Chapter 8: Revelation Will Come

Shangzu: "Do you always keep your promises?"

Kai: "That's none of your concern."

Shangzu: "I'm just trying to make sure you live up to those promises."

Kai (angrily): "Oh and like you have?"

Shangzu: "Actually yes, for the most part."

Soldier 1: "Keep moving son."

Teams RWBY, JNPR, and CFVY, along with the four assassins, Professor Ozpin, Professor Goodwitch, and General Ironwood and six soldiers were taking a now chained Shangzu into an interrogation room. Ozpin had requested for a cleanup crew as well as a maintenance crew to tidy up his office after the "accident regarding an UFO".

Alex: "I'm actually surprised that you surrendered this easily."

Shangzu: "I'll tell you this once Alex, never underestimate your opponent no matter the situation, and secondly I told you guys already that I needed to speak to Kai. However I would've preferred to have done so privately."

Goodwitch: "This is for the safety of our students. Since we don't know you personally, we don't know what you're capable of."

Shangzu: "Oh I'm capable of doing anything sweetheart."

Goodwitch (voice raised slightly): "Excuse me?!"

Kai smacked him in the back of the head.

Shangzu: "Ow! That hurt."

Kai: "Quit flirting with my teacher will you. I know you're the same age, but still, I would prefer if you keep that down to a minimum while you're held as a prisoner."

Shangzu smiled & replied: "Oh, so you do care."

Kai: "That matters not. What matters is that I see you alive for the next twenty-four hours so I can hear what you have to say."

Shangzu: "So you do care."

Kai: "If you see it that way, then by all means, see it that way. Whatever will help you sleep better tonight."

A few minutes later, the present party entered a medium sized building on the other side of Beacon's campus. This are was hidden for the most part, so not many knew of this interrogation building. Once inside the desired room, two of the soldiers carried Shangzu into the room and then placed him down roughly on a wooden chair. They were going to handcuff his hands behind the chair, but Kai told them that the cuffs weren't necessary. General Ironwood was about to interfere with this request, but Professor Ozpin reassured him that his student knew what he was doing.

Ironwood: "I don't trust him Ozpin."

Ozpin: "Neither do I General, but in order to find out everything we need to know, we must trust Kai's instincts."

Ironwood sighed & replied: "Alright Ozzy, I'll let this slide this time."

Everyone, except Kai and Shangzu, gathered into a room next to it separated by a think glass pane. Those across from this pane were able to hear what was being said in the interrogation room. The room was brighter than most interrogation rooms, but Shangzu didn't seem to mind that the lights in the room made it bright. Kai sat down in a chair across from Shangzu and looked him straight in the eye.

Shangzu: "What?"

Kai: "I'm reading you."

Shangzu: "I'm not a book you know."

Kai: "True, but I can read people as if they are books."

Shangzu: "Well that's mildly disturbing."

Kai: "Whatever. So why are you here?"

Shangzu: "To see you of course."

Kai sighed and leaned back in his chair.

Kai: "Do you want water?"

Shangzu: "That would be nice."

Kai (shouting through the door): "Guard, I need to waters please."

One of the soldiers entered the room moments later with two cups of water for both parties. Kai thanked him and the soldier nodded and then exited back out the door to stand guard.

Shangzu: "You've seemed to have picked up some sort of reputation around Remnant."

Kai: "Well when you've got to survive on your own after the "incident" that occurred in our village those years ago, then yes, you will build up a reputation."

Shangzu: "The Non-lethal Assassin? That's what I hear. Very interesting name."

Kai: "I prefer to keep my blade at bay cousin."

Shangzu: "So you admit to me still being family?"

Kai: "Of course, but that doesn't mean I've forgotten what you did to me and the clan traitor."

Shangzu: "I had no choice behind the matter."

Kai: "Is that a fact?"

Shangzu: "Indeed yes Kai."

Kai sat up for a minute and looked back directly into the dark eyes of his cousin. He could see no sighs of lying, but what he did see was pain and remorse. Kai softened a little at the sight of this, but he still remained composed and neutral.

Kai: "What happened? Start from the beginning."

Shangzu: "It was when you were at the age of five, when I attacked our village."

Kai: "Yes I remember."

Shangzu: "But I had no choice. I was pressured by the Templars to do so."

Kai remained silent.

Shangzu: "I was on a mission to assassinate one of the leaders of the Templar Order back in Vacuo. However, I was captured and put in prison. When the Templars finally interrogated me, a mysterious man was amongst them. He wore a hood that covered his face, so I didn't know who he was."

Kai: "How do you know it was a man and not a woman?"

Shangzu: "The voice of this individual was too deep to be a woman's. Also the way the individual presented himself by merely walking and sitting down gave it away."

Kai: "I see… continue."

Shangzu: "So the man somehow knew about you, and said that you had a special gift that no one in this world has. He never specified what it was, but it sounded very important. The Templars planned on attacking our village months prior to my capture. He said that they planned on killing everyone in our clan because we opposed their views on the world and how it should be governed."

Kai: "Well that should be a given."

Shangzu: "Yeah, I know. (Censored)"

Kai: "Then what?"

Shangzu: "The man however gave me two options."

Kai: "The first being what?"

Shangzu: "I can either go back and side with our clan that was already corrupt and falling apart and try and hold off a giant army of Templars and their new technology and die in the process with you and our clan…"

Kai: "What was the second option?"

Shangzu: "I was to be let go and slaughter everyone in our village, but I was to spare you and mark you so that you would hate me and grow in that unknown and powerful gift that this man was talking about."

Kai: "You trusted this man with what he was saying?"

Shangzu: "Yes and no."

Kai raised an eyebrow, but refrained from speaking.

Shangzu: "I knew what he said about the invasion was true. I heard the guards that were keeping me captive talking about it. The no part is that I don't trust him in general."

Kai breathed in heavily and then exhaled slowly. He then leaned back in his chair and placed his feet upon the table in front of him and Shangzu.

Kai: "But you had to give me the scar?"

Shangzu: "Yeah…"

Kai: "It's still not making any sense at all."

Shangzu: "What do you mean?"

Kai: "Why would that man, and I quote, help you when you're a complete stranger to him? Also, why was he working with the Templars?"

Shangzu: "I don't know, but something tells me he's more than just a mysterious hooded figure. In fact, I don't think he is a Templar nor is working with them, but he was merely working for them at the time."

Kai put his feet back down on the floor and leaned in closer towards Shangzu.

Kai: "You're hiding more than you're letting on to this tall tale. You're not making any sense at all. This seems like a made up tale. Don't get me wrong, I'm still angry with you. In fact, my hatred for you has grown strong. However, something is telling me that I should trust you, but at the same time I feel like piercing my blade through your heart after what you did to not only my parents, but your own. I have little sympathy for the elders and clan leaders of our village except for the handful that were not corrupt, which is an equivalent to five people total."

Shangzu: "I would tell you more and the whole truth, but the rest I cannot tell because the others are listening. Particularly that beautiful blonde woman."

Kai: "Who Professor Goodwitch?"

Shangzu: "Yes her! She's very beautiful indeed."

Kai: "No offense cousin, but you just admitted to murder and the death of many innocent people in front of her. On top of that, you're keeping secrets from them even though they are meant only for my ears to hear. She also has distaste for men because of the fact that she's been through some times that were unpleasant for her."

Shangzu: "I'm different."

Kai: "Oh and how is that so?"

Shangzu: "Many ways Kai, many ways."

Kai: "That was little to zero help for your case."

Shangzu: "I'm willing to take my chances."

Kai sighed & replied: "Your funeral."

Shangzu: "My grave is already dug for me Kai."

Kai: "Yeah, just like everyone else in this world."

Shangzu frowned & said: "You're not very optimistic are you?"

Kai: "Optimism isn't a word I usually use considering the situations I've been through in the past years beginning with our clan's destruction."

Shangzu: "You should look to a brighter future."

Kai: "Sorry, but to be honest I've been living in the shadows. My hatred for you has grown stronger with every passing day. I look forward to nothing but justice. You dishonored our clan, and you expect to give me a life lesson? Who are you to do that?"

Shangzu: "I'm your cousin."

Kai: "When hell hath freezes over."

Shangzu: "I still care about you Kai. Truly I do. I'm not asking for your forgiveness, but I am asking for your trust. There are things I need to tell you, but it must be in private. Revelation will come."