Under normal circumstances the red haired Huntress in training of team NNPR would have been laughing at the ridiculous situations that her fellow Huntress was imagining, but her worry for her friend and captain's safety had taken precedent in her mind.
Logically speaking she shouldn't be worried, knowing full well that Naruto could more than take care of himself under most circumstances. However that same logical part of her brain was quick to point out that while extremely powerful for his age, her blond captain was not invincible by any means. He could still be hurt, he could still bleed, and even worse, he could still be killed.
As that dreadful thought crossed her mind, the sound of someone knocking at their door pulled her from her worry invoked daze. Hoping that it was their missing whiskered blond come back from wherever he was, Pyrrha rushed to the door.
Opening it and seeing a shock of sun kissed blond hair, a sigh of relief escaped her lips. That was however taken back when she opened the door fully, revealing that knocking at the door was not the blond of team NNPR, but the blonde of team RWBY.
Before Pyrrha could even get a word in, a worried looking Ruby stepped into view and spoke, "Is Blake with you guys?"
Sighing, the taller red head shook her head, "No she's not."
"She's probably with Naruto then," Yang said with a shrug.
"Naruto has also been missing as well," Ren said, joining the conversation.
Clearly even more worried than before, Ruby interjected, "Wait so Naruto is missing as well? He didn't say where he was going?"
Seeing the sad shake of Pyrrha's head did nothing to ease the younger teen's fears.
Now beginning to realize the oddness of the situation, Yang became somewhat serious, "Blake didn't tell us anything either, and that's not like them to just up and leave without saying anything to someone."
With a huff, the final member of the all girl team jumped into the conversation, "Maybe we're just blowing this whole thing out of proportion. What if Blake asked Naruto to go with her somewhere or something?"
The other occupants of the room turned to look at Weiss as if she had grown a second head, "What!? Is it that weird that Blake and Naruto would actually get along?"
Browsing through one of the many book stores in Vales shopping district, Blake began to feel an odd tingling in her nose. That tingle soon became that familiar feeling and with a short intake of breath, the cat Faunus sneezed.
Naruto popped his head over the shelf that stood between him and his friend and said, "Bless you."
Rubbing her nose to get rid of the slightly itchy feeling left by the sudden sneeze, Blake replied, "Thanks."
Returning to her browsing, the young woman continued on with her previous conversation, "So you're godfather was an author? What's the title of one of his books?"
Busy browsing through his own half of the book shelf, Naruto shrugged, "His first book was 'The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi'. Sadly it wasn't a huge hit or anything, but my parents liked it enough to name me after the main character."
"So what about his other books?"
The sound of something hitting the floor caused Blake to look over the shelf to see her blond friend blushing as he picked up the books he had dropped.
Putting the last of the dropped books back on the shelf, Naruto sheepishly began to chuckle and rub the back of his head, "Uh...well, they were a little...different from his first book."
Quirking a brow, the stoic girl asked, "How so?"
"Uhhhh...well it was a series called...'Icha Icha'...," Just saying the name had Naruto feeling like he should bang his head on a wall or something. Jiraiya was many things, and he had been the male role model the blond so needed at a time of his life that could have made or broke him. However that didn't change the fact that at his roots, the famed Sage of Mt. Myōboku was an unrepentant and shameless pervert.
"...Make out?" Blake said with a blush lighting her cheeks as she realized what kind of books Naruto's godfather wrote. The title was simple, but no doubt did the job of describing exactly what the book entailed.
Not being able to resist, Ruby allowed a snort to escape as she laughed at her teammate, "Come on Weiss, Naruto and Blake getting along? That's like you and Nora becoming best friends or something."
At that, the room's occupants laughed at the absurdity of such a notion.
To be fair the thought did seem far fetched. As it was the Schnee heiress had very little interactions with team NNPR outside of her odd friendship with their blond captain and the few short talks she had with Pyrrha. The fact that, despite recent changes with her interactions with her team, and to a degree, Naruto, Weiss was still pretty stuck up and people like Nora just bothered her on principle alone, played a huge part.
Nora, while extremely bubbly and cheerful, held no love for the heiress of team RWBY, something which was again not that surprising. Again outside of their acknowledgement of each other during such times as this, they had nothing to say to the other. The fact that their personalities clashed so heavily and without their being a need for them to get along, the likelihood of the two young women actually becoming much more than acquittances was pretty much zero.
Putting fist to palm, the younger captain of team RWBY called out, "Looks like we'll have to assemble a search and rescue team to find our friends!"
For some reason as the three members of each team began to go over a game plan of sorts, Pyrrha had the sinking feeling that Naruto and Blake would end up finding them, in some of form of trouble.
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