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Well I must say that y'all made my day with all the positive feedback. I found myself reading over every review multiple times and smiled every time. So I just wanted to say thanks for supporting this oddball idea. But enough rambling.
On to the show.
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
"Dark Character Speech" or Technique
"Dark Character Thoughts'
Chapter 3: Memories in the Water
It was a hot summer day on the island of Menagerie and a young Blake Belladonna could be seen walking along the shore of one of the few ponds that could be found around her family's property. Reason she was so far out away from her house was that she just had an argument with her mother over some of her chores, and was walking and talking under her breath to let off a bit of steam like her father taught her to do when she was mad.
Sitting down next to the edge of the pond she looked at the collection of water lilies and began to pick them one at time and pluck every pedal off one at a time.
"Stupid mom, wanting me to clean the kitchen. I didn't make the mess so why should I have to clean it up?" She says angrily to herself as she threw away the flower she held in her hand before looking out into the small body and water.
She saw several small shapes swimming around in the water and her more animalistic side told her that it was a tasty serving of fish.
And the childlike side of her told that fish was good and it should be in her tummy rather than in the water.
So deciding to try her luck at fishing the young girl goes back to her house and stealthily grabs her father's fishing gear and sneaks it back out to the pond with a proud smile on her face.
And after pricking her finger several times on one of the hooks in the box she happily sits by the shore of the pond of fishes in peace trying to see if anything was going to bite.
But unfortunately for a child of about six patience wasn't a real virtue yet so she found herself checking far too often and recasting the line.
And around the fourth or fifth time she was almost tempted to just throw herself in the water and hand fish.
That is until she got a pull on the end of her line.
Quickly getting to her feet and jerking the pole she was happy to be rewarded with a strong amount of resistance. She reels and pulls as hard as she could with her little arms and was almost salivating just thinking about the smell of her mom's cooked fish.
And if they did have fish tonight she would more than happily clean if it meant her mother's cooking.
So imagine her disappointment and confusion when the line suddenly goes lax.
Scratching her cat ears in befuddlement the girl reels in the rest of the line in and sees that the end is missing the hook. Did the fish break the line? Maybe, but that just means that there is a really big fish in the pond.
So the girl casts once again, and again the line catches something. And like before after a short fight the line snaps.
Screaming in frustration the girl glares at the small body of water and devises another plan to catch a fish.
So going back to her family home she grabs a small spear from her father's armory and smiles when she thought she the perfect idea. She was going to throw the spear just like she'd seen her father do.
Only to then miss and loose the spear on her first try.
Back to the drawing board.
So there Blake sat on the edge of the lake glaring daggers at the creatures she was determined to make into her favorite meal. Thinking over and over again different and in some cases ridiculous and childish ideas on how to catch them.
Until she once again got impatient once the many thoughts of the countless ways to cook fish appeared in her head.
And then she said fuck it, might as well swim.
So with her mind made up the young faunus quickly rid herself of clothes and jumped head first into the warm summer water.
She then felt a massive wave of relief as the water cooled her off instantly and seemed to sooth her nerves, but at the same time a small part of her was screaming in irritation at being wet, but at this point it was the only way she though she could actually catch any fish.
And once she opened her eyes her eyes in the murky green water she was greeted to the sights of several small fish swimming in a large school. To which she smiles seeing her chance.
Clumsily swimming over to the school Blake swipes her hands through the school, only to miss every time. So after a few seconds of trying to repeat that she swims up to the surface before once again trying to catch a few with her hands.
This goes on for a few more minutes with the girl trying her hardest to catch at least a minnow, when a brilliant idea comes to her mind. There was still a spear at the bottom of the pond.
So going up for the largest breath she could grab the girl goes down to the very bottom of the murky greenish water and begins her search past all the plants and other things down there until she finds it. And with a small evil grin on her face she turns to look a small catfish in the eyes.
But before she can try to spear the bottom feeder, something else grabbed it. Something much bigger.
Seeing something speed off with the catfish in its mouth made Blake go into overdrive as she kicked her little legs as hard as she could to get back to the surface. But before she did she made the mistake of turning around and looking into a pair of smiling jaws.
Jaws lined with teeth bigger than fishhooks.
She very quickly started kicking again with a renewed vigor to her.
Once she reached the surface the girl dropped the spear on the shore and ran as fast as her little legs could carry her back to the house for a third time.
"Momma! Daddy! There's a monster in the pond!" She screamed with tears of fright running down her cheeks.
Hearing their daughter scream Blake's parents came running out of the house each of them with faces full of worry.
Kali was the first to reach the young girl and held her close as it was only then that her lack of clothes became apparent to them. "Blake where did your clothes go!?" Kali shouts in shock seeing her daughter running around naked and sopping wet.
Blake swallowed any other form of sob as she looked her concerned parents in the eyes. "I-I went to the pond, because, because I was still mad at mom. And then I r-remembered that there are fish in there so I t-took Dad's fishing rod and tried to c-catch some. But I d-didn't catch anything so I c-came back and got one of your spears. And I dropped that in the water. And then I got so m-mad that I….took everything off and tried to catch them with my hands."
Ghira let out a sigh at hearing that before actually smiling and then outright chuckling. Blake was like him when it came to eating. When they got hungry they wanted to eat ASAP, and they didn't care how.
Kali though just glares at him making the chieftain shut up really quick wanting to avoid his wife's glare.
Ghira taking off his fur-lined coat wrapped it around Blake as she seemed to have completely calmed down from her outburst. He then picked her up and started to carry back to the house with a still concerned Kali walking close behind.
"So Blake tell us about this monster fish down in the pond." Her father says jokingly now wanting to here about the thing he thought for sure must have been just a rather large fish.
"It wasn't a fish dad. It was a…a…a pond shark!" Blake says trying to get her father to believe her.
Kali just smiles and rolls her eyes thinking it was just a child's overactive imagination.
But Blake in a fit jumps out of her father's arms and takes off back to the pond.
The two parents just sigh and walk after her knowing exactly where she was going and what she was going to do. And sure enough when they got to the pond they found their daughter still naked swimming in the water.
"Blake get out and get dressed." Her mother says to her in a calm but slightly stern maternal voice.
Blake continues to just spin in circles looking around in the water.
Finally having enough Kali just starts walking towards her daughter while thinking of ways to punish the girl for making her get one of her good dresses wet with dirty pond water.
That is until she sees a large black shape swimming to Blake's left, at that point she felt her heart drop.
Blake wasn't imagining things.
"Blake. Get. Out. Now." Her mother calls to in a worried but still very calm voice.
Looking over to her side Blake sees a large black shape slightly larger than herself, and immediately panics.
It's the pond shark!" She yells getting her father's attention who finally sets his eyes on the figure.
Blake quickly swam towards her mother with Ghira grabbing the discarded spear and taking aim let's the spear fly through the air and into the water.
Whatever that thing was, he was sure that it was about to die.
Or so he thought until thing figure sharply turns downward and avoided the spear entirely.
That's when the chieftain really became weary of whatever was in his pond scaring his family.
Kali getting Blake out of the water watches as her husband puts the two of them behind him prepared for almost anything.
"What the hell!?" A childlike voice yells in anger and surprise.
What they weren't expecting was for the dark silhouette to spring out of the water and turn into a boy who only looked to be no more than a year older than Blake.
"Are you trying to kill me!?" He shouts at the family still stunned at the fact he had come so close to death. Thank Oum for natural instincts.
But apparently to them they really didn't care about that right now.
Looking him over Ghira couldn't lie when he said this boy was probably the most unique faunus he's ever seen. What with his blue skin and easily noticeable gills on his cheeks and shoulders, that 's also when the chieftain took notice of the boy's apparent lack of a shirt and sorry look in his slightly torn up cargo shorts.
"Who are you boy?" Ghira asks in a stern voice filled with authority and demand.
The boy sneered and by accident showed off his impressive set of teeth to the group.
"Name's Hoshigaki Kisame. The one you just tried to spear." He says simply before reaching into his pants pockets and pulling a small number of fishing hooks.
"By the way your kid is a terrible fisher. She scared off everything in the pond." He says flatly to them making Blake glare in anger.
"Well at least I don't look like a fish!" She yells back to him knowing she had been insulted just then.
Kisame just rolls his eyes, "Yeah, real original insult. Never heard that one before, got anymore?" He asks with a voice dripped with sarcasm to the family.
Kali now actually smiling walks out in front of her husband and leans down to look the boy over.
"You scared my daughter pretty bad young man. What do you have to say for yourself?" She asks in that tone only a mother can have.
Kisame had the decency to blush at least and kicked up a bit of dust, "Didn't mean to." He says under his breath. Making the woman laugh at his slightly ashamed response.
Turning she looks to Ghira and Blake and smiles as she wraps an arm around the shark-like boy. "Well this looks like it's been a huge misunderstanding. What say we get the two of you inside and into something dry?"
Everyone that just heard that was now looking at her as if she'd grown a second head, "Uh, why?" The young boy asks generally confused as to why she was offering this to him.
"When was the last time you ate a home cooked meal?"
He shrugs his shoulders.
"Do have a dry place you can sleep?"
He shakes his head.
"Last one, is anyone looking after you?"
He slowly shakes his head.
"That's why Kisame. Now go follow Blake, and say you're sorry for scaring her. And Blake you say you're sorry for insulting him."
With that said the two kids slowly making their way up to each other and glare before they both mumble out.
"Sorry."
"Sorry."
In the most annoyed tones they could possibly muster, making both older faunus smirk at the kids.
Later that Night
Kali was walking through her house close to midnight, she had put Blake to bed a few hours ago. But now she went on to check up on a new resident of their house that had recently been set up in the guest room.
After they had all headed back to the house they had cooked a large helping of catfish for the whole family, one that Kisame had caught as his way of repaying them. And after that they had given Kisame some of Ghira's workout clothes, but even with the clothes being designed to be tight the clothes of course were far too big for a seven-year-old boy.
She couldn't help but laugh as he looked at himself in the mirror flapping the sleeves like a bird. And actually smiling rather than those shark-like grins he gave every now and then.
So when she opened the door expecting the boy to asleep, she couldn't help but be surprised since he was wide-awake just staring out the window that overlooked the ocean.
"I thought I told you to go to bed?" She says out loud getting his attention.
"I couldn't sleep." He said honestly.
Kali checks out to see if her husband was around and closes the door as she pats a spot on the bed.
Deciding to humor the woman Kisame hops up next to her and doesn't really fight back when she ran a hand through his natural fin of blue hair.
"Be honest with me Kisame. Why were you in the pond?" She asks suddenly making the boy tense.
He sighs and tries to turn away, but the older faunus gently turns him towards her telling him that she was expecting an answer.
"Kisame, how long were hiding in the water?" She asks to the boy making him sag a bit.
"No one looks at me funny underwater." He says lowly making the woman raise a brow.
"And I don't know how long I was in there, few days maybe. Nice little stock pond you have by the way." He says off handedly trying to get her off topic.
But the woman wasn't having it and just deadpanned at his attempt.
"Look, if you don't want to talk you don't have to. But I'm just asking to help." She says before getting up and walking away from the shark faunus.
As she goes to close the door she turns once again and looks him in the eye, "Please try to get some rest. Even Pond Sharks need to rest sometimes." She says with a small laugh at the nickname Blake had given him over dinner making him chuckle a bit under his breath.
However unknown to either of them Blake was listening to both of them with a trick she'd learned at school by placing a glass cup to the wall.
After hearing all of that she began to think to herself as she laid in her bed thinking about the new resident of her home. She didn't like him.
He was rude to her, but then again she was rude to him. He still smelled like pond water and fish skin, which she thought would never leave her nose for quite sometime. And then there was his appearance. Was he really a faunus, or was he something else? She'd never seen anything close to his level of animalistic characteristics, maybe he was something entirely new? But at that Blake stopped herself, she was White Fang, if he was a faunus then she should try to be friends with him. Everyone deserved to have friends as her mother would say.
So as Blake laid down to close her eyes, she made a promise to get to know Kisame in the morning. He knew how to fish, so that at least one positive in her book.
And then Blake opened her eyes.
And found herself waking up eleven years older.
Present
Blake rubbed the last of her drossiness from her eyes as she and her new faunus acquaintance Sun made their way out of the small faunus friendly café that they had recently just had a bit of breakfast and tea at and now they were trying to figure out how to prove if the White Fang as a whole were either innocent or guilty for the recent string of crimes involving the large amount of dust robberies. Aside from one that ended rather badly for the robbers.
"So do we even have a plan?" Sun asks in general curiosity wondering where they were supposed to go at this point.
Blake puts a hand on her chin in thought as they made their way down the sidewalk, "I'm working on that. The last robbery was committed by the Fang, but it was a small store and even then almost all of them ended up dead when someone stepped in."
Sun looks at her in surprise at hearing that little fact, "Wait, Fang members were killed in one of the robberies?"
Blake nods, "Yeah but the method was all wrong. The White Fang starves businesses for the most part and only really do something that drastic if they were found guilty of faunus hate crimes. So I still think that a small spilt sect of the Fang did that particular robbery. Besides they have never needed this much dust before."
Sun shrugs at her logic and poses the simple yet slightly damning question, "But what if they do now?"
Blake looked down at the thought of even more increasing violence as Sun moved in front of her and continued, "Besides the only way to prove they were really not at fault would be to go to a place where they would hit and to not find them there." He says with smiles at his own logic.
"At where would that be?" Blake asks the golden haired faunus.
"Well on the ship they mentioned something about a 'literal fuck-ton,' their words not mine, of Schnee dust coming into port later tonight."
Blake ignoring the language in his sailor's quote Blake just thinks before nodding to him. "You're sure it's big enough to draw them out?"
Sun just deadpans, "Believe me when dock workers say a 'fuck-ton' it'll more than enough to draw out dust thieves." He says with air quotes.
The cat-like girl just rolls her eyes as they head out to the docks.
With RWY
The three remaining members of the team had been searching for their missing teammate for what felt like hours at this point.
And to two of them at least it was beginning to feel a bit hopeless.
"Blake!"
"Blake where are you?!"
"Blake!"
"SHUT UP SOME OF US ARE TRYING TO SLEEP!" An angry voice shouts back at the three girls making them freeze quickly move out of the more populated district.
When they moved on Ruby and Yang looked weirdly at Weiss after they had seen her shouting just as loud trying to find the missing faunus.
Backing away from her teammates curious look Weiss fumbles a bit, "What are you two looking at?"
Yang crosses her arms, "Well for someone who had it out for her the other day you seem to be very willing to help us find her now all of the sudden. So what's up, what changed your mind?"
Weiss thinks back to video she was shown of the way one man so easily and mercilessly killed four Fang members, and at that point her brain went haywire with all kinds of scenarios where they, or worse Blake by herself would meet the shop killer or as she now knew him Kisame and he wasn't in the best of moods.
"Well I just thought about what kind of danger might be out there." She says nervously getting a ok nod from Ruby but a very curious and almost suspicious glare from Yang.
"A danger? To a highly trained and aura using Beacon student? Yeah I don't buy that." Yang says in a deadpan tone while looking to Weiss.
Ruby opened her mouth to say something but was distracted by the sudden appearance of Penny who was now behind Weiss and waving to her and Yang.
"Uh…Penny?" Ruby says out loud getting to turn around and take a step back at the appearance of the ginger haired girl.
"Hey guys, what's up?" She ask with that small almost artificial smile that seemed to creep them all out a bit.
Yang deciding to see if the girl could help decides to just tell her. "We're looking for out friend Blake, you remember her? The one in black with the bow on her head?"
Penny nods her head, "Yes the faunus girl, I remember her." She says in her happy tone.
Ruby being the first to recover from surprise looks to her, "How did you know she was a faunus?"
"The cat ears were a dead giveaway, and besides my teammate is a faunus himself." She says completely missing the flitch from Weiss at the mention of Kisame.
This stopped everyone in their track as they remembered all the little things Blake did that reminded them of a cat.
A love for all things fish especially tuna.
A hesitance to get in the shower sometimes in the morning.
The constant starching on her nails on her weapon.
"Huh that actually explains a lot." Yang says in a surprised tone of voice.
Penny just smiles and looks at Ruby again, "Speaking of her, where is she?"
Ruby shakes her head in doubt, "We have no idea. She left late last night and we haven't her since." Hearing this the ginger haired Atlas native goes over and puts her hands on Ruby's shoulders.
"Fret not then my friend we will find her and Kisame together. And I will not rest Blake has been found." She says putting her hands on her hip in a pose to make her point.
Ruby just sweatdrops and looks to her sister and partner, "Oh that's nice Penny, but we've got this under control. Right Yang? Weiss?" She asks only to see that they were gone.
'TRAITORS!' Ruby screamed in her mind.
"Maybe they wanted us to split up?" Penny says to her as they begin to walk with Ruby being semi dragged by Penny.
With Weiss and Yang
"Thanks for your time." Yang says as they leave a shop.
She looks to Weiss who looked like her mind was on something else and rolled her eyes at the white–themed girl. "Do you even care if we find her?" Yang seriously to the girl.
Weiss looks to her somewhat offended, "Of course I care. I'm just afraid of what she'll say when we do, or if we find her and she's not alone."
As she started to walk away Weiss froze in her tracks as she rounded the corner. This made Yang run around to see what caused it and what she saw made her eyebrows raise in curiosity.
"What's got you spooked?" She asks Weiss before shaking her shoulder to get her attention.
Shaking her head she follows her sightline and sees someone at the end of the sidewalk, but all she could see were pieces of a white jacket, black pants, and a bit of blue hair since the rest of him was being blocked by a large bandaged wrapped sword.
Weiss quickly started walking and Yang now having her curiosity peaked followed her and apparently the other person with the sword as they made their way to what looked like the hospital.
Grabbing onto Weiss the brawler turns her towards her, "Weiss what's gotten into you? You looked like you've seen a ghost." Weiss looks forward and nudges her head.
"That's Penny's teammate." She says simply to Yang causing the girl to look at her weirdly.
"So? If he is then we should probably tell him about her. She'll thank us and then we can get back to looking for our teammate." She says now wondering just what had Weiss so interested in this guy, Kisame if she remembered what Penny had said earlier.
That's when she thought about it for a second. "How do you know that's him?"
Weiss looked like she just wanted to drop the whole thing but Yang wasn't having it.
"What are you hiding Weiss? Don't lie to me." Yang says seriously making the girl sigh before she showed her a picture that Penny had sent her.
In the picture she could see what looked like Penny's team with all of them next to what looked like a beach.
There was obviously Penny in the most ridiculous full body swimsuit Yang had ever seen smiling without a care in the world. Another girl who was sitting and typing on what looked like her watch, not even looking at the picture. She had dark caramel colored skin and navy blue hair, but Yang couldn't see she eyes or even most of her face due to the fact that she was looking down at her watch.
The other two were male with the first one smiling and giving what looked like a bit of a mock salute to the camera. He had a dark skin tone, but it looked more like a mixture of natural and a ton of sun exposure. He had short brown hair and chocolate brown eyes and even a bit of facial hair with a mustache goatee combo. He also seemed to be giving off an air of professionalism, but with an off-putting aura of calm with his small smile and salute.
But while she could only his face and shoulder the one that Penny happened to be leaning on in the picture was most definitely the same person in front of them, that kind of sword was more than a dead give away.
"Ok so Penny's teammate is a shark-man and?" Yang says once she got over his more than unique appearance.
"I think he was one who killed all those White Fang members."
That made something click in Yang's head, "You think him and Blake aren't exactly in the greatest positions to be friends anytime soon? Well what should we do?"
Weiss thought about but her decision was made once the sword wielding faunus went into the hospital.
"I remember that there is still one member of the White Fang in the hospital. Do you think he's going in there to finish him off?" Weiss says paling a bit at the thought.
Yang nodded, "Maybe, what say we go check then?" She says before they both went into the hospital to follow Kisame.
With Kisame
With said faunus he made his through the hospital easy enough once he found out where the final member of robbery group was being kept.
As he made his way through the hospital he had a constant grin on his face, in all honesty he really thought he killed all of them, but it seem that the first one he put down was barely hanging on.
Which means he wouldn't really put up much of a fight when Kisame needed a few answers. Which is why he is was here now. He had a feeling deep in his gut that something big was going to happen soon, and maybe this little pawn had an idea of where the more important pieces are.
He made his way up to the wing where the Fang member was being held and locked onto two members of the Vale police department, great.
Deciding that he didn't really want the attention of the Vale police department more than he already had he decided to simply keeping a low profile for now. And simply walk on by the two guards.
Turning corner he begins to think to himself, 'Well now this is a problem, can't really kill them. Don't want a kingdom coming down on me. And I'm not about to let a chance like this go, this kind of info is something I'm not about to pass up. What do you think I should do here?' He thinks before a low rumbling came out from his sword.
He then smiles, 'Yeah I can get behind that idea.' He thinks before slipping away and pulling out a small black ball the size of a large marble.
He then discreetly rolls the black ball along the wall and watches, as it seems to stop perfectly between the two cops. Kisame then grins before pushing a command on his scroll and watches in satisfaction as the ball split in half and launched two small darts into the ankles of the two officers. Knocking them out in seconds.
"Thank you Ciel." Kisame says to himself before casually making his way into the room after removing the darts and picking up the ball. He then found himself standing above the still unconscious member of the White Fang was resting peacefully covered in bandages.
Carefully placing a chair that was in the room against the door he goes over to the other faunus and places his sword on the man's chest. At first nothing happened but when Kisame began glowing an ocean blue color the man opened his eyes and tried to open his mouth to scream, but Kisame covered it faster than he thought possible and held it before pulling out a kunai knife from one of his pouches and putting it a hair away from his eye.
"Try to scream again and I'll make you wish you had died already. Understand?" He says in a dangerous tone to the man who only nervously nodded his head slowly.
"Good." He then puts his sword back on his back. "Now I woke you up and gave you a bit of aura for one reason and one reason alone, you're going to answer my questions and if you don't give me an answer or if you lie to me, I'm going to start cutting off fingers. Got it?"
Another slow nod of fear. "Good."
"First question, what's the Fang need with all the dust?" Kisame asks quick knowing that they wouldn't have a lot of time since two unconscious guards in the hall were bound to get people's attention.
He lets his hand off the man's mouth and waits for an answer, "I-I don't know. I'm j-just a grunt in this whole thing. All I know is that someone is paying insane amounts of lien for us to just stockpile most all of it for something big." He says scared out of his mind of the knife that was casually being spun on Kisame's finger.
Kisame looks to the sword on his shoulder and it remains motionless, "Alright then, next question why now? What's the Fang's big goal here?"
"I don't know I joined only a month ago." He says before Kisame once again just shrugs and looks to his sword.
"Huh guess I must be getting better at scare tactics. Moving on then where can I find the man in charge of the whole operation?" Kisame asks leaning against the wall in an effort to relax a little bit.
The faunus shakes his head, "They'll kill me if I talk." He stops talking as the sword began to vibrate and make a loud series of clicks and small groans.
Kisame then leans in and puts his knife on the man's pointer finger, "And I'll do so much worse if you don't. Your choice." The faunus in the bed looks Kisame in the eye and felt what he thought was a bead of sweat coming down his cheek.
Looking to him then the door he nods his head quickly, "I know that there is one going down tonight. And it is the largest the Fang is going to pull off for sometime. And that our new overseer is going to be personally seeing to it."
Kisame backs off and puts his knife away, "Interesting. And do tell where is this all going down?" The man opens his mouth to talk but the rattle of a doorknob interrupts him.
"Open up!' They here from the other side, a light bang could be heard as it sounded like someone was trying to break in. Looks like people finally noticed the guards outside.
Kisame knowing he didn't much time places the sword onto the man's chest and almost growls out lowly at him. "Give me a location now. Or I'm leaving here with a portion of you." He says before emphasizing his point by lightly dragging his sword across his chest making the man clench his teeth in pain.
"The docks! Peer forty-four, a whole shipment of the stuff!' He says as he felt the weapon digging ever deeper into him by the second.
Kisame then looks him dead in the eye, "Final question is Adam Taurus going to be there?" Kisame asks with a tone of pure venom in his voice.
The other faunus shakes his head slowly and very hesitantly making the shark-like man sneer. "Well shit. Guess he gets to live another day then." The man goes to open his mouth but pain forces him to close his eyes.
And in a second the blade was gone and so was Kisame.
But he hadn't really made it to far as of yet since he could be found just outside hanging outside the window, 'This is the last time I take escape advice from you.' He says to his sword, to which the blade vibrated a happy tune.
'Yeah. Yeah, your idea actually worked for once. Let's go.' He says before dropping himself down window by window until he made it all the way down onto the street.
Brushing himself off the shark looks towards the docks, "Let's go hunting then shall we, Samehada?" He asks the now named sword getting a high pitched clicking from the blade getting him to smile an almost sadistic grin as they sped off into the city.
After he made his way all the way to the docks Kisame sits and meditates behind one of the many cargo containers with Samehada laying peacefully across his lap.
Hours Later
Slowly opening his eyes from his deep meditation Kisame saw that the sun had set and now it was dark. But more importantly the sound of engines roaring in the sky could be heard making the faunus slowly peak from around his cover.
And he was certainly not surprised as the sight of a transport style Bullhead was making its final landing in the center of the dock, and unloads a small group of White Fang goons.
Rolling his shoulders in preparation the Atlas soldier/student smirks and grips the hilt of his blade and watches for his opportunity to make his bloody entrance.
But he stops himself as an unfamiliar voice shouts out from inside the aircraft.
"Hey! What's the hold up?" He watches from the side as man with bright orange hair and a black bowler hat in a white suit and black slacks made his way down the Bullhead's ramp.
This made Kisame raises a brow as seeing the White Fang taking orders from a human was definitely a first for him. And one like this just screamed arrogance, something the White Fang has a zero tolerance policy towards when it comes to humans.
He made his way down the ramp and looked to the five or six Fang soldiers, "Keep in mind that we're not the most inconspicuous bunch of crooks at the moment here. So if you animals would pick it up the pace a bit, that would be great."
Yeah a definite asshole in Kisame's eyes, no question about it.
Once again though as he was about to just come out swinging he catches a bit of movement out of the corner of his eye. Turning and watching a figure make their way behind the bowler hat-wearing crook, Kisame smirks again and listens to the clicks and low groan that Samehada let loose.
'Yeah, that's her all right. Looks like the Tomcat either decide to come as backup or she's had a change of heart. Too bad I still want to rip it out of her though.' He says through his mind to his weapon making it growl at him a bit.
'All right then I'll give her a chance. But if she comes at me, I damn sure expect you to do your thing.' The sword went silent and he took that as an affirmative from the weapon.
Kisame then silently climbs onto an overlooking cargo box and sits in ambush waiting for the fighting to start.
And he didn't have to wait long as Blake stealthily made her way behind the leader of the group and held her blade to his throat.
"Nobody move!" She yells in a harsh tone to the two enforcers that were pointing a gun and a saber towards her.
The man though kept himself pretty cool though with the whole situation and just rolls his eyes, "Whoa! Take it easy little lady."
Seeing more guards come towards her Blake throws off her bow revealing her ears, "Brothers and sisters of the White Fang why are you aiding this scum!?" She shouts at them demandingly.
"That does it." He says to himself before grabbing four kunai knives from his pouch. He leaps into the air and launches them at the ground near each of the Fang members. This obviously surprises everyone there and the one watching from above.
But before anyone could say a word the small amount of blue dust in the circled part of the each knife activated and turned into water before quickly sharpening into hundreds of needles and turned the Fang members into pincushions.
Landing in front of the only two left alive from the small bombardment of needles Kisame looks Blake in the eyes and revels in the mixture of fear and shock that he found in those amber orbs.
"Well this just got a whole lot more interesting." Roman says almost to himself as Kisame slowly removes his sword from his strap and held it in reverse grip. And held a glare onto the two of them.
"Yeah it sure did. Now what say we kick this thing off with a bang?" Kisame says in low and malicious tone.
Seeing the grin on Roman's face Kisame tensed his legs in preparation for anything the thief may try, "I couldn't agree more." He says before pulling the trigger hidden in the curved handle of his cane. And from the end came a large explosion that covered the whole area in dust as all three of them were blown away from the blast.
After recovering Kisame plants his feet into the ground and takes off towards Roman who was at the moment trying to finish off the slightly disorientated Blake only to have to quickly evade a concrete shattering axe kick from the blue-skinned faunus.
"My good sir, what awfully big teeth you have." Roman says jokingly to the faunus before turning his crosshair onto the faunus.
Kisame shakes his head and begins to serpentine avoiding the occasional shot from the cane. "Heard better." He says getting quickly into his guard quickly putting the orange haired criminal on the defense.
He goes to try and block a swing from the bandaged wrapped sword but quickly chooses to evade when he sees the massive blade as a large mass of dark purple colored spines began to protrude through the bandages. And each of them looked like they could easily slice through his hands.
"Well that is officially the weirdest weapon I've ever seen." Roman says off handedly before Kisame throws said weapon his way, making him take his eyes off the soldier for a split second.
And in that split second Kisame was able to close the gap and land a huge hook to Roman's face making the crook go flying through the air and dent the storage container directly behind him from the impact.
Getting up and shaking his head Roman had to blink a few times to get the stars out of his vision, "Holy shit. What the fuck do they feed that one." He says to himself before getting his footing back. And looking to the approaching Bullheads dropping off reinforcements.
Back with Kisame he now found himself surrounded by White Fang soldiers on all sides. And for his part all he did was smile.
Putting Samehada to his back in a reverse grip the faunus sinks into a low stance and readied himself for the next clash. With a predatory grin almost etched into his face.
Blake on the other hand watched from the safety of a shipping container looking as if she had seen a ghost.
She then sees Sun come over with a look of concern, "Blake what happened? Who the hell is that?" He asks seeing the shark faunus seemingly hold off an entire crew of Fang members with his intimidation factor alone.
Blake sighs, "He's an old friend, and one of the people who's been wronged by the Fang. Someone I…." Blake stopped herself as she looked on with a look of sorrow.
"Someone I pushed away, and didn't realize that I hurt until it was too late." She says somewhat cryptically to the monkey faunus. Who nodded with a bit of understanding.
He just extends a hand to her, "Not that your is past is any part of my business. But I think now would be a good time to start apologizing. In my experience with pissed off friends it always help to have them beat on something other than you. And then maybe take a well deserved hot or two." Blake shook her head but stood up nonetheless.
"Believe me I wish it was that simple. But Kisame is someone I know holds grudges, and he has a good reason to hold one against me." She says making Sun look at her questioningly.
"If you don't go down there something tells me this little grudge of his is only to get worse." He says sternly to the girl who sighed at his point.
"I guess you've got a point. Time to face the music I guess." She turns back to Sun who just began to twirl a red and yellow staff. "Let's get to it then."
Back with Kisame, he grew tired of the waiting and moved to the attack swinging his massive blade on one White Fang members shoulder, breaking bone with the sheer strength of his swing and sending the man into a world of pain.
From there Samehada came around and with two hands Kisame shattered a member's arm by slamming into his elbow before dragging and shredding the surrounding tissue almost to the recently broken bones.
But he didn't stop with the first few swings and began to pick up more and more momentum with blade as Kisame began to almost dance between grunts each one receiving broken bones, deep lacerations, or on some of the unluckier ones missing body parts.
A missing arm there.
Broken ribs here.
Collapsed lungs somewhere in there.
And with each injury, maiming, or kill Kisame's grin never seemed to go away as he almost looked right at home in the carnage that was life and death combat.
But for Kisame all good things had to end and while it was fun for a bit there was now only five left from the original twenty or so.
And all of them looked terrified beyond all reasoning. Two of them just shaking where they stood.
But he didn't care, they were just prey to a predator.
However before he could continue his assault a new face came into play in the form of a blond monkey faunus who dropped down from seemingly out of nowhere and took out the remaining Fang soldiers with ease due to some impressive staff skills.
Once they were done the faunus looks to Kisame and then to the bodies at his feet and around the dock.
"You didn't have to kill them." He says flatly already telling Kisame that he either wasn't a fan of the Fang, or him.
"I didn't kill all of them." Kisame says back to him with an equally flat tone making the newcomer glare as they both turned to the sound of approaching footsteps.
He turned as was met with the sight of the orange haired thief who was happily clapping his hands at the display of carnage.
"You don't mind if this one dies, right?" Kisame asks pointing to Roman with Samehada on his shoulder earning him another glare from the blond.
"We need him alive." Blake says suddenly appearing on the other side of Sun making Kisame send a dangerous glare her way.
"Blake." He says lowly before he looked to Samehada that was now growling at the girl as well making the girl stop in her tracks.
Kisame takes a step forward and leans down to level his glare at her, "Any other day, and I'd happily try to kill you. But for now I've got bigger fish to fry. So if you could take your new boyfriend and fuck off together." He says before charging Roman.
Sun and Blake look and nod to each other knowing they'd need to keep the crook alive if anyone wanted something valuable out of him.
Charging in after Kisame the duo try to split off one going to stop Kisame and one going to take down Roman.
Blake ended up with Roman while Kisame and Sun started each other down, "Back off man she's doing this to bring down the Fang." Sun says threateningly, only to have the shark shake his head.
"Believe me taking down him isn't going to cripple the Fang. That's my job, to pull out the snake's fangs and then cut the head off. Trust me this is only the beginning. Now get out of the way, or else."
Sun doesn't move.
Kisame shakes his head, "Bad call." He says quietly before rushing in with his greatsword poised to strike at Sun's unprotected stomach. But the newcomer seemed to be much adapt to fighting strength type fighters than Kisame first thought as he was proving to have insane agility as he was dodging the swings almost like a second nature.
Trying a different approach Kisame breaks away from a small clash and pulls out a blue dust crystal and pops it in his mouth.
Sun recoils in shock at seeing someone just crunch down onto a crystal before Kisame clapped his hands together, "Suiton: Suidan no Jutsu." (Water Bullet)
And like a cannon Kisame spewed out a stream of high-pressure water that nailed Sun dead in the chest with enough force to actually bruise him through his aura and send him flying off his feet.
Kisame not wanting to ease up rushes him as he looked to have just sat down to recover. But was suddenly blindsided by the appearance of two golden almost astral clones of the blond.
Recovering the shark takes his blade and smirks knowing that his semblance really wasn't suited to fight something like Samehada.
Running again towards the two clones Kisame slightly begins to focus on some of the left over water in the area and began to subtly move it around.
And when he met the clones he simply swung Samehada and watched in amusement as the clone and its aura weapons were easily bisected and the aura that composed them and watched as it faded from existence.
Listening to his blade Kisame tilts his head at what it told him, "Really now? I didn't think he'd taste that sweet. But hey if you say so." Kisame watches with a grin as Sun dispelled the other clone and looked on in shock at what had just happened.
That sword literally ate his aura clone. Or to be specific it devoured the aura that comprised the clone.
And before he could open his mouth to warn Blake suddenly water rapidly began to surround him until he was completely incased in liquid. He watches as Kisame squats next to it and places his hand on the water to hold it in place if he started to fight.
"Don't bother kid. This is my Suirō no Jutsu. (Water Prison) You'd have an easier chance fighting an army than escaping from here. So just sit back, relax and let me do my job." He says looking over to Blake and Roman.
Sun tried to fight nonetheless but trying to even move his limbs through the liquid felt more akin to trying to swim through concrete. He locked eyes with the shark and saw him shake his head at him. "You're stubborn, I'll give you that much."
Kisame was intending to hold him in there till he pasted out then just leave him be, but before the blond was out cold entirely Kisame was distracted by Roman being sent skidding across the ground.
And his concentration slightly broken Sun was able to summon two more aura clones.
Turning too late Kisame wasn't even able to react much less counter as he was tackled to the ground by two golden clones. But he quickly recovered and grabbed hold of Samehada, the clones then quickly charge only to vanish in a slightly golden hue making the shark-faunus loose sight of almost everything in front of him.
And from the confusion came Sun his weapon at the ready in its nunchaku form. Kisame for the first time tonight was now on the defensive as Sun unleashed a small barraged of close range shotgun shells constantly pecking away at Kisame's defense until the boy wrapped his weapon around Kisame's wrist and managed to swing himself around and land a doubled footed kick to Kisame's chin.
Recoiling Kisame looks up with an amused grin on his face as Sun was at this point panting from his offensive after immediately being unable to breath.
"I have to say, that was good. Not many people can push me back. Most of the time it's usually the other way around." He says with his toothy grin on full display.
Sun though just scuffs, "Blake said you and her were old friends. Tell me why do you want her and the Fang dead?" He asks in a serious tone of voice.
Kisame grips Samehada a bit tighter, "Why? Let me give you a piece of advice, some advice that doesn't seemed to be followed anymore. If you ever leave someone for dead, make sure they actually die." He says with pure venom in his voice making the staff wielder look over to Blake a small amount of shock in his eyes.
He goes to open his mouth but hearing a shout of "Hey!" The both of them turn to one of the rooftops.
Kisame looks on in curiosity as the one up there was a small red and black reaper themed girl holding a massive scythe.
Kisame being confused as to who the newcomer was takes his eyes off Sun who took the chance to go over and help Blake who looked as if Torchwick gave as good as he got.
However when Kisame saw the crook take a cheap shot on the girl Kisame was about to rush over and try to finish whatever Blake had left over. When he saw a very familiar face walk up from behind the red themed girl.
"Penny?"
He watches as the girl unleashes her multitude of wire controlled swords and leaps down into the action knocking aside White Fang like rag dolls. None of them even close to landing a blow on the ginger haired girl.
"Penny!" He yells to her before he started walking towards his now slightly nervous and definitely surprised teammate.
Everyone watches with a sense of weird fascination as the two walked towards each other with both of them sending any remaining Fang grunts flying with either floating swords or near bone shattering punches.
"I leave you alone for five minutes. Five minutes!" He shouts when they were close enough making the girl recoil at the tone in his voice.
"And because me having to look all over for you…I found an excuse to keeping Fang hunting. So I should probably let you wander off more often." He says before ruffling her hair a bit making the ginger haired girl brighten up immensely.
"So you're not mad?" She asks while twirling her swords around the two of them sending a few more Fang members flying back.
Kisame just smiles and pats her on the shoulder. "Not really. Now what's say we clean up here?" He says turning towards three approaching Bullheads.
Penny just gives him a thumbs up, "Ok!"
She then turns swords facing the aircraft and begins to charge up some sort of green light while Kisame quickly grabbed her and began sprinting with her resting under one of his arms to avoid the rapid gunfire.
"Do it." Kisame says dropping her and cracking his neck prepping himself for something.
From the light in front of Penny a massive green laser fired from the center of her sword circle easily slicing two of the approaching Bullheads in half sending them careening over everyone else's head and crashing into the bay.
Seeing the third one trying to make a break for it with a container of dust Penny nods to Kisame and floats her swords like a small set of stairs and everyone else watches as Kisame leapt from blade to blade before throwing his sword into the cockpit cracking the glass.
However he wasn't done as the shark shoulder slammed into the cracked glass sending him barreling into the craft.
Seeing the small crew of four still in a state of shock Kisame begins to run back towards his entrance on the way to the cockpit kicked one member out through the metal side and slammed one's face into what he assumed was a control panel for the door control.
When he made his way to the cockpit he saw both pilots reaching for some kind of weapon but quickly made short work of both of them using Samehada to cleanly remove their heads via their unprotected necks.
And then he casually dropped out of the now opened door as the plane began to spiral and crash into a fiery explosion.
Walking up to Penny he reaches out his fist with a grin and the ginger meets his hand with hers in a fist bump, "All in a days work huh Penny?"
Seeing Blake and Sun walk up Kisame was tempted to reach for his sword, but he instead let out a sigh and subtly looked over to Penny, who had went over to Ruby to make sure she was okay.
Seeing the two of them still weary of his attempts to kill them the shark sighed again. "Don't worry I've…calmed down. As long as you don't try anything." He says in strained voice trying to will down his need to fight.
Blake's semi glare turns into a bit of a questioning look but Kisame for the most part just found a comfy box and sat in lotus position with his sword laying across his lap with his hands resting on that.
Blake and Sun still very weary of him look to Penny and wonder why he suddenly calmed down, but they decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth and just relax for a bit.
And before they knew the police arrived and began to question everyone that had been involved in foiling the robbery attempt.
Which turned into something much more stressful when they got to Kisame.
And eventually everyone calmed down entirely with Penny and Ruby talking between Sun and Blake while Kisame still sat unusually quite from what Penny noticed.
"Kisame how did you find out about the robbery?" Penny finally asks her teammate getting everyone to look to him.
Kisame opens his eyes and looks to Penny then to everyone else, "I have my ways of finding things out." He says cryptically getting Blake and Sun to semi glare at him them having a good idea how he found out.
Ruby finally hearing him clearly speak tilts her head both his appearance and the weapon in his lap. "So Kisame right?' He nods, "What's your sword's name?" She asks wanting to at least break the ice a bit, or at least find out why Blake and Sun don't like him.
"His name is Samehada. It's old Mistrally for Sharkskin." He says making the girl lean in a bit closer to the blade.
"Cool so what does it do, can it transform, and why is it in bandages?" She asks in rapid-fire formula making him smirk, but not enough to show his teeth.
"Well sorry kid, but I'm not going to be spilling the beans on what it can do. Two the bandages just add a bit of character. And three no it doesn't transform since it's already the best weapon ever." Kisame says back to the red-themed girl making her puff her cheeks out at the last part.
"Nothing is better than Crescent Rose, all other weapons are secondary." She says proudly, that is until the sword actually started to growl at her making the girl quickly hide behind Penny as she looked at the vibrating sword.
Kisame lets out a throaty laugh at her reaction, "Oh he doesn't like be called second best, he grew up with siblings so he's more than a little competitive." Ruby goes to open her mouth but before she could ask anymore questions Weiss and Yang ran up to the group with concern written all over their faces as they looked between the shark and cat faunus.
Ruby thinking that the her partner was still mad at the cat like teammate quickly gets up and rushes to them.
"Look Weiss it's not what you think, Blake explained everything. See she is actually hiding kitty ears under her bow and I may or may not have already tried to pet them since they are adorable and, and, and…" She trails off as the teammate looks to her and then immediately to Blake.
The two look each other in the eye for a moment before Blake was the first to break the semi uncomfortable silence, "Weiss. I just want to say right now that I have absolutely no connection to the White Fang. Back when I was with them…" She was cut off as Weiss held up her finger.
"Do you have any idea how worried we were?" She says suddenly making the dark haired girl stop in her tracks and slowly shake her head.
"We have been worried from the moment you left, we have scoured this entire city for more than half the day. And in doing so it gave me a lot of time to think things over. I want to just say it right now. I do or will I ever care about the fact that you used to be one them." She says putting a bit of extra emphasis on used to drive her point across making the faunus girl actually shed a tear of joy in hearing it.
"Just promise us the next time something as big as this comes up that you'll come to your team first, rather than a stranger." She says looking to Sun before her and Yang's gaze settled on empty boxes behind them.
"Where did Kisame and Penny go?" Ruby says out loud making Blake and Sun freeze where they stood and look around franticly.
"Damn it." Blake says under her breath knowing someone like Kisame was only going to cause more problems in the future. Blake looks to Yang and Weiss who both nod to her as if saying they knew something else.
And no more than a hundred yards away said duo was casually swimming away from the scene under the cover of the waves with Penny hitching a ride of Kisame's back.
'This is going to be a real fun assignment. Maybe school won't be too bad after all.' Kisame thinks to himself while making his way back to the Atlas base knowing Ironwood most probably frothing at the mouth knowing they've been gone for this long.
What no one was aware of though were the duo watching from the safety of the city rooftops.
One a dusty old Qrow and the other an eager sister who couldn't wait to see what her sibling would have in store next.
And Done!
Hope y'all like the chapter, I originally wanted to do just the flashback but it kinda just kept going from there and before I knew it BOOM 10k words.
So yeah now I got a question longer chapter like this one or more frequent ones like the other two? I'd like to know how I should break this up.
But anyway please Read and Review any feedback helps.
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