The next morning Blake woke up to the sound of Weiss singing in the shower, the others still in a deep sleep. The quiet was calming, it gave Blake time to really think, seconds later the bathroom door opened and Weiss was looking unusually calm; then again that may have just been because it was morning and no one was awake to annoy her yet. Blake attempted to ignore the humming heiress as she walked over to her bed until finally Weiss spoke up. "You don't have to pretend you're asleep, I know you like to get up early."
Blake turned over to see Weiss brushing out her hair. "How'd you know I was awake?"
Weiss scoffed and rolled her eyes. "Please, your ears only twitch like that when you're really focused in on something; example: someone singing." Weiss smirked and Blake turned back over. "Hey, don't be like that! I was only kidding." Weiss giggled as she made her way across the room and began to scratch Blake's ears.
Blake's eyes grew wide as Weiss scratched her ears. "W-weiss, what are you doing?"
"What, you don't like when people scratch your ears?" Blake glanced at Weiss as she began to involuntarily purr.
"It's not that it's just, why?" Weiss shrugged and ceased scratching Blake's ears.
"I guess I always sort of wondered what it would be like to have a pet, no offense but you're about the closest I've got since that one faunus girl from years ago." Blake nodded in understanding.
"I suppose I can see where you were trying to go with that, although it's still pretty demeaning calling her a pet." Weiss' gaze downcast.
"I didn't mean it to be that exactly, I just meant like in the sense of liking when people scratch your ears, small connections, not to say that you are animals." Blake grinned and grabbed Weiss' wrist.
"I know what you meant." Blake sat up, her ears twitching when they picked up the rustle of her blankets as she braved the chill of the air conditioning. "I had better get ready before Ruby and Yang get up." Weiss nodded and walked back to her side of the room and took a moment to take in the disheveled form that was Ruby. When Blake had gotten through she walked in to the room to find Ruby getting on Weiss' last nerve as always.
"Ruby! Give it to me now!" Blake looked to see Weiss' hair clip in Ruby's hair.
"Look, I'm Weiss, my family runs a super expensive multimillion dollar company, I'm rich, ooh la la." Weiss opened her mouth to yell at Ruby then simply rolled her eyes and snatched back her clip when Ruby wasn't looking.
"Hehe, same old Weiss." Ruby suddenly disappeared only to reappear sitting on the end of Yang's bed. The aforementioned blonde was still out like a light and Ruby began poking her in an attempt to wake her.
After a tremendous amount of poking and begging Yang began to open her eyes, Ruby was sitting on Yang's stomach grinning. "Ruby, what do you think you are doing?" Ruby's face fell in to a pout.
"I just wanted you to wake up." Yang giggled reaching up to ruffle her sister's hair and Ruby moved to balance herself on the edge of the bed so Yang could sit up. "You're not mad at me are you?"
Yang leaned back, her arms holding her up, before yawning and dangling her feet off her bed as she braced herself to jump. "O f course I'm not, I could never-" at that moment her feet hit the cold floor and she fell back first on to Blake's bed. "Holy fuck that's cold!" Weiss flashed a glare Yang's way.
"Would it be so harrowing to watch your language?" Yang laughed as she slipped on her night shoes and made her way to the heiress.
"Sorry princess, but that's not happening." Weiss sighed, desperately looking Blake's way, said girl was currently rummaging through her closet to find something to wear and when she finally turned the rest of the team was staring at her.
"Please don't make me get in the middle of this." Yang grinned and stuck her tongue out at Weiss earning one of her classic eye rolls before she sat down on her bunk obviously flustered. In the time that Yang and Weiss had been arguing Ruby had gotten dressed and was now throwing Yang's clothes at her.
"Come on Yang! I wanna go hang out! Sometimes I swear I'm the older sister out of us." Yang's gave a muffled reply and Ruby scratched her head and stood in silence. Yang threw the shirt that was covering her face on the ground.
"I said not a chance, you still have a lot to learn." Blake tied her bow and went to sit on her bunk, but not before Weiss could walk over and drag her out of the room leaving Ruby and Yang with a shocked and confused expression.
"Did you see that, Ruby? Kinda makes you wonder what Blake and Weiss are up to hmm?" Ruby grinned broadly and snickered.
"Come on, Yang. I highly doubt that it's anything you or I would be interested in. Probably just school stuff or something." Yang threw her clothes on and grabbed her hairbrush and began running it through her blonde tresses.
"But those two have never gotten along this well before. Aren't you even the least bit curious?" Yang smirked and Ruby sat on her bed and crossed her arms, her stance on the topic unwavering. "Besides didn't you want to hang out with me? What better way to do that than spying on the most entertaining and mysterious members of our team?"
Ruby pouted and fell down on her bed. "Nooooooo! Yaaaaaaaang!" Finally giving up Yang sighed and Ruby sat up again. "Soooo, what do you want to do? Besides spy on our friends." Ruby made sure to emphasize the last bit.
"We could always go for a ride on bumblebee." Ruby shrugged and skipped toward the door.
"Why not, maybe we could even go eat at a restaurant." Yang rolled her eyes and grinned, grabbing some money out of her right boot and putting it in her bra.
"My sincerest apologies, Blake. I just wanted to get out of there." Blake smiled meekly and nodded.
"I understand, but what are we going to do now?" Weiss thought and smiled slyly when she noticed Blake brought Gambol Shroud with her, not that she ever fails to take it with her everywhere.
"We could go in the forest and spar for a bit. I'm not sure about you, but I need the practice." Blake nodded in agreement and the two quietly took their leave from the school's courtyard.
"So why are you being so nice to me all of a sudden?" Weiss shrugged looking a little surprised by the question.
"Why not? I mean, it's like you said, you're not a member of the White Fang so there's no reason to have any ill feelings toward you."
"Wow, I'm going to be honest, I never thought I'd hear you so civilized toward faunus." Weiss narrowed her eyes briefly but when she heard Blake chuckle she realized it was nothing more than a harmless joke.
The pair continued walking in silence from then on, only talking when they stopped to discuss a sparring place. They approached an area with a river and trees surrounding it and came to an agreement. "So, Blake Belladona, are you prepared for the challenge that is about to ensue?"
Blake grinned, narrowing her eyes and focusing in on Weiss. "Always."
The two took their stances and Weiss made the first move and rushed toward Blake, who quickly ducked out of the way and blocked Weiss' sword with her own. Weiss jumped back and Blake sent Gambol Shroud her way leaving Weiss with no option other than using her glyphs. "Not bad." Blake smiled and considered it a compliment as Weiss rushed her way only to be offset by Blake's blade colliding with hers again, they stayed there for a moment then Blake smiled and quickly used her semblance leaving Weiss confused long enough for Blake to pounce in to the trees. Weiss looked around cautiously; finally taking time to sense Blake's presence she began shooting small bursts of ice in an attempt to disable the agile faunus girl. Blake felt the first rush of cold barely miss her and she took off in the trees, delving deeper in the forest. "That is so unfair! We agreed to stay here." Blake's only response was an ominous chuckle as Weiss sighed and began to chase Blake down only to be outmatched by the faunus' superior agility and speed.
Weiss decided to slow down for a bit as she heard a rustle in the leaves around her and she became slightly more cautious when suddenly she felt a presence different from her teammate. "B-blake?"
Blake had taken a moment to catch her breath and realized Weiss was no longer in sight. "Oh God, what has she gotten in to?" Blake began retracing her steps only to find Weiss surrounded by ursi. She seemed to be doing well enough and Blake honestly questioned if jumping in would throw the heiress off until she heard a scream and saw Weiss fall to the ground unconscious and so she finally jumped in and neutralized the situation long enough to get Weiss back to safety, but the problem was, the remaining two ursi followed them back to the forest's border, Blake had to fight.