Chapter: Snow Dragon

"You're ambidextrous," Weiss says.

Yang looks up from her drawing. Ruby is snickering and Blake is smiling, an eyebrow raised at the heiress. Yang just shrugs, "And you're left handed. Is there a point?"

Weiss huffs and crosses her arms, glancing around the library. "Well, I was wondering if it had anything to do with your choice of weapon."

"I'm not hearing a question there, snow queen," Yang taunts with a wide smile.

Ruby snickers louder and bends her head to continue her homework. Blake goes back to her book, but her bow twitches and gives away where her attention's at.

"Don't be insufferable," Weiss says, pursing her lips. "Did you choose gauntlets because you're ambidextrous?"

Yang's fingers on her right hand twitch. Her left hand comes up and taps the pencil against her cheek. "No? You know a lot of hunters and huntresses use both hands for melee weapons, ambidextrous or not."

"I just thought I'd ask," Weiss huffs again, going back to her homework.

Yang hums, not ready to let this go. She writes some words down, and then switches hands and writes the same thing. "I'm not completely ambidextrous."

Weiss looks up and Yang shows her the page. "They look the same to me."

"Yep," Yang says, putting it down and holding up both hands. "But it feels easier writing with my right hand."

Ruby sucks in a breath, giving her sister a sidelong glance. Weiss doesn't spare her partner a thought, frowning and asking, "Then why do you write with your left hand?"

"Habit," Yang says, flexing her right hand. Ruby keeps watching her sister, waiting. "I grew up doing almost everything with my left hand because I activated my semblance young."

Weiss blinks a few times, hands folding together on the table in thought. Yang smiles at the face her teammate makes. Weiss thinks out loud, "That shouldn't have caused a problem, though. Lots of people activate their semblance young with no consequences."

Ruby looks ready to jump in, face slightly panicked, but Yang grabs her sister's hand to stop her. The blonde smiles at Weiss. "Minor aura fracture on my right arm."

Shock. Weiss blinks at her, and even Blake puts her book down to stare. The 'secret' Faunus says slowly, "That's rather rare…"

"I guess," Yang shrugs and takes her hand back. "Made for a fun childhood. Lots of things went boom." She smiles widely and uses jazz hands.

Weiss snatches Yang's right hand, pulling it across the table to exam it. "May I ask who…?"

"My mother," Yang shows a pained smile at the thought. "She used her semblance too much when carrying me. Honestly, I'm lucky it's just a minor broken semblance. The stories I hear from her time pregnant with me could make a movie."

"I get it," Blake mutters, grimacing and nodding at Yang's outstretched arm. "My aunt and uncle share horror stories from when my mother was pregnant with me. I got lucky with no fractures, but it didn't sink in how lucky until half a dozen years back."

"Will you be alright?" Weiss asks nervously, glancing between the two. Her hands slip down to cover Yang's, softly touching.

Yang squeezes reassuringly. "Absolutely! I hate to break it to you," she winks, "but this changes nothing. I'll still kick butt any time, any place!"

Weiss groans, but squeezes back before letting go. "Please don't."

"What? You don't think I can do some damage, princess?"

"Yang, stop."

"Way to shatter my fun."

"No."

Weiss gets finger guns and another wink. "Yes."

But the small noise of reluctant acceptance Yang tries to get out of Weiss only comes the next time the heiress sits down to clean her weapon.

She does not appreciate having to clean around the new, bubbly words that wrap around Myrtenaster's dust chamber.

'Look, uh, it sounds like you two just got off on the wrong foot.'

Weiss whines with reluctant acceptance again.

"Winter is never going to let this go," Weiss moans to the empty room.

Because Weiss always had a problem keeping the correct foot forward, and now it's her soul mark.

Wonderful.

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