Disclaimer: Bleach belongs to Tite Kubo while RWBY belongs to Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth

Chapter 11: New School, New Problems

*FWEEEEEEE* a familiar, and hated, sound woke up Weiss and caused her to fall off the bed. Again.

"Gooood Mooorning, Teeeam RWWWWBYYYYY!" Ruby shouts. She now wearing her uniform, in addition with her ever present red hood.

"What is wrong with you?!" Weiss asked.

"Come on, Weiss!" Ruby said, picking the girl up, much to her annoyance. "Get up and get ready for our first day in school!"

"Yeah, yeah. Now get out so I can change," Weiss demands. Ruby's smile faltered a little, but remembers what Blake and Ichigo said yesterday.

She clears her throat. "Okay, Weiss. I will be waiting in the lounge. Don't take too long!" She then goes to leave.

Weiss rolls her eyes. "Whatever." She thinks back about Rukia telling her to give Ruby a chance. Well, today is a new day. Maybe Ruby will finally take her role seriously. Though...the crude waking call is very close to raising red flags. After getting dressed in her Beacon uniform and making sure everything is perfect, Weiss emerges from the room to see the rest of RWBY and JNPR in the living room area waiting for her.

"Good morning, Ice Queen!" Yang greets. Weiss glares at her. "Jeez, tough room."

"So... what now?" Jaune asked.

"I've managed to get a handbook about the academy. It said that our class schedule is arranged according to which building we're in, 'A' or 'B'. I think our first class is history, since we're put in the 'A' building. I think it starts at nine o' clock," Ruby said, looking at her Scroll for the schedule.

"What?! Nine?!" Weiss shouts. She looks at the clock in the living room area. "It's 8:55! We need to go! NOW!"

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It was 8:57 when the two teams barged into the room, all severely out of breath. Yang stumbles over to where someone sat at the front of the classroom. "Hey..." Yang wheezed. "What'dwe miss?"

"Fortunately for you, nothing," Bartholomew Oobleck answered, appearing behind RWBY and JNPR. The eight soon-to-be Huntresses/Huntsmen jumped back, startled at the sudden entrance. The green-haired man pushed up his glasses. "Good morning, my name is Doctor Bartholomew Oobleck and I will be your history instructor. Now, I'd advise you to go take your seats as class would be starting right about-" *BEEP**BEEP*. "-now. Move along, then." He zips around to his desk as the students took their seats.

"Why didn't wake up me up earlier?" Weiss seethed quietly to Ruby through gritted teeth.

"I did, but you kept mumbling something in your sleep," Ruby defended herself.

"Well...you should have tried harder."

"I did, but you pushed me away."

"She's right you know." Yang said. "You were like a rock." Weiss scoffs.

The rest of the class went uneventful as Oobleck only had them do refresher stuff but told them that tomorrow is where they'll really start.

As Weiss read through Remnant Modern History, her eyes trailed to Ruby seating next her. She noticed her doodling in her notebook and not reading her history book. Weiss felt some frustration from Ruby shirking her assignment but kept it to herself.

'Give her the benefit of the doubt, Weiss.'

The first class was over before they know it and started to exit the lecture hall and on to the next. "Onwards to next class!" Ruby said. "I think you'll like the next class, Weiss."

"And what makes you say that?"

"It's a Dust-related class! Dust Arts."

"Hmph. Well, I hope you'll be keeping your focus on the course rather than on mindless drawing."

Ruby blinked. "What?" She was confused. Yes, she was drawing cute puppies, but she was reading in the history book like Dr. Oobleck wanted them to do. The drawing just gave her hands something busy to do. "Uh… okay. Don't you worry, Weiss! I'm on it!"

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Ruby have never felt so confused like this before. The professor, Selena O'Hare, was a nice woman, greeting the students with content when they entered the lecture hall. She didn't make them do much, like Oobleck, but as a starter, she wanted the students to make a configuration chart of the four basic Dusts. Through this, Ruby quickly discovered the downside of skipping two years.

She was aware of such a class back in Signal during Yang's (and Ruby's) last year there. Obviously, Ruby never had a chance to be in it. She wanted to ask Weiss for help. After all, she is the heiress of a Dust Company. But, Weiss refused to help, even after Ruby explained why.

"How can you not know?" Weiss hissed in a whisper. "This is a fundamental quality of being a Huntsman."

"I'm sorry! I never got a chance to learn! Please help!" Ruby begged quietly.

"You need to learn from your folly on your own."

Much to their shock, Prof. O'Hare was able to hear the whispered argument and had Weiss to help Ruby, aware of the latter's situation. Both girls were dumbfounded. How was the white-haired woman able to hear them? They were all the way in the back.

Imagine everyone's surprise when they learned that the two, long, white ponytails Prof. O'Hare has been long rabbit ears.

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"As for today, we will have practice duels," Glynda Goodwitch said, her riding crop in hand. "One pair from each team will be fighting another pair from a different team. For the first match we'll have Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren vs Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee."

The four walk down to the arena, the pairs on opposite sides. "Be sure to maintain proper form, Ruby," Weiss coldly advised

"Um, okay?" Ruby said, not sure what that means.

"Hi, Ruby!" Nora shouts, waving her hand.

"Hey, Nora!"

"Ready to have some fun?" Nora asked loudly.

"You bet I am!"

"Ruby! Focus!" Weiss shouts.

"Are the combatants ready?" Goodwitch asked. "We will begin in 3...2...1." Not even a second later, Nora appears above Ruby and Weiss, her hammer in hand. They could have sworn they see a crazed look in her eye.

"IT'S HAMMER TIME~!" Nora shouted with glee. She slams Magnhild down on the ground causing a shockwave to push Weiss and Ruby back. Weiss uses one of her Glyphs to steady herself while Ruby uses Crescent Rose to stop herself.

"So cool!" Ruby said, starry-eyed.

"Ruby!" Weiss exclaimed.

"Weiss! I got an idea! If we can-" Ruby started.

"I got this, Ruby." Weiss said, refusing to comply to the childish girl.

"But-" Ruby tried to talk to her, but was unable as she sees Ren ninja-run at her. Thinking quickly, she starts shooting Ren while her weapon is still in scythe form. Ren was able to dodge each shot and brandishes his dual StormFlower from his sleeves. He leaps in the air before he spins diagonally at Ruby.

"Uh, oh!" She quickly recalls Crescent Rose and morphed it into sniper mode and uses it to shield herself. After the attack was done, Ren leaps off of Crescent Rose, causing Ruby to stumble back a bit. She managed to regain her footing. "Wow, that was awesome!"

"Yeah...it was..." Jaune muttered from the stands. He thinks back to him and his team's session with Team TAIM. Jaune was an absolute mess and wasn't able to withstand even Tatsuki's lightest punches. His teammates on the other hand were far better. Pyrrha was doing well going up against the skater guy (Keigo), Nora was having a blast fighting against Tatsuki after she was done with the blonde boy, and, despite not doing well near the end of the initiation, Ren was doing phenomenal against Orihime. He was even able to crack and nearly break her Protection Shield, which, according to Tatsuki, is no easy fit.

"That was incredible! You were all fwoosh and then you were all sheensheensheen! And your guns! Are they modeled after SMGs? Are the blades Wind and Fire ones? How are you able to store them in your sleeves?" Ruby bombarded the green ninja, though he wasn't bothered by it due to his affiliation with Nora. Initially confused, but Ren could tell the girl's excitement is genuine. Reminds him of Nora. The slender shinobi only smiled.

"Ruby, will you please pay attention!" Weiss stressed. She was almost not quick enough when Nora attacks her from above, shielding herself with a Glyph.

"You should take your own advice!" Nora said. She presses the trigger of Magnhild, launching herself off the Glyph, shattering it in the process and knocking Weiss down. The heiress scurried to her feet just as Nora landed back on the ground. The ginger smirked playfully. Weiss quickly summons a Glyph as she turned the revolver of Myrtenaster to pale blue Dust. Emerging from the Glyph is a spear of lightning, charged and ready. Weiss releases it and in great speeds, it hurdled towards the girl in pink. Nora didn't dodge and got hit by it, knocking her to the ground.

"Hmph." Weiss huffed. One down, one to go. Thinking she has defeated Nora, she turns to Ren, who didn't look worried that his partner was taken down. Why?

"Weiss! Look!" Ruby shouted.

"What is it now Ru-?" Weiss asked, but stopped. To her surprise, Nora was getting up.

Nora stood back to her feet, pink lightning crackling around her. "Nice try!" She zips up to Weiss and hits her with Magnhild, sending her flying. Quickly, Weiss summons a few black Glyphs to slow her down and she lands back on her feet. She still didn't have time as Nora turns her hammer into it grenade launcher form and she fired grenades in the shape of a heart, and they hit their mark.

"Weiss!" Ruby called out. She was about to run to the heiress' aid, but Ren appears before her.

"You need to pay more attention to your surroundings in case of more adversaries," Ren advised before he dashes around her while hitting her with palm strikes. The last palm strike sends Ruby into Weiss, who was getting up. They both fall to the ground.

An alarm bellows as Glynda Goodwitch returns to the arena. "Both Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee are unable to continue. The winners of this duel are Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren," Glynda announced. The students at the stands applaud.

"Hoorah! Score 1 for team sloth!" Nora cheered, wrapping her arms around Ren's shoulders.

"Woo..." Ren said deadpanned.

"Ruby, get off of me!" Weiss demanded, pushing Ruby off her person. She gets up and dusts herself off before walking away.

"Weiss!" Ruby called out, but it falls on deaf ears. Yang and Blake look at each other in worry.

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Time went and lunch came around."Okay, the food here is waaaaay better than Signal's." Yang said before stuffing a spoonful of chicken rice. RWBY and JNPR are in the lunch hall.

"I guess..." Nora said. "But nothing compares to Ren's cooking." Ren lightly blushes at the comment.

"...I'm not that good," He said, softly.

"Oh, don't be so modest!" Nora said, lightly smacks his shoulder. "You guys need to try his miso soup. It's to die for!" As Nora begins to tell them of all the meals Ren could cook, an awkward silence fell between Ruby and Weiss. Ruby picked at her food, having to have lost some of her valor over the course of the three classes. Weiss just looks displeased, staring at her meal.

"So, how did everything go with your mentors?" Blake asked.

"It was splendid," Pyrrha said. "I was so excited to know that Tatsuki Arisawa is the leader of TAIM. It was such an honor."

"Why does that name sound familiar?" Weiss asked.

"It may be because she was the champion of the Mistral Regional Tournament," Pyrrha reveals.

"What? I thought you were the champion of the MRT." Jaune said. The Mistral Regional Tournament is a little similar to the Vytal Tournament, the differences being it is annual and that Mistralian combat school students attend them instead of Huntsmen academy students. Sanctum and Hinanjo are just two of those combat schools.

"Yes, I was. However, before I had attended Sanctum, Tatsuki was the previous champion," Pyrrha said. "It was an amazing honor to be put underneath her wing." She remembered watching the MRT on television after coming home from school and how Tatsuki managed to take on another girl named Ururu. Pyrrha was disheartened that Tatsuki didn't attend the MRT during her last two years before going to Beacon, but she figured she had other things to worry about.

"What about you, Jaune?" Ruby asked, after being quiet for a while. "How did it go for you?"

"Wha-? Uh, it went great. Perfect even. I think that I've impressed Tatsuki with my skills," Jaune bragged, eyeing at Weiss. She rolled her eyes as Ruby snickered. She stopped when Weiss glared at her.

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"Yeah, Jaune faked his way in," Tatsuki stated. She, her team, and IURR are in one of Beacon's pavilions for lunch.

"What? What makes you say that?" Rukia asked.

"Come on, Rukia," Ichigo said. "It should've been obvious to you."

"He tripped and fumbled with his weapon, his attacking attempts are laughable, and he stumbles back with the slightest strikes. Hell, he hadn't even got his Aura unlocked up until the initiation," Tatsuki said.

"Really? Then, why the hell is he here?" Renji questioned. "I mean, if an academy student was able to see through, then the teachers would probably know too. Hell, even the headmaster!"

"Perhaps Prof. Ozpin sees potential in Mr. Arc, like with Ms. Rose," Uryuu surmised.

"You might be right. He has amazing leadership skills, that I can admit, but he lacks the fighting skills to back it up," Tatsuki said. "For now, let's just go a long with it."

Ichigo sighed. It was almost a reverse of Ruby's problem. "We've got our work cut out from us."

"What about you guys?" Mizuiro asks.

"We've started off with Yang and Blake first. Just to see what we can expect."

"What about the other fight?"

"What are you talking about? What other fi-? Oh," Ichigo gives an exasperated sigh. "Yeah. Yeah, I know."

"What was all that about anyways?" Renji asked.

"The heiress was basically interrogating Ruby about how she knows 'Angelface' here," Ichigo explained, thumbing at Uryuu.

"Don't call me that."

"Interrogating? Seriously, dude. What the hell? Aren't you gonna tell us how you know the white chick?" Keigo asked as the Quincy.

"That depends. You want to get shot?" Uryuu strikes back, glaring dangerously.

"Shutting up," Keigo said, zipping his lips.

"Smart boy," Uryuu said. He sighed a little. "Look, I just...don't want to talk about it. It was involved in a...seven-year issue." An issue everyone sitting at their table is acquainted with.

"If Ishida-kun doesn't want to talk about Schnee-san, then don't force him to," Orihime advised like a mother scolding her children. Uryuu smiles in gratitude.

"She's right," Ichigo said. He places a hand on his partner's shoulder. "And besides, it's best to focus on the matter at hand."

"Yeah. Sorry man for pressuring you like that," Keigo apologized.

"It's fine," Uryuu says. "Just think carefully next time. You know the old saying: curiosity killed the cat."

"Then I must be one lucky son of a bitch, aren't I?" Keigo said. Uryuu actually snorted at that, trying to conceal a laugh. Everyone else started to laugh as the bell rang and they venture off to their next class. As they leave, Ichigo took special notice a pair of flowers in a pot full of multi-colored plants. The pair that caught his eye are red and white in color.

O'Hare is OCs of mine. Her inspiration is a combination of Sailor Moon and Queen Serenity.

I had the artwork of Miwa Shirow in mind while typing the fight scene.

Next Chapter: Tensions Rising