Hello all Storm here with a new chapter! Here we'll be seeing Naruko and Ruby arriving at the Amphitheater with Naruko taking notice of some interesting individuals, along with the meeting between Naruko and Yang. So, without further ado.

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It wasn't long until Naruko and Ruby arrived at the Amphitheater, finding it filled to the brim with people. It made Naruko tense slightly, a force of habit she developed, for whenever she was surrounded by people she didn't know.

One thing Raven taught her, was to always be aware of her surroundings, along with anyone close enough to drive a knife in her back.

The only reason Naruko didn't reach for her weapon, is the given fact that almost no one here would be a legitimate threat to her, besides Ozpin. And even then, Naruko was sure she could still defeat the Headmaster, if she went all out.

But Naruko was pulled from her musing, when she saw Ruby looking somewhere, with the Fox Faunus looking and seeing Yang.

"Ruby! Over here! I saved you a spot!" Yang called out, while waving at her sister.

"Oh! Hey, I-I gotta go! I'll see you after the ceremony!" Ruby said, waving at Naruko, who nodded, before spotting Neo and Vernal.

Walking over to her soon-to-be teammates, Naruko stood beside her girlfriend.

"So, does anyone here seem like they could cause trouble?" Naruko asked, eyeing the gathered students.

"Not really. At most, there might be a few that would stick their noses where they don't belong. As well as a few that'd try and give you trouble, given your tail, and all." Answered Vernal, having spotted only a handful of students that might get in their way, along with the regular anti-Faunus humans.

"There's also her." "Said" Neo, pointing to one other potential students.

Looking, Naruko narrowed her eyes at who she saw.

It was a young woman. Her skin had somewhat darker spots on her arms, legs, stomach and face. Her brown hair is tied back in a ponytail that curls at the end, like a chameleon's tail, and her eyes are a light gray, with a faintly bluish tint. Her attire consisted of a short black tail jacket with two tails, a gold zipper, buckle, buttons to keep the sleeves rolled up in place, and a white interior. She also wears a gray short-sleeved shirt that exposes her midriff, maroon jean pants, black sneakers with white mid-wedges and two straps, along with a black matching wristband.

"And just what is a member of the White Fang doing at Beacon?" Naruko muttered, recognizing the girl as Ilia Amitola, a member of the White Fang, from what her aunt/mother's spies reported to her.

Raven had been able to get a few of the Faunus Tribe members into the White Fang and report back to her, after learning that a portion of the White Fang had allied themselves with members of Salem's Faction.

Now she was curious of what Ilia is doing at Beacon. Though seeing the secret Faunus looking somewhere, Naruko followed her gaze and saw the black haired girl from earlier. Seeing she was meeting Ilia's stare and looked increasingly pale, Naruko realized why Ilia was here.

'Make that a member of the White Fang and a former member.' Naruko thought, now taking notice of the subtle twitches of Blake's bow.

"What should we do?" Vernal asked, wondering if they should take Ilia out, in case she causes problems.

"Nothing. Besides, it seems we just found our fourth teammate." Said Naruko, smirking, knowing with Ilia, they could be a normal four person team, while making sure that she stays in line.

Meanwhile, Ruby had gone up to her sister with an annoyed expression, having not forgotten how Yang ditched her.

"How's your first day going, little sister?" Yang asked, smiling and crossing her arms under her bust.

"You mean since you ditched me? It went great, though I accidently bumped into this really bossy girl, she started waving Dust in my face. I would have sneezed and made it explode, if this really nice girl with an awesome weapon hadn't saved me! Then she and another girl helped knock the bossy girl down a few pegs, which was really funny!" Ruby said, feeling a bit annoyed with how Yang ditched her, though her mood lightened when she recalled what happened, not taking notice of said "bossy girl" standing behind her.

"You!" Weiss shouted, with Ruby jumping up into Yang's arms in shock.

"She's back!" Cried Ruby, as Weiss glared at her.

"Okay, I can accept that I did make a mistake with the Dust. But I am not going to tolerate you talking about me, behind my back, like that! And I am not a "bossy girl", I just get annoyed when someone bumps into me and knocks over my bags, filled with highly explosive Dust!" Weiss said, poking Ruby in the chest in emphasis.

"Ri-right." Ruby stuttered.

"And I…apologize for shaking the Dust to begin with." Said Weiss, after having taken a few moments to calm down from both Naruko and bow-cladded girl's barbs about her family name.

"Well, it sounds like you two just got off on the wrong foot. Why don't you start over and try to be friends." Yang suggested.

"Yeah! Hello, Weiss! I'm Ruby! Wanna hang out?" Ruby asked, while smiling and holding out her hand.

"Yeah! And we can paint our nails and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys; like tall, blond, and scraggly over there!" Weiss said with sarcasm lacing her tone, while pointing at a blonde wearing armor.

"Hm?" The said blonde muttered, while perking up at hearing this.

"Wow, really?!" Ruby asked, surprised and happy, with the sarcasm going completely over her head.

"No." Stated Weiss with a deadpan expression, after seeing Ruby didn't get that she was being sarcastic.

Everyone's attention was then turned to the stage, when Ozpin tapped the microphone getting their attention.

Looking out at the gathered crowd, Ozpin picked out numerous students he already saw had potential to become great Huntsmen and Huntresses. Though when he saw Naruko and her group, along with Ilia, his eyes narrowed just an inch. Thanks in part to his vast knowledge and many different incarnations, he could recognize many different types of Faunus, including a Chameleon Faunus, as well as a member of the White Fang.

He wasn't sure the reason why a member of the White Fang was infiltrating his school, possibly either to locate Amber for Salem's Pseudo-Fall Maiden to take the rest of her power. She could also be here for an entirely different reason, seeing Ilia still giving side glances at Blake.

But Ozpin's main worry had to be Naruko and the strong resemblance she had with Raven.

'Meaning Raven is aware of what happened to Amber, and now is making her own plans for when Salem makes her move for the rest of the Fall Maiden's powers.' Ozpin thought, while knowing Raven would only send someone that she trusts unconditionally with such a task.

Now, the question remained, is this her second daughter, or her niece?

Either way, Ozpin knew he'll have to keep an eye on the newest Branwen.

"I'll... keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge, to hone your craft and acquire new skills, and when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step." Ozpin said, before walking away, while everyone began muttering among themselves

"He knows." Naruko stated, as the three watched Ozpin leave.

*Later*

After Ozpin's speech, all the students were moved to the Ballroom, where they'd be sleeping for the night. The girls had gotten changed into their pajama's, with Naruko wearing dark crimson short shorts and a black tank top, that exposed her midriff; Neo wearing long white bottoms decorated with pink roses, a black top that also exposed her midriff, with her emblem on the front; and Vernal wearing maroon bottoms, and a gray top.

Currently though, Naruko was walking towards Blake, after spotting Ilia heading towards her and wanted to prevent a confrontation from happening in front of so many people.

"Hello again." Naruko said, standing over Blake, with the secret Faunus looking up from her book.

"Hey." Replied Blake, while Naruko smirked and looked at her bow.

"I didn't get to say it earlier, given how you disappeared, but that is a very cute bow. Along with being very subtle, as well." Naruko said, leaning down, while Blake stiffened slightly and looked at her with wary eyes.

"Is it that obvious?" Blake asked, knowing she couldn't hide from Naruko, and wanted to see if anyone else could see through her disguise.

"Just for those that really pay attention, like your friend over there giving me the evil eye." Said Naruko, while pointing to Ilia without looking.

Glancing, Blake saw Ilia giving Naruko an annoyed look, before walking away, much to her relief.

"Thanks." Blake muttered, knowing any confrontation between her and Ilia would have ended badly, likely exposing her in front of everyone.

"No problem. I doubt either of us would appreciate her causing a scene. By the way, I'm Naruko." Naruko introduced.

"Blake." Replied Blake, to her fellow Faunus.

Naruko was about to ask Blake why she keeps her ears hidden, only to be interrupted.

"Hel-looooo! I believe you two may know each other?" Yang said, walking up to the two, while dragging Ruby along, after her little sister made a comment of knowing them.

Though Yang paused mid-step and looked at Naruko with wide eyes from the strong resemblance she had with her mother and her uncle.

"You…look like my uncle." Yang said, narrowing her eyes as a thought entered her mind of who this girl was, given the resemblance she shared her uncle and mother.

"Hm, funny your sister said the same thing. I always believed I took after my mother." Stated Naruko, giving Yang a cold glare, while the busty blonde clenched her fists.

"Ha! That is funny, I always thought I looked like my dad." Yang retorted, glaring at Naruko.

"Really? From how quickly I saw you ditch your sister; you look a lot like someone else! Someone I hate!" Growled Naruko, with Yang's eyes turning red in anger.

"Say that again, see what happens!" Said Yang, refusing to be compared to her mother, potentially their mother, in such a way.

"Oh please blondie, give me a reason." Naruko said, as her nails extended into claws, while Yang's hair started flickering with flames in response to her anger.

"Why did she raise you, and not me?!" Yang demanded, wanting to know why her mother replaced her.

"Maybe she wanted a daughter that didn't disappoint her!" Said Naruko, with Yang's hair erupting into flames at those words.

Meanwhile, Ruby and Blake looked between the two girls, both becoming increasingly nervous at the idea of a confrontation happening.

"Uh, uh, maybe we should all just calm down, and talk this out." Said Ruby, acting as the mediator and hoping to prevent the two from attacking each other.

"Stay out of this, Ruby!" Naruko and Yang shouted, before glaring at each other again, ready to attack.

"What in the world is going on over here?! Don't you realize that some of us are trying to sleep?" Weiss demanded, marching up to them, only to pause at seeing the two angry girls, looking ready to tear each other part.

"Weiss, help!" Ruby begged.

Meanwhile, Blake slowly inched for her candle, before grabbing it and blowing it out, sending them into darkness.

*Next Day*

The next day Naruko, Neo and Vernal stood off the side, far away enough that no one can overhear them, discussing what their plan for the Initiation should be.

"We have two options, we can either partner up with other people and end up on different teams, then find out our teammate's strengths and weaknesses to better know how to take them down, if it comes to that. Or we can make it so we end up on the same team, which would mean less worry of having to sneak around to meet up. But regardless of what our plan is, we have to make sure one of us, or potentially all of us, is on the same team as Ilia. To keep an eye on her, while making sure she doesn't do anything reckless." Naruko explained, with Vernal and Neo nodding in agreement with the plans, and making sure one of them ends up as Ilia's partner.

Raven had informed them about how the Team Placement Test goes, with their partner being the first person they make eye contact with, once Initiation starts.

"It'd be best if all three of us were on the same team with Ilia, as there's a chance she could slip away from one of us." Neo "said", which was another good point, especially with ilia's camouflage ability.

"Well, it all depends on how things go during Initiation." Stated Naruko, having learned firsthand that no plan goes off without a hitch, something can always happens to make things go wrong.

Nodding in agreement with her words, the three then went to the Dining Hall for breakfast.

Once they arrived, they each got their respective foods, Neo getting ice cream, Neapolitan of course, Naruko getting ramen, and Vernal getting a simple sandwich.

"You two always have the strangest tastes, when it comes to breakfast." Vernal commented, knowing Naruko and Neo practically live off ramen and ice cream respectively, and yet both were somehow able to keep their figures.

In response, the couple gave Vernal dry glares, not willing to let anyone disrespect their favorite foods.

"He-hello!"

Stopping in their glaring, the three saw a nervous smiling Ruby, accompanied by Yang.

"Ruby, blondie." Naruko greeted with a small smile and cold look, respectively.

"H-hey Naruko. Yang wants to tell you something." Ruby said, looking to her sister and motioning her forward, having talked with her earlier about apologizing, though the silver-eyed girl was still worried of a fight breaking out.

"Look, I'm sorry about last night. I was just surprised when I saw you." Said Yang, having agreed to apologize to the girl, who could potentially be her other sister.

"Apology accepted, and I apologize as well." Naruko said, knowing she did go too far with her own comments, her cold look letting up a little, only to immediately come back stronger at Yang's next words.

"But you really do look like our uncle, Qrow." Yang said, along with having noticed that bringing up Qrow seemed to be what set Naruko off.

"So I keep hearing." Naruko said, gritting her teeth at being reminded of her resemblance to her father, every other minute.

Neo was also upset that Yang and Ruby were upsetting her girlfriend, and was tempted to knock them around. Vernal was also upset, though not to the same extent as Neo, mostly because Naruko was a fellow tribe member and she's seen the results of what happens when Naruko gets loses her temper.

Ruby and Yang became slightly nervous, when they Neo and Vernal give them dark looks, with Neo's being even more frightening, given the smile she had on her face. Thankfully, they sighed in relief when Naruko put her hands on their shoulders.

"Relax, it doesn't matter if they find out now or later. Ozpin either already knows or suspects it, so I might as well rip the bandage off now." Naruko said, with Ruby and Yang being more confused at her words, along with her mentioning Ozpin.

"Uh, Naruko? What're you talking about? What would Ozpin know? And why do you always get upset, whenever we mention our uncle?" Ruby asked, with Naruko closing her eyes and taking a deep breath.

"Because Qrow Branwen is my father, making me your cousin, as well." Naruko revealed, with Yang and Ruby's eyes opening wide in shock at hearing this, not expecting to find out Qrow had a daughter.

Though Yang also felt some relief that she and Naruko weren't sisters, meaning her mother didn't just have another kid and replaced her.

"I was born after my parents got together after getting drunk and having a one night stand. After that, I was raised by my mother for seven years, until she was killed during a Grimm attack. Since then, I've hated my father, blaming him for my mother's death. And not being there to protect her, or even bothering to check and seeing if he got her pregnant. That's why I get upset when you mention my resemblance to him. With the constant reminder that the drunken bastard was there for the both of you, but not me, only adding fuel to the flames." Naruko explained, with Ruby and Yang being further shocked to hear this.

Though Ruby's face turned slightly green, remembering yesterday, when she proposed to her own cousin! Even if it was unintentional and she was unaware, they were still cousins!

Even worse, was that Naruko flirted with her after her unintentional proposal!

"Bu-but ye-yesterday when I…and then you…flirting…" Ruby stuttered, turning between a mix of green and red, much to Naruko and Neo's amusement, knowing what she was talking about.

"Oh don't worry, Little Red. Unlike like with Goldilocks over there, you aren't related by blood. Besides, my lovely vixen and I have an…open relationship and seeing you up close, I would have no problem if you wanted to join in the fun~." Neo "said", while shamelessly looking Ruby up and down, only adding to the younger girl's embarrassment.

Though Ruby and Yang still felt the pedestal they put Qrow on, go down a couple pegs; especially Ruby, with how she looked up to him for training her. Though they still don't like hearing Naruko insult their uncle, but they can at least understand why she doesn't like him. Yang also felt a new kinship with Naruko, since they both know what it's like to not know one of their parents, along with the fact that their respective absentee parents were twins, only added to the irony.

Though Yang also remembered Naruko's slip up, last night, about her mother.

"What about my mom, you…mentioned her last night?" Yang asked, while still having some anger over Naruko's comment about Raven being disappointed in her.

"After my mother died, Raven found me and took me in. She's the one who told me about my father, trained me, and adopted me. So, I guess in a way, we're also sisters." Naruko answered, with Yang flinching slightly, since her mother adopted another kid, but she supposed that it was for the best, given Yang doubted that her mother would drop Naruko off in either Patch or with Qrow.

Still, it was also a small comfort to know her mother did care about family, even if she did have a terrible way of showing it.

"Where is she?" Yang asked, figuring if Naruko was raised by Raven, then she'd know where she is now.

"I'll tell you later. Given Raven's profession, and just who she is, it'd be better to not talk about her in a public location. I'll tell you and Ruby about her, once I'm sure it's just us." Said Naruko, with Yang nodding reluctantly at having to wait, but knew she'd finally get some answers, with Ruby also being curious to hear about Yang's birth mother.

Though it made them curious as to just what their mother, and step-mother in Ruby's case, did. Given the secrecy regarding her, as well as her profession and location.

*Later*

After breakfast, all the students had arrived at Beacon Cliff, with all of them being motioned to stand on metal platforms. Naruko, Neo and Vernal already knew what to expect, but still listened to Ozpin, in case anything has changed since Raven's time at the Academy.

However, Naruko's attention soon turned to one of the other students and a raised a brow in surprise, since she recognized and knew who it was. She also found it ironic that she seems to keep running into people she knows, or recognizes, recently.

'Small world, very small.' Naruko thought, as she looked at Pyrrha Nikos.

She and Pyrrha were actually rivals in the Mistral Tournament, with Naruko having entered in the same four years that Pyrrha competed in it. Their Matches had ended in a win for Naruko, two ties, and a win for Pyrrha, respectively for each Tournament. Of course, Naruko didn't fight as herself, having entered under the alia Mito Kazama, and using a Shapeshifting Semblance to make herself have blue eyes, blonde hair, no whisker marks, while also hiding her tail and replacing it with fox ears on her head.

She also used a Lightning Semblance that she copied, to help sell the disguise.

Granted, Naruko never went all out in the tournaments, as that'd just give her to much unwanted attention, or at least her alias. But Pyrrha had been the only one to really push her in battle, so far. With the only other one to do so being Raven herself, whenever they sparred. And from what Naruko could tell from those fights, Pyrrha wasn't going all out either, since she had never used her Semblance. Something that Naruko was certain of, given the nature of her own Semblance.

'Hopefully we'll get the chance to fight again, maybe I'll even switch Semblances to really put her on her toes.' Naruko thought, smirking at the thought of meeting her rival on the battlefield, once more.

As soon as she finished that line of thought, Naruko saw it was almost her turn to get launched and got in position, ready for when she'll go flying.

So, what did you think, good. Yep Ilia has followed Blake to Beacon, with Naruko making plans to keep Ilia in line and not cause them more problems. We also see Ozpin spotting Naruko and her group, while worried of what reason Raven sent them to Beacon for. Then we have Naruko and Yang meeting, with it going downhill very fast after Yang mentions Qrow and Naruko bringing up Raven, thankfully things didn't escalate further. Naruko then reveals her connection to Qrow to her cousins, while knowing Ozpin either suspects or already knows as well, with Yang and Ruby being shocked to learn of their cousin, before Naruko also promises to tell them about Raven at a later time. Finally we see Naruko has also met, and fought against, Pyrrha under an alias, but not only that it seems Naruko has two Semblances which will be explained later. So, review if you liked go away if you didn't.

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