People of the internet, you know who I am by now, you know what story this is, you know what the pairing will be.
Now than, if you have read this story to this point, you will know that I have officially decided to post this fanfiction for three reasons.
1) When I was writing this, I felt like no one would read it because few people ship HoodWitch. But today, I have come to the decision that I will post this fanfiction BECAUSE so few people ship it. The boat won't sail if no one raises the anchor. I need to take a leap of fate here.
2) A fanfiction writer who also ships HoodWitch has offered to help me and even tried to help me, his username is rwbybomb21, and he/she had written some pretty interesting stories. I hang on every word of them, and the writer plans on making a HoodWitch one shot. rwbybomb21 probably already wrote it by now, once I post this. If they can take a risk, why can't I?
3) Through this story, Ruby and Glynda are going to realize that it doesn't matter what others think of their relationship. They love each other and that's all that matters to them. And the whole point of fanfiction isn't to write stories that other people want, it's to write stories that YOU want. It's like Men Without Hats said: If we don't, nobody will. So if you're reading this, and you don't like HoodWitch, you shouldn't be reading this.
Now than, I promised all of you that I would rap up Day Zero in this chapter, and I think that if you make a promise, you need to keep it.
Oh, so now the students can pay perfect attention.
Glynda was surprised, they never payed this much attention when she was actually trying to teach them something. If they wouldn't pay attention to something as important as how to manipulate your Aura to healing a specific wound, laws of logic would dictate that they would pay less attention to something as meaningless as a teacher entering the cafeteria at the same time as a student.
Oh, who was Glynda kidding? They fight giant black birds with magic powder and swords that shoot bullets primarily for the recoil(Complete waist of a bullet, by the way). There was no logic in this world, and a student and teacher going somewhere at the same time wouldn't have been such a problem if it didn't look like they were holding hands! She could already hear the typing of keyboards as people wrote fanfictions about them.
"Maybe this was a bad idea." Ruby muttered to herself as she could hear the whispers.
"Just ignore them Ruby, that's what I always do." Glynda said as she attempted to forget that the world had other people.
Ruby wasn't sure why, but for some reason time seemed to move slower as she waited in line to get her dinner for the day. As if people were trying to milk as much from the scene as possible by slowing down the line,or Yang finally got that time-machine working, though given the fact that she misspelled 'Time' and 'Machine', that was unlikely. Ruby breathed in a heavy breath and hoped this would end soon.
She then heard a clicking noise.
Ruby glanced in the direction to see some of the students pointing their Scrolls at the arm buddies, a small flash coming from the top of them occasionally.
They were taking pictures of them.
Ruby reached up behind her head and flipped her hood up in an attempt to hide herself, not that it would do much, the entire school recognizes that cloak. She doubted there would be a single student who couldn't place it if they saw it anywhere, but it at least help her keep her blush out of the pictures.
If you asked Ruby how long they waited in line, she would answer three lifetimes, but they eventually managed to get something to eat and then began to head to team RWBY's table.
"A plate of cookies and a glass of milk, Ruby, really?" Glynda asked the red cloaked girl as they made their way to the table.
"Well, it's more filling than what you chose." Ruby commented. You could tell how their personalities clashed just by the foods they chose, Ruby went with her signature treat, all Glynda had was a bowl of soup and glass of water.
"This was the only thing that I took interest in, besides..." Glynda stated before leaning towards Ruby's ear with a blush and whispering "The less goes in, the less comes out."
Ruby could feel her cheeks light on fire.
"W-we can't avoid it for two whole months though." the young girl stuttered as she took her seat at the table.
"Yes, but I don't exactly want to get into that situation so soon." Glynda stated as she sat down next to the girl.
"What are you two talking about?" a familiar voice asked. The two looked towards their right to see Yang along with Weiss and Blake behind her.
"N-nothing sis." Ruby quickly answered before shoving a cookie into her mouth.
"Oh really?" Yang began teasing in an attempt to get a response out of one of the two. When neither answered Yang turned to Blake. "You wouldn't have happened to have caught what Glyn whispered to my sister, would you?"
Ruby began coughing on her baked good without opening her mouth and Glynda almost swallowed her spoon. 'Shit, that's right, Faunus have a better sense of hearing than Humans do.' The younger one thought.
"Well, it was hard to make out over some of the more rowdy students here, but I think I got a basic idea on what it was." Blake said before she bit into her tuna sandwich. She looked over at her partner to to see Yang leaning in with a smirk and a cocked eyebrow, telling her to say what it was through body language. As soon as Blake swallowed she stated, "Though I'm not going to say what it was because I don't feel like embarrassing the two."
"Oh really?" Yang said before darting her eyes back the arm buddies. "You two wouldn't have happened to have done anything special while you were alone, would you?"
"Yang, it's not like that at all." Ruby said as she pulled her hood further over her head as she felt her cheeks begin to glow.
"Look Miss. Xiao Long, I'm sure you can imagine the... complications that would come up from my and Ruby's predicament." Glynda said as she lifted the cuffs up for Yang to see.
"You're gonna need to be a little more specific, Gly-"
"I've told you, Xiao Long, you may refer to me only as Pr. Goodwitch." Glynda interrupted the blonde.
"Then why do you let Ruby call you by first name?" Yang asked.
"B-because..." Glynda began as she felt her cheeks grow warm. Admittedly she liked it when Ruby said her first name. The way the young girls lips dance with every syllable. Those small, soft, tempting lips. 'Now is not the time to think about this Glynda.'
"L-look Miss. Xiao Long, I just don't see anything wrong with Ruby calling my by my first name. And even if I told her not to, she would just give me her puppy dog eyes and... You know that you can't say no to Ruby when she does that." Glynda answered.
"Yeah, I regret ever teaching Ruby that trick, she just made it a bazillion times better." Yang said as she remembered the day she showed Ruby that trick when the red head was six years old. Ruby just kept adding to it with things she's seen on TV and online to the point where no one could resist it. Yang used to squee when she saw Ruby's now perfected Puppy Dog Eyes. Yang Xiao Long.
"Oh, so you were the one that taught her how to do it, now I have someone to blame." Weiss stated to herself as she filed off any rough edges on her nails.
"And you think what I'm having isn't filling." Glynda whispered to Ruby as she gestured towards Weiss.
"Yeah, with all the days Weiss skips dinner, I begin to wonder how she doesn't starve." Ruby whispered back to her teacher.
"And what are you two talking bout?" Yang began teasing.
"Weiss' eating habits. Or the lack thereof." Glynda replied flatly. No puns intended.
"Well at least I'm being productive." Weiss muttered.
"Hm. Yeah Weiss, by making sure that you have perfect nails every second of the day, you prevent a apocalis from happening. Keep up the good work." Yang responded sarcastically.
"Apocalypse." Glynda corrected.
"What?"
"It's apocalypse."
"What did I say?"
"Appacolis."
"Appacolis? No, I said appacolis."
"You said it again." Ruby commented.
"You keep an A-P-O-C-A-L-Y-P-S-E from happening." Yang said to the white haired student.
"Well at least you spelled it correctly." They five heard a voice say from the other side of the table. Looking across they could see Ren with Jaune and Pyrrha beside him.
"Hey Ren." Ruby greeted. "Question, if you're here, then where's-"
"NORA!" The girl in question yelled in the young girls ear, just in time to make the girl begin coughing on her 'meal.'
"N-Nora, I'm fifteen, I would appreciate it if you didn't give me a heart attack." Ruby said as soon as she got the coughing fit under control.
"But you look so cute when you're coughing up a lung!" Nora quickly said as she took her seat next to Ren.
"I don't..." Ruby stuttered as she tried to comprehend what she just heard.
"Are we gonna need to hear it from this girl too?" Glynda asked Ruby about Nora.
"So tell me, Ruby, what's it like being handcuffed to the girl of your dreams?!" Nora said.
"Never mind." Glynda said as she resumed eating her dish.
"If I've said it once, I've said it a million times: I do not feel that way towards Glynda, neither does she towards me." Ruby falsely answered the energetic girl.
"Right, that's why you keep muttering her name in your sleep like it's the only thing you can say!" Nora stated.
"You've been talking to Yang, haven't you?" Ruby answered.
"Heard it for myself, actually!" Nora stated, earning a look from everyone at the table.
"But, our door is locked at night." Weiss pointed out. She will regret that decision in three-
"Yeah, but your window isn't!" Nora stated. Not even giving the narrator time to finish.
"Nora, are you saying that you break into team RWBY's dorm room in the middle of the night?" Glynda asked.
Nora then remembered that a teacher was at the table.
"W-What, no, course not! Why would I do that?! I mean it's not like I steal Ooblecka-ecka-ecka-ecka-ecka-ecka-ecka's coffee during brake and then drink it all to see if I can meet the unicorns again! Why would you suggest that!?" Nora horribly lied.
"That was you?" Yang asked. "Man, the way he ran around the class when he found out that his coffee was empty was priceless!"
"Why thank you, I pride myself for my cat burglary abilities-I MEAN I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!" Nora responded.
"Nora, I knew your tongue could do wonders, but to dig yourself this deep down is beyond amazing." Blake told the ginger.
"I SWEAR I DIDN'T DO IT, I SWEAR ON THE PINK DYED MUSTACHE OF PR. PORT! WHICH I ALSO DIDN'T DO!" Nora quickly... ruined everything.
"Shall we make that a weeks detention?" Glynda asked her.
"Are you still technically allowed to give students detention? I though we were getting a substitute to fill in for you." Ruby questioned before biting in to another cookie.
"Um, I uh. I don't really know." Glynda responded, much to Nora's relief. "Although, I could tell the other teachers about this and see what they do." The blonde added, much to Nora's grief.
Nora was about to say something else before Ren stuffed her sandwich into her mouth while stating "I believe it'd be best if you stopped talking Nora, you might somehow wind up saying how you read Glynda's diary in the middle of the night."
His hand quickly met his mouth.
"You... What?!" Glynda questioned the ginger, her temper rising.
Nora swallowed her bite of sandwich hard before looking down. "Oh, look at my wrist! Is it that late already?! I need to goooooooo, nnnot be here!" And then she bolted for the nearest exit.
"OH, COME HERE YOU!" Glynda yelled before attempting to give chase. Ruby was then pulled to the floor and dragged with her.
"Guys, HELP!" Ruby said as she tried to keep her arm from popping out of its socket.
"Should we do something?" Blake asked the others.
"If we do, are we liable not to get detention for running in the halls?" Yang questioned.
"Where'd she go?!" Glynda asked as she ran up to a four way intersection in the halls. She didn't remember Nora being able to run THAT fast, and how did she lose the trail of that chatter box. "Ugh, how did she do that?!"
"Uhhhhhh." Ruby groaned as she lifted up her free hand.
Glynda turned towards the girl to see her flat on the floor with her cuff arm stretch to reach hers. It took Glynda a few seconds to remember that she and Ruby where handcuffed together.
Come to think of it, she did feel something weighing her down as she chased Nora.
"Oh Oum, Ruby are you okay?" Glynda quickly asked as she knelt down and pulled the redhead's face up. Her left cheek was bruised and she had a bloody nose, her face turned red from being dragged across the floor. If Glynda had realized that she was doing that to Ruby, she wouldn't have started the chase.
"I-I'm fine, Glynda. Really." Ruby said as she tried to put on a fake smile. Her face was hurt, but she couldn't have Glynda know that the blonde hurt her, she didn't want to hurt Glynda like that.
"Does this look fine to you, Ruby?" Glynda questioned as she pulled out her make up kit and opened it to show Ruby her reflection.
"It's... Not as bad as it looks?" Ruby stated to try and calm her teacher.
Glynda just huffed in minor annoyance, annoyance directed at herself for not noticing sooner. Glynda lost her temper and Ruby got hurt because of it. Glynda reached into her back pocket and pulled out her handkerchief and began cleaning the blood away from Ruby's upper lip. "Give me a little warning next time."
"It's okay Glynda, really." Ruby said as Glynda continued to clean off her face.
"Ruby, we can't do these kind of reckless actions, we don't have any Aura to protect ourselves." Glynda said. "We need to be careful, and that means taking care of each other to make sure we don't hurt ourselves, or one another."
"Glynda-" Ruby tried saying.
"No, I mean this Ruby, I want you to promise that, if I get mad, you will hold me back." Glynda told the young girl.
"I'll be holding you back whether you want me to or not." Ruby said as she tugged on the cuffs.
"Good, now, I am truly sorry for what I did to you." Glynda apologized to her student.
"Trust me, I wanted to strangle Nora for invading our privacy as well." Ruby told her. "Nora's always getting on people's nerves. If you think you went overboard, you should see how Weiss reacted when Nora called her flat."
"What Ms. Schnee do?" Glynda asked. Ruby went quite for a moment as she remember just what Weiss did. Weiss is never one to break any rules if she didn't need to, but what she did to Nora...
"Weiss made me promise not to tell anyone, she doesn't want people to think that the Schnees have anger issues." Ruby told her, it wasn't exactly a lie.
"Oh, believe me, they do." Glynda said. "Along with a superiority complex, a very big mouth, attitude, a belief that they should get everything, a tendency to get scars, over sized egos-"
"Okay, okay, you can stop now." Ruby said. "Come on Glynda, let's get back to the cafeteria, we never got to finish our dinners."
"If you could call what we were having a full meal." Glynda said as she fallowed the red haired huntress back to where they left.
"Did you just make a joke?" Ruby asked.
"What, I can make a few every now and again, can't I?" Glynda asked.
"No, seriously, if we helped them chase after Nora, what's there to say that Glynda won't punish us for braking the rule?" Yang asked as they continued to debate weather to do anything or not.
"Yang, I believe when Ruby said 'help' she meant she wanted us to help stop Pr. Goodwitch." Blake stated as she attempted to read her book.
"And besides, when Nora needs to get away from something, you'll never find her." Ren stated.
"Seriously? Nora couldn't shut up for more than two seconds. How could she be hard to find." Yang said as Ruby and Glynda walked back in.
"You'd be surprised." Was all the answer she got.
Before Yang could say anything more, Ruby took her out of the conversation by saying very sarcastically "Thanks for the help, sis."
"Oh, uh, hey si-what happened." Yang began in an attempt to worm her way out of the situation till she saw the bruise on Ruby's cheek.
"Really, how many times do I have to say it, it's nothing." Ruby said as she and Glynda took there seats.
"No, it's not. What did that hyperactive ginger do to you?" Yang asked as her protective instincts kicked in.
"Actually I believe I am to blame for that, she probably hit the floor pretty hard as I dragged her round a corner." Glynda answered.
"What?" Yang asked full of venom as her eyes lit up red.
"Yang, even if this was something to worry about, Glynda did it on accident." Ruby tried to reason with her blonde sister. "Glynda wouldn't hurt me if she was mad at Nora-"
Catching Ruby off guard, Yang grabbed her sister and attempted to pull her away from their teacher. The arm buddies got a sudden jerk as the cuffs reached there limit. Yang, however, only wanted to pry Ruby away from Glynda.
"Ow, OW, Yang that really hurts!" Ruby said as Yang continued to pull.
"I am not going to let you stick with her after she did THIS to you." Yang stated as she gave them another sharp pull.
"Well you don't exactly have a chose, Ms. Xiao Long." Glynda said. "The soonest these cuffs can come off is in two months. Like it or not: Ruby and I are stuck together."
"Besides, Glynda hurt me ON ACCIDENT." Ruby said.
"HOW DO YOU KNOW?" Yang asked with rage.
"Because if she didn't care for me, she could have left me to fight that Grimm myself." Ruby answered. As soon as she finished Yang stopped pulling on her. Ruby made an excellent point, and if Glynda didn't care for her, she would have left her to fight Torchwick and Cinder on her own.
Yang let go of her sister and the redhead quickly took her seat next to Glynda for the third time today.
"Least she was there for me when I need her." Ruby scolded her sister, and perhaps the rest of her team, before she took one of the cookies on her plate and stuffed it into her mouth, completely removing any intimidation she had on her sister or anyone.
"Look Yang, I can tell that you care for your sister more than anything, and that you're probably still mad at me for what I did." Glynda began as Yang took her seat. "Just know that I promise that I'm going to do better to care for her while we're like this." Glynda moves the cuffs on her and Ruby's wrists for Yang to see.
"... Yeah, please do." Yang said before she took a bite of her burger.
"... Did one of you guys eat some of my cookies while me and Glynda were away?" Ruby asked as she noticed she was one cookie short.
"Hm, no." Jaune muttered, which lead to a few crumbs coming out of his mouth. He swallowed his mouthful and said "Maybe."
"You better hope that you don't need to face me in the combat arena for a few months." Ruby said with a sharp looking in her eyes. Or at least as sharp as she could make her child like face look.
The rest of the meal was silent, something that Glynda did not expect. Dozens of the other students were chatting away at there own conversations, and Glynda could easily guess most of the topics. And she was having dinner with Teams RWBY and JNPR. Well, JPR really. Glynda didn't really see any signs that Nora was coming back. But there was still Yang, Blake, Weiss, Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren, and of course Ruby. Given who these people were, there should have been some form of conversation. Instead it was painfully silent.
And it was obvious why.
"You guys are only being this quiet because I'm here, aren't you?" Glynda questioned as she was near finishing her dinner.
"Yeah, no offense Pr. Goodwitch." Jaune began before he took a bite of his sandwich. "We just find it a little strange to have you here with us." He said through his mouthful. He then swallowed and told her "I'm sure we'll get used to this after a week or so."
Of course, Glynda didn't even know why she bothered asking. You'd feel nervous about the stuff you and your friends talk about too if one of the strictest teachers was there, and also if she had the ability to throw you into a wall, although she didn't have that last one, so it was just her strict attitude and her ability to put you in detention, which might have been the only thing she had left.
"Rubes, you have a few crumbs on your face." Yang stated as she glanced at her sister.
"Hm, where?" Ruby asked as she was finishing her last cookie, with milk surrounding her mouth holding most of the crumbs in place.
"Just about everywhere." Glynda sighed as she pulled out her handkerchief and began to wipe the crumbs of the young girl's adorable, childlike face.
While Glynda was doing all that, Ruby looked out the corner of her eye to see Yang staring at them with her usual grin plastered across her face. Ruby already know how Yang was going to start teasing them about this, and before Yang could breath a word Ruby stopped her.
"Yang, this means nothing between me and Glynda, she's just being nice is all." Ruby stated as Glynda finished cleaning her face.
"So if it was anyone else, she would do the same?" Yang questioned.
"Ms. Xiao Long, I know you think that me and Ruby hold romantic feelings for each other, but let me start by saying that you dead wrong." Glynda stated towards the other blonde. "Ruby and I both currently live at Beacon Academy and we both have incredible combat abilities, our similarities end there. Besides, it's against the rules for a student and a teacher to engage in a romantic relationship."
"Oh, why put rules upon who we can fall in love with?" Yang began as she leaned towards Glynda. "Besides, you don't chose who you fall for, it seems like one of those rules you can break without meaning to."
"It specifically states that me and Ruby can't engage in a romantic relationship, it says nothing about falling in love." Glynda stated.
"Well, why try and deny someone their happiness, right?" Yang questioned.
"Does that mean we should allow Pr. Port to ask you on a date?" Ruby quickly stated smugly.
Yang instantly sucked in on her lips and remained silent.
Glynda chuckled at the rare sight of Yang being speechless. "Not so against that rule now, huh?"
"... Maybe it's for the best." Yang said as she began drinking her soda to try and avoid talking.
"Well, I'm done, how about you Glynda?" Ruby asked as she gripped the edges of her tray which was now clean. Glynda looked towards the red haired girl and nodded as she did the same.
"Wait, you guys aren't staying?" Pyrrha asked as the two got up to leave.
"And do what, sit in silence and watch you guys eat?" Glynda asked sarcastically.
"Besides, I want to make sure we can actually change clothes with these on." Ruby said as she pulled her cuff wrist to the left so that Pyrrha could get the idea.
"She makes a good point, Pyr." Yang stated before turning back to her sister. "Now then, Ruby, be sure that you and Glynda get a lot of practice for when you two get married."
Ruby and Glynda instantly went red.
"Wh-YANG! We already discussed this, it against rules for a student and a teacher to date each other." Ruby said as Glynda attempted to walk away from the blonde annoyance.
"There's always after graduation Rubes." Yang chuckled at that last statement.
"Remind me how Yang got into this school?" Glynda asked Ruby as the two walked away.
"She went to Signal Academy, trained for four years, and worked hard to get into this school. Just like everyone else." Ruby stated. 'Well, worked hard, tricked me into taking the written portion of the entrance exam for her, one or the other.' she thought.
"Well, not everyone." Glynda stated as they disposed of their paper plates, eating utensil, and drinks.
"Right, I got accepted two years early." Ruby whispered to herself.
"By the way, what did you mean by 'make sure we can change with these on?'" Glynda asked.
"I just have an idea on how we can get our shirts around the cuffs is all." Ruby stated. "Trust me, you'll love it."
"Can you tell me what it is?" Glynda asked.
"It's a surprise." Ruby chuckled with a wink, may it never be said that she wasn't childish.
"Ruby, why are you so intent on making sure I can't see you cutting open one of my shirts?" Glynda asked with Ruby's cloak over her head to make sure she couldn't see what the young girl was doing. "Isn't the solution to this as simple as cutting them open then sewing them shut?"
"Oh, what, are we supposed to do that ever day for two months?" Ruby asked as she was sewing one of the many dress shirts Glynda owned.
"Fair point, but you're not allowing me to see what you're doing because?" Glynda stated with a hint of annoyance.
"Because I want to see the look on your face when I finish!" Ruby replied with a face of absolute innocence. "To be honest, I'm surprised you don't hear about people doing this much."
"Well, are you finished yet Ruby? I'm getting impatient." Glynda huffed as she crossed her arms. Or at least tried to till she felt Ruby tug her cuffed hand back into a position she could continue sewing.
"Hmmm, done. You can look now." Ruby stated as she finished up sewing the dress shirt. The young girl relaxed her right arm to let the blonde teacher pull the red cloak up. Once Glynda uncovered her eyes she looked at the red girl to see her holding up her dress shirt at an angle which let her see that Ruby had sewn a zipper up the right sleeve of it.
"A zipper?" Glynda asked.
"I know, genius right!?" Ruby stated with excitement. "This way we can be able to open an close the sleeve to get dressed easily."
"That's... actually is pretty clever." Glynda praised before taking note of a slight detail. "But isn't my left hand the one in the cuffs?"
"Huh?" Ruby asked as she lifted up their cuffed hands to see that she installed the zipper into the wrong sleeve like Glynda had said. She stared between it and the shirt before crying "Dear Oum, I'm a moron!"
"I-it's okay Ruby, anyone could have made that mistake." Glynda stating, trying to calm the young girl.
"Anyone? Anyone could have forgotten which hand they've been sharing with there teacher for almost a day?" Ruby asked with a slight blush at the fact that she screwed something up so badly.
"Uh..." Glynda darted her eyes to the side as she failed to think of any kind of response. She never was good at reassuring people, disciplining them, yes, but not reassuring. "L-look Ruby, many people make... modest mistakes like that. Look, let's just forget about that and fix this little mistake."
"Yeah, you're right." Ruby said as she turned the shirt over to get a good angle on the stitches she had put into it. She carefully traced her left finger along the bottom on the sleeve till she found the seam between the zipper and the actual sleeve and lifted it upwards. She then held it that way with her right hand as she reached for her scissors and then cut one of the stitches. She then placed the scissors down and began pulling the thread out.
"Where did you learn how to sew anyway?" Glynda asked.
"Signal, thought it might come in handy one day as a Huntress." Ruby stated as she finished pulling the thread out. "It's good to know I got one thing right."
"Ruby, you can't get all bent up over one little mistake." Glynda stated. "The thing about us Humans, we can learn from our mistakes. That's why we make them, to learn where we need improvement."
"Well have you ever made a mistake so glaring before?" Ruby asked as she began to sew the sleeve back together.
"Ruby, we all make mistakes. We can't go our entire lives without making any, even the smallest ones, but we also can't beat ourselves up over making them. We can either let our mistakes define us or we can learn from them." Glynda stated as the young girl was halfway finished her work.
"... Yeah, you're right. Thanks." Said Ruby.
"It was nothing, really it was." Glynda said as the young girl finished sewing the sleeve shut.
"Like what happened to me in the hall?" Ruby questioned as she prepared to open the left sleeve, the sleeve she should have opened, to sew in the zipper.
"Oi, that was something, that was your well being, and my fault." Glynda stated in the voice she primarily used for scolding. Her face then loosened as she looked at the bruise on Ruby's cheek. "How's your cheek feeling, by the way?"
"It feels fine, little swollen, but fine." Ruby stated as she put the zipper into place.
"We should probably get some ice for it, make sure it's treated correctly." Glynda said out of a bit of worry and guilt.
"Don't worry, Glynda, it's fine. My Aura will heal this in no time." Ruby stated as she pulled the needle through the fabrics before pausing as she remembered the effects of the cuffs. "Oh wait."
"We'll drop by the infirmary for an ice pack in the morning." Said the blonde teacher.
"Why the morning?" Ruby asked as she continued to sew.
"The less people that see this, the better." Glynda said as she gave the cuffs a slight tug.
"Glynda, we'll be like this for two months, a lot of people are going to see this." Ruby stated.
"Yeah, but that doesn't mean that I want to help spread the rumors." Glynda said as she thought about how many people were already exaggerating the details of the situation.
The two sat in silence as Ruby proceeded to work on it. Sewing a zipper into something was more time consuming than taking one out apparently. Once she finished, Ruby couldn't quite help but admire her work.
"Okay, let's she if this can work. Glynda, I'm gonna need to cut your sleeve for you to try this on." Ruby said as she grabbed her scissors.
"Go right ahead." Glynda stated as she locked her elbow tugged her sleeve out of the handcuff. While Ruby got started on that, Glynda used her free hand to unhook her cape and unbutton her collar. She then shifted her head to the side to allow Ruby to cut through the rest of the shirt without getting too close to her nexk. Once Ruby was done doing this Glynda than unbuttoned her other sleeve's cuff and then the rest of her shir-
She ran into a problem. Her dress shirt was tucked in under her skirt, to take the shirt off she would need to undress.
With Ruby Rose in the room.
'Of all the people to get stuck in this situation with!' Glynda thought as her cheeks when red. She swallowed hard and said "Um, Ruby, could you turn around for a moment, I need to take off my skirt for this.
'Of all the people to get stuck in this situation with!' Ruby thought as her cheeks went red. "Right. No problem, let me know when your done." She said as she turned her head away and closed her eyes.
Glynda let out a sigh of relief before she reached down and unbuttoned her skirt. Slipping out of it, Glynda then proceeded to unbutton her shirt as she wished to originally. Removing the shirt she's been wearing for the day, Glynda grabbed the one with the zipper just sewn into it and began slipping it one. Getting it onto her torso and right arm was simple, she then turned to the zipper sleeve and grabbed it so that she was holding both edges between her fingers. She then moved the box so that it gripped around the pin and pulled the slider up the rest of her sleeve. 'No more annoying than the cuffs of the shirt.' Glynda thought.
"Alright, Ruby, you can turn around now." Glynda stated. Ruby looked over at her teacher to see her pulling her shirt downwards to cover up her underwear. Ruby was impressed with her work, it looked almost as if they didn't even do anything to the shirt, well, from the front anyway.
"And Yang said taking sewing classes was a lame idea." Ruby stated. "Hey, uh, we're going to need to go into Vale after class tomorrow."
"Why?" Glynda asked.
"I only have three zippers long enough for our day shirts, counting the one I put in your shirt." Ruby said as she pulled out two other zippers. "And I'm gonna need to use this on my uniform for tomorrow."
"Right, your still expected to go to classes." Glynda muttered to herself as Ruby grabbed her uniform's jacket to make the needed modifications.
The two of them just sat there in complete silence as Ruby worked on her uniform, and Glynda, in all of her twenty-seven years of life, have never felt more awkward. Glynda knew she and Ruby were unlikely, but every instinct within her was telling her to hold her hand, move closer to her, do ANYTHING to take advantage of this situation. Course, Glynda knew better than that. Why would she, a responsible teacher, break one of the sacred school's rules out of the blue and make Ruby feel uncomfortably like that?
Course, she and Ruby will be spending literally EVERY waking moment together, from sleeping to showering(Glynda wasn't to excited about that last one-SCRATCH THAT, she was.), Good Morning to Good Night, convertibility will be out of the question-what the heck was Glynda doing? Why was she trying to think of a perfect reason to live her fantasies with Ruby? Responsible teacher, RESPONSIBLE TEACHER!
"Glynda, are you okay?" Ruby asked when she saw that Glynda had lit up like Christmas.
"Huh? O-o-of course I'm fine." Glynda said as she was wrenched back into reality by the innocently adorable girl's voice.
"But your face is all red." Ruby said as she reached over to grab Glynda's cheek and turn her head back towards herself.
"No, really, I'm fine." Glynda attempted to worm her way out of this situation. Without any kind of warning, she felt Ruby's forehead press against hers, which did nothing but intensive her blush.
"Hm, you don't seem to have a fever, least as far as I kno-..." Ruby said before she opened her eyes and stared directly into emerald orbs that belong to her teacher. The young girl felt her own cheeks light up as she realized just how close her and Glynda's faces were.
Come on now, just steel one kiss, just one little innocent kiss. Come on Rose, you know you want one! Ruby's urges desperately bellowed at the young girl. The young girl really wanted to do that, REALLY. But there was no way Glynda would stand for that, and knowing this school, one thing could lead to another and it could end up getting her expelled and Glynda fired. Ruby didn't want to do anything to screw Glynda over.
With reflexes similar to that of her Semblance, Ruby was instantly back in her previous position. The only thing that could suggest that anything happened was the fact that Ruby was working much faster and the heavy blush on their faces.
"Let's uh, never speak of that again." Glynda said.
"Yeah, right." Ruby said quickly as she moved onto her shirt.
"So, uh, what's the plan for changing... Bras?" Glynda asked as Ruby cut the shirt open.
"Uh, well, we'll uh, need to buy a few strapless ones. Or, do you have a swimsuit that you could wear?" Ruby asked.
"I think I have a few, haven't worn it in a few years, though. Don't know how it would fit." Glynda said as she recalled one that would suit the needs.
"Yeah, I don't think I'd be able to sew zippers into them." Ruby said as she thought about how the undergarment would need to open to get around the cuffs. The strap that went over their shoulders would be too thin to put a zipper onto. She could put one on the strap that goes under there armpits, but that would be really difficult for them to put it on alone, and the last thing Ruby wanted was to disrespect Glynda's privacy by helping her put her bra on.
The two returned to silence, as much as they felt that they should keep a conversation going, the two said nothing fearful that they would bring out more awkward topics. Eventually Ruby finished her work on her uniform's shirt, Glynda's eyes had wondered to her uniform out of boredom and she realized something.
"Uh, what are we going to do about your vest?" Glynda asked as she pointed towards it with her cuffed hand. Ruby followed Glynda's gesture and quickly realized what Glynda was getting at.
"Do you think you can inform Ozpin about this? We don't have any zippers left." Ruby asked her teacher.
"I'll do it in the morning." Glynda stated as Ruby began to fold up her uniform so that it would be ready for the next day.
"Good, hey Glynda, I have a question regarding the Grimm that did this." Ruby began before she gave the cuffs a slight tug.
"Ask away." Glynda stated as she got up to let Ruby put her uniform on the dresser.
"You don't think there are more Mazeta Hayops, do you?' Ruby asked.
"Hard to say, the Grimm can usually be quite adept for stealth, and if this Grimm were intellige-Mazeta Hayop?" Glynda questioned the name Ruby gave it.
"You like it? I came up with it during dinner." Ruby said as she placed her uniform on top of Glynda's dresser.
"Well, it's original." Glynda stated. "And to answer your first question: Anything's possible, but I can guarantee you Ozpin will be keeping a sharp eye out for more of them."
"Yeah, the last thing we need is more people in this situation." Ruby said. "So, it's like what, 7:15? 7:20? Anything you want to do till curfew?"
"No more apps!" Glynda stated as she recalled her frustrations while playing Flapper-More.
"But that killed so much time." Ruby said.
"Yes, and it made me want to kill the man who made it!" Glynda argued.
"True." Ruby stated. "So, what are we going to do then?"
Once again, Glynda thought through all the options and came up with the same reasons they can't do any of them. It was so frustrating, she had the perfect opportunity to do anything, everything she enjoyed with Ruby, and she was just wasting it.
"Well, you used Crimson Rose to its fullest extent today, would it happen to require maintenance?" Glynda asked Ruby.
"Well, ye-YEAH, that's right, she does!" Ruby said with a surprising burst of energy as a rushed over to the maintenance kit, Glynda never would understand why Ruby calls her weapon 'she'. "H-how could I forget? Well, I guess with all the stuff that happened today, I'm having trouble focusing-Did you just call her Crimson Rose?"
"Yeah, why?" Glynda questioned.
"She's called CRESCENT Rose." Ruby stated as she picked up the kit and opened it to take out a long black cable. "Why would I name it Crimson Rose, that sounds terrible."
"I don't hear it's name often, I'm obviously going to get it wrong." Glynda sated.
"Fair point, I'll let you off the hook this time." Ruby stated as she pulled out a patch holder and screwed it into the cable. "Now, don't be surprised if this takes a while, Crescent Rose is a highly complicated weapon and requires maintenance in many areas."
"Explains the size of the maintenance kit." Glynda muttered to herself. She then turned her full attention to Ruby and asked "So why did you decide on this design for your weapon?"
"What do you mean?" Ruby asked as she got out Crescent Rose, shifted it into rifle mode and prepared to send the cloth through.
"Why did you want to create a sniper rifle which turns into a scythe?" Glynda asked as Ruby began cleaning the chamber and barrel of her weapon.
"Sniper rifles and scythes are awesome enough on there own, so I figured 'Why not combine them into one?'" Ruby stated as she made sure to thoroughly clean her weapon.
"That it?" Glynda questioned.
"Well, there's also the fact that Scythe wielders are extremely rare nowadays and I wanted to do something extremely original." Ruby stated. "Why are scythe wielders so rare anyway?"
"Haven't the slightest idea." Glynda answered and Ruby moved the brush up and down the barrel. "Guess some people don't really see how they can be able to mix a gun and a scythe. Speaking of which why do you children do that?"
"What do you mean?" Ruby asked as she took the brush out of the barrel and began cleaning the bolt.
"Why do you kids create weapons that are able to use gun mechanics solely for the purposes of the recoil?" Glynda asked. "Metal's a nonrenewable resource, do you think wasting bullets like that is a good idea? I mean yes, it makes your fighting look amazing, but still."
"... I really don't know why people do that." Ruby stated. "I just made it so that Crescent Rose uses bullets like that cause other people were doing it. I thought it would give me the feeling like I belong, you know?"
"You really want to fit in, don't you?" Glynda stated as Ruby began to clean out the chamber.
"I don't want to be considered anything special, I just want to be a normal girl." Ruby stated.
"Trust me, you left normal the second you applied for Signal." Glynda said while Ruby made sure to give her rifle a good scrubbing.
"Okay, I want to be normal by Huntress standards." Ruby said.
"Well, considering your group of friends, I'd say you're one of the most normal." Glynda told her as Ruby began to clean out the barrel again.
"Thanks." Ruby said.
The two returned to silence as Ruby continued her maintenance of her beloved weapon. She wasn't joking when she said that it would take time, she not only had to make sure the gun portion was properly cleaned, but also that the blades were sharpened AND that the internal mechanisms that allowed it to shift from one form to another were properly lubricated, which took the better part of an hour and thirty minutes. It probably would have gone a lot faster if not for the handcuffs holding the two together. While Ruby's dominant hand wasn't in the cuffs, she still needed her other hand to work, and for that she would need to pull Glynda's along with it.
Glynda couldn't quite help but feel that she was being more of a hindrance to the young girl. She would occasionally knock over the assortment of tools Ruby kept out, making to two waste a minute or so recollecting them. She would also weigh down Ruby's hand making it so that it moved slower. Glynda had offered her help to her youngest student, but the girl in red refused, stating that she "And Crescent Rose" preferred to preform the trial that is maintenance "Themselves." Glynda was beginning to worry that Ruby was a touch insane. But the young girl also stated that her weapon was much more heavy that it and she made it look, and that she didn't want Glynda to hurt herself. This made Glynda blush, but she made sure the young girl didn't notice.
"And DONE." Ruby stated as she folded Crescent Rose into its compact form. "You have no idea how much I enjoy giving my sweetheart maintenance."
"You really like that gun blade, don't you?" Glynda asked as Ruby put it away.
"What can I say, she's like a daughter to me." Ruby smiled at her. "So, what time is it?"
"8:54." Glynda answered.
"Yeah, we should probably get ready for bed now." Ruby said as she got up.
"At 8:54? There's something I wouldn't expect from a fifteen year old." Glynda stated as she followed Ruby.
"Well, we are going to need to cut my shirt off. And then my Pajama shirt." Ruby stated as she walked over to her sewing kit and pulled out her scissors. "Would you mind turning around for a minute?"
"Not a problem." Glynda said as she turned to look at her dresser as Ruby began to unbuckle the harness around her waist.
Glynda's eyes locked on the mirror.
The teacher was about to dart her eyes to the ceiling before Ruby began to unzip her shirt, and at that moment the blonde woman's hormones took control and locked her gaze on it. Glynda could help but stare at the reflection as Ruby began working on her shirt in her black and red bra. Unlike Ruby's main outfit, the bra was primarily red with black straps and edgings, with a black decorative ribbon in between the mounds.
Glynda's face was as red as her arm buddy's cloak, ties, and bra.
Ruby, forgetting the layout of the room she was in, was happily oblivious to what her teacher was seeing, and just continued to work on her clothes. Once she made sure that the collar was nowhere near her neck, she grabbed the scissors and began cutting her sleeve open. Not wishing to waste her teacher's time, she gutted her sleeve quickly. Once the sleeve was perfectly ruined, she let the fabric protector of privacy fall to the floor and then picked up her black shirt and held it by the side she was going to cut. Given the fact that the shirt couldn't open like her other one, she chose to cut open the side of it. Cutting it was easy giving the thin fabric that was used to make it. After opening it, Ruby slipped it onto herself, given the fact that she couldn't close it at the moment, she chose to hold the fabric together under her armpit to hide the bra strap.
"Okay, Glynda, I'm done, hope I didn't take too-" Ruby turned to look at her teacher before seeing the mirror, her and Glynda's eyes met through it. "WAHHHH!" Ruby screeched in embarrassment as she quickly crossed both her arms over her(already covered) chest with a bright red face, and in doing so hugged Glynda's left arm, completely counteracting what she wanted to do. "G-Glynda you PERVERT!"
"I-I wasn't staring!" Glynda lied, trying to mend any tension between the two.
"LIAR!" Ruby yelled, not taking her hand away from her chest. "Why would you bother staring at my chest, your are much bigger! Ogle yourself why don't you?!"
"I-it was an accident, I swear!" Glynda said to her younger student. "I would never try to invade your privacy like that, Ruby. I don't know what happened, I just couldn't take my eyes of of your cute reflection."
Ruby turned even redder at that statement. "Y-you think I'm cute?"
"Who wouldn't?" Glynda told her. "I'm sorry I did that, I really am. Do you think you can forgive me?"
"... Well, I guess we can expect something like that to happen with these on." Ruby said as she gestured towards the cuffs. "... You're forgiven."
"Thanks." Glynda said. She wouldn't know what she would do if Ruby hated her.
"Now, change into your pajamas, we only have five minutes till curfew." Ruby stated as she pulled out her white pants.
"... About that." Glynda stated.
"Is something wrong?" Ruby asked the older girl as she began to take her skirt off.
"Well, you see, most people have greatly different sleeping habits, and there are many different definitions to what one would consider 'sleep wear.'" Glynda began as she turned her head towards the ceiling. "One person would like to wear more than another would during the night, and most people find it more conferable to wear as little as possible. And with the size of my breast they get a little unconformable-"
"Get to the point Glynda." Ruby said as she slipped into her pants.
"I sleep naked."
Ruby felt blood shoot out from both her nostrils. "Y-you what?"
"I just.. Like to let my breast lay in whatever direction they want during the night, these are really sensitive you know." Glynda told her. "You just wouldn't understand."
Actually, Ruby would, she actually preferred sleeping nude as well. But then Yang had her wear some of her pj's when Ruby tried to sleep with her after having a nightmare, and explained to her why Ruby couldn't sleep naked with other people. So whenever Ruby was invited to a sleepover or had to sleep with somebody else, she would always have to put on those unconformable fabrics.
"Y-you don't have anything to sleep in?" Ruby asked with a red face.
"N-no." Glynda said with a similar face.
"Okay, how about yoouuu, uh, s-sleep in your underwear till these come off?" Ruby asked.
"Y-yeah, I can do that if it makes you feel more comfortable." Glynda said as she unzipped her new modified shirt and began to strip down to her underwear. It was a very unconformable situation they were in, they would need to do this stuff for two months? Glynda doubted she would survive two more minutes before she died of embarrassment.
Once she finished she turned to face Ruby to see the younger girl staring at her intensely at her black lace bra and panties.
"I-IO, Ruby, why are you staring at me like that?!" Glynda said as she moved her hands to cover herself.
"Well, you stared at me." Ruby said.
"It was an accident!" Glynda said. "W-whatever let's just get into bed already."
Ruby followed the blonde teacher towards the king sized bed she had. But before the two got in, Glynda rearranged the pillows so that they were stacked on each other.
"Uh, what are you doing?" Ruby asked with a heavy blush at the thought of sleeping with her face that close to Glynda's.
"Well, we need to elevate that bruise of your, don't we?" Glynda asked nervously.
"I-it's fine Glynda, really." Ruby tried saying.
"Well I want to treat it properly, I caused it, remember." Glynda told her as she lifted up the covers and shifted into the bed. She looked up at the red girl to see her hesitation to get into the bed. "Come on Ruby, don't make this any more awkward than it needs to be."
Ruby complied silently as she shifted onto the mattress and under the covers, but tried to keep her head off the pillows. Glynda, slightly annoyed, grabbed Ruby's waist and pulled it against her's, shifting Ruby's head onto the pillows.
"Trust me Ruby, I-I'm just as embarrassed about this as you are, but I want to make sure you aren't seriously hurt." Glynda told her.
"R-right, g-g-good night Glynda." Ruby said as she closed her eyes.
"Good night Ruby." Glynda said as she swiftly followed suit.
'I don't know which would be better:' The two thought at the same time. 'If I wake up to discover this was all a dream, or if I wake up to discover it was real.'
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWW, that was a LOT longer than I originally expected. And it looks like Ruby and Glynda are taking advantage of the fact that they're cuffed together. Being the shy girl Ruby is, I imagine that she would get pretty embarrassed about this stuff easily, and being older and more mature, Glynda will get moderately less embarrassed, especially since she has some control of her hormones.
And so, Day 0 has ended, stay tune for Day 1 to begin as they face their greatest challenges: Attending classes, and, the horror, BATHROOM BRAKES.
I wish you all a good day, or night, depending on when you read this.
Also, thank you browow0708 for being the Beta reader of this chapter.