Downtown Vale

Ren and Nora ended up going to several stores in order to shop for supplies, Ren was not amused in the slightest and Nora was getting somewhat bored being here.

Nora had originally promised to have a sparring session with Pyrrha at the gym but since Ren dragged her out, Jaune ended up going in her place.

"Awww, I wish I could watch Jaune get his butt kicked by Pyrrha at the gym!" Nora groaned as Ren only rolled his eyes before nudging the ginger and pointing across the road.

Nora turned and looked in the direction Ren was pointing, she could see Jaune with a bag from a clothing store, confused Nora decided to grab the blonde's attention.

"YO JAUNE!" She yelled, at which the young man who was scrolling on his phone jolted and nearly dropped it.

After regaining his composure he decided to look around before spotting his roommates Ren and Nora, checking to see if there was any oncoming traffic both ways, he crossed the street.

"Hi, Nora what's up?" The blonde asked as she shamelessly peeked into the bag, at which Jaune pulled it away.

"What's in the bag? Is it something for Pyrrha so that she shows you some mercy in the ring?" Nora mocked as she jabbed at him with her elbow.

"No, my gym wear was, uh getting a little too small for me. Needed some new threads, cause I can be cool too" Jaune kept nodding his head the entire time he spoke, Ren looked like he wanted to die.

Nora just laughed and wrapped her arms around her stomach, "Sure, sure. You could be cool. If you weren't such a lovable goof!"

At that point, Jaune felt like he wanted to die, but he knew if Nora was saying it, then he must be alright to hang with someone who is actually cool. Though he'd never tell Nora she was cool, because she'd gloat about it for weeks.

"Jaune, how was the time with Weiss and Yang?" Ren decided to ask since it was the polite thing to do.

"Oh, they tried to help me get over Weiss. Since you know, Whiterose is a thing now" At this, the two looked at him with utter bewilderment.

"Whiterose?" Ren and Nora spoke in unison, eyebrows raised and heads tilted to the side ever so slightly.

"Yeah, Whiterose, that's what I'm going to call it. You know so people don't know what we are actually talking about?" Jaune came up with a good plan to keep it a secret so that the media wouldn't catch on.

"So, basically their ship name right?" Ren stated as Nora looked at him with wide eyes.

"You know what shipping is Ren?" Nora asked as he glanced at her with a smile.

"I came up with Ice Flower for their ship name, but I like Whiterose much better" Ren patted Jaune on the shoulder before turning to leave.

"Hate to leave so suddenly Jaune, but we've got shopping to do after someone not naming any names, Nora. Decided to use up all the ingredients I use for my baking whilst trying to make her who knows what"

"That's fine, I'm going to just head back to the dorm and meet up with Pyrrha, she hasn't finished with classes yet. Gives me time to sort this out" He raises the bag a little as Nora bear hugs the blonde, lifting him off the ground.

Nora jogged up to Ren as Jaune began walking away, spinning on her heels Nora decided to give Jaune a boost of confidence.

"Don't worry Jaune! Pyrrha won't break your legs!" The blonde's face went pale at the thought of him needing an ambulance.

"Pyrrha's going to destroy me"

As Ren and Nora continued to shop for Ren's baking fix, Nora decided to inquire about the fact Ren knew what shipping was. As far as she was concerned, Ren wasn't really a social media type of person.

"So, you got any more ship names?" She asked clear that curiosity was the driving force here.

"Well, how about I say a ship name and you take a guess at the pairing?" Ren asked as he watched Nora's eyes light up with joy.

"Fire when ready!"

"Monochrome"

"Easy! Blake and Weiss!" Nora smiled, she thought about Weiss and Blake dating but figured it would end with it just not working out.

"Ladybug?"

Nora thought for a moment before having what appeared to be an epiphany. "Blake and Ruby? I think Blake's too anti-social for that to work"

"Bumblebee"

"Now, Yang and Blake is one hell of a ship I can get behind. I'm also ninety-nine point nine percent sure that those two have it really bad for each other" Nora pointed out as Ren stopped to enter one of the bakery specific stores.

Ren was in and out rather quickly, he even managed to snag a few different sized pastry cutters.

"Give me something that actually makes me have to think about the pairings"

"Scarlet Rabbit?" This one did stump Nora, to the point that Ren could hear himself think for a few minutes.

"Velvet and Ruby? That might be a good rebound should Whiterose crash and burn" Ren couldn't believe the fact Nora was already considering rebound crushes for Ruby.

"Ok, one more alright? Since I can only think of one more clever name" Ren watched as Nora pouted upon hearing this.

"C'mon can't we do a few more?" Nora poured on the puppy-dog eyes but Ren was having none of it.

"Arkos"

Nora let the word ring in her head several times, maybe even hundreds.

"That's pretty hard actually, Arkos...Arkos" Nora couldn't stop looping the ship name walking by Ren in utter and complete silence, unaware of her surroundings so much that Ren had to pull back on Nora's sleeve so she didn't walk into oncoming traffic.

"Who the heck is Arkos?" Looking up at Ren who seemed rather smug about this one.

"Should do this more often" Ren chuckled a little, Nora was a little irritated.

"I give, what's the pairing? I just can't work it out" Nora huffed as the pair crossed a street, carrying four bags total full to the brim.

"The lovable goof and the badass fighter"

"Jaune and Pyrrha. That's my favourite ship so far" Nora lied, she really wanted Ren to say one with the two of them, but she figured maybe he didn't see her that way.

"What's your favourite ship then?" Nora asked as she swerved around to face him, only prompting Ren to physically rotate her so she was walking the right way round and not backwards.

"Don't know" Ren had a straight face that the ginger couldn't read, she just shrugged it off albeit she was disappointed.

"I lied, sorry Nora" Ren looked at Nora and a warm smile grew on him. "Team Sloth is my favourite"

I do not own RWBY for the show and its characters belong to RoosterTeeth.

A/N: So, here's the second short! I quite liked writing the interaction between Nora and Ren here, seems like something I'd do.

Have fun everyone and I'll see you with the third short...shortly.

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