Author's Note: Sorry if this chapter seems rushed.
Ch.3 I'm Not Afraid
Yang watched as Raine started packing. She couldn't help but have this thought go through her head, "Ok Yang, just walk up to him and tell him you want him to stay."
With that thought, she walked up to Raine, tapped him on the shoulder, and when he turned around she got to see how much blood he had all over him.
"What do you want?" Raine asked in a strained tone.
"Well, one, why didn't you wait to get your wounds patched up, and, two, what was that in the arena just now, and, three, why are you packing?" Yang asked.
"To answer your first question, look here", Raine said as he pulled up his shirt to show Yang that his wound had healed.
"How did you heal that fast?" Yang asked, somewhat surprised,
"That question will be answered when I answer your third question, ok?" Raine said. "So for your second question, you have to promise not to tell anyone, ok?"
"Ok", Yang promised.
"*Sigh* Ok, I've never told anyone this, but, since you're not gonna let me go until I tell you, so, yeah, on my fourth birthday some men broke into my house and slaughtered my family... Th-they k-k-killed my one year old baby sister. After that they put a bag over my head and took me to a lab and continued to experiment on me, trying to make some type of perfect weapon to combat the Grimm. About ten years after being a science project, they finally did. They crossed the evil energy of the Grimm with a human host. I was that host, but before they could do anything else to me, I lost it, turned part Grimm and slaughtered them all. Then I escaped." Raine explained. "And, the reason I was packing was because I'm leaving before I hurt or kill anyone else. So, now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be on my way." He started to walk away but paused and said "It was good knowing you, Yang."
Before Raine could walk very far away, Yang ran up to him and hugged him from behind. Raine tried prying her off, but stopped when he felt something wet hit his neck. He turned around to see Yang crying. Seeing that made Raine feel even worse. Before he knew what he was doing, Raine had embraced her in a hug too.
In a now very strained voice Yang said "Raine I don't care if you're part Grimm, or if you're scary as hell, but you defended me and my friends. That shows that you have a kind heart, and you are not scared to stand up for people. You know what, Raine, I'm not afraid of you, ok, so please stay please!"
Raine was shocked she wasn't scared of him even though he was a monster.
"Yang I….I..I", When he looked into her purple orbs, seeing that they were full of determination and sadness, he instantly caved into her demands "Ok, Yang, I'll stay. I'll stay. I promise ok" Raine said looking into Yang's eyes one last time before pulling her into a hug again.
While they were lost in the moment, they didn't notice the three other girls walk into the room.
"Ahem, are we interrupting something?" asked Weiss, with a suspicious look on her face.
"Why are you hugging my sister like that, Raine?" Ruby asked very innocently.
Raine and Yang quickly separated. Yang looked down at the ground, so that her hair would fall in front of her face so she could hide her blush.
"So, uh, how long have you guys been standing there?" Raine asked somewhat worriedly.
"We heard everything from you are part Grimm to you and Yang having a heartfelt moment about her not wanting you to leave." Blake stated with a saucy smile on her face.
"Oh, and what do you guys think about me being part Grimm?" Raine asked, hoping for a good answer.
"Well, you're like a faunus, but instead of being part animal, you are part Grimm. Is that such a big deal?" Ruby deduced.
"Ruby, I wouldn't say I'm like a faunus. Where faunuses have control over their actions and their animal side doesn't try to control them, me, on the other hand, the Grimm energy fused with my body slowly takes over my brain as I lose control of my emotions. It turns me into a Grimm in a human body." Raine corrected.
Everyone in the room got quiet until Raine spoke up again and said "Wow! You guys are really taking this better than I thought you would."
With that, Yang put Raine in a headlock and announced, "We are friends aren't we? So why would we give up on you even if you're slightly scary!" And with that everyone decided to head to lunch.
When they all got to lunch they heard a girls voice ask "Will you please let go of my ear?" The plea was followed by laughing.
Raine looked in the general direction to see a girl with long brown hair and bunny ears which were being pulled by none other than Cardin. Raine rushed over and grabbed Cardin's hand, holding it still. Cardin looked up to see who dared interrupt his fun, only to see golden eyes and untamed spiky black hair. Cardin froze in fear. Those eyes could only belong to that demon Raine.
"Where I come from it's not nice to pull on someones ears, especially if they ask you not to." And with Raine saying that, he proceeded to break Cardin's hand. In turn Cardin let out a yelp of pain which got the attention of the cafeteria. After Cardin let go of her ears, the girl turned around to see Raine standing there. He offered her his hand and said "I'm Raine, and you are?"
"I'm Velvet. Nice to meet you Raine, but don't you think you went overboard with breaking Cardin's hand?" Velvet questioned.
"Well, no, I don't think I went overboard because apparently you guys have great doctors, since last time I saw Cardin his jaw was broken and his arm was broken in two." Raine pointed out.
"Oh so you are the new first year student who hospitalized all of team CRDL. Yeah, well, lucky for them our doctors are good at using their auras to heal serious injuries," Velvet said with a half smile.
Raine and Velvet's conversation was cut short when a girl with sunglasses and a beret called to Velvet, saying "Velvet, come on, we have a mission to get to!'
Velvet responded, "Ok, Coco, I'm coming. It was nice meeting you Raine. Bye." And with that she ran out of the cafeteria with Coco.
Raine walked over to the cafeteria line deciding he still needed to get some food. While he was in line Yang came up to him, gripped him by his arm, and dragged him over to team RWBY and JNPR's table.
"Raine this is Nora, Ren, Jaune, and Pyrrha. They are the team members that make up team JNPR. Oh, yeah, Ruby kinda told them you are part Grimm. Sorry," Yang said while pointing at each member and telling him there names.
Nora jumped and glared at Ranine before whining, "Raine, why didn't you break Cardin's legs like I wanted to!"
"Uh what?!" Raine said somewhat surprised that such a terrible thing could be said in such a cute way.
Pyrrha cut in to explain. "Cardin was giving our team leader, Jaune, trouble and Nora wanted to break his legs."
"Oh, ok" Raine replied before sitting down next to Yang, who was nice enough to grab him some lunch. Team RWBY, Team JNPR, and Raine all sat at the table chatting until an announcement by Glynda came on the academy speakers.
"All students, combat training starts back up in thirty minutes, so everyone get ready and head back to the arena."
Raine and the two teams went to their respected dorm rooms and gathered their gear before heading back to the arena. After that, the day went by pretty fast. Yang had a fight with Pyrrha, Jaune versused Ruby, Ren fought Blake, and Nora took on Weiss. Blake and Weiss's matches ended in a draw, while Ruby and Yang won theirs. Then all the other students had their respected turns in training for combat.
When all was said and done, Raine headed back to the RWBY's dorm room to make himself dinner while teams RWBY and JNPR headed off to the cafeteria room for dinner. Raine decided to have a BLT, but before he could make it a tray came flying into his lap along with a blonde haired beauty hopping down next to him with a tray of her own.
"So, trying to eat dinner by yourself instead of with your friends? Now that's not allowed." Yang teased Raine
"Yang," Raine started, but was denied finishing his sentence by a fork load of spaghetti being shoved into his mouth.
"Now, you and me are going to sit here and enjoy dinner like good friends should. Ok?" Yang stated patting Raine on the back while he tried to recover his breath from the surprise spaghetti attack that Yang had stealthily committed.
"Yang," *cough* "Why did you do that? I could have choked to death!" Raine whined as tears sat at the corners of his eyes.
"Oh, come on Raine, don't become a drama queen over a simple meal," Yang said trying to control her laughter as she looked at the cute pouty face he was giving her "Wait did I just think he was cute? Well, I mean, the only other person I know that can pull off a pouty face like that is Ruby. So what if I think he's cute" Yang thought to herself as Raine let out a sigh.
"Ok Yang, you and I will sit here together and have dinner. Ok, you happy?" Raine asked.
"Ok, then, lets dig in!" Yang announced as she and Raine dove into their dinners.
After they finished their dinner they headed back to the cafeteria and put the dinner trays in the dirty trays pile. While doing that they met up with the rest of team RWBY. They all decided it was getting late and should head off to bed. When they got back to the dorm room they found an army cot pushed sideways up against the wall.
"So I guess thats my bed then. Cool" Raine said, happy that he had something to sleep on now. He walked up to it, hopped onto it and finally let his muscles relax. But it didn't last long before a pillow was stuffed into his face and hearing the scary as hell voice of Weiss saying "You peek at any of us changing, especially Ruby, I will personally cut off your balls."
With a chill running down his spine, Raine let out a squeak of agreement to her threat. "Ok, Raine, goodnight." He listened to the girls say their goodnights before he heard them get into their respective beds and fall asleep. If only they knew the day they were going to have tomorrow morning.
