A/N

So heads up, if you like Weiss and don't like anything bad with her or hate and stuff then don't read it because if you moan/bitch about it, then I'll just believe you as an idiot who decided to still read it knowing you wouldn't like it, and that annoys me.

Anyway first update will be about two chapters because I wrote almost 8000 words in a day and a half because I just got this idea and it just flowed amazingly, which I will not moan about as motivation has been hard to come by lately.

I don't like to write fluffy go lucky things and there will always be some bad or depressing happening in my stories, hence Ruby being how she is, some elements will be explained here but others I'll only hint at for the moment, yes Ruby can talk, and sing but it is only due to certain things that she will speak, which will be explained in chapter 2.

Oh and I know I've got like four or five stories on but well I wanted to write this, especially with my favourite character IA.

Oh and on a side note, songs will be very mixed depending on what I feel would fit and ones I like, there will be Vocaloid ones, Linkin Park, Imagine Dragons and a few others that I like.

Also this is not in the crossover section as I doubt anyone would actually notice it, so sue me for wanting to have my work noticed.

I don't own anything used in her other then the plot and how the characters act.

Trigger warning for abuse.

Anyway enough rambling please enjoy.


Chapter 1

Two girls sat in the back of the black SUV, tinted windows in place of the normal clear ones the vehicle would normally have.

Next to the two girls was a man, in early forties with light grey hair and a cane between his legs, and a coffee mug in his hand.

One of the girls had long black hair that reached just above her shoulders, she was dressed in a suit without the tie however and if she moved her jacket slightly you would see a holster with a pistol inside, she had amber coloured eyes and her attention was focused solely on the outside.

The second girl, sitting between the two others was smaller than both of them, she had short black hair that ended in red tips, and silver coloured eyes. She was wearing jeans and a red hooded jacket with the sleeves rolled down, hiding her arms but you could just see the white tips of bandages poking out.

The man's name was Ozpin and he was the manager for the short girl in the middle, Ruby Rose or otherwise known as Red. He was a part of a company leading the Vocaloid initiative that found and hired singers, it was mostly from Japan however Ruby was to be the first from outside Japan, but it was a special case.

Ruby was 18 years old, she had been singing for the last two years but in that time she had been using another name, Red. She would do songs that were recorded and released, but refused to do anything that showed her face or revealed her name to the public.

Ruby liked her private life, she liked the fact she could walk around in public and be left alone, unlike others, like Hatsune Miku, Megurine Luka or her favourite IA.

Currently they were pulling up to a gated community which housed all of the Vocaloids for protection and also somewhere they can live and not get mobbed by the media.

They pulled up to the gate where their IDs were checked before being allowed inside, once inside they drove past a few houses, all three stories high and a modern design outside, they drove for another five minutes before finally pulling up outside one of the last two houses in the area.

Just past the house was a large grass area, filled with a number of different kinds of trees and a lake in the middle of all of. Alongside that there were areas where wildlife and plants were allowed to thrive, making it seem like a small forest in the middle of the gated area.

As they pulled up to the house, Blake, Ruby's personal bodyguard got out first even though there were no threats and double checked the area before allowing Ruby to get out.

Even then it wasn't until Ozpin got out of the car and gently coaxed the girl out of the car, and Ruby hid behind Ozpin, gripping his hand in a death grip as she was led up to the house.

Blake stayed a few steps behind Ruby, watching for her safety and making sure she didn't try to run away from them, which was normal for her.

Before Ozpin knocked at the door he knelt down to look at Ruby, "Ruby, you'll be fine here ok? Your past life is a long way away from you now, and you can start anew here. You'll be living with Luka, Miku and Aria, ok?"

Ruby gave hesitant nod to Ozpin, unsure about this but knew she had to go and couldn't live with the man like she wanted to.

Ozpin returned the nod and stood up, knocking at the door while Ruby hid behind Ozpin and from anyone else on the other side of the tall man.

A short girl, no taller than Ruby with light pink hair that had two braids on either side of her face while the rest reached the small of her back and soft blue eyes. She was wearing a pink skirt that reached just above her knees and a loose black top, with a black choker around her neck with IA written on them.

It was clear to Ruby who this was as she poked her head out from behind to get a look at the girl who answered the door.

IA didn't seem to notice Ruby behind Ozpin as she focused on the man in front of her, "Ah hello Mr Ozpin, what can I do for you?" IA asked, her voice soft and sweet, and giving away her main language as she spoke in English with an accent.

"Ah Miss Aria, could you get the other two together and into the lounge area please? I have an announcement to make." Ozpin asked, ignoring the annoyed look IA gave him at the use of her full name.

"Is it to do with the girl behind you?" IA asked the man, trying to look around him to see the girl she saw poking her head out.

Ruby hid further behind Ozpin throwing a worried look towards Blake who made a move forward until Ozpin stopped her from going any further.

IA looked on curiously at the events that happened, still curious about the girl behind Ozpin.

"I'll explain to all of you, could you get Miku and Luka please?" Ozpin asked once more, and IA nodded in response and went inside to get the two other girls living in the house.

Ozpin led Ruby and Blake through the house expertly and took them into a large room with two three piece couch and a large curved TV that dominated the room and a large surround sound set as well.

Ozpin directed Ruby to sit down in the middle of one of the couches while Ozpin took a seat next to her and Blake, even though she wasn't needed, stood in the corner.

Five minutes later three girls entered the room, first was the one who answered the door and then two others, hand in hand followed.

First was a girl with long blue hair that reached past her waist with large blue eye and wearing a large shirt and a short skirt.

The second girl was much taller than the other two easily, long pink hair that reached down to her knees and soft blue eyes, she was wearing tight jeans and a tight top, highlighting her large chest which was larger than the other girls in the room.

As the three girls walked into the room they noticed the one sitting next to Ozpin and looking her over, and trying to work out who she was and why she was here.

Ruby looked at them before looking away and trying to hide herself into her hoodie under the gaze of the three girls walking in.

They were all around the same age, except Luka was a year older than the other girls in the room.

As the three girls all sat down opposite Ozpin and Ruby, they waited for Ozpin to start speaking before wanting to speak up or ask questions.

After a minute of sitting in silence Ozpin finally spoke up, "Girls I would like you to meet Miss Ruby Rose, she will be living with you from now on and so I hope you will look after her." Ozpin said.

Miku was the first to ask a question, "Is she a new singer?"

Ozpin shook his head, "She is a singer but she isn't new, she has been with us for about two years now, but due to some events that have transpired recently it was decided she would be moved here for her safety."

Luka asked the next question that was on all of their minds, "I haven't heard a singer called Ruby Rose at all, are you sure she's not new?"

"I'll allow Ruby to share with you if that is her desire. Any other questions?" Ozpin asked, looking at the three girls and seeing no more questions spoke up again, "Alright then, Aria and Miku could you show Ruby around the house please?"

"Sure." Miku answered for both of them getting up quickly with IA and a hesitant Ruby following behind her.

"Blake would you mind going with her please?" Ozpin asked the silent bodyguard, receiving a nod from the woman she left the room, closing the door behind her.


Ozpin turned back to Luka and waited a minute to speak up, making sure the others were out of listening range.

"What I'm going to tell you stays between us, ok?" Ozpin stated, his voice harder than before showing the seriousness of the conversation.

"Of course, is it about Ruby?" Luka asked.

Ozpin nodded, "I will not go into much detail, I don't even know the full story, but do you know someone called Weiss Schnee?" Ozpin asked the other girl.

"I do, she's the daughter of the man who runs the leading energy company in the world, where they use both unrenewable and renewable sources to provide energy however they have not made it to Japan yet." Luka answered, remembering the person she had seen in the news a number of times.

"Under no circumstance do you let Weiss Schnee near Ruby at any point, and I mean even if Ruby were to ask you to, you do not do it!" Ozpin stated, adding force to his words to make sure it came across clear to the other girl.

Luka looked confused at the man who was one of the mangers, "Ok, but why? Why would Weiss Schnee know Ruby or want to get to her?"

"As I said, I don't know the full details but from a year and a half ago up until a month ago, Ruby and Weiss were in a relationship together, during that period Weiss abused Ruby constantly throughout that year and a half period." Ozpin said, his voice growing cold as he spoke about what his charge had gone through.

Luka sat stunned at what she was being told, unsure what to say next until she finally could, "Why didn't Blake help her? She's her bodyguard." Luka asked.

Ozpin shook her head, "Ruby was in love with Weiss and couldn't see it was abuse, when Blake tried to stop it she told her to go and not to bother them. So Blake was outside, waiting in silence until one day she heard Ruby scream, according to Blake it sounded of pure terror and so she burst inside to get Ruby, I've no idea what happened inside or what caused the scream, all I know is the marks and what the hospital found." Ozpin spoke, his voice full of sadness at what happened.

Luka thought on what she was told, wondering why she was being told all this, "Why are you telling me this?"

"You are the oldest, and while Blake isn't far away you need to be aware that Ruby has had some problems due to the relationship. She is according to the doctors, selective mute, I can barely get a word out of her on a good day. I am telling you this because I want you to be aware, she can speak but don't expect her to, and she also has nightmares that wake her up at night, or in the worst case she doesn't wake up from them until morning and suffers through them, the doctors said it was a form of PTSD from her experience." Ozpin started to tell Luka, taking a break.

"She also does not like being touched unless she touches you first or asks you to. Another person you can't let near her is her half-sister, Yang Xiao Long who can cause her to relapse, which we cannot allow to happen." Ozpin finished off telling Luka.

Luka thought through all she was being told and how to tell the others about this, "What happens if she does? How do we help her if something happens?" Luka asked, concern lacing her voice.

"She wears a bracelet that is connected to Blake's phone as the first response, so if something happens she will be alerted and will be here within minutes, if it is serious enough it will alert me on my phone and I will be here within ten minutes." Ozpin informed Luka.

Nodding Luka thought over anything else she would need to know, "Who knows she is here then? Or about her condition? Do her parents know?" Luka asked quickly, unsure where her family fall into this.

"Ruby's mother had died, and her father was unable to look after her and Yang so her uncle, Qrow looked after Ruby. Her father does not know anything, nor does Yang and they are both unaware where she is currently. Her Uncle to my knowledge knows the full story as Ruby told him what happened, and he was one of the people who recommended she be moved to Japan. Other than that, the only people who know is myself, Blake, her uncle and Ruby herself are aware of what she has been through." Ozpin informed Luka about the circumstances Ruby was in.

Luka nodded to the other man, thinking if there was anything else she needed to ask, "One last question then, who is Ruby Rose? What singer is she?" Unsure who she was as she didn't know any singer going by the name Ruby Rose.

Ozpin smiled at the other woman, "Ah that will be for her to tell you, now I think they should be finished by now so let's go find them." Ozpin said as he started to stand up.


At the same time around the house.

Mike led her small group of people out of the living room and to the rest of the house, their first stop was the media room, where they could watch movies or play games.

"This is the media room, you can watch movies or play games in here." Miku said as she opened the door to a large room with a large TV and a number of comfortable seats all around the room and a large set of shelves filled with a number of different movies and games.

Miku turned around to look at Ruby who was looking around the room and not noticing the two girls staring at her. "Ruby what sort of movies do you like?"

Ruby turned to look at the girls who were looking at her and tried to shrink back from their gazes, before gathering the courage to stop and answer the question.

Ruby did a number of different hand movements to the girl to answer the question, however she only looked at Ruby confused at the hand movements.

"Um what are you doing?" Miku and IA both asked at the same time.

Ruby turned to Blake who was behind her, looking at her to answer for her.

Blake stepped forward to answer, "Ah sorry Ruby doesn't speak, that was sign language. She said she likes action movies and comedy movies."

IA was the next to ask a question, "Why doesn't she talk? I thought she was a singer?" Confused as to why she wouldn't speak.

"She does talk, just not often and she is a singer." Blake answered, in a tired voice as it seemed she had to explain this before.

Both girls curiosity were peaked at the news as they looked at the girl further, Miku started to move forward her intent clear as she raised a finger moving to poke her cheek.

Ruby moved further back away from Miku, trying to escape her hand until Blake stopped Miku's hand before it came close to Ruby.

"Can you not do that please?" Blake asked, and once seeing Miku stop and nod her head she moved back.

Miku then led the group out and towards the kitchen, it was a modern kitchen with an electric cooker and a number of different types of foods in the cupboards on the side, inside the room as well was a small dining table that could fit six people.

"This is clearly the kitchen, we've got a variety of good from western food to more local things, we take it in turns each night to cook dinner for everyone and I think tonight its IA's turn." Miku started, explaining as Ruby looked around.

She knew how to cook so it wasn't too much of a problem but wasn't sure about cooking for everyone, and she signed as much to Blake who translated for her.

"Ruby said that she can cook but not sure about cooking for a group of people." Blake told the others.

Miku just smiled at Ruby, "Don't worry, IA's the best cooker here so I'm sure she can help you." Miku beamed at Ruby, trying to help her relax.

Ruby nodded her head and looked to IA to see her response to what Miku said.

IA smiled at Ruby, "I'll help you cook if it'll help, I don't mind." IA said, she rather liked cooking and even more with someone else.

Ruby nodded again and waited to see where they'd be taken next. Miku led them up the stairs speaking as she went.

"You've already seen the lounge, we tend to hang out in there and just relax at the end of the day. The second floor is the bedrooms, we have four bedrooms but only three have people in them clearly, but now we'll have a full house." Miku said excitedly as she led the group up the stairs.

As they got to the floor Ruby noticed four doors, one of them was teal, another pink and the other was black while the last one was plain.

"My room is the one with the teal door, Luka's is pink and IA's is black, the last one that's just white is yours." Miku said as she took them to Ruby's room.

The room had a large double bed with a red bedspread on it, it also contained a large wardrobe to fit all of Ruby's clothes, a dresser with a seat in front of it and a mirror on it so Ruby could do any makeup if she wanted to. A second table was in another corner of the room that had writing materials on top.

There was a second door in the room that led to Ruby's bathroom which wold give Ruby some privacy in that regard, which she was glad for.

IA was the one to speak up now, "You can customize your room to how you like it, you can ask us for help and if you speak to your manger he can set up delivery of anything you want to buy for your room." IA informed Ruby.

Ruby nodded again, looking around the room a little, already getting ideas on what she wanted to do. Ruby walked over to the window to look at the view she had, her window overlooked the semi-forest area they saw when walking up to the house, and from her window she could see the lake and all the trees. She could also step out onto a small balcony that was built outside her window meaning she could stand outside if she wanted to.

IA saw the soft smile on Ruby's face as she looked out her window and decided to speak up, "I've got the same view, it's amazing especially in the winter when there's snow everywhere and it's covered in a sheet of it." IA told Ruby.

Ruby smiled at the other girl, wanting to see that but knew it would be a while as the summer was just starting to happen.

Blake watched the exchange between the two girls, happy that Ruby was at least making a friend or responding well to someone new.

Miku decided it was time to finish up the tour, so took everyone up to the third floor explaining as she walked. "The third floor is for the studio, it's where we can record music, either singing or playing an instrument for songs. We try and keep as much as we can in-house and get the recording team in if we need to but otherwise this is just for practise and we'll go to the company building in order record songs ready to be released."

As she spoke Miku showed a state of the art recording studio which held everything they would need to record a song or at least practise them, it even had an area with a green scene that could be used for music videos that required one.

The booth had a one way mirror so people could see inside but those inside couldn't see all the people looking in, there was also a number of sets of headphones set up so people could listen to the person in the booth, either singing or just speaking with those controlling everything.

Inside the booth area were some controls as well in case someone was by themselves and wanted to change certain settings without the need to exit the booth.

Once Ruby explored the floor she waited for Miku to take them back down or show them anything else they needed to.

Clapping her hands together Miku beamed at Ruby, "And that's the house, why don't we go downstairs and see if your manager has finished speaking with Luka."

Miku led the group down the stairs until they reached the living room to see Ozpin and Luka standing outside waiting for the others.

As he saw them approach Ozpin spoke up, "Ah girls, thank you for showing Ruby and Blake around, now I trust you'll look after her and treat her kindly." Ozpin asked and once he heard them say yes he smiled once more.

"Well then I leave her in your care." Ozpin said, before bending down to look at Ruby, "Now Ruby, I'll be back on Wednesday to take you to the HQ and after that we can go out shopping ok?" Ruby nodded at Ozpin, smiling at him.

"Alright then, some people will be here in about an hour to deliver your stuff but until then why don't you get to know your roommates?" Ozpin suggested.

Standing up Ozpin smiled once more at everyone before turning to leave, Blake remained behind for a minute, wanting to speak to Ruby before leaving.

"Alright Rubes, I'm not far away so don't worry and you'll be safe here." Blake said, trying to relax Ruby and not have her worry, reaching into her pocket she took out a small notepad and pen and handed it over to Ruby, "This'll help you talk to the others ok? So I'll see you on Wednesday." Blake said to Ruby before giving her a small hug before following Ozpin out the house.

The four girls stood in the hallway in awkward silence for a couple minutes, each of them unsure what to say or do until Luka gets tired of it.

"Alright then, why don't we all go to the lounge and talk?" Luka suggested, not wanting to stand in the hallway any longer.

Everyone nodded in response and moved to go into the lounge, before Ruby went she took off her shoes wanting to be out of them in the house.

Leading the way Luka took the three other girls into the lounge area, Luka and Miku sitting next to each other on one of the couches while IA and Ruby sat opposite them in the other set.

Luka smiled at Ruby, "So who wants to start?" She asked the group of girls.

Miku raised her hand saying, "I'll start, my names Miku Hatsune as you already know, I like leeks and in a relationship with Luka and I love singing and playing guitar." She told Ruby.

Luka went next, "My names Luka Megurine and I like tuna, obviously in a relationship with Miku, hmm I like singing and playing my guitar but I reading." Luka said, following the pattern Miku set.

IA went last, "My names Aria but I prefer IA, I'm pretty open about foods and not in a relationship with anyone, I love singing and making mixes with songs or electronic stuff, I like reading and writing." IA told the group.

Ruby looked up to see all eyes on her causing her to blush and shrink back a little as she opened up the notepad she was given to write down her answer.

Once she was done Ruby looked around at the three other unsure how she could show them what she wrote as it was so small, luckily IA noticed this.

"Here, why don't I read out what you wrote?" IA asked Ruby, who hesitantly nodded and handed over her notepad to the girl.

IA took it and read over what Ruby had written before speaking up, "Her name is Ruby Rose, she loves singing, writing and playing her guitar and she also enjoys reading." IA read out to the other two girls.

All three smiled at Ruby as Luka spoke up for them, "Seems we've got some common interests." She said with a smile on her face.

Ruby nodded her head and then waited in silence until a knock at the door startled her, Luka got up to answer it and found it was a couple delivery men with a couple boxes.

"Is a Miss Rose here?" One of the men asked.

"Yep, hold on I'll go get her." Luka said before going back into the house to get Ruby.

Once Ruby came to the door the man asked, "Are you Miss Rose?" He asked.

Ruby nodded her head and directed the men up to her room to put the two boxes of her stuff in the room before leaving.