It was a quiet Boxing day in the Rose-Xiao long home as Ruby and Blake were spending some quality time together laying on the couch.
"Hey Blake?" Ruby asked , moving her head from where it was resting on Blake's shoulder to look up.
Blake just hummed a reply, continuing to lay her head on the armrest.
"How many traits can a faunus have?" Ruby asked looking slightly nervous.
"Why do you ask?" Blake queried, lifting her head up to look at Ruby.
"W-well I was wondering if you can purr." Ruby said, slowly getting quieter as she went until she was barely louder than a whisper.
Blake heard everything Ruby had said thanks for her faunus ears. "Yes Ruby I can purr though I try to not to because humans normally use it as an excuse to call us animals." Blake answered, her ears laying flat against her hair.
"I think it's cute like your ears." Ruby replied, smiling up at Blake.
"Thank you." Blake said blushing.
The pair sat in silence for a few moments before the front door slammed open.
"Kids i'm back!" Taiyang called from the front door.
"DAD." Ruby squealed before rushing to the front door and tackling her father. "Did you miss me did you miss me?" Ruby yelled, wrapped around her father's waist.
"Of course honey." Taiyang replied with a grin on his face.
Blake slowly entered the hallway, looking very shy.
"Oh Dad this is Blake. She is my teammate from Beacon." Ruby said, now standing next to Blake.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Mr Xiao Long." Blake said as she reached out to shake Taiyang's hand.
"The pleasures all mine but please call me Taiyang or Tai." Taiyang replied, shaking Blake's hand. "So is your other teammate here as well?" he asked as he started walking towards the lounge room.
"Ice Queen is coming over in a day or so." Yang called as she reached the bottom of the stairs
"Ahh there's my little sun dragon." Taiyang called, meeting his eldest daughter at the entrance to the lounge room.
"Hey Dad." Yang said as she hugged her father.
"Little sun dragon?" Blake whispered to Ruby, confused about the nickname.
"Yang's full name means little sun dragon and Dads means elder sun dragon." Ruby whispered back as the yellow duo returned to their seats.
"So where's Uncle Qrow?" Yang asked from the recliner opposite Taiyang.
"He apparently had to pick up some things." Taiyang replied as Yang imitated drinking from a flask causing Ruby to giggle.
"Dad tell us about the mission you and Uncle Qrow went on?" Ruby asked looking starry eyed at her father.
"Oh wasn't much just a couple Beowolf packs that were terrorising a village." Taiyang replied.
"Don't forget the part where their badass uncle cut off the alpha's head." Qrow said as he entered the lounge room.
"UNCLE QROW." Ruby screamed as she tackled her uncle
"Hey kid. Hey firecracker." Qrow said to his two nieces. "who's your friend?" Qrow asked, nodding his head towards Blake as Ruby was still attached to his arm.
"That's Blake she's Yangs partner." Ruby said now on Qrows back.
"Ah I see. Is my firecracker making it hell for you?" Qrow asked jokingly.
"No Sir. Not at all" Blake replied, obviously nervous.
"Drop the Sir crap kid It makes me feel old." Qrow retorted as he finally unattached Ruby from himself.
"You are old." Yang said, looking straight at her uncle.
"Watch it firecracker." Qrow replied.
Yang burst into laughter as Qrow stood there smirking, both use to the others antics.
The group continued talking about missions and school for a few hours and through dinner.
After dinner Ruby and Blake retreated to Ruby's room to watch videos on her scroll.
"Hey Blake would you be mad if I told Dad and Uncle Qrow about us?" Ruby asked sheepishly.
"I'm not really sure. Why?" Blake queried
"I just don't like keeping things from Dad and I don't want you to think i'm ashamed of being with you." Ruby replied, tapping her index fingers together.
Blake sat still thinking for a few moments before sighing. "If you want to tell your Dad I don't mind."
"C-Can we go and tell him now please?" Ruby asked doing her best impression of a puppy.
"Ok." Blake sighed before being dragged out of the room and down the stairs by Ruby.
Once downstairs the ladybug duo found Taiyang and Qrow sitting at the dining table.
"H-hey Dad can we talk to you for a minute?" Ruby nervously asked, standing in the entryway to the dining room.
"Sure honey what's wrong?" Taiyang asked, staring at his daughter and her teammate.
"U-Uh well um." Ruby muttered, trying to find the words to tell her father about her and Blake.
"What Ruby is trying to say is she wanted to tell you both that we are dating." Blake stated, squeezing Ruby's hand to try and keep what little confidence she had strong.
There was silence in the room for a few moments before Taiyang stood up from his chair.
"First off I just want to say Blake I have no issues with you being a Faunus and neither does Qrow." Taiyang started, causing both girls to feel slightly on edge. "Secondly if you both are happy then I have absolutely no problem with you dating my daughter." Both girls calmed down a bit after hearing that Taiyang was happy for them. "However if you ever hurt my little girl there will be nowhere you can hide from me. Understood?" Taiyang finished, raw anger flowing from him.
"Y-yes yes I understand. I never want to hurt Ruby." Blake replied, scared of the once peaceful man she had met earlier that day.
"Good. Then i'm happy for you two." Taiyang said, his expression and presence returning to their normal cheery self.
The pair started making their way back towards the stairs before Qrow coughed to get their attention.
"Before you go I want to have a word with you Blake. In private." Qrow said, now standing from his chair.
"Qrow." Ruby whined, knowing what the talk would be about.
"Don't worry kid I won't break your girlfriend. Go up to your room." Qrow smirked before walking towards the workshop with Blake in tow.
Once they were in the workshop, Qrow locked the door to stop any red clad heroes from breaking in.
"So what is your plan with my niece?" Qrow asked, leaning on the door.
"I don't understand." Blake answered, wondering what Qrow had planned for her.
"I don't want my niece sitting here crying because you got with her then left. So what is your plan?" Qrow repeated, now standing straight up.
"I love Ruby that's all there is to it." Blake said, trying to sound as confident as possible.
"Good and I better not hear you hurt her or forced her into anything either or I will show you to a new level of pain you will never forget." Qrow said, his presence darkening and making Blake feel like she was choking.
In complete terror, Blake couldn't find the words necessary to appease Qrow causing her to just simply nod at the crazed man in front of her.
Happy his message was received, Qrow opened the workshop door for a terrified Blake to run back up to Ruby's bedroom and into her girlfriend's arms where she slept again that night.
Of course Qrow is the one to go overboard.
Eleven chapters in and we meet Qrow and Taiyang. Hopefully i did them both justice in this.
Next chapter Weiss will show up and find out what she's missed. I had planned to have her show up in this chapter but after writing it I found it just felt like I pinned it on at the end.
So question to everyone. Is it bad I already have the next Cardin getting his butt whooped (off camera this time) scene worked out?
As always if you enjoyed, hated, have constructive criticism or have a question please leave a review or pm me so I can make this story and any future stories I write better. Thanks for reading.
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