Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY
AN: Hey all. Glad you all enjoyed last chapter. Here's another chapter with a musical at the end. It's my first time trying one, so be gentle on it.
To that one guest reviewer, no I'm not Japanese. There are other Asian countries that don't wear shoes inside the house, just clearing that up. And its fine about not being very cultured. It just makes it more exciting and interesting when learning of new cultures.
Lloyd RPGFan: It's not really an addiction chocolate chapter, but it's something.
Chapter 8: We now accept chibi as a way of life just like everything else
Cheat Day
Today was cheat day for the members of team RWBY and JNPR. Or it was for six of the eight. Nora was on a sugar ban at the moment and Yang was persevering with her weight loss diet. They were still supportive of the others to go on with their cheat day though.
"I'll have a dark chocolate mousse, please." Pyrrha smiled as she relished her cheat day.
She loved chocolate. It stemmed from parents and her manager not letting her have any during her time as a tournament fighter. They feared it'd 'stunt her performance.' Fans would send her some as gifts but her parents would always take them away to eat themselves. She even suspected her agent took the gourmet chocolates too. So all in all – she was repressed from chocolate and it turned into and addiction.
And eating it was her way of curing her addiction. Just eat a healthy amount and she wouldn't crave it as much as she wanted.
"Can I get the dinosaur chicken nuggets?" Jaune asked, sitting next to his partner. It's been a while since he's had something not meant for his exercise. Today was cheat day and he was eating food-without-a-purpose.
"A frozen banana." Weiss ordered, feeling like having something cold and sweet but also having a bit of nutritional value. Potassium was important after all.
"Devil's food cake." Blake smiled, feeling like spoiling herself today.
"I'll have dragon tea." Ren ordered, feeling like having something nice with a bit of honey.
"I can't decide whether to get the triple cheesecake or the cookie platter." Ruby mumbled, looking between the two items. Humming in thought, she decided to go for broke. "You know what? I've tried tons of cookies. Bring on the triple cheesecake."
Minutes later
"This… is not what I was expecting." Pyrrha said with a weirded out face looking at what was in front of her.
It was chocolate alright, but not the mousse she was asking for. It was a moose. A big nosed, large antler moose covered in dark chocolate sauce with a cherry on it's head. If this was a ploy to destroy her chocolate craving, it was working – especially with the smell.
"How am I supposed to finish this? How was it even made!?" Jaune pointed to his dinosaur chicken nuggets. It was chicken nuggets, but the only thing dinosaur about it was its size. There were eight pieces of them the size of a Saint Bernard.
"…I have no words for this." Weiss said, looking at the literal frozen banana with peel and all. Trying to pull the peel back, it snapped in half and shattered like glass.
"I don't feel like eating this cake." Blake said, inching far away from her cake. The moment it snapped and growled at her, she wasn't willing to see the effects of eating it.
"Blegh!" Ruby learnt the triple cheesecake she ordered wasn't the good kind of cheese. Sniffing it, she deduced it was blue cheese, camembert, and limburger – all cheeses she hated!
The others looked to Ren, not hearing any complaints from him. He was peacefully sipping at his tea with no worries at all! Then he sat his cup down and glared at his cup.
"This isn't dragon tea." He muttered, getting up and leaving. "It's just leaves boiled in hot water."
"Ren's got the right idea." The blonde knight said, walking off to find another place for cheat day.
"Agreed." Pyrrha and the others nodded, walking off and leaving their bad orders. If the service was this bad, it wasn't worth complaining to the manager about. If they were lucky, maybe they'd find a place to have a proper cheat day.
Inside the kitchen
"It worked Neo." Torchwick whispered in triumph and glee. "We ruined their cheat day!"
Putting his ear to the door, Roman laughed hearing another unsatisfied customer.
"This isn't ground coffee! It's just mud and beans!"
"My plan to ruin cheat day and put them in a bad mood is a success!" Roman said with chest puffed out.
Crunch!
Hearing a crunch sound, the villain turned to an irate looking Neo holding up a bucket of Rocky Road ice cream. Spitting on the floor, the silent girl glared at her partner when it was a tooth. Her tooth.
"Eheh. It's rocky road. Get it?" He asked, seeing her stalk over with a bucket full of asphalt and rocks. "…Mercy?"
Neo was going to teach Roman a lesson on cheating someone on cheat day.
Figaro!
"I'm so scared right now." Yang shuddered as she and Ren entered the barbershop in Patch. It was the kind with the swirly pole thing too that showed it was a barbershop – not a hair salon. It even had a bad barber name: Figaro's.
The ninja was expecting normal when entering, but a flamboyant chubby man with nice hair was not one of them. For a barbershop, it had a nice feel close to a beauty salon with all the shampoos and combs placed on the racks. Clearing his throat, Ren pointed to a shaking Yang who was now putting his hand in a vice-like grip.
The barber took one look at Yang and gasped at what he saw. In a flash, Yang was in a chair strapped down with no way of getting out. Hyperventilating, she looked over to Ren to see he was just sitting in a chair reading a magazine.
"I change my mind! I don't need a haircut!" Yang cried, trying and failing to break free.
When the barber opened up his drawer, she held her breath waiting to see what monster scissors he'd pull out to cut her hair. Or worse – what if it was a razor to give her a buzzcut! The horror! Her scream of terror was cut short when instead of hair cutting tools; he brought out a small radio and pressed play.
After getting some scissors out of his pocket, he started to sing.
[Background Song: Barber of Seville instrumental]
"A woman has walked in, her hair's in such a big mess.
Look at those split ends, also tangled up no less.
Have a seat deary and make yourself comfy so I can get right down to work!"
Yang felt it was a bit late to tell her that since she was stuck in the chair already. Also, did the guy have to be singing while cutting her hair? And what did he mean she had split ends? And tangled? Her hair was naturally like that!
"I~ am Seville the fantastic and sty-a-lish bar-ber
La la la la la la la LA!"
At least he was introducing himself to her. When she was about to say what kind of cut she was after, he put a finger to her lips to silence her while wagging his other finger.
"No need to talk now.
You want a haircut?
I'll give you one better.
You'll have a makeover!
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
All the while he sang, he danced and skipped around her making her annoyed. Getting a bit tired of it, she was not prepared for him to swing her around fast and recline her chair back to the sink. Then came her head getting wet.
First comes the rinsing and then the conditioning.
Don't worry honey, this song's worth the money!"
"Wait." Pausing in his song, Seville clapped his hands twice to call someone in the back. At least she knew the guy was aware the song was getting to her.
"Fi-ga-ro. Figaro. Figaro. Figaro. Figaro. Fi~ga~ro~."
From the back door, a buff man walked out with hair just as stylish as Seville. Yang thought he was the one to cut her hair, but she was mistaken when all he did was give her a hot towel and a quick but admittedly relaxing scalp massage.
"Graci, Figaro." Seville bowed, stepping forward after Figaro went back to his door.
Ren was confused why the shop was called Figaro, but the stylist was Seville. Maybe it was a partnership?
"Now comes the cutting, a bit of a brushing, snipping, and combing, and brushing and cutting. No need for rushing. Perfection is coming.
We'll make you so stunning
the boys'll all sing~!"
Without warning, Yang was reclined back up without looking at her reflection. Then again it was still a bit hard with the hot towel still on her face. Then she felt fast spinning after the insane barber spun her chair and started snipping and brushing like a surgeon.
"Hold on there, dearie.
We're almost there.
Just one more brushing.
A snip right here. A-snip-right-there.
Viola! It's done. Here's… your …HAIR~!"
[End song]
"That will be fifteen Lien." Seville said, holding his hand out for Yang to pay.
"I've got her tab." Ren said, paying for Yang since she still couldn't see with the hot towel in her face.
"What?" Yang asked, not able to hear them at all.
He'd also have to speak up though since she was a bit hard from hearing because of the barber's last high note. He'd also leave the towel on until they were far away from the barbershop. No need for Yang to have a breakdown inside the place.
Besides, she looked good with her hair short.
END
AN: I was looking for barber songs and I ended up watching Bugs Bunny giving Elmer a 'haircut.' Then I tried to look for the soundtrack. Somehow I ended up in Barber of Seville and more Looney Tune stuff until it stuck.
As a kid, I wasn't really into trying some foods based mostly on their names. When they said devil's food cake, I literally thought it was a cake that summoned the devil. Just like how chocolate mousse had a real moose inside or hotdogs were really made of dogs.
Hope you enjoyed. Look forward to other stories. I got an idea for the oneshots.