem now. Given his history you do know that he will go after team IMSN why not stop him now."
"Think of this as a test. I want to see how they handle any situation they are thrown into. On the last mission I got to see what Naruto was truly capable of. And now I believe that Itachi is going to be the main attraction in this obstacle. Tyrion knows that he can't directly attack the Namikaze's, he's not stupid, so that leaves us…"
"Itachi and Sasuke."
After a long game night at team JNPR's dorm with team RWBY. Ryoko like the past month would go with team RWBY. Every three days Ryoko would be either trained by team RWBY, IMSN, and Ren. Pyrrha was to busy with training Jaune and Nora is… well Nora. Now team IMSN was walking back to their dorm. "Well today was an easy day, no combat class, no tests, and gripe from Glynda," Menma said. The members of Team IMSN chuckled at this, "Anyways tomorrow morning I'll be doing maintenance for my weapon would anyone like me to do theirs?"
"Yeah if you would, that would be great," Naruto said.
Naruto was going to unlock their dorm until he had a sixth sense and ducked as an arrow made of light went flying past him coming from their room. Naruto busted down the door to find four people in their room with their weapons out. One had a bladed bow, another a hammer, the next a spear, and the last a sword. They all had a black cloak on with with hoods.
"Okay who are you and what the hell are you doing in our room?" Menma asked. The group then exited the room through the window, "Hey get back here!" Menma gave chase as he grabbed his weapon from the nightstand and jumped out of the window.
"Wait Menma, ugh, god dammit!" Sasuke said. As he grabbed his chokuto and left after them.
Naruto and Itachi looked at each other and nodded and grabbed their weapons and ran after them.
Menma unleashed his zanbato and turned it into its weapon configuration and stretched past the cloaked men and struck at the ground in front of them making them stop.
Sasuke, Itachi, and Naruto caught up to Menma, "Now then how about you answer our past question," Itachi said.
They said nothing and just charged at them. Naruto took the guy with the sword, Menma fought the guy with hammer, Itachi decided to fight the guy with the spear, and Sasuke took the guy with the bow.
Naruto charged and they clashed with their swords, Naruto's Katana against his bastard sword. "I'll only ask again why are you here and what do you want?" Naruto did not get a response, "Fine have it your way," Naruto clashed with him multiple times in a display of sword play as they dance around each other and no one was getting the upper hand. Naruto did not have his Kunai or scabbard to teleport so he had to make due with what he had.
Naruto's eyes turned red as his skin turned to scales. Naruto now with his superior strength knocked him back. However the figure was able to recover quickly, and charge back at Naruto, but instead of strength, he used speed to kick Naruto upwards by the chin.
His opponent jumped after him to attack with his sword as he struck downward, however Naruto recovered quickly and blocked a strike. Even with the blocked strike however, Naruto still plummeted to the ground. Naruto quickly used his tail to bounce of the ground and onto his feet before he fully hit the ground.
"Alright then, let's see how you handle my combination," Naruto held onto the lever and a red blade made out of dust in the form of a beam, coat over the cutting side of the blade. Naruto then stabbed it into the ground as fire erupted from the ground and ran to his opponent , however instead of hitting him it circled around him. Naruto then in a rapid succession that only took half a second, tapped the lever twice then held it and in place of the red beam was a green beam. With a shout Naruto slashed the air creating wind attacks the ran at the flames feeding it and making the flames erupt into a fire tornado.
Naruto waited for the flames to evaporate and when it did he saw, what looked like a twenty-one year old student in a student that looked like he went to Shade Academy, however he could be wrong since Shade did not have a uniform. He also had dark brown hair and sky blue eyes.
"So your a student are you?"
The guy nodded
"Then why are you guys trying to kill us?"
"Sorry but we were payed to push you to your limits and come at you with the intent to kill. I'm sorry."
Naruto sighed knowing all too well of the position the guy was in, "I understand… Very well. Then let us dance." Naruto smirked.
With that Naruto launched himself at the man again.
With Sasuke
Sasuke jumped over an arrow aimed at him, and then jumped again to dodge another. Sasuke then twirled in the air and shot two arrows himself. The man dodged both of them and shot two as well. This continued until Sasuke was able to close in the distance, and attacked him as he switched from bow to sword and slashed at him only to be blocked by the bladed bow. The man then twirled the blade around and behind his waist and swiped upward. Sasuke seeing the momentum in the attack jumped up and collided his sword with it, but as he predicted the with the swing's momentum he was able to block, so Sasuke slightly adjusted so that Sasuke so that he went airborne. While in the air he switch back to his weapon's bow form and shot multiple arrows down below him. Not having time to move or fire back, the man began to expertly twirl his bladed bow around blocking and deflecting multiple arrows. Sasuke seeing that the arrows was getting him nowhere, returned to his sword configuration and slammed into the bow. Sensing he was going to lose the struggle he shift the blade downward so that Sasuke went past him. He spun and was about to strike Sasuke in the back, but using his sharingan he saw it in slow motion, and brought his blade behind to parry the strike. Sasuke then ram into his shoulder into the man's body staggering him, and then kicked him in the chest sending him even further back.
The man was panting slightly as Sasuke was beating throughout the duel, however that didn't mean that Sasuke was without injuries. Sasuke seeing his enemy trying to catch his breath disappeared in an after image with the help of his aura, appeared in front of him and slashed at his chest, causing blood to come from the wound, which confused Sasuke. 'The hell? I hit him multiple times but none were heavy enough blows to reduce his aura to zero, plus his aura didn't break from my previous strike.'
The man spit out some blood, and kneeled clutching his chest. Sasuke looking at him in confusion turned to his left to see Naruto's opponent come at him with a strike from his blade. Sasuke parried his attack and jumped back to regroup with his teammates. "Damn Sasuke what did you do?" Menma asked.
"I don't know what's going on. When I went for that strike, his aura wasn't broken so I don't know why in a battle like he would take a hit like this. It doesn't make sense."
"Alright," the brunette started, "Let's use those pills. They should give us a boost." They all took out a red pill and swallowed it and three of the members' aura rose in power, however Sasuke's opponent just clutched his heart as if he was in pain and then collapsed on the floor. His teammates looked shocked and checked his pulse as team IMSN listened closely, "He's dead."
"What?!" Menma yelled. Then multiple sirens were then heard as they came closer and closer to their location. Above a bullhead appeared as well as it shined it's lights at team IMSN. "Team IMSN stand down!"
"What, why?! We didn't do anything!" Menma yelled out and was going to walk to the officers, but was stopped by Sasuke and Naruto him.
"Don't move, they may see it as hostile," Naruto said.
"We've been set up, there is no way that these officers could have been here at the same time as their teammate dying," Sasuke said.
"I concur," Itachi said, "And if that is true since he was your opponent they will probably be after you Sasuke."
Just then officers with guns surrounded team IMSN, "Stand down! Sasuke Uchiha, you are under arrest for the death of a fellow student from the academy of Shade!"
"Tch."
"Well, Shisui did warn us thankfully we made plans," Itachi said. They all nodded as Sasuke was taken away along with the rest of his team as they were for questioning.