In the household of the Xiao Long-Rose, Summer Rose, leader of Team STRQ, second wife to her teammate, Taiyang Xiao Long and mother to Ruby and step-mother to Yang Xiao Long. She is currently having a argument with another teammate, Qrow Branwen.

"You did what!?"

"I brought her back when she ran from the orphanage." Summer says. "She doesn't want to go back."

"So you thought you would take her here? At your house? Why didn't you get back to the orphanage?"

"Qrow, you didn't see her eyes."

"Again with the eyes, you can't just keep saying-"

"And I can't kick out a kid that obviously doesn't want to be in a orphanage!" They continue to argue in the kitchen, a girl of 6 sits on a sofa. She has ash-black braided hair, amber colored eyes and pale skin. Her clothing consist of a red shirt and a grey skirt with black shoes and leggings. She has a sullen expression and her eyes have bags under them. I should just run.

"Hello!" She hears from behind. She tilts her head and see a girl with her hair appearing with a smile, "My name is-"

"Ceiling hair girl?" She interrupts.

She doesn't falter in her smile, "Sure!" She jumps over the couch and sits beside her. "Well then, what's yours?"

"Annoyed." She answers.

"Well Annoyed, I'm Ceiling Hair Girl." The ash-black hair girl sighs at her and blows some stray hair away from her face.

"Sure."

The blond girl looks around while smiling, "So, want to play a game?" She asks.

"Yeah. I got a game. It's called Silence."

"That's sounds like a really boring game. I know!" She jumps off the sofa and heads to the book shelf. She moves a wooden chair and stands on top of it. "I got some board games we can play." Unknown to her, one of the chair's leg is weakened. She The leg finally breaks and she falls down. "Whooa!"

The ash haired girl gets to her feet and runs out to her, "Hold on!" She sprints across the lounge and holds out her arms out. "I got you!" She shouts. Then she stubs her toe on the table and lifts it up, "OW! Gods dam-" She accidently catches her, "What the-" She hops one last time before losing her balance and crashing on the table.

Summer and Qrow hears their commotion and run out of the kitchen room and sees what had happened. "Yang! Cinder! What happened!?"

Cinder looks at her with widened-eyes at she and Yang are on the snapped table, "Oops."

"You destroyed a table?!"

"Sorry Mom." Yang looks down.

Qrow shakes his head in disapproval while Summer rubs her head with both her hands, "What am I going to tell to Tai when he gets back?"

Cinder rolls her eyes, "Great. Daddy's going to be mad. Now get off me." she says to Yang. The blond girl gets back on her own two feet and holds out her hand to Cinder. "What are you doing?"

"Helping you." Yang smiles at her again.

Cinder looks at her with a fiery glare, "I can get myself up." She stays true to her words and holds her side, "Great, you probably given me broken ribs."

Summer kneels down to her, "Let me see that."

Cinder steps away from her, "Did I ask for your help? Cause I don't remember saying anything."

"Just shut up and stand still." Summer says with authority. Cinder strangely complies. Summer puts both her hands on Cinder's sides. "I'm going to unlock your Aura, Cinder. It should heal your bruised ribs."

"This still feels creepy." Cinder says. She feel a hand slapping her side, giving out a rather puppy-like yelp. "Ok, ok, I'll shut my mouth." She stands still as Summer uses her Aura to unlock Cinder's. Summer faintly shines with white Aura as opposed to Cinder's orange.

They stand there for a time, Yang looks at Qrow who is shaking his flask. He sees her and puts his flask away slowly. Their Auras fade away and Summer takes a breather, "Ooh, you got some Aura there, Cinder." She tries to gets up but has exhaust her Aura. "Qrow. Mind showing Cinder the guest room? I got to sit this one out."

Qrow looks at Cinder, who has a glare against him, he searches for a salutation and locks his eyes on his niece, "Uh, hey Firecracker, how about you show her the guest room?"

"Sure!" Yang grabs Cinder's hand and goes upstairs, "Let's see the guest room, Cindy!"

Cinder's eyebrows creases, "What did you just call me?"

As the two young girls head to the second floor, Qrow helps Summer up to a chair and sits on another, "Now Summer-"

"We're not discussing this."

Qrow takes out his flask and twist the lid open, "Cinder isn't like those 'please adopt me' children, she's in a orphanage for actual reason."

"But she ran away from the orphanage. That's another reason."

He stops drinking to speak, "I looked up in the orphanage before I came here. She's has been in 13 foster homes."

"Eh, that's not-" Qrow hold his hand out with a flat palm.

"Of the last two months. Ever since last year, she's been a trouble-maker, setting fires, getting knives from the kitchen, more fires and one incident where she fought two kids! Most of her reasons coming back to the orphanage is because she set things on fire."

Summer looks at him, raised eyebrows and slight widened eyes, "More the reason to have her here."

"And Tai says I'm buzzed off my mind." Qrows screws his flask, "Why are you so persistent on keeping her here? She's not a dog."

A sigh comes out of her, "Maybe it's the parental instinct, or maybe it's fate, I just feel it. That she's meant to be here, to raise her."

"Enough with that, Sum and just tell me the reason."

"She looks lost."

"She sets fire to everything."

"I think I can work with that." She finally gets up and looks at the stairs, "Cinder is a unique girl. A lot of mothers might say that and their children is a angel but Cinder, she's a devil, one that needs someone that she can learn."

Yang runs down from the flight of stairs and looks around the room, "Where's the bucket?"

"What's going on, Yang?" Qrow asks.

"Cinder just set a fire in the guest room."

"What?!"

"What!?"

(CF)

Minutes later of Summer, Qrow and Yang trying to put out the fire Cinder had lit and fueled by her. The three family members pants in exhaustion while Cinder smiles with arrogance. "How did she-" Qrow tries to speak, but is shocked that she even managed to set a fire.

Cinder walks between Summer and Qrow and looks at her, "So am I going back to the orphanage?"

Summer looks at Cinder with a grip of command, "No." She looks at the white-cloaked with surprise, "You're staying here."

"You're not sending me back?"

"I'll deal with the pyrotechnics." Cinder stays silent and looks away from her with confusion. The door from below opens and footsteps comes from the stairs, "Tai's here."

"Hey Summer, the table is broken so I'll have to..." Tai pokes his head out of the door with a small girl hiding on the other side and sees the burnt mess, "What happened here, and who's that?" He points to the pyro-making girl.

"This is our new friend, Cindy!" Yang announces.

Cinder is visibly annoyed, "I'm not your friend."

"You are to me!" She points at the girl hiding, "Come on Ruby, say hi!" The little girl named Ruby shyly comes away from the door.

She is in a red dress, black pants and a red cloak, "Hello." She says to Cinder.

Shockingly, Cinder has a softer expression, "Hello there. I'm Cinder."

"Ruby. Are you staying?"

"Maybe." She looks to Summer who gives the young girl a nod, "I guess I am."

(Author's Note)

So, this is short and it's meant to be a short. I don't know why I thought of this but I did. I'll tell you the roadmap I have, the shorts will be 10 chapters. I have to say, Cinder here will have a adapted personality, there's no way I'm using her canon personality. Right now, Cinder is sullen and jaded for her age.

Hope you enjoyed this short, review and have a nice day Reading.