Well, this is a short chapter for sure, but its just here to make sure you all know im not dead, and the story is going, albeit slowly right now. But something big should happen next chapter, so stay tuned, see yah.

Qrow walked into the bar, already almost drunk, as usual. He winked at on of the waitresses walking by, receiving a weak smile in return. He made his way to the bar and sat down. Ready to relax from his "hard" day at work.

"Give me something from the top shelf, anything is fine, surprise me." He said, as the bartender went to pour his drink. The bartender turned around and looked at some of the choices before deciding.

"I see you haven't changed," Itachi said from behind him, as he soon took a seat next to his uncle.

"What are you doing here, Wait nevermind, don't tell me. What do you want from me kid." Qrow said, as he took his glass that the bartender sat in front of him.

"Information, and not the kind we can speak of here." Itachi said as he as he walked outside. Qrow sighed and followed him outside.

"Couldn't this wait until another time, im just here to relax after a whole week of hard work." Qrow said, as he took the last sip of his glass.

"No, it couldn't wait. What can you tell me about the people who attacked the Fall maiden." Itachi said, much to Qrow's surprise.

"Ozpin told you huh, knew it happen eventually, I take it you are with us in this matter." Qrow asked.

"On the same side, per say, but not under Ozpin's orders." Itachi replied. "I still don't trust him, im sure you can understand."

"Yea yea, anyways, the day Amber was attacked. It happened about a month ago, I unfortunately didn't get a good look at their faces, I know it was a group of three people, 2 girls and a guy. I believe one of them is able to cast illusions, like you. They used them to catch Amber completely off guard." Qrow explained.

"Ive come to talk to you because Ozpin is worried you went AWOL on them, since you havnt been contacting him." Itachi said.

"He knows better than that, I bet its that damn Ironwood again, always assuming the worst. Well you can tell Ozpin im fine, i Don't get reception on my scroll most times out here. You should head home now kid, and do try and stay out of trouble." Qrow said before entering the bar again. Itachi's clone quickly dissipated, as it sent its newly learned information back to him.

The next morning.

Everyone one was in miss goodwitch's class learning new combat stratagies based on their team composition. Except Cardin you hasn't been in any of his classes since the trip. Pyhrra noticed this as she watched Itachi do whatever it was that he did. She had tried to ask Itachi what had happened but he wouldn't elaborate on what he did.

"And that is why its important to monitor your aura levels properly, to decide when to go on the defensive rather than fight aggressively. That will be all for today class, you are dismissed." Gylnda said, right as the bell rang. The students all got up and started to head up out of the class. Itachi was walking through the door way when a familiar bunny girl was walking right out side. She happened to trip on a students foot and almost hit the ground, had Itachi not caught her with his rapid reflexes.

"You ok?" Itachi asked, while giving a small smile.

"Uhh, Y-yea thanks," She said while he helped her to her feet. She looked up at who caught her and realized who he was. "Oh, its you, from the cafeteria, i never got to thank you for helping me out." She said.

"No thanks needed, I just lent a helping hand, Mrs.?" Itachi said, while asking for her name.

"Velvet, Velvet Scarlatina," She replied. "I believe im a year ahead of you guys, Im a second year."

"Explains why I haven't seen you in any of my classes. Well it was a pleasure to meet you, but I must be going now, my team is waiting for me." Itachi said as he waved goodbye. Velvet waved back as well, but someone had put a hand on her shoulder, making her jump a bit.

"Oooh Velvet, didn't expect you to go for the younger ones huh, and so early into the year too," The person behind her had said.

"I-Its not like that Coco! He just helped me out alright," Velvet said to her team leader, who was standing behind her.

"Relax, i'm just messing with you, but i do say he is quite the handsome fella, if you don't want him, i might" Coco said, as she watched Itachi walk away. Velvet's face was tinted a bright red, making Coco laugh at her friends expense.

"Stop it Coco!" She said before stomping off as Coco continued to laugh.

"So Mr. Team leader, are we finally going to get to spar together, since last time, you flaked on us?" Nora asked.

"Of course, I actually already talked to Mrs. Goodwitch about borrowing the training room for us in about an hour." Itachi replied, as he looked at the time on his scroll.

"Alright!" Nora exclaimed.

"Just make sure Nora doesn't trash the place," Ren said calmly, as Nora simply ignored him.

"I have a few ideas about how we can fight together very well, so maybe we could try some out?" Itachi said, as they continued walking over to the training hall.

"How did you get permission anyways? I thought only second year teams and above were allowed to use them." Pyhrra asked Itachi.

"Lets just say I was very convincing." Itachi said, as he smiled at her.

"Who cares, lets go guys!" Nora said, as she skipped down the hallway.

"Alright, Pyhrra and Itachi, are you guys ready to fight!?" Nora announced, as if it was a pro wrestling match.

"Nora, its just a spar," Ren said, trying to calm her down just a bit.

"Yes, Nora, we are ready," Pyhrra said as she readied her weapon.

"Alright, 3, 2, 1, FIGHT" Nora exclaimed as Pyhrra instantly rushed Itachi, who had not moved at all yet, however his sharingan was active.

Pyhrra was firing shots at him from behind her shield as she ran at him, each shot going aimed at a different part of his body. Itachi predicted every shots path and dodged them with finesse. Once Pyhrra closed the distance between them, she transformed her spear back and made a quick swipe at legs to try and throw him off guard. However Itachi had quickly jumped and jumped back off her raised shield, making her lose her balance temporarily. She recovered nicely, and just in time to block a few kunai he tossed at her. Itachi took the offensive and rushed her, summoning two clones that ran around rapidly to try and mask the real one.

The three Itachi's surrounded Pyhrra and made their move. They each threw two kunai at Pyhrra, but as she was about to block them, each set of kunai bounced off each other, completely changing their direction and hitting their target true. Or at least they would have if Pyhrra hasn't activated her semblance and just narrowly curving just enough to skim by her, which didn't go unnoticed by Itachi.

"Magnetism is your semblance, "The invincible girl" is now not so far off from accurate. However it has one weakness, electricity." Itachi said, as he charged his kunai with lightning and charged her, she tried to block him, but he quickly changed the angle of his swing aiming right for her shin. She wasn't left with much room to try and dodge, so she quickly tried to activate her semblance, but she couldn't manage to move his kunai and it hit her right in the leg. A sizable chunk of Pyhrra's aura was taken out of the bar on the display screen.

Pyhrra was about to counter attack but Itachi was already walking away. She quickly looked down and realized she had left the circle by a step, ending the fight. Pyhrra just chuckled to herself a bit, realizing the simple mistake she had made. But she wasn't angry or sad, but instead happy, as she finally had a partner to challenge her, to push her further.

"Lighting creates its own electrostatic field, overpowering your semblance's control over the object in question. Its quite surprising that you had never run into that problem at sanctum or the regional tournaments." Itachi stated.

"Mistral combatants are more, basic when it comes to that sort of thing. They usually prefer much simpler weapons, instead of relying on dust weapons and fancy complicated devices." Pyhrra replied.

"Understandable, even I do not use complicated weapons, kunai, and my wakizashi ware all i truly use besides my 'semblance'. Itatchi said.

"Why do you never use your sword anyways?" Nora asked, "What kind of transformation does it have?"

"Its just a plain sword, asi have superior ranged capabilities with my semblance, I only use it in more serious situations," Itachi replied, "Now Nora come up here, i would like to test something with your semblance,"

Nora beemed with excitement, but Ren had an idea of what Itachi could be planning, and it didn't bode well.

"Lets test if i can charge your semblance with some of my lighting techniques." Itachi said, while smiling lightly.

"Mr. Uchiha, would you mind explaining why the arena you borrowed is in shambles?" Goodwitch asked, visibly unhappy.

"As you are both are well aware of Nora's semblance, I decided to give something a try. I used my very own lightning to try and "charge" hers, but the power she absorbed from my technique, was quite overwhelming and any action she did was much much stronger than normal, breaking the floor as she stepped lightly." Itachi replied coolly.

"Im not even going to comment on how irresponsible that it, but ill let it pass this time, as Ozpin has instructed me too." Glynda said, "But do be more careful in the future, We wouldn't want this school collapsing on itself, now would we?"

"I assume there was more that you wanted to ask me about than just that?" Itachi asked, as Ozpin nodded.

"Yes, I have a few questions about what you have planned for the Fall maiden." Ozpin stated.

"I can sense her power, slowly fading, leading to its stolen half. I am currently working on a seal, to keep it inside of her until we can find a suitable subject to receive her powers." Itachi answered.

"I do have one candidate in mind, however you are fairly certain that your power is the same as the maidens?" Ozpin asked.

"To a degree, from what you explained, your "maidens" powers can only transfer to young women, while my chakra was inside of every living person, where i came from. The powers are the same, just the "rules" persay may be different." Itachi replied.

"Well, i wouldn't want to keep you from your team for much longer, it seems they are already making there way here as we speak." ozpin said, as he motioned to the door. As soon as the door opened, Nora ran in and started talking rapidly.

"Don't Get Itachi in trouble, it was me who destroyed the room, not him, even if he did make me SUPER AWESOME and strong and..." Nora rambled on before Ren finally caught up to her and silenced her.

"Sorry, her semblance makes her MUCH more hyperactive than usual." He said, between deep breaths.

"Do not worry, Miss Valkyrie, Mr. Uchiha is not in any trouble, we were simply reminding him to be careful. You may head back with your team Mr. Uchiha." Ozpin said, having team INPR take their leave.

"Do you really trust the boy that much? How can you be sure he is really who he says he is?" Glynda asked the headmaster.

"I know he isn't who he says he is, and that makes it all the more intriguing. Im more interested in who he really is, not in who he says he is." Ozpin said. "He may be just the person we need on our side.

There is one more thing I would like to address, it was brought to my attention on an earlier chapter. Itachi will act a bit differently than some people might think. My reasoning being he doesn't have to play the bad guy, he is instead trying to enjoy his life with his new friends and family, that doesn't mean things wont go wrong, and he will obviously be badass later, but for now, he is just being a teenager again, that's why he turned down the offer Ozpin made him years ago. He doesn't want to be the ostracized prodigy he once was. Who says Itachi can't have a sense of Humor, he doesn't have to be cool all the time, in fact some people might appreciate it if he wasn't cool all the time ;D welp thats it for this rant, see yah.