I am back! And fresher than ever to write this story. You see, I had a small problem, I planned most of volumes 2, 3 and beyond but I didn't have a whole lot for Volume 1. So with this time off while I was writing An Unlikely Hero which is close to completion, I did some planning. What those plans are you ask? You'll just have to find out! I also drew myself a new profile pic with the help of my Beta. So that was cool.

Oblivious IJ: it certainly was a thing, and there are more things to come Just you wait.

Arctech: What's new? You probably know that by now, I've been cracking away at Unlikely Hero trying to get it finished, and now I am back here. Things happen, and now Kai makes a return.

Thank you both for the reviews!

Beta: CrowSkull

Now let us get back to the show!

The Blind Huntsman

Chapter 44- Volume 1, Episode 11

Trouble With Relatives

The surprise party went astoundingly well, Kai woke up with his little sister snuggled up in his arm with her tail wrapped around the limb. He sighed into her fragrant scented hair and looked around the room. He reminisced of the memory when all of his friends from Signal had a party before some of the tournament rounds, Vernal snuck them some drinks to enjoy and it all went downhill and uphill from there at the same time. He could sense some of his friends scattered about the place, some must have left during the night because there wasn't that many people in there anymore.

With a yawn, Kai pushed himself from the couch, carrying his sister in his arms. It didn't take long for everyone else to start to stir. From what he could sense, it looked like the only ones that were still there were Ruby, Yang, and Orchid. Everyone else either left early, or woke up before him and left before waking anyone up. He did remember something his mother said that the door was open for anyone to leave at anytime. Kai didn't find himself surprised in the slightest to see how most of his friends took that option, not many of them knew his mother, and some were at best associates of his from school, and Blake wasn't exactly what he would call `sociable` after being her partner for a week already. He didn't need Seismic sensing to figure that out.

"Man, that was fun night." Orchid commented as she stretched her back with her hands and arms above her head. "Can we do this every semester."

"As much as I'd like to, I don't have the kind of money that is required to feed all you Hunters in training." Marron said with a snicker. "Maybe when you all graduate I'll throw another party for you all."

"Yaaay." Orchid and Ruby cheered, and then both yawned at the same time, earning a giggle out of each other. "I'm going to go back to Beacon, maybe find Blake along the way. Wanna come with?" Orchid asked him.

"Sure, why not." Kai said as he slowly set his little sister back down on the sofa, being careful not to do anything too sudden that would wake her up. Thankfully, he managed it almost perfectly, save for her yearning for his body heat once he parted from her grasp. The hardest part was getting her tail untangled from around his arm.

"Actually, I want to have a talk with my son before I let him disappear for another month." Marron interjected, she spoke in such a way that didn't leave any room for argument. Kai found himself wondering if he had done anything wrong in the past six months, standing as still as a statue as he felt his mothers eyes glaring holes in the back of his head.

"Whelp, someone's in trouble." Yang said in a cough as she turned to the other two girls. "So uh, wanna go back to Beacon and be anywhere else but here?"

"Yup!" Ruby and Orchid answered as they all slipped right out of the door, making sure it was closed right as the last person left, and locked somehow from the outside when none of them had a key to lock it in the first place. Kai would figure that out later, right now he was more focused on the faunus mother of two outcross children who was glaring at him the entire time he turned around to face her. He was thankful he tied his headband back on, or else she would see the uncertain look he had in his eyes doubtlessly.

"You wanted to speak?" Kai asked stupidly. He wanted to change the topic, but he could sense that feeling within his mother that told him that she wasn't in the mood for anything else then what was already on her mind. So he decided to face his fate head on, no matter the consequences.

"You unlocked your sisters aura." His mother began, and Kai instantly realized where this conversation was going to be directed. His demeanor darkened slightly and he internally sighed. This was a talk his father used to joke with him about, a talk he had to have with her every time he pushed his son a little too much in training.

"I did." Kai nodded his head, there was no use even attempting to lie about it, everyone saw him do it with his own two hands.

"Why?" She asked next, voice flat and cold, barely concealed anger all but obvious with the way she carried herself the moment they were alone save for the little girl still napping on the sofa.

Kai shrugged his shoulders. "Her aura will protect her passively, and she has a lot of it. It was to protect her just in case something bad happened and I am not here to protect you two."

"That isn't the only reason, and we both know that Kai." Marron accused, a hint of anger showing through her voice with a slightly more raspy and scratchy tone. "Your sister is two years old, in case you've forgotten. She isn't going to know how to use her aura right off the bat, and she doesn't have a teacher like you did."

"I was five years old when Dad unlocked my aura, it was actually the day I told him that I wanted to be a Huntsman." Kai pointed out.

"Yes, but your father isn't here to train your little sister now, is he?" She knew it was a low blow, and even she felt hurt by the mention of Malikai's death. But Kai was the kind of person who would not back down unless straight facts are presented to him in a way that even he could see where his error was. "You had a teacher ever since that day, someone to show you exactly how aura works, and how to fight with it and defend yourself with it. Malienna doesn't have that, and I am not good enough myself to teach her."

"Have Qrow teach her then." Kai said, his voice was weak.

"Qrow goes on missions, and he can hardly train even me with the time he does have to spare." Marron said. "And in all honesty, when it comes to aura he isn't very good at teaching anything useful besides the basics. He trains me physically."

"You can still train her," Kai argued. "She may be two, but she has a lot of aura, the same aura that I have. She's young, but she's my sister and she has silver eyes. Everything will come naturally to her, I know it will."

"That isn't the point!" Marron snapped, raising her voice at him in a rare moment of unrestrained anger. Kai didn't back down, but even being as strong as he was now, hearing his mother's voice scream at him in such a way made him wince and feel guilty instantly. "Your sister is two Kai, two! She is too young to have aura, and she is too young for anything that you do. Let us not forget the eyes that you two also share."

Kai's shoulders sagged, and his eyebrows arched sadly as he thought about his own race.

"You two have silver eyes, which make you targets. Especially if you become Huntsman, it's too late and I won't disrespect you by trying to make you quit now. But I will not allow my daughter to risk herself like you are."

Kai's face scrunched up in anger. "Who are you to make decisions for her?"

"Her Mother!" Marron snapped, Kai didn't even flinch this time. He expected her voice to get loud, and he continued to stand up against her.

"If Malienna wants to become a Huntress, that's her choice. You can't force her to be something she doesn't want to be, and I won't let you refuse her the training she is going to need." At the malicious tone Kai had in his voice, Marron recoiled back in shock. "You think that she is going to safe just because she is young now? It's not only her eyes that Sal- Cinder is after her for, but she's also related to me. Both of you are. We're Matsuoka's, Malikai's kin. No matter how peaceful a life you wish to live you will always have a target on her back."

"K-Kai…" Marron stammered, and tried to find the words to fire back with.

"No, you need to hear this. I've accepted it already, but it seems that you haven't. I was proud when I learned that you started training with Qrow, and getting better with your semblance. You're going to need it, and when Malienna is old enough, she is going to need it too." Kai continued. "If the day comes where Cinder and the people that work with her stop coming after us, then I will gladly let you two live as peacefully as you want. But with the way things are now, especially that we know that Cinder and the White Fang are in Vale, you can't afford to take things easy."

"K-Kai…?" A different voice stammered, Kai eyes went wide as he heard a sob sound off from behind him, and then his senses kicked in again. His little sister woke up during their argument, and by the sound of it, she heard a lot more than he was prepared to tell her all in one go, especially with how early in her life it still was.

"Malienna…" Kai called out to her as he kneeled down to one knee, turned around already and forgetting the intense battle of words he was just having with his mother. "I… how much did you hear?"

"I-I have a t-target on my back?" Malienna stammered, and Kai's heart dropped as he sensed something fall down her face.

"N-no-" Kai cursed at himself mentally. "I mean…" He sighed exasperatedly, wondering how it even got this bad in the first place. "It's complicated, but right now we need to be careful, yes."

"Why?" She asked next, Kai went to hold her, but she squirmed in place. He stopped himself and his heart dropped even further.

"You and your brother have something special," Marron started, and Kai was grateful for her also forgetting their argument in favour of making Malienna feel better. "You two have very special eyes, and evil people don't like that. They want to steal them from him… and you."

Malienna raised a hand to trace the area around her eyes, she rubbed her tears off of her face and let out a choked gasp. "Is that why Kai trains all the time?" She asked. "Is that why he is going to a school now? To train even more so he can fight them?" Yes, but Kai didn't want to admit that to her. "Is that why you train with Uncle Qrow every time he comes by, Mommy?"

Marron placed a hand on her shoulder, and then another on Kai's back. He was hanging his head, ashamed that he let the secret slip in such an embarrassing way. His sister shouldn't know this yet, she was young, and she had a childhood to live as innocently as any other. It felt like she was losing her innocence finding out about all of this.

"Yes." Marron nodded her head sorrowfully. "But it's all for a good reason, we don't fight because we want to, we do it because we have to."

Kai hummed in agreement, a lie in itself. He fights for vengeance, to get back at those who attacked Mistral, injured his friends, and killed his father. His main goal in life was to kill Cinder and all those who worked with her, and his second main goal was to deal with the White Fang whenever he could. Though it seemed he would be able to do both at the same time considering the last time he ran into Cinder.

"Do… Do I have to fight too?"

"No!" Both Kai and Marron hissed at the same time, causing the young girl to gasp in shock and shrivel backward into the couch. "I mean," Marron cooled herself down, and rubbed the hand she had on Kai's back in a circle as a silent sign of gratefulness that despite their argument, he shared her thoughts on Malienna fighting dangerous people. "Not yet anyway, it's… your choice on what you want to do." She said with a quiet sigh, Kai noticed the way she took his words from earlier to heart, but made no notion to comment on it. "Right now though, just keep doing what you're doing, and we'll handle the rest."

"Really?" Malienna asked, hopeful and innocent and with a bright smile that betrayed the way her cheeks were stained with tears and the whites of her eyes red.

"Malienna," Kai grabbed her attention, his tail reaching up over his shoulder and pinching her chin so that she was looking at her. He aimed his face toward hers, expression cut from stone and determined. He'd like to think that he was staring her in the eyes, but most likely that wasn't the case. "I promise you, as long as we live and breathe, you won't be hurt. I'll make sure they don't get to you, whatever it takes."

Malienna, being just two years old, didn't understand the implications of what he meant. She lunged forward and hugged her older brother, giggling happily when he caught her and lifted her up. Her cheerfulness returning in an instant. It was a close call, but they were able to tiptoe around the very real threat that they would be facing everyday.

Marron was old enough to understand the implications of what he meant, and knew very well that her son would go through with any promise he makes if it meant keeping his family and friends alive. She noticed the change instantly, after what happened in Mistral her son grew more wary of strangers, and always carried his weapon with him. He trained even more roughly, and his not-so-secret training sessions with Raven was becoming more and more frequent. Over the two years, Kai has made no new friends. Sure, he talked to some of the other students, and he wasn't openly hostile toward strangers. But she noticed the subtle movement of his head anytime he heard a new voice, or sensed a presence he hasn't sensed before. Training against live Grimm to train with his eyes was the last straw for her, and luckily he wasn't as rebellious as he was now.

Which was another thing she was concerned about. Kai wasn't the kind of boy to shout and talk back to his mother. He had his moments of anger before, but nothing to the extent where he was borderline screaming at her. Her son changed, she realized, and for the worst. He was physically stronger, but she felt like he was getting more and more mentally unstable because of this hatred he has for the White Fang and the woman who killed his father, her husband. She wanted oh so desperately to help him, but it seemed like he listened to his own judgement, and without a doubt Vernal and Raven's `council` more than anyone else's.

Now he was in Beacon. With the same friends, and others who became his friend mostly out of association than out of a desire for new companions. She was worried about her son, she didn't know how to help him. How could she? Not every seventeen year old boy who was a part of a near extinct warrior race being forced to live with a constant target on his back, who also had the headmaster of Beacon trying to get him to become the new Malikai or Summer Rose and also had the likes of Raven and her pet maiden whispering into his ear as well. In the matter of two years, parenting became a hundred times harder for the middle aged faunus woman.

Now it seemed like the only times he felt truly safe and could let his guard down was when he was with his family. Ever since she was born Malienna was always able to break down his walls, begging for his attention. Literally sometimes. She was now the only one who didn't make him flinch when she reached up and grabbed his blindfold to take it off. Even she wasn't able to do that now, nor his friends. The color of his eyes were no longer a secret to anyone after he used them twice at Mistral, so she wondered why he even still wore the blindfold. No, she did know why. It used to be Malikai's, and it was his way of remembering.

"I'm going to go head back to Beacon." Kai said as he put Malienna back down, wrestling with her using his tail as he patted himself down to make sure he still had everything. "Unless you want to talk some more?" The venom in his voice wasn't very well hidden, but Marron only found that amusing. At this point, her previous anger was all but forgotten.

"No, you can go. Just make sure you visit us sometimes eh? We're going to be living in Vale now, so you have no excuses not to come by every once in a while." Marron said with a smile.

To her relief, Kai smiled back at her. "Yeah, I sure will." He said as he had to pry Malienna off of his tail so that he can make his way toward the exit. "Give me a call if anything, okay?"

"That's my line." Marron countered. "But I will, if anything."

"Thanks, goodbye for now then."

"Bye bye Kai!" Malienna said as she waved at him, she was too young to understand the concept of what a blind person was, and no one was going to correct her for it.

"You're distracted."

The voice of his teacher was harsh, as was her counter strike which made him feel like a rib in his chest was broken. Their training area was scorched with black flames, turned up by rocks and stone, and splashes of water were everywhere. Even with all four elements at his disposal, Raven still to this day seemed like a wall he could never climb. He has never been able to eke out a win against her, and only once against Vernal out of a complete stroke of luck. She refused to speak to him for weeks after that, but came around again when Raven forced her through her portal in the middle of him having dinner with Orchid and Ruby. Despite being the Spring Maiden, Vernal was always susceptible to making mistakes when she grew cocky. The complete opposite of Raven. When she got mad, she only got stronger and faster. More focused too. If he didn't have aura, he would have scars all over from her ruthless training.

"That's because I am distracted." Kai said through grit teeth. "Ozpin is after me, he wants me to be his next silver eyed slave. Cinder and her people is in Vale, where my family is, the White Fang are here, and I also have a team to lead for some goddamn reason." He didn't curse often, but around Raven, there was no reason to censor yourself.

"All of those are things you must triumph then." Raven said as she kicked him so that he was rolled onto his back. "Now get up, we still have an three more sets to get through. You want to get strong, you only get a minute to bitch and whine while on your back at a time."

Kai muffled a curse in his mouth as he used Silver Ebony to help himself back up to his feet. He couldn't use his semblance anymore, not unless he wanted to drain the rest of his aura and piss off Raven. With her portals and speed and ability to turn into a bird, all of which take much less aura than his semblance does. She didn't even have to tank his attacks head on, or dodge them with any extreme amount of effort for that matter. Even when he tried to predict her movements and catch her off guard he was never able to do any more than graze her. She kept saying that people won't fight fair in the real world, and he knew that. Oh did he know that already. But this was just absurd.

His sword flashed white, and while stepping forward he slashed at her. Raven sidestepped the initial shockwave and then leaned back to avoid the physical light attack to which he now refers to it as. He sensed her on one foot and dashed toward her with a grunt. As he expected, metal clashed against metal and he felt sparks fly up against his sweat covered face. After that, it went the same way it usually does. Raven lets him go on the offensive, and she either blocks, dodges, or counters each and every one of them and she punished him harshly with every mistake he makes. Thankfully, Kai pushed himself a little harder this time, and when he threw an attack he knew was going to be parried, he lowered himself to the floor and felt his hair get moved by the displaced air that was forced out of the way for Raven's sword to get through.

With no time to even register the fact that he just made Raven whiff and attack, he lunged forward and grabbed one of her legs, lifted it up to his shoulder, and then moved his other leg behind the only one keeping her up and drove his body forward. He chanted a preemptive whoop of excitement in his mind as he felt both of their bodies falling through the air. Which quickly turned to despair and pain as his face was shoved into the ground with a blade tickling the back of his neck.

"Better," Raven said. "But you failed to take into account my abilities, and stamina. You were tired, and low on aura. While I wasn't."

"Not everyone i the world can make portals and turn into a bird." Kai pointed out with a sigh.

"No," Raven easily agreed, much to his agitation. "But you will learn to be faster if you don't want to be reversed like this again." She removed the blade from behind his neck, and pulled him up by his tail. A move that sent an uncomfortable shiver up his entire spine, and made him yelp as he instinctively pulled his tail back and wrapped it around his waist when he landed on his feet.

"You have a minute, talk." Raven said next, leaning on one of the walls Kai raised earlier to try and block one of her attacks. Her blade easily sliced through it like butter, and now it was half of a wall. It was also her way of telling him to speak about what was on his mind.

"I'm stressed out, I'm sorry I am letting it get to me in our training sessions, especially since you don't have that much time to work with me that much anymore." Kai started, and when Raven didn't make any sign of replying, he continued. "I… I don't know what to do. Ozpin is still pining after me, his motions have become more aggressive recently. Miss Goodwitch, the combat class professor, keeps putting me up against Pyrrha, Yang, or against more than one person at a time. Meanwhile I'm worried about my family living in Vale, and Cinder…" He clenched his fists. "You know about her. Honestly one of the least stressful things in my life at the moment is Orchid sneaking an actual flamingo into our dorm room, and refuses to get rid of it even after it shat on Blakes bed."

That got a small reaction out of Raven, which made Kai smile invisibly in secret amusement. "So, what do I do about this?"

"It seems like you have too many problems going on at the same time." Raven started right away, stepping off of the wall and walking toward him, only stopping when she was directly next to him. "Get ready, we will continue this conversation as we speak."

Kai did as she told, and readied Silver Ebony for another round. She initiated this time, and Kai barely sensed her attack in time to block it with his sword. But at the same time, a knee was driven into his stomach, driving the air away from his lungs. Next was a kick that sent him flying backwards in a twirl. She was using more force than what he was used too.

"You have too many problems to fix, and you should fix them before they come at you all at once." Raven said as she stomped over, picked him up by his shirt, and stood him up. "If the problems pile up, they may become too much for you." She said as she clashed swords with him again. A flow of blood was steadily coming out of his mouth, not even his aura was able to fully protect him from her powerful kick. "You will be overwhelmed." Kai choked on air as Raven jabbed him in the neck, and then he clumsily and weakly blocked the next attack that came right after. It wasn't even her sword this time, but her spiked forearm guard that sparked against Silver Ebony as she grinded it deeper into his guard.

"Just like you are now." Raven said as she pushed even harder, Kai struggled to push back. His throat hurt with every breath he took in, and his mouth was leaking blood. He bit his own tongue by accident, and nearly bit it again when she pushed ever harder into his body. "What you must learn, is to deal with this problems before they becomes issues."

"Rargh!" Kai roared, and Silver Ebony glowed white. Raven widened her eyes and was forced to block the physical light as it exploded out of the sword. Her muscles burned and her eyes were forced closed by instinct, but she was still able to parry Kai's next attack, and this time his sword flew out of his grip.

"What do I do!?" Kai screamed as he threw a fist at her instead, heedless of his own disarmament.

Raven caught his fist with the flat of her hand, she grabbed his fist, and twisted it until Kai grimaced. "I just told you what to do." She said as she pushed him away. He staggered back a few steps, and then fell on his butt, exhausted. "Deal with it before it overwhelms you."

Kai didn't even react as Raven slid her sword back into its sheath. Her heart was beating a little faster this time, and she was breathing a little harder than how she normally would any other day of training. But she was nowhere near his level of exhaustion. He managed to catch her off guard a little bit with his light attack, but that little in the ways of damage. He did flinch with surprise however when she kneeled in front of him and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"You are strong, Little Kai." She said, calling him by the nickname she has become fond of calling him by. "Use that strength, and be rid of your problems. Starting with the one easiest to start with."

Kai's eyes went wide underneath his blindfold. "The White Fang…"

"Yes," Raven said, satisfied with his quick realization. "Ozpin won't stop pining after you as long as you have those silver eyes, and he won't stop once he finds out that you are going after the White Fang. Your mother and sibling will always be in danger as long as the White Fang are occupying Vale, and with Cinder controlling them… they won't be safe."

"You're already a target for them, and they already have targets on their back. I say become so big a target that they won't even be able to afford looking anywhere else as long as you breathe."

"Where would I even start?" Kai asked, raising his head.

Raven smiled. "I think we both know the answer to that question Little Kai…"

Kai manipulated the water out of his hair after taking a hot shower. The rest of his training session with Raven went on move more smoothly, and his aura managed to get his bleeding, internal or otherwise, under control. She became much less aggressive after their conversation, and he learned a valuable lesson.

The White Fang are the biggest problem right now. They were being controlled by Vale, and were terrifying it's human inhabitants, and if the rumours were true, even some faunus as well. Just the other day some book keeper named Tuckson was nearly sliced completely in half by a blade just for leaving the White Fang. His eyes were already opened to the harsh reality, but Raven set him on a path he found out he needed to take if he wanted peace in the world. She even promised him that she would help if he needed her, or send Vernal in her place just in case things got too ugly. All he needed to do, was find them.

"Enjoy your shower Kaizy?" Orchid asked him as he stepped out of the bathroom. "I know I did~" She added as she stroked the head of the flamingo she totally did not steal from a pet store. The pink bird chirped at him as he walked by her bed.

"It was definitely something to enjoy." He said absentmindedly as he made his way to the other side of the room, Orchid quickly distracted herself by hand feeding the flamingo slices of carrot.

He could sense Ruby face down at her desk sleeping, she has been hard at studying ever since her friendly-and-totally-not-competitive-rivalry challenged her to catch up on two years worth of content in just weeks so she could pass that semester with an average above an eighty. They had the rest of the day off after their last class with Professor Port, and she spent the time studying hard in their as well. She was probably at it for over twelve hours before she finally passed out.

Smirking at the thought of that, Kai caught up to Blake. Who sat on the top bunk on their side of the room. He stood up on his lower bed, and rested his head on his arms with his head pointed toward Blake.

"Hello." He greeted her as if this wasn't something he would not do usually.

"Hi…" Blake greeted back, setting down her book on her lap as she looked to him with a curious look on her face. "Do you need something?" She asked after a few moments of silence.

"Yes," Kai said after another few moments of silence, in which Blake spent wondering what was going to come out of his mouth next. "I'm just wondering how to ask it of you…"

Blake's eyes narrowed, but they softened once she remembered that he couldn't see them. Even after a few weeks being partnered with him, she still hasn't gotten used to the fact that he cannot see and understand body language.

"Can I speak to you in private?" Kai asked suddenly.

Blake wondered what the serious look on his face meant, he wasn't one to try to speak to anyone in private. Not unless it was something very important… she sighed and closed her book with a snap, and thanked herself for keeping most of her clothes on that she wore throughout the day. It would have been awkward having to get dressed in front of her leader, even if he was blind.

"Okay." Blake said as she climbed off her bed.

Kai told Orchid that they were going to be back in a few minutes, and the eccentric girl simply hummed in acknowledgement and waved them off with one hand and pat her pet flamingo on the beak. The thing croaked at them as well, strangely enough, the flamingo sounded like a chicken most of the time. Which made her wonder sometimes if it was just a chicken painted or dyed to look like a flamingo, but she dashed that wonder as quickly as it came, no chickens had beaks that large or legs that long.

"What did you want to speak to me about?" Blake asked once they left their dorm room, and walked a few doors down until Kai stopped and leaned against a wall with his arms crossed.

"I want to know if you've been keeping tabs on the White Fang," Kai blurted out. Right away he sensed Blake put up her defenses. Her body perspicated micro orbs of sweat, and her breathing became a touch more ragged and labored. Not out of any physical stress, but because of the way her heart beated harder inside of her chest, and was only beating faster as he turned to look at her. That was how he knew that if she said anything other than the truth, he'd know.

"What makes you think that I have been keeping tabs on them?" Blake hissed, showing more emotion than Kai has ever experienced from her before.

"Because I know." Kai said honestly. "If you weren't hiding something, you wouldn't be so stressed out right now.

"H-how-"

"I can sense it," Kai quickly explained, and patted his foot against the floor a few times to emphasize his point. "Your heart is beating loudly, and I can literally smell the nervous sweat your body is creating without you even knowing about it." To Blake's dismay, when she rubbed her arms against her sides she did feel a bit of moisture in between them. "So there's no use in lying either, because I'll know if you do."

"What would you do if I did lie, then?" Blake challenged, crossing her arms at him.

Kai shrugged his shoulders. "Then I'll find out some other way, it's not like I am going to threaten you in any way. I'm not a monster." He pointed out. Did he have to look so bored as he said that? Like he expected this kind of reaction from her. Blake was never able to get a bead on him, and it made her uncomfortable knowing how much power he really had, and not only at a combat standpoint. "I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to go to one of the Dust stores they're going to rob, stop them, and convince one of them to tell me where their other bases are."

"Torture, you mean." Blake countered.

"Torture, interrogate, convince. Whatever you want to call it, I'll probably get myself to do it." Kai said, his demeanor hardened and darkened for a moment and there was clear hesitation in the way he said it. But for some reason Blake wasn't thinking for a moment that he would get himself to do it if it meant getting something he needed.

"Yes… I have been keeping tabs on them. But not for the reasons you may think." Blake hesitantly said, being careful with each word she allowed to leave the compounds of her mouth and lips.

"Trust me, if I thought you were going to go back to them a conversation is not what we'd be having."

"The point remains, why do you need the information I have?" Blake asked. She was slightly more calm now, but still suspicious of him. If he didn't have a good reason that wasn't vengeance than she wasn't going to tell him anything, and if he went out on his own she would alert the headmaster. For some reason, he wasn't fond of the headmaster, but she knew that if it came down to it the headmaster would most certainly make sure that he wouldn't risk himself for anything stupid, personally if he had to. Kai may hate her for it, but it would keep him alive and out of Adam's hands. She knew what he did to race traitors, and Kai was in a category all in himself, an outcross, a hybrid, he was despised by the White Fang for the very thing he represents. The possibility of faunus kind and humanity to live together peacefully and coexist. Years ago, the White Fang might have been overjoyed for his existence, but sadly those times are no longer the present.

"My family is in Vale." Kai said angrily, and Blake only now just noticed that his hands were clenched into fists at his sides. He was literally shaking with anger. "My little two year old sister, and my mother. They have their auras unlocked, and my mom has some training, but we both know that wouldn't be enough against the people we both know can be sent after them. Myself and my whole family have targets on their backs, and it's only a matter of time until Cinder sets someone after them." He calmed himself down with a sigh, and raised his head to make it look like he was looking at her. "We both know that Cinder is controlling the White Fang by force, if I can't do something that will at the very least slow them down, who will? The police are useless, and there's nowhere near the amount of Huntsman in Vale that is needed to take care of them."

"You're just one person… a Hunter in training." Blake said softly, he had good reasons. Virtuous reasons even. It was better than most reasons she has heard for faunus joining the White Fang.

"Then it'll be one more person standing against them." Kai replied. "They're after me as well, let's not forget. After what I did to her, Cinder might focus on me more if I am becoming a problem."

"And if we, Team KRBR, also get targeted?" Blake asked. "What happens then? You slow them down, but wouldn't they start coming after us because we're your teammates?"

"You already are targets for them." Kai said, stunning Blake into silence. "Anyone I am associated with can and will become targets for Cinder to focus on, as long as it hurts me in some way. It's why I haven't made any new friends since that day…" His voice trailed off brokenly, but he snuffed down any more signs of sorrow, and sighed heavily.

"If you don't want to tell me, it's fine. I've just been thinking that it's time to fix my problems before they overwhelm me all at once. I figured I'd start with the Fang."

"I'll tell you…" Blake said before he could make any motion to walk away back to their room, he stopped and tilted his head toward her. "But only if you don't go at them alone."

Kai humphed. "You want to come with me, you mean."

"Not just me," Blake shook her head. "The team, our team. I won't tell you otherwise, because if I tell you what I know, and you go alone and got yourself taken or killed? I'd never be able to forgive myself. It's either with us, or not at all." She made sure to leave out the part that she would tell the headmaster if he went alone, but luckily she told enough truths for him to not becomes suspicious of her.

"Together then." Kai said with a smile, a relieved one. "Thank you, Blake."

"Don't thank me, please." Blake hissed. "I already don't like this, going after them again. They're dangerous Kai, what I know isn't going to be easy to process."

"I figured that… but still, thank you." He nodded his head. "Let's get back, we'll tell the others about it later on this week when we don't have to worry about classes."

"Okay." Blake said, and the two of them walked together in silence back to their dorm room. Completely ignorant of the dorm room across from them just barely cracked open, a set of purple eyes watching them the whole time, and someone who heard their entire conversation.

"Shit." Yang cursed to herself as she shut the door. Right as Kai entered his room, he turned subtly toward her, sensing her at the last moment. But luckily he didn't think anything of it, and continued shutting the door.

That bastard, he's really going to go after them. Yang thought to herself, she didn't doubt it for a second that he was going to go through with it. Her own team was asleep at this time, and she didn't want to bother them about this just yet. Weiss would make a scene about it, Brick might too, and Ren would tell a teacher. Honestly, they were lucky that it was her who overheard about it. Or eavesdrop, she didn't care for the difference.

Ruby was on his team, so if they really all agreed to it, Ruby was going to go with them. The thought of her little sister fighting against fanatics who wouldn't hesitate to kill her on a whim terrified her.

One thing was for sure, they weren't about to go without her having to say anything about it. That was for sure. If she pushed, they'd probably let her come along if she really went hard at it, and she even knew the reasons to why Kai wanted to do this as well. She also had an immediate thought in her mind about who might have convinced him to do something so stupid like this.

Her hand traced over the figure of her scroll, Ruby sent her a message the other day. Telling her that Raven visited Kai again. Trained him in secret. The thought of her estranged mother still training Kai in secret made her grit her teeth, but it wasn't his fault that Raven took a liking to him, even if she was jealous to no end that her mother was more focused on someone else's kid than her own. So it wasn't hard to put two and two together. She sent a message to Uncle Qrow, telling him all about what he heard. He would have words with the woman who birthed her, and as much as he might have hated her, and her him, they were still brother and sister.

Once the message was sent, she leaned back into her bed and sighed. She knew something like this was going to happen eventually, but so soon?

She was going to need to have a word with Kai pretty soon.

Aaaannnd there we go. Another chapter down in the history books of Blind Huntsman. Things are picking up a bit, I noticed that the last few chapters didn't have a whole lot in the grand scheme of things in terms of plot progression. So I came up with a new little arc here. You guys will see what I mean.

Something I feel like I should point out here, Blake in this fanfiction is much different than the Blake from cannon. Maybe I shouldn't say much but she is not the same Blake we all know and hate/love. So keep that in mind.

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