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A/N: Hey all! Jitterwhack here. First off, I'd like to say: WOW! I did not expect to get this many views. At all! I mean I know RWBY is a great show and all, but for my writing to get this many good reviews and follows at the start? I must be doing something right. Thanks for the support readers. It means a lot. Second: If you guys read the review and recognized it as a line from TFS, then prepare to for a few laughs. Anyways! On with the fic!
Chapter 6: Leaders Time
It's hard being a leader. Everyone looks to you for an answer, and if they don't remember you for your success, they remember you for all your failures. That's how the leaders of team RWBY, JNPR, SSSN, and CFVY feel. So one fine day, they decided to have a day where all four of them could get away from their teams, and just relax with their fellow leaders.
And that's where we find Ruby, Jaune, Sun, and Coco lounging in an ice cream café enjoying frozen dairy while just talking about anything while having a few laughs.
"Hahaha! That really happen, Jaune?" Sun asked while holding his ribs. Coco was holding a napkin to her nose to try and stop the frappe from squirting out her nose, and Ruby was wiping the stain she made spitting her milkshake on the table. "You've gotta be f**king with us."
"It's true." Jaune wheezed out. "And that fat stripper laughed at me when I was leaving too!"
Coco didn't care anymore, she let loose her drink from her nose. The café doubled in laughter after what she did.
"It's great being able to get away from my team." Coco said. "I always have to act all cool and composed. I can't even laugh as loud as I want to without being looked at badly."
"I hear ya." Sun said while putting an arm over her shoulder. "I'm supposed to be the leader of my team, but they all keep messing around with me to the point where it pisses me off. And sometimes… Sometimes they forget I'm the one that gets the blame for their f**k ups."
"Let it out Sun." Ruby said as she finished cleaning her mess.
"So here's what happened the a few days ago…" Sun started.
Flashback
Sun and Neptune were currently in the hotel room their team was staying in. It would have been normal if Sun wasn't holding onto Neptune's shirt while hitting him with a paper fan.
"SO WHAT? YOU THINK JUST CAUSE YOU'RE IN A SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP MAKES YOU THINK YOU'RE BETTER THAN ME?" Sun shouted while still hitting Neptune.
"No!" Neptune cried through the slaps.
"WRONG ANSWER!" And the swatting got faster.
After he and Blake decided to stay just friends, Neptune had been teasing Sun about his failed love life. He took the jokes great at first, going along with them. But after weeks, the bluenette did not let up on them. It got on Sun's nerves that he snapped as he did now.
Before he could land more slaps on his best friend, the PA called for him. Before leaving, he gave Neptune a message. "I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU YET! YOU BETTER STILL BE HERE WHEN I GET BACK!"
Heading down, he saw Sage and Scarlett sitting in the lobby looking guilty while his commanding officer was sitting across from them. What made things worse was that the lobby was jam packed with other teams. And they were all looking at him with judging eyes.
Sun had to restrain himself from screaming in rage there.
End flashback
"What did they do?" Coco asked while placing a hand on Sun's knee.
"They caused a social disorder." Sun grumbled. "It was a prank to see who could get anyone to help them dump a body bag. My commanding officer blamed me for 'not taking the lead with your team' or something like that."
"Poor baby." Coco cooed while rubbing his head.
Jaune and Ruby raised a brow at the scene.
"At least you were left off with just those words. I got in big trouble with Miss Goodwitch after what happened two days ago." Ruby said happily. "It's bad enough that I'm younger than them, but besides being treated like I'm seven, it's hard to keep them in control when they lose it."
"I gotta hear this." The faunus and fashionista said at the same time.
"It was a great day!" Ruby started. "The school was having a scavenger hunt game. I was walking the halls with Weiss after finding an Ursa mask when…"
Flashback
"Gotcha!" Russell shouted while grabbing Weiss's tiara off her head.
"Hey!" Opening a glyph in front of him, Russel crashed into it and fell to the ground. Grabbing her tiara back, Weiss saw that it was cracked.
"You broke my tiara! …This was a present from my father!" Weiss seethed out.
"Sorry. I'm sure your father was a great man!" Russell said scared.
"I hate my father." Weiss said through gritted teeth.
"…Well then, your dad must have been a real prick. UGAAH!" Weiss dropped kicked him into a wall.
"NOBODY TALKS ABOUT MY FATHER LIKE THAT!" she yelled. Walking to his prone body, Weiss continued to stomp on him. "This! Is! A! Great stress reliever."
After the tenth hit, Ruby thought it was time to butt in. "Um, Weiss? Shouldn't we be getting back to the scavenger hunt?"
Pausing in her stomp, Weiss turned to Ruby with a smile.
"You're right Ruby. Lets see what else we need." Taking out the list, Weiss read the next item. "A finely intact royal accessory. …That's easy, we can just use …my …oh, right."
Hearing Russell laugh at her misfortune, Weiss stomped on his head hard to shut him up. And she succeeded. "Let's just go Ruby."
End flashback
All three were laughing at her story. Jaune remembered that day. He and Ren were chasing Oobleck for his glasses when they saw Weiss beating on Russell.
"Goodwitch gave Weiss a scolding, but I got a detention for not doing my job as a leader properly." Ruby said while drowning the memory in more of her milkshake.
"There, there Ruby." Jaune patted her head. "Let the milkshake ease your pains. What about you Coco?"
"Me?" Coco squeaked out. Looking at all three of them, Coco sighed before telling her woes. "I love my team. I really do. But sometimes… ugh! When we're not on missions I'm like the mother of all three of them."
Massaging her temples, she told of a particular lazy day.
Flashback
"YATSUUUUUU!" Velvet shouted early in the morning.
Looking up from his cereal, Yatsuhashi saw an angry Velvet marching up to hi while holding an empty toilet paper roll. "You didn't replace the empty roll! And you stained the seats!"
"Couldn't you have told me that after I finished eating?" Yatsuhashi asked in disgust.
"Couldn't you have cleaned up yourself before others walk in your mess?" she sassed back.
"It's way too early for this." Fox grumbled as he rolled out of bed. "Why don't you guys do that somewhere else?"
"You wouldn't be saying the same thing if it were you Fox!" Velvet said. "How would you feel if you went to use the toilet and almost sat in someone else's piss?"
"Seriously! I'm still eating here." The tall swordsman piped in.
"Just say you're sorry man." Fox said tiredly. "She wont shut up until you do."
"Is that supposed to be a female stereotype?" Velvet huffed.
"No. That was a Velvet stereotype." Fox said sarcastically.
"…I hate you both!" Throwing the roll at Fox and sticking her tongue out at Yatsuhashi, Velvet moves to her bean bag chair and faces the corner while opening her book. "From now on, I'm never speaking to you outside of missions!"
"Ugh!" Both men groaned.
End flashback
"Really. I go out for my relaxing morning run and soy espresso, and come back to that?" Coco complained.
"I can't do one thing without either of them thinking I'm taking sides! 'You're taking his side Coco!', 'Why don't we all just sign for a bidet?', 'No, no! Men don't squat.' Gugh! I try to keep my cool I front of them and everyone around me, but… F**K!" She ranted.
Scooting closer to her, Sun drapes his arm over her shoulders. "After this, why don't we go to one of those spa places. Just me and you."
"Pfft. You go to spa's?" Coco asked tilting her shades down.
"Heck yeah I do." Sun admitted with no shame. "These muscles need some tender care that stretching doesn't take care of."
"I'd like that." The fashionista said with a small blush.
"I could use a massage." Jaune cut in. "Besides my extra training with Pyrrha, I have to help deal with Nora whenever she gets out of control with her ideas."
"Which one?" they all asked.
"…Wow. It's like throwing me in a candy store with all my favorites and telling me to pick just one." He said trying to choose.
"Just go with the most recent, Jaune." Ruby supported.
"…Okay. This one had a bit of Yang's help in there. You girls remember Ozpin's switch your partners and weapons day?" Getting a nod he continued. "You remember what my partner and weapon was?"
"Don't you mean who- OH!" Ruby exclaimed.
"That's right." Jaune proceeded to retell his misfortune.
Flashback
"This has to be a joke. It's gotta be!" Jaune exclaimed. He was ok with switching the weapon switch. While Blake got his shield and sword, he got Coco's gatling gun. He felt badass walking around with a suitcase that could shift into a gun.
His partner of choice on the other hand… was Zwei.
Nora in her infinite wisdom, thought it would be fun to have Zwei as her partner, so she put his name in the box for her to pick. She didn't know Goodwitch would randomize it by having the names pulled out two at a time.
So she got stuck with Dove, while he was stuck with a corgi. To make matters worse, they were going to be put through a trial run in the Emerald Forest. Their job was to hunt a certain Grimm they were assigned while also avoiding the other teams that got labeled as bounty hunters.
"This is not going to end well for me." Jaune said out loud.
A few hours later
"MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE!" Jaune shouted as he and Zwei tackled a Beowulf together and brought it down. "YEAH!"
A few minutes later
"Who's shooting?" Looking over, he sees Zwei running up to Cardin holding Milo in rifle mode. "You're shooting? Come get some!"
Opening up the case, Jaune starts raining bullets on the former bully. "WRAAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You're dead!"
After seeing Cardin flee, Zwei runs up to Jaune to get his head rubbed. "Good dog."
A few more minutes later
Jaune runs into Ruby who is running from Weiss using Ember Celica. "Ruby?"
Hearing his voice Weiss stops chasing Ruby and heads toward him. Before he knew it, Weiss was in front of him and decked him hard in the dick. Crouching in pain, Weiss pushes him on his back and kicks him in the dick again in Ruby's direction.
Getting up and looking at Ruby while holding his jewels, Jaune looked to Ruby with pain all over his face.
"Ruby! She keeps hitting me in the dick!" Jaune cried. "Why …does she keep hitting me… in the dick!?"
"Come one Jaune! Push through! You have her on the ropes!" Ruby shouted. "I loosened her up for you!"
"That doesn't sound right in any context!" Jaune shouted before getting hit in the dick once more. He swore he could hear Ave Maria as he flew.
Crashing into a tree, he was prepared for another strike to end all strikes, until Zwei popped up and pulled on Weiss's skirt ripping it.
"…Nice." Jaune whispered.
Screaming in embarrassment, Weiss ran to hide far from anyone to escape giving them a free show.
Groaning from getting up, Jaune grabs Zwei and pets him again. "Good dog!"
Turning to Ruby, he places his hand on her head. "Welcome to my cause!"
Many more minutes later
"Found your target, Rubes? Got 'em. I got 'em." Opening the gatling gun, he aims it at a small Nevermore resting on a tree and starts firing. It flies off hearing the loud noise. "DAMN! STUPID F**KING BIRD!"
"Birdy NO!" Ruby shouted after it with Gambol Shroud.
More minutes
"GET TO THE CHOPPER!" Jaune shouts as they near the Bullhead to bring them home as more bullets whiz by them. Hearing a yelp, Jaune turns around to see Zwei limping. "Oh no! Somebody shot him."
Picking Zwei up, he and Ruby jump onto the Bullhead as it takes off. Opening the hatch, Jaune starts spraying the whole field in bullets while laughing like a mad man. Turning back to Zwei, he sees he is healed and happy. "Good dog."
End flashback
"I don't get what's to complain about." Sun said. "It sounded like you had a good time."
"Yeah. And you were really trigger happy with my weapon." Coco added.
"After that, Goodwitch thought I abandoned my partner on the battle field and opted to drag Ruby along with me. I got an F on class participation and a scolding from Pyrrha." Jaune finished.
"Damn. At least my grades weren't affected." Sun said happily.
"Well. That's our team." Coco sighed out. "They're not perfect, but neither are we."
"I can agree to that." Ruby said.
"On the bright side, at least they add more interesting things our lives that make a story to tell." Jaune said proudly.
"Here, here." Giving a toast, Sun and Coco head off to their spa, while Ruby and Jaune walk back to Beacon asking if they saw something between the other leaders.
And if any of the leaders bothered to look a few seats over in the café, they would have noticed an ice cream themed mute girl listening in on their stories and laughing silently at them.
END
A/N: I had this idea when I thought of how crappy it is to be a leader of a group. I speak through some experience after being in charge a few times. It sucks, because the teaches pull you to the side and ask why your team is f**king up. I also like to thank TFS for making videos that brighten my day after it goes shitty.
NEXT TIME ON: THOSE DAYS
"I'll have the cheesecake, with a big smile."
"I'll be taking you as an order!"
"WRAAAAAAAH!"
"OH NO! HE'S BACK!"
"W-what are you?"
"I'm one hell of a butler."