AN: Beta read by Brawn1984 and Starrmssterr.

Jason was sitting on his bed, leaning back, and relaxing when Ruby came in.

"Hi Jason."

"Hello Ruby."

"Are you ready to go?"

"Go where?" Jason already knew where Ruby wanted to go, but he just liked hearing her voice. It made him feel better knowing she was there.

"You already know where I want to go Jason."

"To the dust shop?"

"To the dust shop."

Jason reached over to his nightstand and grabbed his twin Vulcans.

"Do you really think that you're going to need those?"

"You're bringing your scythe."

"Fair enough."

The two made their way to the dust shop in town. They walked inside and the shop owner said. "Hello."

"Hello." Ruby replied.

Jason nodded at the shop owner.

They walked to the back of the shop where the manga was.

"Okay Jason. I'm going to listen to some music, okay."

"Okay."

Ruby put her headphones on and began playing music.

Jason say next to a wall and activated his semblance. His semblance had activated when he was young, and it had helped him out a lot.

A smooth female voice began singing over Ruby's headphones, and Jason couldn't help but slowly nod his head to the music.

Five minutes later.

Jason was pulled from his musings when he heard the door open, and five people come into the shop.

"Take the money." The shop owner said.

Jason moved from the wall he was leaning against to behind one of the shelves.

"We don't want your money." An annoying voice said. "Grab the dust boys."

Jason changed his senses form hearing to smell, and nearly gagged. One of the guys liked cheap cologne. The others didn't seem to care one way or another. They didn't smell unclean, just that they didn't bathe in cologne. He changed back to hearing, and heard one guy come over towards him, and Ruby. He grabbed his Vulcan from his side holster.

Ruby

Ruby was listening to music and reading Manga when she saw Jason move from the wall he was laying against, to behind a shelf. Maybe he wanted a different spot. She Kept on reading when she felt someone grab her by the shoulder. She looked over and saw Jason pull one of his Vulcans from his side holster, point it behind her, and pull the trigger.

Jason

Jason pointed his Vulcan at the guy who had grabbed Ruby and pulled the trigger. The guy dropped.

The other four came over to them. There were three who wore black and red, and the other who wore a greyish white coat, and a bowler hat.

"You did it now kid." The guy with the bowler hat said.

In response Jason grabbed his Vulcan from his hip holster and said. "Bring it."

Outside.

The quiet night was broken as the plate glass window at the front of the store was shattered, and one of the guys in black was kicked out by Ruby.

One of the other guys dressed in black, and the bowler hat guy came outside after them.

There was a gunshot from the store, and the bowler hat guy said. "Well red. It looks like your friend couldn't keep up his act."

There was a gunshot from behind them, and the bowler hat guy fell to his knees as two bullets grazed his calves.

"How does it feel to get you butt handed to you by two teenagers?" Jason asked walking out of the dust shop.

"You may have won this one kid, but you won't win the war."

The last guy in black pointed his gun at Jason, and Ruby shot him for his troubles.

"Well." The bowler hat guy said. "I don't suppose you'd let me leave."

"Tell me who you are, and who you work for?" Jason demanded. "Otherwise I'll shoot your kneecaps off."

"All right, all right. Sheesh, you don't have a single funny bone in your body, do you."

There was a blast of fire from their side, and Jason backflipped out of the way.

Jason and Ruby looked over and saw a woman in a fancy dress. It was hanging on her shoulders, with a slit coming up to her left thigh walking towards them.

She held her hand up and a giant shard of glass formed in her hand.

Jason shot it to pieces. "Ruby, take a shot?"

Ruby nodded and pointed her gun at the woman. She pulled the trigger, but the woman blocked all of Ruby's shots with her hand. Then she waved her hand at them, and five rings appeared under their feet.

Jason rushed Ruby and pushed her out of harm's way before turning off his sense of touch.

Ruby

There was an explosion, and Ruby turned to see Jason lying unconscious on the ground.

"Help!" Ruby yelled.

A figure appeared from nowhere, and Ruby pointed her scythe at the new arrival.

"I'm not here to hurt you." The female said. "My name is Glinda. I'm here to help."

"Can you help my friend?"

Glinda looked at Jason. "We need to get him to a hospital."

The hospital.

Ruby was sitting in the waiting room when Glinda and the Headmaster of Beacon academy came up to her.

"Hello." The Headmaster said. "I thought you might be hungry." He handed her a Styrofoam box.

Ruby opened it and saw cookies. "Is my friend all right?"

"The doctors are saying that he will be fine. He has a concussion, and some burns, but he should make a full recovery."

"Can I see him now?"

Glinda lead Ruby back to Jason's rooms.

"Jason Todd?" The Headmaster questioned. "As in the Todd dust company?"

"Yup. That's Jason. He doesn't want anyone to know because he didn't have the greatest childhood."

Jason

Jason was six years old when he woke up on the street. He didn't know what was happening, but he heard people coming, he tried to hide, but they found him.

He woke up to see a man. "I can teach you how to fight."

"Really?"

"Yes. But you will have to do a few things for me."

The man taught Jason how to fight, he was able to defend himself now.

"I have the first thing I need you to do for me."

Three years later.

Jason had met someone. Shira. She was his first friend on the streets. When he wasn't working for Harlan, he was spending time with Shira.

One day they were walking when she saw a newspaper with his last name on it. She was the only one he'd told his last name to. His butler had told him to never tell anyone his full name if he met a stranger, but Shira was nice.

They made their way to the Todd dust company. When they got there, they were met by a man who said he was Jason's uncle.

"Jason? Is it really you? I've been worried sick over you. I finally figured you were dead."

"No. I'm not dead uncle."

"That's wonderful news. Come in, come in."

His uncle sat them down on the couch. "How about you two take a bath, and I'll have Cliff fix supper."

They were taken to separate bedrooms, and given fresh clothes, and towels.

Jason spent half an hour scrubbing his skin to get all the dirt that had stained his body off.

Meanwhile. In another room.

Cliff turned on the security cameras in the house. He didn't like how the normally callous man was treating his nephew. He had something up his sleeve.

Jason

Jason had finished with his first bath. The water was a dirty brown. He drained the water, washed the tub out, and filled it with fresh water, before he took a proper bath.

He met Shira in the hallway.

"So that's what you look like without all that dirt, and grime."

"I could say the same thing to you."

"Who's ready for dinner?" Jason's uncle asked.

The dining rooms.

"I had Cliff make your favorite."

Jason looked down at his plate and saw chicken with pasta and broccoli. He didn't remember if this was his favorite, but after three years of having barely enough to eat for one meal, let alone an entire day. He wasn't going to complain.

After dinner they moved into the study.

"Jason. I can't tell you how happy I am to see you again."

"Thank you, uncle. It's good to be back here. Can Shira stay?"

"Of course, she can my dear nephew. Anything to make you more comfortable."

Jason smiled at Shira who smiled back. His joy was short lived as he heard a click. He looked up to see his uncle with an old-fashioned revolver.

"Why couldn't you just stay dead?" His uncle asked. "I killed your parents so I could run the Todd dust company. I kicked you out on the streets hoping that you would die, but no. You just had to survive and mess everything up. Now I'll have to kill you myself." His uncle pulled the trigger and shot Shira in the stomach.

"NO! SHIRA! Why? Why did you do that?"

"Because you were supposed to be dead. Why couldn't you stay dead. I killed your mother and your father so I could take over the Todd dust company. I even threw you out on the street so I wouldn't have to worry about you. I hated your father. I hated everything about him. I should have had all that was his. I'm the oldest, so it should have been me."

Jason had felt many emotions in his short nine years. Happiness, sadness, anger, hatred, but this. He had never felt this. This was a new emotion that he had never felt before. This was unyielding rage. Jason jumped at his uncle. He used the knowledge he had gained on the streets and didn't stop hitting him until Cliff pulled him from his uncle's lifeless corpse.

Cliff called the police and told them what happened. He showed them the footage, and Jason was put into Cliffs custody.

Jason and Cliff gave Shira a proper Burial, and Jason cried till he couldn't cry anymore. After he stopped crying, he was no longer the boy he had been the day before. That boy had been killed with Shira. He was a young man who would one day be a force that would change the world.

Over the next three years Cliff home schooled him to catch up on his studies, trained his body to keep up with the fighting he had learned on the street. On his eleventh birthday Cliff gave him a chest.

"This was your fathers. I had hoped that one day you would be able to use them."

Jason opened the chest. Inside the chest were two revolvers, a pair of black pants, a charcoal gray long sleeve shirt, a pair of black boots, a brown motorcycle jacket, two holsters, and a red motorcycle helmet.

"This was your mother's master Jason." Cliff handed him a box.

Jason opened the box and saw eight vials of dust. "Thank you."

"You're most welcome master Jason."

"Just call me Jason. I don't want to be like my uncle. I don't want you to treat me the same way you treated him."

"You have nothing to worry about master Jason. I won't treat you the same way as I treated your uncle. I will treat you by far better than I treated him, but I am afraid that I will still call you master Jason as a sign of respect to your parents. They were good to you, and good to me. I will respect them for that."

Cliff trained Jason in how to use the twin revolvers. He found out that they were called Vulcans, and they were not mere revolvers, but also had a blade mode. Cliff trained him how to use them in both forms, and he became quite proficient.

After three years he was sent to Signal academy to start his journey to become a Huntsman.

He made his way through his first year with no problems. Then he started his second year and met Ruby.

He was walking to lunch when he saw a group of people who were picking on another student. Jason's pulse skyrocketed. She looked like Shira. He had to save her this time. He jumped in front of her and grabbed one of the kids by the head bringing their face into his knee. The other kids were startled and ran. He grabbed two of them and pulled them into each other and heard a satisfying crack.

Three people came up and started talking to him. "Let me get to my daughter." A man with light blond hair said.

"Let me get to my sister." A blond-haired girl said.

"Let me get to my niece." A black-haired man said.

"No. Not until she's..."

"Dad, Yang, Uncle Qrow!" The girl yelled.

Jason stepped to the side and walked away. She looked like Shira, but she wasn't.

"Hey." The girl grabbed his hand. "Thank you."

The rest of the group thanked him as well.

Jason nodded.

The next day he found himself sitting with the blonde and the girl who looked like Shira.

"Hi." The girl who looked like Shira said. "I'm Ruby, and this is Yang. What's your name?"

"I'm Jason."

Yang grabbed his hand and shook it. "Thanks for saving Ruby yesterday."

"It was nothing. Any would have done it."

"Not true." A smooth husky voice said from behind him.

Jason spun around and looked into the face of...

"Uncle Qrow." Ruby said. "What are you doing here?"

"I wanted to thank him for saving you." Qrow said handing him a blueprint. "Take this to a blacksmith and have them make these for you. I think they will work with your Vulcans."

Jason looked down. "Thank you."

"No. Thank you. You could have chased after those brats who attacked my niece, but instead you stayed to protect her until she was safe."

That was how Jason met Ruby and Yang.

Jason woke up and saw an odd man with graying hair, a pair of glasses on his nose, a green coat, and a brown scarf looking at him. He reached over to the nightstand for his Vulcans only to not find them.

"Jason." Ruby said. "It's okay. You're not in danger."

Jason relaxed.

"You're very lucky." The odd man said. "You have a concussion, and some burns."

"How is that lucky?" Jason asked.

"Because it could have been worse."

"Where are my..."

"Here they are." Ruby said handing Jason his Vulcans.

"Thanks."

"You're welcome."

"Where did you make those?" The man asked.

"They were my dad's. They have been slightly modified to hold the specialized ammo."

"Impressive. Who was your father?"

"Willis Todd."

Both adults looked shocked.

"You are the son of Willis and Sheila Todd?" The man asked.

"Yeah. Until my uncle murdered them in cold blood."

"We don't like to talk about that." Ruby said. "It tends to get very loud."

"Noted." The man said. "Jason. My name is Professor Ozpin. I am the Headmaster of Beacon Academy. I was wondering if you and Ruby would like to come to Beacon early."

"I will follow Ruby."

"Excellent. I hope to see you two at the start of the next semester."

With that Ozpin and Glinda left the hospital room.

"Do you think it wise to bring him into Beacon?"

"I don't know of anyone better to protect Ruby while we protect her."

"What if he's put on a different team?"

"We will have to play it by ear. As long as he's near Ruby he should be fine."

"The boy is traumatized. His uncle killed his parents in front of him, abandoned him to the streets at the age of six, and when he made it back home his uncle killed his only friend in front of him. I don't like putting him in danger."

"I'm sure that he will manage."

"But will he survive?"

"He will have to if he wants to help Ruby."

"It seems more like you are using Ruby as a carrot to dangle in front of him to get him to do what you want him to do."

"That's not my intentions. I simply want to protect them from..." Ozpin got quiet for several minutes.

"Shall we get back to the school?"

"Yes, let's."

AN: Hey guys. I wanted to get something uploaded for Valentine's Day. So Happy Valentine's Day. This is a project I've been working on since around Thanksgiving time. Controlchaos asked me if I would be willing to write a RWBY/Red Hood Crossover. I watched RWBY volume 1-6 and decided to start writing. This Crossover will be based in the RWBY universe, but will follow a different Team. I would say that it probably fits in the RWBY multiverse better considering how I've written it. Jason Todd doesn't wake up in the RWBY universe after being killed by the Joker. He's lived there all his life. He didn't have a good childhood. I did keep that. Hopefully you guys like it.