A/N I think it should be mentioned ever sense Qrow gave Akame his flask she's been wearing her overcoat, now that I think about it I could go back and mention that... actual I don't even know if I have, I'm sure its fine anyway.

Its been a few days of nothing for Qrow, he has yet to have anything to report to Night Raid, currently resting at the opposite end of the dining table to Esdeath listening to the conversations between the Jaegers.

"So general, what about you? What do you do with your spare time?" Seryu asked

"Oh this'll be great." Qrow jumped in lazily

"Mostly hunting and torture. Otherwise I study. But sense me and Qrow returned from the north I was hoping to try being in love." Esdeath responded ignoring Qrow shooting him a glare

"Oh, so Qrow why did you go up north." Seryu asked looking over to him

"I was following a lead... But it led nowhere, so now I'm here cause it was either that or getting wanted posters put up by her, and that woulda made my mission difficult." Qrow said lazily taking a drink

"Oh what makes you think you could have escaped." Esdeath asked smiling

"I am very good a running away." Qrow replied sarcastically

"Strange, I never saw you as a coward." Esdeath shot

"I didn't say retreat, I said running away, two completely different things." Qrow said rolling his neck

"Don't they imply the same thing?" Run asked cocking an eyebrow

"Nope." Qrow replied leaning back a little farther and not elaborating

"I suppose that I have more to learn than." Run said politely putting his hands behind his back

"Kid you gotta loosen up, remember this is a group of people you'll be fighting along side, not strangers, so stop treating them like that." Qrow lectured waving his hand back and forth in the air

"You sound like a teacher, if it doesn't offend you." Run commented prodding at something

"Well I use to be a teacher, so it does come out every once in awhile." Qrow replied surprising everyone 'Do I really seem that irresponsible.' he thought to himself

"Really, I really can't see you teaching anything." Esdeath said a little shocked

"I was a great instructor, all my students loved me... mainly cause it was practically impossible to fail my class... but hindsight is 20/20." Qrow explained "That and I was like a family member to all the kids in my class."

"That very nice Qrow, but why did you give it up." Run asked clearly interested

"Well, watching all those kids grow and learn was wonderful... Then, I watched them all die, I wasn't suppose to watch that happen. They were suppose to outlive me. I couldn't handle that so I left." Qrow explained sadness growing in his voice with each word that left his mouth

"Oh yes! Qrow I wanted you to try to use Extase, I almost forgot about that." Esdeath quickly interrupted

"Umm that massive pair of scissors, well if you want a huge piece of paper cut. Sure, why not. but I don't want or need a Teigu, I'm strong enough without one, don't wanna outshine all of you." Qrow replied glaring at her

"But Teigu are so useful, and are extremely powerful." Seryu exclaimed

"Would you bet your life on one." Qrow asked letting some killing intent radiate off of him, which surprised everyone again as to how similar it was to Esdeaths, even Esdeath was surprised by that.

"I... Yes I would." Seryu said a bit uncertain Qrow took his feet off of the table and in almost a second a shot rang out, Koro went flying out the window and Qrow was holding Harbinger to Seryu's throat. The only person who saw all of what happened was Esdeath.

"Bad choice, even if you train your body to be effective when using a Teigu its still a crutch,-" Qrow began deadly before Esdeath interrupted "-And a crutch is still a weakness, and a weakness is an opening for death."

"Also I just shot your dog... and I don't feel like and asshole." Qrow said in the same tone as before, pulling Harbinger from her throat and putting it back on his belt "Well I don't want the Teigu, so how are we going to decide on who gets it." Qrow said calmly

"Well we could hold a tournament. Id love to watch civilians beat each other to near death." Esdeath said beginning to blush

"You do know there's something wrong if you get turned on think about people beating each other to death." Qrow commented walking away from Seryu

"There's nothing wrong with enjoying yourself." Esdeath replied calmly taking a sip of wine as she spoke

"I guess, but I think a therapist would be very helpful... actually, scratch that, whatever happened to you is irrepar-" Qrow was cut off by a spear of ice pointed directly at this throat, everyone fell silent and watched

"So that's the limit." Qrow said smirking seemingly unfazed by the spear of ice

"Your continued commenting on myself has started to irritate me, I will admit I have given you freedom beyond most, but don't let that get to your head... or I will take it." Esdeath spoke calmly staring him down

"Your welcome to try... Ice Queen." Qrow snarked challenging her stare and grinning like a madman

(o)

The rest of the day has gone along mostly boring all the fights thus far have been boring and uninteresting, fight after fight Qrow was getting increasingly bored watching the fights from Esdeaths tent.

"You do know how bad of an idea this was right?" Qrow asked tiredly

"Yep." Esdeath responded tiredly resting her head on one of her hands

"If you do this again, can I break your nose?" Qrow asked

"Twice would be better. Get the message through." She responded

"Alright, just making sure." Qrow said as the fight ended, looking at the next two combatants Qrow stifled a surprised look seeing Tatsumi walking into the arena

"Karubi is so fucked." Qrow said now interested

"What makes you say that?" Esdeath asked raising an eyebrow

"Just watch." Qrow responded crossing his arms

Tatsumi out classed Karubi in speed, skill, and strength easily dodging and weaving around attacks and landing many devastating ones of his own Quickly knocking Karubi out

"Captain, that boy has amazing skill, perhaps he could be our Teigu user?" Run asked in amazement

Qrow looked at Esdeath then Tatsumi who has a stupid smile on his face then back to Esdeath who is now blushing profusely

"Yeah, Run... she's not think that." Qrow said uncrossing his arms

"What do you mean? He's the candidate for the Teigu, right captain?" Run asked clearly trying to not think what Qrow was... and failing

"Yeah that... but also something more." Esdeath said walking away not really paying attention, walking down the steps towards the arena and entering it, everyone was quiet and waiting to see what would happen. Qrow used his aura to enhance hes hearing even farther than normal

"-Was you name, right? Its a good name." Esdeath spoke calmly

"Thanks." Tatsumi said trying to hide his fear and rage

"That match was superb, I wanted to give you your reward, personally." Esdeath replied calmly

"Thank you very much." Tatsumi thanked and in an instant that only Qrow could follow Esdeath clicked a collar around his neck

"From now on, you'll belong to me." Esdeath said lustfully and began to drag him away "There are far too many distractions here, come lets go to the palace." Esdeath said ignoring Tatsumis protest and knocked him out and carrying him away.

Everything was completely silent after Esdeath walked away... except for Qrow, he just laughed and laughed.

(o)

"So Esdeath just carried him off?" Akame asked clearly fearing for Tatsumis' life

"Did she realize that he's a member of Night Raid?" Mine asked calmly trying to figure out the reason behind his disappearance

"I couldn't really hear, and I didn't feel any killing intent." Lubbock replied "But I don't know, Even then it doesn't seem likely."

"Yeah, shes got no idea... she just wants his dick." Qrow said walking in

"Qrow!... wait what?" Leone started before freezing in place gears start turning in her head

"Yeah, she just wants to make him into someone who can stand even with her... because shes crazy. And rule one is 'don't stick you dick in crazy.' hopefully he remembers that." Qrow said sarcastically "But I don't know what to do, and I've been outta the loop over here so what the plan?" Qrow than asked crossing his arms

"Oh Akame is currently acting boss, so ask her." Leone replied still in deep thought

"Alright, Qrow when you see the opportunity get both yourself and Tatsumi out, and back to base, understood." Akame ordered

"You know if anyone else gave me an order I'd spit in their face... but your a student of mine, so sure why not, I'll be back with the kid, see you soon." Qrow began walking out

"Hang on! Wait. Were you kidding about the whole 'wanting his dick' thing, right?" Lubbock asked trying to not sound jealous

"No, she has become obsessed with finding love, I guess I lucked out." Qrow replied and commented

"Wait what!" Lubbock shouted

"Yeah apparently that kids' got somethin' I don't... Sucks to be him, sucks to be you." Qrow replied again walking out

"This is so unfair." Lubbock whined

"THAT BITCH!" Leone shouted in rage breaking herself out of thought

(o)

Qrow stalked through the halls of the Palace walking into the Jaegers meeting room finding everyone standing around Tatsumi currently chained to a chair, Qrow facepalmed and sighed

"Alright, I'm just gonna fix a few things here, first of all-" Qrow started before getting cut off by Tatsumi

"Please do, Qrow!" Tatsumi cried in both joy and hope

"So you two know each other? How interesting." Esdeath said glancing at Qrow

"Yeah, do you really think some kid could be that good without training, of course not, I taught him a few things here and there." Qrow quickly covered up glaring at Tatsumi "ANYWAY, if you want him to be you, quote lover unquote, get all those chains and collar off of him for one, and give him his damn freedom, you gotta learn that if you want him to like you you gotta give him a choice not tie him up and force it... that's called rape." Qrow said as though he was talking to a child

"Fine, I guess that makes sense." Esdeath said sadly untying Tatsumi

"Thanks but I'm not really interested in working for the empire sooo..." Tatsumi trailed off

"It will probably take a bit of training to get you obedient." Esdeath said blushing

"PLEASE LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAID TO YOU!" Tatsumi shouted in anger and fear

"Kid I don't think torture is what she has in mind." Qrow said rolling his eyes causing both Tatsumi to blush profusely

"Now now, everyone. hes just confused. This is a lot to take in all at once." Seryu spoke up causing killing intent to explode off of Tatsumi, Qrow quickly moved over to Tatsumis side and whispered "Cool it kid, not everyone here are as dumb as you, I know what happened... I did a little digging, but there's not much you can do dead." Qrow said calming Tatsumi down a bit

"There's nothing to be afraid off, we're all alli-" Seryu began before Qrow interrupted catching her wrist before she could touch Tatsumi

"Kid if you haven't noticed all you're doing is making it worse, so do the kid a favor, and shut the hell up." Qrow snarled causing Seryu to look between Qrow and Tatsumi before stepping away quietly

"General Esdeath! I've finished the report regarding Gyogan Lake." a solder said running into the room

"Perfect timing. This is your first big mission. Come, to the briefing room. Qrow considering your not a Jaegers officially you'll be acting as supervisor, watch them fight but don't help." Esdeath ordered

"Yeah sure they wont even see me." Qrow said waving off the order

(o)

Qrow was following the Jaegers in his crow form Esdeath and Tatsumi were watching from the cliff side while the rest of the Jaegers are standing near the entrance waiting for the bandits first attack force which came to greet them Seryu ordered Koro to bit her arm off... (yep that is a thing) after Koro released her arm it was replaced with a massive drill and she quickly and easily ripped through all the bandits standing in their way causing them to retreat and close the gate Koro bit down on her arm again and instead of another massive drill it was an anti-tank rifle, she fired destroying the gate Kurome rushed in after its destruction. Qrow decided to land on a tree near by the fort and watching the battle from there

Wave dived down and kicked a bandit that was about to shoot Kurome snapping his neck just as Kurome threw a knife hitting wave in the leg

"OW! what the hell Kurome!" Wave shouted landing near her

"I knew he was there, you just stole my kill, so you kinda deserve it." Kurome pouted Qrow moved onto a different person

Bols was incinerating a large group of archers, a small group of bandits tried running but all were killed instantly by Run who was currently flying above the fort killing all stragglers. Qrow getting bored flew up to the cliff side where Tatsumi and Esdeath were and listening in on their conversation

"You seem... very kind." Tatsumi struggled

"You've heard of me. Is the image different from what you imagined?" Esdeath asked happily "Truthfully, this is the first time I've felt this way, being in love with someone." Esdeath elaborated "but its not that bad."

"Umm, I feel I should ask, where will I be living from now on?" Tatsumi asked changing the subject from love

"In my room, of course." Esdeath said as though it was obvious Tatsumi went from surprised to confused to confident in a few seconds flat, if Qrow were still in human form he would have laughed his ass off, but he settled for cawing instead, upon hearing the cawing Tatsumi's face went flush with embarrassment and looked at the crow which nodded at him causing him to blush even more.

(o)

Qrow gathered the things he would need once he and Tatsumi left it would be better to carry all of it on him so he wouldn't leave anything behind, notes on the Jaegers and their Teigu a map of the palace that Qrow drew up and high profile targets that support the minister willingly and unwillingly, putting all of the information into his coat and pockets. (deep pockets for the win!) hearing a knock at his door Qrow walked over and opened it reveling Seryu standing there.

"What do you want kid?" Qrow asked

"I wanted to ask you to teach me how to use a sword. Your right, if Koro isn't nearby or if he is destroyed I'm basically defenseless so please, teach me like you taught Tatsumi!" Seryu asked happily

"Fine, but we need to see where your at first, come on." Qrow said walking out shutting and locking the door behind him, they walked down to the sparing arena where they found wave swinging Grand Chariot around

"HEY, kid mind letting me and Dog here use the training grounds." Qrow asked putting his hand on Harbinger

"DOG!" Seryu shouted

"Oh, umm sure why not, I'd also like to watch you fight." Wave awkwardly said

"Please kid, this ain't gonna be a fight." Qrow said rolling his eyes

Seryu walked to one end of the arena broadsword in hand Qrow pulled Harbinger off his belt and lazily started spinning it and tossing it in the air.

"Ready when you are kid." Qrow said not paying attention to her

Seryu rushed forward and swung at Qrow who easily stepped out of the way still not paying attention to her, Seryu swung at him again but her blade hit Harbinger which is sticking out of the ground and bounced off she looked very surprised at Harbinger blinking in surprise

"How heavy is that thing?" Seryu asked in surprise

"Oh Harbinger? Really. Damn. Heavy." Qrow casually said quickly pulling it from the ground and spitting Seryu's swords blade in half "Dead." was all Qrow said this continued until all the swords in the training area were destroyed and Seryu was knocked out.

(o)

The next morning Qrow, Kurome, and Wave were in the dinning room waiting for the rest of the Jaegers to get up, Qrow heavily drinking, Kurome heavily snaking, Wave wondering why neither of them are dead yet.

"Qrow, it you don't mind me asking, why do you drink so much." Wave asked

"Well sailor, when you watch everyone and everything taken from you, you tend to look for an answer... my just so happens to be a bottle." Qrow slurred

"Well its just not really health, and I'd rather not watch any teammates die." Wave replied Qrow just chuckled and took another drink they all turned to the door when they heard it open and saw a very tired Tatsumi walk in

"morning Tatsumi, did you sleep well last n-no it doesn't look like you did." Wave began and quickly corrected

"I was so nervous I couldn't sleep until dawn." Tatsumi said fatigued Qrow laughed at that... A lot

"So Kurome why are you eating candy so early in the morning?" Wave asked changing the subject

"Mind your own business its better then eating seafood, I'd hate to start smelling like a beach like you do!" Kurome said defensively

"What, I don't smell! Do I smell?" Wave asked

"No, not really... well not to much anyway." Tatsumi said trying to be nice

at that point Qrow stopped caring to listen and closed his eyes and propped his feet up on the table and leaned back in his chair trying to nap.

"Qrow, are you even paying attention? HEY BIRDBRAIN! you promised you would pay attention, oh well I guess I lost that bet to Raven than. I knew that would get you attention. It not that bad. Well if you stop complaining than we may get somewhere. I will never give up on you even if your not as concerned in academics as Tai is, you still need them. Wouldn't that be a ridiculous end to team STRQ, disbanded because they couldn't do math." a familiar voice echoed and overlapped in his head, Qrow opened his eyes and for a split second saw silver before he was flung back to reality

Everyone was shocked when Qrow yelped and jumped out of his chair

"Qrow what was that?" Esdeath asked crossing her arms

"I... It... nothing... It was nothing, I'm fine." Qrow said eyes darting around the room

"It better be nothing, because you, me, Kurome, and Tatsumi are going to fake mountain today. We are going danger beast hunting!" Esdeath said happily

"Alright, I'm ready to go when you guys are." Qrow said trying to calm himself

"Once, we get there we will split up into groups of two Me and Kurome will take the east side, Qrow and Tatsumi will get the west side." Esdeath explained "Than at dusk we will swap then it will be me and Tatsumi!" Esdeath added blushing

(o)

After leaving the capital and walking all the way to Fake mountain until the separated from Esdeath and Kurome

"Alright we should be far enough from them now, we gotta move." Qrow said and they took off towards base

"Well that was easier than I expected it to be." Tatsumi said after equipping Incursio

"Well escaping enemies tends to be easy when your enemy is an ally in disguise." Qrow said grinning

"Man, you spent how long like that, I don't think I could have handled another day like that." Tatsumi said admiring Qrows ability

"Please kid now that we're out of there, I let you know a little secret... I had absolutely no control over that whatsoever, that could have gone sideways really fast." Qrow said finally speaking words of honesty

"Wait really?" Tatsumi asked surprised

"Fuck yeah, I had no idea what was going on half the time." Qrow replied both just happy that they got out of there.

After running for about twenty minutes they ran into Akame and Lubbock

"Qrow, Tatsumi, welcome back." Akame said smiling at them "Are you both alright?"

"Oh we're fine, but I think the kid here needs some sleep." Qrow said winking at Lubbock

"OH THA-" Lubbock started before Qrow covered his mouth

"Shut the hell up, we can laugh at you later." Qrow snarked "Lets move, kiddos."

(o)

"Here this is everything I got while I was there." Qrow said pulling multiple notebooks out of his pockets and coat and tossing them onto the meeting room table "That's everything I could get on the empire, the Jaegers, and the Teigu that they have. Without arousing suspicion, of course." Qrow finished

"The fact that you got anything at all is surprising the empire hides just about everything under a thick layer of black ink." Lubbock complimented flipping through one of the notebooks

"I've spent most of my career nearly dying and getting almost no information this was a cakewalk." Qrow said crossing his arms

"Well I'm glad your both back safe." Akame said putting her hands in her coat pockets

"Hey, Akame I wanted to ask when you fled the empire why didn't you bring Kurome." Tatsumi asked Qrow rolled his eyes

"I'm sure she tried, but you cant save someone who doesn't want to be saved." Qrow said smacking Tatsumi upside the head

"Qrows right, If you were to ask her she'd probably consider me a traitor." Akame said smiling sadly

"Well then when you were fighting Zank why did you hesitate?" Tatsumi asked

"Well I... kind of took what Qrow said about his sister to heart and it felt so real that I... I just couldn't force myself to strike fast enough." Akame replied looking sad and putting her hand over her scar

"Well don't worry 'bout it kid, next time you can try on the real deal, and if that don't work out, you got Aura this time, so a fatal hit will probably only hurt a lot." Qrow snarked putting his hand on her shoulder

"Thank you Qrow." Akame replied smiling up at him then her smile vanished and she asked "While you were there did either of you guys notice that she was constantly eating something?"

"Yeah she was also very protective of them, but I did snag one." Qrow said pulling one of Kuromes snacks from his coat, after seeing the candy Akames face dropped

"How did you manage that." Tatsumi asked looking surprised by that

"Everybody drops their guard at some point, even Esdeath." Qrow said flipping the candy like a coin

"Really when does she drop her guard?" Lubbock asked reading over the information on the Jaegers

"When shes with that moron." Qrow answered casually pointing at Tatsumi

"Oh, speaking of, what type of Teigu does Kurome use?" Tatsumi asked looking over to Qrow

"You know kid, I was trying to change the subject from family for Akames sake but I guess that's fine too." Qrow said facepalming

"Oh umm sorry." Tatsumi mumbled awkwardly

"To late, damage is already done. But to answer your question, its Yatsufusa, its basically the worst thing to ever exist... Ever." Qrow explained crossing his arms

"Anyone cut down by Yatsufusa becomes a living corpse commanded by the user or in this case Kurome." Akame explained better than Qrow

"Yeah that." Qrow said sarcastically "Or you can use what I said, which I think is a better use of words... far more elegant... If you ask me."

"Yeah I gotta agree with Qrow, I'd hate to go that way." Lubbock said leaning back

"Hey we can worry about this later, we are all together again so we should celebrate this occasion! We finally got Tatsumi and Qrow back!" Leone said pulling Tatsumis head between her breasts

"I'm just be happy to be home." comes Tatsumis muffled voice from between Leones breasts trying to get her off of him

"Look kid, you're either a white knight or you're gay there's no in between with you current predicament." Qrow said watching Tatsumi

"What did you learn about Esdeath Qrow?" Mine asked ignoring Leone and Tatsumi

"A lot, what do you want specifically?" Qrow asked looking over to her

"Well you did mention that she drops her guard when shes with Tatsumi, anything else?" Mine elaborated

"Well if your looking for when else she drops her guard, nowhere else. even when shes with Tatsumi its still hard to sneak up on her." Qrow explained

"Wait then how did you sneak up on her when we were on the cliff side near the bandit fortress?" Tatsumi asked

"Cause I don't turn into a bird and retain everything, I do in fact, become a bird with all the advantages and disadvantages." Qrow replies

"What disadvantages are there?" Tatsumi asked

"Well every sense Leone figured it out shes been shooting glances at me... That and I smell like a bird... So she may want to eat me." Qrow replied pointing at Leone

"Hey! Just cause you smell delicious doesn't mean I want to eat you!" Leone shouted waving her arms in the air staring him down with predatory eyes

"Then stop looking at me like that!" Qrow said gesturing at her

"What do you mean?" Leone said innocently still staring him down

"Stop it." Qrow said stepping forward

"No." Leone replied inches from each other seconds passed as they stood like that Qrow glaring down at Leone, Leone staring at Qrow.

"GET! A! ROOM!" Lubbock shouted both quickly looked to him

They did. They both went into the kitchen grabbing as much alcohol as they could and trying to drink the other under the table.

(o)

Akame and Tatsumi walked in to cook finding Qrow lying on top of the table groaning, and Leone was passed out halfway on the ground and legs resting on a chair.

"Why do they do this when their around each other?" Akame asked Tatsumi

"aaaha Tatkame? Wats yor name agan" Qrow somthinged? Struggling and failing to rise from the table

"What?" Akame asked clearly not understanding

"I dont knon wah ta sleep" Qrow stuttered and rolled off the table slamming into the ground "ooooooooowwwwwww..."

Akame sighed and walked over to Qrow picked him up off the ground and carried him to his room and put him on his bed

"I'm sorry." Qrow mumbled "I'm so, so, sorry" Qrow mumbled Akame stood there surprised that Qrow was apologizing for something

"Why are you apologizing, Qrow?" Akame asked quietly

"I'm sorry I'm here, things have gone ta hllll" Qrow mumbled rolling over preventing himself from speaking Akame put her hand on his back for a few seconds before walking down stairs to carry Leone to her room and help Tatsumi cook a feast for everyone, who weren't going to drink them out of house and home. But she finally understood that Qrow blames himself for the casualties they have suffered thus far, and that made her hurt because she had Tatsumi to promise her that shell never have to bury another friend, but Qrow had no such promise and she couldn't bring herself to lie to him.

A/N- So Qrow is back with Night Raid and so is Tatsumi with all the perks that come with it... what ever those are, events should progress at normal mostly from here with some minor changes... and some major ones too but that's less important... probably. And a completely redundant statement. (5/6)