Chapter 11

''Sorry about my mother, I didn't expect her to start to act in that way at all'' Blake said to Tore as the walked along the bustling streets of vale after leaving the bookstore. Tore looked at her and just smiled, personally he found what her mother had done to be rather funny. It had really the only time that Blake seemed to show that much emotion. Not to say that the faunus didn't show emotion, it was more that she did not really let other see her doing so.

''It's alright Blake, personally it was rather interesting to see how your mother reacted to learning that I was apart of your team, Although what did she mean by approving of me?'' he asked already know the answer to what he had asked, after all it wasn't every day that he got something like this to tease Blake with.

Blake stopped and looked at him while she went steadily red in the face, ''You ass, you already know what she meant'' she stated with an angry look on her face but no heat in her words. Tore grinned at her as he looked at her, stepping up to her he looked down into the faunus' eyes from where he towered over her.

''Yep'' he said before kissing the top of her head which made Blake shut down for a second as she had not been expecting him to do that. After a minute she regained her full mental faculties and looked at him as he stood there. ''You just kissed my forehead'' she said to him trying to figure out why he had done that.

Tore just nodded at what she said before grinning, ''Did you want me to kiss somewhere lower?'' he asked which caused her to blush heavily at what he said. ''Not that low Blake'' he then deadpanned which resulted in his arm getting a good few slaps as he chuckled.

''You are a prat, but still you're right I would rather have it be lower'' She hen said with a sigh as he grabbed him by the edge of his shirt and dragged him down before kissing him deeply. Tore reciprocated the kiss as they stood there on the streets of vale.

After a minute or two they drew out of the kiss and grinned at each other, ''Does this mean we are dating?'' he asked the faunus who smiled softly at him and nodded very slightly. ''Yea I may not have known you long but hey we are teenagers, might aswell try something and see what happens'' she said as for once she wanted to act her age instead of the overly mature woman she tried to be.

''That is true, might aswell live life to its fullest, and who know's maybe I can help you carry out some of the actions in your book'' he then said with a wiggle of his eyebrows as he looked at her. Blake went red in the face at what he said but then started to smile as she knew that he had read her books a few times when he had gotten bored, ''Keep up what you are doing and just maybe we will'' she then purred at him before running her hand along his jawline before walking past him, she wanted to have him react the way he had been able to have her she would succeed

Tore just grinned at her actions, while she was indeed a rather beautiful woman and she did have that seductive air about her when acting like that he was used to Yang who went further than that. ''Nice try Blakey but something that tame ain't going to work.'' he said before walking after her and putting his arm around her waist as they walked back towards beacon.

When they got back to the dorm room they walked in to see the other three members of their team playing a board game, he wasn't sure what one it was that they were playing but if he wasn't wrong it was trivial pursuit. Needless to say that Weiss was winning.

Three heads turned towards them, two of which gained sly looks at the sight of Tore's arm while the other just smiled happily at the outcome. ''So Blake, Tore you got something to tell us?'' Yang asked with a shit eating grin on her face.

''Yes in fact, you got a twig in your hair'' Tore quickly said drawing the attention to Yang for a second as she checked her hair. ''Very funny Music man'' Yang then said as she looked at him with annoyance clear on her face, she took pride in her hair and needless to say she didn't like jokes about it.

Tore just grinned at his sister before letting go of Blake and walking over to his bed before sitting down on it. ''So anything interesting happen while we were out?'' he asked the rest of his team as he looked over at them.

''Tell us about what you two did and then we will tell you'' Weiss said in a confident voice as she looked between the two partners that sat on their respective beds.

Blake looked up at the white clad girl and gave her a blank look, ''We kissed that's it, or rather that's all im going to say'' she said before going back to her book. Yang just grinned at she sat down beside Blake, ''See I knew that you two were going have some fun, so how is he'' she said prodding her with her elbow as the rest looked on.

''Yang for once can you just stop'' Tore said with a sigh as he grabbed his bed clothes and started to head into the bathroom. It had been a long day for them and right now he just wanted to lay in bed and maybe read something, was that too much to ask.

''Aw come on bro, you know Yang likes to tease us, even if we do at times find it hard to get back at her'' Ruby said rather innocently to him which caused him to sigh.

''And this is why I never win an argument with women'' he muttered underneath his breath as he closed the door. Blake was the only one to hear what he had said but she did not let her face change even if she was slightly annoyed by what he said, after all it was sorta true that women tended to group together when it came to arguments with guys.

''So Blake are you going out with him'' Ruby then asked the black haired girl who sighed. ''Yes we decided to try dating for a while, after all we are teenagers might aswell have some fun'' she said to try and get them off her back as she had no want to be constantly peppered with questions about how it was going between her and Tore now that they decided to try being together.

She was not an idiot as she knew that she might be with Tore for a few years of just a few months it all depended on how things went, there was always the chance that they would just not get along in a romantic fashion.

Yang looked at her and nodded, while she had set her brother up on a few dates she knew they went alright but nothing to write home about, and there was also the fact that summer was rather protective of him as she saw him as the son that she never had. That had led to some funny situations on some of the dates such as her following them to make sure nothing inappropriate happened, to summer that meant even light pecks on the cheek. Afterall her little boy was not allowed to her corrupted.

''Just be careful Blake, Tore is my brother and I would hate to find out you hurt him'' Yang said in a calm tone of voice, while she was giving Blake a warning she knew that Tore could handle himself in situations like this, after all he was older than her. And raised by her birth mother for a few years.

She had always wondered why Raven had decided to raise him over the years that Tore had been in her life but right now she was focused on the here and now. If she ran into her mother then she would ask, if she didn't then at some point she would find her and beat the answer out of her.

Tore came back into the room wearing his bedclothes which consisted off a soft pair of trousers and a black T-shirt, ''So wanna tell me what happened while we were out?'' he said to them as he sat down on his bed and looked at the rest of his team.

Weiss nodded at him it would interesting to hear what they thought of what they found out. ''We found out that Jaune faked his way into beacon, and that Cardin now has him under his thumb, personally I think he should be thrown out, having such a person as a huntsmen would only lessen the amount that his team can do'' she said without taking a breath which Tore found rather impressive.

''Well id say just let everything play out, no need to get involved in something that doesn't involve us without being asked too'' he said to them while he glanced over at Blake who had a confused look on her face, it was as if she was trying to figure why he might say something like this to them all.

''What exactly do you mean bro'' Yang asked as the rest started to listen to what he had to say. ''Well have any of you been asked for help or did you just hear about what happened?'' Tore asked them as they looked at him. Slowly they each shook their heads, ''We just heard from Pyrrha about Jaune telling her and then we saw Cardin talking to Jaune'' Ruby said to him which he nodded at as he got a picture of what happened.

''Well unless Jaune comes to you or you get asked to help them don't do anything, this may be one of those times where they need to get through this themselves'' he said to them as if they helped Jaune they may end up with him resenting them for trying to help.

''Alright'' they all said at the same time knowing what Tore was getting at with how Jaune may need to get through this situation by himself.

The next two weeks passed by rather quietly, even if team JNPR did hate the fact that their leader was currently hanging out with Cardin and his team. Each one of them had different reactions from the sight of him always being around the four other males, Nora wanted to break some leg, Ren stayed quiet and observed and Pyrrha took her anger out on the hapless training dummies and team RWBBY. Although the wounds that the team got were rather tame compared to the dummies that were literally torn apart by her.

To say the flying limbs were rather scary was a understatement as Tore made a mental note to never piss off Pyrrha. He did not want to end up like any of those dummies.

''Yang I think Pyrrha is worse than you when she gets angry'' Tore said to his sister as they lent against the wall of the arena that they were in as they watched the redhead attack the dummies.

Yang looked over to him and chuckled at what he said, ''You're only saying that cause you can't fight back against her really, while me you can actually bring me to a standstill at times when we spar'' she said showing that she knew exactly why he thought that Pyrrha was more intense when angered.

''Yea you're right'' he then said to her as he slowly got to his feet, his bones cracked slightly as he moved which caused him to groan in discomfort. He really hated when that happened. ''So tell me you and Blake had any dates yet?'' Yang asked him as he looked over at her when she started to speak.

''I plan on having one with her during the weekend after we come back from the forever fall '' he said to her as they did have a trip planned for school in a few hours. Apparently one of the professors wanted the sap from the tree's there and this was a chance to see how each team worked together in a simple gather style mission.

Nodding yang stood up aswell before putting her arm around Tore's shoulder after forcing him to bend down to her height. ''Well treat her right and I won't tell mom about the fact you already have a girlfriend here'' Tore looked at her in horror for a second before going white. ''You would not dare'' he stated hoping that her and Ruby had not sent a letter or the like back home about him and Blake. ''Trust me bro, as long as you treat her right I won't, but Ruby is a different story'' she said with an evil grin as at this moment Ruby was posting a letter back home.

Tore sighed before pushing Yang's arm off of his shoulder's. ''Guess I better go find Ruby then'' he said which caused Yang to laugh as she knew exactly how Summer was going to react to Tore having a girlfriend , more than likely she was going to rush over to Beacon and try and break them up and seeing as how she was also one of the most elite hunters to walk remnant trying to force her to stop was nigh impossible.

Tore then walked away from yang as he began his search for his other sister, hopefully he would be able to catch her before she sent word back to mom and dad about what was going on, if not then he better pray that summer doesn't try to hard. As he walked along he saw Blake come out of the library, smile he walked up behind her and put one arm around her waist before pulling her close to him. Blake glanced up at him and smiled softly at him, ''Hey Tore, I could tell you were around'' she said in a low voice as she didn't want anyone else to hear her.

While Tore knew that she was a faunus he didn't push her to tell the rest of the team, it was her choice to tell them or not and he could tell that there was still something that she kept from him. While he did wonder what they were blake was entitled to her own secrets just like the rest of them were, in fact Tore had yet to even figure out what his semblance was which was something he had gotten some flak over while back in Signal.

''Hey Blake, So after the forever fall trip wanna head to to vale for a date?'' he asked her as they walked along, Tore could feel Blake pressing into his side with the books that she held under her arms. Blake nodded at what he said about going on a date, they had started this whole dating thing two weeks ago but had been unable to actually go out on a date or anything just yet. Between the classes they had to attend and the fact the rest of the team wanted to hang out quite a bit it was rather hard to make some time for just the two of them. ''That sounds nice, but what are we going to do?'' she asked him as she hated loud places and quite a few stores in vale didn't serve faunus which annoyed her quite a bit as even if she was hiding her features she refused to enter such a store.

''Well i've heard that there is a small festival in one of the more rural parts of vale as a pre celebration of the vytal festival, best part is that is in one of the faunus heavy area's of the city. So that mean's you can be who you are and not hide'' he said to her as he did like her cat ears whichs she had shown him quite a few times over the past few weeks. Personally he always called them cute which made her Blush, but still she did not let him touch them something about only the person who they wanted to spend the rest of their life with was allowed to according to what her mother told her. While Tore could see them being together for quite a while he still knew that it was going to be ages from now to that point if they even reached it.

''That sounds nice, it will be nice to see some of my own people without having to what about you? Some of the faunus might not take kindly to a human being there'' she asked him as she did know that some faunus such as Adam hated each and every human to live.

''I don't really care if they hate me or not, im going to be with my girlfriend and that is all that matters'' he said to her as they reached the dorm room. Opening the door they saw that no one was hear but Ruby's bed was ruffled from something sitting on it which made Tore sigh. ''Well Ruby has more than likely sent a letter to mum about us being together, be prepared for her to try something alright?'' he then said to Blake who just looked at him before nodding, she had met their mother on the day when the team had been formed and Summer did seem like the type to be protective of her children.

''Well im not just going to stop trying to see if this can work between us just because your mom starts to pester us'' she said to him as she set the books that she had gotten on her bed, Blake then walked over to him before standing on her tiptoes and kissing him softly on the lips.

Tore kissed her back as his hands found her waist and held her close to him, he was starting to get into it and was about to deepen the kiss when the door to the room opened and Weiss walked in. She stopped when she saw Tore and Blake looking at her still connected by their lips.

Her face went red when she realised she walked in on an intimate moment between the two and started to to stammer out an apology. Slowly they both let go of each other and grinned at Weiss, personally Blake was embarrassed slightly as it was the first time anyone had caught the two of them kissing, while Tore was laughing lowly at the sight of Weiss being rather red in the face in a way that for once was no because of her getting annoyed with someone.

''Calm down Weiss, no harm no foul'' Tore said as he pat her shoulder before closing the door which she had left open. Weiss slowly calmed down as she then covered her face out of embarrassment before going over to her bed and sitting down on it. ''Sorry guys, I didn't expect to walk in on that'' she then said as she reached over and picked up her bolero jacket from where she had it sitting folded on her chest of drawers.

Blake just looked over at the white haired girl and nodded, ''To be fair we probably should have done that somewhere a bit more private'' she said knowing that some people were not really comfortable with displays of affection being public.

''Anyway are you two ready for the trip?'' Weiss then asked to to which she received two nods. ''Yea just need to grab my axe before we head out'' Tore said as they were going to somewhere that Grimm could be laying in wait so a weapon was something that seemed smart.

''Well once Ruby get's back we can head to the meeting point'' Weiss asid in an authoritative tone, while Ruby was the leader of the team the rest of them agreed that when Ruby could not lead that Weiss would call the shots. Yang was to hardheaded to lead properly, Blake was too introverted to lead and Tore, well he didn't really like to lead others.

A few hours later the entire year was in a few bullheads heading towards the Forever Fall, Professor Goodwitch was the teacher that had come with them to supervise the trip. This made sense as professor peach was sick and having a fully trained huntress would make the trip a walk in the park.

As they landed the slowly got out of the bullhead, all the teams started to go their separate ways a bit before goodwitch spoke up.

''Each of you is to gather one jar's worth of red sap. However, this forest is full of the creatures of Grimm, so be sure to stay by your teammates. We will rendezvous back here by 4 o'clock. Have fun!" she said as she looked from each team to the next.

From where his team was standing Tore could see that jaune had decided to follow Cardin yet again, shaking his head he knew that this was getting out of hand and something needed to be done, but at the same time it was something Jaune needed to get out of himself.

''Come on lover boy'' Yang said before dragging Tore towards the rest of the team. They made their way into the forest with weapons drawn, this place was filled with Grimm so it made sense to him that they were on alert. There was also the fact that the sap was said to attract Grimm towards them with its sweet scent.

''So how are we doing this Ruby'' He then asked as he held his axe in rifle form, slowly he scanned the tree line watching for any movement that would give of the presence of Grimm. The reaper etter looked towards him and frowned, ''Well we need five jars of the stuff, so how about two gather and three guard, that was we are safe from the grimm but our objective is also fulfilled'' she suggested.

Hearing this Weiss nodded before grabbing a few jar and heading to one of the tree's, she knew that she might not be the best for defensive measure so it was better for her to gather rather than defend. With one quick slash of her rapier the bark of the tree split open and a sweet smell filled the air as sap started to leak down the bark of the tree. Weiss then picked up the tree tap that they had brought along and shoved it into the slash mark that they had made and put a jar beneath the tree, it would take a few minutes to fill the jar.

''You doing alright Blake?'' Tore asked lowly as he stood on guard duty looking around as the faunus glanced around frantically. If he had to guess the scent of the sap was overpowering everything else and that was having an affect on what Blake was doing. Looking at her Boyfriend Blake nodded, ''Im fine just the scent is strong'' Tore nodded before walking a few steps away.

As he stood a good bit away from where the rest of them are he saw something flying towards him, he wasn't able to tell what it was at first glance but when it struck him on the chest he was able to tell rather quickly as there were shards of glass around him and sticking to him as the sap from the tree's seeped into his clothes.

The rest of his team looked up at the sound of shattering glass and went wide eyed, someone had clearly attacked them and covered him with tree sap. This was rather bad as Grimm were attracted to the stuff and now there was a high concentration of the stuff all around them. ''Shit any of you got any water Dust?'' he asked the group as he turned his weapon to it's guitar form.

Weiss nodded before taking a vial of blue Dust out of her pocket and throwing it over to Tore, quickly he uncapped the vial and poured the Dust out as his guitar strings started to turn a deep ocean blue. With a few quick strumms in what sounded like a calming melody water started to appear around him, it washed over his form as the sap slowly was taken off his clothes and the glass was brought away from him.

It was at this point that three members of Team CRDL bust through the underbrush running as if they were scared of something. ''Ursa, Ursa'' one of them shouted aloud looking scared as he ran into Yang. this made him fall to the ground where he struggled to get to his feet.

''Where is it'' Yang quickly asked as she activated ember celica and looked down at the guy.

''It's back there, it's got Cardin'' he stammered out before running past them and towards where the bullhead was. It was at this point that the NPR of JNPR appeared. ''Wiat that where jaune is'' Pyrrha said before rushing towards where the three men had come from.

''Yang, Blake get Goodwitch, Tore and Weiss you are with me'' Ruby ordered before running towards where Pyrrha had disappeared to. The team split up and followed the orders of their leader with the rest of JNPR trailing behind them.

When they came to where Jaune and Cardin where at the arrived just in time to see the blonde knight block a blow meant for Cardin. To say that ti was surprising was an understatement as they knew that Cardin would not have done the same for Jaune.

The watched as Jaune did his best against the Ursa but it was clear he was low on Aura. He did manage to get up every single time that it hit him though which made Tore think of a proverb he had heard. 'Seven times down, eight times up'. Slowly he raised his rifle to take a shot at the bearlike Grimm but was halted by Pyrrha. ''This is his fight, let him finish it'' she said to him which had Tore confused, while he did want Jaune to man upa nd start being a proper member of his team he knew that he needed help to beat the Ursa.

He was about to say something when he noticed that Pyrrha had a slightly blackish red glow around her hand, the glow appeared around Jaune shield and allowed him to deflect and attack from the Ursa and retaliate. His shield pushed against the Ursa forcing it off balance as he brought his blade up towards it neck. With a sickening sound the blade ripped through the neck of the Grimm decapitating it. Ruby and Weiss had a look of surprise on their faces when they saw this as they had expected jaune to need to get some help with what was going on.

''How did that happen'' Both Ruby and Weiss asked Pyrrha who just turned and started to walk away. ''Wait shouldn't we tell them what happened?'' Weiss then asked which caused to tore to scoff.

''That would defeat the purpose of what happened here Weiss'' he said as he started to follow after Pyrrha.

Ruby meanwhile was still trying to figure out how Pyrrha had helped Jaune, her eyes went wide when she figured it out. ''That was your semblance wasn't it'' she stated which Pyrrha nodded at.

''You have your speed, Weiss has glyphs mine is polarity'' she said informing the three of them of her semblance's nature right as the rest of her team caught up.

''Oh you can control poles'' Ruby said as if she understood what Pyrrha said, Weiss facepalmed at this and looked over at Tor who stood there smiling.

''She has control over magnetism you dunce'' Weiss ground out as she then started to walk back towards where the rest of the team would be.

The rest started to follow after her but Tore stopped to look behind him, he could see that Jaune was threatening Cardin with something as he held his sword out at the boy. A small smile grew on his face as finally Jaune was starting to grow into his own, maybe he would start to accept the help of those around him.

A/N. Another chapter for you all. the Poll is up until morning for me which is tomorrow. Reviews and such are welcome.