A Hawk's Plight

by The Obsidian Pen

The Fourth War was over, peace has finally been achieved. Sasuke, unwilling to let this peace be at risk, continues to train his new-found powers to make sure this peace will last. When he practices with a Rinne-Sharingan Jutsu for the first time, however, things don't go as planned and is sent somewhere unreachable. Regardless, he will do anything it takes to come home again.

15. The Second Son Set Out

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Chapter 15, you'll change things. . .

Loved this chapter. I Made it in less than two weeks from how excited I was to make it.

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Clair Durand, Who Is Now Out Of Our Reach; May You Enjoy The Weather Of Heaven's Sunny Beach

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Chapter Fifteen: The Second Son Set Out

"What the hell is that!?" shouted a wide-eyed Coco, spotting the skeletal being that surrounded the Uchiha. Massive purple, flaming ribs, and skeletal arms don't just come out of nowhere. She only saw weird energy swirl around him, but that quickly took its skeletal form.

The team and professor wanted to shout more about this new development, but that was put on hold when the train slammed into the open arms of this ethereal. . . thing. It didn't stop, but the sudden deceleration and force flung all those on top and hanging onto something forward, gripping the person or weapon they were holding even tighter.

One person, unfortunately, didn't hang on tight enough to handle it and was flung forward.

"Velvet!" screamed a mortified Yatsuhashi, he watched his teammate shriek as she flew towards the front of the train. His fear turned to slight relief when a skeletal arm caught her midflight, but he knew it was far from over. "Why won't this damn train stop!"

Slowing didn't mean stopping, and neither did it mean they were slow either, it just meant they weren't as fast as before. Looking ahead of them, the team still saw the dead end quickly coming closer and closer.

Sasuke, attempting to slow down the train with one of his Susano'o arms, poured more Chakra into the appendage before they could slam into the wall ready to meet them, all the while holding onto his impromptu passenger with the other. Instead of holding Velvet in the skeletal arm, he quickly brought her into the ethereal ribcage for him to hold her bridal style before he completely focused on the train.

Putting her down may not have been the best move at the moment on unsteady ground, so Sasuke held Velvet until he deemed it safe for her. Especially since there was a train that was pushing through the cracking ribs of his early staged Susano'o.

"S-Sasuke!" Velvet called out through the noise, too busy staring at the train in her face that wanted to kill her than to be flustered at the position she was in. "What are we going to do!?" She wanted to look around, to see what the hell she was in, but death was staring her in the face.

It irritated the Uchiha in how time, once formerly his ally, was now quickly becoming a dangerous enemy at every passing second, and how the ground beneath him supporting his Susano'o's weight was simply too soft to stop the trench being made as they were pushed back by the metal monstrosity, ripping the tracks off the ground. It was slowing from the resistance it was facing, but not enough as it was still fast enough to crash into the wall closing in behind him.

Finally, the Chakra he was pouring into his technique began taking effect, enlarging the massive Chakra armor, granting it a horned skull-head with an eerie smile, larger size, and most importantly, stronger arms. It was still in its skeletal form, but it was strong enough to have stopped the ribs from cracking any further, partially from the momentum the train was steadily losing.

If he made the full-body Susano'o, the whole tunnel would collapse and defeat the whole purpose of stopping the train.

"I need to push the train to its side," the Uchiha replied calmly enough, which shocked the Faunus in his arms. There was no point in stopping the train anymore, it would hit the wall in a few seconds unless a miracle happened. But what he could do was add more resistance and get rid of its engine power from pushing it, making it solely move on what momentum remained.

And with the excess momentum dropping from even more resistance, Sasuke and the group would survive with less of a missile-on-tracks fighting them. Sasuke hoped the hole it would make wasn't large enough to bring Grimm to Vale.

"But what about the others!?" she retorted in worry. If the train tipped with them on it, her team and professor could be grievously harmed at best.

Sasuke didn't answer, he merely let his ethereal armor let go of the front of the train and let it hit the ribcage protecting him, making the head of the train move even closer to his body. A reckless move, but he needed both arms of the Susano'o to tip this massive train.

'Now the difficult part,' the Uchiha thought with thinned lips, flowing more power into it. The Chakra armor of his began gripping the train by its lower-side and roof, letting the skeletal hands dig into the metal plate, and began pushing for it to tip over.

As it turned out, moving a fast-moving, heavy train was very difficult while it was pushing you with even more force. 'I need more power!' Sasuke concluded, forming the energy needed for the next stage of his Susano'o.

Already the cowl began forming, muscles began appearing on the bones, the demonic smiling mask covered the skull behind it, and with that, the train finally began getting off the tracks. Surprising all present to witness this feat, and discomforting those on top the train who were under the glowing gaze of the smiling ethereal warrior.

Except Neo who smiled right back.

"RAAAH!" Sasuke shouted as he finally lifted the whole train and its cars to be on only one side of its tracks. Once it reached the proper angle, he let go of the behemoth, leapt on top of the tilted train that was going to fall, and ran on top of it with Chakra-imbued feet.

The Uchiha saw panic in the eyes of the protectors of Vale, especially when they saw this large, purple upper body of something running at them. Which increased even more so when it opened its arm to embrace them. So Coco couldn't help but shriek and shut her eyes when this fiery creature caught her in its grasp, but realized it didn't hurt a single bit.

Even when the fashionista heard a massive crash and explosion as she tumbled around in whatever it was she and her team were in, she didn't feel anything that would truly harm them.

Slowly, the tumbling slowed to a stop. "W-What the. . . Where are we?" Coco asked no one in particular as she opened her eyes, while looking around to see she was surrounded by purple translucent walls of fire. There was nothing to see but rocks and dirt, which were illuminated by the purple glow of the Susano'o.

"What happened?" asked a groggy Yatsuhashi as he rubbed his head after standing back up from the odd experience, then looked around, finding the other people he was with coming out of their stupor as well. "We're alive, r-right?"

"You are all alive, yes," someone answered casually. When the two turned to the person speaking, it was the Uchiha they were meant to fight. "We are currently under debris and rubble from the train wreck."

The ones who heard widened their eyes at that. All of those present remember being on a train until some purple monster grabbed them. Beyond that was a little hazy, even though it was merely seconds ago.

"So you saved us," Port said as he, and the others, began standing in the Susano'o. "I don't know whether to thank you or continue to arrest you." The moment the train began heading to that wall, Peter believed everything was over for himself and his beloved students.

Sasuke stayed quiet at Peter's little dilemma of a decision. He was sure the professor would know later on that one of those would be impossible unless the Uchiha wanted it to happen.

The safety holding them all began shifting. 'Hopefully, the damage wasn't catastrophic,' the ninja thought as he began digging upwards to the city.

Through rocks and dirt, Sasuke's Susano'o punched through the final barrier where daylight finally shined through the Chakra armor and illuminated the people inside of it instead of the purple glow.

For the people outside, after hearing a massive explosion and seeing a massive flash, they also saw how two purple demonic arms, but with three hands, reached outwards to the sky from the crater that made the center plaza. And when those arms grabbed the ground, the people panicked as they saw an ethereal creature began raising itself using the ground as support. It's shining smile and eyes terrified the civilians.

Of course, a few of them brought out their Scrolls and began either calling law enforcement or recording the events in front of them instead of running away like most sensible people do when they saw that evil smile.

Topside, the Uchiha and the group from Beacon saw how the situation was worse than what he had hoped for. The train, while slowed down in its momentum, wasn't the true cause of the crater, as it still had enough Dust left in a few of the attached cars to cause the large explosion that opened up the breach.

Much of that Dust was stolen by the Uchiha and gave a surplus to the White Fang.

Team CFVY and Peter saw how the citizens began running away to hide from the soulless creatures that began crawling out of the massive hole.

"Run!", "Oh God, is it the end!?", "Where are the damned Huntsmen!?" and similar shouts were heard as people began stampeding for safety from the different kinds of Grimm coming out to end Vale, but some weren't fast enough.

"Shit!" Coco said as she slammed her fists in the armor, then turned to the one they were meant to arrest. "We have get going. Let us out!" The shinobi nodded and gestured for them to leave, and they did just that as quickly as possible. Port and his students dashed through the armor to do their jobs.

"C'mon, Sasuke," said Velvet just before she ran towards the chaos, expecting the mercenary to follow and save the day in his giant suit of energy. She only looked back to see the ethereal being, but gulped at the feeling of pure evil this purple thing emanated. She took a snap of it with her camera before finally running back forward to fight the Grimm.

The Uchiha, however, only looked at the city that was currently being overrun, and thought, 'I can take Roman here and leave Remnant altogether.' The authorities would be too busy to try finding and capturing the Uchiha. He then looked to Neo standing by his side and simply looking at him silently. 'Perhaps even. . .' Neopolitan would make a fine shinobi.

Moving one the Susano'o arms, the shinobi grabbed a Deathstalker's tail before it struck his armor, used the other arm to hold the Grimm in place, and ripped the tail off, leading it to squirm in pain. With the six-fingered hand he used to hold it down, he pressed and pressed until it was crushed by the pressure.

With that threat taken care of, Sasuke looked around Vale again, seeing how team CFVY with their professor tried desperately to save everyone with their power, but he could see a few corpses of civilians who weren't saved in time.

Saving everyone was impossible, Sasuke knew that as fact even back in his home world, but that didn't mean you couldn't save who you could. Alas, team CFVY seemed to be trying their best to fight against fact, when it was already proven impossible with the dead that the Uchiha could clearly see.

"Neo," Sasuke called as the Susano'o began fading. He then grabbed her by the waist, and flickered atop of a small but sturdy concrete building nearby. "After this is over, don't do anything, stay silent, and wait for me." Neopolitan tilted her head in confusion at his words, but nodded regardless, even though slightly disoriented at the sudden change of scenery.

Neo watched in silent fascination as her friend changed his left eye to a purple ripple patter with six commas, formed a seal, smacked both his palms on the roof they were in, and then the Uchiha shouted, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

-Thirty seconds earlier-

Coco ran towards to the thick of Grimm from the safety the armor Sasuke was in. "Damn it!" she shouted when she saw the one death of many. As she was swinging around her 'handbag', she pummeled Grimm of all kinds, but that didn't mean she made it in time to save who she wanted. "Where the hell is everyone!?"

Peter, who swung his axe in a wide angle to kill several Beowulves surrounding him, said with some reassurance, "they should be here soon." Which was true, but this many Grimm in the area were killing people by the second. "We must do what we can until then."

Growling, Coco had no choice but to accept that answer, but just then, she looked around to find the person who should be there but wasn't. When the fashionista looked behind her, she was aggravated as she saw the Uchiha still standing there with one of the fists of that purple thing on the ground. She could almost see the telltale signs of ash in its grasp, but the ninja still hadn't moved from his place.

And when the Susano'o of his began vanishing, Coco became absolutely livid. Even more so when he wrapped his arm around shorty just before he vanished. "That two-timing bastard!" she cursed loudly. "Sasuke left us!" Adel honestly believed that she could trust him a small bit, but it seemed that she was wr-

"Wait, there he is!" Velvet said right after she flipped a Boarbatusk on its back, which was then killed by Fox. The Faunus pointed towards one of rooftops of a nearby building. "What's he doing?"

When Coco looked to the rooftop, she half-expected him to vanish again for an escape, but all he did was form some weird hand gesture, then slam his hands on the roof.

That was when a massive explosion of smoke happened. It even blew a gust in all directions, as if declaring to everyone and everything nearby of its presence.

"What the hell?" Coco cursed as she covered her face from the wind. When the gust subsided, she was able to look back to the ninja's position, but in his place was a huge cloud of smoke. Something about it just felt off to her somehow, even more so when she spotted something move inside it.

The cloud began dispersing and revealed more of what was hidden by it. The more it showed, the more all things living and soulless began giving it attention. Why? Because a colossal, brown-furred dog, with several heads too many, turned out to be inside it. What was peculiar, besides the extra heads, was that it shared the same eyes as one of Sasuke's, and that it had large, black spikes pierced above each of their noses.

Ten of its large heads growled and roared to the sky, freezing everybody and everything in its place with its bared teeth as it towered several stories above the building it was already on.

"Oh my God," Coco said dumbly while staring at the massive creature, forgetting the fight she was supposed to be in. "That. . . can't be real." Nobody responded since they were just as busy giving the large dog their attention, but had similar thoughts of disbelief.

Not even the Grimm gave attention to these Humans and Faunus at the moment, merely watching this new predator that entered the stage, waiting to see what it does next besides appearing out of nowhere. Some began growling at the large beast, not liking what they were seeing.

"Sasuke. . ." Velvet said slowly as she spotted a familiar person on the Giant Multi-Headed Dog's head, then pointed towards him. "He's on top of it."

Professor Peter Port had experienced much during his time as a Huntsmen, and even as a teacher he had seen new and exciting things, but this was of those rare moments he could say he hadn't seen anything like it before. And when he followed his student's line of sight, he saw that her statement was indeed true, adding more to the bizarre situation. "My God, did he summon it?"

The Uchiha was on top of one of the heads as he leaned on Neo, who loyally gave him her shoulder to support him. He was having great difficulty finding which of these perspectives was his, and until then this dizziness won't stop. It was far worse than simply having three eyes when he used the chameleon, and he knew it was going to get worse.

Sasuke inhaled heavily, finally finding and settling with a perspective he knew was his, but even then the dizziness hadn't ceased just yet; it merely lessened. He pushed himself off of Neo after his legs finally steadied, giving her a thankful nod, and then looked to the people and Grimm beneath him.

It was odd seeing the soulless creatures freeze at the sight of the Giant Multi-Headed Dog, and it was annoying that team CFVY watched instead of fighting, but he couldn't really blame them; not yet, anyway. Not many would find a massive canine with multiple heads, one body, very sharp fangs, and those eyes exactly ignorable.

Giving his summon a goal in mind through their shared connection, the Uchiha said something that brought a smirk to the small woman beside him, "kill them."

And just like that, hell descended upon the Uchiha's enemies. The giant dog split apart into a dozen smaller, yet still big, creatures, causing the duo on top to land on the building's roof.

The farther they went, the more they split, giving Sasuke the small army of over several dozens of what he needed to take back Vale, but that didn't help his headache and dizziness, and found himself holding onto Neo's shoulder again for support.

People shrieked when this new predator descended upon them, even more so when they multiplied still, almost as though this was the beginning of the apocalypse. And when those very demonic creatures passed them to bite the throat out of that Beowulf, shredding that Boarbatusk behind them to shreds, or even when that Taijitu began being pulled apart by multiple of those dogs, it brought confusion.

But for a split second during this mayhem, before they went back to their fear, a few citizens of Vale felt something they hadn't in a while, hope.

"Wait!" Yatsuhashi said in surprise, bringing up his sword again for a fight when one of those large things were running in his direction, but proved unneeded when it jumped over him to chomp down on a small Deathstalker. Team CFVY and Peter looked on as it brutally killed the Grimm. "Those things are with us?"

"For now," answered a familiar voice. When the team and professor turned, they saw that it was Sasuke with a Mangekyo in one eye and a Rinnegan in the other. By him was Neo, smiling away as she looked around to see the display of power. "However, they will only listen to me."

Susano'o was a single massive technique, so it won't be useful for clearing all of Vale quickly. The Giant Multi-Headed Dog was perfect for the job, as it was essentially a multiplying shock trooper when he implemented the Amplification Summoning Technique. Fast, numerous, and devastating, that was what he needed. Any other summon would cause to much damage to Vale itself if he summoned them to support.

The Uchiha walked forward confidently. What Grimm that was still in the plaza were either dead or being killed by his army of otherworldly dogs, and that army would stretch farther until they found every last Creep. Then when the situation was under control, he would dismiss them.

It was good news that Huntsmen from the Academy began arriving to clear the city, student and teacher. So it should be over soon enough when the remaining Atlesian fleet arrived.

One of the dogs split as Sasuke was taking a step which caused him to lose his line of sight, so he fumbled slightly, but he was supported by Coco. "Whoa there," she said with concern as she held his shoulder. "You don't look so good. That thing must have taken a lot out of you."

It hadn't, but dizziness wasn't a major reason to mention, so he kept it to himself as he tried finding his own eyes again. Already he was seeing dozens of perspectives where each one was of killing Grimm, but only one was of Coco's face. So it helped pick out what was his and what wasn't.

Standing back up after the disorientation passed. "I'm fine," he reassured. "We must focu-" A series of loud squawks interrupted him, and when he looked to the source, it was from a few rather large Nevermores.

The Uchiha sighed, he almost forgot about the fliers. He turned to face them, took out Kusanagi, and pou-

"Hold on a moment, Sasuke!" He was interrupted by the leader of team CFVY herself. When he looked to her for a quick explanation for the delay, she eyed him up and down before saying, "I think you handled enough for today." She then brought out her handbag, that was when it began shifting to a completely different weapon, with multiple barrels no less

With raised brows, the Uchiha internally scoffed and thought, 'I knew it.' There was no way that bag of hers wasn't a weapon.

The Konoha-nin shook his head at the random thought, and said, "I can handle the-" He was interrupted yet again, but by the series of bangs that emanated from the team leader's weapon as she began shooting towards the Nevermores, neutralizing them quickly.

After dispatching the flying Grimm, Coco turned Sasuke, and said, "you take a breather. We can handle the rest." She wasn't convinced that the Uchiha was in perfect health after summoning that large beast and that little stumble. She only heard of the Schnee family being capable of such things, but this one was vastly different than what she heard about.

The Uchiha appreciated her concern, but it was heavily misplaced since he was fine if slightly disoriented, but he was quickly getting used to handling the multiple perspectives.

The situation in Vale was getting under control, as he could clearly see from his hounds' eyes that Grimm were getting scarcer and scarcer. The only threat to them were the Huntsmen attacking them, possible from believing they are some new type of Grimm.

At the strange sound, he looked up to see the half of the Atlesian armada making its way and killing both Grimm and his summon, dispelling them instead of splitting into more. At this point, the Giant Multi-Headed Dog wasn't needed any longer and was more of a precaution.

Closing his eyes, the Uchiha gave a clear mental order. And just like that, explosions of smoke began occurring everywhere within Vale. Sasuke saw how every line of sight of his summons' began disappearing in droves, leaving nothing but darkness from closed eyes. "It's done. Vale is no longer littered with Grimm," he told team CFVY with black eyes once more.

Velvet was watching of those winged dogs when it suddenly vanished in a cloud of smoke, but then looked to the Uchiha. "Sasuke, what are you?" she asked simply. He summoned a single thing that turned into a small army, which was something truly frightening knowing that he had such capabilities while he was attending Beacon. That was on top of the other things he was capable of, like that purple energy armor that was able to hold of a massive train.

At that point, the Faunus wondered if Sasuke was even human.

'A shinobi,' Sasuke answered mentally. "I am a wanted fugitive," he replied, which confused her, but it cleared up instantly when robots, soldiers, and airships began to draw closer while pointing their weapons at Neo and the savior of Vale.

Even though Sasuke had some hand in causing all this to happen in the first place. . .

One familiar blonde professor was in the area and was the first of the Huntsmen to raise her weapon on the ninja. "Don't you dare move, Uchiha!" ordered Glynda, raising her crop in his direction. She most definitely saw those large, brown beasts that bore his eye, and had a guess where they were from. And after a quick revision of the security feed archives, her guess proved true.

Most of all, after she saw how those large summons slaughtered Grimm ruthlessly and multiplied, Glynda hoped that it was enough to wind him from summoning again, because she began having doubts in her capabilities to fight him and those giant beasts at the same time. At the moment, she wanted him to be arrested just so they could clear up what the hell just happened the past hour.

Who was innocent, who was guilty, and who was a hero? Those were what the blonde professor wanted to know.

Looking to the side after he raised his arms in 'cooperation', which was mimicked by Neopolitan, Sasuke saw Roman being arrested and dragged into one of the airships by two trainees. That view was blocked when more soldiers came to surround him weapons drawn. 'I need to get to him.' He then saw that very airship fly up to an even larger one up in the sky.

"Hold up!" shouted Coco suddenly, breaking through the circle of guards with the rest of her team behind her, then she stood by the Uchiha's and Neo's side. "This guy-" She pointed towards him. "-saved all of Vale just now, and you want to arrest him!?"

Resistance to Coco's defense wasn't from who she expected. "Stand down, my dear," began Peter, whose weapon was not drawn like his colleague's. "You must understand that, while Sasuke did save Vale today, he helped in causing it." He raised his hand when Velvet wanted to retort. "Before you argue, I fully believe that the Council will take today's events to account, so I wouldn't be too worried. Wouldn't you say so as well, Mr. Uchiha?"

Port didn't mean much about believing in the Council, but he didn't want his precious students to end up in prison for defending a criminal in the eyes of the law. To Peter, Sasuke's help was the reason the death toll wasn't higher than it should've been, why the corpses on the road seemed to be lacking, and that was more responsibility than most people were willing to take for their actions.

Nodding, Sasuke looked to Adel and told her, "Coco, you would only complicate things, so it would be best for you and your team to help the injured instead." He was surprised that they would stand against their leaders for him, which was a punishable by death back home.

So it was either an act of stupidity or an act of acknowledgment of Sasuke's action in saving Vale. Either way, the sentiment was appreciated but unnecessary. "Or are you willing to have your team go through imprisonment?" the Konoha-nin asked.

Now the fashionista began losing her resolve. She was willing to go through imprisonment herself, but didn't want that fate to befall her dear teammates, her friends. She knew full well they would follow her through this, but Coco wasn't willing to let her friends suffer through it simply for her pride.

Seething, Coco looked to the one being under arrest and said with grit teeth, "you better not stick too long behind bars, Sasuke." She then walked away, glaring at the guards who were going to take him away. 'If they decided to keep you in, then I'm busting you out myself.' Looking towards her team, she ordered, "let's go. Sasuke can handle this." After today, that last statement was a given; inside or outside of prison.

Yatsuhashi looked to the ninja, and nodded to him in thanks with a pat on the shoulder, before following his leader. Velvet was most hesitant and wished him luck before following her teammates. Fox. . . just nodded to him then walked away.

He looked towards them as they disappeared behind the guards surrounding him. 'A shame I won't be seeing all of you after today. . .' Sasuke realized what he had just thought, and was surprised he had such high opinion of team CFVY. Even though they hadn't been in the company of each other for that long, which made it even more peculiar to him.

Bark!

The Uchiha blinked before he looked towards his feet, where the sound came from. 'A dog?' It was indeed a dog, but from the mass murder that he thwarted, a cute little dog wasn't exactly what he expected to see after all that happened. A small white and black corgi, specifically.

Unless Remnant had a weird species of attack dogs the Uchiha hadn't heard of. . . Then again, Akamaru wasn't a simple puppy in his early years.

Looking around for an explanation of any kind, the ninja found familiar silver eyes he hadn't seen in a long while. Those very eyes were staring at his black ones in surprise.

"Sasuke!?" Ruby screamed in disbelief, not expecting the rumors she heard to be true. The only thing the news shared as fact was that some new type of creature began slaughtering Grimm that invaded, and only a few mentioned the ninja's appearance. So when went to see what the gathering of soldiers and ships were about, it was a surprise for her to find a familiar face.

But where there was Ruby, there were three others.

When team RWBY answered the call to fight Grimm that had invaded Vale, they weren't expecting to arrive and see large, brown, winged, dogs killing them en masse. Most notably how they carried the eyes of a certain traitor. Blake and Yang were most excited to see the Uchiha again, while Weiss was concerned about hearing the unfounded information of Sasuke summoning these things.

"Stop right there, Miss Xiao Long," Peter said as he stepped in front of the blonde brawler, noting her angry red eyes were now aimed towards him, but he ignored it. "I assure you, that Sasuke Uchiha would face the full extent of the law, so control yourself." He saw her coming and immediately took note of her hostility before stepping in front of her before she did something regrettable.

"Control myself? After what he did to Ruby, to all of us?" she seethed out, Blake and Weiss behind her in support. "I can't say I can, professor." Sasuke really wanted to mention that giving lip to your superior wasn't a smart decision, but he wasn't exactly one to argue. More so because it would make things worse and even more complicated at the moment.

Peter's maturity showed this time and sent a hardened glare in the blonde's way. "Stand down, Miss Xiao Long," he said in a demanding tone. He sympathized with Yang, he truly did, but the Uchiha saved him and the students under his watch, and that was on top of possibly countless citizens.

Peter knew that Sasuke could have ran away without any of them to stop him, but he chose not to. So the professor could keep the blonde's rage away from him just this once. It was the least he could do.

While surprised that Port's personality changed from what she knew, the real reason Yang backed down was because Weiss grabbed her shoulder. When the blonde glared at the contact, Weiss gestured to look to her side, and she did just that, spotting the blonde professor that taught them.

"Miss Xiao Long, I think it's best for you to leave," Glynda said coldly as she placed a hand on her free shoulder. "Now's not the time, especially after what happened." Things needed to be in control after the thwarted invasion, and the rightfully-angry teen wasn't helping in that aspect.

The younger blonde glared at the older one, who looked back with even more force. "Tch!" she sounded before breaking eye contact and stomping elsewhere. Before she went out of sight, Yang looked back to Sasuke and said unkindly, "see you soon, Sasuke."

He only looked to her neutrally until she left, but answered mentally, 'no, you won't.' And if he did meet her again, the Uchiha had fought stronger blondes.

Looking towards Ruby, she had a face of conflict. Either she chose her team and go with them, or remain and watch this person who saved and betrayed her, the one who caused a lot of discord to her team and tore at their hearts from the inside-out. Honestly, it was the easiest decision to the Uchiha.

When their eyes met, her face of conflict turned to an odd one of begging, as though she wanted him to do something. Making the decision for her, he shook his head and gestured to her team. 'Never abandon your team, your family, for something else.'

Sasuke Uchiha learned that the hard and bloody way, and wished that this decision of going against Roman was the right one. He didn't want to return home to his family so he could tell them he was involved in killing and ruining thousands of lives for them. No, they wouldn't accept that, and even if by some miracle they did, Sasuke wasn't sure he would accept it.

Ruby widened her eyes as though in some kind of realization before she began to tear up. This confused the Uchiha, he didn't know how two gestures caused this much of an effect, but it was pointless to think about it any further when she ran off to catch her team, with the corgi following her shortly after.

Turning back to Glynda, who dealt the blow that made Yang leave, Sasuke said, "I assume you're still arresting me." He stuck both his hands out for the cuffs, which was also mimicked by Neo. This kind of loyalty was rare, even in the ninja world. So he would question Neo about it at a later date.

Hopefully back in Konoha.

If the Uchiha was expecting some linked, metal, bracelet-like handcuffs, he was wrong. Glynda came forward and might as well had placed his hands in a small metal sphere, forcing the captor's hands to interlock and hold each other with no wiggle room.

Either they think most of his capabilities were in the seals he often used or it was just a coincidence in design. It didn't matter, though, the shinobi had more than enough ways to escape, and Neo had her own for that matter, who had the similar looking cuffs as the ninja's.

And if that wasn't enough, things now became dark with the cloth bag that was now over his head. 'Possibly to block attempts any Sharingan techniques,' Sasuke assumed. If he didn't know they had knowledge of the powers of his eyes before today, he knew now. Although, he knew for sure they didn't know the extent of it even after the recent events.

If they did, they should have brought a larger army.

The Uchiha allowed the guards to lead him into an airship and sat down. A second later, he felt another person sit beside him with a familiar smell. "Neo, remember what I said," he whispered, and she responded by tapping the floor twice with her heals. Again, he wasn't sure why she took his demand for silence so deeply, but it should be fine for now. With that, he thought of what he needed to do, 'I'm coming for you, Roman, for the last time.'

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"Reporting from the plaza, it seems the situation is now under control from the Grimm invasion a few hours ago," Lisa Lavender began as she reported on-scene. Behind her were military droids and soldiers from both Vale and Atlas helping the wounded and were also removing the dead from view. "However, the people here aren't all saying that it was the Huntsmen that helped, but the criminal-now-turned-hero, Sasuke Uchiha. Here's what a few had to say about what happened."

The video transitioned to a young woman in a wheelchair with a child no older than a year in her arms, with a man by her side presumed to be her husband. "I was outside for a walk with my baby when the Grimm came out of that hole in the plaza," she began timidly, memory still fresh in her mind. "I remember hearing an explosion in the distance, a flash of light, and that was it, I thought it was over. I didn't want to risk it, so I sped back home, but I had to go around the center plaza. Then something hit me from the side, knocking me away from my baby." She began hyperventilating at the flashback."It was a Beowulf that hit me away from my child, a-and it came closer and closer to her."

At that point, the mother began tearing up. "I tried getting up to take Hannah and run away or fight it off myself, but the Grimm broke my legs." People could see the woman grit her teeth in anger. "I felt so hopeless! I was going to watch my little girl get eaten right in front of me, and I couldn't do anything!" she shouted when she relived her self-hatred and fear, but calmed down slightly when she recalled what happened next. "Right before it even touched my baby girl, one of those brown dogs with purple eyes killed it. I had no idea what it was or where it came from, I thought it was another Grimm here to kill us, but it just ran off to somewhere else." She panted after recalling that whole ordeal which exhausted her, but the husband placed a supportive hand on her shoulder, which helped her collect herself.

"After I heard about who was responsible, I need to say this," the woman said as she looked to her child, the one she almost lost, then back to the camera. "If you're seeing this, Sasuke Uchiha, I hope you rot in prison."

Another transition, another citizen of Vale. This time, a middle-aged man. "Yeah, I was at the plaza when it blew up, and let me tell ya, it was terrifying. One moment, ya hear an explosion that deafens the heavens and lights up hell, but right after that, you see Grimm crawling out of that hole. I mean like hundreds of those *Beep*, and they just kept on comin'. I tried to run outta there, but a Creep got to me before I could book it." The man gave a shudder at the flashback. "Then guess what? Another huge explosion, but this time it's only smoke. At least, that's what I thought. What we all at the plaza thought."

The man took a deep breath, readying his words to continue recalling his experience. "That boom, the second one, might as well have frozen time, where even that *Beep* Grimm on top of me stopped stiff to stare at it just like I did. Hell, I forgot about this thing trying to kill me!" He gave a small hoarse chuckle, but then looked at the camera with a serious look. "What came outta that smoke might as well have been an act of God. I think I even pissed myself seeing all those heads. But of all the heads on that giant dog, only one wasn't moving, and it had two people standing on it, one of 'em I've seen on the news with all those weird powers. Sasuke Uchiha brought that thing here, and that very thing saved my life just by being there. When it split apart, one of the brown dogs tore the throat of the Creep holding me down." The man stood straighter with a look of resolution."That boy, Sasuke Uchiha, saved my old *Beep*."

The screen blinked to another person, a woman with a professional look to her. "Yeah, I heard about what happened at the center plaza, and how Sasuke Uchiha brought that thing to save the day, but people seem to be forgetting that he was with the people that caused it, and that means he had played a part in making it. I'm not going to say he hadn't saved people, because he certainly did, but he was one of the people who made that danger happen in the first place, and should be held accountable for his actions, all of it." The woman sighed. "I won't go around calling him a hero just yet, even after 'Dawn', or whatever it is they're calling it. Perhaps after he takes responsibility for the crimes long before all this Dawn nonsense."

Lisa Lavender came back on screen. "As you could see, Cyril, people are split between calling the currently imprisoned criminal, Sasuke Uchiha, either the hero of the day or one of the instigators for it. People have even come to call the event 'Dawn of Mankind', or simply 'Dawn', for reasons that will be explained later on," she informed. "One thing is certain, though, that Sasuke Uchiha was indeed the summoner of the large multi-headed dog that appeared, and used it to eliminate all Grimm in the area. Whether or not it was for a more nefarious reason remains unclear, and we hope to hear from the officials regarding this issue soon. Back to you, Cyril."

Turning off the Scroll, Ruby sighed and put her headphones back around her neck. She knew what she thought of Sasuke, but didn't know how to put it to words for her team. As time went on, and the more news she heard of the infamous 'Gaara' stealing Dust, she started believing that Sasuke wasn't as good of a person she thought. Especially when he came to the dance for whatever reason.

Blake wouldn't talk about it and acted weirdly when asked what Sasuke was doing with her on the balcony. She seemed to have Jaune keep his mouth shut somehow as well, since he was the only one who saw them together, but Ruby was confident he told his team, at least.

And then, that look in his eyes when he wordlessly told her to go back to her team, as though he was the same person before he left, that brought back her confidence about her conviction a good bit. She wanted to see him as a criminal, but she couldn't after that.

After what she heard, Sasuke could make mindless drones of people and could have escaped using that. She made eye contact with him hoping for him to use her. She was tired of second guessing, and begged him to show he was evil, but he didn't do that; he merely permitted them to arrest him. Would a bad guy allow that?

Sasuke couldn't be bad, he was just. . . something. The young sister didn't know the word for it, but he wasn't the evil person many people made him out to be, but she can't bring herself to call him 'good'. At least, not in the same sense like in the stories. He wasn't evil, and that was the 'something'.

The only one who held on to that belief before today was Pyrrha, and she was adamant in saying the same thing Ruby had said. Sasuke was powerful, so if he needed the White Fang for something, then that would mean he didn't have a choice but to work for them. That was the belief Pyrrha shared to Weiss when she held out her arm that day, the same belief Ruby shared with her two teammates a few minutes prior to that.

"I don't know what to do. . ." the young leader muttered to herself in frustration as she walked in front of her team. Her friends were being as stubborn as she was, and neither were willing to back down from their beliefs.

"Hmm, what is it, Rubes?" Yang asked as team RWBY walked around Vale. Student teams were given the field task of assisting the authorities with any wounded that they found, and a few hours ago it was exactly the case, but now they were patrolling for anything that was missed and help when needed. "You're still thinking about him, aren't you?"

The young leader looked to her elder sister behind her. "You mean the person who saved Vale? Yes, I am," she replied, causing the blonde and the other two members to frown. "I know what he did before was wrong, but I can't just go and say he's a bad guy, especially after today." She then stopped walking, and looked to her team with a hopeful look. "Can't you guys see that he's not that bad a person? C'mon!"

Walking forward until she was right in front of her leader, Blake grabbed her shoulders and said seriously, "Ruby, that 'hero' ran a sword through you." The young girl winced at the memory and tone. "And you want me to forgive him? I don't think I can do that." Blake had more personal reasons to not forgive the Uchiha.

"But look at what he did! He saved Vale from Grimm with that thing," Ruby tried reasoning. When the security camera footage found the Uchiha summoning the big dog, it was no longer argued who was responsible for bringing that monster here.

When all of Vale saw that this person being able to control it, it had set off a whole chain of debates. Could they bring Sasuke to their side and fight monsters with monsters? Was it too much power for one nation to have control over, and should it be set as an international weapon? Was it possible to harness this fighting force that was capable of freeing all of Vale from beasts in minutes?

Regardless the side of discussion, the common theme was the Uchiha himself, and whether or not he could be used to fight the terror of Grimm. Could this be the time for mankind to win against Grimm as a whole, where the first true victory against the horde in Vale was the Dawn for the rise of man?

And did it depend on a single, otherworldly soul to be the vanguard of it all?

"I still can't believe he was the one who summoned it," Weiss said quietly, but was heard by her colleagues. The Schnee family were the summoners, not some mercenary. Not that it matched anything she saw from their hereditary abilities, so he couldn't have Schnee blood in him, but the concept that he summoned was shocking in itself.

Plus, Weiss was more than a little peeved that this criminal summoned when she had yet to accomplish her birthright.

"What even was that thing?" Yang wondered out loud. When team RWBY answered the call to liberate Vale from Grimm, they hadn't expected the first thing to see being a big, brown, winged dog chewing on a Boarbatusk when they dropped from the bullhead. Even more surprising to see its familiar eyes before it bolted off to find its next prey.

And when they heard it was once a single being with almost a dozen heads before it split apart into dozens and dozens of creatures, it wasn't exactly believable, especially the head-math, until footage of it was released. Seeing him standing on the rooftop with a small kid by his side, and when he slammed his palms on the roof which caused a massive plume of smoke to suddenly appear, there was no doubt for team RWBY who summoned it.

"It's what saved the day," Ruby stated. "And the one who summoned brought it here and saved thousands from being killed."

Weiss didn't like that her leader was right, but also that she was so willing to accept that it was out of altruism. "Sasuke lied to us, stole Dust, and hurt people," the heiress reminded, that last one was aimed towards the younger girl. "How do you know that he didn't have something sinister planned, and those people he saved were just a way to it?"

Ruby stayed quiet, frustrated for not knowing how to respond. She wanted to shout 'Sasuke would never do that!', or even 'how is saving people a way for a sinister plan!?' but it sounded childish, even to her. Especially with everything she heard him do before. In fact, it wouldn't be outside the realm of reality for it to be the case, but Ruby wanted to believe he wasn't a bad guy, that he was just something.

"Even that thing he was in before he summoned that big dog was evil-looking as hell," Yang said in support for the heiress. One of the things in the uploaded videos was him that giant purple armor, which was later clarified by Coco Adel to be just that. The blonde shuddered, and stated, "that smile on that thing is not natural."

When that purple warrior thing crushed a whole Deathstalker with one of its three hands, it set the stage of how much power the Uchiha was withholding during his time at Beacon. And when the esteemed Peter Port stated that the Uchiha used that very armor to tip a massive, moving train, people had no idea how to gauge that technique of the Uchiha's.

Already there were discussions of research teams being made to look into the abilities Sasuke had shown, but they were mere rumors, gossip, and hearsay.

"All that matters is that Sasuke saved people," Ruby reaffirmed, then looked to her comrades. "I can't force you to forgive Sasuke, but don't ask me to hate him, because I can't." She tried to, though, even if to simply connect with her team again, and she came close a few times, but memories of the Uchiha's time with her and the teams kept coming up.

Walking forward ahead of her silent teammates, she looked up to the large airship that probably held the ninja, and thought, 'what's happening to you now, Sasuke?' She heard the theories of people torturing him for answers of how he's capable of all this. Ruby prayed they weren't true.

---

'This bag is becoming rather irritating,' the Uchiha thought in annoyance. He had been standing for over an hour, tightly cuffed hands and feet bolted to the ceiling and floor respectively to prevent any unseen movement, and they had yet to take off the damn black, cloth bag from his head. Most likely because they didn't trust him yet with those eye powers of his, so it was understandable, but still bothersome.

Occasionally, a guard would come and strike the Uchiha's gut to make sure his 'Aura' was still depleted. Not a very elegant way, but it was most likely due to Sasuke's 'Aura' not being able to be detected, and they were forced to use more basic means of finding out. . . or he pissed off enough people. To tolerate it hurt his pride hurt more than his body, though.

Hours ago, the guards moved him to different parts of the large airship from a small cell to another while his head was covered, and now had no idea where Neopolitan was at current time. Regardless, the plan needed patience, and he was going to get what he needed.

Two pairs of steps and a door opening were heard, and with that, a familiar voice. "Sasuke Uchiha, wanted criminal all across Remnant for the crime of grand-scale larceny," James Ironwood said as he took a seat in front of the captured Uchiha. "Grand-scale larceny, that's a new one they had to make just for you. Easier to say that than over a hundred counts of theft and assault. And those weren't counting the stealing of government property." He threw the documents onto the table separating the two with an audible sound.

'An interrogation room,' Sasuke concluded. It wasn't as if he didn't notice the clues from the acoustics, but the fact that there was a table and another chair was convenient to verify that he had that much room to move in. "I returned the Paladins, however," the Uchiha replied normally, stalling for time to collect more details of his surroundings.

The general scoffed. "You 'returned' some of them in repairable condition, but there were many in pieces in that train and tunnel your group used," he retorted. "Do you know what's going to happen to you, Mr. Uchiha?"

"I can guess." Sasuke had no intention of going to some prison that can't hold him. In fact, he didn't intend to be in confinement for too long on this ship now.

"Let me make this perfectly clear," James said aggressively as he stood up, and placed his open palms on the metal table. "You are in far too much trouble for one your age to normally be in. The kingdoms all want you in their specific prisons, and we're finding a way to do just that."

Technically, Sasuke could make clones and serve each of those sentences at the same time, but the ninja didn't voice the idea for a few obvious reasons including foolishness.

"Unless," began the second person in the room, who was even more familiar. "You work for us." Ozpin, of course, had to join in and gave the ultimatum to the young criminal in front of him.

'Two very seasoned and experienced Huntsmen whose capabilities, skills, and Semblances are unknown to me. . . fucking great,' the Uchiha thought cynically. "Are you confident your prisons can hold me?"

"What did you say?" James seethed. "You don't seem to know the situation you brought yourself in." Prison? He didn't believe anything as simple as that could incarcerate Sasuke, but if they sedated him and placed the Uchiha in a particular machine similar to the one holding Amber in stasis, then they most definitely could.

The fact summoning that massive creature weakened the Uchiha enough to be held captive this long was a miracle. Soon, if he doesn't cooperate, then he would be imprisoned in a coma-like state while his Aura was slowly drained away.

"I know that you can't hold me. None of your prisons can," the shinobi stated as though fact. Could he wing it? Would it even work? He had to try. "Thus, the threat you gave me holds no weight." He began flowing the Chakra towards his eyes. "I have no intention of being in a cell or working under you."

A forced sigh was heard. "Do you think this is a game?" the general asked irritably, not liking the arrogance the teen was showing. "If it was up to me, you would have been imprisoned for life, but Ozpin wanted to give you a choice."

The Beacon headmaster stepped forward and stated, "Mr. Uchiha, if you were to cooperate with us, then we can pull a few strings to let bygones be bygones." With a good fraction of the public opinion being on Sasuke's side, it shouldn't be too difficult to sway things. "Perhaps even have you treated as a hero for your latest actions. If you agree to our terms."

After hearing from the silver-haired man, Sasuke thought the word 'cooperate' sounded funny when you're bound by chains.

Choices, ultimatums, employment, or even fame, the Konoha-nin wanted none of it here on Remnant. He couldn't see the two people in front of him, but he could imagine the irritated look of the general, and the serious look of Ozpin.

"I want nothing from any of you," the Uchiha stated simply, displeasing the two headmasters. "However, there is one person who has something I want, and you can help me find him."

The general and the headmaster shared an unseen look. "And who is that person?" asked James, wary of who this person might be.

'It's time.' Sasuke sighed, focused on what he needed to do, and looked off to the side towards the corner of the room to make the angle just right. "Doesn't matter anymore," he answered. "Because it's too late. . . for you."

A split second ago, the Uchiha was detained in chains, but a blink later, he was standing right beside it free of his bounds, the bag that covered his head comically falling towards the ground as it stayed in its place when the ninja teleported to another spot in the room.

The first mistake for the headmasters was that the Uchiha's substitution technique and speed weren't all that he used to blink to other areas. Augmented with the fact that he had yet to escape from his bounds and empty of Aura, they believed he was held securely.

The second mistake was that, when they looked towards the shinobi because they were caught off guard, they let their surprised eyes make contact with his red, starburst-patterned one, and the purple, rippled one.

'Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes!' Sasuke thought at the exact moment his eyes met the general's, and placed the same illusion on the headmaster without eye contact to keep him from acting quickly.

In their minds, the headmasters felt searing pain as their were bodies pierced by thick, stone spikes in an unfamiliar land with red skies. In front of them was the Uchiha that was supposed to be imprisoned.

He saw how their faces turned to ones of pain, but he won't go soft handed with his illusions against these two powerful individuals. Genjutsu seemed to be lacking against Aura users, as indicated when tried kidnapping Blake. He would reward them with his disappearance from Remnant, that should be a fine trade.

Walking forward, making his way closer to the enraged and paralyzed Atlesian, ignoring the other headmaster. Sasuke had no doubt he was feeling great pain, but regardless, he looked at him and asked, "where are Roman Torchwick and the woman that was with me?" He would get his answers in one way or another.

---

The whole ship was in alarm, and the other larger ships began closing in to support and bring in reinforcements, while the ones inside are doing their best to catch the Uchiha who was now roaming the ship. All they knew was that he was making his way to the bridge in hopes of taking control, but soldiers inside didn't intend to make it easy for him.

"Looks like they didn't find the prisoner yet," one guard said plainly, guarding a particular door near the bow area.

"Yep," answered another guard irritably. "Do you know whose part of the action in chasing down the Uchiha guy instead of watching a damn door?"

The first one sighed. "I'm sure you'll tell me."

"Fuckin' Jenkins," said the second one quickly. "When they went to arrest Sasuke Uchiha in Vale, I was here guarding a damn door for the general, while muthafukin' Jenkins gets to go and take the guy in. And what about now?" He didn't wait for his colleague to answer. "A wanted fugitive is running around, and I'm standing here guarding another God damned door!"

Silence was all that responded to him, not even the sigh he's come to expect.

". . . Murphy?" the second guard called as he turned to see his comrade, but was greeted with a face of another guard looking right at him. "Who the hell are you?"

The only response he got was a sudden punch that broke through the visor and knocked him out; leaving two unconscious bodies watching a door.

Looking towards the now empty hallway, the guard said, "it's clear."

A small woman in an Atlesian pilot uniform walked out, pink hair under her cap, and green eyes under its bill, smiling away as she walked through the warship corridor with a small parasol in hand.

He waited until she was by his side before he went forward to the door these two soldiers were guarding. Pressing a few buttons on the keypad, the door opened revealing Torchwick without his hat, sitting in the small cell similar to what Sasuke was in hours prior.

"Can't a man sleep in his own jail cell?" the captured thief quipped, then looked to the two that greeted him. "Oh, Neo, glad you're here. You won't believe the horrible service these people provide." The small woman only shook her head with a smile. "So, are we leaving?" Roman looked to the second person in the lightish-red armor and peered closer to the name tag. "Your name's 'Donut'? Boy, do I feel bad for your school days."

The soldier took off his visored helmet to reveal familiar red eyes on an unfamiliar face. "Oh shit," cursed the thief in surprise. "Well, didn't expect you to be here. Don't suppose you're breaking me out even after what happened on the train, are you?" The disguised Uchiha shook his head. "Then what are you here for?"

"Dust," answered the ninja. "I want to know where you placed all the Dust we stole, and you will tell me where it is." While he was confident Shackling Stakes would hold against two very powerful individuals, he didn't want to risk sticking around for too long.

A clone was fighting and dodging his way while routing the guards far from this particular area, so he wasn't worried about soldiers in this part of the ship. Thankfully, the general informed him of the codes and the cells that held Roman and Neo, so he knew where the people he needed were placed.

Against his will, of course. James Ironwood was a surprisingly resilient man against torture, even though the Uchiha hadn't yet delved into the more painful methods, but when he looked to the staked Ozpin on the side, Ironwood's lips became a little looser before Sasuke could do anything. He gladly gave up two criminals for his comrade; just as he should have.

The Uchiha found Neopolitan first, their equipment second, and finally Roman to complete the objectives before leaving this ship. The next step would be leaving for the place that held the Dust he needed.

Looking towards the oddly silent Neopolitan for assistance, she only shook her head when she understood what he wanted. He frowned before looking towards the 'guard'. "Ah, you see, I'm in kind of a sticky situation," retorted the thief. "And I can't seem to remember where I put it all. A common problem in my family, I'm afraid. Always forgetting important things li-" He froze stiff under the illusion.

Sasuke got tired of waiting for Roman's cooperation and wanted to speed things up. "Where did you store all the Dust we stole?" he asked in a whisper and leaned in to hear the response.

In a dazed voice, Roman answered also in a hushed whisper, "the Dust is in Mount Glenn. Stored under a ruined building near the train station."

After today's events, the other half of the Atlesian armada came back home to quickly support Vale. It wasn't needed and that they couldn't make it back fast enough, but eventually they returned to their posts in Vale's airspace. The larger ships in different districts to show security after the breach, but they were now coming closer to the airship Sasuke was in at the moment.

Adding to the relative ease of it was that Mount Glenn should be cleared of both of Atlesian forces and White Fang. Mostly because one side was killed off by the other, and the surviving side had returned to Vale to bring a sense of security once again to the people.

Walking out of the room and closing the cell door, Sasuke was glad that he got the information he needed. Roman would forget about this discussion, as not risk the fool's anger of informing the general, who most likely would question the crook soon if he hadn't already.

"Let's go, Neo," called 'Donut'. He hated the name of the guard he's impersonating more than the last one. 'Who chooses pink to accent their armor?' If there was a reason, the concept was lost on him.

Stopping his trail of thought, he picked up a pistol from one of the unconscious guards, a real one instead of the Chakra construct he had been using, and threw it to Neo. "It's to keep the image, not to fight," he informed quickly, placed his helmet back on, and walked ahead of her to the hanger bay.

One of the reasons the Uchiha gave his companion a gun was to see if she would shoot him as he was in front of her. His Sharingan was active, and ready to put the woman in her place on the first sign if she took the bait. If she didn't, then she was either truly on his side or waiting for a better moment, when it didn't seem like a trap.

Instead of taking aim, Neopolitan placed the gun in the holster she strapped on her belt that she took from the same guard, and continued holding her umbrella in hand nonchalantly.

When they spotted the hanger bay door, the Uchiha spotted another two guards in front of it.

"Halt," said the first, raising his palm, which did little to stop the pink soldier coming his way. "I said halt!" This time he raised his weapon, then fell to the floor unconscious, along with the second one beside him. It seemed they couldn't help but look him in the eye through the visor.

Cameras most definitely caught Sasuke and his companion when they found Torchwick if not before then, but the main force was still fighting a single Sasuke copy. The single shadow clone may not have the Rinnegan or the Sharingan, but even with its limited lifespan, it had most of the soldiers occupied.

What splinter force to come his way won't mean much, as long as the copy took control of the bridge and sabotaged its sensors. . . or destroyed them; whichever's quicker. As long as there was no risk to track airship they would use to leave. Even though the original was somewhere else, the center of controlling a massive airship over a city may be more important.

Entering the bay, there were a few mechanics with a spartan amount of guards to protect them, who immediately went on alert and raised their guns in their direction. When they fired the first shot, their targets shattered like glass, which left all of them confused.

"What the hell just- Ack!" one of them said before a hand chop hit him in the back of the neck. When the rest of the guards turned to see what happened to their comrade, it was too late for they met with the same fate when Sasuke pulled off another of what he did in the Atlesian base. The ones who weren't knocked out were the mechanics and lightly armed pilots, and they froze stiff at the scene.

"Out," the disguised Uchiha ordered. The people here knew who this was, and didn't waste a second as they dropped what they were doing to run out the exits that didn't involve jumping out from a lethal height.

Hearing footsteps, Sasuke turned to see Neo walking towards one of the aircraft in the area that didn't look like the rest, a bullhead. While the rest of the airships were of Atlesian design, this one stood out, and the Uchiha had an idea who used this one.

'Ozpin's bullhead,' he thought in mild amusement. They were going to use the headmaster's vehicle to get out. Neopolitan seemed to know this, and picked it out on purpose while ignoring the other wasp-like aircraft around her.

Once inside the craft, he dispersed his disguise to become himself again. Already, he felt vibrations as guns began peppering the aircraft, and it seemed the small woman noticed it as well.

The Uchiha made a seal, which led to two more shadow clones appearing in a cloud of smoke. The two nodded to the real Uchiha and ran out to face the guards of the warship. Already, the vibrations ceased as they were engaged by two Sasukes.

It wasn't a moment too soon to start leaving, because it turned out the first clone in the bridge did the damage needed to their sensor suites and dispersed to inform the original. "Neo, we must leave now," the Uchiha stated calmly, to which she nodded, began lifting off, and started leaving the warship.

The two clones within dispelled from existence after seeing the job of taking the fire off of them was no longer needed, but they did do some damage to the remaining aircraft to avoid pursuers from the warship.

Spotting the other warships and their respective smaller airships far away but closing in, the Uchiha began phase two of the escape. "Go as high as possible," Sasuke demanded as he stood in the cockpit, which confused his companion, but she nodded regardless and followed the order.

The moment Neopolitan began piloting the craft, the Uchiha had kept a close eye on the controls with his Sharingan, keeping note of the absolute basics of which does what, and he now knew enough.

Sasuke made another shadow clone, and it took the copilot seat beside the now-silent companion when they were going higher into the sunset sky. If the previous order was confusing, then this was even further at the sudden development when the copy began taking control.

She was the taken off from the pilot seat when the real Uchiha grabbed her by her sides and dragged her to the cabin, where the Uchiha made another clone to use.

Again not wasting another moment, both Sasukes jumped out of the bullhead, with Neo held tightly by the original. He couldn't hear her screaming as they began gaining speed and the wind becoming deafening in his ears. The clone took its position under the Uchiha, who bit his thumb, and slammed his palm on its back while screaming an unheard, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

In another explosion of smoke, Garuda appeared in Remnant in a dive before leveling out, carrying the Uchiha and his friend, and saving them from being paste on a road. "Head to the southeast as fast as possible, Garuda," he ordered quickly. Soon, the Atlesian force would make visual contact with them once they broke through the clouds, and it would be best to get out of there to avoid that.

The hawk banked to the side and began speeding towards the direction his master indicated, seeming as another bird for those down below and far enough.

Looking back, Sasuke could see the bullhead they were in flying in poor fashion. The clone was capable of keeping it in the air, so that was fine enough for the moment. And to his side, Neopolitan looked in wonder at this creature that came out of nowhere; she was even feeling the feathers just to be sure it was real.

They were supposed to be plummeting to their deaths, but her friend pulled off another amazing summoning, this time in midair. Not some battle dog, but a large bird of some kind. Neo felt excited and curious at the same time. She thought he was insane when he jumped out the bullhead thousands of feet into the air, but it all made sense when he made the bird appear.

Now a good distance away, Sasuke peered his Rinnegan and Sharingan eyes to the bullhead once more, and saw how it was being swarmed by Atlesian aircraft. The diversion was a success. He didn't believe he could escape in a bullhead that easily with the entire armada close enough to stop them, so he gave them the belief that it was his plan to leave through the bullhead.

And now, they would capture th- Boom!

. . . They would destroy the bullhead he used for a diversion. Not what he was expecting, but perhaps they believed he was too dangerous to live, probably under the order of another officer than the general who should still be under the painful illusion. Of course, if they searched for the bodies in the wreckage, they wouldn't find any.

With that scene over and fading in the distance, a thought went through Sasuke's mind, one he had been hoping for a while. 'I'm coming home, everyone.'

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Garuda landed on Mount Glenn after a few hours of travel, and the area was just as dead and empty as Sasuke expected. He doubted anything other Grimm to be moving in the area.

Hopping of his hawk summon, the Uchiha looked to Neo, who followed him off the bird in her usual clothes, but she peered at the hawk a little longer, taking note of its large size. She even went as far as petting the summon, to which Garuda allowed uncaringly.

It seemed her Semblance allowed her to change some of her appearance, and that made things easier during the exfiltration. As he thought, Neopolitan would make a fine shinobi.

"Garuda, I will call upon you again when I need you," Sasuke stated, to which the large bird nodded its head before vanishing in an explosion of smoke. "Let's continue. I have prolonged this long enough." He then went his way to find the tunnel that led into underground area.

Neo looked at the empty space where the bird named 'Garuda' was, and then to the ninja. She thought then what she already knew, everything just became that much more interesting with him around. If Sasuke wasn't clearing a whole city of soulless creatures with his own monsters, he was causing inconsistencies in what people believed as fact in several aspects.

She could only imagine how a fight between Sasuke and Cinder would go. So with those thoughts in mind, the petite woman followed her friend that was walking away to a familiar tunnel.

Taking note of his surroundings in the tunnel, he saw bullet holes that most likely weren't there before the raid. As for the gate he often used, it wasn't there in one single piece anymore. It was possibly where the first explosion of the raid occurred.

Sasuke walked past the non-existent entrance to make way deeper, with Neopolitan following closely behind. The Uchiha thought she might have had a question or two, but she remained silent throughout the journey, and it was becoming rather eerie of her.

Considering what he was going to do for the next few hours, the Uchiha probably had a way to get her talking soon enough.

The Konoha-nin walked past the decaying buildings, not giving attention to the blood splatters he spotted, but noticed there were no corpses or bones. 'Either the raiding force took them away or the Grimm consumed them.' It doesn't matter to him anymore, he had a complex seal to prepare.

Oddly enough, the Grimm he and Neo met on the way to the train station were rare. He found a few wandering Grimm, but the entire place was generally devoid of life. The only evidence that there were people here recently, besides the blood, were the fresh damage from the battle that took place almost a day previously.

"Do you know where the Dust is stored?" Sasuke asked as they spotted their destination in the distance. He turned his to see that the small woman shook her head, which caused him to form a single seal which caused five shadow clones to come into existence. "Search the nearby buildings and disperse when you find it." The copies nodded and flickered away.

Now with the search underway, the shinobi had one more issue to address, the only living person in the vicinity. "Neo," he called, which brought her attention back to him. "Do you wish to stay here, or come with me to my homeland?" Remnant was her home, and forcing her against her will won't help anyone.

As expected, she looked at him in confusion. From what Sasuke had told people during his time as a White Fang operative, she thought his homeland was destroyed. Unless he meant to visit some ruins, she would like for him to explain a bit further, and gestured exactly that.

Sasuke sighed. Of all the people he could have told this to, Neo wasn't exactly on top of that list, but if he was going to leave with or without her, informing her shouldn't bring harm to anyone and would assist in making her decision. "I'm not from this world," he stated, which brought only a raised brow as a response. "I wasn't born on Remnant. I am from another world completely separate of this one, and in my own search for power I ended up here in this world by mistake."

If he expected even more confusion on her part, Sasuke was wrong since her face turned into one of complete fascination, as though when a child was told a heroic tale. Again, the fact Neopolitan was staying voluntarily silent through all this was disconcerting. He wasn't sure if she was humoring him or actually believed the information he gave.

"After I contacted my world,-" He ignored how bizarre that statement sounded and her amused smirk. "-I was told there was a method to bring me back through the powering of a specific seal," he said as he showed her the storage seal on his wrist, showing her the basic idea. "However, due to its nature of needing a massive amount of potent energy such as souls, we believed it would be best to use an alternative source we do not have in my world, Dust."

It dawned on Neo why he was stealing all the previous Dust, and where he put them when he was paid. He didn't just collect them in those paper rolls she saw him use, but he sent them to another world altogether. Again, he was turning facts on its head.

"Now I'm asking you if you wish to accompany back to my home, the world of ninjas," Sasuke said, and ignored her small laugh at the 'ninjas' bit, possibly from what her own beliefs on what a shinobi was. "What is your answer? To stay here in your birthplace, or to leave forever with me to mine?"

He'd make sure to keep her away from Orochimaru. Sasuke wasn't sure if this person with a completely new biology and non-shinobi abilities would set off the snake sannin's old ways or not. It would definitely excite the researcher, that's for sure.

Neo looked thoughtful, debating whether to believe her friend or not, especially since that statement of world of ninjas was amusing. Weren't they supposed to be sneaky people? Sasuke's techniques were anything but subtle; the monster that appeared on Vale wasn't exactly unseen.

Well, he had invaded an Atlesian fortress, Beacon, and was studying at that very academy while being a wanted man; so perhaps it wasn't too difficult to imagine him being a sneaky kind of ninja. And that was saying nothing about his use of the transformation technique he's fond of.

After some deliberation, the short-statured woman nodded furiously before going in for a hug to show appreciation for taking her on an adventure with him, but was held back from wrapping her arms around the person when a sudden hand placed itself on her forehead and held her in place. "I will take that as you are coming with me," the owner of that hand said with no amusement whatsoever.

The Uchiha dropped his arm when she stopped trying to push forward, and then went to sit on an almost intact bench that was close by, waiting for one of his clones to bring him the information he needed.

"Why have you stopped speaking, Neo?" Sasuke asked when he felt her plop on the same seat beside him. She wasn't usually this silent, so it began irking him the further they went on without hearing her voice. When he saw her simply shrug nonchalantly and point towards him, it became annoyingly clear. "Because of my order?" Neopolitan nodded.

Yes, Sasuke demanded of her to stay quiet a few times, especially in recent events, but she should have at least said something by now. "You may speak now," he told her. It was awkward to say as it felt like telling a child a basic necessity, but was taking things literally and to the extreme. The woman shrugged and remained quiet, as though content with the state of affairs.

Sighing, the Konoha-nin said, "as you wish." It's not like she could stay quiet forever, anyway. Perhaps the teleportation to a different world would get rid of the cat that caught her tongue.

The Uchiha recounted what happened since the beginning of his journey on Remnant. He had to admit, the technology of this world far surpassed his own, and would be most beneficial if he took some with him. Unfortunately, nothing of what he would have wanted was on him to be reverse engineered.

He knew that the Elemental Nations would do just fine without them, but it would certainly make several aspects of life for many people easier.

Only a few minutes of silence and thought passed when memories hit him from a clone. "The Dust has been found," Sasuke told his companion, and began walking to find the building that held it. He heard steps behind him, indicating that his comrade was following closely.

With each step, he was getting closer to his goal, the one he had been hunting for so long, for months. And soon, his worry of Remnant being his prison would soon be put to rest.

The two reached the building, and as Roman stated, it was close to the train station; in mere walking distance from the bench he was using, and the Dust inside was vast. From sight alone in this expanded basement, there were freight containers atop of even more freight containers with Dust manufacturers logos imprinted on them.

This was his way home.

The Uchiha clones from previously all flickered to his side, and he immediately gave them sealing scrolls he made long ago to carry containers of this size, but he wasn't going to let four copies do them by themselves, as he also unsealed even more storage scrolls for him to use. "I want this place empty of Dust," he told his shadow clones.

While it was a wonder why the Atlesians didn't recover these, it may have been because of the Grimm invasion of Vale, and that forced them to rush without properly sweeping the area. Considering the Schnee Dust Corporation and the amount of Dust here, it's more than possible for them to return and search properly, so he would rather not stay around too long.

This room carried enough Dust for him to possibly make the trip twice. He didn't want to think of their worth here on Remnant; possibly enough to make him among the richest people in this world, but he didn't care about something as trivial as that.

Neopolitan was watching in wonder how quick four copies and an original were clearing the whole place out from containers. It took half an hour and many scrolls to contain them all, but it was done; the Uchiha had finally collected all the Dust he needed and extra.

A small pyramid of scrolls was where all the Dust was in, and it was time for them to be sent somewhere where they would be put to use.

After Drawing blood from his thumb, Neopolitan watched in interest when he placed his palm on the floor, and heard for the second time, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" The familiar seal she had seen appeared before the explosion of smoke, but there was no large hawk or massive dog inside, but rather a very large, green snake.

"Summoner," Tatsuya greeted respectfully, then looked to the second human in the room. "Is she my payment for my services?" He stuck his tongue out to have a good smell of his possible snack. Said snack whistled at the impressively talking snake, but that turned to discomfort at the look she was getting from it.

"No, Tatsuya, you can't eat her," the Uchiha dryly told the ever-growing serpent. He had to look upwards for eye contact, since the snake was as large as a bullhead with the girth to fit three people comfortably, and that was with him coiled onto himself. He heard Neo take a backward step when he clarified what the snake meant by 'payment'. "I have all the Dust necessary for the seal, and a companion to come with me."

The large snake actually looked disappointed from the lack of food, but Tatsuya only grunted before saying, "understood. I will take the Dust and deliver them to the Wise Elder." Sasuke only pointed towards the pyramid, in which his summon slithered to the scrolls' side before swallowing in groups with his elastic mouth.

After the last bite, Tatsuya looked towards his summoner. "Your den should be most pleased to hear of the news," he stated. "Summon me again in a half-hour's time for a message and instructions from your people." With that, he vanished from the face of Remnant.

And thus, the two were alone in a basement, unknowing of what to do for thirty minutes other than simply wait. A conversation was pretty one-sided at this point in time.

Sasuke heard some scratching, then felt a tug on shirt, and looked to see Neo holding her blade while pointing it to the floor for him to see what she scratched out. When he saw what it was, he looked to his companion with the blandest look, and said, "no." Then walked to leave the building.

He would not play tic-tac-toe for a straight half hour.

Over the course of the thirty minutes, Neo had been rather insistent on things to play, even wordlessly suggesting a small spar which was refused in case he needed his full energy and health for forming the seal. So they simply settled with sitting down and waiting for the time to pass, but he did offer some basic information of his home such as the nations and their qualities.

He told her how he was born in the nation of Konohagakure, and how common flame related techniques were with its people, how Sunagakure specialized in wind and such, etc. Essentially, it was academy grade education of the world he was telling her about. He kept the fighting styles to himself, but did say how people fought vastly different from Remnant's, like how people didn't use guns and depended more on small blades more often than full length swords.

Sasuke knew of the pistol she still had from the warship, but he let her keep it. Chances were she was skilled with a firearm and would most likely make great use of it back home; the 'umbrella' even more so, which, oddly enough, was also a weapon in his own world, so it should fit right in.

"It would be best if I were to take you on a mission with me, to show you what you would be facing before going out on your own or with others," the Uchiha stated, which had the multi-colored woman get excited even more. He trusted other shinobi to take her with them and handle the mission well, but Neo might be a rather unique case and most probably should do it himself first.

He waited long enough. "It's time," Sasuke stated. He would continue briefing his companion back home, but for now, it was time to begin returning to where he belonged. He stood up from the bench, and walked over the map of the Elemental Nations he drew on the dirt for Neo to see.

With a bleeding thumb, he summoned once more, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" The petite woman enjoyed seeing the seal pattern and the smoke explosion. It was evidence of where her friend was truly from.

"Tatsuya, you have news for me?" asked the misplaced shinobi. "I would rather not stay around more than I already have." And that was months.

The large snake nodded. "The seal pattern was already prepared in Ryuchi Cave long ago, and powerful people from many nations have come to donate their Chakra for the seal," he informed. "I heard that blonde, human friend of yours was the reason so many people joined."

All Sasuke could do was scoff. 'Of course he would,' Sasuke thought in amusement. He felt another tug on his shirt, saw that Neo was pouting before she mouthed 'friend?'. "Yes, a friend of mine back home," the Uchiha clarified. "One of the very few people who can fight on par with me, and the only one alive I call brother." Was she seriously getting jealous?

"Tatsuya, continue," Sasuke said to get back on track, ignoring the pouting woman beside him. Although, she did seem interested when he said that Naruto could fight as an equal to him.

Nodding, the large garter snake continued. "They gave me the equipment for you to draw the seal, and also the pattern itself with the details for how it must be drawn. I doubt I need to tell you what would happen if you get it wrong."

The Konoha-nin nodded, he knew full well the dangers of fuinjutsu when done incorrectly. Chances were, with a seal this delicate and powerful, it might destroy Mount Glenn if mistakes in the art were made.

"Good. The Wise Elder made it imperative I inform you that at least a few more times, just to ascertain the gravity of how complicated this seal is," Tatsuya informed, then spat out one red storage scroll and four green regular ones, which possessed different markings than what Sasuke usually made in Remnant. "The tools needed is in the red one, while the patterns and details of each quadrant of the seal are in the green scrolls. I will remain until you complete it."

Sasuke nodded in understanding. Once the seal was complete on this end, the process shall begin on the other. With Tatsuya being the one who would relay the information, he would vanish back to inform the White Snake Sage.

Unrolling the paper scroll that possessed the equipment, the Uchiha saw the usually intricate seal used for storing objects. He made a hand seal and said, "Release!" And popped out where an assortment of large and small brushes, inks, senbon with some painted in different colors, and measuring tools. The odd thing of those were the several broom-sized brushes he, and his clones seemingly, were going to work with.

Neo picked up one of the large brushes up, clearly showing how small she was compared to it, and twirled it around a bit before placing it back on the ground. She was fascinated about the concept of storing these things within what might as well be ink on paper, and that was saying nothing about the explosives he spoke about.

Next, Sasuke opened a scroll labeled '1', and just as he was informed, it held very precise and complicated details of the first quarter for the seal he needed. One thing he did note however, was the space needed to draw it. "It's certainly a large seal," Sasuke commented, to which his summon nodded. Fortunately, he had all the space needed in this empty underground city.

If he needed more, then he could tear down one of the already falling buildings.

The dimensions described on each stroke were written in red, indicating their importance. There was a miniature sketch drawn on the scroll, merely showing the pattern needed of how the whole seal should look from above. Circles inside more circles that already held smaller circles and runes, that was the dumbed down description of what Sasuke saw as the main pattern.

At least he knew what the measuring tools were for now, to measure the thickness of each line to its precise girth. If it was off by even a small margin, then the design was flawed and would require meticulous cutting and scraping on his part with a kunai, or drawn from scratch altogether.

Making this seal would be best with the maximum amount of shadow clones for him to use, Sasuke was ready to start the moment he made the hand seal for his copies to appear. "Each one of you are to take a section of the seal to draw." He'd make sure to triple check with his Dojutsu once they're done, but even before then he would go around drawing what he could.

The handful of clones nodded with determination, then they picked up the large brushes and the lidded buckets of ink they were going to use for the seal.

Sasuke watched as his six clones began opening a green scroll before immediately getting to work. The needed to mark certain spots and measure the area needed first before beginning the sketching. So they would use the senbon that came with the tools to mark each key point. Different colors were to be used for each quadrant as not to get accidentally drawn outside of their limits, and to connect with the others quarters.

They ended up using a large yard that may have been a park once, but the trees have fallen and the pond was dried away, so it was a perfect spot to clear a flat and smooth surface with the help of some earth Jutsu, making a small, leveled, circular, stone plateau.

"Neo, stay on the side and do not disturb anyone of us," Sasuke said as he heard steps that weren't his or any of his clones. He was using the normal-sized brush to make a one of the smaller symbols when he heard her approach. "A single mistake could cause the seal to malfunction and lead us to our deaths." A seal this big could no doubt cause catastrophic damage quickly.

He heard a huff before she walked away, choosing to sit on this new earthen plateau than see what her friend was doing. To the side, he saw her sit cross-legged and simply wait for him to finish. 'If she's hoping I would finish this in the next five minutes, she is sorely mistaken.'

A seal like this needed hours, and that was with the revision of each segment, so it would take patience which he didn't think Neo had. Especially when he flickered behind her when she attempted wrap her arms around his neck lovingly a few seconds after he told her to stay away.

She looked back at him with another pout, before promptly running off somewhere off the stone plateau and into the distance.

"Your new mate is surely an odd one," Tatsuya said as he slithered closer to him.

"She is not my 'mate' or anything of the sort," Sasuke replied irritably. "Merely someone who has helped me and is willing to join me in my return home, that is all." He began thinking of the other people he had met, most notably were the teams back at Beacon.

Ozpin and his faculty were hospitable enough before they found out about him, Roman was a business associate and no more, team RWBY hated his guts, team JNPR should hate his guts regardless if he helped one of their teammates or not. CFVY were good people and were better off without the company of any shinobi.

Then there was the White Fang he helped. The few people who came to assist on his Dust robberies kept their distance, either out of hatred for humanity or they knew he was out of their league, but then there was Claire Durand. . .

He shook his head to focus on the seal instead of distracting memories. She was a good and helpful woman who was at the wrong place in the wrong time with her own beliefs, that's all. She was a comrade to him before the train event, but then turned enemy because of their conflicting beliefs.

Stealing all the Dust from the White Fang back then wouldn't have been the smartest decisions, which was why he was concerned about this seal. If he failed making the seal, then he would have no other income of Dust, no second chance of finding it at a large scale besides small-scale thievery from stores and ships. He didn't have the information and technicians his former group had, and this was the risk for saving Vale against the White Fang.

Sasuke hoped it paid off, because there was no retry and no Roman to pay him.

Hours and hours of similar thoughts if he failed passed, but he was finally done. His Rinnegan and Sharingan helped greatly in spotting the flaws, almost as helpful as the kunai he used to scrape the blemishes off the solid ground it tarnished.

Indeed, the seal wasn't perfect at the first check up and he had to fix it, even the second check proved there were imperfections. Sasuke kept on checking until it was perfect, but even then he reviewed the massive scribe several more times until he was convinced.

"It's complete," the Uchiha told his snake summon, tired of the extreme focus he had to do to make sure everything was correct, but not tired enough to stop the feeling of excitement that was welling up in him. 'I'm coming home.'

Again, he heard footsteps that weren't his own, and his clones dispelled a while ago, so it could only be one other person in this decaying city. Turning around, he spotted his travel companion. "Neo, are you certain you would leave your own world forever?" This was a one-way trip, so he had to ask for a final conformation.

But again, she nodded furiously, excited at the prospect of seeing another world of people similar to the Uchiha.

Sasuke wasn't sure where she had been these past few hours, but he didn't really care about what she did to amuse herself instead of watching the him sketch the seal onto the ground. From the large broom of a brush, to the small pin-like ones, he made sure every stroke and branching was accurate to the details required.

"Stand in the center circle and wait for the seal to activate," Tatsuya informed the both of them. "I will inform those in Ryuchi Cave of your completion. Merely power the seal as soon as I leave, and wait." The large snake vanished at the Uchiha's nod.

Turning to his travel companion, Sasuke informed, "be sure to step over the ink. Otherwise, all this work and Dust are for naught." At her nod, the Uchiha walked forward stepping over the lines he made and painstakingly corrected to the exact proportions. He made sure to keep an eye on Neo in case she did some mistake or sabotage.

Until they were both in a different world than Remnant's, he would watch his back in case this woman tried something. He was probably just being paranoid since he was among killers back in his own world, but paranoia was what helped ninjas survive.

Thankfully, neither Sasuke nor Neo had done any damage to the seal, and stood in the center circle he had drawn. Neopolitan by his side, excited in seeing this other world of the Uchiha's, a world of shinobis where assassins walked past you daily.

"Don't move an inch," the ninja ordered as crouched with his palms touching the ground. Sending Chakra down to the stone, it immediately came to contact with the ink which began absorbing and molding it into a particular quality the more lines it went through. "It's beginning."

The Uchiha could feel how the energy began changing its form the more he poured in, becoming something he had never seen before. With every branching stroke routing Chakra to a different part of the seal, the more Sasuke was convinced of its complexity.

Neo watched as the ink began emitting a fire-like, blue energy, which was very different from what Aura should even look like. The more it passed through the ink Sasuke had drawn, the more excited she felt. There was the chance that he was lying, but that doubt was quickly draining away.

When the blue energy was finally coursing through the ink lines, circles, and symbols, the Uchiha felt the excitement as well. His Chakra was coursing through this ink like blood in his veins, rotating around the massive seal that covered the entire top of plateau he made, never seeming to slow down or lessen. Indeed, he poured in quite a chunk of his Chakra for this seal, but it was worth it.

The two only waited for two seconds when something happened. In front of them in the air, a black cloud began forming, and then lightning began striking from it, hitting particular parts of the seal until they looked like electric wires holding the cloud in place.

Sasuke looked to his side to check on Neo, and the look on her face was part excitement and part fear. Needless to say, since the cloud began expanding with a hole in the center, but not the kind where you saw what's behind it, but just a swirling, pitch black, oval. Already the two began feeling the portal lightly pulling them from their place and into it like a vortex, and the sensation was increasing steadily.

'Finally,' the Uchiha thought in relief, but it was short lived when the suction feeling faded. 'What is this?' Could it have been another part of the seal? He didn't know and hoped it was part of the process.

The Uchiha's eyes widened. Instead of sucking them in, something purple was coming out, and quickly shot it towards the decaying city, flying above his head. He turned around to see what the hell it was, but another thing passed over his head as he was turned, and struck the same place the first one did.

Looking back to the portal, he noticed that it was shrinking until it was back to its cloud form. Sasuke kept watching, hoping that it would grow larger again, but it wasn't meant to be as it disappeared into nothingness. He activated his Rinnegan as quickly as he could, but saw nothing.

There was no energy swirling or rotating around him in the seal, not even in the air where the cloud and lightning were.

However, there was still a small mystery Sasuke needed to be answered. He ran across the ink, uncaring that he ruined hours of hard work. He didn't even care that Neo wasn't following, merely standing there in the center of the ruined seal, trying to comprehend what had just happened.

Sasuke stood over the two entities that flew over his head, and was equal parts surprised and frustrated.

"Jūgo?" the Uchiha questioned as he spotted that familiar orange hair and large build in the purple tunic, but then he looked to the other one that followed him. "Suigetsu?"

The seal hadn't failed, it backfired.

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Uh oh, a long AN ahead. Damn it, but I need it.

I know I'm probably gonna lose followers/favorites from these additions, and maybe even find some reviews of disappointment, but I don't really care about it that much. What goes on with this story has been, for the most part, planned through before you guys even read the first chapter. I understand that some people don't like new characters being added, but I never disconnected the world of Naruto and RWBY, otherwise, a way home wouldn't be possible, and the story setting would be like 95% of the fics out there. Praise or not, this story goes my way, and my way only. . . And I like Jugo.

Trivia:

1- Team RWBY was actually supposed to be the ones raiding the train in the initial outline, but considering how I changed the plot, I thought it would be more logical for Ozpin and James to send the more experienced CFVY after knowing the whereabouts. Now imagine, instead of Coco, Blake meeting Sasuke in the train after what he did at the dance.

2- Of the people who were nominees to appear (in pairs or alone) on Remnant in this chapter were: Gaara (imagine the anarchy!), Killer Bee, Raikage Ay, Kankurō, Temari, and. . . Rock Lee. How great would it be for Sasuke needing to work with Rock Lee? He would bring the springtime of youth!

3- I wanted the team to be named JNSS (Genesis), but it really didn't work out with RWBY's naming format of the leader being the first letter. The other was SHJN (Shogun), but I thought it was too much of a stretch with the 'J' not sounding close enough to a 'G' in the word.