The next installment of the Reading: Naruto the Surprising Ninja Redo. So this is my first time doing a reading story of another person's story and I'm loving it so far. The thing is, I've encountered a bit of a problem. I should first point put that I type these stories using my laptop. So in doing so, I am unable to simply copy an paste FTDS' story to my Doc Manager due to the fact that doesn't allow me to do so. So what I had to do was to use my phone and go online and do it. This however brought forth a different problem. When I went back on the laptop, the story format was messed up. It took me a long while to fix and it really bugged me. If any of you guys write on a laptop online, then I'm open to another suggestions that might make the process easier for me in the long run.
But on to different matters. So far, I've received nothing but good reviews for the story and a lot of positive remarks for the set-up. On the suggestions of a reader, I'm toying with the idea of including Naruto and Temujin into the group. If you think it's a good idea, just leave a review about it or PM me. I'm all ears.
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing here. Read and enjoy...
As the group gravitated towards the center of the room, there was a air of caution. It was Ozpin you took the lead, predictable for the headmaster. He reached for the book from the coffee table. It was a simple design; bright orange covers with the the title written in bold blue letters. Along the spine, a red spiral-like symbol was embellished and Ozpin was sure there was a deeper meaning to it.
"Naruto the Surprising Ninja Redo," the huntsman mused softly. "An interesting title, no less. It appears to me that Hagoromo wants for us to read this book,"
"Excuse me professor but I don't think that we should even consider reading that book," Weiss pointed out. She was the only one of the group that stood on the outskirts of the room.
"And why do you believe so Ms. Schnee?"
Weiss spoke up. "If I may Professor Ozpin, I don't think you've realized the gravity of this situation. We're trapped in a room by an unknown faunus. For all we know, it could be a ploy to keep us away from the school while he and his other filthy delinquents to cause havoc on the school!"
Ah... and there was where the problem lied. He of course knew of the girl's distrust with all things related to faunus. And while he could see her point on the need to be wary of the situation, her quick assumption to expect the worst from anyone with horns or fangs could be detrimental to the girl's future.
The Schnee heiress cleared her throat. "I suggest that we try and find a way to escape from this room before we apprehend the criminal!"
The girl in black decided that she had had enough of Weiss' attitude. "Would you stop calling him that!"
"What is your problem!" Honestly, Weiss didn't get it. She had never met the girl before yet Weiss could feel the hate - no, hate was too strong a word. Dislike. She could feel the dislike that the girl held for her.
"You!" Blake hissed. "And the fact that you think the man is a criminal just because he's a faunus!" Blake made her thoughts known and she would not tolerate the blatant discrimination or racist comments.
However, Weiss was not about to be outdone in the argument. "I call it as I see it. He has basically kidnapped us and trapped us all in a room. Who knows what nefarious schemes he could be plotting,"
Off to the sidelines, most of the other occupants were feeling uncomfortable with the direction that the conversation was heading. The only two unaffected were the two professors, each sporting frowns as the situation escalated. Deciding enough was enough, Ozpin once again stepped forward, interrupting the heated duo.
"Enough! The fact of the matter is that we are trapped here. There are no exit points in the room and even if we wanted to blast our way out, it would prove an impossible task," the man commented.
"And why is that Ozpin?" Glynda asked.
"Have you not realized it yet?" the man gestured to his cane. "While my clothes have retained their colors, my cane has turned grey leading me to believe that they were affected by Hagoromo's powers and are now disabled, just like your riding and crop and Ms. Rose's sniper/scythe hybrid," he ignored Ruby's wail of despair as she realized that her weapon was frozen, "So you see Ms. Schnee, even if we wanted to, we cannot escape. Our only choice at this point is to read the contents of that book and hope that Hagoromo is appeased and decides to release us."
The girl scowled, but none the less nodded. She took a seat beside Pyrrha (who was the only person she held a civil conversation with since her arrival at Beacon) who had decided to sit beside the blond boy with the corny pick-up lines. Watching her take a seat, Ozpin turned towards the disguised faunus. Holding her gaze, he indicated for her to take a seat as well, which she did, seated beside the magenta-eyed boy and his bubbly friend.
Ozpin sighed. He picked up the book and turned open to the first page, "Now let's begin."
A Space-Time hole
That was what both Naruto and Temujin were trying to avoid like nobodies business as a chain of boys held arms and legs to pull a boy out of a void of sucking black energy. The area around them were nearly pure infinite blackness, and huge amounts of blue-green energy liquids gushed from the surrounded and flooded into the hole, ever to be seen again. The two boys, one of which was hanging from a chain of over a thousand copies of himself, couldn't be any older than 13 years old at the most. One was a boy who was about 4'8" in height, with sunny blond hair that was wildly spiked in all directions. He had peach skin, and bright blue eyes, as well as a lean muscular body. He wore a slightly torn up orange track suit with blue shoulders and a white color, to go with orange, slightly rolled up, orange pants and blue sandals. On his back was a red swirl symbol, and over his forehead was a blue cloth with a silver plate, a leaf on it. On each of his cheeks he bore three whisker marks, giving him a more fox-like look.
"Oh Oh Renny! Look at that, that's so cool! There's so many of him. Do you think that's his semblence?" Nora gushed. The girl was as excitable as a pup and had the cheeriness to back it up. With her bright orange hair and bright turquoise eyes, the girl was a bundle of energy just waiting to be unleashed. No one begrudged the girl for interrupting Ozpin's talking, seeing as how it had no effect on the flow of the story. As soon as Ozpin had began reading, the television screen had prompted. somehow, the images flew in tandem with Ozpin's words. The man had proven it by repeating the first few lines over and over again only to see the same images being broadcast in a loop.
What this meant was that when Ozpin stopped reading, the TV would pause as well.
"I think so, I don't see any other reason for him to be able to do that," Ren her best-est (not really a word but Nora could not care less) answered her. The boy was one of the cool, calm and collected types, Nora's complete opposite. He was dressed rather oddly compared to the others in the group, with his clothes having oriental roots. "Though I do wonder where this is taking place?"
'His clones are far better than mine,' Blake thought in an odd moment of jealousy.
He was Naruto Uzumaki.
"And our protagonist has been revealed," someone said.
The boy he was holding onto was also blond haired, though he had long straight, platinum blond hair, and bright red eyes. He wore a black suit, and over that he wore plenty of silver armor, though it was badly damaged from a recent fight.
He was Temujin.
"He looks like a knight," Ruby commented offhandedly. Beside her was Yang, her half-sister, who nodded in agreement to the girl's observation.
"Yeah he does, but it looks like someone had just done beat the stuffings out of him,"
"Yang that's rude!" Ruby chastised, though agreeing with her sister. In response, the girl merely hummed and gave a nonchalant shrug. It gave Ruby the impression that if her sister had answered, it would be somewhere along the lines of 'It may be rude but it is true,'.
Jaune looked transfixed on the scene. The boy did look the part of a knight in his opinion as well, and intrigued him. He had come to Beacon with the aspiration of becoming a hero; a knight in shining armor for the people to look towards for help. Seeing such a young boy (he assumed they were young, the book had said so itself) achieve his goals filled Jaune with aspirations that coming here wasn't a mistake.
"Let go Naruto, this is how I will atone for the sins I committed." Temujin spoke sadly as he stared into Naruto's eyes
"Shut up! I'm not going to listen to your nonsense anymore! I've already lost a friend, and I'm not losing another!" Naruto shouted at the boy as they were sucked deeper into the rip in both space and time. The air around them was sucked into the hole, rocks came crashing and were absorbed into it, and smoky blackness continued to grow more dense as more of the liquid was taking into it.
"An admirably trait for one so young," Glynda spoke up. It earned her a fair share of shocked gaze as most had come to assume the woman as someone who could only glare and scowl.
"Indeed, to go to such lengths for a friend... this boy is clearly someone special." Ozpin coined in. Though his thoughts wandered a little. 'It begs to question why Hagoromo would show us this. How is this even related to us?'
Naruto started to pull his arm up, and Temujin with him.
"Stop! Do you want to get pulled in too!?" Temujin shouted.
He was punched in the face.
The students chuckled among themselves. Ruby leaned over and whispered into Yang's ear, "I can totally see you doing that,"
"Shut up and let me save you already idiot!" Naruto shouted as he tossed Temujin up to one of his clones, who caught him with one hand and tossed him up towards another clone. The clones all worked together to pull Temujin higher and higher up the chain. Temujin was knocked out cold from the punch.
Naruto started to climb up the chain of clones as well, until one of the clones popped by a rock that slammed into it, and an entire link of the chain was broken.
All of the Naruto clones started to pop, and Naruto started to fall into the hole with Temujin.
The two of them were absorbed by the darkness.
Ozpin narrowed his gaze, his mind slowly shifting together like clockwork. There was something to be said about the scene. The opening scene of any story was usually one of the most important ones as it would normally set the pace for the entirety of the tale. He was certain that it was the same for this story. 'A warning... not from this world... a space-time hole... ' he thought over the words he had heard and read and then they all floated into place.
He leapt to his feet. "OF COURSE!" he shouted. The others were surprised by his exclamation. This was the most emotional he had shown all they. But Ozpin was either ignorant or unconcerned about their reactions. "It all makes sense now. He was telling the truth from the start. But the implications... and the absurdity of it all... I can't even fathom the repercussions." The man was now pacing the length of the room. "But on the other hand, the advantages it would give us would be monumental. If used properly we would always be one step ahead... preparing counter-strikes before they even have a chance to strike in the first place. Dear Oum, the possibilities are endless," he spouted off-tangent. He probably would have said more had his deputy not grabbed him by the hand and forced him to stand still.
"And just what are you blabbering about Ozpin?" Glynda asked.
"Everything Glynda!" the man exclaimed, which really didn't help much. "This book, Hagoromo and us are all connected. Look at the evidence Glynda, Hagoromo himself have claimed to not being of this world and this story mentions the existence of a space-time hole. I'm unclear on whether Hagoromo's world is alternate universe to ours or a different dimension on a whole, but this does confirm the existence of other worlds."
In her many years as an huntress, Glynda Goodwitch had seen many strange and weird things. She had learned that every fairy tale had a grain of truth in their origins, some more than others, and as such, had adopted an open mind to many things to many things. After all, in a world of aura using super warriors, there were few impossible. But inter-dimension travel? That was something pulled straight from a movie or book.
Ozpin could sense her incredulity and bit back a sigh. He held the book in his hands. "Believe what you will Glynda, but I'm convinced that this book holds knowledge of future events which could help us prepare for the difficulties ahead. Hagoromo has already displayed the ability to manipulate time, who can object to the claim that he can show us future events as well?"
Glynda opened her mouth to rebut but found herself unable to. Ozpin was right, the man had paused time to bring them here. Maybe he could even show them the future. She wasn't sold on the idea that Ozpin believed but they were many evidences supporting that theory. For now, she was undecided. She didn't believe but she would hold back on her protests.
For now.
Remnant: Several Years Previously
"Now this is quite the interesting liquid, and with mutative properties... and these bodies will do my research wonders." A man spoke as he looked at an underground lake of glowing blue-green liquid that bubbled. In the middle of the water was the wreckage of a huge technological wonder, an amazingly huge type of ship never seen before now.
He had barely managed to escape with his life when his operation in Mountain Glenn turned into a failure. It cost him a hand and eye just to escape with his life, and the island he escaped to had such a... fortune hidden underneath it.
It was a shame he had lost his research during the destruction of Mountain Glenn.
He found something so much better.
Pyrrha shuddered as the scene drew to a close. There was something about that man that made her feel... uneasy. It was not a common feeling for the four-time champion.
Ruby agreed. "That man gives me the creeps," the red-reaper said.
"He must hate pancakes!" Nora declared with a frown. Most were lost by to her comment but Ren merely rolled his eyes.
"And why would you say that Nora?"
"Well duh! He's obviously the bad guy here and everyone knows that bad guys hate pancakes," she nodded sagely, as though that was a fact of life.
"And sugar-free cookies!" Ruby added.
Remnant: Several Years Later (Current Day)
"Holy shit, did this kid just come crashing out of the sky?" A young woman of 17 years old asked with a shocked tone as she stared up into the sky. You could SEE the hole in the clouds this kid fell through when he crashed. She had long wavy blond hair, and bright lilac colored eyes. She was fair skinned, and stood at about 5'8". She wore a revealing yellow top, only made somewhat more modest by her brown leather jacket, but her stomach and cleavage were both still on display. She had black hot pants, and a hip cape over them, as well as long leather boots on.
"Is that me?!" Yang asked. It was a redundant question as they could all clearly see that it was in fact Yang on-screen. Yang's face slipped into a frown. "But I don't remember this," she commented.
Ozpin nodded. "I would surprised if you did remember Ms. Xiao-Long. After all, this has yet to happen."
"But seeing the future is impossible!"
"Yet here it is," the headmaster calmly retorted. "This scene is from the Emerald Forest, a place you have never been to before. I assume that this is only a few minute into your future,"
Yang slouched back into the seat, stunned. It was official, they were actually seeing into the future.
Their future, no less.
Never in her life did Yang Xiao-Long believe that she would live to see the day that she saw a kid come falling out of the sky and hit the ground in front of her.
He was in a crater, and his chest could be seen moving, if barely.
What kid of durability did this little dude have!?
'A Faunus?' The exact opposite of Yang thought as she stepped and slid down into the crater to go and examine the boy. She had long wavy black hair, and olive pale skin, with startling yellow eyes. She had a white mini top on with a black cloth around her mid section, her stomach also visible. Where Yang was large breasted, she was more moderate, but she was also more lean muscled. She wore white shorts and long black and purple stockings, and black boots on.
While Yang had gauntlets, active, around her wrists, she (Blake Belladonna) had a sword sheathed in a cleaver on her back.
"She also had a little bow on her head, similar to cat ears.
"Hey Blake, you don't think... Oh, he is a Faunus... Fox or Cat?" Yang asked as she followed Blake, no longer in a shocked state.
"Huh, I'd say he looks more like a cat. What do you think partner?" Yang directed the question to the black themed girl who sat between Nora and Ren.
"You don't mind that he's a faunus? And partner?"
Yang shrugged. "I've got nothing against faunus. Plus we're walking together alone in the forest so we must be partners."
'Sound logic,' Blake thought. "I think he might be a fox faunus... his face makes me think fox."
She was pleased that she had ended up with the blond as a partner than the Schnee.
Yeah, she was surprised to be mere feet away from where a kid crashed into the ground, but he seemed normal enough.
"You don't mind he is a Faunus?" Blake asked with some surprise. She was already next to the boy, and she could see that he was extremely injured. Considering the fact he crashed through trees before hitting the ground, the fact his clothes were in tatters were to be expected. His clothes were barely able to be called such at this point. He wore a lot of orange though. "Anyway, I think he might be a Fox Faunus... his face makes me think fox, the whisker marks only making it more obvious. Help me treat his wounds." Blake told Yang as she ripped off the boy's orange jacket and started to rip it into shreds.
"He has a pouch, I'll see if he carries medical... He is sexy without a shirt on." Yang pointed out randomly when she saw Blake take his shirt off, and use the ripped up jacket to stop the bleeding from many different cuts. Blake raised an eyebrow at Yang, who was eyeballing a 13 year old at the most.
And she took that statement back. She would rather deal with the Schnee than an apparent pedophile.
She scooted a bit further from Yang.
"You're a pedophile?" Blake asked... hesitantly as she moved in front of the boy to protect him from Yang.
Yang sputtered her denials, her cheeks aflame. "What!? No, I meant it in the most neutral way possible... though if he were a few years older,"
"Huh!? No, I mean, he is super lean, and he has NO excess body-fat. He is also like pure muscle, for his age this should be impossible, that's all. I am saying, as a boy he is sexy, but a bit too young... maybe in 3 or 4 years though. You know, when he grows up." Yang spoke quickly to try and deny any pedophile-like vibes she was giving off. She meant it in the most neutral of ways possible.
"Exactly!" Yang chorused in agreement with her other-self.
"Suuure," Nora teased. She flinched and mock glared when Ren cuffed her upside the head.
"Behave yourself, Nora."
The boy had a great body that she herself was jealous of, sue her for being jealous of seeing a fine body.
Blake tossed her the pouch, and Yang opened it up and jumped it on the ground.
"Just look for medical stuff." Blake stated to Yang, though she admitted that the boy did have a great, impossible amount of muscle tone for his age. At the same time, she also would state he was a cute kid, though she was more concerned about his health.
"Pieces of paper... ninja dagger things... a green jumpsuit... a white mask? Those ninja throwing star things... a old fashion scroll thingy... frog purse... This kid a ninja?" Yang asked with a snort at the thought of ninjas existing. She loved to play games about ninjas, it was one of her favorite game series.
"Oh Oh Oh! He is a ninja! That's so cool!" Nora jumped from her seat with stars in her eyes. She ran through a series of exaggerated fight poses, each accentuated with sound effects. "Can you believe it Renny, a real ninja! No offense to you though. I mean you dress like one and you're all quiet-y like one but he's the real deal. Not that you're fake or anything. You are real but it's just that he's so much cooler!" She grimaced and looked to apologize. "I didn't mean it like that, you're cool too!"
Ren chuckled. "It's okay, I get what you're trying to say,"
She beamed. "Thanks Ren,"
Blake rolled her eyes.
Ninja? In orange? He must be a damn good ninja child if he could pull of wearing orange and sneaking around. That being said, he did have a green jumpsuit, so maybe these were just his civilian clothes or whatever.
Blake turned her head, and she saw that Yang was wearing the mask over her face.
"Put that back, it isn't yours." Blake told Yang, as she started to stretch the jumpsuit, and she saw that it stretched a LOT.
"Holy crap is this thing breathable, and stretchy. This is the real one size fits all... He wouldn't mind if I... borrowed it right?" Yang asked with a small grin on her face as she looked at the jumpsuit.
"Yang, you mustn't steal from others!" Ruby tried to be stern but only came off as being adorable.
Yang blew off her concerns with a lazy wave of her hands. "Calm down Rubes. It's not like I was really gonna steal it from him," she tried to play off but Ruby's dubious looks made it clear that she didn't believe her.
Blake snatched it from her.
"No stealing from him. He's a faunus, you think his life isn't hard enough without having his things stolen from him?" Blake asked with a dark look in her eyes. Yang raised her hands up in surrender, knowing she was fighting a losing battle here. If she responded, she would sound like a racist, or she would sound like a thief.
Not good options to have there.
She looked back at the stuff she dropped out of the pouch, and she looked at the pieces of paper with a raised eyebrow.
Strange symbols.
"What do you think this does?" Yang asked as she waved the paper around. The boy had plenty of copies of this exact same paper, so there was no harm in taking this one.
'Hmm... they looked similar to my glyphs, but more archaic in appearance' Weiss thought as she studied the parchment in the girl's hand. She hadn't realized that she had spoken out loud until Ruby asked a question.
"... What does 'archaic' mean?"
Weiss rolled her eyes. "It means something that's older or primitive,"
"Aah... " Ruby hummed, before she looked to Weiss again. "... what does 'primitive' mean?"
Weiss sighed but didn't respond. Something told her that if she did, they would be at this forever.
Blake was a bit busy stripping the boy to his boxers and bandaging up his body using his clothes as bandages. She grabbed the jumpsuit, it would have to do for the boy's modesty after she addressed his...
"That isn't natural." Blake pointed out when she saw something... weird.
His wounds were steaming, closing, and healing at a pace far faster than anything that aura could ever do. His body, and even the blood on his body, was being restored back to full health pretty quickly. The bruises were taking a bit longer to heal, but in a few hours even those would be fully healed as well.
Yang raised an eyebrow.
"... A Semblence? Maybe a passive Semblence, like Regeneration or something?" Yang asked with shrugged shoulders.
It was uncommon, but not unheard of, for children this young to figure out what their Semblence was after all.
"A useful semblence," Pyrrha commented from her spot beside Jaune. "He wouldn't have to worry about being in the infirmary for too long with an ability like that."
Blake took of the bandages and she started to put the jumpsuit on the boy, and when she finished she noticed that it tightly hugged his body. Thankfully, she never took his boxers off, so even though she stripped him, he would be able to be thankful for the fact she didn't see anything that he might not want her to see.
Yang put his stuff back in his bag, and she kept the paper she was holding out.
"Hey Kit, wake up." Blake said as she gently palmed his cheek a few times, to gently rouse him.
Yang raised an eyebrow.
"Kit?" Yang asked, and Blake rolled her eyes.
"Cat Faunus children are Kittens, Fox Faunus are Kits. This is the only thing that I know to call him, seeing as we don't know his name." Blake stated, before she sighed when the boy gave no sign of waking up from his slumber.
"You seem to know a lot about faunus, Blake?" Yang asked. She was curious. The tension between the two species had led to most humans not having a lot of knowledge about the other race outside of the fact that they possessed animal features.
Blake felt a cold sweat run down her neck. "I... huh... the village I came from had a lot of faunus," she lied through her teach. She knew the possibilities of her secrets being revealed were high in the story but she would avoid it as long as possible.
"His name is Naruto." Yang stated as she pointed to the froggy wallet. "That, or Saifu... I think this might say "Naruto's Wallet" but I'm not sure... I suck at this language." Yang stated as she pointed out the name-tag on the front of the wallet, with Naruto's name etched into it.
...
"Naruto... as in Narutomaki, the ramen ingredient?" Blake asked in a dull tone.
Rub, Nora and Jaune chuckled.
"He has a silly name," Nora teased.
Almost everyone knew what ramen was, it was a pretty easy to afford food for people without families to buy. Blake often times would buy ramen, seeing as it was cheap, full of calories to keep her energized, and it was easy to customize. It was a simple matter to put tuna in the ramen, and have it still taste go. Yang shrugged her shoulders, not knowing what Narutomaki was either, just knowing that Saifu meant wallet, and that if that meant wallet, the other word had to be his name.
Blake stood up and carried him on her back.
"Lets go and get a relic... Did you hear a girl screaming?" Yang asked with a raised eyebrow when a loud, feminine scream was heard in the area. Yang could see the ruins that had the relics on them from their current location, and once they got one, they would be done with their test.
Then they take Naruto to the hospital to try and see if he had a family.
Ozpin stopped reading as he finished the chapter. They had learned a few things from the book so far and he couldn't wait to see what would be coming next. Though, as he turned the page to start the second chapter, a ball of white flames once again erupted into existence as Hagoromo appeared.
But this time, he was not alone.
And there you have it, the second installment is complete.
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