Kotan has returned with another chapter of A Pleasant Color. I don't have much to say other than enjoy and you have any requests, I'd love to listen. It's not a 100% chance I will do it, but I'm going to try to aim for a more angst-based or tragedy-one. Enjoy!

Ruby had woken up from all the tossing and turning she'd been doing, so she got out of bed to see if Blake had come back yet; upon finding the other girl sound asleep in her own bed she let out a sigh of relief. All of a sudden Blake rolled over with a stretch and opened her eyes, looking very sleepy as she did.

"Huh?"

The younger girl blushed, ashamed at getting caught, as she quickly turned away. While behind her the older girl sat up and yawned.

"Ruby, what are you doing?"

"N-nothing," She responded, probably a bit too quickly to seem normal. "I was just wondering if you'd gotten back okay and how you were doing after…well."

Blake looked adorably confused for a moment, still too out of it to think much. "I'm just fine Ruby. Thank you."

She giggled a bit and smiled. "Well that's good," Then she suddenly noticed that the other girls ribbon had come off in her sleep, her kitty ears were perked up and alert. "Oh! Your ribbon came off, where'd it go?"

Ruby had to resist the urge to touch them as they spotted the ribbon lying on Blake's pillow. The latter was just about to put it back on when Rubys' self-control broke and she reached for the older girls ears.

"So soft…" She whispered with delight as Blake made room for her in the bed and started purring. The leader quickly pulled back in surprise when she noticed that her teammate had fallen asleep. Ruby herself felt the cumbersome weight of sleep fall upon her and before long, she too had gave in.

Some time later both girls woke up to the arguing of their other teammates.

"As if," Came the shrill voice of Weiss. "A nightclub is not where girls our age go!"

Yang was a bit louder in her retaliation. "It's where I like to go; besides we always do what you wanna do!

"That is so not true!"

Blake sat up and rubbed her eyes. "Hey guys, could you do this outside?"

"Yeah," A voice mumbled sleepily from next to her and let out a yawn. "Some of us are trying to sleep."

Blake's eyes went wide as she quickly jumped out of bed with a gasp and a small cry. "Aah! Ruby, what are you doing in my bed?!"

Said girl looked a little confused before replying with a giggle. "You must've been more out of it than I thought. You did invite me to lay with you after all. I guess I must've fallen asleep after you did, sorry."

"But-I wouldn't- Weiss, Yang." She shot them a glare, not really noticing that they seemed just as confused as she did.

The couple had broken up their argument in favor of the other twos' problems. They sure seemed far more interesting at this point.

"As fun as this all sounds kitten, believe me I'd love to take credit for this, but it wasn't my idea this time. I swear it."

"She's right," Weiss backed Yang up. "We woke up to find you two like that."

The black-themed girls face went a little red and she no longer had her usual calm expression. She seemed to be very embarrassed as she could no longer look her teammates in the eye.

"Aww, Blakey, are you embarrassed?" Yang let out a devilish grin. "That look on your face is just too adorable right now."

The comment made appeared to make the white-themed girl a bit jealous because she elbowed her yellow-themed girlfriend in the stomach. "Fine, we'll go tonight!"

Yang grinned and threw Blake a discreet wink. "Yeah? Thanks Princess. I knew you'd see reason."

"I'm not letting you out of my sight. I know how single people act around you." She glared.

The blonde opens her mouth to retort but is cut off by her younger sister before she gets the chance. "Please don't start arguing again. Once is enough for the morning."

"Seriously," The raven haired girl added as she went into the bathroom to get ready and locked the door behind her so Yang or Ruby wouldn't get any ideas.

"Welllll, you wanna explain that sis?"

"Yeah Ruby, I'm very curious myself."

"To be honest I'm not quite sure. I mean, I wasn't sleeping very well, so I went to check if she'd came back. Cuz she seemed really upset last night when I confessed to her. She took off running so I just thought…and then she caught me checking and then I noticed her bow had come off. I had the urge to touch her ears, ya know? And I guess she was like really really outta it cuz the next thing I know there was no objection and she let me in bed and then she fell asleep. The next thing I know we woke up to your argument. So, yeah, I don't know."

"I'm sorry I asked." Weiss replied.

"Wait, back up a sec, you actually confessed to her?!" Yang looked a bit shocked, but happy at the same time.

"Y-Yeah."

"Geeze lil sis, that's some story."

Weiss shook her head and suddenly seemed to remember something. "Yang, we've got to go, we're supposed to go dress shopping."

"Oh yeah!" The blonde said with a dumbfound expression. " See ya later sis!"

As the couple left, Ruby could hear a faint "Ow!" sounding from her sister as the door shut.

"Huh, wonder what that was all about? Oh well." She shrugged and picked up her book and a few minutes later Blake came out in a towel, holding it to make sure it wouldn't come off. Ruby didn't even notice her because she was so absorbed in her book.

Blake smiled and got changed quickly before going over to her team leader. "Ruby?"

"Huh, oh, I didn't realize you'd finished." She smiled back.

"How's your book? You're a good chunk in."

"It's really good; would you like to read it when I'm done?"

"No thanks. Romance isn't really my-"

"What about Ninjas of Love? You can't say it doesn't have romance." Ruby cut her off with a small shrug.

"Huh!?" The amber eyed cat Faunus looked caught off guard for a moment and started to blush. "Ruby, I told you not to look at my books on that shelf. They're not for children."

"I'm not that much younger than you. Besides, I didn't, Yang did. She told me about it." The duo-toned haired girl shrugged as she put her book aside.

"Don't lie. Yang wouldn't touch a book unless her hand was forcefully glued to one."

She bit her lip. "Okay, fine, so I read it. I just wanted to see why you seemed so obsessed with it…"

"H-How much did you read?"

"Um, all of it? I have to say, I didn't think you were into those kinds of books. It was kinda weird for me to read, but I did it."

"Even the part where they-"

"Yup."

"And when the twins-"

"Mhmm, and before you say anything else I know, that was book two."

"Did you read all of them?!"

"Well yeah, you don't just stop a series before it's barely started."

Blake seemed a bit shocked.

"Blaaaaake?" Ruby waved a hand in front of her face. "You okay?"

"Huh, yeah, just. Wow. I can't believe you did that. Anyway," She quickly glanced over to the clock. "Oh wow, it's getting close to dinner, I hadn't noticed."

"We sure slept in for a long time huh?"

"Yeah, I had a long night…I couldn't sleep."

"Same here."

"I-I'm sorry for running away last night. That was the first time someone had ever confessed to me before. I didn't know how to react, even when I knew beforehand, when you told me it was too much. I couldn't face you. I like you but I'm not really sure how and I don't want things to be awkward between us. I'd rather we take our time with these things. Okay? If our feelings change then they do, but I like how we are now. Don't take it the wrong way though." Blake blushed a bit. "It's not like I dislike you in that way."

"Oh," The younger girl smiled. "Sure. That's fine I understand."

"Thanks Ruby, really, I mean it."

"No problem, do you wanna go get something to eat now?"

"I was just about to ask."

"Great minds really do think alike."

"I agree, are you in the mood for anything in particular?"

"Hmm, nope! Are you?"

"Nope."

The two decided to walk to the cafeteria, but before Blake could suggest that they should eat in their room her scroll went off. It's Weiss suddenly demanding that they meet her and Yang at the boutique.

"Wait, why?" Ruby asked, peeking over Blake's shoulder.

"We're buying dresses and you two are going clubbing with us." Before anyone could say anything else she hung up.

"That was…uh. Sudden."

"Yeah, beats being here though, we can get food along the way if we hurry."

"Okay!"

They then walked into town trying to hurry but there was an unusually large crowd. The two were walking for a while when Blake went to speak.

"Okay, there are a few food vendors- Ruby?" She spied the fifteen year old over at a baked goods stand and shook her head. She made her way over.

"These look really good!"

"Sure." She went and bought some for Ruby. "Here you go."

"Thanks, did you want something?"

"No thanks. Cookies aren't really... Dinner for me" Blake smiled as she watched her friend quickly scarf down her food.

"I can always get you something else."

"That's sweet but I'll be fine."

Ruby shrugged. "If you say so."

By the time the pair got to the boutique they were met by a slightly irritated Weiss with Yang nowhere in sight. Presumably she was in a changing room at the moment.

"Where were you two?! We've been waiting for an hour and a half!"

The amber eyed girl rolled her eyes as she pointed at the noticeable cookie crumbs now on Ruby's blouse. The younger girl rubbed the back of her neck as she laughed nervously.

"Sorry Weiss, I was really hungry."

Weiss gave her a look of slight disgust before sighing. "Well, I suppose it can't be helped, you're here now though. That's what matters. Yang picked out your dresses already; she said she knows your sizes. Perverted blonde-"

Yang chose that moment to step out of the changing room wearing a short strapped orange dress with embroidered flames on the skirt. "What was that Princess?" She grinned, and then turned her attention to her sister and partner. "Hey guys, nice of you to finally join us!"

"Hi sis, that looks nice."

She spins to show off her curves and the noticeable tightness in her chest and butt, throwing a wink towards her sisters partner as the poor girl goes as red as Ruby's cloak.

"Y-Yang? Is that really you?" The heiress sputtered.

Blake was getting slightly impatient so she decided to speak up. "So Yang, Weiss said you got dresses for us?"

"Oh yeah! Thanks for reminding me. You're gonna love 'em!" The blonde brawler quickly goes to get them and Weiss came back to her senses as she went into a changing room to try hers' on.

"Here ya go!" She smiled as she handed Ruby a long red dress with sleeves that fit to the biceps and left the shoulders open leaving it strapless. "This one's for Blake." Then she handed her partner a long tight black dress with a slit on the skirt.

Blake looked at her and smirked. "You're good, this is the right size."

"I knew it would be! Now go try it on! You too Rubes."

Before either girl could move Weiss came back out wearing her dress. It was light blue with a jeweled pattern along the skirt. The white haired girl stepped back and Yang came up behind her and wrapped her arms around her waist, pulling her close. She smiled and whispered softly in Weiss' ear "You look beautiful.", then gave her a kiss while she was still frozen with shock.

The raven haired girl cleared her throat before the couple could get lost in their own little world any further. "We're ready now." She and Ruby had slipped into the changing rooms while their teammates had stopped paying attention. The latter was still wearing her signature cloak.

Yang smiled and nodded in approval towards Blake and sighed at the sight of her sister. "Ruby, ditch the cloak, for tonight at least. It needs to be cleaned anyways."

She went wide-eyed as she had with Blake at Val-Mart the day previous. "Wha- do I really have to?"

"Yes!" All three of her teammates practically shouted in unison.

After a bit of grumbling the youngest girl sighed and relented.

"Geeze Ruby, this thing smells, no wonder Blake doesn't want to date you." Weiss shot, causing Ruby to look uncomfortable and whimper.

"Ouch Princess, that was cold. Anyways, that's much better thank you."

"I agree," Blake smiled.

"Yeah, hold on a sec." The heiress walked up to the counter and flashed a black plastic card with a shiny cobalt Schnee logo on it without so much as a polite smile. The cashier nodded at her and she walked back over to the trio. "Okay, so I asked her if we could use the laundry room in the back to wash our regular clothes, she's also agreed to hold onto our clothes until we come back for them later. The power of the Schnee Heiress' Special Black Credit Card." She grinned with a superior look etched on her face.

"Cool."

"That's great, now we don't have to worry about carrying our stuff around, thanks babe!"

"I told you not to call me that in public!"

"Here we go again." Blake mutters and sighs; quickly taking off before the others can notice she's gone.

"This is never gonna change. Guys, c'mon, please stop. This is supposed to be a fun night out and you guys are just gonna ruin it if you keep arguing like this!"

Unfortunately her pleas for peace fell on deaf ears as the duo continued to bicker. After a while she noticed Blake had left so she decided to go out and look for her, besides by the looks of things they were going to be here for a while.

After only a few seconds of looking the fifteen year old smiled as she located the Cat Faunus standing slightly off to the side.

"Ruby," She looked a bit surprised to see her there. "What are you doing out here?"

"I came looking for you. I tried stopping them, but as you can see, I failed; since they didn't come out with me I figured that you'd be better company."

"I see." Blake mused for a moment. "You're always coming after me. If I didn't know any better I'd swear you were stalking me. You act like one sometimes, a stalker that is."

"W-Welllll they start fighting, you take off first, and I really don't like being alone. I'm sorry."

"Ruby, I was teasing, I don't mind. It's kind of nice to know someone cares. " The black-themed girl looked over at her for a moment, searching for something to say. "I like your dress."

"Oh!" The younger girl looked surprised for a moment before returning the complement. "Y-Yours looks nice too. Very nice."

"I think it's a bit tight, but not impossibly so." She shrugged, as she tried to ignore the girls stare that was lingering on her a bit too long. Ruby is actually checking me out right now! What the-

"It's perfect." She breathed, breaking Blake out of her thoughts.

"Well thank you Ruby, that's sweet." She smiled and blushed a bit and could almost swear the younger girl was hiding a small smirk of her own before the two noticed Yang and Weiss finally coming over to join them.

"Hey there you are! C'mon, let's go!" Yang cheered happily as she led the group down the streets of Vale a shady looking club with a windowless neon-laced facade.