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"What color are your eyes?"

"Grey, although people do comment that it's an extremely light shade of blue."

"Any specific shade of grey?"

"…Metal I guess."

"What is your favourite color then? Type of shade as well."

"Velvet blue."

"Hmm… Your hairs longer than the first time we met… Any reason why you're growing it out?"

"Never thought it was necessary to have a haircut."

"Ahh… I should have asked this from the beginning now that I think about it. How's your day been?"

"…" Minato stared at Qrow across the table, the two of them sitting in chairs. "Mr. Branwen, why are you asking me these things after sending Yang and Ruby shopping?"

Indeed, Qrow and Minato were the only ones indie the Xiao Long household. Originally, the two siblings would be around yelling a lot. While Minato did get used to it eventually, that still did not stop possible headaches. The weekend should have been a time that the girls would stay in the house to begin with.

But the two girls were now out just on a spoiled shopping spree due to Qrow giving them some Lien and telling them to treat themselves to anything. The catch? He and Minato would have to discuss some things.

Although this was less of a discussion and more of a… he honestly didn't know how to describe it.

"Oh, you curious?" Qrow asked, keeping his back leaned against the chair he was sitting in. The adult shrugged his shoulders. "Just wanted to know you better. I mean, you're a cool person to hang around, but I don't really know you at all."

"…I think you got something down in the wrong order." Minato stated, raising an eyebrow at the blck-haired male's reasoning. "You're supposed to get to know the person better before concluding if you like them or not."

"Was it like that when you Yang started interacting with you?" Qrow asked, his hand reaching down to his waist. His hand grabbed a… flask as he brought the small metal container up. "You want any? It's Vale whiskey. It's some pretty strong stuff with a nice taste and amazing kick."

Minato gave Qrow a deadpan. "I'm underage." He felt like he had to remind this fact to the adult as Qrow shrugged and took a swing. "Why not just do this with Yang and Ruby around? I'm sure you could do something like this with them nearby."

"Mmm." Qrow hummed, his tone saying why he didn't know. Swallowing what was alcohol, Minato managed to take a whiff of the stuff and pinched his nose. "Well, I just thought that it would be nice for us to talk. I mean, I know that you're an orphan left on a doorstep and stuff but you don't really know much about Raven."

"…How did you-?"

"Yang told me." Qrow stated, giving Minato a look of his own. "Look, I might like you, but I still got to know what you're like. I don't care how many times I have to repeat myself, but it's a fact. She really seemed uncomfortable about telling me thought since it's about you but… I'm sorry." The black-haired male shook his head apologetically. "I'm sorry that you had to go through a whole bunch of stupid crap just because of how you look."

"I'm very fortunate I'm at least not treated a badly as a Faunus." Minato stated.

"With the amount of bullshit you lived with that I've heard from Yang, I think it's similar." The adult narrowed his eyes. "But that also means that you never really had any kinds of friends or parents to look after or hang out with you."

"Yeah." Minato nodded his head.

"…So tell me… what's it like having a friend like Yang then?" Qrow asked, leaning forward. His elbows were propped up against the table as his hands held his chin up. "Your very first friend after all of these years. What's it like to you?"

"…" Minato looked out of the window that was next to the table, thinking about what to say. "It's… something I look forward to. Everyday, for nearly eleven years, I lived through a dull, mundane life with a cycle that never ended. The wheel just kept on turning on its axel, no end to the spinning. The days became a blur, never really paying attention or caring at all. But now… as soon as Yang started speaking to me… that wheel has now been broken. Smashed off of its axel, the wheel still moves. But now, I see so much as it turns. Each day is filled with an feeling I thought I'd never expect. Each day is brightened up by Yang… sometimes a so brightly it makes me blind and wonder why I'm friends with her. It feels like…"

Minato trailed off, almost at a loss of words. Perhaps he actually was. He couldn't think of anything to describe how he felt really. Qrow just kept on watching Minato as the boy made his little speech, his words being true and genuine. Sighing, a smile was on the adult's lips at the same time. "Alright, I get it. You don't have to explain yourself any further."

Minato didn't really know what to say, but he just nodded in response.

"Good to know." Qrow nodded his head. "So when's the wedding?"

Qrow laughed when he saw Minato's look.

Y13

Qrow had left long ago as Minato was just waiting for the two girls to come home as the uncle told him to just wait for them so they could hang out as it was originally planned out.

"YEAH! WOOOOOOOO!

Ruby came bursting through the doors and began just running all around the house with a can in her hands. Minato was in the living room at the time and nearly took the full impact of the sound. He really needed to have a set of earplugs on hand. Turning his head around, he walked over as Yang was carrying a few bags in her hands. "You two bought a lot of stuff." He commented, offering his hands to help Yang out. While she passed a couple of bags over, he looked down to see the brands. "…Clothing and weapon parts?" Yang nodded, and Minato only decided to question something else. "So, what's going on with Ruby?"

Yang sighed, seeming a bit tired. "She drank some soda."

"I DRANK SOME SODA!"

"…" Minato turned his head towards the upstairs where lots of noise was being made. He then simply took the rest of the bags from Yang due to her slightly exhausted look. "She gets this hyper when drinking pop, but not when she eats an entire box of cookies?"

"FREAKING SUGAR HIGH!"

"It's just who she is." Yang groaned, dragging herself over to the couch. "A giant pain though having to watch her this entire time. Just keeping an eye on Ruby like this is exhausting." Dropping right down, Minaot didn't even get another word in as the blonde had fallen asleep.

"AWW, SHOOT, I SPILLED IT!"

Minato was honestly surprised that the noise Ruby was making was not waking Yang up at all. Guess she was a heavy sleeper. Slipping into the kitchen, Minato placed all of the bag onto separate, respective sides. He at least assumed that pretty much all of the weapons parts were for ruby. What would the red-hooded girl want with a whole bunch of this stuff anyways?

Questions for later.

While he was busy sorting everything, Ruby had bolted straight into the kitchen and grabbed a small bucket, filled it with some soap, and ran back upstairs with a rag in her hands. Hearing everything happen behind him, Minato estimated for that entire ordeal take about five seconds when he thought it would have at least been double that time at a normal pace.

…Had he grown used to this loudness? Before it would irk him a bit, but he never really let it bother him after. But now… he didn't mind it at all. Being at the Xiao Long household for the past couple of months… this house was like a second home to him. Minato… what was the word he was looking for… liked it here? No… loved it?

Shaking his head, he decided to go upstairs to at least ask Ruby to quiet down a bit. Mainly due to Yang trying to get a small nap in during the day. Minato didn't blame the blonde. He too would probably lose all of his energy just looking after this sugar-high girl.

Just as soon as he took the first step, he heard clattering and a lot of words he only heard four-year old kids curse with. Looking up, he saw Ruby tumbling down the stairs. Her body bumped on each step as she careened down right to the bottom. As the bounced on the wall, Minato grabbed her by the hood and Ruby immediately was jerked back before she could fall flat on her face against the floor.

"Thanks, Minato!" Ruby exclaimed, snapping her head up and Minato could smell that the girl's soda flavor was blood-orange. "I almost hurt myself there!" Smiling with a goofy look, she looked down to her hands. "…Where did my rag go?" She blinked in confusion, her face darting all over the place as Minato gently dragged the girl back to her feet.

Hearing her gasp, Minato saw where Ruby was staring and looked over to the exact place.

A cloth soaked in light-red liquid had splattered itself all over Yang hair.

"Oh no… No, no…" Ruby muttered to herself, suddenly snapped out of her sugar-rush trance. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no…"

As Minato looked back to Ruby while releasing his grip, he noticed the fear in her silver eyes. "What's wrong with getting her hair dirty? Just apologize and things should be fine."

"No!" Ruby exclaimed, thankful that her sister was still not awake yet. "When it comes down to her hair, she never accepts apologies…" She fearfully paced around the room, nervously snaking over and grabbing the rag throwing it way in the trash to dispose the evidence. "We're going to die, we're going to die…" She stepped around the room before glancing at Minato. "This is all your fault!"

"…Excuse me?" Minato raised an eyebrow.

Hopping up and pinching the top of Minato's ear, she began to drag him over to the sleeping blonde. "Look! Right there! All of that sticky soda is in her hair all because of you! Why couldn't you be more careful?!"

Minato just continued to stare, standing up so that Ruby would lose her grip. "It's not my fault."

"Well who's fault is it then, you blue-haired bum?! The White Fang?! Signal Academy?! That homeless guy that eats out of the McDonald's trashcan?!" Ruby exclaimed, her body almost shaking with a lot of what was suspected to be fear.

"You're the one who had the rag in their possession. Who else would have been able to throw it since it was in you possession the entire time?" Minato simply questioned, not seeing any reason to be afraid. Ruby was most likely making a big deal out of this just because of how Yang probably acted and it scared her…

On second thought, maybe it was bad but it couldn't be so horrible…

Could it?

"…" Ruby grew silent for a second. With a defiant look, she put her hands on her hips and looked up towards his grey eyes. "What did you say?" She asked slowly.

Minato stared right back at her. "You were the one who had the rag in their possession when it happened."

"…Oh, I see it's my fault, is it?" Ruby suddenly began to go on sarcastically. "Oh, of course! First I thought it was your fault for grabbing me… Maybe even Zwei's fault because he's like that, and all the time it was my fault! Oh, it's so obvious now! I've seen the light! Well I must be punished then, shouldn't I?!"

Much to Minato's surprise, Ruby suddenly raised her right hand and began spanking herself while still going on in her sarcastic bout. "You're a naughty girl, Ruby!" She slapped her bottom with almost each word in that sentence before starting to smack her face. "Don't! Do it! Again!" After three slaps, she began to become hysterical. "What are we going to do?! Yang's going to wake up anytime!"

Minato raised his hands to calm the girl. "Now, wait a-"

"Look, I'm a dead girl! Do you realize that?!" Ruby screamed.

"Easy."

"You're dead too! Everyone and everything in this household is dead!" Ruby shook like a leaf in a storm.

"Don't. Panic." Minato tried to calm her down.

"WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO DO?!"

The blue-haired boy flicked Ruby's forehead and it at least leveled the girl's breathing. Although her expression was something that could be fixed. "Look, Ruby, if there is any reason to worry-"

"There is! Yang with her hair ruined by anything gross!" The red-hooded girl hissed while pointing at her sister, who was still surprisingly sleeping through all of this shouting. "She is going to wake up at any moment and we are talking about a girl who can knock out ten guys with one blow of her b-"

"Mmm…" Yang began to stir, her simple moan almost defeating to the situation as Ruby immediately shut up. "Can you guys keep it down?"

"IT WAS MINATO'S FAULT!"

Minato only watched as Ruby raced out of the door while leaving it open. He was about to go after her but then Yang began to stretch her limbs. Minato had to admit that he was curious to what Ruby was extremely scared of.

The blonde slowly began to seat herself up. Yawning, she scratched her head. But as she did, she stopped. Yang slowly began to trail her fingers through her hair. The arm stopped moving when it reached the stickiness that the soda-soaked rag left behind. Her face soon began to sluggishly look at Minato… and her eyes revealed red while looking extremely pissed off.

As her hand snatched his face, Minato began to understand to why Ruby was scared.

He wasn't really scared at all actually… he just understood why.

Being swung around for a single second, he felt a fist embed itself against his face and he was sent flying out of the door and skidded along the dirt. As his body eventually stopped, he only continued to stare up to the sky. "…That actually really hurt." He commented to himself.

As shadow soon loomed over him. His eyes diverted upwards and he saw Ruby. But there was also a second person he did not recognize. In his honest opinion… the adult looked like Yang if she were turned into a guy, had blue eyes, and her hair shrunk down until it was fairly short.

"…Ruby, can you explain why there's a guy lying in front of our house while looking like he was punched by Yang when she's enraged due to her hair getting dirty?"

…That was oddly specific.

I don't really have anything to comment about this chapter other than an extremely lame way to introduce Tai at the end and having Minato think about his time with Yang.

No flames please.