Kidnapping

Rant time: Alright so I have thought about posting pictures of the characters that are in the novel and other stuff on patreon. Although I'm not sure about making a patreon account since I don't know if anyone will join it. What do you guys think?

Next, I just hate volume 4, the fight scenes were lackluster, Blakes arc sucked and all the build-up of Yang's PTSD had no rhyme or reason. Only Weiss had character development that I liked.

That's all. Thank you for reading/listening.

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"Are you sure that we should not go with Yang?" Pyrrha asked one more time and Naruto sighed, "Yeah, she still wants to train and other than Weiss, all your friends are directly going to Haven, thinking that the headmaster will just help them. If only everything was that simple."

Naruto had already explained to Pyrrha that a headmaster could not be dumb enough to not notice enemy spies in his school. A school that was built to protect humanity would not take students without checking their background. If he did not know who was studying in his school than he did not deserve his position as a Headmaster.

Naruto compared the position of the headmaster to a Kage. If Ozpin was friends with such a person that even Ozpin was an idiot. The headmaster could have been forced or even defected to the enemy side. There was no telling what they will face once they entered Haven Academy.

Pyrrha was also confused about what to do. She was stuck here and was no help to her friends, but Naruto had proposed that they synchronize just like he did with Kurama but she was not sure about sharing her mind completely with Naruto.

Right now Naruto was on a ship that was Taking them to Mistral while he read a book on fuinjutsu. He also offered Pyrrha to read anything she wants from the library in his mindscape, after hiding the Icha Icha books.

He did not want her to think of him as a pervert. Which was why he also did not ask if she wanted some clothes other than the armor she was wearing. To Naruto, it looked extremely uncomfortable to sleep in but he would have to imagine clothes of her size and he had enough intelligence to know that she would also need underwear. He was trained by Jiraya, proofread Icha Icha and had a female teammate. Of course, he knew what girls wanted.

He convinced himself that the time was not right. Pyrrha, as a shy girl would never bring up the topic so he will do it once they were more comfortable with each other.

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After a few days of sea travel, Naruto was fidgeting. He had too much energy to just sit around and do nothing. While traveling, he fought Grimm and even some criminals but on the boat, he could only read books.

Once the captain docked the boat, Naruto rushed out and let out a cheer while Pyrrha face-palmed and sighed. She could not believe how child-like Naruto can be sometimes.

After visiting some bars and other shady places, they were able to find out the situation in the Kingdom of Mistral. People were weary since the attack was broadcasted everywhere but life kept moving on. Some traders were angry but no could do anything about it.

"STOP!" yelled Pyrrha.

"What's wrong?" he asked while looking around.

"That girl, who's walking in front of you with pink and white clothes." Naruto followed her directions and found the girl walking a few feet away from him. "Roman Torchwick called her Neo. She works with him."

The gears in his head started turning and Naruto calmly followed the girl. He observed the short girl, it was easy to tell that she only had a short height but was two or three years older than him. The wear and tear in her clothes suggested that she did not have much on her other than her umbrella. Maybe Roman came here after falling of Beacon to set up a new base?

After a few minutes of walking around, she entered a cheap in and Naruto entered the same in a minute later. He was not able to see her but his senses were already locked on Neo who had changed into a black hair, green-eyed girl.

He booked a room like any normal person and went up the stairs. Even Pyrrha was silent since she knew that Naruto was focusing on spreading the range of his sensing ability to cover the entire inn.

He entered the room and closed the door, only leaving a slight gap so the door doesn't lock completely. He waited for Neo to walk upstairs and brought out a restraining tag to capture her.

He cursed when neo unlocked the door that was before his. Since he planned to drag her in his room and interrogate Neo but that was not possible now. So, he checked the corridor and jumped out and chopped the back of her neck.

Like a ragdoll, she slumped towards the floor but Naruto caught her and teleported back into his room. He sealed the room and put a silencing seal to stop any sound from going out. Next, he slapped the restraining tag on the back of Neo's neck.

Naruto let out a huge breath of relief but also felt bad. "I don't think mom would approve of me kidnapping a girl." he muttered silently but Pyrrha still heard it. How can she let such an opportunity go to waste and started teasing Naruto?

"I never knew you were into small girls Naruto."

His mouth opened wide and he immediately jumped into his mind, "You know damn well that I'm not interested in small girls!"

"The girl in your bed says otherwise." Pyrrha countered smugly.

He pointed at her and tried to come up with something but Pyrrha covered her mouth and started laughing. His eye twitched in agitation and he sighed. He narrowed his eyes and looked at her menacingly, there will come a time and day when he will have his revenge.

Pyrrha noticed this and straightened up with the speed of light. She knew that face! It was the face when Naruto wanted to do a revenge prank, "Hey, what's with that face?"

"Nothing, nothing at all." his tone was so sweet that Pyrrha shivered in fright.

Naruto disappeared from his mindscape while she tried to stop him but, the deed was already done and so he focused back on the girl. He patted her down for any hidden weapons, which she had none and checked her umbrella. After testing it and figuring out what it could do he stashed it out of sight.

'Either her semblance allows her to do a henge or she can shapeshift.' he thought back to how her image changed when she went unconscious.

He took off his cloak and travel bag and freshened up. After settling in a chair he brought out a book and started reading. Other than keeping an eye on the girl he had nothing else to do. Sure, his plan to reach Haven as soon as possible was disturbed but this girl could give him information that he would find nowhere.

Naruto impatiently waited while his foot constantly tapped on the wooden floor. After thirty minutes Neo stirred in her place but her body was frozen. No ropes were keeping her bound but even when she struggled all her might nothing happened, it was like her body was held by something.

"There is no point in struggling." Naruto lazily replied while closing the book. He dragged his chair beside the bed so Neo could see him. He carefully started reading her emotions which were a jumbled mess but he could feel her anger. Anger at herself for getting caught by someone.

"Just answer my questions and I will let you go."He paused for Neo to understand when she nodded he continued, "First, where is Roman?"

Neo stared at him in anger but Naruto read the underlying emotion of extreme sadness. "Did he abandon you? Blink once for yes and twice for no."

Neo blinked twice and Naruto observed how she was telling the truth, he reached behind and took off the tag so she could. She was just about to away when Naruto grabbed her shoulder and put pressure on it. His eyes glowed blue with power and she started shaking.

"Sit. Down." He enunciated slowly.

Neo was too scared to do anything so she took her place on the bed and the pressure eased up from her shoulders. Naruto massaged his temples and leaned back.

"Where is Roman?" This time he asked with much more intimidation. When she did not answer he once again attacked her with killing intent.

"Are you mute or what?" He almost yelled at her in anger but when she blinked once while looking directly in his eyes, Naruto had to stop himself. His lips twitched in irritation and he cursed silently. He handed her a pen and paper to write her answers before continuing.

"Look Neo, I don't want to do this to you but if you don't answer my questions then I will have to do something drastic." His face without emotions and his eyes told Neo that this man will torture her if she did not agree to his demands. She wrote 'dead' on the paper and showed it to him.

"Who killed him?"

His brain short-circuited when she changed into Cinder and Ruby. He kept asking questions like why did she work with Roman, why did Roman started working for Cinder, what Cinder wanted him to do, everything else about Cinders group and even about Neo herself.

Neo did not know much about Roman's plans but Naruto still figured it out. Roman was afraid of Cinder, he did whatever she asked him to do because Roman was a simple low-life thug in Cinder's eyes and if he did not obey her than she would have killed him.

Neo was someone that he had picked up when she was just a little child and trained her so that one day she could become his partner. Their relationship, however, turned into that of a father and teacher or maybe it was just Neo's misconception but she was willing to take revenge for Roman's death and attack Cinder.

After the interrogation ended Naruto poured a glass of water for Neo and settled back down. He read all her emotions to make sure she was not lying to him and if she did Naruto attacked her some of the killing intent. It was obvious that Neo did not have any idea about Cinder being a maiden or she would not be looking for her and going for Ruby since she was weaker.

He started pacing around the room, Neo was going down the path of revenge and if she continued then she will lose her life to either Cinder or someone else.

"Do you think Ruby can kill Roman? Someone who is years ahead of Ruby in the experience department?" He asked suddenly.

Neo looked down and shook her head in negative, Naruto continued, "Do you think you can kill Cinder, who managed to kill Ozpin."

Neo, could not believe what she was hearing. Did Cinder manage to kill Ozpin? one of the youngest headmaster and a powerful huntsman!

He sat beside Neo and looked deep into her mismatched eyes, "Don't misunderstand me, I have nothing to do with you or Roman. My main goal is Cinder or the person who is supporting her." He paused when Neo looked at him weirdly, He laughed lightly and elaborated. "Do you really think that Cinder; a human can tell if the Grimm will specifically attack Beacon just because she managed to do something that incited negativity? No! someone else is behind her and who knows how many people just like Cinder are part of this group."

Neo stared down at her hands, now that everything was laid bare in front of her, she had a hard time believing it. Naruto put a hand on her shoulder and she looked up at him, "You might think of me as cruel because of the things I said but this is all to stop you from going down the path of revenge. I have seen what it does to people and I lost my brother to it."

"Naruto..." Pyrrha muttered, she was also listening to everything.

His shoulder sagged a little and Neo could see the hurt in his eyes, "In the end, he got his revenge. My friend was able to kill his enemy but he still didn't feel the satisfaction because the one he killed was his blood brother."

"In fact, I also wanted revenge on the person who killed my parents. I stood face to face with the person who killed my teacher."

He shuddered in thought, how close he was to killing Nagato but did not. "When I faced them, I learned that there were things more important than revenge. I learned that these people were misguided. Someone had used them like a puppet and I forgave them for the things they did."

"What I am trying to say is; Neo, I'm willing to give you the same chance that I did to all my previous enemies. Will you take it?" He presented his hand to Neo.