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The next morning saw a much more peaceful time then the previous day, yang looked much better, her aura sped up the healing so this morning she was talking brightly as Blake changed her bandages "hey Blake, can we look around this morning? I didn't really get to see much last night" yang asked, turning her head to look at the black haired girl, who sighed "keep still, you'll tear your stitches" she growled, poking one of her scratches for emphasis.

Yang stiffened at the contact but kept still, once she was wrapped up yang turned around and faced Blake, gently yang reached down to touch Blake's injured leg "now you" she said as Blake flinched at the pain, she sat down as yang pulled her leg up. Watching Blake's stiffening body, she was clearly uncomfortable with the closeness, or she just wasn't used to being taken care of.

It sounded like she dealt with a lot by herself, which explained her aloofness with them, many people figured yang to a person blind to any underlying feelings but in actuality she was great at reading people. Smiling at Blake she unwrapped the bandages to reveal a red looking gash mark, she bit her lip and looked at Blake "you didn't clean it out properly" she said worried, the night before Blake had carefully cleaned and stitched yang up.

Blake just averted her eyes "I was too busy to properly take care of it, after you I had to take care of several other injuries, I meant to clean it again soon" she said, yang looked surprised. Blake neglected her own health to take care of others; yang smiled and took a rag to clean up her leg "well, you can't fight and protect with one leg can you?" she said laughing as she carefully cleaned the infected skin.

Blake just looked away while yang took the cream, getting some on her fingers she gently rubbed and massaged the healing cream into her leg; Blake leaned back slightly, enjoying the soothing rubs. She was brought back to reality when yang started wrapping up her leg, gently yet tightly bounding her injury, keeping it clean.

Yang patted her leg but wouldn't let it go, even when Blake spoke up

"Yang, let go of my leg"

"Nope, I want to explore, you don't get your leg back until we do"

"But you need to heal, let go!"

"No, please Blake, not long just 5 minutes" yang whined, playing off the puppy eyes. Blake sighed and gave in, standing up she grabbed some clothes and threw them at yang "just get dressed" she said before leaving to change in her own room, leaving yang to grin happily.

Ruby had already woken up and talked to yang before Blake went to re-wrap yang's injury, so now she was walking around the front court, wondering what to do. Her injuries were almost healed thanks to her aura, and that they weren't too serious.

Turning the corner she picked up on a sound, quickly she pinpointed the sound to a hidden corner of the yard, there dressed in full battle gear stood Weiss, in front of her was a straw dummy for practice. Ruby stayed hidden as she watched Weiss raise her rapier till it was level with the dummy, waving it she lunged forward, almost as if on ice and stabbed through the dummy, leaving a gaping hole in it's stomach.

Weiss seemed to be unhappy with the result, ruby heard her mumble about worthless dummies, finally ruby walked into Weiss's view "I can practice with you" she said as Weiss turned around quickly, pointing her rapier at ruby.

"Why are you here?" she asked, quickly switching to her cold, imposing voice "I heard you, and I want to practice with you" she said putting up her palms for defense, in case she really decided to run ruby through. Weiss just stood back up, facing away "I don't need your help, I'm just fine on my own" she said putting away her rapier and walking to the dummy.

Ruby used her semblance to dash in front of Weiss, reaching the dummy before her. Weiss waved away the rose petals ruby generated and pointed at her "stop ruby, I don't need your help" she said as ruby dashed again, this time right in front of Weiss "come on, you need real practice" ruby said, peering into her face.

Weiss glared "if I do fight you, will you leave me alone?" she asked, her voice still icy, ruby nodded, "fine" Weiss gave in, walking several paces away she took out her rapier again, as ruby grinned and transformed crescent rose. With a yell Weiss charged forward with ruby cleverly blocking her attacks.

In truth it was an odd scene, Weiss was part of the royal family, to actually pick up a weapon and fight was nearly unheard of, weapons were considered dirty things. They were covered with the blood of the fallen; becoming cursed objects in the pure hands of the royal family.

So to see the youngest member of the royal family with a weapon would cause uproar if found out, that was why she wanted time away from her family, she needed a chance to practice.

Weiss slid away from ruby, both were breathing hard, they were both trading blows and surprisingly Weiss was pretty good in real combat, maybe dummies were actually helpful. They spent several more hours fighting, occasionally they would yell out advice and instructions.

Blake and yang sat next to a pond, both were tired and their injuries were starting to hurt. Yang was leaning at an odd angle, trying not to put pressure on her injured back, Blake sat right next to her with her injured leg spread in front of them, the warm sun shined on them as they started to feel sleepy.

"Hey Blake? Why are you so…distant with us?" yang finally asked, looking at Blake, who shifted uncomfortably "it's…complicated, and uncomfortable" she said, looking at the colorful koi that swam around the pond.

Yang straitened up, "well…how about this, I'll tell you something about me and you'll talk about you, okay" she asked. Blake thought for a moment, she did want to know more about yang, but…could she trust yang? Finally deciding she nodded and faced yang "I accept", who smiled with triumph.

Yang settled down and began to talk "my clan, the sun warriors are well known or being stubborn and have 'pure blood' beliefs" she said air quoting "I'm not fully sun warrior, my father married a woman from the silver clan, my first mother. They treated him as an outcast when he married and when I was born…he was exiled from the village." She said, her eyes started to mist slightly.

"Despite that they lived in a town far away from the sun warriors…then when I was much younger the sun warriors attacked us. To them we were traitors, choosing a spouse outside of the clan was believed to be of the highest treason. They 'took pity' on us by…taking my mother, I was to young to realize but they killed her…" yang said with a trembling voice, tears were sliding down her face as she held her knees, not caring in it hurt her back. Blake just sat there; surprised that yang would reveal this deep part of her.

Blake looked down "that's enough yang…I'm sorry I made you do this" she said, but before she could go on yang poked her head "I'm not done, this is gonna be the best part" she said, tears still filled her eyes but she laughed through them. "Okay now, after that we traveled, from town to town we would do work to earn a bed and meal for the night before moving on, we traveled everywhere. In those early days the Faunus war was starting to simmer down, when the white fang was created." she said, not noticing the dark look in Blake's eyes at that sentence.

"I was two when we made in to the northern side, we were attacked by bandits, my father is a string guy, but…their sheer numbers overwhelmed us. I remember big, greasy face staring down at us, and a blade, moving towards my neck, then nothing" she said, pulling her mane of hair forwards to stroke "I came to a moment later to se a cloaked figure. A woman with the most breath taking silver eyes you've ever seen, that was summer rose, mine and ruby's mother".

"We moved into the village and within the year my father announced his marriage to summer, and that I was going to have a sister. We moved to a more secluded living area because of the upcoming clan meeting. The sun warriors would recognize my father in moments, that was when ruby was born, she was very small, the midwife was skeptical that she would live, I couldn't accept that, this was my first sister, I wanted to be the best sister ever."

Yang said relaxing as she leaned up to a surprised Blake "I spent every waking second with ruby, I talked to her, played with her and even feed her several times. I never was sure if it was because of her or me but she lived, the midwife was surprised and announced that they had a healthy baby girl. From that time on a vowed to protect my weak little sister forever, as we grew up I read to her and defended her from bullies; things went well until…beowolves attacked our settlement. Both summer and my father were accomplished warriors, but once again sheer numbers and exhaustion overwhelmed them."

"The battle was short, only an hour, but during that hour summer was…" yang trailed off, unable to say the next words "…after that, my dad just…shut down. He couldn't take care or protect me anymore so he and my uncle Qrow came to an agreement. Because of our differences in fighting styles and clans, ruby and I were split up, she lived with silver clan with Qrow and my father and I moved back with the sun warriors."

Yang finished her story with a sigh, before looking back at Blake "it's your turn" she sang, Blake was taken aback by her extraordinary mood change. She shifted and sighed, now she owed yang big time "how much do I tell?" she asked, still worried about how much was safe to give away, "what ever you like, I'm gonna force you" yang said with a grin.

Now Blake was really stuck, her morals wouldn't let yang have an unfair deal but…her story is worse then yang's. Sighing she relented, reaching up she gripped the edges of her bow, her hands shook as she pulled, the black ribbon fell into her hand as two black-purple cat ears rose up, twitching at the wind.

Yang just stared as Blake started to become even more uncomfortable

"Yang I"

"They are so cute"

"Huh?"

Blake was jerked into reality when yang reached up and started touching her ears, Blake gasped and tried to flatten them but yang's fingers blocked them "these are so soft! Do they work?!" she said still playing with her ears.

Blake couldn't help but let out a soft moan "p-please, do…n't" she whimpered. Her ears were extremely sensitive and even a gust of wind would ruffle them. Blake opened her eyes to see yang stop and rest her hand on top of Blake's head "sorry, I got carried away" she laughed.

Blake pulled her head away, a blush showing on her face "with Faunus, touching the ears is a very intimate gesture" she growled, still blushing. Yang looked surprised but grinned "sorry. Is this what your so scared of? Use finding this out?" she asked still smiling.

Blake looked to the side "not exactly" she said, "well just tell me, even if it's bad you can tell me, I'm your friend right?" yang said looking right in Blake's golden eyes. Blake sighed, there was no going back "fine, I was part of the white fang, I participated in those attacks" she stated, bracing for an attack. When none came she looked into yang's lilac eyes; they were deep in thought.

"Let me get this strait, you're a Faunus, you used to be in white fang but your not anymore?" yang asked, Blake once again turned her eyes "that's correct, I've killed before" Blake answered with sadness. Now she would be kicked out and have to return to sword clan in shame, tears silently gathered at her eyes.

Blake was shocked to feel yang hugging her, tightly squeezing her from behind

"Yang?"

"But you're not part of them. I don't care, we've all killed before"

"Yang? You've…"

"My first blaze out…Bandits attacked me, I was consumed by anger and I lost control. When I woke up I was in the middle of a burned field, around me their bodies were burned to a crisp…and the smell, like death" by now yang had tucked her face into Blake's neck.

Blake hesitantly reached up to hold yang, they stayed like that, yang leaning on Blake while Blake grew lost in her thoughts.

Finally both Weiss and ruby slid to the ground panting, "hey Weiss, why do you want to keep this a secret? Your actually pretty good" ruby asked, wiping her forehead, Weiss turned to glare at her "pretty good?! I'm better then that, I'm just going easy on you" she said, leaning her head back to allow more air to cool her body.

Ruby grinned "maybe, but why is this a secret?" she asked again as Weiss looked down "weapons are instrument of death, that's what their used for, their dirty cursed things" she said looking at her own rapier. Ruby raised an eyebrow "not always, crescent rose as never killed anyone, just Grimm and non-living objects" ruby said pulling her scythe closer to start cleaning it off.

It was Weiss's turn to raise an eyebrow "crescent rose? You named it," she asked looking at the huge cutting blade. "Yeah, and it's she, thank you very much" ruby said hugging the scythe, Weiss thought for a moment "weapons are named because they've seen battle right? Why crescent rose?" she asked, ruby just grinned sheepishly "well…I consider her part of the family so I used rose, and doesn't her blade look like a crescent moon?" she asked tracing the blade "how about your sword, does it have a name?"

Weiss picked up her rapier "not really, I never found a reason too" she said as ruby got up and sat next to Weiss

"But it's you partner, it needs a name"

"Partner? How?"

"To any warrior their weapon is one of their closest friends, they are always there and protect the user."

"Protect? But weapons are made to kill"

"Not really, weapons were created to be self defense, without weapons we wouldn't be here, the Grimm would have killed us years ago"

"But they are used to kill, everyday my father receives reports of weapons being used to hurt innocent civilians"

"Yeah but…they are wrong, it's our job to protect, not hurt others. My uncle always said 'even a powerful creature like an Ursa; whose claws cause death, can use those same claws to nurture it's young, just like a sword; used for killing, can be used to protect the weaker beings, until they stand on equal ground as you'. He has been telling me that for years, it wasn't until I saw the Ursa he was describing."

Weiss looked down, thinking 'the same as an Ursa', she stopped, feeling the air around her shatter she turned back "Grimm have offspring?!" she shouted, looking confused. Ruby had fallen down, startled by Weiss's sudden yell "y-yeah, you didn't know?" she asked stuttering just a bit, Weiss shook her head "I only learned about how evil they are" she said, now looking rather displaced.

Ruby laughed weakly "well, Grimm are like normal animals but are…more violent" she said before shaking her head "I'll tell you later, I want you to name your sword, it's your forever partner now, so…treat it like one" she said switching back to the before topic.

Weiss snapped back into her usual demeanor, now receding back into the colder version "I suppose you've talked me into it" she said observing her rapier, now that she stopped she could really admire the blade in her hand.

It was about half her height with a sharp silver gleam, the handle, located right below the basket like guard felt like a warm, hand shake when she gripped it, it felt…right, in her hand. She lifted it up, surprised at it's easy handling, she never noticed before but…it felt like nothing in her hands, like it was part of her. "Myrtenaster" she whispered, watching as the cold metal caught the midday sun.

Ruby looked at it "what?" she asked barely hearing the name "Myrtenaster, that's it's name" Weiss said again more clearly, ruby just looked at the sword before smiling "that's a great name" she said not noticing the slightest blush on Weiss's cheeks.

Weiss roughly got up; ruby paused and looked at the girl not towering over her. Weiss's cold voice was back "I thank you for the time you spent with me but I must now get back to my duties" Weiss said turning on her heel to walk back to her room.

Ruby just sat there looking dejected, she had finally gotten the chance to make the ice queen loosen up, getting up as well she turned to Weiss "it's my pleasure young miss Schnee. At a later date I would like to request to see you to talk about the grim matter" she said bowing slightly.

Weiss didn't look back "acceptable, come to my room around dusk, I'll be waiting so don't come late" she warned, disappearing into the building. Ruby grinned and bowed before putting away crescent rose and walking back to her room, hoping to stop by yang's room to check on her.

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