AN: Hi everyone! The king of inconsistency is back with a chapter! Been writing this chapter for little more than half a year now (I know, it took too long), but at least I'm not dead, ya?

Anyway, enjoy!

The Blonde with Three Souls

Chapter 4

Coming To An Accord

Minato continued following the hunter duo as they made their way towards a long, large tower. He was amazed at the architecture of the school. Every building was, to his eyes, very large. In fact, he'd say that some of them were as big as the Hokage tower back in Konoha, if not larger and taller.

Then there was the architectural style. It was unlike anything he had ever seen. It reminded him of a castle he had once seen during his travels with his mentor, Jiraiya. It was, however, slightly different, the main difference being that these buildings were much more futuristic looking. At least in his eyes.

The sun was in its early stage of rising, he noted, as the skylight was very dim and the only real light came from the symmetrically aligned lampposts that illuminated the pavements around the school yard.

He also noted that there were a lack of people around him. His right eyebrow raised in confusion, not really understanding the lack of students.

'It's a Tuesday.' Summer said, answering his unasked question. 'They have a curfew after eleven and I'd say it's around three in the morning right now.' Minato nodded subtly at this.

"Oh, okay." He answered her.

"Tell me, Minato," He heard Ozpin say "How familiar are you with this world?"

"I must say that I am not too familiar with Remnant, Ozpin-san." he answered the headmaster "I only know the very basics." Ozpin gave no verbal response and only nodded his head. At this point, they were already at the tower's entrance. Minato's gaze went up towards the tower.

"Man, that's a big tower." He thought, earning a giggle from Summer.

"This way, Minato." Ozpin called out, earning Minato's attention. The blonde nodded as he stepped up the stairs and walked into the lobby of the tower. The lobby was fairly big and the ceiling was far higher than what Minato was used to.

His eyes were, of course, widened in fascination.

"Yo Blondie, you there?" He heard Qrow. He snapped out of his trance and turned his focus on the duo with a slight frown, not liking the nickname he was given. "We're going up the elevator."

"Please don't call me that, Qrow-san." Minato muttered, earning a snort of amusement from Qrow. The blonde groaned in dismay as he walked towards the elevator. "How fast is this elevator, Summer-san?" The young lady hummed for a moment.

'Well, certainly not as fast as you, I can tell you that much.' She joked, forcing Minato to suppress a chuckle. His lips curved upwards in a slight smile. 'It's pretty fast though, usually only takes a few seconds to get up to Ozpin's office."

"Alright, good to know. Thank you, Summer-San." He responded. He saw Ozpin take out his scroll and put it next to what seemed to be a glass panel. Minato's eyes widened slightly when the glass panel light up with a mint glow.

"Welcome, Professor Ozpin." Said a voice, causing Minato to blink in surprise before he discretely looked around the edges of the ceiling. "Please press the button for the floor you want to go to." Out of eighteen buttons, Ozpin pressed the button in the far right corner. In a matter of seconds, Minato could feel the pressure that he was oh-so familiar with, being the speedster that he is. They were moving upwards in a fairly high velocity.

"A synthetic voice?" Minato wondered out loud. Qrow chuckled at the question.

"You really must be new to Remnant, huh?" He asked the blonde. Minato groaned at the scythe-wielder before looking at him for a brief moment. The man was eerily similar to that of an Uchiha, albeit he didn't have the Sharingan. The slender build that made him agile, the wild hair and the hauntingly similar shade of red in his that the Sharingan had.

Before Minato could retort, the elevator seemed to slow down before coming to a full stop. A pinging sound could be heard before the door in front of them opened. The Hunter duo walked out of the elevator before turning to the blonde enigma.

"Are you coming?" asked the Headmaster of Beacon. Minato nodded absently as he walked into the room that the elevator had brought them to. He noted that there were four pillars standing symmetrically to keep the roof from collapsing upon them with a desk at the end of the room, two fancy chairs in front of it and one behind it. As his gaze turned upwards to see how far the pillars led, his eyes widened in marvel and slight confusion as he saw the countless cogwheels in the ceiling.

"Wow..." He thought as his eyes were kept on the cogwheels. "Why does he have so many cogwheels up there?"

'I have no idea...' Summer answered 'No one truly knows but Ozpin, and his lips are tightly sealed about it. They're sealed about many things. He has a lot of secrets.' Minato nodded slightly as his head went down towards Ozpin and Qrow.

The former had already made himself comfortable in his own chair while the latter sat in the chair in front of the table. It was clear to Minato that this was Beacon's equivalent to the Hokage Office and that Ozpin was a man of similar power. He made his way to the left chair, Qrow already sitting in the one to the right. As soon as he sat down, he finally felt the fatigue from exerting his chakra so quickly after being revived.

"I guess I should've seen this coming" He thought as he slowly sunk down into the chair. He was tired, very tired. Using his chakra when his body wasn't even ready for it was not something he wanted to do, but it was something he, at the time, thought he had to do.

"So, Mr Namikaze," Ozpin started "Now that we are in the clear and no unwanted eyes are watching, I would like to personally welcome you to Beacon, and probably even Remnant itself." Eyes widened slightly, Minato's head shot up towards the headmaster in confusion. Qrow, on the other hand, bore the look of confusion, looking at Minato. "Even if it wasn't under such... morbid circumstances."

"Wait, what?!" Minato thought to himself, "How the hell does he know?!"

"Remnant?" Qrow asked as his gaze landed on Ozpin. "What is that supposed to mean, Oz?" Ozpin chuckled slightly as he shifted his position in his seat. To Minato, it was slightly unnerving. Ozpin knew, he already figured that out, but how much did the gray-haired headmaster know?

"I too know about the prophecy, Mr Namikaze." Ozpin answered "I just didn't know if you'd come now, or if it was even real." Minato's head nodded slowly, understanding what the man in front of him meant. Prophecies didn't always come to fruition, and someone being pulled from another time, or even reality, had a very slim chance of actually happening. Prophecies weren't always true. Neither were predictions.

No one could've predicted this.

"I see, Ozpin-san." Minato replied "Am I to assume that you know of my origin as well?" Ozpin shook his head. "Okay, he doesn't know. Kurama-san, should I tell him the whole story, or just a part of it?" The fox grunted slightly. Suddenly, Qrow stood up from his seat.

"Someone's calling on my scroll." he said "I gotta take this." Ozpin nodded as Qrow stepped away from the table and made his way towards the other end of the large room.

"Tell him a part of it." Kurama started "From what I can tell, he still doesn't know about me, so leave me out of the equation completely." Minato nodded slightly as he shifted in his seat, trying to figure out where to start.

Meanwhile, Ozpin observed the blonde in front of him. It wasn't every day you'd get to meet someone from a completely different reality, if this was the case. For all he knew, this could be a scam, or the blonde could be completely wrong, and he had only been thrown through time.

Ozpin didn't know, and he didn't like not knowing things.

He noted the blonde shifting in the seat, twirling the left leg over the right one. He then heard Minato sigh out of tiredness.

"Mattaku, Where do I start..."

Taiyang was not having a good night, or morning for that matter. He didn't get any sleep at all and he was really worried that something had happened to his wife. What made the matters worse was that she never texted during the evening. He paced back and forth behind the couch as Ruby laid there, sleeping. The girl wasn't doing much better, however, as her eyes was shut hard with rapid movement underneath them.

The poor girl was having another bad dream.

He continued to pace back and forth, his face showing more and more of his anxiety. His mind was racing and his palms were sweaty. "C'mon Summer… please don't do this to me!" He thought as he continued to pace.

Ruby turned violently, throwing him out of his panic. He quickly turned to her as she started to cry. He quickly picked her up and tried to soothe her by rocking her in his arms.

"Still having trouble sleeping, my little flower?" he asked her. She sniffled a little bit and nodded. He sighed a little as he sat down with her in his arms. She continued to sniffle for a little bit before falling asleep, once again. This time, he let her be in his arms for a few minutes, to make sure that she was not having any bad dreams.

Once he was reassured, he went up to her crib and put her in it and then went out of the room, his mind now set on finding out as much as he could. His first thought was to call Qrow to see if he knew anything. Picking up his scroll, he quickly went through his contacts and landed on Qrow, and pressed call. He waited as the connection tone went on for a few seconds before it got picked up, revealing Qrow's face in a video-call.

"Tai." A tired-sounding Qrow said from the other side of the scroll. "This is not the best time to be calling." Taiyang grunted slightly at this.

"What, were you sleeping?" the blonde asked. Qrow shook his head tiredly.

"No, it's complicated..." he began. "Look, make sure the girls can't hear you. This is not something that they should hear."

Taiyang was now worried. Had something happened to Summer, or anyone else for that matter? He quickly but silently moved down to the ground floor and made his way to the kitchen to make sure that Ruby and Yang didn't hear what Qrow was about to say.

"Okay, I'm in the Kitchen now and the girls are in bed." Tai said "What's happened?" Qrow once again sighed, only this time it wasn't just out of tiredness but also sadness.

"Tai..." he started "Summer is gone." Taiyang's eyes widened in shock, his fear coming to fruition. "Her mission went sideways and she was overrun by grimm. We're lucky we even have her body to bury." The blonde's hand went up to cover his mouth as he fell down on his knees, tears flowing from his squinting eyes as he tried his best not to make a sound.

"Look, Tai." Qrow said "I know she meant a lot to yo-"

"What the fuck is that supposed to mean, Qrow?!" Tai exclaimed "She's my wife, you shithead! Of course she meant a lot to me! She was the one who picked me up from the ground when your sister left us. When your sister left ME! She's the one that made me feel whole again, and now she's fucking gone! Don't try and comfort me if you don't know what you're supposed to say!" With that, he ended the call as he looked up towards the ceiling and threw the compressed scroll horizontally. It landed on the wooden floor and slid towards the door.

His eyes went down towards the scroll, but stopped at the doorway as he saw a terrified Yang standing there, her eyes slightly red-tinted as tears fell from them as her mouth was covered by her hands.

"Oh no..." He muttered.

"Mattaku, where do I start..." Minato sighed as he ran his hand through his hair, his eyes going towards the ceiling. "I suppose I can start there..." he muttered "Okay, My name is Namikaze Minato, Minato being my given name. But you already knew that."

"I am from a place not of this world, more specifically a village called Konohagakure no Sato. The last time I checked, I am twenty-four years old and I was the leader of said village." His eyes went down towards Ozpin before he continued, not caring about letting the old man in front of him have the information sink in.

"During the night that I… died, would be the correct word, I guess, the village was attacked by a legendary beast known as the Kyuubi no Kitsune, or The Nine-tailed fox in your language." he continued "I protected my village like any other leader would, but was killed in the process. The next thing I know, I wake up in a cave around a kilometer away from where I found Summer." Ozpin nodded slightly.

"Hmm, Yes." Ozpin said "Can you tell me a little bit more about your world? Your, reality, so to speak?" Minato nodded slightly.

"Do you really need to know that, Ozpin-san?" Minato asked "There isn't much of a point, considering I doubt there is anyone else here in this world that's from there." Ozpin hummed in agreement.

"Hmm, yes, that is very true." he said as he stood up, clutching his cane. He walked around the table towards Minato. "Let me just ask you one question, Mr Namikaze." he said as he stopped in front of Minato and looked into the blonde's eyes. "Can I trust you?"

"Yes." Said the Fourth Hokage with a tired yet unwavering voice. "As long as our motives align, you can trust me." Ozpin nodded.

"Well then, what ARE your motives?" the old man asked.

"To keep Ruby Rose safe long enough for her to grow strong enough." came the answer from Minato. "Strong enough to fight the darkness looming behind the grimm." Ozpin once again nodded, satisfied with the answer he was given. He turned and walked back to his chair in silence and sat down.

"Salem." he said after a brief pause. "Salem is the name of the 'looming' darkness. She's been my enemy for the longest time." Minato's eyes widened slightly. He now had a name to refer to. This was good.

"Is it a person?" he asked, but was surprised when Ozpin chuckled slightly.

"Far from it." he answered "She's the oldest grimm, the last of her kind." his eyes locked with Minato's in the brief pause. "She's a grimm witch. THE grimm witch. Her power has thus far been unimaginable and it only seems like she's getting more powerful as time goes on."

Before Minato could respond, Qrow came back to the table, rubbing his temple. He sat down in his chair, letting out a sigh. "Did I miss anything?" he asked.

"Not much, no." The Headmaster answered "I was just telling Minato about Salem." Qrow nodded as he picked up his hip flask from inside of his shirt.

"So you already trust him that much, eh?" The red-eyed hunter asked. Ozpin shrugged his shoulders uncharacteristically.

"May as well put a name to the 'looming darkness'." The old man answered. Qrow nodded, not really caring about anything right now.

"Well, Taiyang called." he said "He now knows about Summer being dead. didn't get to say anything else though, he ended the call on me before I could explain." Ozpin closed his eyes and nodded slowly, trying to not sigh out in his own tiredness.

'Oh this is bad...' Summer said, earning a raised eyebrow from the blonde in the room. 'Tai is always overly emotional. I hope he doesn't go overboard.' Minato nodded slightly.

"Yeah..." Minato answered "Did you know about Salem?"

'Mhm.' The Silver-Eyed Warrior answered. 'I knew about her. Slipped my mind when it came to telling you, though. Sorry!' Minato chuckled lightly, earning raised eyebrows from the hunter duo.

"It's fine, Summer-san." He answered "You have a lot on your mind, right now. I completely understand." He then focused on looming question the other two in the room had.

"Gomen, I was talking to Summer-san." Minato said embarrassingly, scratching the back of his head. The duo only nodded, already familiar with how Minato and Summer communicate.

"Well, it is best if we continue this tomorrow." Said the Headmaster as he stood up. "I will give you a food, shelter and the resources to familiarize yourself with Remnant. Considering your past occupation, I assume that you'll want to be a hunter." Minato nodded his head as he too stood up.

"Yes, Ozpin-san." he answered "I wouldn't mind becoming a hunter. Lead the way, Ozpin-san." The old man nodded in response as he started walking towards the elevator with Minato following him. Qrow sighed as he too stood up and went up to them.

Taiyang got up from the floor as Yang turned and bolted up the stairs, slamming the door to her room behind her. As soon as she had done so, she jumped onto her bed and cried out it emotional pain. It was too much for her. First, her mother left them and now, now Summer was gone. Her mother was gone and she wasn't coming back.

She heard a knock coming from the door, but she didn't care. She wanted to be left alone, to be alone and let her feelings out. She didn't want her father to see her like this. To see her strong daughter wallow in her emotions.

The door opened with a creek and her father stepped into the room with a somber look on his face. She realized quickly that he wasn't fairing much better than she was. He walked up to her and picker her up, hugging her tightly as he sat down on her bed, her face burrowed into his collarbone as she let her emotions out.

"Let it out, my sunny dragon." her father told her as she continued to cry into his shoulder. He wasn't fairing much better with tears streaming down his face. "We both need it."

Minato had just gotten inside of the dorm room that Ozpin let him use. At least until he could find his own place to stay. In return of living in the dorms, Minato would be working as an instructor and huntsman. It was the condition that Ozpin had given him, should the blonde want to stay at the school.

"Can't really complain about it..." he muttered under his breath "At least now I have a roof over my head, I can eat at the Teacher's Cafeteria and I already have a job I can honestly say that I might enjoy." Summer giggled at the thought.

'Yeah! he was really kind when he gave you this offer, Minato. You should consider yourself lucky, especially when he's never done anything like this before.' Minato nodded as his lips curved into a smile.

"Yeah, I guess I am..." he muttered as he looked around the room. He had earlier given Summer's body to Qrow, so that he, Taiyang and the kids could give her a real funeral. Her body was already too damaged to keep around and without a soul it wouldn't heal, only deteriorate.

The mood dropped when the topic of Summer's death came up. Minato took off his Ninja Tabi and sat down on the bed before looking down at his hands and thought "I know I couldn't have been able to save you, especially not considering I was able to get there only because you screamed"

Inside of Minato's mind, Summer tilted her head. 'Wait, where exactly were you when the beowolf got through my aura?'

"I was around a kilometre away from your position." he answered. Summer's eyes widened. That meant that in eight seconds he had moved a kilometer, equaling to a velocity of 450 kilometre per hour. For a human, that shouldn't be possible, even with a speed semblance, yet considering the velocity they had been moving after he had picked her up, it made sense. The trees had only been a blur and he it was obvious that weight had a great part of the equation.

'Damn...' She murmured 'What about when you teleport to those kunai? All I see is the world shifting, almost like you're actually not moving at all.' Minato chuckled lightly as he ran his hand through his hair.

"It's a time/space Ninjutsu that allows me to anchor to anything that I have tagged." he answered "It's why I was able to appear behind Raven when I fought her, even though I had no kunai." Summer nodded as she hummed lightly.

'How many times can you teleport to a tag, how far can you teleport and how long do they last?' She asked.

"However as many times and as far as I want and only until someone that knows how to removes seals does so." He answered. Summer's eyes widened once more. This meant that Raven was still tagged and Minato could appear next to her at any given time.

'Holy shit,' She breathed out 'and here I thought my semblance was one of the most powerful ones...' Minato scratched his head sheepishly at the comment before he got confused.

"Wait, what do you mean by powerful?" He asked, earning a giggle from the red-haired woman inside of his head.

'What I mean is that as far as I know, there has never been anyone, outside of maybe Raven herself, that can teleport to any place they've already visited.' She answered 'At least not in this world. Because of that, I will call your teleportation ability stupid, as in stupid because it's so god damn powerful. Hell, even Kurama agrees with me, right?" Said fox grumbled from his lying position.

"Summer is right." The Nine-Tailed Fox said "This world is different to what Konoha and the Elemental Nations were. Back there, you already knew who your rival in terms of speed was just from rumors alone. Hell, you even proved to him that you were faster, even though you used that stupid Hiraishin no Jutsu." Minato's head recoiled slightly backwards in response.

"How exactly do you know that?" He asked the fox, who snorted in response.

"Remember when I scanned your memories?" The Kyuubi asked, earning a nod from Minato before said blonde's eyes widened.

"Oh." Was all that came out from the Yellow Flash's mouth. Summer giggled a little at the response, even though she was slightly confused.

'What do you mean by "scanned your memories," Kurama?' She asked the giant fox.

"When we first appeared in this world," The fox started "Minato woke up in a cave. It didn't take long until I woke up either. Seeing as I was in someone that wasn't Naruto, I decided that the best course of action was to see who it was, and scanned the person's brain for their memories." Inside the mindscape, Summer nodded her head, kind of getting it.

"To my surprise," Kurama continued "It was Minato I was in. I decided to make myself known as fast as I could."

'Ahh.' Responded the young woman 'I see. Thank you for clearing that up. It was kind of confusing.'

"No problem, Summer." he responded. "We're both stuck with the blonde. We should not hide anything from each other." Minato nodded, listening intently on the conversation between Summer and Kurama. He too had been wondering as to why Kurama pulled the memories the way he did.

"Thank you for explaining that to me, Kurama-san." The blonde answered.

"Not a problem, Minato." Said the over-sized fox "You should get some sleep, it has been a hectic night."

The blond nodded as he stood up and started took off his trench-coat and walked over to the wall-mounted coat hooks before hanging it there. He then walked over to the bed and fell on top of it, already feeling the fatigue from all that had happened.

"My sleeping schedule is going to be a complete mess, isn't it?" He asked the two inside of his mind as he gazed out the window, seeing the sun shining. Summer snickered along with Kurama's grumbles.

"Just go to sleep, already..." Was the answer he got. Minato nodded before closing his eyes, dozing off almost immediately.

Ozpin and Qrow sat on each side of the headmaster's table, waiting, the latter being in a drunken sleep. Ozpin was waiting for someone. Someone to answer their scroll, that is. Qrow had found one of Ozpin's many bottles of liquor and decided it would be a good idea to chug it, much to Ozpin's dismay. It didn't taken long before Qrow had fallen asleep.

Ozpin sat there patiently as the scroll built into his desk kept calling.

Finally, after several minutes of spamming the other end, it was finally picked up. A hologram of a man appeared. The man was fairly tall, dark hair and blue eyes. He wore a white coat over a vest and white pants. The man was either tired or he had just woken up as he was visibly tired. The man turned towards Ozpin with a very dry and tired look on his face.

"Ozpin, what is so important that you need to call me this early in the morning?" He asked. Ozpin looked at the man in a serious manner.

"Summer is gone, James." the old man answered. James' eyes widened slightly in shock, not fully understanding how this was possible. In all his life, he had never met any hunter nor huntress capable of even coming close to Summer in terms of efficiency and skill, not to mention her sheer tenacity and stamina. She had been a force to be reckoned with and now she was gone.

"How?" James asked, earning a sigh from Ozpin.

"She was on a scouting mission that went sideways." he answered. "She was attacked by a horde of grimm." The Headmaster of Atlas hummed slightly.

"Do you believe Salem has anything to do with this?" he asked. Ozpin nodded in response before he stood up and walked to the window.

"Yes, Salem was definitely a part of this." he replied. Then his serious look turned into a slightly mischievous one as a small smile crept up on him. "James, do you remember the legend of the Yellow Flash?"

James looked at Ozpin in confusion, not really understanding why this had anything to do with the death of Summer. "Ozpin, this is not the time to tell tales." he answered.

"Just humour me, James." Ozpin said, which earned a sigh from James who rubbed his temple with his glove-covered hand.

"Yeah, I remember it." he answered tiredly. "Why? Don't tell me you still believe that a blonde from another reality will suddenly pop into existe-"

James jumped slightly in surprise when he was cut off by Ozpin's light chuckle. His eyes narrowed at the man on the other side of the video call. "Why is Ozpin acting like this?" He wondered. The older man had always been an enigma to him, something he never truly understood.

"He's here, James." Ozpin answered as he turned back towards the hologram. "The prophecy was true. Namikaze Minato, the Yellow Flash, has arrived on Remnant. He's here at Beacon Academy and Summer's soul was plucked from the bring of death and is now inside of him, waiting for a new body." James' eyes widened at the proclamation.

"Are you sure, Ozpin?" The Atlesian Officer asked, earning a nod from the headmaster. "Can we trust him?"

"If we want to win against Salem, we have to." Ozpin sighed. "Now, how far have you gotten on the synthetic body that can sustain an aura?"

AN: Well would ya look at that? I got the chapter published, at least! It's a tad shorter than the other chapters but let's be honest, not much really happened this chapter but I wanted to be as thorough with this fanfiction and not leave anything out of it, god knows how much I derped on Namikaze which is why its on ice right now.

This fanfic, however, is not. I'm updating a bit too slow, sure, but at least it's getting updated, yea?

Aaaaanyway, Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Happy holidays and I hope you'll have an amazing 2018!