Path to the Future

I'm sorry for the long wait many things came up but now I'm back. And I will be trying to hold up to the consistency that I was uploading. Here is the next chapter and I hope you enjoy. Also thank you for all the comments and people who are following this. It genuinely brings a smile to my face. Thank you.

Chapter 16: To Where It Started

Itachi, Menma, and Naruto, were all on a bullhead, as they waited to get dropped off towards their destination. "We're here." They nodded as they dropped from the airship.

As they were flying through the air Naruto grabbed Menma's hand, with him and Itachi spreading out their wings as they flew. They continued to fly until they reached a village, and that village was Konoha. However this go around they didn't want anyone to figure out they they were there so they stealthily made to their house.

Once inside Naruto, Itachi, and Menma all looked around, "So what are we looking for exactly?" Menma asked.

"We are looking for journals or anything that talks about our parents back in Beacon."

"Why then?"

"Trust me, I believe we'll find something interesting."

They nodded and started looking, and after about an hour and a half they found something. "So what did you guys find?" Itachi asked.

"Well I found a journal on our parents at Beacon, but really it's all activities and mission logs." Menma threw the book on the table in front of them.

"I found a logs about what our parents and a team called Team STRQ did and how they were the bests of friends, but other than that nothing." Naruto threw his book on top of Menma's.

Itachi pondered on this, "There has to be something here that gives us an insight."

"Maybe it's not a family grudge," Naruto said as both him and Itachi was not paying attention to Menma as something was pulling him towards somewhere.

Menma was pulled to the fireplace that was inside the house, like something was in the fire that was calling to him. He placed his hand on the glass and the whole structure began to move back, revealing a flight of stairs.

Naruto and Itachi looked to Menma who just shrugged at them and they began to go down the flight of stairs as the entryway close and torches on the wall lit up. Once they arrived down below they saw an archive of books in multiple shelves. "Well do we start looking or what?" Naruto said.

They looked through the many books and Naruto picked out one in particular. It wasn't a book per say but a notebook and the first page was a list titled, 'People to keep an eye on.' With the names of Raven Branwen, Leo Lionheart, and… "Guys you might want to see this," Menma and Itachi rushed over.

"Well that's strange… Looks like we have our culprit seeing as Leo is the headmaster, I don't think he has time for students, we met Raven already but she is on the fence since she did save your daughter, which leads us to him. We have a picture, his occupation, and status. Now all we need to prove is his involvement and we are home free," Itachi said.

"Not only that I found this," Menma held up a book titled, 'The Secret War We Are Fighting.'

Itachi took the book and started reading it with his sharingan in order to read it faster and what he found shocked him to the core, "What the hell?!"

"What is it Itachi?"

Itachi closed the book, "After this our team is having a long talk."

With Team RWBY

Throughout the whole week it had been difficult for team RWBY especially Blake who was rather scared of the outcome of this trial to the point that couldn't focus as well in class. Not only that but JNPR was on edge as well as they feared for their friends. Yang also had to adjust the schedule they had set up for Ryoko to where they could only train her at night and kept her hidden throughout the day.

However Ryoko and Ruby's optimism helped tremendously with the mood, often cheering everyone up.

Currently team RWBY were in the cafeteria with Ryoko in their room sleeping. "It has been a week and we've heard nothing from the guys yet or about Sasuke and his incarceration," Blake said with a hint of frustration.

"Calm down Blake, we know it's hard but we have to be patient and believe in the guys," Yang put a hand on Blake shoulder but Blake moved away.

"Yeah but they could've at least let us know how it's coming along."

"Blake you and I both know that they can't do that," Weiss began, "This situation is very delicate and must be treated with care. One wrong move and it could curtains for all of them."

"I know that but…"

Ruby smiled slightly at Blake, "Don't worry, I'm sure everything is under control. Everything will be fine."

Blake looked to Ruby and smiled a little as she relaxed that was until she heard some whispers, "I still can't believe that guy would do something like that."

"What was his name Sasuke Uchiha?"

"Yeah to think he would take things to far and kill someone. I always knew he was shady but not that shady."

"Just goes to show that even if you have a personal invitation from Ozpin, that you aren't exempt from the rules."

"Tch serves him right."

Blake couldn't take the whispers anymore and ran to team RWBY's dorm, "Blake wait!" Ruby yelled out but her call fell on deaf ears.

Blake was running through the hall, "It's not true. He would never do that. He's not Adam, he promised that he wouldn't unless he had a good reason. Not out of cold blood."

Blake got to the dorm room and laid on her bed. After several minutes she felt a warm feeling of comfort and saw that it was Ryoko hugging her. "It's okay Aunt Blake, everything is going to be fine."

Blake shed a few tears as she held onto the girl in a tight embrace, but what she didn't recognize was that Ryoko's eyes turned red.

In his cell, Sasuke was sitting in his bed, that was until he was hit by the emotion of sadness, which made him shed a tear. Sasuke held his hand to his eye as he wiped the tear, "What… as I… crying?" He was baffled as to why, but thought of one person, 'Blake.'

An officer walked to his cell and addressed him, "Hey, your lawyer is here to speak to you."

Sasuke nodded and left with the officer into a room where the rest of his team was. "So talk to me."

"Well we have mostly everything done. We know who hired them, why they hired him, and we also know that their team member is still alive," Itachi said.

"Then I'm in the clear then?"

"Not quite. We still need to tie up a few things, but that's not why I'm here," Itachi turned to Menma, "Menma if you would." Menma nodded as a flash of light erupted from him, making the camera's and hidden audio's malfunction.

The officers did there best to try and cut the camera's back on at least, but as unable to. Sasuke looked at Itachi with curiosity, "Well this must be serious for to have Menma do that."

Itachi nodded, "Indeed. We have about five to ten minutes so let me debrief on somethings that we found out that will blow your mind." Itachi then threw at book towards Sasuke to which Sasuke caught and quickly read through it with his Sharingan.

"You have got to be joking, please tell this is a joke."

"Sadly it is not."

"So… What do we do with this information? I doubt you'll use this in court, I mean this information will cause panic, and if this is true then we know who caused the death of Naruto and Menma's parents and how our parents died as well."

"Yes but for now we'll sit on this information. We don't want this to get out but after this I have a sneaking suspicion that all of this is a test and if we pass then things will be different from now on."

"What about the girls?"

Naruto stepped up quickly and dissuade the topic, "We won't tell them. I prefer to keep Yang and Ryoko from knowing this for as long as I can. And I'm pretty sure you guys would want the same."

They all nodded and Sasuke sighed after, and they all noticed that the everything was back online, "Well this was a bombshell if I ever heard any. Let's focus on the trial that is coming on Sunday."

Itachi nodded, "We're done here. See you when you get out Sasuke."

I know this is a relatively shorter chapter than the others but I wanted to have the trial be longer so I cut this off short. Now I'm pretty sure you guys know what secret they found out, but for those who don't know, you'll get to see next chapter along with what information the group had gathered over the week and how they acquired said information.

Now after the next chapter that will be the end of this arc and we'll move onto RWBY vol 2. Also some things about the Mangekyou Sharingan is going to be changed from canon Naruto and you'll see how.

Until then see ya next chapter.