Okay, a little background. I, as a Weiss Admin on FB and Schnee enthusiast, exempting their father from that list, think that Sun and Weiss would make an adorable, yet awkward, couple. I really like Sun as a character despite his tiny bit of screen time, and he's hot, so I wanted to make this. I'm hoping for a multi-chapter fic with conflict and the whole shebang, but don't be offended if it seems like it was cut short. Also, I'm an opportunity shipper, so if you think this is a crack ship, be warned that there's going to be little to laugh about when I get done. It's going to have its moments because, well, it's Sun, but I love to manipulate the fluff. So without further ado, I'll try the first chapter for you.
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Chapter 1: Left with a Monkey
Weiss
I can't believe that he actually asked me out. I mean, after being rejected before the dance, I thought he didn't like me, but then he went and asked me out at the dance. So, here I am, waiting for him to show up at a place that I never even knew existed, waiting impatiently for any sign of him. I sigh as the waiter comes around again. "Miss, I'm sorry, but you've been here over an hour and haven't ordered anything but water. I'm going to have to ask you to leave."
I gulp, on the verge of tears, but I hold them back. "Of course." I stand up, and with as much dignity as I can muster, I walk out with my head high. I could hear the waiters and diners tisking under their breath, pitying me. It took all I had in me to not bust out crying then and there. I make it to a park, one I had never been to before, one that I didn't even know existed, before the tears escaped. I sit on a bench near the forest before I let my head fall into my hands and weep for the blow that he just dealt me without lifting a finger. I actually liked him. He was cute and charming, and I just wanted to get to know him better. Then, he goes and stands me up, not even caring to call or even text me. The first time I let someone into the shell that I've constructed to keep everyone at a distance, he tells me to go to an unfamiliar setting with unfamiliar people and never shows up. I sniffle, wiping my nose with my tiny kerchief.
I look up to see dark gray eyes that remind me much of the sea during a storm. I jump, startled, and fall off the bench. "What the hell are you doing staring at me like that!?" I stand up and brush myself off.
He's hanging upside down by his tail. It's that Faunus from before, the one that's partners with Neptune. "Oh, sorry. I just saw you crying and wanted to know why." He pulls a banana out of thin air it seems and peels it.
"Oh, well, I don't think that's any of your business." My voice starts out timid, but I end with the scolding voice that earned me my bitch title. I don't mean it that way, but it's hard to get out of a lifetime habit like that in only a semester.
He holds up his hands, though it looks like they just fell by the way he's just hanging there. If I was in a better mood, I'd probably have laughed. "My bad. I just wanted to see if I could help, ya know?"
I look at the ground, unused to the strange show of concern. "Oh, um, thanks, but I don't want to talk about it." I turn to leave, and I hear a small thump. The next thing that I know, someone, most likely monkey-boy, grabs my shoulder.
I turn to look at him with the most annoyed gaze I can muster at this time, which isn't really all that significant. He's undeterred, giving me a small smile that's both curious and sympathetic at the same time. "Awe, but it's always better to talk about it!" His smile grows bigger, and he lets go of my shoulder to throw his arms out in a dramatic gesture. This makes the piece of banana in his fly off into the distance. He looks toward where the banana might be. "Oops, my bad." With an uncaring grin, he turns back to me. "So, whaddaya say? Wanna talk about it over ice cream? My treat."
I look at him like he's mad. Does he not know who I am? Does he not care? And what the hell is wrong with him that he's so stupidly adorable? I double take at that thought and dismiss it at once. Nope, definitely not going down that route. I'm not dating a Faunus, not now, not ever. Should I talk to him about it, though? I mean, he is Neptune's partner. At the name, a pang hits me and I almost tear up again. I take a deep breath and finish my thought process. Since he's his, I refuse to use his name right now, partner, he could potentially bring me some insight into why he stood me up. My mind's made up. "Sure." I start walking but turn back toward him and point my finger at him. "But don't try anything funny." I start walking forward again.
He soon catches up. i look over and he has an apple this time. Seriously, where is he pulling this food from? "Sweet! Sure thing, Ice Queen."
I sigh. "Can you not call me that?"
He gives me a thumbs up. "Right. Never again." His grin just gets wider as he walks. This is really strange for me. I know that I accepted Blake, but this guy is different. He's a criminal, a thief, a stowaway! Why am I even talking to him, let alone walking with him? I sigh and resign myself to his company for the evening. He actually seems to care about what's wrong with me. I should give him a chance to prove himself. Maybe when this night is over, we'll actually be friends.
We get to the ice cream shop, and he looks over to me. "So, what'll it be?"
He gives me such a hopeful grin, and I can't help but relent. "Plain vanilla cone, please?"
He gives me a mocking bow and turns away to go to the counter. "Absolutely." I've never had anyone outside of my team to ever buy me anything. It's nice, but strange. It's like a weird comforting feeling in my chest, just relaxing and warm. Maybe we'll be friends, after all. He returns relatively soon. "Your cone, m'lady."
I can see his tail twitching and curling, and really, it's kind of adorable. I smile up at his, taking the cone and just enjoying this freedom that I rarely feel outside my dorm. "Thank you…" And that's when I realize that I never got his name. How could I have been so inconsiderate? Oh, right. I mentally hang my head. He was introduced during one of my more… inconsiderate moments. "I just realized that I forgot your name." Well, that came out more blunt than I wanted. I sigh. Oh, well.
He sits on the opposite side of the table. "Sun. Sun Wukong." He points his thumb to his chest and smiles broadly. Suddenly, he turns serious, which is really new since I've seen him around. "Now, to the topic at hand. Why were you crying on a bench in the middle of the night, out all by yourself?" He just eats his banana split while waiting to answer. I have to suppress my laughter at his very stereotypical treat.
I brace myself for any backlash of emotion that this small story will get me. I tell him about Neptune, which causes just a choked sob, thank god. No tears spill forth, though, which I'm eternally grateful for. I tell him about how he asked me out, the stand up, and how I ended up in the park. "And now I'm here with you, at an ice cream shop, in the middle of the night."
I saw his features go from slight amusement to pity, then to anger. I would never have expected him to change his emotions like that, so quickly. "I can't believe him!" I see his face turn redder in anger.
I sigh. I don't think i can handle anymore emotions tonight. I finish off my cone and look up at him. "Calm down, Sun. I'll talk to him tomorrow. There's a chance he forgot about it. I'll just clear everything up, okay?"
I watch him visibly calm. A look of horror crosses over his face quickly before it's replaced by a small smile. He makes a half-hearted, dismissive gesture. "Yeah, I'm sure you're right." He turns his head away, and I swear his smile turns into a frown. He mumbles the next part. "He only forgot." He shakes out of it fairly quickly, which I'm glad for. "Well, let's get you back to your dorm! I'm sure your team is worried sick, and personally, I'd rather not have Yang beat in Neptune's head quite yet."
I quirks might eyebrow when he says 'quite yet,' but say nothing. Something's up, and I am going to get to bottom of it. I nod my head once and stand. "Yeah, I guess you're right. We should get back." I turn to the door only to find him there, already holding open for me. I walk through and smile at him. "Thank you."
"No prob." He just skips ahead of me and starts to walk backwards. He's surprisingly good at it, too, dodging everything quite easily. "So, Weiss, why do you even want even want to go with Nep?"
I rub my forehead, already feeling a headache form at the mention of his name. "Honestly, I have no idea. I just thought he was cute."
He belts out a short laugh. "Yeah, everybody says that, though." He scratches his head in thought. "But why?"
I shrug. Really, I have no idea. Right now, I'm just trying to figure out how I ended up in this situation, not that I'm complaining at this moment. Sun's actually nice. That's another thing that I just wiped off of my slate of wrongdoings. I misjudged him so bad, and all I want to do is apologize. I won't, at least, not right now, anyway. "That's it. I don't know why. He just seemed so charming. I just went for it."
Sun nods his understanding. "Yeah, I can see that."
I make a small humming noise in agreement. We get to the airship for our ride to Beacon, and the silence commenced. It wasn't an awkward silence or anything, far from it. It was companionable. I liked it. All you can hear is the whir of the engines and the occasional swish of Sun's tail. It's cute really, but I'd never admit it. Truthfully, I shouldn't even be admitting it to myself. My father would murder him, and then probably disinherit me, or worse. I sigh, which catches Sun's attention. He doesn't speak, but he does look at me with concern in his eyes. I smile and shake my head. He just shrugs and turns away from, that same, carefree smile on his face as he looks out the window, hands on the glass like a child. I've realized that I've both cried and smiled more tonight than I have in a long time. I suppress the sigh that tries to break loose so that I don't draw attention to myself. From this day forward, Sun is my friend, and truthfully, I should have done this sooner, the friend part, not the horrible then not horrible night.
The airship lands, and still the silence isn't broken. It takes us getting to the dorm halls for him to say anything. "Well, this is where we part ways, I guess. See ya later, Weiss." He has a slight grin on his face as he waves at me. He jogs down the hallway until he's out of my sight. I sigh, still smiling, as I walk to our dorm room. I open the door to a waiting team on the other side, and when I say team, I really mean just Ruby and Yang awaiting my return rather impatiently. Blake's just sitting on her bunk, reading, probably paying no mind at all to the two hyper sisters bouncing around the room.
I'm ambushed when I walk in and close the door. Ruby's the first to start the interrogation. "Ooo, did you have fun?"
I peel her off of me with extreme effort on my part. "Yes, Ruby. I did, inadvertently, have fun."
Yang chuckles. "Oh, by that smile, I bet your date just went amazingly, huh?"
The smile I hadn't been consciously holding all night vanishes. "No, actually, it was horrible." My voice is so deadpan, and I don't like it like that. I liked it better when I was smiling and didn't have to think about him.
Yang's smile drops. "Then, why were you smiling?"
The smile returns of its own free will just thinking about Sun. "I bumped into a friend, and we had ice cream." At calling Sun a friend, I feel different, a good different, like the ice surrounding me is slowly chipping away with the help of all the people I now call friend.
Yang's smile is back. "Oh, that's great, but what happened with Neptune?"
I feel the tears welling up again, at least they would have if I hadn't about cried my limit tonight. "I don't want to talk about it."
Yang just cracks her knuckles, a devious smile on her face. "Do I get to pound his face in?"
I pinch the bridge of my nose. "Yang, just leave it for now, okay? For me?" I know I'm begging, and I usually never stoop this low, but i'll find out why in the morning. I have to do this by myself.
Yang looks so surprised at my begging for anything that her jaw drops open. When she's recovered enough, she speaks. "Yeah, sure." She rubs the back of her head, confused, then turns around and climbs up in her bed. I think she's done for the night, at least I hope she is.
Ruby is the next to pounce, again. "But, Weiss, what happened?"
"I don't want to talk about it." I start to gather my nightclothes and head to the bathroom.
I'm just about to open the door when I hear Ruby right next to my ear. "But, Weiss, aren't we friends?" Her pleading eyes are almost enough to do me in, almost.
"We are friends, but if you were truly my friend, you'd let me have my privacy right now. I said I didn't want to talk about it, and I mean it. So, drop it." My voice comes out harsher than I expect, but it needs to be like this, otherwise she'd bug me to no end.
She looks away, dejected. "Okay, Weiss." I hear her sigh before walking away and getting into her bed. I sigh, too, and enter the bathroom feeling horrible. What a list to add to, huh? A night like this, I won't soon forget for so many reasons.
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A/N: I'm going to be alternating perspective per chapter. I'll try not to repeat scenes because that kinda gets on my nerves, but no promises. i want this one to cover more ground than the Knightshade fic I wrote, so I think it's going to be pretty long, unless I run out of ideas. I hope you like it. Follow, favorite, review. :D
