So yeah! Something I forgot to mention in my last chapter is that the reason why I hadn't been so consistent with updating is due to the fact I was on HOLIDAYS! In Japan! So I got my yearly dosage of Anime merchandise. I now have two posters hanging in my room (of Shiki and Lindo from DWD) and an Ayato plushie! I was fangirling so hard when I got the Shiki poster. So back to the story! Hmm...i wonder how Ruby's going with her life at the mukamis...also I have something to confess..there is another series that is linked to this so this is a FOUR-way crossover...but it only has like a minor impact. But...let's just say Azusa's experience was simply...one HELL of an adventure...
Ruby groaned at felt someone tug her arm, she looked to the side of her to find Azusa wrapped up in her blankets next to her.
"Per...se...phone." He smiled. Ruby's eyes seemed to scream.
"WHY ARE YOU IN MY BED?!" She demanded, with that she rolled out of her bed. She landed on the ground with a thump, three boys entered her room. Ruki, Kou and Yuma.
"Oh, you're awake." Ruki commented, Rose picked herself up and dusted herself. She was in a quaint little room with Crescent Rose on the top of the desk. Her beloved weapon was in box form and her huntress uniform laid on the chair, all perfectly folded up. Ruby looked at Ruki with fear before stepping towards Crescent Rose. She rubbed the little gears on the weapons, each little crevice, to make sure none of it was tampered.
"You care for your weapon more than your well-being?" Ruki asked, raising an eyebrow. Ruby nodded.
"These weapons make up what my people are. Warriors, hunters, heroes." She smiled, Ruki scoffed. He most likely was just jesting at humanity's stupidity. He looked at his brothers, all of them nodded before leaving...well minus Kou.
"You better be careful, megami-chan. Ruki-kun can get VERY angry when you don't listen to him." He cooed, Ruby looked fearfully at Ruki and back at the currently empty door. Maybe Kou had left...and so has Crescent Rose because it wasn't in her hand anymore. Ruby began sputtering with anger, this happens to me ALL the time, she thought spitefully. She turned back to find the blue haired vampire way closer than he was. Ruby threw a punch to defend herself but Ruki caught the fist.
"Livestock shouldn't fight back. Crops should bend to the wind." He contemplated he grabbed Ruby's arm and began bending it behind her back.
"ENOUGH WITH THE WEIRD ANALOGIES?! STOP! YOU'RE GONNA SNAP MY ARM OFF!" She shrilled, struggling furiously.
"Wheat should bend under the force of the wind. So be my persephone and bend at my will." He growled, Ruby threw her head backwards and kicked his crotch. Ruki crouched and Ruby kept taking breaths of relief and oxygen. It was too close. She never remembered suffering like this back at the sakamakis...scratch that, this was as bad as them. Reiji wouldn't hesitate to whip her whenever they had their little 'sessions'. Shuu was ok with the idea of her tripping over and over his body again. Kanato didn't mind hitting her head with his creepy teddy. Subaru wouldn't scaring the hell out of her by smashing a wall. Ayato and Laito were for the idea of raiding her panty drawer. God it ticked her off. Ruby sighed with annoyance and massaged her arm a bit, with Ruki's constant bending, it really bruised her arm pretty bad. Hopefully it wouldn't effect whenever she was using Crescent Rose. The huntress turned around but felt someone clutch her hand hard, turning around it was Ruki again.
"W-what do you want?" She demanded, he then pinched her arm hard. With that Ruby squeaked in pain but it provided him the perfect opportunity to tackle her into the bed.
"I heard you submitted to Karl-heinz," the eldest Mukami snarled, Ruby gulped knowing that he was interpreting it into THAT kind of way. "But you refused to be with him. You refused to be that pervert as well-"
"Which one? All of them are perverts." Ruby admitted, with that he snaked his hand underneath her dress and close between her legs.
"If you haven't chosen a Hades, then allow me to demonstrate how I could benefit you." He smirked, he moved in to her neck and went in to feast. Ruby groaned and tried to kick the older male off her, with his damn hard chest, it was like a flower tackling into an elephant. Pointless.
Ruki smiled as he tasted the familiarity of blood on his tongue.
"Hmm? So sweet. So addictive. That's what I love about a woman." He commented, moving in to feast in deeper in her neck. Ruby arched her head back and struggled against Ruki. For looking four years older than her, it was no surprise that he proved to be HEAVIER than her. As Ruby began to tire, the eldest mukami took this opportunity to straddle her and bring his head closer to the 15 year old's left ear.
"I am your god, devote yourself to me until the very end. And you will gain your reward." He whispered, Rose shuddered with his low voice echoing inside her ear. It really was annoying and ticklish with his breath. Before she could flip him off her body, he took a quick prick at her ear. She whimpered as he went there to lick off the dribbling scarlet liquid from the area. Wait...why she letting him do this?
I'm a warrior, I should do better than this! She thought confidently. With that Ruby used all her body wait to roll her and Ruki off the bed. The eldest mukami let out a cry of surprise as they fell from the height. Ruby rolled backwards and got into a fighting stance. The dizziness must've been acting up, her eyesight kept shifting, it kept flickering and she couldn't focus.
"Damnit..." She mumbled, noticing that Ruki was charging towards her, the ebony haired huntress made it her objective to put up a fight. The girl ducked as Ruki swung his foot up, he made a crack against the wall. Ruby punched upwards to collide with his legs, Ruki slipped to the ground clutching his shin with pain. The girl weaved again to avoid a punch and grasped his arm to flip him into the wall. As Ruby turned to run, she began staggering. She needed to get out. She needed to go back to the sakamaki mansion ASAP. The huntress hobbled all the way down the hallway and reached the stairs, deciding for an awesome getaway style, she pulled the serving tray. She remembered back at the sakamakis how she could pull off the cool 'skate-boarding' (as Ayato would say) trick. She jumped on the railing with the metallic sheet scraping against the oak railings. Noticing Yuma walking around with a basket of apples, both teens began screaming.
"DUCK!" She hollered, covering her eyes. Yuma had a different approach to this event.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" He screamed, he dropped the basket and held both hands up to catch the tray. Ruby pushed against the tray to launch herself away from Yuma, she stumbled a little but still kept her position. Ruki was walking down the stairs.
"Hmph, so free. Shame to break to a spirit like that." He commented, his heels were clacking against the marble floor. The girl swished her head to see herself surrounded by the 1st and 3rd eldest Mukami boys. She needed to keep her bravery up. She needed to...
Ruby dropped to the ground, luckily Ruki caught her before she brained her head pretty bad against the hard floor.
"Persephone...really is interesting." He commented, laying the unconscious huntress on the floor. Yuma couldn't care less, he took more notice into picking up his apples. He rolled his eyes. Ruki was annoyed that none of his brothers were so obsessed about this 'Hades+ Persephone and Eve + Adam business'. Since Ruby was currently staying at their house, it was no doubt that this would be an interesting experience. That's when a chuckle came from the top of the banister. There was Kou leaning downwards.
"You should REALLY be careful of her. She picked a fight with some 3rd years once. It was fun to watch really." He reminisced, Ruki scoffed and laid Ruby in the chair.
Ruby opened her eyes, the bright light was blinding. The girl covered her eyes a bit with the blanket.
"Wait! Since when was I in a bed?" She grumbled, the huntress found herself into a white shirt, it was larger than she was and formed a little makeshift dress. She wondered where her normal clothes were but decided not to investigate. Ruby looked around the room, it didn't look familiar. It DEFINITELY wasn't her own room in the mukami house. She noticed that she wasn't in her nightdress and the buttons weren't done, why can't they let her change by herself? Ruby pulled the shirt forwards and began doing buttons.
I wonder who owns this shirt, Ruby thought. That was when the door opened, she screamed at the top of her lungs when Kou barged into the room, he was shirtless, which answered her question.
"Have NONE of you guys heard of knocking?" She grumbled, Kou gave her a rose, the huntress stepped back, it was weird enough that he was acting freakishly nice to her. There must've been a catch, Ruby carefully plucked it from his hand and smelt, it. She smiled with gratitude.
"Thanks man." She stated, that's when Kou also cracked an innocently-similar smile.
"That's ok, megami-chan. Now, if you would...give me something in return." He growled, the gears in Ruby's brain clicked furiously. She heard from Yui how the last time that happened, she ended up in a very sticky situation herself. Ruby peered on his desk and found a piece of paper. It was..lyrics?
"Why do you have lyrics on your table?" She inquired, tilting her head, hopefully it would change the topic quickly, she hated whenever someone was about to turn her into a blood smoothie.
"Eh?~~ I thought I told you, I'm an idol...and no I'm not a giant eyeball that runs around the neighbourhood like a deranged psycho."
"That's a good inspiration for a song though."
Kou gave her a shut up glare, Ruby gulped and skimmed the lyrics. This was a very bloody song...like really.
"Inside the crimson velvet sheets
Do you want to taste some of my forbidden, syrup on this night?"
Those were the first lyrics...like what? She thought angrily. The idea that caught Ruby's eye was the word Crimson, looking at it...she thought of the rose.
"Stay still," She smiled, Kou obeyed, the huntress knelt so she could fashion it in his hair like a little accessory. "Cool no?"
Kou darkened a bit, hinting that it's not going to make up for her reading his lyrics.
Man he's such a penny pincher. Ruby thought bitterly. The huntress could take this two ways...run or stay. That's when Kou looked at the shirt she was wearing. She looked at the shirt and back at him. Ruby shook her head before Kou pulled something from behind. It was a nightdress. Plain and simple. She quickly stepped in his closet and changed into the attire that Kou graciously supplied her with. After a few quick minutes, she stepped out and handed the white buttoned shirt to Kou. The idol slipped it on effortless but then sat on his bed expectantly.
"What?" Ruby asked, tilting her head. He growled with annoyance and began tugging on the buttons.
"Help me, megami-chan~" He whined, rolling around a bit on the bed. Ruby rolled her eyes, even SHE wasn't as childish as he was.
"Alright, I'll walk you through this. Watch closely."
" 'course I will Megami-chan." He chirruped.
"Sure..." She smiled, with that she held the button with her right hand and the fabric in the other, after slipping in the button through the fabric, she placed her hands with Kou to guide him through solving this situation he faced everyday. The boy giggled as Ruby effortlessly helped him with his first world problem.
"Your fingers are pretty shaky, I think you need more practise." She explained.
"Heh, I'm more used to grabbing everything I want~~" With that he snaked his hand underneath her skirt and almost reached for her... Ruby quickly zipped backwards.
Ugh, why do I always get myself in these situations. She groaned internally, Kou pouted.
"C'mon Megami-chan! I'm still struggling." He whined, he pulled open the shirt which triggered two of the buttons to fly off. Ruby rolled her eyes and helped him with the others.
"Ok, uh...help me find the buttons?" She whimpered, Kou shrugged and sauntered to his wardrobe. He found a t-shirt and slipped it on, he tossed the broken button shirt toward's Ruby's direction and it covered her face.
"The buttons on the table, See ya, Megami-chan!" He cooed. With that he closed the door. Ruby growled and threw the shirt on the ground.
"I have better things to do instead of being a personal slave to Mr Hot-shot!" She grumbled, when Ruby turned around she felt something smash against her head. With that she collapsed to the ground.
Ruby grumbled as she opened her eyes groggily. Ugh…why do these guys keep knocking me out? Uh…where am I? She groaned mentally. She opened her eyes to find herself in the great outdoors. It was around sunset.
"Huh...what the..."
"Oh, you're awake." A voice grunted, Yuma was there with a basket full of...apples and tomatoes.
"PFFFT! Since when did you have an obsession with gardening?" She cracked, Yuma's face went red with anger.
"SHUT UP! I'm entitled to like gardening!" He returned, the boy continued plucking the tomatoes off the branches making Ruby tilting her head in confusion.
"Whatcha doin?" she asked in her childish voice, Yuma rolled his eyes with annoyance.
"I'm picking my tomatoes, wanna help," he offered, handing the girl another basket
Her silver eyes widen with excitement and nodded her head vigorously.
"Just remember, be gentle." Ruby helped Yuma harvest his tomatoes, she couldn't help but pick up his warm smile. She completely forgot that this guy who sent her to the infirmary TWICE. She also couldn't help but pick up something between all the mukami brothers.
"You're brothers right? Are you like half-brothers or something? Like the sakamakis?" She inquired, Yuma stopped suddenly and Ruby stepped back in defense. She wasn't so keen on being Yui II, Yuma relaxed.
"Not really, we're not related. We never knew our family but we consider each other as brothers. Those sakamaki bastards have no idea what it's like to have siblings to depend. All they do is just try to kill and put down each other every day. Even that NEET would die down to their level." He grumbled, Ruby tilted her head in confusion.
"NEET?"
"Not Employed, Educated or Training. Y'know the guy who lies in the middle of the hallway for no reason."
"OH! You mean Shu, he's awesome! Seriously, his taste in music is the best." She expanded, Yuma scoffed in annoyance before commenting on how stupid she was. Ruby looked away in annoyance.
"Hmph, you don't HAVE to be so mean." She grumbled, for around 5 minutes both teens didn't talk to each other. After that period Yuma opened his mouth.
"Sow...Told me you weren't from here. Where're ya from," He admitted, Ruby stopped. Should she tell him the truth? Should she lie? "Don't lie, weeds get ripped out if they do."
Ruby squeaked in fear, knowing that this could've been the end of her.
"I come from remmant...It's a place where monsters or Grimm run around and kill humans. That's why I have my semblance and Crescent Rose. It's because we need to defend ourselves from them," She explained. That's when Yuma growled a bit, he was a bit pissed. "Yuma?"
That's when he punched her head in the face, Ruby groaned in pain and rubbed her current black eye.
"What? You just disrupt nature?" He snarled, Ruby shakily got up and readied a fighting stance.
"They attacked first!" She replied, she never truly remembered why Grimm attack humans. But if there was one thing. The grimm were probably the ones who killed her mother.
"Have you ever considered that humans disrupted their peace? Have you ever considered that Grimm were trying to protect their families? Have you ever considered that the Grimm are more peaceful than you?" He interrogated, it was already a bit dark.
"The grimms are monsters." She snarled, she threw a punch and Yuma caught it.
"Then what are humans," He returned, faltering a bit, Ruby pondered.
I want to be a hero! She remembered saying to her mother. She shook away the thoughts when Yuma clamped his left hand around her neck. "Heh, although you humans are nothing but livestock. Lambs for slaughter."
"Let me go Yuma!" She struggled and tried kicking his chest. That's when a new presence entered the garden.
"Can I...have Persephone?" Azusa mumbled, the boy already had another bandage around his left arm after conversing with one of his cuts. Yuma flung the huntress into his "brother's" direction. Ruby stumbled into the boy's arms.
"Have her, I'm done with this kid anyway." He growled, turning around with both baskets underneath his arms.
Azusa carried Ruby to his room and laid her in his bed, the girl opened her eyes to see the morbid boy grinning at her. His face was 5 centimetres away from hers.
"Hello...Persephone."
She screamed and knocked heads with him. Azusa stumbled back and fell on his butt, Ruby rubbed the little bruise on her head. Most likely after Yuma's assault on her.
"Don't DO that!" She mumbled, she noticed she wasn't in the garden anymore...I wonder what gave it away?
The knife cabinet or Azusa?
He sauntered towards the display area and took out one of the knives. It was silver and had a ruby encrusted in the hilt. The huntress looked at the dagger and back at Azusa.
"It's a pretty dagger, where did you get it from?" She asked in a soft tone. Azusa smiled.
"Funny...story...he was a...good friend."
Flashback and Azusa POV
I was running as bullets chased me and my friends. Each of them were covered in wound marks and bleeding heavily
"Damnit! Azusa! Stop slowing us down!" Justin snarled, he grabbed me by the neck and used me as a human shield as the butler threw a knife that impaled me leg. I screamed in pain but smiled.
"Thank...you Justin." I stated, I love pain. I love it more than anything. Melissa growled as we hid behind the corner.
"Damnit! This is your fault Azusa! Your fault for being there!" She snarled, she kicked my face. I collapsed to the ground in pain. Soon Justin and Christina joined the brawl, I laughed so much. I never knew the difference between pain and fun. If it means keeping my friends, I am willing to endure ALL the pain that they cause to me.
Three bullet shots rung into the air. Three body slumped to the ground. There were the corpse of my friends. Justin, Christina and Melissa.
"NO!" I screamed, I shook their lifeless bodies. Justin's once cyan eyes had melted to a disgusting navy tinge. Melissa's flawless blonde hair was now dyed with her own blood. Christina's skin got paler by the minute. I was alone. I looked up to see a girl with plum red hair and in a maid uniform.
"Young master, I've killed three out of the four culprits." She reported, from the end of the hallway was a boy around the age of fourteen, accompanied by a gardener, a blonde soldier, a mysterious snake charmer and finally a butler in black clothes. The boy walked down the hallway, as he got closer I realised he had an eyepatch over his right eye. He looked down at me as if I were a pathetic worm. He looked back at my bleeding leg. Then back at me, he frisked something in his pocket. It was a dagger with a ruby encrusted in the hilt.
"Do something useful." He muttered, with that he turned around and left me, mourning over the bodies of the three children I call friends.
Normal POV
"Hello? Earth to Azusa?" Ruby asked, she poked the boy's cheek in attempts to snap him out of his trance. With that Azusa turned his head slowly to the huntress' side and gave her a creepy grin.
"Does...Persephone want to meet Justin?" He smiled, with that he undid his bandage and slowly reopened the wound. The girl's eyes widen with fear and she snatched the dagger away from the boy.
"What are you doing?" She demanded, she hated people who liked self-harm. She really did. With that he pulled the knife so it was underneath her chin and close to her neck.
"You smell like me...like loneliness." He commented, with that he pressed the cold metallic blade against her neck. Her breath stopped as he pressed harder. With that Ruby kneed Azusa's face and zipped to the other side of the room, the side closest to the door.
"Don't...do that. It's creepy." She muttered, she slide her hand on the doorknob so she could make a quick getaway. That's when the door gave way, Ruby fell on her back. Ruki was glaring at her, looking down at her.
"S'up?" She smiled. Ruki gritted his teeth with annoyance.
"Dinner's downstairs livestock. Cause trouble, and I'll add a punishment." He threatened, with that he turned around to walk away, the huntress turned her head but Azusa wasn't there anymore.
He must've teleported away...jerk. She thought bitterly. The huntress picked herself up and wandered down the hallway.
Unknown to her were several dark silhouettes of wolves?
Wolves? Or Grimm?
The table was quiet...too quiet. Ruby looked nervously at all the brothers as they silently ate their salads.
It's kind of creepy. She thought, that's when Ruki stood up. He looked around tentatively before staring into Kou's direction.
"KOU! DUCK!" He ordered, with that the idol tucked his head in and a beowolf charged through the glass window, shattering several pieces. Ruby's eyes widen. It was like Yui getting captured all over again. Those weird guys and that beowolf. Then several other grimms crashed into the dining room. The mukamis formed a protective circle around their visitor.
"What's a grim doing here?" She mumbled to herself. Yuma scoffed, telling her now wasn't the time to consider about that. Ruby picked up her knife and flipped it so the sharp side would be facing downwards. A beowolf pounced upwards but Yuma punched it's head, the beast whimpered but bared his teeth. Kou swung his leg and the Beowolf's head was knocked off. Blood tripped from it's headless neck. Ruby grimaced. Another grimm tried to attack Azusa but the morbid brat jumped behind it and stabbed it in the back.
"Hey...do you like pain?" He asked, with that he slashed the knife upwards and destroyed it's back. Ruby kept breathing up and down with fear. What were grim doing here? She shook her head before turning to Ruki.
"I'll be back! Hold them off!" She ordered, the eldest mukami wanted to protest but the girl had already zipped off to her room. Ruki growled and jumped on another grimm's head, obliterating it into a bloody mess. That's when Azusa dropped his knives. Two wolves ganged up on him, both in the air and their fangs prepped. Ruki jumped in the way with his arm outstretched. Time seemed to slow down when one of the wolves bite into the eldest mukami teen's shoulder...noticed how I said one of the wolves?
Ruby returned with Crescent Rose in sniper mode, she only had enough time to shoot one. Ruby spun Crescent Rose twice and aimed three bullets at three grims, Kou and Yuma double-teemed on the final grimm, turning the beast into a bloody corpse.
"Ruki! Ruki!" Ruby stuttered, she immediately cut open his clothes and treated the wound. She ignored his well-toned abs and wrapped his wounds. She gritted in annoyance.
"I can't believe i'm saying this...but we need Yui...I need help to heal this." She admitted.
Azusa nodded before leaving the room, Ruby carried Ruki to his room with Yuma helping her.
And what was Kou doing.
Updating his facebook status to: just got attacked by evil wolves, all's okay M neko-chans!
OH no! So that's why they go kidnap Yui...because apparently Ruby can have help healing Ruki...this is just filler. But I WILL make sure that everything in RWBY will return to normal just in time for Volume 4 to begin! Hopefully it'll end by volume 4! I don't want to work on a fanfic so much that I forget about this one! This is by far my favourite one to write! So please! I need to be reminded to work on Red like roses, red like blood. Hopefully DL season 3 will come out so I don't have to write my OWN plot for the tsukinami arc. So I think all my personal notes are over. Fav..follow and review! And let's hope my reviews raise in numbers because I HATE the number 14 more than anything in the world
BECAUSE FOR SOME REASON WHENEVER MY REVIEWS/FAV/FOLLOWS GET TO THE NUMBER 14 OR 24 BAD STUFF SEEMS TO HAPPEN TO ME!
...why...are you here?
Kino:...*smirks*
YOU HAVEN'T EVEN DEBUTED IN THE GAME SO YOU CAN'T DEBUT NOW!