Chapter 8
"Papa?" a little girl's voice called out, "When's Mama coming home?"
The girl's father grimaced slightly, before kneeling in front of her and putting his hands on her small shoulders, "Listen, honey," he started off softly, "Your mom...she's...she's busy doing what she needs to do, and you just gotta wait 'til she comes back, alright?"
"B-But it's been so long now, and she promised she won't take long, a-and that-that we'd make cookies together, a-and-" The girl's voice trembled, before she started crying silently, "I miss mom."
The man hugged, gently patting her back, whispering soothing words to her ears, his own tears pooling in his eyes. "Don't worry, she's gonna be home soon. Alright, princess?"
Silence reigned between the two of them, dampened only by their soft sobbing, and the-
"Cut!" A young and chipper female voice shouted, "That's a wrap!" As soon as she said those words, the Father-Daughter duo went up in smoke, along with the background of a dark living room, replacing it with lush greenery, "What do you think?"
"I think my little princess has a talent in directing, that's what!" a male voice answered. The man, Naruto Rose Uzumaki, then hummed thoughtfully, "Though, you gotta tune down the drama a bit, to make it more realistic."
"I guess..." The girl, Crescent Rose Uzumaki, pouted, before looking at her father, "Hey Dad? Can we have pie later?"
"Hmmm, maybe. IF you promise to help with the chores later again, then we'll make lemon pie." He said while patting her head.
"I promise!" Crescent said, before dashing towards the lone door standing in the middle of the grassland, a grassland that's filled with different types of trees, shrubs, and flowers, "Lemon pie!"
Naruto only chuckled and followed her, remembering what Summer's reaction to Crescent was, several days ago.
"My stars! She's adorable!" Summer squealed, before kicking something beneath her, "Tai! Get up! Look at our grandbaby! She looks so freakin' precious!"
Looking at her mother kick her dad, Ruby couldn't help but snort, "Told ya he'd faint." She said, causing Naruto to chortle, drawing attention to him.
Of course, with all the commotion, Professor Glynda Goodwitch couldn't help but tell the pair off, god or not, "Miss Rose, while you are finished with your evaluation, that doesn't mean you and your companion could distract the class. So either turn that scroll off, or go outside!" She finished with a whip of her riding crop, startling everyone including the ones in the arena, which, of course, caused the two opposing teams to falter.
"Yes ma'am, sorry ma'am!/Y-Yes ma'am!"
Ruby and Naruto said respectively, before leaving the area with Crescent in tow.
Long story short, their talk was filled with squeals from Summer, happy words from Ruby and Naruto, childish responses from Crescent, and groaning from the still-fainted Tai Yang.
Naruto chuckled once more, drawing the attention of his daughter, who's waiting by the door, and prompted her to ask, "Why're you laughing?"
He only shook his head with a smile, before ruffling her 'hair', "Hehe."
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"-at is how, Vale city is named as such." Bartholomew Oobleck, or Doctor Oobleck, as he preferred to be called, said to the class in front of him, before the ringing of a bell sounded off, "Also! You're all to do an essay about today's topic that has a minimum of six hundred words! And it's due on Friday! Class dismissed!"
The students walked out, many grumbling and mumbling about the assignment being too much, one of them being a blonde bombshell.
"Ugh, that's too much..." Yang moaned to her teammates and friends, Nora, Ruby, and Jaune agreeing with her. Team RWBY and JNPR were currently walking to their next subject together.
"Not really," Weiss told Yang, back handing her stomach softly, eliciting a soft grunt from the blonde, "Besides, it could be worse."
Aside from a few grumbling, no one said a word for the next few minute, everyone lost in their thoughts.
'Did I do my assignment?'
'Something strange is happening with the White Fang. I probably should investigate it. Maybe get a bowl of tuna ramen while I'm at it.'
'Hmmm. Nora seems awfully quiet today...And twitchy...I outta be prepared, just in case.'
'Must. Not. *twitch twitch* Break fourth wall.'
'I think I should buy some shampoo soon. Also some conditioner.'
'Time, why are you so slow when I'm bored? Does torturing Ruby Rose Uzumaki make you happy?'
And this continued on for most of the day for not only team RWBY and JNPR, but also a couple other student and a few teachers.
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Team RWBY's Room, living room area...
"Hey, munchkin?" Naruto said, sitting on the couch, watching the television with his daughter on his lap, "What do you want for dinner?"
Crescent hummed with puffed cheeks, before speaking, "Beef barbecue!"
"Yeah? But we just had beef yesterday." He said, "Don't you want, I dunno, pork or chicken?"
"Nope! I want beef barbecue!" She insisted.
"M'kay, fine." He relented.
None of them spoke for the next couple of moments, too busy watching the television.
Or at the very least, Crescent was.
Naruto was silently gathering Nature Energy, before grinning ever so slightly, 'Finally, nature's wounds are starting to heal.'
"Why're you smiling?"
"Nothing, munchkin. Nothing."
o-o-o-o
Cinder Fall, a name synonymous to the words 'cunning', 'dangerous', 'lethal', and 'criminal mastermind'. Or at the very least, it used to be. Now? Well, let's just say she has very short leash on her, which is connected to a shock collar, and those two things prevent her from being what she used to be.
'I should've become a doctor like Mother and Father told me,' Cinder thought a tad bitterly, halfway listening to the professor in front, 'Then I wouldn't even be in this mess in the first place.'
And by 'this mess', she meant sitting down with her 'team' in a classroom, listening to some portly man toot his own horn.
It's been two weeks or so since Salem was killed off and someone who claimed to be her relative took her place as the new Matriarch of 'Castle Grimm' (As the new queen called it), and Cinder's been feeling more fearful than ever.
'Why?', you might ask. It's probably the fact that Mercury was charred to death with those demonic black flames by Menma -Mistress!- because he, apparently, annoyed her, and Roman still hasn't come out of his place. And she was standing in front of her new Queen's room to give her report
*knock knock*
'I hope she's not in one of her more violent moods,' Cinder thought to herself.
Needless to say that she lived another day. Oh yeah, she also learned that the other members of Salem's faction were all dead now, because, according to Menma, that they were unsightly and better off dead.
Though aside from the boring lectures, she's also currently in a situation.
"Mistress?" Cinder voiced towards her, well, mistress.
"Hm?" Menma distractedly hummed, before facing her underling, "What is it?"
"Your, um, hand's on my thigh," Cinder said quietly, her cheeks turning red and her skin tingling, what with Menma squeezing and lightly dragging her fingers across Cinder's thigh.
"Oh?" Menma responded, her actions undisturbed.
'Isn't that sexual harassment?' One Emerald Sustrai thought to herself while watching the exchange between the two. Don't get her wrong, she wants to stop what's happening, but she knows she can't do anything.
Neo's thought on this? Well, judging by the way her eyes are glinting and that amused smile on her face, it seems as though she's loving Cinder's current situation.
As Cinder was about to resign herself to her fate (Not that she's resisting much), Menma suddenly stopped what she's doing, and spoke to Cinder, "Well then, I do apologize. It seems as though I was lost in my reverie." Seeing Cinder and Emerald's surprised look and Neo's raised eyebrow, she huffed, "I plot and kill, not sexually harass people."
Of course, this was the moment that Port decided to pay attention to his class,
"Miss Uzumaki, Miss Fall, do keep your voices down. You're disrupting my lesson," Port told Menma and Cinder, before continuing his story, "As I was saying, there I was, surrounded by-"
Cinder silently groaned, 'If only I listened to Mom and Dad.'
o-o-o-o
Island of Patch...Town Outskirts...
In one of the unexplored forests in the Island of Patch, a loud thumping could be heard, accompanied by the swishing of swords, the clanging of metals, and the ringing of guns firing.
"I think you should get a haircut SOON!" A deep, rumbling voice said to his companion, grunting the last syllable as he threw a large Ursa behind him. The figure was a large earthly golem, with lavender eyes, golden moss covering the top of his head, with brown moss covering his arms and his waist down to his feet. He also had two large edge-bladed tower shields stabbed beside him.
He grabbed one of his shields and bashed a Beowolf, before speaking to his companion once more, "That looks bothersome.
"Not really, no. Besides, I kinda like it," The golem's companion, notably a female, answered him. She was wearing a white cloak, black shirt laced with white trimmings, and a black battle shirt with white edges. Though the strange thing about her was that her shirt had two holes under each sleeve lined up, with arms coming out of them. All six arms were each holding short swords, with their hilts being pistols. She shot the four Beowolves surrounding her all at once, before speaking once more, "Don't you like it?"
"I do," The golem grunted, stabbing a Beowolf in mid-lunge with his left while pounding the other at the last Ursa. "It's just, it looks uncomfortable," He muttered.
"Mmm," The lady, Summer Rose, hummed, shooting the three remaining Beowolves as the golem stabbed the Ursa in the head, "Those're the last ones, right?"
"Yeah. Those're the last ones," The golem said, transforming mid-sentence into a blond man named Tai Yang Xiao Long. He turned to his two gigantic shields, and made them transform into two long staves, strapping them to his back "What're you gonna cook later?"
"I dunno yet. Maybe some curry?"
"Extra spicy?"
"Mmhm."
"Aw yeah."
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A/N: This chapter's very rushed, if you all can't fathom that. Just wrote it on March ten and completed on thirteen, 'cause I didn't get to write much before that. Wanna know why? probably not, but I'll tell anyway; My old wounds opened and I was in the hospital for a few. 'Where?' My right leg and lower left portion of my abdomen. I'll tell you this; aside from bleeding, I nearly had a heart attack from seeing so much blood.
But anyway, back to the telling you all 'Why which is which'
Tai and Sum's Semblances; There are a lot of people who doesn't elaborate what their Tai's semblance is, and I don't know what his actual one is. Then I saw a show where a character can turn into a golem, and then thought to myself; 'I hope my wounds aren't infected,' but that's besides the point.
For Sum's; I don't wanna do the somewhat cliche 'Speed Semblance that runs (get it?) in the family', and I don't want to give her something OP where she couldn't have been overwhelmed by Grimm which led to her death. Also, I'm currently reading anamazing story called 'Drifting', and it has Tayuya in it, which made me remember the Sound Four, which led to Kidomaru, which led to Sum's Semblance in a way.
'Something strange is happening with the White Fang'; remember; Naruto visited all the kingdoms/continents/countries, so he's bound do something about any trouble he comes upon. That's not to say he apprehended the White Fang, he just talked to all the Faunus in charge (Ghira and Sienna). I'll leave the rest for you all to ponder on.
So yeah, this chapter shows that not every day of Naruto's (and team RWBY and JNPR's four that matter) life is exciting, and what Tai and Sum's weapons and Semblances are.
So yeah, leave a review down below, and tune in next time, when I...lose a limb or two.
Nyees~!