Author's Note: Hello there. As this is my first time ever writing a fanfic, I figured I'd put an AN at the start. I got this idea from chatting with others on a whiterose discord server, which if anyone is interested in joining, feel free to pm me about it. I had help in the form of suggestions and help with mistakes from XPS Core, Webdog177 and another server member Tongo. So I just wanted to thank them for the help and support on this even if XPS thinks it is a weird idea. I'll just let you guys get to reading. I hope to hear what people think of this afterwards in the reviews.
The engine's hummed almost inaudibly in the background as Weiss rode closer to Beacon Academy, the most renowned and prestigious Huntsman Academy on the planet. Her mind began to wander as she considered what challenges she would face now that she was finally free of her father.
She had worked hard to get free from his grip, in spite of her odd trait due to her lineage. While she was the heiress, she definitely was not her Father's preferred heir. Winter before her was much more willing to stand up and assert herself, and could be very intimidating, an asset for negotiating at times.
She sighed as she once again wished she hadn't drawn the short end of the stick when it came to genetics. Her grandmother had been a cow faunus, her grandfather considered faunus equals and loved her truly. Her mother had been born with cow ears, indicating her race. She still wondered how her mother ended up with her father, Jacques, considering his racist tendencies. Jacques claimed to the media it was love at first sight when asked. She didn't buy it, since she had seen how people would discard feelings for money and power in her short seventeen years. She had heard of how he didn't pay Faunus mine workers properly considering the dangerous work they did.
And then there were her siblings. In her opinion, Winter had better luck than her. Horns were a useful trait to get, as they added to the aura of strength she had around her. Her horns curved upward, adding to her height and were a few inches long. You could just look at her sister and know not to mess with her. Whitley was also fortunate, since he ended up with no faunus traits, making him human, and her father's new favorite once Winter ran away to join the military. He didn't have to deal with any of the possible downsides of being a faunus.
And then there was Weiss not only had she gotten the short end of the genetic lottery stick, she didn't even get anything remotely useful. With ears, at least she would have better hearing. If she had gotten horns, it might have helped her look more intimidating, despite her smaller stature. Even a tail would have provided her with slightly better balance. But no, she was born with an udder.
Not all faunus traits were attractive or relatively normal looking. She had once seen a arachnid faunus with three sets of eyes, the normal human set, and two spider like sets above, each slightly smaller. She envied faunus with cat traits or dog traits, because they only ever got ears or tails. She thought back to when it had really started to develop and become more noticeable. Around when she was eleven, it stood out, an ugly sight just under her belly button. By thirteen, it was much more defined, and she had also begun to produce milk from it. It was a ugly pink color that clashed with her pale skin. She was thankful that it hadn't grown much since then. Small blessings.
She shook her head before she could delve any deeper into unpleasant thoughts and not for the first time considered whether it'd be worth trying to remove it. And then she always focused on the neat scar on the top right of it. It always reminded her of the day Klein had caught her when she had actually prepared to try and remove it herself with a knife. One of her Father's family members had been assassinated by the White Fang that day and he had taken it out on her.
Long story short, this was the breaking point for her and she went to find a knife from the kitchen before rushing to her room. She had already managed to cut into it before he grabbed her and took the knife. He ended up rushing her to their personal doctor and she bears a scar across the top right of her udder as a result. Klein was careful about letting her near sharp objects outside of practice with Myrtenaster after that.
Just thinking about it had her remembering the pain of it. There were a lot of tears that day. That had been the last straw before she tried to block her emotions out. It'd been hard to keep the tears from falling and her legs from shaking at times, but eventually she numbed herself to insults and disdain from others, especially her father. She learned from the best after all.
Her thoughts were interrupted by voices on the speakers and slight shaking as the transport landed. She took Myrtenaster and looked it over before putting it in its sheath at her side. She followed the workers with her luggage as they left the ship and took in Beacon more closely now that she had arrived. This was to be her home for the next four years, the freedom she had earned from her father's control. She looked over the many spires of the academy, especially the clocktower, finding the architecture unique. Though she was soon interrupted when she heard someone crash into the cart holding her suitcases. She sighed at the fact that of course her luck would bring trouble her way and turned to view the troublemaker.
She didn't expect to see a girl clearly younger than her with a ridiculous cape sitting there surrounded by suitcases. She sighed deeply as she closed her eyes, rubbing her temples to try and soothe the incoming migraine. The last thing she needed was for everyone's first impression of her to be that of a spoiled brat. She calmly walked over to the dazed girl, crossing her arms as she looked down at her.
"Could you watch where you're going? If you would have broken any of those Dust vials, you could have blown us off the cliff! Besides, why are you even here? You don't look old enough to be attending Beacon." She said as the workers quickly picked up the suitcases in order to get out of the way in case she snapped at them too.
"S-Sorry, I didn't mean to! I just kind of got distracted." The girl with black hair and red-highlights stood up, quickly fumbling out her apology.
Weiss looked her over, her silver eyes piquing her interest, so she decided to let her off easy as she needed to get to the main hall before the headmaster gives his speech and assigns them teams and dorms. "Just make sure it doesn't happen again." She huffed and turned to move on towards the main hall leaving the girl she had just met behind. She had a feeling this was going to be a long day.
She didn't know who cursed her luck or which deity she had pissed off, but in some twisted turn of events that girl from yesterday, Ruby Rose, had ended up being partnered up with her...Well, it was either her or that 'Jaune' Character. The girl was two years younger than her and she had seen how she rushed in without a plan multiple times, yet somehow Ozpin thought she'd make the best team leader. They had almost gotten killed multiple times thanks to Ruby's rushing in and insane stunts. She was questioning the headmaster's sanity at this point, but she couldn't do anything about it.
She internally sighed as she followed her new teammates for the next four years to the dorm they had been assigned earlier. She had managed to pick up on some of the things Ruby and Yang said to each other, including the fact they were sisters, how considering how different they looked, her best guess was adoption. She swore the girl in black with the bow was hiding something, seeing as how she avoided conversation and allowed the blonde girl, Yang, to just keep talking so she didn't have to. She'd leave it be until the girl did something wrong, but something was definitely off about her. She would make sure to keep an eye on Blake in case she was right. She could almost feel Ruby's excitement with how cheery the girl seemed to be. It was strange, as she had never seen someone so excited about anything, much less having to share a dorm with three other people for the next four years.
She followed Ruby as they arrived to their dorm, along with, Yang and Blake in tow. It was a pretty ordinary room with a large window and four beds. She could deal with that.
Unpacking was an uneventful affair, that was until the sisters began decorating the walls. It was then that they realized the lack of space. What did her team leader suggest? Bunk Beds. She was somewhat off put by Ruby's excited suggestion for bunk beds, though she pictured her large empty room back in the Schnee household for a moment after. Maybe bunk beds wouldn't be so bad.
Whatever good thing she had said about the idea of bunk beds, she took it all back. Especially after seeing exactly how the "Bunk Beds" had been assembled. Blake and Yang's bed didn't appear that bad, balanced pretty evenly on books. Though she wondered why the girl had brought so many with her to Beacon. And then there was the contraption Ruby had setup. Her bed hanging above Weiss's held up by a few ropes, looking entirely unsafe and ready to fall.
"Ruby Rose! There is no way that bed is safe! It could fall on my bed if you so much as move around too much you dolt!" Weiss watched as her team leader climbed up to the "top bunk."
Ruby turned around to face her and waved the statement away. "It's perfectly safe Weiss, I'll show you." She then proceeded to "demonstrate" by jumping on the bed..
The sight nearly gave Weiss a heart attack, having expected the bed to fall onto her own at any second. She was honestly surprised it hadn't.
She sighed in exasperation. "Fine, it appears to be safe, but if anything happens, there will be consequences." She glared at her for a moment to make sure she was understood before deciding that was enough and grabbing her nightgown, a solid white gown with frills at the end, and a towel. "I'll be taking the first shower." and with that, she closed the door.
Once she was in the bathroom, she sighed in relief as she was able to relax a little, glad she could finally take a shower in peace without the risk of prying eyes. Ruby had accidentally elbowed her udder while they were setting up the bed and rooms. Her teats had leaked a little as a result due to excess milk building up over the last few days. Thankfully she hadn't removed her leather chest piece yet until she was about to head for the bathroom. Hopefully none of them had noticed the slight wet spots near her belly since she was mostly facing away from them. She had somehow managed to keep Ruby from finding out about her and it wasn't necessarily public knowledge that she had been born with a faunus trait like her sister. She preferred to keep it that way as long as possible, not wanting to be ridiculed for having such an unsightly thing. Her combat attire included some leather additions to her normal combat outfit, which allowed the 'extra part' to be hidden.
She stripped down before she began removing an intricate set of padding she used to keep her teats from showing up through her clothing as well as make it appear that she was chubby instead of the fact that she had an udder. It was intricately designed to move somewhat realistically, as long as no one came into direct contact with it, they'd never notice.
It would work fine with her school uniform as well. She would rather they believe her to be chubby rather than know about her having an udder. She went to take her shower, doing her routine of lather, rinse and repeat before having to deal with relieving the "build up." Another unfortunate consequence of having this Faunus trait. She gently grabbed the lower teats on her udder and began gently milking herself, sighing as the pressure faded from emptying it.
She had gotten used to the process as she developed throughout her early teenage years, and now it was just second nature to milk herself to relieve the backup. It's not as if she liked this sort of thing, but she had to do it. Lucky for her, she didn't produce more than half a liter per day. Which allowed her to go a few days without having to do it, though that came at the cost of taking a few more minutes. She washed her hair one more time before stepping out of the shower to dry off and get herself ready for bed.
Once she was done, Weiss opened the door and not even a half second later a head of hair bolted past her, the sound of her team leader complaining about "taking too long with her hair" being ignored as the door was slammed shut. She could only imagine with how much hair that blonde brute had.
She opted to tune them out and hoped that tomorrow would go a lot better. Maybe they'd actually be more attentive students than she thought, hoping that this was just a bad first impression.
Eventually everyone finished cleaning up and getting ready for bed, and Yang gave everyone a goodnight as she switched off the lights and headed for bed herself.
"Goodnight Ruby. Goodnight Blake. Goodnight Yang." She nodded curtly at each of them, receiving a similar response from Blake, a sleepy one from Yang, and a cheery goodnight from Ruby. She laid down facing the wall, thinking about the past day's events as she fell asleep. She never thought she'd have ridden a Nevermore to get anywhere before today. She still wondered how Ruby had convinced her to help with such a crazy plan. Similar thoughts continued to pass through her mind until she finally fell asleep.
The following morning, as Weiss was sleeping comfortably in her new bed. Well, she was until she heard that god awful whistle. Jumping in surprise, she accidentally rolled right out of her bed and onto the floor. Fortunately, she managed to land only somewhat uncomfortably instead of face planting, though her udder was squashed quite uncomfortably against the floor before she pushed herself up into a sitting position.
Her first action was to look for the source of her rude awakening and discomfort this morning. And of course, it was Ruby. "Was that necessary?" She said, sounding somewhat miffed but mostly exasperated by Ruby at this point.
She looked to see Blake in a state not much better than her own, though she was still wearing her bow, which was suspicious since it wasn't really necessary for sleeping. Yang only seemed annoyed with Ruby, somewhat still asleep. She had a feeling she was used to this kind of thing.
"Good morning team RWBY!" Ruby cheered as she smiled at all of them, not even phased by the harsh looks directed her way, and completely ignoring her question about it being necessary.
Weiss sighed as she rubbed her eyes, glad for once that she hadn't been gifted with an extra set of ears. "Ruby, why did you wake us up with that horrible whistle?"
"Because it's our first day of classes and I wanted everyone ready as a team. Our first class is at nine." Ruby explained to Weiss, not being off put in the slightest by her white haired partner's lack of enthusiasm.
Weiss stopped for a moment and looked at the clock on the wall for a moment, reading 8:52 AM. It took her a moment for her for her to digest that fact, and when she did she got up in slight panic.
Ruby noticed that Weiss was panicking, and before she was about to ask why Weiss explained it to her as she rushed to grab her clothes. Yang and Blake had also seemed to catch on and were already getting dressed, not as worried about privacy as Weiss was. "Ruby, it's almost nine already, why didn't you wake us up sooner?!" She said and rushed to the bathroom to get changed quickly and rushing off to class, quickly followed by the rest of her team and then team JNPR.
Their first class was with Professor Peter Port. She couldn't say much about the man yet, except that he was long-winded. She watched as he paced back and forth, telling his stories of past hunts. It wasn't hard taking notes because he only offered useful information in between his hunting stories, most of which she was sure were grossly exaggerated in how epic they were. She had plenty of time to be annoyed by her partner's antics beside her.
While she was taking notes, Ruby was goofing off beside her, not even trying to take the class seriously. "Ruby, stop messing around and pay attention." She scolded her while keeping her voice down. Ruby just deflated a little beside her but at least she stopped. Though Weiss was starting to doubt that she could deal with this for the next four years. Weiss had been home-schooled by private tutors up till now, and a very studious approach had been required of her to meet their standards and her father's. Because Schnee's have to be perfect at everything they do. She hoped that Port was an exception and that other professors would focus on teaching and not telling stories. Her combat tutor constantly challenged her whenever he thought she was getting complacent, and she always jumped at the opportunity to prove herself.
When Port asked if anyone in the room considered themselves to be a true huntsman or huntress, she jumped at the opportunity. It went about as well as expected when she allowed herself to be distracted so easily. She went over it in her head as she walked down the halls, a little disappointed she had allowed herself to yell at Ruby in front of the class, not that she didn't think it was necessary, Ruby needed to learn when to let people focus, but because of how it made her look. She rubbed her udder through her uniform, still sore from the boarbatusk headbutting her. She was definitely going to be more careful of them in the future, the day was not being nice to her so far.
She slowed down when she heard footsteps. They slowed down as they approached her, so she assumed they were looking for her and turned around to face them, finding Ruby.
The silver-eyed girl hesitated for a moment before asking, "What's wrong, why are you so mad at me Weiss?"
She just stared for a moment before she just couldn't hold back anymore. "What's wrong? What's wrong?! You are, Ruby. You are not taking anything seriously. You keep treating everything like a game, running into things head first without thinking! You ran into my line of fire in the emerald forest because you thought you knew better than me. You decided riding a nevermore was a safe idea. You charged a deathstalker head on and almost got yourself killed! In class you were joking around and drawing inane pictures insulting our professor. And you also kept telling me what to do as if I don't already know!" She yelled at the girl, all the bottled up stress and anger from the past couple of days hit the boiling point and the lid was long gone. "I trained hard to get here. I suffered through a lot of hardship to get here, and yet a child two years younger than me, who can't even take hunting seriously gets brought here early and made the leader of the team? You haven't done anything to earn it. Ozpin made a mistake." She said the last words slow with venom behind them before turning and walking away, catching a glimpse of a teary-eyed Ruby before she turned a corner and was out of sight.
She returned to the dorm after it was already dark out, feeling pretty terrible after a long talk with Professor Port. He had explained to her that she had overreacted to Ozpin's decision, and that instead of worrying over what she didn't have, she should do the best she can with what she does have. She came here to escape the trauma, to become the best person she could be, not to turn into the second coming of her father. She entered the dorm quietly, not knowing what to expect. She wondered for a second if Ruby had told the rest of the team. She could almost see Yang getting ready to destroy her face for hurting her sister. She was surprised when that didn't happen and she found Ruby asleep on her bed, surrounded by books and writing utensils, which only made her feel worse.
She couldn't leave her like that, so she shook her gently to wake her up. After Ruby looked at her, she silenced her by covering her mouth and asked, "How do you take your coffee?" Once she heard her mumbled response, she went and made coffee for her leader and partner and hesitated before speaking up. "I-I'm sorry for earlier Ruby. I was harsh and that was uncalled for. But I promise, from now on, I will do my best to be the best partner you will ever have."
Ruby gave her a kind smile. "Thanks Weiss."
She nodded and went to bed after switching into her nightgown, a little embarrassed, but also a little optimistic for once. Maybe she could finally make a real friend. And she'd start by keeping her promise to Ruby.