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Having one fairly hyperactive child was crazy enough, having another was plain hectic. At least Yang was a toddler and not a baby crawling all over the place like Ruby was.
Raven collapsed on the bed, utterly tired after a long day of helping Summer and Tai keep Yang and Ruby in check and just general parenting things like feeding. Then she remembered that Yang was almost 3. This meant that they at least had to decide what Yang will learn and Raven would damn herself if she let Tai get his way.
"Tai, I think it's time to discuss how Yang will be trained," at this, the blond haired man turned to Raven with a face of total seriousness.
"I imagine you want to teach her how to wave a giant knife around?" Raven's face tightened. It was on.
"At least it has a defined form, unlike your brawling," Tai's eye twitched.
"Brawling is uncontrolled and disorderly, I however know when and where the best place to strike will be and can easily take down any drunken idiot who only knows how to throw a punch. With your sharp piece of metal, you just slash and win. That is not form," Raven growled and tightened her fists.
"Any street punk could learn how to fist fight well by simply fighting many times and learning from mistakes. To miss a strike with a fist is death or to be knocked out and is easily done. To miss with a sword just gives more opportunity but is hard to do."
"Hard to do? Don't make me laugh, the amount if times I saw you miss with that blade would say to the contrary. And you get opportunities from missing kicks and punches to. Just bring a different limb around while your opponents distracted with the missed one."
"Those were on purpose to try and deceive the enemy. And don't lie, you have lost from missing."
"I'm not going to deny it. I know when to swallow my pride and not choke on it and I really doubt that they were on purpose. Your face said otherwise."
"I was acting!" Raven exclaimed.
"Your a terrible actor," a victorious smirk appeared on Tai's face.
"I can confirm that," Qrow said from the sidelines.
"Shut up Qrow, Tai, who was it who stumbled over their lines when trying to give a speech? I'll give you a clue, it wasn't me."
"As did our esteemed team leader and I don't see you getting at her for it," said esteemed team leader came through the door, baby Ruby in arm and followed by Yang.
"And what is so important that I have to be brought into this argument?" the bickering duo stopped where they were and their heads snapped rigidly towards Summer, who had gone into boss mode.
"Er...can we talk with you in private?" Tai awkwardly asked.
Summer was clearly irritated and her stance said that she didn't want to move and her face was twitching in agitation. She growled at the blond man in front of her.
"I'll... take that as a no," Tai turned to where Qrow was but found the man with the avian name had buggered off, "Damn."
"Well?" Summer had oodles of patience but it was close to it's end.
Raven looked awkwardly at the scared Yang, "We were... discussing what we were going to about Yang's training,"
The afraid child perked up at her name and the word training being said in the same sentence but kept quiet in of invoking Summer's wrath, as little children do with their overactive imaginations. "And I was brought into this 'discussion' because?"
"It got heated?" Tai tentatively answered.
"Of course it did, I suppose I better count myself lucky that nothing was broken in the process," Summer grabbed her temples, "So what were you arguing over exactly?"
"Who's style Yang was going to learn," Raven bashfully said, barely audibly.
"So why can't she learn both your styles?" Summer demanded from her teammates.
Neither of Yang's parents had an answer for this question, unable to come up with a proper answer.
"Your egos that you could never get rid of even though it would be better for all of us," Summer looked around for Qrow, "Where's Qrow?"
"He ran away when you came in, like a coward," Tai couldn't resist the cheap jab.
"Tai, neither you nor Raven faired much better. You have no place to say anything, be quiet."
"Yes ma'am," the black and yellow duo said in unison. Tai leaned toward Raven while Summer was heading through to the kitchen to see if the layabout scythe wielder was grabbing a few quick beers, "Where does she get this persona from?"
"I have honestly no clue Tai," Raven replied tiredly.
"Is she bipolar?" Tai asked the black haired woman next to him.
"Tai, bipolar disorder doesn't work like that," Raven replied flatly.
"How does it work then?" Tai scratched her head in confusion.
"I don't know, I didn't go to public school for a reason Tai," Raven said to Tai, her tone giving the impression that it was a stupid question.
"To learn how to kill things, I know," Tai never got the message and simply found a way to be amused.
Raven gave Tai a dirty look in response while Tai replied with an amused smirk. They looked back to see an annoyed Summer tear through the house and out the do or, "Guess he's not in the house then."
"He has quite a lengthy head start on her" Raven offhandedly said.
"This could take a while, want to finish that argument?" Tai asked honestly.
"The way we go at it, that argument would last ages and would have lost the plot completely," Raven replied.
"I thought it already had," Tai said, scratching his chin.
"I suppose but it had only just barely gone off topic. We would eventually start arguing about food. Food has nothing to do with training," Raven said with assurance that she was correct.
"I don't know, food has a place in every discussion," Tai said with a slightly faraway look in his eyes, as if he was remembering something.
"Tai, stop thinking with your stomach," Raven chastised.
As if it had an Autocue, Tai's stomach growled a very audible and slightly repulsive growl which made Raven sigh and the still present but scared witless Yang giggle with the glee that children were rarely without.
Raven turned towards her child and smiled. Raven picked the young girl up and placed her on her shoulders, "I think we all need something to eat after that."
Tai grinned, that's just the thing he wanted to hear. A few moments later, a peeved Summer and a reluctant Qrow came through the door. "Why didn't you help me find Ruby and I find the lout?"
"We got into a discussion" Tai replied, amused.
"Don't you mean argument?" Summer said with a slight scowl.
"No, we mean discussion. Do either of us look tense?" Raven asked in return.
"No..." Summer started to answer but was cut off.
"Exactly, so did we get into another argument?" Raven asked with a smirk.
Summer sighed, "No, no you didn't."
"I believe we are victorious" Tai said in an over the top manner, pompous nose and all.
"Tai, don't be a idiot" Raven cowed the silly man.
All the while, little Ruby had looked on with wondrous eyes. To her baby perspective, the adults had given her things that would be useful in later life. Like how to settle an argument and how to chastise someone. Even if she would never remember the actual incident, her brain would be processing the information learned and recycling the actions. She would use them on Yang, the older girl always got in trouble. Appear like the bigger person.
But for now, the little silver eyed girl would silently observe from her mother's arms and be adorable. Not that that adorableness would ever leave her.
See, longer. Joking aside, this chapter is only slightly longer because I was running out of ideas on what to do with it. No timeskips and focusing on one subject actually makes it quite difficult to think of ideas. Maybe I should've elaborated on things more. Pointers, tips and ideas are greatly appreciated.
No matter, it's over for now. Back to schoolwork.
See ya
DaPika