Disclaimer. Dis-claim-er… weird fucking word
It was two days after the unveiling of beacon academy and currently the third hokage was in his office , having naruto walk him through the lesson plans when a small bird flew in through the office. "oh a message? Hmmm its from suna from the looks of it" naruto looked at the small scroll, unable to see any identifying features that would suggest a thing "how do you know that jiji?" chuckling at his childlike curiosity, the old kage put the scroll down and pointed to the rims "you tell with this naruto. each village has its unclassified scrolls coloured with its village colours. Suna for example is a sandy yellow."
Nodding in understanding, naruto sat back so as to let the hokage read the message. "well well. looks like you're in luck naruto" "whys that jiji?" putting the scroll down, hiruzen smiled at naruto with pride "suna has agreed to your project and after the chunnin exams, wants the kazekage's son, gaara to transfer to become a huntsman." Naruto smiled and nearly jumped out of his chair in joy, news of his academy and creation was spreading across the elemental nations like a wildfire. Of course this was to be expected considering it had been recognised as the first guardian village in the nations.
And this brought his thoughts to the real reason for his joy. As of two days ago, he was unofficially named the huntsman's shadow, the kage of beacon academy. He would officially be announced as a leader in a few weeks, as the day before was the day of the first chunnin exam, ran by naruko and wiess along with someone called ibiki. This morning, yang and menma along with anko mitarashi had sent the remaining teams into the forest of death, now known to be the emerald forest. Apparently, shino's attitude at the field was not a one time event, leading him to develop a temper like no other.
This caused a lot of injuries to the more.. arrogant of the gennin. Strangely enough this had apparently attracted the eyes of a taki nin called fuu, leading to a strange dinner date consisting of multiple insect and arachnid themed foods.. naruto still didn't understand how roasted tarantula was so appealing to them. His thoughts were cut short however as a heavily injured anbu crashed through the hokage's door.
"SIR! OROCHIMARU HAS BEEN SPOTTED IN THE FOREST OF DEATH! HE'S CURRENTLY ATTACKING ANKO!" just as he was about to call for his best anbu team, his window fell victim to the 'naruto special'. He watched as the uzumaki, now donned in his sage form, flew to the forest with his draconic wings and could not help but feel that even naruto would not be enough to stop his monstrous student.
In the forest
Naruto was flying through the treeline at full speeds, having practiced constantly after his transformation, looking across the forest to catch a glimpse of the snake sannin. He had seen his picture in the bingo book, so he knew to look for skin as white as death. After a few minuets, he caught the scent of dango and blood ad well as snakes and… little boys?! Following these scents he came across anko on her knees, gripping her shoulder in agonising pain and orochimaru gloating and monolouging. As much as he hated to see a comrade in pain, he knew that what the snake had to say could be more important.
"kukukuku, oh anko-chan. Haven't you learned by now that my little mark on your kukuku wonderful skin stops all attempts to harm me?" "SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU FREAK! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE HERE!?" his grin grew larger, making naruto cringe in disgust "well I heard ALL about these LOVELY faunus and I JUST HAD to have one for myself. A lovely little specimen with the most BEAUTIFUL wings. Or maybe the little minx with the four arms. Oh or maybe that lycan wannabe?"
"DON'T YOU TOUCH THEM!" orochimaru turned to see a crimson blade slice through his midsection, and a pair of pure black eyes staring into his very soul. Unfortunately for naruto, he was unaware that he just struck a mudclone, resulting in him becoming off balance allowing orochimaru to backhand him into anko. Looking at the dragon hybrid in front of him, orochimaru knew that THIS was the faunus he had been searching for. He was happy that he had finally drawn him out, becoming tired of torturing these children.
"kukuku there you are.. the newest kage of the elemental nations, or should I say naruto uzumaki?" getting up, naruto looked at the snake in anger "what do you mean 'there you are'?! did you do all this to get to me you bastard!?" "why yes naruto-kun.. I just HAD to meet the dragon hunter, the person who had achieved something my experiments have been leading towards for decades now. Now why don't you be a polite little boy and tell me how you did it?" "FUCK YOU, THAT'S HOW!"
Naruto ducked at the fist heading towards him, using his katana to sever the arm at the joint. He did not expect him to keep going however, leading to anko getting held hostage. "now now naruto-kun, kukukukukuku I do believe I asked you to be POLITE! Now then, we'll do this the hard way. Either you let me mark you with a curse seal, or ill string little anko's entrails up like tinsel in a Christmas tree" "HO HO OH GO FUCK YOURSEL-AHHHHHH!". Anko held onto her shoulder in pain as the curse seal started to spread
"WAIT! I'LL DO IT, JUST DON'T HURT HER!" orochimaru did not waste his chance, stretching forward and marking naruto. he was impressed he did not scream out in pain, but simply grunted. After dropping anko, he took off knowing his part was done "now I just wait for the mark to take influence, and I will be IMMORTAL!".
Back with naruto, we see him running towards the tower in great pain, carrying anko over his shoulder. He felt as if he was burning up inside and that his bones where grinding against each other. It was 2 hours before he arrived, his wings taking to much of his strength. The last thing he saw before collapsing was his teammates and team RWBY running towards him.
"NARUTO!"
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Jolting awake, naruto found himself in kurama's old cage "what? but this place was destroyed when we split. What is this?" hearing footsteps, he turned to see orochimaru.. stumble to the ground, bleeding profusely with a hundred swords in every part of his body "fucking mortals.. getting blood all over my robe, I should have just turned him to dust" hearing the voice, he turned towards the bars in the seal and saw something he never expected to see in his life. "j-jaune!?" standing in front of him, was a blonde with blue eyes, just like his. He was wearing the robes often seen on the sculptures of the sage. "you fucked up mighty kid, you know that? kami had to send ME of all people to save your ass this time. Now I don't have much time, probably only a few more minutes so just listen."
"yes I am jaune arc. Yes you are my reincarnation. No I cannot stay and before you go breaking your mind, I just killed orochimaru's soul fragment inside the seal. You still have it but it's yours to control. I also added a little 'bonus' to it. Kami sent me here because the curse seal would've lead you to kill everyone you know and love and to make sure you don't FUCK UP AGAIN! I'm being bonded to you and I will hopefully be dormant the entire time and more like a second battery and immune system, keeping you from being influenced like that again."
And with that, jaune just conjured up a house in the mindscape and went inside to sleep "now wake up, ruby is wasting her tears over your sleeping body".
Outside
Naruto awake to feel a weight on his chest, a crying red weight. "r-ruby-hime?" and then he was forced down again by the weight jumping to his neck. "NARUTO! I was so worried! Please never do that again!" knowing words wouldn't be enough, he just held the crying girl close and whispered sweet words to her. That was until anko grabbed him by the collar and slammed him into a wall "are you in control?!" "wha?" "ARE YOU IN CONTROL OF THE CURSE SEAL!?"
Understanding now what she was worried about, naruto showed the mark. It had transformed from the usuall three commas into.. "i-is that a rose?!". Yes, the mark had become a rose,. "yeah.. jaune appeared in my mindscape" the members of team RWBY gasped in shock as the other, even the hokage who had come down to inspect naruto watched with confusion "for those that don't know, jaune is the sage of six paths".
And with that, everyone fainted. Team rwby walked up to naruto like he was a god "h-he's inside you? you met jaune?" "yeah wiess.. he broke the seal and.. I guess made it different so I could use it." Luckily, the hokage and anko had managed to awake by that statement. Hearing that the seal was safe, they relaxed and left the room along with wiess, yang and blake, knowing that ruby would want time with her boyfriend alone.
"so who carried me here?" "menma did. He freaked out when you came crashing through the tower and knocked out a few nin who got in his way up here." Naruto laughed as he heard about his brother's antics. "you really worried me you know that?" he stopped laughing and looked to ruby, her hair covering her eyes and tears starting to run again. "hey.." looking up, she saw naruto with a kind smile as he cupped her cheek. "I'm sorry ruby.. but well.. I guess this gives me a chance to ask something I've been thinking of for a while now.
She watched as he slowly sat up and looked her straight in the eyes. "ruby.. thanks to my transformation, my age has been accelerated and I'm eighteen now.. we're both legally adults now" "naruto, where are you gouing with this?" "let mem finish ruby.. its been a few months now since I found your tomb and I've never been happier.. and with jaunes memories, I feel as if I've known you my entire life. Our lives are unpredictable and if today was any indication, even I could die in battle at any time and so could you.. I don't want either of us to die alone so… I don't want us to leave without accomplishing one of our dreams first."
Naruto pulled his hand up, glowing a very faint silver. As he unfolded it, ruby's breath hitched in her throat and the tears returned, flowing as she looked upon the item in his hand. "ruby rose.. I have known you a short time and loved you for every second of it. I want your silver eyes to be my sunrise and sunset, you laugh to be the morning song that wakes me up and your smile to be my comfort in darker times.. will you make me the happiest man in konoha.. and be my wife?"
The item was a ring.. a jade ring with a crimson gem, wrapping around like the stem of a flower. "n-naruto.. I.. ah.. YES! A THOUSAND TIMES YES!". The two broke into tearful laughter as ruby jumped into naruto's arms, the two spinning and laughing. Their teams watched with tearful smiles from the doorway, knowing that a greater couple could not exist. They closed the door and walked away, letting the newly engaged couple enjoy their moment of joy. "you know.. I just realised something" they turned to yang with questioning looks "naruto can only create metal right? So where did he get the ruby for the ring?"
They simply shook their heads and chuckled "who knows yang. Who knows.. love does crazy shit. it doesn't belong in logic or physics." "amen to that wiess.. amen to that"