Blake

Being calm and trusting was apparently harder than it seemed for Yang as evidenced by her outburst during dinner. After yelling at Weiss and nearly starting a whole entire event I had to interrupt her. She stormed out seemingly to just get away from everyone for a bit. I had no problem obliging her desire to be alone for a tiny bit. It gave me a chance to be on my own for a little while myself while Ruby and Weiss went to eat outside. Weiss definitely needed the new location as even I could feel the multiple pairs of eyes on our table. It didn't bother me any as I was used to that kind of thing. The other students would get bored eventually and move on to their own conversations.

I gave it thirty minutes of alone time before I finally got up to go check on Yang. Most likely she was just fuming to herself in our room. Leaving the cafeteria gave me a look at Ruby and Weiss hanging around a tree. Ruby seemed to be happy with their situation. She had a wide smile and was just chatting along without a care. Weiss seemed to go along with whatever Ruby was talking about. I swear I could even spot the normally cold girl pop a smile every now and then. They were so cute together in my mind that I hoped I was actually right about how Ruby was feeling about her. Unfortunately it wasn't the time to be rooting for anyone as I needed to see if Yang had managed to decompress herself without breaking anything.


I was met with a locked door when I finally got to our dorm. It gave me a small chuckle as I just put my key in and opened it anyway. I cracked the door slightly open and spoke into it. "You know we all have keys, right?" I meant it as a joke mostly but I was met with anger.

"I just wanted to be alone!" Yang yelled from inside. I opened the door more and saw her up in her bunk bed with a leg hanging off the edge. It seemed to be a very relaxed position for someone who was supposedly pissed off. Walking in and closing the door earned a look from the blond girl who lifted herself up. There wasn't any anger on her face anymore like before. "You here to complain about how I still blew up at Weiss despite our talk earlier?" She asked me.

"To be fair, I didn't think it would be an instantaneous change," I explained to her. "You know Weiss was just going to call Ruby a dolt like she always, right?" I asked. Yang must have agreed because she stopped meeting my eyes and instead was looking across the room to look at our teammates' beds. I walked up to her and gave her free swinging leg a pat. "I don't think Weiss is going to hurt Ruby, Yang. At least, not on purpose."

Yang pulled her leg up on reflex. "What do you mean?" She asked.

"You saw how it went when she found out about me being a faunus," I started. "Socially, she has her moments of being insensitive but she feels guilty if she does hurt someone. A trait that I doubt her father shares. You get what I'm saying? If she felt guilty about insulting me, she would probably break pretty fast if she got a taste of your sister's pouting face."

Yang sighed. "You're probably right. I just don't want Ruby to deal with what I did," She said.

I gave her a quick smile and jumped up to her bed, careful not to knock it off our book supports. "I swear, sometimes you act more like her mom than her sister," I pointed out.

Yang just rolled her eyes. "I may as well have been. She never knew her mother. I can't even count the amount of times I had to help her sleep after she had a bad nightmare or something."

"What about your dad?" I asked. "Wasn't he there too?"

"I mean," Yang began. "He was, but he was a dad, you know? It was just never the same as that protective, loving feeling. At least, that's how I think it's supposed to be."

I gave her a questioning glance. "That's how you think?"

Yang shrugged her shoulders. "Well since I was the one acting like the mom I couldn't exactly be on the receiving end," Yang explained.

Yang had a pained look on her face after that explanation and here I was with no real ideas on how to help her. She had done a lot for Ruby it seemed and had even helped me stop with my obsessions over the White Fang. She needed her own distraction from her worries that I had no idea she had. Honestly, there was only one thing I could offer. "Well, I don't know if it's enough, but you can talk with me anytime," I offered. "Like how we've been doing today."

The blond looked at me with that damn smile of hers. "I think I can do that," She said. I nearly couldn't pay attention because I was busy melting under her gaze. It was definitely not the time for it but I couldn't help just enjoying the moment.


Ruby

"He's essentially a ninja, Weiss! He could of caught it without even trying," I said, trying desperately to stop her from being annoyed at me.

Weiss wasn't buying any of it. "You nearly took Ren's head off with that tray! You're lucky Pyrrha stopped it or I would be trying to peel you off Nora's hammer!"

"I warned him though," I defended.

"Yea, after you frisbee'd it at mach speed while his back was turned," Weiss attacked back.

I knew I wasn't going to win. "Fine, fine. I'll apologize when I can, okay?" I said as I put my best into my pouting. I could already see Weiss' fighting to keep her face in a scowl as her chin clenched to stop herself from smiling. After all this time together I knew how to just barely keep myself from getting hit with her long lectures about my behavior. Though I still pushed it every now and then because I enjoyed giving her a hard time. Her frustrations and flusters were cute to me. Maybe it was just because I was around her so much but I was far from the days where I was afraid of any possible long winded speeches about how she thinks I should act.

Now that she wasn't on my back about my tray frisbee session we had a long moment of silence as we walked back to our room. It was pretty calming prepared to the rest of the day we were all having earlier. My only hope was it would stay like that when we got back. Yang was most likely already in the dorm and I still hadn't managed to figure out what her problem was. No matter which scenario went through my head I couldn't help but think that I was going to be unable to avoid that 'sister to sister' chat that Yang wanted before.


That prediction was looking more likely when we walked into the dorm room. I could feel the awkward tension as Yang's eyes instantly locked onto Weiss when she came into the room behind me. Blake was up in Yang's bunk with her. Blake's hand slowly went to Yang's leg in what I guess was an attempt to keep Yang from acting out again. I was thankful she was trying so hard to be the mediator between us right now.

Yang's eyes still refused to leave Weiss though. I could see she was getting annoyed with the attention while she moved about the room to get ready with what I assumed was a study session. It started with Weiss just huffing to herself when she would sneak a glance to see if Yang was still looking at her but it quickly escalated to her slamming her books onto the desk in complete frustration. I noticed that one easily as it made me nearly fall out of my bed while I was engrossed in my magazine on the latest weapon technology.

"Will you stop staring at me?" Weiss half yelled as her foot stomped in frustration.

Yang immediately snapped back. "I'm keeping an eye on you, Ice Queen," she said.

Blake had immediately was back on calm down duty. "Yang!" She hissed.

I was left frustrated as our team's ability to get along was suddenly falling apart. "Yang," I said while jumping out of my bunk.

"What?" She asked with slightly less attitude she had with Weiss.

I gave my sister a pointed look. "You wanted to talk, right?" I asked. Yang nodded her head. "Then we'll talk in the bathroom," I told her and started walking into our shared bathroom. Yang simply took her time strolling into the bathroom. She had her serious look plastered on her face while she threw the door shut so we could have some privacy. It was kind of tense for a moment until I just slumped myself against the sink. "What's going on with you and Weiss? Did she do something or whatever?"

Yang's look dropped for a half-second before she caught herself. "No, Ruby. I'm just… concerned, I guess," She tried to explain.

I was left confused. "About what? Nothing happened. I embarrassed myself to near death but otherwise things should be fine!"

"That's what I'm worried about, Ruby. About what happened between you and Weiss," Yang said.

I didn't want to hear it. "We're passed that, Yang. She's not mad at me about it and I've had my share of being embarrassed."

"But what ab.." She started.

"Please, Yang," I interrupted with my face pushing itself into what I assumed was my best pleading look. "I just really want everyone to get along! Especially you and Weiss." It was true. I had thought we were all finally finding our groove without each other jumping down our respective throats.

Yang's eyebrow raised. "Why especially with Weiss?" She asked.

My eyes darted around to avoid Yang's. "I just do, okay? It would make me super happy to actually see you guys do more than simply tolerate each other."

Yang seemed to really soften up after that fact. "Okay, okay. If it'll make you happy," She said. "Besides, Blake is no doubt ready to jump on me about acting out on Weiss… again."

"Thanks, Yang," I said, finally relaxing after this talk.

"So…" Yang started again. "Is there anything else you want to talk about or want to mention while we have a moment?"

I could feel my face heating as I caught on to what she wanted me to talk about but I couldn't do anything besides look at the ground. "Can we just stick with only one sister to sister chat today? Some stuff I want to wait on…"

I felt Yang give me a quick hug and backed off. "No problem, Rubes. Whenever you want, I'm still here to listen."


Just a short chapter because I felt like these scenes were fine in such a short format. It didn't feel correct when I tried following them up with more. Besides, everyone needs something short and sweet every now and then. Welp, have fun!