"Come on, come out now will you…"

Weiss try to get Ruby out by pulling her cape, but it didn't seem to work too well. "Urgh! Yang! Help me please!"

"You know Weiss…" Yang looks at her scroll, not paying attention. "I have seen this before."

(Bite)

"Yikes! Let go you creature!" Weiss's hand trapped under Ruby's sharp teeth, surprisingly Ruby's biting softly and quickly let her hand out, and Weiss quickly noticed this would be an act of warning.

"Grrrr…"

"Weiss, you know that Ruby is not going to listen until you offer her some stuff." Yang just remembers she forgot to tell Weiss about that.

"...so why don't you tell me this before?"

"Hmm, how can I say this." Yang gives Weiss a jar of cookies. "I uhm… still learning how to tame her from time to time."

Taking a deep breath, Weiss is clearly not happy.

"Jeez Yang! Are you going to let this incompetent, underage, wild-like child to become our leader? Do you really want others to be like, hey look those are the girls that are being controlled by a silly monKEY! You don't want it to happen, I dare you!"

"Hey." Ruby peaks out but quickly sneaks back in. "That's rude."

"Calm down Weiss, she is not going to change if you are still acting aggressively, Ruby is very scared of people don't you know." Yang tries to convince by bringing out a cookie to lure Ruby out of her corner. "Come kitty kitty."

"Why would she come out now!" Weiss clearly not having faith in Yang.

"Well you just have to treat her as some sort of animal then you will be fine." Yang gets bitten as well and Ruby is back to where she is again. "Why Ruby."

"You girls are so mean."

"Sorry Ruby! I don't mean it that way." Yang realizes her cookie is gone. "Ruby!"

"Ok fine!" Weiss pulls out her rapier, as she is running out of patients. "I will fight you here and now!"

"Why! .!"

Casting ice magic that freezes both Ruby's feet, and more onto her hands and head, but Weiss quickly realizes something wrong. "Where's Ruby!"

"Brph." Ruby climbs over the ceiling as she shows Weiss her naughty face, and soon jumps out of the window but caught by Yang instead. "AHHH!"

"Ruby please, we just need you to act this one out then it's going to be fine."

"Act?" Ruby's learning new words every day, she isn't so sure about this one. "How about no."

"Please Ruby, you're just going to pretend you are getting beaten up by Weiss so she can be the leader or whatever," Yang explains, trying to convince while noticing Weiss's hopeful expression. "Ruby?"

"Nah! Not gonna happen."

"COme BAck!"

Weiss and Yang watch as Ruby jumps away towards the forest, and Weiss doesn't look too happy. "Can't believe you just let her go!"

"Come on Weiss, we can't just spend all day catching Ruby…" Yang already gave up a long time ago.

Blake watches as Ruby jumps over the wall and soon follows from her hiding spot, she has been spying on the three girls for quite a while now, Blake eager to learn more about this Ruby, without anyone else around, she knows Ruby is not only fast but also skilled huntress, but Blake does want to know if Ruby has any secrets as she wonders if Ruby is really the way she is.

"Damn she's fast." Blake's catching up through the trees and bushes, yet Ruby seems to be flashing as she jumps between land and tree, Blake notices Ruby is not accelerating or slowing down when Ruby is moving on different plains, which is hard to believe when Blake saw Ruby can maintain her speed well enough with agility.

Despite knowing Ruby may or may not notice her already, Blake, however, tries to remain quiet as she learned her mistakes last time, now should be completely hidden away her breathe and sound, and lastly presence, she is now as good as gone she hopes.

"Hmm?" Ruby stops all the sudden, she begins to sniff around.

"!" Blake stops too but is too scared to move an inch.

[Did she know I'm here?]

"Hmm…" Ruby walks past Blake in a sudden, with Blake could feel her heart beating faster for a moment, she can't even feel Ruby's presence, the young huntress is on a whole new level, Ruby's action is clearly guided purely by raw instinct, she is near but not aware of Blake, Blake could only hope that she can win in this game of stealth, as it's her expertise and only weapon against Ruby.

"Is that cat here?" Ruby's eyes swipe across bushes and the trees she could find, Blake keeps tracking her eyes level and eventually hides on Ruby's blind spot, which Blake quickly realizes was a mistake, Ruby's grins become more and more malicious, even though she's not looking, Blake almost feel like Ruby could sense her.

"..." Blake could feel her animal instinct yelling out to run, the young huntress cut down trees with her scythe, and when Blake would decide to admit defeat, she found out Ruby is holding a cat.

"Meaow~"

"Ahh… So cute~" Ruby rubs her face onto it, but it seems wounded and Ruby quickly gets her patch up. "There you go, I wonder why she was lost here."

Blake could feel her tension get released faster than her breath, but soon Ruby is already looking directly at her within three steps radius, the game of stealth is over.

"Hi... Ruby."

"Blake? What are you doing here?" Ruby seems to be a little surprised but she quickly figures out Blake is following her all this time. "If you want me to mess around with that leader thingy, I'm not going to."

"Oh nevermind that, I don't really mind." Blake takes out her knife and begins to sharpen her blade. "Sometimes I don't feel anyone could even harm you."

"It's hard to say, but Yang actually won me once, haha." Ruby's answer left Blake wordless.

"Yang, beat a monster like you?"

"Why all of you girls are so mean! I'm just a normal girl! You know?" Ruby jumps up and down, Blake clearly not buying it.

"Honestly, you are nothing like a normal girl."

"Ehhhh!?" Ruby's innocent reply gave Blake doubts, is she just playing dumb or she's really easy to think through? "But oh well, I guess I did live inside the forest for a long time."

Trying to test if the water's shallow or deep, Blake feels like she needs to know more about Ruby's other side, she knows and judges people, Blake can't trust people, she just doesn't do that.

"You're strong Ruby, any chance you want to work under me?"

"Hmm why?"

"Well you know, for some offer I could invite you to my place at Mistral." Blake trying to make it sinful. "...like you can kill grimm if you want to."

"Hmm…" For the first time, Blake notices Ruby is actually thinking hard. "Mistral… hmm, you know Blake, I can smell blood too."

"I know, we're both killers."

Ruby takes a step closer with her Crescent points at Blake, her eyes are calm, expressions quickly become cold. "I don't kill people."

"Whatever you say, I don't plan to take you down with my path." Blake points Ruby back with her blade, she can't let Ruby know her true intention, she has to act it out. "What's your answer Ruby?"

"I say no."

Blake stares at Ruby for a while before getting her blade out while using her shadows trick. "It's a weakness."

A sudden cut coming from behind as Blake appears with her katana just around her shoulder, Ruby looks surprised but didn't react at first, her scythe quickly gets around with a shot fired, Blake didn't expect Ruby would fire rounds at this close range and now Ruby's scythe is crushing on her katana.

"No, it's not." Ruby move her scythe with her gun loaded.

"Alright, I give up." Blake throws away her katana with her hands raised. "You won it seems."

"You know I'm not that stupid." Ruby lowers her scythe. "You try to change me, I don't like it."

"Who knows? It's hard to change people like you, I can sense you are alone for most of the time." Blake notices Ruby has a habit of talking to Crescent as if it's alive.

"Who says I'm alone?" Ruby grins, Blake notices Ruby isn't taking the bait at all. "I can recruit you instead, and we are going to kill a whole lot more grimm together!"

"...so you are not going down with the leader title huh," Blake took back her weapon on the ground. "...let's say Miss princess Weiss is not going to appreciate your decision."

"Hehe, well I say Weiss is a fun person to play with, I like her."

"Well I'm sorry if I'm boring for you." Blake's ribbons on her head moved a little.

"Oh don't be shy Blake…" Ruby's hand on her shoulder as she tries to jump onto her. "You try to mess with my response! Bad cat!"

"Jeez! Don't you dare tell anyone." Blake tried to get Ruby out of her ears but she was one step too late.

"Look Blake, I only know little about faunus, but I like them too with their animal-like smell." Ruby's voice turns cold, Blake realizes she might have just found what she's looking for.

"Don't you dare tell me I'm animals." Blake makes cute sounds as Ruby plays with her ears. "...stop please."

"It's a weakness, hehe."

"Oh stop it Ruby! I'm going to be so mad at you!" Blake blinks while cutting Ruby from the top as with her blades ready. "You shouldn't make me angry!"

"Too slow hehe." Ruby didn't even bother to react, her scythe is too fast for Blake to see through, a sudden wind, her blades are being pushed aside and miss Ruby completely within an inch.

"What the." Now with Blake realizing her attacks are not going to hit at all, Ruby just laughs at her from the top with her scythe cutting easily cutting everything into half, it's a monster she's facing, there's no escape for Blake, she wants to know if Ruby has other intentions, it seems and feels straightforward so far, but also with a twist of turns.

[There must be something she hides from everyone else.]

Ruby is still young but she can fight very well, Blake knows this as she wants to make good use of it, if fighting is part of her normal life, it's easier to get more information out of Ruby without her even realizing.

"Hmm, do you not want to make another move against me?" Ruby says as she still awaits Blake to make her next move, Ruby notices Blake doesn't seem to give up anytime soon, but out of her surprise, Blake decides to just leave. "Hey, where're you going?"

"Back to Beacon."

"Hey wait for me!" Ruby follows Blake back as she tries to ask Blake more questions, but for the cat assassin, she's making sure she is doing everything she can to grab Ruby's attention as well as Ruby's off attention on her, it's a two way game that both Blake and Ruby knows the basic rules, it didn't take long before Blake and Ruby realize both of them are up to something else.

"You see Ruby, if you come work with me, I can let you meet with many other faunas."

"That sounds wonderful~ It would be fun for sure." Ruby's shadowy grin hinting the opposite. "You can't just use me Blake, you can keep trying."

"I am."

Not expecting Ruby can also get frustrated and also sarcasm with words, Blake notices she and Ruby had some similarity since they both learn how to kill in early ages, it's the guilt of killing that hides deep inside the consciousness that shape the way of thinking, sharp, cold and manipulative, for them death and alive is something that matters in the end.

"It's always nice to see people starting to know me." Ruby with her calm voice. "Even though they don't really like the real me."

"Seriously you're giving me creep, but I'm not any better." Blake pokes Ruby's forehead. "I. knew. it."

"Knowing your prey is a must…" Ruby annoyed slightly. "And you seem to fit half of the criteria~"

"Not sure how I feel about this, Ruby…" Blake decides her last attempt. "Who are you?"

"..."