Author's Note
I was supposed to finish this yesterday but I kept losing motivation to write and I got a strict project going on this month. Also, the stories are not in chronological order or directly connected to each other. There are multiple pairing in this series such as Blake/Ruby and Weiss/Yang for no reasons but most likely be Bumbleby and White rose. But like I said, there might be romance but just a fluff.
Chapter 2 – Bathe Time
Ruby doesn't mind silence but boredom is something else. Since her partner forbids her from playing fetch till she says so, she curls up on her bed and sighing for the past few minutes ago. Her sister is nowhere to be found, Blake is reading her book and her partner doesn't wanted to play with her. She would ask her Fauna team mate but she doesn't want to disturb her.
She heard her sister calls her out from nowhere. She leaps away from her bed and find her sister. After few minutes of wandering aimlessly in the dorm, disturbs Weiss and scolded by her partner, she found Yang in the bathroom. She feels goose bumps and attempts to run as she saw a sly grin on her sister's face.
She runs from the bathroom, leaving a cloud of roses. Yang immediately chase after the Grimm around the dorm. "Ruby, you better come back here or else!" But Ruby refuses. Blake and Weiss heard the commotion and decided to ignore the siblings but as Ruby leaps onto Weiss' bed and hides behind her partner, the heiress couldn't bother ignore them.
"Okay, what's going on here?" she asks. She picks up the Grimm and gently caresses her fur. She look at Yang who still have the sly grin on her face, "Great, you got her! Now I can bathe her!" she said. Ruby look up to her partner with her big, shiny eyes and says, "Yang being so mean to me!"
"What?! I just want to give you a bath! How is that mean?!"
"I don't wanna….." The Grimm whines and curls herself in Weiss' arms. Yang glares at her sister and the heiress before her in jealousy. The white-haired girl responds with a blank stare. "C'mon, sis. It's not like I always bathe you…"
"But I already took a bathe…"
"Not from me! Please, sis?"
"NO!" Ruby quickly leaps away from Weiss to the window. Yang's eyes widen and know what would her sister is going to do, "Don't you dare, Ruby!" she said. The Grimm slowly pushes the window open. After a moment of processing the whole situation, Blake and Weiss soon panics, "Whatever you do, don't you dare take a step…" Weiss said and slowly approaches her partner. However, she jumps out.
The three girls quickly head to the window to see whether their leader is okay or not. They sighs in relief that Ruby managed to land on a branch of the tree below their dorm window. "I can't believe just because she doesn't want to take a bath, things ended up like this…" Weiss mutters.
"C'mon, let's get her down from the tree…" Blake said. Yang and Weiss sighs. Their leader started to yelp for help. Yang stops dead on their track. She can't ignore her sister when she starts yelping or whimpering. She head towards the window and look down to her sister. She climbs up the bookshelf. Weiss and Blake are shocked. "Wha-…wait, Yang!"
"BIG SISTER TO THE RESCUE!" They're too late. Yang jumps out without thinking the consequences. The only thing in her mind is to get her sister down from the tree. She manages to grab the branch and climbs up. From their dorm, Weiss and Blake are stunned and slightly relief. Weiss releases an exasperated sigh, "Ugh, that dunce! What was she thinking, jumping out from the window?!"
"Well, at least she's okay. Let's see how she's going to bring her down…" Blake replies. Weiss sighs and keep watching their two team mates from above.
"Come on, Ruby! You want to get down so bad, right?"
"But I don't want to take a bath!"
"I won't give you a bath. Now come here!"
"You're bluffing…" The little red and black Grimm slowly backs off as Yang crawls towards her while trying to maintain her balance. "There's nowhere for you to run, Ruby~!"
Snap. The branch they perched breaks and they fall to the ground. After Ruby safely lands on her feet, she shifts herself bigger and catches her falling sister. Yang safely lands on her fur and slides down from her back to her tail. Yang, look up to the Grimm and crosses her arms, "Can I give you a bath now?"
"Hmm….nope!" Ruby immediately shifts herself to her pup size and scurries back into the academy. Yang sighs and mumbles, "That critter is gonna get some of my fist someday…."
-Back to Weiss and Blake-
Weiss: Looks like gravity got them down…
Blake: Should we go after her too?
Weiss: If it's to prevent us from getting into the trouble they caused, yes.
"Ruby~! Where are you~?" Yang's been calling out her sister since the past few minutes and yet there's no sign of her anywhere. She checked the cafeteria, the library and even the bathroom. But the little Grimm is nowhere to be found. She started to give up on searching but she stumbled upon the teachers' lounge as she heard laughter from the outside. She peaks through the keyhole and saw Ms Glynda and Professor Port playing with Ruby. She overheard the conversation between the elders, "My, I'd never thought Grimm could be this adorable! Where did you found this little critter, Glynda?"
"Ah, it's actually one of our students, Ruby. She's the leader of team RWBY…"
"Ozpin did mention that she possess the ability to shift into Grimm. I thought he was bluffing for a sec," The man said as he ruffles the Grimm's fur. Ruby purrs and rolls herself on the table and gives out a yelp. Both of them giggle.
From the outside, Yang keeps watching and eavesdrop their conversation. She doesn't realize Weiss and Blake are standing behind her. The Fauna taps her finger onto her partner's shoulder, startled her, "Whoa, Weiss, Blake! When did you guys get here?!"
"Just now. Why are you stalking the teachers?" Weiss asks and crosses her arms.
"I'm not stalking the teachers! Ruby's in the teachers' lounge!"
"What?!" Weiss and Blake peaks into the keyhole. Ruby happily skips around in the lounge. Professor Port tosses a cookie to the Grimm. She catches the cookie and happily munches it. From the outside, a strong wave of aura emitted from the blonde and heiress contaminates the hallway. Blake slowly shifts herself away from her team mates. "She'd never yelp like that!" Yang exclaims.
They heard the door clicks open. Yang, Weiss and Blake hide themselves behind the door. They're lucky the door opens outwards. Ruby scurries out of the room and hums. They heard Ms. Glynda said, "Come by next time!" The little Grimm replies, "Okay!"
"That puppy is going down!" Yang whispers to the other two. Weiss and Blake nods. They quietly follow their leader. As they get near the Grimm, they jump towards her but the Grimm managed to dodge them. Yang looks up to her sister who snickers, "Aww c'mon, Ruby! It's just a bath!"
"My answer is still no! Do you want me to spell it out for you? N.O. Now let me roll in the mud." The Grimm sticks out her tongue and scurries away from her team mates. Their eyes widen in shock and Yang shouts, "Oh, don't you dare, Ruby! You hear me!"
"So much for a day off…." Weiss mutters.
"We better get her before Yang burns her alive…" Blake replies. The two of them quickly get off of the blonde brawler. Without any hesitation, Yang chases her sister to the garden.
"Where are you, you little runt?!" Her golden hair is blazing with Ember Celica activated. She looks around for the little black and red Grimm. Weiss and Blake reach her right on time before she burns down something. They saw a large puddle of mud under an oak tree but there's no sign of their leader. Then, they heard a yelp above them. Ruby sticks out her tongue to her sister and ready to jump into the mud. "Oh, you better not, Ruby!" Yang yells to her.
The Grimm ignores her and crouches. Weiss suddenly feels worry, yells, "Whatever you do, don't jump in the mud!"
"That's a good idea, Weiss! Thank you!" Ruby replies. Yang groans and Blake face palmed. The Fauna looks up to the Grimm and shouts, "We won't do anything to you, Ruby! Can you please get down here?"
"The answer is….no! Cannon ball!" Yang, Weiss and Blake shock and quickly jumps into the mud. The Grimm lands on her partner's head safely. She looks down to her team mates and snickers. "Now we know who's going to get a bath," she mutters. The three girls groan.
"It feels….weird…"
"What do you mean, Weiss?"
"Well, the three of us are in a same tub with Ruby watching us and all of this happened because Ruby doesn't want to take a bath…"
"You're right. It is weird for three girls in a tub….with someone watching you…" The blonde girl glares at the snickering little Grimm at the edge of the tub. She knows Ruby would leap away from her if she tries to drag her into the tub. "Hey, if you didn't force me to get a bath, none of this would happen…"
"And if you didn't run away, we wouldn't drown ourselves in the mud!" The Grimm giggles. Then, she jumps in and swims towards her sister, "You just have to ask me nicely. Not till threatens to kill me. Well, at least I could bathe with my three big sisters!"
"Well, your blonde big sister is going to drown you!" Yang lunges herself to the Grimm, creating a large splash. "God damn it, Yang!" Weiss exclaims. However, she joins in on splashing water to her two team mates. The blonde and the heiress keep splashing water to each other, not noticing the Grimm swims towards her Fauna friend.
"So why exactly you don't like to take a bath anyway?" Blake asks.
"Oh, I don't like Yang bath me. She keeps pushing me down into the water. But I don't like to take a bath alone either…."
"So that's why you led us to the mud, eh?!" Yang and Weiss said. Ruby's eyes widen in fear and quickly bail out from the tub. She shifts herself to normal and snickers "Make sure you ducks are cleaned and dried up."
"I don't want to become a duck so I'm done," Blake said and gets out of the tub, leaving Yang and Weiss the only one in the tub. Both of them exchange looks with each other. "What did they mean by us being a duck anyway?" Yang asks. Weiss answered by a shrug.
Author's Note
I don't know why Ruby called them ducks. But let's just say she's quite fond of ducks and thought of them as funny creatures? Y'know, by their quacking sounds and the way they walk. Well, you'll just have to find out in the later chapter. So, enjoy and review :P