Bumbleby Daycare

Summary: Ruby babysits Weiss.

"Now, now, why can't we just talk this out?" I'm putting distance between myself and the angry princess.

"How about no you dolt!" she throws a barrage of books at me with frightening strength.

"Hold on -gah!" that really hurt. The last book in Weiss's possession manages to hit me square in the face.

"Haha." She begins to laugh at me.

I know that Weiss dislikes me for reasons unknown to me, but I want to change all that today. This is my third time babysitting the cold hearted ten year old Weiss.

"Why can't we be friends, Weiss?" maybe blowing a hole in her front yard the first time I met her had something to do with it. Nah, kids love explosions.

"Why can't you just give up?" Weiss hides under the covers of her bed, poking her head out to watch my every move.

"Because I want to be friends with you there's nothing more to it." I move cautiously move over to Weiss's bedside and lay my head on the side of the bed.

"F-fine... I'll consider being friends with you. It's not as though I want to be friends with you, so don't get the wrong idea." Weiss moves out from under the covers and sits in front of me on the bed.

That's a start!

"Mmm! That's good enough for me!" I get up to my feet and hug Weiss.

"Humph! What a simple minded person getting happy over friends." Weiss says that but I can see her cheeks are blushed red.

"Huh? Don't you feel happy when you make new friends, Weiss?" I break the hug and sit next to her with my legs crossed.

"What are you trying to say, Ruby? You think I don't have any friends?" Weiss glares at me with her light blue eyes.

"I never said that, but now that I think about it. Do you have friends?" I may have dug my own grave.

"What kind of coffin would you like to be buried in, Ruby? I'll arrange a large bouquet of roses for your funeral." Weiss asks me seriously while dialing numbers into her phone.

"I'm going to die?! I'm sorry but I'm really curious whether you're doing okay at your school." I hold Weiss's hand to stop her from dialing any more numbers.

"It's not like I need friends." Weiss looks out the large window next to her bed.

Her expression doesn't match her words.

I lean in and give Weiss a small peck on her cheek.

"I'll be your friend. I won't take no for an answer anymore. I'm forcing you to be my friend. No amount of complaining is going to change that."

"Wha! You dolt, I said I didn't want to be your friend. If you're going to force me, it seems I have no choice but to comply with your demand." Weiss puts up a tough front but can't hide the warm smile on her face.

"You're too cute, Weiss! I can't take all this adorableness!" I tackle Weiss and rub my cheek against hers.

"Get off of me, Ruby! You're getting your cooties all over me!" Weiss complains while pushing my face away with her hand.

There has to be a limit on how cute Weiss can be! I might have a heart attack at this rate.

"Come on, Weiss! Let's go celebrate our friendship with cookies!"

"You mean you just want to eat all the cookies in my home." Weiss catches on.

"Darn, there's no getting anything pass you. In that case let's play a game, you can choose!"

"How about we play the silent game?" Weiss walks over to her bookshelf and picks out a large novel.

"Aw, that's no fun princess!"

"Princess?" Weiss turns around to look at me with a blush that is spread all the way to her ears.

"Yup, you're my princess!"

"Ah, uhm, g-get out!" Weiss throws her book at me.

Oh please not this again!

"Hold on I thought we came to an agreement earlier!" I tell Weiss as I'm being pushed out her room.

"Idiot, dummy, hard headed, unintelligent, incompetent, unsophisticated, dolt!"

"That's mean!" I didn't even know there were that many words to call someone dumb!

I can hear the door being locked from the inside and chairs sliding inside the room. Is she barricading herself?!

Maybe I can surprise her by unlocking the door from out here. I suddenly hear a pair of footsteps from my side and a light tap on my shoulder. I give short hand signals to the two beside me and proceed with my plan.

I pull out a small hair clip from my pocket and begin to work on opening the door.

"Weiss, let me in!" I have to distract her so she doesn't notice.

"No!"

Ah, the door is unlocked. I push open the door and can only stand at the door entrance in surprise.

"Oh, why good evening Ruby." Weiss has built a complete fort and has a water gun pointed at me.

So I'm suppose to believe that a water gun just so happened to be placed inside of a Heiress's room. Right, like that's completely believable.

"Do you have any final words for your sister and Blake?"

"Why thank you for asking. I do have something to say… help me you two!"

Yang and Blake run into the room and split up, one going left and the other right while I take the middle.

"When did they get here?!" Weiss is shocked for a moment before changing strategies. She takes a pillow from her fort and nails Yang in the face with it.

"Gah!" Yang falls down on her back.

Blake on the other hand gets into Weiss's fort and grabs a pillow then does the unexpected and starts to hit Yang with it.

"Ouch! I'm sorry I ate your ice cream!" Yang manages to apologize despite the barrage of pillow hits from Blake.

I turn around to see Weiss pull the trigger and water spraying all over my face. Even through my blurred vision because of the water, I can see Weiss laughing happily.

Weiss always had friends, of course I knew that. She might not know it yet and I won't force her to acknowledge it. She's going to realizes it sooner or later on her own and that will make it all the more special to her. The four of us are an unbreakable team that will always be together having fun!

After Weiss finishes off all the water in the gun and Yang is brought to tears. The four of us head outside to sit under the shade.

Blake and Yang are sitting next to each other under a large tree. More specifically Yang is sleeping on Blake's lap and Blake is playing with Yang's hair. Yang may be the older of the two but definitely not the more mature one.

Weiss is sitting next to me with a smile on her face, drinking her tea in peace.

"Had fun today, Weiss?"

"You know the answer to that don't you?"

"So you caught on?"

"I caught on to your roundabout way of doing things since the first day."

What a smart girl.

"I see."

"Ruby, can I tell you something?" Weiss asks me politely.

"Huh? Of course, you can tell me anything!" I give her a warm smile.

"In that case come closer." She waves her hands signaling me to come closer.

I bring my ear close to her and wait.

"I like you, Ruby." Weiss tells me as she plants a small kiss on my cheek.

"…what? Huh? Uhm, ah, uuu…"

I heard that wrong right that was just my imagination right?

"Wow, that red face suits you Ruby."

"I-I'm going to go run around the block." I stand up and start to run towards the white gate so I can leave.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Weiss looks at me curiously.

"S-s-see ya!" I dash off pass Blake and Yang and onto the street.

Weiss sits there surprised at Ruby's unexpected reactions and whispers happily to herself.

"You dolt."

A/N: Yay, another White Rose chapter! Sorry this chapter is shorter than the rest. I said ten chapters but that doesn't include side chapters, surprise! Yet again I want to thank everyone that reads even just one chapter of this, it means a lot to me (this story much to my surprise gets a lot of views). Next chapter will head back onto the main story… maybe I still can't make up my mind.