There were many things that Ruby had learned about Yang from growing up together with her. These things included the blonde's short temper, her love of action movies and her infamous habit of making puns. These and many other things related to Yang had become very well known to the redhead from having experienced them numerous times throughout her whole life.

One of these things that Ruby had learned was Yang's protective nature towards those she cared about, especially towards the young scythe-wielder she loved. Ever since the brawler had been introduced to Ruby, she had taken it upon herself to protect the younger girl from any harm. While most people would find this very heartwarming, which it was for the most part, they often didn't realize one detail about it. Yang truly meant to protect Ruby from any harm. No matter what it was.

Even when they were little, Ruby had experienced the blonde's protectiveness numerous times. When they used to be in Signal, the sniper had been the target of a few bullies in school. However, that quickly ended once a certain blonde learned of this and decided to have a little ''discussion'' with them. It was only thanks to Qrow and Taiyang that Yang was allowed to stay in school, not that she cared too much. All that mattered to the brawler was that her precious Ruby was safe and her attackers had been punished.

This protective nature of Yang didn't stop or even lessen once she and Ruby had gotten into Beacon. In fact, once the two girls had become a couple, the blonde had become an even more effective barrier of protection for the redhead. No matter what the threat was, none were spared from the barrier known as Yang Xiao Long.

Now, this wasn't exactly a straight up bad thing, as Ruby had often been truly saved by the blonde brawler. One of such cases was when team RWBY had been surrounded by a very large pack of Beowolves and were in for a tough fight. Not only that, but one of the Grimm had actually managed to sneak behind the team's leader unnoticed and tried to lunge at the unsuspecting redhead. Luckily for Ruby, before the beast managed to even touch her, Yang had charged towards the Beowolf with red eyes and proceeded to turn the creature into mush with her fists.

Ruby had been very grateful for her girlfriend saving her life, which the blonde greatly enjoyed. For Yang, there was no greater reward than being the center of the scythe-wielder's attention, so both girls walked out of that encounter with the Grimm very happy.

However, there were many cases where Yang's protection wasn't either necessary or went way overboard.

While Ruby didn't face too much bullying in Beacon, she still had to deal with it quite a bit. There were many students who saw the redhead as someone who didn't deserve to be in Beacon and would often voice their thoughts to the girl. While Ruby was understandably hurt by such comments, she herself felt that she should work on becoming a better Huntress in order to prove their accusations wrong, instead of lashing out.

While the young team leader's teammates were more than happy to come to her defense, Ruby insisted that she should be the one to deal with such issues. And although Weiss and Blake had reluctantly agreed to their leader's wishes, Yang wouldn't do it. She was determined to make those who dared even think of harming Ruby pay.

One of such times came when Cardin had decided to take a break from bullying Jaune and had decided to target the scythe-wielder instead. Ruby was walking down the hallways of the school, when the armor-clad boy came from behind her and pushed her to the floor.

''Watch where you're walking, brat,'' Cardin said with a smirk. ''You should make way for a real Huntsman.''

''A real Huntsman? Didn't you get your ass-'' Ruby began to say in return as she tried to get up, but was pushed down again by the bully.

''You were just lucky to beat me,'' Cardin said angrily, thinking about his embarrassing defeat at the redhead's hands in their last combat class. He decided to put Ruby ''in her place'' and actually put his foot on her back, holding her down. ''Someone like you doesn't deserve to be here.''

Frustrated tears started to fall from the young team leader's eyes as she struggled under her attackers foot. She had just been training, so her strength was practically gone, making it impossible for her to fight back. If someone wasn't going to save her, she would be in for a bad time.

Luckily, there was someone that would save her. A someone named Yang Xiao Long.

''WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!?'' Yang roared in rage and charged towards Cardin. Before the boy could do anything, a mighty punch hit him in the face and sent him flying to the wall.

With the bully's foot off her back, Ruby was finally able to start getting up. She was about to thank her secret girlfriend for saving, but stopped upon seeing what the blonde was doing. It seemed that simply punching Cardin in the face and sending him to the wall was not enough for Yang, as she had mounted the beaten bully and was proceeding to throw as many punches at Cardin's face as possible. While Ruby wasn't a fan of the armor-clad bully and didn't exactly hold any sympathy for him, seeing him crying and begging for mercy made the redhead feel a bit sorry for him. Although, it might have been mostly because of all the blood that had come from Cardin's face that made Ruby feel that way.

''Yang, please stop! There's no need to keep beating him!'' Ruby pleaded as she tried her best to stop the blonde, but Yang was so overtaken by her anger and hatred that she kept on beating the crying boy. It wasn't until Glynda came around that the merciless punishment ended.

After the whole mess had been cleaned and everyone's side of the story had been heard, it had been decided that both Yang and Cardin would receive punishment. Cardin would face a week of detention for his bullying, while Yang would face two weeks of detention for going overboard in defending Ruby.

While Glynda was upset with both of her students for their behavior, she wasn't all that upset with the blonde girl in reality. Even if her position forced her to punish Yang for what she did, the teacher did secretly think that Cardin deserved at least some of the beating he got. Maybe not all of it, but some of it.

Yang was obviously not happy with getting detention, but saw that giving Cardin what he deserved was worth it. However, what really bothered her was how upset Ruby was with her. While the redhead was happy to be saved from Cardin, she did not like how far the brawler went with assaulting the bully, which she expressed by giving Yang one of the angriest rants she had ever received. Even Glynda was impressed by Ruby's scolding to her teammate and had to actually come in and try to calm her down.

''I was supposed to be the hero, yet I'm the villain. How did that happen?'' Yang mumbled to herself while sulking in the detention. To make matters worse, Port was overlooking the detention, which meant that the blonde was forced to listen to his stories through the whole thing. ''This sucks...''

While Ruby would be upset at Yang for going overboard with protecting her from bullies, she still recognized it as a good act. But while being protected from the Grimm and bullies was a great and all, sometimes the blonde would protect her girlfriend from things that weren't exactly a threat. Such a case was witnessed by team RWBY while they were in the Emerald Forest on a training exercise. The students had been tasked with eliminating some of the Beowolves in the area as fast and as efficiently as possible. The four girls were just returning after taking down the beasts, when something suddenly hit Ruby on the head.

''Ouch!'' the young team leader said and rubbed the spot that had been hit. Her teammates had stopped and had turned to look at their youngest member, wondering what was up with her. ''What was that?''

''What was what?'' Blake asked, curious as to what had happened.

''Something hit me on the head,'' Ruby answered and looked around, quickly spotting the object that had hit her. She bent down to pick it up and to have a closer look at it. ''An acorn? Where did this come from?''

Suddenly, the four girls heard squeaking from above. They turned to look at where the sound was coming and saw a squirrel up in a tree, looking down at them.

''Is it just me or is that thing laughing at us?'' Weiss asked, slightly irritated by the noise the rodent was making.

''Guess this is it's idea of a joke then,'' Ruby said with a sigh. ''Let's just leave and get back to-''

''RRRAAAAAHHH!'' Yang roared with her hair glowing and her eyes red as she punched the tree the squirrel was on so hard that it fell down. The brown rodent managed to jump off the branch it had been standing on and land safely, before running away for it's life. However, Yang was not about to let the animal escape and chased after it, intent on punishing it for the crime of harming Ruby.

''Yang, stop! It's not worth it!'' the redhead pleaded as she ran after her girlfriend, hoping to stop her rampage. Weiss and Blake also ran after their teammates, knowing that their help was most likely needed.

Yang's pursuit of the squirrel went on for a while, during which the brawler managed to destroy a good chunk of the forest and some unlucky Grimm that came across them. The three other girls of team RWBY were doing their best to keep up with their blonde teammate, but it was proving to be a very difficult task. Out of all of them, Yang was the one with the most stamina and best physical condition. Add that with her blinding rage and you had an unstoppable beast of destruction.

Eventually, the chase ended with Yang standing at the edge of a small clearing in the forest. The other three girls caught up with her while panting heavily from running so much.

''Yang... did you... harm the... squirrel?'' Ruby managed to ask while trying her best to catch her breath.

Instead of giving an answer to the younger girl's question, Yang simply pointed at the clearing ahead of them. The three girls looked at it and their eyes went wide. The place was full of squirrels.

''What the-!? Which one of these is the one Yang was chasing!?'' Weiss asked in a shocked voice.

''I think that only the squirrel knows that. And I doubt that it's willing to tell us,'' Blake said before turning to her partner. ''So, are you going to give up?''

''No. I've got a better idea,'' Yang answered as she readied her gauntlets. ''I'M JUST GONNA KILL ALL OF THEM!''

''NO YOU'RE NOT!'' Ruby yelled and used the blunt side of her scythe to quickly knock out her girlfriend, thus allowing the three girls to carry Yang with them back to Beacon.

It was bad enough that Yang liked to blindly attack anything living that dared to harm Ruby in any way, but the blonde went beyond that. Sometimes even simple objects were seen as threats to the redhead in Yang's eyes.

''Yang, you don't need to attack the pickle jar!'' Ruby pleaded while the older girl was glaring at said jar with red eyes.

''This jar needs to pay, Rubes! No jar is allowed to keep you hungry by refusing to open!'' Yang said before raising up her fist, ready to strike down her ''enemy.'' ''TAKE THIS, YOU GLASS BASTARD!''

The young redhead could only sigh as her girlfriend proceeded to smash the jar along with it's contents. It was going to be another mess for her to clean up once again.