Hey, so a friend recently bugged me enough to get me to watch RWBY, I had been avoiding it for a while because I am usually not a fan of the CGI style. But I finally gave in, and found I actually liked it, and after reading a few fics this idea started to form in my head.

I know I have other stories that haven't been updated, but I can't help it, when a new idea gets stuck into my head I just have to get it out. Most of the time they never get passed the first chapter, and are deleted before a second comes out, but sometimes one will stick in my head like this one has.

The Naruto in this fic will be a little serious and grey, though not outright 'kill a baby for the fun of it' dark, and bitter. Whether that will change later on or not I am not sure at the moment, I will see how it writes. He will be a sort of mercenary, not unlike a ninja is anyway, for hire with little care about who he works for. He will also lose his chakra and have it replaced with Aura, I already know what I want his Semblance to be, though I am not sure of he will have a weapon.

This will be a Naruto/Cinder pairing, even if he turns over a new leaf, but again that might not happen. I'm not sure on her age in the RWBY universe, but in this fic I am placing her at 18, after all she is able to pass off as a student in the second season, so she can't be too old.

Naruto will be sixteen when he first enters the RWBY universe, not sure if that is right in canon but in this fic it is, and will arrive about two years before the start of season 1.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.

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Disclaimer: I own nothing:(

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Summary: The fight with Kaguya didn't end so well, in her last moments before her defeat, the Rabbit Goddess was able to open a rip in dimensions. Being the closest to it before the last attack, Naruto was sucked into it, trapping him in the world of Remnant. Have lost everyone he cared about, his home and even his chakra, Naruto turns bitter and cold as he creates a new life for himself in this new world of soulless monsters, animal/human hybrids, and Dust. Ranted M for violence.

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Chapter 1- Shattered Dream

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The last thing Naruto remembered before arriving in his current location was the glaring eyes of Kaguya as his hand hit her, a mix of anger, sadness and betrayal on her face as he and Sasuke were finally able to seal her away again. If it wasn't for the fact she was bat-shit insane and trying to enslave the world, he would have felt sorry for here, but that was neither here nor there.

After that there had been a pulling sensation, not unlike the one he had experienced in his fight with Pain, and the next thing he knew his world had turned black and full of pain. It was as if he was floating in water, boiling water, and instead of water it was boiling acid. It felt like something was being pulled out of his body, very slowly, very painfully.

Naruto could breathe, though it hurt every time he pulled in a breath as if liquid fire was being poured down his throat, but every time he tried to open his eyes there was nothing but darkness. He was still being pulled by some invisible force, he could feel it even through the pain, but couldn't tell if it was dragging him up, down or any other direction.

Then it was like he hit some kind of wall.

The pain stopped all at once, his body suddenly feeling almost…empty, as the last of whatever was been pulled from him was taken. It was an odd experience, feeling so empty, yet knowing nothing was actually wrong with his body, Naruto felt cold without whatever it was he was now missing.

That didn't last long as, feeling like he hit another wall, a new wave of pain filled him. But this time instead of something being sucked out, he could feel something different being sucked in. It filled his body to the brim, filling every inch, every cell of his being, and when he was full just kept going. Through the pain Naruto was just able to wonder why he hadn't exploded yet, because surly whatever was being forced into him, his body wouldn't be able to take much more.

But then he hit his third, or was it forth, and final wall and the pain was gone.

He opened his eyes to see a clear night sky through a thin canopy of trees, full of stars he didn't recognise and a broken moon, his body feeling numb after everything he had just experienced.

Having been taught how to use the stars in the sky to help locate his passion if ever lost by Iruka when he was at the academy, and being familiar with the feeling of being summoned even if it took longer and was painful, it only took Naruto about ten seconds to realise he was not in the Elemental Nations. Not only did he not recognise any of the star constellations, but the moon, while broken, was at least three times larger than the one he was used to.

Groaning, wanting nothing more than to just lay on what he could only assume based on the ruff and uneven surface was the ground, Naruto slowly forced himself into a sitting position. His muscles ached from the small movement, though whether that was from what he had just experienced or the from fighting before that he wasn't sure, and forced him to grit his teeth to stop himself from gasping.

He took a moment to examine his surroundings, confirming that he was indeed in a forest, but he didn't recognise the trees. They were tall, as tall as some of the trees that surrounded his village, but were also a lot finer and he branches didn't seem to stretch as far as the ones back home. If he had to guess they would be able to support his weight for tree hopping, but only as long as he kept moving, some of the thicker branches should be able to hold his weight without braking though.

There was also the fact that everything seemed to be very dull, from the trees to the ground, almost all colours seemed duller then he was used to. The leaves in the trees were green, though a lot duller then they should be in his mind, along with the grass he was sitting on. Everything just seemed a little dull to his eyes, as if the colours of the world had been slowly bled out, a disturbing thought.

After making sure he wasn't about to be attacked, Naruto finally took the time to examine his own body. His clothes were all but destroyed, his shirt and jacket were a lost cause and were hanging off in little more than rags, though his pants seemed to have thankfully held up better than the rest. The cloth from his headband was useless, though the metal plate was fine, and his sandals were nowhere to be seen, leaving him barefoot.

He quickly slipped his headband into his kunai pouch for safe keeping.

His actually body seemed to be fine, in about the same condition it was before he was sucked into whatever had brought him here, other than the stiffness.

Letting out a tired sigh as he slowly ran a hand over his face, Naruto forced his body to stand up, and after taking a moment to stretch the kinks out of his muscles ran towards the closest tree with the intention of getting a better view of his surroundings from the top. His feet hitting the bark, Naruto had only took four steps before his eyes widened and he fell back to the ground with a dull thud.

Frowning, rubbing the back of his head where it had hit the ground, Naruto got back to his feet and stared at the tree he had attempted run up. Slowly lifting his right foot up and placing it on the tree, Naruto tried to focus his chakra into his foot to make it stick, only for his eyes to widen again.

Instead of sticking like it was supposed to, Naruto's foot started to actually glow, as some kind of grey energy that was definitely not chakra coated it. He could feel that it moved like charka, at least to some extent, but the actual feel was different. He didn't know how to describe it, whatever this new energy was, it wasn't chakra.

His frown increasing, Naruto quickly moved his hands into his most used, closing his eyes for a moment in silent prayer.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu"

Nothing happened…

No loud popping sound, no burst of smoke, and no solid copy of himself.

The only thing that actually happened was that his hands started glowing lick his foot had, with the same pale grey energy, before fading when he stopped trying to push chakra into them. Starting to panic at this point, Naruto sat down in a meditative passion on the floor, his hands held in the basic seal for concentration as he closed his eyes and tried to find his chakra.

It wasn't there…any of it…

There wasn't a drop of chakra in his entire body, all he could feel was the strange new energy…

He tried entering his mindscape, hoping Kurama would be able to explain what was happening to him, but after ten minutes nothing had happened. Because the fox wasn't there anymore…he couldn't feel its chakra either. He was about to give up hope when, out of the corner of his mental awareness he felt something, something moving in the back of his mind.

His hope raising, Naruto quickly latched onto it, hoping it was his friend.

It wasn't, just more of the strange energy, but at least this time he was able to feel something familiar from it. It took him a few minutes before he realised it felt almost like his wind chakra affinity, the way it moved, the way it felt was almost the same.

Still hoping it might be a led back to his chakra somehow Naruto followed the feeling to its source, which to his mind's eye looked like a hurricane of grey wind, before jumping in without a second thought. The moment he entered the mental hurricane, Naruto's eyes snapped back open as something loud started roaring in his ears, and he felt something tugging at his body.

Only for them to widen in shock when he saw that he was now sat in the middle of a hurricane, the forest round him completely destroyed in every direction for about a hundred meter radius from where he was sitting. Trees had been uprooted, boulders burred underground ripping from the earth, and all of it flying around him trapped in the impossibly strong wind.

But the moment he became aware of what was happening around him, the wind stopped, and everything fell to the ground with a dull thud.

Eyes still wide, his breath coming in slightly panicked pants, Naruto turned his back on the destruction and ran without thinking. Just wanting to put as much distance between himself and the new clearing he had created as possible.

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Naruto didn't know how long he was actually running, where he was even going, or how long he ran for. All he knew was that he needed to get away. The fact that he was still able to move as fast and for as long as he normally could was a relief, with everything else happening Naruto had been worried he would be stuck at a civilian pace.

But as look would have it, sometime after the sun had replaced the broken moon and was high in the sky overhead, Naruto suddenly realised that he could see something in the distance that looked like a village. At least he thought it was a village until he got closer, because as he ran towards it the building seemed to just get bigger and bigger, and the whole thing was larger than any village he had ever seen.

It looked to be almost four times the size of the Leaf Village, and almost all of the buildings were taller than the Hokage tower, and seemed to be the same square shape. It almost looked like the people who built the place had started to just stack new buildings on top of others after they realised it was getting too big or something.

Then there was the fact that he seemed to be stood in some kind if ruin.

While most of the buildings seemed to be intact, several had large chunks missing out of them, and he could see weeks and vines starting to make their move and most of the windows he could see were shattered. The roads, while not simple dirt like he was used to, were creaked and had chunks of stone and glass scattered everywhere. Then there was the lack of people, no one was anywhere to be seen or heard in the entire village.

He would go so far as to say they were ancient ruins, but it was clear the place had been abandoned a long time ago, and based on the damage Naruto didn't think it had been voluntary. This place had clearly been attacked, and all the people living in it had either been killed or evacuated, he could only hope it was the second option.

Before Naruto had any more time to take in the sights around him, his thoughts were interrupted by a deep, low growling sound coming from behind him. So spinning on the ball of his right foot and getting into a low stance, the blonde ninja locked his eyes on something at the other end of the street he was stood.

It looked like some king of weir bipedal wolf covered in black fur, with white bone armour growing in mostly random place over it body. It was hunched over, though even then it still looked over a head taller than him, leaning forward on slightly too long arms. Its head was covered by a bane mask with read patterns, glowing red light come from the eyeholes instead of eyes, and had bone spikes forming a ridge along its back, forearms and one in each back knee.

Even though it didn't have normal eyes, Naruto could tell that it was glaring at him, its teeth bared and claws digging small trenches into the ground.

Without taking his eyes away from the creature, Naruto moved his right hand towards his kunai pouch, only to cures silently when he found it empty, having used everything he had before coming to wherever this place was. He was unarmed, lost, had no chakra and was able to be attacked by a giant wolf thing…how could this get any worse?

Not five second after this thought crossed his mind, three more wolf creatures appeared around a corner to join the first…apparently they hunted in packs…crap.

Gulping, not daring to take his eyes off of the creatures for even a second when he didn't know how fast they could move, Naruto widened his stance slightly in preparation for the fight. It seemed this movement was all the four wolves needed, and with a deep howl from the first that was quickly followed by the others, they charged at him.

They were fast, closing the distance between them and him in less than ten seconds, but not too fast that Naruto couldn't keep up with them. The moment the first wolf was within rang the blonde ninja jumped up, his foot whipping out, and connected with its bone like masked face. The creature was sent flying back and into the wolf behind it, knocking them both down, out of the fight for a moment.

The next wolf, instead of charging straight at him, stopped just out of his rang and used its longer forearms to its advantage. It swiped at him, the white claws barely missing his skin as he stepped back, but unfortunately it was at that moment the fact his feet were bare came back to bite him in the arse. His left foot landed on a piece of shatter glass, cutting into it and getting stuck, forcing the blonde to release a small grunt of pain.

Before he could even think of pulling the shard out, he was hit in the side by a backhanded strike from the wolf creature, sending him into the side of a building where his body left a dent. Quickly shaking his head, Naruto recovered just in time to roll out of the way of the fourth wolf's claws, the creature having tried to take advantage of his momentary daze and jumped forward.

Getting to his feet, making sure not to put any weight on his left foot as he leaned against the wall behind him, Naruto glared at the four wolves as the two from before finally recovered and moved to join the others. They were clearing trying to box him in, and with his injured foot, it was working.

Gritting his teeth, Naruto bent down and ripped the shard of glass from his foot, grunting in pain. It was actually larger then he was expecting, just large enough to use as a weapon, and fix in the palm of his hand. Which was just as well, because in the time it had taken him to pull it out of his foot, one of the wolves had jumped forward.

Waiting until the last moment so that it would be in rang, his hand bleeding from the tight grip he had on the glass cutting his hand, Naruto stabbed the sharp end of the shard into the side of the wolf's head just below where the mask fused to the skin. It was dead before it hit the ground, but now Naruto was once again without a weapon.

Thinking fast, the blonde ninja broke off several bone spikes from the dead wolf, and spinning on his uninjured foot threw them like he would kunai. Most hit there mark, taking out another two wolves, but it seemed the last one was smarter than the others and had hidden behind the other two, using them as a shield to avoid the spikes.

Matching the glare being sent at him, Naruto slowly limped away from the wall so that he was standing across form the remaining wolf, which swotted the bodies of its pack away without a care. This only proved to make the blonde angrier, seeing the way it treated its friends bodies, and his body started glowing was he unconsciously started channelling the unknown energy. He could feel the same part of it that had caused the storm, and without thinking pulled on it, wanting nothing more than to tear the beast to pieces.

Because his eyes were open this time, Naruto was able to see how the energy formed into wind and started building up around him, but instead of just letting it run wild like last time he tried to focus it. Using his knowledge of wind chakra manipulation, the whiskered blonde formed the wind he was creating into several sharp, yet invisible blades, which he sent towards the wolf just as it jumped into the air in an attempt to pounce on him.

The only warning the wolf had that the blade existed was a slight whistling sound as the wind cut cleanly through the air, hitting the wolf and slicing through flesh and bone like a hot knife through butter.

The moment the wolf fell to the ground in pieces, Naruto let out a sigh, before turning his attention to his foot to see the damage, just in time to see the wound close before his eyes. Apparently, along with this strange new energy giving him a boost in his Wind nature, it also gave him a healing factor not unlike the one he had while Kurama was Sealed inside him…good to know.

Unfortunately, before he had time to think about this new knowledge, Naruto turned to see what looked like some king of giant boar glaring at him with the same red glowing eyes and bone like mask as the wolves he had just killed.

Letting out a sigh, the blonde turned to face the new fret, already building up the new energy in his body.

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Naruto spent next month in the abandoned village, or whatever it had been, living off of the animals that called it home. It would have been easier if the weird masked animals that kept attacking him had been edible, but after seeing the bodies disintegrating into black smoke, he had thought it better no to risk it.

He had even been able to find some new clothes in what had once been someone's home. A pair of dark brow pants, grey sleeveless shirt, some boots and a long, full body black cape with a hood. It wasn't much, but they were better than what was left of his old clothes, and kept him warm when the weather took a colder turn. He had set up camp on the top floor of one of the abandoned giant buildings, making sure to barricade himself in every night to avoid the masked creatures.

He didn't know what they were, and there seemed to be all different types, with thing they had in common being the fact they all seemed to try and kill him on sight. But at least they gave him plenty of opportunities to train in this new energy running through his body, after all he always did learn best through fighting, and no matter how many of the masked beasts he killed there were always more.

He learned that like chakra, it could be used to make him faster and stronger, though he couldn't use it to stick to walls or water walk. It also seemed to make him more durable, something he had learned after a masked bear creature had slashed at his chest, only for its claws to bounce off as if it had hit steel. He wasn't indestructible, but anything that did get through was quickly healed, meaning he was good to go in minutes. Naruto had even been able to relearn how to use it so he could roof hope, spending hours just running over the buildings, refinancing his skill.

But it had been time for him to move on, to try and find actual civilisation, so picking a random direction, Naruto had started walking.

It had taken him a week before he found anything, and he was attacked several times by the masked beasts, but he was happy to have found the first sigh of living human life since his arrival. It was another large village, but unlike the last it was surrounded by a giant stone wall, and looked as good as new.

It was also good to see people again, after sneaking passed the people guarding the entrance, and just the sounds of life in general was a nice change from the near silence he had gotten used to.

There were only two problems.

The first was the fact he had no money, and the smells of food coming from different restaurants was making him hungry, and the second was that he had no idea where he was going. This place was like a maze!

But was after turning down yet another dead end ally that Naruto found himself in his current situation, with a frown on his face, and a knife pointed at him. He had been corner by man with a blank white mask like the once Hunter-nin use, with red glass over the eyeholes, and a heavily brown trench coat.

The knife he held was made from a dark orange metal and a knife, with a red handle that the blade could fold into, and from the way he was holding it Naruto could tell the man had almost no experience using it. But it was orange so as far as he was conserved it was awesome.

"Empty your pockets and give me your wallet, don't make any sudden movements for I'll kill you, got it?!"

Raising an eyebrow at the man, his head tilting to the side slightly, Naruto couldn't hide the surprise he felt at the man's words and actions.

"Are you…trying to mug me?"

He could see the man was getting angry, and could feel his eyes glaring at him through his eyeholes, but the idea that he as being mugged was just so strange to Naruto all he could do was stare dumbly. Either this man was the most unlucky guy in the world, or the stupidest…probably both.

"Enough! Just give…me…your…what…the…hell…is…happeni-"

Before he was even able to finish his sentence, the mugger fell to the ground clutching his throat, knife forgotten on the ground next to him as he choked for air.

This was the first time Naruto had the chance to use his control over wind on a person, but it seems that creating a bubble around a humans head with no air inside works just as well as it does against the masked beasts…who knew.

After taking a moment to consider his options, Naruto bent down and picked up the knife, and after examining it for a moment slipped it into his belt. He then quickly went through the man's pockets, and after taking all his money slipped into his own, putting the wallet he found back. He was about to walk away, but stopped and decided to take the mask at the last moment, after all you never know when you might need one.

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Five hours later Naruto was sat at a bar in a nightclub, his stomach full, and his ears full of loud music. He watched with a small frown as the people on the dance floor moved, seeming to blur into a faceless mass, as he took sips from his drink. The different colour lights flashing around the dark room were starting to give him a headache, and his drink was so watered down he could taste it more than the alcohol itself.

He had been able to find a library, learned that he was in a city called Vale, and that the creature he had been fighting were called Grimm. He read about the other cities, the war between humans and the Grimm, and anything else he could get his hands on. It was also nice to finally have a name for the new energy he had…Aura. He was even able to discover the sources of his wind power, which he learned was called a Semblance, his just happened to be Wind.

But the fact was that, after reading everything he could about the world he was now living in and the people that called it home, he had come to one conclusion…he hated it. He had just left one world full of war, only to land in another, darker world where humans were forced to hide behind walls from masked monsters that killed them for fun.

It was like the universe had gone out of its way to prove that all those years he spent trying to create peace, the dream Jiraiya had passed down to him, was pointless. Even if he had been able to create peace in the Elemental Nations, there were other worlds like this one that were at war…no matter where he went all he ever found was war…

It was actually really depressing.

Frowning, Naruto pulled the mask he had taken from the mugger from the inside of his cloak and placed it on the table in front of him, before taking out his headband. He had found a black cloth to replace the old one, he even cleaned the dirt and dust that had built up while he was living in the abandoned city, and laced it on the table next to the mask.

What was the point of fighting for piece when no matter what he did, there was always going to be fighting and war, whether it was in this universe or another. Why bother trying to change things at all, when it never seemed to make any difference…

Glaring at his headband, the thing that use to be his most treasured possession but now only seemed to remind him of how useless everything he had done with his life so far was pointless, Naruto growled and used the knife to slash the metal right through the symbol of his old village. His face still set into a frown, the blonde teen then put the mask on over his face, before tying his now slashed headband to his forehead over it.

He was able to get a glance at his reflection of himself in the mirror behind the bar, and between the blank mask, red eyes and hood covering his hair. The overall effect was very intimidating…which was exactly what he wanted.

After all, ninja were mercenaries…cold and unaffected by anything around them. The way he was feeling at the moment, which sounded great to Naruto. And that was what he was, a ninja, a shinobi…a mercenary.

It was time to started acting like it.

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Hope you all like the chapter, please let me know what you think.

This is still before the first season, and next chapter will have Naruto meeting Cinder for the first time, not sure if this will get to the first season in the third of fourth chapter yet though. I will see how it goes.

R&R :)