I think I should warn you that I might have written the bad chapter.
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*Munch*
*Slap*
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*Crunch*
*Whack*
These are the sounds that one Mercury Black has been listening to for the past five minutes. Mercury's training involved him holding a plate of cookies while sitting across from a girl wearing a red cloak, who happens to really like cookies. All Mercury has to do is not give her a cookie for at least ten seconds and if he could do that then he got a cookie... Which he couldn't seem to do. Every time he gives the girl a cookie he gets slapped on the back of his head... Which is starting to hurt.
"Okay Merc, two cookies left and then we can stop."
Mercury nodded still staring at Ruby dead in the eyes.
Ruby simply smiled innocently.
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Mercury gives Ruby a cookie.
*Chomp*
*Slap*
Mercury took a deep breath and resumed his training.
Ruby continued to smile innocently.
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Ruby's smile started to fade while Mercury started to grin.
"You're not getting this last cookie little red." Mercury thought to himself until Ruby started to pout.
"8"
"9..." Mercury counted out loud.
"Oh just take the damn cookie!" Mercury practically threw the cookie at Ruby.
*Nom* "Victory!" Ruby shouted with her fist raised in the air.
*Whack*
Mercury rubbed the back of his head trying to sooth the pain. "Jaune, are all of our training sessions going to involve you hitting me?" Mercury asked.
"No Mercury, no they will not." Jaune responded.
"Good."
Jaune turned towards Ruby.
"Thanks Rubes."
"No problem Jaune. Call me if you ever need me again."
Ruby headed for the door until Jaune stopped her.
"Ruby, you have some crumbs on your face"
Ruby pointed to her face where there were no crumbs. " Here?"
"Not there, to the left."
Ruby moves her finger to the right. "Here?"
"No, your left."
Ruby moves her finger to her left cheek. "Here?"
"No, that's to fa- oh, just let me get it."
Jaune pulled out a napkin and started wiping the crumbs off of Ruby's face.
Mercury looked over at Jaune wiping off Ruby's face and noticed that she was blushing. Jaune may be oblivious but Mercury had a feeling that Ruby seemed to like Jaune as more than a friend. Don't ask how he could tell but he could.
"T-th-thanks Jaune." Ruby stuttered out while trying to bring down her blush.
"No biggie. See you later."
"Yep, later Jau-"
"*Huff*"
Ruby was interrupted by a quiet huff which brought everyone's attention to the hooded girl kneeling by the bed.
"Whoa, was she there the entire time?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah, that's N-" Jaune stopped when he saw Mercury shaking his head furiously.
"That's Nancy. She's really shy around new people." Jaune continued.
"Oh, sorry we didn't get to meet properly Nancy." Ruby apologized.
The girl who Ruby thought was Nancy shyly waved at Ruby still facing away.
"Okay... I should get going. Later Jaune."
"Later."
Ruby left closing the door behind her.
Jaune turned to look at Mercury and asked him. "Is everything okay?"
Mercury's eyes darted back and forth nervously trying to think of an excuse to tell Jaune why he didn't want Neo's name mentioned.
"Um..." Was all Mercury could say.
Jaune was about to speak again until he felt something tug on his sleeve. He looked down to see Neo still holding onto his sleeve. She had kind of a sad look and was shaking her head.
Jaune looked at her for a second before nodding and patting her lightly on her head. "I understand. You don't have to tell me and I won't ask. " Jaune said with a smile.
Neo looked relieved. Her sad face now gone and a small smile now graced her lips. She then nodded at Jaune before walking back over to the ice cream maker.
Mercury gave Jaune a questioning look. Jaune noticed this and took a seat next to Mercury.
"You really are a nice guy." Mercury said to Jaune.
Jaune shrugged. "She has her reasons and I'm not one to pry for answers."
Jaune and Mercury sat there for a minute until Jaune got up and dragged a box out from under his bead ( the one with the ice cream maker on it). He placed the box in front of Mercury and opened it revealing a few books. Jaune handed one of the books to Mercury. Mercury read the title and his eyes widened in surprise.
Resisting cuteness volume 1 by Jaune Arc
Mercury looked at Jaune, then back at he book and then at the box.
"You wrote a book?!" Mercury asked.
"Yep, but it's not offical." Jaune responded.
Mercury looked into the box. "Multiple books?"
Jaune nodded.
Mercury opened the book and began flipping through the pages with his mouth agape. Jaune chuckled at the sight.
"I want you to read through the first volume by this time next week." Jaune told Mercury.
Mercury nodded in response and he began reading.
Jaune walked over to Neo and checked on the ice cream.
"Hm, still has a couple hours to go."
Neo continued to stare at the machine.
"Are you just going to stare at that thing until it's done?" Jaune asked.
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"I'll take that as a yes."
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"It won't go any faster with you staring at it you know."
"..." Neo continued to stare at the machine.
Jaune sighed as he stood up. As he was standing up his scroll started beeping so he opened it to check his messages. When he read his new message his eyes widened and he quickly closed his scroll before running to the door.
"I have to go. I'll be right back." Jaune said as he ran out the door.
After Jaune left, Mercury closed his book and walked over to Neo who was still in front of the ice cream maker. He placed his hand on her shoulder. "You two seem to get along."
Neo shrugged, not taking her eyes off of the machine.
"You only met him the other day right?" Mercury asked.
Neo nodded in confirmation.
"Wow, and you two seem like you're good friends."
Neo shrugged again.
"He must have made a good first impression."
Neo got a slight blush and smiled.
Mercury smiled and patted Neo on the head before getting up and going back to reading Jaune's book.
Two hours later
*Ding*
Mercury looked up from his book to see Neo still staring at the ice cream maker. Mercury went back to reading.
*Ding*
Mercury looked up again to see Neo still staring at the machine.
"Are you going to just stare at the ice cream instead of eating it?"
Neo turned around to look at Mercury and then at the door.
Mercury looked at the door and sighed. "Gonna wait until Jaune gets back?"
Neo nodded with a smile before sitting on the edge of the bed that Mercury is laying on. Neo stared at the door waiting for Jaune to come back.
Ten minutes later
Mercury had been pacing around the room for the past five minutes checking the time on his scroll.
"Where is he?" Mercury muttered to himself. He looked over at Neo who was still staring at the door.
"he's been gone for two hours!" Mercury said looking back at the door.
"He said he'd be right back." A feminine voice said.
Mercury tensed up and slowly turned to face Neo. Did Neo just talk?. Mercury asked himself.
When he looked at Neo she was holding her scroll and typing something.
"Right, He said he'd be right back?" A feminine voice coming from the scroll asked.
Mercury sighed. "Yes, he did say that."
Neo gave Mercury a worried look.
"I'll go look for him." Mercury told Neo.
As Mercury was about to leave the door leading out of the dorm opened. Standing in front of Mercury was a surprised girl with white hair tied into pony tail.
"What are you doing here?" The girl asked.
"We were waiting for Jaune to get back." Mercury answered the girl.
"We?" The white haired girl asked.
Mercury turned around to try and find Neo but didn't see her anywhere. He then turned back towards the white haired girl sighing.
"Sorry, your name is Weiss right?" Mercury asked.
"Yes, I'm Weiss." Weiss confirmed.
"I've been here for a while and I'm a little tired. Do you know where Jaune is?"
"Well, Jaune is in the infirmary so I stopped by to pick something up from his dorm."
"Why is he in the infirmary?" Mercury asked.
"It's kind of a long story." Weiss answered while picking up a small note book from the study desk.
"Is it okay if I go and see him?"
"Of course. Follow me." Weiss gestured for Mercury to follow her.
After the door closed behind them, Neo came out from her hiding place staring at the door. She knew she couldn't go see Jaune right now because there might be other people seeing him right now that might recognize her.
Neo was about to leave when she heard her scroll go off. She opened her scroll to see a video feed of someone walking down a hallway behind a girl with white hair. Neo realized that Mercury was sending her a live video feed from his scroll.
Jaune was laying unconscious in an infirmary bed with bandages wrapped around his head and his left arm in a cast with Pyrrha sitting beside his bed. In the room with Jaune was Ruby, Blake and Ren who were all glaring angrily at Yang and Nora.
"Yang." Ruby said with a hint of anger in her voice.
"Y-yeah, sis?" Yang asked looking up at Ruby.
"You're going to be taking anger management. You realize that right?"
"I figured." Yang said as she looked back down at the ground."
"And Nora." Ren said with annoyance clear in his voice.
"Yeah Ren?" Nora asked not wanting to look up.
"No pancakes for three months." Ren said looking dead serious.
"Aawww." Nora whined.
"No whining you!" Blake told Nora sternly.
Nora sunk into her chair slightly before deciding to say something.
"I didn't do this to Jaune." She muttered.
Yang got up from her chair and quickly left the room bumping into Weiss and Mercury on her way out.
"Dammit Nora." Blake muttered under her breath before going after Yang.
Everyone in the room glared at Nora causing her to lower her head.
"What happened?"
Everyone turned their attention towards the new voice in the room.
"Nora did something stupid and Jaune got injured." Ren explained to Mercury.
"Is he gonna be okay?" Mercury asked.
"He'll be fine." A female nurse answered.
"He should be up by tomorrow morning." Another nurse stated.
Weiss walked over to Jaune's bed and placed the notebook on his nightstand. She then placed a hand on Pyrrha's shoulder. "We should all get some rest, it's late."
Pyrrha nodded before getting up and giving Jaune one last concerned look before she left the room. Soon everyone left the room the last one being the nurse who turned off the lights.
Jaune woke up later that night confused. He didn't know where he was or how he got there.
"Where am I?" He asked out loud.
*Click*
Jaune was surprised when a lamp was turned on. He could now see that he was in the infirmary. He looked to his left to see Neo sitting in a chair by his bed holding a bowl and a spoon.
"Hey." Jaune greeted.
Neo waved the spoon she was holding at Jaune while smiling. She then scooped something orange out of the bowl she was holding with the spoon and brought it to Jaune's mouth. Jaune looked at the spoon for a second before opening his mouth to allow Neo to feed him. He tasted the substance for a second before realizing what it was.
"Is this the ice cream?"
Neo nodded as she ate some of the ice cream for herself.
"I'm surprised, it's actually good."
Neo nodded again while she fed Jaune some more ice cream. She alternated between feeding Jaune and herself until the whole bowl was empty.
Neo set the bowl down and then looked at Jaune with a concerned look.
"What's wrong?"
Neo pointed to his head.
Jaune felt the bandages on his head with his free hand. "Oh, that's nothing. I'm fine."
Neo then placed a hand on his left arm which was in a cast.
Jaune placed his right hand on Neo's hand. "Like I said I'm fine."
Neo give Jaune an annoyed look before flicking his nose.
"Ow. What was that for?"
Neo responded by kissing Jaune on his forehead. She then left the room via the nearest window waving at Jaune as she disappeared.
Jaune sat in absolute silence for about five minutes staring at the now open window.
Jaune looked down at his cast to see something written on it. A bunch of numbers were written on his cast. He was confused for a minute before realizing that it was a scroll number. Neo had given him a scroll number and probably her scroll number too.
"What a weird girl." He said to himself with a smile on his face.