RWBY A Day in the Life of Crime
Chapter Four: The Tasteless Battle for the Bakery
"Ruby Rose?" Nora tipped her head, confusion etched upon her face. "So you're the one in charge of all those bad guys down there?" Nora pointed at the devastation on the street.
"Yes. And you've just hurt them, not to mention ransacked my store. I don't take insults dealt to me easily," the short girl gripped her weapon tighter. "I don't know what game it is you are playing, but you better quit it while you still can get away."
Nora shook her head. "I don't think so. You're hurting people by stealing their bakeries away from them. And as self proclaimed Sweet Tooth Nora, it is my job to be the savior of these people's bakeries and to put them under my protection. I won't let you take away people's sugar!" She hefted her weapon at this, level to her chest, both hands steady on it. "And if you want to fight me for it then go ahead. Me and Ren aren't scared of you. We've taken down worse looking enemies during our travels. You're nothing to be scared of. Just because you're leader of the Grimm doesn't mean you have the talent to back it up."
"Are you done with this talk of yours?" Ruby asked, heaving out a yawn. "You've interrupted my cookie break and I hate when people do that."
Nora was a bit taken aback to have her spiel cut off, but then again Ren had always told her she did have to cut them down as she had a tendency to go on a tangent. One time she had ranted to one of their victims, going from one topic to another in such rapid succession that the man's ears had begun to bleed.
Nora sniffed angrily. "I was just wrapping up. But it doesn't matter now. I'll just let my weapon do the talking."
"I was hoping for that," Ruby muttered and then leapt off her roof to land on the one that Ren and Nora were standing on, bypassing a gap of ten feet. She landed without so much as a sound, her cloak falling around her and spilling to the ground like blood.
Ren didn't like the look of their opponent. She was the leader of the Grimm gang after all! Despite her being small and fragile and utterly too innocent looking to have shed so much blood like the Grimm gang reputedly had, and despite Ren not being sure if her being leader was just a bluff, he could sense that there was power in her. He could feel it radiating off of her.
"Nora, I think we should go. Let's abandon this store and just target another one."
"Aww, but we already did so much work to get this one. And I really wanted to try the cherry pie they had here. It looked so good!" Nora pouted.
"It's not worth it. She's dangerous," Ren said, eyeing the girl in front of them. He and Nora were still relatively new to the city so they didn't have much background on the Grimm or their leader except for the fact that the gang ran most of this area. But now that he saw the girl he figured it was best to leave the mission. The leader was pissed and he didn't want to risk it.
"No!" Nora stomped her foot stubbornly. "We worked this damn hard for this store. We fought so many swarms of people for it and I will not give up. We are the heroes here. We have to fight for the people of this city so that they can have their sweets. And so that we can have them too!"
"The sweets in the city belong to me," Ruby stood up at this, planting her scythe hilt down onto the roof. "You better understand that real soon, because I do not intend to share with anyone."
"You're just being greedy!" Nora shouted back childishly. "A greedy, greedy, little girl!"
At this Ruby's eye muscle twitched dangerously. "What did you call me?"
"A greedy girl!"
"No, after that," Ruby said softly and quietly. Ren did not like the look in her silver eyes. Nora of course didn't notice it. She wasn't good at reading people because she spent so much time pouring out her own emotions and overpowering theirs. But Ren, who preferred to remain quiet, could spend more time reading people's faces as well as listen to what they said, something Nora was horrid at as well.
"A little girl?" Nora questioned.
"I'm not a little girl! I'm a grown girl!" Ruby stomped her foot like a child, pouting heavily. "Just yesterday I grew a centimeter! A centimeter! I know it's not a lot but I've been drinking my milk and Cinder says that I'm still growing at this age so I have time to get taller and have big boobs and stuff like her!"
Nora and Ren exchanged confused stares at this. Apparently the girl was sensitive to her height. Ren gave his partner a shrug that conveyed the message that he didn't know if he should interrupt the brunette who was still going on and on about the issue, shouting something about how she knew she was definitely going to have a growth spurt any day now.
Nora decided to interrupt. "So, uh, are you done yet? Can we fight now?"
This stopped Ruby who let out a petulant huff. "Fine. But don't call me a little girl!"
"Okay..." Nora gave a mischievous smile. "Little girl!"
This made Ruby's eyes flare angrily. "Fatty!" This wasn't the best insult but all she could come up with on such notice.
This made Nora rear back as if she had been hit physically. "Huh, fatty? Ren, I'm not fat am I? Am I?" She turned to the tall boy for reassurance.
"No, you're not."
"See, I'm not fat, so you take that back right now!"
"Fine...carrot top!" Ruby changed up her word game.
This made Nora rear back a second time. "What? What's wrong with having orange hair. Ren, tell her there's nothing wrong with having orange hair!"
Ren let out a heavy sigh but did as asked. "There's nothing wrong with having orange hair." Would they ever get to the fight part? Not that he was eager to fight Ruby but still...this childish banter was getting ridiculous. It was like Nora and Ruby were the same person.
"Well at least my clothes aren't as tacky as yours!" Ruby pointed at Nora's jacket.
Nora looked down at her clothes then at her partner. "Ren!"
Ren let his shoulders sag down. "Nora's clothes are awesome. I love them," was said in monotone.
Nora turned back to Ruby triumphantly. "Ha!" she crossed her arms over her chest after setting her weapon down on the floor so she could free her hands.
"He only doesn't want to hurt your feelings, that's why he's saying it!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Yuh-uh!"
"Ren is my best friend. He would never lie to me!"
"Yes he would!"
The girl's had just resorted to yelling stupidly at one another, wagging pointer fingers at each other in exclamation.
"You're just mad you don't have a best friend!"
"I have plenty of friends!"
"I bet you're lying. Doesn't she look like she has no friends Ren?"
"Tell her that's not true Ren!" And now Ruby was asking his opinion too. He sweat-dropped. This was going to require him to speak more and he honestly did not want to. So he took out his weapon and shot off a bullet at Ruby to get some action rolling.
The girl swiped the bullet out of mid-air, splitting it into two halves that hit the ground behind her. She was good; super quick. At his shot some calm entered her and she got serious once more. "That's right. I don't have anymore time to waste on you two." And then she lunged forward, racing across the flat rooftop towards them. Nora too, entered her serious mode and lifted her weapon up in both her hands, holding it in front of her chest while Ren picked up both of his hands to raise his dual smg's/blades up and fired off multiple rounds at the red and black target in front of him.
Ruby merely dodged all of them, the bullets missing her by just millimeters. "She got through my barrage!" Ren cried out, shocked by her precision. He was an amazing shot; he didn't have troubled shooting a grape from the top of someone's head yards away. But she was too fast. It looked like he would have to get into close combat with her, something he hadn't had to do with anyone in a long time, and something he definitely wasn't excited about, given the girl's scythe. But Nora was better at close range. "Get into close quarters with her Nora," he ordered, the girl nodding her head in confirmation.
Now Ruby was six feet away from them and he stopped shooting at her and moved out of her path to the side to give Nora her chance.
"On it!" Nora let a silly grin grace her lips, rushed at Ruby, and swung her weapon as hard as she could while Ruby swung her's.
The two of them never stood a chance.
"How did it go?" Cinder asked from her chair behind her desk as Ruby entered the room. She looked fresh, as if she didn't just fight with two others.
"It was alright," the girl said cheerily. She set her scythe against the wall. The blade was devoid of any blood so that meant it hadn't been one of those days. "I let them get off with a warning not to mess with us again, since they were new here and didn't know any better. I think they got the message loud and clear now as to who we are."
"And if they didn't?" Cinder asked, getting up from her chair, tossing the pencil she had been filling out forms with to the side.
At this Ruby's expression hardened. "Then they won't get another chance."
"I love it when you act all tough and evil," Cinder cooed as she embraced the smaller girl to her chest. "But you don't have to force yourself to do it. In fact, I think it might even freak out your opponents even more if you were happy all the time."
"But I wanna be tough looking like you. I want to be able to scare people with my mere presence in the room," Ruby pouted as she snuggled closer to Cinder's chest, breathing in the others incense like scent.
"You don't have to be like me. I like you the way you are, as Ruby Rose." At this Cinder pulled Ruby away and lifted her chin up with her thumb so that she could meet the others downcast gaze. "Ruby, look at me." Ruby did. "You are perfect the way you are. And if you force yourself to be who you aren't then your enemies will sniff that out and use it as a weapon to weaken you."
Ruby let out a sigh. "I guess that's right. Today it was hard to be all dark and menacing towards Sweet Tooth Nora and Reticent Ren even though I was kind of upset at them. But what about when I get really angry? Like really, really, really, angry. Then I get super aggressive and hurt other people. Do you want me to continue that or stop that?"
"No Ruby. That anger is a true part of you and I wouldn't change it for anything. I've already made it clear before but I shall do it once more. I love it when you get angry and let loose because it means that you care enough about certain things; that you are a passionate person and I love people who are strongly passionate about something." Cinder let a smile grace her lips.
"Thanks Cinder. You always know what to say to cheer me up." Ruby closed the gap between them and went up on her toes to give the older woman a kiss on the lips.
"And I have something else that will make you happy." Cinder pulled away and went over to her drawer, pulling out a white paper bag that contained the cookies from lunch.
Ruby could smell them all the way from here, her nose notorious for being able to pick out scents of sweets easily. "Man, you are just the best Cinder!" She raced over to grab the bag from Cinder's hand. Cinder chuckled at her exuberant expression and sat down back at her desk. Ruby took this chance to straddle the older woman's lap and snuck out a cookie from the bag. Then holding one end in her mouth, she presented the other end to Cinder, who still chuckling, let her lips close over it as she took a bite. The two of them chewed the cookie in silence, Cinder's hands coming up to rest on Ruby's waist so that the girl wouldn't fall off. Not that the fall would hurt her anyways. Ruby was like a tank, shouldering on with a little laugh and smile on her face, impervious to pain.
Ruby broke the silence the two had lapsed into. "I wish they made Cinder flavored cookies. Then I could eat you anywhere and anytime." The girl blushed as she said this and Cinder could feel her own face flare in arousal and happiness at the girl's honest words.
"Well, if you're still looking for a snack, then I'm here." Cinder leaned closer to the girl's face, her words a seductive whisper. Not that Ruby needed to be seduced. The girl was Cinder's and Cinder's alone.
"Then allow me to dig in," Ruby growled out, her eyes flashing with lust and fingers digging into Cinder's exposed collarbone.
Cinder's paperwork went unfinished that night, but the desk on which it was spread out on got well used. Ruby made sure to see to it.
A/N: Decided to skip out on the action scene since this story's focus is on relationships more than fighting, although I'll probs include some fight scenes later on if I feel like it.