"Weiss! I-" Yang began to be interrupted by Ruby.
"No, I-"
"Stop!" Weiss put up two hands as Blake walked around her to sit on her bed and continue reading. "Just stop."
Yang hung her head in appology as Ruby glared at Weiss's unflinching gaze until her eyes watered and she looked away.
"Now, first I'm going to deal with you, Yang. Then it'll be Ruby's turn." Weiss announced so the sisters had an idea of what she had finally decided.
"Weiss, I really-" Yang started but Weiss stopped her again, her ice cold gaze freezing Yang's tongue.
"First, let me say I understand everything that made you do what you did. I assume I would have done the same if I had a little sister." Yang nodded in agreement, but stayed quiet as Weiss continued. "But you should try to ask questions before you start strangling people. Answers tend to come faster when there is an airway."
Blake let out a stiffled giggle at Weiss's comment, which drew the sisters eyes from Weiss for a second.
"And I know you want to appologize, but I feel this transgretion should be penalized. Hence I will not accept an apology until this bruising disappears in three or four days, and I expect you to answer any questions directed to me about how I recieved it. Am I understood?" Weiss spit out her conditions on how this was going to go without taking a breath.
"Okay. I guess that's fair." Yang nodded, extending her hand. Weiss shook the firm grip as Yang turned back to her bed.
"Now you…." Weiss thought a moment as she heard her team leader's stomach growl. "Get dinner while we talk?"
"Sure." Ruby nodded, beginning her ritual of taking orders on Weiss's notepad.
Several minutes later, the two girls found themselves walking down an empty hall on the way to the cafeteria to pick up the food for their team and bring back to their room.
"Sooo…" Ruby started awkward as ever.
"What do you think of me Ruby?" Weiss asked, slowing her pace until she stopped facing Ruby who'd stopped with her.
"What do you mean?" Ruby asked hesitantly.
"Exactly what I said, no wrong answers so just say whatever you want." Weiss knew normally this wouldn't be a good thing to say, but it seemed even Blake agreed Ruby wasnt the type of person to abuse the free pass.
"Well, you can be cold sometimes but I know you're really a decent person, you just aren't very good at talking to people. Heh, I should talk! Your beyond normal smart and you're a good teacher, but you tend to get mad at small things. Not to mention you have an almost OCD style of perfectionist mentality." Ruby finished, muttering something else under her breath that Weiss couldn't catch.
"Thanks… I think…." Weiss didn't really know what she'd wanted to hear from her leader, but it wasn't that. After several long moments of silence, she spoke up. "I need to appologize to you Ruby."
"What for?" Ruby asked, uncertainly.
"Blake helped me realize that my actions unintentionally hurt you. For that I extend my sincerest appologies." Weiss said, wincing inwardly as she realized how fake it sounded coming out of her mouth. "Sorry, bad habits."
Ruby giggled a little at Weiss's formality and how she must think she sounded. "You're pretty funny too."
"Yeah, thanks." Weiss forced a smile for a moment before turning back to the matter at hand. "But I'm serious, Ruby. I didn't intend to rescind my offer to study with you. As you've said, I'm not very proficient with conversing with others. I just couldn't think of a better way for you to stop pestering me about Yang."
"Does that mean you'll help me again? Because it actually helped a lot." Ruby said, thinking back on the terrible time she'd had after Weiss had stormed off earlier in the day.
"Of course. I wont break my promise. I'll help you whenever you need me." Weiss smiled slightly, fighting a blush forcing its way onto her face. "After all, it wouldn't reflect well on me if my leader ends up failing the year."
The two girls continued onward into the cafeteria, exchanging not a single word between them as they ordered the food and waited for it to be packaged. The line wasn't long so they only spent five minutes in the still crowded room before returning to the nearly deserted hallways.
"You know, I can't figure you out sometimes." Ruby said as they neared the stairs leading to their dorm. "Sometimes I think you're mad and you're really not, and other times I swear you're trying to be nice but end up insulting me instead."
"I don't mean to be insulting…." Weiss tried coming up with a good explanation but couldn't. "I just… I dont know… get embarrassed I guess. My family isn't a very touchy-feely group of people. I'm not used to expressing most emotions."
"I guess that makes a bit of sense." Blake came up behind the couple, returning from who knows where.
"Don't do that!" Ruby spun, a few of her signature rose petals falling as she switched her semblance off.
"Hi guys." Blake joined them walking back to the dorm. They only had one more turn before they'd be in the right hall. "Ruby, just so you know, there is a term that perfectly describes Weiss's personality."
"Excuse me, please don't lump me in with-" Weiss started but was cut off by Blake.
"Chill out princess. It's just a term of description." Blake explained turning back to Ruby. "The term is tsundere. It's two words combined that means spiky-sweet in another language. Basically it's used to describe someone who comes across as cold and cruel but is really just misunderstood since they lack the social ability to come across any differently."
"And where would you even learn that?" Weiss asked, not very happy about Blake giving Ruby a label for her.
"It mostly comes up on anime forums." Blake shrugged as she opened the door.
"Thank god! I'm starving!" Yang burst out, charging from her bed at Ruby who was carrying most of the food.
"Hold on Yang! You're going to-" Ruby squeaked urgently as Yang barrelled into her, knocking her towards Blake who used her semblance to move out of the way as Ruby kept falling only for Weiss to grab her in in a tight hug to stop her from landing on the floor.
"Yang, you idiot! Be more considerate!" Weiss shouted, setting Ruby back on her own feet.
"It's fine, Weiss. Thank's for the catch by the way." Ruby waved off Yang's tackle with a small laugh, giving her sister the bag.
"Y-your welcome." Weiss felt herself blush and turned away, playing off her embarassment as a yawn. "I'm tired, so I'm going to head off. Goodnight."
Weiss jumped into her bed, pulling the covers up to her head, not even bothering to take off her clothes since she intended on doing her laundry the next day.
"Aren't you going to eat?" Ruby asked, concern in her voice.
"No. I'm not very hungry today. You can have mine if you'd like." Weiss responded, smiling at the wall and closing her eyes. "Goodnight."