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Chapter 14: Talk
Blake could feel her friendship with Sun being strained. At first things were awkward after they decided to just stay friends. Then things were a bit back to normal after a few weeks. But somehow, after getting with Coco, he started acting awkward around her again.
Sure they still sent each other texts and favors, but whenever it was a regular hangout, he would make sure there was someone else with them. At first she thought it was his way of trying to liven up the party, but when she tried to be alone with him just to chat, he'd try to walk away until they were with another friend.
"And that's why I'm coming to you." Blake said to Sun's current girlfriend in a cafe. "Maybe he said something to you about me? It's starting to get irritating having a good friend act like that."
"I'm not sure myself." Coco said sipping some coffee. "I mean, I know about your history together, and he even told me a few times that the two of you have finally moved on. But this sounds like something else."
"Maybe you could get an answer out of him?" The cat faunus suggested in a sad tone. "Besides you, I don't wanna turn to my team for advice."
"I can see that." The fashionista said, swirling her cup. "Truthfully, I think what he's doing is kinda mean now. I'm glad you came to me instead of going to your team."
"Can you imagine what they would have done?" Blake said with a chuckle.
"I can almost see them coming on to conclusions like I stopped Sun from going to you." She chuckled.
"Or that Sun was secretly plotting a prank to get me back for …yeah. Not gonna tell you what happened." Blake said with a nervous grin.
"…Was it the spaghetti incident?" Coco guessed.
"Wow." Blake said impressed. "You two hold no secrets, do you?"
"We hold some." She said with a blush. "We just tell about some of the good and bad that we're confident to say. But back to Sun and his attitude to you. Yeah. I'll have a talk with him."
"Great!" Blake said grateful. "Jaune and I were hoping he'd join us in our morning free-runs. He was supposed to join us like you suggested, but he keeps avoiding it."
"You and Jaune are still at it?" Coco said with a raised brow. She was going to have a talk with her boyfriend for lying when she saw him. "Sun said you guys were done with the squats."
"Honey." She said with a devious grin. "Making Jaune do squats is my piece of relief. Imagine Sun doing squats until his whole body is glistening in sweat and his face is straining to pick himself back up."
"…" Coco immediately placed her shaking coffee on her table with a glazed look in her eyes. "Think I can join?"
"You were part of the invite." She said with a smirk.
A few hours later
"Honey! I'm home!" Sun joked, arriving at the reclaimed RAWC room with a bag of chips and fruit. "I would have been here early, but Neptune is still going through his stages."
"He's still hung up over her?" Jaune said over his comic book. Ruby was currently using his back as a pillow and napping on the Ursa rug. "It's been two weeks!"
"Yeah, well …I don't know." He shrugged. "…Stupid nerd. How's Weiss holding up?"
"Better." Jaune mumbled. "A bit clingy with us, but I'm sure it'll pass."
"Cool. …Anyways!" Sun looked around with a goofy smile. "Where's my sweet honey?"
"She went out half an hour ago." Jaune said goig back to his book.
"She's not here?" He said in disbelief. "But she messaged me to come over!"
"Last I saw, she and Blake were going to town to get some coffee and hang-out." Jaune said lazily, never looking away from his book.
"OH NO!" Sun shouted, startling Ruby awake.
"What's the problem? It's just coffee." The blonde knight said casually.
"That's not it!" Sun said panicked. "She's with Blake!"
"What's wrong with my teammate?" Ruby said miffed that she was woken up. Jaune was looking at him with a level gaze now.
"Nothing." He said trying to calm them down. "It's just that …promise you won't laugh?"
"Promise." They said. They even crossed a line over their chest.
"I always get in trouble with Blake around." He said not meeting their eyes.
"…That's ridiculous." Ruby waved off. "You always get in trouble no matter who."
"Yeah but with Blake its always worse!" He complained.
"Name three in chronological order." Jaune challenged. No way he could do chronological.
"White fang. Harbor. First year." He started. Okay, maybe he could. "Downtown Vale! The time Yang went crazy and I got texted to do her a solid! COCO got involved! Four days ago. THE MOTHERF**KING SPAGHETTI INCIDENT!"
"Sun!" Both scolded while pointing to a jar. It read: Sun Ragekong money jar.
"Fuck!" As part of his anger management, Velvet made a jar for Sun to place money every time he got excessively angry.
"That makes two this week." Ruby quipped, lying back on Jaune's back.
"Back to the whole thing with Blake and trouble." Jaune piped in. "If she's really dangerous, then why don't I get in any danger around her?"
Sun had to sputter in disbelief at what he heard. "Are you! Are you kidding me? She always puts you in danger! Remember the time she asked you for a solid to dig a 6 foot hole in Emerald Forest?"
"So?" He asked casually. "I've dug plenty of holes for my friends. Including Ruby."
"Yo." She said acknowledging it.
"How about that solid to set one of Nora's grenades in Port's class." He recounted. Edgar got loose and classes were cancelled to capture him that day.
"I did that willingly." He answered.
"…The time she told you to get a piece of Yang's hair." He said his final piece.
"…Okay you got me there." Jaune said looking down.
"Exactly!" Sun said crossing his arms. "That's what I get for hanging around Blake. I keep getting into trouble with her. I still remember the first time I met her."
Flashback
"I'm a great stowaway!" Sun said running from the cops. Passing by team RWBY, he singled Blake out and had one thought in mind before winking at her and escaping the cops.
'Her eyes are pretty.' His inner nerd gushed.
End Flashback
"Curse you one year younger me!" Sun scolded himself. "You know you weren't looking at her eyes!"
"Is that why you've been avoiding her?" Coco said, entering the room.
"BABE!" He shouted in surprise. "…How much did you hear?"
"Enough." She said with a smirk. "Enough to let me tell you that you're being dumb about it. By the way: anger jar."
Grumbling, Sun went to the anger jar to put ten Lien in. The good thing about it was that his friends would also join in on it. Yang was in the lead followed by him and Weiss.
"Back to Blake." She continued. "You're being ridiculous about it. You can't avoid her all the time."
"That's why I've been trying to bring someone else with me." He explained. "If I have someone around, maybe she won't be quick to rope me in. And if I do get roped in, I could have someone else with me."
"So you don't want to be around Blake?" She asked with a raised brow.
"I still see her as a friend. I just think it'd be better for my safety if it wasn't just me around her." He confirmed their friendship. Coco was relieved it wasn't anything too dramatic.
"Then why don't you just say 'no' to her solids?" She asked the obvious solution. Sun looked down in shame and covered his mouth.
"…lids." He mumbled.
"I'm sorry. What?"
"I owe her thirty more solids!" He cried in shame.
"What did you do to get that many?" Jaune piped in surprise. "I've already narrowed mine to five!"
"I'm curious too." Ruby said looking up from Jaune's back. "I only owe her two now."
"How many of you guys owe Blake a solid?" Coco asked shocked.
"Let's see. Me, Yang, the old guy in Simple Wok, Weiss owes her one, Neptune, Velvet, Ruby, Nora, …" As Jaune listed off more people, Coco wondered what they asked Blake for and why they went to Blake in the first place. When Jaune mentioned Goodwitch, she had to stop him there.
"Is there no one who doesn't owe her a solid?" She asked shocked.
"Um …There's …no wait, he owes her ten. …Oh! Pyrrha!" Jaune recollected. "Yeah. She's the only one I know who doesn't owe a solid."
The three in the room could believe that. Coco exhaled deeply before looking at the leaders on the rug.
"Ok kiddies! Outside." Coco told the two leaders, pointing to the door. "Mommy and Daddy need to have a talk."
"But-" Ruby never got to make an argument when Coco lowered her shades. "Okay. Jaune! Piggyback!"
Getting off the floor, the two leaders decided to leave the two alone. It wasn't the first time this had happened and they knew it wouldn't be the last. Closing the door and locking it, Coco looked at her boyfriend without her shades on.
"Sun." She started while crossing her arms. "I love you. I really do. I had the kiddies leave so you can tell only me what it was that caused you to owe Blake that many solids. I'm asking because I'm really concerned."
"You're gonna laugh!" He whined while messing his hair.
"After the spaghetti incident, I'm pretty sure I won't find anything else as funny." She said with a smile.
He sighed in defeat and ushered her close so he could whisper it into her ear.
Outside
Jaune and Ruby were currently lying on the floor of the halls with Ruby using Jaune as a rug.
"Why do you like lying on my back?" Jaune asked.
"It's really nice and warm." Ruby said while reading a comic book. "And with your butt being nice and firm, it's like a bed that's not too hard, but not to soft either. Why? Am I too heavy?"
"No." He said reading his own book. "This kind of helps with my back problems. Rolling during free-runs can really take a toll on a person's back."
"I-" Before Ruby could say anything, The Rock Room exploded into a high fit of laughter.
"YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T LAUGH!" They heard the muffled sounds of Sun crying in betrayal.
"I'm sorry!" They heard Coco cry between fits of laughter. "But I just wasn't expecting something like that!"
"Come on!" Her boyfriend whined. They heard him stomping now. "I regret telling you now!"
"It's okay sweety." Coco said still giggling. "I don't think any less of you. That must have taken a lot of guts to ask for."
"Can we come back in?" Ruby yelled through the door.
"NO!" Sun shouted. "Go back to your team dorms. Mommy and Daddy are taking a long time talking!"
"It better just be talking!" Jaune warned. "We live in there too."
"WHY YOU-!" Sun started to rage. They could hear him stomping to the door.
"Ruby! Scatter!" Jaune panicked. After being used as a bat in Wukong's rage, Jaune had a bit of trauma Velvet was helping with.
Inside
"Okay. They're gone." Sun said in calmly. Turning back, he saw his girlfriend still laughing. "Oh come on! Its not that funny."
"That's cause its on you." She quipped. Clearing her throat and calming down, Coco composed herself. "Back to the matter at hand. I still think you should talk with Blake about her solids. Sure your favor is totally worth forty, I think some of the solids she asks you are worth five or ten. So if I remember … you were bumped down to eight or ten solids. I think those extreme solids was her way of making you pay her back quick."
"Seriously?" He said in excitement. "YES!"
Grabbing her in a bear hug, he lifted her off the ground and started spinning her. "This is great! Now we can go back to hanging out without me feeling any impending danger!"
"That's good to hear." She laughed still being spun around. "Cuz she invited us to join her and Jaune during their free-runs. You know? The one you said they stopped?"
Sun immediately dropped her out of shock. Ignoring his girlfriend saying ouch or the slap he got to his arm, images of Jaune's workout instantly flashed in his head. Only instead of Jaune groaning in pain and straining, it was him!
Five Days later
"Sixty-Seven!" Sun groaned while trying to lift himself up. "Sixty-eight! …Sixty-nine!"
He stopped and never got back up while stuck in that position.
"You can't stop at sixty-nine again Sun." Blake said, never taking her eyes off Jaune's gluts. "Jaune is on ninety now."
Both men whimpered in pain while straining to get back up. Coco was currently sitting behind Sun while biting her lower lips. Her shades reflected exactlty at what she was staring at. Getting a tap on the shoulder from Blake, she turned to see her giving a thumbs up.
"Okay Sun!" Blake said after Sun made it to a hundred. "You rest up while JAune shows Coco the basics."
"Why can't I show her the basics?" He panted while massaging his sore cheeks. Coco immediately reveled at the sight.
"Because you're unable to stand at the moment." Cueing for the two to give them some privacy, Jaune pulled Coco over to an area where she could practice the Kong Vault. It was now just the two faunus friends.
"So…" Blake said sitting next to Sun. "You trying to avoid me?"
"…Sorry." He muttered not looking at her.
"Sun." Blake started calm. "Who am I?"
"…Blake." He knew where this was going.
"And how long have you known me?" She prompted.
"Two years." He grumbled.
"And those two years." She continued. "When have you ever thought that trying to avoid me would ever work?"
"Never." He whimpered.
"So now here we are." She motioned to his current state. "I was trying to be nice by giving you easy things to lose all the solids you owe me, but I guess you just didn't appreciate them."
"C'mon! I finally got a girlfriend!" He started begging. "Please?"
"What?" She said innocently. "I'm not telling you to do something …yet."
"Y'see!" He panicked. "You said yet! That means there's something you want me to do!"
"Don't worry Sun." She comforted too sweetly. "You only have ten left. The lst two solids I give are worth five each."
By now, Sun was whimpering into the ground. "Just tell me so I can give my last rights to Coco!"
"Solid 1." Blake started. "…Worth 5 solids. Do me this big solid…"
Sun was now tearing up.
"And buy us some energy drinks. You know what Coco wants, but get me and Jaune some of that ElectroLight." Blake said casually.
"…That's it?" Sun said in relief. "I an do that. Lay the next one on me!"
"Yeah… no." Blake said with a mischievous smile. "This one I need to keep. It's a future plan."
"Oh come one!" He whined.
"Don't worry." She lamented. "I'll tell you when I need it. It'll probably be in a few months. Give or take how well I time it."
"Why did I ever like you?" He asked rhetorically.
"Cuz you liked my pretty eyes." She teased.
"…Jaune told you didn't he?" He was going to revenge so hard when he could walk again.
"No. Ruby did." She said looking at her nails. "Isn't being friends great?"
"Oh yeah." He said half dead. "I love you guys …so much."
"Missed you too pal!" Blake laughed while patting Sun on the head. "Now get your butt up and get us our drinks. Coco's really working it."
END
A/N: If most of you are wondering why I'm updating quick …you know. Hehehe. Anyways.
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