(Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY. Or X-Ray and Vav for that matter. Both shows, and all the characters and settings belonging to them, belong to the RoosterTeeth crew.)
(Author's note: Sorry, this took a little longer then expected and the end may seem a little rushed, but next chapter will be better and will hopefully come out on time. I swear! Anyway, for what it's worth, I hope you enjoy!)
Whining, romantic tension and a one-sided mile-a-minute conversation about sloths and pancakes. It was just another evening in the JNPR dorm for Lie Ren.
The stoic in green was busy cleaning out his Dual Automatic pistols, collectively named StormFlower, while sitting on his bed since his partner and teammate, Nora Valkyrie, thought it'd be a fun idea to try to convert his lethal Grimm-slaying weapons into paintball guns.
It did not work. At all.
But Ren wasn't mad. He could never be mad at her. They were childhood friends, they grew up in the same orphanage together and Nora had done many crazy antics over the years, the magenta streak on the left side of his hair was testament to that. But it was her bubbly personality and craziness that made her so endearing him.
Now don't get Ren wrong. He and Nora were close, they were best friends, but, despite what his friends may assume, that was as far as it went between them. To quote Nora herself: "We're together, but not 'together-together'."
...Not anymore.
Shaking his head of those thoughts from his mind, he looks over to see how team JNPR'S stronger fight, Pyrrha Nikos, was doing with getting their team leader, Jaune Arc, to focus and study.
"C'mon Pyrrha." Jaune whined. "Can't we take a break already?"
"We've been over this Jaune." Replied Pyrrha in a slightly annoyed tone. "You can rest when you're done with this assignment."
The scraggly blonde let out a groan. "Why're you even doing this?"
"Because, as your friend and partner, it's my duty to see you complete your assignments and not spent the next semester in detention." Pyrrha said matter-o-factly.
"But classes don't start up until next Monday."
"That's no excuse." Pyrrha responded, attempting to adopt a stricter tone with her partner. Try as she might, she could not raise her voice at him. "And besides, it'll give us more time to train. You still need work on your swordsmanship."
"Yeah, well... as team leader, I order you to give me a break, so we'll come back to this later." Jaune said in triumph, thinking he was in control of the situation.
Ren deemed Jaune choice of words a 'bad call'. For while Jaune was there leader, Pyrrha had him almost completely wrapped round her finger. She knew all his weaknesses and could exploit them anytime she wanted, she just never did so out of respect, but Jaune was really pushing it now.
"Do your work, or i'll spoil the plot twist in the next issue of X-Ray & Vav." That outer do it.
Jaune glared his partner dead in the eyes. "...You wouldn't dare."
Without breaking eye contact, Pyrrha reached into one of the draws in the study desk and pulled out a comic book she had taken from Jaune to encourage him to work harder. Skimming through the pages Pyrrha was near the end when she stopped. "Huh. So that's the Mad King's full backstory. Apparently, he's-"
"Dammit! I'm working! I'm working!" Jaune hastily got to scribbling on the paper before him, feeling defeated in his battle of words. Just like every other time this scenario, which was on average twice a week.
Pyrrha pat her team leader on the back. "See? That wasn't so hard now, was it?" She said with a smile and a motherly tone.
Ren couldn't help but chuckle light at the two partners. They had only known each for a few months and already they had developed a strong, dynamic friendship. However, only one of them wanted to maintain this friendship out of blissful ignorance, while the other, wanted it to be so much more.
The quiet teen's thoughts were interrupted when his hyperactive teammate bounced on his bed and sat right next to him.
"Why don't they just come out and play tonsil hockey already?" Nora asked her partner, though not loud enough for their teammates to hear them.
Ren sighed. "Because she's too nice to make the first move, and he's too thick headed to realize what's right in front of him."
"Ugh!" Nora just groaned in frustration. "I swear, if they don't make a move, I'll do it for them... Actually, that's not a bad idea."
"Nora, no. " Ren responded, not liking his partners sudden grin.
"Hear me out, Ren."
"I really don't want to."
"The plan's simple! All we need is a sloth, three jars of paper clips, a bottle of chloroform, fifteen cheese wheels, glitter, some C4, and a live trout!"
Ren sighed. He was going to regret asking. However, he knew he'd regret not asking even more. "Okay, one at a time... why do we need a sloth?"
"So that we know what one sounds like. That way, you know what to listen out for whenever I sloth signal you!"
"Simple enough. So what, dare I ask, do you intend to do with all those paper clips?"
"Isn't it obvious?". A sudden knock on the door cuts off Nora's conversation and gets the attention of the entire team. "I'll get it!"
Nora bounced up from the bed and skipped over to the door. Upon opening it, she was greeted by the smiling face of Yang Xiao Long.
"Hello Ladies! And Ren, of course."
"Hey!"
"Oh hush, Jaune. You know you'd make a pretty girl." While Yang's puns were as funny as watching grass grow, her banter did occasionally get a chuckle, as it had done with team JNPR right now at their leaders expense.
"So," Ren began, "what brings you over to our dorm this time, Yang? Your teammates kick you out again?". This would have been the fourth time this year. Yang really needed to work on that 'Pun Reflex' of hers.
"Nah, not this time." The brawler replied. "Actually, I wanted to ask you guys something."
"If it's for ice cream, sugar or syrup, Nora ate it all last night." Jaune replied with a sigh.
"Well, you could have tried to stop me!"
"We DID! You threw me across the room! Again!"
"Well, you should have tried harder, then!"
Yang couldn't help but chuckle. JNPR were just as dysfunctionally dynamic as her own team, and, ironically, that's what made both teams work so well. After catching her breath, she continued. "No, nothing like that. I was wondering if you guys were doing anything next Saturday."
Team JNPR looked between each other, seeing if anyone had an answer. After a few seconds of silence, Pyrrha spoke up.
"Well, some of us still have to complete some leftover work from last semester," the Mistral champion said while glancing over her partner, "but we should be all free by then."
"Awesome!" the blonde girl exclaimed. "So, how's 'bout a slumber party at our place sound-"
"A WHAT-NOW?!"
Yang's face instantly dropped from excited to annoyed as Weiss stood behind her and started being a total nark.
"That was your big idea? Really? Something as childish as a slumber party?!" Weiss loudly complained, Blake standing right behind her.
"To be fair," the faunus-in-hiding added, "it's nowhere near as bad as we thought it would be."
"Be that as it may, that doesn't make it any less immature!"
"Ah c'mon ice queen," Yang replied, "you say that about everything fun."
"That's because what you call 'fun', most people call a headache and a potential fire hazard!"
"The one time..." Yang mumbled to herself.
"Besides," Weiss continued, "It's not your decision to make. They haven't even agreed to your silly little 'slumber party' yet."
"Actually, that sounds like a lot of fun." Jaune spoke up before turning to his team. "What about you guys?"
"Oh em gee! I am soooooooo in!" was Nora's answer to Jaune, with Ren just giving a simple nod.
"Do your homework and maybe you can go."
"But Pyrrhaaaaaaaa!" Jaune whined to his partner again. However, the gender flipped Achilles pulled out the X-Ray and Vav comic again and Jaune immediately went back to work.
"And another man falls to the whip." Blake muttered to herself before going back inside her dorm, leaving Weiss a little flustered since she was losing yet another argument with Yang this night.
"Well, ugh... I... um..." The heiress was trying to find something, anything, to gain a foothold against her blonde oaf of a teammate. With desperate reluctance, Weiss fell back on her only remaining avenue of possible success. "As our team leader, it should be Ruby's decision to organize these types of social gatherings, especially ones in our dorm room."
Yang just shrugged at this. "Fine by me. Knowing her she'll probably say yes the second I ask her about it."
"Maybe she will at first." Weiss said smugly. "But after she hears my argument against such childish activities, she will no doubt agree that your idea is-"
"-completely and totally AWESOME and we are so doing it!"
It had been nearly twenty four hours since team Freezer Burn started their argument. Ruby wasn't even five seconds through the door and her two other teammates went straight for arguing their case on the matter of a sleepover with JNPR. Blake wasn't even surprised when Ruby jumped on her sisters bandwagon almost instantly. Poor Weiss couldn't even get a word in as her partner continued saying how 'super special awesome' this slumber party would be.
The heiress eventually hung her head in defeat before walking over to her bunk and collapsing on her mattress. "I never had a chance, did I?" Weiss said looking at Blake, the faunus in question sitting on her own bed reading.
"Well, you said it yourself." Blake replied, not looking up from her romance novel. "The idea was 'childish' and 'immature'. What made you think Ruby of all people would say no?"
Yang put a hand over her sister's face to stop Ruby's excitable little rant. "Come to think of it, what's your problem with having a sleepover anyway? It's gotta be more then it just being kids stuff."
Weiss sighed before sitting up. "It's just... well, Pyrrha and Nora I don't mind. It's Jaune and Ren."
Ruby finally pushed Yang's hand out of the way to talk. "What about them?"
"THEY'RE BOYS!"
"Yeah, so?"
"W-well... aren't sleepovers supposed to be a girls only activity for a reason?"
Blake looked up from her book to see Weiss blushing from what she was trying to imply. Ruby looked confused, the hidden meaning going straight over her head. Yang on the other hand understood completely and, grinning widely, was going make the heiress squirm.
"Ah, what's wrong? Is the little ice queen scared of loosing her innocents to such a big, strong, muscle building hunk like Jau-HAHAHAHA!" The brawler couldn't contain herself any longer and broke down laughing, making Weiss blush a deeper shade of red.
"Sh-shut up, you blonde oaf!"
"What about Ren?" Blake asked out of curiosity as Yang gained control of herself once more.
"Fat chance. She can say what she wants, but Nora ain't gonna let her man be with another woman."
"I have no idea what you guys are talking about." Ruby chimed in, fully confused.
"It's better you don't." Yang said, ruffling her sister's hair before walking over to the door. "Well, if that's how you feel Weiss, I suppose I'll have to come up with a compromise that's fair for everyone." She then opened the door and walked over to JNPR's dorm. Team RWB looked between each other before poking their heads out the door.
Yang knocked on her neighbours door, this time Jaune answered. "Sup, vomit boy!"
"You're never letting that go, are you?"
"Those were my favourite shoes, so no."
The blonde swordsman sighed as his team gathered behind him. "So, what's the word on the sleepover." Jaune asked.
Yang took a deep breath before she answered. "Well, I got good news, and bad news. Good being that Ruby said yes to it."
"Sweet!" Nora cheered.
"What's the bad news then?" Ren asked. Knowing Yang, he was not sure he wanted to know.
Clasping her hands together and taking another deep breath, Yang answered the stoic boy. "Well, ice queen wants this to be all girl event." She looked at the varying levels of disappointment on each of team JNPR's faces before continuing. "However, I have come up with a compromise that'll work out fairly for everyone." Hearing this perked JNPR up again.
"Oh? What do you have in mind, Yang?" Pyrrha asked.
Yang, with a mischievous grin on her face, pointed at Jaune and Ren and said "You two gotta dress in drag."
"WHAT!?" was the immediate response from teams RWB and JNPR.
"That is NOT what I meant Yang! If anything, that makes it worse!" shouted a blushing Weiss.
"Too late. This is happening."
"How is this fair for everyone?!" Jaune yelled, embarrassed at the thought of being forced to dress up as a girl... again.
"Simple." Yang said, smiling at his expense. "You two look girly as is. Stick a dress on ya, a little make up here and there, and you'll look perfect! Weiss can at least have the illusion of a 'girls only' slumber party, you two will be able to come so no one's left out, and I get a good laugh out of it. See? Everybody wins!"
The seven hunters-in-training just stared at her for a minute, still trying to wrap their heads around what Yang just said. Nora was the first to recover and slung her arms round the boys, bring them into a hug.
"Don't worry, Yang." The hammer wielder began, smiling. "Me and Pyrrha'll make sure they're all pretty for Saturday. You leave it to us!" And with that, Nora closed the door, her teammates blushing furiously in embarrassment.
With that taken care of, the blonde brawler turned and walked back to her dorm room smiling. Her teammates just face-palmed. "What?"
"I can't believe you did that." Blake said, rather exhausted.
"I can't believe you thought that that was a good idea!" Weiss added, sounding rather irritated.
"I can't believe we're having another cross-dressing slumber party..." Ruby chimed in, sounding more annoyed than anything else. Looking up, she saw Weiss and Blake starring at her wide eyed in surprise.
"She's done this before?" Blake asked, surprise and curiosity in her voice.
Ruby sighed and rubbed the back of her head. "Long story. The bike gangs at Signal did some crazy stuff."
"Bike gangs?" Weiss didn't sound as surprised as she should be.
"Now that's a story for another time." Yang said, pulling her pajama top over her head. The other girls just realized that she changed clothes. "Now get ready for bed, kids. It's late, and mama Yang is tired." With that, she claimed into Blake's bed and pretended to fall asleep. Said cat faunus proceed to groan in annoyance and starts trying to shove the blonde out of her bed.
Weiss just rolls her eyes at these antics. Turning to Ruby, the heiress decided to try and start a conversation with her leader, if only to help block out the Bumblebee pair. "So... what's it like? Living in Patch, I mean."
With an exhausted sigh, Ruby took off her signature cape and put it in the closet. "Well, it's cold and a bit dull at times, It's Autumn for four months a year and Winter the rest. But it's home." She ended that sentence with a small smile, although she took pause to wonder how places like Patch and Forever Fall Forest were so seasonally different to the rest of the world. 'Magic?' she thought to herself.
"Um, don't you mean Fall?"
"Nope! We refuse to conform to the Mantel regime." She stuck her tongue out at her partner before turning to grabbing her PJ's and looking at Weiss again. "I'm gonna take a shower first. You okay, Weiss?" The heiress just nodded in response and watched her partner skip off to the bathroom.
Weiss couldn't help but sigh. Ruby could still act like a childish dolt sometimes, but a part of her didn't want her to change. True, her partners antics could annoy her, but other times, like right now, it made her genuinely smile, something that she never did until she came to Beacon. Unsure of why that is, she shook her head of those thoughts and turned to see- "HOW ON REMNANT DID THAT HAPPEN?!"
Blake and Yang were now both in the former's bed. The brawler was still pretending to be asleep, but now she had Blake in a vice like grip, which would look like affectionate cuddling were it not for the faunus struggling to escape. "I don't know! Just get me out!"
Sighing for what felt like the dozenth time that evening, Weiss turned to the draws and took out an electric razor and turned it on. When she turned around, Blake was free on her bed while Yang was in her own, shaking under the covers. The ice queen smirked. She may not be the leader, but it was good to be second-in-charge.
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