NITL

Volume One

Arc One: Beginning of a New Story

Chapter Eight: The Fated Meeting


Naruto blinked, looking down a hallway. He turned to the opposite side to see another hallway, identical to the one before. Looking in front of him was another identical hallway while behind him was the exact same replica.

Now, Naruto wouldn't say that he had a terrible sense of direction. In truth, he had a pretty good sense of where he was going. Like, seriously, the position of the sun, the stars, wind direction, his sense of balance, and even smell – yes, even smell – allowed him to find just what direction he was looking at. But in this case, it was the opposite. How would you feel when every single direction looked the same? Pretty lost would be the answer.

"Yup. I am soooo lost…" Naruto mused with himself, taking a leap of faith and walking down one hallway. "Aaaand I gotta pee."

It didn't take long – it actually took 10 minutes – but Naruto was able to find the… restrooms. He thinks.

"Uhh…" Naruto mumbles, staring at the two colored signs in front of the solid white door.

One was a solid shade of blue with some sort of arrow on it. The other was neon pink with a stick figure with no legs on it. Taking a look at the two, Naruto had literal swirls in his eyes as he tried to see which one was the right room. "Dammit, it's the exact same problem as back home! How am I supposed to know which one is for boys and which one is for girls!?"

Let it be known that in the Konoha Village, the bathroom signs are all the same color, sans the symbols "男" and "女", which helped decipher which was the men's and which was the women's bathroom.

"Fuck it, I'm taking another leap of faith," Naruto thought to himself, helping himself with another one of his teachers' random quotes. And with that, the blonde entered the door with the pink sign, completely ignorant of the door with the blue sign opening to show a short brunette male walking out.

"Whew, that takes care of that…" Tsuna thought to himself as he dried his hands.

Turning to the right, Tsuna almost screamed when a boy wearing a straw hat suddenly invaded his bubble with a smile on his face.

"Shishishishi, you sound like a girl!" The boy laughed as Tsuna held onto his beating heart. Taking breathing exercises, the brunette managed to calm his heart before he looked at the boy.

"Well, that sure surprised the Dust out of me…"

"Dust? You gonna spout out Dust? That's so cool!" The boy exclaimed, looking around Tsuna, "Where's the Dust!? Where's the Dust!?"

"It's just an expression!" Tsuna yelled, pushing the boy off him.

"Oh," The boy pouted, now disinterested. He then perked, "I'm Luffy!"

"T-Tsuna…" Tsuna introduced himself simply for common courtesy. He blinked when Luffy stared at him curiously. "Umm… is something wron-…?"

"Tsuna… y'mean like tuna?" It took all he had just to prevent himself from dropping his jaw as Tsuna stared at Luffy in disbelief. The boy – the bastard he is – did NOT just compare his name with some stupid fish! Then again, he does have a fish sign decorating his room's door and, apparently, his #27 all-time favorite food is a tuna sandwich, but he digresses. His name does NOT mean tuna!

"Wha- NO! My name isn't tuna!"

"Hahahahahaha!" Luffy laughed, "That's a funny name, Tuna-Fish! Hahahahahaha!"

"Oh Oum, that better not stick…" Tsuna mumbled to himself as he left the laughing boy to himself. Walking down the corridor and into the recreation room, he was soon met with the rest of the soon-to-be students who came from Patch and several other cities and towns within the Kingdom of Vale.

"Tsuna?"

The boy in question suddenly froze at the familiar voice as he turned to find himself looking at his childhood crush.

"Y-Yang!"

"Oh boy, you're going to Beacon too!?" The bombacious – or rather, boobacious as the girl would call herself – exclaimed as she rushed towards the brunette. Her blonde hair, to which he had always compared with the sun, waved behind her. Being the same height, Tsuna had no choice but to look at Yang's beautiful amethyst (in his opinion) colored eyes. "Ooh, this is gonna be awesome! How's my little Chestnut doin'!?"

"Ahahahaha…" Tsuna nervously laughed out as he let Yang ruffle his hair. "Please don't call me that."

"Oh, come off it, Tsuna! My best friend, going to Beacon with me… Ooh, this is gonna be awesome!"

"Yeah, you already said that, Yang…"

"I did?" Yang shrugged, not really caring.

"Yeah…" Tsuna smiled.

The two then ended with an awkward silence as the two fidgeted. Yang started to thread her fingers through her hair. Tsuna moved his hand behind his head to scratch it. Things were quiet as the two stared at each other.

"Umm. So!" Yang began, trying to start a conversation, "How was your winter?"

"Uhh, what?"

"Y'know, after graduation, what'd you do?"

"Uh, oh!" Tsuna blinked, not sure if he should tell Yang that he had been experimenting on himself with a certain new product of his family's company. He was sure that if he did, then Yang would have punched him while asking why he did it. So instead, he chuckled, "Well, stuff happened…"

"Yeah…?"

"Well, you know how Reborn is-…"

"Ugh… Reborn? That fedora-wearing douche?"

"I… wouldn't call him a douche, but…" Tsuna shook his head, "We're starting to change the subject. Anyway, Reborn started training me after Signal, saying something how I should be training on my Semblance and my weapon."

"Ohh?" Yang smiled, crossing her arms, "And how far can your Semblance reach this time?"

Tsuna smiled back, "What do you take me for, Yang?" The brunette looked around. Staring a familiar redhead in the far corner, he pointed, "See Katie over there?"

"Oh, Katie's comin' to Beacon. Cool."

"Yeah, well soon enough, she's going to be confronted by Charles. Before he can, however, Charles is gonna get knocked over by John, and he and Katie ends up knocking each other down."

Yang blinked, not seeing the curly haired straw-blonde anyway. "Err, I don't think-…"

"Hey, uhh, Katie?" Yang's jaws dropped when Charles walked up to the glasses wearing girl. "I, uhh, I wanna talk. You got a minute?"

"Sure, Charles. What is it?" Katie answered, putting down a novel she was reading.

"Well, I-…" Charles was interrupted, however, by a navy-haired young man.

"Woops, sorry Charles," John apologizes before walking away.

"Goddammit, John!" Charles yells from his position above Katie. "I'm sorry Katie, are you- meep."

"Oh my god, CHARLES!" Katie screamed while a few boys wolf whistled.

"Not my fault! Not my fa- OW!?"

Yang began cracking up, having been one of the many to have witnessed the charade. "Damn Tsuna! Your Semblance is getting better every time! It's like, it's like you can see the future!"

"It's not looking at the future, Yang…" Tsuna mumbled, "It's-…"

"It's your guts giving you a heads up of what could happen, I know, I know," Yang rolled her eyes, "You've been telling me that since before Signal already."

"That's… a pretty simplified way of saying it…" Tsuna grumbled as he looked around. His eyebrows shot up, seeing a recognizable red cloak. Which was odd, seeing as the girl wearing the red cloak isn't supposed to be in this air ship. Or in any of the air ships at all.

"Is that Ruby?" Tsuna wondered.

"Ruby!?" Yang called out, confused as well as to why her younger sister would be here. The red-highlighted hair girl in question perked up before turning to see her older sister charging towards her. She flinched before she screamed,

"Yang!? No, stop, stop, stop, stop- Yang, NO- Gurk!" The girl puffed as her sister squeezed her.

"Ruby, what are you doing here!?"

"Oh, uhh, it's a surprise…?"

"No seriously, Rubes, what are you doing here?" Yang asked, with a hint of seriousness this time. Tsuna simply looked over her shoulder with an amused look on his face.

"Umm… I got… accepted to Beacon? Yaaaaaay…" Ruby shrugged, doing the jazz hands as if she was cheering in place of the blonde. Yang raised a brow while Tsuna stifled a chuckle. Ruby slouched in exasperation. "Uggghh, fine. I got arrested while trying to stop a robbery, met with Professor Ozpin two days ago and got invited to Beacon early. There, happy?"

"Very," Yang nodded. She then grinned very, very widely. "Now c'mere and give you big older sister a hug!"

"URK!"

"Oh my GOD! My little baby sister is coming with me to Beacon! Ooh, this is gonna be awesome!"

"Please stoooooop…" Ruby whined as she reached over to Tsuna for help.

Tsuna laughed, "Yang? I think Ruby needs some room to breathe."

"Oh, come off it, Tsuna!" Yang said, letting go of Ruby, who wheezed in new breath. Her breathing was interrupted when Yang pulled both her and Tsuna into a headlock. "I'm going to Beacon with my best friend and my little sister! This day can't get any better!"

"Yaaaaaaang…" Ruby whined while Tsuna struggled to find his breath. Before his face turned purple, Yang let the two go.

"But I'm so proud of you!"

"It was nothing…" Ruby tried to push it off.

"It's not nothing," Yang tried to lift up her sister's spirits. "It's everything! It's incredible! Now everybody's gonna think that you're the bee's knees!"

"Bee's knees…?" Tsuna raised a brow. Yang flushed at his questioning gaze.

"What?" The blonde shrugged.

"Bee's kne- I don't wanna be the 'bee's knees', Yang!" Ruby cried, waving her hands to show how frustrated she was with the situation. "I don't wanna be any kind of knees! I just wanna be a normal girl, with normal knees!" Tsuna chuckled at the notion before Ruby pointed at him.

"Shut up Tsuna! You're supposed to be on my side on this!"

"I am?"

Ruby pouted, not paying attention to the news report. Yang, on the meantime, smiled brightly. She couldn't help it, after all. For all she knew, Tsuna was actually invited by Atlas Academy, while Ruby wasn't supposed to be here for another 2 years. So strike her surprised and happy to find Tsuna wandering down the recreation room as well as Ruby, looking lost and confused, in the same room. Not only was it surprising, it was also welcoming.

"-…llo and welcome to Beacon."

"Huh?" Yang pondered, having been blanking out a bit.

"Yang, pay attention," Tsuna gestured at the hologram of the apparently older blonde. "She's one of the teachers at Beacon."

"Really?"

"My name is Glynda Goodwitch, one of your many instructors of Beacon."

"Oh."

"You are among the privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend to this prestigious academy," Glynda continued, "As our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace, it is still the duty of you all, as future Hunters, to uphold it. You have been provided as much knowledge and as much courage to make it this far, and now, it is our turn to give you the knowledge and courage to protect our world."

The hologram disappears, opting Ruby to widen her eyes in wonder. "Whoa! Look at this!" She looks out the window, staring at the island that was her home, "Hey, you can see Signal from up here…!"

"Guess home's not that far, huh?" Tsuna commented. He shrugged, "But, well, Beacon's our home now."

"Tsuna's right," Yang agreed. "For, probably, the next four years, we're gonna be living in Be-…"

She was interrupted when a blonde rushed passed her and into the hallway. By the way he was holding his mouth, it looked like he wanted to hurl. Yang deadpanned at the boy while Tsuna blinked.

"Guess the view's not for everyone…" The brunette observed.

"It… was nice while it lasted- EW! Gross!" Ruby yelped, pointing at Yang's newly bought boots. "Yang, you got puke all over your shoes!"

"What the- Gross!" Yang quickly lifted her right foot off the floor. Quickly turning to look for something to wipe the puke off from, she rushed, "Gross, gross, gross, gross, gross, gross, gross!"

Tsuna stifles a laugh as he watched his crush tippy toe all the way to the bathroom. Turning to Ruby as soon as Yang was gone, he asked, "So, what's this I hear about you getting arrested?"

"UGH! Don't even get me started!" Ruby exclaimed, "So I was just browsing at that Dust shop I usually go to, right? And suddenly…"


"… oss, gross, gross, gross, gross!" Yang whined, her face now green in disgust at how long it took for her to reach the restrooms. Her face now relieved to see the doors, Yang quickly rushed over. Right as she was about to push the door open, however, the door suddenly opened by itself.

Yang froze just as the blonde man who opened the door stopped, just noticing her as he was about to exit the restroom.

The two looked at each other for a while. Yang took the time to look at the door – which was still opened – to see if the restroom she was entering really was the females.

Seeing the pink sign, she deduced that it was.

Looking back at the blonde, who now had the look of relief on his face, Yang's eyes slowly turned red.

"Oh, FINALLY! Some other people! For a second, I thought I was the only one on this… ship… thingie," The blonde frowned, wondering what he should be calling the airship. Shaking his head, he continues, "By the way, do you know if there are other people here? And if there are, can you tell me where they are?"

Yang was silent for several minutes when Naruto tried waving a hand in front of her.

"Uhh… you ok? Is something wrong?"

It took several second afterwards for Yang's brain to reboot. And suddenly, she screamed.

"WAAAAAAAAAH! PERVERT!"

And a slap was heard as the airship neared towards a large structure of buildings.

"OWWW!? What the hell lady!?"


A/N:

Before I end this, let me answer some few questions.

Do I know that the four characters I'm bringing to this Fan Fic are all main characters to their respective franchises? YES

Do I realize that all four of these characters are major powerhouses in their respective franchises? YES

Do I care that all four of these characters are the main character and the major powerhouses in their respective franchises? NO

Am I going to severely hold back every single bit of their awesome super powers to ensure that everyone in the RWBY-verse gets a fair trade of power equality? YES

Will these four characters have powers and/or weapons that are similar to their respective franchises' powers and/or weapons? YES

Any more questions?

Oh, and Happy 2K16