so here is chapter two. again not sure what to put here but i dont own RWBY or Bleach and thank you for the guys who reviewed already and for those who are reading this and please read the comments at the end and enjoy.


Chapter 2: Motivation

Weeks past as Ruby kept herself locked up in her room and while Sena said that it would take time and I have little choice except to believe her because she has more experience than I do. Still though I feel like I should do something so I have been bringing her food and when I come home I find the tray empty with food gone. This was a little comforting because it meant that she was at least "ok" enough to eat and this is the only thing that I could think of doing at the moment. Still as days past I started to get a bit restless feeling that there had to be something more I could do for Ruby.

So one day I placed the tray a food down in front of her door as usual and say "Ruby I've brought you breakfast." I stood there waiting for a reply, but as usual I don't get one. Sighing I start walking away to go find work. but I just can't take it any more so I turn around and walk back up to the door and place my head against it with a slightly audible thud and pause before I start speaking. "Ruby I know what you are going through because I also died saving my friend. I saved him from some falling pipes after I finished beating up some guys in a duel that were trying to hurt him and got skewered as I pushed him to safety. Man it was extremely painful cause I was unlucky enough that all of the pipes missed my vital organs making a quick death impossible." I clench my fist in frustration over how helpless I was in my final moments as I continued "My friend was completely horrified by the sight of me laying there bleeding to death in tears and a look of frustration cover his face as he tries to think of a way to help. He then shouts 'I am going to get help so just wait and I'll be back with help!' as he runs off to go get an ambulance or something. Than I'm left with nothing but my thoughts as I feel my body screaming at me in pain and getting colder as my blood was flowing out of me." Sadness started to seep into my voice as I said "I thought about how now my friends and family that depended on me to protect them could end up getting hurt. I just… they were all I had left and I just wanted them to be safe and all I can do is hope that they are. Just like how I am sure you are thinking."

I place my hand on the door and try to sound as comforting as I can as I say "Also I remember you saying that you wanted to hero like they were in stories. Now I'm not sure how the heroes in your world are, but in mine they are people who are willing to put everything on the line even their lives in order to what needs to be done to protect those they care for. In that regard we both are heroes because we gave up our lives for those we care about in order to make sure that they are protected and we can only hope that they are ok. One day I am sure that we will see them again, but hopefully not too soon. Right now though both you and I have people that care for us, Sena and the kids have taken both of us in and want us to be part of their little family that they have here. I'm not saying that you should forget the family you had nor am I saying that the pain you feel now will go away, but the pain will become manageable and one should never forget where they come from because it is a big part of who you are. However, you can't let that past prevent you from moving forward and while your old life ended you now have a new one that you can do with what you want." I lower my hand and back away a little having said my piece "Well I have to go find work and you can take your time to finish sorting through what you need to. So just know that we will be there for you if need us." As I walk towards the stairs I finish with "Goodbye Ruby I'll be back later." Though as I walk down the stairs I don't notice the door open with a pair sad silver eyes staring at me as I leave before the tray of food is slowly pulled through the door before it closes without a sound.


*3rd POV*

Ruby sat there after Brendan left rubbing her red and puffy eyes, thinking about what he said and while she was still really sad about not being able to see her family and friends she was feeling better from his words. It also helped knowing that this house could be her new home filled with a caring family. Then she had a revelation 'if this is the place where dead souls end up then it I entirely possible that my mother is here as well.' This thought helped improve her mood tremendously for she had always wanted to see her mother again, and while she also wanted to see her friends and family again too Brendan was right in saying that she wanted them to stay safe at least for a little while longer before they could meet again. Then she thought 'He is pretty wise and such a nice guy not that he doesn't look like he couldn't be, but it is a bit surprising though because he almost looks a bit too rugged to be sagely.' As she thought about his looks she started to blush a little as her sister would have totally teased her for such thoughts. Then she heard a noise coming from down stairs that didn't sound like the children playing that she had grown accustom to hearing all day long. So she decided to check it out and quietly sneak down stairs to see what the commotion was about.

Down stairs Sena only sighed as she had answered the door only for three burly men that told her to bring all of the children outside. The men then formed a circle around the children so they couldn't escape, not that they looked all that conserved with the situation in fact two of the children decided to play rock, paper, scissors while they waited for the whole even to end. This pissed off two of the men while the third one spoke "Ok so we don't want to have to hurt you kids, but we won't hesitate to if you don't give us some form of tribute." The man gave a malicious smile and the other men snickered.

Sena only sighed again and said "Sirs, I know that you are trying to do your job for whatever organization, but it is clear that you are new to the area so let me help you understand." Paused looking at all three men determining that she and a few of the older children should be able to take them because of the training Brendan had given them over the years he has been there. She was tired of this because organizations would always send their new recruits to them as some form of hazing, but even if she explained this multiple times they always would give the same answer she only hoped that these men might have some brains to listen to her words. "This house is under the protection of one called Brendan McCarthy who also protects this area and unless you want trouble you should leave before he returns and put the three of you to bed rest for the next month or two."

Then one of the oldest boys, called Ryu, stepped forward and mocked the men "Yeah so unless you want the shit beat out of you, you should start running now while we are merciful." Sena hush the boy mostly because the rule was that you should avoid swearing in front of the youngest children. Also while they could take these men she wanted to avoid a fight as much as possible because there is the chance that the men might be stronger than they looked and someone could get hurt.

At the boy's words the man that spoke stepped forward toward the boy that had a mocking smile. Needless to say he was past the point of pissed as was enraged he struck out at the boy. Ryu was taken back by how fast the hit came and in his arrogance couldn't get his block up fast enough and was knocked aside. At this the man smiled and said with malice "Since your protector isn't here you should have a more respectful tone with your elders." The men now all had big malice filled grins on their faces as they savored the feeling of dominance they had over the children. Though as quick as the feeling came they didn't know just how short lived the feeling was going to be.

For before Sena or any of the other older children could move in to try to fight the men a red blur suddenly shot out from the house and the man who had hit Ryu soon found a pair of combat boots firmly planted onto his face. Then he was set sailing back a good couple of feet and the other two men just stood there stunned that their comrade was instantly put onto the ground writhing in pain as it seemed that his nose was heavily broken. Then the blur landed gracefully and the children saw that it was Ruby and they all started cheering for her as she quickly moved to try to take out the other two guys before they could recover from their shock. So she dashed forward toward the next man this time going to knee him in the face that she followed up with a firm kick to his abdomen knocking him down and he rolled a foot away dazed from the sudden hits. The third guy though had recovered from his comrades' sudden defeat and moved to strike the girl who was making a mockery of them. Then he roared "YOU LITTLE BITCH." As he threw a punch that was met with nothing but air.

Ruby was glad that she had her friend Lie Ren teach her some martial arts after an incident were she had lost her weapon. As it was now extremely useful seeing as how she now had no weapon to use and so she was able to easily dodge the punch from the man. To her his punch was ridiculously slow and he made it easy for her to go under the punch then follow through with a quick jab to the throat. Then as he was falling forward she grabbed his wrist and waist to flip him onto the ground face first. After that Ruby huffed out a sigh as she looked to the children who cheered even louder for her now that she had beaten three men at the same time up.

Then an even bigger man stepped out from under the shadow of another building with a look of contempt on his face as he talked with disgust in his voice "How could three grown men be defeated by such a tiny girl it is quite a disgrace and you guys wanted to be part of the gang." The man scoffed at he would be comrades as he continued "Honestly all you guys are nothing but talk AND YOU" the man point to Ruby "I suggest that you pay up that protection money if you know what is good for you."

Ruby chuckled a little at the man and replied "HA as if any of us are scared of a bunch of MORONS like you" Ruby was now feeling confident in her hand-to-hand combat skills now that she has easily taken down three adults. Sena on the other hand felt that while she had confidence in Ruby's abilities as a fighter she had a bad feel that this fourth man wasn't anything at all like the other men.

This feeling was given form for when Ruby once again charged with what seemed to be amazing speed to the children the man simply scoffed again. Then once Ruby closed the distance the man struck out with more speed than Ruby had thought he was capable of and she didn't react quick enough so she was knocked down. The man never gave her the chance to recover as he pressed on with his attacks throwing punches and kicks that were faster and stronger than the other men. Not being able to regain her balance Ruby was forced back until she was knocked to the floor and then rolled to the side to avoid getting stepped on by the hulking man. Though as she tried to get up to retaliate he was already in front of her bringing his foot at her and while she tried to block it the kick made her fly a few feet. When he licked her she could feel a rib crack as a massive amount of pain shot through her and she could only hold her chest in pain and watch as the man walked toward her. "Tch, still a child through and through can't even work through the pain to win the fight." The man said boringly as he reached down and pulled Ruby up to her feet by her hair. She gritted her teeth not wanting the man to have the satisfaction of hearing her cry out in pain, but at this point his comrades have gotten up and were walking toward the them.

Ruby tried to fight back the tears as she was being held up by her hair but was failing and at the sight of that a few of the older children were about to even the odds by joining in only to be stopped by Sena. They looked at her with anger and frustration for they wanted to beat these guys to near death, but when she pointed down the street they all began to develop devious smiles as they released that these guys were about to receive their punishment. Ruby and the men didn't see what the children saw and the man that Ruby kicked in the face, that had a nice big foot print on his face, walked up glaring at her and said "Boss can I get a few hits in for pay back for what she did to my face please?" the biggest man thought about it for a sec then moved Ruby in front of him so the other man would have a clear shot before he gave a slight nod as the sign to go ahead. Ruby in her head started calling for help 'please help Yang, Uncle Qrow, Dad, Weiss, Jaune, Brendan, anyone help! PLEASE I don't want to die again!'

The boot-print man smiled evilly as he said "Alright you little Bitch let's see how you handle a good hit to the fa-ARGH!" the man never got to finish as Ruby's please was answered by a shoe making contact with the boot-print man's face that sent him flying even farther then when Ruby kicked him and when the man rolled to a halt he was out cold. As the other men stared at this the next one went down almost immediately after as his legs were swept out from under him and while he was falling a palm was thrusted into his chest with loud cracking noises as he was sent flying with broken ribs. The next guy was broken out of his trance from the sound of his friend's ribs breaking and charged their aggressor, but was taken down by a swift upper cut that managed to lift the man off the ground just enough that the two fists planted into his body sent him flying as more bones were heard snapping under the stress they went through.

With the three knocked out in just a few seconds the biggest man watched as his new opponent turned toward him. In the background the children were cheering the boy on and when he completely faced the man holding Ruby she exclaimed "Brendan!" as she no longer hold back the tears as the biggest man pulled on her hair more causing her to cry out.

This causes Brendan to glare at the man with a dark expression as he said "I'm giving you one chance before I beat you within an inch of your miserable life to put the girl down and walk away." The man simply smiled as he tossed the girl to the side a good distance away from them and this only infuriated the boy more as now an evil smile started to form on his face then said "Can't say I didn't warn you, but now I'm going to enjoy beating the crap out of you!"


Brendan POV

Now let it be known that while I don't like looking for fights there is a certain kind of thrill that comes from beating up guys that totally deserve it. Take the asshole in front of me for instance this guy comes with his friends to extort an orphanage, beats up a young girl and after seeing his friends get knocked out in record time and he just tosses the girl aside and then smiles?! Screw letting this guy walk away I'm gonna have to break this man on every level or else I won't be satisfied. As I move into a stance to attack him he charges at me which I can easily work around and go for a palm strike right to his gut, but he just shrugs it off. "Huh." That's a little boring I was hoping I could do damage right off the bat. Guess I'm out of practice gonna have to fix that later for now though I guess I'm gonna have to step it up a notch.

The man is now laughing as I shift into a slightly different stance. He stops laughing only to try to mock me "Is that really the best you can do? That blow was nothing more than a gentle breeze to me please tell me you can do better than that." He then continues with his laughter.

I start to rub the back of my head and reply in a bored tone "Well I can but I don't really think you can handle it you are just far too weak."

The man stopped laughing as I said that and looked pissed which I thoroughly enjoyed as the smile creeped back onto my face. Seeing my smile must have pissed him off even more because then he shouted "Don't make light of me I will crush you then the girl then those little shits behind you. Don't worry though ill make yours the quickest!" with that he charged again a bit fast I'll give it to the man that he is fast for how big he is.

I am still able to dodge most of his attacks and blocking those I can't and then I gave a small chuckle as I think that this guy's moves are easily readable. My amusement seems to tick the guys off even more as he roars and sends a flurry of hits my way, but his rage is making them even easier to read so I can dodge them easy. Then the cheers of the children keep on getting louder "BEAT HIM UP!"," SHOW HIM WHOS BOSS!", "KICK HIS BUT FOR WHAT HE DID TO BIG SIS RUBY!" I smile at this and how they have accepted Ruby even if they haven't interacted with her a lot and I think it is time to finish this so I can make sure that Ruby isn't heavily hurt.

I hop back a few steps to disengage and hold up one finger. The man laughs at this "So you need a minute to rest huh?" Though he is trying to act tough I can see that he is starting to get winded. Probably the only thing keeping him going is hot air because he shouts "Don't think I'll give it to you!"

I sigh and shake my head "No this is how many moves I'll need to break you," then I hold two fingers up "and this will be how many hits it will take to satisfy me so try not to die when I deliver them."

As I take up a different stance once again, the man grinds his teeth and yells "YOU LITTLE SHIT IM GOING TO TEACH YOU TO RESPECT YOUR ELDERS!" then he charges at me again with renewed vigor.

Not that it does him much good because that is exactly what I want him to do and as he tries to strike at me again I move into him with my right hand fingers outstretched pointed at his chest and say "Respect is only for those that earn it and while there may be some things I have to admit is slightly impressive about you, you have yet to EARN ANY RESPECT!" As I shout the last words I perform a one-inch punch, that my teacher had always said never to use because I could never control the strength of the punch and it could kill my opponent, and hear the satisfying cracking of his rib cage. I hop a few steps back as he falls to his knees coughing up quite a bit of blood. I smile and say "There's one now are you ready for the finisher." He looks up at me in disbelief and fear as I spin on my heel as my other one gets driven right into the side of his head which cause his head to jerk to the side and he collapses to the floor.

I reach down and pull him up slightly so that we are eye level as I crouch down and say "Hey you still amongst the spirit world or did I kill you again." I get a groan of pain in response "oh good for a sec there I thought you wouldn't be able to give a message to all the gangs and punks you meet." I pull him closer in a growl my next words "listen up if I ever catch or hear about any of you guys extorting anyone in this district I am gonna make sure that whoever it is will never be able to cause trouble ever again if you catch my meaning." I didn't get a response so I shake him a little bit which he gives more groaning in response "He you get that." He shakes his head weakly "Good now your buddies should be waking up any second now and when they do I never want to see your ugly mug ever again got it." Again he shakes his head weakly and with that I drop his head which results in more groans.

I turn to the guy I first hit as he is probably the one that should be getting up first so I walk over to him and lightly, not really, kick him in the ribs. As he groans he looks up to see me standing above him as I say "listen unless you want to end up like you buddy over there" I point to the biggest guy "I suggest you wake you friends grab the big guy and go." As the guy snaps out of his stares of disbelief as my words sink in he goes over to the other guys getting them up and they all have to work together to carry the big guy off to what I assume is either the clinic or their base either way I don't think the guy will die…. probably.

After I am sure they are gone for good I turn to find the children have started to gather around Ruby some exclaiming how it was awesome that she was such a good fighter that she was able to take down three of the guys no problem, huh I knew she was a fighter but to be able to take down three out of four is a pretty good, others were trying to make sure she was ok. When Sena finally got to her and checked her ribs she gave a sigh of relief "They are not broken, but I wouldn't do anything to excessive for a few days." Then she smiles as she steps aside as I approach.

"Hey you ok Ruby?" I say with a look of concern on my face.

She gave a small smile at me "as well as I can be considering my ribs hurt, but" she gestures in the direction the men walked off in "I'm probably feeling better that those guys after you were done with them." I chuckle at this and then she gives me a small look of confusion as I help her to her feet "How did you do all that anyways? Are you some sort of ultimate fighter from your world?"

I chuckle again at this and rub the back of my head "Nah. Nothing like that. I had my fair share of loses, but after training from a young age I got good at many different fighting styles and reading peoples moves. So I just constantly switch styles depending on what I need to do. Of course that means that if I am limited in the ways I can fight I will be at a disadvantage because I'm use to adjusting my style to the way the fight flows." Even though I explain the obvious flaw of my style of fighting she still looks at me with wonder. I sigh and pat her on the head "Come on I don't know about you guys but I am starving after beating up jerk wads." The children all cheer at this as I lead the way back inside to get diner started.

Ruby was the last one inside and though as she looked down the street toward the setting sun and thought 'It hurts that I can't see my friends and family, but I have faith that I will see them again someday. For now, though I have the people in that care about me and I know things could be a lot worse.' She smiles at this and heads inside wondering if maybe she could convince Brendan to try to make cookies cause man did she miss her favorite dessert.


In the middle of a forest in an unknown Rukon district seven people wake up confused by their surroundings. A blonde boy is the first to speak and states the obvious "Weren't we just in Forever Fall forest famous for the fact that its trees are always red?"

A red headed girl with a pony tail was about to speak when an orange haired broken loudly exclaiming "AWWW RENNY THAT MEANS THAT WE NEVER GOT TO COLECT MORE OF THAT DELICIOUS SAP FROM OUR FRESHMAN YEAR. Of course that was going to be after we beat up those Ursa, but then a pack of Beowolves showed up. NOW I CAN'T HAVE DELICOUS SAP PANCAKES RENNY CAN YOU" the girl continued to rant as the rest of them tuned her out as they were used to it by now.

Then a white hair girl spoke next "Still it is strange. Where are we now?"

"I don't know but…. GUYS LOOK MY ARM" exclaimed the blonde girl as she holds up her right hand. "IT'S FLESH AND BONE!" the blonde is ecstatic at this as she flexes it while the rest of the group is just stunned staring at her right arm.

"How is that even possible?" asked a black haired girl seemingly calm until she then felt an odd breeze above her head. Then she started to panic a little bit "Has anyone seen my bow?!"

They all looked around but couldn't find it, but then the boy with a magenta streak in his hair, that the orange hair girl was ranting to most of the time, spotted a house "Perhaps we should wait till the morning when there will be more light and in the mean time we can see about staying inside that house." Though he knew that the black haired girl did not like being without her bow it was too dark for everyone else to see.

The black haired girl glared a little at the boy, but saw the logic and gave a slight nod. As they walked to the house the blonde girl shouted "HERE LET ME GET THE DOOR!" as she reached out with her right hand to pull it open giggling like a mad man. As each of them slowly filed in none of them noticed a black butterfly start floating away from them toward the center of the Rukon Districts that was known as the Seireitei were the Soul Reapers reside.

Chapter 2 end


so how was that? i don't have a lot of confidence in my writing ability, but i went and wrote a fight scene and foreshadowed. now i mentioned this last time but i will do so again but i am a sucker for romance and i would like to put it in here as well seeing as how this is pretty much one of my lucid daydreams so there is a poll on my page that i would like you guys to participate in it please and if no one votes ill just go with whatever flows into the writing so no complaining later. i will have the poll open for maybe 1 or 2 more chapters also if you could please leave a review tell me what you liked didn't like so that i can improve and give a better execution to my thoughts on the story. any suggestion on the story or my writing is appreciated so long as it is constructive and given that it is spring break i might be able to do the next chapter sooner but please be patient with me as i am new to writing and i have school to work through but anyways see you guys next time peace.