Disclaimer: How do I say this best: I don't own the source material, just the plots I think up in my deranged mind.

Save the Date

By: athrunzala

Chapter 8: Back to the Grind

The week at the hot spring had been refreshing. The sextet returned to Beacon relaxed and renewed. Of course, this meant that Nero was right off to teaching again. Glynda had recruited Jaune to help her for the week, as Nero had hijacked Sun to help with his class. There was no avoiding it. Everybody was working. This left Ruby with Ren to help with her suit.

She had no idea what this would entail, as she had never owned one. But she was shocked to find out that the martial artist was also something of a tailor and knew how to take measurements, which allowed them to speed up the process when they went into town to buy her the garments she would be wearing in less than a week.

"Ren, I don't see why we are buying them."

"Simple: You buy them, and then you don't need to worry about anything later. No need to return a rental or worry about losing a piece. It is then yours for life."

"Oh. I guess that makes sense. Why are you coming with me?"

"I'm picking up Jaune's suit from the same place. I made the order for him. We are also meeting Neptune there. He is getting his at the same time."

"Cool."

They went in to the shop, and were greeted by an older man who seemed to have seen better years. Ruby was beginning to question if everybody who ran a shop in Vale was related. Ren simply handed over the piece of paper with Ruby's measurements to the man, and he returned a moment later with a three-piece suit that was black with a red vest. There was even a red handkerchief with it.

"I figured you'd want something in your style."

"Thanks Ren."

They paid and exited the store, just as Neptune walked in. The blue haired man had been asked by Yang to pick up her dress as well, so it was good that Ruby wasn't in the store, as the man had accidentally brought out Weiss' wedding dress. Ren kept the black-haired woman looking straight ahead as he caught that out of the corner of his eye. Once they were clear of the shop's windows, he noticed his Scroll was vibrating. How long it had been doing that for, he wasn't exactly sure. But he pulled it out to find a message from Nora.

[=Ren, We really need to talk=]

He looked over at Ruby, the scythe-wielder starting to sweat again.

"Ruby, it'll be fine."

"I know. I'm still scared."

"Let's got get some lunch."

"But didn't you get a message just now?"

"I did. I'll call them back. You head over and get us a table. I'll have Neptune join us."

"Sounds good."

She headed off towards a local restaurant that she knew they all frequented when they were younger and Ren dialed Nora's number.

"What's going on?"

"'Ren….'"

"Nora? What's wrong?"

"'Ren… I…'"

"Nora, you have to tell me."

"'Can I talk to you in person?'"

"Sure. Just give me couple hours."

"Thanks, Ren."

He hung up just as Neptune was walking by him.

"'sup?"

"Can you go join Ruby at the shop down the street? I have to go see Nora. Something's not right."

"Sure thing, man. Want me to let her know what's up?"

"Just tell her that Nora said it was urgent."

"Will do, bro. Will do."

The two men parted ways, with Ren making a double time run to get back to Beacon as soon as possible.

Back on campus, Nora was sitting under a tree, her arm having been bandaged after she had bet Sun that she could climb a tree faster and better than he could. When she saw him rushing towards her, she smiled sheepishly and rubbed her head with her undamaged arm.

"Nora…"

"Sorry, Ren."

"I thought you were severely hurt."

"Nope. I'm fi… ow!"

She grimaced as she tried to stand up. Apparently, more was hurt than just her pride. Ren put his arm around her and picked up his injured girlfriend.

"Thanks, Ren."

"Nora, don't do this again."

"Sure thing. Not planning on it."

They headed off towards their room, where Ren would begin the process of bandaging his injured partner up better than the passing underclassman could. He discovered that she had cut up her side far worse than she claimed, and her shoulder had been slightly dislocated. After putting her back together, he laid her down and sat on the edge of the bed.

As he got up to leave, he was stopped by a hand holding on to his sleeve.

"Ren?"

"Hmm?"

"Stay with me?"

"Sure."

They weren't alone for 5 minutes before Yang, Sun, and Blake walked in.

"I'm not saying that we shouldn't. I'm just saying that getting those two to separate is going to be difficult. Hey Ren."

"True. Just leave that to me. Ruby will have to follow along with me…. What happened to you, Nora?"

"Fell out of a tree."

"So you did make it up."

"Pfft. Duh? I wasn't about to let you beat me, hook butt!"

"Watch it, hammer-queen!"

The two then devolved into laughter, which left everybody confused. They would continue until Ren spoke up.

"Getting who to separate?"

"We have the pre-requisite pre-nuptial pre-party planned for Ruby and Jaune. We just don't know how to get Pyrrha to let lover boy go."

"Leave that to me. I have no reason to hurt him."

Sun smirked.

"Cool. Here's the place he needs to be."

Ren looked at the address and nodded.

"Nora, I'm going to go get Jaune."

"Okie-dokey. Have fun!"

"I'll try."

The martial artist then leaned down and gave the hammer-queen a quick kiss on the cheek before he left the room, followed by Yang and Sun. The trio wouldn't be seen before the next morning.

To be continued…

A.n./ - I am NOT writing a bachelor party. Nope. Not happening. I don't want to talk about it again. I did it once and ended up with more characters being drunk than I had intended.

Just accept that it happened.