Here we go with chapter 43, I am sorry this came out late, I know I said that I was going to be writing more. But sometimes life and family decided otherwise. I am tired, but I am pushing forth for you guys, now lets see what else Kai and his pals have in store for them.

Oblivious IJ: I don't know why I was thinking on that review so much, but I had fun writing that Omake. If you get another idea, go ahead and let me know, I'll think about continuing the omakes again like I did before. Thank you for the review.

With that out of the way, let us continue on with the story!

Beta: CrowSkull

The Blind Huntsman

Chapter 43- Volume 1, Episode 10

A Day of Plans

"The dust has been loaded onto the Bullheads, Supreme Leader Khan." One of her most trusted lieutenants said to her right as she brought up the question. With a nod and a wave of her hand, the guard stood back up and went back to his duty in protecting her and looking out for any threats. She leaned back over her desk and continued looking at the reports that she asked for prior.

"How is Taurus doing with what we talked about before?" Sienna asked next.

The guard looked confused for a moment, but luckily he did not have to answer. For the man in question barged through the door and ordered for him to leave. The guard was conflicted in following the order of his supreme leader and his commanding officer.

Sienna sighed and waved her hand at him, beckoning him to leave. "Hello Adam, I was just thinking about you." She said as she leaned back in her seat, the day was bright and early, and yet she felt like going to bed still. Long nights were not on shortage for the leader of the White Fang, she figured that she was up and about for more hours than what was probably healthy for any average faunus. If she was lucky she would be able to sleep for a few hours about five days a week.

"She did it again." Adam seethed as he slammed his hands on top of her desk. While most people would have flinched and backed off, she remained unmoved and was as still as a stone. "She murdered one of my men just because he made a mistake with loading the wrong type of dust in the wrong crate. She burned him alive in front of us all!" He slammed his fists on the table again, cracking and splintering the wood. "We have waited too long, she must be dealt with."

"I completely agree with you Taurus," Sienna spoke up, cutting the red haired man off before he could continue another one of his angry rants. "That woman must be stopped, I regret it more and more every day for the time she came to our camp, and requested for our involvement to her plans. She is the reason the White Fang are now seen as terrorist's and little else."

"Then why won't you give me the order!?" Adam asked, his voice raised to a volume just below that of a scream. "Give me the order, and I'll assassinate her myself."

"No." Sienna narrowed her eyes into daggers at him, standing up to meet his height.

"Why?" He growled.

"Because as much as I'd like to think that it is that easy, you won't be able to kill her. Even if you do somehow manage it, we both know that she is not working alone." Sienna pointed out. "There's still those men, Tyrian and Hazel that we must worry about as well, and they are only the ones that we know of. I cannot while knowing that give you permission to go on with your assault." When Adam didn't look like he was going to back down, Sienna leaned forward more. Her faunus ears twitched angrily and she bared her teeth at him. "It is a direct order from the Supreme Leader, refusing to follow said order will lead to undesirable consequences."

Adam stared back at her through his mask for several long seconds. Neither of them backing down and the thought that they were about to come to blows went through their minds more than a few times. They had history with each other, history of butting heads, but also a history of being one of the most efficient and successful duos on assault missions against the forces of Atlas. But in the end, it was always Sienna who came out on top at the times they did come to blows.

"Tch," Adam pulled up one of the chairs that was thrown out of the way, and fixed it back underneath Sienna's table so that he could sit in it. His ire died out quickly as he rested his head in one of his hands. "As you wish, Supreme Leader."

Sienna's glare softened a fraction, and she drew up her seat as well. She leaned forward on both elbows and looked through the opening between her door and the floor to check if anyone had their ears up against her door. Thankfully, she did not see anything worth any possible amount of concern. "We will free ourselves, Adam." She said, her voice quiet so that he was the only one who could hear her. "That, I promise you. I do not like this any more than you do, but you are the only one out of my inner circle that I trust with the knowledge of what I have planned that will lead to our salvation."

Adam removed his hand from his face and looked back to her, he nodded his head once and relaxed. There was really no use in getting angry with her of all people, and he felt a pang of guilt when he noticed the darker spots underneath her eyes, it was clear that she was not at a hundred percent at the moment, and hasn't been for quite some time. "I apologize for my outburst, Supreme Leader. I was out of line."

"Consider yourself forgiven." Sienna said with a shrug. "However, I would have you remember that the next time to take such a tone to me, I may not be as forgiving."

"Understood." Adam nodded. "What of the hybrid? Have you made any attempts to contact him as of yet?"

"No, he would not listen to words. After what happened with his father he would no doubt remember that I had a hand in his death. Poultry secret scroll calls and messages will not do anything to earn his compliance. We must show and imply to the little one that we are after the same goal."

"I suppose that makes sense — No, I am certain that it does. I agree, but how are we to show him that we are serious before he attacks us? He may be blind, but he is intelligent and adaptable from what our spies were able to find out about him throughout the years, not to mention that he will be able to tell if we are lying to him or not." Adam explained.

"Worry not, I have a feeling that we will bump into him one of these days." Sienna replied, a small smile on her face.

"If you say so." Adam was a little more uncertain with what she had planned, but if it all came together then damage would be minimized. "If you have no more need of me, I shall go back to my duty. Cinder will have my head if she sees that I am gone for longer than she expects."

"Actually," The sound of her voice stopped him from moving any closer to the exit to the room. He looked to her with a curious expression on his face, as much as it could be seen through the lower part of his face that was exposed to the outside world. "There is something I'd like for you to look into."

"What is it?"

"The mother, her name is forgotten to me, but what I do know is that our potential ally also has a younger sibling." Sienna rubbed her chin as she thought. "They are unimportant and should not be considered a threat, the woman is faunus and has shown no signs of rising against us, and the child is just a child. But I have a feeling our mutual friend is not quite as merciful as we are."

"Hm…" Adam hummed, agreeing with her.

"Do make sure that nothing unfortunate happens to them, if they were to have some kind of accident. I fear that any and all reasoning will fall upon deaf ears for a certain outcross, and we might be stuck working for Cinder for much longer."

Adam nodded his head. Keeping tabs and protecting a certain target was not something he was unused to. "I will personally make sure nothing happens to the Matsuoka family if it comes down to it."

"Good," Sienna waved a hand toward him. "Then you are dismissed. I have a call to make with a certain criminal in order to plan how exactly we are going to set up the ambush for the next SDC freighter ship. I need to make sure the ones we are sending him aren't incompetent and end up getting them caught. Be prepared for the possibility that I have to go there myself to make sure they are kept in line. You know how it is."

Adam chuckled. "I sure do, Supreme Leader. I wish you good fortune."

"And I, you."

Kai swung his sword with practiced grace through a training android. His silver ebony sword cut through it like butter, and the droid was reduced to a crackling heap of metal and wires. After a week of classes, sparring sessions with his peers, and learning to live with three girls in a single dorm room, he thought himself getting softer. He needed to get in better shape, even better than what he was in now. He was sure to eat a high protein meal that day, having Orchid help him in figuring out what foods were which and what would be best for a growing young man such as he.

A bot tried sneaking up on him as he ripped his sword out of another mechanical victim, but his senses screamed at him that there was something behind him and with a swift twirl and flash of white light. The machine was cleaved in two through the side. The buzzer rang after that, and he sat down in the middle of the mess he had just created to catch his breath.

"I got one more machine than the last time, I did better." He said, pleased with himself as he rolled his neck and sore shoulders. He moaned as his bones creaked in a pleasurable way. His muscles were screaming at him to rest again, but he couldn't afford to when he still had so much room to grow. If his father got so strong that not even a maiden could stop him when he was at his best, than he had that potential as well. The thought of Ozpin's offer came to mind, but he snuffed it out as quickly as it came. After a stern talk with Vernal about what the headmaster suggested to him, she got just as mad as Raven would at him for even considering his proposal when he was already getting trained by them. As much as he would love to train even more, Ozpin could not be trusted and his body had limits. Limits that were fast approaching now that he thought more about it.

The first week passed by sooner than he was willing to admit. His classes were interesting as well, to say the least. Some of his professors certainly knew what they were doing, while he was suspicious that some of them did not know what they were doing. It was weird sometimes, but enlightening in others. That was what he guessed the life of a Huntsman might turn up as in his future. Though his future was darker and full of a lot more fighting than most. He put extra effort in his Combat Training class taught by Rick and Bricks aunt. She was good at what she did, always making him push himself in every class. He was set to spar a few times against Yang, some against Orchid, and once against Cardin. He won all of them, but the matches against Yang and Orchid were always hard fought since they knew how he fought and the way he moved. Not to mention that they know his semblance inside and out.

Then there was his teammates. Ruby and Orchid were easy to get along with for obvious reasons, and Blake wasn't at all bad either. He liked them all, they were his friends. He still didn't know why exactly he was made leader. But he was doing his best for the role. Though he imagined that the training he puts them through sometimes made them hate him at times. They always were quick to forgive, but he knew that they would never forget. Which was why he decided to give them all a break for their first weekend off of school.

"Still training?" His partner Blake asked as she strolled into the training room. At the sound of her voice his sensing became more abroad. He was able to sense the other people sharing the training room with him, some were standing still staring at him, while most went about their day and continued their daily workout. It was a weekend after all, and those who wanted more than a single sparring session and a few combat training classes were here where he was.

"Yeah, never a dull moment for me." Kai replied as he stood back up. His body was slick with sweat, and the hood on his shirt was heating up the middle section of his upper back and the rear side of his neck. He recently switched back to shorts as well since the weather was getting warmer and warmer by the day. He was also going barefoot again, the task of putting on those custom made socks that didn't muffle his senses became a memory lost within his one drawer. He only needed the one because he really only had one set of clothes, and one of Orchids personalities was a clean freak so that was a stroke of luck since she took it upon herself willingly to make sure the room is always clean along with the clothes ever since Ruby had the great idea to make bunk beds. Kai wasn't allowed to say no to that, and even Blake agreed with the idea much to his surprise. He figured that if they were going to do it, they were going to do it in a way that didn't made possible a death by a bed falling on top of them. After that, Ruby and Orchid gathered a decent amount of rocks, and Kai fixed them all up with a brand new set of bunk beds.

"I don't think I've ever seen someone train as much as you do," Blake commented, then looked around to all the destroyed droids. A flash of memories ran through her head. Flashes of a bright red sword, a black and white aura surrounding a prepared charged attack. An Atlesian spider tank destroyed in a single blow. To achieve such strength at such a young age… "Actually, one person does come to mind." She added as an afterthought as she dragged her eyes away from the wrecked machinery.

"I need to get stronger." Kai simple said as he stretched his arms and rolled his wrists to be rid of any built of pressure. He never let go of his sword throughout this, Silver Ebony shone in the light as he stretched his tired muscles. He was ready to go at it again, but not with his partner in the arena with him, he didn't want to risk getting her hurt by accident, it was one of the reasons he wasn't training with anyone this time. Port's lesson hit a little too close to him for his comfort. As much as his stories are boring, the lessons that he does teach are important to remember. "Did Ruby and Orchid send you to go get me?" He asked, the itching curiosity in the back of his head proved to be too much.

"Yes," Blake answered honestly, much to his amusement. "But they are both still watching, they just called me here and made me come get you. They want to go do something fun."

"Maybe another time," Kai said as he hopped in place twice, rejuvenated enough to give the training droids another go. "It's the weekend, and we still have tomorrow to hang out. Not to mention the next four years together."

Blake thought about her response as soon as Kai began speaking. He was overtraining, that much was obvious. She remembers the time when she asked Ruby why he does it so much, and her answer was that it was just how he was as a person. She joked that his daily schedule was Eat, sleep, train, and repeat over and over. Now that she has seen it go on for a week, she was keen to agree with that sentiment. However, this wasn't what she expected in her partner when she chose to go after him in initiation. From what she was told about him during her time in the Fang, he was supposed to be very kind and forthcoming to his friends, and would spend whatever time with them as he can and managed to fit training into that without prioritizing it over anything else. She supposed that people changed, some more quickly than others. But after the Mistral tournament, it seemed like Kai changed more for the worse than anything else.

She liked to think herself as an observant person, she wasn't very social herself. The only friends she had growing up being terrorists, after that she kept low until she was old enough to attend Beacon with false records about herself. She chose Kai because of that drive he had when she knew about him back then, and while she knew that he would stand against evil and do whatever he must to protect the ones he cares about. Her other two teammates expressed their fears that he may be slowly drifting away from them. And so promptly put it on her in order to convince him to hang out with them.

Since when did she become a middle woman again? No, she wouldn't get upset about it. If anything it amused her more than anything else. But if they really wanted to get his attention, she knew one way to go about it.

"If you really wanted to get stronger, why don't you train with your eye powers instead?"

Kai shushed her violently and nearly dropped his sword out of a panic. Luckily, there wasn't anyone else with as good hearing like they do, but even with the blindfold on Blake was able to see the brief moment of panic. "Don't talk about that in public." He snapped at her.

"Why not? It's not like you made it a secret when you used them the first time." Blake continued, keeping her voice casual and nonchalant.

"Blake…" He warned.

"How many people know besides ourselves?" She asked next, making sure to keep herself calm so that he did not sense any of her inner nervousness. She never broached this topic with him before, even though it was one of her biggest curiosities ever since she saw them activate before her two years ago. Ever since that night, she tried researching them, but all she was able to find out was an old tale about silver eyed warriors. It might not be a simple legend after all since there were clearly some of those silver eyed warriors still out and about, but other than that there was nothing else she was able to find out about them.

Kai grit his teeth and pointed his face away from hers. "Including us… I think eleven." He didn't know those who worked within Ozpin's inner circle. All he knows that he has told is his mother, Ruby, Yang, and Orchid. Those he knew also already knew was Blake, Ozpin, Qrow, Taiyang, Raven, Vernal. Including himself, that was a minimum of eleven people who knew of the silver eyed warriors existence. That's not even counting Salem, Cinder, and all of their allies. A lot more people knew about it than what he was comfortable with.

"Then it's not exactly a secret anymore, is it." Blake countered, and Kai could sense how triumphant she felt. Then to his dismay, she continued. "You're not training just because you want to be stronger, are you?"

"I think you've made your point." Kai said with a scowl as he slowly slid his sword back into his scabbard, and then went to work on his bracers to remove them. "Tell Ruby and Orchid that I'll be with them soon, I just have to clean myself-"

He was cut off as a bucket of water was splashed onto his back. Kai froze and began to shiver almost immediately as he felt one of the ice cubes slither in between his shirt and body. He focused on his senses, and noticed that someone he was standing above him on one of the stands holding a bucket in their hands. He slowly craned his neck up to make it look like he was looking the person who did it in the eyes.

"What?" Orchid wasn't even going to pretend that it wasn't her. "I successfully predicted that you were going to need a shower after you were done training, and so I used that foreknowledge and got you a bucket of water."

Kai sighed and flicked his hair with his hands to get rid of some of the water, before giving up and using his semblance so that he could manipulate the water off of his clothing and body. Along with all the sweat and most of the odor. As he threw the water into a corner of the arena, his body was much cleaner and didn't smell as bad as before. He was probably going to have to put some spray on or something, just in case Orchid doesn't try to force perfume on him again.

"Fair enough." He simply said as he made his way of the steps, where he was met by a once again excited Ruby as she immediately went on a tangent of what they could do for that day. Orchid quickly followed and acted like she didn't just dump water over his head, and it seemed like Kai was able to do the same without issue. Blake just assumed that he was just too tired to even bother getting mad about it.

When she caught up with them, making sure to step around the puddle of water mixed with sweat and whatever grime Kai got on him while he was fighting the droids where he was one standing. Only to be pulled slightly behind by Orchid before she could join Ruby and Kai.

"Great job teammate, I knew you could do it." Orchid said as she gave her a thankful look that frankly made Blake a little uncomfortable. She really didn't do much, all she did was appeal to his more logical side then emotional. Did she really have to give her such a grateful look?

"I didn't do much…"

"Nope," Orchid agreed, much to her minor shock. "But you did convince him to relax for a few hours, so thank you for achieving that."

Blake looked to her weirdly, she wasn't used to be thanked after doing anything. She just did what she was requested to do. "No problem…"

"Why did you want to go out so badly for anyway?" Kai asked as he and his team stepped out of the Bullhead and into Vale. It was two hours after noon, so they had plenty of time before Beacon's curfew kicked in and they were expected back in the building in their dorm rooms. But it was unlike Ruby to want to go out, Orchid even more so. Both were perfectly okay with staying inside playing video games with their other friends. He remembered that they tried to get him to play video games once, but not being able to see the screen proved to be quite the difficult task.

"'Cause." Ruby simply said with a shrug, her heart beated a million times a second. But that was how it usually was because of how fast she was capable of traveling. Sometimes it beated so fast at times that not even Kai could tell if it was beating at all.

"'Cause?" Kai rose an eyebrow. "That doesn't seem like a very good reason."

"Does she need to have one to want to go out with her team?" Orchid countered, and Kai found himself on the spot as he tried to recover from his mistake. "You were being a little sour-cock and buried yourself in training, we spent the week hanging out with other teams. We wanna hang out with you for once! Right Blake?"

"Huh?"

"See? Even Blake wants to chill with us. Shame on you."

"I don't believe that is at all what I said." Blake pointed out.

"Now she's in denial," Frantic Orchid said as she pressed her eyes into her forearm.

"I think I remember Blake spending most of the time reading inside the dorm." Kai said with an amused grin that grew even wider when Ruby asked what exactly she was reading all the time. She gave an answer that came out a little too quickly, but little naivé Ruby failed to notice the importance of. "But if you guys miss me so much, I guess I'll make it up to you by catching up with you all."

"Yes!" Ruby cheered as she threw a fist up in the air, not even embarrassed for doing so as her feet settled back down on the sidewalk. "For a second there I thought I was going to have to drag you out with us, Orchid and I really didn't want to go out alone when we have a team at Beacon now."

"I don't think anyone would have made fun of you for it." Kai pointed out.

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean that we wouldn't feel bad about it. We're a team, and we're stuck with each other for the next four years. I say we spend as much time together as we can."

Kai chuckled. Leave it to Ruby to make him wonder why he was selected as the leader of Team KRBR again. He thought about broaching the topic, but thought against it as he remembered the first time that he did so. Ruby wasn't at all accepting of the position even when he offered it to her. She thought that he would make a better leader, and that her whole co-leader schtick was a joke to begin with. Then she actually got a little bitter with him when he persisted, a bitterness that was rare to see from Ruby Rose. In the end, the leader position stayed with him, and he hasn't brought it up since. Doing so would break the pinky promise that he made with his fellow silver eyed warrior, and if that happened that ran the risk of Ruby crying. That was a fate worse than any wound he could have dealt unto him.

So he let his two longtime friends lead him on through the city. Taking him to shop by shop where they didn't buy anything. There was a moment where Orchid wanted to buy an actual flamingo that was for some reason on sale at the pet store, in a little bundle that had live shrimp in a little clear plastic baggie that would apparently feed said flamingo for days to come. Only to have to be literally dragged off by Ruby reminding her that they probably weren't allowed to keep a flamingo in their dorm room.

For some reason however, and not a reason he didn't find strange in the slightest, he felt like that wasn't going to be the first time he would ever hear of this apparent flamingo. The reason was simply: Nearly all of Orchid's personalities refer to her as the Flamingo Goddess, and what is a Flamingo Goddess without her flamingos? It was practically as easy as putting two and two together, and he wouldn't be surprised if his Signal partner used her thief personality to sneak the flamingo out of the pet store.

Hours past by, and he was honestly enjoying himself a decent bit. They stopped to grab dinner for the day, and he as the man of the team needed to pay for it (Naturally). Then after that, the night was quickly darkening over the city, and curfew was quickly catching up with them.

"We have to go back soon." Kai said for about the third time, and for the third time he mostly went ignored. Not even Blake seemed to care about his trying to pull a leader move and get the team back to the school before it was too late to return. "I may be blind, but I know when it's time to go to sleep."

"There's just one more place I want to bring you too." Ruby said, still leading him by the arm. Orchid had his other arm, so unless he forced it he wasn't getting out of the grip of two Huntresses in training. Of course, Blake wasn't of any help either.

"This last place must be really important if you're willing to get a detention over it."

"Just c'mon! We're almost there anyway!" Ruby snapped at him, though it sounded more adorable than intimidating as he allowed himself to be pulled along.

"It's okay Kaizy, trust me. You're going to love this last place." And trust her he did, Orchid was anything if not trustworthy. If one got her on her good side, they would find it very difficult to leave it.

Soon enough they finally made it to wherever Ruby and Orchid had planned for him. Since his arms were both occupied by the arms of two of his teammates who also couldn't use their arms since they currently had their arms locking his in a vice grip. Blake was the one who had to fumble with keys to find the right one to fit the lock to a building.

"Wait, why do you need a key to get in here?" Kai asked suspiciously. He trusted them that it wasn't anything crazy, but he wouldn't put it past a specific friend of his to go through all this just to prank him.

"You'll see~" Orchid sung in a saccharine voice. He swallowed nervously as the door was finally unlocked and opened. He could already sense a lot of people in the room that he was now being lead to. About eleven people in fact. That alone rose a few red flags in his mind, but it was too late as the final door was swung open and he was shoved into it.

Senses kicked into action and he reached for his sword, but stopped when a pair of tiny arms wrapped around him, and a burst of confetti was blasted into his forehead.

"Surprise!" His little sister shouted as she looked up at him with bright silver eyes.

He barely had time to process that his little sister was there with him before the same word was shouted about fifteen more times all at the same time. But at the sound of Maliennas giggles made him instinctively hug her back, even wrapping his tail around her to lift her up into his arms.

"What is all this?" He asked between laughs as his senses worked better for him to recognize that it was in fact his friends that he sensed earlier.

Another pair of much longer arms wrapped around him from the side, and everyone cooed as his mother planted a loud kiss on the top of his head. Not caring for the possibility of embarrassing him as usual. "Surprise son!" Marron exclaimed as she scratched his head. "As you can see, we were able to move in a little earlier than expected, and as celebration for you and your friends getting into Beacon, we decided to surprise you."

"Me specifically?" Kai stupidly muttered without greeting his mother first.

"Duh!" Ruby jumped up beside him. "Why do you think we were trying to get you to come out with us so badly?"

A wave of realization hit him at the same time Malienna reached up and tugged at his blindfold. "I've heard you've been grumpy Kai!" his sister exclaimed as he let her peel off the cloth and let it hang limply from his neck, as soon as her goal was achieved she craned her neck up and pressed her cheek against his adorably.

The flash of a scroll camera went off, and he didn't need eyes to see to know who it was.

"Oh my God, your little sister is so cute!" Yang exclaimed as she took three more in quick succession. "I absolutely need to print these out and hang it in my room."

"You will absolutely not do that to our walls." Weiss said, she sat in the corner with a silly pink party had she absolutely did not let Malienna put on her head. It looked very out of place, but she endured it with the patience of someone who was used to dealing with things like this.

"Weiss is here too?" Kai asked as he set Malienna down, but held onto her hand as she pushed hers into his. Compared to his calloused and rough palms, hers were so very soft and smooth. It was soothing to touch and immediately made him relax, the fact that his family was here, safe and happy along with friends he trusted. It felt good not to worry.

"Yes, since half of my own team was invited, they saw to it that we were invited as well." The heiress explained.

"Correct," Ren said if Kai remembered correctly, the leader of Brick and Yang's team. "And since I was invited, Nora wanted to come along, and since she came along…"

"I got dragged here too." Jaune said with a shrug. After a week of getting used to Nora, the fact that she had her hands on his shoulders wasn't enough to make him get embarrassed and blush anymore.

"And since I was invited as well I didn't want Pyrrha to be alone tonight." Rick said as he patted his taller partner on the shoulder. Then scowled as he remembered the unfair height difference.

"I'd also like to point out that I was dragged here by two of my teammates as well." Blake said, and went ignored.

"And imagine my surprise when double the amount of people I sent out invitations to came by for the party." Marron sighed, and her tail rolled along with her eyes as she remembered that surprise. She was so used to seeing the same friends of Kai for so long that seeing so many more at the same time was quite the eye widener. "I wasn't about to turn away my son's friends, so for tonight we are going to celebrate everyone's acceptance into Beacon." She gestured to the whole room. "So, here it is. Congratulations everyone!"

The party got started at that moment. Malienna stayed at his side the entire time, and hopped into his lap whenever he sat down. He hadn't seen her for a week, but to her it must have felt like months with the amount of attention she was demanding from him. With everyone talking at the same time, Kai wondered if anyone else living in the building was going to complain about how loud his friends were being. Eventually after having his fill for the night, he chose to sit down on one of the couches. Being careful so that his sword scabbard didn't press into the cushion, and eventually taking it off and leaving it to the side after Malienna complained a few times about the hilt of Silver Ebony poking her in the back.

Ruby and Orchid sat with him for a while, but eventually found a new target in Blake once they realized that Malienna wanted her big brother all to herself. Blake was less than enthused at first, but when Yang joined them she didn't have much in ways of escaping them.

Rick and Brick were having another one of their silly little competitions, though this time Nora was among them. There was a bet going on about who would win in an arm wrestle, Nora versus Rick and Brick at the same time. Kai didn't know Nora very well admittedly, but she was a Huntress in training and from what he heard about her she used a warhammer that turned into a grenade launcher whenever she wanted. He liked Brick and Rick…

THWACK

But neither of them were really known for their strength…

"Agh!" Rick cried in pain as he rolled his wrist and massaged his bicep.

"How are you so strong!?" Brick asked as he did the same to his own arm.

"Ha ha ha!" Nora laughed maniacally as she flexed her muscles in a bodybuilders pose. "It is because I am superior!"

"She drinks protein shakes every morning, and has a riveting training regime." Ren explained, ignorant of the expression of absolute horror and betrayal displayed on Nora's face as she looked at him.

"I unfortunately have a part in that as well." Jaune said with a shudder. Ever since Nora watched his first horrendous display in combat against his opponent Cardin. She has been waking him up every morning at six to train him in the best way she knew how. Beat him up until he learned, and make him lift until he was flat on his back exhausted. Every. Day. He wondered how people did this every day and didn't die.

"But look at you!" Nora exclaimed, forgetting her previous shock in an instant. She zoomed up to him as Brick and Rick recovered, and squeezed his bicep hard. "You're already getting stronger!" She squeezed even harder, earning a wince out of her leader. "By the end of the month, you'll be all big and strong like me!"

"At one point in my life, I might have agreed to that." Jaune said as he wormed his arm out of her grip.

"I don't think it would be wise to overwork our leader." Pyrrha said with a giggle. "I am all for getting him getting exercise, but he does need to have energy for staying awake in class."

Nora was suddenly on her in a second. "It sounds like Pyr Pyr wants to join in!"

"That isn't what I said-"

"Don't argue with her." Ren said, cutting her off. "Her mind is already made up."

"I…" Pyrrha sighed but didn't argue any further, seeing how purposeless it really was once she noticed Nora's grin grow to levels of ear to ear.

Kai chuckled as he listened to them. He stroked Maliennas hair softly and she leaned into him. She was tired, but she was staying up with him. She told him earlier that she wants to spend as much time with him as she can, because she doesn't know the next time she was going to be able to see him again. It was a shot straight to his heart, and he couldn't find it within himself to try and convince her that she needed her sleep since she was still a growing little girl. He missed her terribly as well, and he entertained her by bouncing a ball made of water in his hands, and letting her poke her finger into it and manipulating it in a way that left a hole right where she poked her finger through even when she pulled it out.

There were some of his more recent friends muttering silently to themselves at the sight of his face without the blindfold on. He only had it off because Malienna liked it better when she could see his eyes. She thought it was cool with the way his pupils were white, and how it blended well with his eyes. They didn't say anything negative about it, and he trusted that they weren't the kind of people that would spread the news about it even if someone asked them.

"Kai?" Malienna called out to him, leaning the back of her head up against his shoulder so that she could look up at him.

"What is it?" Kai asked without looking at her, he simply leaned his head back and relaxed.

"You're really strong, right?" Malienna asked.

"I've been told that, yes." Kai said with a chuckle as her tail found his and tightened around it.

"Can I be strong too?"

Everything else was zoned out as he snapped his eyes open. "W-what?" He asked, breath catching in his lungs as he shifted uncomfortably.

"Can I be strong too?" His little sister repeated herself. "Mommy tells me our Daddy was super duper strong, and he left protecting us. She also says you're super strong too, and you're going to be stronger than Daddy was one day. I want to be strong like you are too, I want to be able to do the things you do. Like that water trick!" Malienna gasped as the ball of water in Kai's hand suddenly became much more liquid than before, and splashed all over her legs and his lap.

His little sister wants to be strong… like him?

He remembered it like it happened the day before, the day Mistral was attacked and the friends that he lost because of it. Shae, dead, Cyan injured. His father, dead. Vernal nearly died. His mother and he nearly died. Enemies were made that day, too many enemies. He still remembers the way he felt his heart beat in his eyes, and the first two activations of his eyes that still give him headaches to this day. The life of a Hunter was dangerous. The life of a Hunter with silver eyes even more dangerous.

Too dangerous.

He didn't want her to go through the things he did. To have to deal with the burden of being the one. Ruby's mom used to be the one. His father used to be the one. Now he is the one. In some way, he knew he was going to die fighting one day. He was already attacked once, and had to be saved by one of his professors before he even began going there.

He felt incredible selfish for wanting to say no and shatter the dream before it could grow into something too late to try and stop. But did he really have the right to tell his sister what she can and cannot be? She will eventually become old enough to make her own choices, she wasn't going to be a little girl forever. He was five when he wanted to become a Huntsman, and his father was entirely supportive of it. Malienna is two now, and although she had a lot of energy, she was still a little girl, younger than he was when he started training himself.

Was this the choice his father had to make with him back then? What did his father think at the time, what would his father do now?

He knew the answer already.

With a ragged deep breath, Kai reached up with both hands and cupped her cheeks. Pressing his forehead against hers as he felt a unfamiliar burning sensation behind his eyes.

"No," He said with a soft shake of his head, and his heart dropped for a moment when he sensed Malienna feel sad. "You can become stronger."

A silver aura flowed over both of them.

"By my hand I empower thee, I charge thee to be strong, merciful, and to defend those who cannot defend themselves. I burden thee with cursed power, I warn you to use it wisely. Beginning today, I gift you the strength of aura."

For a moment, both of their eyes flashes as the aura surrounding their bodies shone brighter. All of his friends and mother watched on in shock and surprise as their eyes began to shine as well. For the first time, Kai was able to look upon his little sisters face, and smiled when she saw her eyes light up and get filled with energy she never knew she was capable of before.

He was a baby when he had his own aura unlocked, and besides. One day, her aura might end up saving her life.

As his vision dimmed down back to unending darkness, he leaned back into the sofa and fell asleep. His little sister had a lot of aura, just like he does.

"Um…" Orchid looked to Marron, back to Kai and a very excited Malienna as she looked at her flowing silver aura. The power flowed around her, and she had a goofy smile on her face as Ruby sped up to her and congratulated her for getting her aura unlocked, even if it was with Kai's help. "Is that normal? I don't think that's normal…"

"No," Marron frowned with conflicted feelings. "It is not."

WHELP, that was a thing. A few more important things happened this chapter. A lot more happened in fact than before. I felt like the last few chapters were a little boring, and so I decided to bring out some plans a little early… You'll see what I mean later on in the story.

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