Disclaimer: First Chapter
Story Start!
A single candle.
The very first meeting of the newly formed Team NIYT.
After the First Test had been completed and all of the students made it back, there was a big and boring ceremony where all of the teams who got matching piecesd were assigned to each other. They were also assigned bedrooms, and the Key Codes to those rooms were put on their scrolls. The most notable groups to be named were Team RWBY, Team JNPR, and Team CRDL... teams that weren't their team least.
Naruto Uzumaki, Assigned Leader.
Illya Von Einzburn.
Yor Briar.
Trevor Belmont.
That was Team NIYT, also Team Night as their code name.
"Okay... for the first meeting of Team Night... a midnight meeting seems about right. Now, lets honestly... honestly introduce ourselves." Naruto crossed his arms and looked at Yor, Illya, and Trevor since they all had the same eyes as him. He could tell, he had come across a couple of people who had been dropped in this world before. He could recognize them when he made prolonged eye contact with them. "The name is Naruto Uzumaki, and I woke up as a baby with memories of my previous life as a possibly 17 year old shinobi. I'm a war veteran, and a bit of a goofball." Naruto introduced himself first.
"Oh?"
"Pfffffft." Trevor spit his booze out right at Naruto's face in shock, since Naruto had just admitted to something exceedingly startling. He looked at his bottle with a frown. "... I shouldn't have done that." Trevor had wasted perfectly good beer by spitting it out. He looked to his partner Illya, who seemed shocked... but was taking him at face value.
Her only reaction had been that 'oh' after all.
"A war veteran... and a ninja at that. I knew you were like me, but I guess our professions were closer than I thought. I'm Yor Briar, and I worked as an assassin in my previous life." Yor introduced herself and her previous occupation.
Trevor stopped himself from spitting his beer out a second time, while Illya slowly nodded her head. She was starting to see a theme, and she looked at Trevor, expecting him to introduce himself next. She wanted to go last personally, so that she could customize her introduction to be more impressive.
"Trevor Belmont, House Belmont... and I hunted vampires and the other creepy crawlies of the night." Trevor got a round of applause from Naruto and Yor.
"Vampires exist!?" Yor was shocked.
"In my world they did, and what about you midget?" Trevor asked Illya.
She huffed at the nickname.
"Illya Von Einzburn, and I am a genetically superior creation by my family. I was around 18 before I got this body, and I am 18 again... so I am older than the rest of you. I might be a midget, but please do not assume that I am a child." Illya stated, and she looked towards Naruto. Trevor raised an eyebrow when he saw the look she was sending him, and how she made sure she looked right into his eyes when she stated she wasn't a child. "... So, Naruto... tell me more about yourself. I do owe you my life, so I would love to see about repaying you for that."
"Oh, you saved her life. That was nice of you!" Yor clapped in appreciation of the kind act.
"Well, she could have saved herself if the explosion that damaged her ship hadn't knocked out her aura, but I did try and help where I could... if you really want to thank me Illya, why not just smile more often." Naruto didn't need an actual thanks for helping her. If she was happy, then he was happy.
Illya was disappointed.
'He could have asked for anything, be it sexual, romantic, or even just help with something. I would have preferred a romantic request.' Illya deadpanned internally while smiling. She looked at Trevor when he stood up and walked towards the door.
"Gotta piss, you three continue this without-" Trevor was stopped when Naruto grabbed the back of his shirt and pulled him back into a seated position. Trevor accepted his seated position and looked at Naruto. Naruto smiled at him, but his smile was a bit creepier this time. "-but I guess pissing can wait. So what is next on this little meeting?" Trevor asked Naruto with a smile.
"As Team Leader, the first thing we're going to do is get us all on the same wavelength. Which is why everyone here is going to be writing down all of our abilities and how they work, right here. Also, write down any notable skills you have." Naruto showed he was sitting on 4 notebooks. He pulled them out from under him and tossed them to everyone. Yor and Trevor caught the notebooks easily, even the pens right after. The notebook he tossed to Illya landed in her lap when she raised to catch it with her hands.
"So... like... what..." Yor was a little confused.
"Write down how you fight, and write down any skills you have, or weaknesses. We should know this kind of stuff about each other... like, who here can cook?" Naruto asked as he looked around. Yor raised her hand, before she instantly lowered her hand with shame. Illya didn't even bother raising her hand, while Trevor half raised his hand. Naruto was the only one to fully raise his hand. "So, if we are ever camping in the woods, it will be me and Trevor doing the cooking, since Yor and Illya can't cook." Naruto noted, since that skill would help him divide up labor in the future.
"Oooooh... I get it now, makes more sense." Illya could see the value in having a written list of all of their skills and abilities, and their weaknesses as well. "I have a question though... were you a faunus in your last life, or are the tails new?"
"The tails ARE new, but they are very ironic. You see, when I was a newborn baby, I was the Human Sacrifice of a giant Kyuubi... a Nine Tailed Fox, and it was put inside me. The irony is that it made my life a living hell, and now in this world I have nine tails... and it is making my life a living hell again." Naruto complained. "Like, do you know how much effort it takes to keep them all fluffy and clean?" Naruto complained about that.
Trevor caught how Naruto downplayed his own suffering.
'He was most likely discriminated against by humans for being a faunus, and discriminated by other faunus as well for being a mutant. I won't say anything.' Trevor could see that Naruto had downplayed his own suffering so that Yor and Illya wouldn't be too concerned about him. If Naruto was going to downplay it, then he wasn't going to bring it up either.
"I think your tails are cute."
"Please don't call a grown man cute, the correct term is handsome. His tails are very handsome." Illya corrected Yor, purely for the sake of correcting her. '... they are adorable tails, but these two get along a little too well for my comfort... and both of them are trained killers. They have so much to bond over.' Illya was going to try and not let them grow too much closer.
She called dibs.
Trevor whistled as he started to write his skills down.
'Seems Yor is naturally friendly, and Illya has a thing for Naruto and sees her as competition. This is going to be funny... I'm not going to get involved in the romantic stuff here.' Trevor looked at the way Illya looked at Naruto, and the friendly way Naruto and Yor talked to each other. Shared traits did help people bond, and Naruto and Yor both had a shared past as trained murderers. 'I should sneak our and hire a prostitute later... and go get a bottle of wine... some hard stuff.' Trevor finished off his drink and frowned.
"Should write down our abilities from our old world too?" Illya asked.
"No, don't bother... I'm going to guess that if you are like me, you are missing most of your old abilities."
"I am missing a lot of my old abilities." Illya had a Semblence that was just like one of her old abilities, but she was missing most of her other powers in exchange for it. "So... when are we going to sort out beds?" Illya looked at the 4 beds in the room. She wanted to claim the bed next to Naruto, so that she could more realistically sneak into his bed at night. She heard a laugh, and she turned to glare at Trevor for daring to catch onto what she was doing.
She could see that he knew what she was planning, so she glared at him to keep silent.
"Lets just go from Left to Right, according to Team NIYT... so I'll take the far left, Trevor will take the far right, and Illya will be next to me, and Yor will be next to Trevor. Any complaints?" Naruto asked, because he really didn't care which bed he slept in. He also didn't care who he slept next to, seeing as they had plenty of space in the room. The rooms were given more than enough space to hold them, their beds, and the desks, and bookshelves, provided for them in the room. There was also a large dresser with 4 compartments for each of them to store their clothes in.
Only a bunch of idiots would somehow manage to not be able to make this amount of space work for them.
"No problems here." Yor was like Naruto, she didn't mind having her bed next to Trevor's bed. It wasn't like they were sharing a bed after all. She was already going to feel awkward just because she was sharing a room with two boys anyway, so who she slept next to didn't even register on that scale anymore.
Trevor shrugged, since he didn't care at all where he slept.
"I love this arrangement, I really do. I always love having the second left-most bed in any given room." Illya had a twinkle in her eye when she approved of the bed assignments.
"That is very specific." Yor was confused by how specific Illya enjoyed her bed placement to be. Trevor snorted, because Yor was being genuine. She genuinely didn't catch onto the fact that Illya was lusting after the team leader. He looked at Naruto, who was just like Yor and somehow didn't catch onto the fact Illya had plans either.
'You know what, I actually like this midget... she's just a bunch of bottled up sexual tension, and I am going to enjoy watching her schemes.' Trevor smirked at Illya. She was perhaps the most wicked and lustful of them all, and she had already selected her target for her lust and affection. "So... team leader... tell me... since you were a war veteran, how is THAT going to play into how you lead the team?" Trevor asked with a sarcastic smirk.
Naruto smiled.
-The Next Morning-
Trevor's smirk was gone.
"Oh come on... the sun isn't even up... this is cruel... and unusual punishment." Trevor complained as he followed after Naruto, who was trailing behind Yor. Illya was behind him, and she was so exhausted that she couldn't even speak anymore. She was the one of them who was sweating the most, and her legs were the shortest.
They were getting in morning training.
Naruto had woken them up at 5 AM, and told them to get dressed in their combat uniforms.
He had them do 200 Push ups, 200 Sit ups, 200 Jumping jacks, 200 Squats, and now they were going on a 15 kilometer run to finish off the morning training. Naruto wasn't cruel in that he expected you to do every single goal, if you could only do 50 push ups, then Naruto just demanded that you do 60 push ups and then rest up for the next bit of training. Trevor could do most of the training, though he struggled with the sit ups and squats... but the 15 kilometer run was killing him.
Illya couldn't do any of the basic training.
Naruto slowed down so that Trevor passed him, because Illya collapsed onto the ground. Naruto just scooped Illya right up, and held her under his arm. Then, Naruto picked his pace up and started to run in front of Trevor again. Illya was just dead in Naruto's arm, having gone completely limp.
"How... are you two... barely even sweating." Trevor found this training to be worse than the physical training that his family made him go through in his previous world. Yor seemed to treat this like it was a relaxing morning job, being able to keep up a pace ahead of all of them. Naruto wasn't struggling, but he just wasn't as fast as Yor was on his feet thanks to how different their weights were, and how long Yor's legs were.
"Well, get used to this, because stamina training is super important. You doing okay up their Yor?" Naruto called out to the assassin.
"I'm doing fine, let me know if you want me to take a turn carrying Illya."
"Will do."
'They... those two are freaks... human freaks.' Trevor was going to make a note to himself to always drink water before bed, so that he never woke up with a hangover. That way he would never have to do this morning training while also hung over. "Thank God... it's over." Trevor called out as they reached the dorms again.
The hellish first morning training was over.
"Okay then, lets hit the showers."
-After the Showers-
"Man, that was fun!" Illya stated as she ate breakfast. After Yor had given her a shower, when she couldn't move, she felt a lot better. Her body was sore, but the soreness was quickly going away.
"Fun... sure."
"Oh lighten up, the other benefit to waking up early, is we can get a big breakfast in before class." Naruto nudged Trevor. Yor nodded her head and had a decently sized breakfast, not as big as either Naruto or Illya, but she was eating well.
'Also, why did you call it fun... you couldn't even finish one of the things Naruto had us do.' Trevor mentally complained as he looked at Illya, who had fully recovered from the training now, and was sitting next to Naruto. She had copied the breakfast he had gotten for himself, and he doubted she could even finish all of it herself. "So... what is the goal for this training."
"No goal, just a good morning work out to keep up our stamina. Training of this level won't actually make you too much stronger, but it will improve your stamina. I don't want my team to die, because we were attacked by a horde of grimm and didn't have the stamina to fight for a long time." Naruto wasn't going to push strength training on them so that they could all kill grimm with their bare fists. Illya, no matter how much she trained, wouldn't be able to reach that level, and Trevor for how well built he was, was not a "Raw strength" type of fighter judging by his whips.
Yor nodded.
Trevor nodded too, but he sighed when he nodded.
"Wait, this training won't make me stronger?" Illya asked with some surprise.
"It will make you stronger, but body weight training really depends... on your body weight. You don't weight a lot, so you won't get the same benefit me or Trevor get. This is more about training your stamina. You can have all the strength in the world, but if you lack stamina, somebody 100 times weaker than you can outlast you and kill you." Naruto didn't have nearly the stats in this world as his previous, which is why he wanted to get his stamina as high as he could. He also wanted his team to get their stamina up as well, if only so that they were never in a position where they were overwhelmed easily by raw numbers.
Illya nodded.
"Okay, that makes sense. So we're going to be doing this every morning?"
"We'll take 2 days off from morning training, we can decide which days later. We can put that to a team vote." Naruto offered Yor and Trevor the chance to have their opinions in as well.
Trevor sighed in relief.
'So he isn't going to try and turn us all into brute force monsters like him and Yor... that is... such a relief.' Trevor thought.
"Of course, I do expect everyone to keep training to work on their own skills. I want everyone to work on what they think they need to work on. As team leader, I am happy to give anyone any help they need, just ask." Naruto offered openly. He wasn't going to push his harsh training onto them, other than the stamina training. His fighting style required him to have a lot of brute force and fast reflexes, but he could tell that Illya for example wasn't the type of fighter who would fit his style.
He would leave it up to Illya to figure out how to improve her combat abilities, and help her where he could if she wanted.
"Is this how your military did things?" Yor asked him.
"Exactly, the basic soldiers get pretty basic training, and then you are expected to train yourself, and find a teacher who can teach you more about your specialty. A hand to hand specialist would get basic training from their squad leader, and then would get special attention from whoever they wanted to apprentice under. How about you Trevor?" Naruto asked the other guy.
"... Most of my skills came from on-the-job experience." Trevor kept it rather simple.
Other students were starting to come into the cafeteria for breakfast now.
By the time the other students got their foot, Team Night had finished eating and started to head back to the dorms to get ready for the first day of class.
Chapter End!
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