-Last Time-
"EEEEEP! COCO HELP!" The white haired girl was knocked out of her thoughts by a loud feminine shriek coming from behind her. Weiss whirled around on her heel, ready for any possible trouble, only to stop cold at yet another shocking sight. Seriously, she was going to need a serious heart exam after this was over.
Naruto was currently perched on the shoulders of the bunny girl with a happy face, his tails had wrapped around her entire body below said shoulders effectively immobilizing her, and her head was held firmly in place by his small arms. The girl was panicking as she called for her friend for help to no avail as the now named Coco was too busy laughing her ass off at the girl's current predicament.
Especially when he began nomming on the top of one of her rabbit ears while nuzzling against the top of her head.
-And Now-
*Click* *Click* "Coco! Help me!"
*Click* "Seriously Coco! Help!"
*Click* *Click* *Click* "COCO PUT YOUR SCROLL DOWN ALREADY AND HELP ME!" The bunny girl screeched as she squirmed helplessly under her fluffy bindings as Naruto continued to nom away at her ear.
*Click* "Velvet, I'm sorry but*Click* there is no way I'm missing a single moment of this." *Click* Coco said as she took photo after photo with her scroll, a shit eating grin stretched across her lips. "Besides, it's not like he's actually hurting you, is he?"
"…no," Velvet said with a pout as she stopped squirming as much. It was true, the boy's grip was just tight enough to keep her from getting free without causing too much discomfort. Even him chewing on her ear was more embarrassing then it was painful.
"Naruto, what do you think you're doing?" Thankfully for the bunny eared faunus, her salvation came in the form of a white themed, white-haired heiress with a stern expression on her face as she marched over to the trio with two trays of food. The left one was sparsely filled, only having some fruit, a medium sized blueberry muffin, a small omelet, and a glass of orange juice. The right one on the other hand (lol) was practically filled to the brim with various types of food and a tall glass of milk.
Naruto snapped out of his little daze with a start, his tails unfurling themselves from Velvet and he stopped chewing on the girl's ear to look towards Weiss, much to Velvet's relief. "White lady? Is it time to eat now?" He asked with a tilted head, drooling slightly at the large tray of food she was holding.
"Yes, it's time to eat, so please climb down from that poor girl's shoulders and get your food." Weiss told him while setting the meals down on the closest table.
"Aww, do I have to?" The child asked with an adorable pout as he snuggled deeper into Velvet's hair. He didn't know why but he just loved how the bunny lady smelled, it was just so… …irresistible. Velvet's entire face turned bright red as Naruto repeatedly brushed against the bottom of her ears which were extremely sensitive.
"Yeah, why does he have to? He looks perfectly fine up there to me." Coco cut in, getting a betrayed look from her blushing bunny eared friend. "I'm sure Velvet doesn't mind one bit."
Velvet tried to say that she did mind, that it wasn't fine, but every word of complaint died in her throat as Naruto cheered happily and nuzzled her head even more, sending relaxing and enjoyable jolts down her spine. Instead, she ended up just nodding slowly with her head bowed as she sat down at the table where Weiss had set the food.
Said white-haired heiress sighed in defeat as she and Coco, who still had her cat that ate the canary smile, also sat down. "Fine then, but don't complain to me when you're washing crumbs and such out of your hair all night."
'Don't worry, I won't be.' Velvet thought as she shyly glared at Coco who simply laughed it off. Naruto didn't respond at all as he was busy bringing food up to himself with his tails and wolfing it down.
"Soooo… names Coco if you haven't heard, and hug bunny over here is Velvet." Coco properly introduced herself while offering a hand.
"Weiss Schnee, and that's Naruto, don't we have some classes together?" Weiss asked Velvet as she shook both their hands.
"Yes… Dr. Oobleck's history class," Velvet said shyly.
"Enough about that, you wouldn't happen to mind explaining that little bundle of joy now would ya?" Coco asked in a whisper while taking off her aviators, leaning extremely close to Weiss's face with a dead serious expression as she pointed a thumb towards the happily, and somewhat messily to Velvet's dismay, eating child as he demolished a bagel and chugged down the entire glass of milk. The whole scene was being recorded by her propped up scroll while she talked.
Weiss was caught off guard by the sudden change, sweating slightly as the slightly older girl's gaze bore into her. "P-professor O-Ozpin a-assigned me and a f-few others look a-after him," She stuttered out, her usual class and emotional control failing her for a brief moment before she managed to recollect herself. "You can ask him yourself if you don't believe me."
Coco said nothing, instead she stared straight into Weiss's eyes with a completely emotionless face. Weiss held the other girl's gaze solidly, but in her mind a chibi version of herself was sweating and shaking nervously under the scrutiny of the beret-wearing brunette. Now that she thought about it, she really should have seen this kind of reaction coming given the incident with the faunus orphans.
Eventually though, after what felt like hours, in reality only two minutes, Coco backed off with a nod as she reverted back to her previous attitude. "I will be sure to do so, but for now I'll let you off the hook." She said while picking up her scroll and looking at the time with slightly widened eyes. "Looks like I have to get going anyway, otherwise Fox and Yatsuhashi are probably going to sleep till noon, later Velvet."
"Wait, take me with… you…" Velvet started to say, only to drift off as Coco dashed out of the cafeteria and vanished amongst the throng of arriving students.
"What's wrong Velvetnee-chan?" Naruto asked as he finished his last bite of food and went back to hugging her head. A frown crossed his face when she didn't answer, missing how the bunny girl's ears perked up.
'He's from Mistral as well?' She wondered, before being broken out of her thoughts as the blonde red-head suddenly climbed down her shoulders and onto her lap. From there he wrapped his arms around her waist and snuggled into her chest.
"Did I make you sad Velvetnee-chan? I'm sorry, I didn't mean too, honest," Naruto said as he looked up at the brunette rabbit faunus with watering eyes and sniffling slightly. The rabbit faunus felt her heart clench in her chest and before she even realized what she was doing, Velvet was hugging the child as she assured him he hadn't upset her.
While this was going on, Weiss watched from the sidelines, her face twitching as she struggled to suppress her love of all things adorable. It was one of her biggest emotional weaknesses, hell one of the reasons she wasn't as bothered by Ruby's childish actions like when she first met her because she had started to find them to be somewhat adorable at times. Not that she would ever, EVER admit it aloud. She was broken from her thoughts when her scroll started vibrating inside her pocket. Pulling it out and activating it, her eyebrows all but disappeared into her hair when she saw the caller ID.
'Winter!? But why would she be calling me right now? There's no way she heard about Naruto already.' She thought to herself, media may travel fast online but her sister never used her scroll for anything other than business or family emergencies and she was always working since she joined the Atlesian Military.
Figuring the only way to get answers was to… well answer, Weiss set her scroll to phone mode and brought it up to her ear. "Hello Winter, how can I-"
[Weiss! Is he still with you!]" Weiss practically jumped out of her skin as Winter's voice rang inside her skull with a tone of urgency and desperation the heiress had never heard from her sister.
"W-what? Winter, who are you tal-" [Do not play dumb with me, Weiss! Is the faunus boy still with you?!] Winter cut in again, causing Weiss to freeze.
"H-h-h-how?"
[Answer me!]
"Uh, y-y-yes, h-he's right n-next to me," Weiss said in a shaky tone, she'd never heard her sister act like this before, and it was really starting to freak her out.
*Sigh* [Good, whatever you do, do not let him out of your sight. I don't care if you use up your entire damn dust supply to do so, just keep him there! I'm headed to beacon as we speak.] The line cut out but Weiss made no move to lower her scroll as she tried to process what just happened.
Her sister not only knew about Naruto, including his appetite for dust apparently, she was on her way to beacon right now. But how? How did her sister somehow already know that he was here? Why would she even care that he was here?
"…Naruto here is from across the veil."
"…I'm sure you noticed his rather unusual appetite,"
"These things have made the poor child a target for many people, and most of them aren't the kind of people you trust with the wellbeing of children…"
Ozpin's voice played inside her mind as the metaphorical lightbulb lit up in her head. 'Of course! She must be coming to 'collect' him for the military!' If that were the case, then doing as her sister says would be dooming Naruto to be a lab rat for the R&D department. As soon as the thought hit her, Weiss's face turned even paler than it normally was. 'AAAH! I can't let that happen! Nora would pancake me!' Mental images played through her mind of a chibi version of herself getting turned into a bloody smear by chibi Nora and her hammer.
'But if I don't do it, Winter will have my head!" Her imagination played out another scene, only this time it was chibi Winter, whom looked almost identical to chibi Weiss only with shorter hair, comically strangled chibi Weiss while the word 'nag' surrounded them in bold letters.
"YIPE!" "Aahahah!" Weiss was broken from her thoughts (again? Someone call the handy man!) as a high pitch yelp made her jump. Looking for the source, her eyes narrowed dangerously and a vein bulged on her forehead at what she found.
Cardin, a tall, muscular guy and leader of team CRDL, with burnt orange hair and wearing the male Beacon student uniform, was harshly yanking on one of Naruto's tails while he and the rest of his team laughed. Velvet looked like she wanted to help, but couldn't as Naruto's eight other tails had reflexively wrapped back around both her and the blonde red-head, leaving only their heads exposed.
"Hahaha! Would you look at this, I didn't know it was bring your kid to work day. Oh wait, none of us have kids, cause we aren't slutty little animals!" Cardin said cruelly as he tugged on Naruto's tail again, him and his team laughing more as the child yelped in pain again. "And look how old he is, you must've been a real slut to spread your legs that early. But I guess we shouldn't be surprised that you breed like a rabbit!"
Weiss clenched her jaw as she got up to give Cardin a thorough chewing out, while also wishing she had brought Myrtenaster with her. She had barely gotten out of her seat though before pausing as she spotted a familiar pale blue glow emanating from the tip of the tail Cardin was pulling on.
"Come on slut bunny, aren't you gonna say anything or is your throat to sore from sucking on-" *PHA-SHINK* Cardin's teammates froze in shock as their leader was suddenly engulfed in what looked like a glowing pale blue cloud. When it cleared, all three of them jumped back with startled yells as Cardin was revealed to be frozen solid from the mouth down in a large cube of ice, his eyes widened in shock and the top of his head wiggling around uselessly. Naruto's tail pulled itself free of the ice block without a sound, revealing the perfectly circular hole leading to the bully's hand as it clenched and unclenched.
"C-c-Cardin?" One of his teammates, a gangly looking guy with a green mohawk asked in shock before he and his two teammates turned to Naruto, their expressions contorting to rage as the fox faunus gave them an eyelid pull taunt. "Why you little cocky bastard! I'm going to tear you apa-" *SPLOOOOOOOSH*
The mohawked teen was cut off from his rant when Naruto's cheeks suddenly puffed up and he spat out a high pressure jet of water at the four teens, blasting them and several other students that were standing behind them away.
'Ha! That's actually rather funny to see when it isn't happening to you," Weiss thought as she quietly laughed at the downed team of bullies. Velvet was just sitting there with a look of complete shock on her face as she switched her gaze from Naruto to the groaning and waterlogged team CRDL, plus excess casualties, and back again.
"He… and they… but… water… where… not possible…" The rabbit faunus sputtered as she tried to make sense of what happened before she felt a hand grip her shoulder.
"Trust me, just don't bother thinking about it as it will just give you a headache," Weiss told her with a straight face. "Now it's time for Naruto and I to get going before some other crazy thing happens."
*crash* *crash* *Crash* *Crash!*
"…"
*CRASH!* "NARUTO!"
"…I should have kept my mouth shut." Weiss deadpanned as she, Naruto, and Velvet stared at the gaping hole now in the cafeteria wall where the doors used to be. One pajama clad and heavily breathing Nora Valkyrie stood in the middle of said hole as she scanned the room over before finally settling on the trio. The rest of team JNPR and team RWBY standing behind her with awkward or equally deadpan looks on their faces.
Seemingly in the blink of an eye, Nora was right in front of Naruto, checking him over while asking if he was okay. While this was happening, Weiss slowly turned her blank stare towards her own team as they and Nora's teammates walked over at a much more sedate pace.
"Did she not get the note I left on the door?" The Schnee asked, her expression not changing as she pointed towards the slightly calmed down orangette as Naruto introduced her to Velvet. Pyrrha shook her head as she held up the note Weiss was talking about. It read, 'Took Naruto to Cafeteria for breakfast, will be back soon. -Weiss'
"She got it… but only got as far as 'Took Naruto' before-"
"Before she flipped out more than a chimpanzee on LSD." Yang cut Pyrrha off with a wide grin. This actually got most of the others to chuckle or giggle as they pictured such an image, while Ren made a mental addition to his 'Nightmares of a hopped up Nora' file that would haunt him later.
With Nora, Naruto, and Velvet, the rabbit faunus was shyly shaking hands with the enthusiastic pink loving teen as they finished introducing themselves. "It was nice actually talking to you Velvet, we should hang out more some time." Nora said with a big grin as she picked Naruto up and set him on her own shoulders, liking the idea of him sitting there after hearing about it from the boy.
"That would be… nice," Velvet said quietly, slightly uncomfortable as she talked to the energetic girl.
"Great! We'll talk more about it later though, cause right now I gotta take Naruto here shopping for some new clothes! TO THE MALL!"
-With Coco-
Coco was just about to open the door to her teams dorm when she stiffened up and her head snapped towards the direction of the cafeteria. "My shopping senses are tingling. I just missed out on the perfect excuse to go to the mall, ah man!" She groaned with a drooped head.
-Back with the others-
After her loud declaration, Nora shot out of the cafeteria at NRS, near Ruby speed, through the hole she made while Naruto yelled, "Bye Velvetnee-chan!"
"…She does remember that she still has class today, doesn't she?" Weiss asked, getting shrugs all around before the PA system gave a starting tone.
[Attention students.] Professor Ozpin's voice rang out getting everybody's attention. [Due to the discovery of mold, water damage… and recent structural damage,] Everyone glanced at Nora at that last one, [all classes are now canceled for the next few days until the affected areas are renovated. Thank you and have a nice day.]
Weiss's eyebrow twitched rapidly as she quickly started turning red in the face. What was it, prove Weiss wrong every time she speaks day? Just as she was about to reach her bursting point though, she, her team, Velvet, the three remaining members of team JNPR, and every other student in the area still conscious paled dramatically as a hauntingly familiar sound echoed behind them.
*Creeeeeeeaaaak*
Everybody slowly turned around to the sight of a very angry looking Glynda Goodwitch, the same flaming purple aura from before surrounding her as she stared at the teens through the same hole Nora and Naruto just left through. "Which of you is responsible for this mess?" She demanded in a deathly quiet voice that all of them heard clear as day as she gestured to the messed up cafeteria and then behind her as she moved to the side, revealing dozens of large holes all lined up perfectly in a row leading to the dorm building.
As one, every other student in the area moved to the sides of the room while pointing to the eight petrified teens who all had the same thought running through their heads.
'Oh shit…'
-End Chapter-