It was finally the first day of the holiday break for the students of Beacon. Many students were packing or just waking up. Team RWBY were under attack however by an excitable red clad koala.

"Come on guys lets go lets go." Ruby cheered as she sped around the dorm room.

"Rubes calm down we're almost done then we can go board the airship." Yang said as she grabbed the caped teenager by the hood as she made another lap around the room.

"But Yang im so excited we get to go home and we get to celebrate Christmas with Blake and Dad and Uncle Qrow should be back before new year's eve and Weiss will be there too." Ruby rambled while bouncing on the balls of her feet.

"Oh I know why you're excited for Blake to stay over." Yang smirked while winking at Ruby.

Hearing this caused a deep blush to spread over Ruby's face as the door to their dorm opened.

"The airship that heads towards Patch leaves in half an hour and Weiss' leaves in about twenty minutes." Blake stated after returning from the airship dock.

"Alright well i'm ready to go so let's go find the Ice Queen and get some breakfast." Yang said as she walked out of the dorm and towards the dining hall.

"Ruby are you ok?" Blake asked as she turned back towards the still blushing redhead.

"Yep yep i'm ok lets go." Ruby sped through before bolting out the door after her sister.


As team R_BY made it to their normal table they saw all of team JNPR and CFVY sitting and chatting along with Weiss.

"Hi guys. Whats everyone doing for the break?" Ruby asked as her team sat down with their friends.

"Well Bun Bun and I are staying with my family until the New year and then we're staying with hers until we start here again." Replied Coco as she placed her arm around Velvets shoulders.

"I will be returning home to my village for the holidays." Yatsuhashi replied in between sips of his tea.

"Im off to see the folks same as the big guy." Fox stated as he ate his breakfast.

"Jaunes family invited all of us to stay with them for the break." Pyrrha said, smiling while stealing looks from Jaune.

"Yep it's gonna be so much fun we can have slumber parties and go camping and meet all of Jaunes sisters." Nora rambled, excited at all the new people she was going to meet.

"As long as you promise not break anyone else's legs." Jaune mumbled, referring to the incident the day before with team CRDL.

"They deserved it." Nora roared in defense of her actions.

"Relax short stuff we all know he's just mad that he couldn't have been there to do it himself. I know I wish I was." Fox grumbled in between sips of his coffee as Jaune looked slightly sad about how right Fox was.

The group returned to talking about their plans for the break until they had to split up to make their airships departure.


After three hours aboard an airship and a half hour walk team R_BY had finally made it to the Rose-Xiao long home. The home itself was a double story log cabin that was fairly far away from the main town with a large forest between the two. Outside the house was a bed of roses under each first floor window.

Upon seeing the house, Ruby squealed and used her semblance to bolt to the front door.

"Welcome home." Yang said as the pair continued to walk towards the house.

"Are you sure your dad will be ok with me being here for the break?" Blake asked, still nervous about the situation.

"Yeah he's cool with it. Just don't mention that you're crushing on his daughter otherwise you'll get the 'If you hurt my little girl i'll break you' speech " Yang said as they walked out of the forest into the clearing the house was situated in.

"truthfully i'm surprised you haven't said anything like that. I mean you chased off that boy from Vacuo because you thought he was too flirty." Blake said, trying to get the idea of Ruby's family coming after her out of her head.

"Well you're not together yet. No point scaring you away now." Yang replied, shrugging her shoulders.

"Yet?" Blake asked, confused as to what Yang was referring to.

Yang just shrugged while flashing that cheeky smirk she always wore.

"Anyway I don't think there's anything you could do to scare me away. I really like her Yang." Blake said as they walked into the house.

"Good answer. Come on i'll show you where you'll be sleeping. Oh you won't need to wear your bow while you're here dad and Qrow have no problem with Faunus." Yang said as she lead Blake upstairs.

"Ok." Blake replied as she removed her bow, freeing her ears to the warm air.

The inside of the house seemed more spacious than outside would suggest. Infront of the door was a small hallway that lead to the stairs to the second floor. To the left of the hallway was the living room with a three seater couch and two recliners on either side with a screen hanging on the wall. A door in the back of the room lead to what Blake assumed was a workshop from the sign hanging on the door that read Ruby's workshop. To the right of the hallway was a dining room with a large table with eight chairs surrounding it. From their Blake assumed it lead into the kitchen from the small glance she got before following Yang upstairs.

The upstairs was similar to downstairs as the walls were covered in wooden panelling and floorboards. On the walls were numerous photos of Yang and Ruby, some were just the two of them while others had them with Qrow and who Blake assumed were Taiyang and Summer. The top of the stairs led into a large hallway with multiple doors on either side.

"Ok so the bathroom is the door at the end there." Yang said as she pointed to a door at the end of the hallway. "That door there is Qrows room and the one opposite is Dad's." Yang pointed at two doors opposite each other at the other end of the hallway to the bathroom. "And these two are where the three of us will be staying." Yang pointed at two doors in front of the landing.

One was a simple wooden door with a pattern carved into the wood. The other was a similar door but had both Yangs and Ruby's symbols painted at about head height and two small red and yellow hand prints lower down.

"So you will be staying in that room with Ruby and I will be staying in this room with the Ice Queen when she arrives." Yang said as she spun around to face Blake.

"I can't kick you out of your room Yang." Blake replied as she started walking towards the spare room.

"Well its either with Ruby or Zwei you pick." Yang stated, Causing Blake to freeze and slowly turn to face her partners smirk.

Knowing that Yang was serious about locking Zwei in with her, Blake decided to not argue with the blonde and slowly walked towards Ruby and Yang's room.

"Good. I'm gonna go find Rubes and tell her the arrangements. Oh and Blake i'm trusting you. I don't want to hear you doing anything to my little sis." Yang said with a wink before she ran downstairs leaving a highly embarrassed Faunus standing outside her room.


Yang found Ruby out the back running around with Zwei chasing after her.

"Hey Rubes, Blake is staying in our room." Yang called after the redhead.

"Huh? But why?" Ruby asked quizzically, stopping in her tracks.

"Well I just wanted you to be closer to your 'good friend'." Yang said with a wink.

This caused the redhead to blush and nearly miss Zwei as he jumped into her arms

"Yang." Ruby whined as the blush deepened.

"Come on we still need to unpack and then you can help with dinner." Yang said as she walked back into the house.


After the girls had finished unpacking and eaten dinner the trio sat in the lounge room watching a movie on the tv.

Ruby had been glancing at Blake's ears for most of the night. She still felt like it was her fault everyone knew Blake was a faunus now. While her external injuries had healed the doubt didn't seem to go away and it was causing a lot of problems for her plan to ask Blake out.

Yang had noticed the looks as well but had thought it was because Ruby was waiting for the two to be alone so she could talk to Blake.

"I'm gonna turn in early. You two have fun." Yang said as she walked out of the living room and up the stairs to her room.

"Ruby is there something wrong." Blake asked as soon as Yang was out of earshot.

"N-no no nothing's wrong. Sorry i'm just not use to seeing your ears." Ruby lied, not wanting Blake to realise the real reason.

"you sure nothings wrong?" Blake asked, not fully believing what Ruby said.

"Im sure. I think i'm going to turn in too. What about you Blake?" Ruby asked as she stood up and stretched.

"I think I will too." Blake said while staring at Ruby's abs, thankful that Yang wasn't here to catch her.

The two girls walked upstairs and climbed into their respective beds, wishing each other goodnight and drifted off to sleep.


Yay we made it to Patch. I had an interesting time looking up the design of the house because I had to rewatch episode 12 of volume 3 to get as many clues as I could and I hate having to see Yang like that.

Obviously I had to use some creativity to design the rest of the house so if you liked to description or if it helped you imagine what the house looked like please let me know as i'm still getting use to describing buildings.

If you enjoyed, hated, have constructive criticism or have a question please leave a review or pm me so I can make this story and any future stories I write better.

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