Third Person POV

It was dark out, night having fallen across the city of Vale. There was a two story nightclub in-between two other buildings, both of which were much taller than the club. There were other tall buildings behind it, these surrounding buildings helping to hide the night-club from view. A good thing, considering that the nightclub was a popular hub for criminal dealings and meet-ups.

There was music coming from inside the nightclub when a girl with long blond hair and lilac colored eyes made a left on the main road, driving up in front of the nightclub on a motorcycle, a pair of sunglasses covering her eyes. She took off her sunglasses and took a look at the nightclub, looking slightly excited for what was to come. She put the sunglasses away before she got off the motorcycle, making her way to the door of the nightclub before she went in.

On top of a nearby building stood a man with sharp black eyes and spiky pink hair, a frown on his face as he looked on with concern. He was wearing black jeans and steel-tipped combat boots, he wore a back and gold vest with a black shirt underneath. In the center of the shirt was a large red dragon, standing next to a smaller golden dragon. On his harms were to black and gold arm guards, covering most of his arms. His hands had thin grey gloves covering them as well.

A jet black raven with bright red eye flew by his head, causing his dark eyes to flicker to the bird before they focused back on the night club, gun fire and explosions now erupting from the inside. The man's concern was slowly growing as he watched, clearly wanting nothing more than to jump down and to rush in to help the girl. However he couldn't, no matter how much he wanted to.

The raven changed behind Natsu, turning into a woman wearing black and red outfit, red cloth wrapped around her stomach and her shoulders down to her arms being colored red as well. Her chest, legs, and elbows were covered in a black material, a massive sword hilt and sheath at her hip, "You know she gets this rash and destructive behavior from you, right?" The woman questioned, giving the pink haired man a curious glance.

"You know she is being rash and destructive LOOKING for you, right?" He snapped, a look of irritation quickly growing on his face as he looked away from the night club to turn to her, "After all, it's you shes here to look for, Raven." He finished, before the irritation slowly began to look away as he turned back to the night club. There was a scream of rage and several more explosions, before shortly being followed by a man being tossed out of the second story of the building by an explosion.

"Don't try to blame her actions on me Natsu. I'm not the only one to blame here, after all your just as absent from her life as I am. The only difference is that she knows the truth about me." The woman, now known as Raven snapped back, the swords-woman now being the one who looks irritated as she glared at the man, Natsu.

The man dressed in all dark clothing flinched, unable to look back at Raven. He watched as the blond haired girl exited the nightclub and began to converse with a girl with red-tipped black hair, a red rectangle on her back, more than likely some kind of weapon. Natsu began to shake slightly as he thought about what Raven said, "Raven... you know it's not that simple..."

Raven scoffed and shook her head, "It is that simple dragon-breath. You left her to be raised by Tai and Summer, along with Ruby, because of fear. She doesn't even remember you anymore, does she?" Raven finished scolding Natsu, a slightly satisfied look on her face as she crossed her arms. She was able to easily notice how much he was shaking.

"Raven, you shut your god damn mouth!" He yelled, turning around quickly with a fire burning in his eyes. His arm guards began to extend to cover his arms, before he looked out of the corner of his eyes down at the girls. They began to turn their way because of the loud yell, causing Natsu to panic and suddenly dive down to hide out of her view.

Raven switched to her bird form, standing on the ledge of the building. She stared at the blond girl for a second, the girl eventually shrugging and turning back to the younger girl. Before long the two hopped onto the blond girls yellow and black motorcycle before driving away. Once the two were out of sight Raven turned back into her human form, Natsu getting back up from the ground behind her as well.

Raven sighed before she turned back to Natsu, a neutral expression now appearing on her face, "Natsu, the words I spoke may have been harsh, but you know that they were true. I wasn't simply trying to hurt you, that was never my intention. I'm trying to get you to see reason. If you had simply overcome your fear, she wouldn't know that both her parents left her. What will she do if Tai eventually tells her the truth? You know she'll go looking for you anyway, just as she has been looking for me."

Natsu stayed silent, longingly staring at where the two girls used to be before they had left. A tear slowly began to come down from his right eye, dripping down to the floor. The pink-haired huntsman closed his eyes, his fists clenching as he took a deep shuttering breath, "Raven... I know. It's my fault. Your not much better, but at least you actually did have people you had to go back to. I didn't even have that. I left because I was afraid of what she would think after I was gone for so long. After I realized she didn't remember me..."

Raven's eyes softened as she saw how upset Natsu was with himself. She sighed and shook her head before she turned away from Natsu, "Good-bye for now, Natsu. Think about what your going to do about Yang- You can't just keep trying to look over her. You need to make a choice. Are you going to fully leave her to Tai, for good? Or are you gonna go and tell her the truth?" She didn't wait for a response, turning away and turning into a raven before flying away.

Natsu took another breath before he let out a sigh. He calmed himself down before he crouched low to the ground and suddenly jumped, going high and leaving the area, 'Damn it Ozpin. If I never had to go on that damned mission, I would've been able to stay here, to stay with and take care of HER! Yet your stupid mission with Qrow took me away from her for two years...'

He began to shake with rage and resisted the urge to engulf his body in flames as he hopped from building to building. He eventually caught sight of Yang's motorcycle and began to follow on the rooftops, trying not to draw too much attention to himself. He kept thinking about what Raven told him, thinking of the choices before him.

He began to go ahead of Yang, noticing she wasn't going as fast as she could on purpose. He took shortcuts and made his way to the outskirts of the city. When he had gotten out of the city he ran towards the Xiao Long residence, using small bursts of flame on the bottom of his feet to shoot him forward. Before long he was at the Xiao Long residence, a little wooden cabin in the woods that he hadn't visited in a long, long time.

He walked up to the door and knocked loudly and began to tap his foot as nervousness began to creep in, knowing he had to get this done as quickly as possible. At the most, he might have about thirty minutes before Yang arrived with Ruby, and that was if she kept up the speed she was currently going at. He wanted to try to be gone by the time she arrived.

A tired looking Tai Xiao Long opened the door, bags prominently showing under his eyes as he began to rub the sleep out of them, "Ruby, you finally brought Yang back?" He said before he looked at who was in front of the door. His eyes widened in surprise before he began to frown at his visitor, "Natsu. Your here. How long has it been, sixteen years since you abandoned Yang and left her with me? Long longer than you said it would be. You told me it might be a year at the most."

Natsu looked away, shame shining in his eyes, "Yeah, well Ozpin didn't tell us everything. Can I come in to talk to you, and to explain?" He asked as a look of desperation began to shine in his eyes.

Tai groaned as he looked at Natsu before he opened the door a little bit wider and turned away from him, "Yeah, fine. Come on in, and close the door behind you." Natsu seemed relieved and quickly followed Tai, closing the door and locking it behind him. He followed Tai to the living room and sat down on the couch, Tai sitting down in a recliner next to it, "So Natsu... what happened? Why were you gone for so long?"

Natsu held his hands between his knees, his head staring down at the ground as he answered, "I was sent on a mission by our oh so glorious and all knowing lord and savior Ozpin. He sent me along with Qrow to keep tabs on Salem and her operations, and if needed to bring them down." He paused to allow Tai to take things in for a minute.

Tai began to frown at Natsu's description of Ozpin before he rolled his hand as sign for Natsu to keep going, "So I thought the mission might take a year at the most, and that would be if we actually found anything. You already know that, I warned you beforehand. However then we stumbled upon one of Salem's bigger operations. It took us half a year to find it, a year to take it down... and another half year to finally shake Salem off of us."

"Then why didn't you come back and get Yang after you were done and safe? I love Yang and all, I raised her as my own, but why did you just abandon her?" Tai questioned, his fists clenching and his eyes narrowing as he stared at Natsu.

"You wanna know the truth Tai?" The blond brawler nodded his head, keeping his eyes on Natsu as the pink haired man continued, "Fear. I was afraid of two things. One, if I took Yang with me and Salem was still after me, she would hurt Yang to get to me. She might have even tried to kill her."

Tai nodded in understanding, "Alright, that makes since. If I felt taking back my girls was gonna endanger them somehow I'd try to keep them away so they wouldn't be connected to me. But what is your other fear?"

Natsu brought his hands up to his ears, covering them as he looked down. It was because of this that he didn't hear the sound of an engine dying down, nor did he hear the door as it began to open, "My other fear... it was that she wouldn't accept me as her father. I did come back to pick her up after the two years, but I saw how you two were interacting... I heard her call you daddy... I couldn't do it. I couldn't just go up to you guys and take her away. I could tell you two were close. And she didn't even seem to remember me anyway."

Tai shook his head at Natsu as he began to take his hands off of his ears, not noticing the door was cracked open, "Natsu, Yang would've understood. She was still just a kid, she wouldn't understand at first and she might've been a bit hurt, but at least you would have missed only two years of her life instead of 16." Natsu took a look at Tai as he continued on, "So, what are you gonna do Natsu?"

Natsu took a deep breath before he let it out, this time a bit of flame going out with it, "With your permission Tai, I'd like to tell Yang the truth, I'd like to tell her I'm her father."

Before Tai could say anything a certain shocked blond brawler and her younger sister fell forward, crashing to the floor and making the door swing open.

The blond girl quickly stood up, staring at Natsu with wide and shocked purple eyes, "Excuse me, but your my what?!"