The Book

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A/N: So, um. Sorry for not uploading a lot. It's just that I'm kinda getting sleep-derived with school and all. I've also been playing the new God of War. It's crazy fun, playing as Kratos with an axe. An Ice Axe even. Anyway, thanks to the same guys again. HighLordLoli Quezan TheDeadMeta1 and all of you guys reading and not commenting! I really should watch Rwby vol 2... Anyway... The story's not really coming out with the same drive I had when first writing it but it's still fun. Just not really sure what to do with BNHA...
"BNHA SUPPORT! Come on author! What about me!? Probability is fucking good okay!? Also Rwby belongs to Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum. Also OCs belong to themselves."
I've kinda been focusing on the cultivation story for a while now. Think it should be good.

"So.... Ozpin... what was that?"
"What was what?"
"My... other semblance..."
"Ah, that. Well, I didn't want you to realize it too quickly, I wanted you to appreciate effort and out of the box thinking. So, I only gave you a hint."
"You knew, since I came here. I bet you took my contact lenses too!"
"Heheh... To be honest I kind of forgot about your contact lenses... I think I gave them to Glynda."
"K thanks bye!" I run out and go down only to find that I could literally just wait for my class with Ms Goodwitch... What do I do now? Today's a free day for us students... Now... what's on my and my parent's bucket list. I combined the two bucket lists into one. Let's see... "Wingman someone into a marriage...almost." Hēisè and Nila... you better survive... Next!
"Make an ice palace fit for a king and queen... mom had great ambitions." I kinda want to do this now. Next!
"OH MY SHIT WHAT IS THIS?" I...I tapped on a link to a site... and it brought me to some.... erotic shit. Well, not that erotic, but more of a blurring the lines between normal fanservice and straight up you need some censorship for that. The kind of things Blake reads... I should probably explain...
~Flashback~
"Yo, Blake can I borrow Bleach? I have never finished it."
"Sure, sure..."
"Is that... I won't question your taste in books... keep to yourself...  treat me as if I was never here..."
~Flashback End~
And then I closed the door trying to erase my mind of the shit Blake's been reading. One time I snuck into the room, to return the book, and saw what she was reading. It was night time, but I could see it. She had a light on after all. Anyway, the book was called Ninjas of Love. Really lame title, but it could be good. Anyway...
...... Ninjas of Love is on here? Wait... this is a shopping site. It's a site for buying borderline erotica books... and Ninjas of Love is pretty up there on the rankings...How did it get up there anyway? Was it because the people who like near erotica also loved this book? Because from what little I saw Blake was reading, it wasn't borderline erotica. What. Wait...
"Ninjas of Love written by... Belaren Einz...." Bela plus Fararen, cutting out Bern equals that... is Ninjas of Love written by mom??? Wait...
"Bucket List Number 69... Write Ninjas of Love for as long as I can... if I can't, somehow convince my child to do it. My child, if you are reading this, please continue Ninjas of Love... I have a lot of notes on this scroll. Also if you're a bad writer, hand it off to someone you trust with the series." I remember something... mom didn't have a scroll did she? She always used dad's scroll... W-well... the fans are probably saddened that the book suddenly stopped 7 years ago... I guess I could? Maybe that means I can touch cat ears! Yes! I'll write it!
"Notes on NoL... Plot plans..." There's a lot on here... Maybe I could take today off to practice my writing skills and study the previous volumes to understand mom's style. Then mimic her style and tell the reader about her death... I got it! I can ask Blake for the books! Wait... wouldn't that mean she would think I'm a creep for reading that? No... that would be hypocritical of her. Well... either that or mom has copies in the scroll... I would. Let's see......... nothing? Mom really doesn't have anything in dad's scroll? That means I just have to copy it from Blake's books. I'm pretty sure she has the full set as I see her with a different one every 2 days. Yes, I count the books... Well here goes... I walk back to the dorm and walk right in front of Team RWBY's room.
"Knock knock, it's me... Vanilla." I knock the door as I actually say knock.
"Come in."
"That's nice of you..." Everybody is out except for Blake. It seems that she wanted to read her books instead of going out. If I remember... Phoenix and Jaune are here, training, while Makoto and Mile are going on a date... I'm here, because I had nothing else to do.
"Blake... I'm going to be serious here."
"What is it?" She tilts her head in confusion. To be fair, I would do that too.
"I... want to borrow the first volume of Ninjas of Love." Blake looks at me for 5 seconds.
"No." Why though?
"But why?"
"Support the author." Support the author? She's dead! The only support would be given to me. So if I pay for it online, then the shipping fee will take up my money and I would lose money.
"... Blake... I can get you the signature of the author's son." It's not as good as mom's signature but close enough right?
"... The author's signature." She's literally dead. I can't get it. Wait... Fimbulvetr. It had mom's signature on it. On the hilt, on one side. It's almost always blocked by my hand when I hold it. Oddly convenient.
"...I can't get you it... but I have the author's signature on my sword." Blake looks at me in surprise and starts scrutinizing Fimbulvetr.
"... If it really is... Deal."
"Believe me, it's real." I pull out Fimbulvetr and show Blake the hilt. My mom's signature on the front. My own personal signature on the back.
"...It really is... how did you get it? I heard no one was able to contact the author for 7 years..."
"That's because I got it 7 years ago."
"How? How did you find her or him? No one had her location. The only way to get her or his signature is online... Unless you sent over your sword and she or he signed it and then she or he sent it back..." Shit.
"Y-yeah... that's what happened..." Totally nothing wrong with this...
"You were 10, 7 years ago. And yet, you got her or his signature. And somehow you managed to get his or her address?" She tricked me...
"Er, uh... can I just borrow it now?"
"No, answer my question, how did you get the signature?"
"Um..... my friend is the son of the author..." Blake looks at me, unconvinced.
"...No, really."
"....."
"Okay okay I am the author's son. Fimbulvetr is my mom's weapon so she put her signature on it."
"...Why did she stop?" I guess now is the time.
".....Mom's dead."
"I'm sorry for your loss... If you don't mind me asking...how?"
"... She was killed... it was... the White Fang..." I turn to her face...melancholic... Blake looks surprised as if she heard something she never wanted to hear... Why? She wanted to know why the author of the book she's reading is dead... She knows now...
"I...need to leave." Blake runs out of the dorm room. I can hear her...I should probably chase after her, shouldn't I?"
"Blake wait!" I run out of the door too and run after her. Blake... why did she run? Is it because of the White Fang? Is she afraid of them? Is she afraid she'll be targeted too for being my friend? I never knew this would happen....
"Blake! Blake where are you?" I shout as I run outside of the dorm. Blake seems to have disappeared. Where is she? She ran off somewhere... She's probably not going out of Beacon. If she did, then... that would be a problem. I'll search around the school first.
"Hmm... Blake Belladonna, search for her." Absolute Territory expands around the school. About...5% aura? Let's see... I feel...she's somewhere around here? Hmm... Beacon Cliff... so Absolute Territory can sense people... I should head to Beacon Cliff now...
"Hey, Blake don't jump!" I shout as I walk there.
"..." Blake is looking off the cliff, into the forest. I don't think she's going to jump. But hey maybe.
"... I'm sorry..." Is she actually going to jump? Shit!
"Blake wait!" I shout as I run towards her catching her hand with my ice...I don't think she was actually going to jump off. I overreacted. Fuck. I immediately unfreeze her hand.
"...Why?"
"Because you're my friend!"
"I'm a cat faunus. I always land on my feet... I'll survive the fall anyway..."
"But, why? Why did you jump?" Why? Is this because of... me?
"... I don't deserve your friendship..."
"Why? Why the hell do you think that? Just, just... are you daft?!"
"..." Blake looks down towards the ground.
"Blake, tell me... why? Is it because the White Fang targeted my parents? Are you afraid you're going to be targeted next? If then..."
"No. That isn't it. It's just..."
"It's just?" At that moment I realize something... Blake was part of the White Fang. Ozpin told me. Blake... are you afraid of me hating you?
"..."
"Tell me Blake. You can trust me. I know I may not be a faunus but I will keep your secret to the grave. I will not hate you for any secret you have." I stare at her eyes with mine. She looks away.
"... I... I was part of the White Fang... you could say I was born into it. Back then, the White Fang was a group of peaceful activists who wanted the faunus to only be treated equally. I saw them as a family, I believed we were making a difference... But then the White Fang changed... we started terrorizing the humans, and the worst part was that it worked. They didn't treat us better because they saw us as equals... they treated us better because they feared us. Realizing that, I left... now do you get it? You lost your family to my foster family! That gives me no right to be friends with you!" Blake...
"Of course you deserve to be my friend! You didn't participate in the murder did you? You didn't kill my parents did you? You didn't tell your foster family to kill my family did you? You were unrelated!" I say to her face. She looks as if I gave her a guilt-trip.
"But that doesn't change the fact that I believed in them! I believed it was the right thing to do!"
"You don't know that. You didn't know that some members of your foster killed my family! Besides I killed them all back! It's me who doesn't deserve to be your friend!" I said it. I made the Snowfield, therefore I froze the people. There were so many people there too...
"....."
"I-I'm sorry...I"
"...No. I don't deserve to be your friend. You killed some members of my foster family but those same members killed your entire family! I could live with the other people while you had no one!" I stare at her eyes for some time. I can't think of what to do. Can we just stop?
"Blake. Look, can we just... accept this? You had nothing to do with the attack, but, I killed them all. You didn't have anyone you loved in there right?"
"No... everybody I loved either left or are still in the White Fang. I don't think they died anywhere."
"So... I'm fine with you being my friend Blake. You may have had a relationship to the White Fang but now, you don't."
"I still don't think I deserve it... but if you want... I can be friends..."
"Blake... Come on, let's leave." I walk back to the dorms with Blake in hand. At least that long part of the day was over... I don't have a grudge against the White Fang it's just the leader and the person that killed my mom. My dad was killed by someone else, but that person was caught up in the making of the Snowfield.
"... So you wanted to borrow Volume 1?" She suddenly says to me as we walk back there.
"...Yes."
"If you don't mind me asking... why?" Shit. For research?
"I saw you reading it, so I thought that it should be good if you read it."
"Somehow, I don't think that's it..."
"Just let me borrow okay?" We finally reach Team Rwby's dorm room. Blake goes to rummage around some books until she pulls one out and hands it to me.
"Ninjas of Love... by Belaren Einz." I read the chapter names, but they don't sound too cheesy, it's not erotic at all... I should read the rest...
"Blake, would you mind if I read it here?"
"...No..." Blake lays on her bed, probably thinking about our previous conversation.
"Thanks." I say as I start reading the book...
~ Timeskip due to book-reading~
"...That makes absolutely no sense."
"No, it does, you have to remember that in the flashback, there is one sentence and I quote,' Frost realized that this wasn't an infiltration, it was a test.' Literally only one sentence that hinted towards that."
"Ah, I see. But that still doesn't make sense why Frost didn't kill them."
"He didn't kill them because he saw the clan's fighting style from the guard and I quote,' The style felt familiar.' End quote." Only one sentence... Mom alludes to important things with only a sentence...
"I see I see.... WAIT WHAT!" HOLY SHIT THAT'S MESSED UP!
"Yeah, the author does that sometimes." SOMETIMES? THAT MEANS MOM DOES IT MORE?
"That is so messed up in so many different ways... I thought NoL was a cringy teen romance story."
"Yeah... it does have ninjas on the cover after all." It does... What did I get myself into... Maybe I'll give up and hand the task of to someone else... Now who's this guy...
"HEY THAT'S LITERALLY JUST ME!"
"Who?"
"The ice child named Tundra. That drawing is literally me." It's a drawing of me floating in front of the main protagonist Frost.
"Really?"
"Yeah, look." Blake comes over and I show her the drawing of me. I forgot to mention that the bed I'm reading on is also part of a bunk bed, it also has a sheet covering it. Since it's so similar to mine, I decided to use it.
"You were pretty cute."
"Thank you. I'm glad someone found child me cute."
"Why don't we read it together? That way, we don't need to talk from the other side of the room." Sounds good.
"Yeah, let's do it. But where? Up here?"
"It is a little stuffy in there... Let's do it on my bed." Blake jumps off and goes to her bed, I follow her onto it. I feel like I'm cornering a cat. I start reading the book again and I think Blake is also reading it again... on my back. Is she a cat or something? Wait, something is wrong with the previous sentence... I read it for a while...
"That doesn't-"
"It does. Remember the time Frost accepted the mission? He said,' So...there's a side objective too. I don't need to do it, so I won't.'"
"But he did it anyway!"
"He said," Interesting...'."
"OH COME ON IS EVERYTHING FROST DOES BASED OFF A SINGLE SENTENCE?"
"Yes."
"That's absurd... I don't think I can continue this story..."
"You were planning to continue it?"
"Yeah...  but it looks like I have to give up... I don't think I can copy mom's writing style. The fans will probably hate me for trying to continue it..."
"... You're right. It's best to leave Ninjas of Love as it is..."
"Where did it end anyway?"
"Frost was confronting his family on who Tundra and Tundra's sister, Lotus, was. Many fans have come up with theories on what would happen in the next volume, but I believe that Tundra and Lotus are actually Frost and his sister, Lily from the past." What. Wait... if Tundra is based off of me...  then is Frost based off of me too? But his semblance was Glyphs, the same as his... dad...
"... I think Frost is also based off of me." But he had...red eyes... the same as his dad...
"Then is Lily or Lotus also based off of your sister?"
"Not that I know of... I don't think I had a sister." At least I don't think so.
"What if you did?"
"... Then she's probably dead. Or living with someone else..." If I had a sister... I hope she's fine. I probably don't so meh.
"...I'm-"
"No need for that. You've said that at least... 2 times?"
"Counting this one, yes it's 2 times."
"Anyway... so what makes that theory plausible?"
"... The reason why I believe that is..."
~Timeskip due to me not being able to bullshit up a reason why Blake believes that Frost and baby Frost are one person and how she found out~
"That makes a lot of sense actually..."
"Doesn't it?"
"Yeah... let's just continue reading-"
"Hey Blake we're back!" I hear someone say as I jump away. From Blake's bed that is. It could be dangerous getting caught in an incriminating position with Blake. Luckily, Blake realized this and got off me and is currently pretending to read the book we were reading.
"Van, what are you doing here? Were you here spending time with Blake? Aaw~" Yang.
"N-no. No. I wanted to borrow her book, but she didn't let me."
"Then why are you on the floor?"
"I...  was begging." Weiss come up behind Yang.
"Vanilla... don't try to lie with us..." Why is Weiss talking like that?
"I-I'm not." Weiss looks unconvinced. Ruby comes out behind her.
"Van! You were reading a book with Blake weren't you?" Ruby noooo....
"...I was."
"I knew it! Here Van, have a cookie for being truthful!" Ruby hands me a cookie. I take it and look at it. I guess I should eat it.
"So what were you reading together? Was it... a book about love?"
"It has to be. Blake only reads Ninjas of Love." Weiss you betrayed me.
"Ah ha! So you are dating Blake!"
"...You really think so?" She's just doing this to tease Blake and I.
"...No."
"Exactly... it's as if I do this." I hug Yang firmly... and then I realize my mistake when she hugged back. She... is way too strong. Fuck.
"Thanks Van... you mean a lot to me too~" Y-Yang...
"Y-Yang.... uh, thanks? But please..."
"Aaw~ Thanks Van, I love you too..." L-love? Y-Yang... This this is too much... I-I can't handle this...
"Uuuhhhhh........"
"Yang, let him go! Van's choking!" T-too much... for... me... Defeated...  by... you?
"Yang! Look what you did! You made Vanilla faint!"
"Van!"
"We need to take him to the infirmary!"
~Timeskip due to faint~
"AWAKEN, MY LEADER!" Fuck. Mile's back from his date with Makoto already.
"I'm awake shithead."
"Finally... I thought you were dead. Would've been funny if you died from Yang's hug. She was really worried about you too. Hehe... you almost died from a heater..."
"Yang's not a heater."
"You haven't fought her huh? You'll see..." See what? Eh whatever...
"Now...  We should get back..." It's night time? IT'S ALREADY NIGHT?
"Cool down. Let's go sleep. You can get back at Yang later."
"You're right... wait sleep?"
"Yeah... it's 11 right now." Mile and I run back to our dorm as fast as possible. I notice that time was stopped...
"How does Makoto know how to time these anyway?"
"She just has a knack for predicting when to stop time I guess. Also, did you plan for the Vytal Tournament yet?"
"Yeah... same strat we used in the tournament before the initiation."
"Each time? That'll take a lot of aura to do that. Are you sure about this?"
"Yeah, Makoto can speed up our aura regen, so it's fine."
"I guess... but I feel it would be too boring and unfair..."
"True, let's put it to vote tomorrow."
"Sure. Just know it's probably going to be another option." Mile's right, Phoenix would probably vote for a different method and if Mile votes on a different method then Makoto will do the same as Mile.
"Then I'll think of another strategy." What options do I have? It would be really helpful if I just know our opponent's semblance...
"Cool. Now, let's get to sleep Van." Mile opens up the door and we walk in. Makoto is sleeping, but it seems she's tumbling about, like she has a nightmare. Phoenix is completely calm however.
"Makoto..." Mile says as he climbs in bed with her. He was already wearing his pajamas when he was at the infirmary. I didn't have time to change so I'll just sleep in these clothes. Makoto seems to have calmed down when Mile came onto the bed. Heh... she must really love him... I grin at them and climb onto my bed. I wonder if I could sense semblances with Absolute Territory... Yep. Yes I can. I can base off my strategy on this. Nice... Welp... to sleep.
Third Person Pov
"I thought we had an agreement?"
"I changed my mind. Besides, he would be too surprised to focus on training his skills."
"I guess so..."
"I think I'll introduce you in the second semester or after you meet him outside of school. Sound good?"
"Yes... I can finally see him..."
"You're sounding a bit crazy there, but I guess it's fine. I've admitted more crazy students than you."
"Doofpin..."
"Oh, this is going to be so good... I can't wait to see that look on his face..."

You can probably guess who the last person is. Sorry, but it's just something I decided. Seemes kinda stupid now. Whatever. Comment here for another girl.

So... I've been lazy. Sorry guys for being selfish. I really should keep writing huh. It's fun, just that it's sometimes pretty boring not writing what I want. Stuff like exposition. So yeah. Sorry. Comment and whatever if you want. The 2 people who are reading this. Not a lot of people are reading the later chapters... Maybe I should change my style?

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