Did something last chapter and completely forgot to explain my reasoning. Jugo's clan's name is never given anywhere in the manga, anime, or databooks, so I just. I chose "Hashira"(forgetting that the First Hokage's name also has this as part of his first name). I chose this name because Hashira means "pillar" or "strength", and figured that'd be a good name for a clan who's Kekkei Genkai revolves around the power of nature chakra. And in both the original version of Naruto and this version, Jugo acts as a supporting pillar to Sasuke or Naruto respectively.

Also, I've got a DeviantArt account with this same username, where I'll be posting drawings of original characters and Grimm that appear in my stories. Go check it out to see what the Chamelion looks like.

So now that I've explained that, you can read, and I can finally go to sleep(So no ending Author Note this time, too tired to do anything else).

Chapter 3:

Suigetsu's Preparing for the Maid Café

"Come on, where's that plug-in," Naruto muttered, crawling on his hands and knees as he looked under the bed for a source of electricity. "Jackpot!"

He slipped the cord in his hand into the socket and removed himself from under Jugo's bed. After checking to make sure it wasn't near anything flammable, Naruto flipped on the portable stove and began preparing his precious instant ramen. While the water was boiling, Naruto got ready for the day and pulled on his uniform.

"I hate these stupid monkey suits," Suigetsu complained, tugging at his shirt as he walked into the room before shielding his eyes. "Whoa! Lock the door next time!"

"I had my pants on already," Naruto replied dryly. "Besides, if I remember correctly, you were completely naked during our first meeting, and you didn't seem to care."

"There's a major difference, though. I am the perfect specimen of a man."

"More like the perfect specimen of a moron," Karin joined the conversation as she walked in, getting a glare from Suigetsu.

"One day, Karin. One day, you will rue ever getting on my bad side."

Naruto finished buttoning up his shirt, lamenting the lack of orange in the uniform. Hanging his tie on his shoulder, he turned off the stove and carefully poured the boiling water into the cup of ramen. By the time Jugo got back from getting ready, Naruto's breakfast would finish.

"So what class do we have today?" Naruto asked, struggling to get his tie on correctly.

"Here let me," Karin offered, and Naruto accepted her help. "According to the schedule the four of us have Grimm Studies today, and tomorrow is sparring and history."

"I can't wait for tomorrow. I'm gonna have to show all these other punks who's the strongest."

"You including your little protegé as one of those punks," Naruto questioned teasingly, having taken great entertainment in the strange way Suigetsu considered himself the Jiraiya to Ruby's Naruto.

"Of course not, but Ruby will have to learn exactly why I'm her senpai," he answered. "Me and my brother weren't considered prodigies for nothing."

Naruto completely opened up his ramen and began eating. Suigetsu didn't talk about his brother much, and when he did it was just short mentions like that. Naruto wanted to ask more about him, but he refrained from doing so due to the one piece of information he did know about Suigetsu's brother.

He was dead, and Naruto knew that that was one of those things that you didn't pry at unless they told you.

"You guys ready?" Jugo's voice came from the door, and the three of them looked over toward the door and were surprised with the image they saw. None of them had ever seen Jugo in anything close to formal clothes before, and Naruto had to admit that Jugo pulled it off better than himself or Suigetsu. Naruto shook his shock off and stood up.

"Well let's hurry up and get to class," Naruto told his teammates. "Today will start a year that I won't be late to a day of class!"

"What do you mean we're late, Professor Port?" Naruto cried out, looking at the old professor in front of him.

"I mean exactly that. You were late to class."

Naruto groaned. Day one and they were already late. He and the others took their seats awkwardly as several students chuckled. A few rows down, Naruto could swear he heard Ruby sigh in relief as if she was thankful that his team was late. And what she whispered next only confirmed this.

"Thank goodness. We weren't the last ones after all."

Naruto would've been mad at her, but he could understand her worry. She was new here too, and two years younger than everyone else as well, so she would have a lot of people judging her for both her skills and her ability as a leader.

"Now where was I…" Professor Port mumbled. "Ah, yes! The moral of this story is that a true huntsman must be honorable. A true huntsman must be dependable. A true huntsman must be strategic, well-educated, and wise. So, who among you believes themselves to be the embodiment of these traits."

Naruto had expected at least one hand to pop up due to someone being too arrogant and wasn't that surprised when Weiss's hand shot up.

"I do, sir."

"Well then, let's find out." Professor Port looked over at a cage that was rattling violently. He allowed Weiss to go and change into something that would be easier to fight in, and Naruto had a memory of Sasuke flash in his mind as he watched her leave the room with an overconfident gleam in her eyes.

"Now while we wait for Miss Schnee to return, I would like to take this chance to ask Mr. Uzumaki and Mr. Hashira a few questions that I had wanted to earlier."

Naruto chuckled sheepishly. "What is it, Professor?"

"I was telling the class earlier how you and your partner discovered a new species of Grimm yesterday during the initiation, and I would like to know what you could tell us more about them."

"Oh, right! The Chamelions!" Naruto heard a few snickers at the name and tried to find the source but failed. "Well, they're large lion-like Grimm with the ability to become invisible with their camouflage. I had to use a paint bomb so that we could actually see them while fighting. And they turn completely visible once they're dead."

Jugo made sure Naruto was done before he added his thoughts. "In terms of behavior, the Chamelions seem to be a lot like Beowolves. They traveled in a pack and were skilled at working together to overpower a stronger opponent. They are also much more patient than many of the other known Grimm, and they stalked us for quite a while. I think they were waiting until we ventured into an area that would have been more suitable for them to fight against us in, but they were forced into an early clash when we noticed and killed one of them."

"Thank you, Mr. Hashira, for your insight into these Grimm. That information will be helpful as we attempt to learn more about them."

"Man, I wish I could have been there to kill one," Ruby said sadly, getting a disturbed glance from most of the classroom's occupants. Before anyone could comment on Ruby's love for Grimm-slaughter, Weiss re-entered the room in her normal clothes and holding her rapier.

The three other members of Team RWBY all began cheering for their teammate as she stepped into the center of the room.

"Gooooo, Weiss!" Yang yelled.

"Fight well," Blake said and waved a tiny little flag with their team name on it.

"Represent Team RWBY!" Ruby shouted excitedly, raising her arms into the air.

"Ha! If Schnee wins without anyone jumping in, then I'll wear a maid uniform for the rest of the day," Suigetsu whispered to Naruto, who had his Scroll out and ready to record what was probably going to be an embarrassing moment for Weiss.

"Quiet, Ruby. I'm trying to focus," Weiss snapped at her cheering leader, who quickly apologized.

Professor Port looked at Weiss to make sure she was ready and then opened the cage. A Boarbatusk rushed out and promptly set its sights on Weiss. She dodged the first charge by rolling out of the way, quickly getting back on her feet. She rushed at the Grimm and tried to attack it, but the boar Grimm managed to hook its tusks around.

Ruby cheered her teammate on again, only to end up getting yelled at again. However, the loss of Weiss's focus for that split second gave the Boarbatusk the chance it needed to fling the sword out of her hands and knock her back.

"Now what will you do without your weapon?" Professor Port questioned from his position, and Naruto hoped he was ready to jump in should things get bad.

Weiss narrowly dodged another charge and used the chance to dash towards her sword. Ruby shouted out a bit of advice on how to defeat the Grimm, but that only served to infuriate Weiss more.

"Stop telling me what to do!" She exclaimed angrily.

The Boarbatusk curled up and spun towards Weiss at a high speed. She used what must've been her semblance to block it. The Grimm fell onto its back and Weiss quickly stabbed it in the belly.

The professor congratulated Weiss while Suigetsu looked on in shock.

"It appears we are indeed in the presence of a true huntress in training."

"Gag me," Suigetsu muttered in reply, and Naruto happened to agree. Weiss was part of a team, and yet she didn't want to accept help from her teammates. Where were a couple of bells and Kakashi when you needed them.

Professor Port dismissed the class, and Weiss stormed out of the room. Naruto watched as Ruby ran after her, and he wondered how horribly that talk would go. Naruto quickly created a shadow clone and told it to go ask Ozpin something about the Schnee Company.

Suigetsu looked over at him. "Why don't you just go ask him yourself?"

The grin that Suigetsu received was terrifying. Not because it held malice or anything like that, but because it was his pranking grin. That never meant anything good for him unless he was helping Naruto.

"Uh, anyone got notes on the person who first encountered an Ursa?" Naruto questioned, looking at the others sitting in Team JNKS room. Ruby had come to him and suggested that her team, Naruto's, and Team JNPR should all do homework and study together so that there was more of a chance of someone catching a mistake one of the others made.

Naruto had been unable to deny her request, and since Team JNKS had the most amount of space in their dorm room, it became the meeting place.

However, Blake and Weiss hadn't come to join the party. Also missing was Suigetsu, but Naruto knew the reason why he wasn't here, and Naruto also knew that Suigetsu would be joining them soon. And despite the others all being here, only Naruto, Ruby, Jaune, Ren, and Jugo were studying or doing their assigned homework.

Yang and Nora had merely come to hang out and would have to do it later. The others had gotten their work done early and were helping the more academically challenged ones, such as Naruto and Jaune, with their work.

"Here you go," Jaune replied to Naruto and passed over his paper, which Naruto quickly copied down before handing it back and thanking the leader of Team JNPR. Behind the swordsman, Nora was watching a show on her Scroll, completely engrossed in the action on the screen. Pyrrha sat beside Jaune and helped him with a few of the harder problems.

Finishing the last question on the page, Naruto sighed in relief and closed the book. He would study later, but for now, he just wanted to take a break from thinking about how to estimate the weight of a Grimm based on height and length.

"I hate you, Naruto," Suigetsu exclaimed as he finally returned to the room. "I am going to freakin' murder you in your sleep!"

As Suigetsu walked over, the reactions of everyone present were priceless. Nora laughed boisterously, and Ruby was also struggling not to let her amusement be heard. Yang had a large grin on her face, and Pyrrha had a light dusting of pink spread across her face. Jaune turned green and quickly averted his eyes, while Ren just closed his eyes like he had seen stranger things. Karin looked torn between a mixture of wanting to laugh, insult, and gag. Jugo was the only one who was unfazed and continued reading through his textbook.

Suigetsu walked up to Naruto with an entirely red face, although whether it was out of anger or embarrassment was anyone's guess. Instead of his regular clothes or uniform, he was wearing a stereotypical maid outfit, complete with a short skirt that showed off more than half of his legs.

"You lost your bet Suigetsu, so this is the price you have to pay," Naruto said with a fake apologetic tone.

Suigetsu grumbled and took a seat, struggling to keep the short skirt at a position that didn't expose anything.

Yang looked over to him with a grin, and everyone prepared for the inevitable pun. "For what it's worth, I think you were maid to wear that."

"All of you suck," Suigetsu muttered, and started whispering various methods of torturing people to himself. Naruto snickered, discreetly taking photos using his Scroll. He wanted to remember this day for a long time. He wasn't going to publicize this to the whole school unless Suigetsu did something worthy of that, but Naruto would keep it to constantly remind him why he needed to be careful what to bet.

"Naruto," Pyrrha questioned, breaking him from his train of thought, "you and your team are from the Dark Continent, right?"

Naruto looked at her quizzically, before Karin reminded him that the "Dark Continent" was the common name for their homeland out here, due to how little information they knew about it.

"Yep, although we call it Yōsokuni, or Elemental Lands in English," Naruto explained, before nearly having a heart attack as Nora jumped in front of him.

"Is it true that all the people there can fly?"

"Nora, give him some space," Ren told her, and she followed her best friend's instruction.

"It's not true," Jugo answered in Naruto's place. "As far as I know, no one can truly fly. There are those who can manipulate the elements to do so, but I've yet to see anyone who can fly without using the elements."

Nora looked disappointed and went back to sitting on the bed. Jaune set down his book and stared at Naruto.

"So does everyone have multiple Semblances, or is that just you." Seeing everyone in the room looking at him, Jaune elaborated, "Back at the initiation, Naruto created clones of himself and did that weird thing with the blue orb. I don't see how those two things can be the same Semblance."

Naruto wondered what the heck a Semblance was, but never got the chance to ask thanks to Karin.

"No, and I'm not even sure if we have semblances like all of you. Where we come from, everyone is born with spiritual energy, which you call Aura, and physical energy. By mixing them together, it forms chakra that can be used to perform all the techniques you see us use. Show them, Naruto."

Despite still wondering what a Semblance was, Naruto quickly made a shadow clone and Rasengan, holding the blue orb out so everyone could see. Karin explained that the Rasengan was visible chakra contained into the shape of a sphere. Naruto let the energy dissipate as the other teams stared in wonder at him.

"That's so cool," Jaune exclaimed before he looked over at his weapon leaning in the corner of the room with all the others. "And all I have is an old sword and shield. Some leader I am."

"Jaune, what kind of weapon you have isn't the deciding factor in whether you're a good leader or not," Pyrrha told him, placing a hand on his shoulder in an effort to cheer him up.

Naruto nodded in agreement. "True, you are the weakest on your team-"

"Gee, thanks."

"-but from what I've heard about your performance in the initiation, you managed to figure out a way to pierce the armor of the Death Stalker and kill it. Yes, you needed your teammates to do it, but you came up with the strategy. A good leader isn't someone who's great because of just their skills, but a person whose strength lies in their ability to bring their comrades together effectively in battle."

"I think I still need to work in that area," Ruby said with a sheepish, yet somewhat downcast, laugh. "I doubt Weiss will ever see me as an equal, let alone a leader."

"Ruby, listen. I had a friend who I got into fights with all the time, and at first, he didn't even think I was a worthy fight for him. But then, he eventually began to see me as an equal who he wanted to have a match against."

"What happened? How did things change between you?"

"I proved myself to him. I never gave up and showed him that I was someone he could take seriously. You can do the same with Weiss; it will just take time." Naruto placed a hand on Ruby's shoulder. "Ruby, the most important thing to remember about teams is that each member acts like a pillar that supports the team as a whole, and if one of them is missing then the entire group is unstable. So don't give up just yet, and get the final pillar into place. I know you can do it."

With Naruto's speech done, everyone was silent. Ruby looked up at him with appreciation and thanks. Meanwhile, Yang looked over at Jugo with an apologetic look.

"Your top spot as the person on this team that I am most likely to date has been taken over by Naruto. Sorry, but anyone who can give a speech like that, looks as good as he does, and isn't all stuffed up is a winner in my book."

Jugo didn't care. He wasn't one to care how girls viewed him. Suigetsu was miffed that he wasn't the one in first and was quick to voice this.

"Hey, why am I not in first?"

"Sorry, but you're just not my type, so you're last," Yang said, and Suigetsu's eyebrow began twitching faster than grasshopper's leg.

"Karin's higher than me! I am the epitome of what it means to be a good looking man. For the word 'man', my picture is in the dictionary!"

"You're wearing a maid's outfit," Nora pointed out, making everyone look at her in horror. Even Naruto realized that she had messed up big time. Jugo quickly grabbed Suigetsu by the back of the uniform before he could leap at her with Kubikiribōchō.

"Let me at her! I'll show her who the man is!" He shouted while swinging wildly in the air in an attempt to escape. However, this had an unintended consequence that Nora was quick to point out.

"Haha! You're even wearing panties."

"Prepare to taste my blade!"

Before things got ugly, Yang grabbed Ruby and made a strategic retreat. She fled from the room without looking back, making sure to grab their weapons too. When they got back to their room, Blake began questioning on why it looked like they had been running from a monster.

Ruby quickly gave Blake the story of Suigetsu in the maid costume, not noticing the blood that dripped from her nose. She then began telling her the things they had learned about Naruto and his home.

"It's really cool! He's able to combine his Aura with something else and can do things like creating clones of himself."

After finishing her excited explanation, Ruby grabbed her night clothes and went to go change in the bathroom.

'It has Aura?' Blake wondered in disbelief. 'But how? That should be impossible for a Grimm since they lacked souls.'

"What's wrong, Blake?" Yang questioned, noticing the distressed look on her face. Blake turned around to tell her that it was nothing but quickly faced the wall in front of her again with a red face.

"Yang! Change in the bathroom, not in here!"

"Why?" She asked and pulled on her shirt. "We're all girls here."

"That's beside the point!"

"I am never taking my clothes for granted ever again," Suigetsu exclaimed passionately, finally out of the maid costume. The minute he had gotten out of the outfit, he had grabbed Kubikiribōchō and sliced it into so many pieces that the remainder was practically just string.

"It was fun while it lasted," Karin sighed sadly, lying on her side and propping her head up with her hand.

"Agreed," Naruto said and began thinking about his plans after class tomorrow. He would probably try to work on wind chakra again. He wanted to be able to do more than just make his weapons sharper with it. He wanted to actually use some Wind Style jutsu, even if it meant improvising his own.

"I hope I get to against that orange-haired pest tomorrow," Suigetsu commented, a slightly sadistic gleam to his eyes. "I'll make her wish that she was going through the Spartan training methods that Jiraiya used on us."

Jugo glanced out the window. "I wonder what Jiraiya-sensei's doing now."

Jiraiya sneezed and looked through the crowded pub that he had been told to come to by Ozpin, and several barmaids clad in short skirts and low-cut tops passed him. He walked to the back of the building and slid into a seat in the very corner. He looked at the cloaked man, who he could see had been quite nervous for a while.

"Lord Jiraiya," the man greeted, "thank you for meeting me here."

"No problem. No matter what I'll enjoy the view." He leered at one of the women as she passed by, and he tried to sneak a peek up her skirt before she walked out of sight. "Is there any new information on the Akatsuki or the person they're working with?"

The man nodded. "Yes, although we still don't know the crime lord's name, we managed to find a mercenary that he frequently employs."

Jiraiya picked up the photo that his informant slipped him. He studied it carefully, but couldn't make out many details due to how blurry it was, but tried his best. In the background was what looked like a bloodied corpse that had been stripped to the bone. In the center of the photograph was the blurry image of what looked like a gorilla in human skin.

"Is this the only picture?"

"Yes. The person who photographed it is still in a coma after being attacked but whatever this man is. The only reason he survived was thanks to Professor Ozpin of Beacon arriving on the scene."

"Yeah, he's the one who told me about this." Jiraiya hid the picture into his pouch. "So how dangerous is this man."

"Extremely. He's a rogue Huntsman who goes by the name of the Devourer. Unfortunately, we don't know his real name, which academy he attended, or even what weapon he uses. The only thing we know about his semblance is from what the man who took that picture said. It has something to do with shapeshifting."

"This could be a problem, but this took place in Atlas, didn't it? So he shouldn't be a danger right now."

"Word on the street is that he's coming into town in the next few days on a job from some big foreign organization."

"The Akatsuki?"

"That's what I believe. The crime boss probably set them up, but this could be a chance to get the name of our unknown criminal if we capture Devourer."

Jiraiya remained silent. If the Akatsuki had hired this Devourer person, then that meant they could be trying to locate Naruto, which was strange, since his information said that they had only captured a few Tailed Beasts. Or could this be an entirely different organization with no interest in Naruto?

No matter what, he needed to get this info to Ozpin. There was a high likelihood that the students of Beacon could be in danger if this man was after Naruto. If Naruto drew out the power of the Nine-Tails at the school…

Jiraiya shuddered as phantom pain coursed through his torso. He would have to find this man quick. He needed to move first and get the advantage.

Jiraiya thanked his informant and gave him the payment, the yet-to-be-released in stores Icha-Icha Tactics, translated into English and signed by Jiraiya himself. Walking out of the bar, Jiraiya paid no attention to the barmaid who asked if he wanted anything else before leaving. Usually, he would have flirted and seduced the woman, but protecting Naruto from the Akatsuki came first.

He bit down on his thumb and weaved through several signs. He was going to need some help with this. It was time to call in the toads.