The second their bullhead landed, Ruby led her team off of the bullhead and into the city. Forcing an extra amount of energy into her steps so as to convince them that this day out wasn't taking its toll on her body. Her movements weren't as fast as they would normally be, and while her team eyed her with concern from time to time, the large smile on her face kept them from mentioning anything to her or each other. They walked in companionable silence for around thirty minutes until Ruby stopped in front of a restaurant and turned to her team with a smile.

"I hope you guys are hungry," Ruby said excitedly. "'Cause I was kinda hoping that this could be our first stop."

After receiving three nods of agreement Ruby led them inside, where it was revealed that she had a reservation, and they were all guided to a table. Weiss and Ruby sat down on one side and Blake and Yang on the other. Weiss gave the menu a quick look over before looking at Ruby.

"You took us to a sushi restaurant?" The white haired team member asked.

"Yup!" Ruby answered happily. "Um… You don't have any problems with sushi, do you?"

"Not at all, in fact I like sushi as much as anyone else… except maybe Blake," Weiss responded while looking at the black haired girl in question, who was so focused on the menu that she didn't even hear the remark, let alone respond. "I just didn't expect you or Yang to eat sushi all that much."

"It's funny you mention that," the red-tipped brunette said sheepishly before her sister cut her off.

"We've never had sushi before in our lives," Yang interjected.

"Yang," Ruby said while glaring at her blond sister. "I was going to tell her. Anyway I was kinda hoping that you could help us choose. I have no idea what any of the things on the menu are."

"Well," Weiss began. "Yang might like the dragon roll, while as for you… I'd probably start with a simple Valean roll. Though I'm going to get a volcano roll so if you want to try that just let me know."

"Okay thanks, Weiss!" Ruby responded happily before turning to her sister with a questioning look.

"Yeah I think I'll take your advice on this one," Yang said slowly. "I have no idea what any of these are, despite the fact that they have a description of what's in them."

"However, it may be a little bit of a task to convince Blake to choose just one roll," Weiss said looking at the only member of team RWBY who hadn't said anything.

"Let her get what she wants, Weiss," Ruby said softly. "I've saved up some money for today. As long as she doesn't pig out and ruin one of our later activities, she's fine."

Weiss sighed in response to Ruby's comment. "Alright. However, if she tries to get more than three, I'm going to stop her."

A couple of minutes later their waiter stopped by and took their orders. After that it wasn't long until their food arrived, and the four of them dug in. Each person sharing pieces of their sushi rolls with the others until everyone had tried everything on the table and labeled them in order of what they liked best. Other than requesting pieces of food from each other, they didn't talk too much, preferring to spend their time in companionable silence rather than trying to force a conversation. That was something that team RWBY came to realize early on in their time together. While they all enjoyed talking, especially with each other, there are times where they would rather sit in silence with one another, rather than fill the room with their voices. As a result of this there were times where a person from team JNPR would walk into team RWBY's room and be greeted by a series of waves, rather than a group of people voicing greetings to them.

So it was that they ate in mostly silence, until Blake had a thought while eating the final piece of sushi on the table. "Ruby, I'm kind of wondering why you felt the need to help Velvet. How'd that go by the way?"

Ruby's face lit up in response. "It went great," she said happily. "She was feeling a lot better when I left to catch up to you guys. As for why I felt the need to help her… It's because we all have a limited amount of time to spend alive. I'd rather not let people waste their time by being sad, angry, or really anything negative if I can help it. So I tried to help her, and it worked. I'm even going to hang out with her on Monday, assuming that I'm healthy of course."

Suddenly the young team leader found herself receiving small gestures of support from each of her teammates. Weiss gave her a small hug from the side. Blake reached across the table and put her hand on top of Ruby's, and Yang gave her younger sister a small, comforting smile.

"I knew my little sis was awesome," Yang stated proudly while holding her head up. "I just didn't know how awesome, but now I know, and I get to tell the world all about it."

Ruby ducked her head in embarrassment. "Yaaaaaaaanng," Ruby said pleadingly. "Please don't tell the world about me. I'd much rather just have my friends know about me."

"How are you supposed to make new friends if you don't want other people knowing about you?" Blake asked in response.

"Well I have you guys," Ruby responded. "And I have team JNPR. Why would I need more friends? I have the best people as my friends already."

"It never hurts to have more friends, Rubes," the blond haired team member responded. "Plus, how're you supposed to meet 'the one' if you don't meet new people? Or have you already found 'the one'? You can tell us. I promise that as long as it's not Jaune, I won't beat them up."

"Yang!" Ruby exclaimed as the waiter stopped by to give them their bill. She then paid the bill and used the short gap in the conversation to change the topic, while also leading her team out of the restaurant and through various parts of Vale. Her teammates were all surprised when she lead them into a concert hall, and doubly so when she produced tickets for a show that was about to start.

As they walked to their seats Weiss turned to look at Ruby, "How'd you get those tickets? They've been sold out for weeks!"

Ruby just smiled and answered with, "Well I've been planning this since I was still coughing. Why do you think I was insistent that we have this happen today?" The younger girl then giggled lightly at the looks of amazement she was receiving from her friends. "What? You, Blake, Yang, and I had just become friends. Of course I'm going to try and plan an amazing day that we can all enjoy."

Her team had no response to that so they just found their seats and sat down. It was only a couple of minutes later when the concert started and everyone got caught up in the singing of the single person on stage. Yang gave off the impression that she was bored, with her slouched posture, but those who knew her, knew that she was listening intently. Blake was staring right at the person on stage in amazement as she listened to the persons melodic voice fill the room. Weiss was trying to be analytical. Having performed a few times herself, she wanted to compare herself to the woman on the stage. However every time she did so she came up short. The person on stage was simply amazing.

Ruby was swaying slightly with the music, her eyes closed, and a peaceful smile on her face. After a while she started humming softly as well. She was overjoyed at the moment. The day that she was worried would be an absolute flop had started off amazing and now she got to enjoy some of the best singing she'd ever heard. It wasn't until she heard Weiss humming with her that she realized she'd been humming. Terrified that she was ruining the experience for those around her, she opened her eyes, stopped humming, and looked around worriedly. Her eyes met with those of Weiss and Yang, both of which were to her left, and bowed her head sheepishly.

Ruby felt a hand grasp her right shoulder and turned to see Blake nodding at her encouragingly. It was then that she realized that Weiss was still humming. Though she was still hesitant to continue her humming, she wasn't a singer or anything like that. Blake must have seen the hesitation in Ruby's eyes as the black haired girl started humming softly as well. Surrounded by her three best friends, all of which seemed to want her to start humming again, was enough to make her forget her hesitation. So she closed her eyes and started to hum along once again.

It wasn't until after the concert was over and she was getting quiet words of appreciation and encouragement from the people who were sitting around her, that she realized that she wasn't exactly humming quietly. So she turned to give her team an accusing glare. "You guys didn't tell me I was humming loudly," she said angrily.

"Your humming was beautiful," Weiss responded. "Everyone who's come to talk to you about it has complimented you."

"I agree," Blake added. "If you hadn't told me that you don't know how to sing, I would have though you've been on that stage before. Just from your humming."

Ruby blushed in embarrassment before turning a corner and promptly running into another person. The two of them fell to the ground painfully and remained there until the other members of team RWBY helped the two stand up.

"I'm really sorry," Ruby said apologetically. "I should have been looking where I was going."

"It's not a problem," a girl with bright orange hair and green eyes responded. "I'm A-Okay."

"That's good," Ruby responded. "I'd feel really bad if I'd have hurt you. I'm Ruby, by the way."

"No damage done here," the girl responded with entirely to much energy. "My name's Penny."

"Well, we have to get going," the red-tipped brunette said sadly. "Hope to see you around though!"

"Hope to see you around as well, Ruby," Penny responded.

Ruby then led the team to one of Yang's favorite places in Vale, an arcade. She quickly realized that neither Blake nor Weiss had ever been to an arcade before, so she took turns talking with them off to the side while Yang showed the other one the various games. It was during one such conversation that Blake brought up something she'd been thinking about.

"Hey, Ruby," Blake started as she walked over to her younger friend.

"Hey, Blake, is it Weiss' turn to be educated to the ways of the arcade?" the shorter girl responded with a smile.

"Actually Yang is in the bathroom, I wanted to ask you a question."

"You guys like asking me a lot of questions," Ruby teased in response, before motioning to Blake to go ahead.

"Well, the activities we've done today all seem to be specifically for one of us. The Sushi restaurant for me, the concert for Weiss, and the arcade for Yang. I was wondering what we're going to do for you though, because it's almost night."

Ruby smiled in response. "This entire day is my activity! What could possibly be better than spending time with my friends and watching them smile?"

That response earned a smile from her two teammates before Blake challenged Weiss to a game of air hockey. A challenge that the white-haired heiress accepted. So the two walked over to the air hockey table and began their game. Both of them had a small smile on their faces and they took the time to enjoy the competition with each other. The two battled it out for a little while before something became clear to those involved. Weiss was just a little bit better. Despite having never played the game before, Weiss was better with the angles involved than Blake was. This led to her slowly but surely creating a gap between Blake's score and her own, until all Blake could do was admit defeat. It was then that Ruby hopped up to the air hockey table and challenged Weiss.

"Are you sure you're up for it, Ruby?" Weiss asked with concern.

"I'm always up for a few rounds of air hockey," Ruby responded almost immediately. "Besides, someone needs to put you in your place after that win."

"Alright, you're on," Weiss said after a moment of deliberation.

It took Weiss a total of thirty seconds to realize her mistake. Even without her semblance, Ruby was by far the faster of the two. It was also readily apparent that Ruby had spent quite a bit of time playing this game throughout her life, as she was easily deflecting all of Weiss' attempts to score points. When the score reached 10-0 in Ruby's favor Weiss simply gave up and congratulated Ruby on her win.

"How're you so good at that game?" Blake asked.

"Well, that's easy," Yang said as she walked up to the group. "Air hockey is the only game in the whole arcade that Ruby enjoys."

"So naturally I spent an unhealthy amount of time practicing," Ruby finished for her older sister as she walked up to give Yang a hug. "You can blame her for always dragging me to the arcade."

After that statement a buzzing sound came from Ruby's scroll and she pulled it out to look at it.

"Oh wow," she said softly. "I lost track of time. It's time for us to get going to our final destinations."

With that she led the team, once again, to their next destination. This time though the walk was only a couple of minutes before the team found themselves in the middle of a park walking towards a large basket on top of a blanket.

"Ruby," Yang began. "How'd you get a basket here?"

"I owe Pyrrha and Nora a favor now," was the simple reply from the younger sister.

"Do they know what they were delivering this basket for?"

"Not really," the silver-eyed girl began. "I convinced them I'm trying to woo my crush, because Nora wasn't buying the whole 'I want to have a picnic with my team' thing."

That statement caused the rest of team RWBY to laugh lightly. Each trying to picture Nora's reaction to Ruby explaining that she had a crush. All of them ended up coming to the conclusion that Nora practically dragged Pyrrha along for the ride after realizing the 'noble purpose' of what Ruby was trying to do.

"So," Yang began with a mischievous glint to her eyes. "Who is your crush?"

"No one that you need to worry about Yang," Ruby stated firmly, doing her best to glare at her sister.

The rest of the picnic was filled with laughter and smiles on team RWBY's part. The four friends relishing in each others company, and telling stories about their respective childhoods. Their smiles grew as they learned more and more about each other. Needless to say, Ruby was ecstatic that the day she had been planning for so long ended up being so perfect. So it was while she was watching her friends eat the food she had asked Pyrrha and Nora to bring, that she felt she had accomplished her purpose of making today the best day ever.

A couple of hours later, after everyone had finished eating, Blake looked around nervously before telling everyone she had something she needed to tell them. After receiving questioning and encouraging glances from her teammates she calmed herself down and reached up to undo the bow on her head, revealing her faunus ears. She didn't even have time to announce she was a faunus before she found herself tackled to the ground in a hug.

"They're So Cute!" A high pitched voice squealed into her ears.

"Ruby… stop assaulting our teammate," Weiss said from off to the said.

Ruby quickly got off of Blake and let the amber eyed girl sit up. Blake looked around to see that Ruby was staring at her happily, Yang was looking at her with a small smile, and Weiss seemed a little confused but otherwise okay with the development.

"You guys aren't mad that I've been hiding this from you?"

"Of course not," Ruby answered immediately followed by Yang saying, "nope."

"I'm a little surprised of course," Weiss began cautiously. "Though given my family's history with the faunus people I'm not surprised you hid it from me. I can assure you though, I have no problems with you being a faunus, and I'll try to get over my surprise quickly for your sake."

Blake smiled lightly in response, "Thank you guys."

"Not to spoil the moment or anything," Ruby said softly. "But we need to get back to Beacon, and I don't have the energy to walk right now. Tackling Blake took a lot out of me."

"Don't worry, Ruby, I can carry you back," Blake said after a short giggle. "Just as long as Weiss and Yang are fine with carrying all the stuff from the picnic."

Two quick agreements later and team RWBY were on their way back to Beacon with Ruby on Blake's back, Weiss carrying the basket from the picnic, and Yang carrying the blanket that they had sat on.

A/N

Hey guys how's it going? So I was supposed to send this to my beta reader/ editor Saturday night… but power outages suck so… I couldn't. Real quick shoutout to said Beta reader/ editor imoshen88 who's totally awesome and has honestly helped this story out a lot! Thank you Imo (hope this doesn't embarrass you). Nyway thanks for reading everyone and please leave a review!

Beta notes: Well…. Hi! As Shaded said, I'm currently helping him out with this story, and have been since chapter 5. Outside of being absolutely embarrassed at Shaded calling me out like this, I'm really enjoying the story so far. (As well as working on it.) I hope this goes for you readers as well. Please do leave some reviews, as I know they mean a lot to Shaded. –Imoshen88