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Chapter 6

At this point, I'm just putting in a shorter AN so I can put in the rhymes. . . ah well, at least it's short, especially compared to how big this AN used to be.

There Are Times Where I'm Stuck Wondering How To Continue; All I Can Hope For Is That The Results Are Enjoyable For You!

Chapter Six: Too Proud To Ask For Advice

Sasuke woke up the next day feeling refreshed and with his Chakra reserves full. Restoring Pyrrha's arm had taken a large bite out of the Uchiha's Chakra reserves. Not a big one, but large enough to be noticed. Though now he had done his good deed for the week, so it was worth the effort.

He heard running from outside that quickly faded away, most likely Team JNPR had just been informed of the change in their champion's condition. Sasuke got out of his bed and did his hygienic responsibilities just like every other morning. After finishing he then transformed his shinobi garb into the official Beacon uniform; prepared to go see the fruits of his labor from the night before.

The Uchiha walked out of the room and looked to the side to see that team RWBY was standing idly. "Morning, Sasuke," Ruby greeted while she leaned on the wall by her teammates. "Wanna wait for Jaune and the guys with us?"

"They left not long ago," Sasuke stated. "I believe they're making their way to Pyrrha's side as we speak."

Weiss perked up with a realization. "Oh, so that was them running I heard. I guess they want to be with Pyrrha as long as possible before her departure." She sighed sadly.

If Sasuke was the whiskered friend of his, he would have had an I-know-something-you-don't smirk on his face, but he wasn't. He settled with simply walking down the hall.

Ruby sped to the Uchiha's side with the rest of her team. "We were thinking of going to see Pyrrha before she leaves, you wanna come with us?" she asked him.

Sasuke shrugged and joined his acquaintances as they walked towards the infirmary. He ignored their good wishes for Pyrrha and her 'former' teammates as they neared the infirmary doors.

"How do you think they're gonna take it?" Yang wondered, not aiming her question at anyone specific.

Blake frowned. "Not well. You saw how Jaune was yesterday, I don't think today will be any better," she answered her blonde comrade. "Nora and Ren were friends for a long time, so they have each other. Jaune, on the other hand. . ." The Faunus shook her head and let out a sigh.

Yang mimicked her friends face and turned to the Uchiha. "What do you think, Sasuke?" she asked.

The shinobi gave her a simple answer when the doors were in sight. "We'll find out soon enough," he replied casually as they walked past the infirmary gate.

When they stood in front of the Champion's room, they heard muffled crying which saddened team RWBY. Yang opened the door, which revealed an interesting scene to those just outside the room; even Sasuke raised an eyebrow.

The crying had not been coming from Pyrrha, but from Jaune as he wrapped his arms around the bedridden and miraculously recovered woman, giving her quite a hug. He was ignorant of the audience consisting of a male doctor, the childhood friends of JNPR, team RWBY, a shinobi, and the headmaster.

The victim of the hug, however, was beet-red in the face from the open and intimate display of affection. Jaune of course was oblivious as ever. Except when a sudden look of realization of his surroundings crossed his face and he stood stiffly. The warrior's face was as red as his recovered teammate's hair.

"S-S-Sorry!" he apologized loudly. "I-I-I-I don't know w-what got over me."

Pyrrha brought both of her hands to her face to cover up any redness. "I-It's fine, really," she assured him. They both looked around to see their little audience.

Nora was wiping away tears with a smile, Lie Ren and Ozpin were just standing idly by with a grin on their faces, while the doctor and Sasuke stood there with neutral expressions. Team RWBY, however, were gobsmacked for two reasons: First, was that Jaune showed his affection so openly. Secondly, was that Pyrrha now had both her arms.

It was more the second than the first, couldn't really say a hug would trump a regrown arm. "Pyrrha, you have both your arms!" Ruby stated the obvious.

After her blush died down, she raised her left arm up to eye level, spotting what had been missing merely hours ago. "I still can't believe it," she thought out loud. "How could this happen?" she asked no one in particular.

The doctor decided to answer. "We don't know," he said. "What I do know, however, was that it wasn't a natural healing." His statement had brought surprise to teams JNPR and RWBY, and only them.

"What do you mean, doctor?" Ozpin asked with furrowed brows.

The healer raised his Scroll up and enlarged it to the size of a clipboard. "At first, we believed that Miss Nikos' Aura may have had a hand in healing her arm, but evidence suggested that it could be something else entirely. At least, someone else entirely."

Sasuke was reviewing what he had done during the night before, thinking of what could possibly have given him away. 'All the cameras in the infirmary were off, nobody saw me and. . . Ah, that could be why,' he thought with mild relief.

"When a nurse came to clock in, he had found the nurse for the night shift asleep, but with the cameras completely shutdown," the doctor continued. "The nurse said she couldn't remember anything from last night, however. It could be because of negligence, but the security camera caught something." He lifted his Scroll to the audience and played a video.

It showed the nurse Sasuke had hypnotized simply sitting in her chair. A click was heard, then the nurse looked up and spoke a half question before she stopped stiff. She made her way to another computer and tapped a few keys, that was when the playback ended.

The camera's frame wasn't high enough to spot him on the ceiling, a fortunate thing for the Uchiha. 'I might have to thank Naruto again,' he thought with a mental smirk.

"Someone came into the infirmary and healed Miss Nikos," the doctor stated and turned to the red-haired champion. "We would like to run a few tests on the arm, to make sure everything is in place correctly. If there was anything else that had been added, it's best we that know as soon as possible."

Pyrrha responded by gripping her own left wrist. "What kind of tests are you implying?" she asked hesitantly. She would rather not risk losing her new arm, regardless of the reason.

The doctor tapped on his Scroll a bit before he responded, "harmless scans for the most part, and maybe a blood test." Pyrrha pursed her lips and eyed her miracle arm, then nodded to the doctor. "Alright, all of that should take us a few hours. So let's get started." He then turned to the teams and smiled. "You will have your friend back soon, but please leave us for now."

The remainder of team JNPR and RWBY looked to Pyrrha, who smiled at their concern. "It's gonna be alright, I'll see you guys later," she assured them. They nodded and exited the room, with Sasuke in tow.

Outside in the empty hallway in front of the infirmary, Jaune hugged the closest person he could find. The unfortunate victim would have been the last Uchiha, but he switched places with Nora. "She's gonna stay!" he exclaimed happily as he jumped with Nora, who hugged back and shouted out with him.

Weiss wasn't sure what to make of it, nobody could grow an arm back, unless there was someone with a unique semblance. Even then, why would the person go out of their own way to heal a mere student, even if it was the Pyrrha Nikos. "Is nobody going to ask why her arm is back?" the heiress asked her company. "I'm happy that Pyrrha's fine and all, but I can't help but wonder why someone would do that for her."

"Who cares? I want to thank whoever helped her out," Jaune replied to the Schnee.

"You want to give 'em a hug too? When did you get so bold, Jaune?" Yang teased her fellow blond, who responded by going red in the face. "Although, Pyrrha didn't look like she minded your embrace." Sasuke swore steam was coming out of Jaune's ears.

Weiss stepped in, she didn't like her thoughts being sidestepped. "Could you please take this a bit more seriously!? Who knows who could have done this, and for whatever reason," she said irritably. The world didn't work like that to her, it was usually give and take.

Blake sighed in exasperation. "She's right. There has to be a reason for whoever it was out there that helped Pyrrha grow her arm back," she stated. Before she blinked several times and looked to the Uchiha. "Do you know anything about this?" she asked him curiously.

Sasuke shook his head. "I know nothing of what happened," he lied. He briefly wondered how telling them that he had an eye capable of ending worlds, healing the near-dead, and raising the deceased would sound. Rinnegan was certainly a powerful eye, capable of bending reality to it's very limits and beyond.

"Wait, you said that everything would be fine, you must have known something like this would happen," Weiss accused with a frown. Sasuke shrugged as a reply and Weiss scowled. "You had something to do with it, didn't you!?" she shouted.

Both teams had stopped their celebrations quite a while ago to watch the argument, but only now did they remember Sasuke's words the previous day. The three of JNPR were especially confused, they were most certainly friends with Sasuke in their own eyes, but wondered that if he had indeed healed Pyrrha, why would he deny it?

Lie Ren came to Sasuke's defense. "Weiss, his semblance is clones, remember?" he said. "While he is also capable of making his opponent fall unconscious, I don't think regrowing an arm is close to any category similar to those two."

"But what about what he said yesterday?" the heiress defended. "There's no way he could have guessed this would happen."

Sasuke gave Ren a thankful nod, but he could defend himself. "Pyrrha is strong. I doubt something as losing an arm would stop her," he said truthfully. "What I meant that day was that Pyrrha would adapt and become stronger," he half-lied. 'If Naruto and I could, then so could she.'

Weiss' anger downgraded to a simple confused frown. "How would you know that she would become stronger from losing an arm?" she asked him.

Sasuke unconsciously flexed his left hand. "Because Pyrrha is that kind of person," he replied. "Prodigies do not allow themselves to degrade, regardless of what happens."

The Heiress scowled then walked up to the ninja and poked his chest. "This isn't over," was all she said as she walked away, before the rest of her team ran after her. As they left, Blake turned and gave Sasuke a calculating stare, before quickly following her teammates.

Which left Sasuke alone with Arc, Valkyrie, and Ren. The three of them were staring at the Uchiha. Whatever it was they were expecting had to wait for later, as the infirmary doors opened to reveal Ozpin.

"Mr. Uchiha, glad to see that you are still here. If you could follow me, I have a few things I would like to ask," the headmaster asked the shinobi. He turned to the other three. "Off to your classes, you will be the first to know when Miss Nikos is free from the infirmary."

The three members of JNPR looked to each other before they thanked the headmaster and left, even if a little reluctantly. Ozpin would be sure to let them know when their precious friend could rejoin them.

"walk with me," the headmaster beckoned, having Sasuke follow him side-by-side as they wandered the halls of Beacon. "Mr. Uchiha, I heard what Miss Schnee said mere moments ago," Ozpin stated.

'Are all the doors in Remnant incapable of keeping noise out?' Sasuke thought irritably. How many times had someone outside heard a private conversation of the Uchiha's? He started to believe that the door to his dorm might be a one-of-a-kind in all of Beacon for keeping in private chats; but only thanks to his seals.

Oblivious to the Uchiha's internal complaint, Ozpin continued as he kept his eyes forward, "I must admit, I had similar thoughts when I heard Miss Nikos' arm was simply found whole again."

"Then you must have heard my response," Sasuke replied dully as they walked. "Toss away your suspicions, I do not have abilities to regenerate lost limbs. My medical knowledge goes as far as field medicine, nothing more."

"I'm not insinuating anything about you, Mr. Uchiha," he said. "I'm fully aware your Semblance is making clones of yourself, but I do wonder if perhaps you knew anyone who could regrow an entire arm." The question was a loaded one, painfully so.

On the top of his head he could name Kabuto, Orichimaru, Naruto, and Lady Tsunade, but it wasn't like he was going to tell Ozpin. "Why would it matter? They're dead." He gave the statement an added bitterness.

Ozpin nearly smirked, he didn't say no. "Perhaps, but do you believe someone with such knowledge wouldn't be able to survive with such advanced medical knowledge?"

The Uchiha frowned. Of course they wouldn't die so easily. "Then let me rephrase. Why would they come here specifically to heal Pyrrha Nikos, who by all means is a complete stranger?" He felt like he was being lured, bait hanging in the air in the form cunning words, but he wouldn't bite. Couldn't afford it.

"Perhaps it was a technique that was able to be trained into others, like your ability to knock someone out with nothing but your eyesight." Ozpin noticed he could only hear his steps, and turned to see his pseudo-student standing there with a frown.

"You think I was able to heal Nikos?" he asked, almost astounded at such a foolish notion. "Your word games are your own, but I shall say this again. I played no part in the healing of Pyrrha, for if I did, I would tell her."

Ozpin just hummed in a humoring way. "Perhaps you're right. Forgive this old man, his imagination was getting ahead of himself."

This bastard. Sasuke guessed Ozpin either knew and didn't want to drag him into a corner defensively, or he didn't and Sasuke was just being paranoid. Unfortunately, he couldn't help but feel it was the former. "If you have nothing more to add, I have classes to attend." Any excuse would do fine as long as it got him out of this.

The headmaster nodded wisely as he always did, but just before Sasuke turned to leave, he added, "Mr. Uchiha, while I do understand the need for caution, do try trusting your new peers here, I'm certain they'd care more to be your friends than you think."

The Uchiha just nodded and turned to leave. 'My real friends are elsewhere.'

It had been hours since they last met Pyrrha, and when Sasuke met with the headmaster. Now, Ruby's team and the three remaining of Jaune's team were waiting across the infirmary doors in their uniforms. Jaune had received a message that told him Pyrrha was to be released soon, so they had been given permission to come see her at the infirmary gates.

"W-What if something happened?" Jaune's pessimism showed its head every few minutes or so. "Maybe they had to remove the arm. Could an arm be defective? Oh no, they removed her arm, didn't they?-Ow!" A bonk on the head from Nora was usually the preferred method of silencing the Arc.

"Don't worry, Jaune, I'm sure Pyrrha is fine and eager to get another hug from you," Yang stated with a twitching straight face, which broke into a laugh when Jaune groaned. For the life of her, she couldn't 'Sasuke' through a joke.

Ruby patted her first friend at Beacon on the back. "Don't worry Jaune, Yang does that to everyone," she said as she she attempted to glare at her sister, which was as frightening and adorable as an angry newborn. "Back to the point, Pyrrha's fine, I'm sure. Right, Sasuke?" she asked the shinobi.

The Uchiha just nodded plainly as he leaned on the walls with his arms crossed. He would rather stare at grass than go through another one of Port's so-called lectures, the never ending drawl never seemed to stop. Thankfully, Ruby had invited him to come and see Pyrrha together with the rest of them.

Port, who was so moved at the bond of friendship between students, had actually gone into a new lecture about loyalty. Perhaps Ozpin was right when he said they would be his friends if they saved him from that demise. Sasuke felt a little ghost of guilt that he would have to leave them abruptly at some point, though the Uchiha quickly got over it.

"Your riveting speech rings true in our hearts, Sasuke," Weiss said sarcastically. She was still somewhat irritated at the Uchiha for before, but it had died down to a slow simmer since then. He ignored her regardless, though.

The infirmary doors finally opened, and out walked a uniformed Pyrrha, in her double-armed splendor. She didn't expect to have the eyes of two teams and a shinobi on her the moment she walked out. "H-Hey guys," she greeted them.

Jaune stood up as though he was an official, he crossed his arms behind his back, raised his nose into the air slightly, cleared his throat and spoke formally, "Pyrrha Nikos, as the leader of this team, I am happy to hear you are fine and well."

Jaune walked closer until he was in arms distance of his recovered teammate, then stuck his hand out for a handshake.

"We, at team JNPR, would be honored to have you back," Arc said with actual pride, as though he hadn't been rehearsing the speech in his mind for the past few minutes. He waited for Pyrrha to take his hand, but only heard chuckling. He looked forward to see Pyrrha covering her giggles with her hand, which made his face redden in embarrassment. "D-Did I do something wrong?"

Pyrrha cleared her throat of the giggles, although a smile remained on her face. "No, you did nothing wrong, Jaune," she said reassuringly. She then took his still-outstretched hand and shook it. "I would be happy to come back to your team." Now it was Jaune's turn to smile.

They broke contact when they heard sniffling behind them, they turned to see Ruby, Blake, Nora and Yang openly crying, wiping away tears when they could. Weiss refused to show her face, but faint sniffling could be heard, and the wipe of the eyes now and then were a dead give away.

Ren covered his face with his hand to hide his embarrassment from viewing the awkward way Jaune handled the situation. Sasuke sighed and shook his head at the scene around him.

Yang spoke through her tears, "That. . . was the dorkiest and most romantic thing I have ever seen." Sounds of approval sounded from her surrounding female teens; even from Weiss.

Blake spoke second, "I thought these only happened in books." She then proceeded to blow her nose in a handkerchief.

The small feeling of guilt Sasuke had for leaving them previously disappeared in an instant. In fact, he had never been so eager to leave until that moment.

He stayed behind and let them walk forward ahead of him till they reached the cafeteria. The Uchiha didn't really want to be part of whatever conversation and questions, so he allowed team JNPR their time together. Besides, he knew what the answers were.

"It was like I woke up to a dream," Pyrrha said. Recounting the story of her morning at the nearly empty cafeteria. Team JNPR, RWBY and Sasuke were given a day of freedom by the headmaster. "Even now I'm worried that this is all just a dream I'll wake up from." She lifted her arm and tested it by clenching her fist, making sure it was real. "I just woke up, and my arm was there. All I did was stare at it until a nurse came by, he was the one who informed the doctor about me." She placed her left forearm on the table for everyone to see; especially herself.

"Whoa, that's so freaky," Ruby said as she leaned in to poke Pyrrha's new arm. Weiss forced her back to sit down, she knew very well what her leader intended.

The champion nodded, sneaking a peek at the Uchiha with a look of confused familiarity on her face. Pyrrha then shook her head lightly to get rid of whatever thought she had.

Sasuke noticed, his Sharingan illusion was perfect, so hopefully, a ghost of Déjà vu was all that was coming over Pyrrha. If not, then he would have to go with more serious techniques. If those didn't work. . .

The redhead looked to the younger team leader. "Yes it is," she said as she rolled her left shoulder. "After you guys left, the people at the infirmary did multiple scans on my arm, the results weren't anything special. As far as they could tell, it was as if my arm was never removed."

The heiress stood up from her seat. "Well, I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say that we're all happy to have you back," she stated before she peeked her eyes to Sasuke, then back Pyrrha. "Do you have any idea who could have done this, though?" She was far from letting the subject drop, at least so soon.

Yang answered her instead of the champion, "well, she does have a lot of fans, it could have been any of them." Indeed, Pyrrha was the poster girl for many Huntsmen and Huntresses; in training or otherwise.

"But I doubt someone with that kind of ability would be hidden," Weiss responded. "Even if it was, I don't think someone could find that out about Pyrrha so quickly and respond even quicker." The champion's arm hadn't been lost for even half a day, yet someone powerful found out about it and acted post-haste? Unlikely.

"Guys, guys!" Jaune exclaimed. "You're forgetting about what's really important! Pyrrha's back and here to stay. Isn't that what really matters?"

Sasuke had to admit that Jaune was an idiot; again. It was one thing to accept a gift from someone you know, it was something else entirely to find an extravagant gift from an unknown. Even if that unknown was Sasuke, but they didn't know that. Suspected? Sure. Knew? Never.

"A shame that team CRDL was reinstated at Beacon, though," Ren stated. The whole point for their expulsion had been for permanently maiming a student. Now that Pyrrha was no longer maimed, the expulsion had been changed to suspension.

"Don't remind me," Jaune growled. He wasn't happy Cardin and his stooges would come back at some point. If they weren't careful this time around, Arc would show them exactly what would happen if they stepped out of their place. At least, after Pyrrha finished coaching him.

"Can we not spend the time talking about them?" Blake said with a small frown. "Weiss had the idea of us visiting Vale someday soon, would you guys like to join us?" she asked team JNPR, who shook their heads.

Jaune's team were going to spend as much time as they could training their leader to at least acceptable level. Which was going to be a task in itself, but hopefully with the power of friendship, they could overcome any obstacle! That was how Nora had put it.

Ren shook his head. "We're sorry, but we have other things planned," he replied then pointed to Jaune with his head. "We need to help him become stronger."

Nora started to exclaim, "It'll be hard, but with the power of friendship, we cou-"

"Nora, please don't finish that sentence," Nora's childhood friend interrupted and pleaded. It was difficult to continue living after he heard it the first time.

Blake smiled at the two of them, then turned to Sasuke. "How about you?" she asked him.

The Uchiha thought for a moment and responded to the Faunus, "I have plans this week, I don't think it's possible." He intended to visit the docks where the heist would take place, and then join Roman for the job the next night, he would probably join the team if he ran into them. As long as nothing odd happened.

"C'mon! It'll be fun," Yang tried reasoning with the Uchiha. Of course, the term 'fun' and 'Sasuke' are never found in the same sentence without the term 'is not'. Sasuke shook his head to the blonde teen, denying her request, which resulted in her pouting, "You're no fun, you know that?" A statement that had been repeated several times in his own world, and now in Remnant as well.

Walking around Vale again had become quite a chore for the last Uchiha. Today he was walking close to the docks that was intended for tomorrow night's Dust heist. Supposedly it would go smoothly since nobody but White Fang would be there; the less opposition the better in Sasuke's book.

Peering over the railing, he looked to the horizon across the vast ocean, taking in a deep breath of the sea air. The last Uchiha stood there for a moment as he looked out at the vast ocean. Memories drifted back to him of when he went with Suigetsu to collect Karen, his first mission in the Land of Waves, the day when he was a child and his family had gone to the beach.

Sasuke was suddenly hit with the very gravity of his situation, 'I am in a completely different world,' he thought sourly. 'I'm. . . all alone.' Yes, he knew he was in a different world, but the gravity of it had never hit him until just then.

He was the only Uchiha to ever be in Remnant, the only shinobi to ever exist on Remnant. No matter how far he traveled, even by those 'space ships' in the movies, he could never reach his home again.

He needed to rip a hole in reality to return home as though it was paper, something he, and only he, was somewhat capable of. If the plan with the White Snake Sage failed, Remnant would become the prison for his mistakes in his search for more power. He would grow old without seeing how the people important to him were doing. He would ra-

"Salutations!" A rather cheery voice broke Sasuke out of his pessimism party.

Considering his previous thoughts, he had no patience for fools. He turned to the newcomer with a heavy scowl on his face. "Begone, girl," he said rudely to the girl with the pink bow and orange hair.

"Oh, my apologies," the weird girl said happily. "It's just that I can't seem to find my way around. What are the chances of your assistance?"

Sasuke fully faced the annoying girl. "Did you not hear me? I told you to leave me be," he said angrily while he gave off a decent amount of killing intent to frighten the girl off. He blinked several times when he noticed she wasn't even affected by it, she even spoke just as joyfully as before.

"Actually, you said 'Begone' and 'girl'," she pointed out as though doing a favor, not even noticing the increase in killing intent. Sasuke's effect had other people around them either shaking or dropping to the ground. "Anyway, I seem to be lost, could you help me?" Even her smile was undeterred.

"What are you?" he asked suspiciously, his hand ready to grab Kusanagi at a moment's notice.

The young orange-haired girl blinked at the odd question. "Hmm? I'm Penny. Salutations!" the now-named Penny exclaimed.

The Uchiha stopped his killing intent with a frown. "You already said that," he informed. He looked around to see people picking themselves up before running away from the area, or continued to lay on the ground shaking.

Penny looked into space for a moment. "So I did," she replied just as cheerfully as before. Something was certainly wrong with this one, not enough shurikens in the weapon's pouch.

That didn't ease Sasuke's suspicion or irritation. "I don't have the patience for you," he stated with a frown as he began walking to the center of town.

He was going into a dark place a few moments ago, he had to have faith that he would get out of this situation. If he didn't have faith in himself or the Snake Sage, then that was fine, but he couldn't give up faith in Naruto. That bull-headed, loudmouthed ninja tended to surprise-

"Hello again." Sasuke heard Penny gleeful voice once more, but from beside him.

Sasuke stopped walking and faced the weird girl with irritation clear on his face. "Did I not tell you to leave me be?" he asked rhetorically to the puppet.

"You did, yes," she clarified, completely oblivious to the common facial expressions of irritation and anger. Especially the ones that crossed the Uchiha's face.

Now Sasuke gripped Kusanagi's hilt, but kept it in its sheath. "And why are you following me?" he asked with narrowed eyes.

"Well," she began with a smile. "After you left, I asked one of the people napping on the ground where I could find help, and then he pointed to-" She pointed to the direction the Uchiha was going. "-that direction." Sasuke assumed that the person had just pointed to the reason for his condition. Her smile through the entire explanation was unnerving.

Before he could reply the Uchiha took a step back to avoid a blonde monkey Faunus from colliding with him, along with some police officers. He looked to the Faunus in question, who turned his head to give him a thumbs up and an irritatingly familiar smile. Blondes. . . the most irritating people in Sasuke's world.

The Uchiha gave an exasperated sigh before using the switching technique with Penny to avoid being collided with a familiar face; Weiss.

"Ooow, what in the world!?" Weiss exclaimed. She looked around and spotted the Faunus she was chasing after getting out of sight with the police right behind him. "Damn it! We lost him."

"Uh, Weiss?" Yang said as she pointed to Penny, then looked to the Uchiha. "Hey, Sasuke," she greeted then looked to the girls on the ground. "Is she one of yours?" Sasuke was losing patience very quickly from the odd form of events.

The heiress got up with a start. "Wah!" she yelled in surprise. "I know I hit her, but I swear I saw Uchiha right before I collided." She glared at the shinobi. "You could have just stepped back."

Sasuke ignored both Yang and Weiss, but pointed to Ruby. "You," he exclaimed irritably, which got the young leader to jump backwards with an 'eek!', then pointed to the robot girl who was still on the ground. "Handle this," he demanded before he began to walk away. 'If one more thing like that happens, I might just kill someone.'

Ruby looked between the girl on the ground then to the Uchiha's back and back to the girl before slumping over. "Why does it have to be me?" she groaned sadly. Blake could only pat her on the back in a form of comfort.

'This needs to go well,' Sasuke thought, sitting on a crate in a different warehouse than the one he met Roman in. It was close enough to the docks, but most importantly because its size was able to hold a few Bullheads for the journey.

He'd been here for an hour now, and he'd been counting the seconds that approached. It was the first active action he took to get himself home, and was a deciding factor to get Torchwick to believe that he's loyal to the contract.

In fact, here he comes now. "So how's our little intern doing?" Roman asked as approached him, cane still in hand firmly, a sign of his caution. "Just kidding, I don't care as long as nothing suspicious happens." Yes, Torchwick would be watching the hell out of him, as he said several times before. "Though I do admit you're looking rather nervous for a hardened mercenary. You're not afraid of possibly seeing blood, are you?"

Sasuke frowned at that, and turned to the thief and gave him a dose of killing intent. "Jitters is hardly what I have, or would you rather see me prove it."

"Easy there, kid," Roman said after taking an involuntary step back. "Remember who's paying you." The sudden feeling of pressure was gone, and he let out a quick breath. "Honestly, I think I'm just starting to see why Neo picked you out."

"Besides the subpar quality of the White Fang?"

Roman snorted. "Believe me, kid, I can't stand them, but I've got no choice. Honestly, I have a reputation to keep, but it is what it is." He shrugged with a sad sigh. "Well, get yourself ready, we have some Dust to steal," he said before walking away.

Strolling up, Roman saw how the animals around him were performing last maintenance of the Bullheads. 'If my luck's as good as it was, we'll be crashing before reaching the docks.' Damn Cinder and her conditions. If she wanted Dust, he knew how to do it, but these mongrels were important. All he could do in the end was sigh again and look at his watch. A minute left before departure.

"Lien for your thoughts?" Neo asked as she stood beside him.

"I think my thoughts are worth more than a single lien," he said. "But if you must know, I'm starting to understand why you got this Sasuke brat to me. Not gonna lie, with how these animals are, I could use all the help I can get. But really, he actually scared me for a moment there."

She gave a quiet laugh. "Like her?"

Now it was his turn to let out a mirthless laugh. "Not even close, the kid's got good grasp on intimidations, but no feeling of danger, but what're you gonna do? He just doesn't have it."

Shrugging, Neo added, "I don't know, you might be surprised."

He looked to his watch again. "Yeah, it won't be here since nobody's at the docks. Don't forget to feed the dogs while I'm gone." Neo waved as Roman stood up and made his way to the bullhead, perching on the cabin. "Alright you animals!" he proclaimed loudly through the aircraft door. "Load up and get ready to move out!" He ordered before walking into the compartment, more White Fang following behind him.

Torchwick spotted the Uchiha making his way to him, intent on riding the craft he was in to the docks. Roman however didn't want Sasuke in the same vehicle with him after the stunt from before.

He stepped onto the cabin door's frame. "Hold up, Sasuke," he said and succeeded in stopping Sasuke's walk to him. "This baby's full. You gotta take the next bullhead and join us later. Alright, kid?" He had to say 'kid' at least one more time to annoy the teen.

The last Uchiha responded with a frown and walked to a bullhead that was being prepped for take off. Neo wasn't going to join them this time, she said that there wasn't enough deaths to be worth the trip.

Sasuke watched Roman's craft fly into the night until it was out of sight. 'No matter, I'll get my Dust regardless,' he thought. He turned to an antlered White Fang member making her way to him. She stopped and stood stiffly. "Is the bullhead prepared?" he asked her. He was satisfied with the nod she gave him and made his way to the infernal machine.

Just before he entered the craft, he transformed into a teal-eyed Gaara. Wearing the same clothes the Kazekage did in the fourth war, 'Sasuke' climbed into the passenger section of the craft. Very few White Fang decided to join him, only the bold decided to board the same craft.

When the bullhead took off, thankfully with closed cabin doors, he calmed himself with reviewing the seals and the plan. 'I am one step closer to my goal,' he thought, content. The Dust he was to be payed with in this operation wasn't enough for the seal to return, but it was a step in the right direction; that was enough for now.

He took a deep calming breath, before he heard an explosion in the distance. He peered out through the cockpit, and noticed smoke climbing from the area they were meant to rob. The operation had been hit with a snag.

That didn't sit well with the Uchiha. A step closer to going back home, and a fool decided to get in his way. No matter what, he would make this operation a success. His return to his friends depended on it. He scowled fiercely and thought, 'If anyone tries to stand in my way, I'll make them suffer.'

So hungry for reviews. . . or just food in general. Why did I think this was initially a funny thing to say? Whatever, let's move on.

Trivia:

1- My initial idea for chapter 5 was to kill off Jaune, but I was threatened by dear sibling if I wrote that in. So, I changed it to dodge having my beautiful anus drilled . . . sideways.

2- I really wanted to write a moment where they would ask about Sasuke's origin in this chapter. Every time I tried, it just sounded out of place. Maybe next time, when it doesn't sound weird.

3- While I had the idea of using Sasori for this fic instead of Sasuke, I had intended him to be paired with Coco.

I hope to see you guys in the next chapter.