"Where is it?! Where is it?!"

"Where's what?"

"It! Where is it?!"

Hinami sighed as she watched her partner rampage through their room looking for 'it', whatever 'it' was. The snow haired girl had been at it for a while now, Hinami still hadn't found out what she was looking for.

"Oooh, it." Hinami began. "I know it."

"You do?!" Winter spun around to her.

"No." Hinami dead panned.

"Hinami! I don't have time for that!" Winter yelled.

"Well maybe you left it at your last class?" Hinami suggested.

"Ah!" Winter shot up from where she had all but flipped her bed over, "maybe I did!"

Before Hinami could even blink Winter was out the door, rushing down the hall to find who knows what.

"Well," Hinami breathed. "That was something." Shaking her head Hinami fell onto her bed looking over the mess her partner had just created. Scanning the room she came across a certain object resting against the wall next to Winters bed. A white, pointy object.

Hinami got up and walked over to the sword resting peacefully against the wall and with a thoughtful 'hmm' she grabbed the sword and held it in her hand. It wasn't as much as a rapier as the heiress' Myrtenaster, but it was more of simple thin blade, light yet sturdy.

Hinami spun it around in her palm pleased with its even balance between hilt and blade. She flicked it up into the air, deftly catching it in her left hand and twirling around. The young faunas huffed proudly, looking over the weapon once more. She brought it closer to get a better look and discovered that the blade was marked with a series of symbols, almost engraved into the blade. They were faint but Hinami's faunas attributes made them easy to spot, wear and tear from the constant use of dust and glyphs, Hinami assumed. It gave the blade an artistic element to it.

A thought came to the faunas, reminiscing the time Winter explained her abilities to her. Hinami had to admit she found herself quite interested in her partner's skills, she came to learn how Weiss and Winter differ in fighting styles. Winter described her sister as being more elegant, graceful and 'princessy', whilst her own fighting style was more up front and boisterous. Where Weiss used dust held in the chamber within the hilt of her weapon, Winter used crystals instead. Hinami learnt that the bracelet she wore around her wrist wasn't simply to look 'pretty', the shining colours Hinami noticed were actually crystals, dust crystals.

"High density dust crystals. It means there's more of it for me to use in a much smaller form. Although it isn't cheap and it is a little heavy."

When Hinami asked why Winter used crystals instead of dust, the Schnee explained that dust in crystal form was a lot more volatile, condensed and crystallised together under heat and pressure, crystal dust was, "a lot like Professor Oobleck, you never know if he might just explode." Winter explained. As Winter mentioned before, she liked to be more up front and loud, she didn't like being conservative and precise like Weiss, which was why the heiress used dust, if you were able to control the dust perfectly you could do a lot more damage than blowing up a crystal.

All in all, Hinami found it all quite interesting. Her use of dust was simply limited to loading a knife with it and lobbing it at an enemy, she had never actually interacted with it with her aura or her daggers directly.

Hinami shook her head after realising she had been day dreaming for some time, still turning the blade in her hands. She gave it one last flip through the air and caught it by the blade, hefting its weight experimentally. It was balanced exceptionally well and didn't way much either, the faunas was beginning to wonder just how well she could throw it.

Moving to the back of the room Hinami faced the door that led out to the dorm halls, Winters sword in her right hand. Hinami paused for a moment to consider her actions before shrugging and muttering, "Eh what could go wrong."

With a grunt Hinami launched the weapon forward, stepping into the motion to add to its momentum. The blade spun through the air, flying steady and true, reaching the closed door in mere seconds. However in those few seconds the door had swung open, the swords owner standing in front of it.

"I found it! WAH!"

Hinami's arms shot up to cover her eyes, silence filled the air and the faunas didn't dare look up, the only sound was the faint singing of a glyph. Winter had thrown her hands up and summoned a glyph just in time to stop her weapon from leaving her with a much nastier scar than her sisters, the blade captured in the air inches from her face.

Slowly, silently, Winter reached up and took hold of her weapon, stepping into the room without a word.

By then Hinami had forced herself to look at her partner, her loving, cheerful, forgiving partner.

"So hehe, did you find what you were looking for?" Hinami asked, growing uncomfortable with Winter's silence as she approached.

"Oh my bracelet. Yeah I did." Winter answered slowly. "You know about my bracelet don't you? The one with all the dust."

"Oh that's what it was. Yeah I know about that." Hinami chuckled. "How did you leave that behind?"

"You know," Winter began, ignoring the question. "It's a bit hot out isn't it?"

"Uh i-is it?" Hinami didn't realise she had been taking a step back for every step forward Winter made until she bumped into the window seal.

"Maybe we should, cool off." Winter suggested, a strange blue mist coming off of her wrist and wrapping around her sword.

"W-Winter? C'mon it was an accident. I'm sorry." Hinami pleaded, eyes glued to the tip of her partners intimidatingly close sword.

"Oh." Winter whispered. "So am I."


A/N: Oh but soon the tables will turn...