Weiss reached for her front door with her growing circle of friends, besides Jaune, gathered behind her. She stopped just before she turned the handle "we can't just go out with a girl that died on national television in our group. Someone is bound to notice."

"Allow me to demonstrate another one of my upgrades." Penny closed her eyes for a moment her red hair turned black and she removed the ribbon from her hair. "An important thing about disguises is to keep them simple."

Weiss blinked a few times before responding with "are you sure that's enough of a disguise?"

Penny shifted slightly. Her smile and overall posture became stiffer, and when she spoke her tone was more cold and condescending. "You would be surprised how much of a disguise a simple change of attitude is, idiot!"

Everyone took a step back from the robot. It was at this moment that Jaune decided to return from the washroom. He looked around briefly, "who's the new girl and what happened to Penny?"

"I told you!" Penny scoffed.

Weiss smiled. "That's Jaune, it proves nothing."

Ruby looked between the two of them "Weiss is happy and Penny is angry. Did I go to the reverse world or something... again?"

The other girls giggled at Ruby's comment. Weiss was about to say more but she was caught off by Nora "can we stop standing around here? I'm hungry!"

"You heard my girlfriend." Velvet chuckled as Weiss went through the door. The girls all started walking out in pairs.

In the back of group the boys were talking amongst themselves "does this feel awkward to you Ren?" The blond asked.

"Being surrounded by three different lesbian couples? No." The ninja said with a grin.

"Are you..." Jaune started to ask.

Ren cut him off "Relax Jaune, I'm not into you."

"Am I the only straight person I know?" Jaune shouted.

"Starting to look like it," Nora said with a laugh.

The group reached the sushi buffet and they saw somebody standing in front of the door looking quite upset.

"Whoever heard of a sushi restaurant that doesn't allow Faunus?" The girl screamed.

"Neon is that you?" Weiss worked toward recognizing the girl from the tournament.

The girl turned around and saw the group of nine lined up behind her. "Neyaa long time no Schnee."

"Yep it's been a while," Weiss muttered.

Blake spoke up "Sorry but did you say, no faunus allowed? That is pretty messed up."

Weiss's expression turned into a predatory sneer. "Well if Schnee money isn't good here they will not be in business long."
She turned around and her tail swished as she waited for people to realize who they were keeping out.

Neon looked down mesmerized by the tail swishing in front of her "The rumors are true? You really are one of us?"

"Yes, I am a Faunus," Weiss said happily.

"You probably had to tell the story again like a million times already." Neon said playfully.

"It sure feels like it, but I'm happy to say that it's thanks to Jaune that I have a tail again." Before the conversation could continue, a door started to creep open. A woman in her 30s with long dark hair quickly pulled down the "No Faunus allowed to sign."

"Thank you very much." Weiss gave a bow before looking around "a table for 9 will be alright correct?"

The woman nodded before stepping aside. Near the back of the group, Ruby turned to Penny and asked her "no ...um dietary restrictions we need to worry about?"

"No, it will be fine."She responded as they walked past Neon.

"Hey don't I know you?" Neon said pointing at Penny the couple tensed up for a moment. "I still owe you for that rice bowl back at Beacon.

"I think you got the wrong girl this is... Jenny." Ruby said

Penny snarked "Besides don't you want your money for the restaurant?"

"I have plenty of money it's no problem." Neon insisted and handed over what she thought she owed.

Weiss exclaimed, "Blake I think I have enough!"

Blake followed her partner up to the sushi buffet with the intention of helping her pick out the best types of sushi but apparently, the best consisted of the entire selection. Their plates were almost overflowing with different types of sushi. Tuna, shrimp, eel, crab, squid, and even some of the vegetarian rolls were crowding the poor little plates. Weiss's was struggling to hold it.

"It might even be enough for the whole team." She said as she tugged her date back. She started guiding Blake back to the others.

"Sorry, I guess I got carried away. And it's not like I'll get the chance to spoil you very often." Blake said with a sheepish grin.

"You're the Princess. You're the one who should be spoiled." She put her heavy plate down at the table and gave her a quick peck on the lips.

"Okay you win I'm a princess," Blake said with a smile.

Weiss sat down back at her seat she was a little uncomfortable for a moment "Still not used to this when I'm sitting down." She muttered before selecting her first piece of sushi. In a moment the tuna filled morsel slid down her throat she gave a satisfied moan she was practically purring as the sweet potato one joined it.

The selections everyone else made were pretty nondescript, except for Penny, who didn't have any dressings and had picked out the three most unpopular sushi they had.

The good times were interrupted by Weiss getting a call. Reluctantly she answered her scroll and was surprised to see Ironwood on the screen.

"Miss Schnee how are you doing?" The serious man asked.

Weiss responded, "I'm actually in the middle of lunch right now."

"Sorry. Hopefully it won't be long., Your sister wants to speak to you, and frankly, she's a little sensitive right now."

She blinked a few times before responding "What could possibly have my sister sensitive?"

"Maybe it's best to see for yourself," He said before the view shifted. On the screen was a pair of fuzzy rounded triangles sitting on top of white hair. It shifted a little more before showing Winter her body language suggested that she was expecting to get yelled at.

"Winter?" Weiss asked surprised "how did that happen?"

"Probably not too different from you and your tail only without consent." The older Schnee responded in a hushed tone. "these things are going to take a lot of getting used to. Everything is so loud now. I have four earplugs in and still everything's at least twice as loud before they were regrown."

"Could be worse, you could have been a deer or a rabbit," Yang said from the other side of the table.

"I don't even want to think of that," Winter whispered. "Little brother seems to be the odd one out. He's human, nobody can decide if that makes him the lucky one or the unlucky one."

Weiss had no idea how to respond eventually the best option she could think of was "I'm sorry, I never would've imagined this would be an outcome of reuniting with my true nature." She whispered.

Still whispering Winter answered, "I'm not mad at you, I just wish it was possible to ease me into this. Or if I ended up with claws that would work too."

"Winter you just tried to make a joke?" Weiss whispered.

"I've got to go now Weiss. My heads about to split open." Winter said and didn't wait for Weiss to respond before ending the call.

"That reminds me, we have to visit father soon," Weiss said as she put her scroll away.

Yang responded with sarcasm "What do you mean we?"

Ruby gave a sigh "We are her team."

"Sorry but you guys need to handle this on your own." Jaune said, "I know were like one big team now but."

"I understand Jaune." Weiss answered, "I'm not going to force you to go with us. Here, let me give you some spending money."

"Weiss that's…" Jaune started to say "Too generous."

"This is more than I and Nora had in our entire lives," Ren said.

"Combined," Nora added.