A teen riding a train was bopping his head to some M-pop music (J-pop.) as he relaxed in a train. Humming a little bit, he was playing on his scroll as the train sped by another station in Menagerie. His blonde hair was contrasted by his red fox ears that poked up from the shaggy mess.

Sighing, he used his hands to pull his hoodie up and over his head, bopping his head to the music. His blue eyes shined under the hood, showing that he could still just as perfect he would normally would. His clothing was baggy at best, very bright colored as well.

He was wearing an orange hoodie with an oversized black shirt underneath it that poked from the bottom of the hoodie and laid softly against his baggy blue sweatpants. He wore a necklace that had a single tanzanite crystal hanging from it that was the size of his thumb.

The tanzanite crystal was given to him by his mother, prior to leaving home and beginning his journey towards Beacon. He was one of the few foreign students that was being interviewed and tested for entrance.

Yawning, his music was cut off as a face call was made on his scroll, swiping it he smiled once his mother's face appeared on the phone. "Hey Naruto, how are you doing my little Hunter?"

Naruto motions his hand side to side, pointing to his wrist as if he had a watch, before leaning over as if he was taking a nap. His mother laughed a little, before seeing the glimmer of Naruto's tanzanite necklace under his hoodie.

"I see you've been keeping our family heirloom safe," his mother says as she sighs and brushes a loose strand of red hair from her face, "you haven't offered it to any girls, have you?"

Naruto blushed a little bit, chuckling as he rubbed the back of his head. "Oh, my young man, you're only sixteen my son."

Laughing a little, Naruto stuck out his tongue at his mother, before smiling as she did the same. She gained a solemn look on her face, moving to side to show a picture of his human father with a smile on his face and holding a baby Naruto.

"I know your father would've been proud to see you come so far, Menagerie rarely puts out anyone willing to help everyone. I'm glad you were taught you well, I got an early shift tomorrow morning some I'm going to have to get on to bed..." His mother tells him, "the mines are little colder nowadays so I'll be fine."

Naruto gave her a sad look, before making a kissy face.

"Love you too sweetie," his mother says, "have a good night…"

Naruto sighs as he starts playing his music again, that was until his stomach grumbled, muttering a little bit with a bit of frustration Naruto turned off his music and got on his scroll.

Flipping through several apps, he came to bank app, pressing on it, he saw that he had a few liens. Getting up and stretching, he walked towards the café on the train. The café was a couple of cars over, and he needed to exit and renter cars separately due to the train being an older style coal train.

His black combat boots pressed into the soft carpet of the state car as he slid open the door, a loud blast of wind flooded his ears making them ring a little bit as winced. Grumbling, he slid the door behind him closed as he walked into the other car and shut the door behind him.

The other car was a bar room, smoke and alcohol filled the air around him. Grimacing as he walked through it, he bumped against a well-dressed man.

"Watch it freak." The well-dressed man said as brushed by Naruto.

Sighing, the blonde fox faunus walked past a few other business-dressed men and women, exiting the car, he looked up to see the night sky. Sighing, he smiled, chuckling a little bit as he went to enter the café car.

Entering the café car, Naruto's mouth watered as he walked over to the counter. Looking at the assorted cakes and pastries. His ears perked up, twitching a little bit as someone called over to him.

"Hey, you, you wanna get something to eat?" It was a server, "well?"

Naruto held up one finger, walking over towards a stack of menus, before pointing at the items he wanted which were a bowl of Miso Noodles with Pork Fillet, three Fish Cakes, and an Orange Tea. The server sighs, taking his order, before walking away to give it to a chef.

Taking a seat inside of a booth, Naruto leaned back against the cushioned surface of the green leather. The table was a small run of mill dining table that could be found literally anywhere, which was a go figure considering how cheap the train ticket was.

The Airship ticket on the other had cost Naruto and his mother a proverbial arm and leg. Naruto almost canceled his entire plan to attend Beacon's test due to the cost, but due to both reassurance and pressure from his mother he chose to continue forth.

"Which would you like by the way!" The server called out, "hot or cold?"

Naruto took out a small pen he kept on him in his pocket, using a napkin and wrote the word 'HOT' as big as he could on it. Figuring when the server shrugged his shoulders that his order had been taken properly, he relaxed in the booth.

Getting out his scroll, he put his ear buds in, before bopping his head to the music of an anime he was watching. "Oh, cool Dragon Soul Super has a new episode, wonder if Koku is going to kick Hiren's butt!"

Humming to the opening theme, Naruto's peripheral vision caught movement and he looked up to see a woman with black eyes and ravenlike hair sitting in a booth near him. Sighing, he looked around, his eyes blue eyes then changed to a red color before he focused on her.

He could see a massive well of aura inside of her, before deactivating his technique. Taking a deep breath, Naruto waited on his food, tapping his finger on the table to the music of the anime he was watching. However, he was surprised when the train's sliding door was slammed open and several White Fang Soldiers came in.

The teen sighed, turning off his anime, placing his scroll on the table before getting a tube of some sort out of his pocket as well.

"Identification check," one of The Fang's Lead Solider says, "this train is owned by A White Fang affiliate."

Sighing, Naruto watched as one of the soldiers walked over to him. "Identification please."

Naruto held up his scroll, allowing the soldier to use his to scan the blonde's scroll before a green ping appeared on his scroll.

"Okay here you go, safe travels brother?"

"Not much of a talker?"

Naruto pointed towards his throat, making an X mark over it, signaling to the soldier.

"Ah, damn, sorry." The soldier apologized, "didn't know you were a mute."

Naruto nodded his head, waiving him off with a weary smile.

"Alright then, okay sir this guy is cleared." The solider said.

"Alright solider, move to the next cart, this woman is cleared as well…it's been too silent lately." The White Fang Officer says as he walks out of the train car they were all on with his soldiers following him closely.

Naruto reaches, tucks the tube back into his hoodie's stomach pocket and sighs a little. He goes to turn on his anime once more, before leaning back. Drumming to the beat of a song that played during a fight scene in the anime he was watching.

Sighing, he looked around, before noticing the woman looking at him intently. Waiving at her a for a moment, the woman stared away from him, however he still felt like he was being watched. Looking around, Naruto saw the server coming with his food, before he took a deep breath with his nose and smelled the deliciousness that was heading his way.

"Alrighty," the server says as he lays out three different plates before placing Naruto's steaming tea in front of him, "that's that. Let me know when you want desert or the check."

Naruto nodded, smiling as he turned off his anime, before breaking the chopsticks apart. Taking his chop sticks, he twirled them around a little bit before taking some noodles and his mouth. He began to slurp them down, gently, so there wouldn't be too much noise.

His mind was calm, his entire demeanor was serene as he enjoyed the food he was eating which he had to admit was pretty good.

Finishing the noodles in a hurry, he took the bowl and drank the broth down. Wiping his lips with a napkin, Naruto reached over to his tea where he took a gentle sip. Allowing himself to become enamored by the tangy but sweet taste of orange and herbal tea.

Looking out the window into the desert, he sighs, before he looked around.

"Back at Leaf Academy they taught us that most of our home was a desert, with very few spots like The Capital of Menagerie, Menagerie City actually being a part of a sustainable forest. They're saying each year, slowly, the desert takes more and more land as if the Menagerie herself was dying." Naruto sighs, "and in a way…I don't see them being wrong…but I don't think it's too late to fix it."

"Father was a forester before he died…and he always taught me that nature was hardy but delicate, violent but calm." Naruto sighs, "maybe the desert encroaching on us slowly like in Vacuo is nature's way of becoming a wolf and growling at us to back off?"

"Meh," Naruto muses, "it's stuff that I can focus on later...I guess."

Sipping on his tea, Naruto was about to eat his fish cakes when the train came a sudden stop. Sighing, Naruto looked out the window before seeing several black shadows move towards the train. He heard the slide doors slam open, before a soldier ran in.

"Grimm!" He screams, "everyone take shelter!"

Naruto gets up, before getting out the tube from his hoodie. Walking towards the sliding doors, Naruto watched as the soldier moved to stop him.

"Sir please get to safety," Naruto rolled his eyes before grabbing the soldier and slung him to the side as a Beowulf lunged at him from behind.

The soldier watched as the blonde stepped backwards and twirled around before roundhousing the Beowulf in the face with a hard kick. That's when the soldier saw a red glow from Naruto's eyes, and the tube that held suddenly elongate into a full-blown staff.

Spinning the staff about, Naruto sighs, as he held it behind him.

Watching the Beowulf get up, Naruto reached into his hoodie pocket and took a yellow crystal out and inserted it into the middle slot on the staff that was located in the very middle. The staff suddenly sparked to life with electricity flowing through it, before it slowly traveled up to the ends of the telescopic weapon.

The Beowulf got up, roaring at Naruto as the blonde smirked and charged at the Grimm and stabbed through it with the staff vibrating from the electricity. Spinning the staff around, Naruto saw another Beowulf enter before running at it and butterfly kicking it out of the doorway.

The wolf slammed into the adjacent car door just prior to the café's, when Naruto stepped out, he slammed the sliding door shut before throwing the yellow crystal out of his staff and onto the Beowulf which electrocuted it.

His senses blaring danger, Naruto jumped up and backflipped as a Beowulf attempted to slash him apart. Landing on top of the train, Naruto looked to see several White Fang Soldiers attempting to fight off Beowulfs.

That's when he saw what stopped the train, it was a very large Death Stalker that was attempting to damage the train. Grunting, Naruto reached into his pocket and pulled out Burn Dust Crystal and a Gale Dust Crystal.

Tossing them into the air, the middle slot open on his staff and when he held it up the crystals fell in into the middle and were sent to opposite ends of the staff. Naruto smirked, proudly, as fire and wind swirled around his staff as he spun it around.

After the test of the crystals stability, Naruto charged with his orange aura blaring around him. His reflexes were heightened as he dodged to the right while avoiding a Beowulf's lung before stepping back and slamming backend of his staff into Beowulf and burning it to a crisp as wind and fire leapt forth from the staff.

Rolling forwards to avoid another Beowulf, Naruto smirks as he jumps up and spins around and kicks a Beowulf across the face and breaks it's neck.

Landing, he ran forward before seeing two Beowulfs coming towards him, time seem to slow down around him as he felt the heat of another one just behind him. That's when he smirks brightly as he disappeared in an orange flash.

The trio if Beowulfs smashed into each other, before Naruto appeared above them and sent off the train burning and blasted by wind. Spinning the staff around, Naruto faces down the Deathstalker with a confident smirk on his face.

The White Fang soldiers looked at each other before they ran to check on the passengers, Naruto's staff opened up, spitting out two drained crystals, before the blonde reaches into his pocket and pulls out a Water Dust Crystal and another Electric Dust Crystal.

The Deathstalker roared out with various clicks as Naruto jumped off the train, landing on the sand near the tracks.

The teen whistled, making the Deathstalker leave the train, giving time for the conductor to start the train back up. The teen held his staff behind his back as he saw the train start moving and faced down the giant Grimm.

Sticking out his tongue, Naruto locked put two fingers on his head as he flashed in orange light above the creature. A thunderous boom sounded as water poked out of the end of staff only to take the shape of a blade and become electrified as Naruto spun his staff around and slammed the staff down.

The beast roared out in a series of clicks, before stumbling about. Naruto saw the train starting to move faster and faster. Chuckling, he took out several Burn Dust Crystals and threw them on the Deathstalker before he flashed away onto the back car of the train.

Snapping his fingers, the crystals exploded, killing the Deathstalker in a thunderous fiery explosion.

Whistling as he spun his staff around, Naruto smiles as he walks on top of the train towards the café car.

The server heard a thump, he looked over as he saw the woman still sitting in her seat and unmoved. However, he saw Naruto enter the cart by sliding the doors open gently and then shutting them.

Still whistling, the blonde looked at his scroll. He hisses a little bit, he had used up about forty percent of his aura to use his semblance to dodge and counter some of the Grimm. Walking over to his fish cakes, Naruto sat down, plugging his headphones back in and began to watch his anime.

"Kamehameha!" Naruto mentally screams as he watches a scene of the anime, before chuckling a little bit. "This fight scene was worth the two-week break!"

Eating his fish cakes, Naruto finished off his now cold tea. He looked around for the server, before noticing him still hiding in the kitchen.

Rolling his eyes, Naruto got a napkin and penned on it 'SAFE' and held it up to where the guy could see it.

"Oh man," the guy came walking out, looking around with his head on a swivel, "I thought I was dead…oh man…"

Naruto tapped his finger on the table, looking at the man, he had a smile on his face.

"Oh, the check, oh no man, it's on the house!" The server says as he picks up the plates, "in fact do you like cake?"

Naruto held up one finger, getting another napkin, he penned 'Strawberry' on it with a smile.

Naruto was walking towards his room on the state car, smiling as he carried a large box with several slices of cake inside of it. His aura should be full in a few more minutes, just in case of another Grimm attack.

As he neared his room he was stopped by a patrol of White Fang soldiers, the officer from before looked at Naruto.

"Excuse me young man, are you interested in being a part of something that makes a difference? Are you looking for unity, strength in number, Faunus Civil Rights?" Naruto looked at the officer, already rolling his eyes.

"Well…" The officer growls a little bit, "I'd like to offer you a place amongst The Fang."

Naruto looked at him, shaking his head, he simply walks past the officer and opens his door. Entering his room, Naruto sighs as he stands near a soft bed, stretching as he continued to listen to his music.

He had been listening to his music during the brief exchange between him and the officer, it was just he could read lip very well.

In a bygone time, back when his father was alive, maybe he would've wanted to join The White Fang and play hero for the people. However, The White Fang was a shell of its former self, it wasn't worth joining. Good people joining gained a bad name, and bad people joining only made it worse.

He walked over to a dresser, placing the cake he had on top of it, before walking over to his bed.

Taking off his upper clothing, Naruto revealed his lean body in the mirror. There was a scar over his chest from when he was a child and fell into a pile of thick splinters. One had gone through his chest and pieced his lung, he almost died.

However, his father had saved him.

In the mirror he imagined a man standing there besides him, a blonde haired human man, with a proud smile on his face. Sighing, letting a tear slip out, Naruto smiles as he clutched his necklace that glowed once he flowed his aura into it.

"Tomorrow I should I be in Menagerie City, from there I have a day layover until The Atlas Cloud gets here. Then off to Vale, I just got two more days, two more long days and I'll be on my way to be a Hunter. Than I can get paid, move mom there, and we can begin a new life here…away from the harsh land that is Menagerie." Naruto thinks of his mother as he clutches his necklace, "maybe I can find a nice girl while at it…one that my mother won't try to piledrive."

With that, Naruto laid down, before turning his music off and resting. The lights automatically going off once there was barely movement being made in the room, Naruto relaxed comfortably into the nice cushioned mattress.

He wished they had something like this back at home, his mother slept in a futon, and he had a nice little soft spot on the floor.

When his father had been alive they had a big nice house, a nicer bed, and a good hot meal every day. But, now, him and mother barely scraped by. He was just lucky to get a chance to go to Beacon, he couldn't fail it, he just couldn't.

After all, how could he face his mother with a failure?