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Very short chapter this time to tie down Volume One's arc. I hope I'm doing things alright. Now this was the introduction stuff, now I can get to the parts that I can really play with! See you next time and enjoy!

Chapter 6: Half-Truths

Kamui's POV

"Ok, explain," Yang practically demanded. Kamui was lying on a bed in the infirmary, feeling quite annoyed. He was forced to go to the infirmary by his friends and while thankfully he avoided x-rays and blood tests, he was still bound there for the night. He was deemed to just be short of aura and that wasn't far from the truth, his semblance sucked a lot of it out this time. Well not just his semblance but he would keep that to himself. Though even with all that and the forced interrogation he was about to endure, he had other concerns.

"We were sent to deliver you a stone as well as the requested pictures…your…maturity is going to approach a new level. You know what stone it is and what it'll be needed for…" Kaze had said those words to him and Kamui shuddered at the thought. He did indeed know what was happening to him.

"Yang, give him some space, he did tell her to let me go," Ruby defended. Kamui smiled at his crush, happy that she was still on his side despite the situation she was just in. Still it saddened him to think about her because of what was coming in between them. He knew it was going to happen but he liked to entertain the idea that it would be fine for his sanity's sake.

"Why are they here too?" Kamui asked, referring to Team JNPR. Pyrrha he was fine with since she knew what he was keeping from the rest but the others?

"Because we're your friends," Jaune said, making Kamui sigh in resignation. Still he appreciated the gesture, Jaune had come a long way from the bumbling idiot he was, even if he still was bumbling. He stood as a true leader and a warrior, at heart anyway. Though Pyrrha told him he was improving, hopefully that meant he could start helping him out in training soon.

"Yeah, we'll be there for you, space walker!" Nora exclaimed, making Kamui groan. Ever since his semblance became known, she had started calling him that. Ren just gave him a small nod with a smile.

"Fine…what do you want to know?" Kamui asked as he picked the package given to him off of the night table. It was a small box but it was sealed and folded nicely.

"Why did your servants threaten my sister?" Yang asked with barely restrained anger. Kamui was not exactly in the best shape so a confrontation with Yang was ill advised right now. She was closer than her sister to landing a hit on him or Pyrrha in spars. In fact he predicted that during second semester or the midterms that he and Pyrrha would suffer their first blows from any of their friends.

"Selkie was trying to protect Ruby and the rest of you in case I had another outburst. She knew she couldn't just talk you into it so she forced you to with a way that would definitely stop you in your tracks. Ruby was never in danger to begin with, Selkie isn't cruel," Kamui answered truthfully. Selkie was a childhood friend, the child of one of his siblings' retainers. She was a very playful girl, never violent or vicious really. Though she did have her moments of course.

"Are you sure?" Yang asked.

"Yes, Selkie is my friend, I know how she acts!" Kamui snapped. Yang sighed and scratched her head before Weiss elbowed her ribs.

"So you have Faunus servants?" Blake asked. Kamui looked at the Cat Faunus and he nodded after seeing no ill intent in her eyes or none that he could detect. She wanted to see the ideology of the Legacy's.

"Yes, my family has a few Faunus working for us. They receive the same treatment as the humans though; the ones you met were my childhood friends. You could say they're my new Retainers since my old ones kind of…married my brothers. The humans and the Faunus get along very well under us, my two friends you saw have human mothers even," Kamui said firmly. Blake seemed to accept that and in fact she seemed a little happy almost.

"I see, I thank you and your family for not being afraid to show Faunus equality," Blake commended and Kamui sighed in relief that she wasn't trying to turn anything he said on him.

"So…getting back on track, what was that outburst you had?" Blake asked. Kamui didn't respond at that, how could he? His eyes went to Pyrrha and she was telling him exactly what he was thinking. Lie or at least don't tell the whole truth just yet.

"I…my powers…they're…growing," Kamui said evasively. He felt Ruby grab his arm and sighed as he started opening the package by cutting the tap with a small knife.

"What do you mean growing?" Ruby asked. Kamui would tell them what they wanted to know, he just wouldn't say everything, not yet.

"All Legacies experience this…growth. My brothers and my sister went through it, though none of them were in an academy at my age. It's part of our maturity, think of it like a growth spurt but it's our powers making a jump instead of our height. I'll be having more outbursts like that in the coming weeks and I'll have to learn to control it," Kamui explained as he opened the package and pulled two smaller boxes out. One was black and heavy, probably his pictures and the other was silver and it was like a jewelry box almost.

"So…are they always that...painful?" Ruby asked cautiously. Kamui sighed and opened the silver box and everyone was looking to see what was in it. He chuckled and pulled the contents out. It was a simple silver chain with a sphere shaped red stone attached to it.

"Yes…our bodies have to adapt to handling the new power. Thankfully we have these to make them more…manageable. It also doubles as a warning sign for when one is about to happen so don't be surprised if you see me take some time to be alone," Kamui said as he put the necklace on. The gem glowed gently for a few moments before it faded and he felt a soothing feeling flow through him.

"Is that…dust?" Weiss asked as she got closer. Blake's eyes widened like she recognized it and that made Kamui nervous as hell.

"Not quite, it's a special stone that helps us keep our growths under control so we don't have outbursts like that and no I'm not explaining what it's made of, I wouldn't even know how to. They also help us keep our…minds during those episodes. They aren't exactly needed but they help until we learn to control it ourselves," Kamui summarized. They all let the information sink in and Nora was the one that recovered first

"It looks cool! How do you make it glow?" she asked. Kamui chuckled and everyone else seemed to take the opportunity to let the mood drop.

"I can't really say Nora, it just does that sometimes. I'm new to this stage, my siblings aren't the best at keeping me informed on important events," Kamui said and the energetic girl seemed to accept that thankfully.

"So…Lord Kamui huh?" Yang teased and Kamui groaned.

"Please don't…" Kamui groaned. He hated being called a Lord; the people who served him were his friends, not just his servants. Last thing he needed was for his new friends to be calling him that.

"Are those the pictures?" Ruby asked, excited as she pointed towards the black box. Kamui smiled and nodded towards his friend and crush, she was as eager as he was to see the pictures after he promised to show her the ones he thought had her mother in them.

"Yes, can you get me my picture book and one of the pictures of after Initiation?" Kamui asked. Ruby was gone in an instant and back with the picture book, much to everyone's amusement.

"I got to see these, how many embarrassing things on the Legacies are there?" Yang asked as she got on his other side. The others all got close as well as Kamui opened the book to the first empty page. The book was set up for him to put the pictures in, he wanted to pictures sent separately since they were special to him. He opened the black box and pulled the rather large pile of pictures out of it.

"First…" Kamui picked up a group picture and showed it to Ruby. It was a picture of a class of Beacon students, right after whatever initiation they went through.

"See here?" Kamui asked as he pointed towards a blonde boy, standing next to another boy with long black hair, dressed like a samurai. On his other side was another boy with short raven hair, holding a greatsword. There was also another girl dressed in a red coat and black armor with raven hair and red eyes matching the guy with the greatsword.

"Is that…dad and Uncle Qrow?" Ruby asked excitedly. Yang moved to Ruby's side so she could look too and she laughed.

"Dad doesn't look too different but Uncle Qrow has all black hair here," Yang laughed then she pointed to the guy with the samurai attire.

"Is that your brother?" she asked and Kamui nodded somberly as he looked at the smiling boy.

"Ku-Ryoma wasn't always the way he was before, he was nice…once, doesn't look like the Rider of Death much does he?" Kamui sighed before he pointed to a girl wearing a white hood in the picture, looking at it now, Ruby did look a lot like her mother, down to the fashion sense apparently. Ruby took the picture and held it in her hands as she stared at her mother. Kamui saw tears build up in her eyes and Yang wrapped her arms around her in comfort.

"You favor her a lot, Rubes…" Yang said soothingly. Ruby wiped her eyes and handed the picture back to Kamui and he placed it in the top area of the page. The next two pictures were of his other two siblings after their respective initiations but he didn't really show those to them. He put them in their places on the page before he asked Ruby for their picture.

"Here…" Ruby said as he handed him the picture taken right after their initiation. All nine of them were in the picture, Ruby, Jaune and Kamui were in the center while everyone else was around them. Kamui blushed though when he realized that Ruby was clinging to his arm in the picture but they both didn't seem to mind in the picture. Jaune looked like he was ready to faint but Pyrrha had her hand on his shoulder supporting him. Nora was riding on Ren's back and the poor boy still managed to smile at the camera. Blake just gave a simple smile while Yang had two peace signs raised towards the camera. Even Weiss was smiling in the camera as she stood proudly.

"Feels like this was only yesterday huh?" Pyrrha asked and everyone agreed. Kamui smiled as he placed his picture in the slot of the page reserved for him.

"There, now it's framed in my family's history…" Kamui said.

They spent the next few minutes laughing over the pictures of Kamui's family. Most of them were before his time and they all involved Ryoma and Takumi in some way or another. Most of them were serious but a few of Takumi's pictures were funny. Like one picture was of Qrow chasing around Takumi with his sword, apparently Takumi had dropped a bucket of pink paint on him. Of course the others eventually decided to retire for the night since midterm season was coming and they had to rest but Ruby stuck around after waving Yang off. Kamui was wondering what she was going to do but he should have expected it really.

"Do you have a picture with my mom in it that I can have?" Ruby asked softly. Kamui quickly searched through his stack for something that would suit her needs but nothing he thought was good enough. Then he caught sight of a white package among the pictures. He picked it up and unfolded the covering carefully and his eyes widened when he saw it. It was a picture of Summer and Qrow and Taiyang were on either side of her and they were all smiling but who was in the middle was what caught his attention. It was a little baby wrapped in a red blanket, Ruby Rose held by Summer. Then at Summer's feet was a cute two year old Yang giving a cute toothy smile. He turned the picture around and there was writing on it. He read it aloud for Ruby.

"Mikoto, I heard you had another son, congratulations, that's four now right?! I just had a child myself, a daughter, her name is Ruby Rose. I hope our children become great friends; we have to introduce them to each other soon! Signed Summer Rose Xiao Long," Kamui read softly. He held the picture out to a shocked Ruby with a smile, feeling his eyes grow bleary. Mikoto was the name of his mother, he barely remembered her. Still though, their respective parents or mothers wanted them to meet but what had happened then? He knew what happened all too well, his mother went missing. He decided to play along for both their mothers' sakes' though. He wondered if they both would have approved of the fact that he was falling in love with Ruby and that she might be falling for him.

"It's nice to meet you, my name is Kamui Legacy…" Ruby accepted the picture and after looking at it for a few minutes she giggled tearfully and hugged him.

"It's nice to meet you Kamui…I'm Ruby Rose…"