"So, who are you hoping to get partnered with today?" Haru was asked by Pyrrha as he finished pulling on his top and strapping his weapon to his waist on its magnetic holder. It was morning, and the two of them had already gotten dressed, as had Yang and Ruby but their lockers were in the 500s while Pyrrha and Haru had lockers that were in the 600s when it came to location number. Haru had 690 and Pyrrha had 679, how these numbers were decided Haru didn't know or care.
"YOU!"
Haru and Pyrrha turned their heads when they both saw a girl walking towards them, an angry look on her face.
It was Weiss Schnee.
"Hello!" Pyrrha said cheerfully. She really was a natural morning person.
"Pyrrha Nikos... good morning to you. Can I talk to YOU alone though?" Weiss asked with a look towards Haru.
"I have a name you know, it's Haru... Haru Rose." Haru said to her, and she blinked, before she started to rub her eyes just to make sure she was seeing what she was seeing. She looked at his strange dual colored hair, before she went to his Red and Black dress scheme. Then she looked at the pipe that he had on his lips, before her eyes went to his face. She hadn't gotten his name before, nor had she cared to pay attention... she was just angry that he had accidently blown her up.
She palmed her forehead.
"You're Haru Rose, the very same Haru Rose that tied with Pyrrha four years in a row... hailed in Mistral as the only person to ever stand on par with Pyrrha. I forgive you for what happened yesterday, and I hope we can be friends." Weiss soon corrected her attitude as she put a bright smile on her face. She extended her hand towards him, while Haru was slightly put off by the way she suddenly changed attitudes towards him.
"... Yeah... sure." Haru said unsurely as he took her hand.
"Likewise, your Weiss Schnee... I am surprised you chose to come to Beacon and not Haven. That is much closer to where you are from." Pyrrha said, bringing herself into the conversation.
"Oh yes, I figured a change of area would be more beneficial for me in the long run. It helps that Beacon has produced more fine Huntsmen and Huntresses than any other secondary training school." Weiss said off the top of her head.
"I'm more surprised you would come to a school that didn't exclude Faunu." Haru said with a frown on his face.
"I don't hate Faunus as a race, I just don't trust them. Surely you can understand that, as a Schnee I have less reason to trust them." Weiss spoke with more heat than before. Pyrrha placed her hand on Haru's shoulder, before she squeezed it tightly.
"Sorry, he is a very firm, and very open supporter of Faunus Rights. Haru is a nice guy, but he doesn't like seeing people get treated badly for being different." Pyrrha apologized to Weiss for Haru's sake. Not that he had planned on apologizing anyway, he didn't like a family that used such dirty means of spreading mistrust against a species that had done nothing to earn that dislike.
"Yeah... whatever." Haru said as he opened his locker up again and started to look around in it for a vial of dust. Haru pulled out the vial, before he clicked the switch on his pipe and inserted the top of the vial into it. The bar on the side of his pipe started to glow as it was being filled up, and when the vial went down to halfway his pipe was completely refilled. Haru placed the vial back into the locker.
"So, do you two have teammates picked out yet? I hear that teams are groups of 4." Weiss said with a message hidden in her tone.
"I was hoping that Haru and I would get onto a team." Pyrrha answered with a smile on her face.
"I just want to be with my twin, I don't care who else is on the same team. I can work with anyone." Haru answered absentmindedly, not really seeing the point of this. Knowing his luck, he would end up on a strange team... Well with his luck he would also end up on his sister's team.
"Oh, so you have a twin. Is your twin as talented and well known as you?" Weiss asked with a glint in her eye.
"She blew you up after I did yesterday." Haru told Weiss, with Pyrrha blinking. Weiss' face suddenly seemed to crack and go back to annoyance when she realized that she had met his twin before... and the meeting had not been a pleasant one.
"Udder Satisfaction."
"Goddamnit Yang!" Haru shouted when he heard the sound of his sister approaching. Both Pyrrha and Weiss were startled by his random shout, then again, they didn't know that this was his conditioned response towards when people made bad puns.
"Found him!" Ruby called out as she rushed towards Haru, an excited look on her face.
"I knew making a pun would do that." Yang said as she walked onto the scene with a grin on her face. She had known that whenever she made a pun, Haru's first reaction would be the same every time he heard it. To find Haru, all you had to do was make a bad pun.
"Hello again." Pyrrha greeted the two siblings of her friend, a smile on her face.
"I hope we end up teaming together, Haru." Ruby said to him, already fully dressed and ready to go get her partner... who she dearly hoped was her brother.
"Me too." Haru told her as he started to rub her head. Haru closed his locker, before he and Ruby started to walk off from the group. Yang wrapped her arms around their shoulders, and she walked along with them, leaving Pyrrha and Weiss behind. Weiss seemed to have mixed emotions on being ignored, while Pyrrha seemed to take it all in stride and laugh off what had just happened.
"Are you all ready for whatever they have testing us today?" Yang asked with a sly grin on her face, and Haru was put on alert.
"I swear Yang, if you make a sh—" Haru started, before Yang opened her mouth and cut him off.
"because I am ready to start this test off with a Yang." Yang said, and Haru gave her a hard look and covered his face with his hand.
"God. Dammnit. Yang." Haru sighed out with clear annoyance in his tone. Ruby chuckled for a moment as she punched Yang in the ribs. Yang rubbed her side with her ever present grin growing in size. She was just happy at the moment, she had a great night of sleep without a single nightmare. She had woken up well rested, of course Haru had a locker in a separate area, but it was still really close. Now she was going to spend some good quality time with her siblings before she found out who her partner was going to be.
Of course, she would be making sure she got one or both of her siblings... but that was besides the point.
"Oh, you know you love my puns." Yang said as she ruffled her siblings' hair.
"Like a sugar-free sugar cookie." Ruby deadpanned at her, while Haru got out of his sister's grip.
"Like ramen without miso." Haru told Yang with a twitching eyebrow. Yang dramatically let go of them and held her heart with an expression of false pain on her face. Yang didn't watch where she was going though, and she ended up knocking a tall blond boy into one of the open lockers. Yang turned around in shock, with her elbow hitting the keypad in front of the locker. Four numbers were punched in at the same time, before blue flames came out of the sides of the locker and the roof above them opened up above only that locker. The locker started to fly through the air quickly, and a high pitched male scream of terror was clearly heard.
Then the rocket powered locker was out of the building.
"Coooooome oooooooooon!"
"I think you just committed murder." Haru said as he watched the locker go through the window. It just continued to fly further and further away from the school... before he landed in the distance at the cliff that they were supposed to be heading towards. Haru and Ruby looked at Yang for her mistake, while she looked around.
"Nobody saw me do that... right?" Yang asked with an unsure look.
"You just pushed Vomit-boy into a locker, and then it turned on... and he went flying. I think he has severe air sickness, so he might have thrown up." Ruby said with dull eyes filled with... nothing. She had no real emotion about what just happened, just that it was extremely funny. It was so funny that she couldn't even laugh, it was like her body had reached the limit of what it could laugh at.
"He puked on my shoes... okay, this is fine with me." Yang said with her grin back in place.
He puked on her, so this was the universe's way of getting back at him.
"I'm surprised that you know him." Haru said with a look towards Ruby. They all continued their path towards the cliffs they were going to be getting tested at.
"He is a nice guy, a bit strange... but Jaune is that guy that was wearing the blue full body pajama set with the bunny on it... and the bunny slippers." Ruby explained, with Yang shivering in slight disgust. That was not sexy, there was no man that could make that look sexy, or if there was she hadn't met him. She wasn't sure that even Haru could pull that weird pajama set off, it was just so... childish that there was nothing sexy about it. A girl might be able to pull it off, and that was only if it was redesigned to actually have sex appeal.
"Bunny slippers... I should t—" Haru started, before Yang slapped him upside the head.
"No. You aren't getting any fuzzy slippers... ever." Yang denied him before he could even finish what he was saying.
This wasn't an overprotective thing, this was just her not wanting her brother to make a fool of himself.
"Maybe I should get some fuzzy slippers?" Ruby questioned to herself. Haru looked at Yang, who looked back at him.
"You aren't going to slap her?" Haru asked, and Ruby laughed nervously and backed away from Yang. Yang quickly slapped Ruby in the back of the head, before Ruby playfully punched Yang in the face. Haru stepped back when the two girls were suddenly enveloped in a cloud of dust with fists randomly coming out. Haru watched the fighting dust cloud moving over towards a girl that was wrapping a black bandage around her arm.
Blake Belladonna.
He felt that he should warn her that she was about to—
"Wha-OW!?" Blake shouted when she was punched in the back of the head, and then sucked into the comical catfight. Haru was more surprised when an orange haired girl with bright green eyes rushed towards the fighting. She was wearing a strange top with a heart cut out in the front, and a pink skirt. She jumped right into the fighting, and the cloud seemed to only grow larger with the inclusion of the completely random person. Haru's jaw dropped when even Pyrrha and Weiss were absorbed into the cloud when they tried to pass by it without getting involved.
"Sorry about Nora. She is a bit... Nora." A calm voice said from next to Haru, who blinked.
"Sasuke?" Haru asked when he looked at the boy who was the source of the voice. The male was a teen about 17 with medium length black hair with a single pink strip in his bangs. He had bright pink eyes, and was more angular in the face. He wore a green tunic with looser, more combat oriented pants.
"What? No, my name isn't Sasuke... I'm Lie Ren. The orange haired girl is Nora Valkyrie... she is a bit... hyper." Ren said as he introduced himself.
"Ah sorry. You looked like my old friend, but yeah sure. I'm Haru Rose, my sisters Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao Long are the core of that catfight." Haru said as he shook Ren's hand.
"Haru Rose... aren't you the once in a lifetime prodigy that tied with Pyrrha Nikos in 4 tournaments?" Ren asked with a raised eyebrow.
"That is a different Haru Rose." Haru lied, not wanting his chance at a single normal male friend to be ruined because of his reputation. Ren clearly didn't believe him, but he didn't comment on it. They both jumped to the side when the dust cloud started to move towards them, and were unlucky for a few other first year and even some second year students that got in the way... Haru smiled, before he reached into the dust cloud.
*Squish*
"Who just grabbed my breast!?"
Haru took his hands out of the dust cloud and soon it started to break up with the girls looking around for the source of the hand that groped her. Haru looked at the girls, and saw that the only one covering her chest was Yang. Suddenly Haru didn't really care, before he whapped his sisters on the back of their heads.
"Come on you two, let's go find partners." Haru said as he started to walk away, with both Ruby and Yang following him.
He was looking forward to this.