Chapter 13

"It's been a while, Weiss."

"…Ir…"

The two stood in silence, the name of the boy coming from the girl in an inaudible tone that even a Faunus wouldn't be able to hear. The emotions of the two welling up at their first reunion in 5 years; what these emotions were however, were unknown, perhaps even to themselves.

The tone of the boy being such a wide mix of emotions, containing the happiness from reuniting with the girl, yet also containing the guilt and shame he felt for having left the girl, even knowing what would happen if he did; and the small smile on his face containing all the loneliness he had felt over the course of the 5 years. The girl, unknowingly to even the boy standing in front of her, was feeling a similar, yet slightly different mix of emotions. However unlike the boy; she chose to steamroll them in favour of something else.

"… Hmph." Catching herself before her mumbling could be heard, she responds in the same tone as she had with the girl before, "This is the property of the Schnee Dust Company, I will be taking it back." As she grabs the vial from the boy's hand and storms off.

"What's got to her, she's acting like a Diva." Ruby says in an awkward tone, not realising the brief exchange, although the participants themselves would be at fault for the same thing.

"It's heiress actually." A black haired girl says, causing Ruby to slightly jump, realising that she now stood in front of the new girl. "Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. I'm actually surprised someone could make her freeze up like that." She continues, slightly glancing at the boy who was still facing the direction Weiss stormed off in, before returning her gaze back towards the book.

The small smile still on his face as he turns around to reply, only to be beaten by the red-caped girl, "That was so cool, was that you're semblance? Thank you for saving me." Speaking with the speed you would expect from someone with a speed-type semblance. "Anyway, I'm…..Ruby." She said, drifting off as she turns to introduce herself to the yellow eyed girl only for the latter to have already begun walking away.

"We should get going to the amphitheatre; the introduction will be starting soon." The boy, Ira, says as he begins to walk away, only for Ruby to catch up and walk beside him.

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"All I'm saying is that anyone would make the mistake of attacking someone who hit their sister, who would actually believe that their sister was in the wrong." Ruby shouts, trying to reason with how they ended up meeting the first night, resulting in the boy's chuckling. "Besides, I didn't do anything."

"Fufu, That is true." The boy says in-between chuckling at the girl's action.

"So…uhm…" The girl mumbles, trying to think of something to change the subject, "I got this thing." Pulling a small rectangular box from behind her back, it forms into a giant scythe with the tip of its blade piercing the ground.

"A scythe..." The boy says, appearing gleefully as if he had just met his hero, the girl however takes this as the admiration you feel when seeing another's weapon, something she has felt many times since coming here, and proceeds to prattle on about it.

"….It's also a highly customisable, high impact sniper rifle." She finally finishes, even with the speed she was speaking; it took several minutes, with a slight blush after going on for so long, she adds, "…I probably shouldn't have told someone everything about my weapon…I can be a bit of a dork when it comes to weapons, especially my Crescent Rose…"

Chuckling, Ira replies, "I can see why…" Looking over the weapon and back at the girl a few times before continuing, "It's beautiful; you said you made it yourself?"

"Of course, all students at Signal forge their own weapons…Didn't you make yours?" She replies, looking at the sword at his waist.

"I designed it, but it was rather….unique to say the least. So I sent the design to a trained weapon smith; it took about a year for the design to be just right." Ira says, taking out the weapon and pointing upwards. "Although this is what you remember, this is actually its sheath, by activating a mechanism it retracts, forming the hilt. The difficult part was the blade; the design was from a rusty sword I used to use before it broke, it's…."

"It's sooo cooool!" Ruby shouts, inadvertently interrupting him as she nerds out over the weapon, dashing around to take a look at it from different angles, "It's simple yet the odd design makes it unique, what did you call it?"

"Revenant." Ira replies with a far off look, however it is missed by the girl still staring at the sword.

"Oooh, mysterious." She says as she lifts the weapon giving it a once over before storing it back into its standby mode and behind her back, just as Ira sheaths his own onto his waist again.

"Hey, do you know where we are?" She says, looking around at the familiar scenery they had passed by.

"We're lost." Ira states bluntly, "That's the third time we've passed by that statue."

Realising they have been walking in circles, they both laugh lightly, before Ira suggests, "This is the only way we haven't been yet, come on."

"Didn't I follow you last time, resulting in us being lost in the first place?" She says in a teasing tone, still following the boy.

"Didn't you almost get blown off the side of the cliff earlier when you were left alone?" Ira replies, causing the girl to smile wryly.

"It looks like it was the right way anyway, see." The boy says, indicating towards an amphitheatre filled with what looks like newly enrolled students still a bit farther away.

As they reach the entrance,

"Ruby, over here, I saved you a spot!" Yang shouts over from within the crowd, waving her hands and drawing the attention of the two.

"Sorry, that's my Yang; I gotta go, let's meet up again after the ceremony." Ruby says as she leaves after getting a nod from Ira.

"Now to find myself a spot…" He says as Ruby joins with her sister, making his way towards an open place, as he goes, a red-haired girl can be seen watching him as he does.

'Ira…'

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"Wasn't that Ira?" Yang asks her sister as she stands beside her, "So that's why you were late…" continuing in a teasing tone.

"It's not like that!" Ruby replies, slightly embarrassed, before shooting back with, "And weren't you the one who ditched me in the first place, I would have exploded if he hadn't stepped in, you know?"

"Yikes, rough first day?" Yang replies, thinking her sister is just being sarcastic.

"No I mean I would have literally exploded. As in fire, lightning, and I think some ice?" The girl questions herself, finding it hard to remember everything since it happened so fast.

"Okay, I get it, I shouldn't have ditched you." Yang replies, still thinking her sister is exaggerating.

"I'm serious, I tripped over some crabby girl's luggage, she began yelling at me, and before I knew it I flew back just before a big explosion and Ira was there, and the girl had left…."

"You!"

A shout from just beside her interrupts her from her venting, causing Ruby to jump into her sister's arms yelling, "Oh God, it's happening again!"

The girl from before, Weiss begins snapping at Ruby again, causing Yang to believe her sister's story.

"You really exploded…."

"Almost, and you're lucky he had been there or who knows what would have happened!" Weiss continues.

"I didn't do anything!" Ruby argues, technically she wasn't the one at fault, but as she spoke, Weiss held up a leaflet with the title, 'Dust for Dummies' in front of her and began speaking some kind of terms of service, speeding up and getting higher pitched as she went through it in a single breath, a slight chuckle could be heard nearby, but no one paid it any mind.

As she finished, Ruby had question marks as she didn't understand a single word of the monologue that would have put even her quick talking to shame.

"Uh?..."

"You really want to make it up to me?" Weiss interrupts her, causing her to give a nod in response, "Then read this and never speak to me again."

"Look…Sounds like you two just got off on the wrong foot…Why don't you start over and try to be friends, okay?" Yang intervenes, hoping for her sister to start over and be able to make friends with the girl, even if she is thinking she's a lost cause.

"Yeah, great idea sis." Her little sister agrees in the plan, turning to Weiss and extending her hand, "Hello Weiss, I'm Ruby, wanna hang out? We can go shopping for school supplies."

"Yeah, and we can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys; like tall, red-eyed and handsome over there." Weiss says, pointing towards a certain red-eyed individual talking with a red-haired girl, who was laughing at something he said.

"Ira?"

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"I thought I would have been late, wasn't it meant to begin by now?" I ask myself. It has been an…interesting day to say the least. I had finally met Weiss again, she seems to have trained and became at least skilled enough to join Beacon, she even seems like how she was in the show, though I can't say she was…happy when she saw me. I wouldn't blame her if I'm honest, when the only person you can really rely on abandoning you, even if I say it was for her sake; she wouldn't believe me.

Another thing to note is that I got to see Crescent Rose up close, honestly a work of art; being a fan of the show from it was released, it's obvious I would be awestruck when I saw it. I also managed to be in a few canon moments, damn Jaune didn't show up to help Ruby, so I walked around the courtyard and got lost with her, hopefully when I'm on a team, the 12 of us can hang out.

"Ira?!" As I am thinking to myself, waiting for the Ozpin to walk on stage, a familiar voice calls my name, causing me to turn around and reply, "Pyrrha?"

"It's you!" She jumps, latching her arms around my neck, "It's really you, I thought you had died!" She shouts, with clear relief in her voice.

"Died?"

"The last time I saw you, you were acting suspicious when you went to see the headmaster, then you just vanished, no goodbye, no nothing; I was so worried." She rambles on, not raising her head from being buried in my shoulder.

"I almost did die, you don't know how close it was. He had sent me on a…dangerous mission."

"That's what the Professor said, that the mission you went on was dangerous, that the team you went with had died." She continues, finally looking up, only inches from my face.

"The…team I went with?"

"Yes, he said that there was no trace from the scouts, but if the mission was so dangerous, why would he send a Sanctum student? Even if one showed promise, it was just reckless." She said, visibly annoyed, while somehow incredibly relieved at my safety at the same time.

"So you chose to attend Beacon because you didn't trust him?" I ask.

"Uhm…No….You see I thought you had died, but you said that you wanted to attend Beacon….so I thought if you couldn't...I would instead…" She says somewhat shyly, embarrassed at her reasoning.

"To…honour me?" I ask, getting a slight nod in return. "I see…thank you, that….it means a lot that you came." I say as we fall into silence

"Then why didn't you come back?" She asks lowly, breaking the short silence.

"It was…complicated…You weren't wrong when you thought I had died, I almost did. But when I escaped…..It's a long story..." I say, I don't think I should it explain the reasoning, at least not right now.

"Yeah…okay." She says as we return to silence.

"I'll tell you another time, there are definitely some bits you would like to hear." I say in a teasing tone, changing the subject.

"I would, but I have some of my own as well." She says, trying to one up me.

"Oh, I heard, Miss 'I'm on a cereal box.'" I reply, teasingly, resulting in her chuckle.

"It's a shame the cereal isn't very good for…you…" She replies, drifting off as we both realise we are getting stared at.

"Ira?"

"Yang, Ruby? And…Weiss?" I ask, noticing a daggered glare being sent my way.

"Hmph." Weiss says, storming away.

"Someone you know, Ira?" Pyrrha asks me after watching the heiress storm off.

"Yes, but I've only met these two recently; this is…"As I was about to introduce the two sisters, feedback from a mic interrupts me, drawing our attention to the stage.

"Perhaps at another time, the Headmaster's speech will begin." Pyrrha says, as I turn back to the stage also.

"I'll keep this brief…."

A/N

Ira's reunion with Pyrrha and Weiss? Did it go how you expected, were you shocked? surprised? How will it be once they shock settles? Who knows? Because I'm just as excited to find out.

I'm hoping I got their characters down, although Pyrrha was obviously more emotional in this chapter, her childhood friend came back from the dead, of course she would be. As for Weiss, well this is a slight au, while still being as canon as possible, some people, or events, may have different reasons motivating them.

And finally Ira. While he is observant, he doesn't see everything that goes on around him, nor can he read minds, so it's obvious that he would miss certain things. Or maybe he misinterprets them, it's almost impossible to correctly guess what someone is feeling, especially when your own emotions are in such turmoil.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed.