There were many ways Naruto could imagine spending his Saturday morning - training with his team, sleeping, eating, pulling a prank on Cardin, or possibly getting in trouble for the stunt he had pulled the night before at Jr.'s club. Oddly enough, he wasn't currently doing any of those things. Even more strange was the fact that Professor Ozpin seemed to know that the young blond was involved with the incident in Vale and yet was content to not ask any questions despite the many inquisitive stares he had gotten from the headmaster of Beacon.
If our protagonist was not taking part in any of the aforementioned activities, then what exactly was he doing you ask?
Enjoying a soothing cup of tea at a café in Vale's market district. With the sun barely having risen above the horizon a few short hours ago it was still relatively cool, a gentle breeze carrying a morning chill to balance out the heat that radiated off the gaseous ball of flames in the sky.
Seated on the second floor balcony of the rather well furnished eatery, Naruto allowed himself to relax into his chair, feeling the caress of the wind as it gently swayed his blond mop of hair. As he did so, his cerulean orbs traveled to the young female who was actually the reason for his even being there in the first place.
Sitting across from the shinobi in hiding was a pale skinned raven haired beauty. Dressed in her usual garb of purple/black stockings, white undershirt, black top, and her signature bow, Blake Belladona took a sip of her tea, looking just as relaxed as her male friend.
Many would be surprised to hear that it had actually been the young woman who had asked Naruto to accompany her to a café, knowing that the normally soft spoken and monotone member of team RWBY preferred her privacy and space away from most others. While it was true that she had begun to open up when around her teammates, even they knew that their friend and teammate had her limits and would actively seek time away from them when she reached said limit of social interaction.
The fact that she had asked Naruto, whom many knew to be loud, brash, and by all rights the opposite of Blake, was also odd and somewhat out of the norm for the raven haired teen. Even the leader of team NNPR was surprised when Blake sought him out and asked him to go with her on what amounted to a date in the eyes of most others.
Of course Naruto was far from being like most people and being as romantically dense as he was, saw it as a friend asking another friend to hang out, nevermind the fact that she had asked just him and him alone to go with her.
And so a short airship ride, a walk, and some small talk later they had found themselves quickly seated by the elderly lady who owned the café. The young Uzumaki had been confused when said owner had winked at Blake and said, "Opposites attract don't they?"
While the meaning was lost on our blond hero, Blake was quick to understand the elderly woman's hinting and quickly attempted to hide the blush that was blossoming on her cheeks. This also happened to be the reason that the young woman had refused to make eye contact for the past few minutes which had eventually led to there being a thick tension between the two teens, though Naruto had no idea why.
"We really should have left a note for the others," came Naruto's voice in an attempt to break the tension.
Blake replied in her usual monotone, "They'll be fine."
"Uh, you do know who you're talking about right? Yang? Nora?" Naruto chuckled.
After a moment of thought and her mind conjuring the mental image of a panicked Yang and Nora literally turning Beacon upside down in search of them while Ruby and Ren tried in vain to stop the two, the ravenette put palm to face before muttering, "They're gonna burn the school down."
"The possibility of us returning to a ruined school aside, how come you asked me to come here? I never really took you as someone who would go out of her way to do something like this," the half blood Uzumaki asked.
'How the student of not one, but two perverts, one a self proclaimed Super Pervert, is this dense when it comes to females is just baffling. If Jiraiya hadn't tricked you into losing your virginty, I'd swear you didn't know what sex is and how it works,' Kurama grumbled through their link.
The shrunken Bijū had been content to enjoy the rare time of silence and peace that his partner's cat friend had brought with her, but having Naruto as a container made it very hard to stay quiet. Especially when said blond was being his usual idiotic self.
Without even batting an eyelash Naruto grabbed Kurama by the scruff the neck and tossed the cursing kitsune into the distance, much to the shock of his friend as well as the other patrons who were seated around them.
Seeing Blake looking at him like he had just grown a second head, the blond shinobi waved his hands uncaringly, "Don't worry he'll be fine. Furball will just make his way back over here and try and get me back or something."
'I AM GOING TO FUCKING MURDER YOU, YOU BLOND BASTARD!'
Deciding to not question the oddity that was the relationship between her friend and his fox partner, the young Faunus decided to answer the previous question, "I...need your advice."
Naruto was slightly surprised to hear Blake's normally even toned voice soften, her usually stoic face becoming downcast while her honey colored eyes became a sea of warring emotions. This threw the teen male for a loop for a moment. It was a strange sight to see the always calm and in control cat Faunus almost fall apart. Whatever was bothering her was not just troubling her, it was almost tearing her apart.
Then again as a Jinchūriki, Naruto was no stranger to knowing that many people walked around wearing a mask, a facade to cover up the inner turmoil that was kept bottled inside and away from public eye. Shoot he was practically the poster child for that. He had worn a mask for so long and played it off so well that he had to literally fight himself in order to fully realize who he was entirely, both the good and the bad.
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