WHAT HAVE I DONE?!

So, shipping. It's... a thing.

So here I was, sitting, and writing a chapter of Responsibilities. THEN BAM, inspiration!

Too bad the inspiration was a Red Sun fic.

Why?

That's a question I ask myself every second I write this.

What have I done...

On aside real quick, there are four names that I've seen for this ship. Red Sun, Sunset, Strawbana, and Photosynthesis. We really need a common consensus.

Team RWBY was a little on edge right now. Or more like, one fourth of it is. Blake was being very obsessive over every little thing involving the White Fang. She was staying up almost all night, always had her face in a book or screen, and was getting regularly distracted. Ruby was worried. She was worried, and so was the rest of her team, but Ruby was the leader, and as the leader, she wanted to take responsibility for the well-being of her teammates.

As team RWBY was exiting the main building after Goodwitch's class, Ruby noticed how team SSSN was outside. She let her team pass by her, as she noticed Sun was running up to Blake. She knew that Sun had the very real possibility to stress out Blake even more. She knew that Sun was going to ask Blake out. She needed a way to stop Sun from doing so, if only to give Blake time to get over this White Fang thing. The very small, hormonal part of her mind decided that now was the right time to intervene.

By this point, the rest of RWBY noticed how their leader just stopped walking, and turned around to investigate. Just as Sun had almost caught up with Blake, he walked past Ruby, who caught his attention.

"Hey Sun..."

"Hm?" He stopped, and turned to Ruby, who seemed to be fidgeting a little bit.

"Um..." She then paused. 'What am I doing!?' she thought. "I was wondering..." She then started to put the tips of her fingers together. "If you want to go to the Ball with me?" She ended meekly.

The world seemed to halt. All rational thought? Gone. Team SSSN? Stunned. Team RWBY? A whole array of emotions. Over on a small island, an adult Xiao-Long felt as though he was being tested in some way.

All at once, there was an explosion of emotions.

Ruby turned a shade of red darker than her cloak. Weiss just stood there. Blake was pinching herself, and then after that, just staring. Neptune's jaw dropped. Scarlet and Sage looked at each other. Sun turned red, and began stuttering. Yang? She stood, and watched carefully. She wondered what had happened to Ruby to get her to do this. She wanted to scream at her for doing this, but also recognized that she was capable of making these decisions on her own. So she just watched carefully.

'What am I doing?! What have I done?! Why did I do this?!' Were just a selection of thoughts that were in Ruby's mind when Sun began stuttering. She then panicked, and began turning yet redder, before yelling "SORRY!" and running off into the wind.

Sun for his part, was taking this as well as he could. Especially consider he now had a pissed off Yang right behind him. Something about how he should have responded, instead of just standing there, sputtering like a fish. Luckily, his team was able to back him up. Or would have, if not for the fact that it's Yang. Sun, in his infinite wisdom, decided to try negotiating with the pissed off dragon. That went as well as expected. She didn't seem to like his 'terms'.

He was finally able to escape her, by climbing up to the roof of the school. 'Go extra appendages!' He now had time to think about Ruby's request. She was a nice girl, and pretty adorable. He just never thought of her like that though. Sure, he could simply go to her, and tell her no, but then she would feel upset, and the last thing he wanted to see was a crying Ruby. And if Yang was pissed now? Well, he wanted to keep his head to himself.

He was at a cross-roads. One part of him wanted to just say no to her, but the other didn't. He didn't want to lead her on either.

He decided to try to find one of his teammates to talk to. So he jumped down, and began swinging around to find one of them.

Turns out, they were all hiding from Yang together. She turned her wrath on them as soon as she lost sight of Sun.

When he met up with them, they initially were very curious as to what exactly caused this.

"Well, I'm not exactly sure. We barely even speak to each other, but she just asked me out right there."

"What do you plan to do?" Scarlet asked.

"Not sure on that one either. That's actually why I was looking for you guys." They then went silent, and all began thinking about it.

"You should just go for it." Neptune said.

"What!? Why!?"

"Well, you don't want to hurt her, right?" He nodded. "So tell her that you'll go with her. Just say that you want to try it, and if you don't enjoy, then you just stop." Wise words from a school-renowned ladies man. No one could come up with anything better, so Sun decided that was the best course of action.

Now how to get near Ruby without her freaking out?

Ruby was confused. She wasn't exactly sure what part of her convinced her to ask out Sun, but she wanted that part dead. She knew that she did it to prevent Sun from asking out Blake, but at the same time, it probably would have been better that way. That way, RWBY would have had an avenue to get Blake to go to the dance.

Not whatever this is. The Y of team RWBY decided to get Ruby to do something about this. How? Well, she decided to first, bar her from leaving the room, until she explained why she asked out Sun. She didn't like her answer.

"I can't believe you! Why would you decide it was a good idea to stop him from asking out Blake?!" Yang was furious.

"Well, she's really stressed right now, and I thought that adding Sun to her list of problems would be even worse for her."

"Are. You. KIDDING ME!?" That wasn't a good reaction. "You asked him out, just to stop him being rejected by Blake?"

"Yes...?"

Yang just held her head. After a while, she said "Fine." Ruby tilted her head. "You have to learn that your actions have consequences." She didn't like where this was going. She hated it when Yang pulled out her 'disappointed voice'. "So, if Sun decides to take up your offer, you have to go!" Ruby really didn't enjoy this outcome.

"But-"

"No buts! You got yourself into this situation, and I won't always be here to help you out! It's time for little Ruby to leave the nest!" Ruby didn't know what else she was expecting. She could tell Yang was forcing herself to do this. She forced a smile, and kept spouting off how 'her little baby was growing up so fast!' and 'real world applications.' There was no out of this situation.

She wished Yang just freaked out, and continued attacking Sun.

And it didn't help that, at that moment, she got a text from Sun, saying 'Meet me in the courtyard.' Yang looked at this, then her, and said "Will you be okay?"

"I'll be okay when I can tell Sun that you won't allow me to go."

"Nope!"

"Ugh! Okay, I'll go now. Later Yang!"

"Bye Rubes!" Yang waved her off with a plastered on smile.

The walk was long, and, without much to do, Ruby started to think. She thought about Sun mostly. He was a pretty cool guy, even if they didn't really speak much. She couldn't find many similarities between the two of them. It also doesn't help that the Beacon Rumor Mill has already started doing it's thing.

The 15 year-old genius had just asked out the monkey thief. No way was this news going to go away any time soon.

After a bit more walking, she finally made it to the courtyard, and standing near the statue, was Sun. 'Well, no time like the present!' She walked up to near him, and was already blushing just standing there. It was then that he turned around.

"Hey Ruby..."

"Hey..." They both just stood there for a second. Then Sun spoke up again.

"So, uh... about earlier..." He stood there, and shuffled nervously. Ruby just looked at him expectantly. "I'll go to the dance with you." He hurriedly spit out, then turned away.

Ruby for her part, was both surprised and horrified. Behind that however, a part of her was relieved. A part her was glad that he said yes.

Then there was the part of her that had no idea to respond.

Which was all of her.

Sun was still looking away, and he was probably expecting some kind of answer. "Thank you Sun." She then gave him the best smile she could muster. That seemed to brighten up his mood significantly. He grinned brightly, and Ruby grinned back.

Maybe this could be fun.

Okay, so in all seriousness, I find this pairing just incredibly adorable. I also categorize as a crack pairing, so there's that. The main reason for this existing is that there are next to no Red Sun fics on this site, and I wanted to change that.

This may, or may not be obvious, but I have absolutely no experience writing Romance. This is kinda just an experiment.

Whether or not it's a success is based on feedback.