When Blake awoke the next morning it took her a few moments to remember where she was and exactly why she wasn't in her bed back at Beacon. It had been several months since she last woke up outside, after all.

Blake's next surprise of the morning came when she stood up from the base of the tree she'd chosen to sleep beneath, turned around, and got an eyeful of abs. With all that happened, Blake had forgotten that she'd spent the night with some strange Faunus boy named Sun Wukong.

As much as Blake wanted to say she regretted everything though, she had to admit there were worse things to wake up to. Much worse. Over the years she'd dealt with Grimm, racist humans, and even the occasional creep in the White Fang. So far, some sandy haired dork who didn't seem to know how shirt buttons worked was far lower on the list.

Though she did still have to figure out how to wake him up without knocking him out of the tree. He was lying up in the branches, using his tail to hold himself in place. Blake was beginning to see why Sun wouldn't want to hide something so useful.

"Sun?" Blake asked tentatively. "You planning on staying up there all day?"

To her surprise Sun cracked an eye open immediately, grinning down at her. "I'm awake, no worries. Just didn't want to make any noise. Figured you could use the rest."

"What time is it?" Blake looked around in concern, noting that the sun seemed to be much further along than she'd originally thought.

"Just about noon." Sun replied casually as he unraveled his tail and dropped from the tree. "Good thing it's the weekend, huh?"

"What?" Blake blinked in shock, "How could I have slept in so late?"

"Well, you had a pretty rough night, right? Seems pretty natural to me." Sun shrugged his shoulders in response. "Plus, by the time we settled in here it was way past midnight."

"I don't even remember coming here." Blake murmured to herself as she looked around. From what she could see Sun had brought her to a public park.

"Well no wonder! Before you finally went to sleep you were wandering around like a zombie." Sun explained, throwing his arms up for dramatic effect. "Whatever's on your mind, it's clearly messing with your head."

"That's not really any of your business." Blake replied defensively, frowning up at Sun.

"Yeah, I know. That's why I didn't ask about it." Sun shrugged. "I mean, I'm really curious and all, but there is an order to these things."

"An order?" Blake stopped to stare at Sun irritably. "What kind of order would that be?"

"Well for starters, I could use breakfast. Or lunch, whichever." Sun nodded sagely. "You know any good places to eat around here?"

Blake didn't talk much for the rest of that day. Partly because she was still upset about the night before, but also because Sun seemed determined to hold a conversation single handedly from there. After they'd eaten she just wandered the streets and let Sun talk, about his home, his school, his team, and whatever else happened to cross his mind.

She didn't really focus too intensely on what Sun was saying, and honestly probably missed at least half of the conversation, but Sun didn't seem to mind. He just kept rambling about whatever came to mind, latching onto whatever brief responses Blake would make.

After a while it became clear to Blake that he was just talking so he wouldn't ask the questions he knew she didn't want to answer. The curiosity was apparent every time he would fall silent, and after a while Blake found herself replying more often in spite of herself, just to stop those silences from happening.

And after a while, Blake even started talking about her team. She didn't say much, but dropping the name Schnee was more than enough to give Sun an idea of what was happening. It wasn't a name that Faunus tended to forget, after all.

"That makes sense," Sun said when Blake first mentioned her teammate, "The less said about how things are between the Schnee family and the Faunus the better, right? I guess things just boiled over between you two?"

"You could say that." Blake shrugged. "I just couldn't stand hearing her talk about Faunus like that anymore. I mean, yesterday she spent all afternoon calling you a rapscallion!"

"So does that mean in a way you were like, defending my honor?"

"I was just speaking against Faunus prejudice." Blake rolled her eyes. "She was grouping everyone together under… under one name. She acted like all Faunus were the same!"

"Well as far as some Faunus are concerned we are all the same!" Sun snapped a little at that. "There's been a 'them vs us' attitude for years."

The comment was enough to make Blake want to shut herself out again. Just knowing that she'd personally met a lot of the Faunus Sun was complaining about was a point of shame to her.

Hell, forget meeting them, she'd been one of those people herself.

"Sorry. Didn't mean to get worked up like that. Can't do too much to support you if I'm too busy upsetting myself." Sun sheepishly said after a moment.

"It's not your fault."

"I don't know, from the sounds of it I didn't leave the best first impression." Sun joked, "Or did I? Honestly, I can't say I don't kinda like it. Rapscallion…" He threw his arms wide as he drew the word out.

"It does seem to suit you." Blake responded with a half-smile. "Following around some girl you just happened to meet in the middle of the night… It's very suspicious behavior."

"Hey, I'm just looking out for you!" Sun responded with a grin that showed he wasn't as offended as he was acting. "If I was a creep you'd probably have just kicked my ass and walked off ages ago."

Blake didn't reply except to give him another look, but she knew he was right. She still wasn't sure what Sun was really trying to accomplish, but he clearly didn't mean any harm.

"So, looks like it's starting to get late." Sun commented after apparently deciding Blake wasn't going to respond. "Should we start heading back to Beacon?"

"Not just yet." Blake said with a sigh.

"Okay, you really need to talk about this." Sun said bluntly, prompting Blake to glare back at him. "I'm not saying you have to say something to me, I get that we just met. But if this fight you had was so bad that you're seriously considering sleeping outside two nights in a row something is clearly wrong here."

"If I felt like talking about it, I'd be talking about it." Blake snapped back. "This is personal, okay?"

Sun's smile vanished as he stared coldly back. "Look. I'm just giving some advice here, not trying to figure out your life story."

"You've been trying all day!" Blake exclaimed. "All you've done is fish for information, and I'm sick of it!" She stopped suddenly as she looked around and realized she was drawing looks from bystanders, and stormed off. "Ugh, forget it!"

She didn't dare look back until she'd ran several blocks away, but when she did, there was no sign of Sun Wukong. It looked like he got the message.

Blake huffed to herself and looked around. She was near the same park that she'd slept in the night before, so she decided to find a new spot to sleep. She still didn't have much of an appetite after all that had happened.

In the end Blake didn't see the point in being picky, so she just sat down under the first tree she saw and curled her knees up to her chest. It was the second night in a row she was starting off with nothing but a weapon and a name. Only this time she was pretty sure there wouldn't be a random bystander to keep her company.

"Ugh, why did I do that?" Blake muttered. She had done a terrible thing by snapping at Sun like that. He was being nothing but helpful, but she just stewed in her problems until she took them out on the wrong person. And now he was gone.

She couldn't really say she was surprised. Her team hadn't followed her, so why would Sun be any different? As long as she was bottling everything up this was just going to keep happening.

She needed to deal with things properly. She needed to sort her thoughts out and talk to her team.

There was just one thing she needed to do first.

Before Blake could figure things out with her new team, she had to put things to rest with her old one.