Authors note:

Hey guys! Long time no see! Fool and Huntress is back after so long. Sorry for the delay, college ended up being way more busy than I expected this semester, so I had trouble juggling my work along with writing/art. Now this chapter is going to be 2k shorter than my usual goal. I didn't feel like drowning out the main point of this chapter with extra content. Hopefully chapter 11 won't take this long. Oh yea, for those wanting my other fic (Your Things Are My Things) to update, it will come eventually once I get my laptop repaired because its uhh….sorta semi broken….

Comments/Replies

Sonic: Thank you!

Emoprotagonist: Don't worry, Yu/Weiss will forever be a thing pft. Minato would win that battle no matter what. The point of it was so Yang could prove herself to him that she could handle herself and not be protected. Lol yep, they are from alternate timelines. Hahha, there will be more scenes of horrible food jokes since those two love teasing eachother over it. Hmmm as for Akira and Blake relationship? Akira's side i won't say yet but think about Blake's mental state after leaving someone like Adam. She would be extremely closed off to anyone. For Akira...will it's complicated?

Combine117: JNPR won't be having as big of a role as they did in the show sadly, but they will be still in the story somewhat.

Enjoy the chap and tell me what you thought!

Fool And Huntress Vol 2

Burning shone in the void, igniting the world in a vast ocean of red. Luminous flames incinerating mangled remains, faces blurred, eyes sunken, bodies quickly fading into charred lumps of ash and cinder. Steel beams and broken earth littered the setting, sealing off valuable contact from the outside world, leaving the victims to perish in this hellish stone oven.

Yet, even in this carnage, a single hand twitched. Smoke filled his beaten lungs, and with his vision a haze, he groggily struggled to escape from these flames. However, no matter how much he tried to move, he felt a heavy slab of concrete dig into his legs. Adjusting his stained helmet and trying again, only to see a thin line of crimson aimed at his face. Mouth ape and confused, he tilted his head up the best he could. What he saw next petrified him in place.

In the distance stood a horned monster adorning a Grimm mask. Multiple streaks of red ran alongside the dreaded white plastic like blood, with a few thin slits giving him the appearance something inhuman.

"W-wait…" He saw his executioner come to a verdict. His vision soon focused and became crystal clear as blood rushed to the rest of his body. His heart beat so hard that it almost burst from his ribcage. A single line of crimson ready to pierce clean through his throat.

"Adam, stop!" He closed his eyes, already feeling a quick breeze travel downwards, but nothing more.

"What Blake? Are you going to sympathize with this human?" The individual looked away. A dark haired woman hurried over to his attacker.

"I-isn't this enough?" He saw her fumble for words, her form had a slight shake to it. "We've raided this entire mine clean. There's no point in being here anymore"

The masked male chuckled, "Blake, Blake, Blake," he sang in a condescending tone, "What do you think would happen if we left these vermin alive?" The flames in the background shadowed his form, giving the illusion of a horned demon.

"No, I mean-"

He cut her off a low growl, "They'll thrive and breed like rats, and come back for us again!" With one foot, he crushed the hand of the helpless human on the floor. A pained screech followed and a blur of steel slashed down.

"No! Stop!" She reached out to intercept, brushing past the male, but was sprayed by a gazer of ruby red liquid, tarnishing her hands in a rain dirty blood. Frozen in place, she fought back the urge to gag, to scream, to run. A never before sensation of imaginary ice jabbed into every bit of her body, weakening her resolve and cutting into her soul. Shaken amber pupils met glowing blue beyond the mask.

And in that flaming hell, a chilling smile slowly spread across his face.

"Blake…."

"Blake"

"Blake!"

"A-adam!" She squeaked, shutting her eyes, pushing away whoever had held her shoulder.

"Shit!" A sound of a body hitting a pile of metallic bins traveled through the blankless of her mind, it was only then she realized who she just shoved away. Gently fluttering open her eyes, she saw a trash covered Akira lying in between two destroyed garbage cans. "Was that really necessary?" The boy groaned, helping himself out.

"Again…?" She blanked out, clenching her head.

"Hello? Some help here would nice"

"A-akira! I'm sorry, I didn't really mean that!" She hurried over, helping him clean off the debray stuck to his clothes. Embarrassingly tossing away the last banana peel clinging to the male Faunus, she helped him clean up the rest of the mess.

"Why do I feel like this has happened before…?" mumbling to himself, Akira quickly resecured his earpiece and White Fang mask. The cheap piece of plastic also decided to come off during his clash with the garbage.

"Are you...alright?" Blake struggled to maintain her front, trying to avert her gaze at the now masked male beside her. It made him feel...cold.

"Hm? Yea, I'm doing fine" she sighed in relief, but then quickly tensed up again. "But, are you sure you want to go through with this Blake?" She was dreading this question. Ever since their last meeting in the school, she was reluctant to approach him again. This was supposed to be her problem and her's to bare alone.

In the dimly lit alley way, the light flashed on and off as if in hesitation to drive away the encroaching darkness. "I…" Blake failed to meet the eyes of the masked male, "I said before that I would help right? I'm not going back on that promise". The whiteness that illuminated the black started to fade.

"Even if you'll come face to face with your past? Those monsters won't just be any Grimm you can kill" Akira stood fully in the clocked cover of the night, his silver orbs flashed like the small stars that illuminated the cosmos.

"Because Akira, you said I would regret it if I kept running away…" That dream, it reminded her of why she ran. "I won't deny that I'm scared but...there's no way I want them to harm more people, faunus, or humans". What would have happened if she had stopped him in time? What would have happened if she'd realize the type of person he really was in the first place?

She was a part of that group. No matter how much she thought about it, there was literal blood in her hands.

"They kill off faunus who've helped humans in the past, yes? Before Beacon, I've been asked to asked to join their stupid cause multiple different times" Akira's ears twitched, hearing a crowd forming just ahead, "So, are you sure you're ok with faceing enemies that might have made a pact with a god?"

"Y-yes! They don't know what they're dealing with. It's better to have one of their own stop them before they do anything bad with it!" She raised her voice, throwing away her soft persona. After realizing her actions, she retreated back to her shell almost as quickly as she had burst out of it.

Then she heard him chuckle, making her flush.

"W-what? I have to take some responsibility for what I contributed to. Some of those Faunus are just misguided like how I used to be. I can't let them carry the same burdens I have now. The more she recalled her past, the more she realized how people she had left behind. People worth saving.

"N-not mention I keep having this dream…" She paled at the mentioned. Clear beads of sweat appeared on her face.

"Is this about that Adam guy?" Akira remembered her push himself as if he were an enemy.

"Ever since coming to Beacon? I've been ignoring it. However, talking you made it worse" Blake frowned for the first time, glaring daggers at the masked male. "If it weren't for our last conversation, I wouldn't have ever to acknowledge it ever again", then she gave him a small smile, "But I also have to thank you, it was a thing I shouldn't have put off…"

Akira's shoulders jolted, there was both a sense of gratitude but also a bit of malice in that smile "Well uhh..it's good that you took my advice" This time, it was his turn to turn the other way.

"So how about we hurry to the meeting? It's not going to last forever" Before Akira could respond, he her yank his arm and string him along a dark deserted alley. Although the lights had certainly faded, it doesn't mean they couldn't navigate through the darkness, side by side.

Hundreds of masked humanoids streamed in not unlike a pack of hungry hyenas, howls for the damnation of humanity and cheers for the increasing White Fang presence littered and reverberated across the vast ocean of the room. If it were not for the jungle of censored faces, or decorated uniforms, then the enough would have thought to be any ordinary event, like any other. Perhaps a late night concert operated by a small band, or a sizable party thrown by a few unruly Beacon students, however, the atmosphere of this showing had a clear taint of bloodlust in the air.

People roared with delight, cheering at the unveiling of the crimson symbol spearheading their cause, gracing the once nakes walls were three large gashes that implied to be an animal sinking their hands in flesh, and a canine head with large jagged fangs that was meant to strike fear into whoever stared into its eyes. An uproar of shouts of movement and revolutions once again filled the air, with many openly stomping on and ripping, tearing the flags of Vale and other symbols of man.

"Down with the humans!" One woman was heard chanting, many others following her example. She didn't look even past college age.

"Do these jackasses really think they're better than us?! I've had enough of their shit!" A male screamed at the top of his lungs, his comrades following his example.

"Humans are the reason my little sister can't even get out of bed anymore!" Another desperate shout blared and blended into the uniform sentiments of hate for humanity.

"These fuckers are too loud…" Akira mumbled in the unrest, closely placing his hand to the earpiece.

"Ugh, you think? Maybe you should I have told us to lower the volume in the first place" Weiss's irritation traveled through the speakers.

"Let's focus on the gathering for now, Ms. Schnee" Ozpin cut in, "Not to sound worrying, but this gathering seems unusually sizable , even for the White Fang"

"That doesn't really matter does it? It makes blending in easier too" Blake replied back to the headmaster. But his comment did unerve her. A sinking feeling had started to emerge from the depths of heart.

"Say, are the field team ready? Headquarters is relaying the hidden camera footage right now" Yu said to the others, typing away on a holo screen with Weiss and Ozpin viewing close by.

"Yep! Team RMY is an all clear!" Ruby chirped, watching the warehouse close by with the scope of her rifle.

"If things go to shit, we'll be there to bust them out no problem" Minato sat going through the footage.

"It doesn't look like there's anymore White Fang look outs nearby" Yang dusted off her hands, knocking out the last wave of members stationed in some of the abandoned buildings.

"Just don't get too cocky" Akira surveyed the gathering, shifting his head back and forth between the entrance and the stage. For whatever reason, this place gave off a familiar, yet unsettling vibe. It was akin to being in a room with stuffy air, or that of slow suffocation. Coupled with the wild outrage and constant white noise that covered the entire room, it was hard to pay attention to the show itself.

"What did you say to me?" Yang snapped from the other end.

The loudness in her voice made him cringe and raise his shoulders, "I meant to Minato…"

"Hahaha, what's that supposed to mean-?!"

"Hey, you alright?" At first Akira heard the bluenette give a playful laugh, but then his voice soon dropped off altogether, leaving a void like silence between the radio channels. Then, an unpleasant vibe had settled on his mind and shattered his composure, he realized the reason for the abrupt cut off. Angling his vision upwards towards the stage, his face began to pale at a omunious green moon projected on the curtain. And as if this weren't enough, he felt Blake clinging to his form at a new arrival that emerged from the gathering.

"Blake…?" He reached for her, seeing the poor girl lower herself as much as she could. Her entire body trembling and her amber orbs tightly locked onto something or someone standing on stage. Her hair slightly lifted up like and her posture arched like a cat's.

"A...adam" Her whispers were close to inaudible.

"Brothers and Sisters of the White Fang!" Adam addressed the audience with wide open arms, "I thank you for gathering here all today"

"Minato…? Minato?" Ruby's voice cracked to life once again, albeit in a broken state.

"I'm sure all of you have suffered enough of this despicable world by now" The male on stage broadcasted, earning a choir of cheers and shouts that echoed back his words in an unmatched level of unison. He paced across the stage, directing his hawk-like gaze at the vast ocean of supporters.

"For years, us Faunus kind have faced subjugation, discrimmnation, being labeled as second rate! Brothers and Sisters, I promise you that soon, soon none of this will never have to stand for such human tyranny ever again. But how do we accomplish this you may ask?" Snapping his fingers, he soon manifested a wildfire in his hand that danced to his will no semblance could ever produce. The brief existence of the wild orange mass smoothly morphing into a chilly breeze that swept across the entire area, creating layers of icicles that hung idle in the large warehouse.

Amazement, astonishment, and wonder captured the bewildered crowd, enough to silence the entire audience. Then the man began to speak again.

"My fellow Faunus brethren, please do not be alarmed. As this was just a demonstration of the might of our new power. Behold, we, the White Fang have been given the forces of nature and magic itself. This proves that we are superior and the rightful rulers of Remnant!" Ignoring the growing cacophony of the gathering once again, he gestured to the green moon behind him, a single three letter word being projected onto the empty mass.

"Yang, Ruby! Take your brother and head back to Beacon now! Me and Weiss will switch with you!" Yu's words became frantic.

"Behold, Nyx! Us Faunus have been blessed by a goddess that has been watching over us for centuries. A goddess that fights for all Faunus equally, a goddess that leaves no one behind, a goddess that promises to descend soon down from the sky to exact judgment on all the sins of humanity and construct a new world that will only be ruled by us" He gently waves his hand in the air to form a wisp of green wind, "And today, she has bestowed the White Fang the opportunity to take back what was rightfully ours since the very conception of Remnant"

"Guys, what's going on?! My brother's on the floor!" Yang screamed over a world of loud radio static.

"Nyx! It's that word that's freaking him out!" Weiss shouted back, a strong breeze and formation of a glyph could be heard from the background.

"And to those that abandon our cause…?" Adam halted, blank icy orbs staring into the crowd.

"You guys have to get him to infirmary quickly! Take that earpiece off of him and follow Ozpin's directions when you're back" Yu screamed out of breath, crackles of electric sparks formed near his voice.

"O-ok!" Barely managing to choke out a reply, Ruby had a sinking sense of dread cloud her heart as the radio suddenly sent out an ear splitting ring, followed by an explosion that managed to leave only static to be heard on all ends.

"Those who abandon us are traitors of Nyx and the Faunus!" a blood red arch cut across the air, ready to devour its target in once gruesome slice, cutting through the breeze it quickly came down like a viscous predatory pouncing on its prey, when a dark dagger intercepted its way, followed by a violent outburst of energy and a great flash of light and that blinded all in attendance.

"Blake!" Akira called out in the chaos, grabbing the girl's arm, pushing and shoving through hundreds of bodies that lined their way. Screams, shouts, and fear erupted in pandamania within the whiteness as thin veils of smoke and scraps of scrap metal rain down from the roof. Pulling out another flash grenade, Akira threw it at the front of the room, promptly charging a blast of concentrated energy of that light that shot through the two double doors keeping them trapped inside.

Akira!" He was forcefully yanked out of the way of an incoming katana blade that flew mere inches from his hair, cutting off a few unlucky strains flying into space. Turning around, Akira could make out the same masked man dashing out, trailing close behind. Running down a dark path of what seemed like a never ending maze, making a left and then stopping mid path, almost missing an opening on the right, the two made their way to the same alley they had waited in before, where a superheated blast of flames poured out from the other side to corner them among a few tipped over garbage.

"Did you think you could run from me Blake?" A disembodied growl came from the empty unlit darkness. First a familiar red blade emeraged, slowly it was coupled by its chuckling owner who nonchalantly strolled out. His towering figure blocking their only way out from the two enclosed concrete on either side.

"A-adam!" Blake jerked back, her body burned and ached from the chase, close to collapsing at the living embodiment of her fears. The same mask, the same aura, the same deathly smirk that had haunted her again and again in her dreams until she refused to sleep in the night.

"Why did you leave Blake? Was my justice not enough for you? Was our cause just a damn joke?!" Each word he spoke was like a corrosive venom that sank deeper and deeper into her veins, until it completely paraylized her in place.

Adam took a step forward. His mask burning its image into her soul.

"I..I.." In that moment all her world came to stop, her mind stopped, her body stopped, her resolve shattered like a fragile case of glass, its pieces being thinned and burned into dead ash.

"What? Can't even explain yourself? I should have never put my trust in you, you disgraceful wench!-" Knocked back by a stray dagger, Adam outstretched his own weapon to block the object, managing to shift all his weight onto his left foot from the back.

"Tch, is this the guy you mistook me for?" Akira said irate, conjuring another dagger from a glow of azure flames. "Now I'm really mad" He then lowered his volume to Blake. "You go on ahead, I'll wipe the floor with this jackass"

"But…"

"And who the hell are you supposed to be?!" Adam belted out a growing madness that gradually crescendoed volume. "Wait, don't tell me you ran off just to be with this guy!?" Rushing forwards with his movements seemingly a blur in the wind, Adam outstretched his katana in a wide circular blow, meeting head on with an aggressive downwards counter so forceful that it caused him to retreat a few paces back. Not giving a moment of rest, he launched a stray blade, surprising his opponent at such a close range that he had no choice to block, yet instead of making contact, a black mass flew out from the side tied to a thin line, knocking the deadly object out of the way.

"Blake?!"

"Why aren't you going?" Akira shouted, pulling a pistol from the flames. "If you're worried I can't drive this dipshit off by myself then-!"

"STOP!" Suddenly, everyone froze. The shout was enough to even pierce the thick tension of the atmosphere, leaving an eerie pause.

"What's wrong Blake? Can't leave your new boyfriend? Haha...you're a coward Blake! A worthless, spineless coward, so why don't you run as he said?! You can't do shit by yourself anyways-!"

"I said stop!" Sparks of brilliant stars scolded the masked man, the energy burning away on his red glowing blade. Blake slid another dust magazine into her gun. "I'm not running anymore! I'm not a coward! And I'm not going to abandon people anymore!" She gave Akira a tearful gaze, "You're the reason that kept me going in Vale. It weren't for you, I would be running even now" She could feel her arms weakening, her mind screaming for her to go, but stood her ground.

"So please, let me prove to myself that I can finally stand up on my own. To stand up for something I want to protect" No more nightmares, no more fears, no more unkillable monsters that would torment her throughout the night-

"Gah!" volcanic levels of heat erupted in her face, savagely eating away at her flesh while her aura blanked in and out of existence, leaving her with a sensation of burning alive in an eternal hell fire.

"WHAT TYPE OF BULLSHIT DO THINK YOU'RE ON NOW HUH!? YOU'RE A COWARD AND YOU WILL ALWAYS BE! LEAVING OUR CAUSE!? LEAVING THE FAUNUS?! LEAVING ME?!"

Spiraling into a deranged madness his body twitches in irritation and bloodlust. "FINE! BE THAT WAY! THE FAUNUS MUST LIVE, THE FAUNUS MUST SURVIVE, THE FAUNUS MUST BRING THE NEW WORLD! AND THERE'S NO PLACE FOR YOU THERE BLAKE! YOU LYING, TRATRIOUS BITCH-"

"That's enough"

In the skip of a heart beat, all colors drained, all sounds muffled, and it's as time itself seemed to stop. No longer did the birds fly so gracefully above, nor did the city continue on with its fast paced night life as everything idle not unlike the scenes from pages of a storybook. Black, metallic tendrils shot up from the earth, twisting and weaving themselves in the uncontrolled mass that was forming all around them, alongside dazzling blue fire that engulfed and spread across the area, while a single red gloved hand reached out from within. It clasped a snaking chain, yanking it free from the ground, shooting forth a sparridc bombardment of energy, igniting the once dark alleyway in brilliant sparks, revealing two shapes that stood side by side by.

"You're beyond disgusting Adam" Blake's amber eyes glowed a raging melton gold, feeling a brand new surge of power coursing through her body, birthing a new rage that ignited within, fueling her with an imaginable supply of energy that she channeled into several concentrated dust charged strikes unleashing the first wave, delivering an onslaught meeting Adam head on, provoking the madman to dive face first into the explosions, slicing them apart with with his weapon and charging straight for her, only for him to get close enough to be tossed back by a violent fist that embed into his abdomen, scrambling his organs and sending him rolling into the dirt.

"Come on you dumb bitch! I dare you to come out and fight me!" clenching his chest, Adam spat out a few drops of red, exhaustingly dragging himself up with the help of his blade, "You amount to nothing without him!"

"Akira" Blake held out her hand, seeing the boy nod and giving her a gentle slap on the palm. Within seconds, the stored up energy from the persona user flows into the enraged faunus as she ran at Adam in a blinding light, finally unleashing years of pint of anger by clashing with the monster she ran from for so many years. Stars of white, red, blue, and gold were sent in every direction as she relentlessly hacked her troubles away. An impossible twist of the body and her left blade being blocked by a cold sword, only for her opponent to be knocked from the back by a familiar pair of red gloves, allowing her to aggressively throw down her right blade into his chest, slamming him into the hard concrete below.

"Ack!" Feeling his body was hurled to the ground with a loud sickening crack, shooting up plenty of dust and debray. He attempted to use his free hand to grab Blake by the arm and tossed her off to the side by throwing her into a pile of garbage. Springing up, he shot a blade at her before she could recover, the object hitting jabbing her side and pinning her back to the ground when he scrambled for his blade that now glowed an ominous red, leaving the stunned girl to frantically pick herself up with the deadly wave of red completely eviscerating the stack of garbage into an explosion of trash, missing her by mere seconds.

Unphased by the strike, Blake zigzagged her way back to her attacker, using the walls on either side of the alley as foothold before coming at Adam with her right blade, only to disappear and for to slice into a clone that seperated into a thousand fine stone pieces, obscuring his line of sight, giving Blake the chance to form another clone mid air and launching the large ice block at his back, but instead of being hit, he reacted to the attack by bisecting the clone in half. Pieces of shattered ice reflected in the shining Remnant moonlight, its beauty unmatched by anything on the planet, slowly making their way to the ground. The red of his blade being reflected in every piece.

"That was pathetic, is that all you've got Blake?!" Watching the shreds shimmer harmlessly in the night, he scoffed at her resolve, yet there was also a feeling of unnerve in that cold crystal shower. The more he observed, the more he began to realize…

"You know what these stones are right? This is for earlier you creep!"

His eyes widened, for it was late to run. He raised his blade to brace when suddenly all the crystals from before erupted into hundreds of destructive icy explosions expanding into the atmosphere, thousands of sickeningly sharp icicles jabbing into his Aura and throwing him into an erratic storm where every second of his existence was met by another moment of blunt force damage beating into his body into oblivion, or having the last of remaining Aura being leached by the neverending ice storm.

Thud. Crack. Pop.

"So have you had enough yet?" Blake saw his body finally slump to the floor, fresh gaping wounds leaking bright red liquid covered his entire body. It was clear his Aura had broken in the bufu storm long ago. Despite this, she could still make out small movements of the man trying to lift himself.

"Hck…I" He raised one hand in the air, his vision a wild whirlwind of hazy shapes.

"That human back then in that fire" Blake frowned, "He was reaching out this too wasn't he?" She approached the living shell of the man she once knew, pointing her blade, "Then do you think I should do the same thing to you, on what you did to him?"

"...I"

"I even checked after we left…" She choked, "He had people that cared about him too Adam. Do you know how they graved him when they found out what you did?" She began to shake, watching the lump below her struggle, "They blamed us, they blamed Faunus kind for existing. They blamed us that their father was gone"

"..."

"You want to know the reason I left Adam? The reason why I ran away like a coward?" she raised her blade, "It's because of monsters like us that people keep on hating the Faunus. I left because I realized we were in the wrong. I left because I realized spreading hate and violence wasn't the way to achieving our dreams"

SNAP

"!"

Tears, wet hot tears rolled down her cheeks and ripped onto his beaten body. Seeing her stabbing into a piece of block of ice beside him, he let out a weak gasp.

"But I'm not like you Adam. I refuse to go down the same path as you" She gently rose, giving him one last look.

"This is goodbye"

"Get back!" hot embers erupted from the darkness matched with two bright golden orbs. Blake launched her body back to be caught by Akira, where both endured another vengeful hell of blazing terror as it ate away at the super heated rock and concrete in the area, melting through layers of molten steel, when Akira put a hand to his mask to an overwhelming cascaded of glistening blue fighting back the monstrous orange shower. Strong azure heat soon morphed into layers of ice shooting up from the ground, furiously pushing back the other caster until the army of blue was able to completely devour the last remnants of the fire.

"Are you ok?" Taking a deep breath, he finally let her go. Watching for anymore movements from the other side.

"Y-yea. Thanks for shielding me earlier" Stunned by the immense power that was unleashed, it took for a few minutes for Blake to fully recover. "That attack...it felt like it came out of nowhere"

"His body, it's not there…" Narrowing his eyes, he hurried through the field of ice, inspecting the dried back and broken katana piece left behind.

"How did you see past all that ice?" Blake followed, noticing the absence of any evidence of their attacker from earlier.

"I have the ability to see people's auras" He picked up a broken sword piece, its once crimson edges burnt, "I don't think whoever came to pick him up was a coincidence either"

"Pick him up? I don't recall any of the White Fang knowing where we are" Blake mused out loud.

"No, but that doesn't mean someone else who gave him these Agi stones doesn't"

"Professor Ozpin!" wild golden locks burst forth from double doors, carrying a slumped over figure in her arms. The limbs of the body aimlessly dangled in space not unlike the movements of a corpse.

"Guys! What's wrong with him!?" Cheeks turning cherry in frustration, warm tears rolling down her eyes, Ruby stumbled closely behind her sister through the wide hospital halls.

"Ms. Rose, Ms. Xiao Long! Please, I need both of you to remain calm" Emerging from an unoccupied room, the headmaster guided the two inside where he instructed the girls to lay the body down in bed. Lowering a privacy curtain, his face became grim "Right now, the best we can do is let him recover on his own-"

"Are you kidding me?!" A slab of concrete burst from the tiles of the floor, Yang smashed her foot into the earth, "After everything he's been through is this all we can do?! He's been suffering long enough! Shouldn't we be able to do something about it?" She felt her limbs tremble under the immense pressure of an invisible force. A force so tremendous it glued her entire body in place. Yet, all this could not compare to the rampant war waging in her restless mind. Who was Minato Arisato? Where did he come from? What was happening to him now? Why did he just open himself and let them in?! Why her family? Why her brother?!

Then, words sharp as steel pierced through her fog.

"Yang! Just stop it!" Ruby gripped her sister's arm tightly, "I know you want to help him, but right now we know nothing about him!" her grip became tighter, choking on her every word, "after all...he is still a stranger from another world…" Ruby's shoulders slumped, refusing to eye the broken boy laying in bed.

"B-but didn't we make him promise that he didn't have to be alone anymore! That he needed to stop being so damn selfish!" She was desperate for answers, grasping at empty air for anything, anything that would help ground her panicked mind. Maybe it was because she knew she was powerless, maybe it was because she wanted to be there for someone that was always...strong in her eyes.

"Well don't you think he has his own reasons for hiding this too? Sis, Minato isn't the type to hide stuff from us for no good reason. You remember why he refused to tell us about his magic right?" Ruby said in a soft voice, "If I know anyone that is as stubborn as you, it's him"

"I…" Recalling the past few weeks with the blunette, it was hard to deny the vast amounts of information he had kept to himself. The lack of trust he had for anyone, even his own family was not enough to make him delvage anything from his past.

"If you want to know, why don't you let him spill out to you when he thinks you're ready?" Yang turned to see Akira close the door behind him. "I can assure you that even if you knew, you wouldn't be able to help"

"Why you!" Yang could feel her sister tug at her arm again, catching her mid walk. Ruby shook her, leaving the blonde to give a disgruntled huff at the dark haired Faunus. "Then why are you? Shouldn't you be back at the dorms with everyone else?"

"I came to check on his condition" Akira could feel the blonde's eyes burn into him, although to this he paid no mind as he parted the curtains to the room. Ozpin side stepped, allowing the boy through, letting him inspect the frozen bluenette in bed.

"How is he managing Mr. Kurusu? Any abnormalities?" Stoned white eyes and a face devoid of life, from an outsider's perspective, it would have seemed like the group were performing more of an autopsy than a health inspection. Large lumps of sweat trailed down his face, matting and distorting his hair into gross clumps. The bluenette's skin was sickly pale to the bone, and his joints still unbelievably rigid with the only sign of life being a faint pulse from his neck.

"Is he going to be alright Akira?" Ruby felt the bile in her stomach rise. What is she going to tell their father? How would their mother have handled this situation? Her older brother, sister, and father was all she had in this world.

Gingerly waving a hand in front of Minato's face, creating small swaths of wind, Akira stepped back, "This is the worst I've seen him react" No matter what he tried, he yielded no reaction from his downed leader. From gently picking up his hand, to alerting him with his voice. In the end, all he earned was the same hollow reply as all his other attempts.

"H-hold on, are you telling me he's been like this before?" Taken aback, Yang snapped her attention from Minato.

"Yes. This isn't the first" his expression unchanged, his tone blunt, Akira had no reaction to give the blonde. Not even a sign of guilt.

Yang clenched her fists, squeezing them so tight that she could probably draw blood from her nails, long locks obscuring her reddened face. "I'm...not going to ask about it…"

"You've made the right choice" Akira sighed in relief, going back to Ozpin who stood next to a panel monitoring Minato's vitals. "I'm not experienced in the medical field, but I would recommend a doctor for quick general care, but I'll be the one to monitoring him for now"

"I see. I will certainly screen the staff for someone capable of providing care without question" Ozpin put a hand to his chin in contemplation, "Although, shouldn't you consider the feelings of his immediate family as well"

Ruby could feel the headmaster's eyes pass between her and Yang, a signal for the two to come on in.

"Yea! We want to help Minato too! It'll lighten up your load for school too!" Ruby pleaded with glittering eyes. She could make out a faint smile from the headmaster in the back.

"Come on angry man, at least let us take care of him. We know what he's like when he's sick" Yang stood beside her brother and her sister. They were a family after all.

"A-angry man?" Akira's eye twitched.

"So how about it? Can you trust us for at least this?" Yang stepped forward.

"Hey dad"

"…."

"Yea everything's fine at Beacon"

"..."

"Yes, yes we haven't been in any trouble. Ruby and Minato are doing fine too"

"..."

"We miss you too dad. Take care"

Hanging up her scroll, Yang slumped onto the bench in the school courtyard. Her eyes facing the night sky. Tonight, not a single dark cloud rolled in to obscure the nighttime stars. The entire campus was quiet, say for the lonely lights that dotted the occasional window. They say these times were monsters and spirits would emerge from their dens to prey on humanity, but there was a different type of monster preying on her mind.

"Sorry dad…" mumbling to herself, she felt her sister lean into her for comfort.

"We can't let him worry about us more than he has to sis" Ruby whispered, "If mom were here...I bet she'd know what do"

"Mom wouldn't know Ruby. She would be just as clueless as us" She put an arm over her eyes, shielding them from the reality that was in front of her. "He didn't trust us enough to tell us, what makes you think he wouldn't do the same with mom?"

"Then why do you think he trusts Akira?" Deep down, Ruby felt a certain sense of jealousy that she tried to deny.

"Maybe because he's a persona user too? All of them looked like they've been through similar stuff?" Sounding annoyed, Yang refused to face even her own sister.

"No, what I meant was what made Akira himself trustworthy. I doubt Minato would tell just anyone, Personas users or not" Ruby paused thinking back to the male Faunus's words in the hospital, "Remember how he told us how we can have Minato explain it to us himself? What if he thinks we're not ready"

"Not ready?"

"Yea. He had reason to tell Akira his abilities first didn't he? Unlike us, he probably knew he could handle the load" Knowing how her sister reacted before in Ozpin's office, maybe it was best that their brother hid this for so long.

"I swear if he's hiding anything more like that I'm going to sock him right in the face" Crossing her arms, Yang huffed a long sigh. "If he thinks he can't trust us forever, then we'll have to make him accept us"

Then she heard her sister giggle.

"W-what?" Flustered, she jerked away from a laughing Ruby.

"I haven't seen you get this childish in a while sis" Her younger sibling smiled, "But yea, that's the plan. We have to let Minato know we can help"

"Y-yea!"

Meanwhile, somewhere else on campus…

"Hey Blake" Akira sat awkwardly among a set of empty hospital chairs, his eyes focusing on nothing in particular.

"Yea?" Blake's ears perked up, reacting to the call.

"Can I ask you something?" he sounded uncomfortable. Just what could be bothering him she wondered.

"Sure, what is it?"

"Am I...angry?" Gesturing to himself with one finger, he wanted for an answer.

"H-huh?"

Congrats to salty masked redhead for making his first appearance! Him and Akira are going to get along real will after that fight :/. Regarding the Adam scene, I really wanted him to grow like the others before v3 so he can move onto better things. He is going to have a slightly bigger role than he did in the show. Getting rid of his Blake obsession eary is probably for the best.