Yang stared out the window of the car as it is sped through downtown Vale, her sister in the backseat while her father drove.

"Dad, Are you sure you're ok to drive?" Yang asked, turning away from the world outside to watch her father.

"Relax Yang, i'm fine." Taiyang replied, slurring slightly as he spoke.

Knowing there wasn't much she could do at this point, Yang returned to staring out the window and watched as people went about their daily lives.

The next thing she knew, something had crashed into the side of the car, hitting the support between her door and the back door. After that everything faded to black.


Yang's eyes flew open as the family Corgi jumped up on her bed and began attacking her face with kisses before Ruby walked in and started giggling.

"What the hell Rubes." Yang scowled, wiping Zwei's slobber off her face.

"I tried to wake you up but you wouldn't move. Now hurry up or we're going to be late." Ruby replied, calling the corgi to follow after her before heading downstairs.

Yang groaned before nearly falling out of bed and making her way towards the bathroom to go through her morning rituals, something that had become harder with one arm.

Once in the shower, Yang started thinking about the recurring nightmare she had had.

'It's been four damn years, why can't I just forget it.' Yang thought, growling to herself as she ran her one hand through her hair.

Finally finished with her shower, Yang dried herself off, wrapped the towel around herself and made her way back to her bedroom to put on her uniform and prosthetic.


Having pulled on her school uniform, consisting of a red plaid skirt, a pair of black stockings, a brown jacket with a tan vest, a white button up shirt with a red ribbon tied at the collar, Yang headed down stairs to find Ruby sitting on the couch in a same uniform. The only visible difference being Ruby wore black tights instead of stockings.

"You know, I can try and make that thing waterproof." Ruby said, pointing to Yang's arm.

"Nothing against you Rubes, but we don't exactly have the money to replace this if something goes wrong. Now, you ready to go?" Yang asked, grabbing her keys for her bike and a single glove before grabbing her bag.

"I guess though I'm not hugely excited to start knowing no one." Ruby replied, picking her own bag up before following Yang out the door.

Thanks to Ruby's impressive scores on her previous finals exam, having completed the year's work in half the time and passed the next years test with good grades, the headmaster had decided to move her ahead two years into year eleven with Yang.

"Don't worry Rubes I bet you're going to make a lot of friends." Yang replied, hopping on her bike, sliding the glove over the fingers of her robotic arm and revving the engine. "Besides, I promised to introduce you to my friends remember? They're gonna love you. "

"If you say so." Ruby sighed before hopping on the back of the bike and holding onto Yang.

Once certain that Ruby was safely on, Yang took off towards Beacon Academy to start their first day of year eleven.


Once they arrived at the school, Yang pulled into one of the car parking spaces reserved for students and adjusted the sleeve over her prosthetic before making her way with Ruby to the front entrance.

The first day of a new year had always been harder for Yang as the many stresses, both rational and irrational, would run through her head from the night before until the end of the day, leaving her exhausted.

"You going to be ok?" Ruby asked quietly, to avoid anyone eavesdropping on their conversation.

"Shouldn't I be asking you that?" Yang joked, using the joke as a distraction from her thoughts.

"Yeah but i know how stressful a new year is for you." Ruby replied, looking up at Yang concerned.

"Don't worry Rubes we'll both be fine." Yang said, ruffling Ruby's hair a bit before inhaling and walking towards the main entrance way.

Ruby watched her sister walk away for a moment, unsure about Yang's statement, before following after her sister.

As the sisters walked through the main doors, the eyes of most of the student body turned towards the blonde bombshell who just graced their existence.

"Is it always like this?" Ruby asked, walking next to Yang as her older sister greeted the people she knew.

"More or less" Yang shrugged, externally keeping a cool and happy demeanour while making sure her arm was covered.


"Hi, I need to pick up two timetables for Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao Long." Yang said to the lady at the front office, her foot nervously poking the ground while she waited.

The receptionist walked through a door, into what Yang assumed was the copier room, before returning with the timetables and sliding them under the plastic separator.

"Thank you." Yang said, making sure to pick up the timetables with her left hand before darting out of the office.

'Glad thats over.'


After giving Ruby her timetable and making sure she knew where her first class was, Yang headed towards her first class of the day as her thoughts started running wild.

'What if I don't know anyone in my class. I don't know if I could deal with trying to make new friends.' Yang thought before shaking her head. 'This is stupid. Just stop and breathe.'

After repeating the process a few times, Yang's nerves started to calm down along with her irrational worrying.

The door for her class wasn't far away and when Yang walked in, her eyes scanned the room in hope of seeing any familiar faces.

Thankfully for Yang, she found solace in the faces of Jaune and Pyrrha.

Yang had met the star athlete and the bumbling blonde during her first year of high school when her math class had the students sit in small groups and talk about themselves. Thankfully Jaune's awkwardness had helped her feel more at ease with the pair.

Before Yang could walk over and talk, the teacher walked in and told everyone to sit down.

"Hello everyone and welcome to your english class. For those of you who haven't had me before, I am Professor Goodwitch." The teacher spoke as Yang tried to focus as best she could.

The lesson continued on with the usual first day housecleaning before Professor Goodwitch decided to throw a curveball.

"Now, If you would all look at your assignment guideline we can go over the first assignment." Professor Goodwitch spoke as the students flipped over the piece of paper they had just received. " Your first assignment begins today and is due in week five."

Hearing that caused the entire class to groan, including Yang.

"Please be quiet so we can finish going over this." Professor Goodwitch responded before returning to the guideline. "Now, in pairs you will both need to read through the book provided and write a report on ten of the short stories within."

'Pairs? Shit shit shit. I hope I can pair up with either Pyrrha or Jaune.' Yang internally hoped, missing everything else Goodwitch said until her hopes were shattered.

"Now for who you will be paired with. I am going to read down the list and I need each pair to stand and start making their way to the library to borrow the book."

As Goodwitch read down the names, Yang continued to silently beg to work with either Jaune or Pyrrha.

"Jaune Arc and Pyrrha Nikos."

And just like that, the little bit of hope Yang had been holding onto was snuffed out.

"Yang Xiao Long and Blake Belladonna."

'Oh no'


Yay new story.

So as hopefully the summary and the story suggest, this fic will follow Yang as she copes with anxiety and depression, (something i suffer from), a somehow functioning alcoholic uncle that she lives with, a missing mum and a deadbeat dad who is never there and caused the accident that lost Yang her arm. So expect a lot of OOC Yang as well as her trying to look normal and happy on the outside for everyone except Ruby and eventually Blake.

As always if you enjoyed, hated, have constructive criticism or have a question please let me know so I can make this story and any future stories I write better.

Thanks for reading and have an awesome day

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