Friday
When team RWBY would climb out of bed, they were going to notice a lack of yellow once again. This time, Yang wasn't in the kitchen cooking up breakfast for Blake, but rather she was walking the campus of Beacon in the early hours of the morning. She found that the scenery on campus was lovely enough to use as a backdrop for her own internal deliberation. The week thus far had been hell for her. Sure, it started off amusing enough. A challenge issued by that lovely minx of a team mate that simply couldn't be passed up seemed like a good idea, but she started to have doubts that she would ever make it with Blake. Yesterday, that was proven wrong to a certain extent, but Yang still felt a sense of trepidation and anxiety. According to the rules of the challenge, if she failed today she would never have a chance again, and that was enough to almost bring her to a panic.
No, calm down, she thought. Relax. Remember the hint. Why do I want to date her? The answer to that question was simple enough. Because I have a crush on her and I love her. No, that's too simple! Think, Yang!
A few more minutes of consideration gave her the next question that she needed to answer. I love her? Why? Why do I love her? She stopped walking. In the early hours, before the sun had even considered showing its bright disposition, the courtyard she now stood in seemed dark and lonely. That was to be expected, considering the time, and it allowed Yang to enjoy the lonesomeness it gave her as she sat down on a nearby bench; she had just asked herself the million lien question, and now it was time to come up with an answer.
But was there an answer? Could a single word or even a single sentence give her the hope that she was searching for? She had been looking at the issue in the most simplistic of ways the entire time, not realizing that it may have been far more complicated that she originally anticipated.
She leaned her arms on the bench's back as she arched her back to look at the star filled sky. She could see a faint glow coming from the East; the sun was beginning its ascension, and she stared in wonder at the slowly changing sky. "Why do I love her?" she asked out loud for the first time.
How had their first meeting gone? Blake has helped Ruby out during the younger girl's initial Weiss encounter, so Yang dragged her over to the black haired faunus (who was still hiding that trait at the time) to say thank you. Yang's initial thought was that she was weird and too much of a bookworm, but that opinion changed the next day when they met again.
Yang had lost a strand of hair to a pair of Ursi, and she was absolutely livid. Looking back on it, Yang found it amusing. She killed one of the bear monsters and was about to confront the second when it just dropped at her feet; behind it was the dark beauty herself, who had tossed Yang a light, gentle smile.
That smile, she thought. That smile could sooth an army of angry Beowolves. She chuckled at her next thought. Or an angry me after having my hair damaged. Then there was the fight against the Nevermore. Without any real communication, the two of them were able to work flawlessly together. Sure, Ruby was on the center stage of that particular encounter, but Yang still felt as though she had bonded a little bit with Blake that day. In fact, after fighting the Nevermore, she was quite content that Blake was her partner.
She may be a bookworm, but that's not really a bad thing. She's well read, she extremely intelligent, she has loads more common sense that Yang does, and she was a striking beauty that put the most amazing artworks in the world to shame. Her exterior seems smooth and uncaring, but deep down she's lonelier than Weiss, more affectionate than Ruby, and stronger than Yang. She tries her hardest to not care, but she deeply depends on her team mates. Sure, she had run away when her faunus heritage came to light, but what else could she do? Weiss insisted that she should have come straight to her team and confronted them with her issues, but does a scared mind allow you to comprehend such options? As far as Blake was concerned, based on her past experience, we would despise and shun her. That concept broke Yang's heart.
She broke away from her thoughts to observe her surroundings. The sky was now turning a bright shade of blue as the sun rose gently over the horizon. "Guess I should get ready for breakfast," she said out loud to herself. As she stood up, her Scroll beeped with a new message. She assumed it was one of her teammates and checked it accordingly, but it was actually a school wide message from Ozpin.
[Waterlines broken: unplanned school holiday is in effect.]
Yang stared at the screen. Without water the bathrooms wouldn't work, and neither would the cafeteria, and, most importantly as far as the safety enforcers were concerned, no sprinklers in case of a fire. That meant that, unless they could be fixed in time (and clearly they weren't) the school would be forced to close until the issue was resolved. This also meant that breakfast would either be simple granola bars, or they would have to go out to eat.
Then, Yang had an idea.
An hour later…
Ruby, Weiss, and Blake were finally stirring. Ruby and Blake were already donning their uniforms before Weiss finally climbed out of bed. She liked to sleep in a little longer, so she was always the last up. She always checked her scroll in the morning to double check her schedule when she saw the message from Ozpin.
She tossed the device back onto her desk and collapsed back on the bed. "There's no school," she said, muffled by her pillow.
Blake and Ruby shrugged and changed out of their uniforms and donned more casual attire. These two were the early birds of team RWBY; once they woke up they couldn't go back to sleep unless they had a distinct lack of rest. Blake turned to sit on her bed to read when she noticed Yang wasn't in her bed. "Ruby, where's your sister?" she asked.
Ruby turned and looked at Yang's bed. "I dunno. Maybe she went to get you breakfast in bed again?"
Blake sighed. "Maybe."
Ruby stepped closer to Blake and began whispering, trying not to disturb the now sleeping Weiss. "What is it that you plan on doing with Yang?" Her voice sounded concern, and Blake hoped that there wasn't any anger hidden within the light, gentle tone.
"Well," Blake began, but before she could continue, Yang slowly opened the door. Not out of hesitation, but out of inconvenience; in her arms were several paper bags from a local restaurant.
Yang met her teammates' gaze as she carefully tried to make her way to a table, almost dropping a bag in the process. "A little help would be great," she stated.
Blake nodded and grabbed two of the four bags and set them on the desk that belonged to her, as it was the closest. "What's all this?" she asked.
Yang grinned. "Breakfast!"
"Why? We could have gone to the cafeteria," Ruby stated.
"Didn't you get a message about school today?" Yang asked.
"Yeah. Weiss said there was no school before she went back to bed."
"Then she forgot to mention that we don't have any running water for the foreseeable future, and so the bathrooms and the cafeteria are all off limits," Yang declared bluntly. "So, since I was already up this morning, I went into town and picked us up some breakfast."
Blake and Ruby eyed the bags. "That's a lot of food," Blake stated. "What all did you get?"
"Well, I didn't really know what to get for everyone, so I got everyone a bunch of stuff. We have our own mini fridge, so I thought we could save what was left over for later, or maybe give some to team JNPR." She approached the bags and started pulling items out. "Okay, chicken biscuits, cinnamon rolls, pancakes, hashbrowns, sausage biscuits, bacon, bacon, more bacon, just a little more bacon, regular biscuits, one big platter of scrambled eggs to share, and bacon."
Ruby went straight for the cinnamon rolls gleefully, while Blake just stared at the food in thought. "How much did all of this cost?"
Yang blushed shyly. "T-that's not important right now," she said. "I just wanted my team to have breakfast, so it was worth it, you know."
"How. Much. Did. It. Cost," Blake repeated slowly, emphasizing each word.
Yang looked away, not willing to look her crush in the eye. "Over one hundred lien," she answered quietly.
Blake sighed heavily. Honestly, this girl, she thought. She walked over to her bookshelf and grabbed her wallet. She pulled out twenty-five lien and handed it to Yang. "You are going to accept this, you will not argue the point, and you will be happy about it."
Yang wanted to go against every part of that statement, but couldn't bring herself to argue, so she accepted the money and pocketed it. "Hey, Blake," she said to get the faunus's attention just as she was about to choose what food to eat. "Can I talk to you in the hallway?"
Blake nodded. Here we go, she thought. You've been ready for this since Sunday! She followed Yang out of the room and closed the door behind her. "What's up?" she asked.
Yang cast her eyes to the floor, contemplating how to begin. "I was thinking this morning, and I don't know if I've found an answer to your hint. The only thing I could come up with was that I love you. And I do, Blake. I love you. I mean, sure I was just trying to seduce you before, but that had to come from somewhere, right? I don't just sleep around as I see fit. In fact…I've…never…" She trailed off, but Blake knew what she was getting at. She put a hand on Yang's shoulder, urging her to continue.
Yang nodded. "I love you, Blake Belladonna. There is no single reason as to why I do, but that just makes my affection for you that much deeper. You're smart, caring, brave, and strong, but your also scared, alone, and weak. I've known that much ever since you ran away from us. I don't want you to be afraid or by yourself anymore, and I don't care how weak you may be because I want to back you up."
Blake smiled lightly, almost tearing up. Looks like I don't have to do anything after all. She chuckled a little. "Is there more?" she asked.
Yang smiled in return, before adding, "You're also stupidly sexy, and I'm not sure how to handle that."
The faunus laughed. "So, anything you want to ask me?"
She nodded. "Would you be my girlfrie…" she was stopped by a pair lips meeting her own. It was the single most euphoric experience Yang had ever been through. She'd long since given up her first kiss, but it wasn't anything like this one. This one meant something to her, and she wanted it to last as long as physically possible. Their lungs, however, would not comply for much longer. Over a minute passed before the pair separated for air.
They stared into each other's eyes lovingly. "You had every intention of going out with me, didn't you?" Yang asked.
Blake blushed sheepishly as she nodded. "I kind of wanted to do to you what you do to everyone else. You know, mess with you for a little bit."
Yang giggled. "Now I feel silly for getting all depressed yesterday."
Blake's smile faded. "Yeah, I didn't expect it to bother you so much. I want to apologize for that."
"Oh~?" Yang asked, regaining the teasing tone she usually carried. Blake felt a sense of dread, having gone without hearing that particular tone almost a week. "And how do you plan on doing that?"
Blake smiled again as she leaned in to Yang's ear to whisper, "If you can get our teammates out of the room for a few hours I'll show you." She turned and reentered the dorm room and began eating a chicken biscuit.
Yang's grin grew as she followed, and feeling that today was going to be the greatest day ever. It was still morning, after all. There was still time for other things to happen.
Author's Note
Warning: tad lengthy AN.
Finale! Did I do good? I feel like I did! I hope I did. Tell me what you thought about it if you would be so kind. Especially since when I had this idea I literally had NO IDEA what I was going to do. Even when I wrote Chapter 2, I didn't know what was going to happen in Chapter 3. I felt it should have come full circle, though. The title is "How to Seduce a Faunus," but in the end, who really does the seducing? It sure isn't Yang.
By the way, if you haven't caught on by now, Blake's plan was to mess with Yang until the time ran out, at which point she would ask Yang out on a date. Of course, she started to feel awful, so with Yang's final push Blake decided to throw that plan out of the window!
You know what? I'm proud of this. I wrote a serious (with a touch of humor) fic and it WASN'T a one shot. YAY!
I'd like to write more ship-fics, but God only knows when I'll get another idea I'll like. Oh well.
Quick shout out to Half-Blind Otaku and TigerLilly22: You guys are cool and I appreciate your reviews. If you haven't read anything by either of these individuals, I highly recommend that you do.
Enough of this long as AN!
Till next time!
