Author's Notes: I do not own RWBY or Fate/Stay Night and it associated media such as Fate/Grand Order.

Jaune knocked on the Team RWBY's door and a downtrodden Ruby answered the door.

"Oh, hi Jaune, how can I help you?" she said dejectedly.

"I don't want to be rude or anything, but can you please explain what happened to Blake?"

"She left because she supports a bunch of liars, thieves, and murderers," Weiss yelled out before pulling her blanket over her head, ending any meaningful discussion.

Jaune mentally faced palm because it seems like it was something personal between Blake and Weiss. Since little ole snow angle over there is the Schnee heir, my guess is that Blake sympathized with the White Fang or was apart of the White Fang. Sigh, why do relationships have to be so complicated?

"I see, I hope you're going to look for her cause she ran away to Vale," Jaune stated as realized there was not much he could do directly without causing more problems.

"I'm sure she will be back... eventually." Ruby replied hopefully.

"Well alright just sayin' to make sure y'all know. Well g'night then." Jaune said as exited the room.

"Good night." Ruby said as she closed the door.

"I'm surprised Blake has not come back yet." Jaune commented as his team was recruited by team RWBY to help them look for Blake.

"Maybe she just wants more alone time to think." Ren said calmly as he though over the details he was given about the situation.

"Think about what? like food or-"

Ren interrupted his companion by stating "No I meant thinking about her choices or perhaps her past."

"Oh," Nora said in realization.

Meanwhile, Pyrrha was having a really bad feeling about this as they have been passing many crime scenes that ranged from stolen dust to perhaps the strangest cases of assault she has ever seen where the victim suffered no wounds and nothing was stolen.

"Jaune, I'm a bit worried for her?"

"Why?" June replied as the group continued down the street.

"We passed three crime scenes and they were not dust thefts, but assaults." Pyhrra pointed out.

Jaune tried to dismiss those concerns by saying "Blake is a pretty good fighter I'm sure she could handle-"

Jaune stopped what he was saying as the group came upon another crime scene. There was a man who had no visible wounds or bruises.

"This is the 6th case in the past 24 hours." One of the officers at the scene of the crime stated.

"Nothing was stolen like the other victims, his aura is depleted and he suffered no visible lacerations or bruises" The investigator stated to the officer.

"It seems like we have a hustler on the loose...well then, guess we have to speed our search" Jaune said sheepishly
Break

"There is large of shipment of Dust, fresh from the Schnee mines incoming. Apparently, you are some sort of silent badass that can take on a small army of White Fang. So you better be able to hold your weight because of I'm tired of these incompetent ani-" Torchwhick said before being chocked by the masked figure.

"You talk too much," it said as it released Torckwick.

"I will hold up my end, but you on the other hand...Cinder is frustrated with your...lack of success." It said before releasing Torchwick and walked away.

"Lack of success! I have been robbing stores blind and I have stolen tones of freshly imported dust! What more does want? Turning everything I touch into High-grade Dust?!" Roman yelled at the figure.

The figure paid no mind to what the indignant criminal had to say, even though he was technically correct but cinder has other plans. In any case that was his job to deal with not his.

"We checked the docks, the cafe, the local library, and some stores, but no sign Blake" Ruby sighed.

"Same here, she really gave us the ole slipperoo this time around. By the way, there's been some mysterious assaults that causes no visible injuries recently so watch your backs" Jaune replied.

"Got it, see you soon." Ruby hung up.

"So here's the plan we split up into pairs took cover more ground and we will continue to search till 10:30 then head back to Beacon." Jaune announced to his team.

"Alright, Ren and I will find her in 2 hours guaranteed?" Nora exclaimed.

"Ha, I'll buy ya breakfast for one week if you can pull that off," Jaune said hoping it would motivate her even more.

"You're on." Nora said before rushing off.

"Guess I should go after." Ren sighed softly before taking off.

"Anyway, we should check the book store." Pyhrra suggested.

"Hmmm yeah, I heard she likes books." Jaune agreed before pulling out a map of the Vale.

After a few minutes Pyhrra was beginning to get a little frustrated with Jaune as you could easily search up the location the store with your scroll, but Jaune...was incessant on using a map.

"Um, Jaune the book store is only a few streets over." Pyhrra politely commented as she tried to keep her frustration from showing.

"Ouhh ...well let's go," Jaune said.

As the two of them were walking through an alleyway to get to Tukson's Book Trade they saw an altercation between what seems to a sickly 'goat, deer?' looking faunus and a bunch of thugs.

Pyrrha immediately sprung into action and got between the thugs and the kid before telling the thugs "Leave him alone."

"An why should we." The apparent leader stated.

"Cuz she said so." Jaune said giving their leader a fierce stare down while his hand was inching towards his gun just in case.
For a few moments, it looked like things might escalate to a brawl, but after a few tense moments the gang leader backed down.

"Hmmph, a bunch of Faunus loving uncle Shirous, ... let's go well have fun somewhere else" he announced before he and the gang began to make their hasty retreat.

"Thank you for intervening but that was unnecessary..." the Faunus said.

"We just were just doing the right thing," Pyrrha explained.

"Yeah, any way you should get home it a bit late out here," Jaune said as he tried looking around for an obvious guardian, but no avail.

"I guess it is...I would offer you the same advice but it seems like you are after something..or perhaps someone." He said plainly before leaving the hunters-in-training.

"Huh, what a weird kid." Jaune commented as watched the kid from afar.

"Jaune that a bit rude to talk about someone behind their back." Pyrrha reprimanded.

"I know, I know It's just I felt like he was way older than we initially thought," Jaune explained.

"What makes you say that?" Pyrrha replied as she was beginning to get interested it what Jaune had to say.

"The way he talks...the look in his eye, it so empty. But as my grandpappy would sometimes say... you can see everything in a man, in the way walks. Put'in everything together I conclude that he is no boy but...there's something more..." Jaune concluded even though it made no sense, but when his eyes met his he began to feel very wary sorta like when he met Cú Chulainn.

"That a lot of assumptions...but I trust your judgment." Pyrrha replied.

"Really!?"

"Of course you are a leader and I trust your ability to judge a person's character."

"Thanks, Pyrrha you sure know how to boost a man's confidence." Jaune smiled.

"Haha, no problem." Pyhrra said while doing her best to hide a blush.

"One other thing that thug called some 'uncle Shirou's'. I wonder what the history behind that was." Jaune asked with genuine curiosity as he knew it was supposed some sort of derogatory word for Faunus sympathizer but there had to be a story behind that.

"If I remember correctly the term comes from a man by the name of Shirou Amakasu who led a more radical sect of followers during the faunus rights revolution who was ultimately betrayed by his own followers," she explained.

"Ouhh, well thanks for the explanation."

"No problem, let's get back to searching." Pyrrha said as she tried to steer the conversation away from the controversial topic.

As the duo began to search again, a masked figure merely watched from afar with curiosity.

As the sun began to disappear beneath the horizon, Blake and her new friend Sun were watching the white fang unload another crate of dust.

"Chop-chop we are short on time, I expect you animals to get everything done in an hour-," Roman ordered as he began to shiver slightly as he felt like the thing was staring at him again. Waiting for the perfect excuse to kill him.

Meanwhile, from afar Blake was seething as she watched her former brothers and sisters work with that criminal scum.

"This isn't right. The White Fang would never work with a human. Especially one like that." Blake said as unsheathed her blade.

"Wait, what are you-" Sun tried to caution her to no avail as she moved in to get some answers.

"First of all you need to-" Roman stopped for a second as he found himself in a hostage situation. Ironic, Roman thought to himself rolling his eyes before saying "For fuck's sake...you think you ani-"

"Nobody move" Blake yelled at the guards as she moved the blade closer to the crime lord's throat.

"Woah there, take it easy there little lady." Roman placated mockingly.

Blake tore off the ribbon that hid her cat hears before demanding "Brothers of the white fang, why are you working with this piece of scum."

"Hahaha, didn't you hear the White Fang and I are in a joint business venture together. Speaking of which, care to do your part?"Roman stated innocently as a small white snake wrapped around Blake's ankle.

When Blake noticed the snake, it was already too late as the person controlling the snake, sent Blake flying pass a stack of containers before letting her go.

"I'll let you handle her and the monkey hiding behind those crates over there." Roman said to his mysterious partner in crime.

'Dammit' Sun thought to himself as he hoped to maybe ambush weirdo in a cloak.

"Very well..." it replied.

"Well let's get going before more of them show up." Roman commanded as the White Fang continued to load more Dust into their Bullheads.

"Are you alright Blake?"Sun said as he began to check for any possible injuries.

"I'm fine, but watch out!" she yelled as she pushed Sun out of the way but unfortunately she was not fast enough to get out the way and a snake-like construct collided with her hand causing her to lose all feeling her hands.

"Good reaction time, but how will you fight without the use of your hands?" it said in a bored tone as it waited on top of a container.

"Blake we need to get out of here this guy is a monster," Sun said frantically as he was nerves were beginning to fry as his flight or fight senses were telling him to run as fast he can as he was being stalked a by a predator.

"Sun we need to-" Blake was cut off as it grabbed both of them by the neck.

"You know...when fighting an enemy you should pay attention to them," it said calmly as it began to, literally, squeeze the life out of the two of them.

As Sun was struggling to break free Blake was trying to figure a way out of the situation that she got them into, but was she was running out of time, but there was always one question that came into to mind. What is his semblance?

Things were beginning to bleak for the duo as the thing had enough. He was beginning to enjoy himself, watching them slowly suffocate as they trashed around trying to escape. But all good things must come to an end and as he was about to snap their necks, he felt something. It seems this will have to be continued another time...he thought to himself as he softened his grip on pair.

"It seems like reinforcements have arrived...farewell Blake Belladonna ...Sun Wukong" it said before disappearing into the night dropping the two faunus unceremoniously.

"We really got lucky...Blake? Blake?"Sun coughed.

"My hands...I'm starting to feel them again. I think I understand it?" she said as she had an epiphany.

"What do yo...mean?"

"His semb-"

Suddenly blur came up and hugged her.

"Blake your aright," Ruby said as began to hug Blake.

"Please...loosen up a bit" Blake wheezed having not fully recovered from her strangulation.

"Sorry," Ruby said bashfully while letting go of her."Um, who's your friend?" Ruby asked trying to change the topic.

"Ruby, this is Sun," Blake said hoarsely.
Break

As the rest of the search group began to stream in. Jaune and Pyrrha were the last to get there.

Jaune was infuriated at the inability to get there in time to catch their attacker. When they heard gunshots and clashing they tried to get their as fast as they can. But not fast enough. A few more seconds they could've died, Jaune came to this morbid conclusion based on their injuries, he continued quietly observed as the bruises on Blake's neck and the other guy's neck while fading slowly as their auras are healing them, while thinking about who the perpetrator is.

Apparently, the attacker used snakes to attack, had a snake mask and black cloak. He could not think of anyone who remotely matched that description on the most wanted list...

As he closed his eyes to clear his mind and to focus on what they knew of the perpetrator, suddenly he found himself in the alleyway right next to the bookstore with shards of glass obscuring his view like he was trapped behind a door of stained glass.

Jaune tried to move but he found himself stuck in place, so he could only watch as the watched a figure leave something underneath a box.

"What in world was that..." Jaune mumbled in frustration.

"Blake we are going to have to take you and your friend back to Beacon to get you treated," Pyhhra said as she picked up Sun.

"Alright but please don't tell anyone else about my secret."

"We won't, but I'm sorry about all those things I said it just- " Weiss tried to explain but was interrupted by Blake.

"I understand...its just...we have problems and I think we just work through them, so friends?. Blake responded

"Friends," Weiss reaffirmed.

Jaune smiled a bit at the fact they are going to make an effort to clear things up, but that smile faded an away as quickly as it came as there was something he needed to do first. "Pyrrha go meet up with the rest of them, there something I'm going to pick up real quick," Jaune whispered to her.

Hearing the change in his voice Pyrrha determined this was important"Alright, Jaune just don't take too long."

"Don't worry it will only take a second," Jaune reassured her as he took off quietly.

Jaune quickly found the alleyway where the person left the note. He quickly moved the box and recovered the note.

He looked at the note and face quickly paled. As he dropped to his knees he decided to reread it again and again because...because...how did he know...?

He began to read the note to himself aloud to himself just in case he was seeing things "Dear Jaune Arc, or it is Billy? In any case, you probably knew where I was going to put this note under the box, so I guess I will get the point. You and Me are more alike than you realize. In any case, I simply wish to talk to you. Just me and you. If you bring anyone to the meeting then I will simply not show up. With that out of the way, if you wish to meet me, go to the docks in a weeks time at 1:35 am.

P.S. I suggest you come as I did you a favor and spared the kitten and her friend.

Signed S

"S...so that rascal was behind the attacks."Jaune mumbled to himself.

Jaune quickly debated in whether he should tell them about the note or not..."But I have a week to think on it." sighed to himself as headed back towards the docks.

Thank you for the support for the last chapter and I will do my best to address the reviews given to me so far. This chapter was Beta'd by Warmach1ne32

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