Breaking Expectations

An: Hey guys! And welcome to Breaking Expectations, formerly A Rose with a dash of coco! As many probably already guessed from the summary, this story used to be Sneky's story, but when he decided to stop writing it, I asked if I could adopt it, and he agreed.

So, the first five chapters are HIS, not mine. This is also one of the three RWBY themed stories I am posting in celebration of RWBY vol. 5's release! One is Grimm Ascension and the other is Taken, but Returned. Sadly, I won't get to watch the first episode until next Saturday, and Roosterteeth's video player ain't loading for some reason. I might need to splurge and buy a new computer. But anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this story!

Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY. This chapter was the first of Sneky's original story.

1

A chance encounter.

Life at Beacon Academy sure wasn't living up to Ruby Rose's expectations or hopes. She had envisioned a school where they would be taught how to become kick-ass hunters/huntresses, and while that was indeed happening, it was just…lacking for her. Granted, she was a 15 year old prodigy, able to master one of the world's most dangerous weapons within a few years of beginning to learn to use it, she also was the one to design it…by herself. After only having a 20 minute look over her beloved uncle Qrow's own one, she had managed to design one of her very own, and make it.

One of the world's most dangerous weapons…designed and maintained by an 11 year old, tiny, adorable bundle of energy.

Veteran Hunters and Huntresses collectively shivered for an unknown reason at the time the idea popped into her brain. Namely her father and uncle in particular.

But anyway, here she was. 4 years later, in one of the world's most prestigious academies, if not the most prestigious one.

And in her own humble opinion, it sure didn't live up to its name.

Even with a two year jump in classes, which was a significant amount of time, and considering what they were learning, Ruby still easily kept up.

However, with all her smarts and combat prowess, the young Rose was incredibly socially awkward.

To the point where she would downplay her own grades at Beacon, so she wouldn't gain unwanted attention. Sure, she could go and blitz through the subjects, and probably the combat classes if she went full out…not counting Pyrrha though, that girl had an OP as hell semblance for combat these days.

But what would that get her, aside from a reputation? Probably a negative one too. The result of a young 15 year old girl, who moved up 2 years simply because Professor Ozpin took an interest in her. That would certainly result in some rather…adverse views of her by her fellow students.

She already had a few of those. Even with Yang trying her best to shield her from some of the more…rude rumors about her, she still knew what the general view on her was of the students that weren't in the little group of team JNPR and RWBY. Not a very pleasant one to say the least. Especially with Cardin and his lackeys doing their best to ruin all public opinion on both RWBY and JNPR due to their inferiority complexes. Males like that never ceased to amuse Ruby. What some girls saw in them she'd never understand.

Even her own team had doubts about her. Even Yang, despite the fact her dear sister loved her more than she loved her hair, which is saying something, had her doubts about Ruby being the leader of their team. Ruby could see it in her eyes every time a team activity was beginning. And Blake, her sister's partner was the one Ruby probably got along the best with, a socially awkward genius who meant the best and an anti-social bookworm surprisingly got along quite well when they were the only ones in the room. Even though they both got along the best out of the team, their respective partners' personalities clashing quite a lot against their own, Ruby could tell Blake also didn't quite trust her ability to lead.

And Weiss.

Oh boy.

Weiss was a struggle and a half for Ruby. No matter how nice or caring or helpful or respectful Ruby tried to be around her, Weiss was still that prickly, picturesque heiress she was from the beginning. When Weiss had given Ruby a cup of coffee that night, Ruby had honestly thought she'd made progress with the icy heiress. Buuuut apparently not. Nothing was different the next day in class or after class. Weiss had reverted back to how she was beforehand.

Naturally this had confused the hell out of Ruby, who had stood at their team room's doorway for a good few seconds before Blake had come along and put a comforting hand on her shoulder, apparently have been awake the night before, before walking off.

Fast forward a few months of nothing but repetitive classes, though Professor Oobleck never failed to entertain her, even though he taught history and combat classes being incredibly lackluster since Professor Goodwitch for some reason still hadn't let her participate in anything. If Ruby didn't know better, she would have thought that Professor Goodwitch was trying not to let her get injured at all for some reason.

Despite it being incredibly boring, Ruby had been content with it. She could work with Weiss when the princess wasn't in one of her moods, as Ruby described it in her mind, not willing to say it out loud and she could talk to Blake about various books or even weapons. And Faunus rights, Ruby had stumbled across that particular landmine by accident at one stage. Blake was very vehement about it, which surprised Ruby at first, as Blake was a complete introvert, sticking to dry remarks and sarcasm most of the time. Yang was Yang, Ruby could always talk to her. Yang would always make time for her, prioritizing her more than anything which Ruby wasn't exactly a fan of. As much as she loved Yang, and loved having her ready to do nearly anything with her, Ruby felt that Yang needed to do more things for herself.

Ruby had confronted Yang about that, and Yang nearly had a break down, thinking that Ruby didn't want anything to do with her anymore, that Ruby thought she was a terrible sister. Despite her carefree attitude towards most things, Yang was and is rather sensitive when it comes to her family members.

After confirming with Ruby that she wasn't being too annoying or being a bad sister, Yang had taken her words to heart. She had started taken the W and B parts, sometimes by force, of RWBY to her favorite haunts. Namely clubs and various other establishments, that Ruby due to her age was not allowed to enter.

This of course led to Ruby spending even more time by herself, as aside from her team, she really only knew team JNPR and even then it was more of a friendly acquaintance type relationship with them rather than friends she would be able to spend time with.

Ruby was currently inside of a training ground, by herself, as she usually was these days. Due to this, she obviously had no one from her team to spar with, but a positive from this was that she had no need to hold back with her Crescent Rose. A weapon of beautiful destruction, one that she sincerely doubted no one but Pyrrha could hope to block if she was going all out with it from her year level. Ruby considered herself in the top 3 fighters from the new batch of students this year, with Pyrrha and Ren being the only ones who matched up pure skill wise. Pyrrha was a monster in combat, especially if she started using her semblance. Despite Pyrrha thinking she did an excellent job at hiding what her semblance was, it was easy to figure out that she had some type of manipulation semblance if you didn't only see her "Invincible girl" persona. Ren, however, severely lacked stamina. If his combat style wasn't so Aura and physically intensive she had no doubt he would on Pyrrha's and her own level of combat abilities.

The rest of her peers were all able combatants in their own right, but all had their flaws that wouldn't let them fight on par with herself, Ren and Pyrrha. Weiss relied heavily on her glyphs, and if an opponent was too quick she would be nigh defenseless. Yang was predictable to say the least, punch this, punch that, maybe a few kicks and shotgun shells thrown in. Blake seemed to have a mental block on actually going to incapacitate someone. Nora was just pure brute force in a tiny body, easy enough to dodge. Jaune…well he was Jaune. And honestly, the rest of her year just didn't compare to teams JNPR and RWBY in anything.

As Ruby was busy going through sets with her beautiful baby, destroying various mock enemies with graceful movements that no one but herself and her uncle could hope to do, she never noticed someone approaching the training ground. The figure stopped and watched her rather cute little schoolmate destroy targets with her dance-like movements for a while until speaking up.

"Hey, you're that Rose kid right?"