Welcome one and all unless you are a hater, then you're not welcome unless you can suppress that anger while you're here. A lot of you keep requesting the next chapter so here it is. But for the rest of you who are asking internally 'Why now?', I was busy since it's my first semester of college. Add in the fact that life's a bitch that likes to throw curveballs and you can understand a small percentage of my current life.
It also didn't help that RWBY Volume 3 is out and I've been binge-watching from the beginning along with RvB as well. Reading Death March Kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyouku didn't help as well; it's an interesting light novel from my perspective and the fact that one new chapter is being translated per day unless something went wrong.
Chapter 13: You wanted it...You got it.
Makoto and Miu
Miu sent a flying round-house kick to Makoto who blocked it with the flat side of her bokken. Seeing her chance, Makoto basically slid the wooden blade along the side of amiu's thigh and curved it to pretend slice Miu's entire leg off.
Despite her opportunity, Miu was skilled enough to twist her body mid-air and grabbed the blade portion of the bokken with one hand and sent a fast karate chop at Makoto's throat. Makoto countered by letting one hand go and blocked with her wrists and sent an elbow jab.
It managed to hit Miu in the chest and sent flying a few centimeters. Makoto was elated, this was the first time that she had managed to land a solid hit in the martial arts girl that wasn't complete accident. She was so elated that she didn't see Miu as the girl dashed and landed a palm strike into her chest.
Driving her bokken into the ground, Makoto used the weapon to steady herself as the alarm rang. The girls had agreed with using thirty-minute bouts with five minutes resting. With no strength in her arms and legs, Makoto collapsed as Miu sat down where she once stood.
Miu smiled, "You're getting stronger, Makoto. I felt that last jab."
"Thanks, but I need to get stronger." Makoto huffed as Miu frowned at her friend's declaration. She then asked, "Why do you want to get power so much?"
Remembering just how outclassed she was when she saw Fenrir, Makoto made a fist tightly, "When I started training here, it was to get that Kenichi kid to like Izumi but I don't want to lose like I did after Fenrir. I don't want to feel that weak or helpless."
Miu's eyes widened as she thought of another reason and had a smug grin on her face as Miu's fingers were shaped into a heart-shaped symbol, "You like-like Fenrir, don't you?" Her out-of-the-blue question was rewarded with a blush on Makoto's face.
The Kendo expert didn't know where Miu even got that hint from. There was no way that she had a crush on that delinquent who was strong and loyal with a mysterious past that tied with his skills. She would rather date the alien than Naruto...right?
Somewhere else
"Had your fill?" Naruto asked with a bored expression. He was dressed in black clothing that was similar to his time in ROOT. Black sleeveless tank top with black pants that were easy-to-move-in with the only difference between his former work attire and current was his steel-toed combat boots. Looking back at the start of his career, it was a rather glaring oversight on shinobi apparel if anyone got close enough for Taijutsu and stomp on his toes.
The question was aimed at Shiro who was currently wearing a blood red skinsuit with a pair of mittens on her hands through Naruto knew it used to be pure white as fallen snow. The female was currently skipping before she stopped and nodded, "Shiro had such a fun time playing with her new toys. Too bad that they all broke after she was done playing."
Shiro then skipped towards the exit and hummed along the way. Naruto followed closely behind as he gritted his teeth. If there were two people that he actually pitied, it was the twins who fell under his care. In the case of himself or Blake, there was actually an ulterior motive for them to fall into the darkness, be it for monetary or power motives but still a motive. It seemed like it was not the case for Shiro and Nui.
He had only pieced together a few moments of his charge's life but apparently they used to belong to a normal family. A mother, father, a two-story house along with a dog and it stayed that way until the parents were killed by someone. The following years were not as kind and the two broke somewhere down the line. The only question that Naruto wanted to know was the combat skills in Shiro and tech knowledge in Nui. Where did they received training or was it all in their instincts?
His next thought was wondering if Karma was keeping an eye on Nui.
Karma
"Watch over Nui, he says...Don't let Nui worked herself too hard, he says. Would it kill him to at least give me a heads-up first?" Karma grumbled to himself as he hid himself in a closet. Apparently, he was the only one available to babysit Nui while the Boss was out making sure that Shiro's bloodlust doesn't show up at inappropriate moments, Nagi was out on a date with Aya, Jin disappeared somewhere and Blake went to bed early so she can go on that shopping trip with her friends. Karma thanked whatever deity was out there that he didn't have to go. He still had nightmare about the times that the guys from his old class were used as pack mules during a field trip in Okinawa.
Nagi then knocked on the room that Nui and Shiro had taken for themselves. Karma snorted a little at the cute little drawings on the door. Contrary to first impressions, Nui was actually smarter than her sister; she just acted like a child for the sake of Shiro. It was a fact that Shiro would try to kill Nui if she didn't act that way, he was actually a witness one time that Nui failed to raise her facade in time.
When he didn't hear anything, Karma opened the door and entered the room. The room was dark with a single light being from a laptop on a desk. Nui was dressed only in a nightgown as she sucked a lollipop as she quickly pressed keys on her keyboard. The only acknowledgement Karma was the irritated question, "What are you doing here, Karma?"
"The Boss is worried that you might be working too hard with little rest." Karma answered truthfully, everyone aside from Shiro knew just how hard-working Nui really was. She was the one who helped him modify his airsoft weaponry so that they didn't need as much gas for the same amount of stopping power to seriously injure someone. Nui was also the one who gotten this place free unlimited access to the internet as well.
When a Fang needed tech support, Nui was the woman to go to.
"Well, you can tell 'Nii-chan' that he doesn't have to worry about me." Nui scoffed, "I'm a big girl and I can handle anything that life throws at me." Nui was going to continued before she started to sway in her seat. Karma saw this and rushed over before Nui lost strength in her body and fell out of her chair, lightly snoring.
Karma sighed and he carried Nui princess-styled to the closest bed before placing her there. As he was going to turn around and leave, Nui's hand grabbed Karma's causing the redhead to almost lashed back on reflex. He looked to see that Nui was still unconscious but her next words unsettled him abit.
"Daddy, you're not going to leave without telling me a bed-time story right?" Nui asked with childish innocence. Torn by indecision, Karma decided to say fuck it and just roll along with it, "Just let me get a chair first then I'll tell you a story." When Karma had done so, he began the verbal tale, "There was once a classroom known as Class E..."
Naruto
Naruto had entered the Twin's room with Shiro slumped over his shoulders to find that Karma sleeping in a chair next to Nui. Putting Shiro to bed, Naruto then had a mischievous idea to place Karma on the bed next to Nui. It would be hilariously to see the normally calm and collected brother of his with a red slap mark on his face. Plus, he was sure that Karma would do the same to him if given the chance.
After all, as much as some of them liked to say that they were nothing more than a gang and gang members. In his eyes, they were family and he would fight tooth and nail to keep it that way.
Morning
Kenichi Shirahama
Kenichi couldn't understand the man known as Fenrir. The man was dangerous, the evidence being the way that he slaughter those evil men in Yokohama. But, Kenichi had read the files which contained all the information that Niijima managed to get.
Each had a story of their own, a tale of woe that could have only come from the head of a sick and demented author. Yet, it was right there, smacking him in the face. Kenichi had always moaned and complained that he had the short of the stick but these people make him look like a whining baby who lost his binky.
Naruto had found these people and brought them together. To show them that they weren't alone, that there are people who can understand them because they went through something similar.
It was like a fairy tale, where a hero would bring people together as one. But what did that mean for Naruto? Did he have also have a story that he rather not share? Kenichi was going to find out today.
The plain teen knew that Naruto loved to be on the rooftop of the school building during lunchtime staring at the clouds moving by. He had learned that negotiating a deal with the Naruto fan club that stalked the poor bastard a few days ago.
As Kenichi reached the top of the staircase which barred the roofs, it suddenly opened as a girl barreled down the staircase with tears coming out of her face. Kenichi, being a gentleman, followed the girl down the stairs only to find that she had disappeared.
Unable to console the female, Kenichi walked up those steps again with determination in his eyes. He intended to make the Ninth Fist, who was mostly likely the case of the girl misery, pay for it.
Naruto
With a lazy smile, Naruto stared at the drifting clouds. Remembering that cloud watching was Shikamaru's hobby, Naruto wondered how were his shinobi friends doing. Did Ino and Sakura ever made up with each other? Did Choji ever loose some weight? These were some of the questions that bounced in Naruto's mind.
Heavy footsteps was heard as Naruto lazily turned his head to see Kenichi Shirahama. The boy stood next to Naruto's head and asked angrily, "What did you do that girl?" Ah, so the white knight saw that.
Naruto decided to reply, "Lay down and watch the clouds with me."
"I'd rather stand."
"Suit yourself." Naruto then answered the question, "For your information, the girl had the courage to actually ask me out. I simply rejected her."
Hearing something mundane coming out of Naruto's mouth continued to skewer his image of a hardened killer. Kenichi shook his head trying to clear his mind. He then asked the question in which he came up for, "Who are you really, Naruto?"
The boy chuckled, "A better you could ask is 'Why are we here?' Is it because some higher being has a plan for all of us or is it because of great cosmic luck that we are here speaking to one another?"
Kenichi looked at Naruto weirdly as the boy stood up. Naruto then chuckled as he straightened his back, "I'm just fucking with you, Usagi. To answer your question, I am who you see right now, a collection of experiences I've had during my life."
A dark presence seemed to weigh Kenichi down as Naruto walked over to the rails, "I've seen a child sacrifices himself to save a known killer because he thought himself as a tool to the man. I've seen my best friend sell himself to a slimy snake for power to avenge his family's death. I've seen a boy who thought that to prove his existence, he must kill other people. I seen someone who I trusted in a sea of drones beheaded by a madman to keep control."
Naruto placed his forearms on the rails, "Everytime I looked out into this city, I just can't help but feel envy and jealousy. The normal people didn't have to worry about surviving to the next day. Where I'm from, there's no such thing as a second chance."
As Kenichi looked at the back of Naruto, all he could feel was pity. The man didn't tell him the specifics of his past but he was given enough to create his own dots. Naruto had seen a lot in his life, far more than any teen should have the right to know. The plain boy didn't know how to respond as Naruto stated with his head down, "My friend, the fates are cruel. There are no dreams; no honor remains."
Kenichi was confused at the last sentence when he heard exclaims and shouting from the courtyards. He rushed over to take a look and saw a huge banner placed on the wall which separate the school from the outside world, one that no one should have not noticed unless they were blind, deaf and dumb.
The banner itself wasn't important, it was what was written that made it significant. To summarize it was a letter of challenge to the Shinpaku Alliance with a location and time. To top it all off, it contained a seal in the lower right corner. A seal of wolf with the Roman Numeral IX in-between the jaws.
The Symbol of Fenrir's Fangs...
Kenichi looked over to find that Naruto had already disappeared from his position. He turned around and searched only to find nothing. Kenichi then made a fist as he closed his eyes in determination.
The Shinpaku Alliance contained people that depended on him. As a gentleman, he could not disappoint the people who placed their faith in him.
Niijima
Niijima believe the expression, "Fuck all kinds of duck" was good enough for the situation. Not a single person knew how the Fangs are able to place a giant banner in their school without anyone noticing. It was like Fenrir was a fucking ninja with the way him and his group operates. He then let out a deep sigh as he knew what was going to happen next.
The Shinpaku could not refuse such an open challenge. To do so would go against the rules of the streets and no one would take them seriously anymore. Reputation was essential in the gang world. So they would have to go out, be humiliated and forced to fight off vultures for who knows how long.
It would take a miracle for the Shinpaku to escape even with tiny scratches since Naruto had tied in a match with Miu, his other ace-in-the-hole. Well, it was fun ruling while it lasted. Now, Niijima was wondering if the Fangs had a need for a strategist.
A few minutes to the designated time...
Fenrir cracked his neck as he watched his group performed their final inspections. Nagi was taping his fists, Shiro and Nui were playing 'Who would laughed first from tickling', Jin was shining his bokken and Karma...
Karma was taking a nap and dreaming of countless methods at getting back at his leader since the government-trained warrior was sure that his equipment would be fine out in the field. He was currently wearing a red scarf to hide his cheeks that contained a red handprint that showed no sign of ebbing anytime soon.
"Alright everybody, listen up!" Fenrir ordered as Jin elbowed Karma, much to the latter's displeasure, "Now, I want a good clean fight when we get out there. This isn't going to be a war nor is it vigilantism..."
Fenrir was eyeing Jin when he said that, as the poor boy scratched his head with a sheepish smile. "Most importantly however is making sure that you all have fun out there and coming back for a party."
Jin looked in the direction that their opponents were coming since he, as the most sensitive to energy since Blake wasn't here. He stated, "They're coming." Sure enough, the Shinpaku Alliance had came to respond to the challenge. Niijima stood at the helm of his group with his arms crossed as he tried to sound menacing, "We can stop this now and save your group face." It might've sound actually menacing if it wasn't for the fact that Fenrir could see Niijima's legs shaking slightly.
Jin looked over and told Naruto, "Hey Boss, I'm not sensing nor seeing that Makoto chick here." Naruto looked and confirmed what Jin said was right, "She's probably at the Dojo then. And yes, you can go." Jin smiled as he placed on orange shades over his eyes and took a leisure stroll out of the fight.
Niijima smiled seeing one of the Fangs leaving the battlefield, "That's right, leave before the power of the Shinpaku." Niijima was going to continue but Fenrir interrupted him, "Jin's not leaving cause he's scared. It's just that Jin's choice when we decided who to fight before-hand isn't here."
The Ninth Fist then let out a feral smile, "Now, let's start the party."
Miu
The granddaughter of the 'Superman' followed Kenichi and his other friends to see how they were matched against other people. So far, she had been very disappointed in how they hold themselves. So when one of Naruto's friends came with killing intent against her, Miu was surprised before her resharpened senses made her grabbed the wrists of the Akabane.
Taking a quick look at Karma's fists, Miu exclaimed, "Hey, that's not nice using knuckles weaponry like that." Indeed, Karma Akabane was using brass knuckles to fight since most of his weapons of choice were either lethal or still waiting for clearance in order to be field tested.
Karma let loose a blood-thirsty smile underneath his scarf, "I heard a lot about you. So why do you make my day and fight!" Karma then snaked his hands so that he was holding Miu's wrists and leapt upwards intending to drive one of his knees into Miu's chest. Knowing the flow of combat, Miu intentionally slipped and flipped her body while at the same time, she used her superhuman flexibility to bend her body in a way that her foot went over her head and hit Karma in the head.
There was barely any power in the strike but it was enough to force Karma to take a few steps back. Stunned at the move, Karma could see Kenichi with a straight punch from the side but was slow in defending. It would have connected if Shiro grabbed Kenochi by the helm of his shirt and pulled him away. Without looking, Shirp exclaimed to Karma, "Sorry about that, Aka-Baka. Kuro-Usagi was faster than Shiro thought."
"Just keep the kid in your zone,Shiro. You can apologize later." Karma's sentence allowed Miu drove the girl from focusing on her fight to the entire battlefield. True to Karma's words, there was a certain order despite the chaos it originally looked. Knowing this, Miu tried to rush towards the closest ally in order to defeat their opponents quickly since the two sides were currently in a stalemate.
However, Karma seemed to have the situation and blocked her path. Throwing jabs, uppercuts and punches; Karma forced Miu to jumped back before waving his finger back-and-forth, "Tut Tut, can't have you backing up someone else."
Kenichi
Using Sakaki's karate stance, Kenichi kept his eyes squinted so that it looked shut while complaining in his mind. The complaint...Why was his opponent a woman? The gentleman couldn't keep his eyes on the fight due to how form-fitting the silver skin-suit was. That thought seemed to have reached the silver-haired girl as she gave off a head-tilt, "Why isn't Kuro-Usagi looking at me? Could it be that Kuro-Usagi is a master of martial arts and knows how to fight without looking?"
The girl continued to chatter off, confusing Kenichi even more. To be honest, Shiro as the girl refer to herself as, didn't really have that mentality to be a delinquent compared to Valkyrie for example. Add in the fact that Niijima didn't have a file for the girl only added to the mystery of why she was with Fenrir at all.
The short-lived truce however was soon broken by Fenrir's voice, "Shiro, don't you have a fight to get to?" Shiro looked over to Fenrir and gave a salute, "Shiro understand, Nii-chan." So that's what it was, Fenrir was the one who dragged the innocent girl into this life.
The poor boy conveniently forgot that Shiro was able to dodged or misdirect his attempts to subduing her without actually fighting. Kenichi then yelled, "To actually use a female like this, I thought you had more honor than that." Kenichi would have continued if it wasn't for a dark menacing aura appeared causing everyone to stop fighting and looked in the direction it was coming from.
Shiro stood straight with her silver hair most of her stoic face. Between the silver hair, Kenichi would later swear was a blood-red circular dot where her left eye used to be. In a monotone voice, Shiro stated, "Shiro does not understand what Kuro-Usagi said but Shiro knows that Kuro-Usagi makes fun of Onii-chan."
It was at this moment, that Kenichi knew he fucked up. The poor boy saw countless variations of his death being played out and he was sure that it would have happen. The only reason why he wasn't a pile of gore was ironically because of Fenrir himself. The leader of the Fangs appeared out of nowhere and placed a hand on Shiro's head, "Control yourself or I won't let you play anymore."
Shiro's eyes went comically wide as she yelled, "No! Shiro will be a good girl." Petting Shiro, Fenrir gave a warm smile, "I know but you can't become a bad girl just because people say bad things about me. Now, why don't you go look for sister and play tag with the Alien Man with your sister."
"Okay!" With that, Shiro sprinted off in a direction while Kenichi took a look around. Sure enough, the lower members of the Shinpaku Alliance were defeated and unceremoniously dumped in a pile. The stick contains the Shinpaku flag which Matui carried with pride was placed standing tall among the bodies, the flag of the Shinpaku was nowhere to be seen.
"So sorry about that." Kenichi's attention returned to Fenrir who bowed, "Shiro's a good girl but she's not all there if you get my meaning. So, with that out the way..." Fenrir then turned to his remaining Fangs, "What the hell do you people think you're doing? Get back to work!"
The order made everyone realized that this was still a place in which two sides fought one another in a contest of strength. There was no time to dilly-daddle. Kenichi watched as Fenrir walked towards him without getting into a fighting stance. Kenichi asked, "Shouldn't you get into your stance."
"Hehe, I've been fighting for a very long time, Usagi." Naruto started his reply, "It's gotten to the point where I don't need to. Then again, actions speak louder than words."
Niijima
"How can she still keep up with me?" Niijima internally yelled as he kept running with Nui following close behind. He had taken her through a tough obstacle course consisting of sewers, the red-light district, a condemned building that was set to be demolished sometime during the month to name a few and nothing fazed the she-devil.
Suddenly, his antennas was raging and soon pointed in a direction as well. This was not good, his antenna acting up like this meant another predator was on his tail as well. It looked like it was time to initiate his last-resort measure. If all works out well then maybe he'll live long enough to plan a counter-attack.
So there's the chapter folks. To be honest, I didn't actually like the way this turned out. I don't like shelling half-assed work so I rewrite till it barely fits my expectations.
Anyways, here's two deleted scenes that were scrapped. One was because it didn't flow well and the other was interesting enough but I felt would take too much time from the story.
And yes, both of them was supposed to pay homepage to Roosterteeth considering RWBY Vol. 3 is out. You can watch on their website and the first two episodes are now out on YouTube on their channel.
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An armored hand went through a wooden door and grabbed Nagi by the throat. In the few seconds before Nagi was violently ripped from the closet that he was hiding, he cried out, "Son of a bitch, knew I shouldn't Nui watch RvB."
Why didn't Naruto warned him that Nui had trouble disassociating characters from herself? If he knew then he would have stop Nui from sneaking into Blake's room and stealing her DVD stash. Now, he was paying the price since Nui was currently a badass super soldier. That thought lead Nagi to another question, where did Nui get the super suit?
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"Go Yang Go Yang Go Yang Go Go Go!" The crowd cheered as Yang was was on the Pump It Up stage. In a corner-booth, Blake sighed as she would rather be with her master and the group fighting than playing some stupid game even it was in honor of a good friend.
Instead of that shopping trip, Blake and her friends all received an email that one of the mutual friends, Monty Oum who lived in the United States, was dead. The next logical step was to take Weiss's family sonic jet and fly over to the United States to be apart of the man's funeral. The funeral itself was strangely upbeat rather than the depressing atmosphere that was usually expected.
Everyone who knew Monty was sure that the man wouldn't want a depressing funeral. Rather, the dead man would scoff at their faces and told them to celebrate since the workaholic was finally getting the sleep he didn't need but the sleep he deserves. Hell, he made a memorable quote in his web-series about being gone. Blake didn't know if that was foresight on his part, him being prepared or just plain lucky.
Anyways, the quote went something like this, "If you don't really say goodbye then you're not gone; you just aren't here right now." A sentiment that the girls along with Monty's other friends are taking to heart.
Blake then raised her non-alcoholic beverage as a toast to the memory of Monty. May he rest in peace.
Now, that's all folks. Excuse me while I wait in line for Fallout 4. Pump up for it!