"Seems like today is going to stay clear. How about we get out of the house for the day?" Summer asked as the pack sat in the dining room eating breakfast.

Ruby's ears perked up when she heard that. "I like the sound of that! Ooh, maybe we can do some gardening!"

"Sounds like fun, but where would we do that exactly?" Blake replied, a pancake halfway to her mouth.

"That's an easy one. Right in the backyard of course." Summer suggested as she passed the syrup to Yang.

"What about that fence you and uncle Qrow were planning to build? Are you guys gonna need any help?" The lion Faunus cub asked, pouring a generous amount of syrup and drowning her pancakes.

"Only if you promise not to hurt yourself while helping, though wouldn't you rather garden, sweetie?" Summer asked.

"Mom, since when have I been delicate enough to garden? If anyone's suited to it I'd say Ruby and Weiss would be. And Weiss could stand to get a little down to earth anyway." Yang replied, smirking a little in Weiss' direction.

Weiss rolled her eyes. "Oh shut it. Just because I don't like getting my clothes dirty, doesn't mean I won't help with the garden. And don't forget the time your hair was dirtied too much. You went insane."

"Alright, settle down. Looks like everyone has an idea of what they want to do. I should be able to handle our fox, kitten, and bunny. So long as Qrow doesn't go too overboard with the two of you." Raven said, trying to keep the snow fox and lion Faunus calm.

Summer chuckled and snagged a piece of her wife's pancake. "You love calming down funny situations." She ate the piece and poked Raven's nose.

"That's because I was the one who dealt with our cub when her hair was a mess. As much as I love to have fun, too much fun causes repeats of history. Repeats, I might add that would empty all of the shampoo bottles and conditioner in the house." The raven Faunus said, snagging a bit of bacon from Summer's plate.

Summer pouted. "You sneaky little…" She stopped and turned to the kids after realizing what she was about to do was not appropriate in front of them. "Uh, I mean...so who wants to start?!"

"I'm ready to start, and I'll be on the porch waiting in case you need some...alone time." Yang said, breaking for the door.

Raven's eyes widened and she turned to glare at her daughter. "Oh you better run far!" She got up to chase after her, while Summer could only blush at Yang's comment.

"Shouldn't be surprised. It's not like you both are subtle. Come on girls let's start getting the stuff we need out of the garage." Blake said, motioning for Weiss and Ruby to follow her.

Summer hung her head in shame at how obvious she and Raven were, as the kids walked past her. "I'll be out in a minute...I just need to think about some mistakes…" She then groaned.

"So your mother chased you for how long?" Qrow asked, as he set the first fence post into the ground.

Yang grinned while pulling some twigs out of her hair. "About fifteen minutes. I'd be a little angry about my hair...but I kinda don't wanna push my luck."

"Smart move, Summer hold your end still. Yang I'm gonna let you use the drill, try to keep it steady." Qrow said, passing Yang the drill and hoisting his end of the plank.

Yang looked down at the drill and took a breath. "Right. Um, you sure this is okay?" When he nodded, she started up the drill. "Oops...uh, one second." She stopped it and looked a little nervous.

"What's wrong Yang?" Summer asked setting her end of the plank down.

"I just don't wanna mess anything up with this...It's a drill." Yang's ears drooped a bit.

"You're not going to mess this up. Sure you're not used to it but that doesn't mean you can't learn. Besides your uncle went overboard with the lumber order." The wolf Faunus said, scratching a little behind Yang's ears.

"Hey, only reason I went overboard with the lumber was because you told me that-." He was cut off when Summer moved some of the wood to nudge him.

"You want to try again, Yang?" Summer asked, an encouraging look in her eyes.

"Y-Yeah." She held the drill up and took a breath. "Um, so what do I have to do next? I mean, I don't wanna mess anything up too much."

"Just hold in the trigger and push the screw into the board. I started the holes already to make it easier on us." Qrow said, holding the board tightly against the post.

Yang muttered something about how he worded that, and how he was probably used to explaining something similar to other people. "Hmm...okay then." She held the trigger and tried her best to get the screw in.

After a few minutes the three Faunus stepped back to see how their handiwork was going along. "It's looking good so far. At this rate we can have this fence done tomorrow." Qrow said, checking the leveling of the fence. The three of them had managed to get the first few sections of fence in place.

"Tomorrow? Oh man, I was hoping to be done by dinner." Yang whined, but then looked at how she managed to get it done right. "Wait a minute...did I do that in one try?"

"Yeah, you did. I told you that you'd learn, you did it pretty quick too. Feel like continuing or do you want to call it here and see what the others are up to with the garden?" Summer asked, passing Yang and Qrow a water bottle.

"Well, I kinda wanna see if snow fox is whining about the dirt, so let's go see how they're doing, but once we get back, I wanna try it again." Yang smiled while opening the water bottle and taking a drink.

"Just like a Brawen and Rose. Never stop till the job is done." Qrow chuckled, before following Summer and Yang.

"Eep!" Weiss yelped when a butterfly flew into her view, causing her to blush when Ruby giggled a few times. "S-Stop giggling. It just flew past me so fast."

"Just a butterfly, Weiss. At least it wasn't a slug or something." Blake said, as she used a trowel to dig the first hole for their seeds.

"S-Slug?! There can be slugs around here?!" Weiss quickly stood up and looked around the dirt just in case there was one around.

"Relax, Weiss, there aren't any slugs. I can't say there aren't worms but there are no slugs," Raven said chuckling a little, "Can either of you pass me the carrot seeds? There is a pretty good spot for them right here."

Ruby's eyes lit up and she instantly handed her the carrot seeds. "Here! When will they grow?!"

"It's gonna be awhile Bunny, it takes about four months for a carrot to grow," The raven Faunus said, "Which reminds me, I was thinking of making a carrot cake later in the week if you want to help."

Weiss had to hold the bunny Faunus up as she almost fell over from the offer. "Ruby...you can't just react like that every time someone mentions carrots."

"To be fair, you get the same way with ice cream and Blake goes through tuna like a tuna goes through water." Raven said, smirking at the three of them.

The three girls blushed heavily and whined at Raven about their food weaknesses. And after a bit, the others showed up. "How is the gardening going?" Summer asked.

"Not too bad, plenty of space and sunlight here so provided we keep on top of watering and feeding the plants we're going to have a good haul once it grows." Raven answered, placing the carrot seeds into the soil and covering them.

Ruby couldn't hold her smile back as she thought about the carrots they were gonna grow now. "I can't wait for them to grow, mama! Ooh, do you think I can try making something with one of them? Like carrot cake!"

Weiss sighed and flicked her forehead. "What did I just say about freaking out over the carrots?"

"As if I can help it! They're carrots! Good for your eyes and help you grow up healthy, just like with milk!" The bunny Faunus said, pouting a little.

Blake got up and walked over to Yang, noticing she was looking a bit happier. "You look happier than usual. Any reason for that, or did you make another dumb pun?"

"You wound me, Blakey! Like a fence-r in a match!" Yang said, placing a hand over her heart.

Blake blinked a few times, not even wanting to give her a response, while Qrow groaned. "Summer, I'm about two seconds from heading to a bar because of your lion."

"Oh stop being a drama queen. I thought it was pretty good, and besides Yang earned that one." Summer chuckled slightly.

Blake raised an eyebrow and had to ask. "Earned that? And what exactly did you manage to do to get one of those freebies?"

"Helped put up the first few sections of the fence of course. What else?" The lion cub Faunus said, a little pridefully.

"Ugh, so that's why you decided to put emphasis on the fence part." Weiss realized and got up to wipe some dirt off of her blue and red trimmed sun dress. "Can we take a break now? My dress can't handle this much dirt.

Yang rolled her eyes. "I knew you'd complain about that, snow fox. Sheesh, maybe just accept the dirty life for one day and mom can just clean it up after."

"That is why we have a washer and dryer. As long as you don't have me be the one ironing, your clothes will be fine." Raven chuckled, grabbing a watering can and watering the seeds she had just planted.

"Living the dirty life as you call it is not how I wish to live, you oaf. Imagine if the dirt won't come off my favorite dress." Weiss whined, but she wouldn't say what was really on her mind about it. "But if I have to live the dirty life then I wouldn't mind it too much." She thought thinking about her conversation with Summer when they were at the snow lodge.

"You and your princess complex, snow fox. I swear, it gets in the way too much." Yang stated as she walked over to her sister. "You're having fun, right, sis?"

"Well...yeah I am. But come on Yang you don't have to push Weiss into doing something she doesn't want to." Ruby answered, looking from her sister to Weiss and back.

"Hey, I wasn't trying anything like that. I was just saying that she should lighten up is all." Yang reiterated.

Weiss shook her head and walked inside, not wanting to hear it anymore from the lion cub.

"Alright, Yang, you know what you've got to do." Raven said looking at her eldest daughter.

"Me? But she-" Yang started but her mother cut her off.

"Go apologize. We know what you meant but that's not how it sounded to her." The raven Faunus said, keeping her voice calm to get her point across.

"I-I...Alight…" The lion cub Faunus relented, her ears flattened and her tail wrapped around her as she walked into the house.

Weiss was sitting at the kitchen table, holding a small bag of baby carrots in her hands, but she sighed and placed them down when she heard someone walking over. "If it's you, Yang, I don't feel like talking, so-."

"I'm sorry, I'm an idiot. I was just trying to get you to lighten up so you wouldn't have to worry and could just have fun." Yang said, interrupting Weiss' dismissal.

"You always look past things, oaf. I was having fun, but sometimes I'd like a break is all." The snow fox said as she looked at the small bag of baby carrots again. "Ruby was having fun too...so in turn it was something I enjoyed as well. So having to lighten up as you say, well I don't have to." She said in a defiant tone.

Weiss' words clicked into place in Yang's mind causing her to smirk, "So does that mean there's something on your mind then?"

"W-What are you talking about? I have nothing to say on this topic anymore. You already-." Weiss yelped when Yang quickly snatched the bag of baby carrots and went to the counter, and started to browse through the cabinets. "H-Hey!"

"One of two things is going through your head or in this case it would be both things. You're thinking about making a carrot cake, question is are you making it for Ruby because you just feel like it or are you making it for her because of something else?" The lion cub Faunus said, pulling a cookbook out a cupboard.

Weiss blushed, not expecting Yang to figure that out so easily. "Y-You can't tell Ruby...I want it to be a surprise, but I don't know if I can even make carrot cake by myself."

"It's not that hard actually. The real challenge is getting my little sis out of the house long enough to bake it. Might need my mom or mother to do that, as for the cake I can help you but we don't have everything we need." Yang said thumbing through the pages of the book until she found the recipe.

"I suppose this will take time." Weiss sighed. "Okay, well if there is a way for your parents to get her out of the house, then maybe I can try once there is enough ingredients for it." The snow fox said, but then heard Yang chuckle. "Why are you laughing? Ugh, this better not be some pun you just thought of, or I swear I'll-."

"Bake me in a cake?" Yang asked, quickly bookmarking the recipe before sprinting back outside with the irritated snow fox Faunus trailing her.

Later that day, after Yang managed to escape the snow fox and her rage, she was back with Qrow and Summer. "Today was awesome, mom."

"Yeah it was wasn't it? You were right about the fence too, we got it done in one day." The wolf Faunus said, looking at the trio's handiwork.

"We got lucky, the ground wasn't too hard to dig through so the posts went in easy." Qrow said, taking a quick swig from his flask.

"Can't I just get a good job and be done with it, uncle Qrow?" Yang pouted, since she knew her uncle would go straight to the flask after finishing up.

"Yeah, Little Cub, you did good. That fence won't be going anywhere thanks to you." Qrow said, pulling her into a hug but whispered into her ear, "By the way, have you brought Blake out here yet?"

Yang blushed and her ears perked up at the mention of Blake. "U-Um, well I guess I can...Do you think she'd like seeing how good the fence looks now?"

"You know I ain't talking about the fence Yang. Think on it for a day or two before you decide." The crow Faunus chuckled, releasing his niece.

"I...Uh, well...okay." Yang ran off to go and find Blake, while Summer gave Qrow a look.

Qrow caught the look and asked. "What? She needs a little bit of a push here and there, and I say as her uncle, I should be helping her out with the ladies from time to-."

"The last time you helped anyone with the ladies, you took Tai to the wrong kind of bar. You aren't wrong that she needs a bit of a push. But if I know Yang and Blake, and I do, they've already started crossing that bridge. Don't shove them too hard or they'll fall into the river." Summer said, looking at her daughter's retreating figure.

"Who knows. Maybe a dip in a river is what someone needs sometimes. Anyways, is it cool if I crash on the sofa tonight? I am way too tired, and gonna get too drunk to drive...or fly home tonight." Qrow requested.

"Does a drunk crow fly crooked? Of course you can." Summer said, chuckling as she and her brother-in-law started to make their way back to the house.

AN:

Shadow: This gets updated whenever, since it's simple fun. Blep.

Phoenix: What he means to say, is that after planning to kidnap him with a burlap sack I remembered we had this chapter written a very long time ago. It was actually supposed to be up three chapters ago…

Shadow: We screwed up. Surprise, surprise. Meh, it's up now, and that's all that matters. Expect random updates and not planned ones. These are simple, and even so, we both still have a lot of our own stories to focus on first.

Phoenix: That said, we can get these done quick and we've got a few more ideas we can easily write as well.

We hoped you enjoyed chapter 10. Remember, reviews are welcomed, but not required. See you all in chapter 11.