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Downtown Vale was as clean and pristine as ever. With the Vytal festival swift approaching the kingdoms maintenance and cleaning crews had been pulling double shifts for at least a month to ensure that their capital city was presentable and showed the rest of the world just what Vale was all about. It wasn't quite as neat and tidy as Atlas, but it was definitely leagues above the likes of Mistral or Vacuo. But even in some of its lowest times, Vale was better than those terrible places. Weiss turned up her nose as a group of students from one of the other kingdoms rumbled past her team.
"Why are you snooty around them?" Yang squeezed her hand as she asked. She meant well, wanted Weiss to ease up just a little and enjoy herself more. Weiss knew that. But that didn't mean she would.
"Because, not only I am from Atlas. I'm a student at Beacon, as are all of you. They should know they are among their superiors." Weiss said flatly, reviewing not only her girlfriend, but her entire team as she spoke.
"But Weiss. Ya know Pyrrha isn't from Vale right? She's Mistralian, and she's probably going to win the tournament." Ruby snorted out a small laugh and Weiss continued to let her gaze roam between the three of them.
"Precisely, she is the greatest fighter Mistral has ever produced and where did she choose to attend combat school? Here, in Vale, at Beacon. Not in her home kingdom of Mistral." Weiss lifted her chin up and away from all of them as if that simply settled the matter.
"Didn't she do that to get away from all her fans and the whole celebrity lifestyle though?" Blake asked, knowing full well that the answer was yes. But this way she had forced Weiss into a corner which she would have to argue her way out of or look the fool.
"Well I'm sure there was more-" Weiss started but Yang jumped in on top of her.
"Not like you gave her much hope of that huh?" Yang turned so she could face Weiss completely as they walked and began to imitate her voice, "Oh Pyrrha, won't you please be my partner. Together we can dominate the school. Beauty and strength, side by side." Yang dissolved into a furious fit of laughter as Weiss scowled at her.
"I was just looking out for my best interests from day one. It's how I was raised." Weiss tightened her grip on Yang's hand which brought the blonde's laughter to a slow stop, "Little did I know I would wind up with you lot."
"And we're the best you could have hoped for." Ruby swept around her sister to hug Weiss. "Right Weiss? That's what you meant right?" Weiss pushed her away with a single outstretched arm and continued walking. Ruby fell right back into step between Blake and Yang, giggling all the while.
"Something like that. " Weiss turned away so they could not see how flustered she was. Truly she was happy with the team she had been placed with. Ruby was turning out an excellent leader. Blake was a fine teammate despite being a Faunus and was even swaying Weiss's opinion of the entire race. And Yang? Well she obviously was smitten with her.
"Are you guys sure you want us here?" Ruby asked from her spot at Yang's side, though Weiss knew the question was mostly for her as Yang had been the one to insist the rest of the team came along. She knew that Ruby assumed they needed alone time and also that any displays of affection they made caused the younger girl to feel uncomfortable. But, she and Yang had both agreed when they worked this whole situation out that it was more important for them to continue spending time as a team. They would of course have dates as just the two of them and find time alone. But entire days on the weekend? Those were to be spent with everyone.
"Of course we are Ruby." Weiss nodded her head in affirmation, "Just because we are dating now doesn't mean much is going to change." She turned to Yang, waiting for her girlfriend to reaffirm her statement and show they were on the same page here, a united front.
"I mean, mostly the same." Yang drolled, "You will have to deal with this every once and a while." She swept her head around and planted a neat peck on Weiss's cheek, brief and chaste, just a tease for Weiss.
"Ewww, stop that." Ruby swatted at Yang's arm playfully. Weiss knew that her complaining right now was mostly in jest. Little gestures like that, especially under those sorts of circumstances were totally fine. Ruby had more issue with actual physical displays, kissing on the lips, touching, kissing for more than a few seconds or a few times in a row. Those were the kinds of things that actually made Ruby feel uncomfortable and incredibly enough it was Yang who had come to Weiss and asked that they avoid that around Ruby.
"What Ruby?" Yang turned on her with a devilish smile, "You can kiss Blake to make it even." Weiss watched as Ruby stammered and Blake immediately turned away.
"That is quite enough out of you." Weiss pulled on Yang's arm and towed her over to the opposite side, as far as possible from the objects of her teasing. "You keep that up and I'll only have two companions for lunch today." Weiss knew the fastest way to snap Yang in line was through romance or food, but in this case food would have to do.
"Aww Weiss come on?" Yang whined, "You know I was just teasing them. Where were you gonna take us? Don't be like that." Yang leaned down to give her an apologetic kiss but Weiss stuck her finger out and caught Yang on the forehead, pushing her face away.
"Well, I was going to take you all for sushi. But, if it's just Blake and Ruby…" Weiss let the sentence fall purposefully short just to tease her girlfriend. What she did not expect was the rapid, enthusiastic answer from her other side.
"Can we still go for sushi?" Blake asked hurriedly, not even giving Weiss a chance to really let her threat sink in, "I mean, even if Yang can't. Can we?" Blake's eyes were riveted on Weiss, unmoving.
"I suppose so." Weiss was confused. Why was Blake so absolutely excited for sushi. Sure it was good food and a little expensive so Weiss offering to treat them was surely a pleasant surprise but still. Blake was always so quiet and reserved, even more so than Weiss, so for her to be that overt was strange.
"Are you really gonna go get sushi without me? What? Do I have to sit outside?" Yang was playing hurt. She knew that Weiss had no real intentions of leaving her out and that the other two wouldn't stand for it even if she did.
"No, you have to behave yourself." Weiss reached up and poked her in the forehead again, for emphasis. "Can you do that?" Weiss heard Ruby snicker behind her and she could still feel Blake's eyes on her.
"I mean, yeah." Yang lowered her eyes solemnly, "You have to make me a promise though?" Yang left her eyes down and Weiss was intrigued to know what she could possibly want of her, she hummed inquisitively and Yang responded. "You have to absolutely promise," she raised her eyes and Weiss saw that same mischievous glint, "To stop being so dust-damned adorable."
Weiss and Ruby both groaned but it appeared Blake was too far lost in the promise of sushi to care about her partners worse than usual jokes.
"Weiss, you're allowed to kiss her if it makes her stop telling those jokes." Ruby moaned.
"You think that'll work?" Weiss asked, completely ignoring Yang's offered lips. "If she finds out that she can just start telling bad jokes to get me to kiss her, we'll never hear the end of it." Weiss stuck her hand out behind her, shoving a single finger in Yang's face and over her lips to stop whatever terrible joke or pun or innuendo that was about to escape.
"Okay, okay, fine." Yang mumbled through her finger. "Only because we get to go have sushi though." Her face broke into a grin.
The sushi restaurant was large and open inside, low backed booths and open tables spaced irregularly throughout the establishment. There was a bar section where you could sit face to face with the knife wielding sushi chefs, but it didn't offer the intimacy or the chance for conversation that the tables did. Once the four girls were seated, Weiss and Yang on one side, Ruby and Blake on the other, it finally dawned on Weiss why Blake was so enraptured with the idea of sushi.
Weiss came for the entire meal, steamed rice, snap peas, green onion soup, fried dumplings, some fresh cut sushi and the more intricate rolls. But Blake's eyes never left the rows and rows of raw fish laid out along the prepping counter. The chefs worked the line with impressive skill and speed, slicing the fish into neat, evenly sized slivers before pushing them down the line to the others who placed them over rice or worked it into the rolls. Of course Blake wanted the closest thing to straight raw fish she could have. Weiss had learned that while the Faunus were definitely far better and more human than she had ever believed in her life. They did still hold certain animal traits that had undoubtedly lead to their reputation.
Blake had cat ears and the impressive hearing that came with them. She had incredible balance, night vision and a propensity for stealthy movement and fast combat. These were all blatant advantages that her Faunus heritage had granted her. She also got distracted by small noises, chased after dots of light, could not resist snuggling into tight spaces or boxes if given the chance and last but not least of the Faunus traits Weiss had observed so far. Blake had an absolutely insatiable hunger for fish in all its forms. Some people liked fish, even loved it sure. But Blake, Blake went absolutely crazy over the stuff. While Weiss was glad she would enjoy the meal, she wondered if an entire restaurant full of the stuff was really the best place for her. She was trying to conceal her Faunus identity after all wasn't she?
"So, uhhh… what exactly is sushi?" Ruby looked over the menu, scrunching her eyebrows together in concentration over some of the harder to pronounce words. It was funny to see how different the two sisters were. Yang probably couldn't pronounce half the words either, much less tell you what was in them, but she would never admit it. She would point to dishes, indicate them by what she could see in the pictures or defer her choice to someone else. Always the image of absolute confidence. Ruby on the other hand was flustered and confused and more than willing to admit it.
"It's probably the best food ever." Blake answered in a rush, "Raw fish on rice. Or even just raw fish all on its own. But that's more expensive." Blake looked through the menu. Eyes trained from years of novels flying through the words. "Then there's rolls too. They wrap the fish up with other stuff in this tube of rice. It's mixes all the flavors together. It's good but you really can't taste the fish as much." Ruby leaned back and away from the unnaturally excited Blake. "Sorry." She mumbled and looked down, embarrassed.
"For what?" Ruby asked innocently, straightening back up.
"Well I got kinda excited. You know. I uhhh... " Blake hesitated to explain herself in public, "I really like fish." She finally said quietly.
"Oh no Blake. That's totally fine." Ruby laughed happily, "I was actually just kinda grossed out by it." she shrugged half-heartedly.
"Grossed out? How could you possibly be grossed out?" Weiss extended her finger across the table at Ruby, "I will have you know that sushi is in fact one the finest and most refined dishes served on Remnant." Weiss glanced around the restaurant they were sitting in. While not shabby or low class in any way, it definitely didn't live up to the description she had just given. "Well, maybe not this place. But sushi is a very high class meal."
"Yeah, it's really good Rubes." Yang smiled across at her nervous sibling, "It's a little weird at first because it's cold but you just gotta try it." Ruby looked back and forth between the two of them.
"I don't know," She picked up the menu and began scanning through it, obviously not knowing what she was actually looking at. "Do they have anything else here? I'm sorry guys."
"Ruby, it's okay." Blake used a hand to lower the menu away from her face so she could see Ruby directly, "You should try it and if you don't like it. I will eat whatever you don't want. I promise." Weiss knew that Blake's offer was sincere and she meant it out of kindness, but she could also see that the Faunus girl was looking forward to the chance at having some extra.
"Okay," Ruby began hesitantly. Weiss jumped in to try and ease her feelings further.
"They have lots of other stuff too Ruby." Weiss flipped her menu around and pointed out the soup and the dumplings and all the things that made a sushi restaurant tolerable, not just one food over and over. "See, the dumplings have like diced veggies and little bits of meat. The soup is just broth but it's really, really good and the snap peas are baked with a hint of salt. They're my favorite." Weiss knew she was starting to ramble but she hoped that her enthusiasm would be infectious and get the better of her partner.
"If you guys say so." she turned to Blake, "I'm still counting on you. I don't wanna waste any food." Blake nodded and smiled eagerly and it was decided. Weiss was glad too because the waitress was just returning to take their order.
Weiss took charge of the ordering since she knew what she was doing. She was certain Blake would be happy with whatever she ordered, Ruby had absolutely no idea and no matter how confident she pretended to be Weiss was not risking letting Yang order anything and getting them some deep fried, cream cheese soaked, unauthentic monstrosity. No, she would order everything, that way they would all enjoy the meal.
"So then we can all just eat off of everything. That way we get more variety and Ruby can try a lot of different kinds." Weiss answered their unasked questions as to why she had ordered the way she did.
"I love it when you take charge." Yang smiled and slid her hand into Weiss's beneath the table. Weiss had to fight the urge to blush and giggle like Ruby. If Yang really did appreciate her taking charge of a situation then the two of them were going to work just fine.
"Really Yang?" Ruby cocked her head to the side, not believing her sister for one second.
"Oh yeah, I like being able to lay back and let someone else handle stuff." Yang threw her arms behind her head and leaned back, "She'll do it better anyways." Weiss cleared her throat to avoid blushing, but scooted closer to Yang all the same. Finally, someone who understood the way she liked to operate.
"Be careful Weiss. Before you know it Yang will be having you do her homework too." Blake teased, taking the rare opportunity to poke fun at her partner.
"Yeah, as much as you want to lay around all day you still have to work Yang." Ruby joined right in, eager to have a partner against her older sister. Yang fell forward, out of her relaxed pose, jostling Weiss in the process.
"I didn't… That wasn't what I…" Yang struggled for a retort. Luckily for both her and Weiss's sake a waitress arrived just then with their soups and snap peas.
"Here you are everyone." She set the platter down in the center of the table next to them and distributed the bowls to each girl individually. "I hope you don't mind. I asked the cook to give you the spicy peas instead of the normal ones. They are just so much better." She set the bowls of peas in the center and it was in fact drizzled in some sort of spicy looking sauce.
""Excuse me, but no it is not okay. This is not what we ordered and not what we wanted." Weiss picked up the dish and handed it back to the girl. "I don't know how you even thought it would be okay to bring us a different dish. You aren't even our waitress, you're just the one bringing out the food." The girl pulled back astounded at Weiss's sudden display of authority. "Now I expect to be brought the correct food and to not be kept waiting is that understood?"
"Weiss, it's alright." Blake reached out a tentative hand to calm the heiress. But Weiss paid it no mind. This was the most unprofessional display of service she had ever suffered.
"No Blake, it's not." Yang opened up at Weiss's side, "You don't know who this girl is." Yang pointed a finger over Weiss's shoulder at the waitress. "She's the one who ruined my hair." Yang nearly shouted, anger seeping into her words now. Several other tables glanced over to see what all the commotion was about but the waitress just stood there.
"Oh my Oum, Yang you're right." Ruby sounded more shocked than angry. Then again, it had been Yang's hair that was tampered with at the salon, not hers. "What was your name again?" Ruby tapped on her chin in thought for a moment, "Amethyst right?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," the girl retrieved the incorrect peas and her tray from the other table. "Please, I'll bring you out some fresh ones. Please don't say anything." she hurried off without waiting for their response. Weiss watched, flabbergasted beyond belief at their incredible run of bad luck.
"Was that really the girl who dyed your hair?" she turned to Yang, disbelief spelled out plainly across her face.
"Yes." Yang's voice was strained against yelling, her eyes tinged red just by the memory of what had happened. Weiss set her hand on Yang's knee to bring her back to reality.
"I didn't really believe you guys," Weiss said absently. She was too worried about Yang and the thought of her tearing the restaurant to pieces before they had even eaten to piece together a real sentence.
"Yeah, she really does just do whatever she wants doesn't she?" Blake also seemed floored by meeting the infamous girl. It was one thing to have survived Yang's fury. But to tempt fate by coming near her again, and angering her girlfriend no less. Weiss wondered if they shouldn't just leave right now to avoid any further incident.
"Do you think she got fired at the salon?" Ruby asked quietly. It was obvious she felt bad for her, even with her blatantly appalling track record. Ruby really didn't have a mean or vindictive bone in her body.
"She better have." Yang was still livid, "Do you remember what she did to me?" She pointed at her now entirely blonde hair. It had taken a full week, and constant fussing by Yang along with double washing every shower, but the temporary purple dye had finally faded away completely. Weiss wondered if Yang's semblance hadn't helped burn it off as well.
"I'm so sorry. Here's your food." Amethyst came hurrying back over to the table carrying a fresh bowl of peas. "Absolutely, exactly the way you ordered." She pulled her arms sheepishly behind her. "I also asked if I one of the other girls could cover your table. I don't want another incident. I really need this job." She lowered her eyes and stood, apparently waiting for their answer. Weiss didn't trust Yang to answer and so spoke first, before she had a chance.
"That's alright, Amethyst was it?" Weiss asked politely and the girl nodded her head, "Just see that you don't do this sort of thing if you really do plan on keeping your job much longer." Amethyst nodded and rushed away, not risking another moment at their table.
"You're too nice." Yang crossed her arms in a pout.
"Weiss? Being too nice? That's a new one." Ruby laughed happily and Blake joined in with a small chuckle. Weiss shot them a withering stare before returning her attention to her overly upset girlfriend.
"I was just trying to avoid a scene Yang." Weiss placed a calming hand on her shoulder and could feel the heat radiating off her. "You already got her fired from one job for her incompetence, isn't that enough?" Yang did not respond and so Weiss continued, "Look, we have the right food now, it barely took any time. Plus Blake and I got to meet the creature of your nightmares and we'll have a funny story to tell Team JNPR when we get back." Weiss offered Yang a compromising smile in hopes that she would cheer up and save this meal from being a total disaster.
"I guess you're right," Yang relaxed her arms a little and her eyes faded back to purple. They had never quite gotten to the pure, blood red they assumed in combat, but they had been dangerously near the line.
"Ooh, nice job Ice Queen." Blake snickered, "You can even cool Yang down." Ruby and Blake both laughed again, but Weiss could feel Yang's muscles relax even more beneath her hand as she eased back into a joking mood with the rest of them.
"Yeah well, it's only fair." Yang turned to Weiss, "I do get her all hot and bothered." She winked suggestively and Weiss could have sworn she heard Ruby retch on her side of the table but at that moment she couldn't focus on much other than Yang's brilliant purple eyes. "See, like right now." Weiss shuddered as she realized she had been staring, and blushing, and thinking things inappropriate for a restaurant, or for in front of Ruby, or for anywhere really.
"And that is the last time I save you from blowing up a store." Weiss pulled her hands free of the beautiful blonde at her side and crossed her arms. She only returned her attention to the table when Ruby made a choking noise.
"Agchk," Ruby coughed and sputtered, nearly dropping her small bowl of soup to the table. Blake responded as quickly as ever, easing her hand down to set the soup without spilling it and rubbing Ruby's back with the other.
"Ruby, are you okay?" Blake looked extremely concerned. It was just Ruby probably trying to inhale her soup, she hadn't even used a spoon, she'd been drinking it straight out of the bowl. "Did that girl do something to the soup too?"
"I don't know. I thought you said this was just broth Weiss." Ruby rubbed at her throat and looked like she had been betrayed on the battlefield, not lied to about soup. Weiss pinched the bridge of her nose, unable to believe that she thought these three would be capable of a decent meal out.
"There are tiny cubes of artificial protein called tofu." Weiss lowered her hand forcibly and explained as calmly as she could, "If you used a spoon like a normal person, you would have seen them. They taste just like the broth because they don't really have their own flavor."
"Oh no, tofu?" Yang pushed the bowl physically away from herself, "Nuh uh, that stuff is gross." Weiss turned on her in disbelief.
"Are you really turning down food of any kind." She asked in shock, "I never thought I'd see the day."
"I think we need to put it on the calendar," Blake jabbed as she continued to administer to Ruby. She was probably fine by now but was apparently enjoying the attention and so continued to play the victim.
"No, I am not." Yang responded pridefully, "Tofu isn't food. Tofu is paste. Nasty, tasteless, white paste." Yang used her spoon to push the soup even further away, across the table towards Blake.
"No, tofu is pressed bean curds and soy milk made into blocks." Weiss lifted a pair of chopsticks from the table and stirred her own soup as she spoke, "It has no flavor because it takes on the flavor of whatever it's being placed in. In this case, delicious green onion flavored broth." She plucked a single cube of white tofu out, allowed a few drops of soup to drip off into the bowl so they wouldn't onto her and then placed it quickly in her mouth. She let out an over-exaggerated hum of pleasure just to reinforce her point.
"Okay, but you could have warned me before I almost died." Ruby moaned. Blake took her talking as her cue to cease her ministrations and pulled her hands away from their leader. She didn't appear to regret pulling away but Weiss saw a noticeable hesitancy in her movements that she usually didn't have.
"I'm sorry I didn't expect you to drink the stuff straight out of the bowl like a savage." Weiss set her chopsticks down neatly on her napkin and dipped her spoon into the soup to take a mouthful.
"Actually Weiss." Blake lifted the bowl in both hands, "Traditionally you do drink this soup as if the bowl were a cup." Blake lifted the bowl to her lips and sipped slowly at the edge before setting it back down.
"Then why do they give you spoons?" Weiss lifted the utensil, clearly intended for use in soup eating, up in the air. Was Blake trying to correct her on table manners?
"They only provide spoons at restaurants like this. It's so people can use them if they want, if they don't know or if drinking the soup makes them feel uncomfortable." Blake took another long, slow drink of her soup. "Then you can eat the tofu out without having to fish around for it. Blake placed the soup back on the table and was able to easily pluck the little bits of tofu out of the now mostly empty bowl.
Ruby's eyes went a little wide with wonder and she lifted the bowl to her lips as well, but not quite as well as Blake had done. She gulped the soup down like a glass of milk and managed to pull it off for a second or two before choking again.
"Ughck,' Ruby set the bowl down again and pounded a single fist against her chest. "I guess it takes practice." she said sheepishly and looked over at Blake who was laughing lightly, doing her best to hide it behind her hand.
"You are totally helpless." Weiss sighed and turned to Yang who was drinking her soup much as Blake had done. She finished the entire bowl in a single pull and set it down with a satisfied gasp.
"Okay, that way I don't have to eat the tofu." Yang gave the tiny bowl a gentle twirl with her fingers, causing it to spin slowly.
"What about these Blake? How do we eat these?" Ruby lifted a single snap pea out of their fresh, untainted bowl for everyone to see. The peas were barely roasted and lightly salted just as Weiss had said, but Ruby was probably confused by the fact that they were still in the mostly inedible husk.
"Well, you just put it in your mouth and use your teeth to pull the pea out." Blake put the first pea in her mouth and pulled it out slowly. When she was done there was a hole in the end and definitely a pea missing. "Then you just keep going up the stalk." Blake repeated the process for the second and third peas and then dropped the now empty bit of plant on her plate. Ruby immediately followed suit and had much more success with it than she had with the soup.
"I can't believe there isn't a more civilized way to eat these." Weiss raised one of the tiny green things in front of her face and regarded it suspiciously, trying to find a better way. "But they are very good." She settled to just join her friends and eat it the way she always had. She would have to spend time finding a more decent way later, or perhaps a restaurant that served them out of the husk.
"Ladies, your gyoza." their original waitress dropped a small plate covered in pan fried dumplings on the table and then set a bowl of clear dipping sauce next to it. Then she folded the platter against her chest and regarded them apologetically. "Also, I wanted to apologize for whatever it was that happened with Amy. She's really rather new and we're still training her."
"That's quite alright. This delicious food has more than made up for it." Weiss granted the server a brief smile and waited for her to leave.
"If there's anything else I can do, please just let me know." The waitress nodded her head quickly and stepped away to help another table.
"At least most of the other wait staff here is polite." Blake looked back across at Weiss, almost daring her to insult that exemplary service.
"Yes, well. They have to make up for her somehow don't they?" Weiss folded her hands in her lap, refusing to grant Blake the pleasure of flustering her again this meal.
"Now these I love." Yang reached out with her chopsticks and grabbed one of the dumplings, dipped it in the sauce and ate the entire thing all at once, leaving a small trail of sauce between the bowl and her mouth.
"Are you capable of being civilized?" Weiss spun her own dumpling slowly as she lifted it, ensuring all the sauce remained on the surface and took a small bite.
"No, not really." Yang grabbed another and repeated nearly precisely the same process.
"How do I get these to work?" Ruby was fumbling desperately with her chopsticks, holding one like a pencil and pinching the other between her pinky and ring finger and not making any headway at all on picking up a dumpling.
"Like this Ruby." Blake clacked her chopsticks together with practiced ease and then lifted a dumpling gently from the plate. Ruby watched befuddled as Blake swept her arm across the table and took a bite of the dumpling, never wavering an inch. She tried to imitate Blake's performance, moved her chopsticks into a grip much closer to the proper one and actually almost picked up a dumpling before growing frustrated and giving up.
"Can't I just use a fork?" She turned back to Blake who was still holding the half-eaten dumpling.
"Don't give up Rubes. If I can do it, it's not that tough." Yang grabbed another and ate it whole. Weiss shot her an icy stare, apparently cold enough to feel because Yang turned, mouth still completely full, "Whut?"
"Leave her alone. She'll figure it out," Weiss gave Yang a playful push on the shoulder, "And don't talk with your mouth full," Yang smiled back and swallowed everything left in her mouth.
"Here just try it." Blake extended her dumpling out towards Ruby eagerly. Ruby side-eyed her sister and Weiss quickly before eating the rest of the dumpling off of Blake's chopsticks.
"Hmmm." Ruby made a happy little noise in her throat as she swallowed, "Okay those are good. But I still can't pick them up." She raised her useless chopsticks and flailed her hand about helplessly.
"Here, here let me show you." Blake reached out and grabbed Ruby's hand. She corrected her grip and showed her where the chopsticks should rest against her thumb and ring finger. Weiss leaned over and whispered to Yang as Blake taught Ruby.
"Does she seem a little handsy to you today?" Weiss whispered as quietly as she could. She was well aware of Blake's incredible hearing and was mostly hoping she was too distracted by her sudden, intense interest in Ruby to notice.
"Well yeah," Yang whispered back and then slid her mouth down right next Weiss's ear, so close she could feel the blonde's incredibly hot breath on her ear, "They are acting… a little...fishy." Yang snickered in Weiss's ear and pulled away. Weiss grimaced outwardly, but inside she knew she had walked directly into that pun. It was honestly more her fault than Yang's.
"Here you are, the main course." Their waitress returned with several plates layered in sushi. There were rolls, fish over rice, even the simple cuts of raw fish Blake had assumed were too expensive.
"Oh thank you so much," Blake looked like she was about to lunge out and hug the waitress but then she turned back to Weiss. "Thank you Weiss."
"Yeah of course. What are friends for?" She watched on as Blake devoured the fish and Ruby continued to fumble with her utensils. What was really going on with them?
A/N - Okay, so I am a tad of a sushi/Japanese food fanatic and I tried to avoid using the actual Japanese terms here for two reasons. One, is that Japan doesn't exist on Remnant and authorially I'm still trying to figure out what to do with the lack of countries but presence of cultures. I'm really not sure. The second reason is because I didn't want to lose anyone who wasn't familiar. Sashimi is just thin cuts of raw fish, Nigiri is thin cuts laid over seasoned rice, and rolls are rice rolled around a mixture of fish and other ingredients in like a tube. Gyoza are fried dumplings filled mostly with veggies and stuff but occasionally can have meat as well and Edamame are small roasted snap peas. Lastly, Miso soup is an onion based broth that can have little bits of tofu or not depending on the place. It is (as far as I know) actually culturally correct to drink it like a cup.
Alright, that's enough Japanese culture lesson for today. What did you think of the chapter? Weiss's perspective is fun to write from, I hope you like how I handle her. Please tell me what you thought.
-Zach
(I always find myself writing near lunch time)