Chapter 1: Brand new world, Same old face.

Hi everyone, it's me Cremvtxriv with my first story ever. I decided to write this story after extensive searching or not enough searching, and found that that no one wrote a young katakuri in the RWBY world story. That's when I decided to write the story myself. i won't make him op as hell right off the bat, but he ain't gonna be a pushover either. I'll let him keep his devil fruit and haki but it won't be to the level of control he has when he was a sweet commander. He won't have his devil fruit awakening but he will get that eventually in the future, and its gonna be a looooooong while. But when he does, he'll give huntsman a run for their money. But thats enough of my rambling. On with the story.

"What" normal speech

"What" thoughts

"What" katakuri's observation haki

"What" named attack

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"Someday...will you...come back here...to defeat big mom?" Katakuri said between breaths. He barely had the strength to stand while waiting for luffy's answer.

"Of course i will!" Luffy exclaimed. "I'm the man who'll be the pirate king!"

"You're looking... pretty far into the future." Katakuri said. Then immediately, he fell on his back.

Luffy picked himself up and walked near Katakuri's face and placed the fedora that covered his straw hat over Katakuri's mouth.

- a while later -

Brūlee entered mirro-world with a first aid kit and found Katakuri laid out on the ground. she immediately started to assess the damage on him until she noticed a large pool of blood around him.

"Big brother!" she exclaimed. "You're losing a lot of blood!"

"It seems i took more damage then i thought." Katakuri said weakly. "Maiming myself seemed to be my downfall." He thought.

"Dont talk, save your strength big brother!" Brūlee cried out. She immediately opened the first aid kit and pulled out bandages and began to try and stop the blood from leaking out. But Katakuri knew that he was done for.

"Brūlee."

"Dont talk big brother, you have to save your strength."

"Its already too late." Katakuri said. He began to have black spots in his vision.

"Dont talk like that." Brūlee began tearing up. "you'll make it"

"Tell mama and the others that i failed to stop straw hat." Katakuri said. "It looks like i wasn't the perfect human after all." He whispered to himself. "Maybe he can defeat mama." he pondered.

Katakuri's eyes began to close but Brūlee tried to keep them from closing.

"Dont die, big brother, you can't." Brūlee wailed. but it was already too late.

Charlotte Katakuri was dead

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You are quite the entertaining one, Charlotte Katakuri. But you wont be dying yet. Not until i see the extent of change you can create in this new world of bloody revolution.

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"Where am i" Katakuri thought as he woke up in a forest. "Am i dead?"

He began to pick himself up off the ground until he noticed his hands were a lot smaller. "What happened to my hands?" He wondered. "Why are they smaller?"

Katakuri pondered as he began to look at himself. "My whole body became smaller. How is that possible?" Katakuri saw a nearby puddle and looked at his reflection in it. "it seems that I've become a teenager again. I believe i looked like this when i was 17." He then noticed that his scarf on the ground nearby has been changed to suit his size. He picked up his scarf off the ground and put it on, wondering how it all this happened.

He broke out of his musings and noticed his surroundings. Four black wolves with red eyes and facial bone plates were surrounding him. "What kind of wolves are these?" He pondered. "Where in the new world are these creatures from?"

As the wolves came closer, Katakuri's arm began to split and his trident, mogura, fell into his hand. "Lets see if my adolescence has affected my combat proficiency." Katakuri calmly said to himself.

Right then, one of the wolves lunged at him and tried to bite him, but he immediately sidestepped and thrust mogura at the wolf's neck and twisting, instantly tearing the wolf's head off.

Katakuri then held mogura in a vice grip and turned his forearm into a mochi ball, which began to twist tightly. "Mochi tsuki." Katakuri said. He then untwisted and launched mogura towards the second wolf, piercing and drilling the wolf and the tree behind it, carving a hole through both.

The two remaining wolves immediately leaped to attack him, but he stabbed one in the chest and kicked the other towards a tree. After pulling the trident out of the wolf he stabbed, Katakuri jumped and stomped on the head of the last wolf, killing it instantly.

Katakuri then watched intriguingly as all the wolves' corpses began to dissipate. "What kind of wolves are these?" He wondered. "The corpses are dissipating. these aren't normal wolves."

After watching the wolves disappear, katakuri pulled his trident back into his body. he walked to the tree that was behind one of the wolves he killed and inspected the damage he caused.

"This is the only tree that fell over, the rest withstood the force of my attack, my strength is not up the level it used to be." Katakuri thought. "I'll have to improve myself once again. I need to be efficient in my training if i want to get to where i was before." He mused.

Katakuri, after a brief moment of contemplation, chose a set direction to go to until he hit civilization, or until he found someone he could ask for directions.

Katakuri started walking east, and ran into more of the black, bone plated wolves. He make quick work of the wolves, while getting some training in with his trident.

And after a long 2 hours of walking and killing a few more wolves, Katakuri came upon the large gates of a city. "I'll ask someone which island this is." Katakuri thought diligently as he walked through the gates. He walked for a few minutes until he saw an elderly man walking nearby, and walked up to him. "Excuse me, can you tell me which island this is?" Katakuri asked. "Island? we're not on an island. we're in the city of vale, near the island of patch." The elderly man said.

"Not on an island? that can't be. Vale? Patch? I've never heard of those places before. I need to find a map of the world." He mused. "Do you know where i can find a map?" Katakuri asked.

"There's a shop three blocks away that sells items to travelers." the elderly man. Katakuri nodded in thanks and began walking towards the direction of the shop. Katakuri immediately realized he didnt have any belli on his person. he'll have to find a solution to that problem quick.

After walking a block, he decided to cut through an alleyway, sensing someone following him with his observation haki. when Katakuri was in the middle of the alley, he stopped and turned around.

"Empty your pockets, asshole. Or else you're gonna get hurt" said a street thug holding a knife. Katakuri raised an eyebrow at the threat, wondering how the knife could possibly hurt him.

"You deaf or something? I said empty your pockets." The thug said impatiently.

Katakuri glanced at the thug's black leather vest with spikes on the shoulders. it seemed like it was the right size. the street thug, however, lost his patience.

"Fine. Have it your way. Looks like you're gonna have a trip to the hospital" the street thug said as he rushed at Katakuri. but he underestimated the person he was attempting to rob. Katakuri quickly grabbed the thug's wrist, and with a snap he broke it.

"AHHHH, FUCK." the thug cried out as he dropped the knife. Katakuri then held the street thug by the throat, holding him in the air.

"The vest. take it off." Katakuri said coldy. the thug looked at him with slight fear.

"W-what" the thug choked out fearfully.

"I'm not asking again." he said with a dangerous glint in his eye.

"O-okay, just dont hurt me man." the street thug cried out, scared out of his wits. Katakuri dropped the thug.

As the thug was taking off his leather vest, katakuri remembered his financial problem. "Hand over your money too" he said.

"S-sure man. whatever you want. Just don't break anymore bones." the street thug complied, not wanting to get any bones broken.

After taking the vest and putting it on, Katakuri glanced the stack of money that was handed to him.

"Now leave, before I decide to get rid of you." Katakuri growled. The thug scrambled and ran out of the alleyway. "My financial problem is solved for now. But what kind of belli is this?" he questioned. "Wait. This currency isn't belli." Katakuri realized. He read the letters on the money. "It appears to be called lien. no matter, i need to get a map." He pocketed the money and made his way out of the alleyway.

After a minute of walking, Katakuri stood in front of the shop. He walked through the front door and to the register. "Where are the maps?" He asked the cashier. "The maps are by the camp equipment section" the cashier replied. Katakuri made his way to the camp equipment section and began to look through the pile of maps until he found a map of the world.

"This should answer some of my questions." Katakuri thought. When he opened up the map, his eyes widened slightly. "The grand line, all the blues, and the new world aren't on the map!" he thought. "This can't be. How can this be possible?" He mentally panicked. but he had to calm down, he realized.

After a few moments, Katakuri mentally composed himself, and started to think clearly. "Perhaps i am in another world. Is this the work of a devil fruit?" He pondered. "Or is this the work of something else?"

Katakuri took the map to the register, and paid 20 lien for the map. As he was walking out the door, he heard the sound of ringing nearby. he turned and saw someone talking with their hand on their ear.

"Who are they talking to? They're not holding a den den mushi." He thought, confused by the action. Katakuri then noticed that they were holding something in their hand. the person took their hand off their ear and tapped a transparent glass screen. "So they have something other than den den mushis as a means of communication." he mused. "I'll need to get a hold of one of those devices soon."

Katakuri made his way through the city, coming up with a plan to gain information about this new world. As he was walking, someone bumped into him. "Watch where you're- whoa." Said the black and red suited thug, intimidated by Katakuri's size. "W-watch where you're g-goin. Or else."said the hoodlum in the suit. "Or else what?" Katakuri replied while slighty glaring at him.

"O-or else you'll have to deal with my b-boss." Said the suited thug. "And who, exactly, is your boss?" Katakuri retorted. "J-junior. H-he runs things a-around h-here. H-he'll make y-you wish you n-never bumped i-into m-me." the black and red suited thug stuttered.

Katakuri weighed the options of meeting said boss. "Perhaps i can get this Junior to tell me what i want to know about this world." katakuri reflected. "Take me to your boss." he said without hesitation.

"W-what?" The suited man said. Katakuri grabbed the man by the collar and lifted him up into the air. "I won't ask again." He said heatedly.

"A-are you crazy?!" the black suited man cried out. "Do you want to find out? If you want me to demonstrate , then I'll break all the bones in your left arm." Katakuri replied coldly, glaring intensely at the the black and red suited individual.

"O-okay, okay. I'll take you to him." The suited man replied fearfully. "Just don't b-break any b-bones."

Katakuri tossed the thug against the wall. "Take me to your boss quickly before i lose my patience and kill you." He said roughly. The suited thug scrambled to get up. "O-okay, o-okay just dont k-kill me please." The black and red suited thug stuttered out.

As they began to walk to the direction of where the thug's boss's place was, Katakuri thought of how he should probe junior for information. "Maybe i can buy information from him. If he refuses, then i can threaten to maim him, or kill all his men and force him to trade information for his life." he contemplated.

"T-this is i-it." The thug said. They were stand in front of what Katakuri assumed was a club. It was a large three story building with black paint and no windows on the first floor. "Is he inside?" He stared intensely at the thug. "Y-yeah, s-sometimes he w-works at the bar during open hours." The thug stuttered out. Katakuri walked up to the doors and stopped. He turned halfway towards where the thug was standing. "If i find out you sent me to the wrong place, you'll be chopped up and thrown into a dumpster." he said heatedly.

The thug immediately had a fearful expression on his face." t-this i-i-is t-the right p-p-place. I p-promise." The thug stuttered out. "Judging by his expression, he isn't lying." Katakuri thought. He opened the doors and found the place empty save for a few people dressed as the thug outside. He saw two girls that appeared to be around his age on the second floor. He also saw one who appeared to be wearing a bear mask, behind a table with record players.

"Hey buddy, place is closed. come back in a few hours." One of the henchmen said as a group of seven with various weapons gathered. "I'm looking for Junior." Katakuri retored. Some of the henchmen got tense. "Who's asking?" Said one of the henchmen who spoke to him. "Someone who needs information." Katakuri replied.

"Someone go get the boss." Said one who spoke to Katakuri the first time as one broke off from the group. "You wait here." Said the head of the group.

Katakuri crossed his arms and leaned against one of the pillars. A few moments later, the one who broke off from the group returned with, who Katakuri assumed was, Junior. "For someone called Junior, he doesn't look very young." Katakuri mused. "But i need to know about everything in this world. He has some of the answers im looking for. I'll have to answer carefully." He thought.

As the duo walked closer in his direction, Katakuri stopped leaning on the pillar and uncrossed his arms. "So, one of my boys told me you're looking for information? What kind of information?" Junior said. "That's correct. I want to know about everything going on in vale." Katakuri replied.

"That's gonna be a hefty price there. You got the lien to pay for that?" Junior said. Katakuri pulled out the stack of lien and counted. "I've got three hundred lien. Will that be enough?" He said.

"Three hundred? You think this is a charity case? Someone get this guy outta here." Junior said as he turned around. "Looks like I'll have to force him to tell me what i want to know." Katakuri reflected as he pulled mogura out of his mochi body.

"What the?" Said one of the henchmen. but before he could raise his firearm, he received a deep slashed across the chest. "AAHHH" screamed the henchman as he fell to the ground.

Junior heard the scream, turned back around and saw the commotion, and immediately ran over to bar to find his bat-rocket launcher. Katakuri began to deal with the rest of the group. He disarmed the nearest one and threw him at another one of the henchmen. Two tried to attack him with swords but he blocked their attack, crouched down and swept their legs right under them.

As they were falling, he grabbed the one on the right by the ankle and threw him at the bar, scaring Junior. Katakuri stomped on the leg of the other one, feeling bone break under his boot. "MY LEG!" The man cried out, clutching his leg.

Katakuri saw the one he threw at one of the others, get up and rush him, trying to punch him. He caught the man's fist and broke his wrist. "AHHHH!" The man exclaimed as he dropped to his knees, clutching his broken wrist. Katakuri then stabbed him in the chest, killing him and scaring the remaining two henchmen, and the dj, who were watching.

As he pulled mogura out from the man's chest, he heard two sets of feet land nearby. He turned and saw the two girls that were on the second floor.

"Melanie, Who does this guy think he is? Said the girl in red. "I dont know Miltiades, but we need to teach him a lesson." Said the girl in white, called Melanie he assumed.

"These two are definitely stronger the rest of these men. I'll have to take them a little seriously." Katakuri thought. "Depending on their level of skill, I might even have to use my devil fruit. I'll need to see what they'll do first." he pondered as his eyes slightly glowed red as he activated his observation haki.

Melanie and Miltiades both rushed him. they dashed in a serpentine formation while heading in his direction. Then Melanie went low to attack his legs and Miltiades went high to put him on the defensive.

His haki stopped there. "It seems my observation haki has weakened as well. Thirty seconds appears to be my limit for now." He contemplated , slightly disgruntled. "I'll have to improve my haki as well. If my observation haki weakened, it's likely the other two have as well."

And right as he finished his train of thought, they both rushed him. Katakuri headed towards them and threw mogura at Miltiades. As she dodged the weapon thrown at her, katakuri turned his left arm into mochi and threw a mochi ball at Melanie's feet, sticking them to the floor. He then rushed towards Miltiades. "Kaku mochi." Katakuri said as his arms turned to mochi and began to compress and harden into a square-like shape, and almost completely coated with armament haki.

"What happened to his arms?" Thought Miltiades. she didn't have a chance to muse on that question as Katakuri threw a punch at her. She blocked the punch but was sent flying through the air at a few tables, breaking them. "He hits like a damn truck." she thought before her head flopped down.

"Miltiades!" Melanie cried out as she tried to pull her feet out of the sticky substance. "What is this stuff" Melanie said. "It's useless to try and escape." Katakuri said, turning his arms back to normal and picking up mogura. He turned and walked towards Melanie, who increased her struggle in trying to pry her feet out of the mochi.

"You might as well give up, you won't be able to pull your feet out." Said Katakuri while putting mogura back into his body.

As he walked closer to Melanie, who stopped her struggling, Katakuri felt that something was off. So he activated his observation haki.

"You haven't won yet" said Melanie defiantly. She subtly looked behind Katakuri and signaled Miltiades to attack him. Miltiades, having gotten up quietly, ran towards him, intent on stabbing him in the spine.

"So they intend to defeat me with a sneak attack. A smart move. If i were someone else, I'd be dead." he mentally complemented. "You haven't won yet." Katakuri mimicked. "Is what you were going to say."

Melanie's eyes slightly widened. "It's like he read my mind!" she thought, shocked at that. "I need to signal Miltiades fast." but before she had a chance to do so, Katakuri stretched his arm and grabbed Miltiades by the throat and pulled her towards them.

"It was very clever of you to pretend to be defeated, while your sister created an opportunity to you to sneak attack me. A very good tactic, but that won't work on me." Said Katakuri as he held Miltiades in the air.

He threw Miltiades at the bar, her back hitting the glass shelves, breaking them along with the alcohol. "Miltiades!" Melanie cried out worryingly. Katakuri then round house kicked her in the temple, sending her flying a few feet away. She was out cold.

"Junior. Come out or I'll make you come out" Katakuri said coldly. he walked towards the bar and activated his observation haki once more.

"Eat this, you fucker." Junior said as he hopped over the bar with a rocket launcher. He aimed it at katakuri and pulled the trigger.

"So he intends to stop me with a rocket. but that won't be enough." Katakuri mused as he got closer to the bar. Katakuri turned his arm into mochi to deal with Junior's rocket launcher. "Here it comes." Katakuri readied himself.

"Eat this, you fucker!" Junior yelled out as he hopped over the bar. but before he could aim, Katakuri plugged the barrel. "Shit" Junior cursed.

Katakuri quickly appeared in front of Junior and kicked the rocket launched away. He grabbed Junior's throat in a vice. "Look, man. I'll give you whatever you want. Just don't kill me." Junior wheezed out.

"I wanted information" Katakuri said as his eyes narrowed. "If you had just given me what i wanted, one of your men wouldn't be dead and the rest wouldn't be incapacitated. Those tables wouldn't have been broken either." Junior looked around and saw the damage.

"Aww shit. Those tables cost me a lot of lien. And I'm going to have to replace those guys too. Fuck!" Junior thought bitterly. but then he got an idea. "How about i offer you something better?" Junior said, hoping that his idea would work.

Katakuri raised an eyebrow and slightly loosened his grip on Junior's throat. "I'm listening." Katakuri said. "What if i make you a partner." Junior said, extremely nervous on the inside. "Please work. Please work. Please work." He thought.

"Continue." Said Katakuri. Junior had a mental sigh of relief, but he knew he wasn't out of the woods yet. "I'll give you 20 percent cut of all the earnings and I'll tell you whatever you want to know, If you agree to help out with security four days of the week." Junior said.

"He's trying to establish a symbiotic relationship between us. Granted I'm gaining more then he is." Katakuri pondered, interested in the deal. "By including money in the deal, he took my financial situation into account. As well as my effectiveness as a fighter, judging by how quickly I defeated all his men, and without a scratch. He wants to use me to keep things calm here during business hours. Despite his brutish appearance, he's more clever then i thought he would be."

Junior watched his face as he mulled over the opportunity that was presented to him. "Very well." Katakuri let go of Junior's throat. "I'll take your deal. But I'll make something known right now. I won't be taking orders from you." Katakuri said with a dangerous glint in his eyes.

"S-sure thing. Just don't trash my place." Junior said. "Man, i dodged a goddamn missile." Junior thought, breathing out a sigh of relief. "So, what's the name of my new business partner?" Junior said as he grabbed a liquor bottle that wasn't broken and poured himself a drink.

"Katakuri. Charlotte Katakuri." He said "To being business partners, Katakuri." Junior said as he raised his glass and drank it in one go. "When does my apparent security detail begin?" Katakuri asked.

"Well, seeing as how this place is somewhat trashed. It'll be postponed for a few days. But until then, feel free to hang around." Junior said. "I'll have to place an order for more tables and alcohol."

"I'll need a place to stay tonight." Said Katakuri. "You can sleep in one of the rooms on the third floor." Junior replied. "All my problems have been effectively dealt with." Katakuri thought.

"By the way, you got a scoll so i can call you here just in case anything happens? Junior asked.

"Scroll? What's a scroll?" katakuri replied, not allowing his confusion to show on his face.

Junior stared at him as if he grew a second head. "You been living under a rock or something? Everybody has a scroll. You know, the touchscreen device that's used for anything internet related." Junior said. "Back home, we didn't have scrolls. We used letters as a means of communication." Katakuri lied.

"I guess that makes sense." Junior thought. "Whatever. I'll get you a scroll tomorrow. I'm gonna call the rest of my men here to explain our partnership and have them clean this mess up." Said Junior.

"Alright. But tomorrow, you're telling me everything i want to know." Katakuri said as he began to walk up to the third floor. He glanced at a clock hanging on a wall nearby and saw it was nearing night time. Despite not feeling physically tired, he was mentally exhausted.

Katakuri reached the third floor and opened the nearest door. The room was seemingly empty, except for an old couch and a small table with a lamp. The window shades were drawn to show the sun setting on the horizon.

As he laid down on the couch, he began to think about his situation and his family. "I wonder if everyone else knows about what happened to me. I thought i died but i woke up in the forest." He contemplated. "When will i be able to find the answers im looking for?" He mused as he closed his eyes.

The next day, as katakuri got up, he heard knocking on the door. "It's open." He said. Junior walked in with a chair. He placed it down and faced Katakuri. "Alright kid, i got you a scroll." Junior said as he handed katakuri the device. "I already put my number in it."

Katakuri nodded as he looked at it. "So this is a scroll. The technology here seems to be as advanced as germa's technology." He pondered.

"You have no idea how to use it, do you? Junior said humorously. Katakuri slightly glared at him. "Relax, I'll show you how to use it." Said Junior. He pulled out his scroll and began to show Katakuri all the basic functions on it.

Junior spent the next 5 minutes showing Katakuri how to place calls, and send texts. After all that was done, they finally got down to business. "So kid, what do you want to know about?" Junior asked.

"Tell me anything that is moderately useful. Even if it's insignificant." Katakuri replied. Junior kicked his feet up on the small table. "Then get comfortable kid. We're gonna be here awhile." Said Junior.

"Time is a luxury i can afford right now." Katakuri said nonchalantly. "Now tell me about these black creatures out in the forest."

To be continued.

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Maaaaaaan im glad i finally got this out. I've had this idea stuck in my head for 2 weeks. im so relieved i got it done. Now, timeline wise, this is a few months before RWBY vol. 1. So that gives me some time to figure out how to get katakuri's interactions with other rwby characters right without feeling weird. I dont wanna make the character interactions seem too forced or too lax ya know. And now, to clarify some things. Katakuri's observation haki. In the anime and manga, its not specified how far he can see into the future, but it seems to be a decent amount of time. But for the sake of the story, i made it so it wasn't op as hell. Thats why i made it 30 seconds. It somewhat could give people who might possibly fight Katakuri in the future a chance. We'll see, anything can happen. Now his armament haki. In the anime and manga, when he clashed fists with luffy, he managed to hurt luffy's hand despite it being coated with haki. But it won't be that strong right now. he can knock out a chunk of someone's aura. depending on how large someone's aura is, he can either possibly break through it or just take out a decent percentage of it. Now his conqueror's haki. right now i stuck on how it should affect anyone and anything around him. Civilians are obviously going to be affected, but people with aura seems to be a bit tricky. The grimm are also tricky because they're creatures of darkness and all that jazz. Im stumped on those two but its fine. I'll think of something.

Favorites and reviews are appreciated

No flames, cause thats no fun.

Cremvtxriv out.

Update: idk if all the sentences are on the left. Im trying to figure how to make the paragraphs stop resetting back the center. but if they're on the left then everything's cool. If they're still centered then im sorry and I'll try to rectify the problem.