Guess who is back! Hello followers of my previous work "For a good future" and hello new readers whom I recommend to check my previous work for understand some things about this new work (althought there's going to be very sligthly mentions of that, please check it) and now whit this little welcoming done it's time to talk a little about this.
When "For a good future" was a few chapters of finish, I thought that we deserved to know how everyone were doing in the new time line and that thought was what made the existence of this possible, also as the tittle say, we're starting this new serie with the birth of the older members of the pretty big RWBY's family.
An before starting I need to say this, I WON'T put anything (characters and information) of Vol. 4/5 here and if this thing is long enough Vol. 6 won't be canon in this universe either, the only Vol. 4 things that are canon in this story are Blake's parents and Weiss's butler. I repeat, Gihra, Kali and Klein (someone correct me if I wrote the names wrong) are the only Vol. 4 canon things here, and now with everything clear, we can start.
When a child is being born, there are alot of different categories the father could fall into. There were the overreacting ones, the anxious ones, the excited ones, the scared ones, the happy ones, the crying ones and…
"CAN YOU HEAR HER SCREAMS!?"
…and Yang Xiao Long was the paranoid-overreacting-I-want-to-be-with-my-wife-but-I-can't type.
Finally, after nine long months of waiting, Blake was finally giving birth to their children, yes children. They were having twins, the birth had been scheduled for October 30th, but their children decided otherwise. To everyone's surprise, Blake went into labor on October 20th. In the beginning, Yang was with her but, when she began to scream, Yang freaked out so much that she almost broke one of the machines. The doctor, and several nurses, made her wait in the waiting room with the rest of her family. Now, Yang was pacing in circles, wondering when she would be able to see her wife again, but the screams were not making the wait easy.
"Yang." Weiss said. "Please calm yourself. Blake and the kids are in good hands, you don't need to act like this."
"Calm myself? Calm myself?!" Yang grabbed Weiss by the shoulders. "How could you say that?! Blake is giving birth and I can't be with her! Oh, my gosh! She must be scared… and the pain… THE PAIN!"
"Yang, please calm down." Ruby said, she grabbed her sister by the shoulder pulling her away from Weiss and managed to get her seated back in a chair. "Blake is strong, and you know it. She will be fine, I know that you want to be with her, but right now, the only thing that we can do is wait. Like Weiss said, Blake and your little bees are in good hands. There's nothing to worry about."
"But..."
"No buts. Please try to calm yourself and save your strength, your going to need it to hug Blake."
"As long as you don't faint like Tai did when you born." Qrow said.
"Hey!" Taiyang yelped to his friend. "I was a first time dad!"
"And why did you faint when Ruby was born?"
Whatever happened after that, Yang didn't care. She was no longer paying attention to what was going on around her. Her mind was completely focused on the clock in front of her. It was almost five o'clock, which meant that Blake had been in labor for almost six hours, six hours of pain. Yang had read about childbirth, she knew that her wife was going through the most painful experience of her life, and she couldn't feel any worse with herself. She couldn't be with her just because she almost broke some stupid machine that was in the way of being able to comfort her wife. She had been waiting for this moment for a very long time and now she couldn't even be in the room. Stomping on the floor with her feet, scratching her head, playing with her hair, tapping her fingers against each other, Yang was trying everything to calm herself, but nothing worked. Maybe her dad noticed how anxious she was, because he started to speak.
"Try to think what you're going to name them, that will keep your mind busy."
The names… of course! Why didn't she think of that sooner? She and Blake had made an agreement about the names, actually everything had been Yang's idea because she wanted to name the baby who inherited the faunus features. Blake agreed with her and if the two children did not inherit any faunus features, which was fairly unlikely, then they would decide at that time. Yang needed to think of a name, or two, in case both kids were born with faunus features. For some reason thinking about that make her remember everything that had happened in the past months, When Blake finally got pregnant, the joy that she and Blake felt when they knew that they were having twins. Though, knowing that had been a little scary too. Two kids at once… they hadn't been expecting that. Blake's belly growing month by month, the ultrasounds, the decorating the children's room. The last nine months had been filled with a lot of things.
"Focus Yang! You should been thinking of names."
She needed to think of names and she wanted to be very careful with it. But, if she was honest with herself, there were two names she really wanted to use. Yang looked down at her right arm, the first prosthesis she had had been replaced some years ago, it had stopped functioning properly, so she needed to get a new one. But she decided to keep the first prosthesis as a reminder. To keep the memory of the person who had given it to her. Now Yang began to look to the black scarf tied to her wrist. She realized that it had been years since she got that scarf, but the scarf looked new. It did not reflect the years it had survived. Yang had taken special care of that piece of cloth, she could not help but think about those people, people who she had met years ago and that she would met again at any moment. It was weird. Suddenly everything that she was thinking about fled from her mind and the reason was simple.
She had heard a cry. The cry of a little baby.
"It's born!"
Finally! Yang quickly got up from the chair and run in Blake's room direction but she was stopped. Ruby and Weiss took her by the arms and with their combined strength they managed to wrestle Yang to the floor. Tai and Qrow come and helped pin her down so Yang would not be able to move.
"What the hell are you doing!?" Yang cried, her eyes had change to red. "My child is born, let me go and see my wife!"
"Yang, focus." Tai said. "You're having twins. Twins! Two kids, you can't go there until you hear a second cry or until the nurse comes for you."
"It seems you're not as strong as you look." Qrow said. "Keeping you motionless is so easy."
"Qrow, please don't tease her."
"Please be patient." Ruby said. "Also if we already hear the first cry, then the second one shouldn't take long."
"Just cooperate." Weiss said. "Don't make me use my semblance in you."
With Ruby and Weiss grabbing her arms and with Taiyang and Qrow over her. Yang didn't have any options but to wait. Ruby was right though, if the first kid was already born then the second one shouldn't take long. She would just need to wait a few more minutes.
Five minutes passed.
They could only heard Blake's screams, again.
Ten minutes passed.
Without signs of the second baby.
Fifteen minutes passed.
Yang was seriously considering using all her strength to stand up and maybe hit her uncle for what he had said.
Twenty minutes passed.
Okay, Yang was ready to toss everyone off of her but, before she could even move a muscle, she heard it, the second cry that she had been waiting for.
Now, with everyone off of her, Ruby and Weiss helped her stand up. Yang could feel her legs shaking, her whole body was shaking, if it wasn't for her sister and Weiss then she wouldn't even be able to stand. Her children were finally born. After several seconds, though it felt like hours, they saw a nurse.
"Relatives of Miss Blake…"
"She's my wife!" Yang cried leaving the nurse with very wide eyes. "Is she okay!? Are our children okay!? Please say something!"
"She's totally fine." The nurse said. "And the babies are in perfect health, you can see them now if you want."
"Of course I want to!" Yang turned to look at her family. "Wait here! Oh my gosh! I can't believe that my children are here!"
"Now, please follow me."
Yang did not know for how long she had been following the nurse, maybe a few seconds, maybe a few like hours, but finally she was in front of the door. When the nurse opened the door Yang didn't care about what she was saying, her attention was totally focused on the person inside the room. Blake looked very exhausted and there were still some sweat on her face, but she still turned to look at Yang and give her a weak but warm smile. Yang have never seen her wife so beautiful. She was unable to control herself, Yang ran to Blake said and began to hug her and kiss her as if there were no tomorrow.
"Did I tell you how much I love you?" Yang said, she was still hugging Blake "I love you with all my heart… no, with all my soul. You're the more important person in my life, I love you!"
"Okay, okay. Yang, I understand, but please stop. You're going to make me drop them."
Them? The blonde looked down to see what was Blake holding. A bunch of white blankets with two little babies sleeping in it. Yang had never seen anything so beautiful. the babies looked so peaceful sleeping in their mother's arms. The one who was resting in the right arm had a bunch of little blonde hairs and Yang was able to see a pair of fluffy cat-ears on her head. The baby who was resting in the left arm did not have cat-ears but her little head was filled with black hair. They were so tiny and looked so fragile. The babies looked like a pair of porcelain dolls. Yang could not believe that they used to be in Blake's belly. They… they were perfect. No matter what anyone said about them, to Yang, her children were the most perfect babies in the whole wide world.
"Oh my gosh, Blake… they're... they're so tiny a-and cute a-nd they look so fragile and quiet and… and…" Yang turned to look at Blake with puppy-eyes. "Can we keep them?"
"Their our kids, of course we can keep them." Blake looked back at the baby with black-hair, she sighed and a little smile appeared on her face. "You really gave the doctor some troubles, didn't you?"
"W-what do you mean?"
"She had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck."
Hearing that almost made Yang faint. Luckily she was able to control herself. That explained the twenty minute wait, but Yang know that everything was fine. The nurse had told her that the babies were in perfect health and that little inconvenience should not have been a big deal. Maybe the little baby felt that her mother was scolding her because she began to whine. Some tears appeared on the corner of her little eyes, little purple eyes. Blake and Yang turned to each other and Blake told her to grab the blonde baby so she could calm the black-haired baby.
"W-wait a minute." Yang said when she saw the babies again. "I-it has been a while since the last time I held a baby. L-let me remember how to do it."
Blake nodded.
After a couple seconds of silence, Yang said a little "Okay" and being as careful as possible, Yang picked up the baby and laid her little head in her right arm. The head was resting in the crook of her elbow and the rest of her body was resting in robotic arm. It was like holding a doll, a very fragile one. Now Yang had a better look at her daughter. She was blonde and she had inherited the cat ears. She looked so peaceful, she had not fussed at the change from her mother arms to her "father's". She had barely made noise.
"She's so cute." Yang whispered to herself and she could also hear how Blake was trying to calm the other twin.
"Please, Mia. Please don't cry."
Hearing that name made Yang stop watching her daughter that she held and turn to look at Blake. Blake must have noticed because she turned to look at Yang as well. Blake just smiled and turn back to the baby in her arms and the yellow scarf tied around her left wrist.
"I couldn't think of a better name for her." Blake said. "Mia is the name of a character in a book that I used to admire when I was a kid. Mia also means "wished-for-child" and the only thing that I wish for her is a happy life. I'm not naming her for what happened years ago, I am naming her "Mia" because that name means a lot to me."
"Then…" Yang said happily. "Then Mia will be."
"I guess it's your turn." Blake said and Yang looked a little confused. "You said that you wanted to name the one who inherited the faunus features, it's your turn to choose a name."
"R-right" was the only thing to come out of Yang's mouth. She had not thought of any name and she did not want to name her child simply for what had happened several years ago. Like Blake, she wanted the name have a special meaning. Since when was choosing a name was so hard? She didn't have that problem when she named her weapon, but of course, she was not naming a weapon. She was naming her daughter. Yang wanted to be very careful with that, the name needed to be very special. Suddenly Yang felt a little touch in her index finger, little fingers grabbing her own finger, she turn to look at the baby in her arms, the baby had her eyes open and when Yang saw them…
"Y-yang? Are you fine!?" Blake asked.
Yang was crying, there were tears coming out of her eyes, one after another.
"Even if you couldn't see me, I'll be watching over you." Raven's final words began to sound inside her head, the memory of her death too. The manner in which she was holding her mother's body, the manner in which Raven had been smiling at her, her final words and wishes. Everything came to her mind like it had only been few days since that happened, but what she began to remember the most was the way Raven looked at her in her final moments. Red eyes filled with love, the love of a mother, Yang turned to look at Blake and began to laugh.
"Look." She said, showing the baby. "This little girl's got my mom's eyes."
Red, the color of the eyes of the baby in Yang's arms was red. The baby had inherited her grandmother eyes, and Blake give a warm smile to Yang. She understood why Yang had got so emotional and then she decided to clean the tears on the blonde's face because it was more than obvious that Yang didn't want free her finger of her daughter's grip. Even if Yang did not say a anything, Blake knew that her wife had already decided on a name, but before any of them could say a word, a nurse entered to the room.
"Excuse me." She said. "But it's look like the rest of your relatives want to meet the babies, a girl with a hood had asked me at least ten times if she could come in."
"It's okay, tell them that they can come in." Yang said, the nurse left the room and then Yang turn to Blake. "Well, I guess that I prefer to say which name I chose once everyone is here."
Several moments passed and the first person who came into the room was Ruby, followed by Weiss, while Taiyang and Qrow just remained standing in the door. What Ruby said when she saw the babies gave Blake a feeling of deja vu.
"Oh my gosh! Yang, Blake, the babies are so cute! Please tell me that you'll keep them!"
"Ruby." Weiss said grabbing her wife by the shoulders. "Of course they will keep them, the babies are their kids after all. Congratulations, by the way."
"Well…" Qrow said patting Tai's back. "Congratulations, Grandpa."
"I say the same great-uncle… wait that's a little long, let's shorten it to Grunkle." Tai laugh once he saw the reaction on Qrow's face. He did not look happy at all. Tai turned to see the new parents. "Did you already pick names?"
"Of course we did!" Yang said and then she turned to Blake. "Can I be the one in say their names?"
"Sure."
"Okay, people. Let me introduce you to Raven and Mia Xiao Long-Belladonna."
Ruby, Weiss, and Qrow all turned to each other. The three of them were smiling, somehow they already know that Yang and Blake would choose those names. The only one who looked a little shocked for the names was Taiyang, and the reason was pretty obvious.
"W-wait a minute." Tai said. "Yang, are you sure about that? I mean, are you sure that you want to name one of them after Raven?"
"Yeah." She answered while she was still looking at the baby in her arms, her little Raven "A lot of things happened the last time the I saw my mom, but even in her last moments, she showed me that she really cared about me. She had always cared about her family, also look at this little eyes. When I saw them the first thing that I thought was that her name needed to be Raven."
"It's true." Tai said looking at her granddaughter's eyes. "She has Raven's eyes."
"Hey, uncle. You wouldn't mind if I used that name, right?"
"Your baby, your decision." Qrow said, but he was happy for the choice. He couldn't think of a better way to honor his sister's memory.
"I can't believe that we are aunties now!" Ruby said while she began to hug Weiss. "And I definitely cannot wait for have our own baby."
Weiss' face turned red and a very nervous laugh came out of her mouth, but she managed to make Ruby leave it alone. Right now they only wanted to see and hold the little babies, the new members of the family.
On October 20th, Raven and Mia Xiao Long-Belladonna were welcomed into the family and their family would make sure to let them know that they were very loved.
Remember people, I'm not a doctor, I don't know if babies open their eyes when they're born, my only knowledge of babies is that they're fragile and sleep all day.
Well, with this we're starting this new work, the next two chapters are going to be about Summer and Silver's births and after that….I don't know, like the summary say this work won't have any kind of chronology, we can have babies in one chapter and full grow up children in the next one. I also have a little idea of write about what happened before the girls born, marriage, pregnancy, those kind of things and we also going to have a better look to Jenny Arc-Nikos and Lie Noren Valkyrie. I don't know how long this work is going to be since there will be several drabbles and one-shot but I hope to count with everyone support in this.
Thanks to Mr. Illax who is helping me again with the edition, we're going to work together to tell the stories of this beautiful children.
As always, I hope everyone had enjoyed, leave a review, fav or follow and see you next time.
Atte. Kaze-chan.
