Mine

Disclaimer: I don't think I even own my soul...

You don't touch what belongs to Neo. That was a lesson everyone even remotely affiliated with her knew, and those who didn't... never lived very long.

Ruby Rose hadn't learned this lesson, but she was going to, very soon in fact.

Ruby had touched something that belonged to Neo, something that she treasured dearly. Something that belonged to Neo since the moment she laid eyes on it, something that she almost killed Cinder for.

Jaune Arc.

When Neo saw Jaune Arc for the first time she felt something, a pull of some kind. It made her want to be near him, to feel him, smell him, taste him. So she followed him, observed his behavior, learned everything she could about him. Finally it hit her, she was in love with Jaune Arc. Neo loved being in love with Jaune Arc.

She would do anything for him, all he needed to do was ask, she'd leave Roman in a heartbeat, kill anyone he wanted in the blink of an eye, satisfy him at a moments notice.

Jaune Arc was Neo's, no one who knew her was suicidal enough to deny that. But Ruby Rose didn't know Neo, and now she had gone beyond touching what was hers.

She had tried to lay claim to him.

It was a subtle thing, just small acts of affection. A touch here, a cute smile there, but Neo noticed immediately. It was worse than what that other one did, Pyrrha Nikos wanted to lay claim to Jaune Arc, but she wouldn't, she was too scared.

Neo hated Ruby Rose, and she would make her pay.

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She struck when they were in the city of Vale, catching her off guard while away from the rest of the group. She took her to an abandoned warehouse by the docks, where she bound her up, blindfolded her and gagged her. She knew the others would find out, she knew they would come to rescue her, but she wasn't worried. She would have plenty of time to teach Ruby Rose her lesson.

She started of easy, small cuts all along her body with the point of her umbrella, but she quickly progressed. Whipping came next, twenty perfectly placed strikes on either shoulder blade, and then twenty more all over her back. She paused after that, not wanting her victim to pass out from the pain, but soon enough the lesson continued. Concentrated sulfuric acid was poured over the insides of her arms, melting flesh almost down to the bone. Ruby Rose was learning.

That was when the explosion rocked the building. Neo knew she was out of time.

Before the gathered hunters and huntresses could brake down the doors Neo pulled out her coup the gras: a blowtorch and a custom made cattle-prod.

When team WBY and JNPR finally came crashing in with guns blazing they were met with gruesome sight; Ruby Rose in the tattered remains of her combat attire, cuts marring almost every piece of skin, and the words Never touch what is mine burnt onto her stomach.

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Neo watched from high above as her beloved carried Ruby Rose away, she knew he was only touching her because he had to. Neo was happy, someone new had learned to not touch what belongs to her.

Author: Maxaro

AN: This is dedicated to "Salter" and "MH-scrub", my soon-to-be murderers.