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"Minato, Yang, I'm ready!"
The two teenage individuals turned to look down at the adorable sight which was Ruby Rose dressed in a little chef's outfit, the apron she wore was a nice red with a small pocket in the middle which was decorated with a big black heart that had black lace around it. On top of her head was a rather over-sized chef's hat matched perfectly to it being also a shade of red with black outlines of hearts at the rim. In her small hands was a cooking set all ready to use at her disposal.
The youngest out of the trio was amazingly excited since it was going to be her first official time learning how to cook.
It was going to be anything fancy at all or anything of the sorts since it was just in the middle of an afternoon, a few weeks after Minato's suspension. Ruby wanted to attempt cookies. It was pancakes at first, but then Yang pointed out that being able to set water on fire could possibly transfer over to setting metal ablaze until her younger sister could obtain a higher skill level. Minato stated that water should not be able to be set on fire, but then was proved wrong a few second later by Ruby's influence (she almost burned Zwei's drinking bowl in the process).
All of this was much to the sister's dismay when she even attempted to use a lighter to prove Yang wrong to only show that her older sister was right all along.
But they were going to learn to bake chocolate-chip cookies and the smaller girl couldn't wit. She never baked fresh cookies before and only ever had them when she was really small. So it was an experience she was extremely looking forward to.
Minato tapped Ruby on the shoulder, snapping the little girl out of her thoughts. Yang meanwhile was looking forward to teaching her younger sister how to cook with Minato. Despite Ruby's open personality with Minato, the girl was shy at school. Her academic life perhaps only had a single friend or even two. Right now, she was determined to be able to have Ruby keep herself open like this and eventually be able to bring that personality to school and wherever she went.
"Right then," Yang grinned, looking at all of them in aprons. "Let's get started now, shall we?"
As the two girls began to grab mixing bowls, Minato grabbed a few ingredients out of the pantry and fridge. Yet, while doing all of this, he had a feeling things were not going to go as smoothly as he would expect.
From all his visits, nothing ever really went smoothly in the Xiao Long slash Rose household.
Y13
"Right, first we add some flour." Minato said, reading off a sheet of paper containing the recipe.
"Got it!" Ruby nodded her heard. Grabbing the bag filled with white power, she turned the entire thing upside down over a large mixing bowl. What followed next was a loud thud followed by something that was possible a smoke cloud but much lighter in color. The young girl, since she was the closest to it, began hacking and coughing the hardest out of them all.
Yang was also affected, waving her hands around to get rid of the flour getting into her face and hair. "Don't dump the whole thing in!" She exclaimed, coughing as well. Her eyes were squinting as she tired to maneuver her way around the kitchen to open a window before finding a broom to sweep everything up.
Minato however was just staring at the amount of flour that Ruby had dumped into the bowl. Looking around, he soon saw the bag that Ruby dropped while she was flailing her arms around. "Should be able to tell us how much she put in." He muttered to himself. It was just a simple means of finding how much was in the bag, then have to scoop the proper amount back into the bag until there was the correct quantity left. Should be easy.
The difficulty increased a bit when Zwei began chewing on the bag.
Y13
"Now for the eggs." Minato said after, sorting the entire flour ordeal out.
Apparently, they were going to make a lot more cookies than they expected.
"Okay." Ruby said quietly. "I can do this." Taking deep breaths in, she ignored the look Minato and Yang were giving her when she was repeating a mantra with an intense look. "…Slowly…" Her hand was all but slow, tapping the egg against the surface. Not even a crack. Over and over, again and again, her efforts were all in vain as she couldn't break it. She soon slammed the egg against the rim of the bowl, covering her entire hand in a stick substance. "Eww." The girl moaned.
"An egg of all things…" Yang stared. "You're really bad at this."
Ruby pouted. "Breaking eggs is hard!" She pouted, glaring at her sister.
"Come on, it's easy." Yang rolled her eyes at her sister's complaining. Taking an egg, she began to hold it close to the bowl. "See, you just-"
Ruby's hand was fast though as she grabbed her sister's wrist and slammed it down onto the table, coating the flesh in the egg whites and yolk. "Ugh, Ruby!" Yang exclaimed, glaring at the girl. Grabbing an egg, she threw it at Ruby who dodged out of the way.
While the girls were busy using up their ammunition, Minato sighed, shaking his head. Taking off his apron, he walked over to the living room. Slipping on his shoes, he walked out of the door to buy more eggs.
Zwei meanwhile was licking up all of the egg puddles that were being left around the kitchen.
Y13
"Oh no! Chocolate chip avalanche!"
"How do we even have this many?!"
Those were the final cries of Ruby and Yang before the sisterly duo were both buried under tons of brown bits. Apparently the two of them were reaching up towards the highest levels of their panty and the bags were lefts open.
As the two girls were laying on the ground, groaning at the small amount of pain of banging their heads against the floor, Minato walked up. Rolling up his sleeves, he stuck his hands into the massive brown pile (of chocolate chips). Rummaging around, his face scrunched up a bit. It soon returned to a neutral look as he pulled the two girls out of the wreckage.
Yang was trying to catch her breath while Ruby was devouring a giant mouthful of chocolate.
Y13
"Okay, with all of that out of the way, we just need the-" Yang was cut off when she heard the sound of something being devoured. With the constant lip smacking, it was certainly hard not to ignore. Looking over, Yang was not surprised. "Ruby, stop eating the butter!"
"…But it's so tasty." Ruby stated, holding a half-eaten stick of butter.
Taking in a deep breath, Minato buried his face into his hands.
Y13
"Now we just wait for it to cook."
Minato sighed with a slight bit of relief as he placed several trays into the oven while adjusting the proper temperature and timer.
After probably three hours, the kitchen had been full of tumbles, crashes, spills, and two frantic voices while one was almost silent for the entire time. At one point there was a definite explosion. While the house had means to resist all sorts of disasters, it was apparently not Ruby-proof.
Looking at the mess of the workplace, the three of them sighed.
"Ruby, you can go and do homework." Yang scratched her head, frowning as there was still a bit of flour in her hair. "Minato and I will clean the mess up." Seeing the younger girl nod her head quickly, Ruby began to run out of the kitchen and into her room. That just left her and Minato alone.
Minato grabbed a few rags while Yang dug around a cabinet to find to cleaning chemicals. Bringing out a couple of bottles, Yang sprayed the cloths before the two of them began to get to work scrubbing the many stains around the kitchen. On the table, along the counter, even the stove needed to be worked on. The was also a target despite Zwei's cleaning methods.
As Yang got onto her knees to work on the floor, she grunted while Minaot just finished the stove and started to scrub the counters. There was no talk between them. For Minato, it was because he was usually quiet. For Yang, she was a bit conflicted over something. When Minato was first suspended, it still ran through her mind of how Minato revealed his past because he trusted her.
With such a topic was on her mind, it made her think. How much did she trust Minato to not tell him about her own past? She trusted him a lot. Yang even thought about talking to him about even what happened when she was a kid and about her mom. But whenever she tried to bring up the subject, it would always die in her throat and she would just switch to another topic.
Thankfully, Minato never noticed such but-
"Yang, care to tell me why you've been acting weird these past few weeks?"
…Minato would have never noticed such? Why did she even think of something like that? Of course he would have noticed something being off with her. Turning around, she winced as she saw him staring right at her.
"Did me telling you what I remember of my family stick with you that much?" He asked as Yang cringed a bit, almost feeling as if she had hurt him. That was not the intention or purpose, but it hit the head right on the nail. "…Sorry."
"Oh, you don't have to apologize!" Yang shook her head while waving her hands. "It's not your fault. Rather…" Taking a deep breath, she smacked herself on the head to mentally prepare herself. Minato just raised an eyebrow at her action though. "I've just been struggling these past few weeks. You said that you trust me enough to tell me what you remember. But me… I trust you and stuff, but…"
"…" Minato immediately understood what the blonde was trying to say. It was certainly a struggle to try and say such words though. So he decided to speak for her. "You don't have to feel pressured to talk about your past since I did." His words caused him to regain eye contact. "I said everything because I was comfortable with it. If you don't want to talk about it, then don't. I'll just wait until you want to." He shrugged soon after. Looking over to the clock, he blinked. "It's six. Want to heat up leftovers and do homework at the same time?"
Yang just nodded dumbly, afraid to speak after Minato's words just in case she would screw up. Silently mimicking his actions a few second or minutes later, the two of them had warm leftovers as they both sat down at the kitchen table to finish the rest of the work assigned to them that was due the next day.
"You asked why my hair color is different from Ruby's when you two first met, remember?" Yang asked, grabbing Minato attention as he craned his eyes away from his homework in favor of looking at the blonde. "I did say different moms… but the reason to why we have different parents is another thing."
Minato continued not to speak. He didn't make a sound. The guy didn't even bother moving his hands or arms to take a bite of his food. The body was as stiff as a statue.
"I'm… should just be straight about it. Ruby's mom died when we were both young. But dad's first wife… my own mom… just left." Yang rubbed her face. "Just after I was born, apparently, she was gone. The number of things I know about her I could probably count with my fingers on one hand alone. Just that she and dad were on the same team as Ruby's mom and Uncle Qrow was one defining fact that always stuck with me." She sighed. "I don't know why she even did so. Dad and Qrow wouldn't say. I at least would like to hear a reason, a statement, even a single word to explain why she did what was done. But nobody ever… tells me anything about her. I'm sure they're just trying not to hurt me since it seems like a touchy subject, but…" A groan of frustration was released. "I just want to know why. But with that, more questions keep on rising, boiling inside me like a pot of hot water. Honestly, I'm not sure if I should stop or not."
As Yang took in a deep breath to let the words sink in, Minato still remained motionless. One seemed to wait for the other to make a sound.
"…" Minato finally released a breath of his own through his nose. "I'm… sorry." He apologized, earning a surprised look from Yang. "How you feel, what you want… You have very right to be like that and every right to ask. I'm not sure to why your father or Mr. Branwen are keeping silent about your mother. But does that mean you are going to stop? No, you should keep on trying to find out what you can about her no matter how small the fact. You still have the possibility to find so much out about your mother, you've got a reason to keep on trying. You have a reason to look forward to your future."
Yang listened to Minato words, almost to every letter. But then that last sentence he spoke… It made her wonder. "And what about you?" She asked, earning a look from Minato. "What reason do you have to look forward to your future?"
"GIRLS, I'M HERE WITH SOME FRESH FOOD FROM NANDOS! Another pair of shoes are here as well… IS MINATO AROUND AS WELL?! HEY, MINATO! HOW ARE YOU DOING?! SUSPENSION IS OVER, RIGHT?! THAT'S AWESOME!"
Before Minato could answer, Qrow's loud voice bounced all over the walls. Taking a deep breath while rubbing his eyes, he let out a sigh. Yang meanwhile had her eyes move over towards the open doorway where she could see Qrow kicking open the front door. "I'll… go get Ruby." Yang said, getting off of her seat and going upstairs.
Qrow passed the blonde while walking into the kitchen. Carrying a few bags, he set them on the table when he saw Minato rubbing his eyes. Blinking, the black-haired man looked over to the flight of stairs he could see through the open way. Soon, the man leaned closer to Minato. "Did I… ruin a moment between you two?"
"…" Minato placed his hands down and gave Qrow a dull look. "A talk of ours was certainly disturbed."
"…Aw, shit." Opening his mouth, Qrow began to lift a fist and bite down on it. A muffled groan of agony was followed. "Sahry hout 'hat." An apology was at least heard… Or at least what sounded like an apology was heard.
In celebration of V5 coming out on the RT website to exclusive members, I came out with another chapter. Literally, I started typing this morning when I saw it. So that is most likely the reason why it's not as good as it should be. Plus, just being able to watch RWBY is getting me back into a small bit of spirit.
Plus, that cooking beginning scene... As you can see, I watched a bit of RWBY Chibi before this as well...
Without going into spoilers for the first episode of V5, hopefully… Wow, I did not know people in the world of Remnant could bounce around walls and ceilings like that.
No flames please.