Chapter 3: Intro (Part 3) - The Rooftop Crew

Weiss hugged her knees to her chest and buried her head into them. She shivered as she felt the nightly breeze greeted her, as if it gave her a chilling hug of comfort. Weiss was now moping to herself on top of one of Beacon's dormitory roofs'. Her eyes were now dry from the tears from this morning…

Morning…

Weiss ran to a drinking fountain. She wiped bits of cream from her eyes. The tears kept falling as she fumbled with the handle that controlled the water. Her hands shook as she tried to turn the water on, to only move her hands back to her eyes. She then gave up on the drinking fountain and squatted to the ground. She opened her eyes to watch as tears dropped on to the tiled floor. Feeling her eyes burn again, she closed her eyes as she hugged her knees to her chest, to make her feel small as she sobbed quietly. Neptune and Sun shared a face of concern before they both gave their full attention to Weiss. Sun help her up back on her feet and coaxed her to lower her head to the drinking fountain. Neptune turned on the fountain with a handle and let the water splash to the right side of her face. Feeling the cold sensation on her cheek, she cupped her hands and used the water she caught to rinse the cream away.

After a few minutes she lifted her hair up and dried her face with her sleeves. She glanced up to the two boys. Her voice unsteady, she proceeded to scold them, "Are y-you two s-stupid." Her voice wavered, "D-did you have t-to SLAM THAT PIE INTO MY FACE." She shouted towards the end being madder at them than upset about Ruby. The two boys shut their eyes reeled back getting ready for an onslaught of insults to come their way but instead got a,

"Thank you."

They both slowly opened their eyes to see Weiss giving them a rare small smile, "As absurd as that was… Thank you. No one has ever cared about me to make themselves more awkward around others… You two are more like brothers to me than my own brother…"

The two boys widened their eyes at Weiss small confession and enveloped her in a hug. Weiss struggled for a bit before she rolled her eyes and returned it.

"Yeah! We your brothers would always look out for you!"

"Yeah! And this does mean you are our little sister!"

Neptune released everyone from their hug and thought out loud, "… I guess this does mean we got on your good side."

The three of them chuckled lightly at the statement before they were interrupted by Weiss growl of the stomach. Weiss' face turned red as she turned herself to the general direction of the food hall, her heart slowly starting to sink at the thought.

She would have to see Ruby.

"I… I'm going have to eat now."

Sun face contorted and became worrisome, "You have to go through five periods with Ruby in every single one… Sure you can handle it without us there?"

Weiss looked down in thought. She felt the urge to get up and run away but then remembered that she had a reputation to uphold. She faced back up to reply until she felt someone put his hand through her pocket. She eyed Neptune as he fished out her scroll.

"Huh… You didn't even turn it off."

Neptune's thumbs danced across the screen before handing it back to Weiss, "Hey, if you need anything, give us a call."

Weiss gave him a cold stare before examining her scroll. Before her was her contacts at the 'B' section. Underneath Blake's name were two other names…

Bro Neptune

Bro Sun

She faced both of them, "… Really? 'Bro'."

They both nodded at her eagerly. She sighed as she crossed arms, her scroll hanging off her hand, "Thanks… I appreciate the thought… Wish me luck."

And with that Weiss marched towards the food hall with her head high thinking only of what was due today and what to eat.

Weiss was brought back to reality as another freezing breeze brushed past her. She gazed upon the night sky lost in thought. Even though she said 'wish me luck' her day was unbearable. She had tried to avoid all eye contact with Ruby, which was proven difficult since she was the team leader. When Weiss had to give in and face her during a team exercise, her stomach kept churning, throwing off her usual perfect performance in Professor Goodwitch's class. Her unusual behavior rose suspicion from others.

Her back started to hurt from position so she let her legs unfurl and leaned back on to the wall. She felt a rectangular weight from her left pocket shift. She took out her scroll and gazed upon the time.

7:30 pm… Dinnertime has probably ended.

She had taken dinner earlier than everyone and retreated to the roof. She had been there the past hour. Deciding to check over the news on her scroll, she inputted the password, which opened up to the last app that was open. Contacts. There in bold lettering were her 'Brothers.'

"If you need anything, give us a call."

She debated on which one to text to before pressing on 'Bro Neptune.'

Snow sis: [I am up on the rooftop of the second dormitory building.]

Neptune scanned quickly over the text before he nudged Sun, "Seems like someone needs moral support." He whispered.

Sun took Neptune's phone out of his and analyzed it and nodded at the conclusion. The two of them took a glimpse at the people in front of them. They had joined team RWBY (excluding Weiss) and JNPR for dinner. They had just about finished and were only sharing embarrassing stories.

Sun and Neptune stood up, grabbing everyone's attention as they announced, "It has been nice spending time but we have to go now."

At their announcement Pyrrha checked the time and also stood up, "Jaune and I have to go too, it's time for our training as well."

Both pairs exited the food hall and both headed for the direction to the second building of dormitories. Neptune and Sun skeptically glanced back at the red and blond head. Sun squinted his eyes, "You know the training arena is that way."

Pyrrha carefully asked as well, "The guest student dormitories are also that way too…"

Sun observed Jaune and Pyrrha in doubt. He dismissed the thought quickly remembering Weiss needed them now and ended the confrontation with huff. He and Neptune kept walking to the building.

Pyrrha and Jaune stood there in confusion. Pyrrha turned left and said, "… That was weird… Maybe we should take the long way." Jaune watched the blue and other blonde head's forms slowly becoming small as they kept walking in that direction. He shrugged and with his hands behind his head, he followed Pyrrha.

Neptune and Sun made it to the top of the stairs, where the door to the roof waited. Neptune reached the doorknob and opened it slowly. The boys closed the door quietly behind them and saw Weiss, leaned against the wall of the building. They sat on both sides of her, Neptune on her left and Sun on her right.

Sun started, "So… Is this where you go all emo?"

Weiss without moving her gaze from the ground flicked him in the cheek. In a calm tone she responded, "I do not 'emo'."

Sun rubbed his cheek at the slight sting as Neptune decided to take the lead, "What do ya need to talk about sis?"

Weiss looked up to the night sky, "I'm not sure anymore…"

Sun piped in, "You might have a chance… Ruby did say she broke up with that boyfriend of hers around over a year ago."

Weiss dropped her head down, "But she could be straight."

"Or bisexual." Neptune added.

Weiss let her arms fly up into the air, "Other than that, she could still have feelings for that boy she dated… Even if it was a year ago."

A blue eyebrow rose at her rebuttal, "But that was about a year ago, surely it would have died…"

Weiss hands turned into fist and slammed the ground around her, "BUT I DEVELOPED MY FEELINGS A YEAR AGO! I STILL HAVE THEM!"

Sun and Neptune gaped at her exclamation, "T-that long?"

"When?"

"Where?"

"You've got it bad Snow Sis."

Weiss glared at the last comment. She started to wringed her fingers together nervously and almost shyly. Her mouth opened but the words did not stop as she started to vent out what had been pent up for all of the last year.

"When she became the leader I saw her in this admirable light… At first, I had a small crush. To be honest, back then, I wasn't even sure if it was a crush… I was kind of was scared… So I tried to cover it up. I did everything in my power to get her out of the position but that eventually failed as the teachers proved me wrong. But little did I know that I was slowly falling…" Her face started to become dreamy as a gentle smile made it's way up to her face.

Neptune and Sun were pleasantly surprised. Other than her being infatuated for her teammate for a year… She genuinely had feelings for the girl. Weiss continued,

"As Ruby and I got closer… I found myself affectionately considering small things Ruby does and likes. For example she's a sweet tooth, I'm surprised that girl hasn't had a cavity yet… She also likes strawberries and cookies. She's been trying to find a recipe that contains both…" Weiss chuckled, "She hasn't been successful yet. Oh! And when she is thinking really hard or in deep concentration, she twirls the longest tip of hair hanging on her shoulder… Another one is that every time we past roses, she subconsciously smells them or just likes to study them. She says it helps her with her mood. Except white roses… I wonder why? Anyway…"

As Weiss raved on about Ruby the two boys shared a look,

This girl has it SO bad.

Suddenly two yelps filled the air. The trio turned to their right to see that the door had swung open and Pyrrha and Jaune both face planted on the roof. The red and blonde head groaned as they picked themselves up and dusting off their clothes. After they did that they just… Awkwardly stood there… Not knowing what to say.

Weiss stood up and groaned in exasperation, "HOW MUCH DID YOU TWO HEAR!"

Jaune cleared his throat and took a step forward and bowed in apology, "I respectively pull all my advances and romantic thoughts about you away and out of my system."

Weiss face palmed, "At least I know one good thing came out of this."

Pyrrha awkwardly got her scroll out and proceeded to call both her and Jaune's locker. Weiss noticed the small detail and asked, "… What are you two doing here anyways?"

"Pyrrha trains me on this rooftop every night."

"Oh." Was all Weiss could say… She technically invaded their space.

"We'll just find another roof top." Sun stated with his tail on the doorknob, ready to close it when he, Neptune and Weiss had left.

"But the other rooftops are locked." Weiss said.

Pyrrha put her hand on Weiss' shoulder, "That is because we got permission from Ozpin to use this roof for private training… Stay, it is okay. You three can stay here, just try not to interrupt our training too much when it get started." She then faced Weiss, "I get the feeling you do not what many people to find out about your sexuality… Right?" Weiss uncharacteristically nodded meekly. "Alright then me and Jaune would make sure to keep it quiet, right Jaune?"

"Yeah, of course Pyrrha!"

Pyrrha then got a little closer and whisper in her ear, "And thank you."

She gave Weiss a smile before make her way to the lockers and got her weapon. Pyrrha started to check it.

Weiss sat on the ledge as she tried to grasp what had just happened. She looked over her shoulder to see Sun and Neptune talking to Pyrrha about her weapon. She heard a soft thud beside her. She turned and looked up to be face to face with Jaune.

"So… I guessing you heard the whole conversation." She started.

"Yeah… While I heard that, I realized that I only really chased you was because of one sarcastic compliment. I'm at no levels close to where you are with your infatuation for Ruby."

Weiss' head started to heat up, turning tomato red at the mention of her confession a few minutes ago. She then decided to ask, "Do you think I have a chance."

Jaune gave a sympathetic expression, "I'm sorry but, after you left to wash pie off your face Ruby told us how she broke up with her boyfriend."

Ruby asked out loud, "… What was that all about?"

Yang shrugged and egged Ruby to continue, "Okay, okay Yang… So the reason why I broke up with him was because I fell in love… Love at first sight."

"Really? Love at first sight? Didn't expect that coming from you." Blake commented placing a bookmark at where she was reading and closed the page to listen on into the story.

"Yeah, I didn't expect it either… It all happened when I was walking down the street and saw that person… Okay, I was running and crashed into hr-him and the guy who was painting the shop above us also fell, causing us to be splattered with a rainbow of paint."

Yang rested on her left arm as she stated, "So Ruby, ain't I right?"

The rest of the table agreed as Nora interrupted quickly, "What happen did you kiss?! KISS?!"

Ruby giggled at her enthusiasm, "No Nora but, he got all mad at me and stayed that way as we went to the bathroom. I took my time but in a minute he strutted out of the other stall, all cleaned in a new style of clothes – and damn he looked beautiful. He then fixed their sunglasses on like it was nothing!"

Everyone gasped in amazement.

"I know right? But anyways I asked him how he got changed so fast and he was all like, 'It pays for me to lose time.'"

"Did he see or recognize you?"

"I don't think so, we were both covered in paint and by the time he left, I was still covered in paint."

"But you saw him."

"Yep! I saw… him."

"What did he look like?"

Yang then interrupted the series of questions, "Don't even try guys, she wouldn't even tell me."

Ruby puffed her cheeks and crossed her arms, "Well, if I did you would track that person down and set him up for a date… Or tear his limbs apart."

After Jaune finished his recount he stated, "I know I should try to make you feel better but this is the truth."

He looked to Weiss who stared into space.

"Umm, hello?" Jaune asked as he waved a hand in front of her face, which broke her gaze.

"Huh? Sorry… Just thinking… Does Ruby still have a crush on him?"

"… I think so… Her eyes went all dreamy and she sounded so happy when talking about it."

Weiss' eyes started to burn up again as water bubbled up to her eyelids until, a hand landed on her shoulder interrupted them. She turned to see Pyrrha, Neptune and Sun as they gazed upon her.

"Don't worry Weiss, we can help!" Sun asked as he took his hand off his shoulder. The three of them then sat on the ledge. Now all five of them were swinging their feet above the building, above beacon.

Weiss rubbed her tears away and gave out a huge groan while she massaged her forehead. She couldn't believe what is happening. She glanced to her right and saw Jaune and Pyrrha staring at her expectantly, "Oh! Please don't tell me you two are now in on this too!"

Jaune shrugged once again as Pyrrha answered, "You guys did just interrupt our training time… And sorry Weiss… This is too good to pass up."

"Ughhhh…" She exclaimed as she stuck her hands on to her face and looked straight up to the stars in thought. She seemed to be doing that a lot lately.

She let her arms fall as she started to feel more aware of the presences beside her. Suddenly a warm feeling ebbed into her gut… She's never felt this supported in her life before. She took a glimpse at their smiling faces, she felt… Kinda good inside.

"Thank you." She muttered.

Apparently they caught that as when she started to walk away, they all shouted a 'welcome'.

"Hey! Snow Sis."

Weiss looked towards Neptune who had an arm in the air and asked, "You okay with going into the same room as Ruby?"

She lifted her head high as her arms crossed. With her back towards them she answered, "Of course! If you all believe I'll be alright, so I will be."

Hey guys! I guess I'm at the end of a chapter now. So anyways, that was the whole intro-arc. Before I upload this chapter I'm going to change the titles so they all match it.

To Nakfyre (Guest): Thank you for the tip which I am taking into consideration but for the first few chapters (I know the first chapter could have done this but just hear me out) are going to be heavily connected as I need to establish more things (which I won't spoil). After everything is established, which basically the end of this arc, it start to seem more like one-shots but all are connected and reaches the goal. Anyways thanks! I'll make sure that everything you addressed would be in mind if I start another fanfic.

To x. MyrtenasterRose .x: Thanks for the tips there! Little secret – (isn't my first story I written, that abomination is on Wattpad but this is my first on fanfiction. net It is better here though since I get more feedback than over there so I can improve more. I added more descriptive writing over here and a bit in the other chapters, so please tell me what you think :D

Anyways hope you all enjoyed the chapter! I'll see you in the next one!