*Author's Note**Hey guys, I hope you all enjoyed chapter 14. For this chapter, I saw a suggestion and I loved it. Anyways, you probably saw the idea, but let me say this chapter is going to be about Ruby and Jaune's first date. This is going to be so much fun.*
It was Tuesday. The day before, the students had been informed by Professor Goodwitch that class would be canceled and that they would have the day off, due to most of the Professors catching a nasty virus that was going around. So to protect the students from their own teachers, class was suspended, and everyone got the day to do what they wanted.
In the co-ed dorm of Team RAYR, the students were peacefully sleeping. Except one. The leader, Ruby. She always had this thing about waking up early and getting some training in before the combat grounds got too crowded. But after the event with Pyrrha over the previous weekend, the combat grounds were closed to students until further notice. So, without much else to actually do, Ruby was drawing. She was just sketching some of the things in her life. Her sister, her team, the school, thee Grim, and her boyfriend.
Over the weekend, Jaune had finally worked up the courage to confess to Ruby, and now they were officially going out. But between the two, neither had a single minute's worth of experience with this type of relationship. So for the moment, Ruby and Jaune were mostly just keeping it between them for now, not sure how the others would react.
Well, being stuck in a room was not fun for Ruby. Despite it still being a bit dark out, as the sun was just rising, she decided to head into Forever Fall and do some hunting. If she didn't get some practice with her "sweetheart" in, she would go stir crazy. Said "sweetheart" being the bastardization of a scythe and a high-impact sniper rifle. A weapon so terrifying that even most Grim instinctively back away from it.
Getting herself dressed in her usual attire of a black with red-trim combat dress, black boots, and red flowing cape, she quietly crept out of the room and to her locker. Grabbing out Crescent Rose, Ruby put her in the special holster she had made for it across her back and left out for the forest.
Walking through Forever Fall, searching high and low for something to fight, Ruby was starting to get bored. There was nothing here! No Beowolves. No Boarbatusks. Not even one of the Ursa Major that nearly killed Cardin! After searching arund for the better part of two or so hours, Ruby had only managed to find a small group of Boarbatusks and a King Taijitu. The Boarbatusks were no problem at all, and the King Taijitu was easy once she separated the white half from the black half. Well, this was a waste of time. I would have gotten more training in just cutting down trees.
Deciding that she'd had enough, Ruby decided to head back and grab breakfast with the rest of the gang. Team NNWB would be joining them today, as they usually had. Getting back to the room, Ruby found nobody but Jaune was around. Well, she could hear Yang in the shower, trying to sing. Keyword: Trying. Ruby had to constantly remind Yang that her singing voice was terrible. She'd suggested that Yang take up an instrument, like the Saxophone or something. That just led to a lot of PG-13 rated puns.
Anyhow, seeing Jaune was a nice way to start her day. Sitting on the couch, with his back to her, he hadn't yet noticed that she'd walked in. Deciding to take advantage of this, Ruy quietly slipped off her boots, and tiptoed behind him. Slipping up behind him, she quickly placed her hands over his eyes.
"Wha- what?!"
"Guess who?" Ruby giggled.
"Ruby?"
Pouting, Ruby turned steeped back and waited for Jaune to look at her. "You know, you could have guessed wrong once or twice, just to be a tease."
"Oh, uhm. I'm sorry."
"It's okay Jaune." Giving him one of her warmest smiles, Ruby simply went behind Jaun and hugged him. She liked hugging him. Unlike Yang who was always hotter than the sun in the middle of July and who loved to crush her to death, Jaune was warm and gentle. Just leaning on him from behind, Ruby held him in this hug for a while. Unfortunately, she had not noticed the bathroom door opening.
"Uhh... what is going on here? Do you two want some space...?" Ruby froze. She turned around and saw the bathroom door wide open, steam pouring out, and Yang standing in the door way. She had been trying to avoid doing this stuff around Yang. Jumping away from Jaune, Ruby started looking around, unsure of what to do. "Relax Rubes. I already know you're dating Vomit Boy here."
Still a little embarrassed, Ruby dashed out of the room, leaving behind Jaune and Yang. Jaune was currently contemplating his chances of survival, should Yang try to kill him for getting to physical with her sister. He had his shield and sword under his bed, so if he could reach them, he'd be armed against her.
"Jaune, can I ask you something?" Yang questioned Jaune, carefully. She knew he was easy to scare.
Just as he was about to get to the part in his plan where he was deciding on whether or not to just block until Yang got tired or run away, Jaune snapped out of it. "Y-yeah?"
"Have you been on an actual date with my sister yet?"
"No."
"Really?", Yang sighed. These two, I swear. "Listen here, I'm letting you date Ruby without any interference because I'm sure that you're no threat to her and likely wouldn't have the spine to do anything gutsy, no offense." Letting her know that he wasn't offended, Yang continued. "But I also want you to treat my baby sister right. She may only be my half-sibling, but she's still very precious to me. As such, I want you to take good care of her. So, ask her out on a date."
"Wait, what?" Jaune could not believe what he had just heard Yang suggest. This was the very same Yang who threatened to castrate him, kill him, maim him, and do several other very... graphic things to him if he did anything to hurt Ruby. And she was suggesting he take Ruby on a date?
Leaving those two beside, Ruby was starting back to the dorm after calming down when she ran into Nora. Ruby and Nora had gotten along quite well since their initial meeting. They both discovered they had quite a few things in common; an appreciation for fighting, good cuisine, and an insane love of sweets. Ruby and Nora were in the middle of talking about what would happen if either of them were ever diagnosed as being Diabetic when Yang and Jaune showed up.
"Hey guys, whatcha talking about?"
"Well, I was browsing on the internet when I ran across this adorable little comic thingy. I think they call it a 5-comma or something?" Nora had no clue what she was talking about.
"You mean a 4-koma?"
"Right, that's it Yang! Anyhow, there's this little artist who doodles all these little 4-komas under the pen name LunaFurryIsland. One of them had this girl who was devouring cookies and lolipops and sugary coffee like a monster for the first three pictures, and the last picture was of a doctor telling her she had type 2 Diabetes. So me and Ruby were discussing what we would do if we ever got it..." and she went on and on about raiding medical labs all over Vytal and some other crazy nonsense.
"Well... anyone else hungry? Let's head down to the cafeteria. I hear they're serving waffles today." Nodding in assent, the four students went to grab breakfast. Upon arriving, they found that the others were already sitting at the usual table, waiting for them. Grabbing their food, everyone gathered at the table, and began some small talk.
While nodding absent mindedly to whatever crazy dream Nora was spouting off about this time, Yang thought back to her talk with Jaune. She figured he didn't have the guts to ask Ruby on an actual date, so she would have to set everything in motion herself. Waiting for Nora to finish, and for the conversation to dwindle, Yang struck.
"So guys... did you know that ruby and Jaune are now dating?"
At this, everyone at the table became completely silent. Everyone had stopped eating, and just stared at the blonde, and then turned their attention to the now apple-red partners. With all eyes on her, Ruby felt an increasing need to get out of there. Leaving a couple of strawberry waffles still on her plate, Ruby got up and ran at full speed out of the cafeteria. Nobody even saw her leave. She was so fast that it had taken the rest of the group a few seconds to notice she had left. After a short silence, Nora spoke up.
"Oh my god, is this true? Aww, that is so cute! I was thinking you two would eventually get together. And I mean together together, because you were so just adorable around each other. But isn't Ruby young still? Ahh well, it's only two years. Besides, as long as true lo-" Thankfully, before anyone got a headache, Ren had clamped his hand over Nora's mouth.
"So, Jaune. Is that true?", he asked.
"...yeah."
All eyes at the table just stared at him. Some of them just curious. Nora was excited and Yang was grinning like a certain fat purple cat. And Pyrrha just looked downright hostile. Not that anybody noticed. With her plan working perfectly so far, Yang decided to jump into the next step immediately.
"So, we all have a free day, right?" They turned towards Yang. A few of them sharing some knowing glances, as though they knew her plan. "So Jaune. Since we all have a free day anyways, why don't you and Ruby go on a date?"
It was at this time that it could be said that no matter how much if a bit- rude person she was, one had to feel sorry for Weiss. Sitting across from Jaune, she got the full brunt of his spit take.
"Wait wait wait, I can't do something like that! I don't even know what I would do!"
Yang, Ren, Nora, and Blake exchanged a few quick glances between the four of them. If Jaune had a more acute sense of danger, he'd have had chills going up and down his spines. "Don't worry Jauney boy, we've got you covered," Yang said with a grin that would make the devil's own heart flutter. Oh crap. "Blakey, Nora. You two go get Ruby. Take her shopping for some nice clothes. Drag her with you if you have to. You know what to do." She turned to Weiss. "Schnee." Weiss was still drying her face off from the earlier spit take, but gave Yang her attention. "You know good, classy places to eat at, right?"
With a haughty "Hmmph, just who do you think I am?", Weiss answered Yang's question.
"Good. Can you pull some of your magic and find one that's nice, but not too overdone?"
"I'll see what I can do, but no more puns. Those are really juvenile and annoying."
"Awww, Weiss so serious?" Nobody laughed. Nobody chuckled. Nobody even cracked a smile (except Nora, who's face seemed to be a permanent smile). They simply looked at her with an 'Are you kidding me? Did you really just use that pun?' look.
"Anyways people, let's get to work! We gotta give these two kids a night they'll never forget!" Everyone basically nodded their assent, and got to work on their respective tasks. It was currently 11 in the morning. They had plenty of time to prepare a good date for the two.
While everyone was doing their thing, Pyrrha was simply looking at Yang with a look of well disguised hatred and fury. "You fiend!" she mumbled. In the midst of her silent fuming, Yang came over and dragged her along by the hand.
"Let's go Nikos, we're gonna get Jaune ready!" Pyrrha was almost loathe to do this, if it would make his date with Ruby a success. But the chance to maybe get to see Jaune in just his underwear was too appealing for her. "Come on Ren, you're helping out with this as well."
"Sure."
And with Yang at the helm, the six of them spent the next six hours prepping Ruby and Jaune for a date that one of them didn't even know about, and that the other was starting to get a little uneasy for.
On their end, Blake and Nora had taken Ruby to several stylish boutiques, going over different dresses with her, trying to find something that looked good on her. Blue, green, orange, yellow, purple. None of these colors seemed to work for her. But Blake and Nora didn't give up. After nearly a hundred rejects, they finally settled on a black spaghetti-strap dress with red frills. The two had to hold themselves back from wanting to jump her. Had her hair not been in it's usual wolfy mess, they might have serious tried crossing a line that Yang would have picked up and used to strangle them both. Feeling good on the choice of dress, the two took her around shopping for other accessories and such.
And back with Jaune, everything was hell. Or so it felt like to Jaune. For the past several hours, Yang had been grilling Jaune on how to hold a conversation with women, Ren had been teaching him proper mannerisms, and Pyrrha had been all but forcing him into different outfits. He felt that if karma ever decided to pay him back for all that she had done to him, she could start by working her magic on these guys.
So, after a long and excruciating day for Jaune, and an exhausting day for Ruby, the two teams decided to see how their work went. After finishing her hair, and putting a very light amount of make-up on her, Blake and Nor had deemed Ruby to be perfect. When she arrived where the others (sans Jaune) were waiting, there was an audible collective gasp. She was beautiful. The black and red dress complimented her hair so perfectly. And the silver rose hairclips they chose to tame her hair and the small silver bag they got her matched her eyes rather well to. Everyone present wanted nothing more than to glomp Ruby at the moment. The only thing holding them back was knowing that Yang would murder them all for even trying.
"Yang! Why am I all dressed up?" Saying nothing, Yang led Ruby to the hallway where Jaune was waiting. Opening the door, Jaune got a good look at Ruby, and his jaw nearly hit the floor. Stuttering like a fool for a few seconds, Jaune couldn't put together a coherent sentence. Yang smacked him lightly on the back, and led him off to the side for a quick chat.
"Listen here Jaune, you know what to do. We went over this a dozen times." Going over the details with Jaune one last time, while Ruby waited off to the side still wondering what the heck they were doing. Finishing up with Jaune, Yang brought him back over to Ruby. "You see Rubes, Jaune wanted to bring you out for a date today, but he wasn't too sure of what he should do. So he asked us for help." Ruby showed a look of understanding, as it dawned on her that all of their preparations for today had been for this date. "So, without further ado, go enjoy yourselves! And make sure to be home before 9. Any later, and I'll hunt you down and gut you like an Ursa, Jaune." Finishing her threat with a sweet smile, Yang saw the two off. Or so they thought.
Meanwhile, back in the room, everyone else was already preparing themselves. For what? Well, isn't it obvious? Yang, Ren, Pyrrha, Blake, Nora, and Weiss were going to spy on the date. They reasoned that they only wanted to make sure it went well. But we all know that's a load, right? After watching the two leave from the window, the six of them snuck out of the room, and into the night to "watch over" the two on their first date.
*Author's Note**Am I an asshole for turning this into a two-parter? Maybe. Doesn't matter. Anyhow, this is what I think the six of them readying Ruby and Jaune for a date would be like, to an extent. I hoe you all enjoyed this. The next chapter will go into detail about the date, switching between the happy couple, and the six stalkers. Think I should cause hell for six stalkers and make the date go smoothly? Or just mess around with both sides? Opinions welcome on that respect.*
*Oh, and a couple more things. I noticed that some Arkos fanboys keep telling me that I'm a blind Rose Arc fan for missing "proof". I argue that there's little evidence to either, contrary to the belief of you diehard 's. A good quote from someone at the RWBY wikia that I think would make my point. "The power of interpretation. A single event can have multiple meanings when viewed from different perspectives. There may only be one truth, but as per human nature, we always view things differently from each other." -Maki Kuronami. Basically, argue all you want, what you call proof is just your opinion. Now keep your biased opinions off of the comments, please.*
*And finally, shout out to LunarisFuryAileron and VnixxR of deviantArt. Their 4-komas made my day quite often, and partially inspired me to do this series. Anyhow, I'll see you next chapter.*