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"Well that was a thing," Yang commented. The blond brawler wasn't sure what else she could say about what they had just seen. She was confident in her abilities as a fighter. After all, she had been ranked number 1 in Signal, which was Vale's premier combat academy. But she also understood the fact that their were others out their who were stronger than her.
Yet she could not wrap her mind around the fact that she had been utterly thrashed by a kid many years her junior!
Added to the fact that he had claimed that Temujin - the boy who had died in the original timeline - was able to keep up with Naruto in a fight.
Suddenly she felt inadequate.
Blake scoffed. "That's an understatement. We were completely pwned."
Yang was in agreement with the girl, she just didn't want to say it out loud.
"Nora... what are you doing?" the exasperated voice of Ren turned their attention to his orange haired friend, who was crouched over Naruto's prone body, a stick in hand poised for poking.
The girl rolled her eyes. "I'm gonna poke him Ren, duh!"
The boy sighed. He probably should have seen this coming. "And why do you want to poke him?"
Before she could answer, Jaune spoke up. "Umm, Nora? How exactly did you get that stick?"
Nora blinked owlishly. "What stick Jaune-Jaune?"
"The one in your haaa... where did the stick go?!"
Nora her head slightly as she sported a small frown. "I don't know what you're talking about Jaune-Jaune, I never had a stick. Are you alright?"
Jaune made to protest but a firm grip on his shoulders had him look over to Ren. The boy shook his head, telling Jaune to just let it go and pretend that it never had happened. Looking at the raven hared teen, Jaune realized that he was looking at the face of a an who had endured her presence for years. He must have done something right if he had survived the roller-coaster that was Nora. So his advice must be sound.
"Right silly me, I must have imagined the stick,"
"Yep!"
Jaune palmed his face. "Let's just get on with the reading?"
"Precisely,... "
Naruto stared an old man in the eyes.
Blake was sitting next to him nervously, seeing as Naruto had gone at her... comrades? Anyway, he had attacked the other students with the intent to kill them. The entire explanation had been explained as Naruto attacking them because he believed they killed his friend, and had gone into a blind rage. He had also beaten 7 people to the point they had some severe injuries that were only non-fatal because their auras protected them to some degree.
No Headmaster would overlook his students being attacked.
Ozpin hummed. "Normally you would have been right Ms. Belladonna, but this situation has some special circumstances that must be taken under consideration."
Weiss sputtered in protest. "P-Professor!? Surely you won't be thinking of letting him off the hook?"
Ozpin raised a single fine gray brow.
"Sir, it's just like the book said. He attacked us with the intent to kill. It was only because of our aura that we even survived the altercation. Surely some sort of punishment should be handed out." Her eyes drifted to the prone body lying in the center of the room and shuddered as she recalled the vile transformation he underwent.
The boy was a monster!
"You forget Ms. Schnee that the boy was under the impression that his friend had been killed by your hands. While his rampage is not justifiable, it is understandable. Not to mention the way he took down your group. He showed unnatural abilities without the aid of dust and possesses no aura. A fascinating prospect."
That was just what Ozpin was, the Headmaster, a tall man that stood many inches over 6 feet tall. He had grayed out hair, and brown eyes behind his glasses. He was a small bit on the lanky side, having lost a small amount of muscle mass since his youth. He was still toned, but just not as much as in his youth. He wore a dark green suit, and a green scarf around his neck, and he simply stared into Naruto's eyes.
The eyes were the windows into the soul.
'This child took down a group of well-trained students in a raged state... he also showed unnatural abilities without the aid of dust... and he has no aura.' Ozpin thought as he looked into Naruto's eyes. He had watched the recording nearly 10 times already, unable to believe it that these things could be done by a child of Naruto's age.
He had Glynda do a check.
There was nobody by the name of Naruto Uzumaki registered as a citizen of any of the 4 kingdoms... and never in history was there anybody by the last name Uzumaki. Naruto came from nowhere, had no family, and his only friend was dead. Not to mention he had strange and scary abilities.
"That makes sense seeing he isn't from this dimension,"
Yet his eyes were so pure, though filled with the sadness over the loss of a friend.
"Miss Belladonna, how much of his language do you understand?" Ozpin asked Blake, seeing as he didn't understand a word that Naruto had said in his own language. He only understood the few words that Naruto knew of their own language.
...
"I know his name means Fishcake. He didn't meant to hurt anyone, he was distraught from his friend's death. He won't be arrested... right?" Blake spoke nervously, very nervously. She could really connect with Naruto. She could see it in his eyes, he was kind, but he had been hurt before. He also lost his friend, and she just could see the pain of loneliness in his eyes. His eyes told her a story.
She didn't know why he had been lonely, but she did overhear Ozpin talking with Glynda Goodwitch that Naruto had no family, and no home.
She didn't want him being punished for a misunderstanding.
Weiss wanted to make an objection to that statement but knew that the minute she did, the faunus girl would no doubt make a snarky remark in retaliation. And with the presence of the two professors, Weiss knew that she would have to be on her best behavior for her name's sake. So she'll bite her tongue for now.
"Stop staring at me geezer." Naruto told Ozpin when the stares started to get a little strange for his taste. He wanted to morn the loss of his friend right now, not be stared at like he was a freak. He got that enough at his home.
Naruto's eyes turned down in sadness.
He wasn't home, he was in the world that the Gelel Vein had been sent to, an isolated dimension with no way to return to his home world. He had lost it all, his friends, his dreams, and his goals for the future.
He wanted to mourn... but so much had happened his mind had yet to truly register it all.
"Aww, that's so sad,"
"Can you talk in English Naruto?" Ozpin asked Naruto, seeing as any records of people using Naruto's language had been turned to nearly nothing over the years. Yes, there were cases where words of his language existed, but those were usually names only. People shared names in the same language, but didn't speak the language.
There was nobody that could translate for them.
It was okay though, because Naruto did understand a very small amount of their language, and with a teacher he would be able to get their language down in a few weeks time.
"Old man, no stare." Naruto told Ozpin, who looked towards Blake, seeing as she was the only person that Naruto seemed to trust.
Yang giggled, drawing a few stares at her. She leaned over and whispered something into her younger sister's ear, intending to share the joke. Instead, she got a confused frown.
"Yang, what does 'pedophile' mean?" the younger girl asked.
The room stilled, before Nora and Jaune exploded into laughter. The others tried their hardest to hide their blushes and snickers while Ozpin sat stoically at his seat, refusing to look at any of the students.
"Ms. Xiao-Long!" Professor Goodwitch glared down onto the teen who could only stared at her sister in betrayal.
"What did I do?" Ruby flinched under her sister's stare.
Even now, she had her hand on his shoulder.
A bond had formed between them. The two just clicked together, with Blake there was no doubt something maternal going off in her. Faunus females were rather prone to developing bonds with younger faunus, even more so cat faunus. Ozpin was no fool, he could see behind the pretty bow that Blake wore. Cats were maternal animals, and those traits did pass over to a cat faunus as well. Normally it only applied to their own children, or children they bonded with.
The bond could have formed when Blake was taking care of Naruto's wounds, undressing, and redressing him. When she acted motherly towards him, her brain could have released hormones at those times.
That was just his guess though.
"That makes a lot of sense," Blake confirmed for Ozpin, who had yet to look at them since the last comment was made.
For Naruto, he was alone in some place where people had hurt him, and he lost everything it would seem. Blake was the first person who had been find to him, and when he had been knocked out, the only thing comforting to him must have been the warmth of her body, and her scent.
"Okay, I won't stare... Mister Uzumaki, can you understanding what I am saying?" Ozpin asked, and Naruto nodded his head slowly.
Naruto raised his hand up and moved his thumb and index finger apart a little.
"Little, not lot. Where this place?" Naruto asked, his grammar horrible, but he didn't know a lot of the language like Sakura or Sasuke did. This was the language that was used in other parts of his world, limited parts, and seeing as those parts were not ninja countries, Naruto never once bothered learning the language. He had kind of skipped classes on those days when it would come up.
"Sakura? Sasuke? Maybe their his other teammates along with Temujin?" Glynda proposed, hoping that his world operated at the same basis as their own.
"Perhaps, but we won't be sure until he wakes. Until then, the most we can do is speculate." Ozpin answered.
He didn't like the old man's eyes though, it was like the man was observing Naruto and calculating what to do with him. The man wasn't coldly staring at him, but his eyes were not warm either.
They were aged, wise, but they were also showing confusion about Naruto.
"Beacon Academy, my school. Where did you come from?" Ozpin slowly asked Naruto, who was taking a few minutes to work out what Ozpin was saying.
Blake sat next to Naruto patiently as he tried to work out the words.
"Konohagakure." Naruto stated to Ozpin, who looked at Blake, and she shrugged her shoulders. That wasn't any Faunus settlement that she had ever heard of before, or any village she had heard. It wasn't even located on Menagerie, the "Kingdom" of Faunus as it was called by some people.
She had never heard of such a place period.
"It would be a shame this potential of yours was allowed to grow rusty, and it doesn't seem like you could learn anything from a prep school..." Ozpin muttered as he looked at Naruto.
Glynda, who could see where the man was going with this, turned on him with a glare. "Ozpin! Haven't you bent the rules enough when you allowed for Ms. Rose to attend the school. Surely you're not planning to do the same for the young man?"
"Is 'alien ninja fox boy' going to attend Beacon too? Cool!" Nora exclaimed.
Ozpin ignored Nora's exclamation, instead he turned to his deputy with a question. "And what do you propose I do instead? Send him to Ironwood?"
She opened her mouth, then snapped it shut.
Ozpin smirked. He had won that round.
If he let Naruto go, the law would force Ozpin to send Naruto to an orphanage, which the boy wouldn't be able to last in for long. He was not only a Faunus, but he spoke a different language, and he would make others uncomfortable with his body. The boy's body was... something that did not belong on somebody his age. Ozpin was actually afraid that Naruto would become the target for a woman or man who wanted somebody his age, and knew how to seduce young boys.
"How horrid!" Pyrrha gasped.
"Can't he come to Beacon... I'll watch over him." Blake offered in earnest. If Ruby at 15 could come to the academy, for whatever reason, then Naruto and his fighting potential should surely be welcome at the academy. "Ruby came early." Blake mentioned quickly to influence Ozpin's choice.
It didn't make sense for Ruby to be super special and only she be allowed to come to the academy early.
"I contacted Taiyang before I asked Ruby... and I can't exactly contact people who don't exist. Anyway, I can't exactly ask you if you want to come to this school, right?" Ozpin asked Naruto, who simply stared at him blankly, not sure what to make of it.
Naruto had no clue what Ozpin had just said, he only knew a few of those words, and they didn't make so much sense to him.
Ozpin silently slid papers in front of Blake.
...
"What?" Blake asked as she picked up the papers. She tilted her head a little, and Naruto looked over her shoulder to try and look at what she was reading.
"You know, it is a shame that he doesn't have any relatives. It is also a shame you yourself have no official family records..." Ozpin told Blake in a sly tone. She blinked a few times, and she looked down at the papers. It was true, one set of the papers concerned her. It showed that she herself had no family, she had been raised in a faunus group where the adults all came together to raise the children, and she lived outside of the Kingdoms with no official records of her life.
Glynda looked at Ozpin, then at the screen then back at Ozpin. She recognized what the man was doing and shook her head. While the man was incredibly smart and was a natural born leader, there were times when she questioned his reasoning.
'Honestly, entrusting such a dangerous boy to an ex-criminal.'
These papers were the only copies of her papers, because she herself filled them out and turned them into Beacon when she applied at the school.
The other set of papers were concerning Naruto, the information was filled out properly, only the family, home, and the the more trivial things being empty... The handwriting showed that it had been Ozpin to fill the paper out, though he had been working on this paper when Naruto had been "answering" questions.
"What are you getting at?" Blake asked with some surprise, though she was getting an idea.
Naruto just looked between Ozpin and Blake, confused as to why Ozpin seemed to be cocky about something, and Blake was confused.
He did see his name on one of the papers though.
'That is not my handwriting.' Naruto thought as he looked at it.
'This is... not Ozpin's handwriting, this looks like... my handwriting? He copied my handwriting... Oh!' Blake thought when she understood what Ozpin was trying to say.
Blake, along with many other, came to an epiphany alongside her counterpart and made sounds of understanding.
Ruby raised her hand. "Am I the only one who doesn't get what's going on?"
Jaune raised his hand as well. "Me neither,"
'Complete dolts, both of them!'
There were no official records in the Kingdoms for either Naruto or Blake, these papers here were the ONLY proof that they existed in the Kingdom. Blake herself filled it out, and it would be no issue for her to simply write down that she was related to Naruto. She could lie and say she adopted him recently, that they were siblings, she could easily claim guardianship over Naruto, and give him permission to attend Beacon.
Naruto wouldn't have to leave her... Naruto wouldn't have to go to an orphanage because of how young he was.
"Oh I get it now!" both Ruby and Jaune exclaimed in unison.
"It would be a shame to separate family, and if we had permission from his family, it would be easy to let him stay... the family member could even request to watch over him." Ozpin spoke with a smile.
Blake placed her free hand on Naruto's shoulder, and he looked at her with confused eyes. She smiled at him and nodded her head.
"Yeah... I wouldn't want to be separated from my family would I? You are the best Professor." Blake said as she wrote Naruto's name down on her own documents, and she wrote her name down on his documents. She listed herself as his adopted mother, nobody could disprove it, and she listed him as her adopted son, again something nobody could disprove. She smiled and handed the papers back to Ozpin. "Thank you for letting me and my son into your academy." Blake said with a smile on her face.
"Mother? I assumed that you would have chosen to take him as a sibling?" Ren asked, waiting for the girl to give him an answer.
Blake blushed from his question. "I'm sure the story will explain why,"
Naruto could sense the happy mood of the room, and the mood made him a little more happy, but he was still pretty depressed. He would be really depressed when he wasn't as numb to his emotions as he currently was.
"Yippee! 'Alien Ninja Fox' boy gets to go to Beacon! Isn't that cool Renny?"
"I'm sure it is Nora,"
He lost everything... it had yet to truly hit him.
"And here;s the sad mood," Yang commented.
"No problem... but mother?" Ozpin asked, since he was pretty sure that Blake would have picked sister or something.
"Recently adopted, what can I say, I wanted to adopt early in life. Isn't that right Naruto?" Blake asked Naruto, before she forgot that he didn't understand much of what she was saying.
She would have to help him there, and he could then teach her his language once he mastered her language.
"... Yes?" Naruto answered, just agreeing to agree, and Blake nodded her head.
"Now, off you two go. Your comrades will be recovering soon, and then we will start the team assigning ceremony." Ozpin motioned for them to leave, and Naruto stood up. He could read the gesture asking him to leave. Blake nodded and walked with Naruto towards the elevator.
When they were gone, Ozpin leaned back into his chair.
'A girl with silver eyes, a boy from the Arc family, and a 13 year old with enough skill to take on a large group of students with ease... this is going to be a very interesting class.' Ozpin thought as he closed his eyes, and then he smirked to himself.
"Huh?!" Ruby and Jaune asked as they heard Ozpin's thoughts.
"What do my eyes have to do with anything?" Ruby asked. Sure her eyes were an unusual shade but it was something she had inherited from her mother.
"Nothing in particular Ms. Rose. It is in my experience that I'd realised that most hunters with silver eyes usual have very successful careers. " Ozpin's half-truth came from his lips as smooth as silk. It was true that silver eyed warriors were normally very powerful but had omitted the reason why they were so powerful.
A boy that made grimm run away in terror.
Salem was not going to like that.
"Who's Salem?"
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