Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or RWBY. Or a pizza restaurant. I might have been hungry when I typed this.

Chapter 6: The Unease.

It wasn't often that one could say something was abnormal for a school made for warriors, but, funnily enough, a food fight was one of them. On one side of the cafeteria, Team JNPR were stood around a makeshift tower of tables, a construct Nora had dubbed 'The Castle.'

The other side, Ruby and her team were getting ready to charge at them, with Ruby giving a short speech about justice, as her team rose behind her in a fury of cheers.

And in the middle, having used the remaining tables turned on their sides to construct a small fortress with walls made of two tables stacked on top of each other in a circle, sat Team MDNT, sort-of trapped. In truth, they were enjoying themselves immensely, even though they were about to be in the center of an intense battle.

As they waited, they heard Nora call for the decapitation of Team RWBY, before a number of watermelons and bread loaves flew over them. Melissa looked to her team members. Naruto grinned back, Troy nodded solemnly, and Diana was spraying whipped cream into her mouth.

They emerged from their table fort, only to have to duck under a surfing Ruby. She was using a lunch tray to ride down the table towards Pyrrha, who tried to deflect it only to be launched backwards. Naruto took off like a rocket towards Ruby, and engaged her in a match of speed as they traded only small blows, whirling all around the cafeteria.

Meanwhile, Diana was still eating her whipped cream, while Melissa had floated to the ceiling and was bombarding Blake and Weiss with potatoes and cabbage. Troy had gathered a number of each inside the table fortress and was tossing them up to her.

Weiss was attacked by Nora, whom had impaled an innocent watermelon with a metal pole and was using it as a hammer, sending Weiss flying into a column, collapsing the stone. Ruby broke off from the duel Naruto was having with her, snatching Weiss out of the way of the pillar, though the Ice Queen was still out cold.

Yang got her hands in a pair of turkey, and began charging forwards, breaking through the table fort as she went. Ren met her, holding a pair of celery stalks, as Troy rushed in from behind her holding a stack of plates that he was chucking to Naruto, who had begun to try Ruby's strategy of pinballing through a fight, bouncing back and forth across the fighters. Yang jumped upwards, coming down with a ferocious punch that sent Ren and Troy flying through the air and disrupted the tables enough for Naruto to smack straight into one as he ran at full speed.

Nora charged Yang with her watermelon hammer, forcing Yang to jump backwards to avoid the slam of the watermelon into the ground. Nora followed, attacking again, and once again Yang stepped backwards to avoid it. Both of them rushed each other, with Yang punching downwards while Nora swung her watermelon upwards the same way she had when she had fought Diana.

Nora's attack struck first, sending Yang flying through the air and the roof. Pieces of the roof came down onto Blake who rolled backwards. Meanwhile, Troy and Ren had both recovered from Yang's earlier attack and were fighting one another with celery in a graceful dance of death and vegetables. Diana had seemingly just noticed the fight going on around her.

Blake, as she rolled, grabbed a string of sausages, swinging it the same as she did with the ribbon on her gun. How the two could be used the same way, Naruto wasn't sure, but as Blake swung the sausage at Nora, Naruto grabbed her hand and flipped her through the air towards the entrance. He turned and stepped to the left as Nora came back, tripping her casually as he went.

Blake came back with her sausage, and swung it at Nora and Naruto once more, this time connecting, sending Nora into a vending machine and Naruto into a wall, making spider-web cracks appear behind him. Nora picked up a few of the soda cans that had fallen out of the vending machine, and began chucking them at Blake, who performed several backflips to dodge out of the way. Melissa had flown back down, and tackled Nora to the ground.

Pyrrha, getting an idea, magnetized all of the cans, sending them at Team RWBY and MDNT in a hailstorm of deliciousness. However, the deliciousness was contained within metal cans, meaning that the cans were what hit them. Blake dodge as many as she could, but was sent soaring backwards anyway.

Melissa had flown backwards to avoid them, but since they were sent through the air as well, she was sent crashing down. Troy had disengaged from his battle with Ren to dodge, a feat he managed about as well as Blake. Diana merely caught one and began to drink it, even as the cans carried her into a wall.

Ruby stood, somewhat menacing look in her eye as she surveyed the scene. Her team was down, Team MDNT was down, and most of Team JNPR was still standing. She didn't want to, but…

She took off, faster than any of them had seen yet. Team JNPR stared as she created a whirlwind of cans, tables, food, and stone pillars behind her. When she reached them, they each briefly tried to resist, only to be swept up in the windstorm, and carried all the way to the back wall, where they were held briefly, before the barrage of soda and food swept into them.

And then, as if it was dramatic timing, Glynda Goodwitch burst into the room.

Ozpin came up behind the fuming Glynda, who was glaring ferociously at the twelve kids responsible for turning the cafeteria into a near-warzone. When she had come in, there was a hole in the ceiling, several of the pillars had been destroyed, all of the tables were scattered about the room, and for some reason the back wall and a large portion of the floor was painted in neon colors.

Now the same kids sat around, laughing at their experience. It was infuriating that they didn't feel even a little ashamed.

"Let it go," Ozpin advised. She sighed profusely.

"They're supposed to be the defenders of the world," she retorted, still glaring.

Ozpin turned away, leaving, "And they will be. But right now, they're still children. So why not let them play the part?" He turned back, focusing on Naruto. "After all, it isn't a role they'll have forever."

He turned around once more, and left the lunchroom. He sighed to himself. Ever since the school year had started- no scratch that. Ever since before the school year had started, he had been concerned about one thing constantly: Who was the blond boy?

He had said he was from a destroyed village, far away from any Kingdoms, that was very secretive. And yet, in all of his time, Ozpin had never heard of anything of the sort. People had always banded together when fighting against the Grimm. It was what had led to the formation of the Kingdoms in the first place.

On top of that, there was the hatred people had reported from the blond, the night of the dock incident. He had said it was something like an experiment gone wrong, but Ozpin could tell he wasn't being entirely honest.

But none of that was what bothered Ozpin. No, not at all. What bothered the old headmaster was the fact that he couldn't feel any kind of Aura from Naruto. None at all. As far as Ozpin knew, all living things had an Aura. Every. Single. Thing.

For the boy to not have an Aura… Well, the possibilities were potentially unlimited, though none of them were plausible. He was glad he seemed to have been the only one who picked up on it. If anyone else knew about the boy with as much Aura as a Grimm, they might actually try and kill him.

"Hold on, you did what?!" Blake asked, leaning away and staring at her blond friend.

"Hey, he was asking for it! Besides, if he didn't want to say hello, than my godfather wouldn't have walked into the ladies bathhouse. All I did was lock the door!" Naruto defended.

"Oh, that poor, poor man. Are you sure he didn't just walk in by mistake?" Naruto snorted.

"R-i-i-i-i-i-ight. Ero-Sennin walking into a perverted situation on accident. Good one, Blake."

"Really? He was that bad?"

"You have literally no idea how perverted he could get," Naruto answered, thinking back to when he had met the pervy old man. "Ah, good times. At least, I think they were good. I don't really remember what it was like at the time, though."

"So, you mentioned he taught you how to control your Aura better. What did you mean?" asked the raven-haired girl.

"Oh, not much. Just a few different ways for me to emit it. Nothing terrific," Naruto lied. He still couldn't make the Rasengan without a clone, so he hadn't had the chance to use it for months. Hm… Another thing to add to the list of things he needed to learn.

"Could you show me?" She asked. He raised an eyebrow at her.

"Well, not here. One of them was created by our fourth leader to kill Grimm, so it's a little destructive, and I'd hate to break this nice courtyard, or the fountain," he said, gesturing behind them.

"Well, alright. Let's go to the woods, then. They sound interesting, especially with what we've seen Ren do in combat class," she said. The two Faunus began to make their way to the woods, but before they got very far, they found their path blocked by a large boy in armor.

Naruto groaned inwardly, "What do you want, Cardin?"

The still-racist sneered, "I just happened to notice two filthy animals walking around the grounds, and figured I'd get rid of them." He looked around mockingly. "And what's this? No teammates to help you this time? Well, in that case…"

He started towards them, apparently under the impression he could take them. In the time he took sauntering over to them, Naruto said to Blake, "Well, I can try it here, but I haven't done it in a while. It might not work."

To himself, Naruto was hoping he could at least make the small ones that were easier, but that held less power. He raised his lower arm out in front of himself, upper arm still at his side. He started to emit chakra out of his palm, trying to spin it at the same time. He succeeded in making a very small ball of chakra.

Convinced it would be enough, Naruto held his arm out just a little more into the abdomen of the advancing bully, who had stopped as Naruto was making the Rasengan. Where the sphere made contact with boy, a gust of force could be felt, as Cardin was sent skidding back several feet, still stood upright because of his huntsmen training. His mouth was open, and his eyes could match plates.

"Wow, Naruto. I didn't even know something like that was possible," Blake sounded impressed. Naruto wasn't, however. He was staring at his hand, where he had held the Rasengan. It was throbbing slightly. It was like the chakra had reacted to Cardin's Aura.

'Hm… Kyūbi?' Naruto asked the fox. 'Any ideas?'

"Aura usually protects its wielder, yes? Perhaps his Aura had attacked you through the technique. Regardless, I think it would be best if you not use that technique on humans until we know what happened."

'Have I ever told you that you're very smart?'

"Right though you are, you only think that because I am brilliant compared to you."

'Why is it that you insult me in every conversation we have?'

"Because, moron, you make it so very easy to."

While Naruto was talking with the Kyūbi, Cardin had recovered from having the wind knocked out of him by whatever it was the animal had done. He advanced again, seeing that it was distracted, looking at its hand with a concerned look on its face. Seeing his chance, he pulled out his mace, and raised it high above the Faunus, and-

Naruto held his hand up nonchalantly, catching the mace without even really thinking about it. In fact, he hadn't even stopped his conversation with the fox. Cardin was just too slow to catch him off-guard. He came out of his conversation, and realized he was hold his hand up with something in it.

He looked up, only to see a very angry Cardin trying to get his mace back. Naruto grinned as he let the mace go, causing Cardin to fall backwards on his ass. Blake gave a small chuckle as he hit the ground, swearing loudly.

He glared up at Naruto, getting up, "You little shit. You better hope I don't-"

He was cut off by Naruto angrily shouting at him, "What? Hope you don't what? I just caught your damned mace without even having to think about it? You try to fight me, and I'll kick your ass, dattebayo!"

As Cardin ran, Blake was giggling slightly. Naruto turned to her, sheepishly.

"What? What's so funny?" he asked.

"What does 'dattebayo' mean?" she asked, as he began to rub the back of his head, smiling his foxy grin.

"Ehh, it's just a phrase. Nothing special."

"But very annoying."

'Shut up.'

"You might actually be weirder than Diana, you know that?"

"Hey!" he said indignantly. She laughed some more, though this time at his expense. He groaned. "Aw, come on!"

Unknown to the Beacon students, who were simply enjoying a bright, sunny day, elsewhere in the city, a certain group was meeting, with one of them angry at two others, another angry at the other three, and the two amused by the entire situation, even when they probably should have been nervous.

"I thought I made it clear that you would eliminate the would-be runaway," said the red-wearing woman, anger dripping from her voice. The familiar man almost cowered.

Roman Torchwick tried to defend himself, "I was going to..."

One of the two, Emerald, took this chance to speak up, "He was going to escape to Vacuo! Mercury and I decided to take it upon ourselves to kill the rat."

Mercury stepped in, getting off topic, "I think he was some sort of cat, actually."

"What? Like a puma?"

"Yeah, there ya go."

The woman turned to her subordinates, still furious, "Quiet. Did I not specifically instruct you two to keep your hands clean while in Vale?"

Behind her, Torchwick was laughing at them silently as he pointed at them.

Emerald nervously defended her actions, "I just thought..."

Torchwick mimed a throat being slit behind her.

"Don't think... obey," the woman said.

She wheeled around to face Torchwick, who ceased his taunting of Emerald immediately. "And you," she said, beginning to scowl. "Why wasn't this done sooner?"

As if to demonstrate his point more effectively, the mobster gestured to his right, then his left, then to both sides at once, "Eh? Eh? EHHH?" To his right, and left, and behind him, there were massive shipping containers full of a single thing. "Sorry if I've been a little busy stealing every speck of Dust in the Kingdom!"

Mercury mocked him, "You're an inspiration to every punk with a gun and a ski mask." Emerald laughed at the remark.

Roman turned to him with a dirty look, "Look around, kid. I've got this town running scared!" He turned to face the Dust. "Police camping out at every corner, Dust prices through the roof, and we're sitting pretty on an old warehouse with more Dust crystals, vials, and rounds than we know what to do with!" He whirled back around to face them. "Speaking of which, if you guys wouldn't mind filling me in on your grand master plan, it might make my next string of robberies go a little smoother!"

The woman began to walk towards Torchwick, "Oh, Roman. Have a little faith." She gently caressed his face. "You'll know what you need when you need to know it." The mobster looked to the side at her hand, then away with a grunt. Besides, we're done with Dust." She began to walk away.

Roman looked confused, "Ooookay, then, what now?"

The woman smirked, "Two things. Have the White Fang clear out this building. I'll send you the details and coordinates tonight. And second, I want you to track down the Faunus with red eyes that you said attacked you. Anyone with that kind of power could be useful…"

Torchwick groaned. First, he had to work with the animals, and now, he had to get one- one which he had fought and attempted to kill- to somehow join up with Cinder? And on top of that…

"Coordinates?"

Cinder turned back to him with a sly smile, "We're proceeding to Phase Two."

The next morning, Naruto woke up, not to the sound of either an alarm or Diana, but rather to the sound of many, many airships. Glancing out the window, he could see an armada of the flying machines, as well as a few very large ones, ships that he hadn't seen before. Presumably, then, this was Remnant's military that he had heard so much about. Why it was here was a question for some other time. For now, he and his teammates had a class to get to, one in which a young girl would finally get her dream come true.

In combat class, Naruto noticed that there were many new faces. Looking around, he realized that they must have been the students from other Kingdoms, come here for the Vytal Festival. How he realized this? He saw the group of Atlas kids from when he and Ruby had gone to get his chokutō. He smirked darkly at them, as a few of them scowled while the rest nervously turned away.

Seeing the mop of blonde he was looking for, Naruto made his way over to where his team and Team RWBY were all sat. As he did, he would have to be the most oblivious person to exist not to notice Ruby staring at him in anticipation. No, seriously. The entire time he was walking over to them, sitting down, and beginning to talk to them, she kept her silver eyes firmly fixed on him.

Professor Goodwitch walked into the classroom, down on the arena floor, surveying the stands above her. She narrowed her eyes just slightly at Teams RWBY and MDNT, for reasons known. Naruto waved cheekily.

"Now, as I'm sure many of you have noticed, we have new arrivals among us today. For the next few months, they will be joining you in many of your classes, as they stay here in anticipation of the Vytal Festival. As such, rather than use the randomization process, I shall allow volunteers to come forth and pick their opponents. Are there any-"

Before she had a chance to finish, Ruby's hand shot into the air, as Naruto lazily raised his own.

"Ah yes. Ms. Rose, please choose your opponent."

She pointed instantly at Naruto, "Him!" A few of the new arrivals chuckled at her attitude towards it, not having grown used to the girl yet. Glynda called them both down, and they once again stood across from each other, ready to fight. "So, Naruto? Thought up a name yet?" She called over.

He nodded, "Yeah, actually. I'll tell you afterwards."

"Begin!"

Naruto, rather than be slow and dramatic about it, instantly pulled out his sword, much to Ruby's delight. She let out a small squeal at the sight of the finely polished blade, and the marking at the bottom of it.

But he wasn't finished. He wasn't planning on going in for a melee battle, so he shifted over to its pistol form. She squeaked a little, not knowing that it was also a gun. Before she knew it, the delightful sight was replaced by a blur, as he began to speed around her, starting off small at only about 90 miles per hour. She grinned, getting out her scythe and matching his speed with ease.

The students in the stands tried to follow the fight, mostly. Yang turned from her cheering to Blake, who was pouring over the same book as yesterday at lunch. "Hey, come on, Blake! Don't be reading now! Focus on my sister fighting your boyfriend!" She teased the girl, who blushed deeply and began to sputter a little about how Naruto wasn't her boyfriend, but Yang just turned back to the fight.

Down on the arena floor, Naruto was trying to get used to actually using his gun in a fight. In training with Troy, the suit-wearing member of Team MDNT had had Naruto shoot a single target a hundred times. Of those hundred, Naruto had made a bull's-eye seventeen times, hit elsewhere on the target another fifty-seven times, and missed entirely twenty-six times.

Fighting the tiny speedster, Naruto wasn't able to tell how many of his shots hit their mark, if any. He was mostly aiming for her legs, trying to get the force of the impact to stop her in her tracks, since the bullet itself wouldn't do much damage through her Aura.

Seeing he was getting nowhere, he switched back to his chokutō, and upped his speed as he went straight for her. A second later, he realized his mistake, and leapt upwards to avoid her scythe as it swung right to where he was a moment ago. He needed to remember that she could track his movements. Go figure, being able to move at nearly the speed of sound means you've got pretty good reflexes.

He hit the ceiling feet first, then used his force against the ceiling to propel himself back downwards, grasping the chokutō by the end of its hilt. He was blocked by the oversized red gardening tool/sniper rifle, and he used his hand to push off the weapon, back across the arena. He and Ruby regarded each other for a moment before continuing.

As the fight continued in much the same way, Naruto could tell the blade was a bit too long. Perhaps getting an inch or two off might help with that. It just didn't feel quite balanced enough. He had only really been using the gun, so he hadn't experienced any of the issues that the sword had.

At any rate, he wasn't focused enough on the fight enough, allowing Ruby to brutally slam the blunt end of her scythe directly into his abdomen, with her speed providing much more force than she would have otherwise, easily breaking a few ribs and knocking the wind right out of him.

He coughed up a small amount of blood, proving internal bleeding somewhere as well. With the broken ribs, moving was painful inside of his chest. And since one can't train their organs no matter how hard they try, he needed to stop fighting now or risk further injury.

He got up, and turned to Glynda, "I forfeit."

Ruby stopped as suddenly as she could, but failed to get her footing, causing her to both slide and tip over as she did, "Wait, you're giving up? Why?"

He looked down at her, smiling in a warm way, "Ah, you're too good, Ruby. You really got me good with that scythe of yours."

"The winner is Ruby Rose. Mr. Uzumaki, I recommend you patch yourself up," Goodwitch called out. Naruto nodded, and began to make his way to the locker room, with Ruby holding his arm over her shoulder for support, as she looked away.

"Sorry, Naruto. I didn't mean to-" she began to apologize, but Naruto held his hand up to stop her.

"It's fine, Ruby. I got careless. It's not your fault. Now, do you want to know the name I picked out?"

She looked at him with her usual wide puppy eyes, nodding furiously. "I called it 'Ichiraku.'"

She stared at him with confusion, "But isn't that the name of the ramen place back in your home?"

He laughed a little at his own little joke. "Yeah, it is. No, it's actually called 'Reppumeiyo.' In the language of my people, it meant Gale Prestige," He explained to the small girl, who was soaking it all up.

"Sorry, I just really like seeing new weapons," she apologized, but he shook his head.

"Don't worry about it, Ruby. I would if I spent my life growing up around such unique and interesting weapons all the time. Where I'm from, we mostly just have kunai and shuriken, with a few swords here and there, but nothing special."

She was looking over the weapon and its sheath, but had a pause while looking at them, "What do these symbols mean?" Naruto looked. They were the engravings he had requested on the sheath, made from a little 'drawing' he had left for them. The engravings were some kanji: 木ノ葉隠れの里.

"Oh, those? That's the written form of my native language. It means Konohagakure no Sato, or The Village Hidden in the Leaves."

"Woah… That's your home, right?" She asked, still looking over all the little details. "And I'm guessing the weird leaf on the blade was your village's emblem or something?"

"Yeah. It was," Naruto said, a little upset even now he had never actually found a way back home. By now, he was sure that either the Akatsuki had won without all the Bijū, or they had been beaten. That meant it was a fifty-fifty chance that everyone he had ever known or loved was dead and probably unburied.

"Wait, so how do you play this game?" Naruto asked, leaning over Blake's shoulder.

"You know, I was about to ask the same thing," Weiss said. Yang rolled her eyes at the both of them.

"We told you, Weiss, you're playing as the kingdom of-"

Ruby cut off her explanation, "Hmmmmm... All right... All right! Yang Xiao Long, prepare your kingdom for battle!"

Yang turned to face her sister, pumping her fist, "Bring it on!"

Ruby began… whatever it was she was doing, "I deploy the Atlesian Air Fleet!" She slammed her card down on the table. Yang gained a look of shock. "Looks like I get to fly right over your Ursai and attack your walls directly!" She began to make airplane noises for some reason.

Yang, feigning indignance, pointed at Ruby, "You fiend!"

Ruby continued, "And since Atlas is part of Mantle, my repair time is only one turn."

Yang let out a slightly arrogant laugh, as she raised a card, "Pretty sneaky, sis, but you just activated my trap card! Giant Nevermore!" She slammed the card down on the table. "If I roll a seven or higher, fatal feathers will slice your fleet in two!"

Naruto leaned over to Weiss, "Do you have any idea what's going on?" She shook her head, blank look on her face.

Ruby pointed to Yang, "But, if you roll a six or lower, the Nevermore will turn on your own forces!"

Yang stared her down, "That's just a chance I'm willing to take."

"Nooooo! My fearless soldiers!"

"Eh, most of them were probably androids," Yang shrugged off her heartless slaughter.

"Goodbye my friends. You will be avenged!"

Yang definitely had an air of arrogance now, "Not until I draw my rewards! Which are double this round thanks to the Mistral Trade Route!"

Ruby was either getting angry or upset, "Bah!"

Yang, not letting up, held up another card, "Oh, and what's this? The Smugglers of Wind Path?"

"Bah! Bah, I say!"

"Well, it looks like I'm taking two cards from your hand!" Yang sat triumphantly.

"Have you no heart?" Ruby said, as she collapsed onto the table, crying. "Nooo!"

Yang turned to Weiss, "Well, Weiss, it's your turn."

Weiss voiced her earlier question, "I have... absolutely no idea what's going on."

Naruto raised his hand, "Uh, yeah. Me neither."

Yang slid next to Weiss, rolling her eyes slightly, "Look, it's easy! You're playing as Vacuo which means that all Vacuo-based cards come with a bonus."

Weiss scoffed at her, "That sounds dumb."

Naruto, on the other hand, was nodding his head back and forth, soaking it all in.

Yang began to look through Weiss's cards, trying to help her beat the other three, including the buxom blonde, "See, you've got Sandstorm, Desert Scavenge... Oh, oh!" She pulled up a card. "Resourceful Raider! See, now you can take Ruby's discarded Air Fleet-"

Ruby groaned. Naruto was scratching his head, wondering why it seemed like they had never played this game before now.

Yang continued, "And put it in your hand!"

Weiss tried to make it seem like she understood, "Ooookay."

Yang, not finished, continued to instruct Weiss on exactly how to beat them, "And since Vacuo warriors have an endurance against Natural-based hazards, you can use Sandstorm to disable my ground forces and simultaneously infiltrate my kingdom!" Yang turned to the heiress darkly. "Just know that I will not forget this declaration of war." She slid back to her seat.

"And that means...?"

Ruby, still crying, spoke up, "You're just three moves away from conquering Remnant!"

Weiss stood, and thunder sounded around the table, seemingly from nowhere, as Weiss laughed in an insane way, "Yes! Fear the almighty power of my forces! Cower as they pillage your homes and weep as they take your children from your very arms!"

Yang nonchalantly held up a card to Weiss, "Trap card."

Weiss stopped, "Huh?"

"Your armies have been destroyed," Yang said, as she shuffled a number of pieces around on the board

Weiss slouched in her chair, tearing up, "I hate this game of emotions we play."

Ruby hopped into her lap, "Stay strong, Weiss! We'll make it through this together!"

"Shut up! Don't touch me!" Weiss responded, though with no real conviction behind it, as she hugged Ruby.

Naruto leaned over to Blake now, "Are they always like this?" She didn't answer.

Yang put her arms behind her head, turning to the Faunus, "Alright Blake, you're up!"

Blake looked up, having apparently zoned out, "Oh, um, sorry, what am I doing?"

"You're playing as Vale, trying to conquer the Kingdoms of Remnant!"

"Right…"

"Hey! Can I play?" asked Jaune, as he approached from his own team's table.

Ruby, back on her own seat, looked at him apologetically, "Sorry Jaune, we've already got 4 people."

Weiss, ever the rude one, denied him further, "Besides, this game requires a certain level of tactical cunning that I seriously doubt that you possess."

Yang pointed something out, "Uhh, you attacked your own naval fleet 2 turns ago." Weiss groaned, annoyed.

Jaune challenged her, "Bring it on, Ice Queen! I'll have you know that I have been told that I am a natural born leader!"

"By who? Your mother?"

"A-and Pyrrha!" Jaune answered nervously.

Yang turned to Naruto, ignoring what was going on behind them, "So, Whiskers? Where's the rest of your team?"

Naruto shrugged, "Well, Troy went with Diana into Vale to get more baked goods, and I think Melissa said she was going to sit on top of Beacon Cliff and just shoot at some Grimm in the forest."

"Huh. Why didn't you go with one of them?" Yang asked.

Another shrug, "Well, I can't hit things from a big distance with a gun, and I'm not as obsessed with baked goods as Diana is. Besides, I'd be missing this… interesting scene if I did."

Meanwhile, Jaune was still trying to plead his case to Weiss, who said, "I'm not trusting you with the good citizens of Vacuo."

"Why not? You've trusted me with way more important stuff before. I mean, you told us all that Blake is secretly a Fa-" he tried to say, as Pyrrha appeared next to him and slapped her hand over his mouth.

"A fun-loving person! Whom we all admire and respect!" she said, nervously staring at Blake.

Blake, and Naruto on her behalf, glared at Weiss, annoyed.

"Right. That. Ladies, enjoy your battle," Jaune said, as Pyrrha walked away. Naruto put his hand on Blake's shoulder, looking down at her sympathetically. He heard footsteps behind them.

A familiar voice said, "Sup, losers?" Sun came up next to Naruto and Blake, holding his hands in a 'peace' sign.

Ruby cheerily answered, "Hey Sun!"

Next to Sun, there was a blue haired boy, wearing a red jacket of some kind and goggles on his head. Sun continued, "Ruby, Yang, Blake, Naruto… Ice Queen."

Weiss raised her hands indignantly, "Why does everyone keep calling me that?"

Sun ignored her, gesturing to the new guy, "I never got a chance to formally introduce you to my old friend."

The old friend spoke for the first time, "Aren't libraries usually for reading?"

From the Team JNPR table, Ren threw up his arms, "THANK YOU!" Nora sat upright, saying something about pancakes.

Sun turned to his friend, "Shut up. Don't be a nerd."

The boy raised a finger, "Uh, uh, uh, uh! Intellectual, okay? Thank you." He waved to the table. "I'm Neptune."

Weiss, apparently interested, perked up, "So, Neptune, where are you from?"

"Haven," he said, as he slid in next to Weiss. "And I don't believe I caught your name, snow angel."

Weiss seemed a little flustered, "Um… I'm Weiss."

Jaune yelled in disbelief, "Are you kidding me?!"

Naruto laughed. Neptune bowed just slightly to Weiss, "Pleasure to meet you."

Sun turned to Blake, "I never took you for the board game playing type."

She stood up, pushing Sun and Naruto out of the way as she went, "Right, well, I think I'm done playing actually." She left the library.

Sun looked to Team RWBY for an explanation, while Naruto stared at the door, concern painted across his face. He followed after her, while Nora just shrugged over at her table. "Women," she called over.

Naruto caught up to Blake, as she traveled back down the hallways to her room. He put a hand on her shoulder as they walked, "Blake? What's wrong?"

She didn't look at him, but answered anyways, "It's… It's the White Fang. I don't get why they would be working with a human. Especially a human like Torchwick. They may have changed since they've adopted this regime of terror, but they've always kept the belief that humans can't be trusted, and that they should all either be killed or locked away."

Naruto thought for a moment. "I mean, we could try asking about it…"

Blake stared at him, as though he had suggested they tried jumping off a cliff to learn to fly.

"Well, not actually ask them. But just think about it. We're both Faunus, so we could probably sneak into an operation or something."

"Maybe. But it seems too dangerous for just us," Blake countered. Naruto gave her another of his foxy grins.

"Not necessarily. And it doesn't have to be just us. I'm sure Sun would help, if you asked him."

"I don't think it would be a good idea, Naruto."

"Alright, fine. It was just an idea, nothing more," he said, raising his hands in defense.

They arrived at Team RWBY's dorm. Blake turned to him, and gave a simple goodbye before turning back around and entering the dorm. Naruto stood outside the door, frowning, for a little bit, before deciding to try again later.

Blake sat for a while on her bed, thinking back to the docks and the meeting with Ozpin afterwards. It unnerved her how the group infamous for hating humans was now working for/with one. It made next to no sense whatsoever. Adam was violently against humans to begin with, let alone human criminals.

For the White Fang to work for them… Well, Blake wasn't sure what it could mean. Naruto had been trying to get her to forget about it, but it just kept coming back to her. She had spent too long with the White Fang to just ignore such a sudden difference in their methods. She had seen that they were hoarding dust, but she didn't get what for.

She was ripped from her thoughts by the sound of a door opening with a conversation wafting through. "Ugh, we should have never let him play!" She heard Yang say. Ruby had a snarky response ready.

"You're just mad cause the new guy beat you! See, if you had just attacked when I told you none of this would have happened."

Seeing that she wouldn't be able to think with her teammates here, Blake made to leave. When she put her hand on the doorknob, she heard Weiss speak behind her.

"Stop." Blake pulled her hand away for the doorknob, turning to see Weiss pointing at her. "Lately you've been quiet, antisocial and moody! In fact, I think the only person you've really been talking to is Naruto!"

Yang cut in, "Uh, have you met Blake?"

Weiss rolled her eyes, "Which I get is kind of your thing, but you've been doing it more than usual! Which quite frankly, is unacceptable! You made a promise to me, to all of us, that you would let us know if something was wrong!" She dramatically flipped through the air, somehow grabbing a chair as she went and balancing herself on it. "So, Blake Belladonna, what is wrong!?" She dramatically pointed at Blake again. About to lose her balance, she quickly returned the seat to its place and moved back over to her teammate.

Blake hesitated, "I just… I don't understand how everyone can be so calm! The only person showing any concern about it is Naruto!"

Ruby came up with a small frown on her face, "You're still thinking about Torchwick?"

"Torchwick, the White Fang, all of it! Something big is happening and no one is doing anything about it!"

"Ozpin told us not to worry," Yang tried to reason. "Between the police and the Huntsmen, I'm sure they can handle it."

"Well I'm not! They don't know the White Fang like I do!" Blake snapped.

"Okay, between blowing up nightclubs, stopping thieves, and fighting for freedom," Weiss argued. "I'm sure the three of you think that you're all ready to go out and apprehend these ne'er-do-wells!"

Ruby cocked her head, "Uh, who?"

Weiss continued, "But let me once again be the voice of reason. We're students! We're not ready to handle this sort of situation!"

"Well yeah, but..." Ruby tried to defend.

Weiss insisted, "We're not ready!"

"And we may never be ready! Our enemies aren't just going to sit around and wait for graduation day!" Blake yelled irritably, pointing toward the door. "They're out there, somewhere, planning their next move, and none of us know what it is, but it's coming! Whether we're ready or not!"

Ruby began to make random gestures as she tried to convince her team, "Okay, all in favor of becoming the youngest Huntresses to single-handedly taking down a corrupt organization conspiring against the Kingdom of Vale... say aye."

Yang pumped her fist into the air enthusiastically, "Yes! I love it when you're feisty!"

Weiss shrugged, "Well, I suppose it could be fun." Somehow, she was convinced.

Ruby looked a little upset, "None of you said aye…"

She was ignored. "Alright then, we're in this together," Blake said.

Ruby perked back up, "Let's hatch a plan!"

"YEAH!" Yang cheered. Suddenly, Ruby gasped in horror.

"I left my board game at the library!"

Weiss put her hand to her head, "We're doomed…"

Ruby sped out the door, slamming into someone as she went. She looked up to see a girl with green hair and a guy with black hair standing over her. "Sorry. Are you ok?" She offered. The green haired girl gave Ruby a hand to help her to her feet.

"I'm fine. Just watch where you're going," said the girl.

"Oh, right, sorry," Ruby apologized again. "Um, I'm Ruby! Are you new?"

A woman came up behind them, "Visiting from Haven, actually." The green haired girl turned to face her. To Ruby, something about her seemed incredibly familiar, but she couldn't place her finger on it. She shrugged off the feeling.

"Ooh! You're here for the festival! But exchange students have their own dormitory…"

"I guess we just got turned around," spoke the boy with black hair. Ruby waved off his 'concern.'

"Hey, don't worry, it happens all the time." The green haired girl and black haired boy walked past her. "Uh, your building is just east of here." She pointed for emphasis.

Cinder responded politely, "Thanks." She walked past the pest from the robbery, waving in acknowledgement. "Maybe we'll see you around."

Ruby called out to them, "Yeah, maybe! Oh, uh, and welcome to Beacon!"

As they walked away, Cinder grinned evilly, knowing that she would be able to lay low here until the plan came to fruition. But then, she paused, feeling some kind of presence. Something she felt the Maiden's power respond to. Something… wrong. Like the Maiden's power, but different. Warped.

As she continued to walk, she passed by an open dorm room. Looking into it as she passed, she smirked once again. Sitting on a bed, meditating, was the Faunus boy she had sent Roman after. It seemed like her plans were becoming easier and easier every second.

The next day, after another of Professor Port's 'classes,' Team RWBY found themselves in their dorm, preparing for the impending investigation. Each of them had donned different clothing then normal, for reasons unknown.

Ruby's outfit consisted of a long-sleeve, light gray shirt with black belted cuffs near the ends of the sleeves. Over top of the gray shirt is a black pinafore with two vertical lines of red stitching that resemble the lacing on a corset. She wore a red skirt with a large print of a rose on the side of it in black and black tulle underneath. Her stockings and shoes were the same as her normal outfit, except the boots no longer had a red trim around the top, and her hooded cloak has been wrapped around her neck similar to a scarf before hanging down her back.

Weiss's outfit was a white, double breasted jacket with black piping, cuffs and buttons over a white, pleated full skirt with black lace trim. She also wore a pair of white, thigh high boots with black heels and lace-topped black stockings.

Blake wore a simple white, V-neck, zip-up crop shirt with a black hem and three quarter sleeves. She also wore black pants that have a vertical gray stripe on the outer side of each leg and a black belt, and black high-heel boots with two straps and buckles and purple undersoles, reaching to mid-calf.

Yang's was of a deep-collared cream vest over a low cut black shirt and covered by a dark gray shrug with a raised collar, three quarter sleeves with a single black stripe down the outside of each sleeve, and gold cuffs. A black miniskirt was being worn under the cream vest. She wore thigh high stockings attached to her miniskirt by garter-belts on the front and back of each thigh. She also wore black ankle boots with multiple buckles and white ribbons on the back tied in a bow.

Blake complained about Port, "I thought that class would never end."

Ruby, sat up on her bed, tried to be optimistic, "Alright, guys, today's the day! The investigation begins!"

As she cheerily hopped down to the floor, she nearly landed on Weiss, who was sat on her own bunk beneath Ruby.

Weiss said sarcastically, "I'm glad to see we're taking this so seriously."

"Hey, we've got a plan! That's... moderately serious," Yang defended.

Ruby looked at her teammates, "Right! Everyone remember their roles?"

Weiss, standing up, explained her role to the people who already knew it, "You and I will head to the CCT and check the Schnee records for any other Dust robberies or inconsistencies. Seeing as I'm in the family, it shouldn't be a problem."

Blake followed suit, "The White Fang has regular faction meetings to hand out orders and recruit new members. If I can get in, I can hopefully find out what they're planning.

"I have an old friend on the shady side of town that typically knows everything going on in Vale. Getting information out of him shouldn't be too hard..." Yang said, pausing for a moment. "Hey, Blake, why not get your boyfriend's help?"

Blake blushed, as she tried to deny it, "Yang! Naruto's not my boyfriend! He is a normal friend!"

Yang shrugged, "Well, why not get his help anyways? He seems like he wants to…"

Ruby ignored the both of them, "Great! We'll meet up tonight near Yang to go over what we found." She pumped her fist. "Let's do this!"

All of them jumped when a voice sounded from outside the window, "Yeah!" They all looked at the window, stepping back.

"Sun!" Blake yelled. The monkey Faunus was hanging on a tree branch just outside their window.

Yang seemed more curious than concerned as she asked, "How did you even get up there?"

"Ah, it's easy. I do it all the time," Sun waved off the question.

"You do what?!" Weiss asked indignantly.

Sun didn't really defend himself as he answered, "I climb trees all the time!" Without reacting to Weiss's scowl, he flipped into the dorm. "So, are we finally getting back at that Torchwick guy?"

Blake tried to shoot him down, stepping forward, "We are going to investigate the situation... as a team."

Ruby apologized, as she seemed to do a lot, "Sorry, Sun. We don't want to get friends involved if we don't have to."

Sun scoffed, but in a humored way, "Psh! That's dumb! We should always get friends involved! That's why I brought Neptune!" He gestured out the window. Team RWBY leaned out to see the blue haired boy standing outside, on the really high ledge.

"Sup?" he asked, seemingly unaware of his incredible height.

Ruby asked incredulously, "How did you even get up here?"

"I have my ways," He tried to say mysteriously. He continued nervously, as he looked down. "Seriously, though, can I come in? We're like, really high up right now."

Once he had come inside, Ruby began to add the two new arrivals to groups "Alright, I'll go with Weiss. Sun, you can go with Blake. And Neptune, you can go with Yang since she doesn't have a partner. Everyone good?"

Weiss, not very subtly trying to pair up with Neptune, suggested something else, "Actually, Ruby, why don't you go with Yang? After all, she is your sister."

Ruby pushed Neptune, who is stiff as a board, up next to Yang. When she is done pushing him, he rocked back and forth a tad, looking nervous. Yang put her hand on his shoulder to stop him from rocking.

Ruby turned to her partner, "But, Weiss, who would go with you, then?"

Weiss, continuing to be very much not subtle, answered bluntly, "Well... I guess Neptune could come with me."

Ruby looked back and forth between her partner and the blue haired teammate of Sun's, before cracking up, "Hahaha, nah!" She began to push Weiss out the door, despite the latter's protests.

"Well, that's that then!" Yang said. "Let's go!"

Blake nodded, and the four of them left the dorm. As they did, none of them noticed Naruto as he walked out of his dorm room. "Hm…" He said to himself. Six people, four from Team RWBY and two from Sun's team, had left Team RWBY's dorm, all either in pairs or in groups.

"What are you guys up to…?" Knowing how bothered Blake had been about the whole thing with the White Fang, Naruto decided to discreetly follow them. In fact…

He darted back into his room for a moment. In the next moment, a different boy emerged. He would look suspiciously familiar to anyone from Konoha, but since no one here had ever met Sasuke, it was a good cover. Just in case, he made sure to have a snake's tail coming out the back.

Once he had transformed, Naruto began to follow the group of six, mostly focusing on helping out Blake.

And I end it there!

So, I'm not gonna lie, I just took those descriptions of Team RWBY's alternate outfits straight from the RWBY Wiki. I'm lazy, sue me.

I think I'm going to start the omakes next chapter. I've gotten one great idea from a fan already, so look forward to that! Also, if you have any ideas that you'd like to see, let me know! I can't promise I'll do them well, but I can promise I'll do them.

You know, I'm a little surprised that I haven't fallen into writer's block with this story yet. With both of my others, the chapters were so boring to write, and I just could not make myself sit down and write long chapters. But not with this one...

And, really quickly, I need to respond to a few guest reviews.

Ugh: You bring up a good point, but I wasn't finished with those guys yet. And yes, I agree, many of the actions people take in stories would have far-reaching results like that. I don't know that it's naivete; I think it's just authors not focusing on things other than what they intend to write about.

DNCK: Besides the obvious reason, you very clearly don't know me. You seem to think I would pick a pairing based off of peer pressure. If that were the case, I would've made a poll for it. Also, how is it cliché in any way? Cliché would be something like Ruby, or maybe Yang.

Well, that's it for guest reviews.

Until Chapter 7!