Fusion of Forces | Chapter 17

Naruto was a little surprised when he saw his team's reactions, or lack thereof, when they found out that they'd all be sharing a room together. Although thinking about it, Nora was far too bubbly and innocent to really care about stuff like that and Ren was generally apathetic to most things in life. Pyrrha didn't look at all bothered by it either which he guessed was due to her being more focused on other things like actually training and getting to know her new friends.

Of course Naruto could care less. Having Jiraiya as a godfather and mentor meant that he was pretty familiar with the female form. Besides that though, there were plenty of times he had to share a tent or even a bed with a female teammate on a mission and getting all flustered because of something as insignificant as gender was pretty immature, especially on a mission when you could very well die if you were not on guard at all times.

Even still he and the others stared questioningly at the current arrangement of furniture. All the beds were smooshed together in one corner with a dresser for each shoved into another corner. That wasn't even taking into account their own personal belongings either.

The room was clearly not big enough to hold four people and their things properly.

"Uhh...how the heck do they expect us to all fit like this?" Naruto asked aloud as he scratched his head in wonder.

Pyrrha shrugged and Ren offered a thoughtful frown as his response.

"Ooo! What if it's so that when the zombie apocalypse happens the zombies won't be able to make it around all this furniture!"

Pyrrha was quietly giggling at Nora's odd response while Ren, more than used to his friend's eccentricities, only sighed and shook his head. Naruto couldn't resist and just laughed at the hammer wielding girl's oddness. Nora herself continued to smile that goofy smile of hers.

'Odd girl's stupidity aside, I say you just toss out two of the beds. You bunk with the hot red head and Mr. Life Is Oh So Boring over there can probably get the weird vixen to bang a smile onto his face,' Kurama spoke nonchalantly.

Naruto began to sputter as a blush spread across his face. He'd be lying if he said the thought wasn't tempting. Pyrrha was very attractive and he doubted Ren and Nora would mind the arrangement either. Though the thought of the two doing the naked tango was hilarious and he had to stop himself from ending up on the floor with tears of laughter streaming down his face.

He did not want to explain to anybody why he was suddenly dying of laughter.

Noticing that Pyrrha was sending him a questioning look, no doubt wondering why he was suddenly blushing, Naruto managed to pull himself together.

After a moment's thought he snapped his fingers as the proverbial light bulb went off, "Bunk beds!"

The other members of NNPR appeared to mull the idea over a bit before they gave their response.

"It would be the most efficient way to make this work," Pyrrha offered.

Ren nodded along in agreement with the redheaded teen's statement. Nora on the other hand was the most vocal about her opinion, "Yay! Ren! We're finally getting those bunk beds we've wanted since we were five! Maybe next we can go get that chinchilla I've always wanted! Or maybe a pet fox!...wait...no Naruto already has one. Hmm..."

Ren put hand to face in what seemed to be a perfectly executed performance of the universally known "Face Palm no jutsu". Then again having Nora as a friend probably gave him a lot of practice.

Naruto began to wonder how Ren didn't have a single gray hair by now. Stroking his non-existent beard in thought, the blonde was hit with an epiphany.

"That's why you dyed those parts of your hair pink! To hide your gray hairs!"

"Take that back! Ren does not have a single gray hair! I should know, I was the one who dyed his hair," Nora huffed in an effort to defend her long time friend.

As Nora and Naruto began a heated debate on hair color of all things, Pyrrha was torn between laughing her butt off or feeling sorry for Ren who looked to be close to smacking his head on a wall.

Before much else could happen the familiar voice of a certain scythe wielding girl's voice rang throughout the halls, "Uhh...TO CLASS!"

The four members of team NNPR turned to look at the clock at the wall and seeing that they only had five minutes to make it to class on time, began to hurriedly grab their school supplies before rushing out the door, feet behind the members of an equally rushing team RWBY.

As the two teams kept pace with each other in their mad dash to get to class on time Naruto casually struck up a conversation with his fellow team leader, "So is your room as cramped as ours?"

Ruby smiled upon seeing her blond friend and shook her head, "Nope! Not anymore!"

Naruto chuckled at the bubbly girl's response and replied, "What'd you do, toss out your beds?"

Again Ruby shook her head as they veered around a corner, narrowly avoiding a random passerby as they did so, "Nope! We just made bunk beds!"

"I guess what they say is true, great minds think alike!" Naruto replied back with a grin.

Our blonde protagonist could faintly hear Weiss scoff from behind them and mutter something about them being nuts. In response Naruto just turned back and childishly stuck his tongue out at the white haired Schnee heiress.

However his attention was diverted when he heard Pyrrha's voice call out to him, "Naruto! Look out!"

Turning around the blond Uzumaki cursed under his breath as he realized he was on a collision course with a random female student who didn't realize that she had a group of eight speeding teens headed towards her.

Deciding to show off a bit Naruto lowered himself closer to the floor before opening his arms, scooping the shocked teen into his arms.

"Sorry 'bout this!" He called as he casually tossed the girl over his head like a sack of potatoes.

The girl screamed as she feared that she was going to be trampled on by the other teens behind the blond, but was surprised when she was caught in the arms of a sheepishly grinning Pyrrha.

"We really are sorry about this," the redhead said before depositing her in a nearby hallway, out of the way of the rest of teams RWBY and NNPR.

For a few seconds the still frightened and astonished girl stood stock still, trying to wrap her mind around what had just happened to her in the span of a few seconds. As her mind realized what had happened she robotically turned on her foot and began to make her way back down the hallway she had come from, deciding that it would be best if she never spoke of what had just happened.

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