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The crowd roared in the massive stadium, cheers and screams resounding off of the towering sides and creating a tumult of noise in the arena below. Yang turned to Weiss and flashed her a smile. Team RWBY had one the full team rounds and it was their turn to go two versus two with a random team who just happened to be from Atlas, Weiss's home kingdom.

"Well, seeing as their Kingdom, academy and armed forces are all merged as one, I think we can expect strict, militant fighters with advanced technology and carefully rehearsed strategies." Weiss droned on. Yang felt the witty comment as it moved from her brains to her lips but was cut off by a figure whizzing by them, shooting a rainbow behind her as she went. This was going to be an interesting fight to be sure.

The buzzer sounded and Yang was immediately accosted by the rainbow girl, a cat Faunus on roller skates with a glowing pair of dust chucks. The boy with the trumpet went after Weiss and seemed to be holding her down, not letting her even start to fight. This was bad, it was exactly the opposite of how they had planned to fight a team like this. Weiss was supposed to fight the fast nimble one and Yang was supposed to pummel trumpet boy. She glanced over at Weiss to see how she was doing and saw her using glyphs to press forward through a wind stream coming from the trumpet. Then Yang felt her leg go numb and looked down to find it encased in ice.

"Hm-hmm! Look! Now you're bottom-heavy, too!" the Faunus girl smacked her butt, mocking Yang. That was absolutely it, Yang bellowed in fury, shattering the ice on her leg with a pulse of her flaming aura and charged after the little minx on wheels. She chased and chased but couldn't land a significant blow on her until she heard Weiss scream out her name. Yang spun, ready to face an oncoming attack just in time to see Weiss tackle the boy with the trumpet into a vent of hot steam the stage was emitting as part of the lava simulation. Seeing her hair vanish into the cloud and hearing the sound of Professor Port's voice announce that she had been pushed far below the safety limits on her aura drove Yang over the edge. Red filled her eyes and Yang felt her aura flood through her body, pulsing in every limb. They didn't stand a chance.

First she took out the boy with the trumpet because he had hurt Weiss and his aura was already so much lower from Weiss's attack. Then Yang turned her unbridled fury on the devil of a girl and attacked and attacked until the buzzer sounded the end of the match. Yang looked around, ensuring the fight was indeed over and then took a deep steadying breath to calm herself. She cooled her aura through force of will and brought herself back under control.

"Weiss!" Ruby screamed from the stands and came bolting onto the stage, rose petals flying behind her in a vortex of speed. Ruby slid to Weiss's side and had her scooped up in her arms before Yang could even make it over. Blake came running in behind Ruby but couldn't hope to match the shorter girl's frantic pace."Weiss are you okay?" Ruby gingerly pulled a loose strand of hair back behind Weiss's ear and waited anxiously for a response from the soot covered girl.

There were several coughs and Weiss's eyes fluttered unsteadily open.

"Oh hey Ruby. When did you get here?" Weiss moaned out uneasily.

"Are you okay?" Ruby asked, still absolutely distraught.

"I don't think I'll be singing for a while." Weiss tried to laugh but it came out just as a moan of pain and caused her to clutch her side. Yang laughed as well, hoping Ruby would see that Weiss was going to be okay. Blake finally caught up and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Weiss awake and speaking.

"You did well Yang. You saved the match." Blake turned to her partner once she was sure Weiss was fine.

"Oh that was nothing. Just needed Weissy out of the way so I could really open up." Yang pounded her fists together, still wearing her Ember Celica.

"Well I guess we know who to send to the singles round." Blake laughed and it dawned on Yang what she meant. They had won, she was headed to the finals. As a freshman Yang was headed to the final rounds of the Vytal Festival. The idea stunned her into a shocked silence.

"Hey winner. Time to talk to a fan?" Nora's voice rang out from the edge of the seating area. She wasn't a member of either competing team and so couldn't come out onto the floor.

"It appears Ms. Schnee is okay. Maybe a little dirtier than she likes, but she'll be okay." Professor Port's voice rang out.

"Thank goodness. These matches are just friendly sparring rounds. No one is meant to be hurt." Dr. Oobleck's voice came out, as recognizable as ever, over the loudspeakers, "And now, it's time to continue. Contestants please make room for the next match."

Yang glanced to back to her team and saw Blake and Ruby helping Weiss up from the ground.

"Have you guys got her?" Yang looked more to Blake than Ruby. She knew Ruby would stick by Weiss's side but needed to make sure Blake felt they could handle it.

"Yeah we've got her Yang." Blake responded in kind, giving Yang a knowing smile and a little nod of her head. Yang walked over and brought her head down to the still exhausted and injured Weiss.

"Hey Snow Flake. You did good out there." Yang gave Weiss a bright smile and the girl just grimaced at her.

"Yeah yeah, that's enough from you. Go celebrate with Nora already." Weiss's words held a playful tone and Yang knew she was happy they had won.

"You rest up, I need you all ready to go to watch my next fight." Yang then did something she thought she would probably never have the chance to do again and patted Weiss gently on the head. She flashed her another smile and went lopping off towards Nora, "You two take care of her. She's really fragile." Weiss looked as if she wanted to lash out but was in no condition to do so.

"Oh my Oum I didn't think you'd actually come over." Nora was bouncing with excitement when Yang reached her.

"Of course, I've always got time to meet with an adoring fan. Especially one as attractive as yourself." Yang leapt up to the railing and vaulted over the side to stand next to Nora. Nora grabbed her hands in hers.

"I know this is really sudden but would you let me take you out for some food. To, uhh, celebrate your victory." Nora tried her best to act embarrassed about asking but snickered the entire time.

"That sounds great." Yang leaned forward and gave Nora a deep kiss, "Then maybe I can take you somewhere." Yang winked at Nora and then drug her off by her hand towards the exit.

Yang was struggling, one hand was wrapped around Nora's back, keeping her close as their tongues danced together in her mouth. The other was behind her, trying desperately to open the door. She finally managed to twist the handle off to the side and let the door swing open, granting them access to team RWBY's dorm room. Nora pushed her towards her bed with a hungry look in her eyes and Yang turned to climb onto the top bunk but was stopped by two firm hands around her waist.

"We really will knock your bed down," Nora whispered in her ear, hips pressed against Yang's rear. She could feel the warmth coming off Nora and didn't feel the need to argue. She twisted back grabbing her redheaded lover and threw her across Blake's bed, she bounced and rolled falling on the floor on the other side, giggling the whole way. Yang laughed to herself. She had meant for Nora to stay on the bed but had apparently thrown her just a tad too hard. She crawled across the mattress and peered over the edge at the space between the mattress and the wall. Lying there was an impressively naked Nora. How had she gotten her shirt off that fast? She was smiling up at Yang and was obviously ready to be devoured. Yang lurched forward and over the edge, letting her hands come down on either side of Nora's chest and trapping her hips between her strong legs.

"I think we might really like the floor." Yang leaned down and pressed a kiss to Nora's lips, "It's kind of exciting down here."

"You're wearing too many clothes and talking too much." Nora reached up and pulled Yang down to her, wrapping her arms around her back and pushing her tongue into her mouth.

The door clicked and Yang bolted up to a sitting position. She saw the door swinging slowly open and looked around her in haste. She and Nora were both completely naked and still lying on the floor between Blake's bed and the wall of their room. She ducked back down and slapped her hand over Nora's mouth as quickly as she could. Nora woke up as well and Yang looked down at her. She felt Nora's tongue push lightly at her palm and her hand moved up to slowly caress Yang's side. Yang lifted her finger to her lips and silently shushed Nora, shaking her head no. Nora stopped and widened her eyes in question but Yang just jerked her thumb over her shoulder and leaned closer to the floor.

"Alright, easy does it, just a couple more steps, here we go Weiss." Yang could hear Ruby's voice, strained slightly from the effort of apparently helping Weiss into the room.

"Thank you Ruby," Weiss said quietly, "I guess I was a little more injured than I thought."

"Just gonna put you down on the bed now, here we go." There was a quiet thump and Yang assumed Ruby had deposited Weiss on her bed.

"Oh oww, Ruby." Weiss hissed in pain and annoyance.

"Sorry, sorry, I slipped a little," Ruby's voice was frantic and full of concern, "Oh sorry. I wish we had a wheel chair, this would have been soo much easier." There was a hint of sarcasm in the last sentence.

"No. I am not injured badly enough that I can't walk on my own two feet." Weiss tried to maintain the usual pride to her voice but the pain she was feeling was still evident.

"Oh okay," Ruby said jokingly, "I guess I'll just leave you here then since you're all good to go."

"Wait Ruby please." Weiss called out and Yang swore she could hear Ruby's boots turn in the carpet as she undoubtedly spun on her toes to face her injured partner. "I just didn't want people to think I was very hurt, you know, if they saw me in a wheelchair." There was the unmistakable noise of Weiss blowing her hair out of her face in a huff, "Just because I had to save your big oaf of a sister too."

Yang had to hold herself back from leaping over the bed and giving Weiss what for. It really helped her self-control that she was completely nude and didn't feel like exposing herself to her sister and Weiss right now, or explaining why she and Nora were naked on the floor and had remained in hiding this entire time.

"Well then don't complain," the mattress squeaked as Ruby sat down gently on Weiss's bed.

"Thank you Ruby. For taking care of me." Weiss's voice grew a little quieter.

"Ohh," Ruby laughed nervously and spoke overly loud, "Of course, yeah, that's what partners are for right?" Another nervous laugh and then the room fell into an awkward silence, because of course huddling naked on the ground with your girlfriend and overhearing your sister talk nervously talk to her crush wasn't awkward enough. A few moments passed in silence.

"Do you need anything? Like some water or food? Maybe a book?" Ruby finally broke the silence as carefully as she could, slowly picking at it with tiny, innocent questions, "I'm not bringing you your homework though. I refuse."

"But Ruby, I can't fall behind," Weiss whined sarcastically.

"Nope, leader's orders. You have to rest and enjoy yourself." Yang could hear the pleasure and happiness dripping from Ruby's voice. She really was happy when she spent time like this with Weiss. "Ooooh, maybe we could watch a movie." she offered excitedly.

"Actually, I think rest sounds good." Weiss said sleepily, "Would you sit with me though? Until I fall asleep."

"Yeah of course Weiss." Ruby said cheerfully, not bummed in the slightest that they wouldn't be watching a movie together.

"Alright, grab her hand right now Ruby," Yang thought to herself and noticed she was nervously squeezing Nora's hand and still had the other over her mouth. Nora gave her a reassuring smile, Yang could tell because her cheeks dimpled up under Yang's hand and her eye's got that little twinkle to them they got whenever she was really happy. "Oh come one Ruby, tell her right now. I know we have the plan but this is so much better."

More silence passed and then Yang could hear Weiss gently snoring. She must really be tired, she almost never snored on normal nights. She decided it was worth the risk to peek up over the edge of the bed and see what exactly was going on. As slowly as she could Yang slid her knee forward to try and get it under her so she could lift herself up slowly. She felt her knee brush something soft and Nora squeaked quietly into her palm. Yang looked down and to her horror saw she had unwittingly pushed her knee right up between Nora's legs. Yang lfound Nora's eyes and tried to silently apologize to her girlfriend for rubbing her the wrong way, or possibly the right way. Both were bad given the situation. Yang picked her hand up off Nora's mouth and rested it on the ground next to her so that she could lift herself up and peered over the bed.

Ruby was sitting just on the edge of Weiss's bed with her feet protruding out into the room but her head was pointed directly at Weiss, watching lovingly as the platinum haired girl slept peacefully. Ruby reached forward and pushed some stray hair off of Weiss's face towards her ear and smiled when Weiss sleepily nuzzled against her hand for a brief second. Then a very warm sensation pulled Yang's attention back down and she saw Nora kissing her right butt cheek gently where it was hovering just above Nora's chest. Yang bent slowly back down and put herself completely on the ground by Nora. She rolled the little redhead on her side and spooned herself up against her. If Ruby was just going to watch Weiss sleep then they might as well go back to sleep too. The carpet down here was surprisingly comfortable when she was cuddling Nora.

Nora snuggled back into Yang, rubbing her butt gently against Yang's waist and pulled Yang's arm forward under her head to use as a pillow and then closed her eyes. Yang took a long, slow, relaxing breath and felt herself starting to doze back off when Ruby started quietly talking.

"Weiss, are you awake?" she whispered, barely audible to Yang, "There's something I want to tell you but I don't know if I can just say it to your face." Yang sat motionless and tried to quiet her breathing so she could make out Ruby's words more easily. "I'm so scared Weiss. I don't want anything to change between us but I want everything to change for us." Ruby's voice cracked slightly, "I don't know what to do. I like you, I like you so much. Maybe I love you. This is so new for me. I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm just so scared." Her voice cracked further and Yang didn't have to see to know that her little sister was on the verge of crying. Ruby sniffled hard and continued, "I really like you Weiss and I want to be more than just a friend and a partner and a leader for you. I don't know how though." Yang heard soft sobs come from Ruby and felt her own breath hitch just slightly in her throat.

She tried to catch it but couldn't stop the noise from escaping. Instead it came out as a small cough. The sobbing noise stopped and Yang waited, hoping Ruby would ignore it and not question the noise or its source. Ruby sniffled loudly and then called out.

"Yang? Blake? Are you there?" Ruby stood from the bed and Yang heard her soft feet patter over, accompanied by more sniffling.

"Wait Ruby," Yang tried to sound sleepy, as if she had just woken up, "Don't uhh don't come over here."

"Why?" the feet stopped despite her question.

"Nora and me are back here and we aren't really umm...:" Yang trailed off, hoping her sister would get her meaning without her having to say it outright.

"We're kinda naked Ruby." Nora moaned out, much better at the sleepy voice than Yang. Had she actually fallen asleep that quickly?

"Oh," Yang could almost hear the blush in Ruby's hurried response. "Uhh what are or umm were you two doing back there?"

"Well Ruby, when a girl and a girl like each other very much-" Nora went silent with a giggle after a sharp elbow from Yang.

"We fell asleep down here after, well you know." Yang gave Nora as dirty of a look as she could muster despite her intense desire to laugh out loud at her antics, "Did you bring Weiss back? Is she okay?"

"Yeah she's asleep now," Ruby said, regaining some of her calm. It seemed like Ruby had believed her that they were asleep until that moment.

"Can you uhh, like turn around or something so we can get dressed real quick?" Yang called out, wanting to end this awkwardness as quickly as possible.

"Oh yeah, yup." Then Ruby was silent.

"Did you turn around?" Yang was hesitant to even risk letting her little sister see not only her, but Nora naked.

"Yeah, sorry." Ruby laughed more easily now, "You're good." Yang stood and leant a hand to Nora to help her up as well. They gathered their clothes off of the floor where they had been lying and began redressing. They both slid their panties and shorts on first and then started to fuss with their bras.

"Yang," Nora turned her back to the blonde, "Wanna help me?" Yang turned and saw the back of Nora's bra hanging loose and so dropped hers to help Nora attach the straps. She obviously didn't need help putting it on, but it was still nice to sort of do this together. They had helped each other take it all off after all.

"Hey Ruby," Weiss slowly sat up, rubbing at her eyes, "I kinda have to pee-eee Oh My Oum!" Weiss's sleepy voice quickly grew into a startled scream as she sat up and saw Yang and Nora still basically naked on the other side of the room. She quickly threw her hands over her eyes and Yang spun around so her breasts were hidden.

"Good morning sleepy head." Nora called out, "You did really well in today's match."

"Why are you two naked? Ruby, what's going on?" Weiss was still basically screaming.

"They were kind of asleep in here before we got here and they were already naked because, well because they're dating and that's the kind of thing they're doing now that they've been dating a long time. So-" Ruby began to ramble and Yang cut her off.

"I think she gets it Rubes." Yang quickly slipped on her bra, and now that they were in a hurry she and Nora finished getting dressed in just a few seconds. "Okay we're good to go, totally decent now."

"You are never decent at all." Weiss threw across the room as she removed her hands from her eyes. "Neither of you." she shot Yang and Nora one of her trademark glares.

"Oh, stop being so iceschnee and let Ruby help you to the bathroom." Yang laughed and Weiss crossed her arms in an embarrassed huff, "I mean I could help you out, but I figure you need help with more than the walking right?" Now both Weiss and Ruby blushed hard and Weiss scoffed as indignantly as she could muster.

"I am very capable of handling myself in the restroom thank you very much." Weiss huffed again and swung her legs slowly out of the bed and to the floor. Gingerly she eased herself to her feet and tried to take a step forward and then another and another towards the bathroom only to collapse back towards the bed on the fourth step. Ruby jerked forward and caught Weiss up to support her and walked her the rest of the way into the bathroom amid loud snickering and giggles from Yang and Nora.

Ruby re-emerged from the bathroom Schnee-less, closed the door for Weiss and sat down on the side of the bed.

"You two are so mean to her." Ruby pouted.

"That wasn't that bad Ruby. She's the one who screamed at my boobs like they were some sort of monster." Yang crawled across Blake's bed to the other side.

"Well they are monstrous." Nora swooped in behind Yang and wrapped her arms around her middle.

"Eww Nora please stop. You guys were just naked on the floor."Ruby closed her eyes and stamped her feet and then she stopped very suddenly, "You guys better clean the floor!" The little brunette leader got very upset, losing her embarrassment in her frustration with the couple. Yang and Nora began laughing, resigned to their fate and only stopped when a loud bang came from the bathroom.

"Ruubyyy," Weiss called out, "I neeeed help." Yang and Nora's laughter began anew.

"We'll leave you two to it then." Yang said as they stood.

"Don't get too handsy with her now Ruby. She's very sheltered." Nora slid off the bed behind Yang. Ruby's blush returned in full force and she threw her hood up over her head.

"You can't take advantage of her just because she's injured." Yang pulled Nora over towards the door.

"Please leave." Ruby yelled out and made her way to the bathroom, navigating mostly successfully with her hood pulled down over her face.

Yang gave Nora one last kiss and pulled away. She had to go back to her dorm room now. Tomorrow was the rest of the two versus two fights, then they all got a day off and then the singles rounds started. It was already late and she needed as much sleep and rest as she could get going into the singles rounds. Once they started she would have to fight three rounds basically in a row in order to win the tournament and she needed to be rested and ready for that. Especially since odds were that she would have to fight Pyrrha at some point during the last stage of the tournament.

"Don't give them too hard of a time." Nora whispered to Yang.

"I'll play nice I promise," Yang gave Nora's hands a reassuring squeeze, "I bet they're asleep by now anyway."

"Alright," Nora leaned forward and gave Yang a light peck on the cheek "You were awesome today, I love you."

"Aww come on. You were awesome too, you even did most of the work." Yang pushed at Nora's shoulder playfully and the redhead blushed slightly but didn't shy away.

"I was talking about the fight, but thank you." Nora took a step backwards towards her dorm.

"I love you too. I'll see you in the morning." Yang blew her a final kiss and turned to her door. They both opened their doors and entered practically simultaneously. It was so strange living across the hall from her girlfriend.

Yang entered Team RWBY's dorm and quickly glanced around the room. Blake was curled up in her bed asleep and Weiss was sitting up in her bed, staring at the wall on the far side of the room. Ruby was nowhere to be seen.

"Hey Weiss, you okay there." Yang asked quietly, not wanting to wake Blake. Weiss didn't respond. "Yoohoo Remnant to Weiss," Yang said a bit louder and waved her hand between Weiss's bed and the apparently very interesting wall. Weiss shook her head with a shudder and turned slowly to meet Yang's violet eyes.

"Yang I think I messed up." Weiss's voice was quiet, but not to avoid waking Blake. It was as if she didn't want to speak because it would make what she had to say true.

"What? In the fight today?" Yang began but Weiss interrupted.

"No Yang with Ruby…" Weiss trailed off but Yang knew exactly what she meant.

"Where did she go?"

"I don't know. She ran out and I can't even walk. I-" Weiss kept going but Yang was gone. She ran out into the hallway and pulled out her scroll as she ran, making her way outside to start looking for Ruby. She called Ruby's scroll and it went straight to voicemail. Yang tore outside and looked back and forth, desperate for some indication of which way she had gone, a trail of rose petals, cookie crumbs, something so she could find her. There was nothing. Yang couldn't believe this, what in Oum's name had happened? She sat heavily on a nearby bench and threw her head back, restraining a frustrated scream. Yang tried to think, where could Ruby have gone to try and collect herself? Summer's grave was way too far, she obviously wasn't in the dorm room, the library was closed by now. Where could she be? Yang groaned and put her hands over her eyes, trying to think clearly. She slowly pulled her hands away from her eyes and lowered her gaze when something caught her eye. Up on the roof of the dorm, a bright red blotch. Yang didn't even hesitate and ran back inside, pounding up the stairs all the way to the top floor and emerging out onto the roof from the small access room.

"Ruby?" Yang's question was only met by gentle sobbing. She ran over to her sister and fell on the ground next to her, wrapping an arm around her shoulder. "Ruby, I'm so sorry." Ruby huddled into Yang and pulled at her shirt, burying herself in her sister until it looked like Yang was hugging nothing more than a large red blanket to her chest. Yang sat there for a long while, clutching Ruby to her chest and rubbing her back, trying to soothe the sadness out of her until her soft crying faded and she pulled away just slightly so Yang could see her face again.

"I was so stupid Yang," Ruby's voice was hoarse. "I just thought that because I liked her so much she must like me back. I thought that's how it was supposed to work." Yang pulled Ruby back to her and cooed softly to try and calm her further.

"It isn't always that way Rubes. I wish it was but it isn't."

"She doesn't even like girls Yang." Ruby nearly screamed, "How could I be so dumb, she doesn't even like girls. She probably thinks I'm a freak now."

"No." Yang pulled her sister away so she could make eye contact. The sternness in her voice surprised Ruby and she hiccuped in shock. "You are not a freak Ruby. Don't ever think that about yourself." she hugged Ruby back to her, "And I know Weiss doesn't think that either."

"But she knows I'm all obsessed with her now and she's not gonna wanna be partners anymore. I'm supposed to be the leader Yang, the one in charge." Ruby's shoulders shook with another sob. "I'm so dumb, I ruined everything."

"You didn't ruin anything Ruby and stop calling yourself dumb." Yang eased Ruby's hood off and wiped at her eyes lovingly. "Now, can you tell me what actually happened? I thought you were gonna wait to tell her?" Ruby slid off of Yang's lap to the ground by her side.

"I was gonna wait and I didn't tell her on purpose." Ruby sniffled and wiped at her eyes with the hem of her cloak, "When I brought her in and you and Nora were asleep. I thought she was asleep too and so I started talking to her, or to myself I guess. I talked about how I liked her and how scared I was and I said so much." Ruby interrupted herself with another sob, "I guess she wasn't actually asleep and she heard it all. She wasn't gonna say anything about it but we were alone in the room together and she said it just sort of bubbled up inside her and she felt like she had to tell me she knew."

"Oh Rubes," Yang rubbed her back, "Was she really mean about it? You know that's just how Weiss is right? She's mean to everyone."

"No she wasn't mean." Ruby started in surprise, trying to dispel Yang's misassumption, "She started out just talking about boys and what she likes. I guess she was trying to hint to me that she didn't like girls but I didn't get it because I was being so dumb." Yang reminded her to stop calling herself dumb and then let her continue, "Then she just told me she knew how I felt about her and that she had heard me before. That's when I started crying because it all like clicked in my head. I was so embarrassed crying in front of her like a baby."

"Don't be embarrassed about that Ruby. Nora and I cry with each other all the time. Over silly stuff and serious stuff. It's totally normal." Yang put an arm over Ruby's shoulder and tried to pull her close.

"She freaked out and tried to come over to me but she fell because she's still hurt and I felt really, really bad. I helped her back into bed and then she told me she still wanted to be my partner and that it shouldn't change anything and all this stuff but I know she was just being nice." Ruby pulled away from Yang and turned her back slightly, "I know she doesn't want to ruin the team and so she's just being nice."

"Is Weiss ever nice just because Ruby?" Yang forcibly turned her back around, "Think about it, she never lies to protect someone's feelings no matter who they are. If she said all that then she means it and if she means all that then she really does care about you, just not the same way you care about her." Yang reached forward and grabbed Ruby's hands.

"But I can't just go back to normal Yang. I can't forget how I feel about her." Ruby was upset now, anguish screaming out from behind her tear stained silver eyes.

"No, you can't." Yang squeezed her hands to get her to stop so she could talk, "Did you know that for a long time Ren really really liked Nora? But you know, Nora likes girls not boys so it wouldn't work for them." The fire behind Ruby's eyes calmed a little, "But look at them now, Ren stuck through it and was just there for her as a friend and now they're like brother and sister, totally inseparable. It still makes me kinda jealous sometimes." Yang laughed to herself, it always felt so silly but every once and awhile there was a little pang of jealousy when Nora would 'boop' Ren. She knew she should be over that, that she shouldn't care because they really were like siblings but she couldn't help how she felt.

"Really?" Ruby asked incredulously, not quite believing Yang.

"Yeah, they told me about it one night when I asked how they met." Yang pulled Ruby across the rooftop back over to her side. "You really care about Weiss and she really cares about you. It's a little different, but, you both want to be their for each other. So why shouldn't you be? Just because you can't date doesn't mean you can't be friends. Look at how long Pyrrha was Jaune's friend when she thought she had no chance because he was chasing after Weiss." Ruby sniffled again and looked up at the moon.

"It's gonna be so hard though Yang. All I can think about when I'm around her is how much I like her." Ruby turned to her sister, sadness pooling in her eyes once more.

"You just have to keep moving forward though Rubes." Yang leaned forward and kissed her on the forehead, "And I'll be with you every step of the way." Ruby leaned into Yang but didn't cry.

"Can we stay here a little bit longer?"

"Of course we can Rubes. As long as you need to."

A/N - Uhh, please don't hate me. Following the themes in this piece, this is what had to happen here. If you don't like it, tell me so but please say why. I would explain my authorial choices here but it would be rather lengthy. All in all, I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I made this one extra long because this is the last update until July 7 when I return from Anime Expo in LA. I may post some little one-shots in the meantime, but I wouldn't count on it. The shows can get pretty crazy and I don't have a ton of free time.

Thanks so much for reading, please let me know what you thought.

-Zach

- Okay I had to make a change to this chapter. This is the sort of thing that I hate doing and it's why I usually finish a story completely before letting anyone read any of it. So Yang had said "You need to be ready for my fight tomorrow" or something along those lines and then later I said the fight would be a few days later. The latter is correct and so I have changed Yang's dialogue to match that. Sorry about such a major change. I make lots of grammar and spelling changes without saying anything all the time but this is a totally different line.