So, I'm still quite alive as you can see. . . . I'm really sorry for not coming back to this story sooner. It's been more than half a year that you all been waiting for me to update this story along with many others I have.
To that I once again apologize but life does get in the way as you should know.
But I'm back, for better or for worst I am back and sadly that means I'm going to have to catch up on a lot of my stories. . . Oh dear god, why did I have to create so many.
Anyways, I figured you all want to get to the story so before we do that.
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Now then, lets get started.
Ozpin stared out into the distance from his office to see several airships flying around his academy. He glanced to the side to see Glynda standing next to him with her arms crossed as she looks out the window with a bored look on her face.
"Ironwood certainly loves bringing his work wherever he travels" Glynda said dryly as she walked up to Ozpin who seemed to noticed a rather irritated tone in her voice.
"Well, running an academy and a military makes him a busy man" Ozpin responded as he watched three more bullheads fly past his tower "But yes, those are a bit of an eyesore" Ozpin muttered mostly to himself before hearing chirping beeps coming from his desk as he turned to see a virtual-message asking for access "Come in" Ozpin stated as the message faded away as the elevator door opened to reveal General Ironwood.
"Ozpin" Ironwood called out cordially as he approached Beacon's headmaster with his arms open wide.
"Hello, General" Ozpin said politely as he moved towards his old acquaintance.
"Please" Ironwood said as he approached Ozpin "Drop the formalities" Ironwood said as the two shook hands as Glynda walks over to them "Glynda, it's been awhile. The last time we met was when-"
"When I gave birth, yes I remember" Glynda cutting the General off as she gave him a stern look.
"Come now, are you still hung up about that little incident. We're on the same side Glynda" Ironwood said in a placating manner while taking a step back.
"That may be so, but what my husband said still stands. Stay away from my child" Glynda said bumping against Ironwood's left shoulder as she entered the elevator and left the two headmasters alone.
Ironwood scratched the back of his head before looking at Ozpin "Well, she certainly can hold a grudge" Ironwood said mildly.
"Well to be fair, you did technically want to take her child away from her" Ozpin pointed out as he turned towards his desk
"To make sure the child stays safe, a new power that possibly has untold potential would be a large target if 'They' ever find out. Oum knows what would happen if they ever do manage to get their hands on that power. The possibilities are frightening alone" Ironwood tried to explain himself as Ozpin let out a sigh.
"True, but you did try to take her child to be studied on the very same day she was born. Any mother would resent you for doing that" Ozpin pointed out as he picked up a mug and kettle before walking back to Ironwood.
Ironwood let out a tired sigh as Ozpin poured coffee into the mug in hand "That may be so, but I was only trying to warn them as soon as possible while being discreet in front of her extended family without dragging them into this circle of ours" Ironwood said as Ozpin handed him the freshly filled mug "I would've thought Glynda understood this better than anyone as she is a longstanding member of this group" Ironwood said with a solemn look on his face as he stared down at his coffee.
"True, but I expected you to have at least some tact when informing them of this when I brought you to them" Ozpin stated as Ironwood took out a small flask from within his coat as he began pouring its contents into his mug.
"I was paranoid at the time, I'll admit to that. But you know what is out there, paranoia is well within our job description when dealing with the forces outside our borders" Ironwood said gravely as Ozpin frowned.
Ozpin walks over to his desk as he picked up a new mug as he filled it with coffee. He moved around his table as he sat down in his chair as he set the kettle down on the table.
"I'll admit, at first I was concerned for Glynda's child when I learned the child had something other than aura locked away inside her. But after some time she and her husband have made it clear that they are capable parents of taking care of their child and handling anything that involves that power locked away. Not to mention it would be foolish for anyone to try and take a child of not one but two experienced Huntsmen, so for now let them be" Ozpin said as he took a sip from his mug "If they need help, we'll be there for them" Ozpin said softly.
Ironwood stared at his old friend for a moment before letting out a ragged sigh "Fine, I'll trust your judgement Ozpin" Ironwood conceded as Ozpin gave him a small smile.
"If only you trusted my judgement and not bring those with you" Ozpin said lightly as he gestured behind towards all of Ironwood's ships flying outside.
"We are going to be welcomed to a new kingdom. A kingdom of which doesn't know what the true purpose our academies are for, or the dangers that are lurking in the shadows" Ironwood responded strongly as he took a step forward "It's only reasonable that we try to protect this fledgling kingdom from that darkness or they'll just be a forgotten part of history like all other kingdoms that tried to make it in this world" Ironwood stated with his head held high.
"Or cause concern" Ozpin takes a drink before setting his mug down "We are in a time of peace. Shows of power like this are just going to give off the wrong impression. This nation may be new, but they are handling themselves quite well without any other kingdoms' involvement" Ozpin said softly as Ironwood put his mug down on Ozpin's desk "They're even creating a decent economy around their personal Dust mines" Ozpin stated as he pulled out a vibrant red Dust crystal from within his coat.
Ironwood let out a soft chuckle and shook his head as Ozpin placed the Dust onto his desk. It was no short of a miracle of them creating a new Dust refining process to create some of the most finest Dust in the world. It was also the fact they knew this and kept their refining process a secret to the world, more specifically to Atlas.
"Yes, Jacques has been hounding me to help him try to expand his business into their kingdom to which they refuse to let his workers even touch down on their soil. Not like I can do anything, they quite literally expressed their dislike of the Schnee company" Ironwood said with a dry laugh.
"So were they the ones that painted a few of his private airships pink?" Ozpin inquired with a playful smile.
"They're response to that question during meeting I had with them is and I quote 'We didn't have the time to get enough white fur to put fake mustaches on them, so painting them pink would suffice at the time' unquote" Ironwood explained while trying his hardest to not laugh while Ozpin hid his smile behind his mug.
"They do quite have a sense humor" Ozpin said with a chuckle.
"Indeed but when it comes to me or Atlas in general they quite audibly state their dislike of us" Ironwood shaking his head at the tense standing he has with the leader of Kizuro.
"Maybe it's the fact you're trying to bring your army to their doorstep" Ozpin suggested casually as an airship started taking off in the distance behind Ozpin.
"This dislike towards us isn't a recent development, it is something they held for a long time" Ironwood said taking a sip from his mug.
"Any reason as to why the dislike towards you" Ozpin inquired as the General shook his head.
"None whatsoever, but that doesn't matter because if what Qrow said is true-"
"If what Qrow said is true, then we will handle it tactfully" Ozpin said cutting off Ironwood "It's the Vytal Festival. A time to celebrate unity and peace, to old and new kingdoms. So I suggest that you not scare people by transporting hundreds of soldiers halfway across the world. Especially to a kingdom that doesn't have quite a fondness towards Atlas as you had said" Ozpin said in a low tone.
"That leader of theirs is going to be the end of them. I try to be reasonable but he takes my suggestions and put them off to the side when it comes to their safety" Ironwood said irritably.
"Maybe it's the fact you try to take control of everything that he doesn't like" Ozpin suggested while Ironwood just looked offended at what Ozpin said.
"All I try to do is act for the good of the people, whether it be for Atlas, Mistral, Vacuo, Vale and now Kizuro" Ironwood responded harshly.
"That may be, but you must realize that they may not want your help" Ozpin pointed to his old friend who calmed down a bit.
"Yes but only because their leader denies it before I even offer. The future we're heading is moving towards a dark turn Ozpin, all I'm doing is preparing for the worst" Ironwood responded tiredly.
"As am I. Which is why we will continue to train the best Huntsmen and Huntresses we can" Ozpin stated as Ironwood let out a soft sigh.
" Believe me, I am" Ironwood said solemnly placing a hand over his chest before turning and walking away "But ask yourself this" Ironwood suddenly says as he stopped at the elevator door "Do you honestly believe your children can win a war?" Ironwood states before continuing his way out of the office.
"I hope they never have to" Ozpin said mostly to himself.
Sasuke was standing in the middle of the training room with his eyes closed. Sasuke took a deep breath and exhaled as he tilted his head back in the direction of something appearing behind him.
Rhea suddenly popped out of his shadow with her fists covered in fire. Sasuke opened his visible eye as he spun around to dodge Rhea's strike before grabbing her arm. Sasuke proceeded to flip Rhea midair onto her back with a loud thud. Sasuke, who was still holding onto Rhea, dragged her across the floor and tossed her behind his back when he heard footsteps approaching.
Akio jumped into the air over his thrown teammate, who landed quite a distance back, as he thrust his naginata downward at Sasuke. Sasuke side stepped the strike as Akio landed next to Sasuke and swung his weapon horizontally, causing Sasuke to lean back to dodge the attack. Sasuke jumped up when Akio swung his weapon back as he pulled out his Kusanagi to parry the strike that came from behind.
The attack came from Ivy who held up her other dagger and thrusted the blade downward towards her leader. Sasuke with his free hand pushed the oncoming dagger away from him before grabbing Ivy's wrist before performing a back kick against Akio's gut to push him away. Ivy who's wrist was still held by Sasuke, jumped up and wrapped her legs around Sasuke's arm and part of his neck in a hold. Sasuke grabbed Ivy's leg and pulled her off by biting down onto her ankle, causing her to wince and loosen her hold before he threw her off to the side.
Ivy landed in a roll before she pushed against the floor into a running position before kicking off back towards Sasuke. Sasuke immediately began to swing his sword at Ivy who began blocking each strike at her. Ivy then parried a thrust and lunged forward with her assault against her leader. Moving her blades in a fury of motion, twisting around her hands with slashes and thrusts with a few feints in between as Sasuke kept on defense.
Sasuke who moved down from a horizontal slash, preformed a spinning leg sweep which Ivy dodged by jumping over it. This gave Sasuke an opportunity as he pulled out three kunai and threw them at Ivy.
Ivy knocked each kunai out of her way with her daggers before having to hold her blades up in defense as Sasuke had preformed a jump kick. Sasuke pushed off her blades upward and swung his blade while overhead.
Ivy rolled out of the way as Sasuke landed behind her before taking a deep breath and calming his heart. Ivy faltered when she realized Sasuke had disappeared from her echolocation.
Ivy let out a small curse under her breath as she warily moved back. Ivy kept whipping her head around, letting out soft chirps to sense the vibration around her. The most she got was blurry images that appeared around her every so often.
Ivy let out a growl before taking a deep breath. Ivy leaned forward as she released an ear piercing screeching as the world around her become truly clear as she knew where Sasuke was.
Only to realize that Sasuke was in front of her with his blade moving towards her head. Ivy moved her head to the side at the last moment as the only thing that was cut was a lock of hair. Sasuke then spun on his heel while wrapping his left arm around her neck, dragging her along with him before lifting her up and slamming her down onto the ground.
Ivy bounced off the ground once and was about to land back down before Sasuke grabbed her collar and pulled her back up. Only to give her a headbutt, causing her to stagger back for a moment before looking back at Sasuke. To which she was greeted to the sight of the bottom of Sasuke's sandals as she kicked right in the face as she was sent flying a few feet before skidding across the ground for a moment as the last of her aura shimmered and dissipated to nothing.
Sasuke heard the crackles of lightning and whipped his body around to find Rhea skidding her heels against the floor to stop just in front of him with both her hands held up high. Her right hand was covered in lightning while her left had wind whirling around it like a violent manner.
She brought her hands together with an insanely deafening clap that caused Sasuke to flinch from the loud booming sound it had made. Sasuke regained his composure before noticing that rhea and ducked her into shadow and shot into a shadow that was cast overhead. Sasuke flicked his eyes upward and flipped backwards as Akio had pierced the ground where he once stood.
Akio pulled his weapon out of the ground and spun it around as it reverted back to its bow form. He began firing aura arrows at Sasuke who moved out of the way from each shot.
Sasuke continued moving out of each shot before spinning around and kicking Rhea who jumped out of his shadow, sending her back a few feet before she landed in a crouch with her left hand crackling with lightning.
Sasuke moved his head to the side when an arrow few past him before rolling to the side as Rhea shot a bolt of lightning at him. This continued on for a bit before Akio locked eyes with Rhea who gave him a smirk and nodded at him.
Akio stopped firing at Sasuke as he began slowly forming an arrow that was far different than the usual ones he had made before. It was much stronger than the usual arrows that were fired at Sasuke, along with its body looking like it had three arrows twisted around each other like a spiral-like motion and the arrowhead having three edges that was twisted in the likeness of its body.
While Akio was forming the arrow, Rhea had unfurled her wings and took flight. She flying high up into the air, raining down bolts of lightning at Sasuke who moved out of the way from each strike.
Rhea stopped moving as she cupped her hands together as a condensed ball of lightning was formed in her hands. Rhea lifted her hands up before throwing it downward at Sasuke who jumped back from the impact area where the explosion caused bits of the ground to shoot up into the air and dust to fill the area.
Rhea flapped her wings and flew in place as she looked down at the dust cloud, looking for Sasuke until she noticed a shadow moving in the dust cloud. Rhea lifted her hands back before throwing more bolts of lightning at the shadow.
After the third bolt of lightning the cloud dissipated and revealed to be Sasuke's sword embedded into the ground. Rhea looked confused before she began looking around as she started flying off to the side.
Which was a mistake as Rhea looked in front of her and saw Sasuke standing on the edge of the ring on the stand walls. Sasuke jumped off the wall towards Rhea as the faunus tried to fly away from him but was too slow as Sasuke managed to tackle her midair. The sudden increase of weight threw Rhea off balance as she began to fall downward while she struggled against Sasuke who trying to take control of the situation and have her face the ground. They continued to struggle for a moment before Sasuke suddenly jumped off her body and off to the side. Rhea looked forward, only for her face to kiss the ground with a massive thump.
Rhea let out a pained groan as she pushed her body up slightly and looked around disoriented as the world was spinning for her. Once the world stopped spinning for Rhea she began to get back on her feet, right before Sasuke appeared in front of her and kicked her. The kick to the chin sent her off to the side, destroying the remaining amount of aura she had.
Sasuke rolled his shoulders before he heard something was pulled back tightly. Sasuke whipped his head around to see Akio Struggling to keep his newly made arrow steady as it glowed brightly.
Sasuke edged back slightly as he wasn't sure what this arrow would do before noticing Akio was grinning maniacally. Akio let loose the arrow as it shot from his bow like a bullet from a gun.
Sasuke was about to move if the arrow didn't suddenly split into three different parts. The arrow had split from the center as they spun around in the air like a cyclone, still heading towards Sasuke.
The gap they made would've allowed Sasuke to easily jumped through the center of the three arrows, if they didn't suddenly explode.
The three separate parts of the arrow exploded forward into a show of needles that gave Sasuke no room to move. Sasuke only choice was to cover his face with his arms as his body felt the full brunt of the needles showering his body.
Once the shower of needles stopped raining on Sasuke he moved his arms down and saw the edge of a blade moving towards his face. Sasuke leaned back from the strike before jerking his head back even further when the blade's cutting edge was lengthened by an inch from Akio's aura surrounding the blade.
Sasuke took a few steps back as a few strands of hair fell to the floor. Sasuke stared at Akio who now held his weapon in its dual ended naginata form with both of the weapon's blades covered in aura, giving it more cutting power.
This reminded Sasuke of how shinobi back in his time would increase their range of their weapons using chakra.
Sasuke continued this line of thought before having to duck from an horizontal slash as Akio began to spin his weapon around his body, moving to attack Sasuke with each rotation of his weapon. Sasuke moved away from Akio who gripped one end of his weapon near the blade before thrusting the other end as aura from the tip of the blade shot outward a good few inches.
Sasuke sidestepped the thrust at the last second before moving into Akio's personal space. Sasuke punched Akio in the gut with enough force to make Akio lurch slightly forward.
Sasuke then grabbed Akio's weapon with both hands as he suddenly jumped up, kicking both his feet against Akio's face as he flew back with his partner's weapon in hand. Akio fell onto his back a few feet away while Sasuke landed on his feet, tossing the weapon to the side.
Akio tried to scramble back up but looked up to only see Sasuke's foot about to hit him.
It did hit, but not his body. Akio had lifted his hand up fast enough, as well as create a small veil of aura extending from his hand like a shield. Although it was rushed, meaning he didn't have enough time to truly form, cracks appeared in the veil of aura around the spot Sasuke kicked.
Sasuke pulled his foot back and kicked once more as Akio rolled out of the way. Akio moved into a crouched position as he formed a simple looking dagger out of this aura and threw it at Sasuke.
Sasuke took a step to the side as the dagger flew harmlessly by him. He then pulled out a kunai from one of his many pouches and parried Akio's thrust from another dagger he created.
Akio slashed at Sasuke with the dagger as he began extending the length, forcing Sasuke to take a step back from the sudden increased range. Akio continued attacking Sasuke while he formed needles between the fingers of his free hand. Akio jumped back in the middle of a feint as he threw the needles at Sasuke who rolled out of the way.
Sasuke kicked off against the ground in a sprint of he immediately closed the distance with Akio. Sasuke suddenly slid between Akio's legs, grabbing them as he passed under before pulling them with him. Akio fell forward but pushed against the ground with his hands as he twisted his body to try and kick Sasuke.
Sasuke's response was to grab Akio's outstretched foot and pull him closer as he slammed his fist into the side of teammate's head. Akio tried to get back up, only for Sasuke to slam his foot down on Akio's chest to pin him back down onto the ground which caused the blue haired man's aura to shimmer and dissipate.
"Welp, we lost. Again" Akio mumbled dryly with a pained groan.
"Why can't we have fun like normal people when we don't have classes!" Rhea complained which was muffled as she was lying on her stomach with her face pressed against the ground. Ivy let out a groan of agreement as she pushed herself up into a sitting position.
Sasuke rolled his eye as he took his foot off of his partner and held his hand out to him.
Akio stared at the hand before grumbling as he accepted the help up as Sasuke pulled him up into a standing position. Akio let out a groan as he rubbed the side of his head, flinching from the sudden stinging feeling.
"Because you all need to work on expanding your capabilities or you won't be able to keep up with future opponents" Sasuke stated as he watched Rhea struggle to get up before falling back down. "Which is really hard because if I am to classify you all it would be a type of support, not someone who would fight on the front lines like myself" Sasuke pointed out.
"If that's so, then why don't you just train us in fighting upfront instead of kicking our asses" Rhea spat out.
"That's because the best way to learn is through first hand experience of knowing where you lack in combat" Sasuke began as he walked over to Ivy "I may have been lenient since we first became a team but that is only because I figured you would learn how to deal with your weaknesses on your own. Sadly it seems I have no choice but to step in" Sasuke said as he stood over Ivy who was now sitting down.
"Oh yes, it's not like a leader should come and help their teammates or something like that" Rhea said sarcastically while gesturing to herself still struggling to stand up straight.
"Thank me when these training sessions imprint vital information in your mind for future scenarios that could possibly save you" Sasuke said as he brushed off the winged faunus' comment.
"Jackass" Rhea muttered dryly
Sasuke rolled his eye and let out a huff before looking at Ivy who was just staring straight ahead but knew she was focused on him "Ivy, you are the second quietest fighter amongst us" Sasuke
"Second?" Rhea inquired as she only got a bored look from Sasuke as she realized who the first was "Ah, never mind" Rhea said waving them off.
Sasuke rolled his eye once more before continuing "While you use your stealth to its finest it becomes repetitive when the opponent figures out your fighting style. The best way to fix this is start being more erratic in your fighting style to throw your opponents off. Not to mention when I stopped making noise you were completely blind to my presence, some people will use that disadvantage in the future in different ways than you expect. Along with the fact you got a little frustrated and let out that scream, it may have let you pinpoint where I was but it did drain quite a bit of your aura which allowed me to take you out of the fight sooner than the rest" Sasuke explained as Ivy nodded before letting a sigh.
"Understood boss" Ivy said waving him off as she began mumbling to herself about some ways to help with her fighting style. Sasuke moved towards Rhea who was now standing albeit a little wobbly.
"Rhea" Sasuke said as the girl looked over to his direction with a bored expression on her face "You jump into people's shadows too often, draining your aura as well as letting your opponent know what you're capable of" Sasuke began as Rhea looked away, knowing her leader was right "You also keep attacking from a distance, while that is good to hold someone back, it isn't when they become focused solely on you. You may have tactical advantage in the air but once you are knocked to the ground you are incapable of fighting back in a plain fight" Sasuke stated as Rhea narrowed her eyes at him before looking down at the ground.
"I get it" Rhea mumbled softly as Sasuke turned to his remaining teammate.
"Akio" Sasuke called out to his teammate who was rubbing the side of his head before looking at him "You are doing well in adapting to a one-sided fight, not to mention your abilities are improving quite well since I first met you" Sasuke said as his teammate gave him a slight nod "But do remember that you need to anticipate an opponent who is faster than you or else they will get the upper hand in a fight, I may be fast but there are others who are faster so remember that well" Sasuke pointed out as Akio let out a huff before nodding.
Sasuke let out a hum before his Scroll began to beep. Sasuke stopped for a moment as he looked at his team from the corner of his eyes before pulling out his Scroll from his back pocket. Sasuke stared at the message on his scroll for a moment as a frown appeared on his face for a split second before returning to his usual stoic look. He put his Scroll away before looking over to his team.
". . I'll be leaving for a bit, there's something that I need to check down at Vale" Sasuke said after a moment as he began walking away before stopping to look at his team "If you want something from the city ask me now because I won't be answering calls for awhile" Sasuke stated calmly.
"Bring me back some chips and not the cheap small ones, also make sure it's barbecue flavored" Rhea said walking over to the rest of their team.
"Get us some groceries, our fridge is almost empty" Akio said as he picked up his weapon and holstered it.
"We're almost out of tea as well, make sure to get more of that as well" Ivy said with a huff as she picked up her weapons off the ground and twirled them in her hands.
"Alright, I'll see you all later" Sasuke said as he walked away and left the training room.
"Honestly, would it kill him to hold back" Rhea complained as she could feel where on her body bruises are forming from her leader hit her. Sure once her aura comes back they'll heal quickly but that doesn't mean they don't sting.
"I have to be honest, how the hell is he just a huntsmen in training?" Akio said in utter confusion at the skill his leader is capable of.
Ivy let out a snort as Rhea heard her and turned to look at her blind teammate.
"Care to share something" Rhea asked expectantly as she looked over to Ivy with a curious look.
Ivy stayed silent for a moment as she felt their stares before letting out a huff "Not allowed to say" Ivy said after a moment as she decided it was best to keep Sasuke's involvement with the Akatsuki a secret for now.
The two stared at her for a moment before shaking their heads. Ivy isn't someone who would gossip about people's personal life.
"I'm going to go see where the others are" Rhea said after a moment as began walking off.
"I'm going to make lunch, care to join me?" Akio asked the bat faunus.
"Depends, what are you making" Ivy said as Akio let out a small laugh at her response.
The two began making their way back to their dorm as Akio began describing the meal he plans to make.
Rhea rolled her shoulders as her wings unfolded to their full length, fluttering around a bit before folding back up as she entered the library. Apparently the others decided to spend the day in the library for some apparent reason.
Which was odd because out of them all she could only see Blake, Weiss, occasionally Ruby, Pyrrha and Ren spending the day in the library.
Rhea walked past the librarian, waving to her as she headed to the back of the library where the more smaller, team oriented tables were located. She knew the layout of the library quite well due to Sasuke tutoring her on occasion to bring up her grades. Akio would join in along with Ivy if they needed help in a certain subject as the whole team helped each other in a subject they were lacking in.
It was a nice way for them to bond, while making jokes about how could they miss something simple in a subject. . . Excluding Sasuke, he would just sit at his part of the table, still and silent, only making a sound to turn a page of his book or talk to one of them.
It is honestly quite a surprise to see him so lively when he's around Yang, it's like she's an 'On' switch to his attitude. Though if she were to guess it's probably something along the lines that opposites attract or something cliche like that.
She soon found the two teams sitting at two tables, JNPR either studying, reading comics, or sleeping which of course was Nora. Team RWBY were all playing a board game with each other. Well, three of them were playing at least.
Rhea let out a soft laugh as she should've expected that the reason they were in the library was to play some game.
"Sup" Rhea said as Team RWBY turned to look at her.
"Oh hey Rhea, done training already" Ruby asked politely as Rhea grabbed a nearby chair and placed it at their table, sitting right next to Ruby.
"Yeah, Sasuke doesn't hold back at all" Rhea said dryly as she caressed the side of her head with her hand.
"You got to learn how he fights or you won't get a hit in at all" Yang said casually as she placed down a card on the table as Ruby let out a small whine as Yang had just devastated her kingdom.
"Well that's easy for you to say, you've known him long enough to understand his fighting style better than all of us" Rhea said dryly and somewhat bitterly that she has yet to understand how her leader is so much better than them.
"Well here's a hint, be unpredictable" Yang said like it was the simplest thing ever.
"What do you mean?" Rhea asked curiously as the others turned to look at Yang inquisitively.
Yang noticed the looks she was getting and let out a huff when she realized she'll have to explain "See, the thing about Sasuke is that once he figures out how you fight, he'll fight you in a way that makes it almost impossible to even fight against him" Yang explained before taking a moment to look at Rhea "So do stuff you never do before when you fight him" Yang stated as if it was basic knowledge.
". . Okay, and how are we supposed to do that?" Rhea repeated as the others looked at Yang with raised brows.
"Do I have to explain everything" Yang said tiredly before looking over her shoulder to JNPR's table "Hey Pyrrha, can you explain it for me, you'll probably make it easier for them to understand" Yang asked the redhead who seemed a bit taken back by the sudden focus on her.
Pyrrha blinked before smiling "I think what Yang is trying to say is that being unpredictable is to do things you'll never usually do. Like for instance, if Ruby were to suddenly swap weapons with one of her teammates to fight Sasuke" Pyrrha explained calmly as Ruby jumped up in her seat.
"Give up Crescent Rose, never!" Ruby exclaimed in horror while her white haired teammate let out a tired sigh.
"It was just a suggestion Ruby, doesn't mean you should" Pyrrha said in a placating tone.
Ruby looked around sheepishly as she realized she shouted that out loud and mumbled an small apology.
"Swap weapons huh" Rhea mumbled under breath as she didn't pay attention when Sun and Neptune came up to the table.
"That's not the only thing you could try, for instance if I fight him I would suggest trying to blind him" Pyrrha suggested calmly.
"You'll only be able to do it once, afterwards he'll be prepared for you to do something like that from then onward" Yang pointed out from her experience fighting Sasuke.
Rhea let out a hum as she began thinking of ways to get one over their leader. While she was doing that two guys came over to their table.
"Ruby, Yang, Blake, girl I never met you before but nice to meet you" Sun said to the three girls and Rhea who waved before he looked at Weiss "Ice queen" Sun greeted as Weiss let out an insulted gasp.
"Why does everyone keep calling me that?" Weiss demanded in utter disbelief.
"Do you want the abridged version or should we spend the rest of the afternoon explaining why" Rhea said sarcastically as Weiss gave the faunus a frigid cold glare.
"I never got a chance to formally introduce you to my old friend" Sun said quickly to diffuse the situation before it starts to get heated.
"Uhh, aren't libraries for reading?" The blue haired boy stated curiously as he looked over to all the non-study related things going on between the two tables.
"Thank you!" Ren exclaimed indignantly while shooting his hands up in the air.
"Pancakes!" Nora awoke with a shout from the sudden exclamation of her usual quiet partner.
"Shut up. Don't be a nerd" Sun said bluntly to his teammate.
"Geh, geh, geh, geh! Intellectual, okay? Thank you" The boy corrected his teammate before waving to the others "I'm Neptune" The now named Neptune greeted casually.
"So Neptune, where are you from?" Weiss asked rather interested.
"Haven" Neptune stated before walking around the table to stand next to Weiss "And I don't believe I've caught your name, snow angel" Neptune suavely asked.
"Um, I'm Weiss" Weiss introduced herself rather casually to Jaune's shock.
"Are you kidding me!?" Jaune shouted in utter irritation that a nickname he used was being used by the new guy, and working.
"Pleasure to meet you" Neptune said politely.
"Someone kill me" Rhea said in disgust at what she was witnessing next to her.
"I never took you as the board game playing type" Sun said to Blake who looked at him for a moment
"Right, well, I think I'm done playing actually. I'll see you guys later" Blake said curtly as she stood up, pushed past Sun and walked away from the group.
"Women" Nora said with a shrug as everyone turned to her.
". . .Welp, I'm next" Rhea said as she immediately moved and took Blake's empty seat as well as cat faunus' unused cards.
"What!? Oh man I was going to play" Sun said disappointingly while Rhea stuck her tongue at the monkey faunus while Weiss stared in the direction where Blake walked off with a curious expression before returning her attention to the table.
Sasuke walked down a street in Vale towards the docks as he looked at his Scroll.
It wasn't his usual Scroll that he used when he around his friends, the word still feels off to him for some reason. It was the Scroll he uses for private uses that is best to keep a secret from the others and for when he is doing Akatsuki business.
Of which the message he read was of the latter, informing him that ironically an informant had suddenly gone off the grid without any reason. They had protocols for a scenario like this which consists of the closest available informant or espionage agent in the general vicinity to find out what has happened and report back their findings.
If they learn the informant has been captured they are told to whether retrieved and transport the informant to the nearest warehouse to lay low for a time or the simpler solution to just cut off loose ends.
The latter isn't used very often but it's still needed when an informant has been broken and or can not be saved.
Which is why its necessary to work quickly to make sure the latter option isn't required and get the informants home.
But if they learn the informant has betrayed them, lethal force is the only solution. To which if another informant learns this they are to call an espionage agent or Akatsuki member to take the traitor out.
This has happen only once since Kizuro was founded when an agent tried to sell secrets to Atlas. Only for them to have their throat slit open along with the second party they had been involved with. Afterwards all informants learn well to not stray from their paths.
Interestingly enough if somehow it was an espionage agent that goes rogue than all other espionage agents in the area would hunt them down. They would even go as far as placing a bounty on their head in the criminal underworld for mercenaries to hunt them down.
All of this was to make sure that whatever they were doing in the kingdom stays to them and no one else.
So for the need of contacting him first means that the informant had some crucial information either on something their group needs, or the informant has something on them that requires their death immediately before any information is let slip.
Either way Sasuke continued on his way towards the informant's last known location. He went around the corner of the street and stopped at what he saw in the distance.
Police cars lined all down the street as a crowd gathered around the entrance of an alleyway as police officers kept them at bay.
Sasuke frowned as this was the last known location of the informant, so for the police to be crawling all over the area means something has happened.
Sasuke took several steps before vanishing from view as he had jumped up onto the building next to him. He proceeded to jump from roof to roof before landing on the edge of a roof that overlooked the alleyway.
Sasuke's eyes twitched when he saw the body, from the description he was given earlier via text he could tell it was the informant.
Sasuke waited for a bit until the police moved away from the body and weren't looking in its direction before Sasuke silently dropped down next to it. It was a young woman, probably a good few years older than him if he was going by appearance.
Sasuke examined for the cause of death and found it was a simple stab wound to her throat. From the condition of her body was in it seemed she didn't even put up a fight so he can only assume she was taken by surprise.
He would consider this a random tragedy if not for the fact that their informants were trained in hand to hand and stealth. So for someone to kill this informant without her even knowing until the very last second shows how skilled they were.
Sasuke began going through her pockets for anything important she have on her. What he found confused him, the woman still had her Scroll, even her backup Scroll that was hidden away in a secret pocket.
This confused him, the person who killed the informant didn't want the information that she possibly had. Than it would seem that the reasons for the informants death became smaller with only three reasons. The first was for the fun of killing, the second was the thrill of pissing off the Akatsuki or it was to send a message.
To which he found it was the latter because taped to the back of the second Scroll was a note. On that message was a hurried written address on the other side of Vale.
Sasuke looked at the address in thought before pocketing the note. He's going to need to inform Shisui about this before heads out there.
Sasuke pocketed both the Scrolls for safe keeping before looking for anything else of importance. Once he found nothing else he immediately vanished from view and landed back on top of the building as he began messaging an agent to retrieve the body from the police at a later date.
Sasuke jumped a few buildings from the crime scene before landing back onto a deserted sidewalk. He let out a huff, life is becoming more chaotic by the day and he doesn't know what is going on that made it like this.
Sasuke shook his head as he decided to think on this later, for now he needed to be at his best when he gets to the address. He had a feeling it was going to be an ambush, but that wasn't going to deter him.
As Sasuke walked down the sidewalk someone walking down on the other side of the street gave him a quick glance before moving on.
"Heh, shame I can't take deal with him now because if i did I would be late for my very important date" The man said with a soft chortle while pulling out a pocket watch and opening it up to look at the time "Better get to work" The man said menacingly with a twisted grin on his face as he snapped the pocket watch close.
Vale police station.
"Yes I know I've been at the station more often than. I'm just making sure everything is in proper order" Fugaku said as he was currently on his Scroll talking to Mikoto.
"I know, but at least get home before it gets too late so you can get good night's sleep at least" Mikoto said through the speaker of his Scroll.
Fugaku let out a tired sigh before smiling softly "All right, I'll get home early" Fugaku said with a soft chuckle.
"Good, I'll see you soon. Love You" Mikoto said softly
"I love you too" Fugaku responded before hanging up.
Fugaku took a deep breath and let out a tired sigh as he gazed around his repaired office. He was missing a lot of his stuff from the explosion Torchwick had caused but other than that the construction crew put his office back together like it was new.
He really did need to thank both of his sons for hiring those people to rebuild his office.
Fugaku picked up his mug of coffee that was on his desk as he stood up. He walked around his desk and went to the door to his office, taking his cane along the way. He started carrying his weapon around more often since the attack on his life a few weeks ago.
Fugaku exited his office and walked over to the railing along the second story of the police station that overlooked the ground floor where everybody was working diligently.
"Flarous I swear to Oum if I look down to see you playing that ridiculous game on your Scroll again I will break it" Fugaku called out to an officer at his desk right below him.
He didn't even need to look as he heard the man a floor down scrambling to put his Scroll away, which made him chuckle. Fugaku took a sip of his coffee as he began walking towards the stairs down to the main floor.
He began moving about the work space whilst talking to officers that he walked passed and getting handed some reports that needed to be looked over. In all honesty it was a very average day in his police department. Which is why he couldn't help but shake the feeling something bad is going to happen.
"Excuse me, but civilians are not allowed here"
Fugaku turned to see one of his officers stop a man who had entered the main area of his building.
The man looked somewhere in his mid-thirties with a clean shaven face and neat long white hair that was pulled back in a ponytail that fell down a little past his shoulders. He wore a black dress shirt underneath a long tailed buttoned up dark red coat that had numbers all in black that were sewn all over the coat. He had black dress pants that had dark red numbers sewn all over them as well. His shoes were dress shoes that had the laces both black and white. He had black gloves on with gold numbers on the back of his hands and each finger. On his left hand it had a large number one on the back of his hand, then two through six from his pinkie to his thumb. On his right hand, starting from his thumb to his pinkie had six through eleven and then had a large number twelve on the back of his right hand. On top of his head was a red top hat with the upper portion of the hat was black leather. On that top hat were several small clocks on the right side of his hat that were ticking away. On his face were rimless round glasses that were in front of the man's vivid red irises. On his red coat over his where his heart is was a black outline of a heart that had numbers seemed to swirl inside the heart outline.
"Sorry but I have business with your boss" The man said with a smile as he turned to look at him "Ah, there he is" The man said completely ignoring the officer as he walked towards Fugaku.
Fugaku couldn't help but feel unease when the man came closer to him. It was as if his basic fight or flight instincts were going into overdrive and were telling him choose the flight option to get the hell away from the man.
"A pleasure to meet you Mr. Uchiha, I am Shiro. My boss has requested me to take you somewhere, I suggest we make haste or else we be late" Shiro said as he took out his pocket watch and looked at the time.
"I'm sorry but whoever your boss is can make an appointment with me. So I suggest you leave" Fugaku said crossing his arms.
Shiro tsked and shook his head in amusement "I'm sorry but you make it seem like you have a choice in this manner" Shiro said happily as Fugaku narrowed his eyes as a few officers around them went silent.
"And why is that?" Fugaku questioned intently as the man smiled.
"Because we know who you are before all this" The man said still smiling as a sense of dread fell upon Fugaku as he knew the only people who knew him were people back in Vacuo that associated with his wife.
". . So, where are you supposed to take me" Fugaku questioned.
Shiro hummed in thought as he looked at his watch "Seems you're wasting a lot of my time so I guess I'll be blunt. I am to take you to a desolate area and kill you" Shiro answered honestly as this time the entire department went silent from that.
"Who sent you" Fugaku demanded with a glare as several of his officers slowly reached for gun in their holsters.
"Telling who sent me would be a waste of my time as well. To be honest you are already making me late with all this pointless chatter, and I'm hate being late" The man said as he dropped his smile and scowled at Fugaku "So we're going to do this one of three ways. One, we continue on as I wanted to and we go that desolate area where I have a nice shallow grave waiting for you, two all of you stand by as I kill you boss which in turn I'll let you all live or three-" Shiro counted down the options ever so casually as he pocketed watch into his coat before grabbing something. Which in turn caused all the officers to pull out their guns
All the surrounding officers may have gotten their pistols out of their holsters but that doesn't mean they're fast enough to hurt the white haired man. Shiro, as they began firing at him, moved out of the way from the oncoming rounds as he began throwing stiletto daggers that looked like elaborate minute and hour hands of a clock. With each dagger thrown Shiro snapped his fingers as the daggers that were flying through the air suddenly flew at high speeds like a bullet to their intending targets. Making several officers fall as their hearts or skulls were pierced in an instant.
"-Or three, you all die" Shiro said after a few officers fell to him before he began moving around the open room, striking down officers like it was nothing and throwing more daggers at far off officers as he snapped his fingers to cause the daggers to reach those officers in an instant.
Shiro spun around with a dagger in each hand in a reverse grip as he blocked a strike from above in an x fashion. Shiro smiled as he saw Fugaku pushing his cane's concealed blade down before ducking as the older man swung his weapon's sheath at his head.
"I am going to make you regret doing this" Fugaku said, his voice cold with a hint of unbridled anger behind it. Shiro on the other hand continued smiling as the two began fighting one another.
The two began parrying and dodging each others attacks as all the other officers began lining up their shots. Shiro moved back as he began tossing several daggers, stomping his feet and snapping his fingers as several daggers shot towards Fugaku.
Fugaku blocked each dagger with his sword, feeling the force behind each dagger was equivalent to a Dust round of a standard rifle. Shiro began running around Fugaku in a circle, throwing more daggers, snapping his fingers and stomping his feet every so often. Fugaku continuously blocked each dagger until Shiro stopped moving when his officers finally lined up their sights on him and began firing upon the white haired man.
Shiro smiled as he leaned down to reveal two daggers floating behind him and snapped his fingers as the daggers shot forward, impaling themselves into two officer's foreheads as they fell back dead. Shiro immediately jumped over Fugaku who tried to bash him with his sheath as the white haired man put his hands in his pant's pockets, grabbing onto something while moving around the police department.
Shiro leaned back from an overhead throw before shooting his body back up and slamming his forehead against Fugaku, causing him to stumble back slightly. Shiro then kicked Fugaku against his chest which sent him flying back a few feet. Shiro then jumped away when the officers continued firing upon him when Fugaku was out of line of sight. The white haired man landed on one of the desks, causing several items to fall off the table as he pulled out what he had in his pockets. From his pockets he pulled out several fire Dust crystals that he could fit in his hands as they began to glow brightly.
Fugaku immediately realized what was about to happened and whipped his head to his remaining officers "EVERYBODY GET DOWN!" Fugaku exclaimed as Shiro threw each Dust crystal in every direction before snapping his fingers as they shot forward and exploded on contact.
Some hit the walls, some hit a table or random object in way, one manage to hit a few officers and cover them in fire as they began to die a painful death. But the end result was the same, the entire building began to burn down.
Some officers began running to the exit, only for another fire Dust crystal to be thrown and explode at pathway out. They all looked back in the direction the crystal was thrown from, only for several daggers to end their existence.
"Who said any of you can leave, don't you know you all are going to be late meeting your end if you run" Shiro said with a sadistic grin on his face before throwing more knives towards the remaining officers and killing a few more in an instant.
Shiro was about to kill the remaining officers before he began to hear a ringing sound over the blazing fire that was slowly covering the entire building. Shiro turned around to see Fugaku slamming his sheath over his tuning fork of a sword as the ringing became louder and louder.
"You killed my men, set my police station ablaze and tried to kill me. I am going to make you suffer" Fugaku said venomously as he hit his weapon once more to make the white haired man flinch from the loud ringing in his ears before he turned to his remaining officers "Get out of here and contact the other districts. I'll keep this bastard busy" Fugaku said as he hit his sword harder causing Shiro to flinch and take a step back.
"But sir-"
"MOVE!" Fugaku shouted at his officers as the one who spoke shut his mouth as one of the officers grabbed a chair and threw it out a window to make an exit.
The few remaining officers began to climb out the burning building as Shiro pulled out a number of knives to throw before flinching when Fugaku hit his weapon again. Fugaku continued to hit his weapon as Shiro dropped his knives and dropped to one knee as he covered his ears with his hands.
Once Fugaku saw the last of his officers escape he began making his way towards Shiro with a look of utter rage "Don't bother begging for mercy, you won't get any from me" Fugaku said in a low voice as he brought down his cane down onto weapon as Shiro began shaking in pain from intense ringing in his ears. Fugaku kept hitting the tuning blade harder and harder until a loud ear piercing ring resonated throughout the inferno inside the station as the remaining windows shattered.
Shiro stopped shaking, dropping his hands from his ears to his sides as he fell onto both knees and slumped slightly over.
Fugaku let out a sigh of relief as he sheath his blade into his cane and began making his way out of the burning building. That was the plan, if three daggers didn't suddenly come out of nowhere, hitting the center of his back where his aura took the full brunt of the damage but left him with little to no aura left.
Fugaku grit his teeth as he let out a hiss of pain as he whipped his body around to see Shiro standing up again like his ear drums didn't burst.
"You know, it's quite disrespectful to assume I would be taken down by some lowly Semblance like yours" Shiro said mockingly as Fugaku let out a growl as the gem on his cane glowed brightly "I mean honestly, do you think a professional like myself wouldn't do research on his target" Shiro said whilst turning his head and gesturing to his ears to point out the noise canceling ear plugs "Though from what I read in the reports given to me, it was your wife that was smart one" Shiro said chuckling lowly as he continued walking around Fugaku "I mean the only reason we haven't killed her sooner was because the boss had a soft side for her, I'm pretty sure you know full well" Shiro said looking directly at Fugaku with a knowing look.
Fugaku gritted his teeth in frustration while Shiro laughed to himself before pulling out his pocket watch to glance at the time. At that moment Fugaku shot his arm forward with the dragon head of his cane pointed right at the white haired man as the gem on the cane let loose a ball of fire.
That missed completely and exploded in a flurry of flames to the side. Fugaku was completely loss for words as to how he miss until he realized his cane had flown from his grip. He looked to his arm and his eyes widened to see caused him to lose his grip. Three more daggers had come out of nowhere, destroying what was left of his aura and lodged themselves into his arm.
"W-When" Fugaku choked out in shock as his arm fell to his side, completely numb as blood began to drip down his arm onto the floor.
"If you're asking when, you haven't really paid attention to this battle at all" Shiro said dismissively before looking over to Fugaku with a bored look "Look around you" Shiro said with a wide gesture of his arms.
Fugaku glared at Shiro before his eyes flicked to the side and caused him to look in shock at what he saw. Daggers, several daggers floating midair, all of them pointing towards him.
"You must have noticed I stomped my feet on the ground after throwing some of my daggers, haven't you" Shiro said condescendingly as Fugaku just looked around in horror he was surrounded in all directions "You see, it revolves around my semblance. Which I won't tell you because what am I, a knock off cartoon villain ready to reveal everything to the hero or something" Shiro said whilst laughing madly.
Fugaku slowly looked back at Shiro who slowly calmed down as he shook his head before he looked back at his pocket watch and shut it with a snap.
"You were so predictable, so much so that I've actually finished this little escapade a few minutes earlier then expected" Shiro said with a low chuckle as he turned his back on Fugaku and began making his way out of the building with his hand raised with his fingers ready to snap "I hope the rest of your family falls quickly as well as well as those girls you use to own. I always wanted to kill a doctor" Shiro said let out a chortle as he snapped his fingers.
"YOU BASTARD" Fugaku screamed out as he pushed himself to move forward. Doing so allowed him to move out of the way out of a few incoming daggers, but that didn't stop the rest from piercing his body.
Fugaku slowed but kept moving as he limped towards Shiro who stopped and looked at him with a raised brow. Shiro let out an amused huff as he pulled out his ears plugs and gave Fugaku an amused look.
"Even with all those daggers sticking out of your body you still have the will to move" Shiro said shaking his head in amusement before pulling another dagger "It's sad really" Shiro said as he tossed the dagger and stomped his foot as the dagger slowed to a crawl "That you honestly think that you beat me" Shiro said as he reached out to move the slow moving dagger in a clockwise motion, stomping his foot on the ground with every rotation he moved the dagger "It really was foolish" Shiro as he stopped moving the dagger around as it was vibrating in the air so much that it was causing small ripples in the air around it.
Shiro held up his hand looked at Shiro with a maniacal look on his face "Die" Shiro snapped his finger as the dagger moved slowly at first before disappearing and a loud thundering boom following shortly after.
Fugaku stared at where the dagger was before feeling his chest hurting as he suddenly lurched back with an intense force that sent him flying back a few feet. As he was falling back he heard something break and saw before he hit the ground that it was the wall directly behind him. A wall that was a good couple of meters behind him with a hole punched through it.
Fugaku landed on the ground with a thud as blood began spilling out onto the ground from his body.
Shiro let out an amused scoff as he turned and left "Better get going now, you wouldn't want to be late for your appointment on the other side" Shiro said laughing maniacally as he walked away from Fugaku as the burning building was finally starting to fall down.
Fugaku stared up at the burning ceiling as parts of building started to come down as he began losing consciousness. He let out a ragged breath as one hand clutched over the open hole in his chest as he began coughing up blood.
"I'm sorry" Fugaku said solemnly as he closed his eyes for a moment before opening them to reveal a look of defeat "Mikoto, it seems I'm not coming home anytime soon" Fugaku said softly as a tear fell down his cheek as the flames surrounding him grew hotter as the building slowly started to fall down on him.
Itachi was looking through some files on who this group that was stalking him was. It was a very thin file with only one page and even that page had barely anything on it to give him any information.
Itachi let out a sigh as he ran his hand through his hair. Itachi got up from his desk and began walking out of his classroom, locking the door behind him.
Itachi crossed his arms as he contemplated on what to do. He couldn't very well leave the kingdom at the moment, from the various duties he is part of, the festival coming closer, along with making sure his family is safe. It wasn't like he couldn't leave a clone, no he could but there could be a mishap which would cause the clone to disappear which would raise questions so he had no choice but to stay.
Itachi let out a grumble as he felt like he was back in his previous life, with all the cloak and dagger that was happening around him.
He let out another sigh as he stopped walking to notice he was standing next to the fountain in front of Beacon. Itachi sat down at the edge of the fountain as he stared out into the distance to the sun descending slowly over the horizon.
Itachi stared at the sunset for a bit before noticing something on the side, towards the city of Vale a plume of smoke was rising in the air.
"Huh, it's not often a fire pops up in Vale" Itachi mused to himself before feeling something in the back of his mind saying something is wrong. It was really irritating him, like something has just happened he should be doing something about.
"What are you doing?"
Itachi stopped thinking paying attention to that odd feeling as he turned to see his wife walk up to him.
"Sorry, just tired is all" Itachi said with a tired smile as Glynda gave him a small smile of her own.
"Come on, let's go home" Glynda said extending her hand for him to take to which he gladly did.
Itachi gave the plume of smoke in the distance a final look before heading home with his wife.
Sasuke who had been investigating the lead had found nothing but a wild goose chase.
It irritated him that he couldn't find out what happened but he chalked it up to whoever killed the agent knew what they were doing. So he sent a message to the remaining informants and agents, to be more cautious along with sending them anything that might give them an inkling of what's going on.
Sasuke let out a sigh as he was walking out out of a Dust ship and onto the walkway towards Beacon with groceries in his hands that he promised to get for his team. He made it to the pathway to the dorms before stopping as he felt a chill down his back.
Sasuke looked behind him and saw nothing wrong but turned and saw smoke out in the distance in Vale. Sasuke blinked before shrugging as a random fire had nothing to do with him, but that doesn't mean he couldn't help but feel something off from that chill he felt.
Sasuke paused for a moment before shaking that feeling off as he entered the dorms and moved past Ruby who ran past him. Sasuke stared at the distant red blur for a moment before continuing on. Whatever she was doing was no importance to him.
Right now all that is important is to get back to his room and sleep in his bed. He'll figure out where to continue this investigation in the morning.
Sasuke walked down the path, his back to the plume of smoke rising in the distance.
Mikoto let out a sigh as she stared at the food on the table. She was planning on having dinner with her husband when he finally got home. Just to spend time with him as they haven't really seen each other because of their responsibilities of their jobs getting in the way.
"Seems he's not coming home" Mikoto said with a tired sigh as she just pushed her food around with her fork before letting out another sigh.
Mikoto stood up as she grabbed both her and her husband's food and wrapped them up before putting them in the fridge. She then began making her way out of the kitchen and up the stairs to her bedroom.
Mikoto stopped when she felt a shiver go down her spine as she whipped her head around to stare at the front door. Years of rest may have dulled her senses but her instincts were telling her something was wrong and she didn't know why.
Mikoto stayed still for some time before that feeling went away after some time which confused her. Mikoto stared at the door for a moment before scratching her head in frustration.
"Have I really gotten so rusty to be this delusional" Mikoto mumbled to herself before she shook her head and continued her way back upstairs "Whatever that was, it was probably unimportant" Mikoto mused as she went to bed for sleep that didn't come until late at night as the sense of dread in the back of her mind kept her awake until exhaustion took her.
Wasn't expecting me to do that, were you :D
What a great way to come back don't you all agree.
Now anyways, I would like to inform you all that before I continue the story I will be going back and editing the first ten chapters of the story, so basically everything Pre-Beacon.
I'm doing this mostly because there are a lot of things I would like to fix and or change. Nothing serious will be changed. . . Well, a little but nothing too drastic that it changes the story completely. Just fixing a lot of holes I've noticed after re-reading my work. Along with getting rid of some cringe worthy stuff I noticed.
I'm already done editing chapter 4 so I still have 6 more chapters to finish. I will replace the 10 chapters at the same time once I finished. I'll post up an authors note to inform you that I have put up the edited chapters so you could see the changes I've made. (If the website doesn't send an email saying I edited the story that is)
So that is all I have to say for this story, I'll be working on Rabbit's Greed after much awaited hiatus in between the editing so expect that soon. . . Probably. . . I hope.
Anyways that's all I have to say for now, so as usual if you could kindly leave a comment, review or even send me a PM and I'll see you all later. Have a great day everyone and it's really great to be back doing this :)