There are a few dozen things you learn about people through first impressions. Whether they are strong or weak, smart or stupid. Whether they are a funny adorkable little sister or a prim, uptight prude. Anyway, my first time meeting the Manager told me a few things about him. He was a wimp, he didn't actually want to be there and thirdly, he knew who was boss. Almost ripping out his spine does that to people.
I think he was one of the few people who I judged poorly. As in, none of those things were quite strictly true.
Anyway, to clear this mess up, I'm gonna go back about a hour before Ruby, Weiss, Blake and I traveled from Beacon to Earth, where we ran into Winter and Roman Torchwick. And as I promised Raye, who is currently training with Ruby and Weiss in the park, I will avoid as many puns as I humanly can.
I like to start things off with a Yang though ;) .
Beacon one hour B.E. (Before Earth)
I was lying on my bed my bag packed for earth. I was playing a game on my scroll, nothing fancy, just smashing Grimm in a fighting game. Ruby was zooming around the room, searching for her lost cookie jar (she has three), Blake was trying to find a way to fit more books into her small duffel bag and Weiss was being… well Weiss.
"Should I bring this one," She asked, holding out a white dress that looked to be made of silk "or this one?" She held out another, apparently identical dress. "I need to make the right impression, serious, firm," She paused, glaring at me "and not someone who will wreck the apartment."
"You talking to me?" I asked turning off the scroll and looking at her. Weiss nodded. "Now which one should I bring?" she asked holding the two dresses out. Both were long sleeveless dresses, no frills or anything. Both were sleeveless and looked exactly the same.
"Aren't they the exact same dress?" I asked. Weiss groaned. "They are not the same! It is critically important to bring the correct clothing for the occasion! Ruby can you help me?"
Ruby appeared next to her in a burst of roses "Yeah Weiss! They look the same to me too." Weiss glared at her.
"They are clearly different you dunce!" She exclaimed "The one on the right was handmade in mistral, crafted from the finest silk!"
'And the one on the left?" I ask
'The one on the left was handmade in Vacuo from the finest silk."
At this I grin, Ruby pulls out a cookie from nowhere (I'm still trying to find out how she does that, fifteen years and no answers yet). Weiss lookeds at me, ruby then me again. She blinks before giving a sigh.
"I'll just take both." She said shoving both dresses into her duffel bag, a pale white bag with the Schnee logo of a pale blue snowflake emblazoned on the sides.
"All that and you are taking both? Good luck fitting important stuff in princess."
"Shut up Yang. At least I am bringing something formal!"
"We're going on vacation, not to the Schnee annual shareholders ball." Blake pointed out.
"Like you are any better! You're just bringing books!" Weiss retorted.
Blake shrugged. "I plan to relax and enjoy myself, not stress out over what I will be wearing."
"So… how were the two dresses different?" Ruby asked, still adorably munching on a cookie.
"They weren't." I reply. "She's just trying to make it seem like they were."
"One was made in Vacuo! The other in Mistral! How much more different can you get!" Weiss exclaims.
"But they look exactly the same." Ruby muttered.
Complete silence spread across the room, everyone waited with baited breath for how the ice princess would respond to that. Weiss groaned and rubbed her forehead.
"It is pointless to explain such things to such a classless person!" She muttered, wandering back to her closet to pack some more things.
These days, I call Weiss a tsundere, but I didn't know what that was back then, so I just called her hot-and-cold towards my sister. The fact that she blatantly likes Ruby certainly makes the entire thing more confusing.
By the way I have two hundred lien riding on them getting together before their time at Beacon ends! Any bets go to SunnyDragon18 .com I am happy to take your money!
Back to the story.
I turned to see Blake packing more books. "You're bringing all those books?"
"Yang we are going to be there for nearly a month, if not longer. I need some reading material. Besides, Ruby will thank me."
"You mean literary erotica." I teased, getting a glare as a response.
"At least I didn't show Ruby the graphic novel edition of Ninja's of Love."
"I meant it as a joke!" I retort.
"Look how that turned out."
So as a joke I pointed out the new graphic novel adaption of ninja's of love to my sister. Next day, she took my advice and bought the next twelve books in the series. I thought she was going to read the first few pages and then squeal about how filthy the book was or something. That didn't happen. Instead I get into some very awkward conversations with my sister. Birds and the bees kind of thing except about how half the images in the book were not actually physically possible. How did I know that?
A story for another time.
Needless to say, things got worse when Blake was asked by Ruby for the actual novels, the comics passed onto Weiss (who hides them under her bed) and so currently the only person on team RWBY not reading Ninja's of Love or a spin off of said series is moi. It truly was an antic gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Pyrrha said there should be a lesson in that. Go figure.
I of course, grumbled something about Blake's books, which she ignored with a knowing smile. I supposedly blushed at the sight of it, mildly embarrassing, but then again, I know how to make Blake blush too.
Weiss and Ruby left the room for lunch. Blake and I remained behind. I decided then and there that it was the perfect time for revenge. As she stood up preparing to close her duffel bag, I reached out with my hand and gently scratched the area between her fluffy cat ears. The reaction was everything I could have hoped. At first she froze, still as a board, but she quickly melted, her legs becoming wobbly as she sank to the floor. I had to bend over the side of my bed to continue scratching between her ears, deftly yanking her black bow off as I did so. Blake didn't even seem to notice. As Blake sank lower to the ground, her face flush I had to lean even further over my bed. I grinned further as Blake's purring became louder. I leaned over a little further, intending to scratch slightly harder (which would elicit an even stronger reaction from our resident cat Faunus).
Instead, I lost my balance.
"Blake! Watch out!" I exclaimed in panic. Blake glanced up noticing that I had stopped scratching. The grin on her face quickly turned to confusion as I fell on top of her. I heard a howl from Blake. Panic took over, "Blake are you okay? I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to-" I was silenced by the feeling of a hand clawing at my face. Blake was flailing clearly panicked. "Blake calm down!" I begged. She was grabbing and pushing at the same time, making it impossible to get off of her. "Blake!" I shout, snapping Blake out of her paranoia. Blake freezes in mid-flail glancing down then up, then at my face. A pregnant silence follows.
"Why are you on top of me?" Blake asked levelly, her face expressing confusion. Of course, she has to look me in the eye. Blake has the most beautiful amber eyes, which of course, look a little like a cat's. For some reason, my brain turns to jelly when she looks me in the eye like that. So instead of answering, I did not move. I felt heat rising to my cheeks.
The moment (if you could call it that) is ruined a second later when Weiss opens the door to our room.
'Four maidens! At least put a sock on the door!" She exclaimed.
"Weiss! What's going on? Why a –" Ruby began as she pops her head in. Her reaction is comical. At first her mouths changed from a grin to a massive O shape. Then back to a grin, "You know Sis, you should really have less layers on when you do that." She says. Weiss spun to stare at Ruby in horror.
"Ruby!" She exclaimed. She grabbed Ruby and dragged her inside the room (What is up with that?). "Don't say such things in the hallway! People might hear you!"
"But people would certainly hear them!" Ruby argued, pointing to Blake and I as the door slammed shut.
"Just what do you think we were doing?" Blake asks, gently sliding out from under me.
"Well, Yang did have you between her thighs and uh, you know how that goes in Ninjas of love…" Ruby began.
Blake cocked an eyebrow, a grin coming to her face. She turned to me.
"Is that what you were planning Yang?" She asked sultrily, one eyebrow raised. She rested her elbow on the ground, laying her head in her hand with the other arm resting cross her body. "Were you planning on having your way with me?"
I swallow, my mouth suddenly dry. It was kind of strange that the rest of my team had gotten better in the last two years at flirting than I had. Even Ruby, could, at times, string along boys if she wanted to. Generally she was still the cookie loving, socially awkward little sister, but if the occasion called for it, she could be a downright femme fatale.
Whereas Weiss would have once called me perverted, that has completely changed now. The primary targets of her accusations are Ruby and Blake, and sometimes the books she reads. The fact that under her bed was a veritable porn stash certainly didn't help matters.
I didn't get a chance to answer Blake before there is a heavy, quick knock on the door. "Girls! Time to go. The portal is here and prepared for your journey to another dimension. You will have to visitors who are already waiting for you on the other side!" A voice that could only belong to Professor (I mean doctor) Oobleck said in rapid succession.
'I expect to find out later." Blake said getting up and grabbing her duffel bag. Ruby and Weiss lifted theirs and quickly left, following Oobleck. I ran behind, trying to catch up, my face a bright red color.
The trip over wasn't bad, neither was the part where we had to wait with Winter and Torchwick. Weiss had basically glomped onto Winter faster than Ruby could with Qrow, and Torchwick was happy being ignored. There was the general chit chat and getting to know one another, polite conversation (which was boring) and the possible death threat as Ruby intentionally flirted with Weiss, much to the latter (and the latter's sister) embarrassment. Ruby was about to be chewed out by Weiss when a guy, probably a few years older (I was guessing twenty-five or twenty-six, he ended up being twenty-two) approached. He had brownish hair and was relatively tall. He was built like a brawler, and maybe he was, considering what he was carrying, but without the muscle mass I couldn't be sure. Behind him, was Glynda Goodwitch, struggling to carry a similar amount of plastic bags.
Surprisingly, he knew all our names and introduced himself. It seemed like things would go smoothly, even with some of the more restrictive rules. That went to hell when Zwei popped out of Ruby's bag. I grinned, this was going to be so fun.
I started writing Yang's chapter a little early and came up with this, then the chapter started to stretch a little too long for my taste so I would have probably had to delete all of this, But I liked how it worked, so made it its own chapter. Yang's actual chapter is about halfway done through the rough draft, so maybe an early release in July?
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