Ruby Rose woke up early. It was her first day at Beacon University, and she didn't want to be late. She slowly pulled herself out of bed and walked over to her dresser. Pulling out a plain, black, short-sleeved shirt, she removed the tank top she had slept in and tossed it on to the bed. As she slid the shirt over her shoulders, she looked around for a pair of shorts to wear.

I suppose these'll do she thought to herself as she grabbed a pair of faded blue jean shorts off of the floor.

Opening her door, she crept through the still dark house and felt her way to the bathroom. She stepped in and closed the door behind her, turning on the light as she did so. Sliding her clothes off of her body, she slowly stepped into the shower, turning the water to hot and stood under it for several minutes. As the water flowed through her short black and red hair and petite form, her mind started to wander to the people she knew would be going to Beacon with her.

Okay, she though to herself. There's Yang of course. Don't know what I'd do without her. Then there's her friend Blake. She seems nice, and she likes books, but I've never been able to hold a really hold a conversation with her. I really don't know how those two ended up being such close friends. Then there's Jaune. Ah, Jaune. I really don't know what I'd have done without you there to keep me company back in high school. I just wish he'd stop flirting with me constantly though. I really don't know how many more ways I can say no to him. I could try to go the whole 'I'm a lesbian' route, but I don't want to lie to him, and I certainly don't want to lose him as a friend.

Suddenly, a shout from outside the bathroom grabbed her attention.

"Hey Ruby, how much longer are you going to be? Some of us haven't showered yet, you know!" Her sister called from outside.

"Relax Yang! I'll only be a couple more minutes," Ruby replied, raising her voice just enough to be heard over the running water. "Besides, aren't dad and your mom still asleep?"

"Nah, they woke up a few minutes ago. So, are you gonna hurry up or what?"

"Ugh, fine," Ruby groaned, turning off the water as she did so. "Just give me a minute to dry off before you come barging in here. I don't want a repeat of the first day of high school."

She heard Yang laugh loudly from the other side of the door. "Oh the memories."

"Shut up!" Ruby yelled, her face turning bright red. "Do you have any idea how embarrassing it was to have you walking in on me while I was completely naked?"

Yang laughed again. "Oh yeah, it was totally embarrassing at the time. Ya gotta learn to laugh at that type of stuff as you get older though Rubes."

Ruby put on her clothes once more and walked out of the bathroom, lightly pushing a still laughing Yang out of her way as she did so. Walking downstairs, she entered the kitchen to find Yang's mom and their dad already sitting at the kitchen table.

"Good morning guys," she said as she grabbed a cereal box out of the cupboard.

"Good morning, Ruby," they both replied, with Yang's mom saying it with slightly less enthusiasm.

"Did you sleep well?" her dad asked.

"Oh, I slept alright," Ruby replied, quietly adding a "wish I could have slept longer though."

"You ready for your first day?"

"Dad, I told you, I'll be fine."

"Okay, just making sure."

Ruby spent the rest of her meal in silence. About halfway through her meal, Yang walked into the kitchen, her blonde mane looking just as messy as before she had gotten into the shower. Ruby listened to Yang get the same interrogation she had gotten, though Yang received a noticeably friendlier welcome from her mother than Ruby had. Quietly excusing herself from the table, Ruby walked back upstairs to grab her backpack. She walked back into her room and pulled the red pack out from under her bed, opening the zipper as she did so.

Well, looks like I've got everything, Ruby thought to herself as she went through her pack. Books, notebooks, pencils, laptop...Yep. That's everything.

Before she put the bag on her back however, she grabbed a somewhat tattered red, hooded jacket out of her closet and slid it over her arms. Smiling slightly to herself at the feeling of the soft fabric over her arms even as a lone tear fell from her eye, she picked up her backpack and walked to the front door to wait for her sister.

"Yang, what's taking you so long?" She shouted after several minutes.

"Geez, relax," Yang called back, even as she started to descend the stairs to the front door herself. "My first class doesn't even start for another couple hours at least."

"Yeah, but mine's at nine, and that's about twenty minutes from now, and you know that it'll take about five minutes to drive there, not to mention finding a parking spot!"

Yang rolled her eyes. "We'll be fine, Rubes. Stop worrying."

Ruby shook her head as she walked out the door. "I just hope the rain holds out until we're inside."

As if on cue, Ruby felt a drop hit her hand, causing her to jump a little. Well, so much for that, she thought dejectedly as she got into the passenger seat of the car, and Yang crawled into the driver's.

Ruby climbed out of the car and looked at her phone.

8:50. she thought to herself. Well, I suppose it could be worse. At least the rain let up somewhat on the way over here.

"I'll see you after class, Yang" Ruby said, quickly giving the older girl a hug.

"See ya soon, Rubes" Yang replied, returning the hug before slowly walking away.

Ruby looked at her schedule to get the room she would need to go to for her first class before taking off in a full blown sprint in the direction she needed to go. Just as she got outside of the building, however, she slipped in a puddle and fell to the ground. Checking herself over and finding that she was unhurt aside from a a minor bruise or two, she was about to get back up when she heard a shrill shout from behind her.

"What do you think you're doing?" came a high-pitched voice.

Ruby turned around to see a beautiful girl with shimmering white hair, a pale face marred only by a scar that went down over her left eye, a white jacket and a pale blue skirt that looked like someone had splashed water on it.

Oh no. Ruby thought to herself.

"Excuse me, are you listening?" The girl continued.

"Umm," Ruby stammered. "Sorry?"

"Sorry? Sorry? Is that all you have to say for this?" She gestured to her skirt. "I swear, if this skirt is ruined because of what you've done, I will make sure that you pay for at least one replacement!"

"Umm..."

"Are you deaf as well as stupid? This was an expensive skirt, and if it's ruined, you're going to be buying me one to replace it!"

"Hey, I said I was sorry, princess!" Ruby shot back. "What else do you want from me? 'Oh your highness, however will I make up for this transgression!'" Ruby mocked. "'Please, allow me to kiss the ground at your feet, for I am not worthy to be in your glorious presence.'"

"Why the nerve of-" she started. "Ugh! Just...watch where you're going."

With that, the white haired girl strode off, muttering angrily to herself.

Well, that could have gone better, Ruby thought dejectedly. She pulled out her phone and looked at the time. She only had another four minutes to get to class, so she took off in another sprint. It was going to be a long day.

Ruby dragged herself into her history class, the last one she had for the day. She was soaked from having to walk through the pouring rain that had begun shortly after her second class had ended. Sitting down, she powered up her laptop briefly just to check and make sure that it had not been damaged by the water, and to her immense relief the computer powered on and was ready for use moments later. Satisfied, she turned the computer off once more and put it back into her pack. As she sat back up, however, she noticed a familiar white haired girl walk into the room, but she either didn't notice Ruby, or chose to simply ignore her, much to Ruby's immense relief. She reached into her backpack into her backpack once more to grab a notebook and her textbook when she suddenly heard someone speak from the front of the room.

"Good afternoon class, I am professor Oobleck, and this is History 112, modern history," The green haired man called out in machine-gun like fashion. "If this is not where you are supposed to be, I strongly suggest that you leave."

As the professor began to drone on about what the class would entail, it occurred to Ruby that she hadn't seen the man when she arrived, and she hadn't seen him enter the room either. As she turned her gaze back to the professor, she noticed that he was seemingly teleporting from place to place within the room. Ruby closed her eyes and shook her head thinking that she must be really tired, but when she reopened them, she watched the man still zipping from place to place around the room. Eventually, when there were only ten minutes left in class, the Professor started on a topic that none of her other classes so far had.

"Finally, you will all have a project that will be about sixty percent of your grade this semester. You will be paired with one other person and your goal will be to research an event from the last fifteen hundred years The topic will be of your choice, so make sure that you and your partner agree on what to do. You will be tasked with writing a research and analysis paper as well as creating a presentation which you will give at the end of the semester. When I call you and your partner's names, please stand." The professor began to call off names, and Ruby had very nearly stopped paying attention when she heard her name called. "Ruby Rose."

Ruby stood from her seat.

"And Weiss Schnee."

The white-haired girl she had 'met' earlier stood from her seat and turned to look at Ruby. For a brief moment, it seemed as the she didn't recognize her, until Ruby saw anger flash across her pale features.

That's really not a good look for her, Ruby thought idly to herself as she sat back down. I'll bet she has a beautiful smile. Not beautiful like that though! Beautiful like... I don't know... Ugh, just shut up brain.

Immediately after he finished calling names, the white-haired girl, Weiss, ran up to the professor's desk, whilst Ruby started to pack everything back into her backpack. Ruby just sat there watching Weiss argue with Oobleck, chuckling slightly when she stamped her foot in frustration when the professor simply waved her off.

"By no means does this make us friends," Weiss said as she grabbed Ruby by the hood of her jacket, causing her to yelp a little.

"Where are you going?" Ruby asked as soon as they left the building.

"The library, to start doing research. Why?"

"Well, my sister is going to be done with class in about fifteen minutes and she's going to be going home immediately afterward."

"So?"

"So, she's my ride home, and she's certainly not going to be staying on campus after her class is done. Besides, what are we even going to be researching?"

Weiss stopped short, causing Ruby to almost run into her. "I'm not sure yet," she replied shortly. "I was going to see what the library has before we jump off into a topic."

Ruby thought for a moment before replying. "Well, how about the Faunus war? There's plenty of information on that, and most of what we find should be reasonably accurate given that it was only about one hundred years ago."

Weiss closed her eyes and thought for a moment. "Well, my family is quite familiar with the subject, given the company's history with the Faunus. Fine. We'll do it, but that doesn't excuse you from pulling your weight on this project. I sear, if you don't-"

"Let me guess," Ruby interrupted. "You'll see to it that I flunk the class? Or worse? Besides, what 'company' are you referring to exactly?"

Weiss' eye twitched. "My families energy company! You've never heard of 'Schnee Energy?' We provide power to over ninety percent of Vale, and have the world first truly functional fusion energy plant!"

"Wait, so your-"

"The Heiress to one of the largest energy companies in the world? Yes."

"Well, I was going to say a rich stuck up jerk, but that works too," Ruby muttered to herself.

"When will you be on campus tomorrow?" Weiss said, ignoring Ruby's snide remark.

"I have class at nine until a quarter after ten, but I'll be on campus until about one because of my sister's classes."

"What, you don't have another method to get here?"

Now it was Ruby's turn to glare. "We have two cars. My dad needs one to go to work so that leaves only one for both my sister and I. Besides, what are you getting all pissed about? It's not like I said I wasn't going to be here tomorrow."

Weiss rolled her eyes. "Just meet me in the library at ten-thirty tomorrow so we can discuss what we're going to be doing for this project. And don't be late!"

With that, Weiss turned on her heels and walked away, leaving Ruby standing alone outside the building.

"Well that could have gone worse I guess," Ruby sighed to herself as she walked to the parking lot to go wait near the car

"Hey mom, we're home!" Yang bellowed out as she and Ruby walked in the front door.

The blonde haired woman walked into the room and greeted Yang with a hung.

"How was your day, Yang?" She asked.

"Oh, rather boring." Yang replied. "Usual first day junk. 'This is what the rules are, and that is what we'll be learning about this semester'"

"Well, at least you made it home without the neighbor's mailbox this time," Yang's mom laughed.

Yang chuckled a little herself. "Yeah but that was." She paused briefly before continuing, "I don't even know how I managed to pull their mailbox out of the ground."

Yang's mom turned around and started to walk away when Yang called out, "Hey aren't you going to ask Ruby how her day went?"

"Oh, right," she replied with a distinct lack of enthusiasm. "How was your day, Ruby?"

"Fine," Ruby replied flatly. "I'm working with someone else on a project on the Faunus war, so I may be away from home a little more often."

"Okay," she replied simply "Have fun Ruby."

Ruby sighed to herself. "I'll be in my room if you guys need me."

Ruby walked up to her room and set down her backpack near her bed. Sitting down at her desk, she turned on her computer. As the desktop screen came up, she debated logging into Grimm Wars Online to see if Jaune was playing, but stopped herself when she thought of Weiss.

I suppose I should probably go ahead and get some research together for Weiss tomorrow, she thought, sighing to herself. It certainly wouldn't hurt to get started on everything a little early for a project like this. With that, she loaded up an internet browser, and started her research. She had a long night ahead of her.

A/N: Let me guess: "Oh another White Rose University AU, How could this one be any different from the others on this site?" Well, just wait a few chapters, and you'll see. Anyway, for those of you reading this, please don't hesitate to leave a review telling me what you think!

Also, for those of you who have read my OC story "Beacon's Shade," That one will be on hiatus until I can figure out exactly where I want it to go. I thought I had an idea, but I kinda lost it to writer's block