Ozpin sighed as he ran a hand over his face and through his hair. He already had plenty of things to deal with, the first week of the year had just ended, first year teams had problems like always, third year teams were already ready to get out in the field, and then this incident with the White Fang suddenly popped up.

The last report he had received from Vale's police had the body count at six faunus, all of various ages, species, and jobs. The murders were all random as well, several of them took place in entirely different apartment complexes. The only thing that connected the murders was the fact that every single victim had a White Fang mask carelessly placed next to their corpses. The police had been all too willing to drop the investigations once they saw the masks, and Ozpin had to rub his temples at the thought of the racist attitudes so many humans carried with them.

Ozpin took a deep drink from the coffee mug that Summer had provided him, she was currently staring at the television screen in horror, as her mind processed the information provided. Two of her daughters, Miss Xiao-Long, and the older Ruby Rose, Lily Summer had called her, were also staring at the screen in morbid fascination. Or maybe just fascination in Lily's case.

Summer plopped herself down on one of her kitchen chairs softly, her eyes wide with shock as she stared at Ozpin blankly, "Who?" Summer's voice was barely above a whisper, "Who could have done this?"

Ozpin and Summer continued discussing the events and by the time they had finished the total body count had been updated once again, and Tai and the younger Ruby Rose were both awake. The father gave Ozpin a brief nod before he went to work making waffles for breakfast. "So we've got nine murdered faunus, all with a supposed connection to the White Fang, and the police refuse to do anything!?" Summer summarized all of Ozpin's previous frustrations into one angry tirade.

"Basically." The headmaster of Beacon admitted with a sigh.

"Waffles." Summer and Oz looked over to the corner of the room that Lily was currently occupying, the older Ruby Rose seemed stubbornly determined to stay out of any of the family's way, and she hadn't spoken a single word since she came inside with Yang. "Nora hated waffles." Lily muttered as if she had just made a startingly realization, or she suddenly remembered something that she had forgotten, "She always liked pancakes. Said that Ren made the best ones on Remnant." Lily looked down to her hands, and tears began falling from her eye.

"How are Ren and Nora in the future?" The younger Ruby asked her older counterpart. The older girl's eye narrowed as she regarded her younger self.

"..." The older girl didn't offer a verbal response, instead she stormed out of the kitchen, clutching her head in pain and muttering something to no one.

"What did I say?" Ruby asked her mother, whose eyes had followed the older Ruby with concern.

"It wasn't anything that you said." Summer reassured her youngest daughter, "She's had a hard life." Summer brought a hand up to her face, "And I can't help but think that it's my fault."

Ruby groaned as she slammed her hands onto the guest room's desk, things had been going so well, but then she saw the waffles, and all she could think about was Nora, and her love for pancakes. All that her mind could see was the boisterous viking girl sitting with Ren, and she would be talking to him, and he would just let her talk.

And the dead, who had been so quiet while training had suddenly come back full force to the forefront of her mind. It was a cruel joke, and divinely cruel joke. Despite the fact that Ruby had a speed semblance, she would never be able to escape the whims cries of the dead.

"Heh, look at me." Ruby muttered as she plopped herself down on the bed. "When will it be enough?" Ruby asked to the empty room, "Please tell me Yang, how do I save you?"

"You can't" Summer stood leaning on the doorway. Her silver eyes looking at Ruby in concern, and her lips were in the shape of a small frown.

Ruby looked away while her hands clenched into fists, "What do you want?" Summer looked down at the cold tone, but the mother forged ahead slowly approaching her broken daughter.

"Ruby, there's nothing more that you can do." Summer took a deep breath, "You have to move on and live for yourself." tears slowly fell from the mother's eyes, "I don't know what you've been through-"

"You don't know what you're talking about!" Ruby interrupted, sparks flying from her silver eye, and anger radiating from her body, "You have absolutely no fucking right to tell me what I need to do!"

"Ruby, I-"

"No, you can't tell me anything because you died!" Tears freely fell from Ruby's face, but it was clear that they were tears of rage, "You died, just like everyone else in my life did! Jaune! Pyrrha! Penny! Ren! Nora! Yang! Weiss! Blake! Father! Qrow Oscar! And Yang." Ruby whispered the last name, "They all died! And they left me alone, people always leave me alone!" Ruby buried her head in her arms as she began sobbing, "The regrets of the dead don't die with them. If I can't give them peace no one will."

"Ruby, you have to learn to forgive yourself." Ruby looked like she wanted to interrupted, but the broken girl soon delved into another fit of crying, "You have a new chance here, a chance to live for something that YOU believe in, not the dead."

Ruby lifted her head out from her arms and scoffed scornfully, "Live for myself? That's the logic of the living, and it has no sway on the dead."

Ruby stood to leave but Summer grabbed her arm before she could run away again. Like always Ruby flinched away and tensed up at the contact but Summer forged ahead, "Ruby." Her voice soft, but firm, "Let go!"

Ruby roughly jerked away before storming down the stairs and grabbing her scythe, "You just don't get it do you?" She hissed out the question before the wide eyed family who clearly heard Ruby's previous outburst, "Those with lingering regret, won't lose their grip on me so easily."

Ruby roughly threw the door open before she slammed it shut, the force of the slam almost throwing the hinges loose. The younger Ruby set a confused look to her family before she burst into a cloud of petals and chased after her older self.

"Hey me! or older me!" Ruby paused when her younger self suddenly appeared before her in a cloud of petals, "Where are you going? It's Saturday, we have the day off! Yang and I are going back to Beacon tomorrow and I kinda want to get to know you better! Or is it getting to know me better?" The younger girl asked before her older self scoffed and kept walking.

"Wait! Where are you going?" she asked the retreating figure.

"Rat hunting." Was the only response she received, the younger Ruby got from the older girl who just kept walking.

"Rats?" The younger Ruby asked before breaking into petals again and repairing in front of her older self, "But those are like super icky!"

"Not those kinds of rats!" Lily snapped at the younger girl, "An even worse kind. Humans and faunus who stick around and take what doesn't belong to them, and prey on the weak."

"Oh." Realization dawned on the younger Ruby's face, "You mean thieves."

"I do." Lily paused briefly to examine her scythe, it was in terrible condition and it wouldn't last much longer, maybe not even a whole battle, "Since the police have been unable to catch Torchwick crime in Vale has been on the rise."

"So how will you stop them?"

"Simple, I'll kill them."

The younger Ruby's eyes widened to a comical point as she stared at her older self, "What? We can't just kill them!"

"And why can't I!?" The older Ruby snapped once again, glaring at her younger self, "You can't tell me that the pillaging and slaughtering that rats like thieves and the White Fang live for is justified!" The younger girl began creeping away from her older self, "It is atrocious and they must be put down!" Lily brandished her scythe before throwing it at the porch in a rage, "I intend to give them a taste of the pain that they have so carelessly inflicted on others!"

Lily marched over to her scythe only to groan and facepalm when she saw that the weapon had snapped when it hit the porch, "Soooooo." Lily drew the word out as she stared at her younger self, suddenly cheerful, "When were you and Yang going back to Beacon?"

A/N: So this chapter deals with part of the fallout of Ruby's actions the previous night. Ruby and Summer have a talk, but it doesn't go well, and Ruby breaks her scythe in a fit of rage. But that's all fine since she'll be making her new weapons in the next chapter, and meeting Weiss and Blake. Which means immediate conflict between Ruby and Blake yay!

Ccl1995: Yeah Ruby basically plans on absolutely destroying the White Fang, but mostly because it would destroy everything that Adam lived for, bled for, and fought for, she really can be that petty. I am very glad to be back!

Merendinoemiliano: Thanks

JackTheSpades: Yes, we all love deranged murder here! Just kidding, lol, unless :)

ChaosOmega98: Ok, you're asking Ruby, Ruby a clearly crazy and insane person to think things through logically? That in itself hardly seems logical. And it's ok to want something to go in a different direction than it did, that's basically why fanfiction exists afterall, but to go as far as telling me that you will refuse to read this? I think that's a little far man. But I can't control anyone's actions but my own, *insert shoulder shrug* But I guess that means that you just won't be reading this anymore, because I'm not changing or rewriting anything so *shoulder shrug*.

Random!65: So I felt a little bad about brutally murdering Illia off, but only a little bit.

Vjcoro: Yeah Ruby's not the happy bubbly girl that everyone from Signal knew, she's changed, and she's scarred. No one will have proof to convict Ruby. but she's not going to even try and hide her hatred of the White Fang, because in her eyes they are massive hypocrites. Originally Ozpin came to talk to Summer about Ruby, but then murders happened so they inevitably talked about that instead.

ARXENIX 2.0: Thank you!

Jerry12344321: I'm still on the fence about the whole rating thing, but if I eventually get extremely graphic about blood and gore, then I will change the rating up to M.