A man waited outside of RWBY's dorm after a third set of knocks. The first few raps were about 15 minutes ago and were met with, "Just a minute!" from a soft voice behind the door. The second were met with, "Not much longer," followed by, "Yeah, right." Now, Weiss Schnee was a very pretty, very smart, very accomplished woman, but she was not a prompt one. He'd scheduled out the date with her to be at noon, but it was approaching 12:30.
The third attempt at asking Weiss if she was ready resulted in the door being opened by Yang. "Just come on in, she'll be at the mirror for another hour."
"I'm almost ready!" said Weiss from the bathroom.
Nodding to Yang, the man stepped into RWBY's dorm and took a seat on a chair. She took a look at him and his boredom and said, "Hey, wanna get a round in?" She points back to a tv, currently paused on a video game. "It's Savage Streets, so I'll prolly whoop your ass, but it's better than scrolling FOR THE NEXT TWENTY MINUTES," she said, tilting her head back and raising her voice.
After a humph from the bathroom, the man shrugged and moved his seat next to Yang's by the tv. The blonde plopped down on her chair and leaned forward. After a moment, she switched the game over to versus.
"Prepare to get rocked," Yang said with a smirk as she handed the man a controlled. "I'll pick… not my main, so it'll be less of a murder and more a slight murder!"
"Ah, yes. Slight murder." Looking at the screen, the man perused the characters. He hadn't played too many fighting games, so he imagined it won't really matter who he picked; Yang knew enough to have a main character, so she probably knew what she was doing. He watched her hover over a woman in a leotard before selecting an absurdly thick man in fatigues.
"The best kind." Yang waited for her opponent to pick a man with boxing gloves and pressed start. "Now, on with the slaughter!"
"Woo." As the round starts, the man rushed in to meet Yang's character, but she immediately countered with a chop and followed up with a combo. He watched as his character's life goes from 100% to about 60% in the space of a few seconds until he ends up on the ground.
"My character is super low tier, too," Yang laughed, backing her character off. She waited for the man to stumble up before moving back in.
As the man mashed buttons, he replied, "That makes me feel so much better." He managed to land a few disjointed hits on Yang's wrestler, but she countered and used a super; as his character gets slammed into the ground, the man heard the bathroom door get pushed aside. As the round ended, he felt Weiss place her hands on his head, then rest her chin on them.
"Ready!" Weiss cheered, watching the game as a new round started. The man kept his eyes on the match for just a second before Yang locked his character in a combo; seeing there was no victory, he got up, allowing his boxer to be destroyed. "I hope you aren't angry with me…" Weiss said, with a saccharine voice.
Unable to be angry at such a cute voice, the man said, "Not a chance." In addition to Weiss' apology, he also got a new life goal in the way of beating Yang at her game or at least providing some challenge. In reality, anything to wipe the smug look off of her face would suffice. He got up from his seat, turned to his date, and said, "Let's go. I got a place in mind." Weiss hesitated before grabbing his arm, then let him start leading her out of the dorm.
As Yang finished beating the man's character into the ground, she called back, "Have fun you two, be back by 9 pm, use a condom, yadda yadda."
"Yang!" Weiss cried, suddenly blushing. "It's just lunch! Never mind that, it's our first date!"
Looking to Weiss with a taunting smile, Yang said, "Yeah, but when you went for coffee, he ended up massaging Mistress' feet. What's lunch gonna be, leather and chains?"
Laughing at Weiss' embarrassment, the man said, "Well, I planned on starting with cake." Yang chuckled at the joke, but he assured Weiss, "You did say to try the shortcake, right?"
Still scowling at her partner, Weiss said, "Oh, yes! You want to go to the cafe again?"
"Unless you'd like something else. You seem to know the best places already."
"I have been craving some ice cream~" Weiss sang. "There's an amazing place right across from the cafe!"
"That sounds great!" the man replied, remembering that Weiss has a large sweet tooth. So far, he hadn't seen her eat anything aside from coffee cake, ice cream, and a few apples; he wondered if she had a strict diet back at home, seeing as she also looked like she weighed ten pounds. As he started leading the heiress out of her dorm, an idea for the future crosses his mind, leading him to ask, "Out of nowhere, do you know how to cook?"
Weiss dejectedly looked at the ground, a grumpy frown crossing her lips. "No. I always wanted to learn, but father said such work was for my butler." Looking at her perfectly manicured fingers, she continued, "No, it was all piano and fencing. Albeit, not the worst things in the world to be good at." She gripped her hand, reaffirming her role as a huntress.
A bit worried that he upset Weiss, the man said, "Well, how about next time, we grab some ingredients and try to make a cake?" He'd done a bit of cooking, plus all cakes came with easy instructions anyway; besides, baking a cake sounded like a cute date. "It can be for everyone, or just us, or whatever."
Weiss' face lights up at the idea. "That sounds wonderful! Oh, can it be vanilla!? And we need sprinkles! Wait, do you put sprinkles on a cake? Oh, I'm already excited!" She drew out her scroll and started typing out a list of things to buy.
Self-satisfied with himself that he accidentally hit the nail on the head, the man smiled at Weiss' enthusiasm. Clearly, the heiress didn't just want to learn, she had always dreamt of baking a cake; the fact that she was already so invested informed him that she definitely regretted not learning sooner.
"Well, we can drop by the grocery store after ice cream. I'm free tomorrow, are you?"
Weiss took a moment to ponder, then flicked her scroll to her calendar. "Hmm… I have a paper to work on, but that shouldn't be anything to worry about. Let's do it after lunch!"
Weiss spent the rest of the walk to the ice cream shop searching for recipes for cake, asking for an opinion to then quickly shut it down and change her mind. It was cute, watching her obsess over the perfect cake recipes, and even more so when she couldn't decide on a single one.
In order to prevent Weiss from wanting to make ten cakes at once, the man asked, "Does your team have any preferences?" Hopefully, Ruby, Blake, or Yang had said something about their favorite flavor before so Weiss could at least narrow down her choice.
Weiss looked up from her scroll just in time to dodge an incoming streetlight. "Umm… Ah, yes! Ruby absolutely loves chocolate! I think Yang does as well. Blake doesn't strike me as liking sweets all that much, but I'm sure she'd eat it if we gave her some." Weiss' bright expression suddenly soured a bit. "Yang told me I should do something nice for Ruby…"
Noticing Weiss' less-than-thrilled recount of Yang's advice, the man asked, "Why?"
Weiss huffed. "She thinks I'm too harsh on her. I don't exactly approve of her being team leader, especially because she's so inexperienced. Frankly, I think I would be more suited."
"But then what would your team name be? WRBY? WBYR?" Seeing Weiss frown at the joke, the man switched to serious and asked, "Have you seen her fight?"
"Only in training. It's only a few weeks since class started, so no, not really. Nothing more than a quick spar and the mess in the forest. Hold on, you've seen her fight, correct? You had that special training mission at the start of the semester?"
The man took a moment to remember the training session between the captains of four teams. In addition to the jerkish Cardin and the all-but-useless Jaune, Ruby was by his side fighting two Ursa Majors. To put it a bit more accurately, Ruby fought an Ursa Major and he, Cardin, and… well, not so much Jaune, fought the other. The half-sized girl had managed to combat a high-level Grimm on her own, with enough confidence to solo it; admittedly, it backfired, but she did do a great job on her own.
"Yes, and I think Ruby is an amazing huntress. Do you know what we did?"
"No, aside from training." Weiss suddenly focused her attention.
"We fought two Ursa Major. It was me, Ruby, Jaune-" Weiss wretched- "and I think his name was Cardin."
"Ursa Major!?" Weiss shouted, incredulous. "After only a few weeks!?"
"And Ruby almost managed to take one out on her own. She's not just some kid, she has real talent."
Weiss looked downward, contemplating. "I had no idea. Though-"
"-her leadership skills did need a bit of work at the time, yes," the man interrupted, stopping Weiss from diminishing Ruby's achievements. "But you should be glad you have her as your team leader."
"Hmm. I guess I haven't really seen her at her best." Weiss waited for the man to open the door to the ice cream shop. Once they were both in, she said, "Well, I guess I'll have to trust you, at least for the moment. It's decided then; we'll make Ruby a chocolate cake as an apology for being rude. How does that sound?"
"Sounds like a great idea. Maybe we should all have a quick match at some point, as well."
Weiss smiled. "I think I'd like that. We can get coffee afterward!"
"Sounds like a plan. Now, let's focus on today's date." The man turned to the counter and addressed the very patient person behind the glass, who had been privy to the last several minutes of the conversation with Weiss. The man ordered ice cream and waited for Weiss to get a large vanilla cup with an excessive amount of sprinkles and candy toppings.
After paying for the ice cream and sitting down, Weiss started listing off different recipes for chocolate cake, along with additives that Ruby would enjoy. For starters, they'd need about three bags of chocolate chips; Weiss had a sweet tooth, but Ruby was crazy for anything chocolate. All in all, in addition to having a pleasant afternoon with Weiss, the man helped her learn a bit of humility towards her team leader; though he missed most of it, she didn't approve of Ruby leading her, but letting her know about the training exercise seemed to have helped quite a bit.