I've been reading good drabbles as of late.

I don't know why and how I wrote this, but hell, I need to let out some steam.

Don't worry about Rose Prince. Once I confirm I pass my subject and earned the 1 unit I need to graduate, I'll be updating it as a form of celebration.

If I fail though, well, you guys will not be seeing me for a year at the very least.

P.S. I've always liked the pairing of AdamXRuby or RubyXAdam. I think they look good together.

This story is a 50 drabbles challenge, 10 drabbles for chapter, chronology of the relationship of Adam Taurus and Ruby Rose….This can be consider an AU and the two main characters might be a bit out of character.

1. First

Their first meeting of Adam Taurus and Ruby Rose was less than ideal.

They met in the opposite ends of the battlefield.

They were enemies, fighting for a vastly different purposes and ideals.

The crimson blade of Wilt met the mechanical blade of Crescent Rose.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

2. Eyes

After the clash that had caused them to meet for the first time, both Ruby and Adam had plague each other's thoughts for weeks.

They remembered each other's eyes specifically.

Adam saw incredible determination and innocence in the silver eyes of the child that had the courage to cross blades with him. Him, the most infamous and most dangerous operative of White Fang.

Eyes that resonated with so much naivety, hope, and child-like wonder that it almost made the infamous Adam Taurus vomit.

Seriously, for the career that the girl was pursuing, she seems to not have the spirit and/or the fortitude to become what she wants to be.

Ruby, whether it be skill or luck, was able to remove the mask of one Adam Taurus.

The moment she saw his eyes, she felt fear in the most instinctive level. The rage and coldness in those eyes was that of a demon that had seen and committed countless unspeakable acts. Eyes that had abandon all forms of humanity.

It scared Ruby to her wits to see someone with eyes that was no longer human.

But when the fear subsided, all that remains was sadness.

Ruby was sad at the thought of what he went through to have those kind of eyes.

3. Tension

The second time they met, it was in a much more favorable environment, for two enemies in the opposite end of the spectrum.

There second meeting took place in the subway.

They were across each other.

Both of them were wearing casual clothing, with Adam's mask replace with a pair of sunglasses, but there weapons were still in arm's reach.

The tension between them was suffocating, with both of them contemplating in attacking the other.

But they didn't.

Ruby thought of the people that were around them. Those that could not defend themselves, those that would be caught in the crossfire.

Ruby would never be able to live with herself if she harm or endanger any innocent pedestrian.

Adam, on the other hand, did not draw Wilt for a different reason.

He knew that he could and would wipe the floor with her. The little red riding hood was not ready to take someone of his caliber, not yet.

He cares nothing for pedestrians. In his mind, those people probably saw him and the rest of his kind as less than dirt.

What prevented him from lunging at the enemy across him was a memory that he had thought was long buried within his memories.

A scent of roses long forgotten.

For an hour, Adam Taurus and Ruby Rose stared at each other, their eyes not moving from the other.

The tension between them was thick, thick enough to be cut with a knife.

Yet, as they looked at each other, something resonated between them that they would never admit to themselves.

At least, not now.

4. Words

Three times, they meet in the battlefield for three more times in a month.

It was by accident, a random skirmish.

In those three times, they fight and battled each other per custom between two enemies.

Adam had almost run Ruby through with his sword at their third meeting.

Ruby had saved Adam at their fourth meeting from the stumble of the White Fang and Cinder.

At their fifth meeting, Ruby had held Adam at gunpoint while Adam had Ruby by the tip of his sword.

Their sixth meeting is in a neutral location, at a random intersection in the City of Vale, they exchange their first words to each other at passing.

"Ruby Rose."

"Adam Taurus."

5. Respect

It was foolish to respect your enemy. Adam Taurus new that better than anyone.

When you have an enemy, there is only one correct way to view them.

They must be viewed as someone that needs to be executed and then forgotten.

Adam Taurus adhered to that idea.

And yet, he had grown to respect one Ruby Rose.

After all, if nothing else, the girl was an adorable cockroach.

Regardless of the number of times that he had beaten her down, regardless of the number of times she had felt the sting of his blade, regardless of the number of times that he had made her bleed, she still kept coming at him with vigor, determination and enthusiasm that was difficult to dislike.

So when the day Ruby Rose landed a critical strike against him for the first time, Adam can't help but be proud of her.

He still almost cut off her right arm in retaliation though.

6. Admiration

Ruby had always admired heroes in fairy tales and myths.

Heroes that fight for justice, for equality, for freedom.

Heroes that fight for those who cannot fight for themselves.

Ruby admired them and aspired to be like them.

And Ruby had always hated villains of fairy tales and myths.

She despises them and cannot understand why they would hinder the happy endings of the heroes and princesses, on why they would cost people misery and pain.

She dislikes them with a passion.

And yet, as she clashes with one Adam Taurus and as she barely kept him occupied, Ruby cannot help but admire the male Faunus.

Excluding his attitude and ideals, Ruby admires his battle prowess, his strength, his power; she admires the way he fights.

If nothing else, Adam Taurus fights in such a beautiful fashion.

Regardless of the savagery and wildness of his fighting styles, it is like art the way that he uses his sword. The gentle grace that he uses when fighting is staggering.

Ruby did not know when it happened but after the countless fights that she had against Adam Taurus and the equal number of defeats that he had handed her, some of them had almost put her to deaths door, Ruby had come to admire Adam and had wish, to the very bottom of her heart, to equal him.

7. Fun

It was by accident that they had cross each other's path in the battlefield again.

The difference between the battlefields that they had meet before and the battlefield that they had found themselves in at present was that in those battlefields, they stood across each other.

In this battlefield, they stood back-to-back.

They were surrounded by an army of Grimm.

Cut-off from their allies, they had only each other to depend on, their own, personal nemesis.

When the Creatures of Grimm lunge at them, Ruby and Adam shared a small, somewhat awkward and uneasy smile, the first smile that they shared with the other, before they stood side-by-side to defend themselves from the horde of Grimm.

As they fight, disbelief course through their bodies.

The two of them decimated the army of Grimms that attacked them with little to no problem.

Both of them were skilled, that was fact and it was clear as day.

For some reason, even if this was the first time they fought together, their teamwork was nothing less than perfect. It was like they were reading each other's minds, just sensing what the other was about to do and knew just what they had do to match it.

It was scary for both of them that they can fight so flawlessly with each other even if they were enemies.

And another scary thought was the fact that they were having fun as they slaughter the mindless beasts that thought that they have a snow ball's chance in hell in taking them down.

8. Toast

Ruby was sixteen when she first sneaked into her first bar.

She was sick and tired of her friends and team ditching her whenever the school allowed them to go out at night, so she decided to go to a bar to see what the big deal is.

Upfront, Ruby decided that she hated bars at the get go.

The music was not of her taste and it was loud to the point that it almost made her eardrums burst.

She contemplated on leaving but decided to have a drink for curiosities sake.

The moment she sat on a bar stool, a voice that she had only heard in the battlefield reach her ears.

"So, first time?" The aristocratic yet sharp voice of one Adam Taurus caught Ruby's attention.

Turning her head to her right, she saw her nemesis sitting beside her, playing with a glass filled with what Ruby assumed as alcohol.

Ruby had been around Adam more times than any of her friends, san Blake, that she was able to relax around him, something that her friends, especially Blake, would warned her against doing so.

"Yeah," Ruby answered him casually.

"BARTENDER, MANHATTAN FOR THE MIDGET." Adam hollered with authority.

"I am not a midget.' Ruby hissed at him as the bartender served her a somewhat reddish-strawberry beverage.

Ruby looked at the drink before carefully lifting it.

Adam raised his glassed. "For me not taking your head off your shoulders tonight."

Ruby could not help herself but chuckle as she lifted her drink and toast Adam. "For me not putting a bullet through you skull."

There glasses made a clunking sound before they each downed their respective drinks.

9. Blood

Adam had been noticing that he and Ruby has been stumbling upon each other more times that he would like.

For the past three months, they had a couple of skirmishes against each other. In those three months, he had seen more of Ruby outside of the battlefield than in it. Adam is really getting tired of Cinder's complicated and bullshit schemes. He can't understand why the fire bitch can't just go all out already.

Whenever they meet by accident, outside the battlefield, they do not fight, they do not even speak, they just looked at each other, maybe exchange a couple of words, before going about their business.

And Adam did not know why but he was enjoying the presence of the brat, more so than he should.

Then one day, Ruby stumbled upon Adam in a situation that was far from the Faunus' liking.

That time, he had come back from his latest mission from the White Fang.

An assassination mission, one of his specialties.

Adam didn't care whether it be necessary or not.

The job was relatively easy and he had carried it out flawlessly but he had caught sight of the man's children's faces and it had struck something in him that he had thought thrown away when he had reach his teens.

Normally, he would have taken the lives of the children that had witness him.

But…

There was blood on his hands and his sword felt heavy.

For a reason that was unknown to him, he spared them.

So here he was, making his way to the hideout that he shares with his compatriots and Cinder's underlings when he stumbled upon one Ruby Rose.

Adam stood still. He has become accustomed to Ruby's presence to be completely apathetic of her looking at him.

He knows, that regardless of the improvement of the girl since they met, he can still take her.

Ruby, to his surprised walked towards him and took his hand.

Adam was shocked that he did not resist and allowed his nemesis to lead him to a bench park.

Using the fountain near the bench, he looked at her curiously when she wordlessly washed his hands, silently offering comfort that he had never thought he needed. She soother his mind, a mind that has been plagues with deaths and tragedies since he could remember.

For the first time in his 20-years of existence, someone kept him anchored, stopping him from drowning to the ocean of rage and insanity that had driven and suffocated him for most of his life.

After washing his hands she stood up and gave him a weak smile.

He spoke.

"I am a monster."

She answered.

"I know, but even monsters don't deserve their hands to be stained with blood."

10. Storm

One day, a certain afternoon, Ruby Rose was out in the Emerald Forest, training and hunting all by herself.

In that afternoon, Adam Taurus was also out and was cutting down Grimms to blow-off steam. Being surrounded by idiots and bitches tended shorten one's temper.

As of the norm when they are in the same vicinity with each other, Ruby and Adam met each other by accident.

The moment they met a heavy storm appeared above them. It had gotten so bad that the two seek shelter to a large tree.

Adam occupied one side.

Ruby occupied another.

For a full ten minutes, they were silent. They merely watched as the rain pour and the wind howl.

Unsurprisingly, Ruby was the first to speak.

"So, you taught Blake how to fight." Ruby began.

"That I did." Adam replied curtly. "Taught her everything she knew. Before me, she was completely garbage."

"She's afraid of you." Ruby told him casually.

"Of course she is. I taught her everything she knew, but not everything that I know. If we fight right now, I can take her life in ten different ways the moment our blades touch." Adam was serious when he said that.

His former student improved, but he can still slay her with ease.

"You do know that my team won't let you near her." Ruby said with all seriousness.

Adam snorted. "Your team is no good when compare to me." Adan replied arrogantly. "If Schnee and I cross blades, I'll take her arm and leg before she can make any significant distance between us. The blond bimbo that you call a sister, with her fighting style; I'll take her head before she can use her Semblance against me. No matter how much Blake improves herself, I know how she fights inside and out. She's a poor match against me."

For someone who had clash with the infamous Adam Taurus countless times and survived, Ruby knew that he was serious with his evaluation.

"What about me?" Ruby can't help but ask.

For a second, Adam was silence before sighing. "9 times out of 10, I can wipe the floor with you."

That was the biggest compliment Adam had given anyone in his life and his compliment was with merits. The number of times that he and Ruby fought, the young girl had been getting close in beating.

Adam would even go so far and say that Ruby had become a descent fight, a worthy challenge.

Somebody that he can consider worthy to kill.

Ruby smiled. That was sweet of him.

"So," Adam began, deciding to raise a flag of truce with her for the moment. "You're too young to be admitted in Beacon. How did you get in?"

"That is a funny story actually…"

Under the harsh rain and winds, Adam Taurus and Ruby Rose shared their first conversation with each other.

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