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Chapter 9

Naruto glared at the man in front of him. He was shifty and didn't like him. The man had a pleasured smile at his expression. Sasuke said the man helped him and was the only reason Naruto was capable of getting the medical attention he got while he slept, so Naruto was sort of at his mercy in terms of a debt that he would clearly need to pay.

Sasuke sat in a medical bed with bandages covering his chest and arms. Their fight had taken a lot out of the former Uchiha and the damage done to him was not something they could heal overnight. They also didn't have the healing arts that the people of Konoha had. They were stuck with crude and long waiting healing methods. Sasuke said he'd be fine, just like how the doctor said he'd be fine. Naruto had his doubts on the matter but was in no position to really argue. Sasuke did say that he wished he had Naruto's healing ability. Naruto doubted he meant the healing ability part of that.

The door behind the man parted and in stepped a woman with blond hair and a cap. She was talking on some sort of a device before she snapped it together and took a seat beside the man.

"Sorry I was late," she said unhappily. "Reports are calling in wanting an answer to the attack and what we intend to do about it since it was the second one this month."

"Well that one was caused by someone transporting Grimm into the city with a bullhead," Sasuke told her. He winced he tried to move his arm. Naruto had broken most of the bones in Sasuke's arm during their fight. The former Uchiha had fought through the pain the entire time before it finally caught up to him. "Naruto, this is Glynda and the other is Ozpin. They're two of the people that helped you recover during your stay at the hospital."

Naruto squinted his eyes on them. Ozpin's smile grew.

"I know you haven't been awake for long," Ozpin started. He adjusted his glasses as they threatened to slip off his face. Naruto nodded slowly. "So I'll keep this as brief as I can. I'm sure you must have an endless set of questions, but I ask that you wait to ask Sasuke about them. I am a busy man and while I do enjoy the thought of being able to speak with you further, the Grimm attack has my top priority as I must figure out who was transporting them into the city."

When Naruto didn't reply, Ozpin took a deep breath and started. "First, let me say that I am the headmaster of this Academy. I train huntsman and huntress to fight the creatures of Grimm and carry out missions that our clients want dealt with. We are more than simple soldiers. We are a fighting force meant to keep the peace and the world safe from more than just the Creatures of Grimm. As headmaster, I have say on who may or may not join my school. I would hope you don't answer quickly to this, but I wish to extend to you an invitation to join it. I know you are very far away from home and I give you this offer knowing that at some point you may find your way back home. Until such time, I wish for you to become a part of something more. I would like nothing more than to have you join my school."

"And if I decline?"

Ozpin smiled. "I wouldn't think less of you. This is a big thing. Sasuke said you would want to go home when you woke up. I've been working with others to try and find a way to get you back, but sadly, all my attempts have turned up nothing so far. If and when I do find a way to get you back, I will send you there if you still want to go home."

"Ozpin," Sasuke's voice was quiet. "Can you give us a minute? I need to talk to him in private." Glynda looked at him sternly as if she was silently warning him to think about his next set of actions. Ozpin nodded and tapped his cane before walking out. Glynda followed, albeit slowly. Once the door clicked shut, Sasuke exhaled and looked at his friend. "You are really stubborn and a handful when you're angry. I don't think you fought as hard last time to beat me."

"I was trying to break every bone in your body so I could drag you back to the village. Killing you was the furthest thing on my mind at the time."

"Is it on your mind now?" Naruto stared him down. Sasuke closed his eye and laid back down. "You can't go back to the village."

"Why?"

"Think of how much time has gone by."

"So? People are gone on long term missions all the time. Don't you remember our first mission out of the village? We were gone for about a week. Ero-Sennin was out of the village for months before he came back and started training me! So what if we've been gone a few months."

"It won't be that simple for either of us."

"Yes it will!"

"No it won't!" Sasuke huffed and felt his entire body start to ache. He was getting too worked up. This wasn't how he wanted it to go. He was hoping for something better. He shut his eye and took a deep breath. "It won't work the same way as it does for them, Naruto. I left the village to get power. If the others already returned to the village, what do you think that'll mean for you if you randomly show up with me over your arm with a missing eye? We both know what'll happen if we go back."

"Yeah! Sakura and everyone else will be happy to have you back and we start going on missions again."

"It won't work like that." Naruto opened his mouth to say something but Sasuke cut him off. "I know what'll happen to us. They'll read our minds and discover what happened. Say we go back in two months. You'll be slightly different, but probably not by much. I'll return with only one eye, my weapons, and not slung over your shoulder. You'll return with new weapons and probably act slightly different. So they'll read our minds and discover this place. But it's worse because in the end we'll be dooming Sakura."

"What do you mean?"

Sighing, Sasuke looked at the ceiling. He could see it all happening in his minds' eye. Sakura would be thrown in jail for conspiring with a traitor or killed. Either way, they'd make an example of her. She wouldn't be the exception. No matter what strings were pulled to try and lessen it, she didn't have a powerful family behind her. Sasuke could escape most of it, but sadly, he knew that his fate would be worse. They'd chain him up and use him to breed the next generation of Uchiha. He wasn't blind to any of it. He knew it would happen.

He took another deep breath and sat up. "On the night I left she approached me. I think she knew what was happening and wanted to stop me. She told me to stay. I refused. She said she wanted to stay by my side and that she loved me. I told her no. She said she wanted to leave the village with me. She was going to leave the village with me, Naruto, and that makes her a traitor. They'd question it when they read my mind and then turn to her. They'd discover the truth and she would be either executed or thrown in jail Do you think she could survive in jail? I don't think she can."

"You don't know that that's what would happen!"

"Yes I do! Just because you never paid attention in class doesn't mean I didn't. They went over it quiet well during class." Sasuke put a hand on the bridge of his noise. "Look, I'm sorry for yelling at you. I'm sorry for leaving the village. I'm sorry for trying to kill you. But right now, we need to think about what's best for this world since we're stuck here until Ozpin can find a way to send us home. Until then, we need to help them. I know that's what you're good at. I've been trying to be the better person and right now, having you yell at me about something I've been beating myself up about isn't helping. So please… just… try to understand my situation, your situation… and if we ever go back, Sakura's situation. She will die if we return because they will read our minds."

Naruto remained stubborn on the matter. Sasuke knew that deep down Naruto was not going to like this. Well hopefully he'd be better when he met the others.

(-)

"He was insane!"

Yang had her doubts about the whole story. With the exception of Blake, for obvious reasons, no one that wasn't there to see Naruto beat down a literal army of Grimm did not believe the story. It was a hard thing to process that a single person, human or Faunus, could do what this young man did. The very notion of someone with so much strength and speed and endurance was just a myth to someone like Yang. Her father was strong. Ruby was fast. Yang got crazy strong when her Semblance kicked in, but ultimately she was just super strong and had more endurance and toughness than anyone she knew had.

This was why everyone that had seen it was currently retelling the story to them and answering any questions about it. Ruby chimed in with their personal stories about how they killed a really big Ursa, but so far, nothing could really top Naruto ripped a Nevermore the size of the one Ruby killed during initiation clean in half almost. Blake only seemed believing because she actually met Naruto while he was still asleep and heard about his past from Sasuke. Yatsuhashi and Fox were still coming to terms with what they witness while Jaune was still trying to understand how Nora and Aurora could do no damage to him while he was still an enemy. Everyone else just seemed willing to accept the reality of someone being so absurdly powerful that his scream could generate shockwaves, he could sent out large specter hands to crush enemies or stop them in their tracks, move so fast the enemy died before their heads left their necks, and somehow could make a replica of himself that was fully solid and create a glowing orb in the center of his hand that drilled through everything it touched.

It sounded totally logical to them that someone could do all of that.

"So you expect me to believe that this Naruto person could move faster than Ruby?" Weiss asked for what might have been the third time. Ruby was practically drooling at the thought of another speedster. The fact he didn't have a weapon beforehand only made her want to meet him even more. Her mind was practically racing with ideas for weapons for him. Did he even have one? She hoped not. Weiss pinched her cheek when she caught sight of her daydreaming and snapped at her. "Stop daydreaming! This is serious Ruby! This Naruto person just made us, huntresses in training, look like children!"

"And what's wrong with that?" Blake asked. She sat her book down and continued when Weiss looked ready to yell at her. The events at the dock were still fresh in her mind, along with how she basically admitting to not only being a Faunus to them, but also a former member of the White Fang. "We are children, Weiss. No matter what you think we're still children and he just happens to be stronger than us because of how he was trained or raised. I mean, if you stop and think about it, perhaps Sasuke is just as strong as he is and he holds back for our sake."

"Sasuke did go toe to toe with him," Pyrrha told them. Weiss seemed even more unbelieving of the story when Sasuke came into the picture. "But he was a big help and he was terrifyingly powerful. Without his assistance I don't think we would have survived that ordeal. So we owe him a lot right now."

"You're just trying to make him sound better," Yang said with a laugh. When Pyrrha and Coco said nothing, Yang suddenly got the feeling that something was amiss. "What?"

"Our auras were all in the red. We weren't going to last much longer in a fight against those things. Before Sasuke managed to get him on our side, we were about to die to the Grimm." Velvet shivered at the memory of it all. Coco adjusted her glasses and continued. "Despite what you may think about our skills and the difference in skill because we're older, even we were hurt during the fighting. If it wasn't for Naruto's timely arrival, we wouldn't be here. In fact, Sasuke wouldn't be here either. He got him up here in a matter of minutes and the bullhead wouldn't have gotten him here any faster."

Weiss snorted at the very thought of such a thing. Until she saw it in person, she wasn't-

"Hey look!" Nora turned her Scroll around and showed them video that someone had handed over to a reporter. The image of a red aura covered blond haired boy was on screen. He was mauling a Deathstalker with his bare hands. When it tried to grab him with its pinchers, he reached over and tore the arm off. Given a weapon, he stabbed it right into the face of the Grimm and shoved it all the way through to the ground. It died. "See! He is strong!"

Weiss snatched it up as the video footage was replaced with a news reporter talking to a citizen. "I don't know who he was, but he showed up out of the blue and just started ripping the Beowolves a part. They were like… paper to him. He tore them all to pieces."

Another person, this time a Faunus with tusks coming out from the back of his lower jaw took the stage. "He was incredible. I didn't get a good look at him, but I remember he had red slitted eyes and whiskers. It's nice to know that Beacon is training some really skilled Faunus. I'm happy to know that someone like him is using his power to protect us and not hurt us like the White Fang."

Nora snatched it back and closed it. "See! He practically just saved us all and they had footage of him ripping everything apart!"

"I don't think I wanna get hit by this guy," Yang said fearfully. Her aura and Semblance allowed her to take a beating. But if she couldn't get back up from said beating, she wasn't going to return the beating. Yang took a bite out of her apple before noticing that Pyrrha and Coco were looking behind them.

Sasuke was walking with the man in question at his side. The two seemed to be in a heavy discussion about something as the blond was very animated about whatever they were talking about. Sasuke, sporting bandages on his arms and face, walked beside Naruto towards the line for the food court. Naruto wore one of Sasuke's shirt and his dark pants since it was clear he didn't have any after he woke up. Velvet kept her eyes on him as he suddenly stopped being animated about whatever they were talking about to scratch his head and laugh at something Sasuke said.

"He doesn't look like much," Weiss commented dryly.

"Neither do you," Blake fired back. Weiss turned her nose up at the jab and rolled her eyes. Blake watched them get their food and when Sasuke said something else to Naruto, the two paused, had a small talk, and then walked over to their table. Naruto held a large bowl of ramen and Sasuke held a tray with actual food on it. Blake sniffed it and almost drooled as she smelt the fish in the bowl. "How are your injuries, Sasuke?" Blake turned her attention to the former Uchiha. Sasuke raised a bandaged arm and scowled. "I'm sure that they'll let you into the training room for combat practice in a couple of days."

"I'm not really sure I want to do any more fighting after fighting this idiot." Naruto looked between the two with a large amount of noodles in his mouth. Sasuke rubbed the bridge of his nose while saying, "Can you please have some manners, Naruto?" as Naruto slurped up the noodles and gave him an annoyed stare.

"Hey," Naruto jabbed a finger into his chest. Sasuke winced as he was sure his bandages were now getting soaked with blood. "I've been asleep for about three months-"

"Five months!" Sasuke corrected with a hiss.

"-and I haven't had any ramen because of it! I'm eating my ramen and I will not take your shit on manners." He picked up the bowl and started wolfing it down, much to the amusement of Nora. He sat the bowl down and sighed in content. "I'm still hungry."

"You cleaned them out!"

"But I'm still hungry for more!"

"Oh my god," Sasuke put his head on the table. "Five months is all it took for me to forget how degrading your voice can sound when you whine." Velvet and Coco chuckled at Sasuke's plight. Blake had a pleased look on her face at his misery. Too bad Naruto was clearly suffering out this as well. Sitting up straight, Sasuke poked his friend in the head and pointed to the people at the table. "So these are my friends. We all sort of hang out during lunch or in this case: Days where we don't have school."

"Haha! You're going back to school!" Naruto laughed and pointed at Sasuke.

The former Uchiha smiled. "Oh you're joining too. I'm not giving you an option."

"Fuck you! It's my life! I'll do what I want!"

"Did Ozpin give him a choice to join?" Pyrrha asked. This late into the year and they were getting a new student? Sure, there was such a thing as a transfer student from time to time or the occasional student that would leave. A few teams already lost members, either because they didn't like their teammates or because they couldn't handle the pressure of being here anymore. If someone like Jaune could do it, then she was certain that anyone could do it. Jaune tried really hard and got bullied, but he had a team that stuck by him. If they didn't, she feared Jaune might have left before the first week was over.

"That's the guy that spoke to you in the infirmary with me." Sasuke reminded.

"I know that!" Naruto snapped. It was hard to forget a man as shifty as him. Maybe he wasn't shifty? Maybe Naruto was just on edge and still completely pissed about their situation. It didn't help that Sasuke more or less gave Naruto the ultimate ultimatum: Stay here and start over or go back and ruin Sakura's life and your own in the process. Really, if Naruto was a cruel person, he'd go back to the village and just say fuck it before doing his own thing. Sadly, that wasn't an option for him because he wasn't that kind of person and the thought of starting over was a pleasing thought to him.

"I'm just used to you not remember names too well." Sasuke explained. Naruto grumbled. Sasuke coughed and pointed to each person in order. "Naruto, this is Yang, Blake, Weiss, Ruby, Nora, Pyrrha, Jaune, Ren, Emert, Coco, Persia, Yatsuhashi, Fox, Velvet, and Jasper. Ruby leads team RWBY which is comprised of herself, Blake, Yang, and Weiss. Coco leaders team CVFY which is comprised of herself, Velvet, Yatsuhashi, and Fox. Jaune leaders team JNPR, which is Nora, Pyrrha, and Ren. I lead team JSPR, which has Jasper, Emert, and Persia on my team."

"Why isn't your name at the start at of that?"

"Because our team name sounds cooler that way," Emert said with a shit eating grin. Naruto nodded, accepting his reason. "I'll be going back into town in a bit, Sasuke. A friend of mine is here and we're meeting up for the rest of the weekend. So I'll be gone."

"Cool… You wanna help me find him some clothes?" Sasuke jerked a thumb in Naruto's direction. Naruto looked unhappy as he glared at Sasuke's shirt and then sighed inwardly.

"I'd like to, but my friend kind of wants to spend time with me and doesn't like meeting new people."

"Okay then."

"Is it okay if I tag along?" Coco asked. Sasuke thanked the heavens silently as he nodded. Naruto looked at Coco and then to Sasuke as the former Uchiha looked as though a heavy weight was lifted from his shoulders. "I actually started planning for this the moment I got to see him when he was still sleeping in the hospital bed. I'm honored that you'd return to me for my fashion sense."

"My only request is that you don't put him in all orange. Do whatever you want with him. Just don't stick him in a full orange track suit or I will slap you." The smile on his face made it clear he was joking. Coco smiled back, but her smile was more predatory than an actual smile. Velvet trembled a little as she felt her spine shiver.

Naruto glanced between them again and narrowed his eyes before pointing at the sunglass wearing girl. "Are you part of his fan club or something?"

Coco removed her sunglasses slowly. Velvet scooted away and Sasuke shuddered at his own private memories of those days. Thank god those were behind him. Sadly, Naruto was not aware of the new friends Sasuke had and therefore, seeing most of them were females, would obviously assume such was the case. Jasper began cackling while Emert looked lost. Only Blake seemed to get where this was heading and slowly put a book marker in her book before shutting it. She was not going to miss this.

"Fan club, you ask?" Coco tapped her chin in thought. "I'm not part of this fan club that you speak of, but it does have my interest now. Tell me something, did Sasuke have a fan club at one point?"

Sasuke felt his entire world go cold. Coco was not acting how he expected towards the question. In fact, looking at her team, Ruby's team, and even Jaune's team, it was quiet clear that they had all expected a different outcome from Naruto question.

Naruto must have missed it and leaned back with a scowl. "Sasuke had all the girls in our village after him. Even our former teammate was like that. She did everything she could to kiss him and make babies with him. All of the girls were like that the day we started school. He was the guy that everyone wanted to be with. Even a few guys wanted to be with him."

Yang bit her lower lip and asked, "Do you… know how babies are made?" She made sure to word that correctly as Ruby was still very innocent, despite having the capability to practically murder everyone in their school with an oversized gardening tool. Their dad was a very protective person and looked after them with the utmost care. Yang wasn't even sure if Ruby had ever had that talk with their father. She hoped so because Naruto sure didn't strike her as someone who had a lot of tack.

"Yes… It was the one class I paid attention to." Jasper raised a hand towards the blond. Naruto blinked and then slapped it. Jasper chuckled and did the same to Emert. Persia grumbled while shaking her head. "History was boring to me and I suck at math."

"You say you sick at math and yet you never seem to have a problem making more than enough copies to deal with all enemies we encounter," Sasuke pointed out.

"I said I sucked at math. Doesn't mean I suck at it now."

"What's two times three?" Weiss fired off quickly.

"Five."

"You're a dolt!" Weiss told him while returning to buffering her nails.

"Is that the one with the sideways X or the one that goes up and down like normal?" Weiss get buffering her nails. "Damn it! I was asleep for several months. Plus I got dropped my head by someone when we fought last time." Naruto glared at Sasuke.

"It's not like I damaged much of your remaining brain cells anyways." Naruto rolled his eyes and missed the insult. "As much fun as this is," Sasuke stood up, having eaten all of his food in near record time, "I need to get Naruto some clothes and some weapons so he can start attending class. Despite what he just practically went through when he woke up, Ozpin wants to evaluate his combat skills."

"Um… Why?" Jaune asked. Sasuke shrugged. "You do realize that any evaluation done on him at this point would be pointless after he went and wrecked shop with those Grimm, right?"

"I'm still unbelieving of his physical strength…" Weiss told them. "An evaluation would put any naysayers like myself to shame for doubting him and the choice of Ozpin. So, it stands to reason that he would want to quell people like me that doubt this."

"There's video footage of it!" Jaune told her in a loud voice. "I saw it! My whole team saw it! Everyone but your team saw it! I don't even wanna fight him for practice matches he's so powerful." Naruto beamed happiness. Jaune took a calming breath as Pyrrha put a hand on his shoulder. "All I'm saying is that he shouldn't have to go through that when Glynda was there watching it all."

"Well… Maybe they want him to do it because they want to make absolutely certain it wasn't a fluke?" Yang didn't sound too sure of herself when she said that. Naruto shrugged. She flashed him a grin. "Well if you're going to town to get clothes and a weapon, do you two mind of I tag a long? The last day we went into town it didn't end well for us."

"I wanna go too!" Ruby shouted as she jumped to her feet. "I know some good weapon shops we can visit! I'll even help you build one if want it customized!"

"Maybe we should focus on clothes first," Velvet pointed out timidly. Naruto nodded and he once again glared at Sasuke's shirt he was forced to wear. It was either this or their school uniform. No way in hell was he wearing that stuff. That was a reason all on itself to not join their academy. "Would it be alright if I came along as well?"

"Sure," Sasuke walked off. He whistled and Naruto followed.

As soon as the two ninja were gone, Yang started laughing. "Sasuke had a fan club back home?" Jasper and Emert started chuckling into their hands. "I think I wanna talk to Naruto some more about Sasuke. You think he's got any funny stories on him?"

"Lord I hope he does!" Emert said with an evil cackle.

(-)

As soon as everyone was ready to go they were all loaded up onto a bullhead, much to Naruto's utter terror, and were quickly whisked away into Vale. Sasuke was utterly thankful to not be alone with his blond haired friend for this trip. He had expected a few people to come with him, but not all of team RWBY. He could understand why three of them would come, but not Weiss. Aside from that, Jasper decided to remain at their dorm, Emert was only with them since he was going to Vale anyways, and Coco and Velvet were tagging along to help pick out his clothes. Ruby pretty much tagged along to help Naruto find his weapon. Yang was tagging along because she was more than interested in learning any dirty secrets that Sasuke had. Blake was here because… She never gave a reason. And Weiss was here only because she had nothing better to do and secretly wanted to know more about him so that if and when they fought in the tournament, she could best him.

As soon as the bullhead landed, Emert disappeared with a wave.

"I know a good clothing store that's not too far from here," Coco told them as she started marching in the general direction.

Naruto followed mutely while the others all talked about something else. Sasuke made sure to stay at Naruto's side through the whole thing. He was a little angry about his moment with Velvet earlier. Naruto was either really forgetful or really stupid because not ten seconds after getting an explanation for what a Faunus was, he asked why Velvet had bunny ears. Sasuke wanted to slap him or stab him for it. The only silver lining in all of that was that he thought her ears were cute and left it at that. But knowing Naruto as well as he did, he knew that wouldn't be the end of it. Naruto kept periodically looking over his shoulder towards her as she talked with Blake and Ruby about something.

"What's on your mind?"

Naruto's head snapped to Sasuke's and the whisker faced blond grimaced. "Does she have a bunny tail?" Sasuke gave him a flat look. Naruto was generally curious about it. If he was a pervert he'd have gone back and ripped her skirt up to see. As tempted as it was, he wasn't that brave or stupid to do that in public. "I'm being serious."

"I know you are." Sasuke put his hands in his pockets. Funny. He had never thought on it either. He liked Velvet and opted to keep her safe when her team wasn't around but he hadn't ever thought much on other animal features she might have. The thought was fuel to the fire in his mind as he thought more on the bunny girl that he called his friend. "I don't know," he finally answered. He glanced over to his left and saw that Naruto was gone. He panicked and turned around. Naruto was walking beside Velvet and Blake. The two were chatting up a storm with him. Damn it!

Sasuke slowed down until he was walking slightly ahead of them and was within earshot.

"I don't think it's a wise idea to wear all orange," Blake told him sternly. Naruto whined. "For someone that is supposed to be all powerful, why would you tempt fate and wear something that makes you stand out?"

"But she's wearing all white. She stands out!" Naruto pointed at Weiss. He had already forgotten her name, despite learning it twice already.

"Yeah but if we push her in the snow, no one will find her," Yang defended. When she felt Naruto's gaze draw upon her, she fidgeted with her hair and said, "And I like the attention. It makes me easier to be noticed." Blake rolled her eyes when Yang smiled at her. It was a thing that went over Naruto's head, but it didn't stop him from assuming something different.

"Are you two lovers or something?" Blake shot him a glare that could kill while Yang sputtered and lost her cool. Turning his attention to the laughing bunny girl, Naruto asked, "Sorry if I'm being rude, I never got a chance to see many Faunus back home. I don't actually know much about them. But since you have bunny ears… do you have a bunny tail as well?"

Coco came to halt. Everyone stopped and Velvet, suddenly put on the spot, turned a deep shade of red. "That is a…uh…question I'd like answered too. No offense, Velvet." Yang told the bunny girl.

Velvet scratched nervously at her cheek before shaking her head. "Nope… I don't have a bunny tail." Naruto shrugged. He could feel Blake's anger on him. He ignored her. "Why do you have whisker marks? What sort of Faunus are you?"

"I'm not sure I am a Faunus." Naruto remembered what Sasuke told him. The story was that neither of them knew what he was since his parents had him the day they died. With no family and no real way of checking to see what he was, it made it rather hard to determine if he was a Faunus or normal human. Naruto didn't care about what the world saw him as, but with the story Sasuke came up with, it was going to be a tricky road. "Maybe I am and I just don't know it."

"If you were one, what kind do you think you'd be?" Coco asked. She resumed walking.

Naruto clicked his teeth together and thought about it for a split second. "A fox," he blurted out. Sasuke grimaced and looked at him with a little bit of worry. Naruto could hear screaming in the back of his head. Kyuubi was furious with the statement. He didn't think anything about it. "Foxes are cool… They're sly, cunning, smart… They have soft fur. Better than cats…" Naruto watched Sasuke go from annoyed to full on angry with him.

"Why do you say that?" Blake asked.

Naruto put his hands on top of his head and sighed. "One of the first real jobs we did while going to that academy in our home town was go rescue this persons' cat. It was a low ranking thing and we pretty much did it for the bills. But the cat had a terrible owner that would threaten to crush it with how much love she gave it. Tori was the cats' name. Anyways, the cat always hated me. We had to rescue that thing like eight times in one week once because it kept running away. That little fuzzy bastard would always cut my face up. "

"So you don't like cats because of one little house cat?" Ruby asked. She kept glancing at Blake in worry. Knowing the truth about Blake was now making this really hard. Even Velvet looked a little worried.

"Well not all cats are bad. My first experience with a cat was a black one that gave me bad luck for a week."

Keep digging your grave. Just keep digging, Blake thought.

"I like cats… but they're just so… I don't know, attention driven. Lot better than dogs though. They'll chew everything up and pee all over your stuff. Foxes… not really going to do anything but be sneaky." Naruto put his hands in his pockets. "Besides, why are cats held in such terrible fortune when foxes are held in high fortune? If foxes are supposed to be good why are cats bad? Should it be all animals have something good and bad to say about them in myths?" And with that, Blake thought more of him and was willing to let him off the hook. He did, surprisingly, make a valid point. "Are we almost there?"

Coco nodded with a smile. "We're here now." She shoved the door open to a white and pink building. They walked in. Naruto shivered and looked around. One side had only female clothes and the other side had male clothes. "So do we have any preference for things we need with him?" Coco made sure to address Sasuke and not Naruto. The rules were simple: He gets less orange and more of any other color. Naruto hated that rule and was already looking for something with a lot of orange. Yang was helping. "Do we need to go dark colors or brighter colors?"

"Let's keep this with something like what I wear for colors and be done with it." Sasuke sighed and look to where Naruto was holding up an orange shirt with a black triangle in the center of it. So help me god if we put him in all orange I will kill myself and then him. It was going to be a long day.