AN: Welcome to the, now official, Reading of RMS!

Going to be honest, I have no fucking clue how this Reading thing works. I've read my fair share, but never even thought about attempting one. I have noticed that almost all Reading type stories are almost stories in and of themselves. Yeah there's obviously a focus on the "canon" characters reacting to the story in question, but most Reading fics I've read also have an entirely different subplot going on.

I think I'll just use this as an excuse to write another Naruto x RWBY story, just one not nearly as grandiose and serious as RMS ended up becoming. Maybe play with some tropes, or even set this up in the same vibe/tone that I write the RMS Omakes in.

Or maybe this is all just an excuse to jerk myself off.

Hell if I know.

Enjoy?

Uzumaki Naruto was no stranger to seals. He'd literally had a seal locking the Kyūbi no Kitsune inside of him literally since the day of his birth. Then there was the Hyūga clan's Caged Bird seal, which he was going to help Hinata get rid of. Of course there was also Orochimaru's Curse Marks.

Despite having encountered a countless number of seals, being the son of two renown Fūinjutsu users, and being apprenticed to another accomplished seals user - Naruto had to admit he had never really spent all that much time studying the art. What could he say? He'd always preferred the far flashier art of Ninjutsu, sue him.

Now, that decision was coming back to bite him in the butt though.

"So...you're saying you just found this here?"

Sasuke rubbed the bridge of his nose in an attempt to alleviate the building headache. Naruto was a brother to him in all but blood. That said, he still found the dense blond aggravating at times. Even now, on the cusp of adulthood and having lived through the shit show that had been the Fourth Shinobi World War, the blond still somehow managed to act like he was twelve.

"For the third time, yes, dobe."

Naruto glanced at his longtime friend/rival out of the corner of his eye. After having beat the ever loving shit out of each other and blown the other's arm clean off, the slurs they had used since childhood were now more akin to terms of endearment.

"Well what do you want me to do about it, teme? Not like I'm any better at understanding seals than you are."

Sasuke was starting to remember why he chose to stay out of the bounds of Konoha these days.

"I know that, but I figured Kurama, being around as long as he has, might have some insight into this. It's not just some sealing array, it looks ancient and like it was made for some purpose. The fact that it's so close to where the Shinju first grew can't be a coincidence either."

The aforementioned chakra beast stirred inside the seal. Using his bond with Naruto to see what all the fuss was about, the beast quirked a brow.

'The Uchiha is right. This is no ordinary sealing array. I haven't seen something in this style since the days of Tou-sama.'

Now Naruto was a little more interested.

"Kurama says he hasn't seen anything like it since Sage-jiji."

Sasuke turned to regard the large, black stone slab with a level of weariness now.

"It may be best if we return to the village and tell Kakashi-sensei then. He may be able to find someone who can better understand this."

Rising to his feet, the raven haired teen moved to make his way back to their home village.

"Oops."

Before the last Uchiha could even mutter a curse, a flash of light nearly blinded him. Blinking away the spots in his vision, Sasuke could only palm his face in frustration.

Naruto was nowhere in sight.

'Of all the dumb shit you've done, this has got to be the the most idiotic. How you've survived past your seventeenth birthday is a miracle in and of itself.'

Shaking away the cobwebs, Naruto groaned in irritation.

'Not exactly the time to try and nag my ear off, Kurama.'

"I see you're awake."

Naruto's eyes widened as a pair of Rinnegan stared him down.

"Sage-jiji? What's going? Was it you who put that seal there?"

Hagoromo decided to ignore nickname the blond Uzumaki had given him. Despite being his son's transmigrant, Naruto was still very much his own person.

"I was indeed the one to draw up that seal in my youth. It was to act as a storage space for myself and my brother Hamura. However, I decided to use it to pull you into this space with me."

Naruto scratched his head in confusion.

"Why only me? Sasuke was with me, so shouldn't he have been pulled here too?"

The first Kami no Shinobi simply shook his head in the negative.

"You were the one to activate the seal with your chakra, so I was only able to pull you into this space. More than that though, I have an...offer meant for you. Something I've been mulling over since you and Sasuke defeated my mother."

Knowing that the creator of the Bijū could talk for awhile, Naruto sat himself on the floor, or whatever it was he had been standing on.

"Sasuke is content, having put himself on the path to inner peace and redemption for his past actions. However, I know that you are still...restless. While you've made peace with your own inner darkness and even managed to tame Kurama's hate, you seek more. You've been through a lot and had to fix the mistakes of foolish men, myself included. After having done so much for the world at large, I want to give you the opportunity to explore two paths. A different outcome to past events, and the chance to meet with people your own age whom you could truly connect with."

Now Naruto had always been rather intelligent. Not in the same sense that people like Sakura and Shikamaru were, but he wasn't dumb by any stretch of the means either. Even still, with the father of the ninja world speaking so vaguely, he could only just grasp what he was being told.

"What is exactly you're offering me? A redo? To travel to the past or something?"

Hagoromo stroked his beard in thought for a moment, seeming to mull the idea over.

"Hmm. While that could've also been a possibility, the mechanics and consequences of sending you back in time would not have the same result I am looking for. To be clear, what I am offering you is this; I will send you to a place called Remnant, somewhere connected to our world through means I won't reveal to you quite yet. There, you will meet several people your age and with them, read the tale of an alternate you."

While the idea of going to an entirely new place, somewhere he had never even heard of, and making new friends was tempting, there was still a part of him that wanted to say no.

While he had to bleed, sweat, and cry for it, he had finally begun to mark off all the things he wanted to achieve in life. He was now loved, and not just in Konoha, but all across the Elemental Nations. He was being groomed to take over as Hokage for whenever Kakashi decided to step down. He'd even managed to bring Sasuke back and they had rebuilt their friendship, now stronger than ever.

Even still, Sage-jiji was right. He was still lost in some ways.

While he was now adored by many, his past as a child pariah left him with no clue on how to deal with his life in the spotlight. Despite rebuilding the bond between the members of Team 7, Sasuke and Sakura were the only ones he could truly call friends. Sure, he hung out with Choji, Kiba, and Shikamaru pretty often, but they were more like acquaintances. Then there was his love life, or lack thereof.

With all this in mind, Naruto felt the need to clarify some things.

"Say I don't like it there or a problem comes up, will I be able to come back home anytime I want? Also, can I bring someone from home with me, maybe Sasuke and Sakura, or even Tsunade-baachan?"

Hagoromo was glad to see his descendant interested. The old sage truly felt like this would immensely help Naruto in finding clarity in his life. While the blond seemed to always find his way thanks to his own moral compass and sheer stubbornness, coming into adulthood and building a future for one's self was never so easy a task. Especially for someone capable of fighting the gods of their world. Then there was the near constant scrutiny the boy had placed under thanks to his numerous accolades and accomplishments, none of which he had sought out in search of fame.

At the end of the day, Naruto was still the golden hearted boy he'd always been, trying to figure out his place in the world.

This small respite and the chance to truly bond with others his age would do the blond some good, of that the sage was sure.

"The initial trip there will take quite a bit of our energy, so for a short period of time you will be on your own and unable to return to our world. But, after that period of time, I will be able to send others from here to join you. As I do so, the path between our worlds will widen, making the journey between the worlds that much easier."

With all the info laid out for him, Naruto turned inward for the final vote.

'So what do you think Kurama? Should I do it?'

The chakra beast took a moment to respond.

'I see no reason not to. Even during the time that we wouldn't be able to come back, I'm confident enough in our strength that we could hold out long enough for back up to arrive, and that's the worst case scenario. I'd also highly doubt Tou-sama would send us somewhere where we'd be in that much danger, after all he seems to think this will do you some good, and I find myself hard pressed to disagree.'

It was times like this that Naruto was grateful for having his partner's input. After all, they were in this together.

"I'll do it."

There were a lot of ways team RWBY could've imagined spending their Saturday off, such as training just outside Beacon Academy's main campus. Having a literal human missile land in front of them and interrupt their training, while definitely not normal, wasn't too unusual.

They were friends with Nora Valkyrie after all.

While they expected to possibly find the orange haired hammer wielder herself, or maybe even Jaune - it'd happened before, they instead found a completely different looking blond.

First the blond mane was far too spiky and bright to be team JNPR's captain. Then there was the fact that male in the human sized crater seemed to have a penchant for the colors black and orange. Or they assumed so seeing as he was wearing a black jacket with an orange zipper and orange pants. The red armband on his left arm did spice up the outfit a bit though.

The team of four girls cut their observations short as the guy pried himself out of the crater he had made and seemed to easily shake off the fact he had just fallen out of the sky with no obvious injuries.

Naruto blinked.

Team RWBY blinked.

Naruto scratched the back of his head and offered his signature foxy grin.

"Uh, hey there?"

"Dibs."

"Yang!"

AN: Alright, so let's clear some things up before anyone bothers to ask.

This is Naruto somewhere just before The Last, so no he hasn't battled Toneri and split the moon in half yet. Or randomly fallen for Hinata.

This is RWBY just before the Vytal Festival, so Yang has her arm still and nobody is dead...except for Summer Rose of course.

I'm going to try and stick with the canon I hear everyone bitch about in all my stories. So Naruto technically only knows like two jutsu, Rasengan and Kage Bunshin. And before you finish that "Um technically he knows blah blah blah…" comment, that's what's called a joke.

Moving on, I already have a pretty solid list of characters who are going to join the reading later, aside from the obvious ones who feature in RMS.

From Naruto:

Kushina (as a momma's boy myself, I think the two deserve more time together)

Minato (no real big reason, more there to interact with Kushina and Naruto than offer color commentary)

Tsunade (never really seen her in Reading fics and I feel like she could offer some great commentary)

At this moment I'm debating on adding Jiraiya (I can already picture the emotional scene), Sakura (interesting color commentary), Kakashi (too overdone though), and maybe Sasuke.

From RWBY:

Qrow (Color commentary and I can see him getting along well with Jiraiya, Naruto, and Minato)

Summer Rose (I was actually the one who wrote out the scene where she came in for Dylan Millwood's Reading of this and I like making people cry)

I'm debating on having Taiyang (get along with Minato), Winter (cause why not), Ozpin (interesting perspective and he'd probably be interested in RMS), and maybe Glynda (again why not).

I also don't want to have a giant cast, it'd be a bitch to try and juggle that many different characters and have them all be interesting and have something to add to the story. While I'll ultimately make the final call on these things, I'd be interested to hear what some of you may have for or against a character joining, so feel free to pm me or leave a review.

ALSO, since I know a bunch of you will probably ask, I'm like 90% sure this won't have the same pairing as RMS. Why? Well this is technically a different Naruto and a different set of the RWBY cast. In this situation, there'd be little reason for them to develop that same kind of romantic bond.

Currently going back and forth on Yang and Blake. We'll see how this plays out.

Expect updates for this pretty quick. Got the writing bug so I'm definitely trying to have an actual "reaction chapter" out either later today or tomorrow.

The writing bug is kind of back in me, but the bulk of the work on this is pretty much just copying and pasting RMS and filling in with some color commentary.

So by the time this is getting posted, I'm gonna take a quick break to eat and what not, and then get back to writing. That is if I don't get distracted by Rainbow Six Siege or something.

Peace