Discaimer: I do not own RWBY
Author's Note: This story is also posted on AO3 under the same username.
Chapter 1: That saying about plans and first contact.
The morning after the Breach occurred…
Yang leans over her dorm bathroom's sink, jittering with excitement as she inspects her scroll sitting on the sink. In front of her, sits the perfect date plan that was guaranteed to get Blake to say yes for when Yang confesses her feelings. To say that Yang outdid herself would be a gross understatement.
Step 1: Attend the weekend premiere of a highly anticipated film adaptation of one of her and Blake's all-time favorite romance novels that Yang had won a pair of tickets for.
Step 2: After the movie, the pair would make their way to a fancy yet modest restaurant for a romantic candlelit dinner with a stunning view of Vale to discuss the movie in detail.
Step 3: A moonlit walk on a nearby public beach where Yang would bring Blake into a loving embrace and ask her to be her girlfriend.
*Knock Knock*
"Yes?" Yang asks.
"How much longer are you going to be in there, Yang?" an annoyed Weiss asks from the other side.
"Whoops, sorry." Yang immediately responds, gathering up her scroll and shoving it into one of the Beacon Academy blazer's inner pockets as she exits the bathroom.
"Finally." Weiss says flatly underneath her breath as she pushes past Yang.
Strolling into Team RWBY's dorm room Yang notices Blake in her casual clothes laying on the bottom bunk of her and Yang's makeshift bunkbed reading a romance novel and her little sister/team leader, Ruby also in her casual clothes, is at her study desk working on her high impact sniper scythe when she looks at Yang with an odd look on her face.
"Yang, you do know that there no classes and tomorrow because of the Breach yesterday, right?" Ruby asks eyeing the school uniform for Beacon Academy that Yang is wearing.
Yang stares at Ruby for brief moment then remembers the events of the previous days. "Oh yeah, I must've been more tired than I thought."
Yang quickly heads over to her dresser in front of bunkbed and begins to strip down, giving Blake a little show.
"REALLY, YANG?!" Ruby yells out as her face becomes the color of her hooded cloak while she shields her eyes.
"Oh come on, Rubes. It's not like you haven't seen this before." Yang teases, wiggling her panty-clad butt in Blake's general direction. When Yang looks up at Blake to see if she was having an effect, she discovers Blake looking over the top of her book with hungry eyes as Weiss, wearing only a towel, brushes past Yang, mumbling something about forgetting something. Ruby faints with embarrassment at the sight of Weiss. Yang seeing Blake's reaction brings a small smile to her face and motivates her to put on her casual clothes even faster.
Later after Weiss finished her usual morning routine, Ruby finished her daily maintenance of Crescent Rose, and the team had some late breakfast in the cafeteria Yang gets an opportunity to get Blake alone, which she takes.
"Hey Blake!" Yang calls out from behind Blake who tenses up before sighing in frustration as she turns around to face Yang.
"What is it, yang?"
"Before the Breach happened, I happened to win a pair of movie tickets for the premiere of Tiger in the Ballroom this weekend." Yang shifts in her spot with nervous excitement. "So… I was wondering if you would like to go out with me and maybe we can get some dinner afterwards?"
Conflict could be visibly seen on Blake's face as tries to make her decision. "I… I'm sorry Yang. I already made plans this weekend."
"With who?" Yang asks with slight uneasiness coloring her voice.
"With uh…" Blake looks away for a brief second. "Sun. He kept asking me all last week and because of the Breach, I thought I could use the distraction."
"Oh. Okay then. What about…"
"I'm sorry, Yang. There's somewhere I need to be and I don't have much time left." Blake quickly interrupts after taking a quick look at her scroll. Blake hurries down the hallway in the direction she was originally going, leaving a dejected Yang standing there in the middle of the hallway. Yang sighs and begins heading in the opposite direction towards the training rooms.
A few hours and a bunch of unlucky punching bags later, a depressed Yang with her gym bag slung over her shoulder is walking down the hallway that leads to RWBYs dorm after Professor Goodwitch kicked her out after giving her a week long ban from training room she was using for destroying most of the spare punching bags. Ahead of her, she sees Weiss about to enter the dorm when suddenly the door opens up a pair of familiar arms that belong to a certain cat Faunus pull Weiss inside. Curious, Yang jogs up to the dorm's door that is slightly ajar as silently as possible and peeks inside to see an anxious Blake sitting on her bunk along with a dumbfounded Weiss standing in front of her.
"-ll was that for, Blake?"
"Weiss, we need to talk."
"What about?"
"Yang." Blake states flatly.
"Oh." Weiss simply says, sitting down next to Blake and taking her hand in a soothing way. "What about her?"
"Well you know she has been trying to ask me to be her girlfriend for the past year and how she actually was subtle about it."
"Uh-huh"
"I think it's time we told Yang about our relationship." Blake says, shocking Weiss and shattering Yang's heart.
"No. Absolutely not!" Weiss nearly shouts as she suddenly gets off the bed which convinces Yang to not to burst in at that moment.
"Weiss, please. She's getting desperate now."
"Then keep rejecting her like you normally do until she gives up like Jaune did.
Blake rolls her eyes at the comment. "You weren't on the receiving end, or was collateral damage like Ruby was, of an admittedly sexy strip tease she gave this morning when she "accidently" wore her school uniform when she "forgot" that classes weren't being held for the next two days because of the Breach."
While Weiss stands there flabbergasted by what Blake revealed, Yang mentally beats herself up brutally for ignoring the fact that her baby sis was right there at her desk watching.
"For your information, Weiss. I only noticed because I was enjoying the view of your towel clad body as you brushed past her little show." Blake assures, bringing relief to Weiss' body.
Weiss sighs. "My answer is still no, Blake."
"Why?"
"I barely don't trust sober Yang with this sort of information…" Blake looks Weiss in confusion for choice of words. "…And don't get me started on the levels of mistrust I have for drunk Yang."
"Barely?" Blake asks for clarification.
"Remember that time she nearly outed you as a Faunus in front of Cardin and his gang of hoodlums with those not-so-subtle cat puns that were absolutely horrendous to listen to?" Weiss points out causing Blake and Yang to flinch at the memory of said event. "We were lucky that neither he nor Nora caught on.
Hearing this, Yang decides to go back to the training rooms but she remembers that Goodwitch's ban was effective immediately when suddenly she remembers a boxing gym she and her dad used to go to before and during her time at Signal academy. So she slowly backs away from the door to avoid alerting Blake's sensitive ears to her presence and goes to back the way she came. Reaching the end of the hallway, she turns around again, takes a deep breath, walks down the way she came in with her normal walking style, and proceeds to walk into the dorm room as if nothing happened, startling Blake and Weiss from their conversation.
"Y- Yang!" They both exclaim at the same time.
"Oh hey guys. What's up?"
"N- Nothing." Weiss stammers.
Yang gives Blake and Weiss a concerned look. "Blake, is Weiss giving you a hard time about something?"
"N- No she's not." Blake responds rather unconvincingly.
Yang walks over to Blake and pulls her into a hug, much to Weiss and Blake's surprise. "It's okay, Blakey. We all know Ninjas in Love is just porn with plot."
Blake squirms out of Yang's hug and pushes her away. "What do you want, Yang?"
"I'm about to head to into town to visit an old boxing gym I used to go and I just came to retrieve Ember Celica just in case I run into some Grimm stragglers." Yang replies, slowly backing from a glaring Weiss and retrieving her shotgun gauntlets. "Don't worry, I'll text Ruby on where I'll be."
"Why do you need to go to this boxing gym when Beacon has perfectly good training rooms?" Weiss asks eyeing Yang with suspicion as she inches her to Blake's side possessively.
"I uh… may have gotten Professor Goodwitch angry at me and she uh… banned me from using the training rooms for a week. Effective immediately she said." Yang sheepishly replies.
"Oh. And how did that happen, Ms. Xiao Long?"
"I got…" Angry, jealous, depressed "… a little excited about over a personal matter which led to me accidently destroying some of the training equipment." Yang half-lies through her teeth.
"Ah understandable." Blake says as Yang begins to leave the room.
"And don't you dare send me the bill for any training equipment you accidently destroy." Weiss calls out as Yang leaves the room, waving off Weiss' comment. As Yang gets further and further down the hall, the false smile she has been wearing disappears from her face and a heartbroken expression slowly takes its place.
A short airship ride to the nearest airship station in Vale later, an emotionally torn Yang is slowly making her way towards the parking garage where her prized motorcycle, Bumblebee, is being stored. Along the way, she passes by various citizens going about their day, trying to recover from the frightening events of the other day and a large number of police officers patrolling the city with the aid of Atlesian Knight Robots that General Ironwood brought with him. Just when her heart calms down to give her mind a break, she passes by a bookstore and catches a glimpse of a long haired woman nose deep into a book inside the store.
The sight conjures up an image of Blake curled up in an armchair engrossed in a romance novel. When Yang blinks, Blake looks ups at her and a beautiful smile appears on her face, causing Yang's heart to clench. Yang tears her gaze away from the sight and begins to run away without paying attention to where she is going as she tries to push away the memories of the past year of smiles, snarky comments, and Blake being Blake that bubble up.
Eventually, Yang runs out of breath forcing her to stop running. Taking a much needed moment to catch her breath, Yang discovers that she somehow made her way into an unfamiliar residential area that looked like it wasn't affected by the Breach. Yang leans against of a building with the last vestiges of the memories that bubbled up at the bookstore slowly fades away when her scroll begins ringing.
"H- Hello?" Yang asks, answering her scroll.
"Yang? Where are you?" Ruby worriedly asks on the other end.
Yang curses underneath her breath for forgetting to text Ruby. "He- Hey Ruby. I'm currently in Vale at the moment."
"Blake and Weiss mentioned something about that. They also mentioned that Professor Goodwitch banned you from the training rooms." Ruby states. "What happened, Yang?"
"Nothing really happened. I just got a little excited over a personal matter that's all." Yang lies.
"Did Blake reject you again?"
Yang opens her mouth to refute that question when suddenly a woman screams out in terror somewhere near Yang followed by all too familiar barks of beowolves.
"What was that?" Ruby asks.
"Trouble." Yang simply states. "Rubes, I'll most likely be back at the dorm sometime tomorrow. So good luck courting Weiss!"
"Yang! There's nothing-" Ruby begins to say when Yang hangs up the scroll.
Shoving the scroll back in her pocket, Yang cocks Ember Celica then proceeds to rush off towards the source of the scream and the barks. Less than a minute into her search, Yang reaches an intersection where the snarls and growls of the beowolves could be clearly heard and turning towards the source reveals a pair of beowolves attacking the caved in passenger side of a car with a woman trapped inside.
Yang launches herself at one of the beowolves with single dual blast to the ground and she buries her right fist then fire a shotgun blast into the top of the beowolf's head which in turn buries it into the ground below killing the beowolf. At the same time, a red-haired man in a mostly black outfit dashes from the other side of intersection with clutching the grip of his sheathed sword and kills the other beowolf with a single upwards slash. Yang turns towards the other Beowolf but finds the man, who she finds oddly familiar, standing over the other beowolf's dissolving corpse as he sheaths his sword. Without a second thought, she and the man rushes to the driver's side of the car to make sure that the woman is okay.
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" The Ram Faunus woman says over and over with tears of joy as she climbs out of the car. She pulls Yang and the red-haired man, who has a pair of small bull horns now that Yang has a better view of him, into a hug.
"Your welcome, ma'am." Yang chuckles.
"But how did this happen?" the bull Faunus immediately asks.
The ram Faunus looks down and away as the relieved expression on her face becomes saddened. "Ever since those deplorable White Fang released horrible Grimm into the city yesterday, Faunus haters have risen up to form a vigilante group with the justification that the police and Atlesian army isn't doing enough root out White Fang. So before I was attacked by those beowolves, I was being harassed by a couple members of the aforementioned group who thought I was a White Fang supporter who knew the Breach was going to happen just because I wasn't affected in any way by what happened yesterday."
The bull Faunus balls his fists while Yang puts a reassuring hand on the woman's shoulder. "I'm sorry that you had to go through that."
"It's okay, dear. I was lucky a pair of clearly overworked police officers were nearby to arrest the harassers. After that I got into my car and started driving away, those awful beowolves somehow slipped through cracks of the city's dragnets and blindsided my car and then you two showed up out of nowhere." The woman explains.
"You're very welcome, ma'am." Yang says with a smirk.
"I- I should go." The bull Faunus nervously says just before turning around and hurriedly walks away. Yang looks at him and sees the red rose emblem displayed on the back of his black coat. Suddenly, it all clicks into place as to where Yang has seen the man before. Last year after the failed White Fang raid at the docks and during Blake's explanation of her past, Blake showed the rest of team RWBY her sketchbook which contained a photo of her ex-partner/boyfriend, Adam Taurus, and a really detailed sketch of his Wilt emblem.
"I should go too." Yang says keeping an eye on the bull Faunus as he continues to walk away.
"Okay, Dear. Be safe and thank you again for your guy's rescue." The ram Faunus waves goodbye to Yang as Yang begins following the bull Faunus before turning to inspect her damaged car. "Now to see if my insurance will cover this."
As Yang jogs to catch up to the bull Faunus, an idea pops into her head and each step makes it more and more enticing: Knockout Adam Taurus, hand him over General Ironwood, and become the hero of Vale after whatever the White Fang was planning to do fails horribly. Then, she would return to Blake for her thank you kiss for rescuing her from her psycho ex-boyfriend and they would live happily ever after. Yang grins at the idea as she slows down when she catches up to the bull Faunus, who turns into a nearby alley.
Yang stops for a moment to take a deep breath then marches into the alley to find the bull Faunus leaning against the wall. A gentle gust of wind blows past Yang and the bull Faunus sniffs the air with curiosity.
"Adam Taurus?" Yang knowingly asks to get his attention before throwing a right hook at the bull Faunus.
"Yes?" Adam responds with a smirk on his face as he turns in time to see Yang's punch fly towards him.
Feedback and comments of any sort is very much appreciated. It would help me gauge how well I am doing and allow me to see if I missed any mistakes I unknowingly made when writing