Here's chapter 40 everyone.
"Yang no." Weiss said to the blonde as she was changing out of her school uniform.
"I think you mean, Yang yes." The blonde brawler responded with a grin. "You know this day was coming. And if I don't get you to, I know Coco will get Velvet to for sure."
Weiss groaned and took off her shoes. "I hate you...but fine. Still, if you even try to bring us to some stupid boy band concert, I'll freeze your hair."
Yang rolled her eyes. "Like I'd bring you to a concert like that. Only people who can rock out with the best of them should be there." She said with a smirk.
"If you think that will get me upset, you are sorely mistaken, Xiao Long." Weiss stated while changing into her normal attire.
Ruby sighed and spoke up. "Guys! Stop arguing and decide if you're going on this double date or not." The team leader whined as she finished changing into her normal clothes.
Weiss glared at her partner. "Gee, Ruby. I wonder if you should blab that outside of the dorm next time. It would be just wonderful for people to walk by and hear that." The heiress said in a sarcastic tone.
Ruby stuck her tongue out at the heiress. "Bleh. Don't be so paranoid. It's not like I said who you're going with."
Yang spoke up. "You know, she's got a point. So, are you gonna say yes or no to it?"
"I'll decide later." Weiss responded. "Now will you stop pestering me about it. I'd like to go through one day without feeling any stress."
Yang sighed. "But how is this stressful? Heck, this is more like a de-stresser if you ask me."
Ruby poked Weiss a few times to get her attention, making the heiress groan. "Ugh, Ruby...you can just say my name if you want my attention."
"This way is more fun." Ruby smiled. "Anyways, I was thinking about it and maybe if you're a little worried about going on a date, you can have it here at Beacon."
Yang didn't look impressed with that idea. "The school? Really? But that's soooo boring, sis."
"To you, but I think you guys can find something really fun to do here. You just need to be creative is all, and as team leader, seeing you guys arguing is not helping our team dynamic, so I'm declaring that you and Weiss are going to go on a fun double date here at the school." Ruby said in a semi-serious tone.
Yang blinked a few times and looked at the heiress. "Um, is she allowed to pull rank like that on us?"
Weiss rolled her eyes. "No, she isn't." The heiress glared at her partner. "In fact, I find that to be a very disrespectful attempt."
Ruby's serious tone changed at that point. "W-Wait, that wasn't what I was going for! I was only trying to get you two to stop arguing!" The team leader whined.
Blake walked into the room after hearing Ruby's whines from the other side. "Is there something going on here that I should know about?" The cat Faunus asked.
"Rubes is just trying to make a double date really boring is all." Yang answered, making her sister pout. "What? You know that being here for a date would be a step down from what we could be doing."
Ruby sighed and sat on Weiss' bed. "I give up!"
Weiss felt a little bad for her partner, knowing she only wanted to help. "Well...I mean it could be a good idea."
Blake spoke up. "You spent a few day, if not weeks trying to tell everyone about you and…" She stopped herself and closed the door, respecting Weiss' privacy. "Sorry. Anyways, it took you some time to let us know about you and Velvet being together, so I actually think having a date here would be a decent idea, especially for some more privacy."
Ruby's mood got a bit better after hearing Weiss and Blake giving her idea a bit of a boost, while the heiress sighed and nodded in agreement. "Yes, I suppose you are correct about that."
Yang crossed her arms and thought about it for a few seconds. "Eh, well I guess when you put it that way it would be easier for Weiss and Velvet, but hey, one of these days we are so going out into Vale for a double date."
"Why don't you focus on single dates instead, Xiao Long. My love life doesn't revolve around you." Weiss responded in an annoyed tone.
Yang glared back at the heiress. "Well excuse me for trying to make things more exciting for you and your bun-."
The heiress zipped over and covered the blonde's mouth. "If you even think about saying that again...I don't think I need to say what would happen." She said as Yang noticed the blush on her face.
The blonde brawled could only chuckle against Weiss' palm at the sight of the heiress blushing, so she simply nodded. After Weiss groaned and moved her hand away, Yang spoke. "Alright, alright. No need to be all threatening, snow angel."
Weiss threw her hands up in annoyance, not caring for that nickname as she opened the door. "I'm not dealing with this nonsense. Blake, please handle messaging me when this one is ready to do whatever it is we're going to do." Once Blake nodded in response, Weiss left the room, not wanting to deal with talking about the double date plans anymore.
Yang shrugged and sat on Blake's bed to listen to music on her scroll. "Can't blame me for trying." She said after putting her earphones on.
Blake looked to Ruby, but more for answers as she gave her a questioning look. "Uh, I guess Yang just wants Weiss to be more active with dating, but I don't think we should rush her like this."
Sighing at that, Blake stepped over to her partner and pulled on one of her earphones. "Hey, you know meddling will get you a frozen prison, right?"
Yang raised an eyebrow at that and took off the other earphone. "Um, say what now?"
"If you're trying to get Weiss to go out more, that won't end well for you." Blake stated.
"Ohhhh, yeah no that's not what's happening here. I really just wanna go on a fun double date, but if she doesn't want to, then I won't bug her about it anymore." Yang assured.
Blake didn't look convinced. "If that was the case, then why did I walk in here and you two continued to talk about it? Clearly Weiss wasn't too happy with it."
Yang sighed. "I was just trying to help her out a bit, and you know Velvet wouldn't wanna stay stuck here all the time."
"That isn't for us to decide." Blake reiterated.
The blonded frowned. "Okay, okay. Look, I'll apologize to her, and heck, I'll even cancel our ideas for the date, but fair warning, if that happens, Coco and I are still heading out to Vale today."
"Not sure why you need to warn us about that. What you do on your own time is your business." Blake said while sending a message to Velvet after she walked out of the dorm.
"Has Coco bugged you about a double date?"
After waiting a few moments, Blake got a text back after she left the room for some privacy.
"Actually, yes. How did you know?"
Blake wrote out her message with a sigh.
"Yang. She was asking Weiss about it. I'm just making sure she and Coco won't go overboard on you two."
The rabbit Faunus' reply came after a couple of moments.
"I'll make sure that Coco doesn't do anything stupid. Is Weiss okay though? I haven't heard from her today."
Blake figured classes and Yang's pestering was getting in the way of that.
"She's a little upset about the double date pestering, but I'm sure she's heading over to talk to you about it here in a bit. She did just leave the room after all."
While waiting on Velvet's message, Blake started thinking about that boy they saw in Vale. She blushed when she caught herself thinking about him and shook her head when she got the reply from the rabbit Faunus.
"Thanks for letting me know, Blake. Oh, actually I think that's her now. Gotta go. Ttyl, Blake!"
Black chuckled at that, knowing Velvet would be able to calm the white haired heiress. "One problem down, and I didn't have to do a thing."
"Not having to do what now?" Coco suddenly asked the black cat.
Blake was a bit startled by that as she turned to the fashionista. "Coco, oh, uh, well your girlfriend bugged Weiss about that double date you two wanted to go on. I thought I'd need to fix the problem, but it looks like Velvet is already doing that."
Coco sighed. "Do I need to talk to her?"
"Yang? No, it's fine. She already feels bad about it, so no point in making her feel worse." Blake reasoned.
"True, so were you trying to find Weiss or something?" Coco asked.
Blake shook her head. "No, I just needed some space is all. Sometimes the arguments in that room can get a bit…" She thought about it for a moment. "Actually, no, they get very annoying."
Coco chuckled. "You don't say? Yang actually told me about the first night you four came to Beacon. You had to blow out a candle?"
The cat Faunus sighed. "Yeah, but only because Ruby and Weiss wouldn't stop arguing. And you know Yang goes on the defensive if anyone is messing with Ruby."
"All too true, but seriously, first night you four met must've been tough on the whole team building stuff." Coco remarked.
Blake shrugged in response. "It worked itself out eventually, probably thanks to Velvet for getting Weiss to be a bit more open about things."
"Right, well I'm gonna go hang out with Yang for a bit. See ya when I see ya." Coco said as she waved her off when walking to the RWBY dorm.
Blake went back to her own thing and walked down the hall, wondering if she could finally go through a day on her own without worrying over her team. "Ruby and Yang should be fine. Weiss has Velvet to help her calm down...what can I do?" She asked herself as she managed to get outside after a few minutes.
The black haired cat Faunus looked around the courtyard and thought about how peaceful it was, but also took in the sight of the students there. Some were just teams relaxing outside, while a few were spending time alone.
Blake started to remember the days of her time in the White Fang. Mostly about what she'd do in the time she wasn't on missions. Her so called 'friends' weren't the types to really do anything other than discuss mission details and train their skills.
Is this really a place for me?
That was the one question that plagued her on some nights, but her thoughts were elsewhere when she barely moved out of the way of a banana peel that fell from a certain monkey Faunus' grip. "What in the world?" Blake looked up and her eyes widened when she saw the blonde haired Faunus from the other day.
"Huh, whoops. Sorry about that." Sun said, scratching his head in embarrassment at almost dropping a banana peel on Blake. "Uh...you aren't mad, right?"
Blake was still in shock that the boy was even at Beacon. "W-What are you doing here? How did you even get here?"
"I guess we're skipping the whole banana peel stuff." He replied and jumped off off the tree. "Look, I figured you and your friends would be here. I just came over to apologize is all."
Blake crossed her arms, remembering how angry she was when she first met the monkey boy. "Well you have the worst way to open up on conversations, seeing how this is the second time you managed to drop a banana peel like this."
"Uh, yeah." Sun said, feeling a bit guilty about both times he did that. "So… What's up?"
"What's up? That's all you have to ask?" Blake questioned, looking unamused by him.
Sun sighed in response. "Come on. I'm just trying to make conversation so I can actually apologize to you about the whole following thing."
"Starting with the word sorry would be a thousand times better than what you've done so far." Blake stated, still looking unamused.
"No, that makes sense...uh, sorry?" Sun tried apologizing, but seeing as the cat Faunus didn't say anything and tapped her boot against the ground a few times, he sighed. "Okay, okay. I'm sorry for sneaking around you guys and I'm sorry for almost dropping a banana peel on you."
Blake rolled her eyes and lowered her arms. "I guess that's a start. Now besides apologizing, why else are you here?"
"Just checking out what this place is like, since I'm gonna be staying here for awhile. You know, for the event coming up." Sun answered.
"Event? Oh, you mean the tournament? But that isn't happening for some time." Blake noted.
"Yeah, but I got lucky with my team being picked to be transferred over here for the time being. And before you say it, no it isn't some kind of secret plan to get the jump on the competition." Sun explained.
"I doubt you'd even come up with that kind of plan anyways." Blake stated, not trying to blush in front of the boy.
"Man, you don't let up do you?" When Blake shook her head, Sun groaned. "Alright, what can I do to get you not to hate me? Seriously, just name it."
Blake sighed. "For one you can drop the stereotypes of being a monkey Faunus...unless you really do just enjoy climbing things all day." She didn't want to be offensive about his own choices if they really were his own.
Sun chuckled. "Huh, yeah I do like that kind of stuff, but hey, being able to is more for me, so I stick to it. Still though, anything else?"
"I...I guess you can just keep doing what you're doing, minus the sneaking around part. You did apologize, so that's a start." Blake responded.
"Great, so, anything you wanna do?" Sun asked, making Blake blush a little, since she didn't expect him to ask her to hang out.
"U-Uh, well...Um, I don't know. I don't really have any plans today." Blake replied, suppressing her blush before the monkey boy could notice.
"You're stuttering there. You doing alright?" Sun inquired.
Blake put on a straight face to answer him. "I'm fine." She looked back at the school, knowing her team would be okay without her for a day. "Alright, I give. Is there anything you'd like to do?"
"Heh, well when you put it that way, why not just get something to eat. Oh, and just to keep your worries under lock and key, I'm not gonna say anything about, well you know." He pointed at her bow.
Blake's ears wiggled under the bow, making her growl a little. "How did you even know about it?"
"Whoa, chill out. I just figured that a bow like that doesn't really twitch all that much, so...maybe you should try not to move the ears so much...just saying." Sun looked a bit nervous with the death glare Blake was giving him.
Still, Blake did get what he was trying to say. "Well, yeah okay, I guess that would be better not to so much."
"Why are you even hiding them by the way? I feel like you'd look better without the bow." Sun remarked, making Blake blush again.
Blake brushed a bit of her hair with her hand and looked away for a moment to try and hide the blush. "Not everyone is accepting in this world…"
"I'd say not to let them get to you, but everyone is different, so I won't say it. Still, I get it." The monkey Faunus leaned against the tree he had climbed before. "It doesn't mean others won't accept us though."
Blake thought about her team, and how they didn't have any negative things to say about her ears. "I know… I know."
"Touchy subject," Sun said and moved from the tree. "Right. Look, let's just decide on where to go to eat. Cafeteria? Vale? I don't mind whatever you pick."
Thinking about it to herself, the cat Faunus felt it would be best to get some much needed fresh air. "Vale sounds fine to me, but first, are we going to have any problems with the police?"
Sun shrugged. "Depends on if those guys recognize me or not. I managed to slip by them again after all."
Blake groaned in response. "How is that a good enough answer?"
"Uh, well I mean if we do have to run away from some cops, at least it'll be fun. And besides, if it is those two guys again, it won't be all that hard to get away from them. They're pretty slow." Sun commented.
Rolling her eyes, Blake simply sighed and walked past the boy. "Fine. It's better than standing around here all day." She said while walking to the airships to Vale.
Sun ran over to catch up. "That's the spirit." As they were walking, Sun wanted to be rid of the silence. "Soooo, what kind are they?"
"What?" Blake looked confused and waited for an explanation.
"Uh, the bow...you know, under it. What kind?" Sun asked again.
Blake looked around for anyone who may be around, so once she saw people were far enough away, she answered. "Cat." Her answer was quick as she entered the airship, while Sun stopped to take it in.
"Huh...I better watch out for the claws then." Sun muttered while following Blake, not wanting to be hit for that comment.
More stuff for Blake is always a good thing. And more stuff for everyone else is expected. So I hope you guys can let me know if you feel that some characters should have some more time to be in these chapters.
To JJ- I was debating on saving that moment a little later, but I just roll with things sometimes, so I'm glad you enjoyed that little scene. And thanks. The surgery was scary, but at this point I'm way past recovery, so I'm doing well.
I hoped you all enjoyed chapter 40. Remember, reviews are welcomed, but not required. See you all in chapter 41.
