Interlude R: Deceptive Upbringing

(Yoko POV)

The damage I saw as of what became of the ASPR dorm room was probably what I left behind when I ran away and changed my name. I didn't know what overcame me at the time; I guess I was just fed up with them favoring Yuki more, with them loving one child more than the other. Yoko Rayne was of course, the name I used to hide from my past.

"Yoko, with more enthusiasm please? I bet you we'll be famous when we're older. The famous twin Fox Faunus that even pleases the humans," Yuki said.

"You get to dream big so what?" I asked, "I asked if I could to be a huntsman, you asked if you could be a musician and now only one of us is following our dreams."

"But think about all the incidents that could happen! I wouldn't want to be eaten by an Ursa now would you?" Yuki asked.

"An Ursa probably has the same dietary habits of a normal bear, meaning it would probably eat fish, nuts and berries, but no one knows because all the ones that have the money to fund research like that are too chicken to even go out for ten minutes," I responded, "besides there could be chances where you are assassinated on stage or worse, before you even perform."

"Just get rid of that silly dream now will you?" Yuki asked, "I doubt you would last ten minutes out there against the Creatures of Grimm."

"I would when I graduate a combat school and apply to Beacon Academy," I said, "then I would become a huntsman, survive and probably do better than you ever would. Besides, at the rate this is going, if you were out there, you probably wouldn't last ten seconds without any help at all. Oh I could see it now, you scared and up against a tree as a pack of Beowolves are inching closer and closer while at the back your brother is killing them off one by one, and you aren't even doing a single thing about it and when I get there. All I see are the remains of the older twin sister I once had."

"Stop talking like that," Yuki said, "You will never even step foot onto the campus grounds of Beacon Academy."

"Kids it's time for dinner now, you better be down there before it gets cold," Mom said as I rushed down to the dining room as Yuki is taking her time, strutting like a pompous peacock.

"Took you long enough," I muttered under my breath as she sat down.

"Yoko's thinking of being a huntsman again!" Yuki blurts out as I was eating dinner as calmly as I could not even thinking of looking at any of them.

"Yoko, is this true?" Dad asked, "Is it?"

"So what if it is?" I asked.

"I bet he's going to get himself killed out there," Yuki said.

"I won't and when I graduate Beacon, I'll have a team and probably take down a Death Stalker or a Nevermore, or maybe even some unknown kind that no one has ever seen before," I said, "maybe I'd be able to help everyone, so then humans and Faunus wouldn't be sent back to oblivion like the stories you once told us mom. You did tell us to listen to our hearts and follow our dreams, and I want to become a huntsman."

"You do know that's not what I meant Yoko," Mom said.

"I don't care. I want to help everyone in this miserable world; I want to go out and fight them, what's wrong with that?" I asked.

"You've seen the condition countless huntsmen and huntresses have returned after they are sent on missions; do you want to end up like them?" Dad asked.

"Maybe I do," I shouted at him, "as long as I know I'm being useful for once."

Standing up and leaving the table, I was already opening the door as I heard my dad shout, "Yoko Alexiel, take one step out of this room and you won't get any meals for a week!"

"Does it look like I care?" I asked, leaving the room and closing the doors behind me.

I remembered easily that whenever my parents weren't looking, or whenever I wasn't being forced to practice music or in a forced music lesson, I would always read on any book I could get my hands on that involved surviving and fighting the Grimm. I even remembered that dull knife one of the passing huntresses gave me; I think I still have it somewhere if whoever did this hadn't found it yet.

It was from a group that had recently taken out a huge pack of Beowolves, it wasn't the usual pack like we always heard of, it was at least ten packs united from what I remember hearing, almost two people didn't make it out alive.

"You're so awesome," I said at the huntress as she passed by with her left arm in a sling.

"Oh really now?" she asked, "Are you planning to become a huntsman?"

"I want to, but my parents don't want me to," I said, "I don't care about what I'm risking here, I want to fight the Grimm like you. I want to help everyone with the Grimm. I want to be a hero like you."

"A hero? Now why do you think I'm a hero now?" she asked.

"Because you kept on fighting no matter what, you didn't give up even when it seemed hopeless. You came back proving you were able to accomplish something as impossible as a giant pack of Beowolves. You prove to me that my father is wrong about his reasoning for me to not become a huntsman, but it's not enough though," I said, "I want to prove to him that I can become the huntsman when he thinks I can't."

"You know you remind me of my two daughters back at my hometown," she said kneeling down at me, looking at me with her silvery eyes behind her messy black hair that had red tips.

"I do?" I ask, "How?"

"You're just as my younger daughter," she said, "but you have that same look in your eyes that reminds me of my older one."

"I do?" I asked.

"Yep, if you want to go to a combat school, if you want to go out a little ways and see a bit of the world, I'd suggest Signal Academy," she said, "Now then close your eyes and hold out your hands."

"Um…why?" I asked.

"It's a little keepsake I want you to hold onto for me," she said, "maybe to help you start off at becoming a huntsman."

When I felt the weight of something in my hands, I opened my eyes, only to be greeted by a flurry of white rose petals. In my hands, was a knife with a sheath, the sheath was a simple sheath itself and on the guard of the knife were the words, Thus Kindly, I Scatter.

I remembered being so confused of what had happened to the huntress I met; I remember also, she gave me the way to escape. I ran away from home and forged a new identity, I became Yoko Rayne and enrolled into Signal Academy because of her but that was the first and last time I ever saw the huntress.

On the ground were six tears, ASPR, Faunus, trust, abandonment, disappearance and lies. What I want to know now is who that huntress I met years ago was, but I also wanted to know, would Team ASPR fall because of this?