Author's Note: Second Surprise Sunday! Though, I did say this was coming, so is it really a surprise?

Just as an FYI, this story was fueled by garlic bread, Mt. Dew, vodka, and triple sec.

I had this idea tumbling around in my head for a while. During Ruby's third year she would be the same age as new students, what if she was bribed to sneak into initiation.


The figure staring out the window gave a deep sigh. Outside of the dorm rooms the sun was trekking across the sky, each trip taking slightly less time than the previous one as Remnant made its way into the fall season. The trees outside already transformed from their normal shades of green to a beautiful wave of yellows, browns, and reds. The slight frost that had built up on the outside of the pane of glass in front of her helped give an otherworldly look to the picturesque view.

This is a scene that Weiss would probably kill to see, but I am Yang Xiao Long and I am damn bored!

Giving a huff that would have put the heiress to shame, the brawler turned around to look at the area around her. Weiss and Blake were gone out to an early lunch. They had invited her to go with them but they went to some fancy restaurant that served things like sannakji and khash and escamole. All of the food there had difficult names and the descriptions that Weiss had given her of some of the food items sent the tall berserker running to the nearest trashcan while retching.

Alright, so what is Ruby up to?

Hearing the telltale scratch of pen on paper, Yang walked across the room to her sister's bunk and looked over the edge to inspect the Brunette.

"Hey Rubes, whatcha up to?"

"Reading" The reaper replied succinctly, trying to discreetly palm her pen to hide it.

The brawler smirked, her sister was trying to hide something.

"Whatcha reading?"

"A book."

The reply the younger sister gave was tense. Her muscles tightened up like an animal who had sensed the presence of a predator and was preparing to flee. Determined to figure out what Ruby was hiding, the brawler began to crawl up onto her sister's bed.

"What book are you reading?"

"It's an old, handwritten weapons journal. It's called a Fechtbuch and Weissgaveittomeanddon'tyoudaretickleme!"

The brunette started to shriek and squirm as the elder sister began to gently dig her fingers into the younger sister's sides. Yang made a grab for the journal as Ruby shoved it under her pillow. The sisters wrestled back and forth for dominance for a short bit before flopping down on the bed. Ruby made sure that she landed on top of her sister.

"Oof." Yang gasped out. "You too big to do this now."

"Nuh-uh you big meanie." Ruby joked, puffing her cheeks out defiantly. "You've had a car land on you before."

"Yeah. I suppose you're right. It's gonna take a lot more than an overgrown puppy to flatten these curves." Yang joked back.

"You're awful."

"I know." Lilac eyes met Silver as the former's owner slowly reached towards the pillow the book was hastily shoved under. "So what were you writing?"

Ruby maintained eye contact with her sister, giving her best puppy dog eyes. "Please don't read it."

Try as she might, Yang felt her resistance melt under the adorable look her little sister was giving her.

"Fiiine." She sighed theatrically, wrapping the brunette in a tight hug. "But I am sooo booored. Come on Rubes, our third year is starting in a few days, I wanna do something fun."

Ruby started to squirm and frantically tap her sister's arm, attempting to wriggle out of the iron grip of Yang's bear hug.

"Need… air…" The reaper gasped out.

"Oops."

Despite Yang's sheepish apology, the brawler only loosened her grip slightly. Seemingly enough to stave off immediate asphyxiation, but the future wasn't looking too promising.

"If you are so bored why didn't you go to lunch with Weiss and Blake? I told you I was going to be studying all day. I wanted to make some adjustments to Crescent Rose before school started again."

"Right, studying." Yang scoffed at her sister. "I didn't realize writing in your diary was considered studying these days."

Finally managing to slip out of her sister's grasp, Ruby rolled to face away from her sister in an attempt to hide her blush of embarrassment.

"I don't know what you're talking about." She muttered.

"Aaanyways," Yang continued, slightly talking over the trail end of her sister's sentence, "As for why I didn't go to lunch with the other girls, have you ever heard of Casu Marzu?"

"No."

"You probably want to keep it that way."

Yang was idle for a little bit, desperately trying to think of something to entertain herself with. An idea came to her. It was a terrible yet awesome idea, but she was going to need help with it.

"Heeey little sis?" Her prompt to her little sister sounded far too suspicious.

The response was a small sigh and short period of silence before Ruby voice hit her ears.

"Yes, Yang?"

"Where is that old combat skirt and cloak you outgrew?"

"They are in the bottom drawer on the right."

"Cool."

Yang rolled off of the bed and landed somewhat gracefully. After she straightened up she pulled out her scroll and sent off a quick message. While waiting for the response she walked over to Ruby's dresser and pulled out the old outfit that no longer fit its owner. The brawler stared at it, envisioning her plan until she heard her scroll ding. Pulling the device out of her pocket she quickly read the reply and smiled.

Setting the red and black outfit down on top of the desk next to Ruby's dresser, she he other side and started opening the drawers on Weiss' dresser.

"Uh, Yang. What're you doing?" Ruby inquired.

"Oh nothing," Yang smiled back briefly before returning to her task. "Just rummaging through your girlfriend's stuff."

She makes this too easy, Yang thought to herself after she looked back at her sister to observe the bright red face that the younger huntress now wore.

"S-she's not my girlfriend." Ruby managed to sputter out.

"Not yet." Yang corrected. "By the way, neither under your pillow or in your sock drawer are secure places for your diary."

Finishing her sentence with a wink to the brunette, she found what she was looking for.

"Ah-ha! found it" The brawler announced as she pulled out one of the heiress' damage battle dresses.

Quickly grabbing the clothes that she obtained from Ruby's dresser she made her way to the door of their dorm room before her sister could respond.

"Have fun studying sis! I'll be back later"

This is gonna be awesome.


Sitting in a small cafe in the city of a Vale, two girls patiently waited for their food to arrive. After passing the time with idle conversation, their food was delivered. Blake inspected her order very closely before gingerly picking up the toasted tuna sandwich that sat on the plate in front of her. The smell of the food made her mouth water and the feline ears on the top of her head twitch in anticipation. She took a small bit of the sandwich, savoring the flavor as she slowly chewed it.

"Ahem"

The small noise made her realize that her eyes were now closed. She opened them to see two icy orbs fixated on her.

"Enjoying the sandwich are we?" Weiss inquired with a small smirk on her face.

"Yes. Thank you for bringing me here." Blake said back, trying to hide the embarrassment in her voice. "By the way, how did you talk Yang into not joining us?"

"I told her that this place serves fancy unappetizing food." Weiss cracked a rare smile, "I have had my share of disgusting 'foreign delicacies' and figured to put that knowledge to use."

"What did you tell her?"

"Ever heard of Balut?"

"No."

"Keep it that way."

Blake fell silent for short bit and heard Weiss' scroll ding from an incoming message.

The heiress smiled slightly when she looked at her scroll, "Speak of the devil and she doth appear."

"You mean she doth text you," Blake snarked at her teammate, enjoying the playful glare she received in turn as the snow-haired girl sent a return message.

The faunus watched her teammate put her scroll back down on the cafe table.

"What'd she want?" She inquired to her human teammate.

The heiress picked her scroll back up and opened it. Tossing it over to Blake with a slight shrug. "I don't really know, random stuff like always."

Blake stared at the scroll in her hand reading the messages.

*sup ice queen im working on something can i have ur old combat outfit*

*Punctuation, you brute. Yes, you can have it.*

Blake stared at the scroll blankly for a few moment before returning it to her teammate.

"Hey Weiss." The faunus started slyly, "I know we just had plans for lunch, but I feel like we should go shopping or something after lunch."

"Why do you say that?"

"Yang is bored, and I don't want to be incriminated in whatever she is up to."


"I'm baaack!" The excited brawler announced as she barged into the dorm room with a box in her hands.

Her task had taken her most of the day. Frankly, she was hoping that she would complete her task and be able to try to convince Ruby of her plan before meeting with the more boring half of her team. Fate was against her, as she threw open the door she received rather bored and disinterested look from her faunus partner and two squeaks of surprise from her other teammates.

Well, atleast I have a contingency plan.

"Keep it down you oaf." Weiss snapped after recovering from being startled, "What have you been up to? We have been looking for you for the last hour."

"Eh-heh" Yang responded, rubbing to back of her neck with her hand.

The slight creak of a bedspring decompressing caused her to shift the gaze of her lilac eyes from Weiss to the direction of the disturbance. Blake was slowly approaching her, lightly sniffing the air. As the faunus got close, the brawler moved the box she was holding to behind her back.

"Yang," The raven-haired girl said lightly, "Why do you smell more like gunpowder than normal?"

"Just a minor accident, no permanent damage though." Yang muttered out with a small chuckle. "but dinner is ready!"

This part was crucial. She wanted to make sure that everyone was in a good mood before she told them her idea. Hopefully the second half of her project today would achieve her goal.

"Dinner?" All three of her teammates inquired simultaneously.

"Yup, The lasagne should be done in a few minutes." The statement was accompanied with the largest goofiest smile that the brawler was to give.

"You brainless barbarian. You left the oven on unattended?" Weiss shrieked in a shrill voice. "Did you thick head forget what happened last time you used the oven."

The memory of what happened last time Yang had tried to make food in the oven jumped forth in each of their heads. None of them ever found out what their yellow teammate was trying to produce, but the end result was an oven that had to be replaced. Ever since then they had made a vow to never let Yang cook without supervision. It was that day when Blake and Weiss found out why Ruby had done the cooking for her family when their dad was out of town for a mission.

"Hey!" Came the indignant reply, "I didn't use the oven. I made the lasagne in the crock-pot."

"Uh…"

Yang ignored her sister's protest as she grabbed the younger girl by the hood and dragged out of the room, down the hall, and into the kitchen.

The lasagna surprised the members of team RWBY. Despite Yang's lack of cooking finesse, the meal was actually properly cooked all the way through. The only objection to be had was the uneven distribution of the ingredients throughout the dish. It was only after they all had dished up and eaten their dinner Yang decided to share her plan with the rest of her teammates. Just as they cleaned the kitchen of the mess the chef had created and made it back to the dorm room she decided to speak up.

"So we all know that Ruby is seventeen now right?" She inquired.

"Yes." The rest replied hesitantly.

"And tomorrow all new the first years arrive right?"

"Yes." The reply had identical words, but the tone that came from the brawler's teammates was saturated with suspicion and worry with a hint of curiosity,

Yang turned and grabbed the box that she had brought into the room right before dinner. With a cheery smile she opened it up and pulled out the item that she had worked on most of the day. In her hands was a copy of Ruby's normal combat outfit and cloak except that it now had white trimming to it. The cloak too was now framed in a white trimming as well. The brawler looked to her little sister for approval. The visage on the brunette was one of surprise and happiness; her silver-eyes were even larger than normal and her mouth hung open.

"So. Cool." The reaper squeaked out.

"Wait a second." The heiress interjected. "What is this for?"

"Eh, I thought it might be fun for Ruby to screw with the new students?" Yang offered, attempting to sound as innocent as possible. "Sound like fun right, Rubes?"

"Yup!" The younger sister stated excitedly.

The heiress huffed and pinched the bridge of her nose, "I refuse to be a part of this."

All gazes shifted to the last member of the team who had yet to give an opinion.

"I am just going to watch," The faunus said simply, "at a distance."

This is gonna be awesome.


Turns out you can in fact make lasagna in a crock-pot or slow-cooker. It is decidedly delicious.

Uh, don't look up the other foods I mentioned. They are kind of gross.

Also, I was hoping to have this story completed today. That didn't happen. So this will get updated on Tuesday!