Ruby looked at the many different weapons that she could see hanging on the walls. She could see a great number of blueprints, and parts that she could buy... with... Haru's money. Yeah, she was broke, so she was going to be borrowing a little money from Haru so that she could improve her own Crescent Rose with more updated parts. She wasn't planning on changing how it looked on the outside, but if she could use lighter, better parts for the inside then she could increase her speed, lower it's weight, and empower it's blasting power, thus increasing the recoil and adding to her power.
Yang, who was waiting for her to finish so that she could go back to clothes shopping, just sighed in annoyance.
Suddenly one of the parts Ruby was looking at fell off the shelf and smacked her upside the head. Ruby was knocked to the ground, and she already had a wicked bump on her forehead from the heavy metal part smacking her.
"You okay?" Yang asked dully, knowing that Ruby was just fine.
"Yeah, but what hit me... OH! This is just what I need!" Ruby said as she went to grab the part, but her hand touched the hand of another person. The two of them looked up, and soon Ruby started to give the person that had grabbed the other end of the part she wanted the stink eye. She really needed this part, and the other person gripped the part even tighter as well.
The person in front of her... was Weiss.
"Ruby, I may respect your brother... but let go of the part. I need this for the explosion chamber part in my weapon." Weiss warned Ruby, since the test in the woods had been hell on her weapon. Literally, when she had been... startled... by Jaune in the forest, it had caused her to react in a way that had knocked something out of place in her weapon, then when she used her weapon even more it had started to corrode the inside of it... as it was, her weapon was completely unusable.
"Crescent Rose needs a tune up, and with this I can go from using 50mm rounds to 55mm or even 65mm in the size... that is too much of a good thing for me to give this to you... let go of the part." Ruby warned Weiss slowly, and Weiss gripped the part even tighter than before. Yang snorted at the toy of them, and she watched as the two of them glared at each other for a little bit.
They didn't even notice the second, complete copy of the part they were about to fight over.
"Well my weapon is broken, I need this part to fix it." Weiss told Ruby, who scoffed at her.
"Your weapon may be fancy, but just one look at it and I can see you need to go a 3 sizes smaller than this. Did you even make your own weapon?" Ruby made fun of Weiss, who blushed red at being called out... because she didn't make her weapon. It had been made for her, she had just been taught how to maintain it and keep it from breaking down, as well as reloading and using it.
Ruby's weapon was different, she had made her weapon from scratch.
If she wanted to, she could take the entire thing apart and rework it to fit the new part, and her weapon was large enough that she had the room for this piece.
"Oh yeah, and what makes you think that you are so smart here child ?" Weiss responded back with anger, and Yang raised an eyebrow.
Oh wow, she really does get angry when she gets humiliated... Everyone has their bad traits, but sheesh. She should just accept that she doesn't know about weapons like Ruby does. Yang thought with a still very much amused look on her face. It wasn't hard to see that Weiss had a natural response of anger when she was embarrassed or humiliated.
"I went to Signal, we make our own weapons. I made my own weapon, my baby is the end results of my blood, sweat, more blood, and tears when I cut myself... and more blood from that same reason." Ruby told Weiss, and she looked at her Crescent Rose, she actually brought her weapon into the store and they let her... she was a trusted regular here. This was where she had gotten the parts for her weapon in the first place.
Weiss looked down at Ruby's hand, and she started to notice it more.
Her hand was just like any girl's should be, it looked soft to the touch and it was feminine... and her hands were well maintained. Her nails weren't too long, they were cut rather short actually, but she did have some areas that were very slightly lighter than the others. Her skin was pale, so you didn't notice, and the spots were still maintained so they were soft... but the scars of her working with her hands on this weapon were visible.
Weiss' eyes softened for a second, before she let go of the part.
"Here, I don't need it anyway to just take the dumb thing. If you want to make your weapon, then go ahead... you have a large shadow to step out of, you need all the help you can get." Weiss commented, both telling Ruby that she could have the part and mocking her at the same time so that nobody realized that she had just sympathized with Ruby.
Looks like the heiress is starting to grow as a person, at least a little bit. Yang thought to herself without much care for how Weiss grew as a person. Weiss wasn't on her team, and it was just a coincidence that they were at the same store.
Yang did notice something on the wall as well though that DID catch her interest.
Yang pulled a piece of paper off the wall, before she grinned to herself.
"Hey! I don't need help making Crescent Rose even better, I built Haru's weapon too you know! I am good at this kind of stuff!" Ruby yelled out, completely missing the fact that Weiss was complimenting her at the same time.
Weiss palmed her face.
Seriously, are they all idiots? Weiss thought as she turned around, and noticed that Jaune was having a LOT of trouble looking through some blueprints.
"I... understand nothing of this." Jaune spoke, letting Ruby learn of his presence.
"Jaune, when did you get here... Weiss!? When did YOU get here!?" Ruby shouted when it FINALLY registered that Weiss and Jaune were at the same store as her.
"Hey Crater Face... yeah, I was dragged here... but not against my will. My snow angel—" Jaune started, and he started to get closer to Weiss, who held her arm out at him and made him stop.
"4 feet away from me, or was I not clear on that?" Weiss reminded him, and he looked at her in surprise. He thought that she had just been joking about that in the forest.
Weiss didn't joke, she had a single funny bone in her body, and it was broken.
Harsh, but I have GOT to get this. A new racing helmet would make me look awesome. Yang thought as she looked over the poster for somebody that was selling a racing helmet. Best of all, it was cheap and as a person who practiced safe driving on a motorcycle she was always looking for a way to make herself look even cooler while also being safe.
"Vomit Boy." Ruby muttered at Jaune, who looked at her with an odd gaze.
"Hey, where is Haru, isn't he always with you two?" Jaune asked a rather serious question, since he almost always saw Haru together with Ruby.
"We are twins who love spending time together, but we aren't ALWAYS together." Ruby told Jaune with a twitching eye.
Yes, she spent like 95% of her free time with Haru. She loved being around her brother, but it wasn't like she wasn't able to exist without him around. He was literally in the bookstore right next door. He was like 30 feet away from them at the most, and 10 feet away at the least if he was leaning up against the wall.
"Where is he though?" Weiss asked, wondering where her fellow leader was.
"Blake is borrowing him, Tukson's Book Trade is having a special for romance novels, come in with your boyfriend and get a 20% discount." Yang chimed into the conversation, and Weiss looked at Yang with a raised eyebrow, while Jaune shed a manly tear for Haru.
Good job scoring a total hottie, a bro should always be happy when his bro gets a hot "hoe" for his girl.
"Just letting you know, Haru is still single. Blake just wanted the discount, so they are pretending." Ruby informed Jaune, who cried another tear of anti-manliness. A tear that can only be dropped when a person fails at crying man tears.
Ruby was completely unaware that Haru was NOT single, and that her twin was in a relationship with Pyrrha.
"Where is Pyrrha, did she come along as well?" Weiss asked, wondering where the other superstar was.
"Dust shopping, she is prepping herself for Round 6." Ruby answered, knowing that Pyrrha was now taking action to make plans against Haru in their future spars. She was very impressed with Haru and Pyrrha both, having been amazed by how strong they were. She had known Haru was higher on the scale than her, she had seen his scores, but she hadn't expected the small differences in numbers to translate to such a vast difference in skill.
"I heard they were both forbidden from taking part in spars for a while." Jaune spoke out loud, and Ruby nodded.
"Right now they are just getting ready, those two really are rivals. Haru was muttering to himself about it in the shower." Ruby said, and everyone gave her a raised eyebrow.
"Do you... take showers with Haru?" Weiss asked, not sure what to make of that.
"Yep!" Ruby admitted without even a drop of shame, not seeing the big deal behind showering with her twin. It was LITERALLY like looking at a boy version of herself, but with blond and red hair instead of black and red... and with muscles... and scars instead of feminine traits.
Okay, so it wasn't "exactly" like looking at her gender opposite, but she had grown up with him... and apparently Haru lacked a sense of shame with his body so they had just never really stopped bathing together.
There was a crash, and the wall exploded and a giant crimson fist punched a person through a wall... before it crossed the length of the store and punched him through the other wall as wall. There were two more crashes, showing that another store was crashed through, before the crimson aura arm vanished.
Haru walked in through the hole in the wall, and he had a chilled look on his face. The only sign of damages done to him was a bruise that had formed on his forehead... in the shape of a book.
"That... was for the sneak attack. Thanks for pushing me out of the way Blake." Haru said to Blake, who walked through the hole in the wall with her hand covering her arm, where she had a few freely bleeding scratches, though nothing major.
With her super hearing, she had heard the attack coming at Haru and pushed him out of the way.
She had taken the blow meant for him, and he had a bookshelf collapse on top of him.
Then he had used his Semblence, not allowed to fight with his body because of his broken ribs, and punched Tukson through the walls.
It was a strange shopping trip so far.