Okay so I got inspiration for this story, it won't stop my other stories and won't involve the characters from my other RWBY fanfic and I'm taking a break from writing new POV stories right now. Now for the obligatory disclaimer RWBY belongs to Monty Oum and the amazing staff at Rooster Teeth.
Chapter 1: Sanguine Rose
A man stood atop the tallest building in Vale looking out at the see of people. The man was six feet tall and was wrapped in a black cloak; underneath the cloak he wore a simple outfit. His face was hardened from years of being forced to kill, almost emotionless. He was known by many names but his favourite was the Reaper of unjust souls, but the one he always treasured was the one his parents gave him, Sanguine, Sanguine Rose.
He never talked about his parents because he had to witness them being slaughtered in front of him, then he was kidnapped and trained to be the top assassin of the White Fang, he returned their brutality in kind after they trained him and killed everyone who was every close to the fiend who organised the attack, Adam Taurus.
As he stood atop the building holding the head of the man who trained him, the man who stole everything from him, the man who forced him to witness the death of everyone he has ever loved he strangely felt empty.
He dropped the head so all could see the face of what he truly was, a monster. 'Why do I feel empty, I have hunted him down for the best part of two decades. I think I need to kill him once more because during the fight I felt alive for the first time since I was eight, when he stole everything from me.' Sanguine thought to himself.
It was common knowledge the only person who could time travel was old now, and ex-headmaster of Beacon from the time Sanguine's parents attended school. Unfortunately the man was on his death bed.
Sanguine stood up from the ledge he was sitting on to stare at the group of White Fang soldiers holding their weapons at the ready. "I know the four of you are trying to get me but I just killed all the higher ups for you, take it as how you might but I am leaving to go see an old friend." Sanguine spoke with a cold tone as he jumped of the ledge.
He landed on the ground on deaf feet and began to fade and become on with the crowds. He made his way to the hospital and walked up to the door to the person who helped him hunt down that one man. He opened the doors to be greeted with a smile on the sickly man's face.
"Sanguine you always look like your mothers. I take it you now feel empty because you finally accomplished what you always dreamed of, but it won't bring them back." The man said in between coughs.
"I know Oz that is the reason why I am here now. I need your help on last time to prevent this from ever happening. I need to go back and kill him before he can cause this damage; I need to use your semblance." Sanguine said straight to the point. Oz pin just shook his head and let out a small chuckle.
"I am aware of the side effects of your semblance Sanguine, and normally I would welcome it, but your mothers would kill me if they were alive for having you suffer the side effects of mine as well. I suppose if I fought against it verbally you would do it anyways so do me one favour when you go back tell me to stop all my guilty pleasures." Ozpin said as he began another coughing fit.
Sanguine walked over and helped him up. "I will and if I have your consent I will make this as painless as possible. Do you have any last requests?" Sanguine said solemnly. "Yes, a few, one don't use this more than once, the distance you will travel will put a massive strain on your body. And Two hand me that cup I want one last drink before I am to say my final farewell."
Sanguine handed him the cup of coffee by his bedside, so he can have one last drink before Sanguine's semblance took the life of the last person who was like a parent to him. Ozpin handed him a scroll and said "That is so you can convince my past self. I am ready to meet my maker thank you Sanguine for the comfort you have brought me in my final years of life."
Sanguine nodded and soon the room was in cased by a blinding light as he place his hand on his friend's shoulder a took his semblance and his life. Soon the light subsided and the room returned to normal just with a very dead Ozpin. Sanguine walked out just as the nurses rushed in to check to see if they could save him. To no avail.
Sanguine stood in Ozpin's old office right now morning the loss of the last and possibly only friend. He straighten himself after a few minutes of silence because he didn't know how or at least didn't remember how to shed tears at a loss of someone dear to him. He activated the new semblance he took from Ozpin and the world grew dark.
When he could see light again he was standing in the past looking at a very confused Ozpin staring at him while talking to a man Sanguine knew all too well which lead to the next series of events of which was Sanguine's fist connecting to Ironwood's ribs. "I'm sorry that is for the future you becoming an outright bastard and sabotaging Ozpin's chance of becoming a council member."
Ozpin looked sternly at Sanguine and back with an apologetic look at Ironwood. "Sorry about that Ironwood but as you can see our new guest clearly has some distaste towards you would you mind letting me reschedule this while we have a nice chat." Ironwood nodded and left the room.
"I thought I was the only one with that semblance. I'm sure you have a story so sit. Let's talk." Sanguine nodded and passed over the scroll future Ozpin handed him. "I'm sorry about that. I have a lot of pent up aggression at him, he was the only thing stopping you from becoming a council member because he didn't like your relationship with Glynda."
Ozpin flicked quickly flicked through the scroll. "So your name is Sanguine Rose, your weapon is your parents weapon fused and strangely enough this says nothing about your semblance just that it says when you use it, it leads to the death of the person you steal from. I'm curious about what it is but first thing's first do you mind telling me, Why you came to this time?"
Sanguine nodded and began to tell the tale of why he came back and his semblance, they talked for hours of what the future could possibly be, but it only felt like a few minutes. "But the thing I really want is to see my parents for the first time in fifteen years, I am sure though that mom will recognise her scythe a little bit so I send you a farewell for now old friend."
Right before Sanguine left Ozpin spoke up, "I'm sure my future self has already explained to you but revenge will never fill that void in your heart." Sanguine nodded and spoke again "Oh he also said to quite all those guilty pleasures of yours because they lead you to dying in a hospital bed with a long list of failing organs, I don't want to have to bury you again." Sanguine said with a sad look on his face, a look that said out of all he has done the only regrettable action was to bury Ozpin.
The walk to team RWBY's dorm was long mainly because he didn't know the full way, he got a lot of looks from students and teachers alike followed by a few murmurs of how cute he looks but he shrugs them off. He finally approached the door to hear some soft talking. He decided not to knock and just follow the beam of light that was coming from under the door due to a semblance he stole a few years back.
He reappeared on the other side of the door to be greeted with a sword he knew all too well held towards his throat. "WHO ARE YOU AND HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE!" a raven haired Faunus spat at him.
"If you drop Gambol Shroud I will explain I promise I am not here to hurt any of you." Blake reluctantly lowered her sword after looking around to see her friends nodding but none of them trusted the new intruder.
"In order for you to understand I need you guys to have an open mind." Sanguine started, "My name is Sanguine Rose and I am the child of Ruby over there and Weiss who is next to her." He said and causing Yang to look back at her little sister and back to Sanguine.
"Well Rubes do you mind telling me when you or the Ice princess got pregnant and gave birth to a very handsome looking twenty something year old." Yang said without her signature smirk on her face. Ruby looked back at Yang and said in hurt "I don't know but you can't hit on him if he is your nephew, but I assume in about twenty years he will be one."
"Well that depends on what month this is?" Sanguine said looking around for a calendar. Weiss was the first to break the silence saying "It is mid-September and we are second year students." Causing Sanguine to smirk, "Actually aunt Yang, Mom is already pregnant with me, about one month along because her and Mother tried an ancient ritual that was supposed to bring great pleasure or something, their future selves didn't actually tell me what it was originally and I don't personally want to know." Sanguine said holding the bridge of his nose.
Ruby looked shocked between Weiss and Sanguine, "How does he know that thing more importantly Ruby why haven't you gotten yourself a pregnancy test if you are ONE MONTH LATE." Weiss shouted at Ruby. Ruby began to stutter "W-w-well sorry for assuming it was too far-fetched for a girl to get another girl pregnant." Ruby said defensively looking back between her son or at least soon to be son and Weiss.
"Well Weiss, you knocked up my baby sister, what do you plan to do about it?" Yang said still with a look of disbelief on her face.
"Look I can prove I am your son when I turned 6 you both gave me duplicates of your weapons and helped me fuse them to form Crescent Moon, if aunt Blake promises not to cut my head off I will take it out and you can see the unique similarities because they both are your weapons fused." Blake nodded her head signifying that she feels safe enough for him to take out his weapon.
Sanguine quickly took out his weapon and held it out for them to see, and like he said it looks like Crescent Rose with a large Dust cylinder and painted black with white trim on the blade and regrettably it still held some of Adam's Blood on the blade. 'Fuck, fuck, fuck. Please say they don't notice that or at least think it is part of the design.' Sanguine thought as Ruby quickly flicked a switch at the side to drop the cylinders and notice an inscription. She beckons Weiss over to take a look at it. The inscription was beautifully done with a signature of Weiss and Ruby.
It Read: "Dear Sanguine, we both knew how you kept practicing with our weapons when you thought you were alone so we decided to give you duplicates of them to do as you wish, we both suggest make them your own, a person's soul is always inside the weapon and these hold both of your mothers so put yours into it. We will always love you, your mothers, Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee."
"Yang I think he may be telling the truth because on Crescent Rose I just keep spare ammo there and it has both mine and Weiss' signature." Ruby said in disbelief showing Yang the inscription. "Wait, you said Aunt Blake. Does that mean me and Blake get married?" Yang askes full of curiosity and hope.
"Yes you two do and force me to be the ring bearer despite both mom and mother's detest of the idea because they thought I should have been theirs but I was only a young kid when they got married shortly after they graduated Beacon because Mother thought it was her responsibility because, both her and mom didn't want me to stay with granddad Xiao Long and with great Uncle Qrow because they didn't want me to become a killer but both of them wanted me to." Sanguine said matter of factually.
That was when Blake noticed the blood on the blade and took a step back. "Why is there blood on that blade and why does it smell like it is a Faunus?" She screamed angrily.
"Fuck. I was hoping you wouldn't notice that but I promise the bastard whose blood that is deserved it because he not only killed both of my mothers in front of me the day I turned 8 but drove you and aunt Yang to suicide, And you know the bastard on a personal level supposedly I think his name was Adam Taurus." Sanguine spoke defensively. Causing all of team RWBY to gasp, no one sure how they should react to it.
"Young man you will tell us the purpose of this now or I swear twenty three years old or not I will smack you." Weiss said breaking the silence. So Sanguine told them his story how he killed Weiss and Ruby in front of Sanguine to demoralise both him and the other members of team RWBY, how he was trained to become the best assassin, how he slowly killed the members of the White Fang because he was told to, how Adam sent Blake great details of what he did to drive her to the brinks of despair that lead ultimately lead to Blake to suicide and in turn lead Yang down the same path.
"Sooo, what you are saying is we die horribly because Blake crushes a man's heart because he was paranoid and forced my every so handsome son to kill for him." Ruby spoke trying to clarify the situation. "Yes mom, but also no, because he didn't know originally you had any connection to Blake but wanted to use me as a hostage to get Grandpa Schnee to bank role the whole Coup of the White Fang. When he learned the connection he started to crush both Yang and Blake mentally in the end Yang had no one to turn to because I was missing Granddad Xiao Long died with great Uncle Qrow trying to rescue me, their Daughter died at a young age due to a rouge Grimm attack and she found what Adam sent Blake for Years so she took her life."
They look to Yang and she didn't know how to react to the news she would kill herself but Blake just grabbed her hand and squeezed it reassuringly. "That is the reason I travelled back so I can kill that bastard before he has the chance to ruin our family." With that Weiss and Ruby looked at each other and walked up to Sanguine to smack him in quick succession.
"Don't you dear die if you go down this path I will not ever want to bury my son despite the fact you are yet to be born." Ruby said angrily and then wrapped him in a hug that Weiss joined in. For the first time in a long time a tear left Sanguine's eyes. "What the hell is coming out of my eyes? And why do I feel warm inside?" Sanguine asks to the group rubbing his eyes. He felt happy for the first time in a long time.
"They are tears Dolt Junior and as for the warm feeling it is a family love." The pet name made Sanguine cry louder. "I have waited fifteen years for those two words said to me. As for the crying I know what it is, I did it when I saw both you and mom die in front of me. Those images and being splattered in your blood isn't something I can ever get out of my mind no matter how hard I tried, and believe me I did try."
Ruby and Weiss both noticed something hidden behind his red undercoat of hair and white overcoat. Weiss pushed the hair aside from his left eye and gasped at the gruesome sight. His left eye was coated in burns and scars. The only thing that marred his flawless skin, "Who did this to you?" Weiss spoke in between sobs.
"Some I did to get the sight of my dead parents out but most Adam caused I can barely see out of it hence why my hair was covering it." Sanguine said coldly as he fixed his hair.
Ruby was next to break the silence, "What do you mean some was caused by you? Don't tell me because you saw use die that you tried to kill yourself!" Sanguine remained silent. Signifying exactly what both of his mother's worst fears, both of them hugged him harder and more securely trying to remove all dark thoughts he has ever had.
Yang and Blake joined the hug to make this a big family moment, which Yang had to ruin with, "You still need to get a pregnancy test there Rubes in case this little shit is lying." Ruby gasped at the now awkward moment and glared daggers at Yang. "What does my son possible have to gain from lying? I'm pretty sure he is the best proof; I'm just worried about what to do now, or at least when I give birth."
They broke up the hug and Sanguine spoke again "Well I stay with Granddad Xiao Long till you and Mother Graduate and marry which caused Grandpa Schnee reluctantly buy you two a house because Grandma Schnee didn't want you out of their lives." The two girls smirked and hugged each other.
Sleep came easy to the couples of team RWBY but not to Sanguine who just stared at the ceiling as he lay on the floor clutching the area around his left eye thinking about how he will make this younger version of Adam pay for the crimes he will commit against himself and his family.
Author's Note:
Okay so that was the first chapter of the new fic I got inspired to write, I don't know how frequently I will write this because I still have my other RWBY fic and a Final Fantasy 13 one. As always let me know what you guys think via review or something it does help because it lets me know what you guy's think of this and helps me write it faster.
Timmydog Out :P
