Chapter 9 – Small duel and Confession of love

A/N: Sorry for the late release. Got tons of overtime at work, didn't have time to write, read and do everything else. Without further delay. Here is chapter 9.

Ruby giggled as she woke up from her bunk bed, she was on cloud nine. Weiss came to her yesterday to apologise and encourage her, she even made her coffee for last night's late study.

Ruby never knew Harima was such a nice person. He probably gave Weiss the same speech Nara gave her.

'A leader's duty is to look after his or her team as best as they can and as often as they can. It's only been two days since our appointment as leaders of team RWBY and NIHK. We are suppose to make mistake and face difficulty within the team. It's what we do about it that matters. I know I will be the best team leader there is for team NIHK. Will you be the best team leader for team RWBY?' Ruby thought back to what Nara said to her yesterday.

She answered without hesitation. "Yes! I will be the best leader for team RWBY."

"Glad to hear that. Ruby." Blake said from under her bunk bed.

Ruby screamed and fell out of her bed with loud impact. "Umm you ok there? Sis!" Yang said with concern.

"Oww. I'm fine. Perfectly ok. I guess you all heard that!" Ruby said with embarrassment.

"Yep." All three girls said at the same time.

"I wanna go hide in a hole. So embarrassing." Ruby cried.

"Quit your whining. Lets get ready for Goodwitch's combat class." Weiss said impatiently.

"Can't wait to see a certain beard and whisker. I hear some pretty interesting shouts yesterday." Yang teased.

"WHAT!? Course NOT! Why would I ever want anything to do with that rude and perverted hooligan!" Weiss shouted with a red face.

Blake moved over to Yang. "Umm. Already on the perverted phase. They're moving fast."

"Huh? Perverted phase? Harima and Weiss? I thought he like Yang. I mean the way he looked at you and all." Ruby said with confusion.

Yang sighed at Ruby's innocence. "It's ok sis. Don't worry your little head over this. I will explain it all when you're older." Yang said while patting her sister's head.

Ruby blew a raspberry at Yang. "You always say that. I wish I was the older sister, then you have to listen to what I have to say."

"In another life Ruby. Another life." Yang laughed at her adorable baby sister.

"Girls. We should hurry up. Class starts in ten minutes." Blake said with a flat tone.

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"Harima! I challenge YOU to a duel! How dare you sucker punch me! You bearded bastard!" Cardin shouted with anger as he stood in the centre of the training arena. Glaring at Harima, whom happened to be picking his ear.

Goodwitch groaned. "Mister Winchester, might I suggest you chose someone else. And also mind your language... or I will personally deal with you myself." Glynda growled angrily at the end.

Cardin paled and said quickly. "I'm... I'm sorry Miss Goodwitch. It won't happen again. But I must insist on fighting Harima. My pride and honour are at stake."

Glynda could only sigh at this. "Do not say I did not warn you. Harima Kenji. Please come to the centre of the arena."

Harima casually walked to the centre of the arena. Glynda walked pass him and whispered. "Take it EASY on him. I like him to be conscious for the rest of my lesson."

Harima shrugged and continued towards Cardin. The man was larger then Harima, both in hight and shoulder. His amour and massive mace made him looked extremely intimidating before his smaller opponent. While Harima wore a casual white shirt, black leather jeans and jacket. He also wore black leather gloves with silver metal studs.

"I am going to crush that skull of yours. You will regret the day you ever cross a Winchester!" Cardin growled while looking down at Harima. While Harima just glanced up blandly with his shades.

"Begin!" Glynda shouted.

Cardin heft his mace and shouted. "Say good bye to that ugly mug. You're going to need a new face when I'm through with... WHAM!"

Harima threw a right hook right into Cardin's jaw and send him into a cork screw flight right into the wall. Planting his upper body firmly inside the wall with only his legs and ass sticking out for all to see.

"Yak yak yak. You took so long I'm starting to yawn. Punk." Harima said casually, as if putting people in wall were a daily occurrence to him. Harima then blew on his right fist.

Glynda stormed up behind Harima then slapped him in the back of his head with her crop. Glynda hissed angrily. "What part of going EASY did you not understand!?"

Harima shouted back. "Dammit woman! That hurts! What kind of psycho use a riding crop on the back of someone's head!"

"Can't you make the fight last for thirty seconds. Ten would have been wonderful! What am I suppose to teach if you one punch them!" Glynda argued.

While most students tried to pick up their jaw from the floor at what just happened. Cardin's aura gauge on the screen went from full, then dropped down to five percent in a single punch. Almost everyone could not believe Harima was actually arguing with Miss Goodwitch.

"Umm. Miss Goodwitch, may I fight Harima next?" Pyrrha said nervously while Glynda got Harima in a headlock and tried to choke him.

"Miss Nikos. I really recommend you chose someone..." Goodwitch said as diplomatically as possible while trying to choke her wayward nephew.

"Actually. I promised to fight her when I have a chance." Harima interrupted.

Glynda whispered harshly. "Harima! Are you out of your mind. Do you know what kind of attention you will get if you fought and won against Miss Nikos!?"

"Glynda, she saw my kick, and I promised her a fight." Glynda growled at him. Harima sighed then said. "I will hold back. I promise. ok." Harima compromised.

"Fine." Glynda turned to Pyrrha. "Miss Nikos. Come on stage. It will be arena rules. When your aura drop to red, I will stop the fight. Begin on my mark."

Pyrrha walked onto the stage, the hand holding Milo were shaking. Harima raised an eyebrow and said. "Are you all right? Not overly excited are you?"

Pyrrha smiled. "Actually I'm shaking in excitement. I'm excited to see what you can show me. Show me the skill of those master level fighter you trained with."

"Well. I am no master level, but neither am I disciple level. There is a level in between disciple and master. And that is expert level, by martial art's standard. I only just started on this path. I still have a long way to go before reaching master level." Harima said with a smile.

"Begin!" Glynda shouted.

In a instant Pyrrha transformed Milo into it's rifle form and fired at Harima. However Harima just took a stroll to the left and just avoided her shot. Pyrrha's eyes widened in confusion. "What the!?"

Meanwhile the students were confused as to how Pyrrha had missed. "How did she miss!? She should have hit him!" Ruby said with confusion.

Pyrrha took another shot, but missed again. Nara said with realization. "Harima is quite something. He managed to master that move."

Blake asked. "What did Harima master. What is he doing?"

"Harima moved at the moment Pyrrha pulled the trigger. He's reading her rifle trajectory and move to counter it. There are master levels that could avoid several small arms fire just by simply walking in a certain direction at the right moment." Imadori explained.

To everyone else, it seemed as if Pyrrha couldn't hit a simple walking target. Harima threw her aim off by feint walking and counter her original aim. That was until Pyrrha used her Semblance and curved her bullet. The bullet skimmed on Harima's cheek and dropped his aura by a few percent.

"She hit that time! Ha! I knew Pyrrha would get him eventually." Weiss said with a smirk.

However Harima smiled. "Nice trick there Pyrrha."

"Who said it was a trick?" Pyrrha smiled back, she wanted to keep her Semblance 'Magnetism' a secret for as long as possible.

Harima took off his metal studded leather gloves and threw it before Pyrrha. Her eyes widened in shock at that implication. 'Did he figure out my Semblance from that one hit!? That's not possible!' Pyrrha thought.

Harima said to her with a smirk. "You're not a very good liar, your expression told me everything I needed to know about your Semblance. Don't worry, I won't tell."

Pyrrha stuttered. "How? How can you be so certain I didn't just hit you by skill or your technique failed."

"Simple really. I'm always confident in my skill. Have to be, when you train under the old man. If you don't believe in your skill or yourself. You won't survive a day." Harima said with a shiver.

Meanwhile with the observers. Imadori had a flash back of his time with his Master, when he set four martial art android monks on him. Beat him black and blue within five seconds.

Hanai had a flash back also. When his master strapped him in a full body steel spring coils that put constant pressure on his whole body and told to frog hop the entire town twenty times. His body was broken at the end of the day.

Nara thought back to his Mistress idea of training. 'Nara-kun... don't die.' His Mistress took out a katana. He could never look at any sharp object without internally wincing.

"Wow! You guys ok. You look really pale." Yang said with concern.

"Fine. Just fine. Reliving old memories of that ass of a master." Hanai said with a twitch in his left eye.

Back at the arena. Harima said to Pyrrha. "I guess it's time to stop playing around and get a little serious. Pyrrha, I suggest you put all your strength into defence. See if you can adapt and learn one of the old man's one hundred and eight legendary technique."

Glynda shouted from the side. "Harima! Don't you dar..."

Glynda was too late. Harima said as Pyrrha put up Akouo. "Kazoe Nukite" Harima vanished and stood within arm reach of Pyrrha. His face darkened in concentration.

"Four!" Harima's blade hand slammed into Akouo with tremendous force. Pyrrha pondered how Harima was all right when he slammed the tip of his fingers into her shield.

"Three!" The second blow almost doubled in comparison to the first attack. Shock wave ran through her arm as three fingers impacted her shield.

"Two!" The third blow staggered her. Two fingers struck her shield. Her arm numbs from the pain. Her shield dropped to her stomach.

"One!" Pyrrha knew she was done for. Her shield was useless. Harima dropped low and drove one finger at the centre of her lowered shield and blew her up and across the arena. The force of the blow felt unreal. If she didn't know better, she would have thought Harima had used his Semblance. Pyrrha landed outside the ring.

Even thought it was her lost. Pyrrha couldn't help to smile in pure joy. Opponent so far above her, that would have brought despair to anyone else. Unimaginable technique that defy common sense. She couldn't help but giggle at what Harima had tried to teach her. Adapt and learn, he showed her that technique to see if she could use it with her spear Milo. She remembered every move, her body felt every jab and now she noticed her shield Akouo bore a finger size hole in the centre.

Harima came before her and held out a hand. "Need a hand. Green horn."

Pyrrha smiled as she accepted the help. She said to Harima as she got up. "You pulled back at the last attack. Why?"

"If I didn't. It would have blown a hole right through you. And I would never hear the end of it from Goodwitch. Think you can master that technique?" Harima asked.

"Won't know until I try. Can I at least ask for help if I get stuck?" Pyrrha said while rubbing her sore arm.

"Sure. Why not. In for a lien. In all the w... Owwww! Owww!" Harima was interrupted as Glynda got him by the ears.

"You are coming with me! I cannot believe you used that move on Miss Nikos. You could have killed her!" Glynda said angrily as she dragged Harima towards the exit.

"Dammit Glynda! I got the whole thing under control! Stop pulling my ear. OWWW!" Harima complained.

Before Glynda could reach the exit. Ruby said to her with curiosity. "Miss Goodwitch. You seem to know Harima really well... I mean... ummm... are you like... his older sister?"

Ruby almost screamed when Glynda put her left hand on the young girls shoulder. Fear clouded Ruby's eyes as she watched Glynda's face darkened. Then it was suddenly gone. Glynda had a friendly big smile. "Miss Rose. Here is a special coupon for cookies in the dinner hall. Tell the cook I send you and she will give you some specially baked cookies."

Ruby stood petrified as she clutched her coupon. Miss Goodwitch dragged Harima out of the room and dismissed everyone for the day.

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Dinner hall

"Jaune. He's a bully." Nara said as a matter of fact.

"Oh come on. Cardin is a kidder. He's only playing around. He's not bullying me." Jaune said unconvincingly.

"You mean like that time he flip your books in the hallway." Ren said.

"Or that time he triggered your shield and got you jammed in the door frame." Ruby added while munching on a pile of free freshly baked cookie.

"Or launching you into the emerald forest. Where you had to be rescued." Nara pointed out.

"That guy is mean. We can always break his legs!" Nora added helpfully.

"Hey come on guys. He will get bored eventually. So don't worry so much. ok." Jaune tried to placate his friends.

Meanwhile Hanai asked a question of his own. "Yang... umm... how do you... you know..."

Yang said with an amused smirk. "Know what? Does big goodie two shoes Hanai need advice from bad ol Yang. Ohh... I wonder if I can make that into a pun."

"Please don't, no more pun." Ruby groaned.

Hanai said before Yang got distracted. "How do you go about confessing your feeling. How do you tell..."

Yang interrupted. "That you're in love with them." Yang always knew that Hanai had feelings for her. She thought this might happen. 'Well, best let him down gently. After giving her advice.' Yang thought to herself.

Ruby was giggling with excitement as Yang gave her advice. "You attack head on. Tell her how you feel in a loud clear voice brim with confidence."

Hanai blinked with surprise. "You sure? Just like that."

"Yep. Just like that." Yang said while preparing to shoot Hanai down.

"OWWW! Stop it!" A girl with rabbit ears cried out.

"Hey check this out. They're real." Cardin shouted for all to hear, while his team laughed beside him.

"Excuse me." Hanai said as he left the table and walked towards Cardin's group.

"Please leave me alone!" Velvet cried as Cardin pulled on her year.

"Then you shouldn't have come here. Dinning room is for people not freaks lik... AHHHH!" It was Cardin who screamed when Hanai tightened his iron grip on his wrist.

Cardin pulled away with a strong yank and growled in anger. "Who the hell are you!? What was that for!?"

"If I have to explain what you did wrong. Then it will be a waste of my breath. Scram before..." Hanai said with anger before he was interrupted suddenly.

"Hey. If it isn't my buddies Cardin and his long hair whoever." Harima came up from behind Cardin and Sky Lark. Putting an arm on each of their shoulder.

"YOU! Who are you calling... GRAHHHH... Choke!" Harima tightened his hold round Cardin's neck till he froth at the mouth and passed out.

"The little big man is all tired out. Don't you agree? Hippy dude." Harima glared at Sky Lark with a threatening glare.

"What ever you say man!" while Sky Lark said this to placate the crazy bearded dude. He wondered what happened to Dove and Russel. He got his answer as the two stood stiff as a board with Imadori behind them. A hand on each of their shoulder.

What Sky didn't know was Imadori had bind his two team mates with his nano wires, effectively silencing them by binding their jaws and controlling them like puppets with various binding on all their limbs.

Imadori said with a smile. "Hey Harima, lets talk to our new buddies outside. Let's not disturb the meal of all those beautiful ladies." Imadori completed that sentence with a wink to some second year girls nearby.

"Great idea Imadori. Hey Karate kid. I will leave the girl to you. See you later." Harima said as he dragged Sky and unconscious Cardin with him, with Imadori following close behind with the rest of team CRDL.

"Dammit Harima! Don't call me that!" Hanai turned toward the Rabbit Faunus and said. "Miss Scarlatina, are you all right?"

"Yes. I will be ok." Velvet looked away nervously. Then she realized that she never introduced herself to him. "Umm. How do you know my name?"

"Ahh. About that. There is something I wanted to tell you." Hanai turned a bit red as he stood ramrod and said with utmost confident and strong voice. "Miss Velvet Scarlatina. I am in love with you. Will you go out with me."

The room fell into hush silence. Many could not believe how bold Hanai was. Yang eyes grew to the size of dinner plate and her mouth were wide open in shock, then she snapped. "SAY WHAT!"

Yang stormed up behind Hanai and clobbered him. Yang said to Velvet. "HAHAHA. Don't mind what this fool say. He was dropped on his head multiple time as a boy."

Velvet's face was bright red, she was completely speechless. Hanai said loudly. "But I did as you said. Confess my love with confidence. And I love Velvet Scarlatina."

"I... I have to go!" Velvet stuttered as she ran out in total embarrassment.

"I don't understand. What did I do wrong." Hanai said with despair. While Yang wanted to find the closes wall and bang her head on it.

A/N: Hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I will write when I have time. Now onto the review.

Knight of Eclipse: Not sure on drawing skill, but will definitely have school nurses.

Rex: No Naruto. Last time I wrote about Naruto and Jiraiya. I made them the victims of Snu Snu with an entire tribe of Veela. Broken hips skeletons and all. As for two master in the same room, save your prayers for their apprentices. I got plans for that one.

Amvmaster: I got plan for Jaune all right. Evil plans filled with scream of despair and pain. Also as you can see, Cardin got one shot.

MorenoX25: Everyone can see the ship, but can Harima and Weiss see it? Don't worry, I got plans in place for this. It will be some nice plot twist. As for Harima hearing Faunus. That's a no go. I got something set up for that between Harima and Velvet that will cause misunderstanding and rivalry with Hanai.