Alright I can update at decent speed. So it is great to be with you guys again after my health scare. I missed writing.

Anyway before we get to the story, just know that after you read this chapter that there is an AN to you guys that I would like you to read and share your thoughts on (it is about the story).

Also the previous AN will be down in about 24 hours.

I do not own RWBY or Naruto.

Chapter 5: Beacon

Beacon Academy, considered by many to be the premier huntsman academy in all of Remnant. It is located near the edge of Vale and overlooks the water from atop a large cliff. The school itself is designed in a manner that resembles a castle, having many towers, and even an aqueduct surrounding it, all of which helps to give the school its elegant appearance.

Naruto now stood near one of the docking bays to this very school, looking out over the cliff at the approaching airships bringing students to the prestigious academy.

"You don't get views like this in Atlas." Naruto whispered to himself as he continued to look out over the water while waiting for Weiss near one of the docking bays to this very school.

He had arrived at Beacon Academy earlier in the day, dropped off by his security team by a Schnee company bullhead before they headed to the Schnee company dust facility in Vale where he was given the go ahead to test his idea on faunus employees for the private security of the Schnee Dust Company. It had given him time to explore the campus before he went to the docks to wait for Weiss.

As he continued to take in the view, the airships got closer, and soon they began to dock, disgorging students from their hulls.

Naruto observed them as they exited the airships.

An armored male with burnt orange hair and a mace was fooling around with others in armor.

Off to the side his eyes caught a flash of orange to see a girl prancing and skipping around a male with a strip of pink in his hair. A one-sided conversation seemed to be going on between the two.

"Do you think the pancakes at Beacon will be different? Maybe they have their own secret recipe! Wait what if they don't feed you if you don't get good grades? What if one of the Grimm they keep to teach us steals my pancakes?! Maybe that's how they train us."

Naruto quickly turned his attention from the conversation as the orange headed girl seemed to begin developing a plan to protect her pancakes from a…Grimm incursion.

Moving his eyes back to the students he took in the latest batch of students to arrive before a blush flashed across his face before he tore his eyes away. He definitely remembered the girl with the yellow mane, orange scarf, powerful punch, and the toned butt.

"Why are you blushing?" A voice reached him from his right.

"I'm not blushing Weiss." Naruto answers back simply, not fully registering that the person he was looking for was now standing slightly in front of him.

"Yes, you are. What are you looking at?" Weiss asked as she attempted to look over the crowd.

Feeling glad that he had a few inches on Weiss, Naruto answered. "Nothing…wait. Weiss! You're here."

With the realization that the girl Naruto was waiting for was in front of him Naruto snapped his attention to her before lunging forward and wrapping his arms around her.

Laughing slightly, Weiss lightly whacked one of Naruto's arms before giving a huff. "Yes I am glad to see you too. Now let me go."

Letting the white themed girl go Naruto rubbed the back of his head and gave a slight laugh.

"Welcome to Vale, Weiss." Naruto greeted.

"Thank you Naruto. So did you see anything interesting when you were 'checking out' Vale." Weiss asked, quoting what Naruto had told her he would be doing when he left for Vale early instead of traveling with Weiss.

Naruto stifled a nervous laugh when he heard Weiss's tone, the tone sounded a little too Winterish, like when he and Weiss were in trouble or she was worried, to him.

"Not much. Mostly looked around, took in the sites. You're going to love it here." Naruto answered making sure he didn't tell Weiss that he arrived early as part of the private security sent by Jacques Schnee to ascertain if Vale was safe.

"Oh, really, then what is this I hear about you blowing up a nightclub?" Weiss asked.

"To be fair I wasn't the one to blow it up." Naruto answered simply.

"It was on fire." Weiss snapped back while poking him in the chest.

"…It was self-defense." Naruto sheepishly said.

Turning around Naruto spread his arms into the air. "Besides Weiss, we're at Beacon. We did it, we're going to be huntsman. We're going…"

Naruto turned back around to face Weiss with a bright smile on his face that quickly went flat. "Weiss…what's with all the luggage?"

Behind Weiss, Naruto could clearly see several individuals loading suitcases onto a trolley. All of which were bearing the Schnee family crest.

Weiss turned her head to the side with a huff. "It's everything we need to be huntsman. Dust, weapon maintenance, clothes"

"Are you planning to blow up Beacon?" Naruto asked as he noticed the many heavy duty suitcases that were being handled carefully by the loaders.

"Of cours…" Weiss began to answer before a crashing sound was heard behind them.

Looking over Weiss's shoulder Naruto found himself looking at one of the girls from the club incident. The red and black themed girl seemed to of fallen into Weiss's luggage, knocking the suitcases to the ground.

"What are you doing?" Weiss immediately started scolding the girl.

"Sorry." The little red headed girl replied.

"Sorry, do you have any idea what sort of damage you could have caused?" Weiss continued.

"Um…Weiss it was an accident. We had a few of those growing up." Naruto interjected trying to stop the fight.

(flashback)

A twelve year old Weiss stands beside a twelve year old Naruto in a training room. Both of them have their weapons drawn. Weiss with her rapier and Naruto with one of his butterfly swords in its revolver form. In front of them is a target shaped like an Ursa.

"Alright Naruto, on three combine your dust with mine. One, two, three." Weiss says as she twirls her weapon before slamming it into the ground causing a white glyph to appear in front of her.

Naruto taking his cue concentrates on focusing his aura and using yellow dust fires his revolver at the glyph.

The dust shot hits the glyph and begins to spark with electricity. Then from the glyph multiple white arrows, sparkling with electricity began to appear, shooting out towards the ursa target.

With smiles on their faces the two looked at their first combination attack, before one of the arcs of electricity hit another. For a second time stood still.

Weiss and Naruto looked towards each other both thinking the same thing.

"Uhoh!"

A giant explosion filled the room knocking Weiss and Naruto into the wall behind them before they fell onto the ground in a heap.

As the two lay on the ground dazed with their auras severely depleted, the ursa target bounced off the wall from the force of the explosion and landed on its feet over them.

The ursa target had survived dust experiment 6.

(end of flashback)

Weiss's face colored at the memory, though if she had thought of dust experiment 6 or one of their other dust mishaps was anyone's guess.

"Still you should be more careful." Weiss said with a sigh as she picked up one of the gathered suitcases and took out a vial of dust.

Shaking it at the young girl Weiss continued. "Look, dust is fire, water, lightning, energy. You could get hurt."

As Naruto watched the dust fly into the younger girl's face he saw she was about to sneeze.

"Achoo" An explosion tore through the main avenue of Beacon Academy as the girl with the red cloak sneezed.

When the smoke began to clear, three translucent blue shields were hovering in front of Naruto, Weiss, and the silver eyed girl.

"Ugh. You complete dolt." Weiss insulted the girl.

"Weiss. I think that one was your fault." Naruto interjected.

"What?" Weiss said.

"Well you did shake dust in front of her face." Naruto said with a shrug.

"But still this wouldn't have happened if she didn't run into me." Weiss said stubbornly.

"I said I was sorry princess." The girl snapped back, her patience beginning to break.

"It's heiress actually. Weiss and Naruto Schnee, heirs to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the biggest dust companies in the world. Famous for its controversial labor forces, questionable business partners, and radical ideas." A new girl with a bow on her head interjected, while looking pointedly at Naruto when it came to radical ideas. In her hand she carried a vial of dust with the SDC's symbol on it.

Grinding her teeth Weiss grabbed the vial from the new girl's hand before storming off.

With a sigh Naruto watched Weiss walk off. "Looks like I am in the doghouse."

Turning his attention back to the girls in front of him, he found that the bow wearing girl had already walked off, leaving him with the cloak wearing girl.

"So, I never got your name. I'm Naruto, nice to meet you." Naruto said as he stuck his hand out to the girl.

"Ruby Rose, and yeah, Yang kind of told me about you." Ruby said shyly. She preferred weapons to people.

"So…thank you for helping me with the shield. Was that your semblance? Mine's speed." Ruby said quickly.

"Yep, my semblance is projection." Naruto answered back.

"You were kind of fast with your semblance, how did you train with it?" Ruby asked with a happy smile on her face.

"Take that Yang. I can make friends just fine." Ruby thought to herself. She didn't have a problem talking about semblances. Sure they weren't as awesome as weapons, at least in her opinion, but she could still talk about them.

"How did I train it?" Naruto thought as his eyes lost focus and his body tensed.

(flashback)

Fourteen year old Naruto had recently lost to Pyrrha in the Mistral regional championship. Currently he was standing in the middle of a training room without his weapons.

"Alright Naruto, the purpose of this exercise is to train your semblance. You're going to block the projectiles before they reach you. Also, to make your projections more precise and less taxing on your aura your projections can't be bigger than a regular sized shield." A female voice said over an intercom.

Naruto nodded in the direction of the intercom before he said, "Let's do this."

"Then begin."

From the ground three machine guns rose and began to fire at random intervals from a static position.

Naruto smiled as he created the shields to block the coming bullets when needed.

"Good, now let's make this a little harder." The intercom announced.

From the floor a set of tracks appeared, circling Naruto on the ground as well as having a set of tracks above him.

"Um…these are rubber right." Naruto asked as he saw the guns begin to move around in a random pattern, continuing to fire projectiles at him.

Naruto throws shields up as often as he can, attempting to block the bullets coming from every direction.

Above. Shield.

Left. Shield. Mistimed. Second shield.

Behind. Shield.

Right. Missed. Naruto rolled out of the way as the missed spray of bullets hits the ground where he just stood.

Looking to where he just stood, Naruto deadpanned at the now torn metal floor before the intercom came to life once more.

"No. But as long as your aura is above the red they should be non-lethal, though I wouldn't suggest getting hit by them." The voice replied in a chipper manner.

The exercise continued as Naruto attempted to dodge and block the coming bullets, occasionally taking a hit from a bullet he couldn't stop or dodge.

"Reset." The voice spoke over the intercoms as the guns moved back to their starting positions.

As for Naruto himself, his body looked battered, from when he failed to stop the shots and the floor, the metal floor was now jagged and full of holes.

"Hmm…your aura's still not in the red so just one more test and then we're done for the day." The seemingly perpetually happy voice said.

"How about no." Naruto said as tried to make it to the door only for the guns to swivel around on their tracks and block him.

"Just one more test." The voice continued.

"err…"

"Good. Now let's test how powerful your shields are. Remember the shields can't be bigger than a regular shield." The voice spoke from the intercom not giving Naruto a chance to respond.

The bullets of the chain fed guns changed and took on a reddish coloring before the guns once more began to fire, now shooting fire dust rounds on the young blonde.

"Aaaahhhh!" Naruto screamed as he attempted to block the bullets. He also could have sworn he heard the person on the intercom singing as his test continued.

(end of flashback)

"I had an…interesting teacher. So I should probably meet back up with Weiss. Perhaps we can talk again sometime." Naruto answered with slight hesitation.

Ruby smiled. "Sure, see you later. Oh and I'll find a way to make it up to your sister."

Naruto merely smiled back at the kind hearted girl, before his look became more deadpanned as he saw someone in blue armor talking to one of the airships.

"Beacon seems to have some interesting people." Naruto thought to himself, recalling the orange haired girl and her talk about pancakes and now someone who talks to machines.

"Should be fun."

And done. Alright first things first, the revolving guns and the shields scene was inspired by RED vs. BLUE, which I also don't own.

Second I hate writing short chapters like this but I need to hear the thoughts of my readers on something. Currently I plan to have Naruto on a separate team from JNPR or RWBY, I originally had a way to put Naruto on RWBY's team but it was convoluted so that is now gone.

Anyway I plan to use RED vs. BLUE characters for Naruto's teammates (not sure if anyone has done this before). But which ones should I use?

In fact you may have noticed that a few have made cameo appearances without being named.

Naruto's head of security for his group (now armed with an axe that splits into twin hatchets that become a flamethrower) is in fact Butch Flowers otherwise known as Agent Florida.

The tester is either going to be Emily Grey or her mother if I decide to put her on Naruto's team.

As for the guy in blue armor, that is Caboose.

What spawned this idea? Freckles, the Atlesian Paladin.

So I ask for your thoughts on RED vs. BLUE characters and who would be a faunus.

Also nearly every character is possible, this includes villains like Locus, and even AIs like Omega and Gamma. Sadly Jr. is not a possibility. I especially want to bring in Carolina so that even if that which should not be named does happen, Pyrrha will still be with us.

On a final note, I do not plan to abandon the dark undertone to my RWBY cross, but like RWBY I will incorporate light themes with the darkness (volume 1 vs. volume 3 for instance).

Also I may start an omake series in this story involving the tales of Caboose that would be too ridiculous for the story. The omake would appear at the end of a chapter and not as a separate story.

Anyway thanks for reading and I would love to hear your thoughts.

PS: Not a real spoiler since I haven't seen the two episodes of Volume 4 out yet, but Weiss apparently has a brother and I am totally judging him off his pic on rwby wikia, I do not trust him. Yes I just profiled him, sue me (don't really).