Well after thinking about it, I decided to give all of you a chapter featuring baby Raven and Mia, A.K.A Ruby and Weiss misadventures. Well, enjoy!
8:15 a.m
Sunday
Those were the first things that Ruby saw when she wake up and saw the clock. She turned to see Weiss, she was still asleep, Ruby decided to go back to sleep as well because, Why not? None of them have work that day, Yang have a mission that day and Blake would spend the day in the house with the twins. Ruby and Weiss would visit her and spoil their nieces as much as they want but that would be in the afternoon, there were plenty of time for sleep a little more or so she thought. Someone was knocking on the door.
"Seriously!?" Ruby thought, she turned to see her wife, Ruby did not want to wake her up but she did not want to get out of bed either "Weiss…."
"You go, I went last time"
Last time had been six months ago when Patch's new mailman had knocked on the door by accident thinking that it was the house of another person.
Without another option, Ruby got up of the bed, while going down the stairs, Ruby began to wonder who could it be. She did not remember ordering a package, maybe Weiss did it but she would have told her. Maybe it was someone with the wrong direction again or maybe it was a surprise visit from her father or uncle. Ruby felt a little confused when she opened the door because none of her options had been the right one.
Yang and Blake were standing in front of her with Raven and Mia in their arms.
"What?" Ruby said and suddenly turned to see her sister "Didn't you have a mission today?"
"Yeah…umh, speaking of that…first, sorry for waking you up and second…" Yang was silent for a minute until she felt how Blake was looking at her "Listen, I know that this is very sudden but, Could you and Weiss take care of Raven and Mia today?"
What? Was the only think that came out of Ruby's mouth and that was the moment in which Blake began to explain the situation.
"Yang received a last minute call, now they need two hunters for the mission and we may not come back until tomorrow"
Ruby knew that when her nieces were born Yang and Blake had decide three things. One, they would took turns for go on missions. Two, it should be a simple mission that allowed them to return home that day and three, they won't take any mission who required the two of them until Raven and Mia were four. Sometimes life just do not go the way you want.
"Yang, you could have told me about it. I would have gone with you"
"I know but you heard what Blake said, it was a last minute thing and they need us right now"
Yang was right, Ruby knew that she did not have control over those kind of things. Also taking care of her nieces for a whole day did not sound bad at all, the girls were five month old, they were old enough to be babysit. The girls would love to spend the day with their cool-aunt-Ruby and aunt Weiss. "Leave it to me" Ruby said and after that, she had two sleeping babies in her arms. Blake left a backpack full of diapers, formula and some toys, Ruby and Weiss had a copy of the Xiao Long-Belladonna house's key, they could go there if they needed something that was not in the backpack. After that both, Yang and Blake, gave a little kiss to their children.
"Thanks for this and see you tomorrow" Blake said.
"Yeah, we owe you one Rubes"
"Oh come on! It's fine, I don't mind it at all. Good look with the mission and take care"
Ruby closed the door with her right foot and turned to see her nieces. Raven's lil' ears were moving, muscle reflex maybe, while Mia had her right thumb inside her mouth, they looked adorable, sudenly a question appeared in Ruby's mind. Where should she put them? Her house did not have a cradle, she did not know if putting them in an adult bed was a good or bad idea and the couch looked dangerous for a pair of babies. What to do, what to do.
"What is taking you so long?"
Weiss had appeared in the living room, "Surprise" was the only thing that she heard from Ruby. Thinking that she was having some kind of dream, Weiss decided to return to her room until Ruby yelled "Don't leave me alone with the babies!". That was the moment in which Weiss realized that she was not dreaming and she told Ruby not to scream because she could wake up the babies. After that Weiss took Mia in her arms, she and Ruby sat in the couch and Weiss asked why her nieces were there, Ruby made a pretty good and short recap of what had happened.
Weiss could understand the situation but she was not sure about taking care of Raven and Mia. This was the first time that they would take care of their nieces without Blake or Yang near. What if something bad happen? But maybe she was just overreacting. Raven was a very calm baby when she was awake and Mia basically slept all day. Maybe having them in the house for a whole day was not a bad idea but now, they needed to figured out where to put the girls.
"I was thinking that we can put them in our bed" Ruby said "We can put a pillow wall between them and the edge"
"I would feel more calm if we can see them, but I don't know if the couch is a good place for a baby"
"What about the floor?" Ruby quickly regretted saying that because Weiss turned to see her with a very disappointed look "Sorry for the joke"
In the end, they decided to leave Raven and Mia in the couch. A pillow wall between the babies and the edge plus some pillows in the floor were more than enough to made Ruby and Weiss feel more comfortable with that idea. But before putting the babies in the couch they could not help theirselves but look at them.
Mia resemble with Yang was pretty evident. Weiss would never admit it but she loved Raven's little ear, they looked cute and fluffy. After that they leave the babies on the couch.
Ruby thought that once Raven and Mia woke up, she and Weiss would feed them, they would watch some TV, play with some toys, tell Raven and Mia some fairy tails and that would be all for the day. It sounded easy, it had to be easy but taking care of a baby was never easy. Ruby and Weiss were going to learn that the hard way.
But before that, they decided to look inside the backpack that Blake had left. There were two pacifier, baby formula, feeding bottle and a toy, a werewolf plush. Where did Yang or Blake had found that and why they had decided to give it to their daugthers were two question that Ruby and Weiss would ask to them the next day. The plush was cute though.
"I'm going to make breakfast" Weiss said "You look after them in case they wake up"
"You can count of me!"
Ruby left her nieces alone after some seconds though. She needed to use the bathroom, also, she was going to be away for some seconds. What could possible happen in that short amout of time?
Answer: When you are dealing with babies, a lot of things can happen.
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Weiss sighed when she opened the refrigerator and the first thing that she saw was a bag of flour. She had told Ruby several times that just because she was leaving flour all over the kitchen did not mean that she was getting breakfast cookies, as she called them, Weiss took out milk and eggs, at least she could give some use to the flour and make pancakes.
"Weiss…" she heard Ruby's voice "Are Raven and Mia with you?"
She did not even answered the question.
Weiss ran to the livingroom and found exactly what Ruby had found when she returned from the bathroom. The backpack was on the floor, there were diapers, feeding bottles and formula all over the floor, the pacifiers and the werewolf plush were nowhere to be seen, it was not that hard to imagine what had happened.
Raven and Mia woke up and quickly realized that they were not in their home. Taking advantage of the pillows on the floor, they "fell" from the couch and decided to explore the new surroundings. At some points they threw the backpack just to grab the pacifiers and the plush. One thing was pretty clear right now, Raven and Mia were a pair of smart babies.
"Okay, calm down…calm down" Weiss said, those words were more for herself "Let's try to think were they could have go. They can't go too far, they barely crawl after all"
"The backyard!"
"We don't have a backyard and the doors are all close. The bathroom and the kitchen are out of question, we would have seen them"
"Maybe they are on the second floor"
Weiss turned to see Ruby, she wanted to ask her how a pair of five-months-old would be able to climb the stairs. But before she could do that Ruby went to see the stairs and found the little werewolf plush lying down in the middle of the stair case. Ruby and Weiss would make sure to know how their nieces managed to climb the stairs but that was for later. Sadly for them, if they had just waited some seconds, Raven and Mia came out of under the couch.
Raven had her pacifier in the mouth, Mia just crawled and sat in front of the stair case. The little black-head throw her pacifier and it landed in the same spot as the plush. After that the twins began to crawl their way to the kitchen.
The guest room, the second bathroom and their own room. Ruby and Weiss looked all over the place but there were not signs of Raven and Mia. They sat on their bed, trying to think were their nieces could be. They were not scared, their house was not dangerous after all, but they were starting to feel a little frustated. Babies just did not disappear without leaving a trace.
"I don't get it" Ruby said while looking at the little werewolf plush "If they aren't here then, Why was this in the stair case?"
"I'm starting to think that one of them have a really good arm" Weiss said.
"Poor little thing. One of his owners just throw him and leave him alone" Ruby said joking "Maybe we should check he first floor again"
And that was they did. Nothing in the bathroom, nothing in the living room and finally in the kitchen…Raven and Mia had, somehow, managed to throw the flour, the eggs and the milk that Weiss had leave on the table. The twins were covered with flour, Mia was making a big mess with the broken eggs while Raven was trying the mix the milk and the flour on the floor. Ruby and Weiss sighed in relief, the babies were fine but they really needed a bath.
The twins crawled to their aunts when they saw them, Ruby took Mia and Weiss took Raven. When Mia saw the Grimm plush, she quickly began to made noises while pointing at it. Ruby gave it to her and she began to "torture" it, bite it, hit it, throw it to the floor, it seems like the plush purpose was being a training doll for a future hunter. Raven just took her pacifier out of her mouth and offer it to Weiss, it was her way of say "I'm sorry", knowing this Weiss took the pacifier and after that she and Ruby took the kids to the bathroom.
The bath was suppose to be quickly but Ruby got carried away with the bubbles…and so did the twins.
"This IS why I love bathtubs" Ruby said "There's nothing better than a bubbles bath"
In response to that, Raven and Mia throw some bubbles into the air.
"We have been bathing them for twenty minutes. Don't you think is time to take them off the water?"
"But Weiss! We're having so much fun"
"And what if they get sick because of us?"
"In that case, let's ask them!" Ruby turned to see her nieces "Raven, Mia. Which idea do you like more? Your cool and favorite aunt Ruby idea of keep playing here or you boring aunt Weiss idea of finish this bath"
"Favorite aunt, eh?…Well, two can play that game"
A couple of little glyphs appeared on the water, followed by the appearance of little ducks. The twins's eyes began to shine with excitement. The girls were enjoying the company of their new playmates.
"Hey!" Ruby said "Using your semblance isn't fair"
"Everything is fair in love and war"
"T-then I'm going to….I'm going to….run! I'm going to take them and run all over the island to show them how fast I am"
In that moment the twins throw water at their aunts' faces and began to laugh. The girls did not care about what they were doing or what they were going to stop doing, they just wanted to play with their aunts. A message that Ruby and Weiss understoond very well and quickly. That's what they did for the rest of the day, just play with their little nieces, there were not any major problem….until nighttime arrived.
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A dream?
That was the first thing that Weiss thought when she wake up and found herself in her room but once she checked the date with her Scroll that thought disappeared of her mind. Now, the biggest question was what were she and Ruby doing in their room because the last thing that she remembered was being in the living room.
If her memory was not failing her, yesterday, after Raven and Mia's bath they ate breakfast, lunch actually. After that they saw the twins "torturing" their Grimm plush. Weiss remembered using her semblance to summoned some birds, rabbits and flowers, since Raven and Mia had loved the bath's ducks. Then Ruby tried to introduce the twins to the amazing world of weapons by making them watch the newest show "Weapons through history" but the girls did not show any interest about it. After that…after that…
"What happened after that?" Weiss thought and after some minutes of thinking about it, she finally remembered what had happened "Right…nighttime"
Maybe that was the moment in which Raven and Mia realized that their parents were not coming for them anytime soon. She did not remember which one of them had started but in a matter of seconds the twins were crying no stop. Feeding them, changing diapper, telling them a bedtime story, they tried everything to calm them down but nothing worked. Now that Weiss thought about it, there were times when Yang and Blake had bags under their eyes, she believed that the culprit of keeping them awake all the night was Mia but now she knew that both girls have the same amout of fault.
"But that doesn't explain how Ruby and I got here"
"Mmmh" Ruby had just wake up "Where am I?...Good mornig, Weiss"
"It's actually afternoon. Do you remember what happened yesterday?"
"I remember that Raven and Mia were crying no stop. No much after that, I have a weird and faint memory, though. Someone was leaving a note in the nightstand. Pretty sure that it was a dream"
It turned out that it has not been a dream. There were a note in the nightstand and judging by the handwriting, Blake had been the one who wrote it.
Ruby and Weiss.
Yang and I arrived at 9 o'clock, we called you several times but we didn't got any answer. We used the key that you gave us, seems like I was wrong when I said that we won't use it any time soon.
We kind of got the idea of what happened. When we opened the door Raven and Mia were asleep on the couch while you were on the floor surrounded by feeding bottles and diappers.
Yang took you to your room while I cleaned the living room. Thanks for taking care of Raven and Mia.
—Blake
Knowing that Blake and Yang had came to pick up the twins made Ruby and Weiss felt relieved. Since they thought that they had left the girls alone in the living room. They decided to get out of the bed and go to the kitchen to eat something. While they were going down the stairs they found Mia's pacifier lying on the middle of the stair case and Ruby took it. As the note said the living room was impecable, no sign of diappers or baby formula. It was like Raven and Mia had never been there. Actually, without Raven and Mia there, the house felt….empty.
Their house…Had it always been that quiet?
The couple decided to sat on the couch for some reason they were no longer hungry.
"Weiss. When is Nora due date? We haven't buy a gift for the baby yet"
"April. Ren told me that they're expecting him between the 10th-20th"
"Oh right. They are going to have a boy. So, a month from now" Ruby looked at the ceiling for some seconds "A nephew, eh?...Wait, it is okay to call him our nephew?"
"Knowing Nora, she will rise him to call us aunts and I can't imagine Ren complaining about it. We eight had been trought a lot together, it's normal to make our children call us aunts and uncles"
"Our children?" Ruby just smiled when she saw Weiss's cheeks turning red "But, I guess you're right. In that way I can become the super-cool-and-favorite-aunt Ruby"
"Remember that Nora and Pyhrra are like sisters. That would turn you into the second favorite"
"Well is hard to pick a favorite when you have so many aunts" Ruby said in her defense and then she showed Weiss the pacifier in her hand "I'm pretty sure that I will become Mia's favorite once I give her this back. Do you want to come with me?"
"You don't need to ask me that"
After that day, Ruby and Weiss started thinking about having a child.
Yep, thanks to Raven and Mia, Summer was born one year later. Althought Ruby and Weiss would never admit that. Also, I'm braking the chronology in the next chapter, no more babies…for now. As always, I hope everyone had enjoyed, leave a review, fav or follow and see you next time.
Atte. Kaze-chan.