The first thing to strike you after waking up was the absence of a blanket, save for a tiny fraction covering your lower leg. The warmth you had felt going to sleep the previous night had all but disappeared, replaced by the cool morning air that seeped in through an open window. Reaching out with your hand in an attempt to search for the missing blanket, only for it to meet with something else. It took you a second to process and come to the conclusion that you were touching Yang's shoulder.
When you moved around you saw that the blanket barely covered her as well, with just the lower part of her body covered while the rest of the blanket seemed to be falling off the bed. Your first instinct was to pull it back up, making sure that it's warmth would cover you both, and put your arm around her, the same way she put it around herself before going to sleep. Almost immediately she rolled over, allowing you to see her sleeping face, complete with a look of pure bliss; undoubtedly the most pleasant sight you've ever woken up to.
However, you also couldn't help but start snickering upon seeing how messy her hair had gotten during the night.
"What's so funny?" Yang groaned.
"Good morning." you greeted.
"Finally up?"
"I was up well before you." you claimed.
"Then who opened the window?"
"I thought you left that open last night."
"Nope. I was up about an hour ago, and opened it cause I was getting too warm."
Her arms wrapped around your neck and she moved her head from the pillow to your chest.
"So; anything you wanna do today?" you asked.
"Let's just stay in bed all day." she replied with a relaxed groan, snuggling into you.
The sound of her scroll going off caught the attention of both of you. Taking the scroll, Yang looked at it to see who was trying to contact her briefly before ignoring it and bringing her head back to its previous resting spot on your chest.
"Not gonna answer it?" you asked.
"It's just Ruby. She was tried to call me a bunch of times yesterday. I'm sure if it was something important she'd have someone else try to call me."
You placed your hand on the back of her head. Your fingers began to unwittingly start fidgeting with her messy hair.
"You know, if anyone else was doing that I'd probably break their fingers." she remarked, her voice still relaxed and her face still resting in your chest.
"But as your boyfriend I get a free pass?"
"You could say that. But it's mostly because you have magic fingers." she joked. One of her hands reached out and removed yours from her hair, her thumb stroking it softly. "And I wouldn't want something like that to happen to them."
You chuckled at her comments.
"This is so much better than last the time." Yang muttered.
"The last time?"
You pondered what she meant by that. The first guess you made was that she was on about sleeping together, but as far as you understood this was your first time. Until you realised it wasn't. You had shared a bed with her back in Beacon and upon that realisation a flood of guilt washed over you.
You had passed out and by the time you woke up you were the only person in the bed, meaning that you couldn't remember sleeping in the bed with her. Something that should have been an intimate moment in your relationship instead turned into what you could only assume to be an awkward and uncomfortable night, with her trying to make sure that your unconscious body didn't fall out of the one person bed.
"Gotta make it up to her. Gotta make it up."
"Hey; wanna have breakfast in bed?" you suggested.
"Sounds good." Yang responded, perking up.
"I'll get a start on it then." you stated while sitting on the edge. "What do want to eat? We have..."
You sharply jolted up when Yang placed her cold feet on your back, soliciting a surprised exclamation from you. When you turned around Yang had already erupted in a small fit of laughter.
"Sorry..." she giggled. "... but I couldn't resist. Stay like that for a minute. Your back is nice and warm."
She trailed the length of your back with her big toe, sending a tingle through your spine. You reached around with your arm and managed to trap on of her legs. Without wasting time you began a tickling assault against the sole of her foot, trying to find the spots that would get the biggest responses.
"How's this for magic fingers?"
"Stop! Stohohop!" she cried between fits of laughter. Her leg twitched and jerked in an attempt to get out of your grasp. Finally she was able to get you to stop with a good strike to the back of the head from a pillow.
"Oh it's gonna be like that now is it?" you grinned.
Slowly you took up your own pillow and swung it at her head. Yang easily avoided your attack and, seeing an opening, managed to strike you across the face. When you looked at her she had a playful grin on her face, indicating that she wasn't going to back down from your challenge.
"You're in trouble now." she teased.
Yang began the first assault with her pillow. Her attack was fast and vicious, forcing you to use your pillow as a makeshift shield. Your strategy was only half successful, with her landing just as much hits on you as you were able to block.
You decided that she had the advantage against you from being so close. You quickly sacrificed your pillow, knowing you could get another around the house, and playfully squeezed her sides, eliciting a short squeal from her. Seizing the opportunity, you bolted out of the room and down the stairs. Immediately you gathered all the cushions that were in sight, hiding behind one of the couches.
You spotted Yang stepping out from the room and onto the interior balcony. Around both her arms were both pillows, as if they were her gauntlets.
As she made her approach to the stairs you fired two cushions at her. Both of your projectiles were effortlessly punched out of the way by her. Once she saw where you were, Yang gave two strong punches sending both pillows flying from her arms and towards you, both of which were stopped by the couch you ducked behind.
Knowing that she was now defenceless, you popped up from behind the couch and flung another two cushions at her, which she avoided by crouching down behind the railings for protection. One of the cushions you flung at her bounced off the wall and landed near her. She seized the cushion and began making her way down the stairs.
You got from your cover so you could get with you remaining three cushions, her while she came down. She saw you approaching and threw her cushion at you from the cover of the railing, which missed you by a longshot. When were near the end of the staircase you fired the first cushion at her. Yang managed to catch it mid-air and fire it back at you, knocking the remaining two from your hand. Once you were disarmed Yang jumped down the remainder of the stairway, doing an impressive front flip forwards, grabbing the two cushions you dropped on the floor and getting into her fighting stance, all while you retreated backwards to avoid her colliding into you.
"Show off!" you exclaimed while retreating.
You picked up one of the pillows she threw earlier and attempted one final assault. Only seconds after it begun it was clear you were outmatched. Your clumsy swings were easily punched away by Yang's trained fighting skills. None of them managed to land a hit, no matter what direction they came from, while Yang managed to get a few strikes in and eventually knocked the pillow out of your hands.
"Surrender?" Yang asked with a mischievous grin.
Instead of surrendering, like you probably should've, you opted to run away again, this time escaping out the back door. Yang followed you shortly after. However, when you got outside you blindly ran in the direction of the wooden dock instead of somewhere else. It was only when you were about to run off the edge that you realised your mistake. Before you could fully turn around and run in another direction, you were struck by one of the cushions, sending you into the lake.
If you weren't fully awake when you got out of bed, you were after you hit the cold water and it closed over you. You re-emerged from the water after five seconds, shivering and gasping for air. Yang was already on the dock, roaring in laughter.
"You should've just surrendered when you had the chance..." she began once her laughter died down. "I wouldn't have punished you too harshly."
Yang made the naïve mistake of crouching down and extending her arm to help you out of the water. Seeing your opportunity, you pulled her towards you into the lake, getting a yelp from her as you did.
She emerged from the water shortly, while you chuckled at her. She joined in with your laughter after splashing you in the face with some water, which you responded to in kind. She pushed herself forwards and embraced you.
You both floated in the water for a moment, waiting for the adrenaline from your game to go down. Once you heaved your soaking bodies out of the water you both went for a warm shower and let your nightwear out to dry.
As a result of your playful fight, both you and Yang had worked up a hunger. Despite both being fully dressed you still held true to your word about having breakfast in bed. You left her in the room for a few minutes before returning with two plates consisting of eggs, bacon, potato waffles, sausages, and toast, alongside two cups tea.
The idea to stay in bed had been tossed aside earlier. You were both dressed, fully awake and the idea of staying in bed for the entire day seemed to have lost its appeal. You both decided to head into the town for a look around, and opted to walk a more scenic route than driving.
Not long after you began walking, Yang's scroll went off again. She reacted to it with a frustrated expression, seeming to know automatically who was calling her. It would seem that her guess was right. The moment she looked at it, an irritated groan escaped her mouth and she put her scroll back.
"Yang, is everything alright?"
"Everything's fine." she replied bluntly.
"Something had you upset yesterday when I met up with you yesterday and you said that you'd tell me."
You took her hand and stopped walking, making her do the same.
"Can we just drop it please? It's nothing important."
"If it's stressing you out then I want to help you and if it's nothing important then you should just get it off your chest."
"Fine." she said reluctantly. "I got into a fight with Ruby before I left with you. She's been getting on my nerves for the last month getting the team ready for the Vytal festival. I'd be fine with it for the most part but..."
She paused momentarily and gritted her teeth.
"But what?"
"She's the reason I couldn't meet up with you for the last two weeks. She didn't want me seeing you because she thought my time would be better spent training."
"Wait, am I getting in the way of your training?"
"No. Of course not."
You both resumed walking, still holding hands.
"I can make time for training and you. But Ruby didn't think I could and I just snapped at her before I left with you, even though we were meant to be training."
"But I thought you enjoyed all that stuff. Aren't you excited for the fighting tournament?"
"I am." Yang sighed. "But everything we've been doing for the last month sapped any enjoyment I had for it. Add that to the fact that I wasn't able to be with you and... I just needed to cool down."
She let out another sigh.
"Do you think I was wrong to give out to her? She didn't even know that it was bothering me and just went about things like her usual self, probably thinking it was just a small little sacrifice that had to be made."
"I can't say if it was right or wrong. Sometimes frustration builds up and we just snap. How are you feeling about it now?"
"I don't know. I know she didn't mean any of it and freaking out at her probably wasn't the best thing to do."
"Well, what's done is done. I think the best thing to do is to just talk things over with her."
You mentally kicked yourself for not being able to say more, feeling like the advice you had just given her was something anyone else would say. Still she decided to take your advice, even if it was the most basic you could give.
One small positive that you took from everything was that you learned she missed you as much as you did her during your time apart. It was something that helped reassure you from some worries you had that still persisted.
Shortly after the town came into view. Both you and Yang popped into several shops, browsing for anything that might catch your eyes.
"This place has barely changed since the last time I was here." you commented.
"How long ago was that?"
"When I was about nine years old. Used to come out every now and again for a week with my parents and some of my cousins when I was little."
"Why'd you stop coming?"
"I don't know. Just kinda stopped. I guess I didn't see much point in coming up here anymore. Unless of course I'm with the best girl in the entire world."
Your compliment gained a smile from Yang while you pulled her in closer. Yang's head turned to the side facing away from you so she could catch a glimpse of what any of the shops you walked by had to offer.
"Looking for anything in particular?" you asked.
"A whip." she responded quickly.
"For what? Are you thinking of getting a new weapon? Because I think there's a weapons place..."
"Not that kind of whip." she said with a playful grin before whispering into your ear. "I still have to punish you from this morning."
Your face grew slightly red and your jaw dropped when you realised what she meant.
"You should see your face." Yang chuckled. "I'm starting to think I should get one now."
"You were joking?"
"Maybe I am, maybe I'm not."
A slew of thoughts suddenly filled your head.
"If you're not then this is a whole new side of you I'm seeing."
From the corner of your eye you spotted something on one of the shops. It was a small poster, advertising a festival to celebrate the founding of the town. You had seen one the previous day when you left to get the burgers.
"Wanna go to this later on?" you asked Yang, drawing her attention to the poster. "I was thinking we'd go out for dinner tonight and this looks like it could be fun."
"Sounds like a plan." she replied. "Now let's find that whip."