Pairings suggested, in the order they were suggested:

Naruto x Yang

Naruto x Blake

Naruto x Melissa

Naruto x Nora

Naruto x Pyrrha

Naruto x Diana

Naruto x Weiss

Please, don't suggest anymore. I've decided.

No, I will not make Naruto pair with multiple people at once. This is not a harem story. Naruto isn't the kind of person to do that. At least, not unless he is the entire harem. Ebisu, anyone?

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Or RWBY

Chapter 5: The Midnight

To some, a weekend spent in the city would be considered a vacation. However, when your weekend is spent hiding from your friends and trying to comfort a girl with cat ears, it would make sense to be exhausted afterwards. Such was the case with Naruto Uzumaki, who had no greater desire than to sleep this Monday morning.

Unfortunately for him, he was on a team with one Diana Grout. As such, he was awoken by a trumpet blast, followed by some kind of fanfare. As he sat up slowly, he found himself pondering the decisions he made in his life to reach this point.

Fully sat up, he was able to see that Diana, in the middle of the night, had put up a sign displaying a childish fox drawing and the words "Welcome Back, Naruto". Melissa had told him that he should expect a warm re-welcome, and so he decided to avoid the attention by sneaking back in after they had all gone to sleep.

No such luck. Diana had somehow designed an entire song and dance number in the night, and was now performing it to greet Naruto's morning. They had no classes that day, meaning she might have literally gone on all day, had it not been for Melissa asking her to stop.

"Sorry!" Diana apologized, in her non-apologetic way. It wasn't that she was trying to be mean; far from it. She just seemed to not get that her fun didn't translate into other people's fun.

"It's ok, Diana," Naruto said, getting up and putting on his jacket. He made a note to go into Vale to purchase more clothes as soon as he could. He wasn't a criminal by any means, but that didn't mean he was opposed to taking money from actual criminals. The White Fang members at the docks, for whatever reason, had been carrying enough Lien in total for him to buy, if he was estimating correctly, 4 sets of clothes.

Either that, or he could buy a weapon or parts to one, like Ruby had been practically hounding him to do. He was thinking that it might be cool to try and learn how to fight with a chokutō, or maybe something ranged, like a pistol, or something else small that he could work into his style.

Or even a chokutō pistol. That sounded like fun. After all, Troy had the whole knife-pistol thing, and he fought almost just like Naruto, but a lot more confusingly for his opponent.

"So, captain, what are we doing today?" He asked Melissa. She shrugged, not having any ideas.

"I don't know. We don't have any classes, so we're free. Anyone got any ideas?"

Diana, who now hung by her knees off of the closet, brought up going to spar all day. Naruto shook his head.

"Sorry, Diana. I'm still tired from this weekend," he said. It wasn't a lie; he had used far too much speed when he had been combating the White Fang and Torchwick. His legs would probably be sore for at least a day, according to the fox. "We could go to Vale, spend some time there. I was thinking about buying a weapon, anyways."

Troy nodded his head, saying "It would make sense for you to get something. With how effective you are with your kunai, it is difficult to imagine what you could do with a weapon suited to you."

Melissa nodded, thinking back to last night, what she had seen Naruto do with his bare hands. "Well, it's settled then; we're going to Vale!" Naruto cheered.

As it turned out, Bangs and Bombs took custom weapon orders. They also had a policy for students, where they were only required to pay once the students began to take on paying missions.

Finishing his order, Naruto met up with his team, who were perusing the shelves, trying to waste time. They seemed to be in some sort of debate.

"No, I think you're wrong. A sword would be much better for it," Melissa argued. Troy shook his head.

"But if you have two daggers, then you have potentially twice the effectiveness."

"Naruto, what do you think: Sword or two daggers?" Melissa asked, seeing him walk over.

His eyes widened at being put on the spot, "Wait, what?"

Melissa rolled her eyes, "For beating a boarbatusk, dummy."

"Hm…" Naruto thought for a moment. "I would have to go with the daggers. They would let you strike more vulnerable spots in less time."

Troy turned to her with an air of triumph, "There, you see? Naruto agrees with me."

"Yeah, but his fighting style relies on getting as many hits in as possible in as little time as he can. He's just biased," Melissa countered. Troy groaned.

"Never mind, then. Shall we go?"

Naruto nodded, "I wish I had brought my haori with me. I could've gone and gotten a few spares."

"Hey! No trying the weapons in the main store area!" one of the employees yelled at Diana, who had just fired off a small handheld cannon into the ceiling. She smiled only somewhat sheepishly.

"What about more bowling?" Melissa asked. Naruto shook his head.

"There's got to be something else we can do."

"We could go to a firing range," Troy suggested, looking over at the one on the corner. Naruto looked at Melissa, and they both shrugged, following Troy into the range.

Inside, they saw a rather impressive array of weapons, from pistols to a minigun, weapons of all shape and size. Naruto saw several kinds he could recognize from his experiences since coming to Remnant, but there were even more that he couldn't name, that he didn't recognize.

There were a number of them that looked like long tube, with a cone on the end. Melissa commented when she saw them, "Wait, they let you fire rocket launchers in here? The hell?" Naruto wasn't sure what a rocket was, but it sounded like fun.

Troy selected a pair of pistols that matched his own, Melissa picked a rifle, Diana didn't grab anything, and Naruto wasn't sure how to work a gun. He grabbed a pistol identical to the ones that Troy had, so that at least he could ask for help when he needed it.

Paying for ammunition and an hour on the range, the MDT portions of MDNT got to watch Naruto struggle to understand how a gun works. Troy tried to explain it to him, only for Naruto to ask him afterwards what the safety was.

Deciding to give a short demonstration, Troy took Naruto's pistol, running through the steps to get it to fire. Afterwards, he undid everything he did and handed it back to Naruto, who definitely learned better by seeing. He managed to remember what Troy had done, and mimic it well enough. After a half hour. If nothing else, they got a comedy show out of their hour.

By the time they had to leave, Naruto had successfully fired four rounds, all of which completely missed the target. Each time, he stared at the gun for a minute, as if he couldn't believe it worked. To Melissa, it was like he had never seen a gun before, even though his village was full of huntsmen.

As it happened, a firing range was not a fun place for two trained marksmen and two people who didn't use guns. On one hand, two of them hit a bull's-eye every time, while the other two either missed every time or didn't shoot at all. Also, some older guys kept trying to hit on Diana, but she didn't seem to get it.

Now, because Naruto's stomach had growled profusely after leaving the firing range, Team MDNT found themselves at a noodle stand Naruto had sniffed out from a distance. The Faunus was like a bloodhound when it came to ramen.

By the time he was finished, more than twenty bowls sat in front of Naruto. Both his teammates and the owners of the stand gaped at him. For the first time, Diana was speechless.

Monday went by in a flash, probably because the trip to and from Vale took a while, despite being close and using airships. Naruto kept insisting that he could make it back to Vale faster if he ran. To prove his point, he did, and had stood waiting for them until they got to Beacon.

But that was yesterday, and today they had multiple classes, leaving them busy all day. Luckily, they started with Port, giving them all more time to sleep in the morning. Except Diana, who didn't seem to need sleep, ever. Afterwards, the only class everyone looked forward to: combat class. Ironic, considering who taught it.

They had begun to do random matches, as Glynda said, to keep people from just sparring with their friends all the time. Today, the first match, one that drew Naruto's attention, was Diana fighting Nora. Both of them had taken their places on either side of the stage.

"Begin," Professor Goodwitch said.

Nora went flying at Diana, hammer held over her head, but her target dodged to the left, just a moment before the hammer came down. Diana's black sword came flying off her back, as she swung it around to force Nora to dodge upwards, off the ground.

After the hammer-wielder did, Diana swung Papa Chop vertically upwards, right towards Nora's middle. She was blocked by Magnhild, Nora's hammer, and dodged backwards as the hammer was shot off, propelling Nora backwards into the air.

She transformed her hammer into its grenade launcher form, using her range to her advantage by bombarding the rainbow girl with explosion after explosion. Diana leapt into the air, towards Nora, getting behind her, hitting her with the blunt side of her blade, sending her flying into the ground. Diana attempted to follow up by slamming the extended hilt of her blade down into Nora, but was once again blocked by the hammer, as Nora swung her feet around and knocked Diana over.

Nora sprung to her feet, slamming her hammer into the spot where Diana lay. The impact kicked up a cloud of dust around them, but Diana flew upwards out of it, sword in hand. She placed her palm on the end of the hilt, and kicked off the ceiling, rocketing down into the cloud of dust. When it cleared, both of them were stood a distance apart, panting slightly.

They gripped their weapons tightly, as they both charged each other, Diana swinging horizontally while Nora swung upwards. The result being Diana dodging to the left as Nora ducked under the swing. Diana had turned to the side to dodge, leaving Nora a chance to attack. She took it, and Diana was sent soaring into a wall.

Diana took only a moment to recover, but in that moment, Nora came from behind, cracking the floor as she swung downwards. The attack missed, but the resulting shockwave sent Diana flying once more, as her Aura dropped into the red and Goodwitch stopped the match.

"Well, that took much longer than expected, however we have enough time for a second match," she paused, hitting a few buttons on her scroll, and beginning the randomization process.

"And the match will be… Ms. Xiao Long, and her opponent… will be Lie Ren."

Naruto could see Yang's grin as she made her way down to the arena floor. She got way too excited for fights.

"I still say that was an unfair hit!" Yang complained. Ren, to his credit, was hiding a grin surprisingly well.

"You left yourself open with your last strike. I simply took the chance," explained the pseudo-ninja.

The rest of Teams RWBY, JNPR, and MDNT had gathered at lunch, having the pleasure of listening to Yang whine about the outcome of her match the entire time.

Naruto turned to Ren, "Could you at least have let her thought she had a chance? Maybe then she wouldn't be going on about it."

He gave Yang a sly grin, as if taunting her. She narrowed her eyes and turned up her nose, crossing her arms and looking away, "Hmph."

"What? Diana isn't crying about her match," Naruto said, pointing to the rainbow girl who was scarfing down muffins, as Ruby watched her with amazement, following each muffin with her wide eyes.

"Yeah, but that's cause she never gets upset at anything. Didn't you see her during the match? Look, sorry. I guess I'm just a little… Yangry," she joked. Naruto lowered his face to his hand, rubbing his eyes with his index finger and thumb.

"Kit, you're sure we can't just-"

'No, Kyūbi. We're not killing Yang.'

"I wasn't going to say that."

'Yes, you were.'

"Yang, that was awful. Please, don't do that again," he said to her, not looking up.

"GUYS!" Ruby suddenly yelled, startling all of them, and making Diana fly upwards. When she came back down, Ruby continued. "I just realized that the semester ends tomorrow. We won't have class for two whole weeks!"

They all turned back to eating, with Weiss hardly looking up to reply, "Yes, Ruby. We know."

"Oh, right. Sorry," she apologized sheepishly, turning red. Naruto patted her on the back.

"Ah, don't worry about it, Ruby. Weiss forgets a lot of things."

"Hey!" Said the heiress, nearly shouting. Ruby giggled at her partner. "You're still not off the hook yet, Mister."

Yang turned to her, "Weiss, enough already. We get you don't like Faunus by nature, but Naruto's our friend."

Weiss brought up an argument she had used before, "And yet he refuses to tell us anything about his past. At least Blake told us."

"Oh, what? I have to spill my heart and soul out to you just because I have whiskers?" Naruto said, somewhat angry.

Weiss raised her hands defensively, "Alright, fair enough. I just wanted to know. No need to get angry."

Diana turned to Nora, and the two seemed to share a thought.

"Fine," Naruto said, calming himself down.

"Come now, Kit. At least give her a little scare. You could borrow my chakra for it, if you want."

Naruto rolled his eyes inside his mind, "No, Kyūbi. She's just misguided. Besides, I'd be suspicious of me."

"You're no fun, Kit."

Back in the real world, Diana had gotten several pie tins from somewhere, and had begun to stack them for some strange reason. Not stack them as in putting one in another, but turning them over so that the bottom of each tin touched the bottom of another, and the tops touched the tops.

"Uh… Diana, what are you doing?" He felt the need to ask. He wasn't sure what kind of answer to expect.

"She and Nora are seeing who can stack more," answered Jaune, as Diana was preoccupied. "Didn't you hear them?"

"Heh, heh. No, not really."

Later that day, Naruto was doing his usual thing, meditating on top of the roof, when he felt his scroll go off in his pocket. He pulled it out, still unsure exactly how to use it. At the moment, it was a simple matter of looking at a message he had received. It was an estimated time for his new weapon.

"A week, huh?"

Ever since the night at the docks, Naruto had been spending his nights on the roof with Blake, trying to ease her mind, since she was still rattled by the fact that Torchwick had the White Fang working with and for him.

He felt like he was making progress, but truthfully, he couldn't tell. She was such a complex person. On one hand, she still felt like she should be punished for her past actions, while on the other she had moved on completely.

Then one night, while they were both sat against the wall next to the door, she sprung a completely unexpected question on him, "Naruto, how did your parents die?"

He looked away, and she immediately wanted to slap herself. Of course it would be a sensitive topic; how could she be so stupid? He had even told her that they died right after he was born, for God's sake.

"Sorry, Naruto, you don't have-"

"I don't know," he said, cutting her off. She stared at him with concern.

"They died when I was a newborn. I don't know anything about them, and the village had never told me anything about them."

"Nothing?"

"No, nothing at all."

"Sorry for asking about it, Naruto."

He smiled weakly at her, "Don't worry about it, Neko-chan."

She cocked her head at the strange nickname. It sounded like a language that the characters in one of her books sometimes used, but she was fairly sure that that was either a dead language or a fake one.

She was about to ask about it, but the door was flung open, and Pyrrha and Jaune walked out. They were laughing about something, but stopped when they saw Naruto and Blake sat there.

"Oh…uh, sorry," Jaune said. "We'll come back later."

Naruto got up, "Ah, don't worry about it. You two practice up here. Blake and I can talk somewhere else, I'm sure."

"Actually, Naruto, I think I'm going to sleep for the night," Blake replied, stepping over to the door, and leaving Naruto with the members of Team JNPR.

"So... How's your combat coming, Jaune?"

Pyrrha was the one to answer, "Oh, he's doing wonderfully. In fact… Naruto, do you think you could help out?" He nodded. She turned to Jaune. "Is that alright?"

Jaune nodded as well, "Of course it is. He's the one who got me to go apologize to you after I was a jerk."

So, for the next hour or so, before he left, Naruto put Jaune through the ringer with his incredible speed. He had to admit though, Jaune's swordsmanship was very similar to the style Pyrrha fought with.

Eventually, he decided to let Jaune and Pyrrha practice alone, and he left to go back to his room. If he was any later, he was worried that Diana might make another sign for him in the morning.

The next morning, fortunately, there was no sign strung up in their dorm. Naruto was even able to wake up on his own, and not have Diana scare him awake. In fact, the rainbow girl didn't even seem to be in the dorm. Which, rather than being comforting, worried Naruto rather a lot. That meant she could be anywhere.

Getting dressed, and this time bringing his haori with him, Naruto decided to go into Vale. His new weapon was supposed to be finished today anyways, so he at least had a reason. Also, he could get copies of his jumpsuit. He would need to get much more money before he could get another haori, but with dust imbued into it.

Realizing something he needed to do if he didn't want to be attacked by a massive gardening tool, Naruto went over to Team RWBY's dorms to be sure to invite Ruby with him. When she had found out he had ordered a new weapon without her, he was worried she might try to kill him before he said that she could come with him when he picked it up.

Yang answered the door, "Naruto? What are you doing here?" She narrowed he eyes. "Are you here for Blake?"

"Nope. Ruby. She wanted to come with me when I got my new weapon. I'm here so she won't kill me."

Yang laughed, "Yeah, if anyone would… Ruby! Naruto is going to pick up his new weapon!"

Naruto expected her to come bursting from inside the dorm, but he heard something down the hall. A door flew open, and Ruby burst out of the bathroom, down the hall, and into her room. All in a hastily wrapped towel. Naruto, mouth agape, pointed from the bathroom to inside the dorm.

"Wha-" he started to ask. Ruby appeared in the door next to Yang, fully dressed and with her scythe on her back to boot.

"I'M READY!" She shouted excitedly. She was almost visibly shaking with excitement. It was as though her weapons obsession had somehow gotten worse with time.

"Oooook… Let's go!" Preparing himself, Naruto made sure to send just a bit of chakra to his legs, so that he could catch up with Ruby when-

And there she went. Naruto gave chase, but she was incredibly fast. Even Kakashi-sensei would have difficulty keeping up with her. By the time Naruto caught up to her, she had stopped, halfway between Vale and Beacon, to wait for him.

Once he caught up, they took off at relatively even speeds, making it to Vale in a total of two minutes, twenty three seconds. Once in the city, they slowed it down, so that they wouldn't hit anyone. Once they stopped, Naruto felt a huge gust of wind, and turned to see a number of leaves had followed in the trail of whatever it was Ruby had done. The streets weren't terrifically crowded that day, despite more and more students from other academies arriving. He thought he saw a few dressed in parkas, but that may have been his imagination.

He definitely noticed, however, when a student called out to him, "HEY! ANIMAL! LEAVE THAT LITTLE GIRL ALONE!" He glared at the person who shouted at him, seeing him snickering with his friends, that he had the balls to insult a passerby.

"One moment, Ruby. I need to do something," He said, turning his head slightly to look in between Ruby and the group of students across the street. She looked offended on his behalf, and also a little upset at the racists. Nevertheless, she nodded.

In an instant, the students stopped laughing, as the one who had shouted had a kunai placed to his neck by the Faunus they had elected to insult. "Oh, don't stop laughing now. Surely your entire group can take me? The worthless, wild animal?" Naruto taunted them, leaving several of them reaching for various weapons.

Before any of them could make a move, Naruto struck the ringleader on the back of the head with the hilt of his kunai, and stood ready to fight the rest of them.

"Kit, are you sure I can't have a little fun? What if I promise not to kill any of them?"

'No, Kyūbi. That would cause too many questions. That's why I'm not using my jutsu in the first place. Besides, I made a promise to Professor Ozpin.'

"I hate you when you're smart about things. Fine, carry on."

As at least four of the students attacked Naruto, they were taken down by an outside force. It wasn't Naruto who did it, as he was preoccupied talking with the Kyūbi. No, they were taken down by the strange man who walked up behind them, looking directly at Naruto.

The man had a full-length brown coat on, and a mask over his face. Not too much unlike Kakashi-sensei's mask, except that this one covered his eyes, with little bits over them for him to see out of. Naruto couldn't tell much about him, other than he must have been a huntsmen. He looked at the blond.

"You know, it isn't smart to fight a group of people like that, but you've got guts, kid. Meet me some time."

With that, he threw some kind of card at Naruto, and promptly left. Naruto was left staring at his back as he casually walked away, like he hadn't just taken down four guys in the time it took Naruto to get in and out of his mind.

Naruto walked back over to Ruby, who looked at him with moderate concern. Partially for in he was ok after the continued racism, and partially because of the fight and the man who had appeared. She said that he had made her feel nervous, just talking to Naruto. Like at any moment he and Naruto would both up and vanish.

"What's that?" She asked, tilting her head towards the card in his hand. He looked down at it, turning it over as he studied it.

"I don't know. He tossed it to me, then left. But it's blank."

"Huh, Weird. Oh, well. Let's go!" She exclaimed, back to her usual pep. They began to walk to Bangs and Bombs, both of them forgetting the encounter as they talked.

"Aw, come on! Tell me what kind of weapon it is!" Ruby complained, looking at Naruto with puppy eyes.

'Huh. So that's not a jutsu.'

"Idiot."

'HEY!'

"Sorry, Ruby, but you'll have to wait 'til we get there." She turned forward in a huff, crossing her arms as she did.

"Aw, don't be like that!"

"No."

"Hey, look, there it is!" he yelled, spotting the store. Ruby looked over at it.

"Huh. That's convenient," she said. "Hey, wait. There're no people between there and here. Let's hurry this up!"

"Wait, wh-"

And there she went again, leaving behind Naruto and a gust of wind. He sighed, having already dealt with this once today. Why must he always be friends with the strangest people?

A moment later, Naruto met with Ruby outside the store, as she was waiting in anticipation. He couldn't tell if she was excited for him getting his weapon, or for herself having the opportunity to see it.

"Oh, hey, Naruto?" Ruby asked him, just as they walked in. "What are you gonna call it?"

He shrugged. It was something he had been thinking over for the last several days, but had found no answer to thus far. "I don't know. I'm-" he did have the chance to tell her what he was planning to do, as she shrieked in shock.

"WHAT?!" She stared at him with wide silver orbs, like he had just killed everyone she knew. "You don't have a name for it? You've got to have a name, Naruto!"

"Yes, Ruby, I know. I just can't think of one."

"Really? Nothing you can think of?"

"No," he finished, as they reached the counter. "Hi. I'm here to pick up my weapon. I was told it would be finished today?"

"Name?"

"Naruto Uzumaki."

"One moment," said the clerk, apparently rather disinterested. A moment later, a panel on the counter opened, as a platform rose up. Mounted on it was what was clearly a bladed weapon, but sheathed in orange trimmed with black, with a hilt to match.

"Thank you, come again."

Leaving the store, Ruby stepped in front of Naruto, "Come on! Let me see it!"

He grinned. "Not until next combat class," he said, fully aware that that wouldn't happen for another week.

"Aw, you're the worst!"

Ruby had left, mildly disgruntled, after Naruto had rejected, by his count, her twenty-seventh attempt to get him to show her his weapon. Now alone, sat in a tree in the park, Naruto held his new chokutō in his hands, still in its maple sheath.

He gripped the hilt, also maple and curving inwards slightly for ease of holding. He pulled it out slowly, inspecting it as he went. It gleamed in the sunlight breaking through the branches. He had given them his hitai-ate, asking them to work it into the blade, and now the Leaf's emblem was imbedded just above the hilt. The blade went for just over two feet, before ending by slanting backwards into a point.

As he had asked, he could also transform it into a pistol modeled after one he had seen in the store, an AMT Automag V pistol, caliber .50AE. According to the man he had placed the order with, it would pack quite a punch.

A thought went through his head, of what might happen if he ever returned to the Leaf Village, with this weapon in tow.

Of course, he would need to learn how to use a pistol before he could try it out in a fight. He may be able to fire it, but as he had seen with his team, he had no idea how to aim it. Perhaps Troy could help him out.

"It just isn't fair!"

"Yes, Ruby, I get it. You wanted to see his weapon. But didn't you get to anyways?" Yang responded, not even looking at her sister. The younger girl had been going on about it for the last half hour, and Yang was starting to consider dragging Naruto back to make him show Ruby the sword he had bought.

"No! Not really. I only got to see its sheath, not the actual blade itself," she complained. Yang sighed.

Getting an idea to hopefully either get Ruby to be quiet by confusing her or making her leave, Yang said, "Well, it's probably because he only wants Blake to see his weapon."

"Huh?" Ruby asked, cocking her head to the side. "Wait, how come?"

"Oh, no reason."

"Come on, Yang! Tell me!"

"Nope. Go ask Blake," Yang suggested. Ruby's eyes lit up at the idea.

"Ooh! Thanks, Yang!" Ruby bolted from the room, leaving Yang wondering how in the world that had worked. Weiss came in, looking out at the hallway and back to Yang, confused.

"Why did Ruby just speed down the hallway?" Asked the heiress. Yang half shrugged.

"She wants to see Naruto's weapon, and I told her Blake would probably be the one who gets to see it. I think Naruto just wanted to mess with her, but I'm not the one to let her know that."

"Oh… We're going to have to put up with her whining for the next several days, aren't we?"

"Probably," Yang replied.

"Damn you, Naruto."

Though it was getting to be rather cold at night, it wasn't really bothersome to one with both a jumpsuit and cloak, leaving Naruto with no excuse to not keep up on his Sage training. He could tell he was getting closer, since he was beginning to be able to pull in small amounts of energy. He needed to become more attuned to the world before he could really start getting to work on it. But, with time, he would get it. Until then at least he had an excuse to use the Kyūbi's chakra, if the fox let him.

Tonight, as he was just starting his training, he heard a faint noise behind him, and looked back to see the door opening. Wondering who would come up here, since Jaune and Pyrrha always used the same roof, and he wasn't on it, he waited a moment, only for the door to close, as whoever it was left.

"That was strange," Naruto remarked to himself. He half-expected the Kyūbi to chime in, but the fox stayed silent, presumably because he was asleep. "I should do the same, I guess."

He stood, walked over to the door, and found it had been locked. "Oh, wow. That must have been a janitor. Why did he lock it if I was up here?" he asked himself. "Oh, well. It's been a while since I climbed down a building, anyways."

Naruto looked over the edge, checking for open windows, before he moved chakra to his hands and legs, so that he could climb down on his stomach, so that people looking out their windows wouldn't see him walking vertically. That might cause just a bit of confusion.

He was about halfway down when he heard a window near him open. He panicked slightly, and dropped the rest of the distance. It was only a hundred feet or so, a much smaller distance than his record. He looked up, and saw a mane of blonde hair looking right at the place he had just been stuck to the wall. He couldn't tell exactly who it was, but he only knew one other person with hair that yellow.

The next morning, all of Team RWBY and Team MDNT were sat at a table together in the lunchroom. Team JNPR was off doing a team-training session. It had won their vote of the activity of that day, the only other one being Nora's, which was cooking pancakes.

"And then I grabbed him, but where he really didn't want to be grabbed," Yang was saying. "And I asked him again, more…forcefully. I have to say, at least he had some balls. He got his men to attack me, but I kicked their asses."

"Yang, why did you open the window last night?" Weiss asked. Naruto hid his panic behind swallowing his ramen.

"Yeah, it was weird. I looked one moment and saw someone out there, but when I opened the window and checked again, they were gone," she said, no one noticing Naruto's wide eyes. He had almost been found out. He had to be careful in the future. He would rather avoid awkward questions like how he could walk on walls. He wasn't sure how he would even begin to explain that one.

"Yang, I think you were probably just seeing things," Weiss rationalized. Ruby nodded, still glaring at Naruto.

Naruto, remembering his thought yesterday, turned to Troy. "Hey, Troy, do you think you could give me a hand with aiming a pistol? I'd like to learn to use one," he asked of his friend.

"Sure thing, Naruto."

"Hey, Whiskers!" Yang suddenly called to Naruto, who looked at her like a deer caught in headlights. "You were on the roof, right? Did you see anyone climbing down the walls last night?"

He lied, "No. I think you're just going crazy, myself. Well, crazier, I guess."

"I don't think she can," Melissa chimed in, joining Naruto in his joke.

"Hey! At least I'm not that crazy!" Yang defended, pointing at Diana, who for once was simply sitting and calmly eating some pretzel buns. Well, calmly for her. She was digging into it faster than Nora into pancakes. She looked up at the word crazy, then shrugged and went back to eating.

"Hey, leave Diana's insanity out of this!" Naruto continued to joke. Diana gave a thumbs up, still focused on devouring her buns.

Naruto was sat with his back to the wall behind his bed, staring at the little card he was given. It was completely blank and yet the man had tossed it to him as though it held some kind of information that could be used to find him, especially considering what he had said.

Getting an idea from the only thing he had ever signed, Naruto bit his thumb, smearing a small amount of blood in the top left corner of the paper. Nothing happened.

"Did you expect that to work? Blood seals don't have a presence in this world."

Inside his mind, Naruto glared at the fox, "Well, do you have any ideas? I'm all ears."

"No. You forget, Naruto, that I am as new to this world as you. However, simply seeing the abilities that they have, I should think it's safe to say that they don't know of seals in general, let alone blood seals."

Naruto sighed. He wanted to find the man, to ask him why he had given Naruto the card. "I don't suppose you have some ancient magical Bijū powers you could use to find him?"

"No. Not unless he had chakra, or I had had the foresight to track him from when you met him."

"Will you tell me your name?"

"I already told you, no."

"Aw, come on. You are the only friend I have left from back home; I'd like to know a name to call you other than Kyūbi."

"First, we are not friends. Second, I've told you Kyūbi is good enough."

"Not to me. To me, that's like when people called me the 'demon brat.' It was hurtful, and rude."

"Then don't use the word Kyūbi. It's not as though it's difficult to figure out who you're talking to when you're in here."

"I know, but it's almost worse if I don't call you anything."

"You just don't like to be pleased, do you?"

Naruto gave the fox his signature grin, and left the mindscape. Back in the real world, he found Diana poking his forehead. He jumped backwards, only to hit the wall he was already sitting against.

As he rubbed the back of his head, he looked at Diana indignantly, "Why? No, never mind. I should know by now not to question it." He sighed, as the pain receded. "When did you get back?"

She shrugged, "Just now! You were just sitting still with this weird look on your face, so I poked you a bunch!"

He looked her dead in the eye, and told her, "Diana, you're weird."

She just kept smiling, like he hadn't said anything. He got up, putting his haori back on, and left the room.

Walking into the hallway, he looked both up and down it, looking for a suit. He spotted the one he was looking for at the end, rounding the corner.

"HEY! TROY!" Naruto shouted, sprinting down the hallway. Before Troy could even turn back around the corner, Naruto was right in front of him. "Do you have some time? Could you teach me how to aim a pistol?"

"Sure, Naruto."

Unsurprisingly, the school's firing range was completely unoccupied, as it was a rather nice day to be in Vale, especially with all the new arrivals. For one Naruto Uzumaki and a Troy Davores, this meant they had the entire thing to themselves, and that it was quiet.

"So, before we start, I need to know the caliber of the gun. That will affect a few things about it, kickback included," Troy said upon entering. Naruto pulled out his chokutō, changing it to its pistol form. "That's a beautiful blade," Troy exclaimed as he pulled it out.

"Caliber .50AE," Naruto read. Troy raised an eyebrow.

"Isn't that a little much for your first gun? Never mind, I suppose it makes sense. You'd not kill many Grimm with less. Perhaps a practice pistol may be in order," he said, as he gestured to the weapon shelves.

"Nah. If I don't learn how to fire this one, what's the point?"

"Alright…" Troy said, unsurely. He directed Naruto to one of the windows. "So, the small raised section in the front? That's called the sight. You'll want to line that up for your shots for now, to give you an idea of where the bullet will go when you fire. Once you get a lot of practice, you should be able to do… this!" He shouted the last word, as he pulled his gun up, still looking at Naruto, and hit six consecutive bull's-eyes. Naruto stared slightly, still being amazed how accurately people could shoot in this world.

Back home, of course, there were shinobi who were masters of shuriken jutsu. Naruto, while not a master by any means, was no slouch either, being able to hit small targets from over a hundred yards. The weapons they had here, however, had so much recoil to them that Naruto was amazed anyone could hit anything. Hell, Ruby and Yang both propelled themselves with their weapons.

Regardless, he took Troy's advice, aiming down the sight on top of the gun, and pulling the trigger. He felt the gun fire, and the recoil backwards. He wasn't expecting quite so much, and the result was him nearly smacking himself with his own gun.

"Woah!" he exclaimed loudly. Troy shook his head.

"I tried to warn you…"

"Alright, another try," Naruto fired the gun again, this time holding it as still as he could when he fired it, and this time not experiencing nearly as much recoil. His hands definitely still shook incredibly, though. It felt like someone was vibrating his hands.

Troy raised an eyebrow, "Not much recoil that time, eh?"

Naruto shook his head, "There was, but I held the gun still. My hands feel weird, though."

"Hm. Well, that'll happen. The kinetic energy from the recoil of the gun needs somewhere to go, and since it can only leave through your hands…"

Naruto had no idea what he was talking about, but he nodded as if he did.

Leaning in, Diana asked Melissa, "Do you know where Troy is?"

"Uh, no. Diana, why are you hanging in the window?"

"For fun!" answered Diana, full smile plastered to her face.

"Diana, you are one of the strangest people I have ever met. But I like you."

Flipping off the window and into the room, Diana turned to the door, "Thanks!" She walked out.

"Huh. Weird. At least it's quiet around here now," Melissa said to herself. Ruby burst into the room not a moment after she finished talking.

"Is Naruto here? Is his new weapon?" She asked, as Melissa rubbed her forehead.

"No, Ruby. You can't see it. It's his to show you when he wants to."

"Awwwww. But how come Blake gets to see it?" asked the young Huntress-in-training.

"What do you mean?" Melissa asked. As far as she knew, Naruto hadn't shown his new sword to anyone but Troy, and that was only so that he could train his marksman skills.

"Yang told me that Naruto would only let Blake see his sword…" Ruby seemed kind of down, like she seriously thought Blake had gotten to see it. Melissa decided to join Yang in the joke.

"Oh, that. Yeah, Blake was telling us how cool it is."

"Aw, come on! I wanna see it!"

"Sorry, Ruby. Not today. Won't you see it next class, anyways?"

"That's! Not! Soon enough!" Ruby whined. Melissa laughed. Ruby left, frustrated that she couldn't see the chokutō until another week.

"Hey, Ren. How was your teams training?" Naruto asked the 'ninja' at lunch the following day.

"Nora broke the ceiling. Again," he answered, looking sideways at the girl. She was pouring syrup all over her pancakes.

"I feel like I should be surprised, but I'm not," Naruto motioned with his head to Diana. "You know, we really should keep them from meeting. If they do…" Ren and Naruto shuddered. The thought was terrifying.

"Hey, Naruto?" Melissa asked. He swung around to face her. "How come you're not showing your new sword to anyone yet? Ruby really wants to see it."

"It's going to be a surprise, for when classes start back up and I get to fight someone."

"Yeah, but could you at least show Ruby? She might actually explode if you don't."

"Nah, she'll be fine," Naruto answered, waving off the youngest student's hyperactivity.

"I really don't think she will. I mean, she came into our dorm yesterday to get a glimpse at it while you weren't there. She didn't know you had it with you."

"Oh, speak of the devil. Hey, Ruby!" Naruto called to the girl walking towards the table. She gave him something that was between a pout and a glare, and sat down across from him.

She looked up at him, "Please?" He shook his head. "You're mean, Naruto," she said, with no real anger behind it.

"Ah, come on already, Ruby. You'll see it next class."

"But that's not soon enough!" she complained. Everyone else at the table, besides Diana and Nora, who were too focused on eating, was starting to crack up at the conversation.

"Yeah, Whiskers," said Yang, plopping down in the seat next to Naruto. "It's not soon enough." She leaned over, whispering in the Faunus's ear, "I promised her I'd support her, but please don't. This is too funny to watch."

It was time. Today was the day. Etcetera. Naruto delved into his mind, standing before the great gates that held the Kyūbi.

"Kyūbi!" He shouted. There was the usual rumbling sound, like something gigantic was getting up. But that was only the sound of the Kyūbi breathing.

"What do you want, brat?"

"Tell me your name," It wasn't a question this time, it was a command. The Kyūbi scoffed at both the boy's braveness and his stupidity.

"You know what? Fine. If you wish to know my name, then I will tell you. But first, you must prove yourself to me, Kit."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, prove you aren't like those people who imprisoned me for almost a century. Prove to me that you aren't like the First Hokage, or Madara Uchiha, or anyone else in that wretched village. Prove to me that you aren't after my power."

Naruto gave his usual foxy grin, "Is that it? Well that's easy!"

"Of course you would think so."

"Well, you're asking me to prove I don't want to take your power, right? So then, I'm already doing that."

The fox, at least from what Naruto could see, returned his foxy grin, "Indeed? Well then, perhaps you will have no difficulty."

"Alright, then! Let's go!"

"One moment, Naruto. From what I had heard, the blonde vixen spotted you several nights ago. If you wish to continue this cover of yours, I recommend not using chakra like that again."

Naruto looked down at the water-ridden stone floor, "Yeah, I know. It really sucks, ya know? That pool of the toads is trouble. If we ever get back, we're destroying it. It could cause no end of trouble for this world."

"Indeed. For all we know, the toads could be tracked down by the Akatsuki. How would you hide then, Kit?"

Naruto shrugged, "I guess I would run. I'd fight them in the wild, where no one else could get hurt. I don't want them to get their hands on you."

"The feeling is mutual."

"So, what do you think they're after, anyways?" Naruto asked his tenant.

"I'm unsure. Whatever it is, it would have the power of all nine tai-" The fox stopped suddenly, lost in his thoughts.

Naruto raised an eyebrow, "Kyūbi?"

"Not now. Get out." With that, the fox released a huge wave of chakra, forcing Naruto from his mind.

Naruto leaned back against his bed, thinking on what the fox had told him.

'Prove I'm not after his power…'

The next few days went by quickly, and before anyone realized it, the last day before the second semester started was upon them. The day found Teams RWBY, MDNT, and JNPR all in the cafeteria once again, all calmly eating lunch. Blake was looking over some kind of sketches in her book.

Yang slid next to her, "Whatcha doing?"

Blake closed her book, "Nothing. Just going over notes from last semester."

Yang caught a grape in her mouth, one thrown to her from another table by Nora.

"Lame."

Nora kept launching fruits at Yang with her spoon. Yang caught the fruit with ease, giving Nora a thumbs-up. Ruby, giving an enormous heave, slammed a binder onto the table, catching everyone off guard. Naruto, not having been paying attention, jumped enough to fall backwards out of his seat. The cover of the binder had written on it "Vytal Festival Activities, Property of Weiss Schnee". However, someone- and it wasn't a mystery who- had crossed the words out with a red marker, and wrote "Best Day Ever Activities" underneath.

Ruby cleared her throat, Sisters... friends... Weiss and people who won't let me see new weapons.

"Hey!" Naruto and Weiss both exclaimed indignantly.

Ruby ignored them, "Four score and seven minutes ago, I had a dream!"

"This ought to be good," said Yang as she caught another berry in her mouth.

Ruby ignored her, too, "A dream that one day, we would all come together, and have the most fun anyone has ever had... ever!"

Weiss noticed the words on the binder, "Did you steal my binder?"

Ruby brushed it off, "I am not a crook."

Blake, seemingly just now getting involved, looked up at Ruby, asking, "What are you talking about?"

Ruby pointed a finger at her, to emphasize her point, "I'm talking about kicking off the semester with a bang!"

Yang, seeing an opportunity, tried to make a pun, "I always kick my semesters off with a Yang! Eh? Guys? Am I right?"

Nora tossed an apple at Yang. She glared at hammer-wielder.

Nora called out, "Boooooooooooooooo!"

Ruby explained herself, "Look guys, it's been a good two weeks and between more exchange students arriving and the tournament at the end of the year, our second semester is going to be great! But, classes start back up tomorrow! Which is why I've taken the time to schedule a series of wonderful events for us today."

Weiss leaned back nervously, "I don't know whether to be proud or scared of what you have in store."

Yang, still glaring, picked up an apple and tossed it across the room. Naruto looked at Ruby, "This isn't somehow a ploy to see my chokutō, is it?"

She looked away innocently. Blake seemed unsure, "I don't know. I think I might sit this one out."

Weiss began to give a small speech, "Sit out or not, I think that however we spend this last day, we should do it as a team."

Nora shouted, "I got it!"

Weiss continued, "I for one think that-"

She stopped, for she had been cut off by a pie landing directly on her face as she stood. The pie tin fell slightly, and Weiss stood motionless, though it wasn't hard to tell she was almost trembling with rage.

I'm sorry, but I had to end it there. What better place?

Ah, more OC involvement. Always a good thing.

Also, as I said, don't suggest anymore pairings. The decision has been made, due to the amount of support I saw for Naruto x Blake. And again, I'm not putting Naruto in multiple pairings at once. Thank you to everyone who suggested one. If you like, feel free to tell me other pairings you want to see. Just none with Naruto and Blake.

You know, I kind of hate it when people can guess plot elements before they happen. I'm not saying who or what, but someone did. I don't even know how, either.

Until Chapter 6! (I'm not putting chapter titles here anymore.)