Chapter 1: Research and Development

Welcome one and all to the brand new fic called Asset 009, this is yet another Naruto –RWBY featuring Naruko yet again, so buckle up and hang on tight as we jump into the emotional ride that is Asset 009. Also before we start you should know that I will be using the name Naruto instead of Naruko so if you don't like it sorry I guess, but I just feel better for using the name for this fic and plus I now have a good reason to use it, so let's stop stalling and jump right in.

Disclaimer I do not own the wonderful work of Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, or RWBY by the bombastic team at Roster Teeth!

Remnant, a world filled with horrors, death, theives and the ever so malicious beasts of grimm, evil creature that only seek to eliminate mankind and its linage, but there is hope.

The Kingdoms safe havens that protect humanity from the tragedy of the grimm, these Kingdoms provide divine safety to all those that seek it but one Kingdom stands out above the rest.

To the far north of Remnant, covered by snow and ice stands the Kingdom of Atlas, formally known as Mantle, Atlas is a thriving kingdom due to its harsh winter climate grimm are practically non-existent and its automated task force is able to handle the few that slip through the cracks. Atlas is far more advanced than its sister Kingdoms of Vale, Vacuo or Mistral, the Kingdom produces a wide variety of technology from autonomous soldiers to new weapons- even dust products and production.

Yet this kingdom's true power lies in its military prowess, but recently Atlas's very power has become its very weakness.

The White Fang, once a peaceful group turned violent all in the name of equality, yet this streak of violence against both humanity and faunus who don't support the movement have greatly hurt their movement, but till recently Atlas has been able to deal with these attacks due to the organized nature and small scale nature of the attack, but recently the terrorist group have now turned towards larger scale and large organized attacks. Targeting dust shipments, executions of SDC employees, and grand larceny, these actions have put a toll on Atlas as the Kingdom must now split its focus from the threat of the grimm and the ever growing threat of the White Fang, yet the task has proven to be more difficult for the kingdoms resources have been stretched thin not only protecting the populous from the grimm, hunting the White Fang, but also running damage control due to the boldness of the group.

Yet a curse was about to befall not only Atlas but all the Kingdoms as a whole, something far more dangerous than the White Fang, and more destructive than the grimm. A Primordial Beast was going to reawaken to the world, and devour what was left of its Remnants.

James could only sigh as he read the most recent reports of the White fang attacks, as well as another failed expansion of Vale, attempting to move into the territories of Mount Glenn with thousands reported dead and hundreds missing. Rubbing his temples James attempted to nurse the headache that plagued him. As he stared down at the skew of papers, folders and documents that spotted his white oak desk, leaning back into his red velvet chair James released a tired and frustrated groan at the situation of events , "What has the world come to?" But before he could fully ponder his own question a light buzz bounced off the walls of his navy blue office. Stretching a hand forward he pressed the red button on the scroll intercom bring forth a holographic screen, with a young white haired beauty appearing on screen.

"General" greeted the teenage girl looking no older than seventeen years old.

"Winter, what brings in your call?"

"A report of a discovery in one of the SDC mines in Minstrel, apparently the workers describe it as bunkers of sorts after some investigation by the local authorities have uncovered it to be a laboratory. As several specimens, notes and DNA samples were found, the Minstrel government wishes to turn over the evidence they found to us." Replied Winter with a detailed response as she stared directly into James eyes through the screen.

This perked James interest leaning in, with a raised brow as he perched his chin on his now laced fingers as his elbow planted were firmly on his desk. "Do when have any information of the age and conditions of the samples and specimens?"

"I feel that it would be better in you read the report for yourself, General."

Now this made Ironwood truly curious, for it is extremely odd for Winter to share her opinion about anything. "Very well come in" spoke James ending the call after receiving a salute from the teenager.

Leaning back into his seat James pondered what could possible cause Winter to speak freely, Winter was considered the 'Ice Queen', much to her annoyance, but to the humor of Qrow. She was usually cold and distant keeping a professional attitude at all times, one of the reason James brought her under his wing.

So the true question is what exactly was in that report.

He didn't have to meditate on it long as Winter strolled in with a cart and scribe in tow, with a quick bow she greeted James and pulled out several documents and two different scroll tablets before dismissing the scribe. "Here are the translated documents from the lab, intelligence as dubbed it the Kindergarten, so far only key words and phrases were able to be translated due to the language connection between the languages spoken in Minstrel, indicating it to be an ancestor tongue, but the language in the documents are far to ancient and will take time to completely translate. Here is a list of translated phrases and words." Spoke Winter as she pressed on the screen of the tablet bringing up several windows, than processed to pass the tablet and two pages to the General.

Grasping onto the tablet and pages, Ironwood immediately began to read all the information. Seeing numerous amounts of what looked to be names, terms, and phrases but one word on the list interested him the most; reincarnation. "Winter" spoke the man as he looked up from the tablet and texts before, "can you please explain what I am looking at?"

"Yes sir," agreed Winter "You are seeing several documents naming the nine specimens stored within the tubes, apparently the bodies that are in the tubes are not the specimens but containers for them."

"Wait" Spoke James bringing up a gloved hand to pause Winter, "I do not understand, how could these bodies be containers, is this a disease or parasite that we are discussing?"

"No General, from what we translated and understand, the beings 'sealed' within the bodies are sentient, and completely aware of their surroundings yet they are completely made up of a substance called 'chakra'. So far our researchers have concluded that this 'chakra' is made up of similar properties of that of aura, yet it is far more potent than aura."

"How were these conclusions made?" Asked Ironwood his interests fully peaked with all the information before him, his eyes never leaving Winter as she tapped and slid her fingers across the screen of the tablet, bringing up the requested information.

"After the bodies were discovered they went through testing for vitals and aura, there is very little brain activity indicating a vegetable like state, heart rate is practically non-existent, but when aura was measured it far exceeded the limitation of the machines, it fully overloaded the equipment showing extreme levels of aura."

"Interesting, is there anything else I should know?"

"At the moment there is nothing else of interest General, that concludes my report."

"Very well" spoke Ironwood as leaned back into his seat as his left can up to stroke his chin in thought, only to stand up and make his way towards the large window in the back of his office. Looking out Ironwood took in the scenery of Atlas academy campus.

"Gen-"

Looking over his shoulder Ironwood interrupted Winter, as he gave his orders "I want all the samples, and written documents shipped at once."

"O-of course General" with a quick salute Winter turned on her heel and strutted her way out the office to fulfill Ironwood's orders.

Turning back to the window, Ironwood raised his gaze from the campus to the city beyond as he looked out towards the horizon.

'I will save this world with or without Ozpin, with or without the maidens, because whatever was in those mines is now in my possession.'

James walked through the royal blue halls of the Schnee manor, his black dress shoes clicking against the indigo titles whilst the sound bounced off the barren walls accented by the while sunlight the peered through the blinds of the hallway windows, large unsightly thing that where heavily decorated with custom cut marble with the Schnee family crest engraved into it. As James continued his journey he walked past vases with white rose, tables with blue or white dollies on them, and a large family portrait of the Schnee, Jacques Schnee the current head of the Schnee Dust Company and father of Winter Schnee could be seen standing off to the right his posture perfect and suit pure white and freshly cleaned, with his hair trimmed and cut to his liking. Off to his left his wife, who's name currently escaped James as he looked at the painting, but one thing was evident she was miserable hurt even as her eyes conveyed unspeakable pain to the viewer of the piece. Directly in front of her sat Winter, she was only fifteen years old when this was painted and two months after its completion the girl came running to his office begging for him to make her into a soldier, and now that he deeply at the heirloom he could see that Winter dressed very similar to that of her mother even going as far to style her hair in the exact same way. To Winter's far right was Weiss the second oldest of the Schnee household, only sharing a five year age difference with her sister Winter, Weiss like her mother had an uneasy look on her face. One that spoke of concern, and sadness but what unsettled James the most was not the saddened looks of Winter and Weiss but the empty and cold of eyes of Jacques's youngest child, an only son Whitley Schnee who sat in the for front of the piece staring directly into the viewer. Ever since Whitley was born Jacques praised him as his 'true child' alienating his daughters in the process, which than lead Whitley to develop the same unsavory traits of his father, a sliver tongued nature and manipulative heart as Whitley is not afraid to destroy others for his own personal gain or pleasure, the boy is sick an utterly twisted.

Taking a moment James took several calming breathes to release his personal grievances with the Schnee family, now was not the moment to be angry but to be open as he was here for a reason, this was not a friendly visit but one of business. As of six months ago the specimens and samples found in Minstrel have been delivered to Atlas's Research and Development team, but also with that time 35% the scrolls and written documents have been translated. They described the process for reincarnating the samples, named 'Naruto'. From the documents they discovered that this 'Naruto' was a powerful warrior of his time a 'Jinchuuriki' a holder of a 'tailed beast', the same beings 'sealed' within the nine specimens, Naruto was said to have vast amounts of power strong enough to even defeat a person considered to be a Goddess. The scrolls spoke of other Jinchuuriki but none as strong as Naruto, so to combat this weakness the author, a fellow named Orochimaru captured and sealed them into the specimens that Atlas now has in their procession, his plans state that by sealing the rest of these beasts within the reincarnated figure of Naruto, he would have unimaginable power. This information alone caused James to pursue this resurrection of sorts, one that could not only put an end to the White Fang but to the corruption of the Grimm as well.

But, as more of the documents were translated more was learned about Naruto's world and culture, yet what suspired both the James and the research team was this 'charka'. It may share properties of aura but its applications were almost limitless, it could grant the abilities of any semblance known so far; it could heal, fortify one's body, control nature without dust, and even defy the very laws of nature itself.

As James learned of this he began to transfer numerous assets and funding to this project code named whirlpool after the last name of Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki , yet there still was not enough lien to complete fund the project thus the reason for visiting the Schnee if James has learned anything about Jacques it was that he loved to have his ego stroked, but most all praised by the masses and James sought to exploit that weakness.

Finally arriving to his destination James took a moment to straighten his uniform before bringing the back of his knuckles against the oak door, making an audible thumping sound. That was soon followed by a quick "enter" and like that James pressed down on the handle and pushed the door open.

"Ah, James what brings you here this afternoon?" Breathed out Jacques with a smile as he stood to great his guest, taking a quick look around the room James saw that much hasn't changed since last he was here. Shelves still lined the walls filled with books and pictures of the map of Remnant, blue crystal lamps sat on the edges of Jacques's desk along with awards and a statue of the Schnee crest.

"Hello there Jacques, how are you?" Replied James with a smile as he reached out to shake Jacques's hand.

"I've been doing well James, please have a seat I would be delighted to catch up, water?"

Sitting on the black love-seat James made himself comfortable," Yes, thank you. How has Weiss been last I heard she was announced as the next heir to the SDC?"

"She has been well, and yes she has been named heir, the girl show great prowess and interest in the business of her father, unlike Winter." Spoke Jaques as the end of his sentence was laced with some hostility as he leaned forward in his seat. "But enough about my family and I, you must have come here for a reason James due tell?" Smiled Jacques as his eyes narrowed, as if they were looking through James.

With a quick 'ahem' James cleared his throat in his left hand, "Of course" reaching into his coat with the same hand, he pulled out a decent sized folder. "Currently the military has been working on a project to deal with the white fang problem."

"Finally" Sighed out Jaqcues, as his face morphed into a more agitated one "those damn animals have been stealing dust shipments after dust shipments for the past year now there nothing more that beast, all they're good for is cheap labor." Growled out Jacques as he finished his tirade, "so James what is your plan of action to deal with these savages"

"Well, Jacques this is the plan" spoke James as he slid the folder towards the Schnee head, giving him permission to read it, picking it up and opening it Jacques began to scan over the paper work inside. At what felt like an eternity of silence Jacques closed the folder and set it down on his desk, "what does this project Whirlpool entitle exactly?" Spoke Jacques as he spread his fingers across the vanilla colored folder.

"Project Whirlpool is a side project; the true asset is the new Spider drone."

"Don't bullshit me James, you have plenty of information about this Spider Drone" Spoke Jacques creating quotation marks with his finger for emphasis, "But you have two other projects listed here P.E.N.N.Y which seem to be a new type of mechanical soldier, based on the name anyway, than you have this project Whirlpool, so I'll ask again James. What. The. Hell. Is. Project. Whirlpool?"

Leaning forward and resting his hands in his lap James looked back into Jacques's icy blue eyes, engaging in a silent war with the current Schnee CEO, only lasting for 30 seconds James began to speak "project Whirlpool is a theoretical experiment involving aura and the effect of improving its potency the goal is for it is to improve huntsmen effectiveness." Spoke James in half truths and blatant lies all the while keeping a defeated poker face to make his lies all the more believable.

Smiling in what he believed to be victory Jacques sent a leering grin James's way, "see was that so hard, and since I feel generous I'm willing to off you funding for you projects James, a hefty sum of 18 million lien."

"Thank you, Jacques."

"You're welcome James, now get out of my office."

And with that James left the mansion all together but before boarding the airship, he gave the mansion one last look over before say, "Jacques you're an asshole."

Four months have passed since the SDC 'generous' donation, and project Whirlpool has made leaps and bounds in progress with now 75% of Orochimaru's notes and documents now translated, and with many of the preparations for the reincarnation and sealing of the bijuu now complete. The only thing missing now was someone who was compatible with Naruto's DNA apparently the ancient warrior's genetic code was extremely meticulous as several tests produced fruitless results as several zygotes died within weeks of being fertilized by Naruto's DNA, yet hope was not lost as it was recently discovered that Orichimaru kept a detailed history of Naruto's descendents and it would seem that the Schnee and Nikos families are descendents of said man and coincidentally a member of the Schnee family was currently in service with the special forces unit of the Atlasian Military, seventeen year old Winter Schnee. Now they just needed her to willingly donate her eggs, thus the responsibly of convincing her fell to none other than General James Ironwood.

Ironwood shifted in his seat uncomfortable as he thought of the conversation ahead, man of the scientists and researchers on the project had urged the importance of obtaining a compatible egg for Naruto's DNA, yet when given the opportunity to discuss the matter with Winter all of them immediately refused for a number of reasons thus dropping the pressing issue into James's lap and by all means he did not wish to ask Winter to…provide the necessary…material but currently they had no other options as seeing that both Weiss and Pyrrah Nikos are too young to provide samples and the wife of Jacques being currently indisposed of at the moment thus the only logical candidate being Winter means someone has to ask her and that someone was to be General James Ironwood.

Yet, he wouldn't lie he was anxious, so anxious in fact that he found himself doubting himself something he's never done since childhood as his fingers tapped and danced on the surface of his desk looking over the clock on the wall to see the estimated time of Winter's arrival and it would seem that he still had ten minutes till her arrival.

It was going to be a long wait…

Winter was utter confused about the situation before her as she watched her general fidgeted about his body language clearly stating that he was unconformable as his eyes shifted about, his fingers and hands slightly shaking and a light sweat stuck to his brow all in all he looked like a nervous wreck ,something Winter never seen him do before, the general was always certain like his name sake he had a will of 'iron' but here he was fully embracing his nervousness about whatever he called her here for.

"W-winter y-y-you might b-be wondering why I called you up here?"

Okay something was up, Ironwood never stuttered as Winter narrowed her eyes in suspicion and concern as her mind immediately jumped to the worse conclusions possible, 'Is he relieving me of duty? No that couldn't be could I right?' Soon as this thought ran past her a large sense of dread befell Winter as she thought back to her past missions and assignments trying to understand what she did wrong or how she failed to meet their requirements, but if she was being relieved she would take it with pride.

Steeling herself replied back to Ironwood, "Yes sir."

"As you know, your current position is deputy within the special forces unit."

When those words left Ironwoods mouth Winter could swear she felt her heart break as she could feel tears pricking the sides of her eyes threading it cascade into a waterfall of sadness.

"As of today I am reliving you of that duty," There it was the thing that Winter dreaded most, quickly turning her head to hide her shame as tears ran down cheeks in a never ending flow of sadness. "And making you captain of the unit."

This shocked Winter causing her to snap her head at Ironwood, throwing tears of her cheeks and into Ironwood's face causing the man not only to flinch back from the impact but also the sight of the crying Winter.

"Really" shouted out Winter her eyes wide as a large smile spread across her lips, as her demeanor did a complete one-eighty.

A little shocked by his pupils behavior Ironwood didn't answer right away but when he replied with a confused nod, he saw something he would soon not forget. Winter began to do a weird trilling victory dance shouting the words 'Yes, I did it' and the ever humorous 'suck it father'. Ironwood couldn't help but chuckle at his soldier's antics allowing her to have this moment before having to tell her why actually called her here today, and he was not by any means looking forward to it.

After a good 2 minutes of dancing Winter recomposed herself as with a light blush, as she regained her surroundings realizing who she was in front of, "sorry General I apologize for my unprofessional conduct."

"No worries, now back on to why you are here." Straightening himself out Ironwood shifted himself forward so that he may look directly into Winter's eyes as he spoke "I have assigned you and your new platoon to project Whirlpool, due to the recent completion and success of project P.E.N.N.Y. You shall be working with team seven in this assignment and four of Atlas's most talented scientists."

Winter smiled at the name, when she was still a deputy her squad at the time was assigned to oversee the project as it took bases from Orochimaru's research on the human soul, and how to properly seal it into inorganic matter thus Penny was born originally she was designed to be a stealth droid designed for infiltration and assassination but she became more than that when she gained a soul. She became human ambit without the actual human part, but human nevertheless she had the body of a 15 year old but mentally she was no old than a 2 year old as Dr. Polendina, her creator, attempts to educate her fully on the world of Remnant as a whole. Penny is a sweet girl going out of her way to say 'Salutations' and to see how the soldiers are doing, Winter would love to see another one of her as Penny seems a bit lonely due to her robotic nature.

"That is the end of your debriefing" spoke Ironwood as he pushed froth an envelope with the details of the project towards Winter, grabbing it she turn to leave and fulfill her duty but was stopped by Ironwoods voice "but you go I need to ask something o-of you." Spoke Ironwood with a light blush of embarrassment decorated his cheeks and ears.

"Yes General?"

"As you know Project Whirlpool is the process of reincarnating the warrior Naruto."

"Yes."

"W-w-well the scientist assigned to this project h-have hit a roadblock of sorts."

"Yes?"

Ironwood shifted as he looked into Winter's curious eyes regretting every moment of this conversation taking deep breathes he braced himself before continuing, "Naruto's DNA is extremely finicky as every egg it has fertilized has died within weeks of becoming a zygote, as they are torn apart from the inside by the large amount of aura in their system."

"But wha-" bringing up a hand James silenced Winter "let me finish before you speak." With a nod from Winter, James continued his explanation "For awhile it seemed that the reincarnation would fail till a certain document was translated, it would seem that Orochimaru kept a detailed history of all of Naruto's descends, the question of how he lived long enough to see them is still unanswered, but what we do know is the Schnee are related to the Uzumaki family, our sciencist theorize that a descendant of him would be able to handle the large amount of aura that would course through their system." Ironwood took a pause so that Winter could digest the information that he had just provided her.

After several minutes of silence Winter began to speak "General, what are you asking of me?"

"I am asking you to mother the reincarnation of Naruto Uzumaki."

Okay! That's the chapter all I hope you liked it tell me what you liked, didn't like but please no flames. And I will see you on the flip side!