AN: So, I am back with another writing. Once again I don't own anything. RWBY, all it's characters, and the setting is owned by Roosterteeth, I own nothing so please, oh please, don't sue me please. I am a poor college student and own nothing.
Good Night's Sleep
It wasn't entirely Yang's fault that Ruby was in this predicament. Yang had always known that Ruby would sleepwalk when sleeping in a new place and usually either took precautions or corralled Ruby back to bed before she could wander too far. However, at Oum knows when at night, when said red head was standing under a rather small overhang in front of a cabin in the woods with a torrential downpour behind her, she found it rather hard not to blame her older sister.
"Stupid Yang, stupid sleepwalking, I went to bed before Yang so she should have caught me leaving." Grumbled the young prodigy as she pressed against the door to keep too much of the angry liquid from getting on her pajamas. Looking out into the inky blackness of the surrounding woods, Ruby squinted and tried to figure out where she was. The camp was pretty small so she couldn't have wandered too far. Letting out an aggravated sigh, Ruby gave up on trying to figure out where she was, so instead she started trying to get into the cabin and out of the rain.
After a few moments of feeling around in the dark, Ruby's hand finally found the doorknob. As she was turning the doorknob, she hesitated. Half of Beacon's first year teams were at a camp deep in the woods of the Forever Fall with professor Peach on a botany field trip for the weekend. Ruby might get lucky and this might be Weiss', Blake's, or Velvet's cabin… or it could be someone like Cardin's cabin. Blanching at the thought, Ruby had to hold herself to the door to keep her from jumping away from the door and out into the soaking rain.
Taking a moment to try and calm herself, Ruby weighed her options. 'I could try and brave the heavy rain and dark to try and get back to the cabin ' Ruby smiled at the idea of her own bed again, but the smile quickly disappeared when she thought of the specific downsides to the plan. 'but I'll be sooooo soaked when I get there and these are the only pair of pajamas I have!'
Pouting at the thought, Ruby considered her other option. 'I could try knocking and seeing if anyone is awake here. I mean, this could be Weiss' or Velvet's cabin and I know them.' A mental image of Ruby and one of her friends sitting around laughing in what looked to be a slumber party ran through her head. 'But what if it's someone like Cardin? Oh Oum, what if they don't sleep in decent clothes?' After that mental image, Ruby was almost sure her blush was bright enough to light up the area around the cabin, but one thing she was sure of was that she wasn't going to be knocking on any doors tonight.
Ruby probably would have stood there all night, stuck between the fear of either going back to her cabin in the torrential rain and inky darkness or risking the incredibly awkward proposition of what people might sleep in at night if not for a little nudge.
In a burning flash of light, lightning cracked against the ground some short distance nearby in a roaring cacophony of light and noise. Ruby was through the door, into the cabin, and had jumped into the first bed she could find before the bright light had faded. Trying to calm her thundering heart and control her breathing, Ruby nearly groaned when she realized what she had done. Clenching her eyes shut in preparation for the incoming assault of words and questions, Ruby almost missed the noise of deep but slow breathing.
Slowly opening one silver eye in curiosity, Ruby came face to back with a well-muscled shoulder. Glancing up and down the back in quiet appreciation Ruby gave a small murmur of surprise; it was well muscled, not buff muscled like most people at Beacon but more lean muscled like someone with a wiry frame. Catching herself staring, Ruby mentally scolded herself for her Yang like behavior and looked upwards at the head. She couldn't tell much from the hair in the darkness other than it was a short, shocking yellow.
Deciding that it'd be rather rude to sleep in someone else's bed, especially when they're in it, Ruby was halfway up to get out of the bed and try to find another place to sleep when the other person rolled over and caught her in a half hug with one arm under her head like a pillow and the other over her arm and onto her back.
Not quite managing to bite down a yelp, Ruby tried to force down a blush and her racing heart as she tried not to wake the other occupant. After a few moments of deep breathing and trying to be as still as possible, Ruby realized something; the other person smelled like a fresh bakery. Ruby knew only one person who smelled like that. Eyes snapping open and up to the face of her semi-captor, Ruby's glowing blush returned full force as she tried to contain her yelp of surprise.
"Jaune?!" Ruby half shouted, half whispered in surprise as she tried not to wriggle too hard out of the blonde goofball's surprising iron-like arms. "Oh man, I bet this is Yang's fault." Whined Ruby as she continue to try and escape. Lately Yang had been teasing Ruby about her 'attraction' to the cheery goofball of a knight and while the crimson hooded huntress would never admit it there had been certain… feelings she'd been having when hanging out with leader of team JNPR.
"Ooouuuummmm, Yang would have a field day if she could see me here." Ruby quietly groaned as she finally gave up on escaping from her best male friend's ironclad grip, it seemed like every time she tried to wriggle out of his grip it'd only tighten and draw her closer to his rather impressively muscled chest. Puffing in frustration, the smaller reaper took a moment to rest. 'Wow… I guess Pyrrha's extra sessions really have been paying off. ' Ruby idly mused as she looked the goofy knight's physique over.
For a few seconds Ruby was content to just to lay there in Jaune's arms and rest a bit as he quietly slept away before a thought from earlier came to the red head's mind that made her freeze in panic and blush to a luminescent point. Slowly, almost to the point of being glacially slow, Ruby's panicky, silver eyes trailed down Jaune's body. Slowly but surely, her eyes crept towards his waist while her heart continued to beat at a breakneck pace that threatened to burst out of her ribs.
After what felt like an eternity, Ruby's eyes hit the sheets just below the blonde's navel and thankfully the hem of a pair of sweat pants. The relief for Ruby was palpable as she let out a huge sigh of relief… Which apparently agitated Jaune as he pulled Ruby even closer and brought the red headed prodigy into a full hug, her body essentially flush against his, before giving a content sigh. Now Ruby was firmly stuck in the larger boy's arms.
Giving a sigh of defeat, the red head reached up and pulled her sleep mask down over her blushing face. 'I guess I'll just have to hope that I can wake up and escape before Jaune does.' Thought Ruby as she settled in, giving off a sigh as she rested her head of the blonde's arm. Within minutes, the soft sounds of deep breathing and pelting rain on the roof had lulled the red head into a peaceful sleep.
Luckily Ruby had always been a light sleeper. When she woke, the early pale, pre-dawn light of the forest was just streaming into the cabin's window above the door and onto the two teens in bed.
Well, cabin was a generous definition; most of the cabins at the camp were two beds to a room with an attached bathroom. However, Jaune's cabin was in the old supply building as there hadn't been enough room in the other cabins and Jaune was the only person without a partner due to a sudden illness on Pyrrha's part.
As a result, the blonde knight had an old, smaller bed in a small, narrow, almost cell like room. Ruby was pretty sure the blonde knight wasn't really comfortable here in the old building but he had adamantly stated that he was fine with the current state of affairs.
'He certainly sleeps sound enough for his claims to be true.' Thought the red head as she removed her sleep mask and took in her surroundings. The light of pre-dawn made the boy seem much paler than normal, but it also made him look a bit more peaceful… and it did wonders to his muscles making them look like those of a statue of some ancient hero. 'No! Bad brain!' yelled Ruby in her head as she buried her face in the blonde's elbow and fought down a blush. 'No more Yang thoughts!'
Jaune was spread eagle on his back, one arm over his stomach and the other still Ruby's impromptu pillow. Ruby, for her part, was still flush to the blonde's chest, snuggled close to his rather warm body.
Blushing some more at her proximity, the red head jumped out of the bed in her haste to remove herself from the awkward situation. Deciding she'd out stayed her welcome, Ruby made for the door to leave. But before she left, the reaper turned to the sleeping blonde and smiled before letting out a small whisper. "Ummm… Thank you."
As soon as she'd spoke, the door was open and she was gone in a burst of rose petals as her semblance carried her across the wet and chilly morning in a short few bursts of speed. Within seconds she was at the door of her cabin. After taking a moment to quiet herself so she wouldn't wake her sister, Ruby opened the door a smidgen and shimmied inside before quietly closing the door.
Sighing in relief, Ruby started towards her bed before a small chuckle stopped her. "Sleep well sis?" Spinning on her heel, Ruby came face to face with her older sister, Yang Xiao Long. The older blonde was smiling in ill concealed humor as she leaned against the headrest of her bed, one of Blake's books in hand.
"NO!" Yelled the younger girl as she pushed away her shock at the fact that her sister was awake and put her hands on her hips. She glared at the older girl with annoyance for a second before looking to the side as she thought about the question. "Well, actually yes but that's beside the point!" Correcting herself and preparing her verbal assault, Ruby marched up to her sister's bed and pouted. "Why was I out in the rain last night? You didn't let me sleep walk yesterday night!"
Ruby's cries seemed to fall on deaf ears as Yang's grin increased and she raised an eyebrow. "Oh really? If you were in the rain last night, then how did you manage to get a good night's sleep?" Asked the older blonde as she tried to keep the laughter out of her voice.
Ruby shuffled a bit as she answered the question, her ire slightly reduced from the distraction. "Well, I ended up in the doorway of a cabin before the rain started apparently and then some lightning struck nearby and I kinda had to go into the cabin and sleep there." Explained Ruby, bashfulness evident in both her voice and face. Yang seemed to break out into chuckles at this and it made Ruby squint her eyes in suspicion.
"That so?" Asked Yang, her face a rosy red from trying, and failing, to contain her laughter. "Who did you have to share a bed with?" Ruby looked away with a crimson blush lighting her face up as she stuttered and tried to redirect the conversation before suddenly stopping dead as it all clicked together and Yang broke out into laughter.
Jumping onto Yang's bed, the red head started hitting her sister in fury as the older blonde laughed away in hysteria. "YAAAAANNNGGGGG!" Screamed Ruby in embarrassment as she continued to beat on her meanie of an older sister, embarrassment making her face flush a deep rose red. "WHY AND HOW COULD YOU DO THAT!"
The older girl of the two sisters continued with her sidesplitting laughter before she managed to choke out an answer between the hiccups and her sister's fists bouncing against her toned stomach. "We-Well since you've be-been making doe eyes at Vomit boy f-for the better part of a semester… some others and I thought you should just sleep on it." The answer seemed to infuriate the smaller girl even more, making her renew her assault with vigor as the two sisters wrestled in the sheets for domination.
"YAAANNNGGG! No puns, not about this PLEASE!" Pouted Ruby as she sat on her sister's back, the blonde bruiser having finally conceded defeat after a vicious battle with her sister. For a few moments the two sisters sat in silence, the only noise between the two being the odd hiccup from Yang and the occasional huff of irritation from Ruby. Finally, Ruby broke the silence. "So who else felt the need to be a… matchmaker with Jaune and me?" Asked Ruby as she tried to figure out who else would help her sister.
"Nora and I," Whipping her head over to her own bed Ruby saw Blake calmly sitting on it, her face buried in another of her books. "Your sister asked me to help her, and Nora felt that you and Jaune would be cute together." Ruby just sat on her sister; silver eyes wide in shock and betrayal as Blake stood up, closed her book, and left. "Talk to you guys later."
For what felt like an eternity all was quiet in the cabin as the two sisters sat in slight shock at Blake's blunt confession. "Well that was a thing." Muttered Yang blandly as she lay face down in the bed. Ruby just blankly looked at where Blake had left as she processed the recent turn of events. She wasn't so bad that Blake, who normally respected everyone's privacy, would side with her sister and play matchmaker… was she? Giving one last huff, Ruby jumped from Yang's back and trudged over to her own bed to sleep for a little longer.
For a few minutes the room was quiet. "Love you too sis." Groaned Yang as she rubbed her back and the various small bruises from Ruby's more agitated strikes. Yang's only response was a one-fingered hand gesture and one last huff.
It wasn't entirely Ruby's fault that Yang was in this predicament. The beds in the cabin were lumpy at best and rock hard at worse and conducting a complex operation to guide a sleepwalking Ruby to Jaune's cabin in the dark with a bubbly Nora and slightly reluctant Blake while trying to avoid the night sentries and out run the coming storm was like herding cats, exploding ninja cats at that.
However, when Yang was dipping in and out of sleep at the breakfast table with her adorable little sister doing her best to glare a hole in Yang's skull, it was hard not to blame the little red head's smack down this morning for her tired state of affairs.
"Geez Yang, you look like death warmed over." Looking up, Yang had to hide her smirk as Ruby broke the death stare in quiet embarrassment while the blonde, goofball knight of team JNPR, Jaune Arc, took a seat next to her and across from Ruby. Smiling in concern, the blonde knight gave her face a look over, noting the bags under her eyes and the drained complexion to the normally vibrant bruiser. "Bad night?" Quiet concern laced his voice as he started his breakfast of pancakes and looked to her for a response, completely missing her sister's nearly luminescent blush.
Yang smiled as she gave a large yawn and stretched. "Nah, nowhere near as bad as Ruby's." Ruby paled as she froze and sent a look of utter terror to her sister in a brief millisecond message before Jaune turned to her, that stupid caring concern etched on his face now. He didn't even have to ask the question as Ruby ducked her head in embarrassment.
"I'm fine, just uhhhh…" Ruby stumbled to think of a decent excuse that'd get Jaune off her back with minimum questions so she could violently kill her sister later. "The thunder kept me up last night." It was kind of a flimsy excuse as she was sure that Jaune hadn't heard any thunder and she was also pretty confident that the lightning and thunder were part of Nora's semblance.
Next to Ruby, Weiss raised a white eyebrow in confusion as she quietly munched on her apple. She knew for a fact that Ruby was always awkward like this around that blunder of a leader from team JNPR, but there hadn't even been any lasting thunder last night. She was about to point out Ruby's fallacy when a look from Blake silenced her. Weiss wouldn't confess to be the best of friends with the faunus ninja, but the chilly heiress knew Blake well enough to know a 'I can explain it later' look when she saw one. Biting her tongue, Weiss let the situation play out in all its awkward glory.
"Really? " Asked Jaune, surprise evident in his voice as he scratched his head. "Wow, I must have really been out last night." Ruby seemed to shrink more into herself as the conversation went on. Chuckling a bit, the blonde knight continued. "Hehe, it's actually funny. Last night was the first good night of sleep I've had since we got here, I wonder why?" By now Ruby was positively glowing with a blush, Yang was trying her hardest not to laugh, and Weiss was confused if immensely entertained.
For a few moments it looked as if time had frozen as everyone at the table just sat there either on the edge of hysterical laughter, blinding panic, or utter confusion. Then it all snapped at once.
Yang broke into hysterical laughter as Ruby jumped from the table nearly yelling, "Sorrygottagodosomethingbye!" Then before anyone could question her, the red head went running off through the cafeteria hall, dodging people and weaving through the breakfast line. Blake quietly chuckled from behind her book and Weiss just shook her head in exasperation while Jaune looked around confused.
"Uhhhh did I say something?" Asked Jaune as he looked towards the crimson blur that was Ruby, fluttering rose petals trailing in her wake as her semblance shot her out the cafeteria hall's door. Jaune's remark just made Yang laugh a little harder and increased Jaune's confusion. "No seriously guys, what did I do? Guys?"
AN: Haha! Oh lord almighty, I have discovered something; shipping is easy, writing it not so much. So before I start apologize for the sudden shipping syndrome and/or poor quality, I'm going to link the wonderful Exvnir from deviantart who made the piece that inspired me so. Just fill the spaces with periods in the following link if you'd like to see it, once again cheers to the wonderful Exvnir on Deviantart.
Exvnir Deviantart com/art/RWBY-Good-night-s-sleep-393167759?q=gallery%3AExvnir%2F42162042&qo=86
Now, onto business… I apologize if this is a poor piece but I figured I would try my hand at writing a little one-shot shippette fic and as this is my first little shipperific fic so I'd greatly appreciate constructive criticism, especially on the character interactions as I think that's my personal weak spot here.
Also, thank you to Lord Revan Flame, LadWatcher, AnAustrailianGamer, and VedranThell. All of whom reviewed my other work, History Lesson, it was my first piece and it was rushed and kind of had a contrived plot, but hey thanks to you guys (and/or gals) because it gave me the courage to press on and (hopefully) get better.
Anyhow, sorry for the monstrous AN, if you've made it this far then I thank you for reading this, putting up with my hopeless rambling, and hope you have a great day, night, or any other unit of time you happen to use. Cheers and have a great one.