A/N: Takes place after the end of S1 of SAO and before episode 1 of RWBY.
Disclaimer: I don't own SAO, RWBY or SAOA. They belong to Rooster Teeth, Reki Kawahara and Something Witty Entertainment respectively.
(Near Vale docks, 3p.m. )
Kirito was taking a late night stroll when he came a cross a Dust shop, From Dust 'Til Dawn, and decided to stock up on Dust for combat class that would be starting soon. After buying some fire, wind and steam dust, he moved to the corner and began flicking through some magazines covering various subjects such as weapons and tournaments. He must've lost track of time, because when checked his scroll it displayed that it was 5:30 at night and there was a young girl standing next to him, who was staring at the magazine he was reading.
"Can you stop staring, it's freaking me out." Kirito said.
"Oh! Uh...s-sorry..it's just...um..could I read that magazine please." Ruby asked, nervous and embarrassed.
"Yeah sure, its rubbish anyway." Kirito replied, tossing the magazine to Ruby.
"Oh! Thanks."Ruby said, already starting to read it. "So...you like weapons huh?" And then the pair spent two and a half hours talking about weapons.
"I never thought I'd find someone who's into weapons as much as I am." Ruby commented, surprised at the raven haired boys ability to hold a conversation about weapons with her.
"Well it's kind of hard for me to not be interested, considering my line of work." Kirito replied.
"What do y-" Ruby began to ask but was interrupted with a hand on her shoulder and a gruff voice saying, "Hey! You kids, put your hands up, this is a robbery!" Ruby looked to Kirito, then back to the thug, then back to Kirito. They exchanged small, knowing nods, and both readied themselves to attack. Ruby kicked the thug square in the chest sending him flying through the air and sliding across the floor. Torchwick gestured to another thug to attack, only for Kirito to hit the hired help with a horizontal slash from Elucidator, causing him to smash through the front store window. The two teens then jumped through the window after him. Torchwick and three other thugs looked out the window, to see Ruby draw Crescent Rose in its scythe configuration and Kirito draw a second turquoise sword.
"Well...get 'em." Torchwick ordered the thugs. Three of them ran out the front door towards Ruby and Kirito. The former dug the curved blade of her scythe into the ground and jumped, using the main body of the weapon to spin and kick a thug in the side of the head. Kirito rushed two others, slashing one across the chest with Elucidator and hitting the other in the shins with his second sword before kicking the fallen thug in the head. While Kirito did that, a fourth thug appeared from somewhere. Ruby ran at him, hitting him with Crescent Rose, sending him into the air. Before he could land she again dug her scythe into the ground and spin kicked him out of the air, making him land at Torchwick's feet.
"You were worth every cent, truly you were." He looked up to Kirito and Ruby. "Well Red, Edgy, I think we can all say it's been an eventful evening." Torchwick took a last puff from his cigar before dropping it on the ground and crushing it with his cane, Melodic Cudgel. "And as much as I'd love to stick around," He raised his weapon and pointed it towards the teens, "I'm afraid this," a crosshairs popped up from Melodic Cudgel. "Is where we part ways." An explosive dust round fired from the bottom of the cane. Ruby and Kirito readied their weapons to block as the projectile it them, causing a firework like explosion. After recovering from the hit they looked around for the criminal.
"There!" Kirito called to Ruby after spotting Torchwick climbing a ladder up the side of a building. Ruby turned to the shopkeeper who was standing in the doorway. "You okay if we go after him?" Ruby asked. The shopkeeper nodded in reply. Kirito ran straight towards the building Torchwick had been climbing and, much to Ruby's amazement, ran up the side of it. Ruby, instead, as she could not run up vertical surfaces, propelled herself onto the roof with a downwards shot from her sniper.
"Hey!" Ruby shouted. Kirito facepalmed when Ruby gave away their location.
"Persistent." Torchwick muttered as a bulkhead rose in front of the building. A bright search light shone in Ruby and Kirito's faces as Torchwick climbed aboard th bullhead. He then turned back to the teens. "End of the line, Red, Edgy." He said as he chucked a red dust crystal at them, took aim and shot it. It exploded, but when the pair opened their eyes they were unharmed and Glynda Goodwitch stood in front of them, having blocked the explosions.
"Whoooohoo!" Torchwick celebrated prematurely, his face turning grim as the smoke cleared and he saw Goodwitch. The latter then sent some attacks at the bullhead, but, thanks to Torchwicks flying, he escaped.
"Kirito, I thought I told you not to get into trouble." Goodwitch said sternly, turning towards the swordsman.
"Heh...about that..." Kirito replied, scratching the back of his head nervously. He then noticed Ruby staring at Glynda with awe.
"You're a huntress! Can I have you autograph?"
Goodwitch led them to a room that bore a suspicious resemblance to an interrogation room. Ruby sat down in the single chair behind the desk.
"I hope you realise that your actions tonight will not be taken lightly." Goodwitch said. "You put yourself and others in great danger."
"But they started it!" Ruby retorted.
"Does this include me or...?" Kirito asked.
"Yes *Kazuto* this involves both you and Miss Rose" Goodwitch replied sternly. "If it were up to me, you would be sent home with a pat on back," Ruby's face lit up with hope. "And a slap on the wrist." Goodwitch continued, hitting the table with her weapon (riding crop?). "But, there is someone here who would like to meet you." In walked Ozpin, holding a mug of coffee (as usual) and a plate of cookies.
"Heya Ozpin." Kirito said, addressing the newcomer.
"Hello Kazuto" The headmaster replied before turning to face Ruby "Ruby Rose, you have silver eyes."
"You sound like a paedophile when you say that." Kirito commented, earning a glare from Glynda.
"So, where did you learn to do this?" Ozpin asked, gesturing to a video of Ruby and Kirito fighting Torchwicks hired help.
"S-signal academy?" Ruby, nervously, asked more than said.
"I'm just gonna tune out from this conversation because it clearly doesn't involve me anymore." Kirito said, but his comment fell onto deaf ears.
"They taught you to use on of the most dangerous weapons ever designed?" Ozpin inquired.
"Well, one teacher in particular." Ruby answered.
"I see." Ozpin said, placing the plate of cookies in front of Ruby. As she hesitantly raised her hand to take one, Kirito's swooped down and stole two.
"Hey!" Ruby cried out.
"You snooze, you loose Red." Kirito retorted.
"My names Ruby not Red." Said an offended Ruby.
"A quantum super computer operating for a thousand years couldn't calculate the amount of fucks I don't give." Kirito replied, only receiving a confused look from Ruby and a disapproving glare from Glynda. Ruby reached out and took a cookie, devouring it in one bite. She sped up and kept going until the plate was clean, spare a few crumbs.
"Its just that I've only seen one other scythe wielder of that skill before, a dusty old crow." Ozpin continued.
"My feathery drinking pal and 'friend'" Kirito commented.
"Mmh, ats ma undle row." Ruby tried to say, her mouth still full of cookie. She swallowed it and tried again. "Sorry, thats my uncle Qrow. He's a teacher at Signal. I was complete garbage before he took me under his wing."
"You still are." Kirito harshly interrupted, recieving yet another glare from Glynda.
"Ahem. But now I'm all like *insert karate noises*" Ruby said, while making karate-like gestures
"So I've noticed." Ozpin said while placing his mug on the table. "And what is an adorable girl such as yourself doing at a school to train warriors?"
"You still sound like a paedophile!" Kirito interrupted again.
"Well, I want to be a huntress." Ruby answered.
"You want to slay monsters?"
"Yeah I only have two more years left at Signal, then I'm gonna apply to Beacon. See my sister's starting there this year, she wants to become a huntress and I want to become a huntress because I wanna help people and our parents always told us to help others so I thought 'oh well I may as well make a career out of it.' I mean the police are alright but huntsmen and huntresses are just so much more romantic and cool just ayah, ya know?" Ruby rambled.
"So I'm romantic and cool now, huh?" Kirito said, breaking the silence.
"What? No. Huntsmen are. You're not a huntsman." Ruby retorted.
"Me and my wages beg to differ." Kirito replied. Ruby turned to Ozpin and Glynda for what they had to say.
"Either Kazuto is a huntsman, or I've been paying a student for the past six months."
A look of utter horror and confusion washed across Ruby's face. "But how can he be, he's not even old enough to have graduated yet!" Ruby exclaimed, making a very valid point.
"Simple, he got into Beacon early, just like you're going to." Ozpin said, in an attempt to avoid another outburst of excitement.
"But I didn't go to Beacon." Kirito added.
"WAIT, WHAT!?"
"Oooh, I can't believe my baby sisters going to Beacon with me, this is the best day ever!" Yang excitedly said while engulfing said baby sister in a bear hug. Kirito just stood next to Ruby (he wasn't in the hug) and watched the younger girl suffocate on her own sister.
"Please stop..." Ruby barely managed to wheeze out, making Yang let go.
"But I'm so proud of you!" Yang said, literally bobbing with excitement.
"Really, sis it was nothing." Ruby said.
"What do you mean, it was incredible! Everyone at Beacon is gonna think you the bee's knees."
"I gotta agree with the barely clothed stranger, who is apparently your sister, on this one. Taking on Torchwick isn't nothing, even if it was mostly me." Kirito butted in.
"Hey! I helped in that fight too!" Ruby exclaimed.
"Yeah, but I could've done the whole thing without you. In fact it would've been easier without you, since you gave away our position." Kirito replied before walking off.
"Sooooo...Who's the mysterious hottie?" Yang asked once Kirito was out of hearing range.
"Yaaaaaaaang." Ruby let out a groan.
"Well, who is he?" Yang repeated.
"He's just someone called Kirito or Kazuto I met at the dust shop who helped me fight the bad guys." Ruby told her older sister.
"I guess he must be a student like us. Maybe you'll get partnered up with him! You'll get to spend all that time, just the two of you..." Yang said, embarrassing Ruby.
"One, I don't have a crush on him, whatever you may think. And two, he's not a student, Ozpin said something about him being a paid huntsmen." Ruby replied.
"Wait... if he's a huntsman, paid by Ozpin, and is flying to Beacon at the start of the year, then that means...Oh shit. Kirito's a teacher at Beacon!"
(Meanwhile, in a bar somewhere in Mistral)
Qrow bolted up straight. "Those poor kids."
(Back on the ship headed for Beacon)
Jaune threw up just as Yang said this. Kirito walked back over to the sisters, now holding a bucket of popcorn.
"So teach, what class do you lead?" Yang asked upon Kirito's return.
"So you figured me out. If you must know, I lead combat class." Kirito replied.
"But Goodwitch-" Ruby started.
"Got promoted" Kirito interrupted.
"Aren't you guys excited!?" Yang said to Kirito and Ruby.
"Of course I'm excited." Ruby answered.
"Oh feelings? I don't have those anymore." Kirito answered casually.
"How can you not have feelings?" Both sisters asked, confused.
"I got rid of them." Kirito said before walking off again.
"Great. A combat teacher with no feelings." Ruby said.
"We're all gonna die." Yang said grimly.
Suddenly, a hologram of Goodwitch replaced the news broadcast about a faunus rights campaign.
"Hello Beacon." The hologram said.
"Who's that?" Yang asked as she leant over to her sister.
"My name is Gynda Goodwitch." The hologram continued, prompting an 'oh' from Yang "You are among the privaliged few who have recieved the honour of being selected to attend this prestigious academy. Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace, and as future huntsmen and huntresses, it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task. And now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and training to protect our world." The hologram of Goodwitch ends its speech and fades away. (The rest of what normally happens on the journey to Beacon)
(Meanwhile, on an outdoor part of the ship)
Kirito pulled out his scroll and selected a contact.
"Heyyyy, Snowflake."
*You again.*
"Yes, me. Anyway, your little sister's going to Beacon this year, right?"
*Yes, why?*
"Great to know, I'll get to kick the shit out of her in combat class."
*You're a student at Beacon this year?*
"Oh no, it's much better than that. I'm a teacher at Beacon this year."
Kirito heard the scroll clatter to the floor.
"Well, cya round, Winter." Kirito said as he hung up on the specialist.
(Somewhere in Atlas, Specialist Schnee's office)
Winter quickly opened her scroll and selected her sister's contact.
*Hello Winter.*
"Weiss! I need you to listen to me."
*Okay...*
"The combat teacher at Beacon, he's insane, has no concept of human emotion and will not hesitate to humiliate you."
*Umm...ok, whats his name?*
"Kirito."
*I'll try to avoid him then.*
"Oh, and don't duel" *Weiss hangs up* "him."
(Meanwhile, at Beacon)
The ship docked and students began flooding out, but then they stopped and stared in awe at Beacons buildings.
"View from Vale's got nothing on this." Yang said.
"Again, gonna have to agree with blondie on this one." Kirito said, catching the sisters off guard.
"AHH!" Ruby screamed, activating Crescent Rose in a panic, nearly decapitating Yang.
"Ahh! Woah!" Yang cried out, to both Kiritos sudden appearance and the scythe blade pressed against her neck. "Can everyone calm down!?" She shouted, but it was barely audible over Kiritos laughter.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA *inhales* HAHAHAHAAHAH!" Kirito guffawed, but calming shortly after.
"Don't creep up on me like that." Ruby said, agitated.
"Haha...that was hilarious." Said a breathless Kirito, wiping away a single tear.
"Hmph." Ruby pouted, but was almost immediately cheered up when she saw the weapons people were carrying. A chibi Ruby floated next to Yangs shoulder and points to a passing student.
"That kids got a collapsible staff! And shes got a fire sword!" Ruby began following the fire sword wielder, but Yang grabs her by the hood and drags her back.
"Easy there little sister, they're just weapons." Yang said to her hooded sister.
"Just weapons!? They're an extension of our selves, they're a part of us! Oooh, they're so cool." Ruby replied, unable to believe her sister's comment. Meanwhile, Kirito was trying to figure out how the fuck Ruby turned into a tiny, flying animation of herself.
"Well why can't you swoon over your own weapon? Aren't you happy with it?" Yang asked as Ruby drew Crescent Rose.
"Of course I'm happy with Crescent Rose, I just really like seeing new ones. It's like meeting new people, but better." Ruby said, sounding slightly disheartened at the end.
"Meeting people isn't hard. You made friends with Kirito just fine." Yang said, waving a hand to a befuddled Kirito.
"Wha...how? How the fuck did you do that?" Kirito voiced his confusion.
"Do what?" Ruby asked, now confused as well.
"Turn into a little floating animation"
"Are you high or something?" Yang asked the young teacher.
'Huh. Guess only I could see it.'
"Anyway, Ruby, why don't you go try and make some more friends of your own." The brawler continued.
"Why would I need friends when I have you two?"
"Wellll...actuallymyfriendsareherenowgottagocatchuplaterbye!" Yang replied, dashing off with her fellow Signal graduates. Ruby looked hopefully to Kirito.
"I've got nothing better to do." Kirito said with a shrug.
"YAYYY!" Ruby span in circles in delight, only to end up dazed. "Woahhhh. AHHH!" She fell back into a cart of white cases. *CRASH!*
"What are you doing?!"" Said an agitated voice, eminating from a girl dressed entirely in white.
"Sorry." Ruby said nervously.
"Sorry? Do you have any idea of the damage you could've caused?!" The girl asked Ruby, clearly furious.
"Uhhh..." A dazed Ruby picked up a case that had fallen next to her.
"Give me that," The girl snatched the case from her and opened it. "This is dust. Mined and purified from the Schnee quarry."
"Uhhhh..." Ruby repeated, rubbing her head.
"Dust! What are you? Brain dead? Fire, lightning, water, energy!" The heiress listed, shutting the case and shaking a vial of red dust.
"Hey! Ice queen! Don't shake that, it's not sealed properly!" Kirito tried to intervene in vain.
"Uuhhahhgg..." Ruby 'said', slowly standing up and straying herself, all the while breathing in various types of dust.
"Are you even listening to me? Is any of this sinking in?" Weiss verbally attacked Ruby.
"SCHNEE BITCH!" Kirito shouted, fed up of Weiss' attitude and ignorance.
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!" Weiss cried, outraged.
"You've been shaking a poorly sealed vial of dust in her face for the last minute!" Kirito said, ignoring the question.
"What do you mea-" *ACHOBOOM!*
