AN: Sorry this chapter is coming out so late, I ended up getting really busy due to graduation and some family stuff. Hopefully I can get back on the regular schedule either this week or next.
Once the three girls had managed to maneuver Sun up the cliff, they left the task of getting Sun into the car up to Yang and Neptune. Weiss had thoughtfully called for an SUV with limo-style seating so that Sun could be laid down and everyone else was able to sit comfortably, albeit awkwardly for the ride to the infirmary.
The entire ride was occupied by an unusual silence as neither of the two sisters would make eye contact with each other, let alone have a conversation. The situation wasn't helped by the fact that Neptune kept attempting to silently flirt with both Blake and Weiss by trying to show-off his best faces. When the group of students finally reached the infirmary there was almost an audible sigh of relief from the girls.
Once again Ruby left the task of carrying Sun to the waiting room to Yang and Neptune, much to their displeasure. Though they were much more displeased when she told them that they couldn't stay.
"What! Why not?" Yang questioned angrily.
"Because I think you've done enough damage for tonight," Ruby responded with just as much fire in her voice.
"She's right you know, Sun is in the infirmary because of you," Blake added in.
"Blake you're suppose to be on my side," Yang said.
"Yang I'm not trying to take sides," Blake said, "I'm just saying maybe you should wait in the room where you and Ruby can discuss this properly."
"Fine," Yang grumbled as she walked out of the infirmary.
"Alright then, why do I have to go?" Neptune asked.
"Because someone should probably tell the rest of your team what happened to their leader," Weiss said.
"But couldn't I just…"
"No," Weiss said
"How about I…"
"No," Blake said
"Maybe I could just…"
"NO," Weiss and Blake said together
"Neptune, could you please just go," Ruby asked
"Fine," Neptune said as he also grumbled off.
Shortly afterwards a couple of nurses came up and took Sun off to an examination room, leaving Ruby, Weiss, and Blake in the waiting room.
"So...Ruby has Yang always be so protective?" Blake asked.
"Possessive is more like it," Weiss added in.
"Weiss," Blake said sharply
"What? It's not like I'm wrong."
"But that doesn't mean you should say it!"
"No, Blake she is right," Ruby finally said "Yang has always been fairly… She means wells," She sighed. "Ever since an incident at Signal Academy she has always been very protective of me, especially when it comes to boys." Ruby let out a sigh. "It started back at Signal Academy on my first day there. I was still very young and I was expecting everyone there to be super nice and everything, and a lot of them were, at least at first."
Signal Academy years ago
A young Ruby was walking down the halls towards her father's class when she felt a presence behind her. She turned around and saw three older boys behind her. They were all laughing and looking like they were having a good time, and so the young Ruby thought that she should go over to them and see what was making them so happy. The young Ruby skipped over to the group "Hey guys what are you guys laughing at?" She asked
The group of guys shared a quick glance and a smirk between them before the leader of the group spoke. "Oh you know just some plans we have set for after school."
"Cool, what kind of plans?"
"Nothing special. Why do you care anyways?"
"Cause I wanna make some friends while I'm here." The young Ruby said excitedly
"Alright then. You know what sure why don't you join us and we can all be friends," The leader said with a smirk.
"Really?! Awesome! I can't wait!" Ruby said barely containing herself.
"Neither can we. But make sure not to tell anyone."
"Oh, Why?"
"Cause if too many people know about this then they might try and come with us and ruin the fun."
"OK I get it. It's a secret." and then Ruby ran off to class.
Ruby spent the rest of the day practically bouncing in her seat. Not only was it her first day at school and she had already made friends, but the were from an older class meaning that had to be cooler than the people in her class.
When the final bell had rung Ruby practically run out of class so she could meet up with her new friends. After searching for a bit she found them where she had met them that morning. "Hey guys, so when are we going to go do the thing?" She asked.
"Right now, in fact we were waiting for you friend," The leader said getting up "Come on guys let's go show our new friend the thing." The leader started walking down the hall and his group and Ruby followed him. After walking a bit the leader had lead everyone outside near the back of the school that faced the woods.
"What are we doing back here?" Ruby asked.
"Well we are going into the woods obviously,"
"What? But isn't that dangerous? What if we get lost?"
"Don't worry about that, the teachers patrol this part of the forest all the time. We actually come out here a lot," He said confidently. "Just trust us, you'll be fine,"
"I don't know it doesn't seem like a good idea,"
"Come on if you wanna be our friend then you have to do this,"
"Really?"
"Yes, but hey we'll even let you lead us since you are new,"
"You will?"
"Yeah, it's a special privilege we save for new friends, so go on, lead the way,"
"Well, alright then I guess i can do it," Ruby said still a bit unsure.
"You'll do fine, just walk into the woods and we'll be right behind," The leader said and he gave Ruby a little push on the back.
"Ok I will," Ruby took a few steps towards into woods and looked behind and saw that the guys were still there. So she took a few more steps and then a few more. Soon she was walking confidently through the woods talking about anything in particular.
She had become so interested with her walk through the forest that she had stopped looking behind her to see if her friends were still behind her. When she did finally look behind her she saw that her friends were no longer behind. The young Ruby took a moment and just stared at the spot where she thought before tears started to well up in her eyes and she sat down and cried.
Back at the school the group of guys were all laughing very hard. "That was too easy," The leader said between breaths
"I can't believe she didn't notice us leave," one kid said
"Yeah I could've sworn you were going to give us away with all your laughter," Another said punching his friend in the arm.
"What are you guys laughing about?" A voice from behind the group asked
Without turning around the leader said, "We just played the best prank on some new kid with a red cloak."
"A red cloak, huh?" The voice said with a note of anger
"Oh yeah it was the be-" Before the leader could finish speaking he was tackled by a mess of yellow hair.
The young Yang started to punch the other student repeatedly while his friends failed to pull her off him. After a few minutes of this an angrier Taiyang came out of the school and picked up the two students by the collars of their shirts. "What is going on here!" He shouted
"This crazy girl attacked me out of nowhere," the group's leader said.
"Yang we've talked about this, you can't start random fights with random kids," Taiyang said sternly
"But dad these kids ditched Ruby in the woods," Yang replied
"YOU DID WHAT!" Taiyang shouted turning towards the young kid in his other hand.
"Well, I mean , yeah kinda," The kid was having a tough time forming sentences as Taiyang was slowly rising him into the air.
"Yo Tai! Put the poor kid down. It was just a prank" Taiyang turned and saw Qrow walking out of the woods carrying a still teary eyed Ruby who was eating a cookie "A bad prank, but just a prank."
Taiyang dropped the young boy and he and Yang ran over to Qrow taking Ruby from his hands and held her in a tight hug.
"Oh my gosh Ruby are you alright?"
"Are you hurt?"
"Did you touch anything out there?"
"We need to get you home right now,"
"Will you two stop babying her. It was just a stupid prank," said an irritated Qrow.
"How can you say that Qrow?" Taiyang asked once again angry "Ruby could've-"
"Taiyang you know just as well as I do that these woods are perfectly safe, we have kids camping out there all the time, I was out there with a class when we found her," Qrow turned and walked over to the group of kids "Now for you kids, you all get a week of detention, I want to see all of you after school starting tomorrow, the same goes for you Yang," Qrow said turning back to the young girl.
"Qrow that's unfair! She was only trying to protect Ruby!"
"No she wasn't. She got mad and started a fight with another kid. Come on Tai you can't be playing favorites, you know the school's policy on fighting,"
"Huuh, sorry Yang he's right," Taiyang said looking down at his daughter.
"It's alright dad I knew what I was doing,"
Present Day Beacon
"Well it definitely sounds like your family had a good reason to worry over you," Weiss said when Ruby finished her story.
"Yeah, maybe, when I was ten but they have barely let up since then," Ruby sighed "Whenever I asked Qrow about it he just said that neither of them could stand to lose another family member,"
"Well at least their heart is in the right place," Blake said giving Ruby a comforting pat on the knee.
"I know but still it is pretty annoying having them always hovering over my shoulder. I'm afraid that if me and Sun keep talking like this Yang is going to do something stupid again,"
"Don't worry if Yang tries anything else me and Weiss will stop her, Won't we Weiss?"
"Do I really have to get involved?" The heiress asked.
"Yes you do,"
"Fine, I'll help too. But I won't like it,"
"Thanks guys you're the best," Ruby said hugging her teammates.
At that moment the nurse walked back into the room, "Alright girls your friend should be fine, but we are going to go ahead and keep him overnight. Why don't you all go ahead and go back to your dorm,"
Team RWB left and went back to their dorm. When they got there Yang was already asleep. Thankful that she could put off what felt like and inevitable fight Ruby changed into her pajamas and bid Weiss and Blake goodnight.