Summer was a beautiful time at Beacon Academy; lots of sun, lots of time to relax, and most importantly, no classes. For Team RWBY, the end of classes was met with gusto. After all, it meant the end of a very difficult first year at the school. Unfortunately, this gusto only lasted for around 2 weeks, as the team's hobbies grew more and more tedious. Eventually, Ruby got bored of playing Remnant, Weiss grew tired of teaching (or at least trying to teach) her fellow teammates about dust, Yang ran out of Achieve Men songs to listen to, and even Blake was starting to run out of books to read. To put it simply, life was getting boring for Team RWBY.

"I'm boooooooooooored" Ruby whined. If anyone else on her team heard her, they chose to ignore her. But, they all silently agreed with her. Not one to be discouraged, Ruby tried again. "We should do something fun!" she said enthusiastically.

"Like what?" a cold voice demanded. Weiss Schnee peeked over the side of Ruby's bed, her eyes icy and impatient. "There is nothing FUN left for us to do, otherwise, we would have done it a week ago!" she hissed in an exasperated tone.

"What about tag?" Yang suggested without taking her eyes off of her motorcycle magazine.

"Isn't that like the fifth time you've read that today?" Blake Belladonna asked. Yang just shrugged uninterestedly.

"There's nothing better to read… or do"

"Yeah, tag sounds GREAT" Weiss said in a sarcastic tone "and then, we could all go play on the playground or do fingerpainting".

"I like fingerpainting…" Ruby said quietly. Weiss sighed, and sat back down on her bed.

"What about capture the fla-"

"No"

"We could walk around tow-"

"No"

Ruby got an idea "What abou-"

"No" Weiss said grumpily.

"But you didn't even let m-"

"No"

"Bu-"

"NO"

"WHAT IF WE PLAY TRUTH OR DARE!?" Ruby yelled in frustration. For a second, everyone looked at her, and she felt her cheeks turn red. Thankfully, her sister broke the silence.

"That sounds fun" Yang said, sitting up, "I don't think we've tried that yet".

"Yeah, I'll play" Blake said as she put down her book. Ruby smiled at her teammates' willingness. Unfortunately, Weiss was more reluctant to join.

"That sounds stupid" she complained "it's such a girlie thing to do".

Ruby leapt down from her bed and onto her partner's lap. "Oh come on Weiss," she said with puppy dog eyes "pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaase? Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplea-"

"OK OK!" Weiss yelled "But only if you get off my lap."

"Yaaay!" Ruby squealed in delight and jumped off of the heiress. The team gathered in a circle on the floor with while a sense of excitement filled the air. "Sooooooo… who's gonna start?"

"I will" Yang said, her gaze focussed on the black-clad faunus, "Blake, truth or dare?".

Blake thought for a while, studying each option. In the meantime, Yang was failing to control her excitement, and a grin broke out on her face.

"You ok, Yang?" Blake asked when she saw Yang trembling from the suspense, "You look a little-"

"Just answer the question, Blake" the blonde brawler said quickly. The faunus raised her eyebrow questioningly before choosing an answer.

"Umm… truth?" As soon as she had said that, Blake regretted it. Yang jumped up and ran to the closet to grab something. Was that-

"NO" Blake screamed when she saw what Yang had in her hands. She dove for the object, but the blonde just laughed and dodged the attack. She tried to stand up, but Ruby held her back.

"Blake, calm down. It's ok" she said in a reassuring tone. No, it wasn't ok! Yang was about to reveal her secret.

"YANG DON-"

"Ninjas of Love, chapter 14" Yang began to read. All eyes turned to the shy faunus on the floor.

"Blake?" Weiss asked in a voice that was in between a gasp and a laugh "you're into this kind of stuff?". Blake wished she could melt into the floor, but the situation only got worse.

"Akira listened to the sound of Sensei Junko's breath" Yang continued, "she slid her hand down his leg and grabbed something. 'His sword' she thought to herself. She lowered her ninja mask and kissed him, still feeling the blade that had slain thousands of foes and won hundreds of tourneys. It was then that he leaned down and whispered in her ear: that's not my-" at that point, Yang burst out into delighted giggles. Ruby looked both horrified and confused, but Weiss was struggling hard to maintain her polite composure, and a smile dawned on her lips as she realized what the "sword" was.

"So my question for you is: why was this in your backpack?" Yang asked once she controlled her laughter. Blake turned a deep shade of red and turned her head away.

"I-It's not what you think it is…" she mumbled, "it's a good read… lots of figurative language…"

"Yeah, the 'sword' is a metaphor for something, right Blake?" Weiss teased. Blake felt like she was going to die of embarrassment. She might have pounced on Yang if Ruby hadn't started rubbing her belly to calm her down.

"It's ok Blake," Ruby said, "it sounds like a really good book about ninjas. I don't see what's wrong with it". Still so innocent Blake thought to herself.

"I just… I-" Blake didn't know what to say; no words would be able to get her out of this predicament, "I won't forget that…" she warned Yang. The brawler just grinned and shrugged.

And then it was Ruby's turn. The young leader surveyed the group before picking her target. "Weiss, truth or da-"

"Truth"

Ruby sighed in frustration. Why does she always cut me off?. Now, it was time to think. What could she use against Weiss? A secret that Weiss would care so much about, she would NEVER let her teammates know. Then, it hit her.

"Weiss, what's the lowest you've ever gotten on a test?"

Ruby knew she hit the jackpot. The colour drained from the heiress' face and she started to twiddle her thumbs. "Well… ummmm… I once…" with every word, Weiss' voice shrunk until it was just above a whisper.

"Spit it out Weiss!" Yang encouraged.

"Come on Weiss, we don't judge here" Ruby said.

Weiss Schnee didn't hear them. Her mind was somewhere else. The past. 4 years ago to be exact, when she was a thirteen year old girl attending a different school. Of course, she was still the best in her class… but there was that one time she forgot to study for a test.

Weiss shuddered as she remembered scribbling down her last answer in a desperate attempt to finish before the bell. She remembered walking in tears out of the classroom, out the school, and into her limo, where she didn't even bother to say hello to her driver. When she got the results from the test three days later, she had left school early so she could cry at home. She had locked the door so no one could bother her. She looked at that test all afternoon. At the red marks all over the page. In the top corner was a big, red-

"Ninety two" Weiss said as tears filled her eyes. Then she started to cry.

Ruby and Yang looked at each other. "Are you kidding me?" Ruby said, "I've NEVER gotten a ninety two". When Weiss didn't respond, Ruby gave her an awkward hug. Weiss moved as if she wanted to shake her off, but then relaxed and accepted the loving gesture.

Weiss Schnee was not good at this game. She had been thinking for 10 minutes about what to dare her faunus friend to do, but nothing came to mind. For a while, Weiss had considered something involving Ninjas of Love, but in the end, she decided Blake had faced enough humiliation for one day. Then, Weiss got an idea. Blake was part cat, right? So if she was part cat, that would mean…

"Ok Blake, all you have to do for this dare…" Weiss' teammates looked at her with eager (or in Blake's case, scared) eyes, "is relax".

Blake looked as if a massive weight had been lifted off her chest. "Relax? I could do that" she said confidently.

"Good" Weiss responded while reaching for her pen.

"Hey what's tha-" Blake's focus shifted to the little red dot on the floor. Somewhere in her subconscious, she knew what the dot was and where it was coming from, but she still pounced for it.

And it moved.

Blake leapt for it again, knocking over a chair and some books. She chased the dot all around the room, over her teammates, onto beds, into the closet, etc. As Blake whizzed by her teammates, she saw them all laughing hysterically, as if they were watching the funniest thing in the world.

"What's so funny g-OOPH" Blake was so focussed on the dot that she hit the wall head on. Then, her teammates lost it. Red-faced from embarrassment, Blake sat up and crawled over the Weiss.

"Not funny" she said, but her friend didn't hear her. She, along with Yang and Ruby, were too busy laughing to hear anything.

"That was soooooo cuuuuuute" Ruby squealed while reaching to scratch Blake's ears. "You're like a baby kitty". Blake knew Ruby was just trying to help, but the comparison made her turn from red to crimson.

Finally, everyone calmed down, and the focus turned back to Blake, whose eyes were set on Yang.

Blake didn't try to hide her eagerness. When her turn came around, she decided it was time to exact some revenge on her tormentor. "Yang, truth or dare?"

Yang grinned with her usual confidence, and only took a minute to think about her answer. "Dare".

Blake's face turned into a malicious grin; like a cat that realized it's got a mouse trapped. "Ok Yang Xiao Long, I dare you…" she paused for a minute to look Yang in the eyes, "to let me cut your hair".

And the room fell into dead silence as Yang's grin turned into a horrified gasp.