The sun was just beginning to set as Blake awoke to the feeling of strong arms wrapped around her waist. She smiled, wriggling around to find Yang staring at her.

"Hey there kitten, sleep well?" The waning sun set Yang's violet eyes ablaze as she spoke, lacing purple with gold in a dazzling display of colour. The effect was dazzling, but Blake did not look away.

"How long were you watching me?"

"Oh, for a while. I was gonna wake you up, but you're so cute while you're asleep. I couldn't help myself." Blake laughed and snuggled closer, burying her face into the crook of Yang's neck and inhaling slowly.

"Well, I'm not going anywhere," Blake sighed. "So I'll allow you to bask in my cuteness for a while longer."

"Well, if you insist." Yang teased.

Blake leaned in for a kiss, but her ears pricked at a commotion coming from just outside the door of their room. Oh dear.

Before either girl could react, Ruby had burst through the door, a cloud of blood-red rose petals swirling behind her. At the sight of the various entangled limbs of her teammates she skidded to an abrupt halt, nearly toppling forward.

Blake braced herself for the worst.

"You guys still aren't done? Geez it's been hours!" Violet met bronze as Blake and Yang exchanged a very confused look. "Other people want to use this room too you know!" Ruby half-teased, half-scolded.

"Wait!" Yang's voice was incredulous. "You knew about this? How?" Ruby's glazed expression of confusion gave no answer, so Yang elaborated. "We thought you'd be embarrassed, or that you might not understand."

The blonde couldn't help the undertone of relief in her voice as she managed to disentangle herself from Blake.

Ruby rolled her eyes in an extremely Weiss-like fashion. "Well it wasn't that hard to figure out. I thought you guys were acting weird when I saw you earlier, and once Weiss told me about Blake crying in the morning, it seemed kind of obvious."

Yang's eyes were now back to Blake, and the faunus could see guilt swirling in those deep pools. "You...you were crying, Blake? About me?"

Blake gently brushed her partner's cheek, "Shh, it's okay Yang, really. I don't blame you for anything. It was my fault for being so quick to jump to conclusions." She gazed into those deep violet pools and pulled Yang closer. "So stop with the guilt, okay?"

Yang smiled sheepishly. "Thank you Blake." Just as their lips were about to meet once again, they heard a dainty "Ahem," from the door.

They hadn't noticed the heiress walk in, and breaking away quickly, they noticed the look of slight disapproval on her face, as well as a well-disguised refusal to look directly at the pair.

"Now," she began, "Ruby might be comfortable with you two as a couple, and don't get me wrong," she added quickly, "I'm happy for you too. But it would be greatly appreciated if you could keep the public displays of affection to minimum."

"Aww, but Weeeiiiiiss, they're so cuuute!" Ruby whined, making all three older huntresses blush.

"Honestly Ruby, I didn't think you'd take it this well. I thought you might be a little shocked." Yang still spoke cautiously, fearing that Ruby's idea of their relationship might be slightly more innocent than what it was in reality.

"Really Yang?" Ruby was indignant now. "I'm fifteen, it's not like I don't knowwhat sex is."

"Okay, fair enough." Yang conceded. It seemed that the span of Ruby's "growing up" had extended beyond simply drinking milk.

"Speaking of which," Weiss still hadn't looked directly at Blake and Yang, and she spoke to the floor at Ruby's feet. "Would you two mind putting some clothes on? You're hardly decent at the moment..."

The two girls' faces literally became tomatoes at the realization, the commotion of the previous few minutes having wiped from their brains the fact that neither wore a scrap of clothing. They both instantly dove underneath the covers yelling "GET OUT!"

Needing no invitation, Weiss hastily departed, dragging Ruby out with her who called out to the hidden duo. "Bye guys, see you later!"

They resurfaced when they heard the door slam. "Well," Blake sighed, "I guess we should go, we can't stay in bed all evening."

Yang smirked as Blake stood up and began to get dressed. "Well we could."

Blake walked over and placed a kiss on Yang's cheek. "We have plenty of time for that later, come on, let's go see about dinner."

"Have it your way Blakey." Yang now stood up as well, and noticed that Blake had her bow in hand, about to re-cover her ears. "Wait, Blake."

She walked over to the faunus. "I know you think that you have to wear that thing, and I'm not going to try stopping you, but just let me do one thing first okay?"

Blake looked up at her partner, "Yang, what is-"

Yang pulled her into a soft kiss, reaching up to rub Blake's left ear. The cat-faunus purred at the contact, her head instinctively leaning into Yang's hand. She could feel Yang grinning into the kiss, amazed at the reaction she was able to coax out of the usually aloof girl.

Breaking apart, Blake smiled shyly, more than a little embarrassed at her animalistic tendencies. "That was actually really nice, Yang."

The blonde pulled her into an embrace, Blake resting her head on Yang's chest. "You're the most beautiful, adorable, amazing girl I've ever met, Blake, and I want to make sure you know that." Blake's heart melted at the words. "You've made me the luckiest person in the world, and I promise, I won't ever let you go."

"Yang I-" Blake's eyes filled with tears as her partner finished, the blonde gently kissing away the few that fell as she smiled down at her love. Words failed the faunus as she met Yang's lips again, trying to show her all the things that she wasn't able to say.

They separated at last, Yang's face still stuck on that brilliant smile of hers. "Come on kitten," giving Blake one last peck on the lips, "let's go."

In the interest of not drawing attention to themselves, they electednotto tell JNPR about their involvement, as Blake still wanted to keep things relatively quiet. Shedid, however, have to spend most of the meal interrupting Ruby whenever the bubbly girl strayed into treacherous territory, though she had Weiss for support as well.

The evening passed uneventfully, and team RWBY returned to their dorm for bed.

After changing into the yukata she slept in, Blake reclined on her bed, ready to lose herself in a book, but felt Yang slip into bed beside her and wrap an arm around her.

"Come on kitten, you're not allowed to read now, I need cuddles." Blake rolled her eyes, but allowed Yang to lie down next to her and pull Blake into her warm embrace. Blake could feel Yang's breath tickling the back of her neck, and turning her head, she found its source with her lips, Yang sighing into the kiss. "I love you Yang."

"I love you too Blake."

"Awwwww!"

"Ruby! Shut up!"

Sorry about the shorter chapter length and the fact that it was mostly fluff. I PROMISE, shit kicks off next chapter, so get excited.

As usual, don't hesitate to tell me what you thought of it, improvements, etc.

Peace out.

While writing this chapter I was listening to Tsuioku Merry-go-round by OneLifeCrew. Pretty good song, you'll be familiar with it if you watch Fairy Tail.

Just a mildly interesting side note.