April: Red Like Roses

Ruby squealed while she held tightly onto Yang's waist, as she tried to use her feet as an anchor to stop Yang from moving, "NOOOoooooooo! Yang! Please don't do that! The dust and spiders would eat them!"

Yang huffed as she slowly dragged her sister through the cramped laundry, "It'll be fine! I'll wrap it up securely in a rubbish bag so none of those things can reach them."

"NOOOooooo! They are not rubbish!"

Yang's eyes were squinted while she managed to make it to the door and swung it open, as she jumped outside and turned around dramatically. This caused Ruby to let go and trip over the ledge of the doorway. Yang opened the box and stuck her hand in it and reached for a Pikachu plushie, "Come on Ruby! These plushies have been taking up space in the laundry! It has been hard to even do the laundry in there without them accidentally falling into Bessie! If you did the washing then I'm pretty sure I won't be the one annoyed."

Ruby eyed the box manically as she lunged for them.

Yang quickly moved her arms and raised her arms a bit higher, "You could put it in your spare room, but if we add another box, that metropolis of boxes is gonna topple over us. And there is no way I'm gonna let you keep these in the living room and make a mess."

Ruby lunged again, as Yang moved her arms in the opposite direction, "Or… you could put it in… the attic you know. It's better than the shed. You just have to move the boxes-"

"NO!" Ruby yelled, as she stood her ground and glared at Yang's suggestion, "No. No, no, no."

Yang gave Ruby an encouraging look, "You know, you can send those boxes to Dad… he's got a lot of space in his house since he's always travelling-"

Ruby gave Yang a stern look, "I said NO. Those boxes stay here."

Yang sighed as she turned slightly towards the shed, "Whelp, I guess Pikachu and friends are going into the shed~"

"NOT PIKACHU!" Ruby screamed as she leapt into the air, trying to match her sister's height as she reached for the box that was now held over the older sister's head.

Yang panicked in the moment and jumped, to avoid her sister who tried to pummel her into the ground. As she jumped, she felt her grip go loose and she watched in comedic horror as she watched the box get slingshot into the air, as it made its way over too Weiss' garden.

As Ruby and Yang landed on the ground, which was now cleared of the wooden planks, they looked through the spaces between the wooden fence. Weiss was watering her roses when she let out a resounding "OW", when the box of plushies landed and hit her head, before it fell and spilled its contents onto the concrete floor.

"WHAT IN THE WORLD!" Weiss screamed to herself as she went into the shed and began to drag her ladder out.

Yang and Ruby watched in fear as her boots loudly echoed in anger through the atmosphere. Once she dragged the ladder to the fence, they shivered as they saw Weiss harshly stick her hand into the skin of the plushies as she picked them off the ground one by one and put them into box.

Ruby huddled in fear with her sister as her voice wobbled quietly, "S… She's murdering them!"

Yang nodded in agreement as they took a step back in fear. They turned around as they commentated to each other, "We disturbed her while she was painting the flowers! The Ice Queen is gonna behead us!"

"I'm not going to behead anyone."

Yang and Ruby flinched as they turned back to the fence. Weiss had climbed the ladder her upper torso was visible. She shot them a confused look as she leaned her left arm of the box that miraculously balanced on the fence.

"And why in the world would I paint my flowers? That is just plain abuse to the plants."

Yang shrugged as she reasoned, "Well, how else do you keep those flowers pretty and alive? Paint can be the makeup of plants. Pretty on the outside… but dead in the inside."

Weiss rolled her eyes, "Unlike some other people I know, my flowers are alive and happy, instead of being standing corpses."

Yang dramatically was taken aback as she put her hand to her chest, "Are you insulting Johnny! He is making a recovery."

Ruby giggled beside Yang, "A very slow recovery."

Yang punched Ruby playfully on the shoulder, as she pouted, "You're meant to be on my side."

Weiss smirked, "Who said I was talking about your plants? Unless… they are standing corpses."

Ruby 'oh' in the background as Yang grinned and pulled the sleeves of her jacket up her shoulder, "Oh, is this turning into a battle? Cause I'm so gonna pummel-"

But Yang was interrupted by a loud obnoxious ringtone that blared from her pocket. She quickly puller her phone out and checked the screen.

Yang suddenly got jumpy as she looked towards Weiss, "Uh, ah… Sorry but this is really important and I got to take this, I'll come back, BYYYEEEeeeeee…" She left with a grin as she ran into the house and locked the laundry door to give herself privacy from her sister's prying ears.

Ruby questioningly looked towards the door, "Well… I'm now stuck in my backyard." She turned back to Weiss and sighed, "You do know that Yang really needs help with that garden of hers."

Weiss shrugged, "I offered but she's too stubborn to get any help from me… But anyways," Weiss started as she opened the box and picked out a random Pokémon plushie, " Did this accumulate overtime? Because it's quite a few toys in one box."

Ruby shrugged as she gestured Weiss to drop the box down to her, "Eh, I only bought some of those, a lot of my subscribers love to send me these plushies."

Weiss tilted her head as she dropped the box down to Ruby, "Subscribers?"

Ruby caught it and looked up to Weiss, "Oh, that is the one thing I never really mention… I kinda own a… channel?"

Weiss' eyes widened, "Really? I only discovered YouTube this year, how man-"

"WAIT! You're telling me… that you never knew about YouTube until now? What are you? An old lady?"

Weiss flushed red in anger and embarrassment as she crossed her arms, "Just so you know, my white hair is natural! And you know my parents restricted my access to it since it was a 'juvenile' thing apparently."

Ruby paused for a moment before her memory flashed back to the roof, "Oh, I remember you complaining about that."

"And I'm still a bit angry about it, there are so many cat videos there and I really could have needed that when I was whiny about getting a cat… Gosh I was so bratty then."

Ruby shrugged as she checked to see if the plushies were all in there.

"But how many subscribers?"

"Oh 'Red Like Roses' is like at around… 700,000… not a big deal you know. It's definitely not small but its not large enough that I haven't even went or been invited to conventions, I'm just too poor for that."

"700,000?! That is a huge accomplishment Ruby, you are so close to a million!"

Ruby smiled bright back at her, "… Yeah that is right, I'm almost there!"

Ruby looked and gasped, "Uh… I think one is missing? It's Piplup."

Weiss turned around to check, and from her height, she had saw that one had rolled behind the pots. She went and retrieved it, "Here's your… Blue penguin." She added as she dropped the plushie from the fence into the open box, "What are these from anyways? All I see are weird looking animals."

A large gasp came out of Ruby as she was taken aback by Weiss' blunt question. She was clearly offended. "Are. You. Telling. Me… that you don't know what this is?"

Weiss knitted her eyebrows together as she nodded slowly, afraid what speaking may do to Ruby.

An even larger and louder gasp was made by Ruby as she took a deep breath of air in and rushed, "These cute creatures are from POKÉMON of course! There was originally 151 Pokémon but, now that there are more games and different regions, there are definitely a whole lot more than that. Oddly enough my favourite Pokémon games are the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series as I just love being a Pokémon in the game.

And I always get Charmander but I don't think I'm a Charmander as the options are limited for that game… But if I were to name our friends I guess Blake would be a Liepard… Yang would be a Goodra! And you… wow, I actually never thought one for you… You'd… be… a… M… Milotic!"

Weiss tilted her head, "A… Milotic? What is that?"

"A water type pokemon. It kinda looks like a snake but elegant."

Weiss arched an eyebrow at 'snake', "Why exactly am I this Pokémon?"

Ruby stuttered for an answer, "Ah… um… Anyways, I actually got a pre-evolution plushie for this Pokémon in the box… It's called Feebas." She said as she avoided the question.

"Oh, that sounds kinda cute- WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT! Are you insulting me… You… you DORK!" Weiss shouted as she stomped down the ladder and slid her glass door shut behind her.

"Wow, that must of really offended her cause she looked pissed."

Ruby heard a voice behind her as Yang, who came during the last part of the conversation, walked up from behind.

Ruby sighed as she and Yang stood and stared at the fence, "But… this is only Feebas, not Milotic… Milotic only evolves from this…"

Yang peered into the brown and blue fish pushie that was covered in beige spots, "Well with a Pokémon like that of course she would be offended if you compared her to that! You basically called her ugly."

"YANG!"

"Well, that is what princess is probably thinking right now."

"Ugh!"

"But I don't get it, why would compare her to a Milotic? If Feebas looks like this why Milotic."

Ruby sighed as she tried to rest her elbow on her shoulder but Yang was too tall. She grumbled as she returned her hand back to the box, "Poor, poor sister… who does not know the wonders of the Pokémon universe… Feebas is the ugly duckling story of the Pokémon world."

"So you are calling her ugly."

"I KNOW SHE IS NOT UGLY! YOU JUST WANT ME TO ADMIT I FIND HER BEAUTIFUL!"

Yang smirked as she wiggled her eyebrows at Ruby's response.

Ruby blushed as she groaned, "That's not the point, I guess you could say that I can use Milotic's evolution as a metaphor for our relationship. Started off ugly as she was very rude and uptight, and we fought in our first meeting… hence Feebas." Ruby stated as she put the box down and gave Yang Feebas to hold for a moment. She pulled out her phone and went to Google Images, "And, as we got to know each other more and became friends… I guess our relationship bloomed into something beautiful." She showed Yang the image of Milotic.

"Oh." Yang stated as she stared at the image, "That is one pretty Pokémon."

Ruby looked fondly at the picture, "Yeah."

The cogs in Yang's head began to whirl as she formed a smirk upon her lips, "As beautiful as that metaphor is for your 'friendship,' you were only intending to compliment her in the first place… eh?"

Ruby still red stuttered, "N… no!"

"You called her a Mioltic, not your friendship when you were talking to her. Admit it, you were only calling her beautiful in nerd speak~"

Ruby grumbled as she looked away, but not deny the claim.

Yang chuckled as she picked up the box as Ruby squealed.

"Ruby, please be reasonable."

Ruby looked at her feet then the box, "Okay… Just make sure it is sealed tight."

Yang finally smiled at Ruby's decision as she put the box on her hip as she opened it to put Feebas back inside.

"Wait!"

Yang looked at Ruby questioningly.

"I… I wanna keep that one in my room."

Yang chuckle again and passed Ruby the plushie, "You are meant to get over her."

Ruby puffed her cheeks, "I am."

Yang sighed as she unlocked the shed and pulled out a clean garbage bag to tightly close up around the box. She double knotted before she stored it securely inside, "Yeah, but all that talk makes it seem like you are just falling for her even more."

Ruby hesitated as she answered, "I'm… I'm not. Blake already warned me."

Yang tight lipped headed towards the laundry door beside her sister, "Sure… If you say so."

They stayed silent for a moment as they headed back inside.

Then Ruby giggled.

"What's so funny sis?"

"If that was me talking in nerd speak, you wanna know what Goodra is?"

Ruby shoved her phone to Yang's face.

"Awe… that looks cute… WAIT! Is that all goo? Yuck! Why that Pokémon?!"

"You do know you drool a lot in your sleep, right?"

"I do not!"

"Well, me and dad measured it in a cup once."

"Gross!"

Author's note:

Well, that chapter ended on a weird note. And yes, this chapter is just me wanting to nerd out on Pokémon through Ruby. You know, I just realized that I've been projecting a few of my interests into the characters, like in my first fic, I made Weiss good at baking (and in the fic gardening) and in this story I made Ruby a gamer. But to be honest, it kind of fits Ruby anyways.

If you are curious, Milotic literally involves when its beauty condition is really high - also it is called the most beautiful Pokémon (so yeah Ruby is really just wants to call her beautiful ;P)

Also, this chapter can be a shout out to deadpoolhulk as he gave me idea to add the little tid bit about Weiss painting the roses. I can totally see her using prancing around the garden with a paint brush in hand. I guess for now you can imagine her watering can being a stylized paint bucket.

Anyways thanks for the reviews, I love to see how you are enjoying the chapter and if you ever can, I love some constructive criticism if needed :)

But as always, I'll see ya'll in the next chapter!