Ever looked at a blazing trash fire that scorches the landscape and scars people mentally? That was me, I lit that fire. I have no regrets. Obviously, if don't like it you just keep walking, but if you want to see how far this rabbit hole goes, I'll lead the way!

Beacon academy was in a quiet lull since the starting of the new year. Yang was just sprawled across her bed with her limbs hanging over the edge, even though he Vytal festival was long gone, the sensation of getting second place was still buzzing in the back of her mind. For whatever reason, her opponent's team for the first semi-final round suddenly had to go back to Mistral for an emergency, giving her a by. Ruby's friend Penny did well against Pyrrha but was still overcome in the end. The same could be said for Yang, who did better but was overwhelmed by Pyrrha's mastery over metal and her tournament experience.

Coming back from the break, Ruby was now sixteen, something that they celebrated with cheap beer and pizza back home with the family. When they came back for the new year in the spring, Weiss sent them a message that she had a surprise for them when they got back; the surprise was she actually bought real bunk beds while everyone was away, meaning their beds were no longer suspended with ropes or held up by books. How she managed to get them in and set up without anyone raising concern was beyond her.

It looked like it was going to be another quiet weekend, that was until Ruby's scroll went off with a text message. Raising her head, the blonde looked across the room to her younger sister's bed, where she was busy reading over the message she had just received. Another thing that changed since they came back from winter break was that Ruby had been disappearing for a weekend at least once a month. Lilac eyes watched as the younger woman typed a response and closed her scroll before cleaning up the books she had all around her since they were all studying.

"Where you off to Rubes?" Yang asked with a smile as she saw Ruby pulling her boots on and wrapping the cloak around her neck after grabbing a bag out of her closet.

"Over to Sapphi's," she said happily as she shouldered her bag and headed towards the door. Sapphi was always the excuse she used to leave; while Yang had her own group of friends she hung out with so she did not get the chance to meet all of Ruby's friends, but she could not remember anyone with that name. So instantly, Yang was suspicious. Was it a secret girlfriend or boyfriend? Or was she doing something worse on those weekends she disappeared? Yang, being the overprotective sister she was, decided that now she was going to find out.

With one last reminder from Weiss that they had an exam coming up after the weekend, Ruby was off. Yang waited a few seconds before jumping out of her bed and landing on her feet with grace. "Where are you off to now?" Blake asked from the darkness of her bottom bunk. The dark-haired woman did not even look away from her book as she raised an eyebrow with her question. Yang grinned as she began to collect her things to take her bike into town.

"Following Ruby," Yang said nonchalantly.

"Aren't you being a little overbearing?" Blake asked as she placed her finger on the page so she did not lose her place as she finally looked over at her partner.

"Come on, you guys had to have noticed this too? She's been leaving without much of an excuse and coming back just before lights out on the last day. Neither one of you think that's not just a little bit suspicious?" Yang asked as she looked at Blake and Weiss, who was busy sitting at the desk with her books open and already working on next week's assignments.

"She's not a kid anymore, Yang. Let her have a little bit of private life to live herself," Weiss said as she turned in her seat and looked over at the blonde woman, "Maybe she's dating someone?"

Grabbing her keys, Yang grinned as she headed for the door. "Exactly!" When Weiss gave her a confused expression, Yang clarified. "Weiss, it is the noble duty of the older sibling to embarrass the younger sibling at any given opportunity, especially in front of a potential partner."

Weiss just rolled her eyes and went back to her studies. "Just don't burn the city down!"

"No promises!"

Taking her bike into the city was much faster than waiting for the airbus, so Yang managed to get to the landing platform before her younger sister and waited for her. Parking her bike nearby, she watched as the air vehicle landed and a large group of people got off, mostly students looking to spend their hard earned weekend in the city, Ruby included. Being discrete, Yang followed the red-cloaked younger woman down the sidewalks and streets of the bustling city before she went into the public rail building.

The public rail was a train system that connected to several different stations throughout the city. It was a hub for people from all walks of life since it was pretty much a mall build around each station. Yang watched as Ruby made a beeline for the bathroom, and the older sister took this time to get herself a smoothie from one of the stands nearby. Finding a bench that was close enough to the bathrooms to snoop, Yang began to wonder why her little sister would go through all the trouble of hiding this from her.

Ruby and Yang had always shared everything, never keeping anything a secret from each other. Yang understood the need for Ruby to live her own life, that was why she was not doing anything until now. Whenever she brought up the subject, Ruby was always quick to dismiss it and change the subject. By now, Yang was just really curious about what she was doing, was it a girlfriend or a boyfriend? Yang did not mind either way, it was her life to live with whoever she wants. It probably was not drugs, someone would have seen the red flags otherwise, so a significant other was the better answer.

The hollow slurping of her drink broke through her thoughts as she inspected her cup. The dregs of her drink were refusing to enter her straw, creating the sound that was loud and obnoxious to everyone around her. Only when she opened the top and let the last drips enter her mouth did she realize that she had spent about half an hour sitting there and Ruby did not come out of the bathroom yet. Narrowing her eyes, Yang tossed her empty cup and walked towards the entrance. How hard was it to spot someone wearing a large red cloak? There was no way she slipped past her.

With a quick check of the stalls and a few more minutes of waiting for those that were still inside, Yang confirmed that Ruby Rose had somehow given her the slip. It made no sense how could she disappear like that. Sure, she was not paying a hundred percent attention to looking for her, but no one would just miss someone wearing a large red cloak. With nothing else to go on, Yang made her way back to school and tried to get in contact with her, but only got a few text messages back that did not reveal anything.

The next time Ruby went off for the weekend, Yang dragged Weiss with her, just to make sure. "Why am I here again?" Weiss asked as she sat next to Yang, her legs crossed and a nail file in hand. They were sitting on the same bench that Yang used when she lost Ruby last time, outside the bathroom that she went in. Yang was making sure she did not look away for more than a few seconds, just in case she gave her the slip again.

"Because I need your help to track Ruby." Weiss just sighed, rolled her eyes and continued to file down her nails. Ten minutes came and went and neither one of them saw the woman in red exit the public bathroom.

"This is ridiculous..." Weiss proclaimed as she got out of her seat and stormed towards the bathroom, Yang hot on her tail. Entering the woman's bathroom, there was only one stall that was locked and Weiss was tired of having her weekend wasted like this. With a not so gentle knock on the stall door, Weiss made her demands. "Ruby! Get out of there this instant!" The sound of a toilet quickly flushing filled the room as the two women waited for their leader to exit the stall. Only, when the door opened it was not Ruby at all.

"Oh, sorry..." Yang said slowly as she got out of her way and gesture for her to move on.

"Weirdos..." The stranger muttered as she washed her hands and left quickly, leaving the two of them looking at each other very confused. Somehow, Ruby had managed to sneak past both of them and now they stood in the bathroom, none the wiser. Yang's suspicions only grew and worry began to gnaw at her brain. What could be so bad that Ruby would go to such lengths as to not be followed? As the two of them began to make their way back to their dorm room, their plan for the next time began to take shape…

Now was the third time that Yang was staking out the bathrooms at the station mall; next to her was Weiss who was paying close attention to everyone who entered the bathrooms, looking for any sign of their leader. Their newest member was not as happy. "Why am I here with you guys again?" Blake asked with a bored look on her face as she lazily stared out at the bathrooms.

"Because we need to make sure Ruby is okay..." Yang said as she carefully studied each person's face as they entered and left.

"Well, I could be reading right now..."

Yang just reached down and held out a fish snack pack for the faunus woman, whose mood seemed to improve at just the sight of it. Opening the pack, she began to use the crackers more like a spoon rather than something to be eaten with the prepackaged tin of fish. "I'm sure if something wash wrong, she would tell ush," Blake said between cracker-fulls of tuna fish.

"I know, but something just doesn't seem right about this..."

"Outside of these weekend trips, nothing has really changed. Maybe she just needs some time for herself."

Yang knew that Blake had a point, but still did not like the fact that Ruby was keeping this completely from Yang. Just before Blake finished the last of her fish snack, she narrowed her eyes and began to stand up from her seat. "There, she's moving."

Yang and Weiss stood up quickly and tried to scan the crowd of people entering and leaving the bathroom area, but could not see her anywhere. But Blake was undeterred and began to walk towards the station platform, so Yang and Weiss quickly followed her.

"Yellow hoodie," Blake said quietly as they walked quickly after their leader. Scanning the crowd, Yang saw the person with a large yellow hoodie with the hood drawn up over their face. On the person's back, was the bag that Ruby always took from her closet. At least now she understood how she had managed to slip past both herself and Weiss. They were both looking for a woman in a red cloak, not a bright yellow hoodie and light blue jeans. The more things that Ruby was doing to hid her identity, the more worried Yang became for her younger sister.

Walking down the pathway towards the train platform, the trio of women walked past numerous shops and stands. Yang was paying so much attention to tracking Ruby, she did not see the person she just completely walked into. "Shit, sorry..." she quickly got out her apologies until she realized who she had just run into, "Jaune?"

The blond man just stood there with wide, blue eyes and looked between the three woman who stopped to look at him. "Hey, guys..."

"What are you doing here?" Yang asked as she righted the boy.

"Never mind that," Weiss interrupted as she pointed to his shirt, "what are you wearing?"

Yang took notice of Jaune's black hoodie that had a large picture of cartoon rabbit printed right on the chest. Weiss was doing her best to stifle her laughter at the childish clothing he was wearing. In his hand was a small plastic bag filled with comics that were no doubt purchased from the comic book store that he had just walked out of.

"What? It's pumpkin Pete!" Jaune proclaimed in his defence.

"Guys, we're losing her," Blake reminded them. Looking past Jaune, Yang could see the bright yellow hoodie moving further and further away.

"Losing who?"

"Ruby. We're following her," Yang replied as she walked past the man.

"Why would you HURK-" Jaune's concerns were cut off when Yang reached out and grabbed his hood, pulling him along with the rest of the team. Following Ruby down a set of stairs to where the actual train platform was, they each paid for a train ticket and made sure they were far enough away from Ruby as to not be spotted. While they waited, Yang filled Jaune in as to why they were following their leader, and the concerns that she was having.

"Wow, that seems pretty serious..." Jaune looked over at where Ruby was and narrowed his eyes, "she hasn't really said anything to me or my team about this, I thought we were all friends."

"Well, I kind of want a little less to be friends with you now..." Blake mentioned as she gestured towards his shirt.

"It's pumpkin Pete!"

"Sure..." Blake smiled lightly as a train approached and Ruby began to get on. Everyone else quickly ran for the doors before they could close on another car, doing their best to avoid detection by the young leader.

While not as luxurious as the airbuses, it was not without comfort; soft, padded benches with random names or numbers carved into them and a number of advertisements that had bits of graffiti on them were comfortable enough despite their appalling appearances. When they arrived at a station, one of them would check to see if Ruby had gotten off; but after nearly a half an hour, none of them had seen her get off.

Yang was beginning to think that maybe she had given them all the slip again, but then she saw Ruby walk past the window near them when they stopped at the next station. Quickly piling out, they all kept their distance as Ruby walked off the platform, through the small station mall, and began to walk down the street. The area they were now in was nice, probably on the higher-end of the middle-class residential area. Each house had a large manicured lawn and the landscaping everywhere was green and well maintained.

Turning a corner, they all moved across the street to where a large park with bushes lining the sidewalk was; giving them the cover they needed to keep spying on Ruby. Suddenly, Ruby turned and walked up to one of the houses. It looked like all the other houses in the area, large with a second floor, but nothing really stood out. Everyone kept their eyes on the young woman as she pulled the hood off her head, revealing that she was, in fact, Ruby Rose. Taking her headphones off, she ruffled her hair before giving the door two hard knocks and ringing the doorbell three times. Yang narrowed her eyes at her younger sister as she watched her using some secret code at the door of a run-of-the-mill house in the middle of Vale.

When the door opened, Yang was shocked into stillness, her body refusing to move as a man opened the door. He was taller than Ruby, wearing a pair of dress pants and a loose, white dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up above his elbows. His bright red-orange hair covered his right eye as he looked down at Ruby. Ruby had just waked up to the house of Roman Torchwick. What bewildered her more was the fact that the criminal took a step back to welcome Ruby into his home before closing the door behind her.

"What is Roman Torchwick doing here?" Blake asked as they all kept staring at the house Ruby entered.

"And why is Ruby going to see him?" Weiss added on.

A fire was building inside of Yang as dots were beginning to connect and ideas she really did not like began to play out in her mind. Beside her, Blake masterfully ran up a tree and began to spy into the second story window. "They just entered a room," Blake relayed to the rest of the team, "I don't know what they're saying. It's mostly Roman talking and Ruby's just nodding- She's taking her hoodie off. He's taking his shirt off.."

Yang had heard enough. Sprinting out of the cover of the bush, she ran straight up to the house with her teammates and Jaune hot on her heels. With all of her momentum, she lifted her foot up and kicked in the front door with ease.

Inside, the house looked well lived in and tidy, with everything in its place as the team ran into the living room, where a familiar woman was on her feet and staring at them with shock in her pink and brown eyes.

"Go, I got her!" Blake shouted as she charged the smaller woman. Yang took this chance to sprint up the stairs to find her targets, where she bashed open the only door that was closed. Roman Torchwick was laying on his stomach across the bed without a shirt. Ruby was straddling his torso while facing towards his legs with a large scroll in her hands. She was wearing only wearing a blank tank-top and some blue jeans. "Yang?"

"MOVE!"

Everyone was shouting now as Ruby was thrown off the man by Yang. Yang could not hear anything other than her own rage as she picked Torchwick off the bed and slammed her fist into his face. He tried to fight back, but Yang managed to duck under a wild haymaker and knee him in the stomach, doubling him over. The blonde brawler reached above her head with both hands and laced her fingers together and brought her fists down hard on his back, dropping him to the ground as he yelled in pain.

But then he kept yelling and screaming as his legs began to thrash and jerk in every direction. Shocked, Yang took a step back, unsure what she had just done.

"Roman!" Ruby shouted, bringing Yang back to reality. The younger Huntress knelt down next to the screaming man as she began to flip onto his stomach and touched his back, looking for something. "What did you do?!" she shouted at Yang. The woman just shook her head as the pink, brown, and white themed girl slipped past Jaune and Weiss at the door and knelt down next to the screaming man.

Looking behind her, she saw Blake rushing towards them, a small trail of blood coming from a busted lip. "DAMN IT!" Yang looked back to see Ruby trying to do something on the large scroll before throwing it onto the bed. "I can't access it wirelessly. I need to get it out of him. We need the table." The smaller woman nodded and pointed at Jaune. Quickly realizing what she wanted, he rushed to Roman's side and lifted his body. Roman was still jerking wildly but he seemed to be trying his best not to scream out. "Move!" Ruby commanded, and everyone got out of her way. Yang had never seen her like this before, it was actually pretty scary.

The two smaller women led Jaune as he carried the body down the stairs where they threw everything off the kitchen table and turned on all the lights. Everyone else quickly followed and saw the two of them preparing several things at once. Ruby pulled rubber gloves over her hands and straddled Torchwick's torso again. Neo handed her a scalpel and Ruby leaned down to begin cutting into his lower back. Everyone watched as Ruby sliced and opened flesh like a natural before tossing the sharp blade aside to accept a small power drill from Neo and shoved the weapon into Torchwick's back.

Yang could not see what Ruby was doing from where they stood; but eventually, Ruby set the tool aside, grabbed a screwdriver, and began to try and pry something out of him, prompting the man to start screaming out louder. With one last yank from the girl on top of him, his body went limp and he groaned out in relief. Ruby sighed as she tossed the bloodied tool to the side and pulled something out of his back. From where Yang stood, it looked like a silver beetle the size of her hand. It had blinking lights and legs to grip onto something.

Ruby was looking over the object with a careful eye before shaking her head and looking to Neo, "I should be able to fix this..." She sighed as she looked to the rest of the team, who stood in shocked silence after watching an emergency operation happening in the kitchen. "What are you guys doing here?" Ruby asked finally.

"What are we doing here? What are you doing here?" Yang asked as she pointed a finger at her younger sister.

"Ah-uh-I-I asked you first! and I'm the leader!" Ruby stumbled over her words as she pointed the bloody screwdriver at them.

"You were disappearing for entire weekends! Whenever I asked what you were doing, you were lying to me! Then I follow you and I find this? Just what the hell is this?"

Yang saw Ruby chewing on her tongue as she looked around the house like she was only now really looking at what she had been doing. "It's...complicated," was what she settled for.

"Try me..." Yang folded her arms and narrowed her eyes at her younger sister.

Ruby sighed as she slipped off of Torchwick and the table. Reaching out for a cloth from the sink, she wet it and began to clean the device she pulled from his back.

"This whole thing started last year when I did this to him..."

I am Rosewick trash.

I love these off pairings. Like, I really like any pairing, but I absolutely love those pairings that are taboo and most people just ignore. So bring me your rare pairs, your crack ships and your trash pairings, I'll love them!

This was just an idea I was playing with a while ago and thought it might be a fun story for people to read. I do have one more chapter thought up as well as future pairings and side stories to explore as well. If people like it, I'll continue it after that!

Big thanks to StreetAngelJ for editing and helping me come up with some ideas for this flaming pile of trash ships!

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