Uneasy for Preparation for the Leave
Jaune is carrying three boxes walking behind two older men each carrying a slightly bigger box for them to handle, then they drop off the boxes into a spare room where they were told to put them in for the time being.
"Is that all we need?" Jaune asked the two men.
"I think so, at least for now until we have to restock some stuff." One man wearing a purple tracksuit answered.
"You guys think this will help last everyone in the estate for a long time?" Jaune asked, looking at the boxes in the room, seeing how there is a lot shows that these people have definitely been preserving as much food as possible.
"We've been able to do well this far in the past days, though there are a lot more people than expected when we came here." One tall guy with a white shirt said.
"Yeah, even with the supplies here, it's not gonna last long if we don't get more and it's going to be hard with those motherfucking zombies in the way." The purple tracksuit guy groaned.
"When you put it like that, it looks like we might not be able stay in this place for long." The tall white shirt guy feared.
"I'm sure Mr. Takagi will be able to do something about this. He's a very fierce man, after all." Jaune pointed out about the man.
"I hope you're right." The tall guy said before the two grown men walk away.
"(I really hope, Mr. Takagi does have a plan for this.)" Jaune thought gulped.
"You look like you're deep in thoughts." Yang said.
This caught Jaune's attention to turn his head to see Yang, Ruby, Saeko, and Pyrrha each wearing a kimono and they are very cute wearing those outfits, and the three girlfriends of Jaune are liking the reaction on his face.
"Do you really like them?" Ruby asked.
"Oh yeah, they really suit you well." Jaune nodded.
"We got these from Saya's closet. She didn't mind letting us have them, she didn't mind us having them." Pyrrha explained.
"I was planning on showing this off to Sun and maybe show him what I have under." Yang smirked.
"Ew, Yang! I still feel weird when it's you, Blake, and Sun. I'm still trying to get use to it." Ruby was grossed out from the way Yang said it. She may have done sex with Jaune and Miki, but she was still getting use to indecent things.
"So, you guys got any plans for today because I just finished helping out some guys with some boxes." Jaune asked.
"Wow, you must feel real lucky to actually get to do anything around here." Mercury entered the scene with Oscar and Alice and Velvet.
"Looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed." Yang joked a little.
"The adult men weren't being nice to Mercury." Alice said.
"Why is that?" Jaune asked.
"Mercury just wanted to see the kind of weapons they have and him wanting a piece of his own, Velvet even thought about making one for him, but the grownups didn't really think they were capable of handling themselves with dangerous tools and just told them off." Oscar explained.
"I really wanted to show them my crafting skills and be useful to this community." Velvet was saddened.
"Oh, Coco is not going to let hearing that they made her rabbit girl cry." Jaune commented.
"Being here might not be all that fun like we hoped, that's something mom warned me about." Yang remembered what Raven told her about being careful with how the treat will treat her and the others in this estate.
"But the important thing is that we are fine and we're all going to be okay as long as we work together." Jaune said, stroking Alice's head making her smile.
"Fine! You're always right! Always!" Saya screamed from the second floor of the house that they heard.
"Something tells me Saya is not gonna be on the same page as us." Oscar exclaimed.
Saya is seen walking through the hallway in tears of anger after having a talk with her father and what he plans to do later, which really upsets her that she stormed off.
"Saya, is everything okay?" Jaune asked, he and Pyrrha went up to check on her.
"I don't like being asked when someone is looking shaken up on the knees." Saya looked down at Jaune's knees are shaking a little bit.
"Sorry, the scream you did spook me." Jaune admitted.
"We just wanted to make sure if everything was alright with you. Did you have a fight with someone?" Pyrrha asked in concern.
"I don't wanna talk about it. Just drop it. Leave me alone." Saya walked down the stairs.
"Yep, this is the case of parent-child dispute." Jaune crossed his arms, knowing the kind of thing that is going on right now.
"How can you tell?" Pyrrha asked.
"Something like that happened with two of my older sisters, they had a fight with mom and dad about something though with the way Saya screamed made those times look tame." Jaune answered, remembering how his family would fight sometime.
"Saya can have a moment with her emotions going off more than they should at times." Yuriko explained, walking up to them with Raven and Cinder.
"Sorry to draw you into our little discussion." Yuriko apologized to the two.
"No, there's no need for that. I just wanted to help as much as I can." Jaune stated how he likes to do things.
"Tell me, have you ever thought about visiting my home if given the chance?" Yuriko asked.
"Maybe a few times, but I heard stories about how intimidating this place can be." Jaune answered honestly.
"To be honest, I was more afraid of the man running the place." Pyrrha said.
"You're both honest. I like that." Yuriko smiled.
"While the happy moment is nice, I'm afraid you guys should know about something that you probably already heard of by now." Cinder said.
"You mean… About leaving this place?" Pyrrha asked, sensing that this is what she was talking about.
"Yes." Yuriko nodded.
(With Velvet, Coco, and Mercury)
"What?! I can't believe those motherfuckers would actually say that to your face!" Coco was angered by what Velvet told her.
"I'm going to find those guys and give them a piece of my mind!" Coco was about to march out, but Velvet stops her.
"Coco, it's okay. We don't need to do anything to them, we just gotta show those men that we can be capable of, like using my crafting skills to make that badass weapon for Mercury." Velvet smirked.
"You look like you're having fun." Saya said, revealing herself in the garage with them.
"Well, well, if it isn't the princess of the house herself." Coco said.
"And who is your tall friend here?" Coco asked, seeing the tall young man standing next to Saya.
"This here is Yatsuhashi Daichi, he's my bodyguard and the one who was able to get me home when the outbreak happened." Saya introduced Yatsuhashi to them.
"Greetings." Yatsuhashi greeted them properly with a bow.
Yatsuhashi is a tall and athletic-looking young man with shaved-short black hair and tanned skin, who wears mostly pale-green and brown attire. He wears an all-black suit with a dark green tie and white shirt underneath. His left arm bears a green 5-layer sode which extends up past his shoulder.
"Wow, you… you're really tall!" Mercury was shocked to see someone being a big guy.
"You didn't come here just to introduce us to your bodyguard, right?" Coco asked, seeing that Saya has a different reason for coming here.
"That's right. Just wanna let you know you should enjoy it while you can. None of us are going to be here forever." Saya informed.
"What do you mean by that?" Mercury asked.
"It's because of how hard securing basic things like electricity and water, especially with how there are so many people here." Coco pointed out.
"Exactly, even under normal circumstances, which we're not, we'd have to find basic necessities. You think we could all just build a water treatment plant? Or a power station? Maybe the zombies would help us do it." Saya said sarcastically on that last part.
"Okay, I'm starting to get the picture here." Velvet felt worried now.
(Back with Jaune)
"When the dead started attacking people, the commander sent the Self Defense Forces to the power plants at his own discretion." Yuriko mentioned.
"The fucking bastard didn't even bother to wait for orders for his superior." Raven said.
"But even with the military forces guarding the power plants, that is not going to last long which is why we need to move soon." Cinder stated.
"But why? Couldn't they keep things going for a little longer?" Pyrrha asked, a little confused.
"It's because those workers don't want to stay there for long. Some of them have families they have to go back to." Jaune figured out.
"That's right, we plan on taking the buses. But only the ones we're responsible for… Or rather, we'll be only taking the ones that can survive outside of this place. It's Darwinian, I know." Yuriko revealed the plan.
"Harsh, but I can understand that." Jaune nodded.
"I think I need to have a talk with my group about this, if that's okay with you." Jaune said.
"That's fine, whatever choice you all decide will be of your own free will." Yuriko nodded.
"But before you go have your meeting, would you mind accepting a selfish request from a mother who worries for her daughter?" Yuriko asked.
(With Emerald)
Emerald is seen in the backyard twirling around her new Kusarigama-sickles to see how they are, and she is really damn good swinging those blades around.
"Wow, you're really good with those things." Neptune complimented, sitting with Weiss to watch Emerald practice.
"Oh, and you think I should have weapons like those?" Weiss asked, looking a little upset with her arms crossing.
"No, babe! I promise I wasn't saying anything disrespectful or anything!" Neptune reassured his beloved snow princess.
"Thanks, Velvet made them for me. Says she's going to make weapons for us in our own design." Emerald informed, putting the blades away in the holders.
"But it won't be as cool as having a grenade launcher and hammer combine!" Nora smirked. This worries Ren for his girlfriend.
"Hey!" A man called out to them.
"You should really be careful with that? You could cut your eye out." The man advised her, not seeing that she is a good with those blades.
"Says the man who burned himself when he tried to cook eggs for himself." Emerald countered, making the man flinch.
"Hey, I'm just"
"What were you about to say to my daughter?" Cinder asked, walking up to the man with slight anger in her eyes.
"Ma'am! I was just telling your kid to not play with those" But the man was cut off when Cinder slapped him across the face so hard, he was sent flying against a wall.
Emerald smirks as she loves seeing how her mom shows the serious side when it comes to things that matters to her, and seeing this side of her makes Emerald want to be a strong woman in her own right.
"The fuck was that for, Bitch?" The man asked.
"Because of how you were insulting my daughter for being weak and careless." Cinder answered, glaring down at the man.
"I have seen what Emerald is capable of, what her friends are capable of, and I have to say without a doubt that they are stronger than you and most of the other adults in this place. So, why don't you move along and live these young ones to their own thing to better at surviving than you do in a kitchen." Cinder walked away from the man, going over to her daughter.
The man felt both, but that was washed away by shame though he was just trying to be the adult these kids have nowhere left to go.
"Thanks for the defense, mom." Emerald thanked her.
"That man was going to be an ass thinking kids needs to be protecting, but he doesn't that some kids were forced to grow up in these circumstances." Cinder said.
"Now that you mention it, I have started to notice the adults were giving us some looks." Nora recalled seeing that.
"They think we're not capable of handling things ourselves, such is something I feared would happen." Ran sighed.
"How ridiculous." Weiss crossed her arms.
"I'm not sure if I wanna stay here if the adults are going to continue dissing us like that." Emerald said, feeling that this isn't exactly where they belong.
"Then you and your group should have a meeting very soon, we're going to be leaving the estate soon to find the next best place to keep us safe for a while. Hopefully longer." Cinder advised.
"Does that mean we'll have to be separated again?" Emerald asked, looking sad.
"No, I promise that I would stick with you if we are ever reunited." Cinder hugged Emerald, making her happy and hugging her back.
(One Random Room)
"Okay, so everyone is here?" Jaune asked, looking around to see the entire group in the same room.
He does the headcount just to be sure. There's Pyrrha, Ruby, Yang, Blake, Sun, Neptune, Weiss, Velvet, Coco, Mercury, Emerald, Nora, Ren, Aunt Shizuka, Saeko, Alice, Oscar, Zero the dog, and Glynda. There are a couple of new faces like Saya and Yatsuhashi, Cinder is also in the room.
"I believe we are all here." Pyrrha said.
"Good, now we can get this over with. There's something I wanna talk to you all about." Saya said.
Jaune looks at Saya, remembering what Yuriko requests him to do.
"I want her to understand me, but no matter what I say, she won't listen. Maybe you could talk to her? And…"
"I think I already know what this is about." Blake already knew what this meeting is going to be about.
"I'm sorry, but what is it exactly?" Shizuka asked, having no clue herself.
"It's about whether we can continue to move forward as a group or not." Emerald said.
"That's right, there are more of you now than before. You'll have to think more carefully about how to go with this, and there are only two options you can go with. Whether you're going to be absorbed or…" Saya paused a little for one of them get it.
"Separate ourselves from it. But I'm not sure if we can." Jaune scratched the back of his head.
"The zombies are only going to get worse in the city, but your parents seem to have everything under control. And they have a plan." Jaune said.
"Oh, don't they always. No knows that more than I do." Saya said with her voice sounding a little uneasy.
"Her achievements… Don't think she won't shove them right in your face. Maybe if she would've been as dedicated at home as she as—God, she's such a bitch." Saya exclaimed with tears about to form.
"Hey, you shouldn't say bad things about your parents. It was tough for everyone with the zombies." Ruby pointed out.
"Did I ask you to weigh in on my family's life?!" Saya asked yelling.
"Hey, don't talk that way to my sister!" Yang was angered, Yatsuhashi stood in front of her.
"Let her speak." Yatsuhashi said.
"Takagis. The Takagis! How fabulous their life must be! Everything had to be just perfect. The house and the lawn and the parties and most of all their daughter! It was positively suffocating! They wanted to know where I was and what I was doing every minute of the day! The leash they kept me on!" Saya expressed how hard it was for her to live in such a family as this one.
"Yeah, parents can be a pain in the ass." Sun nodded; this got the look from his two girlfriends. "What? It's true."
"But where was that leash yesterday?! When I was out there, lost in the streets, fighting for my life! Where the fucking Hell were they?!" Saya yelled.
Then Jaune walks up to Saya with what appears to be an angry face though strangely Yatsuhashi let him past to his lady.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
Things have gotten a little tense for Jaune's group as some of them are getting treated like kids by some of the adults, and now they're having a meeting with Saya about what they're going to do and shared some personal issues with her family. Wonder what Jaune is going to do.
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