A/N: Hey guys.

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Now on to the actual content of the chapter.

Man, I can already hear the angry reviews. I'm sorry ahead of time.

Anyway, here is the chapter where Rose bares all to the other members of Team RWBY.

And there's the bit in the middle to break things up.

Forewarning, this is a dialogue heavy chapter.

Well, with out further discussion, here's this weeks chapter.

Guilty Rose chapter 5

"Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Vlakyrie, Lie Ren, you four picked the white rook piece."

Rose watch as the portraits of the students were displayed on the big screen above Ozpin. She had gotten to know the four teenagers well on the way back to the cliff. Whether or not she used that as an excuse to delay telling Yang about everything that happened to, about all the people she killed is up for debate. Suddenly, a Yang-shaped shadow loomed over Rose.

"So when are you gonna spill the beans on where you've been? You've been avoiding it."

"Yes, I have. It's not easy to talk about, especially not with family."

"Not that you'd want to be family with a killer."

"You are now team JNPR! Lead by Jaune Arc."

"WHAT!"

"You'll do fine Jaune."

Rose looked up at her sister. It was an alien thought to think of someone as her family. Even though she spent years begging whatever power that be for her mother to find her, she could only remember a white cloak.

She was broken, and missing pieces. She was here, but still locked in that fucking cage.

"I'll tell you and the rest of the team everything tonight, I promise. Please don't force me."

"Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long. You four chose the white knight. From today forward, you will be team RWBY."

The pause before he announced the leadr of team RWBY caught everyone's attention, mostly because Ozpin took an audible deep breath. Rose's heart sank, she suddenly knew what was coming.

"Lead by Rose."

The words sounded certain but solemn. Like he had just sent good men to sacrifice their lives to save a village. And that was exactly how Rose felt. She heard Yang congratulate her, but she didn't listen. She was doing everything she could to keep from hyperventilating. Everyone else seemed to wait for him to give one last comment, but it never came. Ozpin just walked off the stage. Rose distracted herself by watching as a concerned Glynda take Ozpin's place.

"All first year students will receive their room assignments via scroll. Classes will begin at nine tomorrow morning. You are all dismissed."

Rose watched Glynda type on her scroll and moments later she felt her scroll vibrate. She retrieved the device to find a message from Glynda.

Your room number is 138.

Attached are the dorm guidelines that all students are required to follow.

P.S. I'm so glad you got an all girl team!

Rose didn't quite understand the last part of Glynda's message, so she shrugged it off. Then, her and the rest of the students turned to exit, only to find Professor Ozpin standing before team RWBY. His expression was impassive, but his eyes were serious.

"Hello girls, if I could have a moment of your time. I have some things to discuss with you about the special circumstances surrounding Miss Rose."

"Um, special circumstances?"

"Yes, circumstances which should be discussed in private. Now, if you'd all follow me to my office."

….

Team RWBY stood in Ozpin's office. Rose could feel a new panic rising in her chest.

"Is he going to tell them about my past?"

Rose met Ozpin's gaze, and it appeared that he understood the girl's fears given the warm reassuring look he gave her.

"First thing is first, I cannot tell you Rose's exact background as it would breach the confidence in which it was told to me. Thus if you wish to know any specifics, Rose must be the one to tell you of her own volition. Am I understood."

His words sounded like law more than anything. A law giving Rose the right to deny anyone the truth about her past. Though she had promised to herself and her team that she would tell them everything, she had to revel in Ozpin's law. He had just promised her a new life once again, if she wanted it. But she didn't want a new life, nor did she want her life before the Oni. If she was completely honest with herself, part of her just wanted her current life to just end. But she was shaken from her thoughts when Ozpin continued.

"Now before I address the special circumstances surrounding you, Rose, I owe you and your team an explanation on why I made you leader."

"I believe you do."

Weiss was the first to speak. Her tone sounded oddly annoyed. But her interjection earned her a glare from the headmaster. Rose then watched Ozpin consider his words again, almost like he was testing them on himself.

"First, the most legitimate, Rose has more combat experience than any of you."

It was obvious that those words were hollow. They only sounded good officially to anyone who didn't know Rose personally.

"What do you mean?"

"As I said, I cannot go into specifics."

Ozpin took a moment to say before leveling a softer expression at the four girls.

"As for the actual reasons, Rose, you have shown me many times how much you care about others in these last few months. Especially during your initiation, when your partner decided that her evaluation mattered more than her safety or yours."

Weiss tried to say something, but was silenced with a glare.

"You also directed your comrades to flawlessly immobilize an ancient deathstalker so it could be dispatched. All in the span of a few moments."

WBY nodded their acceptance of this, but Ruby just looked at the ground. She didn't want to be praised for that, any of it actually. Combat meant her someone or something died when she was involved.

"Finally, I personally believe in you Rose, and I am sure your team believes in you as well. This is a school, you are here to learn and be better than who you were. So, have faith in the future."

Rose looked up, she wanted to believe what he said.

"You're still the same person you were, the same little killer."

The thoughts were in Hannya's voice, not hers. But she knew they were her thoughts though.

"Now for the special circumstances. Besides your background being kept confidential, you will also be attending will be attending a special class taught by Professor Goodwitch and her assistant in place of the normal team leader seminar you would be taking."

Rose somehow knew this class was the only reason Glynda let Ozpin make her team leader. She let a small smile creep onto her face thinking about how annoyed Glynda was with Ozpin right now.

"Now, are there any questions you four might have?"

It was silent for a moment. But just as Ozpin was going to dismiss them, Yang gasped as she realized something.

"You said months, how long has my sister been here?"

To Ozpin's credit, he took Yang's outburst in stride.

"Six months."

"SIX MONTHS! AND YOU NEVER TOLD US, HER FAMILY!"

Once again, Ozpin coolly stared down a completely enraged blonde.

"I had the full intention of informing you. However, Miss Rose asked me not to tell you. I respected her wishes. And before you accuse me of lying, I have never lied about her being here either."

Yang was about to berate Ozpin further but Rose put a hand on her shoulder.

"Please Yang, don't be mad at him, I really did tell him not to tell to you. If you're going to be mad at anyone, be mad at me."

Rose's big silver eyes looked up at Yang, She tried to stay mad, but those big puppy eyes sucked all of it out of her.

"It's...fine."

Rose knew it wasn't fine, but she was pleased that yang had calmed down. With no other questions, though Blake looked she had some and wasn't saying anything, they were dismissed.

….

"WHY HAVEN'T YOU FOUND HER YET!"

Adam screamed at the top of his lungs as another White Fang grunt came flying out of his office. He had been like this since he found out out about the Guilty Rose being in Vale.

"He's been screaming like that for hours."

Emerald commented as she watched his door with Mercury under Cinder's orders.

"If he keeps going like this, he'll pass out again."

Emerald snorted as a cute black bear faunus reluctantly approached Adam's door.

"Here comes another one, think she'll get a word in?"

The black haired woman slowly entered the room, and the quickly exited the room flying.

"Nope."

"What are we doing here anyway, besides watching Adam scream about Cinder's little...whatever she is?"

Emerald scowled, she didn't know who the Guilty Rose was to Cinder, but no one needs to take up that much of Cinder's thoughts. Well, no one but her.

"We're trying to find out what happened between Adam and her."

"Oh, right. I asked that bear girl earlier today."

"You were flirting when Cinder gave us orders!"

"Working not flirting, Anyway, she said that the chick was a "traitor to her kind", something about working with humans and killing a bunch of grunts a while back. Like years back."

"WHAT!"

Mercury shot Emerald a shit eating grin while she was positively fuming.

….

Team RWBY had gotten to their dorm with their luggage. It was elected that unpacking could wait as the day was catching up with all of them and it was already getting late in the evening.

"I guess it's finally time to tell them."

Rose took a deep breath and prepared to speak, that was until Yang of all people spun around and stopped her.

"Ruby, you don't have to tell us anything."

That name, She understood her name was Ruby Rose now, but it didn't fit her anymore. Ruby Rose was a normal girl, not a killer.

"Please, call me Rose. Ruby...Ruby doesn't exist anymore."

"How can you say that? You're right here."

Rose looked up at Yang, then at Weiss, and finally at Blake. These three girls deserved, no needed to know what kind of monster she was.

"You'll understand when I tell you everything. I'll tell you how I became the Guilty Rose. Or maybe you'd know me as the Face of Death."

Rose walked over to the far left bed and sat on it, staking her claim to the cover rather than the actual bed. Weiss sat on the next bed over. Yang tried to sit next to Rose, but she shook her head and gestured for Yang to sit next to Weiss. Blake, of course, sat on the bed furthest from Rose. She once again took a deep breath and shed her cloak to reveal her numerous scars from a lifetime of deliberately not defending herself with aura. All three girls looked shocked and horrified.

"Ru-Rose, what happened?"

Rose looked up at Yang and sighed.

"I'll start at the beginning, or at least what I know of the beginning. I was taken by the Oni Tribe. A tribe of bandits from Anima who at the time needed new members and tried to kidnap children. Though I was the only child they actually managed to take. I eventually found out that was because they failed miserably at kidnapping."

Rose had what could only be called a tragic smile grow on her face. A smile that horrified her teammates further.

"They began training me to fight, no, they began training me to kill when I was Five."

Several gasps followed her statement, but Rose paid them no mind.

"Though they honestly just beat me in the beginning, but then they actually began teaching me. I was taught hand to hand combat at first. Muay thai they called it. Then they made me pick a weapon to learn how to use. I picked knives and kamas, they seemed proud. It was six months later that they made me kill for the first time."

Rose took a long shaky breath to keep herself from crying.

"Marcus was his name. He was the Oni Tribe member who taught me how to read, write, and math. They threw us in the sparring circle with a single kama. One of us had to kill the other, or they'd kill us both. He wouldn't kill me, he didn't even fight me. He knelt down and told me to kill him. And I did. I should have let them kill me, but I let them turn me into a killer instead."

Rose stared down at her hands and saw blood that had long since been cleaned. Blood that was only a drop in a river of blood.

"I vowed then to kill every person they wanted me to kill as painlessly as possible. This vow lead me to make a mistake another mistake that I will never live down. You see, it was easy to kill those with out aura or were inexperienced in using it. But those trained how to use aura were always a problem. I studied aura penetrating ammunition, but it wasn't enough to kill some painlessly. So, I concocted a mix of dust that had special anti-aura properties. It doesn't just pierce aura, it is unaffected by aura of any kind. Even the wounds it creates cannot be affected by aura. That fucking mix has killed hundreds of people, most by my hands. I've killed hundreds of people."

Rose clenched her fists and shook ever so slightly, remembering those whose blood she added to the river. And those the Oni Tribe wanted her to kill.

"I eventually ran away from the tribe when they sent me and some others to attack another bandit tribe. I thought that after I ran away, I wouldn't have kill anymore. But I was wrong. I stowed away on a cargo ship headed to Vacuo. I never considered anyone there would recognize me. I spent a year wandering around, trying to hide. But I was found eventually wherever I went. I had to kill more to survive."

Rose took another breath, recalling the events that led her to come to Beacon.

"Eventually, I decided to go to Vale to turn myself in. I knew I could easily be sentenced to death, but I didn't care. On my way though, I was ambushed by members of the Oni Tribe. A woman got caught in it trying to help me. They nearly killed her with the anti aura bullets I made. She was the one who convince me to come here to Beacon. I've been here since."

The room went silent when Rose finished.

"I, wow. I don't know what to say Rose."

Yang's voice shook as she spoke. Weiss eventually looked at Blake, then back at Rose.

"Wait, you didn't explain how you and Blake knew each other."

Rose looked over at Blake, who was now giving her a pleading look. Rose suddenly realized that Blake had a bow hiding her ears

"She doesn't want people to know she's a faunus...then she definitely doesn't want people to know she was with the White Fang."

Rose sighed and lowered her head, she promised to tell them everything.

"It was a few years back, while I was still with the Oni Tribe. They wanted me to kill an Atlas politician. I killed them. But while me and Hannya, the tribe member responsible for training me, were leaving, we ran inside of an abandoned warehouse where Blake and a lot of her friends were. I wish I could say Hannya and I left there without spilling more blood. But we didn't. That's why I said Blake has every right to hate me."

Weiss watched Rose wrung her hands, not sure what to make of all this information. However, there was one thing she was sure of, and that was Rose didn't deserve any of what happened to her. Suddenly, Rose let out an adorable, high pitched yawn that the heiress had to stop herself from cooing at.

"I'm going to get ready for bed."

Rose stood and walked to the bathroom, only stopping when she was passing Blake.

"Blake...I told them about my past because they need to know what kind of monster I am. You don't have to tell them why you were in that warehouse, but you should."

Blake felt puny as she watched Rose enter the bathroom. She wanted to run away, but she couldn't.

Rose had just told the team everything, and it hadn't even been a full day. And if Blake was being honest, she also felt puny because she hated and feared Rose for so long, only to find out Rose was a slave. She didn't choose to kill all those people. Blake on the other hand had decided to do the things she had done. Blake looked over at her other two teammates who were still looking at the door Rose had just disappeared behind.

"I wonder if they'd actually accept me as easily?"

Finally, Weiss broke the silence.

"I guess we should all get ready for bed too. No offense Blake, but I think I've had enough 'truth' for one night."

"I'm gonna have to agree with Weiss cream."

"I'm going to have to insist that you never refer to me as that again."

"Let it happen."

"I refuse."

Weiss continued with the childish back and forth argument with Yang while the team got prepared for bed.

"I refuse to be called by..."

Weiss' voice died in her throat when she turned to chide Yang and saw Rose leave the bathroom.

"Hey Weiss, what's wro-….Oh."

Yang turned to see what Weiss was looking at. There Rose was, in all her unclothed glory, walking towards her bed with a dull expression and her combat gear under her arm.

"Ru-Rose, what are you doing?"

No answer came from Rose as she continued walking. Rose reached her bed, and with one fluid movement, pulled the cover off and deposited her gear in its place. Then, she wrapped the cover around herself and sat in the corner. Her eyes were open and watching the door, but her expression and steady, shallow breathing made it clear she was asleep.

"Um...what the hell?"

A/N: So, there we have it. Ozpin explains his cryptic self in a cryptic way. Glynda actually wins a battle with him behind the scenes. And finally, Rose revealing everything to her team. Sorry, had to crack that joke again. I wanted to add more to this chapter, but there was simply too much I wanted to add. So, next chapter, brace yourselves as I'm going to push some plot again.

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