Okay, here is Chapter 28 . . . as you can see I have gone back to bouncing around within a specific timeframe, but I added a little twist and made this chapter a direct continuation from four chapters ago, BUT it's now in Yang's perspective.

If you don't remember chaoter 24, it was in Weiss' POV, going over to it and just reading the last paragraph will help you remember what was going on, no problem. This is a pretty long chapter . . . I meant for it to only be like 3k words, and here I am at 5.5k .

Anyway! Enjoy

Oh, that reminds me . . . The two previous Easter eggs were found (In Chapter 23)

21crashman found the videogame reference, that was the logo for Ruby's Crescent Rose "The Last Thing You Never See" was a reference from Fallout: New Vegas. The logo being from the NCR's First Recon. An elite sniper team.

Dodongo821 found the harder of the two, which was from Ruby obsessing over Weiss being symmetrical with her twin tails, and also putting white in her own hair. This reference was to Death The Kid from Soul Eater,

So, since those were found, there's an Easter egg in here. It's easy to find. Have fun!


POV: YANG XIAO LONG

(A Direct Continuation of Chapter 24)

Chapter 28 – A Step Closer to Pollination

"Yang, I need you to be honest with me. By that I mean don't hesitate to say the first thing that comes to mind, I don't want you cushioning your thoughts."

I look over to Weiss, watching her take only her third sip from the punch I got her. I'm actually surprised she isn't coughing after only the third sip. After I poured her cup I snuck a little extra shot in her cup for her from the little bottle I have snuggled away in my top.

"Okay . . . the jig is up. Yes, I've pictured you naked, but only one time, I swear!" I hold back a snicker until I catch a death glare out the corner of my eye from the Ice Queen. She makes it far too easy to mess with her, I swear. "Alright, alright. Stop glaring daggers. What's up?"

I take a moment to flash a final glare to Blake, who is sitting with the one person I wish I would never have to see her near again, Sun Wukong. That monkey boy has been trying his luck with Blake since they met a few months ago, and he has proven to be extremely determined. I know Blake made it clear she wanted to come to the prom with me, and not Sun, but the fact that she is now sitting with him is slowly eating away at me. I would go down there and knock him back to Banana Land, but this is one of those times I need to be there for Weiss. The very first time I need, or even want to be there for her.

"Yang I need to know." I turn my head when Weiss pauses, watching her take a heavier drink from her cup, downing half of it with only a mild shiver and nothing else.

Wait, when the hell could Ice Queen handle alcohol!? Hm. The more you know.

"Yang. Do you support Ruby and I?"

My eyes widen slightly. To hear Weiss ask that question filled me with a mix of shock, and actually anger for some unknown reason. I suppose because I am still adapting to their relationship. I grip the banister firmly while I lean on it, looking down at the paleness of the back of my hands.

"Not to dodge the question, Weiss, but I wouldn't trust anybody with my baby sis. She's all I have, and even with me being the one trying to protect her, I've hurt her a few times too. When I say I can't trust anybody with her, I mean in general, and I include myself. When Ruby first moved in with us, I had to keep close to her because she was just so hyper and rebellious, and always trying to find some way to run away . . . she wanted her mom back and must have thought that by running away and surviving on her own like her mom did, that she'd earn some rite of passage that would bring her back. During that timeframe I started to show Ruby that it's not easy out there. Each time she'd try to sneak out she was met with a punch either to her face or stomach, and believe me . . . she was out in one hit each time. I hurt Ruby plenty in our childhood, and because of that I refuse to let her be hurt anymore. I don't know what she's gone through emotionally. My mom disappeared, but I know she's alive, and even then she disappeared while I was going to Signal, so I was a little sturdier emotionally since I was older. I won't let anybody hurt her. Never again."

I clench my fists, feeling my grip slowly going through the wooden banister and start to break it with light cackling sounds that become more constant while my grip continues to grow stronger. A tap to my back makes me flinch and loosen my grip, moving my hands away from the banister and looking at the deformed wood. I turn my head to see Weiss keeping her hand on my back and smiling, with her left hand holding out the rest of her drink to me.

"Here, you need this a little more than I do right now." She whispers, gesturing for me to take her cup, but I shake my head instead.

"I don't, but thanks." I smile, taking a deep inhale through my nose, and a loud, sharp exhale from my mouth. "I never answered your question. Yes, I do support the two of you. You've done nothing wrong to my baby sis, and I trust you more with her than I do myself, but I still won't hesitate to hospitalize you the moment you do something to hurt her."

"Good, if I ever hurt Ruby. I'll beat myself mentally, and you can beat me physically." Weiss looks at me with a brief stare, showing her seriousness to her words before standing upright, tilting her head back, and chugging the rest of the drink down and holding the cup out to me. "May I have another?"

Again, I look at the prim and proper heiress with complete shock. Chugging down spiked punch is no big accomplishment, but when you're as 'straight edge' as Weiss comes off to be, then it becomes a big deal.

"Weiss, how did you-"

"Just because I carry myself as a proper lady should does not mean I have not enjoyed the delinquency and juvenile act of consuming alcohol . . . I am a teenager just as everybody else, despite being far more mature for my age."

"There's the Ice Queen I know! I thought you were someone else for a moment." I tease, taking the cup from her and starting to walk towards the staircase.

"I might as well be without Ruby nearby." I hear her mumble

Here I thought Ruby was the lost puppy . . . more points to you, Weiss.

I quietly walk down the steps, glaring past the crowd at Blake and Sun, the two involved in some conversation. What could that monkey boy have to talk about that's so interesting anyway? Or rather, something so interesting that Blake is actually listening. I let out several, unrepeatable combinations of curses that would make Ruby go wide eyed, Weiss go into shock, and Blake's ears wiggle underneath her bow. I am quick at getting to the punch bowl, but decide simply carrying two drinks won't be enough I set down three cups in a tight triangle, filling each one about an inch from the top. I then take one more and fill it up to the same amount. I place the three cups in my hand, holding them in the triangle shape I organized them into before placing the fourth cup right on top of the other three, directly in the center.

As I begin to walk back I make use of my free hand to push anyone in front of me aside, few even shouting in disapproval, at least until they see who it was that shoved them. My reputation both in the training arena, and in my social life around Beacon keeps me very well known, though more for the latter.

As I make my way back up the steps, Weiss is standing at the top, carefully taking two of the cups from me before I can even utter a word.

"Nice of you to bring extras, but I could have helped." She says in more of a scolding way, rather than a thankful way.

"I was under the impression that princesses aren't meant to lift a finger." I grin while I walk passed her and back to our earlier spot in the center of the balcony.

"If I were that royal, than you wouldn't be talking to me right now you classless barbarian."

I look over my shoulder at Weiss who flashes me a playful smirk.

"That's so funny I forgot to laugh." I roll my eyes, placing one of the cups in my hand on the floor and starting to sip from the other.

"Wasn't meant to be funny. Only Ruby calls me Princess. Just like only Blake calls her Little Red, and you are the only one to call Blake any synonym for a cat."

"Wow, you cherish her nickname for you that much, eh?" I ask, trying to prod a little more into Weiss to find out just how much she cares for my sister.

"I cherish anything that Ruby does to differentiate herself from everybody else. Her childish attitude, her leadership skills, that puffy-cheeked face she makes whenever she pouts. I've liked Ruby for a while, Yang. Possibly from halfway through our semester, and Blake, up till now has been the only one to know that I've liked Ruby for that long, now you're the second."

She's liked Ruby that long and never said a thing? And more importantly Blake knew this for who knows how long and never told Ruby!? What the hell!

"Weiss, I had no idea that you were . . . fond of my sis for that long." I look at Weiss, for the first time tonight she has her back towards the large front door, abandoning her wait for Ruby it seems, at least for this instant.

"There are things none of you know about me, and as much as I would like to keep it that way forever, I feel eventually it may need to come out, as a respect to us being teammates, and more so to the four of us being friends – and a girlfriend in Ruby's case."

"Yeah, well. Could always start now while you're getting tipsy. Always easier to talk on a buzzed brain." I shrug, chugging down the rest of my cup after taking several baby sips from it.

"I don't know a shortened version of how to tell of my past, Yang. I rather not start telling just for you to grow bored and cease to listen as I spill my guts like a taxi-cab confession."

"Weiss, we haven't always seen eye to eye . . . okay, we've never seen eye to eye, at least not until you started to date my sister. If you were to try to tell me this a month ago, I would have laughed and walked away. Right now, however, all I know is that you've been making Ruby happy, she's been making you happy, and in turn, I have been happier. Call me selfish, and actually, it is selfish, but helping you get this off your chest will make you happier, and that will make Ruby happier, which will make me happier, and a happy Yang is a happy everyone."

"As much as I would love to poke at all the holes in that Yang-centered logic of yours, I do want to get this off my chest, so here goes."

Weiss begins talking to me about how she was raised up. Being the first daughter of her parents, with a little sister soon to follow – Winter Schnee. Weiss grew up being smothered by top of the line teachings, and never being allowed to step a foot out of her family's mansion without having someone accompany her. In most cases she chose for it to be the family driver, who was also a butler, cook, repairman, and anything else they needed of him. His name was Sebastian, and according to Weiss he has always been one hell of a butler. Anytime she wished to go out of the estate and into town, he was the one to follow without her even needing to search and find him. She was soon free to go wherever she wished because she had someone who would blindly follow her without displaying a sign of dissatisfaction.

However, when Weiss turned 16 she was restricted from going outside, instead needing to learn every detail there was to know about the family business. From their income, trade partners, and shipping departures. All the way down to the names of the smalltime dust stores that they supplied. She was put through tougher educational values than both her parents had ever gone through, and lost the social skills she grew from her many happy trips into town, instead having them replaced with teachings of proper etiquette, and to know just how much weight her last name held. On her 17th birthday Weiss was able to take on fencing, convincing her father that it would benefit the company to have the heiress using a weapon that utilizes the substance their company creates, and with that her father introduced her to his old weapon Myrtenaster, a standard rapier that ran on dust. After several modifications it was now able to chamber multiple types of dust, as well as work in harmony with her semblance – her ability to use glyphs coming from her father. Half a year later she made up her mind that she did not want to just be a the heir to a company, and in rebellion to her parents she set out to become a huntress, even changing from wearing her braid straight down her back to over her shoulder as her way of breaking the perfect symmetry her parents desired her to have.

I wanted to question Weiss about the scar above her left eye, but being in state of borderline tears she is in while she tells me this story, I figure it to be best just to leave it be for now. As a matter of fact, I did not realize how long she and I have been talking until I see her finishing her second cup of punch, and being that she has been slowly sipping at it the entire time, it means we have been talking for quite a while.

". . . so yeah, I have not had the greatest life, Yang. Even wearing twintails makes me cringe at the thought that I am symmetrical, just as my parents wanted me to be, but it's for Ruby, and that makes it bearable."

I nod my head, finishing the second cup of mine I brought up, "I had no idea, Weiss. I always thought you were just a spoiled brat that thought herself better than everyone."

"I am, Yang. But I was taught to be that way. Anyway, I see Blake getting up." I look over, seeing Blake sliding out of her seat and starting to walk until Sun stops her briefly. "Go at least let her know you are thinking of her."

"Weiss, Blake and I aren't-"

"Not yet. Ruby and I saw the hickey on Blake's neck. There's no need to hide it from me."

"Ruby saw it!?" I facepalm myself, unable to imagine what Ruby must be thinking after seeing the mark I placed on Blake.

"She did, and she asked Blake to take care of you." I look at Weiss with an expression of shock written on my face.

"Ruby really did that?" I ask, amazed that my little sis would be looking out for me like that. I definitely owed her one.

"Yeah, and look . . . ask Blake out tonight."

"She's turned me down so many times already, I rather not have it happen again, especially on prom. I rather try tomorrow."

"Yang . . . ask her out . . . tonight" Weiss' glare reverts back to the stern stare of her heiress nature. "She won't say no to you, as a matter of fact, even if you do it tomorrow she won't say no, but for the sake of showing her you have some form of class, do it tonight. Now go, she's making her way through the crowd, hurry up so you can surprise her." Weiss commands of me, shoving me to the stairs before I continue to follow the momentum she placed in me. I quickly jog down the steps, walking my way to the punch bowl and seeing Blake there, gazing around at what to drink. I work my way behind her, seeing her eying the punch and quickly sneak up to her before whispering.

"Don't drink the punch." I wrap my arms around her, gazing upwards to Weiss who is looking at the door, but nods her head, and gives a thumbs up. She has really good peripheral vision.

"I am well aware you spiked the punch, Yang. Sun-"

UGH! Must you mention that blond monkey!? My first time seeing you tonight and that's the first name you gotta call out! Sun Sun Sun, why can't he go back on that ship he snuck here on?

"Yeah, well . . . Weiss is about to be on her third cup," I lie, she already finished her third. "No, I'm not getting her drunk. I just want her to air out a bit. Ruby isn't here yet and she's doing her best to keep happy. I wanted to spend the night with you, y'know. Believe me this is not how I had the evening planned."

Although I have become a lot closer with Weiss . . . so it's somehow been a success for one reason or the other I guess.

Now Blake goes into how I should trust Weiss, let her come down and socialize, and blah blah blah. Blake has no idea how much I just want to shush her with a kiss right now. The only reason Weiss and I were up there was to keep an eye out for Ruby, and have a private conversation between the two of us, although that conversation was done for now.

"Anyway, let me get a cup of soda or something, and I'll get back to Sun."

Why must you say his name so much!?

"Why don't you come upstairs with me and Weiss? Nothing says only two people are allowed on the balcony." I cross my toes, hoping she gets my gesture.

"Would be a bit rude to just leave him, Yang. Plus I think it's a good bonding experience for you and Weiss. Who knows, you may even start feeling more comfortable with her dating Ruby." I feel her gently prying my arms from around her.

You have no idea how comfortable I feel with her dating Ruby right now, Blake. Weiss is as close a match for Ruby as you are for me.

"Oh, hold that thought!" I quickly go underneath the table to open a cooler I stashed with a half full carton of milk. I pull a cup over, filling it up to the top and handing it to Blake before stashing the carton again.

"Thanks, Yang. You didn't spike the milk too, now did you?" she asks with that teasing grin of hers.

Unfortunately not.

"Nope, aside from the water, I think that's the only thing that isn't spiked."

"So you spiked the soda too?"

Actually, spiking the soda was Pyrrha's idea.

"No! . . . Yes. I didn't want prom to be all dull. I mean, look around! Everyone is giggling, having fun, and just enjoying themselves" I bite my lip, stiffening a giggle as I see Jaune in his dress, making an appearance in the distance over Blake's shoulder, ". . . actually." I start to giggle, unable to hold back at the sight. Blake looks at me in confusion, eventually turning around herself to see what was so funny that I had to stop in mid-sentence to giggle at.

"Well, I think they look cute together. Pyrrha will make a good husband."

I feel a tear slip out the corner of my eye as I start to laugh harder than earlier. My kitty was making jokes!

"Blake Belladonna, are you gaining a sense of humor!?"

"Just hush up and tell Weiss to come down. If you're worried about losing her, just sit her near the stairs. Neptune's over there, and I'm sure he'll be more than happy to talk to her."

"Doesn't Neptune like Weiss?" I raise an eyebrow in suspicion.

"Yes he does, but I'm sure you trust Weiss. Just like you trust me talking to Sun." The grin Blake sends me as she walks away makes me realize that she has been aware of my jealousy and my stares at the two of them all night. She's been taking the chance to mess with me yet again.

"Damnit Blake!" I shout out as she walks away, letting out a loud sigh as I quickly make my way back up the stairs to see Weiss waiting for me at the top of the landing again.

"Hey, Weiss. Blake wanted me to ask you to head down and socialize with Neptune a bit, I guess to get your mind off of everything."

"Psh, the only thing that would accomplish is making Ruby jealous when she finally decides to show up . . . if she shows up at all that is." Weiss begins to walk down the steps, and I walk next to her, matching her pace.

"Knowing my sis, if she knew you were drinking and talking with Neptune, she'd take the first chance to get you away from him and get you back to the dorm."

Actually . . .

"Weiss." I grab her by the shoulders, quickly pushing her against the wall. My aura beginning to flare as I stare into her eyes. "How much do you like Ruby?"

"That hurt you brute! And we already established that. I will do anything for her." Her focused stare on me bring a smile to my lips. I know just how to repay my sis for watching out for me, and for Ice Queen's helpful information.

"What about TO her?" I smirk, Weiss' eyes widening, then shifting to confusion. "Yes, Weiss . . . in that way."

"Y-Yang, I don't know if you are drunk, or just trying to bait out something to randomly punch me on, but I do not appreciate it. And to be quite honest I would not have the courage to make the first move, even with the alcohol starting to settle into my system. One more and I'll start to giggle, I can feel it."

"Weiss. Just don't make the first move. I'll feel better about myself if you don't, but do me a favor. Go talk with Neptune, get that fourth drink in you, and just go with the flow from here on out."

"Yang, what are implying?" Weiss raises an eyebrow at me. I take a deep breath, placing a hand on Weiss' shoulder.

"I'm trusting you, Weiss. Don't make me regret it." I look over my shoulder, seeing a girl enter the area. For some reason she looks familiar, but I can't really make it out just yet, then when I see a brief disappearance in a flurry of rosepetals, my eyes go wide and I quickly rush Weiss to go downstairs while I make my way back up to where I have been standing the entire night.

I see Ruby in the center of the dance floor, looking around for Weiss. I raise my arms, my gesture not taking long to be noticed by my baby sis who disappears again, appearing at the bottom of the stairwell to the other side of the room from the one Weiss is at, disappearing again and leaving more rosepetals left in her previous spot, her reappearance being at the top of the steps, and then she does it once more to end up next to me.

"Yang! Where's Weiss?" My sister asks in such a rushed tone.

"Oh, Weiss? She went down to chill. I think she's chatting it up with Neptune. Oh, as a matter of fact there they are, looks like he just got her a drink." I point to the bottom of the stairs, smiling to see Neptune acting so chivalrous and proper, making it that much easier to spark the jealousy in my sister.

"Yang! Why'd you let her sit with Neptune!?" Ruby looks at me with concern in her eyes. "Everyone in Remnant can tell he likes her!"

"Hey, don't be mad at me. I kept her up here for a while. Not my fault she wants to socialize at a party she helped organize. I guess what Weiss says is true . . . 'you may be fast, but you excel at wasting time'." My comment does just what I needed it to, get Ruby to realize that there is nobody to blame for the situation but herself, and in turn she darts off to go grab her girlfriend from what she would consider a threat to her relationship, although Weiss is far too in love for that.

I quietly trail behind, getting to the bottom of the steps just in time to hear Ruby tell Neptune to stay away from Weiss. Out the corner of my eye I can see Sun starting to advance towards my sister, and I quickly take a step forward, ready to intercept him, but Blake holds out her arm to keep him back.

Just when I thought I would get a valid reason to bash his head in!

I shake my head, looking back at Ruby to see her looking into Weiss eyes, and if that wasn't enough, my sister decides to enter a quick liplock with the resident Snow Heiress. I stand there in momentary shock, watching Ruby quickly take Weiss into her arms to lead her out of the dance. Before they turn the corner after leaving the building, I can see Weiss look over her shoulder, and make a brief, split second of eye contact with me.

Alright, Weiss. I'll make my move, gosh.

I make my way towards where Blake is. The cute faunus girl noticing me immediately and walking towards me.

"Yang . . . I made a mistake with telling you to let Weiss talk with Neptune . . . I should have thought about how Ruby gets." Blake looks at me with worried eyes, why does she think she's responsible for this? I'll clear it up with her later.

"I'm totally lost . . . Weiss is gay?" I look over Blake's shoulder, seeing Sun walking over with confusion written all over his face.

"Actually, Weiss may be bisexual, not sure. Ruby is the lesbian." I answer him bluntly. He's the last person I want around me and Blake right now.

"Wow . . . sucks to be Neptune, man. He is, was, and may still be head over heels for Weiss . . . He's my friends, but can't say I would want to be in his shoes at all."

"Well, that sucks for you, Sun." I say, staring him straight in the eyes. I can see Blake snap her gaze to me the moment I say that, I guess she was thinking the same thing, but I have something far worse than just telling Sun. I plan on leaving him just like Neptune.

"What!? Don't tell me you two are going out too!" He groans, placing his right hand on the back of his head.

"No, we're not." I answer, placing my left hand on Blake's right hip, starting to slide my arm to her back and gently bring her closer to me. I look over to the stunned Neptune. The poor soul just starting to recover from the shock. I look down at Blake, giving her my confident grin, and whispering in a voice so low, that even someone right next to me would need to ask for me to repeat myself.

"Blake, will you go out with me?"

I watch as her eyes widen, and her lips part in surprise to my question. I shift my eyes back to Sun, giving Blake time to answer my question, hopefully Weiss was right and Blake will say yes, otherwise my plan is about to fail and embarrass me, but what else is new? I'm a risk taker, it's always all or nothing.

"That's a relief. Blake, want to hang out tomorrow?" Sun asks, taking a step closer to us.

I bite my lower lip, feeling my aura flare, but Blake's hand tapping my shoulder – that wordless symbol between us for her to tell me to calm down – makes me take a small breath and watch as she looks over her shoulder the monkey faunus.

"As tempting an offer as that is, Sun. I am interested in somebody else." Blake says in her usual monotone, but I can feel her purring from my hand resting on her back.

"What? Who would that be? You don't really socialize much. I mean . . . it took you three days to actually hold a conversation with me."

"Oh, you actually know 'em. They make awful jokes, blonde hair, has a very special charm." I begin to blush a little, looking at Blake while she speaks to Sun.

"That Jaune Arc guy? He's looks like a nice guy . . . but he seems a little too . . . average. Plus, the crossdressing thing doesn't really work for him."

"True enough. I guess I'll have to settle for another blonde." Blake says, giving Sun a smile, but the gentle caress I can feel her giving my shoulder reassures me.

"Heh, really?" Sun asks, giving off that arrogant, toothy grin of his. The same grin he flashed Blake when he ran by us from the docks . . . ever since then I've wanted to bash his teeth out of his mouth and make him drink banana smoothies for months.

"Mhm, so, how does . . . 5 days from now – Friday, sound for a good day for a date?" Blake gives my shoulder a quick series of taps, and just as Sun starts to respond I begin to cut in.

"That sou-" He starts

"That sounds great, Blake." I smile down at her, though she still is looking at Sun.

"Yang, I think she was talking to me." Sun says with a mild hostility in her voice.

"Yeah, Yang. I was talking to Sun . . . what makes you think you had a chance with me?" Blake growls, turning to look at me and wink so Sun can't see.

"Sorry, Yang. Looks like one of us will be lonely tonight." I seriously want to bash in his skull now!

"Too bad it's not who you think, Sun." Blake whispers to him, her arm moving up from my shoulder and wrapping around my neck. I look down at Blake, smiling at her. "Yes, Yang . . . I'll go out with you." She says just before leaning up to press her lips to mine. I tighten my grip on her waist, placing my other hand on her upper back. We keep the kiss brief, holding it to the same amount of time Ruby had with Weiss.

"Well, it's only 9 o'clock . . . wonder what you two broken hearted boys will be doing for the next three hours." I smile, looking over to the small group of people who saw the kiss, and immediately flare my aura. The same instant they all look away, and I begin to start walking up the stairs with Blake in my arms, leaving Sun and Neptune to cry their hearts out together.

"About time you asked me out again, Yang." Blake says to me as we reach the top of the steps, but in a happier tone than her usual monotone.

"Yeah, well. I had to look at things in a different way first . . . as a matter of fact, let me send out a quick message to Ruby . . . I hope you'll be staying with me till midnight. I need to watch over the rest of the party since Weiss left." I say while I take out my scroll from my bra, and begin typing a message to Ruby.

"What are you telling her?"

"Oh, that I'm just the Greatest Sister Ever." I smile, those three words concluding my text. I press send, putting my scroll back in my top. I look up at Blake, quickly placing my arms around her and sitting her on the banister. "And I now have the greatest girlfriend ever." I whisper to her before I lean up to kiss her once more, not caring if the entire room is gazing up at our liplock. I can cease to care what everyone is saying, and Blake appears to be sharing my opinion on the matter, pulling me tighter in the kiss while I hold her lower back firmly to avoid her falling from the balcony.

Blake Belladonna, I will never let you out of my sight.


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