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Yang's pov

Yang had noticed Ruby had been acting weird lately; she was gone more than usual, according to Ruby, to hang out with friends. Yang was a little suspicious, regardless. What if she's in trouble with the mob! Or doing drugs! Or has a boyfriend! Or all three! Yang was going to find out what was going on and if Ruby wasn't lying, no harm done.

I can pretty easily track Ruby through the cameras, the blonde thought. Yang brought out her laptop and managed to gain access to the records. She watched in front of her and Ruby's house in fast forward and waited for Ruby to appear. When she finally did she immediately turned left out of the camera's vision. Yang quickly found the records for the camera that would have seen where Ruby went and she skipped to when Ruby had turned left. Yang's adorkable sister continued on her path and left the camera's sight just before Yang could tell what direction Ruby would go, so she was forced to check both cameras to find where the redhead went. This process continued for some time until Ruby had failed to appear on the next camera in one of the less safe parts of town. This set off all kinds of alarms in Yang until she realized that most likely Ruby had just arrived at her destination and had gone inside a building.

Yang looked through the cameras at the different buildings Ruby could have entered, and wrote down all the addresses, but decided the most likely was a bar, as the other possibilities were a jewelry store and a hotel. If Ruby hadn't gone into the bar, which would certainly relieve her sister, the hotel was also a good possibility, but Yang dreaded what Ruby would be doing in there even more.

The neighborhood surrounding the bar was even sketchier looking in real life. It was worse than the more dangerous places she frequented. Why would Rubes come here? Yang worried silently. Inside, the bar was nothing like what she expected. The insides of bars are usually messier than the outside, not the other way around. Even the people were civil. Instead of the leers and wolf-whistles she had become accustomed to, she received several cautious glances, sizing her up. The entire place was also unusually quiet. There was some hushed conversation, but that was all.

"Strawberry Sunrise, no ice," Yang requested, sitting down. She decided for forgo her customary little umbrella. When the bartender set the drink in front of her, which only took a few seconds, she took a sip. This is really good. This has got to be the weirdest bar I have ever been to, even weirder than the hospital one.

After about ten minutes she pulled out the picture of Ruby she had grabbed back at her house and showed it to the bartender, a relatively average looking man if it weren't for the large scar arcing across his face, and the hard look in his eyes that managed to intimidate even her. In response to her asking after the girl in the photo he widened his eyes slightly, betraying both his fear of her sister and his verbal reply, which was in the negative. So he has seen her and she scared him. What could Ruby do to scare a man like that?

Yang brought out a thousand lien and placed it on the bar. The man looked at it for a second before walking away to serve other patrons and began studiously keeping his gaze away from her. For now this is a dead end. When Yang realized this she finished her drink and walked out of the bar.

I guess I can just track her through the cameras again. Ugh. Yang walked back to her house somewhat dejectedly. When she arrived she went back to being Big Brother by stalking her sister through the cameras.

After about 20 minutes of searching through footage, she lost her and could not find where her sister reappeared. Another half hour passed with Yang trying to pick up Ruby's trail and she finally gave up, deciding Ruby was trying (and succeeding quite admirably) to avoid the cameras. She had also realized that one man was either stalking the redhead or just had happened to follow her sister's path exactly. The man was a little less than six feet tall and had dark gray hair even though he appeared to be around 18. Gray also appeared to be his general color scheme. She couldn't quite make it out, but she thought he even had gray eyes. She decided to try and track down this guy instead and find out why he was stalking 15 year old girls and possibly beat the shit out of him.

She tracked him back to a warehouse with significantly less trouble than it took her to follow Ruby 2 blocks. 15 minutes later the pickpocket was pulling up to the warehouse on her bike. Yang opened the doors just enough for her to sneak through an opening. Inside there were tons of workers going about different jobs. She started creeping through the shadows, trying to find the boss of whatever this was. No one had noticed her yet even with her sub-par stealth skills. Yang made her way through the warehouse painstakingly slowly; she was dying to just stand up and knock a few teeth out of anyone who tried to stop her, but there were a lot of workers and there were bound to be some pretty powerful people in an operation of this magnitude; this wasn't like Junior's club. Ten minutes later her legs were starting to cramp from all this crouching, but more importantly she was staring wide eyed at Roman Torchwick, Vale's most wanted criminal. He was talking to a dark skinned woman with green hair and the creep that was stalking her sister.

"My, my, what do we have here?" Yang heard in a seductive voice from right behind her. Naturally Yang whirled around. Behind her was a strikingly beautiful woman that was a few inches taller than her and leagues more intimidating. She was also incredibly sexy in the strapless red dress that that hugged her curves perfectly and ended miles above her knees. YANG, GET A HOLD ON YOURSELF! NOW IS NOT THE TIME! the hacker commanded herself.

"Who are you?" Yang asked, still slightly panicked, but that emotion was starting to turn to anger.

"Isn't that what I should be asking you?" answered the woman in that voice that was sure to give Yang both nightmares and wet dreams.

"Err, I'm Yang," the blonde replied, and then half a second later realized how stupid it was to tell this woman her name.

"Why hello there Yang, what has brought you here."

"I was following a guy that had been stalking my sister," Yang said allowing a tinge of anger to enter her voice.

"Oh? Who is your sister?" Yang almost answered again, but caught herself this time.

"Why would I tell you?" Yang spat venomously.

"Now, now, let's be civil. If I knew who was being followed I could tell you why." This made Yang think. While it was a horrible idea to tell this woman anything, she really wanted to know why Ruby was being followed and this woman seemed reasonable, if a bit condescending.

"She's a short girl with a red cloak." There that won't tell them anything they don't already know besides who I want to know about.

This broke the striking woman's composure "She's your sister!" Except that. "In that case would you like a job? It pays 25,000 lien a month." The woman's personality did a complete 180. 25,000! With that I could pay all our bills and quit pickpocketing! I don't have any reservation about breaking the law short of murder so I guess I'll accept?

"Okay, I'll work for you. Now why was that guy following my sister?"

"Your sister might have some information we would find very useful, but we need to make sure she has it before we confront her," the woman lied, sensing Yang wouldn't like it if she accused her sister of murder. "Oh, and by the way, my name's Cinder."