Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY. It belongs to RoosterTeeth and the late and still great Monty Oum. Kuro belongs to me and any other OCs and/or references included belong to their respective owners.

This isn't so much a new chapter, more like a story idea that I thought I'd share with you guys and ask for your opinion. This came to me in a dream, actually, and I personally thought it was too good not to jot down for later.

Title: The Cross

AU: Grimm Host Kuro; Pre-Volume One

Summary: It's amazing how a single, silver trinket can bring back a plethora of different things. And it's with this cross that will shed a light in the darkness.

Possible Pairing: Kuro x Summer; Kuro x Raven; or Love Triangle

Synopsis: Twenty-one year old Kuro Seishin is a young wanderer and Grimm host who has had a chance encounter with Summer Rose when he was very little. Although, the only memory he has of it is the silver cross pendant that he wears around his wrist.

As he grows older, he faces his past both metaphorically and physically all the while trying to let go and forgive himself for his past mistakes. There is also the matter of the growing darkness within himself. Can he control it, or will it control him? (Corny and stereotypical, I know)

Plot

Part 1: Early Life

Kuro was born in a small village just outside of Patch. During his early childhood, Kuro was a student at Signal Academy. He became fast friends with Summer Rose and the duo would spend nearly all of their time together in and outside class. He constantly lets out his pride at being his parents' son and his dream of one day fighting alongside them even if only once.

On one fateful evening, he bore witness to the massacre of his entire home village by a stampede of Nevermore. He rushed home to find, to his horror, his dead father and missing mother, and blames himself for not being there to help protect the village. Kuro became scarred, somber, and lonesome. Summer tries all that she could to try and cheer him up, but to no avail as he is too far gone into his own self loathing. She gives him the cross pendant she keeps with her and tells him to make a prayer, which she does to help her cope with her problems. Kuro complies and prays, wishing to find his mother and restore his village to its former glory.

His hope renewed, he slowly began to revert back to his old personality, to which Summer welcomes back with open arms.

Part 2: Accident

Time Skip: A thirteen-year-old Kuro had received word from Summer's half-brother, Qrow, that their mother had passed away. Although, the girl in question seemed unfazed by this. It is later revealed that Summer was actually in denial and believes that she can save her by traversing the deepest parts of Forever Fall.

Kuro pursues her, but when a bridge she tries to cross was destroyed he dove after her in an attempt to save her. Kuro makes it out with only head trauma and a slight concussion, but Summer is critically wounded. Summer's family believed the expedition to have been Kuro's idea and, for that reason, forbade him from ever seeing Summer again and Kuro regresses to the pit of depression he had been in before, becoming bitter with both the world and himself.

Part 3: Capture

Six months of isolation from Summer had passed. Kuro meets Raven, Qrow's biological sister, during that time and the two seem to be on amicable terms, despite Kuro wanting to be left alone for fear of getting her hurt as he believed he did with Summer. Summer herself tries to reconnect with Kuro and tell him that her near-death experience wasn't his fault, but all of her tries fail either due to Qrow's interference or Kuro's willingness to avoid her. She misses Kuro and becomes sad over the ever-widening rift in their friendship.

By some miracle, Summer finally is able to speak to him, but Kuro brushes her off, telling her to stay away from him lest she nearly dies again. Summer tearfully hugs him and tries to tell him it wasn't his fault, but Kuro, as much in tears as she was, shouts that he values her too much to lose her. Summer remains undeterred by this as well as happy about how much she still means to him, and gives him her cross to keep this time. She makes him promise to return it to her once he stops being "Mr. Doom-n'-Gloom" and, for the first time in a long time, genuinely happily smiles at her and agrees. Raven sees this and starts developing an unknown feeling in her chest.

Kuro begins extensive training to the point where he forgoes eating and sleeping. This comes back to bite him when he is easily subdued and captured by an unknown assailant. Summer, in the meantime had just finished designing and building her new weapon (I don't know what, but it is generally similar to her daughter's) and is excited about showing him, due to her newly developed crush on him. However, she is amongst the first to realize that he is missing and goes on a mad search for him alongside Raven, ignoring their family's demands that she leave him.

Part 4: Torture

Kuro has been imprisoned for an entire week now. While there, he is rescued by Taiyang Xiao Long, who just happened to be escaping himself but decided that he could use a "travelling buddy." Both boys escape the base itself, but are confronted by the leader (Another OC). (S)he quickly apprehends Taiyang, who immediately fights back and nearly kills him if not for Kuro stepping in and buying the time for him to escape. Taiyang promises to pay him back if he makes it out and successfully flees, but Kuro isn't as lucky and is placed back into his jail cell with improved security. It is during the fight that he shows impressive swordplay skills.

When Kuro regains consciousness, he finds himself subjected to three years of excruciating experimentation as part of a "Grimm Warrior Project," where the subject of injected with the blood of an ancient Grimm in order to meld the two together. Kuro is seemingly resistant and despite being in great pain, is still alive.

Taiyang arrives to rescue him again, but Kuro himself does most of the freeing since the ongoing experimentation along with his own intense anger causes him to undergo a transformation and break the chains. He then is about to attack Taiyang, but recognizes him and returns to normal. However, Kuro is delirious, weak, and unresponsive as a result of the experiments.

That's really all I could manage to put down at the moment, but tell me what you guys think of it so far. Good? Bad? Any suggestions?

SHOULD I DO IT?!

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