Here's chapter 41, everyone.


"Please don't side with that blond oaf. I can't imagine why she would think that pestering someone over and over would be a good idea." Weiss complained as she was sitting next to her girlfriend on her bed.

Velvet chuckled in response. "I'm sure she means well. And besides, I know Coco wants to go on a double date too." When she noticed Weiss was still pouting. "Hey, come on. I'm not saying you have to do that today. Just think about it for another day and spend this day with me."

Weiss blushed and crossed her arms. "I-I do that a lot already."

"Are you saying you don't wanna spend time with me today?" Velvet asked, feigning sadness.

After seeing Velvet's saddened expression, Weiss' eyes widened and she bit her lip. After a moment she sighed. "That's not what I meant… I like spending time with you, but other people being added to that equation is not exactly a fond thought."

"See. It's a thought. So you might actually have a lot of fun, but I did say I wasn't going to force you to." Velvet reminded. "Did you get to eat breakfast yet?"

"No, but seeing as Yang probably won't let go of the idea of going on a double date, I suppose I should just wait till then to eat something." Weiss explained. Velvet got up and pulled Weiss up from the bed, surprising the heiress and making her yelp. "V-Velvet, what are you-?"

"Taking you to the cafeteria." Velvet answered instantly as she held Weiss' hand and walked her over to the door. "Not having breakfast is going to stress you out even more, so I'm just making sure that doesn't happen."

Weiss couldn't hold back her blush. "Well, yes, I guess that makes sense… Okay, breakfast sounds nice."

Velvet smiled and released Weiss' hand, knowing the heiress would be nervous about being out in public while holding hands. "If Yang or Coco does mention the date, we can let them know we'll be eating breakfast."

"Would it be okay if we didn't rush? And possibly spend a bit more time relaxing afterwards?" Weiss requested as Velvet opened the door for her.

Velvet still enjoyed how cute the heiress would get when requesting something. "You should know the answer by now. I always like spending time with you." The rabbit Faunus said in a more softer tone to keep anyone around them from hearing.

As they were both walking down the halls, they passed by a few students here and there. "Any idea on where you're going for that date?" A random student asked, making Weiss tense up, but she soon realized he was talking with another person.

"Not sure yet. I'm probably just gonna bring her to a burger place." Hearing that made Weiss cringe.

"A burger place? Why is that idiot not trying to go to somewhere more enjoyable? A date should be special and…" Weiss caught herself on her own thoughts and thought about where she'd even take Velvet on a date if they were to go on one.

"Weiss?" Velvet nudged her shoulder. "Is something wrong?"

"Huh? Oh, Uh, It's nothing. I guess I just didn't know what to talk about on the walk." Weiss said, not wanting to tell her about her thoughts.

While Velvet would pry a little more, they were out in public still and she didn't want to risk anything, so she simply nodded and they continued walking to the cafeteria. "Hmm, I wonder what today's breakfast will be."

"Hopefully something sanitary." Weiss sighed and shrugged. "That's all I ask for in a school cafeteria." She said as she and Velvet got in line with their trays.

"Sometimes unsanitary can be enjoyable." Velvet said with an encouraging smile. "I mean some would say pizza is unsanitary, but I really like it."

Weiss groaned and thought about a day when Ruby ate a pizza in bed and the crumbs from it were all over her sheets. "Clean up on that is very much annoying in my opinion."

"Well that's why if we eat it here, you won't have to worry." Velvet countered.

"Pizza for breakfast?" Weiss made a look of disgust.

Velvet giggled. "No, silly. I mean for lunch. I wouldn't force you to eat it, but I still like to praise good food when I can."

"Well… I suppose I can have that for lunch one day. Just don't expect me to gain a bad habit of eating that cheesy stuff." Weiss said as she walked up to get her food.

"I wouldn't expect you to, but don't forget to bring me along when you do eat it here." Velvet said, keeping her cheery attitude going.

Weiss raised an eyebrow as she was given strawberry pancakes and some milk for her tray. "If you mean to record me while I eat that bread and cheese, then don't even think about it. I don't need Coco to take your scroll one day and send that to Yang."

Velvet stepped up to get her pancakes next and then commented. "No, I wouldn't record it. But can you blame me for wanting to see it first hand?"

The heiress playfully rolled her eyes and found a table she could sit at where there weren't many others around. "You say it like it's this rare sight on an unbelievable scale." Weiss remarked as she sat down and laid her tray down on the table.

"I don't think that, but it's still a cute image in my head when I think about you eating pizza." Velvet said as she sat next to the white haired heiress.

Weiss blushed at the comment and was about to say something, but Nora and Ren had walked over. "Heya." Nora greeted as she almost slammed her tray on the table. "How's the-?"

Before she could continued, Ren flicked the back of his close friend's head. "We talked about that already." He said in regards to spilling the beans on Weiss and Velvet's relationship, since he had a feeling she was about to refer to them as a couple.

After the recoil, Nora rubbed the back of her head and pouted as she shut her eyes. "I wasn't gonna say anything… At least not loudly."

Weiss groaned in response and looked annoyed. "I'm having regrets on telling you, Valkyrie."

Nora opened one of her eyes and frowned. "Aww, but why?"

"You literally just gave the answer to why several seconds ago. Now stop playing dumb and respect what I requested of you." Weiss said in a stern tone, mostly doing her best to imitate her sister in that regard.

Nora made a pouting sound and Ren sat next to her. "Weiss is right. You know we can't ignore what she's asked of us. You're part of that too," He then leaned in to whisper. "And you know we all have those things we don't like speaking about in public till we're ready."

After he pulled away, Nora sighed and nodded. "Right. Sorry about that, Weiss."

Weiss was curious at what Ren said to his friend, but she wouldn't pry due to how she just chastised Nora on speaking up too much on private manners. "Fine, I accept your apology. But don't think you can do that and say sorry every time. It won't work on me."

Nora looked confused. "Saying sorry?"

Weiss nodded. "Yes. There is only so many times a person can say sorry before it loses its meaning. So don't get to that point and we'll be fine."

Ren coughed to get things back to a more leveled conversation. "Before that continues, I wanted to ask you something, Weiss." The heiress remained silent and waited on the boy's question. "Jaune was trying to come up with team names for attacks, and… Well I don't really get it. All he said was that if Ruby could do it, he could too."

Hearing her partner's name and the idea behind team attack names only made Weiss groan. "It's this ridiculous idea she had about us learning team attacks. The thing is, the team attacks aren't ridiculous. It's her indecisiveness that irked me."

"She couldn't get down to just one name for each attack?" Ren asked.

"That's the short answer. Still, I will give her points for dedication. Just a heads up though, if Jaune has that same amount of dedication, and indecisiveness like Ruby, you're in for some lengthy and meaningless team meetings." Weiss explained as she started cutting a piece of her pancake.

Ren sighed in response and Velvet chuckled. "I suppose I'm the lucky one out of us four. Coco hasn't even thought of that. Though it would be helpful on the battlefield."

"Well yes, but I have a feeling Coco wouldn't drag a meeting on for as long as those two dolts." Weiss said in reference to Ruby and Jaune.

Velvet lifted a piece of pancake up to her mouth with her fork and took a bite. After gulping it down, she shook her head. "Trust me, Coco has her moments of indecisiveness. Just go with her on a shopping day and you'll know what I mean."

"Wait, how long does she usually take?" Nora asked.

"On a slow day, I would say seven hours just buying two outfits." Velvet answered.

Weiss raised an eyebrow in response. "I don't see a problem with that." Velvet, Nora and Ren blinked, confused at how the heiress would just casually shrug that off, but then they realized who they were talking with. "What?"

Nora and Velvet began giggling at that, while Ren had smaller burst of chuckles. The heiress blushed at their reactions and was still unsure of why they were even doing so.


Later in the day two others in Vale were walking around the town. "Were you just bringing me here to walk around, or is there more to it?" Blake asked the monkey Faunus who was walking on her side.

"Uh, well I mean I'd let you decide on what we do. I'm the tourist after all." Sun joked.

"The tourist who asked a girl out to town. So in the end, you should already know where you wanted to go." Blake said in a monotone voice, making Sun groan.

"Aw, come on. I'm just trying to be friendly after not having the best introduction the other day. And besides, I'm not the best on choosing where to go to hangout. Just ask my team when you meet them." Sun said.

Blake sighed and spotted a food stand. "Honestly I just want some food to eat. Nothing really seems too exciting right now anyways, and I ate breakfast hours ago."

Sun shrugged and walked across the street with the secret cat Faunus. "Sounds fine to me, but I gotta know something. What is your definition of exciting? Everyone's different, so it's fun to see what kind of answers I get."

"Exciting is more in the moment for me. Anything can be exciting, I guess." Blake said as she sat on one of the seats in front of the food stand. "May I have your biggest plate of fish?" She asked the vendor, who nodded and began getting the food ready.

"Heh." Sun leaned in to whisper. "You sure you wanna play up the cat stereotype there after seeing me with bananas?"

Blake's eyes widened and she blushed heavily from that. "S-Shut up. Just because I like fish doesn't mean it's a stereotype."

Sun backed away and chuckled. "Just messing with ya is all."

"HEY! Get back here!" Both Blake and Sun turned to the source of the voice almost instantly. "Someone stop that guy! He's stealing my dust!" A middle aged man yelled after running out of the dust store.

"Please keep that plate for me when I get back!" Blake said as she got up from her seat and caught eye of the thief, so she wasted no time running after the purple cloaked wearing individual. "Ah crap." Sun said as he started running with Blake too so he could keep up. The food vendor sighed with the plate of fish and began putting it away for Blake.

The thief was clutching the bag of stolen dust close to their chest as they found an alley to run in. Blake was able to see the thief run into the alley, so she quickly made her way there and saw the cloaked thief climbing up the fire escape.

Blake growled and jumped, using her semblance to create a clone that propelled her upwards. The thief was surprised that they were being chased and quickly through the powdered form of dust into Blake's eyes, making the cat Faunus gasp as she closed her eyes and hit the fire escape instead of landing.

As she fell, she thought she'd feel the concrete below her, but instead she felt arms on her and she opened her eyes. "Huh?" Blake blushed when she realized that Sun had caught her.

"Don't worry. I wasn't gonna let you eat pavement." Sun grinned and put her down as he reached for his gunchucks. "I think I can still get a shot." He said and was about to fire, but Blake stopped him by grabbing his arm. "What are you doing? He's gonna get away."

"People here would react even more if they heard a gunshot. Just climb." Blake suggested as she jumped up and grabbed onto the ladder.

Sun sighed and put his weapon away, doing his best to follow Blake. The thief however was almost to the top, so Blake did her best to speed up her climbing.

"Hold on, I think I can help." Sun said as he began to channel his semblance. "Jump off the side when I say jump, okay." Blake didn't have time to argue, so she quickly nodded as the monkey Faunus clapped his hands together. "Jump!" Blake hopped off the side of the fire escape and saw a yellow light flash, which almost blinded her for a moment, but she kept her eyes opened. The light quickly formed into a yellow light clone of Sun and was under Blake, so it pushed her up, propelling her to the top of the roof.

Blake panted when she got on the roof and looked over the side, seeing Sun separating his hands and letting the clone disappear. "He has a similar semblance to mine…" Blake noted, but then she quickly turned around, remembering the thief was still around. Once she saw the cloaked individual jumping to the next roof, she went back to chasing.

The thief was on the next roof by the time Blake was running, so they took the opportunity to use ice dust on the floor of the roof, covering the ground in ice. Blake didn't just jump on the floor once she saw it, so she did her best to aim for the lip of the roof when she jumped a moment later. The cat Faunus landed on the thin lip of the roof and started running on it, surprising the thief as they had to keep running.

When the thief jumped to another roof though, they didn't use dust that time in hopes of slowing Blake down. Instead they made it to the edge of the roof and stopped when they heard a shout. "Stop!" The thief turned and saw that it was Blake, so they backed away by one step, knowing if they moved back further they'd fall. "Whoever you are, that's enough. Hand over the dust you stole." Blake said in an intimidating voice.

The hood of the cloak the thief was wearing concealed their face, but instead of saying anything, they shook their head instead. That annoyed Blake as she was about to charge at the thief, but she gasped when the cloaked thief fell backwards.

Blake ran forward and looked down, seeing that the thief landed on top of the back of a green pickup truck that drove off. "Damn it…" Blake couldn't follow at that point since the buildings were too separated.

"Hey! Where'd he go?!" Sun yelled from the other rooftop, since he noticed Blake had stopped chasing after the thief.

Blake shook her head in response and simply pointed down, letting the boy know that she was going to meet him on the ground. Sun watched as she jumped down, so he did the same from the roof he was on.

As they both got out of the alleyways they were in, Sun ran over. "So what the heck happened? Did that guy get away?"

"I don't even know if it was a guy or not, but yes. They landed on a pickup truck that was parked in the alley. It was planned, so we know this isn't just one person stealing from dust shops." Blake explained.

"Damn. I'll be honest, I thought I was the closest thing to a criminal here in Vale." Sun remarked as the two made their way back to the food stand.

"Why would you think that? Vale isn't that different from other places. Well, no, I guess Vacuo is a different story." Blake stated.

Sun sighed. "Yeah, that's kinda why I was a bit surprised. I was born in Vacuo, but I moved to Mistral since that place was way too crazy, even for me."

"Oh, I didn't mean to-." Blake was cut off.

"Don't sweat it. It's not like I'm offended. The place was my home for a bit, but I honestly like Mistral for what it is." Sun assured.

Blake remained silent for the rest of the walk back, but when she saw that two police officers were standing at the dust shop with the owner, she decided to walk over. "I couldn't get a look at the bastard's face." The dust shop owner said to the police officers.

"That's gonna be a lot harder to deal with, but we'll find them, sir." The police officer assured.

Blake coughed to grab their attention. "Actually I have some more information on the thief."

"Hmm? Oh, you. Yeah I saw you chasing after that thief." The dust shop owner noted.

Blake nodded in response. "I lost them, but they did land on a pickup truck in an alley not too far from here. I didn't get to see their face, but I did see the color of the truck and the plate."

One of the police officers pulled out a notepad and pen. "Every detail helps us here, so we appreciate this, Miss."

After Blake told them the details on the truck, she walked back to Sun, looking a bit defeated. "Hey, don't look so down. You helped out a bunch there." Sun said in hopes of cheering her up.

"Maybe. I don't know." Blake sighed. "I just feel like I could've done more." In actuality, Blake was only upset because she had chased down someone who reminded her of the kinds of missions she'd do with her old partner. "Let's get back to the food stand."

"Hold up." Sun said as he gently grabbed her arm. "Is something up? I didn't think you'd be so upset with just some thief."

"It's not that… Look, I'm not all that comfortable talking about this in public, okay. So can we please just eat and get back to Beacon?" Blake requested as she pulled her arm away.

Sun scratched the back of his head and sighed as he followed her to the food stand, but the monkey Faunus was keeping what she said to him in his head.

Can't forget to ask her about this when we get back.


I like to bring more set up to future things, and also include some slice of life stuff here and there too. You know, just to give this story a bit more realism to it.

With that though, I'm working on a lot of stories right now, so my focus is all over the place. I'll try not to neglect the stories too much here.

To JJ- Thanks. There are times where it gets tough to think about writing for certain things, but I'll still at least try to keep going on it. And that's fine if you don't like Sun too much. I mean, I like him as a character and will include him more, but I'm sure that won't upset anyone.

I hoped you all enjoyed chapter 41. Remember, reviews are welcomed, but not required. See you all in chapter 42.