Itachi did so without another word. By the time they got back to team RWBY's room, everyone was getting a bit anxious. "We are back. Now, I believe that everyone is here. Will you please share with us what is going on?" He asked.

Once everyone was there, Naruto nodded and dove into his explanation, leaving nothing out. "...And now Sasuke's got her, and we all need to go together to get her back because it literally takes all of us to beat the bastard." He finished, looking miserable.

"So, what do you guys think? Will you come along and help us rescue Blake-chan?" Hikari asked, though she was relatively sure what the answer was already.

"Oh good, you're awake," Sasuke said as he saw Blake moving against the chains that he placed her in, as he walked into the room.

"who are you, and why am I chained up?! I'm not going back to White Fang, if that's what you're here for!" she shouted as the man looked at her funny for a few seconds before grinning.

'she doesn't remember? Interesting...' he thought before asking what she remembered last. He would then work with that in order to make her think that Naruto and his friends were the enemy.

~~~

"Of course we'll help, right sis?" Ruby asked as she got a nod from her half-sister, Yang. "Weiss?" Ruby asked as she turned towards her other teammate and her original partner.

"Do you really have to ask?" Weiss asked as all the members of Team HANA looked at her for a few seconds. "Ugh, fine. Yes I'm going to help, alright? Even I like Blake and I guess I can help," she said before getting hugged by Ruby, getting a thank you from the red-hooded girl.

Naruto jumped up, that familiar fire in his eyes again. "All right, let's go! We gotta save Blake-chan, and fast!" He said, clenching one fist.

Hikari stood up as well, and nodded. "Right, I'm ready." She said determinedly.

"I will be coming as well, obviously. The question is, do we know where we are going?" Itachi asked reasonably.

Naruto sweatdropped. "Uh...not exactly...but I can find them just by smell!" He reassured quickly.

"Then what are we waiting for Foxy? Let's go get your girlfriend back," Amaya exclaimed with a grin.

Ark chuckled but nodded. "Blake's a friend of all of us. Let's go get her back...and maybe while we're at it, I can get some answers from the bastard as well" Ark said as he clenched his fist in anger.

(Gemini? Don't you mean Hikari?)

"I thought that the White Fang don't work with humans..." Blake said after telling the man, who introduced him as a freedom fighter named Sasuke, and that a fox faunus was after her. This Faunus' name was Naruto Uzumaki and he was tricking several humans to help aid him in getting her back.

"At one point, they didn't. But they realized that by tricking humans, they could get what they wanted far quicker than just working by themselves in the shadows," Sasuke explained with a straight face as he molded Blake into the perfect fighting machine against the dobe. Though he would have to neutralize the others somehow...

((Shoot! Wolfie never mixes up her characters...hang on, she'll fix it.))

Once Naruto had caught Blake's scent, it was a relatively simple matter to follow it. He set a brutal pace, determined to get to Blake before Sasuke did something to her.

Hikari knew they had arrived when Naruto stopped suddenly, his whole body rigid. "Is this it?" She asked, getting a nod from the blonde.

"We must proceed carefully. My brother will be expecting us, and if he isn't, then we must surprise him." Itachi said. "But more than anything, we must stick together. If we do have to split up, then we must split up in pairs or groups. It is imperative that whoever finds Blake-chan does not do so alone, as they will most definitely end up in a battle." He told them.

"Okay, we get it. Now let's just go already." Weiss said impatiently.

"Right. In we go." Hikari broke the lock on a window and opened it quietly, then motioned for everyone to enter.

Ark had a feeling that the bastard already knew they were coming and that it was only a matter of time before they had to fight him. 'Though why did he just take Blake? Unless...' he thought as a bad idea came to his mind. "Hey guys...why do you think he kidnapped Blake instead of killing her like he did with Hinata? There has to be a reason," he whispered. Just because he was going on the assumption that they were already known to Sasuke didn't mean he was going to give up the element of surprise if they did have it.

"Interesting...both the Dobe and my target came to their doom. Blake-chan, do you think you can take care of Naruto?" he asked, getting a nod from the cat Faunus. Finding that out was somewhat of a surprise, but since he knew that she was in White Fang at one point in time, that she was definitely a Faunus of some sort. Seeing her nod, he smirked. 'This is going to be fun...'

(Um...Phoenix has question! Should Blake fight with her ribbon in place or without?)

((Erm...with, probably. The big reveal about her being a faunus doesn't happen until later...then again, it would be an interesting reveal...urgh! Wolfie can't decide!))

Naruto growled, trying to keep himself quiet. "He said he was going to program her to kill me. I have a bad feeling about that choice of words." He whispered back. There was a nagging feeling in the back of his mind that something bad was about to happen.

"That sounds like something my brother would do. When we find Blake-chan, we must be careful, just in case." Itachi muttered.

Hikari nodded. "You don't think he changed her memory of us...do you?" She asked, her voice low as well.

Hikari shivered at the notion, but kept moving. If that was the case, it was even more important that they find Blake as soon as possible.

Naruto's ears perked up. "I can smell Blake-chan. We're close to wherever she's being kept." He said quietly.

Blake stood waiting for Naruto and the humans that he manipulated into helping him, not realizing that she was being tricked. Having a sword in her hand, she mentally reminded herself with what Sasuke said: That they would try tricking her into thinking that they were her friend, or some other nonsense.

Naruto found the door to the room where Blake was, and opened it. "Blake-chan? Are you- Blake-chan!" He cried happily as he spotted her. His happiness faded when he saw that Blake had a sword in her hand, pointed at him. "Blake-chan? What are you doing?"

Hikari entered after Naruto, but froze when she saw what was going on. "Oh, no. Blake-chan..."

Itachi was the next one to enter, and he was not at all surprised at what he saw. His only hope was that Sasuke wasn't expecting him to be there, which would let him use his resemblance as Sasuke's brother to his advantage. For the moment, he stayed in the shadows, waiting for the right time to speak up.

(Once this is all done, think Blake and Naruto could pull the excuse that it was Sasuke who made her say those things about herself and Naruto? Then later on when it IS revealed that they are actual former White Fang members...the pain will be much easier to use)

"What does it look like I'm doing Fox?" Blake asked as she held the sword in her hand, waiting for Naruto to make the first move. "I'm not going back to the White Fang! I left that lifestyle behind me ever after the new leader came into being!" she shouted as Blake narrowed her eyes at the trio in front of her, not knowing that Sasuke's brother was standing in the shadows.

Amaya had quickly hidden herself in the shadows next to the person she had a crush on, forcibly focusing her mind on the mission currently at hand. The reason she was next to Itachi was that she had a feeling she wouldn't be able to control herself if she fought Blake. On one hand, Blake was a friend, but by her mentioning White Fang...she didn't think she could control herself and pull her punches. She didn't want to accidentally kill Blake...

((That could work...))

Naruto's jaw dropped, and still he made no move to draw his weapon. "The White Fang? What the hell are you talking about? I left that group years before you did! I would never be one of those jerks! What has Sasuke been telling you?" He asked, already planning Sasuke's slow and painful death. "Listen, Blake-chan, I'm sure you don't remember, but we talked a while back, and realized that we remembered each other from White Fang as kids. Don't you remember how we played together? I called you B-chan and we played, and then I disappeared. Don't you remember me?"

Hikari stared openly at Naruto. He had left before her? They were both former White Fang members? She couldn't muster up enough brain power to speak, the shock was so great.

Blake narrowed her eyes at Naruto. "Stop trying to lie to me! she shouted before rushing towards the fox and the two humans standing with him. Seeing that the human female wasn't moving, she targeted her first.

"Oh no you don't Blake-chan! Ark shouted as he jumped in front of Hikari, using his quarterstaff to block the sword strikes. "Hika-chan, get your head in the game! We'll ask questions later!" he shouted back towards her. Until then, they had to stay alive while also not killing Blake. He also didn't want to hurt her too badly, but knew he didn't have much of a choice...

Amaya was surprised to hear that both Naruto and Blake were once in White Fang and clenched her fists tightly in anger. These two...they could have been part of the attack all those years ago...or knew the Faunus who ordered the attack. Now more than ever, she wanted to fight and get answers, both from Naruto, as well as Blake...

"Miss Amaya-chan, please...calm down," Itachi whispered, trying to get her to see reason. He knew that she hated the Faunus, especially the ones from White Fang, but he also knew that if she joined the fight then she would be more of a hindrance than of help if she were fighting purely with her emotions.

Hikari snapped out of her shock when Ark stepped in to block an attack meant for her. Biting her lip, she drew her scissor blades. "This isn't right, we can't all fight her. I don't want to hurt you, Blake-chan." She said, trying to reason with the girl.

Naruto sighed, and drew his blade. "So you remember the White Fang, but you don't remember me? It figures. Of course Sasuke-teme would plant lies in your head." He said, shaking his head. "Guys, stand down. I'll fight her."

Weiss drew her weapon. "There is no way you get dibs on her. I'm fighting her whether you like it or not!" She said, her hatred for faunus in general kicking in.

"This has to stop. Sasuke is still lurking around, and if we all tire ourselves fighting now, things will be bad when he shows up." Itachi said quietly. He stepped out of the shadows before anymore blows were exchanged. "Naruto-kun, Blake-chan, please stand down. Blake-chan, I do not know what my brother has told you, but I would like to straighten it out. Would you mind just talking with me for a bit?" He asked politely.

Blake made the mistake of looking into Itachi's eyes, not realizing that he had activated his Semblance at that point in time causing his eyes to go red. "Alright...I'll listen" she said finally.

Blake listened to Itachi, surprised that he knew so much about her when she knew nothing about him. "Sasuke did tell me those things...that Naruto tricked all of you into coming here and bringing me back to White Fang. But I'm curious...you say you have proof; can I see it?" she said and asked. She hadn't put her sword away yet, just in case someone tried something. She could still sense the two girls outside the room, both ready to fire some sort of projectile based weaponry.

Itachi nodded. "Of course. I would never withhold evidence, especially this kind. I assume you remember the weapon that you usually battle with?" He asked, making sure she remembered that little detail first.

Hikari held her breath. Blake's weapon was his proof? That could go either way, she thought. Itachi had to play his cards exactly right to make this work. Meanwhile, who actually had Blake's weapon?

"Of course I remember it, I'm wielding it right now," Blake said as she pointed towards the sword in her right hand. It was the sword that Sasuke had given to her before giving her time to escape the first encounter with White Fang years ago, or so Sasuke made her believe.

"You don't...you don't remember Gambol Shroud?" Ruby asked. Once the talking began, she placed her Scythe into passive mode, clipping it onto her back. She had asked to hold onto Blake's weapon after the explanation happened and Ark voluntarily gave it to the red-themed girl. "You don't remember this? She asked as she brought the weapon out for display, making sure that Blake knew Ruby wasn't going to use it against her.