A/N: There will be no more polls until Round 2 of dating begins, as there are not enough girls to facilitate choosing. Feel free to keep asking Kyu questions though, I enjoy writing her responses.

Chapter 6: Finished already?

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"Four hours!"

"You weren't sharing with me!"

"FOUR...HOURS!"

"I can't get you a girlfriend if you don't cooperate with me; I thought I explained this to you!"

"I was seconds away from using a mop bucket as a toilet!"

Kyu scoffed. "I let you out eventually! Seriously dude, it's not like you lost the love of your life or anything!"

Being locked in a broom closet for so many hours hadn't really done any favors for Jaune's temperament. On top of the afore mentioned improvised toilet that almost was, he was hungry, thirsty, tired from trying to force the door open, and just all around drained from the experience.

"I get enough of that from Cardin, I don't need that kind of grief from my friends…," he griped, huffily grabbing a tray and taking his place in the dinner line. He'd immediately made his way to the cafeteria after being freed from his 6' by 5' prison, after making a quick and necessary detour to the Little Boy's Room, and just wanted to eat dinner and get back to his room so he could wash the experience from his memory.

To her credit, Kyu actually looked genuinely remorseful for her actions after he said this.

"Dude, why didn't you say so?" she wondered, "It's my job to make you happy, and if you're not happy, I'm not doing my job properly."

Jaune was actually a little touched by this. Kyu's flippant attitude normally made it seem like she didn't care her "client", but apparently that was just a front, and underneath was a kind, genuine-

"I mean, my boss would give me hell if I slacked off, and you do not want to get a god mad at you, especially when she's your boss!"

...there it was. Never mind.

"Anyway, what's on the menu today?" she asked, completely switching rails as she looked over the food on display. "I would kill for a good Footlong right now! Or barring that, some clam chowder I could dive into. They have any of that here?"

Jaune grabbed a couple sandwiches and an orange juice from the spread. "Is that what fairies usually eat," he asked, "hotdogs and soup?"

"Nah, we eat whatever strikes us at the moment; there are a couple things we eat whenever we we need a little pick up, but that's only if we're really tired!" She reached over him and grabbed a bottle of milk, opening it immediately and pouring the contents down her throat. "Milk's one of 'em," she explained, "it's a decent enough substitute for the real thing. Though me personally, nothing hits the spot better than a good mojito."

The cheeky grin on her face gave Jaune a fairly clear idea what "the real thing" was, and at once he banished the thought so he'd actually be able to eat his food.

He glanced around the expansive room, looking for a spot in which to enjoy his dinner. While quite spacious, it looked like the entire school was here right now, with nary an empty seat to be found.

He sighed, lamenting the latest in the tragedy his life had become in the last day.

Kyu was still buzzing around the dinner line (probably looking for the soup if the day, if he had to guess) so he decided to go and find someone he knew- and was on good terms with -and ask them if he could join their table; surely the short list of people he considered friends would take pity on a poor soul simply looking for a place to sit, right?

Ironically, his short list was exactly the same as the long one. Make of that what you will.

He walked up and down the aisles several times in his search for friends, but was unable to locate them due to the sheer volume of Huntresses and Huntsmen in training.

Well, he reasoned, this isn't working. May as well give fate a try. He walked over to the middle of the vast hall and stood there, then he closed his eyes and raised his free hand in the air. After a moment he pointed in a random direction...before turning 180 degrees and pointing in the exact opposite direction.

When he opened his eyes again he saw his finger was pointing at, in his opinion, one of the most beautiful girls in all of Remnant: Weiss Schnee. Surprisingly, she was sitting by herself at one end of a table, with everyone who was there sitting at the other end. She didn't seem to mind. In fact, she looked downright content eating her...one apple? Really, that's all she was having?

However, it did give him an idea….

Putting on his most confident swagger, Jaune made his way over to Weiss.

"Hey there, Snow Angel!" he greeted, "What brings you here?"

"Hello Jaune," Weiss said, barely sparing him a glance before taking a bite of her apple, "where else would I be at dinner time?"

...she had a point.

"Oh…." Only feeling slightly stupid for asking that, he shrugged and placed his tray next to her. "This seat's not taken, is it?"

"No," she replied curtly, which he took as permission to sit down as well.

"So…," he pointed out, "I noticed that you're only eating that apple."

Weiss nodded. "That's correct. I'm not a big fan of most of the food here, the sandwiches in particular."

Jaune froze; he was just about to take a bite of one of the sandwiches he'd grabbed. "...huh?"

"Ruby tried to share lunch with me one time," she explained, "I felt queasy the entire rest of the day. I don't know what the kitchen staff puts in those things, but it is far from proper quality."

...welp, there went his cunning plan to share his meal with her. He put the sandwich back down and absently took a sip for his orange juice.

With his primary avenue for conversation now closed off, Jaune began running through other icebreakers; he immediately threw out "Hey girl, what cup size you rockin'?" on the grounds that he wanted to live, and toyed with "You're single, right?" a while before dismissing it as appearing too desperate and on the nose.

...though that did help him recall a detail about the situation that he initially overlooked.

"How come you're sitting by yourself anyway?" he asked. "Shouldn't you be sitting with your team?"

"Shouldn't you?" she shot back, taking another bite of her fruit.

Jaune rubbed his head sheepishly. "I can't seem to find them. Besides, I...kinda asked you first."

Weiss glared indignantly at the scraggly boy sitting next to her, and then sighed went he didn't cower.

"I just wanted to be alone for a while, OK?" she explained reluctantly, "You know, have some time to myself without interruption? That's perfectly within my rights to do, right?" Her eyes narrowed, "Does that answer your question?"

Jaune said nothing, merely giving a simple nod in response. He wanted to ask why she wanted the alone time in the first place, but he could tell that questions probably wouldn't go too far at the moment.

Instead, he opted for more small talk. "This may be a stupid question," he said, picking up his sandwich again, "but what's your favorite color?"

Weiss took another bite of her apple. "That is a stupid question," she said after swallowing.

Jaune felt like his spirit wanted to take a short walk off a tall tower. (Though it couldn't decide between Beacon's central spire or the CCT building.)

"But if you must know," she continued, "my favorite color is baby blue; anyone with eyes could tell that."

Jaune decided to ignore the brusk manner in which the information was given just accept the fact that she bothered to give him an answer at all.

"You know," he said, "back home, my mother had a garden behind our house. She'd grow all kinds things in it: vegetables, fruits, tons of flowers…. I remember there was this one flower she took extra care of: a snow white lily. For some reason it always looked nicer than all the other flowers, and when winter came around she would always take that one inside so the cold wouldn't ruin it."

"...why are you bringing this up?" she wondered, seeming genuinely curious.

Jaune shrugged, "I don't know. I guess I just thought that you'd look good with one in your hair, even if it's not baby blue."

Weiss recoiled slightly from this, obviously not expecting him to say something so thoughtful and complimentary. It looked like she was trying to say something in regards to that, but the words kept dissolving before they could leave her mouth.

"Uh...Weiss? Are you OK?"

This seemed to snap her out if whatever fugue state she'd slipped into. "...Of course I am!" she blurted, "Why wouldn't I be? I was just…." Her sentence faded off before it was finished.

Then she abruptly stood up. "I have to go," she announced, "classes and everything, I'm sure you understand."

"...but we don't have any-" he realized before getting cut off.

"Have a pleasant evening." She gave a brief curtsy and headed off across the hall, soon disappearing into the other students who'd finished their meals.

Jaune just sat there, a look of bewilderment on his face.

"She didn't even finish her apple," he noted, picking up the half eaten fruit and turning it over in his hand.

"You gonna finish that?" Kyu asked, suddenly appearing next to Jaune and causing his heart to skip a few beats, "At this point I'm willing to settle, and apples are the most sinful of fruits. ...except for maybe bananas. ...and certain elongated vegetables. But seriously, can I have that?"

"Do you know what that was?" he asked, pointing after Weiss.

Kyu swiped the apple and took a bite before explaining. "Oh yeah, that was classic Tsundere behavior," she said while chewing, "Don't worry about it, Dude, she'll be back."

"...she will?"

Kyu swallowed. "Eeyup!~ That's how they work: act all 'Ew gross, who let you in here?' one minute and all 'How did I ever live without you? Do me now!' the next. Trust me, she'll be back."

"Oh…."

"Hey, give yourself some credit, the fact that you managed to pull it together at the end there pretty much cinched it. That move with your mom's flowers? Pretty slick, bro!" Jaune thought about it, and it was rather amazing that he come up with something like that.

...in fact, "amazing" was probably the best way to describe what just happened, especially considering all he knew about talking to girls (outside of those in his immediate family) consisted of his father's vague advice to "be confident", and a bunch of corny pickup lines he's gotten from X-Ray & Vav comics; he never would have thought to be so sentimental normally.

So why now of all times?

Kyu took one last bite and tossed the apple away. "Well, now that that's out of way, let's find you another broad to mack on!"

Jaune looked down at the sandwich in his hand, still uneaten; the one on his tray in a similar state of not having been tucked into yet.

He was about to ask if he could at least finish one of his sandwiches before they did that when his Scroll buzzed.

Upon inspection, it was a text message from Nora, with attachment.

#Greetings, young pupil! Congratulations on mastering the basics of Mogar 101, but don't think that's all there is to it, mister! For observe, the power of a 10th level Mogar Master! (You can thank my lovely assistant Ren for taking the photo. ;-D)#

The included photo was of Nora wearing a tank top and gym shorts, and a pink headband on her head. She was standing on her head, her legs crossed above her, while holding a Mogar comic out in front of her. Strangely, the comic was the only thing in the picture that was right side up.

"Damn dude," Kyu exclaimed, "are all nerds this intense?"

Jaune shrugged. He himself could only be called a nerd by the barest of definitions, and even then he didn't know if other "nerds" really were as extreme as Nora apparently was.

He was about to inform Kyu of this when he felt a rap on his shoulder.

"Pardon me, are you the person who threw this?"

Jaune turned around to a girl with short, orange hair standing behind him, holding out a partially devoured apple to him. She looked slightly younger than the rest of the students (sans Ruby), but he wasn't sure if that was because of her freckles or something else, and for some reason she seemed kind of stuff.

"Oooh, now thing are getting interesting!"

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Kyu's Naughty Confessions blog })i({

Eating a Footlong. Giggity.

Hey sexy people, Kyu})i({ here! And ho boi, this is gonna be a doozy!

So the Playa finally comes out of the closet (...too easy. (-_-;) ) and heads off to get a bite to eat, because he's been in there for a while at this point. So he gets his dinner and goes to find a seat but, low and behold, there are none! At least none that he can see. So after some fruitless searching he decides to just pick a table at random and hope that those guys won't mind a +1 in their group.

And he picked a total sausage fest of a table, zero broads whatsoever! (Not that I would have minded…) So I subtly suggested a different table, which yielded much better results!

How much better, you ask? X-)

Well, this new table had a Hunie by the name of Weiss Schnee, who's apparently this place's Mega Bitch. (I say "Mega", but she's really more like a 6/10, 6.5 at most.) After initially making contact he sat down next to her- she'd apparently segregated herself from the rest of the table -and started making small talk. Pretty standard stuff, if you ask me.

But here's where it gets interesting! The Playa, perceptive gentleman that he is, took notice of the fact that she was sitting alone and asks her why, and she gets all defensive about it before relenting and explaining that she just wanted some time alone. (Which is a big fat stinking load of bull; even a total dunce could tell she wasn't telling the whole story there.) A little more small talk, and while this stretch is going better than the last time, ol' Jauney-boy still wasn't really making any progress.

But, like the good fairy I am, I intervened then with some light magical assistance. (Delicious, sciencey magic!) Nothing too major of course, I just tweaked his "statistics" to give him a little more Sentiment to work with.

And ho boi, the results could not have been better! (^o^) ...OK, maybe they could have, but I was still impressed with what he was able to pull out of his keister, given the little material he had to work with. Then, like a typical Tsundere, Weiss got all flustered and scurried off in shame so no one would see her blush.

After that, Playa got a text from that nerd- I mean "Nora" chick, with accompanying photo, this one of her doing some kind of weird nerd yoga. Like, dayum, can all you nerds so that kinda stuff? If so, y'all are a lot kinkier than I gave you credit for! XD XD XD

But that isn't the end of thing, because right after that a new challenger appeared! Some girl, never seen her before, came up and tried to get the Playa's attention, and I think she might have succeeded by the looks of things.

Of course, that may have had something to do with the half finished apple I chucked behind me right before…

Ah, semantics! She's here, she's talking to the Playa, and I wanna know what happens next!

And now, let's get to those comments! \(^o^)/

XBossLadyX says "Please stop antagonizing Miss Sugardust, Jeremy, it's unbecoming for someone of your age. And Kyu? You may be younger than Mr. Flickergem, but don't forget you're a sanctioned emissary of Love; professionalism is key." *sigh*...OK Boss, I'll stop. After all, someone has to be the bigger man. (I promise that wasn't intentional. ...maybe.)

OG_Cupid says "Q_Q Yes Ma'am…" As per my agreement to not snipe you anymore, I legally can't mime a whip cracking motion while making "wah-ch!" noises for emphasis, thusly implying that you're "whipped", so I won't.

Gilgamesh The King of Heroes says "Are you sure about that? It seems, little Fairy, that without you to hold his hand he says something stupid and winds up getting locked in a bathroom. Well, either way, you have your king's permission to continue your duty; I sense entertainment coming from this boy no matter how this turns out." Actually, it was a broom closet, not a bathroom. And I technically only answer to Venus (Love ya, Boss!~ ^D^), but I appreciate the support, good Sire! And trust me, the entertainment is only getting started with this one!

(not that)_blu_gurl says "I don't know about that Blake character. She seems like she's hiding something. ...And like she's secretly a pervert." Very astute, Miss Gurl, I think there's more to that girl than meets the eye; further investigation is clearly required. (Especially the part about her being a pervert, that seems like a deal breaker. |-) |-) |-) )

Whatshakinbacon20 says "OMG, her bow is totes adorbs!" Well, I wouldn't wear it, but I guess it's cute in a homely kinda way; if that's your thing then go right ahead!

Beli_Dancer asks "Ninjas of Love? Oh my, Blake's book sounds a little...um, passionate. D-do you happen to know the author? I mean, so I can be sure to avoid it when I visit the bookstore. That's all." Suuuuure that's why you want to know…~ ;-D Well, I believe the name on the spine was "Patty Berdioler", so "don't" be on the lookout for that one, if you're interested in a good read. |-)

Though me personally, I usually just grab an issue of "Hustler" or "Playgirl" off the rack, those at least have pictures. |-D |-D |-D

THEMistypeaks says "Me-ow, that Blake girl is also quite a looker, and she knows the subject matter; I wouldn't mind doing a costume play with her." Oh Hera's stretch marks, I would watch the crap out of that video, Girlfriend! Would you gals go for a niche appeal for the theme, or maybe something more...traditional? (Wah-ch!)

eDUmecator1337 asks "I hope that thar boy under your wing is fully educated in the intricacies of what happens when the booty is got. Don't want what happened to a pupil of mine in which he honestly believed storks delivered babies. Got laughed at by everybody. Did not help that a nearby stork kidnapped a baby and dropped it on a newlywed couple right next to us when that occurred." Wow dawg, bad timing on that one, but what can you expect when the Baby Delivery Service is run by the God of Mischief? Seriously, Loki got put in charge of that department because he was "playing with Infinity" again or something. (BTDubs Loki? Call me, I wanna play with your magic scepter again. XD) Athena was livid at first, but she eventually came around. ...giggity.

As for the other thing, don't worry; I'll make sure the Playa is good and ready once he finally picks a bunk mate.

And that's about it for the moment. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go get me some popcorn to watch the show! See you sexy people later, I'll be sure to let you know how it turns out! })i({