Fusion of Forces: Remnant's Maelstrom

Meanwhile his raven haired companion could only feel both anger and sadness. Anger that not only was someone as genuinely kind as Naruto having been treated like he didn't and shouldn't exist, but equally angry that no one told him why. To just leave him, a child no less, in the dark like that was cruel. It was for those same reasons that Blake was saddened, to hear how a child was left alone - no one to care for him, no one to tell him he was loved, no one to tell him that he mattered. As hard as she had it, at the end of the day she knew why she was treated differently, and even still she had other Faunus, her family that cared for her.

She was pulled from her thoughts when the blond seated next to her sighed and continued, "But to answer your question, no, I wasn't experimented on. Really I wasn't abused, psychically at least. Wasn't till I was thirteen that I found out why I was treated so differently. It wasn't for another three years that I found out why no one was allowed to touch me or even try to."

That did raise some questions. Despite the people no doubt knowing of Naruto's status, he was never harmed physically which was odd. If they so despised his existence what had stopped them from taking out their disgust and aggression on him?

"When I turned sixteen, my godfather told me that my village's leader, the man I saw as a grandfather, had ordered that no one harm me or they would be put to death and he had an almost round the clock guard of our most elite warriors to make sure the law was carried out. At first I wondered why I needed so much protecting. My godfather answered that too. My father had been our previous leader. Ironically the people had loved him and he had been poised to become one of our village's strongest warriors, but he had died the night I was born, defending our home."

Blake couldn't help the scoff of disgust that escaped her lips. To love the father, but hate the son for something no one could control was abhorrent. It truly showed how narrow minded some people could be.

Laughing at the uncharacteristic scoff, Naruto nodded, "Yeah my reaction was kind of similar to that too."

'You were so angry that you tapped into my chakra and drew up six tails worth of it and in your anger induced haze almost murdered that pervert you call a godfather. Yeah, real similar to a derisive scoff,' Kurama snarked.

Deciding to ignore the shame he felt knowing that the Kyuubi was right, Naruto instead turned his gaze back out to the horizon as the hues of purple began to overtake the reds as the sun fell, the moon already having begun its own trek across the sky. It was a sight to see, something that literally happened everyday and yet was still so calming and beautiful.

Stretching out his hands and allowing a yawn to escape his lips, the half blood Uzumaki allowed himself to fall on his back, his arms resting behind his head and his legs still dangling over the wharf's edge. Blake drew her legs upwards and likewise turned her own gaze skyward as the moon brought with it the blanket of night and the sky was lit with the twinkling glow of the distant stars.

Silence reigned between the two, both more than comfortable enough to let the sounds of the water lapping at the concrete wall below them be the only noise to break that silence.

Not minutes later that serenity and sense of peace was shattered when an explosion rocked the pier with the recognizable sounds of battle following soon after.

Even still neither seemed all that bothered by the harsh sounds of bullet fire and steel clashing against steel. Instead Naruto only turned to look at Blake with a grin, "Five Lin that it's either your team or both of our teams involved in the fighting."

The usually stoic teen only raised an eyebrow in response before shrugging, "The likelihood of that being the case is slim to none. You're on."

Poor Blake of course didn't know that betting against Naruto Uzumaki was never a smart idea. The blond had the Devil's Luck and Lady Luck's blessing and at the age of 14 had cleaned out enough casinos that he could've retired and never had to work again. Put simply, betting against the Kyuubi Jinchūriki was tantamount to betting that the sun wouldn't rise from the east.

Leaping to their feet, the two calmly made their way to the sounds of fighting and explosions, seemingly in no rush. With casual ease, both teens leapt on top of one of the many stacks of shipping containers that dotted the wharf and the sight below them had Blake sighing and Naruto grinning cheekily.

There in the middle of the rather empty pseudo arena was the notorious criminal, Roman Torchwick. Currently the cane wielding man was doing his best to keep a certain red haired javelin user at bay while also dodging the sweeping strikes that came from the scythe wielding captain of team RWBY.

His accomplice, Neo, was merrily dodging every strike and punch that came from the combined duo of Yang and Weiss with that unnerving smile stretching across her pale face. It seemed that she was just toying with the Schnee heiress and busty brawler while they tried their damnedest to land a single hit on the diminutive girl.

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