Zai and Zenta were doing their homework for Grimm Studies at the kitchen table. The Oberon Wolf had a glass of ice water beside her while she wrote down the answers, while her brother was struggling with his own work. He looked distracted, thinking about something else rather than the question in front of him. His tail kept swaying from time to time and it was starting to get annoying.
"Hey, Zai? What did you put down for question #6?" Zenta asked from the desk next to his sister's.
"We have different questions, Zenta." Zai responds while answering question #11. Zenta's ear laid flat, looking down at his assignment.
"This is so dumb!" He says with annoyance, throwing his pencil in the air. It clattered behind him on the floor. "Why did Professor Daunt give us different homework questions?!"
"It's so the students actually learn the material instead of cheating off other people." Zai answered. She puts her pen down and scoots over to her brother's side.
"Now, what's the question you're struggling...?" Zai trails off when she looks down at her brother's paper. His paper that didn't have a single answer written down or circled on the multiple choice section.
"What is this?" She frowns at him, her ear flat like her stare.
"U-Uh, nothing!" Zenta stammers as Zai holds his paper in front of him. Besides not having answers, there wasn't anything wrong with it. Except for the doodle of him and one Pyrrha Nikos. It was a chibi doodle of her brother and Pyrrha smiling and holding hands with stars surrounding them.
"Nothing?" Zai raises an eyebrow, her tone flat. "Because it looks to me like you haven't even bothered to answer the questions after I finally got done in less than thirty minutes." She lays the paper flat on the table. "And it seems like you're too distracted fantasizing about Pyrrha than you are in class."
Zenta starts to sweat a little under his sister's gaze.
"Umm...oops?" Zenta shrugs and chuckles nervously.
"Ugh, boys." Zai groans, rolling her eyes. Zenta's ear fell again, and so did his expression.
"Look, I'm sorry. It's just, Pyrrha's been on my mind ever since she smiled at me. I-It just makes me feel..." He shrugs, "I don't know, special."
Zai watched as her little brother's tail swished in his seat. She didn't expect for this Pyrrha girl to have this much of an effect on him. It was starting to get a bit worrying.
"Zenta, it's okay to have a crush on girls." Zai tells her brother. "I just don't want you to fall behind if all you do is daydream. Either get it under control or Mother will pull you back for homeschooling."
"But she's not a Huntress! How am I going to be a Hunter if I don't train?!"
"You could join the Military."
Zenta couldn't help but scoff. "What Military? Mistral barely has any real form of law!"
"Neither does Atlas." Zai points out. "I know you haven't been there and you may have heard a few rumors, but that place is more shady than a dense forest."
Zenta considered his sister's words for a moment. Zai was right; he couldn't let infatuation jeopardize his future as a Hunter. He knew he needed to focus on his studies and not get too distracted by his crush on Pyrrha. After all, becoming a skilled Huntsman was in his best interest.
But it's not like he could just turn these feelings off like a light switch. He needed some time to think, and he needed a break.
"I'm getting a sandwich." He says as he slinks off his chair and stretches his arms out. He turns to his sister, "Do you want anything?"
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The Tale of Zai (Abused Zacian! Faunus x RWBY)
FanficZai, a rare wolf Faunus, was found and raised by the Schnee's. She was tortured all her life until eventually, she fought back. Years later, she makes it to Mistral and eventually, Beacon, learning The true secrets to her heritage.
