Ruby and Weiss had been working on the project Doctor Oobleck had assigned them for most of the day. Well it more went that Ruby through out suggestions while Weiss continuously shot them down. Not because they where all terrible ideas but because most if not all of the where weapon designs which Weiss assumed would not be allowed in school.
Finally understanding that nothing she suggested would make Weiss happy Ruby took time to stretch out on her bed.
"Hey Weiss what time is it?"
"About 5:30 why?" Weiss answered clearly irritated.
Ruby shot up from her bed like a bat out of hell. "Oh crap if I don't hurry I'll be late or practice!" Without another word Ruby bolted out the door.
"Practice what could that dunce possibly be going to practice for?" Weiss mumbled to herself. Sighing Weiss turned back to the design she had in front of her desk.
It was a couple of hours before Ruby returned to the dorm room. When she did Weiss was still mulling over what their design should be.
"Ruby I need to ask what could a clumsy idiotic dunce such as yourself have practice for?" Weiss asked as soon as Ruby had returned.
Ruby didn't seem to bothered by the insults. "I'm part of the martial arts program here at Beacon I have Taijutsu lessons every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday." She said proudly
"You take martial arts?" Weiss almost let her jaw hit the floor she couldn't believe someone like Ruby could be into martial arts.
"Yeah I have now for about five years."
Weiss turned away to hide her surprise from Ruby. "Well are you any good or do you just get thrown around a lot?" She asked the bitterness coming back to her voice.
"Well before coming here I was considered pretty decent I won't know how I will do here until I get to square up against some of the guys down there." Ruby said mocking a few punches to emphasize her point.
"Well whatever we still have to get this design project done so stop fooling around and help me with this." Weiss was not happy she had been left for three hours to think about this herself.
"Okie Dokie." Ruby said plopping herself done on her bed and taking a few pieces of paper to try and come up with a design.
The rest of the night went on like that. Ruby and Weiss going over idea after idea about their design. When the clock finally read 10:30 and they still had no design Weiss decided to call it quits for tonight. She was to tired to think or deal with Ruby's ridiculous suggestions anymore.
Retiring to her bed she let out a disgruntled sigh. Six or so hours of work wasted because they had no design.
Why couldn't I get a better partner? Weiss asked herself before the sweet embrace of sleep took her.
Weiss was awoken that morning by a rather annoying beeping that came from her alarm clock.
Sitting up she hit the of button. Morning always came to early for her. Even though her classes where not till noon Weiss saw no reason to break the system she had going for a few more hours of sleep no matter how dearly she wanted to.
Weiss decided that it would be best to take a shower to shake off the rest of her tiredness. Unfortunately in her half asleep state she failed to notice Ruby was not in her bed. Approaching the bathroom the pushed open the door only to late did she realize that Ruby was inside taking a shower. The nearly clear curtain did little to hide Ruby's bare form.
Struck with sudden surprise and embarrassment Weiss quickly shut the door. She could feel a heat in her cheeks and she knew she most be blushing darker than Ruby's namesake. Why was she so embarrassed by this didn't she just tell Ruby that it didn't matter because they were both girls. Hearing the shower stop Weiss quickly moved to her bed and tried to hide the red on her face.
After a few moments Ruby stepped out of the bathroom an to Weiss relief fully clothed.
"Hey Weiss whats wrong?" Ruby asked seeing Weiss' discomfort.
"Nothing you dolt I'm going to get my shower." Weiss wasted no time locking herself in the bathroom.
Did she not see me accidentally come in or does she just not care anymore? Weiss asked herself
Whatever it doesn't matter either way.
Weiss took her time in the shower she really wasn't ready to face the day quite yet. While in the shower Weiss let her mind wonder. A rare thing for her to do she would normally be to focused on school work or studying to let her mind roam.
After about forty-five or so minutes Weiss reluctantly left the shower to prepare for her day. When she exited the bathroom she was surprised to see that Ruby was not there.
"Well gives me more time to think on the project without distractions." Weiss sat down on her bed and brought out the sheet of paper that had her few designs on it. "Here we go."
"It was so embarrassing Velvet." Ruby sighed. After Weiss had gotten in the shower Ruby immediately ran to talk to Velvet about Weiss walking in on her.
Velvet gave a slight chuckle "Ruby dear you need to stop freaking out over things like this." Ruby groan from Velvets respond. "You don't even like her do you?" Velvet ask?
"No, she is so stuck up and mean I'd never be able to like someone like her." Ruby said flat toned. "She is rather pretty though." She mumbled.
"Well there no reason to freak out over this." Velvet reassured.
"I know I just get so embarrassed. Ruby sighed. "Thanks Velvet I know I'm being stupid about the whole thing."
"You not being stupid Ruby it's not your fault you get embarrassed so easily now come on lets get breakfast." Velvet said standing and moving to the door.
"Alright and Velvet if you could don't tell yang about this? she's already poking fun at me about it enough as is." Ruby was nervous again.
Velvet just chuckled and nodded then they left for breakfast.
Approaching the table Yang and Coco sat at both Ruby and Velvet were greeted with warming smiles from Yang and small waves from Coco.
"So Ruby any news on that roommate of yours?" Yang asked in her usual chipper way with a hint of devilish mischief of course. Before Ruby could open her mouth to defend herself Velvet spoke up.
"Yang could you please not tease your sister for five minutes." Velvet was always the peace keeper of the group. It was only natural with her caring nature and Yang and Ruby always butting heads with one another. Sometimes Velvet wondered how they would ever get along with out her.
"But Veeeeelveeet you know if I don't tease someone I'll explode." Yang said very dramatically.
"Then tease me or your new roommate just let off of Ruby for a little bit." Velvet's voice remained flat.
"Well teasing you isn't as fun and I cant tease Coco..." Yang's voice trailed of and she began to look down nervously. She probably shouldn't have don't this because it gave Ruby and Velvet all the information they needed to see her feelings.
"And why is that?" Velvet asked. Her voice remained the same but with how long Ruby had been friends with her she knew the devilish said of Velvet was coming out. A side that rarely saw the light of day with good reason.
Seeing her chance for some payback Ruby mumbled just loud enough for everyone presence to hear. "Because when you're love sick you can only compliment them."
Almost like a bomb went of Yang's fist hit the table. It wasn't offend she lost control but when she did you do not want to be the one to piss her off. Yang starred dangers into Ruby if looks could kill Ruby would be six feet under and covered in eight feet of dirt. Yang was just about to start yelling when and laugh from beside Yang caught all of their attentions.
It was Coco she was laughing lightly with her hand over her mouth. This effectively calmed Yang down.
"Coco?" Yang said in a quizzical tone.
After her laughter died she spoke. "You two are very amusing it seems this is shaping up to be a most interesting year." She said calmly.
"So it would seem." Velvet agreed.
After Ruby finished breakfast she eagerly looked at her schedule to see her classes for the day. To her surprise she did not have any classes before one. With it only being nine she had some free time to do whatever.
She contemplated what to do with her time. First she thought she should go back to her room and work on the design project but decided against it cause Weiss would never like anything she came up with. Then Ruby figured if she was lucky she could get into the room where the martial art students trained at. She would never get any better if she didn't work.
It took a few minutes to get to where the training rooms were and to her surprise she was not the only one there.
When she enter she noticed a red headed girl in the corner. She wore a tank top and workout shorts. The most stunning thing about her though was her vibrant green eyes that Ruby could see even from across the room. The red head was practicing kicks on some of the dummies in the corner.
As Ruby moved to one of the back rooms to change into her exercise clothes she wondered about the red head. She grew excited at the prospect of another girl to train with. Back where Ruby trained before here she was the only girl in her class.
Fully changed now she walked back out to the exercise room. She glanced back at the corner where the red head was now doing push ups before moving to on of the punching bags that was set up. Ruby throw a few soft punches to feel the bag before she really started. Ruby had learned the hard way that going full strength on a punch before you knew what you were hitting never turned out well.
Feeling comfortable she began to let loose. Her hits were not really that hard but that wasn't really all that important to her. She had always cared more for speed then anything else. As she punched she continued to watch the girl in the corner who was still doing push ups.
Before long Ruby was punching the bag so fast you couldn't track her fist with your eyes.
"That's some impressive speed you have there." a voice behind Ruby said.
Ruby was thrown out of focus by the voice as she threw another punch and hit the bag wrong send immense pain to her wrist. yelping lightly she grabbed her wrist.
"I'm so sorry I shouldn't have disturbed you." the red head's voice was full of concern and regret.
The pain now subsiding and Ruby noticing the red heads worry she immediately perked up. Ruby put on er biggest smile as she began to speak.
"No worries just hit the bag wrong kinda my fault anyway and look no real damage done." Ruby moved her wrist around to so the red head it was okay. The girl meekly nodded her head.
"So my name is Ruby. Ruby Rose it's nice to meet you." Ruby said excitedly extending her hand out for a handshake.
"Pyrrha Nikos." she said extending her hand to meet Ruby's.
"So Pyrrha I take it you are in martial arts it's nice to finally have another girl in here." Ruby said excitedly
"Yes it will be nice to not have to just train with boys." Pyrrha chuckled lightly.
"So Pyrrha what kind of martial arts did you take before coming here and were you any good?" Ruby asked. Some compared Ruby to an excitable puppy because when ever she found someone that took remote interest in anything she liked she would become over excited and very enthusiastic.
"Well before I came here I took Jeet Kun Do and I was considered... decent." Pyrrha said softly.
"Oh I've never heard of Jeet Kun Do." Ruby said innocently.
"Well the creator of it felt that to many other styles focused less on being effective and focused to much on being aesthetically pleasing." Pyrrha continued. "anyway what kind did you take?"
Ruby's face lit up at the question. "I took Taijutsu." She said very proudly.
"Um I don't believe I've heard of that style before." Pyrrha said quizzically. Ruby deflated a little when she heard this but non the less she carried on.
"It's the empty handed combat subsystem of ninjitsu. It's a very fast and efficient style using superior angling and leverage to fight instead of just strength so we may not be the strongest but we are definitely deadly." When Ruby finish she still had her big innocent smile on her face. This made Pyrrha question how Ruby could look so small and innocent.
"So wanna spar real quick?" Asked Ruby already moving to the center mat.
"Uh I guess it couldn't hurt." Pyrrha said still not sure.
Both readied themselves. Ruby brought both hands up one a little in front of the other. She bent the fingers on both hands but didn't close them all the way. This way she could grab or strike more easily. While Pyrrha bought hers up fully clenched in fists.
They circled around each other slowly at first looking for any misstep or flaw. Finally Pyrrha mad the first move. She stepped forward swinging her right fist at Ruby. Ruby brought her left arm up to block the strike. Her whole body shook at the force of Pyrrha's punch. However Ruby was not deterred before Pyrrha could retract her arm Ruby brought her right fist up and struck her under the arm above the elbow.
Pyrrha recoiled at the hit as her arm fell to her side useless. Quickly she grabbed it out of shock.
"Ruby what did you do?" she asked surprised.
"Oh I'm sorry i didn't really hurt you did I?" Ruby was next to Pyrrha in seconds full of worry and concern.
"No not really I just can't move my arm." Pyrrha said still clutching her right arm.
"Oh yeah it was a nerve strike another reason Taijusu is so deadly sorry again I didn't hit that hard it should be fine in a couple of minutes." Ruby was still very concerned but seeing Pyrrha begin to move her arm again calmed her slightly.
"Well that is actually really could you should teach me that some time." Pyrrha said as she gained full control over her arm again.
"Of course and you can teach me some cool Jeet Kun Do stuff." Ruby said excitedly.
Pyrrha laughed how someone so small and innocent looking could have gotten so excited about fight she would never know.
Hey guys sorry about the wait I've had some troubles with writers block recently but anyway I hope to get chapter three out a lot sooner.
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-Roctan