The Cuddling….
Cuddle ninja.
Nora moved with the grace of a shadow as she prepared her supplies and her plans. The weather may have turned warmer but Nora missed her cuddle buddies and Nora wasn't much for restraint when it came to what she thought of as the finer things in life. Gracefully she moved across her dark dorm room heading for the door… Before tripping over her own two feet and face planting to the floor. "Oww." She muttered quietly as her nose had bumped the floor.
Instantly light flooded the room as Ren had awoken and somehow managed to make it from his bed to the light switch of the room in a matter of seconds. Nora looked up as Ren stood over her looking down.
"Nora." Ren said calmly. "What are you doing up at this time of night?"
"Um… Was just going to go to the bathroom?" Nora tried.
"Dressed in a homemade ninja costume carrying a bag?" Ren asked once again in his totally calm voice.
"You never know when there might be, um, ah… Grimm cockroaches?"
"There are no such things as Grimm cockroaches Nora."
"You don't know. They might be ninja Grimm cockroaches. That would explain why no one has ever seen them."
"Nora." Ren said raising his voice slightly.
"What's going on?" Pyrrha asked waking up. Her question woke Jaune up and he too looked around sleepily.
"I caught Nora sneaking out of our room carrying a bag." Ren explained.
Jaune with a long suffering sigh got up and in his onesie he pattered over to where Nora was still lying on the floor and picked up the bag she had been carrying and sitting down next to Pyrrha on her bed he opened the bag.
"Let's see. We have several rolls of duct tape, several zip ties…" Jaune face turned a funny looking pale color as he pulled another item from Nora's bag of tricks. "A ball gag? Where the Hell did you get a ball gag from? Wait! I don't want to know. Just tell me on whom you were planning on using this stuff on?"
"Me? I wasn't planning on using that stuff on anyone. Certainly not on Weiss to keep her from raising a fuss as I cuddled with Ruby." Nora quickly babbled before wincing at herself. "I mean you can't prove that stuff is mine."
Ren sighed. "We found it in a bag on your person as you were trying to sneak out of our room."
"Completely circumstantial." Nora said leaping to her feet to defend herself.
Jaune, Pyrrha and Ren all sighed. "Nora." Jaune tried. "Why?"
"The best sleep I ever had was when I was cuddling Ruby. None of you will cuddle with me and I just want to have that pleasant sleep again. Is that too much to ask?"
"It is if you are planning on holding someone hostage as your cuddle buddy and tying up her teammates!" Jaune said. "By Dust, can you imagine what Yang would do to you if she found out you had tied up Weiss and ball gagged her and was sleeping with her sister Ruby?"
"You mean before or after she finished laughing at Weiss?" Nora asked.
Pyrrha gave a slight tilt of her head and then looked at Jaune. "She does have a point on that one."
"Don't encourage her Pyrrha." Jaune said with wide eyes looking at Pyrrha. "Whose side are you on?"
Pyrrha gave a sheepish shrug. "It was kind of fun cuddling with Ruby." She said softly to herself.
"For your own continued good health as well as our own team's we're going to have to put a stop to your plans for tonight." Jaune said to Nora as he got up off the bed. Pyrrha rose as well and with Ren they started to surround Nora.
Intense sounds of a scuffle sounded outside Team JNPR's room before the door slowly opened. Nora glanced back into the room where her teammates lay duct taped to their individual beds. All of them were glaring at her, well as much as people duct taped to beds could raise their heads to glare at her anyway. "Nighty night." Nora sang to them as she clicked off the light to the room and quietly shut the door. Stealthily she made her way down the lighted hallway towards Team RWBY's room. Reaching the door Nora silently tried the doorknob only to find that it was securely locked. Well, it had been a faint hope that someone might have forgotten to lock the door that night but Nora was prepared. Reaching into her pocket she pulled out her scroll and tried to unlock the door with it. Of course her scroll didn't have the right code to unlock RWBY's door. Why would it? But Nora shook the scroll vigorously and then then hit the back of it with her fist a few times. Pressing the unlock option one more time she smiled as Team RWBY's door gave off a faint click. "And they say I'm no good with technical things." Nora smiled to herself.
Opening the door Nora creeped into the room. Weiss was a light sleeper Nora knew but Yang and Ruby could sleep through an avalanche. The real problem was Blake. Many a time Ruby had complained where Nora and Team JNPR could hear that Blake was an extremely light sleeper. Many a time Ruby had gotten up in the night to go to the bathroom or sneak out for a cookie and Blake had awoken almost instantly to demand to know where Ruby was going.
The only light in the room was coming from moonlight streaming in through their window and Nora slipped in and shut the door quietly. There wasn't a sound to be heard in the room and Nora eased one foot after another as she tried to make her way to Blake's bed to subdue her before she could raise an alarm.
Nora only made it about a foot into the room before the room's lights came on. Nora blinked and looked back at the wall light switch to see Weiss standing there fully dressed with one finger on the switch and her other hand holding Myrtenaster, her rapier. Yang and Ruby were sitting up in their beds dressed for sleeping and watched as Nora continued to scan the room. She spotted Blake standing beside the door Nora had come in.
"Um, hey guys. Whatcha all doing up?" Nora asked in her best innocent voice. Not easy to do when you have broken into someone's room dressed as a ninja.
"Told you she would try it." Weiss said looking at Yang.
"Well damn. Okay, you were right. Two days without a single Weiss pun I guess." Yang reluctantly stated.
Nora blinked at Yang. "You guys had a bet going I would do this?"
Blake shrugged. "I told Yang it was inevitable but she wouldn't listen to me."
Ruby in her pajamas looked fearfully at Nora. "You were going to tie me up to cuddle with me?" She asked
"No." Nora said horrified that Ruby would think that of her. "I was just going to tie up your teammates. I figured you would be asleep and not realize I crawled into your bed until morning."
"Well. That makes it better." Yang said flatly.
"See? Yang agrees with me." Nora tried.
"I was joking." Yang said.
Suddenly outside of Team RWBY's room sounds of a scuffle inside could be heard before silence descended. The silence lasted a moment before the door to the room opened. A few moments later the door to Team JNPR's room opened and the lights came on. A taped up Jaune, Pyrrha and Ren watched as Yang entered their room carrying something on her shoulder. Reaching Nora's bed, Yang hefted up the object and none too gently slammed it into the bed. Ren, Pyrrha and Jaune could see what looked like a duct taped mummy was lying on the bed. The only visible thing on it was Nora's eyes peering out from the folds of duct tape over the head.
Weiss walked into the room and looking around she shook her head. Walking over to Jaune's bed she reached down and savagely pulled the tape over his mouth off.
"Hey thanks." Jaune said and then his eyes grew wide. "OWWWWW!" He yelped. "Did you have to rip the tape off that way?" He asked as he worked his lips to make sure they were still attached to his face.
"Keep control of your teammates Jaune." Weiss told him.
"Hey Nora can be a handful at the best of times. How do you suggest I control her?"
"Duct tape seems to work." Weiss stated.
Yang more carefully and gently pulled the tape over Ren's mouth off.
"We can't keep her taped up all the time. "Ren pointed out. "Speaking of, how are we supposed to get her free from all that for classes in the morning?"
Weiss smiled a chilling smile. "I volunteer to help get it off of her tomorrow."
Nora's mummy rapidly shook her head as best as she could.
"Um, thanks but I think we can manage." Jaune replied.
Yang shaking her head walked out of the room.
Weiss turned to leave.
"Hey!" Jaune called out. "Aren't you going to untie us?" He asked.
Weiss looked back and gave her chilling smile once again. "No." She said and walked out shutting the door behind her.
The next night, once again ninja Nora prepared for Operation Ruby Cuddle. This time she would avoid the hallway and the door all together and sneak along the narrow ledge between dorm windows. With luck and the warmer weather, Ruby and her team would have their window open a crack to let in the cool breezes and Nora would be able to slip in directly to Ruby's bed and cuddle her. Let Weis sit up all night long next to the door Nora thought to herself. "I will have the last laugh." She thought to herself. Easing out onto the ledge Nora quietly stood up and leaned against the wall. Inch by inch she began to sidle towards Ruby's window. Nothing was going stop her this time…
"Hello Nora."
Nora blinked, swallowed and looked to her right towards Ruby's dorm window. Standing calmly on the ledge next to the window was Weiss.
"Hey Weiss. Fancy meeting you here."
"Nice night isn't it?" Weiss commented.
"Yeah. Nice view from up here to." Nora replied.
"Glad you like it. You'll be seeing a lot of it tonight." Weiss said turning towards Nora and with a skitch sound pulled a length of duct tape off a roll.
Nora, her eyes wide, turned back to her own dorm room window to find it now firmly closed and her team looking out at her. "Open the window!" Nora yelled at them.
Jaune shook his head. "Tough love Nora. You are going to have to learn to leave Ruby alone."
"Legs will be broken over this!" Nora promised before turning back to face Weiss.
The next morning Ozpin and Glynda Goodwitch were walking around the campus. "Beautiful day today after all that recent bad weather." Glynda said.
Ozpin smiled. "Yes. Lovely warm morning. Everything is peaceful and calm…" Ozpin paused with his ever present coffee cup half raised to his lips as he happened to glance up at one of the dorms. "Glynda?" He asked.
"Yes?"
"Is that Nora Valkyrie duct tape to the wall up there?"
Glynda glanced up. "It would appear to be so." She sighed.
Ozpin continued to sip his coffee as he tilted his head trying to figure out how the young hammer user got up there. "Do you think she snores and her team did that to her?"
Glynda considered for a moment but then shook her head. "I can't feature Jaune Arc or Pyrrha Nikos doing something like that… But I do now want to put a few rolls of duct tape in our emergency equipment in the event we have to spend another night with Bart or Peter."
Ozpin seemed to consider a moment before nodding. "Good idea. So, should we get Miss Valkyrie down from there?"
Glynda shook her head. "I thought you said students should learn to be creative about their problems themselves?"
Again Ozpin considered and then nodded.
Two nights in a row Nora hadn't slept, not that she could blame the fact on that she hadn't been cuddling Ruby. More like her plans kept backfiring on her causing her to miss sleep but Nora wasn't one to be swayed by the facts!
This was the night! And no elaborate plans. Straight forward and to the point was the plan of tonight. Nora brought her war hammer with her. She was going just bash the door open and tell Ruby and her team that she was cuddling Ruby tonight and if they resisted? Well… Nora wouldn't really break anyone's legs but she would show that she meant business in any case. So Nora walked boldly up to Ruby's door room door and with just a light tap with her hammer caused the door to pop open. Nora leapt into the room with her hammer raised and… Found the room was completely empty.
Ren walking down the hallway looked into the room past Nora. "Nora. Ruby and her team are away on a mission that will last two days. Remember? We were there in class with them when they were given the mission."
Nora slumped letting her hammer drop to the floor. "I must have dozed off. I haven't slept for a while you know." She looked at Ren with a sad puppy dog pout. "Cuddle with me tonight Ren? Please?"
"Will you watch your hands Nora?"
"I can't promise that."
"And that is why I won't cuddle with you." Ren said as he walked on to their own dorm room.
Ruby and her team arrived back at campus on a Sunday. All of them were dead tired from eliminating a large group of Grimm Ursas from a nearby settlement and was looking forward to napping and resting the entire day off away. Ruby pushed the door to their dorm room to find a sad pathetic looking Nora sitting in the middle of the floor. Weiss bristled and started looking for the rolls of duct tape she had on hand for just such an occasion but Ruby held up a hand stopping her.
"Nora. What are you doing in our dorm room?"
"Please Ruby! I'm begging you. Just let me take a quick nap cuddling you? Please? I haven't slept well in a week. My team won't cuddle with me and I really just need it to sleep. PLEASE?!"
Ruby sighed.
"Please?" Nora asked again thinking Ruby was going to deny her.
"Oh alright." Ruby breathed.
Weiss was nearly purpling in rage. "Ruby no. If you keep indulging her like this will never get rid of her. It'll be like feeding a stray dog or giving a stray cat some milk. They never go away."
Blake shot Weiss an angry look at the cat remark but didn't bother to say anything.
Ruby gestured helplessly to Nora sitting on the floor. "Look at her Weiss. She's coming unraveled. One quick nap with her cuddling me. It should be okay as long as she promises not to pull anything."
"I promise. No pulling, tweaking, licking or anything!" Nora was quick to say.
"I still don't trust her." Weiss said folding her arms.
"Weeeeell…" Ruby said drawing it out. "What if you were there with us? To make sure Nora behaves herself?"
"Ruby Rose!" Weiss shouted. "Are you saying you want three of us in your bed cuddling you for a nap?"
Ruby blushed bright red. "Well when you put it like that it sounds dirty but I just meant if you would feel better keeping an eye on Nora that it would be… Um, okay with me?"
Weiss continued to stand with her arms folded and nearly tapping her foot before sighing. "Okay. Under those circumstances I think I might allow…"
" 'tregretthis." Nora said and grabbing up Ruby she practically flew up to Ruby's bed with her. One would almost think that speed was her semblance and not Ruby's she moved so fast.
"Hey! Not without me!" Weiss yelled and quickly leapt up on the bed as well. "Ruby agreed to cuddle with you. Not let you sleep on top of her! Get off! If anyone gets to sleep on her it will be me!"
Yang shared a look with Blake and said in a mock whisper. "I am so getting that plaque for our door that says, Ruby Rose. Girl everyone wants to wake up on top of."
The sheet over the top of Ruby's bed parted and Ruby looked out at her sister. "I…WILL…END…YOU…YANG!"
Blake watched as Yang actually shivered. "For someone everyone considers so cuddly, my sis can be scary when she wants to be."