Have another fun little chapter of this story and thank you all for your nice comments, really appreciate everyone ( I actually men this sincer, I really enjoyed reading them all.). Anyway here is the next chapter
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Hidan slightly improved in class thanks to Sasori's tutoring. Sadly because puppet master requests Hidan to test his various poisons, the immortal had difficulties in class. Sometimes the effects would last longer than expected and Hidan had to either vomit or sleep during class. Sasori saw those symptoms as a success of his poison's effectiveness.
Right now Hidan was tumbling down the hall while Ruby gave the immortal some support. The latest of Sasori's experiments made it hard for Hidan to walk in a straight line. "Thanks for the help Ruby." He muttered.
"Don't you think there is a better way to study? I mean look at yourself, you can't concentrate in class like this." Ruby said while helping out the immortal.
"Well what do you expect? Sasori is able to teach me so why shouldn't I keep it that way?" Hidan said with a smirk.
Ruby only shook her head. In her opinion there should be a other way for Hidan to study, some sort of reward system wich he cares about instead of living as a test subject. She new that he was immortal and he assured her that no effect will be permanent but that didn't mean she would like this.
As they walked the puppet master himself walked towards them. Ruby gave him a glare wich he just shrugged of and turned to Hidan. "Today's lesson will be canceled, you can rest up a bit."
"Why is that?"
"Ozpin wanted to see me. I don't know exactly why ore for what reason but I would rather give you the day of than creeping you waiting." Sasori simply said while walking past the two.
Hidan just smiled. "I have the day off, wanna do something?"
Ruby huffed. "How about you get back to get back on your feet before making plans."
The immortal laughed as he pushed himself from her in order to stand proud and strong. "See? Everything is absolutely fine."
He stood there for a moment before falling over and hitting his face on the floor. Ruby just watched with a blank expression. "How dose the idea of resting sound now?" She asked.
"Resting sounds like a wonderful idea." Hidan muttered while his face laid on the hard floor.
The puppet master was on his way to the headmasters office, bit knowing what exactly he should expect there. Whatever it was it better be something that either interests him or doesn't waste more time.
After he exited the elevator he spotted the headmaster and Glynda standing behind the big desk, on top of the desk was a massive book with many pages.
Ozpin smiled at the Akatsuki member. "Hello Sasori. How nice of you to come by."
"You asked for me and I hate it to keep people waiting." Sasori simply stated.
The headmaster smiled. "So I have heard, I also heard of that you are doing quite well in class and even that your intelligence could go beyond that of some teachers."
Sasori crossed his arms with a frown. "Then you should also know that I hate it if people let me wait. Up until now you haven't told me anything new, so how about we skip the formalities and get straight to the point."
Glynda was just about to object to Sasori's behavior but Ozpin raised his hand to silence her. "Very well. Have you ever heard about advanced human engineering?"
The puppet master has indeed heard of that. It's basically improving the average human with either manipulation of Gens or replacing broken body parts and organs with mechanical prosthetics. Apparently a general from from Atlas has several of these prosthetics wich helped him to greatly improve on the battlefield.
"A little." He simply stated.
Ozpin continued to smile. "Well, are you interested in learning this advanced technology?"
Sasori eyes glanced at the book on the desk and back to Ozpin. "Is that what I think it is?"
Glynda crossed her arms. "You are correct if you believe that this book contains the basic knowledge of those advanced prosthetics and even how to create some."
"And your giving me this because...?"
The headmaster shrugged. "I'm your teacher, it's my responsibility to give every student the best fitting education. You simply outshine most, that's why I give you more advanced knowledge."
Sasori had the sneaking suspicion that the headmaster in front of him had alternative motives but it didn't matter at the moment. The imagination of giving himself advanced prosthetics filled his mind, he could outshine any other prosthetics and even recreate his puppet body again. He could be a god among man with this knowledge.
The puppet master agreed to the offer Ozpin was giving him and quickly took the book. It was actually so heavy that Sasori needed to use both of his arms to carry it, but that didn't discourage him one pit. He went to the elevator and left.
As the elevator Went down Glynda turned to Ozpin. "Are you sure this will work?"
"He is smart, he will lernen this fast." Ozpin simply answered.
"I know that he is smart but even if we tell him about Amber, will he even be able to help?" Glynda asked concerned.
Ozpin remained quiet for a moment before sipping out of his mug. "I'm currently scraping at the bottom of the barrel. If you have any suggestions I'm beginning you to tell me, otherwise I don't see any hope for Amber."
The day went past faster then expected. Ruby was so busy treating Hidan and keeping him in bed that she completely lost track of time.
After a lot of struggle and claiming that he was already, Ruby managed to force the immortal to sleep. With her in the room we're Sasori, who red in the corner the massive book, while Kakuzu and Deidara watched Ruby.
"Well, that's that then. Thank you Ruby but it is time for you to go." Deidara said with the clap of his hand.
Ruby turned to the artist. "Could you be quite? He just fell asleep."
Kakuzu simply shrugged. "No big deal. If that idiot falls asleep then nothing but a punch in the face will wake him up. Speaking of Hidan, why are you babysitting him?"
Ruby glanced over to Sasori who was absorbed in his book. "Someone is giving him a hard time as payment for learning, so I decided to help a little."
Kakuzu only shook his head. "If you really want to help him then finde a replacement that helps him with his study's, by the looks of it Sasori won't be tutoring him for a while. Babysitting him is just strange."
"Not as strange as two guys watching this show." Deidara muttered.
Kakuzu shot him a glare. "I already counted my money twice and had nothing better to do until she left so that we could get changed. What's your excuse?"
"Wait, I was keeping you guys waiting?" Ruby asked confused.
Deidara shrugged his shoulder. "You didn't really expect us to change while you are in the room, and since Hidan is sleeping one of us has to change him like a little baby."
Ruby laughed weakly. "Sorry about that, didn't think that one through."
"If you don't plan to change him yourself I suggest that you should probably go to your own room." Kakuzu said with a tiered voice. The day wasn't really special but somehow it was just a overall drag.
Ruby left in a hurry as Kakuzu suggested something like that with a little blush on her cheek. After she left Deidara pulled out five Lien and presented them to Kakuzu. " I'll give you-"
"Deal." Before Deidara could even finish the sentence the money was already out of his hands and Kakuzu was already working on changing Hidan's clothes.
While the immortal did that, the blonde artist changed as well and went straight to bed. Wasn't tomorrow something important? Sometimes about a field trip he believed as he slowly slipped into a dreamland, were everything just blew up.
The next morning the entire class went to the Forever fall forest. This mountainous area has many cliffs and is covered by a forest of red-leafed trees, allowing the whole area to appear as a dust-red color, even in the grass.
The trees are known to produce a special Red Sap that is of interest to researchers. Cutting through a low point in the forest is a wide railway track, upon which large cargo trains travel.
The class was correctly led by Glynda goodwitch through the forest, while almost everyone took in the beautiful landscape. Konan and Nagato closed there distance unintentionally up till the point were there hands would've touched. Sadly they didn't wich slightly infuriated Yang who watched those two.
The only person not really looking at the landscape was Sasori. With dark rings under his eyes he used one hand to control Minerva. The puppet was walking beside him and holding the book for him while he red, with his free hand he rubbed his eyes and occasionally flipped the page.
He has been reading this book since the moment he got it, he didn't even sleep and it felt to him that he was only slowly getting forward. Most of the time he had to reread the previous page just to understand what the current page was talking about. What made matters worse is the fact that thanks to his tiredness he had to read a sentence several times to really understand it.
As the class reached a certain spot Glynda turned to the class. "Class, today's assignment is for everyone to collect one jar of syrup from these trees. But remember, there are creatures of grim prowling these woods so stay close to your teammates. We will meet her again at four."
The teams all started to go to different trees in order to start there syrup collecting. Deidara however looked concerned at Sasori who almost wandered into a tree. "Hey, my man, how about you rest for a moment?"
The puppet master looked up for a moment before Minerva simply collapsed on the ground. Sasori would have to if the blonde artist caught him and rested him to a tree.
Weiss saw this and walked over to the two artist. "Is he alright?" She asked concerned.
Deidara looked over to Minerva and backed to the now sleeping Sasori. The puppet master is apparently not jet used to have a body with needs like sleeping and eating. If he were still in his puppet body he could've probably already finish this book. "He likes to overwork himself sometimes." He simply answered as he looked at weiss.
Weiss looked at Sasori with a frown. "We can't really let him here since creatures of grim run around."
Deidara simply shrugged. "Let him sleep, he needs it and that's no big deal. I'll just fill his jar with the syrup."
"Very admiring from you. However it would seem a bit unfair if you need to do that all alone, let me help you." The heiress said with a small smile.
The blonde artist laughed. "Who am I to stop you."
The two continued to collect syrup from the trees while Sasori had a good nights rest.
Little farther away two scythe wielder had a little discussion. "I don't really know if you could say that." The female one said.
Hidan pointed around him at the forest. "Yes I can, this forest looks like a giant had its period on the entire fucking forest."
"Can't you find a better description? Like two giants had a death battle above the forest?" Ruby said, slightly discussed by the picture her mind gave her from Hidan's description.
Meanwhile Hidan had the picture of two giants engaged in a bloody battle in his head. He like what he saw. "Ok, giant death battle is awesome and fists better."
"Good." Ruby said proudly. After a bit of think Ruby decided to ask the immortal something. "Hey Hidan, can you meet me tonight at the training area with your weapon?"
Hidan looked a bit confused but nodded nonetheless. "Sure, why not."
Kisame and Itachi were watching them from farther away while filling there own jars. The shark slowly shook his head. "That girl spends to much time with Hidan. A couple of more months and she will become a follower of jashin."
"I believe that's the last think this world needs." Itachi said as he concentrated on filling those jars.
As he wondered why exactly they were filling those jars in the first place Kisame nugget him with his shoulder. "Are we going to do something about those guys up there?"
Itachi didn't look over his shoulder as he already noticed four individuals sneaking around on higher ground. Probably every Akatsuki member noticed this already since everyone of them appeared to wear full plated armor. "I'm not completely sure who those guys are and what they plan. Whatever it is they won't get far with there plans."
Kisame looked confused at his partner. "Why is that?"
"Do you see Kakuzu around?" Itachi simply stated.
After a quick glance around the field he noticed that not only Cardin's team and Jaune were missing, but the bounty hunter as well. "Those pore souls."
For the longest time nothing happened and everyone continued to happily collect more and more syrup from the trees. The four individuals up on the hill either retreated or were pulled back by Kakuzu, in which case they are probably dead by now.
The pleasant time continued until three members of Cardin's team ran out from the deeper parts of the forest. "Grimm! Grimm!" They screamed.
Yang grabbed one of them. "What is going on?!"
"A tall Grimm with electricity attack us. Cardin is still back there." The boy in Yang's arm stammer.
Immediately the Akatsuki members let out a disappointment sigh and returned to there work. Sasori almost woke up from the commotion but Deidara calmed him down again. "There there my man, go back to sleep. Chase those mechanical sheep."
Sasori chuckled a bit before dozing of again.
"What is wrong with you people?! Jaune is back there with a Grimm!" Phyrra screamed enraged.
Ruby tugged wildly on Hidan's sleeve. "Come one Hidan, we have to do something!"
"Calm down Ruby, it's just-" Hidan was cut of by Phyrra.
"Fine! Don't help!" The redhead stormed of in the direction of Cardin and Jaune, closely followed by Ruby and weiss. The heiress shot the blonde artist a disappointed glare before running after her team leader. The other team members helped escorting the remaining team members of team Cardin back to a safer spot. Only the Akatsuki members remained.
"I'll explain it." Nagato said annoyed as he got up and followed the group of three to Jaune and Cardin.
Soon Phyrra, Ruby and weiss reached a point from were they could see Jaune bravely against a malformed beast. It looked different then any other Grimm they had ever seen but somehow the mask that it used as a face looked familiar.
"Will you three just wait?" They herd behind them. As they turned around they saw Nagato simply standing there with his hands in his pockets.
"Decided to help?" Weiss asked as she peppered to fight.
"No, here to stop you. He won't hurt Jaune nor Cardin." Nagato simply said.
"He?" They all asked confused.
"Just watch."
They watched as Jaune desperately tried to fight against the towering beast. It's powerful claws pushed The blonde around like he was a simple toy, while lightning shot from its body which Jaune could barely block with his shield.
Nagato looked over to a tree to see Kakuzu just standing there with his arms crossed. The Rinnegan user knew that Kakuzu's monster wasn't fighting with full force, rather it seemed like it wanted to squeeze out every bit of potential out of the blonde boy. Sometimes Jaune even landed a hit to with the monster screamed in overly dramatic pain.
The fight ended as Jaune gave one powerful slash across the chest of the monster to which it fell onto its back and played dead.
"He really did it." Ruby said in amazement.
Jaune put the sword away with pride as he stood tall, savoring the felling of triumph. Everyone turned around as they heard clapping. Kakuzu casually walked out of the forest and towards Jaune while slowly clapping.
"Well, well, well look at this. I would have never thought that you could beat one of the heart monster." Kakuzu said with a chuckle.
"You know what this thing is?" Jaune asked confused. He was even more confused as Kakuzu freed his upper body half from clothes. The girl behind the trees were the same amount of confused. They wanted to ask Nagato what he was doing but the leader of the Akatsuki was already gone.
Suddenly the best behind Kakuzu slowly started to get back on his feet again. Jaune was exhausted but immediately grabbed his sword. The girls behind the trees did the same and were ready to jump into action but stopped as they saw one of Kakuzu's hands rising. "I know for sure that it is stronger than most grim because..."
The monster plunge its hand into Kakuzu's back, this caused the everyone's eyes widen with horror as they thought that Kakuzu just died in front of them. The monstrosity slowly started to sink into Kakuzu's body with sickening cracking and snapping sounds, until it was completely gone. "...it is a part of me."
Jaune remained stunned as Kakuzu turned around and revealed that on his back were four Maskes as one of them was the face of the monster that just entered his body. Kakuzu walked away but stopped and turned to Cardin who was shaking this entire time. "You better stop messing with him. Not many can keep up with one of my hearts, let alone wound it."
And with that Kakuzu simply vanished, leaving everyone silent.
Deeper in the forest Kakuzu meet Nagato who just simply grind. "What is so dam funny?"
"You just helped that kid fighting his inner fears." Nagato said with a chuckle.
Kakuzu simply growled. "I just wanted to scare Cardin a bit. I didn't expect Jaune to grow some balls all of the sudden and actually attack my heart like that. He is either extremely courageous ore extremely stupid, either way this conversation is over."
The two Akatsuki members returned to there rest of there team in silence, they still had some jars to fill.
As the night rolled in Hidan nett Ruby at the training Felds, scythe in hand. "Alright Ruby, what are we doing here?"
"What advantage do many Fanus have over humans?" Ruby simply asked.
Hidan scratched his head. "Uhmmm... night vision?"
The moment he said those words Ruby lunged at him with her scythe in hand. Hidan could only react fast enough to block the attack with his own scythe. "Correct. Name at least one famous battle between Fanus and humans." She said with a smile.
"Eh- what I, something nox I believe?" He stammered confused. Ruby jumped away from him with a frown.
"Wrong."
"Ok, explain what is going on." Hidan said slightly angry.
Ruby continued to smile. "I know you like fighting and have trouble studying, so I combined those two. After every session of studying with me I will question you a few things. We will fight until you get a answer wrong, how dose that sound?"
Hidan thought about if for a moment before smiling. "Beast getting punctured by a bunch of needless and getting things pumped into my veins. Fuck it, I'm in let's do it."
And so the fist of many study sessions between Ruby and Hidan started.