[X] As she passed an electronics store, she noticed a woman wearing green watching a news report on the White Fang.
"-the first time in several months, a sighting of a White Fang member has been confirmed, attacking a Dust shop while wearing the known mask of the terrorist organisation."
Yang turned to the window in the store as the news report continued. Another person, a woman in green with brown hair, was also watching intently.
"The criminal, currently believed to be a Cat Faunus of some description, was seen briefly for a moment by a few different witnesses, before they were knocked out. The culprit wore a mask to disguise their appearance, and escaped without being identified. Several crates of Ice and Water Dust were stolen, as well as a large collection of fire and heat resistant materials."
"Curious..." The woman in green muttered to herself. "The materials in particular are rather specific, so the White Fang want them in particular. And Ice Dust is hardly the rarest, so it can't just be them trying to make a profit on the black market. There's not enough of a demand..."
Yang turned to the woman who was talking to herself. Her hand was on her chin in contemplation, long nails tapping at her cheek as she thought. She seemed to notice someone looking at her out of the corner of her eye, because after a moment, she turned towards Yang, looking at her with green eyes.
Yang's own eyes looked upwards, seeing the roman numerals on the woman's forehead.
"You're Two's sister?" Yang asked.
The girl in green blinked, and smiled. "You know Two? You must be Yang, I guess?"
"And I'm going to go out on a limb here..." Yang said, looking at the numerals on the other woman's head. "But I'm going to guess that you're Four."
"Well, obviously." The woman in green smiled. "A pleasure to meet you. Two's had a lot of praise about you."
"Well, clearly." Yang smiled, flipping her shortened hair back. "She talked a bit about you too. Not as much, but she had a lot of praise for you."
Four smiled.
"She said you might be coming over eventually." Yang continued. "Looking for the White Fang. And, uh, well..."
Yang looked back towards the televisions displayed in the window, which were now talking about how the White Fang hadn't made an appearance in months and speculating as to what they could be planning, disappearing from the public view for so long before re-appearing.
"She mentioned she had talked to you about me." Four mused. "I came over not long ago. Managed to find someone with connections and interrogated them. I have some leads, but I'll want to confirm them."
Yang paused for a moment.
Two had said something about how people should help people more, had told Four a bit about her, and Four was going off to fight the White Fang at some point. That might make a good point for Yang to get into a fight and test her abilities.
"Will you need a hand with that?" Yang asked. "The White Fang, I mean? I'm pretty sure an Intoner like you would be stronger then me, but if I could be any help, I don't mind punching a few people."
Four seemed to consider it for a moment.
"Well, there is only one of me." She mused. "And I don't know how big the White Fang base could be. Might be an idea to have someone there to make sure nobody escapes..."
Four shrugged. "Well, Two said a lot about you, so I suppose its an idea."
"Cool." Yang replied. "Uh, well, I'm not going to be able to really do anything today. Sister's birthday. But if you need me for anything, I'll see what I can do. Dad might not be too fond of the idea, though..."
Four shrugged. "If you want to help, you could just not tell him. If we have to leave the Kingdoms to find the White Fang that might be a problem, but I have ways to get around without anyone noticing if need be."
Yang continued to consider it for a moment. On one hand, she didn't want to disappoint her dad or Ruby, and running off to get in a fight with legitimate terrorists would be the sort of thing they would be upset at her for if they found out.
On the other hand...
...She wanted to fight. Needed it. She wanted to get the experience, see how much she had grown since the last time she'd been in a real fight. She was going to be a Huntress, she shouldn't just shy away from an actually serious fight, she was going to get into a lot once she graduated and started actually hunting.
"Alright." Yang replied. "Hey, do you have your scroll? I'll pass you my number and we can get in touch when you've found the place."
Four reached into a pocket in her cloak, and pulled out a small mechanical device. Yang followed suit, and noted a difference between Scrolls.
"Is that a newer model?" Yang asked. "It's slimmer than mine, and mine's hardly old."
"The perks of knowing the right people in Atlas." Four gave a little sing song while tapping the scrolls together. Numbers exchanged, and Four put hers away. "Oh, speaking of which..."
She pulled out something in a different pocket, a small package wrapped in paper. "Present from Two. She wanted you to pass something on to your sister."
Yang blinked. "She knew it was Ruby's birthday?"
"Right people." Four shrugged. "I was going to look for you later if I needed to, but since you're here, take this."
Four gave the small present to Yang, then rolled her shoulders. "Well, I won't distract you from your sisters birthday. Enjoy it with her. I'll talk to you later?"
"Sure." Yang replied. "What are you doing now, though?"
"The prisoner I interrogated named a few names." Four said. "I'm going to find these suspects and interrogate them, and bring any guilty party to justice."
Four gave a small pose at the word 'Justice,' and Yang had the nagging suspicion that Four was mentally capitalising the word when she spoke.
"Well, have fun with that." Yang waved. "I'll see you tomorrow?"
Four nodded, then took a moment to notice that the news had gone to an ad break, advertising Schnee brand cutlery.
...Man, what didn't the Schnee sell these days?
"I'll be in touch." Four decided, before pausing. "Oh, and last thing. What are your opinions as Faunus as a whole? Outside the White Fang, I mean."
The question was blunt enough to give Yang pause. Outright asking what someone thought about Faunus? That was a question that's probably never been honestly answered ever. People with a negative view on them would lie to not be judged about it, after all.
Well, maybe some people would be honest, but only if they didn't care.
In this context, though? Asking after Four had invited Yang to fight the White Fang later? It was fairly obvious, what the intent was. She wanted to make sure she wasn't dragging a bigot with her into a fight against Faunus, presumably. Making sure that Yang wouldn't go too far intentionally or something. Nobody wanted to find out that they were encouraging behaviour like that, after all.
Yang shrugged. "Don't really think about it. They're just people with extras, really. Maybe I should care a bit more, but I'm hardly going to be having more fun than usual hitting things because its a Faunus, if that's what you're worried about."
Four turned away and looked into the distance in contemplation.
"...Hm." She mused. "I see. I'll see you later, Yang."
"Later, Four." Yang waved.
She seemed nice. Kinda distant, but barely knew her so that was to be expected.
Yang made sure her scroll and the present from Two were in her pocket, then wandered off to find the cake shop.
"I'm home!" Yang called, as she walked. There was a brief scuffle, and Ruby's new dog ran at the front door, Ruby a moment behind her.
The dog stopped and sat while it looked up at Yang, tongue hanging out as it panted, and Ruby nearly tripped over it before she stopped.
"Yang!" Ruby declared. "What kind of cake did you get?"
"That's a secret." Yang smiled. "No cake until after noon, remember?"
Ruby gave her a sad look. "But Yang..."
"Dad made the rules clear." Yang replied. "Cake is like a present, if you know the details its ruined."
Ruby gaze a disappointed sigh. "That worked last year..."
"Oh, and hey." Yang said, reaching into her pocket. "Ran into someone who had a message from Two. Happy birthday."
Yang threw the package at Ruby, who caught it and blinked.
"From Two?" She asked. "I barely even talked to her, though..."
"It's Two." Yang shrugged. "Do you really think she'd not send presents to people she's talked to before?"
"I suppose..." Ruby noted, as she opened it.
Inside the package was a letter and a smaller box, filled with some sort of red metal.
"What is it?" Yang asked.
Ruby looked into the card, catch a note of money of some sort as it fell, and read the letter.
"Hello..." Ruby muttered under her breath, reading the note. "Thought I'd send you something nice for your birthday. One knows some people, and while I didn't know enough about you to guess what you might like, so I just asked One to get something that might be useful. Hope you enjoy this batch of treated metal. They haven't worked out how to mass produce it yet, but you can bend it around some metal then treat it with some Dust, the metal will take that property. One used a lot of big words, but you can..."
Ruby trailed off. "Ow wow, that's really cool."
"What is it?" Yang asked, looking over her shoulder.
"Apparently, I just need to follow some instructions to change how the metal works. I can set it on fire with fire dust, make it energy with energy dust, or make it lighter but hit harder with gravity dust. That's pretty cool."
Yang blinked. "That's... That is pretty cool. I remember dad saying once that mum used to carry around like fifty sword blades in her holster so she could switch to whatever was the most useful, and you just need some dust with this?"
"Looks like." Ruby said, before musing. "...Actually, there's a bit there. Maybe I could put put some at the centre of mass and treat it with gravity or air Dust to make it lighter and be able to hit faster..."
Yang nodded, as Ruby trailed off, thinking about the possibilities.
"How much did this cost?" Ruby eventually asked. "Like, it's apparently hard to mass produce right now? How did Two get it from her sister? Is she secretly super rich?"
"I do hear they have a lot of money." Yang nodded. "Which is, like super unfair. Not only are they really strong, but they're also loaded and have friends in high places. Intoners get all the luck."
Ruby looked up at Yang suspiciously, but after determining that there was no pun anywhere in her words, looked down at the dog, who barked.
"Hey, Zwei." Ruby said, leaning down to pet the doggie. "Who's a cute little dog? Eh? You are! Yes you are!"
Yang reached into her pocket to start filming, and Ruby immediately straightened her back.
"I mean." Ruby said, looking fearfully at Yang's pocket. "I, uh, I'm going to go put this and the card up in my room with the rest of the stuff. Why don't you sit down here with Zwei, and then we can go play with a ball out the back?"
Yang nodded. "Yeah, sure."
Ruby nodded, and ran up towards her room. Looking around to confirm the room was empty, Yang put the covered cake on a bench and leaned down.
"You really are a cute little doggie." Yang said. "Hey, you're gonna look after Ruby, right? You'll make her smile, but you'll keep her safe too, right?"
The dog licked Yang's face when she leaned in too close.
"I'll take that as a yes, then?" Yang asked, rubbing behind Zwei's ears. "You really are a cute little puppy. Such a good boy, too. And an adorab-"
There was the flash of a camera, and Yang looked up to see Ruby standing over her, her scroll in hand.
"...It's an ice cream cake, cookies and cream." Yang quickly answered. Ruby nodded, and turned around so Yang could see her delete the picture she had taken.
"I'm glad we could come to an agreement." Ruby smiled.
With the terrible threat of Ruby having a sorta-embarrassing photo dealt with, the day passes and goes. Time passes once more, and Yang finds herself doing a few things. By the end of the month, when Yang finally gets to meet up with her uncle Qrow, she had managed to...
[X] Help Four out with her crusade against the White Fang, to significant success.
[X] Meet up with Ren and Nora at a fast food restaurant, in a small shopping district.
[X] Do well on her school assignment, and do a favour for a classmate while she was at it.