Hello, we're back to weekly updates.
Also to answer ChunkyFunkyMunky and Guest, no I am not making a harem, that last chapter might have made it seem like I was, but nope, I have zero intention to give Kakashi a harem, since 1. That's just not him and 2. Harems are quite unrealistic, especially for Kakashi as a character. So, sorry to anyone who wanted to see a harem, but I'm not gonna make one.
Onto the chapter!
Kakashi was a smart man, he was the top student for every single class for the first month, so coming into the second month most people expected him finally fail. He never really looked like he tried, he never participated unless asked too, he never seemed to listen in class yet he somehow get perfect scores in quizzes, seatworks and activities. Some people assumed that he was cheating, but after a thorough investigation was done during the most recent quiz, with hidden cameras, extra proctors and more, Kakashi was deemed to not be cheating at all.
So imagine how frustrated Weiss was when someone trying less than half as her gets higher grades than her. But before we go on to her violent reaction, let's see what happened.
Their test results for Dust Chemistry had come in, Team RWBY and Team JNPR compared all their scores.
Ruby got 58/100, barely passing, she got a verbal beating from Weiss. Both Yang and Nora got, 60/100. Jaune… Well he didn't want show his score to anyone. Ren got 74/100. Pyrrha 89/100. Blake 90/100.
Weiss proudly showed her test paper to everyone. 94/100.
"Well of course, you the heiress of a dust company, so it only makes sense that you know quite a lot about Dust Chemistry." Pyrrha walked up to Weiss to observe the paper in her hands."
"Hmph" Weiss sounded proudly.
Then, Kakashi received his paper and walked up to his tem and JNPR.
"Well that quiz was pretty easy." He casually showed his paper to everybody.
100/100
"WHAT THE F- "Ruby covered Weiss's mouth before she could finish the sentence.
"Guess Kakashi's just smarter than you Weiss queen."
Ruby removed her hand from Weiss's mouth.
"I don't think I've ever seen you touch a book to study, how do you have a perfect score!"
"I don't know, stock knowledge? Come on, history class is next"
They all began walking, but Weiss could be heard angrily mumbling in the back.
He was just smart, even back in Konohagakure he never really tried, he just listened kept the discussions in memory and answered. Kakashi already knew a lot about Remnant, it's history, it's language, it's sciences and more, that's why he always got those perfect scores. He studied as soon as he got to this World.
Once all of them got to their seats in the next class, Professor- Doctor Oobleck began the discussion.
"Alright class, today we will be discussing the second and third year Faunus Rights Revolution" Oobleck sped to the other side of the room
"Now this might seem like ancient history to a lot of you, but its effects can be seen reverberating to this day. Tell me how many of you have felt discrimination due to your faunus heritage."
A few students raised their hand, including the bunny faunus that Kakashi helped out before.
"Dreadful, simply dreadful, it is ignorance like this that is the reason why for groups like the White Fang to appear, now, let us continue with the discussion shall we?"
Oobleck drank a bit of his coffee
"Now as we all know; General George Hooker was put in charge of the faunus army at the Potomec. Faunus leader, Abraham Lincoln, ordered Hooker to move south and take Vale."
He continued speeding across the room as he discussed
"The opposing General Lee was thought to have no chance of winning due to his smaller army but, General Lee cleverly maneuvered his forces and beat back the faunus army."
Kakashi noticed Jaune on the brink of sleep, with Cardin scheming behind him. Cardin pulled out his notebook and ripped a piece of paper from it.
"But While the Faunus Rebels were struggling in the east, over in the west, things were looking up for the faunus." Oobleck took a sip of coffee "Faunus General Grant made a series of bold moves to take Hicksburg, a city in the Pississippi."
He took another sip "Now, who here knows the bold moves that General Grant made." He took a few seconds to look around class.
"Mr. Hatake you have not answered in a while, this is your chance." Oobleck went up to Kakashi's seat and leaned forward.
Kakashi took a second to think. "He sent a cavalry raid coming from the north to confuse General Pemberton. Then, as he was aided by the navy on the river, he went south. General Grant knew that attacking Hicksburg by going north would be disadvantageous because of the terrain, so he instead went north-east and won multiple battles as he continued moving, he destroyed Hicksburg's supply line and defeated the human army at Jackson, once he reached Hicksburg, he besieged it."
The professor leaned back and sped back to the lecturing area. "Very good Mr. Hatake, you are bright as always."
"Moving on, the third year of the war is believed by many historians to be the site of a massive turning point in the east, can any of you tell me what was that turning point?"
Weiss raised her hand "The Battle of Fort Castle."
"Precisely! And who can tell me the advantage the faunus had over General Lagune's forces"
Cardin flicked a piece of paper at the half asleep Jaune which woke him up. "Hey!"
Oobleck sped to Jaune's seat. "Mr. Arc, you are finally contributing to the class, what is the answer?"
Jaune did his best to make up an answer on the spot, while in the back Kakashi was feeling annoyed about his incompetence, Jaune was starting to feel like how Obito was in class.
"the answer… is… uh…" Jaune looked to his partner, Pyrrha, who was trying to signal 'Night Vision" to Jaune, by curling her hands and putting them over her eyes.
"Binoculars!" Jaune optimistically said.
Oobleck took a disappointed sip as many students laughed, while Pyrrha and Kakashi face palmed.
"Very funny Mr. Arc, Cardin? Would you care to share your knowledge on the subject?" Cardin put his feet up on the desk on front of him
"Well, training animals should be much easier than training an actual Person" Oobleck shook his head in disappointment
"You're not very open-minded are you Cardin?"
Cardin scoffed
"The correct answer is night vision, many faunus have this ability."
Blake built upon Pyrrha's answer "General Lagune was inexperienced and made the decision to attack the faunus in their sleep, his army was outmatched ad the faunus ultimately won."
Cardin growled in contempt.
"Maybe if he payed attention in class he wouldn't have been such a massive failure."
At this Cardin stood up, while most students laughed
"Mr. Winchester, please take a seat." Oobleck took another sip of coffee.
Jaune started laughing, but his laughing was cut off when Oobleck sped to him and spoke.
"You and Mr. Arc can see me after class. Moving On!"
The discussion continued
On the rooftop, Kakashi had just overheard the conversation between Jaune and Pyrrha and…
That's it, Jaune arc was a failure or at least was a failure in the making, his transcripts were fake, no wonder he was horrible in academics and combat, it would have been fine if Jaune had just accepted the help Pyrrha offered but nope, he refused. Kakashi watched from above as Jaune sadly walked around the rooftop, he was a failure of a leader and as a huntsman.
But failures could always be redeemed, but that's exactly what Jaune had rejected, a chance at redemption, with Pyrrha's help he could've been a strong and capable leader but he didn't accept that help.
But then Kakashi saw something peculiar, a hand reached for the ledge of the balcony, as it pulled up, the rest of the figure was revealed. It was Cardin.
Nope, Kakashi wasn't going to let this happen, he knew exactly what Cardin was going to do.
He jumped down and got in between him and Jaune, he activated Sharingan, out of view from Jaune, and looked Cardin in the eyes. He fell unconscious.
'It's really good that Sasuke taught me how to do that.'
"Um… Kakashi?" Jaune said in confusion, he did not see the sharingan
He caught Cardin as he fell and walked down the wall and got inside Cardin and his team's dorm through the window.
Kakashi saw Cardin's teammates
'Chances are they heard it too."
"Hey man, what are you- "He collapsed
So did everyone else in the room.
He put all of them on a bed and left, they would have no memory of the incident.
Kakashi walked up the wall once more and met Jaune at the balcony.
"You can make people uncon- "Jaune was cut off
"Not a word, let's have a talk, Jaune."
Kakashi's tone sounded rather threatening which made Jaune gulp.
"Jaune, why did you refuse Pyrrha's help?" Kakashi asked with slight frustration in his voice.
Jaune just scratched the back of his head.
"I just want to do things on my own, I've been weak my whole life, so if I can't even get strong myself, then what am I?"
Kakashi loudly sighed
"Do you know how idiotic that viewpoint is?" Kakashi really did think Jaune was very stupid, but not this stupid. Everybody needs a helping hand every now and then, and Jaune was declining that help.
"You are human Jaune, and it as a human trait to work together. Why do you think teams were formed here at Beacon?"
"Uhhhh, to make new friends?"
Wow… Okay. Kakashi face palmed in his thoughts
"To teach us how to work together, because sometimes people can't do things on their own. There's a reason why people have trainers and the such, that's because some people need a helping hand, that doesn't necessarily mean that they're hopeless, it just means that they just need help to get strong."
"But- "
"Everyone has a reason for being strong, for a lot of people it's training, for some it's talent, so why can't the reason that you're strong be Pyrrha's help. Do you get embarrassed when a doctor saves you and you don't save yourself? Do you feel ashamed when a teacher teaches you and you don't teach yourself?"
Kakashi paused for a few seconds to let his words sink in
"Go to Pyrrha and make things right Jaune. You're a leader Jaune, stop being a failure and finally become the hero that you want to be, even if it is with Pyrrha's help."
Jaune stood there for a second, looking down at the ground, before looking back up at Kakashi, with a smirk he spoke.
"Yeah." Then he went downstairs.
Kakashi sat down, he could finally relax, with cool breeze hitting his body and the shattered moon in the sky, he took out a small book. Icha Icha Takutikusu. He began reading peacefully.
'Hopefully Blake doesn't come up here'
His life here felt very weird, it was very different from back in his world, apparently the simple change of killing Kaguya instead of sealing her made all the difference.
He turned a page.
Tomorrow was going to be the field trip to Foreverfall forest, he needed to get some sleep.
Just one more page.
Kakashi had become some sort of minor celebrity ever since his fight with Ruby, someone apparently had recorded the fight and uploaded it on the internet. Ruby in turn was rather humiliated.
His fame grew even more as people recorded more and more fights in battle class. Professor Goodwitch had done her best to suppress people from recording but people always found more ways to secretly record the battles
Lavender Vystal, considered to be one of the greatest fighters to come out of Signal Academy. Ruby noted that not even her and Yang could beat her. She does incredibly well in combat class at Beacon with only two losses. What were those two losses? Kakashi beat her in exactly sixteen seconds. Pyrrha beat her in fifteen, which was in part due to the fact that Lavender wore metal greaves and gauntlets.
Both those fights garnered hundreds of thousands of views on Shootube.
Bio Drando's semblance was the ability to perceive time thirty-four times slower, allowing to react and attack properly even against physically superior opponents. He won second place in the Mistral Regional tournament, first being Pyrrha Nikos. When he went to Beacon Academy and attended Combat Class, Kakashi Hatake overwhelmed him with his speed, something that his semblance was supposed to help with.
The video taken of that fight received millions of views on Shootube
In the eyes of most students attending Beacon academy, and all the others who have watched the videos, Kakashi was one of the strongest fighters of his age group.
Most people believed that there was only one person that could match him. Pyrrha Nikos.
So when Goodwitch saw that the fighters supposed to fight next were Kakashi and Pyrrha, she knew that she couldn't stop the students from filming, and even if she did, there would be mass outrage, so she just gave in, she had the class extended, they moved to the biggest training ground that beacon had to offer and Ozpin even sent a camera crew.
Everything was set, this fight was going to be the biggest non Vytal festival fight in Beacon in decades. The woman who won the Mistral Regional Tournament four times in a row and became the cover image of Pumpkin Pete's cereal against the guy who nonchalantly defeats expert fighters without evidence of ever being tired of frustrated.
Feminist groups rallied for Pyrrha who was the first woman to win the Mistral Regional Tournament more than once, while most of the people who watched his fights on Shootube cheered for him.
Glynda had given the two of them thirty minutes to prepare, while also calling Doctor Oobleck and Professor Port to commentate on the fight.
The fight would be recorded live for everyone outside of beacon to watch; this was practically a Vytal festival fight just without the massive floating arena.
It was going to be an amazing fight.
Kakashi knew that he could beat Pyrrha in seconds if he wanted to, but since that hundreds would watch in the arena while millions more would watch it online, he knew that he needed to put on a show, he needed to actually get hit. If Pyrrha lost to him without Kakashi even taking a single hit, her public image would be destroyed, at least the Ruby video only had a few ten thousand views and was taken down immediately by Beacon, but this one was straight up being recorded officially. So he needed to actually get hurt.
He opened his locker, and took off his pre-war jonin uniform and put on his anbu uniform, he grabbed his katana and sheathed it behind his back, the final touch, he put the Inu mask on.
He would fight her seriously yet hold back. He will attack, yet he will also allow himself to get attacked.
'There were still some parts about Pyrrha that I need to deal with, the first is her semblance, she told us in a passing conversation in Foreverfall a few days ago that it was Polarity, so she could basically control magnetism, the problem was what kind of magnetism? Ferromagnetism, Ferrimagnetism, Para magnetism and more. She wasn't exactly specific'
But since Pyrrha's weapons and armor were almost fully made of ferromagnetic materials, Kakashi assumed that it was ferromagnetism that she had control over.
He made his way to the arena battlegrounds.
Once he arrived, he saw Pyrrha in front of him, the arena they were in was special, it was specifically made to train for the Vytal festival, which meant the area around them could change.
"Ladies and Gentlemen are you ready?!" Professor Ports's voice echoed loudly through the arena, which was filled with the cheers of eager students.
"Whether you're watching live at home or here in his arena, we hope that you get the full experience of this battle." Doctor Oobleck stated
Kakashi came out of darkness and was now standing exactly 15 meters away from Pyrrha, the cheers got louder.
"You know all the loud cheering is getting annoying, back where I came from the audience in these tournaments would usually be pretty quiet." Kakashi told Pyrrha in his casual voice
"That sounds like a pretty boring crowd." Pyrrha enthusiastically said.
"Well, all these people are cheering for a reason, so I think it's best we at least give them a good fight." Kakashi said in his enthusiastic voice
"Yeah." Pyrrha returned the smile.
"Our first combatant is the leader of the uniquely named Team White Knight, he has no known losses and has a strong semblance which gives him a diverse set of abilities. The Unbeatable man without an aura, Give it up for Kakashi Hatake!" The crowd cheered in excitement, especially Team White Knight
"You can do it Kakashi!" Ruby yelled from her seat."
"Come on! Kick her ass!" Yang said with a smirk as she stood up to cheer.
"Language!" Ruby called out.
"Go Kakashi!" Weiss herself surprisingly cheered for him. Although she believed that Pyrrha would win, she still cheered for her leader
Blake looked around and saw everyone else cheer for him, so she might as well cheer as well.
"Good Luck!"
"And our second combatant, the four-time Mistral Regional Tournament Winner, being known as 'The Invincible Girl' due to her prowess in combat. Her semblance is unknown, and she is one of the strongest fighters, of this generation, give it up for Pyrrha Nikos." The crowd cheered louder compared to Kakashi, due to the fact that she already had a large following prior to this.
"Come on Pyrrha!" Jaune stood up and cheered, ever since Kakashi talked to him, he had been training with Pyrrha and thus had the opportunity to appreciate her fighting skill.
"Break his legs, but not too much, since we're all kinda friends." No need to explain who said this.
The area around them suddenly turned into a sandy oasis, with a decently sized pond on the side
"Now, let the fight BEGIN!"
Kakashi and Pyrrha both ran at each other full speed.
Kakashi brought his weapon down on Pyrrha, his katana hit her shield. Pyrrha transformed Milo into its rifle form, but before she could take the shot, Kakashi jumped backwards.
"Katon: Goukakyu no Jutsu"
The giant fire ball came careening at Pyrrha, she leaped to the right, the fireball crashed onto the wall, with a decently sized explosion.
Pyrrha used her rifle to fire a few shots at Kakashi.
He cut the bullets midair, before rushing once more at Pyrrha, their blades locked, Pyrrha attempted to kick Kakashi, but he quickly disengaged and swept back, before attempting three quick slashes at Pyrrha who ducked, deflected, and dodged. She flipped backwards as she did she threw her shield at Kakashi.
It was spinning and coming at Kakashi and high speeds, he leapt up and caught the shield midair and threw it back at Pyrrha.
The crowd cheered
"Nice!" Yelled Yang
Pyrrha caught the shield once more, but before she knew it Kakashi was already in front of her with his lightning imbued katana ready, Pyrrha slid it away with her shield before transforming Milo into a javelin and thrusting it at his stomach, it struck.
But, Kakashi suddenly became deformed, he turned a pale brown like the sand under him as he sunk into the ground. It was some sort of Earth Clone.
Kakashi was nowhere to be seen.
Pyrrha looked around her as fast as she could.
The audience was silent
Then Pyrrha quickly remembered what Kakashi did against Ruby. He wasn't on her left, right, back or front.
He was beneath her.
Pyrrha jumped up as a hand sprouted from the ground, barely missing her leg.
The crowd cheered once more.
Kakashi emerged from the ground.
Pyrrha fired four shots at Kakashi who deflected all of them. At this point Pyrrha knew that bullets were useless against him
She was still in the air.
Perfect opportunity
Kakashi threw lightning dust at the air, then Kakashi placed the blade of his katana in the air.
Pyrrha finally hit the group of dust midair as Kakashi used his blade as a way to spark all the dust by surging it with lightning chakra a massive web of yellow lightning enveloped Pyrrha.
The audience was silent once more, this man had actually hurt the invincible girl, he actually did it.
But Pyrrha was strong, she took all the pain and still managed to kick Kakashi's arm, disarming him.
His sword was now far way. Pyrrha finally landed, knowing that Kakashi no longer had his main weapon, she took the offensive and sprinted towards him
Kakashi pulled out Kunai and they fought.
They were fighting on a level of combat that most students couldn't even dream off.
Every hit was so fast that it appeared as a blur, every minute detail was calculated by each fighter.
Pyrrha used a barrage of hits and slashes with Milo and Akouo, constantly switching styles to confuse him, while Kakashi effortlessly deflected every strike that Pyrrha had to offer.
In this situation, Kakashi could just simply use Shiden and end it, but doing that would disappoint everyone, he needed to continue this fight for a bit longer before he started beating Pyrrha completely with strong techniques.
Kakashi saw a small opening on Pyrrha's center, and attempted to stab her, but his kunai somehow missed. Oh right, polarity semblance.
Pyrrha swiped Milo at Kakashi, he tried backing away, but he felt something pushing him, pushing him towards Pyrrha's sword, it was faint, yet if he focused on it, he knew there was something.
Then Kakashi saw it, with his sharingan, he was able to see Pyrrha's aura stretch out to the metal scabbard of his sword behind him, it also stretched to kunai and shuriken inside his tool pouch. Pyrrha was forcing Kakashi to get hit.
He needed to get rid of all the metal on him, or else he really was going to lose, well not really, again he can just use Shiden and completely overwhelm her with his superior strength and speed and be done with it, but that wouldn't be any fun.
Kakashi did his best to fight against the pulling and pushing of the metal objects.
He continued evading every single attack that Pyrrha made against him, albeit a bit more difficultly.
Kakashi brought his kunai up and pretended to hammer it down on Pyrrha, she took the bait and brought up her shield, but with blinding speed Kakashi pulled out a paper bomb and placed it on her shield. This distracted her for a split second, but a split second was all that Kakashi needed, he crouched down and delivered an upward kick at Pyrrha's chin, that sent her spiraling in the air for a dozen meters before coming to a stop, the paper bomb blew up causing her to go a bit higher in the air
Then Kakashi removed his tool pouch and removed the scabbard of his sword, placing them on the ground.
Pyrrha tried shooting at Kakashi from the air with Milo, now that he had no weapons with him he couldn't possibly- did he just grab the bullets with his hand?
With his free hand Kakashi reached into his second tool pouch which held his dust, he pulled out a vial of powdered lightning dust and poured a good amount of it in his bullet filled hand.
Then he surged lightning chakra like he did with the bell test, and threw them at Pyrrha.
Since Pyrrha was falling she had no escape from the web of lightning
But Pyrrha was smart, she transformed Milo into a javelin and threw it at the web, causing it to dissipate immediately.
The javelin continued its downward trajectory and was coming incredibly fast at Kakashi, but he didn't move, he simply stared at it as it continued moving towards him.
And once it reached him, he caught it and transformed it into its rifle form.
He transformed it, prior to this he hasn't even held the weapon, yet here he was, holding it for the first time, and he transformed it like he was the owner.
Everyone watching at outside and in the live audience was stunned.
Pyrrha had finally landed, she was a bit far from Kakashi
Kakashi fired twice, Pyrrha blocked the bullets with her shield, she charged.
Kakashi tried shooting a few more times but as all the bullets were blocked by Pyrrha's shield charge, he was forced to change tactics.
He charged too.
As both fighters charged, they both did something, for just a split second, they smiled.
Pyrrha for finally meeting an opponent that gave her a challenge, for finally feeling the thrill of combat once more.
Kakashi, because he knew he was going to win and watching Pyrrha continue trying to win was a bit funny.
Sword met shield, sparks flew in the air, Pyrrha attempted leg swiping Kakashi, he jumped up. Pyrrha tried a shield bash, Kakashi ducked under her shield, the rest of Pyrrha's body was now open.
He let out a swift Blow to her stomach, sending all the air left inside Pyrrha's body outwards. He ducked to side and stood back up.
But Pyrrha held firm and delivered a roundhouse kick straight to Kakashi's face/mask.
It sent him flying into the waters of the nearby pond, with a big splash he fell under.
Things went quiet.
Then the audience erupted into cheers.
"Guess, Pyrrha is stronger than your leader!" Nora cockily shouted at team White Knight who looked a bit sad.
"No fair! Kakashi has no counter against Pyrrha's semblance!" Ruby responded
"And he has no aura, Nora" Ren told his partner
Pyrrha looked at aura screens. Hers was halfway gone. If Kakashi was deemed unable to fight by Miss Goodwitch, who was proctoring the battle, then Kakashi would immediately be disqualified.
And Goodwitch was about to call the match, but Kakashi stood up, he stood on water, his inu mask was cracked.
'Oh thank Kami, if it fell off, they would have seen my Sharingan.'
The crowd went silent once more, then Kakashi's supporters began cheering.
"It looks like he's not done for yet! Also he can stand on water now apparently."
Kakashi began molding together handsigns.
Pyrrha saw this and immediately started running at him, she knew that whenever he did those signs, something big happened.
She grabbed Milo which was on the ground as she ran, but before she could transform it into a javelin and throw it.
Two clones burst from the pond and ran at her.
Damn! Kakashi was stalling her, she needed to get through the clones quick.
Kakashi continued forming the handsigns, this jutsu had a lot of them.
Pyrrha eventually cut down one clone, the other clone continued to attack her, each attack she made it was able to evade each one, it was like fighting the real Kakashi, she continued fighting it, but it suddenly disappeared in a poof of smoke.
Why did Kakashi dispel the clones?
Because he had completed the jutsu.
The water around Kakashi suddenly rose up and formed into a serpentine like shape, a face formed resembling that of a dragon with glowing yellow eyes.
It was massive, it coiled its body, readying itself
The audience was silent.
Kakashi's left hand suddenly flickered with purple lightning, he placed his hand within the body of the dragon, purple electricity was now surging in large amounts through it, it's yellow eyes turned purple.
Pyrrha didn't move, she was paralyzed with fear.
"Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu!" (Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique)
The lightning imbued water dragon rushed at Pyrrha, she tried to hold down a defense by holding up her shield, but the dragon somehow was smart enough to avoid it, it went under the shield and hit slammed onto her directly.
She was immediately pushed onto the concrete wall of the arena, a large crater formed on it as the serpentine water continued pushing itself onto Pyrrha, the electricity only serving to damage Pyrrha further.
As soon as her aura hit zero, Kakashi dispelled the technique,
The water suddenly deformed back into normal water and sunk into the sandy ground.
Goodwitch nodded towards professor Port who nodded back.
"And the winner is, Kakashi Hatake!"
The crowd held mixed reactions, most cheered but a select few booed or stayed silent.
Medics eventually came to cart the almost unconscious Pyrrha away.
But before the medics could take, Kakashi walked up to Pyrrha and held out his arm.
"No hard feelings?" Kakashi asked.
Pyrrha smiled
"Of course." She shook his hand, the cheers grew more and more.
Hey, hey. I'm sorry if I didn't do that fight justice, but like what the author of Remnant's Maelstrom Shinobi said, it's hard to put the explosive and fast paced fights of RWBY into words.
Also, yeah, the Faunus Rights Revolution is basically the american civil war in this fic. So what would that make the great war, you ask? The 7 years war.
Anyways, see you next week, love you, bye
