Hello, everybody, welcome back to Sunflower. I am your lovely author, Vindex. Now, if you haven't noticed, I am a big fan of what if's. They are quite simply my guilty pleasure... Maybe, I don't know. If I find a topic that seems interesting enough to me, I'll try to write about it. And I've just realized a few days after I wrote this story, that I did not tell you all how I came about to right this story. Well, let's face it, Enabler/Strawberry Sunrise/Orange is not a popular ship. How unpopular? Well I did some research and found on FF, there are about 24 stories that are labeled Yang/Ruby. And I, personally, like the pairing. It adds a bit of spice to life in RWBY. So, I was just looking through the stories of this pairing when I stumbled upon New Year's Resolution: Enabling by Dustweaver. Not going to spoil what's in it, I don't work like that, but if you want the 10-cent tour: Yang, Ruby, New Years Day, Kiss, Enter Beacon as Girlfriends, Don't tell anyone their half-sisters, 4 short chapters.
Back to this story, I know the first chapter, or rather the prologue, was short, but that was intentional. It's just my starting point, to how I'm going to develop my story. But enough of this, you probably want to read the story. So, read away! This next part of the story s dedicated to setting up some background before their time in Beacon. I'll see you in the box.
Yang was undoubtably tired. It had been a long two days, from the arrival to Beacon, to the short argument between the newly dubbed 'Ice Queen' Weiss Schnee, to another argument just before they turned in for the night. The first argument was when she was yelling at Ruby for collapsing on her luggages of Dust after a few students burst passed them and disoriented Ruby. Yang came quickly to her defense, but ultimately was saved by Blake Belladonna pointing out some of her family's company's shady business deals. The second was a follow up at night time. And this was just the span of one day. The next day, they were shocked by the headmaster when they discovered that their partners would be deduced by eye contact after being launched into the Emerald forest. And although they were eventually able to find each other, they had made eye contact with either Weiss or Blake. Then Nora Valkyrie appeared with riding in on an Ursa (before it died) along with her childhood friend Lie Ren, Jaune Arc was flung at a Tree by a Deathstalker, and Pyrrha Nikos came in a minute later with the Sam Deathstalker who flung her partner. If that weren't enough, the Nevermore that both Weiss and Ruby hitched a ride on decide to appear, leaving all four parties of two to deal with an overgrown scorpion and bird. But after some good teamwork and planning, Jaune, Pyrrha, Norra and Ren were able to kill the Deathstalker, and the Nevermore lost its head, forever-more (A/N: Haha... Ah, I'll show myself out the door), by the combine efforts of Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang.
But, Yang was also frightened, but because of any usually reasons. It wasn't because she was facing a Nevermore and Deathstalker, it wasn't because she jumped into a mouth of a Nevermore. No, she was scared because she almost lost Ruby, and she was powerless to save her. If it wasn't for Weiss, she would have watched her little sister be impaled by the sting of the Deathstalker. The image alone had cause Yang to stay in place unmoving for a while in the her bedroom as the others slept. Looking over at the time, she found it to be 6:30 a.m. Sighing it herself, she got out of her bed and tried to exit the room quietly without waking anyone up. Keyword: tried, waking up one certain person in PJs.
Yang walked up to the roof, to try to clear her mind of the image. She took a seat at the edge, watching the night stars disappear as the sun started raising. She didn't hear the door leading to the roof open up, as Ruby, still cladded in her usual pajamas, poked her head out and saw Yang. She walked up calmly to her, and took a seat next to her, startling her.
"Geez, Rubbles, you almost gave me a heart attack." She commented as Ruby giggled. "What are you doing out here? Shouldn't you be in bed?"
"I should be asking you the same thing." She countered, tilting her head a bit as she looked at her worriedly. "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing..." She denied as she looked to the sky before Ruby gave her a glare that said 'That's bullshit and we both know it. Now spill'. Sighing, she answered. "You were close to dying there, Ruby. You were almost impaled by a Deathstalker's stinger, and I couldn't do anything to stop it."
Ruby took a sorrowful look as Yang spoke.
"I know, Yang. But I'm fine now, right? She said, pointing at herself. "Nothing to worry about now."
Yang still seemed doubtful.
"But if Weiss wa-"
Hearing enough, Ruby playfully slugged Yang's shoulder.
"Nope. No more of that anymore." She decided, getting closer to Yang. "As your leader, secret half-sister, and girlfriend, I order you to stop being sorry and cuddle with me."
Yang shook her head chuckling, as she pull her closer, and watched the sunrise.
"Thanks, Rubbles." She said, looking off at the distance. "I needed that."
Ruby smiled at Yang before standing up.
"Come on, Yang. We still need to go wake up Weiss and Blake, and get all our stuff unpacked." The two sisters moved to leave, but Yang stopped half-way to the door when she suddenly turned to Ruby, and gave her a surprise kiss, before looking at her with a wink.
"A thank you gift, Rubbles." She said, grinning as she move towards the door. "For making me feel better."
Ruby smiled back, and with her girlfriend, went back to their room.
When Yang and Ruby entered their dorm, they found that Weiss was still sleeping, while Blake had taken a shower and had already gotten dress.
"Dibs on the next shower!" Yang cried, disappearing into the bathroom with her school clothes.
Sighing, Ruby went to her bed and pulled out a weapons magazine.
"So... Where have you and Yang been?" Blake asked curiously as Ruby lowered the magazine a bit to look at Blake.
"Oh, Yang couldn't sleep, so she went up to the roof, and I followed to see what was wrong." She said, chuckling. "She was a bit sad about what happened yesterday."
Blake nodded, remembering what transpired yesterday.
"So, you both seem pretty close..." She noted as Ruby nodded.
"We both went to Signal Academy. At the time, she was in her junior year when I entered." Ruby somewhat lied, but told the truth at the same time, just like how she and Yang discussed. "Her uncle introduced us when he took wardship of me. When we meet, we didn't have anyone but each other, since he was always out on mission. We relayed on each other."
Blake listened closely as Ruby told her the story.
"I see..." Blake said, debating whether or not to ask her about their parents. Deciding on the later, she instead said, "So her uncle left you two in his home?"
Ruby shook her head.
"Uncle Qrow didn't have a home, he was constantly deployed as a hunter, but he rented a hotel room large enough to support the two of us, and had it rented under his name." She explained. "He left us with a close friend near by to watch us, before we were able to defend ourselves properly."
Blake was going to say more when Yang came out brushing her hair, in her school uniform.
"It's all yours, Rubbles." She said as Ruby grabbed her clothes and went into the bathroom. "So, what were you two talking about?"
"She was telling her more about her living arrangements." Weiss answered for her as she sat up from her bed, surprising Blake. "I heard about as far back as an uncle and wardship."
Yang scratched her head, as she chuckling.
"So, you gals already know that we basically raised ourselves." She said, as she took a seat on her bed. "My uncle is a renowned hunter, and he gets deployed a lot, so whenever he visited, we saw him usual for about 3-5 days before he had to leave. So for a majority of our lives, we only had each other."
Blake and Weiss nodded, both understanding in their own way.
"At first, many of kids at Signal avoided Ruby. She wasn't a very social person, then and now. So, I'd spend as much time with her, sometimes bringing my friends along with me." She frowned after that sentence. "But then they started getting jealous that I was spending a lot of my time with Ruby, both guys and girls. I don't know the exact extent of it, but I know that I caught them hurting Ruby in more ways than words and emotions. My closest friends since my freshmen year was apart of that group."
The two girls eyes widened at that.
"I don't remember much from that day, mostly because I don't want to remember, but I do remember that what they did to Ruby was the exact treatment I gave them." She said murderously, her eyes turning red before she closed them and shook her head for a few seconds. When she opened them, they were back to her normal color. "After that day, I stayed at Ruby's side, taking her to her classes, enrolled in the same extra-curricular courses, and avoided any of my 'friends' that hurt Ruby. It wasn't hard though, the last part that is. Most people heard what happened to the group, and they avoided both of us like a plague. Since then, Ruby stayed close to me, and I stayed close to her."
Blake and Weiss shared a look.
"So, you're happy she's here?" Weiss said, still a bit spectacle about Ruby. "She's two years behind the rest of the students in courses."
"Actually, she's about the same with me." She admitted, chuckling lightly. "Well in non-combat class that is. Rubbles sometimes helped me with some homework. She really good in her classes. And she's no slouch with her weapon. Whenever Uncle Qrow managed to stay for a few days, he'd teach Ruby a few things about his weapon, which was a scythe. It's actaully where Ruby got the idea for Crescent Rose. She made it herself."
Weiss took a surprised look on her face about this revelation.
"So, your not worried what will happen to your girlfriend about jealous classmen?" Blake asked curiously, before Yang shot her a questionable look. "Oh, please. I've seen how you two looked at each other when no ones looking."
"Alright, no I'm not worried. Well, yes I am, considering that was the whole reason for why I spent much of my time with Ruby during Signal: Jealousy. But I'm not going to be overly protective. Rubbles can perfectly handle herself, she doesn't wield one of the most dangerous weapons just for show." She said, smiling, before dropping it. "Besides, if someone does try something, there will be hell to pay."
"Yaaaaaang!" A voice cut her off as a plethora rose shot out of the bathroom, and made a beeline to Yang's back.
Seconds later, there was Ruby, dressed in her school clothes and red cloak, wrapping her arms around her neck and legs around her waist (A/N: think that scene when Zwei arrived and Ruby got on Yangs back).
"That's sweet of you to think that. But I can take care of myself Yang." Yang chuckled as she rubbed her hair.
"I didn't say you couldn't, Rubbles." She said as Weiss grabbed her clothing.
"Alright, now that we're all awake, we can begin our first order of business!" Ruby declared, causing Weiss looked at her questionably.
"Excuse me?" She asked as Ruby got off Yang's back, who grabbed a box.
"Decorating!" She said showing the box, which had her and Ruby's stuff from their apartment.
"We do need to unpack." Blake add, lifting up a suitcase. It later opened, spilling the contents onto the ground. "... And cleaning."
Ruby pulled a whistle, seemingly from nowhere, and blew into it, causing Weiss to fall to the ground from surprise.
"Alright! Weiss, Blake, Yang, and their fearless leader Ruby, have begun their first mission." She said, taking a confident smirk, before raising her left arm. "Banzai!"
Yang and Blake joined her a second later, repeating, "Banzai!", before all three tilting a bit to the right. Weiss sighed, before chuckling.
"Well, I'm going to take a shower, first." She said grabbing her uniform. "I'll join you afterwords."
"Alright, team! Let's get to work!" Ruby said as she turned to Yang and Blake..
One Decorating & Cleaning Montage later,
Team RWBY had just finished adjusting the decorations in their room, and stepped back to look at their handiwork. Then, they immediately noted the elephant in the room: the stack of beds that couldn't fit anywhere.
"This... Isn't going to work." Weiss noted.
"It is a bit cramped in here." Blake added, as Yang thought to herself. "Looks like we should get rid of some of our stuff."
Ruby was going to say something, but Yang cut her off.
"I have a solution." She said as she pulled out her gauntlets.
She hummed to herself a tone (A/N: I Burn Remix's beginning) as she moved to the newly sewed curtains and opened them and the Windows. She then moved to where her bed was. Ruby's eyes widened when she realized what she was going to do.
"Yang, if your doing what I think your doing, then-"
She never got to finish her sentence, since Yang grabbed her bed, and moved close to the window. She then threw it out the window into the sky, before she blasted the bed three times with the Ember Celica. It was obliterated into tiny splinters and feathers.
"Problem solved." She said, turning around with her eyes closed and a sweet smile as the three girls stared at her with looks of amusement (Blake), anger (Weiss), and somewhat embarrassment (Ruby). "Now we just move this bookcase here over next to wherever Blake is sleeping."
"WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!" Weiss shouted, fuming smoke out of her ears.
Blake was also curious, but Ruby already know the answer.
"It's simple really: we have three beds now. Since you have a bed and Blake has a bed, that means me and Rubbles share the last." She said innocently as Ruby facepalmed. "We shared a bed back in our hotel, we can share a bed here."
Weiss calmed down a tad bit from the explanation.
"So why didn't you just give it back to the faculty instead of destroying it?" She asked a bit more calmly, as Yang grinned.
"It's more fun that way."
This time, Weiss smacked her own head at that, but Ruby interrupted any comments that she was going to say.
"Alright, our second order of business is..." She held on to the last word before she sighed dejectedly. "Classes." She took a book that held their schedule and took a look at it. "At 9 o'clock we have-"
Just like how Ruby interrupted her, Weiss cut her off.
"Wait did you say 9:00?" She said as Ruby looked at the book again, before nodding. "It's 8:45, you dunce!"
Weiss rushed out of the dorm as the other three watched her run. They turned to see Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora and Ren, Team JNPR, before it clicked.
"T-to Class!" She shouted as the three ran behind Weiss, Team JNPR close behind them.
Vindex's little box of Authors Notes
Welcome back to the box! Where all my ideas, thoughts, and sometimes my anger are placed in. Couple of things that I have for you, two story related and one crossover idea that's been bugging me since I thought about it. First, the story related; I may not have been clear when I said in the summary 'keep their relationship a secret'. What I meant by that is not 'keep the fact they're in a relation a secret' but rather 'keep the fact that they're sisters a secret'. Also, because of their different last names, they weren't assumed to be sisters when they were in Signal. And I feel like Ruby knows her stuff when it comes to schooling, if not, well she knows now. And now over to the crossover idea, that I may or may not be considering on doing. I'm going to stop beating around the bush and just get right out and say it: RWBY x Punch-out! (Wii version). I'm just wondering how no one hasn't thought about it, I mean we have the blonde bombshell boxer vs some of the toughest boxers around, just imagine if you gave them an aura and put them against Yang. That's really all I have for you all, I may or may not consider doing it, let me know what your opinion is, since, as of right now, my focus is on Sunflower and Survivor.
See ya around,
Vindex