A/N: Since the first chapter was obviously not a full one, we thought to give you guys another one! Still setting the story in this (obviously longer, but still not too long) chapter.
How many of you got the reference in the story's title?
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"Yang? Yang..." a familiar, high-pitched voice sing-songed.
"She's not waking up," another voice said, rather indifferently.
"Oh, I know! Maybe this will help!" the first voice exclaimed, and Yang knew in an instant what was coming to her. She squeezed her eyes shut, just in time to be hit in the head with a pillow.
"Ruby!" she yelled as she grabbed the pillow, and flung it across the room. "You know I hate that!"
"Well, maybe that's why I do it," said the girl. "You sleep like a rock, Yang, and we need to pack! We're going home for the summer! Whose excited? Show hands! Come on people!" A disappointed sigh escaped her lips when she realized that no one was even remotely willing to participate in her games.
"It's too early for this..." Yang muttered, making her way down from her bed.
"It's not too early; we leave in an hour. Now, if everyone had packed their things yesterday, like I did, and like I suggested you do as well, you wouldn't be in such a hurry, and you could enjoy this fine day, the way I am," came Weiss' voice from her bed, her eyes scanning the pages of a book.
"Weiss, stop being like this and come help." Weiss' head shot up briefly, to give Ruby a raised eyebrow look, only to return to her reading a moment later. "Please?" Ruby added, rolling her eyes at the fact that she was actually begging Weiss to do something for her. "Forget it. We-"
"Okay, nobody move! There was a book under my pillow and now it's gone. Who took it?" said Blake, throwing her pillow aside, and tossing the sheets on the floor.
"What are you talking about?" asked Weiss, slowly and discretely hiding the book she was reading behind her back, and under her own pillow.
"There was a book under my pillow, and now it's not there," Blake repeated, and turned to look at Weiss, "and I bet you took it!" her bow moved slightly back as she shot an angry look at her teammate.
"Hey! You don't know what you're talking about. Don't accuse me if you're incapable of keeping track of your stuff. Had you packed yesterday-"
"Yes, we know, 'o Infallible Goddess Weiss. None of this would have happened if we had listened to your wisdom and had packed yesterday, like you so cleverly did," Yang interrupted, still being too sleepy to deal with the girl's shenanigans. "Now can everyone please pack in silence?"
"Wow... Yang wants to be quiet. Maybe she's sick," Ruby muttered, but no one was paying attention to her.
"Weiss... I know you took my book. If you give it back now, I promise I won't hurt you," said Blake in her best attempt at a calm voice, before adding a little more quietly, "a lot."
"Blake, you're not making any sense. You probably put it somewhere else and forgot about it," replied Weiss, moving her hand dismissively. "Besides," she added, "why would I steal your porn?" a crooked, sly smile made its way to her lips. As Blake's eyes widened, a gasp was heard from Yang's direction, and a chuckle from Ruby's.
"You-you-I knew it!" Blake yelled, and charged at Weiss, who was prepared for what was about to come, and moved out of the way, while managing to grab the book. "Give it back!"
"'Ninjas of love'..." read Weiss out loud, looking at the cover. "You've got porn, Blake! There's no use denying it!" she exclaimed as she swiftly jumped up to Yang's bed, away from Blake's wrath. "This is just too great!"
"Ooh, I've been meaning to read that..." Yang mused aloud.
"It's not porn!" yelled Blake, making her way over. "It's-it's-it's a romance novel."
"Yeah, like that would be any less embarrassing," Ruby butted in, earning an angry look from the faunus girl.
"Don't kid yourself, kitty. It's porn. You know it, I certainly know it, no point in hiding it," Weiss waved the book above Blake's head.
"It. Is. Not. Porn!" Blake jumped up on the bed as well, and grabbed Weiss' shoulders, pinning her down, her ears fully folded back now. While her teammate was unable to move, Blake snatched the book from her loosening grip, and moved her face close to Weiss', their noses almost touching. "And I don't appreciate being called 'kitty'," she said. She got off the other girl, and made her way down, a slight yet obvious blush creeping its way to her cheeks.
"Well. That was fun!" exclaimed Ruby, who didn't have time to duck out of a flying pillow's way.
~Flashback~
In the center of the dark room, Cinder Fall sat at a table, her features softly illuminated by the dim light. She was impatient, irritated even; the way she kept moving her leg nervously being a dead giveaway. Across from her, one could make out two people sitting. At a first glance, they seemed like normal, everyday people. Looking at the couple closer, though, one could see cat ears adorning the top of their heads.
"Listen," Cinder's voice was quiet, pretend calmness dripping from her every word. "I don't want to go to extraordinary measures to get you to agree to this arrangement."
The faunus looked at each other, their eyebrows knitted subtly in both worry and confusion.
"When the rights to the company fall upon your child, I want you to hand it over to me," Cinder simply stated, like something like that would be the normal thing to do.
Their ears twitched. Should they ask?
"What's in it for us?" asked the man after a moment of silence.
Cinder raised her hand and ignited it, a small smile playing across her lips. "I will pay off the dowry in full, and give you fifty percent of it's value each month," she said, and the pair's eyes widened. "I also won't kill you right now."
They looked at each other again, this time their worry was anything but subtle.
"Okay... but we already have the dowry payed off," said the woman quietly, yet firmly.
Cinder chuckled, "By taking a loan from the White Fang Bank? I would hardly called that payed off."
"How do you know about that bank?" the man's voice was laced with concern, and a tinge of fear now.
"Hm" She smirked as her eyes began to glow, "wouldn't you like to know? Now, do we have an agreement or not?"
The man nodded and squeezed his wife's hand for reassurance, "Yes, ma'am, we do."
Placing both her hands on the table, she got up swiftly, the chair she was sitting on making a scraping sound that made the pair's ears twitch. She walked to the door in a slow pace, swaying her hips from left to right as she did so.
Her exit from the room was slow, the sound of her heels echoing all around, leaving behind more questions than the two faunus had gotten answers for.
A/N: Thank you for reading! We'd love to know what you think so far :) (TSO, if you're going to review, make it constructive in a less polite way. You're spoiling me.)
