We'll just say life sucks and leave it at that. Sorry for the wait.

See Mogwai..that is the reason I need a Beta. It was in my head about why Blake automatically knew Ruby would be a "pup". In my head she felt the coarser hair and more pointed ears that lead her to think straight away a canine type of Faunus. As for the other stuff, just wait a lil lol ;)

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Everyone at the table looked up from their plates when they heard a squeal and a tray smacking the table.

"C'mon Blake, please please please can I try Gambol Shroud? I promise I won't hurt her!" Ruby had big puppy dog eyes and her hands clasped together. " The way you showed me those moves I want to see if I can do it."

Blake rolled her eyes when she heard everyone at the table snickering. " I don't know Ruby. Gambol Shroud can be very dangerous to an inexperienced user of that type of weapon. How about I show you how to use the sword and sheath part but not the gun and ribbon part."

Ruby deflated a little at first but hearing the compromise she sat back up with a big grin. Nodding her head enthusiastically she turned back to tuck into her food.

"Oh Blakey, Ruby will be bugging you every free time you have now for those lessons," Yang stated with a smile.

" You better not forget to study and do your homework!" Weiss snottily threw out there.

Blake saw Ruby hunch in a little at that and ignore her to turn and talk to Nora. She knew the next month was going to be harder than she first thought. She never usually paid attention to just how stuck up Weiss was. Being used to ignoring her, she usually tuned out the girl's shrill voice.

She was a little worried about this meeting coming up. The last time she and Ozpin had talked, she didn't know whether he was accusing her of being in the White Fang still or if he was offering help. He seemed to be flopping back and forth in that conversation.

As she looked around the table she could see the glances Ren and Pyrrha would occasionally give Ruby and herself. She honestly could not see why they were so interested in what was going on. She knew they were friends, but they weren't that close.

Thinking about Ruby's Maturity made Blake realize one thing, Ruby's 16th birthday was just around the corner. She wondered if Yang would plan anything for this. The 16th birthday wasn't only special for Faunus, it was kind of a universal important birthday for all girls the world over. When she looked over at Yang she noticed she was back on her Scroll again. Blake frowned, "Yang!"

"Hmmm, what?" Yang said as she looked up in confusion.

"I need to ask you something later. Meet me in the Library?"

"Sure Blakey, give me a call when you are there." Yang went back to her Scroll typing out a new message.

Ruby looked over at Blake wondering what that was about. Shrugging her shoulders she checked the time on her Scroll. There wasn't much time left before her and Blake needed to leave. She looked up at Blake and waved her Scroll at her.

Blake frowned and looked at her Scroll. She noticed the time and nodded her head at Ruby. " Let's go Ruby, it's almost time to meet Goodwitch."

Ruby waved at the table, " See you guys later."

Blake just waved before heading over to dump her trash. As she waited at the door for Ruby to catch up, she couldn't help but wonder how this was going to go. She knew Ruby trusted Goodwitch and Ozpin, but so far Blake had no reason to trust them herself yet.

When Ruby caught up to Blake she looked deep in thought. She just tapped her arm and kept on walking out the door. Truth be told Ruby was a little nervous herself. She knew there would be some lies on her transcripts, so she was hoping she wouldn't get in trouble for them.

"You know Blake, I bet Ozpin has a great view of the sunset out of his office."

Slightly startled, Blake looked over at Ruby. She noticed Ruby was looking off into the distance, "Yeah." She wondered what that was about. That was random even for Ruby.

Ruby finally looked over at Blake, her face was slightly confused. Ruby just rubbed the back of her head with a small smile, " It's my favorite time of day."

Blake nodded at Ruby and smiled, then pulled out a book. Ruby just smiled some more at Blake. Some things would never change.

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When the elevator doors opened up on Ozpin's floor, Blake put her book away and noticed his secretary was gone. As they stepped up to the doors she saw Ruby take a deep breath before she knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Blake opened the door and let Ruby in first. Ozpin was looking out the window and Goodwitch was sitting on the sofa off to the side. To Blake they seemed more informal than they usually present themselves as. This relaxed some of the tension in her. If there was going to be problems she knew Goodwitch would be standing next to the desk with a stiff posture.

Ruby walked over to the window and stood next to Ozpin looking out at the sunset. "I knew this view would be great," Ruby smiled up at Ozpin.

Ozpin smiled down at Ruby. He slowly lifted his hand and hovered over her head. Ruby took a deep breath and gave a slight nod. He brought his hand down and slowly pet her ears as they popped up. " You have great courage Ruby."

She ducked her head and blushed a little as she glanced over at Blake. Blake for her part was already sitting down on the couch opposite of Goodwitch and watching the interaction. It seemed almost fatherly of Ozpin the way he was acting.

" Come, let us sit. I had a tea service brought in for drinks." He lead Ruby over to the couches where Blake and Goodwitch were sitting.

Ruby's ears were twitching and swiveling rapidly as she sat next to Blake, showing how nervous she was. Blake sighed and looked at Ozpin and Goodwitch before she opened her arms to Ruby. She leveled a look at them daring them to say something while she comforted Ruby.

For their part Ozpin just picked up his coffee mug and Glynda just raised one brow in return. Glynda wanted to smirk, but was able to hold it in. She knew Ms. Belladonna would take care of Ruby's needs. This was the proof she needed.

Ruby snuggled into Blake's side slightly embarrassed to need this much comfort in front of others. She relaxed more as she felt Blake's hand carding through her hair and occasionally petting her ears.

Ozpin cleared his throat as he settled back into the couch, "There are quite a few things we need to discuss tonight. I would like for you two to listen to what we have to say and then we will open things up for general discussion." Both Ruby and Blake nodded to show they were listening.

"First off, Ruby I would like you to know that neither Professor Goodwitch or myself will tell anyone about you. It is entirely up to you to tell the people you trust with this information. Along with that I will not be putting this in your file. It is imperative that only people you trust implicitly find out about your type of Faunus nature."

Blake was surprised that they would do this for Ruby. Maybe she was right to trust in them. She would have to consider this some more.

At this Glynda sat forward, " Ruby I would like for yourself and Ms. Belladonna to meet with me at least once a week to keep appraised of how you are doing. This is an unprecedented situation we find ourselves in. We need to monitor this closely to make sure we can get ahead of any problems that might pop up."

As Ruby was nodding her head to agree, Blake was picking up on the familiar way that Ozpin and Goodwitch addressed Ruby. She couldn't help but think that Ruby was more of a special case than anyone in the school knew.

"Additionally, if anything does occur before our meetings, I would like you to come to me straight away," Glynda looked at Ruby intently until she got an agreement from her.

Ozpin stared directly at Blake until he knew he had her attention, " Now Ms. Belladonna, can we count on you educating Ruby in everything she needs to know pertaining to her being a Faunus? It's not that we can't do it ourselves, we just feel that you would be able to teach her all the subtle nuances of the Faunus culture that we might miss."

Blake sat there thinking for a minute. She could feel Ruby's eyes on her as she thought about this. She had already told Ruby that she would help her. This was just more than she had anticipated. She wasn't sure if she should be the one responsible for all that Ruby would have to learn. She knew Ruby knew the basics and had grounding in that. But she would need a lot of help to pick up on attitude cues and much more. Then again she grew up in the White Fang and didn't know much herself in general Faunus culture.

"I'll do my best, but growing up in the White Fang I don't know much myself for general culture purposes."

"I'm sure what you know is more than what Professor Goodwitch or I would be able to help with."

Blake nodded as she felt Ruby give her a hug. Ruby herself knew she would have to have Blake go over this with her again. Some of the words Ozpin and Goodwitch were using were confusing her. She probably should have brought a notebook with her to write some of this down. Now that she felt more comfortable in the room she sat up from Blake. She knew that Blake herself didn't like much contact if she could avoid it.

Blake looked down at Ruby when she sat up. She noticed that Ruby's ears were now perked forward and attentive as opposed to earlier. With a small nod, she was satisfied that Ruby was sufficiently calmed down.

Glynda also noticed how much calmer Ruby seemed to be. She couldn't help but think how adorable this exasperating girl was. As Glynda glanced over at Ozpin she saw his slight twitch of lips and knew he had recognized this as well.

"Now onto your semblance. Professor Goodwitch and I agree that you are developing a minor secondary semblance that is tied into your main semblance. While this doesn't occur often it is not that uncommon."

Both Ruby's and Blake's eyes widened at this. Neither of them knew this was possible.

"It is a guarded secret at the academies. The general public, while they revere us, they also fear us. So while other Hunters and Huntresses know that this is possible, it is not advertised. The only problem we see right now is that while you are going through your Maturity we can not help you with this. We have to wait until you Aura settles. As soon as that happens we will spend as much time as possible sorting out your secondary semblance. We do know it is related to your main semblance for the fact that you are having problems using it. You will have to learn how to access each separately." Ozpin picked his mug back up for another drink.

Glynda herself was feeling a little parched and leaned forward to serve herself some tea from the service. As she was adding a little milk to her tea she gestured for the girls to serve themselves.

Blake shook her head as Ruby herself leaned forward to make a cup as well. All the nervousness earlier made her really thirsty. 'Hmm, one lump or two?' Ruby sighed as she sat up and took a drink.

"The last major thing we need to talk about is your team being pulled from combat rotation." At this Ruby and Blake both sat forward. " This was something that was being considered before we found out your Faunus and semblance problem. The fact of the matter is, is that your team has seen more combat than half of our second years. Your run ins with the White Fang and Roman Torchwick, plus your regular class outings on small missions have given your team more combat experience than normal. At this point your team will defeat all other first year teams and some second years as well. You do need down time to properly adjust. Being in a state of constant battle and readiness can wear you down to were you start to fail and mess up. It could prove to be fatal. Ruby you will not be participating in class matches either until this is settled. The rest of your team however will continue to participate in the matches."

Ruby knew this was going to happen, but she was still sad about it. She loved fighting in the class matches. She knew Ozpin was right, even the matches in class had become somewhat easy. The only person that gave her a challenge anymore was Pyrrha, and that was because she was a tournament champion. She had experience fighting other people. Of course Pyrrha's semblance made the matches good as well.

Blake was slightly mad. She wanted to get to the bottom of what and why the White Fang was working for Torchwick. It still made no sense to her. Adam was always there at the back of her mind as well. Even so she knew something like this was going to happen sooner or later. She was a little appeased though to hear how well the team was doing as a whole.

Glynda leaned back into the couch studying the girls faces. She could tell that while resigned to this, neither girl was happy about it. She could guess as to why Ruby was upset a little, but Ms. Belladonna's reason eluded her at the moment. " I would like your input as to how we are going to keep the reason behind our meetings from everyone. In fact I would like to know what excuse you have been using to hide all this to begin with."

Ruby rubbed the back of her head with a sheepish smile, " I told Weiss and Yang that I was trying to come up with new battle plans for our team and was going to ask your input after class."

Blake smirked, "Then at lunch I told them I hung back from them because Ruby wanted some grounding in how I use Gambol Shroud and was using our free period to tell her the basics. After class I would be showing her how I use Gambol Shroud."

Ruby then giggled, "Then at dinner I might have been bugging Blake to teach me how to use her weapon after all the cool ways she showed me how it worked. So we could use that to hide our meetings. She did agree to teach me the basics of the blade and sheath."

Blake nodded her head in agreement, " We also have an excuse for Ruby's lack of participation in class," Ruby looked at her in confusion. " Pyrrha and Ren gave it to us. When they asked us earlier if you were alright. You gave a hint that something might be going on, but you didn't say what. You were going to tell them about your semblance problem, so we could use that for everyone. Also we could use that as an excuse for any extra meetings we may need."

Glynda and Ozpin were surprised by all the already laid out covers that could be used. As inadvertently as they happened, they were perfect. Ozpin was glad he made Ruby team leader. She might not show it all the time, but she had a great tactical mind that laid out many plans that could work in a pinch. He had a feeling in time she would become one of the greatest Huntresses he has ever seen. He would do all he could to help her reach her potential.

"Actually I think you should say you are coming to me for meetings about how to help with your semblance first, then use practice with Ms. Belladonna in case you need to. I think that would make more sense."

"Girls, are there any problems we would need to address now?" Ozpin had a feeling he knew exactly what they would say.

Blake and Ruby looked at each other. They both knew what the biggest problem would be. Blake gave Ruby an encouraging look.

Ruby sighed, "Weiss, she is still mean to me. She gets worse if I stick up for myself." Ruby looked down at her lap, "I think she is still mad that I was made team leader."

Blake reached over and rubbed Ruby's back to comfort her. She looked up and nodded at Goodwitch and Ozpin.

Ozpin looked over at Glynda, "Have you noticed anything?"

"Not in classes, and I have much I look over to pay attention otherwise."

"That will have to be something to be dealt with as it comes up. Just remember that you can go to Professor Goodwitch at any time Ruby. When do you plan on telling your team about this?"

"I think it would be best if we tell them as soon as we get back to the dorm."

Ruby shook her head, "You have to meet Yang in the Library, remember?"

"How about as soon as Yang and I come back from the Library? That way we could get everyone together since it should be close to curfew."

Ruby nodded her head then looked over to Goodwitch as she cleared her throat, "I would like our first meeting to be this Friday after lunch."

Blake and Ruby nodded their agreement, both had a free period after lunch that day.

"Well ladies, I think we have covered the important things. You have two hours until curfew, so you should get everything settled. Ruby, we are here for you. I see a lot of potential in you. I want to see you reach the top. Ms. Belladonna, I also want to thank you. You do not have to do this, and yet you are. Have a good evening ladies."

Ruby and Blake stood up and said their good nights as well before leaving the office. Ozpin was a little sad to see how Ruby pinned her ears back to hide them before she went out the door. He would like to see them one day able to be themselves. "Well it looks as if Ms. Belladonna is slowly relaxing around us."

Glynda snorted inelegantly, "Hardly Ozpin. While she wasn't as tense as usual, she still hides behind her bow in front of us."

"In time my dear"

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Still looking for a beta!