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Ruby’s Xiao-Long Genes

Summary:

Ruby didn’t get jealous. She didn’t.

Chapter 1: Cold and Numbing Blue

Chapter Text

Ruby didn’t get jealous. She didn’t. At least not the way her dad and sister described jealousy, Yang always described her jealousy as a rage that settled just under the skin wanting something, to be something but not being able to have it and being upset at the people who do. On the other hand her father described jealousy as this deep sadness that settled into one’s heart for the exact same reason Yang felt angry, it was confusing because Ruby never felt jealous in either of those ways.

 

Ruby’s jealousy wasn’t like Yangs or Dads'; her jealousy was a numb feeling; it didn't boil under her skin or settle deep into her bones; it was just there. All over, a constant numbness spread throughout her body. It was the static buzz you get when your foot cramps yet also the overwhelming calm of hearing a death and being unable to process it correctly.

 

So watching Sun and Neptune flirt with her teammates that she has recently come to like, a lot more than was probably good for her, she didn’t feel hot rage or cold sadness she just…was. Although she couldn’t deny she may be glaring just slightly but that wasn’t the jealousy that was the annoyance. Why did Sun and Neptune have to join them? This was a Team outing not a Team plus the annoying boys outing.

 

“You’re Xiao-Long is showing sis” Yang said beside her bumping their shoulders while also watching their teammates “not that i can really talk” 

 

Yang turned to her eyes a glowing red. Right. Jealousy was one of the emotions that set off the Xiao-Long eyes. When feeling emotions like jealousy, anger or even extreme excitement Xiao-Long eyes change that to the parents or grandparents eyes they didn’t inherit. Yangs changed to her mothers red and glowed with emotion, their dads changed to the green of their grandfather and glowed like toxic acid rain.

 

Ruby’s eyes didn’t change often although the silver would glow with emotion; it was rare she actually switched colours, but when they did they turned blue like their father except cold piercing unwilling to give much away, quite the opposite to their usual expressiveness.

 

Ruby looked at her sister with these eyes and a wry smile. “I know but i can’t help it, this was meant to be team time not- not team and stupid flirty boy time. And if Sun doesn’t watch his hands im going to take them off ” she growled out the last part her glare hardening. Yang nodded in agreement her eyes burning into the back of the boys skulls 

 

“So I take it you like Blake and Weiss?” Yang asked. Ruby nodded in response “yeah me too you know the whole loving two people is also a Xiao-Long thing?”

 

“Yeah I know, Mum, Dad and Raven were in a poly relationship before Raven left right? Uncle Qrow told me” Ruby said as Yang nodded “do you. want to be that too?” she asked, turning to her sister.

 

Yang paused before nodding “yeah…you know if we worked together maybe we could all get together?” she said “you and I staying platonic of course” Ruby laughed at her sisters hurried add on.

 

“yeah okay.”

 

>•<•>•<•>•<•

 

Meanwhile Sun and Neptune were sweating buckets. Blake smirked as her ears picked up on the conversation behind them. Turning to Weiss she said “it’s working”

 

“good does that mean we can stop? because if they glare any harder i think my head might explode” Sun whimpered yet kept up appearance by pulling Blake closer with a strained smile. Weiss rolled her eyes at the monkey faunus and shook her head.

 

“Not until they actually ask us out” she informed him, Neptune sighed and whined asking why the duo couldn't just be the ones to ask out the sisters to which Blake replied neither she nor Weiss have ever actually asked anyone out.

 

“So? I'm pretty sure Ruby has never asked anyone out before either! you guys are gonna get us killed” Neptune whined Sun nodding in agreement. Blake sighed and turned calling out to the girls behind them

 

“Hey! Weiss and I are gonna head back, you guys coming?” she said. The two looked between them sharing a quiet conversation before Yang gave her usual grin and ruby beamed at them.

 

“Yeah we’ll meet you there although” her eyes drifted to Sun and Neptune and hardened in a cold blue “Yang and I need to have a little chat with Sun and Neptune” she said as Yang grabbed the two by the back of their shirts dragging them away and around a corner. “See you at the dorm!” Ruby said, smiling and running after her sister.

 

Blake and Weiss both stared in surprise at the spot the boys where a second ago. Blake looked at Weiss

 

“Do you think we should help them?” she asked

 

“No, I'm sure they’ll be fine.” Weiss huffed

 

“Hopefully…did you know Ruby’s eyes could do that?” Blake asked

 

“No. perhaps it’s a ‘Xiao-Long’ thing instead of just a ‘Yang’ thing like we thought” Blake nodded and the two mayes their way to the bullhead back to Beacon

 

>•<•>•<•>•<•

 

Sun whimpered his back to the wall, cold blue eyes staring down at him, in the corner of his eye he can see Neptune being cornered by a red eyed Yang.

 

“Don’t look over there look at me, nothing over there can help you” Ruby said, pulling him down to her level. “Now I'm only gonna say this once, watch where you put your hands on Blake or I will cut them off so you don’t have to worry about them anymore” she growled at him “Do you understand”

 

“I understand. crystal clear ma’am.” he gulped and sighed in relief when she dropped him with a snarled out good .

 

Chapter 2: The Queen and her Assasin

Summary:

What’s this? a second chapter? it’s more likely than you think

Notes:

Writer’s block kicked my ass with this chapter, how longs in been *checks watch* over a year……my bad

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

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Chapter 2: The Queen and her Assasin

 

Weiss sighed sitting at her desk, she and Blake having just arrived at the dorm. “Do you really think this will work? It seemed to have the desired effect earlier and hopefully when they get back we will be able to talk about it but…” she trailed off with a somewhat worried expression.

 

“It’s your plan. and I have faith in it” Blake said, laying on Weiss’s bed  “don’t worry so much and even if it doesn’t maybe we should take Sun’s advice and ask them instead of waiting for them to ask us”.

 

Weiss hummed in acknowledgment and went to lay next to her “perhaps” she said kissing Blake on the cheek and laying her head on the cat faunus chest.

 

So. You might be wondering what that’s about. Well that story takes place about two weeks ago just after their first mission, let’s rewind.

 

•>•<•>•<•>•<•

 

Two weeks ago

 

Weiss was scared, it was strange because she’s never felt this kind of fear before not when fighting the White Fang not when telling her father she was going to beacon or when facing a horde of grimm in the middle of vale and yet right now she’s petrified. 

 

Her back is against the wall, hands blocking her exit on either side, a boy with a tiger tail wrapped around her waist stares down at her (he wasn’t in her year but she’s seen him talking to velvet about homework before, a second year then?) 

 

“Come on Schnee im a good guy just say yes” his grin is predatory and weiss can feel unwanted tears building up as she shakes her head and tells him no repeatedly as his face gets closer to her’s.

 

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“ What the fuck do you think your doing ”

 

When Weiss hears it she doesn’t believe it at first, after all she’s never heard Blake sound as angry as she was now, not even when they were trying to stop the White Fang 

 

Through blurry eyes she looks over to see her friend,  her teammate, one of the girls she can feel her walls collapsing for, one of the people the chains around her heart unravel for, one of three who she can feel herself latching onto as every second of time spent together goes by.

 

Blake’s eyes are filled with rage, her bow drooping backwards imitating the shape of the ears they hide, a low growl in the back of her throat. It’s times like now which remind Weiss that Blake is not a black domesticated house cat faunus. Blake was a predator and always had been, instincts she would never let go of, a black puma hardened by the truths of the world (but not broken, never broken no matter how hard it tried) no matter how much she hid it. Blake was a predator disguised as prey but it’s not something that scares Weiss, not when she can see the hints of concern she holds for her, the special curl in her snarl when what she defends is personal, no Weiss wasn’t scared in fact she can’t help but be even more in love with the girl.

 

She can feel her muscles relax slightly, eyes clearing before tensing as the tail curls tighter around her. “Piss off Belladonna all I'm asking is she goes on a date with me! She should be happy if any guy asks her, let alone me, a faunus who can see past her truly awful personality” he says grinning but his smile is full of teeth.

 

“She said no so i'm pretty sure you’re the one who should be pissing off Jackson” Blake’s voice is a curious mix of calm and furious, a blaze covered with a blanket. The boy coked his head to the side, his own growl joining the corridor as they stared at each other. In a flash Blakes leg shoots out as she kicks Jackson in the nose, the boy letting go of Weiss cradling the broken appendage in his hands.

 

Blake stalks forward and grabs her hand pulling Weiss away from the second year boy, protests dying in his throat as she pushes him away, knocking him to the floor and stepping on his tail. “Stay the hell away from my teammate, dont touch her, don’t look at her, hell don't even breathe the same air as her, do you understand?” She glares at the downed boy as he snarls and nods conceding defeat before running away.

 

Weiss could feel her earlier tears resurfacing as she chokes down a sob, Blake pulls her close whispering reassuringly words in her ear and as she pulls away looking her friend in the eyes, Weiss can’t help herself, not when amber eyes look at her in that current moment like she’s the only thing that matters in the world.

 

Weiss grabs the collar of Blake’s shirt pulling her down into a searing kiss, all of Weiss’s emotions pouring out into it. Pulling away she looks the faunus in the eyes and smiles.

 

“Thank you”

 

•>•<•>•<•>•<•

Present Day

 

After the “Incident” as it had been dubbed the two had a long discussion together about what the kiss meant to each other and their relationship going forward which in turn brought up the subject of their other crushes, thankfully these crushes happened to be the same pair of patch siblings.

 

•>•<•>•<•>•<•

 

Two weeks ago

 

Weiss and Blake sat across from each other with awkward smiles on their faces and light blushes across their cheeks, they had just finished talking about how Weiss was feeling after the whole cornering situation and moving onto another topic they needed to discuss.

 

“So…” Blake starts “are we going to talk about you kissing me or?” She trailed off looking at her teammate, the heiress gave a small smile and a shrug (a mannerisms she had definitely picked up from Ruby) before answering.

 

“I suppose we should Blake I-” She paused for a moment seemingly gathering courage “I will be honest with you I like you, I like you a lot but” she stopped looking away.

 

“But?” Blake encouraged.

 

“I like Ruby and Yang too and I know it’s selfish of me to like them and you, selfish to ask you to be okay with that because you deserve better than someone who can’t promise themselves to you and just you, I am selfish Blake I want you but I want them too” 

 

Weiss looked back at Blake, she wasn’t quite sure what she expected but it wasn’t the understanding smile on her face or the warmth in her eyes.

 

“I like you” Blake said “and I like Yang and Ruby too, trust me Weiss you aren’t being selfish and if you are then,” Blake shrugs her shoulders a small smile on her face “so am I, so what do you say we be selfish together?”

 

Weiss could feel the tears in her eyes again as she lunged forward wrapping Blake in a hug.

 

•>•<•>•<•>•<•

Present Day

 

There was a mutual understanding that they were together after that, neither needed to vocalise it. 

 

What they did vocalise was their plan to get the two sisters of Patch to ask them out.

Notes:

Next Chapter:The Plan let’s see if it takes another year/hj