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Chapter 10:

Kiss of life

When Weiss and Ruby arrived at the scene they had to force themselves through the dense crowd of onlookers. It wasn't every day a girl who was literally on fire willingly jumped into the waterway after all.

All of a sudden Ruby could see the familiar flash of yellow through the crowd. She tapped Weiss onto her shoulder to get her attention, as the heiress was also looking for the blonde of their team, and pointed towards the direction she had seen her sister.

When they managed to get out of the crowd of people they were able to see the girl in question. She was hunched over something. Ruby immediately knew something was wrong and whispered in Weiss' ear: "We need to get these people away from here."

A small smile graced the heiress' lips. "Leave that to me."

"Alright people nothing to see here, so everybody please turn around and go back to your duties!" Weiss spoke with authority in her voice, showing off her skills as the cold heiress of the biggest company in the world.

Those who recognized her turned around immediately and walked away, the Schnee's influence reached far and wide in Remnant, nobody wanted to invoke the wrath of someone closely related to the company. So Weiss being its heiress made them run off faster than one could have said: "No."

The others followed their colleagues or just the crowd in general, only two rather young men stayed where they were. They were apparently trying to be brave in front of the heiress as they disobeyed her command. Weiss scowled which made them run away immediately with their tail between their legs and soon they were alone on the quay.

The red and white duo made haste to their blonde friend. Weiss noticed she was holding something, something very familiar.

Blake. The little girl was lying limply in Yang's hands.

Her heart almost stopped beating as she took in Yang's teared face. She gasped and whispered with a shocked voice: "Yang, what happened?"

But the blonde didn't seem to hear her.

Earlier, just before Ruby and Weiss had arrived on the scene, she had gotten an epiphany. If she was quick, her partner could yet be saved. There was still hope.

And that hope was in the form of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation or what is more commonly referred to as the kiss of life, which was exactly was she was doing. She dried her tears as she knew there was no time for those and got to work.

It was very awkward to do so however, as Blake was only three inches tall instead of a few feet. Yang had position her head in such a way so that she was able to put her mouth onto her partner's mouth while she still had to be able to block off her nose. Yang's lips were so big in comparison to the little girl that she could give her whole face, or maybe even her body a giant kiss.

The task was difficult enough on its own, but what really was the cherry on the cake, was that she had to compress Blake's chest. On a normal person it was already risky not to break their ribs, but on the little girl, Yang had to restrain her power a lot - her semblance meant that she wasn't really one to hold back.

Luckily for them Professor Goodwitch had given them a lesson about first aid and she had almost literally pounded the information into their heads about how to perform a perfect mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. If Yang hadn't been grateful for the lesson before, then she certainly was right now, that was if it actually worked of course.

As Yang tried her very best to blow air into her teammate's tiny mouth she was getting aggravated. She knew she had to keep her emotions in check, but she was already the hotheaded one of the team so her and this nerve-racking task where a bad combination to begin with.

One time Blake had been learning her to defuse a bomb as the blonde had asked her to do so after their little problem on the train. Yang had completely lost her patience and had kicked the dummy they used almost a mile away. Yang had expected Blake to be angry, but instead she had gotten a small smile. "Well that's one way to do it."

Thinking about her partner made Yang try even harder, she wasn't planning on giving up on her friend anytime soon. She hadn't before, so why should she now?

But Blake wasn't responding to the gusts of air the blonde was offering her, she kept lying motionless on the stone floor in front of Yang. No twitching, nothing.

Ruby and Weiss had been standing there the whole time, doing absolutely nothing. Not that they wanted to do anything, they knew Yang needed all the concentration she could muster so they would be just in the way if they tried to help.

The red and white duo were simply looking at her, their gazes drilling into her back, but Yang didn't acknowledge them. It was just her and her unconscious partner.

'Come on Blake!' Yang rooted internally as she was too busy blowing air in Blake's mouth to actually form words.

She blew with all her might so her friend would be able to get every bit of air in her lungs.

'You can do it!'

She blew again and gave more compressions, she was beginning to feel a little dizzy from the exercise.

'Don't give up!'

Yang was beginning to get desperate again, her calm demeanor was slowly being demolished. 'Why isn't this working?!'

"Please! Blake! Don't die!" Yang broke down as she shouted against the limp girl, not caring that Ruby and Weiss and anyone who might have been eavesdropping. She had given up. Fresh tears began to stain her face, as she took one last, shaky breath before blowing it with the last of her powers into Blake's mouth.

All of a sudden there was movement. It was a slight twitch, barely noticeable to the naked eye, but Yang felt it as she still had their lips connected.

Oh boy did she feel it.

She almost jumped up into surprise. Her sobs immediately stopped as she waited with a pounding heart for something to happen.

Blake's fingers were twitching. Yang couldn't believe her eyes. A few seconds ago she had firmly believed the girl was too far gone to be saved.

Suddenly Blake began to cough violently, her body trying to get the water out of her lungs. Ruby almost yelped in surprise at the loud sounds suddenly breaking the silence.

When the coughing died, Blake tried so sit up. She was failing horribly at doing so however as she had just come out of her unconscious state.

Yang was the first one of her three teammates to react. She knelt down and slowly prodded a finger against Blake side, to feel if she was actually real and not some delusion created by her mind. The prod made the girl almost jump in the air in surprise, she actually would have jumped if her mind wasn't still recovering. Yang got the effect she wanted however, a the biggest smile ever appeared on Yang's face.

She wrapped her hands around the little girl and scooped her up. Blake offered zero to no resistance, not that she could. The blonde brought her partner to her chest and began giving her a gentle yet strong hug.

To say she was ecstatic would have been the understatement of the year. Tears began to form once more in her lilac eyes, but they weren't out of sadness however, but out of pure happiness. She held her friend even tighter as she was bawling her eyes dry. Ruby and Weiss quickly joined the two. Ruby had a huge grin on her face, a few tears also rolling down her cheeks, while Weiss finally let the breath escape she didn't know she was holding.

Yang eventually got her ability to speak back as her sobs began to lessen. "I'm so glad you're okay, Blake!" Yang said while she released her hold on her partner a bit to give her some room to breathe.

When she saw Blake's face, she was surprised to find that the girl was looking more confused than anything else. "What happened?" she muttered out while rubbing her head a little, it seemed like she still had some sort of headache.

Yang's grin faltered as she began recalling the events that had occurred not even ten minutes ago. "Well, you kinda fell into the water and I saved you."

Ruby gasped while Weiss frowned, making Yang realize they had no idea what had happened either.

Yang could almost see the radars in Blake's head trying to figure out the situation. "Dust, I remember now, the bag, the lid, the water… I was so close to the surface but I never made it… How did you save me?" Blake asked her breathlessly.

Yang began to rub her neck sheepishly. "I kinda just kissed you really hard…" Blake face turned red really fast. 'She's even cuter when she blushes!'

Weiss' palm hit her face without missing a beat. "Do you really have to phrase it like that, you dunce?" Yang's inner-Yang was euphoric as she had made another bad joke.

Ruby exclaimed: "Hey, I'm the dunce!" but Weiss completely ignored her.

Blake observed the two before turning around to face Yang once more. "Well, for what's it's worth thank you, Yang, for saving me." Blake awarded her with a small but honest smile, and that was good enough for her. A slow shiver ran up Yang's spine - if Yang had to jump into the river again just to see that smile, then she would do it without thinking twice.

"No problem, Blakey anytime!" She exclaimed happily before hugging the little girl again. She didn't know why, but every time she held her partner this close, a warm, fuzzy feeling was being emitted from her chest.

Weiss interrupted their little touchy-feely moment. "Seriously, Yang, what happened? You scared Ruby and I there for a moment."

Yang had to sigh deeply while she recovered the memories from the past hour or so. Blake's smile had vanished and she was looking at her with a curious look, probably wanting to know as well why she suddenly had been swimming in the waters of one of Vale's biggest waterways.

She started: "Well it kinda started while I was waiting for you two to finish inside of the Dust store. I was feeling a tad tired as we had been on the road for the entirety for the day, so I decided to close my eyes for a few moments and take a quick nap. Suddenly this man yanked the purse out of my fingers and started legging it. I dropped everything else I had and pursued the thief of course."

"That explains these!" Ruby chirped, showing the bags to the rest of her team. "We found these just outside the shop after we heard a lot of commotion coming from the street."

"And that also explains why we saw a giant fireball in the middle of the road," Weiss said with a scowl plastered on her face.

"He, he," Yang said while rubbing her neck sheepishly, she knew she had to really tone down her semblance from time to time. She continued: "Anyway, after some chasing through the streets we ended up on that bridge over there. I guess as a desperate measure he flung the purse into the water - got away with it too." (E/N: And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!)

Yang was surprised at the angry looks her sister and Weiss had on their faces, she had expected it from her sister, but not from Weiss. She doubted she had seen the heiress ever looked so angry before.

"I jumped into the river and eventually found you before carrying you to safety. As you were unconscious, I started giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, which worked, eventually." Yang finished.

"Good thing that you were so quick-witted, sis!" Ruby exclaimed.

"Shame that bastard got away though," Weiss said darkly.

Yang couldn't help but smile. "We'll get him next time, I promise."

The girl in her arms suddenly yawned widely while make a cute, almost catlike, noise which made her three teammates faint. "It's getting late, why don't we get back to the dorm?" Blake proposed as if nothing happened.

They arrived at their dorm about an hour later, Yang had carried her partner in her hands as she had wanted to make sure she was safe.

When Yang saw Blake's bed she leapt on immediately and asked Blake: "Do you want to sleep here again, or do I need to move you to my bed?"

Somehow Blake looked very flustered when she answered and even tripped over her words which was very unlike her. Yang decided to let it go as it wasn't really a time for jokes nor was she in the mood for them. "I… I w-would like it i-if you let me sl-sleep… with you." The last few words almost came out as a whisper.

Giving her an affectionate smile, she laid the girl down across her stomach.

Ruby and Weiss weren't feeling tired at all and decided to go to the cafeteria to grab a late snack, which left Blake and Yang alone in the room.

Her partner closed her eyes a bit, trying to nap a bit. The room was quite without their teammates which caused Yang to sink in her thoughts. A lot had happened these couple of days, and she hadn't really had a moment to peacefully rationalize her thoughts before. She didn't really count her breakdown at the hospital as she could barely call that peacefully.

She thought about the vow she had made to her sister. She realized she hadn't told Blake those exact words yet, but then again, she was waiting for the right moment to do so. Why? She didn't really know herself.

She had promised to keep her partner safe and she had failed abysmally today. Blake had almost died and it would have been her fault too… She knew it wasn't really justified to blame herself for what happened, if there hadn't been a thief this wouldn't have happened. Then again, if she hadn't felt asleep then it probably wouldn't have happened as well.

Her thoughts of being the worst teammate ever intruded her mind again, but she remembered what Ruby had said and squished them down as soon as they came up. She was Blake's first and perhaps only line of defense against the dangers of the world.

'Blake almost died.'

The thought tore through her mind like a knife. It was so surreal to think that the girl on her stomach had barely survived, and yet it happened. She realized that she couldn't really imagine a world without her partner and friend, there would be something missing, like someone cut a part out of her memory.

Were their bonds really running that deep?

Yes, yes they were or at least hers were, although she doubted her partner was thinking very differently. The girl in question was taking a nap on her stomach after all.

The real question was: did she view her partner as anything more than just a friend? The thought was both exciting and scary at the same time.

She remembered the time Blake had called her a goddess. The girl may have been half-asleep, but Yang couldn't help but hope there was a hint of truth in her slurred statement. Since Blake had been shrunken Yang had learned much more about her partner, probably because she was much more vulnerable at this size.

Yang's thoughts drifted towards her friends body, her long (before this happened) and soft black hair, her striking golden eyes, her gorgeous, long legs and, if she was entirely honest, a booty to die for. And, to top it all off, the two fluffy, cute cat ears perched on top of her head. Yang knew that people were almost always looking at her instead of Blake whenever they walked through the streets or hallways. She couldn't grasp that people almost ignored the beautiful angel walking beside her.

She opened her eyes and ended her thought train as she was afraid her mind would go completely down to gutter.

'I'm completely gushing over her' she realised.

She couldn't even think about her partner without her heart exploding into thousands of butterflies. Yeah, she realized she had it bad.

Yang Xiao Long had completely and hopelessly fallen in love with Blake Belladonna, her partner.

What on earth could she do?

A/N:

Shout to my two fantastic editors: Duranda1 and Heatrules!

Whew, another one done, the streak continues! I realize this is actually posted one day too late, but that is because one of my editors didn't have time to read it this weekend.

This story has reached 55 favorites and 85 followers, which is (at least in my perspective) completely insane! Thank you guys so much! Like I said in the begin of this chapter, I'll be writing a one shot to celebrate the 100 follower milestone (once we get there of course!), so don't forget to vote for your favorite character and pairing!

Reviews time!

To Rusk:

Aren't cliffhangers the loveliest? He is indeed a lucky man, but don't worry, he'll get what he deserves eventually...

To dracohalo117:

Yup, kill him dead. How about reviving him to have to pleasure of killing him all over again? Sounds lovely.

To uberparagon:

Sorry about that, I tend to rather enjoy a good cliffhanger here and there. But don't worry, she's fine!

To SilverCivic:

Thanks mate, my heart warmed while reading your comment. About that update, well here it is! *awkward silence*

Like always, If there is anything you would like to see, just ask! (no promises though)

Review, follow and favorite and maybe Yang'll give you a kiss as well...

DragonSlayer out!

*Yang grabs me by throat*

Yang: Why weren't we included last chapter?

Me: I'm sorry, I was tired!

Blake: Yang, let him go. *Yang lets go, I sink to the ground* I do have question though.

Me: Shoot.

Blake: Why do you like to put me into life-threatening situations so much?

Yang: That's a very good question! *Cocks Ember Celica, eyes turn red, leans over me menacingly*

Me: Uhm... Uhm... I'm not quite sure either...