Okay so I wasn't planing to write for this story today but the story got added to one of my favourite author's favourite list. So I'm kinda stoked. This person is one of a few that ultimately made me want to toss my hat into the Faunus!Ruby ring.

Chapter 8: Leprechaun

Ruby sat at the table with her team mates and her friends of team JNPR. Ruby herself wasn't quiet sure what was being talked about, she was too busy making a plan to steal one of the books her team has been hiding from her. Unlucky for them when Ruby put her mind to anything she would achieve it. Ruby had most of her plan already formed, all she needed was a distraction but sadly those where hard to find to get rid of three people.

"Ruby. Remnant to Ruby, come in Ruby. We need conformation you are in there." Jaune said waving his hand in front of Ruby, snapping her out of her trance. "Sorry, I was just thinking about... stuff." Ruby forced laughed hoping that no one would notice and luckily for her it seemed that no one did.

"I'm sorry, what is it? Do I have something on my face?" Ruby asked quickly wiping her face clean of any possible obstruction. "No you just seemed off and didn't respond when Nora offered you cookies so then Yang offered strawberries. Again with no response so we worried even more." Jaune said looking at Ruby carefully. With a studious gaze she passed by Jaune's examination.

"If the offer is still there... I'd love the strawberries last." Ruby sheepishly said looking at everyone. Nora passed her a plate filled with the baked goods Weiss colourfully described as 'A heart-attack waiting to happen.' "So Ruby... can I see your ears? Are the super soft? Can you talk to sloths? I wish I could talk to sloths but still." Nora said in an almost mantra like tone. Even Ruby had slight trouble keeping up.

"O-o-okay? Just be careful they are really sensitive and if you hurt me even by mistake Yang won't hesitate to injure you and I like you with all your limbs attached." Ruby said as she pulled her hood down a small bit to show her ears to the table but not enough so everyone else who looked their way could see them. "Oh my gosh they are so cute!" Nora yelled causing Ruby to cringe away covering them. Nora meanwhile ran around the table and tried to get a better look at them.

"Ah! Nora not so loud! I said they are sensitive. That means to loud noises as well!" Ruby pouted, rubbing her ears trying to subdue the slight ringing that just started. "I'm sorry. It is just they are so cute. Can I rub them? Do you have another set of ears? Like human ears?" Nora continued her questioning but in a far more quite tone just above a whisper.

"No only half Faunus have two sets of ears. And if you are goin to Ruby them please be gentle. Yang by the looks of it is already planning to hurt you." Ruby said moving her hands out of the way so Nora could rub them. "Ruby if she is making you feel uncomfortable just tell her to stop. She sometimes forgets her manners." Ren, a normally quite person spoke up. He was also one of if not the only person who could control Nora.

"No... it is just I'm not used to people wanting to hurt me. Even with Yang and our Dad. People still pulled on them and my tail which is why I prefer to keep my tail hidden." Ruby said leaning into Nora's hand that was busy scratching right behind her ear. "OHHH MY GOSH YOU HAVE A TAIL!" Nora practically screeched causing Yang to grab her hand and pull it away from Ruby.

"Ah Nora what did I say! That kind of thing really hurts!" Ruby pouted with holding tears that began to burn her eyes. She knew Nora didn't mean to, unlike previous people she had no malice in her voice. Just genuine curiosity. Yang meanwhile just punched Nora hard in the arm, making her arm go limp. "Nora, I'm going to let you off easy this time simply because Ruby isn't crying but keep in mind if you yell that loud again I can't be held responsible for my actions." Yang said oddly serious and what was even far stranger was at how calm and almost monotone her voice sounded.

Or that could be just from the constant ringing in Ruby's ears at the moment.

Blake pulled Ruby's head towards her and began to gently rub Ruby's ears and whispered soft soothing words to her. Nora meanwhile attempted to pout and get sympathy from Ren who laughed. "She warned you multiple time not to be loud. Even Yang gave you a few breaks to try and readjust your voice plus you got off with a dead arm. Stop while you are ahead and cash out." Ren said to reassure Nora while give her a summary of how lucky she was Ruby wasn't crying.

"I'm sorry Ruby. It is just you are so adorable and I'm not sure what is too loud." Nora said softly to try and mend the unbroken friendship with Ruby. "A rule of thumb is I would find what you guys find loud ten times louder." Ruby said slightly louder then what Nora spoke but still kept it soft as not to hurt Blake's ears any more then they already did from Nora's outbursts.

Sniffing slightly to still hold in the tears. "Hey Blake. Can you pass me the strawberries Yang offered earlier." Ruby said just soft enough so Blake could hear here. Blake reached across the table keeping one hand on Ruby and the other hand grabbed the plate and handed it to Ruby. Ruby gently took the plate and started to eat the red fruit on it.

As the quartet began to walk back to their dorm because Weiss demanded for Yang to study so she wouldn't 'draw a blank' next time Professor Goodwitch would ask her a question on dust. Ruby went with Blake because Blake offered to tell her a story while she made cookies in the small makeshift kitchen Ruby would have sworn never would have gotten used. Weiss mentioned how she would help Yang with the studying.

"Hey Ruby? What do you know about Leprechauns?" Blake asked getting the required hardware to begin the process of baking. "Just that if you catch one of those accursed fairy like things they have to give you their gold." Ruby said staring in awe at the beginning of the making of her second favourite food. First being strawberries.

"That is actually only have of the legend. The other part is they will try and out smart you but you have to out smart them. They will give you the gold but they will try and get their gold back plus your life. In all stories they are mentioned they give their captor their gold but got it back plus their captor's life as well." Blake said beginning the process of making the cookies that would cheer Ruby up.

"I'm sure you are wondering why I'm bringing them up." Blake asked which caused Ruby to question it. It did seem out of the blue a bit. But Ruby didn't care. She did always like these types of stories. "It is because I know you are planning to find and read those books Weiss and myself told you not to read. You are looking for some distraction that would get rid of use so you can find it and read it. Not going to work. I keep both of them with me at all times." Blake said causing Ruby begin to question what tipped the raven haired cat Faunus off.

"Ruby, when I worked for a particular Faunus rights group. I specialised in stealing and stealth. You are going to need to get up a lot earlier to get one over me." Blake spoke in her monotone voice. If Ruby wasn't furious that she needed to come up with a new plan she would just pout until Blake gave in. Despite that all previous attempts of the same tactic failed. "I will get one of them, unless you tell me what they are about." Ruby said crossing her arms over her chest.

"Tell you what Ruby I'll tell you what they are about if you can bring me..." Blake paused as she began to ponder what she could do to keep Ruby busy. "A left handed coffee cup, a bucket of steam, a can of stripe paint, a glass hammer and a quart of elbow grease." Blake said in a serious tone.

"Promise?" Ruby asked holding out her pinky finger. "A bit childish, but fine I pinky promise you." Blake said hooking her pinky finger with Ruby's. Just as Blake unhooked her finger Ruby vanished in rose petals. Yang say this and decided to walk in to talk to Blake.

"I hope you know she won't stop until she finds that stuff and when she does in fact fail to find the stuff she will then proceed to bend the laws of physics to get the items." Yang said snatching the leftover cookie dough from the mixing bowl. "And I promised if she could get the items I would tell her. Shouldn't you go back to studying. I don't think Weiss will be happy to see you aren't." Blake said taking the bowl back and started to wash it.

Author's Note:

So as I mentioned earlier, this was only realised because one of my favourite author's "The Silver titan" has added my story to his/hers list of favourites and if any of you haven't read it read 'Lighting a dark world' it is one of around four stories that caused me to write a Faunus Ruby story. Don't get me wrong I do value you all and if you write and I find it I can guarantee you that I would be overjoyed to read it. Like always leave a review.