Chapter 32: Time with the princess
It's been a few days since the encounter with the racist prick, and things are going swell. Blake and Sienna have been training together more often.
Ilia has been teaching me about stealth, and James himself has given us permission to use the training are whenever we need to improve our abilities.
I was currently doing sit ups in the dorm room, sweat dripped from my body, but soon evaporated before it could touch the ground.
I was with Blake at the time, who was busy reading a book. An appropriate book for her to read, not those books mom showed us.
"Aiko, someone's calling you." She said while holding my scroll, not removing her eyes from her book.
"Who is it?" I asked her, Blake took a moment to glance away, her fingers began to crumple the paper inside the book, but she passed me my scroll.
"It's that Schnee girl you flirted with." She said with a pout and returned to reading her book. Seeing her act like this, I could tell she disliked Weiss.
"Alright, thank you." I then gently took my scroll from her hand and began to wipe my brow with a towel.
"Hello Weiss, how can I help you?" I heard a small yelp and whispers of two people, finally, I was able to hear her clearly.
"I-I wanted to ask if you have time to accompany me outside, if that is fine with you?" I looked at Blake, who only shook her head.
"Sure, I have nothing planned for today." I heard a small cheer from her end, but she soon coughed and spoke once again.
"T-then I'll send someone to pick you up. G-goodbye." As soon as she hung up, Blake snapped her book shut and soon enveloped me in a hug.
"Why did you say yes? You know it's dangerous." She said, but before I could say anything, both Sienna and Ailia returned from training.
"What's this about going out?" Sienna asked with a frown, Ilia also looked annoyed at what she heard but kept silent.
"Weiss invited Aiko to a day out, she's trying to steal him from us." Blake said with a pout, the three of us looked at her in confusion at what she said.
I soon turned to the book she was reading, and was suspicious, the cover showed that it was a fantasy novel.
I grabbed the book with one of my tails and took a quick look. Seeing what I was doing, Blake tried to stop me, but I had anticipated this, I wrapped her with the rest of my tails to prevent her from stopping me.
"Aiko, it's just a fantasy bo- mmm-mmm!" She tried to shout, but my tail soon covered her mouth, the seconds I grabbed it, I saw that the cover was fake.
"Blake, if I see one of those romance books, I'm going to burn it." I told her, once I removed the cover, it was something I wasn't expecting.
In my tail, it was a book about mechashift weapons, I was surprised since it wasn't the book I thought it was, but I shrugged it off.
"Well, I guess that's a good thing to read about." I sighed and released her, happy that she isn't reading any romance books.
"I'll be taking a shower then." I then grabbed a clean towel and began to make my way to the bathroom.
Once I was out of sight, Blake returned to the bed and pulled out another book. This time it was the romance book she was hiding.
"You really don't want him to find that, don't you?" Blake only blushed and shook her head, squeezing the book tightly in her arms.
"I just... I just don't want to be forgotten; I've been with him most of my life." She buried her head in between her arms.
"I want him to see me more as a defenseless sister." She said, she then looked at the two of them with a fire in her eye.
"I want to do the same for him, I want to stand by him, I want to step out of his shadow." Both of them looked at Blake with a proud smile on their face and sat next to her.
"Alright then kid, when we get back, we're working you down to the bone. Got it?" Blake nodded her head and clenched her fist tight, raising it in front of her.
"You got it." The shower soon finished, and I soon came out with the towel wrapped around my waist.
Blake then hid the book before I saw it, and soon returned to reading the book from before.
"What'd I miss?" The girls all smiled at one another, but soon began to surround me, forcing me to wear clothes.
"Just some girl talk, now let's get you ready for that get together with the Schnee." Sienna said, and the girls grinned at what they did.
I wanted to escape from the torture but I gave up, since I had no sense in clothing for todays outing.
After a few hours of preparing, I was ready to go out. I was forced to wear a black double breasted vest, with a white dress shirt underneath.
My pants were white as well, with black shoes with a fox desgine running along the side. As I was being guided out of the academy, I saw Elm and Harriet waiting for us.
"Hey you four, glad to see you all." Elm said with a bright smile, as soon as she saw me, she widened her eyes and scooped me up in her arms.
"How cute! Oh look at you, going for a special little meeting!" She coed and began to tease me.
"Elm, stop it, we have a job to do." Hearing this, Elm just pouted and placed me back in the floor.
"Fine, just try to not ruin the moment." The two of them then made their way to the entrance, leaving me and the girls alone.
"Aiko, let's go over the list one more time." Sienna said and pulled out a list.
"Dust?" I pulled out three dust canisters, one lighting, one ice, and the last one wind.
"Weapon?" I pulled out the weapon I was gifted, which squirmed in my hands for a few seconds.
"Knife?" I pulled out a knife that was underneath my suit, and another knife under my sleeve.
"Good, now go, don't do anything stupid." I nodded my head and began to change my appearance before Weiss arrived.
Once changed, Blake gave me one last hug, but not before placing something on me. I wanted to ask what she did, but looking in her eyes, I could see that she pleaded me not to ask.
I smiled and gently rubbed her ear, causing her to close her eyes and lean close to my hand.
"I'll see you girls later, take care." I waved and began to catch up with Elm and Harriet.
Once arriving at the entrance at the academy, I saw a limo waiting for us, the window soon rolled down, showing Weiss smiling.
I smiled when I saw her and began to walk towards the vehicle. When arriving, the driver was next to the door and he opened it.
However, I felt something was wrong when looking at him. His eyes showed greed and arrogance, but I didn't say anything and entered.
Both Harriet and Elm soon entered with us, sitting on the other side. The air was awkward for all of us, since I was having trouble in making a conversation.
"So, how have you been, Weiss?" Weiss turned towards me, muttering that she is fine.
The atimosphere became awkward again, but Weiss decided to speak after a few minutes later.
"Aiko, do you… do you dislike my family?" I wasn't surprised she would ask me that, but I didn't expect her to ask me that soon.
"Are you the reason why the Schnee family looks bad?" Hearing my question, she shook her head.
"Is your mother the reason why your family looks bad?" She shook her head once again.
"Did your sister, or your brother do anything for me to hate your family?" She shook her head.
"What about your father, did he give me a reason to hate your family?" I asked her, she bit her lips, but slowly nodded her head.
"Wrong. I do not dislike your family because of your father." Weiss was confused on what I meant but I began to answer her question.
"Your family hasn't done anything wrong to make you all look bad, it is your father who I dislike the most." I elaborated.
"Your father is the one who tainted the Schnee name, he is the one who makes you all look bad, he is the one who ruined your happiness." I said, Weiss could only look at the floor and clench her fist.
They shook with such intensity, I could feel her hatred radiating off of her. But as quickly as it came, it left just as fast.
"Your right, it's his fault. He didnt show any care to any of us. He even said it himself on my birthday." She said with a whimper, seeing this, I made my way closer to her and hugged her.
Weiss was slow at first, but she soon hugged me back, sobbing quietly. I began to hum a song for her to relax to, since it's what I used to hum for Blake.
After a few more minutes, Weiss was able to calm down. Her eyes were puffy, and tear streaks ran down her face.
"T-thank you, sorry for ruining your suit." She said, I only waved off her apology and pulled out a handkerchief.
"It's fine, it's best to let out the emotions." I said to her while dabbing the tear streaks, Elm just giggled at our interaction, while Harriet just scoffed
We've spent the next few minutes chatting about random things, ranging from books, weapons, and type of styles we are choosing.
"So you chose to use a rapier?" She nodded her head at my question and looked outside.
"I want to use the same weapon as my sister, that's why I'll be asking her to teach me." She said with a smile.
"What about you? What weapon will you use?" I tilted my head to the side, thinking about her question.
"I'll be using ten, ten weapons." I smiled, this caused the three of them to look at me in shock.
"Are you sure? That seems impossible." Weiss said with concern, but I just smiled and rubbed her head.
"It's fine, I can do it." Hearing my answer, Weiss wanted to convince me to change my mind, but seeing my smile, she didn't bother to try.
As things died down, I began to yawn at how long the ride was. I wanted to ask Weiss at how long the ride was going to last, but I saw her falling asleep.
I then turned towards Harriet and Elm, but the two of them were also asleep. I knew what was happening, I tried to break the glass but it was reinforced.
I didn't bother call my family since I can't rely on their power, but I couldn't stay awake for long.
'Damn, again with anesthesia.' I thought, the limo then stopped, and the door opened.
"Hey boss, we got the kid, what about the rest of the girls." Said the driver, I couldn't hear what was on the scroll, but I could already tell what the boss said.
"Alright, I'll bring them all soon." I could see he hauled Weiss, Harriet, and Elm into a truck.
Soon he grabbed me as well, tossing me with the girls. All I could see was a grin and the door closing, before I let the anesthesia kick in.
I soon woke up in the white void, and in front of my were my mother and grandpa. My mother just shook her head, smacking me.
"You dropped your guard!" She shouted, but she then sighed and smiled at me.
"But I'm glad you didn't call for us, since you are staring to become more independent." My grandfather just groaned and stood up.
"Still, to be caught off guard because of that, I'll have to start teaching you my fighting style." He said, he then raised his hand, and a large long sword appeared in his hand.
"I'm going to teach you how to cleave through everything." He said and swung it at me.
(A/N) Welp, I tried doing a cliff hanger, but I don't know how good it was, also, send some power stones to show support.
Also, here's a bit of progress how my sketch skills are coming along.