My bedbuddy!
Chapter 6
''Bedtime stories?'' Yang asked with a raised eyebrow.
Blake nodded. ''Yes. We thought that it might help you fall asleep.''
Yang thought about it for a moment. Suddenly her eyes turned red and she looked at her teammates with an angry expression. ''Hang on a second! First lullabies, now bedtime stories!? What am I, a damn child!?''
Blake and Weiss were sweating nervously. They should have thought about this. Yang was surely going to get mad, if she found out that they were treating her like a child. Now they had to somehow defuse the situation or get turned to mush by the blonde's hands.
''Wait!'' Blake yelled out, throwing her hands in front of her. ''There's a reasonable explanation for this!''
Yang narrowed her eyes. ''Oh? And what might THAT be!?''
Blake was struggling for an answer. She couldn't tell Yang the truth, unless she wanted to have her face smashed through the wall. The faunus glanced at Weiss, asking for help. The heiress just gave Blake a look that said 'you're on your own'.
Finally, Blake managed to come up with an excuse she hoped would calm down the blonde and save their lives. ''Umm... You see... Those are methods that work with the human mind the most efficiently!''
Yang raised an eyebrow, but held her angry expression. ''How come?''
''Lullabies and bedtime stories let the mind relax by having it focus on the positive atmospheres they create, like the worlds in stories,'' Blake explained. ''The mind gets into a feeling of safety and thus is allowed to rest. That's why they are used on children. People shift to different methods as they grow up, but their efficiency still remains. In fact, some people who suffer from bad cases of insomnia are helped by reading bedtime stories to them or by singing lullabies.''
Blake stood silent, hoping that Yang would swallow her lie. Weiss stared at the faunus with wide eyes, unable to believe the lie she had just said. The heiress was sure that Yang wouldn't believe any of it and was mentally saying her goodbyes to the world of the living.
However, Yang seemed to actually consider this. She held her chin in her hand and was looking down in thought.
The blonde's eyes turned back to their regular color as she calmed down. ''I guess that makes sense... Just tell me about these things beforehand, okay? I don't want to accidentally bury you guys alive, because I thought you were treating me like a child.''
Although the thought of being buried alive was creeping her out, Blake managed to smile and nod furiously. Weiss was staring at Yang completely dumbstruck. The heiress couldn't believe that Yang had fallen for such an obvious lie. However, they both had one thought going through their minds,'THANK GOD FOR YANG'S STUPIDITY!'
''So what are you guys going to read me?'' Yang asked, breaking the other two girls out of their thoughts.
''Uhhh... Well... Let's see!'' Blake said and went to the bookshelf. She started looking through all of her books, trying to find one that would fit the situation.
Finally choosing a book, the faunus went back to her partner, intent on helping her fall asleep. ''Our story begins in a mystical land...''
(A while later)
''Laaaame!'' Yang cried out. ''Blake, your stories are so LAME!''
Said faunus was starting to get irritated. While she wanted to help her friend, she was getting really tired of the blonde's behavior. Not only had they tried quite a few books, all of which Blake had tried to read to Yang, the blonde had insulted them all by calling them 'lame' or 'boring'. For a book-loving person like Blake, insulting such great pieces of literature was unacceptable.
Weiss was staring at Yang with a blank expression. 'I guess Blake was right. Yang really is the most immature of us!'
Blake closed her book and looked at Yang with a somewhat angry expression on her face. ''Well, since none of my stories so far have been any good, why don't YOU pick the next one?''
Yang perked up at the suggestion. ''Don't mind if I do!''
The blonde went to the bookshelf and started going through them all. This meant that she took a book, looked at it and then threw it away, while saying comments like 'lame' or 'dumb'.
Blake's right eye was twitching as she watched Yang go through her books. Not only was the blonde insulting her books AGAIN, she was throwing them around like trash. Blake didn't just love books, she also took pride in keeping them in order and took utmost care of them. Any kind of damage that was done to her books practically hurt Blake as well. So it was with great patience, and the comforting hand of Weiss on her shoulder, that managed to keep the faunus from attacking her blonde teammate in rage.
Yang didn't seem to notice her teammate's inner turmoil at all and continued to throw Blake's books around. ''Lame. Dumb. Nuh-uh. No. Lame. Lame. Yeah, never! Stupid. Lame. Not in this lifetime! Lame. Lame. OH! This looks good!'' she said, while holding a book in her hands.
Blake looked at the book Yang had chosen, curious about what had passed the blonde's criteria. She immediately blushed from embarrasment though. The book Yang was holding was one of the books in the Ninjas of Love series.
Weiss looked at the book and then her faunus teammate with a raised eyebrow. ''Blake... What exactly is that book?''
Blake started to sputter, trying to come up with an excuse for the book. ''It's uhhh... It's... It's nothing! It's just a silly little romance book, that's all! I don't even know how it got here, honestly! I don't even read that kind of stuff!''
''Well, it seems like it's not the only accidental book on the shelf. There's a couple more here,'' Yang said while gesturing at the bookshelf.
Blake was blushing deeper and deeper, as her teammates watched her. She couldn't come up with a decent excuse, so she simply threw her arms up and yelled,''OKAY! OKAY! It's a cheesy romance book with some smut thrown into it! I like those kinds of books, okay!?''
Blake turned away from her teammates, waiting for them to ridicule her. However, what came surprised her.
''Hey, it's okay. I'm actually kinda glad that you like this kind of stuff,'' Yang said with a gentle smile on her face.
Blake turned to look at Yang with a surprised look on her face. ''R-Really?''
''Yeah! I always thought that you were just a boring dork, who liked only these really boring books that are supposed to be 'classy' and 'intellectual'. It's good to see that you actually like something more normal as well!'' Yang said with glee.
''Thanks... I guess...''
Yang smirked. ''Besides, who am I to judge people who like some of the more raunchy stuff? I personally have enjoyed my fair share of that stuff.'' Yang got a dreamy look on her face and she started blushing. ''You have no idea, how much stuff I have found with girls that are like Ruby. Oh, I plan to try some of it one of these days, like that one where-''
''STOP! STOP! TOO MUCH INFO! WE DON'T NEED TO KNOW!'' Weiss yelled while covering her ears.
Yang glared at the heiress a bit. ''You're no fun...'' She then turned to Blake and offered the book to her. ''Shall we?''
Blake looked at the book and then walked up to Yang and took it. ''We shall.''
(A moment later)
Blake was reading the book to her teammates, who were silently listening to the story. Their attention had been completely taken over by the story and they were blushing. Blake herself had forgotten about their goal and was focused on the story.
Yang was even drooling a bit. It was most likely due to the fact that the characters in the book reminded her of herself and Ruby.
The book was about a young princess named Hanami, who is saved from bandits by a wandering ninja woman named Torayama. The two start traveling together and Torayama starts developing feelings for the young princess, which are eventually returned by Hanami.
The descriptions of these two characters fitted Ruby and Yang very well. Hanami was like Ruby and Torayama was like Yang. Thus Yang couldn't help but start imagining herself and Ruby as the characters, which somewhat destroyed the reason for this whole session that the girls were having. They were supposed to try and get Yang to fall asleep, but thanks to the book that Blake was reading to her, her imagination was running so wild that any hope of falling asleep tonight were practically lost.
Blake was currently reading a rather saucy part of the book. All of the girls' attention was completely absorbed by the story. So absorbed that they almost didn't notice the door suddenly opening up and the last member of team RWBY walking in.
''Hey guys! How are you- Woah, what's going on here?'' Ruby asked when she saw the faces of her teammates. All three girls were blushing to the point that their faces reminded Ruby of her cloak.
Blake quickly hid her book behind her back. Ruby was still so innocent and pure that she didn't want to corrupt her. ''Nothing! Nothing at all! We were just... uhh... just...''
Ruby turned to look at Yang and was immediately creeped out by the way the older girl was staring at her. Yang's eyes were wide open and her mouth was hanging open as well. There was also drool dripping from her mouth.
''Yang? Is something wrong?'' Ruby asked the older girl.
Weiss noticed the state Yang was in and acted quickly. She walked up to Ruby and grabbed her hand. ''Come on, Ruby. There's something I need to discuss with you.''
The heiress dragged the confused younger girl out of the room and closed the door. Blake turned to look at Yang, who was still staring after Ruby. ''Yang? Are you alright?''
''Hanami...''
''Excuse me?''
''That was my Hanami. I want my Hanami. I want her now.''
Blake sighed. 'I guess this was another failure...'
Author's notes: Since I'm not a scientist of any kind, I don't recommend the methods used by the characters in this story.
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