"WEISS?" A voice yelled loudly from what sounded like very far away. "WHERE ARE YOU?"
Weiss sighed and stopped her training by obliterating the practice dummy in front of her with a blast of ice and a hard hit. She turned back to where she heard the yelling and opened the door of the room she was in to look down the hall.
Ruby was yelling with Yang and Blake in tow. Yang was checking the windows on her side and Blake was reading a book but that didn't mean much. She seemed to be an execellent multi-tasker.
"I'm over here! Now stop your yelling!" Weiss said slightly louder than her speaking volume to get her voice to travel down the hallway.
"FOUND HER!" Ruby exclaimed pulling at Yang's arm for a second before she let go as Yang stumbled to keep her ballance. She jogged over to Weiss quickly and almost impaled herself on Weiss's rapier that the heiress still gripped. Weiss barely moved her hand in time to avoid injuring her team leader.
"Ruby! Watch where you're going! You almost killed yourself!" Weiss snapped as she walked back into the training room to grab her water bottle.
"But you moved!" Ruby argued in her usual playful manner. "And that's also a problem! Why are you practicing when you're not supposed to be using your muscles?"
"I'm fine." Weiss answered shortly. "I don't need to waste my time on recovery, and I wasn't practicing all that hard to begin with."
"Weiss. You should listen to the doctors." Yang said as she and Blake arrived at the door. Weiss ignored her and walked to the locker that stood at the back of the room. She replaced her weapon in it and sent it back to its original place so the next person to use the room could summon their own locker.
"I haven't eaten yet. Care to join me?" Weiss asked before taking a long draught from her bottle.
"Blake and I ate already. Ruby woke up a while ago and freaked when you'd disappeared." Yang said with a smile while looking back at Blake.
"Points for propper grammar. You lost them when you said 'freaked'." Blake responded calmly. "Keep trying."
"What's that about?" Weiss asked, confused at her teammate's behavior.
"Oh, Blake made Yang a bet that she couldn't rack up ten propper grammar uses before the end of the day but it only counts for when it's something she'd mess up on." Ruby explained.
"Whatever. Are you coming then?" Weiss asked already heading for the door.
"Oh, um, uh…" Ruby stuttered, her silver eyes glancing past Weiss at her sister.
"Yeah, she's going." Yang said impatiently. She let Weiss pass and grabbed Ruby's shoulder and whispered as she tried to pass. "Just forget about it, okay?"
Weiss didn't make any indication she'd heard and kept walking, waiting until the caped girl caught up to her side.
"You do know that you don't have to ask your sister to eat, right?" Weiss said sarcastically as she led the way down the hall.
"Um, that… sorry." Ruby mumbled quietly.
"And what is up with that, you're never that quiet. Ever. Are you still feeling down about last night?" Weiss asked, a sliver of concern edging its way into her voice.
"Um… well… probably not?" Ruby said, her statement sounding like a question.
"Just forget the whole thing. Okay?" Weiss recieved an inaudible mumble and a version of a nod from Ruby. "Great. Then lets go eat. Do you mind if we go out?"
"Out where?" Ruby asked.
Weiss smiled at herself for getting Ruby talking normally again. "I was thinking of a nice place in Vale."
Ruby hesitated. "Is it the wear clothes kind?"
"Don't be stupid." Weiss snapped. She was more irritated by Ruby's unfortunate, unintended wording than anything else. "But no, it's not a place like you're thinking."
"Okay then, lets go!" Ruby responded, leading the way down the hall.
Weiss smiled frustratedly at the young girl's back. No matter how hard she tried, she seemed to be constantly stuck with Ruby. Her mind wandered momentarily, bringing up her own question: Would being constantly beside Ruby really be such a bad thing?
She shook herself mentally and sighed. No, it's so far beyond a bad thing I can't find the words to say. And I better stop thinking like this soon. Otherwise I might put her in danger.
Weiss walked up beside Ruby again and continued on into town. For now at least, it might not be that terrible.