Everything I have to say will be discussed at the end of this chapter
Disclaimer: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth
Roppongi Vice and The Bullet Club belong to New Japan Pro Wrestling
Special Chapter: Weiss & Ruby
Weiss Schnee would be staring at the monitor at her desk, her screen displaying the building diagram of Beacon Academy as she looked from room to room for any trace of Ruby, her pale blue eyes bloodshot from being so close to the monitor and the loss of sleep she endured from obsessively keeping tabs on her crimsonette haired partner. "Come on dammit, where are you?!"
Blake would once again be trying to finish the "Ninja's of Love" book she had begun reading a month back but it would be another pointless endeavor thanks to the heiress's angry mumblings distracting her before she finally gave in and set down the book. "Weiss you know it's pointless to keep staring at that screen, the mutt removed Ruby's anklet remember..right before she shoved you?" The feline Faunus would growl in frustration as she tossed her book aside in anger before looking over at Yang's empty bunk with a mixture of sadness and contempt. "It's bad enough he's got Yang acting like some ditz out of a romance novel, but now even Ruby's falling for his garbage." Blake would sigh and stare at around their dorm room, noticing that Ruby's bed was still made from the day before. "Hey Weiss, did Ruby ever make it back after yesterday?"
The heiress would slam her palms down on the desk, rattling her monitor as she did before standing up.
"HOW THE FUCK SHOULD I KNOW?! THE LITTLE DOLT SLIPPED HER FUCKING ANKLET REMEMBER?!" Weiss would bolt up out of her seat furiously before clipping her rapier, Myrtenaster to her belt and heading for the door fuming angrily.
"I'm going to go find that dolt and slap some sense into her cookie addled brain!" The heiress would slam the door as she left, leaving Blake alone to ponder her thoughts.
"Just what the hell happened to this team?"
Ruby Rose would be sitting on Bálor's bed comfortably as the wolf Faunus would be sitting at his monitor showing off his newest wrestling related box of swag: This time it would be centered off of a charismatic tag team known as "RPG Vice".
I'm curious as to how you keep getting these things into Beacon, I mean I know Goodwitch is gone and everything but.." She would giggle as he grinned sheepishly and changed shirts, it always amazed her how he could be so passionate about something as simple as T-shirts, the way his amber eyes would light up when he saw them waiting for him in his closet, and how he seemed to be even more exuberant as he was wearing them. "You're like a kid on his birthday when you smile like that, it's really cute."
Bálor would grin once more, blushing as did a little spin for her as he did. "I can't help it, I just love the wrestling business Rubes, the colorful t-shirts, the vibrant characters, it just brings out the kid in me." He would smirk before tossing a shirt to the crimsonette who would look at him curiously before unfolding it, it was a normal black shirt but in the center in bold baby blue and pink colored lettering were the words: "Roppongi Vice".
"It's certainly..unique." She would say more to herself before folding it back up carefully and setting it down next to her, and looking over at him with a small smile.
"You don't like it.." The wolf Faunus would set down the rest of his apparel, looking a little hurt by her lack of enthusiasm.
"No, no that's not it. I just..figured you keep this kind of stuff to yourself, you love it so much." Ruby would unfold the shirt and look at it with a bigger smile this time.
"He gave me something all my own, not just as a part of the group." The crimsonette haired Huntress would giggle quietly and hug the shirt to herself, all while he would smile and watch her proudly.
"Ya know, whenever I get the heck off of this solitary confinement we should all go out. You, me, Yang, the whole team." He would start hanging his new clothing on leftover hangers as he spoke before kicking the box aside with a grin, only to see Ruby getting up to leave.
"Was it something I said?" He would frown as she didn't respond to his question and left without saying a word, she would keep walking until she felt that she was outside of his enhanced hearing range and let out a big sigh as she looked down at the shirt once more.
"Even after everything I said, I poured my heart and soul out to him, I even kissed him!" Ruby would shake her head quickly as she tried not to let the anger overwhelm her, tracing the lettering on her new shirt gently in order to calm down.
"No, I won't let myself get mad. After all he did give me this present, it's gotta mean a lot for him to let me on something new after all."
The red hood wearing Huntress would be so lost in her thought that she didn't hear the sound of clicking heels approaching her, Weiss would be seething as she saw her partner just standing there in the hallway, tracing the lettering on a shirt and giggling like a moron.
"What kind of garbage bin did you pull THAT monstrosity out of?" The heiress would snort and rip the shirt from a surprised Ruby's hands and looking at it for herself, her lovely features morphing into one of disgust. "Row…pon..guy..Vees? Are you kidding me?!"
Ruby would reach for the shirt desperately even as Weiss stepped away from the crimsonette, fuming with unrestrained anger as she continued to glare at the piece of clothing in her hands.
"Did you get this from HIM, you precious little pet wolf?!" She would hold the shirt away even as the crimsonette tried using her Semblance to get the gift from her livid teammate.
"Do you NOT understand how often he thinks about Yang, what could you do to even hope to compare to HER?!" Weiss would start making her way downstairs holding the shirt away from Ruby who was on the verge of crying at this point.
"You're MY partner! I should be the only one you focus on, not some fight club reject that came in from the cold!?" She would tear up the shirt with those final words, taking deep breaths as she had finally gotten to vent some of her recent frustrations with her.
"Weiss..you just don't get it do you?" The crimsonette would glare at her, the anger from earlier now firmly planted towards Weiss. "Real partners wouldn't go out of their way to hurt one another like this, I never ONCE bashed on you for all the time you spoke about Neptune like he was God's gift to women!" She would slowly make her way down to the pale haired heiress with tears streaming down her face, her hands balled into tight fists. "But the one time I get someone for myself, you can't help but keep picking at him like some disgusting scab on your perfect skin!" Weiss would slowly begin to back off from the Huntress, not used to seeing her this angry before.
"It's bad enough I have to fight Yang every step of the way in all of this, but to know that my own partner doesn't support me through all of this is a complete JOKE!" Soon Ruby would find herself standing in front of the heiress, her eyes now burning cauldrons of molten silver hatred as she retrieved the scraps of her gift from Bálor and then rear back and slap Weiss with all the strength she could muster. The sound reverberating off the walls as her partner stepped back, her eyes widening in shock at the fact that her normally silly and fun-loving friend had slapped her.
"I know I can't disband the team, but that doesn't mean I have to stay in the same room with the people who are against me and the man I LOVE!"
Weiss would just stand there, holding her cheek in shock as she watched the crimsonette walk away.
"She loves him..?"
Bálor would be nodding his head quietly as he lay on his bed, listening to the Ruppongi Vice theme song on his Schneepod and occasionally laughing at the lyrics. "Man this is ridiculous, but I can't stop listening to it!" He would try and suppress his laughter as he once again started the song over with a grin, only to be interrupted by a knock on the door.
"It's open!" He would sigh happily as the rap beat started up, only for louder knocking to interrupt his fun once more as he sighed and pulled off his headphones and got up off of the bed.
"Geez, this better be Ozpin telling me that I'm free to fly the fucking coup!" The wolf Faunus would open the door, prepared to verbally kick the ass of whoever dared to interrupt his laughter.
Although that all changed when he saw Ruby holding a box of her belongings in her hands, on top of which lay the shirt he had given her earlier.
"I'm sorry about the shirt..Weiss, she-" The cookie loving crimsonette would burst into tears as she spoke, running into his arms and sobbing quietly. He would frown and wrap his arms around her gently as he led her inside his room before going back to retrieve her things.
"Man, I knew Schnee was a stuck up brat..but to do this to her own partner? That's just low, even for her." He would walk back inside, kicking the door closed with his foot and setting it down gently.
"Ruby, I'm here if you wanna talk-"
"Can I stay here..with you I mean?" Her question would take him by surprise, from all the rumors he had heard in the old days, Team RWBY stood strong throughout any crisis a fact that was further supported by their various victories against the White Fang.
"You..did say you wanted a roommate a while ago remember, is that offer still on the table?" She would look at him, her silver eyes now puffy from crying but still somehow full of hope that he wouldn't turn her away.
"Damn Rubes, just what the hell did Weiss say to you?" Bálor would go to his closet and open it, moving his shirts to the side and frowning. "I know it's not much in the room department, but we could move some things around later on." He would blush as she smiled happily and began to unpack her belongings as he turned back and spotted his favorite piece of apparel: It was a Bullet Club t-shirt signed by all of its current members, he considered it the crown jewel of his collection, but as he looked back at the crimsonette who was currently frowning at the loss of the Ruppongi Vice t-shirt an idea sprang to mind.
"Hey..Ruby, come over here for a minute."
Ruby would look over at her silver haired beloved, who was focused on something in his closet.
"Oh no, he's looking at the space in the closet and reconsidering!" She would gulp at the thought of having to crawl back to her dorm room and face Weiss's pompous sneer, but she would stand up and walk over nonetheless, at least she would be able to be next to him for a little longer before being kicked to the curb.
He would smile before removing the shirt from its place in the closet and looking over at her with a twinkle in his amber eyes.
"Ruby, I've told you how much I adore the Bullet Club right?"
The crimsonette would nod with a slight grin. "Only every waking minute, then there's the hand gestures, the clothes, the elaborate entrance you made when you beat the crap outta CRDL." She would pause to laugh at the long list of things she'd brought up and the memories associated with them. "You love those guys so much it kinda makes me wonder why you became a Hunter."
Bálor would smile as he ran his fingers over the autographs on the shirt's logo. "I became a Hunter so that I could wipe out the Grimm, that way people can enjoy wrestling shows and picnics and all the other fun stuff without having to be afraid of some monster hurting them." He would frown somewhat as if remembering something terrible before continuing to speak. "My father was a Hunter ya know one of the best in Vacuo, they called him Jaggerjack, the Demon of the Sands." He would sigh happily as he set the shirt back on its hanger and face her, a small smile on his face as he pressed on with his story. "You would've loved him Ruby, he was wild and fierce..I mean the man fought with eight swords at once, EIGHT!"
She would watch him as he spoke, his smile wavering as it did but she nodded for him to go on.
"A-And these weren't normal swords either, the blades were made of a different kind of crystal while the hilts were forged from a mineral found inside of a meteorite!" He would speak proudly even as tears began to brim from his eyes, Ruby couldn't understand why he would speak so fondly of the man even though it was clearly upsetting the wolf Faunus.
"Hell..h-he even named me after a great demon just like himself. Bálor, a demon giant with a third eye that would destroy everything it sees when it was opened! Left me with his weapons too..! It's like he WANTED me to be a monster-"
He would stop as Ruby just held onto him tightly, letting him finally break down and cry, stroking his silver hair lovingly as she felt him shaking from the sobs.
"You're not a monster..and you're certainly not your father, I've seen monsters in my life and they don't laugh and smile like you do." She whispered as he continued to sob into her hood, under normal circumstances she would've been aghast at this and shoved him aside to clean away the tears.
But these weren't normal circumstances now were they?
"Dammit Ruby, you saw what I did to Cardin..I WANTED to kill him! That's something a demon would want!"
She would shake her head firmly, moving just enough so she could look into his amber eyes. "Trust me, you weren't the only one in that crowd who wanted a piece of Cardin Winchester for what he said that day. You were just the only one who was close enough to do anything." She would stroke his cheek gently with a sad smile "Seeing you pound him that day was one of the most terrifying sights of my life, but it also showed me and every Faunus at this school how passionate you were and now all the students are standing up to Team CRDL's bullying, and no demon giant could do that..not like my Bálor can."
He would look up at her curiously as she said that, his amber eyes tinged with red because of the crying but still full of curiosity even as she kissed his lips deeply, unlike their last kiss which had been born from spontaneity and embarrassment Ruby poured all of her love into this one, as if she was willing him to accept her very soul as their lips crashed against one another in a frenzied dance of emotion.
It would be another few minutes before they had to pull away for air, but when they finally did Bálor would immediately stand up and pull down the shirt he had been looking at earlier before turning to the crimsonette and presenting it to her.
"I umm…I was planning to give this to you earlier, to replace the Roppongi shirt from earlier." He would blush deeply as he pointed to the autographs that lined the skull and bullet logo. "This was signed by every member of the Club, and it's the greatest shirt in my collection." He would kneel down and gently hand it to her, even as her cheeks rouged in amazement, shock and adoration.
"B-Bálor..I couldn't possibly..I mean this is so precious to you-" She would try and give it back to the wolf Faunus, but he would shake his head and press it firmly in her hands.
"It is precious..but not nearly as much as what I have with you Ruby, you were one of the first people to come up to me at Beacon and say hello. And even though I was a bit of a loner back then, you always stayed close to me no matter how bad things became." Bálor would smile as she tried it on, trying not to laugh as it was a bit big on the crimsonette haired girl. "It looks perfect, now all we gotta do is teach you how to "too sweet" and you'll be a card carrying Bullet Club fan girl." He would demonstrate the hand gesture for her, causing her to grin and attempt to do the same even if it was a little lopsided at first.
Yang would be listening in on their conversation through the door, she had planned on surprising him with a home cooked meal and candles in an attempt to pick from the last time they were alone together, but when she'd walked up to the room and heard Ruby's voice inside that plan went out the window.
"I can't believe it, he's never told anybody about his parents before, and of all the people he could tell he goes and spills his guts to RUBY?!" The blonde brawler would ball her fists so tight that the reeds of the basket would dig into her hands causing them to bleed momentarily before her aura would kick in and repair the wounds.
"And what's that crap about Bálor being HERS, all she ever did was stare at him from afar, it was MY Ice Bucket challenge that got him away from those stupid podcasts! I was the one who got him out of his shell and got him to be more outgoing!" She would walk off into the halls before chucking her picnic basket full of food down the stairs with an anguished cry of pain.
"I did all the work getting him to open up, so then why does he only notice her?"
Sorry this one took a while folks, but between the carpal tunnel and the eye strain it was hard to bang this one out in a timely matter, plus I kinda got lost during the part where Bálor was giving her the Roppongi Vice shirt. I Almost abandoned this chapter entirely before calming down and just busting out a songfic (Warrior Man, give it a read if its something up your alley.) but after the day I've had, writing just felt like a good way to let out some steam.
So I hope this one makes the grade for y'all, review with your thoughts, PM me your suggestions on who the lucky girl at the end of the story should be? Do you rep RoseWolf? (BálorxRuby) or are you a Howling Dragon fan? (BálorxYang)
And since I mentioned them, go give that Roppongi Vice theme a listen, it's actually pretty sweet (ya know, if you feel like it.)
Ya know, it's everyone's reviews that make writing so worth it for me and I just want to thank everyone who left a review on any story I've written here on FF (except for that one "guest" review on my first song fic "Celebrity" I'm sorry I misspelled Jaune's name! It was a nice Story! That's the part that should matter! T_T
Sorry again, off to bed.