Love and Laughter

Joke One: What do you Call Two People who are Dating?...Intimidating!

Yang loved spending time with Nora. The orange haired girl was bubbly, full of energy, and a riot to be around. When the two of them came together there was trouble to be found, for both girls had an unhealthy taste in pranking the crap out of others, in stirring up chaos whenever they could, and for devouring crazy amounts of food. There was no stopping them when they were together. The good times just kept rolling in. Most of Yang's good memories of Beacon lay with mishaps and misadventures that she had with Nora, for just as often as they caused trouble for others with their mischievous tricks, they just as often found themselves on the bad side of the trouble they rounded up.

Not that Yang minded. She trusted Nora to have her back in a fight, just like the other girl trusted her the same way. Their friendship was built on trust and laughter, which in Yang's opinion, was the best type of friendship. And while to Yang Ruby would always be number one, since she was her precious younger sister, Nora was number two, even if Yang for pretense sake, had to say her partner was in that position, followed by her team members.

But, it wasn't until the second year of their education at Beacon academy that Yang noticed how much she loved the other girl's presence. She didn't just love it, she loved it. Somewhere along the way, Yang's feelings of friendship had turned into feelings of love for Nora. Yang couldn't explain why or when it had happened. It wasn't some big impactful moment so she didn't notice because it didn't hit her and suddenly make her world all pink tinted and full of hearts. It simply was a slow and sneaky progression of events that occurred. So slow that Yang couldn't have stopped it because she didn't notice it was happening.

So what did Yang do now? What should she do about these feelings? Now that she had noticed them she couldn't ignore them. She wanted to act on them, to find out if Nora felt the same way about her. Where others might be hesitant to tell their crush they love them, for fear it might ruin the friendship, Yang was confident. For she knew that Nora was a person who could brush off offenses that came to her easily, and all hiccups in their relationship could be forgiven with a bit of cake.

The only problem was, how would Yang let Nora know her feelings? The girl could be dense when it came to important matters.

She first tried the normal way, by going up to Nora one day after class and telling her that she loved her. "Aww, I love you too! You're my bestest friend." She had cooed at the blonde and hugged her tightly. "After Ren, of course," Nora added, not wanting to hurt her childhood friend's feelings as he happened to be standing next to them, waiting on Nora. He rolled his eyes at her. He didn't mind if she had other friends.

Then Yang had tried by sending a letter. But the letter had been delivered during lunch time the next day and Nora had gotten a bunch of sauce on it from her food and it had been rendered illegible. The phrase, "I love you, let's go on a date, me and you," had been altered thanks to smudges into "I hate you". It was only natural that Nora threw the note out.

Then Yang had tried to serenade Nora with a romantic song, but the girl had joined right in, trying to out sing Yang and thinking it was some silly singing competition.

Then she sent her flowers, but Nora turned out to be allergic to this brand and so they had gone to the trash.

Then Yang had written her a lovely poem, but just as Nora opened up the envelope it was in, a strong gust of wind ripped it out of her hands.

Yang was tired of these failures, and getting desperate to convey her feelings. In an attempt to seek help, she asked Ren on what to do.

The boy had shrugged. "I don't know. Bake her a cake or something with the words on it. I'm sure she'll get it that way."

And so Yang, employing the help of her younger sister, baked the other a cake with the words "I love you, go out with me" written on it with red icing. When Nora had seen it, she had been stunned quiet for two seconds, making Yang foolishly hopeful that the orange haired got it, before Nora grabbed the cake in her hands and lifted it up over her head, running away with it. "Of course I love you too cake! I'll take you on a date anywhere!" Then: "Ren, it finally happened. Sweets love me just as much as I love them!" Her voice was bursting with joy and excitement.

Yang merely stood there with a dead expression on her face, Ruby patting her arm in condolence. "Well, you tried," she said not at all helpfully.

Yang had forgotten how thick skulled Nora could be at times.

Later that day, as Yang sat up in a tree, watching dusk fall over Beacon campus, she heard the loud rustling of someone walking by her. She looked down to see Nora there, looking up at her. "Mind if I join ya?" she asked and Yang felt tempted for a moment to turn her away, a bit down in the dumps over her inability to ask Nora out, but she obliged the other girl's request, deciding it wasn't a good idea to punish the other by refusing her company because of Yang's own failures.

"Sure."

Nora made her way up the tree at that and Yang made space for her to move over, balancing precariously on the branch.

"Did you have fun today? With going on a date with cake?"

"Yea. It was fun. We went many places downtown! We walked in the park, biked down the road and even went to the pool! But cake melted there so we had to end our date so he could go back into the fridge to stop melting" Nora said with enthusiasm and in a rush, before she quieted down to a thoughtful tone. "But you know...It wasn't as fun as a date with you could be."

"Yea," Yang said longingly before she realized what Nora had just said. "What?!" She startled so badly she scared the birds in the nest above her and they fluttered off. Was Nora asking her out? Huh?

"I found all your little attempts to ask me out so cute! It was a shame some of them didn't work out the way you wanted them to," Nora confessed, giggling when she saw the look on Yang's face. It was one of slow dawning as the information finally hit her.

"You knew I was asking you out?!" she blustered out, but with no real anger to her words.

"Yes," Nora admitted, shaking her head and down vigorously.

"Then why didn't you say something?" Yang was a bit miffed at this. Did Nora just want to see her suffer?

"I wanted to see how strong your feelings for me were; if you would keep asking me no matter how many times you failed."

"So you intentionally sabotaged my events?" Yang asked suspiciously.

"No, not all. Just the note and the singing. And I really happen to be allergic to certain types of flowers and it was really windy that day with the poem."

Yang let out a sigh and shook her head. "Man, you really played me. I was going out of my mind trying to find a good way to confess my feelings and ask you out."

"I didn't mean to stress you out that much," Nora said in a gentle tone of voice as she placed a hand down on Yang's thigh. "It was just so cute watching you do all that, that I couldn't resist doing it. But I'm glad you feel this way for me." Yang looked over at Nora at that contact and swallowed deeply, her throat suddenly dry as she felt the urge to ask this next question. "So, what's your answer? Will you go out with me?"

Nora's lips turned up into a smile. "Of course I will. I like you too much to not want to."

Yang could feel her chest soar at this. Nora had said yes! "Woo!" Yang pumped out both her hands into the air, ecstatic about her friend's words. But she had forgotten she was sitting in a tree and thus her balance teetered. Her arms windmilled as she tried to catch herself from falling forwards. She needn't have worried. Nora grabbed her by the back of her scarf and held her up, her wrist straining with the added weight, but she was a trained huntress and had immense strength compared to a normal human.

"Thanks, I was worried there for a sec," Yang grinned up at her friend-now lover? As she hung limply in the air.

"I've always got your back Yang," Nora said, smiling sweetly before she leaned forward to the blonde's face. "And now I got your lips," was softly whispered against them as she kissed the other girl gently.

A/N: I've been wanting to do a Yang/Nora story for the longest. I was debating doing one where they have like a pranking competition against each other but then I sort of settled on a romantic take of their friendship because I feel with their energy combined there is the possibility for a lot of stupid stuff to happen and thus for a chance to have some humor and fluff.

Anyways, I'm off writing the second chapter. Currently I have five chapters planned, but could add more depending on where the story goes.