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Chapter 17

"Steady your breathing, focus on your arm, and think about what you want. Envision it bending to your will."

Sasuke did as instructed, his one eye closed to try and gain better focus.

Pyrrha wasn't a great instructor for him. He knew that yesterday. Her method was to try and gain inner focus over his new found ability. It wasn't working for him. No matter how hard he tried to focus, he lost control and his power over the ice would slip. He could no longer force the ice to appear while awake. When he slept he turned an entire forest into a frozen wonderland. Weiss marveled at his power. Jasper and Emert grew fearful. Glynda began trying to give him lessons as well, but the more anyone focused on helping him, the worst off his control became.

Grunting under the force of his control, he conceded in defeat. "It won't work," he told her. Pyrrha seemed unconvinced. Jauna looked on curiously. "This isn't going to work. There has to be another way for me to control this."

"Sasuke, this kind of power takes time to gain control over. Did you gain control over your fire abilities in a day?"

"No. But they're not the same."

"Perhaps they actually are the same," the Ark boy told him. Sasuke shot him a disbelieving look. Jaune gulped as Pyrrha seemed to urge him to explain. "Well," he stammered nervously, "you're fire abilities require you to breath them out. I imagine that such an ability also runs the risk of you deflating your lungs. So it could cause internal damage to you. But your ice ability comes off of you and can change the weather around you. If the ice is coming from you then it could also potentially freeze the water and blood inside you."

The one eyed teen rolled his eye. "I already knew that." Jaune quieted. "But thank you. I'm aware of the risks of all three of my elemental abilities. But this one is different from any of them." Blinking several times, the former Uchiha licked his teeth and sighed. "I don't know what's up with this power. It's not something I'm used to and it only works at night for me."

The redhead sighed and looked to her leader. "Can you give us a minute?" Jauna glanced between them before nodding slowly. He backed returned to the cafeteria. It was Friday so chicken was being served. "When I found out what my semblance was, do you know how I figured it out?" Rolling his eyes, he shook his head. "I ripped out my earrings in my sleep and moved all the metal in our house to the ceiling where it was embedded. We had to get a construction crew out there to repair the damage and then professional help to assist me in controlling my power. They put me in a metal rom where the only thing that wasn't metal was my mattress. I was so terrified to sleep that I didn't for three days. When I finally fell asleep I was pressed against the ceiling by the mattress and the bedframe. I cried for help. When the doctors showed up to help me, they simply told me that I had to get down by myself. I was five when they did that to me. My parents said they were in the other room. I called out for them. They never came to help me."

Sasuke closed his eye and remembered his training with his father. "My father looked to my older brother as a prodigy. He was. He was gifted and I wasn't. So my father never really cared for me. When my brother began to act different my father turned to me and loved me. He taught me to how to use my fire affinity. He was so disappointed with me when I first used it. I stood around a lake and tried and failed to breathe fire. It went on for week. I burned my face several times. I trained until I passed out. When I finally managed to do it properly he told me I did good. But looking back on it, he wasn't impressed with me."

"I know you're having a difficult time with this. But if you try to ignore it, it will get worse. Believe me. You have to embrace this power and work with it to master it. This is a mutual thing, Sasuke. If you ignore it…" She let it hang there. He got the picture. "Perhaps we should take a break. Class will be starting back up soon. Lunch is almost over."

"Alright," he breathed out tiredly. They joined the others at the table after grabbing their food. Nora was telling them a story about a dream she had beating up Grimm with Ren. Yang listened intently while Blake had her nose in a book. Ruby was trying to talk to her, but Blake seemed less focused on the topic of choice and more focused on the book. "One more class and we're done for the day," Sasuke told them. Jauna nodded, thankful that the weekend was here after their class. He had got tickets to a movie. "What are everyone's plans for the weekend?"

"What are your plans?" Ruby asked, tearing herself away from her talks with Blake.

"I'm staying around here this weekend to continue training," he told her tightly. He was going to master this power even it killed him. At this rate, it just might.

"Well I'm going to a weapon shop that's displaying a new weapon created by a small company named Omo," Ruby lied. No one could know what they were doing this weekend. She really wanted to tell them though. How cool would that make them?

"I've heard of them," Emert confessed tiredly. "They're a really small group founded about twenty years ago. They focus more on prosthetic limbs, but they do dabble in weapons. Lately they were making a new rifle of some sort. The Atlas Military are rumored to be trying to buy it from them for mass production, but both are keeping quiet on it." He touched his prosthetic limb subconsciously. Sasuke noticed it. No one else did. "Besides that, the only other weapon they could display right now is a pair of pistols that combine into a rifle."

"Yeah it's pretty cool," the weapon enthusiast chimed in.

"Well if you're going to a weapon shop, can you take Naruto with you? He needs to get his weapon fixed." Sasuke noticed Blake lift her book a little higher and Yang grin like mad. "Did I miss something?"

"Blake has already taken Naruto into town to get his weapon looked at," Weiss explained heatedly. Blake lowered her book and glared at her teammate. "What? You went to town with him without telling any of us. We were worried about you. You didn't even answer your scroll. We thought you were in trouble."

"I told you I was going into town to look at some things and that I'd be back shortly. I never lied about it. Why do you care what I do with my own time? I don't go judging you for what you do." Weiss recoiled and turned away. She returned to buffing her nails. "Besides, Naruto and I are going into town today anyways. Ruby, do you wanna come with us? You can show us the weapons. It might even be the same shop I took him to."

"Maybe we can convince him to buy them!" Ruby told them.

"Buy what?" Sasuke looked up and spied his former blond teammate. He was holding a bowl of ramen. Blake's noise twitched as the smell wafted over their table.

"A pair of handguns," Jasper told him.

"Why would I want a pair of guns? I don't like those things. They're too noisy. What's wrong with what I have?"

"What if you're fighting an enemy you can't get to?" Blake reasoned. Naruto sat down between Sasuke and Ren, suddenly very quiet on the matter. "I know you have a pretty good arm and even better aim when throwing your kunai. But I doubt you can hit someone that's above you with greater range than what you can hit, let alone throw at. Just consider the option. What would you be forced to do? Run at him? That person would have the height advantage and most likely would have a gun. While charging him you'd be at his mercy."

"I'd still get close to him. I'm fast enough to dodge a bullet." Blake considered proving him wrong right then and there, but reframed from doing so. He'd learn… eventually. "But I do need to go and check to see if my new sword is finished."

"You had to get a new one?" Yang questioned.

"It was damaged. They wouldn't able to repair it enough to withstand his abilities." Blake informed them. Naruto turned away from her. Blake closed her eyes. "Naruto is an enhancer type. His sword wasn't able to withstand the force of his aura and was shattering as a result. That's why we went to town. It was to get it repaired and get him a new one."

"You expect me to me to believe that on top of everything else he can do, he's also an enhancer type?" Weiss hissed. Blake nodded mutely. She sat her book down and had a faraway look in her eye as she laced her fingers together. Weiss snorted. "Is there anything else you're hiding from us that you can do?"

Blake and Naruto shared a very quick glance. Sasuke and Yang caught it, but took it two different ways. Sasuke could see it almost clear as day in her eyes. She knew the truth about them. She was smart. Way smarted than even Weiss. Weiss held herself on this pedestal like she was smarter than anyone else on their team. Sasuke knew the truth. Blake was smarter. Street smarts had an advantage over book smarts. The Faunus teen could spot a lie faster than a lie detector and she knew how to play along well enough to trick them into giving the information out. But he couldn't see how she'd use the information and as it stood right now, she hadn't told anyone it seemed.

Yang took it a completely different matter.

"You two are dating?" she blurted out. Blake coughed and did a double take towards her partner. Naruto blinked. "I'm so happy for you Blake! I mean, it's odd that you would go for someone as young as Naruto, but still, you're a ninja. He's a ninja. Makes sense!"

"She is not a ninja," Naruto growled.

"We're not dating!" Blake exclaimed quickly. Her face was red from embarrassment. Naruto looked annoyed. "And I am not a ninja," she added after a brief pause. The Faunus teen collected herself before explaining things. "Naruto asked me to accompany him because Sasuke was busy with training. I agreed because I needed to go to town that day anyways. But we aren't dating. And Naruto is an enhancer type. He showed me his sword after he tried to enhance the cutting force of the blade. It was cracking from the inside."

Yang whistled. "That must be some serious power."

"Yeah but his sword wasn't calibrated," Ruby reminded.

Naruto got lost in their topic of choice and started eating. He focused more on his inner thoughts. The Jinchuuriki focused more on the problem he was having with his father and mother. Their first meeting went about as well as any child meeting their long lost parents for the first time. Naruto broke down in tears. He asked why. They said because they had no other choice. Naruto had wanted to not accept it, but when he thought about it, there really wasn't any other option on the matter. Knowing the truth of what happened around the day of his birth didn't help much either. He spent many nights awake from nightmares about the masked man that had almost killed him not even a minute after he was born.

The story was that when Naruto was born, a masked man had come and threatened to kill Naruto unless his father hand over his mother. His mother was the previous Jinchuuriki. This meant that the man that showed up had wanted her for the Kyuubi she had and by proxy was probably one of the Akatsuki members. It was strange that they had tried then and not after he was born. When his mother was taken and the Kyuubi was released, his father had no other choice but to comply as he had already laced Naruto's blankets with explosive tags.

Minato's quick thinking saved his life, but at the same time, it had ruined it.

Minato hadn't intended for Naruto's life to be like this. He had placed too much trust in the people. With the way that the world saw him, Minato lost faith in his people and wished the worst upon them, despite it being wrong of him to do so, both as a shinobi of their land and as their village leader.

Knowing that Minato was left with no other option than to seal Kyuubi away in his son for the safety of the village didn't really sit well with Naruto. Kushina even objected to the idea and had wished he choose someone else as well for the process. But given the circumstances, it was clear that they couldn't ask for the burden of holding such a terrible creature. What would give them the right to ask another child to do what they didn't want to do to their own? In knowing that, Naruto accepted what was done to him, but he still didn't like it.

The truth on what it meant to be a Jinchuuriki didn't help him either. They were used as weapons of war and as deterrents for war. Jinchuuriki were used in the wars and were often close to the Hokage. Learning that, Naruto had assumed that his mother, a previous host, was not truly his fathers' wife. Such doubt was pushed aside immediately, but learning what it meant in the long run didn't help any. How could they be so cruel to people like them? They didn't ask for this. But if they were meant to stop wars; why did it seem like a lot of wars were created over-

"You okay?" Naruto was jerked from his thoughts at the sound of Blake's voice. The others were gone it seemed.

"I was just lost in thought," he lied.

"Well class is about to begin. You're working with Professor Port today, right?"

"Yeah."

"Let's get going then." Looking around, Naruto arched a brow at her hand she was offering. "If you think I really care on what the others will think about it, don't bother. If they want to think we're dating, let them. I'm helping you because you said you'd help me."

Smiling, he got up and took her hand. "Let's go to class. But I'm totally holding you hand all the way into class. I have to worry about my reputation." Blake rolled her eyes and removed her hand. He chuckled and created a clone to deal with his tray. "Ozpin said that my weapon should be done today after class. He wants me to go get it after class. Wanna come with me?"

"I actually have plans tonight. I'm sorry."

Shrugging, the blond followed her to Port's class and waited for things to calm down as the class talked amongst themselves. It was another ten minutes before Port showed up. Naruto took role and once everything was set up, Port took over and started on another lesson about the fighting prowess of some of the larger Grimm in the world.

"Can we talk?" Naruto's left eye twitched as his fathers' voice echoed through his mind. The blond Jinchuuriki closed his eyes and was pulled into his mindscape where his father and mother stood waiting for him. Minato was not at all like how Naruto had envisioned him. He was supposed to be a powerful man the radiated confidence. This man was not that. "Thanks…"

"I'm sort of working, dad. I can't come here all the time when you want to talk to me."

"Sorry for that. I just wanted to talk to you about your training." Narrowing his eyes, the younger blond huffed. "I know that you're trying to learn how to throw Ninjutsu that shouldn't be thrown; namely the Rasengan. You're control is great, but it's not enough for what you want. You need to focus less on pumping it full of chakra and more on giving it a solid surface to glide over when you're throwing it."

"As tempting as it is to listen to you on that, I'm still angry with you right now. For more than just throwing Kyuubi in my body, mind you. You were here, inside me, this whole time. When I needed someone the most, you weren't there for me. Obviously you were dead, so it's not like I can blame you for that in real life. But you placed the Kyuubi in me. You were here, inside my mind, the whole time. You even watched my life and all my struggles. You could have done something. Both of you could." Minato inhaled deeply as his sons' words stung him. "Just… give me some time. Okay? That's all I'm asking for."

"I can do that."

Naruto pulled himself from his mindscape and caught the beginning of Professor Port saying, "…studying on the larger, more dangerous, Grimm. All Grimm, as you know, get larger with each encounter they survive with us. Ones that have seen combat and survived encounters with us become smarter, faster, and tougher to bring down. These types of Grimm are called Alphas. They are powerful enough and wise enough to know how to survive against us. But they are still prone to fighting without thinking. The most common Alpha to be seen is Beowolfs and Ursa. There are other types out there that we have seen, but they usually stay near a centralized nest. Any questions thus far?"

"I got one," Naruto chimed. Port gave the go ahead. "How long does it take for them to attain that kind of power? And even then, what could really categorize them as an Alpha if they can simply get stronger with each encounter?"

"Interesting question and one not so easily answered," the jolly man replied. "Perhaps someone else can answer Mister Uzumaki's question?"

"I will," Blake said. Naruto paid rapt attention. "Each Grimm is unique. So for any of them to attain the status of Alpha, they must first survive several years. Because we don't the true live expectancy of the Grimm, we assume that this process can take anywhere from a year with a few encounters with humans to a few months with a lot of encounters with humans. Each encounter they survive they grow a little bit stronger, smarter, and faster. It's not uncommon to see an Alpha that can move faster than the blink of an eye or unreasonable to see one tear a car apart or throw it."

"Very good Miss Belladonna," Port praised. "But the answer to your other question is a tad more… worrying, I should say. Grimm will continue to gain power with each encounter they have with us that they survive. There are Grimm out there a step beyond that of an Alpha. For those Grimm we give them names. These Grimm are ones that have survived thousands of encounters with us and grown quiet large. There are some that are so big and wise that they have no other choice but to stay away from us and keep us out of their territory."

"How strong are these named ones?" Sasuke asked.

"Strong enough that not even the Atlas Military wants to deal with them," Weiss confessed.

They sound like they're on the Bijuu's level of power then, Naruto thought.

"Does anyone else have any question?" No one raised their hand. "Then let me tell you a story about a young, handsome, man that faced down eight Alphas and won!"

Everyone started tuning him out.

Sasuke fell deep into his inner thoughts on containing his power and using it better. But a more immediate situation took hold of him as he glanced over at Blake. She had been eyeing him strangely the last two days. He hadn't thought much on it. She had always watched him curiously. But now it was different. He knew why. Naruto had probably told her about his life and where he came from. He couldn't blame him. Naruto was being forced to keep a lie going that he had no information on prior to his waking. And even now the lie was getting harder to keep up. Sasuke had an Ice Semblance now! What if Naruto got a Semblance? How could he maintain their story then?

The former Uchiha began to wonder just what kind of Semblance Naruto would get if he was given Aura. It would have to be something similar to his nature. Naruto was a free spirited person, letting nothing get to him. He endured a terrible childhood and was a shinobi of great and terrible power. He was cursed with it, really. So would he be cursed with a terrible Semblance of untold power or would he gain something ease to control that offered great power? Sasuke did his research. There were a lot of unique and powerful Semblances out there.

But if Naruto got one, on top of everything that he could already do, would Weiss remain ignorant to it all? Would she start doing research into them? Ozpin made them exist in this world. He gave them a fake background and everything as though they had been born here. Naruto didn't have parents so when he was born, his parents were marked off. Naruto was considered a home birth and thus, no doctor was needed. Sasuke got a doctor for his birth and both his parents were marked off as dead, which on their world they were.

The bell rang and Sasuke was yanked from his train of thoughts on the matter. Naruto was already leaving. Gathering his things he made haste to get outside and find his former teammate. Jasper was talking with Yang about something he didn't care to listen about and when he finally found Naruto he was talking with Blake. He missed what they were talking about and watched them split as they returned to their dorms. Catching him wasn't a problem.

"Hey," Sasuke grabbed his shoulder once he caught up to him. Naruto jerked as though he'd been slapped and blinked twice. "You okay?"

"Yeah," he stammered. "Just the voice in my head."

"Probably shouldn't be saying that out loud." Naruto shrugged. He didn't care at this point. He had four voices in his head if he counted his own. What was normal about him to begin with? "I wanted to ask you something about Blake? Did you tell her anything about us?"

"I told her the truth."

Sasuke grabbed his harm tightly. Something akin to regret, possibly sadness, was in his eye. He didn't seem hurt by it. He seemed more relieved than anything. But the pain was still there. "Why?"

"Lies have weight, Sasuke. And my lies are starting to weigh me down. I'm not going to go around lying to my friends. I did that back in Konoha. I lied to you guys about the Kyuubi. I lied to Kakashi-sensei when I said that I was getting training from Ebisu-sensei. Ero-Sennin found me, took a liking to me, and trained me. All I did was run from Ebisu-sensei. All I ever wanted was to be trained by Kakashi-sensei when he became our Jounin Instructor. But he focused on you. He never focused on me."

"Naruto, think." Sasuke grabbed him and pulled him into his dorm room. Naruto kept his place rather clean, all things considered. Sasuke had thought it would be worse. "You can't blame either of us for that. Sure, I was a jerk. But think about this for one second from another perspective. If our matches hadn't been stopped because of the invasion, do you think, if I lost to Gaara, you could have beaten him as you were back then? I hate to say it, but you wouldn't have been able to. I was hard pressed to beat him, and I was trained by Kakashi. I learned one jutsu from him and spent the rest of it training my body to become stronger and faster. And even then, I didn't beat him. Sure, you beat him, because you had a summoning in the end and he pulled back his sand defense. But if the matches had gone as normal and I lost, I wouldn't have beaten him and you know that Kakashi would have pulled you from the match."

"I could have beaten him."

"Okay," Sasuke pinched the bridge of his noise and wished that someone from their world was here as well. He'd take Ino if it could get a point across to his blond haired friend. "But let's say I won the match. Let's say I killed him or made him surrender or whatever. Kakashi-sensei would have been training both of us to potentially fight each other. I'd know what he taught you and adjust myself to beat you. You would do the same. Kakashi actually gave you a good instructor to learn from because he didn't know about this Jiraiya-guy that was back in town. And even then, you learned something that I want to learn. Do you know how hard it is to be in the middle of a fight and have to make complicated seals just to do one Ninjutsu? You learned a jutsu that doesn't require that. Who else can say they learned that? Ebisu might have even had a few."

"But he wasn't Kakashi-sensei."

"And we'll never know if he was better than him. Kakashi had two things going for him. The first was his Sharingan, something he could teach me how to use. My clan is dead. The only other person that could have taught me anything is a traitor. So he had that going for him because he could teach me how to use it better. The second thing he had going for him was his title as the Legendary Copy-Nin. He learned a thousand Ninjutsu with his Sharingan and that was about it. His Sharingan was the only reason he was as good as he was. So did you think that in the one months' time we had to train I learned a thousand Ninjutsu and mastered them? I didn't. I learned only one and even then I learned it the hard way. He refused to let me copy it."

"He could have taught me something."

"Like what? You had stupid hands back then. I'd wager you still do. Flip through the seals as fast as you can to make a fireball jutsu. Go on." Naruto looked annoyed and began. Sasuke swung at his head. The blond ducked and stopped forming the seals. "See! You can't do two things at the same time. That's what I'm trying to help you with when we train together. So the you from back then wouldn't have been able to learn it. I mean it's amazing what you can do now with the clones since we know what they can do, but back then we didn't know that."

"That doesn't matter to me." Naruto inhaled through his noise and closed his eyes. He could hear his father arguing on Sasuke's behalf. Why did his other father have to side with the now former Uchiha? "Leave me alone tonight. I'm not training." Naruto opened the door and motioned for him to leave. Sasuke remained in the middle of the room for a brief moment before his eyes caught sight of a duffle bag with various weapons beside it. "I have something to take care of tonight, Sasuke. Just go already."

"Do you need help?"

"I'll be fine."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah…" His voice was almost a whisper. Sasuke looked away from the bag and then walked out. Naruto shut the door and shut his eyes tightly. I'm such a fool…

(-)

Ozpin took a calming breath as he tapped on his Scroll and checked the information again. They were really going to go and try and save Vale all on their own. If the situation were different, he'd have shut them down immediately. He knew that telling them to leave it alone and let the cops deal with it wasn't going to be enough to detour them. Not when they had two people being hurt by all of this. The dust that was stolen came from the Schnee Dust Company and having someone steal from them was not to be tolerated. Weiss would seek retribution, even if she was to the voice of sanity in their team. Then there was Blake, a former White Fang member, who had stopped them from stealing said dust and learned that they were working for someone called Queen. Though she didn't know whom they served, she knew that the ideals that they once stood for were corrupted and that now they were using brute force, something she couldn't abide by anymore.

Naturally, Ruby, a young and impressionable girl with delusions of grandeur would jump at the chance to defend their fair city. Her innocence would shield her from the real and present danger as she searched for something out of place with the group. And of course there would be Yang, Ruby's older sister to tag along in this little adventure. Sure, this might benefit Ozpin in the long run, but even he was against the idea of sending children against the unknown. James already made it abundantly clear that he didn't like the idea of children fighting a war. Ozpin didn't like it either, but with the way things were slowly beginning to spiral out of control, it was best to do what was needed and not what was right.

But Ozpin had faith in their skills as a team. They worked well together and Ruby, despite her age and innocence was a natural leader.

Still, running on faith a few well timed maneuvers would only get them so far. Ozpin wanted to be assured that they would succeed and knew that if things went sideways they would need help in a big way. He wanted to keep James out of this and he knew that involving any other team would lead to questions. That was where Naruto came in. He wouldn't ask questions and he wasn't a student at his school. He could send anyone, but everyone he could send was working and would most likely be easily recognized out on the town.

Naruto would be hard to spot and would be harder to stop if things went sideways.

His trip into town had been fruitful. His combat attire now consisted of mostly red clothing. His pants were now a hakama styled with bracers on the bottom of his pants around his ankles and combat boots. A thick leather belt held up his pants and gave him a spot to hold his damaged reverse blade sword. A red robed shirt with orange trim covered his chest while a long-sleeved red shirt was worn underneath. On his right arm was a black metal vambrace with a blade sticking out of the back of it. His sword was tucked under the same arm. Around his neck he wore a red cloak with a hood. The hood was currently pulled down and showing off a black fabricated mask that covered the bottom portion of his face.

"Why red?" Ozpin finally asked. Naruto gave him a look that begged for him to be serious at the moment. Clearing his throat, the man held up a Scroll and showed him three lines carved into a wall. "These markings are things that the White Fang leave for its recruitment areas. Those markings are hard to spot considering that most of the walls have scratches in them, but since we've figured out which one will have the most dangerous job in this mission, we know who you simply have to follow. Can I trust you to follow Blake Belladonna without being spotted?"

"All I have to do is turn into a Faunus before I go in. No one will know the difference." Ozpin nodded and produced a briefcase. "What's in the box?"

"Compensation," he explained. The briefcase clicked open and inside was money. Naruto still wasn't very familiar with it. "Since the level of danger in this is rather high, I'll make sure you're well compensated for this. Sasuke was kind enough to explain some of your villages' economy. From what I understand this would be considered at best a B-Rank mission. All you're doing is guard detail if nothing goes sour. This should handle any other expenses you have for the time being until another job comes up that I'd like you to take."

Closing the case, the blond closed his eyes and could hear his father agreeing with the ranking. Why did they have to be in his head? "If things got sour, is there anything particular you want me to do?"

"I'd prefer it if you could keep causalities to a minimum, but if it's unavoidable, I do authorize it. They are terrorists that are trying their hand at genocide of the human race. I know we haven't treated them fairly in the past, but we never wanted to exterminate them. What they're doing is wrong."

"I got the picture. If I capture them, will you have enough space for them?" Ozpin's brow furrowed at the thought of it. There would be hundreds of them gathered at such a place. No doubt James would have a field day with them. His hands would be full for a long time with it. "I promise I won't kill them if I can avoid it." Ozpin nodded his thanks. Naruto departed without another word spoken.

(-)

"Why do you want to go home so much?"

Tailing Blake and Sun was harder than Naruto had expected. Blake had constantly looked over her shoulder and on more than one occasion had probably seen him. He had switched the color of his clothing and kept his hood and mask down for this. His hair was dark red and ending at just between his shoulder blades in a ponytail and his sword was made part of his cloak. His famous whisker markings were gone. To add a Faunus feature he went with a pair of dog ears. Mismatching eyes seemed less believing when Naruto had come across a pair of twins at school that were human that had such an birth defect.

The trip into town wasn't as hard as Naruto had first thought it would be. Tailing Blake might have proved to be difficult, but with her being forced to lead a confused monkey Faunus around, it was rather easy to get around her. As soon as she got her mask and led the confused teen inside, Naruto got one for himself and walked inside past a large man.

"I want to be Hokage, mom. I want people to look up to me and know that I'm worth something."

Walking through the crowd of Faunus, Naruto faked a smile when a girl with blue hair glanced his way. She had a dog tail.

Naruto lost sight of Blake and Sun in the crowd of Faunus and instead started focusing on what was going on around him. On one half of the room was Faunus that were current members of the White Fang. Where Naruto was were all their new recruits. These were business people, citizens that were too weak and afraid to standup for themselves.

"Thank you all for coming." The blond Jinchuuriki directed his attention to the front of the room. A man in a full face mask with a white vest and a black jeans stood atop a stand in front of a big curtain with the red animal head with three claw marks behind it. "For those of you who are joining us for the first time tonight, allow me to introduce a very special comrade of ours. I can assure you, he is the key to obtaining what we have fought for, for so long."

The crowd erupted in angry cries as a man in a white overcoat, black hat, and using a walking can stepped up beside him, taking center stage. Naruto narrowed his eyes on him as the rest of the crowd began asking why a human was here. But the White Fang don't work with humans anymore.

"What's a human doing here?!"

"I'm glad you asked, deer-y," he answered cheekily. "Now I'll be the first to admit: Humans… are the worst."

"I like this guy already!" Naruto winced as the loud voice of Kyuubi exploded in his mind.

"Case in point," he gestured to himself.

Naruto started looking around for any escape routes. He wasn't finding any. He caught sight of Blake doing the same thing. Her ears swiveled in every direction. Naruto put his hand on his invisible sword for comfort as he began looking for a place to hide. A quick puff of smoke above him and a clone was in the rafters with no one being the wiser. A quick switch with via a replacement jutsu and he was safely up top. His clone could handle the rest if things went bad. If it died, no one would morn it. Well he'd morn it. It was a waste of perfectly good, albeit hateful, chakra from Kyuubi.

Grabbing his Scroll he opened it and started recording the speech the man was giving. Ozpin made sure that his recording would be sent directly to him. He could go over it and explain what they found. Naruto had no idea what he was really recording.

The man in the hat suddenly threw his cigar down. Naruto narrowed his eyes and followed his gaze. He found Blake and Sun.

Blake whipped out her weapon and shot a generator that controlled the lights, blowing the fuse and cutting the lights in the process. Naruto put away the Scroll and released his henge. Screams sounded and someone ordered for their capture. A window busted out and then something hummed to life. Naruto's crimson eye got sight of a mech running through a wall of the warehouse. The entire place shook. The Faunus below scurried around as the man from before gave them orders to start gathering up their gear.

It was clear that some of them were going to get the gear loaded up to be hauled off to the southeast base while another group stood by to look out for more threats. Naruto got to his feet and considered going after them. The squeal of a few tires got his attention and he released his henge and dawned his mask and hood. He snuck outside and found fourteen Faunus members of the White Fang loading up in vans with big guns on the top of the vehicles. Looking back at the warehouse, he sighed and made four clones to stop the vehicles as they took off while he returned to the warehouse to stop anyone from leaving.

Quietly he dropped to the railing and knocking out the four guards before any of them noticed with a few quick clones. The clones lowered the bodies to the railing gently and looked down at the group as they worked quickly at getting everything put up. The new members were allowed to leave, as they would only slow the active members down.

A gunshot rang out and Naruto felt his left arm go warm as his blood leaked down it. He twisted and jumped over the railing. The others opened fire. He grabbed his sword before he hit the ground and tossed it forward. It stuck in the leg of someone. He hit the ground hard, rolled, sprang to his feet and jumped for his weapon. He yanked it out of the leg of the man and kicked him at the largest group of them. Those without weapons rushed behind those that did. Naruto held his sword with one hand and pointed it at them.

"It doesn't have to be this way."

"You're not wearing one of our masks and I don't remember seeing you in the crowd, boy." The man from before said. He started up a chainsaw and held it with both hands. "I hope you had a good last meal. It was your last."

"My last meal was ramen, so it was good. And it won't be my last meal." Naruto flexed the arm that was shot and grabbed his sword with both hands. "Where I'm from, I'm a living weapon of war. If you guys wear those monster masks because people thought you were them and now choose to act like them. Then perhaps I'll take a page from your book and be a living weapon of war. Let's see if a monster can beat a living weapon of war."

A/M

And let's end it there. This chapter and the next one are going to be rather dark on that side of things. I know RWBY at this point is growing into the "Dark" phase, but really, that didn't hit until the next volume. Here, it's still sunshine and rainbows. So one thing I want to point out for this is that Naruto's got sort of the ultimate slap to the face here. One, Sasuke is speaking the truth. I know that I have said in the past with some stories, Kakashi screwed him, and by all rights he sort of did, but at the same time, I sort of like the whole idea of it being more logical like this. Sasuke has his head on straight in that mini fight they had.

And now Naruto is also learning that his parents have always been inside him and just never "wanted" to go cheer him up. He doesn't understand their purpose because they haven't explained it yet. It's not because I haven't shown it, it's just that they haven't gotten around to it yet. They can't let Kyuubi know that Minato is there to stop him from releasing the Kyuubi and the only reason they're still here is because of something else I haven't explained yet. Plus, it serves as a plot point later on for two events. The other reasons Naruto is a little messed up in the head right now is because of what he's learned about being a Jinchuuriki, which the full ramifications of that will get discussed in the next chapter. Not trying to say Naruto's about to go insane, but, yeah, he's sort of got a lot on his plate right now. And the last one is something that Naruto doesn't understand entirely, which is why the village would hate him if he was the son of the Fourth Hokage, a man of great power. He can't grasp why this wasn't public knowledge because he's still that little kid that thinks being KIA is an amazing title.