I do not own Naruto or RWBY.

First, I would like to thank everyone for their condolences about my recent loss, it means a lot.

Second, you can now find a link to a picture of Naruto's butterfly swords on my profile. However since links seem to not be working you will have to remove the web address. (am I allowed to do this)

Finally, a word of warning, I am horrible with fashion; I believe that my sister once said I had the color coordination of a blind dog. Which given that dogs view the world in shades of grey means that I am pretty much hopeless (thank god men's fashion is simple, no idea how women do it). I actually had to look up what a bolero jacket was, which lead to shifts, which lead to shawls, which lead to etc. (let's not get into how much my girlfriend laughed when I asked this or when she found my search history). - perhaps an exaggeration of the situation but truthfully I have a hard time describing it

But you didn't come to hear me rant about this. So without further to do, I give to you the next chapter of Snowstorm.

Chapter 3: The Growing Storm

At White Castle, the home of the Schnee family, two teenagers converse behind a stage.

One is a 17 year old girl with a petite figure, with pale skin and long white hair that is tied into a ponytail that leans to the right. She wears a short white bolero jacket with red insides over a white dress that has a slip of black lace coming out of the top in the middle of her chest, covering the slight cleavage that her dress would show. On her feet she wears a pair of white high heeled boots. On the left side of her face she bears a small scar over her eye. Finally, by her side is her trusted weapon, myrtenaster, a silver rapier with a revolving dust chamber at its base. This girl is Weiss Schnee.

Beside Weiss is one of her few friends and best friend, Naruto Uzumaki. Naruto is a seventeen year old boy with spiky blonde hair and slightly tanned skin. He wears a male version of Weiss's outfit with some differences. Naruto's white jacket stops just before his hips and has a burnt orange inside. Under the jacket he wears a white dress shirt with snowflake cufflinks. For pants he is wearing a pair of white dress pants. His outfit is completed by a pair of black dress shoes and a black belt. Finally, Naruto carries a pair of butterfly swords in a simple black sheath at the small of his back.

Naruto's butterfly swords are a pair of short swords with blades about the length of his forearms. Below the blades he had a small dust revolver chamber, about half the size of Weiss's own revolving dust chamber on myrtenaster. At the end of the sword he has a simple golden handle with a hand guard. At the point where the sword handle meets the blade a small protrusion curves out along the blunt side of the blade similar to a sai but smaller in size, allowing him to either wield his blade like a tonfa or trap an opponent's weapon. Finally, the blades themselves are about the length of his forearms with one side curved and sharp and the other side blunt, with both sides leading to a sharp point.

"Good luck out there." Naruto whispered to Weiss.

"Hmph, like I need luck." Weiss said as turned her head up, adopting a snooty look, before glancing at Naruto with a smile.

"Well then you won't mind if I take back my luck for myself. Will you princess?" Naruto teased with a smile.

"You can't take back what has been given. What kind of knight would do that? Where's your chivalry?" Weiss continued with their game.

Before Naruto could respond a voice spoke up. "Two minutes till exam, please clear the stage."

Hearing these words Naruto nodded before grabbing Weiss into a hug causing her to adopt a startled expression before she relaxed into the boy's arms.

"Don't be nervous, you can do this." Naruto whispered into the girl's ear before releasing Weiss from his arms and walking off the stage to join the rest of the Schnee family. If he had looked back he would have seen a warm smile on Weiss's face before she turned around and faced the curtain with a serious expression.

It took little time for Naruto to reach the Schnee family viewing booth where he would watch Weiss along with Winter and Jacques Schnee.

Jacques Schnee still looked the same as he did when Naruto first met him in the refuge center. His short cropped white hair and lack of discernible wrinkles doing a great job at hiding the years that had passed. Also just like then, Jacques Schnee still wore his signature white suit.

As for Winter Schnee, Weiss's older sister, she could often be compared to a more mature version of Weiss. Winter wears her white hair in bun with the exception of the bangs on her right side and a small lock of hair around her left ear. Her body is also more mature than Weiss's, being both more womanly and taller than her sister, a point that Weiss sometimes got teased over. Finally Winter wore a female version of the Atlesian military's officer uniform.

Jacques greeted Naruto with a quick greeting and a smile before turning back to the stage. Normally he would have given Naruto a better greeting but the tenseness of his shoulders and the way his hands would fiddle with his white gloves gave away the nervousness he felt about the exam to come.

Naruto stifled a laugh in his head at the man's actions, for all of his unshakeable reputation to the outside world, the man couldn't help but worry about those he considered part of his family. A trait that manifested regardless of the amount of training that had been given to those he called family.

Though Naruto couldn't help but wonder if this trait hadn't appeared because of the actions of the White Fang or other faunus terrorist groups. Their attacks on the Schnee Dust Company had been escalating as of late and there had been executions of Schnee employees, friends, and family members in the past.

"Naruto, finish saying good luck to Weiss?" Winter asked as she guided the younger boy to the seat next to hers.

"Yes. No. Shut up." Naruto said as he noticed the teasing smile that began to appear on Winter's face as he answered.

Before Winter had the chance to speak and possibly embarrass him, Naruto continued. "Winter, I didn't expect you here. I thought you would be busy working with General Ironwood."

"I got the day off. I couldn't let Weiss take her test to get into Beacon without being here to support her." Winter answered simply.

Naruto smiled at this. Winter was a great sister to Weiss, and if he was honest, to him as well. She was overprotective, she was a teaser, she could even comfort. Plus she wasn't afraid to set her siblings straight if she had to. She had actually helped in his and Weiss's lessons about dust when they were younger.

It was times like these that Naruto was happy that the Schnee family took him in after he saved Weiss's life. Jacques Schnee had even let him keep his last name. On that day he gained a new father and two sisters.

It had taken Naruto about one to two years to accept Jacques Schnee as another father. In that time the man had him join Weiss in her lessons, learning from tutors and Winter about the world of Remnant, fighting, dust, and the Grimm. Granted Naruto wasn't the best when it came to his studies, but he wasn't the worst either. Jacques even began to treat Naruto like a son during this time.

Winter herself had eventually taken on the role of doting sister. Whenever he had a problem, Naruto could always go to her and ask for advice or help. Winter at first had not trusted him, viewing him as a threat to Weiss when they first met. Even after hearing about how he saved Weiss's life, Winter needed him to grow on her. It was actually Weiss who caused Naruto and Winter to like each other, forcing them to interact through her so called games. Since then Winter had become one of Naruto's best friends. Though to be fair he only had three.

Finally there was Weiss. She became his everything. She brought him happiness when he thought none could be found. She became his sister and his best friend. They were almost always together. Then one day he said that she was the princess of white castle. Of course Weiss responded that every princess needs a knight, and Naruto filled that role.

That day he asked Jacques for training so that he would always be able to protect Weiss, to become her bodyguard. So when Naruto was ten he asked if he could become Weiss's bodyguard and he began to be trained.

What Naruto didn't know at the time is that Jacques Schnee considered Naruto as another one of his children and an heir to the Schnee Dust Company and didn't have him trained to be a simple bodyguard. Naruto's training was instead directed towards being able to one day run the private security forces of the Schnee Dust Company. A force that deals with Grimm incursions, faunus terrorists, the day to day security of high value personnel, the security of Schnee Dust Company facilities and the dust they mine, they even work with the military on special projects.

Of course Naruto was not completely without dreams. Naruto's dream was simple for all of its complexity. He wanted to find the source of the Grimm, where they came from, and how they are created. He wanted to put a stop to the Grimm.

As Naruto turned his attention to the stage he watched as the curtain opened and Weiss appeared. Drawing myrtenaster she adopted her stance and faced the other side of the stage where a giant suit of armor dropped down.

Up in the booth Naruto watched closely as the giant suit of armor began to stand, towering over Weiss's petite form. This was Weiss's test; she had to defeat the suit of armor if she wanted to become a huntress, to join one of the most dangerous professions in Remnant.

If Weiss does succeed she would attend Beacon Academy and become a huntress. She would fight on the frontlines in the war against the Grimm, a war that humanity was losing. Yes, humanity's main settlements and cities were safe, but too often were hunters called to retake or protect a small town. This loss of territory and lives was not helped by the few efforts to expand the kingdoms seeming to end in failure and massacres with Konoha and Vale's abandoned city, Mountain Glenn being prominent examples. It seemed almost too easy to forget in places like Vale and Atlas that outside of their cities, the world was not safe, and that humanity was losing ground.

This was without considering the Crusade, a hunter operation that seemed to happen somewhere between every ten to twenty years where a group of hunters is dispatched out of the kingdoms to find the source of the Grimm. Few if any of these hunters are ever seen again. This is why Weiss would have to prove herself to not just Beacon Academy but to her family. Of course Naruto and Winter fully expected Weiss to succeed.

On the stage Naruto watched as Weiss danced around the giant suit of armor, seemingly untouchable as she attacked with her elegant weapon. He was there when that weapon was made, a moment he remembered fondly.


(5 years ago)

Naruto sat at a table as he carefully worked on his blades before he attached them to their respected handle. He wanted the blades to be perfect for his needs.

Across from Naruto, Weiss worked diligently on a revolver like object. Dust cartridges lay strewn across the table as she meticulously measured the dust and tested whether they would fit in the revolver like object before her. Occasionally spinning the object to make sure it wouldn't catch on anything.

Looking up from her work she observed twelve year old Naruto as he created his short blades before sighing. "What are you going to do when you have to fight at a distance?"

Naruto looked up before he smiled and answered simply. "My projection will keep me safe so that I can close the distance."

"No. You can't always get close." Weiss answered before she got up and moved to Naruto's side of the table.

"Hey!" Naruto said as Weiss lowered the blade in his hand.

"Here." Weiss said as she reached over and brought some of the dust cartridges over and some spare parts.

Together they worked to create a smaller version of Weiss's revolving cylinder of dust, one meant for his smaller blades. Finally taking the finished product into his hands he looked at it and smiled.

"Thanks."

"It was nothing. I just couldn't have my knight make a fool of himself." Weiss said as she turned away with a blush of embarrassment on her face.

"You know, you can't rely on just dust and your glyphs either." Naruto said as he grabbed Weiss's weapon and began to show her proper ways to make her weapon sharp and how to give it a better tip.

The two continued to work side by side on their weapons before they finished their weapons together, helping each other along the way. When they finished, Naruto had a pair of butterfly swords that could transform into revolvers and use multiple types of dust, while Weiss had her multi-purpose rapier, specializing in the use of dust and glyphs.

As they admired their weapons Winter walked into the room.

"So what are you going to name them?" Winter asked.

"Myrtenaster." Weiss answered. She thought that the elegance of her white rapier fit her favorite flower perfectly.

"Name them?" Naruto asked.

"Of course, you have to name them." Weiss said.

"But what?" Naruto asked.

"Name them after something important to you." Winter answered.

'Something important to me' Naruto thought.

"Alright, I'll call them…"


Absently Naruto reached behind his back and stroked his weapons which he had jointly named Aufgrund der Unschuld (1). Choosing to name them after what he would fight to protect.

Once more Naruto continued to watch the match between Weiss and the suit of armor only to hold his breath as he watched the suit of armor's sword almost hit Weiss before lifting his arm in an attempt to use his semblance to put a shield in front of Weiss's face when the suit of armor went to punch her. However before he could put a shield up his arm was grabbed and lowered by Winter, who shook her head.

"We can't interfere. Just believe in her." Winter said while staring into his eyes, checking to see if her point got across.

Looking down Naruto felt embarrassed at his lack of faith before he whispers, "I just don't like seeing her get hurt."

Winter smiles a sad smile before she answers. "Neither do I but we must trust her, just as we trust you when you fight."

Naruto stiffens before nodding. Turning his head back to the battle, Naruto recalls how he came to earn one of the names the public knew him by besides. Names such as the other Schnee or just Naruto Schnee, very few people called him Naruto Uzumaki.


(3 years ago)

It had started simply, if impulsively. A boy had been pressing Weiss for a date while the family was conducting business in the city of Atlas. Naruto hadn't understood where the brigand of a boy had thought himself worthy of Weiss and had seen that he was making her uncomfortable, so in typical fashion intervened.

Of course when he intervened the boy grabbed Weiss's hand and told him to get lost, so Naruto punched him. At the time he didn't know what would come from this and hadn't thought about it, but apparently the boy had been the current Atlas champion for upcoming hunters.

He didn't know that the boy would challenge him to a tournament style fight over the incident. He definitely didn't know that it would be his first fight in the Atlas branch of the Hunter's League. He still didn't remember the boy's name, but he won the fight and was recognized as an up and coming fighter from Atlas.

Not long after this fight Naruto was offered the chance to join the Hunter's League and fight to become Atlas's champion. When Naruto went to Jacques Schnee for permission and the belief that he could possibly bring honor to the family if he were to succeed he was given permission to fight with the Schnee Dust Company as his sponsor.

In his first year of fighting he didn't lose a single match, his semblance, projection, allowing him to create shields that stopped his opponent from damaging him while his butterfly swords allowed him to quickly damage and defeat his opponents. It didn't take long for him to become the new Atlas champion.

Now in his second year as a fighter he is fighting as a representative of Atlas in the Mistral regional championship in the final round. Today he would be fighting in a battle that the press was calling the battle of the century as he would be fighting the only other undefeated fighter for the championship.

The match between Naruto Schnee, the Relentless Shield and Pyrrha Nikos, the Invincible Girl and last year's Mistral regional champion, had already drawn lots of attention and the seats were packed as the crowd wondered who would lose the right to be called undefeated.

Naruto walked into the arena, drawing his weapons from behind his back as he takes his stance before looking over at his opponent. The girl is a tall red head with long hair tied into a ponytail going down to her waist. She wears a light brown strapless armor top and a miniskirt with some sort of red cloth tied to her waist. She also wears armor around her legs and boots. Finally she wears some sort of crown like headpiece and a necklace. For a weapon she has a shield that is attached to her arm, likely from another piece of armor, and a xiphos sword in her right arm.

Taking a deep breath Naruto centered himself as he waited for the battle to commence. Across from him, Pyrrha adjusted her stance and waited.

A bell rang as the announcer spoke. "Begin."

Naruto took off at a sprint, hoping to quickly close the distance as Pyrrha moved forward as well her weapon changing into a rifle as she charged.

Taking aim with her weapon Pyrrha fires off three quick shots before transforming her weapon into a javelin.

Acting quickly Naruto used his semblance to create a shield in front of him to stop the dust rounds and continue his charge. Reaching the Invincible Girl he prepares to meet her in close combat only for her to use her javelin as a pole vault and swing herself over his head.

In the air Pyrrha switched her weapon back to a sword and once she had landed began her attack, believing Naruto could not use his semblance to block what he could not see. Thus she was surprised when her stab was blocked by a shield that covered the entirety of Naruto's back.

Using her surprise to his advantage Naruto drops to the ground and kicks out in a spin like maneuver hoping to knock the girl off balance. Pyrrha seeing the attack coming reacts in time and jumping back.

Now facing the Invincible Girl the Relentless Shield closes the distance beginning a vicious attack with his butterfly swords in an attempt to score a hit, only for the girl to counter his attacks with her sword and shield.

Needing to make room Pyrrha uses a subtle application of her semblance, polarity, to increase the strength of her shield thrust to knock Naruto off-balance before changing her weapon into a javelin and taking a stance that had her shield in front of her and her javelin balanced on top.

Regaining his balance Naruto looks at the girl in front of him before using the dust in his weapons to use fire, his favored form of dust manipulation to try to cut off the girl's maneuverability by sending two streams of fire down either side of Pyrrha before rushing forward.

Pyrrha waits for him and is ready for his last trick of sending a blast of fire at her face and easily blocks it with her shield. Naruto seeing her blinded uses his left hand weapons protrusion to lock the javelin in place and attempts to throw it away from the blinded girl.

Pyrrha feeling the grip on her weapon, surprises her opponent by using a dust shot to propel her javelin forward, having the sudden propulsion force Naruto's weapon out of his hand as Pyrrha's weapon carries it on its journey into the arena's wall.

Though disarmed Naruto takes advantage of her lack of bladed weapon and keeps her on the defensive, before Pyrrha uses her skill with polarity to subtly have Naruto overextend himself, allowing Pyrrha to grab him by the arm and kick off him.

Naruto once again proving true to his namesake puts a shield in front of his chest, stopping Pyrrha's kick from knocking him to the ground but still managing to overextend his arm.

With his arm hurt and Pyrrha with the advantage Naruto surrounds himself with a shield, greatly depleting his remaining aura reserves but forcing Pyrrha to back off and avoid wasting her own energy.

With Naruto occupied Pyrrha rushed towards her weapon only for Naruto to exit the shield and turn his weapon into its revolver form. Knowing that his weapon wasn't the most dust efficient in this form he uses all of his leftover fire dust to fire an explosive shot at Pyrrha.

Pyrrha hearing the loud shot going off is barely able to dodge. However the explosion still knocks her off her feet and towards the wall with her weapon imbedded in it.

Naruto seeing Pyrrha vulnerable for the first time this match spins the revolver of his weapon before leveling it on Pyrrha before firing.

Pyrrha having little choice uses her polarity to throw her shield at the dust enhanced shot before reaching for her weapon and grabs the javelin from the wall before turning the weapon back into a xiphos while putting Naruto's other butterfly sword in her other hand.

Meanwhile Pyrrha's shield intercepts the dust shot and gets knocked to the ground before being flash frozen, showing that Naruto had used ice dust in his shot.

Naruto takes aim with the weapon one more time and fires the second half of his ice dust at the floor in front of Pyrrha before turning the weapon back into its butterfly sword form. He was using too much aura for this fight; he would have to continue the fight up close.

Naruto's shot missed Pyrrha who upon dodging also closes the distance with Naruto.

Meeting in the middle Naruto quickly discovers that while Pyrrha isn't used to dual-wielding weapons she is still quite effective at it, seeming to be able to move the blade at the exact right time, despite her inexperience, not knowing that Pyrrha was using her ability of polarity to move the weapons correctly.

With little choice Naruto covers his unarmed arm in a shield before using it as a shield itself, blocking Pyrrha's xiphos while locking the butterfly sword that Pyrrha wielded with his own.

Pyrrha seeing an opportunity suddenly breaks the contest of strength over the butterfly swords and jumps back, causing Naruto's secondary weapon to once more hit the ground.

Switching her weapon back to its rifle form Pyrrha lets loose a barrage of shots while Naruto switches his remaining butterfly sword to its pistol form and fires that sword's ice dust at the ground while using his aura to kneed the dust into creating a wall to block Pyrrha's bullets so that he could grab his second weapon.

Now armed with both his weapons once more Naruto goes out to meet Pyrrha in combat once more. Quickly creating a projecting a shield a decent sized square shield stretched horizontally along his eye level, he forced Pyrrha's xiphos to rebound violently as it hit the unexpected obstacle in the air, leaving her open.

Pyrrha reacting quickly swings her out using her metal grieves to block Naruto's first slash before twisting herself out of the way of his second slash, the blade only grazing the armor over her ribs.

Naruto seeing that his blades failed to connect and that Pyrrha was prepared to counter kicked out with his leg using a quick shield to block Pyrrha's xiphos from intercepting his kick. With his kick unblocked he managed to knock Pyrrha back.

Once more the two faced off with Pyrrha having her sword transform back into a javelin and Naruto taking his stance with both butterfly swords. Both fighters panting heavily and wearing smiles, ready to lock against each other in combat once more. However before the two could continue the buzzer sounded and the match was over.

"And the winner of this amazing match is decided. Naruto Schnee, the Relentless Shield's aura levels have entered the red, the winner is Pyrrha Nikos, the Invincible Girl."

The crowd went wild as despite the lack of any truly damaging hits the fight had been intense. As for Naruto and Pyrrha they met in the middle of the arena and shook hands.

"That was a great match." Naruto responded with a smile.

"Thanks, you were great as well." Pyrrha responded in kind, a friendly if nervous smile on her face.

"I hope you know that next time, won't be so easy." Naruto said with a teasing smile before turning and walking away. Weiss would inevitably be waiting and if Winter was there, he would not likely hear the end of it until he was checked for injuries and confirmed to be okay.

Pyrrha seemed surprised at his lighthearted nature as she stared at his back before a bright smile took over her face. "I look forward to it." She softly said before she too walked off.


Naruto smiled at the memory. It was the day he met Pyrrha who would go on to become his third friend. Whenever his adoptive father did business in Mistral he made it a point to try and visit with the Pumpkin Flakes mascot. Even then they still found times to write each other. He had been surprised to learn that he and later Weiss were her first friends.

Still to this day he had fought Pyrrha a total of three times and lost each time, with each loss securing her victory at the Mistral regional tournament. The first time had been when he had overused his aura and gone into the red. The second time he had learned and become more precise in the creation of his shields, not needing to cover as wide of an area, but his increase in the use of dust against the superior combatant had again caused him to go into the red early, though this time they had both scored hits on each other. The final time had been close as he was no longer wasting as much aura when using dust or his semblance but failed to defeat her in close combat against her superior skills.

Pyrrha just seemed to always have her armor, shield, or sword in the right place at the right time. This wasn't helped by the fact his attacks seemed to be off slightly when he attacked her. Finally, Naruto still didn't know what her semblance was and Pyrrha seemed to be content to let him guess. Though he had a feeling he was going to kick himself when he learned.

Focusing once more on the battle between Weiss and the giant armor Naruto watched as Weiss showed an impressive level of skill with dust and defeated the giant armor. Weiss, panting heavily from the exertion turned to face the examiners before giving a quick curtsy.

While Weiss curtsied, Winter stood and applauded with a small smile on her face and Jacques simply sat and clapped, it seemed his worries for his daughter were just beginning. Meanwhile Naruto wasn't as refined and jumped from his seat and cheered.

Weiss hearing Naruto's cheering merely smiled. She was going to Beacon. She was one step closer to her dream.

But it wasn't just Weiss that was going to Beacon. With Weiss's acceptance now guaranteed Naruto would follow. Naruto opened his scroll and accepted his invitation to Beacon Academy, his four year tenure as the Atlas champion having earned him a spot at the prestigious institute.

Alright and done. This chapter of course ends the prologue of Snowstorm.

I introduced Pyrrha but a true introduction is to come, though I hope I did her justice. I also tried my hand with Winter, but until more is known about her I didn't want to set her character in stone.

I hope you enjoyed the Weiss interactions. Also because I know someone will ask, no they are not together, at least not yet. I have a couple of ideas on when they will get together.

Naruto is damaged. Don't believe for a second he is well adjusted. The damage caused by the Konoha massacre will affect him. However what they are have not been revealed yet.

Again you might notice in the story that the Grimm seem a lot more dangerous in this story, I will admit I am trying to draw an Attack on Titan vibe to the story without making it that desperate. But I wanted to make it seem that humanity is kind of desperate. Besides even in the show the Mountain Glenn failed as an expansion to Vale and students at Beacon were called upon to help with Grimm infestations outside of Vale (at least I think that was what team CFVY was doing)

Next stop for this story will be Beacon Academy where we will meet the main cast and interact more with Pyrrha.

Oh to those worried that Naruto is going to be similar to Weiss in fighting style let me put that to rest. Naruto will be a mirror to her fighting style.

Naruto being a physical fighter with mage abilities to support

Weiss being a mage with physical abilities to support

Still trying to figure out what I should do for teams. Anyway to those who read a Clan Reborn I will be working on that next.

Finally please drop a review and tell me what you think so far (this was my first real drawn out battle between two people so I'd love to hear your thoughts. Of course I'd also love your thoughts on the characters and how you think the story is going.)

(1) Aufgrund der Unschuld - Virtue of Innocence (German) - so basically Naruto fights to protect the innocent or to shield people from the darkness of the world