Wow it's only been a month.

Ruby:

'Mwahahaha. I'm a genius!' Ruby thought to herself.

Ever since Yang and Blake had finally admitted their feeling for one another and reluctantly thanked Ruby, Ruby had been overjoyed, praising her own brilliance. This overwhelming feeling of accomplishment was still consuming her now as she sat in her Monster Fighting class paying no attention to Professor Port's lecture.

Despite the success, Ruby was also thinking of the next step that had to be taken: telling Weiss about all of this. Yang and Blake had asked for her advice, but the only answer she could offer at the time was 'I don't know. We'll figure out later'.

'I mean, Weiss will probably be fine with it,' Ruby thought, 'Even if she's not okay with gay teammates, she's already in a great mood considering how I got rid of her yesterday. So it should work out? I mean after all-'

"Yang Xiao Long!"

Ruby snapped out of her thoughts at the abrupt interjection. She peered over to her now fully attentive older sister.

Yang beamed, "Yes sir!" Yang had an entirely different aura about her. It's incredible what a decent amount of sleep can do for someone.

Port, however, wasn't fazed by the shift in attitude and continued his attack, "What can you tell me about the bodily functions of the creatures of grimm?"

Yang took a pause, giving a short illusion of being entirely lost. Then she answered, proudly, "Not very much! Grimm dissolve after death so none have really been studied. The only thing we really know is that they don't require any nutrients to survive – they gain energy through other means."

The entire class turned their heads and stared at Yang. She'd actually given a legitimate answer. Port took a second, but finally stammered, "Y-yes indeed. Quite correct! This lack of knowledge is why what little facts we do know are so valuable." Port continued his lecture as best he could, yet he was clearly shaken.

Yang, no doubt feeling accomplished, returned to writing down notes. Blake sat next to her and despite expert stealth that likely fooled everyone else, Ruby could just barely tell that they were holding hands under the desk.

…

Following the usual class, Ruby entered the cafeteria. Taking note of Weiss' expected absence, she sat down at the table with her remaining teammates. "Hey guys, I see you two are doing great."

"Heh, I think we're managing," Yang grinned. Blake looked over her book, distantly adding, "Yes, I'd agree." She then returned to the pages without another word.

Yang scratched her head, noting, "Unfortunately Blake is back to being her distant self. She's a lot less fun like this." Blake offered no response, as Ruby chuckled, "Well yeah, you agreed to stay secretive in public, Yang. I dare say a cafeteria full of students counts as public."

Shrugging, the blonde replied, "That's fair. I guess I'll just have to get used to the sudden shifts in her personality. I just hope I don't get too affection deprived."

Blake looked back up at Yang, quietly responding, "I held your hand all of Port's class. You're fine. Besides you lovingly discussed how my 'mysteriousness' is why you were interested in me in the first place. Quit complaining."

"Well, I suppose there's no fighting that," Yang admitted, letting the skirmish die as she dug into her food.

"Hey Ruby," Yang barked with her mouth full.

"Yeah?"

"You said we'd talk about telling Weiss about all of this, but before we get into that, how the heck did you get rid of her yesterday?"

Blake looked over, adding, "I was wondering about that as well."

'They want to learn my diabolical ways. Mwahahaha,' Ruby thought to herself.

Ruby shifted in her seat. "Well," Ruby began, "I suppose I copied Yang a bit. To get rid of Weiss yesterday, I simply set her up on a date with Neptune."

"What, really?" Yang replied, "How'd you manage that? Convincing doofuses to ask girls out is no easy task I've found."

"Well," Ruby began, chuckling to herself, "I wouldn't give myself that much credit. He came up to me while I was at the gym on Saturday wondering if Weiss would be interested in him. He was more or less already going to ask her out. After all, I think everyone already knows Weiss has been crushing on him. As a result, I had the perfect opportunity to tell him the exact time he should call Weiss the next day. Then all I had to do was plan the trip into Forever Fall with Weiss that evening. To be fair, I kind of just got lucky."

Blake stared at Ruby, thoroughly impressed, saying, "You managed to build an elaborate plan around a sudden opportunity like that?"

Ruby beamed, "Yup!"

Blake looked over to Yang with mild terror in her eyes. Yang grinned and shrugged in response, "My little sister's pretty damn smart."

"Too smart for her own good, dear god," Blake hissed.

'This is perfect,' Ruby thought, 'I've got to make elaborate plots more often!'

"So," Yang said, taking another bite of her lunch, "that's where Weiss is now I assume – with Neptune?"

"Yup," Ruby replied, noticing that across the cafeteria, Neptune was missing from his team as well.

"In that case, we should plan on how we're going to tell her about us," Yang suggested, motioning to herself and Blake.

"I mean," Ruby hesitantly answered, "I don't think there's much to plan. Weiss has no reason to not be cool with all of this…"

The sisters peered over to Blake, the one without a doubt was the most unsettled by the situation.

Blake sighed, closing her book. "I just…" the faunus tried to organize her thoughts, "I'm still paranoid about all of this. I'm worried about telling anyone about all of this. If you didn't know about us, Ruby, I'd be panicked about telling you too."

Yang put her hand over Blake's, trying to offer reassurance, to which, Blake swiftly slid her hand away. Yang laughed nervously, realizing her mistake, "Heh, well it seems like we should just tell her. I understand your nervousness, but we really don't have a solid reason to doubt Weiss."

"Aside from her freaking out about me last semester," Blake pointed out.

"Well," Ruby said, "That was more about the White Fang membership than anything about you personally. We have no reason to expect her to discriminate on sexuality."

Blake groaned and put her head on the table, clearly growing stressed over this. She muttered something to the ground.

"What was that?" Ruby asked.

Blake tilted her head back up, repeating, "I guess we'll just do it. We'll talk to her today." With that, Blake opened back up her novel and returned to her fictional world of choice.

"Alright," Yang agreed, "So Ruby, when should we expect to see Weiss today? I passed out long before she came back yesterday."

Ruby shrugged, "I would think much earlier than yesterday since she has homework to do, and we all know how Weiss treats her academics."

"Yeah, like a maniac," Yang muttered.

…

Yang:

After the usual day of classes had ended, Yang and Blake returned to their team's room while Ruby went to spar with team JNPR again. They had agreed to all be at the room that afternoon to tell Weiss about the situation as a team. Upon entering the room, Yang dropped her belongings to the floor and promptly sat down at their gaming console, booting up their usual fighting game.

"Wait, Yang," Blake said as she set down her own stuff on her desk, "Don't you want to go ahead and complete Oobleck's homework together?"

'Oh, hell yes!' Yang thought, 'But no, I can't act that interested in homework of all things, even if it is with Blake and she'll explain everything so beautifully and…'

Yang shrugged in response, sarcastically asking, "Do we have to do the work together, right now? I mean we could at least four hours, right?"

Blake rolled her eyes, fully aware of Yang's bullshit. "Very well," Blake replied, sitting down at her desk, "I suppose I'll just read the chapter by myself. We're both smart enough to do the work individually, so any cooperation between us would drastically slow us down."

Yang stood up, grinning, as she retrieved her own textbook out of her bag. "Heh, well if you're making threats like that," Yang replied, "Didn't you already read ahead though?"

Shrugging, Blake claimed, "I could use the review. We have a test on this chapter and the one before it on Friday."

"Fair enough," Yang agreed as she dragged her chair over to Blake's desk.

The pair took turns reading pages as they went along the chapter discussing different government policies that took place in the past century on Remnant. For the first time that year, Yang was understanding the material of Ooblek's class. Every fact and concept Blake read aloud was cemented into the blonde's memory with the aid of the beautiful voice. In addition, Yang remembered everything she read out loud as Blake would make sure she read everything fully and accurately. This prevented Yang from using her usual method of skipping every other line to save time, but actually learning the material arguably made it worth it.

As they trudged through the chapter, a nagging thought began sprouting in the back of Yang's mind. 'If Blake is afraid of anyone knowing about this,' Yang nervously thought, 'Then does that mean our entire relationship will be bound to this room? I mean I don't give a shit about other people knowing or not, but a change in scenery might be nice. Will I never be able to take my girlfriend out on a date? Will we get bored of each other? Will we break up just because we get sick of studying and cuddling every day? Or even fucking worse, what if-'

"Yang!"

Startled, Yang shouted back, "Holy shit, what!"

"Were you even paying attention while I was reading?" Blake grumbled, "It's your turn now – page 405."

"Uh", Yang hastily scrambled in her book to the next page, only furthering the point she'd been lost.

Blake sighed, "We have to read that last page again, huh."

Scratching her head with her eyes across the room, Yang mumbled, "Yeah, sorry…"

Blake looked up at her partner, detecting distress in her voice. "Are you okay? It's fine that you zoned out for a minute. I'm not actually angry…"

Yang looked back up at her girlfriend. After taking a short pause, she answered, "I was just…It's pretty stupid, but I was just thinking-"

"Hello rest of team RWBY!" Ruby yelled, now standing in the doorway.

'Are you kidding me? How do you time that, Ruby?' Yang thought to herself, genuinely impressed.

"Quit yelling, you dunce! We can all hear you perfectly fine!" Weiss snapped as she pushed past the team leader and sat down at her desk – immediately taking out work to be done. "Why did you even follow me back here?" Weiss continued to grumble, "You were still sparring with Jaune!"

"Well you were done sparring with team SSSN," Ruby replied, "So I thought-"

"Whatever!" Weiss interrupted, "Just quit yelling! I need to do the reading for Ooblek's class and work on the project in Port's class. I have to be somewhere later!"

'Ah, our 'snow angel' is as charming as always,' Yang thought with a grin, 'Well seems that it's about time to spill the beans to our cheeriest team member.'

Yang looked over to Blake and Ruby, all of them sharing slight nods.

Ruby cleared her throat and began, "Uh, Weiss."

"What?" Weiss demanded, keeping her gaze in her textbook.

"Um, well…you see…the thing is…now…uh" Ruby stammered.

Weiss took no notice and didn't even offer Ruby a scolding. The team leader glanced at Yang and Blake for rescue; she clearly wasn't confident in starting this off.

Yang pinched the bridge of her nose as she thought, 'This is already going worse than expected. To be fair, this is about Blake and I, so this isn't Ruby's responsibility. So I should be the one to go ahead and get this over with.'

Yang stood up and walked over to Weiss, clearing her throat, "Hey Weiss."

"What is it?" Weiss hissed, "Didn't I just explain that I need to get this done."

"I realize that," Yang explained, "But we kind of have a team thing that we need to talk about."

Weiss looked up at the blonde. Noticing the serious tone, Weiss sighed and set down her book, "Alright," she replied, "what's going on then?"

Yang sighed with relief. After all, getting Weiss to seriously listen was an achievement by itself.

"So we're all friends here right?" Yang stated, "We're not going to critically judge each other?"

Weiss squinted her eyes, replying, "To a certain extent yes. Yang, I swear if you're failing one of your classes…"

"What? No!" Yang insisted as Ruby giggled.

"No look," Yang continued, "You see…me and…uh"

'God damn it,' Yang thought to herself, 'I get why Ruby was struggling.'

Yang cleared her throat yet again, "Weiss."

"Yes…" Weiss said; her patience thinning.

Yang continued, "Blake and I…are…." 'Dear god, here we go' "…dating…"

The room fell uncomfortably silent as Weiss rose her eyebrows. Questioning Yang's validity, the ice queen glanced over to Blake and Ruby. Blake only responded by blushing as Ruby offered a slight smile and nod.

Turning back to Yang, Weiss replied, "Okay. Thanks for letting me know, I suppose." With that she raised her textbook and continued reading.

Yang stood with her jaw dropped. 'There is no way this just went that well,' Yang thought with disbelief.

"Wait, wait, wait," Yang insisted, "That's it? You're not surprised or freaking out about this? Why aren't you disapproving or somehow scolding us? "

Weiss looked back up, slightly puzzled, "Well, I suppose I'm mildly surprised," she explained, "but I don't see this as too absurd. What's to disapprove?"

"We were slightly worried since you sort of freaked out when we learned Blake's a faunus, so…" Ruby pointed out.

Weiss scowled, "That doesn't automatically mean I'm homophobic! Sorry for being skeptical of a group of people where many of which terrorize and murder my family!"

"Weiss…" Blake growled.

Weiss sighed, "I'm sorry! The point is I don't care. You two can do whatever you want as long as it doesn't affect the effectiveness of our team," glancing back to her work, she continued, "So is that all?"

Yang scratched her head, still surprised how simple that was as she replied, "Uh, just about. Could you also just not mention this to anyone else?"

Weiss, hesitantly agreed, "Yes, I suppose…but why?"

As she was standing up, Blake explained, "I'm not really comfortable with the social aspect of this. So for now I'd prefer that no one else found out."

"Wait, so you're not openly gay?" Weiss clarified.

Blake cringed at the statement, answering, "Well Yang is, but I am not. You're thankfully accepting of this, but many people are not. Many think homosexuals to be on the same level as a faunus. So because of society, much like my ears, I'd prefer to keep Yang and I a secret."

'God, she's nearly trembling,' Yang noticed. She quickly set her arm on Blake's shoulder in a reassuring effort.

"Well that's fair enough," Weiss accepted, "I'm not one to blather on, so don't worry. I won't tell a soul."

Blake released a substantial sigh of relief, nearly whispering, "Thank you, Weiss."

"Not a problem," Weiss replied, "Now then, I'm going to do my homework so I can go out later. So please let me focus."

Ruby laughed, "So you can go out with Neptune?"

'Oh yes Ruby. Execute all of the taunting,' Yang thought, chuckling

Immediately flustered, Weiss hastily insisted, "No! Why would you think that? It's none of your business! Leave me alone and let me study you idiot!"

"Why are you getting so defensive?" Ruby giggled, "Do you think Neptune's a bad guy or something?"

"What?" Weiss frantically responded, "No! He's…I mean. Shut up Ruby! I am trying to study!"

As Ruby continued pestering the ice queen, the other pair sat back down at Blake's desk to finish up their own work.

"Okay, so we were basically done with the chapter," Blake stated, her voice still unsteady, "We just have a few more pages and then we could watch another movie?"

Yang studied the faunus, not fully convinced by the veil of peace and security. "Yeah…sure," Yang replied as she thought, 'Blake's totally still freaking out.'

"Hey," Yang softly said as she reached over the table and took hold of Blake's hand. "Weiss isn't going to tell anyone. No one's going to treat you or me any differently. We're fine, Alright?"

The faunus pursed her lips and nodded. She let out another sigh as leaned over and pulled Yang into her arms, replying, "Alright."

As the embrace lingered on, Weiss shouted over, "Also keep it PG while I'm in the room. Thank you!"

Laughing, Yang shouted back, "As long as you keep it PG with Neptune."

Growing even more flustered, Weiss hissed, "I have no idea what you're talking about!"

"For someone without any ideas," Ruby taunted, "you seem far more angry than you do confused."

"You know what, Ruby Rose. You need to just-"

"Hey," Blake whispered into Yang's ear, as Weiss continued shouting across the room, "Thank you."

Yang beamed with approval, warmly replying, "Don't mention it." After another moment or two, Yang added, "So you want to finish this homework?"

Blake pulled away, nodding as she lifted her book.

"Yeah," Blake said, "page 405. It's still your turn to read."

Heyyyyy I finished another chapter everyone! Yay! In the past month, Volume 3 finally ended and I'm dead after that. It's kind of weird that now my story is completely non- canon. It's always been since it's a fan fiction, but the way I wrote it initially allowed it to follow Volume 2...now it's all just non- canon. I suppose that just gives me more freedom, but...I don't know, it feels weird. (On the bright side the Bumblebee ship sailed for like 5 seconds in the show)

So in regard to this chapter, I finally explained some elements that were left up in the air since last May. Yang and Blake are good aside from mild concern from Yang and expected paranoia from Blake. The next chapter or two may just be fluff, but big things are coming...probably not for a while longer than 2 chapters...heh you'll all fucking hate the twist coming...or you might just see it coming...or you might NOT!

I see this has 141 followers now ... damn. Thank you all, I'm glad you're enjoying it ^_^

Also thank you to everyone who left reviews on the last chapter. It felt really fucking good to come back after such along time to a positive crowd.

So with that, insert plug (Fl00rMaster on deviantArt which I update WAY more frequently) and I'll see you in Chapter 13.