So Tell Me

Ruby Rose, leader of the perhaps, not that it was possible to know for certain, coincidentally named team RWBY, found herself in the library. She was alone, which was making her life a little difficult. Perhaps it was bad that she relied on Weiss so much for her studying. She tried, she really did, but Weiss made her academic life so much easier.

So, for a moment, she was frustrated. Over the next few moments, she went through a few other emotions. The first was surprise. Blake had suddenly sat down next to her, very suddenly, and without warning. The next was hope, for Blake, while not Weiss, was certainly better at studying than she was. The third was confusion, for...

"Question," Blake spoke before Ruby could even greet her, "would you ever date someone older?"

"Hi- bu- huh?" Ruby blinked a few dozen times, but still she found it hard to compute the question she'd just been asked. "What?"

"Someone older. Would you?" Blake repeated, stony faced, staring into Ruby's eyes intently.

"I-is there someone you like?" Ruby asked nervously, rubbing the back of her head. She was only fifteen and had barely even found herself a crush. She was hardly the person to ask about such things.

"Yes," Blake answered bluntly, but without spilling any real details. "I've... been thinking about age and relationships. When you're younger it seems to matter more, but once you're in your twenties, suddenly an age gap of 10 or so years doesn't seem to matter much." Still, Ruby had no real hints. "What do you think?"

"Do you... like someone older?" Ruby was really curious.

"You didn't answer my question," Blake reminded her, avoiding the issue.

"Oh, well... I guess I wouldn't mind dating someone older, you know, like... two years older would be fine." Ruby may or may not have picked a very specific number and it may or may not have been on purpose.

"I see. Thank you, that's helpful." With that, Blake shot to her feet and walked away quite hastily.

"Bu- wait! I..." Ruby sighed and hung her head. "Studying..." she whimpered helplessly. The next emotion she felt was despair.

. . .

It was a conversation soon forgotten, or at least pushed to the very back of Ruby's mind. Blake disappeared. This of course led to many stressful days of waiting, and then searching, and then getting shot in the face. Well, that last part only applied to Ruby, really. Fortunately, everything turned out just fine and Blake was back.

She was back and her head was currently poking over the edge of Ruby's bed. Yang and Weiss weren't present and it seemed Blake had taken the opportunity to get Ruby's attention. She succeeded – a little too well, in fact.

"GAH! Blake! Hi?" Ruby clutched at her chest. She hadn't seen nor heard the girl coming at all. Blake really was like a ninja.

"Hi," Blake responded with a short nod. "I have another question."

"A-another? Wh-what was the first one? When was the first one? I don't even remember there being a first one!" Ruby rambled, still trying to get her heartbeat under control.

"Err, back in the library a... few weeks ago. I guess it has been a while." Blake glanced sideways, pondering the issue for a moment. "Still, do you have a moment?"

"Um, sure! Go for it!" Ruby finally had herself back under control.

"What do you think of girls dating girls?" And there went Ruby's recently regained composure immediately. She did a spit-take, though she fortunately hadn't been drinking anything at the moment, and stared at Blake wide-eyed. What kind of question was that?

Now Ruby remembered their previous conversation all too well. "I-i-is this person you like a girl?"

"Yes."

"Who?" Ruby perked up curiously.

"You didn't answer the question," Blake, again, reminded her. Ruby headbutted her pillow and bit the pillow case. Blake was driving her up a wall! Suppressing a loud groan of annoyance, Ruby took a deep breath and stopped attacking her pillow.

"It's... f-fine, Blake. You love who you love, right? Boy, girl, human, faunus... that shouldn't matter." Ruby's eye twitched. "You're killing me here..." she added mentally.

"I see. Thank you again. This was helpful." Blake nodded and dropped down from Ruby's bedside.

"Wai-" Ruby tried to call after her, but the door opened and her sister walked in. Now it would be too awkward.

"What did I do?" Yang asked, baffled, when Ruby shot her an annoyed glare before she returned to trying to do her homework.

. . .

It was the break between semesters, and Ruby was trying to fit in as much relaxation as possible. Nothing new had happened with Blake. She half expected to see Blake arm-in-arm with... some girl. Anyone. Ruby didn't care, as long as the mystery went away. Well, then again, she didn't want Blake dating just anyone.

In fact, thinking about it put her in a bad mood. She'd ruled out Weiss and Yang as potential candidates, since they were the same age as Blake. She'd thought maybe it was Velvet, as she was a bit older than Blake and was a fellow faunus and a girl. However, Blake hadn't spent any extra time near her, or even looking at her. She was truly at a loss.

She didn't know why she was obsessing over it so much. She just... really wanted to know what was going on. Blake had dragged her into it, whatever it was, but yet Ruby knew so little. She was not doing very well with the relaxation thing so far...

She'd tried to distract herself by stealing Weiss's binder and filling it with random ideas for what she and her team could do over the break, but it was only half working. And by half she meant, well, barely at all really.

She hunched over it, placing another page consisting of random scribbles and bad drawings onto the rings, when she was distracted by something... warm. A weight draped itself over her shoulders, and then something landed atop her head. That something was Blake's chin, and over Ruby's shoulders were Blake's arms.

"Uhhhhhhh..." Ruby's mind shut off. What was she doing again?

"I have... another question," Ruby felt Blake say.

"Uh... g-go ahead, eheheh..." Ruby responded shakily. What was Blake doing?

"Um, it's kind of like the last one," Blake began. "So... would you date a girl?" Ruby's mind, in the process of rebooting, immediately fried. What? When Ruby opened her mouth, in an attempt to respond, she half expected smoke to pour out.

Finally, she squeaked a word out. "Uh... y-yes?"

"I... see." Blake cleared her throat and removed herself from Ruby. "That's... very helpfu-"

"GAH!" Ruby roared, launching herself to her feet. She spun around and grabbed Blake's shoulders. "WHO IS IT? Who do you like? You have to tell me, thisisdrivingmeinsane!" Ruby demanded, panting heavily, cheeks flushed. She was beyond flustered and needed an answer. Blake looked away and gulped, not answering right away. Ruby was about to shake the answer out of her if she didn't spit it out!

"You." Blake coughed nervously, still not meeting Ruby's eyes.

"Bwuh?" Ruby's jaw dropped. Her arms nearly dropped from Blake's shoulders, but finally her mind kick-started itself back into functionality. "R-really?" She instead tightened her grip on the faunus girl.

"Yes..." Blake's eyes flitted momentarily in Ruby's direction.

"R-really, really?"

"Y-yes!" Blake said a little more loudly.

"Oh my god, oh my god, ohmygod!" Ruby's eyes shot wide and she shook Blake, leaning in close. "Th-then there is one more question. You have to ask it, you have to ask the question, Blake! Askthequestion!"

"Uh... umm..." Blake gulped nervously, looking quite startled by Ruby's outburst. "Oh... you mean... right." She took a breath and bit her lip. "Err... will... w-will you go out with me?"

"Oh my gosh, yes!" The next emotion Ruby felt, as she hugged Blake tightly, was pure joy.

Ruby, next time, hint harder. Gosh, why you gotta be so vague?

Silly Blake.

Bonus:

Ruby let go of Blake once she could convince herself to do so. Honestly, she could have just clung to the other girl for the rest of the day. That probably would have been a massive inconvenience for them both, though...

"Um, by the way, what was with all the weird questions?" Ruby asked. Well, she supposed it was obvious why Blake had been doing it. It was just that Ruby found it to have been a strange strategy.

"I was, um, gathering information so that I could formulate a workable strategy..." Blake coughed nervously and averted her eyes. "I... didn't get out much as a child." It seemed she was plenty aware of how awkward her behavior had been.

"By... asking me questions?"

"I tried asking Yang. She just started laughing..." Blake half-frowned, half-pouted. Ruby sighed; that sounded like Yang. She had probably wanted to force Blake to go to Ruby.

Well, she couldn't complain too much. The outcome had been nice.

At that moment, Weiss stormed into the room looking at her wit's end. "Has anyone seen my binder?"

Ruby and Blake both nervously glanced at the binder sitting on the desk beside them. "No!" they answered in unison.

"Ugh!" Weiss groaned and stomped back out.

"Thank you!" Ruby immediately used the excuse to hug Blake again.

"N-no problem." Blake gulped. "If Weiss realizes I lied... Oh well. Worth it."

This is probably the shortest thing I've ever uploaded. Hopefully the cuteness factor makes it worthwhile.

Til' next time.