Hey ya here with a new chapter. Sorry it took so long. And to chirotiando my good man. I am sorry but I just love the original pairings to death, but don't worry there will be a few new ones in this story. Now on with the story.
Team TOTM's room, 7:30 a.m.
Izuku slowly woke up with fluttering eyelids that finally opened up all the way. He sat up to find the girls waking up and Tenya already in his uniform. Last night when they went to sleep they decided girls would have the right side of the room and the guys would take left.
Tenya saw his teammates finally waking up. "Good morning, everyone! I hope you slept well!"
"Good Morning Iida." Izuku mumbled sleepily. Tenya looked at him then the girls. "Midoriya, I suggest you get ready first since your more awake than either Uraraka or Asui."
"I told you to call me Tsuyu." Tsuyu deadpanned. From her bed.
"Go ahead Deku. I'll use it after you." Ochako said sleepily in her covers, if only hoping she got a few more minutes of sleep while Izuku got ready.
Izuku got up with his stuff and went into the bathroom. After brushing his teeth and a quick shower he came out in his uniform. It was a black suit lined with gold trim with two gold buttons on the shoulders; underneath it is a white shirt under blue vest and a red tie. Izuku thought it looked okay but he didn't really know how to tie his tie, so it came out a little small.
He walked over to Ochako's bed and shook her shoulder a little and told her to get ready. Ochako whined getting up out of her bed and grabbed her stuff and went in the bathroom. She came out a few minutes later in the school's female uniform which made Izuku blush. The jacket was a really dark red and the gold buttons on the shoulder were gone. The blue vest was replaced with a brown one, the white shirt with a white blouse with black lining on the collar, the tie with a red ribbon, and a red plaid skirt over thigh high black socks.
"Okay Tsuyu, your turn." Ochako called out to her friend. When Tsuyu passed them she turned to him. "Midoriya, your tie is messed up." She stated bluntly before walking in the bathroom Izuku fumbled around nervously with the stupid neck trap. Ochako saw this and giggled at the sight. "Here let me help you with that." She walked up to him and tied it right. So close he screamed in his head and blushing.
Tsuyu came out a few minutes later and Tenya was starting a list of things they had to do. "Our first class is at nine this morning that means we have a little over an hour to get to class. We have a few things to take care of beforehand. First, we revise what classes we have, next we unpack our belongings and finally we grab breakfast and make a break for our class."
"Sounds good." Ochako pulled her schedule and listed off their teachers. "Our first class is Semblance application. After that we have history with Professor Oobleck, followed by combat class, General studies, Grimm studies with Professor Port and…" She paused at the last one looking at the sheet of paper confused.
"What is it?" Tsuyu asked.
"Huntsman foundations and assignments but I don't know who this last person is." She pointed to the last teacher on the page. What he saw shocked him greatly. What was he doing here? Why didn't he tell him he was going to be a teacher here? He read it again to make sure he was right. Toshinori Yagi. It was right.
"It says we'll have him all day tomorrow." Tenya interjected. Izuku would have to wait. "Okay. Now we unpack."
Tsuyu had decorated her part of the room with a froggy theme to it with mostly green and frog like accessories. Tenya had organized his part of the room in pristine condition. Ochako put away her things and placed a few cheap stickers of the huntsmen she trained with on the side off her bed. And Izuku had only brought his old Huntsmen notebooks and a poster of All Might. After that they looked at their work and called it finished.
"Alright. Grab your things for today and let's make our way to the cafeteria." He blew a whistle he pulled out of nowhere and blew before leaving the room.
"He's taking the leader role very seriously." Izuku managed to say with a sweatdrop.
"Yeah, he is." Ochako replied with her own sweatdrop.
It was the same breakfast they had the other day with waffles, eggs and sausage. A this point it was 8:45 and they were walking to their first class. "So, what do you think our first teachers going to be like? Do you think he's nice or strict? Do we have any other orientations today?" Ochako was a happy ball of questions on their way to class. They found the room and were surprised by the size of the door. They walked in and took a seat together in one of the middle rows. Shouto and the rest of team SMKE were in right behind them. They chose to sit behind them except for Bakugo who sat as far left as he could. He didn't have his tie or blue vest and had his pants very baggy which gave him a delinquent type look. "Why are you over there Bakubro? Come sit with us." Kirishima tried to get his teammate to sit with them.
"I sit where I want to sit dumb hair." Bakugo yelled.
"My name is Kirishima. Suit yourself man." Kirshima smiled and went back to his own chair.
A few minutes before the bell rang both Team RWBY and JNPR came rushing in the room panting with their hands on their knees.
"It's three minutes before the bell Weiss. You always get to class with ten minutes to spare." Tenya said acussingly.
"Don't look at me. This dolt made us make bunk beds for our room." Weiss pointed at Ruby.
"Ah, we should do bunk beds." Ochako squealed at the thought.
"This an institution of higher learning and training for the future protectors of the world and not some slumber par..." Tenya's hands were everwhere as he went on his lecture before he spotted Bakugo in his uniform and with his feet on his desk. "Ack. Bakugo why aren't you wearing your uniform correctly and furthermore get your feet off the desk." He yelled.
"Huh?" Bakugo said it goadingly.
"These desks were used by the respectful men and women we call our upperclassmen. To use them in such a way disrespects not only them but this school and the workers who made these desks." Tenya went off onhis rant looking down on Bakugo.
"Whats the matter with you. Did you always have a stick up your ass or did your last school put it there." The blonde bomber had kept his goading tone.
"I went to Soumei Academy in Atlas as well as Weiss and Shouto." Tenya responded.
"Hooo. So, your all damn elites huh? Guess I have another reason to crush you all." He smiled menacingly.
Tenya backed up appalled. "Crush us. Are you truly here to be a huntsman?"
"Oh, come on guys. Can we please get along?" Ochako tried to be the peacemaker.
"Go back to floating things, round face."
"Round?" She self-consciously checked her face.
"Hey. Only I call her that." Yang came in to the conversation.
"You wanna fight Goldie." Bakugo sneered.
"I'll take you on right here and now Explosion boy." Her eyes turning red.
"If you're here to bicker than leave." A voice came from the door. They all turned to see a disheveled face sticking out of a yellow caterpillar sleeping bag. "This is the Huntsmen course. Treat it so." His hand came out with a juice box and he sucked it dry.
What the hell is that? Everyone thought.
Then the bell rang, and at the literal same moment, their teacher got out of his sleeping bag and walked through the door. He was tall with long, unkept, greasy black hair that went down to his shoulders with two black cat ears popping out of the top. His eyes were just as black as his hair. He wore nothing but black and had what looked like a large amount of bandages for a scarf. "That took you eight seconds to shut up. We need all the time we have." He wrote his name on the board and introduced himself in a very tired and dejected voice. "Welcome to Semblance application. My name is Shouta Aizawa. You will address me as Mr. Aizawa and nothing else.
Shouta Aizawa? Why does that sound familiar?Izuku thought.
Aizawa continued his lecture. "Most of your grade in this class will be hands-on with very little paperwork. Almost like combat class with spars and physical tests but there will be no weapons and nothing but your semblance and your own body to use. Now I know that a select few of you either have little to no control of your semblance, or you prefer not to use it, or maybe you still haven't found yours yet. There is nothing to be ashamed of in this class if you do what you need to do and do it well. Am I understood?" Everyone in the class gave a sign of acknowledgement. As it is the first day, there won't be any spars. I will be using a test to measure where you are right now with your semblance to see how well you can use it. After that we'll spend the next year expanding and training it and for those less fortunate, find theirs."
His eyes then suddenly turned red as he glared out at the classroom, his hair and scarf floating around menacingly. The class felt some part of them leave and they felt that they were missing something and replaced it with intimidation. "You will master your semblance by the end of the year, or you will take this class again next year and believe me when I tell you that you do not want to be in this class with me twice!" He closed his eyes and his hair and scarf went back to normal. He opened his eyes back to their normal color filled with a sadistic glee. "Welcome to the hell that is the Huntsman Course."
"Monsters! Demons...prowlers of the night! Yes, the creatures of Grimm have many names, but I merely refer to them as prey! Ha-ha!"
They instantly started to dislike their last class for the day and already they were missing Professor Kayama's combat class.
It was later in the afternoon as Team RWBY and the rest of their friends were having their final class of the day. The class being Grimm Studies, which was taught by Professor Peter Port. He was a rather obese old man wearing a burgundy suit, grey hair and a large mustache that covered his entire mouth.
"And you shall to after graduating from this prestigious academy. Now as I was saying Vale as well as the other three kingdoms are safe havens to an otherwise treacherous world teaming with creatures that would want nothing more than to tear you all to shreds. And that is where we come in. Huntsman! Huntresses!" He winked in Yang's direction with that last word and she felt a little disgusted. "Individuals who have sworn to protect who cannot protect themselves. From what? The very world. And that is what you'll learn. But first a tale of a young and handsome man." He raised his thumb to himself. "Me!" And with that began a lecture that would go one for most of the class time. Clearly none of his students were enjoying this lecture as it was written on their faces.
Bakugo resting his head with one of his free hand with a bored expression. Tenya feeling somewhat disturbed for taking this class with a teacher like this. Mina had to go through some painful lessons that proved to be too much for the girl to be taking all at once. Shouto glared down at the teacher with little interest. Ochako... was currently sleeping in the middle of the lesson, as always with the air bubble coming from her nose and Izuku looking worriedly at his partner. He looked over at Tsuyu giving a look that said 'don't wake her up or you will pay'.
While the One for All bearing faunas was trying to listen and to take something if anything from the lecture, he noticed something out of place that Ruby had ended up next to him and the sleeping Ochako working on something on her paper. After a while Ruby finished, she eventually tapped on Ochako's shoulder, attempting to wake her up. Ochako groaned from being awakened from her slumber as the younger girl showed her art to her. When she saw it she clenched hold of her mouth to hold himself from cracking in laughter, but instead became stifled giggles.
She revealed her work towards Izuku, who smiled nervously with a sweat sign. It was a poorly drawn picture of Port with smell lines coming from his body labeled at the bottom Professor Poop. Tsuyu let out a croaky chuckle while Tenya didn't want to be seen doing anything other than what he was supposed to in class. She showed it to Team SMKE behind and the results were Kirishima having trouble on keeping himself from laughing too loud in the classroom. Mina snapped her a thumb up. Bakugo's vein pulsed from his head from his anger at the girl for doing something so dumb in the middle of class no matter how dumb the class was. Hell, even Shouto himself couldn't even help himself from showing a hint of an amused smirk. She showed her team next and the drawing brought laughs to Yang and Blake, but Weiss was unamused and frowned at Ruby's work.
"Ah-heh-hem." The voice cleared his throat that slowly caught the attention of both teams.
The teams shifted their gazes away from the art and turned their attention right back to Professor Peter, who was staring at them for a while before going on about his own story and the morales of Huntsman. Ruby also continued with her antics, which slowly made Weiss more frustrated than ever.
And just like before, both Ochako and Ruby fell back asleep in class with their heads resting on their tables with slight snoring sounds.
I don't care how sad of a performance this teacher is giving us, that is no right to sleep in the middle of a class. Tenya thought disappointed in his head. While the lecture had been mostly a self-absorbed monologue they still had a grade for this class and therefore needed to listen in it. He would do so, no matter how much he wanted to leave as well.
'I don't blame those two for sleeping. This guy is really boring.' Jaune thought in amusement.
The morale of this story is that a true Huntsman must be honorable! A true Huntsman must be dependable! And true Huntsman must be strategic, well-educated, and wise!" The whole class thanked the heavens above that the never-ending lecture had finished.
"So, who among you believes themselves to be the embodiment of these traits?" The Professor questioned his students, wondering which one of them have's the required traits of being a Huntsman.
The moment those words left the professor's mouth, Weiss shot her hand in the air and answered with an angry look on her face. "I -"
"I DO." The teams flinched at Bakugo's loud voice booming through the class.
"No sir, I do!" Weiss continued from where she was interrupted.
Peter nodded at the heiress before gesturing to the cage behind him, which held a Grimm inside. How they did not see it there before? "Miss Schnee, I'd let you do this but as we are running out of time for you to grab your weapon and young Bakugo's unique semblance is perfect for a quick brawl!" He gestured Bakugo to the front of the class. "Step forward and face your opponent."
Inhuman animalistic noise could easily be heard within the cage that was currently holding the Grimm rattle some more. Bakugo in his school clothes and ready to fight the Grimm with his teammates cheering him on.
"Try not to hold back Bro!" Kirishima cheered with an encouraging grin.
"Show off some for Team SMKE!" Mina cheered as well with her fist thrusting towards him.
"Fight well!" Shouto said knowing this fight would be short as can be.
Bakugo, however, became annoyed with the cheering.
Professor Port walked to the cage with his blunderbuss axe hybrid and released the beast inside it. "Alright! Let the match…begin!"
The Grimm, now revealed to be an armored, pig-like beast with large tusks known commonly as a Boarbatusk. The creature now snorting while charging rightout of the holding cage and immediately charged forward. Weiss fought back against the now charging Boarbatusk with its eyes burning with primal fury. He glided his open hand across the ground with little explosions popping viscously before bringing up a normal explosion under the creatures face and sent flying and landing on it's back. He blasted himself forward to the downed Grimm placing a palm on the Grimm's underside. "Die!" He blasted a large hole in it's body and just like that the fight ended in less than ten seconds.
Die? Izuku questioned Bakugo's catchphrase a lot, but this was one of the only times it made any true sense.
"Bravo! Bravo! A bold new approach and I like it! It appears we are indeed in the presence of a true Huntress-in-training!" Peter applauded, before turning to the rest of the class. "I'm afraid that's all the time we have for today. Be sure to cover the assigned readings, and…stay vigilant! Class dismissed!" He walked out of the classroom as everyone started to leave.
Weiss got up before turning to Ruby and gave her a fierce glare. Before her team could say anything, she stormed off without a word.
"Sheesh what's with her?" Jaune questioned.
"She is sometimes like this after some things I'm afraid..." Tenya answered with a sigh as his eyes focused on the heiress rushing out of the room.
Ruby was following her teammate and trying to talk to her to see what was wrong, but had no luck so far. Then she saw her target walk by, still in her normal clothes, and turned the corner. Ruby ran up to catch up to her.
"Weiss!" She called out.
The heiress sighed and turned to the scythe user. "What?"
Ruby relaxed a little. "Are you ok? Is there something wrong or-"
"Oh there's something wrong alright!" Weiss interrupted and gave Ruby a harsh glare. "And I'm looking at it right now."
"What?" Ruby asked shocked. "W-What do you mean?"
"What do you mean, 'what do I mean'?!" Weiss shouted. "You're supposed to be a leader, but all you've been so far is a nuisance!"
Ruby frowned at her teammate. "What did I do?"
"That's just it; you have done nothing to earn your position!" Weiss answered heatedly. "I'm willing to look past what happened in the forest, but not what happened today. You've been acting like a child all day and not once did you do anything that showed me that you can be a good leader."
"Weiss, where is this coming from? What happened to all the talk about 'working together'? I thought you believed in acting as a team."
Weiss continued to glare at her. "Not a team lead by you. I've studied and trained and, excuse me for saying this, but honestly I deserve better." She sighed and simply stared at Ruby. "Look, you're a good huntress, I'm not going to deny that, but you do not have what it takes to be a good leader." She turned to leave, but not before saying one last thing. "I'm sorry Ruby, but I believe that Ozpin made a mistake appointing you as our leader…"
Ruby stared at Weiss's leaving form with sadness in her eyes. She hung her head and turned to leave when she bumped into a couple familiar people.
"Hmm…now that didn't seem to go very well."
Ruby looked up to see Ozpin in front of her. Tearing up a little, she looked at the headmaster and asked. "Is she right? Did you make a mistake?"
Ozpin laughed lightly at the question. "Well that remains to be seen."
Ruby became confused. "What do you mean?"
Ozpin nodded and spoke again. "Ruby...I've made more mistakes than any man, woman, and child on this planet. But at this moment, I would not consider your appointment to leader to be one of them. Do you? Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you're not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?" He smiled before he turned around and began to leave, "You've been burdened with a daunting responsibility, Ruby. I advise you take some time, to think about how you will uphold it."
Ruby nodded and watched Ozpin leave her alone
After her argument with Ruby, Weiss walked over to the balcony and noticed that Tenya was there looking at the sunset with his hands gripping one another behind his back with the air breezing very calmly. Curiosity filled within her and she wondered why her best friend from Soumei was here
"Tenya?" Weiss said, surprised to have seen him on the balcony.
"Ah, Weiss! Nice to see you!" Tenya greeted.
"What are you doing here?" Weiss couldn't help but ask.
"Nothing bad, I assure you." Tenya laughed. "I was honestly hoping that the Professor would have chosen you for the demonstration. You are clearly talented and would make just as great as a huntress." He said smiling at her.
"T-Thank you." Weiss stuttered, her cheeks slightly red in embarrassment from her friend's praise. "Did you enjoy the lecture!"
"Of course, I tried to at least." He sheepishly admitted scratching the back of his neck. "I doubt you had a pleasant time either." He stated knowing it was a fact for the fellow family heir.
Weiss frowned at that. "You think so?"
"Most surely." He replied.
The heiress smiled at him before frowning again and averting her gaze from the man in front of her, the events of today still on her mind. Tenya saw this and remembered the reason he had followed her here.
"Something's troubling you. What is it?" Tenya asked leaving no room to back out. Although he had a clear picture it was from the antics of her team leader and their other classmates.
"Well...I-I think I should have been the leader of team RWBY!" Weiss confessed nervously. "Ruby has done nothing to show she has deserved the spot of leader." Her voice was now frustrated again. "I have been training years alongside you and Shouto and we are great choices for leaders. I believe Ozpin made a mistake with my team. He didn't make the same one with yours and Shouto's, so why did this happen to me."
Tenya stood there in silence a few seconds before he responded. "That's preposterous!"
Weiss stared at her friend in shock. "Excuse me?!"
Tenya continued. "Weiss, I know how kind and considerate you are to people after you have opened your arms to them and would make a great leader, but from someone else's perspective you are a very serious girl who got almost everything she wanted and lashed out on whoever thought of you negatively."
Weiss glared her best friend and crossed her arms. "That is not even remotely true."
It didn't take long for Weiss to catch the glimpse of Tenya's eyes that looked somewhat stern, causing her to sigh in defeat. "Ok…it's somewhat true."
"Weiss, being a leader takes more than just extensive and safe borderline training inside a facility and ordering you team around. You need to put as much trust in them with your life first before they trust you with as much with theirs. Only then will you be in sync with those you call your team as well as yourself during fighting against your opponents and creatures of Grimm, here we are not entitled children to large companies, here we are Huntsmen in training just like everyone else."
"What are you even suggesting?" Weiss inquired Tenya with her hands clenching on the ends of her skirt, keeping a good eye on Tenya who shot back his gaze at her.
"What I'm saying, is that you should often open yourself up to others and let others help you out in times of need. They're your teammates for a good reason, and you'll never know once you at least give Ruby a chance to prove herself that she's a potential leader. She carries a spark that makes others want to better than they are now. As better fighters, better students, and better people" Tenya lectured her. He sighed before adding something he only felt safe sharing with her right now. "And at first I honestly did not believe I was the one to be chosen as leader of my team. I had expected the Headmaster to choose Izuku instead of me."
Weiss face went in shock at those words. "What?"
Tenya took the cue to continue. "In initiation, when the Earth Dragon had appeared I had run away, and if he hadn't gone back for Uraraka than she would likely not be here now. He and Ruby have the similar determination that makes them be here to focus on their one true goal of protecting others at the cost of their own lives. That alone inspires others like a leader should, but Izuku will break his body on purpose to protect not only his teammates lives but the lives of others as well. I am not afraid to admit that he is a far better student than I am." He looked back to her as he finished. "Give Ruby more than one day to prove herself and you too will see she is a good leader."
Weiss took all this in slowly. He had been right about it all. The way she was acting was childish and sounded to much like some of the more radical members of her family. She was now disgusted with the way she acted and felt the need to make things right with Ruby. Weiss hung her head in shame.
Tenya caught her gaze and continued. "Savor what you do have. Hone your skills, perfect every technique, and be not the best leader, but the best person you can be." He smiled at like he always had.
"Hmm…" Weiss nodded slightly and stared at the sunset before her with Tenya enjoying it.
It was late into the night when Weiss returned to her dorm. She opened the door and noticed that everyone was asleep, with Blake curled up in her sheets, Yang spread out and snoring slightly, and Ruby's bed lit up behind the blankets. Weiss walked up and moved the blanket that was covering her bed tent. Ruby was sleeping as well, with notes, papers and books surrounding her, a pencil in her hand, and an empty coffee cup to the side.
Weiss was amazed by her leader's determination. Feeling a little guilty for what she was about to do, Weiss cleared her throat and shook Ruby gently to wake her up. Ruby did wake up, but began to flail a little in surprise when she saw Weiss in front of her.
"Weiss! I-I was studying, and then I fell asleep! I'm sorry…" Ruby was stopped by Weiss placing her on her mouth and shushing her.
Weiss placed her hand in Ruby's mouth and placed a finger on her own, telling the scythe user to quiet down. As she let go of her leader's mouth the heiress smiled at her before turning back to Ruby and looked at the empty coffee cup.
"How do you take your coffee?" She asked
Ruby was a little confused by the sudden question. "I…I don't…"
"Answer the question!" Weiss exclaimed quietly.
"Uh, cream and five sugars!" Ruby answered hurriedly.
"Don't move." Weiss sighed, she disappeared for a second before slowly raising the cup that was now refilled with coffee once more towards the hooded girl. "Here..."
Ruby looked at the cup for a brief moment, but eventually smiled and accepted the drink from her. "Thanks."
As the heiress continued to watch Ruby drink up more of the coffee, she than began to look apologetic that sort of shocked Ruby very much since it wasn't often that she'd be able to see her like this. "Ruby, I'm sorry for saying you don't have what it takes to be a leader. From what I see now, you have what it takes and then some. I'll admit that I was a little upset that you were chosen as leader instead of me and thought you weren't taking it seriously because of how you were acting today. Just know now, that I'll be best teammate that you'll ever have."
Ruby's smile grew widely, already accepting her apology. "Thanks Weiss, and I'm sorry too."
"Apology accepted..." Weiss nodded, turning her attention away before getting a good glimpse of her school work. "Good luck studying." Weiss encouraged her as she slowly leveled down, but eventually popped right back up looking at her paper before pointing at the third problem Ruby answered. "That's wrong by the way." She stated with a slight grin on her face with a sudden cutesy giggle.
As the heiress went down to her bed beneath Ruby's, she paused and came back a little. "And Ruby?"
"Yes Weiss?" Ruby asked.
Weiss smiled, now allowing herself to be more open towards her newest comrade. "I always wanted bunk beds as a kid." With that she had gotten into her bed and closed her eyes.
Ruby smiled at the moment they had shared just now and got back to work on her homework.
And that is chapter six of Beacon's greatest Huntsmen! I am so sorry that it took me so long to get this out. I was losing focus and motivation. But I had gotten a review from the person whose story gave me this idea saying that they loved it and it made me feel great and allowed me to finish what I started. I hope you enjoyed. As always leave reviews and let me know what you think.