As said in the summary, this story is a challenge to me from my friend True. It will be exactly three chapters long, with the first two containing no lemons whatsoever. This is not an invitation for everyone to throw more requests and challenges at me, I accepted this because this is my favorite RWBY ship, the challenge came from a friend, and I was feeling a little adventurous.

"I'm heading out." Ruby called to the rest of the team. "Alright, don't stay out all night or I'll send in a missing person's report." Yang called back. Ruby couldn't for the life of her tell if Yang was joking or not. It was difficult to tell with her, as she was the one member of her team who actually would send police and hunters after her to put an abrupt end to a date. Not that it was an actual date Ruby reminded herself, a light blush covering her face as she headed outside to meet up with Penny, who smiled excitedly when she saw her, rushing over to her.

Ruby took a proper stance and braced herself for the coming impact. Even with these precautions taken, the force of Penny tackle hugging her sent them both falling to the ground, landing with Penny above Ruby. The two girls giggled at what had become an almost daily ritual. "So what are we going to do today?" Penny asked, smiling down at Ruby. She seemed to have forgotten that she was supposed to get off of Ruby before talking.

Ruby didn't want to be rude and make her feel silly, and also didn't really mind the feeling of Penny against her, and so didn't yet mention it as she said, "Well, I figured we'd do a little grimm hunting to work up an appetite, then go this great place in town that I found that has, like, everything anyone could ever want to eat. Yang showed it to me. I guess she likes taking the 'all you can eat' slogan as a personal challenge; one she usually wins."

Ruby and Penny laughed at this. Penny didn't need to eat of course, but she very well could and doing so boosted her energy reserves as her body burned up the food. As it happened, Penny had been built with quite a few interesting features that all went to making her feel more human, as the people responsible for her creation so nothing good coming from creating an ultra powerful robotic warrior that felt separate from humanity as opposed to being a part of it; which was probably the only reason they even let her go on dates with Ruby in the first place she thought.

'Hang out with, hang out with', she reminded herself. She blamed Yang for it, constantly referring to them as dates. Just because they were alone for them didn't make them anything more than just friends hanging out. She also blamed Yang for looking out the window, seeing Ruby laying on the ground beneath Penny, and shouting down, "Not that I don't encourage it, but at least find a room first!"

"What does she mean?" Penny asked curiously. "N-nothing, she's just being stupid!" Ruby shouted the last few words so Yang could hear them, though Yang likely couldn't through her own laughter. Ruby didn't care, or told herself she didn't at least, and got up. Penny smiled, "Alright, let's go!" She said excitedly, taking Ruby's hand and heading off to leave the school grounds. Ruby had mentioned in passing once that hand holding was what boyfriends and girlfriends did, and sometimes normal friends as well. Penny didn't seem to fully grasp the concept passed the phrase friend and hand holding, and so refused to actually go anywhere these days unless she had Ruby's hand, which Ruby supposed was another of the reasons Yang teased her.

The day was fun, like basically every day that Ruby spent with Penny. They took out grimm together; Penny and Crescent Rose not doing half the damage Penny's swords and lazer blasts did, not that she was jealous or anything. Okay, she was a little, but she knew telling Penny that would lead to an overreaction so she kept it to herself and focused on how awesome she looked while she doing it.

When they got to the restaurant in town, Penny paid for the meal. Well, more she showed them a card that identified her rank and the staff offered her everything in the place up to and including the dust running the ceiling lights. Penny and Ruby laughed at this and told them all they wanted was a meal. They were seated and treated to as much as they could eat; which was a dangerous thing to offer to Ruby, whose stomach seemed to occupy the same space as a black hole, and Penny, who's stomach was literally a combustion engine.

After more or less cleaning the place out, the two headed out. They were supposed to head back to Beacon now, but as neither one of them wanted their time together to end, they ended up just wondering aimlessly around the town, talking about whatever happened to come to mind, or even not talking at all and just walking together, enjoying the company as they went along, neither of them ever seeming quite bored enough to want to go back and end their time together.

Eventually the topic of Yang came up, and Ruby mentioned, "It's getting annoying how she keeps saying we're going out on dates doesn't it?" Ruby said. Penny frowned on this, "Well, aren't we?" She said. Ruby chuckled, shaking her head, "No, when two friends are just hanging out it isn't a date, Yang's just being a pest." "No, I know what a date is Ruby," Penny clarified, "I thought.. these were dates.."

They'd come to a stop when she said this. Ruby turned to Penny, a look of surprise in her eyes. Penny saw this, and took the surprise as a negative, "I-I mean, they don't have to be.. if you don't want them to. I wouldn't mind." Penny said, trying to prevent Ruby from being upset; though she was given away when her reflexive hiccup whenever she said she wouldn't mind them not being dates.

Ruby's face was getting dangerously close to matching her cape, which she was starting to feel slightly embarrassed to wear if this was a date. Ruby was nothing if not a fast thinker. Admittedly, what she thought of wasn't always a good idea, but all things considered, she had faith in her following actions. She squeezed Penny's hand affectionately to calm her down before leaning in slowly, pressing her soft lips against Penny's.

Neither one of them had any actual experience kissing, so it never moved passed just lips touching; though that alone had both of them a little more than star struck. When Ruby leaned back and saw the look in Penny's eyes, she knew that it had been a good idea, and smiled, "I wish I'd known it was a date before," Ruby said, "I could have been doing that every time."

Penny giggled at this, "To be fair, Yang did keep telling you that they were dates." "Oh like I ever listen to her in the first place." Ruby said, making them both laugh as they started on their way to Beacon. With the knowledge of what they were doing finally established, they wanted it to end even less; but it was getting late now, and even if Yang was joking about calling the cops, Penny would definitely have drones out searching for her if she was out any longer, and Ruby couldn't think of a more awkward end to a date than a government funded kill squad gunning her down. Except maybe Penny saying she'd been joking right after Ruby kissing her.

They returned to Beacon, Penny going off reluctantly with Ciel Soleil to return to.. wherever the fuck exactly they took her after their dates. Ruby returned up to her dorm with a smile on her face. "So, how'd the date go?" Yang asked with a grin. She was just teasing Ruby of course, and had asked the question every time she got back. To her shock, Ruby just replied with, "Really well."