It's a date!

Yang's words ran through my head yet again as I prepared for the evening. My curiosity was piqued as to the 'thing' the teams were hosting, and I wasn't sure what to wear. Silly, right? After fretting for quite some time, I realised Yang was planning this event, and as such I should probably not be too attached to these clothes, and went with my usual get-up. A black, form fitting tee shirt went on, accompanied by slightly ripped jeans, and my hoodie completed the ensemble. I strapped my boots back on, collected some last minute things, stepped out of my room and made my way to the dorms.

Chaos reigned supreme in team RWBY's room as I made my way inside, increasing the body count of the room to nine. "Hey, hope I'm not late!" I called out to no-one in particular, observing the pandemonium taking place.

Nora and Ruby were playing speed rock-paper-scissors-chess, the rules of which I could make neither heads nor tails of. Ren sat beside the two, officiating the match. Weiss was holding a one-sided conversation with Pyrrha, who sent fleeting glances at her blonde knight, Jaune. Jaune was sitting on the edge of a bed, fingers drumming out a rhythm only he followed. Blake was, as usual, reading her Ninjas of love book, And Yang? Yang was setting up the drinks, pouring soda into red plastic cups, quickly splashing something in with each drink she poured. I narrowed my eyes as a grin spread across my face. Stealing my way through the crowd, I snuck up on the unsuspecting blonde and with one swift motion, sniped the bottle from her hands.

"My, my, Yang. Alcohol? What would Goodwitch have to say about this?" With that, I popped the top off of the bottle and poured a sizeable amount down my throat, the familiar taste of rum coating my tongue. I tossed a wink at the brawler and handed the bottle back to her. "Top mine up with a little extra, yeah?" The brawler just stared at me as I walked away.

My arrival kicked off the festivities, as Yang called out "Drinks are up!" And began handing them out to everyone. "All right, everybody in a circle!" Yang had a grin on her face as she called out seating arrangements. "All right, Ren you're on my left, Nora, you sit beside him. Ice queen, you're between Ruby and Nora. Jaune, you and Pyrrha are beside Rubes, Blake, you sit by Ruby and that puts Wonderboy" She points at me, then aims the finger down beside her "Right here." We all obliged the excited blonde, sitting where she had designated with a minimal amount of complaints. Once everyone was settled, Yang turned to me. "So, you still haven't been formally introduced to team JNPR yet, right?" I nodded my head in confirmation. "Okay, so we'll start with that. Jaune, you're the man in charge, why don't you do the honors?"

"Sure, why not?" Jaune spoke up. Raising himself to a standing point, the blonde knight gestured to himself and his teammates. "First up, we have Nora Valkyrie, always the life of the party. She wields a Warhammer that's also a grenade launcher, loves the color pink, and has a fondness for breaking legs. Next we have Lie Ren, he and Nora have been together for a long time, they are childhood friends in fact. Ren is a martial artist, with two fully automatic pistols with blades on the end. He has managed to keep up with Nora for all these years, and I'm not sure how. Then we come to Pyrrha Nikos."

Something in his voice changed when he said her name, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. His voice warbled a little, tension hiding… Warmth? Jaune's continued introductions interrupted my thought process. "Pyrrha won the Mistralian championship four times in a row before coming here to get away from the public eye. She is a phenomenal fighter, and If I can fight half as well as her by the time I graduate, my career as a hunter is set. Her weapon is fantastically designed, it's a javelin, and a sword, and a rifle. She has saved my life more than a few times, and I'm proud to call her my friend!" Jaune ended rather emphatically. Pyrrha's face was having a competition with her hair and Ruby's cloak to see which would be redder, and the Amazonian was certainly in it to win it.

"I guess that just leaves me. I'm Jaune Arc as you already know, seeing as we ran into each other on your first day here. I lead team JNPR, I have seven sisters, and I use a sword and shield to fight, not that I'm too good at it." Jaune finished, not detailing himself too much which I found confusing after his glowing praise for the rest of his team. I suppose he's humble.

Pyrrha spoke up, defending her leader from himself. "Jaune is actually quite a skilled fighter, as well as a masterful tactician. Despite his confidence issues, he has improved greatly since he arrived." Fire and passion filled her voice as she spoke up. 'Looks like someone prefers blondes' I thought to myself as I smiled.

"D'aww, Pyrrha, you're going to make me blush!" Jaune became very flustered at her sudden outburst. "Alright, your turn!" He proclaimed with a smile, returning to his seat next to the amazon.

Dutifully, I took the floor. "Hi. I'm not too terribly good at introductions, so bear with me. I go by the name Flint Ddraig, and I, uh, I'm not from here. Like, from Remnant." The girls had taken that little bombshell in stride, so I figured their friends wouldn't mind either. "I use a battle axe that shifts into a railgun, I named her Baen Sidhe. I used to work in a kitchen, and I'm in beacon so I can make a difference in this world." I paused before saying something I knew I would regret. "So, any questions?"

Nora immediately spoke up, "Are you an alien? Where's your antennae? Are you here to take over Remnant? Do you come in peace? Where is your homeworld?" the excitable Viking flew around me, poking and prodding as she fired questions at me. I shot a pleading look at Ren, silently begging him to stop her. The calmer half of the pair just sighed.

"Nora."

"Yes Ren? Oh, do you eat people?"

"Let him speak, please. And sit down"

Thank You I mouthed at the stoic boy. He nodded in appreciation. Turning to the now subdued ginger, I spoke up. "No, I am human, same as you and everyone else in the room." Did Blake's bow just twitch? "I don't have any antennae, World domination isn't high on my list of things to do, I've never tried human before, although I imagine it would taste like salted pork." I ticked the questions off my fingers, leaving one last one. "My homeworld is a planet called Earth. Anyone else have questions?"

Jaune raised his hand, and I gestured for him to speak up. "Where did you live, before you came here?"

"I was born and raised in a country known as Canada, It's usually really cold there, with snow or slush dominating the weather patterns eight months of the year, and road construction taking up the other four."

I could see Nora vibrating in her seat, so I turned and addressed her. "Yes, Nora?"

"How do you say your last name? It sounds all funny when you say it, like the I is the most important letter in it, and you do something weird at the start."

I chuckled at her statement. Welsh has been never easy for the uneducated. "You're right, Nora I do." I snagged some paper and a pen from ruby's desk. "Mind if I use these?" I asked as I held the items in question up.

"Sure."

I wrote down my name twice, breaking one up into its phonetics. The paper read as such;

Ddraig ~~~ Drr/ Eye/ Guh

"So, this is how you say my last name. You roll the D into the R, and it makes a noise like a card in a bike spoke, you know how that sounds right? That's the hardest part, the rest of it is exactly how it looks." After a few tries with rolling her R's, Nora was flawlessly pronouncing my name. "Nice! High five." I held my hand up for the celebratory gesture, which was reciprocated with enthusiasm.

Nora paused for a moment. "What's your name mean?"

"Well, flint is a light gray rock, nothing extraordinary looking about it, but if you hit it right, you get sparks. Ddraig is from my ancestral language, and it means dragon. There were two dragons in my ancestors' history, and they shaped the fate of their country. I'm hoping to do the same. Alright, now that the Meet and Greet is done, what did you have planned Yang?"

The Brawler immediately piped up. "Never have I ever! I'll start." Ruby looks decidedly uncomfortable with the look Yang is giving her. "Never have I ever gotten my weapon stuck in a doorframe."

Ruby's face turned red, and she put on the most adorable pout I have ever seen.

"Yaaang! You said you wouldn't bring that up!" With a huff, she took a sip of her drink. Jaune drank up as well, recalling an incident involving his shield and a certain Winchester. "Alright, Ren, your turn!" The martial artist furrowed his brow in thought, finally making his proclamation. "Never have I ever blackmailed someone" Both Blake and Yang drank to that one, the darker of the two drawing attention with that revelation.

Blake lowered her cup to several eyes staring at her. "What? At least I don't enjoy it, unlike someone in the room."

It was Nora's turn, and the always energetic woman seemed a bit reserved. "Never have I ever…" That last part of her sentence trailed off into indecipherable mumbling.

"Sorry, Nora, could you repeat that last part?" Jaune spoke up, prompting the suddenly shy girl.

"NeverhaveIeverKissedaboy!" she blurted out. Of course she would ask that. I raised my cup, pointedly staring into the corner of the room. How long has that spiderweb been there? Lowering my drink, I noted that I was the only one in the room to have failed this particular round. The silence in the room was deafening, and I had more than a few mixed looks pointed at me.

Yang broke the silence. "So… You kissed another boy?"

I sighed, and cupped my head in a hand. "Yes, Yang, yes I have."

She pressed the issue further. "So… you're gay then?"

"No Yang, I'm not gay. Spin the bottle bites you in the ass sometimes. Besides, the girls got a kick out of it." I paused for a moment, mulling over a thought. "Hey, Yang. You've never kissed a boy before?"

Yang stopped, cocking her head at me. "No, I never had time, what with making sure rubes here" jerking her thumb at her sibling "Didn't accidentally burn the house down-"

"HEY! That was ONE TIME!"

"-Or go into a sugar coma, I had my hands too full for romance. Besides, Rubes here always comes first to me. Speaking of which, it's your turn sis!"

Without breaking eye contact with her sister, Ruby spoke in a deliberate tone. "Never have I ever observed single awareness day." The brawler grumbled to herself as she raised her glass, mirroring my actions as I gave the tiny girl the evil eye. "Flint, you don't celebrate valentines day?" Ruby asked.

"Been alone every year for the last three, but thanks for bringing it up."

Ruby seemed a bit abashed by my statement, uttering a tiny 'oh'. Yang was giving me a funny look this whole time, when she thought I wasn't paying attention that is. I'm more observant than people think, I'll have you know.

Never have I ever continued with many embarrassing and hilarious revelations until everyones cups were empty, at which point Yang poured everyone a refill. Everyone was feeling the effects of the alcohol, as laughter and curses flew freely with each statement. "Alright, alright, HEY!" Yang bellowed, ripping everyone's eyes towards the blonde. "Time for the next game" she leered at her rapt audience. With a slow, deliberate motion, the blonde set a bottle in the middle of the circle, capsized on its side. "Now, who's ready for truth or dare?" Her predatory grin made it clear that 'no' was not an answer. "Now, house rules?"

"Nothing that could get us expelled" Weiss immediately piped up.

"Under no circumstance is anyone to accept a dare from Nora." Ren seemed to shake a little as he spoke.

"What happens in the room, stays in the room" Blake stated with an air of finality.

"I'd say that covers everything, now let's get started!" Yang cried out, giving the bottle a mighty whirl. Around and around, the bottle spun, countless revolutions made in front of our tipsy eyes. The bottle spun to a standstill, firmly pointed at the only other blonde in the room. "Jaune, truth or dare?" Yang asked, voice filled with layers of intent.

The leader of team JNPR paused for a moment."Uhh… Dare."

Yang smiled. "I want you to pick out the prettiest girl in the room, and lay one on her." She flashed him a megawatt smile as she said this, stunning Jaune for a moment before he collected himself.

"L-lay one on her? L-like kiss her?" Yang just nodded and smiled more. "O~kay then… Um… Pyrrha?"

The Amazonian turned towards her leader. "Yes Jaune?" Her eyes widen in surprise as he cups her chin and brings her lips to meet his. Seconds passed, filled with silence. When the blonde warrior pulled away, the room was treated to the sight of a very stunned Champion.

"Pyrrha? Py~rrha…" Nora passed her hand in front of her speechless teammate. "Ren, Jaune broke her! Oh, I know! We have to turn her off and back on, right? Well, the off part is already done, so I guess we just need to turn her back on!"

Yang giggled and pointed at Jaune "I think that's exactly the problem, Nora." Jaune looked confused for a moment, before blushing profusely and stammering.

"No, no, th-that's not it at all!" Team JNPR's fearless leader began defending himself profusely. Ren wordlessly handed a roll of lien to a certain hammer wielder.

Jaune stretched his arm into the circle and gave the bottle a mighty spin. Rotations came and went, and the bottle pointed towards his stoic teammate. "So, Ren. Truth or dare?" The blonde sat cross legged, arms propped on his knees.

The magenta eyed boy sat silent for some time, weighing his options. After a small wait, Ren spoke up. "I choose Truth" he quietly stated.

It was Jaune's turn to consider his options now. After much humming and hawing, he proclaimed "I've got it!" Pointing a finger at Ren, he began his personal inquisition. "I have one, and only one question for you. Are you, or are you not 'together-together' with Nora?"

The duo in question exchanged looks, turned to Jaune, and exchanged another look. Ren rested his hand on a knee, palm up, and looked at his partner. Nora reached over and claimed his hand, lacing their fingers together and nodded at the quiet boy. Turning his head to the hapless blonde, he uttered a single sentence.

"Does it really need to be said?"

The lotus warrior took his turn, the bottle spiraling to point at the other ninja in the group. "Blake, you know how this goes. What is your choice?"

Blake answered quietly and decisively. "I feel comfortable with your decisions, Ren. I choose dare." A dangerous grin spread over the stoic boy's face, made all the more unnerving by his silence. Wordlessly, he strode towards the bunk beds, reached a hand under Blakes pillow, and withdrew a small black book. "Wait… No! No!" Blake flushed, tucking her head into her knees as she curled into a ball. "What do you think you're doing with that?!" She hissed out, refusing to look at Ren or what he was holding.

The warrior thrust the book at its owner. "Open it to a random spot, and read the whole page."

Blakes face refused to return to its' original colour, as she opened her copy of 'Ninjas of Love' and began reading.

"Again and again, they clashed. Silk met steel, calloused hands roamed over smooth surfaces. Running his hands through her hair, her savior placed his lips on her neck and claimed her, pulling away to reveal a small mark. A small sigh escaped her lips as the contact ceased, replaced by stuttering gasps as he traced his way down to her most sensit-" Yang charged across the circle and dropped her hands over her sister's ears.

"A~nd that's enough of that, I'd say! No need to continue this discussion while young ears are present!" Yang's voice held a falsely chipper tone as she returned to her seat. "But seriously though, I'm borrowing that later." I turned my head to make eye contact with the brawler, raising a single eyebrow. "What? A girl's got needs, you know." She said in a teasing tone. Blake took her opportunity to spin the bottle, landing on none other than myself.

"Alright Flint, your turn in the hot seat. Truth or dare?"

Oh boy. "Umm… the last two dares involved swapping saliva, and reading porn. I don't mind, but lets switch it up. I choose truth."

The ninja paused for a moment, tilting her head in thought before turning to me. "I've noticed you sneaking glances at my partner when she wasn't paying attention. What do you think of Yang?"

Crap. "I choose dare." All aboard the nope train, I'll be collecting your tickets shortly.

Blake grinned. "Alright, I dare you to pull a single strand of hair from Yang's head." Turning to face the Blonde in question, I began reaching my hand out towards her mane, only for my eye to be caught by frantic movement to the side. Turning my head, I saw Ruby frantically shaking her head, slicing at her throat with her hand. To her side, I saw Nora nodding her head with equal fervor, contradicting Ruby's actions. Facing the brawler again, I began to seriously reconsider my present course of action, and all the ones that had led up to it. Lowering my hand back to my side, I steeled myself for what I was about to do.

"Well, the first time I met Yang, she saved my life. Then I woke up to find her asleep in my ward from when I was hospitalised the first time. I got to return the favor on the mission, where I discovered my semblance. And finding you in my room when I just woke up, well that was definitely unexpected. I've only been here for a short time, but Yang has been a very important part of my life here. I feel like my life would be the lesser for having never met her, and" I turn to face the subject of my monologue "I'm not sure, but I think I'm starting to fall for her." Silence filled the room, while Yang and I simply stared at each other.

Awkwardness permeated the room, until Nora shouted out "Hurry up and kiss her, dammit!"

Tentatively, our faces approached each other. I closed my eyes as I tilted my head, granting better access to the woman I had just confessed to. I felt something soft brush across my lips, and- Oh jeez, that's her tongue. I opened up and let her in, and for a short eternity, there was nothing but us. My lungs were crying out for oxygen, but I ignored them in exchange for this moment to continue. Eventually, however, one of us had to give. Pulling away for air, I looked into her eyes. Opening our mouths, we spoke in unison.

"Well, that was a thing."

Hey all. Its been a whopping 80 days since I last uploaded, and I'm here to tell you why. The long and short of it is, Life drop kicked me in the balls, and it took a long time to get back up. I crashed my car, irreparably damaging it. I began slaving away to replace it, eating at what few hours I had to write. I cam home emotionally and physically drained. Once I replaced my car, My employer cut my hours to a fraction of what they originally were, well below what I needed for my living expenses. I continued working while trying to find a new job, walking all day and working well into the early hours of the morning. I had a job lined up, so I walked out of my old workplace without a look back. As it turned out, the job I had lined up wasn't nearly as secure as I thought and I wound up unemployed for quite some time. it was during this time that I was evicted from my previous residence, and was taken in by a friends family, where I currently reside. During all of this, I fell into a deep depression, manifesting itself as apathy and self deprecation. I was barely able to write more than a paragraph before losing interest or the will to continue. It took a (quite literal) kick in the ass from my best friend to get me out of the circle of self hatred I had fallen in, and now I have a job, my own bed, and a car. I have received immense support from my circle of friends and family and I am extremely grateful for all of them. the problem is, somewhere along the line all my inspiration for writing this story died. I can't mark the exact time it happened, but I haven't managed to rekindle that original spark from when I first started this tale. There are so many things that I was going to do with this story, but ultimately this was an exerciser for my writing skills which were extremely rusty. I will be writing a new story sometime soon, with everyones favorite bumbling blond as the main character. I will see all you lovely folk the next time around with my very own Troubles of the Heart.

until then.