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A/N
I suppose I should state that I will be using OC's for this story. For what stories I've seen of Naruto entering this world, he's always with team RWBY. Not gonna lie, I like the idea of doing that, but it's also something that I hate. I have mixed feelings about that and while the idea of using three other OC's is generally kind of frowned upon because they're author created characters, in this case, I kind of want to do it. So without further delay, here is the first chapter for what I hope will be a fic you guys want me to continue.
Chapter 2
"Wake up, lazy butt!" Sasuke snapped awake and glared at the offending owner of the voice. A girl with pink hair dashed around a fellow male teenager with long black hair wearing a green oriental shirt with long sleeves. He groaned as she dashed around him signing very loudly. "It's morning! It's morning! It's morning! Ittttt'ssssssss morning~!"
Sighing, Sasuke collapsed back onto his pack and huffed in annoyance. He had trouble sleeping during the night because of someone snoring very loudly and because of someone mumbling about pancakes in their sleep. He had a sneaking suspicion that she was the culprit. Aside from those interruptions he had a nightmare about his brother coming here and torturing him in the night. He checked his right eye and found dried specks of blood. He looked at his pillow. There were small splatters of red across it. Sasuke got to his feet, wiped what he could away from his eye and shoved the pillow in his pack.
He made his way to the bathroom and got around. A few girls and boys were already in the bathroom prepping for the day. Sasuke caught sight of a blond haired man with blue eyes brushing his teeth and looking worried about something. The redhead from last night was busy brushing her hair and putting on a gold headband. Maybe it was a tiara? Sasuke wasn't sure what it was, but it was really dumb looking. Why wear something fancy when it was going to be the thing you fought in? At least the blond made since with what he was putting on. He was wearing a hoodie, blue jeans, shoes, and had pieces of armor over his chest and arms. Sasuke absently wondered what his weapon would be if he wore armor like that.
Sasuke pushed the thought from his mind as he moved to one the showers and stripped. He showered quickly, came out with the towel wrapped around his waist. A few girls turned his way and whistled. Sasuke spied the blond haired girl with the impressive rack that Jasper had mentioned. She was looking him over and gave him a thumbs up of approval. He blew her off with a role of his eye as he moved towards his locker to get dressed. He grabbed his gear and went to a changing stall. Throwing the door shut he sighed and dropped his towel.
Tearing into his clothes he slipped on the new garb with a visible scowl. Coco had no tastes for combat clothes. He was thankful that Velvet understood his sense of style when it came to combat. He didn't want to look cool. It had to be practical or he wasn't going to wear it. He slipped on a zip up sky blue t-shirt and then grabbed some dark hakama style pants. They were the closes thing to his clothing from Konoha. He wasn't about to complain either. Velvet even found him some dark colored gauntlets to go with it all. Sasuke grabbed his combat sandals and felt a rush when he noticed that they were open toed. Velvet really did him good. He was going to have to go thank her when this was over.
He pushed the stall open and marched back to his locker.
"Can you imitate a sloth?"
Sasuke's head nearly snapped when he heard her voice. The same pink haired girl was still pestering the same young man. He made a pair of green weapons disappear in his sleeves. Sasuke had to blink twice before he accepted that they had somehow shrunk or compacted themselves down to a level to achieve such a thing before he started ignoring them again.
"Nora," the young man finally spoke, "I don't think sloths make a lot of noise."
Grabbing his gear, Sasuke suppressed a chuckle as he tried to think about the kind of noise a sloth made. Usually it was a groan, but that was him making fun of Kakashi or even Sakura when both were being lazy. Wouldn't Chouji be the real version of a sloth? That fat oaf was a good for nothing and would probably die from eating too much.
Sasuke put his sword on the small of his back and held it in place with a yellow and blue sash that Velvet had found. She said it could be a scarf. He respectfully shot down her idea. As did Coco for some reason. She had been all for more flair, but not a scarf. He grabbed his pouches, some tap, and tapped the pouch to his left and right legs. He placed the Fuma shuriken on his gauntlet before shutting the locker. He walked past everyone as they talked about their woes and schemed on getting on the team that they wanted to be on. A white haired girl was talking to the one with red hair from yesterday, Pyrrha, if he remembered her name right.
"Sasuke," Pyrrha called out. He stopped with a low groan and faked a smile as he turned to her. "I wanted to wish you the best of luck out there before everything starts." The white haired girl looked him over and snorted at him. "This is Weiss Schnee. She's an heiress to the Schnee Dust Company." Sasuke blinked in response. Pyrrha's smile remained. "So you fancy older weapons?" Sasuke put his hand on the hilt of his blade and wanted to draw it to show her, but stopped and nodded. "Well good luck out there. I hope we meet each other out there."
"Do we really want someone like him on a team with us?" Weiss asked.
"There is nothing wrong with him that I can see." Pyrrha informed her. "Besides, I'm all for how the cards fall. But there is no point in denying that I want people on my team that can help me protect the weak." Weiss visibly rolled her eyes. "You disagree?"
"This is a job at the end of the day. We'll get paid to protecting the weak." She glanced back at Sasuke and visibly snorted at his attire again. "At least you're quiet so far. Unlike other people so far." She jabbed a thumb in the direction of Yang and another girl. Sasuke didn't look and merely shrugged. "Tough guy act? That's not attractive at all."
"I wasn't acting tough. I just don't like the idea of being on someone's team that's going to be snotty. It reminds me of someone I don't like." Before another word could be said Sasuke departed and found Jasper talking to Velvet and her team. Yatsuhashi and Fox were looking bored to as the man spoke only to the two females. Sasuke stopped behind him with a bored look on his face. Velvet and Coco fought hard to suppress their grins.
Sasuke caught the tail end of, "…cheating if I look and don't touch?" as Jasper stood in combat clothing.
He was wearing a skin tight black shirt and blue cargo pants with the ends of the pants tucked into combat boots. He wore part of a teal robe shirt with the other sleeve missing. His weapon was kept in a leather pouch that was tied to his side on a brown leather belt that read KILLSHOT and POWER in a dark blue. His arms were covered in similar gauntlets to Sasuke's but his bore the marking of a fist in a triangle on the back of it.
"I think that does count as cheating," Yatsuhashi told him bitterly.
Fox gave him a sharp glance before shaking his head. "Doesn't count in my book. But hey, your book may be different from mine." He looked passed Jasper and to Sasuke. "Nice to see you again, Sasuke."
Jasper whipped around with a smile. "Nice threads."
"We helped pick them out," Coco informed him. She adjusted her glasses, a pleasured smile on her face as she looked him over. "I still say the other outfit would have been much better."
"At the end of the day you're not the one wearing it," Velvet told her. Coco laughed softly and gave her friend and fellow teammate a quick glance. "Besides, Sasuke had all the power in this. If he didn't want it, he wouldn't have gotten it." She felt proud to call Sasuke her friend and also show the fashion wasn't really everything. Coco would say otherwise. She was the panicle of cool at this school and had won many hearts over with her idea of fashion and attitude. She fancied all forms of clothing if it looked good. "Sasuke, Jasper, I wish you both the best of luck out there."
Jasper tapped his weapon and smiled. "I don't need luck when I have my good luck charm with me." He looked at Sasuke. The Sharingan user had a look of annoyance. "Might wanna wish him some luck though. And by that, I mean with the ladies." Fox gave him a high five and laughed. The other male sighed, shaking his head and marching off. Coco chuckled and licked her teeth as she wondered if that was a double meaning or just an honest truth. "Maybe we'll get lucky and get on the same team."
"One can hope," Velvet said with an air of disbelief. She got who she wanted, but other teams that came with friends weren't so lucky. Of course, they were dropped out of a plane and told that the first person they made contact with would be their teammate for the remainder of their time at Beacon. Hopefully they'd keep the team once they all graduated. She really liked Yatsuhashi. He was a nice person. "Well still, I wish you both the best of luck."
Sasuke gave a slight nod before leaving. Weiss passed him with a snort of disapproval again while Pyrrha waved happily. Jasper blinked and narrowed his eyes on the former Uchiha. "Lucky bastard…"
"The white haired girl hates me and I don't know what to think about Pyrrha." Jasper clenched his jaw and pursed his lips as they started walking. "I ignored her and she said I had the tough guy act going. I didn't say anything to her and she assumed I'm someone beneath her." Sasuke idly wondered if that was what it was like to be Sakura or Ino around him. They would have licked the ground he walked on and showed up to school wearing a cat outfit if he said he liked sexy cat girls. All that power and he never used it. Looking back, he really did miss out on a lot.
"Sounds like she likes you."
"Is that what that means?"
"How old are you?"
"Thirteen." Jasper stopped and stared at him. "I'm gifted…" That wasn't a lie. If Sasuke hadn't spent his time being an avenger and focusing more on team skills he might have been stronger. Of course, there was no point in wondering about what could have been when it was in the past. He could dream. He could dream that his brother never went insane and killed their clan in some sort of homicidal rampage. Or that his best friend/rival was lying in a hospital bed asleep and probably not capable of waking up. "Is that a problem?"
"No," Jasper snapped from his momentary shock and kept moving. "It's just… you don't look it. You must be rather tall for your age. I thought you were at least fifteen or sixteen."
"Maybe my parents were tall?" Sasuke remembered that his father was tall. Of course, to a five year old, your father and mother were giants and you were just an ant. So, really, he couldn't truly judge them on that part. He was sure that Sakura was taller than himself. He knew she was taller than Naruto. Maybe he was taller than her? "So what do you know about this part?"
Glynda gathered the students up and made them follow her. Jasper scratched at his chin. "Not much…" He kept glancing around for something or someone. Sasuke looked as well. He could see Pyrrha and Weiss up ahead talking about something. The girl in a red and black dress with a red cape was talking with Yang. They seemed rather heated about something. Nora and the guy she had been pestering walked side by side with Nora doing all of the talking. "Last year they took the students out and kicked them out of air planes. I doubt they're going to do that this year."
"That doesn't sound too bad." He remembered Naruto saying his master pushed him into a ravine where the walls were covered in water, making it impossible for him to stick to it. Naruto survived because he was able to summon the toad boss or something. He hadn't paid much attention when it was getting explained to him. If he had never seen him summon that thing he wouldn't have believed a word of what he said. He still didn't believe him, even though he saw it. "How does this part work?"
"Aside from them throwing us into the forest, it's pretty much done by who you make contact with first. Last year everyone had a name printed on their backs and chest so that if someone saw you, they had to say your name. If you were paired, you got to remove it and move on. Doubt they'll do that this year." Glynda stopped and the line parted. She said something that both boys missed, but it was clear they were all supposed to stand on a metal pad. Sasuke looked down at it and jumped on it once. It caved in when he did it and he could already see what was happening in his minds' eye. They were going for a ride. "This is a death trap waiting to happen," Jasper said with a laugh. He faked being at ease.
"Afraid of heights?"
"Nope," Jasper said quickly. "Just afraid of falling from said heights… I had a dream I was falling. I woke up before I hit the ground."
Sasuke tuned him out and glanced to his right. The black haired girl that was reading the book in the dark was beside him. Sasuke blinked when she caught his eye. Ozpin was sipping on some coffee while Glynda kept scrolling through her scroll for something. She was looking for something. Sasuke considered activating his Sharingan to see, but opted against it. If this was going to be like the Chuunin Exams second part, he wasn't showing what he could do to anyone. That would get you killed. "For years you have trained to become warriors. Today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest."
Glynda stepped forward. "Now," she began with an air of authority, "I'm sure many of you have heard rumors about the assignment of teams. Well… allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates… today."
A few people whined about that. Ozpin might have smiled as he used his cane filled hand to push his glasses up a bit. "These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time here at Beacon. So it is in your best interest to be paired with someone you can work well with." Again, more moaning. "That said; first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years." There was a sharp intake of air through the crowd and then someone questioned his words. Nora started talking to her friend, but Ozpin kept talking. "After you've partnered up make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path or you will die."
Sasuke counted off all the things he was expecting to see and all of the things he was hoping he'd see down there. He was hoping to see giant animals, poisonous plants, and quick sand zones. What he figured he'd see would be Grimm, Grimm, and Grimm.
"You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation, but our instructors will not intervene. You will find an abandoned temple at the end of the path containing several relics. Each pair must choose one and return to the top of the cliff. You will guard that item, along with your standing, and grade you appropriately. Are there any questions?" The blond haired boy wearing armor raised his hand and muttered something. Sasuke didn't catch what he said before his pad clicked and he was suddenly in the air.
The force behind the catapult was surprisingly strong. Sasuke grunted as he felt the wind rush over his face and whip is hair around. He pushed through it and righted himself. He flipped in the air so that his back was to the trees. He wanted to see where everyone was going to land before he reached the apex of his flight. He could easily see Jasper flying far to the north east. Yang was flying further ahead thanks to some kind of blasts that came from his gauntlets. There were a dozen others he spotted. Some were already angling themselves for a fast landing. Others were taking their time to slow themselves.
Sasuke twisted in the air when he felt himself begin to slow down and gravity take hold of him. He turned fully and started searching for the ruins that Ozpin spoke of. He caught sight of Grimm in the area and looked as far as he could to the north as he possibly could. He spied something just beyond the range of his vision. It looked like it might be the temple. Accepting that it was his destination, Sasuke flipped and righted himself for a quick landing as the ground came racing to meet him. He landed on a tree branch and jumped to the next one as fast as he could so his momentum would push him forward. He kept it going for a few more minutes before he finally decided to slow down and survey the area. He got to the top of a tree and started searching for the temple ruins.
Something darted over his head and he ducked. A black bird with a white face circled and came back at him with its talons poised for the kill. Sasuke flung a kunai at it. It vanished into a black cloud of smoke before it even hit him. Blinking, he took a deep breath and made a note that Grimm weren't just going to be large animals. They were also going to be small animals. He jumped and raced for his kunai. No point losing his weapons now if he had a limited supply. He wasn't back in Konoha were he could go to a store and get a case of them anymore. He heard the thunk of his blade on a tree and found it a dozen or so yards from where he had expected it to land. He snatched it out of the trunk and placed it in his pouch.
The sound of a twig snapping and leaves rustling made him jump into the tree and look down. Three humanoid wolves ran out sniffing the air. They stood upright and were covered in bone armor around their backs, arms, and face. Sasuke narrowed his eyes on one as it sniffed some more and then looked up at him. He dashed down on it and removed its head with a quick slash from his kunai. It dropped over and turned to ash before it fully touched the soil. The other two turned and swung. Sasuke ducked under the first swing and jumped over the second. He tossed kunai into the back of their skulls. The force was enough to get through the armor. One died, the other turned slowly, ignoring death and lunged at him. Sasuke rolled backwards with the motion of his jump from earlier and tossed two more. One caught the throat and the other caught the eye. It gave a whimpering cry as death took it.
Grabbing his kunai up he heard the sound of air being sliced and ducked under something that went speeding over his head. He heard a cry and twisted. One of the bushes produced a Grimm with one of his kunai in its head. Sasuke jerked around and he saw his partner. They made eye contact and for a moment Sasuke was cursing himself as it wasn't Jasper. He didn't know this person.
The person had pale skin and pointy ears with two studs in each ear. He had short silver hair, silver eyes and black irises with slitted pupils that reminded Sasuke of Naruto's eyes when using the red power he had. Under his left eye was a sparkling upside down hollowed triangle with another filled in triangle in it and two tears under it. He wore a white long sleeved t-shirt two strings at the top to hold it close under a dark blue jacket with golden designed on it and with the collar popped up and held together by three golden chains. He wore blue cargo pants with shin guards covering his legs and partially covered his snow white combat boots. On his back were two oversized garden sickles painted a dark blue with white spatter patterns over the jagged blades. Sasuke could barely make out that the weapons didn't have normal wooden handles, but rather a metal ring at the base of the blade.
Sasuke blinked and he did as well. "If it makes you feel better," he began with an audible sigh, "you're not the one I wanted to meet out here either."
"You don't look strong." Sasuke mouthed off, returning to his former self for a split second. Before he could correct himself he felt cold steel on his cheek and warm blood slide down his face. A chain whipped by him and he ducked before one of the weapons' came back. Her weapon smacked together and Sasuke was quick to realize that it wasn't just a sickle, but rather a mutated version of a chain-sickle. The handle was the ring and the chains were inside. Sasuke's hand went to his sword and he quickly checked himself. No, he thought bitterly, I'm trying to make a new life out here.
"I'll have you know that I am strong. I'm not some push over. I threw your weapon back to you, didn't I? I even killed the sneaky Grimm that was going to catch you." He put the weapon on his back and cracked his neck. Sizing him up, Sasuke was quick to note that his new teammate wasn't exactly all there. "Also, before you assume anything, I'm a woman."
Blinking, Sasuke wondered if there was any irony there. Maybe there was. This felt familiar to him. Maybe Naruto had told him a story about their first mission. Maybe that was why it felt familiar. "I'm Sasuke."
"Just Sasuke?" She arched a thin brow. Sasuke nodded grimly. She shrugged; something that Sasuke barely registered. She had an aura that made him think she wasn't here. It was odd. He could see her, hear her, but somehow he felt like she wasn't standing in front of him or that his eyes were meant to wonder away. "Persia Zure," she finally said with a groan.
Sasuke had nothing to say. He simply turned and started walking. No point in moving as fast as he could now. He didn't want to leave her behind. She stalked up to him and Sasuke took note that she was just an inch or two taller than he was. The feeling of looking away kept tugging at the back of his mind. It was a strange feeling. He kept starring at her until she finally turned on him and glared. A scream had his hand fly to his sword. Persia took notice of his touch on the weapon and reached for her own. There was a brief moment where they stopped and both glanced back towards the spot they had been launched from. There was a loud scream and suddenly someone went flying overhead.
"Poor bastard," she said with a light chuckle. Sasuke watched him go flying with a narrowed eye. There was a low rumble and the former Uchiha glanced over his shoulder. Trees were parting in a hurry. "We should run," she advised. Sasuke wanted to stay and fight it, but decided that fighting whatever was coming might not work if it could mow down trees. He sprinted after Persia as she jumped out of the trees and made a dash for the stone structures further ahead. Sasuke spied a few people there looking up. He grabbed her shoulder and yanked her to the side. A giant bird was circling overhead. "A Nevermore?" she questioned.
The trees exploded outwards and Pyrrha came running out with a giant scorpion hot on her tail.
Sharingan spinning, Sasuke dashed forward, unsheathed his sword and cut through its back two legs. It screamed loudly and turned on him. Pyrrha turned, her weapon ready and firing. She put a few rounds in its side. Persia flung one of her chain-sickles' at it and let it tear into its side with the greatest of ease. The creature gave a powerful yell and surged forward towards its attackers. Sasuke jumped on top of it and slashed at its head. The stinger came down. Sasuke flipped out of the way and landed beside Persia. She hissed a curse as a little girl in red charge forward at it only to be backhanded away it. She said something Sasuke didn't catch and fired on it with her oversized scythe. It did nothing but anger it. The bird in the sky came back as she started running.
"RUBY!"
Sasuke grunted and looked between the now identified girl and Yang as they raced to each other. The Nevermore came swooping in. It stopped, hovered, and flapped its wings in a powerful show of force, sending dozens of heavy feathers raining down on the two. Ruby's cape was snagged and Yang got trapped. Sasuke started flipping through seals to get the scorpion's attention when a block of ice formed in front it and froze the stinger and one claw in place. Weiss appeared with her rapier stabbed in the ground where the ice formed. She said something to Ruby and then walked off. Yang and Ruby embraced.
"Sasuke!" Jasper's voice rang out. He turned and saw him waving him over. "Relics! Right here!"
Sighing, he marched over to his friend. He was a little worse for wear, but he seemed okay for the whole twenty some odd hours he'd known him. Another group had already arrived and was looking around, some holding pieces. The black haired girl that had been reading the book in the dark made eye contact with him and then hastily turned away, annoyance and fear flashing across her face. Nora was doing the pee dance beside her friend she had bugged earlier this morning and the blond haired boy that wore white armor was there as well. He carried a sword at his side.
Persia walked forward and examined the relics. "Chess pieces?" she asked curiously. Jasper nodded, unsure himself.
"We took the pony!" Yang explained, showing her proud little golden pony off to the group. Nora started singing about a castle and how she was queen or something. "I'm Yang by the way."
"Persia Zure," she replied with a frown. "I'm a woman by the way."
"Really?" The black haired girl asked with a roll of her eyes.
"Most people think I'm a guy."
Sasuke marched up to the pieces and looked them over. Persia snatched up a golden Bishop. "Not going to put it to a vote with your teammate?" Jasper inquired. Sasuke noticed he was holding the same piece as well. Persia raised said piece as if to ask silently for approval. Sasuke shrugged. She shrugged back and put it in one of her pockets. "Do you talk via shrugs and silent grunts or something? Sasuke, you might have a competitor here for being social awkward now."
"Leave her alone," Sasuke defended, unhappy at being forced to speak on behalf of his teammate. While he would have rather had Jasper as a teammate, he was willing to at least humor Persia. It wasn't like he didn't like her already. She cut him and threw one of his weapons back at him, killing something he had missed. That at least spoke something about her skills… right? "Where's your partner or did you get here on your own?"
"I'm here," a voice said with a loud groan. Sasuke looked around and spied a teenage boy leaning sitting on the steps to the temple.
This was not what Sasuke had expected when he looked at the person in question. He wore black hakama pants with silver shin guard and black opened toed sandals. A white sash with four fist sized gems covered it with the excess from the sash coming down to his knees in twin lines. It was hard to tell if what he wore was connected to his shirt or not, but from his hips to the center of his chest was a black leather that looked like it might have been part of a bodysuit once and was connected to a fishnet styled shirt with no sleeves. His left forearm was covered in tape and his right forearm was covered in a white claw gauntlet that covered his entire hand and stopped right at his elbow with two small hooks facing backwards at the elbow and three more pointed forward towards the wrist. He wore a leather collar and had a bone necklace wrapped around his neck with teeth dangling from it. His hair was shaggy and a rich brown, matching his skin color. But what really made him stand out wasn't his choice of attire, it was the two pointy ears on the top of his head, one with a bite mark and the other with a stud bolted into it.
"Name is Robin Emert. Call me Emert." He extended a hand. Persia took it without much thought. He smiled weakly towards her. She turned her noise up at him. "So you're Sasuke…" The Sharingan user cast a quick glance at Jasper. Said man was talking with the others. "Jasper said you were young… You don't look it."
"My age has nothing to do with how tall I am." Sasuke wanted to smack Jasper. Smiling at his reflection in a mirror was not going to make him forget this day.
"Persia Zure," she released her grip on Emert's hand and returned to Sasuke's side. "We should go. We have what we came for," she said in a whisper. Sasuke looked over the group before him. They were discussing something. "Traveling as one big group will get us all killed," she warned.
"I'll take my chances," Sasuke replied quietly. He moved to the group, for once feeling at home. Jasper and Emert walked up beside him, both looking at the sky. "So what's the plan?"
"Guys, that thing is circling back." The blond haired boy in armor warned. "What are we going to do?"
"Look," Weise began, suddenly not sounding like someone with something up their butt, "there's no since in dillydallying. Our objective is right in front of us." Weiss explained.
"She's right," Ruby followed up. "Our mission is to grab and artifact and make it back to the cliff. There is no point in fighting these things."
"Run and live," the boy asked with an air of acceptance. "That is an idea I can get behind."
Ruby and the blond haired boy moved up to the last few remaining artifacts and grabbed one each. Ruby took the golden knight piece while the other took the rook piece.
"Time we left," Nora's green shirted friend suggested. The scorpion pulled hard on the ice in an attempt to break free. It was getting closer to achieve its goal.
"Right!" Ruby took a deep breath and started running. "Let's go!"
Sasuke bolted and ran to the front of the group. He kept an eye on the bird as it soared over head. He glanced back and spied the others tailing behind him with only Ruby able to keep up with him. The ground trembled and Sasuke jumped up into the branches and then above the trees. The trees were being pushed down by something from the west. The tree line was in sight. He stopped on the top of a tree and formed a minor fire jutsu to ignite the forest in the hopes that it would stop whatever was heading their way.
The Nevermore screeched. Sasuke looked up at it as it began heading for the cliff where more ruins were built over a ravine. Sasuke narrowed his eye and formed his Sharingan. He could make out its muscle movements. He grinned, happy to know his Sharingan would at least give him that edge over the creatures as he dropped down beside the others.
"Trouble up ahead!" he told them.
"There is something else heading this way!" Weiss added. Sasuke hoped his fire was enough to keep it from getting closer to them. They passed the tree line and broke into groups. Weiss moved to the black haired girl. Sasuke moved with Persia to take cover behind some stone pillars with Nora and her green shirted friend. Jasper took cover with Pyrrha and the blond haired boy while Emert moved beside Ruby and Yang.
The Nevermore flew over them all and landed on the tallest building by the cliff that they needed to get to. "Well that's great!" Yang snapped.
The ground quacked and the scorpion came charging out. "Oh man! Run!"
Sasuke and Persia turned and glanced at it. It was running for the group. Nora and her friend ran out while she got an order to distract the bird. She pulled her weapon from her back and started firing large rounds at the bird. Sasuke charged the scorpion, sword drawn and ready for blood. He blinked out of existence and appeared on top of it, his sword cleaving its way through its armor. It kept running for Nora. The two dark haired teen jumped up and cut up its face, stunning it momentarily, giving Weiss time to grab Nora and jump away. The bird screeched and suddenly the earth trembled as another creature appeared. It was a giant black pig just a bit bigger than the scorpion.
"Run for the bridge!" Pyrrha shouted. Sasuke looked back at the group as they made their way to the bridge and then back to the pig. It hadn't made a choice on what to do just yet.
Deciding to run for the bridge, Sasuke bolted and ran as fast as he could. He dropped the last of his paper bombs at the legs of the scorpion. They detonated in a ball of fire that sent flames shooting skyward. The scorpion emerged with minor burns. Sasuke didn't bother to look back. He glanced to his left and saw the bird coming in. He ran hard when he saw Persia stop and try to turn back. She was too slow and the Nevermore crashed into the bridge, splitting the group apart. Sasuke grabbed Persia before gravity took her for a ride off the bridge and threw her back to it as he fell off the side. Jasper screamed for him and thrust his weapon down. The raven haired youth snatched it up as felt gravity do its work as his hands almost slipped on the weapon. Jasper hit the ground and fell off the edge but a quick hand from the black haired girl caught his ankle. She struggled to pull them up.
"Throw me at the cliff!" Sasuke ordered.
"What? I can't throw you that far!" Jasper shouted.
Sasuke looked past him and to the black haired girl. "Do it or we both fall! Or worse, we take her with us!" Jasper hissed and screamed at the black haired beauty. He called her Blake. She started rocking back and forth. Sasuke took a deep breath and waited until he was well within range to land on the cliff high enough up and not fall to his death before letting go. Blake, free from the weight, was able to yank Jasper to the safety of the bridge. Once he was up she joined him at the side and saw Sasuke running straight up the cliff with his sword drawn. "I'll hold off the pig! You guys deal with the scorpion!"
"Are you for real?!" Jasper screamed and looked at the Deathstalker. "He's gotta be kidding?! Right?" Blake had no answer for him. "Damn it! Emert! We gotta help Sasuke!" Emert was on the other side of the bridge with Nora and the other boy. "Jaune, you okay over there?!" Jaune gave a mock thumbs up as he looked down at the ravine and then to the others. Blake flew across Jasper's field of vision and he turned back to the scorpion. "Damn it all!" He pulled his weapon up and howled like a man possessed. "Before I go save my friend I'm taking something from you!" He swung his weapon, much to the surprise of everyone given that he was rather far away from it all. A tendril of violet energy snapped out of the third link in his weapon and shot forward in a wide arc. It caught the Deathstalkers' mandible and with one hard tug, it ripped right off. "If you don't kill this thing before I'm done saving Sasuke, I'm going to rip something out of it again!"
He stormed off after the former Uchiha, slapping the Deathstalker a few times as he did, slicing through armor and bashing in another section of it as he did.
Emert looked down and then to Jaune. "They need help," Jaune told him.
"Then let's do this!" Nora cheered, happy to be having fun. She might not have been the brightest, but she was certainly having fun slaying these monsters. If she rode in on an Ursa then she was clearly either really good or really crazy. Emert was thinking crazy.
"Yeah… but… I can't make that jump!" Jaune confessed. Nora smiled and knocked him back with her weapon as it began shifting from a grenade launcher to an oversized hammer. Once it was finished, she ran forward, despite protest from Jaune, jumped, turned, and slammed her weapon of choice into the end of the bridge, effectively making it a mock catapult that propelled both Jaune and Emert over the gap and towards the scorpion. Nora put one foot on her hammer, pivoted, pulled the trigger, and sailed for the Deathstalker, all while having a smile on her face.
"Smash!" she exclaimed as she brought her weapon down on its face, nearly crushing it into oblivion. When the stinger came down, she pulled the trigger again and propelled herself away, knocking Blake down. She righted herself as she fell and managed to land on the Nevermore, slashing at is as she ran along its back until she was able to join the others. Emert passed by the scorpion uncontested and saw Persia running along the stone pillars.
"Any ideas?" he asked hopefully.
"Hit it till it dies," she confessed in a state of annoyance. What else was there to do on something that big?
Emert laughed loudly as he ran past Jasper and Sasuke. His gauntlet covered fist was pulled back and unleashed as soon as he was within striking distance. An echoing boom resonated through the air and the creature's front leg exploded from behind in a bloom of blood, meat, and bone. It screamed, raised its damaged leg and brought it down on him. Emert proved to be fast and avoided while back hand springing away to safety as Jasper and Sasuke ran in with their weapons. Jasper swung his over his head and dropped it down on its face as he fell from the sky. Sasuke sliced up the damaged leg, hoping to cleave it in two.
A set of silver arrows flew through the sky and struck its face. Sasuke jerked around and saw Persia with her weapons combined into one large bow. Arrows materialized from the white spackles on her weapons. Each show she fired was fast and true; driving straight through hardened armor on the creature and tasting flesh. With each new arrow its movements began to slow, its reactions deadening, until finally it could hardly move.
Sasuke jumped up with his sword poised for a killing stab. It jerked up, alarming the Sharingan user. He braced, landed gracefully on its face and drove his sword through flesh and felt at ease. It roared and suddenly returned to a normal pace. Sasuke held on with chakra gluing him to the surface of its face and his hands on his sword. It jerked its head to the far left and then whipped it to the right. The force threw Sasuke away and sent him sailing for the other side of the cliff where he hit with a resounding thud. Grunting, he looked around from his spot on the wall and noticed that the others were working in teams of four to fight each monster. Ruby, Yang, Weiss, and Blake were tackling the oversized bird while Pyrrha, Nora, and the other two that Sasuke hadn't caught the names of were facing the scorpion. His three companions were facing the oversized pig.
His Sharingan spun wildly as he looked at his team and noticed that the pig was about to start spinning. Its path was clear to Sasuke. He flipped from some seals, brought his handers together and spat a fireball the size of the scorpion at the pig. It impacted and knocked it out of its roll before it could travel towards his companions. The pig was singed, but okay. Grunting, Sasuke flipped through a few more seals as he sat down on the cliff. The sound of birds chirping erupted from his hand as it became covered in lightning. Growling, he dragged his hand along the cliff face and then ran down it. The Nevermore soured within his line of sight and he jumped at it, landing on its wings and dragging the Chidori along its back before jumping as high as he could and coming down on the pig, his chakra infused arm punching a clean hole in its side. The resulting damage was more than satisfying as the hole he created from the force of his attack was roughly as big as he was.
Pulling his arm out, he jumped up and ran along its back as his Chidori sputtered into nothing and ran for his sword. The pig wobbled, but remained upright as Sasuke grabbed it and dragged it through its flesh before jumping off its snot and landing behind Jasper. He readied his weapon and swung it, once more generating a tendril of energy that latched onto a piece of its body. He smiled and tugged, ripping out its eye in gory fashion. This time there was only an enraged scream from the creature. Emert dashed forward and jumped up on its snout and palmed it in its forehead. The entire creature frozen and then its forehead busted open like a coconut. It hauled with such rage.
Emert jumped off and ran backwards as Persia put more arrows in its form. She aimed for the exposed brain and muscle. Her arrows struck and disappeared inside its flesh. It curled up on itself and whimpered. Sasuke and Emert jumped up again and both slammed against the brain. Emert using his gauntlet covered first. Sasuke stabbed it with his sword. Both dug dip into its soft brain. Emert laughed and suddenly there was a beam of red light that erupted from its jaw going into the ground. Emert yanked his arm out, covered in grim and smoke. Sasuke ripped his sword out of it and heard Persia and Jasper call out to them.
Grabbing Emert, Sasuke jumped off and both landed far away as Jasper once again created a tendril of energy. It caught a piece of its brain. He pulled hard and ripped out a chunk of it with a smile. Persia put more arrows into the brain, but they were red this time around. With more empty space inside it, her accuracy was unknown. A loud bang sounded from within and the other eye of the creature exploded out of its socket. It took three steps and then started running at them. Sasuke hissed as he ran as fast as he could for the two. He tackled Jasper to the ground and away from harm. Persia broke her weapon back to its split form and flung one away from the creature. She pulled herself far away and landed beside Pyrrha and her team as the scorpion fell to its death.
The large Grimm stopped charging, turned, and began spinning like a ball in motion. Sasuke appeared in front of Pyrrha as he finished his seals and spat a large stream of fire at the creature. It stopped in its tracks as it was set ablaze again. This time it flopped on its stomach and whimpered. Crouching, Sasuke prepared another Chidori. He dragged it along the ground as he ran towards the creature. When it began to get up, Jasper and Emert knocked it down with a few powerful blows. Persia slowed its movements down with her chain-sickles, leaving an icy touch wherever she hit it. Within range, Sasuke screamed and drove his Chidori home through its chest. He yanked his arm out, jumped to its mouth as he flipped through a few more seals and released a torrent of flames right down its gullet.
Jasper jumped over his head and slashed at the neck where it began to heat up. His weapon wasn't meant for cleaving, but superheated flesh wouldn't stand a chance against it. His weapon cleaved through the flesh and bone and suddenly the Grimm stopped moving and its head rolled along the ground. Sasuke canceled his fire jutsu and gasped for air as his first friend dropped down in front of him with a smile.
"Not bad!" he exclaimed, patting him on the back. Sasuke winced. He could feel something sharp in his shoulder. A stone might have gotten him pretty good when he hit. "That was a smart move to just breathe fire down its throat. I don't think we were going to get it, what with it missing most of its brain and all that."
"How'd it survive with most of it gone?" Emert wondered. Persia shrugged and put her weapons on her back. The others turned and watched as the giant Nevermore was being pulled up the cliff by Ruby and her scythe. When she reached the top, a few more shots were fired and its head came cleave off. Slack jawed and wide eyed, the others all chuckled. Jaune said something that Emert didn't catch and said, "Remind me to never fight that little girl. I don't know wanna fight someone that can run up a cliff dragging a giant bird."
Keeping all thoughts to himself, Sasuke agreed. That was impressive. The group walked to the edge where the bridge had been destroyed and looked to the other team. Jaune gulped. Jasper picked him up and threw him. Nora put the hammer end of her weapon on the soil and propelled herself with the recoil from the gun part as it was fire. The others jumped across or used their weapons to rip them to the other side. Once they were all joined up, they looked to the cliff and Yang asked, "So I guess we climb out way up," much to the annoyance of Jaune. "Oh man up, Jaune. If you're slow enough, you'll see up Weiss's dress."
"Combat skirt!" Weiss corrected, paused, and then added, "And if you look up my skirt, I will stab you," before grabbing hold of the first set of rocks to begin her ascent. Jaune released a low groan as he started climbing as well. Sasuke and Emert jumped up the cliff. Persia flung her weapons up and pulled herself up. Jasper joined Jaune and Nora as they climbed up the side of the cliff. Once everyone was up they all shared a laugh as Jaune was the last one to arrive. "We're almost there," Weiss told them.
Sasuke jumped over her head and into the tallest tree. "What do you see?" Pyrrha asked.
Sasuke looked down at her and then back up. He could see down her shirt. Good view… if he were a pervert. He looked ahead and smiled. He could see the main cliff where they were launched from. He dropped down and pointed ahead. "We're almost there. It's just another kilometer ahead of us." Weiss whined about being proven wrong. "You didn't know where we were. You pointed that way," he informed her patiently, pointing to the west. "We need to go south."
Weiss glared at him. Ruby took the lead with Jaune as they started running for their destination. They encountered no more Grimm. Sad as it was, they were quick to notice that they were not the first ones to make it back to the cliff. Glynda put away her scroll and Ozpin gave them a joyful smile at their arrival. The six pairs presented their artifacts. Ozpin took them and had them write their names down for good measure before giving them all permission to return to the academy to get cleaned up and rest. Sasuke remained behind and looked in the direction of Vale for a moment.
"You can see him tonight once we've selected the teams, Sasuke." Ozpin told him. The former Uchiha nodded his thanks and departed when he heard Jasper called out for him. Glynda moved beside him and gave him a questioning look. "He's worried about his friend, Glynda. It's alright if he goes to see him. He won't do anything to him." Glynda didn't seem to believe him, but wasn't about to argue with him. "Time to go over the battle data and see where they all stand."
(-)
Sasuke exited the shower and shut his eye. A towel wrapped around his waist, he returned to his locker and grabbed his civilian clothing. He was quick to get dressed and huffed once he noticed his headband was inside the locker. He ran his hand over the scratch mark before putting it inside and shutting the door. He found the others all talking and eating in the cafeteria. Jasper waved him over. Sasuke looked to the line where people were getting food and then to his first friend. Jasper laughed and Sasuke rolled his eye as he joined them.
Sasuke caught the tail end of, "…bitten into a few years ago by a dog," from Emert. He pointed to his ear that had the bite mark. "I had more earrings in the other ear but through my training I lost them or got them ripped out." He glanced at Sasuke and noticed that the former Uchiha was looking around strangely. "Dude, seriously, that was impressive. How'd you breathe fire, anyways? That was seriously awesome."
Blinking, Sasuke turned his gaze on the Faunus and said, "It was part of my training when I was younger." He kept his answer short and to the point.
"What about you?" Pyrrha asked Jasper. "How do you that thing with your weapon?"
Jasper downed his glass of water with a healthy laugh as he wiped some of the liquid from his lips. "I use a dust crystal in the center piece. It conducts its power through both ending links so I could use it from both ends. It's the only real ability I could say I have with dust. I'm not that good at using it like Ms. Schnee over here." He pointed to the heiress. She felt proud to hear that, even if it was coming from someone she deemed a barbarian. "I learned how to use it to steal first and then I learned how to use it to rip things off monsters. I could have ripped that Nevermores' heart out of its chest if I had fought it, but sadly I was fighting the oversized pig." He gave a small shrug and laughed when Weiss had a look of horror on her face to his first uses with his ability. "It's not nice where I used to live, lady. It's a messy word out there. For me and my family, it was kill or be killed."
"Still," Blake said sharply, her book now on the table, "using your power to steal is just wrong."
"If it's the only way you know how to live, then it is okay in my books," Persia defended. Yang messed with her hair as she tried to stay out of the argument. Changing conversations, Persia glanced at Jaune and said, "So how the view when you were climbing up?" Weiss glared at Jaune, accusing him of wrong doing.
"I didn't look up your skirt!" Jaune said in mild panic. Pyrrha giggled. "But what do you mean by that?"
Yang grinned. "She's asking if you enjoyed looking down my shirt." Jaune laughed nervously. Pyrrha looked a little ashamed of Jaune and then took notice of Sasuke looking at her. "Pyrrha," Yang called out, "it's not like I care. Besides, you're doing it too. You bend over and you're giving anyone a good view."
"Well I suppose you're right." Pyrrha sighed in defeat. Her clothing was for practical use. Not for over equalization of her form. "Ren," she began, getting his attention. Sasuke noted that the green shirted man was Ren. He hadn't really spoken to him yet or gotten his name until now. "How is your back? You took a pretty hard hit earlier. Is everything okay?"
"I'm fine," he confessed to which Nora happily demonstrated by slapping his back. He winced and looked at her with a hurt expression. "I'm okay until you hit me, that is."
"Sorry," Nora apologized with a high pitch in her voice. She giggled and looked at the others. She pointed as Sasuke's missing eye and asked, "How'd you lose your eye? Was it to a bird? Maybe you were fighting some Beowolfs! No!" She thought for a moment. Sasuke was sure he could see a few gears turning in her head and smoke coming out of her ears as she tried to think of a better explanation. "You wanted to be the cool guy and ripped your own eye out to be the cool guy." She said that in such a low voice, with such a dark and twisted face that Sasuke shivered.
"No," he confessed sharply. "I lost my eye to a fight with a friend of mine during a sparring session. I never really wanted to get it replaced." That was a thing, right? Konoha had medics that could take someone else's eye and shove it into your socket and make it work perfectly. Kakashi was proof of that. No one said anything to challenge him and started talking amongst themselves again. His eye turned on Ruby as she started fawning over their weapons. "You're a little avid about weapons, aren't you?"
Ruby looked sheepish as she pulled her Crescent Rose and hugged it. "I built it myself and fancy all other weapons. So… yeah… I guess I am a little eccentric when it comes to weapons."
"You built that?" Ren questioned. He pulled his own weapons out and looked them over for a moment. "I bought mine from the Schnee Company and then modified their blades on them so that they were longer. That's about as far as my knowledge on these things go." He looked at Nora and then shuddered. "Nora just… well… she got her weapon from her trainer. They just gave it to her when she broke all of the other weapons they had. Said that if she ever broke that weapon, she'd get a new one. She hasn't broken it yet."
"Still trying!" she chimed happily.
Sasuke gave a timid smile before Ozpin came over the intercom, calling all first year students. Sasuke got up and started walking with his hands in his pockets. They all marched into the main chamber where they had all heard Ozpin give his speech the other day. There were more people this time around and from different grades. Jasper and Sasuke were quick to spot Coco and Velvet as they happily waved to them.
"V sure seems happy about this?" Jasper told him in a whisper. He waved back to her. She stopped waving and looked to Ozpin.
The former Uchiha wanted to inform him that she was happy to see them together and probably knew something that they didn't, but kept his mouth shut on the matter. The thought of the teams and how they worked came back to Sasuke and he tried to figure out how it would work. Obviously this was a more simplified method rather than what they had back home. Sasuke was only paired with Naruto and Sakura because he excelled all around while Sakura had the highest grades for all knowledge based tactics and skills. Naruto was the dead last, so they evened out the team by reason that the one who did the worst should be paired with the ones who did the best with the goal that they would work together to fix the others' problem. But this seemed more… choice based than anything.
"Let me be the first to say that your ability to complete your mission was a stunning success. None of you failed to grab and artifact, find a teammate, and come back. Your combat abilities were noted, looked over, and we have decided who to pair everyone with. Though you all already chose who your teammates would be by the pieces your selected, it gives me great pride to announce that one of each member will be the leader of their team." Ozpin could see several faces light up in joy. The students all clapped.
"Now," Glynda took the stage, her scroll in hand, "your leader will be someone that we will feel is capable of leading your teams, making the hard choices, and someone that has shown great talent in commanding and leading their teams already. Some of you worked well together without needing to say much. Some of you came up with daring plans that put you in the greatest of danger. And some of you were able to assess a situation and act accordingly to the tools and skills of your teammates during your encounters."
"So it is with great pride that we call upon you students now to inform you of your teams." Ozpin took a deep breath and began calling them up. Sasuke ignored him and touched his scroll. It pulsed and he could feel Naruto's heart beating. He set it vibrate and felt strength and sorrow in knowing that after today Naruto would no longer be on his team. He would be part of his former team. "Aera Jasper, Robin Emert, Sasuke, Persia Zure… The four of you took the white bishop pieces." The four, upon hearing their names, slowly marched up the steps and took their spots in front of Ozpin. "From this day forward, you will be known as Team JASPER, led by Sasuke." The former Uchiha blinked. Ozpin smiled. "Congratulation son… You earned it."
Jasper slapped Sasuke's back and smiled at his team. The others shared a big smile and moved off the stage as the next team was called. Velvet greeted them and gave them both hugs. "I'm so happy you're on the same team," she gushed. Coco removed her glasses and nodded her approval to the group. "Too bad you're not leading them, Jasper, but I guess Sasuke outdid you."
"I'm a follower, not a leader." Jasper joked. He patted Sasuke on the shoulder and added, "He did all the dangerous stuff anyways. All did was beat our enemies down with my weapon. I beat them all black and blue." He laughed when he heard that Jaune was leading Team JNPR and again when Ruby was announced as the leader for Team RWBY. "Nice to see that our friends got some good leaders too. This is going to fun four years."
Persia rolled her eyes. "I don't share your sentiment, but, it does look like it'll be fun." She clapped when Ozpin finished his speech. "I'm going to bed. They said they'd give us a dorm room now for all four of us." She took two steps and looked back at her team. "If you even think of pepping on me, I will stab you." She marched off. Emert laughed, accepting the challenge and stalked after her. Sasuke and Jasper remained.
Ozpin finished his speech and Sasuke left. Jasper started to follow but Velvet pulled him back and started spouting off things to him. The last he saw of Sasuke for the night was his retreating form heading out the doors.
(-)
The steady beeping of the heart monitor was the only sound Sasuke needed to hear. He sat in two of the chairs that were provided for him as he watched his now former partner sleep in the medical bed. In his left hand he held his old headband and rubbed the scratch mark Naruto had left on it when they fought. He had thought about throwing it away, but Naruto would never let him live that down if he did that. So he decided to keep it and leave it here with him. Ozpin promised him that nothing of Naruto's would be lost.
The door hissed open as Sasuke put the scratched headband on the table beside Naruto's bed. Ozpin walked in with his head lowered. "Why did you make me team leader?"
The door shut. Ozpin looked to the sleeping boy in the bed. "I would like to say I did it to further help you change and make you a better person. I would like to say I'm doing it because I believe this would help you accept who you are. But," he moved beside Naruto as he continued to sleep, "I did it because you were willing to risk your life for your teammates. You didn't order them to do anything. You did what you thought was best to protect them. You knew that Blake couldn't hold the two of you up, so you had him throw you at the cliff. You knew that the Grimm you faced was going to run everyone over and you placed yourself in danger just to stop it and save them. You went to the mouth of the beast and challenged it, knowing full well that you would die if it simply lurched forward and bit you. You did all of that because you wanted to protect them and that was why I made you their leader. I made you there leader because you put their lives ahead of your own."
Sasuke faced him finally and Ozpin could see blood tears falling down his cheek. Sasuke whipped the blood tear away and said, "I did that for them because I never did it for him or our other teammate. I was always focusing on my survival." He stopped and knew he'd lied. "I did do it for him… once. On our a first mission I threw myself in front of someone that was going to kill him and took the shot for him while also beating back our enemy. I lived, but I mocked him for being weak. I told him I didn't know why I did what I did."
"You did it because that's what teammates do for each other. I don't except you to do it every time they're in danger. I don't expect you to be able to save every life that crosses your path. I believe that everyone can only do so much. If you have to watch a hundred people die to save a hundred and one people, then it's a win. Are those numbers wrong from a humane standpoint; yes. But it's the truth. That's a truth you know far too well. I can see it in your eye." Sasuke looked at his blond haired friend as he thought about that. "I'm not going to ask you to look after your team. But you're the leader now. You have a responsibility to be there for them. What's the old saying? Friends are people that come rushing in when you're in trouble? Perhaps you should consider that for a moment." Noticing that Sasuke was more fixated on his sleeping friend, Ozpin took a deep breath before moving towards the door. "You have class in the morning. Do try to not stay here all night."
Sasuke nodded and sat back down. Ozpin left. Sasuke put his head against the wall and shut his eyes. He could see them now. He could see Sakura being happy with them. He could see Naruto being grumpy about standing next to him. And he could see Kakashi with his hands on their heads and a smile in his eye. What were they like now? What was Sakura doing? Was she crying of their loss? What was Kakashi doing? Was he considering himself a failure for not being able to stop this from happening?
His mind drifted for a long time before he finally got up and left. Before the door shut he cast one last glance at the headband on the table before leaving. He wasn't a member of Team Seven anymore. He was a member and leader for Team JSPR.
A/N
And there you have it. Sasuke has a team and he's their leader. Before anyone assumes that I put Sasuke in charge because he's Sasuke and it should be like that, I did that for the reasons above. There as a time when Sasuke did everything for his team. He showed this in his fight against Kill Bee when he rescued Karin from his black flames. So keep that in mind that he does have a heart and right now he's trying to be the better person. The reason that I used Jasper's last name rather than his first is because on his transcript he would have put the name he goes by. So even though it reads Aera Jasper on his transcript, he put his main name as Jasper, and thus, he got that name. Robin Emert didn't fill out the slot and thus will be refered to be both his first and last name. So that's why is their team name is JSPR.