Ruby took a tentative step into the classroom and was met with the low roar of students chatting with each other before class began. Ruby shrunk away from the loud noises as she made her way towards the teacher who was currently downing a full cup of what appeared to be an expresso while furiously typing away on his laptop. As Ruby grew nearer to the desk the man's head snapped up suddenly and his attention focused on Ruby.

"HowcanIhelpyou?" The man said quickly to Ruby as she fidgeted nervously in front of his desk. He raised an eyebrow at the small girl and wondered if she had walked into the wrong classroom, not looking nearly old enough to be taking the 10th grade class.

"Oh Uhm... I'm going to be in this class. My name is Ruby Rose." Ruby told the energetic man while stealing glances behind her to make sure she wasn't drawing more attention than necessary to herself. To her relief nobody had seemed to notice her talking to the teacher which made her release a small smile onto her face as she turned her attention back to whom she assumed was Professor Oobleck.

"Oh yes Miss Ruby Rose! A pleasure to meet you! Welcome to Beacon! Now, most of the seats are already filled up, but there's one in the back next to Miss Belladonna! Class of about to start so head to your seat please!" Oobleck told Ruby rapidly, talking only slightly slower for the poor girl to try and understand. Luckily, she managed to make out to sit in the back and gave a small nod to him before spinning around on her heel to face the desks that still had students chatting away on top of them. Ruby clutched her binders to her chest tightly as she wormed her way past all the bodies before reaching a desk that appeared to be empty. Ruby figures this was the seat Professor Oobleck had mentioned and set her stuff down and began to unpack until she felt someone's gaze on her. She raised her head with slight confusion as she turned to her right and made eye contact with who she assumed was Belladonna, and she was definitely not what Ruby had been expecting.

Sitting next to her in a desk was a older girl that had raven black hair that was cascading down her back along with a pair of twitching cat ears on top of her head. The girl was wearing a rather revealing black and white crop top if the skimpy piece of clothing could even be called that. The article of clothing hugged the older girl's chest and Ruby thought displayed the girl's set of breasts very nicely which brought a blush to her face. In addition, the girl's smooth, flat stomach was on display for anyone who looked at the girl including Ruby. Ruby's eyes managed to tear themselves away from the girl's enticing stomach before trailing lower along her body. Ruby's face was nearly as red as her cape as she was treated to the sight of black leggings pressed tightly against the girl's plump looking thighs. Ruby ripped her not quite innocent gaze away from the girl's thighs, and brought her gaze to the girl's eyes and sucked in a breath as her silver eyes met amused looking amber colored ones. Ruby felt herself shudder as the girl's gaze tore itself from hers and swept over the younger girl's body before promptly returning to Ruby's eyes again. After a few moments the girl smirked at Ruby before turning to face the board as the bell rang. Ruby was shell shocked and extremely confused about what had just happened, but managed to refocus her attention to the board as she pulled her cloak's hood over her face to hide her burning red cheeks.

The class passed by painfully slow for Ruby who could barely focus thanks to the mysterious girl to her right who didn't even glance at her throughout the lesson which confused Ruby even more. Once the bell rang Ruby scrambled to pack all of her things up before practically barreling over people to get out of the door and find her sister before her next class started. Unfortunately for Ruby, she hadn't gained the knowledge of how the school was laid out over the pass few hours and ended up lost while looking for Yang's math class. Ruby was currently standing in the third hallway she had convinced herself would be where Yang was. She was looking at people as they walked past her and frowned when she didn't notice her sister anywhere until she caught a glimpse of familiar looking blonde hair. Ruby lit up as she threw herself into the sea of people as she shuffled her way through until she reached the owner of the blonde hair and reached out to grab their wrist excitedly.

"Yang! I need some big sis help like ri-" Ruby trailed off as she noticed the wrist she was holding didn't belong to her spunky sister, but to a boy with short blonde hair and bright blue eyes that was looking at her with clear confusion in his eyes. Ruby blushes as she dropped the boy's wrist and quickly sped away from him before he could say anything to her. The hallways were nearly empty once Ruby stopped running and collapsed against a wall along yet another hallway she didn't recognize. Breathing heavily she let out a loud groan before closing her eyes and lightly pressing her head against the cool wall.

"Could this day get any better..." Ruby mumbled to herself and continued to lay against the wall for a few minutes until she felt someone standing over her. Ruby frowned and wondered who wouldn't be in class right now since the bell had rang a few minutes ago. She opened her eyes and drug them upwards to meet familiar amber colored eyes that were gazing down at her with amusement in them. Ruby felt her face start to flush again as the black haired beauty stared down at her with a mischievous little smirk on her face that seemed to grow with every passing second until the girl extended a hand out to Ruby. Ruby looked at the extended hand timidly before shakily taking it and was suddenly pulled up to her feet. Ruby let out a squeak of shock as she stumbled forward due to unbalance and straight into the older girl's chest. Ruby felt her face press against the girl's breasts which she had to admit were rather nice in comparison to Yang's that were just too much, but that was beside the point as she stumbled backward away from the girl with a bright red face. Ruby couldn't bring herself to look up at the older girl in fear of being yelled at for basically violating the girl until she heard a angelic voice giggling.

Ruby's head snapped up to look at the now giggling girl and noticed two things immediately. The first was how the girl's ears had moved to press against the girl's head lightly as she giggled at her, and the second was the crazy amount of butterflies that were now wrecking havoc inside of her stomach.

The older girl stopped giggling as she noticed Ruby watching her timidly before taking a step closer to the girl and leaning in closer to the small girl's face.

"First day and you're already skipping? I honestly expected more from Xiao Long's supposed genius sister." The Black haired girl said blandly as she watched the girl in front of her squirm because of how close she'd gotten to her.

"Y-Yang! You know Yang!" Ruby managed to squeak out since that was about all she understood from what the girl had said much more focused on how close the girl had gotten to her face.

"Everyone knows Yang. She's Beacon's champion boxer." The girl stated to Ruby as she thought back to all the pep rallies she had gone to with the blonde being pitted against another student to get everyone excited. The girl looked down at Ruby whose face had an expression of confusion that made the girl subconsciously smile before she backed away from the younger girl slightly.

"My name is Blake Belladonna and I assume you're You should probably head to class or else a teacher is going to find you and give you detention for skipping." Blake said nonchalantly to Ruby as she began to inspect her nails and started walking away from the little girl until she heard coughing start. Blake's ears swiveled towards he horrible sounding coughs that were coming from behind her and turned around to see Ruby bracing herself against the wall and coughing violently into her shirt's sleeve.

Ruby has propped herself against the wall as another one of her coughing fits came on. She felt the familiar metallic taste of her own blood fill her mouth as she coughed it up out of her lungs and into her sleeve repeatedly. The girl's lungs felt like they were on fire as she continued, and just having chemo didn't help as she became acutely aware of the terrible burning sensation just under her skin. Blake had cautiously approached the girl who was too busy coughing to notice her as she reached out and pressed a hand against her back. Ruby instantly tensed up, but resumed coughing not long after as Blake began rubbing small circles along the younger girl's back. Ruby nearly started screaming out loud as she felt Blake's hand pressing against her skin making it boil even more beneath her skin. Instead tears streamed down her face as she felt like her skin would melt off any second.

Eventually Ruby stopped coughing and immediately scrambled away from Blake as she recomposed herself. Once Ruby had seemed herself presentable she turned around to explain herself to Blake to see that the cat girl had already left which made her heart sink a little for some reason she didn't understand. Deciding to take Blake's advice, Ruby made her way towards where her math class would hopefully be. Thankfully, she had guessed right and arrived halfway through the class being placed next to a boy with silver hair after receiving a stern scolding about being late from Ms. Goodwitch which earned snickers from her classmates. The rest of the period was uneventful as Ruby had already taken Calculus BC the previous year in the comfort of her own room, so instead she spent her time thinking about things. Those things mostly being Blake as the raven haired girl continued to invade Ruby's thoughts. Ruby wondered where she had run off to, and why she had tried to comfort her while she coughed since she was a complete stranger to her along with many other questions she couldn't answer herself. This continued until the bell rang and Ruby stood up with a smile from ear to ear as she started making her way towards the cafeteria.

Beacon academy was different in that it had 3 periods everyday, and alternated between classes on a 3 day schedule. On day 1 like today, Ruby had The History of Remanent with Professor Oobleck first period, AP BC Calculus with Ms. Goodwitch for second period, and finally a lunch period which Ruby was happily looking forward to. Meanwhile, on day 2 Ruby would have AP Language Arts with Professor Port first period, followed by AP Chemistry with Professor Ozpin, and then lunch again. Finally on the 3rd day of the cycle she'd attend AP Physics C with Professor Ozpin, have a free period for 2nd period with lunch right after.

Ruby was still eagerly making a beeline to the cafeteria when she was suddenly picked up off the ground like she weighted nothing. She let out a shocked squeal as she squirmed in her captore's hold until she heard familiar laughter in her ear as her sister put her down on the ground. Yang was standing there with a shit eating grin on her face after having easily lifted her tiny sister. Ruby rolled her eyes at the buff blonde to glance behind and and see a familiar set of Snow White hair.

"Hey Weiss!" Ruby said giddily as she bounced up and down a bit in front of Yang as Weiss shuffled out from behind the tall blonde, watching the energized Ruby bounce in front of her.

"Hello there... what's got you so excited?" Weiss asked Ruby curiously as the trio began making their way towards the lunchroom which wasn't very far now. Ruby grinned widely at Weiss's question before it slipped away because Ruby didn't know why she was so excited right now.

"I'm not sure to be entirely honest... it might be because of this girl I met in my first period class today?" Ruby said to Weiss as more of a question than an answer to the girl's previous question. Weiss opened her mouth to say something to Ruby, but was interrupted by a familiar looking person with ginger hair.

"Hey Weiss! You know how Pyrrha deleted my game this morning? Of course you do! Well, I was wondering if you could uhhhhhhh loan me some money to basically rebuy everything?!" Nora asked the white haired girl as Ruby tried to figure out where Nora had even appeared from before spotting Ren sitting at a table to their right that held a few familiar faces as well as some new ones too. Ruby opened her mouth to try and help when she was suddenly spun around and facing the table with all the people and Yang's arm laid across her shoulders.

"So now its time for you to meet the rest of the gang Rubes! The green haired one is Emerald and she's like super gay." Yang said as she pointed out a girl with green hair who stuck her tongue out at Yang when Yang said she was gay which Yang promptly returned before moving onto the next person.

"That guy right there with the blue hair is Neptune and he's also super gay." Yang said as she pointed to a boy who appeared to be talking to Ren about the best way to clean a dog.

"The monkey Faunus with the tail and bright blonde hair is Sun and he's super gay as well." Yang said as she ducked under a banana peel that Sun threw at her with a big smirk on his face as Yang flicked him off.

"And finally I bring you to the main attraction of our friend group!" Yang exclaims as she releases her hold on Ruby's shoulders to point to a girl with red hair that was currently reading a book and not paying attention to anyone around her. Yang let out an audible groan that made everyone at the table laugh before she stomped over the girl and slammed the book shut. Ruby watched in awe as the girl suddenly turned a bright red color as she glared up at Yang.

"What the hell Yang! You just made me lose my place in my book!" The completely red girl shouted angrily at Yang while Yang just crossed her arms and rolled her eyes.

"Well Ilia, if you'd been paying attention or socializing like a normal person you would have seen I was trying to introduce you to my baby sister!" Yang huffed out with annoyance towards Ilia who immediately changed back to her original color before looking up at Yang guiltily.

"Sorry Yang... the book is really good though..." Ilia mumbled before leaning to the side to look at Ruby with curious eyes. Yang let out a sigh before smiling at Ilia and spinning around to face Ruby again.

"Sooooooo whose this girl you met in your first period Rubes?" Yang asked while wiggling her eyebrows and pulling down to sit next to her. I cursed my easily embarrassed self as my face flushed and I hit Yang in the arm.

"Why must you make everything so inappropriate Yang! I'm 15 for gosh sakes!" Ruby exclaimed as everyone around the table laughed at the sister's antics.

"But there is a girl isn't there?" Pyrrha piped up much to everyone's surprise since she usually was busy with homework from one of her twenty AP classes.

"Uh well... yah, but definitely not how you pervs are thinking about it!" Ruby claimed as she crossed her arms.

"Whatever you say Ruby, but at least tell us who she is. I'm sure at least one of us will know her, so we can tell you a bit about her." Emerald said as others nodded in agreement with her. Ruby's curiosity about the strikingly pretty Faunus got the better of her as she let out a sigh.

"Well... she's got really dark raven black hair that falls down her back. She wears this crop top that's black and white and shows off her stomach, and she has a pair of ears on top of her head that look like they're violet!" Ruby described the girl to everyone while staring at her lap and picturing the girl in her head. When she brought her gaze back up to meet everyone else's she was met with looks of shock and surprise.

"Is she talking about who I think she's talking about?" Emerald said as the first one to break the tension filled silence at the table. Everyone at the table besides Ruby gave a nod towards Emerald who immediently whistled before laughing. "Well shit man, Ruby doesn't stand a fucking chance especially if Blake's actually talked to her!" Emerald says with a snort until Neptune slaps her on the shoulder and points towards Yang who Ruby turned to look at in confusion. Ruby couldn't believe the angry girl next to her was sister. Instead of the bright and bubbly Yang that Ruby was used to she saw a Yang that looked ready to kill someone as she clenched her fists tightly underneath the table.

Ruby didn't know what to do, but apparently Weiss did as she reached behind the blonde's before gently squeezing it. Yang visibly relaxed under the Ice Queen's touch before letting out a deep sigh after awhile.

"Sorry..." Yang mumbled under her breath before turning to look at Ruby with sad, angry, and worried eyes. "Ruby. Don't interact with Blake. She's really bad news and you don't need to get caught up with her." Yang said sternly to her sister before she stood up and Weiss followed her towards the bathroom before Ruby could even ask Yang why.

Ruby had thought that Blake had seemed like a nice enough person. Sure, she had been skipping class, but that didn't make Blake a bad person! Ruby felt a scowl form on her face before she stood up and stalked out of the cafeteria while Yang's friends called after her. Once she had exited the cafeteria she began to wander around the school thinking about Blake and what could have possibly made her fun loving sister hate her so much. Ruby was so absorbed in her own thoughts that she hadn't noticed a purposefully extend leg which she proceeded to trip and and hit the ground face first. Letting out a groan of pain, Ruby sat up a bit to see blood dripping onto the floor from what she assumed was her throbbing nose. Ruby heard the sounds of a group of kids laughing and turned around to see a group of four kids laughing at her which made Ruby frown. The biggest one out of the four boys walked closer to Ruby before smirking at her and then kicked her in the ankle causing her to cry out in pain.

"Poor little kid genius! She's so smart, but she can't even protect herself from us!" The big dude that had kicked her said with a wicked grin on his face. Ruby felt the tears start to form, but not from the pain since she had felt much worse pain than these boys could probably ever inflict on her. No, she was going to cry because she didn't understand why these boys were hurting her. She hadn't done anything wrong or done anything to these boys so why were they hurting her? Ruby didn't understand and as the large boy kicked her again her tears began to flow as they cascaded down her face as she curled into a ball and took countless more kicks until suddenly they stopped. Ruby barely managed to lift her head to see a familiar looking raven haired cat girl clawing at the boys who had been attacking her before she passed out into darkness.