"Ah! Home sweet home!" Yu exclaimed as Weiss pushed her into Mt. Agency. Her several day long coma had did her well, her injuries healing faster than normal according to the doctors. It felt great, being back home before classes started again, Weiss had a few days until they resumed. Shinji held Yu's bag full of clothes, which Weiss had taken with her not knowing when the blonde would wake up again. She felt relieved, and happy that Yu would be okay.
"Shoo! Shoo!" Yu playfully slapped Weiss' hand. "I want to stand on my own two feet. I'm not a baby." Weiss paused near one of the many cubicles that decorated the first floor.
"You just woke up from a coma." Weiss said dryly. "You need to rest." She had already forgotten how stubborn Yu could be when she wanted.
"Yeah right. I've never felt better." Yu practically jumped up from the wheelchair and started to stretch. She cracked her neck softly. "I feel like a brand new person."
"Weiss isn't wrong. You should take it easy for a few days." Shinji commented, placing the bag on an empty cubicle. He was in casual clothes, since he was suspended due to her decisions. Weiss kept avoiding his looks whenever he glanced at her out of guilt.
"Nah." Yu grinned, and leaned against one of the desks casually. "It doesn't even feel like I've been stabbed a dozen times."
Weiss felt her cheeks heat up as she distracted her eyes with the wheelchair. That was most likely due to her newly unlocked aura, which would amp someone's strength and speed several fold, heal most injuries, and acted as a personal shield. S-She would have to reveal that to Yu once they were alone. Keeping that a secret was just wrong, Weiss had played with her very soul after all.
Yu deserved to know, she had the right to know.
"If you say so." Shinji shrugged. "You know your limits better than I do." He looked at the watch on his wrist. "I'll be heading out now. Let me know if you need anything."
Weiss bit her bottom lip as the Arbor hero turned to leave. Taking a few rapid steps, Weiss hugged him from behind.
"Thank you Shinji." She mumbled. The Idol owed him a lot, he did get punished because of her after all, and he was there for Weiss while Yu was trapped in her coma.
"Don't worry about it." Shinji tilted his head to look back. He left soon after, leaving the two girl's alone.
"Woah Weissy, what happened while I was out?" Yu joked as she walked to her side, and threw an arm around her shoulder. "You're never this touchy-touchy."
"And you've never been this much of a jokester." Weiss hugged the taller blonde, taking in Yu's presence. Her stomach was starting to hurt.
Yu started pulling Weiss to the elevator, grabbing her bag of clothes. "So Weisscream, tell me everything that happened while I took that nap."
Weiss made a quick prayer to the Two Brothers, something she hadn't done for over a decade.
She didn't know what she would do if she made Yu hate her.
"Ok."
"Y-You unlocked my aura?" Yu stuttered, a cup of boiling hot coffee sitting in between her hands. Weiss nodded slowly, she refused to meet Yu's eyes. The pro-hero knew only a little about aura, Weiss had given her a general idea of it back when they first met, and she revealed a few details over the months they spent living together. "I didn't know that was possible."
Enhanced strength, speed, healing, and a sort of personal shield, most people would jump at the chance to gain powers like those. At a younger age, Yu probably would have as well, but she knew better now. With powerful quirks, came great responsibility. Yu still had much to learn.
"I did." Weiss' hand shook as she lifted her own cup to her lips. "I-I was scared, and I didn't want to risk losing you. I wasn't thinking straight."
Yu smiled, and touched Weiss' free hand. "I understand." It was sweet and sad at the same time, sad because Yu had caused Weiss to go through so much in about a week.
"But the risk-"
"I'm fine now aren't I?" Yu interrupted Weiss' incoming rant. "And even if something did happen to me, I wouldn't blame you Weisscream."
The younger girl nodded slowly, she didn't seem convinced.
"Besides, now you'll have more stuff to teach me." Yu withdrew her hand and formed a mock boxing stance, and punched the air jokingly. "And I won't end up stabbed in some alleyway again."
"Heh." Weiss took another sip of her coffee, wiping a few drops from her cheek with a napkin.
"Speaking of getting stabbed, I heard on the news that Shinji caught the Hero Killer." Yu said, dropping her arms to grab a cookie. "They said he was pretty injured and had to be taken to an ICU under police guard. I wouldn't have thought that Shinji would have it in him."
Weiss remained silent, staring at her half empty mug of coffee. What was wrong? Yu only managed to hear part of the broadcast since the nurses were busy fussing over checking her vitals, but she did manage to catch that he had quite a few stab-
The cookie fell from Yu's hand, her purple eyes widening in shock. Shinji wasn't the kind of person to leave someone bloodied like that, his quirk made him specialize in capture and containment.
"Weiss-"
"I did that to him." Weiss said, her voice a little more than a whisper. "I was mad, I was scared, I was angry. I didn't know what to do."
No, no, this wasn't possible. Did Weiss do this because of what happened to her? She went after a known killer, just to get revenge, and almost killed him?
Yu grabbed her forehead with her right hand and sighed. This wasn't what she wanted for Weiss when she started to push her to join UA. She had already suffered so much before she ended up stranded here, in a foreign world. Yu wanted her to live a normal life, and being a hero seemed close enough to those huntsmen and huntresses from Remnant.
"You shouldn't have done that." Yu said after a few seconds of silence.
"Why? He hurt you! He put you in a coma and countless other heroes-"
"Because you're a student." Yu did her best to keep her voice even. "You may mentally be nineteen, but to the world you're just a high school freshman." Yu failed her.
"Heroes don't serve as judge, jury and executioner, that isn't our job." Yu continued speaking, taking advantage of Weiss' silence. "That's what the courts are for, and if there's a kill order then that's done lawfully."
"I'm not a hero." Weiss said softly.
"You're right." Yu replied, she stared into Weiss' eyes. She wanted to tell her again that even if she was a huntress, Weiss was still a student. That would only cause things to escalate.
"But if everybody with some skill or a powerful quirk went after criminals, then what would happen? Chaos and anarchy would reign, and people would end up hurt or dead. We have laws for a reason." Even if Yu did push them to their limits sometimes. "Revenge isn't justice, and if it was, where would we draw the line?"
Weiss opened her mouth to try and defend herself, but no words came out. They sat in silence for about a minute, staring at each other.
"A-Are you mad at me?" Weiss whispered. Yu swore she heard her voice crack near the end.
"No, I could never be mad at you Weisscream, I love you." Yu gave her a sad smile. "I'm just disappointed in myself." Yu should have done more to prevent this from happening.
"I'm sorry." Weiss looked away, so Yu reached out and held her right hand with both of hers. The white haired girl flinched softly.
"We all make mistakes sometimes, but we need to move on and learn from them." Yu smiled softly and used one of her hands to push Weiss' bangs out of the way. "No matter what, you'll never walk alone."
Yu wouldn't make the same mistakes twice.
A/N
Its the beginning of the finals arc! Fair warning, updates will be scarce during the rest of the month due to work having me completely swamped. Ill return in full by the end of November/beginning of December.
And, I mentioned this at the end of the last Frozen omake, but I'll repeat it again here.
I'm currently looking for ideas for Weiss' final semester test, so feel free to leave some suggestions.
Till next time on Schnee: Hero or Huntress!
