A/N - I shall apologise in advance, there are some large paragraphs in this but I couldn't get around them, and this took a little longer than I thought to write. What I had in mind for this chapter is about twice the size of this, so I broke it down into hopefully only 2 parts, so this part of the chapter is just the calm before the storm. Hope you enjoy it, and any feedback to help me get better at writing is appreciated. Thank you again and enjoy.

Disclaimer - I do not own RWBY.

Chapter 3 - Treasure Hunt Part 1

Why is waking up so difficult.

Everyone in team RWBY was running around getting ready for another fun filled, action packed day of lesson after lesson at Beckon. Today's timetable involved a very fast paced lecture by Dr Oobleck and his infinite cup of coffee. Then next hour consisted to Professor Port and his countless tales of historical fights and treacherous monsters he had apparently faced. After this combat lessons take place, which were Yang's favourite of them all.

But none of this could start until Yang gets up. Without having any luck on her own, she had to wait for Ruby to shout her awake.

"Ughh, do you really have to be so loud Rubes. I mean have you could have tried waking me up by just and oh I don't shaking me." Yang said still delirious while rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

"Well, just so you know sis, that is how I try to wake you up first. But you never do. So the only thing I know that wakes you up is me shouting." Ruby said with a sweet smile on her face.

Responding with a 'Urg' and a slightly disgruntled 'Ok' Yang slowly made it out of her bed and got ready for the 'fun filled, action packed' day. She had no idea how ironic her sarcasm was going to be.

Finally up, she had to start getting ready, which involved showing, eating and putting clothes on, not necessarily in that order. While getting ready, Yang turned to the rest of her team mates. Blake was sitting patiently waiting for everyone else, Weiss was at her desk sorting through all of her class notes and Ruby was sitting on her bed eating cookies and milk.

Once everyone was finally ready the members of Team RWBY all started to head out to lessons when Yang quickly jumped in to stop a certain red headed sister of hers from leaving.

"Ah, wait a sec, Rubes I just remembered, I need to talk to you a about... about... ah yeah a message from Uncle Qrow. The rest of you go on ahead, it shouldn't take too long." Yang said managing to muddle through the almost flawless lie.

"Are you sure, I mean we don't mind waiting, right Weiss" Blake stated, while turning towards Weiss waiting for her to be a good team member and agree with her. That didn't happen.

"What, lessons are starting soon we can't miss them. There's a test coming soon remember." Weiss interjected while looking back at the rest of her team. But doing this she was only met with looks ranging from annoyance, sadness and ambivalence since to Yang it was funny but annoying at the same time. Realising she wasn't going to win this little war she had started, Weiss decided her best option was to back down.

"Ok, Ok, I understand. We shall wait for you. But if we miss something important it's on you."

No, No. They can't be here while I give Ruby 'the talk'. Weiss defiantly can't for obvious reasons, and Blake, well she would probably be able to hear with her faunus hearing.

"No seriously it's fine, you two go. I wouldn't want the ice queen to miss something important now would I."

Then with that they both decided to leave. But not before Weiss gave her usual 'don't call me that' statement, and Blake asked 'whether she was sure or not'. Finally gone out of sight and around the corner, Ruby turned to Yang with a confused expression.

"Er Yang, I don't remember seeing you get any mail or anything."

Ok time to do this.

"Yes, true. But I do need to talk to you. Let's go inside first." Yang said while opening the door to let Ruby walk back into their dorm first, with Yang following behind her. Yang then beckoned Ruby to sit on her partners bed, while Yang did the same. The room quickly sunk into silence while Yang contemplated on how she was going to talk to Ruby about Weiss and her feelings.

Ok, Ok. Now how should I start it off. Oh hey Rubes, you know how you have feelings for Weiss. No, no that won't work, its took blunt. I need to try and not be me... Wow this is hard.

Her train of thought was quickly interrupted by Ruby trying to break the silence.

"Yan-"

"Right, Ok, Ruby" Yang quickly interrupted, deciding to try and get this done quickly.

"So, Ruby is there anything you want to tell me." Yang said in a slightly stern voice, which made it sound like how a mother would speak to a naughty child.

With a confused look on her face still, Ruby slowly spoke up.

"W-What. What do you mean Yang. I don't know what you're talking about." Ruby said quivering ever so slightly.

"Ruby." She said in a more stricter tone, since she wanted Ruby to come to tell her about her feelings rather than Yang just jump out and announce it, in the Yang way she does.

"Really, I-I don't know what you mean. Nothing's going on. Promise." Ruby said with her eyes darting around the room looking at anything and everything that wasn't Yang.

"Ruby. Last chance."

At that Ruby broke down into a speedy blubbering mess.

"Ok, Ok. Look it wasn't my fault ok. We were playing truth or dare. Then Jaune span the bottle and it landed on me, and well so far I picked truth and decided to try dare, I mean how bad could it be. This was during that time when you came back from gym I think and then just passed out on your bed. Yeah once you got back, team JNPR then invited me over for a while. So yeah I picked dare and Jaune said 'Oh I got a great one' and then he told me to something I knew I really shouldn't since you would get so mad. But, but I just couldn't lose to Jaune I mean come on. So I came into our dorm, then over to your bed. Then I... then I... I-I, I cut of a chunk of your hair and brought it back to Jaune and Team JNPR as proof." Ruby rambled as quickly as possible. After saying the last sentence she quickly put her hand over her mouth, trying to stop herself speaking, which obviously didn't work.

Again silence blanketed the room. But this time it was met with searing heat radiating from none other than Yang herself. Not knowing what to do Ruby quickly mouthed the word 'sorry' to her sister over and over again trying to get her to calm down.

My own sister betrayed me. How could she. She knows I love my hair and she did it anyway. Wait, wait, she was coerced into doing it, yeah. So it's not entirely her fault. It's also Jaune's who I will need to have a polite word with later. For now, I have to get back to the original conversation, so it looks like I will have punish Ruby in some way later.

Cooling herself down to her normal temperature Yang calmly spoke.

"Ok, Ruby. That wasn't what I was asking about, but I should thank you for letting me know about what you and Jaune did to my hair. So I'm going to deal with that later, and first we shall get back to what I actually want you to talk about. Your feelings for Weiss." Yang didn't mean to add on the last few words. But after receiving the news about her hair, she realised, why should I try tell her slowly, I should just rip the Band-Aid off.

"I'm really sorry, I promise I will nev-, wait. My feelings for who. What are you talking about Yang." Ruby said, with at first a look of fear and now utter confusion.

"Your feelings for Weiss, Rubes."

"Pffft, what are you talking about, I don't have feelings for Weiss" Ruby stated, completely sure of herself.

Wait does she really not know what she's feeling. I am right about this, right. Ok let's try a different approach.

"Ok, look. Yesterday when Weiss was talking about Neptune you looked upset and annoyed. So out of Weiss and Neptune, I've never heard you talk about Neptune or anything, so it must have been Weiss you were thinking about."

"I d-don't know what you mean. What are you saying?" Ruby said with a look of even more confusion, trying to understand what Yang was telling her.

"Ok then, why were you upset yesterday then?"

"Er, I don't know. I mean it could have been because I didn't like you and We-" Ruby quickly stopped as she went over what happened the previous day. The more she ran through the events that transpired, the more she realised why she felt the way she did. Then it hit her, the reason she felt upset the day before, she was annoyed with Weiss and how she kept talking about how much she liked Neptune. All because she had feelings for her.

"Me and Weiss, what, arguing. Ruby, are you ok" Yang said while waving her hand in front of her sisters face, trying to pull her out of her trance.

"Yang, I think I like Weiss." Ruby slowly said in a very weary voice after coming to the shocking realisation.

"Finally, now we can get down to business." Yang said with a small grin on her face. Over the next few minutes Yang gave Ruby 'the talk'. But for Yang 'the talk' involved several witty puns about Weiss and Ruby, accompanied by a quite in depth account of Yang's previous relationships to give Ruby some examples on what a relationship would involve. She would have gone over the later aspects of a relationship, but Yang really couldn't find a way to talk about that with her sister, and because she didn't want to ruin Ruby's childlike innocence.

"-then all you have to do is just tell her how you feel, ok."

"Err, I don't think I can do that yet. I don't even think Weiss would see me in that way. I mean she's still hung up on Neptune and stuff sooo-."

"True, true but it you don't do something soon, you might lose her to someone else. Ok, don't worry, I know you will make the right decision. Right, enough about that, we have lessons to get to. Well you do I have a break now, so you better get going, since I can imagine how desperately you want to see your girlfriend." Yang said with a large smirk plastered on her face.

"W-What. Yang, d-don't say that! I mean she's not my girlfriend... yet. Wait I didn't mean it like that. Err, I'm gonna go now." Ruby quickly interjected, while a bright red blush crept onto her face. After Ruby's final works she left the dorm room, said her goodbyes to her sister and ran off to lessons, leaving Yang all alone.

Waiting around with nothing to do, Yang decided to take a shower, in order to get ready to take a quick nap. After leaving the shower and making her way over to her bed, she was rudely interrupted by a incoming message

Buzz

Grrr, now who could that be, ruining my relaxation.

Taking out her scroll, she noticed the sender, and a sense of dread slowly made its way onto her face.

Oh dust, really, now. I just want to go to sleep.

Opening the message, Yang prepared herself for any sarcastic comments and then quickly read through it.

'Finally, I thought your sisterly conversation would never end. Now, I hope you've been missing me, and I hope don't have any plans for today since you are going to be very busy. I have a fun filled day planned for us. Well mainly for you, but I will enjoy watching you dance for me as well. Now, we are going to play a slight variation of treasure hunt. The difference from the original being that there probably won't be a happy ending waiting in the final prize. Now before we move onto the hunt, I did promise you answers to your questions so, ask away. ?'

Yang stood there dumbfounded. After realising that her day was probably going to get very hectic, she then had the task of quickly making some questions to ask the girl. After yesterdays texts she should have come up with some questions but between then and now, she had been quite busy with sleep and talks, so she has to improvise.

Ok, so what should I ask her then. Name, no, no like she would answer that. Real reason for all this, I mean it can't just be for fun there must be another reason, but would she tell me that. How about-

Buzz

Yang was quickly brought out of her train of thought by an interrupting buzz.

'Look I know being blond carries some stereotypes with it, but I hoped you would be smart enough to know that generally, in a conversation, both people have to speak for it to work. ?.'

With one sentence Yang went from a calm demeanour to furious one all in about the span of one second. Her semblance flaring up, Yang gave her reply more vocal than it should have. From her anger she forgot to actually type anything and just shouted out her reply instead.

"What. You little-, when I find you I am going to tear you apart so much that people won't even know which body part is which!" Yang shouted at the top of her lungs. After her outburst, she realised how silly she looked shouting at nothing, so decided to type her still lingering anger out onto her scroll, but as she did she was interrupted.

Buzz

'Ohhh, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I mean you were just taking so long to ask me anything, and it was kind of getting boring. Oh and knowing you the first question you are going to ask is going to be stupid, so here is the answer before you do. Yes, I can hear what you saying, so you don't have to bother typing anything and besides if you did you would probably spend ages doing it. Also, it's more fun to see you talking to thin air, since it makes you look like a crazy person. ?.'

Grrr this girl. I mean it's not like I was going to ask that or anything... Oh who am I kidding that was obviously going to be the first question. So, second question. Let's just get another stupid one out the way.

"Ok, so who are you then, really?." Yang asked, looking all around the room, trying to find some sort of hidden camera or microphone or something, since that was the only way she could be hearing what she was saying.

Buzz

'Well, let's just say I'm a sweet and innocent little girl, who's a bit bored with life at the moment. Well more like bored during my free time. So I thought I would spend it getting to know you, and have some fun, simple as. ?.'

Pfft, sweet and innocent, yeah right. Well I wasn't expecting a 'oh I'm so and so from team something', but that would have been nice. Ok next.

"So, since you want to 'get to know me'-" Yang said using air quotations marks for added effect, again realising there isn't anyone around to actually see them all too late. "-I'm guessing that we must have met before, correct." Yang stated with a triumphant look on her face, like she had just made some great discovery.

Buzz

'Ohh, aren't we a clever one. Well, yes we have met before, and if you're expecting a where and when, you're out of luck. You see I didn't really think at add it to my calendar, soooo I really don't know when it was, sorry. ?.'

"Fine, fine. Seriously what was the point of this, it's like trying to get blood out of a stone. I mean it's not like you're actually being truthful about anything, all you're doing is lying. What sort of question could I actually ask and get a response that is real." Yang stated, having lost all patience with this girl. Yang also gave up on looking for listening devices in her room after looking around twice and having no luck, so all she could do was carry on this pointless conversation and hope for some answers that way.

Buzz

'What, me lie. How can you accuse me of not telling the truth. I mean your right of course but still, accusing me like that. Anyway for a question you could ask, you could ask about the game we're going to be playing soon. ?.'

Wow, this girl. Wait, do I seriously have to ask her about the game, why not just tell me about it now. Wow this is dumb.

"Ok, tell me about the game then?" Yang asked in very monotonous voice, having just given up.

Buzz

'I'm so glad you asked, it's going to be so fun, well for me anyway. So this is a treasure hunt with a twist. You are going to spend the rest of the day most likely, running around Beacon, trying to find three items. Now item number one is a very rare, pristine and handwritten poem written by the lovable fool Jaune for his Princess Weiss. The letter has words that come straight from his heart forming a very heart warming poem that is sure to make Weiss fall hopelessly in love with him and surely thaw out that frozen heart. But that should be fine shouldn't it, just another useless attempt from Jaune to secure her hand. But it seems that after Jaune placed it onto Weiss's desk, the wind blew the letter of the table, then out to the corridor and into Team JNPR's room where it made Pyrrha's bag its final destination. The weather these days it just terrible, and to make matters worse Jaune forgot to put Weiss's name on the envelope as well, so if Pyrrha found it she may think that it's actually for her. ?.'

Thinking about it, Pyrrha must have heard Jaune try to serenade Weiss, and pick her up many times, so how is one more attempt going to make a difference.

Buzz

'But with all this being said, Team JNPR's issues really have nothing to do with you, and I bet you're wondering how after seeing Jaune try to ask Weiss out many times, how is one little letter going to do any damage. But what happens when Pyrrha reads the letter and just can't take it anymore. The amount of subtle hints she's given trying to tell Jaune she likes him and yet he just keeps on going after the ice queen. It's fair enough seeing it from afar, but how would she feel when she receives a letter with all the feelings she feels for Jaune, and what she wants Jaune to feel for her, actually being meant for someone else. How many more times can she take it before she breaks, could the next time be the last straw. ?.'

The nerve of this girl, I am so going teach this girl a thing or two about pain when we finally meet. But I know Pyrrha, I mean it's not like she's just going to have an argument with Jaune or Weiss is it. Wait what if she just bottles it up, who knows what that could do to her and her team. Anything could happen. Right I need to get that letter back.

Buzz

'Next, item number two is a lovely signed, first edition copy of the very famous Ninjas Of Love which is owned by your roommate and best bud Blake. But as we speak someone else is currently in possession of this one of a kind erotic novel. Who might you ask, well ever since someone's 'birds and the bees' talk this morning, a certain someone seems to have borrowed this book for a little bit of guidance. Now I would tell you who, but pretty sure you should be able to figure it out by yourself. ?.'

After reading the message, a look of worry quickly engulfed her face. She then quickly dashed over to Blake's hiding spot and frantically searched for the book, but found nothing.

Ruby...Ruby took Blake's book. How does she know what it's about. Ah that's my fault, Ruby probably heard me when I teased her about it. This is bad, so bad, I can't let her read that book, one Blake is gonna be so annoyed, and two she cannot learn about romance and relationships from an erotic novel instead of coming to her big sister first.

Buzz

'Just thought I'd mention, while you were in the shower, as Ruby was on the way to lesson she may have gotten a text from you telling her to come back and pick something up. But being in the shower you couldn't actually give it to her yourself, so you decided to leave it on Ruby's bedside cabinet, with a note saying to 'Read this when your alone, it will help you understand what your feelings, Yang'. Now, why you thought giving a book like that to Ruby was a good idea, I have no idea. ?.'

Reading through the message, twice just to make sure she got everything, added anger to the worry she had before. Eyes turning a bright crimson red and her hair burned bright after she finally made it through the whole message. The usual smile faded to make way for a very stern expression of annoyance.

This, this girl is going to pay. I have to get that book back before Ruby reads it.

Buzz

Oh for crying out loud another one. How can it get any worse.

'Oh, don't look like that. You look hideous without the usual smile you wear. I just thought I better mention the last item you can get. It's funny, after everything that happened with Neptune, I didn't think you would flip flop that easily. After seeing how much Weiss still likes him, you go and give him a letter revealing your true feelings on the matter. About how you truly wanted to be with him, but his prior relationship with Weiss made things difficult. Oh and how you were so happy when the chocolate came once you noticed it was from Neptune, but had to keep quiet about it for Weiss's sake again. Then to end it there was some hopeless poetry, a few well placed puns and I believe something about meeting him on the roof later for some reason. As far as love letters go, I'm quite proud of it, oops, I mean you should be quite proud of it. Also since Beacon is such a large school, I couldn't actually find Neptune's, so I just gave it to the person most likely to see him today. Weiss. ?.'

Concern slowly crept onto her face after seeing the final name. After everything that had happened over the last few days, she kind of expected this girl to reuse Neptune again. But not like this.

Oh, dust. But Weiss wouldn't really believe that would she. I mean I kept telling her I said no to him. But I can imagine anger still getting the better of her and then deciding to kill me for lying about everything before. Ok so I have three options, and I kind of need to get to all of them. Sooo I'll just do all of them then, I mean as long as I get to each before they find the notes and stuff then everything should be fine, and it's not like she said I can only get one, right.

Buzz

'One last thing, I can bet you're thinking about getting to each of them as fast as possible and solving all three problems. I mean you can try, but once you reach one of your friends and retrieve the item, a message will be sent to the other two, informing them of what they have in their possession and quietly persuade them to read it. So you are really going to regret having your angry, fire hair semblance instead of your little sisters speed. Now I suggest you hop to it, and quickly I might add, who knows how quickly they may find the items on their own. ?.'

With the last text, time practically froze for Yang. The numerous decisions she had to make, deciding who to go for first. Most people would imagine she would go for Ruby first to stop her from reading Blake's erotic book. But since the book supposedly came from Yang, and was told it would help with her feelings, it's not likely she would look at it till she was alone. With classes and everything that would take a while. But what if she skips lessons to read through it, knowing that its Blake's she may want to get through it quickly so Blake doesn't know it's gone. Then there is Pyrrha, even though she's not part of team RWBY, they all share a great friendship that may be damaged by the letter, which is not something anyone wants. Then finally there is Weiss. Being the affected by this annoying girl's previous pranks, if she now gets a letter telling her how Yang actually feels about Neptune, no matter how much Yang would deny it, Weiss probably wouldn't listen and then hate her for it.

Then came what to do after reaching one of the victims of the prank. Since the other two would find out about what they had, the time limit would be even shorter.

All of these decisions and scenarios that were floating around Yang's head just created more and more confusion. Yang wasn't known for being the genius of the group so trying to figure out the best possible scenario was taking up some seriously much needed time she should be spending on finding her fellow team members and friends.

Grrrr, so many things could happen. Who do I start with, Ruby, Weiss or Pyrrha. I think I should be smart about this. Yes. Good idea... Lets run around Beacon and see who I meet first.

With that final thought Yang quickly dashes out of the room, only to bump into someone. Someone who could be quite useful in winning this game of treasure hunt.