Disclaimer I do NOT own Kamen Rider or RWBY. Kamen Rider is owned by Toei and Ishinomori Productions. RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth and Mounty Oum (RIP)

Sorry for taking so long a REALLY bad case of writer's block and some real life stuff kept me from finishing this chapter.

"This is so dumb!"

Urataros gave a frustrated sigh and turned to his partner "Senpai you've been saying that for a day now."

"Well it doesn't make it any less true!"

Urataros turned back to the mirror to finish putting on his tie "We get it you don't like this mission all that much."

"It's not the mission!" Momotaros shouted. "It's how we're doing it!"

"Not much of a difference" Kintaros commented.

Momotaros glared at the 'Faunus' who simply turned back to cleaning his weapon.

"Senpai you've been like this since Owner's explanation."

"You call that an explanation?"

"Well he did give some valid reasons for our course of action. Anyway can't you find something else to focus on?"

"Yeah!" Ryutaros chimed in "Like decorating!" He pointed at the red eyed swordsman "You said we'd decorate after school yesterday!" he then turned to Urataros. "You said that too Kame-chan."

"Well to be fair Ryuta we've been busy" Kintaros spoke up.

"He's right. Between being on guard for Imagin, school work, I can't believe I said that, and Senpai moaning we haven't found time."

"Hey you just said you can't believe this situation either Kame."

"But I'm not complaining about it every few seconds."

"Hey I don't complain every few seconds!"

"Yes you do!" The E,N and O of the team said in perfect sync.

"Anyway can't we start decorating now?" Ryutaros ran up to Urataros.

The blue staff wielder looked down at his younger comrade. "We're just about go to class Ryuta."

"What about after school?"

"Oi! I'm the leader you should be askin me."

Ryutaros frowned. "No I don't!"

"Oh yes you do!" Momotaros growled.

"No I don't!"

"Actually Ryuta" Urataros spoke up bringing the dancing gunmen's attention back to him "He IS our leader so you kind of have to."

"What?!"

"Ha!" Momotaros barked with a smirk the walked up the two. "You heard him Gaki. If you want something done ya have to ask me". He bent over so he was closer to the scowling boy's eye level "Maybe if you ask nicely I'll think about it."

Ryutaros looked down at the floor fists clenched at his sides "I want..." Momotaros turned his head to the side and cupped his ear. "I want..." Ryutaros muttered while Urataros and Kintaros shared an exhausted look they knew where this was going. "A LEADER WHOSE ACTUALLY SMART!"

"DAH!" Momotaros jumped back held his ears then looked up and pointed at the purple dancer. "You little brat!"

He jumped at him but Ryutaros just jumped out of the way led the temperamental swordsman on a chase round the room and over the beds giggling as he did so. As that happened Urataros and Kintaros looked at each other then hung their heads and proceeded to shake them with a sigh.

"Aaaaah!" Yuuto stretched out his arms and sighed as he made his way down the hallway to his team's room. "Now that was a run."

The green swordsman had woken up almost half an hour ago with his teammates still sleeping. With plenty of time left until classes started Yuuto decided to go for a morning jog. Not only did it get him away from his team's snoring but it also helped clear his head especially concerning that... dream.

'I thought I was over that' Yuuto thought with a frown then shook his head snapping out of his thoughts. He had spent his morning so far trying to snap out of that state of mind. He then pulled out his scroll from his pocket, he was wearing a green t-shirt with his bull head symbol on the left side and a pair of black track pants, and checked the time. 'Still more then half an hour until class starts. I've got time for a quick shower' He thought as he came to a stop in front of his team's door and swiped is scroll across door's scanner and turned the handle.

"I told you I have no idea what you're talking about!"

"You must have no else could have taken them!"

And with that Yuuto's morning was no longer peaceful as he opened the door and saw the E and O of ZERO, dressed in their combat gear, in the middle of the room bickering. The room itself was divided with Hana and Kotaro on the left and Yuuto on the left with a few boxes, bags and books on the floor and desks.

"Why would I take them?" Kotaros asked then pulled out a Dust cartridge from one of his ammo pouches. "Your ammo won't work with Teddy."

"Well who else could have taken them?!"

Kotaro spread his arms. "I don't know!"

Yuuto gave a quiet groan and shook his head. For some reason the two would not stop squabbling and it got old real fast.

He looked up and the two and asked. "What are you two fighting about now?"

The pair turned to their leader and Kotaro pointed at his partner "Hana lost some of her Dust rounds and thinks I did it."

"Well where could they have gone?"

"How should I know?" Kotaro asked. "It's not my fault you can't keep track of your stuff."

Hana opened her mouth to reply but Yuuto cut her off "Hey! You're not kids so stop acting like it."

"Well she was a kid when I met her" Kotaro muttered earning a punch on the arm. "Ow!"

Yuuto rolled his eyes "Hey! I'm not your babysitter!" The pair glanced at each other then looked away while Yuuto made his way to his bed where what the black shirt and pants he wore under his armour were folded up neatly. "I'm going to grab a shower you two just focus on getting ready for class."

"Shower's occupied" Hana informed him as she went to her desk where her weapon lay in its bazooka form while Kotaro went to sort out his text books for the day.

The green swordsman picked up his change of clothes and went over to the door and knocked. "Oi! Hurry up in there Deneb!"

"One minute Yuuto" He spun round and saw his partner walk in from the team's shared closet on the other side of the room.

Wind blew into the room carrying the sands of time in with it causing the other three members of team ZERO to close and shield their eyes. The green eyed Imagin kicked the door shut behind him cutting off the wind but leaving the carpet covered in a small pile of sand. The other three members of team ZERO each gave him a look showing a different level of annoyance and saw he was wearing a scarf he got from the Junction point around his head with a pair of goggles over his eyes and carried a few boxes wrapped in a plastic bag to keep out the sand.

Yuuto marched up his partner not too please about the light layer of sand no covering everything. "Deneb what were you doing on ZeroLiner? I told you we'll decorate on the weekend."

The Imagin manoeuvred his load so he could carry it on his left hand alone then pulled down the scarf over his mouth "I know Yuuto but I remembered I prepared these lunches the other day." He pulled the bag revealing four clear plastic tubs each containing a small lunch.

"Why didn't you put them in the mini fridge?" Yuuto asked pointing at the small appliance set next to Deneb's desk. originally he had wanted to put it back on the time train but Deneb had argued that keeping their lunches in the shared fridge in the rec room would mean there was a chance someone else could take them.

"Well...I may have made these before we arrived at Beacon and left them in the fridge aboard ZeroLiner" Deneb replied with a chuckle as he lifted the goggles off his eyes.

"Unbelievable" Yuuto moaned placing his hand over his face as Kotaro walked over.

The purple clad warrior took a tub and removed the lid revealing half of the tub contained rice and the other some kind of curry turned to the resident cook "Looks pretty good Deneb."

"Hehe Domo" Deneb replied as he rubbed the back of his head with an embarrassed chuckle. "Of course they'll have to be put in the microwave but they should still be good to eat."

"Hey it's better then spending a few minutes starving in line."

"Did you have come into the room though?" Hana asked as she placed her weapon on her back. She then looked around the room namely the sand that blew in.

"Sorry but if I opened the door outside someone could have seen."

"Yeah and this mess is much better" Hana muttered.

"Hey at least we got food out of it."

"That doesn't fix the mess Kotaro."

"Since when are you so glass half empty?"

"Hey!" Yuuto looked up from his hand his patience near its end. "I already told you guys to stop bickering for the-wait" He turned to his partner. "Deneb?" He pointed at the door behind his partner. "If you were on ZeroLiner" he pointed his thumb over his shoulder at the bathroom door "Whose in the bathroom?"

"Aaaaah" at the sound of a content sigh they turned to the bathroom door and saw the fifth member of the four man team, Teddy. The humble Imagin had a towel wrapped around his waist and was rubbing his head with another in order to dry it. "Sorry Yuuto but I needed a shower after being stuck in Kotaro's locker while you were all in class yesterday. They get surprisingly stuffy."

"By the way Teddy I've been meaning to ask" Hana said as she placed her weapon on her back. She walked over to the purple Imagin "Back when Kotaro was hanging upside down in the Emerald Forest why didn't you change back and help him down."

"I would have but I didn't want to risk our cover if one of the other initiates saw me."

"Thanks for bringing that up again Hana" Kotaro half muttered. He then held put the tub in his hand for Teddy to see. "Hey Teddy check out this lunch Deneb made for the team."

"Hmm?" Now curious Teddy walked over to his partner and gave a nod at the contents. He turned to resident cook "This does look pretty good Deneb."

"D-Domo Ao Kumataros" Deneb nodded at the comment but sounded a bit nervous. He looked down at the other three tubs in his silver hands "But I'm afraid that since I was told the teams would consist of four members I only have that many tubs."

"Um...It's Teddy" The humble Imagin said as he pointed at himself.

"It's more accurate then Tendon" Kotaro commented which his partner had to give a relucent nod of agreement. Kotaro turned to Deneb "Don't worry about it Deneb I'll split mine with Teddy."

"You're sure?" Deneb asked the purple clad warrior then turned to his fellow Imagin. "I'm more then happy to cook some more."

Teddy held up his hand a shook his head. "Don't stress yourself on my account."

"Great now that that's done I'm going to take a shower" Yuuto gently pushed past his teammates and walked over to the bathroom door. "I won't be long." He stopped and turned to the others "You guys get started on cleaning this up. I'll do my share when I get out."

And with that he closed the door and set his clothes on the laundry basket.

One shower later Yuuto, now in his usual choice of under armour clothes, wiped the steam off the mirror and nodded at his relfection. He then turned and opened the door and a pile of sand spilled over his shoes.

Yuuto looked up from his now sand covered feet and saw the room was now covered in sand with a smile pile set in the centre of the room where his teammates were currently standing with Hana and Kotaro once again bickering over something and Deneb and Teddy trying to calm down with little success.

"Ishinomori's pen!" Yuuto proclaimed gaining the attention of the others. He did a quick look around the room then back to the four "What happened?! I was only in there for about eight minutes."

The four looked at each other then Deneb bowed in apology "I'm sorry Yuuto!"

"Deneb?! What did you do?"

The robed Imagin stood up straight. "Well it was pointed out that we would need a vacuum cleaner to get the sand out of the carpit. So I..." He started pushing his index fingers together. "Opened the door to the Sands of Time again."

"You did what?! That's the reason for this mess in the first place."

"To be fair to Deneb it was Kotaro's idea" said Hana as she cast a glance to her partner.

"Hey don't pin this on me!" Kotaro replied. "I said we needed a vacuum. I didn't say we needed the one from ZeroLiner."

"I'm sorry!" Deneb again bowed in apology this time to Kotaro.

"Why did all this sand come in anyway?" Yuuto asked then turned to his partner. "Deneb I thought we set ZeroLiner away from the storm."

"Actually I think this may have been caused by a completely separate gust of wind."

"Oh this is just PERFECT!" The green warrior moaned as he face palm.

Then came a knock at the door which Teddy answered and opened the door revealing Momotaros in his human guise.

"Yo Tendon you guys got any armor..." The red swordsman had stepped into the room and found himself sanding in sand halfway up his shoe. "What the...?"

"Well this is...unexpected" commented Urataros as he and the other members of Team DENO walked up behind their leader.

"You guys making a beach or something?" Ryutaros asked leaning out from behind the blue staff wielder.

"Perfect" Hana then walked up and pushed past Momotaros.

"Hey!"

And behind Kintaros, who was at the back of the group, and proceeded to push him and in turn the others into the room "You're just in time to help clean this mess up."

"Why do we have to clean this up?" asked Momotaros asked after Hana shoved them in and closed the door then marched up to the disguised Imagin.

"Because it's the nice thing to do."

"'Nice thing to do'?" Momotaros asked then pointed round the five members of Team ZERO. "You mean like how you guys woke us up yesterday to keep us from being late?"

"That was your fault for fooling around." Hana pointed at the sand on the floor "Now help clean this up."

"If we do that we'll be late for class" Momotaros countered.

"Momotaros" Deneb ran up to him and bowed. "Please forgive us. We did not mean to offend you or your teammates!" He stood up straight "Please for the sake of our long comradery..."

"Have you been watching those old movies again?" Momotaros asked with a puzzled expression from Deneb's words, said Imagin now had his head bowed and was rubbing the back of it with his hand. "Sorry Odebu but if we help you guys out we'll be late to the start of class and I'm already in hot water with Goodwitch thanks to that bastard arachnid." He turned to Urataros "There! I didn't call him a bug. Happy?"

The blue Casanova simply shrugged while Kotaro leaned over to Teddy. "He can't tell the difference between a bug and an arachnid?"

The purple Imagin shrugged while Hana rubbed the side of her head from the headache she felt coming on. "Look! Just help us clean this up then you can head to class. alright?"

"Have you gone deaf or somethin?" Momotaros pointed at the door. "Goodwitch's class is first." He then leaned closer to Hana "Goodwitch."

"You make it sound like you're scared of her Senpai."

"Uh..." Momotaros looked away from his partner and scratched behind his ear.

"Ha ha!" Ryutaros pointed at the swordsman. "You're scared of Goodwitch! Team DENO's suppoussed leader is afraid of a girl!"

"I AM the leader!" Momotaros' head switched back to the purple gunmen "and You're saying you're not?!"

The youngest of the group folded his arms "Name one girl that I should be afraid of."

Everyone present pointed at Hana, save for Yuuto and Hana herself, as she gave the immature dancer an almighty glare.

Ryutaros, eyes wide and his face blank, stared at her for a second then blinked then pointed at Urataros to his right "He said it!"

He then zipped behind Kintaros to his left earning him some odd looks from the blue and gold members of DENO and an amused smile from Momotaros, Denen, Kotaro and Teddy.

Hana gave a frustrated sigh and opened her mouth to say something when then clock on Deneb's desk, despite having a scroll he insisted on having a classic alarm clock, caught her eye and she saw the time the time. "Look we have no time for this. Just help us get started on cleaning this up then we'll head to class."

"Just leave it and clean it up later."

"But Momotaros we are held responsible for these rooms" Said Deneb. "We can't just leave it like this for who knows how long."

"Seriously Odebu?" Momotaros asked. "Yuuto how do you put up with this guy?" He turned to look at his fellow leader but saw he wasn't there. The group looked around and saw he wasn't in the room anymore. Momotaros bared his teeth "Oh that son of a-!"

Yuuto marched down the hallway with his fists clenched. He felt his nails digging into his skin as he walked. He grit his teeth together as he went frustrated thoughts about his teams antics. He was more or less used to Deneb but being roommates with Hana, Kotaro and Teddy was going to take some getting used to. Deneb's insistence on bring things from ZeroLiner to the room was one thing but Hana and Kotaro fighting was a new development they'd never shown any hostility the few times he had seem then interact but then again as Kotaro said Hana had been a girl at those times because of the Imagin previously erasing her timeline. That didn't ecuse the fact that most times they were in the same room they were fighting over the smallest things.

Why do I have to put up with this? He thought I mean Momotaros may not be the smartest guy but I can see why he's always complaining about his mission. I mean by all rights I should be teaching these guys but no I have to be another student. He gave a frustrated sigh and scratched the back of his head with his right hand while his left pulled out something from one of his pouches, one of his transformation cards. This is not what I thought this would be like.

ZeroLiner's bellow like horn sounded as it charged down the tracks in the Sands of Time. Inside the bull like locomotive's dining car Yuuto sat in the corner reading a book about different myths and legends involving stars. After he finished the chapter he was on he marked the page and placed the closed book on the table next to him and stretched his arms. He then got up and walked out of the door way, across the hallway and out onto balcony behind the train. The wind blew against the back of his head as he looked at the scenery as growing small in the distance and gave a sigh. When he first came aboard ZeroLiner he never would have guess time would be so barren it honestly got boring pretty quickly. He looked down at the rails emerging from underneath the train.

It had been a while since the last time he had to face an Imagin or another threat to time. He turned his back to the scenery and leaned against the barrier and looked up at the rainbow coloured sky.

'It's been too quiet lately' he thought. 'I mean you'd think something would come up now.' He turned and stared at the rocky mountain that appeared on ZeroLiner's left. 'Maybe I'm over thinking it. After all I've been pretty damn driven since...'

"Yuuto! I'm back!" Yuuto gave a quiet growl as Deneb's announcement broke his train of thought. Seriously his partner seemed to have the worst sense of timing. "And we have a guest!"

Yuuto turned to the closed door. A guest? He pushed himself off the raining and walked through the door way and saw Deneb standing dutifully next to it.

"Ah Yuuto I was just about to look for you."

"Deneb you literally just called me a few seconds ago."

"Yes well..." Deneb had nothing. "Any way I just need to get something to eat and drink from the kitchen" he turned to the seat on the opposite side of the car. "Is there anything you'd like in particular?"

"Coffee and fired rice if you have any" Yuuto turned and there in the corner hands resting on his cane was the owner of the DenLiner.

"Hey Yuuto!"

"What?!" The green swordsman snapped.

"Hey! Hey! No need to bite my head off" Yang held her hands up and waved them in a pacifying manner. "Jeez no wonder your symbol's a bull."

Looking over the blonde's shoulder Yuuto saw the rest of the all female team walking up with their leader at the head of the group.

"Sorry I'm..." Yuuto gave a frustrated sigh "I'm not having a good morning."

"Well you shouldn't take it out on others" Weiss commented with her arms folded earning a raised eyebrow from Blake.

"You're one to talk" said the quiet girl as she turned away from the heiress who gave her an icy glare.

Ruby took a few step towards the armoured boy. "Something happen with your team?"

Yuuto noticed Weiss grimace at her partner's words earning a raised brow then looked down at the younger girl who wore a concerned expression. The green swordsman sighed and turned away slightly with his arms folded. "I guess you could say that."

The sisters exchanged a look then looked back to him "You wanna talk about it?"

"Not really."

"Oookay" Yang placed her hands on her hips and raised an eyebrow while Ruby's gaze landed on the item in Yuuto's hand.

"Hey what's that?"

Yuuto quickly pocketed the card and resumed walking. "None of you're concern."

Team RWBY looked at each other with a look asking 'What was that all about that?' then followed after him. Shortly they arrived at Goodwitch's combat class in the amphetire/sparring arena. Since it was the first class that day the students didn't have to wear the academy uniform and instead went with their combat uniforms though some didn't causing them to stand out in the mix of colours and styles.

The students were all currently seated in the stands above the floor while Professor Goodwitch stood in the centre of the arena. The stage across from the main doors of the room could be lowered or raised depending on what the room was needed for and Goodwitch used this in her class by having it lowered during some classes or raised in others so the students could train in both a small and large arena.

Today was one of the days when Goodwitch lowered the stage allowing combatents to use the full space. The combat instructer in question was standing in the middle of the adaptible stage with her scroll in hand going over a few details.

Yang turned to her sister with a teasing smile "So Ruby how's feel to be on time for once?"

"Very funny sis" said Ruby with an amused glare.

"Can you two act your age for five secounds?" Asked Weiss.

"Nope!" Replied the resident blonde with a smile earning a look from the heiress almost identical to the one on Ruby's face.

"Hey" The three turned their attention to Blake half way down the steps. "Are you guys just going to stand there or are you going to find some seats?"

"Oh right!" Ruby said before rushing after the bow wearing girl.

"Don't run down you dolt!"

As Ruby and Weiss went to join their teammate at the front of the stand Yang looked back at the entrance "Hey Yuuto want to..." The green swordsman was no longer there and in fact was making his way to one of the seats at the back in the next row over. "...Join us?" the brawler finished with a raised brow then turned and went to join the others. "Guess not."

Just as Yang sat down, sitting on the right edge of the row, the bell rang signaling the start of class. Goodwitch looked up from her scroll to the class gathered consisting of the majority of the first years.

"Ah excellent to see so many of you made it on time today. Now team leaders prepare for attendance." and with that she opened up her registration list for the class. She started going through list of first year teams alphabetically starting with CRDL and wasn't to happy about having to break up their snickering over some topic she didn't catch, two teams down she got to DENO, upset that now the entire team was late and not just their leader, three teams later she reached JNPR and wasn't to happy to see Jaune Arc half asleep and being prodded awake by his partner resulting in him shooting up awake on his feet like a solider standing to attention.

Glynda shook her head wondering for eighth time in the past few days why Ozpin let him into the school. She continued down the list finding team RWBY were actual all there today, their leader sounding pretty proud of that fact, and finally came to the last team of the new year ZERO or more accurately their leader. Said leader sitting on his own arms folded at the end of the back row.

"Mr Zakurai. Where is the rest of your team?"

Yuuto shrugged and turned away the teacher. "They were fooling around and I was already set for class."

"So you left all three members of your team including your partner behind?" She asked with a raised brow.

"Yeah something like" He muttered and turned his head away.

Goodwitch frowned at the green swordsman though she honestly wasn't really that surprised however first years with attitude were hardly something new. Meanwhile some of the students exchanged looks of various degrees of surprise that he took that tone with the combat instructor.

"Very well" said the blonde teacher before she looked across the crowd. "Now who would like to participate in the first match?"

Yang's hand shot up. "Oooh! Oooh! Oooh!"

"The sound effects are unnecessary Ms Xiao Long..." she said in a deadpan tone but Yang kept doing it. Goodwitch sigh and relented "Very well."

"Yes!" Yang proclaimed with a fist pump.

"Now as for your opponent..." Goodwitch's eyes were drawn to a certain moody, green swordsman. "Mr Zakurai."

"Hmm?" Yuuto's gaze turned back to the teacher.

"Care to take part in the first round of the morning?"

He blinked then shrugged "Sure."

"Very well. Both you make your way down to the arena."

And with that they both got up and left the way they came in to head down to the open space. One pumped for a fight the other thankful for something to tke his mind of his headache of a team.

"Good luck sis!" Ruby called after her sister.

Yang replied by looking back over her shoulder with a smirk and ave a thumbs up. "Thanks but I'm not gonna need it."

A few minutes later Yuuto and Yang stood across from eachother in the centre of the arena with Goodwitch standing between them. Yuuto now having his ZeroGasher braced on his shoulder. Despite the name it wasn't the same weapon he usually used but he just didn't really see the point of giving it a different name since it was by all purposes the same thing and he refused to follow DENO's example just add a 'II' to the end of its name.

Goodwitch looked from Yuuto on her right to Yang on her left. "Are you both ready?"

The green swordsman gave his ZeroGasher and quick spin before planting it point first on the ground with his left hand resting on the hilt. "Ready!"

Yang meanwhile unfolded her gauntelts and fists raised. "Oh yeah!"

And with that Goodwitch walked back to the edge of the arean to avoid getting caught in the cross fire and entered a few commands on her scroll. The windows darkened keeping daylight out and then lights above the stands went while several spotlights over the large arena.

Two holographic screens appeared one on the right showing a picture of Yuuto and his aura reserves in the form of a green health bar and the same on the left for Yang.

"Let me say this to start" Yuuto proclaimed and pointed at Yang. "I am fairly strong!"

Yang smirked and replied "Bring it on!"

"The match of Yuuto Zakurai vs Yang Xiao Long will begin on my mark!" Goodwitch delcared as Yuuto pulled his sword out of the floor and took a stance. "And...Begin!"

Yuuto charged at the blonde with a cry and took a swing at the brawler. Yang just jumped back out of the way with a teasing smile. Yuuto swung again but this time Yang simply side stepped out of it and he simply tried again.

This time Yang blocked the strike with her gauntlet. Yuuto grit his teeth as he pushed his weapon against her arm with all his strength but Yang barely budged the blonde winked at him then punched him in the stomach sending him flying back. The green swordsman flew back and bounced off the ground once before landing in a crouch digging his feet into the floor. His eyes narrowed at whre Yang had been standing but saw no sign of the girl he looked up just in time to see Yang descending towards him with her right fist drawn back and the guantlet glowing a firery golden yellow.

Yuuto's reacton was almost instant as he dove to his right just managing to avoid being hit by the brawler's meteor like punch as it left a small crater in the floor. Yuuto rolled on his back then stood up in a crouch then jumped back giving himself more distance from his oppenant. He landed digging his heels into the floor then when he came to a stop he raised his gaze to the brawler who was currently standing in the shallow hole surrounded by her aura which burned like yellow flames.

Yang smirked and charged with a fist reared back. Once more Yuuto managed to block it with ZeroGasher but skidded back from the force of the impact.

"Man when you said you were 'fairly' strong you weren't kidding" Yang said with a hand on her hip. "Seriously is that all you got?"

The green swordsman growled at the blonde's mocking then converted his weapon to its blowgun mode and started firing at the brawler.

Ruby, Weiss and Blake watched the match unfold from their place in the bleachers. Ruby was making punching motionings in her seat as she silently cheered her sister on earning a raised brow from her partner on her right and small amused smile from Blake on her left.

After Yang's play on her oppenant's pre battle proclamation Weiss turned to Ruby "Has Yang always been so... confident?"

Ruby gave an embrassed smile and shurgged knowing full well how 'confident' Yang was. "Fraid so."

While her teammates talked Blake's eyes were focused on her partner's oppenant as he flipped away from the shots she fired from her gauntlets and fired back between landings. Something just didn't fit the way he moved.

"-lake? Blake you okay?"

Blake blinked and turned to the two. "Huh?"

"You okay?" Ruby asked looking a little concerned. "You kind of zoned out there."

"It just..." Blake turned back to the watched and saw it was now a close range match with Yang on defence as Yuuto rapidly switched between sword swings and kicks. Amber eyed narrowed at ZERO's leader.

"Just what?" Weiss asked.

"Yuuto is a first year student like everyone else in this class" Blake answered as she stared at Yuuto as he ducked beneath Yang's fist and used a low sweep kick to knock her off balance. "But he doesn't fight like one."

Weiss turned to the brown haired boy. She had to admit he was an excellent fighter. "He's good I'll amdit." She turned back to her black dressed teammate. "But are you sure you're not exaggerating?"

"Weiss has point" Ruby chimmed in. "There are students with all sorts of training here." He gestured over at team JNPR namely a certain red head who tried to help her green teammate keep his hyper partner from jumping into the arena. "I mean Pyrrha is a world famous fighter and she's the regular first year age." Ruby turned back to Blake and shrugged. "Maybe he has similar training?"

Blake turned back to match and thought over her leader's suggestion. "Maybe...?"

Yuuto had reversed the earlier situation and had now forced Yang into a distant and was keeping pressure on her. Blake still couldn't get her curiousity over the way he fiught out of her head. She noted there was a difference in skill between Yang and Yuuto but it wasn't in style. Yuuto fought in a way that reminded her of several fighters she used to know and that was what bothered her about it. Those fighters were more experienced in the field then her. Far more experienced.

Yuuto fired shot after shot at the blonde avoided his shots sidestepping and ducking away. He grit his teeth and swallowed a growl of frustration from the fight. He should have been able to win this match no problem but it went on far longer then he expected. He quickly glanced up at the Aura meters on display overhead and saw that both had lowered it wasn't by any significant margin.

This distraction cost him however as he turn back to Yang only to see her fist flying right him. Yuuto some how managed to raise ZeroGasher and raise his Aura's defence in time to take the blow but was still sent flying back. He bounced once then landed face first on the floor. He pushed himself up glaring at the ground and tightened his grip on ZeroGasher.

I can't believe it! He thought angerly. I have the advantage in experience but so far we've been at a stand off at best. How could this happen?!

He got a knee up and looked at Yang who was standing where he stood a second ago and stretched out her arms like she was just warming up. A fact that didn't help cool off his on the verge of boiling over frustration.

"Wow I have to say so far this is kinda disappointing" She smirked as she finished her routine then placed her hands on her hips and leaned forward slightly. "Come on show me what ya can really do Yu?"

He struck the floor with his unoccupied right fist and stood up and glared at Yang whose smirk vanished with a suprised blink at swordsman's enraged expression but it quickly returned.

"If looks could kill" Jaune mused in surpise to Pyrrha who nodded in agreement. "And I thought Momotaros had a temper."

"If he wants to stand a chance of winning he had best cool said temper" said the Minstralian champion. Pyrrha had faced foes similar to Yang before who tried to get under their oppenants skin and take advantage of their frustration. Though she wasn't sure if it was a tactic or just the blonde's enegetic personallity.

While the amazon's mind briefly drifted to several of her old matches Nora watched the battle excitedly punching the air in front of her with a maniac grin.

"Yeah! Come on! Don't stop now!" She cheered.

"Who are you routing for?" Ren asked.

She turned and gave a cheery smile "Oh no one in particular I just want to see em fight."

"Of course you do?" Ren sigh and hung his head.

Nora turned back to the arena and was about to start cheering again when something caught her eye by stage's backdrop.

"Hey did you guys see that?" She pointed at the structure.

"What? The back drop? It's nice I guess?" said Jaune confused.

"No not that. I thought I saw some-."

"Hey something is happening" Nora frowned at her old friend for cutting her off but quickly returned her attention to the floor of the area

That's it! Yuuto's patience was gone between his teammates behavior, the secrecy of the mission and the fact that he was actually struggling in this match it was a miracle it didn't burn out sooner.

"You want me to get serious?" he said as he stood up and gave ZeroGasher a spin then planting the point of the sword on the floor with his hand on the hilt same as did at the start of the fight. "Fine!"

Yang chuckled at tone of his voice. "Heh bring it on!"

Yuuto took a deep breath, closed his eyes then exhaled standing still. His oppenant tilted her head at the scene "Umm...Yuuto?"

She dropped her stance slightly then turned and looked up at her team in the stands behind her with Weiss and Ruby giving shrug informing her they were just as lost. The brawler turned back and an amused smirk "Ya know it's rude to ignore a lady."

She then charged at the still boy assuming he'd just given up but just as she reared her fist back Yuuto's eyes snapped open and he threw his right arm into air. Suddenly a bold of lightning shot down from the air aim right at Yang who filped back just avoiding being struck as the bolt struck the floor causing a small smoking crater.

Yang blinked in surpise at the smoking hole in the floor she had not expected.

"On that..." Yuuto's voice came from behind the haze "I agree!" ZERO's leader jumped out of the smoke sword raised high over his head and brought it down towards her snapping Yang out of her daze and she rolled to the right just in time to avoid it as the large blade was brought down cracking the floor. He then pulled ZeroGasher up then swung it at his oppenant who simple fliped out of the way. "Just. One. Problem!"

"Oh and what would that be?" Yang asked in mid flip only to find out as she stood up and saw the sole of Yuuto's boot flying at her as he used to his sword to carry his momentum and jump up.

After she skidded back after his foot made contact with her chest then dropped to her knee head lowered. The green swordsman landed on his feet in and stopped facing her, pulling the ZeroGasher out mid spin then braced it on his shoulder and pointed Yang slightly exhausted from the fight. "In a match I don't see ladies and gentlemen only oppenants!"

Yang shook slightly Yuuto felt his bilt up frustration and anger vanish at first thinking he'd gone too far taking it out then she raised her head. Yang had her usual smirk gracing her lips but their was something else her eyes which were normally lilac coloured were now burning red which added to said smirk took Yuuto by suprise.

"Sounds good to me!" Yang proclaimmed then drew her fists back and pumped them causing her gauntlets to empty the used the shells. She then reached behind her waist and pull out two spare belts of ammo which she quickly inserted into her Ember Ceilica in speed which could only have come from hours of practice.

Over coming his suprise at her speed Yuuto removed ZeroGasher from his shoulder and raised defencively infront of him as he quickly jumped back as she fired her gauntlets at him with reniewed vigor.

As he was focused on avoiding the shots he could only wonder 'Where is she getting this energy from?'

"Where is she getting all that energy?" Weiss asked surprised while Ruby punched the air excited cheering "Yeah go sis!"

"Honestly I don't think she ever runs out" Blake answered with a tiny amused smile as Ruby observed Yuuto switch his weapon's mode again causing her to geek out.

"Oooh! How'd he build that thing. So complex. Yet so simple. How does he aim so well with how much the blade must weigh?" The older girls tuned her out without notice.

"She could at least fight with a little more grace don't you think?" the heiress asked with a touch of disapprovel in her tone.

"You're honestly surprised?" Blake asked. "You've seen the state of her bed?"

Weiss titled her head in thought for a secound. "...True. Still you'd think she'd have more in the way of stategy then simply 'punch, punch, and shoot to punch'."

"Hey it's only been a few days don't judge until our first team training exercise" Blake defended her partner with more then needed tone that suprised the fencer who frowned at the amber eyed girl.

"Uh guys...?" Ruby spoke up catching their attention. The silver eyed weapons nut's eye had shifted from the fight to the Aura moniters. "Wasn't Yuuto's Aura reserves way higher then that a minute ago?"

The black and white dressed girls looked at the projections and their eyes widened when they saw what their leader meant. The green swordsman's reserves which last they checked at been just behind Yang's had dropped.

"It's down by at least a third" Blake stated.

"When did that happen?" Weiss asked. "He didn't take that much damage."

"Maybe its a glitch?" Ruby suggested with a shurg.

"Goodwitch hasn't stopped match" said Blake whose eyes were locked the spot where the telekinetic was last standing. "So whatever it is it's not an technical error."

Weiss turned back to the match but Ruby's gaze remained on her sister's partner. Their was something about the way she stared at the spot the combat teacher was that bothered her but she quickly returned her focus to the match more curious about her fellow leader at the moment then her quiet teammate.

"Okay is the lightning the only suprise I get when you 'get serious' or are you just trying to intimidate me?" Yang asked as she repeatidly switched between dodging and firing at Yuuto who was doing the same. "I mean come on your team took down a Griffin."

She fired a shot but the leader of ZERO jumped back an flipped in the mid air and landed in crouch and fired ZeroGasher at the blonde who side stepped and flipped away. As he fired Yuuto called out "Focus more on fighting and less on talking!"

"You sound like some of my old teachers at Signel" the brawler called, missing the slight frown form a certain telekinetic, as she copied his backflip but when she landed she fired both her gauntlets propelling her forward like a golden comet.

Yuuto dropped flat on the floor missing her fist as she flew right over him then rolled on to his back and resumed firing. Yang skidded to a stop by digging her left hand and feet into the floor, the former being protected by her aura, then fired her gauntlets propelling her into the air over Yuuto the descended towards him in a repeat of her earlier action but the swordsman managed to flip back out of the way of the impact. However as soon as his feet made contact with the ground they quickly left once more as Yang, with amazing speed, managed to deliever an uppercut which sent him flying up into the air.

The young man landed on his back with a audible grunt will his weapon skidded along the floor and came to a stop in front of his right foot.

Yang stood up and put her hands on her hips as he sat up and shook his head. "I mean come on I thought a team leader would put up more of a fight. Was the problem you had with your team about your job because if so I kind of get it." She said folding her arms and looked up in thought then frowned slightly then turned back to him. "Do even-" She cut herself and placed her hand on the back of her neck after feeling a strange stinging sensation. 'what was that a bug bite?' She shrugged it off and looked back just in time to see Yuuto standing still with his eyes closed. Knowning what was coming she readied her Ember Celica to fire again just as his arm was thrown upwards acting fast she fired her out to her side and went in the opposite direction just avoiding the summoned bolt.

"Now I've got a question" Yuuto spoke up as he picked up ZeroGasher. "Is all your prattle to distract me or you?"

"And we're sticking with the tough guy act" Yang said as she stood up cracked her knuckles. "Seriously dude no girl is going go for..." She when she saw something in Yuuto's hand. There wrapped around the fingers on the hand supporting ZeroGasher was several golden hairs. She closed her eyes, bowed her head slightly and gripped her hands into shaking fists.

"Oh no" Ruby said eyes wide knowning recognizing Yang's actions and knowing full well the terror Yuuto had unknowningly unleashed.

"What?" Weiss asked her partner who was trying to shrink back into her seat.

"He has no idea what he's just done" Ruby answered.

Weiss looked past her to Blake hoping she would give her a more understandable answer. "Do you have any idea what she's talking about?"

"Maybe" The quiet girl asnwered eyes not leaving her trembling partner remember Yang's encounter with the Ursa back in the forest.

The heiress looked between her two teammates still not understanding what they were on about. She was about to inquire further but..

"Maybe what?" she was interuppted.

The girls spun round and sitting behind them between Weiss and Ruby was none other than Ryutaros with a small smile and his purple eyes shining with curiousity and his usual mischivousness and he wasn't alone. To his right was his gold clad partner with his arms folded and to his left was Urataros who was just sitting down. And walking down the steps was Momotaros along with the other three members of ZERO.

"Where have all of you been?" Weiss asked her previous question forgotten.

"Well we would have been here sooner" Momotaros said then turned to Hana standing behind him. "But someone drafted us into clean their room."

Hana just rolled her eyes and walked past the red swordsman and joined her partner in the row in front of the three members of Team RWBY.

Deneb joined Momotaros on the step he was standing on and bowed apologetically to him "I promise we'll try and make it up to you and your team Momotaros!"

"We're not his team!" Ryutaros chimed causing Momotaros to scowl at him with barred teeth.

Momotaros turned back to Deneb "You want to make it up to us Odebu?"

The tone he spoke with coupled with the glow in his eyes made Deneb slowly take a step back as the tempermental warrior stepped forward but he did nod. "Y-Yes."

"Well the only way I can see that happening is if somehow keep me from getting a secound strike with Goodwitch" He then leaned forward slightly making a nervous Deneb lean back slightly and action copied by Ruby, Weiss and Blake who leaned away. "Can ya manage that?"

"U-Uh Ummm" Deneb stuttered.

"Leave him alone Senpai" All eyes turned to Urataros who calmly adjusted his glasses. "Terrorizing Odebu won't fix the past."

"It's Deneb" Deneb corrected as he pointed a finger at his own face but was ingored.

"Maybe not but it makes me feel better" He pointed at the Deneb. "Seeing how he made the mess that made us late."

"To be fair half the reason we're late is your fault" Kintaros stated.

"Huh?!" The swordsman gave the axe weilder a confused look.

Kintaros pointed at Ryutaros "You spent a good couple of minutes squabbling with Ryuta in the hall."

Momotaros pointed at his parnter "Because he wouldn't shut up!"

"And right now I wish you'd all shut!" Hana stated with a look that caused any words Momotaros was about to speak to die in his throat but he quickly recovered and looked away from the group.

"Tch! So what did we miss anything?" He asked.

"Oh not really in fact you're just in time to see one of the most terrorfying things on the face of Remnant" Ruby answered causing everyone save for Blake to turn to her in confusion.

Back on the arena Yang hadn't moved even the slightest much to Yuuto's surpise.

'Know what's up with her?' The green swordsman wondered. "Hey Xiao Long you okau-Ow!" Yuutoright hand slapped agains the side of his neck. "What was..." He pulled his hand way then noticed something caught on his fingers. "Hair?"

"YOU SON OF-!" BANG! The loud cry long with a loud gunshot made Yuuto turned back to Yang just in time to see her flying as him again but much quicker. "AAARRRGH!"

Yuuto rolled to his left avoiding her as she flew past him and crashed right into the wall surrounding the arena just below the where team JNPR was sitting the impact almost making them fall out of their seats, much to Nora's amusemnt. Yang's hair glowed a burning gold in the cloud of dust then she sun round to face him teeth bared and eyes glowing red.

Yuuto's eyes widened at the sight but he shook the suprise of the sight. He had seen plenty of terrorfying foes in his time but he still had to admit this wasn't a look he wanted to be on the receiving end of. Yang let out another roar and was about to fly at him again Yuuto stood up and converted ZeroGasher back into sword mode hoping maybe he could withstand the blow. But just as he raised his weapon his entire body tensed up. His fingers forced themselves to unfold and drop the sword and it seemed they were trying to fold up against the back of his hands. His arms were in a simialr state and seems to be trying move behind his back. His jaw was clenched tight and his legs were frozen to the spot it felt like his muscles were trying to crush his bones while his aura dropped at an alarming speed. 'What's going on? This is happening too soon!'

Back in the stands the seated memers of DENO and ZERO, Momotaros and Deneb were still standing on the steps, sat up in alarm at the sight.

"Yuuto!" Hana shot up and called in alarm.

"I thought Storm Point was a last resort" Urataros said aloud then turned Deneb. "Why would he use it multiple times in a single match?"

Deneb tried to give an answer but he couldn't tear his eyes form his partner long enough reply while the members of RWBY wondered what was going on.

"Look!" Ryutaros pointed at the holo screen showing Yuuto's rapidly dropping aura.

"That's faster then normal" said Kotaro exchanging a shocked look with his partner.

"What are you talking about?" Asked Blake.

"His semblance" Urataros replied.

Weiss was about to ask her own question but was cut off by Deneb who was standing over her. "How many times did he use it?"

"Wha-?" Deneb grabbed the heiress by the collar and pulled her up to the tips of her toes and looked her right in the eye his own filled with panic.

"How many times?!"

"Two!"

"What?" Kintaros asked.

"I thought you guys said his limit was three?"

Deneb released Weiss and turned round to Momotaros. "It is!"

The red swordsman pointed at the arena. "Then what's going on down there?!"

Before anyone could chim in noise drew their attention back to the arena.

The next thing he knew was Yang was upon him delievering so many punches he lost count he couldn't even feel his feet on the ground anymore. His aura dropped even quicker then Yang drew her fist back and deliever one final punch to the middle of Yuuto's chest the impact causing his aura to drop way past the red and straight to zero. The force of the punch then sent him flying back and straight into the wall right behind him leaving it cracked from the impact then dropped to the floor supported up by the wall.

Yang panted heavly then fired the Ember Ceilica again, faintly hearing Goodwitch shout something but didn't catch it before she went flying right arms reared back. But before her fists made contact a hand grabbed her right wrist and another was over her left fist. They came to stop and she saw none other then Yuuto's partner Deneb standing in front of her with an serious expression and a determined look in his eyes.

Pyrrha's jaw dropped at the sight while Jaune let out a single "Whoa" of surprise.

Taking advantage of Yang's surprise Deneb threw her arms into the air making her stumbling back a few steps. Then quickly crossed his arms over his face with his fists clenched then threw his arms down to his sides sending out a shockwave sending Yang flying back. She landed in tumbled then quickly stood up and looked to the robe wearing older student who pointed his right hand at her with his thumb tucked into his palm and his fingers outstretched. The tips of his fingers fired something which caused the floor infront of the blonde erupt in smoke. Yang covered her mouth and nose with her left arm and waved the smoke away.

"Let me say this!" She heard Deneb state then as the smoke vanished she saw him standing up straight pointing his right index finger upwards. "If you let a temper like that run wild then you may destroy yourself along with your oppenant!"

Silince swept throught the room none of the first years said anything for the shock even Professor Goodwitch could bring herself speak or move from her spot. She heard Yang Xiao Long had a temper but she hadn't expected this but what greatly suprised her was Deneb. He somehow entered the arena during the chaos without being seen and he managed to intercept and successfully stop such a powerful blow. Granted Yang was running on fumes at that point but it was still impressive. Then again she supposed she shouln't have been suprised turned the lights back on then folded up her scroll.

The moment passed and Yuuto fell over to his left unconscious. Deneb spun round and his expression returned to worry.

"Yuuto!" He dropped down to his partners side and gently shook him in a vain attempt to awaken him. "Can you hear me?!"

As what little remained of Yang anger vanihsed she slowly begain to realize what she had done. Her red eyes widened as they faded back to lilac. Just as she was about to make her way of to see the state she had inflicted upon Yuuto and blurr of purple suddenly sped across the center of the room and quickly skidded to a stop as Kotaro dug his feet into the floor and even used his fingers to try and stop his motion.

"Yuuto!" He called then ran stood up and ran over at more average pace towards his teammates while Hana ran in from the locker room entrance. "Deneb how is he?"

"Miss Xiao Long!" Goodwithc strict tone snapped Yang out of her daze and she turned to see the teacher walking towards her with her riding crop held in her right hand which she waved around causign all the debris to fly back to its original place and meld back togethor. "I don't care how skilled you are going overboard like that will not be tolerated." Yang simply nodded still unable to believe she had gone so far. While she was tempermental and extremely protective of her hair but she thought she had decent lid on it. "This is your first and only warning. I have half a mind to-"

"Goodwitch-Sensei!" The two blondes turned to Deneb who was bowed over then stood up straight. "I know my teammates and I are extremely late" He gestured behind himself to Yuuto who was being lifted up to his feet by Kotaro who carried his left arm over his shoulder. "But may we please be excused to bring Yuuto to the infirmary."

Goodwitch let out a quiet sigh so early into the year and already their first case of someone needing to be scent to the nurse's office. "Very well Mr Rook but I want you, Ms Egami, Mr Ogami to join Ms Xiao Long in lunchtime detention for being so late" she turned to stands where Yang's teammates and the members of DENO were. "I expect you and your team there aswell Mr Dered."

Momotaros let out a quiet, frustrated sigh. "Saw that coming."

"Yes ma'am!" Deneb saluted then turned round to his teammates. and picked up his partner's rightside. "Have you got good hold Kotaro?"

"Yeah I got him" The purple dress boy turned to his cousin. "Hana get his weapon."

"On it!" She ran over to ZeroGasher which in the commostion had managed to land on on the opposite side of the entrance.

She picked up the sword with only slight difficulty just as her teammates carried their unconscious leader out of the exit and followed closely behind.

After they left and the arena was repair Goodwitch turned back to Yang "Please rejoin your teammates Ms Xiao Long."

"Y-Yes ma'am" Yang obey and slowly made her own way to the exit.

The combat instructor then turned to the class "Alright I know that was an unexpected turn of events but we still have a good amount of time left for a few more spars. I assure you that that matches aren't allowed to be taken that far in this class especially for first years."

Yang grimaced slighty at the last part but she kind of understood why Goodwitch said it. 'I went too far I get that' she started down at her right hand and clenched them into fists. 'But where did all that anger come from?'

Team ZERO raced down the hallway towards the infirmary. Deneb and Kotaro carrying Yuuto between them with Hana keeping up from behind clutching Yuuto's ZeroGasher.

"Come on keep the pace!" Deneb ordered.

"Kotaro!" Teddy spoke up making his partner look over shoulder. "Should I turn back and help you two carry him?"

"Thanks Teddy but the last thing we need to be questioned why three first years are carrying their unconscious teammate with strange purple creature."

"What happened back there?" Hana asked. "Why did his aura drop so fast?"

"I have no idea. We'll have to ask one of the other first years" Deneb answered. "But that's a task for latter first we need to focus on getting Yuuto help."

They an round a corner and spotted the door to the infirmary down the hall. Seeing their destination they picked up the pace. Hana looked at his back mentally praying for him to pull through while Deneb looked at the bowed head of his partner from the corner of his eye then looked down at the speeding by floor hoping he hadn't failed in his role to keep Yuuto safe.

Author's note(s): So yeah this a two partner now. Didn't plan of that but I'm a discriptive writer.

Anyway I promise I'll try and make up for lost time. Thank you for reading and feel free to review.