"Well, I guess I didn't miss that shopping opportunity after all," Coco said in a deadpan voice as she laid on the floor of a bullhead headed for Vale, her clothes all ruffled up, her sunglasses smashed, and minor friction burns were rapidly healing away on her face. Standing next to her was a sheepish looking Nora, now dressed in her usual attire with a shiny silver grenade launcher strapped to her back, with an equally as embarrassed Naruto still riding on her shoulders.
Confused? Well…
-Fifteen Minutes Earlier, Nora-
"TO THE MALL!" Nora declared as she charged out of the cafeteria at NRS, heading straight for the Bullhead docks. About halfway there though, she skid to a stop, which for some reason sounded just like a car stopping, in front of a large window to look at her reflection. "Whoops! Almost forgot to change first!" She said with a laugh before turning around and rushing off in the opposite direction.
-Coco-
Coco was still standing outside her dorm, debating whether or not she should still bother waking up her two male teammates after hearing the announcement when she was suddenly blown off her feet by a powerful gust of wind.
"What the hell was that?" The coffee haired girl asked as she looked around only to find nothing.
-Back to Nora-
Arriving at her destroyed dorm, Nora zipped across the room to the beat up but thankfully still intact dresser and started pulling out her clothes. Setting Naruto down, she quickly changed, not bothered at all with Naruto watching her as he was too young to even start having sexual thoughts yet.
Once changed into her usual outfit, she pulled out a pair of black jean shorts with a button fly and had Naruto put them on backwards. Now fully dressed, Nora placed Naruto back onto her shoulders and rushed out of the room again. "Now to go get Magnhild and we are ready to go!" She cheered as they flew down the halls again.
-Return of Coco-
Coco had just finished dusting herself off from being bowled over and was a second from swiping her scroll into the door lock, something zoomed past her and knocked her back to the ground. "Hey! Watch where yo-Whoa!"
Before she could finish her complaint, Coco felt something fluffy tug at her arm and the next thing she knew she was being dragged face down along with whatever knocked her over. She had only just had enough time to start using her aura before her face was too badly injured as she was intimately introduced to the floor, a few sets of stairs, and the occasional wall whenever whatever she was hooked on made a sharp turn.
-Back to the Present-
It hadn't been until Naruto and Nora had boarded the Bullhead and were headed into Vale that they had discovered their unintended passenger. Turned out the beret wearing girl's bracelet had snagged onto one of Naruto's tails as the duo passed.
"Hehehe… sorry about that," Nora said with a nervous chuckle as she helped the second year student back up to her feet and dusted her off.
"It's fine, it wasn't intentional or something so no grudge here. But you are getting me a new pair of sunglasses, and not the cheap kind either got it?" She said, adding a solid glare at the last part directed straight at Nora who nodded her head frantically, almost shaking Naruto off in the process. "Good."
The flight to Vale was short, only taking about fifteen minutes, and when they landed Coco suddenly took the lead. "Follow me, I know a place that makes specialized clothes for faunus." She said, grabbing Nora's hand and dragging the orangette and her nine-tailed cargo down the street.
As they walked down the long sidewalks of Vale, Nora and Coco did their best to ignore the dozens of people that stopped in order to gawk, glare, gap, or sneer at the boy still riding atop the grenade wielding girl's shoulders, or more specifically the nine long tails attached to his backside. While she wanted to punch the racist morons in their faces, Nora couldn't really blame the other civilians for staring as it wasn't every day you saw a kid with multiple fluffy appendages that were at least twice as long as the boy was tall.
Just like with Beacon, everybody was pulling out their scrolls and taking pictures or videos as they passed. Luckily Naruto completely oblivious to the huge amount of attention he was drawing to himself by simply being in there, more focused on all the other things around him.
"Oooh, what's that? And what is that? And that?" He asked while pointing at random buildings or places. Nora smiled gently as she looked up at Naruto, seeing the pure curiosity and excitement written all over his face as he kept pointing at things.
"Well, in order that is the police station," She gestures to a tall, yet dull looking building with numerous police cars in front of it, "That is a bakery," She points to a single story building with numerous glass windows displaying a plethora of baked goods, the orangette's eye's narrowed as the owner practically slammed the door shut while sneering at them.
Shaking this off, she pointed to the last building, "And that over there is a dust shop… was a dust shop," Nora corrected herself sadly as they passed, revealing the front of the store was smashed apart and taped off with the owner standing out front giving a testimony to some officers. Her and Coco were quick to hurry along when they both noticed one of said officers turn towards them and give Naruto a dark look.
Finally, after several more blocks of almost identical reactions, Coco stopped them in front of a small two-story building that was painted an almost blindingly bright pink color with dark purple door and highlights. It had large glass windows displaying a variety of clothes displayed on manikins specifically designed for faunus, such as a jacket that had holes in the back for with spines or spikes, a hoodie with flaps on the hood for ears/antlers/horns, and even a pair of pants designed with a hole in the back for a tail though clearly not the right size for Naruto.
Nora didn't notice any of this, instead she was entirely focused on the large, goofy looking, neon sign that sat a few feet in front of the building. "Donut and Doc's Delightfully Fabulous Faunus Fashion… I like the sound of this place already!" She said with a big smirk as she marched inside, having to set Naruto down first cause of the low ceiling while Coco had to wait for the boy's tails to get all the way in before she could enter.
The inside of the store was a reverse of the outside, having dark purple walls with pink highlights. Several more manikins were out on display with varied types of clothing on, the wall to their right was dedicated to types of accessories and makeups, and the left had a set of changing rooms and a set of large mirrors around a raised platform. Finally, at the far back was a pink counter with various flowers painted on, a computer that was turned off, a cash register, and an odd looking brown helmet with an orange visor sitting in the middle.
"Hola, Bienvenido a Doughnut y Doc's Deliciosamente Fabuloso Fau- Oh, es el imitador, aquí robar más de mi estilo ya? (Hello, Welcome to Donut and Doc's Delightfully Fabulous Fau- Oh, it's the copycat, here to steal more of my style already?)" A slightly synthetic sounding voice called out in spanish, which Nora knew the basics of, starting out in a dull tone before suddenly becoming more humored sounding as Coco walked in.
Nora and Naruto looked around the place in confusion looking for the owner of said voice, only to stop when they saw their coffee themed companion walk right up to the helmet sitting next to the cash register. "Oh come on Lopez, I had this design way before we met. Besides, if anyone is a copycat it would be Velvet, well copybunny in her case but you get my point." She said, leaning against the counter with a smirk.
"Cualquier cosa que te ayude a dormir por la noche, mocosa. Ahora, ¿qué quieres? (Whatever helps you sleep at night you brat. Now, what do you want?)" The helmet called Lopez demanded, somehow lifting up slightly and turning to look at her.
"I need Donut to hook my gal pal here up with some new threads for her kid, is he in?" Coco explained/asked as she jabbed her thumb at the stunned orangette and excited looking blonde.
"Maldita sí, esa chica debe haber tenido quemaduras severas en la alfombra de hacer estallar eso mocoso. (Damn, that girl must have gotten severe carpet burn from popping that brat out.)" Lopez said as he looked over at the duo, causing Coco to fall to the floor laughing her ass off, Nora's face to start glowing a nice scarlet color, and Naruto to just look confused as he didn't understand what was said. "Y sí, Pinkie está aquí, un segundo. ¡Idiota! Usted tiene algunos clientes aquí! (And yeah, pinkie is here, one second. Dumbass! You have some customers out here!)" The helmet yelled as it somehow spun around towards a door behind the counter.
"Coming~" A male but highly feminine sounding voice called back followed by rapid footsteps. After a few seconds the door burst open and out of it came an man of average height, with short glossy brown hair, lightly tanned skin, and wearing a bright pink tuxedo and pants. As soon as he saw Coco, a bright smile crossed the man's lips and he pulled the teen into a hug. "Coco! Oh, it's good to see you again cuz! And so soon too, you were here just last week with that utterly adorable teammate of yours!"
"Yeah Donut, and just like then I got another new customer for ya." Coco said as she pulled herself free and gestured behind her. "Donut, meet Nora and Naruto, guys this is my cousin Franklin Delano Donut."
Nora didn't even have time to blink before the pink dressed man was standing in front of her and shaking her hand. "Nice to meet you, my friends call me Donut, and any friend of my favorite cousin is a friend of mine!" Donut told her boisterously, before turning his attention to the smallest person in the room (Lopez not included "Púdrete." Shut up Lopez) who was now hiding slightly behind Nora.
"Oh my… goodness! Aren't you just darling!" Donut gushed as he knelt down to get a better look at him. "And by Oum, those tails of yours are just gorgeous! Eh, but I can see why you brought him here cuz, those clothes look absolutely atrocious on him." He stated, his face scrunched up as he looked at the loose, baggy shirt, and jean shorts that had the boxers sticking out the bottom.
"Don't worry though, I'll have that little issue rectified in no time at all! Could you please have him stand up on the stage?" Donut asked while pointing to the raised platform with mirrors. Nodding, Nora guided the slightly reluctant child over while the pink ("Lightish Red" Damn it Donut, not you to) wearing man walked back behind the counter and rifled around a bit until he pulled out a large tablet scroll and a measuring tape.
"Now, this might tickle a little so I need you to hold still as best you can, okay?" Donut said, his tone suddenly quiet and gently as he approached the nervous boy. Naruto responded with a slow nod, not speaking as Donut started getting his sizes, giggling or shivering whenever the tape brushed against a sensitive spot.
'Hmmm, I wonder how the others are doing?' Nora thought as she and Coco watched Donut do his thing while jabbering about his past as a soldier in the Atlassian Military, known as the infamous Red Team.
-With Team RWBY, Team J PR, and Velvet-
"This certainly is a crappy job, huh?" Yang punned as she scrubbed a white tiled floor with a large soapy brush, earning a multitude of annoyed or exasperated groans from all around. As punishment for all the damage and chaos they, read Nora, caused, Glynda had assigned all eight of them to clean the public bathrooms from top to bottom.
Which was made worse do to yesterday having been chilidog night.
"Can't you stop with that foul humor of yours, I'm already in a bad enough mood as it is." Weiss said through gritted teeth as she and Ruby tried to unclog one of the toilets. She had to get this punishment done fast and then figure out what to do about her sister coming here for Naruto. She wasn't too worried at the moment though as it would take a day or so for Winter to even get to Beacon from Atlas.
Yang responded in a mature fashion… by sticking her tongue out at her snow themed teammate.
"Um, not to interrupt or anything, but isn't that a high-class Atlas military transport?" Ren asked as he pointed out a nearby window. Head snapping towards the direction he pointed, Weiss felt her blood run cold as she easily spotted a small aircraft. It looked similar to a bullhead only smaller, with four nacelles with long blue ribbons trailing on them.
The vehicle was only in view for a sparse few seconds as it shot through the air and straight towards the Bullhead docking bay. "Well, whoever they are, they certainly are in a hurry. Wonder who it is. You have any idea Weiss?" Yang asked, not getting a response. "…Weiss? I asked if you had an- Hey! Where'd she go?!" She cried out in surprise when she turned around and found the Heiress suddenly missing.
'She can't be here yet! That's not possible! Even at top speed it should have taken at least a day to get here, so how!? How?! HOW!?' Weiss mentally demanded as she rushed down the halls of Beacon as quickly as she could.
Using all of the grace that her fighting style required, Weiss navigated past anything that got in her way with ease. In less than ten minutes, the white-haired teen had made it all the way to the docking bay with sweat pouring from her forehead and her breath coming in ragged gasps. 'I need to work on my stamina, a lot.' She thought, taking a moment to catch her breath as her eyes darted all over the place looking for her sister's ship.
Finally spotting it, and seeing that her sister was already disembarking, Weiss hurried over to greet her. "Winter! You're here already! How!?" …Did I say greet, my bad, I meant interrogate.
Winter was a tall woman, with short white hair set in a bun, wearing a long white jacket with slits on the arms going from her shoulders to elbows and mostly open in the front, a black corset, white pants, and black/grey garters. Her face was set in a stern expression that softened slightly when she saw Weiss before hardening again. Along her right arm was a long skinny scar that hadn't been there the last time Weiss had seen her sister, which was just before the whole faunus abductions situation. It looked like a branching bolt of lighting or a crooked tree depending on the angle, being at it's widest near her elbow where part of it was obscured by her jacket and reaching all the way up to her shoulder.
"I was already nearby on important business, but that isn't what we need to discuss right now. Where is he?" Winter asked bluntly making Weiss freeze.
"Hehe… *Gulp* about that…"
-End Chapter-