I hope that everyone likes the premise of the story so far! Please read/review and I will try to find more time to finish this story (which could still be a long way off). Hopefully, it holds everyone over to season 2 though!
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Letting the door shut heavily behind her, Yang fought the desire to lay down on the ground right there in the foyer and go to sleep for a long, long time. It might even be worth the scolding from Weiss. Well…maybe not.
Deciding that she could at least reach the sofa in the giant study to the right of the main entrance, Yang clumsily pulled off her boots and trudged over, throwing herself down face first, allowing her right arm and leg to hang off at an odd angle. Moving them just seemed like too much effort right now. Not when her head was swimming with so many conflicting emotions at the moment. When she jumped out of bed this morning, she had not been ready for this day at all.
After a few minutes, Yang heard voices coming down the stairs into the front entryway. The next second, she heard a gasp and immediately knew what was coming next.
"YANG!" Weiss shouted shrilly from the foyer, stomping into the study in order to properly scold the girl, trailed silently by Ruby Rose. "How many times do I have to tell you to put your boots into the closet where they belong?!"
The girl under scrutiny rolled over on the sofa sluggishly in order to properly face the enraged heiress.
"I think one more time ought to do it," she answered with a weak grin, knowing that Weiss' face would turn an extra shade of red at the response.
Stomping her foot like a child, Weiss yelled "Ugh!" throwing up her arms in exasperation at Yang's insolence.
It was at this time that Ruby decided to step in and try to placate the situation between her older sister and girlfriend before it could escalate into a large argument like it usually did.
"Weiss, I'm sure she has a good reason for just leaving them there…" Ruby looked at her hopefully, while Weiss crossed her arms over her chest and glared her. Yang sighed, realizing that she would need to give them her reason for so flagrantly disobeying general princess etiquette.
"I found her."
The admission came out soft and barely audible, but the meaning behind it rang throughout the room as if Yang had shouted it at the top of her lungs.
She sat up on the sofa, allowing Ruby to quickly take a seat beside her. The young girl threw her arms around Yang's shoulders in a comforting hug. Yang held on to her sister's arm, trying to soak up as much comfort as she could from the young girl.
Hearing a small cough, Yang looked up to see Weiss still standing with her arms crossed in front of them.
"Well it's about time you found her," she stated flatly. "You've only been following every piece of gossip you've heard about a Faunus frequenting an area for years now." Weiss tried to roll her eyes at Yang to underscore her sarcasm, but couldn't quite pull it off. Her slightly furrowed brow gave away her own concern over the missing Faunus girl.
Sighing again, Yang said, "I told her about the Grimm attacks that have been happening and…she said she wanted back on the team."
At this, Ruby gave a small squeal from beside her on the sofa. Weiss shot her a glare that quickly silenced the brunette as she turned back to Yang, regal annoyance back at full power.
"She thinks that we will just let her back in, just like that?" Weiss snapped her fingers before she began pacing angrily across the room. "She hasn't trained with us since Beacon, for crying out loud, and she's not even an official huntress! Plus, for all we know, she could be the one dropping Grimm in the streets in some sort of Faunus independence movement!"
Yang felt anger start to bubble up at that statement and opened her mouth to let Weiss have it, but thankfully Ruby stepped in first.
"H-hey, Weiss, you know that's not true! Blake would never endanger innocent people like that," Ruby stammered as she jumped up to stand between two older girls upon feeling the rise in temperature coming from her sister.
Trying to calm down her aura, Yang closed her eyes and took two calming breaths before responding curtly, "One, Blake would never do that. And two, she was genuinely shocked to hear about the attacks. I don't think anyone could possibly be that good of an actor."
Weiss let out a "tsk" sound as she continued wearing a track into the study floor. "Well, it could be that Adam guy. We know he's definitely not against some Faunus/human violence."
As Yang opened her mouth to respond, she was interrupted by the sound of one of their scrolls beeping to announce a new alert. Weiss quickly strode over to pick the small tablet off the table to read the message, letting out a sigh as she read its contents.
"Another Grimm just got dropped in the middle of the Arroyo district. Beowulf."
"I'll get it!" Ruby yelled as she waved her arm enthusiastically in the air before racing to the hallway closet to retrieve Crescent Rose. Yang couldn't help smiling at her younger sister's enthusiasm as raced out the door.
"Be…" Weiss began, only to be cut off by the sound of the front door slamming as Ruby's semblance carried her outside at lightning speed, a trail of red rose petals left in her wake. Weiss sighed before finishing, "…safe."
"Aww…look at the ice princess, all concerned about my little sister!" Yang cooed as she stood up and sauntered over to the smaller girl, feeling her attitude pick up immensely at the small blush that crept onto Weiss' cheeks.
"S-shut up, oaf," was the only response the proud girl could come up with. As Yang started laughing, Weiss' blush only deepened.
"Doesn't it bother you, all of the random rose petals that get left everywhere?" Yang continued to joke at the other girl's expense.
Weiss looked at the petals littered across the ground, gaze softening slightly as she quietly responded, "I'm actually quite fond of them…"
Yang was so taken aback by the honest reply from the heiress, she couldn't even think of something witty to say in response. Weiss finally noticed what she had just admitted to and quickly picked up her frosty demeanor, throwing up her hands in defeat and stomping out of the room while saying, "Picking up rose petals is much better than trying to get burn marks off of things!"
Yang laughed as she walked into the foyer after the girl. Rose petals did clean up a lot faster than burn marks - that was for sure. They ruined less articles of clothing, as well. Her laughter quickly faded as her thoughts turned back to their ex-teammate.
Truthfully, most of what she had focused on over the past few years was simply finding the Faunus girl. She had never thought to plan out what to do if she found her, mostly because she didn't think Blake could be found. How do you find a ninja in a city the size of Vale? Yang had known that she had to at least try to find her, but why? So that they could become friends again? Teammates? More than that?
But Blake had wanted to come back. That's what she had shouted at Yang as she walked away, so why did Yang keep walking? Yang scrunched up her eyes in an effort to stop all of the thinking and come up with a simple conclusion.
It might actually be pretty nice to have Blake back, she thought to herself as she slowly picked up her boots and tossed them into the hall closet. As a teammate, at least.