What's this? Another chapter so soon?! Don't get too excited, it's not always gonna be like this. Anyway, just to let you guys know Jutsu names will be in italics when spoken out loud and in Japanese with their English name at the end of the chapter. Enjoy!

Chapter 2:

At Least There was Nothing in the Ramen

"Read 'em and weep," Naruto proclaimed as he threw down his hand, a straight flush, and pulled all of the candy on the ground toward him. Suigetsu cursed, Karin groaned, and Jugo sighed at how badly they were losing.

After the sun had set, all the students had gathered in the ballroom, and the four ninjas had decided to pass the time by playing poker. Though they were forced to use candy, favors, and other various little things like that instead of money. No thanks to a certain toad sage robbing them of their money to pay for his booze and food.

"At this rate, we're not going to have anything left," Karin complained.

"We could always play strip po-" Suigetsu's idea was immediately rejected by the other three before he could even finish. They all agreed just to be done for the night, and Naruto put the deck of cards away. Jugo lied back and closed his eyes, while Suigetsu began reading the Icha Icha book he had brought with him.

Naruto could see Karin's eye twitch, but she refrained from hitting the swordsman. She stood up and grabbed her pajamas from her bag.

"I'm going to take a shower. I think all the other girls have already finished."

Naruto nodded as Karin walked off towards the bathroom. Suigetsu looked up from his book. "You think Karin will be okay with the public showers?"

Naruto grinned impishly at his friend. "Oh, what's this? Does Suigetsu actually care for Karin?"

"Shut it!" Suigetsu exclaimed, getting looks from the entire ballroom. He lowered his voice and coughed awkwardly. "It's just… you know how she is when it comes to that. I'm the only one who can mock her, and now she has to worry about other girls while she's in the shower."

"She'll be fine," Naruto replied. "Karin's an Uzumaki; we're tougher than we look."

Karin walked into the bathroom, quickly confirming that it was empty before setting her stuff down. She began to undress but paused before taking off her undergarments.

She took a glance at the bite marks that littered her chest, arms, and neck. The one part of herself that she wished she could get rid of, the permanent reminders of her practically slave-like childhood.

Thanks to her Uzumaki heritage, she had an immense life force and could heal others by letting them bite her. Her mother had also had this ability, and in a way, it was the only Karin had left of her.

She frowned as she remembered her mother. For the two of them to stay in the village, her mother had made a deal to heal all of the village's wounded. That eventually led to her death, and Karin was forced to take on those duties.

She could clearly remember the pain the first time she had healed someone and how many times she had nearly died of chakra exhaustion. She had held on, though, and had eventually gone with Orochimaru in hopes of a better life, but it had merely been trading one bad circumstance for another.

With a smile, she thought back to her first meeting with Naruto and how she had thought that he was nothing more than a loud-mouthed brat. But now here she was, following that idiot who happened to be family.

"I'm gonna make sure to find a way to get those marks off of ya, -ttebayo! And Naruto Uzumaki never goes back on his word."

He was an idealist and someone who was perhaps too quick to forgive, but she had never seen anyone who worked as hard as him. Before meeting Naruto, she would have scoffed at the idea of ever ridding herself of these bite marks, but she fully believed that he could find a way. After all, he was an unpredictable knucklehead who had done the impossible before.

Naruto looked through his supplies to make sure that everything was ready just in case he had to fight tomorrow. He checked the edges of his kunai to make sure they weren't blunted and did the same to his shuriken. To his left, Suigetsu was giggling at whatever was happening in his book while Jugo was snoring lightly.

Naruto discreetly tossed a rolled up piece of paper over to Suigetsu, who read it and gave him a grin. With his accomplice in crime now informed, the two of them would just have to wait for everyone else to fall asleep.

Karin walked out of the bathroom in her night clothes, her old clothes bundled together in her hand. She stepped around those who were already asleep and sat down on her makeshift bed. After placing her glasses into a case, she pulled a nightcap over her eyes and followed Jugo into the realm of dreams.

Little by little, more and more students fell asleep, until finally, only Naruto and Suigetsu were awake. They carefully stood, making sure not to wake up Jugo and Karin. Naruto grabbed a couple of bowls from his bag and handed one to Suigetsu.

"Now, begin Operation Boukou Kouzui."

The next morning, every single student except Naruto and Suigetsu awoke to find that their bladders had decided to betray them in their sleep. The two pranksters were prepared, though, and they took off out of the ballroom laughing like madmen.

Naruto finished pulling on his jacket as they finally got a safe distance from the dozens of teens after their heads.

"We lost 'em," Suigetsu said, and the two stopped running. Chuckling to themselves, they high-fived at the success of their prank. That was until they felt a massive killing intent directed at them and their heads soon met the ground.

"You morons!" The enraged voice of Karin met their ears as Naruto struggled to pick himself off the ground. Suigetsu had partially liquefied due to Karin actually hitting him, and he groaned in pain.

Jugo stood behind Karin, holding her back from continuing her assault.

"Would it help if we said we were sorry?" Naruto questioned, but the rapid twitching of her eyebrow was all the answer he needed.

Naruto nursed the bruise on his head as he stood at the top of a cliff with all the other students. He could almost feel them glaring at him. Standing in front of them were Professor Ozpin, who was casually drinking coffee, and Professor Goodwitch.

"For years, you have trained to become warriors," Ozpin said, "and today, your abilities will be tested in the Emerald Forest."

Ozpin glanced over to Professor Goodwitch, and she spoke up, "Now, I'm sure many of you have heard rumors about the assignment of teams. Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates… Today."

A few heads to his right, Naruto heard Ruby let out a little groan.

"These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time at Beacon," Ozpin informed, "so it is in your best interests to be paired with someone with whom you can work well."

'How is that gonna work, though?' Naruto wondered. 'Do we get to choose our teammates?'

"That being said," Ozpin continued, "the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years."

"What!?" Ruby exclaimed in a panic, and Naruto shared a glance with Jugo. Jugo or Karin would be able to find him easily, and Suigetsu would just turn into a puddle of water before anyone else locked eyes with him.

"After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest," Ozpin instructed. "You will meet opposition along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy anything in your path, or you will die."

Naruto looked over to see a look of pure rapture on Suigetsu's face at that prospect, and he felt sorry for any Grimm that happened to wander into his path. Puke Boy from the airship gulped nervously, probably at the prospect of danger.

"You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation, but our instructors will not intervene." As Ozpin continued, Suigetsu's maniacal grin grew wider and wider. "At the end of the path, you will find an abandoned temple containing several relics. Each pair must choose one and return to the top of the cliff. We will regard that item, as well as your standing, and grade you appropriately. Are there any questions?"

"Yeah, um, sir-" Puke Boy raised his hand but was ignored.

"Good. Now, take your positions," Ozpin said. As Puke boy tried to ask his question, the ground under Naruto suddenly sprung up, and he was sent flying toward the Emerald Forest. He let out a loud whoop, and the other students were launched one by one soon after.

Naruto looked to see Suigetsu simply turn his body to water to get to the ground, gravity doing its job to get him there quickly. Karin aimed her hand at a tree, and a chain made of chakra shot out of her hand, and she rocketed down into the canopy. Jugo angled his body down and landed on a tree branch before disappearing beneath the leaves.

Naruto took the easiest approach and just used substitution to place himself on the ground. With a grin, he took off toward where he saw Jugo land.

A loud cacophony of roars and howls filled the air. Naruto chuckled; it would seem like Suigetsu had already found some Grimm.

"I'm slicing through their brains," Suigetsu sang happily as he cut through another Grimm. Oh, how he had missed the feeling of slicing things in two. Truly, there was nothing better than watching a lifeless body collapse to the ground after it had been cut into pieces. Well, messing with Karin was probably a close second.

As he continued his off-key singing, Grimm continued to drop like stones. He spun around, decapitating a Beowolf that had tried to sneak up on him. He cleaved another one in half before realizing that he had killed them all.

"Tch, I should've savored that battle more. Oh well, time to go find a partner and cut more Grimm to pieces!"

However, what happened next was not anything close to what he had been planning. After passing through some bushes, he blinked once slowly, and the person he had met eyes with did the same.

"WHAT THE HECK!" They both shouted and pointed at each other. "Why did it have to be you!?"

Suigetsu glared, and the action was reciprocated by his new "partner", Karin. Of all the luck in the world, he got stuck with her. Why couldn't he have found Naruto or that Ruby girl?

"Let's just hurry up and get a relic," Karin said and pointed to her left. "North should be that way."

Naruto listened carefully as he ran beside Jugo, prepared for the result of the inevitable team up of Karin and Suigetsu. He heard a loud shout coming from far away and chuckled. Yep, karma worked in hilarious ways.

"It would seem that Suigetsu and Karin have partnered up," Jugo commented.

"How long do you think it'll take before they snap and kill each other?" Naruto questioned as he kept an eye out for Grimm.

"You don't have much faith in them," he replied with a smile. "...Twelve minutes."

Naruto laughed, nearly tripping and falling. As they continued on the path northward, Naruto noticed the strange lack of Grimm to his eyes, but his gut was telling him that they were surrounded.

"Jugo, stop," Naruto commanded, and they both came to a halt. Jugo looked around and seemed to reach the same conclusion that Naruto had. They stood back to back, and Naruto grabbed a kunai from his pouch. His eyes flickered to the left, and he threw the weapon.

There was a screech, and Naruto's suspicions were proved correct. A large, dark body appeared out of thin air, with the kunai sticking out of its head. It had the body of a lion, but its head was more reptilian in appearance. Its hairless body was covered in scales, and a white and red mask in the shape of a lizard was attached to its face.

"A Grimm," Jugo muttered, "but it doesn't like any of the ones that were in the books."

"Must be an undiscovered species," Naruto replied, and a toothy grin spread across his face. "Dibs on naming it, -ttebayo!"

"That'll have to wait," Jugo said, his right arm transforming for battle. The skin on his arm turned grey, and an axe-like blade took form on the side. "There's more."

They both dodged out of the way as another invisible creature lunged for them. Naruto reached into his pouch and pulled out a paint bomb. If they were camouflaging themselves, maybe he could mess it up with this. He threw it to the ground, and paint splattered around him, covering himself and Jugo, but also getting some on the Grimm.

With the splotches of orange paint on the Grimm, Naruto could now see where the were and rushed forward into battle, Jugo doing the same. Naruto crossed his fingers in front of him.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto shouted, and three copies of himself appeared beside him. Two rushed forward and kicked two of the Grimm up into the air, while the real Naruto and third clone jumped and punched them back into the ground with enough force to snap their necks.

As another Grimm rushed at him, Naruto's clone came over and ran over and pointed his hands at Naruto's outstretched palm. An orb of blue energy appeared and Naruto ran at the Grimm.

"Rasengan!" He slammed the orb into the creature, which was sent crashing through the trees with the Rasengan ripping into its body and killing it.

Jugo was having trouble with all the Grimm surrounding him, and Naruto knew that he would have to risk entering his bloodlust mode to take them all out. Jugo's other arm took on the shape of a drill, and a crazed laugh ripped from his throat as he tore his way through the remaining Grimm. But he didn't stop after that and began rushing toward Naruto with a maniacal grin.

Naruto, having traveled with Jugo for two years, had found a way to snap him out of this long ago. He leveled his gaze at his partner and directed all of his killing intent at him. Jugo froze in his tracks, and moments later, his body returned to normal.

"Thank you," Jugo said and took a deep breath. Naruto waved him off. It was nothing. After all, all he had done was help a friend.

Naruto looked at the bodies of the Grimm they had killed and though carefully. "Let's see, they look kinda like lions, and can camouflage themselves… I got it! These things are now named Chamelions."

"Well, it's not the worst name you've come up with," Jugo mentioned, and Naruto turned to his friend with a betrayed look.

"My naming sense is fine, thank you very much."

"Whatever you say, Naruto."

Grimm were normally creatures that didn't care about danger and would often rush into battle without any thought. However, as these three Beowolves watched their prey from the bushes, they were looking slightly hesitant.

"You said this way was north just five minutes ago!" The white haired human yelled at his red-headed companion.

"Shut up! Your idiocy probably made the poles switch or something!"

"My idiocy!? Are you sure it wasn't because of your hideous looks!?"

The two were glaring at each other with enough intensity to set water on fire. One of the Grimm decided to take the chance and attack. Both turned to face the creature, annoyance in their eyes.

"Don't interfere!"

The female shot a chain out of her hand which wrapped around the Grimm and pulled its head off, while the male sliced the body in half. The other two Grimm felt fear for the first time in their lives and decided to take off in the opposite direction as the two humans continued to argue over who had dealt the killing blow.

"Naruto, why did you have to make this paint so hard to remove?" Jugo questioned, the two of them kneeling beside a stream and trying to get the paint off their skin. Unfortunately, the paint bomb's original use was going to be for a prank, which meant that it was filled with Naruto's special paint that was a pain in the butt to wash off.

Naruto apologized as he finished cleaning his face. Maybe he should tweak the stuff in the paint so that in the future he could remove it easier.

Once they no longer looked like orange colored mimes, Naruto and Jugo continued running north towards the temple. After several minutes of running, they broke through the brush into a large clearing. In the center was some ruins, which Naruto assumed was the temple Ozpin had talked about. Looking around, Naruto noticed a few large shards of ice rising out of the ground nearby, like someone had fought something here.

Pushing that to the back of his mind, Naruto walked over to ruins with Jugo and saw several small pillars inside. Some had nothing on top, while others had chess pieces. Naruto walked over and grabbed one of the black knights and slipping it into his pocket.

"Well this was anticlimactic," Naruto complained. "I was expecting some sort of epic battle with a giant Grimm, and we'd meet up with Suigetsu and Karin and show them how we fight when we're all together…"

Jugo sweatdropped at Naruto. "Let's not press our luck and just head back to the cliff."

"Fine," Naruto grumbled, crossing his arms in annoyance. "Which way's that, again?"

Naruto followed Jugo as they took off back towards the direction of the cliff. The trip there was, unfortunately, uneventful. Back at the cliff, Naruto could clearly see the signs of battle everywhere, and at the foot of the cliff was a headless Grimm that looked like a Nevermore. As he and Jugo began walking up the cliff face, he pointed to it.

"See! Someone got to fight a giant Grimm!"

"Naruto, we are not going to head back into those woods just so that you can get into a fight with the biggest Grimm you find."

Naruto stuck his tongue out at him. "Spoilsport."

Arriving at the top, they were met with eight pairs of eyes looking them with varying degrees of disbelief. Naruto recognized Ruby, Yang, Weiss, that girl in black from yesterday, and Puke boy.

Along with them were a red haired girl with green eyes. Her armor looked like it came from ancient times and she had a shield attached to her arm.

There was a girl with short orange hair, who Naruto immediately declared as a friend in his head, with turquoise eyes. She wore a white and black shirt, with a heart-shaped cutout right above her chest, and a pink skirt.

Finally was a guy whose black hair had a single streak of magenta and was pulled into a ponytail. He wore a dark green tailcoat with black and gold trimming and white pants.

"How'd you get up here?" Puke Boy exclaimed, looking the most shocked out of all of them.

"We walked up," Naruto stated as if it was an obvious fact. However, before he could explain the concept of using chakra to walk up a wall of rock, they heard a scream of terror. Seconds later, Suigetsu and Karin burst out of the treeline with a horde of King Taijitu on their tail.

Despite their mad dash to the cliff, several of the Grimm leaped over and slithered around them to block their path. Naruto's eyes widened as he watched them try to defend themselves from all directions at once.

"Jugo, throw me!"

"Wait, what are you doing?" The red haired girl exclaimed in worry. "You could get killed if you go down there."

"Those are my friends, and if I don't help them then they will die!" Naruto nodded to Jugo to give him the go ahead, and he transformed his arm so that it now had a booster on the elbow. Naruto closed his mouth when Jugo launched him towards the dozens of snake-like Grimm that were starting to get past Karin and Suigetsu's defenses.

Naruto pulled out a kunai and began shaping his chakra correctly for what he needed to do. After he had heard about this from Karin, he had bugged Jiraiya to teach him until the older man had caved. His chakra flowed into the kunai and surrounded it with the razor sharp wind chakra.

Naruto cut through the neck of one King Taijitu and grinned at Karin and Suigetsu's surprised but thankful expressions. Jugo crashed into the ground moments later, using one of the snakes as a landing pad and crushing its skull.

"What the heck did you guys do?" Naruto questioned as he jammed his kunai into the head of a Grimm.

"Suigetsu disturbed a nest of these things on our way back from the temple," Karin answered and shot a chain straight through one of the snakes, pinning it to the ground and allowing Suigetsu to cut through it.

"Don't go spouting lies. You were the one who woke these ugly monsters up.

Before they could begin arguing again, Naruto interrupted them, "Not right now, you two. We need to focus on killing on these things. It'll be just like our first meeting, minus the giant bear-sized killer bats."

All three nodded, and then the massacre began.

Multiple chains shot out of Karin's body and skewered Grimms like shish-kabobs. Suigetsu used his jutsu that allowed him to increase the mass of his arms and began hacking away with Kubikiribōchō. Jugo turned one of his arms into a piston-like thing and started punching through the creatures. Naruto summoned several shadow clones and began cutting and stabbing through the two-headed serpents.

One of them tried to snap its jaws around Naruto, and Naruto disappeared into its mouth. Moments later, however, Naruto burst out of the top of the head with a Rasengan in hand and quickly shoved it into the face of the white half of the King Taijitu.

"I am not getting eaten by another snake, dattebayo!" He yelled with a passion before a frown crossed his face.

"What's wrong?" Karin asked, wrapping a chain around one of the Grimm and pulling so tightly that it tore clean through it.

"If it's got a head where its tail is supposed to be, then how does it go to the bathroom?" Naruto wondered out loud, getting silence from the other three. Suddenly Karin and Suigetsu blanched and gagged.

"Thanks for that image," Suigetsu said sarcastically He let go of his blade for a moment and held his hands into the shapes of guns and began firing highly pressurized water bullets at his enemies from his fingers.

Seeing that there were only a few more Grimm left, Naruto created seven shadow clones and began forming a Rasengan in his and three of the clones hands. Once he was ready, he told the others to get out of the way.

"Rasengan!" He slammed the orb of chakra into the remaining King Taijitu, and Suigetsu quickly finished off the second heads.

He began laughing, and Naruto quickly joined in. Even Karin couldn't help but express the joy of surviving such a battle. All four collapsed to the ground due to using too much chakra and stared up at the sky.

"That was much more fun than fighting against one giant Grimm," Naruto spoke up, getting a small chuckle out of Jugo.

It didn't take too long for them to regain their chakra, and they had rejoined the others as soon as they had enough energy to stand. And now all students were gathered in the auditorium as the teams were being put together.

A newly formed Team CRDL walked off the stage, and the next four students walked up. This team consisted of Puke Boy, the ancient warrior girl, the green-garbed guy, and the orange haired girl.

"Jaune Arc. Lie Ren. Pyrrha Nikos. Nora Valkyrie." Ozpin greeted each one. "The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team Juniper."

The onlooking students clapped for the group of four, and Nora cheered and embraced Ren.

"Led by Jaune Arc," Ozpin finished, garnering surprise from the mentioned student. Ozpin congratulated him, as Pyrrha gave him a friendly push, accidentally knocking him down in the process.

As Team JNPR moved out of the way, Naruto, Karin, Suigetsu, and Jugo walked up towards Ozpin.

"Jugo Hashira. Naruto Uzumaki. Suigetsu Hōzuki. Karin Uzumaki. The four of you retrieved the black knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team Jinx, led by Naruto Uzumaki."

Naruto shouted out a loud cheer, and Suigetsu let out a few mumbles of "Stupid blonde."

"Professor Ozpin," Karin said questioningly, "for all the other teams, the first letter of the leader's name was the first letter in the acronym. Why is ours different? Could you not find anything that started with 'N'?"

Ozpin didn't reply, but his expression told the entire story and was the answer Karin had expected. Karin and Jugo helped get the excited Naruto off the stage so that the final team could be announced.

"And finally Blake Belladonna, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, and Yang Xiao Long. The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team Ruby, led by Ruby Rose."

Everyone began clapping, and Yang quickly pulled her sister into a hug to congratulate her. Suigetsu shouted encouragement for his fellow weapon enthusiast, and Ozpin smiled.

"Looks like things are shaping up to be an… interesting year," he said.

Ozpin was up in his office finishing a few things before he went to bed. He thought of all the incredible students that had joined this year, those of Team JNKS in particular. He was still slightly embarrassed that Miss Uzumaki had seen through him so easily, but she was right. He hadn't been able to find anything for their team that began with "N," so he had just improvised. It wasn't an entirely unheard of, but it did happen very rarely.

He suddenly felt a breeze brush across his face, but he had been sure that the windows were closed. He reached for his cane and turned around, prepared to fight the intruder if necessary.

"Whoa, no need to be so jumpy, Ozzy. It's just me."

Ozpin sighed as he saw the man with spiky, white hair leaning against the wall. Under his black eyes were two red lines, and he wore a horned forehead protector with a single symbol etched into the center. He wore a red haori over a green kimono and pants, and a large scroll was on his back.

"Jiraiya, you must stop coming in through the windows. Doors exist for a reason." Despite his slightly admonishing words, Ozpin respected the man in front of him a great deal.

"If my old teammate can't get me to stop, then don't think for a second that you can, Ozzy." He walked over and looked at Ozpin's desk with a critical eye. "You wouldn't happen to have anything alcoholic in there, do you?"

"Sorry, Jiraiya, but you know I don't drink," Ozpin answered, but quickly turned serious. "I doubt you came here just to chat. What's wrong?"

Jiraiya frowned and glanced around, seemingly making sure that no one was listening in. "It's the Akatsuki. I got some intel that said they were working with a major crime boss here in Vale. I don't have a name yet, but my informant told me that this crime boss is planning something big."

"And if he has the Akatsuki helping him, then that only increases the danger," Ozpin stated, looking for a confirmation from the old toad sage. Jiraiya nodded and sighed.

"This also means that they could find out that Naruto is here, and if that happens they'll send some of their strongest members here to capture him eventually," Jiraiya told Ozpin. "Whatever you do, make sure that Naruto doesn't leave this school alone."

"Don't worry, old friend. I will keep a close eye on Mr. Uzumaki and his friends."

Jiraiya smiled before looking out over the schoolyard. "Thank you. I have this bad feeling that there's a storm on the horizon, and the worst part is we can't see it…"

Kage Bunshin no Jutsu/Shadow Clone Jutsu.

And there is the second chapter. As stated in this chapter by Ozpin, he was unable to find an acronym for Naruto's team that began with "N", so the team name is JNKS. This follows the RWBY color naming rule, because according to the dictionary, a jinx is a type of black magic. Thus it can be associated with a color. I also learned that "Jugo" is an ingredient something that is found in most juices, so now even his name fits into the color naming rule because it can be associated with any juice color out there.

I also hope you enjoyed the battle scenes, and as they were the first ones I've written, feel free to give me some criticism. And as stated at the top, chapters will not always come out this soon, but I just had a lot of free time to work on this one. I will aim for at least two updates a month, or hopefully one update about every week. This isn't a guarantee, and I may go over that time for some chapters.

Real quick just some real quick replies to reviews:

Cmedina1: Yeah, the differences between the Ninja and Huntsmen are what originally inspired me to write this fact. Especially the innocence of Ruby and her similarities to Naruto's idealism.

dbzmariogamer: While this chapter didn't really have a lot of interaction with the other teams, I have lots of little snippets planned out.

gregorybryce9: I'm glad that you find my idea with Blake interesting, I wasn't really sure how people would take it.