It was an act that was not fun by the standards of many men, of course, many men were not shopping for things that went BOOM when used properly, and made an even bigger boom when used improperly. That was a fun kind of shopping for weapon lovers, and that was not what he was doing at the moment. He was not having fun playing with things that were made for the killing of Grimm, and he was not enjoying swinging around weapons to test them out.
He was not playing with weapons, Ruby was.
Clothes shopping, a fun activity made to redesign your entire wardrobe, and change your style into something that made you a variety of things from cute to intimidating. It was an activity where somebody could change the way the world saw them... and he was thankfully not doing that. He trusted Yang to find something that fit his style, because he always got a matching outfit which was styled to go with Ruby's style. They were the Twin Roses, and had always dressed in a similar way.
He was not clothes shopping, Yang was.
The act of shopping for Dust, an act he enjoyed greatly thanks to his large use of the item in his fighting style. It was always fun to see the new kinds of dust that were created after mixing other kinds of dust in certain amounts. Haru liked to buy the sample sizes of dust and then test them in private, he didn't breath them out, but his skill with dust was great enough that he could even use dust in its raw form without much trouble.
He was not doing that, Pyrrha was.
Haru was book shopping with Blake, because she had asked him if he would want to go to one of the many bookstores in Vale with him. Haru had not known the others were going shopping to those other places he would rather be until after he had agreed to going into the bookstore with her. Haru was now looking through some of the books, and despite being hailed as "Having Every Book Under the Sun" this store had a relatively small supply of books. The shelves only came up to his chest, and many of them were filled with single copies of the books.
Blake was enjoying herself, she wasn't smiling much, but it was there. Haru was clearly bored though, he was only gazing through the comic book section, and he already had all of the copies of X-ray and Vav that they had... Haru registered a conversation that he had with Jaune, before his eyes noticed that there were a few copies of the newest X-ray and Vav issue that he didn't know was even out yet.
Tukson, the bookstore's owner... which made sense because the place was called Tukson's Book Trade (Home to Every Book Under the Sun) was a tall gentleman who wore rather tight clothes over his muscular frame. The guy had jet black hair with heavy sideburns, with most of his hair being short. The guy had pretty heavy arm hair, a rather uncommon trait in the Vale area where most men seemed to lack body hair... with Haru being a prime example. Literally, you could see how thick the hair on his body was just by glancing at the guy.
When the guy walked into the room with new books in his arms, Blake and he glanced at each other, before they instantly froze.
"How may I help you today?" Tukson asked as if nothing was wrong, not letting any of his worry come across in his voice. He didn't even let it show on his face, which was wiped clean of any emotions. So, the guy either noticed that Blake was a Faunus and didn't care, or the two of them actually knew each other in some way that Haru was unaware of.
"Do you carry any copies of 'Medicine and First Aid for Huntsmen'... in hardback?" Blake asked, her face just as cooled down forcefully, but there was a very light amount of sweat beading at the side of her forehead. She was clearly worried, despite how she wanted to pretend that she wasn't worried.
"... Yes." Tukson said as he pulled off the top book from the pile of books he set down on the counter, a stroke of luck he was carrying what she asked for, and placed it on the counter in front of her.
"Thank you, and do you have 'Ninja's of Love 2' or 3?" Blake asked with a raised eyebrow, and Tukson reached under the counter that had (18+) on it and pulled out the second book, but not the third one.
"Yes, we have the second, but the third has yet to come out." Tukson answered Blake, while Haru snorted to himself and grabbed two copies of the most recent addition of X-ray and Vav. While he was here, he may as well pick one up for his fellow reader Jaune, who might not be able to make it in time to get a copy of the comic.
Blake took the book, and added it to her growing pile of books.
"Do you have 'An Idiot's Guide to Aura'... in hardback?" Blake asked Tukson, who nodded his head and gestured towards the display case. This time of year was when those books were more popular, so he kept them closer to the front where he could get to them without interrupting what he was doing. Blake grabbed the book and added it to her still growing pile of books, the door jingled and a new person walked into the store, but nobody really paid attention to the new person all that much.
Haru did though.
The new person was a girl, a girl of around teenage age. She wore a strange style of clothing, with that being a brown V-necked and skintight unitard over her torso, with her cleavage being exposed, and a white jacket that was cut off under her breasts over that, with long sleeves with pink cuffs and a pink collar. She had a variety of bead necklaces around her neck, dipping into her rather generous bust for her height... She was a rather lean, skinny, and slender girl... and she wore brown gloves. She also wore TIGHT skinny jeans in the collar brown, and in her right hand was a brown umbrella with a pink bit near the handle, and a white snow-flake design for the top.
The girl was pale skinned, about the same as Haru showing she might be a native to the Vale area where pale skin was a common trait. She had long hair, swept out of her face, in a variety of colors. The right side of her hair was pink, with some highlights of white, and the left side was brown. The girl had an aura of sass around her, or maybe sarcasm.
Oh well, not his problem.
She did notice Tukson, before she looked out of the door and noted the address of the place. She scribbled down the location on a small piece of paper, even drawing a very crude map to the place. Haru noted this as odd, because she had walked here so she would be able to find the place even without some sort of map to it.
She blinked and her eyes changed color, her right eye being pink and her left one being brown.
Wait... what? Haru thought with a curious look on his face, not sure what to make of that.
She noticed him, and she smiled and waved at him. Haru blinked, before he waved back at her with a more awkward smile. He wasn't sure what to make of her, but he walked over to her, and she walked right up to him... and Haru snorted at the height difference. This was... was short, despite being so well endowed to the point she could give Yang a run for her money, the girl only came up to Haru's chest, meaning she was shorter than 4 feet and 8 inches at LEAST, most likely shorter. He was an inch shorter than Yang, and this girl was a LOT shorter than him. He was used to only Ruby and Weiss being shorter than him among the group, so this was a nice surprise.
"Hey, I'm Haru, are you having trouble finding some place, I know this city pretty well?" Haru offered his help, should she need it. He was a very helpful person, and she leaned in closer to him. She sat her umbrella down on the nearest stack of books, before she grabbed his cheeks and stretched them out.
She was feeling his cheeks up. She wasn't even saying why she was doing it, she was just feeling him up.
She blinked, and both of her eyes turned white, and she just stared into his eyes.
"Stop playing with the child Haru." Blake told him from across the small store, before she turned back to Tukson... and Haru glanced at her stack of books. She already had over 7 thick books added to her stack, bringing her up to 10 books that she planned on buying.
Tukson on the other hand, looked at the girl playing with Haru, and he froze even more.
"Hello... Neopolitan." Tukson greeted, knowing just who this girl was, and she waved at him with a smirk on her face. She had already let go of Haru, and had grabbed her umbrella and swung it around a little. She walked up to the counter, before she pushed Blake aside without thinking about it. Blake glanced at the shorter girl, before she looked over to Haru. Haru went up to the front with the magazines in his hand, before Tukson looked at something that Neopolitan slipped over to him. His eyes widened, before he looked at Haru approaching the desk.
"Hey, I would like to pay for these... you almost done Blake?" Haru asked Blake, who nodded and reached into her pocket... and she looked at Haru awkwardly for a second.
She had forgotten her wallet.
Haru sighed for a moment, he knew that she was not about to ask him to pay for her, but he figured she would be able to pay him back. Haru looked at the books, added up the price, before he got his own wallet out of his back pocket and pulled out the right amount of lien for the books. He gave Tukson the money, before he grabbed Blake's books and handed her the entire stack.
"Here, for the books." Tukson said as he gestured to the bags, and Blake placed the books in the bag. Haru placed his comics in there as well, and gave Blake a deadpan stare.
Adding two thin comics wasn't going to change the weight much, and he just paid for her books... she could carry the comics.
The two of them turned around then left the shop, not seeing the look of regret that Tukson sent their way. His fingernails turned into claws, and he prepared himself to jump at them... or rather, to jump at Haru. On the piece of paper that Neopolitan had given to Tukson, there was only a single sentence.
Capture the boy, and you will not be killed.