A/N: Sorry for already breaking my schedule, but I am trying to write these on the days they go up, and I had no ideas yesterday. So now, here I sit in my math 115 class writing this up. This chapter actually has a couple of plot points I meant to wait for longer to unveil, but I really want to get to one arc that I thought of a while ago.
Arieko Yeah, I probably should have shown more of the emotions there, but I kind of wanted to get away from the bits of this story that I was basically stealing from the show. To your second point, I know I have to try to write fight scenes to get better, but I want to do that in one-shots, and keep my main stories more in my comfort zone.
Thanks to everyone that has reviewed, they really help to motivate me to keep writing.
I should probably put a disclaimer in again...
Disclaimer: me no own rwby
Blake Belladonna (one month after initiation)
One month had passed since team Ruby had formed, and Blake was sure of two things. One, she was probably going to have to kill Yang, and two, Ruby could probably be convinced to help. Okay, so she was not going to actually kill the girl, but she could dream, right? She was certain that pretty soon, if Yang kept spouting on about the evils of the faunus, that she would say something to out herself in a fit of rage. Take now for example, the team was just sitting in their room doing some homework, an essay on the mating habits of ursa, and then Yang somehow managed to segue into the evils of faunus. Blake had managed to tune her out until now, but the droning was getting to be to much.
"-and come on, they don't even look human, they have all these weird tails or ears. How can they honestly expect for us to accept them when they obviously exist just as hunting fodder for the more experienced hunters?" Yang seemed to be capable of continuing on this rant for almost forever, and Blake did not trust herself to interject. Luckily, nobody else in the room seemed to like Yang's rant either. Ruby looked mad, though to be fair, she always looked mad when Yang was around. This was why Blake believed if she fulfilled her fantasies, Ruby would be right with her. However, when somebody finally spoke up, it came from the fourth member of the team.
"Will you just shut up Yang. Nobody in this room wants to hear your hate speech, go talk to Cardin if you just want to be an ass hole." sighed Weiss with exasperation.
"Of course the little deviant would defend the animals, think others will look away from you if animals are roaming the street?" Yang shot back.
Weiss stood up, quaking in anger "I am not ashamed of my sexual tendencies, I am however, ashamed to share a team with someone as closed minded and idiotic as you." She flopped back into her bed and obviously tuned Yang out from her world.
"Well, that was quite a display for a princess, I wonder what daddy would think of his little girl if he saw her right now?" Yang taunted, trying to get a rise out of Weiss. However, Weiss was quite good at ignoring her, and acted as if she had never heard her.
Realizing that she had lost her victim, Yang turned back to what was, in her mind, comedy gold, the faunus. "I guess it is okay to share a room with little miss spoiled rotten, at least she isn't a faunus!"
At these words, Blake realized that she had to make a choice, and soon. Either she had to leave the room now, and maybe the school, or she had to kill Yang. She spent a couple of moments weighing the pros and cons of both choices. While killing Yang only had one pro and plenty of cons, Yang shutting up seemed to be a really good pro, and made Blake's decision really difficult. Eventually the fact that if she wanted to succeed at this school and at her plan meant that she had to choose not to have to run from the cops...again. With that thought, the bolted upright, and booked it out of the room.
The last thing she heard was a small voice saying "Blake, wait" before she was out of the room and quickly onto the roof of Beacon, thanks to both her faunus heritage, as well as all her training from when she was younger. She climbed as high as she could before the tears started to fall.
Ruby Rose
Ruby saw Blake's response to Yang's comments and shouted after her as she bolted from their room. Shooting a dirty look at Yang she followed out the door. Ruby was determined to find Blake and figure out what was wrong with her. After all, she was her teammate and as leader, it was her responsibility to make sure she was okay, right? That was why she was feeling so worried and angry at Yang, and for absolutely no other reason. Shaking her head, she cleared her mind and went back to looking for Blake. Looking around, she realized that she had no way to track Blake, until she heard what sounded like crying from above her. Looking up, she saw a shadow way up on roof. Without a seconds hesitation, Ruby ran straight at the wall, meaning to run right up the wall. This plan was going great until halfway up the wall, she lost momentum and plummeted off the wall. Her last thought went something along the lines of "ohcrapohcrapohcrap Blake ohcrapohcrapohcrap" before she noticed a glint of metal rush past her and then all of a sudden she was moving upwards. In Ruby's near-death experience brain, she assumed that she had hit the ground and this was her trip to heaven. As she was winched up onto the roof, she saw what she assumed to be angel, at least until she heard sniffling.
"Oh hey Blake, funny running into you here" Ruby nervously chuckled. It was now that she realized that she had no plan for when she found Blake, she had kind of assumed that she would not be able to find her.
"What...sniff...are...you...doing...sniff...here?" Blake stuttered out.
"Uh...looking for you?" Ruby stated with a wide smile "you rushed out of the room, and I was worried about you."
"Worried about me?" It seemed like Blake had never had someone who actually cared about her in a long time.
"Well, of course silly, your my teammate, why wouldn't I worry about you?" Ruby seemed to be unable to comprehend Blake's confusion. "Why did you rush out of the room? I know Yang can be a little hard to stomach, but it gets easier when you just ignore her."
"I just couldn't stay there and hear her bash the faunus for any longer. Some of my best friends have been faunus, and I was unable to deal with her racist rant for any longer. What could have possibly caused her to be so horrible?" Blake seemed like she might actually be curious to hear the explanation.
"To explain this, let me tell you a story." began Ruby and Blake nodded her ascent.
"Seven years ago, there lived this perfect family. Two little girls with a mother and father that both loved them very much, living in a small cabin just outside of a town in Patch. The mother was a huntress, the bestest huntress in the whole world. She would always leave for periods of time, but her daughters never hated her, because she always came back on time and brought presents. Everything was fine, until that dark day 7 years ago. She was supposed to come back that day, and both little girls were looking forward to seeing her so much, that they ignored their father and stayed up late looking for her when she didn't come back before their bedtime. Because they stayed up, they were there when it happened. There was a knock on the door, and the girls father went to the door. He opened it up and the girls couldn't make out what was being said. However, shortly after the door opened, they saw something they had never seen before. Their dad fell to the ground and cried. The girls had no idea what had happened, but if it made their dad break out into tears for the first time that they remembered, it couldn't have been good. When the door closed, both the girls rushed to their dad, and wrapped him tight in hugs. All they could hear was him mumbling to himself "she's gone" over and over again. Even at their young age, the girls knew what that meant. Having a huntress as a mother and a former hunter as a father meant that they did not grow up innocent. It was not long until they were all sobbing openly in the front hallway of their cabin."
"What does this have to do with anything-" Blake began, but Ruby cut her off.
"Please, just let me finish the story, I swear everything will make sense in the end." She took a deep breath and continued "weeks passed, and the now smaller family slowly seemed to be getting better. However, the older daughter had a rage growing in her. She was angry at everything. Angry at whoever had taken her mother from her, angry at her father for not trying to hunt down the killer, angry at herself for not being strong enough to help her mother. Then one day, when the family was in town to get some supplies, they spied something that would change their lives forever. Sitting in a small cafe was a cat faunus, and she was bragging about her skills. She was talking about this one night in the woods when she said something that ended up tearing a family apart. "-and then I ripped her throat out and watched as she bled out. I took her white cape and left her to rot in the forest. One less god damn human prowling the woods, one less Summer Rose." At that moment, the little girl fell to the ground, and the father had to drag the older girl out of the store before she got herself killed. The father called the police, but by the time they got there, the faunus was gone. The older girl refused to listen to the father on why he didn't attack the faunus right there, and three nights later she had run away from home. From that point on, the little girls perfect little family was ripped apart. Her dad tried to be there for her, but he was unable to replace a mother and a daughter. From that point on, the little girl threw herself into her dream to become a huntress, both to find her mothers killer, and also to be closer to her mother and the family she lost. She gave up all hope of seeing her sister again, until a couple of weeks ago, when they both showed up at the same school. The little girl, no longer so little, also met a couple of other really cool people and became leader of their team for some strange reason. Now she had to deal with leading two complete strangers as well as a sister she wished was a stranger."
They both sat there for a couple of minutes without saying anything until Ruby slowed laid her head on Blake's shoulder. Blake stiffened for a moment before relaxing and putting an arm around Ruby's shoulder. Ruby melted into the contact and savoured the feeling, for the first time in a while, of safety.
Before she could fall asleep, Blake nudged Ruby.
"I need to tell you something after hearing your story." Blake murmured to a sleepy Ruby.
"What is it?" Ruby replied, yawning.
"I guess it would just be easier to show you" Blake said before reaching her hands up to her head and starting to undo the ribbon on her head.
Ruby was unsure of what was going on. Maybe Blake was just stalling, maybe she had a collection of heads in her coat, Ruby's head kept spinning a mile a minute and she missed what she was supposed to see when Blake had undone her bow. To be fair, the were black and it was the middle of the night but eventually Ruby noticed and her eyes widened in wonder. "So cuteeeee" she squealed on the inside.
Blake seemed to take her lack of response as her chance to escape before Ruby tried to kill her and was almost off the roof before Ruby noticed. Using her semblance, Ruby was able to catch her before she jumped off.
"Why are you leaving?" Ruby questioned the still trying to escape Blake.
"Cat faunus...you...kill me...escape...far away...never..come back" Blake choked out, still trying to save her own life.
Ruby tried to figure out where this fear was coming from, and then she finally thought about what it must sound like to someone who just met her.
"Wait, wait, I don't want to hurt you" Ruby shouted, quickly releasing Blake and backing up with her hands up. "I don't blame you, I don't want to hurt you, I'm your friend, I think I love you" Ruby said, mumbling the last part under her breath. Blake stopped before she jumped off the roof, and Ruby took this as a sign to continue. "My dad was very good in teaching me not to blame an entire group based on the actions of the few. Humans have also done heinous things, to each other and to the faunus, and you don't unilaterally want to kill everyone of us, right?" Ruby giggled to herself before continuing "sure I want to kill the bitch that murdered my mother and broke apart my family, but that doesn't mean that I want to kill all faunus, or even that I will kill her when I find her. She will face justice if it is the last thing I do."
Blake Belladonna
Blake was stuck to the spot on the roof. She was hearing everything Ruby was saying, and she felt her heart warm when she heard that maybe humans are not a lost cause, not all of them. However, she kept flashing back to Ruby's earlier statement. Maybe Ruby had already forgot she was a faunus, but she heard everything Ruby had said, even what was mumbled, and she had no idea what to think about it. To go from thinking someone wanted to kill you to them loving you was a huge step. She had no idea where it was coming from, they had only known each other for three weeks, and Ruby had spent a lot of that time with Weiss. When Blake thought of Weiss she felt a stab of jealousy stab through her heart. Wait, what? Why was she jealous of Weiss? All Weiss had done was be a friend who thought well of the faunus, well and spent time with Ruby. Where had that thought come from? Was is possible that she also had somehow developed feeling for he childish girl standing in front of her still talking about how she did not hate Blake and asking if she was okay-wait what? She had been standing stock still for the past minute or so. Making up her mind, she rushed out of her stillness and kissed Ruby hard on the lips and held her close.
Releasing the kiss, Blake kept holding Ruby and Ruby hugged her back with a large blush on her face.
"I guess you heard me earlier huh" Ruby mumbled into Blake ear.
"Hearing of a cat and all that" was all Blake said in response.
The two of them laid down on the roof together and just basked in the feel of each others arms until they fell asleep. They would face the world tomorrow, but they would sure as hell face it together.
Weiss Schnee
Weiss was worried for both of her teammates. They had been gone a while, leaving her alone with the blond brute. If she was being honest with herself, Yang did look good, and if her personality was any better, she might of even considered flirting with her. However, Yang was as stuck up as it came, and did not seem to care that her partner and sister were still missing at midnight. Ruby had told her about Yang being her sister and even a little about her past. Weiss had also helped Ruby figure out that she had a crush on a certain black haired girl they both new very well. Weiss' history with her own acceptance of her being a lesbian had helped her work through it with Ruby and reach her true feelings.
Eventually it became to much for Weiss and she went out looking for Ruby and Blake. As soon as she left the front door, it was obvious where Ruby had gone, the footprints up the side of the wall really gave it away. Using her glyphs, she had no troubles getting up to the roof where she say them. They looked so cute tangled up together with Blake's head buried in the neck of Ruby. Deciding to leave the two of them to their sleep, she went back to team RWBY's dorm and fell asleep, after making sure that Yang was also asleep. She refused to turn her back on that monster, she was done being taken advantage of.
A/N: gasp! Sorry for the late update, but I've kinda decided already to ditch the schedule I have set up. Instead, I will just update when I have finished a chapter. I will try to put out at least three updates a week, but i can't guarantee anything.
Sorry for the lack of Yang in this one, but this leads me right into a couple of arcs I really want to write, so look out for that. Just a warning, if you are reading for freezer burn, it is still a while away. It will happen, it will just take a while. I hope you continue to enjoy this story until that point.
On a totally different topic, I'm going to start to write some one-shots, I have a couple of ideas I want to write about, but I also want your input. If you have an idea for a one-shot you want to read, or just a weird pairing you want to read about, tell me in a review or a pm and I will do my best to do it justice. Also, if you have any ideas for short plot points you ould like to see in this story, tell me about them, and I will try to fit them into the story.
Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoyed. I would love it if I could get some reviews on this chapter, I actually really enjoyed writing it. I would also love some advice on how to make the story better.
