Just One Date
Volume 2
By athrunzala
Chapter 1: Uncertainty
Two weeks had passed since Jaune and Pyrrha had gone on their date, and things were returning to normal. Well, as normal as could be expected for students at Beacon Academy. Of course, there was no lack of things going on, but the tension that had existed in the previous weeks had seemingly melted away.
"Ruby! Wake up!"
The student-huntress slowly opened her eyes. As the room came into focus, she saw Weiss glaring at her. Almost instinctively, they jumped.
"Gyaaah! What's going on!?"
The heiress hopped down from the chair she had been perched on, and put her hands on her hips.
"You were going to sleep through class!"
In a flash, the bed sheets were empty of a living being as Ruby zipped around the room. Once she was into her uniform, she took a moment to look around the room. Almost immediately, she noticed something was slightly off.
"Where's Yang?"
"She went ahead with Blake. Now, HURRY. UP!"
The two then left the room as fast as they could without using Ruby's Semblance. They actually managed to make it about half-way across campus before they inevitably collided with another individual.
"Woah there. Rushing much?"
As Ruby shook off the initial shock of the collision, she look up at the person she had tried to run through. Her face bore an embarrassed grin.
"S-Sorry about that." She apologized, dusting herself off.
"No worries. In fact, Can you two give me directions?"
Weiss walked over to the two.
"Ruby! We're gonna be late!"
"Weiss, we can't just not help him! He's new here."
As the ice-queen looked over, she noticed the new person was rubbing the back of his head in am embarrassed manner.
"Oh, alright. But let's make it quick. If we're late, who knows what Professor Port will do!"
Noticing the obvious rush, the stranger nodded.
"I'll make it quick. Which way is the Headmaster's office?"
Ruby pointed in the general direction of Ozpin's clock tower "residence". With a nod and a quick "Thanks", the man ran off, leaving the pair to head to class.
Upon their arrival, they were relieved to find that they were not only not late, but early. By one minute. They quickly slid into their seats next to their team mates. Moments later, Port strode into the room from his office.
"Ah yes. Good to see the whole class could make it! Now! For today! We will be looking at…"
As he began to speak, most of the class tuned him out. They knew that he would drone on and on for the whole lecture, so it seemed to be safe.
"…and furthermore, the beast would be proved to be no match for me!"
As the professor finished, he glanced at the clock.
"Pitty. Looks as though we are out of time for this class. I'll see you all in a few days. Have a safe and fun weeked."
The look he shot towards both Team RWBY and Team JNPR was piercing, if you could call it that. In fact, nobody was exactly sure of his glares, nods, and glances mostly due to his abundant moustache and eyebrows. Still, they decided to take it seriously.
As soon as they left the room, Jaune let out a sigh.
"I don't think I'll ever understand his class."
Ruby looked over at him.
"Yeah. I just end up scribbling."
Weiss was slightly shocked at this, although she wasn't sure why.
"We need to understand his lessons if we are to be successful hunters and huntresses, right?"
The snowy princess looked over at Blake for affirmation.
"Sorry, Weiss, but I'm with them. We don't get much out of his class except for the occasional lesson on fighting the Grimm. Even then, we only end up seeing one student fight."
Yang threw her hands up into the air.
"Why don't we all go to the beach?"
"That would be nice," Pyrrha began, "but it is too cold for that."
The blonde brawler slumped slightly at the reminder. "Oh. Right."
She then yawned out a noticeable "Booooooooored….."
When they reached the fountain in the center of campus, they split off into their usual groups. Of course, this meant that Jaune and Pyrrha went off to their training location, Ren headed off to the library with Blake and Weiss, leaving Nora, Yang, and Ruby to do whatever.
Today's activity ended up being seeing how long they could hang from a tree upside-down before falling. And the challenge was to land on your feet. The loser had to be the landing pad for the winners. After deciding that extreme tree-climbing was done, they headed back towards the dorms.
"So, you were really late today!"
Nora's mention of Ruby and Weiss showing up later than normal for their class was out of the blue and slightly shocking.
The scythe-wielder rubber her head sheepishly.
"Yeah. I kinda forgot to set my alarm and I was up late so I didn't get to bed on time and ended up…"
"Geeze, sis. No need to apologize. Happens to the best of us!"
Yang pulled her sister in with one arm and proceeded to give her a noogie.
"Alright! Alright! I get it! Oh! And there was a new guy!"
This statement from Ruby stopped both Yang and Nora in their tracks. From their facial expressions, the younger girl could tell what was on both their minds. Yang would want to check him out, and Nora would want to try to be his friend. Or break his legs. Or a combination of the two. Nora was weird.
"Spill!"
As Ruby began telling them about her encounter, the "new guy" was in Ozpin's office.
"Look. I told you before that I'm not cut out for that kind of work."
Ozpin folded his hands in front of his face as he sat down.
"And I'm not seeing where you can't. The fact remains that we need to fill this position. And you were the first one to come to mind."
The man turned around. He had removed his hood, revealing shoulder length, unkempt hair, and a face that might have looked more youthful if not for the full beard covering it.
"And I said that I would meet with you. You never said what for."
"And, now that you know?" Ozpin cocked his head to one side.
The man turned his head to stare out the window. As he did so, he ran the options over in his mind. He could stay and become part of the faculty, or leave and travel some more. It was obvious from the look on his face that he was torn. He was ripped out of his thoughts when there was a knock on the door.
"Ah," Ozpin said. "That would be the other person I was supposed to meet with."
He stood up and headed towards the door.
"You can stay on campus tonight. We can talk more about this in the morning."
As he opened the door, the man's face lit up.
"Bart!"
To Be Continued…
Yes. I know I'm evil. I introduced a new character and didn't give you his name. Oh well. You'll find that out next chapter. Again, this will be compiled into a volume once all the chapters are done. So don't worry. More information will be put in. Just maybe not in this chapter.