Precaution

Ruby- Young Ruby

Ruby- Old Ruby

Ruby was quietly followed her father to the staff area of the school to get away from the prying ears of the students. As they entered his room, Qrow pulled her into a hug and she sunk into his embrace. "I take it you saw the new teacher as well and how much she looks like mom." Ruby stated while she slowly pushed him away and stared into his eyes. Silver meet red as he slowly nodded his head and slowly ade his way into his kitchen that each teacher had in their room.

"I ran into her twice today, the first time was this morning before she had meat up with Oz, and the second time was in the staff lounge after classes had ended for the day. She claims to be from a parallel universe and the future." Qrow bleakly stated as he poured himself a drink and grabbed out a plate to fill with cookies for Ruby. He glanced over to her and watched as his daughter slowly understood the meaning of his words. "The thing is I don't trust her, what about you petal, what are your thoughts?" Qrow inquired sadly as he set the plate full of cookies on the table for Ruby to enjoy while he slowly drank down his drink.

"I ran into her this morning, in the cafeteria when she was with Ozpin, she looked just like mom, and even knew from the looks of it who I was referring to when I asked if she was mom. In fact she know exactly who I was. Also, I watched her on one of the new teams and was just toying with them for the most part up until there was only one student left at witch point she seemed to actually focus on the fight. That's all I managed to gain while observing her so far." Ruby informed her father as she slowly started to devour the cookies like there was no tomorrow. As she did, Qrow sighed and decided to down the rest of his drink in one go before glancing at the time and noticing it was getting late. Ruby noticed his glance and looked him in the eyes, "Dad, I know I am probably to old for this but I was wondering if I could just sleep here with you tonight? After seeing mom's look alike, I don't entirely feel thrilled to spend my night alone." Ruby pleaded to him while pulling out puppy dog eyes. Qrow looked away before her eyes brought him into submission.

"Sure thing Petal, just this once and you should probably let your team know so that way they aren't to worried about you." Qrow stated as he got up and went to where he had spare clothes for her, and passed them to her, "Now go get showered and let's get heading to bed."

Earlier

Ruby looked around the cafeteria at dinner time while looking for one person in particular. Her eyes landed on Cardin pulling on a certain faunus's ears while his team stood around making fun of her. Ruby frowned in annoyance before getting up and walking over to the team, as people noticed her walking towards the bullies, the cafeteria slowly got quieter. "Mr Winchester, may I ask that you remove your hands from the student's ears or would you like me to remove them for you." Ruby questioned with a sadistic smile on her face as her hand drifted to the sword on her hip. Cardin froze and felt his blood run cold in fear, he quickly let go and pulled his hand back to his side. "Good choice, now apologise and get out of my sight." After Cardin apologised, he quickly bolted to get out of the cafeteria to avoid the embarrassment of what had occured.

"Hello Miss Scarlatina, I would highly recommend that you get help from teachers sooner or travel with your teammates in the future." With that Ruby turned and hunted for the person she was looking for as Velvet hurried along but before leaving turned and stared at her savior. She rushed towards the door following that, a certain new determination in her mind to get to know more about her savior. Ruby's eyes stopped wondering and landed on the person she was seeking. She quickly made her way over to the person as the eyes of the

"Mr Arc, I would like you to follow me." Ruby stated with the same sadistic smile on her face. Team JNPR looked at their leader with concern as Juane gulped and the people in the cafeteria watched as the two made their way out. Ruby leaded Juane to her classroom and locked the door after they had entered. "Do you know why I brought you here Mr. Arc?" Ruby questioned while circling around him as he stood in the center of the room.

"I have no idea why you brought me here Miss Red." Juane let out weakly while trying to avoid the predatory looks that Ruby was sending his way. He backed up nervously when all of the sudden Ruby was in front of him and brought herself in close to whisper into his ear.

"I know you lied on getting in here, I know you have no combat training, and I most importantly know everything about you that would be on a real transcript if you were to have it." She leaned back and pulled the sword and scabbard off her side and handed it to him. "From now on you will report here at this time and you will be trained by me. From here on out you will be trained to be better than your peers, or else you will be punished with a harder time training." Ruby stated while her sadistic smile grew with her every word.

"W-Why are you doing this and how do you know all this?" Juane asked in fear as he looked down at the sword in his hands, and an oddly familiar sense of deja vu came as he examined it.

"While, for every hit you can get on me, I will answer one of your questions, but just so you know, I will not hold back with my attacks minus my semblance." And with that Ruby quickly pulled out a combat knife and lunged at him. Having very little time to react, Juane attempted to dodge out of the way which was what Ruby wanted. Ruby stopped mid lunge, planted a foot down and spun her back leg around and hit Juane directly in the side below his ribs sending him sprawling onto the ground. "Get up and go again, I will at least let you draw the sword this time."

Ruby stated while circling around him at a distance. Juane slowly got up and drew the sword while noticing the weight of the sword was similar to his own. Juane made a dash towards where Ruby stood and attempted to go for a slash across her side. What he wasn't expecting was Ruby to do was bend backwards and grab his over extended arm after the blade passed over her and to have her pull him in close enough to press the knife against his throat. "Your slow and weak, we are going to have to fix that Mr. Arc." She then proceeded to push him back before signaling him to come at her again. Juane let out a groan of defeat before rushing at her yet again all the while while feeling like he had been through this before.

Juane collapsed onto the the ground an hour later, the sword he had been using stabbed into the ground in front of him after he had been disarmed in his last attack and sent up into the air. He was completely exhausted from being beaten around and was panting while glancing at the teacher before him. She had toyed with him the entire time, only going on the offensive right at the beginning of the exercise that she had been running. She hardly looked winded and just gave a gesture for him to come at her again. Juane slowly pushed himself off the ground, his muscles screaming against him the entire time. He reached over to the sword and pulled it free, a wave of determination spreading through him as he vowed to hit the teacher, no the devil before him. With a cry, Juane charged forward again attempting to do what he could to land a hit. However, Ruby moved towards him very similar to the first time she had put him down. Juane panicked due to this and attempted to change the speed of his charge but ended up stumbling which caught Ruby of guard as she had just arrived in range of striking and was surprised to feel a slash on her arm that went unnoticed by Jaune who fell to the floor hard. Ruby blinked in surprise before letting out a laugh. She took the blade from the ground and put it back in the sheath and put it leaning against the desk, while glancing at a marking on the scabbard. "I think we are done here now Mr Arc, I do have to say I am honestly surprised, I expected worse from you." Ruby stated as she reached down and lifted the defeated and exhausted boy up onto her back to carry him over to one of the desk before setting him onto it and using her lab as a pillow for his head.

"What do you mean, I was completely and utterly defeated. I couldn't land a hit. I am a joke. Was all Juane could muble out in his exhausted state while he slowly glanced up at her and noticed the cut on her arm that wasn't previously there. Juane let out a gasp as he observed what Ruby was referring to with her surprise. "D-Did I do that?" He questioned in bewilderment.

Ruby gave a small smile, "Yes you did, so that means I will answer any one of your questions." Juane's head scrambled to think of the perfect question to ask the teacher that would make the most sense in total. He finally realized what he wanted to ask her.

"Why are you training me and not turning me over to the headmaster for cheating my way in?" Juane questioned as his vision began to get blurry as he struggled to stay awake despite his complete exhaustion.

"I am doing this young Mr Arc, because I want you to succeed and become a huntsmen to battle the forces of the world, to become a person who will not have to be constantly supported by those around you do to fear of you getting hurt for being inexperienced. I am not turning you in because Oz probably already knows and doesn't care about it." She glanced over to see that Jaune had fully passed out for the exhaustion. Ruby held in her laughter to not awake the exhausted boy in her lap. "Additionally, I don't want your fate to befall onto you again like that of my knight." She stated as she brushed his hair behind his ear and glanced at the blade that laid resting against her desk. The double golden arks and golden trimm stared back at her as a constant reminder of those who she had lost in front of her and her desire to save this world. Even if she had to break the promise she had made to her fallen knight before she had set upon the final fight after succumbing to his wounds. A single tear dripped down her face and landed on Juane's face. She didn't know what she would do if she couldn't save it.

And there you have another chapter. All it took was a year, scrapping about five attempts at this, taking a break of a few months after writing part of it, cursing myself for not having a backup of what I wrote and accidently get rid of it while I was clearing out some old school work and not realising it till it was too late to recover and writing it all based on memory on what I wanted for this. Hope all of you enjoyed this chapter and I hope to not take another year to write a chapter. Thanks for all the feedback and support. Well please review and let me know your thoughts. ~Tuxedo Mask Reborn out~