"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" Ruby screamed at the top of her lungs "YANG IS DEAD BECAUSE OF YOU!"
"...Y-Yang is...Dead?" Raven stuttered, unable to believe what she heard.
"Oh god...H-How did that_" Qrow tried to ask but was Cut off when Ruby suddenly dashed forward and grabbed Raven by her collar.
"WHERE WERE YOU!? HOW COULD YOU JUST UP AND LEAVE HER LIKE THAT?!" Ruby yelled in anger "Oh who am I kidding! IT'S WHAT YOU ALWAYS DO! YOU LEAVE EVERYONE WHEN THEY NEED HELP BECAUSE YOU'RE A COWARD!"
"Ruby, stop!" Qrow tried to pull Ruby away from a Stunned Raven, but he stopped when Ruby angrily yelled at him next.
"YOU STAY OUT OF THIS!" Ruby then faced Raven again angrily "IS THIS ALL A JOKE TO YOU?! WAS LEAVING MOM TO DIE JUST NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU?! IF YOU DIDN'T CARE ABOUT YANG THEN WHY DID YOU EVEN HAVE HER IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU HEARTLESS DEADBEAT!"
Finally having struck a nerve, Raven got angry too and grabbed Ruby by the hair and pushed her back!
"WHAT THE HELL WOULD YOU KNOW!?" Raven yelled back!
*POW!*
And, to both Qrow's and a downed Ravens Horror, ruby actually balled her fist and punched Raven across the face, sending her stumbling down.
"...You want to actually HELP, For once?" Ruby asked "THEN JUST DO EVERYONE A FAVOR AND PISS OFF AND DIE SO EVERYONE CAN BE HAPPY!"
PISS OFF AND DIE SO EVERYONE CAN BE HAPPY!!
PISS OFF AND DIE SO EVERYONE CAN BE HAPPY!!
PISS OFF AND DIE!
PISS OFF AND DIE!
PISS OFF AND DIE!
PISS OFF AND DIE!
PISS OFF AND DIE!
PISS OFF AND DIE
PISS OFF AND DIE
PISS OFF AND DIE
...PISS OFF AND DIE...
"AH..." With a small gasp, Ruby Jolted awake in Esdeath's bed.
"...that dream again..." She said to herself, Guilt and shame starting to come back to her again "...I shouldn't have said that...Sh-She really didn't deserve that...Despite all she did she still loved Yang and I..."
She sighed, leaning herself on the bed further...Until she finally Remembered that Esdeath was hugging her tightly in hersleep.
She looked up, Seeing Esdeath hugging her and snuggling to her in her sleep.
'...Oh...Right...' Ruby thought, blushing a bit '...Wait...Where's her shirt?...OH NO!'
And she also noticed that Esdeath's button shirt was gone, leaving her fully naked. And she was leaning her exposed Body fully onto Ruby.
'WHY IS SHE NAKED?! WAIT DID WE?!' She then checked herself out...and she still had her Bra and pants on. Meaning they didn't go overboard last night '...B-But why is she...'
Ruby tried to slip away, but Esdeath's Grip was very hard on her. She was doing her best not to stare down on Esdeaths Exposed Breasts and the rest of her.
And The funny thing is, She has slept with Leone before, so she should be somewhat used to this by now. Which apparently was proven wrong as she knew that Esdeath's breasts were somewhat bigger and Leone's.
But then Ruby's eyes slowly fell on Esdeath's Sleeping face. She seemed...In peace. And...Beautiful. Her long sky blue hair and childish yet mature ways seemed...very cute in some twisted way.
Ruby slowly brushed her hair aside from her face, seeing Esdeath's face much more Clearly.
'...I'm...Really in love with someone like this?' Ruby asked herself as she leaned onto Esdeath's embrace further '...I can't help it...I just...Love her too as much as Akame, Leone and Sheele...What is wrong with me? Are Ice Queen's just my natural Weakness?"
"...Hmmm..." Ruby's train of thought Stopped when she noticed Esdeath slowly opening her eyes with a hum "...Good morning my love~"
"...Morning...Essy." Ruby greeted back.
"...U-Um...'Essy'?" Esdeath repeated. And for the first time Ruby could see that she was blushing red. Redder than before in fact.
"O-Oh! Sorry The nickname just, Came to mind all of the sudden!" Ruby explained.
"...Can you...Call me that one more time...Please?" Esdeath asked, Seeming embarrassed.
"...E-Essy." Ruby repeated.
"...It...Sounds cute..." Esdeath shyly stated.
'Really? That sounds cute to you?' Ruby thought with her cheeks puffed 'It was like the laziest and most cheesiest Nickname anyone could come up with.'
But Ruby then remembered the issue at hand.
"A-Anyway! Why are you...exposed?" Ruby asked "I still have my pants on so...Did I...Y-You know."
"Oh? This? No. I took it off myself during our first make out last night." Esdeath explained before she hugged Ruby closer "I wanted to make it more romantic~. So I just decided to undress. And...from what I saw, You seemed to have Enjoyed watching me do so~"
"I-I did?" Ruby asked "I don't remember much from last night. What really happened?"
"As I took my shirt off, You seemed very...Attached to me. The moment I was fully laid bare you kind of took over our make out for a few seconds." Esdeath explained "But I didn't want to be outdone in the first make out I've ever done. So I still managed to...Easily, Take over again~."
"Oh. So I'm easy." Ruby said, feeling butthurt about that.
"No. You're Cute and adorable and like a giant, Fluffy, huggable and warm Wolf." Esdeath said.
"...Wolf?" ruby repeated.
"Or a grizzly bear." Esdeath continued "Whatever cute and fluffy and warm wild creature you prefer."
"...Aww, Thanks." Ruby smiled.
And there it was. That Smile. the one thing that Made Esdeath lose her cool and composure. and she loved it.
She kissed Ruby again right after her smile, Enjoying the taste of her lips.
She broke the kiss again, and looks deep into her eyes.
"...Can I use your shower?" Ruby asked as she stares back into Esdeath's eyes.
"Of course." Esdeath nodded, And finally let Ruby go. She stood up from the bed and approached the shower while Esdeath got up with her naked body and tried to dress up for the day.
Ruby first stripped, and then opened the warm water and let the hot and blissful water wash all over her.
And as she let's the water come down, she stares down in thought and worry.
'...The girl's...They'll definitely hate me when they find out about this...' Ruby thought '...I love the girls but...I guess I love Esdeath too. I can't stay with the Empire obviously so...In the end We'll end up as Enemies no matter what. Is it just not meant to be?...A lot of thing's aren't meant to be...Like beacon...Like Atlas, Our travels, being together...Everything just slips away from my life in the end...'
Ruby started to walk around the palace, Until she walked into a room and found Wave preparing food.
"Oh! Hey! Did you sleep well?" Wave asked.
"...Well...I did sleep and...Y-You know." Ruby shyly answered.
"Eh?Oh...OOOH!" Wave blushed "A-already huh?! C-Congrats! WAIT I MEAN...uuuuuh...?"
"We just made out you pervert." Ruby deadpanned.
"R-Right Right! Sorry!" Wave said.
Ruby looked around and saw another girl around her age, Silently eating a bag of snacks.
"Kurome, You're eating candies again first thing in the morning?" Wave asked.
"Mind your own business, sailor boy." Kurome bluntly said.
"Oh come on! You should try out more seafood." Wave suggested.
"So I would smell like you?" Kurome said.
"I-I DO?!" Wave then sniffed his own clothes.
'...Wait...Kurome..." Ruby looked at the girl '...That's right, She's Akame's sister! I can see some resemblance and...she also dressed up the same way as Akame.'
Kurome then glares at Ruby for a second, before she protectively hugs her snacks "I'm not sharing."
"...If they're not cookies or strawberries, then I'm not interested." Ruby bluntly shot back.
"...Good." Kurome went back to eating.
"Wow, do you, Like, Understand her or something?" Wave asked in surprise.
"You wouldn't understand." Ruby said.
*Thump!*
"Owie!"
"Did you hear that?" Ruby asked while the others nodded.
Ruby walked out and...saw a small, little girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, getting up from the floor.
"What's...she doing here?" Wave asked.
"Hey are you okay?" Ruby asked as she extended a hand to the little girl.
"Um...Yea...thank you." The girl smiled and accepted her hand and got up.
"Where're your parents?" Ruby asked.
"Um, Um, Me and Daddy got separated. I dunno where he is." The girl answered.
"...Okay. We'll help you find your daddy." Ruby smiled.
"We are?" Kurome asked.
*Kapow!*
"W-We are." Kurome corrected herself when Ruby jabbed her elbow deep into Kuromes Ribs.
"Let's go find your daddy!" Ruby held the young girls hand while Wave followed along. Also, While he dragged A Stubborn Kurome along.
"So, tell me how your daddy looks like?" Ruby asked.
"Hmm, Daddy is THIS big!" The girl said as she spreads her arms wide open.
"...Oooookay..." Ruby nodded "How does his face look like then?"
"tehehe~ Daddy has a funny face!" the girl answered.
"Just tell us his name." Kurome said.
"umm..." The girl looked troubled.
"Kurome, little girls like her only refer to their parents by mommy and daddy, not their names!" Ruby informed.
"...That's stupid." Kurome said.
*Kapow!*
"I mean that's nice." Kurome changed her words again by another elbow jab from Ruby.
"Where did you see him last then?" Wave asked next.
"I dunno. This place is just too big." The girl answered.
"Tell me about it." Ruby joked "So, what's your name anyway?"
"Oh! My name is_"
"Logue!"
Everyone looked back and saw Bols running up to them!
"Ah! Daddy!" The little girl called out happily.
"EH?!" Wave gasped "BOLS IS YOUR DADDY?!"
"He said he was married, dummy." Ruby whispered while Wave nodded.
Bols picked his daughter up in his arms "I'm sorry sweetie! I shouldn't have taken my eye off of you like that!"
"It's okay Daddy. I made new friends!" the girl, now known as Logue said as she pointed at Ruby, wave and Kurome.
"Oh. I can't thank you enough Miss Ruby." Bols said.
"Oh think nothing of it." Ruby said "Just glad to help out!"
"...Yeah...It was...nice." Kurome admitted.
"Now, honey? Did you remember to say thank you?" Bols asked.
"Oh! right!" Logue nodded "Thwank yu so much!"
'SHE'S SO CUUUUUUUUTE!' Ruby and Wave both mentally screamed while Kurome shyly blushed.
As Logue waved while Bols carried her away, Ruby and the others wave back smiling.
"...If anything happens to that little girl I'm starting a mass genocide on the entire Capital." Ruby stated, still smiling.
"Same." Kurome bluntly nodded.
"Relatable." Wave nodded.
"OH! There you are! Finally!" All three looked back and saw Esdeath walking toward them, Back in her General attire. "I've been looking everywhere for you! What are you doing all the way in this part of the Palace?"
"Oh. Something happened. I'll tell you later." Ruby explained "Is there something you wanted to tell us?"
"Yes. Soon We will go out hunting on the Fake Mountain." Esdeath explained.
'Wait! Fake Mountain?! That's close to the hide out!' Ruby thought 'I can escape by using both the fog and my semblance together and get away.'
"We'll split into teams of two. Kurome comes with me. Ruby and Wave will go together." Esdeath explained "At midnight, We'll switch partners and Ruby will go with me."
"Got it." Ruby nodded 'so I gotta split while I'm with Wave. If I'm with Esdeath I won't be able to escape at all.'
"And make sure you keep an Eye on Wave." Esdeath said.
"You got it~" Ruby sassily nodded again.
"EH?! Shouldn't it be the other way around?!" Wave yelled.
"I'll keep my eyes on him for the whole night." Ruby ignored the devastated Wave "You can Count on me Essy!"
...And Ruby just realized she called Esdeath Essy with Kurome and wave present.
"ESSY?!" Wave screamed in shock while Kurome was stunned.
"R-Ruby..." Esdeath Blushed as red as a cherry "Not when there are others around."
"OH GOD YOU'RE ACTUALLY BLUSHING AT AT?!" Wave yelled.
"God is dead." Kurome stated.
"...I know everything there is to know about water type danger beasts but at the mountains...I'm at a loss." Wave said.
"They use mimicry to make themselves Look like stones and Trees." Ruby explained, with a sword strapped on her back given to her by Esdeath "That Stone your stepping on is actually one of the smaller ones."
"EH?!" Wave looked down, and noticed an eye ball pop out of the stone under his boot!
"EW GROSS GROSS GROSS!" Wave kicked it off of the side of the cliff.
"And now you know why I'm the one keeping an eye on you." Ruby sassed.
"Y-Yeah I can understand that now..." Wave said "...You know...If you got it rough You can tell me."
"Got it Rough?" Ruby asked.
"Well, I mean, Being dragged into a team like mine ain't really the easiest thing to get used to so quick right?" Wave explained.
"...I've been in a team before. I can handle it." Ruby said as she walked on.
"Really?" Wave asked.
"In my old country, we'd have to be combined into teams of 4 to hunt down...much more dangerous danger beasts." Ruby added. "I was team leader actually."
"Whoa that's badass!" Wave asked "How was your old team?"
"...well...They were...much more tougher than a wimp like you~" Ruby joked.
"AW COME ON!" Wave yelled.
"Hey just joking!" Ruby said.
"But still tho. I think I kinda can relate to you." Wave said "I mean...We both have gone through some tough times..."
'...You have no idea...' Ruby sadly thought.
"...And are in for more tough times." Wave said, Thinking about his weirdo teammates.
...But Ruby was thinking about how she would be surrounded by Akame, Leone and Sheele in the bed, All 4 of them naked.
"...No it's just you." Ruby bluntly said as she hides her blush.
"Yeah sucks to be me." Wave said in despair "I was just thinking that we should...Get...along?"
But Wave then noticed how Ruby was staring at him.
"...Ruby?" Wave asked with a sweatdrop '...Why do I..Feel so scared? It's like I'm being stalked by a wild predator...'
"...Wave..." Ruby said as she reached for her sword "GET DOWN."
"Eh?" Wave was confused, But then felt some kind of attack coming at him from behind and he ducked under a huge wooden tentacle that swung at him.
Soon, Ruby dashed forward and Stabbed the Tree beast in the eye, Killing it.
"W-Whoa! Thanks! You save my ass." Wave said.
"I told you to be careful, Dummy." Ruby scolded as she pulled the sword out "Anyway. Start Running."
"What? Why?!" Wave asked.
'...I say/think this as a huntress: I'm stuck with an Amateur' Ruby sighed "Look around you."
Wave finally looked around, and saw MULTIPLE Tree beasts surrounding them!
"HOLY SHIT!" Wave gasped "When did they even get around us?!"
"I don't need deadweight on me Wave." Ruby Harshly said "So if you can't even detect, sense or at least hear monsters coming at you so close then just go somewhere safe!"
"WHAT?! WHO YOU CALLING DEADWEIGHT?!" Wave yelled as he pulled his sword out "I can handle this easy!"
"...Feel free to prove me wrong~" Ruby challenged.
"LET'S MAKE SOME FIRE WOOD OUTTA THESE!" Wave yelled as the two charged forward at the Tree beasts!
"...Phew... That wasn't all that hard." Wave said as he pulled his sword out of a dead Tree beast "See?! My parents didn't raise no Deadweight!"
...He then noticed that there was no complying.
"...Uh...Ruby?" He looked around and noticed that Ruby was gone?
"Where'd she go?!" He looked around for a bit until he approached the edge of the cliffside...and saw Ruby's sword, and a piece of cloth from her shirt, both stuck on a small wood branch.
"...Oh my god...D-DID SHE FALL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIGHT?!" Wave gasped "AND I DIDN'T HEAR OR REALIZE IT SOONER?!"
He was scared of what could have happened to Ruby. But then got more scared of what Esdeath was going to do to him after finding out about this!
"SHIIIIIIT! The General's gonna kill me!" He thought "HOLD ON RUBY! I'M COMING!"
He then pulled out his sword again, and stabbed in on the dirt infront of himself.
"I was gonna save it for later, but this is Serious!" Wave thought out loud "GRAND CHARIOT!"
And with a massive shock blast, A Jet-Black Armor appeared around his body. It looked similar to Incursio, But it looked heavier and stronger.
Wave jumped down the mountain side in search of Ruby!
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"...So that was his Teigu." Ruby thought, before she dug herself out of a pile of dead Tree beasts "He didn't even bother to try to look around more. Instead went for the most obvious hint."
She fully walked out of the dead Tree beast pile.
"No monster detection skills. Didn't try to look around more before assuming the worst. I was right: Wave would make a TERRIBLE Huntsman." She thought out loud as she wiped away some danger beast blood from herself 'I managed to use my semblance to place my sword and a piece of my shirt on the branch down there so he'd think I fell.'
...This gave her an idea.
'...Wave's Armor looked stronger...but he's too simple minded and far to straight forward. Maybe we can beat him with that in mind.' She strategized '...But I couldn't find any weaknesses in the others. And Wave...He barely counts as a threat compared to the others. I should have tried to get more out of them too.'
She then decided to start running down the way she came 'Nevermind that. Gotta Run before Wave comes back up!'
And she then jumped off the mountain said and used her semblance to fly up into the fog around the mountain!
About an hour of walking and Petal Bursting later, and Ruby was closer to the hideout.
"Almost there." She said.
*...fluch fluch...*
'...Someone followed me.' Ruby thought, Hearing a bush behind her mover around a bit 'Who? Wave? No, from what I saw, His tracking skills should be terrible too.'
But then she heard running sounds and leaves moving away!
'They're coming straight at me!' Ruby thought before she quickly moved around and was preparing a punch!
...But then, Even before she could react, which she could react faster than anyone...She was then Hugged by Akame real close at tight.
"A-Akame?" Ruby gasped.
"...Welcome back." Akame whispered, hugging Ruby closer.
"...Yeah." Ruby smiled and hugged her back "Kept you waiting huh?"
"You did." Akame Pouted "Don't ever do it again."
"Sorry." Ruby said "...Can we go back now? The others are worried too."
"Just a few more seconds." Akame said.
"Sure." Ruby nodded and hugged Akame closer, Gently rubbing her cheek on Akame's own.
...The few seconds slowly passed on. And As Ruby and Akame broke the hug,
"RUUUUBYYYYYY!" Both Sheele and Leone came jumping at the two, hugging Ruby tightly while Akame was...Somewhat caught in the middle of them too.
"DON'T YOU EVER GET KIDNAPPED AGAIN YOU HEAR?!" Leone yelled.
"We were so worried about you!" Sheele said, tears on the edge of her eyes.
"S-Sorry...To make you...Worried..." Ruby gasped out as she was getting all the air Hugged out of her.
"Okay never mind that!" Leone then looks straight into Ruby's eyes "Did that bitch do something to you?!"
"D-did she do something bad or horrible?!" Sheele asked.
"N-No! No not at all she...Well..." Ruby started.
"She what?!" Leone asked.
"Girls." Akame called out "Let's go back to the base first. then, We'll talk where it's safe."
"...O-Okay." sheele nodded, and they both slowly let go.
"But, You're okay. right?" Leone asked.
Ruby leaned up and gave Leone a kiss on the lips, Stunning the blonde.
"There's your answer~" Ruby sassily said.
"...Great to know~" Leone sassily smiled back.
"Let's go home everyone." Sheele suggested as all 4 began to walk away.
...unknown to them that maybe Ruby wasn't unfollowed...