I'm gonna do my damnedest to keep Shukaku in character but I gotta say it, it's hard to pin point his personality. The only times we really ever saw much of him were in battle, we've never really seen how he acts outside of combat so bare with me as I try to not destroy this. Let's do this.
Kurama inhaled the smoke from his pipe deeply as he relaxed in his hammock. For most it was illegal to smoke before you reached twenty one but this blend of herbs was a traditional part of his old monasteries beliefs, they would often burn it during prayer to assist in soothing the soul. Kurama found it helped to relax him when he was angry which was often.
Kurama let out a content sigh as he gently swung back and forth, his tails wrapped around him like blankets. Nearby was his small cabin where he could smell his supper cooking in the pot. Ozpin had been against him living out in the Emerald forest at first and insisted he live on school grounds, after two weeks and seventeen violent actions taken against students who angered him some how Ozpin finally relented and helped him set up an electric fence around his home. It wasn't enough to stop some of the larger grimm but it did a good enough job warding off some of the smaller ones.
As he laid back his ears twitched lightly for a moment before he opened his eyes at look up into the sky in the distance. "The new students are arriving, annoying." He said to himself before closing his eyes and laying back again.
Beacon
"Not bad." Shukaku said to himself as he looked around at Beacon academy.
"Any idea where we're suppose to go now?" Jaune asked the tailed teen after finally pulling his face from the trash can.
"Not a clue, but I figure all we gotta do is follow the crowd." He shrugged, opening his mouth he was about to say more but was cut off by two things. The first was a nearby explosion, the second was a thin wall of sand that blocked any debris from hitting either of the boys. After several seconds the sand began reforming into a small gourd at his waist about the size of a water bottle. "The fuck was that?" He looked around and quickly found the source, namely two girls, one of which was harping like a banshee while the other looked ready to grow a shell and hide in it.
"Shu that's Weiss Schnee!" Jaune latched onto his brothers arms with hearts in his eyes.
"Really, that's the chick you never shut up about?" Shukaku raised an eyebrow at his brother before looking her over. "She's flat as a board man."
Jaune gave the faunus boy an elbow in the arm. "I'll have you know she has the voice of an angel." He glared at the sand user.
"Whatever you say man." He grinned before turning his attention to the girl with black and red hair who had sunk to the ground once the girl had finally finished shouting at her. Walking over Shukaku squatted down next to her. "You okay there Red?" The girl opened her eyes at the sound of his voice only to let out a quite yelp after seeing his eyes, it was something he'd grown use to over the years. Adults looked at him like he was a freak, kids screamed and pointed, classmates tried to bully him. 'Tried' being the important word in there, he made sure to make an example of any idiots who were stupid enough to try and fuck with him. "Relax, I don't bite." He chuckled before holding out his hand to the girl.
"Oh, uh sorry about that. You just startled me a bit." Shukaku smiled knowing she was trying to be polite. After a moments hesitation she took the offered hand and pulled herself to her feet. "Thank's, my names Ruby, what's yours?" She smiled.
"Shukaku Arc, but most people just call me Shu. This is-" He was cut off as Jaune cleared his throat.
"Jaune Arc, short sweet, the ladies love it." He smiled after giving the cheesy introduction.
"Do they?" Ruby asked looking to Shukaku.
"No, no they do not." He shook his head with a grin while chuckling to himself.
Later
Kurama walked across the courtyard into the base of Beacon tower, the woman at the front desk having long since gone home. Walking straight up to the elevator he enter a code that unlocked it and stepped inside before pressing the button for Ozpin's office. After a few seconds of rising the doors opened and he stepped into the headmasters office. "You called?" He asked moving to take a seat across from the exhausted looking man, laying across the small couch against the wall was Glynda who looked as though she passed out while working on her scroll which laid on the floor next to the couch.
"Yes, about eight hours ago actually." He said before grabbing his mug and taking a sip only to grimace at the taste of the now cold coffee.
Kurama nodded. "Decided to take a nap before coming up here, caught, cooked and ate a rabbit to. So what do you want?" He asked sitting down, he ignored the annoyed look on the headmasters face. It was rare for the man to show any of what he was truly feeling, in fact Kurama was the only person who he didn't make any attempt to hide his emotions from. With his ability to sense and feel another's emotions it became completely pointless.
Ozpin let out a sigh before he began rubbing his eyes, the first day of the year always force all nighters on him which left him drained. "I wanted to ask you if you might consider joining this years first year class."
Kurama only stared at him flatly for several seconds. "Like I answered every other time you've asked, no. Not interested." Kurama stood back up. "Is that the only reason you wanted me here, if so I'm leaving."
"One more thing, I thought you might be interested in a report I received from Qrow not long ago. The number of White Fang in Vale has been growing recently by a worrying amount." Ozpin explained feeling the anger begin to roll off the boy in front of him at the mere mention of the group.
"Understood." Kurama nodded.
"And could you please take Glynda to her quarters? Dawn is in a few hours and she needs proper rest before we begin initiation." Ozpin gesture to the blonde woman.
Nodding Kurama walked over and picked the woman up bridal style. Normally Ozpin would worry about a teenage boy take this opportunity to possibly cop a feel on the beautiful woman while she was asleep, but Kurama was raised better than that. He was an angry, disrespectful, and hate filled boy, but he was also a decent one.
Walking to the elevator with the woman in his arms he pressed the button with his tail and soon entered.
Ozpin placed his face in his hands once the elevator doors closed. "I'm so sorry Shuichi."
The Next Day
Shukaku stepped out out the shower and grabbed a towel, it didn't take long at all to dry his body off, his tail however could take hours if he decided to let it air dry. Grabbing an extra towel from the shelf he began the lengthy task of drying the large appendage, he through on his pants as he did this and exited the men's shower area. Like most teenage boys he could probably do more in the way of hygiene, but when it came to his tail he would go out of his way to keep it in peak condition. He was proud of his tail.
"Hey I recognize you. You were one of the guys hanging out with Ruby yesterday right." He heard someone speak from behind him, turning he saw a blonde bombshell exiting the girls showers and moving towards one of the sinks and mirrors nearby him where she quickly began going to work on her own hair. "You were with that guy who wore the feety pajamas last last night."
"My brother, Jaune. I told him they looked stupid." Shukaku chuckled. "So you know Ruby right? Nice girl, cute to." He grinned to himself.
"She's my sister, so watch it." She stopped to narrow her eyes at the boy who only laughed at that.
"Relax, I know the drill. Jaune and I got seven sisters back home, no need to give me the 'protective sibling speech'. I know to keep my hands to myself." He continued chuckling to himself. "If you don't mind my saying, you two look nothing alike."
The girl's demeanor lightened a bit. "You're one to talk." She giggled to herself. "But we're half sisters, we've got the same dad."
Nodding Shukaku stood and tossed the now soaked towel aside before giving his still damp tail a good shake. "It's probably pretty obvious but I was adopted into my family as a baby. The names Shukaku, but call me Shu."
"Yang." She nodded before she finished drying off her long hair and tossed her towel to the side. The two blondes were both heading for their lockers and decided to walk together, once they arrived Yang pulled out a brown jacket and put it on over the tiny yellow shirt she'd been wearing before beginning on her boots. Shukaku began putting on the rest of his clothes as well, he was done before she'd finished with her second boot.
"Yang did you get breakfast?" A familiar voice called out as Ruby ran up to the girl while still adjusting her hood. "Oh, hey Shu. Good morning." She smile awkwardly clearly not use to these types of interactions.
"Sup." He nodded as he fastened his gourd to his waist.
"Yang, what have you been telling him?" Ruby immediately became suspicious of her sister being alone with one of the first friends she'd made at this new school.
"Nothing bad I promise." Shukaku answered first. "Just that yur into blonde faunus boys with awesome tails."
"You told him what?!" Ruby shrieked at her sister with a face the matched her hood in color.
Shukaku laughed loudly as he walked away to find Jaune. "Later you two."
With Kurama
Kurama sat comfortably in the lawn chair he dragged out to the temple in the forest and set it up on the roof over looking the area, pulling out his scroll he checked the time. "Twenty more minutes." He muttered to himself. As much as he couldn't stand to be around other people he did enjoy watching a good fight and was more than a little excited to watch this years initiates fight for their lives against the grimm.
Closing his eyes his mind began to wonder, mainly to how he was going to go about hunting down the White Fang that had been popping up around Vale. After what they'd done to his home, his family, and his father he was dead set on driving the order to extinction. Ozpin had tried to get him to let go of his hatred but he didn't bother listening to the old man, he already knew his hatred and goal went against everything he'd been taught as a child at the temple but he also knew that he'd never no peace until everyone responsible for the massacre on that day was dead and forgotten.
Opening his eyes he noticed the nails on his hands had begun to grow longer, taking several deep breaths he tried to calm himself. Looking back to his nails they had reverted to normal. Ever since that day his rage had been having odd effect on his body, his nail would grow longer and sharper, his whisker would get thicker, even his eyes would gain a more wild look. However he'd also grow faster, stronger, and more savage as well.
His thoughts were soon interrupted by the unmistakable sound of gunfire in the distance. Smiling Kurama closed his eyes again and laid back. "So it begins."
That's it for this chapter, what's gonna happen when Kurama and Shukaku meet? Will they meet? Stick around to find out. Leave me a review and tell me what you all think. Until next time.