Chapter 10: A Quiet Day Out


Right now, it was around 5 AM; it was cold, and Ruby was tired from staying up late last night reading comic books. School was starting again tomorrow and today was the last chance she would have of sleeping in.

"Come on Ruby!" Mori shouted out in his yellow tracksuit, "Let's get warmed up!"

Warmed up…that sounded so nice, Ruby was freezing right now.

Why was she up this early again?

A Couple Days Before.

Ruby couldn't get the sight of the triple kick out of her head, there was something so mesmerizing about it…

"How did he do it again?" Ruby thought to herself as she set herself in position.

She had seen the kick a couple of more times during their Grimm exterminations in Patch, the more she had seen, the more details of it she could notice.

Like the name implied it was three kicks delivered simultaneously, she initially thought it was a semblance like Blake's where he made clones that hit the opponent at the same time…but then she remembered he had no aura.

Another thing she noticed as she was watching Mori perform the triple kick on Grimm, was that unlike against Cardin, something was bugging him as he seemed to be trying to adjust where the kick hit every time he used it against the Grimm.

That told her he wasn't just kicking three times really fast, instead each of those kicks were meant to hit a certain spot.

She wasn't quite sure where he was aiming for though…

Still, she took her stance and in one motion tried to copy Mori's movements of the triple kick…keyword being tried.

Instead of a beautifully executed kick, all Ruby got was spinning around.

Falling to the ground she can feel her head spin, she could sense the cookies she ate earlier wanting to come out.

"Oooh, boy" Ruby thought to herself as she was trying to regain her senses while trying to keep her cookies in her stomach, "I'm just glad no one saw me do that"

"Ruby what are you doing?"

Ah, Biscuits someone did see her. She looked up to see who it was, it was Mori.

"Nothing!" Ruby replied as she quickly got up and dusted her skirt. "How much did you see?

Mori just gave a skeptical look,

"The entire thing" he replied, "I saw all of it, from you spinning around really quickly, to you almost losing your cookies,"

Ruby's face flushed in embarrassment.

"You, saw nothing" Ruby squeaked, "Nothing at all"

"…Were you trying to copy my triple kick?

"Noope," Ruby said quickly.

"You totally were trying to copy it weren't you."

"No, I was not."

"Ruby,"

Ruby was panicking right now; would Mori get mad at her for trying to steal his super-secret Martial arts…that's what happened in all those movies she saw anyways.

"Ruby!" Mori called out again, interrupting Ruby's internal panic.

"I swear I wasn't trying to steal your super-secret Martial Arts!" She shouted in a panic

"Do you want to learn Renewal Taekwondo?"

"I promise I was just spinni… Huh?"

"Do you want to learn Renewal Taekwondo?" Mori repeated.

"Wait, you are not mad at me?" Ruby asked.

"Why would I be mad at you?" Mori responded with a confused face.

"Because I was trying to steal your martial arts," Ruby meekly replied.

At that, Mori started laughing, holding his sides on the ground.

"Hey!" Ruby pouted "Why are you laughing,"

"Haha, sorry Ruby," Mori apologized as he wiped a tear away from his eyes, "It's just hilarious that you think I will get mad at you for wanting to do Renewal Taekwondo."

"Isn't it how that works in movies?"

"Pftt, movies, is that why you thought I was going to be mad at you, because of pfft movies?" Mori continued to stifle his laughter.

"Hey!" Ruby whined, "Those movies are awesome."

"Pfft… whatever you say," Mori responded as he finally recovered, "But no, I'm not going to get mad at you for wanting to learn Renewal Taekwondo, my Grandfather even taught other people it."

"Oh," Ruby looked down, now feeling embarrassed.

"If you want to learn Renewal Taekwondo, I'll happily teach you it."

"Really," Ruby responded, now with stars in her eyes, "Would you really teach me Renewal Taekwondo?"

"Of course, if I don't teach it to anyone it's just going to die, so if you want to learn it, that's great!"

"Great!" Ruby cheered, "Let's start now!"

"Woah, woah, woah," Mori pushed back, "I need to make a plan for you before we start…how about we start the day before school gets back, will that be ok?"

"Ok!" Ruby then saluted and ran off, now excited that she would be learning Mori's super-secret martial art.

Present.

Ruby had been so excited these past few days, she couldn't wait to learn Mori's moves, then she'd be all HA! Hyak! And HWAA!

"Ok," Mori said as they finished strecthing, "Let's start,"

Ruby couldn't wait, soon she will be triple kicking everyone.

"So, what are we going to learn first Mori!" Ruby excitedly asked, "Triple kick first right! Ohh, or are we going to do the Blue dragon Kick!"

"Ruby, Ruby, calm down," Mori said as he tried to placate the girl, "Those moves are a bit too complex for you right now,"

"Ahh," Ruby whined as her excitement deflated.

"Think of it this way Ruby," Mori said as he took up a teaching pose, "You know those skill trees in those video games you play, right?"

Ruby nodded,

"The triple kick is one of those final skills, something you have to build up for," Mori explained, "It's not something that you can easily learn, instead you have to learn other skills to build up to it."

"So, are we going to learn to do the other skills first then?" Ruby asked

"Well…we will, but not right now, instead we are going to something else,"

"What are we going to do?"

Ruby regretted asking that question.

They had been running for the past few hours and Ruby could feel her lunges start to die on her.

"Mo…ri," Ruby weakly cried out, "A…re, we… do..ne y…et?"

"Almost Ruby," Mori said as he continued to jog, "Just one more lap."

Ughh, Ruby was dying.

After finishing their final lap all Ruby could do was lie down on the ground as she could feel her soul leaving her body.

"Mori…why?" Ruby cried out.

"Hah, I take it you don't like running?" Mori asked, completely fine after the marathon they just ran.

Mori's physical abilities were just unfair at times, how was he not dying on the ground?

"I like running…Just not Marathons at 5 AM in the Morning!" Ruby complained, "I thought we were doing cool kicks and punches why are we running a marathon in the first place!?"

"We are going to do kicks Ruby," Mori replied, "however, right now we are doing something to make sure you will be fine when you learn Renewal Taekwondo."

"…What do you mean?" Ruby asked as she finally caught her breath and got up.

"There are three weaknesses to Renewal Taekwondo," Mori explained, "One of those is that it has an incredible physical toll, the only real way to overcome that is just training and working hard so that's what we did so far, just working on building up your body."

Ruby nodded, it made sense, from what she can tell a lot of Mori's techniques seemed to require precise and complex movements and if one wasn't prepared, they could get hurt.

"Wait…" Ruby said, realizing something, "Renewal Taekwondo has three weaknesses, right? What are the other two?"

"Another weakness is that it's terrible in close-combat," Mori answered.

"What?" Ruby said in shock, "That doesn't make sense you fight in close combat all the time!"

Mori suddenly appeared in front of Ruby, completely closing the distance between them.

Ruby felt a slight blush as her head only reached his chest.

"When I am this close, do you really think I have enough space for my normal kicks?" Mori asked.

Ruby looked around her…Mori was right it really was hard to do a lot of his kicks when he was that close.

"So how do you usually overcome it," Ruby asked, curious of how to overcome that particular weakness.

"If you are up close you can aim for vulnerable spots easier," Mori stated, "I usually like to aim for the head though…with you…"

"Hey," Ruby whined, "I'm not that short,"

"Yes, you are,"

All Ruby could do was angrily pound her firsts into him,

"Yeah something like that when they are up close, except you want to use more force," Mori joked.

Ruby stuck her tongue out at Mori in response.

"So, what's the last weakness?" Ruby asked after she calmed down.

"Limited attack points," Mori responded.

"What?"

"You know what pressure points are right, Ruby?"

She had some familiarity with them, if she remembered correctly, they were parts of the body that could really hurt if hit.

"Most of the kicks are aimed at those weak points of the body, so if you cover those weak points it gets less effective" Mori explained, "For example, the triple kick aims at the ear piercing, the temple piercing and the cervical piecing," Mori then pointed out the different spots on the head.

"So, wait does that mean when you were using it against the Grimm, you were trying to find those weak points?" Ruby asked again

"Oh, you noticed that?" Mori responded, "But, yeah I'm not quite used to Grimm Biology…guess I need to pay more attention to Professor Port…"

Now Mori's look of frustration made sense, he was trying to adjust Renewal Taekwondo to Grimm…Wait…Did that mean?

"…Mori?" Ruby called out in a quiet tone.

"Yes?".

"…Your Renewal Taekwondo…it's not meant for Grimm is it…?" Ruby somberly asked.

Mori was silent for a while before nodding a yes in response.

Ruby could feel her stomach start to drop. If that was the case did that mean…

"…Does… does that mean…you…does that mean you…" Ruby tried to ask her next question, but she wasn't sure how to word it.

Unfortunately, Mori seemed to understand what she wanted to ask.

"Yes"

At that, Ruby could feel her heart drop…it made sense to Ruby, she had seen his scars that ran across his body and most of those looked like they came from other people and not Grimm. She hoped that wasn't the case but that was her just being gullible.

"Mori…killing is wrong… why?"

"…I am very different from who I was before."

It was just hard for her to imagine how someone as kind as Mori could possibly take a life…it didn't make sense, heroes were supposed to save everyone even villains, killing people was wrong and Mori wasn't the type of person to do something that horrible.

"…Can…can you promise me that you won't…you won't kill again?"

Ruby knew that what she was saying was naïve, of course he wouldn't promise her something like that, Huntsmen were supposed to fight not only Grimm but also criminals as well, it was entirely unreasonable for him to say he won't ever kill again.

Mori's reaction to Ruby's question was not something she was expecting.

He started to chuckle.

Ruby was confused, why was he chuckling at her request.

"Mori," Ruby said in a quiet voice, "This is serious,"

"…Sorry Ruby, I am not laughing at your request," Mori said as he stopped his chuckling. "It's just…that was the second time someone close to me has asked me something similar to that."

He then put his hand on her head and looked in her eyes.

"I'll tell you the same thing I said to her," Mori said as he smiled at her, "I promise you Ruby, I won't unnecessarily kill ever again."

Ruby couldn't help but hear the sincerity in Mori's words as she could feel her heart rise up again. Mori didn't think she was being naïve or stupid.

"…Thank you" Ruby said with a smile, as her worries were washed away.

"Let's go back to our training," Mori said, taking his hand off her head, "I think now we can work on our kicks." Ruby nodded along as Mori went over the basics with her.

She still wanted to do the cool stuff, but Mori was at least working on the basics with her, so she didn't mind too much.

After finishing their training, Ruby went back to her room tired over how much of a task master Mori was. Just as she opened the door, she noticed Weiss seemed to be really dressed up.

"Weiss?" Ruby asked, "Why are you dressed up so nice?"

"No, reason" Weiss responded, "I'm just heading out to Vale today…by myself might I add."

Ruby looked at her sister in confusion, her sister only shrugged, she then looked at Blake for clarification, the look on her face said that she too had no idea what was going on.

"Well ok…see ya later Weiss!"

"I will see you again tonight."

And with that the heiress left the room.

The girls took a couple of seconds trying to digest what just happened. Yang was the one to finally break the silence.

"Soooooo… we are totally following her right?"


"So, how much dust do you think is enough for all of Team JNPR?"

"I don't know Jaune, I don't use dust, remember," Mori then gave a small motion to show his kick.

"Oh yeah, sorry." Jaune apologized.

Right now, Jaune was in Vale to get supplies, Mori was tagging along with him because he felt like it.

"So, when does Pyrrha get back?" Mori asked as they were walking down the streets.

"She should get back from Mistral by tonight." Jaune answered.

"Hopefully, you were working on those techniques she recommended that you do over the break."

"Come on, Mori what kind of slacker do you take me for?" Jaune defended himself

"One who spent a good 3 hours playing video games," Mori retorted.

"Hey! You were doing nothing productive either, you were just sleeping!" Jaune accused back.

"You thought I was sleeping?" Mori responded back.

"Well, when you have your eyes close and don't respond, that usually implies you are sleeping." Jaune said, "Though I never knew you were someone to talk in your sleep, saying stuff like, 'dammit', and 'shit'"

"…heh, I guess it does look I am sleeping."

Jaune was confused by Mori's statement. What is he doing if he is not sleeping?

"But yeah, you were slacking off as much as much I was!" Jaune accused.

"See, the difference here is you need the training especially because you don't have any training before Beacon."

"Says the guy who lost to me." Jaune snarked.

"That was by default!" "Mori yelled back.

"Still a loss."

Jaune knew what he was saying was complete BS. Mori could kick his ass in quite a few different ways. But it was the only thing he had over his friend.

"Aghh," Mori complained, "I'm not mad, I'm not mad about that all."

Jaune could tell he was still pissed about that.

"I'm just glad I finally got a win that wasn't a technicality."

"That win you got was completely awesome!" Mori excitedly replied, doing a 180 on his previous mood.

Jaune got his first win during his final. It was a hard-fought battle, but he was able to pull it out at the end when his block caused his opponent to lose their footing.

The look on his teammates and friends faces as he went back to the stands was something Jaune would cherish forever, even Professor Goodwitch gave him a slight smile and congratulated him.

"It's still nothing compared to what you did man," Jaune replied back, "I swear, I saw like three of you at once."

"Yeah…but I'm also more experienced at fighting than you." Mori pointed out,

"…True, man just when I thought I was starting to close the gap between us it turns out you are far stronger than I expected." Jaune complained.

"Close, the gap?"

"Yeah, I always thought you were strong before you busted out your moves, but I always thought it was more in terms of Ruby strong." Jaune explained, "But it turns out you are closer to Pyrrha!"

"You really think I am closer to Pyrrha?" Mori asked as he tilted his head.

"Of course!" Jaune replied, "Cardin is a bully but he's one of the stronger first years at Beacon and you treated him without breaking a sweat, even Yang takes a while to beat him!"

"I mean it could just be a match-up disadvantage?" Mori suggested.

"I doubt that," Jaune said expressing his skepticism, "If anything it should've been a matchup disadvantage for you. His mace had way longer reach than your leg, instead you were able to completely disarm him easily, that shows a vast skill difference."

"You really are good at analyzing battles Jaune," Mori said impressed by Jaune's reasoning.

"Heh," Jaune rubbed his head in embarrassment, "It's just all those video games I've been playing, I just hope I can reach at least your level in combat one day Mori."

"Keep working at it Jaune eventually you will get there," Mori responded, giving him a thumbs up.

Hearing that made Jaune feel happy. Mori was really strong. Everyone could tell from just one fight, even Pyrrha had an expression that Jaune had never seen before, she was visibly shaking in excitement and Jaune was worried she was gong to jump into the stadium to fight Mori herself.

"You know what would really help?" Jaune asked, "If you trained me."

"I thought you were already learning from Pyrrha," Mori questioned.

"I am, but you know…the more the merrier!" Jaune replied, "I have so many strong people around me, it would be a shame if I didn't use those resources I had."

"Well, I am teaching Renewal Taekwondo to Ruby right now but…I don't think it would work as well with your sword and shield." Mori pointed out.

"Eh, it's fine, just you giving me tips while fighting would be good." Jaune responded.

"If you are fine with that, then sure Jaune, I'll help you train."

"All right!" Jaune cheered, "When should we—is that Weiss?"

Both Mori and Jaune turned their heads to see that Weiss was in fact in Vale right now.

She was dressed up nicely, Jaune could feel his heart jump a beat over how pretty she looked.

Just before he could call out to her, he noticed that she was with someone else.

Jaune had never seen the guy before, he was dressed as nicely as Weiss and seemed to be giving off an aura of wealth, he obviously wasn't a student at Beacon, was he a friend from Atlas?

"What do you think she's doing," Jaune whispered to Mori.

"I think she is on a date," Mori whispered back.

Huh, Mori was right they did look like they were on a date.

Right now, the two were looking at stuff in the windows, the guy would say something, and Weiss would laugh.

Jaune could feel a twinge of jealousy, he never could get Weiss to laugh at his jokes.

"She looks like she's really enjoying herself," Jaune observed.

"…Is that what you think Jaune?" Mori asked as neutral expression formed on his face.

"I mean yeah, look how she's smiling and all of that." Jaune replied, confused by his friend's statement.

"…I guess it would look like she is having an enjoyable date." Mori commented. "…Let's mess with her."

"What?" Jaune asked, making sure what he heard was correct.

"Let's mess with them," Mori repeated with a grin and a glint in his eyes.

"Are you sure?" Jaune asked worriedly, "You know she is going to kill us."

"She's going to kill you," Mori replied nonchalantly, "I on the other hand have several types of immortality going for me."

"…What?"

"Besides Jaune, if we don't do anything that guy is going to take her away and do all the stuff that you want to do with her." Mori said, now trying to convince Jaune to join his endeavor

"It's still not right Mori," Jaune protested, "We shouldn't bug her on her date!"

"Just imagine," Mori then put his hand on Jaune's shoulder and stuck his hand out, "They'll be going to the movies, having small chit-chat over lunch and most importantly… be holding hands."

That last one really fired Jaune up.

"…Ok," Jaune agreed, "Let's do it."

With their decision being set Mori and Jaune immediately started to trail the two.

As Weiss and her date went into a fancy looking place for lunch, Mori and Jaune sneaked through the back ready to cause havoc.

"So, Mori," Jaune asked in a hush voice, "What do you want to do?"

Mori was silent for a bit, but when Weiss's date set aside the chair for Weiss to sit in Mori suddenly spoke up.

"…I have an idea."

"What is it," Jaune whispered,

"Shh just watch."

Right as Weiss sat down, instead of going into the chair she fell flat on her butt.

"Gyah," She screamed,

"I'm so sorry," The date panicked, "I'm not sure what happened"

"That's fine," Weiss responded, "Mistakes happen,"

Jaune's jaw dropped as he looked at Mori,

"Did you?"

Mori gave a slight grin as he put his finger on his lips and gave a shushing sound.

Just as the date helped Weiss into her seat and into her chair, he then went to go into his chair…except the same thing happened where he suddenly fell on this his butt.

"Wahh," The guy screamed.

All Weiss could do was stare in horror at what just happened.

Jaune looked at his friend in astonishment.

"They couldn't see you at all."

Mori grinned.

Man, Mori was fast.

"What are you two doing?"

A voice suddenly spoke up from behind the two.

Mori and Jaune turned around to find the rest of Team RWBY behind them.

"Pranking Weiss on her date, you?" Mori replied nonchalantly

"We are following Weiss because she was being suspicious this morning." Yang answered.

"I assume that the chair thing was your fault Mori?" Blake asked with a curious look on her face.

Mori nodded yes.

"Ehh I'd give it a 5 out of 10," Yang said flippantly, "You got the embarrassment part and the execution was great, but it's just so uncreative and juvenile."

"Well, what would you do?" Jaune asked, defending his friends honor,

At that both Ruby and Yang shared a smile.

"You see boys, Ice queen used to have a different career before she became a Huntress," Yang explained, she then pulled a flash drive out of her pocket, "This little baby here was proof of it."

"What is it?" Jaune asked again.

"Ruby," Yang said handing the flash drive to her sister, "See if you can get this playing over the intercom."

Ruby saluted and zipped away.
A couple of seconds later Ruby returned

"Mission accomplished" she proudly stated as she gave a thumbs up.

A couple of seconds later a song started to play on the intercom. It was a really pretty one that started with the singer talking about a mirror.

Jaune soon recognized the singers voice.

"Is that…" He asked as he turned to the sisters.

They nodded with the biggest smiles on their faces.

Weiss hearing the song got into a huge panic as she looked around the restaurant to find the source of the music.

"Where'd you get it?" Mori questioned with the biggest grin on his face.

"They searched through Weiss's stuff," Blake explained, "they decided to keep it for a rainy day."

"I didn't know she used to sing," Jaune said, marveling at his crush's newfound talent. "She sounds amazing."

"Yeah we looked her up," Ruby replied, "She used to be a musical prodigy in Atlas."

Huh, that was new to Jaune, he played some guitar back home in Ansel, maybe he can use some of his old musical talent to woo Weiss.

Weiss suddenly stood up.

"You know, our movie is about to start, we should really be going." Weiss said in a calm voice.

"But we haven't got our food yet," the date replied.

"It'll be fine," the heiress responded, "I heard this place is really only 4 stars anyways."

"Oh God, really! I can't believe I almost ate this filth."

And with that the two immediately left the restaurant.

The group minus Blake started laughing.

"Pretty good, pretty good," Mori chuckled while nodding. "Anything else we should do?"

"Hmm," Both Ruby and Yang put a finger on their chin to figure out what to do next.

"We could leave her alone and let her enjoy her date?" Blake suggested.

"…Nah," the other four in the group replied simultaneously.

"Well Vomit Boy, any ideas?" Yang asked Jaune, "Mori, Me and Ruby, already thought of something and Blake is looking like she's not going to be chipping in.

Aggh he hated that nickname. Just because he projectile vomited once…wait projectiles?

"Guys," Jaune said as he turned to his friends, "What if we do water balloons."

"I'll get the water Balloons," Mori responded, disappearing immediately.

"I'll help!" Ruby responded, as she too zipped away.

"Looks like water balloons it is VB," Yang grinned, "I guess Weiss is about to get a RAIN check on that date."

"Ughh," Blake and Jaune groaned at the same time.

After Ruby and Mori returned with the water balloons, Mori was able to track the pair with his nose to a fancy theater,

Just before they entered, they formulated a plan. Once Weiss and her date would finish the movie, they would chuck the water balloons with all their might at the two.

As the two took their spots in the front of the theater, the mischievous four plus Blake sat in the back.

The movie was a sappy romantic one, it was a 4 out of 10, Jaune had seen quite a few romantic movies because his sisters hogged the remote.

Just as the movie was reaching a cheesy romantic point, Jaune noticed Weiss's date start to put his arm around her.

But instead of feeling jealous, Jaune instead noticed something else…Weiss was moving away.

"…Is that what you think Jaune?"

"…I guess it would look like she is having an enjoyable date."

Mori's words echoed through Jaune's mind, as he thought about the events of Weiss's date. Her body language, her tone of voice and the way she smiled…that wasn't Weiss at all!

Jaune looked over at Mori and a sense of understanding appeared between the two.

…3…2…1

As if they shared a same mind, Mori and Jaune simultaneously threw their water balloons at the guy. Mori nailed him the back, Jaune got a headshot.

"I guess we are starting now!" Yang shouted as she, Ruby and Blake started to hurl their water balloons at the duo.

"Gahh!" Weiss screamed.

"What is going on!" the date shouted, before getting nailed by another water balloon.

As Jaune continued to throw balloon after balloon, one slipped from his control, and hit a random patron.

"Ohh man, I'm so sorry about that sir." Jaune tried to apologize.

As the guy turned around Jaune recognized his huge figures.

"You!" the guy bellowed.

It was the guy that threw Jaune during their boy's night…which did not happen.

As if it were Déjà vu, Jaune could feel the guy pick him up and throw him, this time into Weiss's date.

"Jaune!?" Weiss shrieked.

"Hey Weiss" Jaune groggily replied, seeing stars in his eyes.

"Hey! Don't do that to our friend!" Yang yelled as she punched the guy that threw Jaune.

The punch knocked the offender into another patron and a massive brawl started to occur in the movie theater.

As his other friends tried to reach him, one of the guys caught a piece of Yang's hair. In an instant Yang went berserk and massacred the entire room.

Something about this scene was very familiar to Jaune.

Thankfully Ren and alcohol weren't here this time.

"What is happening!" Weiss again shrieked.

"I'd like to know too, Snow Angel!"


"WHERE ARE THE IDIOTS!" Weiss screamed as she stormed into her room

After a talk with the police, and a lengthy apology to her guest, she immediately went back to Beacon, ready to hunt down the morons who made a fool of her.

"I promise you; we did not intend on starting a fight," Ruby cried out.

"Where's Yang?" Blake asked with no concern on her face.

"Oh, I'll deal with you guys later," Weiss threatened, "I need to deal with the two buffoons first! And Yang's still at the police being questioned."

"Any reason why you are going after those two first?" Blake nonchalantly asked from the top of her Bunk, reading a book.

"While I could only assume that the song was your guy's fault, there is only two morons who would be juvenile enough and dumb enough to throw water balloons in a theater and start a fight." Weiss explained.

"What are you going to do them Weiss?" Ruby asked, fearful of her friends' safety.

"I'm going to run Myrtenmeister straight through Buffoon B and Buffoon A I'm going to grant his wish of stepping on him…repeatedly…wearing your combat boots."

"Weiss you can't do that," Ruby cried out, trying to save her friends.

"You are right…Buffoon B is way too durable and cleats would be better for Buffoon A" Weiss muttered. "As for Buffoon B, I'll find something else…Now, tell me where they are!" she then demanded.

"No, Weiss!" Ruby cried, "I won't sell out my friends."

"If you don't tell me where they are, I will burn your comic book collection one by one in front of your face." Weiss threatened.

"You wouldn't!"

"Try me,"

"if you are looking for Jaune he is in his room getting chewed out by Pyrrha," Ruby answered, immediately selling out Jaune.

"And Buffoon B?"

"I won't rat out Mori!" "Ruby cried.

"I see…" Weiss softly said as she suddenly pulled out a comic book. "Do you know what this is Ruby?"

Ruby gasped, "That's a limited-edition mint condition first issue of Absolute Boyfriend, how did you get that?!"

"That's not important right now," Weiss said as she held it daintily in front of her partner, "See I was intending to give this to you, my partner as a gift for how long we've been together…but I'm awfully cold from the water balloons that hit me and I think this looks like the perfect thing that can warm me up." Weiss said as she pulled a lighter out.

"Weiss No!" Ruby whined, "There are only like 50 of those in existence!"

"Is there really?" Weiss said in a high pitched voice, as she inched the lighter closer, "Then I'm sure it should give me quite the toasty experience, though if I knew where a certain buffoon was I'm sure I'd be distracted from how cold I am right now." She then turned the lighter on.

"If he's not in his room, he will be up on the rooftop training." Ruby cried, selling out Mori now.

"Good girl," Weiss replied in a sickly-sweet voice, patting Ruby on the cheek and putting away the lighter. "I think I'm going to visit the roof right now; I need some fresh air." She then threw the comic book to Ruby who grabbed it and protectively put it between her arms and chest.

"You really liked that guy didn't you Weiss?" Blake again asked as she turned another page in her book.

"What! No!" Weiss denied, "He was just the son of an important business partner of my fathers, he was in Vale today and my father asked that I show him around."

"Why are you so mad at Mori and Jaune then?" Ruby cried out.

Weiss gave a look so scary that Ruby reacted with an "eep" and immediately put up her hood to hide herself.

"Now that we have the stupid questions out of the way, I need to grab Myrtenmeister and some cleats."

With that, Weiss was off to the rooftop to confront Buffoon B.

Those buffoons how dare they do that and embarrass her. That talk with the police was one of the most humiliating things she had ever had to do in her life, and then there was Buffoon B, who was so juvenile that he had enough encounters with them to be all chummy with the officers.

After that embarrassing talk, she had to apologize extensively to her guest. The boy was so mad about what happened he refused to respond to Weiss. That or he couldn't respond back because he was in a full body cast after Jaune got thrown into him.

How was she going to explain to her father that her important guest was in the hospital?

Finally reaching her destination, she opened the door to the rooftop ready to beat the ever-living crap out of Buffoon B.

Right as she was going to give him a piece of her mind, the atmosphere of the rooftop got heavier as the beginning of her tirade got choked out.

Buffoon B was in a state of concentration, Weiss could only hold her breathe as she watched him suddenly start to go through his martial arts.

She never really got her partners fascination with his techniques. Weiss would admit that he was pretty strong and the kick that knocked out Cardin was impressive. He was more skilled than she initially gave him credit for, but outside of that, she herself thought his fighting style was pretty barbaric

…But, as she watched him go through his motions, she couldn't but feel fascinated watching him train. There was this beauty that seemed to accompany him as he went through punch after punch, and kick after kick. It was all so detailed and so clean. It was like she was watching Winter train.

Not that the buffoon was as strong as Winter, of course he wouldn't be, he was only a huntsman-in-training after all.

But still, even though she hated to admit it, his potential was off the charts.

After going through a couple of more kicks and stances, Mori suddenly stopped.

Weiss could feel the pressure from before start to get heavier.

Was he about to do the kick that blew up the harbor? ...Not that it was possible of course.

People can't blow up harbors with kicks.

Without a moment's notice, the buffoon delivered another kick.

Weiss rubbed her eyes because she wasn't quite what she saw.

Was it just her or did it look like the space around him bend a bit?

"No, No," Mori muttered, as he put his foot down and put his fingers to his chin, "I'm still wasting energy… when grandpa did it, there wasn't a single wasted motion… I'm moving my arms too much."

What was he talking about? What was that kick he just did? It was a regular kick, right?... So, why did it feel so dangerous?

Weiss was questioning Mori's actions when she realized the oppressive atmosphere was gone and she remembered her initial goal.

"You, Buffoon!" Weiss shouted as she marched up to the thinking Mori, "How dare you embarrass me this afternoon."

"…Huh, Weiss? How long have you been here?" Mori asked, breaking out of his trance.

Weiss could feel a blood vein pop as she realized she had been completely ignored.

'I've been here for a couple of minutes you idiot!" She yelled, "I have a word to give about your juvenile antics this afternoon. Normally I would be the bigger person and ignore your childish antics to rile me up, but today you went a step too far."

"How, so?" the buffoon asked as he put his pinky in his ear, giving off an uncaring aura.

"You…You…That guest of mine was an especially important person that I was accommodating," Weiss angrily responded, "And you put him in the hospital!"

"Technically it was Jaune and that guy he has a habit of pissing off." The buffoon offered as rebuttal.

"That is not important!" Weiss angrily retorted, "Either way, I know it was you that started the entire thing."

"Eh he'll be fine; aura will fix him up."

Weiss could feel another blood vein pop.

"That… is… not…the …point," Weiss slowly stated, "You do not put important people in the hospital."

"Was he important to you? Or important to someone else?"

Like an arrow hitting its target, Weiss could feel the buffoon's question pierce through her.

"…Wha-wha-what do you mean, of course he was important to me!"

"…I don't know about that Weiss," The buffoon answered back. "I'd think that if he was that important to you, you wouldn't have felt that uncomfortable."

…Wha, Wha, what was the idiot talking about? She wasn't uncomfortable at all during her time with the guest.

Yeah, he was annoying and condescending to her.

And she found his elitist attitude unbearable.

And his jokes were worse than Buffoon A's

And she caught his eyes wander a bit too far, a bit too much.

But that didn't mean she was uncomfortable, not at all.

"I…I don't know what you are talking about," Weiss responded in a huff. "I was perfectly fine…though hypothetically If I wasn't fine, it was still required of me to show him around."

"Who aske-, hypothetically asked you to do that," Mori asked with genuine concern on his face.

"Hypothetically, it would've been my father," Weiss responded, "He wanted me to get to know the young man, he was the son of an important business man in Atlas and my father wanted me to get to know him for my…future…this is all hypothetical of course." She quickly added on.

"I guess hypothetically that got ruined!" Buffoon B joked.

Weiss allowed a small smile to grace her face.

"Yes, hypothetically that did get ruined," Weiss replied back, "And hypothetically if I was uncomfortable, I would thank whoever did that."

"Hypothetically the person who did that wasn't the only one to notice," Mori pointed out, "There was a reason two water balloons were thrown."

She could feel her anger start to die down more; it was kind of nice that they noticed that she would've have rather been anywhere else.

"Well, I'd hypothetically thank both of them and hypothetically I'd find the condition of my guest quite amusing." She responded, "…But since this is all hypothetical, instead I'm going to kick the offenders asses…however, it's a bit late right now and I need to get ready for the beginning of the semester, so I will leave that for another time…you should get some sleep as well, it wouldn't be good to stay up to late."

It was too late, and she was too tired to punish the morons.

Mori then chuckled, "Ok Weiss, I'll see you tomorrow."

Weiss then turned around and went back to her room.
"Hey Weiss?"

Weiss turned around back to Mori.

"I tell this to Jaune all the time, and we don't really interact alone much but…you should really do what you want more instead of what someone else wants of you."

"I don't know what you are talking about you buffoon," Weiss answered back curtly.

She then continued to her room.

After making a good distance between Mori, Weiss suddenly stopped and thought about what the buffoon said.

"Doing what I want…" Weiss quietly said to herself, "…It's easy for you to say, you aren't as burdened with as many chains as I am."


TMT here again. Hope you guys enjoyed the latest chapter. Still haven't taken that break yet...I really need to sometime...Other than that Nothing new I feel should be brought up. Another part of Becoming Real will be on the bottom.

With that out of the way, Read and Review!


Creus: Yeah looks like he is going to be learning how to get stronger it should be fun. Mori Hui really did deserve better

Deus Aus Bestia: He is a total Badass. Those are some interesting theories on what they could do with the Yongpo...we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

ilanddubrowski: You are welcome!

Felipe1402XZA: Who knows maybe he will learn recoiless it's not set in stone yet.

FPinheiro96: Thank you hope you like this one.

Everpeach: I'm glad to see you will keep reading. I remember you were one of the first readers I got so I'm happy to see that you are still following along!

Gen2324: Ok thank you for clarifying, but yeah Ironwoods paranoia really has a habit of biting him in the ass.

DXhologram: Yeah Mori really is pretty smart, you don't see it as much in the first couple of parts, but you see it a whole lot when he is Mori Dan..

Crazyapple666: Glad to have you along for the ride! But yeah I agree the gourd really would be perfect for Salem.

Akashi1412: Well I'm happy to provide that!

Guest: Who knows...maybe they will...nah.

Straneo: So that one's not really supposed to be a secret but it's not Xuanzhang it's someone importnat to Ruby.

Guest: More like across the solar system.

Andielgranrayo: Thank you, hopefully you'll enjoy the short then.

Guest 2: Yup you are correct, it was Summer, so to clarify it's not a borrowed power or a ghost, it's more she's starting to see her mother's heroic parts in Mori.

Nyxsky: You are Welcome, I have some plans for Yeoui so hopefully you'll like them.


Becoming Real Part 2


Today had been a very great day for Penny. She was allowed outside of the laboratory and she got to fight against Grimm!

The best thing of all though, was that she got to make a new friend!

She couldn't wait to introduce him to her father and General Ironwood.

"…So, Penny, right?" Her new friend asked as he walked behind. "Where are we going?"

"We are off to meet my father and General Ironwood," Penny replied with a smile, "They'll be so excited to hear that I made my first friend."

"…Shouldn't you be worrying about the end of the world right now?"

"…End of the world?" Penny asked, "Are you ok new friend? The world isn't ending."

"But…but…but Ragnarök and the Gods attacking and Jupiter almost hitting Earth!"

"Ragnarök? Jupiter?" Penny asked back, tilting her head. "Are you ok, friend? I have never heard of any of these things before, and which God's are you talking about?"

At that, her new friend went silent, as it looked like he went into deep thought.

Still, Penny couldn't help but feel he was acting awfully strange. Did he take a huge hit to the head from the Grimm? Her sensors couldn't really find anything, in fact his body seemed to be fine.

The only strange thing she could find, was his Aura, or lack thereof. Why was he fighting Grimm if he had no aura?

"So, Penny?" Her friend asked again in the middle of their walk back, "Who is this General Ironwood you are taking me too?"

"You've never heard of General Ironwood" Penny gasped, "He's only the military leader of Atlas of course…"

"And Atlas is located where?" the friend asked again.

"…Are you ok friend?" Penny asked, "Atlas is one of the four nations of Remnant."

"Penny?"

"Yes, friend?"

"Where is Remnant?"

Penny's new friend was very strange…she may need to get him checked.


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