AN- Wow, I did not expect THIS much support for this story. Thank you all who have followed, favorited, and reviewed this story. I was blown away when I decided to check how many follows I had just two days after I published the story. Definitely put a wide smile on my face.
Speaking of reviewers, thank you to all of my reviewers after the story was first published! Here are my responses:
Hafschu- I spent more time editing this chapter then I did last chapter by a wide margin, hopefully the quality of my writing can keep up with the quality of the idea. Thanks for the review!
Nico2411- Thank you! I had this idea flowing around my head for a while. I've always wanted to write something original, something that not even I have seen in fanfictions yet, at least not in RWBY that is. Thank you for the review!
Zeldawolffang- Yes, and no. He isn't at that level of skill. Not yet at least anyway. Thank you for the review!
The Baz- I hope I can keep it. Thanks for the review!
Dood Whitefang- I definitely will continue it if this chapter coming out is any indication. Thanks for the review.
Now to the story!
RWBY: The Blind Huntsman
Chapter 2- Flashy Introduction
Kai, and Tai have just made it to Patch, it took about two days to make it their last stop, since they had to refuel once, and fix the accidental damage done by Kai when he gripped the Bullheads inner walls too tightly, and made a breach with his semblance, nearly breaking his fingers in the process. He doesn't like flying, he can only feel what is in the Bullhead but even then it is difficult for him to pinpoint where anyone might be because of the constant shaking, and vibrations the Bullhead makes while flying, not to mention that he is deathly scared of falling. Despite him being able to basically make a parachute out of nothing but air to basically nullify the fall damage from any height.
"I had to pay for that you know," Tai says, knowing what Kai is thinking just by seeing him look toward the Bullhead after they landed.
Kai jumps after hearing the sudden voice ring out from beside him, cutting him out of his train of thought. "S-sorry, I just really don't like being off of the ground." Kai admits with a little bit of shame in his voice.
"Well, that's a fear you are going to have to overcome if you want to be a huntsman, what is your semblance anyway?" Tai asks out of curiosity. "I'd like to know the boy that is going to be living with me and my daughters for the next three years, and Malikai left that piece of information out. Also I may have dozed off when you explained it the first time."
"Oh, well, it's Element manipulation, to put it simply I can control stone, air, water and fire. But the latter two can only be used if I have a source of it around, like a puddle or a torch of some kind. But I can't manipulate wood or sand for whatever reason as of yet." Kai explains simply without looking at him, instead showing a demonstration of his powers by levitating a pebble off of the ground, and using air to spin it around above his hand in a small circle. He is not able to see it but he can sense the miniscule amount of aura he is using in order to move the air around the create a mini wind tunnel for the pebble to become trapped in.
"Huh, that's a pretty neat semblance you got there. Which parent did you get that from?" Tai asks as he leans in to get a better look of the little trick, and confirms that it is actually manipulation, and not anything sneaky.
"Actually, I got both of their semblances. I got the stone, and air part from my mom, and the water, and fire part from my dad." Kai answers honestly as he flicks the pebble back to the ground with the air, and sticks his hands in his pockets. "Now that I think about it that explains why my dad never was able to his semblance against me like he said."
"Really? That is really rare for that to happen, you're really lucky for that to have happened." Tai points out with a friendly smile, that is until he realizes that Kai can't see it, and mentally scolds himself for forgetting.
"If I really am that lucky I wouldn't have lost my eyesight at birth…" Kai sadly states, making Tai feel bad for the choice of words he made.
"Hey, chin up Kai. It can't be that bad since you can obviously tell where you are going with the need of your eyes. If anything you have better sight than even me."
"What do you mean?" Kai asks, physically turning his head toward Tai but not up into his eyes. He can't sense how tall you are just by judging by where your feet are touching the ground, but he can tell if you are heavy or not, but with a slight adjustment with the help of Tai he is now appearing to be looking into his eyes from behind the headband.
"Malikai did a shitty job of explaining this in the letter, so I hope I did a good job at piecing it all together. You feel the ground with your feet right? That's why you don't wear shoes, 'cause if you wear shoes it can muffle the seismic vibrations or nullify it altogether. And somehow just by feeling these vibrations you can tell the layout of an area within a mile of you, and every little thing in it. I gotta say that is definitely impressive." Tai compliments, adding a pat on the back to the now embarrassed Kai.
"Well… a mile is a bit of an exaggeration, more like half a mile maybe. I haven't measured how far I can see for a while. But I have a big weakness when it comes to my way of seeing things; I can't see things that are in the air, or so fast that I can't pinpoint where they are fast enough to react to it, so I usually have to use my other senses for those kind of enemies such as my hearing or sense of smell." Kai explains further, playing with air between his knuckles as he does so.
"Oh, I know just the person to help you out with that." Tai says with a mischievous grin so mischievous that even Kai can tell.
"I'm scared already." Kai says as he notices the increase in heart rate from Tai.
"You'll be fine." Tai says with a bit of a nervous chuckle.
"I can tell that you don't even believe that you know." Kai points out, one of the other side effects of his way of seeing coming into play for the first time in a while.
"Oh… forgot about that part. Well, I wasn't lying when I said it would be good practice."
"The fact that what you just said is the truth only makes me worry more…"
Kai has no idea who he is about to live with for the next three years.
"OhmygodwehaveanewroomateYang!" a twelve year old Ruby exclaims faster then Kai can understand as she bounces around the room and breakneck speeds. Stopping at several different angles to inspect Kai.
"Helooksstrongandmuscularheywhatisyoursemblance?!" Ruby asks as she stops right in front of him with a bright beaming look on her face. Sadly Kai can't see the cuteness due to his condition.
"I… uh." Kai's head is still spinning as his senses finally get a chance to relax, even with his enhanced hearing he couldn't hear every word in that sentence properly.
"Sorry about that, my little sis has been doing this ever since she unlocked her semblance a few weeks ago." A fourteen year old Yang says as she steps beside Ruby and offers her hand for Kai to shake. "Im Yang Xiao Long, you?"
"Kai Matsuoka." He says as he offers his own hand awkwardly, turns out that Yang offered her right hand, and Kai his left. Causing the two to awkwardly brush their knuckles against each other before Kai realizes that he has made a mistake.
Luckily Yang brushes this off as nervousness and grabs his hand anyway, completing the awkward handshake. "So, what's a hunk like you wearing a headband like that around your eyes?"
Kai feels uncomfortable at the sudden question that was asked, combined with him getting flustered and gaining a red tint on his pale cheeks that is impossible for him to hide. "Well, I uh… its for a good reason." He settles for answering.
"He's blind Yang, didn't I tell you that?" Tai comes in for the rescue of our young hero who is not very good at talking to girls just yet. "That was insensitive of you to ask him that."
"Oh, I'm so sorry." Yang says quickly, instantly feeling bad about her earlier comment. "I totally forgot about that."
Hmm, well she is telling the truth on that one. Kai mentally notes to himself. "It's fine really, that question has been asked more times then I can count. Just not in… that way."
"Oh is that so~? Did my earlier statement blind you with affection?" Yang… just no.
"I was born this way actually." Luckily for Kai he took it too literally.
"What? No I meant it as a pun." Yang points out, more surprised the anything at not even getting a groan out of Kai.
"Was it? Sorry I never really had a lot of friends back at home, I had to be homeschooled since no school over in Vacuo would take a blind kid in." Kai explains sadly, already pulling at Yang's and Ruby's heartstrings unintentionally.
But before they can continue their conversation, two small arms barely fit around Kai's waist as he is pulled into a surprise hug by seemingly inhuman strength coming from the much smaller girl. Kai literally never saw it coming. Kai puts his hands atop a shoulder and the other on top of the little girls head. He then looks down and smells something flowery, kinda like a rose now that he has gotten a good whiff of it. "Who is this grabbing on to me?" He asks out of confusion rather than embarrassment.
"You must've been so lonely! Don't worry I am your friend now!" Ruby happily exclaims as she nuzzles into Kai's chest. If only Kai could see the cuteness literally rubbing off on him.
Kai smiles at the show of affection and gently hugs her back with one arm. Huh, maybe this won't be as bad as I thought.
"Tell him your name sweetie." Tai says as he walks past them and into the kitchen to start cooking up lunch.
"Oh yeah! I'm Ruby, Ruby Rose! You're Kai Matsu-whatever right?" Ruby asks as she pushes herself off of Kai.
"Rose? I thought you two were sisters?" Kai asks Yang, who he feels is a bit off to his right now but still facing him judging by how her feet are positioned.
"She took her mom's name." Yang answers right away. Kai can tell that is the truth but feels that there is more to it, but doesn't pry since he just met the two girls, and doesn't want to make a bad first impression by prying into business not his own.
"So how do you see if you're blind?" Ruby asks, dashing around Kai a couple more times, stopping in a kneeling position beside Kai's feet.. "And why are you not wearing any shoes?"
"Well, I see by feeling the seismic vibrations in the ground with my feet, which is why I am not wearing any shoes. I don't wear shoes at all actually, not since I was a little kid." Kai keeps the explanation simple so that the hyper girl could understand easily.
"Ooo, that's so cool! So you're like a walking radar!" Ruby exclaims, the analogy doesn't really make any sense to him but he understands that the small, and light girl must be young.
"I guess if you put it that way then yeah, I am a walking radar." Kai says with a shrug.
"And your semblance?!" Ruby reminds him as she bounces in place excited to hear his answer.
"Actually I am pretty interested to, you'll be going to Signal with me after all." Yang points out.
"You're going to Signal to? Cool." Kai simply states with the same smile as he looks in her general direction. "And I can show you both my semblance outside if you want. Hey, Mr Tai! Can I show them my semblance outside?!" Kai politely asks for permission.
"Sure, just don't take too long, lunch is almost ready." Tai responds, granting him permission.
"Thanks dad!" The two sisters call out to their father in unison as they follow Kai outside.
Thirty seconds later the three friends have walked out of the house and down the stairs. Kai feels the area around a little bit, sensing a multitude of bushes and insects around the area, but feels plenty of stone around him, mostly covered by dirt but that is no problem for him.
"First, I'll show you what I am best with, stone manipulation." Kai says as he holds his hand out, a moment later a rock the size of a basketball bursts out of the ground. "This was the first element I was able to manipulate." Kai says as he molds the rock into many different shapes and textures, then molds it into a sword. "I can make weapons out of this stuff pretty easily, mostly swords and shields for a last second defence if I need to. But recently I have been doing this." Kai molds a different rock into a throwing star. "I can make throwing weapons on the fly and throw them at any enemy."
"But how can you hit your target if you can't see them?" Yang questions.
"Well, I uh… I guess." The answer doesn't seem to satisfy them, judging by how they shifted their weight to one side. "I can tell where you two are standing, but I don't know how big or small you are. Unless I already know how tall you are and how you are built, I have to guess where you are, like this." Kai throws the throwing star and it jams itself into the ground right next to Ruby, making her jump into her sisters arms. "Don't worry, I made sure I would miss." Kai drops the sword and shield, and it breaks apart as soon as it touches the ground, along with the makeshift shuriken he just threw. "Now it is time for the more exciting part of the rock element." Kai says as he claps his hands together, in an instant and large slab of stone rises beside Kai. "I can aslo lift walls or pillars up from the ground in all different shapes and sizes, depending on the type of attack I think is coming my way."
"You think? Don't tell me you just guess what direction the attack is coming from to." Yang interrupts.
"Well… I guess you can say that I predict the directions their attacks are coming from." Kai says he nervously scratches the side of his head.
"So you're telling me that you can predict your opponent's movements just by knowing where they're standing, and act accordingly. Did I get that right?" Yang asks with an impressed look on her face.
"More or less yeah." Kai says with a shrug, just glad that they seem to understand his explanation.
"That is so cool!" Ruby exclaims, dashing right up to Kai in a flurry of rose petals.
Kai rubs the back of his head and chuckles, a little embarrassed by the young girls praise. "Y-yeah, I guess it is pretty cool."
Yang pounds her fists together, gaining the attention of the two people in front of her. Kai hears something metallic get cocked, and he tilts his head to the side. "What was that?"
"Wanna go a round? All this talking about techniques and fighting has gotten me riled up." Yang says with a competitive smirk on her face, as she enters a fighting stance.
Kai arches his eyebrow as he senses Yang's feet adjust, getting into a more wider stance with one foot in front of the other. A boxers stance he can assume, so by that he predicts that there are going to be a lot of punches coming at him from multiple directions if he accepts this sudden challenge.
"But I've only showed you a quarter of my semblance, and Mr Tai said we had to keep this short." Kai attempts to calm down the excited brawler, but if he doesn't know that reasoning with Yang just isn't an option.
"Yang always gets like this when she meets someone knew, if you can keep up with her, she'll like you more. If you lose then well… don't lose please, I just met you and you're cool." Ruby explains for Kai, fist bumping his limp hand for good luck.
This will be the first spar against someone other than my father or mother. Kai thinks to himself as he widens his own stance, letting his arms hang limply out in front of him. It is a rather lazy looking stance, but for a blind person like Kai it helps him get ready to counter any attack that comes his way, and puts more weight on his feet so that they can sense the ground better to pinpoint wherever his opponent may be.
He feels Yang bouncing in her stance, and enters 'Focus mode' a state of mind in which Kai focuses entirely on combat, so that he can here there strikes as it whips through the air and sense whenever they can leave the ground the second their feet get off the ground.
"I like that serious look on your face, you ready?" Yang asks, feeling cocky.
"Yeah! Go Yang…! and Go Kai!" Ruby cheers from the sidelines.
Kai doesn't respond, instead raising a stone spear out of the ground and throwing it toward Yang at almost blinding speeds. Yang widens her eyes as she barely sidesteps the spear in time, and hears the tree behind her get splintered in two.
"Okay, I guess you're ready then!" Yang says as she lunges toward Kai, momentarily leaving the ground for a split second.
Once her foot digs into the ground and lifts the owners body off the ground. That pings where Yang is in his mind. About five meters away, lunged at me, most likely a haymaker of sort. All these thoughts run through Kai's head at incredible speeds as he flicks his neck just enough so that Yang's fist wouldn't hit his face. Then counters by using air to further knock Yang off balance as he kicks out her legs from underneath her, then with a straight palm strike to her back, uses air to push her forward even further away from him, he can feel Yang roll along the ground until she skids to a stop just a few meters away from him. Then he hears the metal shift as she brings her fists up to her sides.
"Try dodging this!" Yang yells as she fires off two shots one after the other.
Kai is surprised after hearing the unexpected firearm go off from Yangs wrist, and tries to act accordingly. Time slows for him as he hears the buckshot soar through the air, and smells the flame dust coming off of them and from the barrel of the gun, both good and bad things. He guesses and ducks under the first one, and then lifts a stone wall out of the ground and blocks the shot. He still feels Yang in her kneeling position as she reloads her shotgun gauntlets that he now knows she has, and with a mighty kick sends the stone wall flying her way.
Yang is surprised by this but doesn't let down, instead throwing her fist forward as she jumps from the ground to add some extra power, and breaks right through the wall. But when she re-opens her eyes Kai is not there in front of her like she expected him to be.
Unbeknownst to Yang, Kai has jumped into the air, keeping himself suspended in the air with two constant currents of wind propelling him just enough to make gravity a figment of the past. Now while Kai is up in the air like this, he is as blind as he should be. With no ground to feel vibrations from , all he has to rely on is his own hearing, and once Yang broke through that stone wall he created as he predicted, he shoots a compressed blast of air that punches Yang right on the top of her head, slamming her chin and body into the ground with a thud, her aura flickers yellow as it defends her from any real damage, but it doesn't stop the mouthful of dirt that Yang almost swallowed.
"What the hell was that?! Can you see me?" She angrily shouts as she looks up at Kai, still hovering in the air.
"You're predictable," Kai says as he slowly hovered back to the ground a good distance away from her. "You're heart rate has increased and your muscles are tensing up from what I can sense from you grabbing the ground so hard, which means you are getting frustrated or angry." Kai vocally notes without looking at her directly. "My father always told me to keep a level head in fights, I suggest you do the same."
"Tch." Yang gets back up from the ground and re-enters a fighting stance, this time being more light on her feet as she thinks of who exactly she is up against. "Why would you give your enemy advice?"
"Because you're not my enemy, you're my sparring partner." Kai surprises her with that declaration. He surprises her even more when he stomps the ground and two stone gauntlets pop out of the ground, he sticks his hands in both of them and enters his own unarmed combat stance. "I suppose I can work on my unarmed combat a bit more." Kai says with a smile.
"Oh ho~ Now you're speaking my language." Yang says as she gets more excited then angry now that Kai is entertaining her own fighting style.
"I suppose." Kai shrugs his shoulders, the stone gauntlets weightless to him after wielding weapons made completely of stone for the past year and a half. It has given him a good amount of strength over most his age, despite his young age and lean physique.
Yang spoke with actions rather than her words this time, instead of charging in like she enjoys to do so much, she stays light on her feet and jumps from spot to spot, taking care to land with grace as to not give off her position too much. She gets close enough to strike, and jabs a quick left to Kai, which is blocked by his right gauntlet. Before he could clamp down on the hand she pulls it out before his fingers even get close to her wrist, and finally lands her first hit when Kai dodges incorrectly and gets nailed in the cheek. He catches himself by pushing down on the air with his left hand, and uses the momentum to counter attack by performing a roundhouse kick in Yangs side, which is promptly blocked by Yang using both her forearms. But another trick Kai had up his sleeve is by doubling the damage of his kick by manipulating a stone pillar out of the ground and hitting Yang right in the back.
"Oh no! Yang I believe in you!" Ruby cheers for her older sister.
"Lunch is ready kids-"Tai stops himself once he makes it to the doorway, and begins to observe the fight between the newcomer and his firstborn. He has trained Yang himself, and knows that she is probably in the top five percent of her age, and here this kid- no BLIND kid here actually making Yang struggle. He leans against one of the wooden supports and observes the rest of the fight.
Yang shoots Ember Celica and uses the recoil plus her own strength to elbow the stone pillar her back in a hundred pieces. The sound momentarily knocks Kai out of his concentration since he was so close to the source of the blast, and Yang takes his opportunity to grab his shin and pull him in for one of her signature haymakers. Which lands this time.
Kai's silver aura flickers as it defends his nose and the rest of his face from the powerful haymaker, which strained even more when Yang fired her gauntlet along with it. Kai lets himself fall backwards, and catches himself with his hands and flips back onto his feet, then sees his opportunity to show off a fraction more of his power. He rubs his forehead of sweat, which has accumulated over the spar, but doesn't flick it to the ground. He senses Yang lunge at him right away, but uses air to blast her away and to the side, he twirls in place and throws his right gauntlet toward Yang where he felt her hit the ground. But with an aura empowered punch she easily shatters the hollow stone. He continues his twirling and throws his left one, which is once again shattered by another one of her punches, Yang reverts back to charging at him as she grows frustrated with the blind boy again. But as soon as her right foot touches the ground, stone wraps around her foot and ankle, stopping her in her tracks and making her trip over to one knee, and when she uses her hands to catch herself they both get encased with stone. She looks back up to her opponent to see him in her face, and an ice dagger that smelled pretty bad pushing against the aura around her neck.
"Kai is the winner! Yang is immobilized! Good job Kai!" Ruby cheers from the sidelines once more.
Kai exits his focus mode and smiles, the makeshift sweat dagger melts instantly as soon as it leaves his hand, and the stone trapping Yang is reduced to small pebbles and dirt. He extends a hand out to her to help her up, accidentally touching her hair in the process.
Yang growls at the contact, and her eyes turn red. She was about to pound his face in for it despite the kind and good sportsmanship gesture he made, until she heard her father's voice.
"Yang, don't you dare. Remember that he is blind, and has no idea how much your hair means to you." Tai calls out to her from his position against the wall.
Yang's eyes return to their normal color. "Dad?! When did you get there?"
"Around the time I jabbed you in the back with stone." Kai answers for him, surprising everyone there besides Tai.
"How did you know that?" Yang asks as she accepts his offer to help her off the ground.
"I thought I explained that earlier." Kai says as he takes his hand back and sticks it in his pocket.
"Oh yeah, seismic sensing or whatever right? And where did that ice dagger come from, and why did it smell so bad?"
"I made that out of my sweat, sorry about that. It is the only way for me to use the water manipulating part of my semblance without any sources around." He answers as he demonstrates what he just said by using the sweat off of his left arm to make another dagger, before throwing it to the side.
"That was a fun spar, I look forward to doing that with you again." Kai continues with a polite smile, although he is adorably completely missing her face and it looks like he is staring at her boobs.
"Uh, Kai. My eyes are up here…" Yang points out, pushing Kai's chin up with her finger so that they are face to face.
"Oh you're taller than I thought you were." Kai says as he adjusts his neck.
"We're the same height dude."
"Kai…" Tai all but growls out, did he just look at his daughter's chest right in front of me? He momentarily forgets that the poor kid is blind, and calms himself down before he does anything rash, and does anything that could make Kai lose his trust in him.
"Yes, Mr Tai?" Kai politely asks, turning his body in the general direction of where Tai is standing.
"... You did great against my daughter, I think this is the first time she has been defeated from someone other than myself." Tai settles for a complement, unable to remain angry at Kai long enough.
"I broke her undefeated streak? Sorry Yang, I tried to make a good first impression." Kai apologizes, turning his head back to Yang and bowing it at her.
"Oh, don't worry about that! If anything you just shot up to the top of my favorite boy list." Yang says, nudging Kai with her elbow playfully.
"Really? Awesome!" Kai excalims with excitement. "Where did Ruby go?" He asks once he notices that she is no longer where she was sitting.
"I made cookies for her, that's probably where she went." Tai says as he beckons the two over, Yang walks back into the house and Kai follows in her footsteps.
They family of three, and their guest enjoyed a full meal, once Kai found his spoon and food he dug right in, and damn his appetite could rival Ruby's desire for cookies.
"So Kai, how do tell what someone looks like?" Ruby asks through her mouthful of food.
"Well, I have to touch you." Kai answers bluntly through his own mouthful of food, and causing Yang and Tai to choke on their food momentarily and look at Kai with Malice. "I can feel out your facial features, and I can tell how you look based on that." Kai clarifies after he swallows his food.
Yang, and Tai let out a sigh of relief in unison after hearing the full answer.
"Oh! Do me!" Ruby says as she scoots closer to Kai.
"Right now? We're still eating dinner and well… I don't think your father will approve of me touching you like that." Kai says with a bit of worry in his voice, silently asking for Tai's permission by turning his head toward him.
"As long as you don't go below the neck then it won't be a problem." Tai says with a shrug.
"Same with me." Yang adds as she stuffs another piece of food into her mouth.
"Okay then, stay still. I have to basically rub every part of your face pretty hard in order to tell what you look like." Kai explains as he turns his whole body in it's chair to fully face the much shorter girl.
"I'll stay very still, and not laugh, I promise." Ruby says in the quietest and friendliest tone Kai has heard from her all day.
Kai rubs his hands against his shirt, making sure the best that he can that they are clean. He slowly reaches toward her general direction but feels a small hand wrap around both of his wrists. He assumes that this is Ruby and doesn't panic, he lets Ruby guide his hands toward his face, and once she feels his rather soft hands - much softer than she expected them to be due to his choice of profession - lets go of his wrists. Kai moves his hands about her face, feeling out her cheekbones first, then moving down her face to her jawline. But something feels odd in him as he feels out her features, a strange feeling of familiarity despite him not meeting her ever in his life. He passes it off as nervousness as he feels out her nose, then forehead, hair length then finally her eyes, or rather her eyelids but he could tell the shape of them. Once he finishes he removes his hands from her face.
"Huh," Kai hums as he leans back in his own seat.
"So how do I look?" Ruby asks cheerfully.
"Hmm, it's hard to describe since I've never actually seen facial features before. But from what I got from feeling you have a round face, your chin has a bit of a point to it, your cheeks are very soft and your cheekbones don't seem to be very defined yet, probably due to your young age."
"Hey! Im twelve!"
"You have a small nose, hair that reaches just passed your chin with one side longer than the other, and big round eyes. Pretty cute if I say so myself." Kai finishes with a cackle.
Ruby gets all flustered and blushes at the first compliment she has ever received from a boy besides her father, she spins in her chair and squeals in delight.
"Are you okay? Your heart rate increased so much in a concerning short amount of time." Kai asks with genuine concern.
"She's fine, that's just her gaining her first crush on a boy." Yang teases.
"W-what?! YANG NO!" Ruby exclaims as she dashes right up to her little sister with a pouty look on her face. They being their usual play fighting that ends up destroying half of what is in the living room.
"Oh, well steering away from that topic, when do Yang and I go to Signal?" Kai asks, directing the question to Tai. Ignoring the sound of glass breaking behind him, but it does make him wince since the piercing sound of glass breaking is pretty uncomfortable to even a normal person.
"In about two weeks or so, give or take." Tai answers as he puts his plate in the sink. "Ha, you'd think I know when school begins, I am a teacher there after all."
"You're a teacher from Signal?" If Kai wasn't hiding his eyes, he would have been more visually lit up then what can be seen.
"Yeah, Malikai didn't tell you about that?" Tai asks as he catches a broken shard of glass just before it flew out the window and drops it in the garbage.
"No, he didn't…" Kai looks like he wants to ask something, and Tai notices that, he does raise two daughters who also get the same look when they really want something but are too scared or nervous to ask.
"Something you want to ask Kai?" Tai asks in a friendly tone, fully turning his body to face him.
"Yeah I uh… during that two week period I was wondering if you could… train me personally. I really want to get better at overall combat and utilizing the other parts of my semblance. I never really got a lot of practice done with water or fire manipulation…" His voice trails off as he suddenly grows more nervous with what he is asking Tai to do for him. "If it isn't too much trouble for you."
"Okay." Tai answers simply with a shrug as he goes back to washing dishes.
"Wait, what?"
"There's a river nearby that I will be taking you to tomorrow bright and early. We'll spend the first week training your water skills, and the next for your fire. Of course I will be training you in other aspects as well, I just have to warn you. My way of training is different then Malikai's, and you don't have a lot of time to adjust, also Yang is probably going to tag along to so don't worry about sparring partners of equal skill." Taiyang finishes as he puts away the last plate.
"Wow, I didn't think It was going to be that easy." Kai admits.
"What do you think I was going to do with you in the meantime? Just let you sit around until the entrance exam? Besides Malikai wanted me to train you anyway." Tai reveals as he steps closer to Kai.
"He did? Why didn't you tell me on the Bullhead?"
"Because it was never brought up."
"I told you all about my semblance and fighting style though…"
"You think I asked you all that because I was curious?" Tai chuckles to himself as he pat Kai's head.
"Oh… wait why isn't Ruby going to be training with us?" Kai asks as he thinks about Tai's earlier words.
"She already has a trainer, her uncle Qrow." Kai could feel Tai's blood pressure rise at the mere thought of this 'Qrow', but he doesn't pry about it. "She wants to be a huntress to, and she chose his fighting style over mine. No biggie though, she isn't really built for my fighting style anyway."
"Is this Qrow a huntsman to?"
"Yeah, in terms of owning a license yes." Tai says bitterly.
"I uh… can't help but notice that you don't seem to like this man. If your blood pressure rising is any indication." Kai hesitantly points out.
Tai calms down, and lets out an exasperated sigh. "We are… not on good terms right now, let's just leave it at that."
It is the truth, but Kai can tell there is something much more to it then that.
"I know we just met and all, and I have never really been in a relationship before, and I don't know anything about that stuff either… But if you need someone to talk to, I'll be willing to lend an ear." Kai says with a smile that is so genuine Tai can't help but chuckle at it, despite his now bad mood.
"When you get a little older, maybe. Better get some sleep for now though, don't want you to be crawling yourself out of every training session now do we? Your room is next door to mine, and the girl's. You're a good kid, so I trust that I won't be waking up to any banging, am I clear?" Tai says with a mixture of threatening violence and actually playfulness.
"Y-yes sir." Kai stammers out right away, standing up as straight as a pencil.
"Good, see ya tomorrow." Tai says as he walks past him and up the stairs.
Kai, lets out a breath he didn't know he was holding, and smiles to himself. Not only do I get to train with another fully trained and experienced huntsman, but I get an opportunity to train with another one! Not to mention that I have finally made some friends my age besides those weird guys back at home where I bought groceries from. Oh man, here I thought that things would get ten times harder without my parents. Kai thinks to himself as he begins to blindly walk toward the stairs, but his excited and racing mind prevents him from sensing the two girls, now with one on top of the other pinning the other down, and trips right over them and lands face first into the floor.
"Ow." He groans as he pushes himself off of the floor.
"Sorry about that Kai, Ruby doesn't know when she is beaten." Yang says as she is easily pinning Ruby down on the floor.
"Not… yet." Ruby mutters as she futilely pushes back against her much stronger sister.
"How didn't you see us anyway?" Yang asks as she hold Ruby down with one arm.
"I was distracted." Kai says as he stands back up. "I have to always focus on what is around me, if I am thinking too hard about something I lose focus on what is happening around me. Sorry about that."
"It's fine dude! I heard that I'll finally be getting a sparring partner, I gotta resurrect my streak so watch yourself hotstuff." Yang says with a wink.
"Y-yeah sure." Kai says after getting flustered once again. "I'll see ya in the morning I guess." Kai says as he starts to go up the stairs.
"See ya!" Yang happily waves toward him, knowing full well that he won't see it but does it anyway. But once he is gone she realizes something as soon as she hears a door close.
"Wait… how can he see me in the morning if he's blind?"
"Mmph?" Ruby wonders the same thing.
AN- And that is the chapter! What did you guys think of this one? I have been wanting to continue this for a while now and finally got the chance when I got like eight hours of free time for once. I had fun writing this chapter. This story will have approximately 6k-7k words each chapter. Sometimes it is going to be more, sometimes less.
I know what must be on some of your minds, "When is the Beacon saga gonna start?"
And the answer to that Billy is that it is gonna be a while. I have to get through the Signal arc first, which I have many plans for, and a metric FUCK TON of OC's I have to think up. But just like you guys/girls, I am eager to get to the Beacon stuff, so things might be a little fast paced until then. But if you read my other stories then you would already know that. So for now just call this… Volume 0. I like the ring to it.
This story is going to be so freaking long guys… like oh my god. I don't think this will end until like… ever.
Please review and tell me what you think! I am eager to know all of your thoughts.
Disclaimer- I do not own RWBY in any way shape or form.