Fusion of Forces: Remnant's Maelstrom

Ruby joined the rest of her team with paper in hand and was greeted by her grinning sister, "So what's it say little sis?"

Looking at the paper Ruby spoke, "Looks like it's a receipt or something."

Snatching the paper from a protesting Ruby, Weiss scanned it before shrugging, "It's a ticket from the school for a reserved time slot for one of the practice arenas the school has."

"To the practice arenas!" Yang shouted as she performed a rather well executed about face and made to speed off in search of her fellow blonde.

Blake casually grabbed the back of Yang's jacket collar, stopping the hyperactive girl in her steps, "Beacon has quite a few arenas spread out around the campus and we don't know which one Naruto and his team are in. I don't care to spend the better part of my day searching for it either."

Nonplussed by her raven haired teammate's actions, Yang just turned to Weiss and pointed a finger at the Schnee heiress, "Weiss! Hit me with the arena number!"

Rubbing the bridge of her nose in frustration Weiss nonetheless read through the paper before shaking her head, "Doesn't say for which arena this is."

Kurama's ears twitched as he listened in on team RWBY attempting to hash out a plan to find Naruto before day's end. An idea popped into his head as he continued to listen. Soon that idea became something that had the fox grinning from ear to ear as his eyes glinted mischievously.

Coming out of his attempted nap the strongest of the Bijuu casually padded to the end of the bed before making a leap and landing softly on Ruby's shoulder, surprising the other members of the team. As far as they knew Naruto was the only one the fox would allow to carry him or even liked to be around.

Using his tail Kurama pointed at the piece of paper he had previously handed to Ruby, then back to himself.

The gesture's meaning wasn't lost on the members of team RWBY. Of course Kurama was more than capable of human speech, even in this form. He is the fearsome and insanely powerful Kyuubi after all. But no one besides his container knew that, and as far as he and said blond Uzumaki were concerned, they were the only ones who needed to know.

"Are we really gonna let a fox be our GPS system?" Weiss asked incredulously. To most normal people the idea of letting a fox of all things, no matter how intelligent it seemed, lead them was a rather ridiculous idea.

Of course the word normal wasn't exactly in Ruby or Yang's vocabulary and Blake didn't seem too bothered by the idea either.

Throwing her hands up in frustration Weiss conceded to letting Kurama lead them as their pseudo navigator. As team RWBY cheered they missed the mischievous smirk that spread across Kurama's snout.

'No one interrupts one of my naps and gets away with it.'

"So by molding your Aura in certain areas of your body or molding it in a specific way you can do pretty much anything thanks to your Semblance?" Pyrrha inquired.

Shrugging casually, Naruto responded, "Yeah that about sums it up."

"Wait but how does that explain the whole scroll thingy? Is it like a magic trick? Like pulling a rabbit out of a hat?" Nora paused as a look of realization dawned on her face, "that's it isn't it!? You're a magician!"

Even Naruto found himself sweat dropping at the oddness that had just come out of his childish teammate's mouth. He had heard and seen some weird stuff, a good chunk of which was thanks to the Snake Mistress of Konoha, but Nora was quickly climbing his list of odd people.

"Uh...no Nora...I'm not a magician…"

The orange haired hammer wielder pouted impudently like a child who had been told she couldn't get candy or a toy from the store while they shopped.

Getting over the giggles that had come due to her teammate's previous statement and the mental picture of Naruto in a top hat, Pyrrha added, "Nora is right though, how does your Semblance let you do that?"

Scratching his head Naruto decided that he could trust his team with at least a half lie, "Well actually my Semblance only plays a small part in that. See back in my village we were taught from a young age how to use our Aura and then how to better control it before we were ever taught how to use our Semblance. Because of that some people were able to figure out how to use that control to use our Aura in a different way. Those ways soon branched out and became what we called Ninshu or the Shinobi Sect. What I do with scrolls is a branch of Ninshu called Fuinjutsu or Sealing Techniques. The closest thing I can compare it to is Weiss and her glyphs, but even then that is only a small part of what Fuinjutsu can do."

The intrigue and awe the other members of team NNPR felt as Naruto divulged what could possibly be considered village secrets was clearly visible on each of their faces. Even Nora who could barely sit still for two seconds looked to be enraptured by her blond captain and his lecture.

Wanting to hear even more the red head of the team voiced her curiosity, "What do you mean? What else could this fun...foo...fuin?" Taking note of Naruto's nod at her proper pronunciation of the foreign word Pyrrha continued, "What else can it do?"

The blond Uzumaki let out a sigh as he leaned back and stared at the ceiling that stretched above him, "Fuinjutsu is actually unique, because unlike the other branches of Ninshu that have some sort of set of requirements, anyone can learn Fuinjutsu. It just takes patience, perfect handwriting, and imagination. Because of this Fuinjutsu is both the most accessible and most varied and powerful branch of Ninshu. A master of Fuinjutsu could do anything from simply sealing away a weapon to distorting time and space itself. The possibilities are pretty much endless."

Pyrrha couldn't help herself and blurted out the first thought that had popped into her mind, "Are you a master?"

Naruto laughed, not only at Pyrrha's curiosity, but also at the dumbfounded looks that both Nora and even the normally stoic Ren wore.

"Sadly no. I never got to fully finish my apprenticeship, but I am only about two levels away from being able to call myself a master."

Getting up and stretching Naruto grinned at his teammates, "So I think we've wasted enough time sitting around. One more little spar and we call it a day?"

Nora was the first to her feet, having leapt up into the air and cheered, "Yay!"

Ren was the opposite to his friend and calmly rose, showing all of the grace he possibly could in such a simple action. Gathering his twin pistols that Naruto now knew were called Stormflower, the calm raven haired teen nodded at his fellow male teammate.

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