Just One Date, Volume 3 Chapter 6: Highs and Lows, a rwby fanfic

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Just One Date

Volume 3

By: athrunzala

Chapter 6: Highs and Lows

Three months later, and life for the members of Teams RWBY and JNPR had returned to as normal as it would ever be for them. The other members of the group could tell that something had changed about Jaune and Pyrrha, but they weren't entirely sure. Yang and Nora, on the other hand were united in their belief.

"They totally fucked," is what they would both say if asked to speculate. So, naturally, nobody asked them.

All of the whole situation in the mine had even been washed over. All except, of course, for one conversation that still needed to happen.

Ren was pacing around Team JNPR's dorm. He had been for the past few hours. Pyrrha and Nora weren't there, which left him with Jaune. And he remembered the ballroom scenario with that. So he didn't think that was a viable option. However, Jaune was the only other guy there. Unless you counted Neptune, who was there because Jaune had invited him over to play some silly card game that Ren couldn't have cared less about.

"Dude. Chill. You'll walk a hole in the floor at this rate."

The martial artist looked over at the source of the comment, causing the blue haired individual to fall silent again.

"What if…"

"Ren," Jaune interrupted, "she won't. Trust me on that one."

"Still."

"Bro, she'll say yes. All the same, you want backup?"

Ren looked at the two other individuals. Deciding it couldn't hurt, he nodded, and they all went off to locate Nora. And find her they did. In the arena. Sparring with Ruby. Shockingly enough, they were matching each other. Ren had actually forgotten about Ruby's semblance being speed, but he did notice that the two of them used the ammunition discharge in much the same way.

A buzzer signaled the end of the match, and the two combatants, both slightly tired went and sat on the sidelines. Ren approached Nora, goaded on by Jaune and Neptune.

"Wassup, Ren?"

The taller male scratched his head and began to fumble for words.

"You see… Um… Nora… It's just… I…"

He was jarred back into normal habits when a spent shell from Crescent rose smacked him in the back of the head.

"You wanna go out some time?"

"You mean… like on a date?"

"Yes."

"Ren, is this a date? Or a date date?"

"Yes."

The last response leaving Nora more puzzled than informed, she walked over to Jaune.

"What's this about?"

Jaune held up his hand.

"1) He's asking you out. 2) It's a date date."

The orange-haired woman's eyes lit up at this. She then ran back over to where her partner stood and jumped into his arms.

"Of course! Why would you be afraid of me turning you down!?"

"I have no idea."

Nora then released him from her grip and skipped off to find Yang and Pyrrha. She was not going to let this moment pass unnoticed.

Meanwhile, Blake and Sun were discussing things.

"If you never meant to do that, then why did you?"

"I don't know, alright?"

Blake's response was short and slightly agitated. People had been asking about her and the monkey Faunus' relationship for a while, and she still wasn't sure how to respond. So, when word had gotten out that they were a couple, Blake had turned 15 shades of red and stormed off. This had left Sun to field all the questions. A task that he loved adamantly avoiding whenever possible.

So they were moving towards an argument.

"You know, if I had known it would be like this, I would have never done that!"

"Part of me wishes you hadn't!"

"Good to know!"

"Same here!"

They then stormed off in opposite directions, only to pass by each other moments later.

"Wrong way."

Off at the gym, Yang and Pyrrha had just finished a workout. More accurately, Yang had called an end to it when she noticed her companion didn't look like she was going to last much longer.

"Are you alright?"

"Yes. I'm fine. Sorry to have worried you."

The blonde brawler put her hands on her hips and shook her head. There were days when she completely understood the red-head. This was not one of them. She was pulled from her thoughts by Nora bounding over to them, with a huge dopey grin on her face.

"Ren asked me out! Finally! We're gonna be together together!"

"Congratulations."

"'grats!"

Yang then looked over at Pyrrha, who was shakily getting to her feet.

"First things first. Let's get you to your bed."

She nodded, and Nora joined her in assisting the world-famous athlete to the dorms and into her bed. They then left the room after sending Jaune a message about Pyrrha being under the weather.

As they closed the door, they looked at each other.

"You don't think…"

"Nah. Couldn't be. They can't BOTH be that reckless."

"True enough. So, let's go talk in our…" Yang was about to invite Nora in, but a solitary glare from Blake told her otherwise.

"…in the library," was the hasty correction.

Back at the training arena, Weiss had shown up just as Nora had bounced her way out of the facility. So, of course, Ruby had told her about what happened.

"Well, it's about time those two did something about their relationship. They've been more emotionally constipated than Blake."

"I wouldn't call her emotionally constipated."

Sun's sudden appearance startled both the girls.

"Sorry 'bout that. I need to borrow Neptune."

The male Faunus then grabbed his team mate's collar and dragged him out of the room. He didn't release it until they had reached their dorm room. Sun slammed the door and turned around.

"Dude, what is going on? This is not like you."

Neptune was looking at his friend as the blonde slumped down to the ground.

"I… I don't know. Blake just… went off at me. I don't know what I did."

He then began staring at the floor in silence, leaving the blue-haired teen in a state of confusion.

"Don't know what to tell you, Sun. I don't read minds."

In team RWBY's dorm, Blake was sulking around. She wasn't sure why she had snapped. But she knew that she had. The whole thing was unsettling to her. She wanted to be with Sun. But she wasn't sure how to tell him this. They had been on a few dates, but that was it. Yang was happy with Neptune, and Ruby had Weiss. But why couldn't she just tell him how she felt unless she was jumping on him and doing it by surprise? That was why she blew up at him.

~Earlier~

"Heya, Blake! You wanna… I dunno… go out tonight?"

The raven-haired Faunus whipped around at the sound of her boyfriend's voice.

"No."

The cold response shocked even her. She wanted to go out, she really did. But she had just shot him down.

"You know, that is five times this week! What's going on?"

"Like you care," she shot back hastily.

Sun was taken aback at this sudden hostility. All he had done was ask a question. A completely innocent inquiry as to if she was alright.

"You know," he said, reeling back from the retort. "I wasn't trying to start a fight. I just want to talk!"

The female Faunus' eyes narrowed.

"You just 'want to talk'? I have a hard enough time keeping up with you some days. And NOW you want to talk?"

The blonde was not exactly sure how to handle his oddly angered girlfriend.

"What did I exactly do wrong here?"

"What did you do wrong? Gaaah! You. Are. Impossible!"

Now the male Faunus was thoroughly confused.

"How can you be so… moody all the time? Is it possible to be less brooding and more open about things? Seriously! Come on!"

He was even starting to lose his temper. Which took a lot with the overly laid-back, devil-may-care attitude he usually presented.

"You know, I don't know what I ever saw in you!"

"Oh really? You must have seen something! You were the one who started this!"

"I never meant to. I don't know what I was thinking!"

The comeback hit him hard. He had been happy being with Blake. But now, he wasn't so sure.

"If you never meant to do that, then why did you?"

"I don't know, alright?"

So they were moving towards an argument.

"You know, if I had known it would be like this, I would have never done that!"

"Part of me wishes you hadn't!"

"Good to know!"

"Same here!"

They then stormed off in opposite directions, only to pass by each other moments later.

"Wrong way."

~Present~

She absent-mindedly looked out the window at the moon, the events playing over in her head. As they did, questions flooded into her mind. Why had she even bothered to do what she had done almost a year ago? What had been going through her mind then? Was she just being selfish?

It crossed her mind briefly when they had first started dating that she might just be filling a void in her life by being with him. She had brushed it off immediately then, but it managed to re-surface in that instant. She looked over at her team mate's beds.

Ruby's bed was now nothing but storage, as she and Weiss were sharing a bed. The same could have been said of Yang's, as the latter was there only once or twice a week. And when she was, it was because she was doing homework late. Outside of that, she almost practically lived in Neptune's room.

The first time they had found out about that, it had come as a shock, until Ruby casually let slip that Yang had been sneaking boys in and out of their house while Taiyang slept to avoid them having to meet their, at times, over-protective father. This had caused the blonde to turn a shade of pink that they had never seen outside of paint and highlighters. After that, they never spoke of it again. They just accepted that it was going to happen.

The female Faunus smirked and stood up from where she had been seated. She then headed towards the door. She knew what she had to do.

To be continued…

A.n/- Alright. I know this is jumping around a LOT. But I didn't exactly elaborate on Blake and Sun outside of saying "they are just together" in Volume 2. Yang and Neptune were also implied to be a thing from the get-go (I hope people caught that early enough). As for Ren and Nora, they will be in Chapter 8. For sure. Or it could start in Chapter 7. Not sure.

Oh yeah. And I have failed to bring up Ruby's ring again. I'll write that one later.