Wasn't planning to publish this chapter.

I... just... lost the files of Murakumo Of Remnant and Fate Stay Night The Beast Warrior.

So I'm rewritting both chapters.

Anyways, enjoy this chapter.

The guilt

Five day had passed since Weiss apologized to Ruby, her team also noticed that she began to spend more time with Kojiro. The samurais, on the other hand, began to create an information network inside the school ground with the help of Zhuge Liang, but one of them had it tough. Masamune still had nightmares about the order he gave to his men, but that didn't stopped him to act as a leader for the sake of himself, his team and the maidens they're supposed to protect.

*Clang*

The sound of steel meeting steel was around, Masamune had a bored look on his face as he blocked Cardin's mace.

"What's wrong freak?" asked Cardin tauntingly "too afraid to fight like a man?"

"I would rather fight someone of my level rather than someone with no skills" replied Masamune, still bored.

Cardin growled and swung his mace horizontally, but Masamune just took a step back. From the beginning of the year up until now, at the end of the first week, Cardin always decided to duel Jaune, seeing that he's the weak one, but this time he set his eyes on a new prey; Hanbei. Masamune, seeing through him told Hanbei to decline, that made Cardin to turn his sight toward the One-Eyed Dragon.

Glynda sighed and said "Mr. Date, can you please end this?"

Masamune nodded and took out his pistol "All I need is one shot"

"Come on then, freak" insulted Cardin while charging Masamune, who took a sidestep and making Cardin tripped. Without wasting any time, he took a shot to his head, making everyone gasping and making Glynda to look at the Aura level of the boy. His Aura level is barely there.

"Alright stop!" she ordered "As you see, even with harsh methods, Mr. Date nearly depleted Mr. Winchester and thus making him enable to continue the fight. In a tournament style duel, it would mean the end of the match" she then turned to Masamune as he gave his hand in order to help his fallen opponent, who simply pushed it away.

"I don't need your help!" snapped Cardin while exiting the arena.

Glynda sighed and said "Now, will there be another volunteer, or should I set random opponants" no one lifted his hand and Glynda activated the selector and it stopped at the face of Jaune Arc and the creepiest student of Beacon, Sasaki Kojiro.

Jaune gulped and whispered while trying to hide himself "Pyhrra, hide me…"

"Don't worry Jaune" replied Pyhrra "I'm sure that he won't hurt you… badly"

On the samurai's team, Kojiro got calmly to the arena with his blade drawn out of the sheath and began to look toward Jaune's direction, while smiling.

"Help" muttered Jaune as he tried to hide more.

"Mr. Arc" called the teacher "Please, prepare yourself to fight"

With the rest of the Team MSTH, they simply began to assume some theories of the fight.

"I call for 10 seconds" said Ujiyasu while putting 50 Liens.

Masamune smirked and said "I already know that you will find a way to win even if you lose the bet, you can count me out"

"Afraid?" taunted Ujiyasu.

"I'd rather not walk at an obvious ambush" replied Masamune.

"Nah" replied Ujiyasu "Pretty sure that you're afraid"

With another team, a certain black haired girl had her gaze on Masamune, why was she that obsessed with him? Ever since she met him, she felt like there's something within him that was alluring. In his fight against Cardin, he only used one shot to end it, and he seemed like he didn't care about how others saw him when he was heading to the rest of his team. Yet, she still hadn't found the courage to talk to him.

"Something's up, partner?" asked Yang as she turned to Blake.

"Nothing" replied Blake while turning her gaze at the arena.

In the said place, Jaune was trembling while guarding himself.

"That won't do" said his opponent "Your defense is pathetic, you really need to work on it"

"Um… Yeah… you're not the first one to say this" replied Jaune while lowering his shield to talk with the swordsman.

"How much does it weight?" asked Kojiro with a serious tone.

"In truth, I don't know" replied Jaune while looking down with a depressed tone.

"I see" said Sasaki while circling his opponent "Let's change that"

"What?" asked Jaune with confusion.

"When you stand your guard, try to follow your opponent eyes" advised Kojiro "No matter where you see the way where the sword is heading, always follow the eyes"

"I see" replied Jaune.

On her part, Glynda was about to intervene, but she then remembered that Kojiro was called the Master Swordsman. Maybe she'll let him continue the lesson?

Kojiro then took a stance that looks more like a Fencer and began to hit Jaune with quick hits, the said boy could only parry half of the hits as he couldn't follow with the speed of his opponent but he still managed to block some attacks.

"That's good" commented Kojiro while smiling to the yellow haired boy "Not many could manage to block my strikes when I use a Fencer stance"

"Does that mean that I'm good?" asked Jaune with worry and hope.

"Good" answered Kojiro "Good, but not perfect" he then pointed him with his sword "You took my advice, but your reaction time is still poor. Maybe we need to change your stance in a more versatile one" he then lifted Jaune's arm and bended his back a little "You need to use the shield at his full potential, maybe even get a bigger one in order to make things easier for you"

"Thanks for the advice" replied Jaune with a smile.

"Now" said Kojiro while turning to Glynda "Can I change my opponent? I really wish to fight…" he then pointed his sword in the direction of Pyhrra "… her"

"Me?" asked Pyhrra with confusion.

Kojiro smiled and said "I really wish to see a four times champion in action"

"Are you sure about that Mr. Sasaki" asked the combat instructor before receiving a call, she sighed and said "Very well" she turned to Pyhrra and asked "Ms. Nikos, do you accept the challenge?"

Pyhrra thought for a moment before nodding "Yes, I accept the challenge"

Kojiro smiled as he watched the girl walking to the arena "Maybe you are my Musashi of this place" he said to her while holding his weapon with both hands in front of him.

Play Track Guilty Gear X2 Accent Core Plus OST – Keep The Flag Flying

Pyhrra took her spear prepared herself to face her opponent, who seemed to have a mad smile.

"Begin!" signaled the combat instructor as Pyhrra charged the red coated boy in front of her only to see him pushing the spear away with the tip of his sword before quickly reading the blade to strike her throat. Luckily for the champion, she pushed the blade away with her shield and rolled away from him.

"Is that all?" asked Kojiro while walking toward her, this time with his sword held in his side with both hands "When I heard that you were a four times in a row champion, I expected you to be more aggressive when you fight. Guess I was wrong… unless you are holding back"

"You could say that I was holding back? Just with this brief clash?" asked Pyhrra with disbelieve 'Is he really that skilled?'

"I think that I should also apologize" added Kojiro with a chuckle "Maybe if I get serious enough, you will fight me with your all" with that he waved his sword horizontally and an energy wave came out. Pyhrra ducked and saw that the said energy left a mark in the wall behind her, it was sharper than what its look like "Come now, I know that you can do better" said Kojiro while smiling madly.

'What kind of fighter is he?' wondered Pyhrra as she raised her shield and rushed toward the Master Swordsman.

Kojiro spread his arms and his blade disappeared, making two giant broadswords to appear, one in each side, he then waved with both his hands and the two weapons launched themselves toward the girl who rolled and smirked at the opening left by Kojiro, or so she thought he left an opening.

"You are impressive" complimented Kojiro as he caught Pyhrra's hand with one of his hands "But you should never trust opening without thinking of some steps to free yourself if your plan fail" he had his sword, held by his other hand under the girl's throat.

Stop Track.

"I yield" declared Pyhrra as she felt her pride hurting her. His victory was total, he knew what kind of action she would take and how she would act, his title of Master Swordsman was earned. She looked at him and smiled "Thank you, Sasaki Kojiro. I shall never forget this battle"

Kojiro chuckled and said "I know that you can be better with time"

Everyone was shocked when the saw how Kojiro won, he caught Pyhrra's hand and took a side step and quickly materialized his sword to put it under Pyhrra's throat. But for Blake, she again began to look at Masamune, but this time, her partner followed her gaze and grinned.

"Want to talk to him?" asked yang with a teasing demeanor.

Blake blushed and replied, simply "No"

"Maybe he also got the eye" joked Yang while pointing her own eye, pushing Blake to groan at her pun.

"Yang, he may find this pun insulting" replied Blake.

"What's making you saying that?" asked Yang.

"He maybe lost his eye in a traumatic event" replied Blake "Some scars have the ability to change a person"

"Come on Blake, you know that I was just joking" said Yang to her partner before grinning "Beside, maybe you'll thank me for what I'm going to do" she took her scroll and she sent a message.

Blake saw Ujiyasu picking his scroll before grinning, he turned to Yang and nodded, Blake sighed "Yang what did you do?"

Yang, still grinning, turned to her partner and said "You'll see"

"Yang, you're scaring me" replied Blake with worry.

"Don't worry" said Yang "All what you need to know is that you need to be bold"

"Yang. What. Did. You. Do" asked Blake as she glared at her partner.

"You are really alike" commented Yang playfully before hearing the ring that means the end of the course "Don't worry, everything's fine"

'I have a bad feeling about this' said Blake mentally before following her team.

At night, Blake was asleep, until she received a message in her Scroll.

'Come to the rooftop'

She saw that the message was from Yang. Getting up, she noticed that Yang wasn't in her place. What does she wants now?

Blake put a decent outfit and went to the location indicated by the message. She was waiting to see Yang, but met someone else. Even in the dark, she recognized those wings, and she also got to the plan of her partner.

Masamune, on the other hand, wasn't surprised by the trick that Ujiyasu played on him. And now, he was in an awkward situation.

"So… you also got a message from your partner?" asked Blake nervously.

"Yes" answered Masamune, still in his night cloths which consisted of a black T-shirt and black pants.

"Sorry about that" said Blake "I'm sure that it was Yang's idea"

Masamune sighed and said "It isn't a problem" he then smiled "looks like our partners are something else"

"Yeah" replied Blake with a smile of her own.

"I'm sure that you have questions" said Masamune with a sigh, surprising the black haired girl "Your face is yelling your curiosity"

"It's just that… you seem more comfortable than the other fauneses of Beacon" stated Blake "You also seem proud of… well… who you are"

"I don't think that's a smart question to ask" replied Masamune "Of course I would be proud of myself. I'm the seventeenth head of the house Date, Date Masamune"

"I think that you didn't understood my question" said Blake "I wasn't asking about your person, but the fact that you are a faunus"

"I'm who I am, no matter what the others says or thinks" replied Masamune.

"I envy you, you know?" said Blake as she undoes her bow, reveling a pair of cat ears.

"So I was right" said Masamune while closing his eye.

"You… knew?" asked Blake with disbelieve.

"Of course" replied Masamune as he looked at her in the eyes "You shouldn't twitch them so often"

Blake blushed and then looked away "So…"

Play Track Growlancer IV OST – Before The Daylight (Instrumental Version)

"Sorry, but that won't be possible" interrupted Masamune as he sighed "I got where this is going"

Blake simply stared blankly at him "What?"

"You shouldn't waste your time on a monster like me" added Masamune "You deserve someone better than me"

"You're not a monster" countered Blake "Being different isn't-"

"You don't know what I did, do you?" asked Masamune as he sit down "When I say that I'm a monster, I meant the action that I took"

"Then we are even" said Blake while sitting in front of him "I wasn't really on the good side before"

"But you didn't killed, did you?" asked Masamune, this time looking at his side not wanting to see the shocked expression of the girl in front of him.

"You… killed someone?" asked Blake with shock.

"Casualties of war" replied Masamune easing the girl in front of him a little as he begin to explain while looking at the broken moon "Being in the battlefield from young age"

"How old were you" asked Blake with some worries.

"Ten year old" answered Masamune "It was also in my first battle where I lost my eye"

"I'm sorry if I forced you to remember something like that" said Blake while looking down in shame until she heard the One-Eyed Dragon chuckling.

"You shouldn't be sorry" he replied "It was my own fault that I lost it" he then took a grim face "But Even if this is war, killing your own father isn't the most honorable thing"

Blake completely froze "You killed… your… father"

"Under his order" said Masamune while looking at his hands "You see now, why I am a monster?"

Blake was about to get out of the roof, but she remembered that Masamune said 'Under his order' she then asked "What do you mean by 'Under his order'?"

Masamune sighed and began to explain "The land that I used to rule, Oshu, was divided by nobles, but it was the Date clan that had the advantage as we had more lands and much more military power. You could say that we practically had the victory in our side, even the other nobles knew that. That's why they decided to surrender, each one came with a handful of their forces. My father proposed to them to stay in for the night, he wasn't expecting them to do something since even with their forces combined, they wouldn't stand a chance. But that was his mistake, by offering them to stay, he offered assassin's to stay"

"What happened next?" asked Blake, now understanding the boy in front of her a bit more.

"During that night, the nobles attacked" answered Masamune "I was alerted by the scream of my mother. But I arrived too late, she was already dead when I arrived. My father was fighting some soldiers when he was wounded by an arrow in his left shoulder. I didn't found him, until we subjugated their forces. I took some men and went to search for my father, when we reached him, he was being held as a hostage by their leader. My father knew that he couldn't be saved, so he ordered me to prove him that I could lead the Date clan, with that he admitted his own defeat. All what I had to do was giving the right order to my men. From here you can imagine the rest, I had to rule Oshu with an iron fist"

Blake was silent, and at the same time crying inside. How could she call herself a faunus when she all what she did was fleeing, and in front of her, is someone who never fled, someone who took responsibilities for his own actions.

"Now you know me, more than the rest of my team" said Masamune while getting up "You are free to think of me whatever you want" he began to walk toward the exit of the rooftop until he felt a hug from behind "Please" he pleaded "You shouldn't be with me"

"You are not a monster" said Blake while sobbing "You the most courageous person I've ever met. You never fled, not like me"

Masamune couldn't help but staying silent and waiting for Blake to calm down.

Stop Track.

The next morning, Ujiyasu woke and the first thing he saw was the barrel of a gun.

"What the hell is going on here?!" he asked before looking at the owner of the weapon.

"Listen to me" said Masamune while glaring at him "You know what you did? Right?" Ujiyasu nodded fearfully "So let me say this" Masamune put the pistol away and, surprising Ujiyasu, smiled to him "Thanks"

Ujiyasu chuckled and said "That's why partners are for"

Ozpin couldn't help but smile at the new information he got. Firstly, it was Kojiro who spoke about his past to the Schnee heiress, and now Masamune was the one who said his past to Blake Belladonna.

"I think that Team RWBY would help a lot in that" mused Ozpin before taking a slip from his mug, but there's something that he needed, and that was the past of Zhuge Liang. He can't ask a student to be in a relationship with a teacher. He needed something or someone to help him getting what he needs from the man. The real question was who.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter.

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