Here you go guys another chapter, but man did writers block hit me hard the last couple of weeks. However, I think I'm over it now so enjoy this one and more to come.

Chapter 4: Personal Issues

Ash's POV

"GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE BRATS!" Me, Seno, Sun, and Neptune are running from a rather plump man that runs a fruit stand.

Sun is currently leading the way with maybe a dozen bananas in his arms cackling like a maniac. Seno is right behind him with me right behind her and Neptune bringing up the rear, but I am really mad "WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU STEAL BANANAS FROM THAT MAN!"

"Ohhhh Ash swore~" Seno teases me while I growl at her

Sun just keeps laughing "Come on I am hungry and what's a few bananas."

"THIS IS SERIOUS MAN!" Neptune shouts to him "HE REALLY LOOKS LIKE HE WANTS TO PUT THE HURT ON US THIS TIME!"

"WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY THIS TIME!?" I ask as we turn a corner, but once the man comes around the corner he doesn't see us.

"Damn those kids every time I get a fresh order of bananas that monkey brat shows up to take my stock!" the man storms off I assume back to his stand.

Once he is gone we all step out from different hiding places and I have my hands balled up into a fists "Why are you stealing those!" I point to the bananas that he has managed to keep a hold of and clean considering he came out of a dumpster.

Sun just laughs "Come on its just a few bunches what's it going to hurt?" he says as one is about to fall but he catches it with his tail.

I hardly can believe his lack of understanding what these people are going through and I get right into his face "What's it going to hurt!? How about whether or not that they get to eat!"

He doesn't back down and looks me dead in the eye "If they need something to eat why can't they eat what they have?"

"They can't because if they do then they won't earn money to buy more when they need it!" my anger just keeps on growing as my eyes turn yellow, but Sun stands his ground.

We stand there for a while both of us clearly fuming with anger for what the other just won't understand. Just when I think that we are actually about to fight Seno gets between us and pushes us apart "Both of you stop it! Friends shouldn't fight!"

Sun simply turns around "I thought that you would have brought someone cooler to hang out with, but he is just like Jin." Then he starts walking away.

Neptune looks between the two of us before turning to me "Sorry about that, but it was nice to meet you." Then he runs after Sun.

Then Seno steps in front of me and punches me in the chest "What was that for!?" I ask while rubbing where she hit me.

She scowls at me "That's what I want to ask you!? We were all having fun and then you two get into a fight why?"

I scowl right back "What do you mean why!? Of course I would be angry after all he is stealing from people that are working hard to provide for their families!"

She doesn't back down and gives me a shove which forces me to take a step back "And what about him is he just supposed to starve to death!?"

I am taken back by that statement "What do you mean?" I ask as the yellow fades from my eyes.

Seno looks down and contemplates before she speaks "Sun doesn't have a family to take care of him. So he has to steal in order to eat."

I am a little saddened by this fact "Why doesn't he get help from us?"

She shakes her head "I don't know, but he says that he doesn't want to involve his friends and being independent." Then she smiles sadly "Anyways maybe I'll see you around at school or something."

I nod as she runs off in the direction Sun and Neptune ran off in. I rub the back of my head as I look around to trying to find the direction of my new house "Now which way is my house again?"

Back at Ash's house

I walk through the door after wondering around for a few hours to see that most of the boxes have been emptied and the store looks like it is almost ready to open. It is pretty surprising considering how many items are required to actually open the store. I walk through the store and into the actual house part of the building before I take off my shoes. Then I call out "I'm home!"

My Mom calls back from the kitchen "Welcome home sweetie." I walk into the kitchen/dining room, where I see Mom cooking in front of a bunch of pots. She sees me walk in and wipes her hands on her apron, that says beware of the beast in the kitchen, as she walks up to me and kisses me on top of my head before she refocuses on what I think is stew that she is making, if the smell is anything to go by. As she stirs the pots contents she hums happily "So how was your day? Make lots of friends?"

I laugh nervously "No I haven't."

She looks at me a bit worried before she smiles and says "Don't worry I'm sure that you will be able to make lots of friends soon enough."

I nod a bit before I start to make my way to the living through the dining room to find that my Dad is tinkering with… actually I have no idea what it is supposed to be. I sit down on the couch next to his and turn on the TV. On the TV was some sort of tournament that I think is called the Vytal Festival and while the weapons and skills of the fighters is interesting I can't focus on watching it because my thoughts keep drifting back to Sun and our argument earlier. 'I can't believe I was being so closed minded. I mean I can completely understand why he would do something like that. After all that was my situation in my previous life.' I lean back and sigh as I think 'I want to let him know that I understand, but if he keeps it up he is going to get in big trouble if he steals from the wrong people.'

My Dad stops tinkering and sees me not watching the fights even though we all agreed that watching these tournaments would help me pick what kind of weapon that I could learn how to use in the future "What are you thinking about son?"

This breaks me out of my train of thought as I contemplate how much I should tell him, but I come to the conclusion that he is a very understanding man so I explain the situation "Well I met someone today who steals food because he is an orphaned with no way to get food otherwise."

Dad nods slowly "And would you consider him your friend?"

I look down sadly "I would, but I don't think he will want to be after today because we argued about the fact he was stealing."

He smiles at me "Well I trust your judge of his character and since he is your friend he must be a good kid. So what do you want to do now?"

I think about what my answer should be before giving my reply "I want to help him and show that he doesn't have to steal that there are other ways and if I can't do that then I need to show him who he shouldn't be stealing from."

My Dad smiles at me for my consideration and desire to help my new friend given his situation "Well we are going to be going to start your training tomorrow and I am sure you will be able to see him and tell him how you feel after.

I smile and nod happily as Mom has snuck up behind me and wraps her arms around me "So you have made friends! Why did you lie to me?" she asks as she ruffles my head.

I look up at her with a slight pout "I wasn't lying because I don't know if he will want to be my friend." I sadden a bit as I finish and she notices, but that is probably because of my ears 'I really need to get that under control' I think as she just pulls me closer.

She sighs a little before she starts to pet my head lightly "You are an incredible boy and there is no doubt in my mind that people just as incredible will want to be your friend." The action is soothing and after a good minute she pats my head a few times "Ok. Well we will handle that tomorrow for now come help me set the table for dinner."

The following day

I had just finished my training with Dad and was now currently walking through the market place looking for the kids that I hope are still willing to be my friends. School wasn't going to start for another week and I really wanted to patch things up with them before it started. I searched the market for about an hour before I decided to try looking around elsewhere. After a while I find my way back to the park where I met Seno, but the park is now completely empty. I sigh as I make my way over to the swings once again 'Man I really messed up yesterday.' I think as my ears sag as I feel like I might not get a chance to patch things up again. The sun is starting to set so I get up to leave, but as I am making my way back home I hear something faint in the distance. I am about to ignore it, but then I think I hear Suns' voice so I run off in the direction I think it is coming from.

As I round a corner to an alley way I see Sun cornered by three guys and that he looks a bit beaten up. Then a guy steps toward Sun and it seems that I have yet to be noticed "Make sure that you tell that red headed bitch that if she messes with the boss's kid again then we will continue to cause trouble for those around her." He calmly says as he pulls out a large knife that looks like it could change into a pistol, but it looked like one of the generic models that Dad has been showing me for a starting point for my weapon. He starts moving closer to Sun as most of his injuries have now healed from his Aura "First though we got to get rid of that pesky Aura so that your wounds last longer." I let my tail drop as I will need to focus completely on what I'm about to do next. I rush at the men and once I reach the first one on my right I give him the strongest punch I could give to the side of his knee and it gives a satisfying pop as I blow out his knee. As he is going down I use him as a stepping stool and jump at the other and give him a kick to his throat that sends him landing on his back. I contort to land on my feet and the third guy turns to face me and after seeing what I did to his partners he wastes no time going on the offensive.

He makes a swipe with his knife and if not for my instincts he would have slashed my eyes. As I jump back he continues forward and thrusts his knife at me I barely manage to dodge it. Acting quickly before he can pull his arm back I grab his wrist and strike his elbow trying to break it, but while I am unable to do that he does drop his knife from the pain. I quickly snatch it midair, but before I can use it the man back hands me into some garbage next to Sun. As I pant heavily from the exertion and pull myself free, the man turns facing us while bending his arm "You little shit that hurt!" he is now clearly seething with rage "I'll make you pay for that!"

As I get to my feet I can't keep the smile from forming on my face "Yeah but I got your weapon." I say as I pass the knife from one hand to the other "Though I think the handle is a bit too heavy."

The man smiles "What are you stupid kid!?" the other two men start getting up and while one was rubbing his throat and the other one was favoring his right leg they were otherwise fine "You think that just because you have one knife you can beat all three of us!"

My smile doesn't fade at the recovery of his partners "I don't think I will have to." I then transform the knife into its gun form. All three men take a step back as I point it at them "You see I wondered why you didn't want to use the gun mode. Then it came to me, you don't want to draw the attention that a gunshot will attract." As I finish I point it up and fire a few rounds into the air. The shots echo in the alleyway and the men look a bit worried now "So you gonna spend your time here while the cops get here or you gonna get far away from here?"

The man the weapon belongs to clicks his teeth before turning to leave "You better watch yourself kid."

After they rush out of the alley and turn the corner I release the breath I didn't even know I was holding. As I am trying to catch my breath Sun gets up "Why did you help me?"

I heave one last time before I turn to respond "Well first I want to apologies for getting angry when I didn't even know about your situation."

He gets a bit angry "That doesn't involve you."

I rub the back of my neck "Actually I was hoping that it would as I was hoping that I could be your friend."

"Even if you were my friend, I don't want to get my friends involved."

I wave him off "That's stupid you should always involve your friends cause what else would we be here for."

He looks at me skeptically "Your saying that even though I steal and get attacked by guys like that you still would want to be involved."

I place my hands behind my head "Well yeah if you are willing to forgive me and let me become your friend." I smile at him nervously and while I don't notice my ears are sagging slightly and my tail is swaying back and forth hopefully.

Sun rubs the back of his head "Listen it's cool. I mean maybe I take things a bit too far sometimes I get that, but still I don't want to involve my friends."

I laugh "Sorry but I think that as your friend I'm gonna be stinking my nose in such things from now on." I say with a big grin on my face. Then my ear twitches as I hear sirens coming from far away "We should probably get out of here before the cops arrive." I gesture as I toss the gun into the trash because I don't want to be caught with the weapon of a criminal.

As we exit the alley and about to start running to get as far away as possible two cop cars pull up on both sides and four men quickly get out. We are completely stuck cause while I have confidence in our ability to get away from the vendors in the market these guys are cops and I think they should have been trained to be able to ketch people way faster than us. still Sun tries to make a break for it, but is easily caught by his tail and the man lifts him so that he is hanging upside down and while I am sure that would have hurt me Sun just crosses his arms and pouts. The man that caught him walks up to me as the other three men go into the alley to inspect it probably for the reports of the gun fire. The man looks from Sun to me before sighing as he asks "So mind telling me what you boys are doing around here this late at night?" I laugh nervously as I rub the back of my head as I try to come up with some excuse.

About an hour later.

Me and Sun are now sitting in a little jail cell in the towns police station Sun simply chuckles "Man we really screwed up."

While he is pretty calm about our situation I have become a nervous wreck "Oh man. Oh man. Oh man. Mom is totally gonna kill me."

Sun chuckles a bit more and pats my back "Come on man I don't think a Mom would really do that."

Then a look of horror comes across my face "Your right she is actually more likely to kill everyone here to get me out."

Sun chuckles some more believing that I am just exaggerating, but then he sees her come in and my tail instinctively wraps around my leg in fear which makes him more than a little nervous. She hastily approaches the bars "My pup are you alright?" she asks sweetly as she reaches through the bars to try to reach her son. But as I try to get up the handcuffs on my arm keeps me attached to the bench so she turns to the same police officer that brought us in "Could you please open the door please." The man looks back and forth between me and my Mom, but see as she is in the later terms of her pregnancy he shrugs not seeing the harm in letting her in. Once he has the door open she rushes to me and embraces me "Are you alright my pup?" I nod as she pulls herself away from me, but then her entire attitude changes as she punches the top of my head "Do you have any idea how worried sick I have been!" As I clutch my head in pain she gently grasps my face and again pulls me close "Honestly just how worried do you think I was when the police called the house!"

I start feeling guilty about the kind of panic that must have went through her when the police called "I'm sorry Mom."

She pulls me back again to look me in the eye "As you should be!" she then notices Sun sitting next to me with a confused look on his face from watching what was transpiring in front of him. She then looks back to me "Is this the friend you were talking about?" I nod "And did you patch things up?"

I look over at Sun then back to Mom and smile "Yep!" my tail unwinds from my leg and lightly sways back and forth.

She nods "Good." Then she turns to the officer "Now I will be taking my Son and his friend home."

The cop is taken back by this "I'm sorry Mrs. Randall, but your son and his friend were found in an area where a gun was found after we received reports of shots being fired and on top of that we they smelled like gun powder and we found a gun in an alley really close to where we picked them up. So I am afraid that until we find out exactly what happened we can't just let these kids go."

As he finished she walked right up to get into his face but she was mindful so that there was no pressure on her belly "Excuse me, but I find that a hardly good reason my boy should have to spend the night here. He is a good boy that wouldn't get into any fights he wouldn't have to. Not only that, while he is training to be a huntsman he can't even hit the broadside of the barn with a gun." I blush with her statement "So you see even if he did fire the gun he wouldn't have hurt anyone and if he did you would have found some trace of it at the alley right?"

The man tries to find a reason for her to be wrong, but considering that she is right plus the fact that this was the first time we have ever been to the station he can't really come up with a good reason to keep us there. He sighs in defeat "Very well just give me a minute to fill out some paper work so they can be released."

After he walks back out Mom turns to us "Okay listen I don't really know what happened, but you are going to tell me everything that happened tonight." Glares at us a bit "Right?" we both nod furiously "Good now I am going call your Father to let him know that we are going to have a guest for the night. If you don't object?" Sun lightly shakes his head "Good and will you need to make a call yourself." This time he shakes his head but looks down a bit "I see well that is fine. Now let me go make that call." She then heads out the same door as the officer.

We sit in silence for a minute before Sun decides to speak up "Your Mom is pretty cool, but terrifying at the same time."

I laugh a bit "Yeah I know. That is why me and Dad are hoping for a brother because we fear that if I get a sister than she will end up being like Mom and one terrifying woman is enough." Now we both laugh at this for a minute. As our laughter dies down I look around the cell a bit more calmly now that I don't people are going to be killed before I look over at Sun "You know I meant what I said before. I don't even mind being in here with you, but just promise me that it won't be too crazy alright?"

He smiles a bit "I make no promises!"

"Awww come on man!" I wine, but it is quickly replaced by a big smile "Fine, but you have to involve me every time from now on deal." I hold out my hand for a fist bump.

Sun's smile widens "Fine, but don't go regretting it later." He then holds up his own hand.

As we bump fists I reply "Don't worry I won't because I'll be there to keep you and Seno in check cause I got a feeling she is gonna be forcing her way in too."

Sun laughs "Yeah and knowing Neptune he is probably get dragged along."

"Well I can't say that being your guys friend will be boring." I say as we start laughing and now I can confidently say that I have a small, but good group of friends and it is feels good. I mean in my previous life as a kid I never had a group of friends like the one I just earned for myself and while I can tell that the next few years are going to be interesting at the same time I can tell it is going to be a big pain in my ass, but that is fine because who needs regular fiends anyways.

Ok so I saw you review suppes1 and it is not that I was ignorin you I just forgot about it. But to answer your question (I think) Team RWBY will be coming into the story eventually, but Ash will not be part of their team and will have a separate OC team that me and friend of mine from college has put together.

Anyways thanks for readin you guys please review to let me know how you guys think the story is coming along and if you have any questions you can post it in the review and I will try to answer it in the next chapter or you can PM me and get an answer sooner. Anyways again thanks for reading and know that I will be trying my hardest to try to get these chapters out faster.

Later Peeps!