Taking another look at the boy next to him. Qrow couldn’t help but feel weird, when he was looking at Oz and him talk. He couldn’t help but think he was watching two Ozpin talk, making him feel stupefied as the other party was nothing but a five years old child.

Finally after some time of the awkward silence while walking, Silva couldn’t help but cough in order to break it, “So who is the one looking for me? I believe the woman I saved shouldn’t be up yet” Silva said while using his words carefully, nobody had told him of her name yet.

“Just a worrywart, well can’t say that right now” Qrow just smiled wryly after that he continued in a serious tone “Thank you, short stack is a close friend of mine”

“Short stack?” he asked confused, of course he knew who he was referring to, but he never expected to hear him to call her like that.

“The woman you saved, her name is Summer Rose by the way. Short stack for short” Qrow said with a haughty smile on his face.

Finally after walking for some time, both finally reached a room and Qrow opened the door while Silva followed after. Inside the room, Summer was sleeping on the bed while connected to advanced medical equipment that monitored her aura and body. To her side a blonde tanned man was seated on a chair, he had bags under his eyes, looking really tired. On a corner of the room two cute girls slept together soundly on a furniture covered with a white sheet.

The moment Qrow entered the room, the man turned towards the door where his eyes meet Qrow.

“Hey Tai, you look like crap, you should take a rest or something” Qrow said mockingly, even though his mouth said like that. His eyes betrayed his words, as he looked at Tai.

“I guess so, but I just can’t seem to fall asleep” Answered back Tai ignoring his tone.

“She is gonna be fine man, everything is over” Continued Qrow “Try to catch a rest. Short stack, wouldn’t want to see you like this”

“I understand” Tai said while nodding “By the way, who is the little kid, some affair of yours? Joked Tai

“Haha! Real funny, but no, he is the one that saved her life” Said Qrow pointing at Summer.

“What? Are you serious Qrow? He is just a kid” asked Tai Shocked.

“Don’t underestimate him Tai. He is a kid who till not long ago lived on the forever fall by himself. Even more I was the one that saw him save short stack” Answered back Qrow.

Taking a deep breath. Tai changed the way he looked at Silva, as he got up of the chair and moved towards him. Reaching him, he hugged his small body tightly as he said to his ear “Thank you for saving Sum’s life”

“Thank you, Thank you so much” Hugging him tightly, Tai’s voice trembled as his eyes teared a bit. Feeling his hug. Silva couldn’t help but feel weird, he knew what kind of man Tai was. But something was looking at him from a screen the other was being involved with him.

It was at this moment that he truly felt, how truly big as the change for him. Feeling his feeling of gratitude were a bit too heavy for him, as he felt the strength of his grip. He couldn’t help thinking of his own life.

He had grown up in a foster him. He had never had a chance to feel the care of a family. The closest thing he had to a family was the best friend. As they grew up together, both were one of the unlucky kids that never had the chance to get adopted. As a kid he was jealous of other families, but as he grew up, Silva stopped bothering about it.

After all even his best friend moved away from his life at some point. Even though both maintained communication, it was just not the same. He had made his life, and Silva had his own. It was only because of him that Silva started watching Series. After all that guy was an overzealous fan of Anime.

Maybe because of that he was not as affected, as other people would be by being realizing that they had truly been brought to another world. Yet at this moment, these feelings of envy couldn’t help but sprout up again as he looked at the people around him. Tai feelings were too much for him. Silva whose mentality had returned together with his age, couldn’t keep a poker face anymore.

Taking a deep breath in order to calm his feelings down, Silva said towards Tai “There is no problem, it is fine” His voice cracked a little as he tried to return the hug with one hand, this small change didn’t go unnoticed by Qrow.

The moment he saw Silva change with his eyes. Qrow didn’t know what to think, as he saw him get so affected by Tai. It was only at this moment he remembered that Silva was nothing but a kid, after seeing his abilities and hearing his talk with Ozpin, he had started unconsciously to treat him as an adult.

It was at this instant, he came back to realize his age again. And he couldn’t help but feel anger towards the fact that Silva was living alone in a forest, “God Damn! Who in his right mind would have done something like that? if I ever catch them...”

Of course Qrow was confusing the situation, but everything seemed to be working in Silva favor. Finally after some time a voice snapped them all of their thoughts “Daddy? Uncle Qrow?”

It was a little girl who had just woken up, her voice was heard as she rubbed her sleepy eyes. Hearing her speak, Tai quickly calmed down and he stopped hugging Silva. Everyone quickly turned their heads to look at the cute child. She had a two toned hair, red and black, with the red looked more prominent at the tips.

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As she moved her body, the other girl started to awaken as her eyelashes started to tremble. Finally the smaller child opened her eyes completely and seeing Qrow standing in front of her. She quickly moved her body, causing the other girl to hit her head on the furniture as she screamed excitedly diving into Qrow arms.

“Uncle Qrow!!!! Did you miss me? Did you miss me?” it looked like the little girl didn’t realize the situation.

“Hey Ruby, Don’t scream! Remember that your mom is sleeping” Tai tried to warn her, as she spun around Qrow’s arm. Hearing him, she simply laughed back “Hehehe”.

“Don’t Hehehe me, Ruby” Tai was still anxious, so he quickly reproached the girl. Looking at the situation Qrow turned to Silva while he holding the girl in his arm, he said towards him with a wry smile “Sorry about that, they are a noisy bunch”

“The guy is Tai and this little brat here is Ruby” Listening Qrow introduce them like that. Tai shot him a glare and then realized he haven’t presented himself.

“Cough* Qrow that’s not how you introduce somebody” he berated Qrow, as he saw Qrow shrug his shoulders.

“My name is Taiyang, Taiyang Xiao Long. The girl on Qrow’s arms is one of my daughters Ruby Rose and the one by the couch…..” Tai moved his hand to signal her, only to find no one on the couch. Feeling a tug on his shirt, Tai looked down to see a blonde girl with two pigtails, “This is my other daughter Yang Xiao Long” he said as he put his hand on her hair.

Hearing Tai introduce the rest of his family, Silva couldn’t help to feel surprised. He never thought he was going to meet the most important characters so soon. Ruby was just as she was in the series, Yang on the other hand seemed to be a little quieter. Looking at her, Silva realized that she had a trace of concern on her little eyes.

Finally his thoughts were interrupted by a little voice and a tug on his shirt “Who are you Big Brother?” the little Ruby cutely said as she looked at him with a small smile. At that moment Yang wanted to move, in order to stop Ruby from touching him. But Tai stopped her saying “It’s fine Yang, he is the one who helped mommy”

As if shocked, the way her eyes looked at him changed and she awkwardly nodded towards Silva. Giving a wry smile towards her, Silva couldn’t help but awkwardly think of the differences between her and the future Yang. Seeing the small Ruby he answered sweetly “My name is Silva, Nice meeting you Ruby”

After answering, he couldn’t help but put his hand on her head and touch her soft silky hair. Making the little girl giggle, it seemed that compared to the Ruby from the beginning of series, the young Ruby didn’t have problems interacting with people.

Looking at him, Yang finally moved and said a little clumsily “Hey…. Thank you for helping our Mom”

“Not a problem” Silva answered her with a big smile, he couldn’t help but think of how their supposed roles inverted as young kids. Silva didn’t realize because how lost he was on his thoughts, that after answering nicely towards Yang, a faint blush appeared on her face.

He was once more interrupted of his thoughts by a cough, but this time it was by Tai. Silva didn’t realize anything, but the overprotective dad couldn’t help but become shocked by Yang appearance, while Qrow looked at him with a sarcastic smile as if bordering laughter.

After they all introduced themselves everything went faster. Talking with the Xiao Long-Rose family, hearing some small lame jokes, which made Yang laugh and everyone else sigh, Silva couldn’t help but smile. He actually enjoyed those things, that stupid sense of humor, seeing Qrow and Tai argue.

Finally everything came to an end. When a doctor came a talked about Summer’s condition, it seemed she was in a small coma, but her life was not in danger anymore. It was going to take a few days, before she woke up. By the end of the afternoon, Silva left towards his room, and started to read a book before falling asleep. He had troubles sleeping that night. He didn’t know but after he left, both Qrow and Tai went towards Ozpin’s office.

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For him that’s how days passed, four days after the meeting between them. Yang seemed to have opened to him completely, it looked that his daily interactions with her family had put down the barriers around her heart. The little girl Ruby on the other hand had grown too attached to him, making Tai lament.

It seemed that after she entered his room to look for him, she had found the design paper of the modified Fusion Sword together with the Cartridge System he received from the rewards. It was something Silva had been working on for a few days but to no avail.

After she found them, the little weapon fanatic had gone crazy after looking at the papers. She asked Silva to draw some for her. She didn’t understand about the drawings, but she knew what they were. So she constantly asked him for more. In the end Silva even had received a System Quest in order to satisfy the little girl, which made him smile strangely. This proved to be harder than he thought to be, in the end he had to buy RWBY: Thousand Weapon Manual for 500 points.

Finally, it turned out to be a good thing for him. After designing at least a hundred weapons in order to satisfy the little girls craving, Silva had made a great advancement in the design, reducing the number of blades from 7 to 5, combining the hollow and back blades and using the side blades as the holders of the cartridge system. Yet the hardest part was going to use aura to activate the cartridge, but that was a problem for later on. At least a week after meeting them, Silva had finally finished the first basic design.

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Taking a deep breath, Silva looked at the opponent in front of him, she too looked at him. Finally she gave a small smile as she flashed forward, reaching him and punching towards him with great speed. Silva used his honed battle instinct in order to avoid her blow, taking her extended arm, he threw her away with a shoulder throw.

The smiling girl fighting him was none other but Yang. As a daughter of a huntsman family, she had gone through a basic fighting training, for her age she was one truly talented kid in hand to hand combat. Today Silva and her were sparring, courtesy of Qrow if you say so, no semblance involved thought.

Even though Silva thought himself of being strong for his age, he quickly realized from his fighting with Yang, that his basic training was not as great as the girl in front of him, as in a one to one battle she beat him completely. So the only thing he could do was to use his instinct, honed by battling beowolves, in order to suppress her.

Taking the chance of her stabilizing herself from the throw, Silva moved forward, using his hand he punched forward, copying her fighting style. He used punches to force her to defend. Finally leaving a gap for her to counterattack, he used the opportunity to hold Yang down, forcing her to admit defeat.

“Yeah, another win for Big Brother, kuku! Big Sister is so weak” A little girl laughed at the side, while mockingly talking towards Yang.

“Hey Ruby! Since when you started to cheer for him?” Yang Complained on the ground, only to hear her laugh once more. Seeing that Silva offered her hand towards Yang, after she grabbed his hand Silva said to her, “Don’t be sad Yang, this was a close one”

She was about to refute, when Qrow opened the door of the training room. He looked a little excited as he told them “Ruby, Yang! Summer woke up”