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Chapter-8
"…" The headmaster of Beacon academy was a man who had to shoulder what most mortals couldn't even found bearable. Yet, a man was still a man no matter how much experience or powers he was given.
Many thoughts always seems to go through his head and right now he had a small smile that might look good but held too many sadden truth.
"…" His eyes were gently scanning through an old black and white photo that looks like it had somehow survived through the ages. He indeed took his time looking at the old photo.
There was a man holding on a mechanical well made cane while a bunch of other people stood beside him. But the most intriguing one who stood amongst such tall men and women was a little boy, a little boy with eight long fluffy looking tails smiling as if he would never lose hope.
"…" The headmaster's hands trembled and his aura a power all mankind held yet his was extra-ordinarily great compare to even professional huntsmen.
Images of what could only be the past appeared in his head, showing many things he wanted to forget and many more he want to undo. His anger instigates his aura making his surroundings shook as if a tremor had hit the area.
"Professor!" A beautiful woman with blond hair came in quickly already equipping her weapon a riding crop while her aura enveloped her.
She was terrified when she felt the powerful aura of her boss spiking up as if he was fighting with everything. Her worried simmer down a little but the moment she entered the office she felt powerful pressure stopping her as if she literally fighting a gravitational pull her body mass was not supposed to be even handling.
"…"
The man did not notice his subordinate kneeling on the floor struggling to fight off the heavy aura he was exerting. Her own felt so small in the presence of the man's aura. It was also enough to make all the students and professor of the academy react.
"P-Professor…" The woman tried her best to stand strong. She might be at a level higher than a professional huntsman or huntswoman, yet this was too much for her.
She recalled her boss, the headmaster saying his powers has dwindle through the ages when he bestowed them to others but now she began to wonder if it was really true or not.
"P-Professor…" She cloaked denser aura on to herself trying to get the man's attention. Her struggling to stand and move could be heard quiet very loudly with the heels she put on but the man's mind was too focus elsewhere.
"O-Ozpin…!" She stumbled and her eyes widen a bit. She could've easily avoid falling by many different means either using her semblance or her years of combat training which she had hone to incredible levels but it was impossible at the moment. Her boss's power was disrupting ever nerve and ever senses.
"…"
"…."
"…"
"Qrow?" The woman did not fall she was instead caught on the shoulder thus avoiding a hard fall on the floor. The one who saved her from the pain was her fellow colleague whom she did not always have an eye to eye level of agreements.
"What the heck is happening!?" Even Qrow, a powerful huntsman knowing by many was even struggling to stand just like his fellow colleague.
He had came to report back like usual but the moment he entered Beacon tower something heavy and powerful struck almost anyone and he knew or at least had an idea whom the powerful aura belong to.
"Oz!"
"Oz!"
"OZ! Hear me dammit!" Qrow's words could not get the headmaster's attention. It was like everything around him was irrelevant as he gaze at the old photo with a serious expression he rarely puts on.
"Qrow, s-stop, he can't hear us… we need to try… we need to try something else before things get out of hand." She was struggling yet she still had her focus.
"…" Qrow eyes sharpen, it was a real bother to him to be exerting too much after coming back from missions. "Right."
"Now… the photo… I saw him opening the chest and… and…" Gylinda, the woman was starting to be out of breath and felt her aura was getting smaller as the heavy pressure of aura pushed her.
"I see what you mean…" The man whom had been holding his weapon due to misunderstanding puts it back and thought of an idea, "… I'll get it; thankfully I don't only have a semblance."
The closer they get the harder it was, but they both knew they had to snapped their boss out of his trance. It was as if they were fighting gravity but at the same time it was more of pure pressure.
*!* Qrow transformed and flew with great hardship but was able to ascend upon the desk of their boss. His action was possible due to the fact that the body mass of a bird was much lighter than humans along with strong flaps thus fending off the aura pressure a little easier.
"…"
"!" The moment Qrow took the photo away from their boss Ozpin's hands everything that was making it hard to stand, breathe and sense was quickly put to a stop thus everything went back to normal.
"Oz, you okay?"
A hand was placed on the shoulder of the strangely silent headmaster, "Y-Yes, yes I am."
"Professor…" Glynda got up and tiredly move close worried about their boss seeing his powerful and strange action.
"I see…" Ozpin saw what he had done and quickly pulls out the mic that connects to almost every area in Beacon.
"…" He explained that the recent event was due to his power flaring up and adjusted the truth by saying he was in a sort of mock battle with some colleagues. His words were taken in easily by the students while a few professors had their own doubts but can't proof it or felt it unnecessary.
"I am truly sorry for my earlier actions… something in me… *sigh*" He couldn't even speak of it and felt rushing annoyance.
"It's okay Professor Ozpin, we won't pry on it, right Qrow?"
"…."
*smack!*
"Right Qrow?"
"R-Right…"
The headmaster nods and closes his eyes before looking back at Qrow, "Was it successful?"
"Oh, yeah… the mission, one of our guys did his job. Just hope Ironwood doesn't find out with that thick metal head of his."
The man scratches his head not really caring much since he was still a little daze from the earlier pressure.
"James will be James; I just hope going through all of this is worth it." Glynda was a cautions woman whom understands yet has doubts that things might come back to bite at them if it was all of not.
"I assure you Glynda, it is worth the trouble." The man was a little sensitive about their current subject of conversation and acted out of his usual character.
"Of course…" The woman felt she was being glared on by her boss and was a bit surprise since it was the first time he had ever done such a thing.
"…"
"Oz… I know I said I won't pry but why this? Is this why you went berserk earlier?"
Before the man could head to the elevator, Qrow stopped him after getting his bearing a little bit better. The man saw something interesting on the photo Ozpin had been holding and he also want to know the reason for their boss's unusual action.
The old black and white photo was now crumbled a bit with the faces in the photo all scratched off except the little boy with the fox tails and the tall man holding a mechanical cane. The faces of the other people in it were all rubbed off recently and Qrow knew it since he was the one who found them in the old small chest.
"…"
Both of his subordinates look at him and Ozpin eye almost close feeling a tight pain.
"I don't know how long time has passed but I've learned that terrible events that one can experience won't go away no matter how much you wish or want it to," The man had walk in the lands for far too long and this was a blessing yet a curse, "I still found it hard to believe sometimes but there was a time…"
He couldn't forget them, memories that affected both sides so much. "A time when I almost lost hope in humanity."
"…"
They were not sure how to react since it left too many unanswered question while also bringing up new ones.
"And…" Ozpin lets out a deep tired breath, as always he had that impression of a tense person.
"Through the history of our battles… through the history of our struggles…"
Seeing him take heavy breathes each time he spoke out slowly made them wondered just how deep this memories of the past were to him.
"There was once…" Ozpin could clearly remember it as it was one of the most prominent times he had ever experience.
"Once when 'she' was almost stopped."
Ozpin left them to ponder on what he had said to them. He didn't give them a clear answer nor did he stay to continue. He just left to get his mind and body clear as well as endure the lash back from unconsciously using too much of his declining power and strength.
Schnee Main Mansion
A house, mansion or any kind of shelter a family use was always supposed to be a home. A place where a man and his family comes home too and a place where many memories of happy times and bad times were supposed to be made, yet, such logic do not sometimes come into agreement with certain families.
"Those animals!"
A man with white hair color as well as facial white facial hair barged in the large door to his mansion not even noticing his two daughters following from behind.
"Of all the days! And James, always in the way!"
The two girls watched their father stamping through the halls of their so called home with so much anger that he did not even notice his wife moving passed him.
"…" The younger one of the girls grabbed the helm of her older sister's skirt.
"Don't worry, I doubt father is angry with us this time."
"Okay…"
These two girls always saw the same thing and the same actions. So what if they were rich, and so what if they had enough power and money to be comfortable throughout their life, right now the two girls felt as lonely as any normal girls coming from a disruptive family.
"Don't let that wallaby of a father get to you two. I couldn't care less about what he's going to say next."
"Klien!?" The older girl in a low voice snapped their butler who spoke out with a voice that was uncommon for a butler serving in a proficient family. But behind her stern voice she too finds it amusing.
"hehe…" The younger girl on the other hand giggles when she hears their butler speak out like that.
"Oh pish-pash, I bet he's about to summon me in three, two, …."
"Kline!" The man of the house shouted from his studies just as the butler predicted.
"What I tell ya?" The butlers smirk and pose like a confident fool.
His actions indeed cause the two girls to giggle in amusement. They had known the man their whole life as he was the one who took care of them since they were infants like a nanny. He was more of a family to them than their parents.
"…" Before the butler could head to the halls where his master's studies were location he turned back to the girls with a normal friendly expression, "And welcome home young mistresses."
With their father always in dismay and their mother appearing only in dinners and parties, their butler has a better relationship with them.
"Winter, what is that?"
The young girl saw a brown strap bag her older sister was carrying and it made her curious. She knew her sister was not of fond of such colors.
"It's nothing; let us head back to our own rooms."
"But father asked us to wait here for him."
"…" The older girl saw the scared look on her little sister's face and sighs.
"Father never asked anything of us Weiss, he always demands of us. And I doubt he'll come back down for at least an hour."
The older girl knew their father ordered them to stay at their current spot until he finish what he was going to do. He had other events he was asked not requested but asked by his business partners to bring his daughters but Winter had other plans.
"But father-!"
The older girl flickers her sister's nose gentle stopping the little girl to finally stop and listen.
"How long Weiss…? How long will it take you to see that father does not care for us? That he only sees us as tools just as he saw the marriage to mother as one, and how long will you be afraid of him?"
The older girl wonder why she was even saying such harsh words so suddenly, maybe seeing her father act like such a pompous arrogant easily temper person for so long made her finally snap. Today, apart from seeing something incredible, she had to endure so much hatred from the fanus towards her family and her father's constant irritations for hours.
*slap!*
"Why are you saying that!? Father can change, so can mother! We can still be a better family!"
The younger girl ran off after giving her older sister a tearful slap which hurt Winter more than she knew.
The older girl pity her sister whom was still having the delusion of their family becoming normal but she always saw it as impossible since their family was never normal in the first place.
"Young mistress?" Klien came back down, though he was in the mean time being ordered by the master of the house. Still, taking care of the young misses was one of his main jobs as a head butler and he couldn't ignore that.
"It's nothing; my sister just needs time to understand."
"Wouldn't it be better to see to her and adjust how the situation really is?"
"…" The girl shook her head; it was something she couldn't do. "She already knows and she just needs to accept them. Weiss is smarter than most would assume."
"And what about you Young mistress?"
"…" The girl moves passed the butler, "I already accepted what can't be fixed."
"Young mistress, wait."
"…"
"I ask you not as your servant but as a person who deeply cares." Klien had seen how the relationship in the household he serve was the moment his previous and first master died. But seeing girls resisting the corruption in such a place made him stay with new reasons to keep on working under a pre-justice jerk.
"Please, I beg you. Don't let your little sister walk a path she might regret."
"…" The girl continued to the stairs, she still had other business and school work to finish. "Klien, bring some ointments and a clean towel to my room."
"…" After a short pause, Klien didn't ask for any reason and just obliged to her orders, "Of course, I'll send one of the maids."
The butler sighs at how much the family he served for so many years fall so much in the blink of an old man's eye.
…
Winter's P.O.V
I know what I am doing. I learned anything can't be done peacefully to see a good result.
Despite Kline's words, I know this is the best way for my younger sister to grow faster and see how our family is not like one would see on most other families.
I too was blinded when Weiss was still an infant but that hard truth I saw changed how I felt about mother and father. I learned by the age of 5 that those two have their own separate rooms and I also accidently learned both of them have secrets different lovers from time to time.
Kline knows yet he kept it as a secret not to instigate more problems upon our family especially me and my sister. How could anyone tell a child such secrets without expecting a break down?
Yet, why am I still standing here?
"…" I stare at my sister's room door.
"…" I could hear her whimpering, I do feel guilty for making her cry but I can't let her be more spoiled that she already is under a family like ours.
Giving up, I head back to my own room.
"Young mistress, I waited but it seems your weren't inside."
"Hand them to me."
"O-Of course, would you like m-!"
"That will be all."
I quickly shut the door after taking the items I asked for from the maid. I also denied her assistance since this was something that cannot be known to anyone and also the fact that I don't trust anyone but Cline and my sister.
"…" The strap bag was a little out of my taste but still it was large enough for me to him… or it.
I gentle place it on the center carpet of my room. I was again surprise by how light it was despite knowing that it small form was not to be surprise as a light weight yet this level of lightness was very unusual. Added to the soft fur, it feels awfully nice.
"Now, I just need to prepare a bath."
Before I could tend to its injuries, I need to clean it first. I head into the bathroom available in my room.
Eventually, I started cleaning its fur though I would love to drench it in warm water to get a better result for some reason I could not. I began to wonder more and more about this little creature.
Father would've thrown a fit if he had seen this little one but I for one do not care about his opinion. But why did I take it in? I could've left it or him there yet I picked it up and attend to its care.
Yes, this little fox like creature indeed perform something anyone would've thought impossible and he did it within seconds. This was half of the reason why I taken it.
The other half was due to its actions, at first I thought it was a fanus yet protecting humans even when most don't deserve it. I would call it being naive but seeing him doing such actions without any hesitation was a whole new experience to me.
This little one intrigues me so much that its presence near me soothes me.
"?" As I continue cleaning the little fox, its tails suddenly but gently enlarge enough that I could cover me. It was not uncomfortable no… rather… it's warm.
"!?" Shaking my head and I realized I almost fell asleep. Thankfully I was finish with cleaning.
"…" I didn't need to dry its fur seeing it was already dried the moment I finishing cleaning.
A few minutes must have passed by as I was too indulged in the feeling of its fur. This little creature was beyond extraordinary; questions began to build up in my head as I lean down to examine it closer.
"Are you a human?"
"Are you a fanus?"
"Or are you something else?"
"…" It eyes slowly opens and before I could prepare myself, this little creature lick my nose with a small voice I would assume most animals have but I couldn't help thinking how cute it was.
"…" I touch my nose, I don't why but I felt my cheeks heating up. It was indeed the first time anyone gave me a physical form of affection. Mother or father has never shown such form of affection even as an infant, I knew since my maids gossips too much and Wiess was not exempted from it.
"…" The clock in my room started ringing and I saw an hour had already passed. Dinner must also be almost ready and from father's hurry only I and my sister will be dinning again. I care not for mother ware about anymore.
Quickly changing into my loungewear as it the most and only comfortable wear I had, I move to start on my work as a diligent person I could not skip my school works.
"Kuu?"
I turn back to find the little creature cleaning the things I laid around to help it. Its tails enlarge themselves and staring moving around as if they were limbs.
"What really are you?" I picked it up and stare at its blue ocean eyes. It performs powers even I would love to have and was as intelligent as a human from what I seen so far.
*knock*
*knock*
"Young mistress, may I come in?"
"C-Come in." I quickly hide the small fox under my clothing on my bed out of surprise.
"Young mistress, dinner will be ready soon. And… did you clean your room yourself?"
"O-Of course," Why am I panicking!? "Why do you ask?"
"No, it's nothing young mistress. I am sorry for asking something unusual."
"It is alright, I'll come down momentarily."
"…" Bowing respectfully before me, the maid left and I sigh out in relief.
"…" I blink a few times before looking at my bed, the bed where I put my clothes and where I hid the little fox. Yet none of them were there.
"!" I might as well destroy my door by how hurry I reacted. And from the edge of the room door I saw the maid that came in taking my clothes to be wash and I also saw the little fox peeking from the clothes before hanging on the maid's back as it kept staring back at me in confusion.
"…" I quickly move in a good pace not to give out suspicious impression. As I was about to open my mouth I realized I don't know her name.
With no other options I quicken my pace and I caught up to her as she was about to head down stair.
"Sister!" Unfortunately my little sister suddenly appeared before me stopping me in my track and I watch the maid move farther away and the little fox still hanging on her back unnoticed.
"Weiss what is it?" I was in a hurry but I can't show it.
"I wanted to say something to you, you see…"
"I am sorry Weiss but this will have to continue later." I was in a hurry and as I move along I also missed my sister's dejected expression.
…
"…" As I expected only I and my little sister were in the dining halls. Our youngest sibling Whitley was also missing, father must've taken with him though I care little for that brat.
Weiss for some reason sat further away from than usual and hasn't taken the time to ask me anything, how strange.
"…" Still, hunger was the last thing on my mind.
15 minutes has already passed and I still can't found the little fox. I searched every possible place I believed it would be, I came to the conclusion that it must have jump off the maid and wander about.
"Weiss, I remember you wanted to tell me something earlier?" I might as well finish here and search again but seeing my sister down cast expression was a bother.
"O-Okay…" I finally saw her face lit up a little. I wouldn't like her to be like me after all.
"And sit up straight, your posture even has to be perfect even when no one sees you."
"Of course!"
"Good, you may continue."
"You see, earlier when we arrived home. I know I acted immature and…"
"…" I stopped listening when I saw something that made my heart skip and give me a cold sweat. My eyes could stop glancing at the tail wagging under the tray.
There was a golden fur tail sticking out underneath the dinner tray and I can't let this chance slip.
"Sister?"
"I'm sorry Weiss but I have to go."
"O-Oh, okay…"
I regret my decision but if words go out that an unauthorized pet was within my possession I don't know how much trouble will be brought upon me.
"…" I gently used my glymps to summon a small white creature and command it to slowly pull the tray outside when the maids were all called by the head chief.
….
"?"
"You sure put me under a lot of stress this afternoon." I made a stern look as I stare into the fox's eyes while picking it up to an eye level position.
"I'm sorry…"
"You finally speak too." I already know he could change form and I was only surprise that he could talk telepathically and not through his small mouth.
"Well, do you not have any question?"
"Question?"
"Yes question, but more into the term questions. Where you are or why you are here?"
"…" The little fox shook his head and I was unsure how to lead this conversation.
"Are you not afraid?"
"Of what?"
"Me, a stranger, I was the one who took you here."
"…" I must've indulged in the warmth again as the little fox extended one of his tails toward my cheek.
"Thank you." He bows to show his sincerity. What a strange little creature.
"…" Still I was a bit taken back.
"What is wrong with you? Thanking a stranger who took you? Do you not have any senses?" I believe I just met the most naive being in this world.
"You didn't leave me, right?"
"I-I…" This one, I simply can't assume myself around him.
"Here."
An on the palm of my hand he placed a single candy. It was something even most normal kids could even buy and even the poorest child could attain. Yet, it was the first time anyone gave me something outside of this household.
"…" And I can see it was the only one this little fox had on or anything might I add.
"One of them gave it to me when I was hungry in the alley. They also helped me too."
"Them?"
"I believe they called themselves cats."
"I see…"
"Are you a human or a fanus?" I ask though some might assume me as demanding with the tone I am using.
"…" He shook his head again.
"Your name?" Even I wouldn't know what he really was but a name wouldn't be hard to answer.
"…" Again, he didn't know.
I kept asking him basic things from his parents, friends or siblings to where he came from as well as much other info I could get but what I could get from him was not much. He answers every question but most of them were unusual or just doesn't make sense to me.
"Is this 'Milady' of yours whom you serve?" He did mention the word and I was interested yet skeptical about it.
"Serve? I'm not sure…" He must have some bond with this person but why am I so interesting in him…
"But she's my best friend and we…" Surprisingly he gave me a gentle look while explaining how he and this person spend their days. It was all so interesting but I found it to be some kind of fairy-tail story despite him being a phenomenal creature.
"Your hand."
"My hand?"
Suddenly he stopped his stories and stare at my hand.
"…" I didn't react much as he gently wraps two of his tails covering my right hand. It glowed and I could feel something warm seeping in me. It felt gentle yet strange.
"It's healed… completely." To heal my right hand, the hand I injured various time during my training was completely heal to point of having a soft firm tone.
"!" The door to my room was quickly open and there my father came in with an irritated expression.
"…" Typical, without even addressing to me first he glances around my room.
"Father?"
"Ah-choo!"
"Have you been keeping any vermin's around? You know the rules."
I believe father always have an allergic reaction to some animals unfortunately foxes were one of them.
"No father, I believe pets are only a distraction."
"Of course…"
My eyes widen and I quickly stood up from bed and hide his view away from the little fox.
"…" He notice and this made my heart beat in terror.
Pushing me aside to see what was behind, I waited for his tone to be loud as he always was when he acts furious.
"Klien, I want the whole area search and disinfect!" Yet, he just left to the door.
"…" I thought everything was going good until I myself couldn't found the little fox. He must have hid but where I ask myself dozens of times.
"Where could you be?"
Half an hour already passed and I still couldn't found him. Now, I feel very cross with him.
"hm?" Something was strange; I saw my bed sheet a mess which I perfectly remembered to be folded a second ago.
"…" I reach out my hand and place it on the messy patch part of the sheet.
"Oh…" There the little fox appears laying down sleeping softly. Even the ability to turn invisible, how many more tricks will this little fox show me.
This little one, with such amazing powers and yet exists with such a kind, frail and firm personality. I am impressing at how perfect one can be.
"…" I gently laid him down on my thighs and softly rub his fur. It was indeed comfortable. A thought came to me in the word 'Amnesia', is this something this little one is suffering from? Or is he lying? *sigh* No matter.
I'd like it if he stays a little longer, I believed it's not right to keep him if he doesn't wish to but I rather like his presences.
And done!
AGE DIFFERENCES (One year has already passed since he was in Patch.)
Naruto - ?
Cinder - 13
Yang - 8
Ruby – 6
Blake - 8
Winter – 13
Weiss - 8
HAREM
Cinder (Somewhat going to be obsessive yet regards his words very important.)
Yang (Still developing her crush into a higher level of love)
Ruby (Still developing from like to like like.)
Winter (This is only a maybe.)
Weiss (Yep, I decided to put her in the harem.)
Winter will have a strong bond with Naruto and will eventually care deeply for the hero of this story. Is there anyone who doesn't like Winter to be in the harem?
Anyway, bye!