Welcome to the eleventh chapter of Troublesome Brats!

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-IIXII-

"Details. Now," Jin demanded.

"Yes sir," one of his subordinates said as they pulled out a scroll device. "Reports says that, in this particular area, a suspicious-looking individual has taken advantage of an innocent child. The individual's true motive is unknown, but we can safely assume that the innocent child is in terrible danger."

Jin scowled. "Anything else?"

"The individual was said to have an intimidating appearance, but unfortunately none of the reports bothered to add in a proper description on how this person looked like. Moving on, this person and the child were last seen entering a toy store," his subordinate added in. "That's all."

"No matter. Reports are unreliable to begin with. We can handle this ourselves," Jin said. He carefully examined his surroundings while briefly leaving his team members to their own devices, then shortly after he somehow managed to figure out where the location of that particular toy store was located. In fact, he was currently staring at the entrance right now, simply because that store in the distance was the only known toy store in the area. "Even a complete fool could do this." He swiftly drew his trusted blade and pointed it in the general direction of the store. "Men, I've found our target. Surround the entrance of that store, and apprehend anyone who comes out! That is a direct order from your superior. Now go!"

"Yes sir!" his team answered immediately.

Ten men including himself, professionals and armed to the teeth. Under his command at that.

What could go wrong?

-IIXII-

"I don't do this often, but take good care of that little thing or else I'll get really mad. You know for a fact how truly broke I am."

Ruby, probably not even listening, kept waddling around him in circles as she held the small green teddy bear up above her head for everyone to see, and if the look on her face was anything, Terumi just easily assumed that it was just her being extremely happy and grateful. He felt like smiling, but he quickly resisted the urge as he had no intention of breaking his stoic mask so soon, especially when he was out here in public.

Just thank the heavens that the small thing was cheap. If not, then he probably would've ended up feeling like shit due to not being able to buy her anything, especially knowing the fact that she had just saved him from a lot of pain some moments ago.

Thinking about it now, the brat's little innocence and niceness has probably rubbed off on him a little bit, despite it being only a few days since he started working as her caretaker.

"Now stop waddling around me in circles. The least you could do is listen to me so that we can move on and-" Terumi was apparently interrupted when the sweet little bundle of energy suddenly jumped up and attached herself onto his left shoulder, riding him basically. "Wha…?"

Ruby looked to him and grinned. "Thanks for the present, Mister Terumi! I love it! Now, let's go!" She pointed towards the exit as her legs started moving back and forth, no doubt thanks to her unending energy, which was somewhat questionable in a way. Just how the hell could she stay this active all day?

"You don't have to tell me, y'know." Terumi rolled his eyes as he made his way over to the exit, bringing a hand up to his face in order to scratch his cheek so that he could avoid from looking at her. Some could say that he was embarrassed, as ridiculous as it sounded, but it was mostly true. Receiving thanks from someone who was definitely not his younger brother wasn't really something that he was used to, though anyone could hardly blame him for that.

Being a total dick to others does that to people.

"I can't wait to show Mom!" Ruby exclaimed, who was practically shaking right now all thanks to that simple idea of hers. "She'll be so surprised!"

"Eh? Y-You shouldn't…" Terumi mumbled. He then pushed the door leading outside and calmly stepped out. "I mean-"

"Freeze!"

The sound of guns cocking as well as swords and blades brandishing assaulted his ears in that one small instant.

What the fu-

"Yuuki Terumi. I should have known that it was you."

Wait. He knew that voice.

Aside from the other nine people who were currently eyeing his every move, the man who stood in the middle of them all was the one and only person who managed to gain his full attention.

And by heaven's name he didn't have time to deal with this bullshit.

"Jin Kisaragi. What a delight it is for me to run into you so suddenly, but unfortunately for you, I have some things to take care of so if you would please-" He attempted to casually walk forward, but had no other choice but to retreat when one of the assholes under the main asshole's command gave him a warning shot.

Which caused Ruby to yelp, undoubtedly due to fear. It was obvious that she had no idea what was happening, and neither did he.

"Yuuki Terumi," Jin began. "you are under arrest. Put that child on the ground and lower yourself so that-"

"Screw you," Terumi swiftly replied with an 'I don't give a shit' look. "Just get out of my way or else I'll have to deal with all of you myself. I'm currently working, so if you all could just run along and not cause trouble, then that would be nice."

Terumi noted that Jin was eyeing him in a somewhat confused manner when he said that he was currently on the job, but him being himself didn't bother to give out an extra explanation and just simply walked forward with the intention of joining up with his little brother and the other girls.

But it wasn't going to be that easy.

One of the men under Jin's command held up his gun, which basically had an attached silencer like the rest of his team members, and attempted to give him another warning shot, but a sudden kick to the face which ended up completely breaking the visor of his combat helmet was enough to prevent him from doing so. In fact, he was pretty much unconscious by the time he was on the ground.

"Out of the way!" Terumi roared. He had basically performed his attack so fast that even Ruby herself had to blink thrice in order to fully comprehend what just happened, and the same applied to the other soldiers as well.

Jin widened his eyes in shock at the sudden turn of events before immediately deciding to give out his order. "Men, our target is on the move! Apprehend him at once and be sure to recover that child at all costs!"

"Why the rush? I'm not going anywhere," Terumi said in order to make things clear, in which he definitely did judging by how shaken some of the poor sods were. "Now let's see if you're all disappointing or not…"

"H-Huh!? B-But Mister Terumi, I'm still-" Ruby ended up screaming when her caretaker started rushing forward towards his next target with a silver knife pulled out from his sleeve. He broke his target's blade with just a single swing when the poor soul attempted to block, and then proceeded to knock him unconscious by slamming his head down onto the hard ground, and as for Ruby herself, she had to tightly hold onto his neck so that she wouldn't fall off by accident. Luckily she didn't, along with her new teddy bear. "Uwaah! Too quick!"

"Shit! S-Someone shoot him down!"

Jin heard this, and he wasn't pleased to say the least. "What!? No! The child is-"

One of the soldiers quickly took action and pulled out his sidearm. He then fired off a couple of shots, despite knowing that he could easily endanger the child's life if he wasn't being careful. Heck, he was leaning towards luck at this point.

Though that barely did anything.

Terumi simply deflected the rounds with his knife and coated his entire body with his intimidating aura, immediately summoning a large green serpent which he then used to surge forward in order to take down his next target, while fully knowing that he was taking little Ruby along with him as well. "Messenga!" he roared.

"Mister Terumi! Please stoooooop!" Ruby shouted as the wind kept assaulting her face nonstop, though when she finally managed to crack open one of her eyes, she was then immediately awed to see not one, but two soldiers above her head whom appeared to have their respective combat gears completely damaged beyond total repair, right before they painfully landed on the ground somewhere behind her some seconds later. "W-Whoa…" was the last thing she found herself saying before she screamed, all thanks to Terumi jumping around in a wild manner so that he could proceed in beating the crap out of his next target.

Jin clicked his tongue as he glared at his remaining men one by one. "Cease fire! What are you, deaf? I said cease fire!" he shouted, though no one listened. Despite being professionals, the fear each of them felt deep inside was too great for them to handle.

And it wasn't like they were unaware of who they were dealing with to begin with.

Believe it or not, the soldiers had pretty much figured that they were doomed from the very moment they saw him calmly exiting the store.

Terumi evaded a shot from another soldier and quickly decided that he was next on the list, and so without further ado he swiftly knocked the bastard into the air with a sweet upper kick to the face which was then followed by another one, thus sending him flying into a nearby bench. Pain aside, at least he looked comfortable. Somewhat, of course.

Ruby was a bit light-headed at this point. "Uwaah…dizzy…"

Terumi spared his tiny little passenger a brief glance and smirked. "Just hold out for a little longer, squirt. How's the teddy bear?"

"O-Okay…" Ruby replied. "A-Are we almost done…?"

"Yep. In fact," Terumi brought his right hand into the air, then all of a sudden four dark portals of sorts came appearing right under his next set of targets. His targets then later found themselves getting launched high up into the air when countless of green serpents came assaulting them from below. Each of them landed in the distance soon after that, experiencing all sorts of hell by now most probably. "all that is left to deal with is the boss. So hang in there."

"I-I'll…hang in there, I guess," was Ruby's weak response, and Terumi could tell that she was nodding as a way of her telling him to continue. "But please hurry…"

Jin couldn't believe himself upon realising that his entire team just somehow gotten themselves annihilated in just a couple of minutes, but despite that the anger he felt was not directed towards the cause of their defeat, but instead it was directed towards his team members themselves. Those fools.

"Now this is the exact reason why I would prefer to work alone. Having men like these are useless in a battlefield," Jin complained, drawing his trusted blade as he did so. "It seems that I have to settle things myself, like usual. How convenient." Figuring that whining about his current problem right now was useless, Jin decided to forget about it for now and fully focus on the task at hand. He can complain all he desired once he returned to HQ, but for now, work was needed to be done. "Prepare yourself, scum."

Terumi grinned. "How scary. Now quit showing off your non-existent skills and- " He immediately jumped to the side when a small wave of ice went past him, and just by being so close he could feel how cold it was. If anything, Ruby's sudden shivering was proof enough, so thank goodness he evaded.

Catching a damn cold was not what he needed at the moment.

"Ah…" Ruby sounded.

"Eh?" Terumi turned his head to Ruby out of curiosity, and the next instant his face suddenly darkened ever so slightly. The cocky expression he had on display from before was long gone by now, much to Jin's confusion.

"What's wrong, was my attack that frightening?" Jin taunted, but all he received in return was silence. "Hmm?"

Then suddenly, Ruby started crying.

Jin narrowed his eyes. "What is-" Only then did he notice what appeared to be an arm belonging to a small green teddy bear lying on the ground somewhere behind Terumi, as small as it was. But that still didn't answer any of his questions. Though after having one quick glance at Terumi, Jin suddenly found himself frozen in place.

"You asshole…"

-IIXII-

"Bwahaha! A-Are you girls serious!?" Ragna laughed. Damn. He was enjoying himself way too much with this new-found information. In fact, he was laughing so hard that he couldn't help himself from hitting the table repeatedly, despite knowing that some of the patrons were now starting to leave because of him. "That jackass neighbour of mine, working as a caretaker! Oh man, this is gold! He must have gotten desperate! Haha! Oh shit, my rib…haha…"

This was just too much. The image of Terumi having to deal with actual shit and bratty kids inside his head just basically sucked every last amount of HP he had in him. The fact that he was still standing and not on the ground due to laughing so hard was a damn miracle.

"Oh man. A-And Blondie, so what you're trying to say, is that before you all came here you just literally sent him flying into a wall because he pissed you off?" When Ragna received a hesitant nod from Yang, he smiled, then grinned, before completely bursting out laughing. "Bwahahahaha! Damn! What a loser! And yet he had the balls to come here trying to start something with me!"

"U-Um…when will we be able to order?" Yang asked in an uneasy manner.

"H-Huh? Oh yeah, sorry about that." Ragna grinned and pulled out his notepad. He was still chuckling here and there of course, but currently for the most part he could now be considered calm enough to take their orders, thankfully. "I may have enjoyed myself a little too much back there," he said. "I sure as hell don't know a lot about you, Blondie, or any of you for that matter, but you should all be happy to know that you have earned my respect for giving my troublesome neighbour a tough time at work. Serves him right, that douche. In fact, keep at it!"

The three girls simply laughed uneasily in response.

"Now with that aside," Ragna cleared his throat. "what would you girls like to-"

Bam!

Out of nowhere, a certain troublesome little brother whom Ragna was familiar with came bursting through the entrance, and he turned his head just in time to witness the poor asshat painfully slamming himself into the counter.

"Jin!?" he called out, surprised.

Though not long after that occurred, another troublesome asshole he knew who went by the name of Yuuki Terumi came storming through the entrance and menacingly made his way over to the downed Jin. And not just that, but in order to make sure that Jin wasn't going to recover and go anywhere else other than the counter, he started attacking him from the distance by commanding countless of energy serpents to slam themselves into him. None of them missed.

"Gah!" Jin cried out, pained. He attempted to reach for Yukianesa in order to figure out a way to defend himself, but one of the serpents made it futile as it slammed into his hand so hard that one of his fingers broke. A painful scream escaped his lips after that.

Terumi, now only inches away, went down and straddled Jin as he began to assault his face with punches nonstop. "Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you! Do you even know what you've done!? Huh!? I bought that with the last of my money! You fuck!" he screamed in just pure rage. "And all because of what, you were trying to arrest me? You fucking know for a fact that they will just release me in the end because the higher-ups are too fucking terrified to have anything to do with me! Hell, they won't even try anything if they find out that I've just assaulted a bunch of their useless pawns! So what you're trying to achieve here is basically useless!"

Jin coughed and wheezed, but even then he still had the energy to shoot a glare at his attacker's face, albeit weakly. "That won't…stop me…c-criminal scum."

"What? Say that again to my fist you-"

"Whoa whoa whoa! Hey, knock it off you two!" Ragna shouted as he decided to join in before anything else starts happening. He literally wrapped his arms around Terumi's waist from behind and started dragging him away from Jin, but that wasn't an easy task when his neighbour started fighting back by shaking around uncontrollably. "Terumi! Stop what you're doing!"

"Let go of me, Ragna! I ain't done with this jackass just yet! You can have your turn later for all I care! Now let go!"

"Terumi! For the love of Hades, you're scaring everyone including the kids who you're supposed to watch over!" Ragna practically shouted into the man's ear. Any previous thoughts which involved ridiculing him for working as a caretaker were now down the drain at this point. What was currently happening right now was no laughing matter. "Just look at them! Their faces are as white as sheets! Now calm the hell down, you idiot!"

-IIXII-

Despite the words that were being shouted into his ear by Ragna, Terumi still found himself struggling due to his short temper. If anything, he knew quite well that Ragna considered himself lucky that his rage was not directed at him, but instead at his shitty younger brother. The man knew what he was capable of when fully provoked at the wrong time…

"You think I give a shit, Raggy Boy!? Discipline this worthless brother of yours for once! Hell, get him a leash while you're at it!" He noted Jin painfully attempting to sit himself up, and so acting quickly Terumi sent out his foot and slammed it into the bastard's face, thus knocking him back down. "Don't you even dare try getting up, you pile of shit!" he bellowed.

"Terumi, please! Just cut it out!" Ragna yelled.

He growled. "Ain't happening!" Though just as he said that, he soon felt something tugging at his right sleeve, and him being an angry son of a bitch, he turned to face the nuisance and shouted, "And what do you want!?"

It took him roughly two seconds to realise that it was Ruby, who appeared to be holding back her tears as she held out her new green teddy bear towards him, which of course, was missing one of its arms.

Ragna turned his head to the child, and his face was immediately swallowed up in horror upon realising the danger she was in. "Kid! Stay back!" Though he was so terrified, he failed to notice that Terumi was no longer tense and struggling in order to free himself. "Hey, I said-"

"I…I couldn't find it," she suddenly said, sniffling later on. "C-Can you help me…?"

Not fully expecting that, Ragna cocked an eyebrow in confusion. "Eh…?"

Terumi stared at the crying child for a short while, as all the anger and rage he felt from before began to leave his system. Then later, he nodded. "Follow me outside and let's search it together." Terumi then easily freed himself from Ragna's hold and stood up, much to the white-haired man's surprise, but not before shooting one last intense glare in Jin's direction. "Don't think I'll ever forget about this." So with that said, he took Ruby by the hand and headed towards the exit.

Jin didn't bother to try coming up with an insult, because he knew if he even dared to open his mouth, he might have to deal with Terumi shoving a shoe down his throat, and that did notsound too good for him. So in the end he chose wisely and remained silent.

"I-I just hope it's still there," Ruby murmured.

Terumi glanced down at the silently crying Ruby, then calmly replied, "I'm sure no one took it. Now, come on. I have no intention of staying in the same building with that pathetic asshat over there."

Though just before he stepped out of the building, Terumi turned his head to the other three girls whom were silently watching him from their table. Ignoring the fact that they had just flinched under his gaze, Terumi nodded towards the exit and announced, "We're leaving. Pack up."

The girls, not wanting to question anything due to the tense atmosphere as well as just witnessing him going berserk on another man, left their table and followed him outside without a word whatsoever. They still kept their distance, however, but not as much as they'd like as they didn't want him actually noticing.

"Ignore the bodies, by the way," Terumi said.

"Bodies? What bodies-" Yang immediately decided to shut herself up upon noticing the limp bodies here and there, her face going pale as it could possibly get. "W-What…happened out here?"

Weiss, somewhat horrified, found herself holding onto Yang's arm, and Blake was no different, surprisingly.

Yang narrowed her eyes. "W-Whoa hey, I'm not your personal-"

"Shut up. Just let us borrow your arms for a little bit," Blake and Weiss interrupted in unison.

Terumi scratched his head as he scanned the area for the teddy bear's missing arm, and later noted that Ruby was doing the same despite having her eyes filled with tears.

"It has to be here somewhere…" he muttered.

"Um…" Weiss, feeling slightly curious, gathered the right amount of courage and asked, "W-What are you two looking for, exactly?"

Ruby turned to Weiss and showed her, along with the others, the new teddy bear she had gotten from Terumi. "We're looking for the arm of my teddy bear," she said.

Weiss blinked. "Oh."

Blake furrowed her brows as she eyed the toy, as a new question came barreling into her mind. "Where did you get that?"

Terumi froze.

Ruby smiled, albeit she was still somewhat crying.

"Mister Terumi bought it for me!" she answered.

-IIXII-

Right now, Summer was undeniably pissed.

When she was on her way back from work, she had expected to be greeted by her daughter as well as the others, her employee included. Or at the very least see them fooling around in the living room having a ton of fun, or maybe even watching some kind of show on television together.

But what she did not expect to see was the gigantic mess of a wall in her living room! Heck, it appeared as if some sort of crazy gorilla had broken into her house and caused the damage with a gigantic mallet!

Though she knew better than that.

Oh she did.

"Terumi…" she muttered, her left eye twitching ever so slightly as a dark smile found its way up to her face.

She was way too tired to deal with this, but that didn't mean that she won't give him a piece of her mind later on. Whenever that would be.

As if on cue, the sound of the front door opening greeted her ears.

"We're back!"

Was that Ruby? Summer calmly made her way over to the door and as she thought, it was her daughter Ruby. Her cute little voice from earlier gave it away, obviously. She then took note of Yang, Weiss, and Blake as they entered her house one by one. She was actually expecting Terumi to be the last one to enter, since she really needed to have a word with him about a certain something. However, seeing him nowhere in sight only confused her more than ever. "Well that's odd. Where's Mister Terumi?"

"He…left the moment we reached the door," Weiss answered, sounding uncertain.

Now Summer was curious, if the look on her face was anything to go by. "And why is that? Did something happen?"

Yang laughed nervously, for some reason. "He felt down because we weren't able to find the missing arm of Ruby's new teddy bear, so he just left without saying a word," she explained.

"Teddy bear?" Summer questioned. One quick look at her daughter was all it took for her to spot the little toy she was holding onto, and somehow the sight of it having its arm missing was quite sad in a way. "And where did you get that, sweetie?"

"Mister…Mister Terumi bought it for me as a gift with the last of his money," Ruby murmured as she hugged the toy to her chest as if it was something important to her, in which it clearly was judging by how emotional she was getting. "I helped him scare away his headache earlier today, that's why…" she quietly added.

"Oh dear, did he really do that?" Summer knelt down and gazed at her daughter, now feeling less and less angry when she nodded in confirmation. She suddenly found herself smiling when a thought came crossing her mind. Oh my. Is he starting to warm up to my daughter? I'm actually hoping that's the case in this. Summer giggled and patted Ruby on the head, and by doing so she gained her daughter's full attention. "Well how nice of him. Let's cheer him up the next time he comes by. What do you say, Ruby?"

Ruby's eyes widened, then she nodded once more.

Summer grinned. "That's my girl."

Though unbeknownst to her, the three girls purposely left out the fact that he had gotten himself into a fight with a bunch of soldiers earlier that day. Lord knows what her reaction might be. It was for the best, but the girls knew that she would somehow find out eventually. Tomorrow if they were lucky.

But the most funniest thing of all, was that no one actually noticed the fact that Kval never came back from his alone time. Hell, not even his own older brother noticed.

-IIXII-

I'm guessing that you readers weren't expecting something like this to happen. If you've all been paying attention to this chapter as well as the previous ones, there are a lot of things that are needed to be uncovered. We'll get to that, I promise. But there's still a long way before we are able to.

Also, angry Terumi is terrifying...

Anyway, that's all I got for this chapter. Leave reviews if you enjoyed!

This is CPL, signing out.