Chapter 7:

The Soft-Hearted Demon

Oni's Point of View

I could tell that this was going to be an aggravating day for me. "And the winner of this match is….Yang Xiao Long." I was on my back looking at the ceiling as the blonde bitch held her hand out to me. "That was a good match Oni." She gave me a smile. I don't know why, but it annoyed me. I pushed her hand away as I walked off to the sidelines where my team was. Of course the coon said something first, "H-Hey don't feel down Oni. I mean Yang is a very good fighter." I wanted to punch his face in right now. "I would like to be left alone…" Asa put his hand on my shoulder. He was the one in the group who I respected the most, but he also irked me the most with his sarcasm. "Please don't tell me you're upset, because you lost to a girl." Asa said. My face immediately turned red with embarrassment, "N-No! That's not it whatsoever!" The others started to laugh jokingly at my reaction. "Grrrrr I hate you all…" I said as all of us walked back to the dorm.

The next day I was walking to Hunting class. Today was going to be when we practice taking on Draco Grimm. Nothing was going to put me in a sour mood today…..until I saw the loser squad, team CRDL. "Hehe hey look guys, it's the 'Black-Metal Punching Bag'." Now I see how Shen feels sometimes from these guys. It's really hard to keep your fists from clenching around them. "Ha ha, very funny Cardin…."

"You know what Oni? You're not all that as intimidating as you lead on to be." I raised an eyebrow at his comment as my hand reached for my sword. I was suddenly surrounded by all four of them. "Ooooh big tough guy aren't ya. Always speaking with that sword of yours. You're not a hunter, you're a kid who throws temper tantrums." My grip tightened even more on my blade, but for some reason I couldn't pull it out. Was I trying to prove something? Or was Cardin right?... "Not to mention you got your ass handed to you by a girl." They all started laughing.

"Hey Cardin!" All of the guys' spines seemed to straighten up. I recognize that voice from anywhere. It was goldilocks herself, Yang. "Hmph, last time I checked, you got your hide handed to you on a silver platter by both Blake, Weiss, Ruby, Velvet, Nora, and your whole team got trounced by Pyrrha…" Yang pointed her thumb to herself, "…AND me." Cardin gulped as he and the guys started to back off. I could feel my grip loosening from my sword handle, but why do I still feel upset? "There! That oughta teach those guys to mess with you." Yang playfully punched me in my chest. My hands clenched up and my eyes felt like they were on fire, "I didn't need your help!" Yang jumped back a little in shock. "I was completely fine until you jumped in! I could've dealt with them myself!" Now Yang's eyes looked heated up, "That's not what I saw! To me it looked like you were just taking their insults! You looked about ready to explode! If I didn't jump in then you would've proved them right about what they were saying!" She then turned around and stomped off leaving me there. How long did she listen in to what they were saying to me?...

Later on that day I was back in the dorm room with the guys. They were playing some weird card game. I don't know, I wasn't exactly paying attention. "So how was your day Oni?" Kat asked. I looked up with a quizzical look on my face. Apparently everyone was going around telling how their day went. I don't really care much for that stuff so I said, "Meh…" Kat wasn't gonna take that answer apparently. "Come on Oni. Tell us how your day went?" I slammed my fist into the ground to get my point across, "I said meh ok?! There was nothing good about it!" I then jumped up on top of my bed above Asa's. "I-I'm sorry…" I heard Kat quiver out.

"H-Hey Kat….it's not your fault…" Shen started. "Oni…just has a hard time opening up to people." I hate it when he's right….

That night was very restless for me. I felt guilty for snapping at Kat, but not just her. I also felt terrible for snapping at Yang earlier today. All those two were doing was just trying to look after me. Some friend I was. I promise, tomorrow I'm going to…..apologize to Kat and Yang and try and work on my temper some.

The following morning, I got up from bed rubbing my head as I looked over and saw that Shen and Kat were gone to class. I looked below and saw that Asa was gone too. "Seems like I'll have to apologize later tonight then…" I soon got up and got ready for the day. I was rocking a grey jacket with blazoned purple-flames that were threaded on the rims of the jacket, grey and white camouflaged pants, and finally my crimson red headphones wrapped around my neck.

Since I didn't have any classes today, I decided to head on over to the dining hall to hang out at while waiting for my teammates. On the way over I had on some metal music blasting from my headphones around my neck. If someone has a problem with it I would just like to see them try and convince me. Walking on over, I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. I think I saw Sky Lark from team CRDL going around one of the corners. At first I was going to ignore it, but with those guys I decided to go and see where he was going. I'm glad I did. Off to the side of one of the school buildings, I found Russel and Dove of Team CRDL pinning Yang up against one of the walls. Cardin was standing in front of her just chuckling to himself, "You think you're soooo tough don't you Xiao Long? Well how does it feel to be overpowered now?"

"Grgh…You guys are a bunch of cowards, teaming up on a girl!" Cardin pinned her head against the wall hard. "You best watch your mouth Xiao Long or else I'll smack it off you. Now hold still it'll all be over soon." I saw that he was reaching down to unbuckle his pants. Seems like it was time for me to step in. "Oi…" The guys turned around in shock to me. "Ghg, Oni!..." Cardin looked more pissed than scared to see me. "Sky go deal with him! I need to teach this bitch a lesson." Sky went out to swing a punch at me, but I knocked him flat in his ass back to Cardin. "What?! God you're so useless!" Cardin and the others now backed away from Yang as all four of them now surrounded me. Whoa, déjà vu. "Come on, go ahead and draw that black sword of yours Oni and show us how tough you are." Cardin was tempting to make me look bad. I gripped my sword's handle, but I decided to let go and do something else. "Nah….I'll take you on with just these babies here." I put up my fists as the guys just laugh. "You're crazy Oni! You're nothing without your sword!" Cardin mocked. How would he know? No one's ever seen me use my fists before…

In about a good two minutes, I trashed those guys as they all were down on the ground moaning in pain. I brushed my hands together wiping off the dirt that I got from those scumbags. Yang was holding her head probably from when Cardin smashed it against the wall earlier. Taking the side of her head in my hand, I inspected the back of her head. "It seems like it'll have a little bit of a bruise…you'll be fine." Yang looked up at me and smiled, "Hey who said I needed your help?" She teased, laughing. My face turned red with embarrassment. "Um yeah….about last time." Yang put her finger up to my lips. "Don't worry tiger, what you just did here was good enough of an apology." I felt like I actually smiled for once. It was a little smile, but a smile nonetheless. Suddenly, my hand was grabbed by Yang's. "Come on Oni; let's get the hero here some food for his triumphant victory!" She laughed more jokingly as I laughed along with her. A hero…I liked the sound of that. Maybe…being the good guy isn't such a bad idea after all…