Author's Note: Trying to catch up with some of the other days. BTW, I don't know if they actually do celebrate Christmas in the RWBY universe, but for now let's assume they do.
Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao Long; family
"I'll make sure Blake gets back by 11." Sun waved at the two girls as Blake tried to push him out.
Yang looked over her shoulder and waved back at him. "Nahh, she can stay with you all night for all we care." she winked at him, prompting the monkey faunus to grin at Blake excitedly.
"Hear that Blake!? We can spend-" was all they last heard before Blake bid them for the time being and closed the door behind her. Yang laughed as she returned her attention to the tree in the middle of their dorm room. Her younger sister, Ruby was already preparing the decorations with much excitement in her eyes.
"Ooooh!" Ruby squirmed in place. "Isn't it exciting?! We're spending Christmas here in Beacon!" she excitingly told her sister, clutching a Christmas ball a little too tight causing it to break and the younger one's face into dismay. Yang grabbed the broken pieces off her sister's hand and threw it in the trash.
"Well, let's just hope Weiss doesn't notice that we're already missing one Christmas ball." Yang winked at Ruby, who just then proceeded to decorate the tree. "It feels kinda weird, huh?" Yang spoke as she hung a decor.
"What do you mean?" her sister innocently asked.
"Well," Yang picked up a star-shaped decor. "This is our first Christmas without dad or Uncle Qrow." Ruby stopped for a while at what her sister said before resuming to decorate the tree. She was right, it was their first Christmas alone without their father or uncle. There have been times before when Yang and Ruby have celebrated without their father when he was out for a mission, but their Uncle Qrow was there for them.
For the siblings, there have been a lot of Christmas firsts. Yang still remembered when she had her first Christmas without their father. Ruby was still a baby and her father had been gone on a mission for the past 2 weeks. Good thing Summer was there and so was Qrow, who was usually telling the two young girls of his adventures around Remnant. Those were the holiday stories Yang remembered and not some old selfish man who was visited by some ghosts.
"That is true..." Ruby replied after the realization that they hadn't seen their father nor their uncle even for the holidays dawned upon her. Now the room was starting to feel a bit lonely. Weiss had left Beacon a few days ago to return home to Atlas but promised to return to Beacon by Christmas; and then Blake was spending Christmas Eve with Sun. "But hey! Look at the bright side..." Ruby tried to say whilst coming up with 'the bright side'. Nothing came to her.
"It's okay, sis." Yang patted her back. "We can get through this." she reassured. Ruby looked at the blonde and smiled softly, nodding in agreement.
"And besides," Yang shrugged. "Don't tell me you of all people will have a frown on Christmas. Come on, we can call dad and greet him."
"After we decorate the tree?"
"Yes Ruby, after we decorate the tree."
"Okay okay," Ruby waved her hands in front of Yang trying to catch her breath from all the laughing they've been doing. They had finished decorating the tree (hopefully to Weiss' content), then Yang started reminiscing. "Remember when Uncle Qrow had gotten so drunk and dad had to bring him to bed and Uncle Qrow literally puked all over dad?" Ruby laughed.
Yang shuddered and shook her head in disgust while laughing. It was just before Yang and Ruby left for Beacon and Qrow decided that they should celebrate the event with some drinks; of course, it was only him who got out of hand. "That was the most disgusting farewell party ever." Yang commented. "Literally."
"I know." Ruby sighed. "Gosh, I really miss them." she looked down. Yang noticed the slight hind of sadness in the tone of her younger sister. She needed to do something to cheer her up.
"Hey why don't we call dad?" Yang pulled out her scroll and started searching for their father's number.
"Really?" Ruby's eyes widened like a puppy.
"Well, we did say earlier that we would call dad." Yang smiled as she put her scroll on speaker. Ruby crawled over to Yang's side as the phone rang, excitement plastered across her face only to fall into disappointment when no one had picked up and the call dropped. Yang's heart dropped a little too. She was hoping they'd hear their father's voice for Christmas. That was all they both wanted.
Yang's scroll buzzed and rang, snapping her out of her thoughts and jumping to grab her phone. She fumbled a bit but was able to answer it.
"Dad?!"
"Really now? I'm not that old." a familiar voice replied; but that was not her father's. Yang sighed and laughed at herself a bit; she got too excited. She put her scroll on speaker so Ruby would be able to join in on the conversation.
"Hey Uncle Qrow." Yang greeted him. Ruby pounced on Yang and screamed at the scroll with much excitement.
"HEY UNCLE QROW!"
The two girls laughed when they heard complaining sounds from the other end. It felt good that their uncle called them right in time.
"Man, you two sure do miss me huh?" he asked. "Anyways, let's cut to the chase. I'm in Vale for some business and I finished it pretty early. I got you two some gifts. Meet me at the statue in front of Beacon."
"Sure thing Uncle Qrow!" Ruby replied happily before hanging up while Qrow was about to say something. "Come on Yang! Uncle Qrow is there!" she grabbed hold of her sister's hand and pulled her out. Yang rolled her eyes and followed Ruby out the door.
"Uncle Qrow!" Ruby pounced on the man standing by the statue, clinging to his arm. "Did you miss me?! Did you miss me!?" Ruby's eyes shone like a puppy.
Qrow chuckled and looked at his niece, "Nope."
"Hey Uncle Qrow, I thought you said there would be presents." Yang complained when she noticed that Qrow had arrived empty handed.
"So you aren't happy to see me?" Qrow faked a frown, which only gained him a playful punch on the shoulder by Yang. Qrow laughed and hugged his two nieces; he hadn't seen them for quite some time and had always thought about how they were doing in Beacon. "Alright, I did get you two a present."
"Where is it?" Ruby asked, looking behind Qrow to see if he had hidden something behind him.
"Well," Qrow shrugged. "Turn around."
The two girls looked confused and slowly turned around, confused at what could possibly be his gift to them. Both their eyes widened and they started running, overjoyed by this surprise.
"Dad!"
A/N: Well? How did you like this one? I wanted to give some family feelings and I don't know if I achieved that. LOL. orz Reviews are much appreciated!
