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[Poor Hiro. Poor Baymax. Ruby's admittedly peering at the door in curiosity (she could definitely hear all of that) but when he opens the door, she just brightens up with a smile.]

Nope! I'm good! [... okay, she can't help it, she's dying to ask:] You... okay?

[But she's clearly trying to keep herself from snorting, so yeah, she's not too concerned here.]

Dude, shut up. [Hiro don't tell your girlfriend to shut up. But he's grinning anyway and closing the door to the apartment, locking it behind them as he moves and tries to grab Ruby's hand.

He misses, but he tries again and manages to grab it the second time.] Word of advice, cats usually don't like when you blow in their ears to wake them up.

[It's okay, she takes no offense, instead snorting. Clearly these two were always meant to be.] Heh, nahhh.

[Not gonna shut up, but she's also not going to hesitate to squeeze his hand when he successfully grabs hers, and when they start walking, she swings their hands idly.]

... Yeah, that sounds like a thing that would get you scratched. But I'll remember that for... another time, if Mochi ever falls asleep on me or something!

[If Ruby ever...comes and hangs over more??? Yeah. Um. Sure!! (oh god ruby don't make it weird)]

[It's routine by now and he laces their fingers together to make sure she can't escape that easily, letting their hands swing as he leads her out of the apartment complex and on their way to the shopping district. There are faster ways of transportation but this is nice for now.]

I already told you that Mochi likes you more than he likes me, and he's only met you once. All you have to do is scratch him behind the ears and under his chin and he'll probably sleep in your lap for hours. [So yeah. If Ruby ever comes and hangs out at their apartment more. He probably won't set anything on fire this time.] ...and I mean hours. You'd probably be stuck at our place for a while if he ever napped on you.

[Why are they talking about this...] Weird question for you. You guys get summer vacation from Beacon, don't you?

[It's a nice, casual walk--they can always find faster ways to get places, but Ruby's pretty sure that walking is a very date-y thing, so. Walking it is!]

Well, that's fine! It's not like I'd mind something like that. [...] Staying over while Mochi's on my lap I mean.

... Yeah.

[OKAY onwards to the question, she can field that one.]

Yep, we do! We get a break between semesters. How come?

[A shrug.] You can stay over however long you want even if Mochi's not in your lap. [He's trying a little hard to make that casual, but there it is. An open invite to come over whenever she wants. She's always had one, but things definitely are different now.

Maybe he should tell Tadashi they're dating...]

It's almost summer here, isn't it? A friend of mine's never had a summer vacation before. I'm trying to think of a way to explain it to him and show him...any ideas?

Okay! [Maybe that's the real danger to this relationship--it's so easy to just agree to anything. It feels so...casual and simple. Should she be making a big deal out of this? Maybe, but it doesn't even cross her mind. She already hangs out with Hiro a lot, so... why not at his place too?

Besides, the other things is more important by far.]

You'd bet I do! Back home, I made a three-ring binder full of ideas for the best break team-bonding day ever!

[...]

It didn't work out so I've still got most of the ideas totally unused and at the ready.

[eheh... heh... just roll with it.]

[It's never occurred to him to tell Ruby "no" on most things. He'll probably obsess about it later but instead he finds himself staring at her for a minute before breaking into laughter.]

Think you could recreate that binder here? […wait.] Wait you mean like a binder-binder? Those things are huge.

Yeah, it was definitely a binder-binder.

[It was needlessly huge.]

It may or may not have been a Weiss binder-binder, even. Except you didn't hear that from me. [She is not a crook.]

Anyway, some of the things would have to change, but most of it could be the same! I bet I could come up with some fun stuff for a good summer vacation!

Let's do it. I guess I'm getting kind of tired of not having fun here because we're so busy trying to solve everything. I mean we can't really go anywhere outside of the walls without fighting monsters, but we'll think of something.

[...speaking of Weiss...] By the way, your friends are kind of terrifying.

It's okay, we'll think of really fun things. And we can all enjoy them together!

[But yeah that...that doesn't surprise her.]

Oh.

You met Weiss.

[... yep.]

[He grins widely at that thought. Fun things with Ruby Rose. That's always up on his list of wants and needs.

Buuuut then there's Weiss. Sigh.]

She was yelling at a swamp monster when Baymax and I showed up. I talked to her a little but I didn't really tell her about you and me. Figured you might wanna tell her yourself. [A beat.] And Jaune and Yang are also in that category of "mildly terrifying."

Yeah, Weiss does that. Yelling, I mean. She's always yelling. She doesn't mean it. Mostly.

[..............]

But I.... guess. I should...tell her that. The you and me thing. Right. Yeah.

[...shit.]

Only if you really want to. [He knows how awkward the whole thing is.] I kinda kept it vague because I didn't want her to keep yelling. And she's your partner anyway. Worried about what she'd say?

No! Of course not! I'm sure everyone will be fine with it!

[......]

... Okay maybe a little. It's just... it's Weiss. Weiss! [She feels like that should explain everything.]

[A HEAVY SIGH.] Weiss. I know, I know…just let her down gently and tell her I'm not replacing her or whatever, that's what they do on TV.

Yang and Naoki cornered me in a room at the gym to have their "talk", too. I'm starting to get used to this.

Wh....at....

[...]

I told them not to scare you!

[Ah.]

I didn't say I was actually scared! [Other than the fact he was, but y'know.] ...she didn't tell you what we talked about, did she?

No... she didn't tell me anything. Besides the fact that she was going to go talk to you.

I didn't know Naoki was going too.

Naoki's the one who pushed me into the room. What does that tell you? [He shakes his head.] Yang said that you told her not to scare me off but you don't really think she'd do that, do you?

It...tells me that Naoki might have been taking the Big Bad Bouncer role a little toooo seriously?

[Yeah.]

... But no, I don't think so. It's just--this has never happened for me before! And Yang and I have always been really close so I think she gets a little protective but it's okay! It's okay because she likes you so everything is just. Fine.

It means he takes the older sibling role pretty seriously, too. [Just throwing that out there.]

I can't imagine Tadashi doing that to you if he knew about it and we're close, too. I think they're forgetting the most important part though. [Oh look, the pizza place is finally right in front of them.]

... Oh. Yeah. Right. That too.

[Eheheh.... right.... big brother Naoki IT'S FINE. she'll talk to him about that.

At some point.

Soonish.]

Tadashi's kinda big and squishy though, isn't he? Like... a marshmallow! Like Baymax! You can totally see why Baymax is a robot he made, they're both marshmallow-y and worry about people a lot.

[...wait.]

What's the most important part?

I dare you to tell Tadashi he's big and squishy like a marshmallow just to see what he says. [He grins, opening the door to the pizza place to let her inside.] And the important part is that if I ever did actually do something they wouldn't like, I'd probably freak out about it before they could anyway and they wouldn't have to do anything about it.

[Shrug. Apparently that's a bright side.]

Kay.

[SHE WILL DO THIS WITHOUT SHAME she's not afraid of Tadashi!!! And it's true, anyway, he is a big marshmallow.

So into the pizza place she goes without a care in the world--at least, until he continues then, and she freezes, frowning a little.

And she glances back at him, still frowning.]

... You know, I don't really like that idea either. I don't want you to freak out! Over anything!

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